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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1885. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can b found at tho following place* LONDON —American Exchange in Europe, 449 ctrand. PARTS—American Exchange in Taria, 35 Boulevard des Capucinos. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—FuImer House. CINCINNATI—j. R Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUTSV! LLE—C. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ET. LOUTS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 [ Editorial Rooms 242 Here's hoping that the new President will disappoint Hie people and rebukehia “friends.” For some reason or other Mr. Hendricks was not heard from yesterday. Ho was eloquently silent. Mr. Patten and Mr. Browning are the only two men who have “hurled back” during this session of tho Legislature. A pretty pair to draw to. Senator Magee’s humorous offort upon the apportionment infamy was not up to that genial gentleman’s best effort. There is no humor in barefaced robbery. Asa matter of form, and to relieve tho incoming President from any embarrassment, President Arthur's Cabinet yesterday tendered their resignations. This includes Mr. Hatton. Tiie legislative Cheap Johns are still scheming for a special session. These parasites upon the public treasury should bo taught a lesson by Governor Gray, as they were by Governor Porter two years ago. Mr. Manning is said to haye discovered Cleveland. If thi3 is the case, Mr. Manning cannot complain when he is mado Secretary of tho Treasury that his “man” is ungrateful to his creator. The simultaneous issue of the revised Old Testament was mado on Monday in this country and in England. Publishers will hardly bo caught again. They lost largely on the revised New Testament.

New York’s Capitol has cost $17,000,000 thus far, or $5,000,000 more than the cost of fcho national Capitol. It is estimated that half os much more must bo expended before the work is complete. A good deal of this amount is for stone, and not a little for steal. A delectable dish known as the ‘‘McDonald stow,’’ becauso it was invented by our own ex-senator of that name, is said to bo popular in Washington restaurants. Asa compounder of McDonald stews Mr. Hendricks is far more of an expert than Uncle Joseph, but the results are not quite so savory. The Denver News, Democratic, and rampant for silver, says that in writing his letter Mr. Cleveland betrays “gross ignorance” of the laws bearing on the subject. Alas and alas! We had hoped that the brethren would not be disenchanted with their manufactured hero until after he had been inaugurated, at least. Ofr own “bright-eyed,” who preached a sermon on the great men and great events known in Washington without mentioning Abraham Lincoln, was the first man to grasp Mr. Cleveland's hand, yesterday morning. Rev. William Alvin Bartlett is the early bird which is after the presidential worm for his meeting-house. The picture drawn by an Indianapolis correspondent of the New York Sun of the tender relations existing between Mr. McDonald and Mr. Hendricks is truly pathetic. With such a fond affection for his dear friend Joseph. Mr. Ilenaricks will hardly bo able to enjoy existence in Washington on account of the separation. The State Senate last night passed the legislative apportionment bill, and that infamy now only awaits the signaturo of Governor Gray to become a law. The outrage Ims been consummated, and the peoplo are bound and gaggod by the action of their so called representatives. The Journal has aIJL it cares to at present. When the people’ como to pass upon the record of the Legislature, it will bo pertinent matter for further discussion.

The Republican party is possessed of that kind of patriotism, that profound veneration for American laws and customs, that it to-day givee way gracefully to its successor, brought to power by the slenderest plurality, while the majority of its vote is based upon fraud and blood. It will give the heartiest support to every measure calculated to advance the interests of the people, and never falter in its loyalty to the causo of popular government. The Republican party will not rebel against the verdict of the people. It has become a regular thing for legislat-ors-for-re venue-only to schemo nnd plot, by all mean3 their feeble brains can suggest, to compel the calling of a special session. Governor Porter taught these dollar-a day men a lesson two years ago, which Governor Gray should repeat now. When all members of the Legislature make an earnest and honest attempt to pass necessary legislation within tho constitutional term, It will be time to talk about tho

