Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1878 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS': TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1878.

CORSETS. Wf b*Yf Ju*t enlarged <wr Corset Deportment, end it is now the meet complete in thecitT. Many J>'ew Style* can now be loond in this Department.

SBISJ otth SILK lidlerM JCST OPENED a large stock at bottom price*. -Also, the cheapest lot oi LIVEN HANDKEItCXIIEf S in the State { Close & Wasson, BEE-HIVE. KNIVES, FOPKS, w SPOONS. Extra Low Prices FOR THE NEXT 20 DAYS. Bingham, Walk & Mayhew, 12 E. Washington St. SIGN OF THE STREET CLOCK. THE DAILY NEWS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1878. The Indianapolis News has the largest circulation of any daily paper in Indiana. Ten cents from every resident of the city, able to give it, would make a far larger sum than has already been raised for the lever BufTerers. In six Maine counties the democrats and nationals have, united on their *onnty tickets. These counties choose twelve out of thirty-one senators, and it is thought that in nearly all of them the fusion will succeed. Subscriptions for the south have not ended; they are just beginning. Indianapolis, which has given so largely, in proportion to her means, has not yet done a tithe of what she can do, and this without unduly taxing any one. No oSering is too small, none too great. The Arkansas election, which occurred yesterday, “passed off quietly” it is toTte presumed. ^There was only one ticketgin the field, democratic, although the green-Lnck-labor party had a ticket for the state officers. In the present legislature the democrats have eighty-six majority on joint ballot Oe the 94 republicans so far named foe congress, 40 are members of the present house; of the 137 democrats only 52 are of the present house. Out of 61 candidates from the south, so far named by the democrats, only 37 are in the present house. On the whole the democrats are taking more new material than the republicans. Blaine of Maine is welcomed in the northwest with an enthusiasm which doubtless fans the hope in him that it may Btill be not too late to be desiemated by an 'Ejection which will take in the whole country in its breadth. But there is a jingling rhyme about “Blaine of Maine” that will keep him within the bounds of a single state. The terrible scourge of the south continues its work of devastation with unabated fury. It looks as if “an overruling ’Providence,” in the language of the Journal really does intend to ajllict the south until it shall be fully sensible to the generous sympathy of the north; most of which, in the language of the same paper, is “republican.” Vermont votes to-day for governor, lio.utennnt-governor and treasurer, members of the legislature and three representatives in congress. The legislature will choose a United States senator in place of ~ Mr. Justin 8. Morrill. There are three tickets for state officers, republican, democratic and a greenback-labor ticket. The present legislature has a republican majority of 204 on joint ballot in a total membership of 2G4. The present delegation in congress is unanimously republican. Councilman McKay’s proposition for a reorganization of the fire department should be carefully considered. It is in the right direction. The ability of- the water works has been demonstrated to be such that reduction in the fire-department would seem to be the logical sequence. There will, doubtless, be objection as there always is to reduction of any kind; but demonstrated that it can be safely made and it should be. And the kind of reduction here proposed is in its favor. It i ■" practically not a reduction of men bnt of money; it does not lessen efficiency but expenditure. The Indianapolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, writing about the proposed democratic gerrymander incase that party secured the legislature, says: “Editorially The News apologizes for the democrats for giving the republicans five districts, with the chance of carrying six.” When The News goes into the business of , apologizing for Indiana democrats it will give due notice. It simply explained that they were unable to make such a “sure thing” of their gerrymander

