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Lost.

500 nEwaRpaSss ,1aiH Mdsssy en o% the Ph,sad R T.
phia, pocket book containing about $l2 in
currency, and sundry notes and papers
valuable to the owner, together with other
articles. The above reward will be given
hy applying to N. w. GOOKIN,
au8-2t* p: w. n B. r.. H. Depot.
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1osas Wreck ,.ea,. Caps Hsnsspsn.

The Prussian bark, A. T. Pope, Capt.
Gender, in ballast, went ashore on Monday
night fifteen miles south of Cape Henlopen,
and just below the Indian River Inlet. She
has since broken to pieces on the shore and
Is total wreck. The crew all escaped.
They came up the Delaware Railroad on
Thursday evening and passed on to Phila-
delphia.
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CARD

TO the electors ofNDw Castle County:
I 01rLENEN:-Pefmit me TO return you
my sincere thanks for your continued con
ndenos and generous support at the NOM
ination election, held on Saturday last,
having received the nomination as the
Democratic candidate for the ONCE Of Sher-
III Of New Castle cOunty,1 respectfully 60
licit your support ct the ensuing general
election In November next, and should
be elected to the Office. pledge myself ts
give You NO causeto regret having given
me your support. ] am respectfully yours.
ISAAC GRUBB.
White Clay Greek Hundred, June "a, 76,
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nRAKE & CO.,
IL AUCcIoNEERs,
No. 4 EAST FOURTH ST., WILMINGTON, DEL
Our facilities are such for disposipg OF
property that we take pleasure in INFORM
ing the public that we are open to receive
consignments daily. Prompt returns
made. augl.5t
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No!TICjEs.

MOTICE.-As special meeting OF St,J ames'
IN Beneficial Hoctetv will be held ii the
basement Of9t. James Church, ON Thurs-
day evening, August 10. at 7.80 O'Clock.
Members are invited to attend.
auS-3t+ BY ORDER OF THE PRIEST.
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EDMUND ID. RANDOLPH,
THE WELLINGTON 4 READING
RAILROAD co. AND OTHERS.

Under and by virtue Of decree entered
the6th dayof June, AID. 1870, In the above suit
and in the exercise OF the power conferred
R1a II 1asf %SD DnsGEtEfSss sExSs e RsSA6 Eah S
COMPANY, dated March 3, A. d, 1858. the
undersigned trustees. to whom al the ne
cessary authority In the premises has been
given by said decree and mortgage, will on
noon, at the Mefchants Exchange, in the
city OF Philadelphia. expose to public ven
due or Outcry, as one entire lot, the Rail-
road OF the Wilmington and Reading Rail-
road COmqany, extending from q point on
the line OF the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad at or near Birds bor0 in
the county Of Berks. in the State Of Penn
sylvania, to the city OF Wilmington. in the
State OF Delaware, with all rights, privileges
immunities and franchises OF the said VIII.
mingtt,n and Reading Railroad Company
under any and al grants from the state OF
chises granted by the state Of Delaware, TO-
gether with the equipments thereof. con-
sistinA: OF all the locomotives, cars and ROLL
ing 9k OK belonging to said company and
or used in connection with or for the con.
structi0n, completion and maintenance Of
said railroad, together with all the bridges.
culverts, aide tracks, depots, depot grounds,
stations, machine shops buildings and
other structures and improvements of ev :
Al1lO auu ucbCI1pUA 1C4 b1lO OA COu-
ed or connected with said railroad. whether
In the States of Pennrylvania or Delaware.
rhe said property will be sold clear all
incumbrance subsequent to the lien of said
mortgage.
TERMS OF SALE.
The property will be sold to the highest
and best bidder, upon his signing the con-
di!i9ns q sale oPaying one hundred thon
money at the time the property fs struck
of, and the balance within thirty (90 days
after the confirmation of the sale by the
U. y. Circuit Court for the Eastern Dis
trict Of Pennsylvania. Provided, however,
that the settiement Of the balance Of the e
to the undersigned Trustees 70. the divi-
dend on the balance of the purchase money
WI 4ch may appear to be payable on any Of
the hOndS and matured coupons Of the VIII
mington and Reading Railroad Company
which may be held by the purchaser or pur'
chasers and the delivery Of said bonds to
the undersigned. Upon the confirmation
of the sale by the Court, The purchaser or
purchasers, upon full compliance with
the conditions of sale and order of the
payment of the purchase money, shall be
entitled to take and hold ali the purchased
pI operty, rights, franchises and appurten.
ances, free from all claim or demand o. the
wilmington ana Reading HalIrOau COmpa-
ny. or any one claiming under them, there
on or thereto by way Of equity of redemp-
ton or otherwise.
GEORGE BROOKE, r,,s+oos
A. GIBBONS,
GEORGE RICHARDSON.
CA1A.RaLLEs, RI HAZE, }of Counsel with
M. THOMAS & SONS, Auetioneers.
Nos. l39 and1 South Fourth Street, Phil'a
je28-28tbWi&f
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Returning, leave Ocean City Up. m.
Excellent bathing, boating, fishing. and
)tber seashore attractions.
II. +. Kenney, superintendent: Geo. A.
badmun, General Ticket Agent; IN. Mills,
benl Agent Delaware Division. augS-N
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AFCSHANE'S LUNCH ROOM,
No. . MARKET STREET,
Ehil0deLphj0, Pa

