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GENERAL HANCocK's PARTY AND THE
SELLERS.

The Democrats are inviting Union SOL
diers to vote for General Hancock on the
ground that he fought against the rebell-
ion. 1t would therefore be well for the
Union soldiers to refresh their memories as
to the course of General Hancock's party
where they have been concerned. For in
stance, ON May 90, 1880, resolution was
offered in the House of Representatives
giving preference to honorably discharged
Union soldiers in making appointments on
the District of Columbia police force.
The vote stood. ayes 95, noes rs, and the
IS who voted against the resolution were
all Democrats, and 46 of them were ex-
Confederates. Again, in the Senate, April
IL, 1879, Mr.. Ednunds offered resolution
that Union soldiers should not be dis
charged from the places they held under
the Secretary of the Senate and
the Sergeant-at Arms, except for speci-
fed cause. This resolution was defeated,
the vote standing % Republican ayes to
81 Democratic noes, and of these latter is
were ex, Confederates. Mr.. Carpenter then
proposed as an amendment that no Con-
federate soldier should be appointed to
office about the Senate chamber inI the
place of Union soldier. This was de-
feated by vote of 26 to 81, the majority
being all Demo Gratis, and 10 of them ex.
Confederates. On February %, 1850, a
bill was offered IN the Senate to allow a
Maryland rebel to receive commission in
the army, and on this occasion Garland of
Alabama moved as a substitute that the
law which prohibits the appointment of
Confederate soldiers, sailors and Office
holders to positions IN the United States
army should be repealed. The Confeder-
ates and Democrats promptly responded to
this appeal, and cast 36 votes to % for
the repeal of the bill. As, however, it
was found that the original bill would be
defeated If the scheme to throw open the
army to ex-rebels was persisted in, Mr..
Garland's proposition was subsequently re-
considered. The Democrats had neverthe-
less put themselves on the record, and
Union soldiers cannot be under any doubt
as to how they would fare in such hands.
Beltzhoover no doubt told the truth when
he wrote that pension bills were not re-
garded with any favor in the present Con-
gress. The Confederate brigadiers and
their Copperhead allies would nullify all
such measures if they dared, and with
Hancock at the head of the Government
they would acquire confidence enough for
anything.
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The WEEKLY UNION.

The WEEKLY UNION IS issued today-that Is, lts
second pars of eight pages is sent out for the UNION
appears twice each week, each part consisting OF
eioht pages. Thus each WEEKLY UNION embraces
sixteen RACES of choice news, critical and business
matter for home office and reside, street car, farm
and shop Matters occurring between Friday and
wednesday the subscriber to the WEEKLY USIos
obtains full knowledge Of in the semi-weekly OF
Wednesday, and occurrences happening between
wednesday and Saturday are reported to the patron
of the paper in the semi. weekly OF S tur ay Its
departments, which are recognized as leading, are
Editorial writing upon leading social, political sci
entifc aud other topics of the day; agricultural
comments selections and news telegraphie, coast
news and market quotations literary matters, en-
bracing book reviews, religious, scientific, art,
fashion, mechanical, health and other matters
political news; notes of development, progress and
production educational religious and other notes
art, music popular science and industrial ne*s;
Paris, London, New York, Oregon, Arizona, State,
coast, Chicago and other correspondence; teie-
graphic news, European, coast and Eastern Pacific
coast news; mining news market and stock re-
ports; commercial review; local intelligence; so
ciety notes fiction and poetry, etc. The WEEKLY
UNION has constantly extending circulat on, and
has grown with unexampled rapidity.
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that one of these ends must come if the
present conditions continue, and they warn
the people who believe in pure politics
and Tree ballot to show how they feel by
their votes. If indeed the adherence to
free institutions is SO general and strong
throughout the North that the rebuke of
Southern Mechanism shall be emphatic.
then probably the problem will be solved
for Mechanism demands encouragement,
or it will not continue, since it involves
an abnormal disorder at the outset. and
Is therefore not easy to establish. But
the opponents of Mechanism are not
called upon to justify themselves by
producing patent remedy for the evil
which they perceive and warn the country
against. 1t matters practically little how
the Southern abandonment of free institu.
lions came about. The one thing needful
to be recognized is that it is now the exist
ing state OF things in that region. The
freedom of the ballot is unknown there
The citizen is hot allowed to participate in
the government according to the constitu-
tiolal forms. Violence and fraud, agencies
unknown to constitutional government,
have taken possession of politics, and a
lawless minority does what it pleases with
the election machinery. This is the peril
of the Union, and there can benone worse
No language can be too earnest to convey
the conviction OF deadly danger which such
condition OF things brings home to the
watchful observer who knows the vital
Importance of law and loyalty in society.
The South is in fact in anarchy, and the
North is trying to make. believe that this
is not the case. 1t is as if live man and
a corpse were chained together, and the
former were trying to persuade the world
that his dreadful comrade were alive. But
sooner or later death will pass from the
corpse to the living man, and the closeness
of their union will hasten this consumma-
ton. The North must cure and revive the
South or the South must cure and revive
itself; or the whole country will soon be
tainted and fatally diseased by the con
tagion OF its degeneration.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-02
TEE SOUTHERN Way.

