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DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SOX. |*or Rates of Subscription. etc.. see Sixth Pair©. THURSDAY, MARCH 1, ISSB. Democratic bulldozing of Lieutenant-gov-ernor Hanna has not proved successful. Up to the present time the Republican minority in the State Senate has not been intimidated. Will the Democratic bulldozers make a note of this fact? The calling of an occupant of the chair of she Senate “an underling” betrays the gentlemanly character and breeding of the person who uses the language. Senatof Hilljgass, who voluntarily assumed the role of defender-in-chief to Lieu-tenant-general Heffren, C. S. A., was a conspicuous figure in Tuesday night’s disgrace In the State Senate. The scenes in the State Senate on Tuesday night were disgraceful beyond description, *>ut thoroughly in harmony with a body the majority of whose members place themselves under the leadership they have. Like master like man. The Democracy held that a corrupt or careless clerk can defeat the constitutional right of the people, and they now advance the proposition that a Speaker of the House can nullify the solemn action of the two branches *f the General Assembly. Eastern politicians are discussing (jeneral ?ohn F. Miller. United States senator from California, as a probable Republican canai-. for President. It is thought that he could carry the Pacific States and also Indiana, which these gentlemen regard as doubtful. It may as well be determined now as at any >ther time whether the Speaker of the House of Representatives has an absolute feto power, a power over which there is no possible reconsideration. We shall be very willing to meet the Democratic party on this Issue. A joint committee of the Arkansas General Assembly has reported that the kite State Treasurer and Governor, Thomas J. Churchill, is short in his accounts to the amount of "$294,000. A resolution was passed instructing the Attorney-general to bring suit against Churchill and his bondsmen.

What authority had Mr.’John R. Wilson, of the House of Representatives, to say in the Senate that unless the metropolitan police bill.is passed no State institution shall get a cent of money? Mr. Wilson may find that he is not the sole arbiter of the destinies of the people and the goverment of the State of Indiana. The statement is made that a motion to reconsider the vote on the general appropriation bill has been made in the House. This is not true. No motion was made either on the day of the passage or on the day following, and no such motion or notice of motion can be found on the journal unless it is interpolated by fraud. The judiciary committee of the lower house of the Pennsylvania Legislature has favorably reported a bill providing that if the authorities of Philadelphia will furnish, without cost to the State, suitable accommodations fur the executive business and for £he sessions of the Legislature, that city shall ‘je made the capital of the State. There was a rumor fiying about the Legislature, last night, of an attempted impeachment of Lieutenant-governor Hanna, and a superserviceable representative was running around among the senators to find out their desires. Such a proceeding as that would be hailed with pleasure by both Governor Hanna and the Republican party. By all means, impeach. The disgraceful and revolutionary attempt of t.ie Democracy, last night, under the lead of a drunken senator, to put a creature of their own in the presiding chair of the Senate caused a scene the like of which lias not been known since the double-headed Senate of the days of Jesse D. Bright. The conspirators were foiled by the coolness and courage of Senator Spann and Lieutenantgovernor Hanna. The Democrats may find themselves playing with edge tools that arc very dangerous. The Republicans are accustomed to facing rebels and revolutionists. A special to the Journal from Elkhart gives the particulars of the recently reported “faith cure” at that place. It seems that the “procuring cause” was a devout person in Boston, who fixed upon 3o’clock of a certain day when prayer was to be offered, and that It was “precisely” 3 o’clock at Elkhart cn the day named when the cure was effected. There is a difference in time between Boston and Elkhart of about sixty-five ruinates, so it would seem that the “faith cure” is limited, as it were, by human circumstances and conditions. We do not quite grasp the matter, but it would appear as if a tog were out of this miracle somewhere. An esteemed contemporary has had somewhat to say about ‘the insurance steal”— the title hv which the publication of the acmi-annual statements of foreign insurance companies is denominated by those papers which have failed, because of their limited jirculation, to secure the business. All we have to say to this particular disgruntled, which now and then refers to “a tunnel” between the Journal and the Sentinel upon this subject, is, that the law for the publication of these insurance statements was passed before the existing proprietorship of

the Journal. The present proprietors of the Journal found the law on the statute book and applied for the business under its terms, and have received it because this paper has “the largest general circulation of any daily paper in the State.” If there is any “steal” in it, or if there was “a tunnel” between the Journal and the Sentinel in the passage of the act, the “steal” and the “tunnel” were projected and carried through while the Journal was owned and managed by a gentleman who is understood to be now fbe largest and most interested stockholder of the esteemed contemporary referred to. We suggest that there is no trouble whatever in that paper learning the truth and the whole truth. Our disappointed friend has all the evidence within its own control.

