Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1877 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY NEWS: MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13. 1877

THE DAILY NEWS. aia. “^"TToNDAYTAUOUtfT 1A 1S7. JOHN H. HOLLIDAY, Pbofeiwob. T» I*MAaAP*urN«vb. aa liih»4•▼•ry We*k day afiernaon, at mr at tka •Sica. Na S2 Baat Market straat. r&ICK TWO OUSTS. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Sabaarlbara aaraad by carriers in any part af ke city, at Tan CaaU par weak. Sabaaribara aarrad by mail, ana copy ana mcntk, roatana paid. M f aa eapy tar tbrea mootha..1 M Ona eapy for ana yaar — • h THE 'WEEKS,T NEWS, If a kaadaama aayan column folia, pakliahad arery Wednaaday. Priea, |1.0# par year. Opaeintaa aopiaa aant free on appliaattaa. __N0 APTRRTISKMBN^S INSERTED AS EDITORIAL MATTER. |r • am jrr-M-TLt il.ily Kaaa has tha largaat circnlaiion ol sxy pc^nr in Indiana, and is rsad in nr-rly s _ .ry town and rillace tributary to Indian- rxdia. Tsm tnn a decrease in foreign shipments Snturdry. This ought to rejoice thoecwho are clamoring that we are selling oar subsistence to the world for gold and leaving our needy to want. Stkel rails are coming more into demand all the time. Of a total of 195,500 tons exported from England during tha the krt six months, 106,253 tons were Steel, whereas of 159,047 tons exported daring the first six months of last year, only 47,637 were steel rails. Th* sporadic development of "workingmen’s party,” is taking on the shape of national being by the meeting at Philadelphia, wherein all trades hava hearing. It is the avowed intention to form s political party through which the workingmen can make their influence felt on questions of labor. Saw jfaANcieco Chinamen want to save themselves from their fellow countrymen by extending the protective system over themselves. Those that are here plead for this government to levy a heavy duty on all new comers. They make the reason lack of protection in their rights of property however and not competition in labor. Th* sentiment seems to be gaining in England that the government has passed the point where there is likelihood of its taking a band in the eastern warThe liberals in parliament are assum' ing that the will of the people has been so plainly expressed that it dare not be disregarded, and in this strength of their cause they are willing to forego interrogating the government On its policy. Th* Chinese will ask Uncle 8am for indemnity. The rioters destroyed the matter of $100,000 or so of celestial savings in San Francisco last month. When all the bills are in, those few days of mob rule will be found to be the dearest days this government ever saw. Thia does not calculate the indirect losses, such as weakened credit, encouragement of the destructive forces of society and the like. Th* Ruseo-Turkish straggle is rapidly losing the characteris'tics of civilized warfare, degenerating into barbarous strife. Cruelties that would shame our Indians are charged on both sides, and at least so far as the Turks are concerned we know with truth. The movements of arm es are giving way to predatory incursions, guerrilla campaigning, for pillage and plunder and no prisoners taken. Torture, death and destruction seems to be the code. It is a casejof Turk and Tartar, and so far the Turk is ahead. Affairs in France are coming to a crisis. There is always a crisis there. A Frenchman is not hfcppy unless he is beginning, ending or is in the midst of a crisis. The theatrical element in his nature finds its gratification in affairs of state as well as person. Political turmoil has more happiness and less tronhle in it for him than for other people, aud there is something of a waste of sympathy, for Americans for instance, to feel for France as if her people regarded their form of government as we do ours. The days of the republic seem to be nmnbered. It has long been, perhaps always been, a republic in naratonly. In fact it baa been much the same government as that which Louis Napoleon administered, and it is not unlikely hie son may take np the reins of power f gain. The Bona partis ts are already c'amoring for a state of siege, the reason, all-sufficient in the eyes of one political section, that the electors may vote freely. It appears an awful farce to us. But we may find its parallel in the condition of things that existed in the southern states not many months ago, and for some yean previous- There was no state of siege declared in fact, but there waa in principle. Troops were put where ttey would do the meet good, disaffected officers having been previously replaced by “loir ones, just as |M»cMahon dismissed republican prefects and supplied their places with monarchists. With everything right and taut, the election alwayf “went as it ought to" by majorities which could be made to order if due notice were given. There will be a good deal of instruction in watching the coarse of events in France.

