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CELEBRATE THE GLORIOUS FOURTH By purchasing one of those Fine All-wool Cassimere Suits at $lO, or a Thin Coat for 3o cents and upwards, or a Good Duster for $1 and upwards, at the popular MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. *®*Our Store will be closed at 1 o’clock to-day. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1884. v What thia country has to guard against is Democracy and cholera. Carter Harrison is no gentleman. He knocked down the Goddess of Reform and tromped on her. The United States Senate yesterday sustained the veto of the Fitz John Porter bill, by a vote of 27 to 27. The Tilden boom is said to be on its feet again. If latest reports are true, this is more than can be said of the old man. The New York Graphic of July 1 contains a fine portrait, with sketch, of Hon. W. H. Calkins, the Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana. The Democratic House rushes partisan legislation through off-hand, while the only practical bill for the counting of the electoral vote has long been neglected and will eventually die. When politicians can pass on what shall be required by army regulations, then is military discipline at an end. The President has done an excellent thing in vetoing the Porter bill. _____________ It IS reported that the President will trans fer Hon. Alphonso Taft from Vienna to St. Petersburg, and Hon. John M. Francis, now consul-general at Lisbon, to the Austrian mission. The first Democratic delegations to the national convention arrived in Chicago yesterday. They were from the Pacific coast. They are favorable to Lazarus J. Tilden, if he will “come forth.” Congress may possibly adjourn on Saturday. Then, after the Chicago convention next week, there will be nothing to interfere with the business of going right along and electing Blaine and Logan.

Nearly all the wholesale houses in New fork city agreed to close for the Fourth, last tvening, and not to open until Monday morning. A few of the larger retail dry goods netablishments will do the same. General John M. Palmer has not much time in which to make that personal visit to Lazarus J. Tilden. He promised to do so if he were elected a delegate to Chicago. Should “Lazarus come forth” to greet Mr. Palmer? The campaign in Maine will open early in August and will he prosecuted with vigor until the State election in September. At (east fifty senators and members of the House have promised to assist in the canvass. Mr. Blaine is reported as saying that he would not be satisfied with less than 10,000 Republican majority in Maine, and that he wanted and expected 15,000. Mr. Blaine is acquainted with his own State, and will not expect anything unreasonable. It was Horizontal Morrison who, last winter, declared that Carter Harrison's influence was “not worth ad n.” The trouble with Morrison and his kind is that they forget that the common people of this country have" tdeas of their own. The opinion in Illinois teems to be that Morrison made a fool of himjelf in presenting and defending his bill to injwduce free trade. Democratic duplicity is much the same in all parts of the country. The Illinois platform, evidently copying from that adopted at Indianapolis, resolves in favor of tradesunions, and supplements this with the contradictory declaration “that every man has the right to dispose of his own labor upon such terms as he may think will best promote his interests, and without molestation or interference by others.” The Journal would like to know if Democracy means what it says; that labor organizations must keep their hands off of men who do not belong to such orders, and who wish to work sot; whom they please? [n other words, and to make it applicable, does the Democratic party insist that when a ‘union” orders a strike, that party will stand >y non-anion men who accept employment in

place of the strikers? A specific answer to this question will be read with interest. If the platform is meant to be an honest utterance of the party’B belief, let us have an honest and unequivocal construction put on it. The men who drew and the delegates who voted for the Indiana Democratic platform did or did not mean what is there declared, and the voters of. the State have the right to know what is meant. Now that you have thrown sop to the union Cerberus, and have administered taffy to the individual laborer, we would like to know something about the value attached to each. A DAY FOE THE NATIOH. The resolution offered by Senator Sherman that, after the reading of the journal, to-day, the Senate shall listen to tlje reading of the Declaration ofHndependence and Washington’s Farewell Address, may seem puerile to some people, but it will strike many as being an excellent and timely move. To-day is the Fourth of July, the hundred-and-eighth anniversary of the nation’s birth. It is well to annually take reckoning and see what course we as a people are taking—get the correct bearings from which to shape our future course. Even a cursory perusal of that great instrument, declaring the intention of the American people to take their place among the nations of the earth, must convince the reader that it was the well-understood purpose of the founders of onr government that it should be a Nation and not a confederacy so loosely connected as to fall asunder at the CSprice of any of its members. “When, in the course of human events”—the well-remembered words with which Jefferson opens that immortal document—“it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them”—so runs the declaration; “one” people determined to arise “among the powers of the earth” to an “equal” station with them. The man who penned those words, and the patriots who, at the peril of their lives, indorsed them, knew their full significance, and realized that the only hope of their cause was in national unity, crystallized out of the several colonies and their varied interests. Each in itself was an infant in the clutch of a giant, compared with the powers of the earth, and all united were barely strong enough to make a respectable showing and encourage the help of nations not so friendly toward us as hostile to our oppressor. The people of Virginia, of Pennsylvania, of New York and of Georgia knew this so well that all sectional differences were ignored, and a perfect fusion of interests was had in the union of forces and of aims.

