Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 February 1882 — Page 2

EXPRESS-

p. MoNxcur MAX ASKS

TKBKK HAUTK, TUESDAY, FEB. 28,1882.

PUBLICATION OFFICE—No. 16 BOntt filth mmn. 1MB tins Honae Square. aeeond-claas nuttu Ui6 Oflc*. it Ten* Hiau, Ind.

When congress gets through investig«Hny the Sooth American diplomatic mnddle there will be very Utile left unsaid.

Mrt Justice Harlan is in a very critical condition in Washington City. Her recover/ ia not expected, and her family hare been gammoned to her bed-tide.

Grave-yard insurance companies are sot at all popular in Ohio. The eecre» tary of the Dayton Mutual Aid Aauocia,tion ia in limbo for crooked transactions.

Sargent's nomination ia still the subject of much comment in political circlet. The Ohio politicians are all torn up be-

Judge Taft did not aecure the nomination.

A. C. Soteldo has been indicted for the TOUrder of hia brother iu Washington, while the men who instigated the trouble are allowed to proceed with their work unmolested.

A national bankrupt law ia not to be one of the institutions established by the present congress. None of the members take any interest in the matter, while many would take active steps in opposition to it if it were brought before the house.

Governor Porter is at present in Washington. He wants it understood that he Is not poshing hia son for any office, and aaya he haa been misrepresented by people who aaaerted that he was endeavoring to aecure positions for relatives.

A dispatch from Waahington intimates that Senator Hoar's remarks on Conkling's nomination, while the senate was In •xeootlve session, were misrepresented by the press, and that he has called upon the president to correct the wrong impression which has gone out.

A large delegation of the Ohio legislator* went to Washington to attend the memorial exercises, and were very much surprised when they found that tickets would be required of them. Possibly they thought the dead head system extended to memorial exercises, but now they know better.

A rumor comes from Washington that Mr. Conkling will decline the supreme court^udgeship as soon as he is confirmed that Secretary Folger will be named in his st$pd, and that Hon. John C. New will be promoted to the head of the treasary department. Advices from New York indicate that Mr. Conkling will accept, which will spoil the aforesaid plan,

Kentucky has 35,000 colored voters, bu^ not a single colored route agent, in which respect it stands alone among southern states. A few years sgo the experiment was tried on one of the Kentacky railroads, but, although competent, the man was driven off by the democrats, The average Kentucky bourbon has a hatred of the colored race which is only equalled by his love for bourbon whisky.

Rev. Henry Litttle, D. D., died of cancer at his home in Madison, on Saturday night. The deceased was born at BOFCCwen, New Hampshire, in 1780. He was a school-teacher at 17 and a minister at 20. He graduated at Dartmouth and Andover waa pastor of the Presbyterian church at Oxford, O., and Madison, Ind., for several years, also, agent of the American home mission and founder of the Indiana graded schools. Four of his sons lire aettled as Presbyterian ministers. Pr. Little had residad in Madison fortyfive rears.

The recent losses at sea of the British •teeners City of London and City of Limerick, and the probable loss of the Titania have elicited some remarks from that eminent Irish patriot O'Danovan Rosea, who intimates that the losses were occasioned by infernal machiaes, and states boldly that it is the intention to cripple England by the destruction of her chipping in (his manner. The patriotism which seeks to cripple tn opponent by sacrificing the lives of innoccnt pereons is not the kind which ought to be tolerated in America for a moment. Murjir ia a crime which should be punished, end the case of O'Donovan Rossa ahould be looked after. He is one of those loud Mouthed patriots who keep furthest in the background and yell loudest. He ehonld be blown up by one of his own machines.

Oo S* turd ay last Judge Charles Mason died in Burlington, Iowa, of general debility, after a short illness. Judge Maeon waa one of the pioneers of Iowa always a prominent democrat, honored many times by important appointments by his party wss born in Pompey, Onondaga county, New York, October 24, 1804 graduated at West Point at the head of hia class, of which Robert E.Lee and Jefferson Davis were memben in 1827 was associate professor in the academy two years, and in 1836 editor of the New York Post while William Cullen Bryant was abroad came to Borlington in 1837 was appointed by Preeident Van Buren chief justice of the territory of Iowa, holding the office until 1847 he waa the author of the code of 1851, and, under its provisions, elected judge ot Dea Moines county in May, 1153, waa appointed commissioner of patents, which office he resigned in 1857 after that was connected a short time with the Scientific American, and in 1860 established an office in Washington, where his practice waa devoted exclusively to patent cases, in which he was very successful, and by which he accumulated a large fortune. At the time of his death he was president of the Burlington Water Company, German-American Savings Bank, end treasurer of the school board. The wile of Commander George C. Remey, of the United States navy, is the only surviving member of this family. Ex-Gov-ernor John H. Gear is a nephew of the tete Judge Mason.

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A VIEW OB HOMEOPATHY.

An article of much vigor in the North American, by Prof. A. B. Palmer, Falla

cies of

Homeopathy," will be interesting to the anpportera of various schools in A sketch, without comment, of thia and the replies that will necessarily be provoked, will be of interest since "diseases, and whatever pertains to them, most be worthy of the attention of the public ao long aa all are liable to their ravages."

Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of the system, was at various times a teacher, a student of languages and a practitioner of mediuine in twenty-four different places in twenty-eight yeare. Claiming the diacovery of an entirely new and essentially true system of medical practice, he commenced in 1810, a series of lectures at Leipcic to promulgate his doctrines and i»^a with bitter invectives all others. He nrononnced his system universal and "tbe sole law of cure in all diseases." His creed includes, with others, tbe folowing, viz:

The principle of aimilia eimiUbut cur an fur, as a universal law the prescribing for symptoms alone infinitesimal doses potentiation of medicines or deviopment of new and extraordinary powers within them, by rubbing and shaking the mode of administering by placing pellets on the tongue and by smelling. These are homoepathic doctrines, even if not practiced by all of that school. Hahnemann eays in the 'Organon' it-is not possible to perform a care but by the aid of a remedy which produces symptoms similar to those of the disease. If it is true, as positively affirmed, that iodine cures the goitre, quinine tbe agce. and sulphur the itch, and other remedies ooold be mentioned which produce no conditions like the diseases, then it is certain that similia similibus eurantur is "not the only law of cure." Medicines that are curative produce effects different from the disease, and the cure is effected by the difference. Three leading homospathists have lately admitted in the Lancet that homcepatby is a misnomer, and that remedies succeed by causing actions contrary to the diseases for which they are given.

The principle of prescribing for symptoms alone limits treatment as follows: Jakr'a Manual, a standard text book, instructs thus: "For absence of mind, irresoluteness—the remedy, alum ""making mistakes in writing—nat. carb." (recommended to correspondents—Ed.) "fear of death—dig. "pain in the big toe, as if Bprained—mosch," etc.

By giving opium for stupor, irritants for an inflamed stomach, an article that will produce a pain to cure it, it was found ordinary doses increased the symptoms, and diminishing doses followed. This led to the assertion "that the best dose of the proper remedy is always the very smallett one, in one of the high dynamizations, for chronic and acute diseases."

The extent to which dilution is carried can be shown by figures. The Organon directs us to add one drop of the recent juice of a medicinal plant to ninety*nine drops of alcohol—shake it twice, which results in the first potence of this mixture add one drop to ninety-nine of alcohol in ia second vial, and so on through a succession of thirty vials, taking one drop from the previous bottle to add to ninety-nine drops of alcohol in the succeeding vessel, giving each vial two shakes,urtil the thirtieth degree of potence is reached. The result is a mixture with one decilliontb part of the remedy—one decillionth is expressed by tbe unit for a numerator, and the unit with sixty ciphers for a denominator. It is added that the best method of administration is by globules, the size of a mustard seed, threa hundred of which will absorb one drop of the mixture just described. Certainly the three-hundredth part of one-decil-lionth of a drop is very small. But it is added, "if the patient is very sensitive, and it is necessary to employ the smallest dose and attain speedy results, it will be sufficient to let him am ell once." In the above we have divided and sub-divided the original drop thirty times reducing it to a decillionth. If instead of dividing the drop we were to add water, we would have in the first step 100 drops, second 10,000 drops, third 100 pints, fourth 10,000 pints, and in the ninth dilution the original drop swims in over twelve million millions of gallons and we have yet twenty-one stages before us. To offset the effect of dilution there ia the gain in the strength from the shakinga given. Hahnemann directs particularly that only two shakes be given at each dilation, lest the power be developed excessively, and the potency become unmanageable!

The experience of many supposed to be cured by any remedies cannot be relied upon. Certificates of cancer and consumption cures, honestly given, are often of no value.

A large proportion of diseases are selflimited, and would recover without medicine. The earlier reported cases of remarkable cures by the homcepatbic process were with Hahnamannice infinitesimals, though now a majority of leading homospathists deny their efficacy, but while resorting to other remedies, still giye the ragar pellets.

The consistent homwpathist, by an inflexible law, is bound to minute doses. The regular physicians have no system preventing them from prescribing any remedy, in any dose found or believed to be useful. To them is allowed great liberty in the choice of remedies within the bounds of common sense. "The adhesion to an absurd, exclusive system, and the banding in a sect which denounces and seeks to destroy confidence in regular medicine is that which cannot be toler" ated," says Prof. Palmer.

In regard to medical consultations, which are to Becure for the patient, b/ exchange of opinions and mutual agreement, the best course of treatment, it is evident there can be no agreement between sincere followers of tAe opposite schools. Hahnemann himself said that homaapathy would be separated from allopathy "by an impassable gulf."

Tbe regular school differs from the homeopathic system in having no creed nor alleged universal principle, the accepance of which is necessary. Homeopathy ia specific and well defined, or nothing, and without adherence to the doctrines of smila simtfibtts eurantur and

of tbe efficacy of infinitesimal doses, its system is a fictipi* Its fund*mental dogmas most be true or falnsjj-inust be held or ail-yielded. I "Modern science has demonstrated the causes of certain diseases to be orgauic parasitic poisons, and the general professional belief ia that all the specific diseases such aa cholera, typhoid, yellow, the eruptive fevers, etc., are produced by organic living poisons, and that the curatives of the future will'be antidotes and eliminatives. In view of the present drift of science, the phenomenal character of diseases, the existence of specific pauses and the present and hoped for discoveries of antidotal and expelling remedies, bow absurd become the dreams of- exclusive systems, particularly of this pretended universal therapeutical principle of 'likecure,' and its dependent doctrines."

