Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1886 — Page 4

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1886. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath. Correspondent. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 440 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucinea. NEM’ YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. P. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street LOT' ISV rLLE—C. T. Dear;ng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUTS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 Mr. Bynum deserves to be thrown out of the Democratic party.—lndianapolis Sentinel. MR. Bynum has forfeited the respect of every Democrat.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Mu. Bynum defies all authority: He refuses to accept a fair settlement; he outrages every iantiment of political decency.—lndianapolis Bentinel. Up to last night the Sentinel had as much regard for the Democracy of Mr. Bynum as for that of any man in the district. Now it liA3 none.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Thb Sentinel has been patient with Mr. Bynum, but forbearance lias ceased to be a Virtue.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Is Mr. Bynum, we would press in all sincerity, in hi3 sane mind?—lndianapolis Sentiiei. ” If Mr. Bynum prefers to split the party, if ho prefers to put Mr. Bynum’s interest above the party's interest, there is nothing under to prevent him from making the effort, if his mind is fully made up.—lndianapolis Sentinel. The people of Indiana should hit the gerrymander right between the eyes. Masked by the gerrymander the Liquorleague leaders are coming to the front of the Democratic ranks. Democratic “economy” is rapidly plunging the State into debt. And the wonder is if there is any money in the State treasury. Open the books. Shall the Coys, the Conroys and the Dowlings have charge of the interests of the great State of Indiana? That was one of the purposes of the gerrymander. The Charleston people seem to have been considerate enough of the President’s feelings not to return his “contribution” to the Confederate Home. It was a narrow escape.

Mr. Powderly is right; the man who destroys railway or telegraph property is as much the enemy of the law and of the people as is the burglar who breaks open a vault or a house. Why is “Doctor” Harrison silent? Have the Democratic managers concluded to throw that elephant overboard? That will not save them. The people propose to make a change in tlie conduct of the benevolent institutions. The man who nominated Hon. John G. Carlisle sos re-election to Congress in the Newport convention on Tuesday alluded to him as “the unconquerable parliamentarian, and greater than Gladstone in debate.” This was in Kentucky. In “a word to workingmen” the Louisville Courier-Journal begins by declaring that “nothing is so important as a free ballot.” In Indiana that is the supreme question this year. The Democratic party has attempted to steal free elections from the peoplo because it dared not trust its cause to them. The President is “blowing" his salary in with a recklessness that threatens to bankrupt him unless he checks it. The same week that he sent S2O to the stricken city of Charleston he paid out $l3O for a private palace-car for the use of his wife. This is supposed to bo Jeffersonian simplicity as Mr. Cleveland understands it. The Democrats are evidently greatly disturbed about the result in the Fort Wayne district. Mr. McDonald is to make eight •peeches there, and Senator Voorhees six, while Governor Gray has already made four. Other distinguished speakers are to be called upon. The managers realize that Judge Lowry is in the greatest possible danger. Complaint is made that Comptroller of the Currency Trenholm does not allow the public to know the results of the findings of bank examiners, though it is natural to suppose that such examinations are made for the benefit of the public, as the public pays for them. Mr. Trenholm acts on the principle of the President, who has decided that some of the papers on file in the departments are his personal property, to which the public has no right. Secretary Bayard, chagrined at the ease with which bis correspondence with Minister Phelps, when the latter made an ass of himself by not promptly accepting the offer of the English public to contribute for the relief of Charleston, was translated, has ordered another cipher, if possible, more complex than the one used in former correspondence. It is not likely that any cipher will ever be discovered that will effectually baffle translation. In the cipher used in behalf of Mr. Tilden, when the effort was made to buy electoral votes to which he was not entitled, the conspirators felt that they had a perfect safeguard, and it did serve

them until after the election was past, but afterwards the whole plot was revealed as plainly as though it had been arranged in the plainest of plain English. There are certain things, however, that should be written in the most complex of ciphers, and among them may be mentioned letters by the President accompanying an alleged contribution for the aid of a city ruiued by an earthquake. Without the accompanying letter being understood, the money inclosed might be accepted as some provident washer woman’s tribute to suffering humanity. This administration is about of size that would call for a “diplomatic” correspondence in cipher.