impossibility of doing all that should bo done within the limit of sixty days. Every man in and out of the Genoral Assembly knows that the time has been frittered away upon unnecessary and infamous legislation, and no effort has been made by the majority to do what an honest regard for their oaths would suggest. The only possible reason for a special session lies in the shameful and purposeful avoidance of their duty by the Democratic majority. THE RETIRING ADMINISTRATIONWith the Republican party, President Arthur and his Cabinet step down and out at high noon to-day. Assuming office at a time when the public sentiment was at an almost dangerous tension, and under circumstances more forbidding than had surrounded almost any other Vice-president when suddenly called to act as President, General Arthur so conducted himself and his office as to avoid offense, and to gradually compel a large share of the confidence of his party and the country, and to win universal respect. In doing this, however, it must be concedod, by even the warmest personal and political friends of the retiring President, that he somewhat magnified the necessity of an apparently do-notliing policy, and has, consequently, too much made a colorless and negative administration. In some directions he has exhibited rare strength and sound judgment, notably in the majority of important nominations he has had to make; but as a whole, the administration has not had a strong hold either upon tho party or the country, and this we think may be attributed to what seems a constitutional timidity on the part of its head. It was within the easy possibilities, without" any violation of official propriety, for President Arthur to have received the nomination at Chicago; but he permitted things to drift, and allowed diversions in his own official household, such as worried and weakened Abraham Lincoln, until that great President exerted his individual strength and knit the wholo administration into unity, when

it became not mly with its party, but . with the country. President Arthur's delicacy and timidity were carried to excess, and the influence so permeated the entire administration that in its positive acts it has failed to command either party or general support. Instances of this are shown in the practical defeat of the treaties negotiated during the last months, and to which all the force of the administration was given, without avail in commending them either to the party or to the country. It is a great mistake, no matter how high-mindod and honorable the motive prompting it, for any executive officer to think that strength and honor lie in the direction of what, for a better expression, we call lnissez faire. History and observation show that the strong men, the men who have come to distinction by achieving the be3t and greatest things for their country, are thoso who take hold of matters with a firm grip; men of positive convictions and force of character. We think this criticism will be made upon President Arthur’s administration by all, and by none more than by his nearest friends and warmest admirers, while it will be universally concoded that the country has never had a more polished gentleman, a more conscientious officer, ono who, by education and training, was better able to handle the affairs of the Nation than he; nor has there ever been a President under whoso administration there lias been less jar and friction than under his. In his hands tho presidential office has lost none of its dignity, nor has it suffered the impairment of any of its prerogatives. Chester A. Arthur will retire with the cordial good-will of the country, and his administration will take its placo in history as ono which, commenced in storm and doubt, ondod peacefully and without disturbance.

THE DAY’S CONTRAST. Twenty-five years ago Mr. Lincoln left his home in Springfield, 111., for Washington, to take the helm of state. Ilis leaving was no* by stealth, but his neighbors had been well informed a3 to tho very hour of his departure, and they wore present by the thousands to bid him good-bye. Ho addressed a few parting words, full of pathos and neighborly love, sincerely asking them to invoke God’s wisdom and guidance in the duties about to devolve upon him. Ho stopped at Indianapolis, and made the first speech that in any degree foreshadowed his probable policy with the eleven States already seceded and the hundred thousand rebels already in arms, no'stopped again at Cincinnati and addressed many thousands, hoping that for centuries the people of that city might give as cordial good will to tho constitutionally-elected President. He stopped again at Harrisburg, but he was there met by a messenger who revealed the plot to assassinate him, and it was deemed prudent to go at once and by night, on a special train, to Washington, so that on the 23d of February he entered Washington just at the break of day and was quietly escorted to his hotel. Here he remained until the inauguration. So bold had been tho plans of tho would-be assassins that General Scott had ordered out a battery of artillery, and Mr. Buchanan, at the risk of his own life, deemed it proper to ride with Mr. Lincoln to tho Capitol as a protection to the person of the now President. Twenty-four years have passed. It has been a century, measured by events, and today witnesses another inauguration. For more than four years tho eleven States out of the Union when Mr. Lincoln assumed office, and othors that joined them, tho 100,000 soldiers already in arms, and the hundreds of thousands that joined them, endeavored by

