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THE GHOST BECOMES CLEARER.


We are satisfied that Grant is IN
GRIM earnest IN his endeavor to secure
athird nomination and third election
as President.
The nomination he can probably OBJ
tain. The executive patronage has
grown to be so vast that it is irresisti-
bic unless a sentiment of patriotism
can be aroused in opposition to it.
This patronage is likely to control the
Republican National Conventional
least it is liable to do so, and will un-
less a strong resistance to the third
term movement is started at once.
The evidences that Gen. Grant means
to run a third time are multiplying al
most daily. A member of his family,
who could not have expressed anything
but his own sentiments, said: "ORe
great difference bet1CeeR Gen. Grant and
Gen. Washington is that Gen. Washing
ton Irds elected President tl1jce and Gen.
Grant triU be elected a third time"
And he may be elected third time
unless the Washingtonians-those who
believe in limiting the Office of Presi-
dent to two terms, after the example Of
Washington, followed by his success
sors-bestir themselves betimes to de-
feat Gen. Grants selfish and over
weening ambition.
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ITRA.

New YORK, June pa letter from
Havana, dated the 10Th inst, says the pros
poets are that a general repudiatiOn of the
bills of the Spanish Bank will take effect
next week. Several cigar manufacturers
have notified their customers that after
next week they will not receive paper
money but will demand gold and. silver.
If this should really take place and become
general, there would be many failures.
HAVANA, June 26.-An address has
been presented to Capt. Gen. Concha,
signed by the business men of all classes,
asking as a remedy for the present financial
difficulty the imposition of tax Of five per
cent. ON the riches of the island which are
represented by landholders, property in the
city and county by commercial and bank
ing institutions, and others, to be paid
quarterly for two years, beginning July l,
1874. 1t is hoped at the end of this period
the wal will be concluded and there will
be no necessity for a resort to extreme
measures. Capt. Gen. COncha to-day is
sued decree increasing the tax on slaves
TO 10 cents per capita.
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A Brace of HOary-headed Sinners
One Prefers Death to Disgrace.

a Gazette (WoOSter) special says j. b.
Keech, ex-COunty Treasurer of Wayne
County, IS years old, was to-day, on convic-
ton of embezzling $4,000 in county funds,
sentenced to one year in the penitentiary.
J. b. Underwood, once Mayor of Wa
verly, and prominent citizen there, was
indicted last fall in the United States
Court in this city, fer forging the en-
dorsement on two county warrants for
$1,000 and 5000 respectively, and
drawing the money on the same from
banks IN Chillicothe, Ohio. This was
done about three years ago, when Under
wood resided at Waverley, Ohio. After his
Indictment he disappeared, but was appre-
hended last evening, where he was living
on a farm three miles west of Oxford, Ohio.
The officers gave him permission to go into
an adjoining room and change his clothing.
When there he shot himself in the head,
and died from the effects this morning.
lie was siXty-eight years old, and enjoyed
good character ill lie committed the act for
which lie was indicted.
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THE BEECHERS.
Edward Becomes Concerned for
His Brother.
Henry Does not Wish to Break
HIS Silence.
Too Much Pastoral Duty for
Personal Controversies.
But He Will Speak Out if His
Church Wishes.

NEW YORK, June ga copy Of Theo-
dore Tilton's extraordinary letter reopen
ing the Plymouth Church scandal, was sent
by a special messenger to Henry Ward
Beecher, now on his farm at Peekskill.
Early in the day Edward Beecher, a
brother of Henry, and sharer with Thomas
NJ. Sherman, the lawyer, in the manage
ment of Plymouth Church with reference
TO the scandal, came TO this city. When
asked what he thought of the new phase of
the scandal, he replied he could give no
opinion, but supposed TiltOn's letter could
be answered satisfactorily if it should be
deemed necessary. lie went to the Office
of Sherman, with whom he had an inter
esting conversation several hours long. Mr..
Sherman subsequently, said he did not be-
lieve Tilton's allegation of Beecher's guilt.
The usual Plymouth Church prayer
meeting will be held this evening, and in
meeting may be held after it.
a dispatch from Peekskill states that
Henry Ward Beecher, in answer to a query
as TO what course he will pursue in view of
the recent statement of TiltOn, says that
he will not break the silence he has hither-
to observed.
Night Report.
Mr.. Beecher was present at the weekly
prayer meeting of Plymouth Church, this
evening. The proceedings were of the
usual devotional character, and no refer
ference whatever was mad to the Tilton
letter. After the meeting Beecher, in con-
versatiOn with a reporter, said he at present
had no intention of saying any thing in
reply to recent statements. He had large
pastOrate under his charge, and he had no
time for personal controversies. If, how
ever, the examiners Of Plymouth Church,
should decide that it would be well for
him to speak out in regard to the receut
letter, he would do so without hesitation.
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TO-DAY,S WORK,

