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fHE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1885. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. The Sunday Journal of to-morrow, the 15th iobt, will be of unusual excellence and of special value and interest to its readers. It will contain the first part of the last of the octave of atories written for our columns by the greatest writers of England. We have published atories by “Ouida,” William Black, Joseph Hattou, Wilkie Collins, Miss Braddon, Thomas B. Hardy and Rhoda Broughton. This concluding story of the series is by “Ouida,” with whom the series commenced, and is entitled “Don Gesualdo.” It will be completed in three installments. Besides this feature there will be— A chapter of sketches of local flavor by Mrs. Emma Carleton; Mrs. Louise Andrews contributes a dialect sketch —a Cat Story; Original poems by James Whitcomb Riley, Lee O. Harris, Ben D. House, and other local writers; Tennyson’s new poem, “Vastness,” republished from Macmillan's November Magazine; Mr. Joseph Hatton’s London Letter, in which he discusses English trade depression. A sermon by Rev. Myron W. Reed, on the Value of Variety in the Worship of God. There will be no Sunday paper printed in the country with a better table of contents than this. Mr. Tennyson’s new poem will be given in full, and we think it will be accorded a place beside *ome of the passages of “In Memoriam''and “Locksley Hall,” despite the flips and jeers of the penny-a linera. In addition to these special features all the regular departments of the Sunday Journal will be full and complete, including the general and local news of the day. Advertisers will do well to use the columns of the Sunday Journal. It reaches the very class of teople they desire to address, and has, beyond question, the largest and best circulation of any Sunday paper printed in Indiana. Advertisers will favor us and advantage themselves if they will send in the copy of their “ads” not later than 3 o’clock p. m. to-day. A Washintton paper advertises SIOO,OOO ‘Pan-electric Telephone stock for sale. Has Attorney-general Garland begun to unload? •For a man with a sore throat, Mr. Gladstone has managed to make himself heard over a wide territory. That speech continues to echo and re-echo. The superior quality of the “Boston mind” shows itself even in the divorce cases of that city. No ordinary intellect would have devised the “Grecian bend kiss," now made .known to the world as the invention of Mr. Loud. • General Carr was the special object of mugwump attack. General Carr received several thousand mor>' es than any other candidate on the New York Republican State hioket, Great and awful is the influence of iie mugwump.

!v IN c r; f. ! > w iad probably been readin g uo on A' ’ L.e.an politics before his summary J : ] „oai of his fifty brothers, and his five hundred uncles, and cousins, and aunts. He preferred to behead them or bury them alive rather than to run the risk of being charged With nepotism. Senator Sharon is dead. There is no occasion for the country to “slop over," as it has done respecting John McCullough, the actor. The lives of both men were examples to be shunned, and neither the money in the mie case nor the talent in the other should fiause a delugo of tinseled lies through the public press. The entire Republican delegation to the Senate and House of Representatives from Hamilton county have filed notices of contest for their seats. This action was taken in view T of the possibility that Clerk Dalton would issue certificates to the Democratic candidates £or senator as he already has to the candidates for representative. Being an “exceptional case," the Civilservice Commissioners will inquire into the executive ability and the power to manage men of the applicants for the position of weigher in the New York custom-house. It will be only necessary to look at Rounder Sterling's photograph to convince the ancient worthies that he has executive ability enough to knock out a whole ward. Very naturally, the New York Post is highly indignant over the lightness of the sentence imposed upon Editor Stead. Mr. Stead’s offense, it will be remembered, was that of exposing vile immorality in high places. It will also be remembered that the Post is the paper which maintains that chastity is not one of the virtues which ennobles human nature and dignifies human life. A Cincinnati Democratic paper is making the most over the alleged fact that a merchant in a certain obscure Southern town has refused to patronizo a Cincinnati “drummer" because the papers of that city have spoken ill of Southern election methods. By boycotting Cincinnati he hopes to prove that election methods in the South are all right, however violent and fraudulent they may be. JTine logic. Dr. Hyde, in opening the topic “Young Men arj Temperance," at the Y. M. C. A. rooms yesterday morning, expressed surprise at the facts which had come to his knowledge in looking up the subject. He called attention to the large number of places of sinful amusement that keep open doors at all times, and which depend almost entirely upon the patronage of young men for their support. To Maintain the liquor saloons of the United Slates, over $750,000,000 annually,

