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THE DAILY JOURNAL. ! 15Y JNO. C. NEW Sr SOX. For Rates of Subscription, etc.. see Sixth Pace. ! WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, ISH3. Mr. Euan thinks Alexander Sullivan, the new president of the Irish National League, is “in a state of grace,” but that it will not last long. The inference is that Sullivan will now give way to the irreconcilables in the organization. Prince Gortciiakofk’s memoirs are ready for publication, but they cannot see the light until the Czar has personally read them and they have been scrutinized by the official censor. There are some advantages, after all, in the Russian system. Commissioner of Patents Marble says as to the rumor of his resignation: “It is one ©f the current lies of the time. I don’t know why this story is started again. But it seems to be a sweet morsel that newspaper men roll under their pen.” The new trade-mark treaty with Spain is now in force. It is particularly in the interest of Spanish and Cuban cigar manufacturers, for by its provisions no one can “reproduce, counterfeit or colorablv imitate” without being subject to a fine. If this will put a stop to the murder of the Spanish language by some of our blacksmith printers in their endeavors to get up a suitable label for “genuine” Havana cigars, it will more than pay first cost. _ It never rains but it pours. Now that the tide has set in against Boston, and Massachusetts in general, through the Tewksbury business, all kinds o' discreditable and hideous tales are told of the Hub and its environs. It is possible that some of them arc untrue, while others would pass unnoticed but for the unenviable reputation now attached to the center of “culcha.” One ot the latest stories is that a city ordinance of Boston forbids a license to any saloon within 400 feet of a school-house. Os course, it so happened that several saloons were within the proscribed distance. But Boston aldermen were accommodating, and when it was found that several saloons were within 400 feet of a certain school-house they made it convenient to sell that particular house. The end will be that Boston youth will eventually take to the woods for an education. In the way of horrible tales two are furnished. It is told of the parents of Annie Taylor (colored), aged nine, that they literally allowed her feet, which were frozen last winter, to rot off from inattention. The authorities were notified, and the child’s limbs found in a terrible condition. On removing her stockings one-half of one foot and one toe of the other came off. The mother’s only excuse was that she bated the child. The other horror is located at Woburn, a suburban village. On Saturday night, John Callahan bought a gallon of liquor, and went on a spree. He brought his three-year-old child with him, forced him to drink all he could, and then threw liquor in hi 9 face. The child went into convulsions and died next morning.

In the volume on “Work and Wages,” written by the late Sir Thomas Brassey, K. C. 8., and member of Parliament, some interesting admissions are made. The writer says in one place: “If wages in England, taking into account the amount ot labor performed for the money paid and the cost of living, give to the English artisan a great advantage over the foreigner, foreign labor will be attracted to the English workshop.” Unquestionably. This is as natural as it is for water to flow down hill. It is these conditions that make foreign laborers come to American workshops. This the writer admits in the next sentence, in which he says: “On the other hand, the cost of a voyage to the United States has been so materially reduced that the higher rates of pay which the workman receives on the other side of the Atlantic cannot but affect the price of labor here.” In another paragraph of the same chapter Bir Thomas says: “Since 18G5, 8,000 miles of railway have been constructed [in the United States], and the present rate of increase is double what it was before 1800, being now’ 1,156 miles a year; while the growth in tiie goods traffic is sixteen times greater than the growth of the population.’' This is English authority. Again he says: “The production of pig-iron has been increased from 013,000 tons in 1800. to 1,550,000 tons iu 18G8. The import duties have tended greatly to raise prices; the profits of the manufacturers have been very large, and these circumstances have artificially illustrated production. The effect of these influences upon the wages of the artisans -•mployed, is shown in the evidence of Mr. Hewitt before the Trades Union Commissioners. He told them that the wages for puddling in Pittsburg was from 21s to 27s per ton, as compared with 8s Gd in England, there being, notwithstanding the great increase in the cost of provisions iu the United States, no corresponding difference in the cost of living. Mr. Wells gives a comparative statement of the wages in the United Slates ns compared with the rates prevailing in England, showing that, in iron rollingmills in 18G8, wages were 40 per cent, higher; in the foundries 58 per sent higher; in the ship-yards 48 per cent, higher; in the cotton mills 20 per cent, higher. and in the woolen mills 25 per cent, higher than the corresponding rates in England. ’’ And so on through tiie book. No f nest lon is raised about wages being higher lore than in England. The evidence is valu-

