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Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-05-13

10 THE VOTERS OF NRw CASTLE COUNTY.
NV fellow citizens, after some hesitation, have
concluded to offer myself to your confederation as
candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject to the
nomination of the Republican party, pledging my
self to support the nominee of that party whomso-
| ever he may be. JONATHAN ~ GHOhGh,,
feb9 tn New Castle hundred.
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The Great Genealogicai Puzzle.

We fear that the Hon. MUSsoN PIERRE
PoET lie losing his knowledge of the mean
ing of words, and ,hat his logical faculty
Is weakening under the strain OF his ardu-
Gus ambassadorial labors at the Court OF
st. James,. lie again asks us to believe
that when he Intercepted Dear Lady
MARY through the medium OF TEA
KETTLE FLINT, he was simply engaged in
the scientific investigation Of the phenom-
ena Il hplituuilsn. Many men besides
our AUNsON have gone into that business.
II any more care 10 do Il, let them 60 to
Col. OLruTr. the coleman Lierophant Of tho
theCsoph ste, AMI he viii talk TO them
about the matter all night. Unlike Mr.
PIERRIrONT, the Colonel isn't ashamed to
acknowledge that he believes in the shad-
owy Dear Lady MARYs and the rest Of
them; and when the cupboard opens and
10 slow music on the fuueroal melodeon
the spook appcnrs in bodily presence aud
carries Of fruit aud things the Colonel has
no doubt about its being genuine, orgi-
nal spirit, warranted to be such, or your
money returned.
But Mr.. EDwARDa PIERaLPoNr regards
il cs personal calumny" to say that he
DceOuEut lne spirits 10 THROW llRui on the
dark places of his genenlogy, For our
part. having followed the discussion OF the
PIERREPoNT family tree with great dill
gence and intense absorption OF interest,
we have failed 10 SEQ anything personally
calumuious in il. We have the rather OBJ
served generous zeal on the part OF his
countrymcn to assist Mr.. PIRnREPoNT In
discovering that lost link in his family
cham, which is all that is necessary to
hitch HIM to ducal cOronet and proudly
plant him, real American Duke, among
the British arlstocIaoy.
But deep as ia our interest in solving this
genealogical puzzle, we can't consent to
abandon cur reGion, even to crafty go
grent man ms Mr.. PIERREPoNr. When
lac asks IA 10 believe the tale he tells
about consulting Dear Lady MARY for tue
purpose Of testing the claims of spiritual
ism, we are forced to say, MUSfoS, that
won't wash. How could he test those
claims by asking question about mat
ter Of which he himself was ignorant? II
he was conducting II delicate diplomatic
! negotiation with Lord DLRDY, and thought
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what schurz ana Hayes Propose.

Mr.. CAM SCuUM Is stuplping about tho
country ana trying to elect Mr.. HAYES on
the pro mise that after he is elected, Sena-
torsaud Representatives IN Congress shall
have nothing to say about the appoint
meut Of men to Office, and that every man
appointed shall have the right TO keep his
place during good behavior, that is to say,
for life. This is ScHUlz's idea, and HAYES
has promised that he Will carry it out.
Now, both SCHURz and HAYES know
perfectly well that this idea cannot be
carried out with the Republican party. 1t
has been tried and rejected by the Rcpub-
lican majority in Congress again and again
There is not single Republican having q
powerful position or auy real influence in
the party who favors it, Whenever il has
been proposed it has been treated with
contempt IN Congress, and it Will continue
to be 20 treated until the Republican party
ia entirely changed, reconstructed, made
over, composed of different people, and
inspired with ideas and purposes differ
ent from those which have always con-
ttolled il, and which control ii now
When HAYES and SCuuM pledge them
selves to introduce such rrsat and rndi-
ca' chiueo in tho policy Of the Govern
ment- although they are we'll aware that
the party which nominated Mr.. HAYES
and which will elect Inn if he is elected is
utterly aud mmovably opposed to such
o change hat is il that they mean
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street rtatuary.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sn: THE SUN
ofyesterday, unuer the caption of "Our Street Satu.
arr says that Gov seward l. the nrst New YorKer
Who has neen distinguished oS monumental statue Ia
the Umpire IiD," and that Alexander Hamilton ia
worthy Of statue, snd would have had Il he we're
not New 1OTkur.' INK SrS l. under two Told Il.
ton ~ marble stood Al QUE lime IA the rotunoa of
Old Nerchsnts Exchange ia Wall street IL the work
think, ~ bs Hughes ana destroyed IN the great
nft OF lo3o, IN spike OF tue desperate tuitr f
not New Aurker IN other thau that IN ich
lmhtt, MNNeNin, AL huLtSoucrl were NtN lOrkors,
He was native o. tue Bri isa West iuGii Island OF
News Who grated 10 this country anu spent his
DAYS ler., las' meg no. FOR az au houtyi refer
alexander hamilton y. l.
NEN DIRK. SEP IL.
All very true. The statue Of Hamilton 10y Ball
Hughes IN the old New York Exchange W 70 not
street statue and It was Of street statuary that
we were makn- mention. Ii is forty-one years
since that statue was DESTROYED and no attempt
las been made to replace 1t. Though Hamilton
was not a native Of this city, he was educated
here, and vas not "a New Yorker only in the
sense That McNevn and Emmet were :" he was
an ante. Revolution New Yorker, and his
name and fame are identified win the city. The
point We made WAS distinctly enough proved.
namely that this city contains no public statue
or monument Of native of the city, and but one
OF native OF The state. Boston having erect. d
statue OF Alexander Hamilton, who was a New
lorNer IN every hing but tiIt1. II ia a fair as
sumption taat II he mad not beena New Yorker.
there would have been "A statue erected la his
honor hero.
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BETTER rex rHIN TWEED,s.
The Whereabouts OF u Former Republican
state Treasurer OF n ansas.

