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by his prompt reelection. In point of fact,
his resignation and subsequent rejection by
the House have been Just so much political
capital to him, and we find him now the pre-
siding genius OF the Republican State Conven-
ton which has been sitting this week in
Columbia. Whittemore figures in this body
as chairman Of the Committee on Platform,
chairman of the Committee on Credentials,
and manager in general; and it scarcely need
be a matter of surprise, there
fore, if both the platform and the
candidate are repudiated by the white
population as we'll as by the more intelligent
negroes of South Carolina. 1t is one of the
misfortunes attending the process Of recon.
struction that such fellows as Whittemore
were enabled to obtain political influence,
and it is not too much to say that they have
done more than all other causes combined to
keep alive the a~ntagonisms of the war and
to embitter the portion of the Southern peo-
pie who suffered most during the Rebellion
against the Republican party and its policy.
The time has now come when there is every
thing to lose and nothing to gain by counte-
~nancipg such men as Whittenore, aud if
the Republican party expects to maintain q
permanent foothold in the Southern States,
its representatives both in and out OF Con-
gress will be obliged to repudiate the whole
race of ca~rpet-baggers, and give them plainly
to understand that the loyal people of the
North decline to be their hackers any longer.
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GAMBIA.


If the United States were disposed to be
aggressive, the present would seem to be a
favorable opportunity for the extension of
our northern boundaries by the annexation
of Canada. For a number Of years past the
habitual policy of the British Government
has been to snub its colonies, and the Canadas
especially have been given to understand in
plain terms that they are membranes rather
than aids to the mother country, and that if
they wish to make a start in business entirely
on their own hook nobody in England will
make any very serious objection. The Ka-
nucks, however, are on some points more
British than the British themselves,
and they have hitherto refused to
accept any of the hints given them to leave
without waiting to be kicked out. When in
fear Of a Fenian raid, for instance, their
patriotic attachment to the mother country is
of an exceedingly ardent and demonstrative
character, but when called upon to pay a
portion of the bill of expenses incurred in
defending them, they find their political re-
lations anything but satisfactory. In fact,
the Canadians are disposed to love England
SO long as England consents to pay the ex-
penses of their government, and relieves
them from a burden of taxation that they
would be called upon to bear ii they started
out on their own account; andthe latest piece of
British advice which has been rendered TO the
colonies by the London Tnses-most proba-
bly, with official sanction-that they should
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NAPOLEON'S LATEST EMBARRASS-
MENT

THE eyes of all civilized peoples are turned
to the great impending struggle on the CONT
nent of Europe; and although we are far re-
moved from the tread of the contending
armies, we cannot but be deeply interested in
all that relates to the struggle. And although
both the great nations now in arms have
given us, in our early and later history, evil
dence of a generous sympathy as q people,
we have no immediate interest in the contest.
Commercially, our interests are alike valua-
BILE with both. And yet, in spite of this want
of an immediate interest, the native-born
American will, from one cause or another
early prejudice, mental bias, or some other
infuence-take sides in the contest, and look
eagerly to the triumph of the one or the
overthrow of the other.
No one, be his preiudices what they may,
but must admit that Napoleon, confronted by
united Germany and menaced by unfriendly
Russia and England, has enough to engage
his most serious attention, and fully employ
his trained legions. 1t was scarcely to be ex-
pected that any serious embarrassment would
arise for him on this side the Atlantic. No
one can, however, read the message sent by
DR.. Paul Schoeppe from Carlisle prison TO
Governor Geary, but must feel that this
amidst all his complications is most grave
and serious, as affecting the
French nation and the Emperor in
particular. Hitherto the Doctor has confined
his skill and valor to the matter of admins
tering prussic acid to aged spinsters. Now
he desires to have his shackles stricken Off,
his prison garb exchanged for the Prussian
blue, his acid-bottle for a needle-gun, and
then, oh! then, 'he will fight in the army of
Prussia against that impudent man Louis
Napoleon" whom she has long desired of
teaching a lesson !" How dreadful how
alarming to the cause of France, and particu-
Mrly the person Of that 'impudent man
Louis Napoleon!" This is an emergency
that should be met, and that promptly.
