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THE DAILY JOURNAL. 15T JNO. C. NEW Jfc SOX. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pair©. THURSDAY, APRIL Iff, 1883. It will be a lonir while before Massachugets over Tewksbury. Free trade in ideas, as illustrated by Carter Harrison, was a trifle too much even for the Iroquois blood. Chicago feels pretty big when fier mayor sits down on a live United States senator, and one from the East at that. Those who escaped from the Iroquois banquet explain things by saying they have been to Oshkosh, “having some fun with the boys.” Club, remembering its recent experience, will take a little incidental protection against such men as Carter Harrison at the next annual banquet. Herr Watterson is evidently in favor of damming the Iroquois, or at least, of damming the fateful current of eloquence that swept, the little Democratic boom out of existence. The Queen has ordered Sir Garnet Wolseley to attend the St. Petersburg coronation. This is more dangerous service than Tel-el-Kebir. Why didn’t Her Majesty commission Sir Frederick Roberts? It would be pleasing to feel that Indianapolis was large enough to have competition in the matter of street railways. Cleveland capitalists indicate their confidence in it, but local statesmen have no such high opinion of the city. The members of the Iroquois Club were taxed seven dollars each for the expenses of the big feed wiiicb preceded the late awful row over free trade. This seems to have been a tariff exclusively for revenue; there was no protection, even against Carter Harrison. The Irish torpedo ram that so suddenly and mysteriously disappeared a few days ago has been heard from. She is at Pamrapo, N. J., about to undergo repairs. There is no itemized account of the number of British ironclads she ran down during her brief cruise. Because Mr. George M. Pullman, of Chicago, has given 5,000 books to the Pullman public library, a Washington editor is moved to remark that there is one corporation with a soul. It has evidently been some time since that editor has paid two dollars for the privilege of studying entomology for twelve hours in the musty berth of a “palace” car. Assistant Postmaster general Hazen is not apprehensive that the receipts of the department will be seriously atfected by the reduction of postage, which takes effect in October. In which Mr. Ilazen shows a level head and good sense. Nothing done by the last Congress was wiser and more popular than the reduction ail around in postal matters. A postal service for the people is what is wanted.

Political parties have leaders who may or may not lead, they have prominent members, they have rank and file, and many other factors which go to make up such parties; but, so far as known, only one has. as yet, the distinguished honor to possess a “head chemist.’’ The Irish dynamite party, which claims to be a political power, has a head chemist. Xlis name is Professor Mezzaroff, and he has just arrived in this country. There is a deadlock in the Illinois House of Representatives, the subject of dispute being the Bradwell-McNally contest. Mr. Owen, a Republican member, has been absent from his seat by reason of severe illness. His presence being necessary in order to secure a vote, a Pullman car was fitted up for his accommodation, and he was brought to Springfield *on Tuesday. Mr. McNally, the Democrat whose seat is contested, was at the depot when the car arrived, and after looking through a window at the pale and suffering representative, gave voice to his high sense of decency and honor in these words: “The game’s not up yet; the old duffer may croak before 10 o’clock to-morrow.” The whole contest, with this and other concomitants, is eminently and essentially Democratic. Servantgirlism is assuming new terrors to the householder. A maid-of all-work in Philadelphia has cut her throat with a carving-knife because the family refused to take her with them on their summer European tour. Such catastrophes are unpleasant, but the Philadelphia family did well to be firm, regardless of consequences. To have weakened, even with a previous knowledge that she would cut her throat if she could not go, would have established a precedent disastrous to all domestic peace. The servant girl can entertain an army of cousins at our expense; she can have seven