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TIE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

We are confronted with the Democratic
party, very hungry, and, you may well be-
1ieve, very thirsty; a party without single
definite principles; party without any dis
tinct national policy which it dares present to
the country; aparty which fell from power as
a conspiracy against human rights. and now
attempts to sneak back to power a con-
spiracy for plumber and spOils.-GEo. WIN.
CURTIS, June 5, 1884.
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GEN. MILO - fiASCALlI
Candidate for presidential elector at large, will speak
as follows
Martinsville Monday, Oct. 20 night.
Gosport Tuesday, Oct. 81 night.
Greenoastle, Wednesday, Oct %, night
Tppecanoe county Thursday, Oct. %, night.
Logansport, Friday, Oct. "a, night.
HON. WILLIAM b. ROBERTS
Candidate for presidential elector will speak as fol-
Princeton, Wednesday, Oct. %, night.
Huntingburg, Thursday, Oct %, night.
French Lick, Friday, Oct "a afternoon;
Shoals, Saturday, Oct. %, afternoon.
Worthington, Monday, Oct. 81, night.
Springvile, Tuesday, Oct. %, night.
Mountain Springs, Wednesday, Oct 30, night.
Bedford, Thursday, Oct. 80, night.
Washington, Friday Oct. 81 night.
Bloomfield, Saturday, Nov. L, night
Sullivan, Monday, Nov. B. night.
HON, TRUMAN F. PALMER
Cadidate for presidential eector will speak follows;
Kewana, Monday Oct. 20.
Letters Ford, Tuesday, Oct. 81.
Pulaski county, Wednesday, Oct. %.
Pulaski county, Thursday, Oct. %.
HON. JAMES G. vEAToH,
Candidate for presidential elector will speak as fol-
lows:
Warriok county, Oct %, %, "a, 25.
Pike county, Oct. 20, 80 81 Nov. l.
HON STANTON j. PEELLR
VIII speak follows:
Auburn, Monday, Oct 20, afternoon.
Fort Wayne, Monday, Oct. 20, night,
HON. GEORGE w. STEELE,
Candidate for Congress, will speak at
Leafontain, Monday, Oct. 20. afternoon.
Rich Valley Monday, Oct. 20, night.
Roam, Tuesday, Oct. 81. afternoon.
Liberty Mills, Tuesday, Oct. q, night.
HON. JAMES KEIGwN
VIII speak follows:
New Providence Monday Oct 20. night.
Utica, Tuesday. Oct. 81, night.
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dealers III shoulder Braces, Supporters, Elastic
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sponsible position, but [ do not think
it is as responsible as the position of
an editor or publisher. Take the sim
pie statistics, that our New York dai-
lies now have a circulation of 450, 900
per DAY, and add to it the fact that
three of our weekly periodicals have
an aggregate circulation of about l.
100000, and then cipher up if you
can, how far up, and how far down
and how far out, reaches the influence
of the American printing press"
Such multitude of papers are
thrown before the public, that it has
become vexed question, what to take
and what to reject. Like good and
evil spirits they throng about one
pathway doing their work for veal or
woe. Like the Egyptian frogs, they
come into one home, upon one table,
into public and private life. Scarcely
town so small, that it has not a
newspaper, and still they come, with
an influence for good or evil beyond
human reckoning, only Eternity will
show their stupendous work. In many
lives the newspaper supersedes all 9TH
er reading. Business men sometimes
in the hurry and turmoil of life, have
not time, or will not take it, to wade
through folios, but in leisure moments
take up the newspaper, and CLEAN all
of mental nutrition they will stop to
take in the busy race for fortune.
But the mcst touching work of the
newspaper is done in the homes of the
rDor-thaua whose liros oT to.1 ora
frightened only by newspapers-too
poor to buy books or fashionable COS
tune for attendance at public places,
they shun the haunts of society-even
the sacred temple of God they will not
enter. After hours of toll are over
the work-room and the shop closed,
they turn to their homes feeling: "No
man careth for my soul" then fits
TO them the newspaper, doing its work
for good or evil. An eminent man
once said: "The Press is the most
powerful engine in the whole armory
of Satan" DIR. Fitzgerald in the lect-
ure mentioned above, said: "The
American people are reading people.
If they would read only what is good
for them, all fear concerning the fut-
ure of the nation might be dismissed.
But what do they read? They read
trash enough to addIe the brains of
nation of sages; they read impurity
enough to deba:ch nation of saints.
journalism, like all other profes-
sions, sometimes has in its ranks men
who were not intended for the tripod.
They hear none of the higher, holier
voices which come to the true Journal
ist, above all the din and clamor of
press and public, until his days of toll
and nights of WEAKNESS are resonant
with the call:
BE just and fear not
Let all the ends thou aimest at be thy country's,
Thy Gods and truths then if thou fallest,
Th ou fallest blessed martyr"
ERICA.
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because he told them they they were
ga set of hoodlums. Rioting also
seems to be periodical disease We
Americans have it about every 5
years, and the French every 6 months
an Irish ouburst occurs every day.
German and English riots are civil
wars, once in century, to turn the
country upside down.
The ancient Egyptian practice of
pronouncing honestly and impartially
on the conduct of their princes is ex-
actly reversed in the United States
of America. Our way is to abuse the
politician as the worst of bad fellows
while he lives; but the moment he is
dead, whether he were really bad or
a good man, all hands turn to prais-
ing him; and especially they take
care to make him saint in religion
and send him straight to heaven.
That will do for political religion,
and is very comforting to those salts
fed with its safety. Nor shall 1 en-
ter into any theological discussion
about the matter. But it is rank in
justice to public reason, morals and
prosperity to whitewash the cerpses
of the most odious men and perfume
them for paradise with warrant. It
hardens others to expect that they
shall die in honor, however they may
have lived in disgrace; and to in
crease the number of their crimes, ex-
pecting retribution neither here nor
hereafter. When James Gillispie
Blaine dies, and you should happen
to read his obituary, honest reader
don't be surprised if he fails to get
Egyptian justice.
Another tantalizing trail in Ameri-
can politics is the women crying out
against oppression of their sex in
this Christian land, and continually
ding donging in the ears of us sell
fish masculines that we must let 'em
vote, vote, vote! Well, all I've got
to say on the subject is that when
matrimonial negotiations are to be
made, the whole burden of perform
ing the delicate and often very en-
barrassing part of making proposals
is thrown upon the men, while the
women sit and say no, no, no, as long
as they Ike and never say yes until
they have a mind to. Now, will Miss
Susan B. Anthony, Mrs Julia Ward
Howe, or Mrs. Polly Pantaloons show
d greyious equal to this?
Where is the sense of preachers and
elders praying for good men to rule
over us, SO long as they vote for ras-
Gals !? is momentous and practical
question.
So long as it was possible for man
to own slaves, and still be a Christian,
no Northern and Southern churches
should have been formed. So long as
a man could drink wine or belong to
a masonic Lodge, and still be Chris
tian, these things should never have
been made tests in the Church.
And now, o politician, serve your
country as patriot, but not as ira
der. Don't buy and sell offices. 1t
is high time Uncle Sam should frown
down politics as d trade.
EDWARD PAYsOS HALL.
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UNCLE SANS POLITICAL PECCA-
DILLOES.
NJ Mud-SlinginE Coeval with the Third Pres
identiaI Centest-Rioting Periodical
Distemper Posthumous Praises of
Public Men -Petticoat Aspira-
tiOns-Prayins VS.. Voting--Ssc-
tional Splits of the EccIesiastics
Politics Trade.
Special Correspondence Of the Sentinel.

