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THE DAILY JOURNAL. by JNO. C. NEW & SON. TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1885. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following place* LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. FARlS—American Exchange in Faris, 35 Boulevard des Capucinea. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotel*. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOTJTSVTLLE—C. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUTS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 Mr. Cleveland would not 'even listen to the silver men, but abruply told them to "put it down in writing." The charge that General Butler is short in his accounts as president and treasurer of the National Soldiers’ Home, is in the nature of a great surprise. It is scarcely possible that Butler is a defaulter, even by negligence. The crowd at Mrs. McElroy’s last reception, on Saturday, was so great that some visitors crawled in through the windows, and some went down cellar and came up through a private door. It is difficult to see how the Democratic reformers can inaugurate any more "primitive simplicity*’ of manners than this. The proposition from California to take General Grant and family to the Pacific coast, and care for them in a manner befitting the services of the "old man" to the country, can scarcely be considered in the light of an indorsement of "the scoundrel, General Rosocrans," as lie is affectionately termed by a fel-low-Democrat, who evidently knows him well. Three notorious prisoners are held in the Tombs now: Mrs. Dudley, Richard Short and Justus Schwab; the first for shooting O’Donovan Rossa, the second for stabbing "Captain" Phelan, and Schwab for inciting a riot. In the order named they should bo spanked and sent to prison for twenty years. The Dudley desires to bo made a martyr of, Short is an assassin, and Schwab is a scoundrel. The proposition to recruit a brigade of sympathizers with the Irish cause for service in Egypt, in conjunction with the Mahdi, against the British troops, is about as brilliant a piece of foolishness as could well be conceived. It lias, however, the merit of being above assassination, and if it should happen to be carried out, the members of it would at least command respect for their bravery.

It behooves the people of the country to take care of their liberties. An Albany correspondent reports that Messrs. Cleveland, Manning and Lament have formed a partnership for the conduct of the government and the suppression of all information in regard to their intentions. These three gentlemen may have it all their own way now, but in less than four years they will wonder what the tiger is going to do with them. The contest amongst the Democrats of this city for the postoffice appears to bo narrowed down to a choice between Mr. Creelinan, who is known by nobody but Mr. Bynum; Aquilla Jones, an old and worthy citizen, and Mr. Wm. Henderson. Either of tho latter gentlemen is well and favorably known. Mr. Henderson appears to bo the favorite; the only objection urged against him is that he is a relative by marriage to Vice-president Hendricks. There is nothing in that fact, however, that should militate against his selection. Ho would make a good officer. That the way of the transgressor is hard has been realized afresh by defaulting Cashier Hidden, of one of the Newark, N. J., banks. He is serving out a ten years’ sentence for his crime. His wife, who has continued to be devoted to him, went to Washington last week to appeal to President Arthur for her husband’s release. Her mission was fruitless, and the day after her return, worn out with grief and disappointment, she died suddenly, of what her friends call a broken heart. Hedden was so overcome by the news of her death that it is thought he may not recover. 0 Wall street is supreme with the Democratic party. Never has it dared to go outside of New York for a presidential candidate. In 1864 it was George B. McClellan, in 1868 it was Horatio Seymour, in 1872 it was Horace Greeley, in 1876 it was Samuel J. Tilden, in 1880 it was Winfield S. Hancock, in 1884 it was Grover Cleveland. During that time the Republican party never took a presidential candidate from New York. Mr. Cleveland, the first New York President elected, ba3 already shown that he is owned, .body and soul, by Wall street, a fact it is seriously proposed to emphasize by putting two New York men in the Cabiuet. In the House of Representatives, yesterday, Rev. J. M. Townsend, the representative from Wayne county, made an effective, dignified and scholarly argument upon his bill to repeal the law against mixed marriages. With a fine irony Mr. Townsend thought that the two millions of white people In Indiana ought to be able to protect themselves from 42,000 colored people, without a special law. An indication of the temper of the Democratic House against tho colored race was given in the effort to prevent

Mr. Townsend from speaking, although there had been an understanding for some time that the gentleman should be allows tho opportunity to make his argument. Mr. Gooding, of Hancock, is to be credited with having used his influence to see that fair and courteous treatment was accorded a representative who is not only an honor to his race, but is the peer of his peers on the floor of the House. But Mr. Townsend’s bill was indefinitely postponed.

