Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1887 — Page 4

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THIS IN DIA3STAPOILIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9,

THE DAILY JOURNAL.

FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 1887. WASHINGTON OFFICE-513 Fourteenth St. P. S. IIlATH. Corrspondeni NEW YORK OFFICE104 Temple Conrt, Corner Eeekmaa and Nassau streets. TI1E INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places LONDON American Exchange ia Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capueines. KEW YORK Gedney House and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO Falmer nouse. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. JOUISVIL.L.E C. T. Dearing, northwest corner '1 turd and J en erson streets. JET. LOUIS Union News Company, Unloa Depot and Soutnern Hotel. WASHINGTON, I. C. Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 Editorial Rooms 242 The notorious Dr. Harrison will have every thing his own way now. Mb. Sullivan will have no difficulty now In getting rid of his maggoty butter. The people would dearly love to see the City Council show some "sand" in dealing with the street-railroad question. Judge Tukpie, senatorial claimant from this State, ha3 named a postmaster at War saw, and begins to feel recognized. 1 g INDIANA is the onlv State in the Union whose benevolent institutions are made training-schools for inexperienced officials. THE new superintendent of the Insane Hospital is mortgaged to the Harrison ring. Or perhaps they own him in fee simple. In Indiana the Democratic idea of civileervice reform 13 as soon as a person in office acquires valuable experience turn him out. The letter of Mr. Gladstone declining the invitation to the constitutional celebration is full of genuine feeling and admirably expressed. The Supreme Court of Illinois seems dis posed to take its time in deciding the Anarch ist cases, and also to keep its own counsel. This is right. The report tiat Sarah Bernhardt is to become a nun is io be accepted with some hes itation, hut perhaps the tiger-cat has driven tier to repentance. The present organization of the Democratic party in this city Is an illustration of the oneman power in municipal politics. It is the embodiment of Sim Coyism. "The late warden of the Minnesota State prison is on trial for embezzlement of publio and prisoners' funds. Things of that kind are regarded as criminal in some States. The doctors of the country are getting lots of free notices in the papers these days, but rot a professional protest is heard. This sort of advertising is not contrary to the code. At the American Social Science Association, at Saratoga, President Wright delivered the opening address on the topic, "Problems of the Census." One of the greatest is how to get the report of one census out before the next one is taken. The order has at last been issued, and Dr. Fletcher must go. Dealers who have contracted with the trustees to furnish supplies to the Insano Hospital can now work off maggoty butter and diseased meat upon the helpless inmates without danger of interference. The omission of ex-Speaker Carlisle to take evidence in his contested election case indicates a touching confidence in his Democratic associates in the House. He believes that they will sustain him, as against a common laboring man, evidence or no evidence; and he is probably right. The United Labor party in New York claim they will poll at least one hundred thousand votes this year and considerably more next year. If, as the New York World estimates, the Labor vote draws three-fourths from the Democratic party, where will that leave the Democracy? The London Times sajs it would not invite Mr. Blaine to represent the United States if an English celebration were on hand. The British nobility having unanimously decided that Buffalo Bill is the typical American, it is not worth while to . inquire whom the Times would invite. OPINIONS may differ as to the best pavement for Washington street, or as to what it ought to cost, but there can be no two opinions as to the course pursued the street railroad company in obstructing and defeating the enterprise. Such a thing would not be tolerated in any other city. The Sentinel tries to justify its attacks on the Grand Army by dragging General Sherman in. This is adding insult to injury, and will make the old soldiers madder than ever. It was bad enough for the Sentinel to brand them as assassins without insinuating that General Sherman agrees with it. The Chicago Tribune admits that the Soy. enth Regiment brass band, which accompanied the old New York firemen to that city, is "a band whose brilliancy, solidarity and sonorousness, it must be confessed, make our own teem a little provincial." It must have been In the instruments; they couldn't have had more wind. ' CITIZENS of Indianapolis visiting other parts of the State- are surprised to discover inch a general interest in Indianapolis politics, and especially in the approaching city flection. Inquiries on the subject are heard everywhere. The situation here is pretty well understood. The tally-sheet forgeries attracted general attention, and the subsequent investigation and trial put the public In possession cf the facts. No doubt is enter

tained as to the guilty parties, and it is generally understood that, having hung the jury by means of perjury and politics, they are now trying to get "a vindication" at the polls. The people throughout the State regard the coming city election as a contest between lawabiding citizens and the worst elements of society between honest men and the Coy gang. They understand the situation correctly. That is just what it is.

