Bloomington Progress, Volume 15, Number 47, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 March 1882 — Page 1

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Hidden and aaeiitleit la a liifntt uracil. And tftirred with lueaoortes ol otbei dura, Before, the maples Enanl trs privacy. The lUaca trwubi with the butterflies; Beyond, the kvbrt sloping meadows -ie And catch the ruttlus; winds (mm out the alias. The ciaatbcriog laymin-gtorfa a by tlie lawn Uft up their bessle at meet Ite morning sun, Vtth all the dewy t reahneas nf tb (town Ora tMrpurp.VUuoipetitotttttyoiie. llie restate " th ardent ttgh? t coon alar. pre:-d her scarlet teats again: The psavv gamm mo4rabtty in the night, And ai sua in the shadow and the riln. Au.i quits as dear, "jeaide the d-icr-ataa grows The jelew dundtMon, atntdy, tin , And, erowdiaajby the watt, the Bweet wi'd mas Haa caajjHt her ckslicti fun of moraine dew. So nature' rixapteat blossom b u a place. And t:ll ia cuanted a lea If Tel y (mk, Brave native flower lead a wilier grace. And he'p to make the, mother 's (rax lea Mr.

JAMES A, GARFIELD.

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Direred at tbe Manorial Serrioe a WaaatngtV, feo. IT, 1S81. J Ma. ruiRH!n : For tiie ecoii time in this genrratHiu tbe neat departments of the Government of the United 8tat are assembled in the Hall tot lloonwentativos todo honor to the memory of a niunleretl Proeudeo&r Unoobifatt at tlu close of a mighty struggle in which the pumtons of men had been oeoply stirred. The tragical termination of his great lire added but another to the lengthened n cue on of horrors which had marked so many hotels -with the blood of tbe first born. Garfield was alain in a day of peace, when brother had been reconciled to brother, and when anger and bate had been banished from theluid. Whoever ahail hereaf ter draw the portrait of minder, if be will show it as it has baen exbihitea, where such example waa least to neve been looked for, 1st him not give the grha virago of Kofaeb, the Itow knitted by revenge, the fane black with settled hate. Let 1-imdtairrattxracleconma, fmooth-faced, bloodies dec ion, net so mneh an example, ot human nature in its depravity and in its paroxysm of crime a.i an infernal being, a fiend in the ordinary das play and duialnpment of hi character.' From the landing of the pilgrims at Piyrnouth till tbe uprising against Charles I about 3.00t) emigrants camo from Old Kialand to New Rutland As they came in pursuit at intellectual freedom and ecclesiastical iixlependenee rather than for worldly honor and profit, the emigration naturally ceased when the contest for religious hherty began in earnest at borne. The man srho struck hts moat effective blow for freedom of eonsci.'nce by sailing for the colonics in 1620 would 1 rre bom accounted a deserter to leave after 1640. The opportunity had then come on the foil of England for that great contest which estabhaind the authority of Parliament, gave reUgjona fioeuom to the people, sent Charles to tbe block and committed to the hands of Ottrer Cromwell the supresne executive authority of England. The Krajuan emrgratKU wm never renewed, and from tucee XXOOO men, with a snu 11 essgration from Scotland and frum France, ire descended tbe vast numbers who have NewEaglaod blood in tbeir veins. Id 1685 the rookm of the Edict of Bants by Lows XIV. acxtterad to

either eAmntrieseoOFroiectant a, who were a nong the most intelligent and cuterpriaing of tbe French tmbj-cts mcnanta of capital, skilled manufacturers and handicraftsmen superior at the time to all others in Koropet. A conaiderafalo numiter of thaje Hngaenot Fieoeh came to Ameram. & few lindoa u New England and became rHXMmner t in ltK history. Tbeir naioes havb ra argt pert Iwcome aneheized, or hare dwaupeared. bat their bkod ia traceable in many of tbe most repntabie families, and their faoe-is perpetnated in honorable mcaiorial-. and nseful institutiooa. From these two scarce, the English Puritan and the French Huguenot, oame tha late Fnsident, his father, Abnun Oarfiold, being descended from the one, end hia mother, Ehza Ballon, from the other. It was good B .ock on both iddea none better, none urarer. none truer. There waa in it an inheritance of eocu&g?, of manhnear, of imperishable love of nberty, of undying adherence to principle. ' Oarneld waa prood of his blood, and, with aa much satisfaction as if he wcro a British nobleman reading bis stately ancestral record in Burke's i'eerage, be spoke of ttmsslf as ninth in descent from those who would not eodure the opraiession of tbe Stnaris, and seventh in descant from the brare French Protestants who Kfosedto subcnt to tj-raony even from the Grand Monarqae. Gen. QarSeld dohgbted to dwell ou these traita, and dmteg ba only risit to England be bnged iUmaeK in discoTerrag ewery trace of bis forefathers in puma registries and co, ancient army rotta, Sittnw with a friend in the gallery of the Boose ' f Commons one nighr, alter a long day's u. la thia earir ftekt of research, he said with -'.dent endaon that m every war in which v three centuries patriots of Eaghsb blood . .ad itrnckstuidy blowii for coiistitGtiottal gov'invnent and bnman nbertyhis family bad been i2eaented. Tbey were i t Muston Moor, at Naseby and Preston ; lhey were at Bunker Hill, Saratoga and at JfonDioath, and bis own - person bad battled in the unt jraateansera ouj war which preserre-i the Union of States. Losing hi father before b3 wa H years old, the earir Ufa of Qarneld was cue of privatioa. bat its porerty has been made indelicately aodnnjnady proruinent. Thonsands of readers bare Imagined ban as the ngged, starring child, whose reality too often greets the eye in the rquaod sections of our large ctitsa. Gen, Garfield's infancy and youth bad none of tbe pitiful features appealing to the tender heart and to the open hand of charity. He was a poor boy in Ue same sense in whi ch Henry Chy was a pc or hoy; in which Andrew Jackson was "poor hoy ; in which Dune) Webster was a 3brboy;in the aims seae in which a large matorirfof the eminent meu of Amerieainall yrawat rne bL.re been poor boya. I Before a jr-eai multitude of men in a pubue speeeU kfx. Webster bore thia teatunony: "It did not happen to me to to born in a l-cabin, bat my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log-eabm, r.'iaal amio the anow-dnfts of New Hampshire at a period so earrj that when the amoks rose first from itH ernd chimney and curled orer the iroien hills there was no similar ciUewee of a whits man's habitation between it and tbe settlenxnta on the rivers of Canada, It remam stil. I make itananraal Tint I carry my children to it to teach tntm tbe hardshtpii endnred by the generationa which bare gone bsfore tliem. I love to dwell on the tender recollections, the kmdred ties, tbe early affectiecs', and tbe tacK&ing narratives and madeats Khich mingla with all." 1 know of this prinntive family abode, with tbe reouisne change of Bcene. the Bame words wrould aptly portray toe early dava of Oarnsld. The poverty of the frontier, wbore all are engaged hi a common straggle, and where a eommrin sympathy and hearty eo-oneration bghten thebordens of eMm, is a very different poverty different in kind, different hi influence arid effect from tbft ennsaons and baminating indigeucn wbi,:h is every day forced to contrast itself with neighboring wealth, on which it feels a sense of grinduig dependence. Tbe poverty of the froniier is iudssd no poverty. It is but tbe begi ming of wealth, and has tbe bonndleaa noasibilittes of tbt fifrire 1ways opem4n; before it. No man ever grew up in Ibe agricuiUiral regioos of the West, where a booseHraiaiug or even a eorn-liusaiog b matte of common interest or helpfulness, with another feenng than that of broad-muxled, Ceoaous mdepjndence. This honorable independence marked the yootb of Garfield, as it ntxriu tbe youth of m Hions of the best blood and brain now trainingr f c r the future atraeamhip and fntiue gorernnasnt of the repubfca. OariieJd was burn hear to land, to the title of freeboMrr, wbksh has been tlie patent and passport of self-respect with the Angio-jaxon race ever since Bettjist sad Bona landed on the shores of England. His adieu ture era the canal an elttrnative between tliat an. 1 the deck of a Lake Erie sdiooneT, was a firmer lioy's derioe for earcing money, Jnstas the New England lad begius a piMkibty great Ranier by sailing before the mist on a coasting vessel or on a merrtiantman bound to the frthsr locia or to the China aeaa. No maul; man feels uit hmg of shame in lookingbaek to eariy strngirles with adverse eirenaisaness, and no mat fds a worthier pride than when be has cooqner&d tbe obstacles to hfci progress. Sjt nooxof sobw moid desires to be looked oron aa haTi&g oetnpiad a menial positioii, as haviiig been reprcMed by a feeling of taferitirity, or as having saSVred the evusof poverty nmii reiief wa found- at the band of charity. Otn. Garnet 's youth presented no budanips which family love and fsmrly energy did not m ercome. subjected bint to no privatioM which bo did not cheerfully sxnept, and left no raenionea save thoae which were recalled with dengbf and transmitted with jront and with r ride. G .rfielcTs earl op .xirairjities for securing an edoction were xtrenMr limited, and yet were sufficient to daehm in him ail intense desire to learn. Be could read at 3 yiars of age. and each winter be bad ton advantage of the district 'Chooi. He read ail the books he found with! i the circle of his icquainance. Home of them he got fay beaut. While yet in childhood be was a eonttant student or tbe Bible, and beeame famiuar with tU hteratnre. Tbe dignity and earnestness ef his speech in hismatorar life gave evidence of tbi early training. At 18 years of age be was able to teaeh school, and thenceforward his tmhition was to OtaMn a Coilege education. Vo this end he bens a.'l bis efforts, working in tiraharveat field, at tie carpenter's beusb, and in the winter aaaeoti tenehmg the uxnmon acbools of the saatmrhood, Whi'e thas Mboriowty eeeapkal he found time to artwecato bin studies, and was so snoosssfal thatst33BewasaMetientert.be Junior class at Wiilnaas College, tin n nnder the i'residency 3t tbe veverable acd honored Mark Hopkins, who, in the fairness of bos st'wsrs, sarrived tbe emiaent pnpd to yhom he was of insstt-

