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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1885. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Cbm be found at the following places: LONDON —American Exchange in Europe, 4-19 Strand. American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard dee C'apucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. £OWSVTLLE —C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets^ ST. LOUlS—Union News Comi>any, Union Depot aad Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 j Editorial Rooms ,242 Present troubles develop the fact that France has a President M. Grevy has not %een heard of often. It is quite apparent that the days remaining to General Grant are few? Beyond doubt he is a desperately sick man. A disease called "pink eye’' has broken out among the students at Yale College. This is not the kind of eye that Mr. Hendricks got yesterday. T’TIE Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield road resumes its autonomy to-morrow, and will pat on two trains daily, to the better convenience of the public. It is authoritatively announced that the George H. Chapman Post, G. A. R., passed no boycotting resolution against the News. The post is to be congratulated. Boycotting is unAmerican, and in this country not ouly inoperative hut ridiculous. It sounds as though other governments than ours were not attentive to business. At last the English press is given to severe criticism. The London Times charges that the government is not only short of arms, but those on hand are of an inferior-style. Not to be behind their brethren of the pillbox and lancet, the dentists are taking pains to secure some excellent advertising on account of having extracted several of General Grant's teeth. As the advertising does not cost them any money, of course it is "legitimate.” “We should like,” plaintively says the Charleston NewA and Courier, “to ask whether times have so changed that party services are a disqualification for office?” Esteemed friend, it really looks that way. This is an era of *■‘reform,” and you have, perhaps, been a “too offensive partisan.” ■ v M. Ferry was disposed of in short order yesterday. The great disaster in China was too much for the French. But one thing is certain, money to prosecute the war must be furnished or the campaign abandoned. War is a costly enterprise, ahd should not be entered upon until it is determined to make a big sacrifice of life and treasure. San Francisco papers do not publish sermons in their Monday editions, but under the head of "Exercises by Athletic Christians," give detailed accounts of several Sabbath meetings at which foot-races, pigeon-shooting target practice, cock fights and base ball games are the leading devotional features. Strangely enough, San Francisco is not widely known as a religious center. When Howell Cobb, Buchanan’s Secret ary of the Treasury, and John B. Floyd, Buchanan’s Secretary of War, died, no notice of the fact was taken by those departments. Not a soul in the country, Democrat or Southern ex-rebel, ever suggested that proper honor (?) was not paid their memory because of failure to close the departments or drape the national flag. It never occurred to anybody to pay these tributes to prominent traitors until L. Q. C. Lamar, the defender and apologist of Jefferson Davis, became Secretary of the Interior, and there died a predecessor of his who had steeped his name and memory in scoundrelism deeper and more damnable than any other man in American history. A wealthy Philadelphia gentleman, who is taking an active part in the prosecution of gamblers in that city, was led to this action by the fact that his young son has, within three months, lost over SIO,OOO in one gambling-house. The father does not expect to recover the money, but hopes by breaking up the establishments to put temptation out of the way of the boy and of other young men. If other wealthy and influential men would follow this course, instead of covering up the misdoings of their sons through a weak dread of shame and exposure, the result would be beneficial to the community and to the individuals most deeply concerned. The fern* that ihe public may come to hear of his habits will of itself suffice to keep many a young man from "ways that are dark.” Does civilization civilize? Up to the year of grace 1885 it has generally been conceded that it does, and that civilization must eventually drive out barbarism. This year, however, the rule doesn’t work smoothly. The British have been beaten in the Soudan, ond the Chinese have repulsed the French, with heavy loss. Khartoum is very far away, And there is no longer any particular incentive to go there, while traveling facilities in that region are not what they might be. Pekin is further than ever from Tonquin, and the leading thereto seem pretty effectu-

