Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1877 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY NEWS: TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1877.

31EJ5AJLYNEWS; Valuwe ▼«*■ l84 ’ TUK&DAT, JULY 10. 1877.

JOHN H. HOLLIDAY, PaorKiBrn*.

It reallj begins to look as il Gail Hamilton meant to vole the Democratic -ticket next time. Tb* council evidently propose toiet the wooden pavements, which it caused to be made at great expense, go to rain without an effort to preserve them.

Thb report from nil puts of this state is that the crop prospect* are magnificent The wheat harvest is approaching completion. Corn is growing with great «apidity, and a week or two more of this weather will put it beyond the reach of injury. The stories of a coming reconcilation between the parties to the BeecherTilton scandal are pronounced by Mr. Beecher to be without foundation. There is little doubt, however, that * Tilton and Moultpn have had a serious quarrel. ‘ Wx have seen one paper which asserts (it never argues) that Hayes aud Wheeler hold their offices by virtue of ‘‘election;’’ that the decision of the electoral tribunal in their favor changed the fact of a quarter of a million plurality returned against them. And this same paper was one of the first after the November contest to concede the election of Tilden without question. It is a blind old cnr. p It is reported that the Russians have had tt\e same experience with their navy that the French had with their army in 1870, and that when the war broke out it was found that less than one-third of their ships were sea-wor-tby.* A dispatch to-day says that only five ont of ten steamers in the Caspian fleet are serviceable, whish has delayed the arrival of' reinforcements for the ? Caucasian corps. Lokdom reports have it that Russia is determined to occupy Constantinople, as was declared in GortschakofTs circular note some time ago, unless Turkey makes peace. This is well enough for a declaration, but the execution of it is something like the receipt to make Indian pudding; first catch your Indian. Ruesia has not yet shown her abHity to go to Constantinople, with only the Tmks to oppose her and before she reaches that city ehe will have at least England, and perhaps Austria in oppolition also. This report, it is said, has stiffened the weak knees in the British cabinet, and a policy actively aatiRussinn will be adopted. The situ ui jn at the seat of war is unchanged, inactivity on the Danube and confirmation of A Turkish advantages in Asia Minpr.

Ani'eis grow up easily in governments. In New York it has been customary, heretofore, for a councilman to get a gold badge at the expense of the city. It has just been decided that if cooncilmen indulge in this ostentation any longer, it mast be at their own expense. But the city has been paying several hundred dollars a year for nobody knows how long. It is related that one of the infants of the Russian imperial family was sick once, and a physician ordered that it be rubbed with goose grease. Seventy years afterward some v-giiant steward in examining the annual accounts found an item of $10 for goose grease. He investigated, and after laborious research foyrnd that for seventy years the purchase of goose grease for that royal infant had been con tinned. The Springfield Republican very sharply takes up Mr. Blaine’s statement that the southern states have :< in every “instance save one struck ont the paramount authority of the nnion and the “paramount allegiance of the citizen- to “the national government;” and quotes from the corstitutions of Alabama, Mississippi, Nortl*Carolina and Texas, to ■how that it is untrue. It says: Of tha eleven states which went Into the rebellion, nine recognize the supremacy of federal authority in their state constitutions, if we may assame that Lon’siana ard South Carolina (hitherto repnblican) do, the constitutions ef these states not being before as. As to Tennessee, ve are ^aot informed. The new constitution of Arkansas, we believe, is silent in regard to secession. Bot, on ths other hand, the const nations of North CsMhnv Alabama, Ifiseiseippi and Texas, i£l of which have been emended end three of i #hich have been revised entirely very recently, ail retain positive declarations on tbia point : Ex-Senatob Bi ckalew is of the opinion that the next presidential election will torn chiefly on the dispute as to the last election, and that Tilden will be the democratic candidate again. He pays: “The fraudulent preeidency belongs to another chapter. It is for the “futnre. It will unquestionably be the “great, if not the controlling question of “the next presidential contest Gener“al elections almost uniformly tarn “upon one or two issues, made up in “simple and intelligible form, the dia“cusaion of which affects the sentiments “and naasions of the great mass of the people. The dissatisfaction with the choice of president in 1824-5 was recti“fied aa well as condemned in 182S,and W8a ? 1 ® that the wron « of IS/6-7 will remain condemned and be (■corrected in 1S80. The democratic {‘party did not drop Jackson in I82S (‘after losing him in 1824. They ran {‘him in the former year. Fof that ^election a distinct issue wsa formed (< upon the wrong believed to have been {‘committed in the prior election.” U ‘

