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Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26
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Sarah Bernhardt, the great Paris
actress, has refused an offer of $3.50
for six months in the United States. n
Colonel Hardie, of North Carolina,
has been appointed Librarian of the
House of Representatives in place of
Mr.. John M. Rice, who was removed
some weeks ago.
English books have a large sale in
this country. Last year the value of
books imported from that country was
t269, 9O7. English authors get most of
their pay at home, but look to America
for most of their readers. lst a
. Mr.. Eugene Schuyler, our Secre-
targ of Legation and Consul General at
Constantinople, who has lately distin-
guished himself by his independent in
vestigation of the Bulgarian outrages,
is a man of solid requirements. He has
a talent for languages, and even under
stands several Slav dialects. ~lns
Grace Greenwood speaks of Julian
Hawthorne as "Our handsome young
novelist" He lives in Twickenham,
old classic ground of genius. He leads
a life of study and labor, relieved by re-
creation of the most simple and sensible
sort, and gladdened by the presence of
his lovely wife and children. Il a.fa4I .
The Rev. De Witt Talmage has
severed his editorial connection with
the Christian at Work, and has been
succeeded by the Rev. DIR. w! NJ. Tay-i
lor, of the Broadway Tabernacle. Mr..
Talmage now assumes the editorial
control of the Chicago Aduoasce.
Ben Butler is very outspoken in his
opinions about the press. This is what
he said in a recent speech at Lancaster,
Mass: "They say the newspapers do
not like me. l don't mean they shall.
[ abhor, detest, scorn and defy all the
lying sheets this side Of the place where
they will yet go to. [ now take occa-
sion right here to say a word on this
subject. l offended them seven or
eight years ago while in Congress by
looking up to the reporters gallery,
which we used to call sbuzzard's roost,'
and saying that [ thanked God I was a
man that God made, and not one that
the newspapers made. They have new
er forgiven me because !, was not a man
of their creation. II [ am any thing
like the man they paint me, if L resem-
BILE him as much as they 1.-THE editors
resemble angels of light, and no more,
then not n of you cast your vote for
me.n
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26
Deadheadfng in Nevada.

It has been customary on the rail-
road to allow Indians to ride free pro-
vided they sat on the platform. Yester-
day, after the arrival of the train, an
Indian entered a shed with a large
bundle. His manner excited suspicion,
and a man was detailed to watch him.
The fellow, on getting inside the shed,
stripped off his old leggings, moccasins,
and other paraphernalia, and put on
the garb OF civilization, if not of gen
tility. He then took out a bottle of
water, wet a handkerchief, and washed
the paint off his face, and 10! he was
no longer an Indian, but a white man
who had been stealing a free ride from
Reno.-Nrqtnia City (NeU.) Chronicle.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26
No Hope Now for Hayes.
From the Louisville Courier Journal.

The outcome battles the calculations Of
the most sanguine. 1t exceeds all the
original beliefs and reliances. To run the
Republicans back upon their inner line in
Hayes's own State and to carry MortOn's
outright, defeating the greatest of the Re-
publican organizers in a pitched battle
where he possessed every advantage-who
could ave expected this, when the St.
Louis Convention, hopeless Of both States,
resolved to rest the fortunes of the cam
paign upon a totally different alignment and
policy?
The Republicans viii claim, of course,
that the election of Blue Jeans Williams
does not assure Indiana to Tilden. But
they who think this will reckon without
their host, whilst the sophistries and de-
vices of the" managers who will attempt by
specious argument to hold their forces to-
gether for the general engagement in No
vember, will fall to the ground. On the
whole, Hendricks in stronger in Indiana
than Williams has shown himself,
great as the enthusiasm has been
for Williams. Hayes, on the other hand,
can not hope to run SO well as Harrison
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26
The Bloody Shirt Played Out.
From the Indianapolis Sentinel

