Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1883 — Page 4

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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW Jfc SON. For Kates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth P.ie*. I HUBS I) AY, JANUARY , iss:;. The name of Jacob S. Conklin, of Sidney, 0., is the last one mentioned in connection with the vacancy in the district judgeship for southern Ohio. This Democrats may go ahead with their partisan schemes. They will find out at the next election that the people have their weather eye upon parties. Governor Foster’s message to the Ohio Legislature occupied about three columns, and is generally well spoken of as a thoroughly business document. If the Democratic Legislature does not spoil a good many eggs over which fond statesmen are now anxiously brooding, we miss our guess. The “boys” have started in “for everything in sight.” Mr. McDonald is liable to have his hands full this winter. The effort to steer his boom from Washington with a Democratic Legislature rampant in Indiana, will likely prove too much, even for so able and experienced a statesman. There is some talk that both Mr. Hendricks and Mr. McDonald will endeavor to hold the whip-hand of the Legislature, and restrain the excesses to which incautious partisans would like to go. On the contrary, it is said that Mr. McDonald has engaged rooms in Washington for the winter, and will be there from and after the 15th instant. The Chicago Union Veteran League adopted resolutions condemnatory of Fitz John Porter, st a meeting held on Wednesday night. The whole country is not in a general gush of “vindication” for the General who wrote, after the disaster to which he had contributed, “l hope, now, Mac’s (McClellan’s) star is also in the ascendant.” Major H. P. Kktciiam. who has been nominated to be appraiser of merchandise at New York, vice John Q. Howard, whose only qualifications for the place under a “civil service reform” administration par excellence, was that he wrote a lickspittle biography of Rutherford B. Ilayes, is a subordinate officer in the department, and thoroughly competent by ability and experience to fill one of the most important places in the customs service. The result of the special election in I)r. ITpdegraff’s district in Ohio, the Sixteenth, is the return of Mr. Taylor, the Republican candidate, by very near She usual party majority. That is an indication that the people are getting their head again after the storm of November. Now, if the Republicans of the Ninth district can elect Mr. Doxey on Tuesday next, it will be another straw in the same direction, it will show that the present attitude of the Democratic party is appreci ated by the people, as well as the fact that the Republican puny is the only political organization that is really amenable to a sound public opinion. There can be no question that the Washington special, emanating from Democratic sources, with respect to Commissioner Dudley. is absolutely and unqualifiedly without foundation. Colonel Dudley has made a splendid commissioner, and his services are recognized by all branches of the government. But there is a deep and constantly deepening feeling in the country that the pension rolls should be and must he purged. In the interest at once of honorable and deserving pensioners, and of the government, whose resources are being so heavily diawn upon to meet the increasing demand in this behalf. The country can never do too much for tiiose who really need its care, and there Is no spirit of parsimony in treating with those to whom it would he an insult to talk of paying for invaluable services. But it i u notorious and confessed that fraud has crept into the pension* r< U-. and that it cannot well’be k• , ‘ oui under the present legis lntion. This must he weeded out and prevented, a work in which all honorable soldiers ami deserving pensioners should he foremost. We republish the article upon Ma o; Doxey which appeared in the Sentinel of this city on the 28th of August. 1882, only four months ago. The Sentinel now says the expression of confidence in Mr. Doxey was not its own. but that of an Anderson correspondent. We looked the matter up yesterday. The Sentinel of that date contained a “write-up” of the city of Anderson, in which occurred this lengthy eulogy upon Mr. Doxey. It was written by editorial order, a piece of special work which all newspapers occasionally indulge in, and the article and the writer, Mr. W. M. Carr, received special and full indorsement in a leading editorial. The attitude of the Sentinel in now attempting a disclaimer is, if anything, mote ut'erly contemptible than to personal attack upon Mr. Doxey after it had said that, “politics excepted, the Sentinel has a high opinion of Mr. Doxey’s character.” To-day the consolidated Commercial Gazette, of Cincinnati, makes its first appearance. Whatever may be the excellence of the new paper the readers and friends of each are certain to be disappointed. Those who have favored the Commercial and its course in the past will miss its characteristics, while those who for a half century have been accustomed to the conservative yet straight-forward course of the Gazette will look in vain for what so long has been a political guide to them. For years the Gazette and Commercial have differed widely as to men and measures, as widely at times as if the latter had been radically Democratic. As a consequence it will be impossible to reconcile these differences in the new paper. It will be neither the Gazette of old nor the Commercial. The man who made the Com-

