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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NKW A SOX. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SIS Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1885. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. WOOLS INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE—rOSTAO* PREPAID BY THE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One year, by mail - $12.00 One year, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 fkx months, by mail £.OO Btx months by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Three months, by mail - 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 One month, by mail J-00 One month, by mail, including Sunday week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) *o THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. Per copy 5 cents Ou year, by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. (WEEKLY EDITION.) ®e year .SI.OO Less than one year and over three months, 10c per months. No subscription taken for less than three m-jstlis. Jn clubs of five or over, agents will take yearly subscriptions-at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for their work. Address JNO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal, Indianapolis, Ind. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL On be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 £tran<l. • PAWS—American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard dec Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO —Palmer Ilouse. CINCINNATI—J. K. Ilawloy & Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dealing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST- LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Tolephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 For a "cold” man John Sherman makes a red-hoi speech. Tiie Atlantic coast seems to have corralled all the tornadoes this year, Indianapolis needs a Council that will .work for the up-building of the city. A DUSKY Falstaff must be at the head of that mysterious army in central Africa. Senator Sherman opened tho Ohio campaign yesterday. Ho did it with a soldering iron. _________________ The coming of John L. Sullivan is of such Importance that the news was telegraphed of his departure from Boston. Tiie complaint against John Sherman has been that he is a "cold” man. Tho speech he made seems to be warm enough. Mr. Sherman’s balm of Gilead is warranted to warm up the brethren who have been complaining that he is a "cold” man. Mr. KElLEYwill probably be with us to3ay. Tho ship in which he sailed from Europe is due in New York this morning. Anybody who cares to know what Democracy looks like after the cuticle has been removed, can be gratified by reading Senator Sherman’s Mt. Gilead speech. Rochefort’s cry, "Pain or blood,” will be better understood when it is remarked that “Pain” is French for "bread.” "Bread or blood” is an old-time cry among the sansculottes. Councilman Dowling, of this city, who confessed to having bribed fellow-members, is exactly the same kind of a reformer as Captain Dowling, of Toledo, who wants to retain his place. Both are in the postal service. John Siierman does not forget that one of tho present Democratic department secretaries vigorously denounced him in the Senate for having tho hardihood to declare Jefferson Davis a conspirator and traitor; and the country should not forget it. Lieutenant Mullen, convicted of unlawfully impiisoning men to keep them from voting, and lately pardoned by the President, has been put back on the Cincinnati police force. His services to tho Democratic party could not be passed over. Great is reform. The best man in the city is not too good for mayor or councilman. The interests of Indianapolis demand that the very best material be selected from energetic business men. Too many in the past have failed to earn their salary. Let us have the best that can be found. The sentence of a white man to death for the wanton killing of a "nigger” was too much for Mississippi pride, and the Governor was prevailed upon to commute it to imprisonment for life. The world moves, however. It was not so many years ago when a white man could kill a "nigger” whenever he wanted to, especially if he "owned” him. Ey-Govf.rnor F. R. Lubbock, of Texas, not only does not mind his p’s and q’s, but pays precious little attention to bis x’s. Carding the New York Herald to deny that an Attempt was made to assassinate Jeff Davis, Jbe subscribes himself "Colonel of Cavalry and Aide to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States.” He regards Davis as the only original jiro-Loney. And he is probably right. The New York World is not half as orthodox as it might be if it chose. For the Keiley blunder it has the greatest contempt, and /low it excoriates the President because it is Reported that that august personage has or-