lfrOm LHc lnuldndDOllS SenLlnel.
Hencetorth the ''bloody shirt'' will be a
cipher in our politics, for the people are
heartily tired Of the disgusting sight. 1t
may be still red enough to infuriate a ''Sit-
tfng-Bull,'' but it has lost the power to
goad the masses to suicidal madness. In
tereSt and principle alike, honesty and
charity, policy and fraternity move us to
shake hands across the bloody chasm, to
recognize the fact that the war is over, that
our Southern neighbors are men and breth-
rem living Loyalty under the same Govern
ment, having the same glorious heritage,
and awaiting a common destiny. 1t is mani
testify our interest to cultivate fraternal re-
lations with the South; it is surely our duty
to live in charity with all men--and so says
the great State of Indiana. To the indict-
ment, framed by the st. Louis Convention,
charging fraud corruption and extravaganza
upon the party in power, the Indiana Re-
publicans, upon the stump, virtually plead
confession and avoidance, cOnfeSSing the
sins of the administration, but. seeking to
avoid the responsibility for them and the
political punishment which they deserved
by parading what they styled the shortcom-
ings of the Confederate Democracy the
rebellion, and the bloody shirt, interlarded
with senseless lies about Southern war
claims and the payment of the Confederate
debt. To all of this the people have replied
1t will not do. You have betrayed IL
confidence and abused our trust and
we will not be diverted from visit
ing a verdict against you for it, the
verdict of tried in the balance and
found wanting, by subterfuges and side is
sues. Neither threats nor invectiyes, nor
ridicule nor calumnies, have been able to
move the masses from their just and vir-
tuous determination, and the fat to step
down and out has been issued by a power
which brooks no resistance. The declara-
ton of the people upon this point is all the
more impressive and unmistakable from the
fact that General Harrison, the defeated
candidate, is perhaps the strongest man in
his party in this State. His commanding
ability, his high character, have not been
assailed in this canvass, and he owes his de-
feat, in a great measure, to his blunder in
adopting the brutal opinions and tactics OF
Morton. This much may be said without
detracting any thing from Governor Will
Hams, for whom we, in common with all
who are familiar with his integrity, his pru-
dence and his sound craftsmanship, enter
tain sentiments Of the highest respect and
confidence. He will not make a glittering
ruler, but he will, we feel confident, prove
a golden one-a golden ruler to his people.
enriching them by his economy and honesty
and wise and prudent cOunSels. Governor
Williams's election by such a decided ma
jority of course settles the campaign in this
State and insures its electoral vote for Til
den and Hendricks by at least twenty thou
sand majority. In fact, we have gallantly
fought the decisive battle of the national
contest, and it may fairly be considered as
settled. The State is safe and the nation
saved. Congratulations arein order.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26
A Novel Criminal Charge.

Among the cases mol pressed at the
criminal term of the Supreme Court at
Rockland, says the Eastern argus, was
an Indictment against DIR. James D.
Montgomery, formerly of Washington,
this State, but now of Boston, which
charged him with an offense against
common decency in removing the head
after death from John Swinburne, a
Revolutionary warrior, to see if a bullet
was not lodged there, as Mr.. Swinburne
constantly asserted, and before his
death requested the Doctor to make the
examination in the interest of medical
science. At the time much excitement
was caused by this case, principally by
the Doctors enemies, but his release
gives general satisfaction.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26
Science aud Industry.

