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President Cleveland says all newspapers are liars, but, in spite of this broad Lint, the organs do not cease from praising him. Mr. Cleveland has‘grown sufficiently expert to shake hands sixteen times in a minute, ■but he hasn’t learned yet how to shake the office-seekers. How would it do to send the Detroit Poles in search of the elusive Apache? If the one should get lost and the other not be found, no great harm would be done. Evangelist Moody is trying to convert what is left of Montreal. If he succeeds iu delivering the population from fanaticism and superstition his work will not have been in vain. Colonel Donavin, of Ohio, in his open letter to Senator Payne, opens up as rascally a bit of political bargain and sale as ever disgraced American politics. The undoubted choice of Ohio Democracy was Hon. George H. Pendleton, and that he was not re-elected cannot be explained except that corruption prevailed. The Cincinnati Enquirer is yelling so loud against frauds recently discovered in the election at Cincinnati that it cannot hear the suggestion that it explain or defend the Fourth ward infamy, committed by Democrats after it had been ascertained how many votes were needed to “elect” the Democratic candidates. It is reported that Secretary Manning’s unexpected call for $10,000,000 in bonds caused three-per-cents, to decline from 104 to 101 1-2 in the market, under the impression that they would not be allowed to run as long as had been thought. There is no danger of any great reduction of the bonded debt. The party in power is not the debt-paying kind. Rather the contrary. In seeking to find rough weather to test the dispatch-boat Dolphin the officers encountered a gale that made all hands sick, though the vessel showed no signs of weakness. But the sailors were not half so sick as were those at home praying that the boat might sink or prove worthless. It was a noble spirit with which Democracy hoped that the work of American ship-builders might be condemned. Mr. Hutchins, of the Washington Post, has taken as a partner a New York man named Wyse, who made the most of his money in election bets on Cleveland and Kill. What the Post, as an administration organ, has really needed for some time is a wise man who can hit correctly which way the cat is goiug to jump, or, in other words, what the President is going to do next. Mr. Hutchins lias shown great discrimination in his choice •f an associate.

After Gen. Fitz John Porter baa read General Pope’s paper on the second battle of Bull Run, in The Century, he will have reason to congratulate himself that that plainspoken and clear-headed officer is not a member of Congress. As Pope may be supposed to know quite as much of Porter’s conduct at that battle as the flabbily-sentiraental editors who are advocating his restoration to the army, the article in The Century is commended to the attention of these gentlemen. By reading it carefully and without prejudice, they may gain au access of information. —- The muddle over the New York sub-treas-ury emphasizes the fact—which applies to a Dumber of other cases, and some in this State —that where an officer is not suspended and relieved from office by his successor during the recess of the Senate, he cannot be re-

moved except by the appointment and confirmation of another man. The officer must be out of office, and relieved from its care and responsibility before the meeting of the Senate, else he cannot and should not give up his place to any one not regularly confirmed by the Senate. That is the limitation upon the President’s power of removal, placed upon him by the civil-tenure-of-office act And it should be respected, not only by the subordinate officers, but by the great reform President of the United States. THE “JOLLITY” OF BLAVEBY. The Charleston News and Courier professes to believe that “for most of the slaves in the South slavery and jollity ended about the same time.” This might be and still be easily accounted for. The “jollity” referred to probably means that hilarity and abandon to good feeling resulting from community of association and fellowship. In the ante-bellum negro quarters were often gathered hundreds of slaves, a people to themselves, and so mingled by necessity as to give full play to the emotional and humorous natures of the slaves. Among so many it was natural that some were happy, some filled with mischievous impulses, in every hour of leisure. From these the contagion spread, so that all were involved more or less, and “jollity” prevailed. It was so in their religious gatherings, their camp-meetings and revivals. It is so still. No happier people exist than

