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Threo Good Reasons

There are Just three good and sniff
Gent reasons why the people of. this
country need have 10 fear that the
Democratic party will soon come again
into power in high places.
1. The people themselves have not
enough confidence in the Democratic
leaders TO replace them in the seats OF
power.
2. The Democratic party is not in
itself a unit i'll any of the essentials
that 60 to make up a successful party.
3-The close corporation of the Dem
ocratic organization of New York City
has gradually accreted TO itself such
strength aud influence that it il able
to dictate both men and measnres.-
Gin. Chronicle.
The confidence of the people in the
principles of Democracy is as firm as
in the days ofJeferson. When Dem
ocratic ideas become obsolete in this
country, and consolidation and central
dsspotism usurp their place, then we
may soon expect to see an end to the
freedom of elections and or republi-
can institutions. The great end aud
aim of the Republican leaders and
journalists is to educate the public
mind up to the point of admitting and
believing that the States are mere ap
pendages to the General Government.
To accomplish this malign purpose,
they allege that the people have no
confidence in the Democratic leaders,
and especially in Democratic princi-
plesi It would follow, therefore,
that the people are greatly enamored
of Republican eentralism-of military
satraps- of stupendous National debts
and enormous taxation-of Govern
mental extravagancs in all the Depart.
ments-of gigantic and soulless cor
poraticns, TO cat up the substance Of
the people-of the theft of the public
lands, to the great injury of the actual
settler and the soldier? If an appeal
to public confdsnce is to be made OF
these issues, the Democracy will most
willingly meet the enemy at Philippi.
The late elections everywhere demon
strate beyond dOnbt, that the people
long for the good old days of Demo,
cratic economy, when the Government
vas carried on for seventy million!
Der annum. The peopleot New York
Missouri, New Hampsh re and Connec
ticut, have declared in favor Of admin
lstratiVe reform, and this year vii
range many more Northern States II
Democratic line. Take away YOU
Force Laws and Satraps," and four
eixths Of the States North and South
will declare in favor of Democratic
principles in 1872. Call you this, t
want of confidence in Democratic
principles
The allegation that the leaders o
the Democracy lack unity and cohe
sive force. is q delusien on the part Of
the Editor of the lGsrontok.- Never
in the history of the party.d did such 6
charge fall with less weight than Al
this time. With large gains in boil
branches Of Congress. nth peH State!
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The Joint High Commission ard
the Alabama Claimants.

The Joint High Commissioners arc
close mouthcd, and we attach little
credencc to the rumors p%urportiug to
state the exact terms agreed on as the
basis Of settlement. The gossip cur
rent is but a repetition of guesses made
when the commission was first deter
mined on. Shrewd people always
expected that England would give way
with exceeding grace on minor or non
essential points. The fishery question,
the navigation of the St. Lawrence,
the northwestern boundary dispute,
are subjects on which it is generally
supposed that England would yield
with a gush of apparent hberality -
Not one of them is vital OF of any
great Importance to either England or
the United States. 1t would, there
fore, cause no surprise if the reports
of England's handsome concessions in
those matters should turn out true.
The real point on which fuller infor-
nation is wanted is-what will she do
about the Alabama claims Will she
a cknoRledge her responsibility for the
damages growing out of her malfea-
sance or neglect, and leave the awards
to be made by another and final COM
mission, or will she insist Oh referring
the question of responsibility also to
that ultimate board? On this ques-
ton, accounts are conflicting; but it
seems to be settled by common consent
that the present commission will not
do more than put the Alabama claims
on the road to adjustment. If Eng
land is prepared to admit her respon-
sibility for damages, and a second
board have only to hear and determine
the merits of each claim, and fix the
amount to be paid, then, indeed, there
will be a genuine settlement of the
Alabama controversy. But if the
point of England's responsibility is al
so to be left out to a supplementary
commission, or to an umpire, there are
indications that the trouble will all be
reopened in a new shape. We under
stand that the principle holders of the
claims-the underwriters who paid
the losses-will, in that case, demand
| of the government the surrender oil
the papers placed by them in the
keeping of Secretary Fish. They are
unwilling to trust their claims to any
commission or any umpire, unless up.
on the antecedent agreement-of Eng.
lands general responsibility. 1t may
suit the United States government tc
risk the money of these claimants on
the die of the decision of a second
commission or an umpire, and to be
satisfied with odds and ends of favors
in Canada and the Northwest as Eng.
land may grant, but the claimants can,
not put themselves in quite that dis
interested and complaccnt frame Of
mind. Should our government refuse
TO return the documents to the claim
ants, and insist on its rights to put
their interests in jeopardy, the courts
will probably be called on 10 interfere.
There is strong talk of holding the
American comissioners themselves re.
! FPonsible for such line of action, and
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TO NEBRASKA, CALIFORNIA. AND
KANSAS, AND THE b d d. r. B.
LANDS.