dered the hotels near his biding place to give no accommodation to newspaper reporters, the evident intention being to escape for a time all bother about affairs of state. The report is scarcely true, so that whatever strictures made will be in vain. But is it possible that the World, inflated by its sudden importance, is about to turn dictator to the Democratic party? TnE speech of Hon. John Sherman, delivered at Mt. Gilead, 0., yesterday, will attract general attention. Any public utterance from him would. But this is of peculiar interest, because of the fact that his own reelection to the United States Senate depends upon the result of the present campaign in Ohio. The feature that will cause most discussion and provoke greatest, criticism on tho part of his political enemies, is that which he has purposely made prominent. He rightly insists that the principles fought for in the war for the Union are as vital to-day, as honorable, and as essential to the permanency of the Union, as they were on that fateful day at Appomattox, when the last bloody fight was at an end. Since then things have changed, and the vanquished is victor by a narrow plurality, won on an issue irrelevant to the questions involved in tho war. Those questions might be dropped forever, but for the fact that all the concessions have been made, all the apologies offered, all the overtures extended by one side, and that tho side that was victorious iu the armed conflict. It has come that the Union man must free himself from blame, while no one ever hears of an ex-confederate apologizing for or regretting the part he took in trying to tear the Union asunder. The North and all its loyal host have long since forgiven what tho South did in the war; but, as Mr. Sherman insists, it cannot surrender what our soldiers won. The danger is from indifference; for while the people of the North fight over side issues, those of the South are steadily pushing forward the old heresies driven back in battle. Os course there will be a yell of derision and a howl about the "bloody shirt,” but it were better, if it be so easy, to answer the speakers arguments that they bo met with somo show of of reply in an honorable way. If it can be shown that this is "bloody shirt,” and that there is no State’s-rights sentiment in existence and no conscious and persistent glorification of Southern principles at the expense of wholesome Union sentiment, let it be shown. In this way, and this only, can this thing be disposed of. Mr. Sherman with equal force touches on all tho great points at issue, and in a manner that must compel attention and debate. Avoiding nothing, but piling argument on argument and all upon truth, his speech is one of the ablest that he ever delivered. It will furnish the battle-plan of the campaign now opened, and on it the Republican party will win. It has all the old-time fire and force, and will be an inspiration to the Republicans of that stanch old State. A FEW years ago the Courier-Journal called attention of the country to the fact that iron could be made in the South at from $1) to sl2 a ton, and we asked if the tariff of $7 a ton should be maintained in order that furnaces in Pennsylvania, where it cost S2O, might continue their operations at the expense of the whole country.—Louisville Courier-Jour-nal. A few years ago, and periodically since, tho Indianapolis Journal asked its Louisvillo contemporary why it was that Southern iron manufacturers didn’t sell their products so cheaply that the Pennsylvania mills would either go out of the business or cut prices to match. Again wo ask: What is there in the tariff that prevents Southern mills from giving away their products, if they choose? If they can make iron at $9 or $lO a ton, at a profit, and the tariff enables them to charge sl6 or sl7 a ton, it is apparent that they are making about 100 per cent, on all their output. Now, it is a fact that few lines of manufacture pay any such dividends, and it is remarkable that thousands of millions of capital does not rush into this industry, in which it can so easily double itself every few’ weeks. The Louisville Courier-Journal knows well enough that woro its figures true the iron business would be overdone in less than six months, and prices would go to the bottom through competition, despite any tariff that might be laid, for there is nothing in it to keep the iron man of Georgia or Tennessee from selling his products at twelve dollars if he can make it for ten dollars. That tho tariff has fostered competition is so well understood that it is astounding that any paper can have the assurance to contend that it builds up monopoly. A comparison of to-day’s prices with those of ten and twenty years ago will show plainly what the effect of a wiselylaid tariff has bad on the iron and steel business of this country. For tho good of all concerned, and for that of railroad employes in particular, it is hoped that no general strike may take place, but that the differences now complained of may be adjusted. A strike always entails expense and suffering upon laboring men involved. For this reason they should be undertaken only after tho most careful deliberation, and never in a spirit of spite or mischief. Just at this time, with encouraging indications of a revival in business, it would be very unfortunate to precipitate a strike. Capital should be encouraged to go to work, and given every guaranty of fair treatment for fair treatment. The fact that the interests of capital and labor are mutual should deter anybody from hasty and ill-con-sidered action involving disputes and the stoppage of business. 