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QI YE TBI BOABD ITS DUB.'

Editor Express. Eighteen cases of smallpox in TiltrtifltM, 111., and four deaths. Two cases and one death ia Terre Haute, and yet no one baa a-qtord ot commendation for the board ot health. We have certainly been very fortunate for some cause. Vr. W. B.

We have ceitainly been very much favored so far, and it is to be hoped that the same good fortune may attend this community. Believers in special providences have reason to give thanks for the almost total immunity of Terre Haute from the dreadful disease that has prevailed this winter with such virulence elsewhere. But while one class of people may ascribe our almost entire exemption to an overruling Providence, and another (and it is to be hoped a much smaller) class may credit it to our good luck, they would be churlish indeed in failing t6 give hearty and sincere commendation to the Board of Health. It ia so customary to denounce public officials, and so rare that they get thanks for their good actions, that it would not be surprising if they should sometimes become weary in well doing. Let the board, therefore, have all the credit that is their due, which is great. Their duties, though not performed in all cases to perfection, have in the main been such as to entitle the Board to the encomium. "Well done, good and faithful servants."

The Vermillion county republican convention endorsed Mr. Peirce, and instructed their delegates to the next congressional nominating convention to vote'for his nomination. The nominating convention, if organized like that of 1880, will be composed of eighty-one delegates, divided among the counties as folio WE Clay, 12 Fountain, 10 Montgomery, 15 Parke, 12 Vermillion, 7 Vigo, 17 Warren, 8. Already two counties, Vermillion and Warren, halve instructed for Mr. Peirce, which makes him certain of fifteen votes to start with, and if he receives the solid vote of his own county he will only have to find eleven more. In the last convenion Mr. Peirce was nominated on the ten ballot, the vote standing as follows:

COVN'TIEH.

Clay Fountain Montgomery Parke Vermillion Vigo Warren....

12 7 5 10 1 9 15 0 15 12 12 0 4 3 17 8J4

S 0 8 81 S2J4 48^

In speaking of the manner in which the German custom house officials are dealing with the staple production of Cincinnati, the New York Herald says:

For making an ass of itself in respect to classification of imported goods the custom Eerylce of the United States has hitherto been without a rival among similar departments in Europe, but suddenly its proud pre-eminence becomes a thing of the past, and Germany snatches the long earned championship. Hereafter it is said American hams packed in canvas and sent to Germany are to be regarded and taxed aa cotton goods. That they are not classified as 8,000 ton screw steamers, inasmuch as they are packed also in these, is probably due only to the fact that America Is not allowed to make such castings in which to export her hams. The German mind has always been as jsteriousend In comprehensive as the Keeley motor. Search, therefore, for the cause of tyis extraordinary classification of the American ham would be as hopeless as an attempt to discover common sense in a Teutonic treatise on pure reseoti, were not the key to the puzzle presented by the German customs laws, which lax cotton goods six and two-thirds times as mcch as hams, in other words, by declaring hams to be cotton gcods, Germany declares herself to be a hog.

lu another portion of the paper will be found the call for the township prinjaries, together with the call for the Harrison township republican convention, to nominate a candidate for trustee, four justice? of the peace and four constables, the convention to be held in the court house on Satuidav Marsh lltb. The primaries are to be held next Saturday. It is to be hoped that all members of the party will take sufficient intereat in the nominations to turn out to the primaries and help eelect the delegates. There is too much of a disposition on the part of many to remain away from the primaries and afterwards make a loud cry of "set Up job." There should be no occasion for thiB. There will be no trouble in nominating a ticket and electing it this spring, if republicans will interest themselves sufficiently. There are three elections this year, and the first battle should be a successful one, aa it will seriously affect those to follow.

Bishop Lynch, Catholic, died at Charleston, C., on Sunday, aged sixtyfive. The Right Rev. Patrick Nilson Lynch, was bcrn al Cberaw, S. C, M«rch 10, 1817. In-1834 he went to Rome, where he studied in. the college of the propaganda. He" received the doctor's degree in 184.0, Was ordained priest and returned to Charleston, where he was appointedT1 rector of the seminary and professor of theology. In 1857 he became bishop of the diocese. He founded several churches,-® convent, an asylum and several schools, most of whieh were destroyed during the war. In 1859 he was present at the Vatican council, when he sustained papal infallibility. He waa the publisher of several essays on astronomical, historical and theological subjects.

John D. Defreea baa been prevented by severe illness from tendering his resignation as PuMic Printer. Hie friends are greatly concerned shout bis physical condition.

