Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1890 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1890.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL ' can he found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Btrasd. PARIS American Exchange In Paris, Si Boulevard des Capuclnes. NEW YORK-Gllaey House and "Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. pT KemMe, 173 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer IIoujql CINCINNATI J". P. Hawley A Co., 1M Vine street. LOTJIBVILLE C. T. Deerlng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 6T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL Washington, d. a iuggs House and Ehbitt House. ; We realize that the negro Is our equal be fore the law. We also realize that, If he be asHowed freely to rote, and to have his rote honestly counted and returned, we, the white people of South Carolina, will be In a minor ity; we must submit to that or quit the State, vnd. In all reverence, we swear that we will never quit the State, Representative Hempbill, of South Carolina. Speaker Heed is not a man who goes about seeking consolation, neverthlesa the hearty indorsement of every Republican convention cannot fail to bo grati'fying. The restoration of complete harmony among the Republicans of. Ohio has j eliminated every promising Democratic I presidential possibility from the list. iMr. Gray now has the Western field to r himself. It may ho suggested to the Democratic press of Indiana that the less they have to Bay in denunciation of deficiencies in public accounts tho better . they will serve their party at home, which has kept the State Treasury in a chronic condition of deficiency for ten years. mmm mm mm mm The New York Herald invites Mr. Blaine over to the Democracy, which demands free trade with all the world. The statement as to the purpose of the Democracy is candid, but why invito a man to loin the free-trade party who oujecia tu xreu tiauu uiuic txxou auj uiou in the country! TnE Louisville Courier-Journal intimates that a national election law is calculated "to wound the reasonable sensibilities of the whole people of the South." That would be dreadful, but if the white people of the South would let Republicans vote there would be no occasion for wounding their sensibilities. ' If tho Senate talks six weeks on tho tariff bill it will talk altogether too much, and when it is through neither it nor the country will have acquired any information on the subject which they are not now possessed of. The gift of gab is very useful under proper restrictions, but it may bo greatly overworked. Members of Congress who insist upon remaining at seaside and mountain resorts while legislation is incomplete should bo given leave by- their respect:;ivo constituencies to enjoy a permanent rest after their own fancy. In tho meantime it may be as well to remind them that they were not elected to become ornaments of summer resorts. TnE New York Sun excitedly declares that the Republican party represents "centralization, extravagance, corruption, usurpation and oppression, and behind tho bayonets the Man on Horseback emerging from the shadow of the empire." Tho.wcather must be very hot in New York. Ice comes high, but the thought department of the Sun has got to have some. It was according to tho fitness of things that Mr. Hemphill, of South Carolina, should be put forward as the main objector in the House to the election bill, since four counties in his district which gave General Garfield 6,233 .votes in 18S0 for President gave Gen. Harrison only 494 in 1888. A free vote and a fair count, and Mr. Hemphill's voice would never have been heard in Congress. The Democrats of tho First district of Illinois, in their convention, denounced Colonel Taylor, the Republican Representative, because ho said in the House that the federal election law was needed in that district, and now the Chicago Inter Ocean calls attention to the fact that the election in that district two years ago was under the supervision of federal officers upon a petition signed by Democrats exclusively. The Financial Chronicle, a commercial paper of high authority and Democratic in politics, pronounces the new silver law "a far better one than we anticipated," and declares that "tho new currency is in quality immeasurably su perior to the old," because distinctly redeemable in gold and having behind it adequate provision for its redemption The opinion of tho Chronicle is worth something, which is more than can be said of tho averago Democratic news paper. The boodlers who iled from New York a few years ago to cscapo punish mcnt are back in that city. One or two of tho less flagrant rascals were sent to prison, but tho lenders went to Canada. They have returned because they are certain that they will not bo punished. Tho present district attorney says that ha will try two of them in September,

but the newspapers consider his promise in tho nature of a joke. Colonel Fellows, tho district attorney, is not a Tammanyite, but one of the County Democracy, which is in favor with the Cleveland coterie. Colonel Fellows would have been defeated in 1887 had not Mr. Cloveland written a letter asking Democrats to vote for him.