as the republicans did on account of the dhpoaition of their county majorities. Wi re it possible, in either case, we think neither party would leave the other enough “to go through the motions” with. “With this evidence of universal sympathy for the afflicted south before him, it will be a fool who will try to galvanize into life the “old war issues in this fall’s campaign,” says the Cincinnati Saturday Night. It may speak the truth but we believe it will h^ve cause to learn that the fools like the poor we have always with us. Already the Journal of this city has tried to make capital for the republican party out df this spirit of sympathy, and we are amiss in our estimate of the stalwart politicians if they do not in 1880 ask as a price for this sympathy their countinuance in power. The people will disallow such a claim, but we shall be surprised if it be not made. Ben Butler’s letter of acceptance, about six newspaper columns long, is an able one. He wisely chooses the ground of state questions as his battle-field, and addresses himself with vigor, if not eloquence, to the seventeen years’ record of the republican party in the rule of the state. It causes more uneasiness in official circles than is willingly admitted, anc^ there is a growing belief in the state that the only hope is to “fess up” and show a determination to bring about the reforms which Butler himself proposes to compass; in the words of the Springfield Union, “a revision of the list of officeholders and a sharp retrenchment of public expenses.” The Butler campaign will hustle Massachusetts, although she may go free from the indignity of having him for her chief officer. The streams of aid which began weeks ago to flow from the north to the south seem few compared to the innumerable ones which every day sees starting afresh. New York city has furnished her first $100,000, and Robert Bonner leads off for the second with his check for $1,000. Theatres announce benefits; fraternities and unions are' making up fresh purses; newspapers have started dime subscrip" lions; entertainments of every sort spring up to help swell the flood of substantial benefit, which speaks louder than all words of sympathy. The spirit of the . time has drifted quickly and silently to the center-spot of true charity; it measures itself by action. There is none of the “Be ye clothed, be ye fed, be ye ministered unto” quality about it. It is an eager proffer of men and money to aid the desolate in their affliction, the kind that will stay by it till it ends. The city council last pight crawled out of a very small hole in reference to granting to’ the state house commissioners part of the circumjacent streets as a work yard for the new building. When the request was made the council brashly asserted that it “would not be dictated to” by the state house quartet. The News showed at the time that this was simply depriving Indianapolis workingmen of work but did not ask a reconsideration of the action, for being a state affair it had no objection to the assembled wisdom of Indianapolis, in the shape of its council, depriving itself of work for the benefit of the state if it wanted to. Now that it has had the sense to get out of its own light, it may not be amiss to hope that future action will not te molded by the petulent spirit which made this state house mistake. There is as fine opportunity for calm and wise legislation in a city council as in the halls of congress. CUKRKNT COMJUjENT. In view of the outcome of the inter-nation-al silver conference, some smart paper suggests that the three American commissioners are in the position of Bopeep’s sfteep: “I.et them alone Aim! they’ll come home, And bring their tails behind them.” The national democratic congressional committee Jcr still sending away Senator Tint-man's financial speech. It will this* week close up on this and circulate in pamphlet form the Blackburn view of the appropriations.

The Philadelphia Record tells of the fall of Mr. Nathan Hilles, president of the Gas Trust of that city. It says: For sixty years he had lived an exemplary life. Hi? probity was unquestioned. He was elevated to the presidency of a Frankford banjj. He was made treasurer of the Frankford meeting of the Friends society. He was made president of the Buck mountain mining company. He was elected treasurer of the Harrisburg gas and fuel light company, a director of the Fifth and Sixth streets‘line, and appointed fhistee of several estates. Aliove and bevond all this, he was chosen president of the Gas Trust, and, when the finger of suspicion was pointed at the closed doors of that body, Mr. Hilles was held up as the paragon of honesty, and the question asked: ‘’Would be allow you to be robbed?” He had raised a good family, and was indeed honored among men. Now, through his financial embarrassments, he proves to have been a defaulter to the amount of $300,000.