TBS GABFUXS XEXOB1AL. The memorial services in the national bouae of representatives yesterday afternoon were probably the most impressive which have ever been held in that chamber. The public have been anxiooaly looking forward to them for several months, and for several days past the people have been flocking into tbe capital in great numbers from all portions of the country. The supply of admission tickets fell very far short of the demand, and instances are related where they commanded twenty-five dollars each. Of course the principal feature of tbe exercises was the address of Hon. James G. Blaine, which will be found in full elsewhere, and which re&ches the highest expectations of his most ardent admirers. Tbe prediction by some that it would contain a defense the late South American policy, an attack upon the president and a laudation of Blaine, was very wide of the mark. The eulogy is straight-forward, clear sod concise, being a high tribote to the.memory of one of the greatest statesmen this country has ever produced. It contains no words which can be construed into a reflection upon any one, nor did the orator refer to himself in the remotest manner. It will be read by millions thia morning, and will Btir up afresh the admiration cl the people of this country for the Chevalier Btyard of American politics.4

We are in receipt of a circular from Richard K. Fox, editor and proprietor of the Police Gazette, and backer of Paddy Rycn, the defeated pngilist Fox ente^ into a long argument to show, that there was no treachery in Ryan's aide of the great fight with Sullivan, nor in Lis (Fox's) connection' with it'. He asseverates his sincerity and good faith dear through the contest, and preliminary and subsequent thereto. This we state for the benefit of whom it may concern. .»•** f4

Whatever may be said of Ja'tnes G. Blaine as a politician by his opponents, as an orator he has few equals. His address, delivered in honor of Garfield, is one of the best orations ever delivered in the Capitol. It is entirely worthy of his great fame, and will form an appropriate setting iu whicfi to enshrine the memory of the great and lamented Garfield. fo

A sweeping victory at the township election will insure one at the city election this in turn will bring the same result at the county, district and State elections. Early organisation, thorough work and judicious nominations will insure victory all along the line.,

If any person wishes to comprehend the uncertainty attending applications for public position, let him or her invest in a lottery ticket with the. expectation of drawing a prize. The prospects are as good in one case as the other. Both are games of chance.

Republicans, aqd especially committeemen, remember that the township election ia less than five weeks off. There is a great deal of work to be done. Harrison township is republican, but this ought not to he taken for granted,

Don Piatt is once more a member of' the editorial staff of tha Waahington Capital.

STATE HEWS-

White's Instttute, a Quaker educational establishment, five miles from Wabash, was burned Saturday. Loss, 83,000 partially insured.

At New Harrlsburg, Wabash county, on Sat* urday, the boiler of Ester Grill's saw mill exploded. One man. named Meyers, was killed and three others, including the proprietor, were injured.

Wirran Minor and Chiis. Myers, residing seven miles from Petersburg, Pike county, got into a quarrel last Wednesday, when the former shot and killed the latter. The murderer was arrested.

Tbe Democratic statesman from Allen county, Dr. H. C. McDowell, member of the lower house of the Indiana Legislature, waa arrested in Fort Wayne, Saturday morning, for procaring an abortion on a young lady.

During the flood of last week a passenger train of the J. M. it I. road was detained at Bdinborg by a washout The passengers, two coaches of them, were, by order of Superintendent McKenna, taken to the hotels and fed and lodged at the company's expense.

On Friday'George W. Bobertson, David Kirk' Patrick and another man went duck shooting in a Bkiff in MuEcotatncn river, in the vicinity of Salem. One of the guns was accidentally discharged, the ball passing through Bobertson head, killing him ihstantly.

On Sunday, three men, while rowing in a skiff, saw a body in some drift, jaat above Bvansviile, and fished it out and brought it to shore. The fcody proved to be a girl, eighteen years ot age, named Sussman. She was drowned from one of the flat-boats wrecked during the storm last week.

Hon. T. J. Foster, Democratic Senator from Allen county in the Indiana General Assembly, and publisher of a one-cent five-column daily newspaper, six weeks old, in Fort Wayne, left the city, Saturday, and has not returned, leaving his friends in much excitement ar to bis whereabouts.

At Goldsmith, Clinton county, on Friday evening, while a young man named Fostef^as handling a revolver, the weapon was accidentally discharged, lodging its contents in the abdomen of a yonng man by the name of William Keen. At last accounts Keen waa-still living, though in a precarious condition.

Word comes from Tailholt, Clinton county, that Reuben P. Kercheval, an attorney residing at that place, was, on Friday evening, struck with a smoothing iron, by a man named Thurman, and almost instantly killed. The causes that led to the tragedy are not definitely jrnown, but it Is understood that Thmman«nd his friends say that he was justified in the act

Tha wife of A. T. Miller, of Muncie, ran into a neighbor's house on an errand, leaving her two little chiidran in the house. On returning she found that her little son, aged two y«wa, had in some way set fire to his clothing, which was eutirely burned off him, and the little fellow was lying on the floor, his body, irom the neck to the hips, including one arm, barned to a crisp. He died at 7 o'clock in the evening.

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Explosion of gas.

CHICAGO, February 27.—About nine o'clock this morning, a loud exploeion oc curred in the Union building, in which the general offices of the Associated Press and Western Union Telegraph are located, shaking the entire building «nd knocking out heavy plate glass from the windows in all parts of the building wood, work, doors and plastering were also demolished. Tbe explosion was caused by a boy named James Brett, entering one of the vault?, where gas had been escaping since Saturday, with a lighted match. He was seriously if not fatally injured.