THE REPUBLICAN SITUATION, All reports and indications co to show that there has been a wonderful chango for tho better in the Republican situation in this and other States during tho past few months. The Republican coutestin 1S88 was protracted and exhausting, and when party men had done with rejoicing oyer their victory a reaction came. They wanted arestfrom politics. Many who did not want favors were dissatisfied because all their friends did not succeed in getting appointments, and there was some soreness because it was impossible for the President to recognize all the good men who deserved official recognition. In short, that 'naturally camo about which always follows any great victory, namely, a season of reaction and a desire for a period of rest. Some came to the conclusion that they had done so much service in tho party ranks that they were entitled to an indefinite furlough. This was the condition of the Republican mind when tho township elections were held. The Democrats made some gains, and at once they hegan to sing the song of triumph, to predict the dissolution of the Republican party and to assume the samo offensive tactics which havo so often arrayed decent men against them. Leaders of tho Coy notoriety pushed themselves to the front, and were recognized by tho rank and file as dictators. Such proceedings have aroused Republicans to take an interest in party matters again to take their places in tho Republican ranks to fight under tho old Republican banner, which, for a third of a century, has been borne to victory as often as a battle has been won for human rights, human progress and good government. Republicans see now, as in the past, that RcDublican ascendency is essential to good government and financial prosperity. Republicans everywhere now see that President Harrison's administration is commending itself to tho country for its efficiency, conservatism, integrity and faithfulness. Every branch of the public service is characterized with business-like efficiency, and business methods have been adopted. It has been found to bo an administration which has given confidence to the business and industry of tho country. Tho Republican Congress has proceeded in a manner to inspire the confidence and enthusiasm of the Republican party, - It has looked on with ad miration while the united Republicans in tho House, under the leadership of the dauntless and brilliant Reed, havo broken the power of tho filibuster and asserted tho right of the majority to legislate. . The party has taken new confidence in Republican legislators when it has seen them dispose of tho silver question and give tho business of tho country the needed expansion of the currency without resorting to devices which would endanger the specie basis. It responds to that statesmanship which reduced the revenue by taking the tax from sugar. It hails with delight that devotion and courage in tho Houso which passed a federal election law in defiance of tho namby-pambyism of mugwumpery and tho threats of a lawless Democracy. The party rejoices that tho reason able claims of tho veterans of the lato war have been so far met as they havo been by Congress; that a blowhas been struck at monopolistic trusts, and a law passed which will put an end to frauds in the customs service, which grew so rapidly under the Cleveland regime, In short, tho rank and file of tho Republican party have come to see, during the past three months, that there is vitality, power, patriotism and unity of purpose in Re publican rule that the Republican party cannot only "point with pride" to its history, but can speak with admiration of its achievements in tho present. It is yet tho "G. O. P." These considerations, acting upon tho minds of practical and patriotic men who desire good government, havo caused a quiet but general awakening in the Republican party, and the old foe of progress will ascertain that fact on election day, if not before. . THE ONE 0B THE OTHER. The Sentinel continues to bo troubled about Governor Hill's tariff explanation in his speech, which it did not publish. It thinks that it was entirely unneces sary for his Excellency to declare here that Democrats are not free-traders. The policy of making such an explana tion is a question for Democrats to determine. It may or it may not have been good politics, but, so far as tho controlling element of tho Democratic party is concerned, it was a false statement, tho making of which in any except the Democratic party would be bad politics. So far as tariffs are concerned there can be but two theories upon which they can bo based protection and revenue, and revenue only. Tho former is protection and tho latter free trade. Tho party which denounces protection is a free-trade party, as is tho party which would ad just a tariff so as to obtain revenue