thm otroHTvmrr or ram rosTVMM BOtl.DMR. We, all of os, recognize in a vague way that “a good name is better than “riches,” but there are precious few of us that make the acquisition of a good name an object in life, as much as it may be an object for direct effort, while the unnumbered many toil and spin for the riches. Not a midway financial fat■eee, but the obesity of limitleee ownership. There is no subject eo suitable for the plea of the hypocrite or the cry of the demagogue as this. It furnishes ex hanstlesecapital for the communist, and never-ending consolation for the tramp or ne’er do weel who loafs down the way of life. But it may be looked at on the other side, on the side of the fortune builder himself, and perhaps some instruction may come from the view. Admitting the correctness of the abstract princL pie that whoever has a talent for money getting should develoo it to the top of bis bent, it is a somewhat differeut thing when it becomes the main part of every day existence. And in this view of it, the element that concerns the people is not so much the exercise of the money-getter’s talent in accumulation, but how he conducts himself as a disbursing agent Not, "What will he do “with it?” but, What does he do with it? It is notorious that those who accumulate fortunes the world over, as a general rule make a silly waste of it. In life it is hoarded and after death it is diseipated by being willed away in misapplied charity or left to corrupt the owner’s deecendents—who rarely inherit his faculty of getting or keeping —by a misapplied use of it. There is hardly a fortune builder in the land who has not more than enough to ruin all his children, or at best to render them useless members of society. His own enjoyment is the act of gain; he leaves to those who come after him the pleasure of spending it, aud so it goes to endow saloons, brothels and gambling dens. Or else he ends his grip by giving it to third-rate educational institutions, makings dozen little mushroom concerns in every state too rich to die by reason of the fortune-builder’s gifts and too poor to accomplish any great results. There are some fortune builders here and there*who do something with their accumulations beside storing them, and they are dubbed “public spirited.” That is a pregnant phrase. It carries its own definition. Cincinnati has many of these “public ‘spirited - ’ men. They have given her a magnificent fountain, a thing of beauty and source of comfort to their fellow beings; a music hall, which will be the menus of advancing tbe art of music in this country more than any one thing. One of then gave fifty thousand dollars, the* procetds of which hie used each year in furnishing free music for the public parks. Residents of Cincinnati could multiply instances, without enumerating the gifts to strictly charitable institutionp. Comparisons are odious, but there are fortune builders in Indiana’s capital to whom are open numerous opportunities for benefiting their fellow men. We might have a public fountain, music in the parks, free swimming baths for the poor and paid ones for the rich. -A I A ItoR QIK'TI X. Th* "Wheeling (West Virginia) Standard, pondering on the labor problem, evolves this: It is estimated that there are enough idle men ia tbe northern states at this time to form three new states ot moderately prosperous farmers. It's easy to figure out that kind of a thing. The problem is bow to make a farmer ont of an idle man who don’t want to be a farmer, and who won’t be a farmer. It’s easy enough to figure out that kind ot a thing too. The problem is bow to make a farmer out of a man who does waat to be a farmer, but who has no money to reach that condition. It is welt enough to say we are suffering from “de-ruralization,” if one may use tbe term. It is easy to show by the census the enormous increase in the populations of cities compared with the country, and it fits in well with this to say there is a scarcity of hands in the country; that “the harvest is plenty but “the laborers are few”; but do the facts bear it out? The labor in the country has been performed whether or not there were hands enough. The largest crop we have had for years, large enough to fill every month in this land till the next crop and to help feed the “rest of mankind” besides, this crop has been harvested in the face of our assertions that there was not labor enough to do it. These are the facts whatever our theories concerning idle men. But conceding that there is this large surplus in all cities and that there is room in the land for them to till the soil and become producers, how are they going to do it? All the idle men in the land can not get employment on farms, aud if an idle man can not get such employ, ment where is he going to get a farm to employ himself when he is living from hand to mouth in a city? If the government will give him the lai d how is he going to occupy it? Who will furnish him transportation, who will advance him money to bnild a cabin, bny horses and tools, and who will give him food and clothing while he is clearing land,planting crops and waiting a year for the harvest? Here is a question for the wise doctors of economic ills. It is well enongh to talk abont the idle consumers who swarm the cities and to demonstrate the good effects to