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BL00MINGT0N, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 18S2.

New S6ries.--V0L. XV. NO. 47.

The history of Garfield's life to this period present no novel feature, He had undoubted shown rteraeveranor, self-reliance, nelfsacri:ioo and ambition qualiliea which, be it aaid for the honor of our country, are every, where to be foun 1 among the young men of America. at from hm cradoation at Williams, onward to the hour of his tragioal death, Garfield's career was eminent and oxocptional. Slowly working through his edncxUonal period; mouiving his diploma when 34 years of age, he seemed at one bound to spring intoeonapicnons and brilliant mceow. Within six yours he was K.iccauivly President of u college, State Senator of Ohio, Major Genural of the army of the Untied States, and Ilenresentative to the national Congress a comliuabon of honors so varied, so elevated, williin it period so brief, and to a man so yonng, ia without precedent or parallel in the history of the country. Garfield's army life was begun with no othro military knowledge than such as he had hastily gained from books in the few months preeeairxr his march to tbe field. Sternum? from civil

fe to the head of a regiment, the flr,rt order

be received when reaay to cross tne umo was tosssnras command of a brigade and to operate as an independent force in Eastern Kentucky. His immediate duty was to check the advance of Humphrey Marshall, who was

marching down the Big Sandy, with, the intention of occupying, in connection with other

Amieoerate lorces, tne enure urinary 01 &entockv, and of nrvcinitatinz the Slate into ae-

eession. This waa at the close of theyearlbol.

aeid-im u ever has a young college proresBor been thrown into a mora embarrasKing and discouraging position. Ho knew just enongh of m'ht try sdienOB, as he expressed it himself, to measure the extent of his ignorance, and, with a handful of mon, if was inarching in rough winter weather into a strange country, among a hostile population, to confront a larcilv-f unenor-force un'tir the command of a

disthisniahsd graduate of West Point, who had sen active and important service in two pre

cdirar wars. The result of the camnaicn is

matter of history. The skill, the eodarance, tbe extraordinary energy shown by Garfield,

the courage he imparted to bis m n, raw and untried as himelf ; tbe moatnres ho adopted to increase his force and to create in th enemy's

mind exaggerated estimates of his numbers,

bore perieet trait in tne routing or atarsnaii, the capture of bis camp, the dispersion of his force and the emancipation of an important territory from the control of tbe rebels. Com

ing at the dose of the long series of disasters to the Union arms, Garfield's victory had an unusual and extraneous importance, and, ia the popular judgment, elevated the young com

mander to tne rancor a nunuiry nero. wnn less than 2,000 men in his entire command, with a mobdized force of only 1,100, without cannon, he had met an army of 5 000 and defeated them, driving Mam hall's forces snecsss. follv from two strongholds of their own seleetion, fortified with abundant artillery. Maj. Oen. Bueli, commander of the Department of Ohio, an experienced soldier of the regular army, pnbaabed an order of thanks and congratulations on the Brilliant result of the Big Sandy campaign, which would have turned tlie bead of a less cool and sensible man than Garfield. Basil declared that his services had ailed into action tbe highest qualities of a soldier, ant President Lineol-.i snpplern"nted these wen's -if praise by the more substantial reward

of a Brigadier General's cormnission, to boar ti to (root the day of bis dccis.vo victory over S'ariUaU. The suberqnent mflitarj career of Garfield fuily suitained the brilliant beginning. With b new commission be was assigned to the command of a brigade ia the Army of tbe Ohio nd took part in the second and decisive day's fight in the great battle of Siiiloh. Thersmaniderof the year 1862 wae not especially eventful to Garfield, as it was not to tbe armies with which he was serving. His practical seneo was called into exercise in contemplating tbe task assigned him by Gen. Bneli of reconsuuetmg bridges and re-establishing lines of railway commnuKatinn for the armv. His occupation in this useful hut not brilliant field waa varied by service oa courts -martial of importance, in which department of duty he won a vidoable reputation, attracting the notee and aeenriag the approval of the able and eminent Judge Advocate General of the army. That ot itself was warrant to honorabla fame, for among tbe great men who in tbO40 trying days gave themselves, with entire devotion, to

-the service of their country one who brought to

that service the respect, learning, tbe mot fervid eloquence, tlie most varied attainments, who hi too day or triumph sat reserved and silent and grateful, " as Francis Soak in the boor of Hungary's deliverance, wss Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, and in his honorable retirement he enjoys the respect and veneration Of ail who love the union of the States. Early in 1863 Garfield was assigned to. the hig. ily important and responsible post of Chief of Staff to Gen. ftoseerana. then at the head of tbe Army of the Cumberland. IVrbaps in a great military campaign no subordinate oftV.-er requires sounder judgment and q ticker knowledge of men than the Chief of Staff to tlie commanding General. An indiscreet man In snob's position can sow more discord, breed more jealousy, and duwiminate more strife than any other officer fn t he entire organ zoUon. When Gen. Garfield assumed Ins new dubes be found various troubles already well developed and seriously affecting the value and efficiency of the Army of tlie Cumberland. The energy, tbe impartiality and the tact with which he sought to allay ibeee dissensiona and to discharge the duties of his new arid trying position will always remain one of the most striking moors or bis great versatility. His miliary duties closed on tlie memorable Hold of Chkkamanga. a field whwa, however daBstrous to tlie Uiuon arms, gave to him tlie occasion of wintdnar minerishahle brands. The verv ram

distinction was accorded him of a great pro

motion for his bravery on a field that was lost. Pretident L'ncoln appointed him a Major General in the army of tbe United States "for gal. kvit and uv-ntoriotis conduct in the battle ot ChTkamnna." The Army of tbe Cumberland was reorgan

ize! under the command of Gen. Thomas, who

promptly ottered Garfield one of its divisions.

