Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1SS0.

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NEW YCRK Gilsey liouao and Windsor IIoteL PHI LADE LP II I A A. pTKemble, 3733 Lancaster avenue. "CHICAGO rainier House, CINCINNATI J. P. Ilawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern IIoteL WASHINGTON, D. C.-RIggs House and Ebbltt House. With an American beer trust opposed to an English beer trust, look put for a tug of corks. General Corurn will bo the first Mayor.the city has ever had from south of Washington street. The moro the people think about the Republican nominations, the better they like them. The ticket "grows." The local Democrats are adjured to put their best foot forward; but, tho truth is, the best foot is cloven. TnE Democracy is not pleased with the nomiuation of General Coburn. This is one of the best recommendations he could have to citizens anxious to vote for a good man. The Sentinel says the Republican city platform "reads very well," and the News says "General Coburn is a man against whom nothing can bo said." The Journal is happy to agree with both. The Republican city ticket is one which should call out every good citizen, not only to vote, but to work for it. It represents good government and financial prosperity for tho next two years. The teachers of tho State arc "talking now," and the echoes of their remarks reverberate through tho county papers. What they say is not in the nature of compliments to the BecktoldW'illiams books. ' A railroad accident discloses the fact that white Virginians arc leaving their State for mormondoui by the train load. Such an exodu3 of Democrats, on tho eve of election, must cause great anxiety to tho party leaders. The Sentinel makes the dreadful charge against General Coburn that he once recommended' his brother-in-law for an oflice. Perhaps that might; be a good reason for not electing him Mayor if it were true; but it is not. Has Miss Willard got the world so well on in the road to temperance that she can afford to leave whisky while sho tacklos the tobacco evil? One thing atn. time is a good rule for reformers as well as for the common run of people. Indiana is at tho fore. With a commander-in-chief of the army and navy at Washington, and a commander-in-chief of the Sons of Veterans here, it is in the line of national recognition. Next year the boys should go for commander-in-chief of tho G. A. R. IxDiANAroLis Democrats want to vindicate Sim Coy by re-electing him to tho Council. It is always regarded as a vindication of a Democratic rascal to elect him to oflice a second time; but the fact is his party would not have chosen him . in tho first placo if he hadn't been a rascal. m The coarse personal abuse heaped on General Coburn by tho organ of the saloons will deprive him of no votes, and may bring him not a few. The General has been a citizen too long not to havo friends among all parties, and these will resent unwarranted iusults to .one who has their high regard. Indiana teachers rank high in their profession on the score of intelligence and culture, and where they are free from intimidation by superintendent or trustee, and are at liberty to talk7 they condemn tho new text-books foisted upon them. Tho opinion o the teachers must be accepted as conclusive evidence. The coming international American congress is being "viewed with alarm" by European powers. They see in it not so much a sign of war, as a conference might mean among themselves, but an indication of danger to their own commercial supremacy in South and Central America. For once tho Europeans are right. A gradual overthrow of this supremacy is one of tho things that will in all probability result from tho congress. Mayor Denny's messago relative to tho delay of the Union Railway Company in constructing a viaduct across its tracks between Meridian and Pennsylvania streets shows that he and tho city attorney have done all in their power to induce the company to comply with its obligations in this regard. According to the Mayor's (statement they havo been rather cavalierly treated, and it seems to be about time for tho Council to apply some pressure.

Every Democratic member of tho Council and Board of Aldermen voted against thciOO saloon tax, and six .of those who so voted are candidates for ie-clcction. Tho retention of that tax

means a permanent addition of $30,000 a year to the city revenues, and tho way to insure its retention is to elect a Republican Council. The nature of the alliance between tho city Democracy and the Liquor League is such that if a Democratic Council is elected the tax will surely be repealed.

