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AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ENGLISH'S OPERA-HOUSE.—‘ 'Skippedby the Light of the Moon," matinee and evening. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY J NO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pago. SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1884. TWELVE PAGES. THE INDIAN Al-OI.IS .1 < U’KNAI. Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 419 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON, D. C Brentano's, 1,015 Pennsylvania Avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J..C. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOITISVTLLE—O. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT. The Grand Army of the Republic has fully organized its committee to receive contributions for the Indiana soldiers’ monument. The people should now respond promptly with money. Our State, in population, wealth, progress and education is about the sixth State in the Union. In art it has but one public monument —the Morton statue. This should not he. It is not creditable to so great a State, nor to the liberality of its citizens. Indiana is first in its provisions for popular education. It is second to no State in its public benevolence. It has just relieved tire sufferers by the recent floods with a generosity that did not stop at State lines. There can be no worthier monument than the proposed soldiers’ monument. In other States, North and South, soldiers’ raouments stand immovable and imperishable, like sentinels guarding the memory and the honor of the dead. Indiana, almost alone in this regard, is still laggard—lndiana, whoso sons fought on land and sea, in every battle, and whose dead are sleeping upon every battlefield. How much longer shall our gallant dear! lie uncovered by a glorious monument which shall attest the gratitude of republics? The first contribution to the committee recently appointed by the G. A. R. was paid but yesterday. Contributions should promptly follow from all j ortions of the State. Let every man, woman and child that can afford it do something. Let our rich men set an example of liberality that will redound to the credit of the State. Let some wealthy man, by a big, round contribution to' the soldiers’ monument, build a monument for himself in the hearts of the people more lasting than marble or brass. Who will it be? Indiana, in time of need, furnished soldiers by thou sands and tens of thousands. Blood is thicker than water and more precious than gold. Contributions should be volunteered certainly as freely and promptly now as men volunteered at the call to arms. Money for such an object is the very best investment — “For all you can tiil*e In your cold, dead hands Is what you have given away.’’ THE OLD AND NEW FOES. The veterans in the equal suffrage movement—the women who began the war years ago and carried it on so gallantly in the face of ridicule, social ostracism and violent opposition—those veterans wont to snuff the battle afar oft'—must have a curious feeling now that there is really no active enemy to fight. They have held their convention in Washington, and, instead of sneers, have met with respectful attention. Instead of being snubbed and tabooed by society, they have been praised, admired and made much of; have, in fact, been quite the fashion. The President received them kindly, congressional committees listened to their addresses with flattering attention, and crowds attended their meetings. There would seem to be nothing to complain of; hut yet the old workers for “the cause” must feel a lack. They must miss the old inspiration given by their opponents. When they began, long ago, they fought aggressively as need was, but now such enemies as they have among statesmen bow before them blandly and lead them out to dinner. It is enjoyable, of course, in its way, hut must at the same time he exasperating to the earnest ones who do not forget their object, because, with all this apparent success, the movement does not make headway. Indifference is the foe they have to fight now, and it is more difficult to conquer than the earlier ones met and put to rout in open warfare. Intelligent men everywhere acquiesce in the views of the suffragists, or. not agreeing, find wisdom in silence. They acknowledge that when a majority of women are determined to have their way they will have it. right or wrong, hut yet are not sufficiently interested to help the few to what some call a right. The congressman listens deferentially, pays the speaker a compliment, and going' his way forgets not herself, perhaps. but her cause. And are just as bud. The suffrage advocates in their long crusade have undoubtedly been the means of bringing many benefits to their sex. Laws have been changed and modified in favor of women, ways innumerable have been opened in which they may earn a livelihood, and burdens lifted which they would yet have to bear heavily had it not been for the indirect influence of the once-despised suffragists. But women ungratefully profit by these advantages,. and refuse at the same time to take any interest in their alleged right to vote. Doubtless the cause will win in time, but the prospect is not flattering, in spire of ap