mercial what it was cannot so far sink his individuality as to give to the readers of the Gazette that which has so long found favor with them. An excellent paper, doubtless, will be published; but in editorial conduct it Can neither be hot nor cold, and a large constituency of each, but particularly of the Gazette, will be cut adrift. And while many of them will give allegiance to the new concern, others will seek elsewhere for what they miss. For years the Gazette has been a landmark of Western Republicanism. Steady, vigorous and consistent, it enjoyed the confidence of a constituency composed of the best men in the region of its circulation. Bur, as we have already said, whatever else the new paper may be, the Commercial Gazette will be neither the one nor the other in its editorial management. The oil of the Gazette and the water of the Commercial may be confined in one vessel, but they will not mingle.

THE FIFTY THIRD GENERAL ABSEMBLY. The General Assembly of Indiana meets to-day. The caucuses last night arranged for the officers to be elected, and as the Democrats have a working majority in both branches there will be no delay in the organization of either house. The Governor’s biennial message will probably be delivered to a joint session this afternoon, and the Legislature put into possession of the facts and recommendations upon which they can at once proceed to the work before them. The constitution of the State limits the regular session to sixty days, and we think we can announce decisively that there will be no extra session this year. Therefore, all the work to be done must be done within the period of sixty days. The Democratic party has the full responsibility of the Legislature, and upon it will be cast the entire burden it was so anxious to assume throughout the last campaign. Already there are unpleasant in dications of the spirit in which the legislation of the session will be undertaken, and tiiat it will be characteristically Democratic there can be little doubt. White the mouths of Democratic campaign orators were filled with professions of reform, and the columns of their party papers teemed with fine sentiments, the real “organized appetite” has early and strongly manifested itself, and the motto of the present session is likely to be to go for everything in sight. The Republican members of the Legislature can only do what a fearless and honest minority should do. and having exhausted that power and influence, must leave to the majority the responsibility of whatever partisan measures they may be rash and impetuous enough to force through. It is apparent that the benevolent institutions will suffer. Thera will be indecent haste to repeal the law, enacted hv a Democratic General Assembly and approved by a Democratic Governor, simply and solely to retain partisan control of a few offices, and thereby the management of these great trusts. A metropolitan police bill for Indianapolis. a measure conceived in partisan malignity, and which, false in principle and ruinuous in administration wherever tried, has made local city government a byword and reproach, may presently be passed, and there will be no limit to the greed with which the party managers will proceed to parcel out whatever they can lay their hands upon to feed party cormorants or to aid in an arrogantly-assumed victory in 1884. The developements of the weeks since the election in November, and particularly of the last few days, make it reasonably certain that the people of Indiana can expect little consideration of the public welfare by the present General Assembly where it may be presumed to come into conflict with supposed party necessity. In all this the Republican members have a plain, straightforward duty. They will work to ir conscientiously and with all the force and influence a minority can command. It may be in their power to prevent some things and to modify others, but when the majority have made up their minds to disregard everything but the compelling impulse of party, the Republicans must and will allow the Democracy to shoulder the full responsibility of all questionable legislation. The matter in which there will be the greatest general interest is the disposition to be made of the pending constitutional amendments, particularly of the prohibitory and woman suffrage propositions. In the last campaign the Democratic party valiantly assumed the initiative upon this question, and the Republican party will aid them in the derivation of all the pleasure and profit there may be in its determination. With a cowardice strangely in contrast with the flaunting assurance of last spring, the effort will now be made to evade the entire question by securing a report from the Judiciary Committee, made up under Democratic auspices, that the technical fault discovered by Mr. Rice readers the several amendments null and void, as though tiiey had never passed the last Legislature at all. It is possible some Republicans can be secured to unite in such a report or to vote for its adoption; but if such there be, they will not represent the Republican party in that action, but.stand alone for themselves. The Republican party of Indiana did not make a dishonest campaign before the people. The Republican senators and representatives will vote to agree to the pending amendments, and then will vote for their submission at a.special election. The Democrats, if defeated in the first part of their scheme to kill the amendments, may endeavor to force an agreement and submission at the general election of 1884. But the two questions arc entirely distinct, and the Democrats can be made to face the question squarely of agreement or disagreement.

