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THE SHINING LIU HT.
Sermon by Itcv. D. E. Frlcrsoti, D I)., of
Anderson, Delivered at Cokeabory Dur
ing the Meeting of the South Carolin*
Presbytery.
"Let your light so rhine before men, that
they mav seo your good works, &c." Mat
thew v, 10.
"Ye," said Jesus, "sro the light of the
world." Not Caiaphas or Alexander, but
"ye." Peter, James and John, bumble
fishermen. Ye that are learners of the
Gospel and willing to follow mu. Ye
that are sufficiently interested in ibo
kingdom of beaven to lose time from
your occupation to correrse ripon and
study the great subject. Ye that are
_^ willing to bear tbe reproach of enthusi
asts; that aro not offended at tho poverty
and plainness of Jesus. "Ye aro tho
light of the world. Let your light so
shine before men, &c."
The lawyers and doctors of tho Sanhe
drim are far more learned in Rabbinical
lore and occupy far higher positions of
influence and power. But their learning
is not the kind that men most need. Tbe
knowledge which makes a grand Doctor
and a consequential ecclesiastic ; a man
floating in tue renions of a fanciful theol
ogy puOe th up tho professor without ra
diating a genial light. It is knowledge
which doe J not generate love for tbe rnce-:
a knowledge barren of "good works." The
true light of tbe Christian is "good works."
Tho true reflection of Jesus, 'the light ol
the world," is "good works." It is the
true, the permanent power of man ovci
man. The doctrine that flowers iota
Sood works, is living doctrine and nol
ead speculation. Tho creed that taker
an ignorant child by tbe band ; thal
whispers courago to a disconsolate widow
tbat reforms an inebriate ; that coins r
dollar to Bend the Gospel to destitute re
gions, i:? the light of tho world. Wha'
tho world needs more than book-learn i nj
is heart sympathy with its ignorance anc
sin. It needs a raco of men and worn ci
who have courago to do "good work/
But whilo the world's greatest need it
tho light that emanates from pure, good
holy, well directed effort to do "good
works," it does not need tbo wild Are o
enthusiasts, all ablaze with par tizan beat
to build up a sect or denomination, no
the light of "wandering stars" attrac
ting attention for a short eeason and thei
disappearing ; but tho steady light of i
?ooo, judicious and persevering Cbristiai
.ife.
Again, tho world does not need tba
kind of religion wbicb flourishes witbou
doctrine. It is said sometimes, by wei
meaning Chrfctiaua, that ii is of i Uti
consequence what your belief is provide;
your motive and conduct are right. Tba
Christianity is just simple goodness, in
formed or uninformed.
Tbat one bath a doctrine, and an
other a psalm ; but tbe main matte
is to live right. But bow, in all humai
good sense, can a man live right, ns it i
termed, without knowing what it is to liv
right? Without knowing what God mean
by it? bor each bath a doctrine and
psalm about that. Does it require know!
edge to practice medicine, to manage
store, and none, or but little to be
Christian ? Is it of but little moment t
know wbnt God tells us about living hei
nod hereafter? But, it is said, we do nc
mean tbat. We mean that good inter
tions and good aims constitute good cha
ncter, ana this is ail that Christinnit
requires. Ah 1 but where nre you gi
ing to get good objects ?o which they ai
directca ? How nro you going to raise
crop of good intentious without plantin
tho seed ? And what could pessibl
make a few ignorant good intentions i
valuable as many well, informed good ii
tentions. Can a field of nubbins be i
valuable as a field of welieared corn
But of what value can ignorant good ii
tentions and delightful religious feelir.j
without-some knowledge to guide then
Suppose a man, ignorant of God':; righ
ousness, should go about to establii
bis own righteousness, which might be
tho opposite direction from salvatio
would, jr amount to the same thing in tl
cud, any moro than if aman, meaning
go to Boston should mount thc train g
mg to San Francisco?
It is impossible to ignore religio
knowledge without ignoring all know
edge. It is impossible to be a Christi:
without knowing the doctrines which co
stilute the Christian faith. A mun m
know a little of them and ba saved, b
it will bo a little and week Christian th
will be saved. If any man build on tl
foundation (i. e. Christ) gold, silver, woe
bay. stubble,-his work shall sufjer lo
but bo shall be saved, yet so as
fire.
I have said enough to show that t
Christian's light is not knowledge, thal
is not good intentions and good feelinj
It is good intentions, directed hy go
knowledge, sustained by good and he
perseverance generated by God's gc
spirit.
Now, you will notice- that tho Gr
Teacher did not mean to congratulate I
disciples ns being the actual possessors
thia light, when He said "Yo aro t
light of the world," but that such v
the position which they began now
occupy, and such must be the effect
their character on tho world if they
trul his followers. And such of com
must bo tho position and character of i
cry Christian. He must be a lumina
Yes, a light shining in a dark place.- (
jeets ana their proportions are made t
ibiu by lita presence. A naughty act
is rebuked by his upright depqrtme
A corrupt sentiment is corrected by
puro coiivcrsu?uii.
"Now, I wanted to say to you, my bre
rcn, and to all Christians, "Let. y
light so shino before men, that they n
eeo your works." It is tho most got
exhortation to Christian duty in the wo
Just let your Christianity radiate,
beautiful action ought not tobe bid.
Christian sentiment will find utteranc
you do not repress it, and tho' it bo
ono small ray, still it io a ray of 1*
that ?oes to mako un tho light of
world/ Aud do not bo afraid., TL
never 'was a skepticism or an infide
Ict th?t could calumniate light or ?av
t tbat it was not a good thing. J
God's pure element that the evil
himself cannot malign. There never
an infidel argument vet that could st
before a pure and noble life. If you li
not an argument in words? you h
what Is better, the ability to itt thc vt'
see a Christian ; rt Christian in ptosji
ty and a Christian in adversity ; a Cl
tian tempted, a Christian slighted
hated : a Christian susceptible of oi
one of the world's pienso res, but wall
nobly above them. Tho very finest
best refutation of infidelity, of univci
ism and of sin is tho Christisn. Tho Cl
tian at prayer awes tho powers of di
ness. Satan trembles when be noes
weakest saint upon bis knees. He ti
bles because ho knows Jesus Cbrii
near by.
