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THE DAILY JOURNAL. r.Y JXO. <'. NEW & SON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1885. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOLIIXAL Can foutid at the following place*. LONDON —American Lacuaug® m Europe, 449 Strand PARTS —American Exchange in Tari?, 35 Boulevard dm Capucia**. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer Houe. CSNCTNNATI—J. II Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUKsVILLE—G. T. Dearing. northwest torn® Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Bonlhem lloteL Telephone Call*. Business Office -38 | Editorial R00m5.... 212 The Democratic “tagger” seems to be "breaking loose. The gentleman at the head of the Illinois Bouse is ‘‘Haines’s two boys, one of ’em.” Fidelity to treason and rebellion is not the fidelity that will break into history as patriotism. 4 ’County” St. John never got a chance to count the ten thousand dollars that it made bis throat sore to think of. Let us return to first principles, and say that Jeff Davis was a traitor to his country. 1b there a man in Indiana who thinks he wa3 lotf . Notwithstanding his sternly virtuous prohibition principles, St. John seems to have bad a bar’l in his j*osi?es.sion before the cam|Bign ended. If any Rip Van Winkle went to sleep in 3805. he would better not awake now. He might be confused by the. loud claims made in behalf of “loyalty” to disloyalty. Has anybody heard of a Democrat relaxing its efforts for “tlilt office” because of Governor Cleveland’s letter to the Civil-service R *form Association! We ask for information, in Miss Dartle would say. Ts MPERANOE people will make a great mistake in landertaking a defense of St. John. Be is a black sheep, and should be got rid of as soon jis possible. The cause of temperance cannot be safely tied to St. John. More than ten thousand bills have been introduced by the Forty-eighth Congress. No ©n would be more unhappy than the members if any possibility existed of the passage of nine-tenths of these proposed laws. Since the State has so much interest in certain cities as to take from them the power to govern their own police, substituting therefor a force selected under direction of State authority, how would it do for the State at large to pay their salaries?

The funeral of tie late Hon. Schuyler Colfax will occur at South Bend on Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock. A delegation of TepreBcn^ative citizens of this city will attend, leaving at 7:10 a. M. over the Big Four and the Vandalut extension route. A KF.Y to the St. John letters discloses the fact that “Johnson” was the name Mr. Legate used in referring to himself, and that the * ‘county ’ was a pseudonym for the Saint. In the light of this translation Mr. Legate’s share of the correspondence is more edifying and satisfactory, if not so “scholarly.” The Washington correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal will find himself without employment unless lie writes a little more guardedly. He sp< aks of Jeff Davis’s treason as “sins committed twenty years ago.” The Democratic idea is that those “sins” were virtues that shall win immortal glory for him. The Galveston News thinks that “the first thing you know civil-service reform will begin to grow fashionable.” Don’t commit yourself too soon. A gentlemen by the name of Pendleton earned life-long obscurity by favoring civil service reform. When Democracy brings him out and brushes the cob-webs off his garments, we may begin to hope, but we pro pose to wait until it is (lone. The conduct of the prosecution against. General Swaim has been simply infamous. It is apparent that Swaim is under disfavor because he does not belong to the army ring of carpet knights who rule society in the capital. General Swaim is no favorite of the Journal; he is not the man we think should be the Judge Advocate-general of the army, but lie is pure gold beside the pinchbeck that is arrayed against him. T HE New \ ork \\ orld makes the discovery that Mr. Cleveland will be inaugurated on Wednesday, the same day on which Jefferson. Jackson and Buchanan were inaugurated, ‘•thus making Wednesday a good Democratic .day, without robbing the Republicans of the credit attached to ‘Black Friday.’” What about the Democratic credit attaching to the anniversaries of the Montgomery and Charleston secession conventions, of the firing on Port Sumter, and the massacre at Fort Pillow? There is much good sense in the suggestion of ex-Supreme Court reporter Dice, that the State has no more business to furnish court reports for the use of lawyers than it ]k to furnish reports for the use of doctors pr tools and machines for mechanics and f g*Ui?rs. Why should the Stats pay the sal-

ary and expenses of a man to report the Supremo Court decisions for the benefit of the lawyers? There are lawyers enough in the Legislature to jump at any proposition looking to the special benefit of that profession, and, under the plea of economy, put through some measure the -benefit of which they will reap at the general expense of the taxpayers. That seme relief is needed from the everlasting flood of Supremo Court reports no body will doubt. The first relief isa Supreme Court that will adhere to the same opinion upon a question throughout the whole of one term, at least. Another relief would be a change in the Constitution, or a change in its construction, s<f that all the opinions on mere technical points of pleading will not have to be printed. Were the Constitution so construed that no opinions should be printed except those discussing and settling some principle, or application of a principle of law, there would not need to be more than one or two volumes of reports each year. It is in this direction that intelligent economy should be used, and not in the direction of making the office of rei>orter a charge upon the general treasury in the interests solely of the legal profession.

