Political Clippings

An Indiana posttuaster has refused to whip his wifo any longer, because he does not wish to mix his Federal dutios with local politics. When an Ohio man reads a head-line in his paper, " The Situation at Wnshiugton," he telegrapns Hayes for it immediately. - Saturday Night. Packard is in Maine, Consulting with Blaine. There will be warm times in the Pine Tree State at the approaching Rcpublican Convention. Quite a strong Hayes sentiment is developing, and the " plumed knight " ia hable to loso his prestige. - State Prest (N. II.) How vigilantly the President is watched, he now knows. His own experience bas taught liim that he cannot seom to play fast and loóse with a great principie without forfoiting the conüdence of those to whom alone he oan look for disinterented support in periods of difficulty. - N. Y lïmes. It is a cowardly, conteroptible vortobrateless Eepublican, or chainpion of President Hayes, who will now consont to blacken his record made during the struggle of November and December of last year, by saying that the membors of the Keturning Board are coinman crimináis, and that, of course, they are guilty of infamous crime in conduct which was not merely defended but lauded six months ago. - IndianapolU Journal. Bepublican papers are " giving themselves away " very readily on the JJouisimia business. In thoir eagerness to protect J. Madison Wells, and the other Eeturning Boarders, they aro claiming that a bargain was made by the Louisiana Commission, and that Gov. Nicholls agreed with them not to prosecute the perpetrator8 of the fraud. Nice adtnission this, for the party of moral ideas to inake. - Quincy llerald. If one-twentieth part of the uproar and Iawlo8ane88 which havo disgraced the great States of New York and Pennsylvania during the past week had occurred in Virginia and North Carolina we should have had every Radical newspaper and every Badical spouter in the North clamoring that the "Southern policy" of PieBident Hayes was a disastrous failure, and insisting that those ancient comnionwealths should be reduced to the condition again of military provinces. New York, thanks mainly to this muchabused metropolis, has re-asserted her authority within her own borders. Pennsylvania is virtually in the hands of the Federal army, and depends mainly upon its bravo soldiors and officors for the speedy restoration of law and order. Yet no voice has been raised to aak that ehe should be made a military province. Have the Blaines and Butlers lost faith in their own medicine. - N. T. World. The Agricultural College oomraenoement occure this year Novembei 20 instead of November 27, as laid down in the catalogue.