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the sword and the bayonet to again take possession of the executive branch of tho government. Failing in that, they tried in vain for sixteen more years at the ballot-box, until at last they found enough sympathizers in the State of New York to carry the electoral vote of that State by the meager plurality of 1,047, and to-day again witnesses the inauguration of a Democratic President, elected and surrounded by the men who were in arms or plotting treason and assassination twenty-four yearn ago. In nothing is the contrast greater than in the journeys of Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Lincoln bids his neighbors an affectionate farewell, and moves off amidst their prayers, stopping en route to bless and be blessed. Mr. Cleveland steals quietly into a sleeping-car, at a telegraph station three miles out off the city of Albany, driven there alone in a sleigh, just as the shades of night began to conceal the world from mortal vision—it would have been total darkness, but for the full moon, just rising. Thus hia journey began without one benediction from a living soul. Away and away the train sped all that night, passing New York, and Philadelphia, and Baltimore without one word of cheer or sympathy, arriving yesterday morning at Washington, and depositing its presidential passenger to be greeted by the very men who were either in arms at the time of Lincoln’s inauguration, or in sympathy with those who were; and amidst a general rejoicing in every rebel State that at last the power of the federal government is again in their hands. To-day Mr. Cleveland will take the oath of office, but no battery need be in readiness to suppress any riot. Mr. Arthur may ride with Mr.‘Cleveland, but it will not be as a hostage to proteot the latter from assassination by the former's friends, for no one thinks of disputing his right to take his seat as President. These twenty-four years have wrought wonderful changes, and it remains to be seen whether the loyal people of America will bo saftisfied with the rule of those solatoly in rebellion.

THE EASTERN QUESTION. Now that the attention of the world is drawn to General Grant and to the British campaign in the Soudan, and to the possiblo ono in Afghanistan, it is interesting to know what Grant's opinion was of the vexing “Eastern question.” In a conversation in 1878 he expressed himself as follows: “I did not know much about tho Eastern question until I camo to Europe. The moro I looked into it the more I was drawn irrosistibly to tho belief that the Russian side was the true one. Perhaps I should say the side of Mr. Gladstone. On tho Eastern question there is more diversity in England than elsewhere. As I was traveling through the East I tried hard to find something in the policy of the English government to approve. But I could not. I was fresh from England, and wanted to bo in accord with men who had shown me as much kindness as Lord Beaconsfield and his colleagues. But it was impossible. England's policy in the East is hard, reactionary and selfish. No one can visit thoso wonderful lands on tho Mediterranean without seoing what they might be under a good government. I do not care under which flag the government flourished—English or French, Italian or Russian—its influence would be felt at once in the increased happiness of tho people, toleration to all religions, and great prosperity. * * * As I understand the Eastern question, the great obstaclo to the good government of theso countries is England. Unless she can control them herself, she will hllow no one else. That I call a selfish policy. I cannot see tho humanity of keeping those noble countries under a barbarous rule merely because there are apprehensions about the road to India. If England went in and took them herself, I should be satisfied. But if she will not, why keep other nations out? It seems to me that the Eastern question could be settled easily enqagh if tho civilizing powers of Europo were to sink their differences and tako hold. Russia seems to bo tho only power that really means to settle it, and it is a mistake of England that she should not be allowed to do so with the general sympathy of the world.”