negroes wrought up by religious fervency. Song, laughter, shouts and hallelujahs are heard iu colored churches nightly all over the North. The “jollity” could not be greater short of religious madness. But when the News and Courier proceeds to say, “the great majority of the colored race were undoubtedly fax* better off and were far happier in slavery than they have been since their emancipation,” it is asking too much to be believed. We doubt if there be one in a hundred old enough to remember the “jollity” of slavery days that would elect to go back into involuntary servitude and resume the character of chattels. Os colored men throughout the South of the age of thirty years and under, it would be exaggeration to say that one in ten thousand could be persuaded to surrender the rights they now enjoy. Unless it be claimed that a human being does not know when he is happy, or that the negro is not a human of sufficient intelligence to choose for himself, it is idle to indulge in such talk. The News and Courier, in common with the old slave-hold-ing South in general, would like to think as it talks—that human slavery was not a blight upon its victims, a curse upon their lives. It would like to think that plantation days were so sweet to the ex-slave’s memory that h© would willingly go back to them, surrender independence, and float away in the happy-go-lucky “jollity” that our contemporary thinks has passed away forever. This is so manifestly erroneous that it is a waste of time to seriously argue upon it.

Tbe slave’s contagious “jollity” at the plantation quarters may be a thing of the past. Very likely. The burden of freedom and of citizenship may have made them more sedate. Removed from the quarters to his own cabin, be has more to think of than banjo-playing and melody. He may be graver, but he is none the less happy. The man of business, white or black, is more thoughtful than the ne’er-do-well, but he would not think of changing conditions with the latter. The policy of the South in slavery days was to foster the spirit of “jollity” as distinguished from intelligent enjoyment. The bondman was kept in ignorance. In many communities it was a crime to teach the slave, a serious offense for ono of them to bo found with books, particularly with atlases showing the route to Canada and freedom. From the land of “jollity” many a scarred black man and woman made laborious and hazardous marches, by stealth and by night, to other regions. Strangely, too, it was the more intelligent, those more capable of real happiness, who took these desperate chances to escape. For a time the helplessness of enforced ignorance may have made a few of th e newly-emancipated and the aged and infirm look back with somewhat of regret to the old days at the quarters. But those days are happily passed. The fun at the quarters was as nothing to the joys of the freedman's-own fireside. The colored race is on the upward march. The face of the black man is turned to the sun of progress and development. Tho feeling of dependence is gone forever. If he knows his own mind he will never again consent to go back to the old ways. The generation that has come to manhood since the emancipation proclamation opened the' way to independence and self-respect will never turn back with a feeling of regret that they are not so happy as were their parents in slavery. They are steadily gathering wealth to themselves, building up their homes and improving their condition. Scat-

tered from the enervating quarters, they have manfully created individual firesides, where man nor master dare intrude. The “jollity” of the banjo is a tradition; the grammar and history are the realities of to-day. The plantation melodies live only in burlesque. They were plaintive and pitiful, filled with ineffable pathos. The “Suwanee River” and “Old Kentucky Home” were well enough a generation ago. They were the escape-pipe, but for which the poor singers would have sunken into madness over the wrongs suffered. The old songs are not forgotten, but are recalled much as the patriotic songs of the war are recalled, only to feel deeper gratitude for present blessings. The South is but human in trying to shift or to mitigate the sin of

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slavery. It is too lato. History has written that it would not let the colored people go. The record will never be changed. A PROMINENT lawyer, who was looking over the Hoar bilk says that the measure is very obscure in one particular and vital place, and that if it should become a law ‘t might lead to a very serious dispute in u\e future. The Hoar bill, he says, provides for the succession to the presidency of the Secretarv of State, in the event of the President and Vice-president being vacated by death or otherwise. This legal friend calls attention to the fact that a complication might follow the succession of the Secretary of State. When the latter should assume the presidency he would naturally appoint another Secretary of State. Then what becomes of the right of the Secretary of the Treasury of the original Cabinet, provided the first Secretary of State should die in the office of the President? Would the office of President then go to the second Secretary of State, or to the next officer in line in the original Cabinet?—New York World. This precise point was brought up in the debate, and settled. The Hoe’* bill, following the Constitution, designates yhat “officer” shall act as President, and he only acts as President by virtue of being that officer. If it should be the Secretary of State, he remains the Secretary of State, with the duties of the President annexed to his office. He would not “naturally appoint another Secretary of State,” for he would and must be the Secretary of State so long as he was acting President. If he should die, or resign, or be incapacitated, then the Secretary of the Treasury would become the acting President and he could appoint another Secretary of State, but he would and must remain the Secretary of the Treasury. Then, when the new Secretary was commissioned, the question would arise whether he would not then become the acting President according to the terms of the bill.