Some time ago South Carolina Journal
urged the reorganization of the red shirt
mounted clubs. This suggestion has been
acted upon, and the press of South Caro-.
lima now teens with accounts of the util-
ity of the organization. Wherever a. po-
litical meeting is held. the red.shirts attend
in sufficient force to run it. Whenever the
Republicans attempt demonstration the
red shirts get up counter demonstration.
A favorite trick of theirs is to muster. sew
eral hundred strong and ride through the
town where a Republican meeting is to be
held, beforehand, shouting, yelling, and
firing pistols. Thus the Columbia Register
describes such an occasion, when "the red
" shirts, forming a glorious cayaIeade of
" determined men, among the widest huz-
:" zas and unbounded enthusiasm, coursed
" through the principal streets of the city,"
what were those men so determined -
about? According to the REGISTER thew
are determined "to be done with hideous
Kadlcalism in any Of its hydra headed
" forms )" which Is the Southern way of
saying that they mean to put down the
Republican vote by force The red-shirt
league will no doubt give good account of
South Carolina when the time comes, but
the Southern way of conducting political
campaigns is not one which patriotic men
can afford to countenance or support, for
it involves the destruction OF free institu.
tons.
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money which the people now enjoy, by fat
money, that is, by a paper currency having
no specie basis, and redeemable in nothing.
Such a currency never has been and never
can be kept from depreciation and inHa-
ton. It would sink below par directly it
was issued. and as it deprecated the same
quaeks who now urge it would clamor
for a larger volume of the stuff. All
this has been fully worked out in the
experience of our fathers, and in the
experience of almost every other nation
under the sun. 1t is a stale device, and
it may be guaranteed to effect the ruin of
state more rapidly and completely than
anything else. It is a patent method of
paupsrizing labor, moreover, and fostering
Communism and all the turbulence that
grows out of general poverty and discon-
tent. The Democrats, who pretend to be
the friends of the working classes, have
Endorsed this political doctrine, and Han
cock, fresh from subscribing to the hard
money plank OF the Cincinnati Conven-
ton, has given in his adhesion to it.
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THE CURE FOR SOUTHERN MEN-
CANISM

1t has been made matter of reproach
to those who dwell upon the Mexicaniza.
ton OF the South that they have not pro-
posed remedy for it. We cannot regard
this accusation as having weight The
Southern question is a very difficult one.
The question is whether it can be settled
by purely moral forces. That is the ex-
pertinent that is being made at present.
The opponents of Mexican politics point
out the nature of them to the country
They show how free institutions-Am
can institutions being Systematically
abandoned, and how mob terrorism and
wholesale cheating are being substituted
for the free choice of the people. They
declare that such state of things cannot
last that it must either be discontinued,
or it will bring the whole country to the
same condition of anarchy and fraud, or
one section will rise up against another,
and civil war will ensue. They say
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-02
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

