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THE DAILY jTOURNAL. BY ,T\o. C. NEW & SON. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SIS Fourteenth St. P. S. IiIiATH, Correspondent. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1885. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. ASMS INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID IST TUB PUBLISH KISS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One year, by ma.il *12.00 year, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 ®ix months, by mail 0.00 Sis months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 jtb ree months, by maiL 8.00 months, by mail, including Sunday 8.50 One month, by mail 1• | One month, bv mail, including Sundav 1.20 Par week, by carrier (in Indianapolis; THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. Per c0py........ One year, by mail *' uu THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. (WEEKLY EDITION.) Om year *I.OO Ijesstban one year and over three months, 10c per ■aenths. No subscription taken for less than three jßonths. in chibs of five or over, agents will take yaarly subscriptions at *l, and retain 10 per cent, for tfeeii work. Address JNO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal, Indianapolis. Ind. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. HKW YORK—St. Nichoia* and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer Hou-e. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley A Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Pearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. trr LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. JJasiness Office 233 | Editorial Rooms 242 The political prohibition movement in Ohio ■is scandalized by being indorsed by every sstloon organ in the State. Mr. John Russell Young, ex-minister to China, is going East, and yyill resume editorial charge of his paper, the Philadelphia Star. Mr. Duncan F. Kenner, of Louisiana, •ays that Robert Toombs was never offered the presidency of the Southern Confederacy, Yhiclr is very important, if true. W hen Governor Hoadly attempts to carry the record of the last General Assembly of Ohio, he will find that he is too heavily weighted to mate a successful race. In the fight between Sullivan and McCaffrey, to take place at Cincinnati, the authorities Should arm them with base ball bats and compel them to fight to a finish, and then flog the survivor, if theve be any. Over one thousand cars of wheat were shipped from Indianapolis to St. Louis last Yreek. The St. Louis flour-makers have a reputation to sustain that calls for the best wheat that can be had. So this year they are drawing largely from east of the Mississippi. The Washington Post, the national Democratic organ, says “the Ohio Democrats are doomed to certain defeat.*' Os course; everybody knows that. But it is not always that a, J)emocratic paper can bo found frank enough to confess it. Dr. Leonard will be in less of a hurry to denounce stories as “infamous lies." He admits the toast and ale, but does not remember that he ate them in the bushes at camp-meet-ing. The good Doctor is placed in a very humiliating attitude by his tardy confession. The kind of a man Judge Gibson Atherton, ©f the Ohio Supreme Court, is, can be inferred from the report of a speech made on the eve ©f his nomination by the late Democratic convention. He is now serving by appointment. If the report be true, the next Legislature should promptly impeach him. The Journal prints this morning a report of the sermon preached yesterday by Rev. Dr. Talmage in the Synod Ilall of Edinburg, Scotland. Last Sunday the Doctor occupied the old pulpit of John Wesley. The sequence of things would have been preserved had he preached yesterday in John Knox’s church. Bat, then, Edinburg is not London. Why* is there so much “polly-foxing" about Mr. Dowling? Ho is a disgrace to the national administration, and to the City Council, by his own confession. If he tells the truth about himself, he is liable to prosecution. Why doesn't somebody take hold of the matter as though they meant business? We trust the Council committee now having the matter in charge will make a record that it can atand upon. The New York city Grant fund received $5,000, in round numbers, in contributions on Frida}'. In truth this is not a bad showing, and if maintained at or near that rate would eventually produce a fuud of which the Nation might feel proud. The committee did Well to fix the amount asked for at a round million. A million-dollar monument would be one that every one might take pride in. Now let the committee adopt General Grant’s way of doing things; he started iu and “just kept on." Evidences of improvement in business •ontinue. The railroads now show a marked Increase in traffic, and for the first time in months the supply of cars does not equal the demand. The increase comes largely from the movement of the new wheat crop. But even then the comparison with the business ©f a year ago is very favorable. The number •f loaded cars handled at this point last week ixcoeded that of the preceding week by 1,910.

