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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW A SOX. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Rase. FRIDAY, MAY 11, iss:i. Surgeon-genebal Barnes died two, three— j or was it four months ago; but official notice ! of the event has only just been issued to the medical department of the army. The sur- ; geons who have with difficulty restrained their grief at the affliction can now weep officially. The Courier-Journal, a one-wheeled organ published at Louisville, Ky., republishes the New York World’s platform to show that Democracy has been in favor of free trade from the first. Like the World, it sees fit to ignore President Jefferson’s views of that subject, as expressed in his messages to Congress. A Philadelphia paper, # which is not up with the times, says Senator Fair is making capital on the Pacific coast for McDonald, of Indiana, in regard to the presidency. Latest advices would seem to show that domestic affairs engage Senator Fair’s attention, and that such of hia capital as ia not turned over to his wife will be used in making himself solid. . The New York and New England railway lias been sued by one of its engineers for $lO,000 damages for injuries received in ft collision on defendant’s road, which, as alleged, was caused by a telegraphic order, misleading the conductor and engineer of one of the trains. It begins to appear that somebody will have to be held responsible, if employes seek redress. ______ The Shelbyviile Volunteer, the old Democratic organ of Shelby county, expresses preference for the nomination of Judge Solomon Claypool, of this city, for Congress. It speaks of “little machine politicians,” “theatrical managers,” and “two-legged insects,” in a way to indicate that harmony has been thoroughly restored in the ranks of the rock-ribbed old party. The Peoria National Democrat understands that Bishop Spalding, of the Peoria diocese, has been elevated to the cardinalate aud then made an archbishop. The same paper reports that the Bishop has succeeded in raising $2,000,000 in Europe for the purpose of erecting an ecclesiastical educational institution for the training of young Catholics for the priesthood. The truth of these reports has not yet been established. In Copenhagen anew law for the regulation of saloons has been passed, embracing these points: 1, The number of public houses is to be reduced from 1,350 to 300. 2. Girls are not to be allowed to stand behind bars. 3. Liquor is not to be sold to persons of either sex under eighteen years old. 4. No liquor is to be sold to persons already visibly intoxicated. 5. A drunken person is to be taken home in a cab or covered carriage at the cost of the landlord in whose house he took the last drink. It is reported that 450 New York penitentiary convicts have been let to a certain firm for the term of five years, at the rate of 35 cents per day. They will be employed in making cheap clothing. This force will be armed with 300 sewing machines. Such a scheme is of more than doubtful policy, since these men come in disastrous competition with as many honest tailors, male and female, outside the prison walls. They would be better put on public works, such as building roads, bridges, canals, etc. British railways have the reputation of being very carefully managed. Yet during the year 1882 they were the cause of the death of 1,121 persons, of whom 127 were passengers. Besides these, 4,001 were injured, of whom 1,739 were passengers. This was an increase of twenty-five killed and thirty injured over the record of 1881. Still, while these totals are very formidable, when compared with the millions of passengers transported by railways in the United King doui the per cent, is insignificant. De Be Randolph Kkim, whose appointment as chief examiner of the Civil Service Commission was received with such Unanimous disapproval, yesterday withdrew his name, and the President at once issued a commission to Mr. Charles W. Lyman, chief (Clerk in the office of the Treasurer of the United States. Mr. Lyman has been identified with civil cervice reform for yeais, and was a member of the commission appointed under the administration of President Grant. This snag having been satisfactorily steered around, it is probable the commission will at once go ahead and put the provisions of the law into actual operation. The May crop bulletin of the Agricultural Department, for which the telegraph yesterday reported the existence of such a demand among speculators and others, is made public this morning. The condition of the crops is such as to cause the liveliest feeling among all classes, and in format ion itiat can be relied upon is eagerly sought for. According to this official estimate, the crops generally have somewhat improved over their condition since April, but they are still decidedly below the average. In Indiana the wheat crop is reported at 75. In some States it is less than this, and in others greater, but Indiana gives about the average of the country by and large. The question of ethics, absurd to everybody but doctors, put in its annual appearance at the late meeting of the “regulars.' 1 This professional phantom is not the appalling bug-a-boo it was a dozen years or more

