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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07
THE PRESIDENCY.
THE NEW YORK "HERALD" sPECULATEs
on THE PROBABLE NOMINATIONS.

THE NEW YORK HERALD" sPECULATEs
on THE PROBABLE NOMINATIONS
The New York Herald of Monday had
an editorial article sleculating ON the prob
able candidates of the two parties for the
Presidency in 1850. and il arrives at the
conclusion that the Republicans will take
either TX Minister Washburne or Ex- Pres
ident Grant, and most probably the latter.
Concerning the Democratic party it is less
certain anu says:
II is easy enough to make 4 list from
which the Democratic candidate will be
taken, but it would be too hazardous and
ventureSomc to say of any individual in
the list that he had no real chance for the
nomination. The Democratic catalogue
may be quickly filled up. 1t includes but
four names-Bayard. Thurman. Hendricks
and Tilden. The weak points of each are
apparent enough, but it cannot yet be as
serted IN tho case of any three of them
that the weak points aIe fatal. Mr.. Bayard
wo1d make an excellent President; lac is
upright, able, courageous, consistent, chiv-
alrous, and is uniiinchiugly correct ON the
whole circle of monetary aud financial
questions. Moreover, he is a Southern
man and would be particularly acceptable
to the South, which forms the great body
Of the Democratic party. This is the bright
side; now for the dark side. Ii is the mis-.
fortune of Mr.. Bayard to represent one of
the smallest States in the Union, a State
which is securely Democratic whoever may
be the candidate of his party. The temp
tation is to take the candidate from some
enc of the great States whose vote is
doubtful enough To enable popular can.
didate To turn the scale. Delaware being
secure, in any event, Mr.. Thurman might
be preferred II II was deemed certain that
he could carry Ohio aud that no other can
didate could; or Mr.. Tildcn might be pre-.
ferIcd if he was thought to be the only
candidate that could carry New York In
our judgment Mr. Bayard would make a
better run in New York than Tilden him
self; but 1t is probable that the Tildcu in
iluence would be thrown for Thurman or
Hendricks, rather than see Mr. Tiden cut
out by another hard money man. 1t would
be less notifying To him to be beaten by
the Western sentiment of his party on the
currency than to be ccipsed by the superior
personal popularity of Senator Bayard
Mr. Thurman is 4 statesman of strong
faculties and ripe experience who enjoyed
and deserved the confidence of his party
until he began To trim on the money ques.
ton. His recreancy to sound princl pies
may help him in the West. and if Western
ideas are to control the National Conven-
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" ABoU, DEN KEAESEY. y

Abou, Den Kearney, may his tribe decrease,
Awoke one night from dreams of the Chi
nese,
Gin which he murmured oft in accents low
His famous watchword--" The Chinese
must Go;')
And saw spalpeen writing in the cold.
Excess of cheek than made Den kearney
bold,
And to the presence in the room he said,
What writest thou?" The figure raised
its head,
And with grin replied, You just keep
cool:
I'm looking round to find the biggest fool. y
Am the one ~ said kearney, 81 don't
know"
Replied the other. Kearney spoke more
low;
And cheeky, then, " You just can bet your
pile,
pool my issues in the sand lot style"
The spalpeen bowed, and vanished. The
next night
lie knocked our hero "higher than kite
The roll of fools he BORE of East and West.
Aud 10! Den Kearney's name led all the rest
Boston Herald
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

Central Committee. This state of affairs
was, however, anticipated by our CON
rcntion, and the delegates selected to
represented the county have, by reso-
buttons Of that convention, been de-
clared accredited delegates to such
subsequent convention as NAV here
after be called by the concurrent COM
mittees of the four counties comprising
the Congressional district This call
may be anticipated at an early day, and
we can only hope that some more cen
trial place of meeting than Westminster
will be selected.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

