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A MAN who once blacked Cleveland's boots is to be hanged in Illinois week. Let this be an awful warning to those ambitious persons who are seeking to be on an intimate footing with the President-elect. Everybody should rejoice that the Hocking ~va!h?y strike is at an end. The monetary loss was very large to all concerned, and the distress among the idle miners has been great. May there be no occasion to repeat the sad experience of the past nine months. The Ne>j York Herald prints its Berlin news in German, making it very entertaining for English readers. When, it goes a step Jurther in its polyglot craze, and publishes •olumns of French, Italian, etc., it will be a •valuable publication to put on pantry-shelves. The latest rumor from Albany is that Mr. Cleveland is absorbed in working out a “fifteen puzzle,’’his list of }>oPßible Cabinet office!* having been narrowed down to that number of names. He will, if this is true, lava to figure it out on the eight to seven principle. We trust that at the next election Vicargeneral Bessonies will issue an order to the managers of the Little Sisters of the Poor asylum “to leave polities to the politicians.” Possibly, under such an order, all the paupers 'Aiere would not be turned out in a body to Tote the Democratic ticket. THOUGH Bishop Chatard may offer reasons as plenty as blackberries for the peremptory removal of Father O’Neill, no sane man will deny that the effect of his action is to give notice that hereafter no priest must do what Father O’Neill did in the Blaine cane matter. In law a man is held to intend the natural tonsequences of his acts. Ts it necessary for the baby act to be pleaded in defense of the Bishop of Vincennes? The bill to give the widow of old “Pap” Thomas an annual pension of $2,000 was opposed by fifty-two Democrats in the House of Representatives, fifty of whom had been in the service of the late Southern Confederacy. The op|K>sition was let! by non. John H. Reagan. who was Postmaster-general in Jefferson Davis's rebel Cabinet. Os course there is no significance in these facts; and yet, possibly, old soldiers of the Union army, and loyal people of the North generally, will stop and think a minute or two over the matter. The Washington correspondent of a New York paper groans dismally over the passion for drink, which, he says, prevails in Washington’s “best society” to an alarming degree, both among men and women. The only ray of light this moralizer is able to see, is indicated in the hope that under Cleveland's administration this state of Affairs will be remedied. It will, it will; there can be no reasonable doubt of it. Everybody knows that this is an era of reform, and if any of the Democrats who are going to Washington over learned to drink—perish the thought—it is their bouuden duty to swear off. In view of the numerous fires in public buildings within the past year, entailing enormous loss of life, and irreparable damage in the loss of public records and property, the Legislature should give serious considers tion to the question of making the new insane asylums and the State-house practically fireproof. It is a well known fact that when a ft* occurs the usual facilities for extinguishing it are out of order, and from the rerf na-

ture of things, this will he true in the future as it has been in the past. Safety should be the prime object in constructing a building where public records are kept, and our asylums should not be crematories. All that can be done with the old ones is to look after the water supply, but the new ones may be made fire-proof. THE O’NEILL INCIDENT. Attention is directed to the card of Bishop Chatard, elsewhere printed. The Journal can have no quarrel with the right reverend administrator of the diocese, and in what we have to say there is neither captiousness nor a desire to offend. But Bishop Chatard is too much of a man of the world, knows too much of the relation between cause and effect, and apprehends altogether too readily the effect upon the public mind of such an act as he has just performed, to blind himself to the patent truth that the alleged antecedent causes for Father O’NeiH’s removal will be almost universally regarded as an afterthought. There was never a whisper of the probability of such a removal before the “silly cane episode,” to use the Bishop’s words. Neither priest, nor parish, nor secretary, nor vicar-general, so far as the record goes, ever dreamed of the probability of a peremptory severance of the pastoral relations until the “silly cane episode.” “The silly cane episode” is fairly and irrevocably fixed, by all the usual rules of evidence, as the beginning of the trouble which has culminated in this harsh aud, it is to be hoped, entirely unprecedented exercise of the episcopal authority. In his card, Bishop Chatard says the reasons far the removal “do not affect the moral character of Rev. Father O’Neill, who, so far as I know him, is a good man and worthy priest." May we nsk the Bishop, in all kindness and candor, if in his administration it is usual to make “a tramp” out of a man whose moral character is unchallenged, and who “is a good man and worthy priest?” Father O'Neill said, in his pulpit on Sunday, that he had been denounced as “an Irish tramp,” since he took the cane to Mr. Blaine, and the action of the Bishop had turned the taunt into a sorry fact. With a part of his salary unpaid, with the work of the parish proceeding in such manner as to call forth the commendatory resolutions