able because it was written for no political i purpose, and only to arrive at the facts in the case, in order, if possible, to reach a remedy for the labor troubles constantly recurring in England. We commend Mr. Brassey’s book to those who think protection in the United States does not increase the wages of workingmen. CORPORATIONS AND THE PEOPLE. The decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy Railway Company vs. The State of Illinois is strictly in accordance with the principle that no corporation can rise superior to the authority from which it receives its corporate existence. A railway, telegraph or building association is legal in its organization only as the State in which it operates gives it legal status, and without this license neither can exist or perform business functions. When railways were essential to the financial prosperity of the country, franchises were granted them without question, and not infrequently extra-constitutional privileges were guaranteed. This was but natural at the time. Few w T ere able to anticipate the enormous growth of these corporations. They allowed the railway camel to put its nose in at the *tent door, only to find eventually that the beast had quietly inserted the right and left fore feet, and, at last its entire body, much to the alarm and discomfort of the inmates. Other questions have occupied public attention so long that these corporations have grown rich and, as an inevitable consequence, arrogant. The franchises they enjoyed grew in value until the companies overshadowed less favored organizations and had everything pretty much their own way. Arrogance begot oppression, and the inevitable result of oppression is to awaken opposition. The sentiment against the encroachments of corporations has been steadily growing for years, until now it can no longer be despised. It has been a difficult matter to obtain justice in a contest with railroad companies—their wealth enabling them to carry appeals beyond the ability of plaintiffs to follow. The beginning of the end of these things is at hand. The highest court of the land has decided that States have the right to regulate and control these corporations, and as a consequence the}' will be more considerate of the rights of individuals as subjects of States. This is as it should be. The advantages enjoyed by railwuy companies have been compensation enough for whatever they may have undertaken. Their regular revenues from legitimate business are great enough now to place them beyond the experimental period. They are wealthy enough to take care of themselves easily, and it is for the State to stand between them and the people, to see that no oppression is attempted, no injustice done. The Grange movement grew out of the fear that railway and other corporations were growing too powerful, and now the anti-monopoly sentiment arises from the same cause. It is the part of wisdom that the corporations should urofit by the hint; not that any revenge can be or will be attempted against them, but it is morally certain that a continued manifestation of arrogant independence on their part can only result in having the statutes made to restrain them in a manner to which they have never yet been accustomed. It is well that the principle has been established that States can regulate corporations. It would not be long, if left unrestrained, until they would take to themselves rights to which they have no claim in justice, and would practice impositions from which there would be no practicable appeal.

THE PETIT JURY The petit jury iB an object of perennial malediction. The winner in the suit.swears because the verdict is too small, the loser rages because the verdict is too large. Where the jury hangs and finds no verdict, it is often cursed by both parties. And to make their damnation more complete, blistering sarcasm from the bench is frequently added. Without going into the cause of this state of things in detail, any one ought to perceive that the rule requiring the verdict to be unanimous is the chief stumbling block. Owing to the difference in mental constitution, education, cranks and kinks in human nature, together with the unconscious influence of prejudice, there is no great wonder that so many verdicts are the result of the most ridiculous compromises. But what are we going to do about it? Several ways of escape have been offered. One is to abolish the jury altogether, another to make the finding of the majority binding. The proposition to abolish the jury will not be discussed now, but passed with the remark that such an important innovation ought to be approached with extreme caution. Hut the rule to make the verdict of the majority binding is authorized by statute in some of the States of the Union, and is the practice in Scotland and most all the States of continental Europe. Texas and Nevada have adopted this method, and so far it is pronounced more satisfactory than the old rule of unanimous verdict. The findings are more generally within the law'and the evidence. When it is reflected that lavs arc enacted by majorities, it would seem that their enforcement, so far as the jury has to do with it, ought to be made valid by a majority vote also. To carry this analogy a step further, causes are decided by a majority vote of the bench when referred to that forum. Why not so by the jury? The law permits the learned judges in banc to differ, and makes a majority opinion valid. This same law that allows the learned to disagree, compels the unlearned to be unanimous. It expects of the hod-carrier more than it requires of a

