Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1887 — Page 4

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WASIILNGTON OFFICE C13 Fourteenth St. P. S. HSATH. Correspondent. THE INDIANAVOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON American. Exchange in Europe, 449 btrand. PARI American Exchange in Taris, 35 Boulevard . des Capucines. NEW YORK Gedney Ilouse and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO Talmer Ilouse. CINCINNATI J. P. llawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISttLLK-O. T. Deaving, TLird and Jefferson streets. northwest corner ST. LOUIS Union New Company, Union and Sou', her a Hotel. Depot WASHINGTON. D. . Howso. C. Itigss House and Ebbitt Telephone Calls. .....233 Editorial Rooms. IfusineM Office. .245 Member of the General Anembly wanting the Journal during the regular temioa thou LI leave their tnbucriptioin, trith direction a to where they denireto receive- the paper, at (he Journal Counting-roam. t A VERY determined effort is being made to defeat Marshal Von Moltke for the Reichstag. Prince Bismarck is irritated by the effort, and if it should succeed he will be furious. A BILL forbidding the marriage of any per Son confined in jail has been introduced into the Illinois Legislature. Mr. Spies will be more firmly convinced than ever that there is ft conspiracy against him. If a European war occurs, the first effect "will be to depress stocks and advance wheat. Folloving this there would be a rise in American stocks and bonds, a3 foreign investers would doubtless seek them in preference to the shares of battle-ridden Europe. The Democratic legislators of New Jersey who are attempting to elect a Senator before the State Senate is organized are having all their fun to themselves. If they would kindly explain what they expect to do with a Senator of this brand when they get him, perhaps the country could enjoy the joke, too. TriAT the London. Standard has studied President Cleveland's method in regard to the ivil-servico law to some purpose is evident from its suggestion that he agree to the fisheries' retaliation bill "merely inform." His little way, of agreeing to a measure in form and of practicing something else has attracted wider attention than perhaps he could have icsired. Tii? excitement cn the London Stock Exchange, on Tuesday, was caused by a leading editorial in the Daily News, which opened with the remark that "there is an imminent risk of an almost immediate war between France and Germany. This is not a statement to be lightly made, and we do not make it lightly. Tho Cabinet met on Saturday, and its members know that what we 6ay is true." The lower house of the Michigan Legisla ture has passed a bill the object of which is to prevent PirAerton's men from being employed for the suppression of strikes in Michigan. It provides that no person shall be jworn as a regular or special deputy sheriff unless he be a citizen of the State and a qualified elector of the county for which he is ap pointed. The Kuights of Labor are verv strong in the Michigan Legislature, and the bill ia expesit t pass the Senate and become law. AT a coroners inquest in Pittsburg upon the bodies of two men killed by a boiler explosion, on Monday, the fact came out that the boilers had been unsafe for some time. One witnesn testified that he notified the firm ihat one of the boilvrs had a hole in it. He was afterward told it had been repaired. Upon investigation ho found that the hole had been plugged with a cork. There ought to be some way of reaching and punishing the member . of the firm responsible for the murderous carelessness. 'County option and local self-government" is the Democratic plan for treating the liquor traffic question in the State of Missouri, ad Tocated by all the Democratic papers of that 8tate. In Illinois and in Ohio the liquor question has been satisfactorily settled upon the basis of local control and high taxation, for which the Republican party of Indiana has declared. We believe the problem will never be Satisfactorily adjusted on any other basis; but, in the meantime, adhering to the princi ple, let us do the best we can. Democratic Congressmen who failed of rolection and will be out of lucrative jobs after Vhe 4th of March are reported to be greatly dissatisfied with President Cleveland's de termination to appoint Interstate-commerce Commissioners immediately. If he would only wait, there might bo a chance for some or thetn. i rom the Democratic point of view, that Mr. Cleveland was elected solely for the purpose of providing asylums for broken-down politicians, his conduct in this aaatter is really reprehensible. IN what was said of the tricky election of a elerk of the printing board, the Journal did not undertake to cast any reflection upon Mr. Fish, the appointee. What was said wa3 that ihe action of the Governor and the acting Au ditor of State was a bit of cheap partisan work, the intention being to put the Republican majority of the board, when Mr. Carr should lake his office, to the possible annoy cci oi dismissing a man. Dir. Jc isn, we are Informed, is a Republican, and was not cog nizant of the evident trick in Lis election,