passed by the congregation, with no charge affecting his moral character, and with the indorsement of the Bishop that he “is a good man and worthy priest,” Father O’Neill is peremptorily turned out of employment, made “a tramp” of, stigma put upon him that, in the rigorous discipline of the church to which he has given his life, will remain to injure him for veal’s, if, indeed, he ever fully recovers from it. We submit that, upon Bishop Cliatard’s own statement, this is harsh and unjust treatment. Conceding, for the moment, that what is so apparent as the real cause of removal, however remote it may seem, had nothing to do with it, there is no one, either in or out of the Catholic Church, who will not say that the treatment accorded Father O’Neill is unjust and arbitrary, inexplicable upon any reasonable grounds. If he has not boon thus hardly dealt with for the “silly cane episode,” there must bo personal causes why this priest has been singled out for such special disfavor. What they are we do not care to inquire, but we fancy that Bishop Chatard will not find acquiescence with his “discipline” among the Irish Catholic people of this city and State, who love fair play, who, with warm-hearted and impulsive generosity, are eager.to accord to all men the common justice they demand for themselves. In any light it may be viewed, the O’Neill incident is unfortunate. If it be not a reprimand for the indulgence of freedom of thought and action, it is an indication that the Bishop of Vincennes is neither just nor merciful in his administration, when he can so harshly beat a servant whose moral character is unassailed, and who “is a good man and worthy priest.”

Representative Gordon, of Putnam county, is credited with the statement, as to the attendance in the State University, that “probably there are 150 students altogether, and 120 of that number are from Monroe county, and the rest of them from the balance of the State of Indiana.” The facts of the attendance, as taken from the last annual catalogue, show that Mr. Gordon is resting under either the grossest prejudice or densest ignorance. There were, last year, in the college classes proper 143 studeuts, of whom 128 were from Indiana; fifteen were from outside States; thirty-six, or 23 per cent, of the entire number, were from Monroe county. There are 300 graduates of the State University who are now residents of the State. A dozen of these are members of the present Legislature. But the apparent preponderance of Monroe county, as above shown, is in some respects fallacious. A college town has advantages as a place of residence. People who have means, or can find business, take up their residence in college towns, so that they may educate their children and at the same time live with them. As with every college town in the State—Franklin, Greeucastle or Crawfordsville—so in Bloomington, fully one-half of the students enrolled from Monroe county belong to families who have become citizens of Bloomington for the sole purpose of educatiug their children. Some of them have come from other Stales for this purpose. Again, more than half the students from Monroe county are young ladies; and no one will deny the advantage of having young ladies attend home schools. Os the present graduating class, numbering twenty-six, but four are residents of Monroe oounty, and all are young women;

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the junior class has no students from Monroe couuty. Mr. Gordon’s guess has no value, and should have no influence with members of the Legislature, no matter from wliat part of the State they may be or what school they may favor. The Journal has been at some pains to keep posted as to the higher education in Indiana, and while favoring no State or private instution more than another, it dees not wish to see any one of our State educational enterprises misrepresented for ends of partisanship or personal jealousy. As with the State Normal School, the State University has but few students from cities; they are mostly from the families of farmers; and to cut off the endowment cripples the class to which the prosperity of the State is due, aud which controls its future. If the Legislature will look up the statistics of the State universities or sectarian colleges, they will find our State University has less local patronage than the majority of similar schools. Father O’Don aghue must really excuse us, and the good secretary should not make too heavy a draft on the credulity of the community. Os course, everybody understands that there will be found other reasons for the removal of Father O’Neill than the Blaiue cane episode, and it is equally as true that nobody will believe one of them who cares for his reputation for common-sense. The letter of Vicar-gencral Bessonies gives the whole snap away, as the street phrase has it, while the letter given to Father O’Neill by the Bishop, commending the priest’s ability, character and services, forestalls any effort at this late day to make it appear that his administration at St. Patrick’s was not satisfactory. Bishop Chatard would gain more credit if he would have his spokesmen rest the case on what is so plainly the truth, and defend it. If the present efforts to “shift the ground” are kept up, the indignation already felt at what seems an outrage on the freedom of personal thought and action, will settle into a conviction that in the Diocese of Vincennes Catholics must “leave politics to the politicians," except in cases where they can aid the Democratic party.