come from turning them into industrious producers, bnt forces of society can not be ladled from one balance to the other whenever eqnilibrinm is lost Making farmers of tramps is not one side of the question. As we are suffering from one kind of over production now, so we may suffer from another kind if we rush into it. It is a question which mast be worked oat,not legislated out. We must go into the world to sell onr wares, and come home and make them, and most be allowed to do it without the ruinous restrictions which have already dwarfed one member of the body at the expense of an abnormal development in ano her. We demonstrated to onrselves and the world at our Centennial that there is hardly a thing demand-d by consumers which we can not produce better and cheaper than any other country. We excel Er gland in iron working and Switzerland in watches, Belgium in railroad * supplies, the world in farm machinery. Sonth American ' markets are open, Australian markets are open. We are the cheapest dealer in any market. What we want ia to be allowed to set up shop everywhere and sell whst we make.

BLOODY INDIAN BATTLE. Ueavy Lots on Both Rides. Gen. Gibbon's command, consisting of 182 men—17 officers, 133 regulars, and 32 citizen volunteers—snrprised a camp of Nez Percee Indians at Big Hole, Montana, on Tbuisday last, and defeated them, bat waa unable to bold his ground. His command was badly used np, over thirty-eight per cent, of bis command being killed or wonnded. Tbe Indians greatly ontnnmbered tbe whites, but after the fight they disappeared, in what direction ie not known. It is reported that the Indiana suffered more than the whites in tbe encounter Geaeral Gibson, Captain WillUras. LientenantsCoolidge, Woodruff and English—tbe latter aerioasly—besides 36 men and 4 citizens, were wounded, and Captain Logan. Lieutenants Bradley and Bi stwick, and 17 men and 5 citizens wers killed. Gen. Gibbon sent a messenger for am balances and surgeons. Gen. Howard was expected on Satnrday.

The Bcmedy for Strikes. IN. Y. Herald.] Mr Vanderbilt has just shown his grat itude to his men by makizg them a free gilt of oae hnidred thousand dollars. It was well done, bat we believe be coaid have done and can yet do, at no greater expense, a mnch better thing. Mr. Vandeibilt employee twelve thousand men. It ia of great importance to him to employ only capable and faithful men, and to keep these permanently in his service; to make them, as be wisely said the other day, ' part of ua.” Suppose, now, he should prepare and carry out a system of life insurance for all his people? He can readily and cheaply command the special skill needed for this; the cdmribntion of the company to the fund would not be onerous; tbe management of it wonld add a tnfing detail to tbe cilice work, but the effect of it would be to bind all bis moat thoughtful, bis best men to his service. Suppose, in addition to this, be should plan a pension system, whereby after a fixed number ol years of faithful service a workman should be entitled to a renricg pension; it need cost his company but a trifle, certainly far leas than an accident; but it would once more bind his beet men to his servics. Sui pose, again, he should encourage his people to form co onerative societies f r the pnrcbsee of food and other supplies; sbould even take the trouble to let the bueineeebe transacted in the beginning by his own business men; aappo.^e he ebouid lock about him and see if be couid cot buy land at wholesale at convenient points,and sell it to his picked workmen at cost, in small lots, on which to build pleasant homes; snppose he should see that trainmen got their meals at cost while on the line—not one, nor all these bi dertakirga would cost him much, either in money or troable; bat by their nj<SB8 be would ia a very short time create a service which no trade-anion could distarb. He wonld really become a captain of industry, and his people, receiving constantly what to a workman ie much better than wagee—namely, goed-will, human care for their interests, the benefits of bis ability and command of brains, refit ctrd upon tbeir own lives,—would bear without grumbling tbe inconyeniences of e period of bard times, and wonld defend btm and bia property against all the uoublesome devices cf the trade-anions. Is all this impossible? We do not be1'eve it. We believe it can be done; and we say frankly to the managers of railn ads that it is tbeir only effective guard against the disturbing effects o( brotherhoods, trade-unions and strikes.

