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AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE—^“Siberia." SNOLISH'S OPERA-HOUSE— ‘'Nobody’s Claim.” | |>AHK THEATER—Ida Siddon's Mastodons. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NETT & SON. For Rates of Subscription, ere., see Sixth ‘Pas-a. DECEMBER C>, 1883. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can !>e fonnd nt the following p’acer. LONDON—American Kxrhangein Kurope. 449Stran<l. PA Hlß—American Kxchauge iu Parie, 35 Boulevard Uep C'apucinos. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotel*, WASHINGTON. D. C.—Brentano’* 1,015 Pennsylvania avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI— J. C. Hawlev&Co.. 1M Vinestreet. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest coiner .Thirdand Jefferson street*. ST. LOUlS—Onion Now. Company. Union Depot. Mr. Carlisle denies that he made the speech credited to him in which he denied that the United States is a nation. Tne report of the speech, in the words given, was printed in the Cincinnati Gazette, and it would seem proper that the conductor of that paper should respond to the denial of Mr. Carlisle. Frank James has been taken to Kansas City for trial, and is alluded toby the local papers as the “distinguished prisoner.” He remarked plaintively to a reporter that he did not know what he had done that he should be confined in a dungeon. Perhaps his memory will be refreshed ou this point before the trial is ended. Is referring to die message of the President, an esteemed contemporary says: "In opposing the postal telegraph he centers his opposition upon that narrowest of all grounds, that it would increase the civil-service list. Tiie same objection would have obtained against the whole postal system.” The President simply indorsed and adopted the argument used by Postmaster-genera! Gresham. Mb. George Joachim Goschen, the distinguished member of the English Parliament who has just declined the honor of the speakership of the House, is a representative Hebrew of London. With such Jews as Disraeli, Sir George Jessel, Montefiorc and Gosciieti in English memory and in English life, Dr. Stocker's Jew-baiting becomes an outrage demanding the most indignant rebuke. A reminder ot a by-gone time comes in the account of the semi-centennial of the National Anti-slavery Society, which is being held in Philadelphia this week. Ofthesixty signers to the call for the first meeting fifty years ago, and who represented ten States, only three men survive, one of these being John G. Whittier. The leading participants in the celebration are, as is fitting, prominent colored men and freedmen. The New York San, the leading and the ablest Democratic newspaper in the country, says: “The Democratic majority in the House of Representatives have definitely planted themselves upon the doctrine of free trade, and have declared their hostility to every form, degree and kind of tariff protection toward American industry.” The Sun is honest enough to tell the truth, while the Western and Southern apologists for Mr, Carlisle fill their jnouths with mush about “incidental protection.” Thk Supreme Church Council of Berlin has summoned Dr. Stocker, court chaplain, either to abandon his anti-Semitic agitation or to resign. Thanks to the church council. Dr. Stocker’s crusade against the Jews lias been disgraceful to him. It is uncharitable, against the spirit of the age, and altogether infamous. “Jew-baitiug” must “go" from even Russia, and it certainly cannot obtain a foothold in England, where still lives that honored man of God, and friend of his race and of all people, Sir Moses Montefiore. It seems incredible, hut it is told as a fact, that there has been discovered in New York city an association of grocers' clerks, organized for the purpose of systematically plundering their employers. Each member was required to steal $125 a month and deposit j it with the treasurer of the society. The organization seems to have been a mutual aid society, also; for at the end of the year, if any member thought lie could make more money in business for himself than in stealing from cash drawers, he was to be allowed $2,500 to set up for himself. There is nothing like being a great editor. Mr. Watterson.of the Courier-Journal, begins comment upon the President’s message by saying: “It is one long line of platitudes, as devoid of interest or originality as it is possible to imagine;” and then, a little further along, in the same article, one of the President’s recommendations is introduced with the remark: “In the same broad and tolerant spirit which characterizes this message.” It is only the most giant minds which can grasp “the broad and tolerant spirit” of a message which “is one iong line of platitudes, devoid of interest or originality.” But lor this are-we Democratic editors and oracles. When Joseph E. McDonald was asked to recant his hard-money notions by a com mi ti tee of Democratic-Greenback legislators, lie had the backbono to adhere to his views, though the United States eenatorship possibly hung in the balance. Y'et now, with .the presidential bee buzzing in his bonnet, Mr. McDonald abandons alt his free-trade 'aharacter, built up by years of determined 1