There are four places on the different lines of street railway where the drivers are furnished with hot coffee during the cold weather at the expense of the company. This is a very thoughtful and humane provision, one of the rare instances tending to disprove the proposition that corporations have no souls. Unless the street railway company is careful it will come to be popular with the people, who are quick to respond to every evidence of enlightened management and generous spirit. The company had to be unmercifully beaten over the head until some most flagrant outrages were stopped, but just at present the management of the system is commendable. But the cars should be heated instead of being filled with dirty straw. The Democrats in the State Senate, yesterday, did not hesitate to order an investigation into the charges that the officers of that body were employing more assistants than the law allowed, and that the assistant secretary had already drawn more money than he was entitled to for the entire session. This is well and proper. But will the honorable senators tell the people of the State why they decided that an investigation of the Treasury was not necessary, when it was charged that the funds of the State were imperiled, and that it was believed a large deficit already existed? Why so sensitive about the spigot while the bunghole is left unguarded, and apparently uncared for? The Milwaukee Sentinel says: “The failure of prohibition in Kansas and lowa is beyond all question. No enthusiast can close his eyes to the fact that more and worse liquor is drunk in these States to-day than before the enactment of prohibition laws, while the towns and villages which formerly kept up local improvements by the revenue from licenses are passing into unrepaired decay, and the owners of real estate are revolting against the burden of taxation which they are compelled to carry. In lowa a Prohibition warrior, a Methodist preacher, who has been as zealous as any Wisconsin fanatic, writes that, things are very much worse now than when the doors of the saloons were wide open —that clubs of young men buy whisky freely from the agents of Chicago liquor houses, and hold high revel in saloons which are denominated club-houses—young men who drink more than beforo because they have the human pleasure in doing what the Prohibition people 6ay they can’t do.” “It is our belief that a large deficiency exists therein” —the State Treasury.—Report of the minority of the committee of the State Legislature. “We do not think an investigation is required.” —Reply of the Democratic majority of the Senate and House. The House of Representatives yesterday declined to suspend the rules for the passage of the bill to retire General Grant. *Every ex-Confederate soldier, Rave one, voted against the man who whipped them. General Rosecrans made an exhibition of himself, and added to the general contempt in which he is already held. m ■ The Lumbermen and Their Business. The lumbermen’s excursion, while attended with many difficulties and physical inconvenience, will result in good to the lumber trade of Indiana; not so much from what was seen as from the better understanding that must result from the more intimate acquaintanceship gained. The three and a half days during which they endeavored to cover the distance that should have been run in twelve hours, gave ample opportunity to cultivate an intimacy otherwise well nigh impossible. Hereafter, therefore, they will all the more easily co-oper-ate to their mutual advantage. It remains to be seen whether the trip to Muskegon will in itself

be productive of any advantage over what is nlready enjoyed. The evident purpose was to encourage shipment by rail in preference to transportation by water to Chicago and Michigan city, and thence resbipped. The question is one of railroad rates, aud no sentiment can overcome any pecuniary advantage that may be offered by lake shipment. If the Chicago & West Michigan railway can offer rates in conjunction with any line running through Indiana that are equally a3 good or better than can be had by vessel to the points named, then will ludiana dealers buy direct from the mills; otherwise they will not. The general sentiment seemed to be that the figures offered by mill men at Muskegon were not enough cheaper to justify purchasing of them in preference to the lumber dealers of Michigan City or Chicago. But the excursionists did get a much better idea of the lumber trade of the region visited. The thirty-seven mills at Muskegon last year cut 659,000,000 feet of pine lumber, the largest amount ever cut at that place, and second only to the Saginaw region in volume. The shipping