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General Trade.

Our merchants are stocking up for
the fall trade, as rapidly as shoal river
navigation and crowded railways will
admit. Every steamer from up the
country arrives we'll laden with mer-
chandise and plantation implements,
while there Is no slack movement in
any line save that of feed and bread
stuffs. Prices of these are a little
unsettled, having been disturbed by
che arrival of a pair of bargeG from
st. Louis. The market has been bare,
since yesterday, of round lots of corn,
a dealer taking a thousand sacks,
which was all that offered, at 4Sc,
and the price went up to SOC last
evening, with little or none to arrive
except to the aforesaid dealer. 1t is
thought that receipts Of cor will be
slim from this on, as little or none re-
mains among corn planters of Madrid
bend and the country above, hence
deolers look for higher values. Oats
are scarce, with 800 freely offered and
none to be had. Hay sells in small
lots, of about / drayload to a dealer,
at S17 to $1S so, according to quality,
for western timothy. Bran is weak,
with poor demand and sale. Corn
meal has been in extremely light de-
mand, but the market is about cleared
out, and jobbers were freely bidding
81 20 last evening, without being able
to find any offerings. Flour has been
meeting improved demand. Potatoes
are also better owing to their scarcity,
and from SOC to 81 10 per barrel meas
ure was freely paid yesterday, with
prices strong and tending up. The
growers have been shy about hauling
them in at the prices ruling for some
weeks past, and the market has al
most run out. The demand is wholly
for local consumption, there being nc
lhipping movement, Most Of the crOI
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Ole Bulls widow will return to her
parents at Eau Claire, Wis.
General Pemberton, who surren.
dered to Grant at Vicksburg, ha.
bought a cottage at Cape May,
George Tucker, an inmate of Au.
burn Prison, has just inherited
$4,000. His sentence will expire in
1885.
Mrs, Sartoris, the daughter Of Gen.
Grant, who will soon reach this cOun.
try, expects to pass next winter in
New York.
Courtney, the oarsman, in his com.
ing ace with Riley on Seneca lake,
will use his new patent seat, which
moves on rollers.
General Noycs, our minister ia
France, will not take part in this
years political canvass, as it is said
that Secretary Evarts objects to his
leaving his post for this purpose.
II is believed by Englishmen that
it is possible that American competi-
ton in wheat. America already sup
plies l2l per cent of the meat used.
While nothing will be done" says
the Washington Star, in regard to
the successor to General Myer, the
indications point to either General
Miles, the Indian fighter, or General
Upton, as the coming chief Of the
signal service.
A negro who was suspected of sur
reptitiously meddling with the neigh
boris fruit, being caught in a garden
by moonlight, nonplussed his detect
ors by raising his eyes, clasping his
hands, and piously exclaiming Good
heavens, dis yere darby can't 60 no.
where to pray any more without bein.
'sturbed."
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COMMERCIAL.
PUBLIC LEDGER OFPIOR,
rve Tr,.,f Cartamhor z 1881

PUBLIC DEDbEh OFfluhg
MNMPHIs. Tenn, September 3, $780,
An easy feeling pervades the money
market and interest rates are unusu-
ally low for this time of the year, all
prime commercial paper being readily
taken at 6 to 8 per cent. The large
importation of gold from Europe con
tinues and affords reason to believe
there will not be any financial strin-
g ency in this country during the au-
uumn or winter. Solvent investments
of all kinds command 3 ready sale III
the market whenever offered and in
variably bring highprices, while those
of a speculative and h~uctuating ma
ture are regarded with disfa-
vor, though often selling at
high prices. Exchange is quiet and
steady, at par to &c off for eastern
bills, and 3c premium for checks on
New York. New Orleans rates pal
buying and lc off selling.
On the LIST inst. the government be
gan paying the quarterly interest on
$250,O0O,0O Of the At per cent funded
loan, amounting at IL per cent to 81
812, 500. This is the only interest the
government will disburse during the
present month.
The official estimate of gold to ar
rive from Europe between now and
Noyemb er, will be about four millions
per week, or something over $4,000,
GOO in all, which added to the $50,
DOC, 1000, will carry the total beyond
$50, 100000. Last year our importa'
tions was in round numbers S78,OOO,
600
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also connecting at Glendale with the
Mobile and Northwestern train.
Lloyd W. Whitlow presides at the
the desk. and is assisted by Arthur
Brown, Plat Rhodes and Mike Logan,
a trio Of clever young men.
The Eldorado, Captain Alex Fra
zier in command, will arrive this
afternoon from the Ohio with a big
trip Of western produce, and is the
regular packet leaving tomorrow
evening for Cairo, Louisville, Cincin-
natl and all way landings, connecting
with the different railroads aud Civ
ing passengers through tickets to all
eastern points at very low rates. The
EldoradO has frst-class ac~cOmmoda-
tons, and being of light draught will
60 through without trouble. Captain
Tiff Strider, who is well and favor
ably known here, is in charge of the
office.
nHnCAn .
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N0UNCEMEM


