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The Osceola times., 1876-04-29

the men who have incomes subject to
taxation.
ACCORDING to a contemporary, GU
rious case has been decided in the court
of justice at Munich. 1t has always
been the custom to deck the two towers
of the cathedral with Aags upon occa-
sions of public festivity, and until re-
Gently this practice had never given rise
to any misunderstanding. Since the
unifcation of Germany the Archbishop
of Munich has always hoisted the yellow
and white flag with the keys of St. Pc
ter upon the towers on saints days,
while upon political holidays the munic-
ipality has displayed from the two tow.
ers the black, red and yellow flag, sur
mounted by the imperial eagle. Upon
the last anniversary of the battle of
Sedan, these emblems of the new empire
Aoatcd proudly in the breeze" but the
chapter of the cathedral protested against
their exhibition, basing their objections
upon statutes which date from the elev-
enth century. They instituted proceed
ings against the municipal council, and
the trial lasted several days. The Judge
at last decided that while the body of the
cathedral is the exclusive property of
the judges, the towers belong to the city,
which consequently may deck them as
it pleascs.
The San Francisco News Letter de-
scribes the newest discovery in natural
history, being an insect which has been
christened without consulting the
scientist--or, as the News Letter calls
them, the "bug sharps"-a "man bug"
The description is as follows; "The
creature has body of dark green
color, mottlcd with yellow or orange col
orcd spots. This is about five inches
long by two and half broad, Of beetle
shape, and terminating at the head in a
pair of red and very vicious looking eyes
and two horny mandibles of like color
and decidedly snappish appearance.
IL has no appearance of wings. Its most
peculiar feature, however, is a single pair
of spidery legs attached to the lower end
OF its body. These are about twelve ol
fourteen inches in length and singularly
resemble those of man in regard to the
number of joints and the fact that il
stands bolt upright on them. The cres
ture stands some foot and half high
walks with long, crane-like stride, and
is like nothing 80 much as an immense
June bug on stills. Its only known foot
is mice, and these, when introduced int
the large bird-cage that confines it, j,
seizes with sudden dash of its foot OF
claw and dispatches voraciously." i
was found on the island of Iwiwau, som'
sixty miles south of Steinberger's do
main
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07
What Might Have Been.

In the memorable year 1860 when the trai-
tor Breckenridge was the leading Democratic
candidate in opposition to Abraham Lincoln,
there were not wanting thousands of politi-
Clans who declared that the safety and pros
perlty of the country depended upon the
Kentuckian's election. All men knew full
we'll before year had passed how irreparable
a disaster was avoided by the choice of Lin
coin in his stead. The most extravagant Re-
pablicans had only claimed that Democratic
successor to Buchanan would, by the aid Of a
Democratic Congress, nationalize slavery,
carrying it into all the territories of the Unit
ed States and making an extension of the
area of freedom impossible. They did not
then know that the plot for the disruption of
the Union was already formed and that, with
the man at the head of affairs who took his
place among the Confederate leaders few
months after officially declaring Lincoln the
legally chosen President of the United States,
the plot could easily be carried into effect. 1t
is now hardly conceivable that any candid
Democrat can look back at that critical era
without feeling of qualification at result
which he at that time so heartily and perhaps
sincerely deplored.
The autumn of the year 1864 was on the
whole time Of Encouragement. We were
three years from the beginning of the war,
the flower of the youth of the country had
been sacrificed and the financial resources of
the nation severely tried. Gen. Grant was
tenaciously ''fghting it out on that line,'' but
the summer had passed without the expected
consummatlon, the sad fall days had come
yet Lee was still defiant, and the Confederate
power apparently unbroken. Under these
circumstances the Democrats declared the
war failure and nominated Gen. Mcclellan
as representative of the peace on. any-terms
policy. Once more they assured the voters
of the United States that the salvation of the
country depended on committing its destinies
to their hands. "What do you fear% they
said. "Our Gen. Mcclellan has proved his
loyalty On the field of battle. You can appre-
hend no sympathy with traitors or unfaithful-
ness to the flag on his part. Do but place
him in the White House and this deplorable
war will soon be at an end and our country
once more happy and united" But who is
there, Democrat though he be, who will not
now confess that, had these suggestions pre-
vailed, slavery would have been preserved and
the Confederacy would have dictated the
terms of reconstruction, doubling the present
national Indebtedness and leaving fastened
| upon the country the gigantic wrong which
could not fail to be the germ of future wal
and anarchy? What Democrat now lives
who does not IN his heart rejoice that Abra-
ham Lincoln was elected for second term
In 1868, the country was still in the ago
nies of reconstruction. The states of Vir'
ginia, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia were
not restored to the Union and the fifteenth
amendment was not yet secured. The Dem
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07
To the Polls.