facilities of Muskegon by lako, and its inland resources through the Muskegon river, render it a place of vast commercial importance, a position it must hold for years to come. The annual lumber out-put of the place, if loaded on cars, would make a train of no less than 79,000 cars. This is a vast amount, but can be more than matched by an Indiana town in the amount of coal mined. The city of Brazil, in this State, sends out an average of from 300 to 400 cars per day, or from 100,000 to 140,000 per annum. These two industries, if they could be connected by rail—as they are. practically, by the Chicago & West Michieran and the L., N. A, & C. railways—would, if handled by these roads alone, afford them all the work they could do. In the way of saw-mills the visitors were shown through several in operation, notably that of Colonel Ives, at Hungerford, which is provided with circular and gang saws, and all the appliances that ingenuity has yet devised. From the time the log is gripped in the water by the “bull chain” and dragged to the saw-carriage until it goes out of the other end of the mill in the shape of boards of various dimensions, and lath, everything is done automatically by machinery, and an idea of the speed with which it is done may be had when it is stated that a circular saw ran though a sixteen-foot log twenty-three times in two and a half minutes, including all the shifting, a single saw turning out 20,000 feet in a day. From the mills the tourists were taken to one of the West Michigan lumber camps, where a loggers’ dinner was served, after which the process of felling trees was shown, and the manner of getting out the logs to the fine logging road constructed for the purpose of hauling immense loads.

Several years ago it was announced that the wife of General Sherman had received from the Pope the golden rose, which is presented to the individual who has rendered the most signal service to the church during that year. It was further added that she was the first American thus distinguished. This announcement, with a change of names, has since appeared with annual regularity, each recipient solemnly claiming to have the first rose. Perhaps the Pope sends the first golden bloom from his bush every season, but enough of these valuable flowers to make up a fashionable corsage bouquet must be in America by this time. Miss Caldwell, of Baltimore, who gave $300,000 towards the founding of a Roman Catholic university, is the latest to receive the first honor. Anthony Comstock has served notice on the New York World to discontinue printing certain advertisepienls, which he conceives to be of a nature detrimental to public morals. Comstock has been fighting the World, the flesh and the devil for a good while, but lie is likely, now, to experience the sensation of having the World and the devil hunt him. The New York World is authority for the rule in etiquette that a gentleman should always lift his hat to a lady whom he knows, “even to his mother-in-law.” We should say he should. “A reader,” Morristown, can have all his questions answered by addiessing P. C. Trusler, Indianapolis postoffice. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: (1.) What is the name of Queen Victoria’s husband? (2.) Is he still living? (3.) Does she bear the name of her husband? (4.) How many children has she, and who are they? (5.) Was she married, more than once. Elwood, lnd. Reader. (1.) Albert. (2.) Dead. (3.) No. (4.) The names of her children are: Victoria, Albert Edward, Alice, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold (deceased), and Beatrice—boru in the order named. (5.) No. Tc the Editor of the Indianapolie Journal: (1.) Is there any limit to the number of successive terms a person can hold the office of President of the United States? (2.) What is the limit of terms a trustee of township can hold his office successively? Reader. Jamestown, lnd. (I.) No. (2.) No person shall be eligiblo to the office of township trustee more than four years in any period of six years. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: How does the coming Congress stand in regard to politics? ~ H. A. Milligan, lnd. The Senate, as now indicated, will stand: Republicans, 41; Democrats, 34; doubtful (Illinois), 1. House: Republicans, 140; Democrats, 182; Greenback. 1; Fusionist, 1. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. "If I were to live my life over again,” said R. B. Hayes recently, “I should do three things that I failed to do and ought to have done. I should smoke good cigars, and take an occasional glass of wine and now and then a rubber of whist.” One of the prominent citizens of Adairsville, Ga., fell asleep in church last Sunday. His wife, sitting by, pushed him gently to arouse him, when the “old soldier,” in a half sleepy way, cried out audibly: “Oh, get up Molly, and make the fire yourself." HIOK office pecuniarily profits an honest man little in England. Mr. Gladstone, as First Lord of the Treasury, after fifty years of eminent public service, is just as well off as he would have been now had he come on his twenty-first birthday into inheritance of an annuity for life of $1,940. In the St. Johnsburg, N. Y., Times, there appears an item to the effect that “the obituary notice of Mrs. is not continued to-day. for the reason that the family refused to pay our regular rates for such work, adding that they could get it done for nothing at Fort Plain. Good way to encourage home industry.” The death cf Cardinal McCabe, in Dublin, the other day, recalls his fierce quarrel with Dr. Crake, tho Archbishop of Cashel, in relation to the Ladies’ Land League in Ireland. The Cardinal condemned it in strong terms, when A. M. Sullivan, M. P., whose wife was a member of the body, warmly defended it. Archbishop Croke wrote a long letter sternly censuring the Cardinal, whose ‘‘peculiar politics were rejected by the overwhelming mass of the people." Two archbishops assailing one another on political grounds

caused a great stir in Ireland. Archbishop Croke was called to Rome, and on his return said he owed “no spiritual allegiance to Cardinal McCabe.” The two prelates were ever afterward bitterly opposed. Thb acting Postmaster-general has transmitted to Congress a letter from the Attorney-general, setting forth the desirability of securing the postal records of the Confederacy for use in the settlement of claims presented by parties who carried the mails in the South in ante-war times, and whose acoonnts hud not been adjusted at the outbreak of hostilities. Eyesight among civilized people is by no means so strong as among savages. A gentleman in Zululand, by the assistance of a powerful glass, made out two distinct objects on the horizon, which he guessed to be a mounted man with a walking companion. The Zulus with him were able at once to inform him who the gentleman was. and that he was accompanied by his wife on foot. A religious fanatic of Erie has written a “new Bible,” which is described as being an incoherent jumble of blasphemy and burlesque. Iu one part of it the author mentions Noah as inviting the “boys” to “take suthin’,” after stepping out of the ark. An effort is made to prove that the Savior wore red hair, and that John the Baptist was twice before a jury for alleged misdemeanors. On a recent night-, at Perth, In Scotland, a gentleman. who was returning home after having seen Mr. Toole at the theater, rescued a man from falling into the river. This incident has been utilized as an argument in favor of the stage by an enthusiastic playgoer of the town, who maintains at length in a local paper that if Mr. Toole had not visited Perth the man would have been drowned. The Rev. Elijah Kellogg, the distinguished author and preacher, who resides in Boston in winter, spent, says the Boston Courier, his early life on Ilarpswell island in Casco bay, where he still has a beautiful summer residence. Instead of spending his time in play with his companions, when a boy, he devoted every leisure moment to the somewhat arduous task of dragging a heavy ox chain all over the island to hear its musical rattle on the stones, and its soft “chink” in the grass. If this were known to have been the source of the roverend gentleman’s literary inspirations, the streets of Bost >n would be so crowded with men and women dragging ox chains that horse-car travel would be impeded. Mrs. Speedy, in her “Wanderings in the Sondan,” relates the following ourious episode: After a long day’s march she was just settliug herself down to sleep when her host, an Arab telegraph clerk, separated from her only by a thin partition, began to say hi3 prayers in a loud sing-song chant. She remonstrated; for a time there was silence; she was falling asleep when the clerk began his prayors again. Again she remonstrated, again thero was a brief silence, to be broken, alas! too soon by the idefatigable clerk, who once more began saying liis prayers “da capo,” this time faster than ever. It was like “speaking by machinery; the whirr and buzz was terrific. We learned next- morning that our host belonged to a sect which obliged him to repeat his prayers aloud, and which also enjoined as one of its most stringent rules that the voico of either a woman, a donkoy or a dog, if heard at any time during the service, made it necessary that the whole of the prayers should be repeated.

