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Poetry. DEMOCRACY. From the Pittsburgh Gazette. Do yon want to sea the greenbacks m plenty at the toavea That jtrew th gronnd In Aatnmn beneath the forest treee. And make yonr dollar eqnal to the smallest nlrkol Then neat ahead, my beauties, and with com. and rebels Join, And ra' w the Democratic thont Tor Seymour and tor Blair. Do yon think that Thomaa Jefferson, that ancient Democrat, Who wrote the Declaration, was an ignorant old flat ? Becanm he publlthed to the world that htghfalntln train 'Boat ennal risrhta to all mankind, and ehAwcd an addled brain t If so. then rote for Seymour and hit Adjutant. Frank Blair. Do yon wlnh to see the rehel,hom we thraahed tn elity-flva. Arrayed ayaln for battle, and aa wtrkedly allTe To drive their blowe at Liberty, and Are nponher And cut the throats of loyal men, " and flannt their rebel rag?" If thafa yonr with, then cant yonr votes for Seymour and for Blair, Let all renndlatora and all re belt fall in rank, . An give their, very londcat ahont for Seymour and for Frank. For all their ammnnttlon will be needed in the light. When they meet with Grant and Colfax, and loy alty and right In the atorm November's brewing for Seymour J. J. H. J. J. H. Selected Miscellany. AT BLACKBY. Trris last summer I was staying a week at Blackby, that. flourishing watering place on the Nnrthshlre coast. The evening I arrived I found an elder ly gontlemau Bitting in the smoking-room of the hotel, simply sipping brandv and water and smoking audibly As I was soon exactlv opposite him doing precisely the same thing, for fear he might think that I had come there simply to mock him, I made a remark. "Have you many visitors here Just now ?" I asked. " I can't stay," was the answer, " I'm an inhabitant." " Is there a feud, then," said I, " between inhabitants and visitors ?" " Little, I should say," he replied ; " the native tribes find trading with their occa sional aggressors too profitable." " Traffic In skins, I presume t" I sug gested, slightly Irritated at the disparaging tone he assumed toward visitors. " Well, mv townsmen would sell their own," he said, gravely, " if they could find buyers. But really, the truth is I care little about it. The visitors spoil the place for me, that's all. Here on this cliff, for Instance, was pleasant strolling-ground before houses and hotels and esplanade took possession, and people came walking up and down to a band." " Hotels often have comfortable smok ing rooms," I suggested. " Yes, very," he said, not noticing my sarcasm, " and after dark, when the visitors are gone in, I like to come up here for an hour. The air is fresher than in the town below, and besides, it was mv habit for many years to wait about here before turn ing in for the night But as I am old enough now to be glad sometimes of a chair indoors, I take the good I find, and pick my grain of comfort out of the heap of inconvenience." " You appear, sir." said I, " very bitter against new comers." " I have no quarrel with them individu ally, but in the mass I love them not." "But you might reflect," I answered, with the consciousness that I was giving very good advice, " npon the advantages which a small place, such as this, reaps irom an extended intercourse." " Which be they ?" "Greater wealth, further civilization, new ideas." "We might try the new ideas at all events," he answered, with sly humor playing about the corners of his mouth. " If you have brought any down with you pray unpack them. I won't rail against them, if they are only good." " I can oblige you, I answered, snap pishly, "with at 1fnst. nn hW that. T think may he new to you, which is, that you may possibly be mistaken in your views of things." He quietly thanked me, in exactly the Bame lone as it i had passed him the sugar tones, and added, laughing : " And may I offer you one of my old ones, which is, that it is wise to look before you leap even to a conclusion ?" I felt he had the best of that little bout. and was annoyed with myself for having shown temper. I was on the point of owning it, hut he changed the subject so easily, and talked on so genially, that I thought it better to assume that he had not taken oltence, but was a man who could stand against a blow or two. I give this conversation because it fixed to a great extent the terms upon which we stood in our after Intercourse. Every evening we mot, and had almost, I may say, become friends ; but yet we were for ever crossing swords. I was irritated at his open assumption, that no good thing could do imported into his territory, and could not help constantly trying to make his words convict him of bigotry; but after a furious lunge at the " wary cool old swordsman," I only found myself disarmed by a prompt retort, all the more provoking because it was delivered with unruffled temper, and because he never seemed to care to press his advantage. One evening he seemed disposed to nn roll for me the chronicle of his native place, and amongst sundry scraps of various information told me the following story, which I shall tell, as nearly as I can recoliect them, in his very words. " I speak of a time before any of these lodging-houses were built. We were a quiet little village, lying all below there along the banks of the river, owning a few small vessels, but living chiefly by fishing. On theso cliffs there was not a brick laid; it was a heath-grown common, with fields beyond, and one walk near the clin s edge, leading to the few houses in the next bay. Our village was then hardly known be yond a circuit or semi-circle I should say rather, for seamen from all parts knew our lighthouse pretty well of a dozen miles, but still a stray visitor would come now and then for sea air. " There was then a neat roomy cottage standing indeed it stands now, but has developed a shop-front. about half way up the ascent to the cliff, and inhabited by an elderly man named Parke, a retired custom-house officer, and his niece. They let lodgings, and at the beginning of the summer of 183- (I forget the exact year) thev took in a young couple, with a child and nursemaid. I can describe them all to foil, for at that date visitors were stared at, almost as much as the first Spaniards in Peru and I had my native's share of curiosity. The wife was tall and slightly made, luzht-haired. blue-eyed. She was evidently not in strong health, for she whikvu siowiy, always leaning on her nus band's arm, and looked, unless when turn- ing to him or to the child, languid and de jected. He was a strongly built, active man. with a set, resolute face, and dark, quick, watchful yea The child I hardly noticed so minutely, but I was even then Judge enough of babies to pronounce it a little more than a year old. " Regularly as the mornings came -it was bright June weather he took her and the child slowly up the hill to the top of the cliff, to a spot overlooking the sea, and there they spent the forenoon, he reading or playing with the child, whilst she 'lay aslceo. or at least at rest, amongst shawls and cushions. These he took up each morning stranoed behind him like a knap- sack, to leave his arm free to carry the child. It was evident that he had brought her down to our breezy coast for air and sunshine, and more than a few amougst us. thonvh thev sooke to po one, were be- rinuinr to watch with something of friendly interest for the signs in her of re turning strongtn. " Now comes the sad part of my story. " When they had been here about three weeks thev went one morning as usual to their camping-ground on the heath. In about half an hour the husband returned. looked in at the cottage for a moment (his movements on that morning were after wards diligently traced), and went on the postoftk-e. He was seen shortly after returning up the path to rejoin his wife, reading hi letters as be weut, walking lowly and stopping often, lie wu then iiiimimi jjasju flUliltly b VOL. XVI.