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Garileld,s Speech at Geneya.

General Garfield is certainly very
deep thinker. In discussing public ques-
tons he looks Mt the root, and therefore
he always says something worthy of
note. He was recently present at the
dedication of q soldiers monument ut
Geneva, Ohio, and made brief memorial
speech in which he uttered some grand
ideas which should DO impressed upon
the young men of the present day. His
contrast between mere brute courage
and that of the soldiers of the Union
army who fought for noble idea, and
finally established q great principle, is
noticeably well put. In fact his words
are so memorable that they will be re-
membered with the best passages from
the orations of Daniel Webster. Garfield
profoundly remarked:
Ideas are the only things nthis universe that
are immortal. Some people think that soldiers
arc chiefly renowned Tor courage. This Ii ono
of the cheapest and commonest qualities. We
and bears, and lions that will fight to the death,
and will tear each other. Do you call that war
fare? They are ~ courageous AZ any of these
soldiers, il mere brute courage IL what We arc
after. The difference between them and us Ia
this: tigers mover hold reunions to celebrate
victories. When they have eaten the creature
they have killed, that il the only reunion they
over hold. Wild beasts never build monuments
over their slain comrades. Whyp Because
they have no ideas behind their warfares. Gun
race has ideas, and because ideas arc immortal
il they be true, we build monuments to them
We hold reunions not for the dead, for there Ii
nothing in all the earth that you and COL
do for the dead. They are past our helI
and past our praise. We can give q
them no glory, and We can give Il
them no immortality. They do not need US, blu
forever and forever more We need them. TIT
glory that trailed in the clouds behind them afte
their sun had set falls with its benediction OF
us who arc living; and 1t Is to commemorate tn
immortality of the ideas for which they tough
that you assemble to-day and dedicate you
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A Prison Sensation.

A rather curious fight took place the
other day in the prison called the Grand
Zaptieh, in Stamboul. In one enormous
tagged room some fifty prisoners were
gathered together awaiting trial. Some
half dozen of these, all murderers, in or
der to while the tedious hours of captiv-
ity away, began singing, and selected a
ballad known rs KhOwvarda. Now
Khowvarda is the name of q certain
tribe in Asia Minor, and is title borne
with jealous pride by its owners. The
song contained many highly offensive
imputations against the courage, person.
nj cleanliness and appearance of this
naughty race, which one of its members,
happening to find himself among the
crowd of prisoners, thought fit to resent.
He did so and knocked down couple of
the insulting troubadours. They set on
him; he called in the help of his friends,
who Joined in the fight with a right good
will, using only for weapons, (others
they had none) the light tin plates given
them for their food. The battle grew
hotter, and soon every man in the ras-
cally half hundred was in belaboring
and receiving blows, biting, swearing or
yelling with pain. This pandemonium
actually aroused the attention of the
Waterman, who was accustomed to let o
little row take its course, but found this
one rather too tremendous to let pass.
He fired his pistol at the mass missed it
luckily, then calling in armed help, sue
ceeded in quelling the rioters, many be-
ing quite seriously hurt by strangula-
tiOn
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MISCELLANEOUS.

ADvIcEs have reached the department OF
state that general escape of prisoners occurred
at Laredo. Texas. Two succeeded in crossing
the Rio Grande to New Laredo, Mexico, and
two were drowned. The remainder were pre-.
vented from crossing by United States troops
II is alleged the prisoners who reached Mexican
soil were afforded protection there.
The state credit Democrats Of Tennessee
nominated John V. Wright, straight-out
debt-paying Democrat. az candidate for gov,
crnor. The ltepudiatiOnists held u meeting, in
which there were 10 delegates present, and
nominated 5. +. Wilson AZ candidate for gov.
ernOr.
The Georgia Democratic state convention
nominated Clifford Anderson for attorney gen.
eral, ID. N. Speer treasurer, VIM. A. Wright
comptroller and N. G. Barnett secretary Of state
The postal business of the United States
during the past year was az follows: Letters
S6s, 493, 572; postal cards, 276,446, ZIG; news
papers to subscribers and news agents, G95,.
l75,624; magazines TO subscribers and news
agents, 3d. ,276; books, circulars and miscel-
Iancous printed matter, 800, S45 480; articles OF
merchandise, 22,G3i, 456. Grand total, 2,2l5,-
1853, 1874.
The first stone in the work of completing thu
shaft of the Washington National monument at
Washington, was laid on the 7th inst. Presi-
dent Hayes and others deposited CONS under
meath the stone. It will take about four years
to finish the monument.
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The Political Status of the Soldiers

