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Current Notes.

Mrs. Belknap was given away by George
Fl. Pend!eton at the time of her marriage.
In the recent bribery exposure Mrs. B. ap-
pears to have "given away'' George H.
Speaking af Ex-Governor Curtin, the Pitts
burg Dispatch says: .'Some enthusiast has
named him for the second place on the Dem
ocratc ticket this year. The Democrats
might do worse. We are strongly inclined to
think they wil.'
The Concord IN. H. Monitor says that a
gentleman of sterling probity, of the strictest
veracity-one whom all the speople of that
state trust implicitly-writes to it from Wash
ington these words: "Contradict with the ut
most confidence all stories of fraud and dev-
iltry in any of the departments save Bel
knap's. 1 have visited headquarters all
round, including the committees OF investiga-
tion, aud there is no evdence-not particle
against Robson, Chandler, Jewell, Fish,
or Pierrepont. Those stories are all .bosh-
weak inventions of an unscrupulous enemy.
Scene on ferry boat-"Your Republican
blown you sky high. You are demoIaized
The sooner Grant gives up the better" A
quiet looking gentleman replied:-"Your
logic is irresistible. Judas took the bribe and
that ruined the Savior and the apostles.
Burr's treason proved that Jefferson was
traitor. Arnold took British gold and that
involve in disgrace Washington and his staff
Hull was coward, therefore Perry must have
been poltroon." "AhemI Good NORM
ing."-Boston Journal.
The effort to represent the Republican
party as sympathizing in any degree what
ever with the offences committed by officers
for whose entrance into the public service it
has, unhappiy. been responsible, or as desir
ing to cover up anything they have done that
deserves censure, is contemplate and absurd.
Party interests alone require that Republi-
cans should display, even if they did not feel,
the utmost detestation of the crimes, and the
most unrelentng vigor ofpersuing the Grim
inals. II would be base enough to attribute
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Democratic DefauItArS,

To hear ex-Confederate congressman de-
plore the corruption of the Republican party
and to read the virtuous denunciations of Re-
publican leaders by Democratic journals, one
would think that in the "earler and better
days of the Republic" such a thing as un-
faithfulness and venality in office were not
known. Ofcourse it was no crime for Bu-
chanan's cabinet to plunder the treasury,
steal the Indian funds, and strike at the life
of the Republic. This was patriotic devotion
to great cause.
But we will not linger about those dark
days when treason was an excuse for plunder-
ing the nation but go back to the Democratic
days for which few of the present leaders are
responsible and consult history. January 9,
1889, in the House of Representatives, Mr..
Wise of Virginia made motion for select
committee TO be appointed to investigate late
defalcations of public offices, which at the
time ''had most deeply excited public anxiety
and ALARM" and it was part of this COM
mittee's work to do something to reform
''the alarming condition and abuses of the
Executive Department of the government,
from the highest to the lowest, and from the
nearest to the remotest functionaries." The
report of the Committee was made during the
third session of the Twenty-fifth Congress.
1t shows that the defalcations of Samuel
Swartwout while Democratic collector of the
port of New York amounted to $1,225, ,7O5.-
70; and, in the words of that document, this
abuse ''was permitted to grow upon the face
of his official quarterly return, made with
periodical regularity to, and for the investi-
CATION of, the accounting officers of the
Treasury Department" These defalcations
were continued through period of seven
years; and in speaking of the causes ofSwart-
wouts defalcations the Committee stated
that among other things they were owing
to the following causes:
'To culpable disregard of law and neglect of official
duty by the late naval officer of New York."
'Culpable disregard OF law and neglect OF official
duty by the First Auditor of the Treasury"
"Culpable disregard of law and neglect of official
Treasury
"The negligence and failure of the Secretary of the
treasury QIevi Woodbury. to discharge his duty as
the head of the Treasury Department
This serious defalcation took place under
the eye of the Secretary of the Treasury in
those earlier days of the Republic when
everything was lovely, pure and OF good re-
port among the affairs of the government.
A defalcation in those days of million and
quarter of dollars, would be equivalent to for
ty millions now, considering the difference
between the revenue of the port of New York
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1T appears from the remarks of Mr.. Bass in
the House that the testimony in the Belknap
affair was deliberately. concealed for long
time from the Republican members of the
committee on the expenditures. When it
was learned that Belknap had resigned it was
proposed by the Democratic members to dis
charge Marsh Immediately, leave off the in
vestigation, and report the facts to the House
the plea being that the case has passed be-
yond the jurisdiction of the House on ac-
count of the resignation. This was opposed
by the Republican members, and to them is
due the efforts at impeachment. Marsh was
discharged at his own request, and he par
ticularly stated that he wanted to 60 to New
York on the o'clock train. Mr.. Bass op-
posed the discharge when this request was
under discussion and pointed out sufficient
reasons. No decision was made, and another
topic came up. In a few minutes afterward
Clymer, without asking if anyone objected
told Marsh he was discharged, and even went
so far in helping him away as to say if there
was not time to get the fees he (Clymer)
would get them and send them to Marsh by
mail. Clymer also promised to send the con
tract between Marsh and Evans to the wit.
ness in few days. 1t will be remembered
that this important original paper has now
disappeared. If the proceedings against Bel
knap fail the responsibility will be with the
Democratic members of the committee.
