Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1889 — Page 6

HIE INDIANA STATE

SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 188.

AMERICA'S GREAT DANGER

LIES IN BALLOT BOX CORRUPTION. Ex-President Cleveland Talks Hard gens to the Boston Merchants Grady on the Kace Problem Carnegie Deals In Statistics. Boston, Dec, 12. Over four hundred of the solid business men of Boston and New England crowded the spacious apartrnentä of the hotel Vendome this evening on the occasion of the annual banquet of the Boston merchants' association. So great was the desire to seo and hear tho honored guest of the association that the tickets were all disposed of at a premium days ago, and scores of applicants w ero disappointed. At the round table in the center eat the Hon. Jonathan A. Lane, president of the association. At bis right were ex-Presi-dent Cleveland and Messrs. II. W. Grady, "W. L. Putnam, P. A. Collins, John Lowell, "William E. Kusscll and Leopold Morse, while at his left were seated Gov. Oliver Ames, Andrew Carnegie, Gen. Clinton B. Tiske of New Jersey and Collector fcattonetall all guests of the association. The pentlemen who are the guests of Henry Grady in New England were also the guests of the association at the banquet. It was S :15 o'clock before President Lane called the attention of the gathering. After reading a letter of rejrret from James Dussell Lowell, he proceeded in a brief speech to introduce Gov. Ames, who welcomed the guests of the occasion. When he mentioned the name of the distinguished truest from New York the assembly greeted tho mention with loud applaud;. iov. Amos then turned to Mr. Cleveland and Haid: "If wicked democrats speak as well of me when I retire, from office a republicans now do of you, I shall be abundantly satisfied," This sentiment was also loudly cheered. President Lan then introduced ex-President Cleveland as one who, stron? in his personality, would speak strong words tonight, which would be heard all over tho land and across the sea on behalf of pure politics and those reforms which are now sweeping all parties before them. Mr. Cleveland was greeted with long continued applause, shouts and cheers, the entire assembly rising and waving handkerchiefs and cheering enthusiastically. Mr. Cleveland spoke in a strong, well-modulated voice, and was easily heard by all. His address was as follows: "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen When I see about me this gathering of business men and merchants, I lind it impossible to rid myself of the impressive thought that here is represented that factor in c.v.lized lifo w hich measures the progress ot a people, which constitutes the chief care of every enlightened government and which pives to a country tho privilege of recognized membership in the community of nations. "Our business men cannot, if they would, escape the responsibility which this condition casts upon them a responsibility most exacting and invested with the seriousness which always results from a just apprehension of man's relation to his fellow-man and the obligation lue from a citizen to Lis government, They can find no pretext for indifference in the selfcomplacent claim that under American institutions, as in otlicr times and in foreign land.s, business men and merchants have only gained a recognition of their importance and value, as it has been forced from a government in which they had no representation and from rulers who looked upon their vocation with contempt. They cannot absolve themselves from loyal duty to a government which has at all times invited them to a high place in public counsels, and which has clwa) a ungrudgingly conceded their indispensable value in the growth and procrcFS of our republic. "These considerations plainly point out your responsibility and duty :s members of the truild of business and a3 belonging to tfie fellowship of trade. "Hut we cannot avoid other reflections leading in the same direction and related to you alone the business men of Boston. The scene of your activity is the commercial enter of a great and ancient commonwealth, rich in patriotic traditions. It was tipon the waters of your harbor that the first active and physical detiance and opposition was made to odious and unfair imperial legislation affecting colonial trade; and the first battle by Americans for liberty of the person and freedom from unjust and oppressive restraint upon business, was fought within sight of your w arehouses. "You have besides inherited a trust whieh shades with sober sentiment your obi iget t ion to your country and your fellow-citizens. With the birth of American trade there arose on this spot merchants of strong sense and enlightened enterprise, chiefs among their fellows, independent and self-reliant, willing to chance their success upon their own efl'ort and foresight, inflexibly honest and intensely Jealous of their commercial honor. Lpon your wharves and in your counting rooms they wrought out their well-earned fortunes. Their ships were found in eSery ocean-path, and they made their country known in the trade transactionn of thj w orld. Abroad they gained willing confidence and credit by their commercial integrity and rotity, and at home they wera the pfidi o! their cour.trvmen. "These were the old Boston merchant?. "You, their business heirs and uccensors, wid pardon me if I remind you tonight that the commanding influence of thestj men did not rest upon immense furtunes made in a day, but resulted from their well-known honor and scrupulous good faith, w hich led them to concede to nil, even the uttermost fraction cf rieht. Nor did they formet their duties of citizenship. They jealously watched tho operations of their government and exacted fro n it only economy and honesty and a jmt measure of caro and security for themselves and the interests they had in ckar.'e. "The Boston merchant of to-day has not less integrity and virtue than his predecessors: but xurely we are not called v.xD, by the fear of controversy, to close Mir eyes to t he fact that this environment is vastly different. There is among our people less of meaning embodied in the sentiment that the government upon which we have " staked all our hopes and aspirations, requires for its successful maintenance :i patriotic regard for the aggregate of tho happiness and prosperity of all our people and a willing consent to a fair distribution of the benefits of our free institutions. , "Equal rights and impartial justice are stipulation; of the compact we have entered into with each other as American citizens; and so nicely adjusted is this plan of our political association, that favoritism for the sole advantage of any section of our membership, inevitably results in an encroachment upon the benefits justly duo to others. Put these things sit ho lightly upon the consciences of many that a spirit of selfishness is abroad in the land, wluch has bred the habit of clamorous ireportunitv for government aid in behalf of special interests imperfectly disguised under the cloak of solicitude for tha public good. ' ('an we see no ccntrast between the sturdy self-reliance of the Boston merchant io the day that are past, and the attitude you are invited to assume ns dependents arm tho favor of the trove rnmcnt and

