Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — Page 3

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA & K MARSHALL, - - Pcmmn.

A family named Edwards, trie most prominent citizens of Mason county, West Virginia, are endeavoring to establish their title to the Trinity church property in New York, now valued at 164,000,000. John L. McMillan, who is making a type-setting machine at Hion, N. Y., with which he expects to set 5,000 ems an hour, says that $500,000 was spent on the Alden type-aetting and distributing machine before it was given up as. impracticable, and that $1,000,000 was wasted on the Page machine, whose patent right was subsequently sold for SIO,OOO. Dubuque is the envy of her sister cities who have no buried fortunes and Captain fcidd stories to tell aboutContractor Morgan, of Dubuque, has a letter from an official in Madrid, Spain, to the effect that a resident of that city, while stopping in Dubuque some time ago, buried his fortune, amounting to 1,000,000 francs, in a zinc box in a lonely spot in the outskirts of that city. A diagram of the burial place was sent with the letter.

At a recent meeting of the Industrial Home, of Boston, Mr. Robert Swan expressed the hope that industrial education for girls might be carried one step further, by the, introduction of classes in cooking. A central kitchen could be established, >to which the girls of the public schools might go on certain days. One, and perhaps the chief, reason why young women choose to work for a mere pittance in stores when they could earn large wages at cooking, is that they actually do not know anything about cooking, and have no opportunity, nor in the years which they have now reached, time to learp the art. '". 2~22. 2 ; Employes of the New York Herald printed the words “The Herald, price two cents,” in big letters on the walls of Fort Lafavotto, in Now York harbor. The government immediately ordered the impertinent defacers to remove the advertisement at once. The employes tried to do so, but the painter had used his white lead with no unsparing hand, and the deep srtain could not be removed. The Herald was told to remove it even if it was necessary to cut a foot deep into the stone. The latest report saf s that stone-cutters have gone twelve inches into the stone without being able to destroy the deface-

mcnt. In the memoirs by Davis of Aaron Burr the of the latter to his daughter Theodosia are quoted, in one which reference is made to the marriage of the elegant and accomplished Sarah Duer to John Witherspoon a young lawyer of great promise and. excellent character, about 1806. The lady referred do is now entering on her 101st year, ' She is the daughter of Col. Wm. Duer, of the revolutionary army, and a Representative of New York in the first Congress of the United States. She is also a of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, a Major-General of the revolutionary army, on whose staff James Monroe served as an aide-de-camp. An English parliamentary return recently issued shows that over $250,000,000 have been invested in gas undertakihgsin- Great Britain and Ireland, the authorized capital being, nearly $90,000,000 more. Local authorities are gradually increasing ttheir hold on this necessary of life, for nearly one-third of the whole is in their hands. In this, as in other respects, Ireland lags behind, for while English local authorities own, roughly speaking, $72,500,000 and Scotch $12,250,000, the Irish corporate bodies have only $2,500,000. It is a striking coincidence that the three Capitals are still dependent upon private companies, so that Edinburg and Dublin, equally with London, are be-, hind the more vigorous provincial cities, such as Manchester and Birmingham, Glasgow and Dundee, and Belfast and Limerick.

We read that a recognized authority in agricultural affairs has written the following, which seems no exaggeration of facts: “In view of the formation, ex•ient, richness and importance of the vegetable mold of our Northwestern prairies, it is established to t certainty that the United States is in possession otf one of the greatest treasitfes in existence, which is not surpassed in value and importance by all the pneeious metals in the bowels of the earth,* To provide for the real necessities of man there is no comparison between the value «f such earth and mineral treasures, and yet Darwin has shown that to the common earth worms we are indebted for all such rich mold; for they have been years ahead of man in plowing it, turning it over, and* mixing its constituents intimately so that it will require a great many bountiful crops to