SOME PACTS 15 CITY GOVEBJTMEKT. Tho city of Indianapolis stands at the head of tho list of American cities in respect of low rate of taxation, small debt and economical city government. In a recent article on the "Growth of Taxes in Cities" Mr. George W. Elliott, of New York, an authority on tho subject, said: "A city of 20,000 inhabitants may bo very well provided for at a cost of $3 per capita per annum, or $100,000 a year; but a city of 100,000 inhabitants will require for what it deems to be its duty to do for its people $10 per capita per annum, or $1,000,000 a year." Indi anapolis has a population of 125,000, and the total cost of its city government, for several j-ears past, including street re pairs and improvements, has been about 500.000 a vear. This is about half tho average cost of cities of its size, as per capita or its population, in eleven cities of New York tho cost of city government is $12 per head of population. In fourteen cities of New England the cost of city govern ment is Sll.Slper capita. In Indianapo lis it is less than $4 per capita. In fifteen cities of New York the average debt is $28.78 per capita of population. In fourteen cities of New England it is $31.32 per capita. In nine citiesof Pennsylvania it is $20.36 per capita. In Indianapolis it is less than $12 per capita. Not a dollar has been added to tho city debt since 1877. Since then the annual revenues of the city have been considerably less than they were prior to that date, but the city has lived within its income, and made many valuable improvements. In a message to the Council Dec. 17, 1888, Mayor Denny said: I hone the finance committee will place tbe estimates for the next year at tho lowest possible figures, and insist on the heads of departments keeping within them; for we should not increase the amount of this year's temporary loan under any circumstances. The public ought to" he satisfied with the improvements you are able to make with the money furnished. Rut whether satisfaction can be given by such a policy or not, it is, nevertheless, our duty to live within the city's income. That has been the policy of the Republican city administration for several years past, and will continue to be the policy under Mayor Coburn. The people cannot ask a more honest one. - SOUTHEBN HOSTILITY TO NEGROES. There is reason to believe that the recent outrages on colored people in the South are not entirely due to race or color prejudice. They are due, in part, to political disappointment and a desire to lay the ground for future Democratic victories, as well as to obtain revenge for past defeats. If the Southern hostility to the negro could be, as the chemists say, qualitatively analyzed it would be found to consist, in large part, of jealousy. It is true that the race and color prejudice engendered by slavery has not yet died out, and probably will not for a long time. Tho feeling begotten by generations of slavery, of assumed superiority on one side and enforced subjection on tho other, cannot be expected to disappear in a single generation. It will take tho descendants of slaveholders a long time to realize that white, as a mere color, is no moro superior to black than red is to yellow, and that a man's status should bo determined by his character, and not by the color of his skin. The color prejudice is one of the sequences of slavery, and '"it will take time to remove it. But added to this is jealousy of the progress of tho negroes, their material prosperity, of their efforts at self-culture, of their acquisition of property, and of their steady progress in moral and educational affairs. This feeling may not obtain largely among the better class of Southern whites, but it prevails very generally among tho baser sort, tho poor whites and "wire-grass crackers." These people are very ignorant, very vindictive and very brutal. They are scarcely half civilized. Incapable of progress or improvement themselves, and with no ambition to better their condition, they cannot bear to see tho colored people getting on in tho world, acquiring property, buying little farms, building churches and school-houses, and laying the foundation of a genuine race culture. All this galls tho poor whites beyond enduraEce, and, as the only revenge within reach, they arm themselves and kill the negroes. It is tho only way tho wire-grass cracker can compete with the colored man. But, added to all this there is political disappointment and a determination to maintain tho solid South. Southern Democrats of all classes are angry over the defeat of Cleveland, and the more they think about it the madder they get. They are enraged at tho loss of the offices and at the reappointment of Republicans. It was the loss of tho postoffice and its patronage that caused tho Democratic outburst at Atlanta, and that is only a sample case. Every postoffice in tho South is a center of Democratic disappointment and nucleus of Democratic rage. When they get so mad they cannot hold in any longer they turn out and kill a few negroes, and call it a race war. This is the Southern Democratic method of protesting against the election of a Republican President. The wire-grass cracker does not look beyond immediate results and present revenge, but the Democratic managers in the South are determined to keep that section solidly Democratic. The steady Republican gains in some of the border States, and tho difficulty of holding pome congressional districts by the ordinary methods of fraud, warn them that an occasional resort to heroic measures is necessary. As a repressive measuro and means of maintaining Democratic majorities, nothing has been found 60 efficacious as killing negroes. Experience has shown them that the blood of the colored martyrs is the seed of the Democratic church. A negro killed means one Republican vote abolished and thousands intimidated. As a Demo-

cratic plan of campaign it is cheap, simple, and, up to a certain point, infallible. We say up to a certain point, for it cannot be permanently successful. The negtoes will not always submit to being killed.

