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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW <fc SON. F®r Rates of Subscription. etc.. see Sixth Pasre^ FRIDAY, JULY IS, 18s:{. THE LNDIANAPOUS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following p ace*: J,ONDON—American Exri.anjpeiu Europe. 449 Strand. J*AK lS—American Excliauju in Paris, 35 Boulevard dcs Capucines. HEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON. D. t\—Brentauo’s 1,015 Pennsylvania avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. t\ Hawley A Cos.. 1M Vine street. LOUISVILLE—O. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ET. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot. Clerks of the primaries to-night will confer a favor upon the Journal by bringing to this office the names of the delegates selected for to-morrow’s convention. Senator Rollins has withdrawn his name from the New Hampsliire^pntest. It would be a matter of very great gratification if the Democracy would nominate ex--Bpeaker Bynum for mayor. It will be the votes of Republicans that will elect the Republican ticket in October next. The man who builds his hopes on anything else is building on sand. Judge Titlky, of Chicago, on Tuesday beard a divorce case and granted a decree, all in fifteen minutes. The Judge lias a local reputation as an expeditious divorce man. The French astronomers who were sent to Caroline Island in the South Pacific to study the solar eclipse, report the discovery of a new red star. They will leave it where they found it. A telegram from Mayor Grubbs, received last night, says no one is authorized to withdraw his name frond the contest for the mayoralty; but that lie shall be satisfied with the action of the convention. It is said that De Lesseps has secured enough capital for a second Suez canal. If it is as sluggish as the presefit one, it will double the source of epidemics without materially benefiting commerce. There is a good, round Republican majority in the city of Indianapolis. Shall it be called out? That is the only question for the primaries and the convention to answer. On that the result depends. A few days ago a statement was published from Robert Downing, an actor, to the effect that John McCullough was in rapidly-failing health and financially embarrassed. This statement is now denounced as untruthful and malicious. The strength of the Republican party is in Its being the partj r of the people. It is not the party of bosses, large or small. When the people in their primary capacity take hold of and manage matters in theirown interests, then the Republican party is strong and always It appears that Irish pauper immigrants nre being “assisted” to this country via Canada. It seems cruel to turn them back, but it should be done in every well-defined case. It is not at all likely that British authorities will assist any but the most undesirable citi* Eens—just the class that we have no use for. liet them be sent back until the business of - foisting criminals and paupers upon this country shall cease. The establishing of factories in the South, and the revival of trade in that section, constitute one of the chief difficulties that confront the Democratic party. Anew set of men, with anew set of ideas, are coming to the fr6nt in that part of the country. The party lash is rapidly losing its power. Men down there are beginning to espouse political principles that are closely associated with their material welfare and most conducive to the general development of the country. Bourbonism will be compelled to shed its skin and clothe itself with live notions concerning public affairs, or lose the support of a large following hitherto counted reliable at all times and under any and all circumstances. If the conduct of France in its spasmodic raids in various parts of the Eastern continent does not result seriously for that country, it will not be its fault. In a small way, France has created national disturbances quite recently in Madagascar, Algiers and Annam. The incipient causes of these troubles have not been very clearly set forth, but in one or two cases, they have all the earmarks of gratuituous intermeddling for very contemptible purposes in a republican government. True, nations like men are imitative, and the ease witli which England has obtained a controlling influence in foreign lands may account for the ambition of its polite neighbor in a like direction. But the high-handed proceedings of Admiral Pierre in Madagascar has already aroused the indignation of England, and is also the subject of consideration on the part of the German and American governments. If later re portion firm the statements made in Parliament by Mr. Gladstone in reply to Sir Stafford Korthcote, France has brought about an entanglement that will not be whistled down. It is to be hoped that France will be able to explain away the ugly features in these affairs, blit upon the face of the matter there is evidence of general recklessness. This is strengthened by the additional report that (he commandant in the French colony on