There ought to be no necessity of impress
ing upon every Republican in the State the
vital Importance of voting to-day. In indicat-
ing her choice between candidates and poll
cies the voice of Maine must have no uncer-
tain sound. Our opponents are laboring with
all the zeal which desperation lends to reduce
the Republican majority, to make it appear
that Maine is wavering in her preferences,
and that another year will give her into the
hands of the Philistines. They do not them
selves believe that Maine can change, but
they will seek to convey that impression to
the voters of the Union, and Republicans can
only foil them by going in full numbers to
the polls; ior Maine will be judged by the
vote she casts. A greatly diminished Repub-
lican majority is a result TO be strongly dep
recated, and can only be brought about by
over-confdence on the part of Republicans.
The national contest is between the union
and reform sentiment OF the country on the
one hand, and Tilden, Tammany Hall and
the Solid South on the other. Every Repub-
lican should esteem it a high privilege, not to
be neglected, to record his protest against the
allied forces of barbarism and corruption
which are struggling for the possession of the
national Government. 1t his sacred duty in
this hour Of peril 10 deposit his ballot for
freedom and honesty and good government.
The Republicans of Maine have never yet
been found wanting in national contest
To-day they meet an enemy flushed with an
ticipation. They have but to rally to put
him to utter rout. Let them discharge that
duty in The strong hope that their brothers
in other states will do as well and so save the
the nation from the dangers of Southern su-
premacy.
We call upon all Republicans TO give this
day 10 the safety of the nation. Let each
one cast his ballot, and not content with that,
hasten his laggald or doubling neighbor to
the polls. The Republican majority in Maine
is to be kept to its high mark.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07
The Outlook.
The Latest Advices received by the Repub-
lican Nation Commiitee-The EIecsisn
oflHayes and Wheeler Believed to be As
Aured-The Probable Result i'm New
York-The Outlook i'm Other States.

The New York Times leads its news columns
with the following statement
Information from most trustworthy sources,
including our own specials and dispatches TO
the Republican national committee as late as
eight o'clock this evening, indicate that all
doubt about the election of Hayes and Wheeler
has been removed by the extraordinary mani
festations of public sentiment during the last
ten days. Especially in this city has a great
change taken place, evidenced by.votes in pub
lie places, notably at the New York Stock Ex
change, where ten days ago there was major
ity for Tilden, while on Friday the vote stood
1893 for Hayes to 2O4 for)Tilden. Many similar
changes are noted, caused by the general up
rising of bankers merchants, manufacturers
and other business men, produced in great
measure by the general conviction that the
election of Tilden means the imposition upon the
country of great burden of debt and taxation
to pay war claims. The fact that Mr., Tilden's
frantic call upon the Southern Democrats to
save his election by agree g not 10 press the
war claims has been responded to by only five
out OF fourteen Southern States appeaied To.
and not by Missouri, which has already issued
over two millions of claim greenbacks purport-
ing TO- be valid claims against the United
States has added to the growing distrust A
most unfavorable impression has also bean pro.
duced by the issue by the Democratic national
committeeof an address, warning the COUNT y
against an expected statement which the COM
mitee has already printed of William NJ. Tweed
duplicating Mr.. Tiden in his plundsring of New
York city. As a result of those late and uni
versally prevalent manifestations of the ten
dency OF the people, no confidence in a Demo-
cratic victory is shown by asy one except Mr.,
Tilden himself and the gamblers in the pool
rooms, who have been employed to make ficti-
tious bets to be telegraphed for effect in the
country.
AS a summary of the present Indications il
may be said that the projected Democratic
frauds in this city will be prevented, and the
majority kept down to thirty five or forty thou
rand, which will be more than overcome by the
interior vote that with New York state HAYES
and Wheeler are sure of 1876 votes, or ten more
than enough, without counting nine other states
in each Of which an active contest is going on,
with the probability of success for the Republi-
cans, 1t these states-Sonth Carolina z, North
Carolina 10, Nevada g. New Jersey 8, Indiana
10, Louisiana 8, Connecticut 6, Oregon and
Florida 4-casting 65 votes, should also vote for
Hayes. he will receive 260 votes, or 75 more
than enough. The best judges place Hayes
vote at certainly not less than 233 with New
York, or 1913 without New York. The most
| thoroughly informed Republicans have nc
doubt about the general result
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

