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National Republican., 1880-06-30
Judge Poland manrses Garfield.

Tho Hon. Luke P. Poland wrote the follow
ng letter to the pres ident Of the Vermont re.
publican state convention, and it was read
b efore that body at its meeting in Burlington
on Wednesday.
ST. JoHNsBURY, VT, June %, 1850.
To The President Of the Contention!
SIR: was chosen n delegate to the con.
vention by tho republicans of this town, and
hoped to be able to attend, but the unexpected
prOlougation of the court in this county pre-.
vents. / greatly regret my inability to be
present. / am not at all anxious to partici.
pate in the selection of state ticket. The
republicans of Vermont can always be safely
trusted to nominate good men. | only desire
10 have an opportunity to express to the con.
vention and TO republicans everywhere my
entire approval OF the nominations made at
Chicago Probably no man in Vermont knows
General Garfield more intimately than my
self He was in congress during the whole Of
my ten years service, and for eight years we
stood together in the house, and ever on
terms of friendship aud intimacy. OF his EN-.
nent ability, power in debate, aud untring
devotion TO public service | need not
sneak. His long service aud leading position
in congress have made him known to all the
pcOple of the country who take any interest
in public affairs. But our political opponents
affect TO question his personal integrity and
purity of character, and to base their accusa'
ton upon the evidence taken before a com.
mittee of congress OF which | was chairman,
known rs the Credit Mobilier committee,
Now desire TO say 10 the convention and 10
all who may feel any interest in my opinion
of General Garfield, that nothing which APP
peared before that committee, or which ap'
pears in their report or any other matter or
thing which over came TO my knowledge in
regard to him, even led me to doubt his per-
sonal integrity. ! believe him to bo u thor
oughly upright and honest man, and who
would DO so under all circumstances and
against any temptation. The use that is be.
ing made of my name aud Of the report OF
the committee which was drawn by me, in my
opinion makes ii proper for mo to express my
personal judgment as to tho character Of the
man. ask you to do mo the favor to COM
muncate this note to the convention.
LUKE p. POLAND,
In addition to the above IL app ears in the
testimony Of Mr. Dillon, cashier to the Scr.
geant.at-arms, who Is said by Mr. Ames to
have paid the $329 to Mr.. Garfield, that the
check was drawn " Pay to o. A, or bearer
$329" aud was paid to Mr., Ames. Dillon
swoars to it, II the amount was dividend
due to Mr.. Garfield for stock, why was it not
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GENERAL uANooCK's MILESTONE.

If General HANCOCK were thrice as
worthy rs he is as man and candidate the
load he has taken upon himself is greater
than he can bear. He has assumed the
record of the democratic party with all its
enormities and atrocities and whatever he
may be, personally, has but little TO do
with the issue. In accepting a nomination
at the hands of the party of disloyalty,
treason and rebellion, he assumes tho re-
sponsibilities and consequences that cluster
upon the history they have made. Cen
eral HANCocK's loyalty and patriotism are
discounted by his present contact and atti-
tude The lustre of his military record is
dimmed by his present surroundings. In
accepting honors and responsibilities at
the hands Of a party which sought
the national life, which characterized
him as LINCOLN hireling" and
"butchcr" during the rebellion, he now
sinks himself to the plane Of their disloy-
atty, and virtually becomes one Of them.
He has not the power to elevate them to
his standard, for their acts of treason, their
bloody attempts TO break up the union and
destroy the national life are in recorded
history, and can never be condoned OF
wiped out. In consorting even at this late
day with the party which nursed treason
and set the rebellion on foot; which, in it;
last presidential campaign before the re-
bellion was crushed and the nation was
saved, incorporated in its political creed
. NJ In al, "a
that the war TO crush rebellion was mis-
erablc failure; which has since the close o.
the war filed the southern states with the
graves of men whose only oftense was thai
they were republicans and desired t.
assert their opinions and sulfragcs n
the ballot-box, and which has no
only made war upon the constitutions
amendments and the laws relating thereto
but has openly and insolentIy declared its
purpose in the halls Of congress not to stol
until they had been "wiped out" Genera
! HANCOCK puts himself on n level witt
rebels and traitors. A history of twenty
years, redolcnt with treason, rebellion
and cold-blooded crime, is now ac
cepted by General HANCOCK, when h
takes the banner Of party which repre-
sents all these, and steps to the head of it
column as its standard bearer in the pend
ing contest. We again declare that if h
were ten times the hero and soldier that h
is, he cannot make mantle of his own
virtues sufficiently large to cover the sin
that he complicates himself with when h
accepts honors from and sinks himself to
fellowship with the democratic party il
becoming its leader against that part.
through whose loyalty and patriotism tn
life of the nation was saved, and but 70
whose efforts it would inevitably have beel
lost in that fearful and bloody struggle.
National Republican., 1880-06-30
PERSONAL.