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Sept. 6-Sam lap
pin the Republican statesman and nnancier, who
was held in Jail ct Topeka for forging school
district bonds and selling them to the State
while Treasurer 81 State, and who broke jail
about two months ago, has been beard from. A
chum OF his by the name Of Stanley, who at the
time was suspected OF being the outside man
who ENGINEERED Lappin's escape, has written a
letter back here giving the particulars Of the
escape and fight of "ShyiOck' sam. he letter
was written at Sc. and bore date Aug. 10.
II appears that when l. ippin broke n ne and
his friend stanley took to the brush. where they
kept concealed during the dAy. travelling only
at night Tney crossed the state line north into
NeUraska. avoiding all towns aud tcegr pm sta
tons. In this way they reached the Miss Duri
river, which they crossed at Sioux CITY. Then
they groped their wav to Duluth. on Lake SUI
perior, anu took q steamer for Canada. Reach
ing Quebec safely they travelled by rail to Port
l&id, Me-. from thence by steamer 10 New York,
where they embarked for Aspinw II. Lippin Va
now supposed to he snusly housed In South
America no doubt. where II Is believed his part
ner, Scranord, long ago secured AN asylum.
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have seen, by examples like those Of
Rome and France, that military republics
cannot last. II Is for the future TO dc eide wheth
er commercial can. Tue history If Venice nd
the IIansa suggests that this Kind Of republic
has not better chance OF life than the mill airy.
Hut 1t is argued that these once Furnishing
States were crushed solely on account Of their
close proximity to powerful mouarchlcl do
minions. Here we have a republic possessing
a whole continent to Itself. M roldiers Of
crowned heads are to he seen on Its borders no
Invasion OF Its territories Is probable. IL 10
thus placed In the best possible CONDITION to
show whether body polite can exist and maze
permanent progress under a Constitution which
grants to a drunken laborer the same political
rights as to the wisest and noblest man OF the
land.
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Justice Duffy and the Alleged Gam
blers.

Gambling is unquestionably one of the
worst Of vIces-a vice which leads nearly
every other in its long and evil train. 1t
would be well # an end could be put to
the practice of gnmbling but in adopting
measures TO accomplish even SO desirable
purpose II is not worth while 10 disregard
the INV OF the land.
Last saturday night fifty-nine persons
were arrested in this city, nj No. % Bleeck-
er street, in house kept by one THEODORE
ALLEN. They were sitting around, smok-
ing and talking, but not engaged in any
game. ALLEN bears an uuenvIable repu-
tation, and the doors of his house were
locked.
Justice DUFFY, before whom the prison.
ers were arIaigned, seemed TO think these
facts justified their punishment. He also
mentioned, ms II he had any right 10 let
that influence his judicial action. the cir
cumstance that a Captain OF Police had
recently been dismissed from the force be-
cause he had neglected to close this house.
We must say that Mr.. DUFFY did not ex-
hibt himself as very intelligent mngis-
trate on this occasion. He ought to know
that the very worst man in the community
has right to keep the doors of his own
house locked. And no person is TO be con
demned in the absence of evidence against
him merely because the evidence is diff
cult 10 obtain.
Ii turned out in this instance that most
OF the persons arrested were hard working
mon, who had been foolisnly attracted 10
the place by an IDLE curiosity, aud they
were ultimately DISCHARGED, while n few
were fined. But the remarks Of the JUS
tice on the occasion partook FAR more Of
tho character Of shallow political ma
rHngue than Of that appropriate to judi
cial proceedings. II is of the highest I'M
portauce to the community that The adj
miustration OF the criminal law should be
iutrusted only to competent hauds.
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How MANY Commanders Dare Report the
Condition Of Their shipsy