A BANKRUPT TREASURY. The last Democratic Legislature made an appropriation of $210,000 for the building of three additional insane hospitals, one at Richmond, one at Logansport, and one at Evansville. Unfortunately the Legislature did not create a special fund for this purpose, as was done with the State-house fund; but the tax levied for the asylums, and which was provided for in the revenue bill, passed into the general fund. Some time ago the board of construction of the new hospitals was informed by the Treasurer of State that there was no money in the general fund, and warrants drawn on estimates for the contractors for the new buildings could not be paid. In order to prevent a cessation of the work of building, and to save the contractors from great loss, an arrangement was made to go on with the work, the allowances to be made as usual, but no warrants were to be paid until Jan. 1, and Feb. 20, 1887. Since that time the contractors have taken their estimate-allowances, have hypothecated them, and have secured the money upon them at 7 or 8 per cent, discount. At the meeting of the board on Tuesday last allowances to the amount of about $12,000 were made, all of which must go into the hands of contractors and be hawked about the streets to find a purchaser, at such rate of discount as the necessity of the builders and the appetite of the money-lender may suggest and agree upon. We understand that there is afloat about $120,000 of this class of paper, while the appropriation made by the last Legislature is not exhausted by at least fifty thousand dollars. This is the sort of business administration the Democratic party is giving the Stale of Indiana. The money ought to be in the State Treasury, or else the Democratic Legislature mado appropriations largely in excess of the revenue they provided. Which is true? Is it not necessary that there should be a turning and an overturning in order that the people may know the exact condition of the State Treasury and of tho State business? Were ever such wretched financiering and administration known in tho history of any State? Why should tho contractors for the new asylums be injured by being compelled to hawk the State warrants about the streets, and bo subjected to a shave of 7 or 8 per cent.? The Governor and State officers could have negotiated a temporary loan at 3 1-2 per cent., at the outside; but in the face of a campaign another loan would not do; and so tho contractors and the workingmen who are doing work for the great State of Indiana must pay 7 or 8 per cent, for money in order to shield the Democratic party from the just indignation of the people. We have had some difficulty in getting hold of these facts, bat we assure the people of the State that they are facts, and their main features will not be denied by the Democrats. There is no money in the treasury; at least, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars of the estimate-allowances of the new insane hospital board are in the hands of the contractors or have been hypothecated because the State treasury could not or would not pay them, although the appropriation is not yet exhausted by at least fifty thousand dollars. WiH not this condition ot things arouse the people of the State, and compel them to oust the Democratic party from power? Open the books and count the money.

GERRYMANDER BENEFICIARIES. To such as may be disposed to regard the gerrymander as simply a shrewd political trick, and not worth considering, it may be mentioned that the men who are at the bottom of it, and who will profit by it, are the Coys, the Dinnins, of the Liquor League,• the Kuhns, the Dowlings, and the Conroys, of the public service, and all of that description. These are the men who conceived the gerrymander and carried it through the Legislature, for what purpose may be readily understood. With the success of the scheme in the approaching election these fellows will become the political bosses of the Democratic party, and through it the managers of the State’s vast interests. The question, then, is whether the honest people of the State are ready to turn its affairs over to this class of scheming gentlemen. Shall the leaders of the Liquor League continue in control of things, and shall the managers of the Insane Asylum be retained where they are, and where they have aided in the enrichment of their favorites? The State debt has grown prodigiously. It is now to be decided whether it shall still increase, or whether the incompetents shall be turned out and an examination of the remarkable book-keep-ing of the Democrats insisted upon. No wonder the State Treasurer does not wish to be disturbed at this time, and no wonder the man named to succeed him by the ring does not care to have the office looked into to discover where the money has been kept or whether it is in existence at all. The gerrymander was arranged for a close corporation, wholly within the control ox the Democratic party, and the purpose of the Coys and the bosses iu genera! of that party

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is to thwart all attempts to discover the actual condition of the State treasury, and to shield the traffic in intoxicants from being compelled to assume its share of the burden of taxation, of which it is the creator of so great per cent. The people everywhere are at the mercy of these fellows until such time as their scheme is defeated. It is the plain duty of the people of Indiana to dispossess these tricksters of their stolen power. The next Legislature should be chosen without their dictation. It should be made up of men who will not be the tools of dishonorable men intent on dishonest schemes. Now that they have shown that they are intent on something that they cannot trust the people to know, the people should see to it that they are not allowed to accomplish their purpose, well assured that nothing but evil can come out of it.