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judge. The bench is made a competent ! tribunal. So is the jury. If a majority vote is binding in one case wh> not in both? Asa matter of economy, both in time and money, the system of the majority vote has much in in its favor. The deliberations consume less time and therefore less money. More than all, that fruitful source of delay, vexation and extravagance—a hung jury—wouid be generally avoided. Then the adverse vote of one crank, who very often makes up his mind from frivolous incidents of the trial rather than the merits of the case, could not entail upon the public and litigants the expense and vexations it often does under the present rule. While w'e do not feel free to press these suggestions hastily, yet there seems to be ei-ough in them to merit the consideration ot those who make and enforce the laws. If the majority system is better and cheaper for other States it would be for ours. We certainly ought, in a reform of this kind, tfte able to keep up with Texas. There is another question that is to be sonsidered as well, and that is restricting the jury to a simple finding of the facts, leaving the law and the verdict to the court. In his remarks, last Sunday, Mr. Beecher gave utterance to some views on the subject of infant baptism. He said: “Any value which tho baptism of children has, has come down to us as a Roman cereftiour— a ceremony of the Romish Catholic Church, and through that utterly fictitious and coiidewnable notion that the whole human race fell in Adam; that as a consequence of Adam’s federal headship all mankind are guilty, aud that gave rise to Infant baptism, because it whs supposed that it washed away Adam’s guilt out of them. Why, the water that you could put upon the point of a cambric needle would be enough to wash away all the sin our children ever got from Adam. So we dou't baptize children for the sake ot washing away any hereditary guilt, or because they participate or reoeive any iufiueuce from it whatever. Why, then, do I baptize ohildrenf Why do most persons baptize them? It is simply in conformation with our church practice aud to the practices of maukind everywhere, for the parents to stand sponsor for the children. It is the original aud natural arrangement that the father and the mother should stand for their child; that they should stand heiween the child and mischief. They give to the child that has not got it the substance of their heat judgment, and they take their children and in the presence of the whole congregation, they say; ‘We undertake to clothe this child with all we know that is best, with all that is just aud true, and we will seal it in baptismal water.’ Aud when the child comes of ago he can do just as he pleases; he can say: *1 accept the agreement of my father aud mother; I ratify it.’ Or he eau refuse to do so. It is just as though they executed a legal document undertaking to give the child certain property when he shall come of age, upon his executing certain conditions; and when he is of age lie executes the conditions aud claims the property.’’

Tiie Louisville Courier-Journal, iu reproducing a dispatch from this city to the New York Times with reference to the appointment of Judge Woods to the United States beuch, makes one paragraph read thus: “It is regretted that the President did not follow the Senator’s recommendation iu the appointment of a judge, but appointed a man who was an open aud avowed political enemy of Senator Morton.” As it appeared in the Times the paragraph was; “It is recalled that Grant did not follow the Senator's recommendation in the appointment of a judge, but appointed a mail who was an open aud avowed political enemy of Morton.” This was simply a reminiscence, which had been noted in several quarters, In connection with the failure of the Senator’s recommendation in the present instauce, and could not, and does not apply to anything else. The attempt of the C.-J., or of any other person to foment a party disturbance over this appointment will not be successful. The Times special says: “The selection of Judge Woods is in no sense objectionable, aud hi itself can cause no feeling between Harrison and Gresham, or pormaueut trouble in the party ranks.” Cleveland has an Enoch Arden case. The fond husband, a young artist, goes to Italy for six months’ absence. Acoident, brain fever, insanity, slow recovery aud subsequent poverty on bis part; distress at unexplained silence, search resulting iu supposed knowledge of death on part of wife. All this followed by marriage of bereaved wife to former lover. Appearance of “Enoch” at last, who learns state of case, goes and looks in at window in approved poetical style, and then hies himself to remote village and commits suicide. Accidental discovery of facts by friends and consequent sorrow of