the west coast of Africa has arbitrarily detained and searched Euglish merchants, interfered with American missionary schools, prohibiting the teaching of any language but the French, and mingling the administration of affairs in general with the most inexcusable insolence. If the French republic has taken the war-path it will not be required to wait very long until some country will accommodate it with a fight. France is bringing republican government into disrepute with the peoples of Europe. THE PRIMARIES TONIGHTThe Republican primaries should be largely attended to-night. Let the Republican vote be fully represented in the primaries, and let the purpose be in every ward to upset all cut-and-dried arrangements. Each and every Republican voter must stand in the primary upon the same footing, and with equal influence and with opportunity to make his voice and vote potential in the result. Anytning that will tend to prevent this will cause trouble and dissension that may work itself out in defeat of the party ticket at the polls. We say, earnestly and strongly to caudidates and their friends, and to all classes of workers, that nothing they can do will be so dangerous to success iu October as to have it understood that things have been “set up” in advance, and that the holding of the primaries is simply a form and a mockery. Such a feeling has worked serious injury to the Republican party iu many places. The party can have success in October or it can invite the chance of defeat. It will do little good for anyone to win the nomination and then be beaten in the election, and that is a possibility to be considered fairly and fully by all interested. Give every Republican voter his proper voice and influence in determining party questions. Let the convention of Saturday be a fair and unhampered representation and expression of the party, and there will be no trouble in carrying the ticket to triumphant success in October. But this can only be done through the utmost fairness in methods, and by the selection of candidates who will give certain promise to the people of a good administration of the city government. If the primaries to-night shall be attended by the Republican voters in such numbers as they ought to be, and the party voice is heard and respected, Indianapolis will give a Republican majority next October that will be heard round the State and country. OFFICIAL MISDEMEANOR A more convenient means of impeachment, placed within easy reach of the people, would be an effective remedy against the willful disregard of sworn duty on the part of public servants. As matters now stand, even where impeachments are provided for, the method is so loaded down with routine and technicalities that the official term of office would generally expire before a case could be reached. There ought to be some plain, practical way of promptly reaching delinquent public servants, so that the misconduct could be cut short by discipline or, in serious cases, by peremptory dismissal from office. In the flagrant violation of the law by the police authorities of this city, not only in the utter disregard of the law as it is written but in the more dangerous assumption in extending its provisions beyond even both the letter and spirit of the statute, the people ought to have means of impeachment so simple and easy of application that the waste-basket would have been full of official heads in twenty-four hours after these gross abuses of a public trust and putting in jeopardy the welfare of the entire community. The public officer, both high and low, would be more efficient if the consciousness of certain and speedy arraignment for bis misdeeds were ever present. There should be no intricate system of legal machinery between the people and their public servants, nor should the other extreme prevail, whereby the servants could be thrown out of place at the whim of caprice or prejudice, But that there should be some tribunal, based upon common sense principles, where cases of abuse in the use of official authority could be promptly, justly and effectively dealt with is no longer questionable. There ought to be but one condition upon which the tenure of office should rest, and that the faithful discharge of the duties of the office under the law as it is written. ‘When there is an open and willful departure from this requirement, steps toward impeachment ought to follow at once, and be vigorously pushed until the case in hand has been disposed of. A double service would thus be performed to the people: by punishing an unworthy servant and at the same time giving a healthier tone to the public service. When it comes to be generally understood that nothing short of the strictest fidelity on the part of officials will satisfy the people. the road to office will be blockaded to unworthy and unfit men, and the slip-shod methods of the present materially improved. _________ A year or two ago a rich Philadelphian while spending the summer with his family at a hotel in the Catskills w ished to procure some chicken fora sick child. After sending a special messenger sixteen miles for the fowl the cook refused to prepare it, as it was not ‘ chicken day” at the hotel. Upon appealing to the proprietor that gentleman curtly advised the Philadelphian that if he wanted so much waiting on he had better buy a hotel of his own. This struck the millionaire as such a happy thought that he immediately went out and bought 15,000 acres of land in a tract, including several mountains. He has built a large hotel, where, it is to be presumed, guests can be supplied