or $2,000,000 daily are expended. To maintain the Young Men’s Christian Association —a united agency of the church—s7so,ooo annually, or about $2,000 daily are expended. One dollar to save against a thousand to ruin the young men of the land. Galveston, Texas, was swept by an awful fire, yesterday, which burned one hundred and fifty acres of the residence portion of the city. One thousand families are homeless—stripped of everything they have in the world. There must needs be great suffering, and the charity of the community is appealed to by every consideration of humanity. Indianapolis should do something to-day at the Board of Trade meeting. TEE SUNDAY JOURNAL IN THE SUBURBS, Arrangements have been made whereby the Sunday Journal will be delivered and sold by carriers in the outlying neighborhoods of Woodruff Place, the United States Arsenal, and east and south of the city. These arrangements will be extended and perfected so that all persons living outside the corporation limits will hereafter be served with the Sunday Journal at an early hour. Parties desiring to subscribe for that issue will please leave their names at the countiug-room as soon as possible. “Mr. Saltonstall, though a Democrat, is a mugwump in every fibre of his body. He is the kind of man in every way which no lifelong Democrat likes to see in office, because lie will neither lie, steal, get drunk nor neglect his duties, nor let others neglect theirs, for politics." The above paragraph is taken from the New York Evening Post. It is evidently in that frame of mind, wrought up by chagrin, that i t would bite itself if it could. If the “stab" at the Democratic party contained in this spitgful paragraph conveys the real sentiment of tho mugwump toward it, it only goes to prove that the mugwump is a very inconsistent, spiteful and hypocritical creature. The Democratic party has not changed an iota in its essential characteristics during the last twenty years. The nomination of Mr. Cleveland, forced upon it, did not alter its nature. The same men are in it, the same influences predominate in its action. As an organization it is just as “hungry," just as “thirsty" now as it was eighteen months or eighteen years ago. Tho election of Mr. Hill was interpreted just as the mugwumps said it would be—the rank and file of Democracy believed it to be in the nature of a rebuke, and from the New York World down the Democratic press did not hesitate to say so, and not a few of them have added insult to injury by nominating already a ticket for 1888 in which the name of Mr. Cleveland does not appear. The very respectable and very good mugwumps know that the Democratic party is a party of spoils. They knew so in 1884. Thoy knew that Cleveland alone stood between that party and an unrestrained rush of ignorant and vicious men upon the public offices, so ably and so conscientiously filled by Republicans. They knew that in tho event of the death of Cleveland during his term of office his successor would be Thomas A. Hendricks, who has so often proclaimed his contempt for any and all laws that stand in the way of a clean and sudden sweep. Spitefully and maliciously the mugwumps went over to the aid of this corrupt organization because they could not have everything just as they wished it in tho Republican party. They demanded Pharisaical perfection, and because they did not get it, stultified themselves and gave the lie to their sincerity by associating with and assisting men who, according to the Post’s insinuation, “lie, steal, get drunk and neglect their duties." It was the most shameful betrayal of friends and trusting fellowpartisans ever l&iown in American politics. There is nothing strange in the fact that many of the Republicans who had seen their party betrayed by them should revolt against their so soon resuming dictatorial powers in the organization. The Democratic party succeeded in New York in the last election only because of the impudent and unwarranted interference of these men. Men who can deliberately aid a party such as they describe tho Democratic party to be, and in twelve months afterwards boldly come back and undertake to run things in the old organization that honest men did not forsake, are not the kind to make a campaign popular.