the beneficiaries of the country, and the present tendency toward agoverriment partnership in trade? And was there a hint in former days that especial advantages hus secured", constituted a vested right which in no event should in the least be disturbed? "Political selfishness cheapens in the minds of the people their apprehensions of the character and functions of the government ; it distorts every conception of thy duty of good citizenship and creates an atmosphere in which iniquitous purposes and designs lose their odious features. It begins when a perverted judgment is won to the theory that political action may be used solely for private gain and advantage, and w hen a tender conscience is quieted by the ingenious argument that such gain and advantage are identical with the public welfare. This stage having been reached and self-interest being now fully aroused, agencies are used and practices permitted in the accomplishment of its purposes, which seen in the pure light of disinterested patriotism, arc viewed with fear and hatred. The independent thought and free political preference of those whom Pate had made dejendent upon daily toil for bard-earned bread, are strangled and destroyed by intimidation and the fear of loss ot employment. Vile unsavory forms rise to the surface of our agitated political waters, and gleefully anticipate in the anxiety of Belhsh interest, their opportunity to fatten upon corrupted and debauched suffrage. "This train of thought leads us to consider the imminent danger which threatens us from the intimidation and corruption of our voters. "It is too late to temporize with these evils or to speak of them otherwise than in the plainest terms. vVe are spared the labor of proving their existence, for all admit it. That they are terribly on the increase all must concede. "Manifestly if the motives of all our citizens were unselfish and patriotic, and if they sought in political action only their share of the advantage accruing from the advance of our country at all points toward her grand destiny, there would be no place or occasion for the perversion of our suffrage. Thus the inauguration of the intimidation and corruption of our voters mav be justly charged to selfish schemes seeking success through political action. But these evils have been neglected by honest men disgusted with all political endeavor; they have been tolerated by respectable men w ho, in weakness of patriotic sentiment, have regarded them as only phases of shrewd political management, and they have been actually encouraged by the honors which have been bestowed upon those who boast of their use of such agencies in aid of party supremacy, "Many of us, therefore, may take to ourselves a share of blame, when wc lind confronting us these perils which threaten the existence of our free institutions, the preservation of our national honor and the perpetuity of our country. The condition annexed to the founding of our government upon the suffrage of the people, was that the sutlrne should be free ami pure. We consented to abide by the honest preponderance of political opinion, but we did not consent that a free vote, expressing the intelligent and thoughtful sentiment of the voter, should he balanced by a vote of intimidation and fear, or by an unclean, corrupt vote disgracefully bought and treacherously told. "Let us look with a degree of pity and charity ujon those who yield to fear ami intimidation in tho" exercise of their right of suffrage. Although they ought not thus to yield, we cannot forget that as acainst their free ballot, they see in the scale their continued employment, the comforts of their homes and the maintenance of their families. We need not stifle our scorn and contempt for the wretch who basely sells his vote, and who for a bribe betrav.s his trust of citizenship. And yet the thought w ill intrude itself, that ho but follows in a low but vulgar fashion, the example of those who proceed upon the theory that political action may be turned to private gain. "But wi ether we pity or whether we hate, our betrayal is none the less complete; ncr will either pitv or hate restore our birthright. P.ut we know that when political selfishness is destroyed our dangers will d'sappear; ami though the way to its stronghold may be long and weary, wo will follow it fighting as we go. There will be no surrender, nor w ill there be desertions from our ranks. Selfishness and corruption have not yet achieved a lasting triumph and their bold defiance will but hasten the day of their destruction. "As we struggle on and confident1' invite a direct conilict with these intrenched foes of our po.itical safety, we have not tailed to see another hope w hich has manifested itself to all the honest eople in the land. It tenches them that though they may not immediately destroy at their source the evils which afllict them, they may check their malign influence and guard themselves against their baneful robtiits. It assuns them that, if political virtue and rectitude cannot atonce be thoroughly restored to the republic, the activity of baser elements may be discouraged. It inspires them with vigilant watchfulness and a determinatioii to prevent, as far as jxjsbible, their treacherous betrayal by those who aro false to their obligations ot citizenship. "Thin hope, risen like the Ftar in the East, has lixed the gaze of our patriotic fellow-country men; and everywhere in our busy m.irts of trade and on our farms in our cities and in our villages in the dwellings cf the rich and in the homos of the poor in our universities and in our workshops in our banking-houses and in the ranks of inexorable toil they greet with e nthusiastic acclaim the advent of ball t reform. "There are no leaders in this cause. Those who seem to lead tho movement aro but swept to the front by the surging force of patriotic sentiment. It rises far above partisanship, and only the heedless, tho sordid and thy depraved refuse to join in the crusade. "This reform is predicted upon tho cool deliberation of political selfishness in its endeavor to prostitute our suffrage to the purposes of private gain. It is rightly eupxsed that corruption of the voter is entered upon with such business calculation that the corruptor will only pay a bribe when he has occu'nr proof that the suffrage he lias bargained for is cast in his interest. So, too, it is reasonably expected that if the employe or lalorer is, at the time of (Mating his ballot, removed from the immediate control of his employer, tho futility of fear and intimidation will lead to their abandonment. "The change demanded by this reform in the formalities surrounding the exer eise of the privilege of suffrage, has given rise to real or pretended solicitude for the rights of our voters; and tho fear has been expressed that inability on tho part of electors to conform to the requirements of the proposed change, might produce great inconvenience and in some cases result in disfranchisement. It has even Ik en suggested that the inauguration of the new plan might encroach upon constitutional guaranties. "It will not do to accuse of hostility to the reform al. those who present these objections; but it is not amiss to inspect their ranks for enemies in disguise. Though the emergency which is upon us is full of danger, and though we sadly need relief, all rights should be scrupulously preserved. But there should be no shuffling, and no frivolous objections should be tolerated. When a dwelling is in thirties wo use no t phrase of speech to warn its inmates and no polite and courtly touch to elTeet their rescue. Experience has often demonstrated how ciuickly obstacle? which