A PUBLIC OUTRAGE. The removal of Dr. Fletcher, superintendent of the Insane Hospital, will cause a storm of indignation but not much surprise. The event has been foreshadowed for some time past. It has been an open secret for several months that there was a bad state of feeling between the superintendent and the trustees, and an utter lack of harmony in the internal management of the hospital. This date3 from the investigation of last winter which resulted in such damaging disclosures of the disgraceful management of the institution. In fact, it probably had its origin even further back, when Dr. Fletcher became so thoroughly disgusted with the state of affairs that selfrespect and a sense of public duty compelled him to oppose, as far as he properly and safely could, the ruinous policy of the Harrison regime. It has appeared to many of the friends of good government and those who hold the welfare of the institution at heart, that Dr. Fletcher erred in not taking an earlier and bolder stand than he did against the scandalous practices of the Harrison ring and the gross prostitution of one of the State's noblest benevolences. He certainly would have rendered a public service by making a complete expose of the whole business. But due allowance must be made for conflicting interests and the obvious difficulties of his situation. He deserves credit for having, in the first instance, called attention to the existence of shameful abuses and of having pointed, if he did not lead the way, to their exposure. He could hardly have incurred the hostility of the board in a more intense degree by making open war on them than he did by simply refusing to co-operate with them. His removal was inevitable, and only a question of time. The act itself is a high-handed outrage and an insult to the people of the State. We say this not because of any personal injury it involves to Dr. Fletcher that is of small publio account but because of the circumstances under which it is done. It is the arbitrary act of a corrupt and irrespon sible ring, done for the purpose of establishing its complete control over the largest institu tion in the State and placing its entire man agement on a basis of the lowest and dirtiest partisan politics. To accomplish this it was necessary for the board to have a superintend ent who not only would not oppose them in any respect, but who would heartily co-oper ate with them in the work of subordinating the institution to the interests of a corrupt ring. As to what that involves, the public can judge in part at least from the developments made by the investigation last winter. Although conducted under great difficulties, that investigation proved - the existence of frauds that ought to send the perpetrators to the penitentiary, and of abuses that made honest men's fingers itch to get at tho rascals who practiced them. The perpetrators of these frauds and abuses are now in absolute control of Indiana's greatest and noblest charity. Like the maggots in the butter furnished the unfortunate inmates, they have wiggled their slimy way to the top, and now occupy a position of undisputed power in a place where they can do unlimited harm. Ring rule will now have undisputed sway, and the unsavory crew that has been im patiently waiting for this event will hold high carnival. Dr. Henry Day, of London, read a paper at the international medical congress on "Headaches in Children and Their Relation to Mental Training." He held that public school children should be separated into classes by medical experts, and their studies regulated according to their physical conditions and temperaments. The able Doctor does not understand our public school system. It does not recognize individualism. The ob ject is to produce absolute uniformity, and to do this all the children must go in at the same hopper and pass through the same ma chine. The Journal ha3 no official information as to the exteut of the demand for a new Demo cratic organ in Indianapolis, but from a long course of observation it is prepared to affirm that while it is easy enough to start a paper, keeping a new one going is vastly harder than pulling teeth. If the dentist that is to say. if the editor of the coming organ doesn't be lieve this, just let him try his interviewing forceps on a few of the once hopeful owners of that weary lot of papers which came to fill long-felt wants, and whose melancholy wrecks now dot the strand. A MACON paper says the appearance of Jeff Davis at the Georgia State fair will "proba bly" be the last opportunity the people of the South will have of seeing this great man in public. If the announcement could be made that it was to be positively his last appear ance on any stage, great relief would be af forded to many progressive Southerners, who are tired of this Old Man of the Sea. Jeff 's disposition to come to the front on the slight est hint of an invitation is too well understood, however, to allow them to venture such an assertion. Missouri whisky sellers complained that they were at a disadvantage at the local op tion election in that State on Tuesday, owing to the fact that while saloons were closed by law, women with tea, coffee and all the dainties of the season were present at the polls, and tempted the voters with their wares. The grumblers will not receive much sympathy, since the local option law was not intended to prohibit tea and coffee, and no fights are known to have been excited by their use on this occasion. The testimony of the Insane Hospital employes in the caso of Joseph Wallace showed that eighteen attendants were dismissed in one day, thuu leaving the wards with an insufficient force. Now that Dr. Flotcher has

been removed and no more protests against outside management of the institution are likely to be heard, the removals can be made even more rapidly and placei given to bummers, ballot-box stuffers and others who have rendered "political" service to Harrison, Sullivan and others.