Did Judge Ayres, in his judicial orders or by his telephonic interview with the Democratic commissioners, from Danville, authorize Mr. Sterling R. Holt, late of the Confederate States army, to open the ballot-box by violence! If he did not, then was not the use of the hatchet the personal and individual act of Mr. Holt, and above and beyond the authority of the court? If it was, then is not Mr. Holt guilty of contempt of court? If it was not, then is not Judge Ayres and his court beneath contempt? Judge Ayres can answer these questions. The Judge has enjoyed a good reputation in this community, and he owes it to himself to maintain it. The Journal, however, will insist on an answer to these questions, and if it U not given will be certain to repeat them. The future of Judge Ayres, as a judge and a respecter of law as such judge, is before him. ne must answer to the future, and not to the “non-partisan’' voters who elected him. ""■■"■■■■■■■■■l South Carolina is a model State in some ways, and in some is not. Her divorce laws are all that could be asked, for divorces in that State are like snakes in Ireland—there are none. But South Carolina is moving in another direction, looking to ridding itself of mobs and lvnchinz Darties. In Sentember

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last a man was murdered at Edgefield, that State. In a few days a mob -took the suspected murderer and, as they supposed, killed him. Though fatally injured, he mado his way to friends and revealed the names of some of the men who had taken part in the lynching. Thirty-three men were arrested. Ten of them secured bail and were released, but the others have been confined in jail. On Wednesday last the grand jury returned indictments against all of them. This is a move in the right direction, and a general interest will bo felt in the outcome of the case. The Chicago Tribune, formerly one of the rankest, solidest free-trade papers in the country, has evidently received an access of information. In its yesterday’s issue it says: “There are two conventions now in session in this city. One of them is composed of gentlemen who are agitating for revenue-re-form with all that the question implies. The other, which is a complex affair of several wheels within a wheel, is agitating for pure butter, good cheese, unquestionable eggs, blooded bulls, ‘milky mothers,’ strong and swift horses, sheep that can furnish the most fine wool to the square inch and the best mutton, and hogs that, by mysterious processes of porcine evolution, can give us pork without a suspicion of the trichina spiralis or any other parasite. Os these two conventions it is but truth to say that the popular interest centers in the one which has for its purpose the illustration of the fat-stock show. TBe free-traders’ show suffers in the competion. One reason for the popular apathy is that the show has been thoroughly thrashed. Another reason is that we are living in an ocean of free trade, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to Mexico. As only about one-tenth of the commerce of the country is affected by the tariff, and the other nine-tenths, comprising the huge interstate traffic, is run on the absolute principles of free trade, the general public dots not take much interest in the question of tariffs. If our thirty-eight States were separated from each other by trade-barriers, and their frontiers were lined with custom houses, the question agitated by the liershey Hall reformers would have a vital interest. The other convention, however, is discussing questions of practical interest that appeal to populuar sympathy. People care more for good* butter, cheese, eggs, poultry, beef, pork, mutton and strong, fast horses than they do for abstract questions in finance .and political economy, upon which the experts themselves cannot agree.”

The New York Herald is evidently of the opinion that Sir John MacDonald takes it regularly and uses it as his guide instead of the laws of the Dominion. On Wednesday the Herald paraded the following choleric headlines: “Riel Respited." “Public Opinion Conquers the Arrogant Premier." “He Dare not Hang Him." “Victory of the New Y'ork Herald in its Fight against a Tyrant,” and so on. The inconsistency of this bloodthirsty head-line did not seem to daunt him, for after he had shown that it was “public opinion" that had “conquered the arrogant Premier,” he blandly arrogates the “victory" of the “fight against a tyrant" to the New York Herald! The chances are that Riel will yet he hanged, hut if ho is not, it would be the sublimity of impudence for the Herald to claim any influence in tho matter. Referring to the fact that the Missionary Ridge battle-ground is now a strawberry patch, and that the land that “went begging, a few years ago, at $2 an acre now commands $250 an acre," the Chicago Times wants to know “why wouldn’t it be an excellent thing to toss the bloody shirt into the bloody chasm, fill it up, and plow it under for strawberries or crops? Red with berries or yellow with wheat, it would doubtless present a very charming sight."* Why not, indeed? And why not bury the sectional prejudice that demands a solid South, made solid by murder and fraud? Bury that, and there will be no “bloody shirt" left to inter. Congressman Collins is so mad because Mr. Saltonstall was appointed collector at Boston instead of his man that he threatens never to enter the doors of the White House again. The President, who has tried locking his doors in the vain attempt to keep congressmen out, may feel encouraged at this, but should not let his hopes rise too high. Other congressmen—Mr. Bynum, for instance—have been just as mad as Mr. Collins, but they have become reconciled, and no bars nor bolts can restrain them from asking for “more.” A YOUNG lady teacher was badly hurt the other evening by a missile hurled from “a devil-sling" by some lad. Several years ago a little girl was struck in the eye, and her eyesight injured for life, she narrowly escaping total blindness, by a stone thrown from one of these inventions of the devil in the hands of a thoughtless urchin. A boy caught using a devil-sling on the streets should be severely punished by the law in the interests of public safety.