The action of to-day's convention
makes or mars the success Of August.
1t determines the fate of the county for
four years. If it fail to present a tick
ct that viii commend itself TO the ma
jority, good men may despair of fur
ther efforts at cooperation. Many of
the delegates may have favorites, but
none can expect to see all their ia
vcrltes for all the offices on the ticket
chosen. There must be Cancellation, or
there can be no effective results. Among
Che candidates before the convention,
there is not one who is not to be pre-
ferred to his black -and-tan antagonist.
The people want honest officials. 1t
is equally important that they should
be competent. A third qualification
that cannot be ignored, in view of the
fact that solid enemy may be reins
forced by chronic malcontents from
our ranks, is that our candidates should
be men who carry some strength.
With an easy majority, we might Sc
lect the best man who is at all availa-
bic. in close contests it is sometimes
necessary to take the most available
man, though he be not the very best.
Further: The ticket, as a whole,
should be representative of all the
people who are called on to support it.
The convention cannot afford to ignore
a single element that is opposed to the
civil rights programme. E0eTy class Of
our citizens shoald see from the ticket
itself that their claims and rights arc
recognized. There should be a reason
able compromise between city and
country. So of other classifcations.
1t is not safe to ignore the ominous
mutterings of 'rebellious" aspirants
forming combinations with the Radicals.
No ground of grievance should be left
or them 90 operate on.
All the conditions of success should
carefully weighed and balanced. Let
he delegates take time for deliberation,
o slow, and make sure work. Acting
hus, we have every reason to antici-
ate that the convention will result IN
good ticket and in its triumph at the
August polls. Amid a clamor against
conventions, apparently overwhelming
this vicinity, the UNION AND AMER
1CAN has never once faltered or swerved
from its conviction that the practical
way of getting at the peoples will is
through precinct meetings and conven-
tions. To-day we witness the fruition
of our labors and hopes in this capital
county. Let the work be well done.
Then onward and upward. The Con-
gressional district and State conven-
tions are next IN order.
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THE TURF.
Close of the Saginaw Races

EAST SAGINAW, MICH, June 26.-The
second annual meeting of the East Sagi-
naw Driving Park Association closed to-
DAY. Five thousand people were present.
The 2:30 race begun yesterday was finished
to day and won by Ohio Boy, who took
the first, second and fifth heats and the
first money; Little Mack the second, Kan
sas Chief the third and Cozette the fourth.
Time, 2:325s ], 2:3l3, 2:2S5, 1921 and 2:29.
The $50 race for a premium of 81 $50
was won by Alden GOldsmith's RiSson,
Fox %, Randall Sd and Little Jake 4th.
Time-2:3I, 2:32, 1921, 2:31s.
The running race, mile heats. was won
by Jim Alexander, beating the fayorite
Nellie Grim. Time-3:3377, $780,, 3:409.
The open to all race was won by Red
Cloud in straight heats, beating st.
James by bare neck in each heat. Time
2:22it, 2::!2, 2::22...
Beacon Park.
BOSTON, June Z6.-In the free for all
race at Beacon Park to-day, for purse OF
500, the following is the summary:
American Girl. ........ .....3 l |
OainOlS. 81 : - - =
Copper Bottom (paceT). .........2 U
Time-2:25, 2:22, 2:25, 2:26, 2:25.
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MARRIED people should treat each other
like lovers all their lives, then they would
be happy. Bickering and quarreling would
soon break off love affairs; consequently,
lovers indulge in such only to very limited
extent. But some people-men and women
bOth-when they have once got married,
think they may do just as they please and it
will make no difference. They make
great mistake. 1t causes all the difference
in the world. Women should grow more
devoted and men more fond after marriage,
if they have the slightest idea of being
happy as wives and husbands. 1t is losing
sight of this fundamental truth which leads
to hundreds of divorces. Yet many man
will scold his wife who would never think
of breathing a harsh word 10 his sweet
heart; and many wife will be glum and
morose on her husbands return who had
only smiles and words of cheer for him
when he was her suitOr. How can such
people expect to be happy?
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FRANCE.