The New York business mems address in
favor of Tilden is one of the greatest frauds
OF the campaign, There are many names at
tached to the call which even men Of the lar
gest acquaintance in Wall street declare they
never heard of before. Many of the signers
are 'curbstone brokers'" men of no influence
or position. The cotton exchange is the on
ly public body that is well represented, and
OF the fifty names signed, thirty ale of
natives of the South and avowed secession
lists. Twelve are known 10 have served in
the Confederate army, and others are re-
membered as blockade runners. In order to
swell the list many names are repeated, and
many bogus ones are signed. Forty-seven of
them cannot be found in the city directories.
There are fifteen signatures of what purport
to be merchants and representative business
men doing business at 14O Church street.
Every one of these fifteen men are employees
of H. B. Claflin and Co. Some are salesmen.
some porters and one is boy under age. In
fact the call is fraudulent one.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07
A FEW days before the nomination of Sam

A FEW days before the nomination of Sam
uel j. Tiden, when free to speak its honest
belief, the Cincinnati Enquirer said of him:
1t could not bat be that a man educated in
cunning, in hypocrisy, in iniquity, nominated
ia corruption and shameless effrontery, even
though his millions could elect him, would give
us the most corrupt administration the country
has ever known.
Again, on the 5th of June, 1876, the Gin
clnnatl Enquirer said of Samuel j. Tilden:
He is hypocrite, political swindler, has
long been public plunderer, and is really the
only disreputable candidate prominently named
on the Democratic side
On the 9th of June the ENQUIRER said:
The action of the st. Louis Convention will
not change in the least the truths we have ut.
tered about Mr.. Tilden. He cannot command
the vote of the Democrats of Ohio.
And on the 22d of June the ENQUIRER said
His nomination will disrupt and disorganize
the Democratic party. 1t means defeat.
And on the 9th of July, 1S76-ten days af-
ter Tilden's nomination at st. Louis-the
Cincinnati Enquirer said:
Republican papers continue to copy from the
Enquirer uhcomplimentary illusions to Samuel
y. Illden previous to his nomination for Presi-
dent. We have repeatedly said we have moth
ing to take back.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

WONDER what Samuel j. Tilden would do
if the Confederate Congress should make an
appropriation and pass the bill, in accordance
with the plan of Hunter, over his veto, to
loan to the rebel States of the solid South as
much money as they claim was the value of
private property destroyed by the emancipa-
tion proclamation when 100000 slaves were
freed, which, according to the construction of
Hon. R. NJ. T. Hunter, was illegal and un-
constitutional.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07
Maine must maintain her rank
as a strong Republican State.

A WASHINGTON correspondent furnishes
some significant samples of the sort of read
ing matter that appears in Southern Tilden
organs. A Maryland Confederate sheet en-
Enthusiastically endorses the New York Re-
former who ''never sanctioned denial that
he was opposed to the war;, who 'stands
now where he stood from 1861 to 1866, op-
posed to war for coercing the dissatisfied
States of the Union to remain in it," and
who sis good, old-fashioned States-Rights
Democrat of the John G. Calhoun striper'
This is the truth. but the Northern Tilden
organs are very careful not to state it.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

LabOrerS, mechanics and work.
ingmen are deeply concerned i'm
the result of the election. Good
government peace, security. fl
nanciaI stability will give them
full work and good wages. A Con.
federate victory, with its solid
South and rebel claims would be
disastrous to every industry. Press
ON the Hayes and wheeler col.
Umn
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

THE Democratic papers are fond of remind.
ing their readers that "the war closed eleven
years ago." Then why are rebel rifle-clubs
still maintained In the South? Wbv is a
campaign OF intimidation carried on against
all the Republicans of that section9 The
Northern people will believe the war is over
in the South when the shotgun policy is
abandoned.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07
Every vote for Tilden is a vote
for Tammany, tor the Solid South
and for the rebel claims. Who can
afford to vote them into power!

