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The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a second call for bonds, to the amount of $lO,000,000. An examination of the list shows that none of the Pnn-electric telephone bonds are included. It is thought that the members of the Cabinet interested will look after this in time.

Interviewed on the responsibility of exGovernor Crittenden for the assassination of Jesse, the Hon. Frank James is gracious enough to fully exonerate him, and to confess that “there are but few men who approximate perfection.” He has forgotten his brother with unseemly haste. The country will deeply sympathize with Secretary Bayard, who, yesterday, suffered the loss of his wife. Following so closely upon the sudden death of his daughter, the shock has prostrated him, and, it is believed, he will immediately retire from the Cabinet. Such events, not infrequent either, sharply reveal the hollowness and vanity of the pride and pomp of public life, however exalted a man’s station may be. No panoply can turn the shafts of death. Ex-Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, has been vindicated. President Cleveland re fused to give him an office because he suspected him of having been accessory to the murder of Jesse James; but Frank, the brother of that martyred patriot and Democrat, and himself an Injured being, manfully comes to the defense of the ex-official, and says he is satisfied he was not guilty of that base crime. “Mr. Crittenden’s course after the assassination,” says Mr. James, “was open to criticism, but it is well to remember that there are but few men who approximate perfection.” When Mr. Cleveland reads this defense, by a citizen whom Missouri delights to honor, of the man he has snubbed, he can not do otherwise than withdraw his offensive remarks. “In Kentucky the criminals are the privileged classes. They are superior to the State. By the degradation of politics, by the degeneracy of the bar, by the prostitution of political influence, the arm of the law is paralyzed. Read over the story once more of lawlessness in liowan. Recall the statements of the women driven from their homes at midnight to wander over the hills until dawn. It is just such pretenses that strengthen the arm of tho murderer and nerve his heart for his deeds of violence. We have too many lawyers in the House, and their arguments read too much like the speeches delivered in the defense of criminals before a tolerant and sentimental court.” The reader who has read this much, if he be a Democrat or a psuedo-Republic-a, will at once conclude that it

is the utterance of a blooclyshirt organ, intent on decrying the South and in perpetuating the bitterness of sectional prejudice. On the contrary, the words are the utterance of the Louisville Courier-Jour-nal, a paper quick to resent such opinions from sources outside the State. The evils complained of are part and parcel with those that have so long disgraced the better.people of the South, and it is this kind of offenses that the Republican party has so long protested against. A little wholesome truth like the excerpt here presented from the CourierJournal may have the effect of reforming the outrages complained of. If it does, there will be less fault found by the Republican press, because less excuse for fault-finding. The news of the suspension of Ritzinger’s Bank will not be unexpected to many people who have been cognizant of the reports so industriously circulated during the past week or ten days, but it is none the less a deplorable event, and, unless the wisest counsels prevail with the people, may entail still further trouble. Mr. Ritzinger, in the brief interview had with a Journal representative this morning, tells the whole story of the cause of the failure—“We have been talked to death.” The standing of a bank is much like the reputation of a woman—it cannot be maintained under the attacks of gossip. A rumor is started, depositors grow timid and withhold what they would otherwise put into the bank, and still others become panicky and draw out the balances that remain to their credit; thus the bank is “whipsawed” to the inevitable conclusion of suspension. In a healthy condition of business no bank can pay its depositors on call. Every man of sense knows this; and if he stops to consider, will not add a feather weight to existing burden and derangement, when business conditions become somewhat abnormal, by indiscreet and panicky conduct. The street has been full of whispers, and inuendoos, and rumors. Another is added to the long list of failures of Indianapolis banks, and the reason is because of the gossip that has been in the air for days and weeks. We have reason to k**w that, if this tittle-tattle will cease, and people will treat the banks with fairness, and justice, and business sagacity, there will be no further trouble, and no additional injury will result to anyone. For the credit of the city; for your own self-in-terest; to protect the money you have to your credit in banks, stop the gossip, and do not be betrayed into indiscreet talk and action. The strongest bank in the country cannot stand against a continuous stream of depreciation and detraction. Stop the gossip. Do not let any other bank be “ talked to death.”

