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"A FLAT."
A Story of College Life.
Arthur Hoyt looked at hlmsolf in
the glass curiously, and without self
love or eelf-prejudlce. He saw there
a frank, good-natured face, a pair of
blue eyes and a mass of curly brown
hair. As far as he could judge, there
was nothing particularly out of the
way with his countenance.
'Say, Dick,' he began, to hie room
mate, who was puzzling over a page
of Xenophon, 'I've been taking ac
count of Btook, and I don't see any
thing unpardonably wrong about my
feature?. They are not angular enough
to-be'Called Bharp,-nor'Ievel enough
to be justly called flat; so I can't ex
actly see the suitableness of the ex
pression which has somehow come to
be my college cognomen.'
'Don't be n fool,' growled DIok,
without looking up from his book.
'I've alwaya been a great stlokler
for the fitness of thingB, eternal and
temporal,1 continued Arthur, 'and If
to be 'a fiat' ie really applicable as e,
oorrect description of the Impression
my personal appearance makes on my
companions, all right! I'd as soon re
spond totbatnarneas anyotber;but!f
it's not mine, then, old fellow, It's got
to be stopped !'
If you'd rob hen-roosts, and steal
the housekeeper's preserves, and lay
traps to trip up old men and women,
and raise Cain generally, you'd be the
most popular fellow in college,' said
Dick, with a disdainful grimace, still
with his eyes fixed on his book.
'They let me alone, you see, because I
don't care a hang for 'em, and be
cause they know I'm poor as poverty
and aB dull as a hard-shell dam. You
get ahead of 'em in class. I'm always
in the rear. You have money to sub
scribe to -everything there is going,
and you refuse to spend it in riotous
living. I haven't any money, and,
therefore, I'm of no consequence.
Whoever says that there Isn't com
pensation for everything don't know
what he's talking about.'
'You're apatient old soldier,' Bald
Arthur, with a merry laugh, 'and I
wish I had some of your philosophy !
But, the fact is, every time I'm called
'a flat,' I feel the fight tingling all
over me. I am afraid that some time
my flats will become unmanageable.'
I guess not!' DIok replied. 'You'd
only got yourself in a worse muss, be
sides having something to be sorry
for all the days of your life, perhaps!
But there's the bell, and I'm all out
of the bolt-ropes, as usual.'
'But there's a row In camp!' Bald
Arthur's right-hand neighbor, as the
young men took their seats in the
clnss. 'Some of the boys scared old
Mrs. Allen into a fit last night, and
they say It's a 'liner.' Nobody thinks
she'll pull through. One of the fel
lows dressad up in white, and rode
the old woman's cow clear into the
kitchen. They let out the pig, and
stoned the house, and broke her win
dows, and goodness knows what they
didn't do. There won't be any show
for the boys that out up those capers.'
'Well, there oughn't to be!' said
Arthur, indignantly.
Just then the Greek professor en
tered the olasB-room, and, after sur
veying the students a moment, said,
with great seriousness :
'I am requested by the President to
say to Arthur Hovtand Richard Den
ham that they are to repair at once to
the library, where the faculty of this
college wait to see them.'
All right, sir,' responded Arthur,
pleasantly. Conscious integrity made
him bold. DIok arose slowly, and
walked out In his usual dogged man
ner. Say, 'A flat,' you're in for It !' said
one of the class, In a low tone, as the
young man passed him. 'Your turn
has come nov, 'A flat ! ' ' Bald anoth
er. 'Mebbe you won't be eo high and
mighty now you're found out at last!'
'What do you suppose It is?' DIok
Inquired, as he came up with Arthur.
'Some contemptible trick of the
boys,' said Arthur; 'but we shall
soon know. Brace up, old fellow, for
here we are.'
A few words sufficed to put the vis
itors In possession of all they wanted
to know. After a few preliminary re
marks, suoh as having been led to
expect better things from the young
mon before him, the President pro
duced a large silk handkerchief, with
'Arthur Hoyt1 plainly marked in one
corner.
'Does this balong to you, Hoyt?'
the President inquired.