persons who have nothing in the world
but their dollars to recommend them
and if such an ARIsroCRACY knew
how sensible people ridicule their as
symptoms, we imagine there would be
sudden willing of their pride The
mcancst arlStocracv on earth is the
aristocracy of money 1t may be ignor-
ant, immoral, not infrcquently unfit for
cultured and refined association. and
yet il will affect an exclusivcncss. as il
the touch Of the common herd might
soil it.
The spirit of our institutions should
70 into our lives. One man is as good
rs another il he behaves himself" and
there are as noble and true characters
engaged in every day manual labor all
over the country as can be found in anv
of the professions or among the classes
living in luxurious idl cness. 1t is not
what 4 man has, but what he is that
makes him exalted or dchasci. MANY
one can be pointed out, rolling in
wealth, whose moral character is in a
condition Of putrcfaction, while on the
other hand there are plenty of poor men
whose characters are clean and natures
nobIe, and who are as much above the
pretensler in everything that makes the
true and admirable man, as virtue is
above vice. When the country comes
more generally to realize and act upon
this fact, we shall be on a better basis
FOR UNFOLDING consistent republican
government
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

The New York Tribune " has been
very entcrprising, or lucky, or both, in
getting possession OF an immense num-
her Of Geographic dispatches which
either reveal or suggest the nature of
the dark plots through which il was
hoped that the Presidency could be
secured to Mr. Tilden. The dispatches
which the Tribune " has been publish
ing from day to day have clearly out
lined the conspiracy for the capture of
the Presidency. which rs regards its
combinations Of stealthncss and audac-
itv leaves far in the shade all that has
ever been charged against The most I'm.
scrupulous of the Republican mana
gers of the campaign of 1876 We'd
nesdayss issue of the Tribune is cs.
pecallv notable for its formidable broad
side Of dispatches sixty-onc in all which
either tell or darklv hint, the methods
by which il was sought TO steal Ore
CONS single vote. These dispatches
present on their face far more com.
plcte case than all evidence that has
been taken bv the Potter Committee
against the manipuiations of the Loui-
slana and Florida votes The array is
the most extraordinary development that
has been made since the Democratic
cry of fraud has gone out To distress
the land. Some Of these dispatches
are in cipher, but not enough of them
are in plat; English to prove everything
that has been alleged by the Republ-
cans as TO the effort to get the vote OF
Oregon for Tilden
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

SECRETARY SHERMAN most peril
nently says: 81 can imagine how a
man deeply in debt, and hoping to es-
cape bankruptcy, may desire to cheaper
the money in which his debt is to be
paid, but why should laboring man,
whose daily toll is measured by the
money he receives, desire to cheaper
that money? Why should a farmer,
who sells his productions for money,
desire to lessen its purchasing power :?
Why should prudent, thrifty, indus
trious man engaged in any occupation,
who hopes by his thrift and industry
TO accumulate for himself competence,
ire to have his labor measured by
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

IL the month of August Chicago
received 3T,453 car leads of grain by
rail, and l,6l3,I25 bushels by canal,
making sn aggregate of about 10000
600 bushels. The Tribune of that
city says this is about the largest record
for IL month ever known in Chicago.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

AS soon as the Potter-Butler Com
mittee find the Sherman letter they will
Immediately take up the case of Charlie
Ross" Chicago Tribune" Let the
widow Butler keep his loving eye
on Sherman. Aleck Barwick will. at
tend to Charlie Ross, and give him
4" fits " 10 boot.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

WE are still keeping the balance of
trade largely in our faver. In 1877
we were doing extraordinarily well, but
the figures show that up to the 3lst of
August there has been an excess of ex-
ports amounting TO Sl66, pa ,293, while
the excess for the same time in 1877
amounted to only $35, $50, 343.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

lT is but reasonable to suppose that
if General Grant should he again chosen
to the Chief Magistracv, his third term
would be an improvement on his sec
ond. as his second was on his first.
He undoubtedly sees what his serious
mistakes were, and would try to avoid
n repetition of them lie has seen u
great deal of good society abroad, and
no doubt will in the future have less
fendness for the company of horse.
jockeys, whiskv-thieves aad purse-proud
shoddyites. His accession to the Pres
idency for a third term would he bv no
means misfortune, as some foolish
alarmists represent At Inc same time
it is folly to suppose that Grant is a
necessity When the country comes
to such pass that it possesses but a
single man competent 10 be President
II will be high time TO establish "A mon
archy. If he goes back to the White
House il will be because the countr,
prefers him TO ANYBODY else The event
has no other special significance. and all
talk about the destruction or the sal
walton of our institutions resulting from
third term is stuff and Nonsense.
ClsseldHd Herald
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

