On Monday Of Last Week Was

ted the centenmal anniversary of the Catholic missionary work in Monroe and south-eastern Michigan. Oct. 15 1788, was the day on which that work was bfigun. The celebration was a greal success. The Monroe Commercial says " Our Democratie friends had the bad taste to try to use this day of religious festival as a time to inject a little ol their peculiar politics into the masses, and to that end advertised a meeting in the evening. The injudicious attempt was deservedly a failure. A few of the faithful wandered into the hall, butsoon oozed out again, leaving a dull speaker harranguing an attentive audience of empty settees." It was a terrible arraignment of the Democratie party and Cleveland which, Mr. Blaine made in Chicago, Oct 20. It made the dry old bones of that decrepit old party crack. The counts made are asfollows: 1. Failure to improve the civil service; 2. Surrenderingthe rights of the country in the fisheries of the North American coast; 3. Cruel disregard of the rights of the poor and needy soldier; 4. Dangerousand unprecedented use of the veto power; 5. Disfranchising for partisan reasons, 700,000 American citizens in Dakota; 6. Breaking down the useful policy of paying off the public debt as fast as the surplus will allow ; 7. Loaning money to favorite banks ; 8. Attempting to destroy the protective system. The Democrats have cotnplained that Blaine's speeches were short. Guess that speech waa long enough to suit them. Warner Miller, the candidate for governor in New York, thus character. izes the Mills bill : " The Mills bill is a southern production pure and simple. I-will not go into any analysis of it tonight ; it is unnecessary. But in nearly every case where t strikes at an industry, it strikes at an industry peculiar to the Northern people; wherever it leaves a high protective tariffupon any industry it is alnaostsure to be a Southern industry. It give us free trade upon wool and lumber and salt and nearly a hundred other articles, but it retains a duty of nearly 68 per cent. upon sugar produced in Louisiana. It gives us free tradein all vegetables produced by Northern farms ; it preserves a duty of nearly 100 per cent, upon rice. And gtill they go before the people and teil them that they propose to remove the duties from all the necessaries of life. They give us free trade on cotton bagging and cotton ties, all made in Northern States. And so I might go on illu8trating it. I refer to it for the simple purpose of showing you that this contest which is upon us for the maintenance of our inftitutions as we have them here at the North is brought upon us by a solid South."