THE BEAUTIES OF BITE.WING. Dr. LaSKerae DtecoiursM ml Cremation. The Pittabnrg Telegraph prints an interview with Dr. LeMoyne, who owns the crematorium at Washington, Pennsylva nia. After contradicting the atory that he bad cut bia children off in his will unlece they gave their bodies to be burned, he said his attention was first diawa to the subject of cremation by the poisoning of James Buchanan and ssvsral guasta of the National hotel in Waahington, by drinking water which had been impreg nated by poitonons matter from decaying animal substances. He first examined the subject from a sanitary point of view, f showing that nature had wHwly provided for the destruction of all dead animal or offensive matter by birds, insects, etc., ths process commencing as soon as life was extinct and in some instances even b fore. He then proceeded to demonstrate that by the burial of bodies in the present manner this plan was defeated by placing the bodies where no aaimal life can exist and putrefaction most necessarily ensue Instead of being destroyed In a short time and changed into animated forms,^the process of decay continued from ten to fifteen yesre, poisoning the air around and breeding disease' end malaria, ta well as impregnating the earth and poisoning the water in the vicinity of the< graves. From his own observations and from conversation with sextons and others who had opportunities to know, the Doctor had learned that the average time required for complete decomposition of the human body was about ten years. Fiequently alter bting interred fifteen years of more the bodies were found to be such masses of putridity as to render it impoeeible to remove them. He referred to the fallacy of the idea obtained from the book of Job that our bodies were devoured by worms when interred in the usual manner, stating that it wss utterly impossible lor such to be the case While other and better means of disposing of the bodies of the dead might perhaps be discovered hereafter, he regarded cremation es the best method known at the present day. It is a well established and India putable fact among medical and scientific men that the gases and effluvia emanating from animal matter in a state of decomposition has an injurious effect on ths living. and it is now generally conceded that fever in its varied forms and ail ccuita gicus diseases are propagated by poisonous particles in the air, and no ona thing is more frnitfal in disst minatiog disease than the interment of bodies in cemeteries adjacent to the residences of the living. He then proceeded to speak of C&EMATIOV AS A DIVINE INSTITUTE. Many professing Christians object to burning the bodies of the dead, designating it as a heathen rite, and opposed to the usages of Christianity. In answer to such objections, the doctwr remarked that the burning of a hnmar'being was an ordinance of God himself, citing me proposed sacrifice of Isaac by his father Abraham. Tbe Savior was not interred, but was embalmed in certain quantities of myrrh, aloes and frankincense, and placed ia a sepulchre aboveground, and nowae r e in Scripture can mention be fonnd of burying the dead as is now the custom. The doctor then considered cremation in its economic aspect, and spoke of the expense attending modern funerals, magnificent mon'<ments, money invested in cemetery lots, all of which he said were unueccesea/y and arose from false pride. Referring to tbe sentimental espeers of tbe subject tbe doctor said be bad no patience with men who thought it lepuis^e'to tbe finer instincts of humanity to burn tne remains of a dear friend instead of consigning them to mother rtb, bnt with women whose ssnsibilities eie finer and wnose* reasoning pa ere were not as well developed, he did hot attgmnt to' ergue the matter He hes no object or particular desire to make proselytes to hie theory unless persona be tbotoughly convinced by their own reason. He is constantly and daily in receipt of letters from all ports of the United States, England and the continent, asking for information and assuring him of the growing interest in the subject both at home and abroad. To those from a distance who think of sending the remains of friends to Waahington to be cremated, be advises the club blig together of a few bdlievere and tbe erection of a furnace, which could be conslructed for tbe same sum required for \the transportation of a few bodies. Applications from Chicago and New Haven have been made to him, bnt in both instances the partite ir paired if the cremation coaid not be secretly and privately performed without giving any information to the prees. To these propositions he has peremptorily refused to assent, although offering tbe gratuitous nse of his furnace for tbe purpose, provided the cremations be cosuucted in the esme public manner as that of Baron de Palm.