THE RENAISSANCE OF TRAITORS. The impudence and arrogance—it is nothing less—of ex-traitors and conspirators reproclaiming their treason and treachery in the halls of Congress is defiant enough and aggressive enough to set patriotic citizens thinking, more seriously, perhaps, than in years. The spectacle of these ingrates exhibiting greater anxiety to establish their “loyalty” to treason than to the Union, is probably without parallei. The time to speak plainly about this thing has returned, if, indeed, it ever passed. Treason and treachery are treason and treachery the world over, and the same in IS6I and now, as when Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr won everlasting infamy. Historical truth will place the name of Jefferson Davis in the same category, as an individual whose love of slavery and self caused him to dishonor his oath and betray the country that had done so much for him. If there be others like Davis—high or low —their place in history is with the first man who dreamed of a Northwest confederacy, a man whose treachery was equaled only by his libertinism. Jefferson Davis was the pampered son of the Nation, its beneficiary for years, and an official high in office at the time he was plotting to dismember it. Ho sat in the highest legialative body in the land, and laid plans for the assassination of those who dared remain loyal to the old flag and the government founded by Washington. So well did he and his co-conspirators succeed in their schemes to dismember the Union, that while they still satin office, and under oath to support, maintain and defend the Constitution of their common country, they set in motion civil war, and Floyd, as Secretary of War, stripped the government to arm its enemies. Floyd atul Davis had each been guilty of treason before they left their seats in Washington—enough to have sent them to the scaffold in any other country in the world. Let us stick to the text in this business. “Loyalty” to treason may be a very great virtue in sections and among people whose love of country was buried under love of idleness and slavery. “Loyalty” to treason is but the boasted “honoi” among thieves—a virtue that no honest man cares to possess. To stand together and make common cause in the poverty of loyalty does not and cannot change the awful offense of treason. To be loyal to the confederacy was but for one burglar to stand by another engaged in the same crime. Their standing together does not mitigate the crime they were engaged in, nor save them from the dishonor of their deeds. The men now in Congress so loudly proclaiming their fealty to rebellion, are simply perfecting their title to infamy. That is all there is of it. The day will come when their descendants will hide their faces in shame and be glad to forget that their fathers were false to their country. The mere matter of these self-important men boasting of their part in the attempt to destroy the Union, while aggravating to those who did service in protection of their country and to those who lost fatliers, brothers or sons in the war precipitated by these conspirators, could be and generally is “made allowance for" in the interest of friendly relations between the people of all parts of the restored Union. This is made possible too by the reflection that many year's cannot elapse until death shall kindly close their mouths against the possibility of adding to their infamy. But what must be thought of the ante-election loyalty of these men, who now struggle with each other to prove greatest “loyalty” to treason? Aud what of the future of the country with this shameless exhibition of ingratitude and treachery set before it as an example for imitation? General Sherman, a man who did very much to save his country from the