-NO. IS. PEKUYSKURG, WOOD CO., OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 18(58. $2.00 IN ADVANCE. to lost sight of for an Interval of less than half an hour. At the end of that time he walked hurriedly into the cottage, carry ing what looked like his customary load of shawls and cushions, mounted quickly to his bedroom, Issued thence immediately In search of the nursemaid, and told her in a lew words that she must pack her box at once, and be ready to start home by the midday coach that she was to get the house ready, and he would be there the next day with his wife and child. Her box was ready and standing in the hall, and with it a small portmanteau, whinh he had packed in the meantime for her to take with her. He went for a porter, hur ried him back, helped him with bis weight, and the three were at the garden gate. " The piteous soene which followed was described to mo by old Mr. Parkes, whom the bustle had brought out to the door. The wife, looking scared and anxious, reached the gate as they were leaving it. Before she could speak the husband reeled back as if he had been heavily struck, cov ered his face with his hands, and uttered a moan of pain. The next Instant he had j recovered himself, caught his wile as she was falling, and carried her swiftly up the garoen, auu ao iu uer room, ma uiut-rs looking on In mute wonder. A cry for water roused them. He took it at the I door from their hands, shut himself into the room, and all was again silent. An hour passed. A small crowd garnered i round the gate, and was again dispersed It satisfied them that a lady had Hinted, but was better. But the mind of the old custom-house officer was not so smoothly satisfied. He had noticed that the child was not amongst them, that a sudden flight with packages had been tried for, and that the failure of this design had been a heavy discomfiture to one at least of the party. To talk it over with the head constable seemed to him his instant duty, and he slipped quietly out by the back-door and did it. You can almost guess what fol lowed. The husband was soon summoned from his room, and in a few minutes ap peared, pale but self-controlled He gave up his keys, and turned to the window while the portmanteau was opened. In it was found the child, dead, and horribly battered in the head and face course the father without more delay than was needful was arrested on the coroner s warrant. " It is long since all this happened, but I believe I recollect the minutest incidents Not only were Ihey discussed and sifted again and again amongst us wherever two men met, but I was on the jury, and was therefore called upon to give the closest attention to every fragment of evidence " At the inquest the poor wile s deposi tion was read, as they dared not move her. It was a short and simple statement, lie- fore her husband left her to go for his let- and r , tcrs, he had tethered the child to h r waist band by the two straps, by which he was used to carry up the shawls. This precau tion he had thought necessary, because she often would fall asleep up there in the morning, either from weakness, or from the effect of the opiates which she was constantly taking at this time, and he 1 1 A I 1 XI -LSI J . . -11. . ieareu mat. me cuuu, wno was jutsi time ui crawl, might possibly stray to the edge of the cliff. She had fallen asleep, for how long she could not say, had found the child gone when she awoke, and the strap untied from her band, but saw at once pinned to her shawl a paper with a few words written by her husband in pencil, saying that he had taken the child home, and would return for her immediately. After watting for some little time she be gan to feel anxious lest the child should be ill, and walked down Dy nerseit to tne cottage. " The husband was ot course examined in person. He was submissive and yet hauehtv in manner, alternately deferen tial and. contemptuous. He looked, how ever, haggard and weak, like a man just shaking oft a fever. He had a sell-consistent story to offer, which he told in a low voice, with hands clenched, and eyes that never once moved. He had found, lie said, when he reached his wife, the strap severed, and his own knife lying open on the turf a yard or more oft. After a hasty look round he went at once to the edge of the cliff, and scrambled down by a rough path to tho sea. He had seen something on the rocks Deiow, wnicn ne mougm might be his child, and found it there, mangled as we saw it For a few minutes he was paralyzed, but, roused by the need for mutant action, seized it and rushed back up the cliff. As he reached the top, he paused for one horrible moment, unnerved by the terror of the thought that his wife might die if her eyes should open on so fearful a sight. A thought came suddenly to aid. Creeping stealthily towards her, he saw that he could trust to tne soundness ot ncr sleep ; in a few seconds he had written the note, cut from her band the remnant of the strap, seized a shawl lying near, and wrapping the child in it, was on ins way to the cottage. It was better, he thought, to take her within, and break the news to her gradually there, nut as ne neared the cottage his purpose again changed ; he shrank from the idea of being the talk of a strange place, perhaps also who could say? a mark for some suspi cion under circumstances the mystery of which seemed then for the first time to strike him. He therefore rapidly resolved, if possible, to keep the child a fate secret until he could reach his own home. His mind, once set on this, soon found the plan. He would at once send home the nurse maid, and trust to finding some way to per suade his wife that it was necessary for him, both to start the child oil at once, and to follow with her the next day. The letters he had that morning received might easily be made to warrant the ne cessity for an instant return. " This was his account of himself, and bv many it was forthwith believed. He declared himself willing to give the jury every opportunity of testing the truth of his statement, but tue difficulty was to de vise any test. Inquiry had been made about him in the town where he lived, and not only his general worth, but es pecially his kindness or nature, were so universally recognized, that it was thought useless to take any special evidence on those heads. The only fact that seemed proved was that tbe child had been mur dered. There were some of us upon the the jury I confess that I was one of them upon whom this attempt to smuggle the Body away, together with his demean or, both at tne moment tnat nis plan was frustrated, and afterwards at the inquest, had produced a very strong conviction Ills guilt, mere was notuing ten wi us. however, but to acquiesce in an open ver- uici, upon wuicu no ikiwcu Kiavcir-nuu retired. As soon as his wife could moved he left our town, and, as we after wards learnt, at once broke up his home, and traveled. " I didn't believe his story a bit" " Yea, but" I interrunted. " it is barely possible, I suppose, that his account may have been true for all that. I plainly see that, even then, what you really must low me to call your infirmity had set aim iiuti yuu wero uuaoie u do Justice an outer barbarian." " Quite possible, he answered. " fur is plain that barbarians (as you seem call yourselves) and I are of two didereut races, born in suspect eacn other. 