WHAT A CABPET-BAQQEB EEALLY 18. At last we know wnat the Southerners mean by the term "carpet-bagger." A few days ago tho Atlanta Constitution whined about the outrage perpetrated on the sacred South in the appointment of carpet-baggers to office. Thereupon Colonel Buck, a leading Republican of Atlanta, published a statement in which ho shows that out of one hundred and thirty appointments in Georgia, only three are of men not "to the manor born," and that theso three are men of long residence and thoroughly identified witli the interests of the State. To this the Constitution retorts snarlingly that he is wrong, and that there are moro than three men of Northern birth holding office. This is the definition, then: A carpet-bagger in the South is a man of Northern birth, no matter if ho has lived South for twenty-five years, has married and reared his children there, and has no commercial interests outside of that section of country. The plain truth is that old slave-holders and their descendants, the bred-in-the-bone Democrats, the ex-rebels, cannot endure the thought that men outside of their charmed circle shall take any part in the management of political affairs. They put out enticing pleas'to Northern men to come there with their money and help build up the South, but would like to exact a pledge that theso newcomers will not attempt to enjoy any of tho rights of citizenship, but will leave all public affairs to them. Men can go from one Northern State to another, and Southerners go North, and whenever they adjust themselves to their new surroundings and are recognized as citizens in their new homes, bo the time long or short, they may aspire to official position without criticism. The South is tho only place in the United States where an attempt is made to maintain an aristocracy of office-holders. It is time the Southerners realized the hopelessness and absurdity of their efforts in this direction. If Northern men go down there they will take part in politics; it is their way and their right, and no protests of the decaying chivalry can hinder. If the representatives of these Southern first families do not discern the signs of tho times and unite with the progressive element, let its origin be where it will, they will presently find themselves in a feeble minority, with only the memories of past power for solace. The "carpet-bagger" will not stand still to wait for them. The Sentinel in one issue calls Gen. John Coburn "a. corpse," "a fossil of fossils," "a relic of tho paleozoic age," "a ghastly cadaver," "a ghost-walking spectacle," "a harmless old person, without ability or force," "a mere tool of the gang," and finally says "he has no record to run on." All that is pretty good. If tho organ of the Coy gang thinks it can make votes by abusing .General Coburn in that fashion let it continue. In the matter of ace General Coburn is younger than Thomas A. Hendricks was when the Sentinel advocated him for President and supported him for Vicepresident; is nearly fifteen years younger than Allen G. Thurman was when tho Sentinel supported him for Vice-president; is considerably ' younger tlian Judge Niblack was . when the Sentinel supported him for Supremo Judge; is several years younger than "Blue Jeans" Williams was when elected Governor; is two years younger than Congressman Holman, only fouryears older than Governor Gray, and two years older than Senator Voorhees. In fact General Coburn is just the right ag to make a good Mayor. As to having no record to run on, wo think his record will compare pretty favorably with that of either of tho gentlemen above named, or with cither of the prospective Democratic candidates for Mayor. Ho has served creditably in the Indiana Legislature, as common pleas judge, as colonel and general in the army, as circuit iudge, as member of Congress, as a member of the Hot Springs Land Commission, and as territorial'judge in Montana. Wo think ho has had quite enough experience to make a good Mayor, and has a very good record to run on. Perhaps some people would prefer Sim Coy's record; but, on the other hand, some may prefer that of General Coburn. Tory papers which were violent in their condemnation of the London strike now compliment the strikers on their conduct throughout, and praiso their leaders for their moderation and good citizenship. It is now conceded that the strikers were absolutely justified in their demands, and from the outset had tho warm sympathy of nine-tenths of Londoners of all social grades aud classes. The justice of their cause, their moderation and public sympathy made them invincible. The present exigency in city affairs is one that calls for a clear-headed, sagacious, progressive, enterprising man at the head of the municipal government; a man of brains, and