SARAH BERNHARDT is thirty-six.
THE Chinese minister has taken house in
New York
BARNUM will celebrate his Sc ventieth birth.
day on July 3.
CARL PETERSON, the celebrated Dan ish
arctic explorer, is dead.
MURAT HALsTEAD of the Cincinnati Com
mercidl is in New York.
JOHN G.. THOMPSON, esq, leaves to-day to
visit his son at West Poiut
TRENoR w. PARK has wagered $4,000 even
upon the election of Garfield.
ASSISTANT PoSTMAsTER-G GENERAL HAZEN
is in New York ut the Astor house.
Hon. ]. II. UPDEGRAFF has been renomi-
mated to represent the sixteenth Ohio district.
THE duke of Westm inster has nm income of
$4,000 per day. What n candidate he would
be
SECRETARY EvARTs is at the Brcvoort
house, New Y ork. Senator Conkling is at
the Fifth Avenu ..
Hon. EDWARD MCPHERSON will leave to.
day for New York to attend the meeting Of
the national committee.
GENERAL RAUM has gained n private suit
against tho Cairo s Vincennes railroad for
SlO,SO0. He will be in tho city to-day.
BARKsDALE of Mississippi, who shot Dixon,
"do a Conspicuous uSuIb luo
at Cincinnati. So was Hamburg Butler.
WILLIAM Ii. PoPuAM, wealthy member of
the New York Produce Exchange, died on
Sunday from the immoderate use Of ice-water.
LIEUTENANT +. V. GREEN, the assistant en-.
gineer OF tho District, returned yesterday
from West Point, after an absence of about two
weeks
LORD DUrPLIN is TO marry the youngest
daughter of w. II. Vanderbilt. Lord Dupplin
is fast man, aud was divorced from his wife
| in 1876.
Mr. BILLIE, who has just been appointed Dan.
ish ambassador to Washington, was for many
years editor of the DagJladet, a leading news
| paper of Copenhagen.
A FORTHCOMING marriage at Newport will
| be that of Mr.. CavendIsh Bentinck, of Eng
land, to Miss Livingston. Lady ralton Sykes
will attend the wedding.
Mr.. KELLY, the artist for Scribner's 81.
Nicholas, has an excellent illustration in the
July number of that periodical showing the
unloading of burning powder-wagon at
! Cherubusco, in which Sergeant A. NJ. Kena-
day, now secretary of the national association
! of Mexican veterans aud editor of the Tidetto
is the dominant figure.
National Republican., 1880-06-30
sELr-sTULrIrIoATION.

The attempt now being made to magnify
General HANCOCK into a statesman be.
cause he Illuminated general order No, 40
on November 20, 1867, which no one ever
believed was prepared by himself without
the aid of President JOHNSON or his legal
adviser, and which JOHNSON subsequently
indorsed with considerable emphasis, is
worthy Of attention, The sentiments oI
that order were well prepared and well pre-
sented, and the great wonder at the time
was who was its author This paper is now
reproduced to establish General HAECoCK's
title as a statesman, and while we are deal
ing with "reminiscences, the mind naturally
falls upon another of o kindred character,
which is revived by the circumstances ol
the period, General RosEcRANs was
soldier with democratic procliyites,
aud unless memory is at fault, after the
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war closed the democratic party Of Ohio
rendered him tho nomination as its candi-
date for governor. This proposition Gem
eral ROsECRANs rejected at once, and for
the reason that he had taken sides with his
government in that struggle, with the dem
ocratic party in sympathy with the rebel
lion, and il would be inconsistent in him to
accept nomination aud become the stand
nrd-bearer of a party with which he had
been virtually at war during the lifetime
of the rebellion. lie declined pcremptorily,
and another nomination was made, and the
democrats were defeated.
In this there is lesson that General
HANCOCK might study with profit for, like
RosECRANs, he is democratic army
officer, and like him he fought the demo-
cratic party throughout the rebellion. Here
the parallel ends Now the democratic
party allures General HANCOCK to become
its standard-bearer and accept the nomina-
tion rs its candidate for the presidency.
Though he has not formally accepted, there
is no reasonable doubt that he will as soon
as letter can be prepared. In this Cen
eral HANCOCK does not seem to possess rs
nice sense of consistency ms General
RosEcRANs, his comrade-in-arms, un-
der similar circumstances. lie indicates
a willingness to sultify his war
~ecord now by putting on the
rebel uniform and, so to speak, by getting
into bed with those who sought to take the
national life. The democratic party has
not changed at all in its principles, its in
tents or its purposes. 1t is living on in line
with its war record, by consistently quarrel
ing with the results as it did with the
efforts to crush the rebellion during that
bloody struggle. In accepting the position
as its standard-bearer, General HANCOCK
sinks his consistency. If the democratic
party was in the right during the war, Gem
eral HANCOCK was in the wrong, and now
to accept honors at the hands of n disloyal
party is to stultify life of loyalty for the
sake of show of aggrandizement which
will never be realized.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