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the Knights of Labor to deliberate in the matter in dispute between the Wabash Railway Company and its men. Both sides should work for an amicable settlement. Employment should be given to every man needed, and contracts should be scrupulously observed. It is a fact to be deplored, but a fact none tho less, that Dr. Leonard’s toast and ale cure will do more to encourage drinkers than any other one thing that has happened in Ohio for years. It is a pity that a man so careless in his conduct and so intemperate in his speech should be chosen as an exponent of the Prohibition cause. Os course his immediate adherents will not be swayed in their allegiance to him; but that is not enough. There are tens and hundreds of thousands of temperance men who doubt the expediency of the political prohibition movement. Without the help of these the movement is a failure. And that these have been still further alienated by the course of Dr. Leonard there can be no doubt. The reverend candidate has been so swept off bis feet by the excitement of the campaign that he seems to have lost all discrimination, and madness has usurped the functions of judgment. In a recent speech he intemperately declared that if the angel Gabriel were a candidate on the Republican ticket, he would not vote for him. This is fanaticism run mad. Dr. Leonard himself is not ignorant of the fact that the only temperance legislation attempted and accomplished in Ohio has been the work of the Republican party; and now because that party does not think that prohibition is acceptable to a majority of the people and would not be properly enforced in tho larger towns even though made a portion of the State’s enactments, the extremists of the temperance men propose to sacrifice everything and to stab their friends because their friends do not believe exactly as they do. The existence of the political Prohibition party is the greatest possible drawback to wholesome and effective temperance legislation. TIIE New York World explains why it is that justice does not overtake Ferdinand Ward and his kind. It appears that the officers iu charge of Ludlow-street jail make a good tiling out of the "prisoners” in the way of board, charging in some instances as high as S7O a week, and in return according all but absolute freedom. Life there to one of this class of boarders is a "picnic.” They come and go pretty much as they please, stay up as late as they like, drink, smoke and entertain their friends in the height of style. The inference is that the jail authorities must subsidize the courts to postpone trial as long as possible in all cases where there is a possibility of an adverse verdict. Young Ward is represented as living like a lord; paying his bills like a gentleman, and like the gentleman of leisure that he is, doing as he pleases. The officers who profit by this scheme should be arrested and put behind the bars without the option of paying fancy prices for "board.” This is New York justice. Human nature is very contradictory in various parts of tho world. In London there is a strong anti-vaccination society, made up principally of educated mugwumps, who, because of isolated cases of serious ill effects from vaccination, have taken up arms against it as a whole. At Montreal, on tho contrary, where a smallpox epidemic prevails, the prophylactic advantages of vaccination are become so plain that the people are crowding the offices of the public vaccinators iu such numbers that the police are called upon to keep them back. In this connection it should be said that if the priests would urge their ignorant and dying parishioners to live cleanly and to be properly vaccinated, instead of devoting their attention to prayer and self-abnegation, the plague would soon be stayed. It is surprising that so intelligent a body of men as the Catholic priests are should not accomplish more among a people who regard the word of their religious instructors as above all temporal law. It is remarkable to learn from the Republican press how bad a man Dowling, of Toledo, is. This information has all come out since Dowling left the Republican party. —Cincinnati Enquirer. True. And Dowling’s "conversion” has taken place only after he feels that his only hope of retaining office lies in propitiating Democracy. The Republican party was good enough for him so long as it kept him in office. His sudden love for Democracy is based on the hope of receiving like favors at its bands. Can it be possible that he is a relative of Briber Dowling, of this city? In a recent speech Governor Hoadiy, infidel, thanked God that "a Kentuckian, a Mississippian or a Texan is to-day at home in Ohio.” Tho Governor has been very slow to learn what has beer true always. When will he bo able to thank God that an Ohioan is at home in Kentucky, in Mississippi or in Texas? The man who presumes on political freedom in those States, and especially in Mississippi, does so at great peril; and if he be a colored man his life pays the forfeit of his temerity. Mr. Tilden is the President’s political sponsor and godfather.—St. Louis Republican. This was written "grandfather,” but the intelligent compositor changed it, and as usual spoiled it. The State’s geological cabinet is said to be wofully deficient in specimens. Why couldn’t some of the aucient Democratic fossils be stored there? The murdered Preller is bicoming almost as übiquitous as the murdered Pain. It’s a flip up if either be dead. An Oregon paper talks of a citizen of that State who, while running to escape a nest of hor-