Condition Of Their shipsy
One of the fruits of the order of the Sec
Rotary Of the Navy putting officers on furlough
Shawmut, now lying OF the Battery. She is
utterly unseaworthy, and should be entirely
overhauled but It Is cha geo that her CON-
mander, fearing that n hls vessel Is put into
dock. where she ought TO I've, he may be pu' on
furlough pay, prefers to 20 TO sea IN her "a she
Is, rather than crnce his sea pay. Tho ship
has been In commission since 1870. In the WISH
ingtOn Navy Yard In the fall of 1913 she received
new set Of Doilers. coat Of paint, aud some
al erations to tue Captains quarters, aud strip
OF copper was ron around part OF her null
Prior to this, 1t ~ said, she had not been In dock
for seven years.
Since her docking in the Washington Navy
YARD. the Shawmut has been out for about two
years and seven months Oh the West Ind ca sta
ton. Her copper ~ nearly all gone, aud the
oakun has rotJed and worked out OF hee SO ms.
She makes twenty-fOur inches of water daily at
anchor IN smooth water. In her passage north.
during stOrm In the Gull OF Mexico on the
Ssd Of July. she made from eleven to twelve
inches an hour, and her officers had to keep her
pumps constantly IN use. Now there IS not
sound tuuip IN her. Her tUpworks are nll dry
rot ed, and near the chain plates and iasteutDgs
tue timber Is SO badly deCHyeu as To De more
than DANGEROUS IN stormy weather. Her decks
leak BADLY. muUh 10 the discomfort OF the crew,
and the natcu timbers have so far rot d away
a. to rest on the steam pipes Of the main aud
auxiliary boilers.
Tue commander Of the Shswmut was some
what iriittted Yesterday hen he learned that
the condition OF his vessel was to be iuvestgat-
ed. He denied That tue sup was unset
and aycrred III she needed only a few repairs
fVr whisn lie had applied. VIII would be uouc
he could not s4f. but he thought that the snip
would not go to sct until those repairs were
made. Nevertheless. she - under orders t. -
TO Port Royal Nv the LIST II OctoOer. he crew,
almost 10 "a man, protest ga,nst going to sea in
the unaeawOrtny ship.
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WAsHrNGroN, sept. ll.--In Rear Admiral
John j. Almy's an wer to tho circular letter Is
sued to naval officers by the House Naval lives
tigaunx Committee, the following passage oc-
ours:
THc member 81 Congress or committee Of the party
tu IoNHr ~. t'es ihr apppiu.m'nf, HdMlssun, ana
tclaIgr ~ me mo chtic- AMI Wurklucu This noIllf
e.. husc-s IL carried -u far that the Mare Island Yari
10 calf Nj. nsHHHAtr yard d. exercises nj 10
powerful con roll owe nearly an The appointments ana
d. charges ut men. u even c1rriod so Tar thnt Mr.
Sargent pr r'h tor nan the appointment Of bum
boat man lNhu supplies the sailors with fresh hreat
truit &ch winch indicated mat the llors mus INV
their little Injuries from tbs M m and no onr 81 80
without being permitted the privilege VI selection
IL is almost superhuous to say that Hear Ad-
miral Almy. after fony-seven years service.
during which time he has seen more sea service
than any oricer II the navy. has been placed on
furlouGh by Secor Roheson
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Tweed Comes, will h. Speak ,

