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AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Git AND OPERA-llOCSlC— “Bunch of Keys” Company. ENGLISH’S OPERA-HOUSE —Maudo Grangor in “Her Second Love.” TA UK THEATER—Manchester & Jennings’s Specialty Company. BASE I‘.ALL PARK—Cleveland vs. Indianapolis, 3 I*. M. THE DAILY JOURNAL. HY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see. Sixth Page. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1883. .THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL ran l>e foil mi at tho following places: LONDON—American Kxrhangein Europe, 419 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard ties Capucines. • NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels, WASHINGTON. D. C.—Brentano’s 1,015 Pennsylvania avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. Hawley* Go., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—O. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot. Gold is flowing from Europe to America. Turn the rascals out. Hoadly and Butler are now occupying the Democratic teeter-board. Butler’s election, next month, would throw him away up for the nomination for President. There is considerable unfavorable comment upon the fact that there is in this country one lawyer to every eight hundred people. There is no reason for alarm. The eight hundred people can certainly down one lawyer. Two distinguished Georgians, life-long friends and wealthy citizens of Savannah, are on the war path, and want their ‘‘honah" vindicated. Probably they are like the Swiss troops—fight for that of w’liich they Btand in greatest need. With Randall for Speaker and Ben. Butler for presidential nominee, the brethren would present an entertainment for the campaign of 1884 that would throw the country into paroxysms. This very show may take the road. Procure vonr tickets. Ik General Grant accepts the position of orator before the next meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, he will bo there and will do the work well. He has not been a babbler, but when he has anything to say no American can say it better. Rev. J. Henry Smythe, of Philadelphia, has been offered SIO,OOO to deliver 120 lectures in New York State in aid of the building fund of Bartholdi’s statue. The idea is to frighten New Yorkers.into subscribing the needed amount without further delay.
In the death of General Janies B. Steedman the country loses a man who wasa brave soldier in time of war and a useful citizen in time of peace. The death of such a man is a loss not only to the community in which he passed his life, but to the cause of law and order every where, The Society of the Army of the Tennessee, in session at Cleveland, yesterday sent a message to the Union Prisoners of War Association, in session at Decatur, 111., in remembrance of “your terrible sufferings and exalted patriotism."’ Apologists for the rebellion have long since discounted the former and found prouder examples of pure patriotism among Southern officers. Thebe is a call for a more specific statement when the “old ticket” is named. In searching among the ruins of the party several old tickets have been exhumed. Placing them in regular order, beginning with the junior old ticket, there is Hancock and English, Tilden and IJendricks, and McClellan and Pendleton. They should be designated by a trade-mark or other device, so that, when the old ticket is mentioned, there will be no confusion. The celebration atNewburg, N. Y., yesterday, commemorating the centennial anniversary of the receipt of the news of the Bigning of the treaty of Paris, was a grand success so far a number? and enthusiasm were concerned. The event commemorated Is one of the proudest in American history, it being the occasion of Washington’s farewell to the continental army. Under the circumstances then existing he had it in his power to become a king. Pressure to that effect had been brought to bear upon him, but his virtue was superior to ail such blandishments, and lie won (or himself a fame worth a thousand crowns. His inflexible integrity carried him above the temptation, and his magnificent character was left untarnished and a monument to his Dame that will never perish while history 3hall endure. In an interview at Louisville, Gen. Beauregard gave it as his opinion that the prisoners at Andersonville could not, under the circumstances, have received better treattoient than they did, and intimated that the Soldier who would complain of his experience there is a little too nice for war. Not a few of the veterans who managed to live through the hospitality of Andersonville prison will be disposed to take issue with the General; but, after all, they might as well not. The Charleston News and Courier has proved conclusively that the North was responsible for the existence of slavery, aud the St. Louis Republican is of opinion that Stonewall Jackson was much more patriotic and loyal than was John Brown. It remains now for someone to prove that Jeff. Davis wrote the emancipation proclamation, and the business is done, Ac-