ASYLUMS AND PRISONS. In view of the action of the General Assembly whereby the benevolent institutions of the Stale of Indiana are to be turned over to the tender mercies of party bummers, our people will be more keenly alive than ever to the possibilities of cruelty and inhumanity to the poor people who are unfortunate enough to be confined within them. From what has been made public lately there can be no doubt that the grossest abuses exist in a widespread degree in very many public institutions, most generally the insane asylums and the prisons. It is doubtless impossible to entirely do away with neglect and actual wrong in the very best managed institutions of this nature, and it must therefore be left to the imagination what is possible, if not probable, when these sacred trusts are abandoned to the fell spirit of party, as they have been in this State. Not long since, indeed it was only when the present management first assumed charge of our asylums, stories of inhumanity and wrong were rife, and they were partly substantiated by reasonable proof. It was notorious that attendants were made from the hangers-on of saloons, and ward politicians were put into places of more or less responsibility. There has been an evolution from this chaotic condition incident to the early days of the sudden and arbitrary change made by the Democratic Legislature of 1879, yet even at the best, and only lately, there have been givings out of cruel treatment of patients at the Insane Asylum, while it has been shown publicly and notoriously that commitments to that institution were managed with the grossest carelessness and open to the largest abuse. Yesterday the Journal received a letter from an ex-attendant of the asylum making general statements of the character of the treatment accorded to some of the inmates, which we hesitate to entertain; yet the investigations into the Dixmont Asylum at Pittsburg, and elsewhere, show that great cruelties are practiced in ihese institutions, and that in the worst form the horrid scenes pictured in “Hard Cash” are daily enacted behind walls which give forth to the public no intimation of what goes on within their inclosure. New York, Massachusetts, and now Pennsylvania, have each in turn made inquiry into the conduct of their insane asylums, and, without exception, investigations which were made to investigate have revealed the most appalling and discouraging condition of things. We are making no charges against the present management of the Insane Asylum in this State; but we do say that the past of the institution, immediately after a radical change, has not been blameless, and that at the end of four years there are yet rumors affecting it. And if this be true, with the almost inevitable tendency to heartless treatment, as shown by the examination of similar institutions elsewhere, what may not be feared when, as soon to be inaugurated, there shall be a change in the management more or less sweeping, notoriously based upon purely partisan grounds, defended upon no other consideration, and having no other even assumed motive than to furnish a few places at the State’s expense to party wireworkers and campaign bummers. People who have frieuds and relatives in these State institutions may only take courage that an outraged people will speedily reverse the action of the infamous Democratic Legislature, and that a public sentiment will be created compelling the inauguration and maintenance of such rules and regulations as will reduce the possibilities of improper treatment and mismanagement to the lowest minimum. The Journal has already adverted to the fast-thickening suspicions and the increasing volume of stories involving the management of the State prisons, and particularly that of the Southern prison. No reasonable man can doubt that there is some truth in these reports, as no honest man can doubt that the “cursory view” of the legislative prison committee, which discovered nothing wrong and had nothing to recommend, wits not intended to see anything to the detriment of a warden who dined and wined the committee, rode them over the country, chaperoned them to expensive amusements in Louisville, and generally and specifically arranged a picnic for them at public expense. Some of the members of the* committee did not accept the warden’s hospitalities, but the majority did, and their report is the natural and expected result. Louis Linn, a pardoned convict from the Southern prison, a man well known in Indianapolis, gives specific instances of the greatest cruelty and mismanagement—cruelty resulting in deatli and mismangement resulting in loss to the State. It is not necessary to believe all he says or half he says, it is not necessary to accept the whole of the stories coming from the inside of insane asylums, to be morally convinced that there is something rotten in Denmark—something that demands fearless investigation and as fearless remedy'. Allusion has been made to

THE INDIAXAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 1. 1883.