energy, and broad views; a man with practical knowledge of affairs; a man with physical vigor and largo capacity for work. Sentinel. That's the reason why the Republicans nominated General Coburn and why the people will elect him. Ohio Democrats do not expect to elect Campbell, and aro not wasting any energy in his behalf. What they are trying to do is to secure a majority in tho Legislature, in order to "vindicate Senator Payne. They aro 'determined to buy . him a 6eat for a second term if it takes every cent of the old man's money. E. Heidenfeld writes to the New York world's fair committee that the Germans and German-Americans resident there desire to invito the Emperor William to attend the fair, but says it would bo a disgrace to let Europeans see the streets in their present dirty and ill-paved condition. If New York does not get anything else out of this fair business, it will at least get a good idea of what the world thinks of it The letter-carriers will have an opportu nity to contribute to a monument or memorial to the late Hon. S. S. Cox. A committee

has been appointed by the national asso

ciation to look after details and take charge of all funds, and the secretary of the association was instructed to mail a circular letter to every free-delivery office asking for hearty co-operation in the project Tho movement is appropriate enough in view of Mr. Cox's services in securing friendly legislation for the letter-carriers, but it should be remembered that he was a millionaire, and the letter-carriers are not The assessment should not be heavy, Sir Edwin Arnold has gratified his desire of meeting Walt Whitman, and says: I think he Is the handsomest old man I ever saw, with the head of Jupiter and strength in every feature, I had a pleasant interview, sitting: for a long time face to face, with his hand on my kieo and my hand on his. I am more than ever convinced that he Is one of the greatest of your American writers. Ills poetry is wonderful. Prudish people, i know, object to some of it but there is nothing impure in it. It is the expression of a simple child of nature. What Mr. Arnold says of Whitman's personal appearance is true. He is a grand, rugged-looking old man, but as for his poetry well, the American people are not up to that cult It is very plainly the purpose of tho Blind Asylum trustees to have Superintendent JacQbs "go." They hardly dare to dismiss him, but by usurping his rights hope to drive him out, in order to make room for another man. Riley and Cullen do not know what they are there for unless it is to make arrangements profitable to themselves and to provide places for Democratic workers who are out of meat.

Dr. H. Z. Leonard, United States consul to London, Out, now has his office in excellent working shape, and there is an entiro absence of complaints. At the banquet given last week by Mr. J. C. Rykert M. P., to the" members of the Agricultural Board, Dr. Leonard responded to the toast, "The President of the United States," in a speech that was received with much applause. The Texarkana, Ark., citizens are still looking wistfully after Professor Wiss who went away with their savings bank money, but wist notyet where he is. A man at Bellaire, O., is teaching his dog to walk backward. That pup is evidently in training to run for office on the Democratic ticket The appearance of a leper at St. Paul will mako it necessary for Minneapolis to produce a case of Asiatic cholera at tho very least Private Dalzell is now an earnest subscriber to the theory that hindsight is better than foresight ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. TnE only stimulant now indulged in by Prince Bismarck is tea. Tea is the last resort of a roan who has to mind his p's and q's physically. Queen Victoria has an abnormal craving for air. She has windows thrown open in the coldest weather, and her suite sneeze most of the fall and winter. Thirty thousand out of the forty thousand people in Jerusalem aro Hebrews, and the Israelites bid fair to again become the predominant people in Palestine. James Russell Lowell has been placed by a friend in possession of tho manuscript of an early poem written by himself which, it seems, ho had utterly forgotten. Work on a line of horse-cars from Cairo to the Pyramids is nearly finished, and an elevator is to be constructed to take travelers to the tops of theso ancient piles. Kansas is said to have lost 58,000 in population since last year, owing to the crop failures in 1887 and 1888. The population as returned by tho assessors is about 1,480,000. Inl&80itwasWG,000. General Fisk has trimmed his beard and is devoting himself to his financial interests, and, although he says he is entirely out of politics, his friends think he would like to be minister to