From the Evening Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
The northern Democrats are now
anxious to make it appear that there is
nothing inconsistent in their having q
Union general rs their candidate for
president; that they We're as loyal to the
government and did as much toward
suppressing the rebellion as the Rcpub-
leans; that they were as fully repre-
scented in the Union army as their
political opponents-that at least
half of the Union soldiers were Demo-
Gratis and have remained SO to the
present time. This claim, 30 utterly Mt
variance with the facts, as generally re-
membered, stimulated some curious in
dividual to consult the records in the
matter. During the war several states
passed laws allowing their soldiers in the
field to vote in elections for state officers
and send home the returns. Each party
sent canvassers to the camps. and so the
vote as returned would naturally repre-
sent, rs accurately as possible the politi-
cal status of the soldiers. In the sub
joined table is found the result of those
votes in each of the four years of the
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Night I'm the Moon.

FROM tho Brluhn Quhrteriy.l
At last, however, night sets in. Crate
full it comes after the sun has gathered
up his misting rays and gone down to
his rest. All Mt once we are plunging
into comparative Obscurity, for again
there is no twilight TO stay the steps of
departing day. At one stride comes the
dark. But, looking up into the sky, We
behold vast orb which pours down a
milder and more beneficent splendor
than the great lord of the system. 1t is
such moon as we terrestrials can not
boast; for it is not less than thirteen
times M large and luminous rs our OVID.
There it hangs in the armament, without
apparent change of place, rs if fixed
in its everlasting seat" But not with
out change of surface. For this great
globe is painted panorama, and, turn
ing around majestically on its axis,
presents its oceans and continents in
great succession. AS Europe and Africa,
locking the Mediterranean in their en-
brace, roll away to the right, the stormy
Atlantic offers its waters to view, then
the two Americas, with their huge forests
and vast prairies, pass under inspection
Then the great basin of tho Pacific, lit
up with island fires, meets the gazer's
eye, and as this glides over the scene the
eastern rim of Asia, the upper portion
Australia, sails into sight. The India
ocean, and afterwards the Arabian sea,
spread themselves ont in their subdued
splendOr, and thus, IN four-and-twenty
hours, "the great rotundity we tread !"
turns its pictured countennnce to the
moon, and grandly repays the listening
lunarians by repeating to the best of its
ability, the story of its birth. Nor is
the sky less marvellous in another
respect, for the absence of any atmos-
pheric diffusion of light permits the
constellation to shine out with distinct
ness which is never paralleled on earth.
They glitter like diamond points set in
armament Of ebony. Stars and clusters
which we never see by the naked eye
flock into view and crowd the lunar
heavens
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BULLDOZING.
How the Alabama Election Brought
Out the Usual NOulheEn Game.

How the Alabama Election brought
Out the Usual southern Game.
New YORK, August "A Montgom-
cry special says: The result has been
that while the Republicans polled q
larger vote mt this election than Mt any
for years, they were deliberately counted
out by men occupying responsible posi-
tons in the world, who think it no offense
TO steal a vote of negro or Republican.
The election in this county, which in
former years registered Republican ma
jorities ranging from 80, 900 to 10000 is
fair sample of the conduct of the cleo.
ton elsewhere. At McGhee's Switch, in
this county, the Republicans polled
Gratis 30. While the votes were
being counted the candle was
turned over and put out and the
room left in darkness for several
minutes. When the colored Republican
inspector put out his hand to preserve
the ballot box he found that it was gone.
Considerable confusion ensued, and on
the candle being relighted it was observ-
ed that the box had been filed up with
new tickets md that the ballots were all
over the floor. The colOred man pro-
tested against the fraud and was driven
from the room with curses, and was not
permitted again to enter and observe the
count. The votes have been returned ar
giving 450 Democratic majority. Dur
ing the count mt this precinct, a military
company and a large posse of armed
citizens under the command OF deputy
sheriff appeared ut the polling place to
protect the inspectors, although no
trouble or threats Of trouble had occurred
ut the polls. They were determined to
force through their nefarious scheme ut
all hazards, even to have Democratic
bayonets Mt the polls. The above-men-
toned Republican colored inspector
made an affidavit to those facts. At
Kendall's Beat the proportion of Repub-
lican and Democratic votes was the same.
At McGhee's the inspectors deliberately
changed the votes in the pres
ence of the ignorant, timid old
colored man, who finally detected
the inspector with large roll of bogus
tickets. They then tried to bulldoze
him into signing the returns, but he
would not do so. l might relate similar
experience ut each polling-place in this
county, because the history of one is the
history of all. But it would not add
anything to the force of the statement.
Five thousand Republican votes in this
county were deliberately counted for the
Democratic nominees. and to render the
injury irreparablc, the Legislature ut its
last session provided that tickets should
no longer be numbered. Thus all posi-
bility of tracing the ballot of the voter
and OF the office, showing that it has
been changed, is taken away. The
monumental fraud of the age was the
pretended election of August 2, 1880, q
fraud Democratic papers prepared for
weeks by parading in their columns the
lie that thousands of negroes were join
ing Democratic clubs. Here they could
not muster 80 colored Democrats out of
5000 colored voters.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE EAkE


