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•THE DAILY JOURNAL JSYjJNQ* C. NEW * SOX. —. ■ i.„ • *• , - - Fourteenth St. P. S.Correspondent. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1885. Telephone Calls. Bwieess Office 238 J Editorial R00m5......242 ! *.— ——• n '• —■ ■ t TWk INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL <prn be found at the following places: IjONDON-—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Str&oiL PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard lift Capuciues. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. IXHnSVTLTJ?—rC. T. Bearing, northwest corner Ttard and Jefferson streets. £T. J.OUTS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET. Election; Tuesday, October 13, 1885. For Mayor—CALEB S. DENNY. For Clerk —GEORGE T. BREUNIG. The Platform. Tke Republicans of Indianapolis accept the is3ue mtit) in the platform and nominations of the Democratic city convention, and in the pending canvass and approaching election invite the co-operation and support, not only of the members of their own party, but of all citizens, of whatever political affiliations, ■who favor — First—The enforcement of law in the interest of pabhc order and for the preservation of private rights. {Second—The strictest economy in the administration •f ILe affairs of the city government within the revenue raised from the present rate of taxation, and of the refunding of the existing city debt at a lower rate of interest. Third-The levy of a tax of SIOO per year upon each saloon in the city, the proceeds whereof shall be placed in the general fund of the city treasury. Feurth—'The overthrow of the arrogant domination •f the Liquor League in the politics of the city and State. Fifth—A rebuke to the Democratic officers of State uko have prostituted the metropolitan police system to tbi basest partisan ends, whereby the city’s good none has been scandalized, its peace and good order Imperiled, and the efforts of honorable public officers to vindicate the law paralyzed. . **l want to say, in tbo first place, that I plant myself squarely, flat-footed, with both fwt upon the platform you have adopted.* —Mr. Denny's Acceptance Speech. There is a man of many aliases traveling about in tiie southern portion of the St.ate representing that ho is authorized to take subscriptions for the Weekly Indiana State Journal. He is s fraud. We havo no traveling agents for our weekly paper, and people are cautioned not to pay money for the paper to any persons representing themselves as such. The proper authorities should move for the amst of R. B. Pollard. Trustee Kitz doesn't seem to want bim brought back. The people of this community think that li. B. Pollard should be brought here for trial. Will Trustee Kitz move in the matter? Hoadly’s only hope now is to contract an other case of malaria. His visit to a Philadelphia doctor was all that saved his political life two years ago.

It is said that Montreal has no libraries. This bit of information is superfluous. Few cities that furnish mobs to resist health officers havo books of any kind. Wachstetter should be pardoned. It is •too bad to think of him being real sick in the penitentiary. Released, he might fully recover and resume his old business. The cable gravely says that Turkey must submit. Undoubtedly. She has done a good deal in that line during the past hundred years, and cau do so again if they make her mad. The bloodthirsty North is moving for an educational bill that would give millions to the solid South. Ohio Democrats think that a man who would do that should be boycotted by Southern buyers. Father S. S. Conrady, for fifteen years a missionary among the Indians, is of opinion that they hold too much laud. The reverend gentleman is right. A good many Indians can be buried in a very limited space of ground. If Mr. Ferdinand Ward is so anxious to unl>oßom himself to the public, why doesn’t he do it? Probably no one will believe what he has to say, but there is no law compelling him to keep silence, even if Receiver Davies does refuse to meution names. The Now York Evening Post has been making inquiries among the late mugwumps, and finds that the vote of that class of citizens will be practically solid in support of the Republican State ticket. In fact, the most of them are not only willing but anxious to “in dorse Cleveland by voting for Davenport/’ It is seriously reported that “absolutely nothing but routine business was done” at a recent meeting of the Union Railway Company. “The Union Depot enterprise was not considered for a moment.” This is very humorous. It would not be quite so convenient, but it would be thousands €f dollars to the , benefit of Indianapolis if each road had its awn depot. New York wants Barnum to give Jumbo’s skeleton to a museum in that city, instead of letting it go to the Smithsonian Institution, at Washington. Some of the arguments used in favor of this disposal of the “attraction” bear a shocking resemblance to reasons advanced for having all that was mortal of General Grant kept on Manhattan Island. Judging from the farce which the raising of the-monu-