Russia. Dr. Sciiliemann is infatuated with old Greece, and he wants nothing not Grecian about him. His servants have Greek names, and ho never changes these, even though the men may be dinerent The first Arbor day was observed in Nebraska seventeen years ago, when 12,000,000 trees were planted. Thero aro now growing in the State COO.OOO.OOO trees. In other States many millions of trees have been planted. Mr. Edison is a better inventor than art connoisseur. In an interview in Paris, recently, he said: "I like modern pictures as much as I diulike the antique stutl. I think nothing of the pictures in tho Louvre. They are wretched old things." The Washington Capital frankly expresses the opinion thatThe critics rave o'er masters old, Murillo and Van Dyke, But the pictures on the dollar bills Are the works the people like. It is said that the secret of the production of cheap aluminum has been lost by the sudden death of the proprietor of the works, Mr. Seymour. He used some unknown chemical at a certain moment of the action of tho fusing and separation. All the employes were excluded from the room when ho went through the mysterious process, and anxiety is-expressed lest the secret died with him. Durinq the occupation of Paris by the allies, Wellington gave an order that no English officer should givo a challenge to or accept one from a French officer. A French marshal, shortly after this order, shoved an English colonel from the pavement into the street The Englishman knocked him down. When, tho marshal made a formal complaint, the Duke pent a written reprimand to the colonel, and in it inclosed an invitatiou to diuncr. The Grand Duchess Vladimir, who is lying dangerously ill at Peterhof, is to be made the subject of a curious surgical experiment, it the other resources of medical science fail. Professor Reiher, who has charge of the case, will; as a last resort, try the operation of transfusion, but not by using the blood of any other animal organization. He will instead employ artificial blood, made by himself for the purposecomposed chicily of an albumen, iron and salt solution. The Hanford (Cal) Sentinel tells this story: "A young man in this vicinity called upon a barber and had his hair cut. As usual, the barber applied some oil to the young man's hair. The young man retired to his blankets that night, but about 2 o'clock in the morning he awoke with tho feeling that some one was trying to saw tho top of his cranium off. Upon lighting a lamp he found the only trouble was that the oil on his hair had attracted a few thousand ants." Riioda Brougiiton, whose vogue is past and who has not written anything for several years, but who was, a decado ago, on of the most popular of all the female novelists, and tho founder of a very distinct tyre of literature, lives in a lovely little ola house at Oxford, wth a walled garden filled with roses and simounded by a colony of fat pug dogs, who all adore her, and are the descendants of the charming dogs that used to appear in Ler stories. Miss Annie Whitney offered a model for a statue of Charles Sumner, and the Boston committee appointed to make the award after adopting her model, reconsidered the action when told that it was the work of a woman. Henry B. Blackwell, who obtained the fact from Charles W. Slack, a member of the committee, but opposed to the reconsideration, says that Slack told him one member of the cominitteo went so far as to declare that no woman could make an anatomically correct statue of a man. Nathaniel E. Howard, a retired capitalist of San Francisco, was an original "Forty-niner." He says: "I was in Frisco when there were 45,000 men and not a single fam

ily. Jnage Terry, who was shot down while attacking Justice Field, made a lot of trouble in those days, and 1 was a member of the vigilance committee that kept him seven weeks in - its rooms while awaiting the result of the shot-wounds Terry gave Hopkins. Had Hopkins died and ne was mighty close to death Terry would havo been lynched. He richly deserved it." The late Colonel Tomliue, M. P., who, by the way, was one of the richest men in England, has not a very high opinion of his colleague, Disraeli. "Disraeli told me," he onco , remarked, "that flattery was the secret of his success in life. The higher a man climbed, he said, tho higher it could be laid on, until, if one could approach tho throne, it might be laid on with a trowel." The gentlenlan to whom this was narrated by the Colonel remarked that Disraeli once gave a capital piece of advice, namely, that scandal should never bo replied to, but lived down. "Yes, I know," said the Colonel, with a cynical smile, "that was my thunder. I remember him writing it down when I said it, and I thought at the time he was putting his pot theory into practice."