PARIS, June 26.-At the sitting OF the
Committee of Thirty to-day, NJ. t. Allen,
Of the Right Centre, proposed an extension
Of President MacMahon's term of office TO
ten years and the appointment of a Vice
President. NJ Dafaure opposed the pro-
iect, on which no vote was taken. The
Committee of Parliamentary Initi-
ative have decided against referring NJ.
De la ROchefoucauld's mOnarchial reSOlu-
tion to the Committee Of Thirty, and will
probably declare il unconstitutional. The
Assembly to-day passed bill granting 26,-
100000 francs indemnity to sufferers by the
late war. NJ. Courbet, artist, has been
condemned to pay the cost of tho recon
strIIction ofthe Vendome column.
DOmiciliary visits have been made by the
police to the Offices of Imperial journals and
to the residences of prominent BOnapart-
lists, and important documents have been
seized.
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FOREIGN.
Reputation in Cuba.
Anti-Ritualism in the British
Parliament,
The Paris Police Making Domi-
ciliary Visits.
ENGLAND.

LONDON, June 26-Thc opponents Of
the public worship bill which passed the
House of Lords last night, declare that il
is useless and dangerous; that it affects
questions of doctrine unfayOrably, attacks
the Ritualists unfairly, and jeopardizes the
union of Church and State. The Marquis
of Salisbury, Secretary for India, and other
Tories, yehemently opposed the measure,
and it is understood will appeal to the
House of Commons to reject it. The bill
reorganizes the present Ecclesiastical
Courts so as TO enable them to take speedy
cognizance of the new ceremonies.
Howard Stanton, the well known chess
player and Shakspearian editor, died To-
day, aged "a.
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WASHINGTON.
The Engineer Board for the Re-
clamatiOn of the Mississippi
LOWiands.
The POstOffice not Yet Accepted
by Hale.
RumOred DeclinatiOn of Two
District Commissioners.

WASHINGTON, June 26.-The Board to
repert plan for permanent reclamation
Oi the alluvial basin of the Mississippi river
will probably consist of Gems. Warren and
III. l.. Abbott and Maj. Beauregard, United
States engineers. The civil engineers are
eX-GOv. Herbert, of Louisiana, and John
Sickle, of Arkansas. The exigences of the
service may cause change of the army
engineers, but the civil engineers are kept.
The Postal Department.
Mr.. Cresswell is making arrangements
60 retire from his Office next week. MIR.
Hale has not yet sigIlified to the President
his acceptance of the Postmaster General
ship. MIR. CresSwell in a conversation
with a friend, said the reports as TO his
prospective appointment to the Austrian
mission are grUundieSS.
CattelI and Blow Decline-McC0Ok
Accepts.
Il is reported tonight that Cattell and
Blow have declined their appointments
TO be commissioners of tsis district. Gen.
McCOok has received his commission and
taken the oath Of Office as Governor of Col
Orado. He will reach Denver early in
July to enter upon his duties.
The French Post.
WASHINGTON, June 26.-The Postoffice
Department this morning, was officially in
formed by the French Minister of the rati-
fication Of the Postal Convention between
France and the United States by the French
Assembly. The Minister expressed to the
Postmaster his desire that the Convention
go into operation the 1st Of July, but this
cannot be done as the first of August is the
dafa fved and the ratifcatiOnS have vpt IN
be exchanged.
The charge for letters from France to the
United States will be ten cents for the third
of an ounce, and from the United States to
France nine cents for the half Of an ounce.
Unpaid letters are to pay the above rates
with five cents additional postage on books,
newspapers, samples, etc, which is hereaf-
ter to be separately arranged by each coun-
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THE Ne1o York World exclaims: ''All
hail to the Democracy of MAINE /!
Dirigo may well be the legend on their
States escutcheon, for they point the
path of duty and of victory to the De-
mocracy of every State. Hard Money,
Free Trade, Home Rule-these are
their watehwJrds and their sacred
pledges to burdened people-open,
bold, plain. Not a word that trims,
not a syllable chat palters."
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OKLAHAMA.
Uncle sam Tired of Playing the Pa.
IeruaI,