J. J. MCLEMoRE, candidate for congress
in Alabama, announces himself as favoring,
among other good things for tIfe'TSYuth, the
pensioning Of confederate soldiers and ma
tional cemeteries for confederate dead. He
grandloquently says:
OF the federal soldiery, marble slabs
proudly mark the hallowed spots where sleep
the martyred fallen, aud gilded annuities
gem the bosoms Of the honored living. While
of tho confederate or southern, the dead
moulder unrecognized-expatratcd-an the
living go unrewarded. This distinction should
cease, and we should place our countrymen-
federal and confederate, living and dead
upon the same planes of eq uality.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

"THE principles of the democracy are
"eternalw So cries the bourbon press. Yes 4!
just the same as they were twenty years
ago, and will be twenty years hence, if in
existenCe.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

ANOTHER democ cratic consistency is found
in the presentation of what that party
claims to be non-sectional candidate,
with solid south" at his back.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

THE statement now made that General
GRANT has expressed the belief that HAN
COCK would be elected is based upon wide
stretch of the imagination. The general
talks but very little, and never rs an idiot.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

THE Newark IN. J.) advertiser in speak
ing of HANCOCK as soldier-statesman,"
says: He is soldier by lineal rank and a
Statesman by brevet, just as TILDES is or
"clams to be ebrevet-prcsdent of the United
GStatesn
National Republican., 1880-06-30

THE democrats in this city can make
more noise and do less voting than those of
any other place in the country.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

GOVERNOR HENDRICKS has swallowed
HANCOCK, but there was lumpy feeling
in his throat
National Republican., 1880-06-30

GENERAL HANCoCK's attorney is now
preparing the material for his letter of ac-
ceptance, which, it is said, will be very
elaborate and it will not be the fault of
his counsel ifit is not quite statesman-like
in character.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

attempt to inculpate him in crime on the
testimony of one who, after carefully scan
ming and weighing his contradictory state
ments, forces every candid mind to the
conclusion that he was an ingram rascal
and brass-mounted perjurer
National Republican., 1880-06-30
TIE Philodelph Times (dem.) says:

If GARFIELD is not the strongest man in his
party, at least he is a man of to-day, a living,
growing man, who will be stronger tomorrow
than to-day, and who does not subsst upon
the memories Of the past.
The Times is right. General GARFIELD
will be stronger tomorrow than to-day,
while HANcoCH-wcll, we feel sorry for
him.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

TIE democratic organ is quite hilarious
over the significant fact that the democratic
clerks in the departments will refrain from
responding to the call of the republican
committees for campaign funds. IT is about
time they began to show their teeth, so
that they can be identified.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

THE "solid south" cannot win against n
united republican party this year.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