Fecretary Sherman has done the country a service in this speech.—[N. Y. Tribune. N—ya-a?! And it would have had a still greater effect if its author had never at an earlier stage of the final question been on the other side.—[N. Y. World. In fact, the Inter Ocean frankly says that it hopes to make the republican a greenback party.—[Harper’s Weekly. Make it so! Why, it is so now, if the people, instead of the politicians, are to be consulted. The Inter Ocean only serves as a mouth-piece for the millions of greenback republicans behind it.—[Chicago Inter Ocean. Mr. Hares has not reformed the civil service or done what in him lay toward reforming it He has done semething towards loosening the control of leading republican politicians over the offices, but he has done it in such a way as to destroy the confidence of a large portion of the party in the goodness of his intentions as well as in the soundness of his judgment, and to give the broom of reform the appearance of the old and well-known party shillelah, wielded now for his personal benefit.—[N. Y. Nation. In Indiana Mr. Holman, who has been refreshing his energies by a couple of years of private life, is again named against the sitting member, Thomas M. Browne, republican. There is also a greenback candidate in the district, whose strength, we should suppose, must be with Holman s former followers. Mr. Holman is a sound business man in all that relates to economy, and is the most clearheaded and sincere of his party; but he is a rampant soft-money man, and his continued retirement will be no serious loss to the nation.—[New York Times. Exit the bankrupt law. Exeunt premiums to speculators in merchandise, real estate and stocks to take risks with a bankruptcy whitewash in perspective. Exeunt perjuries, frauds, bogus assets, swindles, black-lettered lawyers and commercial jackals. Enter more confidence between buyer and seller, more pluck for the debtor, less suspicion for the creditor and a quieter feeling in the discount market. So the curtain falls with hundreds eager but unable to get behind the scenes and register their manuscripts with the prompters.—[New York World.

The Customs Investigation. Tbc custom house committee appointed by congress, Fernando Wood, chairman, organized in New- York yesterday, and will begin its inquiries to-day. Mr. Wood submitted a letter from Secretary Sherman, stating that he regarded the inquiry as so important to the public service that he hoped to personally attend during the meeting of the subcommittee, with a view to promote in every possible way the completeness of the work proposed, and also offering to the committee all information within his department, and directing the customs officers at New ^ ork to furnish the committee every facility for carrying on the investigation. Mr. Wood then read a letter of his own to Collector Merritt, setting forth “that the scope of the proposed inquiry will cover all such matters as the resolutions w ill authorize. The precise points of the investigation w ill relate to the practical entry of merchandise, the method of payment of duties, an examination of the invoices ami of the valuation in appraisements, the system adopted for refunds, the bonding system, the practicability of consolidating the departments or divisions, and placing the whole machinery under on head so as to secure more efficiency, less complication, and less cost of collection.”

American Laborers in Brazil. [Washftgton Star.] The schooner D. M. Anthony, Captain James McLane, from Para, Brazil, arrived at Alexandria, last week. Captain McLane states that he took railroad iron and general supplies from Massachusetts for the Madeira and Mamora railroad. He reports that the men engaged on the railroad who left this counity, principally from New York and Philadelphia, are in a terrible condition for the want of food and medical attention. He brought four of the men back with him, and they will be sent to their homes in New York. Flour is $18 a barrel and board $3 a day. Provisions are very unwholesome. He gave the tnen at Para a dinner while he was there and it was the first decont meal they had since they left the United States. The only kind of meat provided for them is monkey meat and Hour is made by grinding hard tack or ^ailor biscuit. Out of the 300 tnen who left this country only five are at work. It rains there 20 day’s out of 30. The men are utterly destitute of supplies, and the sickness along the live of the road is very great, although it is comparatively healthy at Para.

“Gath” says “Grant is splendidly endowed with enemies,” whereat the Illinois Register says: “Yes, he has enemies enough to set him up in almost any business, but the trouble is that his measly scalawag friends are enough to damn a man of twice his good luck.” ~

Leading Massachnsettsdemoerats have held a meeting to devise ways and means to prevent Butler from capturing their convention. Chances are he will capture it anyhow. Mr. Beecher avows himself a Grant manfirst, last and all the time; and he says that fifty years hence Americans will be glad to know that, historically. Grant is one of our greatest and wisest men. Mr. Beecher thinks that if St. Paul were alive he would be a Darwinian evolutionist.—[New York Herald. Doubtless there are a. good many other things Mr. Beecher knows which have no more weight than his estimate of Grant and St. Paul.

The New York World suggests that Boss Kelley nominate himself for every office on the ticket, pertinently asking, “What difference does it make whether all the offices ‘in the gift of the people’ are filled by one man or by men whom he names ?”