But our text ia not only a gentle cs
tatinn. Vt is a tender command.' ?S
?our light," It bin thc imperative ?J
>o not be satisfied with a mere spr,
neous radiation. Intensify its- If
Increase ita brilliancy.' You ara en'
ted wRh a preci?os eferftont from he
which yon must not obscure by pul
It under a bushel, or biding it in tb
cret chamber? of you? privait experte
It is tho world's and yon are but the al
moner of tbo^bcavorily bounty. It is not
;for you alone. It is for mankind. It LB
tbe most beautiful thing that God let
down to earth. A living specimen of the
heavenly excellence. God's witness in a
sinful world. You must not put an es
toppal upon its testimony. Christian
modesty is not injured by Christian zeal.
The sun does not dr. .?roy tbe stars. Nay
tliey are shining In other ports of God's
creation when that sun is shining in bis
strength upon UH. And when the sun
goes down below the horizon, all tbe
modest stars'again illumine our heavens.
They shone with bim in fact during the
day, but bis superior light outshone theirs.
Modesty and zeal work harmoniously to
gether. You may be both a zealous
Christian and a modest ono. But observe
tbat timidity is not modesty. A Christian
afraid to refuse, when invited to go to a
ball or to a game of cards is a timid
Christian. Ile is afraid to let his Chris
tianity radiate its light. He puts it un
der a bushel just when he should put it
on a candlestick. Why that is just vour
opportunity, Christian, wben the light of
n Christian example would be a beauti
ful obedienco to the exhortation of
the Great Teacher, "Let your light so
shine"
But, it moy bo Boid I do not see why
my Christianity may not shine in the
ball room and ut the card table. I pro
pose to engage in no other than decent
dancing and decent card ploying. Well,
but decent card playing is a very dim
form of Christianity, if any at all. Do you
propose to submit your Christianity to
au obscuration. If you begin to dimin
ish your light, moy you not extinguish it?
But Jesus exhorts, Let it shine. And
bow are you going to shine your light il
you let it down into an atmosphere
which first obscures then extinguishc it,
The modern boll room and card table
just as certainly puts out the light ol
Christianity, ns the choke damp in a
coal pit puts out a lamp. You cannot
think of Jems Christ being in a .ball
room or seated at a card table. Il
shocks your moral sensibilities. And
you cannot think of any one aimir.g tc
bo liko Jesus Christ carrying bis Christi
anity safely into such atmosph?res
What tben, it is asked, are we to forego
all earthly pleasures and become a race
of demure and miserable beings? Anj
one can become demure and miserable
being? Any one can become demure
rod will become demure who undertake:
to be a Christian soldier but baa nol
courage to fight its battles. He will bi
demure because bo "conderaeth himsel
, in ihat thing which he aiioweib." Those
aro the truly miseiable people who an
constantly at war with themselves en
deavoring to reconcile their conscience)
and their conduct. Christianity propoB
j es to us a higher order of pleasures-th?
pleasures of a selfvictory ; of a mani}
courage in the moment of temptation
of tho noble independence which rise
bu por or to the pleasures of animal ex
citement. And it happens that th
pleasures of tbe curd tablo and tbe bal
room are just that class of pleasure
which you can refuse yourself withou
any injury to your moral, intellectual n
coi poi ca) nature.
"Let yonr light chine before men," m;
brethren, whenever you nre?Bolicited t
tbe horse race or drinking saloon. Shot
yourself a strong man, tbe light of wbos
Christianity is not blown out by a puf
What rational sport cnn there be in wil
nessing a five minutes straggle botwee
horses and jockeys ? "The very life au
soul of the turf," says the Canadian Ir,
dependent, "is betting." Take that awa
and there would be n total collapsi
Yet betting is a livelihood. Thousand
of lazy mem in this nnd other ccuhtrk
make their bread and broadcloth by ihi
method of "preying upon society." Th
philosophy of betting is that you ma
get something for nothing, that you mu
win looney without working for it; J
is attempting to got money in snrao otb?
way than by honest industry. The gan
bier and betting man in those plac?
where the institution of the horse rat
and the cock-fight have been set up reu
a rich harvest at these periodical Satu
nnlia, and they reap ny trickery an
cunning, a harvest of money which som
bndy'd honest toil bas made. All Jhri
linns and good men ought to withbo
their countenance and encoorogemei
from work of this kind. Let your ligl
BO shine, my brethren, as to expose 1
your pure example, the moral uglinc
of betting. But it may be said there is i
wrong in betting, if we lay no wage
We answer no one is wronged but you
self nnd God. Yourself,, by jumpli
into tbe deceitful fascination of lotter
a fascination which grew into such
monstrous evil in our social econon
that Legislatures bad lo stamp it out 1
force. Some years ago the Policio
Lottery at Rome was drawn every Satu
day morning. I do not know that
exists now. A great ?lass barrel wi
a crank was turned rapidly for a time
shuffle the tickets together, and th
drawn and announced to a crowd
almost breathless spectators below t
balcony, until ninety tickets were sc
out. Tho profits to the government,
ono time for each drawing was GO,?
acudi. nearly $60,000. . And it bas be
stated, as a fact, that the greater the pu
lie distress and poverty, the greater t
yield of tbe Lottery to the public e
chequer. -
Misery makes the people desperate a
ihey venture more recklessly"iwith t
little they possess. Think of n poor v/ido
cd mother venturing her last wee
earnings by puning ii in the snape ol
lottery ticket in the hopo of getting mi
by chance and then turning away fri
the accursed affair in utter despair, havi
lost ail. Yet betting is lottery, apd j
tory wrongs God by denying bis Fro
dence and government, by seeking
escape bis appointment of lawful ind
try for a living; by abetting the in
mons doctrine of chance. Ol I hope i
fellow Christians will bo strong cnorj
?o refuse outright all approbation . a
encouragement of betting, card phvyl
horse racing and:cock fighting, and
altino out their Chcistianlty as to exp
these immoral practices. Yon mi?
Sut a gloss of decency over these tbii
y surrounding them with the finery
n modern civilization and refincme
but you could not divest them of tl
iniquitous tendency, And coiild
tho Christian wflmen of onr conn
exert a power (over thtW evils by rel
ing to ntf?.td a tournament, regatta
race where betting was proposed f H
women no responsibility as to sic
practices and amusements which dept
manily upon their presence and cont
nance for their interest?