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DETROIT, February 27.—Hon. Z. Elotus Truesdale, one of Michigan's prominent educators, died at Ann Arbor on Sunday, aged 53, He Waa graduated at the State University in 1857, has been Superintendent of the Public Schools at Flint and Pontiac foe fourteen years, and had been otherwise actively .identified with the cause of education in this State.

NEW YOHK. February 27.—Ths widow of Daniel Webat€r died at,New Rochell last night »f-A ,T..r,s£y,-

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DETROIT, Mich, February 27.—President Angell, of the University, readied home from his late special mission to China on Saturday, and in the evening was accorded a rousing reception on the pail of the faculty, students, and citizens of Aqn Arbor.

GARFIELD.

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dency, while not predicted or anticipated waBXKt a surprise to the country. His prominence in Congress, his solid Qualities, his wide reputation, strengthened by his thea recent election as Senator from Ohio, kept him in the public eye as a man occupying the very highest rank among those entitled to be called statesmen. It mi not mere chance that brought Him this high hoc or. "We must," says Mr. Emerson, "reckon success a constitutional trait. If Eric is in robust health and has slept well and is at the top ot his conditiofi, and thirty years old at his departure from Greenland, he will steer west and his ships will reach New Foundland. But take Brie out and pdt in a stronger and bolder man and the ships will sail six hundred, one. thousand, fifteen hundred miles farther and reach Labrador and New England. There fs nodnR* in results."

Aa andidate, Garfield steadily grew in poj ular favor. He was met with a storm of detraction at the very hour of his nomination, and it continued with increasing volume and momentum until 1he close of his.victorious campaign: jfo might nor greatness In mortality Con censure scape back wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall np in the slanderous tongue

Under it all he was calm and strong, and confident never lest his self-posses-sion, did no unwise act, spoke no hasty, or ill-considered word.„ indeed nothing in liis whole life is more remarkable or more creditable than his bearing through, those five full months of vituperation—a prolonged agony of trial to a sensative man, a constant and cruel draft upon the powers of moral endurance. The greatmass of these uqjust imputations passed unnoticed, and with the general debris ot the campaign fell into oblivion. But in a few instances the iron entered his soul and he died with the injury unforgotton if notunforgiven.

One aspect of Garffeld's candidacy was unprecedented. Never before, in the history of partisan contests in this country, had a successful Presidential es®didate spoken freely on passing events and current issues. To attempt anything of the kind seemed novel, rash, and even desperate. The older clas& of voters recalled the unfortunate Alabama letter, in which Mr. Clay was supposed to have signed his political death warrant. They remembered also the hot-tempered effusion by which General Scott lost a large share of his popularity before his nomination, and the unfortunate speeches which rapidly consumed the remainder. The younger voters had seen Mr. Greeley in a series of vigorous and original addresses, preparing the pathway for his own defeat. Unmindful of these warnings, unheeding the advice of friends, Garfield spoke to large crowds as he journeyed to and from New York in August, to* a great iqultitude in that city, to delegations and deputations of every kind that called at Mentor during the summer and autumn. With innumerably pritifcs, watchfW and eager to catch a phrase that might be turned into odium or ridicule, or a sentence that might be distorted to,his own or his party's injury, Garfield did not trip or halt in any one of his seventy speeches. This seem? all the more remarkable when it is remembered that he did not write what he said, and yet spoke with such logical consecutiveness of thought and such admirable precision of phrase as to defy the accident of misreport and the malignity of misrepresentation.

In the beginning of his Presidential life Garfield's experience did not yield him pleasure or satisfaction. The duties that engross so large a portion qf the president's time were distasteful to him, and were unfavorably contrasted with his legislative work. "I have been dealing all these years with ideas," he impatiently exclaimed one day, "and here I am dealing only with persons. I have been heretofore treating of the fundamental principles of government and here I am considering all day whetherA or shall be appointed to this or that office." He was earnestly seeking some practical way of correcting the evils arising from the distribution of overgrown and unwieldy patronage?—evils always appreciated and often discussed by him, but whose magnitude had been more deeply impressed upon his mind since his accession to the Presidency. Had he lived, a comprehensive improvement in the mode of ajJbointment and in the tenure of office would have been prosposed by him, and with the aid of Congress no doubt perfected.

But, while many of the Executive duties were not gratefnl to him, he waa assiduous and conscientious in their discharge. From the very outset he exhibited administrative talent of a high order. He grasped the helm of office with the hanf of a master. In this respect indeed he constantly surprised many who were most intimately associated with him in the government, and especially those who had feared that he might be lacking in the executive faculty. His disposition of business was orderly and rapid. His' power of analysis, and his skill in classification, enabled him to dispatch a vast mass of detail with singular promptness and ease. Hia cabinet meetings we^e admirably conducted. His clear present tation of official subjects, his well-consid-ered suggestion of topics on which discussion was incited, his quick decision when all had been heard, combined to ahew a thoroughness of mental training as rare as his natural ability and his facile adaptation to a new and enlarged field of labor.