The Charleston News and Courier, replying to a paragraph in the Journal alluding to the fact that Senator-elect Daniel, of Virginia, had been wounded, and, of course, while an officer in the rebel army, says: “As Senator Daniel is a Virginian, and has always been a Virginian, it is never necessary to say from what side his wound was received. It is not 'all the same,’ however, whether he was ‘loyal’ or a ‘traitor’ twenty years ago, since, if he had not been loyal, he would have received wages for his services during the war, would have drawn a handsome pension ever since, and wmild now enjoy the confidence and friendship of the Journal, whatever that is worth.” We are getting along very rapidly in this era of reconciliation. According to our esteemed contemporary, those men who went into the federal service from the State of Virginia and other Southern States, and who received wages for their services and are now paid pensions for such disabilities as they received, are the “disloyal” men, while Major Daniel and his confederate associates were the “loyal” men. We trust tha* Charleston News and Courier, and all other Southern newspapers, will continue to have the courage of their convictions, and exp&ls-the real Southern sentiment. But the Northern idea of “loyalty” is, or at least has been, somewhat different from that of our South Carolina critic. It is an obvious prerequisite that a Territorial population should obtain an “enabling act” from Congress before it can arrange a political organization to seek admission as a State into the Union.—Louisville CourierJournal. It is not an “obvious fact.” On the other hand, it is an “obvious fact” that thirteen, if not fourteen, of the States now in the Union were admitted without an “enabling act.” It would be well for the Courier-Journal to temper its partisan heat against Dakota with a grain of information upon the history of the country. The Courier-Journal ought to be as frank as Mr. Vest, and acknowledge that in fighting Dakota the Democrats, both in and out of Congress, are fighting for their party. Referring to the statements and counterstatements of Messrs. Newcomb and Smitbers and Kuhn and Whitsit, the Saturday People says:

“Now there are certainly several lies out, and we trust this matter not stop with this simple examination before Judge Norton. The People wants ‘awful examples’ to be made of all bribers. They are getting to be entirely too numerous. No party can afford to uphold them. We hope the grand jury will tako the matter in hand, and in every instance find true bills, and then we want the bribers sent to whore they belong—one of our penitentiaries.” By all means let us have the “example,” and let the example be extended so as to embrace ballot-box smashers. Mr. C. P. Huntington, of the Central and Southern Pacific railroads, says that when once asked in court by the judge how he knew the value of a certain thing he replied that he felt it in tho air; that the atmosphere seemed to give it to him, and that in most cases he found himself to be right. Mr. Huntington further adds that he feels that business in ISBG is to be good, and in 1887 to be still better. As intuition concerning values is closely connected with the state of business, it is reasonable to suppose that the atmosphere does not deceive the distinguished railroader on this occasion. The complaint is again made that negro laborers are leaving South Carolina and Georgia by the hundred. Since the Ist of October last it is said that more than 5,000 have removed from five counties in the former State, leaving hardly enough men to carry on the farms. It is claimed by residents that they are lured away by railway agents, who make glittering promises of good things in Kansas. Tho negroes evidently think there are better things somewhere. Owing to Mr. Bigelow's declination of the office of assistant United States treasurer at New York, and tho delay in making another

appointment, Mr. Acton, the former incumbent, remains in charge. He says he cannot leave the office unprotected, and simply performs the part of a good citizen in staying until his successor arrives. The situation is one which may well cause the old-line Democrat to turn his face to the wall, and bid farewell to a disappointing world. The spectacle of a Republican holding an important office under a Democratic administration, merely as an act of charity, is one he little expected to see, and, having beheld it, life can have no surprises left.

