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equally arduoul duties for twelve months, hesitate to absent themselves on their legal vacations for fear of finding their places occupied on their return. Reform as practiced by tho administration, which claims to monopolize if not to have discovered it, is truly great. TnAT the Democratic party does not love the mugwump, and is not grateful to him for ,what services he may have given it, is amply attested by the repeated utterances of the Democratic press. The New York Graphic volunteers the following definition of a mugwump: “Our conception of a mugwump is that of a liolier-than-thou sort of a person, full of affectation and pharisaism, who believes himself to be the salt of the earth, who looks upon every earnest party politician as a blind partisan and a spoilsman, and who is persuaded that the Eatonian machine is the most perfect and beneficent invention ever known in the political evolution of mankind. * * * As to the numerical strength of the mugwumps, it is grossly overrated. They are clamorous and arrogant, hut the tail should not attempt to wag the dog. * * * Finally, there is no such thing in existence as a ‘Democratic mugwump/ The real mugwump is an exRepubiican who strives to kill every party which will not accept him as a boss.” The Graphic is right—there is no such thing as a Democratic mugwump. The traditions of the party forbid such an anomaly. The spirit of that party will not tolerate such an innovation, and it is impatient now at any interference on the part of its allies. The New York Sun, speaking of the serious charges brought against Postmaster Jones, says: “Aquilla Jones, of Indianapolis, though his weight is not known, is a very good man to have in a political household. Would there were more like him!” There are many more like him in the party. Thousands and tens of thousands who will more than indorse everything he has done in the way of discharging efficient officials to make place for Democrats. They applaud his nerve in defying the President and spitting upon the civil-service rules. In the same issue with the above the Sun reveals the animus of the party relative to the idea of any kind of reform that keeps tho hungry and thirsty from receiving their several rewards. It says: “After all, the national Democratic guillotine seems to work with a great deal of regu larity and efficiency. “ ‘We may be happy vet, You bet.’ ” The guillotine runs on oiled grooves, and does its appointed work very satisfactorily wherever tried. It operates a little slowly thus far, but it is gradually accomplishing all that its friends could ask, and Democrats of the regulation pattern are correspondingly happy in anticipation. The World, joining the general Dr /eratic clamor against the mugwump, raps him over the knuckles for daring to protest against such scandalous appointments as Higgins and his kind. The World says: “Mugwumpism seems to delight in making itself uncomfortable. It is now fretting and fuming because Mr. George W. Albright, at present in the Sixth Auditor’s office, and soon to be appointed a chief of division in the Second Auditor’s office, is detailed to assist the well-known Higgins, chief of the appointment division. Mugwumpism declares that this is an evasion of the civilservice rules. So Albright is added to Higgins amongst its miseries. Yet Secretary Manning declares that Higgins will not go and Albright will remain, and we don’t see what mugwumpism is going to do about it” If the Democratic press has ever had a good word for the mugwump we have not seen it. That party, we insist, despises civil-service reform, and, for the most part, does not hesitate to say so. A mugwump among them is as a lamb among wolves. George William Curtis, grand high priest of the mugwumps, delivered a congratulatory address before them at Newport, R. 1., yesterday; but it was congratulatory with conditions, and the conditions were almost as voluminous as all the felicitations, which, at this early stage of a reform administration, may be regarded as very sad indeed. Mr. Curtis proceeds to show what a marvelous transforrqati.on Las been wrought by the mugwumps since their organization four years ago. “At that time,” he declares, “it would have seemed a mere extravagance that within four years a President, nominated by a party which had been out of power for twenty-four years, would refuse, in the interest of public welfare, to regard the New York custom-house and postoffiee as party spoils.” He then proceeds to demonstrate what great things have been accomplished in the two offices named, not that either is better conducted than it was under Republican administrations, but that the President has refused to turn them over to Democrats. His action in the cases cited