So, too, should be read and reverenced that other grand utterance—the Farewell Address of Washington, in which he so strongly urges national unity as “the main pillar in the edifice of real independence.” “It is of infinite moment,” he declares, “that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it. * * The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than appellations derived from local discriminations.” In this spirit of loving loyalty to a common country, so dearly bouglit, Washington takes formal leave of the public duties so unanimously put upon him. And though a resident and native of the proud Commonwealth of Virginia, his love for Virginia 'was swallowed up in his patriotic devotion to the Nation, of which Virginia was but a member. The idea of national unity, bom of necessity, and made the corner-stone of the Declaration of Independence, has never died from the days of Washington and Jefferson. But while it lived in the hearts and love of patriotic citizens of all parts of the Union since that day, it has not been without enemies. So strong was the opposition to it on the part of the defender’s of human slavery that a political party was organized and maintained on that issue; and, in 1860, the Democratic party went into armed rebdllion against the Nation of Washington and Jefferson, and for four years waged one of the most desperate wars in the world's history in the infamous attempt to destroy what the fathers of the Revolution had bequeathed us. The same fell spirit that precipitated the slaveholders’ rebellion of 1861 is alive to-day. The Democratic party, forgetting nothing and learning nothing, still believes that the State is greater than the Nation, and that the former has the right to defy and destroy the latter. In its convention at Chicago next week it will very likely formulate a resolution to that effect, not without ambiguity, of course, for sincerity of utterance is not to be expected from that party of treachery and deceit. It were well if the Declaration and Washington’s letter were read in that convention. It is barely possible that, under a momentary impulse, that party might be brought to undertake some patriotic measure, and to turn for a time from its hostility to our common country. The American *bitizen, in the name of which Washington took so much pride, eannot keep too close to the chart of our liberties, nor can we be too loyal to that central idea, on which alone we must build to maintain our exalted place among the powers of the earth. A “Political Emancipation Society” has been formed in San Francisco. It denounces everything and everybody except Ben Butler,

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whose cause it advocates. One eloquent member goes so far as to demand a total abolition of all government and forms of government. With no government and no taxes there would be, he believes, no fraud and no unhappiness. It will be seen by this that the political emancipationists are more frankand outspoken than their Boston brethren known as independent Republicans. THE OLD-TIME CELEBRATION. ‘ 'For, O, my country, touohed by thee, Tlie gray hairs gather back their gold; Thy thoughts set all my pulses free; The heart refuses to be old. Not to thy natal day belong Time’s prudent doubt nor age's wrong, But gifts of gratitude and song." .There are days and days. Time is not, as most men think, a natural product. It is only as man puts his impress on the days and years that they have significance and become capitalletter days. The whirling worlds of God set off the times and measure the seasons, and man’s work begins where that of the rolling planets ends. The year rolls around, but the days are not alike. Man has put his stamp on Christmas and New Years, and they stand out like the sun and moon in the heavens, and aU nations recognize and do them honor. There are days for the family, constellations of birthdays, of marriage feasts, and the dark days of the tomb. There aro the days of the churches, and each devotee knows and keeps in solemn reverence his own. There are clusters of days in literature—the 25th of January, illuminated from dawn to dawn with Scottish song that comes to a man like his own heart-beat, and makes that day worthless as a birthday for all poets to come. There is a whole galaxy of such names in English, and in American, and in every nation’s song. And there are starry days in each national life and history—the days of birth, of deliverance from enemies. ' The history of the United States has a score of such days. The Father of his Country so bent backupon the 22d of February the radiance of \ll his life that it will shine independenttof the sun throughout the course of history. ' There are other names and other days. The days of the physical emancipation for the black race was the day of moral emancipation for Massachusetts and South Carolina alike. Washington, Lincoln and Garfield are among the men who, standing next to the nation’s heart, and under the nation’s eye, so put* the image and superscription of worthy deeds and noble sacrifice upon their work, that the days upon which they were born should stand out from the dull rank and file of the almanac and halt every citizen of the United States like a sentinel.

