Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1884 — Page 4

IE Ml CONTINUE Our SPECIA SALE of Gents’ Embroidered Night Shirts at 98 Cents! Silk Scarfs, worth 50 cents, for 23 Cents! One hundred dozen Silk Scaris, satin-lined, worth 75 cents, for 33 Cents! MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. THE DAILY JOURNAL. i:y jxo c. NEW & SON. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1954. A Special Edition of the Journal Will be issued at about 9 or 10 o'clock this morning, giving the latest news of the election. It will be for sale on the streets and at the counting room, THE GENERAL RESULT,' At this hour of writing (3 A. M.) the news is still too indefinite for us to make a certain statement of the result. Our special correspondent at New York, at Republican' headquarters, telegraphs at 2:26 A. M. that Congressman Dezenilorff reports that Virginia has undoubtedly gone for iSaine, and that the news from New YoVk continues to grow better, and that the State is undoubtedly carried by the Republicans. Indiana has made Republican gains over the election of 1882, but the returns so far received do not indicate that they have been sufficient to carry the State. In the States of Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan the Democrats have made large gains, but we do not think it possible that they have carried either for Cleveland. The Republican State tickets in Wisconsin and Michigan are elected, while in Illinois Blaine runs ahead of the State ticket. The latest returns from New Jersey indicate that Blaine has carried that State, while Connecticut ha3 gone Democratic. These returns show how complicated, indefinite and uncertain the result is,' until the verdict of New Y’ork is definitely known. It is fair to say that the Associated Press figures do not corroborate the claims made by the national Republican committee, and which are the basis of our New York specials. It is very plain that the party which carries New York has won the presidency. In Indiana, beside the result on the national and State tickets, the Republicans have elected congressmen in the Sixth, Eighth and Ninth districts, so far as reported. In the Seventh district the result is in doubt, with the chances in favor of Mr. Bynum, unless the majority in Marion county will prove to be larger than seems now probable on the basis of the few meagre and scattering returns at hand. Mr. Keator telegraphs from Fort Wayne that the contest is close in the Twelfth district, and from the gains reported his election is possible. The Republican majority in Marion county may reach 1,000, but it will probably be less. The election of Major Ross to the sheriffalty is doubtful. —The very latest sppeial from New York says the national committee concedes the election will be very close, and that all depends on the States of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana. From New Jersey and Indiana the news is growing better. Connecticut is Democratic. The returns from 180 voting places in Indiana indicate a posbility of this State going for Blaine, while in New York there is yot a’ chance for Blaine. All depends on the final result in New York. We need hardly say with what rejoicing *ver/ lover of his country would hail a Republican victory in Virginia, especially should it fall to the lot of a Southern State to elect the President of the United States. AN ILLEGAL TICKET. The Democratic ticket voted yesterday was 4e.rly illegal. The law says: “AH ballots * <■ * shall be written or printed on plain white paper, of a uniform width of three inches, without any distinguishing mark or other embellishment thereon except the names of the candidates and the offices for which they are voted for.” The Democratic ticket had a very palpable distinguishing mark and embellishment in the shape of letters at the top fully half an inch in length, and so printed as to plainly show through ibe paper, making it a very easy matter to distinguish such ticket at a glance, thereby affording a clew to Democratic challengers when to obstruct a voter and when to afford every facility to get the ballot cast. Next to printing the ticket on colored paper, this was as plain a distinguishing mark as could be put on, except that it might have been paraded on the outside of the folded ballot. To make the swindle—for it was nothing less—even more palpable and more surely worked, the heading, in large , ype, appears to hav e been “overlaid" when

printed, so as to make the “impression” show through, rendering its identification very easy indeed. Compared with the alleged J ‘springback’’ tickets of two years ago, these are plainly so fraudulent, and so intended, us not to be able to stand in any court before which suit might be brought. A decided distinguishing mark and embellishment is practically on inside and outside of folded ballot, the intention being to facilitate the casting of Democratic votes, and to interfere with the free voitng of Republicans. . KHARTOUM AND GENERAL GORDON. Should the news be fully, confirmed that General Gordon has been killed, and that Khartoum has fallen, these disasters will create a profound sensation in England and probably lead to the overthrow of the Gladstone Ministry. However, General Wolseley claims to have information that Gordon is still in Khartoum, and it is fair to