Twenty-pour, years ago to-day Abraham Lincoln closed his inaugural address with these immortal words: “We aro not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlo-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the bettor angels of our nature." This touching language was rendered necessary by Democratic treason. To-day, Grover Cleveland talks to a Union of thirty-eight States —not one in rebellion, not one out of its constitutional relation to the government. The restored Union, the stable government, a Nation in peace and px-osperity, are the sheaves of tho Republican harvest gathered to-day. The contrast of twenty-four years is worth study. In the Evening Minute we find the following: “Mr. Browning referred to the statement of a morning paper that tho mem bens who were working for a special session could not make more than $i a day. He said ho would hurl that back as an infamous lie in tho face of the nmn who made it, and stood perfectly prepared to defend tho calling of an extra session if tho condition of the public business warranted such a course." Mr. Browning is one of tho very men we referred to. He is a fair sample of the despicable class of parasites, becoming larger and

larger in each recurring Legislature, who put their small brains to work from the first day they are here to compel a special session. One hundred days in the Legislature gives them more money than they could possibly earn in a whole year at home, while the luxury of being waited upon by five-dollar-a-day servants at tho State's expense turns their poor heads. From an intelligent man living in an intelligent capital of an intelligent county, not fifty miles from Indianapolis, we yesterday received a note about as follows, with reference to the Sunday Journal: “ Sunday Journals sold. Our people all cry for Talmage’s sermons; will the Journal have them? Send copies next Sunday. Could easily double this if it had the Talmage sermons.” For months the Journal of oach Monday morning has contained a special report of the sermon preaclfed the day before in the Brooklyn Tabernacle by Dr. Talmage, the only paper in Indiana printing it. Other papers have always printed, and continue to print, these sermons on the following Sundays, seven days after delivery and six days . after their appearanco in the Journal. That such amazing ignorance is possible as is shown by tho note quoted above, is enough to discourage the effort to print a newspaper. It would seem to be much better to fill up the space with old and stale stuff, as is the habit of our esteemed contemporaries. • But, despite these drawbacks, the Journal will continue to print the news every day as it happens, including Talmage's sermon each Mon] day morning, satisfied that in time everybody will find it out.

It took soldiers and cannon, determined and grim, to secure the transfer of the government twenty-four years ago from the hands of the treasonable Democratic party to those of the constitutionally-elected Presidont. In 1861 the inauguration procession was not a mere mimic parade. The presence of soldiers meant a dread necessity. To-day they are as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. The Republican party gives up the reins of government without the mutterings of rebellion. The New York Sun says: “It is quite possible, and even probable, that somo of our greedy and foolish capitalists will take counsel of their fears rather than of common sense, and will set to work hoarding gold, but they will not do it long. They may temporarily make a panic which will force gold to a-premium of one-half of 1 per cent., or thereabouts, but this profit will not equal more than a few months’ interest, and, as soon as the fact appears, the whole business will come to an end. The silly talk about the terrible things that are going to happen from the hoarding of gold ought not to be listened to. Those who repeat it do no credit to their intelligence.” Mr. Whistler has sent to Mr. Edmund Yates, in Holloway jail, a butterfly, and with it a sentimental letter, in which he requests his friend to cherish the insect as au emblem of hope and joy. If Mr. Yates will communicate with one Dr. Goerson, of Philadelphia, who is soon to be hanged for tho murder of his wife, ho may gather some points as to the best method of amusing himself with his pet. Dr. Goerson found timo heavy on his hands, and, looking about for amusement, discovered nothing in that line but the large number of festive cockroaches which daily wandered through his cell. Os them he captured the largest and most activo specimens, and being of a pious turn of mind, as wife murderers not infrequently are, bo pasted on their backs and stomachs little slips of paper on which ha had neatly written passages of Scripture. As each roach received its inscription it wa3 turned loose to find its way to other prisoners and cheer or warn them as the case might be. Should Mr. Yates not be in a religious mood ho may at least like to send greeting to the titled woman who slandered her aristocratic neighbors over his shoulder and loft him to pay the cost.