The Chicago Tribune observes Since
" the four per cent. bonds went out among
the people and became the poor man s
savings banks, railing against bondhold-
sers has ceased to be popular amuse-
"ment. II the bonds were paid in scrip
g tomorrow, or, what is the same thing,
eff the credit of the Government were
'struck down by imitless issues of rag
"money, the great sufferers would be very
poor men and women, widows and or.
"phans. the aged and infrm, and charitable
" Institutions to say nothing of the employ
GERS of labor. Withnational credit would 60
municipal credit and private credit. No
imam could borrow, or buy lot or house
"on credit, or get tick at his butchers or
"baker's, or pay the debts he already owes
promptly or honestly while everything
lowing to him, even his days wages,
would be paid in deprecated currency.
Yet Mr.. Hancock has had the face to
"write congratulatory dispatch to the
candidate of this party of universal
ruin in Maine" The programme of
the Greenback party, which Hancock
has practically Endorsed, is undoubtedly
calculated to produce all, and more
than all, this evil. The aim of that
party Is to replace the honest full value
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-02
TIE KIND OF CHANGE THEY PROPOSE.

TIE KIND OF CHANGE THEY PROPOSE.
The Democrats say that the country
needs "a change" and that therefore
their party ought to be put in power.
They remind us of the story of the doctor
and his patient. The latter was asked by
the former to state his symptoms. Do
you sleep well ?" " Yes" Do you
eat heartily" Eyes" Are you
" free from pain ?" eyes. "Ah, well, >"
said the doctor, g will give you some
g medicine thai uiH change all that I"
And that is the kind of change the Demo-
Gratis propose to give the country. At
present it is prosperous. It has sound
currency, stable credit, a hourishing
commerce, bright future before it. 1t
has 10 ailments save those for which the
Democracy is responsible. And now the
latter comes forward and says it is pre-.
pared to change all this, and while we can.
not doubt the truth Of the assertion we
must demur TO the wisdom of the expert
ment. 1t offers to give us Mexicanization
at the South, Greenbackism at the North,
reputation as national institution, de.
preciated currency, collapsed credit, and
a ruined commerce. No other changes
can come of Democratic supremacy. Does
any sane man desire these?
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A HORRIBLE STORY,

a horrible story is told of the treatment
of patients in the Alameda County Hos
pital. 1t is alleged that a woman who was
in one of the wards of that institution, and
who died recently, had her toes eaten off
by rats while she was alive, and that
though she shrieked for help, being so
paralyzed as to be incapable of defending
herself, no one came to her relief. 1t is to
be hoped that this story IS not true, for If it
is the authorities in charge of the Alameda
Hospital have shamefully neglected their
duty. 1t IL, however, far too grave a
charge to be passed over without inquiry,
and we trust the Oakland press will urge
an immediate investigation. if the hospital
authorities do not insist upon it for their
own sakes.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-02

INFORMATION WANTED. MADAM R. La.
bel, st. Rose. Canada, writes to the RECORD
UNION, under date of September oath, that
in 1876 her husband left her for California.
After his arrival in this country she re.
ceived letter from him, dated Chico.
Butte county, April, 1877. Since that
time nothing has been heard from Nj. La
bel. She recently read the account of the
death In California of man by the name
OF Label, republished from California ma.
pers in the papers of Canada. A marriage
portion of one thousand piasters was set.
tied upon her at the time of their mar.
rage, neither the principal nor interest OF
which can be touched except upon the sat.
lsfactory proof of the death Of NJ. Label.
Ii ne Is dead she desires to be placed in
possession of the proofs of his demise.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-02
WHAT BLAINE SAYS.