no the Voters of the Tenth Congressional
District, composed Of the Counties of
Shelby, Hardeman and Fayette-Urged by my
friends and called upon to do so by q unanim-
ity Of public. sentiment most grateful to my
feelings, and which embraces all parties, /
would have made a formal declaration of 10Y
candidacy for reelection as your Representa-
tive in Congress at an early day, b 1T 10 defer
epce to the political party TO which | belong,
| deemed it proper to defer doing SO until rs
sanction was obtained in some authoritative
way. IT nov having been declared by com.
cratic Convention called in this district 10
make a pomilation, ! feel at liberty to an
nounoe myself a candidate before tho people
for re cleo ion TO the lower house of Congress,
and to respectfully solicit the support Of ms
box, on the third day o. November next.
l5It CASEY YOUNG.
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9Mcpday, Wednesday and Friday.
tDaiL.y.
iSundag, Tuesday and Friday.
Tuesday end Friday.
"wednesday and Saturday.
OTuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Mails for the folio wing States forwarded
by St. Louis, Express train louisville a
nesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas,
California, Colorado and all Territories.
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InsOlvent Notice.
STATE OF T%EySEssER, sHgLBY County, !
OFFICE COUETY COuRT CLERK. J

STATE OF TESSEssEE, sHgLBY County,,
OFFICE COUNTY COuRr CLERK,
Memphis, Tenn, August %, 1850.
TX. Margaret Erb, Administrative Of Jacob
Erb, deceased.
LAYING suggested the insolvency Of the
Ill estate of Jacob Erb, deceased, you are
hereby ordered to give notice, by advertise
ment in some newspaper published within the
said State, and also at the Courthouse door
Of Shelby county, for all persons having
claims against said estate, to appear aad file
the same, with the Clerk Of the County Court
authenticated In the manner prescribed by law
On OF before the 9th day Of January. 1881;
and any claim not filed on or before said day,
or. before an appropriation Of the funds OF
both in law and equity,
Witness my hand, at office, this 23d day Of
August, 1850.
OWEN DwYRR, Clerk.
BY II. B. CULLEN, D. @.
August 23d, 1880.
Creditors are hereby notified rs above set
forth. MARGARET ERE, AdmSx.
Isl lA7 & II
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-03

Tenors who wish to become bassos
may take a hint by noting that when
Tanner began his great fast his voice
was high tenor, but it changed to a
deep sound bass before he got through.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-03

The LEDGER Job Printing Office
and Book Bindery, 10 Madison, exc.
cutes everything in their line as neat
and cheap as any house.
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OH-RssIdsnt NOtico.

No. SI4l-In the Chancery Court Of Shelby
Stidham.
4. appearing from affidavit in this cause
i that the defendant, VIM S Stidman, is a
non-resident Of the state of Tennessee; it is
therefore ordered that he make his
appearance herein, at the courthouse. in
the city Of Memphis, Tenn, on Of before
plead, answer or demur TO complainant bin
or the same viii DO taken for GOV fessed
as TO him and set for hearing ex-parte'
and that a eopyof this order be published once
q week for four successive weeks in the Public
Ledger.
This the 5lst day of August, 1850,
A ~oopy-Attest,
RI, RtAOR, Clerk and Master.
By Z. r. MoHENRY, D. O. & M.
Townsend Il Gillian, sol. for oompl't.
1894 70 IA
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-03
N~On-resIdsns Notice.