ally occupied by the sons of the Son of the Sun. Ferry is deposed, and his Cabinet scattered, and Gladstone doesn’t feel a bit comfortable. Pitiful as it may seem, it looks as though England and France would like to let go. The Soudanese and Chinese arc very like Taitars. Out city columns bear amjde testimony to the general satisfaction with which the nomination of Senator Rufus Magee to be Minister to Sweden and Norway has been received by all classes of people, and the Journal takes pleasure in adding its personal testimony to the fitness of the appointment and extends its congratulations to the new appointee. Though a Democrat, Mr. Magee has so carried his partisanship as to win and retain the esteem of his political opponents, and some of his warmest friendships are with Republicans. Mr. Magee is a self-made man, and has risen, by his own exertions, from a poor boy through that open gate to honorable public life, a printing office. His official record thus far has been one of credit, and we entertain not the slightest doubt that his future career will be such as to do honor to himself, his party, his - State and the country. Mr. Magee will carry with him to Northern Europe the warmest regard of the people of Indiana, who feel themselves honored by so honorable an appointment. Commenting on the remark of the PostDispatch, that the outpouring of confederate sympathy for General Grant shows that the South is ready to meet the North more than half way, and that the act of Lamar in honoring Jacob Thompson "will be the most overpowering rebuke that could be administered to any remains of sectional bitterness yet lingering among individuals,” the Milwaukee Sentinel says: "The outpouring of confederate sympathy for Gen. Grant hardly took on the dimensions of a flood. Out of tne seventy-four representatives of the South in Congress, most of them confederates, fifty, or more than two thirds, voted against the bill which recently passed Congress putting Gen. Grant on the retired list, and, since that time, we have observed in Southern papers intimations that Gen. Grant’s illness has been feigned in order to secure the passage of that bill, by playing on the sympathies of Congress.” The South is ready to meet the North half way, only when the people of tho latter section show a disposition to liedown meekly and bo walked over without daring to make a reference to the past. The question of an appropriation for a new] building and equipments for shops at Purdue University will be up before the House to day, and, although there was an adverse vote last week, it is hoped by the friends of education that that action will now be reversed and the appropriation voted. The Journal has frequently expressed its opinion that those State institutions which are helping to solve the problem of practical education in a practical way are entitled to the warm and generous sympathy and support of the Legislature; and wo cannot understand how any representative who cures for the honor of the State and has any proper appreciation of its educational character, can be found voting against reasonable appropriations asked by the friends of those institutions, to the proper support of which the faith of the State is fully bound. The Jtfce Thompson episode has loosened the bl ody shirt to a degree that nothing in years has done; nevertheless we tlo not believe it can continue. There is not enough in the act for peoplo to remain indignant over. Lamar has made a fool of himself, and doubtless Democrats, including himself, wish he hadn’t, but there will be no votes mado or lost. —lndianapolis News. It is not a question of votes, though it ought to cost Democracy tens of thousands. It is a question whether Americans shall discriminate between treason’ and loyalty, between honorable soldiers who went into the rebellion and pusillaminous scoundrels. Nor is there any bloody shirt about it, except in tho minds and mouths of those to whom the war was an offense, and who cannot bear to see a soldier nor hear him talk of his services. ' * 1 m Appointment Clerk Higgins is reported by the Washington Post to have remarked, musingly, "that in traveling along the road it’s better to carry a loaded gun. The guns of my enemies are now about emptied, while mine is loaded with good shot, and when it goes off will hurt somebody. In fact my gun has got such a good load in it that I waste it on such cattle.” What will the Baltimore Civil-service Association, the mugwump editors, and allsuch "cattle”say to this? If the air has been dim with objurgations before, it will be absolutely blue and sulphurous now. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Andover, Mass., tha home of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, is a quiet and picturesque village about twenty miles from Boston, on the Boston & Maine railroad. It is situated on a hill. On the north lies Lawrence, and the gleaming Merrimac on the west, separated by a valley are Mt. Wachusett and other hills. Andover Theological Seminary, Phillips’s Academy and Abbot Academy and their long lists of graduates have made the place famous. Here Miss Phelps has lived since her fourth year. Here her mother, Elizabeth Stuart, and her grandfather, Professor Moses Stuart, livo<L While yet a slender girl, with a face sweet, strong and sensitive in expression, the indescribable darkness of war, suffering and death, and terrible personal bereavement fell upon her. But her native forces began to assert themselves. She devoted herself to mission work in a factory settlement, and began to write in her own strong and realistic manner. In the spring of 1863, she sent a war story entitled “A Sacrifice Consumed” to Harper’s, and later wrote for the Atlantia, the story of the falling of Pemberton mills, at Lawrence, which excited profound interest and won wide literary recognition. Her first story was printed in the