lie was extiysnely oesiroas to accept too position, but was embarrassed by tbe fact that he had a year before been elected to Congress, and the time when be must take bis seat was drawing near. He preferred to remain in the military service, and had within his own breast the targetiteoiinilenceof aoccoei in the wider fiefc! which hi new rank opened to him. Balancing the arguments on i be one side and the other, anxious to determine what was for tbe best, desirous above all things to do his patriotic duty, be was decisively influenced- by tbe sdvee of President Ltacoln and Srereiary Stanton, both of whom atsured him that ha could at that time be of especial 'alno in the Bouse of Kepn seutat l ve. He rnsigned his commission of Major General on th Sih day of December, 1K6S, and took his seat in the House of Bepresentativea ou the 7th. He had served two years and four months in tbe army, and had just completed his KM year. The Thirty-oighth Congress is prominently entitled in history to tbe designation of the War Congress. It waa elected while the war was flagrant, and every member was chosen open the issues involved in the continuance of tbe struggle. The Thirty-seventh Oongreta had indeed legislated to a large extent on war measures, but it was chosen before any one behoved that secession of the Stabs would be actually attempted. The magnitude of tbe work which fell upon its successor was unprecedented both in respect to the vast sum of money ralied for support of the army and navy and of the new and extrhordinary powers of legislation which it was forced to exerciw. Only twentv-f our States wire represented, and 182 members were npon itn roils. Amongthess were many distinguished party leadrs on both sides veturans in tbe public service, with established reputations for ability, and with that skill which come-i only from padiamentiry experience. Into this assemblage of men Garfield entered, without special preparation, and, it might si moat be said, unexpectedly. The question of taking command of a division of troops coder Gen. ThomaM or taking bis seat in Congress waa kept open till the last moment so bite, indeed, that tbe resignation ot his military commission and bis appearance in the House were almost contemporaneous. He worn the uniform of a Major General of tbe United States army on Saturday, and on Monday in eivthau's dress he snswored to the rollcall as a lUpresentative in Congress from tbe State of Ohio. He was especially fortunate in tbe constituency which elected htm Descended almost entirely. from New England stock, the men of tbe Ashtabula district were iuteneely radical on all questions relating to human rights, well educated, thrifty, tbxwougbly ioteUigeut in affairs, acntely diaeerning of ahacaster, not quick to bestow confidence and skxv to withdraw it, tliey were at once the most helpful and most exacting of supporters. Their tenacious trust in men in whom they have once confided i illustrated by tbe unparalleled fact that ElUha Whittlesey, Joshua K. Giddings and Jsmet A, Garfield relproeented the district for flfiy-four years. There is no test of a man's abUitvin any department of public life more severe tlian service in the House of Rijnsseatstivcs i there h-awpjjioswbjsN agHUll 4f TOSS I paid to

reputation previously acqnired, or to eminence wo.i ontside ; no place where so little consideration is soown lor the feelings or failuics of beginners. What a man gains in the Honso he gains by sheer force of his own character, and, if he lose and falls back, he must expect no mercy and will receive no sympathy. It i a field in which the survival of the strongest is the recognized rule, and where no pretense can survive and no glamour can mislend. The real man is discovered, his worth is impartially weighed, bis rank is irrorooaUy decided. With jjosaibl; a single exception, Garfield was tin youngest member in the Honso when he entered, and wag bnt seven years from bis college graduation ; but lie had not bi-on in hi seat sixty diys before his ability was reeojium'd anl hi- rliioe conceded. He stepped to I lie front with the confidence of ono who belonged there ; lira House was crowded with strong men of both artie ; nineteen of them have since been transferred to the Senate, and in my of them have served with distinction in the Gubernatorial chairs of Ihtir respective States and on foreign mlsnioiu of great consequence. But, amorg all, none crow so rapidly, none so firmly, as Garfield. As is said by Teyelan of bis parliamentary hero, Garfield sroeecded because all tbe world in concert could not have kept him in the background, and because, when once in tbo front, be played bis part with a prompt intrepidity and a commanding ease that were bnt the outward symptoms of tbe immense reserves of energy on which it was in his power to draw. Indcs'i, the apparently reserved force whioh Garfield possessed was one ot his great characteristics. Ho never did so well but that it seemed he could oauily have done better. He never expended to much strength but that ho seemed to be holding additional power at call. This ia one of the happiest and rarest distinctions of an effective leader, and often oouuts for as much in persuading an aHaembly as eloquent ami elaborate argnnv.-nt His military lire, illustrated by honorable performance and rich in proroiBe, was, as he himself fell, prematurely terminated and necessarily incomplete. Speculation as to what he might have done in a flold where the great prises are so few cannot bo profitable. It is sufneieut to say that as a soldier he did his duty bravely, he did it intelligently, he won an enviable fame and ho retired from the service without blot or breath against him. As a lawyer, though admirably vq nipped for tbo profession, he can scarcely be said to have entered on its practice. The few efforts made at the bar were distinguished by the same high order of talent which be exhibited on every Sold where he was pnt to the test, and, if a man may be accepted as a competent judge of his own capacities and adaptations, the law was tho profession to which Giirfield should have devoted himself. But fate ordained ot herwise, and his reputation in history will ret largely upon his services iu the House of Bepresentotives. That service was exceptionally long. He was nine limes consecutively Congressman to the House, an honor enjoyed by not more than six other Representatives of the more than 1,000 who have been elected from tho organization of the Government to this hour. As a parliamentary orator, as a debater on an issue squarely joined, where the position had been chosen and the ground laid out. Gar

field must be assigned a very high rank mora

pernaps man any man wim wnom he was associated in pnlilio life. He gave careful and systematic study to public questions, and lie came to every discussion in which he took

Sut with elaborate aud complete preparations, ewas a steady and indefatigabio worker. Those who imagine that taleot or genius otn supply the place or achieve the results of labor will find no encouragement in Garfield's life. In preliminary work bo was apt, rapid and skill

