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THE DAILY JOURNAL. 15Y JNO. C. NEW Jfe SON. I'or Rates of Bubcription. etc., pee Sixth Paee. SATURDAY, AUGUST ‘25. 1883. WITH EXTRA BBR THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Cun lie found at the following pTaoes: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. TAB IS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. SEW YORK—Fifth Avenue nnil Windsor Hotels, WASHINGTON. I). 0.-Brentauo’s 1,015 Pennsylvania avenue. CHICAGO —Palmer House. CINCINNATI-.!. V. Hawley A Cos., liH Vine street. LOITISVIT.I.E—C. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. FT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. USE AND ABUSE OF POLITICS American politics produces, or rather brings forward into prominence, some very marked characters, as much opposed to each other in nature as can well be conceived. Its varying opportunities offer tempting inducements to adventurers, while its honors attract men of nobler stamp. Politics led Lincoln to the White House and gave to history one of its greatest characters. Politics, used as a means for self enrichment, made Tweed notorious and finally landed him in a felon’s cell. It is the proper use or the abuse of political means that makes them honorable or the opposite. Politics, like any other pursuit, is honorable or otherwise according to the person interested. A man may honor himself sawing wood, or in any other honorable pursuit. A bank president or the treasurer of any corporation may disgrace himself by violating the trust imposed in him. Politics is a pliable substance, and, like wax. may be fashioned at the manipulator’s will into an angel or a devil. Nor is it just to unqualifiedly denounce profes•ional politicians. There are many such who are as good and valuable citizens as such as are any in the republic. Politics, in its proper sense, is a science requiring the deepest study and closest attention. The science of wisely governing a mighty republic like our own is worthy the profoundest consideration of the greatest minds. A man may profitably and creditably devote his time, talents and best energies to its comprehension, and having mastered it, it is his to use it well or ill. It is no mean thing for the politician to seek preferment and high office. It is an honorable ambition, as much as is the ambition of any man to excel in his peculiar calling. Having qualified himself, it is but natural, and it is also commendable, that he should aspire to become a member of Congress, a United States senator, or even President of the Republic. It is no discredit to Mr. Blaine, Mr. Bayard, Mr. Edmunds, or Mr. McDonald that they should regard this the crowning ambition of any man’s life. It may be claimed that Washington, Jackson and Grant became President through the lottery of war. They were notable men both as military leaders and ns chief executives of the republic. Others, such ns Jefferson, Adams and Lincoln, attained the presidency through politics. Not that they manipulated politics to that end, but that they were thoroughly conversant with the science of politics, and the people, knowing their eminent qualifications, chose to elect them. To each of these notable men the study of politics was a prominent feature of their public lives. How well they acquitted themselves when they reached the summit of their ambition is a matter of history. But there are others who make politics, or political machinery, a study fora far different reason, and to the attainment of personal. selfish ends. Tweed knew enough about politics to enable him to “run things,” and he did run things for years until he was a very autocrat in New York city politics. He could make and unmake men at his will. He sought men who would do his bidding, and those lie elevated. Did any dare refuse they were put down. He plundered the city treasury, and was so confident in his power to manage things that his defiant “What are you going to do about it?” became a national by-word. Stephen W. Dorsey has made politics a study to the same purpose. lie learned the workings of the machinery of politics so well that he confidently expected his proficiency in this direction to shield him in questionable transactions in others, and when he was finally overtaken, felt much as Tweed did under similar circumstances. He escaped his deserts on technical grounds, but was so embittered against the party that stopped his unwarranted money-getting schemes that be turned upon it and sought to injure it in order to have revenge. His assault upon Garfield has been vicious and persistent, and his venom has been made the text of many partisan editorials in the opposition papers. Garfield was a politician in its nobler sense. He attained the highest goal in national politics in a manner that left no stain upon his name as a man and as a Christian. The petty assaults made on his reputation during the heat of the campaign in which he was elected seeiucd pitifully mean when he entered upon the discharge of his high duties; and when he lay dying every self-respecting man was quick to pay tribute to his heroic patience; and when, at last, at Elberon, he died, a world did reverence to his memory. Suppose his only accuser should die to day, would anybody be found to eulogize him? Would it not be greatest charity