cording to tjie Louisville Courier-Journal, Vallandigham must have rendered much more efficient service in suppressing the rebellion than did Governor Morton. Viewing the way things are going now, it won’t be long until it is demonstrated that it was the North that went into rebellion. WAR MEMORIES AND SECTIONAL DIFFERENCES The St. Louis Republican, in reply to the statement of some Republican paper that “in a personal sense, as in a public one, the memory of Brown is quite as much entitled to respect and reverence as that of Jackson.” has the following to say: “It is hardly neceesarv to remark that the article from which the above is taken, and others in a similar line, areonly an ingenious attempt to revive and inflame ‘sectional differences’as a powerful element in the coming presidential campaign. A comparison between ‘Stonewall’ Jackson and John Brown is likely to have the same effect upon the average Southerner as would a comparison between George Washington and Jack Sheppard upon the average American.” This is the Southern idea very neatly put. The extremists of the South, the men who still believe the “cause” was a good one, and who accept the situation only because they are obliged to, are naturally proud of their old commanders, just as the North is quick to honor the men who led the Union armies to victory. But there is a difference in the feelings entertained by the people North and South. The former are content to allow credit and honor to Southern soldiers for their bravery and personal worth, while the latter seem unwilling to admit of anything equal the virtue of their own commanders. “Stonewall” Jackson was a Christian, personally deserving of emulation, John Brown, also, was a Christian, of a different and ruggeder stamp, but none the less sincere. Both men, individually, .were manly men. To repeat the sentiment quoted above, personally one was as much entitled to respect and reverence as the other. The same is true in a public sense, with the advantage decidedly in favor of Brown. The Republican declares that “the best that can be said of him is that he was an honest fanatic.” Can as much or move be said of Jackson? Brown struck a hopeless blow in behalf of human liberty. He aimed at nothing except to free the African from the horrors of slavery. His fanaticism carried him into what he deemed the opening of a war in behalf of emancipation. He missed it but two years when the friends and companions of “Stonewall” Jackson inaugurated a war confessedly in defense of slavery. Jackson’s fanaticism was the opposite of Brown’s. While no less sincere, possibly, it had the misfortune of being radically wrong in every feature. He placed his abilities, his fortune and his life on the line that so desperately fought to maintain the “sacred institution.” It was more than that: Jackson did all in his power to dismember the Union so that the Southern half might still enjoy the fruits of the toil of unrequited labor. Jackson may have been sincere, but he committed a crime against human liberty and against the Union. The “horrors” that Brown contemplated were hardly more appalling than those inaugurated at Charleston on the day before Christmas, 1860. Tne only perceptible difference >s that Brown contemplated an insurrection in behalf of liberty, and the Charleston convention invited civil war. Brown was hanged for his fiasco. Nobody was hanged for the appalling crime of rebellion and civil war. The South is too quick to resent imaginary “insults.” Northern friends of the South are even quicker. The bitterness engendered by the late war has not all been eradicated. What remains prejudices. There are many who admire John Brown, yet who are ready to admit that he was a fanatic. He paid for his fanaticism with his life. Jackson, too, was fanatical. Brown blindly sought the good of the oppressed. Jackson deliberately chose to make war in behalf of slavery, and to establish a principle that would never have left the country without the danger of war. These are facts of history. Prejudice will die with the present generation. The unborn shall pronounce the only verdict that can stand. It is vain to rant or recriminate. History will make it all straight, and the name of John Brown will ever occupy an honored place despite his mistake of judgment. He was such a great friend of the friendless that he gave his life for their deliverance. Greater love hath no man than this.