THE PRINCE OF GERMANY. The German “Hamlet” with Bismarck left out would be a very commonplace play. Thero are other great men than the Prince in Germany, men great in war and in statecraft, but there is only one Bismarck—but they radiate from him in the affairs of state like spokes from a hub. In him is German unity centered, just as through him it was achieved. The integrity of the empire is assured beyond the compass of his life, but when Bismarck shall pass off the stage of action the tallest tree in tho political forest will fall, and the shock will be felt throughout. It will be a comparatively easy task to hold together what he has concentrated and unified, but thequesion is who will be equal to even that task. There are evidences that the same thought has found lodgment in Germany, and the Iron Chancellor himself gives proof of his solicitude on this point. He evinces anxiety to leave everything in a sound condition whon he shall let go, which certainly cannot be much longer postponed. It is not Bicmarck to confess that he fears any man or combination of men that could be brought against him. The grip he seeks to take on state affairs is not for his own but for his successor’s safety and convenience. Anticipating the inevitable strain that must come upon the government when he is forced by age or death to give way to another, his purpose is to have the people well in hand. Confident in the righteousness of his own purposes, he has a lofty contempt for such wishes of the people as contravene his own. The erv of centralization has no effect on him. The majority, if opposed to the government, has to bend, or break. He believes in the divine right of kings to rule—for the good of the people, of course; but this right carries with it that other right of deciding for the people what is good for them. In short, ho entertains the ancient belief that the King can do no wrong. Bismarck’s will and conscience—if it may be imagined that he has a conscience anything like the might of his will and ambition—are of bygone centuries, when the people had no lights that kings were bound to respect, and when the idea of paternal government was carried out in the way Bismarck would have it to-day. Bismarck is of the Cromwellian order of men, imbued with a knowledge of his might, and firmly persuaded that he is right while all who differ from him are wrong. The right of Bismarck is the salvation of the people, he thinks, and in this view he would not hesitate to dissolve parliaments or to proclaim an absolute autocracy. And he would do this in such a plausible way that he would doubtless please himself over it as over a patriotic deed. The Reichstag may do as it

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pleases just so long as it pleases to do as ho wishes it to. His crusade against the Poles who have acquired citizenship in Germany means their expulsion. Bismarck makes no secret of this. He doesn’t propose to confiscate their property, exactly, but they must sell it whether willing or not, and at the government’s appraisement, doubtless. So many million marks will buy their holdings, which can in time be disposed of by the government to such as are adjudged fit for citizenship in Germany. The offense of these Polos is that they hold the balance of power, and through them a majority adverse to the government has come up to the Reichstag. Enough acceptable Germans have opposed Bismarck’s present policy to, with the aid of the comparatively few Poles, control the action of the German Parliament. Salisbury has exactly as much right to proclaim intention of expelling the Irish for exactly the same reason. The Chancellor makes a specious explanation when he theatrically exclaims: “Whosoever refuses to help protect and maintain the state is not entitled to claim anything from the state. As for me, lam ready to feerve my country, although it cost me my head and my honor. If anybody dares attack Prussia's frontiers, I shall say, like Gladstone, ‘Hands off.’” A man who refuses to help protect and maintain the state is not a good citizen. But, in a government even no more liberal than is Germany, a citizen might consistently oppose the policy of the government and still be a patriot and quite ready to oppose even to the death any foe that might dare invade the territory. The delusion that Bismarck has assumed, or which has come upon him through consuming egotism, is that he is the state, or, as the great monarch of France put it, “L’etat e’est moi.” This is a mistake. The Prince has a powerful grasp, and he probably cannot be withstood. But when he is out of the way, and when the next man who attempts to say “I am the state,” pnly to make himself ridiculous, what then? The great body of Germans who enjoyed the alliance of Polish Germans will be there still, and it is possible that the majority will stand on its rights, and, while ready to repel any invader, may decline to indorse and further the policy of the government, as generally understood in a limited monarchy. Bismarck would like to have this troublesome question settled before he leaves the empire to other hands. He evidently fears that Polish blood, like tho dragon teeth sowed by Cadmus, will rear up a crop of warriors, and to provide against this he would interdict marriage with them. These precautions, at best, will have but a temporary influence. The Poles may be expelled as a body of senses of a few, but the same vexatious questions will remain, and a less autocratic, less powerful prince than Bismarck will not be able to put away the majority unpatisfied.