work, and which is really his only strong point before the country, and hops upon Senator Yoorhees’s platform of incidental protection. We really wish Senator McDonald had been able to keep his spinal column. Much as we disagree with his great political idea we could and did admire a man with the courage of his convictions. And besides, we fear he has traded his birthright for even less than a mess of pottage. THE DANVILLE MURDERESS. Tiie members of the grand jury at Danville have stultified themselves, and have not succeeded in removing the “riot” stains from the garments of their fellow-citizens. After atwo-days’ investigation of the circumstances of the recent massacre, they report that they have no presentments to make. There is a palpable inconsistency here. It has been urged that the colored Republicans were the aggressors; that they precipitated trouble and forced the fighting. Taking Bourbon evidence as good, it is evident that the negroes were guilty of a very grave offense against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and for that reason the grand jury failed iu its duty when it did not eau-e their indictment and arrest. There is but one possible explanation: it may be that all the guilty colored men were killed in the fight, and that none of the guilty ones remain above ground to answer in the flesh. It will appear to unprejudiced minds that there is a mistake somewhere. Few will believe that the bloody score was evenly wiped out; and, if it was not, why is it that the offending colored men are not brought to book? It cannot be argued that the white population is afraid to arrest men whom they were not afraid to shoot. The work of the Danville grand jury is a farce and its report a burlesque of sincerity. No sane man, unbiased by partisan prejudice, but will realize at once that the courts of Virginia have been made a mockery by this travesty of justice. It was charged that the colored race provoked a riot, and a dozen of them were assassinated in the streets of Danville, and yet no one is to blame and not one indictment is returned. Still, Democratic politicians would ask the public to believe that no injustice is done the people of the late slave States on account of race or political belief. OUR NEW JEFFERSON. An ingenuous correspondent, writing to the. New York Sun from Indianapolis, recently, tells a very pretty story of the simplicity and lofty candor of the Sun’s great candidate for the presidency, Mr. Holman. If any have been so ignoble as to entertain even tiie slightest doubt of Mr. Holman’s exalted nature, it must incontinently be cast out as doing injustice to one of the most remarkably pure and unpurcbasable men of his times. The little fable is as follows: The humble correspondent, by a gracious dispensation of Providence, was permitted to overhear a conversation. A gentleman (afterward shown to be tiie great candidate) was talking “in a low tone,” a man and a boy beside him. The persons addressed were evidently father and son, and the lad apparently had been dismissed from his situation in some factory, and was threatening through the father to sue for damages, having been hired for a year. “You can collect nothing,” said the great tnan. “It is illegal to employ a boy under fourteen in the shops. You had better keep quiet and go to school.” From this pretty legend tiie correspondent moralizes at length, all to the great praise of Mr. Holman. Evidently, bad it been any other attorney but Mr. Holman, Mr. Hendricks or Mr. McDonald, for instance, the boy would have been told to assassinate his late employer, blow up his shops and poison his family. They would not have talked in “a low tone,” but would have yelled like a lot of Comanclies, painted the town a bright vermilion and let slip the dogs of war, meanwhile having cried havoc and other hard terms. Marveling greatly that a lawyer could be found in Indianapolis who would deliberately refuse a first-class chance of doing a thousand dollars’ worth of work and obtaining a verdict for $175, the astonished corre spondent began to spread the story abroad. He met a prominent lawyer, a lending Democrat, and innocently asked him if ho