PEOPLE are always getting the two Curtises mixed, and now that George Ticknor Curtis is said to have professed the Mormon faith, somebody will be sure to have it that George William has taken half a dozen wives. Mugwumpery may lead to Mormonism, but justice requires the statement that with a reform association and a mugwump paper and magazine on his hands, George William has no time and probably no inclination for multiple matrimony. The triumphftf the Coy gang in the city election would be about the worst advertisement Indianapolis could possibly have. It would be notice to the world that while Cincinnati, Chicago and other cities have been able to break up their political rings and punish the rascals who have debauched their politics, Indianapolis lacks either the courage or the virtue to follow their examole. Dr. Fletcher's successor as superintendent of the Insane Hospital may be a skillful physician, but, a3 every intelligent person in the State knows, he must consent to be a tool of the Harrison gang and interfere in no way with their management of the institution if he desires to continue in office. The gang grew tired of a real superintendent and decided to substitute a figurehead. Postmaster-general Vilas is said to base his hopes of getting on the next presidential ticket on bis ability to "catch the soldier vote." The suit to be brought against him by the Veterans' Rights Association for disregarding the law requiring old soldiers to be given preference in government servica will not figure in an ornamental way among his claims to popularity. There is reason to suspect that the Governor does not wish to exterminate Green Smith for the mischief he has done, but' for the political capital such a feat would bring to himself. The Governor sees that the drift of public opinion is against Smith, and, being long-headed, he desires to be the first of his party to engage in pursuit. Dr. Fletcher has made a record as superintendent of the Insane Hospital of which he may well be proud. In his remarks before the board yesterday he cited some improvements and reforms made during his administration which are highly creditable. They were a strong argument in favor of his retention, but he had to go. The committee on banquet for the Grand Army encampment at St. Louis have decided on the following toasts: "Our Country," "The President of the United States," "The Army and Navy," "The Volunteer Army 1861 to 18G3," "The Grand Army of the Republic," "The Soldier Dead," "The Cabinet." "The War Governors," and "The Loyal Women." The follow ing gentlemen have been invited to respond to toasts: Robert G. IcgersOll, CoL W. P. Vilas, Gen. Lucius Fairchild. Gen. W. T. Sherman, Gen. Phil II. Sheridan, General Burdett, Bishop Fallows, Hannibal Hamlin, Ex-Gov. A. G. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, and Ex-Governor Noyes, of Ohio. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. J. W. Gladstone, now visiting Newport, 13 a nephew of the British statesman. Edison has sent his father, Samuel Edison, of Fort Gratiot, Mich., on a tour around the world. A late French definition of a parveuu ia "a man who announces that he has arrived without telling where he came from." Dr. Morell Mackenzie's bill for attending the Crown Prince of Germany is 54,000 marks, or a little more than $11,000. The marks of Mackenzie's ability are apparent io his charges. Mrs. Langtry is building a cottage on the shores of Lake Tahoe, California. Tahoe i3 one of the most beautiful sheets of water in ex istence. It is 6,200 feet above the level of the sea. Mr. Walter Besant only devotes three or four hours a day to producing copy. The rest of his working time he devotes to revision and to gleaning fresh material from the world about him. Mary E. Wilkins, the author of the "Green Mountain Stories." praised by Mr. Howells in the last number of "Harper's," is a rather plain and very shy rural young person with red hair antra sweet expression. The corn-fields in the Dismal Swamp of Vir ginia are overrun with bears, and some of the farmers have killed or captured several in a single night. The Norfolk markets are well supplied with bear meat. For many year3 Russia has interdicted the performance of Victor Hugo's dramas in that country. The boycott on these pi ays has at length been raised, and "Hernani" wili be given at Moscow in the near future. Miss Phcebe Couzixs, of St. Louis, the wellknown advocate of female suffrage, may retire from the lecture field permanently, owing to the recent death of her father, who was United States marshal for the Eastern district of Missouri. Miss Couzins feels her bereavement deeply. Henry Villard is the hardest man in America to interview. He was a newspaper man for twenty years himself, and knows all the tricks of "tho boys." Villard's rapid recovery of a lost fortune has brought him into great demand among the correspondents, but they can't get much out of him. . Mr. Carter Harrison was one day talking about the boys of Chicago whom he knew. After naming scores of them and dwelling on the characteristics of each, he said: "And then there's tny boy Cato." For a moment he paused and then added: "Well, Cato Harrison's the only boy in Chicago whom I don't know!" Horace C. Disston, a millionaire manufacturer of Philadelphia, understands how to enjoy life. He goes abroad every other summer, and before setting out selects the places to be visited, and, instead of rompme over the continent, passes a month at each. His programme this year, dating from June 1, was London, Paris, Berlin and Geneva. The liquor question is