THE PEOPLE WILL NOT CONSENT. The people of Indiana will not consent that the orphans of soldiers shall be outraged, debauched, confined in dungeons, and subjected to unspeakable barbarities at the hands of Democratic officials. The people of Indiana will not consent that the inmates of the Insane Asylum shall be fed meats taken from a diseased and dying drove of hogs, as well as on cheap butter grease, furnished by a Democratic contractor in fraud of the asylum and of the State. The people of Indiana will not consent that the benevolent institutions shall bo prostituted to the most corrupt uses by shameless partisan “bosses” who make an open boast of their infamy. The people of Indiana will not consent that the inmates of the Insane Asylum shall be fed on maggotty butter and sour bread to enrich Democratic “business" men. The people of Indiana will not consent that the inmates of the Insane Asylum shall be subjected to nameless cruelties at the hands of incompetent ward bummers, employed as attendants at the demand of Democratic Senators and politicians. The people of Indiana will not consent that the superintendent of the Insane Asylum shall not be permitted to save five hundred dollars per month in the purchase of supplies, merely to add to the profits of Democratic contractors who deakin “grease.” The people of Indiana will not consent to the continuance of such management of the benevolent institutions of the State as has disgraced the name of humanity, and made every decent, honest citizen blush with shame and indignation. The people of Indiana will not consent that “Doctor" Harrison and his fraudulent and corrupt “ring” shall control the benevolent institutions a day longer than may be necessary before they can be thrown out of the offices they have prostituted and disgraced. The people of Indiana will not consent that law shall be violated, and the credit of the State hawked about the streets, in order to profit a Democratic Treasurer of State. The people of Indiana will not oonsent that the books of the State Treasury shall be kept closed, and the money remain uncounted, a day longer than is necessary to turn over their custody to someone who will let in the light. The people of Indiana will not consent that the warrants of the State shall bo hypothecated at banks because the Treasurer of State does not see fit to pay them. The people of Indiana will not consent to be longer ruled by the Sim Coys of the Democratic Liquor-league alliance. The people of Indiana will not consent to be defrauded or cheated out of their suffrage at the command of political thieves and bummers, who seek to hide their infamies and prevent the exposure of their crimes and frauds.

The people pi Indiana will not consent to the plots and schemes, already hatching at the Democratic headquarters under the lead of a gang of heelers and scoundrels, by which the ballot-boxes are to violated, if it be shown that the "gerrymander’’ is likely to fail of its purpose. The people of Indiana will not consent to the plots to stuff the ballot-boxes, to manipulate the boards of election, to corrupt the count, tofalsify the returns, and to use Sterling R. Holt’s hatchet again, if these be necessary to prevent the overthrow of the Democratic party. Those are some of the things to which the people will not consent, and the fact may as well be recognized now as later. If an honest ballot is to be vitiated by frauds and crimes, there remain the law and the penitentiary, and to these the people will appeal, to the confusion and punishment of the men who attempt to throttle and debauch their voice and verdict. If is to be regretted that in a State giving 80,000 Republican majority there should be a citizen who has nailed his mother in a room, believing her to be a witch.—Louisville Cour-ier-Journal. It is almost as disgraceful as the fact that in a State where 250,000 Republicans have been disfranchised, the Democratic managers of the Hospital for the Insane have been feeding the unfortunate inmates on diseased pork. We refer to the State of Indiana. The explosion of the boilers of anew steamer indicates criminal carelessness on the part of either the builders of the boat or of the engineer in charge. Every effort should be made to locate the responsibility for the horrible disaster which befel the “Mascotte” and her passengers, and when the guilty man is found justice should be meted out to him unsparingly. All legal reforms are brought about through the ballot-box. In this State, by action of the last Democratic Legislature, the majority was to have been disfranchised as effectually as though they were not allowed