Aro tbe young women too til
to say no, when their bands are sough
entertainment or amusement wb
might cast a shade over their loyalty
Jesus and embarrass tho cause of Ch
timmy ? Your nex was ever true to
sus of Nazareth. Endeavor to be
still In this age of diversified ott radii
"Let your figh*. shine before men"
women- in thc parlor. You bave j
own- nice ..-d facile way of int rodin
Mibjcols of conversation. . That ai
facility and acuto discrimination cc
bo employed in introducing subject
moral and religious import ; of disci
Aging id terms of disapprobation n
doubtful dressing, doubtful manners,
doubtful hours, doubtful parties and en
tertainments. Let your motherly and
matronly wisdom shine out in instructive
conversations before- the maidens and
girls. Encourage them by your aago
conversation to bo resolute. Build up
character in them, stable character tbat
will throw off all flippancy, coquetting
and superfluity of naughtiness. Who
but Christian mothers are to illuminate the
parlor with Christian morals ? Who but
tbey are to shape tho tasto sof thc giris and
maidens into solid Christian mnnnero.
Christianity baa no quarrel with civiliza
tion, Greek, lloman and Ame. ?can. It has
noquarrel with long hair or thc plaining
of it, none with gold rings or bracelets
except as hold and flashing. But it has
a quarrel with tbe flashing apparel tbat
seeks to be seen and admired ; wi h the
high and naughty importance which
mukes itself beard through the bouse;
anything and everything which in dress
or manners exceeds settled and prevalent
taste ; anything and everything which
takes woman from ber natural position
of power and influence nud which culti
vates a viri'.e ambition. Mothers can
control all this by letting tbeir light
lihino in the parlor. Ol matronly aud
wise women you must not, with such
eloquent tongues as you possess, be silent
upon the grent subject of reli
gion. Your power for good is very
great. I am not inviting you to
organizo societies for reading and prayer.
These may be well enough, pro nd cd you
do not allow your individual and personal
responsibility to escapo you under the
plea tbat you are praying. I am asking
you to let the light of a wise conversa
tion shine before your daughters and the
daughters of other families. You must
know what they read. You must be
strong enough to reject paltry stuff
from your house. "Evil communi
munication corrupt good manners." Ye
are Christian women and a? such "ye are
the light of the world."
The weight and character of men and
women of tbe next generation must be
very much according to your moulding.
If you have taught them only bow to
compound a pie or to wear a flounce
they will confine their intellects to pies
ana flounces when you are gone to your
account. Interest the girls in good
works, in charities, in profitable reading,
in timely, seasonable, discreet sociability.
Teach tb em to dress plainly for the
house of God, to attend daylight meetings
chiefly, to converse with sobriety and as
much as possible upon useful topics.
Much of witticism, cf fun of jocularity
is o.ila.ai io the young aud not io
be frowned down, but much of it
needs tbe gentle pressure of a
mother's band. Let your iight
tibine before men, my \ rethren, in yoi r
daily intercourse with the world. Not
by dragging up the subject of religion
into all companies or at any time. All
things have their occasions and opportu
nities. A little watchfulness, a little
anxiety on the great subject will find
its chance. "And a word fitly Bpoken
how good is it." There sits a lawyer at
bis desk. He is a Christian man. A
friend or client calls and takes bis seat,
suits, trials, deeds, estates, persona and
parties pass under review and are fully
discussed. Christ and bis cause aro
never once mentioned. There sits a
doctor in bis office ; be too is a Christian.
Call to see bim. With liveliest and even
enthusiasm ho will enlighten you on tho
human physical econctsy, on the !?test
theories about contagious or miasmatic
disease and with most tombing pathos
h'- will detail tbe circumstances of some
extraordinary case of ..umnn suffering.
The interview closes pleasantly, politely,
without an allusion 'to the great subject.
So of tho merchant and tbe man of busi
ness. Ia it right? Is it right that every
thing else should interest your thoughts
and reelings but the subjects which relate
to tbe kingdom of heaven ? Is it right
that Christian meu should close tbeir
eyes upon every opportunity for opening
their lips to tbeir fellow men upon the
most momentous themes that can come
before the human miud? Is it right that
n man who professes to believe on Jesus
Christ for eternal lifo should make his
religious experiences n profound secret,
and make his religion tho matter cf a
secret society ? Is it right when God
has made you Iiis mouthpiece and
has asked you to bo bis witness
bearer before this present evil world
that you should Accept tbe position and
refuse to act under tue commission ? Is
it rigbt that the friends of God should
stand witness to bis name being re-,
proacbed and his cause defamed without
opening their lips in its defenco? In tho
name of that High Majesty wbo has ap
pointed his Gospel to bo j reached, I ask
what is tho meaning of this universal
cousent? Is it timidity? Is it human
contempt? Is it conspiracy? Is there
no light and no love left to cminate from
human hearts? Wbat means this awful
silence upon earth? Tbis coldness of
tho extremities tbnt drives a pulsating
Christianity back to thc very citadel of
lifo for warmth and refuge? What
means tbis now- atmosphere of eboke
dump on the streets, the thoroughfare!
and quays of human activity where all
tbe lights bf Christianity go out? and
where, no man dares defend God and
religion? . Tito question echoes back,
what means it?
My brethren, I leave Christ's exhorta
tion with yon, Let your light, Ac. Light
toe lamps of Christian courage, fidelity
faith and prayer. Let each light up a
lamp,in his own bouse. Let each build
anew1 the altars tbat aro taiicn down.
Let each man set up a light on a candle
stick in his office aud in his store, tho
little earthly beacon and remembrance
of yonder glorious world of light to which
you are invited to espire. You'have not
turned your back upon heaven and the
everlasting glory. You still hope to
meet, the Lord in the air. Yon still
cling by a secret hope to the garments of
tho Great Deliverer. Come iben and get
a li vo coal from God's, al tar. Ol come
again td a sin forgiving God. Come and
renew the struggle for life everlasting.
Como with mo and fight the good fight of
faith, iaying bold of eternal life? But
The fearful soul that tires and faints,
And walks the way of good no moro
Is but esteemed almost a taint,
And makes his own destruction sure.
-In Philadelphia lue party commit
tees of both cides have paid tho taxes for
their respective laggards, and the follett
vote ever cast wilt bs polled in Novem
ber. Tbe two parties nave paid taxes for
from fifty to sixty thousand voters
more than one-third"of the whole vote of
the city. Tbe Bepublicans claim from
80,000 to 85,000, and the Democrats from
70,000 to 75,000. The aggregate poll
will not be less than 150,000, and may
exceed that number.
-Gen. Grant said lately: "Tbe great
est bore of my life is that everybody
wants me to eat, and they don't thine
they show any hospitality unless an hour
and a half Is spent at tba table. Now,
when you come to eat four meals a day.
at that rate j au would loso six hours of
what is often valuable time."
- The colporteurs of the American
Bible Society distributed 10,253 Bibles in
Texas during the last four month*.
JUIMJE BLACK ON GARFIELD.