Wild Alaska wheat is being raised
with success in Oregon. 1t grows lux
uriantly, and is said to be a superior
kind of grain.
An article that will be dear for at
least another year is starch. Many
mills in New England will not start up,
as the stock of potatoes is SO small that
there isn't enough to go round.
Making glass was long supposed
to be a modern discovery, but it has
been found in the excavations at Hercu-
laneum and Pompeii where it has lain
buried for two thousand years.
A late Charleston circular puts the
present rice crop of Georgia and South
Carolina at 49, 500 ~tierces, Or about five
per cent. more than any crop since the
War. The product this year has been
grown at a greatly reduced cost, and
with an economythat, until a year past,
was almost unknown.
"A curious circumstance connected
with the disposition of awards at the
Centennial Exhibition, is that some
countries which hold a high position in
the popular estimation as being in.the
front rank in educational matters, have
taken very few honors, while other ma
tions, which most people have thought
of as sunk in ignorance, have risen to
the highest places.
Among the really useful women OF
the age may be mentioned Mrs. Vansit-
tart, Of England, a daughter of Lowe,
the inventor of the screw-propeller.
| She exhibits the "Lowe-Vansittart
Serew-propeller'' at the Centennial Elk.
position, which she advertises az the
DEMONSTRATING full-backing," as fitted
by herself for the British navy and mer
| chant service.
"A movement is being made BY
| West India fruit-growers and import
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26
THE NEXT
The Result i'm Ohio and Indiana-A
Democratic Majority Assured i'm the
House.


House.
From the st. Louis Times.l
Some Republican organs attempt to break
the force of the Democratic victory OF last
week by pointing to the Republican gain in
congressman. AS far as Indiana Is con-
cerned, they have nothing to boast of but
the success of an infamous gerrymander.
The Democratic majorities on the Con-
gressional vote are about 5000 more than
the Republican majorities. The Democrats,
therefore, are fairly entitled to at least seven
of the thirteen districts, and would have
them if a Republican Legislature had not
defeated the will Of the people. If the Re-
publicans are wise, they will not boast OF
this swindle. Indiana is even more largely
Democratic on the Congressional vote than
en- the State ticket, and it is not the fault OF
the people that the Democrats have not q
majority of the congressman. In Ohio the
Congressional vote is a truer expression OF
the popular will.
But nobody is absurd enough to suppose
that the Democrats have expected or now
expect to retain the Congressman and the
majorities that were given to them in 1874.
That election was entirely exceptional. 1t
surprised every body, the Democrats no less
than their opponents. Where they had
hoped for q majority of 30, they were as
founded by a majority OF 20. They had re-
ceived far more than they expected, and
were absolutely afflicted by an ena6GrrGs des
richesses. That election was justly regard
ed as a Republican protest against the cor
ruption Of the party rather than as a Demo-
cratic victory. If the Republicans had heed
ed the protest and profited by the lesson it
taught, they might have regained the great
er portion of their lost ground; but they did
not do so, and must suffer the consequences
of their folly and wickedness. lin 1874 the
Republicans largely abstained from voting,
and suffered the election to go by default.
This was a strong hint to both Republican
and Democrats. The Democrats needed
the hint, and the Republicans derided it;
consequently the Democrats will carry the
country in November, although not by such
a nearly unanimous majority as that of 1874.
We expected to lose eight Congressman
in Ohio and Indiana, and SO calculated. 1t
appears that we have lost nine but we know
that the people are with us in Indiana, in
spite Of the gerrymander that cheated them
out of their votes. We expect that the ma
jority elected in 1874 will be still further re-
duced, and we can afford to have it re-
duced. We would be better off in the pres
ent Congress with a majority of 80 than we
AVE been thus far with a majority OF 70.
That we should lose the House of Represent
atives is an absolute impossibility. 1t is
| sure to be Democratic by a good working
majority, and more than that we do not
want. Carefully estimating probable gains
and losses, we present the following as the
composition of the next House.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26
School and Church.

