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With this issuo the undoraigned cease to be publishers of the Argtts. Next week the old proprietor, E. B. Pond, of whom we leased the establishment, will resume charge of the office and paper. We havo labored f'aithf ully to make an acoeptablo paper, and havo to thank our friends and the public for the aid they have given us. All accounts outstanding, receivable or payable, will bé settled by either of the late firtn, at the Aeous office. Carr & Goulet. As AN IMPORTANT political campaign is at hand, every Democratie elector in the county ought to take and road the AegtJS. The Bervice whifh it has done the party iu the past, service largely unremunerated, and we fear, unappreciated, entitlea it to a more generous support in the future. The larger the subscription list the better will be the paper. Now is the time to subscribe for 1876. $1.50 a year - if paid in advance. Every Republican also ought to take and read the Argiis. Ho who only reads one side cannot vote intelligently. Every oitizen, especially of Ann Arbor, ought to take, pay for, and read the ARGUS. It is the organ or no faotion or clique, bnt always stands for the best interests of county, city, and lage alike. Subscribe now. In VIEW of the fact that Judge Crane, who has been holding court in our city during part of the week, is to retire from the bench to-day, to be succeeded by the Hon. G. M. Huntington, of Ingliam County, judge eleot, the ARGtrs takes pleasure in expressing the opinión that he has made an honest and upright judge, always aiming to discharge the duties incumbent upon him con8cientiously and with the strictest impartiality. If he has erred it has been an error of the head ; and the fact that so few of his docisions have been reversed by the Supreme Court is evidence that, both in the knowledge of the law and itsapplication, he has made a record comparing favorably with that of other judges, and in which he may feel a just pride. The Hon. George H. Pendleton having said in a recent speech at Atlanta, Georgia, the Herald of that city boing authority, that " nine-tenths of the people of Ohio want to see a return to a specie basis, but they want to see the return gradual and natural," the Cincinnati Enquirer forthwith proceeds to hang the hide of its whilom favorite on the fence. Alleging that Mr. Pendleton was mistaken, a mild way of calling hfta a falsifier, for he could not have been ignorant of what he was talking about, the Enquirer proceeds : " The people of Ohio have now a better currency without a specie basis than they ever had with it. The specie basis is a fraud. None know this better than Mr. Pendleton. There is no such thing as a money basis. Money is money," be it greenbacks or gold, wampum or muskrat skins, slabs or shingles, whatever " government " may decree. To convince the reader that our rendering, after ceasing to quote, is fair and natural, we quote again : " Gold is intrinsically worth nothing. The government stamp upon paper, leather, or anything else is just as good." If the Democracy of Ohio, or any other section, can swallow such stuff as that without holding their poiitical noses, the old fashionable allopathic dose of rhubarb and jalap would be rolled under their tongues like a sweet rnorsel. NOT satisfied with enjoining upon all Methodist brethren to pray for the re-election of Grant, Bishop Haven proclaims to the world, thiough the columns of the Independent, the fact ('r) that Chase, Greeley, and Sumner, were cut down by an untimely frost, because they"threwup the sponge," deserted the negro, and accepted reconstruction that did not mean the absolute politioal bondage of the late slave-holders, if not their literal extinction : a somewhat liberal but nevertheless a reasonable rendering of his exposition of the decrees of the Almighty. And poor Wilson, too, has been prematuroly " ferried over the rivor " because of similar oowardice and like desertion. But not to misrepresent, we quote : " Had Wilson thrown his mighty influence on the side of the President ; had he cordially supported the reconstruction measures Btill needed to insure liberty and safety to our land, and to the late and not yet freed slave ; had he helped pass the ' force bill ' and the education bill and the marriage bill, and other bilis necessary to secure equal rights to all, he would be alive to-day." And now has Bishop Haven the signed and eealed documents to show, authorizing him to interpret the decreos of God, or the death-warrañts in his pocket for the summary " taking off" of any more unfortunate Republican leaders ? If sot he can, perhaps, secure the renomination of Grant. " Malicious Persecution" is what Moulton has now sued Beechor for, laying his damages at f50,000. The perjury indictment, nolle prossed by the district attorney, with the consent of the presiding judge, is the ground of the new 8uit. Hoger A. Pryor is Moulton's attorney of record, and Gen. Butler is to " take a hand " in bis behalf. Look out for another overflow of Brooklyn nastiness. Is there no court with a jurisdiction competent to abate this nuisance ? And now comes Congressinan Bradley, and gives a newspaper iuterviewer to understand that he voted against the anti-third term resolution, just to show the world thut he waa opposed to Democratie bullying. That was all his vote meant, and it is mighty little the Domocracy care what ho meant by it. TlIERE is OJïE gerious objection to the adoption of any amendment to the National Constitution, prescribing what kind of schools ahall be established ty the States, and what shall be or what shall not bo taught in them. It is the opening of a door through