ful. He pa? see sou in a high degree tne power of readily absorbing ideas and facts, and, like Dr. Johnson, had the art of getting from a book all that was of value in it by a reading apparently so quick and cursory that it seemed like a mere glance at the table of contents. He was pre-eminently a fair and candid man; in debate he took no petty advantage, stooped to no unworthy methods, avoided personal allusion, rarely appealed to ptfijnc'lice, did not seek to inflame passion. He had a quicker eye for the strong point of bis adversarj than for hi weak point, and on bis own side be so marshaled his weighty argnmeots as to make his bearers forg t any I'ossibk) lack in the complete Etrength of Lis position. Ho bad a htbit of stating liii opponent's side with such amplitude of fairneeJ and such liberality or coneeison that his followers often complain d that be was giving his case away. But nenar In bis prolonged par lie. pation in the proceedings in the Honse did be give his case away or fail, in tbe judgment of competent and impartial listeners, to gain tbe mastery. These ohuracteristics which marked Gsrficld as a great debater did not however, nuke him a great parliamentary leader. A parliamentary leader, at that term ia understood wherever free repn 3ntative government exists, is necessarily and very strictly tbe organ of his party. An anient American defined the instinctive warmth of patriotism when bo offered the toast, "Oar country, always right; but, rigutor wrong, our country." Tbe parliamentary leader who has a tody of followers that will do, and dare, and die for the cause is one who believes his "party always right, but, right or wrong, is for his party. Mo more important or exacting duty devolved upon him than the selection of the field and tbe time for contast. He must know not merely bow to strike, bnt where to strike and when to strike. He often skillfully avoids the strength of his opixraent's position and scatters confusion in hii ranks by attacking an exposed point, when reailytho righteousness of the cause and the strength of tho logical intrench ment are against him. He conquers often both against the right and the heavy battalions, as when young C harles Fox, in tbe days of bis Toryism, carried the House of Commons against justice, against immemorial rights, against his own con iciions if, indeed, at that period Fox bad ror, .-lotions and in the interests of a corrupt wr'm nstration, in obedience to a tyrannical omreign, drove Wilkes from the seat to which th i electors of Middlesex had chosen him, and installed Luttrcll, in defiance not merely of law bnt of public decency. For an achievement of thtt kind Garfield was disqualified disqualified by the texture of his mind, by the hones: y of his lienrl, by bis conscience, and by every instinct aud axpiration of bis nature. The three most distinguished parliamentary leaders hitherto developed in this country are Mr, Clay, Mr. Douglas and Thaddeus Stevens. Each was a man ofconanmmato ability, of great eanitiiHH, of intense personality, differing widely each from the others, and yet with a signal trait in c-itrunon lhopowertocomnuuid. In Ibe give and take of daily disoussioii ; in the art of c-rnl rolling and consolidating reluctant and relractory followers ; in the skill to overcome a"! forms of opposiiinn and to meet with csimpttency ami courage the various phases of unlocks d-for assault or unsuspected defection, it would be difB ;ult to rank with these a fourth name in all our Congressional history. But of these Mr. Clay waa lbs greate-t. It would, perhaps, bo impossible to find in the paritaAcentarv annals of the world a parallel to Mr. Clay in 1841, when, at 64 years it age, he took the control of the Whig party from the President who had revived their suffrage, against tbe power of Webster in the Cabinet, against tbe eloquence of Chonte in the Senate, against the h rcnlean ifforla of Gtleb Cnihing and Henry A Wise in the House. In unshared leadership. In tbe pride and plentitnde of power, he fanr'ed against John Tyler with deepest scorn the mass of that conquering column which had swept over the land in 1840, and drove bis administration to seek shelter behind tbe lines of bis political foes. Mr. Douglas achieved a victory scarcely less wondVirfnl when, in 1854, against the secret dofires of a strong adminisl ration, against the wise counsel of the older chiefs, against the conservative instincts and even the moral sense of tbe country, be forced a relnctant Conirress into a repeal of the Missouri compromise. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, in his contest from 1855 to 1868, actually advanced his parliamentary leadership until Congress tied the hani: -f the President and governed tho country by ifas own will, leaving only perfunctory duties to be discharged by the Executive. With $200,0110,000 of patronage in his hands at ihu opening of the contest, aided by the active force of Seward in tho Cabinet and tbe moral power of Chat e on the bench, Andrew Johnson could not command the support of one-third in either honso against tbo parliamentary uprising of which Thaddeus Stevens was the animating spirit and tbe unquestioned leader. From these three great men Garfield differed radicallydiffered in the quality of his mind, in temperament, in the form and phase of am bition. He could not do what they did, but bs could do what tbey could not, 'id in tho breadth of his Congressional work be lol't that which will long (xort a potential ii fliieuos among men, and which, measured by liio severe teat of posthnmoiis ciiticism, will secure a more enduring and nioro enviable fame. Those unfamiliar with Garfield's Industry and Ignorant of the details of his work may in some degree measnrs them by tho annals of Oongreta. No one of the generation of pnblio twn to which bs lnhMNtw has eentributed so

tnuoh that will bo valuable for future reference. His speeches are numerous, uianv of them brilliant, all of them well studi-d, 'carefully phrasod and exhaustive of tho subject nuder consideration. Collected from the scattered pages of ninety royal octavo volumes of Congreitional Ilea rds, they would present an invaluable compendi-jm of the polili al history of the moat important era through wliiuli the national Government has ever pusaed. When tho history of this period shall be impartially ritton, when war legislation, measures of reconstruction, protection of human rights, amendments to the constitution, maintenance of public credit, stops toivard specie resumption, truo theories of itvoimo may be reviewed, nusurr.mnded by prejudice and disconnected from parti sanism, tbe speeches of Garfield will be estimated at their truo value, and will bs found to compiiso a vast magazine of fact and argument, of dear analysis and sound conclusion. Indeed, if no other authority ware accessible his speeches in the House of fiepresentatives fiom December, 1863, to June, 1(180, would give a well-connected history and complete defense of the important legislation of the seventeen eventful rears that constitute his parliamentary life. Far beyond that his ipeeabee would be found to forecast many great measures yet to bo completed measures winch he knew were beyond the public opinion of tlie hour, but which he confidently believed wsuld secure popular approval within tho peri 3d of his own lifetime, and by the aid of his cm efforts. Differing as Gjrfluld did from tie Irilliant parliamentary loaders, it is not ei.sy to find his counterpart anywhere in tho record of American puVlic life. lie perhaps more nearly resembled Mr. Seward in his supreme faith in the all-oonqnernig power of principle. He had the love of learning and the pitient industry of investigation tn whioh John A lams owes his prominence and bis Presidency. He had some ot thoso ponderous elements of mind which distinguished Mr. Wvb.stcr, and wfciob. indeed In all our public life have left the great Massachusetts Senator without an intellejtual peer. In English parliamentary history at in our own tlie leaders in the House of Common! present points of essential difference from Garfield. Bnt some of his methods recall tbe best features in the strong, independent course of Sir itobrrt Perl, and striking rv semblances are discernible in that most promising of modern Conservatives who died too early for bis country and his fame, Lord Grge B Mittck. He had alji of Burke's love fcr the sublime and the beautiful, with possibly something of his superabundance, aud in bis faith and in his magnanimity, in his power ot statement, in his subtle annlysi, in his faultless logic,- in bis love of literature, in his wealth and world of illustration, ono is reminded of that great English statesman of to1 di v. who. confronted with obstacloa that would

'di.unt any bnt tbe dauntless, reviled by those

wliow supposed rights be is forced to invade, still labors with serene courage for the ameliora.icnof Ireland and for the honor of the English name, Garfield's nomination to the Presidency, while net predicted or antcipated, was not a surprise to tbe conntry. His prominence iu Congress, hii pohd qualities, his wide reputation, strengthened liv his thin recent election at Senator from Ohio, kept him in the public eye as a man oo'-npyiug the very highest range among thoite entitled to bo called statesmen. It was not mure chanc that brounht him this high honor. " We must," says Mr. Emerson, "reckon suc

cess a constitutional trait If Eric is in robust health and has slept well, and is at the top of hi i condition and 30 year old at his departure from Greonwalil, he will steer west and his ship will reach Newfoundland. But tako Eric and pet in a stronger and bolder man, and thesbips will sa'l ftXL 1.000. 1.5D0 miles farther and

ro ich L ibradnr and New England. There is no cbsino in results." As a candidate Garfiold steadily grew in popnliu' favor. He was met with a ntorm of detraction at the very hour of hit nominatiou, aui it continued with increasing volu.no and momentum until tho close of his victorious