The Burlington Route so-ealled.
lies right in the path Of the Star a Em.
pire. 1t runs almost immediate9y In
the center of the great westvxsd move.
ment of emigration. Crossing Hi
nois and Iowa, it strikes the Missouri
river at three points,
These three points are. the gatevays
into three great sections Of the trans
Missouri region.
The Northern gate Is Omaha, where
the great Pacific road Will take you to
the land of gold and grapes, sunny
mountains, and perpetual summer.
The middle gate is Plattsmouth,
which opens npoR TIE south half Of
Nebraska, south of the Platte yiysr. q
region unsurpassed on the conkinDaA
for agriculture and grazing. inst beUA
are the B. & M. Railroad lands, con-
corning which Geo. s. Harris, the
land officer at Burlington, Iowa, can
give you all infermatioR and in tho
heart of them rs Lincoln, the State
Capital and present terminus Of the
road.
The Southern gate leads to Kansas.
by connections with hest. Joe Road
at Hamburg. running direct to ST.
Joe and Kansas City.
The trains of the Burlington run
smoothly and safely, and make all
connections. 1t runs the best Of coach-
es, Pullman Palace aud Pullman din
ing cars, and should You take ia
journey for the journeys sake aions,
you will be repaid +; or take IL to fndh
home or a farm, and you cannot 6nd
either better than among The b ON.
lands, where you can bay ohten years
credit, and at a low price. 1y4l'
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United States, but against their own
local laws; by his fiat, he is to raise
this domestic violence to the dignity
of an Instruction or a rebellion against
tha nation /; be is to make that a war
which is no war, and to follow up his
decision by the extreme measures only
designed for the suppression of actual
hostilities he is, iu fact, to he a die
tator. Never in the political history
of the country has SO direct a blow
been aimed, under color of legal au-
thority, at the supremacy of the Con-
stitution, or a precedent been estab-
lished SO dangerous to free institutions.
-TFrom The Nation.
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falling iuto Democratic line; while an
CRY dissensions are thinning the forces
Of the Republican party. The leaders
Of the Democracy in Congress have
gallantly met the enemy and driven
the corrupt, tricky and renal
Republican leaders from many of their
erroneous positions. Their forces are
no longer a unit; and we hear fierce
mutterings in their camp, and outspo-
ken indignation from a large proper
ton of the rank and file. We find
Greeley, willing to enroll under his
banner, Mormon and Christian, Turk
and Heather, Free-trader and Tariff
lite, Land-thief and Corporation pirate,
while the Editors of the San, the Post,
and the Tfnrss, make war on the
m~opgrelism of Greeley. In Congress.
Sumner, Schurz, and Trumbull, make
deadly war upon the corrupt, horse
racing, charity-gift administration of
General Grant. While all this is go
ing on, the ranks of the Democracy
are consolidating the conservative
masses are thinking /; and the hosts Of
the great old Democratic party are
increasing rapidly, and in 1879, a
Democrat will succeed tho present in.
cumbent. Be not deceived, the Dem
ocratic party is united and is bound
to prevail at the next quadrennial
! election.
The assumption that a close corpor-
alton in New York City, will hereaf-
ter dictate the policy and candidates
of the party is falIacious. The money
Kings of New York City WELD ten
times the power over the destinies of
the Republican party, that the Chair.
man of the National Democratic Com.
mittee ean bring to bear upon his
party. If it be true that his wishes
are pernicious, and will tend to dis.
solve the unity of tho Democracy,
what shall We say of the Republican
bankers and bondholders of the same
City. who own the very blood and
marrow Of the Republican party ?
But, it Is not true that Tammany OF
any other party organization in New
York attempts to dictate nominations
for the Presidency: and if it were true,
such an attempt would be futile in the
extreme. New York is not to the
United States, what Paris assumes to
be to France. The City Of New York
possesses many eminent Democrats,
men worthy Of public confidence and
deserving well of their party. Their
good sense, the welfare Of the country,
and . due regard for the rights Of 9th.
er localities, will always hold in
subsection the oYerwecning ambition
of rising men. The great Western,
the Southern and the Central States,
will be heard freely and fairly in all
Democratic Conventions and if Re,
publicans expect to profit by dissen-
sions in our ranks, they will be griev-
ously disappointed. When the heav-
ems fall, there will be a harvest of
larks. The policy Of the Democracy
is to bring the government back to
the days of economy and reform-to
dismiss the army and restore the States
to self government, thai peace and
prosperity may once more bless the
land.
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of suing out attachments against their
property for an alleged abuse of their
trusts. Of course all this will depend
on the issue, whether England, through
the present commission, admits her
responsibility or not. 1t is chiefly on
that subject that the claimants and the
public are anxious to receive anthem
tic statements of its determinations
Journal of Commerce.
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snOulQ receive q nearly Response" -
Does not this show that the Radicals
stick to their friends. Money for the
widow of old John Brown and words
of praise for the robber Bailey. Such
is Radicalism.
Chief Justice Chase will remain
here about a week after the adjourn
ment of the Court, when he will visit
the Bethesda springs in Wisconsin
and drink of their waters in order to
recruit his shattered health. The
wonderful medicinal properties of this
water was lately discovered by acct
dent. 1t cures beyond question,
Bright's disease heretofore considered
incurable, Diabetes and similar dis
eases, and is most eficatious in scar
let fever, being used and regularly en-
dorsed by the regular faculty. Beth
soda water is the excitement here now
that Congress has adjourned, and it
is a much pleasanter dose.
Special orders from the War De-
partmcnt yesterday, announce that
Col Thos. Fl. Kruger, 18th Infantry,
will on Sept. LIST, relieve Col. Thos. G.
Pitcher, 1st infantry, as Superintend-
emit of the Military Academy at West
Point. This change is brought about
by the investigation which took place
some two months since regarding the
outrages at West Point, in which Fred
Grant, SON of Ulysses the 1st, was one
of the culprits. Congress passed a
resolution in relation to it and the SUBJ
ject has been discussed in Cabinet
meetings several times and it was
handed over to General Belknap, Sec.
of War, to smooth over and to white.
wash Prince Grant, and at the same
time smother the findings in the case
of the negro cadet-Smith-who nc
doubt was found guilty but who must
be screened from punishment because
he is of the favored race, the especial
care of the Radical party. To save
the scion of the Grants it was deter
mined hal the trouble at West Point
was the result of a lack of discipline,
and the officers must be sacrificed, and
so Col. Pitcher goes and others will
soon follow. How could discipline be
enforced when every conviction by
court martial was nulifed by the of
fender Immediately receivinga pardon
from Ulysses at the solicitati1 IN Of
Prince Freddy, his son? These are
''high old times" which we have fallen
on the whole thing is faroicai enough
for amusement-only it is too much
like laughing at a funeral.
tits estimated that the amount OF
the claims of the loyal S~outherners'
before the Claims Commission will
eventually reach s25, 900, 900. II
they are allowed, it will be after the
next Presidential election before they
will be paid, as our Radical rulers
want all the cash to buy up bonds, so
Is TO go to the country with the cry,
s'See how much zee have reduced the
debt )" n would suppose that only
their party friends paid anything into
the Treasury, when on the contrary
they are the only ones which take all
they can get out of it. The President
will be home tomorrow from his cleo
pioneering farm trip" and we shall all
be happy then. GR4Tz.
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Eloquent Appeal,