The fourteenth plank in the democratic
platform congratulates the country upon the
honesty and thrift of the democratic con-
"gress which has reduced public expendi-
lures forty millions year." The country
has heard them talk in that strain before,
Previous to 1874 their criticisms of rcpub-
lican mistakes captvated many voters, and
they were given lease of power. Can
anybody point to what they have done in
the way of reform or good government ?
For five years they have had control OF the
house of representatives, and what is the
result? Where have the people been
benefited? Where is the better gov
ernment? The last year the rcpub-
LEANS had control of the house
the number of employees was 125, and
the total expenditures of the house were
$3.50, 1000 The employees of the present
house have been increased to 173, and the
expen nditures to S2G5,S3S. What is wit
messed here extends through all the
branches of the government. During the
last years the republicans were in power in
were steadily decreased each year. That
was as certain as the reduction of the pub
lie debt For the fiscal year ending June
80, 1871, the expenditures of the gov
ernment were 1922, III, 1925, and for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, the
last year the republicans had con-
troll of the appropriations, they were
$255, ,459, 1878, thus reducing the expendi-
lures $33 717,30O.02 in five years. Now
what have the democrats done in the five
years they have been in office? For the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, the appro-
priations were $233, 3,G6O,OOS93, an excellent
start. The next year they were S236, 6,96i,
326SO, but the next year they jumped tc
$266, ,9i7, ,sS353 the next year June 80
1850 to 1927 sec, ,23717, and for the fisca
year endng June 80, 1881, the amount APP
propriated is $201, ,423, $500, an increase o.
So, ,S23, ,S9797 in five years. That show
democratic reform in the clearest light.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

Is it not singular feature connected
with those with whom the public intrust
their lives on the water that as soon as n
collision or fire involving the loss of life
occurs every officer and subordinate con-
ncctcd Herewith become suddenly as
dumb rs so many oysters?
National Republican., 1880-06-30

paid to him by check to his order2 The
charge has no single corroborating witness of
person or panor.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

THE democrats are boasting in a general
way that there are republicans who will
vote for HANCOCK and ENGLISH Perhaps
so. But if they will indicate one of that
kind, two to one that he will prove to be q
republican who 1t has cost tho party more
butter than he is worth to cook him.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

THE fraud issue dropped out with TIL
DEN's cast-away cause, and now the only
fraud KIN own TO the canvass is the placing
of loyal general at the head of n disloyal
party in the hope of deceiving the people.
This last fraud, though brass-mounted,
will go to meet TrLDEN before the canvass
is half over. The rebuke that the people
have in store for this rank deception will
astonish all interested when they take the
field. The history of 1872 is to be repeated
this fall.
National Republican., 1880-06-30
oCCOOUAN FALLS

Mr.. II. NJ. WILLIS, who is well and favorahly
known in Washington as a caterer has recently
opened q neat as abshment at OccOquau, where he
Is prepared ~ furnish iirsi.cRSs dinner including
other refreshments nj the lowest city prices. ie52W
National Republican., 1880-06-30

Is 1864 the democrats nominated Nc
CLELLAN, union soldier, to save them,
but he couldn't. In 1s72 HORACE GREELEY,
n lifelong republican, was swallowed to
bring them around all right, but it was no
go. Now HANCOCK, another union soldier, is
brought out TO pull them through, but lie
won't. History but repeats itself
National Republican., 1880-06-30
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All communications connected with the DlStribu,
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National Republican., 1880-06-30

TIE democrats seem to think that they
have secured bonanza in the congratula-
tory letter OF our old friend MULLETT to
General HANCOCK. All right 1t is very
gratifying to know that our esteemed friend
has found political anchorage, for he has
been sadly aaoat ever since he parted his
cable at the treasury department. May he
be happy.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

THE democratic party is masquerading
with union general as leader, rank
copperhead and member of the knights of
the golden circle as file-closer, and a his
tory and record behind all that is enough
and as fast as the mask is penetrated and
the fraud is discovered, the HANCOCK
boom hattens out and is shown to be very
thin. 1t will not last until November
without patching. 1t cannot stand the
scrutiny of patriotism and genuine loyalty,
and must give out.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

HANCOCK will not be counted in.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

oS two things General GARFIELD may
well congratulate himself First that the
New York Sun opposes and abuses him, and
second, for the reason that his opponents
National Republican., 1880-06-30
TIE SMITH 4 EGGR MANUFACTURING CO..

