Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1877 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY NEWS: THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1877.

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"Good enough republicans in their way, vet in point of fact not representative men of their party,” is what Mr. Morton called the signers of that petition. This ’ese ’ard.

Thk country can resume business. Tbe bill passed the senate at 6:45 this morning. The house will probably get through with its little formalities in a -day or two and the peace plan will prevail. ’ Communications to The News on matters ot common interest are acceptable, hot we have to reject many on account of their length. When you can say what you want in five lines, don’t put it into twenty, and when you kre through, stop.

Iy the movement in the Illinois legislature to elect Judge Davis to the senate is an hoi^st one, it is a step in the right direction. If it is a piece of political “sharp practice” to discredit him so that he might be thought unfit to serve on the presidential tribunal, it ought to be “squelched.”

This is tbe “winter of discontent” to the average organ. It Le a time of discomfort and distress. Here are all those high constitutional principles passing oat of tbe hands of those great lawyers, Morton, Logan, Cameron and the like into those of such bungling pettifoggers as Edmunds, Conkling and Hoar.

Chief Dewey can now pull himself together and “go for” the gamblers again. He should not let too long a time elapse between the hoeings. The gamblers are like a noxious weed, they grow rapidly. If the city is to be rid of the pests the work must be done quickly and continuously. We should be glad to publish the names of the next lot captured. Proctor Knott, when the peace plan was ready to be reported to the house, insisted on making a speech an hour long because he had the floor. Perhaps that was Mr. Knott’s idea of joke. A few members of both houses, while the plan is ready to be passed insist on making their speeches against it because they have the floor. Perhaps that is their idea of a joke.

A TXxnEit correspondent this morning in the Journal, possibly in the Journal office, fears that that petition sent to Senator Edmunds was intended as a stab to Senator Morton, and he is clear that any way it was an insult to both Senator Morton and Senator McDonald.' We hazard the opinion that Senator McDonald will suivive the insult. By the way, the petition in question has had a powerful effect for a little thing that has no significance in representing the republican sentitnent of Indiana as Senator Morton in Washington and his mouthpiece here would have it appear.

So clear-sighted a paper as the Springfield Republican in its review of the reception of the “peace plan” by the country, falls into the mistake of Baying, “Senator Morton marshals the “republican party of Indian in “opposition.” This was in its issue of .Monday, and it had probably just heard from the Republican legislative caucus. But it was a hasty thing to say from that, that the republican party of Indiana vraa marshaled in opposition by Mr. Morton. That sounds like a statement based on judgment formed in the past generally, rather than on present facts. This plan marks an era in Mr. Morton’s marshaling of the republican party of Indiana. Since the announcement of the caucus indorsement the Republican has.probably heard of the resolution of the board of trade of this city and of the petition sent to Mr. Edmunds, signed by ex-Governor Conrad Baker, exLieutenant Governor Sexton, General Ben Harrison, Judge Gresham and others. There is some testimony which shows bow the republican party of Indiana is marshalling and under whose leadership. '

There has never been a time since the war when the public conscience was so quick as now. Nor ever a time when those in authority answered so readily the will of those who put them there. In national affairs, in spite of the bittereet partisan opposition, the voice of the people has been heard in the plainest manner and has been an-

swered by a prompt compliance. In state affairs the legislature has set about its business in an intelligent way and with an earnest manner which promises to make every day of its session valuable to the people. The tag ends of waste and neglect are being knit up in a workmanlike manner. There is danger of over-doing in a time like this, but in many^things it will be difficult to err on that side. The movement for a reduction of taxation is widereaching and earnest, and will meet with the full measure of success. Bills for a new state boose and for the establishment of a much needed state board of health are under way. A bill for a board of aldermen to assist in the government of this city is going through the order of business. This should be followed by one looking to the government of the city police, which is none of the common council’s business. The work has been “over shot” in one or two cases as in the proposed change in the administration of the benevolent institutions and in the game laws. These can be toned down and we predict that the whole will “even up” in a shape that will answer in a practical way the spirit of reform which is unmistakable every where.