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to say nothing concerning his methods and memory? Garfield’s name and fame cannot be sullied by such a man as Dorsey. The man who escaped a verdict of condemnation by the narrowest of margins, and who stands self-confessed a manipulator of elections, cannot reach to that high plane. Does anybody think Lincoln’s memory is sullied because a “Brick” Pomeroy assailed him? It is even so with Dorsey. He is a pitiful jackal, whimpering over the body of a dead lion. If he attracts attention it will be but to inspire contempt. The memory of Garfield needs no defender against the vaporings of such a character. It is praise to be calumniated by such a man. Lincoln and Garfield have been awarded their places in history. Pomeroy and Dorsey still live. How helpless the latter are to injure in any manner the unanswering dead is evident. Stephen W. Dorsey can never hope fora name untainted. Garfield can never forfeit his. It is a pitiful commentary on human nature that the groundless, unsustained revilings of such creatures can for even a moment find consideration. Freed from the excitement of partisan campaigns, the public judgment should not fail to speedily condemn this conscienceless accuser to the odious oblivion that awaits him. The American people, in behalf of honorable politics, cannot afford to elevate this defeated schemer into an importance that does not belong to him. If political integrity is to be commended, if personal worth and heroic fortitude are to be emulated, we owe it to the dead in whom they had their highest development to treat this maddened speculator in politics with the contempt of silence. His oath, unsupported by the corroborative testimony of some honest citizen, is valueless. Men of all parties should have no place in their councils for men like him. He is unworthy of fellowship and destructive of the best interests of society. He has voluntarily outlawed himself, and has become a pariah among his fellow men.

THE AMERICAN CHARACTER. Men are born with different degrees of inherent forces. After combating the power of superstition for ages, the doctrine is about to be generally accepted that the qualities of both mind and body are in a great measure hereditary. This fact furnishes the basis for the natural classification of society. In some countries the ranks are formed upon a legal fiction instead. Under the latter system the son of a nobleman is a gentleman although a horse-thief. The honor and emoluments of office are his by inheritance although he be an idiot or vagabond. But this unnatural order of things is gradually fading out. Among the people where the rule has been regarded for centuries as permanent and unchangeable, the evidences of its decadence are mo3t plainly marked. But while this reign of unnatural rank is disappearing in one quarter, can it not be seen struggling for a foothold in another? Like the light of civilization, when snuffed out in one place its blaze breaks out in some unexpected quarter. It is claimed in certain circles of American society that the forces are gradually but surely organizing and bringing to the front in this country European distinctions in social life. Such a condition of things is not apparent, and under the forms of our government is impossible. The most that can be done in the way of imitating nobility by Americans in any phase does not rise above the dignity of the cheapest sort of snobbery. The disposition is not wanting. The genius of the republic, with the consequent simplicity of the people, constitute impassable barriers to such a custom. The craze for aping royalty is confined chiefly to apes. The American who goes abroad in search of cast-offclothing of some dignitary is not an American in the better sense, The American girl who maintains a perpetual matrimonial cap for a foreign duke or count is not truly American, and would be the miserable failure anywhere that she usually turns out to be after catching her bird of royal blood. It is not strange that a heterogeneous mass of sixty millions of people throws to the surface a small but harmless collection of apes, oddities and aristocrats. Some of them ride in a four-in-hand with their footmen and liveried coachman. The coachman knows the whole turnout, to the genuine American, to be a mark of ridicule and reproach. The owner of the establishment does not aiw’ays know this. Having been born a fool, he makes matters worse by a resort to artificial means for notoriety. The true gentleman in this country can drive his own horse. If he hires a driver he is not ashamed to sit beside him. Maybe the superior knowledge of the latter concerning uoraes is equal to that of the former concerning bonds and stocks. So there is equality, in a measure, even between driver and banker. Tiie one is entitled to as much credit for his skill and care of the iiorse as the other is for his craft in stocks and bond3. But so long as the ballot is universal, und intelligently exercised, the lines between the different ranks of the people in this country can never be established. We meet annually upon an equal footing at the ballot-box. .The ranks argali open. The interchanging and passing from the lower to the higher are perpetual. So from the higher to tiie lower. Man born with the onward and upward impulse will not be kept down. Born without it, he can not be kept up. The American “nobleman” is nature’s handiwork, pure and simple. Many persons in Indiana suppose that Michigan University is the Indiana University, Purdue University and the State Normal School rolled into one institution; but the ludustriui College of Michigan is at Lan-