exhanst the soil. But this treasure, as well as the deep laid treasures of coal, gas and oil, man is doing his best to exhaust in the shortest possible time. The late Professor j Sophocles, of Harvard, was a short but finely-built man, with bushy, snow-white hair and beard, olive complexion, and piercing black eyes, and looked like some venerable Arab sheik. Reserved and shy in manner, he was yet [full of general humor. Once, in the class-room, he -asked a student: ‘‘What was done with the bodies of the Greeks who were killed at Marathon?” “They were buried,sir.” “Next?” “Why,they—they were buried.” “Next?” “T—l dont know, Professor.” ‘Right, Nobody knows!” He was never married, but lived alone in one of the college buildings and prepared his own food, getting up many curious, Turkisk dishes. He allowed servants to visit the room to make up his bed, but would endure no further disturbance, and the floor was unswept from October to June.

Isaac 8. Sprague, the living skeleton, who is 40 years old, and has been reduced by atrophy to' forty pounds weight, said to a correspondent, in regard to a rumor that he had given hip body, in the interest Of science, to the Harvard Medical College: “Yes, the story is true, and all the arrangements have just been completed. I have agreed that when I die they shall have my body; they will first cut it open and make a post mortem examination to find out, if possible, why I am so thin; then they will put the body in alcohol and place it in the museum of the college, ■where it will remain, l>ut I’m going to need it myself for the present; they can’t have it till I get through with it. My body will be preserved in the museum there as that of Calvin Edson is in the Albany museum. Edisondied at the age of 45, weighing only forty-five pounds. The doctors, when they cut him open, found that his thinness was caused by narrowing of the thoracic duct, a trouble with which 'other members of his family were affected. His face and neck were emaciated like the rest of his body, but niinearenof,soniythinhessTs”prolsably2 due to something else. • The physicians pronounce it to be an extreme case of progressivemuscular atrophy. It has ■been going on for thirty years, while the longest other case on record is that ■of a man who died after having the complaint for ten years.”

The question of corporal punishment was thoroughly discussed recently at a meetihg of the New York Super-intendents-of Public Schools, and some interesting facts were noted. Superintendent Smith, of Syracuse, said that there had not been a case of corporal punishment in the schools of that city for sixteen years, and that the schools are kept in as good, if not better order, tlian they were when flogging was allowed. Syracuse is a city of 60,000 people, and its public schools rank among the best in the East, and the result of the experiment there is important. In cases of minor offenses, simple means of discipline are effectual, and in grave cases, those in which it is commonly. supposed that nothing but severe flogging will suffice, the principal of the ward school where the trouble exists, promptly suspends the pupil and reports to the superintendent. The latter on examination of the case sustains the principal or reinstates the pupil. A board of three commissioners have general supervisory powers over all the school the. city,, and act as a court of highest appeal. This plan of discipline has proved very effectual. When pupils are suspecned, the burden of responsibility is placed upon the shoulders of the parents, and they are generally ready within a few hours to offer satisfactory pledges of good behavior in the future. No teacher is allowed to strike a blow, and yet deciplihe is maintained, and scholarship secured;' and that by methods which bring to bear other influences than a child’s susceptibility to physical pain. It will not the strange if many other cities' are disposed to give the Syracuse experiment a fair trial, and dihe result will undoubtedly prove as satisfactory.

Talk to the Children.

•Children hunger perpetually for new ideas. They will learn with pleasure from the lips of parents from what they deem <&rudgery to learn from books; and, even if they have the misfortune to be deprived of many educational advantages, with such instruction they will grow up intelligent people. We sometimes see parents who are the life of every eonpany they enter, dull, silent and uninteresting at home among their ehildten. If they have not mental activity a®d mental stores sufficient for both, Let tikem first use what they have for their own households. A silent home is a dull place for young people—a place t fit»m which they will escape if they can. How much" useful information, and what unconscious but excellent mental training in lively, social argument! Cultivate to the utHe alone is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being ob* served.—Laixi ter.

THE BAD BOY.