presume that if such an important event as the taking of Khartoum and the death of General Gordon had really occurred, the British War Office would have the information as soon as anybody. Tlie. popular voice in England designated General Gordon as the chief best qualified to restore order in the Soudan and insure therein the supremacy of the Egyptian government. The British government yielded to the public demand and sent him to Egypt with almost unlimited authority to establish peace in the Soudan by such means as lie saw fit. He appears to have relied on the prestige which he acquired formerly as governor of the country, and his friendliness for the rebel chiefs. He intended, also, to win over the disturbers by gifts, will knowing the African greed for gold. He set out from Alexandria last January, with a small escort, made a daring ride across the desert, and arrived safely at Khartoum February 17. The rebels, nothiftg daunted, pressed the siege. He tried to dislodge them by a gallant, sertie, on March 10, but failed because some of his Egyptian troops deserted him. Two traitorous pashas were subsequently tried by court-martial and shot. Since that time Gordon has been engaged in almost incessant conflict with the rebels who invested the city. The False Prophet dispatched troops in large number to the aid of his followers, so that there were lately 100,000 men before Khartoum, a place of the highest strategic importance. There was neve r a good understanding between Gordon and the British government, and there are many tilings that require explanation. General Wolseley, who is now advancing with 8,500 troops to the relief of Khartoum, was sent out only because the British people would tolerate Mr. Gladstone's tardiness no longer. The fall of Khartoum, if it be true, may compel the General to retreat in haste, for his masterly military skill will hardly make lip for the disparity of his forces. Gordon's fate, if lie has fallen, may well excite.the sympathy of all brave men. His career Las been like that of the kniglts-errant of old, rather than that of the modern soldier. He served in the Crimean campaign and was wounded in the trenches. He took part in the British advance against Pekin and in 1863 entered the Chinese service as the commander of the “ever victorious army.” He helped to subdue the great Tai-Ping rebellion “by the power of his aims, and afterward still more rapidly by the terror of his name.” He undertook an expedition into the interior of Africa in 1873, under the auspices of the Khedive of Egypt, who subsequently made him pasha and appointed him governor of the whole ot the Soudan. "As such he destroyed the force of the slave dealers and suppressed a formidable revolt in Darfur. He retired from the governorship of the Soudan in 1880, and subsequently held important positions in the Mauritius and the. Cape of Good Hope. General Gordon is a brave soldiei’, of inflexible will and high moral character. He is a practical Christian, and an unrelenting foe to slavery and the slave trade. His death at this critical time would be a national calamity to Great Britain, and would increase still more the perplexities of the Egyptian conflict. In a lecture delivered in New York a few nights since, Mon signor Cape! said: “Your public schools are destroying the very life of your growth and your prosperity. They produce no artisans; they produce no skilled labor; But they do produce young men who feel degraded by labor—young men who rather live by speculation than oy the honest toil of their hands.” The inference to ba drawn from this remark is that private, if not sectarian schools are preferable to the public schools, but Monsignor Capel did not advance any arguments in favor of this idea, and would, probably, have some difficulty in so doing. While the public school system doubtless has its faults, it has yet to be proved that trie youth who come from other halls of education are better fitted for the practical affairs of life, or are more inclined to ways of honesty and uprightness. Mr. James Gordon Bennett is reported to have sold one-third of the New York Herald property to Bonanza Mackey, receiving in return therefor a one-third interest in the new transatlantic cable scheme, in which both gentlemen have been interested. It is considered by outside parties, who profess to know, that the interest in the cable company is by no means as valuable as one-third of the Herald, and their opinion is that Mr. Bennett Las made a foolish trade. The success of the new cable is not assured, while the newspaper, which is well established, and a mine of wealth, of course passes out of his exclusive control. The ebafige, which pats Bennett

