The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-05-17

WASHINGTON, May 10, z
.RroN REPORTED DEAD.

Senator Morton has been half dead Tor
so many years. that the report OF bis
decease, at the Ebbitt House, which
was rife in this city yesterday, cannot
be said to have created any very enor-
nous amount of surprise. Morton
was, however, very i'll for short time,
and might have been persuaded D.. his
physician to give up the ghost. If be
had not thought of ths satisfaction his
demise would give to Conkling. Of the
cheerfulness with which Blaine would
bid him farewell. and, above all, of
that unfinished Mississippi investiga-
ton. All these considerations urged
him, doubtless, to postpone his demise
not indefinitely. perhaps; but, at any
rate, until the Cincinnati Convention
shall have made its nominations,
BRAVE OFFICER UNDER A CLOUD.
1t seems that General Custer, as gall
liant a trooper as ever drew n sword. is
to remain under cloud during the
reign of the present Administration
He incurred the Executive displeasnre
by the frankness with which he testi-
fed in regard to the sale of post-trader-
ships. and the connection herewith of
Awful" Grant. the Presidents broth
er. Caster must make up his mind to
remain under the ban until March 4,
1877, when King Ulysses steps dows
and out. The National Republican. Of
this city. and other Administrative
"organs. have been Industrious in
circulating the report that General
Custer failed to pay his respects to the
President and General sherman be-
fore his departure from Washington /;
but this turns out to be malicious in
veution. He did call at the White
House on the day of his departure,
where he remained cooling bis shins in
the ante-room until the close of Office
hours, when the high and mighty
Ulysses sent him word that he could
not see him. He then wendell his way
to Army headquarters to pay bis
respects to General Sherman, but the
latter was absent in New York. AS he
had been peremptorily ordered away,
he did not, of course. think il necessary
to remain longer, and therefore left for
the west in the evening. 1t is now re-
ported that he was detained in Chicago
by an order from the President, but for
what purpose it is not stated. Grant
would. undoubtedly, like to order
Clusters execution. if there were any
warrant Of law for so doing; but.
fortunately. he cannot be punished IN
less convicted by a court martial COM
posed of his brother officers.
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE.
The nearer the time approaches for the
holding OF the st. Louis Convention,
the more impressed arc prominent men
of the Democratic party in Washington
with the necessity of conce atrating mp
on a man for President who shall be,
in the comprehensive language of n
leading newspaper, "a platform in
himself" Wheihsrin the newspapers,
in public meetings. or in private con-
vsrsation, the same feeling seems to
prevail. The reason is obvious. In
the next campaign. the platforms of
the two parties will be, of necessity,
almost identical. This has never been
the ease heretofore; in fact, platforms
were looked to. in past conflicts, as the
authoritative expohents of principles,
on which parties went before the
country for i s verdict. In tho present
struggle this is not the case. The war
and its results have obliterated all the
old party issues upon which platforms
were constructed,
The SOLE ISSUES,
In the November struggle, will be re-
form in the administration of the Gov
ernmsnt; and the people know that
genuine reform will depend so largely
upon the personal character of the
next President. that both parties will
be compelled to look to the man. aud not