knew Mr. Hoiutan. “Do 1 know Mr. Holman?” he exclaimed, with tears in his eyes, and with an unmistakable tinge of indignation in his tone—“A man must know his brother, and I ara happy to esteem Mr. Holman as a brother. sir. I know and love him. Front Michigan City to Evansville no tnan is better known. Among our thirteen congressmen lie stands head and shoulders the highest. There is tiie true suuff in that man.” “In what estimation is he held as a presidential candidate?” “I wish that he might be the candidate. I sincerely do.” “Is that tiie general opinion?" “Yes. ail tiie Democrats of the State and hundreds of Republicans would support liitn.” “Will he do anything to gain the nomination?” "No, sir; he is not that sort of a man! Doing his duty always, lie will work where be is, and take what comes." Still wrapt in astonishment the corre spondent approached yet other citizens, and tiie same good report was made by all without dissent: “What think yon of Mr. Holman as a presidential candidate?" I asked a Republican of ttie strictest kind. “He is a man worth electing. He is the new Jefferson, let me tell you.” “If nominated, will many Republicans support him?” ‘ That can be answered in only one way. If Holman is the candidate, Indiana will be hopelessly Democratic next year, and other Western juries will fall intoline.” The story might he continued indefinitely, but the above is enough to show which way the popular tide is setting. Os a truth, the

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very babes of Indiana are sobbing and pleading that Mr. nolman be elected President by acclamation on Christmas day next. That the correspondent’s account is sincere there can be no kind of doubt, and those of us who have read “The Y’oung Philosopher” in the old Fourth Reader will recall a wonderful similarity of style, and will at once recognize in “Peter” tlie youthful Holman. A horse belonging to a leading Democrat named Lennox liad run away, and was caught by Peter, who was tending sheep iu a neighboring field. “Ah, my fine fellow!” exclaimed Mr, Lennox, “wliat shall I do to reward you for your kindness?" “Sh-h-h!” said Peter speaking in a low tone; “you’d better keep still. Virtue is its own reward. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. And besides, who knows, I may be a candidate myself, some day.” “Yes; but have you no playthings?” asked the gentleman. “I do not know wliat you mean, sir,” replied Peter. “Such as tops, kites, toy-pistols and slungsbots.” “O, no, sir; but my brother Joe has a bullfiddle and a liver-pad.” “What do you do when it rains?" “I go under a tree, and if it rains very hard I go fishing.” “And if you are hungry?” “I sometimes eat a turnip.” “You are a young philosopher, I perceive,” said dear Mr. Lennox. “I object to that, sir; but I am a ‘ding darling,’ and don’t you forget it." “Good morning, Peter.” “Good morning, Mr. Dana." A NEW FIELD OF REFORM. Tiie Secretary of State of Illinois has issued a license to the Woman’s Mutual Benefit Union, without capital, to promote “fraternal sympathy, mutual help, relief, protection and economy, wifely, daughterly, sisterly, and motherly love.” This is an association which will undoubtedly be “a success from the start,” and “fill a long-felt want." How they are going to work to promote fraternal sympathy does not appear; but perhaps the women of the union propose that all men shall be their brothers, and with this understanding will teach them to sympathize fraternally. There are some objections to tiie brotherly dodge that individuals of either sex have encountered in private experience, but the scheme may he made to work satirfactorily if judiciously managed under a code of rules. It is probable, however, that “fraternal sympathy” will not be promoted to any great extent “without capital.” Are the women not aware that fraternal associations require for their success handsome halls in which to meet, elegant entertainments, innumerable banquets and gorgeous regalia? And do not such tilings require money? A man may be moderately fraternal if the grips and passwords are sufficiently numerous and mysterious; but it is to be feared that the bonds will not hold him long if no parades or brass bands are forthcoming, so that he may disport himself. The object is an excellent one, hut we fear the society must wait to be endowed by some philanthropist before the fraternity is on a sound basis. As to the other purposes' designated, nothing could be more commendable. If there is anything the public welfare demands more than another it is the promotion of economy, and of wifely, daughterly, sisterly and motherly love. Short-sighted persons may not have remarked any falling off in