agitating the Free Masons, particularly in the West. The grand lodges of Kansas and Missouri have passed resolutions calling for the expulsion of all liquor dealers from the craft. The grand lodge bf Dakota has resolved that no person engaged in the business of keeping a saloon shall be admitted into any lodge within its jurisdiction. When Farragut's squadron was before New Orleans one of the powder-boys saw a shell drop dangerously near the magazine. The fuse vras burning furiously, but the boy picked up the shell and tossed it overboard. The boy was Oscar Peck. He lives in Bridgeport, Conn., and he has just received, in consideration of his bravery, back pension money amounting to $4,220. . "The Empress of Japan, so anxious to introduce Western fashions into the empire, . affects the most dainty colored pocket-handkerchiefs," says the London Graphic "They are made of pale yellow gauze or muslin, embroidered with the national flower, chrysanthemums, of every hue. Other royal ladies also choose a distinctive tint for their handkerchiefs, the Crown Prin

cess of Portugal, now our guest, preferring pale

pink, embroidered with lilies of the valley. Ac cording to Parisian fashion rules, the favorite flower of the owner shonld always decorate her handkerchief. Widows should only use liiao muslin ornamented with dark blue scabious blossoms the emblem of a mourning bride. " Felix Regamy, a Parisian artist, well known in Boston, has made an interesting discovery that a French plaster-modlder named Hubard has in his possession a full-sized bronze copy of the marble statue of Washington by Houdon, which he will sell for $800. M. Regamy sug gests in the Paris Figaro that the United States government purchase the bronze statue and pre sent it to the Gallery of the Louvre. William E. Dodge, Robert C Martin, Albert E. Putnam and Isaac G. Johnson have together contributed move than one-half the sum esti mated to be necessary for the construction of a l resbytenan church edifice at Snuvten Duvvil. It will stand on the top of the hill in the little square formed by the opening of the new park way. The church-doors will look out upon fine river viowsof both the Harlem and the Hudson. Philadelphians are excited over the trans fer of fifty-two pieces of- real estate in various parts of the city, from Mr. and Mrs. John Wannamaker to Charles P. Hazeltine, the picture dealer. Ibe inference is that the real estate was in payment for pictures, and that Mr. Wannamaker is forming a large collection, perhaps witn the intention of presenting it to the city. Both Mr. Wannamaker and Mr. Hazeltine are now m Europe. Mr. Eric Bruce, who has worked out the idea of signaling at night by a captive balloon, lighted ' inside by electric incandescent lamps. has just completed one for the Belgian govern ment. The signaling is effected by cutting off ana letting on the current feeding the lamps by means of a kev like that used in telegraphy. Mr. Bruce's latest balloon is fifteen feet in diam eter and 2,000 cubic feet in capacity. It is made of varnished cambric, and is translucent. A Rev. M. Baxter, of the Church of England, has just delivered three prophetic lectures at Liverpool. There is nothing vague about this prophet. England is to be separated legislative ly from Ireland, India, and her colonies. Lucien Bonaoarte is to become King of Syria, and, later on Emperor of France. Belgium and the Koine provinces are to be annexed to France. In 1S9G 144.000 watehful Christians are to as cend from eartb to heaven, and the millenium is to commence on April 11, 1901. The lecturer challenged any minister or individual to show that he had made any mistake. No one, as yet, has taken up the challenge. A private letter in the Unitarian Review concerning the late Miss Dix, the philanthropist, says: One anecdote she told me is very inter esting. She was traveling in a stage coach by night in Tennessee, when the coach was stopped and the passengers robbed by a highwayman. After giving up her purse, she addressed the robber: "My friend," she began, "is not this a bad business for you to be engaged in?" when the man interrupted her: "That voice! I know that voice; I have seen you somewhere." It proved that he had been a convict in (I think) an Indiana penitentiary, where she had talked and pleaded with thje prisoners. He was greatly affected by the meeting, and returned his plunder with much contrition, accepting (if ray memory is correct) a moderate gift, with the promise to lead a better life. One of the largest of the variety stores on Grand street, New York, has a life-size wax figure representing a singularly handsome and shapely lady with her skirts modestly raised as if tripping over a muddy cross-walk, but exhib iting a pair of neatly-fitting stockings contrasting in colors. This new style of advertisement i3 apparently very attractive, for the figure is always the center of an admiring throng, Not to be outdone by this lovely feature, a rival house has secured a lovely, sweet-faced young creature of seventeen to don the latest fashionable outfitting and promenade the floor, stopping occasionally to pose and apparently inadvertently exhibit the sample stockings covering her shapely ankles. It will be a case of flesh versus wax, and this issue is not problematical. Mrs. John Mackay is the daughter of Daniel E. Hungerford, and when Mackay married her was the widow of Dr. Thompson. Mr. Mackay is said to have found her and her daughter Eva, the offspring of her union, in poverty in California, and after a short and ardent courtship married her. He gave her, according to the