seemed plausible if not convincing when urged against a measure of reform, are dissipated by the test of trial, and how readily a new crder of things adjusts itself to successful use. "I remember the inauguration of another reform; and I have seen it grow and extend, until it has become firmly established in our laws and practice. It is today our greatest safeguard against the complete and disgraceful degradation of our public service. It had its enemies and all of them are not yet silenced. Those openly and secretly unfriendly, said in the beginning that the scheme was impracticable and unnecessary; that it created an ofliceholding class; that it established burdensome and delusive tests for entry in the public service which should be open to all; that it put in the place of real merit and efficienc)', scholastic acquirements; that it limited the discretion of those charged with the selection of public employes, and that it was unconstitutional. But its victory came wrought by the force of enlightened public sentiment and upon its trial every objection which had been urgd against it was completely discredited. "As it has been with civil service reform so will it be with ballot reform, except that the coming victory will be more speedily achieved and will be more complete. "And as the grand old state of Massachusetts was foremost to adopt and demonstrate the practicability and usefulness of civil service reform, so has she leen iirst to adopt a thorough scheme of ballot reform and to prove in practice its value and invalidity of the objections made against it. We thank Massachusetts to-night for all that ehe has done for these retorms; and we of New York hope that our Empire state w ill soon bo keeping step with her sister states in the enforcement of an effective and honest measure of ballot reform. "In conclusion let me say that good men have no cause for discouragement. Though there are dancers which threaten our welfare and safety, the virtue and patriotism of the American people are not lost, and we shall find them sufficient for us. If in too great confidence they slumber, they will not always sleep. Let them but be aroused from lethargy and indifference bv the consciousness of peril, and they will burst the bonds of political selfishness, revive their political freedom and restore the purity of their suffrage. 1 "Thus will they discbarge the sacred trust committed to their keeping; thus will they still proudly present to the world proof oi the value of "free institutions ; thus will they demonstrate the strength and prosperity of a government by the people; thus will they establish American patriotism throughout the length and breadth of our land ; and thus willthey preserve for themselves and for posterity their Godgiven inheritance of freedom and justico and peace and happiness." Mr. Cleveland's address aroused great enthusiasm and his points were frequently greeted with cries of "good,'-' ana applause. Following Mr. Cleveland came Henry W. Grady of Georgia, who was was warmly received and ppoke at lenpth. Mr. Grady, on being introduced, said that he was invited to discuss the mce problem. No missionary could stand deeper in need of unction and address than he in replanting the standard of southern democracy in Boston. lie should do so in perfect frankness and sincerity. The South, the fairest and richest domain on earth, is so scantily peopled that but 15 per cent, of its lands "are cultivated. Tho sons of New England see, with troubled eyes, some new Eldorado. Yet, since 1S00, the emigration of northerners to the South has been decreasing because of the race problem and the suspicions it breeds. The southerners were so beset with this problem that their very existence depends on its right solution. Ueplying to the imputation that the South treated the negroes unjustly, the speaker said: "This year the South raised 7,500.000 bales of cotton, w hich enormous crop could not have come from the hands of discontented labor. The negroes of Georcia, who, twenty-five years ago, were slaves, now possess v20,000,0X) property." For every Afro-American agitator storing strife, he could show a thousand negroes happy in their cabin homes, and with their children in the schools. Since 1SGÖ," the South hss spent SI 22,000.000 in education, and this year is pledged to $o7,W0,000 more, although the blacks, paying onethirtieth of the taxes, get nearly one-half the tund. In the South are negro lawyers, teachers, editors, doctors, preachers, multiplying with the increasing ability of their race to supjort them. In the courts, the negroes have a distinctly better showing on account of their color. It is admitted that there is disorder and violence, but it is misjudged. Lawlessness in Iowa is accepted as an accident, while that in the South is ascribed to racial causes. The biack will cast a free ballot when ignorance anywhere is not dominated by the will of "the intelligent. The whites aro banded, not in prejudice, but of necessity. The negro vote remains an ignorant and credulous factor, tho prey of the unscrupulous of both parties; and plays a part in a campaign in which every interest of society is jeopardized and every approach to the ballot-box debauched. Against BUih campaigns ns this the southern whites are banded, as Massachusetts whites would be in similar circumstances. In reply to the challenge as to the alleged suiallnesft of the southern vote, Mr. Grady eaid that the sixteen southern states in lR cast 07 per cent of the total vote; tho six New Kugland states but (: per cent, of theirs. The negro has learned that tho ballot-box which promised him most has yielded him least, and at last has realized that his beet friends are his neighbors, with whose prosperity his own is bound up. It would be well if northern partisans would understand that the negro vote can never again control the South. If there be any human force which cannot bo withstood, it is that of tho banded intelligence and responsibility of a free community. Upon that the South relies, not upon the cowardly menace of mask or shot-guns. Force bills will not avail. The North may surrender its liberties to federal election law, but never again will a single state, North or South, be delivered to the control of an ignorant and inferior race. Time alone can tell how the problem presented will be solved. The speaker believed it would be solved by the people most bound in honor to its solution, lie asked of his bearers: "(1) Patience; out of this alono can come perfect work; (2) confidence: in this alono can you judge fairly; (3) sympathy: in this you can help us best; (4)"give us your sons as hostages, that they may help to swell the Anglo-Saxon current until it can carry without danger this black infusion ; (')) loyalty to the republic, for there is sectionalism in estrangement. "Give us the broad and perfect loyalty that loves and trusts Georgia alike with Massachusetts that knows no south, no north, no east, no west, but endears with equal and patriotic love every foot of our Foil, every state of our Union. Much applause, considerable laughter and tears, too, w ere evoked by Mr. (j rally's address. Mr. Andrew Carnegie was then introduced. Prior to entering upon the discussion of his topic.he referred to Mr. Cleveland aa one who history would declare had tried to do his duty and who possessed the respect of the entire country regardless of party. lie said Mr. Cleveland had demonstrated one answer to a question of Iiis own asking What to do with ex-presidents? He had shown that one good thing to do with them was to invite them to all banquets; and in this connection the oucstiou occurred to him Why not run