No. 36l6-In the Chancery Court of Shelby
county, Tennessee-Annie NJ LeFeVe VS.. L
y Vredenburgh ct al
7 appearing from affidavit in this cause
j that the defendant, Daniel d LeFevre,
Is a non:residents of the State of Ten
his appearance herein, at the courthouse Of
shelby county, in Memphis, Tenn, on or be-
tore the first Monday In October, 1880, and
plead. answer or demur to the cross
bill of I I Vredenburgh ct al. or the
same Will be taken for confessed as to
bin and set for hearing ex-parte' and
that a copy Of this order be published once
q week, fo. four. successive weeks, in the
Public Ledger.
This the ieth day of August, 1880.
A o0py-attesti
+, ]; BLACK, clerk and master.
Townsend q Gillian, Solicitors for com
plainant. i4f 152 IkS &
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HHTNgYVI Y
DEPARTED.

Steamer G. w. Cheek Arkansas City.
Sam Roberts, New Orleans.
Wyoming, New Orleans.
John B. Maude, st. Louis.
Commonwealth, st. Louis.
City Of Helena, Vicksburg.
Belle Shreveport NV Orleans.
IN PORT.
James Lee, 0seeola Belle, Josie Harry,
Batesville, Beaver,
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT, !
.Ofice Of Internal Revenue, !
Washington, ID. c., January 26, 1880, J

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Otnce Of Internal Revenue,
Washington, d. G., January 26, $780,
Messrs. Lawrence & Martin. Ill Madison
street, Chicago, ll.-Gentlemen I have re-
"a certified formula. giving the in-
gradients and relative proportions used in the
manufacture Of an article which you advertigo
and sell under the name OF "T0LU, ROCK
AND RYE This compound, according To-
your formula, in the opinion Of this Office,
would have a sufficient quantity Of the BAL
SAM OF TOLU to give it all the advantages
ascribed to this article in p~ectofal Complaints.
while the whisky and the syrup constitute an
emulsion rendering the compound an agree
able remedy to the patient.
In the opinion Of this office, m article com
pounded according to this formula may prom
erly be olassed as q medicinal PREPARATION
under the provisions Of schedule A, following
section Si37, United Staves revised statutes,
and when 50 stamped may be sold by Drug.
gists, Apothecaries and other persons without
rendering them liable to pay a special tax 40
liquor dealers. Yours respectfully,
lSignedl GREEN Is. RAUM,
Commissioner.
Put up in quart size BEETLES for family use.
EAuTi0M Don't be deceived BY IN
SFS tStas principled dealers who try 10
palm on upon you Rock and Rye In place of
EOLU, ROCK AND RYE, which Is the onIv
GENUINE medioated article made, having q
Government gtamp on each bottle,
LAWRENCE * MARTIN, Prop'rs.
III Madison street, Chicago.
Sold in Memphis by all Druggists, Grocers
and Wine Merchants generally; at Wholesale
by y. Mansfield d. co., q. u. Hunt q
Co. and A. VacearO e. Co., who will SUNNY
the trade AZ mnnntacturers ariees. xxxii-l6
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CONDITION OF THE RIVERS.

Since noon yesterday the river at
this point rose 4 inches, and is now
Z feet 6 inches above low water mark.
The Ohio, at Pittsburg, is stationary,
with feet 8 inches on the gauge. At
Cincinnati, it fell 10 inches, with 7 feet
10 inches on the gauge. AT Louis
vile it fell 4 inches, with 5 feet
8 inches in the canal. At Cairo
it rose 5 inches, with II feet s inches
on the gauge. The Mississippi, at st.
Louis, rose 4 inches, with II feet :
inches on the gauge. The Cumber.
land, at Nashville, fell 2 inches, with
20 inches on the shoals. The
Tennessee, at Chattanooga, fell
inches, with 2 feet 2 inches on the
gauge. Arkansas river is falling, with
not not more than 6 inches on the
gauge at Little Rock, White riwl
is very low.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-03
N-On-EsesIdent Notice.

