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A. B- RAOEIAL) THE WORLD IS G-OVER1IED TOO MUC3H. (PTTLISI-IE VOL. 32.1 ALEXANDRIA, LA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1876, INO. 11. The Democrat. TERMS: THlE DE.IOCRAT is published Week ly, at FouR DOLLAitS per annum Two DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS for six months, PAYABLE IN AD VANC E! N , subscription taken for a less period than six months. AovyRTISEV[ENTS inserted at the rate of ONE DOLLAR per square for the first insertion and FrTYr CENTs for each subsequent one. Etint lines or less, (natEis) consti tate a square. OBITUARY Notices, Marriages, Public Meetings, Cards of Thanks, etc., to be paid for as advertisements. r PEIIsoNAL CARDS, when admis tible, charged double the usual adver iainEi rates. MISCELLANEOUS. " T T L. :' R.AATT'S - IMPROVED - "ll 0il 6I, Illo" COTTl 6111il pATENTED JULY L5, 1873. -rice Reduced to $.650 Per Saw. .t' GIN HAS BEEN IN USE FOR the past throe seasou~n agd saov raI recent improvements have been added. It-obviates all friction as: the' elds of the cotton, box, prevents the oill from breaking, and gives a LAR GER FIELD OF LINT FROM TIIE M19E AMOUNT OF SEED THAN ANY OTHER GIN IN USE! The Re volving Head lightens the draft and esnus the Gin to run faster with less driving power, thus doing a great deal more work within the same time while 'eeconomizing team or animal power than any other Gin. The seed being ginned very close, the lengthl of the staple is increased, producing cotton on tH f account 'of a greater market value. This improveil value, given by length of staple, with extra production of lint, added to increasedI amount of work done; more than covers the cost ef-the Gin in ovry 11)0 bales ginned. Testimonials sent by mail on appli ettion. JOSEPtI B. WOtLE. CO. GENFRAL AGENTS, Nao. 59 CARONDELET STREET, Neww Qgo.uAxs, LA.1 John' A.' Williams & Co,. AGENTS., ,Aug. 9, '76-m. -ALEXANDRIA I. .:MILLER. JOS. FITZPATRICK L . MILLER & CO . FRONT ST,; OPPOSITE TOWN WHARF, A L E A N D 1 IA -DEALERS IN- 000KIN(G AND HEATING STOVES. A. FULL ASSORTMENT OF THE CELEBRATED OEEA.Ft.ý.R OI~E - and - BUCK'S BRILLIANT ON HAND SOLD at CITY PRICES! House Furnishing Goods -ow EVERY DESCRIPTION GRANITE IRON WARE, PRESSED WARE, Coal Oil Lamps & Lanterns PUMPS, GAS PIPE and FITTINGS MAIANUFACTURERS OF Copper, TiW r and Sheet Iron Ware -at W10LESALE and RETAIL TI'ERMS CASH. oetioal. D5Y MOTHER'S HANDS. BY U. A. Such beautiful, beautiful hands! They're neither white nor small; And you, I know, would scarcely thini Thaiit they are fair at all. I've looked on hands whose form any hue A sculptor's dream might be; Yet are those aged, wrinkled hands Most beautiful to me. Such beautiful, beautiful bands! Though heart were weary and sad Those patient hands kept toiling on That the children might be glad. I always weep, as looking back To childhood's distant day, I think how those hands rested not, When mine were at their play. Such beautiful, beautiful hands! They're growing feeble now, For time and pain have left their mark On hands, and heart and brow. Alas! alas! the nearing time, And the sad, sad day to me, When 'jeath the d .isles, out of sight, These hands wil folded be. Rut dh, beyond this shadow land, Where all is bright and fair, I know full well these dear old hands Will palms of victory boar; Where crystal streams through endless years Flow over Kolden sands, And where the old grow young again, I'll clasp my motheys hands. PLATFORM OF TILE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY. WE, the Delegates of the Democratic Party, in National Convoution assembled, do here declare the administration of the Federal Government to hbe in urgent need of immediate reform, do hereby enjoin up on the nominces of ,this Convention, and of the Democratic party in each State, a zealous effort and co-operation to this tnd, and do hereby appeal to our fellow-citizens. of every former political connection to un dertake with us this tfirst and most press ing patriotic duty. For the Democracy of the whole country we do hero reaffirm our faith in the permanency of the Federal Union; our devotion to the Constitution of the United States with its amendments universally accepted as :a final settlement of the controversies that engendered civil war, and we do here record our steadfast confidence in the perpetuity of republican self-government; in absolute acquiescnce in the will of the majority, the vital prin ciple of republics; in the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; in the total separation of Church and State for the