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/ l'lt,sln L5s. apd Jaws, eA2bhpg- hem SCI
pope Stges aud counties and sell ou
! 1hsPeepl and seize their homes.
me bonIhofders- have been supreme
MASKS of he Federal government sc
iongAnd i've smiled when it ha:
uSurPfsd'h Extraordinary powers,
'ndt hey have never question
va thir right or power to
20 TIM things. They threatened
ana -ravd ii vain. They sent a
mighty hancer and swell-head to
wash vile 10 SUBJECT the Legislature, by
All the arts ana wiles that money em
pioys, to their lenignant purposes, but
Tor the first tinesince 1865 the people
every ~hese haH been thoroughly
aroused, and never before have they
compelled lsv-givers to remember
that the peope who pay have rights
as we'll as thoa who pay nothing and
receive everything. The result Is, that
II the Tennessee, Legislature make any
at alIit will be such that
The people can execute it without abso-
ute ruin. The representatives of the
'yndieate at Nashville, which threat
ms to sell out States and counties at
luction, must be content to take moth
ng or fifty cents on tAe dollar in bonds
bearing feur per cent. interest.
Bondholders of tie United States
night discover valuable lessons in facts
Incident to the conducs of Tennessee.
t is always wise to accept the first and
'est proposition made by bankrupt
iebtor or by multitude of debtors.
Every merchant and every old lawyer
,nows this to be true. The people of
he United States propose to pay their
Iebts as contracted to be paIi, and not
otherwise. Deny them this right, and
hey will come with other propositions
ess and less agreeable to heartless
reditors, and we can only advise those
iolent Eastern organs of the bondhold-
RS that their folly is infinite when they
enounce those debtors as repudiators
.ko are wiiling-t9 pay IN silver
r gold or paper. This is the
copies proposition, and if the
do not accept, the
ext proposed plan of adjustment will
e infinitely worse for those whose in
lordinate eXactions even reject this
mbodied in Bland's silver bill. We
ave never believed that The bondhold-
rs would suffer this Congress, elected
Tithout special reference 10 this ques-
ion, to enact the silver bill. Enough
Members of the carpet-bag sort may be
ought to prevent the edefeat of Hayes's
eto, but at the next elections the
Vest and South will send ul new men,
hosen with reference 10 financial facts
nd for financial purposes, and then, if
lot before, greedy bondhohers will
eara that it is always wisest b accept
he first proposition of an overburdened
lbtor.
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An Eastern paper says that the
twenty State troops left at San Eli
zario were designed to be sacrificed in
order that there might be pretext for
war; It's . rough joke on the troops.
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EDMUND BURKE said iu-a speech on
the British national debt and taxati N
to pay it:
1t is to the property of the citizen,
and not to the demand of thecFedftcN
of the State. that the original faith of
society is pledged. The claim of the
citizen is prior in time, paramount in
title and supreme in equity.
The government and the leaders of
he people have been taught by an ON
ipotent, all-pervadiny Eastern news
nper press, suborned by the mighty
hndholders, that each demand of ev-
ey creditor must be first considered.
When famine in the shape of mighty
army of tramps pervadcs the country ;
wien women are driven by want to
perlIt'on; when childrn are starving
and property made valGaess bankrupts
honest toll everywhere, still the Presi-
dent tells us that the demand of the
creditors, and not the woes of debtors,
shall be considered. R3mund Burke
was the profonndest of statesmen, and
when discussing the very questions in
volving the very facts that affect the
rich and poor of to-day in America
declared the claims and needs of the
many rather than of the few to be par
amount and supreme ia equity. There
fore let silver be remonetized and ma
tional banksabolished, and grecnbacks
become the country's currency.
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exact more than neo-ES
required by night or Justice to epdure
i'ondpayers never contracted to pav in
gold alone, and it was only bondbo,d
ers who 'ufiixed this stipulation afte,
s'e original alleged agreement wa.
made If silver had grained and
god lost relative value. these
oondhoiders would have made ,ha
bonds payable exclusively in silver, and |
'ihee the people haze this, will surely |
eAeieise this one right to use either
com an elscharging the debt. Den;a,
o' THIS right will probably lead to re-
sum akin to those witnessed IN Ten
ne5see, by demanding TOO much
y Gfeedy creditors of that common
wealth have lost enormously. Tbev I
bought bonds for forty cents which
declared on their face that they wor,
void If sold for less than their face
value. Fhey then sent syndicate TO
nashville when the Legislature was in r
'essipn and paid for the enactment ofa a
updin5 bill. The whole debt of the .