During the warm days coming when all
Delaware will bs taking steamboat trip
to Philadelphia, to escape the dust of rail-
way travel, could not do better when they
and at the wharves. en- route
FOR THE CENTENNIAL.
than to refresh themselves OF No. on that
street, Charley McShane will take as much
care OF them there as he does at Cape May.
Remember, II you want q tOOthsOD
lunch and tip top drink-stop at Charley g
fAIl-tf
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FESTIVALS.

EAIR AND FESTIVAL in st. Pauls
Sunday school Hall. Fourth ana Jack.
son streets; beginning August 5. Open
every afternoon and evenfng for three
weeks. Admission Five cents. juM-2w
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PUBLIC SALES.
DUBLIC sALE.-M. THOMAS 4 SONS,
i Auctioneers.
THE WILMINGTON 4 READING RAIL
ROAD.

In the Circuit Court OF the United States
In and for the Eastern District OF Pennsyl-
vania. In equity, No. II. October ses-
aionR. lG7K
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-14
StuhhOrn FigurpS.

lSpeech of Hon. Joseph Pulitzer at Indianapolis.l
Mr.. Morton insists that the charges against
the ruling party are not true, and that the
present Administration is as "pure as ice, as
white as snow." Hear his remarkable asser-
ton: $50 far from official morals deter
iorating, the public service becoming de-
bauched, and the country standing on the
brink of ruin, Il pronounce this and all kindred
statements, which make up the body and
trimmings of Democratic platforms and
speeches, to be unmitigated bosh and
demagoguery, and that the very opposite is
the truth" This is certainly an astounding
statement. As well as might Mr.. Morton
have said that he is as pure man as George
Washington, as to assert that our public SER
vice is better and the official morals higher
than they used to be. The present Admin
istration not corrupt! The assertion is an
insult to the intelligence of every child. Is
it worthy of au answer? / can not say so.
But ask yourself. Ask the poor soldiers
fighting against the Indians how much of
their blood-noney Belknap received; ask
Robson how he managed, a penniless coun-
try lawyer changed into Secretary Of the
Navy, to deposit five hundred thou
sand dollars to his private credit; ask
Delano, father and son; ask Lanaaulet Will
liams, and Akerman, and Richardson, and
Creswell who had to leave the Cabinet when
their corruption became too notorious, and
Bristow, Hoar, Cox, and Jewell, who had to
go because they were not corrupt enough ;
ask the sworn grand jury that indicted Bab-
cock; ask the people of Louisiana, who
know what the names of Packard, Casey,
Billings, and Durell mean; ask the poor
colered freedmen who were robbed of their
scanty savings by Morton's friends; ask
Blaine, and Butler; ask the men of the whis
Ky ring; ask the graveyards of Union sol
diers, whose very headstones were made the
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-14
ogic of bread and butter has carried con-