It must be very galling to the Hon. G. Frisbie Hoar and the Hon. John Sherman to hear that the value of property in the South lifts increased nearly $1,000,000,000 in the last six years. This substantial sort of progression is likely, in time, to wipe out the one great and glorious argument by which these statesmen have held the grand old party together since it was bereft of its last remaining distinguishing principle.—Chicago News. We do not recall any utterance of either of these gentlemen or of any other Republican that could be tortured into such an idea. On the contrary, representative Republicans have ever expressed satisfaction over the material progress of the South, believing that “the enrichment of any portion of the country is a blessing to all.” It has carried with it the hope that the effect would be to draw the South from the prejudice and bitterness of partisan solidity to a realization that the interests of one section are identical, in the main, with those of other sections. This has been estab - lished in a manner very gratifying to the Republican party, under the policy of which the South has made such wonderful progress. Stimulated by the protection afforded by Republican laws, the industries of the South have grown with a rapidity never before experienced, and, as the Nows says, “the value of property in the South has increased nearly $1,000,000,000 in the last six years.” If chagrin is to be felt by anyone, it must be by leading Democrats who have so steadily opposed the policy uhder which such miraculous progress has been made. It gives the South something else to think about than negro-beating and electionfixing for the benefit of a few chronic officeholders. Now that a Democratic administration is in power, and to be looked to for salutary legislation, it is quite probable that the South will learn to appreciate the good done it by the party it hates, and to realize that Republicanism never bound its acts by sectional lines, but legislated always for the good of all, without regard to party or place. It is dishonest to impute to Republicans a prejudice against Southern prosperity. Such a feeling has never obtained, and it does not exist. It is particularly mean for Northern papers to convey such an idea, and thus keep alive the unreasoning feeling of hostility entertained by too many in the South. The New York World continues its exposure of the Pan-electric telephone scandal. It publishes a number of letters which passed between the men promoting the scheme and Senators Garland and Harris, Congressman Cox, and others. A letter from Mr. Cox is given, and a note of Jan. 13, 1884, in which he says to Dr. Rogers, the father of the electrician in whose interest the Pan company is supposed to be formed: “Not understanding the nature of the shares which you send me, I ara bothered, and can only solve the

problem by sending you back the shares, which I inclose herein. I don't suppose they are good for anything or you would not be sending them around so fluently.” Mr. Cox seems to have been too old a bird to catch with chaff; but other congressmen were more avaricious and gullible. Senator Harris, whom the Democrats made their candidate for President of the Senate, wrote to Dr. Rogers, on the 2Gth of October, 1885: “Everything in the way of a newspaper, hotel or street discussion from our side of the question is hurtful, and I bog that you say nothing, except so far as you mav choose to discuss the matter with us who are interested.” In another letter, dated Feb. 13, 1883, Senator Harris says: “I see no impropriety in gentlemen holding official positions, as Atkins and myself do, becoming interested in such an enterprise as you suggest. Atkins and I will be glad to confer with you at any time.” Gen. Joseph E. Johnston seems to have been actively interested in the scheme. The New York Sun rightly calls this the most gigantic scandal ever developed in the history of the government; yet the great reform administration sits as mute as a marble statue while several of its members are implicated in it, and the great “Reform” newspapers, which hounded tho Credit Mobilier men to their political death, are as silent as the grave. Where are all the virtuous and high-sounding sentiments that were so freely enunciated in other years? Why are not a “Reform” administration and “Reform” congressmen amenable to the same code of ethics that so righteously pronounced against an administration and members of Congress that were not so full of cant, and did not make their phylacteries quite so broad, nor stand upon the street corners and prate so loudly and long of their peculiar virtues? Another reform postmaster has been heard from, this time at Mercerville, O. Leo Hirsch, the publisher of a German paper at Columbus, sent a letter to an old-time subscriber at Mercerville, and the facetious new official there soon returned it addressed as follows: “To the Dutchman who is publisher of the paper which name appears in the address on this envelope.” He tells Mr. Hirsch that the man to whom the letter was sent does not live there, and that his paper is no longer called for. Mr. Hirsch naturally felt aggrieved, and made complaint to the department, through Senator Sherman. The Post-master-general reprimanded the funny postmaster, and it is presumed that he will not repeat the offense.