ment fund has become, about as much heartfelt sentiment is involved in one case as the other. What New York wants is the “attractions,” and these once secured that city is not interested in subsequent proceedings concerning the acquisitions. THE BOYCOTT IN POLITICS AND BUSINESS. The threat of Ohio Democrats to induce Southern buyers to boycott Cincinnati merchants unless the plea for free elections be abandoned, is not only contemptible but looks as though the Democrats resorting to it regarded the outlook as desperate. To persuade Southern buyers to boycott Cincinnati it will probably be necessai-y to first induce them to forget the generous treatment extended the New Orleans exposition, established in the city where the Mechanics' Hall massacre, and in the State where the Coushatta slaughter took place. The North never had a thought of boycotting Louisiana and New Orleans on that account. The general government contributed a million dollai*s to the enterprise, and Northern merchants, without regard to politics, patronized it in a most generous manner, with no thought of boycotting or holding the merchants and business men of the South responsible for the many political outrages that have disgraced the South. The North has no grudge against the South, no disposition to torment her merchants nor impede her progress in manufacture. The North knows no sectional prejudice. The only fault found with the South is that she does not rise in the majesty of her wrath and shako off the men who profit by politics and who murder for place. There are, we want to believe, but few of these and few who really sympathize with them and their bloody, fraudulent ways. The actual perpetrators of the killings at Coushatta, at Hazlehurst, at Ellenton and at Danville are the boycottei’s of the better South. Like their fellows in Ohio, they are contemptible, and dangerous only when they can terrify any one by threatening to hurt them in their business if these thugs and shoulder-hitters be interfered with. The better pFMions of North and South will yet join hands to teach these bummers a wholesome lesson. Men who are too busy to look after these fellows will yet be obliged to lay aside business long enough to drive them away from places of power that they have disgraced, and from the control of the ballot box that they have debauched. It is the plain duty of Cincinnati merchants to stand up for the right and by their votes to demand free and fair elections everywhere. Southern merchants are not under the thumb of Cincinnati ward bummers and bovcotters. And if they were, it would be only a mox*e potent argument in favor of sturdily standing up for the right. This is a free country. The South has a right to vote as it pleases, and to be stubbornly and sectionally solid if it will. The North does not propose to interfere with its prejudices or opinions. All that bas been done is to protest against violehce and fraud; all that has been proposed is for honest men, North and South, to stand together until these wrongs shall avail nothing. Political boycotting in Ohio and partisan murder in the South are disgraceful to our civilization. They cannot be tolerated and encouraged without lasting harm to our institutions. It is the duty of every citizen who believes in freedom of opinion and of elections to put down the men mean enough to resort to them.

Mr. Kitz gives no indication of intending to cause the arrest of R. B. Pollard, whom, by implication, he charges with having forged township paper and disposed of it in the name of this corporation and its official. The nonaction of Mr. Kitz is inexplicable, in view of the several facts that must leave at least the shadow of a doubt in the minds of the public as to his entire innocence. The first fact is that it has been made quite apparent that Pollard had no reason to forge township paper, having been able to get hundreds of thousands of dollars of it properly signed by officials. Another fact is that Le would scarcely ruin his immunity from arrest and extradition by doing just what would render him liable to be brought back and punished. No sane man shrewd enough to get away with $150,000 iu a safe way is going to deliberately do a thing that will spoil all his schemes. Tho third fact in this remarkable case is that the signature on the alleged forgeries is so well done that quite a number of experts unhesitatingly pronounced them genuine; so that if Pollard is a forger ho is just the kind that should pot be permitted to be at liberty; and Mr. Kitz owes it to himself and to his office to move for his speedy arrest. A fourth and significant fact is that Pollaid himself pronounces the orders genuine, and expresses entire willingness to brought hero for trial. Altogether, it is asiounding that an Indiana official could be found willing foi an hour to rest under such a challenge from a man of the character of R. B. Pollard. The inference is irresistible that Mr. Kitz is afraid to meet him in trial—as humiliating a confession as can be conceived. If Mr. Kitz is free from blame in this matter, he should be prompt to prove it. Opportunity now offoi*B. The man he accuses is within reach, and ready to come upon being served with the papers charging him as indicated by the trustee of Center township. The merchant, the banker, the farmer, the trader, who would not prosecute any man who forged his name to commercial paper would be without standing among honest and honorable men. If these orders are forgeries, honest men have been defrauded thereby. Pollard says that they are not forgeries, and that Trustee Kitz made and used them in the