to approach the ballot-box. National, nor Prohibitionist, nor Republican was to have any voice in the action of the next Legislature, for the reason that, the majority had been disfranchised, and it will be necessary to recover equal rights in elections before any reform can hope to succeed. This is the first thing to be settled in this campaign. As we gather it, the following from the Indianapolis Sentinel is a characterization of the Democratic party. As such it commands our earnest and emphatic indorsement: “It is officered by skulking assassins and contemptible hypocrites. “It is seeking to make a campaign on false issues. “Its leader is on the stump making the most dishonorable proposition ever made to a body of voters. “Its managers have resorted to common libel. “It has no apology to make for villianies of the past and no assurances to give for good conduct in the future.” Mr. Edgerton denies that he is about to withdraw from the Civil-service Commission, and says he will remain at his post “until there are more converts to civil-service reform in his State.” It was not so many days ago that he seemed to think, or to insinuate, that there were more civil-service reform Democrats in Indiana than they really knew what to do with. If there are a half-dozen of them, all told, the public has been kept in ignorance of their existence. * Mr. Blaine will be grieved to discover that in the course of his long speech opening the session of the Knights of Labor, at Richmond, Mr. Powderly never once referred to the tariff which is making everybody rich.—Chicago Herald. A careful reading of that same document fails to reveal any mention of free-trade. It appears on the surface that Mr. Powderly is quite satisfied with the tariff as it is. It is evident he does not think free-trade would be a good thing for the workingmen of America. The Brooklyn Citizen is the latest newspaper candidate for Democratic favor in the City of Churches. Anew Democratic newspaper in Brooklyn would seem to the undiscriminating, non-partisan public to be something of a superfluity, but the Citizen assures its readers that it is tho only Democratic daily published there, leaving it to be inferred that sundry and divers other journals which have been posing as true blue are but base imitations. However, in Brooklyn, as everywnere else, there is a great variety of Democrats, and the now enterprise will doubtless fill a want telt by some of them. The Citizen has the advantage of being a much handsomer sheet than any of its local contemporaries, and has also the remarkable peculiarity for anew paper of appearing like an old and staid journal, with no youthful crudities marring any of its features. Bishop Merrill, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in an article on prohibition in the current issue of the Western Christian Advocate, says: “The attempt to use it for party purposes is a weakness. It is too big for restriction within party lines, and the interests involved in it are too sacred to be subjected to party machinery. My concern is that it be kept in shape for advocacy on its merits in the pulpits, the Sundayschools, the day schools, and in the homes of the people, and wherever truth may be pressed on the conscience without the helps or hindrances of party prejudices. If this non-partisan advocacy embarrasses the party, that only proves the failure of the party to represent the cause. The cause is principle: the party is method, and the method is too small for the principle. By its confession of embarrassment from the non partisan advocacy, the party confesses itself to be an embarrassment to the cause.”

A paper calling itself “The Mugwump” has been started at Centerview, Mo. Its object is “to introduce some new thoughts or ideas into the thinking world.” Out in Missouri they don’t know what a mugwump is, and as the first idea to be introduced it should be explained to the thinking populace of Centerview that the mugwump is a person or paper who wants to become Democratic by degrees instead of jumping into the party by a single hop and skip. In Missouri a definition of this sort will have a tendency to smooth matters for the editor of such paper, especially if he stops right there, and doesn’t add that the mugwump expects to run the party when he gets into it. This is the letter in which the President inclosed his twenty-dollar contribution to the Charleston sufferers: . “My Dear Sir —A circular just received informs me of the object and purpose of the Home for Mothers, Widows and Daughters of Confederate Soldiers, at Charleston, as well as its present need, caused by recent misfortunes. Though recently appealed to from all sides for pecuniary aid, I cheerfully inclose a slight contribution to the sum necessary to make such repairs as will enable this useful and benevolent institution to again open its doors to the tr-'thers, widows and daughters for whom it was ended and whose condition presents such an urgent appeal to every American citizen, Yours sincerely, “Grover Cleveland,” Rev. H. J. Steward, pastor of the Colum-bia-street Presbyterian Church, of Newport, then came forward, and to the relief of the Christian congregation present, offered a short but fervent prayer. It was a political prayer of the pure Democratic type.—Report of Newport Convention. We doubt if it was the equal of the prayer offered by brother Abbott, which was repeatedly applauded by the convention, and which resulted in securing a place in Grandfather Jones’s postoffice. There was an instance where a fervent, effectual prayer availed much. Would-be humorists of the press are now extolling President Cleveland’s generosity and unselfishness in permitting his wife’s mother to make her home with him. A good many people, who are, perhaps, lacking in a sense of humor, will be inclined to the opinion that if there is any self-sacrifice involved in this arrangement it is on the part of tho mother-iu-law of the man from Buffalo. _ It has been discovered that a cigar dealer violates the law every time he hands out a handful of cigars fora customer to choose from, and returns the remainder to the box. Thus the new administration is making itself solid with the patrons of prophet Wiggins. In view of the contribution to the Charleston earthquake sufferers it must be admitted th'at the present administration is an economical one. As for its “Jeffersonian simplicity,” the less said the better. Pull-paqe advertisements of jewelry stores In the Charleston papers indicates not only that business is recovering its tone, but that vanity was not shaken out of the people by tho earthquake.