At a recent celebration held at Topeka to cele brate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the admission of Kansas to the Union, a poem was read by the Hpn. Eugene P. Ware, which was possessed of great spirit and no mean merit Speak ing of John Brown, he said: And there is one Whose faith, whose fight, whose failing, I Fame yet shall placard on the walls of time. He dared begin— Despite the unavailing: He dared begin, when failure was a crime.

When over Africa Some futuro cycle Shall sweep the lake-gemmed uplands with its surge; When as with trumpet Os Archangel Michael Culture thall bid a colored race emerge; When busy cities There, in constellations. Shall gleam with spires, and palaces, and domes; With marts wherein Are heard the noise of nations, With summer groves surrounding stately homes; There, futuro orators To cultured freemen Shall tell the valor and recount with praise Stories of Kansas, And of Lacedaemon, Cradles of freedom, then, of ancient days. From boulevards O’erlooking both Nyanzas, The stutued bronze shall glitter in the sua, With rugged lettering: “John Brown, of Kansas, He pared begin. He lost. Bct, losing, won.” A New York will case hinged on the sanity of the testator at the time of his death, when the will waa made. It was shown in evidence that he had said he thought a whisky-punch would do him good. That settled it, and the court sustained the will. _ The New York Herald’s personal contains the following: “Day is every to me and to the dear price. More objects are for you and anxiety for great results gives complete silence.—c. o’m.” The question is what old Usufruct wants now. The Jersey peach crop having been reported safe thus far, the country doesn’t know what to think about it ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. London has over 10,000 policemen, or one to 307 of her population. A. J. Cassatt has been buying a number of thoroughbred horses lately. Mrs. Maud Mar:e Stephanie Stanislaus Miller-Mackaye-McCormick is her full name—so far. Prof. Spencer Baird is about to place 1,000,000 young codfish in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. He has great faith in the success of the experiment. The friends of the Vanderbilt family deny that there is any truth in the report that the sons are to spend $5,000,000 upon a national museum of art. According to the latest official figures the number of working women in England and Wales is 7.706,545. They are employed in 280 different branches of work. In Japan wealthy owners of cats have a high respect for them even when they are dead. In Yeddo, at a recent cat’s funeral, the coffin was covered with a white silk pall. Boughton s well-known picture of “The Return of the Mayflower,” which was in Fairman Rogers’s collection,was sold on'Thursdav night to a New York dealer for $3,550. Mr." Rogers s lovely Daubigny went for $2,925. The United States government is the greatest printer and publisher iu the world. The number of publications issued annually amounts to about 2,500,000, of which about 600,000 are bound volumes. Mr. James Russell Lowell declines the invitation to be orator at Lowell’s semi centennial celebration, as he has made arrangements for a three or fouv months’ visit to Europe and will be on his way before the date of the celebration. Georgia has'V postoffice named “Talking Rock.” Someone in the vicinity found a large atone upon which was painted the words “Turn

me over.” It required great strength to accomplish this, and when it was done the command, ‘•Now turn me back, and let me fool someone else,” painted on the underside of the stone, met the eye. By the wreck of a bank in Lancaster, Mass.,, recently, a widow lost her whole fortune —$2,000 —whereupon an unknown person in Boston arranged to pay her $l2O annually (representing G per cent, interest on her loss ) as long as she lived. The messages of the Governor of Texas are printed in four different languages. Germans, Bohemians and Mexicans are very numerous in the State, and, besides the English version, about 20,000 copies are printed in their vernacular. Mr. W. D. Howklls’s daughter is about to try her hand at fiction; William Black’s son writes children’s stories, and a boy of Justin McCarthy is going to publish a novel; which is adduced as evidence of heredity from literary progenitors. A little girl died at Portland, Ore., a few days since, the victim of the habit of eating* mud pies. Neither punishment, kindness nor threats could break her of the habit. When confined to the house, she scraped mud from the other children’s shoes and ate it. President Cleveland’s wealth is placed at SOO,OOO by one who ought to know him well. This money was made out of his law practice and his fees while sheriff of Erie county. At one time he was worth SBO,OOO, but his three campaigns cost him about $20,000. The Atlanta Constitution notes the fact that the plain girl has mysteriously disappeared from the columns of contemporaneous journalism. A few years