'It does, Bir,' replied Arthur, pleas
antly. 'And Is this yours?' the gentleman
asked of Dick, presenting a crooked
stick or cane, which the young.man
was accustomed to carry on long
walks.
That's mine, sir,' said,Dlck.
And here is a cuff with 'A. Hoyt'
marked on it,' the Preaident contin
ued, 'torn from the wrist, probably,
in the pleasant excitement of fright
ening an Innooent old Troman Into a
fit. I shall be compelled to hold your
property, sirs, until suoh time as the
law of the college or the law of the
State shall be passed upon you. Mrs.
Allen is not expected to live.'
I am very sorry, sir,' said Arthur,
respectfully ; 'aud I am sure Dick is.
too; but what sort of justice i this
that takes our guilt so entirely for
granted? Your evidence la simply
oiroumstantial, sir, and I wish to Pay
here that I was never on Mrs. Allen's
premises in my life, and I am quite
sure Denbam never was.'
I 'I never was,' said Dick, with char
BEOWNVILLE, NEBEASKA,
acteristic doggedness, 'and I never ex
pect to be.'
'What would yon say, Hoyt, if I
were to tell you that one of the pro
fessors saw you there last night?' in
quired the President.
I should say, sir,' Arthur respond
ed, quickly, 'that the professor was
greatly mistaken; but if you were to
tell me that one of the students saw
me there, I should say that Btudent
lied.
There waB a straightforwardness in
the attitude of these suspected young
men that was Irresistible, still every
thing was against them. The old
woman had testified that morning
that she head the names of Hoyt and
Denbam pronounced more than onco
the night before. The conspiracy was
well arranged, nothing, so far as
known, having been left out in its
calculation. Arthur was In hiB room
alone all tho previous evening, but,
as he thought it over, there was abso
lutely no one to testify to this fact.
DIok bad taken one of his long'walks
into the country, returning at ten
o'olook. There was no way of prov
ing this, either, for Dick bad not
spoken to a soul, and there was liter
ally no way by which he oould prove
an alibi. Nothing more could be said
at present, and Arthur and bis ohum
withdrew and passed slowly along to
their room, as the President bad or
dered. On their way they met several
students, who, it was plain to be seen,
were waiting for them to leave the li
brary. 'You can't most always tell a fiat
from a sharp,' said one of the num
ber, a young man who had been par
ticularly offensive in his manner to
Arthur. 'We have all been mistaken
in your oharaoter, my boy,. I take
notice that when these goody-goody
fellows do take it into their soft pates
to cut up, they generally beat the rest
of us all hollow in the meanneBB of
their efforts.'
Arthur's faoe was scarlet, and his
hands worked nervously. He was
full of desire to knock this fellow
down, and, und6r the exasperating
circumstances, it was hardly to be
wondered at; but the young man had
been trained in a different school, so
he valiantly turned on his heel and
left his enemy without a word. 'Val
iantly' Is the proper term to desoribo
Arthur Hoyt's behavior In this crisis.
It would have taken physical strength
only and Arthur bad plenty of that
to have flogged Steve Cary, the
young man who had just publicly In
Bultedhim, but It required real valor
to turn awny without either word or
blow. That afternoon the tidings of
the death of Mrs. Allen threw the
college into terrible excitement. Offi
cers were promptly on hand, and Ar
thur and DIok were subjected to the
mo3t rigid scrutiny. The Coroner's
jury would convene the next morn
ing, and until then, at any rate, the
two young men were prisoners. The
detective who had oharge of them
was a good-natured fellow, and, after
asking all sorts of questions, relevant
and irrelevant, as it seemed to his
companions, he finally said with a
chuckle:
'Thpy may be pretty smart up hero
in this college, but they've got the
wrong pigs by the ears this time. Say,
boys, come out for a walk ! I can keep
an eye on you just as well out doors as
in the house, and mebbe It 'ill chirp
you up a bit.'