the bill proposed by General John Coburn two years since for a board of inspection of all the State benevolent, penal and reformatory institutions—inspectors with power to inspect, and with power to apply the needful remedies for such abuses or mismanagement as might be discovered. Some such system must be adopted in Indiana. Some system must be inaugurated and maintained which will lift the charities and the prisons of the State out of the control of partisan politics. Asylums and prisons must not be left the spoil of political freebooters. Bummers and scalawags must not be permitted to speculate upon either the crime or the misery of the State. Now, just as the great Democratic crime against these institutions is about to be made effective for its perpetrators, is the very time to begin the agitation, which must be kept up until public sentiment shall be so aroused that in 1885 the infamy will be effectively rebuked and a sentiment developed that will forever make a repotition of it impossible.

REPUDIATION ACCOMPLISHED. The statute authorized the provisional board for the construction of the Insane Hospital to contract in the name of the State for the brick work on the asylum building. Tiie board advertised, and out of fifteen bids received let the work to John Martin at $9 per thousand, less than Fletcher <fe Sharpe paid for the brick in their building, erected the same year aud under the same kind of management. The work was well done and highly complimented by the State’s superintendent of construction. The provisional board made three careful measurements of the work, and under their direction their measures gave the State the benefit of every doubt, and their architects and experts certified under oath to the balance due from thy State to the contractor. The statute authorized the board to give the contractor a warrant for the balance found due him. The board did give a w'arrant, but refused to include interest for tlie three years during which they had kept the contractor out of his money'. The members of the board were all Democrats except one, the Governor, ami they sent the contractor to the Legislature for an appropriation to pay his warrant. Five different committees of the Legislature, and all which ever investigated the claim, reported to that body that the debt w T as an honest one, and recommended payment. There is not a man in the State who knows anything about the matter who does not know that the claim is a just and honest one. If it had been due from an honest man it would have been paid at the completion of the work. If it had been due from a dishonest but solvent man the money would have long since been collected. The sovereignty of the State, which cannot be sued in the hands of dishonest men has brought the contractor to grief. Twenty-two thousand dollars more money than John Martin received from the State is in the walls of the asylum, and the bank from which he has it borrowed is abused by the honorable members, and the contractor denounced as having presented a “thieving claim;” an honest laboring man is laughed at and his claim stricken out of the appropriation bill, and the action of the provisional board and the warrant of the State repudiated. This action has cast a stigma upon the State, and is an outrage upon every honorable workingman of Indiana. It is another disgrace of this most disgraceful Legislature. Speaker Bynum, with the aid of the clerk of the House, is trifling with his constitutional duty with respect to the general appropriation bill. When asked w’liy it was not yet signed, the Speaker said it would be so soon ns it was enrolled and laid before him. When asked why it was not enrolled, Dr. Edwins said there were so many amendments it had not yet been possible to do it. The clerk has had two days and a half in which to enroll this measure, and if the work is not yet completed it is evidence of incompetence or worse in the clerk’s department. The truth is that the purblind Democrats imagine they can bulldoze the Republican minority into allowing the passage of all partisan legislation by the threat that they r will force a special session by withholding authentication from the general appropriation bill. Tiie suggestion shows the revolutionary character of the Democratic majority', but w r e apprehend no court w’ould be found to uphold the proposition that a malignant or corrupt officer of the Legislature could defeat completed legislation in the manner proposed. But this is only another incident in the daily history of the most infamous legislative body the State of Indiana was ever cursed with, except probably the disloyal Legislature of 