and he promptly notified Mr. Griffin

that he would not serve if his appointment was intended to embarrass the Republican officers. Mr. Charles Bookwalter, of Fort Wayne, a practical printer of many years' ex perience, a leading member of the Knights of Labor, and the Republican candidate for Rep resentative who came within 800 vote3 of car rying Allen county, had been agreed tipon for the place, and will, doubtless, be appointed at once, despite the sharpness of the Dem ocratic duumvirs. A MATTER OF MISEEPEESEKTATICN. A writer in the Kokomo Gazette-Tribune, and one in the Goshen Times signing himself. "D," the identity of both of whom is readily apparent, as well as several others who have felt compelled to explain and defend the legislative compromise, indulge in such gross and uncalled for misrepresentations of the Journal as to demand notice. We have neither the desire nor the taste to further discuss the agreement. It Eid the facts speak for themselves. A course of action had been unanimously determined upon by the Republicans on Tuesday night of the 18th instant, which was either right or wrong. The Journal believed it to be riL'ht then, and believes so vet. On CD - Wednesday morning, the 19th, without con sulfation with either Lieutenant-governor Robertson or Senator Harrison, this position was receded from, and a compromise ar ranged with the Democrats. If the former attitude of the Republicans was right, the compromise was wrong and needless; if the former position was wrong, the compromise was right and necessary. Not all the fine words about "law and order" can make any difference in the facts, nor can all the per fumes of Araby sweeten the compromise to the acceptance of the Republicans- of the State, who believed the first attitude of the Republicans to be right, jnst, legal and im pregnable. Wh at caused the compromise is set forth on the face of the document, as well as confessed in all the defenses or explanations made. The compromise itself shows that what was gained, and the only thing gained, or rather exchanged for the concessions the Republicans made, was that the Senate would come over to the House "without show of menace or force," and "D.," in his letter to the Goshen Times, says: "It was positively ascertained by Senators Campbell and Winter and the writer that it was the determination of Smith to preside at the joiut convention. On Wednesday morning, a few mimites before 12 o'clock, a conference committee of both houses agreed upon the so-called 'compromise.' " That is all that is necessary to say as to the reasons for the "compromise." But the Journal is charged with being among the "hot heads" who urged that the House should throw out two members for every Senator the Democrats might unseat. That is absolutely and unqualifiedly untrue. On the other hand, in more than a score of editorials the Journal urged that the Republicans should stand within the forms and spirit of thelaw, and specifically said that the Republicans should unseat only those "against whom the law and the facts were conclusive." Good Republicans did suggest, that, in answer to the bluff of the Democrats that Republican Senators would be unseated by wholesale, measures should be taken for self-defense in the House; but to actually proceed to extremes in either body would have been worse than useless, so far as a United States Senator is concerned. The Senate of the United States would nevftr admit to his seat a man elected by manufactured members, whether he be a Republican or Democrat. The files of the Journal, from the commencement of the con test until now, will show its position in 6tead ily and earnestly advocating standing well within the law. It is next charged against us, with other "hot heads," that we demanded that Colonel Robertson should preside in the joint conven tion. That is not true. When the writ was issued by the Circuit Court the Journal took the ground that such a writ was clearly in valid and inoperative a position we under stand to be occupied by every Republican member of the Legislature. We said that it was a personal matter with Colonel Robertson whether he should obey or not, he being will rug to take the consequences. On the other hand, the "hot heads determined in the Tuesday night caucus, unanimously, that Col. Robertson should defer in his action to the writ, and that the Republicans should not seem even to be wililng to violate the form of law in any respect. That position met the Journal's cordial support, and it was an nounced and indorsed on Wednesday morning, and has been indorsed in every editorial upon the matter since. But the caucus deter mined that, Colonel Robertson waiving his rights, Green Smith should in no way be re cognized, but that Speaker Sayre should "pre side." Whether that agreement was upheld by the "compromise is not worth wasting words over. - . The next statement about the Journal is, to use the language of "D." in the Goshen Times, this: "The Journal has on the contrary claimed that he Legislature was Republican, and that xlarnson should must be at all hazards, elected United States Senator That is not true, and the writer either knew it was not or his ignorance is inexcusable, The Journal has always published the facts about the Legislature. We kept standing in our columns, from the week of the election, the names of the seventy-six Democrats and of the seventy-four Republicans who were "returned" as elected. We have stated and uiscusseu iuo ineugiuimy 01 meagner. 111 J! J it. : ir "1 m?i r , . - which ail the Kepublicans concurred, and when the evidence was presented to tho Re-