GEN. MILES AND HIS CRITICS. The Captor of Geronimo and Natchez Defends His Terms of Surrender. Points from the Report of the Utah Commis-sion-Federal Officials Who Are Candidates Before the People Mast Resign. THE APACHE SURRENDER. General Miles Defend* His Action, and Savagely Denounces His Critics. Albuquerque, N. M m Oct 6.—General Miles wsb asked to-day what he thought of the published statements, or bulletins, assumed to have been written upon official information furnished at the War Department, as to his capture of Geronimo. “Those reports,” replied the General, “emanate from the brains of some unscrupulous and envious person, whose object appears to be to distort the truth, with the intention of injuring me, regardless of the just praise due the troops for their extraordinary services in achieving permanent peace in the Southwest. Many of the statements are entirely devoid of truth; others are weak arguments and labored theories. The pretense that the surrend of Geronimo and the otner hostiles was other than the result of the gallant, arduous operations of the troops in the field is simply childish. One might imagine from reading some of these statements, that the redhanded Apaches have been all summer tryiug to get up a cheap-rate excursion to the yellow fever districts of Florida. Surely no intelligent man wonld believe that the Apaches, who have been roaming over this mountainous region for generations. masters of the situation, would have thrown down their arms, sacrificed their property, surrendered their liberty, accepted perpet - ual banishment from their native country and placed themselves and their families at the mercy of the government, unless they had been subjected by the military forces. The mildest punishment evidently in store for them far exceeds in severity that ever before inflicted upon any body of Indians in this country. ” “General, would you mind giving me a copy of your official report of the surrender!'’ was asked. “I am quite willing that every official act of mine in this enterprise should be known, and these extracts and distorted statements should be thrown out. The people of this country are quite intelligent enough to draw their own conclusions, and it is not necessary that official documents should be filtered through the poisoned brain of some enemy and then so colored in part as best to auswer personal interests. ” “Would you mind saying in what respect your course has differed from your instructions?” “I am glad to answer that question, in order to put at rest a very inaccurate statement. I was given absolute discretionary authority to conduct the campaign. Even General Sheridan who commands the army and knows more about Indian matters and the topography of the country than all the army officers in Washington together, declined to give me any specific instructions.” “What has been the effect of removal upon other tribes of Indians'!” “It has stricken terror into those living in the adjacent country. Even the powerful Navajos, numbering 20,OOOsouls. are now afraid they may do something for which they will be liable to be sent away from their native country. I already regard it more effective than if forty executions would have taken place."

THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS. Synopsis of the Annual Report of the Utah Commission. Washington, Oct. 6.—The Utah Commission, by its chairman, A. B. Carleton, has filed with the Secretary of the Interior its annual report, of which the following is a synopsis: “During tho year the law regarding the disfranchisement of polygamists and those living in unlawful cohabitation has been fully and successfully enforced. All such persons, with very few. if any, exceptions, have been excluded from voting and holding office. A large number have been fined and imprisoned in the penitentiary for polygamy or unlawful cohabitation, chiefly for the latter offense. It is reported and believed by many resident non-Mormons that during the year a large number of polygamous marriages have taken place in the temples of Logan City and St. George. We have not the means of verifying such reports, yet we have no doubt that a considerable number of such marriages have been celebrated, with the knowledge, approbation and active co-operation of the leading men of the Mormon Church. Whether, upon the whole, polygamous marriages are on the decrease in Utah, is a matter on which different opinions are expressed, but undoubtedly many have been restrained by the fear of disfranchisement and the penitentiary, and we think it safe to say that, in the more enlightened portions of tho Territory, as, for example, Salt Lake City and its vicinity, very few polygamous marriages have occurred within the last year.” Referring to the joint resolution now pending in both houses of Congress, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting and punishing polygamy in all tho States and Territories, and extending the judicial power of the federal government to the prosecution of such offenses, the report says: “While we are of opinion that this should not supersede other measures, we are satisfied that it would be an efficient factor in effecting the desired result In addition to the reasons presented by the judiciary committee, we suggest that the incorporation of this provision in the Constitution would serve as an advertisement to the people of all civilized nations that, in tho United States, polygamy had been put under a ban in the most authoritative and emphatic manner.” The report calls attention to the magnitude of the evil by saying that there are more than 200,000 Mormons in the world, a large majority of whom live in Utah, and that while only a portion of them practice polygamy, they all believe in it as a divine revelation, that have been taught in their schools and churches for a third of a century, are led by men of great skill and ability and are fanatical to a marked degree; that the only immediately effective remedy would be the use of the military, but that the sense of modern civilization will not permit the employment of bayonets against women and children. Yet the American people regard polygamy as a crime, and it cuunot be ignored by the government. The report says: “Here we may say that while we recognize the obligation of the government to protect the personal property rights of the Mormon people, and to deal with them as equals before the law. yet it is equally the duty of the government to {>unish crime within its jurisdiction, and religous liberty cannot be pleaded as a bar to pun isbment for criminal acts in violation of the laws of the land and of social order. If present laws and the proposed constitutional amendments are not sufficient to suppress the evil, more stringent enactments must be adopted, and tbe result will be that, at no distant day. this relic of Asiatic barbarism, this blot on the fair fame of America, will be swept from the land." PROTECTION OF RANK SECRETS. Persistent Refusal of the Comptroller of the Currency to Favor Depositors. Washington Special. There is a great deal of complaint against Comptroller of the Currency Trenholtn for his secrecy in regard to the reports of the bank examiners. Several gentlemen who had business in this connection were put to a great deal of trouble and expense because he absolutely refused to allow the reports to be seen. To-day a gentleman called on Mr. Trenhohu and inquired if he could tee tho last report of a certain bank