At latest accounts the correspondent of a Cincinnati sensational paper, who outraged tho citizens of Macon, Ga., by raking up and pubishing a time honored local scandal, was under arrest in Alabama, and guarded by fifty infuriated men who had pursued him to that point. If he gets away alive he will hereafter dish up unsavory tales only in regions where the inhabitants are accustomed to such little matters, and don't mind appearing in print. Macon people have not been educated up to newspaper "enterprise” as it is understood in Cincinnati, and not being aware that the marvelous tales in the papers there are regarded by the generality of readers only as works of the imagination, aro unduly sensitive. , A Philadelphia society writer makes the remarkable complaint that the averago women and girls of that city aro not musical, and that thcro is a great lack of sweet sounds at their teas and other informal gatherings. Indianapolis would hate to make the sacrifice, but rather than have tho people of Philadelphia suffer such a deprivation any longer, it could probably be induced to loan them a section of the "Matinee There is nothing mean about this town. An "inaugural prayer-meeting” was held in Washington on Monday night for tho purpose of invoking blessings upon the incoming administration. It was presided over by Rev. Dr. Bartlett. With so much being done in the way of providing worldly and spirituous refreshments for the Democratic army of invaders, it is gratifying to loarn that their spiritual needs have not been overlooked. A new variety of cotton has been found. Its characteristics aro that it is nearly or quite fuoproof, has a finer and longer fiber and produces much more to the acre. The seeds are so much larger than tho old kind of cotton that gins will have to bo built for its special treatment

Such of tho congregation as aro Republicans will please join in singing: O, drive these dark clouds from the sky; Republicans quickly restore; Or take us to heaven up on high, Where Democrats come nevermore. A “bazaar” for the reiiof of needy ex-con-federates and their famlT.os will be held in Baltimore next month on a grand sc.ale. The “Southern heart” is appealed to in eloquent circulars, and every Southern State is expected to contribute and be represented. Encouraged by the success of that other “gift enterprise,” the

New Orleans exposition, in getting $8,000,000 from the government, the managers of the “bazaar” may be expected to “strike” the new administration for a contribution from tbo Treasury. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mr. Lewes, in his journal, Bays that it was through Herbert Spencer that he learned to know and love Marian Evans. The venerable Parker Pillsbnry is very proud of his record as an anti-slavery lecturer and orator, but indignantly denies the rumor of his roturn to the pulpit, which he vacated many years ago. Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth is sixty-one years old and has just finished her seventy-first novel. She is under contract to Robert Bonner to write for him alone, and on demand, at SB,OOO a year. In June last the Lancet said of General Gordon: ‘His life is as groat a mystery as his character. His physical endurance in the desert would be difficult tv understand in a strong man, but in a man with angiu pectoris, and with a horror of meals, it is simply a kind of miracle.” Not even the dictionary of Littre contains the word "microbe," it is said. The word was first used by M. Charles Sedillot, of Strasburg, in 1878, and M. De Parville says it came into existence in the hall of the Academy of Science one Monday in February, at halfpast -1 in the afternoon, just as it was growing dark. It is making a great stir in the world just now iu connection with the cholera. To render now wainscoting and oak furniture dark and give it an antique appearance, ammonia, says a high authority, is the oleanest, best, and cheapest material that can be used. The liquid stains commonly used raise the grain of the wood, whereas in the uso of ammonia it is simply the fumes that color, and do it so completely that it is difficult to tell whether the wood is really new or old. It seems that if General Gordon had not gone to Khartoum ho would havo accepted a command tendered by the King of Belgium, and would now have been on the Congo. It is also stated that by declining the Belgian offer and accepting tho British service his heirs lose $35,000, which the King of Belgium proposed to settle upon them. But doubtless the British government will more than make amende.