UNDER the lead of Tilden aud Hendricks
the watchword is, "To the victors belong the
spoils." Once entrenched at Washington,
how the old Copperhead element will revive,
the forces of disloyalty arouse, and all the
agencies of rebellion again be at work, as in
the days when Floyd dismantled our navy,
when Cobb depleted our Treasury and the
plotters Of Buchanan's Cabinet were conspir-
ing for the destruction of the Republic.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

ONE OF the strongest arguments for a CON-
tinuance of Republican rule is furnished bv
the monthly Treasury statement, showing
that the national Indebtedness was reduced
S3,33S, ,139 during the month of October.
And yet Tilden says the government does not
live within its income.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

Do we want a man as cOmman-
der-in-chief of the army and navy
who did not oppose secession, who
believed i'm the Calhoun doctrine
OF state tights, and who, if elected,
would be but the figure.head for
the Southern chivalry.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

The trirmphs of Republicanlsm are all a
Vindication, as maintenance, of the rights
OF humanity, of man in all his highest and
holest aspirations and wants. The victories
OF Democracy y-of oligarchical despotism
under the prostituted name of Democracy-a
degradation of humanity, destruction of all
the aspirations of man for good, the knell of
nationality and freedomr'
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07


HERE is the situation as it will be if Tild en-
is erected clearly stated: The solid South
will clamor for rights destroyed by acts OF the
war. An unhealthy sentiment will be Gre
ated anew in favor of unrepentant rebels who
at this hour are wreaking vengeance on
white and colored Republicans all over the
rebellious region who, by their sufferings
and shedding of their own blood, enabled us
to sustain our Government in the crisis of
treason. Thousands of those unfortunate
colored men are now at the mercy of the un-
restrained passions of people smarting
under defeat. The ballot, instead of being an
armor Of citizenship to the colored men in
the South is, in fact. his greatest present
peril. While it should give him protection,
opportunity, and education, it is the cause of
prescription and ostracism. Unless the bal
lot is made his strong arm, and the protect
ing influence of the Government thrown
around him, there must be endless war.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

The Sentinel considers these to be very
moderate estimates of the Republican majori-
ties, and liberal estimates OF the Democratic
majorities. ''Indeed," says the writer, 1--WE
are greatly deceived by our advices if the Re
publican majority in the state shall prove to
be less than 5000"
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

TiIden's letter ON rebel claims
Is a man who robbed the revenue
through perjury aud fraud likely
TO be very nice i'm hts construction
OF the l4th amendments-his
promises to obey that amendment
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

TODAY a President will be chosen. The
government will be confided to Gov. Hayes
and the Union party, or it will pass into the
hands of Tilden, Tammany Hall and the
Solid South. Between these the voter is to
choose. Let no Republican fail to make his
choice evident at the ballot bax.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

Stop long enough to ask yourself
the question, What has Tammany
ever reformed? And is it likely
that Tammany, when it gets con.
troll of the G eneral Government i'm
partnership with the Solid South,
will reform anything! If so,
what!
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

IHE st Louis Times calls the purgation of
tne registry lists the Northumberland of
democrats This is an honest confession, and
1t is equally true that the prevention of bal
lot-box stufing is an interference with DEM
ocrats in the act Of voting again and often.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 2. 1875

we 90 not read anonymous letters and commune
cauonS' The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.
we cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
WIN Cara certificate countersigned by Stanley I.
fuiien' Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
inurnal
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM A. WHEELER.
OF NEW YORK,

III we are defeated i'm the coming
election, we might as well have
been defeated in the war of the
rebellion, for all that the nation
won ON the field will. be surren.
dered at the baIIOt.bOx,
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

Don't vote with John Kelley. Vote with
Theodore d. Woolsey.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

LET no Portland Republican fail to cast his
ballot to-day. The enemy is rallying his
forces for struggle.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

LET every Republican in Maine vote
to-day. This state must announce her pref
e.ence in no uncertain voice.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

The most absurd and ridiculous
claim ever set Tsp by partisan
demagOgues is that Tilden, Tam
many Hall, and the Solid South
will reform anything.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

DoN'T vote with John Morrissey. Vote
with William M. Evarts.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

DON'T vote with Tom Ewing. Vote with
Carl Schurz.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

DON'T vote with Ben Hill. Vote with
John A. Dix.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

DON'T vote with Fernando Wood. Vote
with Benjamin H. BristoW.
The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07
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The Portland daily press., 1876-11-07

The Milwaukee Sentinel makes the follow
lowing estimates in the several congresssion-
al districts of Wisconsin:
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