The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-10-09
Correspondence Of the News.
WASHINGTON LETTER.

MANIFESTED IN several ways. w men
the Democratic National Committee
met here recently, Chalmers, Hamp-
ton and Co. proposed to them the
policy of taking the chsice Of Presi-
dental electors away from the polls.
and giving it to the Legislatures Of
the States in the South. Before the
war South Carolina chose its electors
in that way, and the Constitution
does not prohibit It. It is contrary
to democratic republican ideas Of
/ Government, but that doesn't stand
in the way of these Southern oil
garchs. The fact is, they are afraid
that the colored maiorities IN South
Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, and
other States, will assert their right
to vote next year, and they want to
provide against the possibility of be-
ing beaten in the popular vote. They
can elect Legislatures without the
interference Of Federal authority, but
they cannot elect the Presidential
electors without such supervision
that fraud and buII-dozing will be
difficult.
Nothing could better illustrate
the fears that beset the Democratic
usurpers than this trick to cheat the
voters and to subvert the Z. S. Gov
ernment by an Oligarchy.
But this is not the only trick they
are practising. The Republicans
of South Carolina and other States
have been recognizing lately, pre-
paratory to the campnign Of 1880.
This is against Democratic wishes,
and Hamburg Buffers men have
inaugurated the old system Of re-
preston. The shooting Of the P.
NJ. at Blackville, S. O., is but one of
many instances of violence that have
already been discovered 1t is prob
/ able that the bulI-dOzers will not
practise this system extensively
against .. S. Officers, for the Gov
ernment will discontinue the service
| if its officials cannot be protected.
But no active Republican organizer
can be expected to have peace, or
even life, for a long time, in any Of
the Southern States where there is
an actual Republican majority that
must be kept down.
Gen, Grant will not be in Wash
ington probably until after the as
sembly of Congress. lie will meet
with warm receptions in the East
from all classes.
Minister Langston, who is now
here from Hayti, viii lecture on the
exodus of colored people from the
South. He is a firm believer in It,
as is Fred Douglass now, although
| opposed to it at first. Everybody
who loves freedom and Justice be-
Ieves in it now, as the most praeti
cable remedy for the terrible evils
that beset the colored people.
The P. NJ. General announces that
he will close the postal service to
those parts Of the South where the
officials ara bull-dozed. This is we'll
| It will teach the ''best citizens Of the
South" that they cannot buII-dOze
the whole country.
It will finally turn out, probably,
that Gen. Grant, instead of being, as
reported, willing to take the Presi-
dency of the proposed Interoeeanic
Canal Company, is in favor Of Capt
Eads' project for a Maine Railway
across the Isthmus, to transport
loaded ships. He is a warm friend
of Capt. Eads, and has a high opin-
ion Of his engineering skill.
Pursuant to an invitation extend
ed by Mr.. John ". Garrett, Presi-
dent Of the B. & 0. Railroad, a mum
Der Of members of the National Fair
Association visited Baltimore yester |
day, for the purpose of having a
conference with him relative to the
work to be done by his road to aid
in making the Fair a success. The |
visit was very satisfactory. The
arrangements for the Fair are going
forward very fast. LEO.
TH1RTy-rHREE Mississippi Demo |
cratic newspapers approve and de-
fend the assassination of Dixon at
Yazoo on the ground that anything
is justifable to keep the negro out
of power.
The Columbus CO.. Democrat is
the only Northern Democratic pa
per we have noticed that defends the
shotgun policy in Mississippi.
Edison has at last obtained a pat
ent for his electric light, having
al difficulties which have
hitherto retarded his success, and
it is stated thatMenlo Park, his resi-
dence, near New York city, Will soon
be lighted up with the new electric
lamps.
Prof. Thomas, of New York city,
has recently prolonged for six days
the life of patient who was at the
point of death, by injecting warm
milk into her veins, in quantities Of
from 5 to Is ounces, He thinks
the operation safer than and equally /.
as efficacious as the TRANSMISSION of