nets, was shot in the back. An aceident of that kind could not happen to a roal live Hoosier. He’d run too fast for the shot to catch him. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The cattle men are now called “fencive partisans.” The Faith Cura Society in Chicago numbers 120 people, and there is not one native American among them, and only ten who can read or write. MUSEUM managers are offering alluring inducements to a Wisconsin girl to exhibit the horns which are concealed by a careful arrangement of her hair. This, considering her sex, is a very rare ornament. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes will celebrate his seventy-sixth birthday next .Saturday, but he will be by far the youngest of the many old boys who will assemble to project the centuries at that celebration. PUNXSUTAWNEY Tribune: Frank .T. Black, the genial and brilliant young journalist who writes about medieval theology and other little things, made us a very pleasant call last evening. We were not in at the time. The Southern papers are angrily showing that Lord Vane, recently deceased in England, was not the Confederate cavalryman, J. E. B. Stuart, as his assumed name was Stewart, and he 6ervod in the Union army as a colonel. It is said that a meeting of the shoe dealers will be held shortly to invent and popularize some new sort of out door muscular insanity. Lawn tennis is on the decline and stocks of yellow canvas and leather shoes cannot be disposed of. Walt Whitman’s receipt from his Philadelphia publisher, McKay, of only $22 as half ot his annual royalty, would seem to show that in the past six months what has been said about Walt Whitman’s poems considerably exceeds the current sales of the same. “For fifty-three years," says General Toombs, “my dear wife was my constant friend, companion and adviser. We traveled four continents of the world together, and visited man}- islands of the seas. Now she is waiting for me, with the same sweet faith she so well illustrated hero.” A SAVINGS bank in Portland, Ore., has a twontydollar gold piece which was taken from the stomach of a slaughtered cow,-and found to be worth $10.25. The milling io worn off the edge, which is smooth and rounded, but the designs upon the sides remain visible. The date of the coin is 1870, but how long the cow had been digesting the $3.75 no one can tell. The Lowell Citizen suggests as an idea for the Grant monument fund that a national collection be made solely of twenty-cent ar.d three-eent coins. Melted together, they would furnish the metal for a colossal statue of groat intrinsic value, while the people would be glad to contribute all in their possession, and thus accomplish the permanent retirement of the numismatic nuisance. Many of the New York admirers and friends of the late Mrs. Helen H. Jackson are of the opinion that a biography of her should be prepared which, with her letters and remembered conversations, would, they say, better represent her mind and nature than all of liev published writings. They rank her as the most gifted litcran- woman America has produced, and aro couvinoed that she deserves a personal record. They think of proposing to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who was her intimate friend, to undertake the work. Ellen Terry is once more declared to be full of determination to recross the Atlantic with a company of her own. Having vainly urged Henry Irving to make another tour of this country, she is thought to be vexed with his obstinacy, and inclined to punish him therfor. Her intimates say she is so whimsical and changeable that no one knows, nor does she know herself, ono week what sho wnll do the next. She always speaks of Americans in terms of glowing enthusiasm, calling them the most generous, chivalrous and appreciative of all nations. It is just fifty years ago that the construction of the first French railroad, that from Paris to St. Germain, was officially sanctioned. The late Emil Pereire undertook to make this lino at his own expense. It had taken nearly three years to obtain the consent of the authorities, the contention of Thiers being that railroads could never bo more than mere toys, while Arazo also doubted their ultility. The financial difficulties were also great, and only surmounted when the Rothschilds and Paviliers were won over. The road was opened in 1837, and became the nucleus of the Western system. Attorney-General Garland is a plain, blunt man and has little respect for the conventionalities of life. He says that he never wore a dress coat and never will wear one. General Cabell, of Texas, in speaking of him, said the other day: “Mr. Cleveland will have a hard job in persuading Garland to attend swell receptions or sit for hours at a state dinner. The Attorney-general thinks too much of his own comfort to put up with such coremouies. He told me that one of the conditions under which he accepted his place in the Cabinet was that none of the restraints of Washington society should be placed on him." In the Revised Bible, published at