A Larger Standing Army Needed. ITho Nation.! The need of a standing army In the tense of continental Europe does not exist n either country, bnt tbe need of an effitient auxiliary to the police system is Ur . reater here than in England, for the twoioid reason that the ground to be policed here is mnch vaster, and, if be troth must be confessed, we have more of the spirit of communism and turbulence to deal with than the mother country. 23 000 trained soldiers, in addition to onr present force, under the immediate orders of the pre-ident .when lawfully called upon by any state, are few enough tor the existing needs of tha country. No democrat, however zealous for state rights, can pretend that such a force would be dangerous in the hands of an administration which has remit ed Packard and Chamberlain to their own resources, and withdrawn all the troops from tbe south. No champion of pnbiic liberty can pretend that the country can be m any danger from tbe misnse of twenty-live regiments whose pay and rations depend on tbe votes of congress from yeer to year And it will be wise for politiciaas to remember when tbe subject comre forward that the pnbiic has beeu profoundly stimd by ;he events of rhe past three weeks, and that the alarm which exists is not likely to be sojn forgotten.

Calling for Uoverniuent Aid. [Philadelphia Bulletin.] Gov. Williams was elected to be the chief exccuiiverofficer of tbe great state of Indiana on the distinct isvoe of his trousers; and here in tne hour of trial his trousers have played him false In toe matter of lemonade and towels be was and is triumphant, bat in the matter of ftdtral bayonets he has weakened and gone to the wall.

The New Jersey Central Accident. The cause cf the accident on the New Jersey Central railroad proves to have been'a misplaced draw. Conroy, the drawkeeper, admits the draw was nnlocxed before the accident occurred.

Credo.

THE EASTERN WAR.

I believe her a “flirt and a fraud.” Much in nead of Mvere reprimanding. Ever seeking new trophiee to gain. But I love her!—the witchl—notwithstanding. I believe though scarce mere than a child Sbealready o'er conquest* is gloating. And, though sadly it humbles my pride, 'Tis tbe truth to her (eet I’m swift fisating. I believe her sweet, serious faeo. With brown eyes tbat long lashes half eovtr, Is e’en bat the elt’e auiboscade, Where "no quarter" is shown to n lover. I believe those red lips made to kiss, And that waist rarely formed tor embraces: Were the privilege mine I should reel That my lines tell in heavenly places. —[Springfield Republican,