The question of a proper adntinistraion of tlie public affairs in our large cities has become the most serious one in the whole system of local self-government. The political history of New York, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco and other cities, for years past, has been a shocking recital of abuses and bad government. The worst elements in society have possession of the government machinery, and the whole drift of city affairs is turned to suit themselves. This city has just made a most fortunate escape from a similar condition, and it behooves all good men to keep wide awake and active in city politics, to save it from gravitating, in the future, toward the unfortunate level of most large places. Politics is something to be preached and practiced, decently and quietly, all the year iound, A spasm of reform when the campaign is on is not sufficient to secure and perpetuate good government A STREET-CAB drivordown lit Charleston, 8. C., complains that his women passengers consume so much time 4u parting with their friends before entering the car that he cannot run according to schedule. The driver does not use such a vulgar term as “women,” however, but delicately alluded to them as “fair freight," and apologizes for making a complaint ut all. lie frankly declares that ho respects the ladies and “ad-
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mires an occasional touch of passion and sentiment. So far as he is personally concerned he does not object to seeing the “ladies kiss the ruby lips of their fair friends,” but protests gently that it is not jU9t tbe thing for them to subject him to the “imprecations of coarse passengers” who are impatient at the delay. The Charleston car-driver is undoubtedly a gentleman and a scholar, and the ladies should be more considerate of his feelings. - ■ ■ Rev. M. H. Houghton, the New Haven preacher who lately gaiued notoriety by denouncing Rose Ambler’s supposed murderer from the pulpit, is, it seems, adapted for other roles besides that of criminal detect’.ve. Rev. Houghton has a love for fast horses, which is not of itself reprehensible, though so many of his parishioners thought it a siu that the reverend gentleman has not indulg ed his taste exteusivelj\ Not long ago, however, he came into possession of a fast trotter and with it came the wish for glory. It would not do to enter the horse for the races himself nor under its own name, so he made arrangements with a friend to enter the animal under another name. Some way the judges found that a trick was being attempted, and ruled tbe horse out besides fining the supposed owner SSO. This was discouraging, but tbe preacher resolved to try again. This week the same friend entered the horse by its rightful name and was lined SSO for having changed it, with the further information that it would not be allowed to trot unless this and tne former unsettled line were paid. The accommodating friend retired to tbe background, got SIOO of Rev. Ilougbton and arranged matters, after which the trot wont on and the preacher’s horse won and gained a S2OO prize. Rev. Houghton ia now SIOO ahead and tne scandalized church members want to know what he means to do about it. Hon. George Hawkins Williams, a Baltimore millionaire, is having trouble in getting his children married to suit him. A year ago his son disappeared on the eve of his marriage to a beautiful young society lady—spirited away by his father, the gossips said. The wedding of his daughter Rebecca Williams to Sir Henry Herbert, ex-member of the British Parliament, was announced to take place on Tuesdpy evening. The event had been anticipated in fashionable society for months, and at the hour named a crowd was gathered at the church doors awaiting tlieir opening. They were not opened; but instead the sexton appeared with the information that the wedding had been postponed. Gossip ascribed various reasons for the occurrence, but knowing ones say the real cause was Herbert’s inability to convince the bride’s father of the legality of a divorce from his flrst wife, which lie declares he obtained in Ireland two years ago. The affair has caused a great sensation. Jackson, N. J., has a “Scarlet Letter” story of its own, and is now enjoying the sequel. A young woman of the village, well known and respected, suddenly “wont wrong,” a few months ago, in the one way which society, especially that of a country village, never forgives. With the charity commonly displayed in such cases the unfortuuate victim was ostracised and pointed out as a social leper; neighbors and old friends ordered her off their premises, and slammed doors in her face. Unable to endure this persecution, she recently committed suicide. Now the superstitious villagers shiver and tell in trembling whispers of a ghost which comes at night from the where the woman died and walks about uttering groans that chill their marrow. The fearful ones are beginning to wish they had not cast the flrst stone at the sinfui woman. A Galveston, Tex., paper publishes the following cheerful “personal:” “Colonel J. D. Crawford, of New York, has sent Jim Britton, of Sherman, rather a singular valise. It is made of a negro skin tanned at Tewksbury, Mass., and iiued with the tanned skin of a delicate female prepared at the same institution. It was presented to Colonel Crawford by Governor Butler, and by the Colonel presented to his friend, Captain Britton.” It is tlie circulation of this sort of thing—the story, not the valise—that is slowly but surely driviug the respectable Bostonian to madness if not to crime. The r. B. will not do an improper act while in his right mind, but he may become emotionally insane, and capable of dreadful things If this doesn’t stop. Governor Butler had better beware. The Now York customhouse offfoers have the correct idea of modern dramat-tc art. They passed Mrs, Langtry’s trunks containing her wardrobe free of duty, on the ground that it was “tools of trade.” Without her good clothes the aotress of to-day is not a talented being. An Erie, Pa., miss six mouths ago married Albert Silver. After getting all of his money she left him, and the next he knew of her she was the wife of a man named Houck. O Houck could she? The Nashville American is being sued for libel l>3* an actress whom it described as “a small lady with a big nose and ugly,” That’s not libel, it's assassination.