story of Mr. Mackay'a friends, $1,000,000 in government bonds when she established herself in Europe to have her children educated, and bought her a home, and expected her to get along without any other pecuniary aid from him, and she does it, so it is claimed, notwithstanding the expensive entertainments she gives, both in Paris and London. Mrs. Mackay is a woman of rare tact. She is generous and appreciative. It is said. of her that if she had not a dollar at her command, she could shine by her natural gifts in any society in Europe. COMMENT AND OPINION. Free Trade is masquerading at "tariff reform" this year as usual. The veriest ignoramus in polities knows that old threadbare disguise. Philadelphia Press. Long-headed Frenchmen don't want to rush into war till Bismarck's rheumatism. King William's debility and Von Moltke's old ago have time to accomplish more decisive results. --St. Louis Post-Despatch. Master Workman Powderly says that he has never censured socialism. Then Mr. Powderly has missed many very fine opportunities for saying a good word for law and order. Louisville Courier-Journal. Mrs. Cleveland seems able to quietly give the practical politicians of New York, who invited her to be present at a public event without her husband, a much-needed and very effective lesson in good manners. Pittsburg Dispatch. It is a very fair point of the World that Robert Lincoln "advertises his modesty," but if he really does not want the nomination as to which there is so much talk in his connection, how is he going to work to make the fact plainer than he has? New York Graphic. Whatever Mr. Edgerton maybe as a man, as a government official he is without dignity. He does not seem to know that rudeness and personalities are nowhere so out of place as in a public document. Mr. Edgerton ought to go, though he probably won't. He cannot remain where he is without bringing discredit upon the administration. New York Tribune. , It will doubtless be news to a good many people that there is a Greenback party in this State, but there is, and it will hold a State convection at Williarosport to-day. Men have been known to think themselves dead when they were Ftili alive, but the Greenback party of Pennsylvania is a conspicuous example of a party that think itself alive when it is dead. Philadelphia Times. ' '" ' 1 ' ' Henry Watterson has come to the conclusion that Cleveland is just stupid and lucky enough to be re elected, He will therefore 6npport him. For twenty-four years neither luck nor stupidity helped the Democratic party, but because it "scratched" through by their aid once it will probabiy always depend upon them in the futnre. The Democrats regard Cleveland as a mascot, not as a great man. Denver Republican. The power or right of eminent domain in this country does not imply the resumption of a grant, but a purchase made at full selling value to effect a public good, and hence it has nothing whatever in common with Gcorgeism, which aims at a general confiscation of real property without the puyment of a cent The difference between the two is that between honest payment and tvrannical robbery between villainous spoliation and a fair purchase. Chicago Tribune. - Commissioner Edgerton takes rather strange ground when he.says that the civil-service reform "leaguers" and "associations" are apt to be unreasonably hostile to the administration. These societies are made up almost exclusively of mngwamps, who are supposed to be the President's particular patrons and admirers, and if they are hostile to the administration which they claim to have put in power, where in the name of all that is reasonable is Mr. Cleveland to look for his friends. Philadelphia North American. The praiseworthy fiat has gone forth that there shall be no more fees exacted of immigrants at Castle Garden. Now let us see if this edict is obeyed that is the essential point. In many parts of Europe the taking of fees for petty ser'ices is officially forbidden, but the practice is universal, all the same, and woe to the simple soul who takes the official notice in eood faith! We trust that the officers at Castle Garden will see to it that their order does not become a dead letter. New York Commercial Advertiser. - Mr. George Compliment the Almighty. Kevr York Sun. "We are going to carry out the intentions of an intelligent Creator." So said Henry George at the meeting of the Anti-poverty Society on Sunday night. Mr. George is fortunate in having discovered the Creator's intentions. Weak, credulous persons who still put faith in the Bible suppose that the Creator intended that roan should eat bread in the sweat of his brow. Still, it must be acknowledged that Mr. George has acted very handsomely in complimenting the Creator. "

T1IE GEEEKCASTLE REUNION