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The golden age of American politics an.
pears on research to have no substantial ex
istence. We think the politics of to-day are
degenerate, but here is the account which
John Quincy Adams gave at the time of the
Presidential campaign of 1886:
The excitement of the Presidential election
is here, as We have found it all along on the
read. The remarkable character of this cleo
tion is that all the candidates are at most.
thlrd-rate men, whose pretentions rest neither
upon high attainments nor upon eminent SER
vices. but on intrigue and political speculation.
The presidency has fallen into Joint stock
company. jackson came in upon the trumpet
tongue tof military achievement. His presi-
dency has been the reign of subaltern knaves,
fattening upon land jobs, who have made him
believe that it was an heroic conception of
his own to destroy the Bank of the United
States. and who,. under the color of this,
have got into their own hands the qtse of the
public moneys at a time when there is sur
plus of forty millions of dollars in the treasury
Two political swindlers, Amos Kendall aud
Reuben M. Whitney, were the Empson and
dudley OF our Solomon, and, by playing upon
his vanity and his thirst of petty revenge. have
| got into their own hands ihe oyerflowinp reve-
nue. OF the country; with the temporary and il.
legal use of which they are replenishing their
own cofers and making princely fortunes.
jackson has wearied out the sordid subserven-
cy OF bis supporters, and Van Buren, has had
the address to persuade him that he is the on
ly man who can preserve and perpetrate the
principles of his administration. And as his
term OF eight years has run through, and his
gang are weary Of his sway, he has set his
heart upon bringing in Van Buren, as his sue
cessor, and has successfully exercised all his
influence to promote that result.
The opposition, divided between three tai
ented aspirants to the Presidency, neither of
whom would yield subordnation to either of
the others, have been driven in sheer despera,
ton to set up men of straw in their places, and
they have taken up Hugh Lawson White and
William Henry Harrison, as the Israelites set
up a calf, and the Egyptians worshiped oxen
and monkeys. White and Harrison are men
OF moderate capacity, but of varied public SER
vice, and of long experience in the affairs of the
nation. They are as competent for the Pres.
dency at least as Jackson, and, like him if
elected to his station, would rule by tba proxv
| OF subalterns-by party management and
political love portions. White and Harrison
are now the golden calves of the people. and
their dull sayings are repeated for wit aud
their grave inaDity is passed off for wisdom,
This bolstering up of mediocrity would seem
not suited to sustain much enthusiasm; but a
practice has crept in of betting larely upon the
issue of elections, and that adds spice of prl-
vate, .persodal and pecuniary interest to the
impulse of patriotism. This is the exciting
cause of all the ardor which we have met with
throughout this journey
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Republican National Convention.
1876.

The next Cniou Republican National Convention
for the nomination of candidates for President and
Vice-President of the United States will be held in
the city OF Cincinnati, Wednesday, the fourteenth
day of June 1876 at II O'Clock noon and will consist
of delegates from each State equal to twice the num-
ber OF its Senators and Representatives in Congress-
and OF two delegates from each organized Territory
and the district of Columbia.
In calling the conventions for the election of dele
g1tes the committees of the several States are re-
commended to invite all Republican electors and all
ferences or previous party affiliations, who are
opposed to revving sectional issues, and desire to
promote friendly feeling and permanent harmony
throughout the country by maintaining and enforcing
all the constitutional rights of every citizen incud-
ing the full and free exercise OF the right of suffrage
without intimidation and without frauu; who are in
favor OF the continued prosecution and punishment
OF all official dishonesty, and economical adminis-
traton OF the Government by honest faithful ca
pable officers; who are in favor of making such re-
forms in government experience may from time to
time suggests who opposed impairing the cred
it OF the nation by depreciating any of its obligations
and in favor OF sustaining in every way the national
faith and financial honor who hold that the common
school system is the nursery of American liberty and
should be maintained absolutely free from sectaran
cOnrOl who believe that for the promotion of these
nue to be conded to those who adhere to the prin-
eiples of 1776, and support them Incorporated in
the Constitution and the laws; and who are in favor
of recognizing and strengthening the fundamental
principle of National Unity in this Centennial An
niversary of the birth of the Republic.
e. ID. MORGAN, Chairman,
VIM. E. CHANDLER, Secretary,
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEES.
Washington, January 10, 1876.
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Republican zeal in this direction to the low
motive OF recovering the good opinion of the
people, which the revelations of official in
iquity have shaken. The insinuation that
the zeal is pretence, and designed oply to
hoodwink the public and enable the guilty to
escape more easily, is an idea that could only
originate with one capable under singular
circumstances of doing the very thing he
imagines and condemns in others.-Boston
Advertiser.
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in 1889 and 1876. Did any one ever hear
that this man Swartwout was punished by
the Democratic party then in power? Did
they institute measures for his punishment? I?