ago, and a number of elderly physicians with perfectly spherical heads, tried to lay the ghost, which came this time in the form of resolutions censuring the action of the New York Medical Society in adopting anew code which allows regular physicians to consult with practitioners of any and all other schools. Had it not been for the country members these resolutions would have been defeated. As it was, a substitute was adopted instructing Indiana delegates to the national association to uphold the ethical code so far as consultation with “irregulars” is concerned. It is a singular fact that the majority of the most ardent sticklers for the code are young doctors who are in the primary grades of practice, just beginning the profession. The older men are more liberal. It is the young physician who fetters himself and makes his attempts to earn a livelihood in his profession more difficult. In conserving the code he aids the old physician who is established in his practice, to his own injury. THE PUBLIC LANDS. During the past nineteen years, since 1864, the United States government has made land grants to western railway corporations aggregating 192,000,000 acres. An idea of the magnitude of these donations may be had when it is bornein mind that it is equivalent to two and a half times the area of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. In other words, to stimulate the development of the West, two and a half times the area of the United Kingdom of Great Britain were pledged, under conditions, to companies that undertook to construct certain lines of railway through what was then an almost uninhabited region. The incentive for such magnificent subsidies was the civil war. Everything that tended to strengthen the Federal government, to increase the population and wealth of the North,'was regarded as imperative, and the passage of such measures by Congress was generally approved. In the case of one line of railway that received aid from the government, the Union Pacific, its construction was regarded as a national necessity, since it was not improbable that we might become involved in war with some foreign power, in which event it would have been necessary to have some speedy way of strengthening our Pacific coast defenses. But times have changed since then. The great unknown West has rapidly developed. Lands that were comparatively worthless, on account of their remoteness, are now valuable as farming lands. It would be regarded as preposterous for the same companies now to demand the same subsidies. When these vast donations were made, it was under conditions, and these conditions have not been met. The lands in question, therefore, should rightfully revert to the public domain. But the interests involved arc so great, the value of these lands is now so enormous, that the corporations which forfeited them by failure to fulfill tlieir part of the contract, will make a big fight to retain them. The question is simply this: The Federal government, desiring certain railways, offered certain lands on condition that the roads were built within a specified time. The corporations accepting the offer failed to construct the lines, and in some instances made no effort to do so. In equity that ought to settle the matter at once, and it would were not so much involved. But despite the fact that they have no equitable title to these lands, the railway companies propose to make a fight for them, and have employed the best legal talent in the land to defend their claims. The present legal status of this important question is this: The various railway companies, seeing how valuable these lands have become, decided to attempt their possession. In some instances they got an extension of time in which to perform their part of the contract, and then failed again. Then they threw aside pretension and made a direct movement for the possession of the lands. Attorney-general Devens gave an opinion to the effect that until Congress should formally declare the forfeiture, or do some act equivalent thereto, the right of the company to the lands continued, and that patents should issue. In accordance with this, patents were issued, and the practice has continued to this date. In 1875 the Supreme Court decided that the lands granted to these companies passed to them by virtue of the act making the grants on a condition subsequent—that is, the completion of the railway within the time specified; and that if the company failed to