sing and the State Normal School at Ypsilanti, and both are liberally supported by the State. Several years ago a locomotive went down through a bridge into a Kansas creek, since which time no trace of it has been found. It is supposed to have sunk in the quicksand. This marvel is now discounted by the total disappearance of an entire passenger train. A few days ago a telegraphic report gave meager details of a train having been blown off of the track by a cyclone in Minnesota. It was declared to be demolished, but since that time no mention of it has been made. The debris is expected down in a few days somewhere in North Carolina, when further details will doubtless be forthcoming. Ohio Democracy seems bent on hari-kari. Between the Pendleton and McLean factions there is the most cordial attempt to knife each other. It would be more accurate to say that the McLean crowd threaten to run amuck right through all Democrats who do not train with them. Hoadly, being directly between them, and fully allied to neither, is sure to be slaughtered. Although the campaign is but fairly begun, and six weeks must intervene between now and the day of election, it is generally conceded, even by Democrats, that a Republican victory is a foregone conclusion. The statue of the late Senator Morton is completed, and is expected to arrive in this city about the Ist of October. The sum of $3,000, in addition to the amount already secured, will be required to settle the unpaid bill of the artist and secure a suitable pedestal on which to place the statue. This sum must be raised before October 1, and the appeal of Mr. Nixon, the financial agent of the association, should meet a prompt response. The statue will be unveiled at Circle Park, this city, about the Ist of November.

A former Imiianiau is raising quite a religious commotion in Schuyler county, 111. Evangelist Caleb Auderson Obeueliain, formerly a minister in the Methodist Episconul Churcn, is at the head of a lot of religious fanatics who have denominated themselves the Pilgrim Baud, and who, to saj' the least, have been guilty of a great many eccentricities. Obenchain first went wild on the “holiness” idea. He was assisted in this by one Rayburn, who, according to Obenchain, is one of the godliest men of modern times. Seeing his iufatuatimi for Rayburn, and not believing that the latter was wliat be should be, the church to which Obonchaln belonged gave him his choice, to give up Rayburn or to abandon ihe church. He chose the latter, and the two have got together a band of zealots that seem well nigh lost to reason. Their meetings have been characterized by a kindof frenzy, under the influence of which the members indulge in noisy demonstrations, to the utter disgust of the ungodly, who, on more than one occasion, dispersed them and tore down the tent in which they worshiped. The members frequently have visions, In which the Lord instructs them what to do. In one of these Obenchain was told to build a tabernacle, the form of the structure being revealed to him. He told his followers about it. and they at once set about doing the wllj pf God. Many of them converted all their funds, into money and consecrated it to the cause. One instance is cited where a widow with several children beggared herself thus, much to the Indignation of unbelievers. Their leader, however, maintains that she has wanted for nothing since she gave up all, and gives her assurance that the Lord will provide. As might be expected, this band believes in miraculous healing through anointing with oil, laying on of hands, and prayer, the only requirement on the part of the patient being faith. They explain recurrences of maladies thus cured as the result of backsliding. Many instances of cures are related, and quite a number of cases of backsliding are admitted. It is charged against this organization, or crusade, that they lean toward free love, but this is strenuously denied, and no adequate proof is offered that they are not true to marriage vows. Obenchain was graduated at Asbury University in 1808. _____ Musical people of New York want to have Jenny Lind visit this country again. They think she would lea success, “because everybody who had heard her sing here thirty years ago would wish to hear her again, and everybody who ever beard of her would like to see her.” Music-mad people are not commonly endowed with the best judgment in other directions, hut it is to he hoped that a spasm of sense on the part of some one will Interpose to prevent the carrying out of this plan. If Jenny Lind herself has the clear brain she is credited with she will decline the invitation. She is sixty years old, and her upper notes are gone, so that her singing, at best, will be but a faint echo of the grand voice that charmed her hearers of “the days gone by.” She will bo wise to remain as she uow is—a delightful memory in the minds of these fortunate ones—and not'subject herself to the path of adverse criticism irom au unsympathetic generation. _ A retired officer or the British navy who last spring established a civil-service institute in Washington has retired from the field in disgust. lie went to considerable expense in fitting up rooms and eugaging teachers, and had high hopes which have been blasted. Applications were numerous, but when the would-be students found they were not to be crammed for the examinations nor furnished with the official lists of questions, many