publicans in the Beasley-Downing case, the

Journal said that right and justice demanded the unseating of Beasley and the seating of Downing. That was unanimously conceded by Republicans, as an independent proposition, without any reference whatever to what the Senate might or would do. But tha "compromise" keeps Beasley in his seat ana downing out, thus mm trv outraging constitutional representation simply and only to prevent the Senate from arbitrarily turning out one or more -Senators without evidence and without law. The Journal has said that with these changes in the mem bership of the House it was within the power of the Legislature to re-elect Senator Harri son, wnetner one or, two mint conventions were held, xne only question was, whether the names of Senators and Representatives le gally entitled to vote, and those only, should be called; and upon that record we were willing to have the contest transferred to Washing ton, where, in all likelihood, it will go in any event. What "hazard" did the Journal invite? What law did it ever ask to be violated? What "order" did it ever propose should be disturbed? The record of the Journal for "law and order" is as good as that of any man who is attempting to impeach it. The men responsible for the "compromise" should be willing to assume the responsibility. We have differed from them strongly, but honor ably and respectfully.. We cannot see that good is likely to result from the effort to turn the difference into a personal one. In the inter ests of the Republican party, in the interests of law and order, in the interests of a free and equal ballot, in the interests of popular elec tions, in the interests of the right of the people to the execution of their wishes, legally expressed, against the insurrectionary and revolutionary schemes of a party whose method is murder and fraud in the South and fraud, forgery and force in the North, the Journal will be behind no one to the extent of its ability and power. A HIGH-LICENSE LAW. v It is probable that few of the many bills re lating to the regulation of the liquor traffic that have been brought before the General As semblv are without points of merit, but the one introduced by Representative Ackman deserves attention for the practical manner, under existing circumstances, in which it meets the demand for legislation on this sub jeer. It will be observed that this measure, the provisions of which are given elsewhere, is in the shape of an amendment to the law now in force, leaving undisturbed those feattures which have proved satisfactory in their application and correcting the defects that experience has shown to exist in other sec tions. The present law fixes the county and State tax on saloons ' at $100. Mr. Ackman's bill - increases this tax to $300, one-half of which 13 to go to the school fund, the other to be retained by the treasurer for the general use of the coun ty. A further feature, which especially com mends itself, is the fixing of an a-ijitional tax of $300 on each saloon within the corporate limits of any city or incorporated town, this amount, like the other, to be paid before license shall be issued to the applicant. This tax, it will be noted, may be further increased to the extent of $200 by city authorities. As tho law now stands no municipal fee is made obligatory, and is demanded or not according to the pleasure of city councils. By thi3 amendment a total tax of $G00 or or $S00is imposed, thus fulfilling the demands of the very large class of citizens who favor high license as the moat practicable and practical way of combating the evil. Under the existing law the saloons do not bear their proper proportion of expenses, but the increased fee covers that deficiency. Wherever high license has been tried the experience is that the number of saloons remain is largely are under the reduced, - those which control of ble class of the more liquor-dealers, public revenue largely increased.' In St. Louis the increase of the license from $52 to a minimum of $550 and a maximum of $1,200 has swelled the city revenues over one million dollars in four years, and has reduced the number of saloons 721, or one-fifth. On this basis the revenue to be gained by Marion county, for example, can readily be calculated. The four hundred ealoons in Indianapolis, less the number inevitably driven out of business, will contribute to the treasury an amount somewhat proportionate to the expenses they entail upon the community, and will relieve other classes of tax-payers to that extent. The bill is worth serious consideration as a practical measure upon which both houses of the General Assembly could readily unite. BOHEMIAN OATS. ; The farmers of Indiana who are being victimized by Bohemian oats swindlers deserve c.o sympathy from any one. More than three years ago this fraud was thoroughly exposed by all the newspapers of the country. Since that time the Journal, for one, has repeatedly warned its readers against the tricks and schemes of the agents for oats, marvelous va rieties of wheat and other grains rated at an immense price per bushel. It would seem that by this time every intelligent agricultur ist in the State would be thoroughly informed as to the methods of these rascals and refuse to have any dealings with them. In view of the number of farmers, represented as well-to-do, who are reported from various parts of the State recently as having been swindled out w large sums Dy me oats men, it may . 1 . seem severe judgment to place them all under I . . . ... I ; O ' 9 - wmm tne bead ot non-inlel U'cnt. hu( t . nmh. , w the general verdict As a rule, it will be found that the man who ia tricked out of bb