wife, which, however, will doubtless be temporary. Mrs. Jennie Dixon, who created a sensation in St. Louis society, last winter, by deserting her husband and three little children to elope with a dude several years her junior, has put herself right in the eyes of the world. Mr. Dixon got a divorce, the dude abandoned her, and Mrs. Jennie was in a predicament, until the happy thought struck her that she would marry again. This she has done, a vere “nice gentleman” aud esteemed citizen being the unlucky third choice of the volatile creature. They have settled down cosily to housekeeping In Bt. Louis, and are prepared to see all their friends who are as easily satisfied as themselves. Two thousand Boston suckers assembled the other night to see materialized spirits, which had beeu advertised to be present. The spirits appeared according to cobtraot, and everything would have passed off swimmingly, had not two cr three prying persons found a trap-door aud other very mundane machinery under the cabinet, by means of which the heavenly visitors, clothed in substantial flesh aud blond, were enabled to eoiue before the audience. And then the crowd unkindly tried to blaoken the medium’s eyes, after ho had done his best to please them. A wealthy citizen of Vermont died lately and left $200,000 for the benefit of tho public schools. He was regarded as a great man und public benefactor, but since it has beeu learned that the money is to be divided among all the schools instead ot being concentrated upon one object be Is spoken of as “scattering” aud eccentric. Iu the division eucli school will liuve about ten dollars, which will do no more than to furnish a year’s supply of gate; but these will he something. What is called the Language Club has been organized iu New York. Its purpose is to encourage sensible, i. e. phonetic spelling. That's all very well, but Just let a fellow write to his sweetheart—“l luv yu with lul hole hart”—and these very men will be the first to drive him bald with chagrin because he can’t spell. Down in Arizona, ludians are allowed to ride free on the railroad trains. A Chinaman who wanted transportation painted himself the required shade and tried to pass as a red man. Though his ways and his face were dark enough, his trick was vain, and AUSia wus set off in the middle or the desert. An Enstern paper says there is a demand for eleotric lights for lighting lawn-tenuis and croquet parties. Tite electrlo light is a good thiug, but it seems that it nmy be run in tho ground—a croquet grouud, for instance. Tiie letter received by Cardinal McCloskey, of New York, from bis Holiness Rope Leo, wna in response to the receipt of reports of tho synod

of November last, and expresses the Pope’s greatest pleasure in the untiring labors of the Cardinal for the Catholic cause in this couutry. ! That it is an autograph letter Is regarded as very complimentary, as Indeed the spirit of the letter itself is the very kindest. The Empress of Austria writes poetry, but shows mercy to editors and publishers by having the effusions printed at home, on a private printing press. If women similarly afflicted would follow tho noble example of tbe Empress, editorial life would be shorn of odg es its greatest terrors. ___ ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. John F. Slater has endowed the Park Congregational Church, of Norwich, Conn., with SIO,OOO. If t- Vice-President Wheeler is rapidly recovering from the illness with which he has for some time past been afflicted. The grave of Miss Fanny Parnell, sister of Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish leader, will be decorated on Decoration Day by the Boston leagues. “peter Cooper, the great novelist,” says the Appalachicola Tribune, “has passed away. A man whose memory deserves to fee revered by all civilized nations.” A great many men remain awake during the sermon until the minister straightens up and says: “But one more word and I am done.” Then they start in for a long nap. Tiie Hon. Thomas W. Palmer, Michigan’s new United States senator, is said by Michigan politicians of experience to be a refined gentleman, who will make one of the ablest representatives that State has ever sent to Washington. General John W. Phelps, who ran for Ithe presidency in 1880 on the antl-Masonio ticket, has just been getting married at the age of seventy years, evidently intending to keep pace with ex-Senator David Davis in the race for 1884. “Oliver Optic” (Mr. William T. Adams) is recovering from pneumonia. Mr. Adams has long been a good friend of American boys, for his books are healthy and in direct contrast to some of the wretched tive-cent literature which is ruining the boys of both city and country. A German physician has writteu a communication, which has been published in the London Lancot, advocating roller skating as an exercise for children. It is especially recommended for those who are subject to bleeding from tne nose, and the suggestion is made that a rink be established in connection with all large schools. General Lew Wallace writes from Constantinople to a friend in Crawfordsville, lud.: “Speaking of books, or rather of writing—good heavens, what an amazing wealth of material is lying here, ju6t waiting to be picked up, begging to be used, and to