Some Jealous Republicans. who do not
know much about the interior history of
their party in this state express the hope
that when TWEED returns he will not only
tell all about how he got away, but Will
expose the names of ali the promipent per-
sous to whom he paid considerable sums
of money as brides in the days of his power
We have no idea what the fallen Boss
will do on this subject II he lands on our
shores. But we are sure that If he should
open his mouth, he could tell story that
would implicate n few more uniinportant
Democrats, aud drag in u long list Of
prominent Republicans. whose rJlscalities,
rs the accompliccs and benefciarles OF
TWEED, have not yet been brought 20 light.
TWEED sbone in his greatest splendor in
the Legislature when the Republicans had
a majority in one branch or the other, and
generally in both, and in the Board of SUI
pervisors Of this county when it was equal
~ divided between the two parties. 1t was
through the former body that he carried
the laws which give him power TO rob
this metropolis; and IL was mainly through
or under the shadow OF the latter body
that he carried the schemes whereby he
put that power to practical use.
In the Legislature ii was TwEED's wont
to claim the support of the Democratic
members on party grounds. Not suspect
ing his thieving objects, he generally got
this support with some exceptions. To
make M the necessary majority to pass
his bills he used to buy Republican Sen
ators and Assemblymen with money, and
with Offices for themselves and their
friends under our city Government. He
generally paid in cash. lie more than
once gave $4,000 for one vote of Repub-
lican Senator. lie bought some of them
for lees than this He filed fat Offices in
this city with Republicans from the rural
districts, As compensation for legislative
iobbcry. lie paid muniiicent sums to Re
publican editors for giving him helping
hand In the lobby ut Albany.
TWEED worked out many OF his plumber
ing schemes, and especially the contracts
for building the Court House, paving the
streets, and placers OF that productive
sort, through the old Board Of Supervisors.
whereof as already stated. one-half were
always Republicans, in consequence of the
peculiar law under which the board was
elected. 1t was admitted on all hands
that, with the possible exception OF the
Republican Legislatures at Albany, this
board was the most corrupt body in the
country. II contained some honest, fear
less men; but the majority were shame
lessly corrupt. and the Republican MEM
bers were the rottenest part OF the major
ity. To consummate his projects, TWEED
used TO buy these Republican scouudrels
right and left Finally. the board became
so Infamous that n Democratic Legislature,
while HOFFMAN was Governor, blotted II
out OF existence.
Are the Republicans anxious to hear
TwEEps storyY
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The Acknowledgement Making Bay
Onet Law Against the supreme Court.

Either Attorney General TAFT did not
understand the late decisions Of the su-
preme Court, or he has wifully m.repre-
scented them. Ho has instructed the
Marshas that 1.-THE United States occupy
u position toward voting ana voters which
varies according rs the election is for State
and other local officers only, or for mem
bers OF Congress and Presidential cleo
tors This IL extremely inaccurate.
Tine supreme Court-we write with
Chief just ce YATES opinion before US
has decided that tho right Of voting is de-
nYed from the state; that the Coustitu-
lion Of the United States has not con-
ferred the right Of outrage upon any one.
and that the United States have no voters
of their own creation IN tho states" 1t
follows from this that whether tho right
OF voting is to DO exercised at State or
oil Federal election, the right that is to
be exercised il one derived from the state,
and not from the United States; and con-
hequcntly that, rs respects the right It,
self, the relation Of the United States TO
the voter does not vary with the election,
but II Is the same at all elections to the
e&tent 10 which il goes. and TO that alone.
inc next instruction Of the Attorney
'eheral is equally sweeping. inaccurate,
IheNacl' cNlravogAnt, and untrue; namely,
tlhl nj Federal elections "the United
States secure voters AGAINST ,yhotovor i'm
so"o'a' MINORS or prevents them from n
'"" "A"'"i'" al Tho eleotiye franchise
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Col. Bon INGERsoLI- the loud-lunged
man who cisbelieves m Gopand puts his trust
in JAMES q. BLAINE, repeated in the Cooper In
stitute hall Last evening the campaign speech
which he has been delivering down East. IL Is
a peculiarly OF lNGERsoLL's oratory that he
cannot address an audience without obtruding
blasphemy eaouch TO shock one-h ~ OF his hear
ers and to disgust the other half A prominent
Republican I'm Maine remarked not long ago that
his party lost votes whenever Bon INGERsOLL
opened his mouth. THIS Ell tctiye speaker Is
now on his way TO Indiana, where he viii I'M
doubtediy serve the cause Of IILDEN and Re
form.
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Bishop WHIPTLE is undoubtedly an ear
nest friond Of tue Indians. but Ike many phi-
lanthropists, he is the victim of theory. Ills
theory is that the Sioux will consent to be re-
moved to the Indian Territory and that when
the removal is effected they viii thereafter be as
peaceable as the civilized and semi-eiyilized
tribes now domiciled there. Unfortunately for
the practicability OF the good bishops plan,
however even the most peaceably disposed OF
the Sioux have invariably declared that they
would die rather than leave their homes. But
even II tue removal should be successfully ac-
complished. the infusion of BIO powerful IA savage
element into the population of the Territory
could hardly fail TO retari the work OF clvllza-
ton now in progress there, and the change
might prove exceedingly disastrous TO the peo-
pie OF Arkansas. Missouri and other adjoining
States. The time may come when 1t will be
ossiblo to concentrate the whole Indian popu-
lation OF The United States Ia the Indian Terri
tory with benefit 10 the red men aud without
danger to the whites. But that time b as not yet
arrived nor is It likely to arrive until our Gov
eminent, by fair dealing with the Indians. aud a
fulnlu ent Of its obligations to them. secures
their confidence and respect.
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that that uobcman was trying TO deceive
him, AUTOMATICALLY lying in fact, he
wouldn't test his truth and sincerity by
putting to him question tue true answer
TO witch the British Minister might know,
and which he PIERRIPoNT) didn't know,
but one 70 which he had the answer safely
locked in the TCcesses of his own breast.
No; the Hon. MUNsoN EDWARDS PIERRE
POINT, so far as personal calumny is con-
cerned, has done the whole Of it himself
and against himself
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HAYES ARGUMFNTs IN ULSTER.