COMMENT AND OPINION. Public welfare demands that the privilege of self-defense shall be recognized, and that the practitioners of dueling shall be ostracized. The one is a terror to evildoers; the other is a temptation to bullies. New York Press. No negro can vote the Democratic ticket without throwing the weight of his influence with the brutal Democratic thugs who aro daily engaged in murdering negroes in the South and in burning their churches and school-houses. Cleveland Leader. The need of the time . is not to impose moro taxes on the land, already severelv taxed almost everywhere, but to preach those immensely profitable yet subtle forms of wealth which, under the blunt and crude laws of the past generation, now almost together escape tho tax-gatherer. Salt Lake Tribune. Money is the sure dependence of society, and we shall rise to higher and easier social conditions in the exact ratio of our general accumulations. It is the true social reformer; and tho man who advocates measures for obstructing the creation of wealth, no matter what the nature of his tactics, is a public enemy. New York Sun. Homicides through ignorance and blind credulity are not made better by the fact that those who commit them are sincere fools, and the treatment of disease by incantation is as contrary to public policy and as dangerous to life as the ignorant administration of medicine could be. It is time to put a stop to it. New York World. The Canadians must either assimilate their tarifl to ours and have the run of our markets, with absolute free trade, or they must expect the same commercial restrictions which we impose on other countries. Perhaps they will come to that someday, and meanwhile the United States will wait until they ask for it Chicago Tribuiro. The only fair test of the efficacy of capital puuishment will be furnished when the experiment of its abolition is made in a State with some city like New York oi Chicago in its borders. If crimes of violence decrease in such cities, it will be fair to assume that imprisonment for , life is preferable to executions as a remedial measure. r-New York Times. Men and women are so constituted as to be emulous of the feats, good or bad. of tho heroes and heroines of fiction. The novels of Saltus, of Ouida, and of Laurence have led many a man and woman into devious ways that have ended only in shame. Tho lewd 6tories the names of which aro only mentioned among men and under the breath have never wrought so much moral ovil as the novels of the writers we have mentioned, and of a few others who might be named with them. Chicago Herald. The daisies have been growing above the grave of tho "rag baby" for half a decade, and while we cannot altogether withhbld pity for the delusion of Jones and the handinl of his followers who still hope to bring it back to life, we cannot afford to overlook the "indictment" which they formulate against tho existing monetary system of the country, as we can afford to laugh at the assaults on tho Nation's solvency and honor which they made in the days of their ascendency. St Louis Globe-Democrat LINCOLN AND STANTON. How They Received the News of the Result of the Election of 18G4. Charles A. Dana's Eecoljectiona. In the last number of tho Century Magazine Messrs. Hay and Nicolay narrate their idea of what happened at the War Department on the evening after the second election of President Lincoln, in 1801. . As they were not present, their report must be a matter of hearsay. I do not know that any of the particulars they relate are defheient in accuracy, though I can testify that while I was there at that time ' I did not observo them. I was not usually on duty in tho Wa"r DeSartment at night; but Mr. Stanton had irccted me to come over that evening: and 1 arrived pretty early, eay a 8 o'clock or half-past 8. The excitement of tho strug- . 1 a 1 . . . i . T- .11 gio naa ocen intense, in an my experience I have never witnessed any other election that had so much politics in it. All the resources of partisan science, backed by the immense power of the vast and widespread expenditures of tho War Department, then about a million a day, had been employed by tho astuto and relentless statesman at the hoad of the War Office! and he did it with a pertinacity and skill that never have been supassed. Of course no great step had been taken without tho kuowledge and consent of Mr. Lincoln, himself a politician of a very fertile and superior order; but tho engineer whoso hand was never taken oft tho machine, and whose purpose never relaxed its'highpressuro energy, was Mr. Stanton; and his ardent and excitable nature. was kept at fever heat to the very last moment of tho contest, and afterward. Tho President, apparently as serene as a summer morning, was in Mr. Stanton's large private room, and no one was with him except the Secretary and General Eckert, who came continually with telegrams. The result of the voting was of such a decisive character that the news arrived much earlier than had been expected, and when I went in I learned both from the President and tho Secretary that tho question seemed already to bo substantially settled. Each dispatch that was received beemed only to add to the apparent certainty, and by about V o'clock there was no longer any doubt But without waiting for that hour. Mr. Lincoln drew from his breast a thin yellow-covered pamphlet. "Dana," said he to me, "have you ever read anything of Petroleum V. Nasbyf ' pronouncing Nasby, as though the first syllable were spelled with the letter e. "No, sir," said I, 'not much: but I know that he writes from the Confederate Cross Roads and prints his things in the Toledo Blade." "Yes." said Mr. Lincoln, "that's so. but .that is not tho whole. Pull up your chair and listen." 