Second Bay of the Annual Meeting of the Veterans of Wilder's Brigade. The Time Devoted to Speech-Making:, Relat ing Reminiscences and Singin? Old Army Songs A Season of Genuine Enjoyment. Special to the Indianapolis Jonrnat Greencastle, Sept 8. A crowd, estimated at about 6,000 people, gathered at the campgrounds of the Wilder Brigade last night, where was held the annual camp-fire, the main feature of the reunion. The meeting was called together by W. E. Starr, of the Eighth Indiana Battery, who introduced Judge Silas D. Coffey as chair man of the evening. Following prayer by Bishop Bowman was a song, "Tenting on the Old Camp-ground," by a sextet composed of lead ing vocalists of the city. Rev. M M. Parkhurst, of this city, was then presented to the audience and delivered the principal address of the evening. The speaker said they were assembled to wel come comrades of as grand a brigade as marched to the defense of our glorious flag. which to day protects with equal power in this and all other lands. Because of the valor of the veterans we bave to-day the strongest govern ment on the face of the earth so strong that neither the revolution of parties nor the influence of foreign power can change our policy. Mr. Parkhurst said we must look to our schools and universities for the future welfare of our country; that the topics discussed at such places as those, and not the wrangling on the Chicago board of Trade, fore shadowed the future of our country. He said their calling as soldiers has pas3d away; that the war seemed as a fearful dream, and hoped they would never be called upon to take up arms again, but would beat their swords into ploughshares, and work to an era of moral and political gove rnment on the princi ple of "good will to all men." Dr. Parkhurst is a splendid orator, and his address was well received. Following Dr. Parkhurst was a recitation by Miss Sidelia Starr, entitled, "The Old Veteran and His Grandson." Miss Starr is one of the most accomplished young ladies of this city, and on more than one occasion has won the hearts of the veterans at their reunions by her powers in declaiming, and the way in which she bronght tears to the eyes of the veterans shows she has lost none of her cunning. Miss Starr responded to an encore be reciting "Sheridan's Ride." After ashort speech by Major James A. Con nelly, of Illinois, Miss Kate Hammond, one of the finest contralto soloists of the city, sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic," ax.d responded to an encore by giving one of her popular recitations. The remainder of the evening's entertainment was interspersed with music and reminicences by the old officers and comrades of the brigade. The meeting was a success in every particular. Morning dawned bright and cool on the camp. and the veterans were astir at an early hour, scarcely showing the effect of the previous day's work. Two hundred and fifty additional veter ans arrived during the night. The first business of the morning was the regimental reunious, the veterans forming by regiments and companies and going through the various military tactics witn great pride. After the veterans had formed into their respective regiments, the brigade line was formed and each comrade was presented with an elegant silver badge by Gen. and Mrs. Wilder. The badge is of silver, about the size of a silver dol lar. The medal bears on one side the appella tion given the regiment by Gen. Garfield after the battle of Chickamauga: "Wilder's Lightning Brigade." the dates 1861-1SG5; a cannon, rifle and shield, while the reverse is left blank for the wearer s name. I be badges were designed and executed by Tiffany, of New York. After the presentation of medals was completed a committee from the brigade waited on Gen. Wilder and presented him with an elegant gold headed cane and a gold badge. After a feeling response to this unexpected proceeding, Gen. Wilder intro duced his wife and child to the brigade amid deafening cheers. Miss Starr was then waited upon by the committee and presented with a handsome silver card case and a badge of the brigade, in honor of her performance of last evening. After short addresses by Gen. M1I0 S. Hascall, formerly colonel of the Seventy-second Indiana, and uen. A. . Miller, afterwards colonel of the same regiment. Gen. ben Harrison was pre sented to the brigade and delivered the address of the day. General Harrison was received with great cheers, and was repeatedly applauded while spiking. He spoke of the brotherly feel ing existing among the veterans, causing them to come together at these reunions as members of one family. The result of the war, he said, was the great advancement of the grandest government on earth, and the country owed an everlasting debt of gratitude to the veterans that had carried it through. He advocated the erection of a national soldiers' monument at Washington on a grand scale, and thought it would be a fit thing to remind future generations of the patriotism of the nation s defenders. He SDoke in favor of increasing the pension list said there was no cry of too many soldiers dur ing the war, and should be none now of too long a pension list He said be would honor no man or his grave because he was a rebel soldier. He would accord to every man the right of private opinion, but would not in any instance place a traitor on alivel with a loyal roan. At the conclusion of General Harrison a speech the singing and giving reminiscences by com rades were renewed. This work was entered into with the greatest zeal and good nature by the entire brigade. One veteran, while rpaaking, having incidentally mentioned the case of a comrade who was unable to attend the reunion on ac count of sickness and poverty, a collection was at once taken for his benefit, and $100 was raised in a few moments. At 12 m. the brigade marched to the commis sary department where dinner was served by the laaies of the V oman s Kelier Corps. The regiments are represented in the reunion as follows: Seventeenth Indiana, 221; Seventysecond Indiana, 244; Ninety-eighth Illinois, 142; One-hundred and twenty-third Illinois 200; Eighteenth Indiana Battery, 4L Among the officers of the brigade present were the following: Capt N. B. Thistlewood. ex-Mayor of Cairo, 111., and Adjutant Aden Knoph, of the rsinety-eighth IIliuois Regiment; Jlaj. S. . Kil bourn, of .Marshall. 