nights and live afternoons out during the week; she can practice on our piano and see her beau in the parlor; but when we ttee across the ocean to escape her, she cannot go along. A line must be drawn somewhere, and let it be drawn at Europe. The bill of Representative Deem, of Henry county, passed by the last Legislature, makes an important change in the manner of conducting town elections, to which tDo attention of town officers should be called. It puts into practice again the custom in vogue previous to 1877. whereby all the voters of the town voted for the entire ticket of trustees, and not, as in the interval, elect their officers from and by the several wards into

which the town may be divided. Mr. Deem’s bill applies to the elections to be held next month. It provides “that in town elections there shall be but one place of voting, which shall be centrally located in the town and designated in the notice of such election given by the town clerk; provided, that the trustees of any town may, if public convenience and public good require, establish by ordinance a precinct in each ward of such town.” It will be well to have general attention called to this important change, else confusion is likely to occur. THE IRISH-AMERICAN. In view of the many wild and reckless suggestion that are going the rounds touching the part taken by the so-called Irish-Atneri-can in unlawful acts in Great Britian, the following reflections seem to be in order: In the strict legal sense we have no such class as Irish-American. Citizens of the United States and aliens make up our population. *There is no middle ground. A man cannot be an Irishman in America and by a simple shift of the scenes turn up as an American in Ireland. This dodge has been attempted recently, under the illfounded notion that the assumption of this double relation would be a shield against crimes committed in places under English jurisdiction. When the laws of our own country are violated the chief concern is to find the offenders. The only figure that can be cut, by the fact of the accused being an alien, would be to secure for him the intercession of his government to the end that he may have a speedy and impartial trial. The same methods and legal machinery are employed upon his trial and punishment, if found guilty, as though he were native born. So with any one going from this country into foreign lands. If crime be committed the offender is amenable to the laws of the land in which the deed is done. If a citizen of the United States engages in plots for murder in Great Britain he takes his chances of arrest and punishment under the laws of that country. The band of his home government could reach out no further in his behalf than to assure him a fair and speedy trial. If found guilty all the power behind the American flag must be held in abeyance while the criminal is undergoing his sentence. This rule is not only founded upon necessity, but of itself it appears to be right. There could be no adequate self-protection of separate nations without it. If a desperate band from London should come and with dynamite and torch biow up and burn this city, would the howling of a mob in London secure the release of the guilty? Certainly not. Then, upon the other hand, rampant proceedings here would avail nothing by way of release or mitigation of sentence of one of our fellow-citizens held for crime abroad. But we have often heard the suggestion of late that the part played by the Irish-Amer-ican in the turbulent affairs of Ireland will involve this country with Great 'Britain. There is no danger in this direction unless we desire to be involved. If a case should be made against any one in this country, properly bringing him within the operation of extradition laws, all that our government could do would be to rightly and promptly surrender him on proper claim. That is what we would demand of other nations, and we cannot expect successfully to demand more than we are ready to yield. But talk and fuss and public meetings do not constitute an extraditable crime. There is freedom of speech in this country, and England understands it. It is only when talk crystallizes into action that laws are broken and amenability ensues. The wind, however explosive and ill-smelling, of such men as O’Dynamite Rossa cannot involve America in trouble with Great Britain.