ABOUT PEOPDE. Anna Dickinson has the honor of having taken tlie first mule to the top of Pike’s Peak. Ex-Representative Julian, of Indiana, is preparing a volume of political reminiscences. Mr. Wilkie Collins has an attack ot gout of the eye about ouoe a year. Bis last attack laid him up four weeks ago. Annie Louise Cary has had painted for herself a decorative work in several panels, containing figures from the various operas in which she has been a favorite. The families of the two Louisiana senators— Gibson and Jonas—says an exobange, represent two very opposite religions. Mrs. Jonas is a very strict Hebrew, and Mrs. Gibson an equally .strict Roman Catholic. Mr. Andrew Carnegie is laying out roads and paths and planting lawns, groves and orchards on an elaborate scale on his estate of Dungeness, Cumberland Island, Georgia, and will build a house there at a cost of $125,000. When Mr. Hayes was told of President Arthur’s love for reed-birds, English sparrows on toast and little ortolans smothered in rice and washed with champagne, be shuddered and ejaculated: “Great heavens! how his expenses must run up!” A Knight Templar in a San Francisco parlor described tlie beauties of the Eastern ooast. A San Francisco man smiled contemptuously and said: “I’ve been East myself, and don’t think much of it.” “Where were you!” “Why, East, in Omaha The East a’nt as tiig as Frisoo.” Mit. M itthew Arnold, who sailed for New York on Saturday, is a tall man, with large nose and mouth, brown, mutton-chop whiskers, jet black hair parted in the middle, and slightly bent figure. While in this country he will lecture on Emerson and various sooiul aud political topics. William H. Starr, of New London, Conn., and his wife, and his brother Charles Starr, and his wife, of Groton, Conn., will celebrate tlicir golden weddings this week. They were married in the same room and at the same time a half century ago, aud during that time all their children have been married and they and their w ives or husbands are all now living. In Hartford, Good., the other day, a Demoorat ntet Senator Eaton on the street. “Whatdoyou think of tUo prospect of 1884. Senator!” “Don’t know.” “Well, aren’t prospects pretty bright!” “Don’t know.” “Hasn’t Ohio gone Democratic!” “Why, yes.” “tVhat’s the trouble, then!” “I’ll
tell you,” said the Senator, pressing his thin lips together; “the Democracy twenty-five years ago took out a patent for making fools, and it has never been infringed upon.” A personal friend of Robert G. Ingersoll says of the champion unbeliever: “I love the man, but I dread his tongue! I had rather give a hundred dollars than uieet him in a hotel lobby, for I am, unfortunately, one of the many he delights iu using as a strawinan to puncture with his personalities and epigrams. One gets tired of that sort of thing even from a friend.” Mgr. Capel was asked what struck him most forcibly in this country, and he replied, “The precociousness of children.” He says that while in Baltimore the Archbishop took him to call on a lady. While making the visit a boy aged four years came iu the room, and his mother said; “My son, speak to the Archbishop.” He obeyed readily, and, holding out his hand, said: “How do, Arch?” On very grand occasions, his Majesty of Dahomey dispathes a gorgeousiy-got-up embassador, with a royal umbrella over his head, to take his compliments to his good friend the ocean. It is an office of much dignity and honor, but not greatly sought after, because etiquette prescribes that the embassador, after being taken out to sea in a canoe, shall he thrown overboard to the sharks. “I never saw a lady comport herself more thoroughly like a lady than Mrs. Langtry did while we were coming over,” says Congres9mau Ochiltree. “Sho was quiet, attentive to her mother, and studied in her room. From what I could learn in London I judge her old friends greeted her as cordially after her return to England as if nothing disagreeable had been written or said about her over here.” Bome tituo ago Dr. Cowan, who was a surgeon in Geueral Forest’s confederate cavalry division, published a letter stating that when Col. Bob Ingersoll was captured in Tennessee he loaned Ingersoll S9O, which had never been returned. A few days ago Dr. Cowan was surprised to receive a letter from Col. Bob inclosing a check for S2OO, being the principal and interest of the amount borrowed. At Gastein, during Prince Bismarck’s late visit, his famous dog Keiclishund, which nearly killed Prince Gortchakoff at the Berlin congress, attacked and killed the dog of a Gastein householder. Bismarck, who wlthessed the scene, not ouly punished the dog severely, but after a few days called on the owner of the dead dog, apologized for the savagery of Reichshund, at the same time promising anew and better specimen in place of the slain hound. Matthew Arnold, who is now on his way to America, presents the curious spectacle of an atheist who believes that tbe Episcopal Church ought to be sustained in England. Although he does not believe in Christianity, and, in fact, denies the existence of a God, lie holds that the vulgar populace are being