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Should there be an agreement, then the Republicans are bound by their pledges to the people to vote steadily against their submission at a general election. The Republican path is plain, straightforward and honest. It can only become complicated and tortuous by an effort to evade the spirit and letter of the platform upon which the campaign was conducted. The Journal does not believe there will be the slightest disposition on the part of any Republican to treat the amendments in any other way than as the party platform pledged them, and under which solemn contract with the electors of their districts they hold their seats. There will be many matters of remedial legislation before the Assembly; questions upon which the people feel deeply, and against the proper settlement of which there is now no constitutional bar. One of these is official fees and salaries. The Journal has already expressed what it believes to be the best public sentiment upon this long-vexed subject, and the session should not pass without the passage of an intelligent and effective law. At least, if it does, the fault must be made to rest exclusively with the Democratic majority. These matters will be developed from day to day as the session proceeds, and there will be full discussion of them as their relative merits demand. The people are alive and alert. They are able to make their wishes known, and they will do so, through petition and through the columns of the public press, which stands much nearer to the popular thought and will tli: n any other agency. While, as we have said, we do not look forward to much of good as the result of a legislative session begun in the narrow, arbitrary and aggressive partisan spirit which has marked the Democratic majority in their preliminary words and works, the Journal yet extends to all members, regardless of party, a warm and cordial welcome to the capital of the State, hoping that, personally, the ensuing sixty days may be barren of any sort of trouble to them or to their families or to their business affairs, and that at the end the summary of their work may be such as to bring to naught all forebodings, and minister to the permanent social, political ami material welfare of the State, whose prosperity has been so largely committed to their hands.

THE SUPREME COURT. The Journal trusts the Supreme Court, or at least Justices Howk, Niblack and Zollars, will not feel “intimidated.” Judging from the tone of the Sentinel, these tiiree Democratic judges have been thrown into an ague because of the Journal giving publicity to the expectations of their party friends that they will override the law and the facts and common sense, in order to give a few hungry leeches possession of the offices of this county. The Sentinel and the "Democratic contestants evidently entirely and exclusively upon the partisan majority of the Supreme bench, and it was this disgraceful fact to which we called attention. If these unprincipled people have this reliance, and if they have any grounds for it, they should be shrewd and discreet enough to keep it quiet, and not blab in advance on the street corners of the dirty work they expect the Supreme Court to perform for them. There is not a respectable lawyer, unbiased by partisan prejudice, who will say the Republican tickets at the late election were illegal because of the thickness of the paper upon which they weie printed. There is not a respectable lawyer who will say the Democratic ballots were illegal because of the thinness of the paper, or because they were narrower than tiie law provides. There is nothing in either Republican or Democratic tickets to indicate any attempt upon the part of the one party or the other to gain unfair advantage in the nature of the ballot prepared, and when the Sentinel talks of the voting of double ballots and pretends that such were voted, it talks what it knows to be false and absurd—an impeachment <>f the honesty and efficiency of the Democratic members of the various election boards—and only so talks to boister up an utterly impossible and puerile contest. The election of November last, in this county, was one of the most honestly-fought, and fairly conducted, so far as the actual voting and counting were concerned, of any ever held, and this the Sentinel and the Democratic party know