logic of bread and butter has carried con-
viction to minds unimpressible to the
eloquence of man. The necessary reduc.
tion of wages throughout the State, and
the great scarcity of steady employment,
have won many voters for the Democratic
party, through whose reforms they hope
to see.better times come again. Kellogg
and Packard have undoubtedly informed
President Grant of this condition of af-
fairs, ard impressed upon him the fact
that unless he interferes very decidedly
and energetically the State must go for
the Democrats by majority of twenty
thousand. To prevent this Ito them)
disastrous revolution, the troops have
been placed virtually under the COM
mand of Packard, who represents a
political trinity as President of the State
Central Committee, as nominee for Gov
ernor, and as United States Marshal.
What he will do with these troops the
testimony given before the Congressional
Committee appointed to investigate af-
fairs in Louisiana clearly shows. The
northern parishes will be overrun by ne
gro cavalry, and those who are most
prominent in their opposition to Repub-
licanism will be dragged from their
homes on baseless charges, and held as
culprits in New Orleans until after the
election. This is only part of Packard s
plan for carrying the State. Behind this
contemplated violence stands fraudu-
lent system of registration, and looming
up from behind this, standing out in bold
relief, eliminating in an apex of fraud,
stands the Returning Board, surrounded
and protected by the soldiers of our COM
mon country.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-14
NOI.IX--NO..42.
$4,000 of bonds which he did not in

$33. 1000 of bonds which he did not in
clude in his return. 1t was not until
1864, however, the opinion became en-
tertained that there might be a surplus
OF bonds at some future time, and the
opinion was first expressed in the report
of the company. Nor is this all. In the
reporto the Committee of Directorspub-
lished in the Times the other day, August
l9, it is specifically stated that the bonds
in question remained in the hands of Mr..
Robert Baysrd up to March Il, 1870.
That is, eight years after the period when
the Times claims the bonds ought to have
been included in the income returns they
were in the hands of another party and
the very fact of there being such sur.
plus is still in controversy, so that the
bonds can not even now be claimed to
be in a situation to form part of any
body's income.
Thus is the story of the Times fully dis
posed of.
The ibelous New York Times is liable
to Samuel ]. Tilden in heavy damages
for its wicked, wanton and infamous
Characterization of him as a perjurer.
Every depraved sheet of like character
which repeats the statement, now that its
wickedness is exposed, will part with
every remnant of character it has left.
We very much mistake the nature of
the American people if this villainous
assault upon fearless statesman, made
in the interest of public plunderers and
profigates, does not secure for Mr.. Til
den hundreds of thousands of votes
among fair-minded Republicans.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-14
The Men who stin Keen up tine War.

1t is interesting to look at the patriots
who, during the last session of Congress,
were in the front Of all the mock bat
ties, but who, during the actual re-
bellion, never went near it. Begin with
Maine. Everybody knows what Blaine
is. In 1861 he was only thirty-one years
of age, vigorous, active, and in robust
health. Did he volunteer? Oh, no.
He was engaged in politics and specula-
tions, and hired a substitute from the
proceeds of his jobs in and out of Office.
His little colleague, Hale, who has
splurged about the House as if he was
full-grewn man, was twenty-five years
Of age in 1861, but his youthful blood
ran sluggishly at the tap of the war
drum, and he stayed at home, and only
became warrior when peace was pro-
claimed. His other colleague, Frye, was
only thirty years of age in 1861, but he
too. who is SO fierce now, smeiled danger
from afar, and concluded to serve his
country by letting Others fight its
battles.
Mr.. William Wheeler, the candidate
for Vice-President, was forty-two years
old at the breaking out of the rebellion,
but he never thought of shouldering
musket. He found seat in the House
more comfortable and safe. Mr.. Hoar at
thirty-ive was a man of peace, but at
fifty his voice is for war.
On the side of the Senate the bloody
shirters shone by their absence when vol
unteers were called for to crush the re-
bellion. Edmunds. who after Morton
leads the fray, was thirty-three; Bout
well was forty-three; Dawes was forty
five; Anthony was forty-six; Cragin was
forty; Frelinghuysen was forty-four;
Sargent was thirty-four; Sherman was
thirty-eight; but it never occurred to
one of this heroic band that his presence
was required to help save the Union.
Like Zach Chandler, they thought blood
letting would do good, but they pre-
ferred, as he did, that it should be done
by deputy.
Now these men are as brave as Julius
Caesar, and they mean to keep up the
war
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-14
An Invaston of Rats irs the Districts
OF Further I1adfd.