There are a number of soap trees growing in Tallahassee. Thoy are prolific fruiters, the berries being about the size of an ordinary marble, having a yellowish, soapy appearance, with a hard, black seed, from which the trees are propagated. People in Tallahassee boil the fruit to make soap, but in China, Japan and other tropical countries tho berries are used as a substitute for soap just as they are taken from the trees. A GLANCE from the strangers’ gallery of the Senate discloses a sight which fills the Amerioan heart with pride. Examine the heads of the Senators. Such intellectual development, such skill in covering the bald place with long hairs, so as partially to conceal tho misfortune, and then the different kinds of dye. Most scorn to prefer the sea green. The Senate should sit in the galleries and lot the spectators look up at them. It was believed some forty years ago that a string of clear amber beads worn around the neck l>y a child prevented sore throat, and children generally used to be soeu with them, if their parents could afford to purchase such beads. Mr. Butterworth, the pi’esent Commissioner of Patents, still holds to this faith, and ho and one of his full-grown sons, both having delicate throats, always wear a string of clear ambor beads close around their necks beneath their collars. Sailors have a hearty appreciation of beahfcy, but often an odd way of expressing it. At a reception given on the American war vessel Iroquois, in the harbor of Manila, Philippine islands, among tho many beautiful Spanish ladies who came on board was a black-oved matronly lady, whose head covering was a thin lace veil. Her hair was combed up from the back and sides to the top and fore part of the heed and massed in puffs and ourls. "Jack" took her in at a glance and said to ono of his fellows: “I say, mate, what do you think of that rig? She makes tho after guard do foretopman’s duty." liOSSITER W. Raymond, an expert, thinks that in a number of cases in which death results from asphyxiation by illuminating gas, and which aro most uniformly ascribed to ignorance in "blowing out” the flame, the light "goes out" itself, and thus doe3 mischief. He says: "I am of the opinion that in tho majority of these cas6s the fault lies in having the gas turned down whon retiring for Che night, either from an idea of economy in the saving of matches or somo other reason, and the flame is afterward extinguished by any ono of a number of natural causes, with resulting insensibility and possible death of tho victim from inhaling the escaping gas." The Mudir of Kassala is a sorely tried man. He lias been besieged by the Mahdi’s forces for nine months, and, as if this were not enough, ho has had a number of wild beasts in captivity thrown upon his hands by the death of their owner. The trade in animals for menageries and zoological gardens has developed greatly of late years, the Soudan and Nubia boing the main hunting grounds. One of the principal providers of wild animals for show was a Jew of Vienna, named Kohn, who has brought to Europe at various times from Nubia a large number of lions, giraffes, antelopes and ostriches. lie had collected a number of these shortly beforo Kassala was invested, and had them in the town at the timo of tho attack by tho rebels. After a short time he died, at the age of seventy-two, and history has not yet recorded what became of the beasts. In nearly every railway station in England, is a small box on legs, painted crimson, which may bo called an automatic postoffice. It is divided into two compartments. On the top are apcraturc3 admitting a penny, one boing for postal cards and the other for envelopes. You drop a penny through the slot and open a little drawer beneath, and presto, you find a postal card, Drop two pennies in tho right hand slot, open a corresponding drawer, and you fiud a stamped envelope containing a dainty sheet of noto paper. These little conveniences aro tho property of a company (limited, of course.) Tho profit must bo very small, and only on the envelopo and sheet of note paper. It may consist in its conveniently getting out of order occasionally and refusing to deliver; your penny has gone in and can net be got out, and there is no satisfaction to be had by objurgating tho box. You can’t got tho host of it by dropping in a bad penny, as if not full weight it refusos to deliver and keeps your short coin, confiscating that as punishment for your at tempt to cheat. It has a golden rule that works only one way.