“SCRAPS.” Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste.—[Emerson. The expenses of the Tichborne trial cost England over a million and a quarter dollars. The Philadelphia Ledger could not find a single American among the Philadelphia rioters. The Russian harvest Is large, and will shipped to Europe over the railways to Baltic ports. The season is now at hand when It behooves those who valae their health to avoid long exposure to the night air. The mania is over but tbe country must not forget that the maniac still liras and is as strong and dangerous as ever.— [Christian Union. The strains of Strauss waltzes flost up from Russian camps these evenings.—[Ex. Tee, and they’ll soon be waltzing over tbe bine Danube again. Bob Toombs, of Georgia, says that the capitalist who does not respect labor is a fraud, and the laborer who does not respect capital is a fool. The Louisiana planters annually lose about one-third of their cotton crops by reason of insufficient labor. They call loadly for laborers from the north. Fereign papers believe that Hurope can take 2,000,000 bead ot cattle from the United States every year, the limit of cattle-rearing having been reached in many parts of Europe. The dircovery of a real dead negro in one of the huge vats of a great London brewery, while it was undergoing repairs, has created a sensation among beer-drink-err, which appeare to be by no means pleasant. Colonel A. K. McClure’s solvent for the times is that the United States government itself, for the benefit of no individual, but' on its own and tbe general acconnt,shonld construct the two Pacific railroads, northern and son them. Constantinople has a circumference of abont thirteen miles. Its harbor, the “Holden Horn,” is a long, capacious Inlet of the Boephorus, running along the northeast side of the city, with sofficient depth for tbe largest vessels, and capable of receiving 1,200 sail of the line. “What do you know abont the prisoner?” asked the judge. “I don’t know nothin’ ’bout him jedge, only he’s bigoted.” “Bigoted?” said hie honor. “Yes, s*h.” “What do you mean by ‘bigoted’? ’ “Well, jedge,” explained the witness, “be knows too much foh one niggah, an’ not ’nuff foh two.” Pierrepont—“Haw, Adam, I see that tbe new webellion is qnite cwusUed—tbe wiote, yon know.” Bmleau—“Yes, so I see, myself.” Pierrepont—“Well, now, wbat pwuzzles me is, bow the d-dence they did it without G want. Do yon know Adsm, 1 think Gwant must have twele gwaphed them what to do?”—[Courier: JournaL The editor of the South African Star, at the-Cape of Good Hope, makea the following announcement: “From and after to-day the exact time of the publication of the Star will be annonaced by the blowing of a steam-whistle, which has jest been attached to oar boiler and steam-engine. Subscribers will thus be able to know when tbe paper boys have bten dilatory in delivering the paper at their residencea.” “Teacher, please did yon ever go to France?” “No, Flora; why?” “Did yon ever see any children Francais, madams?” “Certainment, madamoiselle, why?” “Ain’t they awful queer, mad*me?” “NonI Pourquoi? Poarquoi?” “Oh, ma cherie, parce que because that I have opened my Pujol gr&mmar and I find these descriptions: ‘L’enfant at-11 des plumes? Oui, madamoiselle, il a dee plumee!’ [Baa the baby feathers? Yes, mite, he has feathers.] Can it be?” A gentleman had been bothered eo constantly with tramps and their entreaties for something to eat that he instructed his cook to tell them she had nothing. The other day one of them dropped in and made the asual plea and inquiry. The cook responded promptly, “We have aothing at alL” Tha tramp then oourteonsly asked, ‘ Have you an old basket yon can let me have?” The girl replied, “No! What do you want with a basket? ’ Tramp—“Oh, I.thought I wonld ran over to the poor house and get you some cold victual*.” An American gentleman whose frank and delightful manners have for years made him a favorite in all coantries, and who has gone from house to house in England aa a most popular guest, once said to me in hie hearty way: “The isascn that Americans like tbe higher classes in England is because they are the ^>nly class among whom we find the manners to which we are accustomed I am willing to acknowledge that I don’t like to ateociato with my own class in Ragland, tbe mercantile; becanse it is not like tne mercantile class at boms; its members have no self retpect, they are snobs; they boaat of tbeir money at their dinnertable*, and if they get a person of rank to dine with them, it ia like a scene ont of Thackeray. No^ no; an Amerioan is need to aesociating with bis eqaals, and that is why, in England, he prefers the aristocracy.”—[T. W. Higginson.

Cholera In the Bneelam Camp-Slight Huaainn Heverees. Dcspotovice escaped into Bosnia from the Austrianr. It is rumored cholera has appoarad in tbe Rnwian camp Mussulman refugees in Constantinople, from the invaded distriots, are estimated at 30,000 Prince AristarobL Samoa, has been banished for alleged plotting for the restoration ot ex-Saltan Murad. Russia experiecces serious difficulty in filling tbe ranks ot tbe Leodwebr ia const quence of tbe reluctance with which men come forward. Eight thousand starving Bulgarian refugees are in Salvia. There are heavy and conlinnoat rains, which mast greatly conduce to the spread of sickness in the army. Grand Duke Nicholas admits his troop* are somewhat demoralized and said there waa no probebi ity of a resumption of operations for three weeks when he wonld have reinforcement of 100.000 men. The Turk tab troops withdrawn from the Caucasus have arrived at Varna, reinforcing Mebemit All and Suleiman Pasha The latter's army will be increased to 70,000 men. A third will remain at Adrianople and tbe others croee tbe Balkans. Mukhtar Pasha telegraphs under date of August 8, that two Russian columns have attacked tbs Turkish position at Kadnlkalar. A third column has marched on Ani, and onr left wing has also been attacked between Solina and Gnenlivien. The Rnssians, although reinforced, were twice repulsed and compelled to retirs to their camp.