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with chicken at all Lours, and has succeeded | in bringing to completion two railroads j which were pointed his way. A party of 120 journalists from Boston, New York and Philadelphia went up the other day and formally opened the two roads. That the opening was successfully made goes without saying. A GOOD MAN GONE The death of Mr. “Bob” Porter by drowning in the Missouri river calls forth two columns of tearful obituary from the Kansas City Journal. Mr. Porter, we learn from this eulogistic sketch, was one of the most widelyknown and respected sporting men in the United States. Over thirty years ago he began his professional career, and in that time, according to the biographer, achieved a national reputation. During the most of that period, a part of which, by the way, was spent in Indianapolis, he enjoyed a gratifying financial prosperity, but recent reverses led to a temporary aberration of mind, during which he “plunged rashly into the turbid stream that bore him beyond the confines of immortality.” Seldom, indeed, has the reader of mortuary literature the privilege of contemplating a character composed of so many virtues as was that of the late Mr. Porter. With due allowance for the unconscious exaggeration to which admirers of a great man naturally lean when describing his good qualities, the fact yet remains that the departed gambler was a most esteemed citizen, and his loss a sad loss to the community in which he was universally liked. This is the only conclusion which can be drawn from the graphic chronicle of his career. The assurance is repeated, once and again, that Mr. Porter was scrupulously honorable in all his dealings, especially those of a financial character. He had one admirable characteristic which goes far toward making a man popular, and would undoubtedly account for the high esteem in which he was held, had he possessed no other virtues. “Mr. Porter,” lii3 friends sobbingly unite in saying, “had no appreciation of the value of money, and when out with a party of friends always insisted upon paying for everything himself.” No wonder they mourn the decease of such a genial, w r hole-souled companion. He was charitable, too. If this biography may be depended upon, Mr. Porter was a regular charity organization, and had for years given to the poor large sums of his hard-earned wealth. “It might be said,” feelingly whispers the reporter “that he was too good.” It is true, of course, that Mr. Porter was a gambler; no effort was made to conceal this fact; as for that matter why should there be, as it seems not to have stood in the way of his popularity? He also evaded or broke the law whenever short-sighted legislatures made enactments calculated to interfere with the gambling faternity. Indeed, it was upon a visit to Wyandotte for the purpose of seeing whether it would be safe to set up a faro bank there that the fatal aberration attacked Mr. Porter. However, this law-break-ing habit was a part of his business, and was not, it appears, treasured up against him. Mr. Porter was a peaceable, quiet citizen, never having killed but one man. Barring these few slight faults no doubt can remain, after reading the obituary to its close, that a great and good man has gone from Kansas City to his reward; a prince has fallen. He had the reputation of being “square.” The chief of police, who knew him for thirty years, testifies that he never heard anything dishonorable of him. The universal testimony, says the obituary, is that he was the thoroughly upright gentleman. What more could be said of any man? The little Kansas City boy will read the eloqlient tribute to Mr. Bob Porter and remembering the three line “send off' which lus deceased Sunday-school teacher got, will resolve that he can not do better than to become an honest gambler when he grows up. It is gratifying to be told, at the conclusion of the eulogy, that the “high standing of the unfortunate man and his great popularity will insure a funeral on a liberal scale.” We trust that this expectation will not be disappointed and that Kansas City will dfr its duty in making the success. The Burlington Haweyk, iu tlie oottrse of an editorial article highly eulogizing the late Cliauuoey Rose, of Terre Haute, for his generosity iu toundiug a polytechnic school in that city, says: “And how could he have bestowed his wealth to better mlvautagtd His bones will moulder and his flesh decay. His