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usual way. The innocent purchasers of these orders, and the community at large, would like to know about this thing. The outside world to which the city has to appeal for favorable commercial favors, would like to know if Indianapolis elects officials that do not care to preserve the credit and good name of the community, both as individuals and as a corporation. A parallel case to that of Ernest Kitz has not been known in this region, and it is to be hoped that he will soon take steps to clear himself of the shadow that now attaches to him. Mr. Morris A. Thomas, the Indian agent appointed through Senator Gorman's influence, never served a term in the penitentiary, like some of the Democratic appointees to office; so far as known, he never committed a theft or forgery. What he did do was to fail in business, not many years ago, with an indebtedness of $68,000, and assets amounting only to $47. Some civil-service reformers are mean enough to bring this bit of history, up against him, but it is hardly likely that Mr. Thomas will be disturbed on account of so small a matter as $47. A busy administration can’t be bothered with trifles of this sort. Six months ago it was prophesied that if Mr. Cleveland adhered to his civil-service reform ideas he would be in better standing with the Republicans of the country before a year than with his own party. Although he has only made a stagger towards carrying out promised reforms in the service, his attempt has brought about something like a fulfillment of the prediction. It looks that way, at any rate, when the Democracy ignores his preferences in making nominations in his own State, and when last year’s bolting Republicans urge that a vote for Davenport is an indorsement of the President. The saloon-keepers of Cartersville, Ga., failing to silence Rev. Sam Jones, the revivalist, applied dynamite to his stable, and blew it to atoms. They found boycotting ineffectual, hence they attempted to blow him up. Dynamite is the next step after boycotting. All such opposition to the saloon interest must be silenced one way or another. The present stage of the opposition in Indianapolis is to resist taxation by buying votes. Other stages will follow in their turn, and how soon will depend much upon the majority that is against them at the coming election.

The President might fairly say to the Maine Democrats who are so hungry for offices that they should make an honest effort to carry their State and take the edge off their appetite with the local offices, instead of lying down and letting Mr. Blaine walk over them, as they did last year.—Boston Herald, Mugwump. After all the praises which the esteemed Herald has been showering upon the President for non-interference with local politics, this suggestion is, to say the least, inconsistent. And, besides, the Herald should reflect that Mr. Cleveland is helping to carry; States for Republicans and not Democrats this year. The Liquor League, not content with con trolling the police board, to the end that the saloon business shall not be interfered with, are moving to capture the entire city government. Saloon rule would then be extended and widened to that degree of liberality and lawlessness enjoyed in places like Cincinnati and Chicago. The boys in blue of the Twenty-sixth Infantry and Ninth Cavalry exchanged reminiscences and hail a good time in this city yesterday. These reunions are growing in interest as the years fly by and the ranks of the veterans are thinned by death. May they have many more such reunions. There is a Baptist deacon down on Long Island who goes right down to the foundation of things in his quarrels with his pastoi*. Last week he had a little disagreement with the preacher on account of the preference the latter showed for the society of his pretty young female converts over that of the deacon, and elder members of the flock. His wrath not having moderated by Sunday night he went down under the church and bored holes in the baptistery, letting all the water into the cellar. When the time for the solemn ceremony came on there was a tableau, in which pastor and pretty converts took part, but no baptizing. Mr. George W. Childs, the millionaire editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, is so active in works of beneficence, so constantly giving of his substance to the unfortunate and needy, that it is something of a surprise to read that he has, for once, been the recipient instead of the bestovver of a gift. Typographical Union No. 6, of New York, has presented Mr. Childs with a hand-somely-bound series of resolutions setting forth the high esteem in which the editor of the Ledger is held by the union, and uaming him an honorary member. Pleasant little incidents like this show that the world is uot all