Anent the recent appointment of Mosby .he Springfield Union says, “It will strike a good many people that the Canton consulate* inferior as it is to that at Hong Kong, would have been altogether too good for a man with Mosby’s infamous record as a rebel butcher of union men and soldiers.” This from a stalwart paper may be called a, “leetle rough” on Grant’s protege who has Simon Cameron's recommendation in his pocket. It makes a big difference whose ox is gored. _

Steamer on Fire. Al*>nt 7:30 last evening the steamer John A. Dix, while lying along-sidc Goodrich's dock, Milwaukee, caught fire in the afterhold. The city engines were promptly on the spot, and with great difficulty succeeded in extiugnisbing the fire before it had reached the upper works. The Dix should have left the east shore at 7 o’clock bnt fortunately was detained taking on freight. The lost is estimated at from $5,000 to $10,000 on the boat, and $2,000 to $3,000 on freight, with no insurance on the latter, which consisted of feed, groceries, etc. About 25 passengers were on board.

Scboolmaster Murdered. George Burke, a school teac her living near Ohio Furnace, Scioto county, was killed at that place Sunday afternoon about 4 o’clock by a man named Craigmver. Burke had secured the ill will of the latter oy paving ai tent ions to Miss Craigmyer, a sister of the murderer. The difficulty grew out of a dispute Sunday afternoon, during which Craigmyer struct Burk a blow on the bead with a heavy instrument, knocking his brains out and producing instant death. No intimation of the arrest of the murderer has been received.

Suppressing Socialists at Paris. Notwithstanding police prohibition of the proposed congress of socialist workingmen, thirty organizers met in ' the Rue des Ecoles on Sunday, but the police dissolved the meeting. •

Hank Bobbers Captured. Ottie Offutt, Thomas Renck and Riley Cornell were captured in Johnson county, Missouri, yesterday, and identified as the men who robbed the Concordia bank.

A Bloody Bevolt. The Bosnians at Nicsics have revolted. Great numbers were killed and wounded by the Montenegrins before the revolt was suppressed. 1

Couraga.

XV ise men ne’er sit and wsll their Ion, Put cheerly seek how to redress their harms.

Wh«t though theuisst-be now blown overboard,

The eebl# broke, the holding anchor lost, And hall onr sailors swallowed in the flood? Yet Uvea our pilot still; it's meet that he Should leave the helm, and, like a fearful lad, With tearlul eye*, add water to the aea,

And give more strength to that which hath too

mueft;

* »HU on the rock,

;ht have saved? —[Shakespeare.

Whiles, in bis moan, the ship spli Which industry and courage mig]

SCRAPS.

Now plant your fall advertisements. Mr. Beecher will lecture in Iowa this month. A St. Louis paper has started a dime fund for the fever victims.

Philosophers are discussing whether a new born child possesses any intellect.

The last steamer for New York from Key West carried $64,000 worth of cigars. The New York Sun says Georgia buys more banjos in proportion to’ population than any other state in the anion. The men who have ploughed and sowed and reaped are not complaining of any scarcity of money.—[Toledo Blade. The cool evenings remind us that the autumn has pooled its issues and the summer “must go.”—[Lowell Courier. It costs the English government $50,000 a year to repair the damage done to insulators and telegraph wires by stone-throwing boys.

the lease W open it.

It is believed by gossips who profess to know how Tennyson is employed that he is writing an In Memoriam poem on the loss of the Eurydicc. ~

The Spragues of Rhode Island are yet living, but they might as weli be vice president of the United States, for all the mention they ever get in the papers.—[Chicago Tribune.

“Now, vour majesty,” said the scientist, who had Dcen commanded to conduct a series of experiments before royalty, “these two gases will have the honor of combining before your majesty.—[Paris paper. A New York dressmaker employs three men cutters, goes to Paris for styles every season, owns a house for which she paid $35,000, and keeps her carriage and horses. She has ipade her way entirely herself. The cattle trade between south Florida and Cuban ports is steadily increasing. There are five American and two Spanish schooners, one Ameriean and one Spanish steara- * ship constantly engaged in the transportation.