We see our fields desolated by grass
hoppers or locusts, our potatoes destroyed
by the Colorado beetle, the cotton swept
away by the army-worm; so that the in
sect world seems in league to starve and
impoverish us. Other countries, too,
have their pests. English publications
appeal for aid in behalf of the starving
population of Karen and Thonghoo, dis
tricts of British India on the Birman
frontier.
For the last two years these parts-in-
habited by an industrious native popu-
lation, nearly all Christians, converted
by missionaries of all denominations
have been overrun by millions of mon
strous rats. The people made every eff.
fort to destroy, or even check, the
swarms of ravenous rats which devoured
everything in the fields and the houses
of the inhabitants; it was all that they
could do to escape with life itself A
tract of nearly six thousand square miles
was made perfect desert, and the Brit
ish authorities had to distribute forty
thousand rupees in the most severely
ravaged portions TO save the people from
starvation. But this relief was only for
the most pressing cases in the great emer-
gency; thousands had to seek temporary
refuge in the less afflicted parts,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-14
Republicans Inciting Murder inLOuisi-
ana for Political Effect.
Correspondence New York World

hardly think that sufficient promi-
nenee is given by the Democratic press
to the fact that during political cam
paigns in the South emissaries are sent
out among the negroes from the centers
of Radicalism to instigate them to all
sorts of violence, with the hope that the
whites may become exasperated and kill
a few of them. In the parish of West
Feliciana, where the negroes are focking
to the Democratic standard, Packard's
agents are busily engaged in endeavors
to stir up bloody strife between the
races. In this parish, not many days ago,
plot to murder Colonel Robert 81. Bar
row and his family was discovered by
the timely confession of black who had
been approached to join it. The ring
leaders were arrested, confessed their
guilt, and offered, as palliation of their
offense, the fact that they had been insti-
gated to the deed by the white Radicals
of the parish.
What are the white people to do in an
instance of this kind? In the parish in
question there are two thousand colored
registered voters and about two hundred
white registered. The minority are COM
pletely at the mercy of the majority.
The courts are in the hands of ignorant
colored men, and the law officials are
those who are instigating the crimes. 1t
was in this parish that young Hale was
dragged from his mothers room and shot
down by mob of infuriated blacks SO
close to that mother that his brains and
blood despatched her clothes. w. d.
Winter, who had big brain and warm
heart, was called to the window of his
study, wherein he sat teaching his little
boy, and brutally shot down in the pres
ence of his household. These facts should
go for something. If they are good for
nothing else they should be sufficient to
show the condition of society that Radi-
cal rule has fostered. In this parish
where | have stated there are two thou
sand cofored registered voters to two
hundred whites, there is company of
soldiers stationed for the avowed purpose
of protecting the majority from the mi
nority. Yet for one negro killed in that
parish there have been five white men
brutally murdered. What is the material
condition of the parish? The whites are
impoverished, the blacks are working on
half wages, while a few Radical office
holdersar living in luxury and fast buy
ing up the best property to be had in the
county.
The gradual impoverishment of the
voters of both races and the rapid en-
richment of the oficeholders have at las
appealed to the slow minds of the blacks
and complete revolution has taker
place in their political sentiments. A
! this parish, so in many others. Th,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-14
The Swindle of the Freedmen.
Cincinnati Enquirer.l

Hon. Mr.. McMahon, in his admirable
speech at Greenville, referred to the
swindling of the poor coiored depositors
stated fact of which we were not before
aware. He said the bank was advertised
as Government institution, and on the
pass books of the colored depositors acas
printed guarantee by the General Co..
ernmeaat of every dollar deposited. We were
not ssrry, but rather pleased, to learn
that fact. Our Democratic instincts
urged us to advocate the payment, out
of the United States Treasury, of the
losses the colored depositors of that
bank had suffered through swindling
officials, but could not exactly find
proper ground to stand on. We have it
here; and we do not see how the Gov
ernment can avoid the obligation. The
officers of the bank who got up the pass
books may have had no authority from
the Government to make such guarantee;
it may have been designedly one of their
swindles, but the ignorant depositors
looked, nevertheless, to the Government
to be their protector. They knew the
bank was made by tie Government, and
that it was considered a Government in
stitution and an agent of the Govern
ment for the benefit of the colored man.
Then comes the guarantee on their pass
books that the Government would pay
their deposits. Of the existence OF
that guarantee on the pass-books
neither, the President nor Congress could
have been ignorant. All this goes to
establish moral obligation on the part
of the Government to pay the losses OF
the colored depositors, and we do not
see how it can well be avoided. Further
than this, the law establishing the in
stitution required the bank to take as
security for the money it should loan
Government securities. But the hungry
Republican cormorants, who saw in the
bank fat thing, got Congress to repeal
that safe provision, and substitute for it
another, allowing the officers to take
such security as they saw proper. Then
came the swindling, and the bank soon
burst, leaving the poor colored stock
bolders in miserable condition. That
is another and very strong reason why
the Government should make up the de-
positors' losses-principal and interest.
The Investigations made by the Demo-
cratic Congress developed all these facts,
and how the Republican managers and
sub-oficers of the bank had swindled the
colored depositors and left them and
theif families in poverty. The facts
being now known, public opinion, We
have no doubt, will sustain the Enquirer
in its demand for the payment OF the
colored depositors out of the Govern
ment Treasury all their losses as de-
positors by the Republican managers OF
the bank. A juster plan would be to pay
the cheated depositors out of the Cam
paign Fund of the Republican party.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-14
Gideon We les on Tilden,