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. There have been plenty of more wonderful winters in regard to severity, and in regard to mildness; but kiot many perhaps in which the two extremes have been more thoroughlv mixed than during the present one. It must be a trying season for plmanac-makers and prophetic old resident*. The Signal-service Bureau finds it impossible to keep up with tho changes, though doing its best. It would almost seem as though the weather was in that ttate of unstable equilibrium which perhans corresponds in meteorology to tho condition of change announced by politicians when they are unable to discover the tendencies of things.—New York Tribune. It seems that, the Oneida Community has practically fallen to pieces—not on account of outside opposition. but because of its own inherent weakness and wickedness. The fonndor. Noyes, is in Canada, and the members are scattered in all cirections, and it is not likely that the organization will ever again attract any particular attention. Such is the common fate of these experiments at the substitution of some other rule of life for the ordinary moral code; and the fact is to the credit of human nature. Mormonism has managed to survive longer than any other of the modern abominations of this sort, but it will go in time. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Most American women are domestic toilers, wage workers, or women of affairs, and we see no more prospect of an “awakeuing” coming to them than to the “idealized women.” They remain for the most :>art entirely indifferent to the programme of the suffragists. Till more women become interested in woman suffrage it cannot be Baid that it has made much progress. Moreover, the great changes brought about in one way or another by the anti-slavery reform are still being wrought out. The spirit of agitation. the desire for further change, are not so strong as they were twenty-five years ago, and as they may be again. At present there are inevitable problems enough to solve without taking up one, great and farreaching indeed, but in which as yet few people take a lively interest.—New York Snn. The real issue in the Oklahoma matter is between the cattle syndicates, whose individual members want 1,000.000 acres each to graze their cattle upon, and the individual settlers, who want- 100 acres for cultivation. The government authorities thus far have decided with the syndicate and against the settler. In the meanwhile. Congress cruelly and criminally refuses to take action, and calmly waits a collision between United States troops and the determined settlers, who know that no living person of any nationality is being wronged by their going on these lands to make for themselves homes. The Indian title has been extinguished; no Indian tribe claims a part of the lands. Why will not Congress pass the necessary legislation for the perfecting of titles by the settlers? —tit. Louis Republican. Thk rinking fever, whioh is having its run like croquet, “Torn Collins,” the fifteen puzzle or the walking mania, rose and set in England recently with the same rapidity, and it is probable, with the same ignominious end. It met there hot social condemnation, just as it is attacked hero by a variety of religious bodies, and. while it lasted, had its influence on the theaters. The ‘ rinking ankle" came to be as distinctly known as the “lawn-tennis leg" of a later or the "croquet foot" of an earlier day. The rinks will probably empty, themselves as quickly bore as in Fiiigland; but the rapidity with which an empty nothing like this spreads is one of the most singular and striking proofs that organized society can do as much towards making nonsense homogeneous as spreading intelligence or uniting in one generous enthusiam. As for the vacant depths of an arausementloss public which each of these ripples of anew pursuit proves to exist, it is only one more proof that civilization can do a good deal more to provide people with leisure than with the sense to enjoy it. —Philadelphia Press. The defense * * * has never been any other than the jesuitical one that