only, since, when revenue should no longer bo necessary, custom-house duties would bo abolished. The Sentinel is right, therefore, when it declares that it was unnecessary for Governor Hill to declare that tho Democratic party is not tho party of free trade, because, by all its'i ecent platforms and votes, it has de clared against protection and for a tariff for revenue, and for revenue only. The Western Democracy has specially placed itself upon the free-trade platform in all recent conventions. It cannot retreat from that position, and the indications are that it does not desiro to do so. Rut it is different in the East, and Gov. Hill was delivering a national speech. Ho had left printed copies of it in the Democratic newspaper offices. His Ex cellency is a shrowd politician. Ho

knows what killed Mr. Cloveland in

New York, and he knows that it was tho advocacy of free trade by the men who passed the Mills bill in the House. He knows that a similar. advocacy would kill him in New York" in 1802 if he was a Democratic candi date on an avowed free-trade platform. So he takes occasion to declare that, while Democrats are not protectionists, they are not free-traders. They aro hybrids. The Sentinel does not accept this double-faced policy, and the Democratic party has gone too far to seek cover under it, even if Governor Hill. should be its candidate in 1892. Tho Sentinel and the Democrats in Indiana must see to it that Governor Gray, as Governor Hill's lieutenant, does not commit the Democratic party, at its next convention, to Hill's "face-both-ways" tariff dodge. THE LEGISLATIVE TICKET. There has never been a time in tho history of Indianapolis when its inter ests were so largely involved in the char acter of the Marion county delegation in tho Legislature as they are in the one to be elected next fall. In the progress of events tho time has come when im portant changes must be .made in the city charter and the laws affecting its ; government. At present it is entangled in a mass of inconsistent and uncodified legislation which hampers it on all sides. Its charter is in some respects obsolete and in others an incumbrance. Some of , its provisions never- should havo been enacted, and others have outlived their usefulness. Municipal legislation imperatively demanded by the city's in terests cannot be enacted without the authority of the Legislature. There is a general demand for a board of public works, to be appointed by tho Mayor. Many persons are of the opinion that a general system of public improvements should bo inaugurated, to provide for which tho city should bo authorized to increase its revenue, and perhaps its tax levy. At all events, there is imperative need of abettor system of municipal administration than wo now have. There is 'a growing feeling that tho executive powers of tho Mayor should be enlarged, while relieving him of police court duties. There will probably bo an effort mado to secure an enabling act or some kind of favorable legislation for tho free-gas movement. These aro only a few of the suggestions springing out of the pres-' ent situation, and which aro matters of general discussion. Tho legislative delegation to bo elected next fall will have to deal with all these matters, and it stands to rea son that they should be capable of dealing with them as the city's interests require. They should bo familiar with the interests of the city and with the practical reforms which are needed, and should be able to present theso matters effectively to tho Legislature. The ticket which oilers the best assurance of doing this ought; to be elected, and probably will be. Tho Democratic ticket already nominated offers no such, assurance. On ihejcpn trary, it offers an attractive opportunity for tho Republicans to nominate- a win ning ticket. If tho convention which meets to-morrow attempts to compete with the Democracy in nominating a ticket to represent all interests excep't those of tho public at large it will invito defeat. On tho other hand, if it nominates a ticket representing tho interests of tho city and capable of securing needed legislation, it will almost" cer-' tainly insure success. It is as easy to nominate a winning ticket as a losing one, and it is to bo hoped the conven tion will show itself fully responsivo to public and party feeling on the subject. GERMAN IN THE SCHOOLS. The decision of a court on a close Question can never bo predicted, and if the question of German instruction in tho schools had not been a close one it would not have been taken into court. It is close enough to enable a lawyer to make a good argument on either side and to justify a court in deciding either way. Judge Howland holds that. the law is mandatory in requiring school trustees to introduce German in any and every school of the city on the demand of