Items of Foreig-n New-*. General Grant has been given the freedom of Edinburg. He is now at Cologne. Count De Chambord is about to issue a manifesto. Titiena’a condition has again become critical. The British parliament will be asked for a vote of $500,000 in aid of the local revenues of Transvaal. Tbe Official Gazette publishes e decree prohibiting the export of horses from Germany. There is a general exodns from Resht, Persia, in consequence of the plague, The deaths number twenty to thirty dally. , In the Pan-Presbyterian oonncil yesterday papers were read by Rev. Dr. MeCoeb, of Princeton, on discoveries in science and pbiloeophy, and by Rev. Dr, Patten, of Chicago, on infidelity. Rev. Dr. Bloan, of Allegheny, spoke on intemperance in the United jutes. He said there were 150,000 saloons and 500,000 habitual drunkards, of whom 50,000 die yearly. The council adopted a resolution as to the value of the Sabbath day, and tbe conduciveneas of intemperance to irreligion. ^ Am Inviting Hroapect. ISprinsfield Republican.] The repnblican leaders can no more hold their party against Mr. Hayes on the old blocdy-shirt cry than the democratic leaden their followen in a protest against supporting a “fraudulent president.” The prospect for a break np of the old parties grows visibly brighter, and no other political prospect could be half so inviting as that Give na Nmythur. INew York Graphic.] It is understood that the ladies who say “i-tber" and “ni ther ” are going to hold a convention and bring their eye glasses and poodles. A Good Point. I Cincinnati Commercial.! In the matter of civil service reform Hayes will grow obstinate at about the point where Grant knocked under. Smperflnous Information. [Louisville Courier-Journal. I AGeorgia paper says: ‘Did Uncle Peter,’ colored, 109 years old, is dead.” Well, we should hare supposed so.

THE EASTERN WAR.

Turkish men of-war art cruising about tbe mouth of the Danube seeking an entrance. The Russians from TIsrnoya have advanced on Grahova. Their force ia estimated at 90,000. A Bucharest correspondent asserts that it has been definitely decided the Roumanian army shall pass the Danube. The Turkish troops which were to have garrisoned the Greek frontier have been ordered to join the army in Bulgaria. ~ The Turks in Bosnia are committing she eking atrocities, murdering inoffensive villagers in several places and carrying off their heads as trophiei Two Turkish frigates have bombarded end burned Cheritkil. They lauded a force which defeated the garrison and compelled them to abindon the town. Ismail Pasha telegraphs, under date of Erzeroum, July 6: I have summoned the Rcssians in the citadel at Dayazid to capitulate, on honorable terms, and am convinced they will comply. Turkish official news says the Russians have forty battalions on the north side of Kars. The bulk of their army and heavy artillery have been withdrawn in the direction of Alexandropol. .The line between Mnkhtsr Pasha’s headquarters and Kars was completely free from Russians on the 4th inst. Mustaph Pasha, ths new governor of Kars, has left Mnktar Pasha with a reinforcement of 4,000 men for the garrison of Kars A Russian column has been defeated in the attempt to enter Ardanauts cha, and driven back on Ardahan, where

dispatched Mukhtar Pasha.