The increase over the corresponding cropmoving week of lasty.earis 1,466. Railway managers are inagood spirits, and the roads have all they can do. Hon. Smith M. Weed denies his part ill tho reported “snubbing" of President Cleveland and Secretary Manning by tho sage of Greystone. Mr. Lockwood also says his relations with Mr. Cleveland are not yet strained. Let us concede, for the time, that Mr. Cleveland has not been kicked by any Democrat; he has still a large number of places at his disposal. The music will begin when he either can’t or won’t distribute offices to the hungry and thirsty. It i3 nonsense to expect a demonstration thus early on the part of the tramps in the White House yard, who are begging for a meal of cold victuals. The Christian Union, the great religious weekly, concludes a lengthy article upon the Christian man’s duty as a citizen toward the temperance question thus: “1. Obedience to the law of the land, whatever that law is. 2. A higher tax or a higher license, discriminating against distilled liquors, and in so far in favor of malt and fermented liquors. 3. The strict and impartial enforcement of the present prohibitory' clauses in our liquor laws against selling on Sunday, to minors and the like. 4. Local option; that is, the recognition of the right of each local community, town or county to prohibit the liquor traffic within its bounds altogether." On that platform every honest, sincere, practical friend of temperance, of public morals and private rights could stand. The only men for whom it is too narrow are the free whiskyites on the one hand, and on the other those extremists whose self-consciousness must be ministered to by making them “leaders" in an independent political party. The explanation of the position of these men is that they care much more for personal notoriety than they do for real reform. The “persecution" that “Minister" Keiley suffers at the hands of his fellow-citizens is just the kind that must ever be meted out by patriotic men to such as are mean enough or disloyal enough to decry the liberal government under which lie lives and then presume to ask favors of it. Mr. Keiley’s offense was in denouncing the United Slates government as “a gross and brutal violation of public rights," because it put down the rebellion in order to perpetuate the Union. For this he is justly in contempt, and must there remain until by some means he purges himself of his treasonable instincts. He was not fit to go to Italy because lie had insulted the Italian government. 110 is not fit to represent this country because the same mean elements of his character impelled him to dishonor himself in traducing his own government. He is morally unfit for any position of honor and dignity, and universal condemnation should drive him from public sight. He is a pariah among men, ill at ease iu the enjoyment of citizenship in the grandest republic ever founded, and afterward delivered at awful cost from the onslaughts of such men as Keiley. Mr. O. J. Hollister, who married a sister of the lat®Schuyler Colfax, and who is engaged in preparing his biography, delivered an address at Salt Lake on “Grant, the Hero," in which he read from several letters written by Grant, while President, to Mr. Colfax, while Vice-president. In one of these letters, dated in 1871, at a time when the discontent that manifested itself in the Cincinnati convention was first manifesting itself, Grant said: “Everything seems to be working favorably for a loyal administration of the government for four years a£ter the 4th of March, 1873. It is important that we should have such an administration, though it is not important who the head may be." Mr. Hollister well said: “That sentence reminds one of his ‘Let us have peace,’ ‘Let no guilty man escape.’ 'Whoever lias the place,’ he goes on, ‘will have a slave’s life. My only anxiety in the matter is that there shall be entire harmony and unanimity in favor of the choice of the convention which nominates him.’ " Mr. Hollister added, what may not be generally known, that these expressions were in a letter to Colfax, asking him to resign tho vice-presidency and be his Secretary of State, iu place of Fish, whom, he said, he hadn’t the face to press to stay with him beyond the meeting of Congress. There are indications of a business revival in many parts of the country. The Chicago Inter Ocean says: “A series of interviews with bankers and merchants, printed one week ago, showed that tho monetary and mercantile interests of Chicago were in a fairly prosperous condition. An improvement was reported in almost every line of trade. Interviews had with packers, Board of Trade men, and lumber dealers, printed elsewhere in today’s issue, give evidence of a more hopeful feeling in those important branches of business." The Philadelphia Times prints several columns of interviews with business men and manufacturers in that city, accompanying them with an editorial in which it says: “The general tone of hopefulneas pervading the business interviews indicates that an active fall trade may be confidently expected. The general belief that prices have touched bot tom, together with the fact that good crops in the South and West always conduce to an improvement in trade, are straws which plai .ily indicate the business wind is blowing. But better than all the signs, which sometimes fail, is the fact that buyers are already numerous, replenishing exhausted stocks in anticipation of a heavy fall demand. It will be observed that the spirit of hopefulness pervades all branches of business. 