One of the most humiliating spectacles presented by the Democratic raid upon everything that looks like an office of trust or profit is the application and urgent solicitation of Rev. Leander Cain, of Orleans, for the chaplaincy of the Southern prison. Mr. Cain is a yoimg man, not far from twenty-live years or age. He came from Ohio a few years ago, attended the State University a short time, but for reasons not necessary to make public never graduated. Eighteen months ago he was received on trial in the Indiana Conference of the M. E. Church, and is at present the pastor on Orleans circuit, with moderate acceptability. After learning that the Democracy had taken possession of the prison, he hastened to get up a petition to be appointed chaplain in the place of Rev. Dr. Beharrel, the present incumbent, alleging, as the only distinctive qualification, that he had been a lifelong Democrat! Think of a man who has been a voter not over four years, it so long, demanding a place of such importance as the chaplaincy of a prison on the sole ground that he has been “a lifelong Democrat,” and at the expense of the removal of such a man as Dr. Beharrel, a man of nearly forty years’ experience in the ministry, and a man of acknowledged ability and culture, to say nothing of those peculiar traits which so admirably adapt him to his present calling. It is to the creditof the board of directors that they refused to make themselves a party to such an outrage, and it is now probable that Mr. Cain Trill be permitted to return to the East without the indorsement of having been chaplain of u State institution by virtue of having been a lifelong Democrat. It is the New Albany Ledger, whose Democracy will not be questioned, that talks in this fashion of the Iroquois banquet speeches: ‘ Free-trade theorists may hob nob and glorify each other, may organize mutual admiration societies, but the people are not de-

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ceived. Harrison represents votes, Humbert and Wheeler represent egotistical theorists. But they say Harrison was elected by the rabble. Indeed, then who elected Edson in New York and Stephens in Cincinnati? Theories may be very pretty, but it takes votes to elect men to office in this country, and the man or party who advocates free trade in this country at the nextelection might just as well‘butt their heads against a stone wall.’ ” THE NEW CODE. Indications are that a resort to the deadly sword or revolver as a means of settling disputes between Southern gentlemen will soon be abandoned for a safer method. Not that “honor” is a thing ot the past down there. Bless us, no. Honor of a very sensitive character still swells in the bosom of the chivalrous Southron, but if he can heal the wounds it occasionally receives without making of himself aderu’d cold, unpleasant body, there is no reason why this should not be done. And he has discovered that it can be done in a neat and satisfactory manner if he have access to the columns of a newspaper. Should he be proprietor of a paper, nothing more is needed. This mode of annihilating an antagonist has long been in vogue in the North, but its full capabilities as a paralyzer have awaited demonstration by the pens of a more tropical region. The Northern editor is a cold man, and is usually contented to impale his opponent as a horse-thief and a liar, or, in cases of extreme provocation, to allude to a contemporary as a “pole-cat among journalists.” (For particulars, see Philadelphia Press and New York Commercial Advertiser of recent dates.) The impassioned nature of the Southern gentleman finds no balm in such mild language as this, but bursts forth into words that not only burn but must fairly scorch and shrivel the unhappy offender. The Colonel who conducts the Macon Telegraph has bad the misfortune to incur the displeasure of the Colonel-editor of the Atlanta Post by some personal reflections upon the latter gentleman. The Atlanta Colonel rises in his might, and in a half-column article discloses to a wondering constituency some idea of the power that language may have. The article, with all its fiery rhetoric, is too long for reproduction here, but a few of its salient features will show that the friends of the Macon Colonel can have nothing left to do but to sadly lay in the tomb bis withered remains. “A miserable beast,” “cur,” “creature,” “coward,” is what the Atlanta editor says the editor of the Telegraph is. He is “oblivious of decency,” “a vile encroacher upon the domain of public morals,” “a scavenger of partisanism,” “a poltroon,” “a craven.” He is an “excresence upon decent journalism,” “a hyena;” he is “insolent and malignant, a stigma upon his party.” He is “unprincipled,” a “viper with envenomed fangs,” a “miserable reprobate,” a “degraded inebriate,” a “vulturous ghoul,” and being all these is finally dismissed to “share his own acquired contumely,” which must be, as, a climax to the rest, something terrible to contemplate. A study of this mode of settling insults will convince any reasonable Southern gentleman that it is far more effective than pistols and coffee for two.