“Come in, come in," said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he stopped on the doorstep outside the grocery to go down into his pistol pocket for a little change for a tramp that had come out of the grocery just ahead of the grocery man’s boot. “Come right in, and don’t stand there talking with such cattle,” and the grocery man looked as mad as though he had left the spigot of the molasses barrel running. “What’s the matter with you ?” said the bad boy, as be watched the tramp go into a bakery and come out with a loaf of bread* and go off chewing the end of it as though it was the sweetest morsel a white man ever put a tooth into, and the smile the tramp showed on one side of the bread as he saluted the bad boy through the window was worth a dollar to the boy. “You seem to have got out of the wrong end of the bed this morning. What ails you?” the tramps, and beggars, andsubscriptions, and games to beat an honest man out of his hard-earned money,” said the grocery man, as he threw a hatchet on the floor with which he had been splitting up a box, and kicked a market basket across the room. “There is not a day but some one comes in here after money. Why don’t people that haven’t got any money go to the poor-house ? Why don’t sick people go to the hospitals ? Condemn it! I have had people come in here for help for the Old Ladies’ home, and the Old Men’s home, and to sell ball tickets to help people that have been sand-bagged, till I hope I may never see another person asking for help as long as I live.” .

“And you never would see another person asking for help, or coming to buy any of your decayed groceries, if they knew what kind of a hard-hearted old pirate you was. Why, blast your old vinegar countenance, you haven’t got a heart biggei - than a mustard seed.” said the boy, as he picked up the hatchet for fear the grocery man would split him for kindling wood. “Yes I have, ” said the grocery man, and he appeared a little ashamed of what he had said. “My heart is all right, bnt they play it on me. The other day I gave a tramp 5 cents to buy bread, and he went and bought a glass of beer at a free-lunch place. That made me mad.” “Well, bread, plain dry bread, is pretty hard eating. How wrould yon like t ogo on ton tli e s ickwalk and gn law a dinner off a loaf of dry bread ? The tramp knew his business. He could go gto a saloon with that nickel and buy a glass of beer as though he had a bushel of money, and while he was drinking it he could go to the lunch counter and get sausage, and rye bread, and head cheese, and liver, and cold ham, all for nothing. If you had only a nickel left, and had a full-sized stomach, perfectly empty, which would you do, stand out on a cold corner and chew bread, with no water nearer than the lake, or would you go into a nice warm saloon, buy a glass of beer and have a big dinner thrown in for a chromo. By gosh, yon would go to the saloon, and yon would make the lunch counter look sick. Nobody else keeps a warm place for tramps to eat free lunches by buying 5 cents’ worth of goods, and a tramp would be a fool if he didn’t take advantage of such a chance, when the thermometer is 30 degrees below zero.” “I swow, I don’t know but you are right, Hennery,” said the grocery man, with a forced smile. “I guess I would paralyze that lunch. But a man has no business to beatramp. Why don’t they go to work ?”

“Work ? Why don’t you give one of them -work? Nobody has any work for a tramp. A tramp may bo a son of a member of Congress, but if he has been on the turf until he has had to pawn his clothes, one article after another, to keep from starving, and looks hard, you don’t want him. He may be more honest than you are, and better educated, but his clothes are thin, and he looks seedy, and cold, and hungry, and hasn’t got any money. You do not stop to think that he may be a thoroughbreds You fire him out, and he gets so he thinks there isn’t a man in the world with a soul. If he steals, it is to keep him from Starring, and not to lay up money, like some gocers.” “Hold on there, boy. I don’t steal—said the grocery man? “But, tramps are all right enough. These old people’s homes, where old men and women are kept in idleness, is what makes me tired. Why don’t they go and live with their folks?” “Well, you are a smart Aleck,” said the boy. “Why don’t they live with their folks? That is good. Do you suppose these old people would go to a charitable home if they had one of their own? They have outlived relatives and friends who would take care oi ithem, and go to the home, where kind-hearted strangers make the last day of their lives as happy as possible, and they depend upon what they can get from people who have hearts, to pay the expenses, and it is not often .that, any person with a soul kicks at a little contribution towards banking up -the -stomachs of the old people who have been pioneers when the country was mew. Many of these old people, whom you find fault with for being old and poor, were rich and respected when you were poor and ignorant, and it es possible you may be closed out by yom creditors some day, and have to go ito a poor-house, and then you <can appreciate it -when some other blasted skinflint refuses to contribute to your support. But you will not be troubled anv more by people calling for aid, fori shall have a sign painted and nailed up on the corner, saying there is no use of any person in need of aid to keep them from want and suffering coming t® you, for you are down on poor people and consider them dead beats, and that you will kick any person out doors who comes in asking for anything, and that you growl and grumble mpre over giving away a nickel than some people would in giving $5. I will fix you so that von can enjoy a quiet life. Let me take that box cover and a paint pot a minute, please.” .“No, you don’t,” said the grocery man, pale with shame and excitement. “You don’t put .up no sign. What I said about giving to the poor was said