full well. They had every advantage, and after a contest unparalleled in our political history, a majority of the electors of Marion county expressed their judgment favorably to the Republican candidates for county offices. It is this verdict which is sought to be set aside upon a paltry quibble for a dishonest purpose, and we again say the partisan majority of the Supreme bench, upon whom the tricksters and conspirators so confidently and fondly rely, dare not do what is asked and expected of them. They cannot hold themselves and their judicial character so low as the jobbers estimate. Two, at least, of the three have a recollection of what the people thought when an election was overthrown for a presumed personal and party consideration, and they will not be likely to invoke for themselves and their party a like public indignation that met the constitutional amendment decision, against which, however, it is but justice to say Judge Niblack delivered an able and powerful dissenting opinion. Governor Foster, in his annual message to the Legislature of Ohio, calls attention to the demand for the regulation of the liquor traffic and for the observance of a civil Sabbath in tiie interest of workingmen and the general public welfare. He advises adherence to the State platform adopted at Cleveland, calling for an amendment to the

constitution to restore the traffic to the control of the General Assembly, and also recommends that a prohibition clause be submitted to the voters of the State. The Republicans of Ohio are placed in precisely the same attitude occupied by the Republicans of Indiana throughout the late canvass —-that this question should go for decision to a direct, untrammeled and unpartisan vote of the people. On the point of the observance of the Sabbath Governor Foster asks for legislation that will restrain the carnival of drunkenness which the drinking places furnish on Sunday. The politician who does not know that these are burning questions of domestic policy, and that they will finally be settled on, some other basis than that dictated by the liquor league, is the worst fooled man in the world.

THE BENEVOLENT BOARDS. With much froth and fume the Sentinel attacks Governor Porter for his appointments to the benevolent boards, upon the ground that the last election having placed the Democratic party in power in the legislative department of the State, therefore it should have control of the executive department as well, despite the fact that the difference in the constitutional tenures of the two departments was framed with the intention of a check and balance to what might be a temporary current of popular opinion. The people of Indiana, in a constitutional way, placed the executive authority of the State for four years in the hands of a representative of the Republican party, and Governor Porter would be recreant to his duty and false to tiie spirit of the constitution were he to consider the result of the last election as at all an intimation to him to make his administration Democratic. The legislative department of the government is in the control of the Democratic party. That is distinct from the Executive, and the responsibility of each is entirely different. The President of the United States is a representative of the Republican party, put into office constitutionally for a period of four years by the election of 1880. By the election of 1882 the legislative branch of the government will be Democratic after March next. Is there a sane man anywhere who will say President Arthur should appoint Democrats to office for that reason? No man expects him to do so, and, if he did, he would righteously earn the contempt of his own party and fail to secure the respect of the opposition. So with Governor Porter. His duty is one thing; that of the Democratic party another. Such idiotic rot and drivel as the Sentinel prints is scarcely worth answering, and certainly will not have any influence upon men of sense and discretion. When the election of 1880 pronounced in favor of the Republican party, did any man pretend that Mr. John Fish back and his colleagues should get off the benevolent boards, giving place to Republicans? The Chicago Herald vigorouly remarks: “Outside of the many interested in the daily trading on 'Change, thousands of good citizens labor under the prejudice that the Board of Trade is the