clutches of the assassins that beset it, speaking, of them in their present attitude, says: “No nation can afford to put fidelity and treachery on a par and hope to survive.” Are the words worth heeding? Are they not the fundamental principle of national stability? The Nation has done much for these men; has restored to them every civil and political right; has condoned the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of men who were loyal to. loyalty, and, in the interest of a common fellowship, have invited them to seats in the national legislature. More could not be done than has been done. In return for these voluntary concessions, the men so favored are proud to boast.of their disloyalty, and prate of the

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4< immortal principles” for which they fought. The loyal element of the Nation has been very patient and forbearing, but it cannot afford to let such utterances go uurebuked. Nor can it afford to trust Southern “loyal” traitors and their Northern allies. Treason cannot be deified without harm to the Nation. There can be no genuine security, no unity, so long as such doctrines prevail, or are tolerated without the most unqualified denunciation. It is written in the blood of the Nation’s bravest and best that treason is infamous. They died in that belief, aud because of that belief. They died that treason might not prevail, but that the Nation might live. We cannot afford to forget the awful lesson of the war. The scroll that unrolled in 18GI is still spread before the eyes of the world. The conclusions of the mighty struggle it recounts cannot be ignored nor set aside without imperiling our national autonomy. It 13 of record that treason is odious and cannot be allowed a place anywhere in all our redeemed land, saved from the men who now boast of their attempt to dismember it.

The English Court of Chancery has issued a perpetual injunction against the publication of the late Lord Lytton-Bulwer’s letters. This is rather a wide departure from the course hitherto held with the literary remains of eminent authors, but it strikes us as a judicious one. There are two classes of letters which, if preserved by the parties, should never be allowed to reach the public. The letters of a man and wife, before or during marriage, which contain matters that neither, if living, would show to any one else, and letters impeaching private character, whether of public men or others, which would excite illfeeling and make enmities between those still living—in fact, any purely personal references, that would make trouble among surviving friends or acquaintances, should never be made public while those survivors or those interested in them remain. Talleyrand did a wise and righteous thing in prohibiting the publication of his memoirs for a generation after his death. A good thing would have been done for the cynical Carlyle if Ids diary and liis snarling at contemporary authors had been suppressed for twenty years after his death. The good that is done by spreading abroad the private opinions, descriptions and estimates of the character or genius of eminent dead men is likely to be overbalanced in a good many cases by the illfeeling provoked, aud in such cases publication should be made late or never. An injunction is a good thing to laj’ upon the premature exposure of such matters, when the executors or lioirs have not judgment enough to restrain them without it. There are not many such cases, but there are a few, and Earl Lytton’s letters and Carlyle’s memoirs prove that they may do more harm than gootlfi to the memory of the deceased, if to nothing else. It is well to know the truth of the dead as well as the living, but not when it drags enmities and heart-burnings into the grave.