Az hochesten n, y, on tho 18th inst, tho
great hOttbrs Maud s. and 81. Julien were sped
over tho course, the former for tho purpose OF
beating her own best trotting rec,rd of 2:l214
and the latter 10 beat Maud ST. record and
Sleepy Toms pacing. record OF 2:124. st.
Julien trottod his first heat in 2:l3Si, the second
in 2:l1Si and the third in the ordinary time OF
2:2ill. Maud =. totted hor first heat In 2:l1&,
the second 22OHl 4, and was excused from tho
third trial. Each horse won special purse of
$1,000 Handsome testimonials were presented
tho drivers Of the King and Queen Of the turf.
The Republicans of Connecticut have nomi-
mated Bigelow for governor, Bulkely for liou-
tonant-govornor, Chas. T.. Searlcs secretary of
Wheelock Bachelor comptroller.
JAMES MURPHY, who was injured ut the time
of tho collision between tho steamships Anchora
and Queen, last June, died in Now York city, on
the 18th inst. Murphy was on his way To Ire
land to secure fortune left him by his fathers
death whom the collision occurred. In being
transferred tn life boat Murphy fell distance
of 80 feet and received severe internal injuries.
He completed his business in Ireland and IT.
turned tn this country. On reaching his home
he expired In few hours from the injuries re-
ceiyed
AGGREGATE census returns show tho popula-
toi VI MASSACHUSETTS, I'd pe j, iSo,olS III H.
crease Of 10 per cont. over the figures of the
last census.
THERE never were 10 many persons charged
with murder confined in the New York city pris-
on as now. The crimes, in u majority of the
cases, were caused by jealousy and strong drink.
TnEormLus YouNas, OF Boston, was suppos-
cd to have been drowned in the harbor at that
place, five years ago. He was interested In tho
estate of deceased relative in New York, and
since his presumed death his wife and the ex-
ecutor of the estate have had hot controversy
over the posscsslon Of that portion of the prop
rrty which would have Eecn YounGs had ho
lived. The case IL now in the hands of the sur
roghte Of Orange county, New York, but he
will not, probably, take further action on it, M
Young himself arrived in Boston the other day,
and appeared very much surprised at the re-
ports III his death. lie has been To the Black
Hills.
EA-Gov. RGLER, OF Pennsylvania, il dead.
The grand jury in the United States Court
at New York, on the 10th instant, made a pre-
sentiment in the Soawanhaka disaster case. 1t
says 1t believes the accident vas due To the
criminal carelessness and negligence of certain
of the vessel. Attached were indictments
against small army Of individuals.
The Golfer dam built to secure the bodies Of
the men lost by the tunnel disaster at Jersey
City, has proved failure. A timber caisson IL
now being built. II will take two weeks to con-
struct the caissun and two weeks more TO reach
the bodies. About $4,000 has been spent III
the work thus far.
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New York, August 1880 p. M.-FlOur-
Without important change; receipts 90, ITO bbls;
round hoop Ohio ut $4.3505.S5; choice do at
$4.90@6.25: supcriine western at S3.50@4.7 5;
common to good extra do ut Si.0O@4.40;
choice do at $4.50@G.50; choice white
wheat do at s4.2506.50. Wheat-White
1S@l1Gc and red 1901c better; active
speculative trade; sales "a, 900 bus No. white
seller August at s1.l0ss@1. 101a; 120, 900 bus
No. 2 red seller August at $1.O83s l.OS5E;
5000 bus do seller September at S1.OS1 ga
100; 100000 bus do seller October at $l.091 ga
1.O99I. Corn-1s@14c better; moderately
active; mixed western spot ut 47@50c; do
future at 49s4GD52slc. 0ats-Firm; state at
4l@4sc; western at 40@'47lac. Beef-Steady
and demand moderate: new plain mess of $3.50;
new extra do at $1,000. Pork-Easier for
spot; new mess ut $15.25. I.ard-Prime steam
rendered at $500. Butter-Dull aud UNI
changed; Ohio at 14C025c. Cheese-Unsettled
and weak at SCa121lc for poor to fancy. Sugar
Firm and quiet. MOlasses-Firm; demand
light. Pctrolcum-Dull and weak. Rce-Firm
and fairly active. Coffee-Very firm, with
good demand. Freights-Weak. Spirits of
Turpentine Dull at Sic. Resin--Frm at 81. 49
@1.5O. Tallow--Steady at 7-16@6ssc for
western. Eggs--strong ut 12@l319c for fair
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CASUALTIES.