simply shows that he is not ungrateful, but has rewarded those who treacherously deserted their own party to go to one that they had unsparingly condemned. Mr. Cleveland has made merchandise of those offices as much as (liifc any President from Jackson down. He owed the mugwumps for favors received, and he paid them out of the official crib. Tho great reform movement pivots on New York city and Brooklyn. But for these two cities, with their bummerism and fraud, their shoulder-hitters and thugs, the Nation to-day would be under a Republican administration, and all talk of the mugwumps would be wind. The President knows this, and mado his only marked concessions to the mugwumps at the only point that they were of any service to him. He has settled the account, and the indications are that he will now proceed to give the country a Democratic administration. Mugwumps may howl all they please about the Higginses, and Garlands, and Keileys, and Joneses, and it will do no good unless Mr. Cleveland can bo brought to believe that the

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removal of either or all of them will be to his benefit. If he can be made to think that the removal of Postmaster Jones will help him in New York State this fall, Jones will be made to go; but, if not, lie will stay right where ho is, despite all the outcry that has been raised against him. It is too early yet to felicitate the mugwumps on having revolutionized politics by converting the Democratic party. Up to this time the best that can be said for the President is that he has discharged his personal obligations. Now that the mugwumps are through with Jones, let them turn their attention to Secretary Manning. His promotion, of Mr. Albright, the young Albany lawyer, fiom the position of “skilled laborer,” to which he had recently been appointed, to be Mr. Higgins’s chief assistant in the appointment division of the Treasury, without tho intervention of civil-service rules, is described in detail by the New York Post’s Washington correspondent. By a singular omission the editorial page f that issue of the paper contains no reference to the stern determination of the President to enforce the civil-service laws, nor to the wicked advisers whose machinations have now and then swayed him from his virtuous purpose. The report of Commissioner Thoman and Examiner Lyman in the case of Postmaster Jones was submitted to the President yesterday. The coating of whitewash is considerably thicker than was expected, and it is found that not only has Mr. Jones not violated the law, but the commission kindly states its belief that he never intended any violation. As one of the men discharged from the office was informed in writing that he was dismissed for no other reason than his Republicanism, it is a little difficult to see how the commission reached this conclusion, but the ways of Democratic reformers are not as the ways of other men. If the Marquis of Salisbury is right, and the British government has guaranteed Zulfikar Pass to Afghanistan, the massing of Russian troops near there for the evident purpose of seizure means a fight sooner or later. But it has looked like fight several times already, and a collision has been avoided only by humiliating concessions on the part of England. * The world will be slow to believe that England means war as long as Russia keeps away from the Indian border. A show of bluster has been made from time to time, while Russia has slowly but steadily advanced. The President lias again Relieved in selecting a man as consul at Fort Erie, Out. James Wheelan, the appointee, was one of the leaders in a scheme for a hostile ami armed invasion of Canada in 18GG. The President was advised of this fact, but persisted in appointing Wheelan. If Mr. Wheelan had to be rewarded for party services, why could he not as well been sent elsewhere? Why not send him to Austria and Keiley to Fort Erie? Wheelan is undoubtedly as able a man as is Keiley. Philadelpha has already started a dime fund for the purpose of building a Grant monument. In most communities dime collections are resorted to only as a last hope, but Philadelphia evidently knows herself and cuts her garment according to her cloth, so to speak. The completion of the new City Hospital will be accomplished by the concurrence of the Council and Board of Aldermen in the action already taken and contemplated by the hospital board as set forth in a communication filed with the Council and aldermanic body on Monday night. The Council did wisely in indorsing the course of the hospital board in this matter, and the Board of Aldermen should at once give its concurrence. It would be little short of criminal to permit this institution, which is otherwise well equipped, to pass another such winter as the