If ever you want to know how the cotton crop of the south averages, notice what the crop in Mecklenburg county, N. C., looks like. For many years the local and national averages have corresponded with singular exactness.

A green sportsman, after a fruitless tramp, met a boy with tears in his eyes, and said: “I say, youngster, is there anything around here to’shoot?” ‘’Nothin’ just’bout here, but there’s the schoolmaster t’other side the hiH. 1 wish you'd shoot him!” “Do you think, William,” said Mrs. Brown to her husband, the other night, “that the telephone will ever he as generally used as the telegraph ?” “Why, yes,” replied Brown. “The time is coming when it will be as common to telephone as it seems to be now to tell a fib.” If you have a pastor who has a mezzosonrano voice, and quotes the golden rule /’chew djew unto others as yew would that others should djew unchew yew,” lay for him with a club at every opportunity. That kind cf man is always bent on some kind of deviltry.—[Hawkeye. * Sergeant Boston Corbett, who shot John Wilkes Booth, has written to the postmastergeneral, from Camden, New Jersey, asking employment in the postoffice there. He says he has never held a position under the government, although he thinks his services deserve reward. A modest place will satisfy him.

An official report received at the department of state from the American consul at Demerara, dated July 26th, states that the sugar crop in British Guiana for the present year will fall short 40,000 hogsheads on account of the drought. The total yield of British Guiaea has generally been 120,000 hogsheads yearly. At St. Louis some of the leading saloons and lunch-rooms have given their gross receipts for a day to the yellow fever relief fund. At Bonnet's, “Mr. John W. McOullagh came in with a friend and threw down $10 for two cocktails, saying if any other man went it better he would take another drink.” Senator Armstrong planked two tens and a five for ten drinks. Whisky at $2.50 a drink ai d lemonades at $1 apiece were much ia demand.

The claims of many American families to estates in England and Wales will lose even their present slim chance of realizing anything by a’new property limitation act which goes inte operation there with the advent of 1879. Theact debars all claims older than a dozen years, by confirming tenants in possession of land which they have uninterruptedly occupied for that length of time, without paying rent or otherwise acknowledging the title of any person. A facetious brakeman oh the Central Pacific railroad cried out as the train was about entering a tunnel: “This tunnel is one mile long and the train will be four minutes passing througb it.” The train dashed into daylight again in four seconds and the scene in the ear was one for a painter. Seven young ladies were closely pressed by fourteen pair of masculine arms, four pair of lips were glued together and two dozen inverted whisky flasks flashed in the air. According to the latest statistics that have been gathered, there are, in round numbers, 8,000,000 of Jews in the world, who are thus divided: United States, 73,265; Great Britain and Ireland, 42,000; Italy, 25,000; France, 49,439: German empire, 512,158: Netherlands, (Holland), 68.003; Austria, 1,600,000; Russia in Europe, 2,612,179; Turkey, 150,000; Roumania, 247,424; Morocco, 340,000; Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, hare comparatively few Jews—they number there from 1,500to7,000—whileAsiahas 2,138,000. . The palace car, the special and private one used by the president of the road, which President Hayes left.Washington in on his present trip, was handsomely furnished and tastefully decorated with plants, shrubs and vines, and looked very inviting. Even the stove and stove pipe were a-bloom with flowers. Mrs. LeDuc displayed her taste in directing this {>art of the decoration. Easy chairs and restful sofas in the parlor and a private boudoir abjoining the elegantly furnished staterooms made the car look" very attractive and homelike. Secretary Evarts has in contemplation the delivery of a speech on the pelitical issues and the position of the administration with respect to the national interests and policy. It has not been decided as to the place. Many of bis friends suggest New York. The points of his speech, which he has carefully canvassed in his own mind, wilfpresant the political situation and prospects in an entirely different light from that most popularly received. It will treat the subject in a philosophical as well as a practical aspect, and promises to be one of the most convincing expressions of the purposes of the administration which has yet been uttered.