greatest bucket shop in the world. There is a very general impression in the public mind that there is no moral difference between giving a broker a commission to buy or sell fifty times more of wheat or grain or pork than you have money to pay for or stock to dispose of and giving an order to a bucket shop to do virtually tiie same thing. The only difference seems to the uninitiated to be one of terms and amounts rather than of morals or legality. The mantle of respectability is thrown around the full, round form of the Board of Trade operator, while the finger of pharasaical superciliousness is pointed at the spare form of the bucket shop speculator.” The Journal led out yesterday in some suggestions in this same direction. The New York Herald says: “It must be set down as a notable coincidence that in France in the year following the death of Garfield a distinguished popular leader should die with the same pathological incidents of a gunshot wound and pytemic abscesses.” The fire at Hamilton Court Palace, uear London, was probably caused by the overturning of u kerosene lamp, and a deal of criticism has been indulged in since. Strange as it rnuv appeur, petroleum has never met with favor in that country, and candles are very generally used. Even in hotels, where gas is burned only iu the balls and reception room*, can lies are used by the guests. It is related of a certain English lady visiting in Scotland, where kerosene lamps were used, that she could not sleep, being in such a state of alarm lest one should explode. The jury investigating the Hampton Court Palace fire recommeuded that regulations should be made to prevent the storage or use of mineral oils within the palace. This is supplemented by Mr. Mitford, who argues against the introduction of gas. This throws tho girls of the house buck on candles, and they cun’t be turned down, you know. A Philadelphia paper contains a eulogy upon a Baptist preacher of that section. The reverend gentleman is represented as having, by hard labor and heroic devotion during a ten years’ pastorate, raised what was a striigellng church to a substantial and prosperous footing. Through his efforts, a huge debt has been removed, as woll as many souls gathered Into tho fold. In addition to the attributes of earnestness aud faithfulness, tho minister is said to boa flue scholar, an excellent speaker, and a man who possesses the desirable faculty of making warm friends. With all these qualifications, it is not surprising to learn that this clergyman 4s iu demand elsewhere, but it is sad to know that one of such high character should bo influenced by paltry pecuniary considerations. Ho has accepted a call to another church, at a salary of $1,500 u year. Evidently he is a mercenary creature. The staid old City of Brotherly Love is getting to be sensational all at once. The twin brothers Rusk won a passing notoriety by committing suicide in company, after having, us they thought, fatally stabbed a policeman. On Mon day night, actuated by a desire for revenge of the Rusks, John Coughlin run amuck to some purpose. Armed with two revolvers, lie begun to make all the policemen he met hold up their hands. This he kept up until he had four iu a row, when he proceeded to go through their clothes Iu regular freebooter style. One finally managed to elude him, and reported at headquarters. A man was detailed to bring them Id. They met, aud a mutual fusilado began at once. Coughlin entrenched himself

behind a door-post and the bobby dropped behind a water-trough, In this position Coughlin fired fourteen shots, all going wide of the mark. The policeman emptied his revolver, two shots taking effect and producing slight wounds. Mind you, this was in Philadelphia, not Deadwood or Laredo. If Philadelphia isn’t careful, she will become as disreputable as Boston, from which city the Ford brothers had to flee. Prof. Wiggins, the Canadian weather prognosticator, is a trifle ruffled over tne levity evoked by ids prediction of a grand dynamoelectric storm and general cataclysm, the same to transpire ou the. 9th or 11th of March next, He boldly maintains that the entertainment will be given exactly as billed, with no postponement on account of the weather. Unless the plauets stop in their orbits, the storm will come, and the few lucky people who escape will never dare doubt Ins predictions again. Iu