tho parents of twenty-five children, and that tho trustees havo no discretion to decide in what grades or years tho language shall be taught. This prac tically takes the control of the schools out of the hands of the trustees, so far as German is concerned, and places it in the hands of any twenty-five parents who may demand German instruction. It also places German above English, because, while tho trustees can regulate tho English course as to branches, grades, years, etc., they have no discretion as to German, but. must provide for teaching it in every m school and every grade if so required by the parents of twenty-five children. Tho decision estops tho board from cutting off German in tho grades below tho sixth year, by which a saving of about $0,800 would bo effected, and, so far from curtailing the expense of German instruction, they may be obliged to increase it. Whether Judge Howland's decision is the correct construction of tho law or not, there can be no doubt that tho law itself is impolitic and unwise. Tho School Board should have tho same control over the German language that it has over tho English, tho Latin and the Greek, and should bo permitted to regulate the course of etudy according to their own ideas as to what tho interests of tho schools require. Tho compulsory German jaw never should havo been passed, and ought to be repealed. Indiana is the only Stato that has such a law. It is a demagogical enactment and a step toward recognizing the vicious principle of apportioning the school fund among different nationalities and sects. The Charleston News and; Courier makes a frantic appeal for the preservation of white supremacy and tho purity of the Democratic party in that State, which, it says, can only be accomplished by the defeat of Tillman. It declares that "the support of him and his ticket is an indorsement of every slander that he has over uttered, of every charge of

dishonor and dishonesty that he has ever preferred against the men who have represented the Democratic party in the past. To indorse him is to condemn tho party; to elect him would bo to discredit tho Stato at homo and abroad, and to plead guilty to the vile charges which he has made against tho integrity of the party." In other words, if Tillman is elected tho straight-out Democracy of South Carolina will bo branded as an organization of thieves, swindlers and cut-throats. The party has always had a reputation for rascality,, but the possibility that the charges will be proved beyond room for denial is what causes the Courier such agony. It will be embarrassing to acknowledge itself an organ of a party convicted of villainy..

The attention of a prominent Treasury official has been called to the declarations of the Democratic press to the efiect that there will be a deficiency in the Treasury because of the Republican pension legislation and the loss of revenue proposed by tho McKinley bill. That official showed that the figures of those newspapers aro preposterous. The sinking fund is placed at $100,000,000, when it is but $50,000,000. They charge $25,000,000 to rivers and harbors for tho year, when, if the bill is passed, the expenditure will cover the two years of this Congress. They make no. account of $90,000,000 of cash in the treasury, and $55,000,000 of redemption fund which has been set free. The more careful collection of the revenues by this administration, aided by the administrative customs law, has so increased the revenues that nearly half of the estimated reduction by the McKinley bill will bo made up by honest collections. Judge LirnxcoTT, of Jersey City, when sentencing four convicted election officers last week, said: "No one who becomes the willing tool of another to corrupt the elective franchise can ever after claim to bo possessed of common honesty." This will seem strange doctrine to Indianapolis Democrats, who not only boast of the personal honesty of the convicted principal in the celebrated tally-sheet forgery, but elect him to an office of trust after Jiis term in the penitentiary. The Democratic standard of honor and honesty is peculiar. Bynum took the reprimand of the House as a mark of honor, and his constituents regard the ability to cheat at elections as an accomplishment of high order. The negroes in Oklahoma aro made to serve Democratic papers of neighboring States "a-comin' or a-gwine." When .'they entered the Territory the organs hastened to declare that their number 'was so large that they would practically have control, and boot great, injury to the region. A recent report that fourteen negro families had left the Territory and returned to Kansas, because they could not make a living in their new homes, is seized on by tho sauio papers to show that Oklahoma is a barren place, unfit to support a civilized people. The fact that later