In a speech, at Brooklyn, urging tho election of lion. Win. M. Evarts as senator of the United States from the State of New York, Hon. Stuart L. Woodford said: “There are other questions that will, in my judgment, come before the next Senate for discussion of great import. These relate to and spring out of those amendments to the Constitution of the United States by which the Republican party have sought to perpetuate and consummate the great result? of the civil war. Gross violation of certain sections of these amendments has given the late election to the Democratic party, by giving, in some of the Southern States, a representation to the actual voters nearly or quite twice as large as to the actual voters of some of the Northern States. Mr. Blaine, in his post-elec-tion letter, has pointed out this evil in clear and unmistakable terms. It is one that must be met, considered and remedied; otherwise it will become a wrong too grievous to be borne. The amendment of the Constitution relating to pensions is in danger since the party that have opposed this as well as the other amendments has come into power. The contest over their construction and enforcement is assuming anew aspect, one that will call forth the strongest intellectual qfforts of tlie age. For these discussions the floor of the Senate will bo the forum of debate. Again, the power is coming when questions of constitutional construction affecting the dearest right of man will agitate the Nation. The South and the Democratic party have Sut the strongest men to the front; we of the forth must do likewiso to cope with and overcome them.” Any reference whatever to the safety and integrity of tho funds of the State seems to throw tho Democratic party into an ague. What is tho matter? We should like to ask Senator Hilligass what difference it can make whether the resolution for an investigation into the state of the treasury comes from a Republican or Democratic sourc% Why is it necessary that notice should be given in advance that an inquiry cannot possibly bo avoided, but that it shall be staved off as long as possible? The party friends of Mr. Cooper are doing him a gross wrong. It i3 not to be supposed for a moment that he is unready at any hour to exhibit to a legislative committee the funds of the State, and to prove to them their safety. The extraordinary sensitiveness of the Democrats over this matter is remarkable. Mr. Cooper should protest against their damaging methods. Mr. Edmunds’s bill to place General Grant on the retired list was passed in the Senate yesterday, with nine negative votes, a union of such confederate brigadiers as Cockrell and su<*li Northern sympathizers with treason as Pendleton. In voting in the negative, Mr. Cockrell said “the retired list was not tho place for private citizens. It had been created for officers, wbo, being still in the service, had been rendered unfit for duty. There was neither justice nor propriety iu placing

private citizens on such a list.” The contemptible falsehood of such an objection is manifest when it is remembered that Senator Cockrell wanted to put Fitz John Porter on the retired list, who has been out of the military service for a longer time than General Grant, who was not ‘fin the sendee and rendered unfit for duty” at the time he voted to so honor him. The reason for Mr. Cockrell’s vote in both cases is, that General Grant fought to whip rebels and General Porter so conducted himself as to aid them. When Mr. Legate first appeared on the stage as a witness against St. John, the Democratic allies of that notorious prohibitionist at once proceeded to attack his character without reflecting that the testimony was an involuntary contribution to the campaign annals. Mr. Legate was “branded” as a liar, a perjured villain, and declared to be the possessor of a character and reputation which rendered anything he might say utterly unworthy of belief without other evidence to prove its truthfulness. Naturally this makes it somewhat awkward for Mr. St. John’s friends to refer* to Mr. Legate’s denials and charges of forgery as “a vindication” of the abstemious but hungry third party candidate, but they are doing this identical thing. Consistency is not found among tho Democratic jewels. Naval Cadet Tennant, who was dismissed from the Annapolis Academy for having been intoxicated, and for carrying concealed weapons while on a leave of absence, on which occasion he accidentally shot a companion, is trying to be reinstated, llis friends claim that the little frolic was a boyish affair, and nothing more than a mere pleasantry. It is to be hoped that the authorities will not accede to the request. When the youth of the period becomes convinced that to get drunk is disgi’aceful, and learns that the drunkard is to be treated as a criminal, the inclination to be '‘boyish” and indulge in “pleasantries” will speedily diminish. It may be a little rough on Tennant, but other cadets will profit by the lesson. Either “the States lately in rebellion” must be left free to choose their own representatives. or else they must be remanded to a provincial or territorial state.—Courier-Jour-nal. Bah! Who is talking about interfering with the 4 ‘free” choice of Democratic congressmen to represent Republican constituencies. The thing complained of is the bold manner in which the “loyal” South scouts all respect for genuinedoyalty. The Democratic idea is that loyalty to the Confederacy was more praiseworthy than fidelity to the Nation as a whole. You are too touchy about things of which nobody is talking. There were some honorable words said by Southern senators, yesterday, upon the bill to place, General Grant on the retired list of the army. If the spirit manifested by such men as Mr. Maxey and Randall Gibson were the controlling spirit of the Democratic party —if the debate on Monday had not revealed the lurking devil in the innermost hearts of the ex-confederates—there would soon come that 4 ‘era of good feeling” about which we have heard so much—that sentiment which speaks the word of promise to the ear, but breaks it to the hope.