Eight young men at Ottawa have just been sentenced for life for a criminal assault upon two women. The judge, in passing a life sentence, said ho Would have condemned them all to death but for the fact that the jury recommended them to the mercy of the court. There seems to be no sentimental nonsense in Dominion courts and laws. An assault of that kind is more heinous than an assault to kill. gg""" l —— The National Republican says: “The Republican isn’t given to newspaper flattery, but it must say that taken on political questions the Indianapolis Journal is about the most far-seeing and reliable newspaper in this country.” A curious fish has been caught in the Hudson. It is about eighteen inches long, with four legs, a head and body resembling that of a sucker, while its mouth had the broad proportions of a catfish. Two large ugly black lumps adorn the upper portion of its head. Its feet are like those of a lizard. When placed on the floor it runs around at a lively gait When in the aquarium it swims at times with an astonishing swiftness, tfurmuujinc that of other fish in the

large glass tank. When lying still it invariably hues close to the small rocks at the bottom of the tank, without the least perceptible sign of life, but when disturbed shoots off liko a rocket In lieu of a better name it has been called the devil-fish of the Hudson. Scientists, we think, will pronounce it a mugwump* Two women, mother and daughter, from Midway, Pa., were en route to a town in Ohio a few days ago in beds or couches. Twelve years ago the mother, piqued at something her husband did, went to bed, and vowed she would never leave it Three years ago she persuaded her daughter to do tho same. If justice were done this precious pair of fools, they would never get anywhere unless they walked. , The New York World gravely asserts that “the Governor may appoint April 31 as Thanksgiving Day, if he like3.” The majority prefer Feb. 30. COMMENT AND OPINION. The Mississippi River Commission has been heard from again. is a sign that Congress is about to assemble.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The tides that bear men on to fortune keep ebbing and flowing from day to day, but a good many men dou’tseem to see them.—Philadelphia Times. Mr. Tilden is said to take less interest in politics as he grows older. It is about time for Samuel to drop politics altogether and freeze to his Biblo.—Minneapolis Tribune. The administration may have a definite and wholesome policy on the silver question, but it should bo careful not to mix too much Marble dust with it.—Philadelphia Press. If male voters would do their whole duty as citizens at tho polls on election day, the agitation of the question of woman suffrage would cease in a moment.—Chicago News. Mr. Cleveland’s letters to Commissioner Eaton and George W. Curtis, on the question of civilservice reform, were not intended for circulation west of the Mississippi.—St. Louis Post Dispatch. • The correspondents are again telling the poor oflice-seekers that the headsman’s ax is about to cut off tens of thousands of official heads. The poor fellows go to Washington and walk home. —Momphis Avalanche. Why should we go on coining silver when the nations of the Latin Union refuse to do so, and are now engaged in an attempt to average their losses on silver, in which attempt France is already bullying poor little Belgium?—New York Herald.