1803. The metropolitan police bill again occupied the attention of the Senate yesterday', and caused another protracted night session. According to agreement, a vote was taken at 4 o’clock, and the bill received twenty-sevea votes, Senator Youclie voting with the majority for the purpose of moving a reconsideration, which he at once did, and tlie debate again commenced. Notwithstanding the fact that a motion to reconsider lmd been entered, the secretary of the Senate made up a message to the House, hurried off with the bill to the Speaker and had it signed by that officer. This is a sample of the tactics pursued by the Democratic majority and their servants to foist this measure upon the citizens of Indianapolis, a measure the outrageous nature and purpose of which we have attempted to expose, and which are well understood by the people of the city and State. Senator Fletcher once more stated that the people of Intlianapolid, with whom he is acquainted desired the

passage of the law, which led his Republican colleague and others to remark that they feared the Senator’s associates were such as no one would care to invite to his table. If any curious person wants to know the kind of people urging this bill, let them look at the red-nosed and blear-eyed bummers in the lobby, the men who “set up” the lunch and the drinks for the honorable Democratic statesmen who disgraced their manhood, and the Senate as well, by the ribald scenes of Tuesday night’s session. The Republicans are making a gallant and well-equipped fight against the measure, and should they succeed will deserve and receive the thanks of every honest man in the community. The bill is one that should be defeated at every hazard that will not necessarily involve the necessity for a special session. If this cannot be, and it must become a law*, it will fitly' round out the record of a Legislature that will go into history as the most infamous in the annals of the State.

Here is a little string of gelns, so to speak pearls of thought, respecting the Democratic Legislature, taken from the columns of the New Albany Public Press, a Democratic paper edited by Mr. JosiahGwinn, a member of the last Democratic State central committee. Read them: “Legislature, give us a rest.” “Bell and Brown be blowed.” “Governor Barter says he will not call an extra session of the Legislature. pSr Shake, Governor!” “Sixty days of such a Legislature as the present farce at Indianapolis will be enough to satisfy the people for twenty years. The longer ‘statesmen’ serve in that body the less they will be fit to run for Congress, or for any other office.” “Sixty day's’ session of the Legislature—such as the present one—is about two months too long. In that time, by its acts, it has greatly lessened Democratic prospects for 1884. Forty da.vs more of such a Legislature would beat hell.” “The present Indiana Legislature is the laughing stock and the butt of ridicule throughout the country'. There seems to be more jackasses in that body’ to the square inch than can be found elsew’here on the inhabited globe. This fool body of men ought to disband, and the Governor should never call them together again. The Senate elected a secretary and doorkeeper to start with, soon bounced the doorkeeper, then discharged the secretary and doorkeeper, elected the old doorkeeper and anew secretary, then removed them. Who in thunder is on deck now is a mystery' to most people.” Referring to the attitude of the liquor league Democracy of Illinois in obstructing legislation in the General Assembly of that State—allusion to which was made in the Journal of yesterday—the Chicago Inter Ocean say’s: “The Republicans must fight it out on this line if it takes the entire session. They cannot afford to do anything else. The motto of the iiouseof Orange, ‘I will maintain,’ should be adopted by the Republicans at Springfield. The State will sustain them in it and place the responsibility for the blockade where it really belongs. The people demand a higu-license law, and even very many who do not sympathize with that demand repudiate the attempt to defeat it by resort to disreputable, underhand, and contemptible tactics.” The Richmond Palladium has a word to offer with respect to the Indianapolis street railway' and the proposed new Metropolitan company. It says: “The existing roads belong to a Louisville company that runs them on the Dixie plan, which is designed to squeeze all the money possible out of them, regardless of the comfort and convenience of the public. There is nothing like competition to bring monopolists and old fogy common carriers to their senses. ‘Bobtail’ cars, patent