The State of Indiana is disgraced to have such men in its Legislature as the ten who yesterday put upon the legislative records a pitiable and contemptible amendment to the very proper motion appointing a committee to officially attend the funeral of the late Schuyler Colfax. The spirit of the amendment was fitly condemned by the more respectable Democrats in the body, but it is a shame that any man could be found small enough and mean enough to put such a stigma upon the State. The New York Herald says: “The Governor of North Carolina tells the Legislature that the.delay in the trial of criminals in that State is putting the law abiding spirit of the people to a tost which, in several instances, they have not been able to stand. He condemns lynch law in the strongest terms, but thinks that the responsibility for such outbreaks must fall largely upon the Legislature, which persistently neglects to provide a more speedy and efficient criminal administration. This is a timely reminder, which may have an application in other States than North Carolina, and to other instances of persons taking the law into their own hands than lynching.” The New York Times, Cleveland organ, says this to the ex-confederate defenders of Jefferson Davis, with whom it acted in the election of a Democratic administration, and with whom it evidently fears it will be compelled to make its bed during the next four years at least: “It would be far better for the live men of the South to act with the indifference toward him that they can afford to feel. They cannot save him from general scorn, and there is no occasion for them to link their names with his.” “Senator Bayard could not conceal his annoyance to-day no more than he could yesterday, and Senator Gorman looked disturbed.” So says the Louisville Courier-Journal’s special report of the Jeff. Davis debate in the Senate. Messrs. Bayard and Gorman will have to tie the tagger a little tighter. He is slashing around pretty fresh already. What will he do after the 4th of March? The statement that Chicago Socialists are at the bottom of the labor troubles at South Bend should be carefully examined, and if any are implicated due punishment should be prescribed if they can be made answerable to law for tho destruction of property and the assaults upon individuals. It should not be permitted that the labor interests of this coun-

try be interfered with by these loafing desperadoes. They are professional agitators—the enemies alike of employer and employed. The state of affairs at Fort Wayne is scandalous, and a disgrace to the law and the officers. The situation cannot long continue as it is; it will either grow better or worse. The apathy and toadying tola wlessn ess on the part of those sworn to execute the laws, which has become so prevalent everywhere in late years, because of the possible effect on elections, is one of the most dangerous signs of the times. The Democrats have appointed “a steering committee ” to take charge of Grover Cleveland. They need one much more to take charge of the Southern members of the United States Senate. What is the use of spending long years and many dollars in learning to become a “regular” doctor, when you can become a full-fledged heal er in twelve easy lessons, and for a moderate* price? The “College of Christian Science,” in Boston, takes a green hand and makes him a master of the science in the short space of one month. The system differs from the faith-cure, and is based upon the superiority of the spirit over matter. If the patient believes that his ailment is entirely in the mind, and that actually there is no disease of the body, as it has hitherto seemed to him, the cure is completed. It is the business of the “mental healer" to bring about this state of belief, and many claim to be achieving great success in so doing. The “college” has turned out over 800 graduates in three years. Pupils with glib tongues and possessed of magnetic qualities are said to be preferred. Some parents know how to act when their daughter elopes, and Charles Otsinger, of New York city, is one of that kind. His only daughter, Pearl (precious, doubtless), left the house one evening about a week ago, saying she wished to make a few purchases. At midnight she had not returned, but instead of going into a fit and rousing the town, he simply remarked, “I’ll bet she has eloped,” and went to bed, followed by his sensible wife an hour later. The guess was correct, and in a week Pearl