out of the position of supreme dictator, may, it is true, tend to the advantage of the paper, but destroys the prestige of the once sole proprietor. It is understood that the laying of the cable has drawn heavily .upon Mr. Mackey's twenty millions, he having furnished most of the funds for the enterprise. The “scratcher” was abroad in the land yesterday, particularly, in Marion county. The ticket in this State and county is so very long, and the scratching so general, that the result cannot be known until some time today, and probably not until to-morrow. New York makes a gain of eight members of Congress. General James S. Negley is elected over Hopkins, in Pennsylvania, present incumbent, a Republican gain. There seems to be an error in the returns from New York city. If the later figures are to be relied upon, the plurality for Cleveland is only 43,083, instead of 53,083. Indiana will, doubtless, make a gain of congressmen; at.'least, the delegation will remain as it is—ten Democrats and three Republicans. ‘ The Democratic ticket voted in this city yesterday was clearly and unmistakably illegal. It is a turn up and a turn over, whichever way the final result may be settled. It will not do to give it up yet, Mr. Brown. Tiie Pacific States are solid for Blaine. Lu Lu Temple w;is dedicated in Philadelphia the other night. Lu Lu Temple is not,- as may be supposed by the ignorant or frivolous reader, a sweet young woman who has chosen to devote herself to philanthropy, or religion, or medicine, neither is it a refuge builded for the Lulu and Tu Tu species of aristocratic but debilitated dog. No, Lu Lu is the temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of- Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Only Knights Templars who have reached the thirty-second degree in Masonry are permitted to join this order. The order was established in Arabia during the first half of the seventh century, the immediate cause of its organization being to punish the assassins of Ali, the nephew and son-in-law of Mohammed and Omar, one of Mohammed’s greatest generals. Mecca was the birthplace of the order, and to this day the cherif, or mayor, of the city is the official head. The order was introduced into this country about fifteen years ago by W. J. Florence, the actor, who now holds the office of Emeritus. The first temple was established in New York. The ceremonies of the occasion were of oriental gorgeousness, arid were participated in by an Illustrious Potentate of the temple, a Most Illustrious Grand Potentate, and other dignitaries, all of whom M ere gentlemen who could stutnp about Philadelphia streets in the clothing common to the every day citizen and never be looked at, but attired in Eastern robes, presented *a most aweinspiring appearance. Knights who were permitted to look on, but not to participate,- swore mighty oaths that they would be 'Nobles of the Shrine also before many moons. Failure to secure initiation would, it was generally acknowledged, cause life to be a howling wilderness henceforth. _ Mrs. Morosini Sohklling ' complains that some malicious monster —she suspects a former schoolmate —is sending her' illuminated circus posters. In this the eternal fitness of things is preserved. Hasn't the lady been making a circus of herself? Accompanying the posters were notes, one reading: “In memoriam of Mho departed this life on the 9th of September, 1884. She was of age.” * The sting of this was in its tail, as it were. “She was,of age.” Could brutality go further 1 ? Os age, forsooth! The manner of the saying carries the idea that the lady was not ten minutes under thirty-five. Maddened by this wail ton insult, she replied in righteous wrath: “I am in heaven. I am happy. I will not tolerate such conduct, not oven from a king, much less from you.” This do settle it. But by the way, when are we to have done with the Morosini business? A Jewish congregation in Cleveland has split into pieces on account ol' the rigid rules which have been observed in the synagogue. One faction wishes to have the custom of separating families on entering the church to be modified, and that men and women be allowed to sit together. It is also requested that the rabbi cease to folloM- the old law, which requires him to turn his back to the congregation, and that the men, instead of enveloping head and shoulders in a blue and white mantle, should he permitted to substitute a blue and white ribbon. The other faction insists upon the observance of the old rules, and a rupture in the congregation has been the result. As usual in church quarrels, the question of religion seems not to have been consideredABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. They say that Victoria Morosini looks miserable and unhappy. Robert J. Bcrdettk has presented t.o the Baptist Church of Lower .Merlon a church bell, in memory of his wife. A Paris correspondent says that French boys continue to have an aversion to all games, such as football, which may entail any bodily hurt. William Oullkn Bryant’s memory will be honored to-day, the anniversary of his birth, in the planting of trees on the public grounds at Roslyn, L. I. John Jackson, of LaGrange, Pa., keeps standing on the side of the road a barrel filled with pure cider, with tin-cup within reach, inviting all to help themselves. Tennyson’s own valet gives the new peer the appearance of an old scarecrow, and describes him as wearing a fearfully ancient slouch hat and ar. old coat that is fairly green with age. Prince Crosby, supposed to be more than 101 years of age, died recently at Fish kill. Conn. He was formerly the slave of Enoch Crosby, who figured as Harvy Birch in Cooper’s novel. “The Spy.” THE standard-bearer of one. of the German battalions, on returning from the maneuvers, got into the wrong train, so that his company waited ; n vain foi* % him. Ho committed suicide to avoid the punishment, that awaited him. M. I>E Lesseps allows his ten children to j lay freely out-doors without wrapping of hands, arms and necks. His neighbors think that he is careless of their health; but only one of the ten is delicate, and lie is a twin. The rest never suffer with colds. The United States mint at. Philadelphia issues what are known as “p oof coins.” They aro struck from polishcdtfiies on a hand-press, and are intended for cabinets ad coin collectors. The price charged is