- a
.The Issues ?ll With tia and the Accidente
Not Against Va"-Hovr Garfield TUlnka
Treachery to Ula Country Fidelity to nt?
Faction.
The following letter from Hon. J. 8.
Mack, of Pennsylvania, sent in reply to
on invitation to attend the great Demo
cratic mass ineetiug of Tuesday evening,
but not received in time to be i sad that
evening, will command the attention of
thinking men of ?ll shades i political
opinion :
YORK, BROCKIE, PA., Sept. 22.
GENTLEMEN-I cannot attend the
meeting of the Democratic-Republicans
at the city of New York on tho 23d inst.
But I can assure you of my concurrence
in its object, and If time and space* per
mitted I coule! give you a reason for tho
faith that is within me.
I trust wo are approaching tho end of
our long struggle against tho oppression
sud fraud of the auti-conetitutional party,
They have sought tho destruction of our
Government by every possiblo mear?a in
their reach. By our Government I mean
tho whole system or fundamental law
under vhicb we live, including the grant
ed power of tho Federal Union, tho re
served rights of tho States and the per
sonal liberty of the citizens. These tfirr*.
are all vital points of our political or
ganization, and thc life of thc nation dc
pends as v \ch upon one as another, ll
you want ty kill a man it makes no dif
ference whether you knock out his brains
stab him through tho heart or tear opec
his bowels-either way he is done for
Certainly an American who forcibly
tramples OD civil liberty or by violenci
extinguishes the rights of the States ii
no less a traitor to his country than on<
who resists the just authority of the Fed
eral Government.
I need not remind you with what man
?fold treachery our opponents got pos
session of tho power which they have si
frightfully abused. At the beginning o
the war they solemnly pledged them
selves to use thc forcea put into thei
bands for the sole purpose of defendin|
the Federal Government and maintain
ing tho supremacy of the Constitutioi
and laws, with all the rights of the State
and the people unimpaired; and the;
promised that when this was accom
?fished tho war should instantly cease
n consideration of this spcclsl pledge
supertitled to their oaths, the men am
tho money wore put into their hand
which completely subdued the armed op
position of tho South to tho Union. Bu
when tho conflict waa over thoy ar
nounced that the victory instead "of dc
fending the Government had revolution
ized and overthrown it ; that tho whol
doctrino of State rights was exploded au
personal liberty was consequently a thin
of the paBt; that the military wau abov
thc civil authority, and through that ir
strumentality '.hey (and central ol
garchy) might kidnap, imprison and ki
citizens for political offenses withoi
judge or jury. Thc right of suffrage ha
ceased to exist except when it was exe
eise J by their permission and in a wa
which suited their purposes. Destroyin
all the election laws of half the States i
ihe Union,-they Ailed the State O?JO
with notorious thieves and crowded Coi
5ress with rcdemptionlees rogues, wt
id not pretend to any title except wh
thoy got by force and fraud, and in r
thc States they claimed the right to I
represented at State elections by the ba
enc'- of their standing army. Wbu
you have mo enumerate the corruptio
generated by this famous system ? Cou
the stars if you can ; try to number tl
Bands on the seashore.
TLeir idea of a strong government w
fully developed. Six yeara after the ?
fraud and force had made it so mu
stronger than liberty, justice and la
that the Constitution had but sev
friends in thc Senate and less than
third of the member* in the Lon
House. But thc principles of free a
honest government were not destined
bo crushed out forever. The moral i
fluenco of tho Democracy was itself
power which abashed of the anti-cons
tutional leaders and benumbed their ft
ulty of evil doing. Thousands of tr
men, who, iu the moments of error
alarm, had wandered from tho track
their principles, "hastened to ret?n
their steps and to regain the road whi
alone leads to penne, honor and safety
Truth and justice gradually regain
their natural ascendancy in too popu
heart. First, tho Federal House of Rt
resentatives was redeemed ; then t
Senate, and in 187G an overwhelm!
majority of the people attested their <
votion to freo principles by voling fo
Democratic President, This looked 1
a successful vindication of free gove
ment, but was not. The anti-consti
tiona! party has an advaotago wh
more than counterbalances the streni
\}f the people. It can cheat at electic
it can falsify the count, it can forge
tarns. "There's the respect that ma
calamity of so long a life."
We are about to repeat the experiuit
We may be swindled again, but then
not any doubt that our honest majo:
is greater than it was bcfoie. The isa
aro all with usUnd tho accidento are
against us. Our candidato is not o
unexceptionable, but admirable, and
the unbounded confidence of the wi
country in his talents, integrity i
patriotism.
Tho impulses of persistent friends
and the duties ot fair political qpposii
aliko require me to speak of Generate
field. Intellectually he is first among
politicians of his party- -not tho shari
or istrougest, but thji most gifted and I
cultivated. His private life is stain!
and in everything uncorrected with
itics his behavior is regulated by pri
pies of the soundest morality. Bu
public affairs he does not act upon
convictions ; when he passes into
domain of politics his cor.scici.co 1
its grip ; and for his parly bo is wil
to do any wrong which will pron
their interests, or play any card how i
soever nbich will win them power. '
surrender of his moral and mental io
rity ia tho condition upon which ba b
his high place in the affections of
parly ho belongs to. Treachery to
country is fidelity to bis faction. 1
any time in the last fifteen years bs
given way to his own sense of right,
ported the Constipation and laws
spirit of pure justice, refused to d
himself with election frauds, with
countenance from executive co:ruf
or denounced tho forcible instalmeu
thieves in State offices, be would I
converted himself into a Democrat
been expelled from the communioi
the anti-constitutional party.
This moral pro3titutir% to bad poli
purposes is fax from rx>ing uncorai
Men naturally good bave yielded to
all times and iu all countries whore t
is a party unprincipled enough to
mano it and strong enough to rewar
But General Garfield's public caraar
Dishes more striking examples of it
the history of any individual I
I known. Let me give you a cafs : J
\ ihe war-at a time of perfect pcact
j the State of Indiana, wu ero no war
ever been'certain military officers, t
instructed from Washington that
I were above the civil authorities,
I kidnapped and wera about to kill
citizens for no offense defined by any law
and without tho pretense of a trial by
court or jury. If ibis could be done
there was manifestly no security left for
life or property. Plainly it could not be
doue without a fiat violation of the Con
stitution, which in express terms forbade
it. But the men who tbcn ruled us wita
a rod of iron insisted upon it, and wa
could not be certain tbat tho Judges,
State and National, might not be sub
dued by their influence. The hearing ot
the cause before tbe Supreme Court iras
a great crisis in the constitutional history
of our country. There was a place in
tho argument which nobody could fill sc
well as General Garfield, and I besought
him to help us io this desperate extrem
ity to rescue American liberty from thc
utter destruction with which it wa;
threatened. He responded with noble
alacrity, and mado a great argument in
which he proved not only tho cont'nucd
er'itence but the inestimable value ol
the Constitution. He demonstrated thal
the right ot trial by jury at all times and
all places was indestructible, and thai
any officer, civil or military, would vio
late his oath if he attempted to put tin
military above the ci-il authority. Hi
affirmod the wbolo Democratic doctrine
on tho subject, and showed it to be iocon
testibly right. His eiucerity was un
doubted, for, like the rest of us, ho cn
gaged in tbe causo as a labor of love
without fee or any reward except tin
thanks of true men.