So out they went, the detootive ask
ing all sorts of questions, it seemed to
his companions for no other purpose
than to make conversation. As they
drew near the lake, a large and very
deep sheet of water, Arthur saw that
Cary was out in his Arthur's tiny,
shallow shell of a boat.
'He'll have to be more careful, or
he'll upset, as sure as fate!' said Ar
thur, more to himself than those
about nim.
'Twould be a pity to have him
drown now I growled DIok. 'Great
heavens! there he goes !'
Arthur, jvho bad been watching
the boat and its occupant, threw off
his coat and his boots, and, before the
detective could lay" a hand of him, he
bad plunged Into the water, and was
making with all his might for the
drowning man. Cary could not swim,
and when Arthur reached him be
had come to the surface the second
time. It required almost superhuman
strength to bring bim in, but tbo brave
swimmer succeeded, aud foF a mo
ment Arthur lay, panting and ex
hausted, beside the inanimate form
he had snatched from the water. A
half hour later, the still unoonBcious
young man was borne to the college.
Arthur, forgetting that he was a pris
oner, did all In his power toward his
enemy's restoration. As they remov
ed his ooat, a large Bufslan-leather
pooketbook dropped to tho floor, and
thiB Arthur took into his poseeslon.
'You had better change your clothes
at once, Hoytl' a kind voloe said,
after all had been done. Arthur
turned, and saw the President.
'All right, sir,' Bald the young man,
presenting Cary's pocketbook. 'I was
afraid this might fall Into improper
hands, sir. It seems very full of pa
pers.' 'I hope I haven't wronged you,'
said the President, with considerable
feeling.
Rather hope that you have, sir,'
said Arthur, with a smile; 'If you
have wronged us, then we are inno
cent, you know; but, whatever the
result, I Bhall always feel that you
have acted according to your beat
judgment.'
That evening, as Arthur, Dick and
the detective eat in their room, wait
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TH.UESDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1879.
ing forth ey know not what, a knook
on the'door was followed by the en
trance of the President.
'Officer,' he said, with trembling
voice.'you con go to the parlor, if
you please. These yoong men are not
guiltyjf therefore they require no
guardV
'I ksfew that afore,' said the deteot-
Ive, as he hastily left the room.
'The pooketbook you gave me, Ar
thur,' the President began, 'has boIv
ed the myBtery. There was but one
Btudent engaged in that miserable af
fair, amd'b.e has passed to his aooount,'
he continued reverently. 'He was
joinedby some young men from the
city-what young men we shall prob
ab gnlTelrtnabdhavB
been more oareful, boys,' and now the
tears rolled down the good man's faoe.
'I have cleared your name before the
whole college, and that is all I can do.
Even with poor Cary dead upstairs,
your friends and your enemies joined
In a hearty cheer of good-will when I
told them what I thought necessary.'
Somehow it came to pass from that
day till the day Arthur Hoyt left col
lege he was never again called 'A flat.'
A. Smart TToman.
The other morning a oitlzen called
at a hardware store on "Woodward Av
enue and said he wanted a key to a
certain door in his house, and he took
up and carried away almost the first
key handed out to him. On his way
down town after dinner he stopped
and exohanged'the key for another,
explaining that the first wouldn't fit.
These exchanges took place twice a
day for the next four days, thooitizen
being unable to get hold of a key to
fit. On the sixth day ho drove up to
the store with a door on a dray, and
calling to the proprietor he said :
'Bring your box of keys out here
and we'll get a fit to that look. Here
I have been running baok and forth
for about a week, and I might not
have got a fit for a whole month If
my wife had not suggested that I
bring the door down here. Some of
these women are mighty smart.'
But why didn't you take off the
look and bring it down in your pock
et?' said the dealer.
The buyer looked at him in a va
cant way, Btared hard at the door,
and sat down on tho ourbstone with
tho remark :
'It's a wonder that the whole fami
ly wasn't sent to the fool-house ten
years ago !'
A practical writer In the Grange
Bulletin advises the cutting back of
peach trees In early spring to inducea
strong growth of new wood for the
next year's fruit. He also advises the
thinning out of fruit. His plan Is to
thin out when the fruit is about the
size of cherries, loaving the peaches
five or six Inohes apart on the limbs.
