Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1885 — Page 2

(Tlje IlcmocraticScnttfid RENSSELAER, INDIANA! I. W. McEWEN, - Pubijbhea

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The disaster in New York City a few weeks ago which caused the collapse of tho Buddenslek building traps has now been foliowed by one in Brooklyn with a still more fearful loss of life. A factory which was propped up because it was insecure suddenly collapsed when it was filled with working people. Fire added its terrors to the damage caused by the falling walls, and the result was the death of a large numberof operatives and the maiming of still more. A jury in New York acquitted Richard Short of an attempt to murder Capt. Phelan, of Kansas City. George W. Tripp. 79 years old, of Freeville, N. Y., hanged himself on being informed that his wife, whose age is 78, had a cancer and could not live. A verdict for S4OO was rendered last week against Prof. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen for slapping a boy at West Hampton, L. 1., in 1883, causing him to become deaf. Nearly one hundred deaths have occurred from the epidemic at Plymouth, Pa., and the worst is not over yet. A committee of local physicians has discovered a satisfactory explanation of the epidemic. At tho head waters of the mountain stream supplying Plymouth with water is a house in which typhoid has prevailed for the past three months. The excreta of the sick were thrown into a privy forty feet fiom the stream, and were washed into the stream by March rains. By this pollution of the water supply one thousand persons were poisoned. It is now ascertained that at least twenty-one lives were lost by the burning of tho factory building in Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn. A New York dispatch says that Gen. Grant’s four physicians, at the weekly consultation, found the cancerous spots in his throat unchanged. lloscoe Conkiing was among his visitors. The total imports of merchandise at New York during the week amounted to over 51, M0,000, und of dry goods to nearly $1,500,000. Charles Lehman, aged 72, and his wife, aged 71, were found dead in their rooms in New York. The couple had taken paris green. Extreme poverty is supposed to bo the cause of the suicides.

WESTERN.

S. W. Tallmadge, the Milwaukee crop statistician, furnishes the Chicago Inter Ocean copious reports concerning the present condition of the wheat crop. The reports as a whole show the winter wheat to be in a very unpromising condition; and notwithstanding the recent rains and warm weather have given the plant a better appearance, no improvement can be reported in the promise of the crop. Cn the contrary, the good weather has developed the actual damage done by winter killing and other causes. Thousands of acres In largo winter-wheat producing States havo been plowed up and sown to oats and other grains. The decrease in area and damage done by “winter-killing” seems to be general in all the winter wheat States with but one exception, that of Michigan. That State reports but a slight decrease in acreage sown, and no winter-killing whatever, or damage of other kind. With this one exception the loss to the winter wheat States is the greatest ever known, and will prove a serious blow to many of the States that depend largely upon their wheat product. In Chicago, soon after noon of Friday, the Bth inst., flames broke out in the yards of the Chicago Lumber Company, along the river in the vicinity of West Thir-ty-fifth and Iron streets. Nearly every engino in the city hurried to the scene, and six hours were required to bring the conflagration under control. Four squares were burned over, the sufferers being the Chicago Lumber Company, Bigelow Brothers, Adams, Hastings & Co., and J. W. Hinckley & Co. The losses aggregate $09(1,000, on which there is insurance to the amount of $483,500, widely distributed. Wayman Crow, one of the oldest merchants of St. Louis, died in that city last week. A package shipped by the American Express Company, and supposed, to contain SI,OOO, was opened at Indianapolis and found to contain only waste paper. While boring for natural gas at Lima, Ohio, workmen struck a strong vein of petroleum at a depth of 1,360 feet. The quality is found to be equal to the Pennsylvania product. In the Federal Court at Salt Lake, sentences of six months’ imprisonment and fines of S3OO were imposed upon Angus Cannon, Milton Musser, and J. C. Watson, convicted of unlawful cohabitation. Each refused to make any pledge for the future. The Chicago University was sold at auction last week to satisfy the claim of the Union Mutual Life-Insurance Company for money borrowed and interest accrued thereon. The total amount due on the property was about $310,000, and it was bought in by the creditors for $375,000, that being theonly bid made lor the property. The register of the Southern Hotel at Bt. Louis was turned over to the police to compare the signature of Dr. W. H, Lennox Maxwell, murderer of C. Arthur Preller, with the inscription, “So perish all traitors to the great cause,” found in the trunk containing the body. Experts in handwriting examined tooth, and declared they were written by the •ame man. All testimony necessary for the extradition is npy ready.