For those who wish to engage in the sport of tobogganing the following figures are given: The cost of a good toboggan is from $lO to sls. The uniforms, without which no one can properly toboggan, cost from S2O to $35. The initiation fee into a club 4s $lO. In addition, each member bears his share of the expense of building slides and houses, which when correctly put up, cost something like $5,000. There are also the running expenses of the club, which are estimated at S4OO per month. It will thus be seen that the amusement of tobogganing, as practiced at Saratoga and elsewhere, is rot strictly an economical one. The young man, however, who does not feel that he can afford to indulge this method of relaxation on a salary of sls, can have the same sort of fun and just as much of it at much mdre reasonable rates—all he needs being asl sled and a hill with snow on it One of these he can buy at a hardware store, and the other will be furnished by Providence and the weather bureau, and never cost him a cent The Louisville lady left in the lurch by Charles M. Groavenor, of Memphis, who was prevailed upon by an old-time sweetheart to marry her instead of the one he had engaged to marry last week, is to bring suit for $50,000. It is reported that Grosvenor has offered $30,000 to compromise the matter, but this has been refused. If this be true, the reputation of Louisville women for being wise will greatly suffer. Thirty thousand in the hand is worth a great deal more than fifty thousand to be sued for and won, if possible. A report from Louisville says that Mrs. Grosvenor, the bride, is neither a stylish nor a pretty woman, and, as if this were not slander enough, it is added that “she has published a book of poems.” To the Editor of tli Indicinapolia Journal: (1.) What is the age of John Sherman, and how long has he been a member of the United States Senate? (2.) What is the age of Governor Gray, and has he ever been a member of Congress! (3. ) Is Senator Payne, of Ohio, a Democrat? (4.) Has Kansas a Republican Governor at present? A. G. Allen. West Newton. (1.) John Sherman was born at Lancaster, 0., May 10. 1823. He has been a member of the United States Senate continuously since 1861, with the exception of four years during Hayes’s administration, when ho was Secretary of the Treasury. (2.) Isaac Pusey Gray was born in Chester county, Pennsylyania, Oct. 18, 1828. He has never been in Congress. (3.) He is. (4.) Yes; John A. Martin.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Baron Tennyson’s fortune is estimated at $400,000, all of it of his own making, for the poet is practical, and always makes profitable —the malicious say close—bargains with his publishers. Heretofore ships have been permitted to pass through the Suez canal only in daylight; but now war ships and steamers provided with electric lights of sufficient power to illuminate the canal 1,200 yards ahead may go at night. The metric system is said to be losing ground in laboratories in this country, and, indeed, outside of France generally. The foremost objection to it is said to be the ease with which errors occur through the displacement of the decimal point. Venerable ex-Treasurer Franeis E. Spinner, now more than eighty, is once more happily heard from at Pablo Beach, Fia., where a visitor says he walks, talks and acts like a man of fifty, though, if he keeps up that signature of his, he continues to write like sixty. Mrs. Brancroft, the wife of tue historian, is said to be preparing a volume of her reminiscences and experiences, and as she was a belle at Washington sixty years ago and has seen the best people and places at home and abroad, she cannot fail to favor the public with an uncommonly interesting book; William Ewart Gladstone is three years older than M. Grevy and one year older than the Pope, and he is stronger and far more active than either. Bismarck is six years younger than the Englishman, who is eleven years younger than the Kaiser, and carries ten less years than Von Moltke. Tough old men, all of them. M. Pasteur has not only invented inoculation for hydrophobia, but, as a sort of side issue, he claims to have discovered the secret of true happiness, which consists, he says, in devoting days and nights to penetrating the secrets of nature and discovering new truths. People who propose to be happy will proceed to penetrate and discover. Philip Cook, of Georgia, is the only confederate brigadier whose troops were engaged in battle within the federal district. He led the advance brigade of the army commanded by Early and Breckinridge, and occupied Frazer's farm, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Gen. Cook says that the dome of the Capitol was clearly visible to his men as they fought Mr. William E. Marshall, the New York engraver, is engaged upon a portrait of Confederate General Lee from a negative taken in Richmond during the war and declared to be, by Gen. G. W. Custis Lee, the only profile negative of his father in existence. Considering the celebrity of General Lee, it is strange that heretofore no satisfactory portrait of him has been published. An Euglish sportsman, shooting on the north shore of Long Island, was invited to dinner at a farm-house, and was so astonished that he writes to a London newspaper about it: “I wonder how often in merrie England,’’ he says, “a farmer, with his family and two men servants, sit down to roa3t turkey, chicken pie, with four or five vegetables, and cranberry pie, to say nothing of both beer and whisky to drink.”