addition to the little territory first, announced as to be visited by this storui he now says that “it will be felt all over tiie world, from sea t(f sea, and from pole to pole.” Those parties who had expected to climb the North Pole on that occasion will be deterred by this, and Indianapolis people may as well get ready to flee to tho mountains. Every now and then some evil-minded person in Washington starts a ghastly rumor to tho effect that the old law is to be enforced requiring department clerks to spend the Hours between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. iu the service of the government. The employes, already exhausted witii arduous toil between 9 and 4 o’clock, with an interval for lunch, have been in favor of a civilservice reform which would shorten their daily labor. Should it be lengthened, they may resign. Reading, Pa., harbors some very eccentric citizens. Some young men with a very delicate sense of humor fired a cannon against the end of a church during a watch-meeting “just for fun.” A pious carpenter of that city is in the habit of wadiug out iuto the Schuylkill liver in order to perform his moruiug devotions. Early risers are edified with the sight of a kneeling figure iu the icy water with hands and eyes lifted after tho fashion of the infant Samuel. In Chicago when a woman kills her lover she is sent to prison for a year. In Missouri she oan shoot another woman who has slandered her aud receive an “ovatiou” from the citizeus, including the jury which acquitted her. In Kansas a woman who poisoned another for the sake of securing her life insurance is sentenced to be hanged. The question now is, in which State are woman’s rights making most rapid progress! “Dr. Yates, of Shanghai, says the Chinese pay $154,752,000 annually to quiet tho spirits of their ancestors.”—Ex, It’s cost Americans more than that sum annually to quiet the spirits of their progeny. What, with the toy pistol, the unloaded gun, aud other munitions of war, the average of life in America is greatly reduced, and the expense for flowers uud silver handles is simply euorlllollß- - to a Denver paper, the servant girls of that city are so prosperous thJt they frequently invest in corner lots. “Counts” and other fortune hunters now flud the way aii! ,lu( i to the backdoors iu preference to Galling upo the mistress oi the house. New' York has a club called “The Midday,” whose members are bouni to devote at least, one hour to the noon repast. At the end of one hour all who are uot yet bankrupted remain until they have secured a square meal. New York has a society for the protection of public morals. This is very oulspokeu. Societies which dissect private morals are commouly knowu either as gentlemen's clubs or sewiug circles. One Gebhardt, not Freddy, but Jacob W., married one woman in New York and promised to marry four more. Jacob is evidently a deceiver, aud perhaps Freddy—but what’s iu a name, anyway? Two women have been elected members of tho Philadelphia school board. Ono of them, Dr. Rachel Bodley, is deau of the Women's Medical College iu that city. *

ABOUT PEOPLES, The New York Evening Post is having anew press nuilt, ana will be issued soon as a four page paper, cut and pasted. The largest insurance upon the life of any one person in the United States is held by oue U. K. Anderson, of Titusville, Pa., and aiuouuts to $315,000. Senator Loo an, after making a three hours’ speech, the other day, attended a dinner party, and then, at midnight, was one of the lightest, brightest aud most graceful of dancers of the lancers. The first white child in the Yellowstone valley was Eilson Whitney, whose father moved tuto that country iu 1877, when the valley had only been populated one year by frontiersmen. Now the boy is attending a graded school with 130 other children. Washington Special: “It was reported this evening that Secretary Folger hud sublet his bouse on Connecticut avenue, he agreeing to give up possession ou Jan. 15. The Secretary is also reported to have said that he expected to Rail for Europe at an early day." Mrss M. T. Thomas, of Baltimore, lias won at the University of Zurich the dogree of doctor of philosophy, “suniiua cum laude,” the highest honor ever granted there. She received her elementary training in Baltimore aud afterward graduated at Cornell University. General Shicrman’s desk in the War