William Wright, who served in the regular army and has been a cowboy in Texas, has been arrested for the recent tram robbery near Harrodsburg, Ind. His photograph was promptly identified by Peter Weber, the baggage-master whom he so nearly murdered. Wright was captured at Terre Haute. Chicago telegram: The price of hay has a'rrndy advanced to a high figure in this market as a direct consequence of the unseasonably cold weather. The grasses as well aythe cereals are languishing for want of a little sunshine. Crop reports from lowa represent that the recent cold weather did little or no damage to the growing wheat in that section. The strawberry crop in Southern Illinois has been badly injured by the recent heavy frosts.

SOUTHERN.

Illinois day was observed at the New Orleans Exposition by ceremonies in Music Hall. The exhibit made by tho Prairie Slate is a highly creditable one, and is In thorough order. At a mass meeting of the Kentucky distillers at Lexington it was resolved for tho balance of the season to restrict production to actual demand. Mose Harris, the Hot Springs editor who was expelled from the town last year by a citizens' committee, brought suit in the Federal Court for SIOO,OOO damages. A jury has just awarded him $1,250. A tornado at Gadsden, Ala., blew ever a mill, giving three persons fatal injuries. A colored man named Jordan was lynched at Tuscumbia, Ala., for an outrage on a farmer's daughter. The interstate drill at Mobile closed with a lively sham battle between sixteen companies. The prize of SIOO for the best drilled soldier was awarded to Corporal Talbot, of tho Chickasaw Guards, of Memphis. The Houston (Texas) Light Guards took first honors in the free-for-all contest.

WASHINGTON.

White House employes claim that no precaution of any kind has ever been taken to protect the President from assassination. The count of the cash in the National Treasury is practically completed. The only discrepancy is 2 cents missing from a $5 package of pennies. Secretary Manning has that directed the issuft of $1 and $2 notes be discontinued for tho present. Prof. C. V. Reiley, the entomologist of the Agricultural Department, has prepared a circular announcing that the department will purchase during the coming summer such quantities of silk-worm eggs as may be deemed necessary for the distribution it is proposed to make for the season of 1886, und, so far as practicable, will purchase them from American producers. Eggs of improved race (preferably of the French or Italian yellow races) will be bought. Col. De Alma, a special timber agent, called on Land Commissioner Sparks and asked for his pay, which he claimed was in arrears. He grew importunate and was cast out, whereupon ho secured the arrest of his superior officer for assault.

POLITICAL.

The Illinois Legislature has passed into the control of the Kepublicnns, J. W. Weaver having been elected Representative from the Thirty-fourth district by a majority of 306, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Shaw. The district is naturally Democratic by 3,000 majority, and the result creates the greatest-surprise. A Republican scheme, secretly arranged, worked successfully. No Republican voters appeared at the polls until 4 o’clock p. m. of the day of election, and then surprised the Democrats by their numbers. The Democrats, thinking they had a sure thing with their 2,000 Democratic majority in the district, were simply caught napping by such shrewd and wily schemers as Daniel Shepard, “Long” Jones and Jake Wheeler, the political lieutenants of Gen. John A. Logan. When the late Representative Logan’s seat was to be filled in a Republican district no effort was made by tho Democrats to capture the election, although probably every politician In the 'State had an idea of the possibility of such a coup d’etat. It remained for the Republicans to take advantage of a similar opportunity in a Democratic district, nnd it seems that they laid their plans carefully and secretly, and accomplished the, to them, highly important, and, to the Democrats, disastrous result. Senator Cameron intends to take no part in the pending State contest in Pennsylvania. He has engaged quarters near Los Angeles, Cal., until November, and will remain there, hoping to recover his health. A. P. Swineford, of Marquette, Mioh., has been appointed Governor of Alaska. Mr. Swineford Is an ex-Mayor of Marquette, is editor of the Marquette Mining Journal, has served as a member of the Legislature of his State, and was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor two years ago. He was appointed State Inspector of Mines and Mining by Gov. Begole, of Michigan. A divorce on the ground of repeated acts of brutality has been obtained by the wife of Dr. Meire, of Colorado, recently appointed Consul at Nagasaki. As his selection was due to his wife’s relatives in Maryland, Secretary Bayard has determined to cancel the commission. The President has appointed W. A. Seay, of Louisiana, Minister to Bolivia; Albert D. Bissell, Collector of Customs at Buffalo; John H. Oberly, Indian School Superintendent; Lewis C. Bartlett, of Binghamton, Deputy Commissioner of Pensions; A. M. Kuhn, of Indiana, to be Surveyor of Customs for the Port of Indianapolis; Hamilton C. Jones, of North Carolina, to bo United States District Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Included in the Board of Visitors to West Point are Gen. Fltzbugta Lee, of Virginia,