in which there had been a large defalcation. Mr. Trenholtn said it had not been tbe practice to aUow reports to be made public, and he did not propose to deviate from the rule. A gentleman who has considerable business before the department, and who has been caused great annoyance by this foolish secrecy, said to-day: “I cannot understand wny a sensible man can allow such a thing tostand. What are the bank examiners for, and what are their reports for, unless to make clear to the public as well as tho Comptroller of the Currency the affairs of a bank? The people have a right to know as well as the department, and Mr. Trenholm can give no satisfactory excuse for his policy in this respect. When I asked the Comptroller why this extremo secrecy was observed, he said it might involve the banks in trouble, and their financial standing would perhaps be injured. Tin* is a ridiculous answer, because if a bank should happen to bo iu a precarious condition, and likely to fail, it surely ought to be made known, but instead, tho reports are kept secret, and a great number of depositors lose their money. A gentleman tried to obtain the last report of the First National Bank of Portland, in which the Gould defalcation took place, but to no avail. It would have done no harm, and on tho other hand, would have made clear to the depositors the true condition of affairs at the last examination.” A few days aeo it was rumored in Philadelphia that one of the banks in that city was on the verge of closing its doors. To be assured of the condition of the bank a messenger was sent there by some depositors to ascertain from the Comptroller the condition of the bank from the examiner’s last report. Mr. Trenholm positively refused to give out the information, intimating that he would stand by the banks rather than the depositors. MINOR MATTERS. Candidates for Office Who Will Resign Thelt* Appointments in the Federal Service* Washington, Oct. 6.—Among the officials directly affected by the President’s conclusion tha., a candidate for an electoral office should relinquish his federal office, are A. K. Delaney, United States attorney for the Eastern district of Wisconsin, and P. 11. Ivumler, United States attorney for the Southern district of Ohio. Mr. Delaney was appointed to his present office by President Cleveland, mainly through the efforts of General Bragg, and has now been nominated to succeed that gentleman in Congress. Mr. Kumler is a Republican, and was appointed under a previous administration. He has been nominated for judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county. After he accepted tho nomination he wrote to the Attorney-gen-eral informing him of his action, and said that if his retention of the district attorneyship pending tbe result of the State election conflicted in any way with the President’s policy of civilservice reform, he would resign his present of* flee. As already stated, the Cabinet considered the question at yesterday’s meeting, and decid* ed, as a general principle, that an official desiring to enter a political campaign, had better give up his federal office. It is. therefore, likely that changes will shortly be made in both of the offices mentioned. Ruling as to Commitments fir Insanity. Washington, Oct. 6.—James L. William®, who was arrested at tho White House in March, 1835, while insisting on the President paying him $500,000 on a claim against the government and sent to the insane asylum, was to-da) brought into the District Court on a writ of habeas corpus and released. The court decided that no person can be restrained of his liberty a® an insane person unless the question has been passed upon by a jury. There are but about 20 per cent, of the 1,200 patients in the government insane asylum whose sanity has been Passed upon by a jury de lunatico inquirondo. General and Personal. Washington, Oct. 6.—Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Folsom returned to Washington this morning. They arrived at the railroad eta*tion at 5:30 o’clock, and were met by the President. Commodore Chandler, commanding the Neil 1 York navy-yard, and Admiral Lose, commanding the North Atlantic squadron, have been instructed to consult with General Schofield with reference to the part to be taken by the military and naval forces in the Bartholdi statue ceremonies. The First National Bank of Well6ton p 0., capital $50,000, and the First National Bank of Yazoo City, Miss., capital $50,000, were to-day authorized by the Comptroller of the Currency to commence business. The President's reception this afternoon was the largest held since his return from the mountains. The callers numbered 500, and completely filled the east room.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The Canadian Ministerial journal announces that the Dominion Government’s efforts to induce Freneh-Canadians to return from the United States to Canada is meeting with great success. Special agents employed by the government are operating in the New England States, urging Freneh-Canadians to go to Manitoba. Burglars entered the office of the Ashland-ava-nue Building and Loan Association, on SVesfr. Twelfth street, Chicago, Tuesday night, and secured $2,000 in money and $5,000 in government bonds, and carried off bonds and mortgages representing $12,000. The papers of the association were afterward found in an alley in tho rear of the building. In Chester county, South Carolina, Monday evening, Charles White, colored, shot his wife and then hung himself. White made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide a montn ago, and on Sunday night be shot his wife for misconduct. He induced her to take a walk with him. when he shot her and then hung himself to the limb of a tree. John McGrath, a Detroit hack driver, aged thirty-three years, died on Tuesday night frorf the effects of injuries received in a drunken row nearly two weeks ago. He was knocked down and kicked in the face and on the body b£ George Boyd, the fight originating from a dispute over who should be shaved first in a barber shop. Boyd has been arrested. H. C. Foreman, a burglar, who was found in Crommes & Ulrich’s liquor store, at Chicago, Tuesday night, fatally stabbed himself yesterday morning at the Harrison-streot station. H had a knife concealed on his person, which the officers overlooked in searching him, and he plunged the weapon ten times into his stomach. There is no chance for hi3 recovery. Yesterday morning, Mrs. Carroll, fifty-five years of age, was engaged in washing the windows in the second story of the building at the corner of LaSalle and South Water streets, Chicago. She stood inside the office on a step-lad-der. She lost her balance and was precipitated to the pavement When the passers-by reached her they found she was dead, her neck having been broken. Mrs. Carroll leaves a husband and four grown-up children. WA terrible accident occurred at Chester, S. C., Sunday night, by which two children and an old woman were roasted alive. David Henry went, with bis wife, to a camp-meeting, leaving their house and two children in charge of Caroline* Berry. Upon the return of the parents, they found the house in flames and heard the screaming of their children upon the inside. An unsuo*' cessful attempt was made to save them. Thh charred bodies were recovered from the ruins. It is supposed that Caroline Berry went to sleea while smoking, nnd that the bed clothes caught fire from her pipe. Great Sale of Autographs. New York. Oct. 6. —One of the largest sales of autographs and old portraits which has taken place in this city for many years commenced this afternoon at the Broadway rooms of Bangs & Cos., and a large number of numismatics and autograph collectors are in town to participate in the proceedings. The immense collection, which forms part of the estate of the late Lewis J. Cist, includes 11.000 autographs, 10,000 pot* traits and engravings and 50,000 cullings front old newspapers concerning the originals, all carefully arranged and classified. The sale is •*- pec ted to occupy four days.