111., and Gen. A. O. Miller, of Lebanon, Ind., of the Seventysecond Indiana: Col. Henry Jordon, of this city. and Capt Milton Beck, of Holton, Kas. , of the Eighteenth Indiana Battery; Gen. Milo S. Hascal!, of Goshen, Ind.. the first commander of the brigade. The following officers of the brigade were elected for the coming year: Commander. Jno. F. Wilder; senior vice-commander, A. O. Miller; junior vice-commander. Capt. Wm. Wood. Com mittee of arrangement: Seventeenth Indiana, S. E. Munford; Seventy-second Indiana, Major Kilbourn; Eighteenth Illinois, Aden Knoph; On-hurdred-and-twenty-third Illinois. Thos. E. Wood; Eighteenth Indiana Battery, W. E. Starr. After dinner the veterans and citizens gathered together once more and listened to addresses by Major Reynolds. Brigadier-general Hascall, and the farewell address of General Wilder. At 3 p. m. the meeting was turned into a general love feast, and it was with the greatess regret the veterans bid their commander and comrades good-bye. . The reunion has been a great success, far beyond the expectations of its projectors. Two thousand old soldiers were fed t the camp yesterday and to-day. Not a single accident occurred to mar the pleasure of the occasion, and every soldier seemed to feel glad that, after a separation of twenty-two years, he had once more met his old commander and comrades, and revived the old army scenes and memories. Walking Delegates, Please Note. Boston Globe. This is a nation of laborer?, although there are a few among us who do not have to labor for food or money. But in this new land he who is not a laborer of some sort is a loafer of a bad sort Here's a (Suggestion. Philadelphia Times. How would it do for the undertakers to bave a big convention at Washington now! They generally follow the doctors pretty closely. , The Car-Coupler Question. Philadelphia Trees. The coupler question appears likely to be decided before very long by the adoption of vertical-piano hook couplers, which do their work

automatically. The balloting provided by ths Master Car-builders' Association on this subject is now in progress and will be over by the end of October. The association itself voted by a two thirds majority in favor of the vertical-plane principle. A committee representing 35.000 miles of roads has decided on its adoption, and the link-and-pin coupler will be before long a thing of the past with the other man-killing and maiming forms of coupling appliances.

GREAT MILITARY BLUNDERS. Longstreet Thinks Meade Made One Great Mistake and Lee Another. Gainesville (Ga.) Letter in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Sitting where the breezes blew right from the Blue Iiidge summits across the wide verandas of his summer hotel. General Longstreet talked freely and interestingly. Upon some of his conversation he put the injunction of his publisher. There were other portions which may be repeated. His reminiscences . bad turned upon the mistakes of the war the military blunders. This remark was offered interrogatively: "General Grant is said to have stated to intimate friends upon one occasion that of all the mistakes made by the Union side, the greatest was at Gettysburg' "It was. "came the response, without a moment's hesitation: "there isn't any doubt of it" "You mean the mistake was in not following; up the vietorv?" "Yes." 'The day after the fighting ceased?" "No. On the third day of battle. Meade shouldn't have waited until the next day. Ha shouldn't have waited ten seconds. Pickett's division had been knocked all to pieces a"; most wiped out The same was the case with A. P. Hill's corps, or at least two divisions of it There were three divisions gone. They left a break in our line of over a mile. Meade shouldn't bave waited at all, but shonld have thrown his army rignt in between us." "That would have ended the whole thing? "Probably. Of course we would have tried to get together, and would bave fought the best we were able. But that was what Meade should bave done. . Everybody in both armies knew the day before where the attack and the hard fighting was to be. Meade knew and prepared for it, as he says. The plan of the battle was known to everybody the day before it was fought. Grant was right, I think. The greatest mistake of the war on that side was in Meads not making the move I have indicated tho third day of the fighting. " "Your troops covered the rear on the retreat from Gettysburg, General?" "Yea" "Is it true that your ammunition was reduced to three rounds, and that vigorous pursuit would have destroyed the army before it got to the Potomac?" "We had more ammunition than that We : had considerable ammunition. My idea is that when Meade failed to throw his army in between our forces when Pickett's division was crushed, the great opportunity was lost" Of the critical position at Gettysburg and of General Meade's mistake General Longstreet wrote in his Century arvjcje of last February aa follows: "As Pickett's division concentrated in makiifg the final assault. Kemper fell severely wounded. As the division threw itself against the federal line Garnett fell and expired. The confederate flag was planted in the federal line, and immediately Armistead fell mortally wounded at the feet of the federal soldiers. The wavering di- , visions then seemed appalled, broke their ranks J and retired. Immediately the federals swarmed ' around Pickett, attacking on all sides, enveloned and broke up his command, having killed and wounded more than 2.000 men in about thirty minutes. They then drove the fragments back upon our lines. As they came back I fully expected to see Meade ride to the front and