The Knights of Labor are bringing their useful organization into disrepute by their late performances in St. Louis and Galveston. The organization holding such power of obstruction which exercises it without due occasion becomes a menace to good order.—Philadelphia Record. Shut up our workshops and drive their present inmates to become bad farm laborers, and it will be very soon seen that the workers employed in trade and transportation are just as closely interested in the maintenance of protection as any other class of toilers.—New York Telegraph.* Without any very definite basis for a change the Republican feeling as to the senatorial contest has greatly brightened within the last twenty-four hours. There are even indications from Columbns that the Supreme Court will sustain the registry lsw as constitutional.—Cincinnati Sun. Like the Prohibitionists, the Abolitionists, as a third party, gave many a political victory, even the presidency, to the pro-slavery Democracy. Yet abolition, as a political issue, could not be forced on either the Whig or Republican parties. The Prohibitionists should gather a lesson from history.—Albany Express. Colonel Watterson’s sad-eyed goatess of reform is a delegate to the free-trade convention at Chicago. If there is a member of that body who is a real friend of the Democratic party he will tie a can of dynamite to the tail of the goatess and give her a running start on a rocky road. —Louisville Commercial. Obviously we are never to attain peace till we have sounded the whole gamut of social and political experience—till we have tried all the possible combinations of the sexual puzzle. What reason is there for longer postponing this experience of woman suffrage, which is bound to be tried sooner or later?—Frank Leslie’s Weekly. It looks as if the administrative and legislative problems which in France are pressing for solution are too complicated to be dealt with by any Ministry in the existing state of parties in the Chamber. Nothing can be done without a stable and harmonious majority, and such a majority can only be secured by an evasion ofjacty treuchant action.—Now York Sun. It is almost time for the reporters to again write something about the demand for small houses. But there is no demand for small houses. The demand is for large houses, of not loss than forty-five rooms, to bo kept in good repair and rented for 15 cents a week, gas and water free. Nobody wants a small house in these days.—Louisville Courier Journal. Thoso who know the President well state that he will leave untried no method which would bring about the suspension of silver coinage. If ho should attempt to make converts of Democrats who have hitherto been in favor of silver coinage by offeriflg them positions, he will do more harm to the country than would have resulted had he turned every Republican out of position three days after his inauguration.—San Francisco Chronicle. As New Yorkers, tho members of the New York delegation to the Democratic national convention of 1888 will naturally be for Mr. Hill. But as earnest and consistent civil-service reformers their first choice will necessarily be for Mr. Hendricks. It remains to be seen whether the duty or the inclination of the delegation will triumph. Cleveland may have killed himself off, but it is by no means clear at this writing that Hill will be named to succeed him.—New York Tribune. We know that protection, ip shutting out the products of cheap foreign labor, is a discrimination against the poor of Europe for the benefit of American labor. We plead guilty to loving the workers of Europe less than ourselves. This may be as “narrow,” as “mean” and as “selfish” as the most pious of free-trade apostles pronounce 'it, but it is the American policy, and Americans will insist on keeping up the fence—will positively decline to let down the bars.—National Republican. A great increase of silver dollars would mean a great rise in prices. But there would not be a corresponding rise in wages. Wages are always affected last by a general rise in prices, and those who live by daily wages are those who would suffer most by a great increase of silver dollars. These are not theories, nor arbitrary assertions. They are facts proved by universal experience. The theorists are those who do not see that what is called cheap money can not possibly cheapen prices.—Harper’s Weekly. There is upon the stage itself little or nothing to excito tbo reasonable opposition of the clergy. There is much about the theater to do so—the late hours, the nocturnal habits and surroundparticular—and, as long as dramatic performances are had at nieht these objections are incurable. Their evils may be magnified. They may often be misconceived, but they cannot be excluded from the average mind, which, in proportion to its actual ignorance, will increase its moral repugnance.—Louisville Courier-Journal. To the results of an election honestly reached every man who is worthy of citizenship will submit, a fraud reached for the purpose of public robbery nobody entitled to be called a man will submit. Courts m.iy be bulldozed; the judiciary may be disgraced, but manhood will assert the rights that belong to citizenship. The danger resulting from ballot-box frauds is at our door, and this will be recognized by every citizen who values the safety to society that results from law and order.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The magnificent victory in Ohio and the disastrous defeat in New York tell their own story. Comment is hardly necessary. But wo will say here that the defeat in New York is the best thing that could have happened the Republican party. Its effeet will be to everywhere strengthen the protection sentiment. If the State had been carried with the aid of the mugwumps, who are to a man free-traders, there is no doubt that the protection sentiment would be greatly weakened. The defeat, however, ha3 made it stronger than ever. For this reason we are heartily glad Davenport was beaten.—lrish World.