No. s7Ss-In the Chancery Court Of Shelby
County Ienn.-L NJ Rumsey ct al vs.. L q
Martin o. al.
IT appearing from affidavit in this c use
i that the d~oiendants. 4 II Martin, Emily Q
NsTfin; NE tiorlai MeiiSegTns tlor;ds
fed Melbourne, Abram A Martin,
flias Haiman, John Il Hayner, A A
h9gt, NV Drury and A II Drury (frm OfJOhn
= Hayner q Coz. The Western File Company,
The belver, Falls Cutlery Company, The
Hamilton PloN Company, John Mitchell,
fm Irantcr and W II Caruthers, (frm Of
Mitchell, Trantor h Coz, The Second National
Bank Of Hamilton, Ohio, The DOUGLASS Ave
Manufacturing COmp'y, The Biddle Hardware
Company, Y X Schuyler, Marcellus Hartley
apd Malcolm Graham firm Of Schuyler
Hartley x Graham), j II GOald. jr, and j j
0s%trander,drm Of 6ould 4 Ostrander), Thcmas
) Latham and JosephJefffoys OiFm sfLatbam
X Jef-eysl, The Mcriden Brittania Companv.
Hotahklst * Sons. - Kline aud Il p Logan
firm Of klire, Losan 1 Co, The Wheeling
Hinze Company. Peck Brothers K Co, The
Buffalo scale ComBany, Richardson Brothers,
Hubbard, Bakewell x Co, W IL MinnemAver
* %, The Cromwell Manufacturing COMPANY.
A Spear a Son, @ W and II S Bartholomew
Charles U Mixdori, The South Bend Iron
W0rks. The National Hardware Company.
AZ ~shapleish \ %, james Davis 4 Son. TIP
Barclay. OIL WilsO1i Merriam * Morgan
~schoelberger & Co, The Marietta Stove Man
ufacturing Company, } g Conway,T Rowland
A Sons. u A Bartlett & Co. J II Momas & CO.
Tiffany 4 Co, and Niles and Scott, are non,
residents Of the State Of Tennessee; il is there
fore oraered that they make their appearance
herein, at the courthouse Of Shelby county, in
Memphis, Tenn, on or before the frst Monday
IN October, 1880. and plead, answer or
demur TO complainant bill, or the same
will be taken for confessed as 10 them and set
for, hearing q parte, and that a copy Of This
order be published once q week, for four sue
eessiye weeks. in the Public Ledger,
This 10Th day Of August, 1870.
A copy-Attest'
r; j BLACK, Clerk and Master.
BY Z. b. McHEsRY, d. o. AN.
Scodwin, Dix Il Goodloe, and TT Edeine
.1n z1I-. lor eomnIt. IN 1s6 4 IN
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time upon the receipt pf the latest market
quotations. Parties trading arc at no delay
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Cloudy.
Warm and close.
More rain in sight.
The present weather retards bust.
ness.
The VIII Kyle, for Cincinnati.
passed Evansville yesterday.
The Cons Millar leaves Cincinnati
tomorrow evening for this port.
The Ste. Genevieve, from Memphis,
arrived at st. Louis yesterday.
The James w. Gaf, from Memphis,
arrived at Cincinnati yesterday.
The Commonwealth, from Vicks-
burg, passed up this forenoon for St.
Louis.
Captain Owen Finnegin returned to
Helena last evening on the G.. w,
Cheek.
Towards ship-yards, at Jefferson.
vile, is full Of work, employing about
300 hands.
The Batesville is the mail packet
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AS pm Gin. LOUSY. & Mem. $40 am
R r Local and
through mails.
S45 pm Gin. LOUSY. X Mem. 10 90 Pm
r R through mails.
10 pm st. Louis Ex., Louisv.l IL As pm
& Nasty. III. Mich,
and all States west.
80 pm CHAT. h Mem. R RI 6 90 pm
Local and through
mails.
II As am lChatta. & Mem. R r 10 90 pm
through mails.
100 Am Mem. X Gren. i N. II 80 am
11sOp.m Mem. al. R.RR. $50 pm
ga am lCOv'g'n a. Mem. r r 3 80 pm
20 am lSomeryilleAccom'd'n 4 IS pm
RIv. q 9th. Mails.
o a.ms Memphis and Friar's A 80 pm"
Point Agent, .
TOO a.mtiHelena &Friar sPOint 4 30 pint
pOstofice.
700 amt Helena & Clarendon 4 80 pint
r r.
700 a.mtlMem. &Greeuv. Ag't. 4S0 p.mt
10 90 PM Mem. Il Vicksburg 8 30 am.
Agent.
100 a.mIlSt.Louis & Mem. Ag'tI 9 30 am
100 a.m@ 0sceOla&Mem Agent. 4 30 PM
100 am list. FrancisRiverAg't. 4 30 p N,
100 a.mflArkansas RiverAgentI 30 PM
100 ami White River Agent. 4 80 p.mi
800 pm" Mem. to HollySpr'gs, 6 co amt
Miss. Stage rOuta.
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metnpnis muuv ruiiRs ptVppeu Up
10 pyramid, was a good thing to gaze
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Aud $50 meiust., neur SensrsOn.
cuTpma MAIZE mN nnnun
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Trustees Sale,