1 said I didn't believo it'' " I am sure, I broke in, " that I could frame a plausible account of the matter, which should bear out bis story. Shall try now and make a speech for the t" " I think I would wait for the conclusion ot the speech for the prosecution. How ever, aa you please. I undertake before hand to be able to discredit your plausible, account No account that you can invent will I receive as the true one," established 1824, "Then I won't waste invention: but would vou mind taking me to tho spot before I go to-morrow ? He agreed to do so, merely smiling cu riously at my rudene.-ts. Accordingly we went over the ground, saw the cottage, and the spot where the poor lady had lain asleep, and finally I went down the cliff to the rocks, down swiftly and up slowly, with a strange fantastic terror, as if I were carrying a murdered child back to its mother. "It is true," I said, vehemently, "he came up there as he said ; he couldn't have forged that story ; yours is prejudice In vincible." " I repeat," he said, slowlv, that I didn't believe it," I then left tho seaside, and went inland, to the principal town of the county, As I was staring, a few days after, moodily into the rain out of the window of a cot-fee-room, my eye wandered to a signboard all but fronting me, bearing words which I had no doubt seen before, but then for the first time noticed, 1 heXorthnhire Herat', established 1824. The thought gradually suggested itself that I might find in a back number the full contemporary account of tue events wnicn were suit in my mtna. j. gent over my card to the editor with a request that I might be allowed to refer to Bn early file of his paper, and was soon poring over the narrative in his back omCe, r foumj that t nad met with in my which we have to announce are these." Blackby friend a most faithful, if not an impartial chronicler; but besides, I learnt trom editorial comment and from corres- fondence shrewd and foolish, how intense md been the interest excited at the time. I read the afternoon away, and was pass ing out, when the editor himself walked in. With his courtesy to thank him for I could hardly escape abruptly, and natural ly I told him what had been the object of my search. " You know the sequel ?" he asked. " No; was it ever cleared up?" He answered by reaching down the file of 1838, and turning rapidly over the leaves, I read : A Mystery Solved at Last. Moat of onr readers will remember how, four years ago, pub lic Interest and curiosity waa thrilled by a tragic circumstance that occurred on our coast at tne that we refer to the apparent murder of a child under circumstances or the greatest mystery. It Is gratifying to us to be able to state on indubita ble authority that events have, (luring tbe last week, transpired that lilt the cloud of suspicion which, in the minds of some, had condensed upon the fitir name of a i;entlemau bv whom the sacred ties of nature were erroneously conjectured to nave Deeu aisregaroea. 10 us u is aoumy grnti fyinjr to recollect that, although in the interest ol out fear or lavor, to a free discussion of all side. of that painful question, yet we consistently' Uliey realiy had gone dead In against the poor man) ' avowed our belief that slander would yet regret the envenomed darts which she then launched against tho party In question. The facte Then followed a long narrative, the graceful flowing periods of which I shall take leave to clip. A poor woman had been received into the hospital ot that town, maimed by a fulling weight having crushed iter foot She suffered intense pain, which was at length relieved by amputation. In the weakness that followed, she believed her- self to be dying, and declaring that she of had something weighty on her mind, begged lor a clergyman to be sent to her, The chaplain from her lips took down, in the presence of another gentleman, a con fession of which this was the substance : " About six years back I was married to a man who took to treating me ill, and I was very miserable. But after my child was born he began to use me butter. He played a good deal with the little one, and that seemed to make him kinder to me. Four years back ho went away from home in tho spring to look for work, and soon after he was gone, the child was taken ill with convulsions. I sat up with it a week or more, and just as I thought it was com ing round, it had a very bad fit, which frightened me so much, that, weak as I was, I set off to carry it to tho doctor. As I was going, it died just in my arms; but I w ilkcd fast on, hardly knowing what I did. All of a sudden I saw a little baby, just the size of my dead thing, picking at the grass, with a lady lying last asleep close by. I stole up, and the wicked thought came into mo that I would steal it, and leave my own there. When I saw it was tied, I gave up, but a knifo lying open on the grass put tho thought back again and I cut the leather. I stood still, thinking whether I should do it, but tho child held out its arms to me, so I picked it up. But I knew at once that they would come after me, and find it by its clothes, so I ran off with tho two, and then I changed their things, and put the dead ba by down under a wall. I did not think about the poor lady, not till long after. Many's the night since I've been, awake all night crying for thinking of her, but then 1 only thought ot myselt, and hoped my husband wouldn't come back before there was time for the child to grow a bit out of nis mind. And then that made me think how the lady, when she came to wake, would know the other wasn't hers. And thuh 1 did what I can't die. with. I shut my eyes, and dropped a heavy stone on its poor little dead face, and then rolled the stone and it down the cliff. God for- five me. I've dreamt about it till I fancied couldn't live another long day without telling somebody. But then I was afraid what would come to my husband if he ev er knew : and he and I always treated the child well, and it grew up strong and did i not seem to miss anything. But I couldn t die without saying it, and you, gentlemen, must do what is right." There is little more to tell. The woman recovered. The story was attested before a magistrate, and the child was restored. I couldn't resist going to Blackby. I really wished to convert my obstinate friend from an opinion which I felt all along to be unfounded: but I wished still more to deal a killing thrust at his conceit, It was visitor ou the side of visitor against inhabitant, and I determined not to spare him. I broke In upon him in the evening, and found him in the same chair, follow ing the same pursuits. " Back again r" " Yes." And we were soon chatting dis cursively. " By the way," I broke in, " I was right about the Blackby tragedy after alL" " After all the pains you took to go wrong 1 " It was all cleared np, aa I said it could be. It waa a woman who committed the murder, or rather there was no murder, but a woman had changed the children, ami tw&ten in the head of the wrong one." Really, he said, " you are making ; very niyBttrioua story of it : give yourself time. iu, to it to I de fence " I have cleared ud all the mystery." replied; and then I related to him the facts I had collected. " Now," I ended, " confess that once in your life you were a young man then, I allow you formtd hasty judgment. I told you that you were mistaken in thinking tho man guilty." " And I don't rememlier that I denied your conclusion. Now you have come back, I may as well finish a sentence you interrupted you were i young man then I allow about a week ago. 