Such were bis true convictions. Bu
when wo came to deal with tho same sub
ject in bis political capacity ho surren
dered everything to bis party. He vote?
for military despotism and a regular sys
tem of kidnapping and murder in all th
States of tho South. In tho samo ac
were other provisions wbicb be certainl
understood to be in direct conflict wit!
every section of the Constitution. In al
this he did not transgress, like others, i
ignorance or in passion: be iiinnc
against light and knowledge ami on
cold calculation of partisan policy. ]
is an infinite pity that such a mun BIIOU!
be not only falso to bis country but fuis
to himself.
What makes all tbis very much wors
?B his denunciation of General Hancoc
for saying that tho military was constitt
tionaliy subordinate to the civil powei
and tbat liberty was still the inheritanc
of tbe American people ; for these wei
propositions which ho himself had ai
sorted and knew to be true.
It might bo expected that tho cour.
of a man so influenced would frequent!
deflect from tbe straight path, and on
great aberration wo cunuoi hui remen
ber.
Mr. Tilden was elected in 187G.
falso return waa tbe only resource {?gain
him. I do not believe that General Ga
field, if let alone, would commit an ele
tion fraud any more than br would ste
a horse or a sheep. But when tbe mai
agers ot bis p> ?"ty demanded bis aid in
! great swindle be could not refuse. U
der that coercion be went down to Loni
iana and there found it absolutely certa
tbat Tilden electors bad been "duly a
pointed" at a legal and full poll,
j peaceably conducted that there was n
even a squabble nbout it in the who
Slate. And tho appointment so mn
waa attested by ana xecorded upon t
certificates and the oaths of electii
officers adverse to the appointees in i
tbeir feelings and wishes. There was
earthly excuse for denying this ; no cc
i tradiction of il coula be honest. '
count the State for Hayes was a tbi
that could be done only by impudent a
unmitigated fraud. For a time I hop
that General Garfield's ahzre in t'
great crime bad consisted in passi
acquiescence, ar. j I am surprised by t
proofs recently brought forward of I
active assistance in its perpetration. 1
judgment as a member of tho Electo
Commission was a thing to bu expect
for bc must long before that have c<
vinced himself that a fraud was as goo
way as any other of electing a Preside
In a political game be did not think tl
anybody bad moral sonso enough
abstain from throwing a die which
himself bad loaded to win the State.
Thia liability to be rushed into e
courses by bis party associates 1
i brought upon him much odium which
does not clescrvo in the transactions
the Credit Mobilier. Tho stock diu
buted by Oakes Ames was intended
influence tho legislation of Congress c
rnptlv. Ho and tho company who pu
into his bands meant business, and t
( business was bribery. Undoubte
those members who took it knowing
nature of tbe tbing were great crimit
and wholly unworthy to retain ti
seats. But General Garfield, though
certainly agreed to take the stock and.
actually take dividends upon it, had
suspicion of its connection with
Union Pacific Railroad or of the com
which its possession might create betw
his private interests and bis public d
Ho was as guiltless as the child unb
of any dishonest meaning about
wbolo business. I believe this not m
ly because be told me BO, but becausi
is probable in itself and corroborated
many circumstances. If be bad stuc
it he would have been credited by
men as implicitly as he was by
Fearing that his political friends m
influence him to de part from it, I w
beseeching him to stand fast upon
defense he bad made me. That he
not take this advice Ls tho bitterest re
of bis Ii fes But "tbe "arty" would
let him take it. The accusation sti
at the highest heads in the House
the Sens.!?. Thew hid hut nnn ans
and that was positive denial of the
tbat any stock had ever boen take
them ; and on that lino they ezpe
Mr. Ames to swear them through. <
eral Garfield, for the benefit of ol
and to bis own great injury, unite
making tbis false defense. Their wil
failed them, and they were all con vii
After the report of tue committee I v
Mr. Blaine tho letter which bas beet
tensively published, and which wa
effort to put amoral Garfield back i
the true ground, wbicb bo novcr oug
have abandoned. But it was too lat
I regret sincerely that General Gai
is a candidate, or that he shoal
placed in any position which call
criticism on his conduct as a public
But I have said nothing that will bo
to him, for in many forms at many ti
in sundry ways, publicly and privab
have given this same construction o
acts, and exhorted him to come out
evil and corrupt fellowship, which <
him down whiie it pretends to el
him.
I hope that on all the issues tho fr
of liberty and justice and law and h
foverament will make themselves !
y the nation so clearly that at the
election the popular condemnation e
anti-ronstitniional faction will be
whelming. In the meantime let us i
as well as pray that the country b
swindled again.
Faithfully and hopefully yours,
J. S. Bi.A
Tho Hon. Augustus Schell, Cbaii
and members of committee.
- A woman is stumping Callforn
tho Democracy, and on? is stumping
IYork for tho Itopnbllcans.
- Fifty cents is the price of a
riage license in Tennessee.
THE HIDEOUS FACE OF WAR.
Some InaUuices of theTDcndly Work Dona
In IVttlo.
In (be oxcitement of tho battlo tho full
of A comrade in scarcelylheeded, and half
a company might be wiped out and the
other half fight on without the leno?"!
edge jf it. It id only after tho nimber
ons musketry have ceased their wurkthat
the hideous face of war shews itself ta
make men shudder and turn away. Sol
diers who have not gone over a battlefield
or been ono of s burial party have missed
half the grimness aud awfulness of wu*.
After Gettysburg, one of tho Union
burial parties buried eighty Federal sol
diers in one trench. They were all from
u New York regiment, aud all seemingly
fell dead at one volley. They were ai
ment in lino taking up but little more
room than livo men. AU wero shol
above tho hips, and not ono of then bad
lifod ten minutes after being bit. Hen
lay what was a full company of men
wiped out by ono single volley as thoj
advanced to the charge. Some had theil
muskets BO tightly grasped that it tool
tho full strength of a man to wrest then
away. Others died with arms out
stretched, and others yet had their hand
clasped over their bend, and n uovcr-to
bo-forgotten expression on their whit!
fnces.