DY virtue. Of Q. trust deed, executed to me
IL. September 80, 1877, for the purpose OF So
curing an indebtedness therein mentioned.
which trust deed is Of record in the Registers
Office ofShelby county, in book 100, page 70, l
will, on
Saturday, September 4th, 1850,
in front of the courthouse in the city Of Mem
phis, between 10 am. and Ann, sell M pub
lilo auction TO the highest bidder for cash, lot
10 and west half Of lot 3, In block 20, on the
plan Of Fort Pickering, Shelby county, Ten
nessee, having q front on the south side Of
Georgia street Of seventy. Eve feet by a depth
ofone hundred and sixty feet. EQUITY Of re-
demption waived. Title believed TO be good,
but ! will sell and convey as trustee only.
MS CIV METCALF, Trustee,
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sciIscto6u. cSSrsssTsssonSSi and Dat attention
nrOmpt -
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RAILROAD TIMETABLES.

Louisville aud Nashville and Great
Southern.
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LEAVE. ARRIVE.
Mail 4 passenger, daily. 400 pm $50 AM
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MemphI. and Charlealon.

LEAVE. ARRIVE.
|
Mail train, daiIy..... 4.O pm. II. 80 pm
Fright, daily lex. SUM- 500 am b.b Pm
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RIVER IETELLIGEECE.
RoArs LrAvrNn THIS DAY.

BOATS HAVING THIS DAY.
For Friar's Point, James Lee".....6 PIN
" Osceola, 0sceola Belle--..-...5 pm
New Orleans, Mary Houston..5 pm
ARRIVED.
Steamer Batessille, st. Francis river.
Sam Roberts, st. Louis.
Beaver, st. Louis.
Josie Harry, White river.
Wyoming, st. Louis.
John B. Maude, st. Louis.
Commonwealth, Yicksburg.
City of Helena, st. Louis.
james Lee, Friar's Point.
Osceola Belle, Oseeola.
Belle Shreveport, ST. Louis.
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POSTOFFICE, MEMPHIS, Tenn.