THE SHAME BY CONTRAST. The shameless way in which the Congress now in session has treated General Grant, de spite the innumerable petitions that have gone to it from individuals, societies and State legislatures, is in striking contrast with the treatment accorded great warriors of other countries. Take the example of England relative to the Duke of Marlborough. Succeeding each of his great military successes honors were showered upon him without stint, and whon his career was crowned by the victory at Blenheim (he haring previously been made a duke) the Queen ordered that a palace should be built for him, to be called Blenheim. This was erected on a tract of land containing 2,940 acres, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The cost of the palace was £500,000, or $2,500,000, the value of the land being very great, also. When he died he was in the enjoyment of an income of $350,000 per annum, exclusive of what he drew from royal gifts. Honors were showered richly upon Nelson, the hero of the Nile and of Trafalgar. In addition to numerous honors in tho way of titles, he was first given an annual pension of $5,000, which was subsequently increased to $15,000, and then to $30,000. Ilis untimely death, just as his fleet had won the memorable victory at Trafalgar, undoubtedly prevented his grateful country from attesting its appreciation in a more adequate measure. As it was, his brother, the Rev. William Nelson, D. D., was created Earl Nelson, of Trafalgar and Merton, with an annua) grant of $30,000. To each of his two sisters $50,000 was granted, besides $500,000 for the purchase of an estate. Tho Duke of Wellington enjoyed even more princely honors. In addition to civil honors, such as no other man received, he was first given an annual pension of $50,000. His share in the Waterloo prize money was S3OO, - 000. In 1817 the British nation gave him the ostate of Strathfioldsaye, costing $1,315,000. Fresh titles and offices were bestowed upou him until his death. Contrasted with these exhibitions of national gratitude, as expressed by the bostowal of every possible civil honor and the gift of millions, the action, or nonaction, of tho United States is humiliating and shameful to a degree. General Grant will go into history as the peer of any of those named, and, if present indications are to be trusted, he will die without having received a penny from the Nation which liis great achievements saved from dissolution; and, more than that, he will die without the Nation having the decene.y to restore him to the honorary title of the office he once filled so grandly, and which he gave up at the call of his country to another field of service. The disgrace of this neglect is not only upon those in whose power it is to remedy it, but upou all Americans. It is a blot on the fair fame of the Nation.

The Democratic majority moves forward steadily in the accomplishment of one of the foulest and most infamous pieces of legislation ever attempted in any legislative body. The apportionment bills are so outrageous and indecent that a number of Democrats cannot sink their manhood sufficiently to support them, but have denounced them without stint. For any one who cafti for his character as an honest man to stand up and say that tho bills are fairer than the Republican party ever passed when they were in the majority, is to belie himself, to violate the facts of history, and to insult common intelligence. The changes made in tho congressional bill render it more infamous than before. Now the bill masses the Republican vote in the Sixth and Ninth districts, and makes the eleven others more certainly and solidly Democratic. Against this the Lafayette Democrats are furious, and Senator Johnson threatens to resign if the outrage be seriously attempted upon the people he represents. When it is his ox that is gored the Lafayette senator protests, but he was ready enough to vote the disfranchisement upon other people. It will be only poetic justice if he is made to drink of tho poisoned chalice he was so willing to press to other people's lips. So far as the legislative bill is concerned, tbe infamy is worse, if possible, than that of the congressional bill, for the reason that it is in the nature of a perpetual disfranchisement of the majority of the people. Afraid to go before the people of the State, the Democracy seeks to perpetuate its power by binding the voters hand and foot, and preventing them from electing a General Assembly that will represent the popular will and undo the wrong they seek to inflict. Under the bill twenty thousand popular majority against the Democratic. party would not be sufficient to take the Legislature away from them. We do not feel that the voters o£ tho State, or the membors of the Legislature themselves, are properly awake to the scoundrelly character of the proposed legislation. It is an effort to secure in Indiana the results readied iu the South through murder, and violence, and unblushing fraud. It should be resisted as manfully and as decisively as if the Democracy were attempting to murder the suffrage by the shotgun policy, or to defeat the popular will by tissue ballots and the