Department is immediately before a window which looks straight, full and direct into the White House. Every time he looks up from his writing, his reading or his talking, the venerable rookery stares him in the face, but bis ambition turns elsowher9. Me. W. W. Corcoran, the Washington phi inn thropiet, received many visitors and almost countless congratulatory letters and floral tokens on Wednesday last, bis eighty-fourth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. George Bancroft were among the callers, and President Arthur sent a large gilt basket, two feet high, filled with ohoice flowers. The Princess Louise has regular features, a fine complexion and superb shoulders, and has little or no resemblance to the old royal family, but a good deal to the bouse of Saxony. She lias quick wit, tine instincts, is very impulsive aud very self-denying. She has as decided a talent for housekeeping as for the flue arts, in which practice she excels. Om aha Herald Letter: ‘ One of the oldest members of the United States Supreme Bench was heard to say, soon after Rosooe Coukling’s late argument before that court, that it was the ablest legul argument that had ever boen presented to it during bis own long service as Associate Justice. He also said that Mr. Conkiing was one of the greatest men iutelleclually of these times.” Charles F. Freeman, who sacrificed his child iu a religious frenzy at Pocassetr, Mass., three years ago, and is uow in a lunatic asj Itim, is regarded as having recovered his reason, and is likely soon to bo released, “The child’s lire was lost,” be says “through ignorance and supersition. Knowledge and science have saved mine and restored my reasou. I intend to be guided by reason through the rest of my life.” Mrs. George W. Melville, acoordiug to a writer in tho Philadelphia Press, has changed greatly since she was released from the Norristown Insane As.\ him. Bhe lias lost a great deil of flesh, and her eyes are nov sunk far baok into their sockets, while her face, pale aud haggard, plainly shows the mental suffering

she has endured. At present she is almost entirely destitute of food and money. Her servants have been discharged, and the housework is done by her daughter Maud. The money allowed her by her husband has all been spent, and she has now loss than a dollar in the house, and barely food enough to last three days. Chicago special: Mrs. Langtry moves about; the city without any of'the annoyances experienced at Philadelphia and Boston. Those who recognize her turn and look at her as she move* along, clad in her sealskin dolman, and accompanied by Miss Langtry, her chaperone. Thera is no following by mobs, no hooting, no discourtesy, or demonstration of any sort. Tho { lady was shopping, to-day; visited Marshall’s, Field’s, and other places, and found no difficulty in accomplishing her errand. Freddie Gebhardt is not on hand. Bouquet Johnny, a widely-known PhiladeU phia flower peddler, was a Langtry victim. Whether his regard for the beauty was a matter of sentiment or business is conjectural; but it is certain that he decided to give her an immense and costly bouquet in Philadelphia. He went t* her hotel, sent, up his card, and was met by * handsome young womau, to whom he hando<§ the flowers, with a neat speech. She accepter! the gift very graciously, and he retired in a state of wild delight, ouly to be plunged down to despair by learniug that ho had only seen Mrs. Langtry’s maid. Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, has become a prosy worker in New York. Ho writes cleverly as ever, in and out of rhyme, but walks Broadway with hair and collar so commonplace that he passes simnly for one man in a crowd. Miller married into the hotel-keeping family of Leland two years ago, after getting a divorce from his Pacific coast wife. He had accumulated a moderate fortune from his books, so that by writing about as much as he felt inclined to his income was sufficient for fairly luxurious llvine; but he boarded at one and another of the Leland hotels, and always more or less among stock gamblers. He caught the fever and carried his money from the bank to Wall street, where, of course, he lost it. So the poet, with a wif* and baby to be housed and fed. lias no Mine for parlor pos“ug or picturesquo eccentricities, but works hard and manfully at such composition* as will sell best.

THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. We do not anticipate that the joy of tne Democracy will take tne form of a public jubiia-'" tion when the Pendleton bill passes. There will be no bonfires and no artillery salutes.—New York Tribune. With good crops this year and no railroad building, except what is immediately necessaiy or likely to be at once profitable, the $500,000,000 expended last year can be replaced and all will be well.—Louisville Commercial. Congress should not adjourn without providing for tiie presidential succession. It is not a party measure, and can he bettor provided for now than in time of political excitement, wheu a successor to the President might have to bo arranged for. -Cincinnati Gazette. There are other evils in Chicago besides sandbagging, and if they do not arise from the same cause they certainly have a similar origin. There will be no good government for tills city while thieves are elected to make our laws, or demagogues to execute them.-Chicago lutot Ocean. Gamiietta was a born loader of the people. He hail iu him the stuff’ of a Rienzi. His element was tho storm. Living in the first revolution he would have died on the scaffold and left an imperishable name In history. Living in our own tfpocli he dies of a gunshot wound, aud his fame w’ll uot outlive the republic which ha helped to c7?ate.— New York Herald. One of the lavT* of our being is that we are the children of belief- shat by our faith we live aud are molded Into tb vessels of honor or dishonor, that actuated by 11 our possibilities are mostlj limited by its .. ‘Rht, depth and stability, an that, viewing the accomplishments of the past, we have little l oon - . *9 doubt that “faith cau rot move mountains.”—->fiobmoucl Palladium, The progress of tht medical pTOtession as whole requires that tU* ove of medical science should be tho sole technical grouud of association. The protection of tiie community would be best forwarded by discountenancing all who appeal for patronage through the use of any limiting trade mark, whether “allopathic,** •‘homeopathic,” “eclectic,” “aquatic,” "electric,** or what not,—Chicago Herald. He was the only uian in Franoe who possessed the qualities of a dictator and possibly the ability to use them. But he could neither by his death nor in his life do the French republic harm unless it were decayed within, aud ready in the oue case to fali with the removal of a prop, or, in the other, to fall an easy prey to n man who possessed many of the qualities which make the patriot yield to circumstances aud be* come tiie dictator.—Cincinnati News. Justice to a citizen and justice to the country botli require that a decision in General Porter** case shall be reached promptly, and that it shall be based on a careful weighing of tho testimony, uninfluenced by partisan prejudice or any sentimental considerations of clemency. Whatever the result, General Logan has evidently made tiie great speech of his life, aud it gives him marked prominence at a time when the Republicans are casting about for presidential candidates.—Louisville ( ommercial. Wherever there is a man who served faithful* ly at any time during tiie war, and whoso disabilities are such as to preclude him from obtaining a respectable livelihood, let suchaouo be properly cared for. Wherever there is nil indigent widow of a soldier who perished in battle, let her draw a pension. But the undeserving should be cut off from the pension rolls, and t lie only way to bring this about is to pubilslt tiie list and subject them to the scrutiny of the ex-soldiers themselves. -Cleveland Leader, Vooriibes is one of tho survivors -not numerous, but. pestilent—of the class formerly known as “doughfaces," but tho model on which he fashions his features to attract tho admiralioimof the South is, happily, out of date. Ho excite* more contempt and indignation than admiration. One of the most encouraging signs for the political future of the Nation is the wholesome disgust which such performances as his inspire in the more intelligent and iuttuc.ntial minds of tiie Democratic party of the South.—Now York Times. ______________________ The Approaching Session of tho Legislature. Corresnondeuce Cincinnati Gazette. The Governor’s message will be submitted on Thursday morning, immediately after the organization of both houses. The general opinion seems to be that the session will be* comparatively tame one. There arc no matters of great public interest to come up, and it is understood that Governor Hendricks and ex-Senator McDonald will keep a close rein on the Democratic members in order to prevent any foolishness, if possible. Indeed, it is announced that the lattA* gentleman will give receptions to the members regularly during the session, the objects of which will doubtless be to help on liis presidential boom and permit him to act as a safety-valve to the legislative majority. There will be no special session this year. A Terrible Arraignment. v •Special to Globe-Democrat. The continuation of General Logan’s speech on the Fitz John l’orter hill is the main subject of comment and discussion here among the politicians and soldiers. His arraignment of Porter was terrible, and while the Western men and volunteers, and most of the regular army people, are applauding the speech to tho echo, a few of “the old army” crowd are denunciatory, and claim that Logan is only bidding for the volunteer vote for the presidency. General Porter arrived at Willard’s, this morning, from New York, and was present on the floor of the Senate chamber with Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, during the whole of Logan’s speech. -* Mr. llarnes’ Life. Chicago Letter. It is quite probable that the life of Barnes, the mountain evangelist, written by W. T. Price, Esq., of your city, and formerly of the editorial staff of the Courier-Journal, will be published in this city. Work for Every Man. Philadelphia Times. There is work for every man, even foi Private Dalzell. Let Mr. Dalzell bend hiuu self to the task of ascertaining how many heroic sutlers are drawing government p n sions. i