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Year: 1879

The Democracy do not relish the strong
statements which have been put forth in the
letter written by the Commissioner Of Inter-
ual Revenue, Gen. RAuM, to Secretary SEER
NAN, in which The fact is brought promi-
nently to light that every dollar collected for
internal-revenue taxes for the last fiscal year
has been duly accounted for. The Demo-
Gratis insist that the fairness Of the record as
shown up BY Republicans shall be question:
ed, and its integrity broken down, and for
this purpose they have raked up an old letter
from RAuM on an entirely different branch
Of the internal-revenue service, and by COM
pairing the two claim to have fixed the charge
of Misrepresentation for political purposes
upon the Commissioner. This is an old
game that is too transparent to deceive any
ma
Year: 1879

The EREE-T4INE&R5 IN POLITICS.


If there is any limit to political folly, it


has apparently been reached BY the small


coterie Of professed and dogmatic in1idels


who have resolved to hold conference in


Cincinnati about the middle of next month,


with view to organization for political pur-


poses. It is surprising that men of so much


ability and character Us ROBERT g. ISaEnsoi1.


JAMES PARTON, aud E11zuR WRIGHT should
consent to fr1tter away their time and dis
spats their influence in SO inconsequential
movement The true aim of politics is
good government, and it is the duty of every
citizen to identify himself with the particular
party which he believes best adopted to the
practical achievement of that purpose. All
extremists, however, are inclined to give
their pet hobbies precedence over practical
political issues~ The result is the formation
of number of factions, which, without the
smallest hope Of ever influencing directly the
policy OF the Nation, or even single con,-
munity in the Nation, servo to divert the at
tention Of part Of the public from the live
issues Of the time, aud thus assist the
demagogues BY indirection. Nearly every
important city in the Union has two or three
Greenback parties, two or three Communist
and Labor parties, and two or three Teetotal
parties in addition to the regular political
organizations, and the list is to be increased
by an avowed ungodly party, as though the
other parties were not ungod]y enough!


ot course, the non-reIgious party will be
OF no earthly importance, partly because its
membership will be made up Of men who
concern themselves mainly in combating
spiritual entitiaz: hnt avan if tha movement
Year: 1879

The Constitution of 1865 is u Radi


cal constitution. 1t was intended from
the day the convention was called, (,


make partizan constitution, unde


which the Radical party should hav.
full sway aud the rights OF all mer


who did not belong to that party out


raged and trampled on. The whole


sale plundering of the people of the


State by the men whose elevation to


Office was possible only under such q
state of things as that constitution es.


tablished, is fresh in the memory OF
all. The State is languishing in pow
erty and her people subjected to suffer-


ing and har1ships, because of the mis-
government of those who enacted the
constitution of lS6S and who were in
vested with powcr under it. Many
years will elapse before they will re-
cover.


1t is safe to say that the new consti.
tuition will be as distinctively anti
Radical, as the constitution of 1868 was
Radical. Or to put it more plainly
the Democratic and Conservative vot-
ers of the State have elected men to
the new convention who will make a
constitution under which the return of
the Republican party to power will be
an impossibility. Nor do we venture
this opinion with any partizan feelings,
or put ourselves on record as fsvoring
parttzan legislation either by q Consti-
tutional Convention or State legisla-
ture. We view the two political par
ties not as party organizations, but as
two nearly equal divisions of tho peO-
pie, the one seeking power to use 1t to
the detriment Of the State, tho other
seeking 1t for the purpose of prevent
inQr tho 1iSOSfarl n which vxo hOx
been subjected for eight years past. In
the ranks of the one Is all the ignor-
ance in the State led by interested and
INSCRIPTIONS men who are the authors
of all tho ills we have suffered; in those
of tho other its intelligence and wealth,
which, until recently, have been un-
represented in the State government
ever since tho passage of the recon-
struction acts.