sake alike of civil and religious free doni; in the eunality of a:ll citizens before just laws of their own enactment; in the liberty of individual conduct unvexed by sumptuary laws; in the ftithful education I of the rising generation that they may .preserve, enjoy and transmit these best conditions of human h]uapiucss, and hope we behold the noblest products of a hun dred years of changeful history. but while upholding the bond of our Union and great charter of those our rights, it be hooves a free people to practice also that eternal vigilance which is the price of liberty. REFORM IS NECESSARY to rebuild and establish in the hearts of the whole people of the Union, eleven years ago happily rescued from the dan ger of a corrupt centralism which, after inflicting upon ton States the rapacity of carpet-bag tyrannies, has honeycombed the officers of the Federal Government it self with incapacity, waste and fraud, in fected States and municipalities with the contagion of misrule, and locked fast the prosgerity of an industrious people in the paralysis of hard times. Reform is neces sary to establish a sound currency, restore the public credit, and maintain the na tional honor. We denounce the failure for these eleven years to make good the promise of the legal tender notes, which are a changing standard of value in the bands of the people, and the non payment of which is a disregard of the plighted faith of the nation. We denounce the imsprovidence which in eleven years of peace have taken from the people in Fede ral taxes, thirteen times the whole amonnt of the legal tender notes, and squandered four times this sum in useless expense without accumulating any re serve for their resumnption. We denounce the fuinancial imbecility and immorality of that party, which, during eleven years of peace, has made no advance toward resumption; that Instead has obstructed resumption by wasting our resources and exhausting all our surplus income, and while annually professing to intend a speedy return to specie payments, has annually enacted fresh hinderance there to. As such a hinderance we denounce the resumption clause of the act of 1875, and we here DEMAND ITS REPEAL. We demand a judicious system of prepara tion by public economies, by official re trenchments and by wise finance which shall enable the nation to insure the whole world of its perfect ability and its perfect readiness to meeost any of its prom teos at the call of the creditor entitled to payment. We believe such a system well devised, and, above all, entrusted to com potent hands for execution, creating at no time an artificial scarcity of currency and at no tine alarming the public mind into a withdrawal ot that vaster machinery of credit by which 95 per cent. of all business transactions are performed-a system open, public and irsm:iring general confi dence would from the day of its adoption bring healing on its %vings to all our har assed industry and set in motion the wheels of commerce, manufactures and the mechanical arts, restore employment to labor, and renew in all its national source the prosperity of the people. Re form is necessary in the sun and mode of Federal taxation, to the end that capital may be set free from distress and labor lightly burdened. WE DENOUNCE TIlE PRESENT TARIFF levied upon nearly four thousand articler, as a masterpieee of injustice, inequanlits and false pretence. It yields a dwindling, not a yearly rising revenue; it has impov eriohed many industries to subsidize a few; it prohibits inmports that mnight pnr chase the products of American labor; it has degraded Anmerican commerce fr .m the first to an inferior upon the high seas; it has cut down the sales of Amierican maufactnuree at home and abroad, and depleted the returns of American agricul tore, an interest tolloweCd by hIlf our PIoilc; it costs the people five timues more t'ian it proluces to the treasury, obstru, a the processes of production and wastes the fruits of labor; it promotes fraud and fosters smuggling, enuriches dishonest officials and bankrupts hontst merchants. We demand that all custom house taxa tion shall be only for revenue. Iteform is necessary in the scale of public ekpetiseji 'ederal, State and municipal. FEDERAL TAXATION HAS SWOLLEN from $16,000,000 gold in 1860 to $450,000, 000 currency in 1870; our aggregate taxa tion from $184,000,000 gold in 1860 to $730,000,000 currency in 1870, or in one de cade from less than five dollars per head to more than eighteen dollars per head. Since the peace the people have paid to their tax gatherels more than thrice the sum of the national