“BIB BEYOND SEA.” Gladstone’* Analyst* of the American

Constttation.

“Kin Beyond Sea” is the title of a paper by Mr. Gladstone in the October number of the North American Review, of which a summary of the salient points in reference to this

government is given.

Of the innumerable progeny sent forth by the British mother to be the founders of empires the American republic is the eldest born. While other countries have doubled, or al most trebled their population, she has risen during one single century of freedam. from 2,000,000 to 45,000,000. As to riches, I suppose that the very next census, in the year 1880, will exhibit her to the world as certainly the wealthiest of all the nations. The huge figure of £1,000.000,OOO, which may be taken roundly as the annual income of the United Kingdom, has been reached at a surprising rate—a rale which may perhaps be best expressed by saying that, if we had started forty or fifty years ago from zero, at the rate of our recent' annual increment, we should now have reached our present position. But while we have been advancing with this portentous rapidity, America is passing us by in a canter. Yet even now the work of searching the soil and the bowels of the territory, and opening out her enterprise throughout its vast expanse, is in its infancy. The England and the America of the present are probably the two strongest nations of the-world. But - there can hardly ^ he a doubt, ns betwoea the America and the* England of the future, that the daughter, at some no very distant time, will, whether fairer or less fair, be unquestionably yet

stronger than the mother.

Our two governments, whatsoever they do,

have to give reasons for it; not reasons which will convince the unreasonable, but reasons which on the whole will convince the average mind, and carry it unitedly forward in a course of action, often though not always wise, and bearing within itself provisions, where it is unwise, for the correction of its own unwisdom before it grows to an intolerable rankness. They are governments,

not of force only, but of persuasion. Many, more are the concords, and not les?

vital than these, of the two nations as expressed in #their institutions. They alike prefer the practical to the abstract* They tolerate opinion, with only a reserve on behalf of decency; and they desire to confine coercion to the province of action, and to leave thought, as such, entirely free. They set a high value on liberty for its own sake. They desire to give full scope to the principles of self-reliance in the people, and they deem self-help to be immeasurably superior to help in any other form—to be the only help, in short, which ought not to be continually or periodically put upon its trial, and required to make good its title. They mistrust and mislike the centralization of power, and they cherish municipal, local, even parochial liberties, as nursery grounds, not only for the production here' and there of able men, but for the general training of public virtue and independent spirit. They regard publicity as the vital air of politics; though which alone, in its freest circulation, opinions can be thrown into common stock for the good of all, and the balance of relative rights and claims can be habitually and and peaceably adjusted. It would be difficult, in case of any other pair of nations, to present an assemblage ot traits at once so common and so distinctive as has been given

in this probably imperfect enumeration. There were, however, the strongest reasons

why America could not grow into a reflection or repetition of England. In England inequality lies imbedded in the very base of the social structure. In America it is a late, incidental, unrecognized product, not of tradition, but of industry and wealth as thej» advance with various and of necessity unequal steps. Equality combined with liberty, and renewable at each descent from one generation to another, like a lease, with stipulated breaks, was the groundwork of their social creed. In vain was.it sought by arrangements such as those connected with the name of Baltimore or of Bonn to qualify the action of those overpowering forces which so determined the case. Slavery itself, strange as it now must seem, failed to impair the theory, however it may hare imported into the practice a hideous solecism. No harder republicanism was generated in New England than in the slave states of the south, which produced so many of the great states-

men of America.