At Fair Oaks, tho Third Michigat
hud its first real baptism of fire. Tin
boys had been hold back on other ocen
sions, and now when given opportunity
tliey went for tho enemy posted in th"
edge of the woods on tho double-quick
and with yells and cheers. A part of th
regiment hud 'o swing across a glade
and while so doing lost fifty or sixty mri
in tho snaco of sixty seconds. One com
p?ny lost twenty men who wen
down together in one spot mid scarce!
moved a limb after falling. Details ti
five men were made from each compan
tn advance as sharpshooters, and of thee
fifty men who plunged into tho woods na
Bbirmish lino only six came out alivi
nnd every ono of these was wounded frot
one of theso was wounded from ono t
three times.
At Cold Harbor a shell exploded in a
Ohio regiment advancing against abut
tory, and sixteen men were wttul out i
an instant. Of these nine were blown I
fragments and tho others horribly mut
lated. The battery was firing thirty ?
forty sholls per minute, and this was tl:
work of a single OP?. One discharge <
grape in this same fight killed fourtec
men in a Michigan regiment, and a Ne
I York reiriment. *.vh?.n tvrmt in with 7(
men in line came ou IN ith only 369. G
one acre of ground lae burial pan
found over 700 dead men. In n bit <
woods wbero the battlo lines bad closlu
more than 2.000 dead were found in
space no wider than a square in a ci
and no more than three times a? long.
At the battle of Savage Station, durir
McClellan's change of bake, a solid ab
fired from u Federal field-piece into tl
head of an infantry column marching I
fours, killed twenty-one men ando har
before its progress was checked. Tl
first ten men were reduced to blooi
pulp, and the others t rushed and bruis'
io ueavu. At this same bailie a Confe
erato shell exploded undera Federal gi
and killed four artillerymen, dismount
the gun, wounded two men, and the bu
of it flew off nt a tungent nnd kill
a recoud lieutenant of infantry who v.
eighty rods away.
At Fredericksburg, as tho Union in *n
try marched in solid masses up the vail
boyond the town, tho Confederate , open
fire from behind a stono wall. Tho figl
iog olone this line was over ten minut
and 5,000 Federals lay, dead within rea
of each other. In many cases fall
across each other. A shell from n g
on the bill exploded in the midst of so
New Hampshire troops and killed a s
g?ant, a corporal and twelve privates a
wounded six others. Before tho Uni
troops crossed the river, and while sh
ling the town, a ahell ntruck a house n
exploded in a room where there were f
soldiers and a citizen. All were blown
pieces, and th reo citizens in a room
rectly overhead were also killed.
Perhaps the most destructive wi
made by a shell among troops occun
a few miles below Vicksburg. A Fed
al gunboat was fired upon by light ar
lory from tho bank, posted in plain vii
Tbero "vere two six-pounders work
close together, and each had fired a B
when the gunboat opened with a Bia
four-pounder. The shell struck betwi
the guns and exploded. The guns w
thrown high in tho air and came do
a wreck. The eighteen men aral
them were killed outright, and fift<
others who had been lying under co
rushed un just os tho caisson explot
Of the fifteen eleven were killed oulrij
three wounded, and ono escaped un!
bat so dazed that ho sat down and wa!
to bo captured by a boat which pu
ashore. Two of the wounded died
next day, leaving only two men alive
thc thirty-three who had composed
battalion. Nothing was left of the g
carriages but splinters,, and tho g
themselves were terribly battered. '
onlyTremains of tho caisson that coull
found was the hub of ono wheel fi
with broken spokes. Most of tho d
bad been blown to fragments, and bui
were covered with shreds of flesh. W
the caisson exploded the head of on
the victims was blown high in the
and fell into the waler - within a
yards of the 'gunboat-Detroit .
Prest. _
A ttounia?n-aneep's Hoad imbed
tn a Pino Tree.
Quite a curiosity was found a few <
ago near the camp of the workmct
tho now toll-road near Yankee Fork,
ia a mountain-ram's head, deeply
bedded in a pine tree, and about six
from the ground. The right horn i
with the curls partly around the tree
left horn, front of the skull and i
of the outside, ls covered .
tho ? growth of the wood. Tho
is a t li ri fey pine, fifteen inches thro
How that ram's head came there wil
ways remain a mystery to scientists,
men of the mountains, who are fain
with the fighting propensities of the
buck can easily explain it. The ram, w
bead Ls now a part of the tree, st?oi
the upper side of the bil!, while hi:
my stood near what was then a pine
piing. When the present relio mi
rush at ram No. 2, tho latter steppe
one side, and the old warrior s I
coming in contact with the tree, sp
wide enough for ono born to enter,
bo was left dangling at the mercy o
foe. Tho rest is easily guessed,
survivor af the fight deliberately b
his unfortunate adversary until thor
nothing left of him but tho skull
horns fait in the wood. Fred Me
one of tho proprietors pf the toll
will have that portion of the tree
taining the ram s head sent to tho Si
sonian Institute. It will be a rar
riosity, and ono that can not be du]
ted._
- Tho Now York papers anne
that the eplzotlo Influenza, which
bled so many horses In the wlnfc
1872, has undoubtedly return od to
olty, and ls prevailing generally ai
.horses, though In a auld form.
Our CUTTS and their Value.
It estimated that tho number of milk
cows in the United States is over 13,000,
OOO, requiring the annual product of 62,
000,000 acre? of land for feed, giving
employment to 650,000 men, and requir
i? the labor of 866,000 horses. Estimat
ing thc cows nt $30 each, the horses $80,
and laud nt $30 per acre, together with
$200,000,000 for agricultural aud dairy
implements, and tho total amount in
vested in tho industry is $7,219,280,000.
This is considerably moro than the
amount invested in banking and tho
commercial und manufacturing interests
of the country, which is $1,800,964,586.