debt, and more than twice that sum for the Federal Govern ment alone. We demand a vigorous fru gality in every department and from every officer of the Government. Reform is ne cessary to put a stop to the profligate waste of public lands and their diversion from actual settlers by the party in power, which has squaudered two hundred mil lions of acres upon railroads alone, and out of more than twice that aggregate has disposed of less than a sixth directly to tillers of the soil. Reform is necessary to correct the OMISSIONS OF A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS, and the errors of our treaties and our di plomacy which bhve stripped our fellow. citizens of foreign birth and kindred race recrossing the Atlantic of the shield of American citizenship, and have exposed our brethren of the Pacific slope to the in cursions of a race not sprung from the same great parent stock-in fact now de- I uied by law citizenship through naturali zation, as being neither accustomed to the tradition of a progressive civilization, or exercised in liberty under equal laws. We denounce the policy which thus dis cards the liberty loving German, and tol orates the revival of the coolie trade in Mongolian women imported for immoral purposes, and Mongolian men hired to perform servile- labor contracts, and de mand such modification ot the treaty with the Chinese Empire, or such legislation by Congress within a -constitutional limi tation, as shall prevent the further impor tation or- immigrati'6t of the Mongolian c race. Reform is necessary, anmd can never le effected but by making it the control- 1 ling issue of the elections, and lifting it 1 above the two false isues with whichb the office-holding class and the part.y in power t seek to smother it. 'The ffilse issues with which they would enkindle sectarian strife in respect to thq public schliools, of. which the establishment Mll support be-' long exclusively to the, several States, an4 which the Democratic party has cherished C from their foundation : ald 'resolvetlV ,teo maintain withouet ~!atiangJy ol.pref oqnoe for any lans, sector creed, and without contributing from the treastijr . y i}hy ) 1 1 The false issue by. which they seek to light anew the dying embers of sectional t hate between two kindrdd peoples once unnaturally estranged, but now reunited in one indivisible Republic and a common r destiny. REFORI IN OIVIL SERVICE. Reform is necessary in the civil service. Experience proves that eflicient, economi cal conduct of the governmental business is not possible if its civil service be sub jected to change at every election, and b( t a purse otffer;d at the ballot-lox as a brief reward of party zeal, instead of )osts of, honor assigned for proved onpetencyand a held for tidelity in the public employ;--. That the dispensing bf'patronage should neither be a tax upon 1to time of all our C public men, nor the instjumnent of their ambnition. HIere- agnait professions, falsi lied in the performianeo,.. attese that the I party in power can work out no practical or salutary refoini. REFORM IN HIGH PLACES. Reform is necessary even inore in the higher grades of public service. Presi- e dent, Vice-President, Judges, Senators, Representatives, Cabinet offlers - these and all others in authority are the peo- c pie's servants. Their, offices are not' a private perquisite; they are -a public trust. When the annals of this Republic e proclaim the disgrace and censure of a Vice-President; a late Speaker of the, I House of Representatives marketing his ruling as a presiding officer; three Soena tors profiting secretly by their votes as 1 law-makers; five chairmen of the leading committees of the late House of Represen tatives exposed'in jobbery; a late Secreta ry of the Treasury forcing balanced in the i public accounts; -a late Attorney-General iisappropriating public funds; a Secreta- I ry of the Navy enriches or enriching friends by percentages levied off the profits of contractors with his department; an I Ambassador to England concerned in a dishonorable speculationi; the President's private Secretary barely escaping convic tion, upon trial, for guilty complicity in frauds upon the revenue; a Secretary of War impeached for high crimes and con fessed misdemcanors; thoe demonstration is cemplete that the first step must be the public choice of honest men from another party lest the disease of one political organization upset the whole body politic, and thereby making no change of men or I party, we can get no change of measures and no reform. All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, the