kept in better order by believing in a Supreme Ruler. He believes in “culture,” not as the remedy for crime, but as the general elevator for the masses. Henry Labouchere says: “I notice that a black woman was hanged in America the other day for the murder of her husband. She appeared on the scaffold with a large sunflower pinned ou her dress. Black satin went out of fashion for some years because a certain notorious murderess (Mrs. Manning) was hanged in a dress of that material. I am curious to see whether this untoward event will have any effect on the popularity of the sunflower.” A story of Mrs. Cariyie’s, recently published, is that ou a certain day Carlyle was expected to arrive home after a short absence. Mrs. Carlyle had done “charwoman’s work” to get all in perfect order for her husband’s return. When all was complete—his diuuer ready, his armchair in its usual attirudo, his pipe and tobacco as he loved to find them, all looking as comfortable a9 possible—Mrs. Carlyle sat down at last to rest with a quiet mind. He arrived, and, “after he had just greeted me, what do you think ho did? He walked to the window aud shook it, and asked, ‘Where’s the wedge of the window?' and until we found that blessed wedge nothing would content him.”
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. With a leader chosen by the people, and a platfortn to which ho is pledged by his character and antecedents: with a candidate nominated by the party In its broadest and best capacity, the Republicans will go into the oampaigu ot 1884 compelled, it may he, to light a little harder, hut nevertheless to win.—Philadelphia Press. IF we cannot win Democrats to onr party we must do nothing that will drive Republicans from us. flic great aim of our platforms should be to hold our party together, and to do this individual opinions on minor questions should be sacrificed in the interests of the broader principles upon which the entire party, throughout the nation, can meet.—Cleveland Leader. Os the powers of Congress to deal with the matter (polygamy) little needs to be said. The United States Supreme Court has just declared that in the Territories “the legislative power of Congress is unlimited.” This fuct, in connection with Governor Murray’s warnings and the public defiance of the general government by the recent Mormon conference, leads the American people to expect of Congress action of an extraordinary character.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Greenbacks are often hoarded now on account of their legal-tender qualities. What people want and must have, when the slightest shadow falls across the sunny face of the speculative booms in which the (country indulges, is legal-tender money. Gold is always hoarded more closely than paper. Make gold our only tegal tendi r, and the tendency to hide it away, already credited with the disappearance of hundreds of millions, would he greatly increased. —Chicago Tribune. Men must be held responsible for their deedso Justice must he swift and certain. We have ton much cant, too much sentimentalism, too muoo tolerance. One murder unpunished leads tu another. There is no desire for vengeance is the demand that blood guiltiness is punishe in, the law requires; it is simply a plea for peace for order, for safety. Wo must chain up the uieu who are smitten with the homicidal mania; we must make them understand that they are not a law unto themselves. We have murders frequently; we will continue to have them as long as murder is not punished as a crime. —Louisville Courier-Journal. Even extreme Prohibitionists feel that in a presidential election the temperance question is not a practical one. In a State election, where the regulation of the liquor traffic by the State is an issue, it does happen that some thousands of them are led, as they were in Ohio, into voting so as to aid the party of free rum, instead of that party which has done more than all others for temperance. But, even among these the wiser feel that their views of the relations of the State to the liquor traffic cannot, without absurdity, affect their votes upon the administration of the national finances, etc. The fluctuations ol the prohibition vote in Ohio show this. —New York Tribune. At present it [the pension bureau] lacks neither money, nor clerks, nor applicants for pensions and arrearages; but it seems to work under singular difficulties in being unable to determine with sufficient rapidity aud accuracy who is entitled to a pension and who is not. It is known that the bureau has hundreds of millions to disburse; what wonder that fraudulent applications or illegitimate or illegal pleadings for an allowance are rampant! The temptations are so great as to Justify a law which will inflict exemplary punishment upon all eases of fraudulent applications and false representations, not to mention dishonest personations. —Boston Advertiser. The civil service act, properly enforced, will substantially abolish the power of politicians to suppress and preverc public opinion, by means or’patronage, and leave the people free to vote their real convictions. If, therefore, the people condemn and despise this contemptible peddling of ttie higher offices among politicians, they will fluff means to pitta stop to it. Our own belief is that there Is a growing publio opinion which will prove quite equal to the task, and we should ndvise the politicians at each end of Pennsylvania avenue to take note of It. If the}- do not, we suspect that the time Is approaching In American politics when “subsequent proceedings will Interest them no more.”