in a moment or passion, when f had a hot box, but yon have showed me what a blasted old fool I am, and hereafter I will give freely to anybody that comes. Great o;esar, I wouldn’t have such a sign put up for SI,OOO. It would ruin my business.” “Well, don’t ever say anything again alfcut charity that you would be ashamed to see in print,” and, the bad boy went dut whistling “The Dotlet on the Eye.”— Peck’s Sim.

THE INFLUENCE OF FLOWERS.

BY HENRY WALTER, JR.

When, on a bright midsummer’s day, we stand in a portion of Nature’s wide domain, and cast our eyes furtively over a field of wild flowers, and our thoughts wander forward in bright anticipation to the future, how quickly do we acknowledge the value of these gifts from our Creator, as an emblem of His presence and watchfulness. How exhilarating do the flowers then appear! How captivating to the eye! How infinitely predominating they seem! Like an oasis in a desert; at which a weary traveler may quench his thirst, they appear like fertile spots in our pathway; we may either stop and enjoy their fertility or pass on and be lost, to it forever. Thus, we may live on entirely ignorant of our rich possessions without utilizing while, if they were, they would repay us a thousand fold. They would be our comfort in youth and middle age. They would be our comfort in old age. There are thousands of persons who yearly go sorrowing to the grave, while, if they had directed their thoughts in this direction, their lives might have been full of pleasure instead of sorrow. How quickly would they, too, have acknowledged the value and importance of the flowers. Accustomed to see them in every day life and benefited by their beauty and perfume when prostrated on beds of sickness, they might, indeed, have proved a blessing. So it is with men who work. After a hard day’s work how pleasant and recreating is a visit to our flower-garden. Then the cool air of the evening, commingling with the perfume of the dainty blossoms, transports us, so to speak, from a state of weariness to one of comfort and satisfaction. The flowers that during the day drooped and faded under the sweltering rays of the sun, are now braced up by the cool air, and vie with each other ill producing the most agreeable perfume.

is the threshold to beauty and purity. Within it we find am assemblage of merry faces, upturned to the sun to catch its last rays ere it sinks from view in the west. Within it we behold the beauty for which these merry faces are noted, and inhale the delicate perfume which is emitted from their lips. What a beautiful sight it is 1 How eagerly do we pause and take a second look ■ Wrapped up in these flowers is a secret that, remains for each of us to unfold- What a study for the painter, and for the sculptor, and each of these in his turn has knelt at the shrine of Flora. Poets have vied -with one another in portraying her charm in language of explicit sweetness. Likewise have artists striven to excel one another in paying homage to her beauty. But, seemingly, how vain and fruitless have been their efforts. Not that their productions were not meritorious, but that the original was so infinitely perfect that it was next to impossible to produce a perfect likeness. Each generation, in the march of time, is making rapid advancement in floriculture, and the flowers of to-day are far more numerous and varied in character than they were a hundred years ago, consequently our poets and artists 1 ave a greater work to accomplish; but, to meet this argument, it may be truly said that, in this enlightened age of ours, they, likewise have made rapid advancement in their chosen arts.