This vigorous thinningnotonly large
ly increases the size of the fruit, but
entirely transforms its character,
making it rich, juloy and melting.
An equally important result is the
great vigor of the tree. The pulp of
the fruit does not exhaust the vitality
of the trees nearly so much as the
production of a number of half-formed
specimens of little value. The
thinning should be done before the
stone is formed, or the fruit will have
drawn largely upon the vitality of the
tree. Early varieties require the
most thinning.
While a negro was digging a well
at Albany, Ga., last week, he sudden
ly yelled at the top of his voice to be
drawn up, whioh was promptly done,
and he was taken out trembling and
panting, with eyes white as cotton
and big as saucers. Investigation
showed a swift under-ground stream,
rushing along underneath the spot
where the negro had been digging.
There was only a thin crust of earth
between the negro and the stream,
and It suddenly began to give way.
The darkey could see and hear the
water rushing below him, and firmly
believed that ho was about to be
plunged Into the veritable Styx and
harried along to the Plutonian shore.
HIb toolB Bunk In the water and were
lost. ""
They walked out of the theater arm
in arm. She was as dainty bb a Prin
cess, and prettier than an opening
flower. The long, soft white feather
hung gracefully to her shoulder, and
her long, delicate, slender hand held
a sumptuous fan. Ho looked pretty
spoony himself, but he felt good.
How did you like the opera pet?' he
faintly inquired, and the delicious lit
tle angel looked up into his face, and,
while the gas-beams lighted up the
bit of court-plaster on her chin, re
plied : 'It's the boss V
See!' caid a reverend gentleman,
here Is an illustration". At one time
I should have sworn awfully at this
fly but, look now.' Raising his
hand, he said, gently, 'Go away, fly,
go away.' But the fly only tiokled
hiB nose the mtffe. The reverend
gentlemen, raising his hand with
Borne vehemence, made a grab at the
offender, and,. being Buocessful, open
ed It to throw the insect from him,
when, in extreme disgust, he exclaim
ed : 'Why, d ft it, It's a wasp I'
The three proudest momenta of a
man's life, between the cradle and the
grave,, are when he gets his first pair
of red-top boots, when the girls first
oall him 'Mister,' and when the doc
tor tells him it's a boy.
Useful Hints.
A Cement of one part sand, two
parts ashes and three parts day, mixed
with oil, makes a very hard and dur
able substance like stone, and is eaid
to resist the weather almost like
marble.
Rubbing the Tail by Horses.
Washing the rump and roots of the
tail, both on topand underneath, with
strong vinegar at least twice a day, and
giving a small portion of tobacco, well
broken up, In the feed, will usually
cure this vice in a few days. In some
cases it Is a good plan to nail a pieoe
of plug tobacco in a corner of the feed
box, and let the animal bite at it at
wlll.Where aer3deaor4pln;Worns
cause the Irritation and trouble, to
bacco Is as good a vermifuge as can
be used. It has the merit of rarely,
if ever failing.
Tough Steak. Instead of pound
ing, out it with a sharp knife, making
fine parallel outs on either side until
every part has been crossed and re
crossed. PresB it together and lay
on a wire broiler. Hold close to the
fire until each Bide is seared to retain
the juloe, then turn and tend with the
utmost oare. Place the steak npon a
hot platter and season with bits of
butter, pepper and Bait.
Moths may be kept out of carpets
by Bhaklng them thoroughly at
house-oleaning time, after whioh tho
frequent use of the broom with an oc
casional sprinkling of oamphor gum
or Inseot-powder, and plenty of sun
light will exterminate them.
To Clean Cistern Water. Add
two ounces powdered alum and two
ounces borax to a twenty-barrel cis
tern of rain water that Is blaokened
or oily, and in a few hours tho sedi
ment will settle and the water be
clarified and fit for washing and even
for cooking purposes.
To Make Cixvth Waterproof.
