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AND YET THEY ARE NOT HAPPY.

Bishop HALL must have had faint
glimpse of the politics and politicians of
1879 and 80 when he wrote
The malcontent is neither well, full nor
fasting; and though he abOunds with COM
plants, and yet nothing disilSes him but the
present. for what he condemns while it was
once past he magnifes and strives TO recall 1t
out of the jaw of time What he hath he seeth
not, his eyes are so taken up with what he
wants; and what he sees he careth not for, be-
cause he cares so much for that which is not.
In glancing over the papers which have
been peculiarly noted for their aversion to
General GRANT for third term since his
interview with the YiceroY of China, we
are led to exclaim with SHAKESPEARE,
"What's more miserable than discomfort ?"
Every third termer, every natural political
hator of General GRANT-every ambitious
rival for the Prcsidency-in fact, 1t would
seem everybody-when the utterances of
his interview with the Chinese dignitary
We're given to the world in all their fullness
and sincerity, should have been made happy.
But it appears that they are not. They
now criticse his sincerity and convey the
idea that the CESAR of their fears and
ambitions is, to use common phrase, "play-
" ing possum" Their fears will not down.
and hence they are now engaged in vexing
their own and the public mind over them,
when they should be singing anthems of
joy in full chorus.
The great trouble with all these people is
that there is a dawning suspicion in their
minds that they have been reckoning with
the wrong man and that their fears aud
hopes have not been correctly based, and
hence may not in the end fully subserye
their purposes and ambitions Very likely
there issomething in this. We have often
thought so within the last four years Cen
eral GRANT has very little to do with his
own destiny in this matter. He may ex-
press ever so strongly and positively his
aversion to again assuming the cares, duties
and responsibilities Of the Presidency and
be ever so sincere in his utterances of that
aversion, fthe popular sense and will under
the exigencies Of the times shall point
sternly in another direction he may feel i'm
PEELED to yield. If, under past mistakes
in our policies, it shall be discovered
that the rebellion is not crushed and
dead, if secession still turks in the
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asserted doctrine of State sovereignty
if the Republican party has been crushed
out of the South by an unfortunate attempt
at reconciliation and 'pacifcation by giving
to the enemy offices and other advantages,
until the spirit Of the war is revived and it's
issues are presented afresh with confronting
menace, if the war measures, out of which
came freedom and cnfranchisement to the
slave, and an acknowledgment of the right
of the Federal power toguard tho ballot-box
from outrage and fraud in Federal elections
are to be wiped out, as threatened-we say
if such perls inspire the public mind with
the belief that the National welfare can
best be subserved by the election Of General
GRANT as President for another term in
1880, then will be the time for him
to say to an imperilled nation, "I pos
itively and irrevocably decline to serve
my country for another term" Then
there will be pertinency and potency in the
voice of the beleaguered statesman. The
time has not arrived for General GRANT
to positively decline an honor that has not
yet been proffered him by his countrymen,
and which may not be, unless the National
safety shall strongly demand IL. 1t is the
part of propriety and duty to wait until
the popular voice has been consulted and
expressed on this subject before too much
trouble is taken TO fight that which may
prove only the phantom of disordered
imagination.
1t would add nothing to the stature of
General GRANTS glory, or to his happiness,
to be placed in the Presidency again-but
it might add much to the future peace, well
fare and prosperity of our common country
to place him there, though in disregard of
his expressed aversion for the cares and
responsibilities of the place. There are
times when sacrifices must be made for the
popular welfare, and if this should prove to
be one Of those periods, the sacrifice must
be made-and no patriot knows how to
better make il than the man who received
the sword of rebellion when it surrendered
to the National power
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PERSONAL.