Mr.. Inman E. Page (colored), of
Washington, has been chosen orator
for class-dav by the class of 1877 at
Brown University, Providence, r. /.
The Church of the Rock of Ages,
in Baltimore, will hereafter be know as
the Bishop Cummins Memorial Church,
in honor Of the founder of the Reform
ed Episcopal denomination.
The japanese Educational Com
mission, after having spent four years
in examination of the various systems
of education in Europe and America,
has selected the Boston system as the
model which it will represent at home.
-Zton's Herald denies the report that
the late Bishop James left a large prop
erty. 1t says that cit will only be by
the wisest management on the part OF
the executors of his estate that any
considerable sum will remain for the
family that he leaves behind"
1t is rumored that the Church of
the Latter-Day Saints propose to found
a city of their own somewhere in the
West, probably in Iowa, and make it a
nucleus for their organization. 1t is
supposed by some that the new city will
be built in Decatur County, where, for
a number of years past, they have been
buying up tracts of land. until now they
own thousands of acres, or about one
half of the county.
The committee appointed to revise
the Methodist Episcopal h%ymn-book
have invited communications from min
listers and laymen in relation to: %
Objectionable hymns in the present col
lection; CD Worthless hymns; 60
Hymns damaged by injudicious altera-
tions; (4) Good hymns not now in the
hymn-book.
The Rev. John Jameson, a Scotch
Presbyterian minister laboring at
Burgos, Spain, has telegraphed to Edin-
burgh for instructions in relation to the
recent order of the Spanish Govern
ment which requires all signs and no.
tees to be removed from the exterior
walls of Protestant places of worship.
Mr.. Jameson has complied with the
order under strong protest.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26

thesetWoS States have rendered splendid serv-
ice to, the National Democratic party. The
loyalty OF the Greenback Democrats of Ohio
TO the Demoeratic organization has been no.
ply attested; and we repeat, in the earliest
after the election, that the Democratic
organization is worthy of their Confidence
and support. We assume, with incomplete
returns before us, that the Republican parry
mas carried Ohio by a very small majority.
ana with equal reason we. assume that the
democracy have carried Indiana by-a small
margin. This result, while it is not OF such
a nature as to send all the Union, like sheep
jumping over a wall, to the Democratic
party In November, is, nevertheless, a SUBJ
stantlal Democratic victory. 1t is not a
Horawn' battle. 1t is far better for the
Democracy than that. The obstacles against
which the Democracy of Ohio and Indiana
contended were exceedingly formidable.
Ihey had believed that a Western candidate
should have been selected at ct. Louis, ana
they had earnestly asked for O platform
thoroughly and unmistakably harmonious
with Western interests, and the Southern
interests which shouldsbe identical with the
Western. They were disappointed in both
desires. An Eastern candidate was NOM
mated, a platform not quite that which the
Democrats OF the October States de-
sired was adopted. 1t 4 was loudly
proclaimed to the country hat the
managers of the National Democratic party
hDduuOuCu oHIOd anu 1Latdud W Tue fkSDuD@
licans, and rested their case in the East, in
New York, Connecticut and New Jersey,
whose electoral vote, in addition TO those
which are certain to belcast for the Demo-
cratic candidates, would elect a Democratic
President in November These, among
others, were depressing circumstances and
in view of them the result in these States
was a glorious Democratic triumph. It was
an earnest of the national victory of the par
ty. Specially was it a noble evidence of the
fealty of the Democracy Of this State and of
Indiana to the great party, ancient of days,
that appears, after the buffetipgs and the
glories Of three-quarters of a century, as
the party in which the people still trust.
The unlimited appliances. honest and dis
honest, legitimate and Legitimate, used by
the Republicans to carry these two States by
emphatic malorities, are known of all men.
They should have produced notable, ire
mendous results. Ohio is, or has been, a
Republican State since the Republican par
ty was born. The Republican party has
never failed to carry the State when large
vote was polled. Tn fact that under such
favorable conditions, and with snch effort,
the Republicans, If they have succeeded in
Ohio, have succeeded by a majority so I'M
precedentedly small on a vote so unpre-
cedentedly large, is a Democratic victory.
1t is a proof that the temper Of the Aperi-
can people is a desire for a change. 1t is a
preface TO Democratic victory in November.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26
SOUTH CAROLINA