Any kind of oloth may be rendered
waterproof by the following simple
and inexpensive mixture: To one
ounce of melted white wax add one
quart of Bpirlts of turpentine. When
thoroughly mixed and cold, dip the
oloth in it and hang it up to dry.
Home Made Yeast Powder. One
quart of fresh buttermilk made up
with oorn meal to a stiff batter, with
a tenoupful of yeast. Let Itrise ; then
add enough flour to make it a stiff
dough ; let It rise a second time; put
It on dishes or boards to dry in the
shade ; rub It up, and keep it In abag.
To one quart of flour put one tabic
spoonful of yeaBt powder.
Roast Onion. They should be
roasted with all the skin on till tender
throughout; they may be served
alone, with only salt and cold butter,
or with roast potatoes or beet roots.
Boiled hams should stand In the
water in whioh they are oooked until
oold. Remove the lid for the steam
to escape.
For making floors, the following
method la eaid to produce very desir
able results : Four parts coarse grav
el, or broken stone and sand, and one
part each of lime and oement, are
mixed In a shallow box, and well
shoveled over from end to end. The
sand, gravel and cement are mixed
together dry. The lime is slaoked
separately and mixed with juBt mor
tar enough to cement it well together.
Six or eight Incher of the mixture Is
then put on the bottom, and when
well set another coating Is put on,
consisting of one part cement and two
of sand. This will answer for making
the bottom of a cistern that is to be
cemented updireotly upon the ground
without a lining of bricks. This will
also form a very good cellar floor.
Iron Age.
Fried Cabbage. Cat the cabbage
very One, on a slaw cutter, If possible ;
salt and pepper, stir well, and let
stand five minutes. Have an Iron
kettle smoking hot, drop one table-
spoonful of lard Into It, then the cab
bage, Btirriug quite briskly until quite
tender; eend to table Immediately.
One half oup sweet cream, and three
tablespoons vinegar the vinegar to
be added after the cream has been
well stirred, and after itis taken from
the stove, is an agreeable change.
When properly done an invalid or
babe can eat It without injury, and
there is no offensive odor from oook
ing it. Or, take cold boiled cabbage,
out it up, add a little melted butter,
salt and pepper to taste, with three
or four tablespoonfuls of cream. Put
It into a buttered fry pan and stlf un
til it Is very hot ; then let It stand
long enough to brown slightly at the
bottom. Serve hot.
A Western Juryman
It was out West, In one of those lo
cal courts where a friendly, talkative
way marks the intercourse between
judges, juries, counsel and clients. A
man of the law, after developing con
siderable eloquence and perspiration
in behalf of a prisoner, perorated by
saying: 'Gentlemen, after what I
have stated to you, ishls mud guilty?
Can he be guilty? la hejguilty V
Greatly to his disgust, the foreman
of the jury, after a copious expectora
tion, replied : 'You Just wait a little,
old hosB, and we'll tell you.'
As the poker-player would say :
Foreman had the age, and counselor
passed out.' 'Editor's Drawer,1 in
Harper's Magazine.
If every person would be half as
good as he expects his neighbor to be,
what a heaven this world would be!
VOL. 24 NO. 16.
General Grant as a Patriot.
General Clark E. Carr delivered the
oration before the lato Soldiers' Re
union at Prlnoevllle, 111., a few days
ago, and In the course of his address
gave the following reminiscenoe of
General Grant:
It was my privilege as an officer np
on the staff of our great war Governor
to see muob ef the soldiers of Illinois.
With him I visited the armies, and I
bad eomethlng to do with the organi
zation of our regiments. Iremember
a quiet gentleman who had a desk for
a short time In the office at Spring
field. He was unobtrusive, seldom
speaking unless consulted, so much
so that men frequently came into The
office and'went awayvwitbout-bls be-"
Ing observed. But when he was call
ed upon, it was quickly perceived
that he had a remarkably clear head.