'I didn't be lieve his story a bit,' I said, and was going to add, ' but it turned out alterwards to pirtoctly true.' At that poor womau's con fession, the substance or which you bave given v9ry correctly. I was nresent with the chaplain : and I subsequently spent month in searching for our former visitors, and restored to them their lost child. was glad enough, I warrant it, to own myself that a yorng man formed a hasty judgment. Indeed, I have felt tender young hasty judgments ever since, and never Contradict them." Now, no one can say that I didn't learn something at Blackby. The Decrease of the National Debt. Notwithstanding the outcry made by the Democrats at the assumed increase of the national debt under Republican man agement, tne ngurca show tieyond a qnrs llon that it is not only rapidly diminishing, but at the same time the taxes are being reduced. At the beginning of the fiscal year end ing June 80. 1808. the total amount of the debt was 3,51 1,306, 4'ifl. Included in this amount are, as we showed some days since, 13,408,000 of TJonds of the United States payable in thirty years by the I nion l'a ' ' I 1 ' I cific Railroad Company, and, in default of 1 payment by the company, to be paid by the j riiwnrnment. Tl...o. lwin.U Imu-ornr ar 1 a second mortgage upon the road, lis rol- ; ling stock, and all tho lands granted to it, ! wuicn may oe in its possession at uie nia- i turlty of the bonds ; and these grants for privileges are contingent npon the pay- mentor the bonds at maturity by the com- pany. isow, bearing this in mind, let us revert to the figures of tho debt at the be- ! ginning and at the end of the last fiscal 1 year i On tho 1st of August, 1867, the total debt, Including these Pacific Railroad bonds, was 2,511,306,426 On August 1, 1868, the total debt, still including the Pa cific Railroad bonds, was 2,ft23,S34,480, showing what the Democracy falsely as sert is an Increase of 112,228,054 in the ag gregate debt during that year, but on Au gust 1, 1887, the total amount of Pacific Railroad bonds then issued was f 15,403, 000. Since that time the Pacific Railroad has been built at a speed never before known in tho history of railroad con struction, and now stretches Itscontinuous line of rail 1,250 miles west from Chicago. To aid the company in doing this, the General Government has loaned its credit to the amount of 16,808.000 more, in ad dition to the previous f 15,402 000, making a total of $32,210,000 in all. Let us deduct this additional 16,808,000 from the total debt as it stood on August 1, 1868, and we find that the debt has actually decreased $4,570,946 since August 1, 1867. But this is not all. There was a large Indebtedness of the Government which never took the form of n absolute promise to pay in the sense belonging to the bonds, Treasury notes, and other national obliga tions. The soldiers and widows of sol diers who had helped to preserve the Re public in the war which Southern Demo crats had waged against it had claims for bounties to a large amount A reimburse ment of money expended by several of the Slates was demanded to the amount of many millions of dollars, and thousands of individuals, whose property had been taken or destroyed by our armies during tho war, also made equitable claims. The bones of Union soldiers killed in battle, or starved to death in Southern Demo cratic prisons, were scattered over a dozen States, and they were to be gathered with tender care and placed in National Ceme teries for the reverence of future genera tions. All theso items, though they never appeared in any schedule of the public debt, were regarded by the Republican party as most sacred obligations of the Government obligations to be paid bo fore all others, as, to a great extent, they have been. These items of extinguished debt stand thus : Bounties .m,000,(KH Reimbursing States 1U,:M0,1h8 Payment for property destroyed 6,1 1 1 ,SOt) For National Cemeteries V.,soo Total 64,41,848 Now let us add to this the $4,57!),fl40 of reduction of tho bonded debt, and we have the total reduction of the debt, viz., $58,814,294. It should be observed that in this table none of the expenditures for tho Freed men's Bureau, and none of the expenses of reconstruction have been included, both extraordinary expenses of over twenty millions of dollars, which will not have to be incurred again. Looking at tills account, and considering the financial difficulties with which they have had to contend, what honest man can say that the Republican party and the Republican Congress have not done a great and noble work during the past year r Is it not apparent that, instead of being on the road to financial ruin, we are on the road to the grandest financial success ever achieved by any nation, and that the only thing that can cheat us out of it would be the success of the repudiation schemes of the Democratic party Chi cago Tribune, th. Democratic Argument. A good illustration of the fact that the Southern Democrats will use force, wher ever practicable, to compel the negroes to vote the Democratic ticket, is afforded in the following card, signed Albert Tike, which is published in the Memphis Appeal: "The members of tho Democratic Club of colored men can obtain from tho Presi dent of the Central Club cards that cannot be counterfeited, recommending them for employment to conservatives. JNo others need apply, we nope mat nereaiter, when sny Democrat desires to employ a colored man in any capacity, he will uk to nee rat etira. ana it none m urouucai tri refute to empUi h im. To em ploy those who have none will oe to give nta ana comjori to tlie entmv. Members of the club desir ing cards will please procure certificates of membership from the Secretary. lhe committee of the Central Club, appointed to register the names of colored men need ing employment or relief, and to procure either for them, consists of Martin Kelly, D. Danbury and Thomas Smith, lo me committee, which is a permanent one, col ored men holding cirds, and needing work or relief, will apply and bo registered. To the same committee it is hoped that those Democrats who want to employ colored meu will apply. "ALBERT PIKE. "President Central Democratic Club. "August 7. 1868." "Bloated Bondholders." a I a be a I to to wards It has always been a trick of the Dem ocrats to invent some slanderous catch word or phrase and seek to fasten it npon their opponents. Ai one time mey per aisled in styling those of the opposite faith, "Federalists." This was done long after the old Federal party was dead, and noli withstanding some of the Democratic chiefs, like Buchanan, had themselves been the stiffesl of Federalists. At another time it was the Democratic cue always to sneak of their opponents as "the silk stocking gentry." Another of their lying inventions was the charge of having been "bought up with lintish gold." Daniel Webster was always being bought up In this way, and re he was sup posed to hold the Whig party in the hol low of his hand, the charge touched the whole. We well rememlier how Isaac Hill, that noted Looofoco of by-gone years, never wearied of ringing the changes in his paper on these words of political o limn. Tbeae were the rounds of his ladder by which he mounted from a print er's caw), first to a seat in the United States Senate, and afterwards to a Gov ernor chair. v For the present campaign the party Seymour nave invented the name " bloated-bondholder." Every veteran and every fledgliug speaker of the party has on bis tongue. For the next three mouths no word will he sunken so often or so em phatically in Democratic discourse as this alliterative ribraae. In their