twenty-five cents in addition to the face value of each coin in the case of gold coin, but silver coins are only sold in sets, for whioh , tweaty-fivo cents is added to the value of the set. The Willow tree at Mount Vernon which overshadows the tomb of Washington was originally ft clipping from a tree which overshadows the 'tomb of Napoleon at St. Helena. It was brought to this country by an enthusiastic admirer of both Bohaparte qnd the Father of His Country. The microscope reveals that there are move than four thousand muscles in a caterpillar, and that the eye of a.drone contains a thousand mirrors, There are spiders as small as a grain of sand, and they spin a thread so line that it would require four hundred of them to equal the size of a single hair. M, Renan has a little trait that is provoking to some of his acquaintances. When the great man is cajled into argument ho always begins by admitting that his adversary is right. “Vous avez parfaitement raison,” he says; “Dependant— ’’ and then he proceeds to demolish all the theories of his contestant. Hf.ur M a kart’s memory will be kept green by the Viennese. A street in the capital is to bo given the pai uter’s name, a Makart monument, raised by small popular contributions, is being planned and a Makart exhibition 13 already spoken of. containing every one of the artist’s works which can possibly bo obtained. The Princes Dolgarouki, the widow of the late Czar, will pass the winter in Paris and will live there, it is said, in strict seclusion. Thfc gayety of Vevay, on the Lake of Geneva, is declared to bo not to her taste. So large a number of Russian and French aristocrats are now staying there that she “cannot obtain the repose ' she.wishes.” Carl Cauer, the sculptor of the Garfield memorial bust in St. Louis, is fifty-six years old, and has made statues of nearly all the sovereigns of Europe as well as of other famous persons—those of Kaiser Wilhelm. Francis Joseph, Metternich and Bismarck being perhaps the best known. He lias a son, aged twenty-t wo, Who has executed a good statue df Couut Moltko. The Strasburg police has just put a paw upon a cunning rogue named Meyers, whose business it has been to negotiate stolen or worthless securities. Some, to the amount of $40,000,- found in his possession were stolen long ago. Ho would buy them from thieves for a small price, cash, and bide his time to sell them. He did business here as well as in Europe. Mrs. HEMMENWAY gave a reception in Boston the other evening to Miss Amy Bradley, who has been cariying out the plans of her patron in the education of the freed men. Mrs. Hemmenway has devoted $ 100,000 to this cause, and to Miss Bradley” was committed the executive responsibility. At the reception a purse of $2,000 was. presented to Miss Bradle.v on behalf of the assembled guests. Herr Rubinstein, when tired of his triumphal progress through Europe,'retires to his villa hear St. Petersburg, and there, surrounded by his family, he prepares for the next campaign. At present, before leaving for Hamburg, where the first, performance of “Perroquet” will take place on Nov. 1, under t*he superintendence of the author, Rubinstein is entertaining his friends and enjoying life on the Bhores,ofthe Baltic. + An officer in the Russiau army, who was exiled, Has been conducting a cider and vinegar factory.in Sacramento for ten years.- He married in this country find has a family. Recently lie received information. of the death in Russia of his father, and being the sole heir, he -is entitled to a fortune of about $30,000,000. During the past few days lie has been engaged in securing the necessary papers, including otiq from the Secretary of State relative to his citizeusfeip, aird yesterday he left for the borders of Russia—he can-/ not enter the territory*—to look after his property. • Mr. Roswell Smith, of the Century, trays: “Tho current story that we have- agreed to pay General Grant $15,000 for his four battle-articles*and * $50,000 for his autobiography, is absurd, though a royalty” might possibly give him that. The fact is that we have made uo bargin. whatever. We shall'certainly give all they are worth. The General himself, whose bodily” afflictions aie less severe, told a friend Chat he eujoy'ed writing more than he ever enjoyed anything else in his life. “More than fighting?” he Was a-deed: and he laughed and answered, heartily, “I never liked that.” , A LETTER, purporting to give a description by an 'eye-witness of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, ; will be published at the end of the present year. It was found in a manuscript book among the papers -of Lord Eliock. the judge, who died in 1793. The book is all written in ono hand, apparently in the first half of the eighteenth century, aud' the account of the sxeoution is a copy of a letter sent by special desire. Lord Eliock’s father managed the affairs of the Duke of Perth and of other families