and Dr. George L. Miller, of Nebraska. £ O. Graves, Assistant Treasurer of the United States, has been appointed Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and E. B. Ewing, of Missouri, will be Consul General al the City of Mexico. The President’s attention having been called to a bloodthirsty letter written by James Blackburn during the war, in which he desired to cut out the hearts and perform Other surgical operations on the Yankees, he made Inquiries about the authenticity of the letter. Mr. Blackburn admitted the authorship, and the President had bis appointment as Internal Revenue Collector revoked. He is a brother of Senator Blackburn. Mr. Leeper, the defeated Democratic candidate for the Legislature in the Thirtyfourth Illinois District, has decided to contest the election of Weaver to the House of Representatives, on the ground that lists of registered voters were not posted in accordance with law.

MISCELLANEOUS. The business failures occurring throughout the country during tho week numbered for the United States 225 and for Canada 23, or a total of 218, as compared with 208 the week previous. The movement of general merchandise during the week was loss than during tho preceding seven days. “Tho dissolution of the east-bound pool and the freight-rate war in the Northwest,” says BradstreeV a, “have failed thus far to stimulate tho distribution of goods. In the West the activity of farming operations has contributed to depress business with country merchants. This is particularly the case in the Northwest, where special efforts have been made to increase the acreage of spring wheat. To such an extent has planting been carried that It is now reported that the outlook is for nearly if no quite the acreage of wheat in Minnesota and Dakota this year as last. The general business situation throughout the country Is not satisfactory. Even at St. Paul and Minneapolis the movement is below previous expectations. At Chicago it is barely maintained, while at St. Louis, owing to favorable weather, there has been improvement. There is no gain announced from Cincinnati, from Detroit, from Baltimore, or from Philadelphia. At the East there is no more favorable report. The distribution from New York and Boston has been of moderate proportions in leading lines.” Great excitement prevails throughout the State of Coahuila, in Mexico, on account of rich silver discoveries. Thousands are rushing there. Large orders for goods are being sent from Mexico to the United States, which is the result of visits from American salesmen. Gen. Middleton’s forces have had a brush with the half-breeds near Batoche Crossing, on the Upper Saskatchewan. Several daring charges were made on both sides, and both regulars and rebels suffered severely. It appears, from the telegraphic reports of the affair, that Gen. Middleton advanced on the rebels at 5 o'clock on the morning of the 9th inst. He found the half-breeds firing on the steamer Northcote from both banks, and the boat drifting upon a sandbar. Capt. Howard, with a Gatling gun, twice drove tho enemy to flight, but they rallied and .fought bravely until night approached. The fight was a general one. Six men are said to have been killed and eighteen wounded, while the rebel loss is estimated at seventy-'flve. John McLane, of Bismarck, just returned to St. Paul from Winnipeg, where he was delivering horses, teams, and supplies to the Canadian Government, says the Government has advices thgt men from Chicago, New York, and Boston are with Riel, and that a master mind, not Riel’s, Is directing the movements of the breeds. Old-timers regard Middleton’s success at Batouche as absolutely necessary to prevent an Indian uprising, which would be disastrous. All supplies are short, and more must come from thi3 side or the line. Northern Dakota is now being drained of horses, hay, oats, etc. It is believed that 1,500 breeds are in the field, and 0,000 Indians are ready to take the war-path. There are but 4,000 troops to oppose them.

FOREIGN.