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other frauds that have disgraced the rebel States. Yet the outrage will be consummated. Mr. Cleveland is suffering from "previousness." It is not everybody who is anxious to rush in and assume responsibilities before they come to him in due process of law and course of time. Not only will Mr. Cleveland learn the value of self-restraint by his little * ‘tilt’’ with the majority of his party on the silver question, but he will find the truth of what the Journal has said from the first, and that is that no man is greater than his party. Mr. Cleveland may be "chock full” of wisdom, and fine resolves, and "reform” notions, and all that sort of thing; but he will discover before long that he is merely the executive Lead of his party. Not only will his administration prove a failure with a divided party, but the country will suffer, if possible, more from a Kilkenny cat fight, such as there was in Johnson’s time, than from the restoration to power temporarily of the rebel Democracy. Our opinion is, from the present point of view, that Mr. Cleveland will bend before his party, and that ere long the country will find that it was not "Reformer" Cleveland that was elected but the Democratic party, a party unchanged in spirit, purpose and leadership; a party dominated to-day by the same men and the same "principles” that brought the country to the verge of bankruptcy twenty-four years ago. There are a number of Democratic members of the Legislature, members for revenue only, who are doing all they can to forco an extra session. This is always the case about this time with a lot of cheap fellows who cannot earn more than a dollar a day at home, and to whom $0 a day, with servants to wait upon them, is a now and luxurious experience they cannot well relinquish. If the Democratic party thinks it can saddle the expense of an extra session upon tho already overburdened people and add that to the record they have made, well and good; but we fancy there are some Democrats who will think twice before allowing these Cheap Johns to wreck the party. If Governor Gray has any care for his political future, and wants to see his senatorial chances in 188 C materialize, he will give these reckless schemers to understand that there will be no special session tinder any circumstances. Governor Porter carried on tho State government very successfully without appropriation bills, and Governor Gray is scarcely the man to confess his inability to do the same. The legislators for revenue only should be given a black eye at once.

The City Council last night put in practical shape a suggestion first made in the Journal. They offered to give the Olivers forty acres off the Garfield Park rent free for twenty years if they would move their plowworks here. At the end of twenty years the property is to bo appraised and the Olivers given the option of its purchase. The land is on the line of the Belt railway* and is certainly a tempting offer. The Governors of tho Board of Trade, at their meeting last night, adopted a resolution favoring the ordinance for tho building of anew market-house, and appointed a commmittee to urge its passage through tho Council and Board of Aldermen. These two actions are a cheering indication of the awakening of the people of Indianapolis to the importance of a business and iudustrial revival. With an earnest, united and liberal effort, our city may enter upon a career of solid prosperity unknown for the past ten years. When Attorney-general Brewster took possession of his office ho found the rooms shabby, and procoedod to refit them in what he thought a suitable manner, but which tho finance committee have since regarded as extravagant. No appropriation for tho payment of the bills has ever been made, and this year the committee seemed disposed not to allow tho claim. Mr. Brewster visited the committee-room in person and set forth his claims, but reoeived no encouragement Then said the Attorneygeneral: “I will pay for the furniture myself. But I shall occupy the office only a few days longer, and when I go I will take the articles I pay for with me. If it is your desire that my successor shall find a bare floor, an uncomfortable office and no decorations but musty law books, I am perfectly willing to have it that way.” Then ho went away, and in ten minutes after his departure the claim was allowed. Typographical Union, No. 10, of Louisville, has struck a good big nugget of sense in a resolution, as follows: “Resolved, That while Louisville Typographical Union, No. 10, is willing to abet and encourage all fair and honorable means that may tend to uphold and elevate the cause of labor and true unionism, it refuses to aid or enoourage Socialism or Anarchy, deeming such as unwise and harmful, and their teachings as pernicious, immoral and degrading, and unworthy the sanction of any and all unions and labor bodies." Mr. Cleveland left Albany for Washington last night, and will be at the capital this morning. With the advent of tho Presidentelect the Vice-president-elect will subside into his normal proportions. So far Mr. Hendricks has had things his own way, but when El Cleveland appears as the prophet of Democracy, wo can almost hear Mr. Hendricks saying, with much pathos: ‘‘He must increase, but I must decrease.” “Will the ladies of the Democracy, who nett week come to the front as society leaders, wear their dresses as low as those of the Republican