Hon D. T. CoRBrN. of South Carolina, is regis
tered at the Ebbtt House.
GENERAL j. B. PRICE, Missouri, and ex-senator d.
l.. luee, Florida, registered at the National yes
terday.
Miss ANNIE MARIA BARSEs. tho editress Of the
Atlanta, (a .lcdnthus, avery neat literary monthly,
publication.
G. NJ. MASON and wife and Miss Mary Mason of
Boston; H.. NJ. Jackson, Kentucky; Thomas IL.
Davis Alabama aud Francis Trainer, New York,
are booked at tho Arlington.
EDWIN SMITH, United States Coast and Geological
Survey George Paddock, U. S. A.; @. w. Cope
K Morgan, Chicago, are stopping at the Ebbitt
House.
VIM W. REED, Of Erie W. T. Helbard, Virginia;
Miss S. d. Lundy and Miss A. Il. Mayer, Virginia;
Samuel c. Symonds, Massachusetts, and L. T..
Downing and wife, Georgia, are guests at the Riggs
House.
N. Il. SMITH, Ed. shen Henry J. Abbott and
James Gall, jr., of New York; l.. $. Dodd, Ohio; w.
j. and VI. Laur, New York; j. 5. Davis and family
Ohio, and Rev. H. b. Lee and wife, of Virginia, are
at the st. James
THE following Washingtonians returned home
Island: DR.. Hill and son. Dr. Hall and wife Mrs.
j. j. Linney, Mr. Ray, wife and son, Major Nicker-
son and Mrs. AL Falls and son.
CAPTAIN J. ]. CAMP, the efficient assistant clerk of
the supreme Court of the District, has recovered
from his long and serious illness, and was at his
Office yesterday. He was the recipient OF many
congratulations In reappearing OH the scene of his
labOrs
II. NJ. SMITH and w. b. Cochran, New York. II.
Reinheimer and wife, West Virginia William Far
well, Canada; Eugene Diggs, Maryland; James p.
Powell, Cincinnati; Fred \. Martin, New York
Mr. and Mrs S. wclty and Miss Della Welty illinois,
and Louis Hoffman, Mississippi, are among tho
guests who arrived at Wizards yesterday.
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law but in spite Of this he exercised this lilo
gal power in order 10 confine the father Of the
deceased and thus shut his mouth, as he
thought,as witness. Since this ID. A. Straker,
esq, obtained a writ of hdJcas corpus from Trial
Justices Glover and Buyck on petition of
Scipio Higgins, Illegally confined by this
psuedo trial justice. The hearing of the case
came off ON the 14th inst, and in spite
of the evidence of the journal of tho
senate, showing that Evans was not con-
hrmed, and IN spite of certified copy of
the record of tho Secretary Of State, TO the
same point-nay, more, stating that Evans
does not appear of record as trial justice"
at all. Yot these Democratic trial justices
decided that the commitment, being regular
as to form, its legality could not be inquired
into, and remanded the prisoner to Jail. The
same decision was rendered at tho same time
in the case er parte of Adam Jones, committed
also by said Evans Thus Evans is commanded
to go forward without commission or the sim
gle evidence of authority from governor or
anybody else, and murder all tho "niggcrs" he
chooses, and commit the balance to Jail until
tried and sent to tho penitentiary upon the
perjurcd testimony of these political haters.
20 temp0rd! o mOres!" thus are we condi-
toned. And IL is for all these reasons herein
stated that the colored people of 0rangeburg
County feel that they, too, must sooner or
later find homes where justice can bo obtained,
and whore, although clothed in dark skin,
man Is q man for o. that"
Yours truly, ID. 8.
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ANOTHER ENEMY IN THE FIELD.

1t is safe to say that if one wanted to
wager money with very little risk of losing
it, his chance for doing so would be in bet
ting that every man who has had anythin G
to do with TILDEN in money matters out
side of charmed circle Of peculiar friends,
has in some degree been cheated by him,
We now find CYRUS w. FIELD charging
the Ogre with some irregularity, if not out
right rascality, in a recent business matter
with him. FIELD resorts to the New York
World as the avenue of sending forth his
displeasure against TILDEN to the outer
world
In that he states that ho cannot express his
disgust for the conduct of SAMUEL j. TILDEN
concerning certain business transactions rela-
tive to the New York Elevated Railroad Com.
pany. The reporter called upon Mr.. FIELD to
learn the truth of rumors concerning the sew.
orance of former intimate personal and bust
ness relations between Mr.. TILDES and Mr..
FIELD Tho latter declined to give the reasons
for their differences, but again and again dc.
clared in the course Of the conversation that he
was utterly disgusted with TILDEN's actions.
Mr.. FIELD said he declined giving his reasons
because n law suit against TILDEN was not i'm
probable, in which Mr.. l.. would be the princ-
pie witness, but not the complainant. All that
could be learned was that while Mr.. FIELD was
absent in Europe TILDEN did some action which
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SHERMAN AND sCHURz.

