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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-05-07

& TnEAsos IN. : tTHhs CAi1r The
Charleston correspondent OF Forney'a
washington Chronicle is very ,pnhap-
py about the '.disloyaltyp prevalent
id Charleston, which he Indignantly
tells us has eyen contaminated the
army officers stationed there, He
says: & osi sgtt 4. ss.s..s..,t !:
All are not loyal men that wear the
uniform of American soldiers even.
Good. dinners, champagne suppers,
{ ''mook-turtle soup" frequent whis-
key treats, are all that is necessary to
cover up the allegiance of shoulder
strapped pensioners of the republic.
Southern air, hospitality and women,
are too frequently disastrous to the
sentiments Of devotion which the
iveried servants of the nation are
supposed to bear. ~ H" t'
This is shocking; but still more
horrible is the discovery which he
narrates as follows:
The Ku Klux Kan have established
their s'dens, and are meeting on the
t'895th" hour, to conjure up their
devilish work and issue forth their
cabalistic cards of blood. What they
cannot accomplish on the field, in
the forum, by argument or sense,
they propose to achieve by dark
deeds of strategy, stealth and asassi-
nation. Their midnight cabals doom
the man that dares, defend his coun-
try. The Grand Tycoon summons
the eyhelish horde to the knife, torch
and bludgeon, and death is the YER
dict of their 'low-twelve" mutter-
ings. r- & r
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-01
MIR. DiSraeii and the Peerage.


Mr. Disraeli has refused the peerage offered
him by the Queen for under the circum-
stances the offer must, of course, have pro-
eeeded directly and spontaneously from her
Majesty. But while declining the honor
which the Queen has wished to confer upon
him, be has accepted the mark OF the royal
favor conveyed i'll the writ which creates Mrs.
Dlsraeli a peeress in her own right, "by the
style and title of Viscountess Beacousield, OF
Beaconsfed, in the county of Buckingham
shire, which county has now ben represented
in Parliament by Mr.. Disraeli for nearly
quarter of a century. We are not surprised
TO hear OF the original offer, the refusal, or
the arrange which was ultimately effected.
1t is in accordance with precedent that when a
statesman has filled Ligh office for as long as
Mr.. DisTaeli has done during his three erms,
the hopOrs OF the peeTage should be rendered
him. AT the present juucture, too, it is quite
probable that the Queen, whose personal sym
pathies with the Tories in the matter of the
Irish Church are notorious, designed this
special mark OF her favor as reward to the
Premier for his energetic defense of the
threatened institution. In either case, in
view OF the probable expulsion OF the Ministry
from Office within few weeks, it was more
graceful that the offer should be made to-day
than after the serious conflict in Parliament
had commenced.
1t is not astonishing that Mr.. Disraeli
should have declined the protfered peerage.
To man of his restless and energetic nature,
and untiring capacity for work, the House of
Lords would be- political annihilation. Wnile
few members of the Lower House have ever
been gifted with greater powers of sarcasm
aud invective few have ever so invariably
restrained themselves more rigidly within he
prophecies of debate. But the dull decorum
of the House of Lords, rarely enlivensd by
more than passing breath OF anima alton,
renders it no place for Mr.. Disraeli. Besides,
his presence in the Commons is absolutely
essential to the well being of his party. We
are Inclined to fancy, indeed, that the days of
Prime Ministers in the Upper House are mum
bered, but at all events in this case it was out
of The question to leave the Commons.
The Tory party mas now either to educate"
itself or TO fight gallsutly to the last, and then
capituate with tine honOrs Of war. In either
Gaze, it stands in need OF its leaders, presence
in the battle field itself AS it is now, all the
honor implied in the grant of a peerage is con
feTr.d upon Mr.. Dlsraeli through his wife,
while he will still be a0le to retain a seat on
one of the front benches in the House of Com
mons whether that to the right or left OF the
Speaker chair will be known in few days
more.
We are told that the London journals unite
in eulogizipg the career" of the Premier, in
commenting on the affair. NJw if Liberal
journals eau he found to join anybody in
speaking well OF Mr.. Disraeli, either the mil
ltpuium mnst be at hand, or they must feel so
confident of victory as 10 be full OF charity
towards foe whom they already look upon
as half slain.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-01