came home with a neighbor's son for a husband. Some women just won’t stand it, preacher or no preacher. Bertha Price, of New York city, is one of this kind. When her pastor preached on Job and reflected on his integrity, Berths, riz in her seat and denounced him as a liar, and offered to prove thai Job was all right. Her indignation became so pronounced that a policeman took her to the bastile. She will have to exercise some of Job’s greatest virtue to saveher dear head being chopped off for the “cause.” A New York operatic chorus struck for higher wages the other day. The manager, instead of acceding to their demands, went into the highways, gathered up twenty five men to fill the place of the strikers, and the audience never detected a in the harmony or recognized any variations in the symphotiy in fat and lean. The next time a primadonna or a tenor strikes, the managers might try the same plan, just to see it the audience knows the difference. Christian Gall., of Hoboken, will do it no more. Ho is a tailor, and exposed an unpaid bill in his shop window, hoping thereby to shame his debtor into its payment. The young man brought suit in court, and Gall paid his counsel fees and S3OO damages. Gall ought to know that the average young man has as much gall as anybody. Sarah Bernhardt intimates that she is about to apply for a divorce from M. Damala, and explains that she has “had an offer of marriage from an Englishman under circumstances so strange and romantic as to be almost incredible." She probably promised to be faithful to him through the honeymoon. The ruling passion is not only strong in death but in youth, down in Connecticut. Miss Made line Stackpole, aged twelve, took opium and was found unconscious on the road to church. After she was pumped out she said she wanted to die because her mother had forbidden her to wear her best cloak that day. Governor Makmapuke, of Missouri, has a “valet.” Next we shall hear of his “Excellency" subscribing himself: “Marma, Duke of Missouri.” The State statistician of Missouri makes a showing that the average salary of editors in that State is $17.79 a week. The 79 cents is for board.

ABO IT PEOPLE AND THINGS. An English doctor assorts that a person who can move his ears at will is a suspicious character aud cannot he trusted. Sister Mary Cyril, of the Charity Hospital, Now Orleans, was last week invested with a golden crown, in commemoration of the completion of fifty years' services in the Order. Unprejudiced.—Mrs. Newgold (in the picture gallery): “This, aunt Eunice, is a real old master.” Aunt Eunice: “Well, I shouldn't care if it was; it's just as good as some of the new ones."—Life. A Texas county judge recently delivered a farewell address which excited the admiration of all his friends, until some officious person discovered that Washington had delivered the same address many years ago. Captain Isaiah Ryndeb, who dropped dead in New York on Monday, was one of the best known men in tho city, and a famous Jacksonian Democrat. He came to New York when a young man, and he was just beginning to be a power in politics when Silas Wright, Martin Van Buren aud Wm. L. Marcy were in the height of their fame. Mr. Froude is going round the world, partly for the sake of his health, and partly because, as he says, “I have grown tired of the clatter which my last volumes on Carlyle have brought forth, and I thought that, in six months, at any rate, the world would forget the existence of so unlucky a person as the biographer of Carlyle.” General Grant’s house in Galena, 111., is now occupied by the Rev. Ambrose 0. Smith, pastor of the South Presbyterian Church of Galena, a warm friend of the General, who has it rent free. Much of the original furniture remaius in the house, also many articles whice were presented to the General aud Mrs. Grant before and during their trip around the world. The camphor laurel, a native of China, and the tree from which most of the camphor of commerce is obtained, seems to have been introduced successfully into California, one tree in Sacramento having attained a height of thirty feet. The wood, every part of which smells strongly of camphor, is light and durable, not liable to injury from insects, aud much favored by cabinet-makers. Sarah Bern ha ri>t told an interviewer who inquired what progress she was making with her role in M. Sardou's new piece that she never studies the parts for which she is cast iu a regular methodical manner. She works at all times—when she is dressing, when she ife taking a drive—especially when she is taking a drive. In going to and coming from the theater ahe thinks over her part. It is at rehearsals that ahe makes moat way. She has the greatest confluence in