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Youth’s Companion, in 1857, when she was thirteen. At twenty the plan of the "Gates Ajar’ began to form itself in her mind. Although the first, this ih the best-known of her books. In this volume as well as in the later one, '‘Beyond The Gates,” by story and suggestion, she recalls that very old tradition which makes the angel come at dawn in the cheerful morning twilight, to guide the souls of the good to paradise. Miss Phelps conceives such types of character and feeling as lie within the view of only a pure and exalted soul, and the qualities of a genuine artist give her work its exquisice form. A definite moral purpose is distinct in her literary career, and in her life as a woman among mankind. She will have sorrowful things show their sadness that they may be helped, and wrong things their evil that they may be righted. The evils of factory life, depicted in “A Silent Partner,” she learned by personal work for factory girls. On the Gloucester shore, where she has planted her summer home, she saw how cruel a weight intemperance added to the hard lot of the fishermen’s families, and through her efforts a reform club of sixty-five members was sustained. She made herself the friend of each man. They came to her house with their hopes and despair, their temptations and troubles. Two collections of her short stories have been published, which, so far as vivacity, artistic proportion and firmness of touch are concerned, contain some of her best work. The first volume, "Men, Women and Ghosts,” contains her "Tenth of January,” while "Sealed Orders” includes "The Lady of Shalott,” called by many critics the best American short story. In it the aesthetic and artistic side of tyer nature assert themselves more strongly, perhaps, than elsewhere, and give us a hint of the pictures she might have drawn in tints of gold and rose if she had chosen to charm instead of to sympathize and help. This collection contains one or two pictures not easily forgotten, of wiuter storms in the ice-bound harbor, of the cruel struggles of the fishermen for scanty bread, and of the more cruel watching and waiting at home "for those who will never come back to the town.” Here wo learn to know the lonely little dress maker in "No. Thirteen,” and the two brothers in "Cloth of Gold,” trying to get to Florida with far too. little money, walking when they could not ride, with Dan, between his laughs, insisting that ho felt very strong, and that it did not hurt him at all. Miss Phelps writes but seldom. 111-health of late years has prevented her from doing much. Her stories are rich in suggestion. Every stroke counts, and when the story is read it is found to incarnate a perfect and expressive picture of human passion and achievement. Miss Phelps is slight and extremely graceful in figure, her face very beautiful, refined and somewhat sad. She possesses an indescribable charm of person and manner, arising from the extremely unwordlinesa and loveliness of her nature. To the poor people in the vicinity of Andover Miss Phelps is known as an unselfish and helpful friend, devoting her life and strength to them. When she delivered, a course of lectures on "Modern Fiction," to the students of Boston University, she was regarded as a modern Hypatia, who had come to speak a sweeter sort of wisdom. “At the close of each lecture the students would gather around her, and it seemed as if they would devour her r following her as far as possible when sno went away." In the world of literature her place is thus defined by the New York Independent: “If she is not the best living American writer of short stories, it would be difficult to flud the name to be properly set above her’s.” We shall publish April 4 and 11 £ complete short story by Miss Phelp3 entitled “Sweet Home.” It is beautifully conceived, tragic and pathetic, and at the same time relieved by a joyous strain that blends harmoniously and artistically with the sadder notes. The New Minister to Denmark. Rasmus B. Anderson, nominated yesterday for the position of consul to Denmark, is well known as a scholar and writer on lus favorite themes—the literaturo and mythology of Iceland and Scandinavia. Ho was for many years connected with the University of Wisconsin as profossor of modern languages, and there made bis literary reputation. He is an enthusiast in the study of all that relates to the home of his parents, and has done more than any man on this side the Atlantic to make Scandinavian literature known and popular. He has some thirteen books now in print, which have had a wide influence, the best known being those entitled "America Not Discovered by Columbus,” "A Norse Mythology,” and translations of several of Bjornson’s Norwegian tales. For Bjornson himself he has the highest admiration as a man, scholar, orator, poet, politician and novelist. Professor Anderson was for years intimately connected with Ole Bull, whose triumphant tour through this country he managed, and whose biography he assisted to write. He has spent a year or two in Norway and Sweden, and is well acquainted with all the prominent scholars of those countries, among whom his name is highly honored. Prof. Anderson is equally at home in English, Swedish, Norwegian, German, French, and perhaps Italian. He is a man of wide, practical knowledge