Tho cattle mid horses will require two
tons of hay annually or its equiva
lent. If it is estimated that 6,000,000
cows aro fed with grain for winter C irv
ing, and thc if tuc horses eat daily B;X
quarts of oats or corn during tho year,
thev will consume 28,313,300 tons of
hay 84,380,000 bushels of oat meal, 1,
250,000 tons of bran, f.O.OOO.OOO bushels
of corn, mid 300,000,000 bushels of oats,
of a total value of $3'>4,459,400. To this
should bo added the labor c? o?O.OOO men
at $20 per mouth, ?156,000,000, oinking
thc annual valf-s of $004,450,400, or au
averago of $38.80 per cow. Accepting
12 ce ts por gallon as a basis for comput
ing the value of tho milk product and
446 gallons the averago yield per annum
(this being the average in sixteen States
in I860,) tho 13,000,000 cows produce an
nually 5,793,000,000 gallons of milk,
worth $695,760,000. Analysis shows
that 3? pounds of milk contain the
same kind and amount of nutrition aa 1
pound of boneless beef. The total
weight of the milk product is 50,732,600
000 pound-, equal to 14,495,000,000
pounds of boneless beef. A bout 60 per
cent, of a fut steer is boneless meat, HO
that it will require 20,650,000 steers of
1,400 pounds weight tn produce the
samo amount of nutrition as the annual
milk product. Such fat steers would
sell at $4.50 per cwt., or $63 each-a
total of $1.300,950,000: deducting for
hide and tallow, $260,190,000, eaves tho
meat value $1,040,760,000. This gives
tho food value of tho milk product in the
United States annually. Willard, in
his "Practical Daily Husbandry," says
that milk at 24 cents per rall?n is equiv
alent in value to boneless ueef at 9 cents
per pouud. It is false economy, there
fore, that substituted meat for milk as an
article of food. The samu authority
(Willard) states that 50 percent, uf the
milk is used in making cheese and but
ter, 41 per cent, is consumed in a liquid
state. Tho Department ot Agriculture
1877, estimates thoro aro 1,000,000,000
pounds of butter and 300,000,000 pounds
of cheero made annually in tho United
States. At 27 pound: of milk for 1
pound of butter, nnd 9} for 1 pound of
cheese, the i.*tal amount of milk used
would be 29,950,000,000 ; add 41 per cent,
of tho product for consumption tho total
production is 50,752,825,000 pounds,
within a small fraction of 1 per cent, of
tl-J estimate mode. Tho caseino in the
milk used for making butter, if utilized
for cheese, would produco annually
1,890,000,000 pounds, and besides there
is annually run off in tho skimmed milk,
buttermilk, mid whey 200,000,000 pounds
of milk sugar, which, if saved, would
have a market value greater than the
entire annual sugar crop of Cuba.
Tlie Cas? lu a Nutshell.
Tho Hon. Lyman Trumbull, Democratic
candidate for Governor of Illinois, was
speaking at Du Quoin, in that State, ono
day last week, in tho midst of his re
marks a colortd man rose up and asked
permission to make and inquiry,
"Certainly, sir," said Trumbull. "I
aimil bo glad to givo you any information
in my power."
"Will you tell me, then," said tho col
ored mnn, "whether in your judgment
tho Democratic candidates for President
of tho United States and Governor of
Illinois deserved to be elected in 1864?"
"Frankly," replied Trumbull, "I do
not think they did."
"Then, sir," pursued tho colored man,
"will vou tell mo what tho Democratic
patty baa done nineo to make its candi
dates deserve election in 1880?" pei...-.ed
tho polite son of Ham.
"Well among other things," said
Trumbull, "the Democratic party in 1880
has nominated for President tho man
who saved the Union at Gettysburg, and
for Go vernor of Illinois the men who wrote
and reported to tho Senato tho constitu
tional amendment that made you a citi
zen and n voter 1"
This colloquy forma the most vivid pic
ture of tho reversed relations of the two
great parties that we have yet Been. It
contains the kernel of the political phil
osophy of tho period.
Again the old adago about politics and
ti tra n go bed fellows comes to mind. We
presume our political colored brother was
satisfied.- Washington Sunday Capital.
A NEW AND USEFUL INVENTION.
Rev. J. Bach man H&skel, now of Staun
ton, Virginia, though a native and form
erly a resident of Charleston, South Car
olina, has employed bis leisure hours in
bringing to light an invention which
seems calculated not only to benefit the
Eublic but to remunerate the inventor
andsomely. It is a new principle by
which the temperature of food may be
preserved lor a long time either above or
uoiow ihalui" litt)Burruuimiugatmosphere.
The patent was taken out July 20, 1880,
by Messrs. Munn & Co. It is susceptible
of various applications, among which the
following is tho most important.
"Tho Workingman's Friend, or Cook
ing Can" is a dinner pail which baa tho
following remarkable powers: A work
man's wife, while he is eating his break
fast at 6 a. m., pub) his dinner into the
j "can" and at 12 or 1 p. m., the workman
finds a warm meal and hot coffee. In
j tho samo manner ico cream, being placed
in the can, will bc preserved in a frozen
state for six to eight hours.
The following experiments were tried
and attested: 1st. Stewed oysters and
coffee were put L to tho can at 3 p. m.
and left ic a room little above freezing
point. At 10.30 p m., (seven and a bait
noun-, afterwards) tho can was opened in
tho presence of twelve gentlemen, who
partook of the contents and found the
oysters and coffee registered 150 degrees
F 2d. A can was filled with ice cream
al 1 a. m., and being taken with an ex
cursion party to Weir's Cavo, on a hot
Summers day, was opened at 1.80 p.m.,
after having been exposed to the sun
part of the time, and the ice cream waa
still frozen. If the directions are fol
lowed, thia vessel is warranted to keep
food and coffee warm for six hours, even
if loft mcanwbilo in an ico house; also to
keep ice cream frozen B?X hours, even if
left in the sun.
BOGUS CERTIFICATES.-Il is no vilo
drugged stuff, pretending to be made of
wonderful foreign roots, barks, dec., and
puffed up. by long bogus certificates of
pretended miraculous cures, but a simple,
?ure, effective medicine, made of well
rn* wo, valuable remedies, that furnishes
li* own . certificates by its cures. We
refer to Hop Bitters, the purest and beat
of medici nea. Seo another column.
It?p?blic?n,
A Brilliant Buz Ancient Republican
Clame.
WASHINGTON, September 27.
Tho attention of the D?mocratie Com
mltteo may perhaps advantageously ;bc
directed, now that Indiana is considered
safe, to South Carolina, whoro ample
evidence may bo found of tho develop*
mont of a plot to steal tho Stuto for Gar
ileld. Tho primo mover in it is Judge
Hom!, of Haiti moro, of tho Fourth Judi
cial District of tho United States Circuit
Court. Tho district includes Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina
aud .South Carolina. According to the
law aa expressed in Sections 2,011 to 2,01ft
inclusive, the Circuit Judge is authorized
upon application of two citlzons of any
city or town of 20,000 inhabitants, or ten
citizens in any County or Parish to opon
court no* loss than ten days boforo au
election tor the appciutmont for oacb
voting precinct of Supervisors of elec
tions. Judge Bond bas boon in South
Carolina for at least two weeks, but ba*
not yet oponed Court, although applica
tions wore probably sent to him to give
bim an oxcuso for going. Ho is a most
Intonso and uncompromising partisan.