But these were only men. They were in the way and the God of nations did his work through them; and in their lives and memory every patriot and lover of men may see the reflection of his own. The day of the nation is the Fourth of July. It is impersonal; it belongs to every citizen; it has no distinction of age, sex, color; of citizen, politician or civilian; it is the day we celebrate. It represents an idea and not the sound of a broken bell. It should be celebrated in every hamlet from Maine to California. It is not bombast; its speeches are not idle; its roar of guns and cannon are but the translation into the dialect of gunpowder of the eloquent words uttered under the shadow of King’s Mountain: “These colonies are, and of right ought to bo, free and independent States.” Once a year is not too often to read the Declaration of Independence; to hear the guns and see the flag unfurled. The patriots of the Revolution who could remember the time when there was no Fourth of July, with a capital letter, will no longer be found in the procession; but we have a few relics of 1812 still with us, and the glorious old Fourth is big enough to take them all in, in spirit or person, from Concord and Lexington to Bull Run and Richmond, Then let us get out the old fife and snaredrum, the flag with the eagle, turn loose the floods of patriotism and rhetoric, have an oldtime dinner, an old-time procession and an old-time celebration, with all the “pomp and circumstance” that to the day belong. And if any grouty old Tory, who has heard that silence is golden, calls the celebration of the Fourth after the manner of auld lang syne American flap-doodle, ram a bunch of firecrackers down his throat, light them, and hold him for five minutes under the townpump; for this is a Nation, with a big N, and will never become so refined 4| not to celebrate the day of its birth with arnoise the children wUI remember and the ajjid delight to hear. “Stormy the day of her birth; Was she not born of the strong, She, the last ripeness of earth, Beautiful, prophesied long? And stormy the days of her pnrae, Her's are the pulses that beat Higher for perils snblime, Making them fawn at ner feet. Was she not born of the strong? Was she not born of the wise? Daring and counsel belong Os right to hor confident eyes. Human and motherly, they, Careless of nation or race. Hearken! Hor children, to-day, Shout for the joy of her face." As a specimen of dignified “independent” criticism, we reprint from the Indianapolis News the following sentences: “President Arthur’s reasons for vetoing the Fitz John Porter bill are as imbecile as those of a ward orator who tries to pump up enthusiasm in the same cause. * * * There is some consolation that after the 4th of March next Mr. Arthur and his hundred pairs of pants will no longer encumber the White House, and that dudish do-npthingism wiU in any event give way to manhood. It would strike the average man that, under the circumstances, it required no little “manhood” to veto the bill. As to the reasons adduced by President Arthur, Senator Ingalls, who is a fine lawyer and member of the Senate judiciary committee, says: “The two

constitutional objections invoked were stated briefly but forcibly, and as clearly as the noonday sun.” But then, of course, Mr. Ingalls is not to be quoted against the powerful intellect of the News, which disposes of the President and vindicates Fitz John Porter by the magnificent and overpowering allusion to Mr. Arthur’s pants. Such is “independent” journalism. ENTERING WEDGES. Blackburn, of Kentucky, who has recently been elected to the United States Senate, in 1879, in a speech made in the House, said: “For the first time in eighteen years past the-Democracy is back in power in both branches of this legislature, and she proposes to signalize her return to power. She proposes to celebrate her recovery of her long-lost heritage by tearing off these degrading badges. * # We do not intend to stop until we have stricken the last vestige of your war measures from the statute book.” The Democracy has entered upon the work proposed. Section 1218, United States Revised Statutes, provides that no one who served in the military or naval or civil service of the Confederate States shall be appointed to any position in the United States army. A Democratic House introduced a bill to repeal this section, so as to authorize the appointment of rebels as officers in the army, including men who had been educated at public expense at West Point, who afterwards took up arms against the government. Section 4716, Revised Statutes, provides that no money on account of pensions shall be paid to any person, or to the widow, children or heirs of any deceased person, who voluntarily served the cause of the rebellion. A Democratic House introduced a bill