product of sixteen years of ascendancy of the Republican party, create:a necessity for reform confessed by the Republicans i thlemselves. But their reformers are vo ted down in convention and displaced from the Cabinet. The party's mnass of 4 honest votes is powerless to -resist the eighty thousand office-holders, its leaders and guides. Reform can only be bad by a I peaceful civic revolution. We demand a change of system, a change of administra tration, a change of parties, that we may have a change-of men. -ALL the monopolies with which our distressed people are burthened are the outgrowth of Republican rule. The Republican party has never al - ated a monopoly. The Democratic has never creaed one. The Republi can party always multiplies legis'a tion. The Democratic party persis tently removes bad laws from the Statute book. -GovERNOR Tilden reduced .the tax of the State of New York the first year of his administration, $1, 520,801,47; in the second year the reduction was more than $5,000,000 over the first, and the whole reduc tion from the last year of General Dix's administration is $7,198,307,76, or nearly one-half the total tax. -IsN the year 1871, the War De partment sold, without warrant of Congress, $,280,000 worth of arms to the French Government, to enable it to war against th# German Empire. Tilden and Nicholls-Support Them Equally. There can be no possible doubt of the election of the Democratic State ticket by a very large majority. There are hundreds of non-political citizens Who have been Republicans who cannot stipport Packard, and there are numbers of Radical politi cians who are for General Nicholls. Judges Ray and Baker: Jasper Black burn and Mr. Collins, editor of the State Register, are instances, all Re publicans. Among the negroes there i are thousands of desertions from the I Reptiblican party all over the State. Colored leaders li ke Pinchback, I Ward, Flowers and Poindexter are actively supporting the Nicholls tick et. The Democrats and Conserva- I tives are united and at work, and the I election of the State and Congres- I sional tickets is an assured fact.- i But it is true also that some of the Radical leaders who are voting the State ticket are for Hayes and Whee- 1 ler, and great stress is .laid on this I fact. The Radicals are trying to cre- 8 ate the impression abroad that Hayes C and Nicholls will carry the State.- There is nothing further from the 1 truth than this, for the great body c of the colored voters wilo are for the ( State ticket are also for Tilden.- t Still the Radidals desire to inculcate' the contrary idea with the view of t giving their Supervisors and Return- e ing Board a pretext for returning the I Hayes electors. Upon this idea, and f the false and slanderous reports c which they are fabricating of force fi and intimiidation "on'the part of the b Deimocrats, they base their hopes of d c6uintiing the State for Hayes and e Wheeleri c Another: significant fact is, that the army and navy are gathering in i Louisiana. They are here to serve a in electing Hayes, not Packard, and with their marshals and election c frauds, backed by the army, the Re publican leaders expect to count Lou- a isianr's vote for Haye. i We wish to call the popular atten- I tion to these facts, and urge the peo ple to guard well the National ticket, e and poll for Tilden and Hendricks I every vote that is polled for Nich- a oils. W6 ha;ve but little faith in the f (ature of Louisiana as long as the Re- f publican party controls the Federal c Administration. F We were victorious in 1868, in t 1872 and i874 in our' State elections, I and of the fruits of each victory we r have been robbed by the interference v of the FederaI Government. There has never been a day in Louisiana, ! since 1868, in which the Republican I party could have governed, if the I power of the Federal Government t had been withdrawn. The 14th of t September, 1874, was full proof of r this. The Radical leaders to-day c have no hope. of carrying the pdpu- s lar vote, and their hopes of induct- a ing Packard into office, as Governor, are based exclusively on their antic- a ipated election of Hayes as Presi4 dent. Their newspapers and theiHI publie speakers declare continuously, i "iifHayes is elected President, Paekard ( zwill be Governor." They do not a claim that Packard will be elected. f Their hope is, that IHayes will be elected. If so, the Returning Board will count in Packard; Grant, who - will hold over until Mar;ch 4, 1877, will send the troops to put Packard in; Nicholls, though elected, Will be compelled to abandon the contest, or