hard-earned money by these adventurers ia one who "cannot afford toT subscribe Cor a

newspaper. lie goes without; is not posted as to what is going on in the world; bites at the first tempting bait offered by any plausible scoundrel, and loses enough money at one dash to buy more papers than he can read in a lifetime. He suffers for his ignorance and mistaken economy, and he deserves to suffer. THE TROUBLES OF "CAPITAL," The workingmen who have undertaken to establish a labor organ in New York are in a fair way to learn something of the embarrassments that sometimes beset the capitalist. Workingmen and employes generally look at the question from their side, and know nothing of the difficulties that exist on the side of the employer. A man who works so many hours a day and draws his salary regularly at the end of the week has no further responsibility. He knows that he works pretty hard himself, and, as the pay seems to come very easy, thinks he ought to have more. He knows nothing of the thousand cares and responsi bilities that belong to the management of a large concern, of the embarrassment some times caused by depression of business, financial stringency, etc. He has nothing of the kind, and it does not occur to him that his employer may have. The workingmen who are attempting to establish a paper in New York are getting an accession of information in this line that may be useful to them. Having essayed the role of capitalists, which is but another name for employers, they are beginning to experience some of the troubles of capitalists. Thus, a few days ago they had a strike on their hands. Finding their revenue was not sufficient, they raised the price of their paper to the newsboys. The latter organized and sent a committee to the publishers to protest, aB is usual in such cases. The publishers snubbed the committee in common phrase, "fired them out of tho office," just as capitalists sometimes do. Theu the publishers employed a new set of boys to handle their papers, and the old boys' made open war on them, pelted them with mud, etc. All this was an embarrassing experience to the workingmen publishers, just such an experience as capialists sometimes have. Now they have another trouble on their hands, growing out of their desire to get a first-class business manager for a fourth-class price This is very hard to do, as capitalists have sometimes experienced. The workingmen paid their lorrner business manager a week, but, having discharged him, they thought they could get a better man for less money. This would have been a good thing for them to do, if they could do it. There was an element of good financiering in the idea. But there were also the elements of a hitch in it. When they came to inquire what a first-rate business manager could be cot for, they were amazed to learn that they had been paying les3 than half the usual rate for competent men in such positions, and that some received three or four times as much. This was another reve lation to the workingmen tending to give them a further insight into the cares and re sponsibilities that pertain to the capitalist. For no busiuess, whether it be a manufactur ing establishment, a packing-house, a print ing office, or what not, can be carried on with out competent employes; these must be paid adequate salaries, and where is the money to come from to meet thi3 and other expenses, and still leave a surplus as interest on the in vestment and to compensate the proprietor for his time, care, responsibility and anxiety? These are some of the difficulties that con stantly beset the pathway of the employer, or capitalist, but which employes generally know nothing about. The workingmen who are conducting the labor organ are acquiring some information. ' When Albert Avres first assumed the of fice of criminal judge, Senator Harrison was reported to have said that no honorable man would accept an office to which his title was not clear. And yet his personal organ in this citv announces, from dav to day, that he will go before the Senate next March claiming his election, and that the Republican majority of that body will admit him, even though his op ponent should obtain seventy-six votes. The Sentinel. If the Sentinel refers to the Journal "by its indirection, that is another absolute and un qualified falsehood. No word hinting at such a thing can be found in the Journal's columns. We have said that if Senator Harrison should be elected in a joint convention having sev enty-six legal members of the Legislature, or should receive the votes of seventy-six legal members in one joint convention, the title to whose office and right to vote would pass the scrutiny of the United States Senate, we were satisfied he would be admitted to his seat. We still believe so. We have also said that if the Democrats should send a man to Washington elected by seventy-six votes, among them such "votes ' as that of Branaman, he would never be admitted to his seat. We believe so vet. But the Journal has never put Senator Harrison in the position of a contestant ior a seat in the senate in any 1J JS It J 1 ri . m event Does the News know that the Senate of the United States is the judge of the election and qualifications of its own members? It would seem not, from an unusually foolish paragraph last night respecting the seating of Branaman in its relation to the electiou of a United States Senator. If the Senate of the State of Indiana can look into the right of men to vote for one of its members, and determine thereby the right to hold aseatin that body. I 1 I pw.,v ' - w wmo.m, sU w3 ViALl lUUft, thn xnt nf th lTniwt Kaf 11. into the legal right of the men who vote for a member of lhat body. When thev come to