devoted to the Stuart cause, and it is conjectured that the document is a copy of a letter written by r a member of one of these families. . IN THE SUB-TREASURY VAULTS. The 3lany Millions of Gold and Silver that Are Held in Reserve. New York Herald. “Come this way and I’ll show you how ranch cold cash Uncle Bam has got stored here,” said Cashier Floyd, as he led a Herald reporter through a labyrinth of desks on the first floor of tlie Sub-treasury Building to a heavily-barred and studded iron door that opened into a passage leading to. the gold vaults. At the other end of the passage an attendant unfastened a second deor. As the reporter followed hfs guide into a dimly-lighted room, about fifteen feet square, the door, was .closed behind them and they* were made prisoners with over $40,000,000 of gold coin. Tlie four sides of the vault, from floor to ceiling* were covered with iron doors opening into compartments 'containing the coin. “These boxes that are sealed.” said thecashier. pointing to ;i door where a slip of paper was stuck to the lock with red wax, “are full. They contain $1,000,000 each. Here”—throwing wide open a door that was standing ajar and reveal •ing a compartment partially filled with plump white canvas bags carefully packed—“is a box we are using from. There are $250 000 in there,” he continued, after glancing at the t igs. ■ “How much gold do tho bags contain?” the reporter. as his eyes rested wistfully on the outlines of the coins shown through the canvas. “Five thousand dollars each, always. Silver is put up in thousand--dollar bags. This lower tier is the double eagle row. In the secondare stored eagles, and so on to quarter eagles, the smallest gold coin we have on h’ami.” “How heavy is this?” asked the reporter, as he took up a bag. “Oh, that is easily bandied; it weighs only eighteen pounds. It would be a different matter to carry a bag of silver, though: they weigh sixty pounds each. But come and I will take you down to the silver vaults.” There is still another gold vault on the second floor of the building, opposite the one the reporter had already visited and exactly like it in the interior arrangement. The two vaults together contained $71,400,000. After descending to the floor below in a slowly moving elevator, and passing by doors with complicated time locks clinging to their backs, a long passage was reached, with white painted iron gratings on eac h side. Behind the gratings were bugs of silver, filling every available inch from floor to ceiling. “You see we have more silver here than there is accommodations for. so we were obliged to fill up this end of the* passage with it. There are $35,000,900 before you. Twenty five millions are ip standard dollars. The denominations are sepa rated by those cross gratings.” “What does it all weigh?” “Over 1,000 tons. That would be eighty rail- . road car-loads. There are 140 tons of gold up stairs. Allowing a ton to be a cart-load, it would take 1,140 carts to carry away the coin in this building.” “Is not this an unusually large amount to have on hand?” “To be sure it is. We are sending away very little coin now, and taking it in at the rate of $10,004 to $20,000 a day. Silver certificates are very popular now, especially iu the South and Southwest. New York merchants seem to be prejudiced against them. Since March 1, 1883. we have scut out- $33,000,000 in certificates, and wo will probably send out $30,000,000 more before the cotton crop is in.” “What is the total amount of cash on hand now?” “A little or one hundred and forty millions of dollars. There are $9,000:000 each in gold and silver certificates and legal-tender notes.” JThe largest shipment that lias recently been made occurred last spring, when $32,000,000 were

sent to Europe in gold coiq and bars. Contrary to the belief entertained by most people, no bullion is brought to or stored in the Sub-treasury; that is all done at the Assay Building. The coin is brought from the rairrts generally by express companies, but sometimes ij is sent as registered mail matter. Never more than* $50,000 is sent at one time. It is guarded en-route by the company, which ceases to be responsible for it only 'when it is delivered into the hands of the government officials at the Pine-street entrance to the building. It is then taken to the counting room and weighed by the bagful after being passed through the hands' of an expert, who can instantly tell if the coins, have been tampered with. It was formerly required by law that every piece should be weighed separately, and that old coins which: by natural abrasion or sweating had lost one-hrflf of one per cent., should be rejected. For this purpose scales were provided of such delicate mechanism that an eyelash would turn the balance. “How do we detect bad pieces? Well. I can’t tell you. It’s instinct., I guess,” said an old expert in answer to the reporter’s question. “Can't you generally tell by the weight and size?” “Oh. pshaw, no. A composition of lead and platinum is made that weighs and rings exactly like gold. Look here; there is a piece that almost any man in New York would as soon have as any that was ever coined.” He tossed in front of the reported* a twenty-dollar piece that looked, weighed and rang like gold. * “Well, what’s the matter with it?” “It’s only-worth $lO. It has been cut in