LOCK BOX 1905, DRIDGEpORr CONN.
Manufacturers of sppCiaties In Light Hardware and
Metallic Ooodh generally Government and Giant Pad
locks, sewing Machine Locks, Piano Locks, Organ
Locks, the automatically made Giant sash Chain, Su
pcriur 10 every Othur and very much cheaper No
special pulley required, The Smith ~ Eggo ManuiaC.
turing co, also gives special attention to the making
OF estimates Tor the cost Of the manufacture of pat
ented inventions aud all the necessary tools and the
Of the same on royalty All Commu-
incatiOnS treated cOnudentlaly. aplGeOJm
National Republican., 1880-06-30

So confident are the democrats that HAN
COCK will be elected that they are busy in
framing a suitable cabinet for his admins
tration. The following has BEEN recon4-
mended:
ROBERT TooMBs of Georgia as secretary of
state.
SAMUEL j. TILDEN OF New York as Sec
retary Of the treasury.
WILLIAM b. FRANKLIN of Connecticut
rs secretary of war.
WILLIAM +. (BALDY) SMITH as secretary
of the interior.
JOHN w. FoRNEY of Pennsylvania as Sec
retary of the navy.
MONTGOMERY BLAIR of Maryland as
postmaster. general.
BEN. IIILLor Georgia as Encouragement
National Republican., 1880-06-30

DOSTERS, STREAMERS, PROGRAMMES, AND
i all kinds OF theatrical Printing, AT the
REPUBLICAN JOB ROOMS,
lSDs l. street northwest
National Republican., 1880-06-30

GENERAL HANCOCK will get some soldier
votes In the south ho will get a large ma
iority of the rebel vote which makes q
" solid south" and in the north he will
here and there get a union soldier vote cast
by democrats who had patriotism enough
to fight the democratic party during the
war, but not sagacity enough TO keep out of
it when the war was over
National Republican., 1880-06-30

WHEN the Cincinnati convention declared
for tariff for revenue omy it made a bid
for the popular vote OF Pennsylvania upon
the bacl-action principle, The keystone
state believes in the protection Of American
industries, and will be satisfied with moth
ing short OF that That plank settles the
fate Of Pennsylvania 1t is as certainly a
renubIiean state as II has been since 1860.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

THE democratic papers begin to take
water and offer feeble apologies for their
"slang-whanging of GARFIELD They
opened very broshly, but they will be as
tame rs sucking doves before November.
The whole democratic hippodromo begins
to taper already, and it will take n micro
scope to find it when the people are called
to pass upon it at the ballot-box.
National Republican., 1880-06-30

THOUGH there were 10000 kegs of beer
consumed during convention week at Gin.
cinnai, the democracy were not happy.
The brewers Of that city did not keep their
promise and run beer pipes into Convention
hall, so the delegates soon Adjourned sine
die. If free beer had been furnished there
would have been 10 nomination yet made
TMDEN didn't understand the boys.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-09-08

ST. PETERSBURG. Sept. 6.-The
railroad from this city to Simpler
opol was watched night and day by
5000 pesants and 10000 troops dur
Ing the Emperor's recent journey
to Livadia.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-09-08

The steamer Los Angeles leaves San
Buenaventura and Santa barbara for San
Francisco every Friday, calling at way
ports.
Freight steamers leave San Francisco
for San Pedro, Anaheim Landing and
Newport about every ten days. -.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-09-08
Treasury Depart@eal
OFFICE OF corPrpor :
OF THE CURREHf5$z Il
WASHINGTON. AnSs9.S -

Whereas, BY satislaotory svl,lS;
scented 10 the undersiened. Il iS2S L
made TO appear that The TjrSk rSS1
Bank Of Los Angeles. in the On
Angeies, In the county OF ~ y
ana state OF California, kSs - F.
with All the provisions Or f66 -, S
staIutes 81 the United STAG 49,
De complied with before a. 49,
shall be authorised 10 oor1 - s.'11. T.
business Of ban king: =
a. nov, therefore. !, John d. I.ane'v
1Actlng comptroller OF the CnrS{s ~ f
hereby Re certify that The Fifst ~
Danh OF Los Angeles, in the C19v "a
Ange!es. In the county OF - u ~
and state Of California, Is eufh6s51 +
commence tho business az ~ SiS'
provided In Section fifty.onS M
and sixty-nine OF the Rayised efSSS3i
the United States. - ~
IN testimony. whereof. Witnoou
August, 1850. = 4. 49,
lseal OF the Comptroller Of - =
rency.l Us. LAN0WOBT6Y2
Acting Comptroller OF the O0F53S1
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