hist without better heating facilities. It is not onlv a matter of humanity, but of business economy, to place a suitable heating apparatus in the hospital at once. Ax enthusiastic believer in the whichness of the here, writing of one of the Concord speakers, says that in his impetuosity he stumbles occasionally in grammar; but if philosophy cannot rise above tho rules for subject and predicate, what is it worth? Must Goethe and Whilhelm Meister render allegiance to Bindley Murray? These two conundrums are rather staggering, and no answers will be ventured on; but for the benefit of the inquiring philosopher, and for the sake of information, another is hero propounded: If Concord philosophy can rise above the rules for subject and predicate, what is it worth e ven at the height of freedom? Not only from the fashionable summer resorts, but from the rural camp-meetings comes up a feminine wail over the scarcity of young men. A young man’s soul is perhaps never rated at so high a value as at a camp-meeting, and the owner of one who refuses to put himself in the way of being captured—that is to say, saved—by fair, feminine proselyters, either fails to appreciate his own importance, which is hardly likely, or is simply afraid, and prefers freedom and sinfulness to rescue. It is only a question of time when someone will be killed by a “Big Four" train at tho crossing of Ohio. New York or Vermont streets. Tho approach of cars going south across these streets cannot be seen fifty feet. It is often the case that freight trains, or sections of them, back rapidly across these streets with as little noise as an ordinary wagon would make. Somebody will be caught in those traps before long. Already numerous narrow' escaps ha”o been chronicled. A negro at St. Elmo, Tear.., is represented as having fallen asleep on a railway track and been killed while eating a watermelon. This story is false on its face. No negro ever lived who went to sleep with a watermelon near him. MK3iKvßwniM 111 m m \wmimu ■ mmmm The Only Exception, Savannah (Ga.) Nows. A Georgia judge said “that, the maxim that innocence was to be presumed until guilt was proved had one exception, and that was when an Irishman was accused of assault ana battery, for then guilt was to be presumed.”

SNUFFING ON A COLD TRAIL Mr. Whitney’s Futile Efforts to Prove llis Predecessors Were Dishonest. Mr. Oyster Thinks Secretary Manning Will Not Let Any More Government to Employers of Convict Labor. Friends of John G. Thompson Displeased with the Character of His Howard. The President Rebukes a Democrat Who Recommended an Unfit Man for Office—* Congressman Morrison Seriously 111. • ■ ON A COLD TRAIL. Secretary AYliltncy’s Ineffectual Efforts to Discover Frauds in His Department. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. s. —One of tho first acts of reform, by the new administration in the Navy Department, which was brought about soon after the inauguration of President Cleveland, in March, was the employment of Mr. Calhoun, of California, said to be a celebrated expert accountant, for the purpose of going over the books of tho Navy Department, with tho ultimate object of simplifying the accounts in order that there might be no more such scandals as were unearthed by Secretary Chandler in tho medical department, and the later one, as the result of which Paymaster-general Smith is now on trial. The compensation of Mr. Calhoun was fixed at twenty dollars per diem, and it was expected that his work would show great results. It is now five months since Mr. Calhoun began his investigations. He has had four assistants to - help him during that time, and the total expense has been forty-seven dollars a day. Thus far the only tangible result has been a few columns of figures which appeared in the Democratic organ here last Saturday, which were compiled to show that Mr. Roach, the shipbuilder, had received more than half the money' that had been paid out to shipbuilders by the Navy Department in the last twenty years. It is now announced that the Secretary has appointed a board of naval officers to inquire into tho methods of bookkeeping in tlie department and to suggest, if possible, improved and simpler means. It is not learned whether this means that this naval board is to report, improvements upon tho methods of Mr. Calhoun and his assistants, or whether they aro to report improvements upon the old system. In any* event, it would seem that the head of tho Navy Department has got himself into a snarl, and that, after all, there cannot be so much reform in this branch of the government service as was expected and promised at the outset. It is likely that some inquiring congressmen will ask Mr. Whitney, next session, to explain the work of Mr. Calhoun, it may be that tho information which