STEADIER WRECKED. One Hundred Lives Lost. The Pacific steam navigation company’s steamer Ellen, waa wrecked on the morning of tbe 15th of July, at Los Valos, about seventy-five mile* north of Valparaiso. Fourteen bodies had been recovered. Forty-three of the crew and paesengsra got ashore in safety, and twenty were still on tbe rocks. Oat of the crew and peseengers there are probably saved sixty-three. There coaid not have been lees than from ninety to one hundred passengers, end the crew nnmbered sixtyseven. The loes of life, therefore, may be estimated at abont 100 persona The commander ef the vessel is thought to be among the lost

American Iron Veseels. Up to last year only one iron sailing ftbip had been bnilt in tbe United States. There were iron-sbip-yards enough, and competent bn iders, and the builders were offering to construct veseels as cheap as they coaid be boeght abroad, and as an i lustration of what they eould do in ship' boilding, they have been prodneiag some of the fleetest, staunchest and moat beautifel iron steamships which sail in and out of tbe ports of tbe United States; but no one ordered an American iron sailing “ship. From various causes, ship masters were content with wood. There now begins to bs an inquiry, however, concerning American iron ships The statement that ?nch vessels can be bnilt as cheaply in this coentry as abroad has attracted wide atteniion, and a prominent builder is now in receipt of letters from Boston and Liverpool, saving tbat if be can bnild iron sailing vessels at tbe rates claimed, the wn’ers will csrtoinly order shipa from him. The rate in'England for a first class iron vereel of say 1,000 tons burden, with a double on tiit of sails, is about £9 per ton The r ffer is made to construct tbe same eort of ship precisely- for $45 a ton in currency, and negotiations are now in progress in regard to the matter.

Wbat tbe Chinamen Want. Senator Morton gave audience to a deputation of Chinese merchants before leaving San Francisco, in regard to the trouble* attendant upon the presence of tbeir countrymen if California. They wished to adopt snch measures as would have a tendency to check Chinese emigration, and to this end reqaested the senstor to introduce a bill at the next session of congress providing for a modification or abrogation of tbe Barlingame treaty, and for tbe levying of a per capita tax of $100 on every Chinaman landing ia America, the proceeds of this tax to be devoted to paying the passage back to China of thoee ( binamen who desire to return, bat lack the means.

Indemnity for tbe Chlneee. Col. Fred. A. Bee, well known in connection with the affairs of the Ctnneee on the Pacific roast, will present a claim •gainst tbe United States government for indemnity in the case of the Chinese of 8m Frsncisco whose property has been drstroysd daring tbe recent disturbances. The application will be made through the Britiah minister at Washington, as China has no miaisterial repreaentativs there and tbe parties emigrated from the British port of Hong Kong. The claims will aggregate $100,000. upwards of half of which is for actual and the remainder for constructive damages.

Mora Wbleky Suits. At St. Louis suite were entered in the United States circuit Saturday by tbe government against Joseph G. Choteau, distiller, and bis bondsmen, James C. E !- wards aad N. 8 Choreau—one for $25,000 and tbe other for $26 000—for violation of the raver oe laws in M*y, 1873. One suit eecb against Richard B. Jones and Pat C. Murray, government storekeepers, for $10 000, and two against R. W Ulric, one for $107 00$, the other for $80.0(0. All these whisky cases come np at the September term of oonrt.

Hore Strike Outrages. On Saturday eveniag Carbondale, near Scranton, was thrown into wild excitement Two hundred and fifty miners con pelled tbe pumpman to abandon their poets, tbe firm were drowned, and the niin»s are bemg flooded. Tbe crowds also visited the yard of the Delaware and Hudson company, and detained a train of loaded coal cars. Tbe Erie coal company's colliery waa also visited and work stopped.

Workingmen** Ticket In Ohio. A mass meeting o? workingmen in Cincinnati Satnrday nominated the following stale ticket: For governor, L. H Bond, ot Cincinnati; lientenantgovernor, Frank 8kadd, of Cleveland; state treasurer, L. A. Bine, of Cincinnati; clerk of the supreme court, Frederick Anersperger, of Cincir nati; b-'ard of pnbiic works, Peter McGeery. of Xenia; school commissiener, Peter H. Clark, of CincinnatL

National Workingman’* Warty. A meeting of workingmen was held Saturday night at Coiodeon hotel, Philadelphia, to concert meaenree to form a new political party, through which tha workingmen of America hope and expect to make tbeir collective influence felt Near y all trades were repreeented The meeting wss private, and all reporters were excluded

People wbo have houses or rooms to rent can easily seenre tenants by advertising tn Tbe Newa. Its column* are eagerly scanned now by persons in search of residences.