The one leading idea which domi-
mated all Others in the convention of
1868, was that tho constitution should
be SO framed that tho true people of
the State, who owned the property
and possessed the intelligence, should
never obtain possession of the State
government. Tho one leading idea
which should take possession Of the
minds of the members of the conven-
tion of 1879, should be tho framing of
a constitution which would forever put
it out of the power of ignorance and
corruption to inaugurate such II reign
as that which has so recently been
brought to an end. How this can best
be done, is a question for the members
to discuss and decide. We care but
little about tho means, so that the end
shall be accomplished. All the other
States have finally and forever cast off
the yoke of Ieadicalism. Louisiana
should put herself in line with them.
Year: 1879

New Orleans Picayune.l


Tho subjoined correspondence'in re-
lation to the history of tho Mint in this
city while it was under tho control of
the Confederate States Government
will he found interesting:
Year: 1879

The fog which prevailed on the Hudson River on


Thursday night gave considerable trouble to steam
ers plying between Troy and New York. The
steamer City Of Troy. Of the Troy line. on hsr
down trip when she went ashore short distance
above Albany. In few minutes the boat cleared
herself and resumed her course. This made her
officers doubly eful lest some accident might
occur. The whistle was blown every few minutes
10 warn passing steamers of. Despite all the pains
taken at four o'clock yesterday morning tho steamer
ran bow on into the mud fats on the west shore,
Just below Iona Island. There were ut the time
over three hundred people board, and the
excited at the prospect of remaining all day In this
unpleasant position. The steamer blew her whistle
for help and soon afterwsrd the steamer Dean Rich-
mond, of the Peoples Albany line, to her
succor. The captain Of the latter boat took the pas
scngers board and brought them to this city six
hours behi nd time. A despatch received last
night at o'clock stating that the City OF Troy
was of the bank without damage. Her next trip
will be tonight. There boat for Troy lsst
Year: 1879

MI 1AhINEh


TALK WITH Mr.. BARTLEY CAMPBELL. THE


DRAMATIsT-THB NEW VENTURE AT THB


UNION SQUARE THEATRE.


Although "My Partner" Mr.. BARLEY Campbells
play. will be produced for the first time the
Union Square Theatre Tuesday evening. not Q
line has been printed concerning It's plot This Is such
an entirely departure that it has occasioned
prise among theatrical people, and in order TO satisfy
curiosity a HERALD reporter yesterday endeavored
to lift the veil of secrecy The effort. however.
not of much avail. He inquired OF Mr.. Campbell.
the play wright "why this secrecy - and the
was:-


because If the story of the play is anticipated
half of the glamour that should attach to nrst per-


"It is in California. is it not?"


"rhe scene is laid in Northern California. much
against my will


7"why against your will. Had You not the world
for o stage?'


nership mean more in the mines than anywhere
else. and nowhere else could the events that go to
where else partners have social life homo exist
ence. apart from their work but in the gold mines
they work together. eat together. sleep together;
dependence and daily contact.


but where is the objection to seizing on such


There is a preconeeived notion on the part of
the public and critics that life in the mines is domi
man says thar and 'whar' after the most ap-
proved Arkansas model while just the reverse is
the fact. The striking popularity Of California
mining life is the refinement and intellect one fnds
encased in flannel shirts. Broadway merchant
fails. and when you find him on the Pacific it may
be up to his waist in water washing the precious
ore. graduate Of Harvard may be cooking for
mess composed of medical men who have failed In
the East and his chum and partner may be .
'yahoo' from st. Joe or Little Rock


''You have been to California, Of courseT'


"Certainly and outside of the peculiarities men
toned found human nature pretty much the same
anywhere else."
"'My Partner. is not play OF knives and re-
volvers, thenY'


mot in any particular. Still hope have pre-
served something Of the free and easy breeziness
the great West, and while have told story OF
pathos think you will fnd the humor Of the Sec
ton has not been omitted" v
Year: 1879




Special to the Star.


WASHINGTON, April THE impression is
growing daily that the President will sign
the Army Bill, as he iss clearly committed
to the repeal of the troops at the polls law.
All of the Republicans said they would vote
for the repeal as an independent measure;
and as the President clearly has no right to
object to the manner of preparing bills, he
can not veto this because the repeal is fas,
tened upon an Appropriation Bill.


BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE.


II is now expected that on Tuesday the
House will consider the proposition chang
ing some of the committees and the manner
of reporting appropriation bills, which de.
bate will last day or two. After this is
disposed OF Mr.. Randall will name the com.
mittees The Legislative, Judicial and Ex-
ecutive Appropriation Bill will be taken
up. The debate on this bill which repeals
the election laws, will last a week in the
House.