of men and institutions, and in every way is worthy for the office presented to him. Personally, he is a most agreeable companion, a charming conversationalist and lecturer. Mauy of our Indianapolis peoplo were fortunate enough to make his acquaintance while he was delivering parlor lectures recently in this city, and will be gratfied to know of his appointment to Denmark. Professor Anderson is a frequent contributor to periodical literature on his special themes. He is understood to be not a very pronounced Democrat. Os late his vast influence over tho Scandinavian people of the Northwest has been utilized by one of the prominent New York life insurance companies, who have employed him to present the advantages of that system to a population which has not hitherto been willing to accept it. One Henry Dildine, of Vermont, who has lived a3 a hermit for fifty years, because his sweetheart died on their wedding day, has been found frozen to death in his hut. Henry missed lots of fun. Had he kept up with others of his day and generation, he would have recovered speedily from his little disappointment, and might now be making matters pleasant for his middle aged children by celebrating a third or fourth wedding day. The "confirmation suits” d-jscribed by the papers now are not intended to be worn by those persons who fire being confirmed by the Senate from day to day. These lucky persons are happy and well suited in their old clothes. Mr. Henby F. Keenan, editor and novelist, has been employed by Secretary Whitney as an assistant in examining and reporting upon naval

mattors needing investigation. The fact that Mr. Keenan once edited the Shipping News at the port of Indianapolis doubtless led Mr. Whitney to regard him as an expert on maritime subjects. The Portras family, of Matane, Canada, can hardly be considered a pleasant and desirable one to marry into. One son, two years ago, cut r o of his children as bait for fox-traps, and another has just distinguished himself by tearing his wife to pieces with his nail3 and teeth. Josepfy endears himself to the great United States heart by practicing on a silent piano, one without strings. In view of the fact that he keeps at it half a day at a time, cynical people will say he docs it as a measure of self-defense.* ♦ The Chicago Tribune says: "Pendleton does not speak German.” He can dance it beautifully, though. Somebody has dropped a chunk of ice inside John Bull’s collar. His chojer is visibly subsiding. The French have retreated from Dong-Dang, and El Hendricks has fallen back on Gol-Ding. Uncle Joe's favorite song is "Minister Magee, Magaw.” _ To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please state in Tuesday’s Journal the office now held by Hon. Wm. Williams and the salary attached. Gloverson. Indianapolis, March 30, 1885. Charge d’affaires Paraguay and Uruguay; salary, $5,000. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Easter brides will carry small bouquets of orange flowers, or none at all. While Wales has just inducted his boy into the Masonic fraternity, Sir Moses Montefiore mentions as a mere incident that he has been a member of that body seventy-two years this spring. Professor Edward Emerson Barnard, of Nashville, not long ago was an assistant to a photographer and now is only twenty-eight years old, but is already recognized as the great astronomer of Tennessee. Mrs. Van Bokkelkn, wife of the rector of Trinity Church, the leading Episcopal communion in Buffalo, is reported to have lain since January in an unconscious state, not having in that time partaken of food of any kind. Easter eggs aro arranged in many pretty ways, two of the prettiest being to put them ir. a tiny straw hat, or piled up like peaches in a minute peach basket. When these eggs are decorated, the effect is pronounced ‘‘too cute.” The venerable William M. Gwiu, of California, commonly known as tho Duke of Sonora, is not only hale and hearty at eighty, but is willing to make the voyage to Japan to replace the venerable John C. Brigham, who has long represented the United States in that country. George Augustus Sala is rehabilitating history by denying that General Grant is “taciturn" and declaring that when he was over here as a war correspondent and afterwards when he met General (Jrant in London he found him one of the liveliest as well as most agreeable of talkers. Dr. Hkbkr Newton thinks that, taking the average human life, he would be a bold man who, rightly weighing his blessings that come like the sunshine and the dow, would venture to pronounce tho lot of man rather of pain than of pleasure. Dr. Newman is a philosopher of the right sort. What is called a “curiosity table" is the latest novelty for tho drawing-room. It is an ordinary round ebony table decorated with anything and everything available, such as photographs, Christmas and Easter cards, handsome buttons, small specimens of crazy patchwork, etc. It is astonishing how ingeniously a table can be covered when time, taste and also sense of humor are brought to bear upon it. Secretary Chandler became the happy father of a son on Sunday morning, and in response to a congratulatory telegram from nome sont the words. “Luke, 1:63.” The text reads: “And he asked (beckoned) for a writing tablq, and wrote, saying his name is John, and thoy marveled all." The boy was promptly named John Parker