America, w hose attitude towards England has always been masculine and real, has no longer to anticipate at our hands the frivolous and offensive criticisms which were once in vogue among us. But neither nation prefers (and it would be an ill sign if either did prefer) the institutions of the other; and we certainly do not contemplate the great republic in the spirit of mere optimism. The thing that perhaps chiefly puzzles the inhabitants of the old country is, why the American people should permit their entire existence to be continually disturbed by the business of the presidential elections; and still more, why they should raise to its maximum the intensity of this perturbation by providing, as we are told, for what is termed a ilean sweep of the entire civil service, in all its ranks and departments, on each accession of a chief magistrate. We do not perceive why this arrangement is more rational than would be a corresponding usage in this country on each change of ministry. Our practice is as different as possible. We limit to a few scores of persons the removals and appointments on these occasions; although our ministries seem to us, not unfrequently, t© be more sharply severed from one another, in principle and tendency, they are the successive presidents of the great union. It would be out of place to, discuss in this article occasional phenomena of local corruption in the United States by which the nation at large can hardly be touched ; or the mysterious manipulation of votes for the presidency, which are now understood to bo under examination; or the very curious influences which are shaping the politicsof the negroes and the south. These last are corollaries to the great slave question; and it seems very possible that after a few years we may see most of the laborers, both in the southern states and in England, actively addicted to the political support of that section of their countrymen who to the last had resisted their emancipation. But if there are those in this country who think that Ameriean democracy means public levity or intemperance, or lack of skill and sagacity in politics, or the alieence of selfcommand and self-denial, let -them bear in mind a few of the most salient and recent facts of history, w hich may profitably be recommended* to their reflections. We emanc ipated a million of negroes by peaceful legislation; America liberated four or five millions by a bloody civil war; yet the industries and exports of .the southern states are maintained, while those of our negro colonies have dwindled; the south enjoys all its franchises, but we have, proh jmdor! found no better method of providing for peace and order in Jamaica, the chief of islands, than by the hard and vuli to bore needful, expedient of entirely its representative institutions. The civil war compelled the states, both north and south, to train and embody 1,500,000 men, and to present to view the greatest, instead of the smallest, armed forces in the world. Here there was supposed to arise a double danger. First, that, on a sudden cessation of the war, military life anfl^habits could not be shaken off, and havin^Pecome rudely and widely predominant, would bias the country towards an aggressive policy, or, still worse* would find vent in predatory or revolutionary operations. Secondly, that a militanr caste would grow up with its habits of exclusiveness and command and would influence the tone of politics in a direction adverse to republican freeedom. But both apprehensions proved to be wholly imaginary. The innumerable soldiery was at once

dissolved. Cincinnatos, no longer a unique example, became the comnionnUce of every day, the type and monltf of a nation. The whole enormous mas# quietiy resumed the habits of aocial life. The generals of yesterday were the editors, secretaries and solicitors cf to-day. The just jealousy of the state gave life to the now forgotten maxim of Judge Blackstone, who denounced as perilous the erection of a separate profession arms in a free country. The standing army, expanded by the heat of civil contest to gigantic dimensions, settled down again into the frame work of a miniature with the returning temperature of civil life, and became a power well-nigh invisible, from its minuteness, amid the powers which sway the movements of a society exceeding forty millions. More remarkable still was the financial sequel to the great conflict. The internal taxation for federal purposes, which before its commencement had beea unknown, was raised in obedience to an exigency of life and death, so as to exceed every present and

grew to be the highest in the world, and the capital touched £560,000,000. Here was provided for the faith and patience of the people a touchstone of extreme severity. In England, at the close of the close of the great French war, the propertied classes, who were supreme iu parliament, at once rebelled against the tory government and refused to prolong the income tax even for a single year. We talked big, both then and now, about the payment of our national debt; but sixty-three years have now elapsed, all of them except two called years of peace, and we have reduced the huge total by about one-ninth; that is to say by a little over £100,000,000, or scarcely more than £1,500,000 a year. This is the conduct of state elaborately digested into orders and degrees, famed for wisdom and forethought, and consolidated by a long experience. But America continued long to bear on her unaccustomed and still-smarting shoulders the burden of the war taxation. In twelve years she has reduced her debt by £158,000,000, or at the rate of £13,000,000 for every year. In each twelve months she has done what we did in eight years; her self-commlad, selfdenial and wise forethought for the future hare been, to say the least, eightfold ours. These are the facts, which redound greatly to her honor; and the historian will record with surprise that an jenfranebised nation tolerated burdens which In this country a selected class, possessed of the representation, did not dare to face; and that the most unmitigated democracy known in the annals of the world resolutely reduced at its own cost prospective liabilities of tbc state, which the aristocratic and plutocratic and monarchical government of the United Kingdom has been contented ignobly to hand over to posterity. Aud such facts should be told out It is our fashion so to tell them, against as well as for ourselves; . and the record of them may some day be among the means stirring us up to a policy' more worthy of the name and fame pi England.