JAMES A. MCDONALD was killed. and Warren
Page and John Kittrcdge badly crushed by the
fall of arch ut the Clinton wire cloth factory,
Clinton, Mass, on the 18th inst.
By the explosion and sinking Of the Bonnie
Lee on the 9th, IN addition to the casualties be-
fore reported, nix rOustabOuts and one cabin
boy were drowned.
EARLY on the 18th inst, two extra freight
trains on the Susquehanna division of the Della
ware aud Hudson Canal company railroad,
Came into collision at Cooperstowu Junction,
N. Y, and twenty-five cara were demolished.
Paul Simpson, fireman, was killed. John Reilly,
fireman Oh the other engine was fatally wounded,
n brakeman named Mullens was internally i'll
jurcd, and an engineer named Leonard received
injuries in lcapinS from the engine.
The regular night freight train over the New
England road ran into an extra peach train af
empty cars which was taking water at North
Windham, Conn.,, on the 18th int. The on
ginecr Of the regular train, Frank Way, OF
Hartford was killed, and number OF cars were
wrecked.
The death list by the railroad disaster on the
West Jersey road reached eighteen on the 18th,
and others were expected to die.
The Universalist church at Marblehead, Mass,
was burned by an incendiary on the 18th. Loss,
1916, 900; insured for 1000. Is. Hooper, fancy
Insured for $4,000.
The factory of William Heller, at Bushwick,
N. Y, burned OH the 18th inst, and $4,000
worth Of furs were destroyed.
A FIRE at Whitehall, N. Y, on the 18th inst.
burned Sherlock's steam mill and store and
twenty dwellings. Loss heavy; insurance Si0;-
900.
Two STORES, livery stable and four dwellings
were burned at Lakeside, Muskegon county,
Mich, on the night Of the 18th inst.
SARGENT & HALLS carriage factory at Boston,
Mass, was destroyed by fire on the 18th inst.
Loss $4,000.
AT Williamsport, Pa, on the 18th inst, Lip
pert's furniture factory was wiped out by fire.
Loss $4,000.
BY tho burning Of building at Boston, Mass,
on the 18th inst, occupied by Lewis, Brown a.
Co., and Seavey, Foster Il Co.. importers and
dealers in silks, q loss Of about 100000 was
entailed.
A FREIGHT train on the st. Paul aud Duluth
railway was wrecked near Pine City, Minn., on
the 18th inst, bya broken rail. Nine cars were
thrown from the track. Three boys living In
Minneapolis, named Peter Martin, Jno. Ervlne
and George Adams, who were slowed away In a
freight car, TO steal ride, were killed.
HRNRy ELuIs waR fatally iniured mn the 1 IN
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boon made to mob him. He had been twice
sentenced to death and each time granted now
trial.
On tho night Of the 9th inst. about 600 Cath.
olics and orangemon met on Queen street,
Toronto, and fought fiercely with sticks and
stones. The police dubbed right aud left.
Constable Norman was struck OH tho head by q
stone and probably fatally injured. Some OF
the rioters we're badly beaten by the police.
An old man named Mathew Bowling, living
on Cubb Creek, two milos southwest Of Golden,
Col, hanged himself In his cellar, Oh the It'll
himself to hang clear; he, therefore, looped the
rope around his neck and hold up his feet OF
leaned forward till he was dead. Bowling was
quito wealthy.
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monument that points up toward the God who
leads them in the glory OF the great world be-
yond. And around those ideas, under tho
Leadership Of the immortality Of those ideas, we
assemble to-day reyerently TO follow, reverently
to acknowledge tho glory they achieved and the
benediction they left behind them. That IL the
meaning Of IN assembly like this; and to join In
1t, to meet you, my old neighbors and constitu-
ents, to share with you the memories that We
have heard rehearsed, and the inspiration that
this day points TO, that this monument cole
brates, Is TO me Joy, and for Il am grateful.
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milwaukee,.