Hale Chandler, for Mrs. Chandler's father, the late Senator Hale, of New Hampshire. Walter S. Hutchins, a popular young Washington journalist, is said to be the coming United States minister to Paraguay. And thereby hangs a tale. He is interested with Sig. Don Rodorigo Velasquez, the representative of Paraguay at Washington, in a llama ranch in South America, and also interested in the I Signor’s beautiful daughter, Donna Elixa Marie Velasquez, and doubtless believes considerable honor as well as convenient profit could be acquired from a diplomatic post in Paraguay. An immense sale is predicted for the revised version of the Old Testament and the extent of its usefulness is likely to be greater than that of the New Testament revision. “So many people know Greek," says the Week, “that there has been an approximation of the English to the Greelt significations of words. So few know Hebrew that much of the Old Testament has been dark, and some passages in the minor prophets are veritable puzzles to all save the learned. In fact, tho majority of English speaking people will now read Job, Ecclesiastes and the concluding books of the Old Testament for the first ‘;ime with any comprehension." Besides a toy telephone, consisting of a bamboo cylinder and a string, Chinese ingenuity produced about 150 years ago “a thousand-mile speaker." It is described as a roll of copper, likened to a fife, containing an artful device; whispered into and immediately closed, the confined message, however long, may be conveyed to any distance, and thus, in a battle, secret instructions may be conveniently communicated," It was the invention of Chiang Shun-shin, of Huichon, a writer on occult science, astronomy, etc. His device seems to have died "vith him, as it no longer exists, save in the chronicles of the historian. The Rov. Reginald Barnes, Gordon’s most intimate friend, relates how he made the acquaintance of the hero of Khartoum, at Lausanne. “For some days I did not know his name, and even after I did it uid not occur to me that ho might be the famous ‘Chinese’ Gordon. One day he invited me to his room. I noticed some strange documents on the table. ‘You have been in Palestine, and know Arabic,' he said; ‘look at those papers.’ I took several and glanced at them, but soon laid them iown, remarking that I knew very little Arabic. ‘They are death warrants,’ he said. I was so startled that I exclaimed, ‘Death warrants? Why, who are you?' ‘Don't you know me,'he answered. ‘I have been Governor-Gen-eral of the Soudan, and still nominally retain the position; but nothing now remains for me but to sign these papers—that will end it.' " It is probably true that Mr. Lincoln often pardoned deserters, but it is equally true that many were executed. For instance, in the fall of 1861 one Johnson, of the “Lincoln" (New York) cavalry, went through our lines noar Fairfax, gave himself up to the first squad he met, told them he was a deserter, answered all he knew as to our forces, and then found that he was yet with our own men. He was brought back to General Franklin's headquarters, near the old seminary, and the second day thereafter was shot, all the troops in the vicinity being out to witness the execution. At least a dozen men were hanged for desertion in the Army of tho Potomac during Deoember, 1864. Such executions were witnessed every Friday during that month, and on one of those occasions four men took the drop. If Mr. Lincoln did not sanction, he certainly did not stop military executions. Despite the vow attributed to her on hearing the tragic end of her so-called husband, the Princess Dolgorouki, it is rumored in Paris, is about to marry again. Only mysterious hints are thrown out as to the identity of her future husband, but it is understood that he is a Russian prince, not far removed in blood from the Czar himself, and a powerful enemy f his regime. This intelligence has caused a great sensation, seeing that the continued mourning and extremely retired life of {he Princess led the gay Pari '

sians to believe that they had at last among them an inconsolable widow. In her fall she retained a few friends, and in t*aris she seldom was seen abroad, except for h morning wain in the Bois with her children. Os mediocre intelligence and simple tastes, she occupied herself with political intrigues, but nevertheless her unassuming little court in Paris has been the center of many. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. Ant attempt to form a political partv on the basis of protection will have to be preceded by a substantial agreement between all industries as to the protection proposed. This does not exist, and it is every dav becoming more difficult to secure it. By 1888 it wiil be absolutely impossible.—New York Times. It was General Grant’s military habit of trusting all details to others that enabled Ferdinand Ward to run his full course of rascality unchecked, and at last overwhelm his best friends in ruin. Nearly all great military men fail when thoy engage in business, and in this respect General Grant's experience was not at all exceptional; but it is rare that anyone meets a more outrageous abuse of confidence than General Grant received at the hands of Ferdinand Wara. The Generrd's testimony makes that clear beyond dispute. —Chicago Tribune. The folly of our system and of tho system of all American cities, is in the attempt to reach money and personality by direct tax. The persistency with which that system is adhered to, in the face of continuous and confessed failure, is the most discreditable failure in American economic history. It is in the government and fiscal policy of cities that we can learn something from abroad, and municipal reformers who want to do something practical would do well to study the fiscal arrangements under which the old cities of the world flourish.