the "vote" of Mr. Branaman, it will not be likely to be counted, for any Senator. So it is not simply a question of seventy-six and seventy-four, so far as that question is concerned. "It is a question of the legality of the election and the rightfulness of the tenure of office of the seventy-six, or of any other number, who may claim to "elect" a United States Senator.

TnK Republicans, on the face of the returns, elected seventy-four members of the General Assembly. The substitution of the elected members in the cases of Meagher and Beasley would have given them seventy-six members. The Senate could not overcome that, or destroy it, so far as tho election of a United States Senator is concerned, by any amount of arbitrary unseating or wholesale expulsion. The Senate of the United States would pass upon the rightfulness of the action of the State Legislature. There is not a Republican in the General Assembly who will say, for one moment, that the Republicans did not elect eeventy-six members of the General Assembly, and that they should have, and do have, that number of members whose right and title would be upheld by any impartial court, or by the" Senate of the United States. So, the claim of the possibility of the Republicans electing a United States Senator is not one of seventy-four against seventy -six, or a problem in arithme tic, as the smart Alecks would try to have it appear. It is a question 01 right, .and law, and justice. WniLE the National Suffrage Association is trying to convince the country that women have no rights that men" are bound to respect,' Maggie Crean and several hundred, of the fe male champions of Father McGlynn are offering proofs to the contrary. Maggie and her friends break the locks which the Archbishop and Father Donnelly ordered placed upon the doors of St. Stephen's, and, defying the church authorities and the police, continue to hold the fort. They have discovered that a crowd of women have rights, or at least privileges, which policemen with clubs are bound to respect. The suffragists should con suit with Maggie and get points. The Indianapolis Sentinel says: "We do not believe that Mr. Bvnum said what the Journal's correspondent attributes to him. Mr. Bynum, if he said it, would in vite the suspicion that he desired to overthrow the regular nominee of tho Democratic caucus. We do not think Mr. Bynum so foolish or so dishonorable. The Journal is willing to back up its corre spondent We received two dispatches from Washington that Mr. Bynum asked and de manded a correction of the telegram to Robin' son, so far as he was concerned. If the Sen tinel does not think Mr. Bynum "so foolish or dishonorable" that paper has changed its opin ion of him since the last campaign. This is the way Representative Reynolds puts it, in a card to the Richmond Palladium, explaining the reasons for the compromise: "On this morning the 19thl it was learned that the Democratic Senate had receded from their former position, and had determined to come into the joint convention with the House as they had been invited but were coming per force of arms that is, with their entire force of sergeants-at-arms, to take forcible possession of tho jo;nt convention, 6et up their bulldozer Smith and have it all their own way." The explanations are all the same. Hon. John R. Cushman, in a letter to the Madison Herald, naively says: - "It is true that the Senate has adopted methods more or less revolutionary, but under the existing circumstances they could do nothing less and be true to their party." Of course they could not. To be true to the Democratic party a man has to be a rebel and a revolutionist. Probably no person knows John L. Sullivan,' the slutrper, better than Mrs. John L. Sullivan does. She has had a chance to it; acquainted with him. Now they are "out,"andsheisdisposed to take the public into her confidence. A letter from her is published, in which, referring to Sullivan's alleged broked arm. she says: "It is all a lie, invented to save himself from a big whipping." She intimates that her late spouse has practiced this lame-arm trick before, and adds: "That is John L. Sullivan all over. Ho .jumps at a man at the start and usually finishes him in the first or second round, or makes him unable to do much fighting. If he fails to use his enemy up attbe end of three rounds Sullivan prows scared, loses his wind and cries baby, the way he did in Minneapolis. I tell you that Patsy Cardiff can whip John L., and I am glad of it He is a big brute and a coward." That is good, vigorous English. It is surprising how living in Boston develops the literary style. An a writer, Mrs. Sullivan hits right out from the shoulder. The statement in the Journal of Tnesday morning to the effect that uiarkson L. lioeers was suing the Indiana Insurance Company for loss on his residence, several weeks ago, was in correct in respect to its being a residence. The officers of this company claim that the risk was a hotel, situated in Arkansas; that the assured never paid for the policy, and that the company canceled it by registered-letter notice of cancel lation for non-payment of premium, and have the assured's letter acknowledging receipt of the same, l ne policy was only si.UUU, instead of being for $1,500, as stated. Mrs. Hardert, one of the speakers at the meeting of the Woman Suffrage Association in Washington, discoursed pathetically of . our "motherless government." The poor old government ?es seem to be in a bad way, but Mrs. Harbert is mistaken in regarding it as a half orphan. , Secretary Bayard still lives. If the election of Mr. Bate, of Tennessee, had come a little earlier his rraiden effort in the Senate might have been in the line of cutting bait The opinion seems to prevail in Canada that the Senator from Vermont had some fish to Frye. t - . It is said by a coteraporary that a game called "gossip," played with the old carte de visits photographs, is having a run row. You ehufile and