The Work of the Wind. A thunder storm, with hail, rain and violent wind visited Galt, Ootario, yesterday Considerable damage was done. St. Andrew’s church, the woolen factory, and several residences were unrooted. A tornado occurred at Westfield, Massaebusetts, yestetday afternoon. It came eastward through the gorge of Westfield river, end widened to half a mile, felling trees, scattering fences, and demolishing bnildines, until its force was expended. A number of persons were injured, but □one killed. A heavy storm of wind and rain accompanied by thunder and lightning, passed over Poughkeepsie and vicinity yesterday afternoon. In tbe town of Hyde Park three hams, be’onging to John Gilbert, were blown down. The damage to fruit and growing crops was very heavy. Further east the storm is reported to be very heavy. '*• The tornado that destroyed Pensaukee was not over one thousand feet in width, and lasted but two minutes. Its velocity aid power were terrific. It struck Coailardville near Lncas farm, and passed almost due southeast, taking in a streak abcut eighty rods wide and destroying everything in its course. Seventeen houses and barns were damaged in Coallardville, and tbe crops badly injured. Total loss estimated at $300 000, An eye witness estimates the loss at Pensaukee at $1C0,0C0. Bursting of a. Ifeservoir. Sunday afternoon the new reservoir at Athlone Hill, Massachusetts, Jifty feet above tbe main village, into which a volume of water had just been emptied, gave way beneath the pressure, and the torrent rushed down the hill to Pleasant street, quickly traversed the distance totbe town, half a mile distant, and joined Clover bxaok. swelling this stream. The flood carried away several mill-dams, and caused more or -less damage to other property on the banks of the stream The reservoir was built by contract, and ac cepled by the town on Saturday. The Raid into Ytexlco. Tbe president and others in high official statics express gratification with the intelligence, received through the war department. of the crossing of the Rio Grande by the United States troops In puranit of predatory Indians, and of the success of our soldisrs’ efforts in recapturing stolen property and punishing the marauders. It is expected that Diaz will protest against tbe movement, but the United States government will not relax its endeavors to put an end to outragsa on the border.

The Famine in India. Famiiie reports from nearly all ths Bombay districts show a reduction in the aumbers relieved. This is dust to ths general resumption of agricultural operations. The total decrease for the fortnight numbers 70,600. It is hoped all cause for anxiety will soon cease. Tne prospects in Madras are less cheerful, but are apparently improving. The monsqon rains continue abundant on the Mali bar coast, and pasturage is improving everywhere, but the number of persons receiving gratuitous relief is over per cent. Grover's Case. W. H. W. Stiles, the witness who testified so pointedly against Grover, on Saturday, publishes this morning a long statement in the Oregonian, in which he says he has divulged .hese things because he, ts a democrat, repudiates tha action of Grover in trying to cheat the republican party ont of the electoral vote in Oregon. He eays the democratic party can not and does not approve such desperate expedients, and will repudiate the man responsible for it. Steamboat Explosion. The steamer J. N. Camden, en rente from Parkersburg to Pittsburg, exploded both her boilers and sank at the head of Fish creek ripple, about thirty miles below Wheeling, yesterday. Wra Barnard, tbe pilot, and three colored men named Charlts Mitchell, Reader Adams and James Dorsey, of the crew, were instantly killed. T. H. Wiley, clerk, Samuel Rodg f rs, James Condleton and Thomas Jennings were iajnred. What the Reef Trade .Ray Re. ” Foreign papers believe that Europe can take 2,000,00© head of cattle from the United SUtes every year, the limit of cattle-rearing having been reached in many parts of Europe. Figure up yourself what that would come to in the wav of revenue to the United States at $75 a head. Tbe impression abroad is that Americans are not acting with reference to the export of beef as vigorously as they might. Davve* on Drinking. At tbe dedication of a drinking fountain in Pittsfield, Mass., last week, Senator Dawes made an address, accepting it, saying that he “had found it easier not to drink liquor at all than to drink moderately, however innocent and harmless that might be to others.” He thought tbe women ought to keep on erecting fountains till at every turn they would take the place of corner groceries. The Beauty of Coaftdeace. The Nicholla government has already collected as large an amount of taxes in Louisiana as was collected daring the whole of last year.