PARSONS. rs, June 26.-ImpOTtaut
changes have taken place in Indian Terri
tory. All the agents OF the civilized In
dians have been relieved excepting /. B.
Jones, agent of the Cherokees, and cen
tral agency has cen established at Fort
Gibson. II ocktawS, Creeks, Semi
noles, CherU. 1ckasaws and other
civilized India I'll be under agent
Jones. This isl a as an experiment
on a small scale tL IamiliariZlDg the In
dians with self-gOveTnment under 4 future
territorial organization.
A number of prominent Indians will
take strong grounds in the coming annual
election in favor of sectiOnizinG govern
ment and citizenship in the United States.
The OkIdhdlHd Star, published 1t Caddo,
in the Choctaw Nation, openly and ably
advocates this doctrine. The committee
OF Congress appointed to investigate and
report on a territorial government for the
Indian country, will find the sentiment Of
the country greatly changed in favor of Col.
Boudinot's advanced position on the sub
iect Of a government for the civilized
Indians and their rights as prospective
American citizens.
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INDIANA.
Hunting Down n DesPeradO-An Es;i-
mabIe Farmer Killed i'm Mistake.

CINCINNATI, o., june Z6.-A Gazette
letter from Owensburg, Green county, Ind,
states that the whole neighborhOod have
been hunting George Newman, the desper-
ado and thief; that last Sunday they drove
him in thicket and surrounded it with
armed guards. The orders were that no
guard should leave his post till daylight.
A little before day b. +. Carbin, an es-
teemed farmer, saw Newman leave his post,
and approached Amos Dawson, another
guard, to tell him, and Dawson after calling
a halt twice shot and killed Corbin. The
desperado escaped.
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SUEZ.

LONDON, June 26.-In the House of
Commons to-day, Capt. Bally Cochran
moved resolution in favor of the inter-
ference of the Government for judicial re-
form in Egypt, because England is deeply
interested in the uninterrupted navigation
of the Suez canal. Burke, the under For
eIgn Secretary, stated that the chief obsta-
Gle to such reform was France, who, he
stated, refused to abandon the position she
had acquired in Egypt. If she persisted in
her refusal to conform with the views of
other powers, the only course which re-
manned for them would be to act without
her,
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AND now comes Geo. T. Hoar, in
the wake of Henry L. Dawes, express
ing his determination not to stand for
Congress or any other Office next fall
1t the rest of the Massachusetts, dele
CATION do likewise, the country will
take the chances for new and better
men from that State.
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GERMANY.

BERLIN, June 26.-The bishops in ses-
sion at Fulda, will issue a joint pastoral to
the Roman Catholics Of Germany.
MUNICH, June 26.-In the Bayarian
Chamber of Representatives to-day the u
tramontane party attempted to carry an eX-
preston of censure against the Minister OF
Public Worship, by moving the rejection
of his estimates, alleging that he was the
author Of the conflict between the Church
and State in Bavaria. The motion was
defeated 10y majority of five votes.
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JUST as Congress had dispersed, and
weary editors were hoping for a rest
during the sultry term, here comes
this Tilton-Beecher scandal again,
threatening to spin out as long as the
moral law that has been violated on one
side or the other. 1t is too bad. Give
us a rest.
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ROME.