The blind Mr. Fawcett, late Postmaster-gen-eral of Great Britain, was an enthusiastic angler. “He performed, if anything, better than the seeine,'’ says his biographer, “whether because he waited more patiently to strike until he felt his fish, or because he was more docile in following the directions of his skilled companions. He had great success in catching salmon and trout, and in trolling for pike in the wiuter. r One of bis trophies was a twenty-pound salmon. At a meeting of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia Dr. Formad presented an analysis of 250 autopsies on drunkards. He found that the mo3t prominent troubles caused by chronic alcoholism were cyanotic induration of the kidneys, fatty infliltration of the liver, and mammillated stomach. He thought that the exposure, irregularities of diet, etc., incident to drunkenness hare as much to do with the maladies as alcohol itself. The prevalent idea that drunkards are apt to have “hobnail” livers was not confirmed; in the whole number of cases he found only six of cirrhosis with contraction. In 220 cases the liver was enlarged owing to fatty infliltration. The Doctor said he had once “testified in court that a certain person was not likely to have been a hard drinker, because at the autopsy no cirrhosis was found.” But this was before he had made the recent 250 autop-

siee. Dr. Mnsser thought that cirrhosis was caused not so much by hoary drinking as by persistent drinking of spirits on an empty stomach. John B. Gough reappeared on the lecture platform at Melrose, Mass., a few erenings ago, and introduced himself by explaining the cause of his long silence. "I appear to-night,” he said, "for the first time in three months, and for the first time in my life with a set of crockery in my mouth. I have dreaded greatly appearing before the public, nbt under false pretenses, bat under false teeth.” Reports say that Mr. Gough spoke "with all of his old eloquence and rigor.” The British seizure of Burmah has revived the history of the hairy family, whose home is near Mandalay, and which is the genuine original of the many circus frauds annually paraded. The mother, now sixty-two years old, is the daughter of a slave from Laos. She married a Burmese, and Among their children were two, the heads and faces of which were covered (just as hers is and that of her father was) with lone, silky hair, after the manner of a Scotch terrier. This family still lives in a village on the upper Irrawaddy. The memorial stone of Oregon for the Washington monument is on exhibition in Washington. A niche has been left vacant for it in the monument The Oregon stone is the most beautiful that has yet been sent by any State It was designed and cut by Prank Wood, of Albany Ore. The stone is brown granite sandstone, or hydrous silicate, and bears on its face a landscape, with Oregon's coat-of-arms, surrounded by fruits and flowers, the whole inclosed with a raised molding set in sandstone. Surrounding the State seal are thirty-two stars of greenish syenite, and the snow-capped mountains are represented by white marble from southern Oregon. “I bead Webster and Worcester through once each year,” said an elderly man in a Chicago library the other day. Ido it as a sort of rest from my work. When my brain and hands become tired I put ray work aside and open the dictionary. I can’t tell you how fascinating it becomes. I return to it with avidity, as most poople would to a novel that has been laid aside hair read. I read it leisurely, and it becomes as interesting as a history or a book of travels. I have read both dictionaries eleven times, and am by no menus tired of them yet. Webster's has i. melancholy interest for me. I was personally acquainted with James G. Percival, who did the greater part of the work upon it. Yes, poor Percival!” David R. Atchison, formerly United States senator from Missouri, and after the death of Vice-president King chosen president pro tem. of the Senate, and therefore in the line of presidential succession, is still living near Platte City, Mo., au old man. During the civil war he served as a private soldier in the confederate army. He was a picturesque figure in his day. Mr. Atchison was no man's enemy but his own, and it was his habits more than bis pro-slavery opinions, even, that led him to the command of the Missouri force that on the 21st of May, 1856, sacked the town of Lawrence, destroying the Free State Hotel and the printing offices. Senator Atchison personally fired a six-pounder against the hotel’s stone walls, thougb ho was too inebriated to sight the gun properly, and overshot greatly. A cannon ball fired on that occasion, and found in a field near West Lawrence, is preserved among other relics by the State Historical Society.