them again ? At this there was a storm of applause, with cries of "good!" "that's so!" and renewed cheering. Mr. Carnegie then proceeded to a brief exposition of the wonderful progress made by this country during the past thirty years in commerce, manufacturing and mining, declaring that in tho last two industries she now leads tho world, while her credit is first among nations. His address, although brief, owing to the lateness of the hour, was confined almost w holly to statistics. He took occasion to say that ho did not share the fears of some that the republic was surrounded by any serious dangers. lie believed nothing could prevent her from achieving her destiny. Mr. Carnegie was followed by the Hon. W. L. -Tutnaru, late democratic candidate for governor of Maine, who spoke briefiy. VAST ASSEMBLAGE AT DAVIS' TOMB.

Ten Thousand Tenp e Participate in the Funeral Bu-ineaa Stispenclsd. Nkw Orleans, Dee. 11. Jefferson Davit was laid to rest to-day." The day was an ideal one. It vai bricht and balmy and fragrant with the perfume of flowers, and it seemed as if May had spread over the year and spring Lad determined on being perennial. Not even a cloud darkened the sky duriug the day, and the air was still as became a fete day of death. The city had put on her mourning garb. Along every street the houses were draped in black and white and purple. Along Canal-et. the drapery reached from the roofs of the high business buildings almost to the street. Miles away from the central portion of the city there were residences bearing the ensign of grief. On the road to the cemeteries there were modest little homlets, and even these were hidden behind the drapery of death. Business was suspended. The mammoth wholesale and retail houses, cotton presses, factories and almost all other establishments closed up, so as to allow the employes and employers to participate in the funeral. Toward noon the 6treeU were surrendered to the people and the procession. The schools were all closed. In fact, everybody combined to have a grand outpouring of the masses to do honor to the departed leader. There has certainly been no such demonstration in northern New Orleans before. Men and women came many hundred miles from all over the South to assist in the obsequies. Ali New Orleans was out. Lafayette square, stretching about the city hall, where the body lay in state, was thronged with people. The streets along the line o. inarch were crowded with spectator), aud out the broad avenue of Canal-st., the direct route to the cemeteries, both sides were lined with spectators lor several miles. With all the tremendous gathering the moving of the vast procession, the driving and traveling about, there was scarcely a mishap or misdeed to mar the occasion. The entry of the pageant into the beautiful cemetery away out on the Quier Metane ridge whs ma ie with all the pomp and circumstance of a military and civic procession. Even before noon, when the religious ceremony was i'ust beginning, people gathered within the halo wed precincts of the romantic burying ground. They came in street cars, in trains, in carriages, in ri'jfs of every known description, and on foot and took up positions on tombd and broad walks, and on the scrupulously well kept lawn. Metarie is the most beautiful cemetery in the South, and within it lie the remains of thousands of Confederate veterans, and liore are most of the tombs of the military and veterans' associations of New Orleans. It is in this cemetery, in a subterranean vault, that the southern chieftain has been temporarily laid to rest. The Army of Northern Virginia tomb is beneath the lunrbls monument of the lamented Conlederate leader, Stonewall Jackson. It is situated nearly half a mile from the stone entrance, nearly in the center of the cemetery. Beneatb the base is an underground chamber, with vaults running all around. It was in one of these that the remains of Mr. Davis were placed. The monument was decorated w ith extreme simplicity. The ground was covered entirely with green moss, and around the shaf t was wound a chain of laurel aud oak leaves. When the procession left the city hall, big furniture wajroue drove up and the mortuary chamber was emptied of hundreds of its floral Otterings that came from every city and state in the South and taken out to the cemetery. Here an artistic hand came into play, and the llowers were arranged with studied unostentaiion and most admirable etlect, the mound be in? almost entirely hidden from view by the wealth of flowers. The pngeant got out to tho cemetry a little in advance ot th time it was expected. Its vanguard was an incongruous assortment of carriages and vehicles and an irregular army of stragchng people, who walked all the way to the burial ground to do honor to the memory of the leader. It was 3 o'clock when the first special train arrived bearing uniformed odd fellows and K. of P. and civic societies. As each train drew up it was quickly emptied of its human freight, and the tail end of the proression re-formed in open order to let the militia and the walking divisions go through. As the soldiers worn-out with the long dusty march and the funeral, and the remainder of the pageant moved slowly past in mournful steps to woful music of the day, the knights presented arms and the civic bodies uncovered. When the progress of the procession finally brought the military to the monument, the militia and soldiers were drawn up around the circle, and as the funeral car with its lone line of carriages in the wake drew up, the line of soldiers facing the monument were given rieht about orders in order to salute the bier. The episcopal clergymen and assisting clergy of other denominations formed in a line on either side of the walk. The pall-benrers and distinguished guests did the same thing. Dishop Oalleherand Hugh MillerThompsoti walked slowly to the base and took uptheir positions beside tho bier. Gen. Gordon came up shortly and stood quietly and modestly with bowed head close by. The caisson stopped at the ioot of tha walk and IUttery It's detail of honor bore the casket up the ascent to the foot of the monument, with Capt. Heanhain at its head. As the cotlin was carried up the mound the military orders were resting on their arms and every soldier in the circle executed the order. 'The veterans' associations inarched into the cemetery together. When Ihey reached the monument they separated, one coin to the left and the other to the rieht. When they met they charged up the mound and formed an inner circle, the army of Northern Virginia in front mid the army of Tennessee in the rear. Then the ladies and gentlemen of the family trod slowly ud the mound. There was not "a covered head in the entire multitude of 1(,000 people when the bereaved eame. Mrs. Ditvis, heavily draped, leaned on the arm of the lifelong friend of her husband, Mr. J. U, Payne, as she came up beside the bier. Then followed other members of the family and immediate friends of Mr. and Mrs. Daiis, gathered around jnst as Bishop Thompson opened the ceremonies by reading the first portion of the episcopal burial service. Then the buide call of taps was sounded and lüshop Galleher read the second portion of the ritual, consigning the body to tiie grave. Here are his extempore words: "In the name of God, amen, we hero consign the body of JeÜVrson Davis, a servant of his state and country, and a soldier in their nrmirs; some time member of congress and senator from Mississippi, and secretary of war of the Pniled Mates the first and only president of the Confederate States of America; born in Kentucky on the 3d day of June, 1808, died in Iouiiana on the Cth day of Dec., 18St, and buried here by tho reverent hands of bis people." An anthem by W.U. Walter, part of the burial service, was sung by the choristers to a cornet accompaniment. Itishop Thompson recited the Lord s prayer, in w hich the choir, the clergy and the general publio joined, and then the beautiful hymn, ' Kock of Ages," was rendered and the religious rites wero over, liishop Galleher waved his hand. It wai the signal of the closing. Cnpt. Ileanham pave the military command, the casket was raised from the bier, and the soldiers, bearing it on their shoulders, marched around the circular mound to the open doorway at the back of the monument lend in? to the st.tir way that reaches the subterranean chamber of the dea I. The family took up its line in the order of its ascent of the mound, friends fo. lowed, the ladies' memorial association fell in, and Got. Nicholls and thu other governors joined in with the other pall-bearers. When the members of the family hnd descended, tho casket was placed in the middle vault of tho first perpendicular row, immediately on tho right as you po down. The Confederate flag, iu which the coftin had been wrapped, was removed, tho slab was screwed tight, and tho dead soldier had found his tetr,torary resting place in the army of the Northern Virpinia tomb. As the family descended an artillery detachment from the state guard, C'apU Heanham'a battery, fired three rounds and tho military funeral was over. A police guard of honor will bo cu duty at the tomb.