two, hollowed out, filled with composition and stuck together again. I rather think my eyes are the best, aids in detecting, though I can pi<*k out a bad coin when handling a pile blindfolded.” “Are many spurious coins brought here?” “Oh. quantities. Most of them are so bunglingly done that it is easy to spot them. Once when an investigating committee was here I was asked to pick a very cleverly ‘doctored’ piece from a bagfull. They were all coined at the same time and exactly alike. I picked it out for them all right, and then tlie committee pro tended to be-so Interested that they wanted to see it done again. The second time they quietly •changed the bad piece for agorftl one and were sure of catching me They ‘got left.’ though, as the boys say. Counterfeits can always be detected by the milling. No one has yet succeeded in reaching the perfection with which the government employes do it.” “What is done with the counterfeits that are presented?” “We are not allowed to destroy them, but we put on a mark so that it is impossible to pass them afterward. This big pail* of shears is used to cut spurious dimes in two.” “How about mutilated coin’s?” “Thfey are simply returned. The government won’t brty them, and we have no more right to mark them than any ono else.” “Which are counterfeited most, bills or coins?’ “Bills, by a large majority: national bank notes generally. They are branded and returned. The latest dodge is a little scheme we dropped <>n a short time ago A sharper will take**say five good bills, cut them up into, small pieces and shorten them so that he can present the frag.mentsas those of six different bills. The law requires that three-fifths of a bill be presented to get a good one in return. All sorts of touching and amusing incidents occur everyday in this branch. This morning a poor woman came to the window, with big tears in her eyes and two burned one dollar bills* in her hand. She said the baby had thrown them in the fire. The corfters of her mouth went up like a flash when she was given new money m return. There is an'otlief littie trick I must tell you—that is, to burn a counterfeit note to a crisp and bring it here for redemption; but. strange as it may sawn. they cau be detected even when reduced . to ashes.” A DETHRONED QUEEN. Sarah Bernhardt’s Wonderful 'Genius A Blind Passion for Money A Cohl Calculator. New Orleans Picayune Paris tetter. Did it ever occur to you that actors and actresses ought not to be poor? While in the heyday of their profession they gain enough to insure themselves comfort in their old age; but, like the lower classes in England, they prefer to live on charity in their later days to saving up something of their easy-earned salaries. Take Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, for instance. Never has an actress arisen higher in her profession, and never has one fallen into lower depths of despair and misery than she is sure to fall before many moons have gone and come, unless she puts on the brakes very soon. Was there ever another woman with su*h a history as hers nas been, and which is not yet ended? Her beginnings were difficult, and already she was tor men ted by debts; but one day she scored a success in the “Passant” at the Odeon, a success due partly to the tender charm of her voice and partly to suggestive ambiguity of her plastiquo. Then she entered the Comedie Francaise, where she soon became famous. She was feted and applauded as no other actress had been who ever appeared before the Parisian public. No doubt her talents are of tho highest order, and she is original, seductive and graceful in her every movement, but she had the good luck to make her appearance at a time when there were no longer any truly great actresses on tlie French stage, and when there were very few left among the public who remembered Rachel and Augustine Brohan. Her name grew and grew, and soon it filled Paris, the provinces and foreign lands. No one was talked about but her. She was photographed, painted in oils, -carved in marble, and every one did their best to surround her with an atmosphere of eccentricities. Her toilets were looked upon as enigmas; her slightest gesture was said to conceal a mysterious meaning: her hair to render those mad who touched it; her flowers to breathe forth the poisons which wore her daily food. When she received, her salon was crowded with the noblest names in Europe. The kings of Christendom bowed down before this stage queen. She went up in a balloon, and a nation watched her ascent in breathless interest; she wrote a book, for which the publishers contended: she made statues and painted pictures, which the admiring puVJic declared master pieces. It seemed as if her brain must burst under the tremendous pressure of her inspiration; that her soul was shaken like a rood by the whirlwind of creation. All at once the public learned that she bad left the Comedie Francaise, and was setting forth on a victorious tour over tlie face of the earth; then came the news of her triumphant prog ress. of the diplomatic incidents which she was the cause of. She was in America, in Russia, in London, in Italy: millions were poured into her lap; to surprise herself as well as the public she got married and then unmarried; she bought all the theaters that came in her wav, and hardly entered into possession