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STEVENS COUNTY.

The grasshoppers, in flying over this
,,ction. stopped for dinner, and did j
nall amount OF damage; and then ny
ing and away. \ large number OF
heat fields were not touched at all
)me lost five or ten per ct. and u lew
ne half. But Stevens county whea,
ED half-eaten by the hoppers will yield
ore this year then any other whea,
I'D in any other part OF the State. not
uched by them. We have seen fields
Stevens county that will this year
cid twenty five. thirty and even thirty
70 bushels to the acre.
Judge Deakin writes to the Pioneers
-ess- Tribune from Morris. that the
oppers have done but little damage in
at vicinity that immi grafton still pours
and that houses are going up in all
rts Of the town.
The country around Douglas is filling
y, rapidly. James McGowea Esq, for
1erly of Lake City. Wabashs county.
Is broken $50 acres within one mile
i I'm the depot; he has now purchased
ID lumber to erect . handsome house in
I'D village. T. Stout Esq. OF Lake City
MI open store at Douglas in two
,keks. David Huddleston Esq. also Of
,4ke City proceeds at once to erect .
Sndsome hotel. lOx50. with brick front.
i(kh . store on first floor. The country
lbund Douglas is the richest in Mime
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THE SILVER BILL.
The MINNEAPOLIS Tribune SAYS :

The Minneapolis Tribune says:
The word dollar an the bonds of the United
States meant 4I2 l-2 grains OF silver of specl-
fed fneness coined into milled dollar. When
Congress says that it means something Of great
or value, to the extent of the difference, i.
increases the liability Of the American people
without giving them qnid pro quo, and with
out show of right. That is precisely what it
has done and has refused to undo. There are
also other reasons why the United States should
not take part in the general disposition mani
tested to demonetize silver. We are the great
est silver producing country en- the globe.
That metal constitutes large item in our ex-
p0rtations We are, therefore, directly inter-
ested in keeping up its valus. Nothing so eff
fectually depreciates it as the disposition above
referred to.
All this being true why does the Tri-
bune support 4 political party which
thus plumbers the people to enrich the
bond, holders2
Its this kind of slavish subserviency
Ito party which emboldens politicians
and rogues; they know that il they can
control the party conventions by tricks
hnd money, the party newspapers will
sustain them and their followers vote for
them. Healthy boiling is necessary
pometiines to the purity of public lite.
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TROUBLE IN THE CAMP.

Grant grows ugly. He is mad all
over, mad because the Republicans did
not renominate him for third term
mad because his name was not even
mentioned in the Cincinnati convention
as candidate mad because the rats are
leaving the sinking ship and the horde
of courtiers are transferring their batteries
and their salaams to Hayes; mad because
the 4th OF March draws near when he
will step from his imperial position into
nothingness and obscurity. The more
he thinks over it the madden he gets.
Sullen, obstinate, malignant and bold,
ne proposes to wreck the party which
has refused to follow his standard; and
so he is removing every man from 0 flee
who was known as reformer, and will
probably end by pardoning Joyce, Nc
Donald and Mckee. Wequote:
WASHINGTON, July ll.-Taft has had an
open row with the president to day, SO that
his head rill be the next to fall into Grants
little basket From a person who is friend
Of Grant and was at the White House to-day,
it is learned that the President has become very
much dissatisfied with Taft, and they had q
quarrel o-day springing out OF the st. Louis
pardens. After the meeting Grants friends
the legitimate duties of his office and convert
ing it into an instrument for Hayes election;
that he was looking forward TO the mission to
st. James, and was in many ways interfering
with Grant wishes. 1t is known that Taft
does not give very willing ear to these appli
cations for pardon, while the President is an
xlOus to issue papers.
Their. is CONSERVATION everywhere at the re-
mark:shle conduct of Grant He IS ugly and
pig headed with his most trusted cronies. II.
appears TO have gore insane upon the subject
OF being influenced by any one in anything he
may do. He seems 10 he Is near king ~ cir
cumstances will permit until the end OF his
term. He has to- night actually Yuarreled with
Zach Chandler. "After this the DEUCE" say
all of the terror. stricken Republicans Tn.
trouble between the President and Chandler
arose from the latter trying to impress upon
Grant that he (Chandler) as the chairman Of the
Republican national committee should have
general direction OF things, appointments and
the like, so as 10 promote the best interests ID
the pItr. To this Grant has Tebelled. II ,;h-
terfvres with his new policy. No human being
shall interfere with any proposed plan Of his.
Chandl-r- after trying his hand at bullying
Grant, will have to give il or l.. dismissed.
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THE "OLU MAN.