HAS REACHED THE MECCA.

TALMAGE PREACHES IN JERUSALEM. Impressinns As the Dwel ing-Place of Christ Is Viewed Others ?Iay Have Been Disappointed, But to tho Freacher tha toene Are Grand. At a large meeting of Christian people in Jerusalem last Sunday tho llev. T. De Talmage, P. D., of Brooklyn, was the preacher. His text was Matt, xxiii, 37: "Jerusalem I Jerusalem i" A report of his eloquent sermon is apended: This exclamation burt from Christ's lips aa He came in sight of this great city, and, although things have marvelously changed, who can visit Jerusalem to-day without having its mighty pa.st roll over on him, and ordinary utterance ranst give place for the exclamatory as we cry, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Disappointed with the Holy Land many have been, and I have heard good friends say that their ardor about sacred places had been s?o dampened that they wero 6orry they ever visited Jerusalem. But with me this city and its surroundings are a rapture, a polemnity, an overwhelming emotion, 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The procession of kines, conquerors, poets, and immortal incn and women pass before mo as I stand here. Among tho throng are Solomon, David and Christ. Yes, through thesa 6trcets and amid these surroundings rode Solomon, that wonder of epiendor and wretchedness. It seems as if the world exhausted itself on that man. It wove it3 brightest llowers into his garland. It pets its richest gems in his coronet. It pressed the rarest wine to his lips. It robed him iu the purest purple and embroidery. It cheered him with the sweetest music in that land of harps. It greeted him with the gladdest laughter that ever leaped from mirth's lip. It pprinkled his cheek with epray from the brightest fountains. Royalty had no dominion, wealth no luxury, gold no glitter, flowers no sweetness, song no melody, light no radiance, upholstery no gorgeousness, waters no gleam, birds no plumage, prancing coursers no mettle, architecture no grandeur, but it was all his. Across the thick grass of the lawn, fracrrant with tufts of camphire from Eagedi, fell the long shadows of trees brought from distant forests. Fish-pools, fed by artificial channels that brought the streams from hills far away, were perpetually rutllod with fins, and coblen ecales shot from water cave to water cave with endless dive and swirl, attracting the gaze of foreign potentates. Birds that had been brought from foreign aviaries glanced and fluttered among the foliage, and called to their mates far beyond the sea. From the royal stables there came up the neighing of 12,000 horses, standing in blankets of Tyrian purple, chewing their bits over troughs of Kold, waiting for the kine's order to be bror.ght in front of the palace, when the official dignitaries would leap into the saddle for some grand parade, or harnessed to Fome of the 14,000 chariots of the king the fiery chargers with flaunting mane and throbbing nostril would make the earth jar with the tnmnof hoofs and the thunder of wheels. Whiie within and without the ftalace you could not think of a single usury that could be added, or of a single splendor that could be kindled, down on the banks of the sea the dry-docks of Kzion-geber rang with the hammers of the shipwrights who were constructing larger vessels tor a still wider commerce, for all lands and climes were to be robbed to make up Solomon's glory. No rest till his keels shall cut every sea, his axmen hue every forest, his archers strike every rare wing, his fishermen whip every ftreara, his merchants trade in every bazar, bis name be honoied by every tribe ; and royalty shall have no dominion, wealth no luxury, gold no glitter, song no melody, light no radiance, waters no gleam, birds no plumage, prancing coursers no mettle, upholstery no gorgeousness, architecture no grandeur but it was all bis. "Weil," you pa)', "if there is any man happy, he ought to be." But I hear him coming out through the palace and 6ee his robes actually incrusted with jewels as ho stands in the front and looks out upon the vast domain. What does he say? King Solomon, great is your dominion, great is your honor, great is your joy. Xo. While standing hero amidst all the splendor the tears start, and his heart breaks, and he exclaims: "Vanity of vanities; all is vanity." What I Solomon not happy yet? No, not happy. The honors and tho emoluments of this world brinir eo many cares with them that that they bring also torture and disquietude, rbaraoh sits on one of the highest earthly eminences, yet he is miserable because there are some people in bis realm that do not want any longer to make bricks. The head of Edward I aches under his crown because the people will not pay the taxes, and Llewellyn, prince of "N ales, will not do him homage, and Wallace will be a hero. Frederick William III of Prussia is miserable because France wants to take the Prussian provinces. The world is not large enough for Louis XIV and William III. The ghastliest suffering, the most shriveling fear, the moet rending jealousies, the most gicantic d inquietude, have walked amidst obsequious courtiers, and been clothed m royal apparel, and eat on judrnient seats of power. Honor and truth and justice cannot go fo high up in authority as to be beyond the range of human assault. The pure and the Rood in all oi-b have been execrated by the mob who cry out : "Not this man, but Barabbas." Now, Barabbas was a robber. By honesty, by Christian principle, I would have you seek for the favor and the confidence of your fellow-men; do not look upon some high position as though that were always sunshine. The mountains of earthly honor are like the mountains of Switzerland, covered with perpetual ico and snow. Having obtained the confidence and love of your associates be content with such things as you have. You brought nothing into the world, and it is very cer- ' tain you can carrv nothing out. "Cease yo from man, whose breath is in his nostrils. There is an honor that is worth possessing, but it is an honor that comes from God. This day riso up and take it. "Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of CJod." Who aspires not for that royalty ? Come now, and bo kings and priests unto God and the lamb forever. If wealth and wisdom could have satisfied a man Solomon would have been satisfied. To say that Solomon was a millionaire gives but a very imperfect idea of the property he inherited from David, his father. He had at his command gold to the valueof JEt;80.000,0(X), and he had silver to the value of 1,0.HJ,:77,000. The queen of Sheba made him a nice little present of 720,000, and Hiram made hitn a present of the same amount. If he had lost the value of a whole realm out of his pocket it would have been hardly worth his while to stoop down ana pick it up. lie wrote 1,000 songs. He wrote 8,000 proverbs. He wrote about almost everything. The bible says, distinctly, he wrote about plants, from the cedar of, Lebanon to the hyssop that groweth out of the wall, and about birds, and beasts, and fishes. No doubt he put ou his royal robes and put on hunters' trapping and went out with his arrows to bring down the rarest specimens cf birds, and then, with his fishing apparatus, he went down to the stream to bring up the denizens of tho deep and plunged into the forest and

found the rarest specimens of flowers; and i then he came back to his etudy and wrote books atiout zoology, the science of ani- J mals; about ichthyology, the science of j fishes; about ornithology, the science of birds; about botany, the science of plants. ' Yet, notwithstanding all this wisdom and ;