will be forthcoming will be of interest to the general public. Mr. Whitney has not y’et been in public life long enough to learn that when Congress calls for information it must be furnished, and he may not tako kindly to the way' some members have of insisting upon prompt compliance with their demands for information. The Secretary of the Navy has anew rule, which has just been promulgated in the department, and that is that no officer shall give out any matter of news to any' newspaper man or anyone else who desires it. Everything that happens in the department, or that comes to the knowledge of the officials, civil and naval, must bo transmitted to ttie chief clerk hereafter, and that officer will give out to the press such matter as he deems proper and fitting. Reformers who are earnest in their reform are never chary in allowing the light to enter upon their work. The Secretary of the Navy has thus far adopted every precaution against allowing tho introduction of light. CONVICT LABOR. ▼ , 3lr, Oyster Thinks Secretary Manning Has Learned a Useful Lesson. Spocial to the Indianapolis Journal Washington, Aug. 5.—“1 don’t think Secretary Manning will let any more contracts to parties who employ convict labor,” said President Oyster, of the Federation of Labor Unions of this district, in conversation with the Journal correspondent to-day; “and I don’t believe he would have let the Denver contract, which created this furore, if lie had looked into the question deeper.” “lias the Secretary the authority to reject a bid because the bidder employs convict labor?” was asked. “Yes, sir,” replied Mr. Oyster. “Ho may reject the bid of any' one for what he considers a sufficient reason, and that is surety' enough.” “Have you talked to the President on the subject?” “1 have, and he fully agrees with me that the bid of a contractor who employs convict labor may be thrown out or refused on that ground.” Mr. Oyster has filed with the President a protest against the action of Secretary Manning in awarding a contract for public work to employers of convict labor, that must attract a good deal of attention among laboring men everywhere. For the sake of the “lowest bid” he wants to know if the spirit and intent of the laws enacted for the benefit and protection of the laboring classes shall be ignored, and national prosperity destroyed by a justly* aroused discontent among workingmen? He wants to know if such action as that of Secretary Manning is inclined to lead those who have no capital except the ability to work, and no income but their earnings, to believe that their interests are being “jealously protected,” a? Mr. Cleveland promised they should be, in accepting tho nomination for the presidency? Crime, Mr. Oyster says, naturally springs from poverty’ and idleness, and these from an unrestricted competitor. “Too sharp already,” says he, “let this industrial strife be intensified by tho competition of convicts, and the criminal courts will rival tho old slave cruisers in the production of bondsmen—until such time as the classes drifting toward that servitude shall stern the tide by’ such methods as may best fit their intelligence and power. Already, in Illinois and other States, certain classes of mechanics, who would be sure ot employment at their trade, must become convicts, and thereby’ secure such employment through the gates of the penitentiary'. ” The attention of tho President is also called to the practice of government contractors of frequently robbing workingmen of their wages by refusing to pay' them and being protected by a law which cuts the workingmen out of taking a lien. A workingu.an’s lieu cannot be taken va

government work. Mr. Oyster does not favor the contract system on eovernment work. It does not secure tlio best work and is an injustice to the men who do it. Altogether, Mr. Oyster has called the turn on the administration in tho matter of employment of convict labor and he believes that his efforts will do much good. JOHN f i. IS SATISFIED, Ami His Friends Ought To Do, but They Say They Are Not. Special to tlio Indianapolis Journal. Washington*, Aug. s.—There is good deal of comment and complaint heard hero in Democratic circles over the appointment of John G. Thompson, of Ohio, to a special agency of tho General Land Office. Thompson's friends say ho has boon badly treated; that he has been here almost constantly since tho 4th of March, seeking a plaee; that he aspired to something high, and deserved it, and was finally turned off with an agency that pays but SI,GOO a year and traveling expenses, and will bo assigned to some Western Territory whore he will lose his political identity. They think it a cheap way of disposing of him. Thompson says ho is satisfied, as the place will put him where his health will bo better. At different times since the 4th of March Thompson has been “booked for" Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, Chief of the Secret Service of the Treasury Department, Assistant Commissioner of tho General Land Office, and other prominent places. The ono he gets is without prominence or influence. A SHARI* HU DUKE. Tho President Gives a Well-Merited Scoring to a Careless Indorser. Washington, Aug. s.