Gen. Sherman Is Said To Favor Grant

tur 1880, and so (loos hi brotlier John. It 13 givon ent froni Washington that Hayos, in hi fortheoming animal tueasage will gig back on his Southern polioy, and confusa th:it lio was wrong and Zack Chaiidlor á: Co. right. W shall .-.' w lia t we shall seo. Thk iliáüngu&hed reliol General Joseph K. Johnaton, recently elected to Cougress from Virginia, declares hiuisolf " unaltorably in favor of híird inouey :" an ndication that tho f-recnback inania has nut sei.cil upou all the Houtburm lo:iilrn. TllE Advocate, fue eastern organ of the " tiat" uionty party aiul thc rival of Brick l'oojoroy'a Democrat, has suspended, and its subscribers are now ulatuoring for bu answr to the conundrum, " Why is tilia thusly ';" Shupe should sond out eaoh week a bit of paper 2 by 0 inches, or of similar proportioni, sfliuiped "This i tha Advóeiite." Thk Lausing BtptMican says : " The increase in the irredeemable vote ha bteu (56,036 since 1876, and it is safe lo say tlmt at least two-thiids of that increase carne from the Democratie party." Which must bc a souroe of satisfactiou to those Democrats who thus aided iu parpetuating tho Iiepublican party iu power. THÉ Greeuback voto of Naw York was ouly a fraction over 71,000, but it was large enough to convert the Democratie plurality of 1877 of 11,264 into a Kepublican plurality thia year of about 22,000. The Democrats of New York who forgot the long and honorable record of the party in favor of houeat money ought to proclaiin a day of thanksgiving of their own. TnK Ypsilanti Senlinel accounts lor the short-ooming ■ of one Republican oandidate in this wise : " Mr. Bontel!, t)ie Kapublicau candidato for Sheriff, anJ the best man upou tlmt ticket, eau ancribe his dofeat to the dead-beatinff done by the Bepublicitu ;oinnnttee two years ago. The MancheMei Uuiil ought tQ áeud a ibieipted Lili." A little uiore vigorous pushing of ihose Ypsilanti hagu. Domocratio tickets niigbt have put Boutell tbrough and made the oonspirators happy. Fok mühk than bixteen yeara gold has been a commodity and gold coin bas not been used aa uioney, but bought and sold by banker and broker aa the uirrchant buys and xells coffee and tea and other articles of meichandi.se. By the resumption of specie paymetits by the Government and the act ion of the Xew York bankers, gold coin will cease to be a commodity on the coming first day of Januaiy and flow into tho money circulation of the country. There is good reason for congratulition over the uear approach of such an evont. Simply as a matter of history we desire to put on record tho fact that two bogu " Democratie tickets" were gotten up at Ypsilanti prior to the. r.e liuntutíaTiis on the Deuiocratio ticket. One of these bogus tickets - headed " Democratie Ticket" - and palmed off upon the voters as genuino - coutained the names of Henry S. Boutell for Sheriff and Everett B, Clark for Clerk, and the other the names of James M. Forsyth for Sheriff and Ezekiel M. Cole for Clerk, substituted for the names of Josiah S. Case and Peter Tuito, the Democratie oaudidates. It is certaiu that a large number of these fraudulent tickets were oiroulated and inany of them unintentionally voted. Mr. Tuite attributes bis defeat to tbeir üse. Gen. Johxston, of Virginia, writes that the cry of a " Solid South" or a " Solid North" will be of the past long before 1880. Touching the dinposition araong radical politicians to array the South against the Union he says : " The South is now as close a part of the Union as is New Eugland. Virginia has the same interest in the general prosperity of the country as Massacbusetts, and her representativos and the repre.sentatives of tho South will be found to be as active in support of all measures tending to the general good of all sectiona of the country as tho gentlemen from Maine or Vermont." To which tho aforosaid radical politicians, wbo can see no radical victory in 1880 unless they can foster and perpetúate sectional autagonisuia, will respond, " You He, you know you He, you old rebel." COMUEXTINO ou the action of a Jersey City judge who requirod thrce suspected men to leave the State, and one of them failing to do so ordered hini looked up, the New York Sun says : " Very serious doubts may be eutortained of the right of a State, even under the forma of 69tablishcd law, to bauish luto other Staten of the Union a convicted crimiual as a part ot his punishment. This has sometimos been done, but the power to do it may well be questioned, and the immorality of suoh au act hardlv admits of ducussion." The Anocs haa freqently called attention to this subject : protesting against suspended sentences on condition thatthe oonvicted party ' leave the State," and also against pardons issued by the Governor, the same condition beiug attached. No State, either by its judicial or executive authority, has a right to ghirk its obligations to caje for its own criminal classes, or to impone any of them upon another