wrong, in behalf of Democracy, to please Gene
raj Grant or sny man upon the face of the
earth. And in this feeling we well know that
millions of Democrats in the land stand by us,
to endorse and to defend the principles which
we have so long defended, and which we are
determined to defend in the future.
Let there be no more talk of turning over
the Democratic party to Grant in hopes to
make Democrat of him. The Republicans
have won him openly and squarely. On them
and theirs rests the responsibility for the next
four years. If it is in the power of the
Republican party to save the country, then
that party is b. ter than we think 1T is. But,
in Gods name, let US not as Democrats weaken
ourselves, weaken oar party by this desertion
OF principles in hopes to gain a share OF the
pickipgs and stealpgs which are at the dis
posal of the Executive. Let us not, as did
Rsau in the days of old, sell our birthright of
States, OF liberty, of principle, of Democracy,
for mess of pottage, or for the ashes which
Grant has in his power to knock from the
official cigar which he holds to consume.
Rather let us stand by our principles, and de-
fehd them to the last. Let US stand by our
principles to hold in check the party in power,
that all may the sooner be well.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-01
HunOrS of Hahn,
Ef-Ofn The n. Y. World.

rTOfW U6 ~. 4 HOtu
The Honorable Michael Hahn is resident
OF New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana
Hahn, humor, and history curiously combine
in the following brief narrative:-In 1861
Hahn was rampant Rebel, who presented
flags to the New Orleans regiments that
marched to the defense of Richmond. In
1862 Hahn was one of the two members of
Congress whom Butler, by advice from
Washington caused to be elected in Louisiana
In 1863 Hahn, by appointment of Banks, was
Military Governor of Louisiana. lG 1864
Hahn, under the Lincoln Banks reconstruc-
tion of Louisiana, was elected Governor ofthe
State, and the reconstructed Legislature chose
Hahn a United States Senator. la 1866
Hahn was one of the wounded martyrs
in the radical riot of August in
New Orleans. Aud after having done,
and been, and suffered all these things, it
is one of the hugest humors OF the whole re-
construction farce that this same Hahn should
have been whitewashed by special act of
Congress and relieved from his Rebel disabili-
ties only in July of 1868. 1t was hardly worth
while to have gone through so much to have
come out with so little. Evidently, Hahn
feels this now, for after his flag presentations,
his seatless Congressional career, his worth
less Governorship, his barren Senatorship,
and his bogus martyrdom he at last reaches
the real elevation and true honor of genuine
of the New Orleans Republican, and 50 an
nounces himself III salutatory which appears
in that paper November 20. In this saluta-
tory he says:-
Having been on terms of personal friendship
and frequent Intercourse with General Grant
for number of years past, speak with conf
dence-nay, with certainty-wnen l say that
bis entrance into power heralds a new era in
the political circumstances of the times Hence
forth pubic opinion Is TO Oe free; every man is
TO he protected in his political opinions, wher-
ever he be and whatever they are. He shall not
only have the right 10 enjoy his opinions, out
to assert Them and support them bv his vOte
his influence, and free publication. In fact, he
shall be protected IN all his rights, and feel
secure as If he belonged to the most powerful
and intolerant faction in the locality in which
he may reside" "
If these words are prophecy, they are preg
napt with promise to the down troddsn, dis
frapchsed citizens of the South. 1t WILL in
deed be "a new era in the political crcum-
stances of the times" in that region if 'every
man is to be protected in his political
opinions" and if he is permitted not only to
''epjoy his opinions, but to assert them and
support them by his vote" But in such
event, what becomes of reconstruction What
becomes of Hahn and other adyenturers
whom reconstruction has not only made gov
errors aud congressman and Senators aud
saints and martyrs, but has even raised to the
honor and dignity OF editors :
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-01