The Hon. Samuel S. Cox concluded
his speech on the Ku Klux bill, In the
following eloquent appeal to the Radi-
cal majority to desist from their bloody
work:
By all the lessons I have eulled
from history; by the graces which
have pacifed nations heretofore by
the perils of smothered revenge and
secret circles which ] denouno=; h.
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RAIL ROAD MATTERS.

RAILROAD MATTERS are moving along
The contractors have returned. mckenzie
has made a favorable contract for pine lum.
Der for The bridging, and Mr.. RoBERTsos has
brought lot Of horses and other help. shOy-
els, barrows, &c, and the work of putting up
shantlcs Is now going on for giving the men
shelter on their arrival. BY Monday next,
we expect they will be ready for work at the
guilt.
The Youngstown project IS also pushing
along. The amount of subscription along the
northern division has been pretty nearly filed
upl Ashtabula met her compliment, and
Austnburg is doing well, while Morgan has
done herself great credit and even disappoint-
ed her friends. The other towns below are
also filling up their quota, and will not fail 10
meet every reasonable expectation. The work
has taken such shape as To inspire the utmost
confidence in the friends of the enterprise, and
they expect to he warranted n short time in
beginning work at this end of the line. There
is no longer any doubt in the minds Of our
citizens that we are TO have two veritable
roads from Ashtabula Harbor.
A score or two men were put TO work at
the gulf fill on Thursday last but struck for
higher wages before night.
The Painesville load is indeed under way.
There is no longer any room for skepticism
and doubt. 1t is fact and no mistake A
corps of Engineers are traversing the line
On Monday last, while making a short visit
to that place, we learned from various citizens
as well as a member of the Engineer corps,
that there were twenty men with barrows til-
ling up the washed and quilted places of the
old cmbankment, and that an increased force
was daily expected. The point where the
work was begun, we were assured, was at the
stone bridge just south and west of the will
age centre. The work TO Chardon, which is
the section now in progress, is not to be sub
let, but is to be done under the immediate di-
rection of Mcssrs. Ford & MEYERS From
the drift of conversation, we were left to infer
that this section was 10 be finished up first
and after this, the work is to be regularly sub
let, and pushed along as fast as circumstances
would warrant. The people of Painesvillt
seem encouraged and confident that they are
to have road, and the qualification derived
from this thought has the effect to fit them fol
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appears attainable, asking no questions fol
mercys sake.
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one was for the Chicago, Wabash & Western
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