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pearances. The leaders, it is not unlikely, look back with a certain longing to the days when they were martyrs and could fight vigorously and know when a point was gained. It behooves them to change their tactics if possible, so that they may revive some of their oldtime enthusiasm. SIGNS OF SPRING. There are many signs of spring which are entirely omitted from our calendars, and are never referred to in the prognostications of our weather-prophets as having any marked significance, but which, nevertheless, bear a weighty and a serious brow to the eye trained in domestic details and the mind schooled in the hidden meanings of the common-place. Signs and tokens of a waning winter are visible in-doors to the nimble mind of the housekeeper long before outdoor nature has shown the faintest intention of shaking off slumber from her eyelids and weaving for the earth the promised robe of green. Long, long before the jovial robin carols in some yet bare and frosted tree, or the venturesome tulip pokes forth his enterprising stalks in some shaded corner of the yard, the domestic interpretation of household symbols has been made, and an unerring hand has written on the wall that spring is on the way. The most of 'these tokens are homely, but the tale they tell is not on that account to be disregarded. The coal is getting low, the ash-pile looms astonishingly high; it is almost spring. The vegeta bles in the cellar have almost reached the bottoms of the bins, the store of mincemeat has long since vanished down red-lane; spring is on the way. The appetite for smoking buckwheat cakes is waning, and preserves linger—a drug in the market. Butter costs as if it were made of gold-dust, and liens decline to keep eggs at reasonable prices. Clothes that were expected to last through the winter show visible tokens of approaching dissolution, and the ragged elbow is eloquent that spring is almost here. Tbe much-bo-damed stockings and the patched flannels which swing on the clothes-line publish to all the world the tidings of great joy; they liave borne the burden and the cold of winter, and expect soon to retire to a long and welcome rest in the rag-bag. The apple-peddler makes day hideous with his incomprehensible shrieks and groans; the orange-man hawks his vernal falsehood past the door, ‘ ‘All nice, sweet oranges, twenty-five cents a dozen!” and the confiding housewife purchases, just .as she did last year, and lier husband cries, “.Sold again!" just as ho did last year, and the children manage to dispose of the oranges, with about a quarter of a ]K>und of sugar to each orange, just as they did last year. The scissors-grinder comes forth from his winter lair and jingles his cracked bell, “out of tune and harsh,” up and down the street. The still confiding housewife always hopes it's not the same man who spoiled her knives last fall —at least he always says ho isn't —so she turns her precious cutlery over to his eager hands, and he ruins all its edges, and pockets all the money, and goes jangling off down the street, just as he did last year. The rag-man appears on the scene, just as neat and attractive-looking as ever, and with the same noble disregard for dishonest bargains. All these homely tokens tell that spring is on the way. We may doubt and be loth to accept them, but the message is the same, whatever be its herald. Little by little, syllable by syllable, nature, in-doors and out, is spelling it right before our eyes; is whispering it to, perhaps, heedless ears; but some morning, when we least expect it, the story is finished. We open the window, and ‘'a purer ether, a diviner air,” rushes in upon us. The buds of the trees seem to have swollen in the night; “a livelier emerald twinkles in the grass;" a lordly robin stalks upon the gravel walk; a vivid flash of bluebird dazzles our wondering eyes; the long-ex-pected guest has arrived, like a thief in the night; the ever-new miracle, which is yet as old as the everlasting hills, has been accomplished while we slept. “Lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone." Spring has come! AN INCENTIVE TO ARCTIC RESEARCH, Rev. W. F. Warren, president of the Boston University, entertained the Evangelical Alliance, of that city, last Monday, witli an elaborate argument in support of the theory that the garden of Eden was situated at the north pole. He does not maintain that the gaiden is there now in its pristine glory, being forced to admit that it was snowed under, so to speak, at the time of the flood; but he believes that northern region to have been the one referred to in biblical history as the land of light and beauty. Ho advances scientific reasons to show that that portion of the earth about the poles must have been the first to reach a temperature cool enough to sustain organic life, and that, naturally, the life of the human race might have begun there. In the opinion of Air. Warren, it did begin there, and he also thinks that the terrestrial paradise, where Adam and Eve spent their honeymoon, was located right there in the arctic regions. Perhaps they amused themselves by dancing around the pole in the pale beams of the aurora borealis; but as to this the president of the university is silent. Neither does lie explain whether, when tbe pair received marching orders, they “skipped by the light of the moon” to another country, on reindeer sledges or by a Northern steamship line, or whether tbe fall in which we sinned all gave such momentum as to carry them over without other aid. That it was a cold day when Adam and his wife lmd to leavo Eden and work for a living. Mr. Warren does not deny, but lie insists