these various phases of feminine affection; but, nevertheless, they must he promoted, and we wish the Union good speed. We do not know how they mean to bring the reformation about, hut the plans will probably be disclosed later, and will be laid with all haste before our readers. Nothing is said about the promotion of the love of sweethearts, which is a singular omission, when one considers the cold and heartless manner in which young women who bear that tender relation to members of the other sex are prone to conduct themselves. We trust the Mutual Union will incorporate sweethearts in the list of those whose love needs reviving. lx his letter to Professor A. L. Perry, of Williams College, Hon. J. G. Carlisle, then a candidate for Speaker on the free-trade platform, wrote: “In ray opinion, a retreat front our present position on tariff reform would be disastrous. * * * The election of Hr. Randall, or any other gentleman entertaining Iris views, would be very properly regarded by the country as an abandonment of the contest, and, as you say, it would drive away from us thousands of earnest men who care more for principles than spoils. My own position on tills subject has been deliberately taken, and will be consistently maintained, i do not wish to succeed in this or any other contest by concealing my real sentiments or purposes concerning any public question.” Mr. Randall was supported by those who favored letting tax legislation substantially alone for tiie present, to see what would be the effect of the hill now in force, and which has reduced tiie revenue fully $40,000,000. Mr. Carlisle represented the idea of a vigorous, aggressive, determined policy of reducing the tariff to a revenue basis, witli no respect whatever to protection, which lie and Iris school claim to be unconstitutional. Since iris election Mr. Carlisle lias attempted to “cover;” but his letter to Professor Perry was a truthful expression of his views and purposes, which he is now endeavoring to “conceal.” Mr. Carlisle’s election means the spirit and purpose of the Democratic party to cut and slash the tariff to a revenue basis, leaving the manufacturing industries of the country to look out for themselves. This is the oft-expressed purpose of tiie Democratic free-traders and that faction has now

signally taken possession of the policy and purposes of tiie party. The country understands it, and all the “pollyfoxiug” by the Carlisle free-traders will do no more than show their utter lack of principle and sincerity. W. A. Crokkut, in a personal card, attests the aocuracy ot the interview he reported as having taken place with Mgr. Capel concerning the public-school question, and the probable revolt of the Catholics in America. Mr. Croffut says: “When he said, ’There will be a fight if the demand of the Catholics [for separate school money] is not yielded to,’ I asked him if he meant a physical revolt, and he said he did not know what form it would take, but it was not likely that 8,000,000 people were going to stand it to be taxed twice over for the education of their children. ‘ I am surprised to hear that Mgr. Capel ‘repudiates the interview.’ I never did any more conscientious work in my life. I have preserved the book containing the phonographic record of his words, and, so far from ’forcing tiie conversation on hint,’ I was received most cordially. He set a chair for me; got writing material for me; showed no signs of restlessness, and ordered Iris servant to bring some wine to sustain me while I wrote.” There may be some abuses of the interviewing business, but it is generally safe to put reliance in any "interview” reported by a reputable newspaper tnan, and it will require an effort to believe that Mr. Croffut has misrepresented Mgr. Capel’s words. O. D. Baldwin, president of the Fourth National Bank, of New York, delivered an address at a banquet given by the New York Stock Exchange, on Monday, in which he said: “I regard the New York Stock Exchange, as a civilizing power, as second only to the gospel of Jesus Christ,” Very strangely the report says this remark “was received i with general laughter.” Mr. Baldwin must certainly be right. IE we were to catalogue the great civilizing agencies we should probably rate them about this way: First, the bucket shop; second, the Chicago Board of Trade; third, the gospel of Jesus Christ; and fourth, the New York Slock Exchange. If the faro bank were permitted to have a legal existence we should be inclined to put that at the head of the list, but heathendom has made au unfair discrimination against it. Major Edwards, a prominent Democrat of Missouri, editor of the St. Joseph Gazette, telegraphed to his paper, over his own name, after