selfish, and ready to take but not give. The field for woman’s work is constantly enlarging. Two California women have become professional highway robbers. Tho great difficulty experienced by female highway robbers is in being so awful ugly that the horses take fright before the passengers can be relieved of their valuables. If “Mile.” Nevada why not “Mile.” Emma Abbott and “Mile.” Louise Cary? We don’t see why the “Sage-brush Linnet” of tho boundless West, as she has been called, should enjoy things that other singers can t havo. How would “Mile.” Susan B. Anthony sound? Honora Harwood, of staid New Haven, Conn., tho last maiden to order a marriage with one man and elope on the eve of the wedding day with another, kindly sent her affianced a copy of her marriage certificate. He will have it framed and labeled “A Narrow Escape." A Salvation Army lassie at Rochester, N. Y., has married a blind newsboy. Asa rule Salvation Army females are so ugly that none but blind men could be induced to marry them. The name of Cola Stone, the champion bicycle rider who committed suicide “for love,” has

been metamorphosed into “Col. A. Stone” in transmission by wire. Colonels are nearly as common as bicyclists, anyhaw. A commercial item says: “The price of young giraffes is from $2,500 to $5,000; of old ones, from $15,000 to $25,000.” The price of giraffes holds up pretty stiff in spite of the change of administration.—Chicago Times. We believe that giraffes always come “high.” The Chicago hired men who play base ball, having beaten the New Yorkers, are now referred to as fellow-Chicagoans. Before that they were called section hands. A very fishy story is on the rounds that Mile. Nevada’s wedding-cake weighed 150 pounds, and cost SOOO. Never wa3 cake built that cost $4 a pound. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A CRANK, according to Dr. Howard Crosby, is “a man who has a capital idea without sense enough to work it out.” A Great many coins—English shillings, sixpences, coppers and one Canadian piece—were found in Jumbo’s stomach by the gentlemen having charge of his remains. Rev. R. Herer Newton wants to have Grant memoralized in a mammoth hospital, and the surplus in the national Treasury spent on a “Westminster Abbey" at Washington. MUSHROOM hunting is King Humbert, of Italy’s, favorite rural pastime just now. While staying at his country seat at Monza the King may invariably be seen in the woods after a shower industriously gathering mushrooms. The good-humored Dr. McCosh,- whose grey hairs seem about to be brought in sorrow to the grave by the Princeton boys, has smiled scores of times when told that the secret and sepulchral midnight password of the students was: “Jimmie McCosh, by Gosh!” Col. Charles C. Jones, jr., of JAugusta, Ga., having investigated the subject, is convinced that neither Maj.-Gen. Nathaniel Greene nor Maj.-Gen. Count Pulaski “sleeps beneath the respective monuments which a grateful and patriotic people have reared in their honor.” Arsene Houssaye relates of the Empress Eugenie that when young Cavaignac refused to receive a school prize at a public distribution from the hands of the Prince Imperial she went into hysterics, and on recovering declared that her son would have to expiate tho guilt of the 2d of December. Miss Cleveland was graduated from Houghton’s Seminary, Clinton, N. Y., in 1866, and she delivered her essay on “Reciprocity” there last year. This essay is second in her book recently published. The wife of the Rev. Dr. A. H. Bradford, of Montclair, N. J., was a c’assmate of the President’s sister. The President has received an elegantly framed photograph of Prince Bismarck. It was a present from Prince Bismarck himself and bore his personal autograph. It will be hung in the President’s chamber. It represents the Prince in his military uniform. It is probable that the President will return the compliment and send back one of his photographs similarly framed. A MAN in an English theater the other night attracted attention by hissing throughout the entire performance. He was finally questioned as to the cause of his displeasure, whereupon he explained that an operation had been performed some time before on his throat, and that it now contained a silver tube. Whenever he was unusually pleased a hissing noise was caused by his breathing through the tube. There was never a time in the publishing business, says an expert, when proffers of manuscript from women were so numerous. Society belles seem to have all at once caught the fever of authorship. As some houses will publish almost anything in which the pront is assured, but nothing from untried pens without a guarantee, they can usually give a definite answer to an applicant without first reading the copy. In the British Medical Journal, Dr. Fotbergill says that a patient dying of exhaustion is generally dying of starvation. “We give him beef tea, calf’s-foot jelly, alcohol, seltzer and milk; that is, a small quantity of sugar of milk and some fat. But the jelly is the poorest sort of food, and tho beef-tea a mere stimulant. The popular belief that beef-tea contains the very strength of the meat’ is a terrible error; it has no food value.”