that up to that time it was a paradise indeed, with a temperature and a fauna and flora making it fit for a garden of the gods. If this theory is the correct one, it offers new incentive to arctic explorers. The enterprising American will not be content with the patriotic, but somewhat stale, ambition to fly the flag of his country from the north pole, but will be inspired to dig for relics. It has been some years since the garden was abandoned, but ice is an admirable preservative, and there is no telling what reminders of our first parents may be discovered. There will not, of course, be an extensive wardrobe unearthed—or uniced —and probably nothing extensive in the way of a country residence, with its belongings; but undoubtedly some traces of the then happy pair can be found. A few apples frozen, though they might be, in the present prosperous state of dime museums, would make a millionaire of the finder. It is hardly to be expected that the remains of the serpent which called attention to the apples are to be found in this northern refrigerator, as it is understood that the reptile sought a warmer climate. But should this not be the case, and his congealed snakesliip bo actually dug out, an important theological question will be settled. We have from time to time opposed further noi*thern explorations as being of little use, but hitherto we were under the impression that the original Paradise was in another quarter of the globe. The correction of this error puts a different face on the matter, and if any adventurous spirits shall attempt to reach the pole for the sake of draining the water off the garden, or of thawing it out, as the case may require, we shall offer them moral supjiort in their undertaking. We will do this without hope of reward, only asking in return the bestowal of some memento of our long-lost and lamented ancestors. Women have for some years been “annexed" to the Oxford and Cambridge Universities on a plan somewhat similar to the Harvard annex, but they have lately gained a point which puts them a step in advance of their American sisters. The “congregation” of Oxford —which body is to that institution what the trustees are to a common college—has decided that women shall be allowed to present themselves for several of the university examinations in competition with male students. The decision does not give them equal rights with their brothers in pursuit of the higher education, but with the privileges already obtained it is only a question of time when no discrimination will be made. Purdue University has out a special catalogue of a school of pharmacy to be opened next autumn. Instruction will be given in junior and senior courses of twenty weeks each, twentytwo hours each week. The faculty is composed of the President, James H. Smart-; Robert B. Warder, chemistry: John N. Hurty, pharmacy; Alembert W. Bray ton, materia mtdica and toxicology; Charles R. Barnes, botany. The instruction is free, as in all departments of the university. Matriculation, incidentals and chemicals amount to less than sllO per term, so that $125 covers the total expenses of a term of twenty weeks, including board, room rent, fees, books and incidentals. The school will undoubtedly be a success and should receive the patronage of ttie pharmacists and all interested in Indiana schools for Indiana men. President Smart and his faculty have the plan well matured and have counseled with some of the leading druggists of the State, and these indorse the new school heartily. The lectures begin Sept. 23, 1884, and close Feb. 9, 1885. The degree of pharmacy will be conferred upon applicants completing the course, and who have been three years and a half under a preceptor in a dispensing pharmacy, including the time spent in the school. For catalogue and further knowledge the School of Pharmacy, Purdue University, Lafayelte, may be addressed. A patent medicine war has broken out in New York city. Following the example set at the capital of France and the metropolis of England, some of the New York dry goods stores liave begun the sale of proprietary medicines, and have offered them at a reduction of from twenty-five to fifty per cent, from the regular price. Alarmed at the piospect of losing big profits, the druggists have united to get wholesale dealers to refuse to sell to irregular dealers. The defense sot up by the “irregulars” is that they can hand down a bottle of medicine, prepared according to a certain formula, just as scientifically as can the finest pharmacist in the country, and