1 drew up to him and he began to read aloud, to me only and not to Stanton, one after another of ltrolcum's funny hits; and between each of them we had a quiet little laugh all to ourselves. Rut the lion head of tho Secretary showed plainly that he had no sympathy with this amusement; in fact, his face wore its darkest and sternest expression. However, the reading went on, occasionally broken by General Eckert's entrance with another telegram, to which Mr. Lincoln paid no very serious attention; and he quickly turned back to the reading every time. In this way he read paragraphs aud even pages of Nasby, until finally a dispatch was brought in of a more important nature and ho laid the pamphlet down to attend to it. . While he was thus engaged, Mr. Stanton motioned to me to come with him into General Eckert's room, and when the door was shut he broke out in fury: "God damn it to hell." 6aid he, "was there ever such nonsense? Was there ever such inability to appreciate what is going on in an awful crisis! Here is the fate of this whole Republic at stake, and here is tho man around whom it all centers, on whom it all depends, turning aside from this momentous, this incomparable issue, to read the God damned trash of a silly mountebank!" This fiery speech of tho enraged Secretary was interrupted by General Eckert who had another telegram which he showed to him, and with which we all went back into Mr. Stanton's own office, in order that the President might see it. Hardly had he begun to read it, however, when a new occasion of irritation arose. The messenger brought in a card and handed it to the President, who said at ones, as he passed the card over to the Secretary. "Show him in!" Stanton read it, and, turning to me, exclaimed in a low voice: "God in heaven, it is Whitelaw Held!" I understood the point of this explosion at once. Mr. Reid, "who was then the corrc

spomlrntof the Cincinnati Gazette, and a great. friend of Secretary Chaso in Washington, was not liked by the Secretary of War. This dislike had gone so far that tho door-keepers at the War Departmen had received directions that Mr. Reid was not to be admitted. Rut when ho ent his card in to the President they could not refuse it. Mr. Reid came 1n and was greeted by Mr. Lincoln, but not by the Secretary. His purpose was merely to obtain from headquarters and fmm tho highest authority the assurance that tho election Lad certainly gone in favor of Lincoln; and after expressions of thanks and congratulation he withdrew. Jnst then Jndge David K. Cartter came in with two or three other gentlemen, among them Mr. Fox, of the Naw Department, and the reading of Petroleum V. Nasby from the Confederate Cross Roads was not resumed. These incidents of a memorable historical event are not recorded in any annals of tho time thatl havo seen: and yet they -appear to me interesting and characteristic enough not to be forgotten. tiie rniLosornr of negro killing.

YTliy the Southern Bourbons Want to Get Rid of "the Excess" of Colored Teople. Charleston News and Courier (Dcm). i.j Itisnotalono a question of "the best labor" for South Carolina and the South that we have to consider, but a question of the political rights and privileges of tho colored man. His present condition as a "citizen" is not satisfactory to him. or to ourselves, or to the people of any part of the country. He cannot be regarded as established forever in a laborer's place. Ho is becoming better educ ated every year, and we are helping to educate him. His "labors" are not now contir ed to the cotton field or the phosphate mine, and tho range of his activities is being rapidly extended by our aid, freely bestowed in a thonsand school-houses. This kind of aid has been given to him for more than two decades, and he is no nearer to sympathizing with us in political or other public questions than ho was at the beginning of that period. "Tho colored people." saye the representative of the phosphate interest whoso views wo hiwe published, "wero naturally glad the Republican party woe, and that was all." And that is euough. surely! Naurally, or unnaturally, many of the colored voters of South Carolina are identified with the Republican party. What this means to South Carolina, and what it will always mean, does not require to be told anew to any intelligent man in South Carolina. "I havo nothing to say about tho political bearings of tho case." says our exponent of the labor side of the question. But something must bo said, and something mnst bo done, by the exponents of the political side of tho question. What is to bo donef It is idle tocontemplato an indefinite continuance of existing conditions. The white