use of the phrase it is implied that all the bondhold ers are Republicans, and that all are " bloated." This last la the coloring word, without which the other would be of little signification. Now it is worth while inquire who these same " bloatcd-bond-Luldcn " in fact are. Let us lo k into vault ol the savings banks. We shall there find many millions of dollars worth of the bonds. They were bought with the money s that were deposited In those banks. They wero bought for the purpose of sav ing dividends, tiie very purpose for which the money was deposited. Thev are hold by the batiks in trust for the depositors; they in fact belong to the depositors. And the depositors are the widows and the orphans, the Bridgets and the Johns, and all the persons of all savings an inmunera- ble throng. Bridget in the kitchen saved her wages, and put them into ! I I I I the banki and lot she has become a "bloated bondholder." John in the shoe shop lias been guilty of the same villain v. tur babv tnat horn has rpeeived a hundred dollars from grandpapa for his : name and it nas been deposited, and now uis imivi-vufc m-mi must uenr iuc miiiu iv- ; proacn. nut mere are ponds not in me savings hanks. They may bo found In old pocket-books and secret drawers in tho iarm nouses ano in mo dwellings 01 me chanics all over the land. They represent the earnings and savings of honest Industry in all its branches. The owners of these bonds have not many of them, still they somehow, simply to be a bondholder is to be "bloated." Let us view the subject in another light. The bonds represent the national debt. This debt was incurred in order to save the life of the nation. In sore extremity the Government implored each citizen to loan his money. There was rltk In so doing, and many preferred to lend their money ou town notes at a lower rate. There were many others, however, to whom the appeal of patriotism was not made in vain. They took the risk and loaned their money and received the bonds. Thus it was that they became "bloated bondholders." Really, then, in a bloated bondholder is one who was a friend of his country in its hour of peed. The sol diers did much to Bave the Union, but tho bloated bondholder did something also. Iu this view of tho case it would seem also that the greater the bloat the greater was the patriotic service. Here, for exam ple, is one whose bonds are so abundant that it takes him all day to cut off the coupons. A terrible bloat, undoubtedly ; out then observe ol what nolilc and abounding patriotism it furnisues theproof. A. letter lias just Deen published contain ing the statement authorized by Mr. Sey mour, that he does not own a bond and never did own one. That is to say, Mr. Seymour is not ashamed to proclaim that from first to last, all through the war and down to tho present timej he lias had no confidence in the Union, no true friend ship for his country. He is rich, ho has plenty of money to invest, but ho will not trust the natiou with a dollar of it. Had all followed his example during the war tho Union would have perished; wero all to follow it now universal bankruptcy would ensue. When such a man, a candi date for the Presidency, can stand up, and in tho face of all Kuropo thus decry our national credit, we shall welcome the name of " bloated bondholder." ns one most de scriptive of what ho is not Worcenter $iy- . . . . are bloated bondholders; for it seems that I I GRANT AT QUINCY. of of it to the Thr city of Quincy never gained more honor for herself than by the hearty, im promptu and enthusiastic welcomo which her citizens gave to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant last Saturday evening. It waa almost a revival of the patriotic war Bpirit of 1861, and an unmistakable evidence that the fires of loyalty iiad been kept brightly burning. The unbounded enthusiasm of this popular demonstration was but the muttering of tho thunder in the political sky which heralds the approach of the ir resistnble storm which is to sweep from sight every trace of disloyalty, repudiation and Democracy the triple term which is now joined together to resist the voice of the people. As in 1860 and 1864, the masses and not the few havo mado the Republican nominations, and they propose to place their choice the conqueror of tho rebellion in the Presidential chair by a majority larger by tens of thousands than ever was given a Presidential candi date. Atthough it was not positively known when " the next President of the United States" would arrive until about noon on Saturduy, the news spread like wild-fire through the city. The Tanners had been ordered to assemble on Jefferson Square at half-past 0, and here they came by twos and threes, by tens and scores, until the Park was alive with their shining uni forms. The music of their- band, tho thundering of the cannon, and the shouts of the excited ones made things pretty lively there for an hour or so. The arrival of Grosch's band was the signal for inarch ing, and companies A and II, aiiout iou strong, fell into line and started for the depot. The column marched directly down Vermont street to tho railroad, ac companied by hundreds of citizens, many ot whom were I anners, and many others were anxious to join, but every torch and uniform was in use, and it was not pro- iviseit to imitate the. examnlR of the Dtuncv Democracy, and allow everybody auio to carry a stick t tall in. un arrnvai at uie depot the torch beareis were drawn up in close ranks, and double files, facing in, forming an avenue through which our dis tinguished visitor might pass. Our honored guest. Gen. Grant, ar rived on the evening express train of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad. As tho. cars approached me depot aooni 7 p. m., and the first sight of " the hero of the war" was obtained, the air resounded with t he shouts of a multitude ot not less than five thousand people. Cheer followed cheer as the triumphant march began. From Vermont to New Hampshire streets the levee was crowded with a solid mass of humanity, all striving to obtain a glimpse of the great man. The barouche containing tho General and a few of our leading citizens, with difficulty forced its way .through the surging crowd to the place where the Tanners stood in readiness to give their welcome. As the train whis tled, the torches were lighted, and with uncovered heads and rousing cheers, the bearers thereof greeted the Genera) aa he passed through the blazing lines, which extended to the foot of Hampshire street Not only were the pavements crowded, but tlKj streets were literally filled. Throughout the entire distance the dem onstration assumed the character of a triuiuohal march, a perfect ovation. The crowd anund the vehicle containing the General, was so dense that it could hardly move. From roadside and pavement, from imloony and window, earae unceasing cheers, and the waving of flags and hand kerchieft. The procession moved slowly up Hampshire to Fourth, on Fourth to Maine, up Maine to Ninth, on Ninth to the Skating Park. At the Rink an Immense crowd awaited the arrival of the procession, for which the ground floor of the Rink had been re served. The Tanners and the multitudes nonred in until the whole building was packed full, and hundreds seeing Uiat it was useless lo try vo get wiunu acuiug or hearing distance, were turned away by the crowd. There was a rush for the platform, to shake hands with the Geueral, but this proceeding caused ao much confusion that a We of Tanner was sent up and the plat form cleared that the sneakers could have breathing space. The band dis coursed for a while in their balcony