complete the railway within the time specified, notwithstanding the provision that “the land shall revert to the United States,” there must be either a judgment declaring the forfeiture or an act of Congress declaring it. It is apparent from this that Congress must take prompt action in this muiter. The patents already issued would probably prove valueless after such an act by Congress, blit if this vital question is allowed to go undetermined until all the lands are patented to innocent purchasers, it would be well nigh infamous to dispossess those who have made a* ey natural mistake through the culpable neglect of Congress. It is estimated that by prompt action on the part of Congress, as suggested by the Supreme Court, about 90,000,000 acres of the public domain can he recovered. This isequivaWnt lu extent to four and a half times the area of the State of Indiana. The interests at stake are worth fighting for, and cannot be ignored without blame. The railway companies have no claim in justice upon these lands, and they should not be allowed to retain possession of them. The welfare of the nation demands that the West, like the East, be owned by actual settlers and not by gigantic

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monopolies, whose influence upon legislation is so potent and so dangerous. A bill will be presented at the next session of Congress declaring these grants forfeited, so that these vast tracts of unoccupied land may revert to the government. The bill, if properly devised, should pass without a day’s unnecessary delay. At this time there is no occasion to give away land by the millions of acres, and certainly not when no return is made or pretended. The vote on this point should be unanimous, and the question should be settled at once and forever. MUSICAL THERAPEUTICS. Anew cure for nervous diseases is reported from Erie, Pa. A young girl of that city was, until recently, an invalid from childhood and confined to her bed. During each night she was subject to fearful convulsions that nearly destroyed her life. In order to ward off these attacks, which were of nervous origin, she was giveu her brother’s cornet and violin. Practicing upon these instruments in the once stilly night hours the girl’s mind was diverted, and she became so absorbed in the new occupation that from twilight to dawn for months and months, wierd and dismal strains of cornet and violin issued from her room. The convulsions ceased, the illness gradually left her, and now the young woman not only possesses physical health but is an accomplished violinist, and has gone to Cincinnati to enter an orchestra. In this individual case no harm may have been done by this singular and barbarous method of cure. The lady’s residence may be detached one, and none but her immediate family perhaps suffered from the effects of the perscription; but against the general adoption of this method of removing disorders the public should protest. While to a patient subject to convulsions the awful sounds of violin or cornet, when drawn out by unskillful lingers or uncertain breath, may be most soothing, the effect upon those persons in the neighborhood who do not have fits, but desire to sleep, is most disastrous. Men have been driven to madness and to crime by much less aggravating causes. For forty years Thomas Carlyle and his wife fought with fate in the shape of the neighbors’ pianos, and with what a painful result. Not all of us are Carlyles, thank fortune, but not one of us but may become equally dyspeptic and miserable by a constant course of fiendish piano practicing next door. If such consequences may befall us from an evil which is usually confined to hours of daylight, what can be expected when the period once devoted to repose becomes a time for a tooting of horns and the doleful squeak of fiddles? Nervous women are many. It may be safely said that every house contains one or more. Comparatively few of them have convulsions, but they may reasonably argue that if cornet and violin can cure violent cases, what may the instruments not accomplish for the less severely afflicted? In milder cases, indeed, other instruments—the flute, the French harp, or the jewsharp—may be found effective. Should the claims of this remedy become well known, as it is feared will be the case, the distressing results to those who seek balmy sleep can hardly be estimated. The trade in brass and stringed instruments may become brisk when one of each is re quired in every household, but this will hardly be comforting to the man who, when nightfall comes, enters his home and leaves hope of rest behind. The cure will undoubtedly become popular with the nervous of both sexes, unless all who still possess their right minds make an organized and early effort against it. The faith cure being less noisy in its workings, was not objectionable to outsiders, and