to repeal this section, and the repealing bin contained a section requiring the government to put back on the pension rolls all pensioners who had been dropped for disloyalty and for taking pprt in the rebeUion, and to pay them pensions dating back to December 25, 1868. This bill would have pensioned Jeff. Davis. The Fitz John Porter bill is a Democratic measure. The Indiana Democratic platform expressly demands the repeal of all United States laws which in any way give the government control of national elections, and that all such elections shall be put under the exclusive control of the States. These are unholy beginnings. The Democracy has served notice that it does “not intend to stop until it has stricken the last vestige of the war measures from the statute book.” In this distinctive work the Indiana Democracy will not lag in the rear. At home here, during the war, they showed their teeth. They are only awaiting an opportunity-now to bite. With these tendencies, the Democratic party is an ever-present and threatening danger to the peace and prosperity of the country. It is a revolutionary party, and purposes revolutions that go backwards. What the people want are peace and conservative government. The success of the Democratic party means revolution and radical change. Let us have peace. The latest word from Mr. Tilden comes from a “prominent society -lady,” and old friend of the family, who frequently visits at Greyst-one. She says that on the occasion of a recent visit the declining candidate was unable to converse with his guests with his old-time vivacity, owing to a habit of dropping *to sleep in the middle of a sentence. He also forgot to eat, and dozed off at the dinner-table. The lady is of the opinion that Mr. Tilden's constitution is gradually breaking up, and that the feebleness of his body, is encroaching upon his once powerful intellect. It would seem so, and yet Democrats want him, “dead or alive.” Asa dead man, they regard him aer being more alive than any other of their numerous candidates.

The paying of railway stock dividends, being the semi-annual payment, July 1, involved the disbursement of no less than $27,965,054, which, added to the half-yearly interest on governments—national, State and city bonds—would make a total of not less than $60,000,000 set in motion in New York city alone, on Tuesday last, a volume sufficient to make quite an appreciable difference in the money market. Four railways—the Denver & Rio Grande, the New York, West Shore & Buffalo, the Wabash and the Union Pacific—defaulted in interest to the amount of $4,322,388.86. Many years ago, Dr. C. A. Taft, who has since been the leading homoeopathic physician of Hartford, Conn., fell ill and was supposed to have the consumption. Several eminent physicians, among them Dr. Willard Parker, of New York, examined him, and united in saying that he had consumption, that one of his lungs was entirely gone, the other badly diseased, and that he probably would not live more than six months. Dr. Taft resolved to live as long as possible, and to that end began a course of high living. He drank brandy every day and for a long period ate raw beef-steak at his dinners. After a time he regained his strength and became robust in appearance, but continued to believe that his ■lungs were unsound. He died last week at the age of sixty-four, and an auotopsy revealed the fact that both lungs were perfeotly healthy and had never been otherwise, and that the cause of his death was a disease of the stomach arising from a too-stimulating diet. Supposed owners of but one lung can take courage from this case and insist upon living in spite of fallible doctors. Before the somewhat unsatisfactory meeting between Sullivan and Mitchell, enthusiastic friends of the former talked of running him for Congress in the Boston district In Case of his election, the honorable John should be coaoh?<! as to his manners, so that when he arises to speak upon the tariff question he will not feel compelled to preface his remarks with “You may think I’m drank, but I ain’t” One woman has succeeded in “getting even,” though she had to die first When Mrs. Neller, of Amsterdam, New York, departed this life she