Postmaster-gknkral Gresham has already seen the necessity of preservation from the lickspittles, who have made up and printed all sorts of ridiculous announcements as- to what he had already done and was intending to do in the administration of the Postoftice Department. To read the toadying proclamations one would imagine that General Gresham was a regular Sancho Panza, rather than a level-headed, judicial and self-poised man. One of the things he had done was to knock General Chalmers out of time in the first round in the matter of the Columbus, Miss., postoffice, and the country was startled to find out that an entirely new Southern policy had been blocked out and inaugurated between two days. Os course, this was all very absurd, but it served to give the lickspittles an opportunity to fawn and slobber. The Washington special to the New York Herald of yesterday quietly observes that “Postmaster-general Gresham says that if he has refused to remove Postmaster Kennon at Columbus, Miss., as has been reported, he does not know it. He has declined to make removals, but not because Mr. Chalmers asked that changes should be made. First Assistant Postmaster-general Hatton says that the case of the Columbus postmaster, whose removal Mr. Chalmers is said to have demanded, has not been presented to the Postmaster-general.” General Gresham did not take hold of the Postoffice Department with a display of sky-rockets and the blare of trumpets, and his administration of the trust will not be marked by a succession of pyrotechnic displays. The General is not that sore of a man, and nothing could be more annoying to him than the nonsense that has been and is being evolved about himself and his business methods. The Montreal Star of a recent date has an ullusion to the speech of Lord Salisbury, at Birmingham, in which the noble Lord talked about free trade. Salisbury avowed himself to be a free-trader, and acknowledged the doctrine to be the wisest policy for the world as a matter of expediency. But be claimed that if the present state of things could have been foreseen England would never have adopted free trade. In the present state of affairs “free trade,” he says, is synonymons with “no trade,” because just as the English seem to increase their fervor for free trade foreign nations seem to increase their fervor for protection. Will the free-traders of America be pleased to observe these views of a man like Lord Salisbury upon the present tendency of the world? At present England

has the absolute monopoly in free trade, and, according to the great conservative leader, there does not seem to be any pressing desire on the part of other nations to dispute the possession with her. Certainly, with the world generally committed against free trade there is little likelihood of the United States walking into the English parlor, no matter how seductively the great spider may sing its beauties and comforts. Even the New York Times casts contumely upon the effort made by Senator Bayard before the Iroquois Club. That free-trade paper says that the Delaware statesman “made a mistake in going to Chicago to ‘stand upon the highlands of vision * He appears to better advantage at a c‘ r .a .ca and in the semi-obscurity of the Senate chamber. Asa specimen of political respectability and personal dignity for his party to point to w ith pride when accused of producing only a low order of leaders he has rendered and can render appreciable service. Asa statesman challenging the confidei-Ce of the country by his utterances on great matters he is a failure. The desire of the A merican people for character and capacity in the candidates for the presidency next year is very strong. It cannot be satisfied with the southeast wind which Mr. Bayard furnishes.” The Iroquois banquet will be long remembered. It was as fateful to the Democratic party as the celebrated tariff letter of General Hancock was in 1880, when he remarked that the tariff was a local issue settled once upon a time by a vote of the town council of his native village. Whatever promise and hope the Democratic party entertained of success before the event, surely no sane man can, for a moment, hug the delusion since the awful row among the Iroquois. It is devoutly to be hoped that the New York Republicans may succeed in harmonizing themselves upon a platform and in a manner .that will insure a united front in 1884. The senseless divisions in New \ r ork have already cost very much more than the party should have been called upon to pay. There was no principle involved in the squabble on either side; it was an egotistical question of selfhood all the time; and, as the Journal has told the New Yorkers repeatedly, and Republicans everywhere and under all circumstances, the party is greater and vastly more important than any man, whoever he may be. Let U 9 clear the decks of all possible personal complications, and gird up the loins for a tussle with the common- enemy. There has been enough fighting in the party to develop the muscle and energy of the organization to a high degree of effectiveness. The Chicago Times, in reviewing the comment caused by Carter Harrison’s speech, says: “The uproar he has produced is a practical proof of the verity of the Times’s positive assertion that there is no such thing as a political party having the name of Democrat party. There are election machines of that liamo more artifices for office-getting, controlled and manipulated by office-hunters. There is an organized appetite of that name—an eager, covetous desire to hold office as an easy mode of living and getting money without earning it There is also an irrational, senseless and rather paganish force of habit of that name which impels multitudes of electors to arm themselves with voting papers having that w’ord printed on them, and to obey the orders of self-seeking humbugs who say their prayers to that word without being able to give a reason for doing so. But that there is a Democrat party, in the sense of a body of citizens formed around a political question to effect a political object by united action to that political end, is not true, and has not been true since there was a Democrat party organized to uphold and enlarge the area of slavery.”