the completion of the House organization: “The Southern Confederacy is again iu the saddle.” It will not do to whistle Major Edwards down the wind. The only trouble with the Major is that lie had not discretion to keep to himself what every Southern Democrat in the country feels, whatever, for prudence, sake, he may say. “The Southern Confederacy is again in the saddle” tells the story, sneer at it, and make light of it as much as you may. Joseph Cook does not seem to have profited by his experience with the raw-beef man last winter. Speaking of Governor Butler, he says: “I should say that Butler was a story and a half high, wide on the ground, without altitude. So far as I know lie is a man of correct personal habits, but he is a domineering, acute, pugnacious demagogue. He is a jack-in-the-box; he doesn’t know when he is defeated. He is likely to be heard from yet." He will, indeed, be heard from yet; and the reverend philosopher will be the first to receive authentic news. Tiie Chicago News makes sport of rural personals by republishing specimens; tint nothing more refreshingly ingenuous lias yet been produced from the country press than is the following from tho News of yesterday: “We noticed the genial stmle of Brother Hutcliln, of the Bloomington Rye, upon our streets the othsrday. Later: Since writing the above our sanctum lias been Invaded bv Kro. Hutcliln. who tolls us he is prospering in hla new home, George is a good boy, and his many friends wish him well. Come again, George, here is ourfyV’ A genial smile promenading the streets of Ch’cago is a sight worth seeing. “Fiiau Gai.i.muykr lately petitioned the Emperor Frauds Joseph for the remission of a sum of 6,000 florins due by her to me commune of Vienna for unpaid raxes, alleging, among other reasons of her inability to pay, the unprofitableness of her American tour.”—Exchange. It is interesiing, not to say encouraging, to hear of one foreign “artist” who has gone away from this country with empty colli is. It may also be remarked that the t rail should drop two syllables from her name. “A squad of fakirs with a circus entered tho depot at Livingstone, Ala., yesterday, and robbed tiie operator of his watch and pocket-book. The town marshal attempted to arrest the ruffians, which caused a riot, in which one of tlie men, named Taylor, was killed and another wounded.” —Exchange. Strange idea—carrying a circus around while robbing people. Another rumor is rife that Harrison, the “boy preacher,” is about to be married. There were many who thought he was too old to marry. Bv a remarkable oversight the President took no cognizance of the base-ball contracts for 1884. ___________ ABOUT PEOPLE. Governor Newell, of Washington Territory, has signed the woman suffrage act, aud the iaw is now in force. This richest New England senator is Eugene Hale, worth n million. Benator Fair, of Nevada, is worth eighteen millions. Miss Lillian Norton, who went to Europe some rime ago, returns as “Mile. Glglio Nordieu." She will lie easily recognized, however, by the mom In her chin. The late Sydney Blanchard, of London, who rose to prominence there and In India as a Journalist, was the man who once proposed to his associates, “Suppose we start a comic Punch!” Mr. F. Makion Or VWFqkd lias been some days in London arranging far the publication of anew novel. Messrs. Macmillan have declined to tiring out the work on account of Its immorality; but it is coming out. MISS Van Zasdt Is a lively, laughing, capricious child, delicately pretty ns a shepherdess iu Dresden china, singing, as Patti does, by the grace of God, gay and gifted and winsome, and tbe best business woman iu tbc world us theaters. A PoTTsvtt.t.E (Pu.) woman hurriedly sent for a doctor and informed him that our or two of her false teeth laid lodged in her throat. He tried In vain to dislodge them by ordinary methods, aud said that au operation must be per-

formed. Tho woman was too nervous and timid to permit this. After fasting and suffering for two days, she found the teeth in adrawer where she had put them. Then the pain gradually disappeared. There had been no obstruction in her throat. Thk sacred rooms in Windsor Palace formerly ooctipied by John Brown, Esq., Vice-president of the British Empire, are kept looked. Tho Queen will permit no one to occupy them while she lives. The Queen’s physical health is now said to be quite good. Washington Irving once said to a lady: “Don’t be anxious about the education of your daughters; they will ao very well; don’t teach them so many things; teach them one thing.” “What is that, Mr. Irving!” she asked. “Teach them,” he said, “to he easily pleased.” Chief Engineer Melville, of the late Arctto exploring steamer Jeannette, has received a letter from General Chcrnaiyef, the Governor of Yakootsk, Btatlng that the Czar has bestowed rewards aud promotions upon ail peramis in Siberia win rendered assistance to the Jeanuette survivors. Or the distinguished Tilarquls Tseng a writer says; “Every Chinese is a natural born Talleyrand, with dog eyes aud high cheek bones; aud a political, or. what is worse, a diplomatic,Chinese is nothing more nor less than an olive-ooniplex-ioned Mcpbistophcles ‘with a little round button ou the top.’ ” The Brooklyn Union says of General Frei luonl’s old age and poverty; “It is a sad fato j for 'the Pal blinder, - whose romantic career cast i such a halo about his name a generation ago, and the country will not object if his frleudn oan persuade Congress to follow the precedent set iu the case of General Shields a few years ago, ami place the old soldier on the retired list of the army, with tiie rank of brigadier-general and a comfortable income.” David Swing writes from Boston: "The : greater men are the simpler their style. What l all so admired iu Emerson and Longfellow and other great minds of this locality—childlike simplicity—is here still In Freeman Clarke aud Band and E. E. Hulo and Brooke Herford, and even in Phillips Biouks. The old grandlloaueuce which was once thought the chief element in writer or orator cannot now he found in this home of orators and writers. Stunner and Choate possessed traces of tiie florid style, but it could not flourish here, and under the powerful short words of Parker aud Emerson the ‘ore rotundo'was shut up peacefully, but effeciunlly.” One of the most original characters of Vienna, Herr Hull von Stahlberg, died recently, at the age of ninety-two. Ho kept himself constantly before the.publlo by his eccentricities of maimer, and the innumerable plans for the amelioration of society with which he besieged tbo newspapers. As be was harmless aud good-natured, he achieved a real popularity, and was universally known as “honest old Holl.” His egregious vauity showed itself even in his will, which began in this wise: “To his dear countrymen— The tribune of the people, Anton Karl Holl von Stahlberg, he whom you called ‘honest old Holl,’ died peacefully, one might say courageously and joyfully, on,” oto. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Mr. Blaine's suggestion of a division of the whisky unit tobacco revenue among the States will do him no good. It has rather set him hack, and It. will require a counter-irritant to place him where his fighting foreign policy left him.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. McCulloch was an admirably-equipped Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. E. G. Spaulding was one. of the most sagacious mcmhe.is of the House during tne civil war: but ordinarily the bankers remain iu tbe background aud the lawyers have the Treasury and the halls of legislation to themselves. —Now York Tribune. The National Republican is mistaken ts the country is not on the eve of tit- mightiest struggle over the tariff question that has ever been seen. “Encouragement to American labor” is the Republican shibboleth. “Free trade, qualified by tiie necessity for revenue only, Is the watchword of tho Democracy.’’—National Republican. The opinion of the London press that, there was no doubt in the O'DonueU ease will not go for much in ibis country, where tiie impression that a verdict for manslaughter would have met the requirements of justice, if it exists at all, will not be removed by the foregone conclusion of tbe English press that an Irishman who kills au informer ought to be hanged.—New York Times. THERE are so many points of vital popular interest that the Democratic House will have an opportunlts' to get into no end of scrapes. Indeed, it may repeat the peculiar hisiory of tho first year of the Forty-sixth Congress, and so startle the. country with Demoeralic ideas as to contribute directly toward the election of a Re-, publican President uext year.—New York Herald. Iris of comparatively little importance, however. what view Judge Gresham takes of the constitutionality of government control of the telegraph so loug as he is satisfied that government control is neither necessary nor expedient. In these conclusions Judge Gresham is right. While the Republican party is engaged in so many ways in trying to centralize the government, it is gratifying to find a Republican administration opposed on grourds of public policy to one of ihe most (longerons of all the' schemes of centralization. —New York Sun. There Is a field in the domestic correspondence of this country which the Western Union hardly touches, and which the government could occupy without the slightest Injury to that Cono rs, In Europe more than six ill ten of tiie telegrams sent are social aud domestic. In this country the proportion is but one in eight. This fact points to the place to be filled by a postal telegraph, and we much mistake the drift of opinion if the people of tills country are not fuliv ready to demand that the government get ready to meet this want.