Arrivals and Departures Of Mails.
OPEN. Railroads. CLOSE.
National Republican., 1880-05-28

congressional districts. would like TO en-
phasize what you have said by few statis-
tics.
The largest republican vote ever polled in
In those districts was in 1876 for Mr.. Bristow
and MrO'Neal, both Of them gentlemen Of great
local influence and Of unimpeachable private
character. There was no bolt or dissatisfao-
tion among our friends, and the democratic
candidates, Beverly Douglas particularly, were
not specially popular, and yet Judge Bris.
tow was defeated by 3.2SS votes, and
Mr. O'Noal by G,is5. It is perfect folly to
refer to the Greeley. Grant campaign of 1879,
because everybody knows that thousands OF
Virginia bourbons would not swallow Greeley.
Nor will it do to say that in 1878 the united
vote for Round and Critcher exceeded that
of Beae. for Round ran as a readjuster and
Critcher as an independent conservative, and
both drew largely from the conservative vote.
If we are not disposed TO Ego 1t blind" we
must concedc that the vote of 1876 was the
iairest test of party strength which we have to
judge from, and that our only hope of beating
the democratic thieves that rejoice in the
epithet of debt.payers" is to forego the
folly Of ''straight-ouV nomination and to
unite the republicans and read djnsters in oppo-
sition to bourbonism Respectfully, etc,
REPUBLICAN READJUsTER.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, May 26
National Republican., 1880-05-28
HAVE WE A REPUBLICAN, PARTY?

One question to be settled at Chicago
and in the near future is this: Is the re-
publican organization party-bound to-
gether by creed of principles, cemented
by a common interest which seeks the ma
tional welfare, and actuated by patriotism
that adheres to principle and stands firm
and undaunted in defense of its position
underall emergencies ?-or is it a confedera-
tion of guerrillas who are actuated by self
ishness and held together only by the ad
hesive power of plunder, leaving each man
or faction free to desert the party standard
and 60 over to the common enemy when
ever the full measure of personal greed or
ambition is not filled by the party on de-
mand /? This question has become promi-
nently foreshadowed in the preliminary
canvass, and it is fitting time to have it
permanently settled, for there is no future
for any party which sinks its prin-
ciples in personal ambition and selfish ends,
and is not prepared to make any concession
or sacrifice that is demanded by the public
good. The threats that come up from o
portion of the public press are in effect that
if the majority of the national convention
shall fail TO submit to the demands of the
minority, that minority will not respect the
determinations of that body, but will assert
| its freedom to act independently of party
relation and in the interest of republican
overthrow. This may be only an expedient
resorted to for the purpoe of affecting the
action of the convention in regard to especial
interests, and will evaporate when the con-
vention shall have rendered its verdict. In
that view it is unusual and inexpedient in
the light of party good faith, and is
to play with fire in a powder maga-
zine. The menace is, that if certain inter-
ests are not subserved in the convention,
then the party machine is to be broken and
crippled when it is called into use against
the common enemy, and the republican
cause, its principles and its benefits to the
national welfare are TO be thrown away in
the interest of disappointed ambition and
personal prejudice. This is the question MS
it is presented by a class Of republicans
who assume the right to ruin the republi-
can cause if they are not permitted TO use
it in accordance with their especial views
and notions. The case is thus presented by
the opponents of General GRANT, and il
now remains for the convention to decide
whether it will surrender the right of the
majority TO control under q bulldozing
threat We greatly mistake the character
of the republican party if it is to be swerved
from its sense of right and duty by intimi.
| datiOn.
National Republican., 1880-05-28

seats in congress. In 1879 the united
opposition vote was still greater than
the republican vote, in spite of the
greatest exertion of tho party. Now
is il not fair to ask what is the value
of magnetism which has no better
results than these to point to in its own
home. Is it not fair to ascribe part of the
disasters in Maine to the tactics of the
plumed knight, and to ask that the national
party may be spared from the experiences OF
its branch in Maine?
We do not by any means place Maine in
the category of doubtful states. We are
confident that the republicans could carry
it even should Mr.. BLAINE be nominated al
Chicago for the presidency; but we are GER
tainly of the opinion, from careful con-
sideration of the course of the states poll
tics since 1872, that our majority would be
greater in the pine.tree state under the
leadership of either of his prominent COM
petitors for the nomination at Chicago.