can tie it up as neatly with pink cord, and can make change with as little effort, all of which is painfully true in the sight of the druggists. A strong attempt was made to beat the great variety store Bon Marche, of Paris, out of dealing in such things, but it failed, as will doubtless the present attempt to cut off the supplies of those who offer to soli patent medicines at about what they are rcasouably worth. Mr Shifk. a Boston mining engineer, wants to girdle the earth. He is in Washington, trying to get up a company for a continuation of the Northern Pacific railroad to Alaska. He thinks the mining regions of that territory would more than repay the outlay, and says a series of snowsheds could be built to protect the tracks. But, Mr. Shier docs not propose to have his lino stop at Alaska. He would have ferry-boats, or huge sleds, as the season might demand, to cross Bell ring’s straits. The Russians are already beginning to build roads across Siberia, and when the Chinese run a line up the coast, as they will do, eventually, Mr. Shier’s Alaska road and its connections will bo enabled to carry passengers to Europe by rail. The enthusiastic engineer declares that his scheme is certain to be brought about within twenty five years. The trouble between the Grand Vizier and General Wallace arises from a misunderstanding on the part of the former. In the theory of diplomacy a minister has not the privilege of an embassador —the reason being that an embassador is supposed to be the personal representative of a sovereign, and the Vizier thinks General Wallace is merely a minister. Said Pasha should understand that General Wallace is an embassador, and that lie represents a sovereign, the biggest sovereign Mr. Said ever saw—the sovereign people. _ The Travelers’ Insurance Company, of Hartford, Ct., has issued a very handsome colored lithograph of Bartholdi's statue, “Liberty Enlightening the World,” as it will appear when erected on Bedloe's island, if money for the pedestal Ls ever raised. The committee, of which Mr. Evarts is chairman, is interested in the pos

sible proceeds from the sale of this lithograph, and while tho “Cheap John” methods to which Now York has been compelled to* resort in this matter to raise a paltry $230,000, can hut be regarded with chagrin, it is to be said that this litli ograph is a work worth having, worth framing and worth hanging in office or library. A collection of letters has been ordered from all the Chicago hotels at midnight, so as to get a few letters to take out on tho fast mail trains leaving at 3 o’clock in tho morning, when the night mail trains leave over the same roads at 10 o’clock. Having nothing but the Chicago morning papers, and the mail gathered east of Chicago to take west, is too absurd for the “business interests,” aud some Chicago let tors must be secured, even if postoffice clerks have to sit up all night to write them. Queen Victoria takes great interest in the press notices of her book, but this is easily explained when it is learned that she roads only those which have been marked for her by her ladies. If she had access to some of those critical reviews appearing here and in England, which describe her as in her dotage, and the book as worse than silly, perhaps the good old lady’s interest in what is said about her would suddenly fade. _ An Ohio butcher, who recently ran off with another man’s wife, has brought her back, greatly marveling to himself how any man could possibly live with such a woman. Elopers generally learn a great deal in a remarkably short space of time. The “household department" of a New York paper is authority for the statement that “stockings and undergarments show no symptoms of a change.”* No wonder tho washerwomen of that city complain that they are threatened with starvation. The Boston Advertiser of Thursday has the statements of forty-seven national banks. The aggregate business represented is $172,074,289. and the banking capital, $42,800,000. In some respects Boston is considerable of a town. The laborers on the Capo Cod ship canal have struck on account of the quality of food furnished. Bostou diet is for brains, not brawn. There are notable exceptions, however, like Mr. John L. Sullivan and Mr. Jo Cook. POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP. The Logansport Journal, in a leading editorial, warmly advocates the nomination of Hon. W. H. Calkins as the Republican candidate for Governor. Hon. W. R. Hough, of Greenfield, sends a card to the Hancock County Democrat, saying that he is not a candidate for the office of Lieu-tenant-governor, or for any other office at the disposal of the Republican State convention. The Indianupolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer says in a letter published yesterday: “For Governor, the new ‘Richmond’ in the field is Hon. Dick Thompson, of Vigo. Jim Rice said to me last night: ‘The Thompson boom is one which l am not anxious to encourage.’ Jim is clear-headed on the strength of candidates.*’ The name of Colonel Thompson has been men tioned in connection with tho nomination for months. Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, as clearheaded and as “liberal** a statesman as the South lias, probably, is reported to have said, in a talk upon tho political situation in the Southern States: “Our theory is that the colored race has no part in politics, and we must be consistent.” They certainly wore “consistent" when they shot down J. P. Matthews, and when citizen Dodd said, on oath, that “we” would kill “your” biggest man, Grant or any one else, if he should come down here and attempt to “organize” the negroes. “Freedom’s Son” is a political correspondent of the New York Sun from Indianapolis. This hopeful scion has looked over the ground i?i this State carefully, and with an unerring judgment, if he is to be believed. His conclusion is as follows: “Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks arc the choice of the Democracy, and there will be such an outburst of applause, and enthusiasm, such a rallying to the standarcl of the old ticket as was never liefore witnessed in the republic. This is no uncertain sound. There will be no trouble about, acceptance on the part, of either. Mr. Tilden will come from his retirement and, grand old man that he is, will lighten up the fires of true patriotism on a thousand hills; while genial Tom Hendricks will gallantlv pull alongside of the old wheal-horse and redeem his State in the approbation and approval of his fellow-citizens in a majority of many thousands.” The Meridian (Miss.) Mercury, a Democratic paper of recognized character and standing, lifts the cover off, and says: “The honest truth is. there is no great love of Hie United States government among the more respectable and intelligent classes of Southern people. The ruling classes have discussed it. and only liars or fools will admit that it is satisfactory or lovable or that they do love it.” Commenting upon this, tho New Orleans Christian Advocate remarks: “It may be denied by some, but we suspect that among what the Mercurv calls the ‘more respectable and intelligent classes of Southern people' nothing is more galling than the fact that they are obliged to live under"a government which they fought so hard and did the best they could to dostrov. They are as rebellious in spirit as at the close of the war.” This is Southern testimony, and is not from the “bloody shirt” press of tho North. BREAKFAST TABLE TALK. New photographs of Bernhardt just produced in Paris represent her completely clad in fur, with even a fur bonnet and gloves. She looks as if she weighed 400 pounds. Longfellow’S daughters pronounce the likeness of their father that has been placed in the poet's corner in Westminster very striking, and Mr Lowell says the work has been finely executed. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is in New York under medical treatment/. She has suffered from nervous prostration for some time, and went to New York in ho]>e of recuperation. She is still unable to do any literary work, though her health is somewhat improved. A SENTIMENTAL writer describes Modjeska at a reception as “leaning against tho wall at the back of the piano. She was dressed most picturesquely, and as she listened to the music, with her dark eyes gazing away off toward Poland, perhaps, sh® looked like a nocturne by Chopin.” Civil marriage in South Africa is not a lengthy lite. The Colonies mentions that a happy pair entered the Queen's Town House, the bridegroom paid a £5 note, signed a document, took his spouse by the arm ami walked her out of the building, saving, ‘ How do you do, Mrs. ?” Tho ceremony lasted just two minutes. The Brazilians, as a tribute of respect to tbe memory of Longfellow and a mark of their appreciation of his genius, have forwarded a sum of money to aid in the erection of the Longfellow monument at Cambridge. Tho Emperor, who is said to be familiar with the poet's writings, heads the subscription, giving $250. One of the most famous Parisian models of the day is a stalwart, white-bearded old man, whose portrait, in countless attitudes and in a multitude of characters, stares annually at tho spectator from tho walls of the salon. Ho began life as Cupid, and has been posing for half a century. He has been immortalized by Bonnat a Job and by Morot as St. Anthony. Carl Schurz Frank Siegel and August Sehelfert were fast friends in their youth. Siegel and Soholfert were in she same military class in a school in Germany, tho former Veiog graduated forty-seventh ami Soholfert fifth in a class fifty. The three caino to America