With perfect comprehension of all the inheritances of the War, with a cool calculation of the obstacles in his way, impelled, always by a generous enthusiasm, Garfield cenceived that much might be done by his administration towards restoring harmony between the different sections of the Union.' He was anxioui to go South and speak to the people. As early as April he had ineffectually endeavored to arrange for a trip to Nashville, whither he had been cordially invited, and he was again disappointed a few weeks later to find that he could not go to South Carolina to attend the centennial celebration of the victory of the Cowpens. But for the autumn he definitely counted on -being present at thr& memorable assemblies in the South, the celebration at Yorktown, the opening of the Cotton Exposition at Atlanta, ana the meeting of flje Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga. He was already turning over in his mind his address for each occasion, and the three taken together, he said to a friend, gave him the exact scope and verge which he needed. At Yorktown he would have before him the associations of a hundred years that bound the South and the North in sacred memory of a common danger -and a common victory. At Atlanta he would present the material interests and the industrial development which amealed to the thrift and independence of every household, and which should unite the two sections by the instinct of selfinterest and seli-defense. At Chattanooga he would revive memories of the War only to show that alter all its disaster and all its suffering, the country was stronger and greater, the Union rendered indissoluble, and the future, threugh the agony and blood of one generation, made brighter and better for all.

Garfield's ambition for the success of his administration was high. With strong caution and conservatism in his nature, he was in no danger of attempting rash exj*eriment8 or of resorting to the empiricism of statesmanship. But he believed that renewed and closer attention should be given to questions affecting the material interests and commercial prospects of fifty millions of people. He believed that our continental relauops, extensive and undeveloped aa they are, involved responsibility, and could bp cul tivated intp profitable friendship Qfcje

abandoned to harmful indifference or lasting enmity. He beliertd with equal confidence that an essential forerunner to new era of national progress must be a feeling of contentment in every section of the Union, and a generous belief that the benefits and burdens of government would be common to all. Himself a conspicuous illustration of what ability and ambition may do under republican institutions, he loved his country with a passion of patriotic devotion,. and every waking thoaght was given to her advancement. He was an American in all his inspirations, snd he looked to the destiny and influence of £he United States with the philosophic composure of Jefferson and the demonstrative confidence Qf John Adams.

The political events which disturbed the President's serenity for "many weeks before that fateful day in July, form an important chapter in his career, and in his own judgment, involved questions of principle and of right which are vitally essential to the constitutional administration of the Federal Government. It would be out of place here now to speak the language of controversy but the events referred to, however they may continue to be source of contention with' others, have become, BO tar as Garfield ia concerned, as much a matter of history as his heroism at Chickamauga or his illustrious service in the House. Detail is not needful, and personal antagonism shall not be rekindled by a&y word uttered to-day. The motives of those opposing him are not to be here adversely interpreted nor their course harshly characterized. But Qf the dead President this' is to be said, and said because his own speech is forever silenced and he can be no more heard except through the fidelity and the love of surviving friends: From the beginning to the end of the controversy he BO much deplored, the President was never for one moment aotuated by any motive of gain to himself or of loss to others. Least of all men did he harbor revenge, rarely did he even show resentment, and malice waa not in his nature. He was congenially employed only in the exchange of good offices and the doing ot kindly deeds.

There was not an hour, from the beginning of the trouble till the fatal shot entered his body, when tbe President would not gladly, for the sake of restoring harmony, have retraced any step he bad taken if such retracing had merely involved consequences personal to himself. The pride of consistency, or any supposed sense ot humiliation that might result from surrendering^ his position, had not & feather's weight with him. No man was ever less subject to such influences from within or from without. But after most anxious deliberation and the coolest survey of all the circumstances, he eolemnly believed that the true prerogatives of the Executive were involved in the issue which had been raised, and that he would be unfaithful to hia supreme obligation if he failed to maintain, in all their vigor, the constitutional rights and dignities of his great office. He believed thiB in all the convictions of conscience when in sound and vigorous health, and he believed it in his suffering end prostration in the last conscious thought which his wearied mind "bestowed on the transitory struggles of life.

More than this need not be said. Less than this could not be said. Justice to the dead, the highest obligation that devolves upon the living, demands the declaration that in all the bearings of the subject, actual or possible, the President was content' ill his mind, justified in his conscience, immovable in his conclusions. •file religious element in Garfield's character was deep and earnest. In his early youth he espoused the faith of the Disciples, a sect of that great Baptist Communion, which in different ecclesiastical establishments is so numerous and so influential throughout all parts of the United States. But the broadening tendency of his mind and his active spirit of inquiry were early apparent and carried him beyond the dogmas of sect and the restraints of association. In selecting a college in which to continue his education hp rejectBethany, though presided over by Alexander Campbell, the greatest preacher of his church. His reasons were characteristic first, that Bethany leaned too" heavily toward slavery and, second, that being himself a Disciple and the son of Disciple parents, he had little acquaintance with people of other beliefs and he thought it weuld make him more liberal, quoting his own words, both in his religious and general views, to go into a new circle and be under new influences.