think nobody has ever touched it except poor old Sir Walter, and he only in his last days of glory.” The Hartford (Conn.) Times has information that Mgr. Capel, tho original Catesby of Disraeli’s “Lothair,” expects to sail for America in August, and that, after first visiting Newport, be intends to deliver a series of lectures on historical characters in a few of tbe principal cities of the United States. He comes expressly authorized by the Holy See. Talmagk gives this little pen-picture of Samuel J. Tililen: “A few days ago I saw in a railway oar the sickest-looking man I ever saw out of bed; his chin and hands afflicted with the worst palsy I ever saw, either in or outside of a hospital, exciting the pity and sympathy of all who looked at him. He is one of the candidates for the presidency. This is the pathos and tragedy of political life, that a man will clutch at its baubles though he stands with both feet in the grave.” The Comte <ie Farls recently sent to this country an order for plants of Southern dogwood trees. Years ago, when he was with the Army of the Potomac, he witnessed a terrific battle in the swaiups. It was early iu the spring, and the dogwood blossoms were like a white snow cloud for miles over the battlefield. When the fight was over drops of blood had fallen iu many places upon the white flowers, an incident of so much suggestiveness that the Comte has since determined to Dlaut some of the dogwood at his villa at Cannes. A private letter from London, just received in New York city, says, concerning recent statements that Mr. Gladstone is “visibly failing:” “I failed to see it. I sat near and in full view of him. and have no hesitation in saying that in manner and movement he was as sprightly as the youngest member of tbe House. He came in at 4 p. m., and I was informed that he would certainly remain till the close of the sitting—2 a. m. For a man or his age to do that night after night must require an iron constitution. He seems as ruddy, hale and hearty as a man in his prime.” London Standard: “James Stevens, ex-Fen-ian heud center, is a complete wreck. His memory—or at least the later half of it—is completely gone. Things that happened twenty or thirty years ago he remembers with accuracy, but you might ask him a simple question twenty times in the course of an hour and he would alwuys return the same answer to it, and not be aware that you had asked it before. He repeats himself iu the simplest matters of conversation, and says the same thing over and over, time after time, without being at all conscious of the fact.” The Princess of Wales has suffered a serious bereavement iu tbe death of hor companion, Mrs. Stouor, who had been constantly in attendance on her siuee her marriage, and was probably her closest and most intimate friend in England. During tho Prince's absence in India, Mrs. Stouor was the Princess’s chosen coiupauiou, and when the Prince was at Cannes, last winter, she kept her royal mistress company at Sandringham. The Prince gave up Epsom iu order to attend the funeral, and the Princess remained at Marlborough House in complete seclusiou for some days and put on mourning.

THE SPIRIT OP THE PRESS. A people who move by conspiracy and invoke arson and assassination as means to ends are not capanle of self-goverumeur, and, as all examples prove, can have no government at all but one of force and cruelty.—Bt. Louis Republican. Thkkklb no reuson why savings banks should hold low-priced securities hearing high rates of interest. They are dangerous investments. There is no reason why the savings banks should be encouraged to pay heavy dividends. Security rattier than profit should be their fi*Bt principle.—New York Herald. Whatever the cost, society can no more afford to be Indifferent to ex-convicts than a farmer can to thistles and weeds. Instead of leaving them tube set upon and dragged to earth by the evil influences which clutch at their coat-tails to pull them down, good men should take special effort to give them a fair chance to recover themselves.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Political agitators and revolutionists of every stripe, except assassins and|dyuaiuitlsts, can find asylum here. We will have the disnlea-*-ure of other nations oil their account, lint the line muse be drawn somewhere, and for extradition purposes we will keep assassination amt dvnamits conspiracies out from under the saving bead of political offences.— Bt. Louis GlobeDemoomt. Mr. James Is dead, and his companions may have retired from business, but those who have glorified the crimes of these and other men of ihelr bind, In stories which are bought and eagerly read by boys all over the land, huvo sown seed from which has sprung a large crop of imitators The preparation and publication of these stories sre crimes which society cannot afford to ignore.—New York Times. The colored people are now in the eyes of the law fully qualified American citizens. If there are soelal and legal discriminations agatnst them in any part of the country, they may rest assured that the weight of public opinion is ready to condemn and reform these as rapidly ns possible. But it is the gravest kind of a political