the ends justified the means, and no one will deny that the territory now occupied by the United States is employed in a manner better calculated to benefit the human race than it would be if still occupied by roving tribes of wild Indians. Still, morally considered, our policy should be condemned, and, when an active war breaks out be-tween the government and Chief Joseph or Sitting Bull, the sympathy of the world, if the question is judged in the abstract, should be with these maltreated Indians, and not with tho United States troops, who are hired to slaughter them. The same reasoning will hold good of these colonial enterprises in Africa. The rights and the lives of these Arabo ai s neither more nor less worthy of respect than the rights and the lives of Indians; but it is possible that if, in the Soudan, as in the United States, the entrance of civilized powers put* an end to the barbarity of existing customs by replacing them with civilized methods and civilized men. the world as a whole will be benefited by the change, even though the transformation is brought about at the expense of a great amount of individual suffering.—Boston Herald. Stock Drovers Killed in Collision. Pittsburg. Pa., Feb. 10—Intelligence has been received here of a collision of two stock trains, near Conewaugh. on the Pennsylvania road, early yesterday morning, by which two Chicago drovers were killed, and a* tramp stealing a ride seriously injured. It appears that the first section of a train stopped at South Fork, on account of an obstruction on the track, and before the conductor could send a flagman to notify the second section, it came thundering along and crashed into the rear of the first section, completely demolishing the caboose. William Keeler and Joseph Erb. two drovers who were sleeping in the caboose, were both killed instantly, and an unknown trainman, who was riding in the rear car, was badly but not fatally hurt. _ Tho Knights of Honor Fund*. Louisville, Ky., Feb. It—ln the Law and Chancery Court, Judge Simrall. in the case of the Supremo Lodge of Knights of Honor, against its ex-treasurer, Jndge R. J. Breckinridge, asking that a receiver be appointed to take charge of the funds, refused to enpoiut a receiver, saytho plaintiff had no legal right to bring the suit.

MUMMERIES OF KING REX. All New Orleans ami 80,000 Strangers Participate in the Festivities. Bnsiness Practically Suspended and the City Given Over to Revelry—Brilliant Scenes by Day and Night. Special to the Indinnapolis Journal. New Orleans, Fob. 16.—T0 day Rex and the carnival have completely overshadowed the exposition, aud the entire population of the city, strangers as well as ourselves, have devoted themselves to enjoying and participating in the festivities and mummeries. The Orleanians throw no more vim and enthusiasm into the carnival than the most thorough New Englanders who Happen to be here. The crowd now iu the city to see the carnival proves this. These have come here 60,000 to 80,000 strong, and staid New England has contributed far more than its share. The thousands of Eastern people, mainly Bostonians and New Yorkers, spending the winter in Florida, on account of their health, have taken advantage of the low rates to this city for the week, to see New Orleans when at its brightest. Another large Massachusetts excursion party reached here several days ago in the steamer City of St. Louis, which they chartered from Cincinnati to New Orleans. It proved a pleasant trip for them, for all along the river the people, remembering Bostons magnificent gift during the flood of 1674, turned out to greet them at Memphis, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge and other river towns. They were given the heartiest reception, escorted through the town, dined, wined and entertained. Tuesday Governor Bourne, of Rhode Island, arrived with his eutire staff, all in uniform, and quite a lurge party of ladies and gentlemen from Providence. Friday another party of 300 reached the city from Portland, Me., while of smaller parties there are so many that it is quite impossible even to give & list of them.