GENERAL GRANT’S MEMOIRS. The Book Printed, but Not Yet Ready for Delivery to the Reading Public. Fall Text of the Preface Written at Mount McGregor—Subjects Touched Upon—The Soldier’s Story Told by Himself, Now York Special to St. Louis Republican. The first volume of the personal memoirs of General Grant has been printed, but it will not be issued to the public until Dec. 1. In accordance with the plan determined upon by the publishers, the work will be given oat simultaneously in all parts of the United States, and it will take until that date to complete that arrangement Orders for upwards of 300,000 sets of the work have been already received, and from the present outlook it is expected that the number will be increased to 500,000. At the present time thousands of copies of the first volume are being bound and shipped to all parts of the country, the West especially. The second, which will betho concluding volume, will be published on March 1, of next year. Since the first volume has been finished it has been found that the first announcements regarding it have had to be changed somewhat. It contains 584 pages, instead of 500 as at first announced; it had thirty nine chapters instead of twenty-five, and fifteen maps instead of five. The book is bound in cloth, sheep, half morocco, full turkey morocco and tree calf. The first named sells for $3.50 per volume, or $7 for the set, and the last for $25 for the set The cover i3 embellished with a sac simile of the gold medal —both obverse and reverse—presented to Majorgeneral Grant by joint resolution of Congress, Dec. 17. 1863, in commemoration of his distinguished services. The frontispiece is a fine steel portrait by A. H. Ritchie, N. A., engraved expressly for the work, and which has never before appeared. It is copied from an old daguerrootype which was taken at Bethel, Clermont county, Ohio, in 1843, when General Grant was twenty-one years of age, and represents him in the uniform of a brevet second lieutenant. United States Infantry. The General laughingly informed the publishers that he paid the price of cutting twenty cords of wood —$s—for5 —for the daguerrotype, and was cautioned not to wink during the three-minute sitting required at that early day, which caution he disregarded. Considerable trouble was experienced in discovering the whereabouts of this daguerrotype, which had passed out of the General’s hands in early years, but it was finally found in the possession of his friend, Mr. George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, who lent it for the purpose of making this engraving. Tho volume also contains a fine etching by William E. Marshall, of General Grant’s birth-place, at Point Pleasant, 0., and is very fully illustrated with map*? plans and sac similes of handwriting. The preface to tho volume was written by General Grant at Mount McGregor, on July 1, of this year. It occupies three pages of the book. It is as follows:

Preface—“Man proposes and God disposes.” There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Although frequently urged by friends to write my memoirs. I had determined never to do so, nor to write anything for publication. At tho age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house, while it did not apparently affect my general health. This made study a pleasant, pastime. Shortly after the rascality of a business partner developed itself by the announcement of a failure. This was followed soon after by universal depression of all securities, which seemed to threaten the extinction of a good part of the income still retained, and for which lam indebted to the kindly acts of friends. At this juncture the editor of the Century Magazine asked me to write a few articles for him. I consented for the money it gave me, for at that moment I was living upon borrowed money. The work I found congenial and I determined to continue it. The event is an important one for me—for good or evil—l hope for the former. In preparing these*voluraes for the public I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether ou the national or the confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not making mention often where special mention is due. “There must be many errors of omission in this work, because the subject is too large to be treated of in two volumes in such a way as to do justice to all the officers and men engaged. There were thousands of instances during the Rebellion of individual, company, regimental and brigado deeds of heroism which deserve special mention, and are not here a/.luded to. The troops engaged in them wiU have to look to the detailed reports of their individual commanders for the full history of those deeds. “The first volume, as well as a portion of the second, was written before I had reason to suppose I was in a critical conditien of health. Later I was reduced almost to the point of doath, and it became impossible for me to attend to anything for weeks. I have, however, somewhat regained my strength, and am able often to devote as many hours a day as a person should devote to such work. I would have more hope of satisfying the expectation of the public if I could have allowed myself more time. I have used my best efforts, with the aid of my oldest son, F. D. Grant, assisted by bis brothers, to verify from the records every statement of faot given. The comments are my own, and show how I saw the matters treated of, whether others saw them in the same light or not. “With these remarks I present these volumes to the public, asking no favor, but hoping they will meot with the approval of the reader.’’ The first two chapters refer to General Grant’s ancestry and early life, carrying him through boyhood and through his West Point life, to his graduation at West Point. It is shown that Matthew Grant, who was the founder of the branch in this country, and from whom General Grant was descended, reached Dorchester in May, IG3O. In 1635 Matthew Grant moved to what is now Windsor, Conn., and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years. Ho was also for many years of the time town clerk. He was a married man when ho arrived at Dorchester, but his children were all born in this country. His oldest, Samuel, took lands on the east side of the Connecticut river, opposite Windsor, which have been held and operated by descendants of his to this day. General Grant was of the eighth generation from Matthew Grant. Beginning with tho third chapter and continuing until the fourteenth. General Grant tells of the Mexican war and his experiences in that campaign. Entertaining descriptions of scenes and places are hero mingled with the accounts of severe battles fought. He begins the event ful period of his life by telling generally of the array as it existed in the days before the Mexican war, and then gives an account of the causes which led to that war—Mexican smuggling, the Spanish rule in Mexico and the trip to Austria are touched upon. At this time he was promoted to be full second lieutenant. Then follows a graphic account of the advance of the army. The crossing of the Colorado, and the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, the advance on Monterey, the battle and surrender of that city, the siege and capture of Vera Cruz, and the advance on the City of Mexico and the evacuation of that city are also described at length. Among the descriptive passages in this entertaining portion of the work are an account of the halls of Montezuma in the City of Mexico, the story of a bull fight, and notes of a trip to the caves of Mexico. Just before the capture of Mexico General Grant was promoted to be first lieutenant. At the close of the Mexican war General Grant returned North. He gives an account of the return of the army, his marriage at this time, and his being ordered to the Pacific coast A chapter is devoted to life at San Francisco, with par ticulars of early California experiences and the celebrated “flush times” in that State. It was at this time that he was made a captain in the array. Then follow his resignation and return to his home at Galena. From this point to the end the volume deals with the war of the Rebellion and the author’s experience in the great conflict, up to the surrender of Vicksburg. First dwelling upon the events which made clear that a crisis was approaching, General Grant thon touches upon the first outbreak and its attendant excitement. He presides at a Union meeting, becomes mustering officer of State troops, tenders his services to tho government and becomes colonel of the Twentyfirst Illinois Regiment. Then comes the march to Missouri and particulars of the famous battles which followed from that at Belmont, Forts Henry and Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh and Corinth to the long siege and final capture of Vicksburg. Throughout this portion of the work there are many interesting personal allusions and particulars. He speaks of his being relieved and restored to command; of being

struck by a bullet; of foraging for food; running the batteries, and the criticism of the Northern papers during the operations about Vicksburg. One of the remarkably narrow escapes front death and capture that the General had in the earlier part of the war is told very vividly, though in the simplest language. It was at the time of the battle of Belmont, shortly before the capture of Forts Henry and Donelson. Fearing that the enemy, which had been seen Crosse ing tho river (the Mississippi), below, might be coming upon the federal troops unawares, General Grant rode out in a largo field that was in front of his troops to see whether the enemy was passing. He was alone. The field was grown up with corn so tall and thick as to cut off the view of even a person on horseback, except directly along the rows. Even in that direction, owing to the overhanging blades of corn, the view was not extensive. Ttfe General had not gone more than a few hundred yards when he saw a body of troops marching past him, not fifty yards away. He looked at them for a moment, and saw they were the enemy. He turned his horse toward the river, starting back, first at a walk, and then, when he thought himself concealed from the view of the hostile troops, going as fast as his horse could car y him. When he reached the river bank he still had to ride several hundred yards to tho point where the nearest transport lay. The corn field in front of the federal troops terminated at the edge of a dense forest. Before the General got back the enemy had entered the forest and had opened a brisk fire on the boats. The Union men were, by this time, either on board the transports or very near them. Those who were not already on board, soon got there, and the boats pushed off. General Grant was at this moment the only man of the Union army between the rebels and the Union transports. The captain of a boat that had just pushed off but bad not started, most fortunately, at this critical moment, recognized the General, and at once ordered the engineer not to start the engine. He then had a narrow plank runout to the shore for General Grant. The latter’s horse seemed to take in the situation. There was no path down the bank, and tlio bank itself was nearly perpendicular. But, without hesitation or urging, the horse put his fore feet over the bank, and, with his hind feet well under him, slid down the steep bank and trotted safely aboard ths boat, twelve or fifteen feet from shore, andovet a single gang-plank, carrying his master securely out of harm's way.