It is said that the nations of the earth speak about ninety different dialects. But these dialects can be traced to a much smaller number of languages. All these languages are divided into three classes, namely, ths Indo-Germanic, which embraces the ancient classical languages and those of modern Europe; the Sanskrit, which embraces all the various languages of India, and the Semitic, which embraces the Hebrew, Chaldaic, Syriac, Arabic, etc. The alleged ex-Empress of Mexico, so long poetically described as “Poor Carlotta,” isfikely soon to reappear in society as rich Carlotta. Her ph* sicians now have every hope of her complete restoration to reason. She never has been frantically mad, has had the most skilled and loving treatment, and during her enforced retirement hor comparatively limited expenses have resulted in a considerable accumulation of her revenues, which, her friends hope, she will yet live long and happily to enjoy. A London society for the suppression of mendicancy has handed over 200,000 begging letters to a committee, in consequence of which over 60,000 professional vagabonds and impostors have fallen into tho hands of the police. One beggar carried with him a tongue in alcohol, which, as a notice informed the public, was his own tongue, lost by a surgical operation. Examination showed it to be a sheep’s tongue. Vienna has also an association for the discovery and punishment of impostors on publio charity. The greatest difficulty is caused by those who feign epilepsy; and the famous Munich surgeon, Dr. Nussbaum, relates the case of a prisoner in order to secure certain comforts allowed the sick, feigned epilepsy so successfully that for several years he deceived the prison doctor, as well as another physician called n to assist in his examination. The Democratic Predicament. New York Commercial Advertiser. The resulting situation is a curiously interesting one. Mr. Cleveland will not follow the Dera - ocratic party. The party must either follow him or set itself in opposition to him. If it follows him it must abandon its present doctrines, cease to be the Democratic party that it now is, and surrender its hope of spoils. If it sets itself in opposition to him, and holds him not to be a Democrat, it must not only lose the spoils, but surrender its possession of the executive branc-h of the government also, for if Mr. Cleveland is not a Democrat there is no Democratic President in office. What the issue will be it is too soon to predict. Presidents have broken from their parties aforetime, but never in the same way, never with like vigor, and never by reason of their resolute adherence to doctrines distinctly professed by the party at the time of their election. Georgia’s Cotton Crop. State rommiasioncr of Agriculture. “The farmers of Georgia could be the richest people on the earth if they could control the money they get. for their cotton. Georgia raises seven or eight hundred thousand bales of cotton annually, and that cotton sells for over thirty million dollars. If the farmers could control that money one year they could more than buy Atlanta and everything in it. Next year they could buy out Savannah, and the next year Augusta, and so on, until in far less than ten years they could absolutely own the cities and towns. The cotton crop for ten years would about buy the State —lock, stock and barrel.” “How much of the thirty millions that the farmers are now receiving for their cotton crop will remain iu their hands?" “The most of it won’t get into their hands. If it does it will not stay there long. The merchants they owe will get most of it.” Why She Was Popular. National Republican. Many beautiful tributes to the life and character of Goldsmith Maid adorn the columns of our esteemed contemporaries. It grieves us to notice. however, that, like many another maid, she owes her peculiar prominence to the fact that she was fast

LOGAN’S EULOGY ON GRANT. Services at Metropolitan Chnrch, Washington, in Honor of the Dead Hero. General Logan Pays a Touching and Eloquent Tribute to the Memory of the Great _ Soldier Who Saved the Nation. Washington, Oct. I.—Services in memory of General Grant were held here this evening, under the auspices of the local commandery of the Grand Army of the Republic, in the Metropolitan Church, at which General Grant was a regular attendant during his presidential terms. The auditorium, which is one of the largest in the city, was crowded. Funeral chimes were rung from 7to 8 o’clock, and were followed by an organ voluntary by Dr. J. W. Bischoff. A notable feature of the services was the chanting and the singing of war songs by the St. Celilia Ladies’ Quartet. The meeting was called to order by Deputy Commander M. M Brooks, and, after prayer by Dr. Huntly, the present pastor of tho church, Gen. John A. Logan, the orator of the occasion, was introduced, and warmly welcomed with clapping of hands by the audience. His speech was frequently interrupted by the plaudits of the which broke out at tho mention of the names of favorite commanders, and the allusions to the more conspicuous events in the story of General Grant's career. General Logan’s address embodied a recital, from the stand-point of a personal observer, of the military history of General Grant. He began with his own first