Crop Ueport*. The oats crop in Indiana is good, but has fallen off slightly in excellence as comjiared with July. All the Atlantic states north of South Carolina, except Massachusetts aud Connecticut, show a decline, especially marked in Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida show an improvement. The winter sowing has given increased vitality to the crop. AJabama, Mississippi and Arkansas show a decline. Louisiana, Texas and Tennessee raise their standard. West Virginia and Kentucky fall off from their previous high figures. * Of the states nortli of the Ohio river, Ohio, Michigan and Missouri show an improved condition; all others report a decline. Twelve of the largest tobacco growing states report the following averages in August, viz: Kentucky, 80; Virginia, 80; Missouri, 95; Tennessee, 85; Maryland, 87; Peunsylvania, 85; North Carolina, 84; Ohio, 96; Indiana, 75; Connecticut, 105; Illinois, 88; Mississippi, 105. The tobacco field of the Connecticut valley is the only one that shows improvement from July. In all other parta of ibe great tobacco field the crop has fallen off in its average condition. A circular on the barlev crop of the statea of Wisconsin, northern Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Dakota, with reports from 200 points, shows the crops of No. 2, or good malting barley, to be seriously injured. The reports generally are that there will be no No. 2 barley this year on account of wet weather during harvest. The acreage is reported fifty per cent, less than last year.

Affairs on the Mexican Border.

[Washington Star.]

One of the most intelligent special agenta of the government, who has been on a special mission to the Mexican border, sends an interesting report of his visit to fl»e treasury department. He traveled along the border from the Rio Colorado to the Rio Grende. Ho says that something should be done bv the representatives of both countries to bring about a better condition of affairs. There l are better ways, he thinks, of accomplishing this than bv the marshaling of troops as a menace on the border. The high tariff on the products of the two countries engender and encourage smuggling. This, he suggests, is one of the principal and overlooked causes of the trouble on the border. Almost everybody is in sympathy with the smugglers. He advances the assertion that the only effective cure, the most peaceable and permanent solution to the entire problem is “reciprocity” between the two countries, by means of a treaty of commercial amity for free admission into both countries across the border of their respective products. He concludes by asking: “Have not England, France and Germany quietly obtained possession of the bulk of the Mexican trade, while the United States has been settling her border difficulties by corresjaindence, commissions, threats ami armed encounters?”

A Boy Murder* His Grandfather. Sunday morning John Closen, an aged ■rman fanner, living seven miles south of droit, was murdered ia bed by Christian ■ietenbach his grandson, aged 17. After undering the body of $80 secreted upon it, p youth fled and is still at large. It is

Opening of n Railroad. The Central branch of the Union Pacific railroad has been completed and is now open for business to Beloit, 182 miles west of Atchison. The company has also finished the grading for a branch from Concordia to Scandia, twenty miles.

Striking it Bleb. Rich diggings discovered in the Horsefly country, about Caril*ou, Colorado. Chinese miners are making from $40 to $80 pef hand daily.

8hlpa Lost. Two British ships, the Lord of the Idea, from Australia, and the Queen, from Liverpool, are reported lost.

. A Unanimous Election. The election in Arkansas, yesterday, passed off very quietly. The democratic state ticket had no opposition.

Death of an Ex-Governor. Ex-Governor Haight, of California, died suddenly yesterday. In a physician a office. Accident to BHhop Talbott. Bishop Talbott, bathing kt Copy Island, Saturday, fractured ft bouc of his foot. Decrease of the National Debt. The decrease in the national debt during August was $6,475,504. *