eauipaijn. No nrgbt nor greatness in mortalit; can censure e-capp, back-wounding calumny tbo whitest virtue strikes. What King so stiong can tie tbe gall up in the slanderous tongue? Under it alt he was calm, and strong, anl confident, never lost his relf-posMMsioii, did no unwise act, spoke no haty or ill conridored word. Indued, nothing iu his whole life is more remarkable or mo e creditable than bis bearing through those five full months of vituperation a prolonged agony of trial to a sensitive man, a constant and' cruel draft npon tbti powers of moral endurance. Tho great mass of these unjust imputations passed unno:iced, and, with the general debris of the campaign fell into oblivion. But in a few instances the iron entered his soul, aud he died ailU tbe injury unforgotten, if not nnforghen. One aspect of Garfield's candidacy was nnprecedented. Never before in the history of partisan contests in this country had a snceessf ul Presidential candidate spoken freely on passing events and current issues. To ittempt anything of the kind seemed novel, rash and even desperate. The older class of voters recalled the unfortunate Alabama letter in which Mr. Clay was supposed to liave signed his political death-warrant. Tbey remembered also the hot-tempered effusion by v .oh Gen. Scott lost a largo share of bis popular, ty before his nomination, and the unfortunate speeches which rapidly consumed the remainder. The younger voters had seen Mr. Grieloy in a scries of vigorous and original adi ressos preparing the pathway for his own defeat. Unmindful of tbee warnings, unheeding tbe advice of friends, Garfield spoke to large crowds, as he journeyed to and 'com New Toik in AugUBt, to a great multitude in that city, to delegations and deputations of every kind that called at Mentor during the summer and autumn. With innumerable cri.ics watchful and eager to catch a phrase that might be turned into odium or ridicule, or a sentence tba; might be distorted to his own or his party 's injury, Garfield did not trip or bait in any one of his seventy speeches. This seenu all tbe moie remarkable when it is remembered that be slid hot write what he said, and yet spoke with such logi-al coneeeutivenesa of thought and such admirable decision of phrase as to doff the accident of minx port and tbo mal gnit) of misrepresentation. Ill tbe beginning of liia Presidential life Garfield a experience did not yield hm pleasure or satisfaction. Tho duties that engross so large a vmrtion of the President's lima were distastof nl to him, and were unfavorably contrastod Willi bis legislative work. "I have been dealing all these years with idens," he impatiently exclaimod ono day, "and here I'm dual ng only with persons, I have boon heretofore treating of tbe fundamental principles of Government, and here I am sraindering all day whether A or B shall be api orated to this or that oili f." lie was earnestly t-eeking soiuo practictil way of correcting tlie evils arising from tho disjtrilution of overgrown and unwieldy patronage evils always appreciated and often discussed by bim, but whose magnitudo had been mors deeply impressed npon bis mind since his accession to tiie Presidency. Had bo lived, a conprchemive improvement in the mode of appointment and in tho tenure of oflioo would have been proposed by him, and, wi ll the aid of Congress, no duubt, perfected. But, while many of tho execn ivo duties were not grateful to him, he was assiduous and conscientious in their dis-hrge. From the very outset ho exliibited adui iWaiiro talent of' a high orda He grasped the helm of office with tiie band of a master. In this respect, indeed, he a instantly surprised many who were not mo-t intimately associated with him in tbe Government, and t specially thoso whu feared he might be lacking in the executive faculty. His disposition of business was orderly and rapid ; his power of analysis and his skill in clasMficnt ou enabled him to dispatch a vast musof detail with singular promptness and ease; bis Cabinet meetings were admirably conducted ; his clear presentation of official subjects, bis well-considered suggestions of topics on which discussion wss invited, his quick decision when all had been heard, combined to show a thoroughness of mental training as rare aa his natural ability and bis facile adaptation to a new and enlarged field ot labor. With perfect comprehension of alllbo iuberitinxi of tho war, with a cool calculation of the obstacles in the way, impelled always by a generous enthusiasm, Garfield conceived that much might be dono by bis administration toward restoring harmony betwenn tlie different sections of the Union. He waa anxious to So South and speak to the people. As early as pril ho had Ineffectually enduavored to arrange for a trip to Nashville, whither he had benn cordially Invited, and he was stain disappointed a few weeks after to find ho could not go to South Cirolin to attend the centennial commemoration of the victory of Cowpcna; Lin, for the autumn, he dofiultoly counted on being prrsnnt at three memorable assemblies in tbt South tbe celebration at I'oiktown, the ope ning of tho Cotton Exposition at Atlanta, antl the meeting of tne Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga. He was al reedy turning over in his mind liU address for each occasion, and the throe taken together, he said to a friend, gave him the exact scopn and verge, he needed. At lot! town he would have before bim the asFOoiations of a hitnlied years tbit boind tns fit-nth and the Nmh Iu tbe tais.vd msssnor' of a eomnon darker and vonv-

mon viotorv j at Atlanta he would present the uiatciMl interests and thr industrial development which appealed lo tho thrift aud indc'wndence of every household, and whioh should unite the two sections by tbo instinct of solfiiiterNt and self-defence'. At Chattanooga, be would revive memories of the war only to show that, after all its disasters and all its sufferings, the country was stronger and greater, tie Union rendered indissoluble, and tho future, through the agony and blood of one generation, ir.Mlo brighter aud better for all Garfield's ambition for the success of his administration was high. With strong caution and conservatism in his nature, ho was in no danger of athimntiiiiT rash experiments or af re

sorting to the empiricism of statesmanship ;'

uui uu ueuovea mat renewed ana closer attention should be given to questions affecting the material interests and commercial prosperity of 50,000,000 of people. He believed tbat our continental relationii, extensive and undeveloped as they are, involved nsponsibility, and could bo cultivated in profitable friendship, or be abandoned to harmful indifference or lasting enmity. He believed with equal confidence tbat an essential forerunner to a new era of national progress must bo a feeling of contentment in evorv aooUon of the Union, and a general belief that tbe benefits and burdens of government would be common to all. Himself a conspicuous illustration ot what ability and ambition mav do under republican institutions, he loved his country with a passion of patriotic devotion, and every waking thought was given to her sdvanoemcnt. He was an American in all his aspirations, and bo looked to the destiny and in-fiu'.-nce of the United States with tho philosophical composure of Jefferson and tho demonstrativo confidence of John Adams. The political events which disturbed tho President's serenity for many weeks before that fateful day in July form an important chapter in his career, and iiihisown judgment involved matters of prinriplo and of right which are vitally essential to the constiluliontil administration of the Federal Government. It would lie out or place here ani nuw to speak the language of controversy, but the events referred to, however they may continue to lie the source of contention with others, have bncomo, so far aa Garfield is concerned, aa much a matter of history as his heroism at Chie'tainanga or his illustrious service in the House. Detail is not nrcded, full and personal. Antagonism shall not bo n lunJled by any word uttered to-day. The motives of thoKO opposing him are not to bo lioro adversely interpreted nor thoir course harshly characterized, bnt or the dead President this is to 1m said; and said because his own sx eoh is fomrcr silenced, and ho can be no more heard except turougu the fidelity and tlie love of surviving ir ends. From tlie beginning to th end of the controversy bo so much deplored tho President was never for one moment actnated by motives ot gain to himself or loss to others. Least of all did ho harbor revenue ; rarely did be ever show resontmeut ; and ioaiice was not in bis nature. Ho waa cougeuialty employed only in the exchange of good offices and tho doing or kindly deeds. There was not an hour from Iho beginuirg of the trouble until the fatal shot entered his body when the Pre.idont would not gladly, for tho sake of restor ng hnimony, have retraced any atop he had taken, if such ictracing bad merely involved consequences personal l himself. Tho pride of consistency, or aiy supposed sense nl humiliation that might result