''ato was thus made uniform, the good 0
'nus honest bonds were undistinguisha- il
%, ne from those tainted with fraud, and "
ne honest debt created before the war n
'as lnseParable from that lawlesslv m
iade alter the war began and al. or II pt
J
nded. This funding process was de- fl
Igned to subject people who had lost ru
all their wealth to crafty the philan- OF
::ss.;ll s:asj 't5s' s5s,ssss. ~s.s st, st,
were hardly disposed to tic
~ the last farthing due on the face of H
iese FRAUDULENT bonds, and paid moth Al
g. The beRdholders were furious, nj
Id made terrible threats and organ fa
81 a syndicate 70 amend the Federal of
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TENNESSEE will enact the Moffet
whisky register law. twill pay the
public debt of that State when shaved
down to fifty cents and four per cent.
interesI.
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THE SAN ANTONIO PRESS .N,,
mEXIC0,

San Antonioeis still for war. The
hi1pFeSs Is the organ of beIlieose
san Antonio. 1t even suggests. such
Is its rage and anxiety, that the
STATESMAN is dishonest in this behalf
How and wherefore? 1t is Impossible
to conceive of dishonest or selfish mo-
tiYes. Nobody would pay US to oppose
war WITH Mexico; somebody might TO
induce us to advocate it. Neither land
nor money nor office nor silver mines
are 70 be hoped for by him who op.
poses the INVASION of Mexico. Bribery
or corruptness of purpose is therefor
impossible The populace delights IN |
war; Therefore wars are often pre- |
NOTED to strengthen a tottering ad.
or party in power, and the
people always, in war, adhere with mr.
tenaclty to their leaders and
'ulers. Polk and Lincoln were omn;n
'tent when wars ragged and becsuse
vars ragged. Patriotism in the midst Of
title supports the existing administ,a
ION. People have said that Govarror
hubbard was as eager for 49,
antonio. The difference between 80 90
nan and the city consists in the simple
act that Governor Hubbard. wants
fice and fame, aud San Antonio onl
L. A., L. V.ol- r.. -
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and bills of exceptions il the case Of
The Stste v. Ham. A notable recogni.
tioA of the value of The STATESMAN
as public journal was made in the
fact that the report of the last days
I TSrocera7gs IN the Ham case was em-
bodied iAthe statement Of facts. hav.
ps been usd by defendants counsel
and accepted IS correct by the counsel
Tor the State. The printed report. of
the proceedings in totidem ger5is were
pasted on the folios Of the statement Of
facts, and thus go mp to the Appellate
Court as so much of tue history of tho
case. stevens's bond was reduced TO
$40, 600, after which a fe@ other mat
ters were disposed OF, when the COZ
adjourned for the term. Judge Turn.
has worked faithfully for ii protracto
period at this term of the court. andI
entitled to the gratitude of the peol
.or .or his fidelity, as he, has Oh ,lls
neir admiration for his. ability
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ritice1 millions Of treasure ans

riice' millions of treasure spS c6psesl=7!
less lives, and all becitas ga.
Antonio would be the base OF
operations and of supplies and
become the terminus of a railway
TO Monterey and Mazatlan. Th Er
press advocates a war presuned to
have, necessarily, these palpabl re-
suits. The question arises whtber
the Express or STATESMAN Is actu.ed
by the loftiest, most unselish purposs.
We may advocate an unpopular poli4
AID simply because it is wise and ris,t
do we pursue this course. Whateve
popular clamor may indicate, or til
greed of quartermasters and commits
saries, or the mad ambition of indi
viduals, who are to command, Will,
common soldiers dig ditvhes on arid
plains or stony hillsides-whatever
the frenzy of the hour, the STATESMAN
still insists that we have no proper oc
casion for war. 1t will cost infinitely
more than we can gain by it, and while
one city may be aggrandized and few
lucky speculators and adventures en-
riched or crowned with laurel and bay,
the great body of the people of both
countries would lose enormously In
life and wealth and morals and for
tune.
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hiles. Every dollars worth of
advantage gained would cost us S..