—Louisville Commercial. We are especially glad to find that the General clears himself from one charge, which, if sustained, could not but reflect upon his character. This was the charge that he was privy to the reported connection of the firm with government contracts. So far from this being the case, he says that he told Ward that there never must be any government contracts, not because he considered there was necessarily anything wrong in such contracts, but because “I had been President of the United States, and I did not think it was suitable for me to have my name connected with government‘contracts.” General Grant is understood to feel greatly troubled for fear that the country holds him responsible for something worse than being the victim of misplaced confidence in this business, but after his frank statement of yesterday he may dismiss all such apprehensions.—Brooklyn Union. Instruction may well be given upon the effectsnot only of alcohol, but also of opium, chloral hydrate, chloroform, and of tobacco on the human system. The instruction might not euro a habit already formed, but it would tend to prevent the formation of the de- 1 structive habit. Not a few boys are led into various forms of self-indulgenco, ignorant of their disastrous consequences, or perhaps under the belief that the indulgence is perfectly healthful. Instruction, removing the ignorance or tho error, will prove of advantage in the developing of a strong body, vigorous mind and noble character.—Frank Leslie's Weekly. Jacob Thompson's acts and crimes were precisely identical in their nature with the barbarous acts any monstrous crimes of the dynamite outlaws who undertook to destroy public and private property and innocent lives in London, Instead of New York, by similar means. Thompson’s offenses are defined in the criminal laws as arson: his horrible woi k was the work of an incendiary, and he should have been tried and sentenced to the penitentiary as suoh. He is entitled to no honors and no marks of respect from a great government which he tried by such inhuman and such dastardly ireans to destroy.—New' York Graphic. Lamar, tho impassioned defender of Jefferson Davis, sits in the Cabinet and displays the Hag at half mast iu memory of an unmitigated scoundrel who was believed to have plundered the public Treasury of nearly a million dollars, ami conspired to wreck the Union which he had sworn to protect, and who certainly did conspire to burn New York with Greek fire. Tweed died too soon. Had he been spared until the arrival of this Democratic era. he, too. might have been the recipient of the Democratic funeral honors that were awarded to .Take Thompson. Wherever there is a loyal heart to-day there is righteous auger and indignation at Lamar’s conduct. And yet, why should anybody be surprised?—New York Tribune. The people that style themselves Latter-Day Saints, and under the pretense of a religious belief assume tho right to return to tho beastly barbarism of Abraham. Solomon, David and other Oriental harem-keepers of a primitive race, must be made to understand and to realize that that practice is a vice that the civilization of this age and this land will not tolerate, but will suppress and punish by the inexorable rigor of severe penal laws. There is one way, and only one, that the so-called Latter-Day Saints can escape the punishment. and that is to expurgate the heathen beastliness of their religion, and conform it to the decencies of more respectable creeds. They ought to make arrangements with heaven to get anew revelation on this point without any delay.—Chicago News. IT must, we think, he the universal judgment, however mingled with reflections of another sort, that General Grant was innocent of any wrongful intent, and that he showed a just appreciation of his standing bofore the community when he objected to the government contract business, and was assured by Ward that there was no such business in the firm, as, in fact, there was none. The statement that he did not know that ho was a general partner in the firm of Grant & Ward down to the time of the failure, but supposed that ha was merely a special partner, must likewise be accepted as true. The humiliation involved in such a confession is great, but. is trifling as compared with an imputation of intent to deceive confiding investors, or to make unlawful gains at the expense of the government.—New York Post. WK do not like paternal government, or monopoly, or depot sm. It is going back, not going forward. The time was, for instance, when the price of bread was regulated by the paternal theory, and not by the laws of trade; and if gas is to be. subjected to such regulation, why not rents, coal, candles, butchers’ meat, and sugar? Besides, what a lot of convenient new public offices would have to be created, with salaries paid out of the tax payers’ pockets, and all the benefits of civil-service examinations and permanent tenure. However, there is one comfort about it. Paternal government may be indefinitely extended by statute, and lots of offices may be made and filled and paid for; but if the thing does not work well, the people will presently step in and wipe out the whole concern, monopoly and all.