else tread the path of remonstrance, i and protest, which John McEnery has so nobly trod, for four years, and Hayes, in March, 1877, finding I Packard in possession of the State, will not disturb him. Then will the circle be complete, and the work of robbery and scoundrelism go brave ly on. Let no man be deceived. The election of Hayes means the rule of Packard as Governor. Do you doubt it? If yes, then say what means the assembling of the army and navy in Louisiana? What means the letter of Taft to the Federal Marshals! What means the report of the Bout well Committee, that Southern States should be reduced to a territorial condition? What mean the lying reports of the Republican press, and the slanderous falsehoods of George A. Sheridan, J. Q. A. Fellows, Ben ham and others, that intimidation, and bloodshed, and terrorism, are the sole reliance of the Democracy to carry the State for their ticket? If you still doubts go baclk to 1876 and sec the fraudulent count of the Returning Board, enforced by Fede ral bayonets, in favor of the Kellogg officials and Legislature; and to 1874, and see again the fraudulent action of the Returning Board car ried out by Federal bayonets, even to the expulsion of a legally organ ized State Legislature. People of Louisiana, you will never enjoy the benefits of home rule while the Republican party governs at Washington. Think of this and go earnestly to work. See to it that we give to Tilden and Nicholls the same majority of votes, for there is but little use of electing the State ticket, if we lose the national contest. If the people of the Southern and the Western States do their duty, Til den will be elected. The Southern Democratic States, with Missouri, Maryland, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, California, Oregon, Dela ware and Kentucky, all loyal States during the war between the States, will elect Tilden, even: if Ohio and Indiana should vote for Hayes. We will carry Ohio and Indiana, beyond a doubt, unless Radical frauds sue ceed in beating down the will of the majority; but even if we lose them Tilden will be elected, if the States of Louisiana, Mississippi and'Nortb Carolina do their duty. These are thedthree Southei4: States that are marked by Grantism. They will all three vote for Tilden, but Grantism etpects to' annul- their- choice by: bayonet force. This can' be made plausible only by presenting proofs of lawlessness on our part, and by finding in thu actual vote cast :a great disparity in the vote fot';Til den and that cast for the Stati tick et. This is their hope, this their clearly formed intention. What is the remedy? We answer in the first place, peace at all times and under all circumstancest on the part of the Democrats. Full, thor ough, perfect organization, for the purpose of preserving .the peace against the machinations of the . em issaries of Grant, Taft, Chandler,' Hayes and Packard. In the second place, close, persist ent, energetic work for Tilden' and IHendricks, so as to secure for them as great a majority as shall be cast for the State ticket. We can give for Tilden and for Nicholls 20,000 majority, and we will then, with a peaceful campaign and election to base the result;' we beleive that a Democratic Congress will not pers mit Gen. Grant to strike down the will of the people. People of Louisiana, you hold the post of honor and of danger; for no other of the Southern States is cursed by s Returning Board. Remember this, and, elosely uniting in all things, devote the tfw weeks that remain for work to the preservation of the peace and to the enthusiastic support of our whole ticket, State and Natio~al. Give to Nicholls and to Tilden the same support, the same immense m jority, and send six Democratic Con gressmen to represent you at Wash ington. In this, fail not; for if Grantism is perpetuated in the Fed eral Government, there is no hope for Louisiana. Remember the Rad ical assertion, "If Hayes is elected President, Packard till be Governor," --[N O. Democrat. THE TYLER FRAUD.--W MOit stroes cheat Ohandler perpetrated on tlhe Ameican People. In reply to the proof of Hayes' acceptance of the nomination of the American A' liance and his membership of,~that proscriptive organization, a docu ment was published signed "L. S. Tyler," and purporting to be written by the Secretary of the American Alliance. This document Was dated October 6, and was effectually dis posed of by the reply of the Hon. D. Mapone, Jr.. Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, on the same date. It is now provent that not only riyler did not write the letter, BUT THAT HE WAS NOT EVEN SHE SEORETARY OF THE ALLIANCE at the time, and was not even in the United States when his name was signed to the document. He resigned his position as Secre tary of the American Alliance on August 25th, and sailed for Europe the same day. The Republican National Com mittee have been guilty of a base and deliberate forgery, and their lying and libelous organ, the New York Times, was the appropriate vehicle for the promulgation of the lie. In this campaign of lies the Radicals have been guilty of nothing more atrocious than this bare-faced forgery and deliberate failsification. --[New York Express. ,ow for November. While anything remains to be done nothing has been done, said a wise i man of old; and this we are sure will i be the feeling with which every ; sound-hearted a n d clear-headed S friend of reform and good govern- t ment in the United States will re ceivethe news which this morning brings us of the glorious battle yes- a terday fought and won in the great t Westerh States of Ohio and Indiana. I It is needless to recapitulate the tre- m mendous odds ,against which ther Democratic party have achieved the a noble victory which we to-day re a cord. 'those odds have been pro- c claimed from Maine to California in the insolent exultation with which I the hosts of Grantism and of Hayes a went into the conflict. Like the a Saxons who spent the eve of the bat C tie of Senlac in feasting and drinkinkig while the Normans, with the mighty ii future of Eugland hidden in. their t camp, lay watchful and stern' upon t their arms, the Radicals for.~weeks v past have been wearying the-,public v ear with their shouts of assured tri- r umpb over the prospect of a new c lease of unlicensed and unbridled p power. The friends of honesty and fC justice, of liberty and of the Union, v meanwhile have been quietly and a resolutely doing their work. By tht. a grand results which they yesterday A achieved let them be warned and : taught anew how to consummate the a nation's deliverance which lies low a visibly; within their grasp. The t whole strength. of their hnewy has sl been displayed upon 4 ield chosen by himnself, and it has proved un$- el qual to the shock with:the spirit of b a free people aroused at last, after ii years. of blindnes.s. nd of passion, to s Pee the best hopes of the Republic in pi imminent deadly perilb andt to rescue tu them from ruin. b From this. day forth the tarty of h corruption and oppressioa willfight t a losing battle. It becomes the par- s ty of honesty and of freedom, never h now for a moment to.forget that we h are dealing with a, desperate foe, sure . to be made tenftld more desperate a by the sense of coming doom. tl . The results of, October not only g show conclusively that crowning vie- a 8ory awaits us in Novcmber if we a will but deserve it, but also clearly li how alone we can deserve it. Dem- t ocrats throughout the, country must b think, plan and act under a sobering e and chastening sense of the tremuen b dous responsibilities which are Im c posed upon them as a party by the a near approach of a great nation:l p triumph. In all their nominations fbr offile-national, state aqd munic Ipal-they must sternly resolve to c bring only the best men within f their ranks to the front. The cam- 1 paign of calumny has ignominiously a failed Tho bloody shirt has become s the political winding-sheet of thela demagogues who have flaunted it in 1 the face of a ation elamoring for newness oC national life, for the:pun ishment of worthless, .and guiltiy officials and tor a eturn to the law abiding and law aespecting adminia s taations of our fathers. Erono this day forth Demogratet have nothing to do but to throw aside all local and personal issues, to stamp under foot all possible forms of demagogueism, actd to addresst themselves everywhere to proving, 1 by their works as well as by their words, that they understand the ( gravity as well as the glory of the mighty work about to be laid upon 1 them. It is the signal of ielson att Trafalgar which flies to-day along the whole line of Democratia battle. --[New York World. HAYE8 AS A REORER.