meeting with Grant at Springfield, 111., where the latter was assisting the Governor of his State to organize the volunteers under the first call of President Lincoln; he then touched briefly and with little elaboration or comment, upon the steps in the upward progress of the subject of the eulogy, the battles fought and won, and the campaigns planned and carried out. He alluded to the “jealousy and littleness” of General Helleek, when Grant’s superior, in keeping him almost a prisoner at Fort Henry; to Hellock’s dilatory movements against Corinth, to his disregard of advice and of information that the enemy was escaping, and to the fruitless outcome of the campaign, the effect of which, however, was t,o restore Grant to the command of his old Army of the Tennessee. He described the failures of Grant's first movements against Vicksburg, threatening a loss of confidence on the part of the people and resulting in clamors for his removal. The President’s confidence, he said, was, however, unshaken, and he determined to trust Grant a little longer. Grant's next plan, the speaker said, was recognized by the military authorities of the country as wholly unmilitary and dangerous. They believed that it was military suicide, and against all the science of war. It was a movement, however, full of audacity, and in its results showed the genius of the man who planned it. This was the campaign which resuited in the fall of Vicksburg. Ha) leek had directed Grant to leave Vicksburg and move down to Port Hudson and assist Banks. Banks, being Grant’s superior, would thus have been in command of the combined forces. Halleek suggested that after Port Hudson should fall, Vicksburg should be assailed. Halleck’s letter came too late. Five battles had been fought. Grant wae already moving on Vicksburg. Pemberton was driven within the walls and locked up with only sixty days’rations. On the 4th of July, 1863, the long and bloody siege came to its termination, and Grant, at the head of his victorious army, entered the city and placed the old flag upon the court-house. It was the largest capture of men and munitions of war ever made in any modern war up to that time. In the campaign the enemy’s killed, wounded and captured numbered inoro than Grant’s entire effective force. Port Hudson was at once surrendered, and the backbone of the rebellion was broken.

The orator touched upon the withdrawal of Rosecrans within the lines of Chattanooga, where he was cooped up, with Bragg in possession of his communications. General Rosecrans was completely encircled aud apparently in a position where he must, sooner or later, surrender for want of supplies. Grant was ordered by the President to take command of that department, and his first act was to assign Thomas to the command in place of Rosecrans. Chattanooga was subsequently relieved by Grant, and the battles and victories of Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge followed. Having defeated Bragg and driven him from his stronghold, Grant now commenced maturing plans for the great final campaign. His idea was to move from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and thence to Mobile, unless something should intervene in the meantime to force him in the direction of Savannah from Atlanta. In a letter written that winter Grant said sharp fighting would occur in the spring, and if the Union forces were successful the war would be ended in a year. Grant was now made Lieutenant-general, and placed in command of the armies of tho Republic. But one person—George Washington—had ever held the position before. Winfield Scott merely had the brevet. On the 3d of March, 1864, he was ordered to Washington. His intention at that time was to return from Washington and lead the armies of Sherman, Thomas and Schofield to Atlanta. Unforeseen events, however, changed his intention anu forced him to the East; but his campaign was carried out almost to the letter by others. Having assumed supreme command on the 17th of March he at once proceeded to establish his headquarters in the field at Culpepper, Va. Heretofore the campaigns of the different armies had been conducted without any reference to each other. Grant purposed now that alibis campaigns should proceed with ore common end in view. He would combine all his available Western forces under Sherman and those of the east under Meade, and move the two great armies toward a common center. Sherman was to move against Johnston, aud hammer, aud pound, and follow him until he was destroyed, captured or driven hack to Richmond, when both rebel armies were to be crushed between the two great armies of the Republic. Meade was to advance upon Lee. and strike him wherever he could be found. The plan wa3 carried out successfully, and during its progress the victories were achieved which saved the Republic. The speaker described briefly, but in glowing terms, the events of Grant’s civil career and the honors showered upon him by our people at home and by men and nations abroad. “From Belmont to the siege of Vicksburg,” said Gen. Logan, in his summing up, “I was near him in nearly all his marches, cam pains and battles, being permitted by him to take possession of Vicksburg with my command on account of its having been approached nearer to the enemy than any