back it was a common thing to read of an accident happening to a plain girl. Such an item never appears in print nowadays. The Washington correspondent of the Cleveland Leader should publish the name of the exmember of the Pennsylvania Legislature, now in Washington, who is noted for having sold his railroad pass for an overcoat, and who looks exactly like the great objector, Holman, of In diana. H. A. Keyser, who lectured before the Boston Scientific Society a few nights ago, stated that a diamond worth SBOO,OOO is being cut in Amsterdam—the chief city in the world for such work —and that the gem is to be given to Queen Victoria on the fiftieth anniversary of her ascension to the throne. An old man in Stoughton, Mass., described as “stalwart, robust and vigorous,” has bathed every morning for years in a cold spring near his house. The baths were not omitted recently when the thermometer was 18 3 below zero. Re says the custom cured him of catarrh, and is the panacea for all ills. Mr. William C. Smith has been reinstated as a member of the New York Stock Exchange. He lost his seat at the time of the failure of Grant & Ward, of which firm he was a member. Mr. Smith is a good-uatured and popular man. and his return has been warmly greeted, but he has aged visibly under his recent trials. Mr Edgar Marshall, the weil-known engraver, has issued anew picture, life-size, of General Grant, which will give great satisfaction to his friends and admirers. It represents Gen. Grant ns he appeared about the time of his election to the presidency, and gives the appearance in which they will best like to remember him. P. T. Barnum is said to have offered to establish a zoological garden on the reclaimed Potomac flats at Washington if Congress will devote thirty acres to it. His idea is to have a great park filled with auimals, open to the public at a small fee, and offers to expend $200,000 in improvements.if Congress will grant the land. Mrs. Langtry, at a late London reception, wore a tight fitting black velvet coat, heavily trimmed with sables; it eutirely covered her dress, and was very well shaped. Her hat was in the newest Parisian mode; high, with thick gold embroidery over the crown, and pigeon’s feathers placed at the back, standing upright. The narrow brim was trimmed with brown fur. A very realistic representation of M. Sardou’s “Theodora” recently took place at Valparaiso. The actor who plays the part of the executioner was hopelessly in love with the heroine, and, mad with jealousy, took the opportunity of putting the cord around the Empress’s neck to try and strangle her in right earnest. The unlucky Theodora’s struggles and contortions were looked upon as fine acting by the public, who applauded frantically, and it was only through a fellowactor that the real state of the case was perceived. Theodora was then rescued, well nigh dead. Secretary Lamar’s decision in the Bo'll telephoue case was eagerly sought for in advance by speculators, who could have made fortunes if they had known of it in time to go short of the Rtock. A lady clerk in the Interior Department was offered $5,000 and then SIO,OOO by a representative of a New York firm for a copy of the decision, which she had transcribed. ’ At the second offer she excused herself a moment and stepped into the Secretary’s private office. When she returned the Secretary accompanied her, cave the speculator a very plain talk and informed him he would give him just ten seconds to leave the room. In reference to the statement appearing in the newspapers claiming that the story “Much Ado,” by Mrs. Burnett, was written some years ago, Dr. Burnett writes to Mr. McClure, under date of Jan. 18: “The story was completed only a week before it came into your possession, and was begun, I believe, less than two years ago, and written from time to time, as Mrs. Bn”"ett found herself able to do it, during her lo ’l- - It hasnit yet happened to Mrs. Burn > have stories ’just lying around,’ the demam ,r her work being unfortunately greater than ner ability to supply it; and there were several publishers after ‘Much Ado’ as soon as it was completed. ”

COMMENT AND OPINION. Lord Randolph Churchill has been temporarily lost in the shuffle.—St Louis Post Dispatch. Where is the “homespun and cowhide” coming in, under the administration?— Boston Record. There is no longer any doubt that the Augean stables wore originally located in Ohio.—Philadelphia Press. It is said tho Queen does not like this Parliament, and will order anew election. Oh, if there was a Queen in Ohio!