ELLENvuL.E, N. Y, Sept. IA large
and enthusiastic meeting OF the Dem ocracy OF
the southern towns Of Ulster county was held
at Elenvle on Saturday evening. The torchlight
procession that preceded the meeting num-
bcred LOO persons. The Hon. George NJ. Beebe
Of Sullivan county addres ed the assemolaGe.
which numbered 400. Near the close Of his
address he wa. assailed with shower Of stones
from the u,f ynburnood Of the liiycs and
" ecker wiaWam on The opposite SIDE Of the
square. one stone missed t1s n"uu ~ about
ct-hferu inches. n an named Calvin n
George lhtEus, a Republican farmer. was iit on
lis shoulder, nd "a ittlc daughter OF the Hon.
A. : Aiiicr was lit IN the back. One stone
pissed through a window In the Hon. Joseph II.
lhthilis house. and a " nspltcncv received
Two stones. breaking lamp within II. Eleven
stouc- were thrown In all. nj. Byehe did not
hesitate N ! l. speech on account at the assault
and to his GOODNESS and judgment may be at
measurps
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There must be no trading with the
Spanish Government, on the part Of Don HAM
n.roa FISH, respecting the TWEED business,
that will involve tho surrender to Spain Of
any political refugee from Cuba or else where, rs
an exchange for TWEED. Some time ago Don
HAMILTON FISH refused to do anything IN the
way Of getting the fugitive murderer sHARKEY
from Havana. on the ground that Spain might
seek compensation for his return nv requesting
this Government to deliver up certain political
offenders residing here. on the pretext Of their
being criminals. Even to secure TWEED. the
right OF asylum must not be invaded.
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DO they intend merely to humbug the
votersf Or does Mr.. HAYES expect to
separate from his party after he Is elected,
quarrel with IL, aud like JOHN TYLER and
ANDREW JOHNSON try TO set up new
party for himself?
These are interesting questions, and II
would be well for Mr.. HAYES TO write n
letter aud FOR MIR. ScIiuRz to make few
speeches about them.
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The character Of RICHARD ID. HUBBARD,
the Democratic candidate FOR Governor OF Con-
ncctcut, ia shown by the fact that tho Re
publican papers Of tho State are afraid lost
they be accused Of asssllng II. Some
thing against hts good name having been pub
lishcd outside OF the state, the Hartford
Times Democratic) makes haste to copy
IL; and according to the Hartford Courdnt (le-
publican), attempts to make some party capt.
tai out OF 1t as a oastardly assault on Mg. Hun
BARD. Tho effort" continues tho Republican or
gan, "is absurd, because there Is nobody behind
the assault In Connecticut who taSOs the least
stock it, LyoFy respectable Republican whom
we know condemn, It, and the Times will In vain
artempt 10 faston II uqon u.s. The Hartford
COHdHt then protests that " Mr., uUBBARD = in
toy ity needs no defence from us, and adds that,
~ regards personal honor and character, he is
above criticism. A reputation which even his
political opponents dare not ussail for fear Of
the recoil such Is the reputation of tho Demo.
cratic nominee for Governor VI Connec.icoI.
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GEoRGE NJ. RoBEsoN is for the renomina-
tlon Of AuGrsrUs \. uARDENBrRGu az a Demo-
cratic candidate for Congross from the Seventh
District II New Jersey. So Is that lively little
wretch. Editor PANGBoRN.
Whatever RoBEsoN and PANGBoRN want, all
honest Democrats should resist to the last. Let
HARDENDERGH step down ana out.
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We are receiving many letters suggest
ing the names Of prominent Democrats as
candidates u the Saratoga Convention for Gov
ernor. We have not space for the publication
OF any more OF these letters; but they show
how deep and widespread Ia popular inter-
est In the nominations and how large a number
of competent and popular men for the place
are to be found In the Democratic ranks.