ROME, June 26.-The Pope to-day, in
receiving a deputatiOn from the Romay
nobility, said the demonstration of Sundan
night was a spontaneous and magnificent
act Of the people. The counter demonstra-
ton Of Wednesday was the impiOus and
miserable work of the sons of darkness.
The Pope added that lie had received a let
ter urging him to quit Rome because
his person was not safe, but he declared
he would remain as long as God permitted.
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GEN. W. ii. JACKSON, of this coun-
ty, and President of the National
Agricultural Congress, will address a
large meeting of farmers at Manches-
ter, Coffee county, on the Fourth of
July. This national holiday, affording
leisure for all, viii be celebrated in
Tennessee this year with something
like the old ante-bellum style.
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OHIO.
Eight Persons Killed by Light
ming.
A Negro Ku-KIuxed,

CINCINNATI, June 26.--Geo. Moore, a
colOred man who lived alone in house
near Athens, o., was found dead with a
bullet hole in the head and his house in
ashes, wednesday night.
During the storm yesterday afternoon
the lightning struck man at Circleviile,
o.; a woman at Huntington, W. Va; two
young men at Kalamazoo, Ind; the post
master Of Marion, Ind, and three persons
near Fort Wayne, Ind.
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ST. LOUIS.
Capt. Eads the Modern Colossus.

ST. LOUIS, June 26.-Several of our
most prominent citizens have formed them
selves into a Bridge Monument AsSocia-
tion for the purpose of erecting colossal
bronze statue of Jas. B. Eads, chief engin-
eer Of the bridge at this point, with an APP
prOpriate inscription thereon of all his assO-
ciates in the work of planning and erecting
the great structure. The project is to be
carried out by voluntary subscriptions.
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ONE of the curious and unlooked-for
developments of the times is the large
number of Republican Congressman
who are receiving nominations from
their constituencies of that faith. Radi-
calism is welded to its idols. 1t re-
fuses to reform and leaves the people
no choice for changing and improving
the material of the next Congress ex-
cept by defeating the party.
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Heath nj n Rnrn-Raising.

PITTsBURG, June ga serious acci-
dent occurred yesterday afternoon at Ba-
den, in Beaver county, near this city, at a
barn-raisins. About 20 men were work
ing, when the timbers supporting it gave
way, precipitating them al to the ground,
a distance of about 80 feet. One man,
named Silas Mclherson. was killed, and
several others seriously injured.
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If President Grant had not been so
hasty in his anxiety to keep Boss
Shepherd at the head Of the District,
the declination of Cattel and Blow
would afford opportunity for carrying
out his own sweet will. But after
formal rejection by the Senate, Shep-
herd could hardly be appointed now.
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THERE are already three conventions
determined upon in New York to pre-
sent candidates for State officers
Democratic, Republican and Prohibi-
ton. And now the Liberal Repubh-
cans have determined to hold a conven-
ton to put fourth ticket in the field.
The voters of that State can certainly
be pleased.
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THE WHITE LEAGUE.
LOuiSianianS Driven to Seli-De.
fenSe.

Prominent Republicans Join the
League against the InsOIent De-
mands of the Negroes.
FRANKLIN, La, June 26.-The White
League is sweeping the parish of St. Mary.
Two prominent white Republicans, the
backbone of the party in this parish, joined
to-day. Others are expected to follow.
The line is so closely drawn that they must
come over or take chances with the negroes.
TOdds proposition meets the approval of a
majority of the planters throughout the
parish. 1t is believed that they will carry
IL Out
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Yoo,,,.,;o,,s for Courres.

CHICAGO, June 26.-Republican COnven-
tion in the fifth Congressional District OF
Iowa, held at Cedal Rapids, yesterday NOM
ina. ed by aeclamation Jas. Wilson for re-
election. In the eighth Congressional Dis
trict of Iowa, j. w. McDill was also nomi-
mated for reelection,
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The Dresden Dessocrat, an out
spoken anti-funding journal, prints a
communication in its leading editorial
column in favor of Reputation. Next.
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SPAIN.

BAYoNNE, June 26.-The Carlists re-
port they have raised the seige of Figueras,
near the French frontier. Gen. COncha's
attack on EStella is hourly expected. Don
Carlos directs the defense in person.
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The Huntingdon Republican, the
Republican organ in West Tennessee,
Justifes the hanging of the negro at
Lexington, Henderson county, by
mob.
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ATOMIZED.
Man, Horse and Wagon Blown TO
Nothing.

TITUSvILLE, Pa, June 26.-A man
named w. J. Osborne was blown TO atoms
this morning, near Parker'S City, by the
explosion of 100 pounds Of nitro Clycerine,
which he was transporting in his wagon.
The horse and wagon were also ami
Inflated.