blunder for them to move as a distinct race, as “colored citizens,” or anything else but American citizens.—Chicago Tribune. No tax levied by national or State authority can be less objectionable than that upon intoxicating beverages. Such a tax can never be burdensome to any one, because liability to it can only be incurred by the taxpayer’s voluntary act. If he thinks the tax too high, he can reduce it to suit himself by the simple prooess of abating his consumption of the taxed articles, which are in no sense articles of necessity.—Chicago Times. As has frequently been shown in the past, the Republican party has a heap of rallying ability, and when it comes time to vote for President it may douioustrate a contiguity that will astonish the opposition by its completeness. Iu the meantime It is suggested that tho Democrats look well to their own disconnected condition. Up to the present time an observer has failed to find any two occupying the same tariff ground. —Cleveland Herald. The Geneva arbitration decided that England was responsible for damage wrought even where a belligerent government,levying actual and oivJfized war, was allowed to fit out ships, or where it fuiled to take reasonable precautions against that which was done. By so muoh the more, then, should every government be required to prevent that which, whether it have a political cause or not, is mere vulgar crime, and neither war nor revolution.—Cincinnati News. The people of America have given the negroes the right of suffrage. It is too late now to argue whether the giving of it was wise or unwise. They have It, and the constitution decrees that they shall be protected in the exercise of it. The Bourbons of South Carolina defy the constitution and say the negro shall not vote. What are the people of the rest of the country going to do about it? Shall tho law prevail everywhere except in the South!—Now York Tribune. It behooves the Republican party to take its stand squarely upon the principles of the Scott law. That an overwhelming majority of the people are in favor of this caunot be doubted, and the time is coming, if it is not here now, when the Democratic party will be rebuked if it shall he committed against the principle of regulating the liquor traffic through taxation, which is the only available method, as it was rebuked iu times past when it sustained slavery and opposed the war for the Union. It is always safe for a party, us it is for individuals, to do right. It is never safe or wise to oppose what is right in tiie hope of gaining a temporary victory. There is no fanaticism In this question, and it cannot be fairly injected into it. It is a business proposition in tiie interest of the commonwealth, aud as such it will be dlscus&ed on the stump and in tho press.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, The Vacation Industrial School; Be the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The following extracts from a letter by Professor William F. M. Goss will give some idea of the work to be done in the proposed vacation school: “Such a class should work with the view of acquiring, first, the use of tiie common wood-working tools, and, second, an understanding of the elements of construction.” “By my plan of instruction I would bring each tool before the class, show and explain its parts, its adjustments and its action; point out where failures in its use are likely to occur, and how they may be avoided. In fact, I try to bring out all important points relating to its theoretical operation. This done the student is prepared to begin work with it. After all the different tools have been brought before the student in this way, he has a definite practical knowledge of tools sucli as most artisans do not possess. “In construction wood is joined according to fixed principles. In elementary construction the object is to develop the general principles of joints to show their application and adaptation to real work, and to make by actual construction such & variety as the time will allow. In working out this' general plan I should give a ten minutes’talk each day, in which I could bring out some tool or constructive principle or show the application of some principle to general work. The remaining time would be devoted to practice with the tools in development of whatever may have been the subject of the talk. “This course of training, besides giving the student a thorough knowledge of the common tools, and of the elements of construction, acquaints him with the nature of materials, quickens his powers of observation, and opens the doors toj a limitless field of thought. In my opinion the mental training is fully equal to that afforded by a language study. The physical exercise should not be disregarded. “Upon the completion of this course a boy will be in possession of the underlying principles of all wood-working trades, and if he choose any one of them as his life-work he has a foundation such as no apprentice ever enjoys. If he should become a professional man, he would never regret the time spent, nor fail to find opportunities to apply the information gained.” Any person desiring to know further in regard to this school can obtain information as to the scope and detail of the plan by applying to Professor W. W. Grant of the High School, or myself at any time during tiie next ten days. H. S. Tarbell.