voters in South Carolina are in a numerical minority. They cannot, expect to retain political control of the State, and their present representation in Congress and in tho Electoral College, at the samo time. They cannot disfranchise the colored voters as a class. They havo no intention of imposing educational or othor disqualifications in the exerciso of the snfiraico which will disfranchise a part of their ow n numbers. They certainly do not desire to have tho State. remain "for years the subject of political experiments and political agitations, conducted by an outside and unfriendly organization, to the injury of every important interest in the Stat, Tho New Orleans Times-Democrat published a week ago a careful review of the progress of the ' Southern States since- tho war. Louisiana, and Mississippi, and South Carolina are at the foot of tho list, with South Carolina last of all! These three States aro characterized by the preponderance of colored laborers and colored voters in their territory. They are tho political battlegrounds of this countrj. - The presence of an immense body of colored laborers plainly does notcoro pen sate them for the presenco of a majority of colored "citizens." Tho situation is not afall satisfactory, upon examination, and there is no promiso of its improvement, that any man can sec, so long as the White people of tho State aro a minority of the population of tho State. The removal of tho excess of tho colored population will remove the occasion and thocaoso of our political troubles without seriously affecting any interest There is no other modo of relief open to us. Tho News and Courier believes, it cannot but believe, that it is the part of wisdom to get rid of that excess at the earliest practicablo " day. Democratic Advice to Ou traced Nesjoea. St. Louis Republic. i delegates to tho Negro Baptist Convention, whilo on their way to the convention, were assaulted by rutlians, who boarded the trains, beat them and forced them to leave the car to which they had been assigned, or where they held seats by reason of the payment of their fare, they should sue the railroad company first and endeavor to bring tho ruffians to justice afterwards. This seems hard on tho company, and it is possible that the courtsmighthold that tho company is not responsible for delivering passengers at their destination In undamaged condition. It is possible, on the other hand, that comraon-senso on the bench would apply the just principle that tho carrier, by reason of tho obligation of hij contract, is as much bound to deliver human, as any other freight, undamaged. Twice, recently, negro passengers havo been beaten on railroad trains by outlaws who boarded the trains for that purpose. If tho railroad company is made to pay damages it will 6ee that such outrages aro made impossible, and will use all its influence with tho State authorities td havo them punished where they have already been committed. A Troper Reminder. South Bend Tribune. The Indianapolis Journal noticesthat tho westerrr cyclone has not put in an appearance this year. . If the Journal lived iu that part of Indiana where parents are opposed to tho Recktold-Williams school books it would . think the cyclone was getting in moro than its usual work. Reaping the Whirlwind. Kansas City JournaL ' There aro no further reports of experiments with the Brown-Sequard elixir, bufe returns are coming in from the people who received injections while the craze was on and subsequently developed interesting cases of blood poisoning. ' Remarkable Consensus of Opinion. Cbicasro Inter Ocean. A San Francisco paper has kept a record of American newspaper editorials upon tho tilling of Judge Terry by Marshal Xagle, and but three in all the United States have doubted that it was a justifiable act Room for Argument on That Point Albany Journal. Good citizenship cannot be learned, liko geographi'. out of books, or by precept. Ethics and political economy will teach the boy even less of it than arithmetic will. No Snch Good Luck. Philadelphia Press. There is a revival of the report that Mr. Cleveland will stump Ohio for the Democratic ticket In Republican circles tho story is regarded as too good to be true. While Cleveland Never Did Know Garland. Bprlncfleld Republican. "Harrison knows men and afiairs. and Cleveland didn't," remarks the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. It took Harrison about five months to know Tanner. An Injury to the Cause. New York Mail and Express. Tho intemperance in Speech and action of many of the professed friends of temper ance is one of tho greatest bars to the success of the temperance cause. Home at Latt. Detroit Tribune. Riddleberger, the incurable, has at last bf en transferred to the inebriate asylum cf American politics the Democratic party. T Twould Make a Hetter Farce. Washington Tress. The best available them for a successful comic opera is "The Georgia Duel." Then is a fortune in it if well worked.' What Hurts the Democ rats Most. The most unpleasant thing about thu Harrison administration i that there aro forty-two months more of it. Democratic Second Thought. rbUartelplila Ileconl. It is easier to predict Mahouc'a defe than to defeat hiui.