regime?’’ is regarded as one of the burning questions of the hour by a Pittsburg writer. It is important, but just at present is surpassed in interest to the Democratic ladies by the problem whether they are to have a chance of wearing any dresses at all in Washington. In answer to an inauiry in these columns, Mr. T. J. Smith sends the full text of the poem, "The Under Dog in the Fight,” as written by David Barker, of Exeter, Maine. Mr. Barker was born in 1816, and died in 1874. While quite a voluminous writer, the majority of his poems were of local interest, and many of his best things were never published, having been sent in letters to friends. His little poem on "The Empty Sleeve” is well known. THE UNDER DOG IN THE FIGHT. I know that the world—that the great big world— Prom the peasant up to the king, Has a different tale from the tale I tell, And a different song to sing. But for me. and I care not a single tig If they say I am wrong or arc right, I shall always go in for the weaker dog For the under dog in the fight. I know that the world—that the great big world— Will never a moment stop To see which dog may be in the fault, But will shout for the dog on top. But for me—l never shall pause to ask Which dog mav be in the right— For my heart will beat, while it beats at all, For the under dog in the fight. Perchance what I've said, I had better not said, Or, 'twere belter I had said it incog, But with heart and with glass titled chock to the brim, Here is luck to the bottom dog. The proprietor of a New York skating rink played a mean, low-down trick upon his literary patrons by naming his establishment "The Bellvoua, r and then offering a prize to the first one who should give the meaning of the word. School teachers, editors and even preachers who prided themselves on their philological knowledge, cudgeled their brains and ransacked their books in the hope of winning the reward. When they were finally informed that the name had been coined by tho proprietor’s wife, and had no meaning, the rising suspicion that skating rinks are godless concerns became a firm conviction. A six-days go as-you-please race on roller skates began in tho Madison-square Garden. New York, on Sunday. If they have no choice they can all turn their backs this way and go as far as they please. To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: First—Can an elector for President vote for any one except the candidate nominated by the party that elected him for President legally. Second Did Cronin, of Oregon, vote for Hayes. Third —Was an offer of money made him to vote for Tilden? Azalia, Feb 28, 1885. First—He can. Second —No. Third —Not directly that we know of.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mmk. Ruttkay writes from Turin that her brother, Louis Kossuth, is in excellent health and spirits. Mary A. Lincoln, an old lady living at Agawam, Mass., lays claim to the site of the city of Bath, Mo., and says she will sell out for $500,000. A Boston millionaire provided in his will that his wife should be annually paid a sum in gold equal to her own weight. This example, if generally followed, might oporate to retard the feminine consumption of pickles. London sooiety has been burdened with too much waltzing this season, and the evil is charged upon a certain illustrious personage who got tired of square dances because they overtaxed his conversational powers: Tub 5 o’clock tea is giving way to gome extent in London society to the Gorman 4 o'clock “Kaffeklatsch." It is scarcely probable, however, that the stocking knitting, which is one of the prominent features of the German symposium, will be taken up by the gentlewomen of England. President-elect Cleveland has commissioned Mr. Eastman Johnson to paint his portrait, and will give the artist the first sitting early next week. This likeness is to be hung in the Albany City Hall, among the other likenesses of the governors of the Empire State, and will undoubtedly be equal, if not superior, to any of them as a work of art. The admirers of handsome patchwork will be interested in learning that an “autograph quilt" is now on exhibition at New Orleans. The scraps of silk which compose the quilt bear the autographs of many