The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-21
SPIRIT Of THE PRESS.
The English Papers of This Morning.

The Commercial says The total num-
Der Of offices aut orlzed to issue and pay
money orders is 4,5l2. Every office in the
country should he authorized to do this.
During the year 6372, 243 domestic money
orders, amounting to $685. 254, GIL OF, were
issued The fees received bv Postmasttrs
amounted to $79S, 625 65 and "the average
| fee received for each order was IL % cents.
Each Po>t-office should be money! rider
office, and the cost of money order should
n It exceed l cent Cheap money-orders
are as important as cheap postage. -
There should be supply equal to any pos
sible demand of small sold-ten, five and
two-dollarand-a-half pieces. These with
silver would acceltaby take the place of
small notes for pocket monev.-General
Tn Young is as indispensable as an
Al ache Indian. He is bound tn have the
scalp If Postmaster Loge at his belt. Dis
appointments and delays do not dishearten
him. lie fixed upon Loge as his meat
months a4o, and las worried the Post
tfice Department and the President as the
widow worried the unjust Jud e.
The English Government is inclined t.
make nice distinctions between the anti.
rent agitutors in Ireland. There has hard
" been speech made since tie trouble be.
| Sdil tlldJ WIS lli'J lnCtlluluiN III tOHf, Dub Il
couple of Fenians, for words spoken at
Sli o. have been nut under arrest, and will
probably repeat their experience in prison
or in exile. But the arrest OF the popular
leaders will not put Il st p to he agitation.
Mere brute force may snppressit; hut down
4 in the hearts of the people it will burn like
fire, and break out in revolutionary mani
festatinns The old Contest. in s,ort, is to
be gone over again. TIL re seems now no
help for it, unless Parliament comes to the
rescue with some measure of reIief for
the oppressed and over taxed tenantry.--
| The Chicago lnterOcean, says the Com
mercal, Or badly knoNS that Blaine is a
candidate for the Presidency, and will re-
main so whether Grant runs or not. He,
| t erefOre, inevitably antagoniZpS the boom.
| If Grant can not be nominated eXcelt by
practicaI unanimity-whv. tIere is an end
of his candidacy. Blaine and Sherman are
not proposing to get obseqniousy out Of
his way, and thus consent 10 he ciphers for
ever more in our 'litics Our position is
not we think, ob,cure. We prefer Sher-
man to Blaine, and Blaine to Grant
The Gazette says: Among the oitrages
committed on election day bv the demnral-
lied police was the arrest of Mr.. c. w.
|
charge of procuring person t. attempt to
vote illegally, and the arrest of a citizen
rlom he had accompanied t., the p ling
lace. on the char-e + attempting to vote
illegally. They were arrested b. Patrick
| McGarr, in the rough wav which was car
ried on bv such of the police as the Board
had succeeded in procuring to do their cleo
tion work. There was n" shadow of excuse
Tor the arrest OF these men. 1t was found
that the other citizen was lawful voler,
and so the whole of the pretended charee
ell to the ground. Ever since that ti'ue
Nh. Thomas has been trying
to get his charge of false ar
rest against the policeman heard b.
the Police Board. Bu at length Mr..
| Thomas las had his patence exhausted nv
these evident devices for DELAY. and has
brought suit against McGarr and his bonds
men for false imprsonment.-T Chatta-
II ga'Times is much exercised over the stat e.
ments of Iill Barr. in the Christian Un-
ion, respecting the mine prisons in Dade
County. Gporsia, and especial an'rv with
the Gazette for having reproduced them. 1t
interposes general denial # harshness and
cruelty, and specific one regarding the
LEGGED greater severity rracticed tnv ard
col red c,nvirts. When white assassins in
nin"ty-nine cases ont of hundred gn scott
free. ur meet only with light punishment,
while colnred ones. if not hanged by lynch
aw. are aim st in ariably convicted and
executed. it is absurd 10 say that equal
Justice is meied out in other cases.
The record is against the Times
The Gazette quotes a part of Grants Chi
rago speech as follows: II am glad these So
CITY meetings keep up their life so long
# r the events which, in sense. they
conimem rate have passed away. They do
not serve to keep up sectional feeling or
bitterness t'ward our late f e, but tI.ev do
keep np the feeling that we are nation,
and that it must be a preserved one. and i'm
iivisable We ask NOTHING more for our
selves, and would rejoice to see them b..
come powerful rivals in the developement
of our great resources in the acquisition OF
all t at should be desirable in this life. and
in patriotism and in love If conntrv;" and
SAYS if there are Democrats North or
South. as there no doubt are, who approve
these sentiments. they are out of place il,
the Dem cratic party and should leave it.
They would he made welco,ne in the Re.
publican party aud could unite with that
party in the support of Grant or hoeve,
may be its candidate for President in 1880
The Enquirer says: Is it possible fol
Grant. rs the Republican candida fol
President, to carr three cor four Of the
) uthern States and thus bre TX the front
of lie Solid South? This is question tina
is being discussed extensively bv the poll
ticians. The man who carried war to theil
freSides, who DESTROYED C ties and lait
waste provinces, is not likely TO be the one
they would want to exat to permanent
authority over themselves. A more natnr
al feeling toward that man from South
erner's heart would he the words Of Robert
Toombs, when he telegraphed t" hicagp
''He fought fer his side and won, Tough
for mine and lost; but am ready to try i
again. Desth to the Union" This il
probably as fair an expression o
the sentiments of the South to
ward Grant as could be had, though
not given in diplomatic language
Grant is the man W o wiped out loca
authority; who planted cannon around th,
State-house at New Orleans to enforce th
Federal power; who stationed United State
troops in the 'apiIn! at Columbia at tn,
assembling oft Legislature. and statione,
Deputy Marshal at every ting place
Who called an army to Washington to se