the judgment of her comtadas, and *he invariably takes their opinion on her mode of rendering a bit about which she has any doubt. When they say: “No, it is not quite that,” she begins again, and keep* on trying till she satisfies them. No one knows, she says, what energy and passion she brings to the study of her roles. The story goes that the Russian Czar, Alexander I, having once heard that one of his courtiers, to whom he was strongly attached, had become involved in debt, sent him a book, of which every leaf was a bank bill. A few days later the two met at a court ball. “Well, Count," asked the Czar, “how do you like ray “I am delighted with the first volume, your Majesty," answered the wit significantly, “and shall be 3b%id to know when the second is likely to appear.” Speaking of the comparative rapidity of mental perception in men and women, General Springer, ot the Treasury Department, says: “A man will examine a note systematically, and deduce logically from the imperfect engraving, blurred' vignettee, or indiatinct signature that it is a counterfeit, and be wrong four cases out of ten. A woman picks up a not*;, looks at it in a disultory fashion of her own, and say** ‘That’s a counterfeit.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because it is,' she answers promptly, and she is right eleven ease3 out of twelve.” Editors in Japan are forced by the government t# exercise a Russian discretion in their articles. Th editor of the Jiyu Shimbun being imprisoned on account of a sarcastic headline, his assistant endeavored to fill his place. His first effort appeared in an article entitled “National Constitution," consisting of two columns entirely blank with a small foot note. The note states that after he had seen the article in print he thought it more prudent to erase it, and as there was no time to write anything to supply its place, he makes an apology to the readers. Ai.hama de Granada, recently destroyed by an earthquake, possessed the most romantic situation and flie most romantic history of any town in Spain. It stood high upon the verge of a gigantic cleft in the mountains, the result of volcanio action. From ite position, it was justly regarded by the Moors a* tit* key of their kingdom ofi 1 Grenada, and when captured, in 1482. by the forces of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Alhambra was felt to be foredoomed. It was that event which gave origin to the mournful ballad, “Muy Doloroso," translated by Lord. Byron, with the sad refrain at the close of each stanza; “Woe is me, Alhama!" On a certain street in Denver is a stone mansion of surpassing elegance, which, with its grounds, costnearly $1,000,000. Directly opposite, on a vacant lot, is a tefit, boarded up insido as far the angle of the roof. The back end of it is pierced with a stove-pipe and in the front end are a door and window. In the window hangs a curtain of costly lace and within the tent is a piano of exquisite tone. The tent itself did not cost over s<2o. The piano, upholstery and furni ture inside are said to have cost over $3,000. The owner planted his tent hero over twenty-five years ago and is one of the moderately successful Colorado minors, being worth about $50,000. He prefers his - tent to any dwelling-house, and says he would not exchange it for Windsor Castle. Mr. Julian Hawthorne answers some criticism# of friends of Margaret Fuller who object to the parar graph dealing with her character printed in his biog' raphy of Us father. He writes to the Bostou Tran* script: “When mother was preparing her husband’# journals for publication, it was her habit frequently to consult with me as to the propriety of admitting or excluding certain passages; and, among others, the above extract came up for consideration. She had it copied out ready for publication, but it was*fiually decided to suppress it, for Margaret and Mrs. Hawthorne had been well acquainted, and the former’s conduct toward the latter had frequently been marked by deficiency of good taste, to *ay th e leat, so that this might have been construed in the light of a revenge taken upon the dead. We concluded, therefore, that it should be published, if at all, ouly when a coi or plete biography was written.”