distinguished personages, among them being the names of General Grant, President Arthur, Mr. Gladstone, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edwin Booth, Salvini, and others more or less renowned. John C. Eno had a rather uncomfortable time when he went to the Quebec Opera-house the other night to hear the “Chimes of Normandy." When the old miser, Gaspard, gloating over his gold, repeated aloud, “There aro no defaulting bank presidents here," all eyes were instinctively turned toward Eno. Ho blushed up to the roots of his hair, and did not look at his ease again until the curtain fell for the last time. M. Caro, it seems, was warned beforehand that his bold words at the funeral of Edmond About would bring a hornet’s nest of anti-religionists about his ears. On the way to the grave MM. Taine and Caro were in the same coach, and Caro pulled his speech out of his pocket and began reading it to Taine, when the latter said: “You must not say that; you will have a terrible row." And in speaking to a friend afterward about it he said: “I felt that we were going to be hooted." • Miss R. S. Mills, editor of tho Hawley (D. TANARUS.) Star, has resigned her position. During the six months she has furnished all the news that made tho Star shine she has proved up on a pro-emption, planted five acres of trees on a claim, built a saw mill, raised the largest squash and the roundest squash in Hydo county. She now proposes to rest awhile and reside on her homestead. When Miss Mills proves up on this she will have 480 acres of land, and probably as many offers of marriage. Anciently, in many parts of France, when a sale of land took place it was the custom to have twelve witnesses, accompanied by twelve little boys; and when the price of the land was paid, and its surrender took place, the ears of the boys were pulled and they were severely beaten, so that the pain thus inflicted should make an impression upon their memory, and, if required afterward, they might bear witness to the sale. Later, when a criminal was being executed, parents whipped their children, so that they might take warning by the example and keep in the path of virtue. Lady Wolseley is reported to have received the first intelligence of the fall of Khartoum from a crossing sweeper. &ho was out in the morning for her usual walk, and crossing Governor square was saluted by the sweeper, to whom she was known: "Very sorry for this bad news, my lady," “What bad news?" “This about Khartoum being taken." “Absurd!" said Lady Wolseley; "where did you hear such nonsense?" "It ain’t nonsense! I took a letter from a bouse here to Marlborough House just now, and the porter there was reading it out of tho Telegraph." Lady Wolseley returned home, and an hour later received a dispatch from the War Office. BIX hours of Washington monument dedication ceremonies had no effect on George Bancroft, though younger men wero almost worn out with the fatigue and the severity of the weather. When asked if he did not get very tired on Saturday, the aged historian said: “Oh, no. I was well protected by my fur coat, and I vlfu.i-1 In© ceremonies so very interesting that I did not get final at all. But I hear that poor oid Mr. Corcoran was quite used up by the day, and has not been able to get out since." As the two men are over righty, and as there is not two years difference in their ages, the expression “poor old Mr. Corcoran" was 1 a trifle amusing to those who heard it. It reminds me of the greeting Mr. Bancroft gave Senator

Morrill last year when the latter was receiving the congratulations of friends upon his seventy-sixth birthday. Sir. Bancroft skipped into the room and slapping the Senator on the back, exclaimed patroni*‘‘Well, young man, and how do you feel?” • A Boston Advertiser correspondent is tremendously indignant at the Century’s portrait of Daniel Webster and an article about him in which it is intimated that that statesman, on one occasion, let fall an expression that would not be approved in an orthodox Sundayschool. “Those who knew Mr. Webster,” he writes “well know that no profane word ever fell from his lips. Those who knew him, however slightly, might know that he did not swear in public places beforo strangers. To exhibit him under that hat is an insult. To put vulgarity or profanity in his mouth is an outrage. Neither in words of Saxon nor of classic origin was Daniel Webster a profane man.” A STOBY is told of a French portrait painter, which illustrates the idea of the ruling passion strong { .n death, and the weariness resulting from doing the samo thing over and over again. The painter was. on his deathbed, and the priest had been called In and had administered to him the last sacrament, supplementing this ceremony with a few words suitable to the solemn occasion. “Now," said he, “you are about to leave this world. You will soon be in tho presence of your Maker, to stand before him forever, face to face.” The dying