means provided amply for Ills immediate dependants and beyond that the world with all its opportunities was open to them to amass wealth. But for the great masses of humanity this school rears Its stately pile offering to all who come opportunities .for improving not simply their own condition but for advancing the progress of the world. The wealth ot Obauneey Rose will be multiplied to the good of humanity thousands of times. It will swell in the wealth of the world in a geometric ratio as each student applies the advantages he there receives to production. Cliauuoey Rose neglected not his immediate and natural legatees blit lus large heart took in the human family as his brotherhood and he left to them u princely legacy thatcau never bo exhausted.” Jersey justice, like “Jersey lightning," strikes hard, and there is no telling where it is going to hit. The latest arrest is of u woman on a charge of being “acommon scold.” The charge Is ambiguous, though its true import will probably be developed In the trial. It is impossible to say, without further information in the premises, whether the prisoner has exceeded her rights iu becoming a common scold, or whether she has fallen short of her duty in not being an uncommon scold. The outcome of the trial will he watched with interest—especially by women. Mothers-in-law should emigrate to Persia, which they will And u happy land. According to a returned missionary mothors-m-law Are notf treated with scorn nor spoken of lightly in Persia, but their presence ts greatly desired by the husbauds of their daughters as the only means of keepiug those young women iu the wuy they should go. Mu. Cum rack informs us that be has a letter from Governor John M. Hamilton, of Illinois, informing bun that he will certainly ho at Acton nud All his engagement, there on ibe 7th of August. The Governor wilt come to Indianapolis

the night betore, stop at the Deuison, and I go to Acton on the morning or the 7th. The Governor will make an address ou the subject i “Complete Nationality of Americau Citizen- j ship.” Governor Foster, ot Ohio, will speak the j same day on “The Practical Treatment of the i Temperance Question,” and Governor Porter, of j our State, ou “The Pardoning Power.” This will make a feast of fat thiugs for the Acton assembly. Miss Susan B. Anthony lectured in London on “The position of women iu America,” and evidently surprised the audience by her ignoring of stage effects. From the gratification expressed by one London newspaper over the fact that she did not play to the galleries, it would appear that the English idea of the American woman’s position is that of a being poised upon one toe with the other pointiueto the roof. Perhaps they ex pected to see Busan flirt with the bald-headed men in the frout row, James Parton has started a George- Wash in g-ton-oan’t-tell-a-lie story for the benefit of a eon of Governor Butler. It Is to the effect that when Ben. seut his son to Harvard ho gave him a check-book and said to him: “Take that, and whenever you want any money draw as freely as you like, if you are ever iu doubt consult your mother.” That’s all very pretty, but how mauy in this Christian land but believes that that gallaut boy knew his illustrious father too well to overdraw the account. What are country postmasters to do for reading matter now that General Gresham insisrs that all newspapers must be passed on to their proper owners without opening) The leisurely reading of the papers and other periodicals paid for by his neighbors has so long been the custom of these officials that the order will doubtless be somethlug of a shook. The only remedy the postmaster has is t o subscribe for the Journal, or other equally good paper, if any suoh there be. Chief Moses has relinquished his reservation rights to the government, and lias gone to live with Thomas Kat. The traditional meekness still clings to the name. But what must be the felines of the authorities who would suggest such a companionship for a good Indian! ABOUT PEOPLE. Oliver Wendell Holmes has shaved with the same pair of razors for fifty years. Pkue Hyacinths Lor sox and wife will visit this country in about a month, and will remain nearly all the fall and winter. Rev. Henry Grey, Earl of Stamford, has married a colored women in Barbadoes- His son, William Grey, has resigued his professorship at Codringtou College, Barbadoes, and has returned to England. Miss Lovey Lee, daughter of the late William P. Lee, of New York, who la3t winter was declared to be the prettiest unmarried woman in Rome, lias been betrothed to Mr. Denison, a wealthy London banker. The granite shaft that for more than half a century marked the grave of Thomas Jefferson has been given to President 8. 