—New York Times. It [the civil-rights decision] will probably meet the approval of a very large majority of Republicans, not because they wish to see the colored people denied any part of their rights, hut because they wish to see those rights fully enjoyed without controversy in every part of the laud. Nothing oau bring about that ucsira-
ble result except an improvement of public sentiment iu certain portions of the country. That change of public sentiment—the decay and obliteration of a prejudice wbich denies privileges to a colored man merely because he is a colored man, regardless of his character or intelligence, his manners or worth—will not be retarded, but hastened, we fully believe, bv the removal of an irritating law' that cannot be enforced from the list of valid statutes.—New York Tribune. The negro citizen enjoys everywhere the same political aud civil rights under the law which the white citizen enjoys. Any person who interferes with Ills rights is subject to the same penalties as if lie had interfered with the rights of a white citizen. If there are State or local laws anyw’liere which decree otherwise, or if there are State or local officers who refuse to extend to black citizens the protection to which they are entitled as citizens, it is the function of the United States courts and authorities to defend their citizenship and their rights without any special law for their benefit. But no law nor set of laws can successfully eradicate sooial customs and prejudices. The negroes can only hope to improve rlioir social condition by availing themselves of the equal political, civil, business, and educational facilities which the constitution guarantees to them.—Chicago Tribune. THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. Consideration of the Reports on PrayerHook and Constitutional Amendments. * 9 Philadelphia, Oct. 18.— The report of the special committee on the disabled-clergy fund stated that the increase in contributions for the past three years was over $12.000. At the request of Dr. Fulton, consideration was postponed of the report of the committee on prayer-book deelfhing to recommend the passage of the resolution proposed by Rev. Dr. Fulton relative to amending the constitution by striking out the words “Protestant Episcopal.” The report of the committee on prayerbook, disapproving the proposed setting forth of a Sunday-school hymnal by the general convention, was not agreed to. The order of the day was taken up, namely, the report of the committee on amendments to the constitution of the Generul Theological Seminary. After a long debate the report was adopted. At the afternoon session a message was received from the House of Bishops providing for the appointment of a joint commission for the purpose of formulating and codifying tlie law of discipline in the church in such wise as to avoid uncertainties and insure just restraint in all matters of doctrine, ritual and morals. The committee on canons also reported a resolution that a joint committee be appointed, to consist of three bishops, three clergymen and three laymen, to consider the duty of the church in relation to the whole subject of marriage, including impediments to the contracting thereof, the manner of its solemnization, and the conditions of its dissolution, and to report at the next general convention. Placed on the calendar. The committee on canons reported that they had concurred with the house of bishops in adopting an amendment of the canon relative to lay readers. This report, as well as another from the same committee—that they had adopted a resolution on tlie admission of ministers ordained by bishops not in Communion with the church —was placed on tlie calendar. With reference to the report of the special committee on the action of Sewanee Conference, the committee on canons reported a resolution that the board of managers of the Missionary society be requested to take the subject into immediate consideration and appropriate as large an amount as possible to the missions of the church for colored people in all parts of the country, This report was made the order of the day for Tuesday morning, at 11 o’clock. Tlie house then went into committee of the whole and proceeded to consider the resolution of the joint committee on revision of the book.of common prayer. Pending consideration of section 6, the committee rose and the house adjourned. The House of Bishops adopted a resolution that it was inexpedient to omit the words "Protestant episcopal” from the prayer-book. In committee of the whole on the report of the joint committee on prayerbook, they finished the collects, epistles and gospels.