The West furnished its quota, particularly Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati, which always send large delegations here. There were five or six St Louis boat parties of 200 or 300 each, who came down by river for the round trip their boats tying up against the wharf hero and furnishing them board and lodging during their stay in the city; but the greatest- increase in the attendance, as compared with previous years, is of people from the Northwest, Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and lowa. They combine pleasure and business, being hereto attend the carnival and see the exposition, and at the same time introduce into Southern and South American markets the flour of Minnesota and the butter and cheese of lowa. Despite tho numbers, there has been a great deal less crowding than last year. New Orleans’s capacity for tho accommodation of visitors has doubled, quadrupled since then. It has, during the last four months, opened fourteen new hotels, two of them first class, and able to accommodate some 12,000 people, but the great bulk of tho strangers have found accommodations elsewhere, in private families, nearly every one in New Orleans being willing to lease.an extra room to the carnival visitors—“for a consideration.” Ten days ago the registers of th® Exposition Bureau of Information and Accommodation, created especially to take care of and provide rooms for strangers visiting tho city, had upon them a list of rooms sufficient for the accommodation of 35.000 people. To-day every one of these vacant rooms is taken, while thousands have to be satisfied with, temporary quarters—cots in the hall, dining room or parlor. To day and to-morrow business is virtually suspended in New Orleans. People refuse to work, and give themselves up to the wildest revelry. Before noon to-day the great boulevard of New Orleans—Canal street —was packed with ueople, the galleries as well as the banquette. From every building flags and bunting hung, while strings of pennants and banners stretched across tho street, from side to side. At a distance, or to a serious man, the whole affair of the carnival looks singularly absurd—a lot of grown men making children of themselves; but it is almost impossible to resist the spirit of the carnival in New Orleans. It seems infectious, and a gravo Bostonian professor will be seen laughing as heartily over the grotesqueness of some comical street tableau as any New Orleans darky, nurtured and bred up to “mardi gras.” The crowd was densest in the neighborhood of the Illinois Central depot, where it was announced Rex would arrive, and Clio, Erato, Melpomene, and the other streets there were blockod with people. As the train steamed into tho depot the crowds burst forth with shouts of applause, which could not have been louder or heartier if Rex had been the President himself.

Descending from the cars, the carnival party formed into procession and marched out Calliope. There was a military escort of troops, composed of the city militia, the Washington Artillery, Louisiana Field Artillery, Continental Guard, Crescent Rifles, Louisiana Rifles, beside* the cadets of the Alabama and Louisiana State military institutes; and, in addition to these, a large force of hussars, in rich and gaudy uniforms. as a special guard of honor to his carnival majesty. King Carnival—so they play the story in Nevr Orleans, and they go about it in a serious manner that is quite impressive—is a thousand years and more old, who visits his capital city of New Orleans only once a year, ruling them for two days. It is a rule that he must never appear any two years or two days in the same character. Last year he was King Charles II on the day before mardi gras, and Solomon on mardi gras. This year, he appears in the character of Charles VII of France, clad in a complete suit of armor, which glitters in the sun like solid gold instead of gilt, and a cloak of blue velvet and ermine thrown over it. The identity of the King is never revealed, and is only accidentally discovered. It is deemed one of the highest gifts that can be awarded ft citizen; and, some years ago. one of the richest bankers in New Orleans, Mr. W. 8. Pike, is credited with having given $5,000, like Didius Julianus, for the privilege to be king for a day the only benefit of which was to permit him to name the young lady who would be queen of the carnival, and who would, in that capacity, rule for two nights over New Orleans society. After* the King follow, in carriages, the carnival court and dukt*s of tho realm, who are the leading citizens of Nev Orleans— bankers, brokers, merchants, and men. indeed, prominent in all lines of business. This title of nobility is also purchasable, $l5O contributed to the royal exchequer, toward* paying for these displays, being sufficient to eu* title one to style himself duke, and present himself before tho carnival court Tho procession winds up with a number of burlesque and comical characters, Venus, as an old woman, with a houseful of children, Cupid a dude, the Swiss admiral from La Vie Parisienne, and all manner of ludicrous and ridiculous people. Out Calliope to St Charles the procession marched, amid tho crowds which lined tho sUeofc