Mexico is strong enough to REQUIRE an
army of 300, 600 Americans TO whip her.
The Mexicans are dogged, resotste,
tenacious, fatalistic and know how 10
die without word when they have to
die. Diaz fought the French barder,
oftener, faster and more furiously than
all the balance of the so called Liberal
generals put together. He would not
have shot Macmillan. He spoke of
him as one who had mistaken. his call
ing. Mexico has population OF nearly
1900, 600, and is an admirable country
for defense. If aroused by q war Of
invasion, 1000, 900 of combatants might
spring to arms; say, anyhow, 500, 600.
The regular army now numbers GO, 600,
and there are also under discipline 35,-
600 rural guards and 81, 900 armed
police drilled as soldiers. Nine-tenths
of the trouble on the Rio Grande comes
from this side of the river. You don't
know that river. Along il on either
side is the paradise of the cut-throat,
the bandit hiding from pursuit,
the highwayman, the horse, cat
tie and sheep thief, the desperate
border man, the herder out Of work,
and the red-handed murderer. Once
ranchmen had no fences about their
ranches, and had to employ multi
tude of herders for both cattle and
sheep. This called into being class
of men who had OF necessity To lead
wild life, to ride well, to shoot we'll.
to know little about law, to become in
ured to every kind OF hardship. and
who, before they will ever settle down
to peaceful work again, now that the
most OF the ranches are fenced, will
have to try awhile the virtues OF raid
ing and raising hi. Alrea DIV they
have organized in l. nds Of defpera-
does, and the two companies Il State
troops under Jones snd Hall were
organized at the request OF the ranch
men, and TO protect them against these
very ex-herders which the newspapers
call Mexicans. II this country corets
territory, let her say so and take IL.
but in the name of all that "a
soldlerly and brave, and magnani-
nous, do not let her make the depre-
dations OF thIeves and eut-throsts an
excuse to sacrifice one hundred thou
sand lives and 800, 600, 600. Dsnz
hates these thieves and robbers on the
border worse than VIC do. His.obiect
in moving troops is to- place such
force on the Mexican side Of the Rio
Grande as will crush all who STIR or
prey upon his territory. He means To
do what Ord Is doing. he means To
take care OF his own house and TO CO.
operate with the United st ates author
tiles. II he is not kicked and spif
upon and insulted beyond all eaoaIs
anoc, he had rather feed Americn
soldiers than to fight them. Daz has
enemies on the RIO Grande. &c b..
is prowling around Sac Az
cruitiDg for the help Of hss&ar
Lerdo. He is not pArtlcS.z
gerous, but he is cuRR
sub-agents ali ~
burning and woIki1l
Reporter-,'If thefeN
would you call for yo
strive to gather together,a
iAnt OF your old brigad
Itay idly at home snd
o thesnoisy eTS sat(
'ou content
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confederates have been ap-
trifling positions in and
hiugton, and we discover in
! onion that they are COM
IS carpet-baggers. Those
/ Of Washington think they
opolizs the Offices Of the
ery well then, LET the peo-
e United States be taxed no
rssount of Washington. its
'siiues or parks: But these
. kle to Federal and not
s1kces. Then let all
and carpet-baggers s-
E South. let the ruE1e
Fill not the Union ur s
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The Galveston Iadepsadept thinks
Mr.. Anarews's explanation no explain
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THE st. Louis
to the habits of ),
says that g.
derest care
posed ones mode of liz
lasts. People who would
lease of existence, the Repabtic's
have( us believe, must live in the
air and sleep , upon the e.s1s ground nso. ss'S "a
u.kuch the same thing and was of the
fopinion that soldiers modes of life, If
they never went into battle, were most
promotlve of longevity. The Repubh-
can does not mean to approve as sanl-
tary measures the habits of a certain
Texas State Senator, of whom it nigh;
,e safely asserted If dirt gave Wit ality,
ls. would surely live thousand years
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BEN BUTLER said in his speech in
Massachusetts, that the President OBJ
Jects to. the Bland bill on account of
the free. coinage clFuse, ne. ualimited
legal tender chsraetsristics, and be-
cause it is vfolation of the public
faith to paw the creditors OF the GOV.
ernmept, either the principal or inter
est of their bonds, in silver. In re.
gard to unlimited 8 1l.1id the dam
af flooding the country with silver
he said we need not fear that, because
we cannot issue more than So, 900 600
per month, or about twenty five mil.
hons year, and that would be a mere
orop In the bucket. He said it was
claimed to be legislation in favor of
the silver industry of the country. but
ne ala not know why we should oh.