they were not justified in interfering; but here it is different. Unless cornets and violins are forcibly suppressed, or a hall is built for the use of nervous invalids—a musical tower of Babel, so to speak—the rest of mankind will soon have the alternative of going into lunatic asylums or taking to the woods. The bounty offered by the commissioners of this county for hawk, owl ami groundhog scalps, while being sufficiently liberal, does not open the way for speculation as a similar order by the county courts in Missouri. There a bounty of twenty-five cents was placed upon gopher heads. The quickwitted farmer readily discovered that he could realize more money from breeding gophers than from raising corn. Hence he did not hesitate to gopher for it. But in the present case, the board unwisely cut off the only show for speculation by n subsequent order excluding the groundhog from the list of bounty-covered heads. The breeding and propagation of the owl and hawk is a higher calling than the average man is prepared to engage in. In another of otir Western States the experiment of paying a premium on rat scalps was also tried, until the enormous run on the county treasuries threatened to bankrupt the counties, whereupon the premium was taken off, and the rat-killing was resumed with a view of extermination instead of taking the scalps of just so many as could be spared from the breeding pits and not interfere with the stock in trade. Tiie announcement that President Arthur would spend the Fourth of July at Woodstock, Oonn., as the guest of Henry C. Bowen is now said to be a mistake. It is cx-Presi-dent Hayes who has accepted an invitation to be present on that occasion. Mr. Bowen, whose country residence is at Woodstock, indulges every year in an old-fashioned, nltitudinous, spreadeugie Fourth of July celebration, at which are present all the celebrities whom he can entice thither. This is very patriotic and hospitable, no doubt, and no one except the readers of Mr. Bo won’s paper, the New York Independent, has any right to

object; but a word of mild advice in their behalf may not be out of order. It is the custom of the proprietor to publish in full in his otherwise estimable journal all the orations delivered on these occasions, and if this must be, it is no more than fair to his subscribers that he should endeavor to secure the best speech-making talent the country can afford. He may have some difficulty in doing this, as those who have been guests once, it is noticed by readers of the paper iu question, never repeat the visit, but he should make an effort. Mr. Arthur’s presence would have instilled some interest into the celebration, but if he felt unequal to a seven-column oration he did wisely to have a previous engagement on hand. In no other field is Indiana making more rapid progress than in the work of authorship. Among those who have recently done honor to the State, favorable mention should not be omitted of Professor James Baldwin, of Huntington. He has just issued from the press of John E. Potter A Cos. an admirable work on English literature. The book is in two stout, but elegant volumes, the first being devoted to poetry and the second to prose. The author has wisely, as we think, the current method of considering (pur literature merely historical and chronologically, and has substituted the topical treatment—a method much better adapted to the tastes of the critical reader, and especially superior as a vehicle of class instruction. Professor Baldwin’s style is chaste, elegant, and in keeping with his theme. The book is not wanting in warmth and picturesqueness, and the racy criticisms which abound in every chapter add greatly to the general value of the work. As an able summary of what the English and American world has accomplished in the vast domain of letters Professor Baldwin’s book is worthy to be favorably compared with the works of Shaw, Welsh and Hart, if not with the more elaborate production of Tyler, of Ann Arbor. Professor Baldwin deserves not a little praise for the work which he has just given to the public. The good old ways are still maintained in Arkansas. Convicts in the penitentiary of that enlightened State are guarded by armed men and bloodhounds, the latter to be brought into use in event of an escape. Three of these criminals were kept in charge of three certain trusties. It so happened that these three trusties made a break for liberty, and the dogs were put on their trail. With cunning instinct they soon caught up with the fleeing men. But being known to each other, the dogs did them no harm. The men reciprocated this kindness by hanging the dogs to trees and again speeding away. New dogs were Drought, and two of the three fellows were soon overhauled. Arkansas, like Kentucky, seems to have an overstock of Spotless Prowess—of a certain quality. Cincinnati comes