State. We are glad that so prominent a journal as the Sun bas called attention to the subject. lp Is given' out that Senator Voor hees, of Indiana, will, at the opening of i the coming nesion of Congress, introI duce a bilí making " trade dollars" a legal tender. We hope that in the same bilí ! he will provide for an increase of silver . in the " dollar of the daddies." If the ' common poople are to be put off with a I ilver currency let it bo made of full standard valué : as good aa either green' bicks or gold. It is the smallest and tneaneet kind of a fraud for a great nas tiou to put its mint stamp upon 80 or r. 90 oonts wortb of lilver and compel its citizem to take it for 100 cents. Give ; us a fair trial of ailver dollars of full 1 woight and valué, and then if sil ver f alls in tho markets of the world, and silver coin depreciatc3 in value, it will be a settled qnestion that a doublé coiu standard cannot be maiutained in tho interest ot' either commercial, finanoial, or moral houoety. The Fret l'reas calis vigorously tbr a better class of politicians to cuuie to the front in Datroit and Wayue Couuty.aud protests agaiust the fuitber reign of " scallawags in conventions :" attributing, of course, the reoent looal Deiuocratic defeat tú the prepouderauce of such element in politics. The suggestion of the Fret l'rejt will bo soconded by the entire Demooratic pret of the State. ïor yoars the lists of delégate selected te represent Wayne County, and especially Detroit, in State Convent ions, - tho rarity with which prominent business aud professional men, men kuown in business professional, 01 political circlos ontside of the city, havo been delegatod to State Conventious, - havo been a source uf wouderment aud called out unooinplimontary criticism frum mauy sourcos. WayueCouuty han bfcoii sboiu uf it3 iutiueuce in State Conventious, excopt tbe iufiuence of uumbers, by tho inake-up of its delegatious. And in looking ovor tbe liat of delegates constituting city and county convüiitifus, and tbe names of candidates constituting city and county tickets, thn surprise has been equally great and tbe disgust nauseous in the extreme. Outsiders havo come to beliovo that a man must beloup; to the less intelligent class, if nol to the burauier and criminal classes, t" entitle him to be a ward delegato, and that he must be both a saloon keeper and of foreign birth before he can lay claim to a place ou a ward or city tickot. We never had any affiliation with political know-notuingism , wa have a tirut belief that the foreignborn citizen is entitled to the same privileges and rightsas bis American bom neighbor ; but we have never believed that being either foreign bom or a saloon keeper is a necessary qualifiuation for an aldermanic or other ofiice in a graat city like Detroit, or for important county offioes, or to iill tip a legislativo ticket. Has the foreign born citiaen rights above aud beyond those of n native-born neighbor, or is there anything in running a saloon that peculiarly fits a man for political prefnr ment and po.sitious of trust and honor, aslaw makers or executors of tbe luw, or as delegates to uomiuating conventions'' These are questions which the Fret Prtas cannot well ignore uow that it has opened its eyes to the " Hcailawag" element in politics. And they are quoKtions which should be coneidered by the better class of citizens everywhere, whether foreign or native born. By better class we do not mean the wealthy class or the professional class, but the intelligent, honest, industrious, moral, and virtuous classes as opposed to either the social or political bummer. Tuk followiuginteresting figures, giving the gross amounts paid to the several State educational and reformator)1 institutions aud asylurns, under appropriations made by the Logislature from tbaáVW'itSttf'iv Ola "close of the fiscal year 1877 (Sept. 30), we find in the aunual report of the General tor 1877, on page 207 : Tn the Uuivereity, - - $408.921 Ü0 " ' Normal School, - 2"O,y4l 32 " " Agricultural College, - 47Ü.412 99 " " Stote Public School, - 240,916 00 " " Reform School, - - W9.813 67 " " State House of Correction, ÏO6,ó.J2 16 " " State Prison, - - 886,417 30 " " Iusaiie Asylum at Kal, 1,084,997 "1 " " " " at Ponttac, 312,973 27 " " Inatitution for 1). X). & B., 931,768 21 Total, - - - $5,447,714 22 To these several ntnounts should bu added " payinents of salaries to officers of asylums for insane and acting commissioner for D. D. and Blind, and compensation for managing boards," except for the University, the Regents of which are paid their expenses out of the regular funds under their control. Considering the work the University hag done in the educational field, and the credit it has brooght to the State the showing is an excellent one when compared with the outlay for the other institutions. The Agricultural College oppned in 1857 has oost tbe State mor (f66,491.30) than has the Uuiversity which graduated its first class in 1845.