Iect to 1T because it benefits the silver
'r any other special Industry if it also !
benefits the whole country at the samolI
lime. Ii, as legal tender, silver wi hs
'nited to 800 it.iliililu !. be discriA nj
i;st
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6isssss & and q laaisl0n ,.as :,
Of pyhment in j IT, 1r ~
.eRnnnccept tn & III
rial lire for til ana :,
here are man narI
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EDMUND BURKE said iua speech on
the British national debt and taxati N
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backward; that he would
even tenor of his way unto |thc>
This was the plain meaning of M
Evarts's figurasive remarks.
The daily gazette., 1878-02-28

A MAN ON HORSE BACK, TRAVELLING
From WARRINGTON TO NEW HANP.
SHIRE.
This morning between 8 and A O'Clock
officers Gibbons and Brickle of the First
District, arrested = man at front and
Orange street. At the time of arrest he
was on horse back. and the officers
thought that he had perhaps sto-
len the horse, and acting under that
impression they took him in charge. he
was taken to the City Hall and the sad
die taken from off the horse, and the In
dividual was locked up in the city cells,
and the horse taken to the Delaware
House stables. Besides the saddle, he
had small box containing Q naval re-
volver, several small pistols, and larg .
dirk knife, there was also bundle con-
tanning number of articles, including
a large book in which he had carefully
noted observations made during bis trav>
els.
He also had three discharges from
the army, one OF them showing that
he had been in the Mexican war. He
gave his usme as Nathaniel johnson q
Coffin, and his destination as New
Hampshire. From memorandum
made in his book, it show wed that he
had been on Inc Polar exhibition with
Captain Hall. He has been all through
California, and the Territories. As ne
rode up Market street he attracted a
considerable amount of attention
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NHERIFF'S SALE. ..l......t. ...
- BY virtue Of writ OF Levari Facias,
TO me directed, will be exposed to public
sale, at the - .I-.-fs.I4-7 " .l.a
HOTEL OF ALEXANDER MAXWELL
IN Middletown. in st. Georges Hundred,
Now Castle County, Delaware, on
TUESDAY,
The 10th Day of MARCH, 1873,
at O'Clock, p. m the following described
Real Estate, viz: ..llt
situate. lying and being In st. Georges
hundred, in the county OF New Castle, and
state OF Delaware, and which is bsunded
and described as follows, to wit: Beginn-
ing at point In the public road leading
from the Trap to Port Penn, q corner for =
lot Of land Of Richard Long, thence with
said road south 81 34 degrees, west Al 2, 10
liam Bowman, thence with the same north
| 3 1-2 degrees, east 160 perches to another
! corner late OF said bowman, thence with
the same north 80 degrees, east II 7-l0 per-
ches TO another corner late of said Bow
man, thence with tho same north 3 IL de-
| grees, east 81 5-i0 perches to another corner
late OF said Bowman, in the public road
leading from Boyd's Corner to Port Penn,
| thence with said public road north so Ia
degrees, east al s-1O perches 10 a stone, o
corner for land OF Lewis Vandegrift. thence
| with land of said Vandegrift, David Cra-
ven and VIM. Webb, south 12 degrees,
east 1888 S-10 perches to a corner for Richard
Longs lot. thence with the same south So
! degrees, west SO perches, thence with the
sa me south IL degrees, east 10 perches to
the place of beginning, containing seventy
| seven acres and ifty-six perches OF land,
more or less, with q two-story frame dwell
, ing house, meat house, poultry house,
tenant house. and other lmpro gement5
! thereon erected, being the premises con-
| w. Karsner.l
Seized and taken In execution as the
property OF George W. Karsner, surviving
Mortgagor, and /. t., and TO be sold by
ISAAC GRUBB, Sheriff.
Sheriff's onice, New Castle, Feb. 2s. 1878.
fec26-3taw-ts
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LOO. e
GRAND psMoNsrBArIoS or the ORDER
TO BE HELD AT THE OPERA HOUSE.