together. Schurz is tho noted politician and editor, Siegel became a famous general and Soholfert is a barber in Atlanta, Ga. The unfortunate one of the three tried to be an entomologist, but he could not earn a living as a scientific man, and so became a barber. General Grant appears to be subject to fractures of limbs. Ho fell, or rather was thrown, from a horse in Now Orleans, during the summer of 1803. and went about Nashville and Chattanooga on crutches during the whole of September and the most of November of that year. An orderly carried His crutches the memorable days of the battle of Chattanooga. Dr. Edward Lasker was fond of writing epigrams. Here is one written when a student: An advocate of mighty size Was 'gainst a small one pitted. "Ho,” said the large one. full of scorn, “You’re for my pocket fitted.” “Granted,” the little one replied, “Then would the news bo spread, More knowledge in your pocket’s hifl Thau’s stored within your head.” It is said that Mary Anderson is worth $350,000. She has assumed the full control of her own affairs at last. They used to be absolutely in the hands of Dr. Griffin, who “allowed” her a little money now and then. Now she dictates to him supremely. He receives a liberal salary from her for managing the business of the concern, and he has to account to her every week as rigidly as though she did not know him from an old boot. “Pin meat” is the London Times’ jargon for pork. It is the fashion of the London press to speak of swine generieally as “pigs.” The Shakspearian usage has been preserved in America. “This making of Christians,” says Launcelot Gobbo, “will raise the price of hogs; if we glow all to l>e pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.” The Times would substitute “pigs” for “hogs,” and “pig-meat-eaters” for “pork-eaters.” The writer of “Girls’ Gossip,” in London Truth attended a fashionable “Peasants’ Festival,” and bought of a fair peddler some pop-corn, the first she had ever seen. She thus writes of the transaction: “I shall never buy any more; though I do not regret this particular purchase, for it procured me a good view of a pretty face. The comestible is produced by popping’ Indian corn—a process Ido not understand. 1 was told that pop-corns are much liked in America. Editors in German Poland aro learning with a vengeance what is meant by the liberty of the press uucler Prince Bismarck. One of them has spent five months of the past year in prison and has six months more in prospect. Another has been condemned to eleven and one-third months' imprisonment. A third is now in prison for fifteen months, a fourth for three months, and a fifth for four months. A total in figures of three years and eight and one-third months’ imprisonment for editors in one year. Only two political papers exist in Posen with editors not in prison. When General Gordon was first sent to the Soudau, Nubar Pasha, then in disgrace in Paris, proposed to him that he should make for himself a kingdom of that country. “What! a kingdom? Ido not understand you,” said Gordon. “Yes,” continued Nubar, “a kingdom, of which you would be the king. I shall soon return to Cairo on tho shoulders of Sir Rivers Wilson; Ismail Pasha will have to leave the field; England is not far, and—Allah Kerim! God is great!” “I am a soldier; not a traitor,” cried Gordon, indignantly, and turned his back upon Nubar. Mr. Healy, the Irish member of Parliament, called Lord Rossmore, during a recent debate in the British Parliament, “a bigoted, intolerant and insolent young puppy.” An American informed Mr. Laboucliere that if any Congressman or senator called a fellow-legisla-tor a “puppy" “the words would have been taken down as constituting breach of privilege, and an apology would have been demanded, or, if refused, a reprimand at the bar would have followed.” “This," says the English editor, “proves that there is really loss freedom of debate in the ‘free country’ of Washington than in England. I believe tho word ‘puppy’ is not actionable per se, for many a juippv of the kennel is of beauty and value and a candidate for a prize.” TAB FRENCH INVESTIGATION. THE advantage of an office-holder. Richmond Independent, Tho French investigation, which lias been dragging its weary length along for so long in Indianapolis, is nearing the wind-up, and will be numbered along with tho investigations of the same sort which are farces from the outset. Nothing has been accomplished, and nothing will be. It is worse than useless to attempt to convict a man while ho holds an official position that gives him power over his prosecuting witnesses. It is merely an outlay of time and money without any benefit being derived. PROVED A PETTY TYRANT. Brookville American. The evidence given in the French investigation at Indianapolis, during the past three or four weeks, seems to have established the fact in the minds of intelligent and impartial people, who have read the proceedings before the commission, that C. Jay French is a contemptible petty tyrant. totally unworthy to be the agent of the government in any branch of the public service in which ho would have authority over respect able men. Ho should therefore he discharged from the important position he holds in the mail service, in the same unceremonious maimer ho has turned out hundreds of men who were fatmore honorable and worthy than himself. The public service has been disgraced by his petty tyranny. To continue him in office will be dis creditable to the general government, as well as damaging to the personal popularity of the present Postmaster general in his own State. Turn the petty tyrant, out install t-or! A THOROUGH AND COMPLETE FAROE. Kentland Gazette. The O. J. French investigation has closed, but it did not close in time to avoid becoming a farce, a fraud, and disgusting. Ono of tho main charges was French's favoritism. To