ARMY BILL IN THE SENATE.


The Senate will not get fairly into the de
bate on the Army Bill before Tuesday, il
so soon as that. Although the subject wa:
cxhaustively debated in the House, there i.
considerable interest to hear the leading
men Of the Senate handle it, and it is ex
pected that many strangers will be in. the
city to hear the big men, of the Senate.
Year: 1879

Bishop HALL must have had faint
glimpse of the politics and politicians of
1879 and 80 when he wrote


The malcontent is neither well, full nor
fasting; and though he abOunds with COM
plants, and yet nothing disilSes him but the
present. for what he condemns while it was
once past he magnifes and strives TO recall 1t
out of the jaw of time What he hath he seeth
not, his eyes are so taken up with what he
wants; and what he sees he careth not for, be-
cause he cares so much for that which is not.


In glancing over the papers which have
been peculiarly noted for their aversion to
General GRANT for third term since his
interview with the YiceroY of China, we
are led to exclaim with SHAKESPEARE,
"What's more miserable than discomfort ?"
Every third termer, every natural political
hator of General GRANT-every ambitious
rival for the Prcsidency-in fact, 1t would
seem everybody-when the utterances of
his interview with the Chinese dignitary
We're given to the world in all their fullness
and sincerity, should have been made happy.
But it appears that they are not. They
now criticse his sincerity and convey the
idea that the CESAR of their fears and
ambitions is, to use common phrase, "play-
" ing possum" Their fears will not down.
and hence they are now engaged in vexing
their own and the public mind over them,
when they should be singing anthems of
joy in full chorus.


The great trouble with all these people is
that there is a dawning suspicion in their
minds that they have been reckoning with
the wrong man and that their fears aud
hopes have not been correctly based, and
hence may not in the end fully subserye
their purposes and ambitions Very likely
there issomething in this. We have often
thought so within the last four years Cen
eral GRANT has very little to do with his
own destiny in this matter. He may ex-
press ever so strongly and positively his
aversion to again assuming the cares, duties
and responsibilities Of the Presidency and
be ever so sincere in his utterances of that
aversion, fthe popular sense and will under
the exigencies Of the times shall point
sternly in another direction he may feel i'm
PEELED to yield. If, under past mistakes
in our policies, it shall be discovered
that the rebellion is not crushed and
dead, if secession still turks in the
Year: 1879

asserted doctrine of State sovereignty
if the Republican party has been crushed
out of the South by an unfortunate attempt
at reconciliation and 'pacifcation by giving
to the enemy offices and other advantages,
until the spirit Of the war is revived and it's
issues are presented afresh with confronting
menace, if the war measures, out of which
came freedom and cnfranchisement to the
slave, and an acknowledgment of the right
of the Federal power toguard tho ballot-box
from outrage and fraud in Federal elections
are to be wiped out, as threatened-we say
if such perls inspire the public mind with
the belief that the National welfare can
best be subserved by the election Of General
GRANT as President for another term in
1880, then will be the time for him
to say to an imperilled nation, "I pos
itively and irrevocably decline to serve
my country for another term" Then
there will be pertinency and potency in the
voice of the beleaguered statesman. The
time has not arrived for General GRANT
to positively decline an honor that has not
yet been proffered him by his countrymen,
and which may not be, unless the National
safety shall strongly demand IL. 1t is the
part of propriety and duty to wait until
the popular voice has been consulted and
expressed on this subject before too much
trouble is taken TO fight that which may
prove only the phantom of disordered
imagination.