Our poor. old. would-be emperor is
unhsppy. And he is growing ugly. A
special to the Chicago Tribune, (Rep. }
says:
WAszNcroS. d. T., July 1.-THE President
one dsy last week gav- an audience to an Ohio
private citizen, in no way couuect-d with pub
lie life, and voluntarily convers~d very freely
with linn upon the public sisuatiou. Among
other things, the President criticised very s..-
verely hayee' letter. He said he considered II
in extremely tad taste. and thought that !, re-
hected upon the present Administration. The
President further said to this gentleman that he
hoped the time would come when the Au,rri-
can people would BE- Permitted to elect . Prssi-
dent Tor rs long time - they Close. The in
ference lefs upon this gsnuenssn's mind WAS
very strong tlmt thu President wA grievcuslv
annoyed that M consideration whichever had
hsssn given to the QUESTION al the third. term.
The Presidents entire n amer Indicated cum-
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KNOW NO7UINGIS.N AGAIN.

The following special from Philadel-
phia to the New York Herald deserves
careful perusal:-
PHlLADELPHlA, July 5.-An important secret
poltico- religious convention was held in this
city to-day. 1t was called the grand council
OF the American alliance, and two delegates
were present troui twenty nine states, i'll COM
pliance with call issued on the 9th Of June by
the executive colnmttee of the grand national
council. Tue alliance is the result of the un-
ion OF all the native American orders, con-
summated on the 18th OF May last 1t EN-
| braces the q. a. T., the Patriotic Order of
American Mechanics and all similar secret or
ders. The alliance has already 5OO,eOO mem
beers IN the United States, lO0, 900 in New York
alone and is rapidly spreading, every state in
! the Union having many councils. Che motto
Is Americans and Professionals to rule America.
The members are known only 10 each other
and are sworn 10 secrecy
The meeting was held at the rooms Of Frank
lin Council, No 93l, OF Pennsylvania, on Arch
| street, which was crowded with members OF
the order. A distinguished Major General, n
prominent Democrat, presided, he being the
tlrSt Vice Grand Commander OF the Grand
Council OF the United States. Twenty more
States We're represented. A long list Of New
councils, formed during June last was read.
1t showed an average OF ten councils day in
ali the states from Maine to California.
The convention unanimously adopted
u resolution instructing all its members
to vote for Hayes and Wheeler!
What does Carl Schurz say to thats
Ii Americans are 10 rule America"
where viii Carl and his countrymen bt?
And how can any foreigner, Irish. Ger
man or Scandinavian, vote for ticket
which will receive 100000 Know Moth
ing votes? For this secret order is really
the natural successor Of the original
Know Nothing party. whose motto was.
"uone bur Americans shall rule Ameri-
Ca" and who labored to so amend our
naturalization laws tina: u foreigner
would have to be twenty-one wears in
this country before he could vote.
None but Americans shall rule Am
erica Ii that is so Sitting Bull should
be president. tor he is an American in
the truese sense OF the word his an
cestors dwell on this soil thousand
years before The progenitors of the de-
generate .. 4. T. had left Ireland Scot
land or Holland.
But il you take out Of the present Re-
publican party its race. sectarian and
sectional bigotries, how much would be
lett?
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TUE HOG BOUNCER.
The Scientific American SAYS =

The ahsve is the name of simple device
invented ~ the cattle yard men at West AL
bany, n. u, to induce hogs to move from the
cars In which they are transported into the
yard Pigs. a> rule, are not Of accommoda-
ting dispositions, and when it comes to pre-
vaiiing upon car load Of them to move along
upon u narrow gaugway, the first ones Thai
start upon the plank arr apt TO decline 70 pro-
eeeed further, and so block the esress of the
rest. This Necessities an astonishing amount
OF patience and beating, besides unlimited
strong language, for SOME time. The new in
vention for p<.rsuadinS the animal to pass on
is the hog bouncer, made by bringing one end
OF the gangwsy plank to firm support; then
under the other end, two double car springs
are placed. A powerful lever and sprins
catch complete the device Before the car door
IL opened, the platform is carried down 50 A.
to compress the springs by the lever. and the
catch il hooked. The hogs are then allowed
to pass along the platform, and, so long a.
they move along properly. the plank is I'M
disturbed; but as soon as crowd congresates
and vocifercusly objects to going further, the
catch is sprung. One end Of the platform fiies
about three feet upward, and the result is
shower Of living pokers. shot over the heads
and upon the soft bodies Of thu drove. They
are seldom injured, but vastly astonishtd. an.i
il Is needless 10 add that the blockade il A.
once dhpelled.
We could not help thinking while we
read the foregoing that it was fair il
lustrasion Of the domination Of political
parties over their followers. a large
mass ofthe voters Of both the old parties
refuse to move forward on the party
platform; they eongregats and object
" ciferOasly; but To leader springs he
catch and the crowd azo thrown head
ever heals into IL vehicle, and arc then
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carried forward peacefully to the ballot