A EOSSIBLE COLE D’ETAT. French MelUlc* tn~a Critical ConSltiOM. French politics ere beginning to take a leading place in the view of we*tern gg. rope At Kerlin a coup d’etat in Fraaaa ia believed probable, and is alao thought tbat the government eetebiisbed by ths coup d’etat would not be recognized by Gtimany. Notwithstanding profound peace prevails thionghoat France, the ultra conservative papers are urging government to declare martial law. There U a report, tn fact, current that the cabinet have already reeelved upon this step, and some journal disease it In tbe light of a foregone conclusion. Tbe Univere sadk: "If tha minister* have really decidedAa alleged, by Ive vote* to four, to proolaim a state of siege, we »hall hiahly approve of th* aseMure. Wa ask for a state of aUg* tbat tbe electors may vote freely, and be ■ninfiuenced by th* falsehood* of th* radical propaganda.” The Univere believes the immediate proclamation of martial law is- rendered necessary by tbe license of tbe radical newspapers, which dare to talk of civil war nnlees tbeir candidates obtain a majority at the approaching election. Monseigneur Donnanlonp’s newspaper. The Defense, says, “It is natural to enppcee tbat government may be forced to meet, by a state of siege, the fierce and anronetitational war the radicals wag* against it Th* cor etitntion is formally attacked and government wonld be wrong if it did not seek some means to defend itself.” Tbe committee of the right publishes another appeal for funds to carry on th* electoral work. They urge fhe order-lov-ing citizens to respond, because th* propaganda of the right will promote the public welfare.

Wasted Time. . [Detroit Free Press.] A copy of Shakespeare had been picked up on the street by one of the officers, and left at the station for its owner. After ■weeping oat, arranging the chairs and giving each prisoner a drink of water, Bijah eet down and opened ths volume. He read a few lines here and there for about five minutes and then qlosed the book and mattered: “Well, that Shakespeare wasted a heap of time on this book. There isn’t a single adventure with the Indian*—nothing about a men being carried over Niagara tails—no ghost stories, and nothing abont the last war. I’d give just four cents a pound for this book ” He pot it away with a disappointed look, aad when the boy* came in end one of them started to look through it ths old man called ont: “Let that right alone? Its all abont a feller named Romeo somebody or other, and there isn’t a picture in it” “Lernice see if I can’t find a picture of a beer chasing a boy,” pleaded tne yonth. “I know you can’t Its all full of big words and poetry I looked it all through, hoping to find the pictnre of a steamboat blowing ap, bat there’s nothing there ’cept trseb.” “Lots of big folks bay snch books,” protested the boy. “Well, let’em buy ’em. When I sit down to reed a book I like to find ont abont snakes, and Sitting Ball, and prize fights, and tigers eating np folks, and husbands murdering their wives, and how Jay Gould got licked, and how Jamea Gordon Bennett I* coming home.”

The Loss in Mtrlklng. A railroad engineer at Syracuse puts th* case very forcibly: “Suppose we should strike now and be ont of work a month, and at tbe end of tbat time the compauy sbould give in and 1st ns have oat tea per cent, advance—bow much would we make on that deal? During the month of strike and idlenere I sbould lose over $80 to start with. Some might think that a high figure, so cut it down to $60. How long will it take me to make np that $60, which I have loet by th* strike, by recovering the Un per cent, advance which tbe strike might gain for roe? Oh, I’ve figured this thing out I sbould bs forty weeks or neaiy a whole year trying to make np wbat I loet by one month’s idleness! That is on the supposition tbat we come out ahead. If we don’t come oat ah-ad the striking time is a dead loss, and if we do come out ahead it takes nearly • whole year before I make up what I lose. I say excuse me-frem strikingl”

The Sitting Ball Com mi eel on. John Welsh, of Philadelphia, a member of tbe board of Indian oom mini oners,' baa been invited to act as one of the commistioners to treat with Sitting Bull If General Crooz will *ot accept. General A. D. McCook, of Shermsn’e staff, or General Terry will be appointed to represent the army.

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