wealth, behold his wretchedness and let him pa.ss on. Did any other city ever behold so wonderful a man? O Jerusalem, Jerusalem' But there passes through these street as in imagination I see him, quite as wonderful and a far better man David, the conquorer, the king, the poet. Can it be that I ara in the very city where he lived and reigned ? David, great for power and" great for grief. He was wrapped up in his boy Absalom. He was a splendid boy, iudged by the rules of worldly criticism. From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot there was not a single blemish. The bible says that he had such a luxuriant shock of hair that, when once a year it was 6horn, what was cut off weighed over three pounds. But, notwithstanding all his brilliancy of appearance, he was a bad boy and broke his father's heart. He was plotting to get the throne of Israel, lie had marshaled an army to overthrow his father's government. The day of battle had come. The conflict was begun. David, the father, sat between the gates of the palace waiting for the tidings of tho conflict. Oh, how rapidly his heart beat with emotion! Two great questions were to be decided the safety of his boy and the continuance of the throne of Israel. After a while a servantstandingonthe top of the house looks off and he sees some one running. He is comming with great speed and the man on ton of the house announces the coming of the messenger, and the father watches and waits, and as soon aa the messenger from the field of battle comes within hailing distance the father cries out. In it a question in regard to the establishment of bis throne? Dots he say: "Have the armies of Israel been victorious? Am I to continue in my imperial authority? Have I overthrown my enemies? ' Oh, no. There is one question that springs from bis heart to the lip and springs from the lip into the ear ot the besweated and bedusted messenger flying from the battle-field the question: "Is the young man Absalom safe?" When it was told to David, the king, that thouch his armies had been victorious his son had been slain the father turned bis back upon the congratulations of the nation and went up the stairs of his palace, bis heart breaking as he went, wringing his hands sometimes and then again pressing them agaimt his temples as though he would press them in. crying: "O Absalom! my son! my son ! Would God I had died for thee, O Absalom! mv son! my son!" Stupendous grief of David resounding through all succeeding ages. This was the city that heard the woe. 0 Jerusalem! Jerusalem! I am also thrilled and overpowered with the remembrance that yonder, where stands a Mohammedan mosque, stood the temple, the very one that Christ visited. Solomon." s temple had stood there, but Nebuchadnezzar had thundered it down; Zerubbabet's temple bad stood there, but that had been prostrated. Then Hcrdd built a temple, because he was fond of preat architecture, and he wanted the preceding temples to seem insignificant. Put eight or ten modern cathedrals together, and they would not equal ttiat 6tructure. It covered nineteen acres. There were marble pillars supporting roofs of cedar, and silver tables on whih stood golden cups, and there were carvings exquisite and inscriptions resplendent, glittering balustrades and ornament gateways. The building of this temple kept 10,000 workmen busy forty-six years. Stupendous pile of pomp and magnificence ! But the material and architectural grandeur of the building were very tame compared with the spiritual meaning of its altarsand boh' of holies, and the overwhelming significance of its ceremonies. 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem ! But standing in this old citv all other facts are eclipsed when we think that near here our blessed Lord was born; that up and down the streets of this city He walked, and that in the outskirts of it He died. Here was His onlv day of triumph and His aaaösination. One day this old Jerusalem Is at the tip-top of excitement. Christ has been doing some remarkable works and asserting very high authority. The police court has issued papers for His arrest, for this thing must be stopped, as the government is imperiled. News comes that last night this stranger arrived at a suburban village, and that He is stopping atthe house of a man whom He had resuscitated after four davs sepulture. Well, the people rrsh out Into the streets, some with the idea of helping in the arrest of this 6tranger whcn He arrives, and others expecting that on the morrow He will come into the town, and by some supernatural force, oust the municipal and royal authorities and take everything in His own hands. They pour out of the city gates until the procession reaches the village. They come all around about the house where thestraneer is stopping, and peer into the doors and windows, that they may get one glimpse of Him or hear tho hum of His voice. The police dare not make the arrest, because, somehow, He has won the affections of tho people. Oh, it is a lively night in yonder Bethany! The heretofore quiet village rilled with uproar, and outcry, and loud discussion about the strange acting countrymen. I do not think there was any sleep in that