The liberal tendency which he anticipated as the result of wider culture was fully realized. He was emancipated from mere sectarian belief, and with eager interest pushed his investigations in the direction of modern progressive thought. He followed with quickening step in the paths of exploration and speculation so fearlessly trodden by Darwin, by Huxley, by Tyndall, and by other living scientists of the radical and advanced type. His own church, binding its disciples by no formulated creed, but accepting the Old and New Testaments as the word of God with unbiased liberty of private interpretation, flavored, if it did not stimulate, the spirit of investigation. Its members profess vyith sincerity, and profess only, to be of one mind and one faith with those who immediately followed the Master, and who were first called Christians tit Antioch.

But however high Garfield reasoned of "fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute," he was never separated from the Church of the Disciples in his affections and in his associations. For him it held the ark of the covenant. To him it was the sate ®f Heaven. The world af religiousrelief is full of solecisms and contradictions. A philosophic observer declared that men by the thousand will die in defense of a creed whose doctrinea they not understand and whose tenets they habitally violate. It is equally true that men by the thousand will cling to church organizations with instinctive, undying fidelity when their belief in maturer years is radically different from that which inspired them as neophytes.

But after this range of speculation, and this latitude of doubt, Garfield came back always with freshness and delight to the simpler instincts of religious faith, which, earliest implanted, longest survive. Not many weeks before his assassination, walking on the bank9 of the Potomac with a friend, and conversing on those topics of personal religion, concerning which noble natures have an unconquera ble reserve, he said that he found the Lord's Prayer and the simple petitions learned in infancy infinitely restful to him, not merely in their staled repetition, but in their casual and frequent recall as he went about the daily duties of life. Certain texts of scriptures had a very strong hold on his memory and his heart. He heard, while in Edinburgh some years ago, an eminent Scotch preacher who prefaced his sermon with reading the eighth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans,- which book had teen the subject •f careful study with Garfield during all his religious life. He was greatly impressed by the elocution of the preatHer and declared that it had imparted anew and deeper meaning to the majestic ut terances of Saint Paul. He referred often in after years to that memorable servlcs and dwelt with exaltation of feeling \wn the radiant promise and the asBureshope with which the great apostle of the Gentiles was "persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principaUtieflj nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, wall be aUe to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.''

The crowning characteristic of General GaifieWs religious opinions, as, indeed, of all his opinions, was his liberality. In all things he had charity. Toleraope was of his naturg. He respected in othas the qnalities which he possessed in himself—sincerity of conviction ahd

frankness of expression. With bim the inquiry was not eomuch what a man be-1 lieves, but docs he believe it? The lineal ofhis friendship and his confidence encircled men of every creed, and men of no creed, and to the end of his life, on his ever-strengthened list of friends, were to be found the names of a pious Catholic priest and ot an honest-minded and gen-erous-hearted free-thinker.

On the morning of Saturday, July 2nd, the President was a contented and happy man—not in an ordinary degree, but joyfully, almost boyishly happy. On -his way to the railroad station to which he drove slowly, in ceucious enjoyment of the beautiful morning, with an unwonted sense of leisure and a keen anticipation of pleasure, his talk was all in the grateful and gratulatory vein. He felt that after four months of trial his administration was strong in its grasp of affairs, strong in popular favor and destined to grow stronger that grave difficulties confronting bim at his inauguration had been safelv passed that trouble lay behind him and not before him that he was soon to meet the wife whom he loved, now recovering from an illness which had but lately disquieted and at times almost unnerved him that he was going to his Alma Mater to renew the most cherished associations of his young manhood, and to exchange greetings with those whose deepening interest had followed every step- of bis upward progress from the day he entered upon his college course until he had attained the loftiest elevation in the gift of his countrymen.

Surely if happiness can ever come from the honors or triumphs of this world, on that quiet Jtdy morning James A. Garfield may well have been a happy man. No foreboding of evil haunted him no slighter premonition of danger clouded hia sky. His terrible fate was upon him in an instant. One moment he stood erect,-strong, confident in the years stretching peacefully out before him. The next he lay wounded, bleeding, helpless, doomed to weary weeks of torture, to silence, and the grave.1

Great in lifehe was surpassingly great in death. For no cause, in the very frenzy of wantoness and wickedness, by the red hand of murder, he was thrust from the frill tide of this world's interest, from its hopes, its aspirations, its victories, into the visible presence of death— and he did not quaiL Not alone for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could give up life, hardly aware of its relinquishment, but through days of deadly languor, through weeks of agony, that was not less agony because silently borne, with clear sight and calm courage, he looked into his open grave. What blight and ruin met his anguished eyes, whose lipa may tell—what brilliant, broken nlans, what baffled, high ambitions, what sundering, of strong, warm, manhood's friendships, what bitter rendering of sweet household ties! Behind nim ft proud expectant nation, a great host ot sustaining friends, a cherished and happy mother,wearing tbe fell, rich honors of her early toil and tears the wife of his youth, whose whole life lay in his the little boys not yet emerged from childhood's day of frolic the fair, young daughter the sturdy aons just springing into closest companionship, claiming every day and every day rewarding a father's love and care ana in his heart the eager, rejoicing power to meet all demand. Before him, desolation and great darkness I And his soul was not shaken. His countrymen were thrilled with instant, profound, and universal sympathy. Masterful in his mortal weakness, he became the center of a nation's love, enghrined in the prayers of a worldBut all the love and all the sympathy could not share with him his suffering. He trod the wine-press alone. With unfaltering front he faced death. With nntailing tenderness he took leave of life. Above the domoniac hiss of the assassin's bullet he heard the voice of God. WiUi simple resignation he bowed to the Divine decree.