The current of events has left Mr.Morton so far in the rear that it is now hard; ly worth while to refer to him at all. But it may be noted in passing that this plan which he opposed because it “abolished the constitution,” abolishes it in just the same way and to the same extent that his own bill does, which he has been urging so frantically on congress and the country for the last two years. However this is as consistent as his whole course has been. There has been no public measure for the last twelve years, which Mr. Morton has lost the personal advantage of as he has of this one. He missed a mighty fine chance for a “grasp” •when it came up and the consequence is that he is left lagging in the rear while the country is “ey es front.” One reason for this may be that this is the first measure since Mr. Morton has been in public life which has called for something larger than partisanship and there is thus given an opportunity to guage his effective caliber. It not only finds him wanting in the wisdom and sagacity which are the first elements of statesmanship, but it does not show his prominence as a party leader in the gigantic proportions that have been the especial boast of his adherents. This great party leader has led his party into the ditch, and it is only going to get out now by mutiny against his leadership and a general scramble all along line. He sounded the key-note of the last campaign and for six months the bloody banner of hate was the standard of battle. The result was a rout. His every effort since has shown his incompetency, and now the party has turned to other leaders. Edmunds and Conkling are the central figures in the republi-can-ranks. Jast back of them sits Grant with his pen ready to sign. Hoar has been sent up from Massachusetts to help them, and Logan has been left at home in Illinois. Chris, tiancy has taken Chandler’s possible chance o( representing Michigan, and after the end of this administration there will be another freebooter looking for a “job.” The little partisan endorsement of Mr. Morton’s course • by the caucus of republican members of the legislature the other day was a ludicrously small tail for his kite. Since then the Indianapolis board of trade has “urged our representatives in congress “to give a hearly support” to the proposed bill. Then there is a petition which has been signed by a few of the residents of this city. The petition is not large; there are only a couple of score and odd of names to it. But to any one who lives in this region and to a good many who do not their significance need not be explained. They include bankers, some of the most prominent business men, judges and exjudges, a republican ex-governor and lieutenant-governor, the republican candidate for attorney general in. the late state election, two of the Hayes electoral candidates, the republican candidate for governor in the late state election. Over eighty per cent, of tbe signers are republicans. All of them men of affairs and most of them leaders of opinion in their walks of life. This petition is addressed to “The Hon. George F. Ed“munds and others!” In days gone by it would have been “The Hon. O. P. “Morton and others,” and might have been in this case, but Mr. Morton lost bis chance. For once he stood in his own light. The reaction didn’t react. The net result from the heart of Hooeierdom, the home of the bloody shirt, Morton’s farm, has been the caucus indorsement of some republican members of a biennial state legislature—which being their duty was expected of them. A Washington correspondent catches a sharp view of the present situation when he says of Mr. Morton: “He represents the untamed, “unsoftened spirit of the war whose “ashes are sown to the winds of heaven “and he its lonely representative, like “a blackened cfeimney propped up amid “the Waste of ruin—not useful and of “uncertain context and relation to any “thing.”

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The workingmen have protested against a “tramp law” which impriscna vagrants and able-bodied mendicants. We are not disposed to put aside their protest indifferently, for their opinion ia worth as much as that of any other body of men, bat we can not agree with them further than in their objection to imprisonment. That we, at least, have never contemplated in oar arguments for a law in restraint of vagrancy and public begging. What we have urged was a law compelling them to work, and feeding them at public expense while at work, as it would get some service from them where they do none now, and would be cheaper in the end. An honest man, a real working man oat of work, will be glad to do anything he can torn his hand to for a living rather than beg, and when a beggar won’t work it is very certain that he is neither an honest man nor a working man. That may be taken as settled, and legislation applied accordingly. It is with this class of cases that a vagrant act should deal. Men who are willing to work should be put out of its operation. The begging tramp who refuses work when offered it, as nearly every one has done of at least three hundred who have called upon the writer within a year, is an unmitigated nuisance, generally a thief, often filthily abusive of women when there are no men about, always insolent and redolent of whisky. Five out of six who beg for victuals exhale liquor enough to have bought all they want to beg. They are professional beggars, driven westward by the stringency of eastern vagrant laws, and our only possible protection against them is a similar law. It is for these that we want the “tramp law,” not for men who will work when they can. No reider of The News needs to be rtminded of the countless thefts* committed by tramps who have been furnished a meal by kind hearted-ladies and have taken advantage of their momentary absense to steal silverware, jewelry, clothing, anything they could hide or sell. There was a time last spring or summer when no day passed for a month without its record of a tramp robbery in return for the charitable gift of a breakfast or dinner. Do workingmen protest against the protection of the community from such ungrateful scoundrels, such useless wretches? We trust not. How well disposed to work they are the township trustee found odt when he wanted some twenty of them who had applied to him for help to saw the county’s charity wood for the orders they asked. Nearly every man hurried off or made a pretense of going to work and dodged, the citizens having to bear the consequences in a fresh raid of able-bodied, insolent, whisky-stinking beggars. Don’t they need a law for compulsory service to pay for what they eat? The city is dirty with them, though less infested now than it was some months ago, and protection of some kind is a necessity. Members of the legislature from the country can not know the annoyance that people in a city like this suffer from begging tramps who will neither work nor beg decently. At many a house there a dozen calls a day. Tbe writer has repeatedly had eight or ten a day for a week together, and if he had had furnished “something to eat” to all he might as well have opened a gratuitous boarding house at once. Many were offered work, at the usual wages, and but two accepted it; they sawed wood for five minutes, climed over the rear fence and went off. It is all nonsense to pretend that they are honest men out of employment: they are born beggars, life-long loafers and tramps, and as incurable as lepers. The only protection is a law to force them to work for their food. That will keep them away from the state, or hurry them out.