deal them out, and then every one In the ptxi) tells everything mean that ran be thought cj about the person represented in the photograph.

ABOUT PEOPLE AM) THINGS. Lord Tenktson's eyesight is failing him to such an extent as to cause serious alarm among his numerous circle of friends. Jean Ikgelow is more than fifty years old, and her friends are trying to secure for her one of thr, annuities awarded by the crown for literary services. There is a strong classical atmosphere about Frank Iliscock's life. He wag born at Pompey, practiced law at Tnlly, went frequently to Home finally settled in Syracuse, and is now a Senator. Bcrdettjk We splash and skip, we slide and slip, we grumble, growl and jaw, through slusa and slop we wade and flop, Oh, January thaw. With soaking feet we walk the street, the worst we ever saw; it is no joke to be in soak, thoa Jan nary thaw. . Miss Matilda Johss6s has jast died in Loa don, one hundred and sixteen years old. Eighty, nine years ago her intended husband died suddenly, and she made a will giving her entire fortune to the Military Hospital, and directing that "Love killed her" should oe engraved cn hoc tombstone. t VV-- ' A medical journal states that "the two el, ments of highest cost of human life, as it is lived in the aggregate, are spirits and tobacco, thJ one a stimulant narcotic, the other a depressant narcotic, and that more tnan one-tnira 01 iim human race prove by living without them that they are in no degree necessary or . healturul, but on the contrary tend to depravity and de struction." .. French newspapers record the appearance of a new rortia at a court in iuonipfiier. a farmer, tried and condemned for breach of trust, had appealed, and. on the day appointed for hearing the case, he came into court accom panied by a daughter, a tall, good-looking woman about twenty-six years old. Tothesur-" prise of the judges she opened her father's ease in a masterly manner, argued the defense like a practised lawyer, and gained a verdict of ao quittaL George Washington was above the necessity of spelling correctly. But it is interesting to observe that he defied orthography' with the samf calm eonrage with which he ypposed the troopc of England. He once wroteto the congreeation of the Dutch Reformed Chutxh of Schenectady: "I sincearly thank you for yonr congratulations on my arrival in this place! Whilfct I join la adoring that now Suprem Beiugtto whom alona can be attrebuted the aignelnecenses of our arms, I cannot but express my gratitude to you gentlemen," etc. w-r.;-. . The Municipal Council of Milan, Italy, is engaged in a violent controversy apropos of tha erection of the monument executed In honor of Napoleon III, in 1873. The Milanese, rememberine that the French Emperor liberated Lombardy from the grasp cf the Austrians, engaged the celebrated sculptor Banzaghi to design ana execute the statue. An opposition group, forgetting the fact that Italy had not been a nation since the break no of the Roman empire in tha fifth century by the barbarians, oppose the proposal of the ereetion of a status to the man who made Italy a nation, at the sacrifice of no neb, blood and treasure, instead of being a congerief of .bickering provinces. But there is no grati tude in politics. Dr. Edward Parrv, Bishop of Dover, Eng land, recently received the gift'of his owq portrait, painted by Mr. Herkomer. The Arch bishop of Canterbury made the presentation speech in' the Lambeth Palace library, and ia the course of it described two scenes in Dr. Parry's life one, of his attendance at the deathbed of the late Archbishop Tail; the other, forty years before, when Dr. Tait. head master of Roeby then, found Edward Parry, a homesick boy, just come to echool, sitting od his trunk la a corridor and weeping bitterly. The Critic is requested by Mr. John G. Whittier to state that he finds it impossible to reply to solicitations which reach him by every mail for autosrraphs, notices of books, and answers te questions on matters of no real interest to the writers or himself. He has neither time nor