labor-saving fare-collecting boxes, skeleton mules, and consolidated conductor and driver, are not up to the demands of our progressive capital. If the northern Ohio Yankees commence the business, they will paralyze the Southern syndicate.” A youno married lady, of previous good standing in Buffalo society, lias created a sensation by surrendering to the police ami accusing herself of having killed her baby with chloroform, weighted it with an ax head ana thrown it luto Niagara river. The woman’s frieuds are agreed that her troubles are caused by an aggravated case of mother-iu-law, but are divided in opinion as to tiie truth of her story. Some believe that tho poor creature was driven to Insanity through persecution and fear of having her child taken uway from her, and killed it, while others think that the baby is alive, and that the mother has hidden it nwav under tho impression that she can get it agaiu without restriction from her husband’s peoplo. Red Cloud's formal address before tho committee on appropriations last week was carefully drawn up in writing, slgued by the Sioux chief, and witnessed by Laramie. It read as follows: “Law Chiefs—l sin an Indian! Look at me! My name la R**d Cloud. I have sense. Tiie government, through General Crook in 1876, took wr< nglully 605 horses from me and m.v people. I tinve sense; so have my peoplo. I represent them. I am in debt, and nave a large family. Secretary Teller asks me to take cowr for my horses. If the government gives me all the cows ihey have already promised, I will have more kiue than we can milk. lam a mail of sense. I want money to pay my debts. Law chiefs, pay me not hi cows, but cash. lam at peace; lot me remain ihus,’’ Governor Ben Butler, having had his “attention called” to anew version of tiie spoon story, takes the trouble to card the Boston papers and deny the charge. He says he never stole a coffin full of spoons, and that, the only horseß ho took out of New Orleans were the same ones he had taken there from Massachusetts. Benjamin is a reformer, and this should settle the mutter- Now let us have peace. A PITTBBUBO man attended tho salvation army moetingF aud regularly escorted one of the female piivines to her home. His wife finally went to a meeting herself, and when the warriors were inarching down stairs she fell upon the female private, snatched her baldlieaded aud routed the whole army. The female private will go homo alone after she recovers from her wounds. A widow, “about to remarry,” writes to an exchange begging to be informed as to the proper finger on Which to wear her second wedding ring, all the space on the regulation finger boiug occuided by tne broad circlet placed there by number one. It is only through such little incidents as this that a cold, unfeeling world knows anything about the trials aud tribulations or relicts. Electric tricycles, running at the rate of seven ot- eight miles an hour on a smooth road, are now in use in London. The power is stored in an accumulator of a capacity which allows a tou-nille stretch. Unless a dynamo machine can be found at either end of the route the traveler is under tho necessity of carrying his vehicle home should ho not count the miles correctly,

thus making the invention of less utility than it might otherwise be. The carriage of tho future may be run exclusively by electricity, but lu the present stage of that science ami the cost of producing the power other means of locomotlou arc likely to prevail. Gilbert and Sullivan intimate that their next comic opera will treat of the theme of Socialism. They say, however, that if “lolanthe” runs another season in London no new opera will be needed there, and it would not pay to issue one exclusively for tbo American market. Tho American public will hope that “lolanthe” will hold over. OF the thirty-six Annapolis cadets who took part in the naval academy disturbance thirtyone have apologized for their conduct, but the remaining five are still stiff-necked and refuse to repent. Biroh switches were probably spared by the parents in the early training of these five youths. To the Editor oi tho Indianapolis Journal: Was the Ohio river twenty milos wide at Evansville. Ind., within the past week! Answer through yor columns. A SUBSCRIBER. Shelbyville, Ind. Possibly not just at Evansville, but in that vicinity it is very probable that the river was even wider. ABOUT PEOPLE. Oliver Wendell Holmes has taken the pledge. That is to sav, he has promised himself he will not. lecture any more. A twelve-year-old girl in Holmes county, Miss., whose parents are as black as native Africans, has white ears, cheeks and nose, and the color