At a special meeting of the English Cabinet Council, the other day, It was definitely decided to begin the partial evacuation of the Soudan. For the present, however, amplo forces will be retained at Suakin and Wady-Halfa. A report has reached Dongola that the Mahdi’s forces have suffered defeat atthe hands of the Insurgents at Kordofan, aided by the garrison at Sennaar. The remnantof tho Mahdi’s forces has retreated, it is said, to Abu-Haraz. The Mahdi himself is near Khartoum. This rumor Is “Important if true;’’ but it Is significant that for many months past every announcement of the Mahdi’s discomfiture has been followed by authentic reports of victories which he has achieved. The British Cabinet is reported to be divided on the question of renewing the crimes act in Ireland. Gladstone favors a modified act, and in view of the situation in regard to the matter it is believed that Earl Spencer, the Lord Lieutenant, will resign. The report that the Government favored a wide measure of local government for Ireland and the abolition of the Viceroyaity is said to bo untrue and alleged to have been started by Chamberlain, President of the Board of Trade, and Mr. Parnell for the purpose of learning how such a scheme would be received. The plan for the arbitration of the Russo-English dispute is believed to havo been abandoned, says a London dispatch. At a long session of the British Cabinet the other day it was proposed that if further evidence disproves Sir Peter Lumsden’s charges against the Russians for responsibility for the Penjdeh incident, this evidence shall be accepted as conclusive, and the project of submitting the question to arbitration shall be abandoned.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Ex-Gov. Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia, died in New York, at the age of 52. Before the Languages Club, at New York, David Dudley Field made an argum nt against the prevailing verbosity in legal documents. The Congo State has been reorganized with Henry M. Stanley as Governor. The foreign dispatches bring the into ligence of the death of Ferdinand Hiller, one of the oldest and most esteemed of the German musicians, teachers, and composers. Official statements were made in the British Par.iament, on the 11th inst., to the effect'that representatives of England, Bussia, and India had reached a satisfactory agreement as to the Afghan boundary, and that Great Britain had decided to abandon the advance on Khartoum and make WadyHalla the seat of permanent defense in the Soudan as soon as the Nile rise 3. In the German Keichstag, the other day, it wa3 voted to impose a duty of three marks on wheat imports, and Bismarck announced that Spain had formally renounced the fixed duty on wheat adopted by Germany. The duty of three marks per 100 kilogrammes is equal to about 19*4 cents per bushel. It is worthy of note in this connection that the total shipments by this country to Germany in 1884 included only 886,000 bushels of wheat and 34,000 barrels of flour. Our annual exports to that country for eleven years past have averaged 930,000 bushels of wheat and 16,000 barrels of flour. Dwight Bros. & Co., Chicago paper dealers, have made an assignment. Their liabilities are about $85,000; assets, $50,000. St. Louis and Pittsburgh capitalists have decided upon the erection at Belleville, 111., of a SIOO,OOO mill for the manufacture of Bessemer steel. The Kansas Prohibitionists have received a set-back by a decision of the State Supreme Court that the law granting unusual powers to the County Attorney is unconstitutional. A dispatch from Terre Haute, Ind., announces the insolvency of the United Order of