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to those who deal only in the common necessaries of life, there is a uniform expression of confidence in better trade for the future. Confi'lence is a very contagious sentiment, and when men talk confidently and lay in stocks of goods as though they were confident, the business boom is already begun. Like Horace Greeley’s famous specific for resumption of specie payments, the surest way to restore business confidence is for everybody to be confident." We commend to the business men of Indianapolis the golden sentence that “confidence is a very contagious sentiment." Let the contagion spread here and hereabouts. That is an epidemic greatly to be desired. The Journal wishes to be understood as insisting that but for the “bummer” wards of the cities of New York and Brooklyn, Mr. Blaine would have been elected President of the United States. It is useless for the New York Times to point to the isolated fact that tho Republican candidate lost votes in many of the “brown-stone” wards and gained in some of the tough wards. If certain of the residents of brown-stone houses went to the aid of the vicious wards, theirs is the shame, not Mr. Blaine’s. The Times cites the First Assembly district as a “bummer” ward, and shows that Blaine gained 390 votes, while Cleveland lost 778, comparison being made with the presidential vote of 1880. Turning to the figures of that district we find that the Times is right. But we find more, and find exactly what we have insisted upon. Despite Mr. Blaine’s gains in that district, coupled with the loss suffered by Mr. Cleveland, it returned a Democratic plurality of just 2,188. This is enough, by more than 1,000, to have defeated the Democratic nominee, had it been lost to him. This one “bummer” district, chosen for illustration by the Times, proves all the Journal has insisted upon. It has not been much more than a year since the Times insisted upon the same point —that the lawless and vicious have been and are on tho side of the Democracy. Mr. Blaine came out of the “clean" districts of New York with a plurality of 57,746, and it was only when the “bummer’ wards of New York and Brooklyn rolled up their rotten and vicious pluralities that he was defeated. The action of a few holier-than-thou cranks does not vitiate a fact that has been patent to everybody for a generation. And the fact that the Democratic party contains such a large per cent, of the disreputable element of citizens explains why it is that so many criminals have been pushed forward for office. The selection of such characters is only the symptom of a constitutional disease from which the Democratic party has suffered for many years. There is little wonder that tho Times winces at the bare mention of this fact. The mugwumps have got into disreputable company, and they know it. ■ No amount of “see how we voted,” and “know that we are the elect,” will save them from the shame of having allied themselves with that party which has already produced men like Keiley', Meiere, Judd, Dunton, Dowling. et al. The beginning has but been fairly made. The rottenness of Democracy has hardly' been touched on yet. The manuscript found in tho trunk of Miss Laura Nourse, whose body was found in the Ohio river, near Louisville, was as follows: “One that believes in a merciful Savior, on a Savior that will help those who strive after right with their whole heart, as believing in a friend. I have lived an upright life all my life, and have given kindness and consideration to everyone, and I have been driven to despair bv a succession of injustice and unkindness that 'has been undeserved. I believe in God, and tried to brave it out. I suffered enough to kill ten people that had not the bravery of a lion. I fought against unkindness and injustice, standing up against them till I can stand up no longer. 1 have no defense against lying and misrepresentation. I could defy the world to prove that 1 have ever done an immoral act of any kind. I have loved righteousness and all that was good with all my heart; yet I have been in the last few weeks insulted to my face with the insinuation that I was not, a true woman. I have never found that God keeps me in the hour of trial, or gave me any help in trouble, but still I have believed and never dishonored Him before man, but He has utterly forsaken me and left me no recourse but self-destruction. Oil, terrible to love a supposed friend and Savior, to find that one you believe Almighty to save, neither able nor willing to do aught for you! Oh, terrible to love right and find that there is no power in heaven or earth tlmt can bring any good to triumph over evil or help those who strive after righteousness! I pity any one who has any sense of right, for it is only those who can trample on ev<-ry principle of honesty and honor that can succeed in life. Those who care for self above everything else, aiid \%ill trample upon everything or everybody that comes in their way will have a good time. As to the peace, and love, and joy that is promised to a Christian, it is ail a.farce. There is no such thing. Laura Nourse.” As has been stated. Miss Nourse had been a missionary. It is evident her mind was more unhinged than her faith. AIIOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. MINERAL water comes in quartz. The Salvation Army is threatened with prosecution in Boston for profanity because it gives “three cheers for Jesus." Warren Tribune: “Say, ma, at death do all Presidents lie in state?” “All except Washington, my boy. He never lied at all." Mrs. CUSTER’S attractive memorial of General Custer entitled “Boots ami Saddles," has reached a sale of 11,000 within six months. Sir Arthur Sullivan, who is having a pleasant time on the Pacific coast, has bought two lots in the orange grove of William Lacy, in East Los Angeles, and is having two cottages built upon them. A GENTLEMAN said to a minister: “When do you expect to see deacon S. again?” “Never,” said the reverend geutlemau, solemnly. “The deacon is in heaven." A Dove flew in at an oped window of a church in Danbury, Conn., on Sunday morning, and, perching upon a gas jet just over the preacher's head, remained there until the doxelogy was sung. The epitaph that follows is to be found under the moss of a gravestone in Vermont: Here lies the body of Samuel Woodhen, Tho best of husbands and the purest of men. N. Tl.