is spreading over her whole body. The late ex-Oovernor Morgan remembered in his will every relative he or his wife has alive, every servant in his household and every olerk and messenger boy in his office, besides leaving over $500,000 to charity. The largest man iu the British service is Lieutenant Sutherland, of the Fifty-sixth regiment. He is six feet four Inches high and weighs twen-ty-six stone, so that in consequence of his great bulk he does not look specially tall when.walking alone. It is believed in Canadian official circles that tho Prince of Wales will reach Montreal the first week in Maroli, and stay iu America until the Science Associatiou meeting iu 1884, making a journey through the United Statos and tho far Northwest. Dorr’s life was almost free from feminine influences. Apart from his mother, no woman seems to have filled any prominent place in his life. The greatest detect iu his talent, or rather a curious *oid in it, was his inability to do justice to female beauty. A lady of high social position iu London writes to a friend In this country: “The detractors of Mr. Wilde will be glad to know that upon his return to London with his pile of American dollars he *!r.cc* precisely half of the amount in the hands of his mother.” It Is reported that Mrs. Langtry, at the end of her theatrical engagment, intends to take up I her permanent abode in New York city. She has recently been the purchaser of real estate there, and the purpose of her present visit is to complete the legal forms of the transfer of the property. Sarah Bernhardt is disconsolate. Her husband, having left the stage because his talent was not of the highest order, offered himself to ids country for service in Algiers, but was rei jected by the medical examiners aud has re- ; turned. Her jewels brought very little, and, | meanwhile, her famtly r is about to bo augmented. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and daughter were guests at a recent ball at Jacksonville, Fla She asked a newspaper correspondent if an account of the ball would be sent to Northern papers. “Yes, and I shall says Mrs. Stowe was at the ball.” She put up her bunds in mock pleasantry aud remarked: “What will the deacons say!’’ A good many people may still remember Mr. George S. Phillips, who, about twenty years ago, was the literary editor of tho Chicago Republican. Many of his friends have long thought that lie was dead, but on Tuesday It was learned that he is still au inmate of the Morristown, N. J., lusane Asyiuiu, where he.was placed ten years ago. j AN English society paper says that Mrs. HicksLord is shortly to be married to a wealthy nobleman of, England. “She is worth,” it says, “£2,000,000 herself, and has survived three husbands—Mr. Hicks, Mr. Lord and Mr. Charles O’Conor, an eminent lawyer. It is not known whether she is marrying for love or iu the interest of some cemetery association.” Mary Irene Hoyt, daughter of the late Jesse Hoyt, committed to the Frieuds Insane Asylum, near Philadelphia, iu June last, lias been released, pronounced sane. She says she was put out of the way; to keep her from her father’s death-bed, and will contest his will on the ground of uudue influence. The physieians’certificate upon which Miss Hoyt was committed was not filed, and tho physicians are cited to the court to explain. Governor Butler was shown through the White House on Monduy, and intimated that he would like to occupy it only four years. He next visited the Capitol, ami spent half an hour on the House floor talking to members. He incidentally mentioned that he had been to the White House, and a Democratic member asked: “Governor, will McDonald find it necessary to make any repairs in tbe building iu 18851” The Governor smiled sickly, A woman was the only passenger in a Montana stage except her baby, whom she wrapped in her fur cloak, leaving herself unprotected from the zero temperature. The driver saw that she was beuuinbed and would freeze to death unless aroused to violent exercise. He dragged her from the- coach and left her by the roadside. “Oh, my baby!” she cried. The driver cracked his whip.* The stage flew over tho snow with tbe woman running after. The race was kept up for nearly two miles, when the driver took the mother in again and wrapped his coat around her. Hu had warmed her blood and saved her life-