left $12,000 to her husband, on condition that he should not marry again. He has just married a lovely young woman, thereby forfeiting the $12,000, and the deceased Mrs. Neller, if she knows what is going on, ought to be happy. Come to think about it. though, perhaps she would like him better if he had kept the money and remained a widower. Anxious housekeeper; Yes, insect powder fed to flies is effective. Shooting them with a rubber band is also a good way to get rid of the pests if you have plenty of spare time—say five or six hours a day. For instructions in this interesting sport you are referred to the United States Court attaches. The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children advocates sending all the little folks from the city to farms in summer, but when it finds a baby farm filled with starving infants there is a great to do. Evidently, there are farms and farms. This is the Fourth of July, on which day, as on all days, the old-fashioned Goddess of Liberty knocks out the meretricious Goddess of Reform? Reader, Edinburg: There will be five Sundays in February of the next leap-year that begins on Thursday. The meanest thing charged against General Logan is that he was a representative Democrat prior to the war. POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. Wayne MoVeagh announces that he is “out of politics.” This will be gratifying news to all members of both parties. Ex-Senator Windom returns from Europe to boa candidate again for the Senate against exGovemor Davis, in Minnesota, with Senator Sabin to help him. The Buffalo Courier reads Mr. Hendricks, of Indiana, out of the presidential race. It tells him that he forfeited all claim upon the Democrats when he refused, in 1880, to consent to the nomination of the old ticket Gen. E. A Perry, whom the Democrats, of Florida have nominated for Governor, is a New Englander by birth, but went to Petisacola before the war and served on the rebel side throughout its continuance. He has never held political office. The campaign in Maine will be opened by four great meetings, held on the same day, at Augusta, Bangor, Portland and Lewiston. The exact date of the meetings has not been decided u pon yet but it will probably be sometime the latter part oft His month. The Massachusetts Greenbackers express a determination to make a thorough canvass of that State this year. Some Butler and West clubs have been organized already, and a meeting to ratify the candidates of the Indianapolis convention will soon be held iri Faneuil Hall. Some Greenbackers of Alabama have held a conference and set forth an independent ticket for State officers, except that they adopted the Democratic nominee for Secretary of State, a kindness which that gentleman is generally believed to have devoutly wished to be saved from. The Chicago Inter Ocean suggests the following mottoes for the Democratic convention at Chicago: “‘The Great Fraud of 1876;’ ‘Cipher Dispatches Are Not Safe;’ ‘Seven More Mules Is Not Enough for Indiana;’ ‘Let Us Mourn for Cronin. Who Is Left in Oregon Now;’ ‘The Oil Tank Is as Good as a Barrel;' ‘Bless the Woolgrowers and Damn the Sugar-growers.'” Prominent Republican politicians in Concord say that plans are already being laid for the next United States senatorship from New Hampshire. It is understood that the following men are, or soon will be, active candidates m the field: Henry W. Blair, of Manchester, the pi esent incumbent; General Gilman Marston, of Exeter; Edward H. Rollins, William E. Chandler, of Concord; Ossian Ray, of Lancaster; James W. Patterson, of Hanover; and Charles H. Burns, of Wilton. New York Times: The statement attributed to ex-Governor Bishop, of Ohio, in a Cincinnati dispatch printed in our yesterdays issue, to the effect that in 1880 an arrangement was made between himself and Mr. Tilden by which he was to receive the nomination as Vice-president on the Tilden ticket, is pronounced a mere fable by an intimate friend of Mr. Tilden. It is denied that Mr. Tilden ever had such a conversation with ex-Governor Bishop, or that he had any plans at that time about the ticket, save his own purpose not to ask or accept a nomination for President. The young independent Republicans of Pennsylvania, who organized in the Wolfe campaign of 1881, and increased in numbers and influence in the Beaver campaign of the next year, are now enthusiastic supporters of the Republican national ticket; and their late candidate, Mr. Wolfe, and the chairman of their committee. Mr. McKee, are among the most cordial adherents of Blaine and Logan. Said Mr. McKee, a few days ago: “You may canvass the State from one end to the other, and all the independents you will find who are against Blaine you can count on the fingers of one hand." Col. James P. Barr, one of the proprietors of the Pittsburgh Post, the only Democratic daily in Western Pennsylvania, takes no stock iB the alleged New York conference which is credited with having selected Ben Butler as the man who can save the Irish vote from Blaine. The Colonel has charge of the Randall boom from that end of the State. He said: “If Butler is nominated I will not vote for him. ” Aiderman Reilly will follow suit Tom Armstrong, of the Labor Tribune, thinks Butler’s chances are good, and is wearing a dainty gold spoof as a Butler badge. One hundred members of the Irving Club, of Pittsburg go to Chicago to shout for Tilden. Cleveland is their second choice. They don't want either Randall or Butlor.