COMMENT AND OPINION. The Reader suicide teaches the impressive lesson that tue wages of sin is death—for the woman.—St Louis Post-Dispatch. Miss Gladstone is to marry a clergyman. Her father has some throat disease, and she thinks perhaps in this way she can curate. —Pittsburg Chronicle. The conceit of the Pilgrims was of a more vigorous, austere and withal respectable nature than the kid-glove-and-monocle egotism of the mugwumps of the period.—Minnesota Tribune. The Republican merabers-elect of the Ken tucky Legislature have not even spunk enough to hold a caucus. Courage which falls below the caucus line is indeed near low tide.—Boston Record. M. De Lesseps proposes to obtain funds for his Panama canal by the means of a big lottery. May we suggest in a friendly spirit that the first prize should be a white elephant and the second the canal itself.—New York Graphic. There will be no speculative booms in any business channels, but there is every indication that steady growth, solid improvement and increased prosperity will be the chief features of the business of the new year.—Philadelphia Times. As all roads led to Rome, so all, or nearly all, business rests on the iron trade, and thickening signs of its revival may consequently be safely put down as auguring anew epoch of general and profitable industrial development—New York .Commercial Advertiser. Speaker Carlisle is spending the gladsome holiday season in an effort to make up the congressional committees to please everybody. It is the hardest work he ever did in his life, and the only thing certain about it is that he will not succeed. —Philadelphia Inquirer. Anent the administration’s silver policy the sentence of the Indiana Democrats is for open war. Os wiles more inexpert they boast not, but when it comes to a square fight the Hoosier Democrats can eo bear themselves as to excite sheolian envy.—National Republican. The Democratic party is composed of the most heterogeneous opinions on all matters relating to legislation; it is not united by any community of sentiment regarding public questions, but only by traditional partisan prejudices and a hunger for office. It can only be led when it discovers where it wants to go.—Milwaukee Sentinel. In this country we hold that it is the ooncern of the public that the will of each constituency should be faithfully expressed, and the whole expense of contested seats comes out of the public funds. Mr. Parnell’s followers would feel easier iu their minds about these days if a similar rule prevailed at Westminster.—San Francisco Chronicle. The effort to measure the pecuniary prosperity of the wage-earning sections of our people by the amount of savings banks deposits is too often a deceptive one, especially in old communities where the slightest business depression sends all the small investers to such institutions for safety, and for the small interests allowed on deposits. —New York Star. Riots in New York, Cincinnati and Chicago attest the fact that they are dangerous, expensive, and requiro vigorous treatment. If riots must be had let those suffer who inaugurate and carry them on. but let them be so costly to all such that they will hesitate before resorting again to such a remedy for their imaginary wrongs.—Chicago News. Some of the Democratic papers are lamentiug that their party has no leader in the Senate. It has men there capable of leadership, but the trouble with the party is that it does not know where it is going. If it will agree upon an objective point, the leader will appear. A party that is going nowhere in particular doesn’t need a leader.—Boston Herald. It would indeed be an anomalous and extraordinary spectacle for a New York senator to place himself in alliance with the devotees of cheap currency from the South and West, who formerly wanted plenty of paper and now want plenty of silver, with which they may compromise their debts by paying bAck only four fifths of what they received. —Philadelphia Press. No amount of salary would attract men of great ability to the Civil-service Commission. It has a national reputation as a ridieulous and absurd institution. Few people care to identify themselves with a humbug which almost everybody is laughing at. Besides, the present salary is really very large, when it is considered that the Commissioners go all over the country on their examining toars, and charge their necessary expenses, and, too often, their unnecessary ones.—New York Sun. The truth is that the President, when we consider who he is and what he is, has been treated with great tenderness and consideration by the press. He does not seem to appreciate the fact, and bis vulgar letter to a caricature sheet that has been the vehicle of boundless slander and scandalous libels, shows that he forgets the dignities of his office. If he forces the newspapers Into the same forgetfulness he will get a dressing down that will impart to him, through his faculty of absorption, much valuable information. If he