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Maureen Coaba Dhaal Yet tbe puniest 'aw Ever walked on shoe learner or dhrove a boy mad; For your wee little feet And yer figure so aweet Are too much lor tbe brain of a poor Irish ltd.

Maureen Coaba Dhaal When I see rest maas, Bainta above! I’m afraid that It’a t’ yeh I pray ; An' tb' crown o’ me bat, „„S5£"yru» m-pto... play.

Maureen Coaba Dbaa! Thin tb' medda yeh cram.

To your father’s Date c«bln Just undher tb' bill,

Tb’ dlrlL we’re tould.

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Maureen Crabs Dbast (Yer’s tb’ sly little l*aa) Wid yer “Top o’ tb’ morn In’,’’ thin yeh go on

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Bnt yer pnrty eyes dance An’ yeh givee me a glance

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Maureen Cosba Dhas Tb’ next time fmect 1 yeh aUair or at wake; Me pace yeh deaihroy’ An’ tbaUa hard on a boy That'ud fight a a hole faction an’die for yer sate!

Manreen Cosha Dhas, We ’ll alt on the graaa Wid me arm roun’ yer waist, and a tear in yer eye; An’ yeh’ll say, “Dartin' Dinnis! Spake to Father Maguinnia: Shuic I’d rayther do that, now, nor think that ye’d die I” —[Dublin University Magazine.

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Georgia spends $2,600,000 a year for fertilizers. Bennett and May have about dropped out of sight. . Newbern, North Carolina, has a perfect glut of frreh perch. Insufficient or monotonous diet prodnees nervous dyspepsia. • Musical Bounds stimulate the growth of plants.—[English Mechanic. Long corsets are almost universally worn.—[Godey’s for February. There are at lesst fifty lady doctors studying in the Paris hospitals. M-Sardou is writing another American play more libelous than L'Oncle Sam. Gath speaks of the fine and Horace Greeleyish expression of George Hoar. It will probably be May before the centennial grounds will be restored to the park. The governor of Rhode Island complain of the great increase of illiteracy in that state. Rumor has it that Manton Marble will surely wed his $500,000 widow next month. The New York Grapljjc calls Diaz’s recent victory one of the hauls of the Monteznmas. If Mr. Talmage really wants ta break up the theater business, why doesn’t he turn actor? Northern capital and energy have increased the population of Jacksonville, Florida, from 2,000 to 12,000. A child sat down on a hot stove hearth in Pittsbnrg, and was permanently branded with the words ‘ base burner.” The Pentwater, Michigan, steam poultry hatching apparatus turns out four hundred chickens at o»ce when it feels well Two daughters of a well known citizen of Montreal eloped with their lovers last week, the' whole party traveling together. A New York state senator says there are not four reliable life insurance companies in the length and breadth of our humbugged land. Jere Black says: “Either aide is willing to fight if it thinks the other won’t. Neither side is willing to fight if it thinks the other will.” Delmonico uses one and a half pounds of coffee to a gallon of water, ponring the hot water npon the coffee, which is placed in a strainer. The coffee ia never boiled. —[N. Y. Herald. The name parqnette, which is given to that part of a theater in America, is not French, and is no word at aH, bat a miserable, affected 'nonentity of sounds.— [Richard Grant White. With women's disabilities removed we shall then lay the foundation of uprightness. In marriage woman will bring an iniePigence to refuse an alliance with the wine-bibber and the debauchee.—[Piunbe Conzins.