--During his career of five years as Governor of Ohio, Hayes has failed to recom mend a single reform in State ad ministration. Governor Tilden has practical claims as a reformer in his past record-so practical that they amount to six millions saved to the State in a single year, but H-ayes has nothing but bare promises to offer, and very indefinite ones at that, while his career in the past as a salary' grabber, the advocate of doubtful claims, a shirker of his obligations as a tax-payer, not to speak of his recent action as a prevaricator and deceiver of the American people, absolutely nega tives any illusive hope that he might by some miracle favor reform. As President, he would simply be a tool in the hands of the machine managers, and the slave of bad men, and of the system, to the worst Sdevelopments of which he owes 1ij clection, A Turn of the Tide. There can be now no neasonable doubt that the prospects of Mr. T'il den have taken a most favorable turn. This fact is all the more agreeable and inspiriting from its having been unexpected by close observers.-~ Well-informed people did not antici pate a DemoCratic victory in Indi ana. Only the most abandoned en thusiasts recdived the news of Wil liams' election with anything like prepniattdi. The truth is-that the result has been wholly phenomenal, and as such it infuses additional life and vigor into the campaign as far as concerns the Democrats. We may now assum 'tha the Democrats have carried Indiana by` at least 4000 majority--nearly at much as that of the Republicans in Ohio; and, though the Republicans have gained about ten Congressmen in the two States together, the con test is on a much iiore equal footing than anybody expected it would be, with the advantage decidedly in fa vor oPMr. Tildein As we hate al ready. shown, the campaign must ne cessarily be one of especial and un precedented wari4th from this time forth. Yet there is absolutely' no visible reaston why i\r. Tilden should not Njn by a handsome majority, and every reason why he should. And it is impossible to see where, ofr on what groqunds, Mr. Hayes is to a'ercome the great and overwhel ming impetus which this unforseert triumph in Indiana communicates to the Democratic causes We 'have heretofore refrained from enthusiastic forecasts of the Contests because we saw to justilication for lindulging lhenie and because we con sider it no part of an honest newspa iers province to pretend to descry tthiinph. where there is noneveally vo be expected, but now. that :there has occurred a genuine turn of then tide which fro some time has been setting strongly against Dir. Tilden, hone can jote the fact with more heartt'lt gle:isrj thaniwe; and none will be found more delighted to note and illustrate the fact. The signs of the times unquestionably point to a gr~t victory for the Democrai:next mnonth, ahd it is ow among the near aind plainly visible pr`bailities `that Republicanism is at last, nfteitiearly twenty years of Interrupted sway, te be suppianted by a new ard practi cally untried polii'y Mr. Tilden has mde splendid :ight, and' the country now recognizes the fact that a master hand is directing the' camw paign of 1876.-[N. 0. bulletin. .TsE 'COýrAX MAssAcnE.--Twd colored men, Wards and. Flowers, formerly prdminent aepliblicans in Louisidaa, harv recently given their adhesion to Mr. Nicholls, the con servative candidate fpr Governor, and in public speeches in New Or leans relate a singular tale. They assert, with circumstanc% that the notorious Colfax riot, in which a numndier of whites and si~ienity-fout negroes were slain, was brought on deliberately by Goverygr Kellogg and Marsnal Packard, both. of whom, those men assert, knew of what wasR coming, were urged to prevent it and refused, and b' their refusal caused the massacre. If it he said that this story is incredible. ,he re ply is that it is anot without prece dent in Southern republican politics, Governor Ames, of Mississipp', aCo cording t,~o$hjel timon3 of eminent maren of his 9wn pala~t, brought, o, the 'ficksburg riot in precisely Ithe samrle way. Flie was shown that an accommodation was possible and easy, but refused, and told the negro Sheriff Crosby t summon the blackg from the surrounding country to march with arms on Vicksburg, and; thus created the riot, in wlhich ihany colored men were killed; the Vicksburg and Colfax ridts were very useful to Ames Kellogg and Packard, and to the corrupt men in league with them, because they were enabled, by ~hese events, to appeal for 14orthern sympathy. Can the republican party afford to cOtunte nance such men?-[~N~ Y. Herald, SOLrWDrS' MjeTIos.-The Dem ocrats are much encouraged by the im mouse success of the soldiers' theeting at Indianapolis, which has so far out, shone the affair of the Blue-Boys.here as to make the radical demuonstration sink into~4iosgnifcance. No such elaborate preparations were made for the Democratic gathering as for the other;'but it is a noticeable fact that the Demoreint~s tirn out with r enthusiasm for Tilden and loudtuj i! an tlec RIepublicans do for UFeaytii Whclcr.