words he utteredf His reply was:-"The
prosecution has no substance; it is founded
on nothing. You prosecute me for making a
speech, and you want me to tell what the
speech was" The cross-examnation of the
defendants was followed by speech by the
AUocdt Imperial, who developed at enormous
length his theme that they were guilty of "a
regularly organized plan to attack the very
principle of the Government under tbs pre-
tense of doing honor to Bsudins memory"
Mr.. Cfemt-ux, in defending Mr.. q lentiu,
demonstrated the absurdity of the prosecution
OF his client for speech of which ths Pro
curer Jap6rtdt could not produce either the
text or the substance. he said "the Govern
m-nt had brought the 2 OF December into
court, and he would exercise acouusel's privi.
lege to speak about it," Among the strongest
points of the philippe into which hs then
launched was his declaration that sit was
nothing tn the purpose to say that December
2 had been absolved.' SO had the 18th
Brumaire. How many millions of sulfragss
had proclaimed first the consulate for life aud
afterwards the empire2 But crime could not
be absolved by catch vote, and certainly not
the greatest OF all crimes, that of laying
soldiers violent hand upon the national repre-
sentatiOn. Sixteen years later (here Mr.. Gre
mleux said with marked emphasis, Il beg
you to observe the dateO, the representatives
Of the people drove out the author of the 18th
ID UH Hlre' Au CODCluSloD, MT. OGeml6uX
said:-"Let the second empire erect as many
statues as it likes to its favorites, and let pos
terity respect them as it might fit, but let
the vspquished of 1851 be- at liberty to pay
simple funeral hOnor to the dead. France was
a great and glorious nation which must be
taken as it was, with all it's good qualities aud
detects. France, like Neptune, would some
times stride across the world in three days,
and then, frightened at her own progress she
would come back again and suffer herself to
be guided instead OF guiding. Bat it should
be remembered that three days might repair
all losses; the future was with progress" Mr..
Emanuel Arago and Mr.. Gambetta we're noless
severe than Mr.. Ci6mieux in their invectives
against the Government. All the coansel
avalled themselves u the utmost OF the CAPT
tai opportunity the Government had foolishly
enough afforded them of arrsi sning December
2 before the bar of public opnion, and OF
hurting at it terrific indictments, which will
be copied by the press throughout the world
and stereotyped Tor the perusal of pOsterity.
1t il difficult to resist the con victon that in
these press prosecutions in Paris, Napoleon
Ill haa committed mistakes similar to those OF
Charles y aud OF Louis Philippe. 1t remains
to be seen whether such mistakes will prove
as fatal to the Bonapart:s as they proved to
the Buurbons and to the Orleans. We know,
however, that history repeats itself in all
cations, and oltenest in France.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-01

Why is it, then, that the stockholders
have had no dividends for years, and that the
stock is now selling at 40, which is probably
more than it Is worth
Certainly not for want of business as the
gross receipts annually establish. We stopped
over one day last winter at Mddletown, close
beside the Erie track; and we Judged that
train passed that station every fifteen minutes
not less than eighty, at all events, Within
the twenty-fOu hours. Goa, lumber, milk,
petroleum, cattle swine, aud am )st ever
description of produce, filed car after car of
these trains till some Of them stretched full
quarter of mile while merchandise, maui
tactures, metals, machinery, etc, choksd
those that passed inland. This, to be sure
was ON the eastern or seaboard division; but
we spent night last December at Great Val
ley, Cattaraugus county, and listened TO the
omplaints of a umhermau of that locality
who said he had been all summer begging
for cars to take his plank, boards, etc., east
ward to market, and could never get half
enough. He loaded whole trains, and paid
whatever freight the directors saw fit to charge;
yet his produce remained for months on his
hands, when it was wanted at this city, and
he wanted the pay for 1t, but the cars could
not We had.
Why is it that Erie-built for far less than
1t would cost to-day-after paying its stock
holders no dividends for years, is now selling
at 40?
The answer is simply and surely tnis-Vil-
lany in high places. The road has been puu-
dered on this hand and on that-by directors
by employees, by lawyers, by judges, and by
Legislators, till it's stock may not bsworth
even the pittance it now commands. Pious
villains have preyed upon it; profane villains
have drained its lifeblood judicial villains
have broken its bones and sucked the mar
row; in short, the devourers of widows houses
ha at
we now see and deplore.
Is is not possible that some of these villains
shall now be brought to justice aud made to
disgorge3 Admit that the stockholders are
robbed beyond recovery, does not the honor Of
our state inexorably demand itH
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-01
Erie.