streneth for the examination and, criticism oty manuscripts, and rannot be responsible for the care of them. The letters of his friends, A

known and nnknown, are always welcome, and he trusts that his age and Etate of health will exense an occasional delay in responding to them. Mr. Whittier would be obliged if editors would kindly copy this. The reading of the will of the late Pope Pius IX was an occasion of disappointment to some of that Pontiffs relatives. His paternal proper ty did not amount to $10,000, and this might be called the only snre part of the inheritance, twothird of which fell to Girolarao, the eldest son of Ercole, and one-third to Christina, only daughter of Lnipi. Donna Teresa Mastai, who was a lady of lively spirit, asked, when the readins terminated, whether there was anything more, and hearing from the chancellor that there was nothinsr, she rose from her seat and said to her relations in a marked ironical tone: "And now, centlemen, wa may go away." On de scending the stairs of the Vatican, the same lady ' turned to her relations and said: "It seems nice hoax, gentlemen, for all of us." And eh added, turning to Count Augusti: "Really, It was unnecessary to make us come up here ti listen to such a wilk." - The Democratic Leader. Warsaw Times. Senator Zimmerman, in his speech seconding the nomination of Turpie. said: "In the dark days of the war, when the unhappy South was being trampled and spit upon, as it were. Turpie arose a friend to that unhappy section." Is that the sort of a man the people of Indiana want to have sent to the United Staten Senate to reinforce-Mr. Voorhees! How would it do to ? have at leat one man in that bod v, 'who, "in the dark , days of the war," "arose a friend" to the government of the United States? Indianapolis Journal. Such a man is not wanted by modern Democracy, but it is very galling to the Republicans of the State to have their Representatives and Senators in the State Legislature striking hands ia a "compromise" with a pnrtv that is acknowledged to be usurpers, and whose members novr boast of the copperhend predilections of their candidate for the United States Senate in the war days. Green Smith's Latest Performance. Seymour Republican. Green Smith has scored another decrrne of infamy. Once more he has put a No. 11 partisan boot fiop down on the rights of the people. Aft shown by a report elsewhere In this paper. Mr. Smith refused to allow th report of the citizens' meeting at this place, Saturday night, to bo read beforo the Senata The reason assigned for this refusal was that it was "blackguardism. If this were true, it would furnish an additional reason why it should be read to Mr. Smith and bis band of revolutionists; but it wag only the . dignified and outspoken sentiment of the people of this vicinity relative to the injustice of noseating Senator McDonald and seating Branaman. Aud ti Senate's refnsa! to har the report is without warrant or precedent, and ea tiielyin keeping with ita former acts of brutality and extreme partisanship. Tribute from an Opponent. ShelbrvlMe Democrat. Candor compels us to say that the Indianapov lis Journal is one of the ablest Republican papers in the country. It is bold, dashing and vigorous. It never asks for quarter and never surrenders -3tl t i3 compelled to. We can't help from admiring its atreressive features, If o do deplore its bad politics. Indorse the Position of thfc Journal. ShPlbyville ItcpubHcan. The Indianapolis Journal occupied strong ground when it denounced the cowardly "compromise" made by the Republican manasrers ia the Legislature with th bulldozers of Cowboy Smith & Co. The Republicans of the State in dorse the position of the Journal. A Matter of Luck. Cliicr.co Journal. : V The Republicans in the Indiana Legislature have had better luck thus far than thiy could have expected, but how long it will last aobodj can tell. . ..