THE GARFIELD MONUMENT. Competition Invited for Designs—Conditions Prescribed by tlie Trustees. Cleveland, Oct. 18. —The trustees of the Garfield National Monument Association invite an international competition, open to all artists, for a monument in honor of James A. Garfield, late President of the United States. The following conditions will control competitors: First—All designs to be represented by models or drawings on a scale not to-exceed one-twentieth of the proposed size, with estimates of cost. The trustees reserve the right to require any drawings they may judge desirable to be represented in model before final decision. Second—Each design to be accompanied by a sealed letter inclosing the name and address of the artist, upon the envelop of which shall be a mark or motto similar to the mark or motto upon the model or design, to identify the artist and his work. Third —Designs to be presented by the Ist day of May, 1884, in the city of Cleveland, 0., free of cost to the trustees, to be exhibited in a room provided by the trustees, but at tiie artist’s risk, to be removed by the artist within two months after the decision is announced, or otherwise to become the property of the trustees. Fourth—Designs will be publicly exhibited for at least two weeks prior to the decision. Fisth —The trustees are at liberty to reject any or all designs presented. Sixth—For the design possessing the highest merit, in the judgment of the trustees, SI,OOO will be paid; for the second, $750; for the third, SSOO. Seventh —Designs for which premiums are awarded become the property of the trustees. Eighth—The monument is to be erected in Lakeview Cemetery, at Cleveland, 0., on a commanding eminence, some 130 feet above, and about one-half mile from the entrance to the cemetery. Ninth —The monument is to provide a receptacle for the remains of the deceased President and a suitable vault for his family. Tenth —The monument is not to exceed in cost, when completed, $150,000. Eleventh—The monument is to be granite, of approved quality and color; the emblems and btatuary of bronze. These conditions are signed by Charles Foster, president; R. B. Hayes, vice-presi-dent; J. H. Wade, H. B. Payne, and Joseph Perkins, executive committee; J. H. Rhodes, secietary. The secretary can be addressed at Cleveland. At a meeting of the trustees, Benjamin Dean, of Boston, late grand master of the Knights Templars of the United States, resigned, and Hon. Robert E. Withers, of Virginia, present grand master, was elected a trustee in his place. Tlie site is being rapidly graded and otherwise prepared for the monument. ludignant Colored Citizens. Louisville, Oct. 18. —The colored citizens are highly indignant over the civil-rights decision of the Supreme Court, and have called a meeting for Saturday night, the 20th, for the purpose, as they say, of denouncing the most infamous decision affecting the rights of American citizens yet made.
ARMY OF THE TENNESS. General Grant Selected as the Orator! for the Next Reunion. Changes in tlie Rules of the Society-Ladies To Re Admitted to the Ranquets at Future Meetings. I Cleveland, Oct. 18.—The Society of tli Army of the Tennessee reassembled at 10:31) this morning. The platform was occupied by General Sherman, the president, Colonel Dayton, the secretary, and Generals Logan, Force, Hickenlooper, Noyes and Leggett. General Belknap, chairman of the committee on nominations, reported the following for officers, who were duly elected: President, Gen. William T. Sherman; vicepresidents, Col. William B. Leach, Gen. Madison Miller, Col. H. L. Barnurn, Cant. William S. Burns, Col. H. S. Hutchinson, Col. H. T. Noble, Maj. J. H. Plunkct, Cos). William H. Gibbon, Col. John McFall. Maj. John J. Safely, Capt. J. D. McFarland, Maj. William C. Clayton; recording secretary, Col. L. M. Dayton; corresponding secretary, Gen. A. Hickenlooper; treasurer, Gen. M. F. Force. It was voted to hold a reunion at Lake Minnetonka, Minn., on the 15th and 16th of August. After the business session, it is proposed to make an excursion to Yellowstone Park. The following were appointed a committee to arrange for it: Uenerals Pope, Strong, Sanborn, Logan, Raymond and Sprague, Colonel Everest and Lieutenant Andrews. General Grant was elected orator for next year, amid prolonged and fervent applause. At the request of the Chicago members, Mrs. General H. N. Eldridge was elected to membership. General WilliamsoS offered and advocated the following resolutions: “Resolved, That hereafter this society will make its annual reunions exclusively social for it a members, and to this end will hereafter make Its own arrangements for meetings and reunions, aud admit only sueli visitors and guests as can conveniently, without hindering or impeding free social intercourse between tlie members and their families, be received. ‘•Resolved, That the arrangements and