8. Laws, of the Missouri State University, who will place it in the campus of that institution at Columbia. The Rev. Dr. R. Heber Newton was not, as annoying reports have stated, a delegate to the recent Anti-Monopoly oonveotton In Chicago. He was at the time In Philadelphia, and had nothing to do with the oonvention whatever. Ex-Senator Simon Cameron is now staying at Bedford Springs. In bis old age his faculties of sight and hearing still remain almost unimpaired, and he walks about briskly and vigorously without support other than a light stick. TiiER . was neither boat nor bridge lo cross the lowa stream which separated Patrick Foley from his sweetheart Kate Marron. “If you loved me, Pat,” tue girl called to him, “you’d swim over to me.” He was drowned in trying to do it. Punsters have huilded better than they knew on the name of Judge Foraker, Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio. The family uarne was, it is said, originally Fouracre, and that form of spelling is still retained by some of tho branches. AN acquaintance of Mrs. Langtry says that the lady is employing some of her spare time writing a book, in whloh she gives her impresjions very fully of Americau customs and Amerioau people. A New York publisher lias arranged for the copyright. An agent of the Heidelberg University purchased in London half a dozen skulls for the cabinet of auatoiny. The German custom-house officials found that if they were entered as “bones” they would come in duty free. So after loug and painful cogitation, the skulls were classified as “worn effects,” aud wore charged with a duty accordingly. Miss Sallie Parsons, of Arnoldsimrg, Calhoun county, Virginia, was killed recently by lightning under very distressing circumstances. She was aged fifteen aud was to have been married iu three days. On the fatal day, as a storm approached, she ran into the yard to meet her brother, bringing bet wedding clothes, hut before reaching him was struck by lightning to the ground a corpse. A delicate tribute was paid to the value of Mt. Holyoke seminary last week by a lady handing to one of tho trustees $5,000 “to be used in helping girls not biessed with this world’s goods.” “Circumstances prevented" her from securlug an education there in her girlhood, but she has ever had a deep interest in an institution which she longed to enter, and honoe this gift in aid of others situated as she once was. Tiif. real name of “Joaquin” Miller, author of the “Sons of the Sierras.” is Cinolunatus Heine Miller. His divorced wife’s maideu name was Minnie Theresa Dyer, and her literary paeudonyui was “Minnie Myrtle.” It is said that the name “Joaquin” was given to Mr. Miller by “the boys” in his early California experience, when he was “roughing it,” from a real or fancied resemblance to a noted Spanish highwayman, aud he adopted it as a pseudonym. Mr. Spurgeon surprised his congregation u few Sundays ago. He began his sermon as usual and got through his “firstly” pretty well. Then, feeling very warm himself, and seeing his congregation growing listless, lie interrupted himself with the remark, “That is the end of tne ‘firstly,’ and its so warm to-day that I think the secondly and thirdly will very well keep for a cooler Sunday.” So the congregation went its wav. and Mr. Spurgeon weut his way. A correspondent from Brazil describes a rather singular street scene, He says: I noticed a gay youug dandy driving a smart English dog oarr, while his negro servant sat beside him smoking a cigar. Astonished as such a sight, I turned to ouo of the bystanders for an explanation, when I was still more astonished to hear that the negro, whom I had taken for the servant, was the master, and that the white dandy was a Cockney driver, imported from London expressly to mark the wealth, fashion and importance of his sable master. UL ... i ■ SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Don’t permit any rascal to retain au official position, to steal the people’s money, to receive any of the people’s taxes. Protect the honest people, the taxpayers, good citizeus. Kink out every rascal, and keep him out forever; out of every place but the penitentiary, which, though It contains numerous Democratic rascals, has room for more of them.—Chicago Tribune. Tiiosiiwbo have given most attention to the subteot were long since convinced that reform could not he got through uuy oue party, old or new, nnd'they pet themselves to work to create an active and vigilant public opinion which all parties would he compelled to respect. The na-

tional civil-service act was the first fruit of their efforts; the State law is another, and, within its field, not less important. Auy party can profit by this steadily strengthening reform sentiment by honestly conforming to its requirements; neither party can any louger safely ignore or defy It.