advices deny tho exodus of any colored citizens does not divert, the organs from their argument. The Republicans of tho Eighth "district havo it in their power to elect Mr. Mount to the next Congress. He is a self -mado man, of wide practical experience and first-rate capacity. The agricultural interests havo no more honorable and intelligent representative in the State, Jahd if the farmers in the Eighth district desire to bo honored in Congress by one of their own calling they can do so by giving Mr. Mount united support. Mr. Brookshire got into the present House by a narrow margin of sixty-nine votes. Ho can bo beaten by so conspicuously strong a candidate as Mr. Mount if those who want an efficient representative will do their duty. Rather curious ideas they have in' Louisiana about the freedom that was granted the blacks by the Emancipation Proclamation. If negroes are not satisfied with their job on a plantation and undertake to leave, tho planter forthwith organizes a posse of friends, pur sues tho laborers, shoots down five or six and drives tho others back to the plantation. Tho correspondent who describes such an occurrence at Merrougo adds, in a matter-of-fact way, that "this thing of negroes running away has becomo too common of late." It seems pertiuent to ask: Did emancipation emancipate? Isn't it about time the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate were exercising their prerogative of calling in absent members? Important legisla tion is pending yet in both branches of Congress, and the Senator or Repre sentative who is away for his personal comfort, or upon private business, is neglecting the duty he was elected to perform, and should be brought to a realizing sense of his shortcomings. Tho people whose business they are paid for attending to will be likely to make a note of this indifference to their interests for future reference. The day before the Democratic county convention met the Sentinel said: The Marion county delegation onehtto be composed of such material an to give it a commanding position in tho House, not only on account of local interests, but also for the general good of the State. As the capital city and the metropolis of the State, Indiauapolis should send leaders to every Legislature, and it was never more imnortant that this should be done than it is at present. As the Democratic convention paid no attention to this advice, the Republican convention to-morrow cannot do better than follow it. TnERE never was a time when the Republican party could havo maintained its organization for a single day in op position to a law to secure fair and honest elections, yet the Democracy present a solid front in that position, and aro much noisier in support of it than they could bo for any good cause. Tho Democratic party is never so strong or so well satisfied with itself as when it is supporting a thoroughly bad cause. "There is always danger," said Hon. Seth Low, the new president of Columbia College, in his address at Saratoga, "there is always danger that the effort will be

mado in onr public schools to teach too

much, to teach a smattering of too many things, instead of laying solid foundations, broad and deep, and instead, above all, of teaching the pupil himself to observe and to think' Mr. Low misht have added, if ' his observation has been extensive, that the great danger is in the first incorporation of any branch of study in the school curricu lum. No matter if its teaching be tried as an experiment, and is afterwards found to be an expensive and unnecessary addition to the course of instruction, its abandonment becomes a difficult affair. At the proposal to drop it a certain number of patrons of the school are sure to object, and to wail over tho attempt to .infringe upon their rights as free American citizens. The less essential to the promotion of American cit izenship such teaching may be the more vociferous aro the protests against its rejection. The overloading of the schools is an evil that has suggested itself to others than President Low, but the cure is not so readily discovered. To overload is easy; to unload the superfluous branches without disturbance is a puzzle not yet solved. A young man who nourished for some time in fashionable circles at Washington, and who has iust been arrested on charges of embezzlement and forgery, says: "All my trouble I lay to gambling and society." The country abounds with young men who are going to ruin by the same road. The problem of spending $2,000 a year on a salary of $1,000 has never yet been solved successfully. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Women are now admitted as students in all the Italian universities, and a woman's school of journalism has been established in London. General, Fremont never wore glasses. His eyes were as sharp and clear as a young man's. He was perfect physically, and appeared at least twenty ycats younger than most men of his age. The Nizam of Hyderabad paid $65,000 for the big Gordou-Orr diamond to wear in his head-drese. Before catting the stone weighed 61 carats, and after cutting 24 .carats. It li said to be the best, purest and most brilliant stone known. Ex-Secretary McCullocii's illness is now reported to be less serious than was represented last week. He has suffered from hay fever for years, and this disorder has lately developed an asthmatic phase. Besides, his digestive apparatus has been slightly disordered. Miss Dorothy Tennant's last act as an unmarried artist was the sale of her picture of "Street Arabs at Play" to a great soap-selling firm for a pictorial advertise ment. She expressed her willingness that the picture should ho used for that purpose if it were not changed in any manner. Among those who attended Mr. Stanley's wedding reception on Saturday was a wealthy widow. While there 6he stole several silver spoons from the room in which tho wedding gilts were displayed. She was seen by a detectivo who was on duty in the room and arrested. Monday morning she was arraigned, found guilty and sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment. Pecan culture is being looked into in the South. F. A. Switideu has a farm of four hundred acres near Brownwoc f, Tex., upon which he has eleven thousand trees planted. The nuts are worth from 83 to Si a bushel. and the trees at eight years of age bear a bushel of nuts each, and at waive to four teen years old about fonrtecn bushels each. In the meantime the ground is cultivated in corn. , . At Fort Madison, la., reside probably the oldest twins in the United States. Mrs. Elizabeth Grescom Camp ton. - and Mrs. Sonhia B. Ililderbrandt. Thev were born in Baltimore, January, 1806, and they are consequently over eighty-four years of age. They are very spry old ladies, and still very skillful at fine needlework. Their crrandmother, Mrs. lietsie Koes, made the first American dag. The census enumerators found one town in the heart of a rich country which has added only twelve persons to the popula tion in ten years. This is Gilroy. in Santa Clara county, California, the center of a great wheat country. Tho main reason for the stationary position of tho town is that the land is held by large owners in ranches of many thousand acres, and no encouragement is ottered to small farmers. A notable monument will be erected at Annapolis in memory of Do Long and his fellow-victims of the Jeaunette Arctic ex pedition. The base is in general made to resemble the cairn erected as a tomb on the delta of the Lena by Chief Engineer Melville, lbo base is twenty-two feet long, twelve feet wide, and ten feet high. An enormous slab rests on this base, and on tho slab rests a die. A cross thirteen feet high surmounts tho whole. La France Militaire says that on last May 18 there died the only man who had beaten Field Marshal Von Moltko on the battle-field. He was General d'Hautpoul. In the celebrated battle of Nisib he was chief of the general stall" of Ibrahim Pasha, while Major Von Moltke served under Hafiz Pasha. Moltke's commander lost the battle, but, as has been repeatedly shown, not through any mistake of the German major. As long as Moltko directed the troops all went well with him. When Hahz Pasha took command, however, the tide turned and defeat followed the prospects of victory. Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, an authority on cooking, argues that tho culinary art has a great influence on public morality. "Of the many drunkards who die in tho United States every year," she asserts, a large proportion have tbe appetite for intoxicat ing drinks aggravated, if not implanted,- by the food which constitutes their daily diet. Grease-soaked inest. watery vegetables, sloppy coffee and bzc. bread in many canes compel a resort to stimulants. Poor coffee produces unrfatural thirst for lager beer. and there is a terrible affinity between sour bread and 60ur mash whisky. A healthy stomach has no abrormal craving for either liquor, cigars, candy or chewinggum." Mr. Gladstone, in his recent article on the Bible, says: "John Bright has told me that he wonld be content to stake upon the book of Psalms, as it stands, the great question whether there is or is not a divine revelation. It was not to him conceivable how a work so widely severed from all the known productions of antiquity, and standing upon a level so much higher, could be accounted for except by a special and extraordinary aid calculated to produce special ar.d extraordinary results. If Bright did not possess the special qualifications of the scholar or the critic he was. I conceive, a very capable judge of the moral and roligions elements in any case that