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1 NoN-pARrLsAN cL1M SERr1cE.

4 N0N-PARTiSdN CI1H SERVICE.
The assessment of clerks for campaign
purposes is one of the most vicious features
of our politics. 1t violates the essential prin-
cirles upon which an efficient civil service
must rest. II is outrageous that the tax
payer should pay unnecessarily high sala-
ries so that officials may he enabled to
contribute large sums to defeat iree eNpres-
sion of the will of the people. And If the
salaries of office-holdcrs are not cxorbitant it
is outrageous that political assessments
should be exacted of them. Moreover, this
abuse is one which almost inevitably renders
necessary a wholesale dismissal of clerks at
every change of administration, for it can
not be expected that an incoming party will
retain the services of a corps of clerks who
have done everything in their power to pre-
vent change eofadministration. of The pretence
that the contributions are voluntary hardly
merits notice. 1t is notorious that few would
pay but for the fear that the refusal will at
some future time work to their injury. The
unlucky clerks are, indeed, between Scylla
and Charybdis. II they contribute TO the
radical election fund they can hardly hope
to remain in Office under Democratic ad-
ministraton, and il they refuse, as they
ought, the fact will be noted and used against
them il the Republicans retain power.
At the present time we are clear that
clerks ought TO make their choice whether
they will depend simply upon the civil ser
vice rules and their own efficiency, or will
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Probably among all the candidates named
there was not a safer nominee than Hancock.
He has not pushed himself into position.
He has no heartburnings to appease and no
hatreds to encounter. His unblemished
character in private life, his high attain
ments, his social standing fit him to grace
the Presidential chair. His public acts as
brave and daring soldier in war, and as a
considerate and liberty loving soldier in time
of peace justify the trust that has been re-
posed in him. He may have to feel his way,
il elected to the Presidency, where expert
enced statesmen would have walked without
embarrassment, but he has borne himself so
worthily that his right intentions will not be
questioned nor his abilities distrusted with
ont the gravest reason. AS between Gen.
Hancock and Gen. Garfield independent
voters will find little difficulty in making a
choice. Putting no faith in the platforms
promulgated by either party and taking no
stock in their promises the Record, as at
present advised, declares for Hancock and
English. The best hope of the country lies
in change of administration. The party in
power is thoroughly corrupt, and there is no
promise of Amendment in the election OF
Garfield aud Arthur, who in some sense rep
resent the corruption it is desirable TO end.
Let us have a change.-Hiia. Record, (ind
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Gen. Gartieltl,s Case,

If Gen. Garfield took Credit Mobilier stock
and then denied that he did SO under oath;
IL he accepted bribe of $1,000, specously
disguised as n fee, for his services in lobby
ing for a wooden pavement contract; if lie
was in any way responsible for the passage
Of the salary grab rider; il he gave dis.
honest judgment as q member of the Electoral
Commission--then the proposition to reward
him with the Presidency is a piece of gross
political immortality. The party which pro-
poses to honor such q record must have lost
to some degree its sense of the value of politi-
cal integrity. There is strong presump-
tion that the man accused of these grave
lapses from public virtue, and never vindi-
Gated, is unfit for the greatest of public trusts;
but it must be taken for granted that the
party which puts him forward is unfit for
power The exposure of Garfield il therefore
plain duty which the Democrats cannot
forego. II the Republicans make no dis
closures about Hancock, it will be because
there is nothing in his career which can be
turned directly against him and indirectly
against the party which nominated him.
Our opponents must not think IL strange If
they get little credit for forbearance when
proposing a bargain to avoid discussing the
characters OF the candidates, since Garfield IL
vulnerable at many points and Hancock
above suspicion.
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Why Leonard Jerome Will Vote for
Hancock,