If the Doctor should procure his
pardon, and unite his audacious courage
with a needle-gun, and all against
the French, what fearful results
might follow Without desiring to be Off
cious, we would recommend to the French
Minister at Washington that he proceed at
once to Harrisburg and employ, without
delay, such influences as are most potent
with his Excellency to prevent SO dreadful q
disaster to the cause of the Emperor as the
opening of the prison doors that cenfine DR..
Paul Schoeppe, his Fearful longings" and
gold spectacles, all of which are DESTROYS of
being let loose upon that 'impudent man
Louis Napoleon" Seriously, however, we
think the cause of Prussia will be but little
benefited by opening our prison doors to fill
the ranks of her valiant army. Murderers,
thieves, and outlaws make but poor material
from which to mould soldiers. Schoeppe's
last bid for sympathy will fail, as has all his
previous efforts. He has been fairly tried,
Justly convicted, and we hope that Governor
Geary will fix an early day for his execution.
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my HEADQUARTERS UNION ~PUBLICA
CITY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, No. HOS
CHESNUT Street.
AT "a meeting held on WEDNESDAY,, July 81, the
Resolved, That the Convention to nominate q can
didate for Representative of the First Representa-
tive District be RECOMMEND, and a Sub-Com-
mittee OF three be selected from this City Executive
Committee to effect the permanent organization
thereof.
In accordance herewith the delegates elected to
said Convention will meet at the southwest corner
Of SIXTH and DICKERSON Streets, on THURS
DAY, August II, at 10 A. 81, for the purpose of
placing a candidate in nomination.
BY order Republican City Executive Committee,
Attest CHARLES w. RIDGWAY,
Vice-President, presiding.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH,
NJ. c. HONG, Secretaries. Z 90 fmw Ct
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working and skilful mechanics instead, and
observed how faithfully they perform their
duties, he must have felt more respect for
the white people.
IL is sad that General Grant should be the
first President of the United States to forfeit
the respect which has led the red men from
time immemorial to revere the President as
their Great Father. Indeed, Red Cloud goes
SO far as to declare, with the simplicity and
directness which are peculiar to primitive
men, that he is ashamed Of his Great Father,
because he is guilty of falsehood and duplicity
It is only fair to wait for the exculpation of
General Grant from these grave charges, be-
fore deciding upon the controversy which
has thus unfortunately sprung up between
him and Red cloud. In the meantime,
however, it is evident that he has lost his
prestige among the red as well as among the
white men, with the essential difference that
while unaboriginal Americans sort under
such circumstances to the ballot-box for the
redress of their grievances, our Indian
brethren are but too apt to brandish the
tomahawk.
The melancholy duty will devolve upon
General Grants agents among the Indians to
inform them that Great Fathers are killed off
peaceably in the white mems country every
four years, especially if they have not be-
baved WE'LL and that consequently the red as
we'll as the white people must compose their
souls in peace until the arrival of that blessed
Ammo Domini 1872. AT present the Indians
seem to live under the impression that Gene
raj Grant is to remain their Great Father for
all eternity. 1t is of the utmost Importance
to rectify this little mistake at the earliest
moments and we trust that the Indian agents
will take care to attend to this correction
without a moments delay
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THE CHINESE BOGEY.
From the NJ Y. Times.

From the NJ Y. Times.
A great many of our mechanics and work
ing men appear to be getting themselves into
distressing state of alarm and unhappiness,
because certain Mongolians prefer the United
States as place for earning their living to
the Central Kingdom" To the minds of
these terrified individuals, unpleasant phan-
toms are constantly presenting themselves,
of reduced wages and employment difficult to
find. The intelligent industries of our couu-
try are, in their view, in imminent danger of
being crushed by an avalanche of Ignorant
and degraded Orientals. Something must be
done. Congress must be petitioned. The
State Legislatures must enact laws. The
people must assemble aud pass resolutions.
The contingency is immediate The crisis is
fearful one. Laboring men and journey
men mechanics must arouse themselves
Honest toll must be protected, and the dig
nifty of the working classes preserved. If it
should turn out in the course of a few years,
that all these apprehensions are groundless,
it would not be the first time in the history
of the world that people had been badly
frightened about nothing.