before she relinquished them again. Now she has signed a contract with this uupager, now she lias broken the one that bound her .to another: every thing that she touches fails to pieces; she lives in*an atmosphere of lawsuits and executions. and wherever she goes along string of creditors cling to her skirts, and at last she is no longer able to keep them at bay. I know that there are people who pity Surah Bernh irdt, and delnro that it is her love of tho ideal which has been her ruin; they say that in these days of prose and artistic corruption she lias de voted herself to pure art and that it is her efforts to redeem the stage that has proven her ruin. For my part. I can find nothing of all this in the life of Sarah Bernhardt. I see in that life a great deal of calculation. of grasping after the main chance, a cold and intentional folly, and above all, a thirst after money. There is not an act in the life of Sarah Bernhardt which has not money for its motive; it seems as if she felt that mountains of gold would not suffice for her extravagance, and she is forever driven by a deaf and blind passion for money. It was this that led her to leave tho Theater Francaise so abruptly, and that led her into all the acts which have made her so much talked about, because she knew that what kept her before the public would make the public willing to pay their money to see and to hear her. But there is a limit to all things, and she will find this out to her cost when she goes back to the United States, as she intends doing, under Abbey’s management, next season. Mr. ConUling’s Domineering Ways. Washington Letter in Philadelphia Press. A member-of Grant’s Cabinet once told mo Hint Conkiing y Grant more trouble than any six senators in Congress. Even the President could not express an idea or make a suggestion that Conkiing would not sneer at it. He insisted that the President’s ways’ should be his ways, and ho would not brook opposition in the slightest thing. Ho would not allow the President to think for himself in anything in which

his lordship Conkiing * was interested. Tho result was that Grant, who really had a great respect for Conkiing and his ability*- (which he, like every one else, exaggerated); did everything he could to placate him and keep him* friendly. Thus Grant quarreled with Fenton, with Greeley, with .Sumner and a score of other great Republicans because Conkiing demanded it. Tne Cabinet officer J refer to said that Grant was all tho time in trouble on account of Conkiing, The more he ' ■did the more Conkiing wanted, and • tlie President. with .all Ins power, could not do enough to satisfy this insatiate fellow. He wanted Utica, He wanted the city of New York, he wanted the State, he. wan ted the earth! And after all, he whined one minute and growled the next, bocause there was not something elsethnt he could demand. Yes. lam very glad that Mr. Blaine will carry New York without tho aid of Mr. Conkiing. . A VISIT TO ARABI PASHA. What the Exile Told a Frenchman Who Visited Him in Ceylon. Correspondence of the Paris Matin. Arrived .at Colombo, we set out for Mount Aron to visit the retreat of Arabi. Mr. Henri Figari. formerly an agent at Cairo of Rubbati-' no Sc Cos., who is thoroughly acquainted’with the Arabic language, consented to act as interpreter. While traveling through this country, so singularly beautiful. I was almost tempted to envy the fate of the great Egyptian exile. This sentiment grew stronger when our coachman pulled flprin a delightful garden in which the luxuriant vegetation of Ceylon was displayed in all its splendor. Servants came to meet us, and. after having taken our cards, conducted ns to the veranda, which was used as a reception-room. Os Arabi there have been a great many descriptions. If I recall rightly, hehas been described as man without education, equally dull morally and physically. I believe I have also seen pictures representing him as a half negro, with thick lips and a low forehead. % Nothing could b.e moVe untrue. , Tho Arabi in whose presence we found ourselves is a man of tall stature and majestic carriage. His face, which is truly handsome, with an intelligent forehead, is framed in a long, black beard, tinged with gray, which gives him the appearance of a patriarch. The ease with which he converses, and the affability of his manners, denote him a man of the World. If I did nqt fear to be guilty of a paradox in regard to the. prisoner of the English, I would say that he is an accomplished gentlemen. Thanks to the - good offices of an interpreter, the conversation did not languish. While smoking inaniras and taking coffee ala Turque, we spoke of Ceylon, of Franco, and, above all, of Egypt itself, the events in which the ex-dictator follows with an interest easily understood. “What does your Excellency think of the war of the Mahdi and the result of it?” “The campaign of the Mahdi,” he replied, “must necessarily end in a reverse. The ardor of his troops will become worn out in the face of the nullity of the results obtained. The opportunity to march upon Egypt is gone by, arid will not come again.” “Do you believe that Gordon will be able to overcome the difficulties which surround him?” “I know Gordon,” said Arabi. “He has extraordinary energy. I am convinced that, unless there is an accident, he will put down the