—One of the recent incidents of the President's experience with political applicants seems thus far to have escaped observation and report. The correspondence given below, and about the authenticity of which there is no question, explains itself: “Cincinnati, July 21, 1883. “To tho President, Washington, D. C.: ‘‘Dear Sir—This community read the announcement of to the judgeship with astonishment and regret, if not pain, and nono were more astonished than those who had signed his petition, and I regret to say that my name is to bo found upon it. I have refused several whom I knew to l>e unfit, but 1 signed this one, thinking it would never be considered, and not for one moment believing the appointment was possible. When first presented to me, I put him off and hoped to escape, but he came again with it, and with others. I sigr.od it, thinking there was no chance for its reaching even a consideration. It was signed by many prominent men. who hated to refuse, and hoped and thought it would result in nothing.” “Yours very respectfully, .’’ “Washington, Aug. 1, 1885. “Dear Sir—l have read your letter with amazement and indignation. Thoro is but one mitigation to the perfidy which your letter discloses. and that is found in the fact that you confess your share in it. I don't know whether you were a Democrat or not, but if you are, the crime which you confess is the more unpardonable. Tho idea that this administration, pledged to give the people better government and better officers, and engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with tho bad elements of both parties, should be betrayed by those who ought to be worthy of implicit trust, is atrocious, and such treason to the people and to the party ought to be punished by imprisonment. Your confession comes too late to lie of immediate use to the public service, and I can only say that while this i.s not the first time I have been deceived and misled by lying and treacherous representations, you are the fust one that, has so frankly owned his grievous fault. If any comfort is to Le extracted from this assurance, you are welcome to it. “Yours Truly, Grovek Cleveland.” APPOINTMENTS. The President Divides a Few More Loaves Among the Famishing. Washington, Aug. s.—Tho President to-day appointed Wta. C l . Jones, of Kansas, to be marshal for the district of Kansas. Mr. Jones was educated at the Wisconsin State University, and went to Kansas iu 1800. Ho entered in the war as major of tho Tenth Kansas Infantry, and subsequently served as Lieutent colonel of tho Eighteenth Kansas Cavalry. He was warden of the Kansas penitentiary under Governor Glick. He resides at lowa, Ivan., where ho i3 engaged as a farmer and stock raiser. The President this afternoon appointed Bickford Mackey, of South Carolina, to be United States consul at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; Allen Thomas, to be coiner of tho mint of tlio United States at New Orleans; Wallace McLauren, of Mississippi, to be receiver of public moneys at Jackson, Miss.; James 1). Stewart, of Mississippi, to be register of the land office at Jackson, Miss.; William Bayard, of Colorado, to be rc-gis-ter of the land office at Pueblo, Col. To be government directors of the Union Pacific railroad: Frederick R. Condor, of New York city, vice Hon. Francis Ivernan, declined; M. W. Hanna, of Cleveland, 0., vice L. B. Harrison, declined. The following named postmasters have been appointed by the President: Walter 11. Dawley, Antigo, Wis., vico Henry Smith, suspended; Fayette Johnson, Ludington, Mich., vice H. F. Alexander, not commissioned. It is expected that about one hundred and fifty fourth class postmasters will be appointed to day. The list has been made out, and tho cases will probably not. pass their final stations in time for announcement this evening. OFFENSIVE PARTISANSHIP. Postmaster .Tones Not the Only Man Against Whom Charges Have lieen Preferred. Washington Special. Postmaster Jones is not the only Democratic appointee who has had charges filed against him of offensive partisanship. And quite as good a case has been made against them, too, a3 was made against the men they supplanted. This result was foreseen by a good many shrovd politicians on both sides. It was whimpered, sung and shouted into the presidential ear by Democratic leaders. The President was stubborn. He is a man of