—New York Sun. Persons who believe that this country has no mission but to mind its own very definite business, and is to work out its salvation by an exclusive attention to internal development, have already been somewhat startled bv the -Seuate resolutions, and by the fact that so shrewd a statesman as .Senator Edmunds offered them. They trust to the non-interfering tendenciesof Secretary Bayard to prevent our ‘ embroiling ourselves,” as they term it, in the Central American quarrels, which, they say, have become chronic, and coucern us iu no wise. But, as we have pointed out, the present contest is not at all tho regulation Spanish American quarrel; it is not even a revolution; it is nothing more nor less than a bold and tyrannical attempt to convert five American states, against the will of three of them, into an empire which cannot fail to have-all the characteristics of a military despotism, Moreover, toward one ot these protesting states we have distinct obligations to discharge.—Philadelphia Press. THE SOLID SOUTH. Roster of Offices Thus far Given to Representatives from the Southern States. Secretary of State—Bayard, of Delaware. Attorney-general—Garland, of Arkansas. Secretary of the Interior —Lamar, of Mississippi. Commissioner of Internal Revenue —Miller, of West Virginia. Commissioner of Indian Affairs—Atkins, of Tennessee. Commissioner of Railroads —Johnston, of Virginia. Minister to France —McLane, of Maryland. Minister to Mexico—Jackson, of Georgia. Superintendent of the Dead-letter Office— Baird, of Georgia. Assistant Secretary of State —Porter, of Tennessee. Assistant Secretary of the Interior—Muldrow, of Mississippi. Appointment Clerk of the Treasury—Higgins, of Maryland. Appointment Clerk of the Interior Department—Hassler. of West Virginia. First Comptroller of the Treasury—Durham, of Kentucky. Minister to Brazil—Jarvis, of North Carolina. Minister to Russia—Lawton, of Georgia. Minister to Italy—Kelly, of Virginia. Consul General to Berlin—Paine, of Maryland. Consul to Manchester— Howell, of Georgia. Justly Popular, Attica Ledger. The Indianapolis Sunday Journal gets here now at 1 o’clock on the day of publication. It is the first Sunday paper that Attica people ever received while it was fresh, and the enterprise shown in getting it here has been rewarded by a large list of subscribers. Like the Journal of other days, the Sunday issue is full of late telegraphic news, choice stories and general miscellany. making it justly popular. Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth. Crawfordaville Journal. Governor Gray is busily engaged iu sowing dragon’s teeth in Indianapolis. The armed men eager for battle are all Democrats and the Governor will be thoir common enemy two years hence.

LIST OF LUCKY DEMOCRATS.' Names of the Gentlemen Whom the President Yesterday Gave Good Places. Rufus Magee for Minister to Sweden and Nor way, A. R. Lawton to Russia, and A. M. Kelly to Italy—Other Nominations. YESTERDAY’S NOMINATIONS. Rufus Majefl for Minister to Norway an! Sweden—Ollier Appointments. Washington, March 30.—The President today sent to the Senate the following noraina* tions: Envoi’s Extraordinary and Ministers Pleni* potentiary of the United States —Thomas J. Jarvis, of North Carolina, to Brazil; Alexandet R. Lawton, of Georgia, to Russia; Anthony ML Keily, of Virginia, to Italy. Ministers Resident of the United States —Isaaa Bell, jr., of Rhode Island, to the Netherlands; Rufus Magee, of Indiana, Sweden and Norway, George W. Merrill, of Nevada, to the Hawaiian Islands. Ministers Resident and Consuls general of tho United States—Edward Parke Custis Lewis, of New Jersey, to Portugal; Rasmus B. Ander- 1 son. of Wisconsin, Denmark. Consuls-general of the United States—Thomas M. Waller, of Connecticut, at London; Frederick Paine, of Maryland, Berlin; Edmund of ll ,: -ois, to Vienna. Consu.-i of the United States —A. Haller Gross,, of Pennsylvania, to Athens, Greece: Evan P Howell, of Georgia, Manchester, England. Brown, Shipley & Cos., of London, England, special fiscal agents of the Nary Department. Collectors of Internal Revenue —Nathan Gregg, of Tennessee, for the Second district of Tennessee; Isham G. Searry, of Texas, Third district of Texas. Alex McCue. of New York, Solicitor of th® Treasury; David Settle, of North Carolina, marshal of the United States for the Western district of North Carolina; Joseph E. Johnston, of Virginia, commissioner of railroads; Lewis M<v Mulien, of New York, appraiser of the district ot New York city; Win. Caldwell, of Ohio, surveyor of customs at Cincinnati; Clement Dowd, of North Carolina, Collector of internal revenue for the Sixtii district of North Carolina; Jno. O. Henderson, of Indiana, collector of internal revenue for the Eleventh district of Indiana; Captain Win. J. Volkman, of the Fifth Cavalry, major and assistant adjutant-general; Captain George H. Burton, Twenty-first Infantry, major and inspector-general. , Postmasters—Michael J. Dougherty, Galesburg, 111.; Wilber F. Horn. Idaho Springs, Col.; Palernon