to the front with the only human zoological garden of living wonders now upon the globe Mr. Jacob Beoker bluehiugly acknowledges that seventeen years ago he tearfully left the fatherland, but not uutil he had gone out in the wooae pasture and imbibed a snake. With this modest stock in trade he sought a fortune across the wide ocean, and struck it in Cincinnati. Os course, all these years that snake had nestled quietly and serenely near his heart. But when Theodore Thomas let loose his musicians, three years ago, it was too much for the snake. It was so terrified that it tried to flee to the mountains, much to Jacob’s discomfort and dismay. Jacob consulted a dootor or two, who prescribed for a bad liver, a heart that wouldn’t work weil on account of a worn-out “sucker,” or something else. But it did no good, of course. Another physician was called, and he said, “stiakeß,”on general principles. Well, he weut to work on the man, aud the results may be regarded reasonably encouraglug. The first returns showed several sections of tape-worm. These were followed by a lizard, yellow and alive. But on Sunday the original Dutch snake was reached, and it, too, was alive. Since then no list of the reptiles has been furnished the press. It is thought, however, that the patient will feel better over what has beeu done. Cincinnati Is a great place—for snake stories. The Stamm Lodge, Sons of Malra, of New York, was composed of women. Think of itt Sous of Malta! O the grand tank with a stone bottom—how in the world did they manage the ibex? Marvelous as it may appear, they stuck together like a band of Spartans. If they “sassed’* in the lodge room they kept it to themselves, and no barbaric outsider was the wiser. If they indulged inswapping choice bits of scandal instead of Investigating the mysteries of the 938th degree of the sacred boudoir, they didn’t give it away, if the Great High Spinster lectured the rest of the lodge uutil their back hair fell off, it was regarded as a royal secret, to betray which was to invite sudden deatu. No; all these things were locked in their innermost hearts, and wild horses couldn’t draw the dread secret from their bosoms. But with the return Os spring came thoughts of bonnets aud trimmings, and naturally the item of expense was scrutinized. It was finally concluded that the Grand Lodge was absorbing altogether too much of the Htamm Lodge funds, and a genuine Catherine Lewis kick was made. The Grand Lodge insisted, and the subordinate lodge finally seceded, taking with it some S9OO iu cash—euough to buy two very sweetest spring bonnets for the very aneleut and inexorable Grand Hpinster. From time to time modost Americans lay claim to estates in England valued variously at from 1! 100.000 to £500,000.. True, the matter seldom or never gets beyond claiming these comfortable sums, and nobody is hurt much. It is rare, however, to reverse tills order, and to have someone in Englaud claim money or iunds in the United States. But at last ft has come, and a lady by the poetical name of Laviua Fenn Vaisslcie, of Dynevor road, Stoko-Ncwlngtoti, London, modestly lays claim to half of New Jersey. Well, It's comforting to reflect, after all, It is only New Jersey. They can turn over the mosquitoes for the English lady’s half, nnd keep the other half in the family. The exact date is not.antionnoed, but the millenuiuiu is liable to break upon us ar about 4 o’clock almost any afternoon now. When woman tackles anything it Is morally certuin to come Into reality without delay. Some English lady has grappled with the dress question, and wo are now told that all shoes should have fl it soles and broad toes: that all waists should be as guiltless of rcstraiut as that of the Medlciau Venus; that sleeves should be roomy, skirts

straight and bonnets flt to protect tho head effectually from sun and wind, and a great many other things equally revolutionary in their character. It is a pleasing dream, if nothing more. Sophia Williams, of Philadelphia, is a foreigner, but that doesn’t prevent her from having three husbands, all alive and kioking, because she has not received at least two divorces. She is a practical poisoner, too, in a small way, having triod to do away with her third better half’s children by a former wife,, and now charged with havlug attempted to poison two oflier own offspring. Give Sophia a fuir field and no favors and there will be no marketable husbands or children left in a few weeks. A Southern exchange says: “One of the most accomplished and fascinating young widows in the South manages two large stock farms in Tennessee, aud resides iu a superb mansion iu North Carolina.” Almost any widow would be accomplished, with two fascinating farms iu perspective aud a mansion iu the foreground, or would be fascinating with the same sort of accomplishments possessed by this lady. A Maryland judge