convictions, and attributed the hostility to his theory to tho thirst and hunger of spoilsmen. It was not until lie was practically embarrassed by the case of the Indianapolis postmaster, and was informed of still more damaging cases not yet made public, that ho felt the force of these criticisms. Then the reins on tho spy system began to relax, and tlio manly, open, courageous system began to take its piace. The Postmaster general, the Attorney-general, the Secretary of tho Treasury, and tho Secretary of the Interior no longer made the smirching of a Republican officeholder’s character the prerequisite to getting him out. They do not cast about for some mean apology for exercising legitimate power of removal and appointment. Charges are required, as usual, where that is necessary to put off disagreeable or unworthy Democrats. It forms a very clear bulwark against indiscriminate and sudden assaults of officeseekers; but whenever a removal i3 really desired, no nonsense of such a nature is longer suggested. The removal i.s made. It seems as if it were only last week when Mr. Malcolm Hay said fifty times a day: “Charges inust he filed in every case, and must bo sustainedaa sufficient—that is the President’s policy.” It is quite different now, when a man may go and havo removals made in his district with never a word requiring him first to hunt down the incumbent’s character behind Lis back. A Western Republican senator, ouo of tho most trenchant debaters oa tho floor of tho Senate, was asked a short time ago what he thought of the policy of tho administration concerning the “offensive partisan” removals. Said he: “Do you think it deceives anybody? Does it deceive you? \\ nl it docoieve the Senate of tho

United States? Not at all. It is ft foolish, contemptible, cowardly policy. Foolish, because it alienates tho President’s party friend* without gaining anything; contemptible,! becauso it was designed to go* possession of certain spoils without seeming to take them; cowardly, because the admini.strar tion was afraid to take what all conceded belonged to it. There is no doubt as to tho wisdom of deliberation when it comes to making official changes; but there never was any wisdom in making what is styled ‘offensive partisanship’ serve as political breeching.” “How will this be received by the Senat© trj}. coracs to consider the nominations?” that cannot bo foretold, but you may conclude that tho political advantages that can b pained by our side from a party betraying such' S vU. ns weakness will neither bo small nor uuiicult to take. It has been rather a curious to me, and it is hard to say just what Will coma of it. The whole thing may be changed before Congress meets, and therefore an> prediction based upon the present status • l’"°kably bo wide of the mark.” ibis cnange seems to bo already setting in. MINOR topics. The Secretary of tlio Interior Places a Restriction on Garni-Grant Railroads. Washington, Aug. s.— Acting Commissioner Walker, of the General Land Office, has pro--* pared a circular to all registers and receivers, which has received the approval of the Secretary of tho Interior, restricting the power of landgrant railroads in making selections of railroad* indemnity lands. Heretofore the lands so selected were always the choicest portions of the indemnity lands, and these were withheld from settlement for years, and in some iustauces, although the roads would not sell and give title, they wc-ro reported to have sold to ignorant purchasers such rights as the selection gave them. _ Tho circular requires tho roads to file lists of tho i and they claim to have lost, making oath as to their correctness before being permitted to make any selections for indemnity, and land officers are instructed to carefully compare the* lists with their records. In every case where indemnity selections havo heretofore been made, without specification of losses, the local officers aro instructed to notify tho roads to name the amount of deficiency to which such indemnity is to be applied. Land officers are required to reject all selections not made in conformity with the instructions. General Logan Preparing a War History. Washington Special. Goueral Logan has long been at work on a history of the campaigns of the war in which ho participated. It was practically completed a short time since, and for several weeks the General has been engaged in revising the manuscript and preparing it for the printer’s hands. It will be published at an early day. It will possess great interest for all soldiers of the Western armies, since no volunteer officer among those who commanded armies has yet printed a history of his campaigns. It is known that General Logan, in common with all who . had personal knowledge of the events, has been thoroughly dissatisfied