—Pittsburg Chronicle. The river and harbor committee have before them the problem of making $11,000,000 of appropriation cover wants aggregating $100,000,000. —Memphis Avalanche. Gen. Lew Wallace should have borne in mind Davy Crockett’s advice. He went ahend, but he was not right. The coon is still there. —Springfield Republican. What the national leaders should do is to reorganize their party there and make a thorough canvass as they do at the North. Then, if the counting out continues, it can be shown up. —Boston Record. Several New York editors claim that the silver dollar is worth only 79 cents, but they are glad to take them at par. Iu this instance, consistency seems to be a brass-mounted jewel. —Atlanta Constitution. Silver monometallism is what this country is going to adopt practically, sooner or later, and neither the disapproval of foieign critics nor the hostility of bondholders and money-lenders can prevent it—New York Sun. Washington is flooded just now with a pamphlet setting forth in seductive terms the merits of the Eads ship railway $50,000,000 job. The pamphlet has covers of ’a delicate green, but there is nothing else green about it—Washington Star. Millionaire Weston is safe in the Allegheny penitentiary, beginning his five-year sentence yesterday. Thus it is triumphantly shown that a millionaire cannot with impuuity be an accessory to murder in Pennsylvania—unless he owns a railroad or a coal mine.—Philadelphia Record. The. point of the whole matter is that General Wallace, whatever his convictions or grounds of conviction may have been, had no right to make such a charge as he did without positive proof of its truth. The most that he can now say for himself is that be made an r.c-

ensation of the most terrible nature against a d®ad officer, believing it to be true, but without first ascertaining that it was true.—New York Commercial Advertiser. A great deal in politics mnat necessarily be taken upon mere faith; and just as we know that the moon and tide do have curious commerce together, do we know that the wicked Democratic minority of city councils always defeats the virtuous Republican majority.—Philadelphia Telegraph. Mr. Gladstone’s personal triumph is overwhelming. Unless the Queen should do violence to all precedents, there is no one ehe to be called upon. Her personal antagonism to the great commoner is very marked, but she ip rot likely to brave the storm that obstruction on her part would create. —Chicago Tribune. The general movement towards agitation and organization for the improvement of the condition of labor should be widened to include the women wage workers. In point of fact labor reform should have begun at this point, for the condition of women workers has always been worse than that of men.—Philadelphia Times. “It would be cheaper,” one Congressman is reported as saying, “to pension every man who served in the war, and there have an end of it," than to increase the pension from $8 to sl2 a month, and to extend the limitation of the arrears act. The Commissioner’s figures show that he did not speak extravagantly.—Brookly* Union. The safest plan for those who wish to purchase laud in Florida, or anywhere else, is to examine iu person, or by a known agent, the locality selected, and to purchase only after the titles have been scrutinized. But this is a rule that applies not only to Florida, but to all other sections. The man who ignores it is apt to get bitten in the most moral community he may select. —Macon TelegrapO. The Democracy represents free trade; the Republicans protection, and the South will do precisely what the North has dene, viz., go to the party that offers it the greatest benefits. That part is the Republican party, and there is notan additional sDindle, loom, eaw or hammer put into operation in the South which does not help to create n Republican party in the South. —Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.) The truth is that undergraduates are too much boya to be capable of any wise self government, and too much men to be subjected to very close police regulation. The result is what we see, and the problem how to better it is all the time ’more or less engaging the attention of educators. The whole thine is a question of proportion, and, perhaps, never will be settled to the entire satisfaction of everybody, not even of undergraduates. —New York Evening Post. It would be to misconceive one of the moat interesting historical events of our time t.o loee sight of the fact that even if Mr. Gladstone succeeds in carrying home rule its triumph will be due to him but indirectly and remotely. It will be directly due to Mr. Parnell and the Irish members of Parliament who first broke definitely with the policy of the past, formally ceased appealing to England, and began the policy of obstruction to English legislation.—Philadelphia Press, There are strong grounds for believing that this ring of telephone speculators sought to secure legislation in the interest of their schemes. There is unfortunately no reason to doubt that the Department of Justice has been used to promote the ends of the Pan-electric and the allied companies and to enrich the stockholders. The time has come when Congress should investigate these scandals. If it fails to do so, it will be lacking in self-respect and wili forfeit the confidence of the country. —New York Tribune. Every mao, Republican or Democrat, who votes for the repeal of the limitation clauses of the arrears of pension act and opens the Treasury to the raiders will be marked. The country cannot and will not stand the payment of this enormous and unjust claim. It honors its soldiers and it is willing to do everything for them which is fair, but it will never consent to the devastation of its finances and an enormous burden of increased taxation to gratify the political ambitions of faithless representatives.