has set aside a verdict because one of the jurymen was detected In listening at the keyhole to an outsider's remarks. The man on the outside only asked how the jury stood, but the judge held that the suspicion of tampering was sufficient to vitiate a verdict, and that it could not stand. Judges of that description are neoded outside of Maryland, Boston is to have anew public library, the plans for which provide for a building covering over half an acre and three stories in height above the basement. It is estimated that the building will hold 1,100,009 volumes. When this library is built and stocked no excuse will exist for any resident of Boston remaining uncultured. • A Burks county, Pennsylvania, man is trying to eat 100 goose eggs in twenty cousecuti ve days. Should he succeed, he threatens to start on a championship tour, challenging other large eaters to gastronomlcal contests. That such a oalamity to the country may be averted, here’s hoping that the ninety-ninth goose egg may be fatal. Rev. Mutciimork addressed Elder Roller in the Philadelphia Presbytery, the other day, as a miserable upstart, and then explained that he meant nothing persoual. Not much more was said while Roller was around, but this made everybody happy. “Is Carter Harrison also a political dude?” —Louisville Courier-Journal. From the way lie“doed” up the Iroquois Cluo, it is generally conceded that Carter really is a dude. May be you don’t like Carter Harrison) It has been demonstrated that tho Indianapolis uiue is the terror of the kindergartnors. ABOUT PEOPLE. Tiie Chicago Herald asserts that that the real name of the “noei of the Sierras” 1b Heury F., not Joaquin Miller. Mr. Justin H. McCarthy, author of “An Outline of Irish History,” just published in Harper’s Franklin Square Library, is a son of Mr. Justin McCarthy, author of “A History of Our Own Times.” John Ruskin has a beautiful country home at Brantwood, Conistou, in the north of England. A stream, a lake and a forest, with an apple orchard are all close by his two-story gam-bling-house. The June number of the North American Review will contain an artiole on the “Abuse of Citizenship,” by Edward Self, in which will be presented an array or facts bearing upon the attempt of a portion of our Irish-Aiuerlcan population to use the United States as a base of warlike operations against England. Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, the novelist, is now about fifty years old, and looks pale and faded; but her eyes ure bright and her face constantly wears a smile. She lives in a flower-em-bowered cottage on Spring Hill road, Mobile, and devotes most of her time to caring for her husband, who is a confirmed invalid. Ex-Sergkant-at-Arms John R. French will enter the leoture field next spring, his subject being “Ten Years Among the Senators.” Mr. French was sergeant-at-arms for nearly ten years, from 1869 to 1879, aud if he tells all he kuows about the senators his leoture will he a revelation to some of their constituents. A rich old maid In Norway, who died not long ago, distributed her estate equally among six discarded lovers, al; of whom were free, explaining her bequest as follows: “These lovers either courted me for my money, which they now have, or else they loved me, and for that reason they shall have the money, because I believed them.” Cathani Bey. the Jewish millionaire, died recently In Cairo, agod seventy-three. Hie property is estimated at over $25,000,000. He was private banker of tho former vice-King, whoso unlimited confidence he possessed. He owned a synagogue of his own, in which services were daily held, and he oarefully observed Jewish rites in diet, etc. He had two wives, one of whom survives, and a numerous progeny. A YOUNG Kentucky couple having eloped and got married were caught up with by the pursuing mother of the bride just after they had retired at a wayside inn. The mother, wishing to detain the pair until the arrival of her husband, went into the room and seized the groom’s trousers* which that happy gentleman perceiving ho lifted his head and shouted: “Take’em along, old woman, take 'em along, 2 shan't want 'em agin!” Patti, at $5,000 a night, will get about $5 a breath in “Luola.” She is on the stage, by the watch, just sixty-two minutes during tiie three acts. This gives her SBO and some odd cents for every minute. The average rate of respiration is about eighteen a minute, so that each breath is paid $4 44. In “Lucia” there are 1,200 words and 2,800 notes, so that Patti is paid $4.10 a word, and $1.75 a note. Fora little run of a dozen notes a twenty-dollar bill is very fair pay. Perhaps the most Striking lhcident in the generally smooth and quiet career of the late Jules Bandeau was his Intimaqy with Goorge Sand, when he was twenty and she twenty-five. It was meant to be eternal; hut It lasted less than two years. Thirty years