In his Newark speech Senator Blaine re-
ferred to the probable consequences of the
election of Hancock, and among other
things said elf you elect General Han.
cock, you inevitably, within the space of
ga twelvemonth-I am not sure that it
would not be within the space of ninety
" days-hand over to the Democratic party,
sled by Southern men, the control of the
Supreme Court of the United States
absolutely. Five of these Judges are
to-day beyond seventy. or in that neigh
"borhood. They may accept retirement
"at full pay. If they are reluctant to do
$50, a Democratic President backed by
d" Democratic Senate and House would
swamp that Court by superior num-
" bers; and by way Of advice to the
North let me say that bill is pending
"on the calendar of the Senate to make
:" that Court consist of twenty members. -
To show that this is no imaginary cause of
apprehension Mr.. Blaine then reminded
hi' hS"ieAs III" bHe DeHiOcIGts, atteE
=" 1884, bent all their energies to building
cup Supreme Court that would uphold
"the States Rights theory, and the first
fruits of it was the bred Scott decision
"of 1857. i'll which slavery was made ma
" tional." The lesson ought to be appre-
ciated. The South knows the way by
which the Constitution can be eircum-
vented, for it has experimental in that d.
rection before. TIE metamorphosis of the
Supreme Court would in fact be charac-
teristically Southern recourse, and as it is
already prepared for by bill which is now
pending, it would be imbecility to doubt
that all the successive steps would be
taken the moment opportunity occurred.
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The North paid heavily for the same
knowledge, but has profted by it,
and is so much the more advanced. The
South has this experience to go through,
and apparently cannot learn by proxy.
When it has shown that it realizes the
need of honesty it will have advanced far
enough to perceive the necessity of fair
play in politics, and of reverence for law and
order in all things. But until it has
mastered these things it would be madness
to give it the control of the Government,
and even when it has learned them the
North viii still be fifty years ahead of it
in all that constitutes real progress.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-02
ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

Lieutenant Schwatka's Arctic explora-
ton does not appear to have resulted in
the attainment of any positive information
regarding the fate of Franklin and his
party. Nearly all the information procured
appears to have been derived from the ma
tives, and the statements so obtained are
necessarily of doubtful value, both because
the natives have no regard for the truth,
and because they try to make things pleas
ant by telling whatever they think Will
satisfy the white men. No trace of Frank
lin himself was found, and we are disposed
to agree with veteran explorers in thinking
that there is now very little chance of
learning anything more as to his fate. That
he died with his companions may be re-
garded as certain, but it is unlikely that
his remains viii ever be found or identi-
fed. The one really important fact estab-
lished by this last exploration was the
fact that Europeans can adopt the Esqui-
mau diet and modes of living with per-
feet case, and that these expeditions may
hereafter be detached from civilization
altogether without misgiving, and be sure
of subsistence so long as they can find seals,
walrus and whales. This new method
will enable commanders to dispense with
the cumbrous supplies which are always
such a source of embarrassment, and
though the prospect OF living upon frozen
reindeer meat and seal blubber AID oil may
not be very agreeable at the beginning, old
explorers declare that the taste for these
comestibles grows with use until they APP
pear quite delicious, and the men thrive
upon them. And as people do not go into
the Arctic regions for mere pleasure, as. a
rule, little discomfort more or less is not
to be considered in such expefiitions.
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
BY TELEGRAPH.
MAINE.

Death OF Two Prominent Citizens of saco
and Biddeford.
BDDEFoRD, Dec. 23.-Last night George H.
Adams of Biddeford and Hugh Wallace of
Saco, leading and wealthy citizens of their re-
spective places. died very suddenly. Each
was about IS years of age. They were both d.
rectors of the Bddeford Savings Bank.
Mail Car Burned.
BANGOR, Dec. 23.-Some time after the ar
rival of the Pullman train this morning the
mail car caught fire and the interior was en-
tirely burned There was no mail in the car
but several pouches were burned.
Death Of a Boy From Injuries Received
at School.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Dec. 23.-George, aged
IA. attending school at South Eliot. son of
Thaddeus Knight of Boston, died last evening
from the effects of injuries alleged to have been
inflicted while at school about nine DAYS ago.
The case is creating considerable excitement
in that town. On Monday, the 18th inst, the
teacher, Mr.. G. E. Patten, in administering
punishment, which some say was entirely unnec
essary, is said to have struck the boy heavy
blow on the head with book Since that
the boy complained of his head, and on
Wednesday evening, the 3d. died after being
out OF his senses for some time The cause of
his death, it is supposed, was the rupturing of
blood vessel in his head when struck with
the book. No legal steps have as vet been
taken,
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
NEW YORK.