On Tuesday the passengers on a train from Laurinburg to Charlotte, N. C., a distance of forty miles, had a remarkable experience. Ten miles from Lauriuburg, at Monroe, a party of young ladies, under escort of Mr. E. C. Edgeworth, hud assembled. One of the young women, a Miss West, was possessed of a pistol, supposed to be unloaded, which was discharged, the ball killing Edgeworth almost instantly. Twenty miles further on It was learned that Jumes Price, a lud of ten years,had accidentally shot Henry Purcer, a colored man, in the thigh. Thirty miles further the passengers found everybody talking about an affray between C harles McDonald and Jumes Maringe. The former had his abdomen cut open, making a wound from which the entrails protruded. The man was dying when the train left. At Wadesboro the train hands were paid off, and a ball was in progress before the train arrived. Two men, Algernon Mobjack and Bilas Selyiu, quarreled as to whom the next set with a pretty girl belonged to. Selyin was shot by his rival through the thigh, and was lying on the grass when the train arrived. A doctor was on board the train, but ids services were not available except in the oase of Purcer. A Nebraska young man broko his marriage engagement because his girl used powder on her face, and now he is defending a breaeli-of-proin-ise suit. It is to be hoped that the young man will be compelled to pay damages to a large amount that others may be warned from a similar course ot conduct. If powder Is held to be a bar to marriage, young woineu may reject lovers who appear in pointed shoes, or arc detected smoking cigarettes, and the inatrimouial market of the country will be destroyed. THE editor of the Arkansas Spider, ou retiring to otliciul life, says: “I procured the position merely to secure office, and now that I have been elected constable of this precinct I step aside and give some other aspiring man a chance. I have made many friends and killed two men during my editorial career, for which I am thankful and deeply indebted to this community.” In Wheeling, W. Va., a tifieen-year-old boy refused to obey his teacher, and because she tried to Compel obedience he knocked her down, heat and kicked her until her recovery is doubifill. That boy had undoubtedly been reared in a family wliero corporeal punishment was considered injurious to the moral and physical well-being of youth. The patrons of the Central Academy, located at Plainfield, under the management of the Friends of that vicinity, will learn with much pleasure that the resignation of Erastus Test, the efficient principal, was not accepted by the board at its late ineeting, the vote being nine to one, and that Prof. Test, being thus complimented by liis employers, will withdraw the resignation and devote himself with incrouscd energy to the interests of the institution. He

ia on© of th© moat effective educators in the State, as the great aucceaaof th© academy under hia management testifies. He ia not only at home in the text-books of the schools, but be keeps himself abreast the thought of the age in all current literature and science. We congratulate the academy and the Friends in Central Indiana on be able to retain a man of such qualifications in so important a school. ABOUT PEOPLE Mr. Theodore Tilton has grown fat and no longer looks intellectual or romantic. The word Deseret, so commonly used by tho Latter-day Saints, is a terra found in the Book Mormon, and signifies “houey-bee.” It has no reference to th© desert, as has been commonly supposed. Jesse a. Ramsey Is doubtless the youngest grandfather in Kentucky. He is barely thirtysix years of age, and has a grandson, Master Lester Nelson, who is now eighteen months old. Mr. Ramsey’s parents and grandparents are also living, and bid fair to do so for many years. Miss Emily Faithfull has not yet deoided whether to return to Englang this spring or not. Her friends here are urging her to remain during the summer, aud lecture next winter. She will lecture soon in Brooklyn on the “Changed Position of Woman In the Nineteenth Century.” The Boston Saturday Gazette announces that Mr. G. W. Tewksbury, of that city, has lately sold for $140,000 a handsome building lot In one of the suburbs of Chicago to a club of which General Sheridan is the leading spirit, and upon which a handsome olnb-housa is to be erected at once. William Bahnes, of Washington, takes back an earlier and hasty declaration by advertising in the Washington Post: “Notice—l was mistaken about my wife’s intentions when she left me and weut to her own home sick with a fever, to be with her children. I revoke my former advertisement, and acknowledge I was hasty; regret its appearanoe.’’ A man of growing interest in finanoial, aud especially Southern interests, is George I. Seney, the New York banker and backer of the Nickelplate system, and now of the East Tennessee, Memphis fc Maoon system. It is well for the public to become acquainted with projectors of this character, especially when they show a cordial philanthropy. a9 Mr. Seney has done. Alexander H. Mitchell, of Milwaukee, is said to be worth $15,000,000, and he has in Scotland, whence he came, a schoolmate who is worth $40,000,00. It is related that the two met in France a few years ago and spent the day together. The Glasgow man paid all the bills. At the close of the day, when tho two sat down to dinner, the Glasgow banker pulled out a card, and, turning to Mitchell, he said: “Sandy, you owe me $1.65.” This was Sandy’s share of the expense of the day. Judge Andrew Wylie, who is presiding over the star-route trials, is described as having a head like that of some fine old Roman of the Golden Age. It is long and deep and crowned with slivered hair. Hia faco is smooth shaven, with complexion frosli, and his firm mouth aDd blueeyes are constantly beaming out into smiles. He tries the tedious star-route cases very patiently; but to a friend the other day, in reply to the question if lie wasn’t tired of them, he said frankly: “I am; and so are we all.” The ages of the United States Supreme Court Judges are as follows: Judge Harlan is 50, and the youngest man on tho bench; the Chief Justice Is 67; Judge Field, 67; Judge Bradley, 70; Judge Woods, 59; Judge Stanley Matthews, 59; Judge Gray, 55; and Judge Blatchford, 63. Judge Miller wa9 appointed in 1862, Judge Field in 1863, Judge Bradley In 1870, the Chief Justice in 1874, Judge Harlan in 1877, Judge Woods in 1880, Judge Matthews in 1881, Judge Gray in 1881, and Judge Blatchford in 1882. Ex-M vyor Elias Plum, of Troy, N. Y., whose death at the age of sevonty-uino years lias just been announced, was a Democrat, but lie was always a good hater of such Democratic doctrines as slavery and secession. In the days of the underground railroad he was a practical sympathizer with the managers and passengers of that institution. The late William Rich was the trusty agent through whom he acted. “What is wanted now, William!” he would ask whenever Mr. Rich called at hts place of business—as he very frequently did. “Well sir,” would be the frank reply, “I have a fresh batch of fugitives, and no money to care for them.” “Why, William, what would you do! Would you break the laws of your country, sir!” “N-no, sir.” “Then take this”—handing him a roll of money—“aud send those runaways right straight to their masters.” Aud Mr Rich, interpreting aright the twinkle in Mr. Plum's eye, would take the money, and by the end of the week all the fugitives would be safe in Canada.

Mrs. George 11. Pendleton, whose husband is again attracting attention as a presidential quantity, is of Puritan origin, her earliest Maryland ancestor, Edward Lloyd, having been forced out of Virginia in 1050 for nonconformity. His eldest son married Henrietta Maria Neale, named for the wife of Charles 1., and born In Spain, and presumably Catholic, for from her sister Dorothy was descended Chief-justice Taney. Mrs. Pendletou's maiden name was Mary Alicia Lloyd Nevins Key. Her father was of a rather pioneer family. Her husband is somewhat her junior. Her connections are extraordinary, embracing General Scott, “Admiral” Buchanan, John Morgan, the Howards, Carrolls, Chews, Taylors, eto. Her son Francis Key Pendleton—named for Ills grandfather, the author of the “Stai-spangled Banner’*—is n lawyer in New York city. Mrs. Pendleton reared the children of her brother, Philip Barton Key, and gave them a new' Western opportunity. Two of the daughters, at least, are married, and the son, James Swann Key, has been in the theatrical business. THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Tiie American people believe in fair play. This is what they demand for Ireland. But no people not wholly depraved ever looks upon secret as sassination as fair play.