cannot aeon ire the intelligence befitting his position in the usual way, the prees can administer it through his hide.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The native American is becoming subject to the alien emigrant, and our institutions, political and social, are in danger of becoming alienised. Already in some of the great cities, where foreigners most do congregate, the American Sunday, the love of peace, and order, and law are rapidly disappearing. Old world ideas ani customs are supplanting those better, whoiesomer ideas of the new world.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Is it strange that pacific statesmen, like A". Gladstone and Mr. Bright, sometimes inveigh against the tendencies of expansion, and strive to resist the obvious destiny of the English people? It is already an empire too great to be administered without constant recourse to armaments and costly expeditions. The strain and pressure of governing it are exhausting the resources of the English people.—New York Tribune. Whatever the defects of popular we believe that, as to postmasters, especially, and perhaps as to many other offices, this is the true way out The people govern this country If a popular election may sometimes embody the worst possible public morals, the people will also reach the highest attainable good. Good oe bad, the result will be theirs, and be good or bad as the public tone is good or ill.—Memphis Avalanche. There are better times ahead of us. Indications come from every quarter of an improvement in general business, the effect of which will be felt in every barn, and warehouse, and factory, and store in South Carolina. Having accomplished so much, when the very fates seemed against us, how great, how strong, how rich will South Carolina become when the elements are auspicious and the whole people, regaining confidence in themselves, are filled with faith and hope! —Charleston News and Courier. It is probable that those who look to a high license lor revenue as well as regulation will want a higher tax imposed than the liquorsellers are likely to suggest, but the fact that both those who oppose liquor and those who sell it show a disposition to agree upon a scheme of regulation which will rob the liquor business of half its harmfulness, gives strong grounds for confidence that, notwithstanding the defeat of high license last winter, it is bound to aom% and that very soon.—Philadelphia Press. GREELEY AND BROWN. What Was Said at the First and Only Meeting of Two Famous Men. R. W. ML, in Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. It will perhaps surprise many to learn that Horace Greeley and Gratz Brown mot but open. They did not know each othor when they were nominated, and their only chat or conference was at the house of Dr. Steele, iu Bond street, where Mr. Brown was a guest after his return from New Haven, where be had gone, I believe, to attend the Yale commencement exercises. Major James Haggerty, who has since made suck a successful canvass as an indepeudent Tammany candidate for re-election to the Assembly, of which he has been a member for the past three years, was then a stanch Republican. Ha held a position in the eustom-house, secured through the influence of Mr. Greeley, of whom be was a great admirer ; and whose personal friendship he enjoyed. He determined to follow him in his change of politics and resign his position in order to take the stump in advocacy of the Liberul ticket Major Haggerty was present at the interview between the two men, and talked to me, the other day, about the incident* of their meeting.