The influences to which we are subjected in the cultivation of flowers are alike numerous and benefiting. They give us pleasure and mental improvement here, and a bright insight into the future, where, we are told, light and sunshine are perpetual They afford us ample employment for our spare moments, by which we not only accomplish good but are ourselves directly benefited. Our knowledge of the subject in question is thus inCreafed; our thoughts are directed in that line; our judgment is rendered shrewder; and the mind, under these joint actions, is strengthened and rendered more competent to cope with subjects of greater depth. And, with the impetus thus gained in our given study, how bright and merry Indeed appear our lives. And, if but for a brief period oui knowledge forsook us, into what a sad predicament would we be thrown. But such a thing caimOt be. As the flowers increase so also does our knowledge increase; .and as years roll on, these little lessons in floriculture may be turned to advantage and our vivid thoughts advanced on the subject may have become so eroneous and fixed as to be shining lights.— Floral World.

Our Tobacco Growth.

[Newport, Ky., Key State Journal.] The growing of tobacco in this country annually assumes vaster proportions, and is becoming more and more lucrative. Cuba begins to see a rival in the United States in the cultivation of tobacco, which it was supposed, twenty-five years ago, could not be produced anywhere in quantity and flavor equal to that grown and cured in the Gem of the Antilles. . This fact cannot but have a powerful influence in Spain on the subject of theXsale of Cuba to the United States. Onbe it is clearly demonstrated that the tobacco crop of Cuba can no longer be mad? a 'controlling produce in the markets of the world, and that the United States is producing a crop equal, if nos superior, to the crop grown on that island, Spain will be ready to sell, and that at a price to suit the buyer. It is often in this way that diplomacy is suddenly arrested, and the best laid schemes of statesmen to acquire power or domain put to confusion. Time is the old Justice that examines all offenders.— Shakspeare. John Hell is the principal ice-dealer in Balt Lake City.

GEOLOGICAL AND GEODETIC.

Wbat Gave the Surreys Their Impetus— What They Bare Accomplished^—Senator Logan') Work. "When the name of a public man becomes conspicuous, his acts and charac-. ter are the legitimate objects of either praise or condemnation. It is not generally supposed that Gefieral John A. Logan is a devotee at the shrine of science, yet he is a liberal reader and thinker, and a man of great practical wisdom. It is a curious fact that Scientists, theorists, philosophers and bookworms are always preceded in practical discoveries by unlettered students in science and close observers of Nature’s laws. General Logan’s t home was at Carbondale, in the center of the great coal belt of Southern Illinois. As a student of N ature’s laws he studied the geological formation of the coal fields and became familiar with this branch of scientific research. He reached in the open fields and plains the same conclusions evolved in books written by British and American scientists like Lyell, Hugh Miller,Tuomey, Hitchcock, Agassiz and others. His investigation, induced him to value properly the learning and studies of philosophers, chemists and geologists. These practical ideas thus obtained gave paternity in Congress to the scheme of important legislation, which was destined to effect marked progress and disseminate valuable informationto the whole civilized world, necessitating the organization of the geological and geodetic • surveys of of the United States. As De Lesseps denominated John Condon the truest hydrodynamic philosopher of the lowlands of the Mississippi, so the practical Logan gave origin to the application of science to the unknown mineralogical resources of this continent. From a small appropriation injected in the sundry civil bill of the House of Representatives in the Fortieth Congress by Gen. Logan, sprung the United States Geological Survey, which is fully organized in all of its branches to conduct a geological, topographical, and mineralogical survey of the whole United States. The amount appropriated was expended in making the surveysin New Mexico and Colorado under the direction of Prof. Hayden, This was the beginning of the United States geological surveys. These surveys were of sueh confessed advantage to the mining and agricultural in terests that in subsequent years there has been no formidable opposition in Congress to the concession of all demandi made by this earnest, energetic, and most important bureau for money to continue the great work it has commenced.