MILWAUKEE, August 1880 p. M.-Flour-
Very quiet; standard extras, So. 90@4.O5; family
extras o 81 49 choice saSo@tsf; patent tent
stronger for futures; seller September,
s7slSsS1&c; seller October, s7l9@s8lsc;
August, S91l09Oc; No. !, new, cash, 891 G@9tc;
old, 92c; No. old, $1.00; new, 921yc; No. 3 old,
7911c; No. 4, 711Sc. Corn-Higher at 8Sl14c
for No. 2 cash. Oats-Frm; No. 2 new at
251Sc; old at 251Gc; white at 28@3Oc. Barley
Strong at 73c for cash, seller September and
October. Rye-Highor at TIC. POrk-Unset-
tled at $16.70 for cash. Lard-At $7.721s.
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TnE committee which is striying la

THE committee which is striving to
erect statue in memery of Rouget de
PIsle, the author of the "Marseillaise, I"
has issued stirring appeal to the French
nation for aid. 1t reminds the people
of the services rendered to the cause of
France by the great revolutionary hymn;
how one general in command OF the re-
publican armies wrote after battle,
"We were one against ten, but the
'Marseillaise' was on our side;" and
how another, asking for achievements,
wrote, "send me thousand men and q
copy OF the Marseillaise, and I will
answer for the victory" The appeal is
signed by u large number of deputies,
members of the committee.
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Perfect Success.

G. II. Blecken, NJ. D., Of Minneapolis, Mimi,
says: ~ saw Hunts Remedy used in case of
Dropsy with perfect success. / did not treat
the patient, but four attending physicians had
given up the case ~ hopeless. Hunts Remedy
was then used with perfect success, and the pa
tient il web. shall give Hunts Remedy in
Dropsical and Kidney Diseases" Trial size, 70
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CHICAGO, August also 7. M.-Wheat-
Strong aud higher at $3.50 for cash and seller
August; $3.50 for seller September; s796c for
seller the year. Corn Excited, irregular and
higher at 3s16c for cash; has sold at SOC; SOC
for seller September; $3.50 for seller Octo.
Der. Oats-Firm at 251sc for cash and seller
for seller October. Rye and I}arley-Steady.
Whisky-At S1.O9. Pork--Steady at $4,000
1915 for cash; $500 for seller September.
Lard-Fm $40 bid for cash; $7.721S for
seller September. Hogs-Receipts $4,000 head;
moderately active and easier; light at $4,000
packing and shipping at $4.90t05.25 Cattle
Receipts 1900 head; steady; shipping at $4.lO
p4.76; corn fed Texans at S3.306DS.75; grass
Texans at $2.4O@S.0O; native butchers at 1920
@3.1U.
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The ANIMAL Clearing Sale

OF first-class Dry Goods, Mt James Nor.
gan's, 1856 and 3SS East Water St., Mil.
waukee, is meeting with great success.
He opens this week a stock of fine new
Black Cashmeres, from 40 cts. and Black
Buntings from 20 cts.
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A Fortunate IndOrser.


1t is our observation that not every one
who "backs his neighbours paper" al
ways escapes with his purse untouched.
But there are occasions where man can
give his Endorsement aud convey benc.
fit all around. Mr.. A. w. Wetzel, OF
Nauvoo, ILL.,, suffered for years with Dys-
pepsia, and used all kinds of medicine in
vain, until he tried the Hamburg Drops,
which quickly cured him. He now warm
ly indorses this wonderful remedy.
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Foreign.

LONDON, August 14.-12:30 p. M.-Lverpool
wheat market opens dull; floating cargoes
rather easier; cargoes on passage quiet.
LIVERPOOL, August l4.--2:3O p. M.-Wheat-
Quotations reluctantly paid; cargoes of coast,
dull; cargoes arrived dull and easier; to arrive
duli
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DIR. JOHN HALL, Of New York, follow.
ing DIR. William NJ. Taylor in a speech
at Exeter hall, recently, said, pointing to
that gentleman: eve are proud of him
in America. If you have any more OF
the same sort that You can spare, please
send them across the Atlantic. Itatfordf
me the greatest pleasure to say that
while we have not got absolute free trade
in the United States, there is no duty on
the imported ministers.