mnety-Nine In the Shade. A MI DSC Jin IE ODE. Ob for a lodse in a tardea of cumin bent Oh for an icebert or two at control! Oh fora vaio which at midfoy ths dew camber* I Oh for a pleasure trip np to the polet 0b for a little one-itory thermometer, With nothing but zeroi all ranzed in a row) Oh tor a big double-barrollod hygrometer, To measure the moisture that rolls from my browi Oh that this cold world were twenty times colder 1 (That’s irony red-hot it seemeth to me), Ob for a tarn of its dreaded eold shoulder i Oh what a comfort an ague would bel Oh ior a grotto to typify heaven I Scooped in the rock under cataract vast! Oh for a winter of diseontent even I Oh for wet blankets judiciously east! Oh for a soda-fount sponting np boldly From every hot lamp-post against the hot Oh for the proad maiden to look on me eoldFreezlng my seal with a glance of her eye! Then oh for a draught from a cup of “cold pizen 1” And ob lor a resting place in tbe cold gravel With a bath in tbe Styx, where the thick shadow lies on . . . And deepens the chill of a dark-running wave'

“SCRAjPS.” General Dix ia nearly 80. Jeff Davis’s daughter is married to a Mr. Hayes. The latest patent dojr nzzle also serves as a feed box. Daring last winter the dogs on Monnt St. Bernard saved the lives of forty persona. A new four act play is qalled “Lizs.” The author is supposed to be Eli Perkins. —[Cin. Com. Palm leaf fans are popular with summer church goers, as they hide very effectually the most elastic yawn. An Italian optician, residing in Paris, has invented a new thermometer. A' sheet of platinized silver is the heat measurer, and its movements are amplified by a senes of levers ontil they are large enough to be represented clearly on a dial. Mamma—“Now, Jack, there are ten commandments yon have to keep. If you took a thing that wasn’t yonrs you’d break a commandment.” Jack (remembering something about some little nig-gers)-“And then there’d be nine’”—ILondon Punch. Waiter: “What would you be pleased to order, sir? Wo have potage printanier ala Julienne; Fricandeau de veau avec croquettes des pommes de terre; rissoles de bceuf—” Milesian: “Well, give us a plateful of whichever of them’s nearest to Irish stew!”—[Boston Herald. There is a church in the quarter of Berlin called the Burg where the hearts of deceased members of the Prussian royal family are kept in silver urns. They are behind a railing, and an inscription is upon each urn denoting the name of the former possessor, his birth, death, etc. It is stated that the oldest ex-member of congress living is Hon. Artemus Hale, who resides ip Bridgewater, Mass. He is 94 years old, and "is still interested in public affairs, being in the possession of all his faculties, mental and physical. He was In congress from Massachusetts from 1845 to 1849. In 1864 he was also a presidential elector. “The three-cent piece and the twentycent piece,” says the Springfield Republl can, “are peculiarly obnoxious.” And why so, pray? It is not those coins, but tha twenty-dollar gold piece and the fiftydollar gold piece that peculiarly obaoxide and disgust us. It Is seldom that we are induced to receive them—indeed, we never receive them when wa can do any better.—[Cour.-Jour. A Connecticut genius has devised a successful method of hunting the woodchuck. He selects a medium sized turtle, makes a few indentations in its shell, into which a little kerosene is poured, places the reptile at the edge of tbe rodent’s hole, lights the kerosene and sends him in. The “game” appears at the other end of the borrow in short notice, to be dispatched by the bludgeon in the hands of an assistant Mr. Webb Haves is informed that it is not necessary to pat a bill of fare over tbe wine glasses in order to show that yon are not drinking. If yon do not want to smash the glasses or murder the glass maker let the waiter fill your glass and make ao d:monstration, boy. Schuyler Colfax used to put his palm over his glass; but then Schuyler ate with his knife and came from out west.—[Bulldozing N. Y.JHerald. The colored people held a meeting a few days ago in Caldwell county to pray for rain. One brother was called ‘on, who prayed after this manner. “0 Lord God! ns poor niggers is perishing, die year, an’ ef yon don’t gib ns rain we will perish next year, too. So, good Lord-, gib ns rain. Don’t gib us one ob dese little slippy-sleppies, but do, good Lord, gib us one of dem gully-washers and trash-mov-ers.—[Lenoir (N. C.) Topic. In Paris, in 1713, women wore a^ove their silly litfe ekul e “edifices of brass wire, ribbons, hsir and all sorts of tawdry rubbish, more than two feet high, making their heads seem in the middle of their bodies. If they moved ever so lightly, the edifice trembled aud tbe ineaaven. ience was extreme. The king, Louis XIY, could not endure them, but, master es he was of everything, was onable to banish them. They luted ton years and more despite all he oonld do and Ay.” Among recent innovations in the Brit ish am; are new helmets. The material is of felt, with a brass spike on the top and a brass plaqne in front, consisting of a star surmounted by a crown, with the royal motto anrrounding the regimental number. There ia a brass scale chin etrap and a small brass scale chain above the peak, which gives the helmet a light and handsome appearance. There is -a neck piece behind, and the peak ia iff the Prussian style.