later they met again, in the foyer of the Odeon. Their eyes met for a moment lie hesitated, half raised his hat, nnd then asked a friend who was by his side: “Who is that lady? It strikes me I have met her somewhere before.” Mas. Emily 0. Kimball, of Riley, Mich, deserves to go on record as a model American woman. She Is eighty-three years of age, and has, within the last two years, knitted twentyfour pairs of socks and stockings nnd four pairs of mittens, aud made and quilted nine patchwork quilts, some of them of very minute pieces ana intricate patterns, besides HMsisting with the housework and doing general sowing for the family. The old lady is a better housekeeper at eighty-three than many of tiie candidates for matrimony at sweet slxteeu are. One man’s manner may be more effective than another’s oratory. William Pitt once made an attack on Rir William Baker, a member of the House of Commons, in which he charged hi in with liavlug made a large sum of money by a fraudulent contract. Baker rose quietly and said: “The honorable gentleman isu great orator, and has made a long and serious charge against me. I am no orator, nnd therefore shall only answer him in two words: Provo It/’ Having thus spoken he sat down, amid cheap-

plauso of the members. His brief reply gained the ear of the House, and his manner satisfied all that the charge was a calumny. THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. There Is something alien to our system of government in the endeavor to mass voters, not a coord in g to their views on pressing questions, but by races, sects or nationalities; ana they are not wise counselors who recommend such a policy to the negro.—Boston Journal. Ik the politicians make their organizations too exclusive they may find some dav that the organization is all they have left. They will have the shell, but the long-suffering snail will have departed. Some concession must be made to the voters, and what is asked for in the way of primary reform is little euough.—Chicago Tribune. The South ia slowly learning that it must give up either Democracy or modern civilization aud progress. It can stick to Bourbonism and barbarism if it chooses, or it can open the way for rapid development and diversification of industry ly expelling Bourbon politicians from power. But Bourbonism and oivilized progress —those two it cannot have.—New York Tribune. It is but fair to allow that England lias treated us rather shabbily in extradition matters, and the temptation is great to pay her off in her own coin. But clearly we should not be guided altogether by Englaud in our conduct and policy. A great nation, like an honorable person, doe* right, not because the recipient of the act is worthy, but because the actor has respect for himself and for justice.—Boston Advertiser. The man who placed the stock of the Credit Mobllier Association “where it would do the most good” is in his grave. How far Ins moral sense was blunted by self-interest and by the corrupting iutlueiico of a corrupt aud moneymaking age we will not xiow inquire. The evil he did lives after him. lihis memory is resuscitated and fumigated, who shall disinfect the men who have courted private life ever since lie laid before them the glltteriug bait?—New York Times. Julian lias generally known how to profess righteousness for the performance of malice, and he has brought inconsistency to a climax m assailing Carl Bchnrz for his administration of the Interior Department, with respect to the public lands. The record of 3oliurz is not vulnerable, but ho has not allowed gross imputations to pass unnoticed. On the third page of this paper will be found a letter from Schurz to Julian that is sufficient for the whole subject.— Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. It Is absurd for English newspapers to howl about “Irish plots” in this country. Under the circumstances, our government must not deliver up a single man to England on any unfounded charge of murder. An indictment for murder by a paid Dublin jury is not worth the paper it is written on. Our government should utterly ignore it and require some real proof. The jury machinery at Dublin works obediently to tho Castle. It is ready to indict any critic of tho acts of the British government as a murderer. — Louisville Courier-Journal. The press should lend its influence to the courts in establishing a higher, safer and better standard of justice in our oriminal courts, especially throughout the Commonwealth. The bet* ter class of citizens are always tractable, and ready to give their support to the right in any 1 good cause. The unpatriotic aud tho ungovernable are disorganizes and destroyers of pnblio peace wherever they exist. They are dangerous to good government, and, because unworthy themselves, have a spite against the world al large,—Louisville Commercial. There is no concern of greater or more immediate importance to our national welfare thatt than that which has been raised by this programme of “assisted emigration.” It brings before us tlio direct question whether it is not a bu ureme duty of our national government to protect this land, uot merely against an influx of heathen Asiatics, who do not become a charge upon society, but also against the Immeasurably greater evils that arc threatened in the use of it by European States as a dumping-gr*tnd for tho paupers, lazzaroui, rogues, dynamftards, and other social offscourings which they may wisk to get rid of.