Special Correspondence Of the Sentinel.
Mt. VERNON, N. c., Sept. 90
Thomas Jefferson laid the cornerstone
of American Democracy deeply and
firmly in the hearts of his country
men. But his enemies instituted the
School of Scandal on the stump. They
charged him with having his legitl-
mate white children waited upon by
mulatto slaves of whom he was the
father. Had his immortal predeces-
sor, the stainless Washington, been in
the slightest degree amenable to the
hawkers of moral turpitude, and had
not all parties been so deeply engross-
ed in the popular struggle over the
centralist and despotic tendencies of
the elder Adams, it is more than like
ly that this thing would have begun
in the time of the first and second
Presidents. A copy of an old news
paper, a Federalist organ, dated in
June, 1900, lies before me. 1t accus-
es the Sage of Monticello of the un-
seemly act of sending his legitimate
daughters to Europe, attended by 9TH
er illegitimate daughters, as hand
maidens and waiting-servants.
Betting ON elections has always
been quite common and, together
with gambling of every other sort,
absorbs too much interest to be check
ed by anything but stern principle.
1t may not be aimless, however, to re-
mind our fellow citizens that betting
is violation of both moral and civil
law and that those who boast of be-
ing supporters of the laws should not
wantonly transgress them. If A says
to B B:-"Pll bet you 800 that Scales
will beat York" A puts the high fran
chise of freemen at the stake of the
gambler, commits political sacrilege,
and lowers himself to the level of the
demagogue York, who is nothing but
political CANISTER out and out. This
may be thought a mighty serious view
of a little betting. But it is no more
serious than true.
Political riots have frequently been
characterized as "disgraceful'' l''-espec
tally by the party opposite to those
who engage in them. My average
experience of the causes of riots is tha
too many men engage to do things
which are "lawful," but yet not lex
pedient." They would sweep the worl'
before them. But the consequence,
often is that the world brushes then
out. Let an editor shake his fis
full OF truth in the face of com
munity, and, if he don't mind, they'll
shake all the seven senses out of him
The Know-Nothings mobbed Edito
Boernstein in Cincinnati, in 1851
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PRICE 5 CENTS
NOTES NORTH CAROLINIAN.