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. In his extremity Gen. Grant saw the Congress of the United States refuse to place him on tho retired list of the army he so gallantly and bravely commanded: his spirit and pride were broken and his physical ability to rosist disease destroyed. He is to-day dependent on the voluntary contributions of his friends for support. It makes one almost despise his country when it becomes capable of such despicable meaunoss. —Chicago News. Ip the bill for the retirement of Gen. Grant is {iroper in itself, it should be acted upon without deay and without reference to extraneous considerations. It is a question that must be determined udoii its own merits, if determined at all. There is no surrender of principle in presenting it to President Arthur in a shape to command his signature. The vindication of Fitz John Porter, which no man has more courageously advocated than Geji. Grant, may safely be left to President Cleveland.—-Washington Post (Dem.) Ip the English government really wants Jo conciliate the Irish people and release IiO.OOO rod-coats for duty elsewhere, why does it not let the absentee landlords depend on tho courts to collect their rents? That would bo the American way of doing business. If a standing army were to act as rent-collectors in this country tho American tenants would be even more restivo than tho Irish. As long as the island is claimed by absentee landlords it will probably bo impossible to force the farmers to pay the sixty millions of rents without the use of British bayonets; but is this not upholding land monopoly at a dangerous cost? Ilow much better it would be to enable the Irish farmers to buy out tho hated alien landlords and bo rid of them forever.—Chicago Tribune. Thjekk is no ground for the claim that the impending chaugo at signifies a popular verdict against Republican sentiments and principles, or a popular declaration of rogret that the Republican party was allowed U> rule the country so many years. And yet it is quite likely that we shall hear moro for some time about the things which this party of uncx-

ampled victory neglected to do, and so invited overthrow, than about the things which it did, and so eommondod itself to general rospeot and gratitude. Because it stumbled in a matter of campaign tactic* ife will be reproached in a spirit of careless indifference to the correct and splendid parts of its record; and it must wait patiently for the sober second thought of the people to pass judgment* upon it according to it* truo deserts. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. What Pap Thomas was to the Army of the*Cum. berlann General Grant was to the army of the Union. There was naught in his actions, in his words or in hi* bearing to indicate that, he was striving for personal renown. His men felt; nay more, they knew that he earnestly desired success for the blessings it would bring upon tho whole people, and not for the tinsel it would hang about his name. They admired the coolness with which ho received the manly foe in front, anu the indifference with which he regarded the skulking enemy in the rear, lio was earnest and douoorate and determined. Ho who possesses these attributes, whan free from selfishness, commands tho admiration of all, and wins tho undying, waneloss mve of those with whom he is immediately associated. That such an one is General Grant, the universal admiration of tho people and unfaltering love of tho soldier abundantly proves.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Whether this return to power shall be brief or long will depend upon the Democracy. It is not so much a question of what the retiring party may do as the "left" as it is what the incoming party may do as tho ‘Tight.” Mero promises and portends have a certain importance, but tho new administration will bo judged, when it comes to the practical verdict, by actual results and not by mere words. The people expect that the Democrats will divide tho spoils of office between themselves and make herein tho most of their privileges, but they will not tolerate the quagmire politics of the old regimo of Democracy. Twenty-four years of Republican rule, with a steady toEdencv toward better methods and purer administration, have educated the public into a demand for an administration with a higher ideal than the mero notion that, to the victors belong the spoils.—Chicago Inter Ocean. It goes without saying that this literary work of liis, like all his other work, is clone well. It may not have the finish which other and defter bauds could put upon it, but it has the strength which Grant only could give it. He knew for whom ho was writing. He knew the assaults which an illustrious man’s jnemory must suffer at tfye hands of partisan historians, and he reared a work which would protect his name and fame. This must boa profound satisfaction to him, and enable him, with more than his usual composure, to meet the only enemy to whom he must surrender. The imagination cannot readily conjure up a more imposing scene than that of this heroic man. broken with age, and disease, and misfortune, triumphing over weakness and pain, and tho distraction of business reverses, to commit to history what ho believe* to bo the truth in regard to tho most momorable events of modern times, and the truth in regard to his relation to them.—Pittsburg Chronicle.