pursued their inquiries no further. Others were ready to take a course at the institute on condition that a department position should be guaranteed to each one at the close. The instructor not being able to comply with these modest demands had no alternative but to close his doors until such time as office-seekers may comprehend the meaning of the new civil-service system. Mil George W. James, of North Ferrisburg, V r f., has in ids possession a Bible that lias an interesting History. He picked it up on the battlefield of Cedar Creek, and from inscriptions in it it appears that it was presented to Mrs.. Lucy Woodruff, on the evening of her marriage, May I, Mrs. Woodruff presented it to one A. J. Best, a member of the 18tli Indiana Volunteers, aud ut his death it came into possession of John Benton Major, of the 138tli Pennsylvania Volunteers. Major also appears to have been killed in battle, and the Bible then fell into Mr. James’s bauds. The great work of completing the track-laying on the Northern Pacific Railway was accomplished on Wednesday at 3 o’clock. On that day, between 7 in the morning und 3 in the afternoon, nine miles anil 300 feet of track were laid, or at the rate of between twelve and thirteen miles a day. This is suid to be the fastest work of the kind on record. TUe rails were not joined, awaiting formal opening, but a switch

was put in aud a train run around the break. An idoa of the formal exercises of driving the last spike may be gained from tbe statement that $23,000 worth of liquors and clears have been provided for the party participating. They would better attend to the driving before drinking. After they get away with that much liquor it will be a wiso man among them who can distiugufsh a railway spike from a two-dol-lar bill. In a wife-beating case which came before Judge Ilugbes, of St. Thomas, Ont., liis Honor acquitted the defendant, and laid It down ns part of the law that a husband possesses the undoubted right to personally chastise his wife when he deems she deserves it. The Judge said: “At common law a man has aright to resort to the moderate correction of his wife for her misbehavior, but not, that I am aware of, to turn her oat or lock her out of doors. Bhe is entitled to tho protection of his domicile even if he takes her in and administers proper castigation for her faults. It is not, however, for magistrates or courts to step in and interfere with the rights of a husband iu ruling over his own household.” A Washington gentleman gives it as not only his opinion, but that of a number of other people, that it is the intention of the Church of Koine to try and make a great spread in the future in the United States. It is regarded as a certainty by tbe people mentioned that the object ot the visit of Mnnsignor Capel to this country, und the calling of leadlug American Catholic leaders to Rome, is but to precede the appearuuce in this couutry of the Pope himself. Ilow true this Impression may be time can show. CAftain Eads still expresses confidence in his Panama ship-railway project, and expects to build it by the aid of English capital, Congress liaviug wisely refused to guarantee 6 per cent, dividends for fifty years on a capital of $50,000,000. Some conception of the undertaking may be had when it is borne in mind that many ships are now sailing the Atlantic that could easily tuck away from 100 to 150 railway locomotives aud not be a bit overloaded. Tramps entered the house of a Pennsylvania farmer in his absence, and failing to find as many diamonds and other gems about the premises as they lial hoped, caught the farmer's wife aud removed her hair, leaving her with a head like a billiard ball. When women learn the wisdom of keeping under lock and key possessions which cost money, such losses wiil not be chronicled. Veterinary surgeons of Pennsylvania have followed the example of their Indiana brethren and have formed an association for the purpose of protecting themselves and their patients from the encroachments of “irregular” practitioners. Hereafter, when a legitimate surgeon is called to a consultation over a sick steed by a quack horse-doctor, he will answer, “neigh, neigh.” John Burroughs says, In the September Century, that if he were a bird ho should follow the example of the bobolink, and build his nest in a broad meadow where no growth unlike another would mark its 6ite. Mr. Burroughs might do this just as a little lark, but if he were as wise as au owl, or conducted himself like a respectable bird of freedom, bo would no nothing ot the kind. To provide against “a sudden plunge into anarchy,” the Washington Post wants matters arranged so that when the President goes away on a journey someone will be left on deck in hie place. How would the editor of the Post like to be “king for a day?” Oscar Wilde says he is pleased with the success of his play, but that when he has “altered It and shortened it a good deal it will be more successful.” If the critics are to be believed, Oscar should re-write it entirely, and then eliminate all the acts. Bertha Hetman, the New York confidence queen, has been convicted. The jury was probably made up of murried men, aud her name went against her. It was their first opportunity to get even with Hymen. Dr. Swift, of the Warner observatory, who hat discovered so many comets, must have an expedited star route of his own. M eta for A k erl Y sneaking, the Republican candidate for Governor in Ohio will have a walk-over.