WASHINGTON. Gen. Harrison’e VUU-Oov. Wllllnase and U»e Deposed Fltahogli—Dop raved Political Morals-Jad** Davl* and the Electoral Coatasla•len—Staaley Matthew* and His Manaarement. Cerrespondence of Tbe Evening New*. Washwoto*. July 9,1877. The state pride of reeident Indianians was considerably tickled at tha attention shown General Ben Harrison in official quartere during his visit to this city last wtek. He had intended returning bom# on Monday, but meeting Secretary Evarta at the aoldien’ home that day, he was pressed to remain longer, and invited to attend a meeting o( the cabinet to be held on the morrow. In coneequenee of this he did not take bia departure until the middle of the week. Tbe president had a long consultation with him, the nature of which has not been disclosed, but is supposed to have had reference to Indiana appointments made and to ba made. The general made a fine impression on all with whom he came in contact, and is regarded here as the rising man In tha public affaire of Indiana. The wonder is that a state with a population resting under the allegation of intelligence should chooM such a man as now fills the gubernatorial chair in preference to one of Harrison’s abilities and attainments. When the mental and moral force of each men as Harrison are recoaanized more frequently among all parties in Indiana there will be a purer and more elevated tone to the politics of the state than hu been observed for a generation put at least. Incidentally referring to Gov. Wil Hams reminds me of an ugly story that is told on him here. Fitzhagh, the deposed doorkeeper, it wu currently reported, lost his place because he had written a foolish letter, in which he spoke of himself as “a bigger man than old Grabt” But that wu not the trouble. He knew too much, and must be placed where he couldn’t tell it; or, if he did tell It would have no weight or influence. He discovered tbet stealing wu going on in the department room at a wholesale rates—books by the car and ton being taken and appropriated to private nse. There wu no doubt or guess as to the correctness oi Fitzhugh’s statements. Members and employes of tbe bouse had taken many costly and rare books; had stolen what they could not bny. Gov. Williams w-s made chairman of a committee appointed to investigate these charges. Instead of the committee reporting the facts as they were, , Fitzhagh wu “bounced” and removed from office. He wu like Joe Long in tbe revenue service—“too meddlesome”—knew too much—and must learn that it is a crime to tell anything that will damage the party. If Governor Williams is the plain, blunt, honest man that his friends say he ia he abould lose no time in vindicating bis action regarding the stolen documents and tbe removal of Fitzhagh. The “bigger man than old Grant” may yet prove a thorn in tbe sides of some of those instrumental in his humiliation. Be is in possession of letters from members of congress soliciting places for male friends who had female relatives of comely mien and easy virtue. Some of these letters may see the light about tbe time figuring ior the speakership becomes interesting. Tbeir publication might exert a wholesome influence in permanently retiring eome pestilent partisan who bu more audacity and assurance than talent or integrity. The practice of foisting friends and pre^titntes into governmental positions for services rendertd, and favors granted these who Lava “influence,” hu gone beyond what could properly be designated u shameful. It hu reached tbe roagnitnde of crime, and heretofore hu been extensively practiced in nearly