—Chicago Times. The worshipers of mere novelty may as well understand, once for all, that in the bad old times of judicial despotism tbe jury system was so very potent in protecting tho Innocent that the institution is sacred, aud oveti its outgrown features are invested with a certain sanctity. We are accustomed to associate the right of trial by jury, as of habeas corpus, with magna charts, and that grand bulwark of freedom did guarantee this rignt, but it was old theu. What has been gradually secured through centuries is too deeply rooted to be toru up and cast aside, lu whole or in part, however importunate certain doctriualres may be.—Chicago Inter Ocean. We have ourselves felt too sharp an experience of the horrors of political assassination not to feel the most intense indignation againstt Its perpetrator* or abettors everywhere. The deaths of Lincoln and Garfield are so fresh iu our memories that we can readilj' appreciate the feeling which reigns in England to-day. It is a reasonable feeling, for it was precisely our own when we lost by murder the heads of the state. What must we think of the late convention, which, with notorious facts in its knowledge, with the men who boast of carrying on a dynamite war against England iu attendance on its sessions, dared not utter a word of censure# One thing is certain: political reform by the process ,of murder is not going to be popularized in America.—New York Christian Advooate. =■ ..... . 5-‘. — Reform in Kentucky. New York Herald. It is reported that some of Mr. Thompson's* acquaintances have thought that perhaps their gallant friend ought to be tried for murder. Not that they wish Thompson any harm—oh, dear, no! Even if the evidence were to show that Davis had been entirely innocent of the offense charged by Thompson, and that the latter had acted on mere rumor or suspicion, no Kentuckian would wish to see a high-spirited gentleman hanged, or even taking rooms for life at the penitentiary. Still, that they should think it proper that Mr. Thompson should be tried for murder shows such a change in methods of thought that, although there was a lynching affair in tho State yesterday, we unhesitatingly announce that reform has begun its beneficent work in Kentucky. Apt Scholars. Philadelphia Times. The gambling law passed by the recent Legislature of Tennessee is now in operation. But the State debt is still going begging at fifty cents oil the dollar. It is evident that the old New England deacon who said to hia new clerk: “Sonny, when you have watered the whisky and sanded the sugar come into pi Myers" has been down South giving lessons to that benighted population, and that they have shown themselves apt scholars. The Honesty of the Judiciary. .Cincinnati News. A corrupt bench might be endured for the brief time it would last. It would speedily bring about its own correction. A bench which has become the servile minion of a party, a degraded political tool, forgetting its high office to do tiie bidding of party leaders and politicians, is the worst calamity that could befall a people. Will He Include the Marlon Trust? WdHliingtou Pont . Bismarck appears determined to carry thf paternal system to an extreme unheard of in modern times. His latest movement is for nationalization of the fire insurance business of the empire. Why not as properly nationalize thje grocery trade or the dry goods business. Difficult to Ignore. National Republican. Tho London Times proposes to get rid of tbe Irish agitation by having Englishmen “ignore” Irishmen. The Times had hettef educate Englishmen up to sitting on red-hot stoves and ignoring the fire. Tlio Drumutic Dudes. Cincinnati Enqnti^r* .Several of the able critics of the Dramatic festival wbund themselves around such ter* rible words as subtlety, passion, sympathy, and emotion yith a skill that terrorized modest opposition- __ Heavenly, hut Too Costly. Philadelphia News, Patti siijh that music belongs to heaven rather tha* earth. Well, Patti, If the angelsnre going to eilarge ssa seat every time they sing, we ure sorry we have been so good, that’s all, A Two-Cent Confession. Chicago Horsld. TheTicrnla had no credit with the papet mills and often when one edition wus printed it wH problematical where tho paper wnf comng from for the next.