Wiley, Central City, Col.; Ansel Watrous, Fort Collins, Col. WITO THE PROMINENT NOMINEES ARE. Alexander R. Lawton, nominated for the mis sion to Russia, is a prominent lawyer in Sa vannah. He was educated at West Point, and served in the army a number of years, but resigned. He then studied law in Savannah and engaged in the practice of his profession there. When the civil war broke out he entered the' confederate service as a brigadier general and subsequently became quartermaster general of the Confederacy. At the close of the war he returned to his practice at Savannah, and soo: afterward was appointed attorney for the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia. He is described as a lawyer of destitution; a gentleman of quiet and affable manners, th® possessor of considerable wealth, and about sixty years of age. A. M. Kelly, nominated minister to Italy, is a t lawyer in successful practice at Richmond, Va. He has been mayor or that city, was for several years chairman cf the Democratic Funders’committee, taking an active and prominent part i* the contest against the Readjusters, and is als* well known as one of the counsel for the Virginia bondholders in their prolonged litigatiou. Edward Parke Custis Lewis, the nominee sot the mission to Portugal, is a resident of Hoboken, N. J. He is said to be distantly related to Sec- , retary Bayard, and has been a member of the Legislature, a presidential elector, and a member of the State Democratic committee. He was in the confederate army, and is a son-in* I law of Edwin Stevens, of Stevens’s batttery' fame. Isaac Bell, jr., nominated to be minister t® the Netherlands, is a wealthy citizen of New* port, It. 1., and a prominent Democrat. He baa several times been the Democratic candidate for Governor. He is a brother in-law of James Gordon Bennett. He wn3 a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate at the last senatorial election. Rasmus B. Anderson, of Wisconsin, nominated minister resident to Denmark, is an eminent Scandinavian scholar, and is the author ot a number of books on Scandinavian folk lore and mythology. He is a professor in Wisconsin University,and is well known amongliterarv men. He is a man with influence among the Scandanavians in the United States, and a prominent defender of tho American school system against those who desire to substitute for it a system of sectarian schools. He Las always taken a deep interest in the promotion of Scaudanavian im- ( migration to this country. lie is not only a fine Latin and Greek scholar, hut knows German, Freuch, Hungarian, and all the Scandanavian languages. The nomination is generally regarded as an extremely good one. * Thomas M. Waller, nominnted consul general at London, is well known as ex-Governor of Connecticut. Frederick Paine, of Maryland, nominee forth* Berlin consul generalship, is editor of the Baltimore Correspondent, a German Democratic paper. Edmund Jussen, of Illinois, nominated consulgeneral to Vienna, is a leading member of a prominent firm of German-Americans in Chi cago. He has been somewhat prominent in politics in his State. He is a brother in law of Carl Sehurz. Evan P. Howell, of Georgia, nominated consul at Manchester, is one of the editors and proprietors of the Atlanta Constitution, and a mau of high standing. A. Haller Gross, of Pennsylvania, the nominee for consul to Athens, is a son of the eminent surgeon, lie has been locally prominent in Philadelphia as a Democrat, and was recently a member of the City Council. George W. Merrill, of Nevada, nominated minister resident to the Hawaiian Islands, is a lawyer by profession, but is now private secretary to Senator Fair. He is well known here, and is generally esteemod. Thonms J. Jarvis, nominated Minister to Brazil, served in the confederate army, and was Governor of North Carolina for six year3. Louis McMullen, nominated for appraiser of the port of New York, is at present employed in the appraiser’s office there, as examiner in the hardware division. He is a Democrat, aniL one of the oldest employes in the departontSTflt, having served continuously in the appraiser’* office about twenty three years. The nomina. lion is regarded as a good one, and a3 strictly in accordance with civil-* service reform principles. The Treasurj I Department officials hesitate to express! any opinion in regard to the reasons for the :• <y r moval of Ketchum, whose place McMullen ia to take. Thero are, they say, no charges against him, and he has not. so far aa they know, dc.a? anything himself obnoxious to the present ad ministration. It is intimated tonight that there is likely to be a contest in tho Senate over this nomination, unless it can be shown that Ketchum was removed for cause. UNITED STATES •SI’PREME COURT. Infamous Crimea Cannot be Information. \ Washington, March 30.—A decision was dered by the Supreme Court of the United States, to-day, in the patent case of Jamegj Sargent, appellant, against the Hall Safe ana Lock Company and others, of Cincinnati. K suit was brought for alleged infringement S. patent for improvement on time locks, and tl< court holds that the Hall company has tflfl infringed Sargent’s patent m A decision was also rendered in an interesting original action entitled, “E:< parte in the of James B. Wilson.” This wae a petition for J! writ o.' habeas corpus to releaso a prisoner co<yJ