The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-01-28
Political Items.

AS Senator Hamlin is in his sixty
sixth year, his last term in the Senate
will probably be the last Of his political
service. 1t is to his credit, that although
he has been in office so long, he is poor
man.
The whole affair is fitted to disgust the
American people with Louisiana and all
that pertains TO it. The people of that
State appear to have lost all capacity
for selfgovernment. The Constitution
of the United States seems no longer ap-
plicable to their condition. They show
themselves to be capable of no govern
ment but that of military force, whether
such a government be lawful or not
PrOy1deRcs Journal.
THAT able and loyal paper, the Gin
cinnati Gazette, has aptly found coun-
terpart in Characterization for Sheridan's
banditti." 1t styles the fulminations
of the sensational New York morning
papers OF the Louisiana question " raw
headed editorials" That's about right.
Our contemporary, the Erening Star, very
sensibly comments also on the difference
between the cool-headed discussion of
IuC ooDJCCb ny buC W pICSS, anu
the panicky Wall street, stock jobbing
inspiration of the editorials of the Times,
World, Herald, and Tribune 1t is Just
about the same difference that prevailed
between the same sections and the same
| journals in war time Washington Re
publican.
VERY much of the pretended excite
ment in New York over the Louisiana
matters has its origin among the Wall
street operators. The correspondent of
the Philadelphia Ledger says "there are
various mischievous Influences at work
| to keep the public mind in a state of
| feverish anxiety with reference to this
unfortunate business, but perhaps the
most prominent, as well as the most pow
erful of these, is traceable to the rumor
mongers of Wall and Broad streets, who
are circulating all sorts Of unfounded
reports, dating them sometimes at New
! Orleans and sometimes at Washington.
| The object of these fabrications of course
is to enable their originators to make
money by depressing stocks and advanc-
ing gold"
THE Jackson (Miss.) Pilot says:
/ 4uCIC 10 OlC III IuC AOhSO0AS
rebellion which has not been publicly
discussed. Crosby's bond as Sheriff pers
has never been questioned. 1t has only
been the bond as Tax Collector. The
Sheriff is the legal officer, and he is made,
by subsequent action, er obfeiO Tax Col
lector. No one can or ever has, to our
knowledge, questioned the fact that his
Sheriff's bond was good, and as he was
making no attempt to collect taxes-hav-
ing until the first of January to make
such collections, there is no palliatiOn or
excuse for the action of the mob in for
cibly removing or confning Crosby, he
being the legally constituted Sheriff of
the county, and having received the col
lectorship as an er offeiO officer"
THE Ohio Penitentiary, that never
failed, under Republican Management, to
pay a handsome annual revenue into the
State Treasury, will require legislative
appropriation, this first year of Demo-
cratic control, to part pay its running
| expenses.
Two months ago General Irwin Nc
Dowell, who then commanded the de-
partment in which Louisiana is en-
braced, made a truthful report of the
condition of affairs in his department,
and for so doing the Democratic papers
dubbed him "Ananias Mcdowell" /"
Gen. Sheridan has Just reiterated Gen.
McDoweil's statement, and our Demo
cratic cotemporaries now call him
"Grant's myrmidon." = ChilHcOthe Ga
zette.
BUSINESS AT HoME.-If Cuba is fit to
be free, she can free herself So long as
children are denied public education,
because they are black, in this country,
we shall have work enough TO make the
United States free, without bothering
about Cuba.-TeTre Haute Express.