artist, already falling into a stupor, aroused himself, and, looking at his confessor, faintly and plaintively whispered, “What, always front view, never in profile?" There were 28,000,000 silver dollars made in 1883, and but 300 in 1839. The most ancient date is 1794. From then until 1804 they were coined continuously. Then a skip of thirty-two years occurred. Tho trade dollar is the only thing that has marred the issue since 1830, with the exception of 1837, when none were coined. The silver dollar of 1804 is the rarest American coin. Rut two genuine ones are believed to exist, and their owners have refused SI,OOO each for them. Tho 1794 dollar brings S4O. Those between 1795 and 1863, $3 each; 1836, $1; 1839, with flying eagle, $25 each; 1851 and 1852, $35 and S4O respectively; 1858, $36. The trade dollars issued from 1873 to 1878 are destined to become rare. Mb. Labouchere relates this little scene of London life: “As I was walking along the Strand, late one evening last week, I saw some better acting than I have seen for a long time at a theater. Two little children were seated on the steps of Exeter Hall. The girl, about ten years old, with her head thrown back, seemed to have dropped asleep from hunger and fatigue, and the boy, who looked about seven, with oue arm twined round his sister, had buried his curly head in her lap. Compassion filled tho passers-by. Suddenly a little urchin ran up to tho sleeping pair and muttered ‘Coppers!’ Half a minute later some four or five policemen passed along, but the ’babes in the wood' had already vanished. In half a minute more I looked again and saw the little pair, and their former attitude was so well resumed that only the evidence of my eyesight could persuade me that they had ever quitted it.”

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. The attack upon property in land is after all neither more nor less in principle than the attack upou property of every sort. The right to own anything, tho right to have any reward whatever for one's own tabor, skill, enterprise, foresight or economy, is denied by thejmen who have none of these qualities, and also by a set of theorists who conceive that those who have none of these qualities ought nevertheless to enjoy this world as well, and to got as large a share of its benefits and blessings, as those who, by the possession and exercise of uses ul powers, confer benefits upon their race and age.—New York Tribune. So far from a panic and a depression being the result of passing from the gold to the silver standard, all experience proves that tho reverse would take plaoe. Buch a continual fall in prices as we have had in ten years past kills enterpiise and restricts trade to the limits of absolute necessity. A rise in prices, such as would follow their measurement in silver, would revive confidence and encourage trade. Men would see a prospective profit in purchases where they now see only a loss; ami they would buy freely where they new buy stingily. If active trade is desirable at all, the way to create it is by adopting tho silver standard and giving up all efforts to maintain tLat of gold.—New York Sun. High-license men are a sort of interested police against the “dives,” and it is beyond all manner of question that crime and dissoluteness are chiefly fostered by the lower class of liquor shops. It may be a question with the social casuist whether our great liquor bars and saloons—say. for instance, the Hoffman House—are not as injurious to society as the small places. But the rich and strong can take care of themselves, whereas tho poor and weak must be cared for. They are society’s children, and on the principle of the greatest good to the greatest number, we must care for the poor first. Besides, the working people are. the hands and feet of society, the doing power, without which tho brain loses four-fifths of its potency. Let the hands and 1 feet be attended to. —New York Dial. The banks of New York have no moral right to pursue a course designed to exclude silver wholly from circulation, wheu the statutes of the country make it legal tender •in unlimited quantities as to coined dollars, and to a limited amount as to subsidiary coin, and when not a few of these same banks have in their day used silver coin of all dimensions and sizes to pay deposits with, when they found it convenkuit to stave off a run bj* paying in coin that could only be counted slowly, or was too bulky to be carried away. These same bankers may yet see the time when they will bo “shinning” around again for silver with which to meet and stave off a run. They well know that the retail and country trade, particualrly in the .Southand West, and the labor interests of Now York city itself, need the silver as a more convenient currency for the poor and for small sums than gold. Their war upon it as a currency is immoral, shortsighted, and should be crushed by the government with a firm and strong hand.—Chicago Inter Ocean.

THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. PEW 80 GOOD IN THE WEST. South Bend Tribune. Under several different proprietors, attempts were made to establish a Sunday edition of the Indianapolis Journal. The present proprietors have succeeded, and so well that there is no better Sunday paper in the whole West, and few that are so good. The Sunday Journal is now enlarged to twelve pages, and Messrs. New & Son propose having it on sale in every town in the State. Its teiegraphie service comprises the fullest special and regular telegraphic dispatches from all parts of the world. Another department of interest to Indianians is its State news. A CREDIT TO JOURNALISM. Indianapolis News. If it is settled that Sunday newspapers are to invade Christian communities and knock the Sabbath of our forefathers into the sweet by and by, we know of none available for this community that does it with less offense and more compensation than the Sunday Journal. Compelled to read that sheet on Mondays in the course of business, we are compelled to say that yesterday’s issue was a credit to journalism. NO LESS POPULAR. Tipton Advocate. The Indianapolis Sunday Journal is no less popular than their daily or Saturday issue. It contains original stories and miscellany from the best authors, either in Europe or America. ONE OF TIIE BEST WEST OF NEW YORK. Columbia City Commercial. The Indianapolis Daily Journal continues to be one of the best papers that is published west of New York. Who Steals the Rills? Indianapolis Letter iu Clnoinnati Enquirer. Mr. Eley's hill prohibiting the playing of base ball on Sunday was passed by the House a month ago and sent to tho Senate, where it was referred to the committe on rights and privileges. Since then nothing has been heard of it, and a hasty search made for it this morning was fruitless. Nobody seemed to know anything about its whereabouts, and it was not in possession of the clerks, at least they could not find it. A more careful effort was made to find it this afternoon, but without success, and there is no doubt that it has been stolen by somebody who opposed it. Railroad Passes In the Legislature. Special to Cincinnati Enquirer. Nearly every member of the present Legislature is said to have his pockets lined with railroad pas?e?, many of them annuals, and within tho week fifty applications have been made for passes to Washington and return, and it is told of one member that he demanded a round-trip pass for himself and wife from here to San Francisco. The gall of the average Indiana legislator ranka very favorably with Ohio'* choicest production.

THE INAUGURATION IN 1861. How the North Rallied Around Lincoln and Gave Assurance of Support. The Journey from Springfield to Washington# and the Preparations in that City to Guard Against Violence. Washington Post. Tho tour was in a sober sonse a triumphal one. The masses of the North wore beginning to catch the war-spirit that had for months possessed tho South—and they rallied about Mr. Lincoln With resolution, if not with enthusiasm. In the car with Mr. Lincoln was his wife, three sons and a party of nine friends, among whom was David Davis. At Indianapolis, the first stop made, business was suspended, flags flying, and tho military and firemen were out in line. Governor Morton made tho speech of welcome. In his reply President Lincoln said: “We frequently hear tho words ‘coercion* and ‘invasion’ used. Would the marching of an array into Carolina, without tho consent of her people, and with hostile intent toward them, be invasion? I certainly think it would, and if she were forced to submit it would be coercion. But if the United States were merely to retake and hold its own forts and other property, collect the duties on foreign importations, or even withhold the mails from places where they were habitually violated, would that be invasion or coercion?” Alluding to the seceded States he said: “In their view tho Union as a family relation would seem to be no regular marriage, but rather a sort of ‘free love’ arrangement, to be maintained on passional attraction.” He closed by saying: “I am not asserting anything. lam merely asking questions for you to consider.” At Greensburg he said: “Let me tell you that if the people remain right, public men can never betray you. If, in my brief term, I shall be wicked or foolish, if you remain right, and time and honest, you cannot be botrayed. My power is temporary and fleeting. Yours as eternal as the principles of liberty.” At Cincinnati tho display was grand. Mr. Lincoln'was drawn by six white horses, and his carriage closely guarded. A German broke through the guards and hold a little child up to Mr. Lincoln, who stooped and kissed her. Another German, riding a huge keg of beer, with a filled glass in his hand, said: “God bo with you. Save our country! Here’s your health!” Mr. Lincoln was introduced by Mayor (afterward Governor) Bishop, aud said: “I thought in Indianapolis I had never scon so large a crowd gathered in winter weather. lam no longer able to say that, and I hone for centuries to come tho people of good old Cincinnati shall give, once every four year3, such a welcome as this to the cons itutionally elected President of the wholo