—New York Times. If the people understood that the taxes paid to the national government ou whisky went to reduce the taxes they have to pay the sheriff their views about the propriety of compelling the moonshiners to obey the law would be sensibly modi tied.—Louisville Commercial. The action of the British government In exporting its paupers to become a charge upon the people of this country is a w'anton outrage. It would be so if our laws wore silent on the subject, but done in the face or our express declarations that it shall not be done, it is an affront ‘and an injury that the whole country will bitterly resent.—Chicago Tribune. It is marvelous that this infamous system [treating wit nesses as criminals] should not have been abolished years ago. Absurd as are many things in the law—or as they would be if usage had not led us to form for them an infamous quality of respect—there is nothing in the entire system of local or general government which Is so utterly bad and heuriless as this. —New r York Graphic. There are bad newspapers ns there are bad ministers, shyster lawyers, and quack doctors, hut it is none the less true that tlit- press is the great reliance of the poople for good government. It is from its nature, a vast police force. In tiie court of public opinion it is constabulary, grandjurv, and prosecuting attorney. Without ns agency rings and rascals would liave full swing.—Chicago Inter Ocean, Men are not horn policemen. It Is a business that needs to be learned, and it cannot be learned in a day. PiHtlug on the uniform docs not make an efficient officer; therefore, turning a trained and efficient man out or place to make nil opening for anew and untried man on merely political grounds is not good loudness. It is, on tiie contrary, u violation of that business principle which Is every where essential to success.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. When an American tariff commissioner, who is making a special study of industrial questions, visits one of their cities, spends a week there in

laborious investigations, and takes the local English officials at their word when they tell him the results of their protracted experience among the working classes, English journals struggle to ttnd words to express their indignation. It la gross impertinence, reckless calumny, stupid generalization!—New York Tribune. Society every where exists to protect Itself; in the last analysis it rests upon physical force; it is the concordat of the stronger. By the law of its being, existence is a struggle. In relation to the so-called “criminal classes” it holds as it were an Iron grip at the throat of a ferocious beast. So long as human nature continues the same, especially as misery grows more marked, as accumulating class distinctions of wealth deepen sullen hatred of existing order, the fact cannot greatly alter. To relax this pressure is not mercy; in itself considered, it is not justice; it is simply instant and sinister activity in crime. —Boston Advertiser. Opr composite nationality suggests doubts as to its capability of sustaining popular rule and favorably solving the great problem sos popular government]. But it Is also suggestive of strength. The crossing of raced or the same color has been followed throughout history with good results. At all eveuts it must, be acknuw! edged that while the other experiments of free government are not turning out very well, ours bus been attended with marvelous suocess so far. Bevere shocks have been withstood, aud latent popular strength has been revealed whiob indicates that there is an immense reserve power between us and overthrow.—dt. Louis GlobeDemocrat. The service of convicts is farmed out by contract to whoever will bid for it on terms that suit the prison authorities. Contractors who have inttueuce, political or otherwise, are given the first advantage. These get the convicts’ labor for nothing, practically. They wax fat on penitentiary contracts. .The product of forced labor is thus brought into dlreot competition with that of free labor. It tends to bring down free men’s wages. There is no help for it under tho prison labor contract plan. The system Is a howling wrong any way it is looked at. Nevertheless, no fact stands out more clear than that convicts should be made to work aud be taught trades. Yet their industries must be managed so as noB to come into competition with free labor. It ia a knotty problem.—Cincinnati Journal.