—llis name was Woodcock, but it wouldn’t rhyme. Ihe Rev. E. E. Ilalu is to be the editor of a new magazine published in Boston, which is to be the monthly organ of persons interested in philanthropic work. It will te devoted to tho discussion of plans of charity and social refoz-m. Ev rv month special departments of its pages are to be given to the work of the Associated Charities, the Temperance League,

the Indian societies, and the Look Up Legion, etc. Besides discussion on these subjects, the magazine will condense the annual reports of the principal charitable societies and the leading State institutions of charity. ALPHONSE DaVPET is said to be sadly changed. lie has shut himself up at home, a sufferer from the rheumatism and from that popular malady known as “nerves, and lives the life of a recluse, receiving almost no one. He has worked too hard and taken life too seriously, and now he pays the penalty. “I have heard,” writes Mr. Labouchere, “of an agricultural laborer to whom an aspirant for his vote was pointing out what Mr. Gladstone had done for the country, and who replied: ‘I never heard of the gentleman, but be you a friend of a chap called Collins, who s going to give I three acres of land and free muck?’ ” Bishop F. D. Huntington writes that a good Sunday issue of a newspaper keeps vast numbers of both sexes from church-going by a counter-attraction. “It turns the scale adversely with multitudes who hesitate. It takes up agreeably the unoccupied hours. It is easier than church-going, and costs less.” This the Bishop regrets. Merimee, a French wit. referring to M. Viennet, of the Acadamy, observed: “We must not speak ill of his tragedies. At the siege of Leipsic he hau one on his mind that he intended for Talma. A cannon ball ricocheted against his breast, but the tragedy saved him. The missile had uot strength enough to go beyond the third act." E. P. Roe. whose famous novels, “Barriers Burned Away and “The Opeuing of a Chestnut Burr,” have had an aggregate sale of nearly 400,000 copies, has written a short story. It is a Western story, and has for a sub title “A Log Cabin Tragedy.” S. S. McClure has secured the story fur a syndicate of newspapers of which the Journal is a member. The Empress Eugenie arrived at Carlsbad last week, and will stay there for a three weeks’ cure, after which she is going for a fortnight to Arenenbcrg, her picturesque villa on the Untersee, near Constance. The Empress will go to Scotland when she returns to England, to pass a month at Abergeldie Castle, which has been placed at her disposal by the Queen. A London journal, quoting statistics to back it up, presents as a moral paradox the statement that the most poorly paid working girls in the metropolis are those engaged in the work of sowing and binding Bibles. It adds that “for every heathen abroad who can be induced to use the sacred volume for anything else than gun-wadding a dozen of these girls are driven perdition at home.” The Sandford (Fla.) Journal is responsible for the statement that a resident of that place has a watermelon vine in the water-works yard that is growing at the rate of a quarter of an inch an hour; that by actual measurement has grown ten inches in forty hours. This beats the Georgia variety, which lias hitherto held the watermelon medal. But it does not entirely chastise “Jack and the Beau Stalk.” Thomas B. iley Aldrich is said to be a man of strong dislikes and prejudices. In his work he inclines to things that are naturally bright, loves pretty women, jewels, flowers, and the daintiest romances of the daintiest climes. In appearance he is somewhat thick set, blonde and of the middle- height. He has features that lend themselves easily to the humorous play of his fancy and the pointed ends of a moustache treated somewhat in the French manner, accentuate with a certain chic, the quips and pranks which so often issue from beneath it. Among the things which thirty-five years ago went to make up the crime of high treason in Italy was the possession of a Bible, which was in the list of revolutionary and forbidden books, and for a man to own it was to subject him to prison, the galleys and even to death. Now Bible depots are established in every Italian city, and itinerant venders circulate the book freely. In a conspicuous store in the Corso, Rome, a whole window is filled with copies of the Italian version of the Scriptures. The New Testament can bo purchased for five cents and a separate gospel for two. Mme. Modjeska has a house in every civilized country’. Besides her chalet in the Carpathian mountains, she has a substantial winter residence in Cracow. In England her husband owns a house and estate of some extent near Hereford, and in a fishing vi.lage on the Cornish coast, Mme. Modjeska owns a little stone cottage yvho.se garden runs down-to the sea. She and her husband have a long lease of a house in London, Northwest, beyond St. John’s Wood. In America she owns a ranch of 500 acres in the vicinity of Los Angeles. A fine place in the suburbs of Posen completes the list. Eventually