irom tmrronaering nis position, una not a feather's weight with him. No nun was less subject to such inliuouces from within or without ; but after most anxious deliberation and the coolest survey of all circuiuatanctss ho solemnly believed that the true prerogatives of the Executive were involved in tiie i.uo which had boon raised, cud tbat be would be unfaithful to bis supreme obligation if bo Tailed to maintain in all their vigor the constitutional rights and dignities of the great office. Ho Itelicvcd this in all tho convictions of conscience, when in Bound and vigorous health, aud he I elievcd it in his anflVring and prostration, iu tho l.vst conscious thought which his wearied mind bestowed on transitory struggles of life. Mora than lh need not be said ; less than this could not l OHai-l. Justice to tho dead, the highest obligation that devi-lvos upon the living, demands the declaration that in all tho bearings of the sulijv,t, actual or possible, tlie President wss content in big mind, iu-tifiod in hiscooscienee, imaiuvablo in bis conclusions. The religious i lument in Garfield's character wasdeop ai d earnest In his youth be espoused the faith of the Disciples, a sec' of that great Baptist communion which, in different ocole.-iHmicil establishments, is so imiii'.rom aud to n-fliiential through all paitx of tho United States ; but the broadening ten ieucy of his mind and his active spirit of inquiry werooar'y apparent, and carried him beyond tho dogmas of sect and tho restraints of association. In selecting a college in which to continue his education, no rejected Bethany, though presided over by Alexander Campbell, the greatest preacher of his church. His reasons wore characteristics! i First, tbat Bethany leaned too heavily toward slavery ; and, second, th-t, being himself a Disciple and the son of Disciple parent-', he had Mtle acquaint into with pcoplo of other beliefs, and he thought it would make him more liberal, quoting his own words, both in bis religions aud general views, to go into a n'w c:rcle and bo under new influences. Tho liberal tendency which ho anticipated as the result of wider culture was fully realized. He was emancipated from nure sectarian lelief, and with eager interest piihhed his investigation in the it rectum ot modern progressive t ought. lie followed with quickening steps in the paths of exploration and speculation so fearlessly trodden by Dur.nn, by Huxtoy, by Tjndnll and by other living scientists of the radical and advanced type. His own church biudiug its disciples by no formulated creed, but accepting the Old and New Testament a tbe word of God, with unbiased lilierty of private interpretation, favored if it did not stimulate the spirit of investigation. Its memlers profess with sincerity, aud profess only to be of one mind and ouo faith with those who (oron oil tbe Master and who were first called Christians at Antiooh. But howovcr high Garfield reasoned of "fixed fate, free wUi, foreknowledge absolute," he was never coprated from the Church of tbe Disciples in hit affections and in his associations. For bim it held the Ark of the Covenant ; fo him was tho gate of heaven. Tho world of religious 1 c'iof is full or solocisms aud ron'radictions. A philosophii observer declares that men by tbe thousand wdl die in defen'o of a creed whose doctrines they do not comprehend, aud whose-tenets tbey liatiitnally violate. It i equally truo that inou by the thousands. i'l cling to church organization with instinctive, and und.iing fidelity when tbeir belief in mature years is radically diftYreut from that which inspires them as neophytes. But after thin range of speculation and this latitude of doubt, Garfiold came back always with freshness and duhght to simpler instincts or nligious faith which, earliest implanted, longest sunrire. Not many weeks bofore his assawuiiation, walking on tue banks of the Potomac with a friend, and conversing on theto topics of peisonal religion, concerning which noble natures have an unconquerable reserve, he said that ho

I'juna tne ixira s prayer ana tno unique petitions learned in infancy infinitely restlul to him, not merely in their stated repetition, but in tli.ir ensnaland frequent recall as be wont about the daily duties jf life. Certain texts of Scripture had a very strong holi ou litis memory nid heart He heard, while ii. Ed nburgii some years ago, an eminent Scutch prcacl.tr who prefaced bis sermon with roa-nn; tho eighth chapter of tbo Epistle to tbe Honmiif , which hook had been the subject or careful study with Garfield during all bis ie!i,-ioiiii life. He was greatly impressed by'tbe ehuution of the preacher, and declared that it had imparted a new and deeper meaning to tho majestio utterances of M. Paul. Ho referred often in after joar to tbat memorable service, antl dwelt with exaltation of feeling uron the radiant promise and tho assured hopo with which the great apontle of Uio Gentiles was persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powors, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor ahur creature shall bo able to separate us from the love of G nl which is in Chr.st Jomis our Lord. Tbo -crowning rhaiact ristio of Gas- Garfield's religious opinion.., as indeed all n H'iuinns, was ins liberality. In all things lwsvU chanty. Tulirauee was ot hi nature, lis taspectod in o heis tlio qtuilltiu he poi-sesfoC 'limself ; siiwerdy of conviction and Iraukiicss of expression. With hiiii the inquiry was not as to th l a man Uin ven, I ut does ho believe it V The hues of his Hi 'od.thip and Lis conildem e iueirctid mrii in uviry cicud, and lo the end of Lin Lfe on his evulengthuiiiiig l.si ot friends were to bo fi tin I tbo names of a jiius Catholic pr.rst aud of an boiiesl-miiidud aud gowrons aud free thinker. On tiio moriiin- of 8!urday, Juiy 2, tho FlfrUent was a contented and happy man, not in ah ordinary degree, bnt Joj f inly, almost boviidily, happy, On bis way to tbo railroad rtatimi, to which he drove slowly, in coiiaClvUs vnj.iyimnl of tbe beautiful invmiiiHi with an mm tinted Smjus rj lsitare aud a bvsn asticipatWn of

pleasure, bis talk was nil in tho grateful ami gralulatory vein. He felt that, alter four months of trial, his administration wss strong in his grasp nf affairs, strong in popular favoi, and destined to grow stronger, that grave difficulties confronting him at hit inauguration had been safely passed. That trouble lay uehiud him and not before him. That lie was soou to meet the wife whom he loved, now recovering from an illness which had but lately dirquiuted and at times almost unnerved him ; that he was going to bis alma mater to renew the most cherished associations of his vonn manhood, and to exchnngegrectings with Uioh whose deepening interest had followed ever; step of his upward progress from the day bo entered upon his college course until ho had attained the loftiest position in the gift of his countrymen. Snruly, if happiness cm ever come from tbe honors or triumphs of this world, on that quiet July morniug James A. Garfield may well hare been a happy man. No foreboding of evil haunted him, not tli9 lightest premonition of danger cloiidod his sky; hu terrible fate was upon him in an instant. One moment he stood erect, strong, confident on tbe years stretrhinx peacefully out before him. The ntxt ho lay wounded, bleeding, holploes, doomed to weary weeks of torture, to silence and the grave. Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death. For no cause, in the very frenzy ot wantonness and wickedness, by tho rod hand nf murder, ho was thrust from tho full tide of thi world's interest, from its hopes, its aspiration.-, its victories, into tho visible presence of death, and he did not quail, not alono for tbo ono abort moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could give up life, hardtyaware of its remiiii.hment, but through days of deadly languor, through weeks of agony that waa not less agony because silently bornn. With clear sight and calm courage, ho looked into bis open grave. What blight aud ruin met his angtiisbed eyes ! Whose lips may tell what brilliant broken plans, what baffled high ambitions, what sundering of strong, warm, manhood friendships, what bitter rending of sweet household, ties ! Behind him a proud, expectant nation, a great host of sustaining friend, a cherished and happy mother, wearing tno fall, rich honors of her early toil aud team; the wife of his youth, whose whole life lay in hiS; the little boys not yet emerged from childhood's day of frolic; tbe fair younr daughter, the sturdy sons just springing into closest companionship, claiming every day aud every day rewarding a father's lovo and car., and in his heart tho eager rejoicing power t n meet all demands ! Before him desolation aud great darkness, and his soul was not shakciC His countrymen wore thrilled with an instant, profound and universal sympathy. Masterful in his mortal weakness, ho became the center of a nation's lovo, enshrined in tho prayers of a world, bnt alt the love and all tho sympathy coul.- not share with him his suffering. He trod tho wine press alone. With unfaltering front ho faced death. With unfailing tenderness he took leave of life. Above tho domontac hiss of the assassin's bullet he heard the voice or God. With simple resignation ho bowed to tho Diriue decree. Ai the end drew uear bis early craving for tbo sat returned. Tbe stately mansion of power bad been to bim tho weary hospital of pain and vs begged to be taken from its prison walls, from its oppressive, stifling air, from its honielessness and its hopelessness. Gently, silently, tho lore of a great people borq the pale sufferer to tho longed-for healing of th sea, to live or to die as God should will. Within sight of its heaving billows, aitbitt sound of its mauifold voices, with wan, fevered face tenderly lifted to the cc-jlmg breeze, be looked out wistfully upon the ocean's changing wonders, on its tar sails whitening iu the morning light, on its restless waves rolling shoreward to break and die beneath the nooudsy sun, on the) red clouds or evening reaching low to this horizon, on tho serene aud shining pathway of