SENATOR DAWES makes the best
comment yet ON Buffers letter of ac-
ceptance The document has about
four columns of solid promises of what
Butler will do if he becomes Governor.
Mr.. Dawes says he is reminded of what
Butler himself said when he was pro-
missing everything TO everybody in II
former campaign. He was asked if he
was not giving more promises than he
could redeem, and answered with true
Butlerian impudence: "Oh, can re-
new what | can't redeem :" That is
Buffers financial creed as well: Issue
promises to pay without limit, and re-
deem them with fresh promises.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

THE n Y Tribune saws that there
is an unfettered son of Democracy run
ming for Congress in Ohio, who insists
upon spelling Europe, "Trip" being a
believer in the American system of
simplifcation in photography. Objec-
tionable, however, as may be his sys-
TEN, recklessness in spelling is very
much less harmful than the average
Democratic Ohio recklessness in iinan-
cial principles.
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" what has recently been hung out
upon the line be fair sample, there
must have been considerable dirty linen
among the TiIdenites during the last
campaign.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

ADDED to the horrors of disease in
Memphis, we hear now of riot; and
the deaths by fever are supplemented
by the fatal use of the rifles of the ne
gro militia to quell negro uprising
The soldiers, of course, did their I'M
avoidabe duty, but it seems hard that
men should aid, even in the cause of
order, the fearful and mortal ravages
of the plague
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

now ia vigorous hearing condition. and Covering an
ara 81 ti-.st IL The -uprfIaIiy Il tl iru {.
all kH"vE "a t," FaIlaa'lraia mark; Er steam
Lat '"unHni' '."" irarh grain. De, aHd all other
iArcl lr-.i.,s NAV D. s-lIs"T" philadelphia OF l.
'HHi" als i." aud ";l.T nIhnur,- may - landed
the itrfu.
;h" l1uiiuS l!ar" os ih~ -tiJvglru. country About
-" HDT'- "f fhl- farm uu.r :,'lu. aud u ruiiv.-
"a The quality Il the ani rN-rllruI Ini ruiuyr-
hH~ r.i There - sufficient wood land r.-- OF
thu farm.
Tiir uprp, .ss the farm consist II a szE.L
""rHfurtahi" DIV ELLING HOUSE and com II ..
~ ,liau> rrst'h Hau-" itt.l up with boiler. ~
Kin. and many TuslrtU convenience S{4
A, several small iu4lIiu-- Tor thu accommodation II
i,'-r-t.s N-st Ii.u-r with dep dairy cellar: Car
p"nt"r- Ship. Toll IuI-- large franz Barn. 10
feet i"nZ - a1 ir~t Ws". "Scr-h,-', II ~ feet This
tsAru = nearly lui htt"l in the lest -fslr.
tlu- la, Al-sut - hur-- -tall-. to II ,nw
~iHil- -h"'T I-., aud shelter for lars- nuiu-f II
'tiil-. Hl-r large 'rauarN two Pumps II good
Water on" ur,T tn" house and tn" other At the barn
HHi ir,-iurtiV" GArI~u ~ui-ui So the kitchen
ThI- ~ i'rty IutefscCisi rs a public rad which
!''lir~ u mt" two parcels nearly 'lua ia size II will
IT, sold IN whole or ia parcels should be decline, bst
On the 'iIV II s1ilr.
TERMS -nur-f fourth Il the purchase money shall b,
IAli IN cash the lay 81 t uth-I fourth % the
purchase mnIry shall H. paid var irurn tine lay If
-'."; enc other fourth "i the Iurci" rpHry shall r
Pad ia i~ iFum the l1y Of sale: and l ether
Fourth 81 tin purChIS- uuis~y -hali L. I.i IA three
bear interest from the dAv 1t sale aui hall -.-,tIr,
l., tn" notes ~ bonds q" the purchaser. With ,rty To
IT, approved 10y the Trustee. This property -nII sub
jet to the Ia,mrui by the IurUha.sr IT the sum ST
AMI hH cent? u" {" the Trustee 81 Jsui.- Ca.-eIaV
The rurrh--"r vii Dee required L. pay the
this -um from brruhrr a. is. durlus Ia" lite
81 the widow at aid james Cs-.-ils anI t. pay ths
whole sun to the -aiI Trustee upon her death.
W. }. JONES,
scp,7, LISTS Trustee.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

CONGRESSMAN JONES, of Alabama,
who voted against seating a Demo-
cratic contestant from Massachusetts
in the chair to which a Republican
Congressman had been legally elected,
and then, in obedience TO the dictum OF
the Democratic caucus, reversed his
conscience and voted the other way,
has failed of q denomination. No tears.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07
ELKTON, SEPTEMBER =, ls7s.