Its toils and wonderful discoveries and results are especially valued in Europe. Mr. Edward Hull, d rector of the Geological Survey of Ireland, says in an official paper that the “surveys made under the auspices of the United States Government reflect infinite credit upon the intelligence of American lawgivers." Lieut. Gen. Bichard Strachey, of the Royal British Engineers, London, England, writes: “The work of the surveys is most honorable to the United States Government and to the men of science who have been the agents in carrying it out. In truth it is, I believe, the only scientific survey of a great country ever entered upon.” Prof. L. De Konick, at the University of Liege, Belgium, expresses himself in the following manner: “It is an eternal honor to your country to have been able to keep alive the torch of Science in the midst of its political preoccupations, and not to have let its flames go out in the most violen t crisis that you have passed. You have understood that this flame, more than any Other, is destined henceforth to illumine the world. It would be a shame to let this flame go out at the very nabment when it produces its best results.” The present geological survey is the result of the consolidation of several surveys which sprung from the popular impetus given to such enterprises by the Logan amendment to the Sundry Civil bill in the Fortieth Congress; the discoveries of valuable minerals, surveys of rivers, lakes, mountains, plains, and the great canons of the West, have been of priceless value to the people of this and other countries. This survey is destined • teubecome; Hsr, most .important organization in its scientific attainments and researches in the world. Gen. Rogan, without ever anticipating or imagining the magnitude of the great work he inaugurated through his wise judgment, discovered his most.fitting and choicest monument in the, memory and hearts of the American people and the scientific world in the formation of the bureau which he founded. What was but yesterday a helpless babe, is to-day a Briarean giant, stretching forth its arms and extending its beneficent operations over the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the British possessions to the gulf and along the Mexican border. The Bureau of Ethnology is an incident of that which sprung from Gen. Logan’s keen interest in practical geological studies. A knowledge of the history and peculiarities of different races which at different periods in the world’s history have occupied this continent has been acquired through the intervention of this bureau as results of its task.— Exchange.

The Party That Learns Nothing.

The ineradicable sectionalism of the Democratic party never fails to manifest itself the moment it has a chance. It cannot learn that in this country there is a new political heaven and a new earth—that all the States ate free as well as equal—rt{)at the day when subserviency was necessary to its existence is passed, and that the day has come when the issues that divide political forces cannot be determined by geographical lines. / / ' Speaker Carlisle, the Democrat in supreme position at the present time and recognized more than any otherone man as the leader and shaper of its policy, has shown in the appointment of his committees how absolutely the control Of legislation is to be dominated by the influence that wrecked his party in the rebellion, and which in 1675,

and again in 1879, destroyed all porau bility,nf continued Democratic success. He has in a geographical way dis. tribntod the forty-four chairmanships of standing committees as follows; OLD TRW STATES. i OLD SLAVE STATES. Ways and Mean*... .111. El c kn<Ga. Foreign ADairePa. Banking and Currency Military. Cal. . .■ Ma Naval,.N. 1. Cokage.Mo. Public Lands ......Ind.Ccm uetceTer. Manufactures. ... .N.Y.‘Rivera a dHa bors.Ky. Militia..N. Y. A ncul.nreMiss. War (nalrr.sOtdo. Post.,Mlw. Pnhlta Buildintrs.. .Ind. Railways and Canals Exp. nditnre.-. Navy Fl*. Mas*. Indian Altair*Tex. Expenditures, Justice Te r.icr.es .... ...8. C. Hl- M;ncs an.l Mining Public! u Lungs..N. ¥ .......Tenn. Invalid P.n-ioun.. Ind. Mis l-sipi illiver.. Ala. Public Hea1:h......N.Y. U aims. Tenn. Ventil t'on ..N. Y. lievi i< not Laws... Ala. En.olled Billslll. I'-aciSc Raiiroida.. Mo. T xoenflitnre-<. V>ar ! De-atmenfKy. :Ex» e iditnrrs. Navy Department. Mo. Exp. n iltnre , Interior D ‘jmrmtent... .Tenn. Exj enditures, State —■-y . —2“ Department Ga. . Expend tures. Treasury Department. ...N. C. Patmis.....Mo. [Ertncatibtr.;. .8. U. i—1'ren5i0n5............A1a. i Labor.... Mo. IVfr. i Private Land'Miss. It will be seen that the old slave States have twenty-seyfen Chairmanships, and the old free States but seven toen; The great State of New York, with thirty-four Representatives, has six Chairmanships, and five of them are those of the navy, which Mr. Cox does not consider important enough to accept, and of the highly ornamental committees on the militia, public buildings, public health and ventilation, which last is supposed to have especial charge of the blowing-machine in the basement of the Capitol. Missouri, with fourteen Representatives, also has six .Chairmanships, and it is a suggestive fact that the State in which ideas on finance are notoriously vague and wild should have charge of the banking and currency in the person of Mr. Buckner, and of the coinage in the person of Mr. Bland, the chief apostle of unlimited coinage of silver. It is in accord with the Democratic idea of fitness that South Carolina, where more than 55 per cent, of the population 10 years of age and upward are unable to write, should have the Chairmanship of the Committee on Education ; that Texas should represent the commerce of the country; that Mississippi, where the value of lettercarrying is as little appreciated as in any portion of the Union, should have the Postoffice Chairmanship; that Florida, with less than 1,000 miles of railroad* should have the Chairmanship of Railroads and Canals; that Tennessee, whose coal and ores are allowed for the most part td slumber peacefully in the bowels of her mountains, should take the lead on the Committee of Mines and Mining; and that Alabama, where native Federal pensioners must be exceedingly scarce, should have the Chairmanship of the Committee on Pensions.

