Democratic County Convention

A Democratie County Convention will be beid at the Court House, in the City of Ann Arbor, on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1876, at 11 o'clock A. M., to nomínate a ca.ndidate for Senator, a candidato for Judge of Probate, and candidates for County Officers, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the Convention. A cordial invitation is extended to Liberáis, Conservativos, and all others, without regard to previous party affiliations, who are opposed to the extravagance and eorruption of the Kepublican party, and to the continuance of that party longer in power, to particípate in the primariea huid to elect delégales. Eachtownship and ward will be eutitled to delegates as folio ws : Ann Arbor City- Pittsfield, 3 lstWard, 3 Salem, 2d " 3 Saline, 6 8d " 8Scio, 6 4th " 8 Sharon, 3 5th " 'l Superior, 4 6th " 2 Sylvan, 5 Ann Arbor Town. 3! Webster, 3 Augusta, 4 York, 5 Brldgewater, Ypsilantl Town, 4 Dexter, 3;Ypsilauti City- Freedoni, 4 lst Ward, 2 Lima, S 2d " 2 Lodi, 4 Sd 8 Lyndon, 3 4th " 2 Manchester, 6 5th " i Northürfd, 4 By order of the Democratie County Coinmittee. CHAS. H. KICUMOND, E. B. Posd, Secretary. Chalrmao. Dated, Aun Arbor, Aug. 22, 187G. TiiEKJB are indicationa of the breaking up of the coal combination aud cnoaper coai : wnicn wni causa uu mourning in this vicinity. The wounds of Julius Ceesar Burrowa have been healed and he ia now blowing his bugle " all along the line," - out of hü district where the people don't know and appreciate (?) him lrke his fullow citizens at home. On the night of the 4th of May last, Simon Mandlebauin, a prominent business man of Detroit, was lost overboard from the Bteamer Northwest, en route for Cleveland. On Monday last the body was washed ashore near Vermillion, Ohio, in a good state of preservation. Gen. Kilpatrick wntes from Indianapolis to Gov. Hayes, coinplaining that the National Committee is negleoting Indiana, intituating that the "Independent party" is poor and in the market, and sa ving : " A bloody shirt campaign with money and Indiana is safe ; a financia! campaign and no money and we are beaten." Which sounds veay like a wail of despair, - unless that moiiey is poured out like water. Bob Ingersoll, of Illinois, the man who championed the cause of Blaine in the Cinoinnati Convontion and " olectrifiod " his hearers with his eloquence, is now stumping Maine in aid of Hayes and Wheeler. This is the same Bob Iugersoll who once delivered an address on " An honest God the noblest work of man." Ho is a fit man to serve the " God and morality " party in Puritan Now England. TllE Lansing Journal says that Hon. George H. Durand, of FÜDt, will bu nominated by the Democracy of his district, (the Sixth), aud that he wUl be re-elected by a larger majority than he received two yeara ago. Mr. Durand has been an intelligent aud vigorous member, and his opponeuts can piek no flaws in his record, or spread out any of bis votes which will not strengthtn him with the peoplo. - H-4 - I 1 I Speaker Keur died at Rockbridgo Alum Springs, West Va., on Saturday eveuing last, of consumption of the tlio bowels. Mr. Kerr was born at Titusville, Pa., March 15, 1827, graduated bachelor of laws , at Louisvillo (Ky.) XTniversity in 1851, and commenced the practice of law at New Albany, Ind., in 1852, whero he has ever since resided. He has held many minor offices, was elected Supreme Court lleporter in 1862 and issued five volumes of reporta. He was a meinber of tho House from the Thirty-ninth to the Forty-second Congreasos, inolusive (four Congrosses), and ran for Congressman-at-largo for the Forty-third Congress, being defeated by Godlove S. Orth. In 1874 ho was again elected from his old district- the Third - over James A. Cravens, and at the opening of tho session in Deoembor was elected Speaker. He made a ready, irapartial, dignified presiding officer, and won tho respect of both parties. The attempt to smiroh his good name was au utter failure, and he diod with a reputation spotless and a chara eter, private, publio, and political, to be emulated. Thb Republioana are very touch olted over the secession of one Gen. Tuttle from the Iowa Oemocracy and his acC68sion to their ranks, and Eepublioan joumuls inake haste to fill their columna with a recent speech made by hitn at Dea Moines, in whiob. he shakes the " blooily shirt " and expones rebel schemes in a slashing manner. We codt one of his bug-bears, which we have reason to foar haa caused soaie of our oitizens to He a wake o' nights : Why ia it that the State of Missouri lias issued to every former owner oL slaves in that Stnte a certifícate tor $1,000 f or every slave, payable when the General Goverument will pay it f Tlns very thmg, the total amouut ot the valué oí their emancipated slaves, is now estimated as a part of the State of Missouri ! I used to thiuk that this was a Itepublican falsehood, the certifícate matter. But it is a iact, aud these certiñcates, aud all certiftcateo or showings of lossua sustained through the State are being saved up as careially as monoy agamst the day when the Dcmocracy, and the rebel element ruling in the National Government, shall have attained to power. If Missouri will do this thing, and hold out thia promise to pay for all emancipated slavea, why will uot all Soathern, all worse rebel States, do it, and will not thoy do it ' Now be it known to our readers and " all the world aud the rest of mankind " that thore is not a single word of truth in the abovo statement, it is a bald and absurd lie, and must hare been known to be sach by Geu. Tuttle when he uttered it: that is if Gen. Tuttle is not literally a know-nothing. The State of Missouri hns issued no suoh " certifioates," and of course they are not " now estimated as a part of the State of Missouri," or even as a part of the valuation of the property or wealth of its citizens, whioh is probably what the ranting General Tuttle meant to say. And the rest of Gen, Tuttle's statements