Foresters, whose liabilities are $40,000, chiefly in unpaid death lo3ses. The Vigo County Court appointed J. E. Somes receiver. Loss of membership alone caused the collapse. The steamer Helvetia, from Antwerp for Montreal, was sunk in deep water off Cape Breton. Her passengers and crew were rescued by the Arcadian. The cargo was valued at $400,030. A sealing steamer reports an unprecedented quantity of ice off the coast. Prestan, the Colombian rebel, is besieginr Cart ’.agena. A batalion of Government troops has arrived at Panama with 100 prisoners taken at Colon, who were falsely reported as having been cast into the sea. Ex-Gov. Thos. C. Reynolds, of Missouri, says he has been promised the Spanish Mission. Henry B. James, Chief of the Customs Division of the Treasury Department, has resigned, to take effect the Ist of June. President Cleveland has appointed Charles M. Shelley, of Alabama, Fourth Auditor of the Treasury. B. W. Beebe, Postmaster at Broadnead, Wis., wa3 suspended for negligence in his accounts and failure to make reports. An affray between a party of negroes over a game of draw poker, at Walthamville, Ga., resulted in the killing of five of the dusky sports and the wounding of four Others. Armed with pistols and razors, they fought with the ferocity of tigers.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $5.25 @ «.2"> Hogs 4.50 @ 5,00 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.03 @ i.o3>£ No. 2Red....- I.OX @1.02 Coen—No. 2 57 @ .59 Oats —White ... 46 @ .59 Pork—New Mess 12.50 @ 12.75 Lard 07 @ .07*4 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.50 @ 6.00 Good Shipping 6.25 @6.75 Medium... 4.75 @5.25 Hogs 4.25 @4.75 Flour—Fancy Red Winter Ex.. 4.50 @5.0) Prime to Choice Spring. 4.00 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 88Ki@ .89 Corn—No. 2 48 "@ .4813 Oats—No. 2 34 @ .35 Rye—No. 2 70 @ .72 Barley—No. 2 61 @ .05 Butter—Choice Creamery 21 @ .23 Fine Dairy 16 @ .19 Cheese—Full Cream 10 @ .11 Skimmed Flat 05 @ .06 Egos—Fresh .11 Potatoes—Choice, per bu 40 @ ,48 Pork—Mess 11.00 @11.25 Lard 0.76 @ 7.00 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 94 @ .9434 Corn—No. 2 52 @ .53 " Oats—No. 2 37 (<r .39 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 88 @ .88^ Corn—No. 2 .47 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 34 @ .35 §ye —No. 2 72 @ .73 ABLEY—No. 2 60 @ .61 Pork—Mess 11.00 @11.25 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.05 @ 106 Corn—Mixed 47 @ .471$ Oats—Mixed 36 @ .36^ RYE.. 66 @ .67" Hay—Prairie 10.50 @11.60 Pork—Mess 11.25 @11.76 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red i,e7 @ 1.08 Corn 53 @ .54 Oats—Mixed .38 @ .40 Rye—No. 2 Fall 70 @ .72 Pork—Mess 11.60 @12.00 DETROIT. Flour 5.50 @ e.oo Wheat—No. 1 White l.os @ 1.03J6 Corn—Mixed 53 @ .54 Oats—No. 2 White 42 @ .43 Pork—New Mess 12.50 @13.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.04 @ 1.05JS Corn- Mixed 40 @ .60 Oats—No. 2 37 @ .38 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 6.25 @7.00 Fair 5.25 @ 6.00 Common 4.25 @ 5.00 Hogs 4.50 @ 5.00 Sheep 4.50 @ 5.C0 CHICAGO WOOL MARKET. [Reported by Sherman Hale k Co., Chicago. Ill.] Prices of Unwashed Wool (old clip) from Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, aud loy/a, for the past week ore unchanged as follows: Fine, 17@21c ; Fine Medium, 20@22c; Medium, 21@23c; Low Medium, 19ft210; Coarse, l?@2oc. Delaine—Fine, 20@21c; Medium, 20® 21c. Combing—Medium, 22ft240; Low Medium, 22® 23c ; Coarse, 19®21c ; .Braid, 17ft 19c. Total receipts for past week, 290,395 lbs; and since January 1, 4,581,684 lbs. Trade is much restricted bv depleted stocks. The supply of Medium Unwashed Wool is very low.