"It was on a Sunday afternoon, shortly after the nominations were made, that Mr. Greeley sent for me,’’ said Major Haggerty, "to meet him at his hotel. He greeted me on my arrival with the remark: ‘Mr. Brown is in town, and il is time that I called upon him.’ We went to the house of Dr. Steele, in Bond street, where Mr. Brown was a guest. After the introduction* were over Mr. Brown began, with some testineaf of manner: ‘You were not in any great hurry to call upon me.’ " ‘I didn’t know whether you were quite ready to receive me,’ was Mr. Greeley’s reply; and after some further conversation, in a rather jocose vein, Mr. Brown put the query, abruptly but pleasantly: ‘Greeley, how much are you worthP “ ‘Well,’ said Mr. Greeley, in bis peculiar way, ‘if I could sell all that I have of Tribune stock and farm stock at a fair valuation I ought to realize at least $100,000.’ Mr. Browu seemed somewhat surprised at the reply, and Mr. Greeley laughed heartily, and then asked: ‘By the way, Gratz, how much are you worth? How much have you made out of journalism?’ ‘‘Mr. Brown’s face assumed an expression of seriousness, which quickly changed to one of indignation as he replied, ‘Nothing.’ “ ‘But Gratz,* rejoined Mr. Greeley, ‘ain’t you pretty well fixed?’ " ‘Yes, I am pretty well fixed, and I can tell you how I came to be so. I found mvself with a young wife when I was sent flying out of the editorship of the Missouri Democrat You know, Horace, how much I did for that paper. I still felt myself a great man although I was kicked out of the editorship; but somehow the faces of the leading men of St Lous had taken on anew expression toward me. There were dinners given to which I was not invited, receptions at which my presence was not deemed important I had not noticed this at first, but the frequency of the neglect began to impress me. I was not received as promptly by the magnates as when I was an editor. Then I began to feel the squeeze of poverty, and I thought I would start anew journal. Os course I went to the men that I had helped to charters, to power and to position. They no longer addressed me as "My dear Brown.” It was "My dear fellow.” I was no longer the editor, but a beggar; but I felt that I had just as much brains and heart as when 1 was the editor and when I had the place of honor at dinners, aud was the first of speakers in responses. " ‘Well, Greeley, in the parlance of the street, I took a tumble to myself. I concluded to go to Jefferson City, and instead of getting a charter for somebody else I resolved to get one for myself, and I obtained one for a street railroad in St. Louis. I bought a farm outside of Sfc Louis and found 6lato on it I think 1 have reason to put myself down as worth now, or in the near future, $500,000. But, Horace, do you remember the old hymn: “Human hearts and looks deceive m&" I would rather be poor to the extent of being breadless than to realize, as I have done, the infirmity and treachery of man. Now, young man (turning to me), I don’t want to make a bad impression on you, but if you are in politics for a living, take my advice and give it up. Apply th* energies that 1 think, Horn your eye, you ar* capable of iu selling matches, even at retail, three boxes for a penny, and. by God, It wiU bring you peace and happiness." "The conversation then became more (general, and Mr. Greeley referred to certain disparaging statements against Mr. Brown that had been going through the papers, and Mr. Brown again fired up: ‘I would not be your managing editor,’ he said, ‘for all the world, for I know that 1 should hate you. While you are a kindly man. with a lot of benevolence, I know that you would hurt mv feelings twenty times a day. No man of real strong individuality and intellectual power could be your subordinate and not hat* you.’ "Mr. Greeley’s face lengthened and he slowljr replied: ‘l’ve thought of that myself.’ ‘You are not an unkind man,’ returned Mr. Brown, with less asperity, ‘but you have the art of offending.’ "Fearing that the talk was drifting into a channel from which possibly some ill feeling* might flow, I tried to interpose as a buffer between the two men, but I was no more regarded than the foam that rides on the crest of th* wave and bespatters the rocks that it can not shake, so 1 subsided and listened in silence to a conversation which I felt was not without it* lesson. As he arose to go Mr. Greeley said: ‘I suppose you have read the lines of Tennyson:’ “Kind hearts are more than eoronets——And simple faith than Norman blood." ‘I wish I had the art of pleasing, but I guess I have not’ "And so these two men parted, and I think with mutual esteem. They never saw each other again.” _ What Is a Dollar’s Worth? MuiiCie News. The silver men who clamor for the coinage of ft silver dollar with a dollar’s worth of silver iu it would better get hold of the markets and establish what a dollar's worth of silver is. That donft, and they can then establish what a dollar’s worth potatoes, corn, wheat and other commoditiM shall be.