Death of DR.. Dix's Blackmailer.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Eugene Fairfax Will
Hanson, who recently endeavored to black
mail Rev. Morgan Dix, died in the prison hos
pital at Sing Sing today.
The Hudson Ice Harvest.
KINGsToN,N. Y, Dec. 23.-The great winter
harvest of the Hudson is now being gathered in
at all points above Germantown, and the work
will also be commenced at this point and it's
vicinity tomorrow or next day. At Catskill
Point the work is going forward with great
rapidity. Eight inches of solid "water ice" is
being housed. On the Catskill creek the
houses are already filed with splendid 70 inch
ice from the creek. At Eavesport the work
was begun on Monday and large quantity of
ice is already in store there. In the vicinity
of Troy, Albany and points below, the houses
are already more than half full, and many en-
tirely filed. About 6000 men are already en-
gagged and nearly 1900 horses, the latter being
used on the river and not for hosting, which
is now all done by steam power at very rapid
rate: The workmen receive from 81 to S1.75
per day, according to position and labor; teams
from So to 81. AT this rate 1t is claimed that
the ice can now be stored at cost of 30 cents
per ton. At this point the ice is about six
inches in thickness. From here to Glasco it
was badly broken up by the passage of a
steamer on Friday last, which greatly incensed
the icemen. But there is no longer any dam
ger apprehended from that source, although
the ferry is still running here. The ice IN the
river was never better in quality than now.
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24

SPOKEN.
Nov 5, lat :. lon "a W, barque Shawmut. from
Bridgwater, Ms, for Montevideo.
No date, lat 6 N. lon "a W, ship r Il Thomas, FIN
Cardiff for Hong Kong
The Portland daily press., 1880-12-24
WASHINGTON.
The january Interest on Bonds.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Secretary Sherman
has directed Treasurer Giltillan to pay, without
rebate, the interest on the public debt due Jan
LIST on Tuesday, the 2Sth inst. The checks fol-
the payment of the registered interest due
Jan. LIST are prepared, and will be mailed in
time to reach all points on the 2Sth. The order
of the Secretary does not include interest on
the bonds due Dec. 3lst. The interest on all
outstanding 6 per cents of 1881 and on the
per cents is payable Jan. LIST, and aggregates
S24 100000, and it is the interest on these
classes of bonds that is to be anticipated on
Dec. 2Sth. A large amount of the bonds paya-
BILE Dec. 31st has already been received at the
Treasury for redemption, but payment of prin-
cipal and interest will not be made until the
day of maturity.
Amending the Banking Laws.
Mr.. Bayard introduced a bill yesterday to
proposes to amend the Revised Statutes SO that
any banking association making the required
deposit of bonds shall be entitled to receive
circulating notes equal to, but not to exceed,
so per centum of the par valne OF the bonds
deposited, and that at no time shall the total
amount of circulating notes so issued exceed
the amount actually paid in of its capital stock.
II is also proposed to repeal section 5176 OF the
Revised Statutes, which provides that no bank
ing association organized subsequent to July
II, 1880, shall have circulation in excess OF
100000.
The foreign mail department has been adj
vised by the international bureau under the
postal union that all dutiable articles and jew
elry, received in Italy on and after JAN 1, 1881,
by mail, will be confiscated by the Govern
ment. The Department has also been in
formed that by decree of the Italian Depart
ment of Justice any correspondence relative to
foreign lotteries is prohibited and will be seized
by the authorities of that country.
Inspection of Steamboats,
Supervising Inspector of Steamboats, Dumont
has just completed a statement showing that
from 1873 to 1876 inclusive, the average num-
Der of steamboats, inspected annually was 37S9,
and the average contingent expenses per an
mum S4S, 543.52, while from 1877 to 1880 the
yearly average of steamboats, inspected num-
gent expenses aggregating $33, 124.95.
More Indians in Washington.
A delegation of Sioux Indians from the
lower Brule agency has arrived.
The Vacant Cabinet Office not to Filled
1t is stated that the President will not send
the name of new Secretary of the Navy to
the Senate, but will let members of the Cabi-
net take turns in filling the position until
March 4th
In Memoriam.
The Department of Justice building was
draped in memory of ex-Attorney General
Alderman, whose death was reported, to-day.
The Ponca Commission.
The Ponca commission to ascertain the condi-
ton of those Indians leaves Washington early
next week.