all the departments, hot more especially in the pest office and treasury. Many disreputable women have been maintained at tbe expens^of tbe government in pieces where pure women have been ru ir>td by contact with these moral lepers. When a creature of this kind becomes burdeneome, some dupe is procured and induced to marry her; and here responsibility and “duty” are supposed to caue. Corruption does not have spontaneous growth here at Wuhington any more than elsewhere, bnt there is so much of it brought here from state capitals aud commercial centers and thrown into one common pile that the mass attracts attention from its immensity and noxiousness. All tbe departments here may be puriied today—thoroughly cleansed of vile inmates —but if tbe streams which feed this lake of crime and lewdnees are not kept pure the work will be of no avail. In conversation recently with an intimate friend of Judge Davis I told him that previous to the formation of the electoral commission a good deal of apprehension had been felt by tbe republicans of Indiana regarding the course of the judge as s member of it, they fearing that he would be selected u the “fifth judge” in consequence of his well known independtnee of party affiliations. I wu assured that the fear wu groundless—that the judge never entertained a doubt u to tbe legality of tbe reterns which gave Hayes the electoral votes of Florida and Louisiana, and that the result would have been just tbe same if Davis had occupied tbe place of Bradley. Now if it had been so ordered that Davis had been chosen instead of Bradley, a man whom the Democrats made United States senator, what a nice time democratic editors and comspoodents would have bad berating their fellow partisans in the Illinois legislature for electing a Judu senator. Toe defeated Logan would have been exalted by them, and the successful Davis correspondingly abased. What a difference circumstances and the result of actions arising from causes unforeseen do make in our estimate of men. Justice Bradley would never have been abuaed by the Democracy had he not given opinions adversely to Tilden, and Judge Davis will be unharmed by the “lit erery iellowa” of the party until be votes in the senate against the democracy on K>me political meuore, which he is certain to do. Whatever may be said regarding Judge Davis be is not a democrat Ha wu the trusted friend of Abrabsm Lincoln, and is a republican of the high cut which embraced that illustrious man. He is a man who hu witnessed the degradation of onr politics by tne war and its consequences—hu Men corruption in high and low places without being corrupted himself. Stanley Matthews hu induced the president to make one or two bad appointments to office, which will have to be rectified u soon u the cases can be reached. Mr. Matthews, is an able lawyer, but he is no politician, and will find be can not “ran" the administration successfully. Knowing that ha hu done pretty mcch as he pleased since the 4th of March, a carpet-bagger from Louisiana named Anderson—not the returning board Anderson—has been a good while seeking an office. He repreeents that ha can not go back to Louisiana and live, which is doubtleas true, but whether on account of his professed political principles or not is not clear. He wants office u a reward for services claimed to have been rendered, and to appeaM him and get rid of him he has been offered, among other positions the consulship at FunchaL This does not psy bnt $1,500 a year, and is not good enough for him. This beggar for office has now changed his tactics and threatens