—Chisago Tribune. Tilden's Will and NHL New York World. Tiie following statement lias been pretty widely published: “Mr. Tiideu proposes to pass the winter months on Iris yacht,[the Yosenrite. The trip will be strictly social. The guests are to take the train to New’ Orleans to join the yacht there, whence they will steam to Havana; from Havana they will proceed to visit tire other attractive Cuban ports.” “There is not a word of truth in that,” Mr. Andrew H. Green said. “I don’t mean to say simply that 1 do not know that Mr. Tilden is going to do all that. 1 mean to say that I know he is not going to do any tiling of the kind.” Mr. Tilden has purchased the. Hall F. Baldwin property, adjoining Greystone on tiie nortli. It is’said that the price was $60,000, and that a large conservatory will be built on tiie grounds. Why tbe Irish Cause Is Unpopular. New Y'ork Evening Post. We doubt if there ever was a good cause which met so little of the sympathy of humane and enlightened men everywhere to- j day as tire Irish cause, and this, almost wholly, because of tiie brutal and anti-social doctrines preached by so many of its advocates, imd the base character of tlie instruments they are willing to use. No readiness lo shed blood profusely in any cause degrades people in the eyes of mankind, as long as it is shed in open fight, but those who make heroes and martyrs of skulking assassins, cannot escape tliescorn or detestation of the best portion of [lie human race. Not Made Much Impression, Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Tbe Philadelphia Press makes continued vigorous assaults on Assistant Postmastergeneral Hatton, but lias not so far seemed to have made even an impression on the outposts of his strongly intrenched position. Where Mr. Civrlis e’s Sympathies Are. Terre Haute Express, It is true that Mr. Carlisle eats his meals and sleeps in Covington, across tiie river from Cincinnati, but his sympathies are with South Carolina, where nullification and secession found their origin.

COMMENT ON THE MESSAGE. Opinious of the Press of Both Parties on tiie Document. Chicago News (Rep ): It is, in short, a business message from a business President. Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.); The message is not a stump speech, and it is altogether an approximately proper document. Cleveland Leader (Rep,): It is a .very able document, reviewing in a comprehensive and statesmanlike manner all questions, both foreign and domestic, of national concern. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: Tho message is an unpretending, but dignified and able state paper, which contains so much that, after reading, one is surprised to see that it is so short. Lafayette Journal: The message will, we believe, as a whole, be entirely satisfactory to tiie country. It is a vigorous presentation of tiie condition and needs of the nation, and will repay a careful perusal. Chicago Herald (Ind.): The message, while not a marvel in breadth of thought or comprehensive statesmanship, ia vet a simple, plain, and effectiv statement of tiie condition of our national affairs. New Y'ork World (Dem.). On the whole, the message is an interesting document, containing some evidences of independence, some suggestions of which we can approve, and much that we strongly condemn, it will repay perusal. Chicago Times (Dem.): If Mr. Arthur had reduced it, it would have been a model speech of a President who has approximated more closely tiie non-partisan standard than perhaps any other the couutry lias had in more than eighty years. New York Sun (Dem.): The document contains much evidence that the President thinks for himself. His opinions and recommendations on important questions of policy are often wholly different from those which he transmits in the reports of his cabinet advisers. , St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The message strikes the average reader as being a decidedly careful one from a political point of view, and, barring some omissions and a lack of stress on one of two points where more extended treatment was expected, as statesmanlike and wise. New Orleans Times-Democrat (Dem.): While the message contains nothing very startling or novel, it is sensible and conservative. unsectional, and unpartisan. We may not be able to accept all