repel and disprove this charge he sent to the east, to the west, and all points of the compass, and brought a hundred or so of his “favorites” to prove that the little petty tyrant had always been kind to them, and generous. Just so. lie brought his favorites to disprove his favoritism. A greater farce never appeared on any stage. A Card from C. L. Murray. To tho Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: When the extract you quote from my reply to the Journal, published in the Tribune of this city, stated that “I did not vote the Democratic ticket in 1882. because it Was pledged against prohibition; second. I did vote the Republican ticket in 1882. because it was pledged to pass through the Legislature an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage in this State,” I intended it to cover the whole State ticket, including the “local candidates for the Legislature.” If you understood it otherwise in our conference you were mistaken, that is all. The way you came to understand it so, probably, was that I was directing my conversation to that point and its results in tho election of the local candidates for the Legislature on the Republican ticket in consequence of that pledge of your party in 1882, and what you might expect from a similar pledge in 1884. I most emphatically repeat now that because of the pledge of your party to the passage of a prohibitory amendment through the Legislature I voted the Republican State ticket, including that of the local candidates for the Legislature. Now what flaw can you find in that in order to connect me with your “Democratic prohibition sideshow?” I will go further. 1 stand pledged to the support of the Republican ticket for 1884. if the two parties sustain their relative positions on the prohibition question, if 1 live until tho election. In conclusion, the whole charge of the Jpurnal, so far as 1 am concerned, was a sheer fabricacation. I had nothing to do with the pledges procured and published in the Sout h Bond Times whatever, although they are copies of a pledge which forms the constitution of the St. Joseph Prohibition Circle, which tho members have all signed, regardless of party affiliations. lam a charter member of that circle, and intend to stand by my pledge to vote for no party ticket that is not first pledged in favor of the preliminary legislation necessary to the adoption of a constitutional amendment prohibiting the nianu facture and sale as a be virago of intoxicating liquors. C. L. Murray. South Bend, March 13.

EARLY DAYS OF SECESSION# The Administration of Mr. Buchanan and the Southern Leaders. The Rash Action of South Carolina and the Reluctance of the Other Southern States to Follow in Her Footsteps. Demoralizing Effect ot the Doctrines of Buchanan's Last Message. The Reorganization of the Cabinet and the Change in the President’s Policy —X Chapter of Absorbing Interest. Washington, March 14.—Advance sheets of the first volume of ex-Senator Blaine’s book “Twenty Years of Congress,” have been received here, from which the following, concerning the presidential election of 1800, is taken: The winter following the election of Mr. Lincoln was filled with deplorable events. In the whole history of the American people, there is no epoch which recalls so much that is worthy of regret and so little that gratifies pride. The result of the election was unfortunate in the wide divergence between the vote which Mr. Lincoln received in the electoral colleges and the vote which he received at the polls. In the electoral colleges he had an aggregate of 180. His opponents. united, had but 123. Os the popular vote, Lincoln received 1,880,452: Douglas, 1,291,574; Breckinridge. 850,082; Bell. 646.124. Mr. Lincoln’s vote was wholly from the free States. ex* cept some 26,000 cast for him in the five border slave States. In the other slave States his name was not presented as a candidate. Mr. Douglas received in the South about 163.000 votes. In tho North the votes cast distinctively for the Breckinridge electoral ticket were less than 100.000, and distinctively for the Bell electoral ticket about 80.000. It was thus manifest that the two Northern presidential candidates. Lincoln and Douglas, had absorbed almost the entire, vote in the free States, and the two Southern presidential candidates, Breckinridge and Bell, had absorbed almost the entire vote in the slave States. The Northern candidates received popular supnort in the South in about the same degree that the Southern candidates received popular support in the North. In truth as well as in appearance it was a sectional contest, in which the North sup* pot ted Northern candidates and the South supported Southern (-adulates. It was the first time in the history of the government in which the President was chosen without electoral votes from both the free and slave States. This result was undoubtedly a source of weakness to Mr. Lin* coin—weakness made more apparent by his signal failure to obtain a popular majority. He had a large plurality, but the combined vote of his opponents was nearly a million greater than the vote which he received. The tim * bpd now come when the Southern