Chlnaman is by no means deficient in an
appreciation of the value of money. The
difference between fifty or seventy-fve cents
day and dollar and half or two dollars is
one that he is naturally capable of seeing as
clearly as an American. If he can get ten
dollars for certain amount of work, he will
soon not only fail to be satisfied with five
dollars, but will learn to refuse nine and
three-quarters. He might be unable to ex-
plain in English the great principles of poll
tical economy under which he does this,
and would, perhaps, find it difficult to eluci-
date them even in Chinese. But he prac.
tically recognizes and acts upon these prin-
ciples as truly as boys playing ball recog-
nize the laws which govern the motion of
projectiles.
But as question of fact, what has hith-
erto been the effect of the emigration to the
limited States of working men from countries
where labor was cheap? In what department
of industry have the millions who have come
here from Ireland and Germany diminished
the rate of wages Making every allowance
for the difference between our present cur
rency and gold, the pay of these classes has
in the last fifty years, increased in no case
less than twenty-five per cent, and in
many instances has nearly doubled. If
there is any substantial reason for appre.
hendiDg lower wages from the inhux of
Asiatics, which did not exist forty or ffty
years ago from the influx of Europeans, we
have never seen it stated. The Chinese, it is
said, have been accustomed at home to small
wages and cheap living. But from what part
of Europe have any great number of emil
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grants come, the majority of whom we're
accustomed to anything else? The habit of
living on short allowance is one which
human nature commonly finds little difficulty
in getting rid of. The European emigrants
to this country have formed marked Illus
tration of this fact, but we see not the
slightest evidence that the facility with which
men can accommodate their ideas to an in
crease of income is confined to the Caucasian
race.
1t is not at all improbable, indeed, that
most of the Chinese will, for some time after
their arrival on our shores, work for less
wages than Americans, for the simple reason
that, on account of their ignorance of our
language, their services will not be worth SO
much. A man who cannot understand
word his employer says, and has to be talked
to by signs or through an interpreter, must
usually be contented with comparatively
small remuneration. But the disadvantage
that hinders his getting what other men re-
oeive will prevent, in a corresponding de-
gree, his becoming their competitor.
There has been lately, among certain
classes of the community, growing feeling
that the best way for man to improve his
own prospects is to prevent somebody else
from getting q living The ideas of our me-
chanics, for instance, appear to be often
much more directed towards hinderlng men,
outside of certain cliques and combinations
from obtaining employment than towards
perfecting themselves in a knowledge of
their trade. Simply as a matter of policy,
not to speak of its injustice and not unfre-
quent cruelty, the whole system by which
they seek to carry out such ideas is wrong
We believe that mechanics would, in the
long run, get great deal more by striving
to make their work intrinsically valuable,
than by efforts to keep up prices by creating
an artificial scarcity of it. And we believe
that the liberal spirit of our fathers, which
allowed the emigrant TO come freely to our
shores, was the best policy even for the inter
ests of the very classes with whom he was
brought most into competition. 1t was, as
events have abundantly shown, wise policy
then; and there is no reason why it is not
equally SO now. We have, as people, re-
garded America as the asylum of the destitute
and oppressed of all nations. Our position
before the world will be worse than absurd,
if, when the Chinese, or the inhabitants of
any other country, desire to avail themselves
of this hitherto Justly boasted refuge, we de-
liberately begin to exercise our ingenuity in
contriving means to keep them out because
they are poor at home.
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SECRETARY COX AND THE CIVIL SER.
VICE.
From. the N. Y. World.

fISI.
From the N Y. World.
1t has been the misfortune hitherto of the
attempts at reform in the civil service that
nobody could be made directly responsible
for its abuses. The conspicuous instances of
corruption were charged to the defects of an
inherited system which everybody even the
men who found their account in it's con-
tinuance, affected to deplore, but which
nobody saw his way to subvert. But the
zeal of an honest Cabinet officer has COM
PEELED the head of the civil service either to
acquiesce in measures of reform or avow HIM
self the champion of corruption. Most men
would have shrunk from the shamelessness
implied in the latter procedure. But as
numerous and recent examples have shown
the sensitiveness of Mr.. Grant is not at ali
delicate 1t is fortunate in this instance that
he is as obtuse in intellect as he is torpid in
feeling. A more sensitive man would not
have openly espoused corruption. A cleverer
man would have constructed specious plea
to save appearances. But stolid and stupid
man in General Grants position would do
precisely what General Grant has done, and
show both his inability and his carelessness
to conceal his sympathy with corruption and
his antipathy to its opponents so plainly that
the wayfaring rural radical editor, though he
were MIR. Greeleys typical ''little creature, {"
cannot err therein.