1t would add nothing to the stature of
General GRANTS glory, or to his happiness,
to be placed in the Presidency again-but
it might add much to the future peace, well
fare and prosperity of our common country
to place him there, though in disregard of
his expressed aversion for the cares and
responsibilities of the place. There are
times when sacrifices must be made for the
popular welfare, and if this should prove to
be one Of those periods, the sacrifice must
be made-and no patriot knows how to
better make il than the man who received
the sword of rebellion when it surrendered
to the National power
Year: 1879

There will be a rally of New York Re-
publicans this evening at the Sovereigns of
Industry Hall, No. 80 Eleventh street, at
7;3O o'clock, for the purpose of organizing
for the ensuing campaign, 1t is proper to
say that it is important to save the Nation
from Democratic rule, and that New York
is the pivotal State in that endeavor, hence
every New York voter here and elsewhere
should bear noble part in this laudablc
endeavor. Let every true Republican who
votes in the Empire State, and resides here,
put in an appearance this evening and help
whoop up the cause.
Year: 1879

Latest reports from Iowa indicate an ex-
cellent feeling among the Republicans of
that State. A short and vigorous campaign
from the stump has been determined upon.
1t will open on the 9th of September, which
will give one month for active work. Gov
ernor GEAR, the present efficient and popu-
lar executive and candidate for reelection,
writes to q friend in this city, under date
of the 18th inst, that the Greenback vote
promises to be much less than last year,
and that he confidently looks for Republi-
can majority on the State ticket of from
twenty-five to forty thousand. While
there will be fusion in some cases between
Democrats and Greenbackers on local can
didates, separate tickets for State officers
will probably be kept up to the close of the
canvass. Iowa Republicans, we judge, are
not well pleased with the fact that last
year their longtime solid delegation in
Congress was broken by the election of two
Greenbackers, and they will this fall, so far
as is possible IN mere State election, wipe
out the disgrace.
Year: 1879

In speaking of the Yazoo murder, the
Charleston Ne,Cs and Courier says:


The Southern people at large are in no de-
gree answerable either for the so.called bull
doing or the killing.


This is the felon's plea but II will no
more avail the Democratic portion of the
people of the South than the plea of not
guilty does the convicted murderer. The
entire Democratic party of the South are
responsible for bull-dozing and murder, for
its members have practiced it for years
upon white and colored Republicans, with
out rebuke, until one of their own members
has fallen n victim to the barbarous prac-
tice. Nobody else but the Democrats are
responsible for it: but they are, for they
have encouraged it until the curse has come
home TO roost
Year: 1879

THE present demoralized condition of tho
Republican party in that State is guarantee
of its overwhelming defeat, If the Democrats
will stop pickering, unite on candidate for
Governor, and go to work.


This assertion and admission we find in
the columns of the Democratic organ-a false
assertion, for the Republicans of the Empire
State are not demoralized and truthful
admission, for the Democrats thereof are
irreparably divided and given over to bick-
ering, elimination and recrimination. Tho
Republicans will nominate their candidate
for Governor In due time, after a whole
some and purifying discussion of the merits
and dement's of the several aspirants for
that honor, and then turn in and elect
him. But the emocrats-Tammany and
anti-Tammany, Kellyites and Tildenites-
are quarreling among themselves, and
threatening to bolt; swearing they will
bolt, and all that sort of thing. And, we
remark in the light of experience, New
York is about the only State in the Union
where such Democratic threats are likely to
be carried into effect. If TILDEN carries the
convention KELLY will see toit that he does
not carry the election, for that would insure
TILDEN's nomination in 1880. And ifKELLY
carries the convention TGLDEN will see TO it
that he docs not carry the election, for that
would prevent his nomination in 1880.
These palpable facts show clearly the pr es-
ent situation as regards the two parties in
New York If the Opposition can worry
any consolation out of them they are well
come To IT,
Year: 1879

if in no'other-for the Democracy of to-day,
under the agreeable and congenial leader
ship Of the South, is party of violence,
disorder mob-rule and crime. But the
Democratic press of the West, particularly
in Ohio, has followed the lead of the New
York World in denouncing this murder.
This course is the more polite of the two,
if not so honest, for the influence of this
latest assassination cannot fail under the
circumstances to initiate against the pos
bility of Democratic success in the pending
campaigns
Year: 1879




Presented to him by his Democratic fellow
citizens of Yazoo County, as an humble testi-
monial of their high appreciation of his bril-
liant services in the redemption of the county
from Radical rule in 1875.