carried forward peacefully to the ballot
box.
Four years ago host Of Republicans
made the air melodious with their pro>
tests against the course of the party, but
three-fourths OF them were bounced into
the car in time to vote for Grant. and
most of the remainder are now being
thlown in by the hind legs.
This party domination is one of the
great evils of our politics There are
few men who have the nerve to stand up
against the pressure and the ostracism Of
party, and plead tor truth, pure and sim.
pie
What we most need in this country is
individual courage and self-reliance
the power to say, with Mahomet, .'with
God one man is majority" There
are those who would not finch in the
midst of the bullets Of the battlefield,
who will shrink and cover and sneak
and tremble and abase themselves be-
fore the pressure OF party domination.
=" '.God give US men!"
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THE CHINESE QUESTION.

To make party capital on the Pacific coast,
it proposes to bar out certain immigrations
from its shores, concealing the fact from its
eastern supports that the same principle carried
out to its legitimate end, would cut off the
English, Irish, German and Scandinavian
eInigrants from the eastern as well as the Mon
gOlian race from the western cOast.-FdribauH
Republican.
Indeed: Do you mean to say that the
English. Irish. German and Scandina>
VANS are to be compared as citizens with
the Chinese? The former came here as
freemen to settle permanently; they are
of our own race, of our own kith and
kin; they buy land, open farms, raise
crops, land add to the wealth OF the coun-
try. They marry and raise children,
support churches, and schools, and in a
generation or two are merged into the
common stock of the great American
race. But the Chinaman comes to collect
wages and leave; he is not freeman
but semi-serf, coolie; his wife or
daughter is pledged into slavery at home
to raise the money that brings him here !;
he buys no land, he pays no taxes, he
supports no schools or churches; even
his bones are shipped to China when he
dies. He comes simply to take the bread
out OF the mouth of some poor English
man, Irishman, German or Scandina-
Wan, and reduce our voters, on whose
integrity and intelligence our republic
depends for its prosperity, to condi-
ton as miserable as his own. No white
laborer who attempts to diicharge the
duties of man, a citizen, q father and
husband can compete with one who
lives on a few pounds of rice per week,
1t may be said that we should be gen.
erous to the poor, overcrowded, ancient
Monaghan race. Tve; but not at the
expense OF our own people. For if we
even allo we'd ten or twenty millions Of
them to enter this country and reduce
to pauperism every white laborer in It.
what relief would that be to that vast
population OF over four hundred millions
still in China. The humanitarian might
just as well argue that the farmers OF
our frontier should submit with patience
to SET their crops destroyed by grass
hoppers, because it would afford the
grasshoppers SO much comfort. Every
farm in Minnesota might be swept bare
and the accountable billions between
here and the Rocky Mountains still 90
hungry.
1t must never be forgotten that this
Republic rests on the intelligence, the
virtue and the patriotism OF the MAORI
ty;-and that the majority is and must
always be those who earn their bread in
the sweat Of their brow. To degrade or
Iimpoverish them is to destroy the very
foundations OF liberty and society; and
We have no sympathy with the man Or
the party who would sacrifice them to
any vaporoas principle, or any heart
less theory, or any selfish in terest.
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THE REPEAL OF THE ESUMPTTON
ACT,

The Madison Patriot, (Greenback
Ind.) discussing this matter says
Tho Democratic party have it in their power
to secure a large pc rtion, if not all the green
back vote, without stepping one inch off the
platform it has made at st. Louis. 1t remains
to be seen whether it will do what it is pledged
to do. The st. Louis platform very properly
denounces the financial legislation of the Re
publican party, as ~Aindrances in the way OF
resumption, and it declares:
"As such hindrances, we denounce the re-
mand its repeal"
Well, repeal it, then The banking and cur
rency committee OF the house is composed OF
four Republicans and seven Democrats. Mr..
Gibson, Democrat, being absent on the New
Orleans investigation, and Scott Mike, Dem
ocrat, voting with the Republicans, the vote in
committee on che bill to repeal the resumption
ed, announces his determination to vote with
the Republicans. thus giving the bill a Mega
tive send-of when reported to the House.
Ii this be indicative Of the course to be pur-
sued by the Democrats, it cannot fail to dissi-
pate all confidence in the St. Louis declaration,
at the very threshold Of the campaign, and cam
not fail TO procure the most disastrous results
to the cause OF MIR. Tllden.
The Patriot cannot believe fer moment, that
there are a sufficient number OF fools in the
House to commit patricide Ill such a silly
manner, especially since We see it stated that
Gov. Tilden has sent his confidential adviser
to Mr.. Hendricks, plcdging the eastern Demo-
Gratis to repeal OF the resumption act, etc.
Now, just see how easy it Is for the Demo-
Gratis to put themselves strong on that plat
form, and to make the Republicans weak on
theirs, or to drive them to open hostility, in
which case the whole greenback element " ould
rise up and support the Democrats.
Let us see whether the Democrats OF
the House vote to repeal that act whose
repeal the party demanded" in nation
al convention. 1.-The proof OF the pud-
ding is in the eatinr OF it,"
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Il TEN STRIKE.