THE DEMOCRATIC STATESMEN. The Efforts Made to Compel Mr. Ueudricks to Do Duty. Special to New York Times. The Democratic statesmen are still at work endeavoring to make Mr. McDonald's path straight, and to smooth the differences that exist between him and Mr. Hendricks. Some of the plans are very laughable, but their very absurdity shows bow deep-seated is the feeling that Mr. Hendricks cannot be chained to the wheel of the McDonald chariot as a mere matter of course. The latest suggestion is one from Secretary of State Myers, to the effect that Mr. Hendricks shall be. nominated for Governor alid Mr. McDonald for President. The idea of Mr. Hendricks running for Governor to help McDonald into the White House is particularly laughable. If such an intimation was authoritatively made to the senior favorite son he would soon let the rash embassadors know that where he sits is still the head of the Democratic table in Indiana. Another scheme to help Mr. McDonald is for Mr. Voorhees to make the race for Governor. The Wabash statesman may be a very forgiving and obliging man, but he will be likely to remember the contemptuous manner in which he was forced off the track to make way for the imperious McDonald, when, as be himself said on the day of his withdrawal, if the matter could be left to the Democratic voters of the State, be (Voorhees) could beat McDonald five to one, which was undoubtedly true. Voorhees is the most popular man with his party in the State. But helms been elbowed about by the machine leaders to suit their own convenience. If Voorhees will make the race for Governor, he is then to be re-elected to the Senate. If he will not, Mr. McDonald is to again beat him for that, if the presidential nomination eludes liis grasp. The talk about the health of Mr. Hendricks continues to be contradictory, and the mystery of bis toe is likely to rival the secret of Gramercy Park. The attending physician says Mr. Hendricks’s health is perfect. One who saw him within a day or two writes: “That he has taken a fresh hold on life hardly expresses the delight with which he basks in the sunshine and breathes the outer air. The vigor of his intellect is strengthened by the enforced rest, and any one who supposes he will not be a lively factor in future politics, because be says he is. ‘out of politics, will be egregiously mistaken.” Hut, despite these assurances, there is a feeling that the venerable gentleman is really in no condition to undertake the labors and endure the excitement of a political canvass. Mr. McDonald and the Driven Well. South Itoud Tribune. If Senator McDonald is a presidential candidate next year the driven well will be an issue in the campaign, and greatly to his injury. He was mainly instrumental in establishing the validity of the drive-well patents which makes every man who has a drive well pay $lO royalty.

MOODY AND SANKEY. Their Reception in Englaud—Preaching, 'to Crowds of Noisy Students. Interview In New York Tribune, Mr. Moody was suffering too much from the effects of the sea voyage to be seen, but Mr. Sankey appeared in splendid health. He is looking somewhat stouter than when last here, but otherwise he is unchanged. “Yes,” he said, in answer to the reporter’s congratulations upon his appearance, “J was never better in my life. From the daf I left this country I have not had one moment’s sickness. Mr. Moody, too, has enjoyed unusual health, and he would be about now, but he is not as good a seaman a9 I am. In fact he is about the worst seaman I have ever known. In regard to our work abroad I would say that at our first visit to England the clergy of the established church did not receive us cordially. I could piobably more correctly describe their reception of us by a harsher phrase, but I will simply say it was by no means cordial. This time, however, they warmly welcomed us. They saw that we were the means of bringing them souls, for our work was then, as it has been everywhere, not to start an opposition to the Established church, but, on the contrary, to do all in our power to aid them. It took them some time to realize this fully, but they have done so, and I want to say publicly that I could not have asked for a more cordial and hearty reception than Mr. Moody and I received from the clergymen of England. “Nearly all our work was done in the provinces. We began in the northeast of England, took in all the chief cities and towns except London, where we did but little, reserving it for a later visit, and then established our headquarters at Swansea, Wales. Here we met with an Immense success; in fact, we did everywhere. The places in the United Kingdom that we look back upon with most pleasure are Oxford and Cambridge. We were invited by some of the leading clergymen of Cambridge to visit that famous seat of learning and preach there, but a large number of the students resolved that they would not allow us to hold our meetings. On the other hand an equally large, if not larger number, declared that we should preach, and so every i one, even Mr. Moody, feared that we would have a great disturbance at our meetings, between the two sets of young men. The night of our first meeting there were at least a thousand students present. Those that were friendly to us sat in front, those opposed to us remained in the rear. When Mr. Moody began to preach a great noise was heard in the back of the hall. Every student there began stamping on the floor with his cane and kicking his feet, and in fact they made such a fearful row it was impossible for Mr. Moody to proceed. He stopped in the middle ol liissermon and called out in a loud voice: ‘All those in this hall who believe in the Lord will please rise.’ All the students in front arose. ‘Now,’ continued Mr. Moody, ‘to all those who do not believe with us, I simply say we have hired this hall to hold a religious meeting, as we have a perfect right to do. We are conducting ourselves as gentlemen, and I appeal to your sense of fairness if all who come in and interfere with us are not acting ungentlemanly.’ “Mr. Moody said this so quietly, and it was so different from what the students expected, that it appeared to make every one of them ashamed, and all the noisy ones left the hall. They came back, however, one by one, until nearly the wliuie school joined us. And they were with us not only at that meeting, but at every other meeting that we held iu Cambridge. Mr. Moody so won them over to the Lord that when we left England we had not in the whole United Kingdom more earnest, devoted workers than the students of Cambridge. The recollection of the great number of fine, promising young men that we saved from ruin at Cambridge and Oxford—for it was at Oxford pretty much as it was at Cambridge—is what makes me say that I look back with most pleasure to my work in those places. “We spent a short time in Paris, and our meetings there, too, were most successful. We had an interpreter who would translate Mr. Moody’s sermon’s into French. We sang first a French, then an English hymn, ams, strange as it may appear, we drew enormous crowds. “I am now going to my home in New Castle, Pa. Mr. Moody will go to his home in Northfield, Mass. Our purpose in coming over here was simply to rest ourselves. In October we will return to England and begin our last campaign in Great Britain. Our work will be exclusively confined to London.”

The Democratic Principle. Interview with Douglass Taylor. I think that the McDonald movement hat already captured a good many prominent Eastern men who are looking toward tha vice-presidency and other matters. ' When the convention meets to nominate the Democratic candidate next time its animating principle will be the honest, openly-confessed principle of securing the patronage of the government. Whatever speeches be made there, the purpose of the convention will not be idealism ot any kind, but entering our rest, getting comfortable habitations of an official sort over our heads for as many years as w r e can hold office. Mr. Tilden will not be voted for, because he is a great statesman, nor General Hancock, because he is a good fellow. The object will be victory, and through the candidate the best arrangement everybody can make for himself. Os course, there is a community which does not expect office, but, as I have told you, office-holding is the biggest organized industry in the United States. _ One Man for HendricksIndianapolis Correspondence Commercial Gazette. “Whom do the Buckeyes favor for Democratic presidential candidate?” asked the writer of John G. Doren, esq., editor of the Dayton (O.) Democrat, and member of the . Ohio State Central Committee. “We are for Hendricks, of course, by all odds,” was the answer. “How does McDonald stand among the people of your part of the State?” “McDonald won’t do,” and a look of disgust that said much more than even those three monosylabies settled over his face, which discouraged any further discussion of so disagreeable a subject as Hon. Joseph E. McDonald. Mr. Conkling’g Last Blunder. Lafayette Journal. The life of the Republican party nor its success never has and never will depend upon Roscoe Conkling. If lie would have the country believe that he was. the prop that supported the party and that it wa# upon his shoulders that it was borne to victory, he now overestimates as he has hitherto overestimated fiis own greatness. Mr. Conkling has made many blunders in his overreaching ambition, and bis Saturday night speech is another of them. Ns Room for tlie Poor Mail, luterrlsw with Douglas* Taylor. You see the enormous cost of presidential elections: and where is the money to come from except from these huge men who can put their millions into llie race? A party out of power, like the Democracy, can no longer afford to run men with fortunes of SIOO,OOO. _ The Utile Gold Ply. New York Wnrlil, Little gold pigs are worn ns ornaments-* probably because they are styelieh.