United States,you and that shall also welcome your brethren across the river to participate in it. Wo will welcome them in every State in the Union no matter where they are from. From away South we shall extend to them a cordial good will when our present differences shall have been forgotten and blown to tho winds forever.” To 2,000 Germans who formally asked him for some utterance of his policy he declined, saying he would speak at tho inauguration, and then “bo found false to nothing they had been taught to expect of him.” At Columbus ho said he consoled himself that there was nothing worse than anxiety—that there was nothing yet seriously going wrong. “Wo entertain different views upon political questions; but nobody is suffering anything. This is.a most consoling circumstance, and from it I judge that all we want is time and patience and a reliance on that God who has never forsaken this people.” He said at Pittsburg, “I can but know what you. all know, that without a great name, without perhaps any reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon mo a task such aa did not rest,upon the father of his country.” At Cleveland he said: “Tho crisis that affects the country is artificial. It was not argned up and it cannot be argued down. Let us let it alone and it will go down of itself.” This was two months after the first State had seceded, and a month after Mr. Davis had been made President of tho Confederacy. Later he said, alluding to tho fact that men of all parties nnited to welcome him, “If all hands don’t join to save the old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage. ” At Buffalo lie was welcomed by a large crowd of citizens, with ex-President Fiilmore at their bead. At Albany he was welcomed by Governor E. D. Morgan, and at New York by Mayor Fernando Wood. Everywhere there were enormous crowds and considerable enthusiasm, and everywhere his speeches breathed the same hopeful spirit. Nino days had been consumed in tho tour to New York. No untoward accident had. occurred. It is eaid in Holland’s history of Lincoln that an attempt had been made to throw tho train off the track as it left Springfield, and that a hand-grenade was found concealed on the train at Cincinnati. As no notice is made of those incidents in other histories, there is probably no truth iu them. After leaving New York, things begin to darken. At Newark placards were posted urging tho workingmen of that city to assemble and meet the train bearing tho President-elect, and then and there “demonstrate their differences” with him. At Philadelphia Mr. Lincoln had bocome so much impressed with the apprehensions of those about him that he said in a public speech: “It were useless for me to speak of details of plans now. I shall speak officially next Monday week, if ever. If I should not speak then, it were useless for mo to speak now!’’ A little later a detective had along and private interview with him in his room at the Continental Hotel, at which was disclosed the details of an alleged conspiracy to murder him in Baltimore, or perhaps sooner. Mr. Lincoln was deeply affected, and promised that ho would permit the detective to arrange the trip from Philadelphia to Washington. “But,” said the President-elect, “I have promised to raise an Amorican flag from Independence Hall to-morrow morning (that was Washington's birthday) “and to receive the Legislature in Harrisburg in the afternoon. These two engagements I shall keep,” he added vehemently, “if tho keeping of them costs rao my life.”

FROM HARRISBURG TO WASHINGTON. The revelation of the chief detective who had charge of Mr. Lincoln's safe transit to Washington throw the counselors of the President elecfc into commotion. The apprehension was general. Mr. Seward had been given by General Scott the details of the alleged plot to kill the President, and after consulting with a few friends, ho dispatched his son, Frederick W. Seward, to Philadelphia, to carry Mr. Lincoln the most solemn warning. .It is notable just here that the two Sewards and Mr. Lincoln woro the only persons actually assaulted when the asaaulta did occur four years later. The danger spot was held to be Baltimore. That city was strongly Southern, and it was especially stated that twenty men had been banded there to slay the President as ho passed through. An Italian barber, who was called Omni, as indicative of the part he was to play in the plot, was said to be the head of the band. It was urrangod that if the presidential train passed over the Baltimore road safely, the asrassins were to mingle with the crowd of welcome, and pressing close to Mr. Lincoln, shoot him. Hand grenades, such as were used when Louis Napoleon’s life was attempted, were aaid to be ready to throw in his carriage in case all o *}.r plans should fail. Vessels, steamed up, were said ha fuat *y t 0 convoy th conspirators, who would escapo in the general confusion, to Mobile. This was the story. Though little can bp found in reputable history to sustain its truth, there is no doubt it was firmly believed by those charged with Mr. Lincoln's safety, and this bpliof was shared by the President elect himself. On tho night of the 21st a number of gentlemen, among them Colonel McClure and < •oloanl