That quiet man is without doubt to
day deservedly the foremost man in
the world. Kings and princes, and
they who are above all rulers and po
tentates, tho common people of the
whole world, have delighted to honor
him. I saw him frequently during
the wa?. I believe I met him at the
time of one of the most important
epoohs of his life. It was at Pitts
burg Landing a short time after the
battle. I was then with Governor
Yates after a steamboat load of sick
and wounded Illinois soldiers. Gen.
Grant came on board at the invitation
of the Governor to dine with us.
Many of us remember the criticisms
upon him after the battle of Shiloh.
General Halleck, who commanded
the military division, came In person
and assumed command of that army.
While Grant was still nominally In
command, he really had no command
at all. Thomas, Pope, and Buell com
manded the right, left, and oenter.
General Halleck Issued his orders di
reotly to them, and General Grant
bad no command except of his per
sonal staff. It was a most humilia
ting position. He was regarded by
the whole army as in disgrace. I
heard high officers say that if they
were In his place they would resign.
How many would have thrown up
their commission and have gone
home ? General Grant did not enlist
as a general of the armies. He was
willing to take-any position, that of
the humblest private soldier ; he was
determined to remain at his post. He
wrote to his superior that he would
cheerfully give his best services In
any position, the humblest if necessa
ry, to his country. He was never
more cheerful than on that afternoon.
He remained with ns several hours
smoking and talking. He seemed
rather pleased than otherwise, that
the burden of ooramand was upon
other shoulders, and yet he did all In
his power to assist General Halleck.
I thought of that day when, about
the time tho war dosed, I saw him
at Washington, the General-ln-chlef
of all the armies of the United States,
and General Halleck occupying the
position of Chief of Staff. I have
often thought that there was scarcely
any achfevment in General Grant's
life of great achievments, which
shown the sublimity of his character
in a more marked degree, then when
at Pittsburg Landing. General Hal
leck was in command of tbo army
and he was In disgrace. He has not
been spoiled by all thehonors shower
ed upon him. He will return to his
native land the samo quiet, unobtru
sive gentleman he was when In the
office at Springfield. If permitted by
the oonsolousness of patriotic duty, he
will spend the remaining years allot
ted to him as the most honored pri
vate oitlzen of the republlo ; but
should the welfare of his country re
quire tbesacriflce, thesame patriotism
whioh has been the guiding star of his
whole life, cannot fall In Influencing
him to again respond to the oall of his
countrymen, and assume the burdens
of the most responsible position with
in their gift.
James G. Blnlnc.
Senator Blaine wa3 esked recently
how It came about that he, a Western
Pennsylvauian by birth snd educa
tion, made bis start In business and
politics in the far East. Ho said it
was all owing to his wife. Her moth
er, who lived in Augusta, fell dan
gerously ill, and Mr. and Mrs. Blaine
made a journey to be at berbedside.
While In Augusta, Mr. Blaine, then
quite a young man, learned that the
Kennebec Journal, an old established
weekly paper, was for sale. He
formed a partnership with one of the
old editors of the paper, bought out the
prinoipal owner, and thus obtained a
foothold In Maine The paper was
prosperous, and Was the foundation
of Blaine's success. When he left It,
he did &o because he was convinced
that tho ownership ot the organ of
the Republican party was an obstacle
instead of a help to him in bis politi
cal career.
There Is not to-day, we believe, a
single man occupy ing a gubernatorial
chair in the late rebellious States,
who was not In active, overt and con
spicuous participation in the rebell
ion. Most of them were in the army.
Blackburn earned his scars and his
reward by practices about as civilized
as the atrooities of a wild Indian, who
counts with glee his Ecalps of women
and children. Philadelphia Press.
A handsome woman pleases the
eyo, but a good woman pleases the
heart. The one Is a jewel, the other
a treasure,
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OFFICIAL PAPER 0FTIIEC0UXTY
A Party TYithont a Country.