insurrection. As for tlie English, I imagine that when they shall have pacified tlie country, if they are wise, they will allow it all the autonomy possible. Egypt enslaved would be of less service to them than Egypt administering her own affairs. She is too near Europe, too directly in cr ntact with modern ideas, to permit of her being subjugated to a state of vassalage like that of the principalities of the rajahs. The move-* ment of all nations toward total indepence may be checked for a time, but sooner or later, it will begin again.” Here Arabi closed the conversation. We could seo that he enjoyed perfect liberty. He lives like a private gentleman, and has with him his wives and children. Some of the latter have* been sent to Cairo to pursue their studies. If material comfort can stifle ambition, Arabi is certainly not to be pitied. Ceylon ought not to make him regret Egypt, and his bitter bread of exile appears to be very much like a cake. STATISTICS OF CHOLERA. Figures as to Its Progress and Ravages In tho Different Infected Countries. Cable Special. By reports from tho hospitals in Marseilles and Toulon, copies of departmental records in part, and careful daily study of the papers and* correspondence of the affected locality, it has been possible to keep the record in the south of France by villages from beginning to end. But in Italy and Spain, although the earlier reports gave the names of the stricken villages, it was soon necessary to fall back on the provincial divisions, aud since the middle of August there has been no attempt made to give anything else. In almost all cases the official figures have been followed in . tho case of Italy. The general recapitulation of these tables is as follows: France, 6,741; Corsica (estimated), 100; Alders (estimated). 200; Italy, 12,283; Spain, 436. Gtand total, 19.700. The cholera was brought to Toulon by the transport ship Sarthe, which had returned from Chinese waters after carrying troops toTonquinSome of tlie sailors of the ship were ill when she made port, and before a quarantine could be enforced the infection had found lodgment. The first death occurred in Toulon on June 14, but no report found its way into the papers until tho 22d. when nearly a score of victims had fallen. Two editors in Marseilles had learned of it on the 18th, but fearing to alarm the public, took the nows to the mayor, and he began some apologies for hygienic reforms. The dreaded disease made its appear mice in Marseilles a few days later iii tin? person of a college boy, who came home when the schools in Toulon were closed, and died almost immediately. A day or two later an Italian workman, fleeing southward to his home, died at Ventimiglia, m Borto Maurizio. so that both countries started on almost equal footing. But while Italy was able to hold the epidemic at arm’s length for a month or more. France succumbed at once. Within twenty days from the first death in Marseille* fifty thousand citizens had fled the city, and up to July" 20 there lyid been 853 deaths. The disease raged savagely for six weeks or so in the Basse Alps, and then died out as suddenly as it came. More slowly it declined in most of tlie other departments, hanging on longer in the Gard and Ardeehe than elsewhere. Although there were deaths in Lyons early *n August, the city, strangely enough, escaped almost, entirely. In Drome, too. where Valance hud had deaths before 1 passed through in July, the disease seemed unable to get a serious foot- , hold. By the Ist of October, the epidemic was practically ended in France. More Proof of Hendricks's Treachery. Indianapolis special. Notwithstanding the denial which Mr. Hendricks has made, in an interview published this, afternoon, that pasters in his interest and a mixed ticket are being circulated, it is. absolutely ' certain that all this is being done. Hundreds of Republicans, who are supposed to bo the personal friends of Hendricks, this afternoon received these pasters and mixed tickets through the mails. Your correspondent has,one of them, which was received by General Thomas A. Morris. The envelope contained a ticket on •f.iiich was printed the Democratic electoral ticket, the RopeplieaiwState ticket, and tho Repuiicun candidate for congressman; also a package of Cleve-> land and Hendricks pasters. All the rest of the . ticket is blame. The same thing is being (lone throughout tho State, as 1 saw a similar ticket bearing the name of W. D. Owen, the Republican candidate for Congress in the Tenth district, in additon to the Republican State and the I)einocrtic national ticket This is proof positive that Hendricks is endeavoring to carry Indiana at the expense of the entire Democratic State ticket, and every Democratic candidate for Congress in the State. _ A Silly .Slory Uselessly Denied. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Brazil, Nov. 4.— The Irishmen of Indianapolis, Messrs. Patrick Deary and Thos. Blackwell, as per Sentinel of yesterday, say they aro ready to make affidavit to the truth of Mr. Blame pulling down the Irish flag during hTs i° Braz'l. We, the undersigned, irishmen of Brazil, denounce tho story of the pulling down of tlie flag as false in every particular. Thos Kerins Patrick Mauky, James Flanigan, Petek Lcffkkv, Patrick Hemphill, Patrick Mokeiss, John (J. Mullhal, Jas. Shea, Patrick Morgan’.