= A negro 115 years old recently died in
Warren county.
- The colorel women of Wilson have
organized base ball club.
= The University began the second week
of the session with 202 students
Quarters for 5000 people have been
secured in Raleigh for visitors to the expo
sition.
= 1t is charged that James H. Harris, the
csiored Raleigh politician, sold out at Chic
ago for $500.
- Many farmers of Richmond and Rob
eson counties are said to have made corn
enough to last them two years.
- The sixth annua! fields trails anil p,ecs-
inss OF the Eastern Field Trails Club I'M
be held at High Point, November 18th.
- Thomas Dickson will be the youngest
member of the Legislature. He will rup.
resent Cleveland. He is not quite twenty y-onc
- A man by the name of Wanamaker,
of Iredell county, makes business of rails
ing and training dogs. He now has one
that has taken S. 900 in prizes.
- The Durham Reporter says: ave un-
derstand that there is farmer in Granville
who had to grease his mule in order thar he
might plow through his tobacco without
breaking the leaves. This is true story.
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AUGUSTA. Me. 9Th Nov !


My Dear Mr.. Fisher Il am pressed daily
for the bonds, which up to this time have
never been able to deliver. Les me assure You
that if were suffering in this matter alone
would not bother you, but wait in silence the
issue of events. But how can do this with
plrties who have paid their money earnestly,
demanding of me the consideration promised
by me, but which am not able TO give be-
cause do not receive the bonds to which am
entitled by contract? ? l am ready to receive any
kind of reasonable proposition you make. 1t is
not question of money making with me. 1t
is simply question of saving my word with
others. toiU sacrifice great deal to get a set
sition towards me, and therefore do not wish
to seem importunats and troublesome; but if
you knew the agonies have suffered in this
matter during the past six months, you would
pity me am sure, and make great effort to re-
ieve me. Pray let me kaoso schat On, to er-
pect. Yours very sincerely, j. G. BLAINE.
Warren Fisher, Jr., Esq.
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CONFIDENTIAL


WAsHINGroS, D. c., April Is, 1876.
My Dear Mr.. Fisher You can do nle a
great favor, and know it will give you pleas
ure to do so-just as l would do for you under
similar circumstances. Certain persons and
papers are trying to throw mud at me to inure
my candidacy before the Cincinnati; convention
and you may observe they are trying it in con-
necton with the Little Rock and Fort Smith
matter.
want you to send letter such as the
enclosed draft. You will receive this to- morrow
(Monday) evening, and it will be favor l
shall never forget if you will at once write me
the letter and mail the same eYeni ag.
The letter is strictly true, is honorable to you
and to me, and will stop the mouths of SANDER
at once.
Regard this letter as strictly confidential. Do
not show it to any one. The draft is in the
hands of my clerk, who is as trustworthy any
man can be. If you can't get the letter written
in season for the o'clock mail to New York,
please be to mail it during the night SO
that it will start first mail Tuesday morning !;
but if POSSIBLE, I pray you to get it in the nine
o'clock mail Monday erening. Kind regards TO
Mrs. Fisher. Sincerely, j. q. B.
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Bosrox. Nov. 10. 1871.