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Ladies at Newport ride before breakfast, with a groom “half a mile behind.” It is said to be good for the complexion—the ride, not the groom. Persons who place letters or packages on the top of street letter-boxes because they cannot put thorn inside do so at their own risk. The law for the protection of matter sent in mails does not extend to such parcels. The two always travel together, and Victoria's daughter Beatrice has been permitted to take possession of tho cozy and charming apartment in the Queen’s private car originally fitted up for her personal attendant. Brown. General Butler will not, probably, go yachting this summer. He has placed his “America” at his son’s disposal, but the young man, also, is too busy to turn skipper, so the famous craft remains out of commission, hauled up at the navy yard. Herbert Spencer, with all his philosophy and fine figure of speech, is only a man after aIL He declares that ho will never marry a woman who ia “oonvex in the back, concave in the bosom, and sentimentally drooping in the shoulders.” The latest gossip about Mrs. Senator Fair is that she is about to marry the society editor of a San Franoisco journal. She is still comparatively young, and has solid charms in the shape of $5,000,000, received from the Sonator at the time of her divorce. Renan, in his new book, says: “My highest ambition would be satisfied if I could hope, upon my death, to enter the churoh under the form of a little Tpliime bound in black roorooeo, to be held between the long tapering fingures of a finely glovod hand.” Ten years ago Mary WUkins, of Hopkinsville, Conn., was employed in a needle factory. One day she stepped on a bed of needles, running several dozen Into both of her feet. * f® w days the pain stopped, and In a few years *l*e married. Eight months ago the long-lost needles begaV to come out of

her elbow, and since then, whenever she wanted a needle to sew with, all she had to do was to pull one out. The needles are as bright as the day they came out of the factory. The Marquise de Mores delights in sharing the wild life of her husband. In St. Paul she is the most, richly and tastefully dressed woman you will see. On the plains she rides and shoots faultlessly. Galloping over the prairie, an eagle plume In her hat and • rifle slung from her saddle; she is the picture of wild beauty. The London Saturday Review unconsciously perpetrates a good joke at the expense of Powell Clayton, in the following concerning the 'Chicago convention: ‘ ‘The oddest episode of the convention was a contest between two Republicans of color for the temporary chairmanship, and on this occasion Mr. Arthur's negro was preferred to Mr. Blaine’s." The Pope’s toe, which the faithful have kissed with veneration, is now the object of unusual interest His Holiness is suffering from an ingrowing nail, which render* the least pressure of the foot so intensely painful that, literally putting his best foot forward, the left is now presented at an audience instead of the right, whioh has hitherto done duty on such oosasions. Sir Bartle Frkre is said to have left very little money. His widow and children are but poorly provided for. Lady Frere will probably get a pension, and it is presumed the Queen will offer her apartments at Hampton Court. Sir Bartle left ample material for a biography, but it is questioned whether the papers and correspondence could safely be published for some years to come. Tambkrlik, the once renowned tenor, has been giving a series of concerts through Russia, where he haa been vociferously encored by large audiences, although he is between sixty and seventy years old. He thinks the time will come when great opera singers, lilts great ballet dancers, will no longer be required, for much of what used to bo sung upon the lyric stage is now spoken in the form of recitative. The old-time valedictory poem in use at the old red “skule houses” at the cross-roads was not as pretty as the latter-day efforts of the graduates of city colleges and seminaries, but perhaps it expressed the sentiments of the valedictorians quite as closely. It used to run something after this style: Good-bye scholars, Good-bye school; Good-bye teacher. Darned old fool. For many years the lato William A. Beach dyed his hair and beard black. Ho and the Hon. Martin I Townsend were one day trying a cause, and, says tbs Troy Press, Mr. Beach alluded to Mr. Townsend at his “venerable friend,” although the latter was slightly his junior. “Brother Beach,” replied Mr. Townsend, passing his hand over his own white hair, “nobody knows better than you that the apparent difference in our ages is merely colorable”—laying a sarcastic stress upon the technical last word.