IT WILL BE DEMOCRATIC.

No Doubt as to the Political Characterof President Cleveland’s Administration. Henry Watterson’s Impressions—What United States Senator Voorhees Thinks. WATTERS ON, The Louisville Editor’s Impresgions After a Week’s Sojourn in Washington. After spending a week at the nationalcapital, Henry Watterson, of the Lonisville Courier-Journal, sent the following to his - paper as expressive of his impressions of President Cleveland and his administration; On a certain occasion Artemus Ward stepped m front of hie canvas, and, pointing to the passing scene, said to nis audience: "Ladies and gentlemen, these are horses. It was only this merning that thegartist came to • me. with tears in his eyes, and* exclaimed: '1 can conceal it from you no longer, Mr. Ward, they are horses.’” In its entire utterances and appointments, the administration has spoken to the country. It can conceal it no longer. It is a Democratic administration. For my part I have never doubted this in the least. If I had been jriven the making of it I could not have better suited myselt. Indeed, I have been so well pleased that I. have been content to stay at home and play at philosophy, leaving others to play at patronage,. Quite satisfied that the President and the emineat and accomplished men with wuom he has surrounded himself might be trusted to give us a civil service capable and clean; to handle the public business with fidelity and efficiency, and to discharge adequately their obligations, hoth to the people and to the party. Personal contact and opportunities for getting at both sides of 1)0 j and dispute have strengthened these original impressions, and 1 am happy to say that the case of sore eyes with which 1 started from home has entirely disappeared. President is a less reserved and a more likable man than I had been in the habit otthinking him. He is at once exact and exacting, but there is beneath his unmistakable busi-ness-like purpose and exterior a doughtiness ot spirit and an engaging candor which come out strong on very little provocation, and which save his manners from severity. Genial is hardly the word to describe the sunny side of him tor he is a serious man and a hard-worked and hard-working man. But he has the gift of appreciation, a simple school-boy love of fair play, and a repose altogether unaffected and complete, and singularly lacking both in cynicism, and vacuity. I observed the latter of these admirable qualities in Miss Cleveland, whose rapid advancement and elevation to the highest social honors and duties have in no wise disconcerted her, and who wilLddd one more name tothe very short list of ladies who have s gnalized. and adorned the mistress-ship of the ExecutiveMansion. Her brother is not so deeply or seriously read as she, not so much of a doctrinaire,, if. indeed, a doctrinaire at all, for I should say he has been a student lather of men than of books; but he has an undeniable genius for command, and for one of so little ostentation is the most unpromising subject of familiarity imaginable. His weight and reach of brain have, perhaps, never been tested or measured. He has yet to put forth his full mental pdwers and resources. Time,-which develops, can only disclose the nature and extent of these. Blit thereis one thing about him which nothing can obscure, which shows itself in all he says and. does, and which is blazoned upon all his aspects. That is character. And the older I grow,, and the more I see of life and men, the more respect I have tor character when Wrought in contrast with intellect. Many a man called dull and slow has by honest purposes and inflexible will, enlightened by nothing more luminous than plain good sense, conferred inestimable ' blessings upon his kind, while the history of the world is full of examples of curses wrought by brilliance corrupted and genius misapplied. Mr. Cleveland is a plain, sober man. Tnere is nothing dramatic or sensational about him. Hellas not,like so many long conscience and a short memory. His hates and his loves arefew, positive, and sincere. He has shown himself abundantly able to say “no,” and yet, as I have seen him, no man has a livelier wish to gratify the wishes of others. He wants to do the right thing and the kindly thing, and there is not the smallest doubt that since his election, he has been inspired by the truest spirit of justice and the most conscientious sense of duty, equally loyal to his great place and to his party, asking no favors and looking to his work to, vindicate itself. Very great forbearance and a patient temper should be extended by the publ.c to such a public servant. He selected his political advisers, by the rule of fitness, and he has inspired them with his own business-like spirit. The departments are in hands most uniform and methodical. In every one of them there circulates the atmosphere of the workshop. To say nothing: about practical benefits and utilitarian performance and nromise, all this has a moral value incalculable. It is in itself a sort of democracy—and a much-needed sort at that. After twenty-four years of absence from, power, the Democratic party has, by little 1-ess-than a miracle, come into custody of tue National Government. Whether it retains that custody will denend upon the success or failureof the men it has delegated to represent it. The party is on trial. Inevitably it is bound to stand or fall by its administration. It c tnnot atiord to quarrel with this upon matters of detail, or lightly to criticise it. There will be time enough to disown it when it violates itspledges. In the meantime Democrats should, remember that it is composed of Democrats;, that the Democrats who compose it have'their rights with the rest, and no one of them has given the smallest reason for anybody to distrust him. I have encountered but one spitit. here, and my opportunities for forming a judgment have been the mod, ample, and this is a spirit of loyalty to the party and to the country. I will state; my life upon the sincerity of this,, and I assure the disappointed# and ‘doubting among Democrats that if the President should go faster than he is going he would surely run. his bark ashore. One story is good until another is told. The administration that'-sta rts out to please everybody will end by pleasing nobody. This administration is trying to do its ciuty. Beset on all sides by complication and badgered day in and day out by importunities, it has kept its temper passing well, and has made no more mistakes than are common to new-comers in office, and not so many as mighthave been expected.

HON. D. W. VOORHEES.

The Indiana Senator Believes tlie President Is Doing the Wise Tiling. Senator Yoorhees, being interviewed at Washington, gave frank expression to the following views: The distribution of patronage is - not the proper subject upon which to break with an administration. Dishonesty in office or the ad ministration of the Government upon false principles of legislation can alone justify a leader of a party in rushing into opposition. Itis, in my opinion, highly impolitic for any one who fails to get an office to cry out that the party is lost and then fall to railing against the administration. Mr. Cleveland has’not given. me all I asked for by any means. For instance, I was very anxious that Mr. McDonald should be in the Cabinet, and 1 worked hard to secure that result, but I told Mr. Cleveland that it after maturely considering all I had said upon the subject he did not see his wav to act m harmony with our Indiana views and desires, it would not be fatal to us. It is Mr. Cleveland’s administration, not mine. It is for him to look on every side, and perhaps his appointments are wiser than those I might suggest to him. To the men who are before the country accusing the administration of moving slowly, it ought to be sumcient answer that the Democratic party takes possession of a Government which has been lor twenty-live years in the hands of the Republicans, and that the Senate is still Republican. If the administration w r ent to work with reokless rapidity in making changes the members of it would prove thereby their unfitness for their places. I refuse to discuss any such proposition as that Mr. Cleveland may prove disloyal to his party or the principles upon which they elected him. My confidence in his integrity is absolute. ■A. more conscientious President in his sense of defy n- ver crossed the threshold of the White - House.