Hon. Gideon Welles. Mr.. Lincoln's old
Secretary of the Navy, has written let
ter to Montgomery Blair, in which he
says: 81 have read Tilden's letter with
great satisfaction. 1t is the product of an
able mind-a statesman and politician
who will give US an energetic and capa-
BILE Administration The paper carries us
back to better days and times, when we
had statesmen for Chief Magistrates who
were capable of defining policy and
shaping course of wise Administration.
l regret that Tilden's and Hayes's letters
could not have appeared simultaneously,
so that the public could have read and
studied them together. The tame plati-
tudes of the one and the profound and
intelligent thought and utterances of the
other are in strong contrast.
1t seems to me there can be but little
doubt of Tilden's election. As things
are, Grant will be violent partisan in
the present contest. The whole weight
of the Administration, with all its cor
rupt appliances, will be used to elect
Hayes. Morton, Boutwell, and factious
men of that class are striving, with
Grants assistance, to revive sectional
hatred. General Dix, with more military
zeal than he displayed during the war, il
appealing to the Boys in Blue to or
ganize for Hayes; and the worst ele
ments of faction will be busy to defea
Tilden."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-14
are idle and unable to find employment,
and many of their families are in absolute

are idle and unable to find employment,
and many of their families are in absolute
want.
Indiana is border State, and can not
be deceived by such charlatapism. When
Mr.. Morton admits the contest will be
close, as he has repeatedly done, he gives
it up virtually, and only whistles to
cheer his courage in hobbling through
the political graveyard. The admins
tration and the party managers will work
with the energy of despair. They know
we'll that defeat there means defeat
everywhere, and they will struggle On to
the last. They will spend tens of thou
sands of dollars raised by blackmailing
oficeholders, candidates, ,jobbers, and con-
tractors. They will strive to buy the
floating vote, and they will perpetrste
frauds. But all these corrupt combina-
tions and schemes are doomed to dis
graceful failure. The people are stronger
than the managers and their purchased
creatures. Indiana will lead the way in
October by great majority for Blue
Jeans Williams, and by still greater
majority in November for the great re-
former Samuel J. Tilden. That result is
as certain now as anything human can be
which is yet to happen. And we are
prepared to see Ohio contest the palm
with her sister State in carrying forward
the banner of Reform, Retrenchment,
and Relief
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-14
What the Civil Rights Bill has Done.

H. V. r, in the Cincinnati Commercial.I
The wreck and ruin brought upon the
Republican cause in the South by the
Civil Rights bill can never be estimated.
In North Carolina and Tennessee aloneit
lost the Republicans ten Congressmenl
1 seriously doubtwhether the Democrats
would hold Congress to-day but for the
votes they made out of that measure.
Talk about intimidation, violence, and
fraudl Much as there has been of these,
the injury to the Republican cause in the
South from all these, and shotgun argu-
ments thrown in, does not compare with
the disaters worked out by the Civil
Rights Bill. 1t caused revolution, and
gave every doubtful Southern State to
the whites, and they will hold the ad.
vantage gained through the stupidity OF
the Republicans in Congress. But for
that measure Alabama and North Caro-
lima would to-day be emphatically Re
publican, to say nothing of other
Southern States, and the election of
Hayes would not be involved in the doubt
that it is.