—Chicago Tribune. These charges against the head of the Department of Justice -iayalte. one of tfre wqrat scandals in the annals of American admin.sfcration. So puerile a subterfuge as a sale of the stock will not disposo of them. The charges compromise the honor, not of an administration alone, nor even of the Democratic party, but of the Nation. If the President defers decisive action, and continues to condone such rank offenses against public morals. Congress should take the initiative, and order a full and searching investigation of the whole matter.—New York Tribune. There have been cases of hasty marriage in which the bridegroom was not a bad fellow. The late IV illiam Shakspeare, who could give any American girl points on human nature, tells of one in bis story of “Romeo and Juliet;” but Romeo, although he poisoned himself before his record could be looked into, dragged to the grave with him three other men and his bride besides. Could Juliets ante-mortem statement have been taken by the local coroner, it is safe to say she would have admitted that the fun of marrying a strange young man costs more than it is worth. —New York Herald. The charge of prostituting official station for sordid, private ends can now be brought against the administration which was placed in power with the aid of Mr. Curtis. Mr. Beecher, Mr. Schurz and the other superfine moraiist3 who, in the last Presidential canvass, could talk of nothing but the Mulligan letters. What have these estimable gentlemen and their sunerserviceable free-trade organs to say about the results of their work? Are they satisfied with th< success of their efforts to establish a high standard of official honor and personal integrity i( public life. —New York Tribune.

The Fault of the Party. Lafayette Comet. The intense partisan spirit of the Indianapolis Journal is reprehensible." Its latest outburst of virtuous indignation was the result of Mr. Barney Conroy’s appointment to the position of transfer mail agent at the Union Depot in that city. Mr. Conroy is an enthusiastic Democrat and a man of great influence in his ward, but, according to the Journal, he has been guilty ole some indiscretions of a somewhat serious nature, such as theft and highway robbery, and similar breaches of established business rules, such as are recognized id legitimate business circles. Mr. Conroy, however, partially atoned for bis frequent lapses from the ways of probity and virtue by involuntary repentance in State and city institutions provided for the protection of impromptu kleptomaniacs, and the Journal has shown a leaden heart in publishing his record to the world. It is one of the papers that pretend to think that President Cleveland is capable of filling ali the offices with beings with harps and wines, recruited from the ranks of the Democratic party. The Comet regards these circumstances as too serious for jesting, and we hope to be pardoned for any apparent flippancy in suggesting that if the Journal expects this administration to fill the offices with members of the Young Men’s Christian Association, it is sadly and painfully off its base. Senator Payne Must dive Up His Seat, Interview with colonel Donavln. “Is it true that efforts have been made to have you give up testifying before the Ohio Senate committee?’’ “No, sir; can you look in my face and believe that any man could make that proposition to me? I would kill him in an instant of time I would kill him. I do not want to talk about these things. I know what lam going to do and nothing can stop me. I came from a race of men that fought and died for bonnie Sootland. Sen-*" ator Payne bus said I am a drunkard. I know my failing as well as any mau; I do take a drink about six times a year. I take as big a drink as any man. But lam not going to let that deter me. Senator Payne will have to give up that seat He will have "to come down from that place, and I will make him come down. I am playing my own cards. I can play the hand out, too, but I must play it my own way. When the time comes I will tell the committee all it wants o know from me.” _ The Gold Hugs. Atlanta Constitution. It should bo borne in mind, as we go along, that there are two classes that insist on the payment of debts in gold—the bondholder and the Eastern banks. Everybody else is not only willing to take silver, but'glad to get it Pan-Electric Statesmen. St. Louis ro*t-Pifpateti. If the Republican party has its magnetic; statesmen the Democratic party haa its eleotrio statesmen—its Pan-electric statesmen.