BREAKFAST CHAT. It is said tliat a true Bostonian is one who, when he is in Rome,does as the Bostonians do. Ex-Representative Walls, the colored political leader of Florida, will net nearly SB,OOO from his vegetable crop this year. Tiie Rev. Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, is said to have drawn larger audiences iu Kentucky than any circus that lias appeared this summer. A Mrs. Cox, who is said to be a sister of Geo. W. Cable, the novelist, is making a reputation for herself iu New Orleans as a painter of animals. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, who is now in Portland, Ore., expresses himself ns delighted with the far West, especially because of its roominess. The conversation of the poet-broker, E. C. Stedman, is said to boa mixture of stooks, Sophocles and English verse-making, varied still more by a favorite freak of fancy, flylrg machines. The Methodist ministers of New England receive au avenge salary of $560 a year, the Baptists a trifle more, the Presbyterianss74o, aud the Episcopalians S9OO. These facts may probably have something to do with the dearth of young men entering the ministry. A report says that Mr. Cable, the author of the “Gradissiiues," is ostracized by the Creole population of New Orleans because of his description of them iu his book. A proposition to elect him a member of a leading literary club in that city was considered an affront, and the nomination was almost unanimously rejected. Senor Zokilla, the Spanish revolutionist, is now' iu his fiftieth year. He is described as a tall, dark Castilian, with jet black hair combed back from his forehead, which presents no very extraordinary development. He is ever on the alert, aud is inclined to be reticent, not wishing to be expelled a second tune from France. One of the most singular sentences ever Imposed washy Judge KreJcel, of the United Slates District Court of Missouri, recently. An illiterate prisoner was sentenced to jail till he could learn to read and write, and another offender was sentenced till he could teach the former the art. In a little over three weeks tbe prisoner appeared, able to write a fair letter ai dictation, aud both men were discharged. The New York Journal says that in the Vanderbilt mansion up town a whole suite of apartments i6 being prepared for the use ol Ilenry Irving, the actor, when he roaches New York. Mr. Irving’s sitting-room will front on Fifth avenue, and ho will have a study, a toilet-room and a bed-room. A large mirror has been purchased especially for his use, that he may study and pose before it. Tills was oue of his requests to Mr. Vanderbilt, who will do oil in his power to make It pleasant for his guest. Getting oven with Mrs. Brown: Two ladies tete-a-tete: “That Mrs. Brown is just as meau as she can be! Why, would you believe it? she told me, right to my face, that I dressed too young for a woman of my years. The Idea!” “She did? Well, if sue’d talk to me iu that way I believe I’d told her just what I thought of her.” “Oh, no, dear, that would be rude.” “Possibly.” “But I did bettor, I told Mrs. Smith what my opinion

of Mrs. Brown was, aud Mrs. Brown will hear it soon enough. Aud then you know it wou’fc lose anything in Mrs. Smith’s mouth. It is one of my principles, love, never to do anything disagreeable when I can get somebody else to do it for me.”—Boston Transcript. Mu. A. M. Broadley receives frequent letters from his former clients, Arabl Pasha aud his comrades iu exile. Muhmoud Pasha Sami, the former Prime Minister, writes that he is in good health, aud devotes all his time to the study of the English language, in which ho hopes to be able to correspond in six months. Toulba Pasha writes in a less cheerful tone. The climate of Ceylon, he says, aggravates his chronic asthma, aud he despairs of liviug long unless ho cau change his place of abode. Arabi writes more frequently than any of the rest. Ills letters are models of elegant Arabic writing, and the sentiments he expresses arc moderate and dignified. Many persons are very careless in handling machinery they do not understand. A few evenings ago several persons were standing by one of the machines in the electric light station at Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, and a lady had her hand on a part of the machine from which sparks were issuing. A bystander said to the man iu charge, “Is it safe to touch the machine?” Looking up, he saw what was goiug on, aud went over to the machine immediately, and said, “You must uot touch it. If you were to touch each other while doing so, it would kill you both,” He afterward explained that one person might touch the machine without injury f but must beware of touching any Mie else. Os the reoent feminine base ball game, the New York Times says: “Tiie baiter alone showed no signs of fear, for there was, of course, no probability that the balls aimed at her would come near her. The other players, whenever a ball came in their direction, would exclaim loudly, ‘Oh, myP and would frantically dodge it. No casualties either among tbe giris or the spectators occurred, for the reason that no girl was able to throw the ball swiftly enough to inflict a severe blow. Still* had it hit a girl in the eye or on the hack hair it might