TOPICS OF THK TIME. It may he well enough to mix leniency and gentleness with justice in the treatment of the mass of well-behaved convicts in a prison, but insubordinate, refractory uud.’daring prisoners should he held to forfeit their lives whenever they resort to arson or insurrection.--St. Louis Republican. The church has not so strong a hold upon the public as it once had. Nothing will more readily tend to loose the bonds that yet exist than such Beanduls as have been caused by tho late disclosui’ea in connection with the Isabella mine, and now in the disaster to the Lawrence ecclesiastical savings bauk.—New York Herald. The national government cannot, any more lawfully undertake to protect the cotton lands of the Mississippi bottoms than the dock* and streets of tiie cities aud towns in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. There is no longer the shred of an excuse for going any further with the $60,000,000 scheme for “improving” the Mississippi. —Boston Herald. The peoplo of this country are not going to violate any just obligation to other nations, and to humanity and justice; but they are not going to be in haste to deliver up agitators charged uh accessaries where the crime was clearly the result of political causes and tho loading theme and motive political anl of long standing.— Cincinnati News. The fact is that revision of tho tariff is a wellnigh impossible work to bo performed in these legislative bodies. Their rules, however wise and even necessary they may be for the dispatch of ordinary business, are such that lhe passage of a well-considered, well-adjusted and harinonimis bill of this kind is never to be expeoled.— New York Tribune. The condition of the laboring classes in tho United Stales during the last dooado has been better than it ever was before. There is a larger

percentage of intelligence among them; they ea better food, wear better clothes, read bettef newspapers, enjoy better schools, and a greater number of them become tho bloated capitalists which the agitators affect so much to abhor.— Louis Globe-Democrat. The cause (civil-service reform) can never go backward. The sanction now given to It is as irrevocable as the proclamation of emancipation. It has nmny stages yet to pass through, many transformations to undergo before it finally emerges from the chrysalis state. But it is in good hands, and whether its immediate fortunes be good or ill, the country will not forget or desert It.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Even accepting all that the informer has slated about Mr. Sheridan as correct, public seu'imenc in this country would not stamp him as a murderer or as guilty of treason. It must be remembered that it is different in England, and that hasty words to which no regard would be paid by the law iu this country constitute a treasonable offense there. Admitting all that has been said about him, he is guilty or a political offense. —Chicago Tribuno. The games of thimble-rig, three-card monte and brace faro are fair and even in comparison with the “heads I win and tails you lose” future dealing by small operators. Every young man, and old one, too, for that mutter, should avoid these sink-holes of so-called speculation as they would a lazarer. All intelligent observers read with pleasure the reports that there is a dearth of this sort of “business” in the great trade oen* ters.—Bt. Louis Republican, Our doctrine that one man is as good ns another, save iu respect to purely natural endowments. excites a smile of contempt among our European friends. But we have the satisfaction of knowing that it does not divide our free society into haughty, pretentious and absurd aristocrats; a cringing, toadying middle class, who avenge their slights from above upon those below them, and an unknown, uncared-for mass ot struggling wretches at the bottom.—New York Times. A BULLDOZER’S HOWT,. The Wrath Provoked by an Attempt to Make Democrats Answer for Their Crimes. Aiken (S. 0.) Recorder (Dem.) Again is the disgraceful attempt to be made to convert an American court or justice into and engine of opression as infamou9 as any ever utilized by the Spanish Inquisitors or the brutal Jeffreys. Brewster, the moral monstrosity and dandified baboon who disgraces the Nation by the position which ho occupies at the head of the Department of Justice, is determined that a batch of South Carolina Democrats must be convicted and sent to the Albany Penitentary at the April term of the United States Circuit Court which will be held in Charleston. Quiet ana respectable citizens are to be dragged from the bosom of their families to the neglect of their daily avocations, at a most critical period of the year, and made to confront an array of perjured witnesses who, with malice in their hearts and red-hot lies on their tongue, would swear away tiie life of an angel in their lustful greed for the thirty pieces. The handcuffs must be riveted on the innocent