THIS is the time when shrewd mer-
chants begin to plant advertisements.
And as they plant, so will they reap.
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EVEN when Mr.. Hendricks goes
through the solemn act of coming out =
on any great issue, the straddle, which
has become a second nature to him.
mars the dignity of TIE performance.
Mr.. Hendricks has come out" for Mr..
voorhees, as candidate for the Senate;
he has ''come out" for the laboring man
and for tramps, and internal improve
ments, and against National banks and
the Government generally And in all
that he says there is chiefly apparent
The desire 10 avoid saving anything.
His caution amounts 10 cowardice, and
not one OF his sentences is fat-footed.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

EX-SECRETARY boutwell, Joins his
former associates in General Grant
Cabinet in favoring third term. He
expects 10 see the General renominatcd
and reelected, because he can poll a
larger Southern vote than anv other
Republican, and has, besides, firm
and lasting hold upon the gratitude,
respect and affections of the people.
lie thinks his popularity has been in
creased since his foreign travels began.
Personally Mr.. Boutwell, has a high
regard for the General, and SAYS it is
impossible for any one to know him
well without respecting him.
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money of unstable value ii is the
interest of every one engaged in indus
trious employments, who is not spccu-
lator or II broker, to have Il fixed stand
ard of value"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

IiIi- isrm = -Ituli-i Sa.aa, NJ X. Cecil ,uuItN
N'r'lhn't ''ztt N miir ialua ts,ftau- thu IutIIy
r"a! ''s'iitl- ir tn That I e. Grny" Point Il -
i'H, ~ Ia" ~t-~EifI- ENvr. wlIrfr ta"t" = zs'd
Wharf 'ra Steamboat Landing i..loi. INK the pro
irfiy- II l. 'Ut midway i-tv--n th- ,ii-- PuiI-
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

THERE is good reason TO believe that
the assurances of Republican success,
which come from Indiana, are well
founded. The Republicans are united
and active. and what is better have ex-
cellent candidates to support. The
Democrats are disorganized by becker
ings and jealousies, and have on their
tickets about as bad n collection of men
as ever ran for office. From Voorhees,
down the nominees differ only in being
demagogues of different sizes. Next
10 Voorhees,, the worst man in the loi
is the candidate for Congress in the
9TH district. He is ranting parson
who breaches q combination of politics
and religion, and spends most of his
time in hunting for Office He was nom-
mated by the Greenbackers and accept
ed by the Democrats, and the hopeful
prospect is that he will he handsomely
beaten. THE New-Albany Ledger
Standard" which is the most respecta-
ble Democratic newspaper in the State.
calls him carpet-bagger aad a scala
wag," political preacher of the mos,
persistent sort" who doesn't deserve
the vote of single honest Democrat.
That gives comforting glimpse OF the
Democratic happy family
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

WHEN high ground is chosen it is
easy to make a good fight TIE Maine
Republicans have secured Il command
ing position by entrenching themselves
on the heights of honess money and
public faith, and their prospects in the
canvass, which will close next week,
are all they hope for. The leaders are
not afraid to call spade spade
They regard the tendencies of the
Greenback party as revolutionary, and
in their closing address they say as
much and what is more they have the
documentary evidence at hand to prove
it. The only way in which political
movement of so low an order can be
overcome is to face it and argue il down
without yielding an inch of ground.
A compromise with ignorance is always
a dangerous experiment. He who sups
with the Devil must have long spoon.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-09-07