THE SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS. Spokesman Coy. Shelbyville Democrat. Mr. Coy is the spokesman of a large following, and when he called on the State officers he was not speaking as an individual, but for thousands of voters who entertain a strong hope that the obnoxious Murphy and Lang will be removed. Mr. Coy is at the head of the working Democrats of Indianapolis, and he is working to keep these Democrats enthusiastic and in line. * * * This thing of Democrats pandering to a few negative old grandfathers, who half tho time vote the Republican ticket, shows a decided weakness, and not only disgusts Mr. Coy, but everybody who has a particle of manhood or independence, and who loves his party. The Milk in the Cocoanut. Vincennes News (Dem.) Mr. Steve Belding, editor of the Daviess County Democrat, and one of the best fellows on earth, has hoisted the name of John H. O’Neall for Congress and has announced that he will this week sho.w cause why Mr. O’Neall should get the nomination. As Mr. Belding is Mr. Cobb’s nominee for the Washington postoffice, and as it would not be in human nature for Mr. Belding to go back on the giver of so good a gift, we taks the fact as confirmation strong as proof of holy writ that Mr. John H. O’Neall and Mr. Thomas It. Cobb have a definite understanding with respect to the congressional succession. That Marion County Grand Jury. Mtincie News. The case of Ballot-box-smasher Holt was on before the grand jury at ludianapolis, anu the failure of that body to return au indictment, on a partisan vote, is sufficient evidence that something is rotten in Indianapolis Democracy. The truth is that every refusal of the court or jury to punish such crimes is additional evidence that such crimes do exist. These officers, of the law being Democratic, are willing to disregard law and facts in order that their brethren may not be disturbed in their frauds, theft ballot-box smashing. ' v Short and Checkered. '\ „ Fort Wayne Gazette. The immaculate band of white-robed reformers has had its short and checkered career, fought its battle of wind, suffered overwhelming defeat, and taken its heavenward flight, and a corrupt and sin-cursed land forgets even to preteud to weep! Poor, misguided, martyred saints! They were far too pure and good for this bad world, and their chances of finding even Heaven good enough for them are “mighty slim.” The Neatest Lesson. Rockville Tribune. All the organs are still busy in setting forth the “lessons” of tho late election. The fact that no two of them agree is calculated to puzzle a country editor who doesn’t beiievo there is any “lesson.” The neatest “lesson” is' that set forth by the Indianapolis Journal, which insists that tho Republicans lost New York because they did not put enough “bloody shirt” into their* canvass! And a Democratic Grand Jury Let Them Go. Bluffton Chronicle. The breaking open of the ballot-box with a hatchet was a high-handed outrage. Recollect, this whole proceeding was a Democratic move, carried on by Democrats from beginning to end, with the intention of counting out Mayor Denny. We are at a loss to know how any hone3t man can condone such crimes—crimes that strike at the very foundation of the elective franchise. Acceptable Candidates. Angola Republican. Next to ex-Governor Porter the Republican will favor Judge Taylor, if the circumstances remain about as they now are. He would make an excellent candidate, and would fill the position as acceptably as any man in the State. But we expect to see ex Governor Porter either at the head of our State ticket in 1888, or on the national ticket for vice-president Forging Ahead to Success. Brookville American. It is said that hundreds of postmasters have been appointed by the Cleveland administration on forged petitions and indorsements. Forgery is a favorite means of success with Democrats in getting office. Gagging by Grand Jury. Bedford Mail. Since the Democratic burelars, ballot-box stuffers and fraudulent voters havo stolen from Republicans the right of suffrage, the Democratio papers of the country are trying to gag the victims so that their protests may not be heard. Led by Thomas A. Hendricks. Elkhart Independent. Indiana is the normal home of the radical spoilsmongers, led by one Thomas A. Hendricks. The idea that public office is a public trust has never yet entered an Indiana politician's cranium. Holt and His Hatchet. Martinsville Republican. The committee of one hundred, in Cincinnati, has done a noble work for the city. A like committee in Indianapolis, and Holt would never have appeared with his little hatchet. A Strange Grand Jury; Winchester Herald. Holt, the man who broke open the ballot-box with a hatchet, at Indiunapolis, has been “acquitted” by the grand jury. A strange plan, surely. A Century Later. Greencastle Banner. The Indianapolis News is waving the “bloody shirt,” but it is over the Andre monument. It may reach our late war a century hence. Judge Ayres's Preference. Muncie News. Judge Ayres had a chauce to be a man, but hs prefers to be a part of a machine. Bare To Be Acceptable. 4 A bottle of Colgate & Co.’a Caahmers Bouquet Perfume tor tho handkerchief.