You, sir, embody the views and sentiments
In regard TO the great questions Of the day that We
have entertained since the war closed. They the
same that aetnaed gen. Grant when he laid down
those liberal terms of surrender TO Gen. Lee. They
are the same that aciuated my poor friend, Raymond
when he bated so manfully In the committee of Con-
grcss against the savage policy Of Ihad Stevens. 1
believe Gen. Grant would support You to-day did not
the exgencies OF his situation forbid II. Ana Henry
Raymond, were he alive would support you too
unless the ergencles of the New York Times restrained
him. lie was compelled AT an early day TO smother
the sentiments he had expressed In the address OF the
philadelphia Convention, 10 abandon his In
legislative halls and TO change the tone OF the Times
or, as Mr. JONES' our business manager and partner
insisted, the paper would be ruined. Il believe Of
iered 10 pay the damages at the time, but that was
considered impractcabe. IL was "a bitter pill hut
II had to be swallowed. Thad Stevens had succeeded
through Congress which misrepresented the country
ia engrafing his policy upon The Republican party.
And though majority Of the party. IA ! hrmiy he
leve we're dsgusted, II was faaieued upon them aud
there was np way al getting rid Of H. Thus for years
a yast nulninr Of u.s. good Republicans, have been
compelled 70 be helpless supporters OF policy We be-
Iieve 10 lie the very worst that could be devised An
opportunity Is presented now, for the first time
with any show OF success. to IN accordance with
cur convictions, and am we shall do II most
joyfully. .-Efom Hts Letter 10 Gen. Hancock.
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Democract of the Trucst Tyne.

No man among those named before the
Convention could have better inspired and
led n united Democracy to triumph. We
are not of those who feared disunion in the
party, be the nominees who they might.
Our faith was firm that the next President
of the United States was to be placed in NOM
ination at Cincinnati. We find in Hancock
the fullest possible confirmation of our trust.
He is Democrat of the truest type, who
dared to hold up the creed of Jefferson in the
very teeth of the Stanton Cabinet, and who
showed his colors when they were not eagerly
exhibited by some who were his competitors
at CINCINNATI He is identified with no fac
tions, concerned with no feuds. He has
never held political office and has never
sought one. His support in the conventions
of 1868, 1879, and 1876, as in that of the
22d, came from men who revered him as the
ideal Union Democrat-the man who could
most effectively appeal to the soldier vote,
who could most easily unite in harmony the
two sections, and could most thoroughly
stamp out the monstrous falsehOods of the
outrage mill.-Utica Observer, (Dem.)
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Republican Testimony on Hancock.

The New York Erening Posi- says; :" II Is
true, too, that muckworms ON the Republi-
can side are carefully searching the cutters
for oflal TO throw upon Gen. Hancock, but
their labors also, thus far, have been with
ont avail. Every intelligent man in the ma
ton knows that both parties have bonored
themselves by the selection of honorable
names, and he that shall undertake to fling
dirt in the contest will soil his own hands
without doing hurt TO the objects of his
skunk-like procedure. But these nomina-
tions, in addition to their cleanliness, have a
character which seems TO us to mark dis
tinct step in advance in the development of
political opinion. We have already re-
marked in former disquisitions how the
choice Of Gen. Garfield by the Repub-
licans has eonfounded some of the
worst elements and the tendencies of the
party. 1t has put an end TO the dictatorial
reign OF the Bosses and it has thwarted
the disposition to return to the methods of
Gen. Grant whose administrations, when
the tide Of corruption rose to the
very seats Of Cabinet Ministers, Were
among the most deplorable in our annals.
AND so we cannot but think that the choice
OF Gen. Hancock by the Democrats is repu-
diation OF some of the worst proclivities with
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ARMY AND NAVY NOTES.