other. During my term as commander of that city 1 was with him almost every day, and from the time when, at the head of that glorious old Army of the Tennessee, of which ho was the first commander, and I its last, I inarched by his reviewing stand at the national capital, and down to the last painful days of his memorable life. 1 was with him very often. During all this, while l was a close observer of him. Grant was usually known and recognized as a quiet and siient man, but when engaged in conversation on any subject in which he felt an interest, there were few who excelled hihn. He wrote ter ely and well, and at times most eloquently... The Nation was, at different types. thrilled by his terse, epigrammatic sentences. Wheu he wrote to Buckner, the commander at Fort Donelson. ‘No terms other than unconditional and immc diate surrender can be accepted; I propose to move immediately upon your works,’ his words burned with the glow of patriotic fire the heart of every loyal freeman. When he had fought the battle of the Wilderness, and wrote to the President: ‘I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer,’ he infused into the people and his troops part of his own tenacity. In his short spocch to the com mittee who waited upon him to inform him of his nomination, first made by the Republicans as thoir candidate for chief magistrate, lie used tho memorable words in his conclusion: ‘Let us have peace.’ Those words fell upon the people with an electrical effect. His coolness, his perception. his acuteness in using the right words in the right place, and doing the right thing in the right time, were at the bottom of his success as a civic magistrate, just as his great faculty of doing the right thing at the right time and place, and sometimes in the most unexpected manner, was at the bottom of his military success.” The speaker described the subject of nis eulogy as a man of great strength of intellect, re-

markable common sense, coolness, sion and tenacity; a true friend to those worthy of his friendship, and the kindest and best os husbands and fathers. It had been said that he was not a strategist In the speaker’s belief he was without a rival, either as a strategist or commander. He was greater as a military commander than Washing* ton, Napoleon, Wellington, Marlborough, the Prince of Orange, Frederick, Charlemagne, Han* nibal, or Scipio Africanus; and, in the speaker's belief, coming centuries would give him a rank equal, if not snperior, to that of Julius Caesar, and when the mists thrown around his civil administrations by partisan enemies should be dispelled, they would equal ta glory any administrations of the past. Duty was with him a living principle. Nothing could swerve him from a course he believed right. He was conscientious, just, truthful, courageous and magnanimous. He stood byhii friends and forgave his enemies. He fousrht, not for glory, but to save his country. When criticised and censured, when the clouds of calumny hung about him. he stood with folded arms amid the thunders, witnessing the wrath of his enemies, but he spoke not in his own defense. Time finally dispelled the clouds, and let in the suashine of honest judgment. Then his heart was found as pure as the dew-drop which hung upon the lips of the velvet rose. He believed in the justice of God. and that, sooner or later. He would by some means guide him as commander of our armies to the line where justice would take the place of wrong, and “man's inhumanity to man” be properly rebuked. “But,” continued, the speaker, “his race has been run. The Croat and good man went up on the mountain to die. The attention of the whole civilized world was directed to that spot. His glory was not that of his country alone, but of the civilized races of man. When the news of his death went trembling over the wires to the uttermost parts of the earth, the people of every nation aud tongue stood with bowed heads. Grant had in life ascended to the topmost heights of mortal fame; the greatest renown was his: the glory of man’s greatest achievements shone round and about him. God called him, and he stepped from his high pedestal on this earth into the presence of the great white throne, where he was crowned with immortal glory, that sbineth on forever.” The services were concluded with the benediction and a concert of patriotic airs upon tho bells. * .... - ♦ -n THE CURRENT OF OPINION. The man who, in days of prosperity, does not make moderate provision for wife or minor children is either short-sighted, or criminally reokless, or hard hearted.—Atlanta Constitution. It remains to be seen whether he [Flower] caa bo persuaded to withdraw his declination by promises of Democratic support when it comes to choosing another United States senator. —Boston Transcript. The violent temperance zealots who have already begun their promiscuous abuse of both parties, are in a fair way to force the advocates of a high-license law to disclaim sympathy with them.—Brooklyn Union. The State belongs to the Democratic party, and if that piarty does not choose to possess its own it ought to disband. Os course, only tho best of faith can be expected of the administration and its friends.