and then quiet being restored, Capt, L. 11. Keath, called the vast assembly to order, aud the lion. I. N. Morris stepped forward ami thus adurcjvtcd the great CapUun I " (Jen. Grant This i not the first lime I... ....! vou have visited mcciiy ol uuiucy. iu 1301 you pasted through here, iu command of your regiment on the way to a field of future usefulness and glory, to a course of action which redounded to the interest of your country. You wero then only tho Colonel of a regiment ; since then you have been advanced for meritorious services to the high and honorable position of Gen eral .f the United States Army. Now you return with your laurels all won, not as a Geueral, but as a prlvato citizen ; as such we welcome you ttvday to our city. They say you never made a speech. Wash ington never made a speech, Jackson never made one, Taylor nover did, but they all made their mark, as you have, lllouxing cheers By your Integrity, your valor, your coolness on the battle field you have matte yourscn famous, ii'iteers.i uen Jackson attempted to suppress a rebellion tn its lncipiency. iou succeedod in sup. iirrseiog n ijfnuwu one cuiuiiiuoub uueer ing.) You served your country in the army, and took your rlso from our own State, hence we claim you. You have been assailed as all great men have been ; you have been calumniated by virulent enemies, but there are patriotic hearts enough in this nation to save you, to raise you io me nigtiesi position in tne land. Illinois will be the first. She will roll up sucn a majority as sue never gave before to any individual. Again, in behalf of this enthusiastic, this vast assembly, I ex tend to you a hearty welcome to our city." As soon as the deafening applause ceas ed, Gen. B. M. Prentiss addressed tho audience as follows : " It is with pleasure I behold so many smiling faces and cordial hands ready to greet the arrival of our nation's most dis tinguished patriot; one who has filled every position to which he has been called with honor and credit to himself and country ; one whom tho people Intend, by their ballot, to place in the highest posi tion within their gift, that of President of tho United States of America." Then turning to General Grant, he spoke as follows : " Gen. Grant : In behalf of tho soldiers, I cordially welcome you to our city ; in so doing permit me to say that wo, as soldiers, must forget those tattered flags; we must forget the stain of the battlefield ; we must torget tho suttertng in hospitals ; we must forget our brothers that ltu in Southern graves; we must forgot tho amity and anxiety which your opponents find with rebels ; all of these things must be erased from our memory before we can fail to give vou a cordial support We do not for get that thero arc somo recreant Generals that are endeavoring to traduce and Injure your reputation. 1 do now cbargo that somo of theso Generals have willfully fal sified history to the end that you might be injured. "I have waited for this opportunity to give tho lio to tho assertion so frequently mado that I would refuse to give you a cordial support. No true soldier can fail in this. General, I welcomo you here in behalf of your comrades. Cursed bo tho hand that would refuse to give a cordial welcomo to you. May you live to fulfill tho position to which wo aro soon to call you, and may your futuro days be as bright as tho past havo been useful and glorious, is my sincere wish. At the conclusion of the General's re and the cheers and applause which d: followed, General Grant sal " Isu1ien and Gentlemen of Quincy : It is impossible for mo to find words to cx press ray gratification for this kind and enthusiastic reception. I thought that was visiting your city very quietly to pay a visit to my life-long friend, Col. I. N. Morris. What was my surprise to find what seems to bo not only the whole city, but the county of Adams, turned out to welcome me to your midst I cannot properly thank you for this ovation, but permit me to return my heartfelt thanks for tills undeserved mark of your partiality and kind feelings." The General's brief address was greeted with tumultuous applause, and the im mense throng began to disperse. Tho Tanners formed into line and made a clear pathway for the General and his party. Upon reaching the open air the latter was conveyed directly to the residence of Col. Morris, while the Tanners proceeded to Lincoln Hall and disbanded. This reception, gotten up on so short a notice, and participated In so heartily by so many thousands, not only reflects tho greatest credit on our city, but as a politi cal demonstration has absolutely terrified the poor Democracy, who have lately been laboring so hard'and so unsuccessfully to get out a crowd to hear their speakers. Republicans havo been encouraged, and aro going into tho campaign now with the expectation and determination of winning. Quincy (III.) Whin. Wh. NASBY. THE CONVERSION OF ELDER PENNIBACKER —HE SEES A VISION WHICH PUTS HIS FEET ON SOLID DEMOCRATIC GROUND Post Orris. Cos rinHiT X Koine, I (Wlch la in tne Uuta uv Kentucky,) V AUK- id, iroo. i Joy to the world I Elder Peunibacker, wich. ever sence the Noo York Convcn- shun, hcz bin a skoffer aud a sore-lied, is wunst more within the fold. There wuz more rejoicin when he come back than over all within the fold, for he wuz a ven erable lamb wich hed gone estray. Like the prodigal son, we stayed for him the fatted calf. I wuz particularly pleased with his re turn. Ho wuz the kindest uv men, and made the, best corn whisky in this seck shun. Ho hed alluz bin in the habit of sendin, now and then, a jug to his Paster at the Post Otlls, but seuce his dissatis fackshun and consekeut estrangement, these delekit attenshuns, so grateful to one in frail helth, hez bin intermitted. But that is ail over, thank Heven. Yesterday morning he come into the otlls bearin that which lo me is the most blessid uv peece oll'erins, the old familyer lug, wich settin down, lie fell onto my nock and wept. " Parson I " sed he, hiB voice quiverin with ciuosben, and tearBchasin each other down his nose, "it's over. I've sinned and hev repentid. Forgive me!" " Elder!" sed I, assoomin a dignified air, " he who departs and cometh back don't kick over that Jug, for the stopper ain't in tite Is to me more precious than if he hed'nt kicked over the traces. Bless yoo, my son. Here's a tin cup wich will do." The Elder then told mo how he hed bin converted, llu hed determined not to vote at all. He didn't bleeve in Seymore, coz he Is pledged to pay the debt in greenbax, and he detested lilare beco he wuz wunst a bloo kotid hireliu, and beeoz in tnarryin him we marry the entire Blare family wieh is too much. He didn't bleeve that either uv em wuz to bo trusted. He didn't bleeve that either uv era was troo to the South. Feeliu pekoolyerly bitter, he went to hed the nite afore, and uursin his wrath he fell asleep and dreamed, lhat dream saved him. He dreamed that he wuz iu a vast assem blage uv the Democracy, very like the Nashnel Conveiishun. There wuz shoutin and hollurin. but he walked about gloomy and sad, filial with tho most fearful foru bodins. Presently iu his dreem he approacht the grand stand wich wuz okkepled by the leiders and devoted to the moosic of the 'K'casion. Here a inat pt koolyer site met ! his gaze. He notitt one small but soft toned instrument, holler and very much like a flute, evidently made for ptseceful Blranes, out uv wich Wade Hampton wuz a ktrainin and blowin the most feroshus ' and war like sounds. Tho hud uv tho in j ktruinunt wuz Hoj uiore's bed, and t he lookt closer he fmnd it aasoomed the I geural umWranoe uv the