Boston, Nov. 10, 1871.
My Dear Blaine IL am in receipt of your
favor of the Sth inst, from which | am led to
infer that the contracts / made through you to
your Eastern friends have not been fulfilled on
my part; but such is not the fact, as have de-
1ivered each and every Que of them all the
curities ia accordance with the contracts, and
they have surrendered to me my obligations.
You are well aware of the condition of the road
and that you have received your full proper
ton of the bonds to which you were entitled
under the Eastern contracts, when you consider
the length of the road onfy completed. think
you CAN readily see thaLI can make no propo-
sition further, than as the road progresses to
deliver you bonds in accordance. l know but
little Of your obligations to deliver bonds tooth
ers, but taking into account the Si00, 900. bonds
you sold 10 Tom Scott, and the amounts of mo-
ney you received on the Eastern contracts our
relative position. financially the Little Rock
& Fort Smith Railroad bearfa wide contrast.
Mr.. Caldwell is here, but have not seen him !;
still presume be has paid proper attention to
your letter addressed to him. remain With
kind regards, WARREN FISHER, Jr.
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Forty-frst Congress, U. s.,

Washington, ID. g., Jan. 70, 1876.
My Dear Mr.. Fisher Il have this mo-
n,ent written to Mr.. Caldwell suggesting
that, in case can arrange a meeting in this
city next week with Col. Thomas A. Scott,
to come on here. / have some reasons for
believing that very advantageous arrange
ment may be made for taking say $500, 900.
| will telegraph Mr.. Caldwell by Tuesday
evening if | can arrange the meeting, and
wish him to hold himself in readiness for
the journey. Your letter is this moment
received. You ask my advice. Let me
have a true and accurate and reliable state
ment of your financial condition, and l can
do something, | feel very sanguine, with
Thomas A. Scott.
l think you will not deem me unreasona-
bic when | again and persistently urge that
| ought to have good notes fer the $25, ,00O
and that l ought also to have the $4,000
bonds, which were made by yourself and
Mr.. Caldwell the express basis of the S25,-
900 loan. | do not belieye your company
has a stronger or more equitable and legal
claim than mine, while its personal hard
ships to me are bitter, and burning and hu-
initiating to the last degree. Sincerely your
true friend, J. G. BLAINE.
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The following was in reply to Mr..
Blaine's letter of April 18th, 1872,
already published:

already puDllSneu'
BosToN, April Is, 1872.
NV Dear Blaine Your favor of the 18th
inst, reached me this morning. [ am surprised
at its contents. / have loaned you at various
times, when you were comparati vsly poor, very
large sums of money, and never have you paid
me one dollar from your own pocket, either
principal or interest. / have paid sundry
amounts to others to whom you were in debted,
and these debts you have allowed to stand un-
paid like the notes which hold Ihave placed
you in positions whereby you have recaived
very large sums of money without one dollar of
expense to you, and ought not to forget the
act on my part. Of all the parties connected
with the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad,
no one has been so fortunate yourself in OBJ
taining money out of it. You obtained subscrip-
tons from your friends in Maine for the build
ing of the Little Rock and Fort Smi ith Railroad.
Out of their subscr ptioa you obtained q large
amount, both of Bonds and money free of cost
to you. have your own figures, and know tho
amount. Owing to your political position you
were able to work off all your bonds at very
high price, and the fact is well known to others
as well myself. Would your friends In
Maine be satisfied if they knew the facts2 Are
my associates satisfied to have you obtain $685.
600 for Northern Pacific Railroad, and you not
make the investment per agreement? The
course you have thought proper to take in re-
gard to my request Is rather a poor one taking
your relations with me, and 1 again ask you to
reconsider it and grant it. You will find it
rnuch easier TO pay Dy obtaining the Creoib, ana
selected that course thinking it to be the best.
If you again decline, ] shall be obliged to use
the notes or sell them to outside purchasers.
Necessity knows no law.
Whatever Bonds still due TO you will be de-
lirered the road progresses. The other por-
tions of your letter I make no reply. You know
the facts; it is sufficient that know them, and
it is useless to mention them at this time. Please
answer at once. l remain, respectfully yours,
WARREN FISHER, Jr.
The reply to this letter is Mr..
Blaine's letter of April IS, 1872, al
ready published.
The expression obtaining the credit" in the
above letter refers to request by Mr.. Fisher
that Mr.. Blaine would give him letter of
credit, to be drawn against by Mr.. Fisher dur
at the time indebted to Mr.. Fisher for borrowed
money, for which Mr.. Fisher held Mr.. Blaine's
demand premissory notes.
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These Are Our Sentiments.
E1m tie WILSON Adranee