Oxford, only three printers’ errors have yet been discovered in all the editions. In the pearl lOmo edition there is an error in Ezekiel, xviii, 2G, where an “e” is left out of righteous, and the word is printed “rightous.” In the parallel Bvo edition there are two mistakes. In Psalms, vii, 13, “shatfs" appear instead of “shafts,” and in Amos, v, 24, in the margin, “overflowing” should be “everilowing.” The usual guinea will be paid to any person discovering a printer’s error in the book ami pointing it out to the Controller of tho Press before any other discoverer. A private London letter says that Canon Farrar designs his lecture on Robert Browning particularly for Boston, where the poet, whom he regards as next to Shakspeare in imagination and knowledge of human nature, has, he hears, more sympathetic students and genuine lovers than in all the other American cities combined. The same correspondent says that Browning is again talking of a visit to the United States, notwithstanding his seventy-three years. He is reported to be very anxious to see Boston, Harvard Collage, Niagara and the Yosemite, and may sail after he has finished anew poem on which he is now at work. Any one who has ever visited Kingston, Canada, will recall the round towers which form a part of its extensive fortifications. These, it is supposed, were copied from the similar structures on the coast of Ireland, which are about to be demolished. The Irish towers were built at the time when Lord Cornwallis was Viceroy of Ireland, at the suggestion of the Duke of Richmond, who had heard that the town of Martello, in Corsica, had by means of similar defenses successfully resisted the attack of a fleet. This same Duke of Richmond afterward became Governor-gen-eral of Canada, and it was during his career there that these Martello towers were built for Kingston, then the capital of the united provinces oE Upper and Lower Canada. His death occurred in 1819 from hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a fox. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. The proposition that because a man is an officeholder he has no right o take part in political management, is ridiculous. Tho first duty and obligation of an officer, of course, is to discharge the functions of his office honestly and effi iently. Having done this, we should like to know why ho has no right to participate in any sort of political management,. We have no patience with the theorists who want to make every public officer a political eunuch, —New York Sun. If Brother Leonard has the wit to contemplate himself from the proper point of view he will regard himself in the light of a typical political leader—or at least as having the making of one in him—and one of the very special sort whom the American people delight to honor. The thing for him to do is to stick, to discuss the ale and toast story in a light and airy way, to start something as ugly about the other candidates that will attract public attention from his own record, and to thunder about prohibition as if the salvation of the America* people depended on it to too great au extent for the great interests involved t > be sacrificed merely because the Prohibition candidate was braced up after a camp-meeting service with ale and toast. —Philadelphia Telegraph. In conferring upon a few persons the sole power and discretion as to this method of correcting wrongs or avenging injuries, the labor organizations have indirectly opened the door to a danper of the gravest form, and provided a way through which their well meant endeavors to benefit the cause of labor may be prostituted to the u*es of a class with which labor is at logical and constant enmity. The ouly security

against such breaches of trust Is the personal virtue of a few chosen representatives, who maybe as reliable as so many saint* right from the sky, but who may not impossibly be, on the other hand, weak of conscience and willing to make money by crooked and base means. To say the least, the question will bear thinking about, candidly and earnestly.—St Louis Globe-Democrat. There are men at the South already who know that there would be millions more to seek investment and employment in developing the resources of the South if there were not a prospect of another struggle about the tariff, with its inevitably disastrous consequences to American producers. It is quite within the limits of possibility, too, that Southern members of Congress may vote with considerable unanimity, as they have done in times past, to continue the coining of silver, anti thus to expose the whole country to disasters which the South would feel at least as much as any other section. With so many new enterprises just, getting started and rooted, the South stands more in need than any other section of a stable, solid and safe monetary system, under which the confidence of capital could be completely restored.