Indeed, tho partisanship nianltcstod by
him wbllo on tho hunch of the Bal
timore Court, vory nearly cost him <
rejection by tho Benato when nomi
nated for Circuit Judge. Tho confirma
tion hung Aro for months, and bsd lt not
boon for tho kind ofQoes in his bohalfof
Sonator Butlor ho could not havo boon
confirmed. Nevertheless, whilo owing
bis place to Democratic indulgence be*
bas rolaxod nono of bis partisan vigor
and in tho opinion of lawyers who esteem?
bim personally bas thereby detracted
measurably from tho dignity that should
surround so exalted a position. On no
occasion bas bo lost an opportunity nf
giving pomonal auporvision and an aid
to everything within his circuit of a par
tisan character, wbicb ho could further
with any show of authority through bis
courts. Section 2,016 of tho statutes has
tho sonorous and sonslblo provision
that tho preceding sections shall bo con
strudod to authorize eaeb Circuit Judgo
to designate ono oi more District Judges
within his circuit to discharge tho du
ties arising under tho title. Tho section.
was fiamod with tho best intentions, nnd
is manifestly just, lor lt presupposes thai .
Cireut Judges havo moro important work
on band than tho personal auporvision of
minor election appointments. Such a
construction bas been genorally accopted
by Circuit Judges, but not hy Judge
Bond. Ho is too much of a politician to
truHt tho District Judgos with work in
which impartial appointments as con
templated by tho law are to bo made, and
BO hos always taken that task r.pon If.m
Bolf. In this iuBtunco lt waa his duty to
opon court immediately upon bia ar
rival in South Carolina. Ho has not
dono it yet, and tbero is no Indication
that lt is lila intontion to do so i;j present,
for tho nrobublo reason that ho bas wires
to pull" olsowbore. And section 2,019
provides that wbon oponed tho court
?L?r?fr?Uji aud thereafter aud up to and
Including tho day following tho day of
election shall be always opon for tho
transaction of business under tho title.
The cbargo of the court could boasstgned
over to tho District Judgo if desirable,
but Judo Bond will not caro to do that
for obvious reasons, for a longer period
than absolutely necessary. So until all
plans are ripe for tho perfection of the
?chemo, which munt bo an important ono
to have taken him to South Carolina at
least a month earlier than Iiis judicial ser
vices wero required, it may bo put down
aa cortain that bo and tho Republican
managers have their hoads together for
no good purpose. Tho subject was men
tioned Incidentally to-day to Sonator
McPhearson, of tho Republican Congres
sional-Committee, whoso chief drawback
as a managor ls his tell-tale faco. It
completely non-plusaod bim, having
lng supposed tho Beeret woll kept, and.
bo Btnmmorcd through a reply of indif
ferent purport, with every indication,
facial and otherwiso, nf surprise and
embarrassment.-Dispatch to the N. Y.
World.
THE TowBtt OF LONDON .-The Tower
of London is locked up every night at
eleven o'clock. As the clock strikes that
hour the yoeman porter, clothed in a
long, red cloak, bearing a huge bunch
of keys and accompanied by a warder
carrying a lantern, stands at the front of
tho main guard house and calls out, "Es
cort Keys." i The sergeant of tho guard
and five or six men then tura out and
follow bim to the outer gate, each centry
challenging as they pass with "Who goes
there ?'r the answer being '^Keys." Tho
Site heir , carefully locked and barred,
e procession returns, tho sentries, ex
acting the same explanation and receiv
ing tho same auswer as before. Arrived
once more at the front of the main guard
house, the sentry gives a loud stamp .
with bis foot, anu asks, "Who goes
there?" "Keys." "Whoaekeys?" "Queen
Victoria's keys?" "Advanco Queen
Victoria's keys and all's well." The yeo
man porter then calls out, "God bless.
Queen Victoria;" To which the guard'
responds, "Amen." The officer on
duty gives the word. "Presont arms,"
and kisses the hilt of his sword, and tho
yeoman porter then marches across tho
parado and deposits the keys in the lieu-,
tenant's lodgings.
LIFE AT LEADVILLE.-I know a man
here whose Eastern home has overy mod
ern luxury. He bas made $40,000 in the
cauip, and ia worth weil toward half a
mill:.'m. He lives in a two-roomed cabin.
The furniture consists pf three chairs,
two rude bunks, one stove and a large
table. Jibero is a pile of ore in one cor
ner, a pile of wood iu another, aud ?
heap or blanket?, gunny-sacks and old
clothes in tho third. The rear room con
taining a small but very select assortment
of kitchen utensils and household supplies
placed within easy reaching distance of
tho stove. This ges?ems i and bis
Kartner do their own cooking and house
old work, but the way in which they do
it would make ?? Eastern housekeeper
faint.-Leadville letter.
-Hon. Wm. H. English, who, besides
being the Democratic nominee for tho
Vice-Presidency, ?3 chairman of the In
diana Democratic State Central Commit
tee, last week wrote to the Hon. John C.
New, chairman of the Republican State
I Committee, to propose that they should
1 issue a joint circular, to be Bent to all
townships and election precincts, re
questing that the local inspector in overy
caie shall appoint a jucigo and cloik of
tho opposite party to his oem. This
Eroposition ot Mr. English, which has
een accepted by Mr. New and reduced
I into ibo shape of a former agreement, is
said by both theso distinguished gentle
men to be made not only in tho interest
of pure elections, but oleo to the sud
that all suspicion or appearance of frs?vd
may be removed. It is sincerely to oe
hoped that this agreement may secure all
tho ends that aro sought by H> so as to
protect tho Indiana election from the in
jurious charges laid against the conduct
of elections in some other States.
-Six members of the Readjuster Club
of Lpnchburg, Va., have retdgned their
membership "for XCSMMJS best known to
themselves;" From every, section. of
Virginia comes reports of ?-?llar with
drawals from tho ^adjuster party, and
tho indications ore that when the battlo
is joined in November the real contest
will bo between the regular Dcmc-mtlo
aud Republican parties, with the Read
justera fur in the rear. Explore of the
covert coalition which was attempted by
the managers, both Republican and
R?ajuster, appears to havo oxcited. the
rank? and filo of eaoh to Indignant re
volt.