From The ". Y Tribune.
Our early and steadfast devotion to the Erie
Railroad when it was as yet an unsatisied
aspiratiOn-the many columns Wa wrote in its
be half, and the little money we gladly con-
tributed to help to build it-little enough for
the road, but quite sum for us-impel us to
an utterance provoked by the decline of its
fortunes. We shall take the utmost care to
tell truth that the public should know with
out subjecting ourselves to indictment for libel
or imprisonment for contempt OF court.
The real cost of the Erie Road was about
$50, ,000,0 600, whereof the State freely gave
$3,000,000. Add $4,000, 900 outlay for
branches honestly constructed or purchased
for the good OF the concern, and not especially
OF its directors, aud then suppose the SO, 000 900
given by the State to have been used up in
contingencies, and the road and appendages
should stand this day as having cost its stock
holders $50, 900, 600.
Its gross income, after the deduction OF
steslinRs, is officially reported at about
$4,000 900 per annum for several years back.
Say that sixty per cent of the gross earnings
are absorbed in repairs and running expenses,
and there remain for the stockholders
$4,000, 900 per annum, or ten per cent on the
net cost
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-01
The "Anti-Slavery Standard"
1-o,1i fbe " Y World

PTOUt HtS 4Ns l. VVet'
The ti-Siayery Standard, which feebly
fights windinills such as slavery, canniballsm,
WITHDRAWING, aud like issues that obtained
twenty years ago, but which utterly ignores
whatever pertains to the live present, is very
much vexed with the World, because, in its
vocation as a newspaper, it is the recognized
organ of whatever pertains to the various
movements now in progress for the advance
ment of women and women's interests. Ii
the World would ouly join with the Anti-
SlaUery Standard and howl about slavery as it
once existed in New England, or slavery as it
take note of what is now doing to bring
intelligent, taxpaying white women some
where near the platform of "rights"
are about to be nailed If radicalism has it's
ton of the Anti-.S .Sidvery Standard But We
find in that paper of last Saturday circular,
signed by Mary Grew, Louisa A. Dorsey, and
tIibutiOns of 'cofTee, tea sugar, oysters, celery,
cream, biscuits, cake Especially home made
cake)," and also money, and these women
declare that the contributions are for the sup
port of the anti SiaUery Standard. The
women are thus at liberty to contribute boiled
chickens and money for the support of the
Standard; but when it comes to receiving
anything in return, suffrage for instance, the
Standard returns the cold shoulder for the
boiled chickens and sneers in pay for salad.
If there is work against which we strongly
advise women, it is holding charity tea fairs
for the support of such sheets as the Standard.
Don,t oive them an
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-01
The Press Prosecutions in Paris.


A certain lecturer once attributed to the
family of mankind two distinctly separate
patuIes-humau nature and French nature,
and announced the latter as the topic of his
lecture. Were he now to repeat it he might
find fresh illustrations in the account which we
published yesterday Of the recent extraordi-
nary press prosecutions in Paris. In the trial
of the Baudn case, which came to a close on
the 18th instant, the charge, against the de-
fepdants their adrOt replies TO the inquisitorial
interrogatory of the President of the court,
the caustic eloquence of their counsel and the
strange verdots rendered, compose,a "a legal and
historical curiosity of the greatest interest.
The defendants were charged with having
''practised man@uvres within the realm With
the object of holding up the Government to
hatred and contempt" The kind of interroga-
tory to " hich, according to the peculiar custom
OF French courts, they were subjected, may be
inferred from one or two examples.
Thus Mr.. Quentin, editor of the R6Ueil, was
closely questioned as to his motives aud those
of his son in wearing red cGchensz, or COM
forter, at the commemOratiOn OF the funeral Of
BaudiD, who was killed at the barbados when
Louis Napoleon made his coup d'6tat. The
same editor was also asked why he made a
speech at Baudin's grave, and what were the
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-01
STOVES, RANGES, ETC.