—New York Tribune. Among the multitudes of women, whom the liberalism and inventions of the nineteenth century have admitted to actual competion with men in the struggle for fame and fortune, how stands the account in results? Has self-reliance brought with it a state of real independence, and knowledge, happiness? Is the woman happier in attaining equality with in all worldly and working relations, and so of standing upon her isolated resources precisely if she were a man, than she would have been if she had remained a domestic creature, bringing into the world children and bearing the burdens of the household, and being cared for according to her lot, good or ill, as Providence sends to all of us of whatever state or sex? How representative was the poor girl who threw herself into the Ohio river because her “career" was not a “success.” If there bo many such, would they not more fittingly grace a husband and adorn a nursery? —Louisville Courier-Journal. The fault with such demonstrations as the “morality procession” in London is easily seen. Whatever tends to make young people familiar with the idea of vice is dangerous. Young people will, as a rule, refrain from whatever they think is unusual. Indeed, it is true of persons of all ages. Once it is understood that the vice against which they are to be guarded is a common ono, that other people indulge in it freely, that people in high places are addicted to it, and that a great demonstration or a sensational publication is necessary to arouse a sentiment against it., the restraining fear of whatever is unusual, and strange, and hidden is gone. The tempted person is not horrified to the same degree by a proposition to do a common and tolerated thing. All publications like that of the Pall Mall Gazette and all demonstrations like the “morality” circus, are calculated to demoralize a community by making the hideous familiar. —Milwaukee Sentinel. The young lady at Louisville who, despairing in her efforts at self-support, sought death in the river, leaving behind her a letter in which she “denounced God as a fraud, in whom she had trusted all her life, but who would not help her in trouble and distress." was a victim of ignorant and overtaxed faith. Religious teachers have much to answer for in the literal and material manner in which they have interpreted and taught the promises of the Bible. Despairing death is a less frequent result of the dire disappointments that are sure to result from an unwarranted trust in answers to prayer, or from a blind faith, than is confirmed infidelity;’ but the case of this young woman, who had been engaged in missiouary work, shows that it sometimes happens. The unanswered knocking at heaven’s gate, by needy and trustful supplicants, through weary years of disappointment, is one of the most pathetic things in the world. Instruction as to how to pray has not been kept close enough to the model of the Master.—Boston Herald. The admission by Rev. Dr. Leonard that he drank ale for the dyspepsia, and the statement of his pbysician that he took alcoholic stimulants to save his life when he had typhoid fever, ends, doubtless, Leonard’s usefulness as a Prohibition leader. His position is rendered tho more embarrassing by his sweeping denial of the charge when first made. Branding a statement as an “infamous lie,” and then confessing that his recollection of the matter is dim, and that the charge may be partly true, is not the way to inspire confidence in one’s trustworthiness. The hollowness of the Prohibition candidate’s pretensions being thus exposed, the Republicans can leave him to his fate and turn their attention to the more important issues of the campaign. These, according to their platform, are a real civil-service reform and honest elections in every State. By pressing these questions, the Republicans can do more to strengthen their position than by a continued fusillade against the Prohibitionists. Those who persist in voting for Leonard after this exposure and confession cannot be shown the error of their way by any amount of argument in a heated campaign.—Philadelphia Press. MR. BEECHER IN A RAGE. Ho Does Not Intend to Leave His Church—His Course in Politic*. New York World. Mr. Beecher was found by a reporter enjoying the cool breezes which were chafing each other across the magnificent landscape which is spread out before the Beecher summer-seat atPeekskill. The morning papers had not yet arrived, and Mr. Beecher, when he had finished the perusal of the article published in the Philadelphia Times, laid it down with a gesture of impatience and said: “It is a baseless fabric of nothingness, without the least foundation. It is all a lie, an infamous he; and, first of all, I would speak of money matters, for it is so put as to reflect upon a man’s honor when it says that there is any assumption of debt without intention or ability to pay. Nothing can be more remote from the truth. There is not a workingman in my employ, and I have seven about this place, who need wait longer for what is due him than the time it will take me to put my hand in my pocket. There is not a tradesman who has ono penny owing which he cannot have on demand. This part of the Philadelphia article I would declare a wholesale, malicious lie. 1 cannot for tho life of me see why such tales should be set afloat, but I suppose it is one of the necessary afflictions of life.” “What of your retirement from the pulpit of Plymouth Church?” “The matter has never been discussed—barely mentioned. There has never been any formal consideration of it in the church. It has been thought of, of course; it would be strange if it had not been. lam not a perpetual-motion machine. There is a span to every human life, and some day it will come about that there will be a Plymouth Church and no Mr. Beecher. As soon as I feel myself going 1 am ready to stand up and say: Brethren, we have had a good time together. Thank God for that! But now let us reason for the future. And I will then welcome a younger man, and help him all I can to go right on with the work.” “How is your present health?’ “Never better in my life. lam prepared for any amount of work, and I am ready now to enter the lists against any man of half my age, and run him a race, say for a year—an intellectual go as-you-pleaso contest in writing sermons and preaching them—in doing hard brain work night and day. My mind is clearer now .than it ever lias been, and there is not an ache, or a pain, or a weak spot that I know of.” “And the church?” “Is stronger and better to-day tha er it was. The asperities of the last politi campaign are gradually fading away, and ~ .e old reign of love and tolerance coming in. Plymouth has been a Republican stronghold; it was as such that I founded it, and such it had grown to be. Many were not ready to foliow me when I thought it my duty as a good citizen to support Mr. Cleveland. Some of the members of the congregation felt very sore for a time, and absented themselves from the church, but all save two are now again in full working fellow ship. These indignant ones remember that I had always preached the fullest freedom of action on the part of every man, and they saw that £ had a right to live up to my own doctrines. No man can say that I used my pulpit as a political agency, or that I uttered one word as a pastor to which any one in Plymouth could take excep tion. What I did out of the pulpit, on the stump and in pushing the cause which I then thought and still think had the most of justice, and right, and honor in it, I did’ openly and above-board. There was a reason for every utterance I made, and this reason I gave with all the power I had. History. I think, has justified my course. Mr. Cleveland has made an excellent executive, and I have not one word to recall—not one sentiment to change or alter. Those of my peoplo who differed with me then are coming round to my way of think ing now. All the bitterness of tne strife is passing or has passed away, and, as I say, I can think of but two instances among all my poople where the old Plymouth Church feelin'g is not back again in their hearts. One of the leaders in this opposition, if we might so style it, in a letter on this very point, said it was not so much a ques tion of Plymouth Church leaving Mr. Beecher as it was of Mr. Beecher leaving Plymouth; but there is no danger, I think, of either catastrophe —not for a time, at least. The question of a change has been considered by the long headed men of the church for ten years past, but it seems as far off as ever in any practical sense. I think I can be of great service yet, and I mean to try to give the people the full measure of my abilities. I thank God for what he has permitted roe to be and do, and every day makes me to see things clearer, and many matters that were once puzzles are new plain reading and thinking. I

sleep well, eat with good appetite and digestion, and this year my old enemy, hay fever, seems t* have forgotten that lAm in existence—anothet matter to be thankful for. “I will be the first one in the Plymouth Church to urge the retirement of Mr. Beecher as soon as Mr. Beecher should be set aside. It may come at any time, but I have no intimation of it yet I will watch for it, and will speak out when the occasion presents itself. Ido not think there is any demand for a change in the ahureh. Ask any of the deacons or any of the nine trustees. Go to S. V. \\ hite, or Prof. Ross Raymond, or his father, Dr. Raymond, or Horace B. Claflin, °u or an Y °f the loading men in the church. They are as hearty now as they ever were in support of Plymouth and its pastor. More so, even, were it possible. There is no division, no talk of any separation, and we will wo:k on to that end which I hope is yet far off.’ KUGWIMI’S DOUBTFUL. Whltelaw Reid’s Rapid Review of the Condition of National Politics. Pittsburg Commercial-Oazotte. Mr. Whiteiaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune, passed through the city yesterday evening on the Fast-line bound for home. lie has been to the Pacific coast, and tho climate must have agreed with him for he looked unusually well. His tall, erect form was noticeable among the passengers who crowded into the depot restaurant, and at the table he gat as erect and correctly as if be were dining at a Fifth avenue mansion. He spent a long time at the table and paid as littlo attention to the curious looks cast at him as he did last year to tho flings of the “mugwump” papers. He took his time and was so particular about the last glass of milk he drank that he came near missing the opportunity of being interviewed by a representative of this paper. But the supper had an end, just as will anything else, and he nut on his cap to take his car. in response to inquiries concerning his trip, he said: “I have been to the Pacific coast and aro just going home. lam sorry I haven’t time to talk, but I can’t miss my train.” When assured that it should be tho reporter’s first duty