—New York Times. There is no citizen who has kept a trade dollar In au old stocking for seven y&ars awaiting u redemption of that implied pledge. Any riddance f>f it is better than loavmg it to work more harm: but the best way to deal with it is to treat H us what it ts—a private chunk of metal containing a government stamp giving its weight aud fiue--1166ft. Cincinnati News Journal. There should be provision made for the coming generation at these army reunions, ami the young boys as well as the old boys should go. They should not only inherit the lusterless sword and tne rusty musket, but the spirit of patriotism, and when the veterans are too oid aud decrepit to longer join in these gatherings their eons should keep thorn up—Chicago luter Oceau. The only way to avert the silver danger la to cease coining the standard dollar: and Congress cau only be made to realize the danger by petitions. Those who will suffer most are those who have personal service to sell. They should petition Congress to stop making clipped dollars which will be forced upon them sometime as good money if the coinage continues.—Boston Journal. The true object on which any durable or es feotive remedy for the patronage system must begin is not the civil list, but the prestdenoy. It the apostolic reformers, with Mr. Curtis at their head, had directed the same energies to the removal of the President from party politics which they have squandered In chasing an absurd delusion, the country would now be much nearer to the desired goal than it is likely to be In tho ensuing quarter ot a century.—Chicago Times. Supporting an appointee as long as he Is “under fire” is not. always best; but requiring a man to resign because there are charges against him is very seldom best. The simplest way and tho most efficacious way or relieving embarrassment iu a case wuere serious charges are preferred against au officer is to have them thoroughly Investigated, giving him a fair chance to be heard. If the charges are sustained and are worthy of such punishment as dismissal, let him he dismissed. If be is proven innocent he should be retained.—Louisville Commercial. Perhaps no department of the government is so near to the people as the postntfioe, and this Is au argument in favor of an extension of its benefits to them at the lowest reasonable rates. It should not be the theory of the Postoffloe Department to turn revenue into the Treasury. If it shall at the end of any fiscal year show a bal-ance-sheet with even receipts and expenditures It will thereby attest that it has well and faithfully served the people for whose benefit it was created.—Louisville Courier-Journal. It is thoroughly understood among the Btates of this oountry, and even a municipality which ships off its paupers to another city is not surprised at their speedy return, aud why the oase should be different between the United Siates and Canada is hard to see. At all events, there must be some way of getting around the difficulty, aud, if no more ceremonious method occurs, the wandering paupers who are found to have recently arrived from Canada might be informally sent back by the very simple process of putting them on a ferry-boat aud paying their fare across, or by taking them to the middle of the suspension bridge aud ordering them to move on —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The right thing to do now, for tuon who wish to bring new questions definitely before the people, is to clear away the Democratic rubbish. It blocks all paths that load forward. Every movement, except one of reaction, it stubbornly resists. Its immense power at the South, consolidated by svstematic disregard of the principles of free government, imperils the couutry. When this rubbish can be removed, so that loyal Northern men can divide their votes without danger of producing a disastrous reaction, then new questions can be made the basis of political action. Until then the “putrid reminiscence” called Democracy will stop every path, and the man who does not vote to get it out of the way fulls to the only course by which any real reform cun be promoted.—New York Tribuue. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL A MODEL NEWSPAPER. Princeton Clarion. For the completeness of its news department, as well as the convenient arrangement of the same; for conciseness aud the clear-out ideas of its editorial department; for typograghic neatness and the characteristic merits of the paper, measuring it up on one side and down the other, we are fully persuaded that the Indianapolis Daily Journal is excelled by no paper in this or any other State. It is a model newspaper in all that the name implies. THE BEST PAPER IN the UNITED BTATES. Clay Comity Enterprise. The Indianapolis Journal is undoubtedly the best daily published in the State, and for the people of Indiana, the best published in the United States. The very best selections that are published in our columns are clipped from the Journal and we are always careful to give that paper the proper credit. the pater for hoosiers. Monticallo Herald. If the Indianapolis Journal could reach this place the same day it is published it would soon outrank all other daily papers in popularity here. It is pre-emim-otiy the paper for Hoosiers to take, and we hope that our mail facilities will soon be such that the Journal can circulate here widely. THE JOURNAL’S STATE CLIPPINGS. Clay Comity Enterprise. The Indianapolis Journal is the only daily in Indianapolis that takes clippings from the country press as it finds them, and