she may take up her residence in New York. An Englishwoman just home from America sends to the Pall Mall Gazette her opinion that an influx of highly-cultured Englishwomen into Canada ami the United states would be as great a boon to those countries as it yvould boa reliof to Great Britain. “Although the ladies in the oider* cities of the North American continent are," she says, “with scarcely any exceptions, superior to English gentlewomen in brain power, in clearness of mental vision, in common sense, in practical, sound judgment, and in general intelligence, yet yve miss in them that indefinable charm yvhich always clings to a cultivated European.” She has been assured by the government officials in Canada that if superior women, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, would come thore from England, and submit to the position of domestic service, they yvould almost bo sure to marry well within a short time of their arrival, especially if they go far West. She gravely advises her educated countrywomen to do this. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. We assuredly acquit the President of any deliberate purpose of introducing jail-birds and swin lers into the public service: a 1 his personal and political interests lie in the direction of giving the country an .honorable and successful administration. But, we regard him as, intellectually and morally, a small man in a great place, and such a man, desiring to act creditably rather as a matter of policy than in conformity with any deep convictions or lofty principles, and, yvith ail the hungry, turbulent and corrupt elements of the Democratic party be ind him, cannot avoid making serious blunders.—Milwaukee Sentinel. The spirit of an act of Congress, so* far as administering it is concerned, is simply its scope and intent as these may be learned from a reasonable construction of its express terms. Thousands and tens of thousands of offices are entire.y outside the operation of the intent of the civil-service act, and to talk of applying to them the provisions of that act in its present shape is mere nonsense. It yvas this misunderstanding, consequent upon taking a vague sentiment as the interpretation of a written law, that led to the resultless investigation of Postmaster Jones, and to all the idle vaporing indulged in iegarding his case.—Washington Post (Dcm.) The time when offices could be used as rewards has gone by, and the time yvhen henchmen could be run into subordinate positions in payment for party services has passed. Parties must succeed yvithout these accessories or not succeed at all. The people’s money is not to be use 1 for bribery, either direct or indirect. That is the platform of the'administration. and it is a platform on which the people 6tand in commendation of the President. It is the general judgment that if civil-service reform can rid us of the abuses of power to which yve have been subjected during the last twenty years, it shall have a fair trial. If it fails, we will try s< methingelse.—New York Herald. Many will be surprised to learn that the latest statistics in the .State of Massachusetts show that marriages here are on the increase. The amount of this is stated to be 3J_per cent, iu the last four years of record from 1870 t j 1883. The average age of the grooms is 28.8. and of the brides about 25 years. This is much better than the considerably earlier age of marrving which usi dto be the fashion. It is occasioned. probably, by the greater expense attending the support of families. The apostle’s injunction yvith regard to marriage is as true now as it ever yvas, but the proceedings of the divorce courts furnish a lesson agiinst thoughtless or precipitate marriages yvhich cannot he too often enforced.—Boston Herald. Nothing is gained in public morals by concealing the fact that such things as murders, divorces, jealousies and domestic unpleasantnesses are all the time occurring. But yvhy give to them so much prominence? Why should the leading pages of first-class daily papers—the pages which, whatever else is overlooked, are sure to be read—be devoted to such “news” as this, often to the exclusion of news and ever ts of genuine public interest? And why should such pains be taken to enhance the interest of these yvretened facts? Thoughtful readers must surely have observed a growing tendency to melodrama among reporters of these events. Is it necessary that such accounts should rjjad like a chapter in a sensational serial? Must not the newspapers share, yvith other literary productions, the responsibility inseparable from the power of influencing the human rnind? And ther- is room for serious question whether the late noticeable increase in domestic quarrels leading to murder may not be in some degree due to a morbid

apprehension of wrong, which has grown by what, it has fed on in the publio press.—Frank Leslie's Weekly. Lawyers practically make the laws which govern the administiation of justice, since their influence in legislatures is almost always control.ing whon such questions are considered; lawvers promoted to the bench administer the laws; lawyers at the bar defend the laws which lawyers in the legislature have framea and lawyers ou the bench administer. The yvhole dilatory system has grown up under the fostering care of lawyers. They are the class who are primarily responsible for unduly protracted trials; for delays upon frivolous pretexts; tor unreasonable privileges of appeals; for the granting of new trials where no consideration of justice dictates a further hearing; in short, for all the evil practices which prevent a prompt and conclusive issue.