have caused some inconvenience. Os course the girls did not venture to catch the ball. They could not have caught it had they tried, for the simple reason that they were standing on their feet und were without aprons. To expect a girl In such circumstances to catch a ball would be absurd.” A strange advertisement in the London Times: “Alone, yet not alone. To him or her who Is desolate, lonely or forsaken. A clergyman of the Church of England, who for nearly fifty years has observed and experienced the hardness of mankind, and (m many cases) of people professing to be religious, yearns to give counsel and a brother's sympathy to those who sorely need it. He has no money to bestow, but the most dejected and dispirited, those who rightly or wrongly feel themselvss to be the authors of their own sorrow, and those who (perhaps quite incorreotly) regard themselves as tiie most degraded, are lovingly invited to respond to the Rev. C. B. C., No. 12 South Molteu street, Oxford street W., who will meet them at any place in London, and at any hour that is consistent with his engagements. He will not seek to know the name of anyone who applies to him and who may wish to withhold it.” The London Graphic speaks of “enthusiasts who collect formidable statistics about the small congregations which attend churches in the city on Sunday, and their inference that many of the buildings should be pulled down, and that the endowments should be used In the erection of ohurohes where religious services are supposed to he more urgently needed,” and says: “Although city churches are scantily attended on Sunday, those of them which are opened at convenient hours on week days, such as St. Margaret Patten’s, Bt. Edmund’s, Lombard street, and Bt. Margaret’s, Lothbury, ‘are crowded by business men.’ Surely this latter fact indicates the true use of these institutions. If business men desire to have the advantage of religious service on week days, it would be far better to gratify their wish than to destroy beautiful buildings for the purpose of raising others in neighborhoods where they do uot appear to be really wanted.”

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The man who by his energy and industry has become a share-owner in a city is not ready to admit either tliat the reform of municipal administration which proposes to remove it from the political basis is impracticable, or that the obstacles in the way to its practical application are insurmountable.—Chicago Times. The true funotiou of the railroads is, not to construct schedules of rates to foster and protect local industries, but to carry freight as cheaply as they cau and let the industries or the couutry gravitate each to that section where the conditions are the most favorable for Its highest development.—Springfield Republican. Even in large cities, where the facilities for the abuse of political machinery and methods are most uinple aud pervasive, the authority of those who believe in honesty and fairness and have the public interests truly at heart is invariably sufficient, when exerted with firmness and determination, to upset all calculations ol cliques and rings and managing politicians. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The idea that the government should make the militia national, dignify it us it deserves, and around its bauuers gather u dicipltned soldiery, is to many an attractive one. General Drum has pointed out oue way by which this country in time of peace can make ready for war—or rather in rime of tranquility prepare for disturbance. Congress might, if it chose, find time to consider the matter seriously.—Boston Advortiser, The Republican party includes so many intelligent aud independent voters that when scandal and rascality appear they insist upon a purgation, and will subject it to temporary defeats to enforce reform. It lias thereby been constrained again and again to purge the public service of evils and abuses as they have shown themselves, and has been forced constantly to reassert an elevated standard of party action to recover Its lost ground.—New York Times. The old idea of reliance upon the personal integrity of a borrower, or his business sagacity, or a close acquaintance with his financial position, has nearly cone out, like a spent candle. Yet it is notoriously true ilia, the new system of credits is uot safer than the old. In these days no oue can judge how much paper a merchant lias out, or how much gambling there may be behind his borrowing, or whether the collaterals that seem so good to-day will prove equally salable in any emergency.—New York Tribune. Tiie growing insolence of the Eastern railroad pools, such usurpation as their dictating whether the West shall undersell the East with its beef, and whether or not the New England cotton-mills shall sell in the Western markets in competition with the Southern mills, are evidences ihut it is slmost time for the people to make up their minds how they sire to corral these corporations and harness them again with tiie old common-law restraints of the common carrier which they have thrown off.