The history of the mo3t wretched
man ever conceived In the Imagina
tion of She novelists is told In the story
of "A Man Without a Country." No
nationality; no land he calls hla
own ; no part of tho human family la
whose achievements he could feel
pride; no flag and no home. But
what is the Greenbaok party now but
a party without a country ? If It has
a hope, It is that the United States
will meet disaster. Bad crops here,
prostration of industry, closing of
shops and millB, multiplication of
tramps, filling of poor-houses and
jails, increase of losses and of suffer
ingthese are the only arguments
wh loh oaH;hjlp t he iGreH baokjparty.
xi tucea mil, me party goes "io me
bad. It oannot shout for joy when
the oredlt of the United States im
proves, for this is an argument for
Sherman and the Republicans. It
cannot see with pleasure the crowd
ing of outward-bound steamers with
the rich produots of our farms ; that
helps to fill the treasury and the
banks, and to make resumption a suc
cess. Gold comeB hither by the mill
ions, and the Greenbaok party shud
ders. There Is nrosDeritv for the
country, but death to the party.
Debts are paid, farmers for the first
time tread acres on which no mort
gage lies, men and women sleep for
the first time In homes they can oall
their own, aud all this brings des
pair to the hearts of the Greenback
advocate, for his country's disgrace
and misery alone can save bim from
contempt.
It Is a party without a oountry, and
a party without a future. No one
BUpposesthat the elastio industry and
enterprise of Americans can long be
kept down. Sooner or later there
must come again suoh a grand pros
perity as this country has thrioe en
joyedprosperity suoh as has never
dawned upon any other land. When
good times oome the Greenback par
ty dies. Every breath of hope for
the country Is to that unhappy party
more deadly than the blast of the si
rocco. Its possibility of a future exis
tence depends upon tho failure of
American genius that la to Bay, it
has no right to hope for a future aft
all.
The New York Sun looks upon tho
acquittal of Gully, the Chtoolm mur
derer, as a telling Republican argu
ment, and, as to Its effect on the pres
idential election says :
in the face of Mrs. ChiBoIm's clear
and positive testimony will exert no
little influence on the approaching
Presidential eleotion. It Is easy to
say that it had no more bearing upon
national affairs than the undue post
ponement of tho Rev. Mr. Hayden'a
Theacquittal of Gully In Mississippi
trial in Connecticut. But most of the
Northern people do not look upon it
In that way. They regard the bloody
outrages at the south, like that by
which Mr. Chisolm died, as proof
that the war is not yet entirely fought
out that its victories are not yet
complete; and they are naturally ap
prehensive that if the Democratlo
party, which include the former Con
federates almost to a man, were to
get control of the executive depart
ment of the government, such out
rages would increase In number, and
that Union men In the old slaveStates
would find life hardly endurable, If
possible. We believe the American
people by a large majority, are deter
mined, first and foremost, that the
fruits of the war Bhall be fully pre
served, and that the slaveboldlng
spirit Bhall never be permitted to rnle
tho nation again. They care more
for this than they do for the curren
cy or any other question. Hence,
arises the most formidable difficulty
in the election of a Domocratio can
didate. m on
Elections This tear.
In the following named States elec
tions are to be held this year i
Iowa, October 14. Governor, Iegia.
lature, state and county officers.
Ohio, October 14. Governor, state
officers and legislators.
Maryland, November 4. Governor
and legislature.
Massachusetts, November 4. Gov
ernor and legislature.
Mississippi, November 3. County
officers and legislature.
Virginia, Nov. 6 Legislature.
New Jersey, November 5. Legisla
ture. New York, November Governor-
and legislature.
Wlsoonsln, November 5. Stateoffl
Ce'ra and legislature.
Nebraska, November 4. Supreme
Judge and two Regents of the "Uni
versity. Amid all of California's demon
strations in honor of ex-President no
incident occurred that was more ap
propriate and auspicious than the lata
eleotion in thatstate. Butthen Grant
and victory always were near neigh
bors and old cronies. Hdweye.
Why should any one "raise a row"
because Mississippi proposes to send
Jeff. Davis to the Senate ? Is he not
the idol of the South, and as muoh
needed to lead the fortunes of the
Democratlo party as he was in 1S60 or
1SCI? Cin. Com.
An Irish editor says that, in ab
sence of both editors, the publishers
have secured the services of a gentle
man to edit the paper this week.
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