Will some one who has time read over the
journals OF Congress at that time and see if
there was any of that righteous indignation
Oh the part of Democrats which they so VIZ
tuously and publicly parade in the wretched
Belknap business. And this is only one case
OF many. 1t may be that there were no vir-
tuous ex-rebels in Congress then-no twenty
dollar Robbins Of North Carolina and no ma
lignant Blackburns of Kentucky-to defend
the national honor.
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The New York Times and other Republi-
can papers warmly endorse the resolutions Of
the Union League Club of New York CITY
protesting against any attempt to send a
packed delegation or pledged delegation to
the Republican National Convention, and
particularly against the proposition to have
all the delegates chosen by a state conven.
ton. The meeting of the club at which the
resolutions were passed was large and they
were adopted by a unanimous vote. This ac-
ton is considered hostile to Senator Ccnk-
ling's candidacy.
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o. E BABCoCK,
Col of EnOinears n

DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS IN MANCHESTER
A special to the Boston Globe dated the 10th
inst. says; another attempt at probable
fraud in the manner of receiving votes is ex-
posed to-day. The alleged fraud is in the man
ner of constructing the polling place in the
ward room in Ward vi. In one corner Of the
ward room, which is in small ten-footer on
Elm street, they have built of matched boards
a pen in which the ward officers intend to take
their places; through the side of this pen are
cut two wicket holes, about eighteen inches
square, through which it is intended the votes
shall be handed. In front of these wickets aud
RAINING nearly the whole length of the pen, is
tight partition reaching from the moor 10 tho
ceiling A voter, therefore, must pass through
this dark alley way, between the pen and the
partition, pass in his vote through an eighteen
inch hole, and pass out at the farther end.
When his vote is in, the men in the pen will of
course do as they please about putting it into
the box or throwing it away and putting diff
ferent one in its place. 1t became known that
this attempt at fraud was to be made public,
consequently with hot haste this arrangement
was torn down and voting will probably be
conducted now in an open manner. 1t is said
that polling places on this plan were to have
been built in Wards w. and ", but fear of the
law has prevented such constructions The
Democrats to-day are terribly chagrined at the
loss of a man whom they had considered vain.
able to their party, but who was nominated on
the Republican ticket last night. The gentle
man referred to has, for many years past been
connected with the Democratic party, and was
unauthoritatively announced to speak at
Democratic rally this season. Many other
prominent men of that party are changing ana
others refuse to cast their votes at all.'
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GEN. WooDFoRD of New York, takes the
stump for the Republican ticket in Connect.
cut to-day. In Ohio last fall hi. sperctes
were among the most effective delivered dur
ing the campaign, and it is safe to predict
that he will make the Connecticut soft-money
men very sick indeed.
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THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING. MARCH Is, 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and commun-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
sill cases Indispensable not necessarily tor publication
but as guaranty Ct good faith.
We cannot undeitak to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
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REMARKABLE CoINCIDENcEs.-On the day
Gen. Belknsp, ex-Secretary of War and ex-
Chairman of the Iowa Democratic State Com
miitee. was so unpleasantly brought before
the public, for selling paltry sutlership, the
following law suits were going on in New York,
viz:
l. Henry G. Genet, Sachem of Tammapy
Hall, ex-Democratic state senator, and convict.
ed felon, had Judgment rendered against him
for 800, ,000 for money stolen outright from the
city of New York. .H
2. VIM. NJ. Tweed, ex-Grand Sachem, aud
ex state senator was being tried on a claim for
six million of dollars, stolen by him and other
eminent Democrats from the treasury of the
city of New York. l....
B. Fernando Wood, M. c., latc of Mozart,
now OF Tammany Hall. ex-mayor and promi-
nent Democrat, was officiating as defendant in
suit brought by creditors of N. Hill Fowler to
recover $4,000, which Fowler swore he paid
Wood for the Office of Corporation Attorney.
Truly, 'Misfortunes never come singly."-
Brdtteboro' Record and Farmer.
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SENATOR BoGY claims to be resumption.
ist, and his opinions are of interest as show
ing what the Democrats understand by re-
sumption. In his speech in the Senate he
advocated tbe payment of the customs in
greenbacks, the reissuauce Of the 10000, 900
of legal-tender notes which have been re-
tired and Cancelled during the past year, the
immediate repeal of the resumption act, and
a paper currency of $sOO,OOO,OOO. He is a
fair representative of many hard-money Dem.
Ocrats
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Herald gives an account of the riot at the Fort
Massey Church in Halifax on the 9th inst 1t
appears that the Rsv. Mr.. Chiniquy, an or
dained minister of the Presbyterian Church of
Canada, was announced to preach to the men,
bers of that Church at Fort Massey. While he
was leading the congregation in religious SER
vice, crowd of roughs gathered about the
building, smashed in the windows, and at
tempted to mob the minister. The Herald
says that the affair has inflicted deep and
indelible disgrace upon Halifax, as it has
proved that life is not safe, that sacred edifces
are not invoable, aud that ministers of the
gospel cannot fearlessly preach to their owu
people in their own pulpits the doctrine OK
their own churches,
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THE New York town elections show sub
stantial Republican gains. The Republicans
have gained seventy four supervisors to the
Democrats eleven, net Republican gain of
sixty-three members of the county boards
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