enmuer’a Worthy ftaeces-or-The Great Defected. [Gath in Cincinnati Enqni er.] When tie committee bad signed the bill, George Hoar, whose condsct throughout was of a beautiful character, arose and said that be congratulated the members on the happy and auspicious ending of their deliberations. He regarded it as one of the greatest political events in the history of the country—an epoch—and it would go further than any thing else to demonstrate that this people were capable of self-government, and would transmit it unimpaired to posterity. Hoar’s manner was excellent; his feeling religious. He ia a native of Concord, Massachusetts, where first gnns of the revolution were fired. He had declined a renomination to congress, and was, yet unexpectedly, elected to the senate the day after tbe joint committee canclnded its Abors. Mr. Sumner said to me, and I printed it at the time, that George Hoar wonld have his seat in the United States senate. Daring tbe meeting Mr. Hoar was asked if his assent to a plan of giying up the original chancfs of the republican candidate wonld not prejudice his chances for the senate and help Bout well. He answered: ‘ There is no senatorial election which gives me less concern than this one. Here is the place where I am doing my duty. Success in this measure is worth more to me in my bnmble capacity than coming to the senate.” At the same time John Logan was leaving the great work of the period to elect hmiself to the senate from Illinois, and he bed dragged his colleague away to that conflict. “Providence is with us!” exclaimed Mr. Hewitt, the chairman of Tilden's national committee, “otherwise John Logan would never have been called away at this great crisis ” A democratic member said to Mr. Hoar, which was a qneer compliment for a democrat: “I congratnlate yon on your election as a worthy successor of Charles SumTier

In the matter of business failures daring 1876 8t Louis makes a much better showing than her rival, Chicago. The latter bad 199 failures with liabilities aggregating over $9 000,000, while St. Louis had only 83 failures with less than $3,000,000 liabilities “I went to see my girl the other day,” says onr Dan; “I kissed her repeatedly, and when I finally ceased the teara came into her eyes, and she said, in sad tones: “Ah, Dan! I fear you have ceased to love me!” “Oh, no, I haven’t,” I said, “but I must breathe.’’—[Boston Globe. A present of $500 has been received from James Gordon Bennett by the littns orphan daughters of Mark H. Kellogg, of LaCrosse, Wis., a Herald correspondent, who was killed with General Custer. The little girls have no mother, and live at La Crosse with their grandmother, Mrs. Charles Robinson. If tbe color line is strictly drawn, the white pcpulation of the world is in a pittfnl minority. Bronze is the prevailing color, and from that the shades deepen to the blackest ebony. A celebrated traveler in the interior of Africa excited the compassion of the natives because he was white.—[San Francisco Bulletin. Texas is trying to regulate the traffic in alcohol by a local option law, each connty deciding for itself whether license shall or shall not be granted. The negroes generally have voted against prohibition. There are various opinions in every quarter as to the effect of local option, and the experiment in Texes will be observed with interest