staunchest supporters of Mr.. Grants admin
istration say of Mr.. Grants virtual dismissal
of Secretary Cox
IFronl the Missouri DemOcTaLI
The President has delivered himself over, a COM
plete captive, to the most INSCRIPTIONS men in
Congress. At their dictation he abandons pledges
and professions dismsses his most trusty and honor-
able advisers, itempts to control State elections
and makes war upon the earliest and ablest Repub-
llcans for adhering to the very policy which he
pledged himself to support II he fancies that all de-
sire for reform can be overpowered by his single
name he Is very much mistaken.
To be sure, the Republicans whom the
Democrat represents have taken issue with
the President upon question of State policy.
But no such qualification can be given to the
animadversions OF such a journal as the
Chicago Republican, which says
SIT shows us President who virtually acknow-
iedges himself to be in the hands of the and
most INSCRIPTIONS men In the Republican party.
and who readily sacrifices faithful friend and an
able minister rather than make an issue with them.
General Grant Ia all the more ineXcusable In this
matter because OF the great flourish with which on
his accession 10 the Presidency, he announced his
thorough Independence OF politicians and his deter
minaon 10 keep entirely alOof from them Ia his ad-
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nency. An hour or two after their use there Is no
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The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-06-23
Married.

BEHM-KINNEY-At the residence
Of Samuel Pollock, Esq. near Keiths-
burg, Ill, by Rev. Mr.. Lutz, assisted
by Rev. Mr.. Lilley, Mr.. Jeremiah
Benin, Editor Central Union Agri-
cuZturolist, Omaha. Neb.. to Miss T
Ollie Kinney, of Green County, Ohio.
Omaha Republican.
Our old friend and fellow towns.
men has been a good while making W
his mind, but seems at last to ha We
concluded that a man KIN nae do bet
ter than to get married. Indeed, we
cannot conceive how Mr.. Behn
could successfully conduct a Union
Agriculturalist as long as he did
without putting his union theory into
practice. We wish him an amount o.
happiness in his married life tba
will ever make him regret havirg 81
long delayed entering it.
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From the Indianapolis Journal. !
nomncrafIc Rnfnrna

We noticed, the other day, the
tendency of all parties, when long re-
tanned in power, to mistake their own
interests for the country's, and to
measure policy rather by its effect
In strengthening themselves, than its
prospect of benefting the public.
We also tried to show that this mis-
chievous tendency could be best re-
strained IN the party, and that outside
it could be restrained only by a de-
feat that would put worse in the place
of bad. Our illustrations of the in
discreet zeal with which "Reformers"
exhibit the evils Gin which they have
always had liberal shared of this
state of things, and the certainly with
which they drive head foremost into
the party whose principles they pro.
fess to want to defeat, disturbed the
iSentinePs delicacy-a quality that has
been cultivated with such assiduous
concealment that the public was quite
as much astonished to find that it had
any, as they would be to find anything
in our remarks to shock it-and that
so infrequent a feeling may be en-
couraged to return sometime when
there is some use for it, we wish, to-
day, to suggest one or two facts, gath
cred at random from Democratic his.
tory. We stated plainly enough that
there was need Of reform IN the
Republican party, and We propose to
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the Knox County Central Committee.-
Times.
This appointment, if made, was
done by the District Convention, at
Princeton, on Thursday. The Knox
County delegation, we understand,
know nothing about it. Then, who
appointed Gen. N. chairman? What
right had this convention to dictate
to the Mongrels of Knox as to who
should be at the head of the commit
tee? It seems to US that the matter
should be left to their county con-
ventiou. We care nothing about it,
but it looks as if the Morton ring are
croWding things just a little. Will
the other faction stand tip ViRcenRes
Sun.
The Sun makes a weak effort to
manufacture party capital out of a
slight mistake made BY the Times.
General Noble was appointed a mem
Der of the District Committee for
Knox County. and not Chairman of
the Knox County Central Committee.
So the District Convention did not
dictate to the Republicans Of Knox
who should be at the head of their
County Committee.