—Chicago Tribune. It is of vital and every-day importance that the management of the sewers, the streets, the police, the the department, the schools and other departimnts of city government be honest, thorough and efficient. These are matters wirtoh affect the homes ami the business, and even the security and the life of every resident. Many important things may go amiss, in the affairs of tbe State or nation without affecting so disastrously the interests of the average citizen as dishonesty or neglect in the administration of the city.-Boston Advertiser. The French may attribute the check they have received in their attempt to overrun Annum to whatever cause they like—the cowardloe of their allies, the coolies, of whom better conduct ought not to have been expected, or the strength of the fortifications of the enemy. The fact remains that they were not only repulsed, but compelled to retreat with loss. They found an en< my well prepared to receive ahem, strongly fortified and supplied with Remington rifles and disposed to use them effectively. This means for the French more reinforcements and a long and probably bloody campaign.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Governor Andrew served his country faithfully, died poor, aud left a uoble nuiue. General Butler sought his owu selfish cuds, accumulated a large fortune, enriched his followers, who swarmed in tiie scenes of his military adventures, and was called “Beast.” There could not lie a more strikiug contrast between two men. One represented all that was best aud noblest in Mabsaehusetts civilization; the other represented

only himself, agitated by personal ambition and void of conscience. Governor Audrew believed all through the war that General Butler was, us be often expressed It, “a scoundrel.”—Boston Herald. the ship railway. Captain Eads Says It Will He Built if He Lives Five Years Longer. Intervie at Lon? Branch. “You con say that the Tehuantepec shin railway will certainly be built,” quietly observed Captain Eads to your correspondent at the West End Hotel, at Long Branch today. “That is, it will be built if I live five years longer. British capital will build tiie road, and I think the time will come when Americans will regret that Congress did not accept my proposition. It is strange how ignorant the majority of our people are of the geography of North America. I suppose nine-tenths of the people who have read, about the projects for inter-oceaiye transit, imagine that DeLesseps’s canal and the ship railway enterprise*j are on practically parallel lines, while, as a matter of fact, the proposed ship railway route is 1,200 miles, in an air-line north of Panama, where I)e Lessens proposes to build. The two routes are as far apart as from here to the capes of Florida. A vessel going from New York or Liverpool to San Francisco would be obliged ro sail 2,400 miles further by tho De Lessens route than by mine.” “Captain, it has been reported that your advice has been requested in relation to the proposed second canal across the Isthmus of Suez. What are these reports based upon?” “I have received a number of letters from influential persons in England on the subject,*’ was the reply, ns though he did not care to talk on the subject, “and the fact is that the whole subject is just now in a very complicated condition. England, controlling Egypt, owns the land, and De Lessens has the exclusive right to build a canal. Da Lesseps is supported by Mr. Gladstone, while France, whose only thread of connection with Egypt now rests in De Lesseps, is an anxious spectator. Thus, while England cannot build a canal, she can build a ship railway without violating any obligations.” “What would be the cost of building a ship canal across the Isthmus of Suez?” “I should think between twenty-five and thirty million dollars. The Tehuantepec railway will cost, I think, in the neighborhood of $50,000,000. This road will be 160 miles long, while the distance across tiie Isthmus of Suez is only ninety miles. I will be able very soon to give an accurate estimate of the cost of this road. Four surveying parties have been in the field since the Ist of April, and every foot of the route has been examined. I expect to learn the result of the surveys in a few days, and as soon as it is received I will sail for Europe. Sufficient work has already been done upon the road-bed of the railway to comply with the conditions of the Mexican grant. According to the terms of the concession we were required to begin work on the road prior to May 1, 1883. We have ten years irom that date in which tocomplete the road, and it can be easily built and equipped within four years. The heaviest grade on the line is fifty-three feet to the mile, an elevation that would hardly be perceptible to tho eye.” Said I: “Captain, there isa general impression that your railway scheme is impracticable, and that a road of sufficient strength to bear the enormous weight of a five thou-sand-ton ship cannot be built, and if it could, such a ship could not bear the strain of transportation.” “That idea is entirely erroneous,” was tho reply. “That vessels of the largest tonnage can be taken from the water, cargo and all, and carried upon railways, i9 proven beyond doubt or cavil. It has frequently been done at Liverpool, Malta, Bombay, and other ports. If a ship can be carried three hundred feet ou a railway, it can be carried three hundred miles.”