are probably off the same pieoe. "Falsus in uno, falsu in omnnibut." The Hon. Charles Foster, of Ohio, made a speech in the HouBe on the 14th inst., in which he included a New York Times Washington letter which clnimed to give a list of disabled Union soldier diacharged from service by the several officera of the House, and "confedorates of varlous grades put in their places." We find in the list this paragraph : B. P. Bishop, in the post-ofiice depai tment, belonged to a Michiguu infantry regiment, served duriug the war, losiug an arm in the service. He, too, gave place to a conlederate aoldier early ín the present sessiou. Now we chance to know somothing about this case of Mr. Bishop. He was a resident of this city during his service on the House force. Somo nionths before the meeting of the House in December he was eleoted án alderiuan of one of our wards and opened a law fico, but soon after closed ais othoe, and resigned bis aldermanship, and removed to Ludington or that vicinity. He did not put in an appearance at Washington at tho opening of Congress, voluntarily resigned his position, and in faot moutbs before Congress convened ofípred to get a Deniocratio friend of his, like hiiü a disabled soldier, substituted upon the pay-rolls of tho postoffice. That disposes of one man at least. - In th8 connection we may also Bay that Bishop's original place was on the Capítol pólice, that he exchanged to tbe postoffice corps so as to obtain a loiiger furlough home ; and that his resignation was voluntary aud witnout tne least effort te retain his placo or secure a reappointment. TlIIS is soruething how an Alabama correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial (not a Democratie paper) accounts for the small Eepublicau vote in gomo of the heavy nagro counties at the recent election : The Demócrata not only refrained from voting, but declined to open the polls or have anything to do with the election, and said to the negroes, "you hold yourown olection we've not got time tofool with it." And the negroes didn't kuow how to register the yoteis or conduct the eleotion, and it went by default. Was that intimidation ? Can the President's military 6quad arrest and punish the refractory white voters ? Well does the correspondent add, " Is not the more fact that sueh a thing is possible a ötrango comnientary on the oondition of the cotton States." And ho might havo asked, Will four more years of Grantism better it ? It was Fred. Douglass who told the Cincinnati Convention that half a drozen Southern States must be oarried by the Republicana if they had to be carried hy the use of the bayonet. And so the President, through his Secretary of War, orders Gen. Sherinan to hold all his spare troops in roadiness for service in the South, - that is the meaning if not the words, - ostensibly to protect citizena regardless of color, in their exercise of the elective franchise, but really to aid the oarpet-baggors and their colored allies in intimidating white voters from making an active canvasa, and to prevent any recreant colored voters from voting the Domocratic ticket. If the voters of somo out-of-the-way parish can be provoked into an outbreak by the ignorant orecl rulers thrust upon tlium, tien. Sherman's troops are to do the rest. Can't a regiment or two of troops be " sparcd " to Miohigan, to overawo such Republicana as uiay moditate voting for Tilden, and especially to aid the colored Republicana in briging any of their colorod bretbren with Democratie tondoncios under subjection. A detachment niight ünd work at Ypsilanti, and another squad might stay up the hands of our local pólice while they stand by and soe colored bullies hoot at Ypsilanti colorud men for daring to come up here to attend a Democratie meeting, or club out the brains of white men ou theslight provocation of a "hurrah for Tilden." Shall Louisiana or Mississippi bo cared for and the " loil " men of Michigan receive no aid ? Ex-Secketaey Bkistow oponod the ltepublican camiiaign at Burlington, Vt., on Tuesday uvening last, and during the weok is to speak at Montpelier, St. Johnsbury, Brattloboro, and Eutland. We don't kuow how much of a canvaaser or stuuip-epeaker Mr. Bristow is, but if he is any " great shakes " he don't beliove in or follow the maxiin of ( ):iki.'s Ameg, and put bis speeches where they will " do the most good." In Vermont he can neither help the Ropublicans nor hurt the Democrats. At THE recent Democratio State Convention in Tennessee a resolution was almost unanimously adoptod against the repudiation of the Stftte debt, thus squelching a srnall band of uneaay spirits and dishonest financiers. Our Eepubliean friends uiay need to be told that the State dobt which the Deniooraoy of Tennessee refuse to repudíate, but proolaim iu favor of the prompt and honost payraent of, is not that "rebel debt" which 80 troubles their horrid dreams. The " rebel debt " of Tennessee, as of each and every other State in the rebellion, was repudiated, constitutionally repudiated, years ago. No Southern State bas either the position, desire, or power to pay any lebts coutracted in aid of the rebellion. These Statea, one und all, will be satisBed when r6turning prosperity shall enable them to pay debts contraoted since the rebellion, carry on needed improvements, and leave a little something on the right side of both the individual and public ledger. The Republicans of the Seventh Congressional disriot, being exceedingly short of timber have placed Hon. O. D. Conger in a nomination for a fifth term. Conger is a wiry, wily, onergetic man, the ablest uiomber of the Republican delogation, but an intensely bitter partisan. He ought to be beatón. Hon. E. D, Moeoan, ex-Governor and ex-Senator, and Zack Chandler's predecessor as chaiïnian of the Repnblioan Coniinittee, was uominated for Governor of New York, on Wednesday. Wm. M. Evarts was lm principal competitor, Mr. Cornoll having withdrawn. Hon. Shernian Eogors, of Buffalo, was uoininated for Lieut.-Governor.