—New York Graphic. Dr. Leonard is a plausable talker upon prohibition. The most plausible talker in the world can not show how the taste of men may be regulated by law. That is solely a matter of education or moral suasion.—Columbus Dispatch. Whether Mr. Flower would be willing to tako the Lieutenant-governorship could some reasonably positive assurances of his being able to get it be offered him, is one of those things we shall probably never find out. —Philadelphia Telegraph. Mr. Ferdinand Ward says ho is tirod of being considered a knave, and threatens to publish a statement which will show him to be a fool. It is a hard choice between the two, but it appears to be tne only choice left open to Mr. Ward, —Philadelphia Inquirer. While the Turks have, unquestionably, the right on their side in this matter, there is a natural feeling, which cannot be overlooked, that it is impossible to ignore the claims for independence put forward by the Christian inhabitants of Roumelia.—Boston Herald. Lieutenant Schwatka and Engineer Melville Are again laying their plans to find the North pole. It would bo easier for them and less expensive to go to bed and blow the gas out. The obituaries of arctic travelers have been too highly colored.—Springfield Republican. The Republican Senate will not make war on the President because he is a Democrat. Onr system of government would be fatally defective if if it recognized political differences between the two branches of the executive mechanism as a valid cause for strife between them. — National Republican. It is extremely amusing to notice that the Democratic editors who are rejoicing so profoundly over the departure of the mugwumps to the support of the Republican State ticket aro using almost the identical terms of consolation which were employed by the Blaine editors last year.—New York Evening Post. This search after old and buried personal correspondence in order to attack an enemy is a pretty mean business all around. But what Halstead may have thought of Grant and Lincoln twenty-odd years ago is “nothing to anybody now.” They are both far beyond his praise or his malice.—Philadelphia Record. Tho Maxwell case, at St. Louis, is languishing for lack of funds to carry on the prosecution, the district attorney having exhausted his appropriation. It would be a pity should such a finely sensational case lapse for any such reason. The St. Louis newspapers might chip in to carry it on as a matter of business.—Boston Record.

Ira Davenport as Controller was the first man in that exceedingly important office to bring about the system of having a surplus of at least $1,000,000 in the Treasury to meet the current expenses of the new fiscal year, beginning on the Ist of October. “Pay as you go,” was hi* principle, and ho reduced it to practice.—New York Mail and Express. General Slocum’s reply to the request that he take the Democratic nomination for Lieuten-ant-governor: ‘‘lf they nominate me I will write a letter of declination that will make their hair stand on end. The idea that I, who was once second in command under Geneial Grant in the Union army, should play second fiddle to David B. Hill is preposterous.”—Albany Journal. The reports of rich silver discoveries in Mexico must be taken with many grains of allowance. The mining “booms’’which have been worked up below the border during the last few years have been specially disastrous to American prospectors, and any man who starts oat for anew gold field in old Mexico should have ample resources to guard again3t disaster.—San Francisco Chronicle. Socialism gives to the state the pre eminence. It sinks the individual in the state or general society. It makes the individual man a mere cipher, and it reduces to a minimum the influence of individual men in tho affairs of the world. It gives into state control all the affairs which pertain to the ownership of land, the manufacture Os products of every kind and the tilling of the soil.—Denver Tribune. In a few isolated cases the President has stood up for the principle of the civil-service law, but in most cases the old policy ot the spoils is going forward as openly as under any patt administration. Congressmen are parceling out of the offices; the department mills ar§ grinding out large hatches of new appointments every day; and Mr. Cleveland is going beyond any predecessor in hi3 removals.—Philadelphia Press. The gradations of color between tho mulattoes and the whites on the one hand, and between tho mulattoes andthe blacks on the other, are indeed innumerable; and, us we have said, are too finely blended to permit a rigid classification of tha “colored people 1 ’ us such; but that the colored class, as a whole, is bound to darken in color and thus decrease gradually in number, is plain to etery on* who watches the course of racial relations in the South.—Charleston News and Couier. Now that we are beginning to hare a littla leisure in tho land, having jpissed our first century of very hard work, we might, with advantage, appoint members for a national convention of nomenclature, authorized, after due deliberation, to provide new and fitting names for such places as havo been disfigured by titleswithout the slightest excuse for existence. Tha old Indian names should, by all means, have tha preference. We shall be original so long as we. remain aboriginal—New York Commercial Advertiser.