Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-04

l city yesterday. From what he has seen in | Washington he is convinced that many of
 those who led in the rebellion are at heart rebels still and that it is not safe to give the
 Democratic party power.
 1 Notwithstanding the heavy odds against the Republicans in Indiana many believe they will be victorious. One man writes: "There
 has not single mans name in the State been
 missed. Every one is on record, and if any | body attempts to vote the Democratic ticket
 who came in since the 12th of April (six
 months ago) that man will go to jail in five
 minutes, and that is why we will win by l from 5000 to 10, 900 votes.''
 ! Regular army officers at Washington who I have been in sympathy with the Hancock
 boom are getting disgusted with the talk of | ex-Confederate officers, who make no secret I of the fact that they expect restoration to the 1 army as soon as General Hancock is inaugu-
 rated. A prominent ex-Confederate few ] days since declined good business proposi- l tion on the ground that he preferred to re-
 sume his place in the service, as he expected to do if Hancock is elected
 In a Democratic procession at Fort Wayne, Indiana, last Tuesday, rebel flag was car ried The next day, at Elwood, Indiana, the Democrats marched under two rebel flags. At Circleville, Ohio, on Wednesday, the Demo-
 crats rallied to the flag they loved so well in
 the war, and marched under the rebel en-
 sign At Georgetown, in Virginia a rebel
 flag floats unmolested from a tall flagstaff
 Another is swung out in Indiana avenue, in
 Washington, from house occupied by an
 impenitent and unreconstructed rebel. These
 are not very cheerful facts.
 That great public debt which used to
 frighten some folks is being paid with aston ishing ease and rapidity. The reduction of
 it during the month of September was in
 round numbers $9,OOO OOO. ($8,974, S91. .G8), being little above the average since the opening of the current fiscal year. The to- tai reduction for the three months of July, August and September is $26, 578, 112, and the average monthly reduction has been $8,- S59,37 It is now fifteen years since our total debt reached it's maximum. It was then, August 31, 1s65,) $2, 756, 431 ,571. It is now $1, ,915, ,594, ,1S3, reduction of $94O,- 837, ,388. This is indeed great country.
 Mir. Casson, the superintendent of Earl Dudley's iron works in Staffordshire, Eng | land, has been visiting Pittsburg, Pennsylva- | mia, on tour of observation. He expresses l great surprise at the good wages paid by the | Pennsylvania manufacturers, and says that | labor at home does not cost half so much. If l the Democrats get into power, and are strong | enough to carry out their programme, this | discrepancy will quickly be removed. When l the tariff is abolished the British manufac- | turers will food the American market with l the products of the pauperized labor they | employ, and Americans will be compelled | either to reduce wages to the European | scale, or to go out of the American market | with the business. l
 The ''break up'' which General Grant pre- diets in the South has already begun in Vir- ginia. Says the Boston Herald: ''The best 1 result of the division of the white vote is the | perfect toleration of political opinion now observed in that State. The party line no | longer follows the color line, and both fac | tions of white men are seeking the colored | vote and according the colored citizens their full rights. That is what is bound to happen everywhere in the South sooner or later, and that is the freedmen's best safeguard. Mean | while some solid men among native Virgin | ians are looking toward the Republican party J as on the whole most favorable to progress l and stability, and it is not impossible that, | between the two Democratic factions, the | Republicans may carry the State. We con sider that of much less importance, however, than the fact that great advance has been ! made in political toleration where it has been l almost unknown before at least for gen 1 eration. 'The defeat of the Democratic party | in the present campaign will do more to fur ther political toleration in the South than l anything else.
 A committee of the Ohio Legislature has | just completed an investigation of the CO operative insurance societies of that State l which shows the wisdom of requiring annual | reports from these companies. The com mittee engaged in this inquiry found the of fcers of these societies neither willing nor | able to explain their own business. One as- | sociation, correspondent of the Cincinzati | Commercial reports, with $1OO,000 of its pa 1 trons' money in it's hands, kept no complete set of books, and it's officers were unable to | make adequate statement of it's condition. l Several had sold so-called endowment poll |