Democratic victims, and the doors of the Albany Penitentary must close upon their hopes and liberties. The last turn of the thumbscrew is to be made, and nothing that diabolical ingenuity can devise is to be left undone. Brewster has employed this time, in the place of the brainless but brassy Sanders. an attorney by the euphonious name of Snyder to oversee Melton and keep him well up to his dirty work. Besides this,an array of detectives arc now at work manufacturing testimony and spotting suitable witnesses to perform the hellish work of perjury The juries will be made as black as Erebus if it lies in the power of the District Attorney. In other words, justice is to be burlesqued by handicapping the political prejudices of the ignorant and irresponsible negro against the honor and liberties of the white man. This is a woeful but a truthful picture of the work carved out for the next term of the United States Circuit Court. We therefore urge our Democratic fellow-citizens to be forewarned ami forearmed. Innocence is no protection when we have to grapple with villainy and tyranny. Paper Domes ami How They Are Made, New York Special. The special feature of the new observatory at Columbia college will be a paper dome. “This will be the fourth paper dome in the world,” said Professor Rees. “They have all been made by Waters & Sons, of Troy, N. Y. —the manufacturers of paper boats—and are all in this country, The first one made is at the Troy Polytechnic Institute, the second at West Point and the third at Beloit College. While that at West Point is the largest, ours is the best in construction and arrangement. The method used in the manufacture of the paper is kept a secret, tho makers using a private, patented process. The dome is made in sections —semi-1 unes, as they are technically called. There are twenty-four of these sections. They are bent over toward the inside at the edges, and bolted to ribs of wood. The thickness of the shell is only 3-32 of an inch, but it is as stiff as sheet-iron. On one side of the dome is the oblong opening for the telescope, and over this is a shutter (likewise of paper, but stiffened with wood lining) which slides around on the ouside of the dome. The whole dome is so light that the hand can turn it. The side diameter is twenty feet and the height is eleven feet. The floor of the observatory is one hundred feet above the ground; we were obliged to build it so high because of the tall buildings around it. The building is rapidly approaching completion, and the dome is already iu place.” Senator Beck’s Linguistic Accomplishments. National Republican. Senator Beck is one of the ripest scholars in Congress. It is possible that he is not “up” in so many of the modern languages as Representative Hitt, of Illinois, who is an accomplished linguist, but it is play for the sturdy Kentuckian to translate the ancient classics from the original Greek and Latin into English, and then for a rest translate English into Greek. His biographer does not state whether he can read Sanscrit backward, but he leaves it to be inferred that lie could have given the gentleman who cut hieroglyphics into the pyramids points and discount him in adiscussiou on derivation of words, and roots and signs. Vicious Legislation. Logans port Journal. Business men and the legal fraternity are Paralyzed by the passage of a bill in the louse of the Legislature which repeals the negotiative features of notes, bills of exchange, bonds, or other instruments in writing, signed J>y any person who promises to pay. The purpose of the measure is to give protection to the foolish persons who give notes to swindlers. The 1884 Candidate Settled. Michigan City Dispatch, 'Dem.) General Winfield Scott Hancock, tbe hero of Gettysburg, will be the Democratic nominee for President in 1884, and all proprietors of incipient boom3 might just as well retire from business at once, and make an assignment iu favor of the “superb.” Better Close Up Shop Now. Richmond Palladium. Judging from the past record of this illustrious Democratic failure, it would boa mercy to the State if it would close up shop and quit business to-day. Nothing good can come out of it. “Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?” In Search of the Lost Boom. Philadelphia Press. Hendricks, of Indiana, lias gone to Florida to fan his carbuncle in the shade o ! an orange grove, and dig up the boom which got swamped in the Everglades during tin hard winter of 1870-7. Only This and Nothing More, Hhelbyville Republican. So far the present Legislature has raped the benevolent institutions for the benefit o party hacks. “Simply this aud nothiof more.”