which Congress, or the underlings of its and executive crention, can reach out long, bony fingors, and put them into the people's pio in every city, village, hamlet, and school district in the country. The central govornment has already extended its jurisdietion over the internal affairs of the States to Buch an extent as to tnake the framers of the Constitution He unoasy in their graves. The Grant platform would make way for an army of educational agents or office-holders, and looalities would sooner or later lose the privilege of saying what schools they would establish, what branches should be taught in them, or who should supervise and teach them. To forbid the teaching in any of the public schools in this wide land, by national legislation, of " reiigious, atheistic, or pagan tenets," is to invite government supervisión of text books and courses of study, and to provide for a government commission of expugation, with a national catechism, notable only for its negativo points. The snggestion would be farcical if it did not lead in the direction of danger and tyranny. It goes infinitely boyond a mere proposition to prohibit the giving of public moneys to religious sects or denominational schools, sound enough in theory, but the regulation or prevention of which belongs to the several States, under whose laws the moneys are raised and expended, and whose several peoples pay the taxes. Somebodt's " scissors " has been writing editorials for the Jaekson Citizen, of which the following is a specimen paragraph : " The Forty-fourth Congress, so far, does not Ejive much promise of usefulness. The majority is a disjointed iiiharmoiiious body ; it can scarcely agree upou any policy. So iar it has distinguished itself ouly by discharging employés who who were Únion soldiers, and putting in their places those who woie the Confedérate gray." Now.considering the fact that there was ou the en tire forcé of subordínate House officers, juat one disabled Union soldier to be removed, while the departments swarm with good, sound, able-bodied, " loil " menabers of the " Home Guards," men who never smelt powder, except in iinagination, and who all during the war divided their timebetween dodging the drafting officer, and firing paper bullets, from pulpit, press, and platform at " copperheads," thiB rant in so many Eepublican journals is simply disgusting. If none but Union soldiers, whether sound or disabled, held positious in the departments 01 in the Senate wiug of the capitol, this rattle of sinall artillery all along the line might smack of something else than mere olap-trap. As things are at Washing ton, and in official circles all through the country, we would advise fewer " crocodile tears." Thé Union soldiers given lucrative office by the Republi oans are the exception, and every observer knows it. The Eepublicans have so long had a monopoly of office-holding at the National Capital that they gnash their teeth terribly every time a Eepublican fossil is given a walking ticket frora the south end of the Capitol. Searchwarrants have been issued with a view to flnd out whether or no there is not a stray Democrat or "copper head" roosting, by mistake or sufferanee, on some departtnent stool, and if the raya of the lantern shall disclose one, "off is to come his head off." 80 Zack Chandler threatens, or the "loil " scribblerá for him. Well, "lay on Macduff !" that's the wty we put it to these self-sacrificing patriots who have swarmed in official troughs like'the frogs of Egypt, until they imagine they are office-holders by divine right. The reason why Col. Morrison, the new chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, is vmable to " blow his bugle " ou the floor of the House, in imitation of the Michigan edition of the " Columbian orator," and other " sich like'' statesmen, who make the more noise the fewer their ideas, is a bullet hole through his lungs, reeeived in the desperate engagement at Fort Donelson. His Bepublican detraotors having kept themselves at a safe distance from tbo front, have no lack of wind from any such cause. In fact wind, is their chief capital. - - - - - - The Grand Traverse Uerald takes Congressman Hubbell to do for voting aeainst the anti-third term resolution, and claims that he misrepresented his constituents : which brings the Detroit Post to the rescue. That journal niaintains that Mr. Hubbell, according to the terms of the resolution, spoke, in his vote, only for himself and the House, in no wise committed his constit'uents, and that it will be time enough for the latterto fiud fault whenho shall declare fora re-noniiiaation of Grant. A small hole to crawl out of: almost as small as Bradley's " bullying " dodge. The Chicago Tribune, which at first was inclined to join in the hue and cry against Speaker Kerr, now oonfesses that " it looks as though he had made up the committees with special reference to 'sound money, revenue reform, and anti-subsidy,' which is known to be his own platform." And are not committees so constructed bettor than if composed of mere talkers,- men who make ip in sound what they lack in sense ? If the Toledo Cornmercial's story is truc, tnat Hoiaüb White, of the Chicago Tribune, has betm converted to the doctrine of protection by or during his journeyings in Europe, we shall be more confirmed than ever in our "sort of notion" that many AmericanB do lose their. brains by going abroad. Bowex put in a claim for $100,000 against the Brooklyn Jingle, for libel, and the jury has awarded him $1,000. Quite a difference of opinión as to the value of his character, or the damage done to it. It matters little which, so far as the general public is concerned. I