had been brought before him by his personal experience." A curious instance of the author of "Looking Backward" declining to look backward and persisting in looking forward occurred at the dedication of the monument to Dr. Joseph Bellamy, the great-grandfather of the author. In reply to an invitation to bo present Edward Bellamy wrote from a watering-place: "I have been compelled to come down here for my health, and shall have to leave my great-grandfather in the lurch as regards attendance upon his Fourth of July celebration. I greatly regret that 1 am obliged to seem lacking in family loyalty, and hope you will believe me that I am not so, but in the present shaky condition of my health I cannot but feol that my first duty is to niv posterity, a boy of live and a girl of four, rather than to my ancestry. It is bad to bo an undutifnl great-grandson, but worse still to be a reckless parent." Origlnal-Package-Sellers in Hard lines. Chicago Post. The lines of the original-package-seller seem to be cast in rough places. In South Dakota he is intimidated by irate women armed with weapons that do not explode, but that may be mado very effective in an emergency. The women of Kansas threaten him with annihilation if he persists in sellingstimulants in any form. And, to cap tho climax, the women of certain towns in

Iowa declare that ho will be adorned with a fashionably-cut coat of tar and feathers. Perhaps when tho original-package gentle

man has met and grappled with all theso adverse elements and comes out of the contest with bruised head and body, dislocated vertebra? and attired in an adhesive coat he may wish that he had chosen some other calling. GENERAL FREMONT'S "WIDOW. A Celebrated Woman Who Is Now Reduced to Absolute Need. Francis A. Eastman, In Chicago Trlbuaa, From this day onward Jessie Bentisa Fremont must be the object of public solic ltnde until the government shall have pro vided liberally for her support. Such provision can oniy 6unauiy ue maue ny a speedy act of Congress making over to'her the pay of a retired major-general in the form of a pension. It would be personally disagreeable, as it would be distatefnl, to Mrs. Fremont for me to state what I know of the absolute needs in this case. That the reader may have authentically sich reasons as may bo inferred from what is already said, permit mo to add that mv Los Angeles residence is just across the street from the modest rented house of tho rremonts; i cannot. therefore, be mistaken as to the straitened circumstances of the family. True, it is not for the reasons of poverty that Congress should promptly take this action; tho caso has peculiar and indisputable grounds of its own to rest upon. AVhen Senator I nomas II. Uenton was at the height of his fame, and his influence was as great uid extensive as any man's. his daughter Jessie was an enthusiastic young girl, in love with dashing Lieutenant Fremont. Powerful as was tho old Senator, he had not the power to circumvent the plans of the enamored pair, and when the handsome young officer became his son-in-law he made the best of it by giving him interested support in his adventurous undertakings, lie did, indeed, enter into his son-in-law's schemes with perfect hopefulness, and himself became to the Senate and. to the country a prophet, prophesying of things dazzling and mighty. It was with these schemes in mind lor tho exploration of the Pacific coast that he. pointing thither with his finger, exclaimed. "That way is empire there lies the East." So that, in theverv beginning. Mrs. Fremont was reuponsibly associated with hor hutiband in tho enterprise which ultimately gave Cali fornia to the united States ana his name to history. She was inseparable from him on his arduous and perilous journeys across the Kocky mountains ever by his side, aiding bim in nocessary professional writing, cheering him, nursing him. in the moving tent, as afterwards in tho military camp, facing the Mexican soldiery, she was his constant companion. What minutes she could be spared from graver concerns bIio dovoted to botanizing, making many and valuable discoveries and useful classifica tions in that department of elegant knowl edge. In the meantime, and whilo her husband was making history, she was gathering up and preserving data to be some iny expanded and written down lor the perusal of the studious in after times. In the wholo of that great undertaking she contributed largely towards its success. This her husband, on all fitting occasions, enthusiastically confessed. In fact thci were, rirst, last and always, inseparable co-workers in public life. She, with her true Benton head, supplemented and steadied that which was' French in her working mate. Besides possessing in memory or in written folios all that is worth preserving of tho records of the Western