We simply add that if the same amount
of criticism and attention had been paid in
years gone by to the wholesale assasinations
which earned for him the title of " the Bray
" est of the Brave" that is now being paid
to his murder, it would, perhaps, have been
better for the Republican party. Certain it
is that if the public sentiment of the North
had not been misled by these journalistic
sneerers at the Bloody Shirt, all of whom
accepted that emblem as the rallying-stand-
ard of an impossible ThiId-Term scheme for
General GRANT, the law-abiding voters of
Mississippi would to-day be protected by
United States bayonets in their rightful con-
troll of the affairs of that State. We say this
boldly and without fear of criticism, for we
submit that Bayonet Rule which represses
Wholesale assassination and outrage is far
preferable to Home Rule which encourages
them.
Year: 1879

Mr. MORGAN who was represented by the
Post, the justifer of DIxoN's murder, as the
man who married mulatto woman and
engaged in politics as vocation, identify
sing himself with the negroes" &c, paid
his respects to his traducer and invited him
to a dish of crow, which he ate as tamely as
though halfadozen Mississippi persuaders"
had been pointed at him. Morgan knew
that brutality and cowardice usually reside
under the same jacket
Year: 1879

CAPTAIN DIXON had Withdrawn his with
drawal from the canvass for the sheriffalty OF
Yazoo County, where he was killed. This
fact is entirely ignored by the Democratic
press in discussing his foul murder, and
they assume that he was out of politics,
when, in fact, he was deeper in than ever
Year: 1879

THE bull.dozers of Mississippi are now
turning their attention to the Vick5burg
Herald. 1t denounces the Yazoo outrage in
fitting terms, and the Yazoo people who
sympathze with murder retaliale with dire
threats. These threats are met by the Her.
aid with Defiance and it says;


We receive five times as much patronage
from Yazoo now as we ever received before
but the spirit that animates the bull-dozers Of
that county clearly shows they are 50 intoler.
ant that they are opposed even to the freedom
of the press.


The HeraM is a Conservative journal, and
refers to its political position in this wise


They charge that we arc Radical in politics
because we oppose fraud aud violence and
urge the supremacy Of the law. If this con-
stitutes Radicalism a vast majority Of the peo-
pie of the State are Radicals.
Year: 1879

TIE Democratic organ here at the Capt.
tol of the the Nation defends the murder of
Captain DIXON and seeks to extenuate the
crime of his murderer. In this respect it
honestly reflects the sentiment ofits party
Year: 1879

A Washington special says:


The President.aad secretary of war
have not yet decided what to do with
the report of the board in the Fitz
John Porter case. but will probably
send it to congress without recommen-
datiOn. This is all that Senator Ran
dolph, who is Porter's representative
here, asks. Mr.. Randolph is. chairman
of the military committee of the SEN
ate, and he thinks he can secure action
upon it favorable to General Porter,
if he can once get the matter before
the senate. As General Porter is a
Democrat, and most of his friends are
Democrats, he will be better treated
than he would have been by the Re
publican congress.


General Garfield was a member of
the cOurt-martial that originally tried
General Porter, and pronounced upon
him the sentence from which he now
wants to be relieved
Year: 1879

The anonymous, unprincipled, cow
ardly letter writer's have commenced


their summer work against Memphis
early. We are surprised somewhat
that reputable journals will allow their
columns to be used for such an out
rageous purpose, which is calculated
to iuiure a defenceless community,
mislead the public, interrupt business,
and can do no possible good. We
have never seen copy of a paper
called the Louisville Post, though
there may be such a paper


but somebody sends us copy
Of the States and Union, pub
lished at Portsmouth, N. H., in which
appeaCs a half column article on the
terrible condition of Memphis, -
credited "letter to the Louisville
Post" Memphis is described as un-
questionably the nastiest, dirtiest and
filthiest city in the United States, if
not in the world national nuisance,
with no pure water and so on, all of
which is as false and malicious as the
author of the article is eowardly and
debased We do not claim that Mem
phis is the cleanest city in the country,
but We believe that it will compare
favorably with the average. The local
government has done all that was pos
sible to enforce sanitary measures, and
it is safe to say that the city is in a
better condition chan it has been in
years, for the cleaning up has been
done in the winter, aud still goes on.


Our home papers do not conceal any
fact in regard to the true condition Of
the city, and we hope that as a matter
ofjustice aud decency the press of the
country will look TO these papers fer
the news rather than to irresponsible,
reckless scnbblerS, who hide in the