As the end drew near,his eailyeraving for the sea returned. The stately mansion of power had been to him the wearisome hospital of pain, and he begged to be taken from its prison walls, from its oppressive, stifling air, from its homelesaness and its hopelessness. Gently, silently, the love of a great people bore the pale sufferer to the longed-for healing of the sea, to live or to die, as God should will, within sight of its heaving billows, within sound of its manifold voices. With wan, fevered face tenderly lifted to the cooling breeze, he looked out wistfully upon the ocean's changing wonders on its fair tails, whitening iB the morning light on its restless waves, rolling shoreward to break and die be neath the noonday gun on the red clouds, of tvenikg, arching low to thp herizon on the serene and shining pathway of the stars. Let UB think that bis dying eyes read a mystio meaning which only the rapt and parting soul may knaw. Let us believe that in the silence of the receding world he heard the great waves breaking on a further shore, and felt already upon his wasted brow the breath of the eternal morning.

The eulogy was concluded at 1 :50P. having taken just an hour and a half in its delivery. As Mr. Blaine uttered the lait solemn words spectators broke into a storm of applause which was not hushed for some minutes. The address was listened to with great interest and in solemn silence, unbroken by any soand except by a right of relief, such as arises from a large ahdience when the atrong tension ia removed from their minds, when the orator passed from hia allusion to the differences existiag in the Bepnblioan party last spring.

The benediction was then pronounced by Bev. Dr. Bullock, and the Marine Band played tbe Garfield dead march a a the invited gneata filed out of tbe chamber in the same order in which they entered.

The House was then callcd to order and concurrent resolutiona were adopted that the thanka of Congrna are hereby presented to Hon. James G. Blaine, for the appropriate memorial address delivered by him that he be requested to furnish it for publication, and, on motion of McEwley, the Honae, aa a further mark of reapect, adjourned.

Anti-Mormon Meeting. SALT LAKE, February 26.—-A meeting of the Ladiaa* Anti-Polygamy Society, tonight, adopted the following:

Whereas, The petitions of Mormons,

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raying to be let alone, commit every to the endorsement of polygamy in defiance of law, and the frantic exertions of the leadera reveal their mortal terror at tbe prospect of leaing political power and,

Whereaa, under their control, Utah baa been made a mere dependency of a hostile creed, tbe rights of real citizens denied, the ballot proatitnted, woman dishonored, and every sacred element of home destroyed, the forbearance of the Government derided as weakneea, and its failure to assert itself claimed aa divine interposition in favor of the Mormon kingdom therefore,

Beaolved, That thia aociety, speaking in the name of outraged womanhood, and for forty thousand real citizens of this

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territory, beseech Congress to rely no longer on half measure*, but at once to take from theMormona all political privileges, until they accept aa sovereign the lawa of the United States that we fear that the Edmnoda bill will be found fatally defective, like the present anti-polyg-amy law, became, while it disfranchises polygamiBts, it provides^ no machinery whatever foe enforcing aaid disfranchisement that we believe that a commission of sterling citizens of thia territory, given full legblative powera, working under the supervision of Coogreas, 1b the only real and prompt and merciful remedy for Utah's wrongs.

The meeting waa really amass meeting and very enthusiast!*. Preaching at the Tabernacle to-day was very eloquent and defiant. It was said that they were extending into other territories, and that no power on earth or in hell could stop theto. They might take away their' votes and be damned they would be damned anyhow.

Doga.

PITTSBUBO, Februa 27.—The entries for tbe dog show, which opena here on the 7th of March, have closed with a remarkably long list of noted animala on the books. Among them are Peep o' Day, the winner of the field trial at Grand Junction, Misnomi Mcintosh's Biz, who beat Count Noble, last December, and who will meet the champion Irish setters, Berkley and Chief, here Mr. Goodwill's Haverack setters five dogs from the superior kennels of Herricks A SI ay ton, including King Daah and Belton the Second, the winners in the great field trial, and a host of others, ranging from a pound and a half pet, from Chicago, to a New York mastiff that atanda thirty-three inchea at the ahoulder and weighs nearly 200 pounds.

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ST. LOUIS, February 27.—A fire occurred at 2 o'clock this morning in the building at the corner of 17th street and Washington Avenue, occupied on the first floor by J. B. and A. Jacobus, aa an auction and notion atore, and on the aecond floor by M. Meyers, manufacturers of bojs' clothing. Jacobus' stock ia aaid to have been worth $100,000, and more than half waa destroyed insured for $30,000, Meyer*' stock waa valued at $25,600, and waa badly damaged insured for $16,000. The fire ia anpposed to have been incendiary.

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