THIS INDIANA DEMOCRATS. A Hoosler Who Says Indiana Has No Suit* able Democratic Presidential Timber. Gath’s Gossip. I inquired about presidential candidates in Indiana. My informant said: “Why do the Democrats want to come to Indiana to get a candidate? What good is it going to do them? The State is notin doubt, and it is far more likely to be lost by exciting the factions through choosing this or that local leader there than by going elsewhere and taking up a proper candidate for the presidency. I tell you,” said my acquaintance, “that the Democrats in Indiana have not got any man lit to be President of the United States.” I mentioned Mr. McDonald. My informant said: “Pie does not possess any of the elements of courageous leadership. He is not a leader of men at all. He is an amiable, voluptuous, successful lawyer. He has not decision of character, hates to antagonize any body, and you might just as well elect Mr. Pickwick President of the United States as Joe McDonald, for any good he will do himself or the country.” “Have you ever had any hostility to Mr. McDonald?” “None whatever. I am only expressing myself as a man with interests under this government. We ought to be done with nominating Presidents because they are not strong enough to have any enemies. The Democratic leaders in Indiana are cursed with poker-playing and with women. Those are the two vices that infest the heads of tlie Democracy in our State. lean think of at least one Republican who is a little careless on those (juestions, but with the Democratic chiefs it is almost universally the case. They have the transmitted Kentucky habits of voluptuousness and a love of gambling.” “Is not Mr. McDonald,” I inquired, “the superior of Mr. Hendricks in fortitude and moral courage?” “I don’t believe he is. They are both men almost afraid to say their soul is their own. Hendricks is a cleaner man than Joe McDonald. It McDonald is nominated for President we will have a smutty campaign. Ido not believe,” said my acquaintance, “that the conservative, unselfish Democrats of Indiana want to see a candidate taken out of the State. There is already exasperation and recrimination at the progress the McDonald boom has made. Hendricks is mad, English is disgusted, and the materials exist there for a first-class riot, notwithstanding considerable rapacity for ottiee under Uncle Joe.” The Telegrapher’s Oath. New York Tribune. To learn how the oaths of the Brotherhood of Telegraphers and the antagonistic agreement to renounce secret organizations of its character required by the Western Union company sat on the consciences of the returned operators, a reporter asked several of them whether or not they consider the latter agreement binding upon then. One man said: “We signed the paper on conpulsion, the alternative being sign or starve. I would sign such documents until I was stricken with scrivener's paralysis and go on strike again the next morning should the Brotherhood order it.” “I don’t believe said another, “that the F.rotherhood will lose 10 per cent, of its members through the agreement. I should not be surprised to see another strike next summer. lam going to prepare for it anyway. and if it comes I’ll have enough saved up to carry me through a couple of months. I think that is the general feeling among the boys.” “llow does it feel to get back at the keys?” was asked one of the men who returned to work on Monday. “I’m glad enough to get back,” was the reply, “but it breaks me all up when General Eckert comes in the operating-room and looks around with that sarcastic smile of his and seems to say: ‘Ah! you rascals, are there nnv more of you with whistles you want to ! blow?’"