explorations, .he has almost exhaustless material for tho lighter political history, and especially for the politico-social novel. Her long lite in Washington; her intimate acquaintance with ana shrewd observation of tho leading public men and their female connections and surroundings, her intimacy and popularity with foreign diplomates resident at the capital and her frequent residences abroad have united to richly 6toro her spacious intellect and to qualify her to write memoirs and treatises that would have enduring value. Of late years her bright pen has been active, but only a small part of what she has written is in a finished state. In cordial collaboration with her husband, one-half of General Fremont's Memoirs has been published (the plates of this volume were destroyed at tho burning of the Belford, Clarke & Co. house), and the manuscripts for the remaining half are in a state of hopeful forwardness. And of lato the two, though separated bv all tho distance between Los Angeles ana New York, havo been engaged on a work for the Scribners, of the precise nature of which 1 am not informed. Now this justly celebrated woman bereaved just now of her famous husband is left quite alone on a far coast, without a sufficiency of worldly goods, and no longer young. Owing, indeed, to their poor circumstances, the twain have been separated for two years by tho width of the continent. Since the putting of tho General on the retired list, two months ago, they had taken heart of fortune and were looking forward to a speedy reuion, and to a few years together of enjoyment of well-supplied old age. But scarcely two months' pa3' drawn, areas of private debts unpaid, and death has taken John Charles Fremont his salary as retired major-general ceases. The administration has done what it could to make the deplorable event national, lie is buried with honors, public -and private. But now, again, what as to the noble woman left behindf What care shall bo given Mrs. Jessie Uenton FremontT Let Congress be urged from every quarter to vote her without delay an adequate pension. She has a life work in. which tho public is interested unfinished. Thus will she be made able to complete it. Making: Very Desperate Threats. Kansas City Times (Dem.) If Kansas upholds this startling innovation (the election bill and this shameless sectional-outrage, could Kansas justly complain if the South should boycott Kansas meats and flourf If Illinois votes ?o sustain Keed aud Lodge could Chicazobe honestly surprised if the South should rigidly refrain from exhibiting at the world's fair, and from sending visitors thereT Governor Crittenden puts this point strongly in an artisle pa bl shed this morning. m 0 m Farmer' Prosperity. Plttstmrff Chronlcie-Telftfravk. The fact is, tho generality of Western farmers are not in half so bad case as our free-trado doctrinaires would have lis believe. It is oniy the recklesnand imprudent among them who are hopelessly involved, and the same is true of their fellows in every other branch of business as well as in agricultnre. Like causes bring like effects, whether in farming, manufacturing or trading. Allianceruen Worrying the Democrats. Memphis Avalanche. We have just seen how desperately they fought in Alabama. In Georgia they aro' about to dictato the Democratic nomineo for Governor. In South Carolina they havo split the Democratic party in twain. In Arkansas they have combined with tho Republicans, and in Tennessee they are seeking to enforce the candidate of their class upon the Democratic convention for Governor. ' The Obstructionists Dismayed. Boston Journal. Talk is cheap, and the leading Democratio politicians profess to be mightily contideut of the great things their party is going to Accomplish at the next election. But in their own inner consciousness they are terribly dismayed at the thoroughness with which the Republicans in Congress are carrying out their programme. . m They Fear Honest Elections. Rochester Democrat The prospect of honest elections in th$ South is a nightmare to the Democrats, bt cause they believe a majority of the people in many districts of that section would vote the Republican ticket if it were not for force and fraud. That is the secret of their opposition to tho Lodge bill. Not Sectional. Iowa State Remster.' The federal election bill is not intended for one party or one section. It is not sectional, it is not partisan; but it is loaded for fraud and dishonesty wherever they may be found. Steady Enough Now. Washington Tost. Indiana is competing with Michigan as a celery-raising State.' The Indiana people did not need anything of this kind to steady their nerves. What We Una Will Do. Detroit Tribune. Tho Southern question If you tins pass a law to secure a frco ballot aud a fairconnt. how are wo uus going to hold the South olid!