with several previous publications, which have carried considerable weight with the public, but which are not history. In his forthcoming volume it may be expected that several subjects thus erroneously treated by others will receive proper attention. The close and most friendly relations which always subsisted between General Grant and General Logan will add to the interest of a work from tho latter appearing at the same time with tho volume of General Grant's memoirs. Soldiers of tho Army of the Cumberland will doubtless find in General Logan’s book a chapter on the question of assigning the Goneral to the command of the army, just before the battle of Nashville, which will be of great interest The confidential instructions of General Grant to General Logan or. that matter have never yet been made public. Increase in Pensions. Washington Special. An unusually largo number of pension claims are being presented to the Pension Bureau at tho present time. This is due largely to tho fact that the law regulating the fee of attorneys was changed at tho recent session of Congress. A sow years ago tho amount was cut down from $25 to $lO, but attorneys claimed that in many cases the actual cost to them of prosecuting claims was more than the $lO feo collected, and they did not therefore push them with the zeal that good business tact would seem to warrant. The old rate was restored at the last session, and attorneys, thus encouraged, made an active canvass, sending their circulars in every direction, the result being that they have filed an unusually large number of cases with the bureau. It does not follow that they are all meritorious claims, but tho claimants, through the importuniug of the attorneys, propose to taße advantage of any chance that offers for a stake. New Ruling iu the Gaud Office. Washington, Aug. 5. —In the case of A. Parker vs. Frederick E. Castle, from the Huron land district of Dakota, the Secretary of the Interior reverses, upon review, his predecessor's decision of February 10, 1885, holding that the service of notice by publication is not warranted upon the sworn allegation that the “present address of the defendant i3 unknown to the deponent, and that personal service cannot be had upon him,” but that it must also be affirmatively shown that duo diligence has been used to procure personal service before an ordo* for publication can be allowed. Congressman Morrison Seriously 111, to the 1 adianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. s.—Congressman Wra. R. Morrison, of Illinois, is a very sick man tonight. Three days ago he went to his room at the hotel with malaria. A physician was summoned. His malady soon assumed the form of malarial fever, and last night he suffered incessantly. To night a friend who has been at his bedside to-day said Morrison was suffering more than last night, and that it was feared he would become dangerously ill. Personal ami General. Special to tho lmlianaDolis Journal. Washington, Aug s.—Gen. Low Wallace, of Crawfordsville, is at the Ebbitt. lion. Juo. C. New* arrived here this afternoon, on his way to New York, where ho will attend General Grant’s obsequies. Ed. 31. Tuber, the clerk in the Pension Bureau who wrote, last fall, that thrilling campaign song for Blaine entitled, “We’ll Follow Where tho White Plume Waves,” has been promoted from a $1,200 to a $1,400 position, at which Democrats aro howling mad. Congressmen Howard, Ward and Kleiner wore among the President’s callers to-day. The resignation of Joseph Stanley Brown, one of tho geologists of the Geological Survey, has been accepted by Secretary Lamar. Mr. Brown was private secretary to President Garfield, and becamo widely and favorably known to the pubMe, and especially to members of the press during tho long illness of tho President, by the skillful manner in which he discharged the delicate and trying duties suddenly thrust upon him. Ills resignation is entirely voluntary. He goes out for tlio purpose of pursuing a special course of scientific studies for a year or two at New Haven, Ills resignation takes effect on the Ist inst. 4 By direction of the Secretary of War, the chiefs of bureaus of the War Department, will ret/air to New Y ork city and attend in full unifoi :n tho funeral of the luto ex President, Ulvssos S. Grant. Quito a sensation was caused in the Smith court-martial to day, when, on calling for certain papers, it was discovered that Commodore Schley, now acting in General Smith’s place, had extended the life of one or more contracts. One of tho principal charges against General Smith is that ho extended a contract. The President has recognized E. A. Teaver as temporary consul of the Republic of Honduras, at Now Orleans, and Ignacio Olas consul of the 1 United States of Mexico at Chicago.