to sea that such a calamity should not happen ha seemed easier, and in reply to a question concerning California politics, he most pleasantly said: “California is a Republican State, and we will carry it this fall. The Democrats out there are all torn up. The Field and the anti-Field factions have each other by the throat and are fighting each other to the bitter end.” “How is the President’s policy thought of, Mr. Reid?” “Both factions are loud in their voicings of praise. Which faction is best pleased with him it would be hard to tell from the way they talk, but deep down in their heart it is still harder ta tell which is the most displeased. Anyhow, tha factional fight is going to give the Republicans the chance to carry the State again, aud that i* pleasant enough for us.” “How about your own State?” “Well, we are going to carry New York, and carry it easily.” “On what do you base your estimate?” “Last year it would only hare taken a change of 550 votes to give us the Stata The last week of the campaign lost us 30,000 votes. It was only an accident that New York went Democratic. Now, if only by an accident the Democrats carried the State last year, why should they be successful this year? The State won’t go Democratic unless the people are crying to indorse Cleveland, which I don't think they aro. We stand, taking everything into consideration, in first class shape.” “Will Hill aud Carr be the nominees?” “It is hard, I think, to defeat Governor Hill for a renomination. As to Carr, I don’t know. I’ve baen 3,000 miles away and am not any better posted, in fact not as well, as peoplo nearer home. I should rather say that on both sides it is any person’s fight for the nomination* now.” “Will the mugwumps be an important factor in the Democratic vote?” “Notunless they can make it clear to their conscience that the Democratic nominee, whoever he may be, is the administration candidate, and that tho administration is in need of an indorsement. If such be the case, lean imagine that the gentlemen could find it consistent to vote the Democratic ticket. “In New York it is just the same as in California. The Democrats are all bowling themselves hoarse in praise of Cleveland, but are hoping that he will commonco the cutting soon. They are very hungry.” They Are All Out. Philadelphia Press. ( Hendricks ) and Cleveland. Tilden ' So it and seems Cleveland, are out. that I Eustis and 1 Cleveland, Blackburn and Cleveland, , A Deep-Laid Scheme. New York Mail and Express. The junior organ of the Mormon Chuvch half made a great discovery, namely, that tho appointment of Mr. Colorado P. Judd to a position in the Interior Department was a wicked scheme of bad Republicans to cast discredit upon the administration. It sees confirmation of its suspicions in Judd’s “prompt and too willing confession," and alleges that he “was a willing tool, playing into their hands, and doubtless jingling their money In his pocket." The editor of the Mormon Herald is understood to wear a No. 8£ hat. Contributious to Medical Science. New York Times. Dr. Lepnard, the Prohibition candidate for Governor of Ohio, bears splendid testimony to the medicinal properties of alcohol in its various forms. When prostrated by typhoid pneumonia he took whisky, on tho advice of physicians, and was restored; he knocked out a case of malaria with a judicious application of champagne and relieved a case of lingering dyspepsia by an application of toast soaked in old ale. These facts will be placed on record by the medical fraternity, * Rev. Leonard’s Memory. Philadelphia Press. Dr. Leonard, the Prohibition candidate for Governor of Ohio, admits having drunk ale at camp-meeting, but has no recollection of having taken champagne for malaria. We must give the Doctor tim *. however. He first denied the ale story, but now he recollects that it is true. A man always gathers his memory sooner after taking ale than he does after champagne. Dr. Leonard will please take plenty of time and think carefully. A Sad Probability. Philadelphia Record. The President would, perhaps, be quicker about turning rascals out if he could be sure ha wasn’t turning rascals in, as ho has done in several conspicuous cases where he placed implicit faith in petitions and recommendations 6igned by prominent Democrats. Taking the Census. Chicago News. The Minneapolis papers complain that one C, C. Tyler was counted twice by the St. Paul census taker. Probably Mr. Tyler is a newcomer He’ll know better next time than to let himself be counted only twice. What Holds Thom Together. Philadelphia Press. The Charleston News gives the real reason why the Democratic conventions indorse th® President. It says they “don't want to quarrel, in their famished condition, with the only pantry in view." _ A Good Enough Pain. New York flraphio. ....... Inasmuch as nobody knows positively whether Oiiver Pain is dead or alive, Henri Rochefort has contrived to make a very liveiy good enough Morgan out of his mysterious disappearance. Wrecked In Strange Waters. Philadelphia Times. Boston has beaten New York again. Somehow the great metropolis can’t metropolize who* it leaves the guileless shades of Wall street. Perhaps He Wishes It Had. Philadelphia Kecord. Perhaps Dr. Leonard’s ail would have killed him if he hadn’t dipped his toast iu it,