THE LATE JOHN C. WALKER. Recalling; an Unpleasant Episode of Hia Canvass with Sir. Colfax. South Bend Tribune. Mr. Walker became editor of the first Laporte Chronicle, and in 1858 ran against Mr. Colfax for Congress and was badly beaten by the latter. Many of our readers will remember tho episode in that canvass that came near being a tragedy. A platform had been built from the second north window of the court-houso for the use of these speakers at a joint meeting. The yard below was crowded, as were the sidewalks and street clear across to the hotel. Mr. Colfax opened the debate, and toward the close of his speech charged Mr. Walker with making certain false statements in the columns of the Chronicle. When Mr. Walker’s time came to speak he indignantly denied Mr. Colfax’s charges, and called upon any of the subscribers of the Chronicle who might be present to verify his denial. Several did so, and had copies of the Chronicle to show that Mr. Walker told the truth. The Democrats were jubilant, and Mr. Colfax’s friends uneasy, but Mr! Colfax sat composedly on the stand, a little to the left and rear of where Mr. Walker stood, and took the excoriations of his opponent with so smilinga face that his friends were sure everything would come out right Mr. Walker again referred to the charges at the close of his speech with such an air of injured innocence as almost convinced the audience that Mr. Colfax was mistaken. The latter, as his opponent took his seat, stepped to the front with a smile on his face, and after the cheers had subsided, reiterated liis charges in more emphatic language than ever, and as he closed lie asked: “Is there a Republican who doubts the truth of what I have said?” “No! No!” they shouted as with one voice. “Is there a Democrat who doubts what I have said?” “I do.” “Yes,” came from several voices in the crowd. “Then read Mr. Walker’s paper for yourselves and be convinced,” replied Mr. Colfax, and taking from his pockets a dozen or more copies of the Chronicle he threw them down among the people. One copy he reserved, and opening it read the editorial, which Mr. Walker denied was in the paper, in a strong, clear voice that reached to the outskirts of the vast crowd. When he began reading it Mr. Walker, who was sitting to his right and a little in rear, jumped from his seat, moved forward toward Mr. Colfax and made a motion as if to draw a knife or revolver, but his friends on the stage seized him and forced him into his seat. Mr. Colfax saw none of this, but we doubt if he was ever nearer death’s door than at that moment. It seems that Mr. Walker had printed a special edition of his paper for circulation in the south part of the district with the editorial referred to in it, and then for hia regular edition had omitted it. This accounted for his subscribers who were present declaring that there was no such editorial in the paper. Mr. Colfax, through a friend at Lafayette, had secured several copies of this special edition, which was printed to be circulated on the day of the joint debate in this city, and fully exposed the trick. A Master in the Art. Cincinnati News (Dem.). Your rude, clumsy public person gives himself away in his rudeness; but Mr, Hendricks looks wise, talks blandly, and appears to be saying something to that extent that the reporter never knows until he sits down to write up what ho has got that he has nothing. Serves him right. The interview is a humbug at its best. It is a pleasure to find it now and then demonstrated by a master in the art of being interviewed. The Very Prince of Interviewers. Cincinnati News (Dem.) Mr. Hendricks has been interviewed, but, as usual, the interview is not replete with information. Mr. Hendricks possesses in a high degree the art of leaving every subject touched in an interview precisely as the public had seen it belore. This leaves the interviewed happy, and makes the interviewer bite himself and groan with baffled rage. Opposition to Tax Exemption. New Albany Public Pross. The tendency of the time is to the taxation •of all enterprises which are not exclusively charitable. The public sentiment in opposition to tax exemptions is growing stronger yearly, and we may rather expect to see the taxation of property now exempt than the further extension of tho privileges of exemption. President. Arthur’s Recreations. St. Auflrustine Special. Late last night, the President attended service in the colored Methodist Church, next to the Magnolia Hotel, in company with Mrs. Miller, Miss Bruce and Secretary Chandler. The choir and congregation sang for more than an hour their favorite hymns, which were listened to with deep interest. Seems to Be Secoiul-Haml After All. Columbus Republican. The Indianapolis Journal is enraptured with Attorney-general Hord because he quotes poetry in giving his legal opinions. If the Journal had heard Mr. Hord lire off that same quotation as often as some of the rest of us have, it would not sound so striking and original by this time, * Afraid the Material Might Be Wasted. Vincennes Sun. It may be that the presidential lightning is afraid to strike at Ben. lest it might get the worst of the contract Jupiter would probably study about it some time before hurling a valuable bolt just to see it crushetl. The Mighty Fallon. Oath s Now York Special. Tom Hendricks in town.