houeo that night where tho ftranger was stopping. Athough He came in wean-, lie finds no rest, though, for onco in His lifetime, He had a pillow. But the morning dawns, the olive gardens wave in the light, and all along yonder road, reaching over the top of Olivet toward this city, there is a va.t, swaving crowd of wondering people. The excitement around the door of the cottage is wild as the stranger steps out beside an unbroken colt that had never been mounted, and after his friends had strewn their garments on the beast for a saddle the Savior mounts it and the populace, excited, and shoutinsr, and feverish, push on back toward this city of Jerusalem. Let none jeer now or scoff at this rider or the jtopul .ce will trample him under foot in an instant. There is one long shout of two miles, and as far as the eye can reach you see wavings of demonstrations and approval. There was something in tho rider's visage, something in His majestic brow, something in His princely behavior, that stira up the enthusiasm of the people. They run up apaioBt the beest and try to pull the rider otf into their arms and carry on their shoulders the illustrious stranger. The populace are fo excited that they hardly know what IO UO Wim inemsenes, aim some rush up to the roadside trees and wrench off branches and throw them in His way, and others doff their garments what though they be new and costly, and spread them for ä carpet for the conqueror to ride over. "Ilofianna!" cry the people atthe foot of the bill. "Hosanna!" cry the people all up and down the mountain. The procession hai now come to the brow of yonder Olivet. Magnificent prospect reaching out in every direction vineyards, olive groves, jutting out rock, silvery Siloam, and above all, rising on its throne of hills, the most highly honored city of all the earth, Jerusalem. Christ there, in the midst of the procession, looks off and sees here fortressed gates, and yonder the circling wall, and here the towers blazing in the sun l'hasaelus and Mariamne. Yonder is Hippicus, the kinz's castle. Looking along in the range of the larger branch of that olive tree you see tho mansions of the merchant princes. Through this cleft in tho limestone rock you 6C0 tho palace of the richest traflicker

in all the earth. He has ma le his money by BcKing Tyrian purple. Ik-hold now the temple! Clouds of smoke lifting from the shimmering roof, while the building rises up beautiful, grand, n.ajestic, the architectural skill and glory of the earth lifting themselves there in one triumphant doxology, the frozen prayer of all nations. The crowd looked around to see exhilaration and transport in the face of ChriEt. Oh, no! Out from amid the gates, and the domes, and the palaces there arose a vision of this city's sin and of this city'a doom which obliterated the landscape from horizon to horizon, .md be burst into tears, crying: "O Jt rusaV-m, Jerusalem." But that was the only day of pomp that Jesus saw in and around this city. Yet He walked the streets of this city, the loveliest and most majestic being that the world ever eaw or ever will see. l'ubliui Lentilus, in a letter to the Roman senate, describes Him as "a man of stature somewhat tall, His hair the color of a chestnul fully ripe, plain to the ears, whence downward it is more orient, curling and waving about His shoulders; in tho midst of His forehead is a stream, or partition of His hair; forehead plain and very delicate; his face without spot or wrinkle, a lovely red; his nose and mouth so forked a nothing can te represented; His beard thickjin color like His hair not very long; His eyesgray, quick and clear." He imist die. The French army in Italy found a braKs plate on which was a opv of His death warrant, signed by John Ztrubbable, Iiaphael Bobani, Daniel BoLani and Capet. Tell it now to all the earth and to all tho heavens Jesus, our kinj:, is 6iek vi;h His last sickness. It couriers carrv the switt ifl-p.itch. His pains are worse; He is breathing a last groan; through Ills body quivers the last anguish; the king is dying; the king is dead! It is royal blood. It i said that some religionists make too much of the humanity of Christ. I respond that we make too little. If some Roman surgeon, standing under the cross, had caught one drop of the blood on bis hand and analyzed it, it would have Icen found to have the s:ime plasma, the sarr.e disk, the same fibrin, the same albumin. It was unmistakably human blood. It is a mau that hangs there. Win bones are of the e:ime material as ours. His nerves are sensitive like ours. If it were an angel being despoiled I would not feel it 6o mnch, for it lelonga to a different order of beings. But my Savior is a man, and my whole sympathy is aroused. I can imagine how the spikes felt how hot the temples burned what deathly sickness seized His heart how mountain, and city, and mob swam away from Hisdving vision something of tha meaning of that cry for help that makes the blood of all the ages curdle with horror. "My God! my God! Why hast thou forsaken me?" Forever with all thesa scenes of a Savior's suffering will this city be. associated. Ik re is unjust trial and Lere is death. 0, Jerusalem! Jerusalem!