the stars. Let us think that his dying oyes road a mvstio meaning whioh only tho rapt anil parting soul may know. Let uc balievs that in the silence of tbe receding world ho heard tin great wave breaking on a farther shore, and felt already upon hia waslol brow tho breath of the eternal mornhig. , ....

Despotism of FaBnloat. An eminent English writer says that Americans enjoy lens real liberty, outside) of political rights, than the people ol any country in Europe. He says ire accept oar fashions in everything from Europe in a blind and slavish acquiescence in marked contrast with our jealousy of political interference and despotism. Even in politics, he says, the? same dispositioa is apparent, for a third, or independent party, is impossible. In Germany and France there are man;; parties, but iu great, free America ther is only room for two. Independence in thinking is rare, and more rarely takes shape in action. The cast hetio croze ha not developed any American standard ol taste. From somewhere comes periodically n decree in fashions, against which no American woman dare to rebel. However ill-suited to climate or complexion, the style is inexorable. vXhi contest is simply aa to precedence iu acquiescence. No one dares to revolt. Thus upon the American people ars forced fashions in dress for men, women and children, house furnishiugs, and even house architecture, often most preposterous and barbarous. The cartwheel stylo of bonnets occurs as one of the nominations in dress, flagrant violation of good taste as well as of the rights of others in public assemblages.

15ut somebody must originate these never-ending noveliiies. Home brain has biien tortured somewhere to invent somet'iung startling. The wonder is tual the dt-cree is accepted so uncomplainingly. However preposterous or absurd, there is no remedy. It is this meek subservience of Americans to the behests of fashion which makes the birth aud growth of any real standard of taste impossible. The spirit of discontent and rebellion must precede every successful revolution. As in China, the inherited spirit ot obedience stands squarely in the way of every effort at progress. There was a people once who had, hi dress and architecture, a standard which has passed unquestioned. It did nol fluotuate at the bidding of milliners ot clothiers. It had a foundation below the question of dollars and cents. Nothing more plainly evidences our singula! backwardness in some of the higher attributes of civilization than the fct that we mnst dress at the dictation of some imperious and invisible tyrant whose exact location, tenure of office, or extent

of power no ono kuows. There are nations yet whioh have n national costume. Any one who has ever attended a fair at Buda-Pesth has seen men and women from provinces dressed in most grotesque) outre fashion, but just as their aticastoni have dressed for ages. The effect is striking, novel and sometimes beautiful. It is a question whether their neverchanging fashion is more inimical to the growt h of correct tasto than our ever-

changing styles. About as much liberty and tiseretion is allowed in oho as th'! other. They accept thoir grtuidpnreit' clothes because thoy were tlie fashion, and wo often do tho same thing beeaa-w they trill be. Tho authority is equally shadowy and doubtful in both esses. A wonma on the Danube has no more notion of making a dress to suit her individual taste mid complexion, shape oi staluri, differing from her set, than on? here. The goddess there is as fixed and changeless as Ilralima. Here, like tli! Roma as, wo naturalize all tho gods, no matte: how incousiatent, ouly stipulntinti that imy new ones shall como in lik( terms. JnUianaMilix Journal, Ilunliitg Turkeys in Georgia The boys on Waliau's creek have

adopted a novel way to gobble wild gob-1 biers. When they take it into theij i heads to make a raid ou this monstrous i bird lhey simply provide themselvcu with Bt hems and a pusk of wild

docs na their only implements of war

fare. Thus equipped they .lie away to

the woods, and whsn they find their gome they simply put spurs to their horses aud proceed to chase as though it were a fox instead of a turkey. X fat

gobbler, it is said, cannot liy a greet, distance, and when he uitctiet , if on the

ground, he takes to his heels till he is so closely pursued by tlie dogs that he is compelled to resort again w his wings for safety. Thus the chase is kept up

continuously until the gobbler becomes completely fugged out and can neither

run nor fly, when, of courso, ho has to

succumb to ins pursuers. I", was in tins

way that G. M. Bozar, Join Pes cock

nl tjuariey .Flood caplurod two tine gol blors, weighing respectively sixteen and eighteen pounds. Tho smaller one was chased about nine miles and the other about eight Wat Ian (if a.)

ifVWCS. en's Pants.

Full dross pants have always sustained

many objections, and men have never

been entirely satisfied with tiie Diturcatesi irnrment. If they reach tlie boot heel,

they must either take the dirt and - dust of ths street, or men must suffer what is infinitely worse tho hidfiousness of walking tbe streets with pa its "rolled up." You can conceive of nothing more " alarming " to the eye of bt anty than a

man standing in pants wnose lower eoges are "curled up." He presents the appearnnce of having on a garment for which he has improvised dirty and ragged ruffles, made of tho same teateriul as the body of the panto. 1?o bring the thing before yon vividly think of a statue made of man with fus pants " turned up." How would that kind of a figure look in marble? We have always thought that the author of the novel entitled "He Cometh Not, She Said," must have been endowed 'ith a fjne sense of licauty. She make! one of her characters discard her lover because she saw him passing on the otbe side of the street "with his pants turned np' Another horror attending t'.ie common pants as worn by men, . that thoy "bag horribly at the knee." As yet there hati been no means f uggested to overcome the disabilities now imposed npon ordinary trousers. They will have to contujue. It was thought that the

aesthetic craze might afford somereiieL,

hut the Cincinnati GascUe says:

"Accepting knee breeches as the -esthetic clothes, several persons have written in their favor that tney will avoid that baggincss to which trousers arn subject nt the knees, from the devotdooal posture, and from the habit of sitting with one 1 - fAa Sn tia

leg renting uu wu.o umivi. hv w wwcourage this movement, bus to prevcat disappointment in a worthy effort, it should be mentioned that this idea of

tlm eiemntion of knee breeches from

being kneed is a radical error, for that . . . . - , , i , i. .

tneir Deuigrastenea just oeiow iuc name, and the tightness which befi ts ihis garment, allow no slack for the bending of the knee; therefore would kc.ee breeches be kneed more than, troniters. That shorter form of breeches, which does not come to the tawe, would be requisite to avoid this bagginess. Yet the tights

worn nnder tness would Dag. tne

aesthetic clothes are not free from dif-

flcnltv. but no onei hoold be eiseouraffed,

The cause is worthy of a great effort, Jiud of a great sacrifice, if necessary. Let

every nspmug ni lonu en.j, mm j.i.o.t V., 'Onite more to the breach, dear friends!' The Scotch Hisrhlund costume

is absolutely exenpt from bagging at the knees. It has also a pict iresqaeness far surpassing Mr. Oscar Wilde's Mack breeches, black sbxskiiigs, and stiff dress

coat, and more jehtting tie (esthetic renaissance, whoso emblems ire the snnflower and the lily." Tho gentle apostle

of the festhetcs sertsiniy never vtwtea Scotland, or he never would have adopted the old dull-colored English pants, and left nnreoommen let: the unique High

land costume. J'KiianapoU i Uerwa. Revised History r Johr Andre. fTitll -Sye. John Andre was horn of S'risa parents

in 1751. If he had lived, thereforo, he

would be 130 years old.