—New York Evening Post, While we have no sympathy with that pessimistic theory which predicts the decadence of New England, yve have perfect faith in the growth and prosperity of the South. It is t-o be, materially speaking, to go no further, not merely an important, but one of the most important sections of the country. When it is, New England will be still richer than now, as it will be for generations to come the mental leader of the Nation. In brief. New England and the South are the complements of each other. The adjustment will ta.ke time, but it will be accomplished. Here is the plethora of money, there the exuberant soil; here the inventive genius and skilled labor, there the genial climate and the negro labor. There is something more than money in the subject, and at last the ultimate consideration yvill t'e the preserving of bonds of friendship &s firm as they will be pleasant.—Providence Journal. There is no such thing as absolute freedom under our own or any other system of civilized government. No man has any more liberty than is consistent with the welfare of the community. Society claims and exercises the right to take public property for private uses. It runs a railroad through your family burial ground, or it builds a jail iu your front yard. It razes your dwelling, it puts you and your sons in line of battle to be shot at. and, if you disobey its mandate as written in the statutes, it shuts you up in prison or even chokes you to death at the end of a pendant rope. This is regulated liberty. One of the regulations of liberty in this land declares that polygamy is a crime. If the Mormons were in majority they might make the same declaration against mouogaruy. Situated as they are, however, they must submit, or take the consequences of resistance.—National Republican. A New York epicure wandering in Minnesota once asked for dinner at a farm-house. The farmer apologized for the character of the entertainment, saying that at. that season he had only bacon and potatoes to live upon. The visitor went into the neighboring lanes and gathered “weeds,’’out of which he made so toothsome that the farmer took an immediate course of lessons, and during the week of the epicure's stay seven different kinds of salad appeared upon bistable, all compounded of what he had until then regarded as weeds. It was as if a free market had been brought to his door, aud every one who has sojourned among rural folk knows how great a boon such instruction in the use of now neglected food products would be to most of them. Certainly the botany of the table should be taught in the country schools.—New York Commercial-Advertiser. GENERAL ROBERT TOONIBS. The Search for a Man Who Knows He Was Ottered the Presidency of the Confederacy. WhiteSulpliur Letter iu New York Herald. One year ago General Robert, Toombs, of Georgia, was a guest at the White Sulphur. He held daily levees on the porches of the Grand Central Hotel, was the historical and political oracle of the hour, and was lionized to a degree almost amounting to hero worship. The company then was not near as large as it is now, but crowds sat around listening to every word that dropped from Toombs’s lips as sweet morsels of national political gossip. To day the White Sulphur is packed to its full capacity, and a large majority of the visitors are Southerners —nearly every section in this Stato .having its corps of representatives, male and female. It is safe to say that were General Toombs to put in an appearance now his reception would be cool even to the freezing point. This is due not only to his recent unfortunate published criticism of General Lee and Mr. Davis, but also to his arrogance in asserting that the presidency of the Confederacy was offered to him at the time of Davis's election, and that he declined it. Without knowing the facts, there are Southerners here, and in fact everywhere, who at once pronounced this a piece of unmitigated and brazen impudence on Toombs’s part. As if, however, to put a quietus to this inso lent claim of Toombs, Mr. Duncan F. Kenner, of Louisiana, who served during the entire epoch of the Confederacy as congressman from that State, happens opportunely to be at the Springs. Mr. Kenner is one of the few men now living who took an active part in the startling events coincident with the outbreak of the war. He is seventy-two years of age. but is still vigorous and hearty and never misses a season at, the White Sulphur. After the usu.fi introductory formalities Mr. Kenner was asked: “Were you*not a member of the Confederate Congress when it met in Montgomery, Ala., in 1801?” “I was,” lie replied, “a member of the Confederate Congress from the opening at Montgomery to the close at Richmond.” “Then I presume you were present when the President and Vice president were elected?” “Os course I was, and took part in the eletion of the President and Vice-president of the provisional government by the provisional Con- - gress." “Have yon read the recent interview with Gen. Toombs, of Georgia, in which he claims that the presidency of the Confederacy was then tendered to him and that he declined the honor?” “I have,” said Mr. Kenner, very impressively; “I read it and was very much surprised at it.” “Do you recollect of any such tender of this responsible position being made General Toombs?” “1 do not,” very emphatically. “I heard nothing of it at the time, nor can I understand by whose authority such tender was made. It certainly was not made by any general expression of opinion on the part of the members of Congress?” “It is hardly probable, then, that such a proposition could have been made to General Toombs without you knowing it?” “It is highly improbable. There was no