campaign
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-17

as a condition precedent to an investigation.
The Burchard amendment was adopted by
101 to SO, there being fourteen Democratic
absentees. The Hale substitute as amended,
was finally adopted III committee of the
whole by a similar majority.
In the House, January II, among the bills
introduced and referred was one by Mr..
Sapp, to give construction to the act for re-
sumption of specie payment; also, authoriz-
ing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue
coupon bonds of denomination of SIS, S25,
$50, and 800 for the investment of savings.
Mr.. Hale moved the previous question on
the substitute reported yesterday from the
Committee of the Whole, which is TO the
effect that the committee desiring to make
investigation may at any time apply to the
House for leave to send for ersons and
Iapers, but requiring them to present a
statement of the charge. The previous
question was not seconded-100 to Ill. Mr..
Wood (Dem.), n. Y, then offered a sub,ti-
tute for Mr.. Hale's, and demanded the
revious question, the substitute being his
original resolution without change. Mr..
Hale made the point that tie Committee of
the Whole having rejected the proposition
now presented, the House could not be
asked to vote upon it. The Speaker, after
some colloquy, overruled the point of order,
but stated the vote must be first taken on
the report of the committee, that is on
Hale's substitute. The previous question
was seconded. The first vote was on Mr..
Burchard's amendment to the original res
olution, which was to insert words author.
| izing the committees to apply to the House
for power to send for persons and papers
| The amendment was rejected-yeas, 106
nays, iii. The next vote was taken On Mr.
Woods substitute offered to-day (being the
resolution as originally presented), and il
was adopted-yeas, Ill !; nays, 10Y. MIR. Coz
asked leave to offer resolution asking the
President to communicate his reasons fol
refusing to recognize the present government
of Mexico under General DiaZ, with sucf
orders, correspondence, and other docu
ments as relate to that subject. Referred
to Committee on Foreign Affairs. Th'
House then considered private business.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-01-17
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

JOHN BRIGHT, in addressing his constitu-
ents at Birmingham, declared that he was
strongly in favor of non-intervention.
Constantinople dispatches say that fugi-
tives are focking there from Philippopolis
and Adrianople. Crowded trains are ar
irving.
THE Turks have burned the town of
Ichtiman, and intend to burn Tartar Bazard-
jik and other towns in the Topolnitsa and
Gyopsa Valleys.
AN official telegram announces that the
Turkish fleet has bombarded Eupatoria,
damaging the barracks, guardhouses, arse
nal, quarantine establishment, and some
private residences.
A TELEGRAM from Constaniinople says
the Turkish commanders in the field have
been ordered to conclude an armistice with
the Russian commanders. The conclusion
Of truce is probable.
VICTOR EMANUEL, King of Italy, died at
2 80 on the afternoon of January 9. His
successor, King Humbert, has issued a
proclamation, saying that he intends to fol-
low in the footsteps of his father.
GENERAL RADETzKY has captured the
whole Turkish army defending the Shipka
Pass, consisting of forty-one battalions, ten
batteries, and one regiment of cavalry.
Flags were displayed all over the capital, St.
Petersburg, in honor of the victory.
A TELEGRAM received in Paris from Con-
stantinople states that the Porte has asked
for an armistice through England. Another
ConstaRtinople dispatch says that Minister
Layard has handed to the Porte the Russian
reply to England's note that Turkey should
apply fer an armistice directly to the Rus
sian Commander-in-chief. The transmits
sion of this reply to the Porte had been
delayed, pending deliberations of the Eng
lish Cabinet.
A BELGRADE telegram says that Niscf
surrendered ON the morning OF the 14th, il
consequence of the capture by storm
of all the heights commanding tn,
fortress of the town. The fighting hat
lasted five days. The Servian loss is con
siderable. Several special dispatches an
nounce that the garrison of Nisch, whiel
surrendered to the Servians, numbere,
eight thousand, with ninety cannon, twelv
thousand rifles and a number of flags.
A DISPATCH from Malta announces tha
Vice Admiral Hornby has sailed for tn
Levant in the ironclad steamer Sultan. TIL
ironclads Devastation, Achilles, and Alex
andria, and the frigate Raleigh, are prepal
ing to follow. The force in the dock var
is working till eight o'clock every night
The troop ship Jumna, homeward boun
from India, with one thousand and sixty
seven men, is detained at Malta. TIL
Euphrates, outward bound, with one thou
and one hundred and forty-two men, is ais
detained there.