of Arthur's views, but a great majority of them will strongly recommend themselves to the country, Cincinnati News Journal (Dem.) Asa plain, routine business paper it is excellent in tone and temper, and generally sensible. It deserves all praise, that one could hardly tell in reading itto which section, or through any partisan utterance, to which party tie belongs. It is the safe paper of a safe, cautious, negative man. Louisville Commercial: Tiie message will strike the country favorably. It is a clear, positive, business-like document, and. like al! of President Arthur’s state papers, is characterized by a fine literary style. He \trites better than Mr. Tilden. who is very proud of his literary style, but who uses too many big words. New Y’ork Herald, (Ind.): President Arthur’s annual message lias that character of plain and practical good sense which ail his state papers have borne, and, while we do not approve of all his recommendations, and indeed dissent strongly from the most important of them, we cannot too highly praisa the spirit of the document. Chicago Tribune (Rep.): The President’s message will-impress tiie reader as a conservative and cautious document, His recommendations. as a rule, are in the right direction, and it is rather the qnrissions than the assertions which will encounter criticism. On the whole, however, it denotes an advance over tiie last annual message in tho opinions held by the masses concerning the duties and responsibilities of the national government. Chicago Inter Ocean (llep.): The message of President Arthur is a thoroughly businesslike document. He wastes no words iu expatiatiug upon general principles and glittering generalities. Every sentence means something, and is to the point. Asa whole it is an admirable state paper, fitly closing with a-timely appeal for anew civil-rights bill. It was well that the first official utterance since the disgraceful Supreme Court decision should be, in effect, a condemnation of that unjust, illegal, and illogical decision. Washington special to Cincinnati Enquirer: 'llie President is warmly indorsed in-Iris recommendation that local postage be reduced to one cent. As to his failure to urge the postal telegraph system, the President will find many ready lo join issue with him. Still, it is such a colossal subject that no legislation thereon need he expected this session. The strong ground taken by the President that the Edmunds anti-polygamy iaw is a failure, and that tiie national government take entire control of Utah, and administer its affairs through a commission, is not relished by tiie strict constructionists; but there is a general concession that the President is right, and that it is time to fight the devil with fire. On the whole, the message merits favor, without respect to political predilections. The Democratic Ticket for 18H4 New York Tribune! Asa fitting supplement to the outcome of tiie speakership contest, some enterprising Democratic newspaper would do (veil to fusli into the field with this ticket for 1884; For President: John Griffin Carlisle, of Kentucky. For Vice-president: Samuel Sullivan Sunset Cox, of New Y’ork. Platform: American industries hiust go. The Whisky Tax Distribution. Cincinnati N*-\vs Journal. The New Y’ork Tribune puts Blaine’s reve nue proposition as a question of “free homes or free whisky.” As Blaine's advocate it outdemaeogues the inventor of demagogy. There is probably not a jingle maker of whisky who would object to Blaine’s proposition. If the manufacturers don’t advocate it, it is because it isan impracticable scheme. An Example To Be Followed. Kansas < tty Journal. Indianapolis lias followed tiie example of Baltimore, and so organized its charities that those who get food have to work for wliat they eat, provided they are able. This makes charity very icy to many persons who Irave hitherto taken it straight. The same principle should be applied in every city where tramps and dead-beats flock in the winter to he fed at public expense. Just a Slow and Easy Death. Plitsburg Dispatch. It must he a great comfort to our indus trial interests lo have the assurance of Mr, Carlisle that nothing will be done suddenly or rashly, but. that the life will be squeezed out of them by degrees and in the most gentle manner possible. They Think It Isn't Loaded, Philadelphia Press. Democratic statesmen In Congress will never be entirely convinced that the tariff gun is loaded until they try to haul it over the fence with the muzzle pointed toward their stomachs. What Carlisle’s Flection Means. Cincinnati Commercial Gazotto. Carlisle’s elertion means what the party would, if it. could. The test whether it shall have the power is vet to he mode