The Baltimore Sun gives boost to the
SHERMAN boom, so TO speak, by declaring
the allegiance of Secretary ScHURz to the
Presidential cause of Secretary SHERMAN.
1t comes of an interview between warm
admirer of General GRANT and Secretary
SCHURz, in which he took occasion to inti-
mate that he felt rs if he was what is
known as aStalwnrt," !" but Should have
to oppose GRANT should he be nomi-
"nated" This is outspoken, and tells the
country in substance that if the personal
preiudices of CARL SCHURz, created by an
interference with his personal ambitions,
are not consulted and deferred to, the afore-
said SCHURz stands ready to flirt himself out
of the Republican party rs he did in 1872
This is well, per Sc, but it is not likely to
have much influence on the determinations
of the Republican party in National con-
vention. The Republican party was stronger
in 1872 without him than in 1876 with him
in its camp, and history will repeat itself in
$780, should circumstances make it neces-
sary for SCHURz again to betray the Repub-
lican interest. Hencs there will be no weep
ing should Secretary ScHURz carry his ma
levoent threat into execution.
| However, Schurzs malign threat toward
GRANT, who may not be q cand idate, is not
half as bad rs his declaration in favor OF
SHERMAN, who possibly may be- attended
by the assumption that it was Schurz who in
vented the Secretary of the Treasury as n
| l.,
licly known, will prove to SHERMAN the
heaviest load he could possibly carry, and
the most disastrous to his prospects. We
regret this early giving away of Secretary
SHERAAN's outset rs n candidate, for it must
prejudice him to have it known that Secre-
tary SCHURZ is the architect of his Presi-
Dental fabric. Much as we respect Secre-
tary SHERMAN and highly as we appre-
ciate his political character, an alliance
with CARL SCHURZ, the betrayer of
Republican principles, and the mere
adventurer in politics, would attach blem-
ish to his cause that it would be difficult to
overlook. Indeed, this public declaration
of SCHURZ's adherence to Secretary SHER-
MAN will prove more disastrous to his cause
than nything else which could happen to
him, except for him to become, like SCHURz,
mere trickster in politics. The following
declaration of ScHURZ that /" he does not
"know that SHERMAN will succeed, but lie
I" feels that he has at least gained his object,
(which is the defeating of GRANT" shows
the character and animus of the man, and
his utter want of principle as a politician
If SHERMAN stood more than an even
chance in the race, the public espousal Of
his cause by SCHURz will inevitably ruin
it. In this we speak whereof we know
for the people have no respect for traitors
to principle, nor for men whose party at
tachments are measured by their personal
ambitions.
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BAYoNEr RULE AND HOME RULE.

1t is little strange that many of the late
so-called Independent press of the North,
some of whom have recently returned to the
Republican fold, should now make such
to-do, whatever that means, regarding the last
Yazoo murder Captain DIXON, the unfor-
tunate victim of that affair." was Democrat
who had earned his prominence by the MUIR
der of scores of Republicans; but over his
bloody exploits the newspapers in question
attempted no moralizing. On the contrary
they sneered at those Bloody-Shirt "organs"
who did moralize over them, and who were
far.sighted enough TO see that his course in
1856 could only be followed by murder
Gus anarchy in later years unless it was
quelled To show what kind ofman he was
in those days, it is only necessary to refer
again to the fact that his vigorous services
as political assassin received such marked
from his fellow Democrats that
they joined in presenting him with mas
sive silver pitcher, bearing this memorable
inscription
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POLITICAL NOTES.

GENERAL LOGAN is billed for five speeches in
Ohio during September.
THE Independent revolt against Democratic rule
in.Georgia is SAID TO be gaining strength rapidly.
THE Utica Observer (Dem.) observes: Give us q
hot wave" You just wait, says the Binghamton
Republican, until November.
THE reported detection of Ingersoll and the
Liberal League from the Republican party is re.
garded more as a curiosity in politics than any
thing else.
WILLIAM DEHNIsoN, Ohio's first war Governor
will be heard on the stump in Ohio this month and
next and will be heartily welcomed by thousands
of admirng people.
DEMOCRATIC papers in the North are bestowing
praises upon Wendell Phillips for his recent
shower'bath of bile upon the Republican party.
Times change, and men do change with them.
SENATOR WALLACE is said to be "reservedly conf.
dent of being the next Democratic candidate for
yice.president. But he comprehends very clearly
that the ticket never Will be Tilden and Wallace.
GREENBAcKER Smith, of Maine, Is in q bad box
Evidence Is accumulating that he was ready to re.
nounce his otmoney heresie' last year If the Re.
publicans in the State Senate would make him
Governor instead of Garcelon.
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WASHINGTON, AUGUST %. 1879.
NEW YORK REPUBLICANS.