IN. THOMPSON'S LONDON KITCHENER
~ or kU URuPkAN kAN1E, for families hotels,
G1lsdy Or pubic Institutions. In TWENTY DIFFER
&C hNT ZkS, AHo, Philadelphia Ranges,
But-Air FuInbces, Portable Heaters, Low-down
Crates, Fire hrd Stoves, Bah Boilers, Stew-hole
Plates. boilers oUkiIg stoves ETC., wholesale aud
SHARPE & THOMPSON,
IL 25w fm6m No. 269 n. SHCOND Street.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-01-30
THE CONTESTED ELECTION CASE

In the case pending in our State
Senate, wherein Henry NJ. Onderdonk,
Of Galla county contests the seat of
Homer G. Jones, of Vinton, as Sena-
tor from the Eighth Districs, the
standing committee on Privileges and
Elections, on Thursday last, opened
the papers which had been referred
to them. Judge Thurman appeared
as counsel for the contestant, Mr. On.
derdonk, and filed exceptions to Ger
tain testimony taken on behalf Of the
contestee, Mr.. Jones. The case was
set for argument before the committee
on Tuesday, the 28th inst. We un-
derstand that Attorney General West
will appear as counsel for Mr.. Jones.
Ohio Statesman.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-01-30
SHERIFFls SALE.

Safe Of. Ohio. Firton County.
David G. Skinner, Plaintiff, In Court COM
against Smon Pleas. Or
Ann McGinnis, ct. al. ,Defts. der and Decree
Pursuant to the command of an order and
decree issued from the Court OF Common Pleas
of VIM IN county, and State Of Ohio, and to
me IN .ect,>d as Sheriff of said county, / will
offer for sale at public auction, at the Door Of
the Court h housJ, in the Town Of Macarthur, ia
the county ar Eresa'd, on E&g.rt'SH
Tuesday, the 30 Day Of Marcel,
A. D. 1868,
at the hour ofi o'clock P. M. Of said day, the
following described lands an = tenements, situ-
ate in the county of Vinton, AMI Sr>Ieof Ohio,
to4wit: ,r 49,
Number Eleven (No. III Of Range Number
Sixteen (No. l6,) containing Six Hundrot, aRd
Forty Acres, be the same more or less.
Taken as the property of Ann Mcqinnis et.t
oil. to satisfy and order and decree of the afore-
said court in favor OF David G. Skinner
Appraised at S4,60000 and must bring. two
thirds of that sum- f' .''El-
Terms Of Sale-cash in hand at the time Of
sale.
JOHN ]. SHoCKEY,
.,.-. c-- g,. Sheriff Vinton County.
Knowles & Loofnes, Atty's for Pl'h. -
January so, lSGS-5w-l4
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-01-30
THE SUPREME COURT.

The Jacobins in Congress have a
scheme on foot which has already
passed the lower House, to abolish, or
at least hamstring the Supreme Court
The bill provides, that if three Aboli-
ton judges decide question one way
and the five other judges decide the
other way, the opinion of the three
shall be taken as the opinion of the
court. The real object Of the bill, of
course, is to promote the schemes Of
the Jacobins to establish military
dictatorship and negro supremacy and
white slavery in the South. 1t is a
bold and formidable step towards the
complete subversion of the Govern.
ment and the Constitution, although
it is but legitimate sequence of the
other acts Of the same party. There
are, perhaps, other and equally detest-
able motives for this course to be
found in the fact that vast amounts of
property and money are subject to the
decisions Of this Court, and parties in.
terested may regard it advantageous
to reduce the power of the real court
as much as possible. 1t is reported
that the Senate is opposed to this bill,
but if the fate of this last bulwark Of
constitutional liberty depends upon
the disinterested or patriotic action OF
such Senate, its chances are dubious
indeed.-CriSis.
Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-01-30
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