man. . ll tried .. V 1 ..!. ,1 .. Dn,.w.,l. t,,.. I'll, I hard to'keep the smooth melojus tones wich it wu iioriudly adapted, but the grlm-visaged Hampton, whose w4nd is in exhaustible, blowed slrh strong blasts aud flngrred the holes so adroitly, that it played his toons and his only. Just beside him stood Boregard a nlavln a bras instrument which waa shaped so like tii&re as to be him, wlch instrument wuz uv the trombone nachor. Boregard had no trouble with it. It wuz es discordent nachrolly n it cood be, and It wuz splen didly adapted to the capassity uv the player. I give the dreem henceforth In the El der's words: " Wat in thunder," wl I to a man wlch seemed to be sort uv engincerlu the con cert, "wat In thunder is Sevmnra and Blare and slch ez them furnlshin mooaic for strate Suthern Dlmocracy for? Are we to be compelled to submit to the tool uv bondholders and to Federal soljers and slch? Ez for one, I will never" "Don'ktalk like an eggrejis ass f" sed this num. " Hevn't you an v sense f Can't you are that Seymore and Blare are mere ly tho Inst moments wlch are plaved onto, and that Boregard and Wade Hampton are the lndlvldooals who furnish the wind and finger the holes. Listen, how grand ly 'Dixie' and the 'Bonny Bloo Flag' swells out onto the air and fills surrouudin space I And see, ez Boregard shoves out the trombone how it has knockt off the stand all them wich from fonner attach ment to the lnatrooment wuz close to it. and how sweetly tho plzen breth wlch is uein mowed, mo its commned with that uv the instrooment itself, hez smothered all them whose presence wood hevcmbari nst us. Miles O'Rollly It killed, and all that pestiferous breed of War Democrats like him are lavln. ovornowered with it. flat onto their backs. They may possibly survive, but they are so stoopctied that they won't get up till after their opportu nity for hurlin us is passed." Then, Bed tho Elder, my dreem changed. Mcthawt the clckshdn wuz over, and that wo hod triumphed. I wuz to homo in Kentucky. All here wuz peece. The Buro ofllsers bed folded ther tents like tho Arabs, and silently stole awny. The military wuz withdrawn, and ther wuz nothln bloo in tho South, savo and except the faces uv tho few Northern men wlch coodent git away. Tho very air wuz full uv tho gosts uv the dod Federal soljers in the South, all uv wlch wore an expreshun uy hoomlllnshen ez tho they felt they hed bin manufaktered into gosts for very con siderable less than nothin. Reconstruk shen hed bin undone, and all laws en- franch'sin niggers and deprivin our heroes uv suffrage wuz bustid. We wuz free. Ther hed bin a gincral cleanln nut uv Northern settlers, carpet-baggers Rtid ob streperous niggers. I notist with infinit pleasure that Pollock's store hed bin gut ted, and Joe Bigler's corpso (he spoke this in a low tone, and look in fearlly over his shoulder to make shoor no one hecrd him) wuz a lym on the Square. Sich of tho niggers ez cood bo control! ed were at work under laws we had passed for em rcgiilatin labor, at an average uv $4.00 per month, and sich ez hed become too independent for that, hed either bin shot or driven out uv tho country. The Amendmeuts, givln uv em votes aud sich, hed been overruled, and in Tennessee and tho other Slates they hod bin redoost to their normal speer, aud the power wuz wunst more In the bands uv sich patriots ez Forest, aud sich. Brownlow bed bin hung, ther noosepapers destroyed, and them wich supported em scattered to tho lour winds. in tho Corners all wuz peece. Wo hed Diggers on our plantations ez before tho war, aud we, the roolin race, was relieved uv tho degradin labor wlch so onllts a Caucashnn for tho enovnient uv life. The entire Corners heviu nothin to do and plenty to live on, wuz perpetooly gathered in front of Bascoins, pitchin cop pers, runnin quarter races, and ever aud anon ceasin in their manly amoosements to quad the 'lowing boles wich he sup plied. Wo cood hear, any time, the cheer ful yelp uv bloodhounds in tho swamp beyont the Run, chasin runaways, and cz ther wuz no longer any law agin their shoot in niggers, skacely a day passed that one or more wuz not killed. My distillery wuz a runnin full blast, the smoke of the torment asendin from its chimney forever. Oh, it was gorgus I " And is tills to be ?" asked I uv the dis embodied spirit uv Bishop Poke, wieh wuz show in it to me. " All this and more," returned he. "Thus will the South regain her lost rites. Thus will the lost coz be restored. Elect more and Blare, and ail will bo well." "At this pint I awoke," sed the Elder, " foelin how unjust I hed bin how vilely I hed sinned and how fearfully I hed du parted. I wuz ngoin back on riy party on the greenback question I Wat is green bax to this? Wat is payin a debt in one way or another compared to the cxtacy uy wallopin niggers, chasin Northern men and hevin our instonshens back again? Wat is a mere greenbax idea of hevin the entire Northern Dimocracy in our hands agin, for us to mould ez we will arid do Willi ez wo like? Why, I woodent give the luxury uv hevin a Noo Yorker on his knees afore me ez of old, a minnit, for all the taxes I will hev to pay for a century. Besides," and ho busied out afresh, "if Boregaid can make Seymore pipe Dixie, can't he also by different tingerin make the same instroomcnt play Repoodiation ? I shood say so We hev em Pnrson we hev em. Forgive met forgive me!" And we embraced and wept, and took a drink, and wept again for joy. Verily my way is now pleasant and my paths is made strato. In the exuberance uv his joy he will keep my basket and my store or rather my jug and flask full for a mouth. PETROLUM V. NASBY, P. M., (Wich is Postmaster.) A German Campaign Article. to Thr New York Criminal Zeitung, a German weekly paper, which has a very large circulation among the Germans of th.s country, contains the following article in a late issue : The Presidential campaigu, as far as the North is concerned, is no very passionate one till now. although some newsnaners are not freo of utterances of ire. The quiet of the North Is chiefly to be ex plained by the uneasiness in tho South, which shows the North what duty it has to perform. There were indeed in no cam paign more principles involved than there are in the present oue,aud nearly everybody knows what to da If on one side are Wado Hampton and Forrest, and on the other side Grant aud Sheridan, no doubt can rise, because the form of Frank Blair is to be seen lietween both sides. One party says: "Down with Congress and its reconstruction, while thu other party wants to support Congress in its national policy, and to maintain its work and com plete it. Here Ihey are threatening a uaw civil war, while there we hear the words " Let us have peace." Here the disputing aud doubting of tho obligationscontracted by the nation is stigmatized as a crime, while on tho other side they oiMiniy do mand the breach of a solemn promise. Under su'ih circumstances it cannot bu hard for a man to sot himself right, and there is no cause ror him lo be exaHp rated. Who likes Forrest aud Wade Hamilton will join iu their company, Those who had Just enough of such pur sons during the war will keep away Irom them. Who wishca tbe country most all peace, will vole for Grant aud Colfax. Who thinks that the Interests of the coun try demand a new rebellion, renewed bloodshed, will join those who declare tiling done and existing null ami emf. aad whose- theory, if executed, would huvii other meaning but civil war. Quito precisely aud naturally the followers, the different ideas about the sanctity or nullity of a contracted debt will separate from each other. In