“If I were to be tried for my integrity, or my life,” the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage mid in tbe Brooklyn Tabernacle the Other morning in his sermon to the legal profession, “I should prefer to be tried before e jury of lawyer* rather then before a jury of clergymen. [Langhter.] Lawyers have a keener sense of Justice then that wH«h poe«eapes gentlemen of my own prof—sion.”—[Renewed laughMOM i OS'* MISEHY. ▲ Scene tm (He to lie* states Senate Yesterday (Special to the Cincinnati Commercial| Mr. Morton bad evidently been smarting ell day long under the scoring given him by Mr. Conkling, and as soon as the Utter took his seat the Indiana senator rote to strike beck. He referred to the telegraphic petition from Indiana which Mr. Conkling bad read, end said that whiU be did not wish to intimate that tbe gentlemen who had signed the petition were not good enough republicans in ■ their way, yet in point ot fact he was sure that they were not properly representative men of their party. Immediately after the New York senator had mentioned tbe dispatch, he [Morton] telegraphed to e gentleman in Indianapolis for the facts in reference to it, and he he had received an answer, saying that the petition did not refiect the views of the republicans if Indiana; that it was hawked about tbe city for signatnres, bnt that only a few could be prevailed upon to indorse it This was thought to be a somewhat extraordinary statement when the character of tbe men who signed the petition was considered, and several senators at once inquired who it was that sent the dispatch to Mr. Morton. This did not please Morton, and he quickly asked if it was supposed that the document was a forgery. Of course it was at once disclaimed that anybody thought any snch thing, add Mr. Morton avoided giving the name. It is said, bowt var, that the dispatch was tdgned by Colonel Holloway, Morton’s brother-in-law, the postmaster ot Indiam polis. < bserving the amusement that naturally lollowed his weak concession that he wiis afraid to give the name of his oorresP'ti dent, Mr. Morton grew desperate, and said he had another dispatch, this time trim a prominent banker in Indianapolis, o6si ring him that the republicans of Indiai a are firm in his support, and folly pppioving bis course. The name of this correspondent, ne also failed to give, bnt it is said that it was signed by Jobs C. S. Harrison, who is known to fame as the Union Pacific director who went gunning for Blaine katsummer. Mr. Morton thtn quoted a third dis patch of similor tenor and effect, dated at Lafayette, bnt withheld the signatnre, which afterward turned ont to be that of W. 8. Linde, editor of the Courier. He felt sure that he was sustained in opposing this bill by the republican party of Indiana He was at a loss to know why the petition was brought up by the senator from New York, unless it was to personally annoy him [Morton]. Mr. Conkling at once arose and discl»’ined *pv snch purpose. 'Bern tor McDonald desired to say,for the information of his colleague, thatenronte in-m New Orleans, where he had been on ccmmittee duty, he stopped at hla home in Indianapolis. That there be met and t*lktd with a great many republicans and democrats, more, perhaps, of his own party friends—l e., Democrats—than republicans, and found an almost overwhelming feeling in favor of the bill He desired to be nnderstood that many of the best republicans in Indianapolis had assured him that they were heartily in favor of the bill. Morton didn’t like this, and he rose to say that he bad no doubt that his colleague had met many of his own party friends (democrats) who favored the bill, bnt he was quite sure he met no republican of standing and infinence who were in favor of its pssMge. McDonald replied that whenke referred to republicans who endorsed the bill he meant, for instance, Judge Walter Q. Gresham. Was he a republican and a gentleman in good stpnding? Gov. Baker and Jonathan Gordon—what was the position of these two gentlemen? John D. Howland, W. P. Fishback, T. P. Haughey, Thomas H. Sharpe, Leonidas Sexton—how did these men atand as republicans and gentlsmen? What had his colleague to say to A. G. Porter, who headed tbe Hayea electoral ticket in Indiana? How abont Mr. Bntler, who stood second on the republican electoral ticket? This was rather hard lines on Mr Morton, and be replied with a shade of sadness in his voice, that he could say nothing sgaitst the gentlemen named, but w .uld oppose the bill as a matter of principle, if he stood alone: : THKAJJJ US TMEtiT. Illtb Free-dent’ for tbe bnpretne JndkM. [Cincinnati Commercial.! The Hon Henry Stanberry, a statement < f whose views on the compromise question. furnished to a reporter of the Commercial, was published in our last issue, has since directed onr attention to a case in point illnstrating the opinions entertained abroad as to the wisdom, and certainly establishing the precedent, of appointing members of the highest judicial tribunals to aid the representatives of tbe people and the government engaged in deliberation on questions of national importance In England, whence we derive our idea of tbe propriety of preserving the judicial function separate and apart from ail political considerations, the lord chief jastice, Sir Alexander Cockburn, on the occasionj>f the arbitration in reference to the Alabama claims, took off Lis robes and went to Geneva,by direction rf tbe British government; and Jastice Nelson, when the oldest judge in commiss on of the supreme court of the United States, was appointed! on a commission Bitting in Washington on a question of great national moment

THE UOOSJ.EE COLOSSUS. A Blackened Cblmney Propped Up. [George Alfred Townsend.) Tbe majority of the members of the two committees were gray and baldiah; several of them wore spectacles. In strange relief to these candid spirits was the swarthy and colossal war governor of Indiana, whose motives, perhaps, are too baishly judged. He represented the nntamfd, unsoftened spirit of the war whose ashes were sown to the winds of heaven, and he, its lonely representative, like a blackened chimney propped np amid the waste of ruin—not useful, and of nncertain context and relation to anything. Bo More Pnblle ■ortsoelaf. [ Logansport Journal.) We must have a law prohibiting donations by cities and counties toward public improvements so called, and limiting common councils and commissioners in their power to create debts. We appeal to tbe legislatnre to repeal all laws authorizing cities and counties to make donations even npon petitions of the majority of the tax payers; and to take away their present power of creating debts by making it imperative npon them to pay cash hereafter for all public expenses. If necessary let ns have a constitutional amendment embodying thess principles in a few words The people could adopt it by an overwhelming majority.