CURRENT TRESS COMMENT. Jr ST so lon v as Southern Senators continue to maintain that the “’lost cause" was right, just so long will Northern Unionists mistrust their full and final acceptance of the verdict of the war. The debat# yesterday ran in a more moderate channel. But Monday’s ebullition revealed the lurking devil in the hearts of the Southern D#waocracy.—Chicago News. If cholera is introduced here during the coming spring ami summer months it. is much more likely t# be brought through the importation of infected rags than by persons suffering from the disease. The chances that a passenger from any European port attacked by cholera will be able to pass quarantine are extremely remote, but the opportunity for determining whether or not rags contain cholera germs are b 7 no means as direct as the preservation of the publie health demands.—Brooklyn Union. Now that the General has passod through the furnace of pecuniary misfortune and permanently reti.ed from scenes for which be was never fitted either by natureor experience, popular opinion is practically unanimous in favor of placing him on the retired list of the army. It is an honor that he lias deserved at the hauds of his countrymen, and the country will regard its bestowal with cordial approval. If Congress is desirous of paying decent deference to public sentiment there ought to be no difficulty in taking up and passing the bill at the present "session.—Brooklyn A standing and ever-rocurring fear that the people's elections will be overthrown by organised crimo, makes the government infamous which exists by such elections. The one-man despotism would be immeasurably better than a government of organized rascak ity. The time has not been when the party in opposition to the Democratic party iias not advocated laws to verify the lawful electors and protect their rights. The time has not been when the Democratic party did not oppose every measure to this end, and when it did not in the legislatures and everywhere determine to keep open all the-ways of election villainy.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Ever 3ince the war on every convenient occasion Jefferson Davis has eulogized the lost cause. But we never remember reading in a Southern newspaper condemnation of his course in so doing. The Ku-klu*. the Moonshiners, the Mississippi plan, the White League, the Chisolm massacre, like Davis's speeches, were uncommonly well calculated to arouse the animosities of the past. But the Southern bourbon* sanctioned these things all the same. And so, too, to take a more recent instance, the flagrant denial of the right of suffrage which resulted in the South’s being solid for Cleveland could not fail to arouse the animosities of the past. It was an observation of a shrewd philosopher of the practical school "that if you want to train up a child in the way lie should go it is well to go that way yourself." We leave the ex-confederate senators to make the application. —New York Tribune. Thkrk is much talk about conducting the government on "business principles,” and so far as its routine offices and the economical management of it* affairs are concerned, there is great need of reform ia this direction. But for the larger concerns of government, statesmanlike principles are needed. An international treaty is not a mere matter of dicker and sharp bargaining from a dollars and cents point of view. It involves questions of law, and may affeot the destiny of the country in the future. A tariff framed by a committee of businoss men will be sur* to "take care" of the special interests of those engaged in the work. What is required for a fair revision, ia addition to the special knowledge of inert trained in a narrow school, is the general knowledge of the needs of the whole country and the rights of a majority of of the people, which It is the business of a statesman to acquire aud apply-—Boston Herald. The time will never come in this country, as Mr. Sherman declared, when it can be properly disputed that "Jeff Davis was in the war and before the war a traitor and a conspirator." That point is as definitely and permanently settled as the fact of Benedict Arnold s infamous treachery. The Democratic leaders are very much mistaken if they think the recent accidental victory of their party signified any gentling of popular judgment with regard to Jen Davis, or any change of popular sentiment with regard to the rebellion in the abstract. On an issue of that kind, the country will never fail to decide that the South had no sufficient provocation or excuse for her secession venture. and that the only proper light in which to consider Jeff Davis is that of a man whose escape front: the gallows when the wp.s closed was the most pronounced instanoo on record of misplaced mercy and forbearance. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. These Southern senators, who hastened to the championship of the arch rebol, were all engaged in the Confederate cause. We do not expect them to denounce aud disavow the cause with which they wore identified. We do not expoet them to pronouuco a Condemnation upon their chief which would condemn, themselves. But it is one thing to refrain from criticism and preserve a discreet silence, aud quite another to place wreaths upon the brow of Davis as an honored patriot, and declare that be is beloved by millions. These men themselves have had a history since the wav. They stand to-day as something beside Confederate senators aud soldiers. But Davis stand* only as a monument of rebellion, and to decorate hie* with honor and love i%simply to testify devotion te his esuso. It is net pleasant to have such sentiment# flan a ted in the face of the North. Aud it is still les# pleasant to reflect that, this element ia now to rulf the couutry-—Philadelphia Tress.