gives the proper credit. Precautions Against Yellow Fever. Special to Cincinnati Enquirer. I)r. Hamilton, Surgeon-general of the Marine Hospital Service, says the arrangements for shutting out the yellow fever from the United States are as complete as they can possibly be made, and he is confident that they will be effectual. The Texas board Wave an appropriation from that State, but Dr. Hamilton has also sent an inspector to Matamoras and Brownsville to make reports. He lms also sent Assistantsurgeon Guiteras to Vera Cruz, who will by telegraph notify the proper boards of health what vessels are coming to their ports, and if necessary an inspector will be stationed at Vera Cruz permanently for this purpose. The inspector located at Havana has in the last two weeks notified New York of the coming of three vessels, and New Orleans of one coming from Cuba. In this way tlie authorities can be ready to examine all vessels justly liable to suspicion. Arrangements are being made by the Marine Hospital service to take charge of the equipment lately used by the National Board of Health. Dr. Armstrong has been directed to take charge of the property at Memphis. Au Extraordinary Advertisement, Columbia (S. O.) Special. The investigation into the management of the Tewksbury Asylum and the notoriety at present associated with the name of Benjamin F. Butler, Governor of Massachusetts, has caused the resurrection of an extraordinary advertisement published in the Charleston Courier in 18G3 by Colonel Richard Yeadon, a wealthy man and one of the editors and proprietors of that journal. The following is a copy of the advertisement: “TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD! “President Davis having proclaimed B. F. Butler, of Massachusetts, to be a felon, deserving of capital punishment, for tlie deliberate murder of William B. Muraford, a citizen of the Confederate States, at New Orleans, and having ordered that the said B F. Butler, for that and other outrages and atrocities, be considered an outlaw and common enemy of mankind, and that, in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do immediately cause him to be executed by hanging, the undersigned hereby offers a reward of SIO,OOO for the capture of the said B. F. Butler and his delivery, dead or alive, to any proper Confederate authority. Richard Yeadon.” Must They Vote as Tlieir Fathers? Boston Herald. The son of Stephen A. Douglas is a Republican, and the son of Judge Thurman, of Ohio, refuses to support the Democratic ticket this year, and the Lowell Tunes invokes “popular contempt” to be heaped upon them for daring to vote other than the Democratic ticket. But really, does the Times expect every young man to vote tvs his father does, or to stand by the party name a quarter

of a century after his father is buried, no matter what the party issues? Let the youug men judge for themselves. Inherited convictions are not so good as those a man forms for himself, and it is better a man should vote the wrong ticket on liis own best judgment than the right one because his father belonged to the party presenting it. THE INDIAN QUESTION. Sensible Suggestions as to the Treatment of Indian Reservations Kansas City Journal. A tribe of Indians, through their chief, Moses, have just agreed to abandon tlieir reservation in Washington Territory. The head of another tribe agrees to receive them on his reservation. Population is increasing so rapidly in this country that it is useless to talk about vast tracts of Indian lands lying idle much longer. If the red men won’t work and produce something on the lands allotted them, they must gfve way to 5 people who will. There are now more than fifty good Indian reservations Although pledged to the savages who occupy them, the pressure of settlers is sA great that the chiefs are easily induced to sell the rights of 4he tribes, and the total disappearance of the reservations is to be expected at no remote day. They vary in extent from 30,000 acres to many millions, the White-river agency containing 12,000.000 acres, and others being much larger. It is not desirable to have the Indian population shut up like wild animals in parks, and it only they could be civilized and made to till the soil and raise cattle, the abandoment of the reservations will be no misfurmne to them. The inevitable conclusion that they cannot pemanently retain their reservations should give new ardor to the zeal of those who labor for the industrial elevation of the young Indians and the civilization of all the tribes. When they absolutely refuse to labor .or learn*the ways of civilization they should be left to their fate. In this rushing world there is no longer room for the lazy idler; at least he must not be supported by the government. at the expense of the taxpayers. The vast Indian country to the southwest of us ought to be opened to settlement, after proportioning to the half-civilized people who i now inhabit but do not till it to any extent, : say 100 or 300 acres. This would be ample for them, and they should