conduct of the annual reunions and meetings of the society shall hereafter be in charge or committees composed of only members of the society. ‘ Resolved, That this society will hereafter admit the ladies of the families of its members to the banquets aud other Bocial meetings.” Generals Hickenlooper, Logan, Warner, Leggett, Sanborn and Buckland warmly opposed tlie first and second resolutions, and they were tabled. The third was adopted. On motion of General Hickenlooper, tlie names of all officers of the Army of the Tennessee who died on the field were added to the roll of dead members. A telegram of condolence was sent the family of General Steedman. The following was sent the Union Prisoners of War Association, now in session at Decatur, 111.: “The Society of the Army of the Tennessee sends your association most hearty greeting. It remembers vour terrible sufferings and exalted patriotism." THE BANQUET. The reunion closed to-night with a grand banquet at tlie Euclid-avenue roller-rink, which was profusely decorated with flags, foiiage’plants, battle scenes, shields, mottoes, portraits and tlie names of generals and battles. Several hundred persons were seated at long tables, sumptuously Bpread. After tlie feast General Sherman, master of ceremonies, announced the toasts and felicitously introduced the speakers to respond to them, as follows: “The beginning and the end," response by Colonel H. Wilson; “What we fought for,” General Theodore C. Fletcher; “The Western soldier,” General W. W. Belknap; “Tlie memories of the war,” General John W. Fuller; "The State of Ohio,” Governor Charles Foster; "The surgtons of the fmy,” Dr. H. J. Herrick; "The' Grand rmy of the Republic," Governor Lucius Fairchild; "The old flag,” General William E. Strong; “The citizen soldier,” General John A. Logan; "The Army of the Potomac,” General Ed. S. Moyer: “The loyal woman,” Bishop Samuel Fallows; "The Army of the Cumberland," Major William McKinley; “The volunteer.” Colonel Augustus Jacobson; "The press,” Hon. R. C. Parsons. The speeches were interspersed with music by a military band, and music and singing by the Arion quartette. The festivities were protracted late into the night.
Vanderbilt’s Mishap. New York, Oct. 18.—William IT. Vanderbilt has almost entirely recovered from the effects of the shock received yesterday by being thrown from his wagon in a collision with tlie span of horses driven by Robert Bonner. He arose early to-day and transacted some business, and expects to drive in the park this afternoon. Many of the big men of Wall street called upon him at his house. Mr. Vanderbilt said to the reporter: “I am extremely obliged to my friends, the journalists especially, for the solicitude they have displayed for my welfare. The accident ot which I was tlie victim yesterday was, at the worst, but trifling. I certainly got shaken up, but I feel as well as ever now. You can see for yourself I am not badly hurt, at all events,” and Mr.Vanderbilt strode across the room with anything but an invalid’s stride. Cashier Fitch’s Offense. Cleveland, Oct. 18.—The United States grand jury has indicted Kirtlattd Fitch, the defaulting cashier of the Warren Second National Bank, for embezzling, abstracting and willfully misappropriating the funds of a national bank while one of its officers, and for perjury in falsely swearing to the monthly returns required of national banks. Fitch lost in speculation abontsßo,ooo of the bank’s money, and fled. He was captured and brought back last August, and since then has been constructively under arrest, although allowed to live in a hotel instead of a jail. The United States marshal brought him here to-night on a capias, and lodged him in prison. His bail was fixed at $50,000. The lightest penalty for his offense is five years in the penitentiary. Acquittal of Mr. Sessions. Albany, N. Y., Oct. 18.—The Sessions bribery trial was concluded to-night. At-torney-general Russell presented tlie side of the prosecution in an address two hours in length, making a very strong plea. Judge Osborn delivered a long charge to the jury, in wiiich the defendant was favored somewhat. The jury was sent out at 7 o’clock, the court taking a reces3 until 10 o’clock this evening. Long before that hour the jury were in the box.' When the judge arrived tlie jury rendered a verdict of “not guilty." Mr. Sessions was congratulated by a large number of friends. Fatal Quarrel Between Farmers. Owenton, Ky., Oct. 18.—A fatal altercation occurred seven miles from here to-day. John M. Palmer, an old man, found Ben. Crutchlaw, aged twenty-five, on his farm, and ordered him off. CrntchUw reluctantly obeyed. As soon as he got out of the field, hot words ensued. Palmer fired, and Crntchlaw threw a stone at the same moment. The latter fell dead, shot through tlie heart. Palmer’s skull was fractured by the stone, and lie will prob ably die.