There will be a rally of New York Re-
publicans this evening at the Sovereigns of
Industry Hall, No. 80 Eleventh street, at
7;3O o'clock, for the purpose of organizing
for the ensuing campaign, 1t is proper to
say that it is important to save the Nation
from Democratic rule, and that New York
is the pivotal State in that endeavor, hence
every New York voter here and elsewhere
should bear noble part in this laudablc
endeavor. Let every true Republican who
votes in the Empire State, and resides here,
put in an appearance this evening and help
whoop up the cause.
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TIE SKIES BRIGHT IN IOWA.

Latest reports from Iowa indicate an ex-
cellent feeling among the Republicans of
that State. A short and vigorous campaign
from the stump has been determined upon.
1t will open on the 9th of September, which
will give one month for active work. Gov
ernor GEAR, the present efficient and popu-
lar executive and candidate for reelection,
writes to q friend in this city, under date
of the 18th inst, that the Greenback vote
promises to be much less than last year,
and that he confidently looks for Republi-
can majority on the State ticket of from
twenty-five to forty thousand. While
there will be fusion in some cases between
Democrats and Greenbackers on local can
didates, separate tickets for State officers
will probably be kept up to the close of the
canvass. Iowa Republicans, we judge, are
not well pleased with the fact that last
year their longtime solid delegation in
Congress was broken by the election of two
Greenbackers, and they will this fall, so far
as is possible IN mere State election, wipe
out the disgrace.
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In speaking of the Yazoo murder, the
Charleston Ne,Cs and Courier says:
The Southern people at large are in no de-
gree answerable either for the so.called bull
doing or the killing.
This is the felon's plea but II will no
more avail the Democratic portion of the
people of the South than the plea of not
guilty does the convicted murderer. The
entire Democratic party of the South are
responsible for bull-dozing and murder, for
its members have practiced it for years
upon white and colored Republicans, with
out rebuke, until one of their own members
has fallen n victim to the barbarous prac-
tice. Nobody else but the Democrats are
responsible for it: but they are, for they
have encouraged it until the curse has come
home TO roost
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THE present demoralized condition of tho
Republican party in that State is guarantee
of its overwhelming defeat, If the Democrats
will stop pickering, unite on candidate for
Governor, and go to work.
This assertion and admission we find in
the columns of the Democratic organ-a false
assertion, for the Republicans of the Empire
State are not demoralized and truthful
admission, for the Democrats thereof are
irreparably divided and given over to bick-
ering, elimination and recrimination. Tho
Republicans will nominate their candidate
for Governor In due time, after a whole
some and purifying discussion of the merits
and dement's of the several aspirants for
that honor, and then turn in and elect
him. But the emocrats-Tammany and
anti-Tammany, Kellyites and Tildenites-
are quarreling among themselves, and
threatening to bolt; swearing they will
bolt, and all that sort of thing. And, we
remark in the light of experience, New
York is about the only State in the Union
where such Democratic threats are likely to
be carried into effect. If TILDEN carries the
convention KELLY will see toit that he does
not carry the election, for that would insure
TILDEN's nomination in 1880. And ifKELLY
carries the convention TGLDEN will see TO it
that he docs not carry the election, for that
would prevent his nomination in 1880.
These palpable facts show clearly the pr es-
ent situation as regards the two parties in
New York If the Opposition can worry
any consolation out of them they are well
come To IT,
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if in no'other-for the Democracy of to-day,
under the agreeable and congenial leader
ship Of the South, is party of violence,
disorder mob-rule and crime. But the
Democratic press of the West, particularly
in Ohio, has followed the lead of the New
York World in denouncing this murder.
This course is the more polite of the two,
if not so honest, for the influence of this
latest assassination cannot fail under the
circumstances to initiate against the pos
bility of Democratic success in the pending
campaigns
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Presented to him by his Democratic fellow
citizens of Yazoo County, as an humble testi-
monial of their high appreciation of his bril-
liant services in the redemption of the county
from Radical rule in 1875.
We simply add that if the same amount
of criticism and attention had been paid in
years gone by to the wholesale assasinations
which earned for him the title of " the Bray
" est of the Brave" that is now being paid
to his murder, it would, perhaps, have been
better for the Republican party. Certain it
is that if the public sentiment of the North
had not been misled by these journalistic
sneerers at the Bloody Shirt, all of whom
accepted that emblem as the rallying-stand-
ard of an impossible ThiId-Term scheme for
General GRANT, the law-abiding voters of
Mississippi would to-day be protected by
United States bayonets in their rightful con-
troll of the affairs of that State. We say this
boldly and without fear of criticism, for we
submit that Bayonet Rule which represses
Wholesale assassination and outrage is far
preferable to Home Rule which encourages
them.
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Two Democratic Victories.