Lieut.. John l.. Glenn is in town,
Master C. w. Bartlett, of the Navy, Is in
Worcester, Mess.
Lieut.. w. Il. Halleck, of the Army, was in
san Francisco juno 81.
Mai. J. q. Tilford, Seventh Cavalry, is at
22O7 Pennsylvania avenue.
Second Lieut.. IL. Il. Moon, Twentieth In
fantry, Is ut 1888 street.
First Lieut.. G.. s. Grimes, Second Artil-
lcry, is at the Ebbit House.
First Lieut. II. r. Reed, First Infantry, is
In baltimore, ii3 Howard street
Capt. A. w. Johnson, of the Navy, is sum
merlng at the Rockbridgc Alum.
Maj. G.. w. schodeld, Tenth Cavalry, will
reach San Antonio about July ".
Lieut.. J. M. Defrces, Fifth Infantry, was
at Miles city, Montana June IL
Lieut. RUSSELL of the Marine Corps, will
soon take a months leave OF absence.
Admiral Poor and Capt. @. u. lIaycock,
Marine Corps are at Gettysburg Springs.
Lient. Alexander McCrackin, of the Navy,
Is at Fairfield, Jefferson county, Iowa.
Midshipman Maxwell, of the Navy, is Wis
iting his parents ut their home on l street.
During the trip of Secretary Thompson to
the Pacific Coast Commodore Jeders will he Acting
Secretary OF the Navy.
Admiral Scott, of the Navy, left yesterday
Tor the Rockbridge Alum springs, where he viii re-
main month or more.
Capt. Edward Field, Fourth Artillery, has
been appointed chief aid by the grand marshal Of the
Fourth Of July celebration In San Francisco.
Medical Director William Grer, of the
Navy, left on Friday last for Wentworth, N. H.,
where he viii remain until about September TO-
Second Lieut.. w. J. Nicholson, Company
q. Seventh Cavalry I'm consequence of
senior cnceis, is IN command Of his company In the
| field.
Col. w. d. Whipple, Adiutant General
Military Division OF Missouri, and Capt. q. W.
Evans, Twenty-nrst Infantry are ut the Ebhitt
House.
Surgeon G.. G. keency, Medical Director De-
partmcnt California, who attacked with paralysis
some eight months ago, is stilI confined to his bed with
| no prospects OF recovery.
Lieut.. w. Il. Reynolds, United States
Revenue Marine. has been ordered to United States
| Revenue steamer Grant, Mt New York, and left
| "Wednesday for his station.
The plans for the new post at Fort Mo
rara have been changed that the quarters to he
built Of adobe. The quarters for officers and men
| VIII he ready by the list of November.
During the absence of Adiutant General
Gen. Samuel Breck, Col. Samuel n. benjamin win
discharge the duties of Adjuant General.
An interested correspondent asks: Has the
| order confning tho appointment OF post commssa-
res to sergcanis been modified to admit the ar-
pointment thereto of private soldlers9 1t has not
A special from Fort Keogh says that 500 of
Sitting Bulls band from the other side Of the inter-
national boundary came In and snrrcndered to Lieut.
| Whistler. representing Gen. Miles. The Indians
were In starving condition, and were fed and cared
for. It-s said more are about to come in.
Companies A, L, and G, Seventh Cavalry,
under command Of Capt g. $. Ilslsy, are in camp on
named Ben lIolgsOn in honor of Second Lieut. H. II,
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GEN. HANCOCK AT GETTYSBURG.
The story OF the Surgeon who Dressed
His Wounds ia the Third Days

DIR. Alexander N. Douglerty, of Newark,
was medical director Of the Second Corps when II was
commanded by Gen. Hancock. lie is u Republican,
aud WAS postmaster OF Newark under Graiit's first
administration. lie Will However, vote for Hancock.
lie says; "When Gen. Hancock succeeded Gen.
Couch as commander Of the old Second Corps be-
came his medical director. Al the battle OF Geiys-
burg lie commanded the First, Second, and Third
Corps, one-hall Of The Army In the third day fight
at Getty ysbnrg he WAS wounded, and was sent Tor.
found Him lying on The hill slope, under u tree,
and facing the enemy. There was deep,
wide cash In his leg near the groin. In
the wound were wood splinteis and ten
what the rebels We're using In their shells. He
thought he had been wounded by splnters from of
the enemy's shells. We put him Into an ambulance
aud lay down beside him. Then drove through
y hot fire To my hospital. Afiorward l discovered
that bullet had penetrated his saddle and then lodged
in his thigh, carrying with 1t the wood splinters aud
the tenpenny nail. As he hay IN the hospital In great
Ten. Meade announcing the victory at Getty
adding To the despatch that the defeat would be turned
Into rout. He was calm, patient, and heroic. lie
II equally entitled with Meade to the honor Of the ylc
tory gettysburg, and Meade would say II he We're
alive. ON the night OF the second days battle
ell of held. II was proposed to fall back and
establish line of battle at Pipe Creek, but Hancock
opposed II. lie argued that ihe Army should stay
where II was and lie said that the Army Of the POto-
had made Its last retreat aud should light die
the line where the battle was begun. Gen. Meade
finally cOinGided with Hancock, aud lhe result was
thai that great victory crippled the rebels that they
never recovered from II. Hancock viii lie tho next
President. Several Of my Republican friends have
assured me they VIII vote for him. We don't want
any President who accepts briLes or perjnres him
self who has even the suspicion Of iaint about
him. ~
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couLIssE CHAT.