disunionists were to be put to the tost. The event, had happened which they had declared in advance to be cause of separation. It was perhaps the belief that their courage and determination were challenged which forced them to action. Having so often pledged themselves not to endure tho election of an anti slavery President, they were now persuaded that, if they quietly submitted, they would thereby accept au inferior position in the government. Thbj assumed obligation of consistency stimulated them to rash action: for, upon every consideration of prudence and wise forecast, they would have quietly accepted a result which they acknowledged to be in strict accordance with the Constitution. The South was enjoying exceptional prosperity. The advance of the slave States in wealtli was more rapid than at any other period in their history. Their staple products commanded high prices, and were continually growing in amount to meet the demands of a market winch represented the wants of the civilized world. In the decade between 1850 and 1860 the wealth of the South had increased three thousand millions of dollars, and this not from an overvaluation of slaves, but from increased cultivation of land, the extension of railways, and all the aids and appliances of vast agricultural enterprises. Georgia alone had increased in wealth over $300,000,000, no small proportion of which was from commercial and manufacturing ventures that had proved extremely profitable. There never was a community on the face of the globe whose condition so little justified revolution as that of the slave States in the year 1860. Indeed, it was a sense of strength born of exceptional prosperity which led them to their rash adventure of war. * It would, however, be an injustice to the people of the South to say that in Novo .her, iB6O, they desired unanimously or by a majority, or on the part of any considerable minority, to engage in a scheme of violent resistance to the national authority. The slaveholders were, in the main, peacefully disposed and contented with the situation. But slavery as an economical institution and slavery as a political force were quite distinct. Those who viewed it and used it merely as a system of labor naturally desired peace and dreaded commotion. Those who used it as a political engine for the consolidation of political power had views and ambitions inconsistent with the plans and hopes of law-abiding citizens. It was only by strenuous effort on tho part of the latter class that an apparent majority of the Southern people committed themselves to the desperate design of destroying the national government. Mr. Blaine then details the incidents attending the secession of South Carolina, which State did not wait for the result of the election, but early in October, 1860, began a correspondence with the other cotton States, the response to which did not indicate a decided wish or purpose to separate from the Union. Up to this time presidential electors for South Carolina had always been chosen by the Legislature, and to the unpropitious assembling of that body in November, 1860, Mr. Blaine attribute's the precipitation of tho war of tho rebellion. A short paragraph is dovoted to the import attached to the word “ordinance” in connection with secession, the writer showing that its previous use had been confined to acts passed by inferior bodies, and that there was no authority for attaching to it such impressive meaning. Mr. Blaine then states that but for tho action of the senators from the other Southern States. South Carolina would have stood alone, and her secession would have proved abortive. BUCHANAN’S RESPONSIBILITY. Having given the history of the secession of South Carolina and shown how the other Stales were induced to follow hor example, Mr. Blaine says: Long before the secession movement had been developed to the extent just detailed. Congress was in session. It assembled ono month after the presidential election, and fifteen days before tho disunionists of South Carolina met in their ill starred convention. Up to that time there had been excitement, threats of resistance to tho authority of the government in many sections of tho South, and an earliest attempt in the cotton States to promote co-operation in the fatal step which so many were bent on taking. But there had been no overt act against tho national authority. Federal officers were still exercising their functions in all the States: the customs were still collected in Southern ports: tho United States mails were still carried without molestation from the Potomac to tin* Rio Grande. But the critical moment had come. The disunion conspiracy had reached a point where it mustgv forward with boldness or retreat before the' dis plagu'd power and the uplifted flag of tho nation. Tho administration could adopt no policy so dangerous as to permit tho enemies of the. Union to proceed in their conspiracy, and tho hostile movement to gain perilous headway. At that juncture Mr. Buchanan confronted a graver responsibility than had ever before been imposed on a President of tho United States. It devolved on him to arrest tho mad outbreak of tho South