THE APPORTIONMENT IMP AMY. THE QUINTESSENCE OF TYRANNY. Sholbyville Republican. It is tho quintessence of tyranny under the forms of law; a tyranny far more odious than that of Russia or any other absolute despotism, because it is tyranny practiced in the country pretending to tho doctrine of equality and justice, and acquiescence in tho decision ot a majority expressed at the polls. LIKELY TO TRAP THE TRAPPERS. Bloomington (III.) Leader. The Indiana Democrats have so redistricted the State in so far as pertains to the legislative question, as to give their own party friends a decided advantage. Such traps are very likoly tO> catch the men who set them, however. LEAVE THEM AS THEY ARE. Logansport Pharos (Detu). As to tho legislative apportionment, wo should prefer that the districts be lert as thoy are, believing that the Democrats can elect a majority of the next Legislature and a successor to Sena, tor Harrison. ' Nellie Arthur’s Good-Bye. Washington Special. Mr. Arthur began to gather his things together some time ago, and now all he will have to do on the 4th of March will bo to take Nellie by the hand and walk out as Mr. (Mtoreland walks in. Last summer when Mr. Arthur was defeated for the Republican nomination Miss Nellie said that sho was glad of it, for sho could now have a chance to see her papa. It is suspected, however, that she was simply trying to keep Mr. Arthur from feeling badly, aud that away down in her heart she shed many tears over her father’s defeat. One of the White House attendants states that Mr. Arthur found Miss Nellie in tears late yesterday afternoon. Her explanation was that she was simply saying good-bye to the White House, and she could not part from it. without crying, because she lowed it so much and had had such a pleasant time there. Miss Nellie’s bright face and cheery voice have given to tho gloomy rooms of tho executive mansion almost an air of comfort. Her presence there will be greatly missed. Mr. Cleveland would do well to persuade her to remain with him. No Extra Session for Dollar-a-Day Mon. Indianapolis News. Governor Gray would do a good stroke of business if ho would give tho members of the Legislature to understand that there would bo no extra session. They have wasted tho ample time allowed by law in a manner far from creditable, neglecting the interests of the State for political and personal interests. Among tho latter may bo affirmed a desire to get the per diem attached to the office. To be a legislator i3 a money-making thing to many, and for this small and vulgar reason they want to prolong their official existence. Tho Governor should bo no party to it. Let these members be sent home by operation of the law and upon them bo the responsibility for neglecting the State’s business. The McDonald Stew'. Harper’s Bazar. A luxury enjoyed in tho Senate restaurant at the Capitol is known as tho "McDonald stow,” because "old Joe McDanald,” as the Senators affectionately term him, whon a senator from Indiana, taught the cook to make this dish of fine oysters. They are stewed in their own liquor. It is said Ser.rtfcn* McDonald stood by the cook repeatedly until he learned exactly how to stew tho oysters perfectly. It is a favorito dish with tho senators when they take lunch about 2 p. M. _ Hendricks Snubbed by Indiana. Washington Special to Cincinnati Enquirer. Hendricks has been almost uniformly popular with his party, but when ho arrived the other day the Indiana delegation gave him the cold shoulder because ho had, it is supposed, turned his back on McDonald, his old political associate, in tho making up of the Cabinet. After Its Kind. Pittsburg Times. When General Grant dic3 the Congress which refused a pittance to his poverty, will do him honor after its kind. It will pass resolutions of condolence in joint session, and get drunk at hia funerai by committoe. A Vain Old Man. Louisville Hofnmercial. If your Uncle Tom Ilondricks would only go fishing and forget to come back. He is a jealous, finicky, vain old man. His ambition has been thwarted, and his usefulness impaired. What He Will Do with His Yolicy. Philadelphia Press. Secretary Frolinghuysen. it is understood, will remove his alleged foreign policy over to New Jersey, whero he will have it ro upholstered and uso it for a foot-rost. A Paper for All the l’coplo. Louisville Courier-Journal. The Indianapolis Journal is a Republican paper every day except Sunday. It is greatly in error if it thinks this Sunday Christianity will save it. He Wants a Gold Lining. Pittsburg Times. Never mind. Mr. Cleveland, overy cloud has its silver lining. Besides, it’s better to be right than to have tho majority of Congress with you. They Won’t Accept It. Pittsburg Tunes. Mr. Cleveland’s silver policy appears to bo only plated. Leastwise it isn’t very solid with his party. A Credit to Journalism. Now Albany Ledger 1 Pom.) Sunday’s Indianapolis Journal was a credit to Indiana Journalism.