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. , A Congress divided against itself is not likely te accomplish any great and beneficent reforms. It is to be hoped that the next House of Representative* will be Republican—and with a Republican ox ecu rive and a Republican Congress legislation upon all subjects will be conducted in accordance with the enlightened sentiment of the country. —New York Tribune. An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory, and the most convincing argument in favor of protection is the fact that though, almost without exception, the professors of political economy are all against it, and so teach free trade, no sooner do their pupils leave the colleges, enter upon the duties of active life mid engage in manufacturing or mercantile operations than they become protectionists. Good reasons are required thus to overbalance all the prejudices of one’s youth, but the reasons, in this case, are always found and alway satisfactory,—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The hypothetical case is always so wrought as to. bring the answer desired, and the medical experts serve the purpose of clearing the murderer, as far as they can, by answering positively that the man must be insane, as if they knew anything about it. In thia case the hypothetical testimony of the doctors was enough to give the jury an excuse for acquitting the monstrous murderer,who straightway wouldbefonnd not insane enough to be confined; but the jurors were faithful to common sense and to the community, while the hypothetical experts were faithful only to their own trade.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The President has held the bill long enough to give it careful consideration, and has at last done his duty by vetoing it, and the veto comes with double force—first, as the official act of the President, and, second, as the act of the Commander-in-chief of tile army, forbidding a recreant soldier and an officer who had violated the first duty of a soldier in defiantly refusing to obey the orders of his superior to return to the army—an offense heinous enough at any time, doubly so when committed at a time of grave danger, and rarely if ever before allowed to pass without the extreme punishment of death.—Chicago Tribune. With the prospects of a large harvest, with a sound and stable currency, there is no cause for alarm. Stocks will fluctuate, but with abundant harvests business can not long remain depressed. . The tendency to curtail which is exhibited in the hoarding of money will be salutary if it is not unreasonably protracted, and, while there is no serious apprehension that such will the case, an occasional failure may be enough of a scarecrow to frighten the timid into' the belief that a panic is impending and thus continue the stringency that is just now perplexing business men. Asa rule the best posted business men see little to portend financial troubles, but it is unfortunate that these do not in all cases hold the purse-strings of the country. —Chicago News. It is the old combination over again. England eggs on the solid South to break down the industrial svstern of the North. The papers in London are as pronounced and as bitter against Mr. Blaine’s election m are the free-trade papers of New York. There is no parallel that we can recall to the insolent interference of a foreign press in a purely domestic contest in the United States. The whole secret of the English hostility is that Mr. Blaine is an outspoken protectionist, and that he is an advocate of the extension of American trade aud commerce in every field where the enterprise of his countrymen can gain a footing. The English opposition to Mr. Blaine is one of the strongest. possible reasons for Americans to support him. —New - York Tribune. Senators of both parties perceive that the presont is a most inopportune time to go hunting mare’s nests in the New York banks. Just after a local panic of no mean proportions, and before business has fully recovered from the shock, is not just the time, if there ever is a time, to express hostility toward the national banking system by inviting every crank to tell what he doesn't know. The truth of the matter is that the banks of New York—the national banks especially—have weathered the storm remarkably well, and their condition at the present time is surprisingly strong. Os course It will Wtanderstood that the reference of Mr. Butler’s mischievous resolution to the finance committee means its defeat, at least for the present session.—Chicago Times. Much as the Tribune would enjoy seeing the Democratic party place Butler in nomination, it cannot refrain from remarking that even with his triple candidacy he would be buried out of sight on election day. The disaffection among decent Democrats, which his nomination would produce, would infinitely outweigh whatever advantage might accure from the Support of the odds and ends represented by the factions which have already made him their standard-bearer. Butler could no more carry the country than he could capture Fort Fisher with a proclamation; and. yet within one week of the assembling of the Democratic convention he stands on the verge of a nomination. May the fates and Democratic fatuity push him over that verge. The Republicans want him!—Minneapolis The evil of great accumulations by individuals, either of landed property or of property of any other kind, is as obvious as the existence of crime. But human wisdom has devised no political economy whioh will fairly distribute the fruits of labor aud prevent undue accumulations in the hands of individuals. Leveling and equalizing plans of government without number have been devised but their paralyzing effects upon individual genius and effort have invariably been found to far more than counterbalance all their beneficent and ameliorating features. Mr. George’s land scheme is but a plausable variation of the vague economical and social speculations of those who have workod the same field before him and does not appear more practicable. He succeeds in a striking maimer in making manifest the appalling imperfections of the existing social organization, but he does not show at all, in the estimation of practical men, how they mar be cured.—St. Louis Republican. In caae the Democrats ahall nominate Mr. Tilden and ho shall accept the nomination the country mar look for a lively campaign,,on the Republican side at least, ahd an aggressive style of warfare which will not stop short of the very ceuter of the enemy's camp and the very core of Gramercv Park. Among all the blnnders that the Democrats have made none will be more fatal than the assumption on their part that the Republicans dread a revival of the remmisodneee of 18<6. At present Mr. Tilden has the advantage of she old maxim that nothing should be said of the dead but good, but if it turns cut that the meuamv is really alive aud oapablo of making struggle—if all this physical disability is a sham and ho U tho vigorous entity that his friends claim—he oanuot shield himself behind mortuary hieroglvphics or claim tho immunity of those who have passed beyond criticism. The situation will be cheerfully accepted by th* Republicans, and they will do what they can to task* tho campaign lively and warm, nut alone upon the issues of 1884, but upon those of 1876.—Ohioago Tribune. -