all thesn questions there Is so little room left for mistake, and .i. . nlatn. that it -would be foolish to treat of subordinate ques tions. WcXHieve that the majority of the peo ple want peace. Wo believe the country will not frivolously squander what wae won ny so naru a simggie, rM'", ship of state to new storms. We believe the people do not Intend to restore to pow er those persons who cost the country so much money. We are convinced that the in,nrtn. m ""heir debts ex- .vim i 11 ii r. i j i U n in Y , actly as they were contracted. We, on our part, patiently wait ror mo nw w the campaign. POLITICAL ITEMS. Mr Thn rpaaon whv Frank Blair IsJ not popular In Kansas, is that he reminds otir people or the great aroutn year keeps so dry and windy. Kansas Chief. IW A Democratic paper aaya, that In order to secure Seymour's election tney must get out every Democratic TOter. Can't do It. for some of them are In for ft number of years. OTA rebel sheet in Texas puts the fol lowing doggerel at the head of its edito rial column : Tbe star, hart, and nltrt Sa-Klm, Long may they wave O'er the white man'a homa And the nlprger'a grave. tW A pamphlet copy of the proceed. Ings of the New York Democratic Na tional Convention, printed for circulation In the South, bears on ita cover, In large type, " Stand by your friends who have stood by you." t"Tho latest Democratic exaggera tion Is, that it has required an army of 80, 000 men and cost 100,000,000 unnually to enforce the reconstruction acts. The truth Is, that but 13.506 troops have been em ployed In the Southern States at n cost of less than 4,500,000 annually. R! Our Democratic friends go In strong for economy. They think all the millions that have been spent in prosecuting the war have been wasted. Imagine a pick pocket contemplating a policeman with the mournful remark, "Ah I this is what tre're taxed for Just io keep this fellow In idleness. Jiarfora ivn. iST" Cantaln Isaiah Rvndera. a consnlcu- ous Tammany Hall politician, in a recent Seymour and Blair speech in New York city, said : " Ho loved the American flag as dearly as any other man, so long aa it represented a Government in the hands of the Democratic party, and no longer." tf A now Democratic rancr has re cently been started at Corinth, Miss. Tho editor is the rebel colonel Tyier. lie ornaments his paper with tl.o stars and bars of the defunct Confederacy, thus showing under what flag Seymour and liiair are sailing ut the bourn, i ne em blem is exceedingly appropriate. tfTTho Boston Tranoaivt gives the following questions for Copperheads to answer : How can the Reconstruction acta of Congress be " unconstitutional, revolu tionary and void," when the Supreme Court has recognized legislation based on theso acts, and tho Executive of the coun try has agreed to protect a State, the or ganization of which was made by virtue of them ? We rather think many leading Copperheads would like a satisfactory an swer to this query. IW In April, 1803, Governor Seymour vetoed tho bill passed by the New York Legislature allowing soldiers to vote in tho field. The bill was passed over his veto, and the New York soldiers were therefore allowed to vote. Now Governor Seymour wants the votes of the soldiers, and he boasts of having signed " over fifteen thousand " commissions of Union officers during the war. He will not gain soldiers' votes by such talk as this. 6W General Grant, referring to tho Quincy UeraUfm pretended report of his speech at tho Rink in this city, on Satur day night last (the report consisted of three blank lines), quietly remarked thai it would cost ills friends no trouble to ex plain it. This la more than can be said of Gov. Seymour's speeches, all of which have to be explained away up to tho date of his nomination for the Presidency, to render his position In harmony with the Now York platform. Quincy (III ) Wliig. CSSf" Two gentlemen were discussing the relations of the Republican and Demo cratic particB to the Government and the country, hero last evening. Tho Demo crat urged that there was as much loyalty to tho Government in the Democratic as in the Republican ranks. Tbe Republican did not dispute the assertion, but said, can you name a Republican who ever fired a bullet at the man who was defending the United States flag? Do you know of a sound Republican who ever fought to overthrow this Government ? I will give you $100 for every name of such a Re publican which you choose to furnish me." Tho Democrat ceased boasting, and for got to name any such Republican. Chica go llepublican. Another Illustration. A latr incident in Connecticut has not been sufficiently considered in connection with the revolutionary spirit or the Demo cratic party. It has been long known that the Connecticut elections, especially in New Haven, and in parts of the State easily accessible from New York, have been shamefully fraudulent The Legisla ture at its recent session passed a bill to purify elections by a careful registry and a proper issue of naturalization papers. The bill was rigidly examined and vigor ously discussed. It was opposed with warmth aud bitterness by the Democratic party, and finally passed by a strictly party vote ot me uepuuncana. tue uomocrata geucraliy oppose a registry and all safe guards at the ballot The point in our whole system which should be most watch fully defended is one which they strive to leave most exposed. The reason is ob vious. The Democratic party is recruited not from the Intelligent youth of the coun try but from the most ignorant class of foreign immigrants ; and every protection of the ballot founded upon intelligence, residence, and honesty at the polls is, therefore, a limitation of the Democratic vote. When tho bill in question passed tho Connecticut Legislature the Demo cratic newspapers threatened violent resist ance, especially iu .o uavon, ine scene of the chief election frauds. The bill was placed in the office of the Secretary of State, and just before it was laid before the Goveruer for his signature it was discovered lhat the xcorda of the laic had been secretly changed, so as to deprive it ot lis most euective ana desirable provi sions. These forgeries, moreer, were substantially the changes which the De mocratic party nad attempted to introduce into the bill. Tho law was redrawn as originally passed, and waa again adopted by the Legislature. The incident illus trates the utterly unscrupulous and dau erous spirit of the party which nominates for Vice-President a man who furiously appeals to the sword as a political remedy which counts among its leaders the most relentless of rebels, and among its sup- ' porters the great mass of the most igno rant and reckless of the population. The Democratic party, despising equal rights, is found every where identified with acts and measured which are not only lawless but which poison the very springs of law and organized society. Harper' Weekly. Agricultural Hoss Trots. as ol At this season of horse-racing, Josh Bil lings' moral reflections on the equine sub ject are worthy of attention : Men who hav a grate deal to do with houses seem to demoralize tiller than the hosucs do. Hosses are like dice and karda, altho they are virtuous enutT themselves, how natral it is to gambol with there. Hosses love the society rf man, and be ing susceptible of grate deceit, they will learn a man to cheat and lie bvl'of he knows it. I know lots uv folks who are real plus, and who are oneat euuff to work up into United Suites asaofftors, and such good moral chunks left over, but when thty come to talk boas, they want as much look ing after M ft ctifco yf Uiythery,