From all we can learn Minnesota has
made ten strike in the new threshing
machine, the Minnesota Chief. manufac-
tured at Saltwater. Everywhere we
hear its praises. 1t SO shakes and agi-
tates the straw, after it is thrcsted, that
every grain of wheat is saved instead of
being carried out into the straw stack.
Farmers with short srops this year should
thresh with the Chief.
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worh 81 cts. and who desire 10
e. their roperty decrease by contrac-
ion so per ct. while their debts increase
per Ct, will vote for Hayes and
Wheeler. Those who do not, will vote
[ or PErER COOPER.
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sofa, and although it cannot expect to
compete with Morris, which is the coun-
ty seat, it will nevertheless in time de-
velope into good sized town. 1t will
draw it's trade from region fifty mile 8
wide by ten miles broad; region, too.
where the average crop of wheat is
twenty five bushels to the acre.
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Amti-Mlunupolist.
ICNATIUS DONNELLY. Editor.
FOR PRESIDENT,
Peter Cooper,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
Newton Booth,
OF CALIFORNIA.
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TIE DIFFERENCE

The spectacle " hich the Democracy has pre-
sented 10 the country for the past two months
10y its efforts TO compel its representatives to
ay aside their principal opinions and join in q
compact raid upon the offices of the country,
would indeed be ludicrous could we forget,
What never should be forgotten, the danger to
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pit which necessarily attends
= Minneapolis Tribune.
IS it is true advanced so
J and right as to recog-
nce and seek to p!acate
lpubllcans have ridden
1hce over the financial
leople. The Democrats
ficks because he was Il
and resolved against
! n favor of the repeal OF
ct the Republicans Sc
hard-money men as
aud those gentlemen
ntraction and resump-
l those who are in debt
of paying gold worth
They borrowed green
The New York herald., 1876-03-01
SPORTING EVENTS ABROAD.
ANOTHER TRIUMPH FOR WESTON.
from the Standard. Feb III

FROM the Standard, Feb. IL.
The great walking match, commenced on Tuesday
evening at quarter TO ten At Agricultural Hail. has
suited, generally anticipated in the break down
OF Clark, who attempted 10 compete with the veteran
pedestrian from America At the end OF twelve hours
Clark collapsed from the very cause TO which
Perkins succumbed tho nrst occasion in which wes
ton met an English pedestrian. Cark's fees became
too tender for him to continue his journey The great
mistake have been that the English pedestrians
have treated walk OF 100 miles in the same
wsy in which they would have treated walk Tor
short distance. The result has naturally been the
same as If entirely out OF condition were to at
tempt to shoot lfty miles of ground in pair OF
patent leather shoes instead of preparing himself for
his exertion and providing himself with shooting
boots After walking about 1fty-nve miles In
littlc over twelve hours Clark retired to rest.
when il was soon found that his feet wero
in such a condition that 1t would be impossible
for him TO continue with the slightest prospect or
success Weston consequently continued walking alone,
the only interest then left in the event being to how
many miles he would accomplish in the forty eight
hours. ON this point the tables give below speak
Tor themselves. That Weston Is extraordinary
pedestrian there he doubt and that he possesses
great powers of endurance Is equally evident In TACT
that Perkins and Clark have been extremely illadysed
in attempting to compete at such distances without
preparation is self evident The fact or man being
able go very fast ior hour more warrants him
attempting walk OF tweDtyfour or forty-eght hours
than tho fact that being able to swim 500 yards
in good time would warrant HIM in attempt TO SWIM
the Channtl Westonis performance up II AS last
night will he below. He has taken but very
occasional rest when he has rcclned on bed keeping
his feet higher than his head, aud has at times
noistencd his socks with spirit Tor the purpose, proba-
bly, of hardening the skin. HIS refreshment has con-
sisted almost entirely OF fluids, and he aware OF
the fact ignored by some, that the stomach will not
disgest solid food while the body is undergoing violent
exertion Tho nearest approach to solid food that
Weston has taken has been some biscuits soaked in ar
rowroot besides which he has taken frequently small
quantities OF becea Jelly and eggs beaten up IN sherry