A Proclamation by the Presfdent-An
Order by the Secretary OF War. Oil
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 1.-THE fol-
lowing proclamation by the President was
issued this evening:
APPROXIMATION.
whereas, 1t has been satisfactorily shown to
me that Instruction and domestic violence exist
In ms Se Vera cSansles OF me state OF south Carolina,
the law exist IN, many counties Of said State,
known as rifle clubs. !" who ride up and down
peaeeable citizens and intimidating others which
combinations though forbidden by the laws of
the State, can notbe controlled or suppressed by
the ordinary course of justice; and
Whereas, 1t is provided in the Constitution Of
the United States that the United States shall
protect every State in this Union; on application
OF the Legislature, or of the Executive when
tne Legislature can not be convened, against
domestic violence; and, -
above, it is provided in the laws of the United
states. that in all cases of Instruction in any
state or OF obstruction to the laws thereof, It
shall be lawful for the President of the United
States, on application of the Legislature of such
State, or Executive when the Legislature can
not be convened, to call fer the militia of any
the land and naval force as may be Judged neces-
sary for the purpose of suppressing such insur-
rection or causing the laws to be duly executed;
and. . =.
Whereas, The Legislature of said State is not
in session, and can not be convened in time to
meet the present emergency, and the Executive
Constitution, and law passed in pursuance
thereof, has therefore made due application to
me in the premises, for such part of the military
force of the United States as may be necessary
and adequate to protect such State and the citi-
zens thereof against domestic violence, and to
enforce the due execution of the laws; and,
Whereas, 1t is required that whenever it
may be necessary, in the judgment Of the Pres
ident, to use military force for the purpose afore-
said, he shall forthwith, by proclamation, COM
mand such insurgents to dispense and return
peaceably to their respective homes within a lin
ted time:
Now, therefore 1, Ulysses S. Grant, President
of the United States, do hereby make proclsma-
ton and NINA all persons engaged in said
unlawful and insurrectionary proceedings to dis
perse and retire peaceably to their respective
abodes within three days from this date, and
hereafter abandon said combinations, and sub
NIT themselves to the laws and constituted au-
thorities of said State, and / invoke the aid and
cooperation of all good citizens thereof to up
hold the laws and preserve the public peace.
In witness whereof / have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed. Done at the City of Washington,
this 18th day of October, in the year of our Lord
1876, and of the independence of the United States
one hundred and one. U. S. GRANT.
By the President:
JOHN 5. CADWALLADER.
Acting Secretary of State.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26
JOHN 5. CADWALLADER,
H Acting Secretary of State.
AN ORDER BY H SECRETARY OF WAR.

AN UNDEh bl THE oEChLIAh1 OT WAKE
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON CITY, Oc-
tober II, IS76.-Gen. W. T.. Sherman command
ing United States Army: SIR-In view of the ex-
listing condition of affairs in South Carolina there
is a possibility that the proclamation of the Pres
ident of this date may be disrega' ded. To provide
against such a contingency you will Immediately
of the Atlantic to report to Gen. Ruger. COM
r~2an2iIg at Columbia, South Carolina, and in
struct that officer to station his troops in such
localities that they may be most speedily and
effectually used in case of resistance to the au-
thority of the United States. 1t is hoped that a
Gen. Ruger to let it be known that it is the fixed
purpose of the Government to carry out the spirit
of the proclamation, and to sustain il by the
military force of the General Government, sup
plemented, if necessary, by the militia of the
various States. ..Ea ILL.,.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
lSignedl ID. S. CAMERON,
Secretary of War.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26

how she would look in black, and tele-
graphed: Darling, I will be with you
on Tuesday, never to quit you during
life. Turbine" "It will be a sad
loss to you, my love,' said her mother.
-" Yes, ma" sobbed the girl,asa but the
loss is fully covered by insurance.
CHICAGO Tribune.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26

PROF. PERKINS, of the University of
Vermont, has examined various pieces
of old pottery which have been found
in that State, and says that they are rel
les of the mound builders, or some 9th
er race which lvedin the country before
the Indians.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26

Even if the North Pole were dis
covered. says California exchange, the
discoverer would be followed in ten
minutes by a Chinaman who could live
on icicles at two cents a gross.