to publish certain letters received by kins item Stanley Matthews and others, unHts a first class appointment Matthews bos written so many letters since be undertook to manage Hr. Hayee’s official affairs that bo can not recollect whether he communicated with Anderson or not Some of the friends of the administration knowing tbe proclivity of Matthews for spreading himself on paper, were alarmed for awhile at Anderson’s tbreatenings, but 1 believe now the scare is over and anxiety has ceased. Tbe threats made have prorduced no effect on Mr, Hayes. Anderson has not vat been given an office, and anleu be should oonelode to go to Funchal and rumage for his health over the Msderia wine country, he will not likely find any locality more healthful than a Louisiana sugar plantation, where the feer of justice might induce him to seclusion and industry—the reverse of which condition he is now attempting to enjoy. li Fink Fishback should happen about tbe treasury building soma day whan tha clerks in the sixth auditor's offlee were taking the shorteet cut to dinner, he would imagine himself in his own native Batavia. Swarms of Buckeye iuue forth, and the observer imagines for a moment it ia Ohio instead of the Potomac ha sees in tbe distance. If these chaps should all go home to vote, than will be an assured victory for the republican ticket in Ohio. Colon.

Tbe Louisiana Indictment and tbe Electoral Com ml** I oa. [New York Herald.] To our apprehension this indictment of the returning board is important in an entirely difierent aspect Sensible man of both parties will at once reflect that the refusal of the electoral commission to hear evidence, which brought npon them so much odium at the time, aud isstill mada a matter of reproach, was, after all, most fortunate, in that it saved the country from an interminable investigation of tha presidential title and from a calamitous uncertainty which would probably hare lasted during the greater part of tbe presidential term. Tha commission refused to bear evidence, and declared tha electoral votes of certain States, among them Louisiana, to have been cast, on tbe face of tha returns, for Hayes and Wheeler. It bad, by universal consent, the power tbns to decide; and its decision, confirmed by the two houses of congress in the manner provided by law, was final, and (so remains. Nothing than may hereafter be dragged out, under judicial process or otherwim, can touch or invalidate the result; and thus tha country has a Chief Executive, knows certainly who ha is, and that he lawfully posseeses all the rights, powers and responsibilities of the office, and thare an end. But rat toaetdif to open the case of Lonisiaoa, stance; had heard such evidence as could then be obtained and as could be brought forward in time? It might in that case have decided for Tilden or for Hayas, but in either case its decision would not have bad the quality of finality.. The ca^\Rt Louisiana or any other case might have been reopened on the appearance of new evidence; it wooid at any rate have been liable to each reopening, not merely in Louisiana, bat in Florida, In South Carolina; probably in Alabama, Mississippi and other states; a door would have been left ajar through which the politicians, with their eager ingenuity, oould have kept tbe country in uncertainty and turmoil for years.

Miscellaneous Item* of News* Hon Thomas Talbot declines the use of his name as a candidate for governor of Massachusetts. A meeting of (he New York opeu board of brokers has been called for to morrow for tbe purpose of considering the policy of disorganization and dissolution. The superintendent of insurance of Kassfs has revoked the authority heretofore giranted to the Royal Canadian insurance company to do business in that state. - Tbe enticipated change of channel ia the Missouri river, above Omaha, occurred Bonday morning. A heavy voluma of water is now pouring through tha cut-off, which is about COO feet wide. Oakley I. Barker, grandson of Commodore Vanderbilt, was Indicted by the grand jury yesterday for stealing jewelry frem a young woman named Lizzla Weeks. Shortly afterwards Barker was arraigned, and, pleading not guilty, was remanded for trial.

The Rinderpest Poison. A report made by Cogsul Winsor, at Hamburg, Germany, to tbe state department relative to tbe rinderpest, statea that infection is not destroyed even if tha hides of the animals are salted, dried or frozen, and it will propagate iteelf by attaching to domestic animals, bay, wood, leather, etc., and is easily propogated from woolen clothing, showing it to be an active poison and to be effective for a very long time.

Tbe Way Office Holders “Resign.*’ [Gail Hamilton in New York Tribune.I “Was she willing to die?” inquired the sympathizing neighbor. “Willing,” reeponded tha bluff old widower, “she was obleeged to!” England Aiding Paris. Tbe heartiest preparations for tha Paris exhibition are being made by England; and tbe success of that enterprise will be doe almost entirely to English good wilL

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