be made to be content with it. But if it is deemed advisable that a fund should be set apart for the purpose of securing an education for theso people, why, then, sell the land to the highest bidder-, and save the amount we have above indicated. If some such plan is not adopted the country will eventually be overrun by white settlers, despite all laws of prohibition. PRIME S1 EAM LARD. How It Is Made in tlie Great Packing-Houses at Chicago. Chicago Tribune. “W ild you like to know how prime steam ! trd is made?” asked an ex-Milwaukee packer of the reporter. “To see the operation at its worst, you should visit the works nights and Sundays. Then it is that diseased and decrepit hogs are cooked and brought out into the purest white lard by the steaming process. A packer can teake whiter and sweeter smelling lard out of a rotten hog than the farm-wife can from the pure leaf. In the leaf, you know, there are blood tissues, aud the stain cannot be cooked out by the ordinary process. By the steam, however, all stains are removed, evon that of the filth. Into the tanks the packer throws bones, entrails, diseased hogs entire, the heads left by the butcher, and all leavings that the farmer would throw away. The steam is let in at a very hot temperature and clarifies all impurities out of the grease. The lard separates and goes to the top and all the other stuff to the bottom. You would be surprised to know that all there is remain ing of the entrails and bones is a filthy liquid in the bottom of the tank. The lard is drawn off the top of this to within a haltinch. Even the stains from the entrails have disappeared; aud the lard is as white as your paper and as sweet as honey. The very bones are melted by the steam, it is so hot. “The smell which you would expect from this lard is gone, and you must hunt for it down by tlie river-side, where Chicago dally gets the" benefit. That is the history of prime steam lard. It is not tlie species which is adulterated except by the steam—if water is an adulteration. It is in the refined lard that cotton seed oil exists and other adulterations. I don’t care what the verdict of the lard investigation is. Both sides know that tons of cotton-seed oil are used b)* each, and they are winking at each other on the sly. Go down to the stock-yards and see for yourself. Every packer there receives it 'from the switched cars at his door, and every man who deals in the stuff on ’Change knows that every word I have spoken is true.” A SNAKE LAYING EGGS. The Remarkable Sight Which Is Drawing Crowds of People, Now Haven, Conn., Special. • Crowds of people visited Railroad Grove, Saven Rock, yesterday, to witness the unusual spectacle of a boa constrictor, twentythree feet long and about two feet in circumference, laying eggs, under a tent there. Tne snake is owned by Frank J. Pilling, business manager of the actress Annie Pixlev. It vna brought from Calcutta and is worth about $2,000. Mr. Pilling always supposed he owned a malesnake, and it was always billed as the Jumbo python. Last night he placet! it in its box for the night as usual, covered with blankets. When he came t-> look into the box this morning great was his astonishment to see that during the night the snake had laid about sixty or seventy eggs, about the as big as goose eggs, aud that it was still laying. The eggs were white and soft, having no shell. Some were round and some oblong. They could he stretched like India rubber. They were in a nentdvfonned pyramid, around which tlie snake lay circled. She was quite cross and resented being handled. Mr. Pilling was greatly excited. “To think,” he said, “that all the while I’ve had that snake I always took it for a male until to-day. I bought it in New York, at the Central Park gardens, and there, too, it was called a male. I have sold it to the management of the Zoological gardens m Philadelphia, to be delivered Sept. 1. I am going to try and hatch outsome of those eggs, and shall place some in sand near where the cooking-furnace at Hale’s restaurant is, and shall bury some in the sand down by tlu* rock, where the.sun can help alow? the hatching process. Some of the eggs I shall make into an omelette, just to see how snake eg?s will taste. Most of the eggs I shall leftvi with the snake, and perhaps she will kaicii them out in some way.” Decline of the Bourbons. Denver Tribune. There arc not many of us grand old Bourbons left. With the Count de Chamhord anc Hie Count de Tilden passing slowly but surely away, it is not at all surprising that a sense of loneliness should oppress the Duck de Wattcrson. _ They Continue to Deny. Atlanta Constitution. The Boston papers continue to deny that the business of tanning human hides is car ried on in Harvard College. Such weakliest as this is deplorable. Shocked All Around. Cincinnati Enquirer. Reports frou the country say that the wheal crop is about all shocked. The same may bo said of the speculators. A Hefty Fruit Atlanta Constitution. Otic green apple as large as your thumb known to weigh eleven pounds and boll