They say Salvini is coming to America
again.
Ella Wesner and Fred Wilson are at Days
Concert Hall, Birmingham, England.
Agnez Perry Booth and her husband, the
eldest Of old Booth, are keeping hotel In Man
chester.
Clara Cole, formerly leading lady at
llenck's Cincinnati, Ohio, is playing ToPsy NJ one
OF the Philadelphia theatres
Miss Annie Louise Cary is to make her
FIRST appearance under Mr.. Mapleson'S management
ita.',
A fairtype of Texan manners was given in
Cnrrio's brutal murder Of Porter, and of Texan chi
valry In the counseis Infamous questions to Miss
Cummings, and Of Texan justice In the Currie
quittal.
Mrs. Zelda Harrison Seguin is engaged to
bc married 10 MIR. Wallace, of Indianapolis. II is
understood that Mrs SeguIn Will not retire from tho
stage after her marriage, which Is 10 take place In
October next.
VIII Stewart (Walsngham) writes from
London that Sarah Bernhardt Isn't equal to Clara
Morris. and IN many respects In Frou From Inferior
10 Agnes Ethel lie predicts that she viii DO u big
failure In America
Emily Melville has scored a fresh success
in san Francisco MS Giocoaao In Won suppe's .Bo-
eaeelom She had Just surprised her friends at her
In 1.-The Royal Mddy.''
II is said that Mile. Bernhardts American
repertory VIII include the character OF Hmlet. The
Paris Figaro informs by the way, that the actress
has Just made an engagement with Messrs i0lings-
head Mayer tO reappear for n fortnight In London
after her tour through this country.
A London correspondent writes: " Boito's
Mdnstof6le' is m active preparation at Her Ma
Jesty's. Campanini sings Faust, Nilsson Mdr0ue-
rite, and Manetu MefstoJais ON the last named
singer tho composer especially Insisted. lie arrived
on Monday. i0ito himself snperlntends the final
hearsas, and win probably conduct The first perform
ance, July q. 'Mt6stofee VIII be the novelty Of
the next American season. The London Figaro pub
fishes list Of singers for the transatlantic season.
Guiding GersteT, Rose, Hank, Lehman, aud the
great contraO, Tremoli: tenors Campanin Canddus
Frapolii; basses. Gaassi antaleone Del Puente and
Monti. Negotiations with Nilsson are SIN pending
II she goes probably Gerser and IIauk VIII refuse
but the arrangements are yet by no means complete
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4 RADICAL CRIME.

The refusal of the Republican party to
permit an act to pass making the special
election deputy marshals non partisan was
a crime, and it should be properly explained
to the voters during the present canvass.
The Federal election laws are simply afro
cious. They authorize the appointment for
ten days at five dollars per diem of an un,
limited number of deputy marshals. These
are shown by the evidence taken by the
Senatorial investigation to have often been
men of the worst character and always thor
ough partisans. They are appointed by the
marshal, who is political and not Judi
cal officer. They have power to arrest voters
without process, and upon the mere suspicion
of an intention to vote fraudulently-thati is,
before they have voted at all or have offered
their ballots to the election officers.
These deputies drive from the polls large
numbers of qualified voters, by the simple
fear that they will be put to some personal
inconvenience by arrest and detention.
Others of the more ignorant classes, espe-
cially naturalized voters, are driven away
through fear that their papers are not good.
Even IL There were none Ol tHe gross ABUSES
which have been proved, it would be i'm
proper to pay men out of the public treasury
for electioneering duty.
This is no triling matter. The substance
of liberty, if not its forms, will have vanished
as soon as the people become accustomed tC
having elections carried by such means
The Democrats in Congress at the last ses
| sion asked that the deputy marshals should
| be appointed by United States Courts equally
from the two parties. This perfectly faii
and equitable rsposition-which would still
leave the advantages with the Republicans
| since the courts are in accord with tina
party-was rejected, showing that the party
| in power is determined to retain all the wors
features of its present system and TO carry til,
coming elections by resort to any corrup
| and violent means within its reach. Tn,
campaign Of 1850 will be no fancy parade
but memorable contest between the peopl
Oh the one hand and as desperate and con
scenceless an oligarchy as ever founded
| despotism on the other
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We have too often defended Gen. Hancock
from the charges of Democratic papers as to
his official conduct toward Mrs. Surratt to
sympathize with any Republican assault of
the like character We have always be
lieved, and still believe, that he acted
throughout with that soldierly obedience to
orders which becomes second nature to any
well-trained officer of the Regular Army.
The more slanderous and viler Democratic
attacks on Hancock, in this regard, came ont
contemporaneously with the exciting period
of the trials and executions of the conspira-
tors against the greatest and best of Presi-
dents. - Hartford fourdnt, (Rep.)
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Time 10 Call n Halt.