THE REVOLUTION. Another Account f the Manner in TThlcli It W a llioiuht AhonL LONDON, Dec. 11. The 7"i';ie prints a letter from Ilio Janerio. ouder date of Nov. 21, Riving further details of the revolution in Brazil. When the army leaders learned that the imperial authorities intended to disperse the troops at Ilio they resolved to resist to the point of deposing the ministry. The republicans reized the advantage thui oflered thera and worked Lard for a fortnight, maintaining the utmost secrecy regarding their plann. In some way tha government pot wind of whit was going on aud resolved to srni tiie Seventh infantry away ou the 15th instead of the 20th, aa had been intended. Tiie cabinet met late at night on the 14tb. At daybreak on the 15th, the ministen of the navy, foreign affairs and justice and the prime minister ere all at the arsenal to witness the landing of the naval battalion which was ordered to mount guard ic harracks in Acclamation square, where th troop were quartered. At 6 o'clock:, aa the marines arrived, tha whole cabinet met at the waroSce, and three infantry battalions were formed before the eitensive frontal of the barracks. Later several regiments of cavalry and the whola police force joined. At 8:15 a. m. when tha cabinet considered that a sufficient force was at their command to compel the recalcitrant battalion to march. Gen. Dafonseca appeared on the ceene and all the officials insula and outside the barracks received Lim with exclamations aud cries of "lQwn with the minigtry." Haron Ladarie, the minister of marine, oa coming from the arceual was invited to eurrnder, as the prisonei ot Marshal Dafonseca. It was af this moment that the ahooting scene occard. Gen. Dafonseca then entt-rf i the barracks and informed the ministers tiict they wer deposed. Later, at the urgent request cf their comrades, he released them, but on learning in the eveuinf that the premier bad hadau interview with the emperor, he re-arrcstecL ths premier. Aa aoon aa the news spread every commercial house closed its doors iu terror. It is said that Gen. Dafonseca was simply carried away, as the deposition of the government alone cost him dear, and that be resolved at the last moment to cast his lot with the republicans. While Dom I'edro, with Count I'reto, was trying to form a new cabinet ttie republicans met at the municipal palace. The city aldermen resolved to declare for the republic and sent a mrssaze to Gen. Dfoneca asking bim to proclaim that the dynasty was forever abolished. Senhor Constant organized the coup, while benhor Marbosa was the real organizer of the new constitution. The latter is a learned man, of preat resource. and thoroughly conversant with the constitutional history of England and America, it wai be veho inspired the banks with confidence, tnd induced the in to maintain the rate ot exchana. ELEVEN OUTLAWS LYNCHED. Kettle Jack's Wyoming Snie AVIped Oat by IndicnHiii Citizens. St. IXris, Doc. 11. A special t: the Republic from Cheyenne, Wyo., says; A repors comes from tbe north to the efl'ect that the people of the Dig Horn Ilasin, Johnson county, have broken up Kettle Jack'a ging of thieves and cutthroats by lynching eleven of thfin tCiA driving the remainder out of the ccuntrr. Kettle Jaek end companions arrived in that rejrion a year aco and have since lived like barbarians. Atter being reinforced by number of desperate characters, they began to plunder the settlers. At first they only slauchtred Leef and stole food, but,' growing bo. dor, commenced to run horses into Utah and Montana. Farmer Jones and two grown soua pursued the pan? and made a fiht for some of their stolen property but were shot down, finally the people living in the basin, fome fiOO in number.

lived in mortal terror of Kettle Jack'a hand. Jack made captive of and forced into marriage the daughter of a leading citizen. The father headed a rescuing party but the roRCuera were defeated with the loss ef two killed and half a dnon wounded. Jaclc prew bolder and bolder until the citizens determined to wipe out the outlaws. They succeeded in atorming the camp of the desperadoes, and the lynching followed. Th M inlslir ry. Christmas Puck. Walker Flr.hr (sympathetically V-'Tes. oli chappie, it waa all the doctor could do to pull you through. In your deliraim you kept talking of buxitiffs all the time." Charley Lovelace (feebly) "What did 1 aav?" Walker Flohr-"Cash ! Ca.vh !" AVier Poles Ars Needed. rntt-.!urit Chronicle. Texas Man "I ain't in favor of no each nonsense as buryin' the telegraph wires." Kastern Traveler "O.it only applies to cities. " Texas Man "ram Riad of that, for if the poles wui to go I don't know what we'd do forlynchia' parties whar trees is skace." New Troubles. Tim.l "It's too bad that the Bloffetts are movinf out of the neighborhood, isn't it?" "Too bad? Why Dloriett waa a terrible nuiaance with hia cornet." "Yes, but now that he is leaving-, the rcnU will go up."