lead his forces to a tremendous counter-charge. Sending my staff officers to assist in collecting the fragments of my command, I rode to mv line .. of . batteries, knowing they were all I bad in front of the impending attack, resolved to drive it back or sacrifice my last gun and man. The federals were advancing a line of skirmishers which I thought was the advance of their charge. As soon as the line of skirmishers came within reach of our guns the batteries opened again and their fire seemed -to check at once the threatened advance. After keeping it up a few minutes the line of skirmishers disappeared and my mind . was relieved of the apprehension that Meade was going to follow us. Gen. Lee came up as our troops were falling back and encouraged them as well at tj could; begged them to re-form their ranks, and reorganize their forces, and assisted the staff officers in bringing them all together again. It was then he used the expression that has been mentioned so of ten: 'It was all my fault: get to gether, and let us do the . best we can toward saving that which is left us.'" "What do yon put down as the greatest mili tary mistake made by the confederate side?" was asked. ' ' "The Maryland campaign," the General re plied quite promptly. "Why!" "It was a mistake for several reasons," was the answer. "I couldn't enumerate them briefly. I should bave to go into an extended statement It would take a number of pages to go over the . ground properly. Besides, you know what I told you about the injunction my publishers bave put upon me." As be Earn tnis tne Generals eyes twicKled. "You will elaborate your view that that cam paign was a blunder in your book?" "Yea, I sbaa try to make that plamf ' "What should you say was the hardest fight ing you saw during the war?? "At the battle cf Gettysburg we did what I consider the hardest fighting on the confederate side. On the other side the hardest fighting I remember to bave seen done, by the federals, was at Fredericksburg. There was nothing in my experience which I consider equaled the fighting on those two occasions." " On the evening of tne first day's fighting. when the confederates occupied Seminary Ridge and the federals concentrated upon Cemetery hill, Lee and Longstreet were upon the ridge, and, after studying the situation, longstreet said to Lee: "If we conld have chosen a point to meet our plans of operation I do not think we could have found a better one than that upon which they are now concentrating. All we bave to do is tc throw our army aronnd by their left and we shall Interpose between the federal army and Washington. We can get strong position and wait, and if thev fail to attack us we shall have everything in condition to move hack to-morrow night in the direction of Washington, selecting beforehand a good position into which we can place our troops to receive battle next day. Finding our object is Washington or that army. the federals will be sure to attack us. W hen th.o attalr ma cVinll hat. thm a or nrnnnaj to do before we left Fredericksburg, and the probabilities are that the fruits of cur success will be ereat" "No." said General Lee; "the enemy is there and I am going to attack him there." Longstreet savs: "1 suggested tbat suen a move as I proposed would give us control of the roads leading to Washington and Baltimore, and reminded General Lea of our original plans. If we had fallen behind Meade and insisted on staving between him and Washington, he would have been compelled to attack and would have been badly beaten. General juee answered, 'No; they are there in position, and I am going to whip them or they are going to whip me.' I saw he was in no frame of mind to listen to further igument at that time, so I did not push the matter, but determined to renew the subject the next morning." He did renew the subject on the morning- of the 2d, but Lee would not consider the proposition to move to Meade's left and rear. On the morning of the 3d Lee came to him and told him to renew the attack on Cemetery Hill. Once more, the third time, Longstreet urged the movement to Meade's left He says: "I stated to Gen. Lee that I had been examining the ground over to the right, and was much inclined to think the best thing was to move to the federal left" "No," he said. "I am going to take them where they are on Cemetery Hill. I want you to take Pickett's division and make the attack. I will re-enforce you by two divisions of the 3d corps.'" "That will give me 15,000 men," I replied. "I have been a soldier, I may say, from the ranks up to the position I now hold. I have been in pretty much all kinds of skirmishes, from those of two or three soldiers up to those of an army corps, and I think 1 can safely say there never was a body of 15.000 men who could make that attack successfully." "The General seemed a little Impatient at my remarks, so I said nothing more. As he showed no indication of changing hij plan, I went to work at'once to arrange my troops for the attack " The result was as already told. Pickett was crushed, and the confederate army was only saved by Meade's mistake. The Candidate and His Credentials. Minneapolis Tribune. Gov. Isaao P. Gray, of Indiana, wants to be the Demociatic candidate for the vice presidency: . When aslred whence comes thii candidate. They'll answer in gr-at ?lee "He cometh from tbe Hoosier State And its busted treasuree." They Are Democrat Just the Same. St. bonis Post-Pispatch. Both political parties now claim Indiana, but neither partv is claiming the Indiana Ku-klux who are still committing outrages under the name of "White Caps."