The Jealous Republicans who are try
ing to smirch the character of Gen. Hancock
as q gentleman and soldier should be called
to halt. The references to the hanging of
Mrs. Surratt and the newspaper criticisms of
some of his military work will do no good to
the Republican cause. That cause, happily,
has foundation so sure that intelligent Re-
publicans can rely upon it without resorting
to personal abuse of general of the Army
who did splendid service to the country, and
helped to preserve the Union when it was as
sailed by the party that has chosen him for
its candidate. Gen. Hancock can be beaten
by Gen. Garfield simply on the records of
their respective arties.-Erening Bulletin.
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orn Mn Dryr.-Mrs. Grants father. cold

OH Mr.. DENT.-Mrs. Grants father, cold
''AIr. Dent, - is well remembered here habtual
resident OF the White House during the Grant dynasty
Mr.. Dent secessionist, and made no secret Of
his opinions in conversation with the visitors to his
''illustrious sonin-law. one day conversing with
DIR. u. of Indiana avenue, the latter remarked:
"iou must be highly sratifed, Mr.. Dent, at your
time OF life, to have your son-in-law President
OF the United States, your daughter mistress
OF the Executive Mansion, and your filling
an important position In the Presidents Office.
"Oh! pshaw!'' exclaimed Dent, that's all
well enough, hut I'm agn the whole OF en-
About this time, Mr.. Dent, to show his
contempt for the Presidential household, went
to tailor the Avenue and ordered n suit Of
Confederate gray, to he made after the pattern of
Stonewall Jackson's uniform The clothes were sent
him at the White House, but Mrs. Grant would not
allow him to them and ordered them to he sent
back to the tailor. Mrs. Hayes would have been more
compaisant under similar circumstances. With
Mosby, Consul at Hong Kong; Longstreet. Minister
to Turkey, and Key, Postmaster General. how cond
she have objected her father sirutng through the
East Room and the Red Room arrayed In the Confed-
crate uniform?
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The Opposition " gas light companies in
Baltimore have consolidated, and the price
has, of course, gone up again, though it is
by no means so exorbitant as in Washington
even yet. The example is, however, signifi-
cant, and warns the people of Washington
that pretended Opposition !" charters
should be opposed, and Congress besieged
at its next session to condemn the gas works
and run them on the Philadelphia plan, for
the benefit of the public.
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JUsT before sailing for New York last
Thursday, with his family, General Henry
w. Slocum, who commanded the old Twelfth
Corps at Gettysburg, said to a reporter that
General Hancock "will sweep the country
" like a hurricane. He will certainly carry
Pennsylvania, for he was by far the great
"est soldier that State contributed to the
"war, and the Pennslyvanians are very
"proud of him. The soldier element there
sis very large, and he will have all that in
"his favor. His majority in Pennsylvania
"will astonish people," We know good
many Pennsylvania soldiers who agree with
General Slocum.
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President johnson on Haucock's Lou
tsiana Order.

"Gen. Hancock announces that lie will
make the law the rule of his conduct; that
he will uphold the courts and other civil au-
thorities in the performance of their proper
duties, and that he will use his military
power only to preserve the peace and enforce
the law. When n great soldier with unre-
stricted power in his hands to oppress his
iollow-men voluntarily foregoes the chance
of gratifying his selfish ambition and devotes
himself to the duty of building up the liber-
ties and strengthening the laws of his coun-
try, he presents an example of the highest
public virtue that human nature is capable
of practicing."