general caucus of the members of Congress held previous to the election of a President and Vicepresident.” “How, then, were thennme3 proposed?” “The plan adopted was that each State held a meeting of its own members. These meetings were held and the following day, when all the members met, the vote was taken in generaly assembly.” “What was the result of the vote?" “The vote was taken by States. Mr. Davis received the unanimous vote of all the members present, anil was elected President.” “Was Mr. Davis present as the time?” “He was not in Montgomery at the time of the election, nor had he been there since our arrival —I mean since the arrival of the members of Congress.” Then there was no effort on the part of Mr. Davis to secure the election as President of the Confederacy?” None that I ever heard of. He was elected as President on account of his supposed qualifications as a civilian and military mao." “Do 3’ou think it possible that any person ever asked General Toombs to boa candidate for the presidency?” “I think it possible that some of his friends may have done so, but I am positively certain that as far as Louisiana was concerned no one was authorized to make Mr. Toombs a tender of the presidency.” UR. LEONARD AGAIN, The Ale ami Toast Admitted, but the Log aud Bush Are Not Remembered. Springfield (0 .) Globe-Republic. Last night it was rumored that Dr. Leonard had admitted at least the partial truth of Glad den’s ale-drinking story, which he had stamped as an “infamous lie” in a telegram to the Cincinnati papers. It was said that this admission had been made in private conversation with Charles H. Schaeffer, who is steward and treasurer of the Sunday-school. A Globe Republic reporter called on Mr. Schaeffer this morning, at his grocery, on Main street, to ask about the truth of the rumor, but he refused absolutely to say a word further on the subject, explaining that if he had said anything about his conversation with Dr. Leonard, it had been to a friend, in the belief that it would go no further. A number of leading questions were put by the reporter, all in vain, until finally one elicited the opinion that if there was anything in the story defamatory to the character of Dr. Leonard, it would probably be handled by the conference, which is the proper authority to take cognizance of the matter. About the private conversation he still refused to have anything to say. lie was finally induced to say that he was willing to stand by what he had said to other parties about the matter, if any questions were asked about it by Dr. Leonard. The reporter then explained that the rumor was spreading rapidly that Dr. Leonard had admitted to Mr. Schaeffer the truth of Mr.

Gladden's story, and people were beginning to believe him (Leonard) a liar. “That is not the case,” said Mr. Schaeffer “his conversation with me, on hia return last Saturday, was an explanation of the affair, which places him in a more favorable light than the rumor you speak of. If you will report my conversation verbatim, and submit it to me, beforo publication. I will talk witli you.” This promise was readily made, and Mr. Schaeffer proceeded reluctantly: “I am an ardent admirer of Dr. Leonard, and believe him an able and conscientious minister. I know of no stain on his private character, and believe that there is still something unexplained about this ale and toast story that will put him in a more favorable light As 1 said before, his conversation with mo was explanatory, and he held others of tho same nature with other members of the congregation. The affair occurred so long ago that his memory is not ut all clear on tho subject. He admits the material points of drink* ing the ale and eating the toast, but doesn’t remember that it was at camn-meeting. He is confident that the story about sitting on a log behind a bush, with another standing guard, is false, because these are circumstances of such a nature that they would have impressed themselves upon his memory, and he has no recollection of them. He says that Gladden procured the ale and toast for him, but that they were takeu on the advice of Gladden’s physician. He thinks that he was only at the camp-meeting one day with Gladden, and is under tho impression that the ale was drunk at Gladden’s house.” After a pause Mr. Schaeffer proceeded: “I have the most implicit faith iu Dr. Leonard’s honesty and sincerity, and 1 think he told me the truth as he remembered it.” The fact that he drank ale by the advice of a physician is not what they object to, but they think he was overhasty, and made a great mistake in calling Gladden’s story an “infamous he” in his telegram. They think his denial covered too much ground, and now it places him in an embarassing position to admit Gladden's story as partially true. The above report was submitted to Mr. Schaeffer, and received his approval before being printed. He was rather rueful about being compelled to talk at all. and seems to think that the conference is the only proper place for the story to be investigated. There is a great deal of difference of opinion among the prominent Methodists of this city as to the final outcome of this affair, and its effect upon Dr. Leonard’s connection with the church. Some are of the opinion that he will be relieved of his charge as pastor of the Central Church, and others that the conference will ignore it altogether. Most of them are uncertain as to tht result, but are sure that the conference will take cognizance of the case. One of tho prominent members of the Central Church embodied tho opinions of tho majority this morning as follows: case stands now it has reached such a point that tho next conference cannot