In view of the fact that Gen. Joseph
r. Hawley has endorsed Raum's Book
of Southern outrages (Which is proba-
bly, the greatest Southern outrage
which has yet been perpetrated, though
not by Southern men) we think it
would have been better if the Direc-
tors of the State Exposition. had invi-
ted some other gentleman to have
opened the Exposition.
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House of Representatives,
Washington, d. c.,

OcceinDer y, loIU.
My Dear Mr.. Fisher Il wrote very has
tily, both to yourself and Mr.. Caldwell, in
regard to the bank. A further conference
with the Comptroller of the Currency gives
some additional facts which are of interest,
and this letter is intended alike for you and
MIR. Caldwell. Please show it to him. They
are now allowing 90 per cent circulation
on 1910 bonds, instead of so, and then So
at different periods in the past. They give
me the assurance that you shall have full
$450,000 circulation of a bank of half mil
lion capital. -
You can, of course, deposit 5-2o's if YOU
please, but you will get no more than 90 per
cent. circulation. They will cost you more
of course, and though you get more interest
you will very likely be disturbed in the
quiet possession of them very soon by the
operationLos the Fanding Scheme.
The opinion gains ground hero quite rap
idly, as yoa might infer from Secretary
Boutwells Report, that the debt cannot be
funded at fess than 5 per cent
S-By taking = % 40. bonds, therefore, YOU
would be undisturbed as long as the Bank
ing SYSTEM lasts, or a. least for so years or
more. !. None of the 1o-40's mature before
A. d., 1904, and that is quite long enough
to embraces within the scope of any finan-
cial operation. It might be we'll to have
a formal application for your increase OF
capital, and then take such time as you may
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wish for getting your Stock subscribed. If
you desire, will confer with Senator's Rice
in regard 20 forms, &c. 1t might be better
now to let him take the lead. Yours very
truly, j. q. BLAINE.
w. Fisher, Jr., Esq.
Augusta, Me-, Dec. 30, 1870.
NV Dear Mr. Fisher:-I am in hopes
now that | shall secure S25 900, or nearly
that l find money very tight and rates
we'll up to per cent.-stiff at that.
The most of it will be for 5 and 6 months
If had more time and earlier notice L
could have raised more, and at easier rates.
| have seen most of the parties to whom
bonds are due. l do not have much tFoub-
lie about the January Coupon of the 1sI
Mortgage Bonds-but they of course growl
some-on six of the bonds. l would be glad
to have the Coupon. Ipromised them indi-
ridudliy to mako it isht in the near future.
| did not in any way use the name OF the
Company, nor commit you to anything
only myself.
On the Land Bonds cannot make then,
see the equity of removing the April Cou-
pom, and promised to try to adjust that
matter with you after my return to Boston.
They all agree with one voice that no bond
shall be exposed for sale. | wish you would
give me the benefit of that fraction making
90 of first mortgage honds for the $31 800
duo. I use the extra $500 in adjusting the
interest matter, and it fits in completely. l
will make it alright with you.
What want then is
600 ooo $4,000 LIST mortgage bonds.
soZ'ooo / $4,000 Land bonds.
and also f7r collateral to the notes for $685.
600 an additional $4,000 of Land Bonds.
Please meet me at Mr.. CaldwelPs private
office on Saturday at 1915 sharp. I shall
try to be there precisely at noon but allow
Is minutes for grace. 1t Is very important
that have everything completed that day,
as a man will come from Boston with me to
take charge of the bonds. Yours in great
haste, J. u. BLAINE.
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