The Democracy have gained two victories re-
Gently. They've carried Kentucky and 300 of
them armed with shotguns have compelled II. NJ
Dixon, an indepedent candidate for sheriff of Ya2oo
County, Mississippi, to withdraw from the can
vass. If they win now kill another poor girl de-
Tending her father, like Cornela Chisholm, shoot
few more revenue officers suspected of being
Union men," as they recently did the Poole
brothers in Georgia, and fog and murder another
poor old negro or two rs they did last week in
Arkansas they'll only attend to these things and
do them properly, the Democratic canvass may be
considered lAirly under way.
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WAR ANNIVERSARIES
Pertinent Extracts from the Chronology OF
tho Rebellion.
1891


1861
AUGUST 23-Confederate coast-guard seized
the lighthouses and other Government prop.
erty at Key Biscayne, Fla. Governor Harris,
of Tennessee, called OH tine women of the State
for contributions of clothing, blankets, &c., for
the Confederate army.
1869.
AUGUST 23-Four hundred rebels attacked
the train on the Memphis and Charleston Rail.
road near Courtland, Tenn, and destroyed it
eight rebels were killed. two Unionists wound
cd and two missing. A train on the VIM
chester Railroad was destroyed by the Guer-
rillas. The battle resumed along the Rappa-
hammock the rebels succeeded in crossing the
river in the vicinity of Sulphur Springs, upon
whichan engagement ensued, which resulted
in the rebels being driven across Great Run.
General Pope subsequently, fell back to War
renton and Sulphur Springs. Skirmish Mt Big
Hill, KY. the National troops retreated to
Richmond, Ky.
AUGUST 23-General Blunt, with 6,OOO men
and twelve pieces of artillery, crossed the
Arkansas and offered battle to the rebels, H.
900 strong, under Cooper and Steele. After q
faint show of resistance the rebels fled in dis.
order, abandoning all their property Blunt in
pursuit. General Gilmore opened his Swamp
Angel" on Charleston at II o'clock midnight
Skirmish at Lafayette, Tenn; four rebels
killed and seven wounded.
1864.
AUGUST 23-The rebel garrison in Fort
Morgan, Mobile Bay, surrendered uncondi-
tionally. Before the Federal troops took DOS.
session, however, the rebels destroyed or in
jured many of the guns and other property
surre ndered
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DRUMAIOND.-On Thur day August q, 1879, at 0I5
p. M, of consumption, MINNIE, eldest daughter of
Wills and u Il, DrummOnd.
Funeral from Trinity Oh ITch. corner Third and q
streets W. this Saturday afternoon at 1880 o'clock
LAWRENCE-At Carlisle, Penn, on tho Goth inst
DAVID NJ, LAwRENCE, Rgel o. years.
Funeral iIom his late Residence 250s X street, on
Saturday, 23d, Rt D. IN. Friends invited, A&
MILLER-August 20, 1879, BLANCH H., daughter
of Albert and Mary Miller, aged Is months, week
and days.
Funeral at o'clock this afternoon from the resi-.
town
TAYLOR On the 2o!h Inst, In the aOth year Other
age, MARY IL WIFI OF III H. Taylor jr and daught er
of the late Richard w. PolkinhOrn,
Funeral from the residence of her mother 0i2 ID
street south west, Saturday 23d ins ut O'clock
p. M.