pass it by without an investigation of the story. He has denounced the statement of Mr. Gladden, one of the members of his church, as au infamous lie; and Mr Gladden has reiterated his statement, thus indirectly giving the lie to * I)r. Leonard. When, in the conference, the Bishop solemnly asks whether thore is anything against the character of Dr. Leonard, with the elder in charge of the characters of the ministers and one hundred ministers sitting about, all perfectly aware of these facts, there must be some investigation.” TIIE OHIO DEMOCRACY. A Party Organ Sneers at the Work of tho .Late Convention. Washington Post iDem.) It is hardly worth while worrying over Ohio. Life is too short and emotion too exhausting to justify one in squandering energies in such an absurd direction. The Democrats of that amazing State havo vindicated the most injurious predictions of their enemies aud realized the worst fears of their friends. They have renominated as much of the old ticket as they conveniently could, and have reaffirmed iu every possible way their pride and satisfaction iu the record they havo so laboriously constructed during the past two years. As an object lesson in infatuation they may have some point, but as a relative in politics they are disheartening and tiresome. Considered in a purely intrinsic light, the Ohio platform is really an entertaining document. It is worthy of the nominee who is its peculiar exponent. After felicitating the Ohio Democracy, all the country, and the universe generally upon the situation (that of Ohio included) the platform says: “Third —We approve the measures takeir by a Democratic Congress for preventing the acquisition of unearned lands by railroad companies, and a Democratic President in firmly holding public lands for public use, and in preventing their unlawful occupation.” It is now about seven years since there was a Democratic Congress, but very likely the news has just reached tho present leaders in Ohio; so that their rejoicings, if chronologically irregular, are at least sentimentally creditable; and the fact that they have only this moment heard of that Democratic Congress may account for their not having heard at all of what respectable people think of their performances during the past two years—thus explaining the otherwise inexplicable clause of the platform which says: “Fisth —We commend tho administration of Governor Hoadly, and tho work ot' the Sixty-sixth General Assembly as wise, honest and economical.” They will fiud out about this later, perhaps. It actually fatigues one to attempt such violent stupidity as all this implies; but, on tho other hand, it is exasperating to observe that the only thing they could possibly have done to soften down the asperities of Hoadly’s nomination, and Articles 3 and 5 of the platform, was omitted. There is not a single word of commendation of tho President's civil service policy—the only pronounced feature of his administration thus far—not a word to indicate that Ohio Democracy are in sympathy with the active principle of reform which Mr. Cleveland's election has liberated and set in motion. The depressing dead level of insensibility and strongheadedness remains undisturbed oven by the faintest ripple. It is not in order to say that the Ohio Democrats are doomed to certain defeat. In sayiny that they deserve it we say ail the occasion justifies. As to the outcome of this bewildering hurly-burly, no man may confidently speak. That providence which watches over infants, drunkards and fools, has intervened in this ease, and provided tho Ohio Democracy with adversaries who are, perhaps, more fatuous and misguided than themselves. After vindicating its party devotion by a sharp attack on Ohio Republicans, the Post concludes as follows: “As we said before, however, life is too short to justify one in getting anxious over this unimportant problem. No doubt it were better the Democrats should win. If they had aligned themselves emphatically with the President’s civil-service policy it would have been very much better, and would have greatly increased their claim upon patriotism and rational support. But even as it is, a Democratic victory is desirable under the circumstances; for a more vicious and mischievous spirit than that which pervades the Republican programme could not very well be imagined. Arcades ambo, doubtless, but there is preference possible, even in such a case as this.” A Praiseworthy Newspaper. Indianapolis News, Saturday. The general excellence of the newspapers of Indianapolis is marked. We know of no city of its size where the newspapers equal ours, and we do know of cities much greater in size, and many times creator in wealth, where the newspapers canr. e compared with those of Indianapolis. T v e pure in tone, clean in matter, and show „ry and ability in method. Meaning no i ious distinction, it appears as worthy of mention that the Saturday Journal of this date is a fair illustration of those praiseworthy qualities. Mr. McDonald Too Sauguine. Boston Transcript. Ex Senator McDonald, of Indiana, is a practical Democratic politician, and he gives it as hia opinion that civil service reform “has come to stay,” and “is a good thing.” He thinks that “there may be efforts to make it a political issue, but it is now so far advanced as to be almost beyond this.” Mr. McDonald was similarly sanguine as to the general acceptance of revenue reform, and it was proved that he had too good au opinion of his party. Sours on His Stomach. Indianapolis Independent. Geu. John Black, pension scent, evidently can’t bear too much Sweet, and Miss Ada Sweet, tho Chicago pension agent, is causiug him a very sour Bioina<j v y