He entered tho Hritieh aimy oi; the

age of 20, and was sent to America in 1774, with the rank of lieutenant. He waa a lino looking young man sad a good waltzer, and so rapidiy obtained promotion until 17V9, when he became adjutant with the rink of mpjor. Ileing by birth a Swiss, snd having early acquired the habit of carrying Sweitzer-

Biise in bis coat-pocket, ne outranKeti almost the entire British arnr.v.

Benedict Arnold aavinc offored to trade

West Point to the British lot vJ-tW and a merl ticket, Andre was selected to make the transfer and delivs: the goods. He visited Arnold, and having received from him the maps and the town plot, with a warranty deal of West Point, and the right to p.y the outstanding indebted less ot the town, together with a tr p pass to Nevr York City, ho started out. Near Tarry town ho was intercepted by three armed sr oozers who belonged to the American army, and who seemed inquisitive about nia destination. They ssked him a lot of impuden t questionr about where ho wss going, and l ow he liked it as far as bo had gone, ani then wound np by at king him to torn his pockets wrong side out for their diversion. Then they asked him to take off his bocts, bnt he told them he had a hole in one of his socks, and he felt a little reserved about disrobing his feet in the presence of three total strangers, Thoy insisted, h iwover, and whoa thoy had pulled his boots off, they fouitd the documents which gave him away, He tried to bribe them with a Tobias watch and some fine ont chewing tobacco, but they were noble, patriotic men, and they told turn they conldln'i; bo

ployed for Chinanen.

Then he ollurec. tnem nis norse u tney would let him go, but they found 1'hat the) animal was a cond.vm.od govertimcitt horse with saddle trails sn him as buz an a door

mat, and with hiii off hind leg ont of

plumb about ninety degree. t)o tney told him that their love of country overbalanced even his princely ofIr, aud they took him to 'Polonul Jameson. Andre was tried by a board of generals as a spy, and sentenced to bo hung. The day before hi death he drew a very flattering picture of himself, whioh is now in Trambiili gallery, nt Yale college. Since his death the crop of Tobias watches which he offered to -bribe) hii captors with, has increased tio such an alarming extent, that good now watches, without any pedigree to speak of, hare been greatly depressed in price. Although Andre waa considered a noble, young officer, and hit untimely doftth greatly deplored, his awful fate should stand up before na as a living monument to this day and .generation, Hnd as warning throughotit all time never to biU off more tha you can show,

IKPIAcfA HEWS. Ties new city ilireclory of LadtwapoHa contains 36,489 names, again 88(131 last year. . ( A iiahmoth tve and heading fbotory at Wabash is among tlie jKofefcilitiea for the coming season. Tub Adjutant General states the evcampment of t;he State milit.ia will bo held in Indkctipoliii, between Jane 0 and July L Tue Humane Livo-Stook Feedbtg Company has eomploted negatiationn to erect n cattle restaurant in Fort Wayne, to coat 180.000. SsstcEt. 8cNDKt,a.sp, living . near Huncie, has fpven a 130-ocre farm to each of his eight children. He has a splendid home farm of 190 ac row left. O. S. Cokn, Jr., general ticket agent of tiie Oliio.and Mitamaippi road, wasaocidentnlly killed at North Vernon, by patting his hni ont of a oar window. The Itollinij;-afill Company; recently organized to build works in Bracil, baa secured the full amount of stock, 100,000, proposed, to be invested, and are now making preparations to begin the work. Wilmim StTTHsoN, living on a farm near Indianapolis, hhl $345 in ennenew in a corn-crib, lints having chewed it into frugmenls suitable for a neat, ho will appeal for rolief 4to the Treasury Department. JftSSB AND ItoSA. SUA UtCBitOSTD. living in Johnson ex unty , are supposed to be the oldestjna fried couple m the State. Tlie former w is 105 years old the 8th ef D.jceraber last, and the latter was 104 tho 10th of thia month. They have been married over eighty y-jara. Tub stone to be placed over the grave of the late Qov. Williams ia to,t of Barre granite, twenty-eight feet nine inches in height., and, the foundation seven feet square. .. - Qov. Pobxcb's mvestigation at the Northern Indiana prison resulted in rescinding the ixjntract with the Warden and turning over to tlie -State tbe profits of the- boar&og-honsxv ' Tan Louisville, New Albany and' Chicago road reports gram earnmg for 1681 cf 8947,654. When completed for. 400 Eiiles the indisbt3clness will be $53,000,000 in bonds and $5,009,000 atoek. Four thousand lens of steal rails, were purchased an i litid daring the year. A man is : reported to te gohigi the zounds of the State 'riauting aalooaa and soliciting the cor tribution ot 81 frosa each one to f so at torneys in a suit to be commenced iind taken- np to tiie Be areme Court tot the pexjiece of' sieetuing a decision Unit 'vi.ll retam to each saloon-keeper the . amount heretofore paid ont fox licenses. "

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Among the subjects, that are of greatest public interest, says the Indians polls Times, tiiab of county expenses is one of the most important, The facts and figures that have been gathered from the-seven J counties of the State by the Bureau o:i Statistics will therefore attract the notice of tall who. desire to promote economy and needed reforms in the matter of county expenditure, and their publication will also posnbly tetad toward biringiniir about something like uniformity of system in tho mshafflmant of county affiiirn, by exposing the weak

points of tne present methods and i

agement, lee elasaiucaUon ol ex

and tbe cxmroiiriaon of totals tat'

and 1891, as given by the ltscean, are as follows : - 188S. . ISM. Payor county etBtecs ont of county treasurj'. .t iSS.X S. lll.Mf irrand and petit ; ailes and haunts 3H,StS lwtVM 0ircnier' toques a lVsn Ittff enuiiieraung, aaieiams ands&v prulring 1,!S at?,! O-arcl TioKing, suireylttR, etc.. 111,TO OftlS Omity 8ttperlnteauiits and N lnt.tuiea. 81,131 &t,Tll CrUouiaHi and prisoners I0a,8St WyH Poor (atBfSn Sfln InciJeutAl cost el' Ktate beaevelent snd reform intuitions. T8,2M I1.SMI . yen public buudlngs -BS.SKt MasW Rei-iiraof public buildings.,.. St,! SeVM latircrtou count v bond' 2s1S,aiS lftiSw) I atM.t oa gravel r.)al bon4a.. U,mt id, let Intercut ouoount) orders SLUM as.S7 IledemptioB of ciuaty bonds.. loo,33S 390, VS Iteilmiiition of fttegmvel-njsd bonds 13,719 sVVatl llkv.ksandrtatioiieiy I50,.I3 Ue 1 Jntinn and advetuaing S8,I9S SSJaW Svw bridges SOS, IS STMST jSstpaira on brldci SH.SM al99 kil otlirr eKpead.-turca t... ettijWS aSI,tsV Total ezpend itures. ...... .Sa.ilRSSS The comps.rison of the two years expenses shows that thirty-nine eonnties increased thoir expenses in 1881 and fifty-three reduced their expenses saqre or less, but, its will be noted, there .was but a trifling reduction in tbe total bnt lay. The kading items of eonntexpenses, as well as the totals, are given bv counties ia thofoUowingtable, whaeh will be found worthy of study and preservation : '

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