The geographical location of nearly two-thirds of the Chairmanships of the standing committees does not come by accident. Nearly half the Democrate in the House hail from the old free States—ninety-two out of the total 191. There is no such overwhelming intellectual superiority of the Southern over the Northern Democrats as to warrant any such discrimination as has been made in favor of the Representatives from the soil of the late Confederacy. The majority of ten Chairmanships given to them over their Northern brethren is simply a recognition on the part of the Speaker, who is the Democratic mouthpiece for the time being, of the fact that the gentlemen from the South are to be accorded their ancient position of leadership in the House. There are no indications that this consummation is at all distasteful to the great body of the unterrified Democracy of the North. They have forgotten nothing, and learned nothing, and so proved themselves once more the embodiment of genuine Bourbonism. Twice before since the war they have had a chance to commend themselves to the country by wise and considerate behavior in Congress, and both times they have hastened to throw themselves into the arms of the Southern malcontents. It seems that Democratic history must repeat itself like other history, and that the venerable traditions of the partyare fate of those who have not sense enough to make good use of their opportunities or the intuitions that might lead them into the position of successful and permanent rivalry with the party that undertakes to banish sectionalism from its creed and to keep its hold upon the people by making Republicanism National in its purpose and methods, at all times and under all circumstances. —Detroit Post and Tribune.

Preparations for the Next Campaign.

The next Democratic candidate, whoever he is, will be a friend of Mr. Tilden, if not the cipher king himself, which, in the light of present events, seems the most probable. His bureau is already well organized on sound financial principles. Mr. Hendricks, the tail of the old kite, is in Europe soliciting alms at the trade bonanzas, who have amassed fortunes by the depression of the laboring men and the spoliation of Ireland, India, Turkey, Egypt, and other unfortunate countries which have fallen into her remorseless grasp. Mr. Hendricks will not plead in vain, but will come back loaded with blood money with which to defeatthetin-bucketbrigadeoftheNorth 'by the purchase of “mules” and cattle, while the chivalry of the South will undertake to suppress the riotous negro and carry the polls by the shotgun and six-shooter.— Lafayette Courier. Precisely the same do-nothing policy which marked the previous Bourbon session is revived in the conduct of the present House. Nothing has been done, and in all probability nothing will be done until the people put back the Republican party. Randall was all talk before Christmas. Now he has nothing to say. - - The Austin (sex.) Dispatch nails to its masthead the names of Jamee G. Blaine and Robert T. Lincoln for IM