GRAND DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE ORDER
TO BE HELD AT THE OPERA HOUSE.
1 In preparing for the celebration of the
twenty-eighth anniversary Of Asylum
Lodge, No. 23, 1. u. OIL r., of this city,
the committee of arrangements secured
from John w. Stokes, Grand Sire of the
Grand Lodge Of the United States, the
acceptance Of an invitation TO be present
and make an address. In order to ac-
commodate the many members and their
friends who are desirous of listening to
the address to be delivered by the head
Of the order In this country, the Grand
Opera House has been secured and the
celebration will take place on Tuesday
evening, March ~. 1t will be one of the
grandest demonstrations of the order
ever witnessed in this city, and besides
the great turnout of members that is con-
fidently expected, every grade and de-
gree Of Odd Fellowship will be repre-
sented on the stage, in full regalia.
An address of welcome on behalf of
the city will be delivered by His Honor,
Mayor Whiteley, and on behalf of the
Grand Lodge Of Delaware by j. j. Gala
Cher, Grand Mastef. Grand Sire Stokes
will respond at length, and it is expected
that an address viii also be delivered by
at least one other prominent member OF
the order, who will accompany the Grand
Sire, The exercises will be interspersed
with good music.
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Registers Order.
REG rsTHR s UFFIcE.
New Castle Co., February Z,

Upon the application OF DIR, Joseph H.
Chandler, Administrator, @. 7, A., OF John
Burnett, late of Christiana Hundred in said
county. decd, 1t Is ordered and directed by
the Register that the Administrator afore-
said. give notice of the grantingof Letters of
Administration Q. T. A. upon the Estate of
the decd, with the date of granting thereof,
by causing advertisements to be posted
within forty days from the date OF such
Letters, In six of the most public places of
the County of New Castle, requiring all
persons having demands against the Es-
tate, to present the same or abide by an
Act of Assembly in such case made and
provided. And also cause the same to be
inserted within the same period in the
Delaware GAZETTE, a newspaper pub
lished In Wilmington, and to be continued
therein three weeks (e. o, d.
f~->~, Given under the hand and Seal OF
}L.s. Office of the Register aforesaid at
s->~~' New Castle, in New Castle County
aforesaid, the day and year above written.
+. s. O. BIGGS, Register
NOTICE
All persons having claims against the
Estate of the deceased must present the
same duly attested to the Administrator
on or before February 9th 1875, or abide the
Act Of Assembly in such case made and
jos. H, CHANDLER. MD,
Administrator, G. T. A.
Address, Centreville. bel. .I.
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Mr.. EDITOR AS there Is to be rep
sentative to the Legislature elected from
this hundred next fall, it would be well
to scan the horizon to get suitable per-
son for that position. He should fully
understand the interests of this city, be
d good thinker and sound reasoner a
man who can advocate the rights and In
terests of our manufacturing and indus
trial interests, and at the same time be
careful to examine the claims of persons
wanting acts of incorporation, to see that
they are for the public good and not for
the purpose of crushing out individual
capital or enterprise, as l fear that our
legislative body has not examined In all
cases the true inwardness of the motives
tanning charters. Also, he should be a
man who could tell the members, and
impress upon their minds, the necessities
of city of forty thousand inhabitants.
Such man is Howard Simpson. He
is young man, thoroughly acquainted
with business, sound thinker and clear
reasoner while naturally of a retiring
disposition, he is a forcible speaker, has
paid considerable attention to the study
of political economy, and notwithstand-
ing the EUery EUening's slurs at his letters
in the GAZETTE on the financial question
and the Silver bill, his letters on that sub
jeot has received recognition at the hands
of some of the ablest statesmen in the
Senate and House of Representatives
who are defending the rights Of the peo-
pie against the noney-changers.
The Eoery Etening would do well to
read his letters and reflect upon the dis
paraging way IN which it treated them
1t should reIoeniber that Andrew John
son was a tailor. and Roger Sherman a
shoemaker. F6r sound Judgment and
educational training 1 think Mr.. Simp.
son will compare favorably with any of
the representatives we have had for some
time. He is q good Democrat and In
the pride of his|manhood, and if nomina-
ted would make a creditable member
one we can point to with pride. Hoping
am hot taking too much of your valua
BILE space, remain, yours, Sc,
j. A DEMOCRAT.