T Ml. SUM Am MMWS. rounoAU Tbs democrats of the first New Hampshire congressional district yesterday renominated Frank Jones; The hones of tbs New Jsasy legislatnre yesterday passed a bill exempting soldiers in the recent war from poll tax, and requiring colored people to pay a poll tax The senate remained in session all night last night discussing the adjustment Mr. Conkling finished his speech, and Messrs. Morton, Bayard. Sherman, Christiancy, Thurman, Morrill and others spoke. By a vote of 41 to 25 the senate refused to adjourn, and this was considered a teat vote on the question. ih* Avjusrxur. The Dele were legislature yesterday piesed resolutions indorsing tbe compromise bill reported by the joint eommittee of congress. In the Colorado senate yesterday a resolution approving the congressional compromise measure was indefinitely postponed by a vote of 18 to S. In the Louisiana republican legislatnre the bouse passed p resolution expressing full faith and confidanoe in tbe president ot tbe senate, and requesting the senators and representatives of Lomslana to oppose the passage of the electoral bilL The vote in the Minnesota house favoring tbe joint committee’s plan for settling the presidential connt lacked bnt two votes of two thirds. Tbe reeolations went over owing to the erroneous ra flag that it required two-thirds, and will com# up again. The republican members of the Nebraska legislature held a cancns last night and resolved that tbe Edmonds compromise is contrary to the provisions of the coustitnticn; that the pifeeident of tbe senate is legally bound to canvass the vote and declare the resnU shown by the certified returns forwarded to him. MISCELLANEOUS. Levi Rose, ex assessor of San Francisco, died yesterday. The Haskett manufactoring company.of Louisville, was damaged yesterday to tbe extent of $20,000 by fire. Fully covered by insurance. The house committee on Indian affairs have agreed to report a bill providing for carrying into effect the treaty made with the Sioux last snmmer by the Sioux commission. by which the Indians relinquish their title to the Black hills. The section suthorizirg the removal of the Sionx to the Indian territory was stricken out, but will be offered in the house. A terrible donble murder was committed Tuesday night in tbe Gentry settlement Baline county, Arkansas Two worn er, Mrs. H. T. B. Taylor and Mrs. M. H. Staner, wives of esteemed planters, were both murdered in cold blood. They were stopping at the same house, their husbands being en route to Little Rock. The n urdrre were committed for the purpose of robbery. FOREIGN. A dispatch to the London Timm from Pera reports that disorder has broken oat in Aleppo, Mersin and Tarsus. The Vienna correspondent of the London Telegraph says Austria declines the rorte’s request to mediate between Turkey and Servia and Montenegro, because averse to taking singly such a step; but advises tbe porte to treat direct with the principalities. ,

IKnMEMNHE » v JUU KJS A 1.1S M. Some Seasonable Words Abont It. [Springfield Republican.] It seems impossible for some people to make this distinction. They sneer at independent journalism. Yon pretend, tbty say, to be for Hayes, and then declare for Tilden. Well, we have been for Hayes from the stvt as interpreted by himself. We have always stood squarely on his letter of acceptance. Did that bind us to follow the party leaders when they fought the campaign on other issues? When Tilden is elected by the people, our presidential preference mast yield to the event. The day of personal preferences is pest There has been an election. We declare for Tilden only because we believe that he is president by the popular vote. Wonid it be independdent or honest to conceal that conviction, or nphold the manipniationof the Louisiana returning board? But why not accept that just now as acboice of evils— sharp practice on both sides, you know— and rely on Mr. Hayes to condone the error by a brilliant reform administration? Because we believe in doing right Doing evil that good may come is a treacherous motto. The path of the just that shineth more and more don’t lie that way. Thera ia nothing eo brilliant as success, when it starts fair. ’ But be one thing or the other,” Exactly. That is just what' we proposed to be, according to onr bsst , lights, whether coincident with party lines or not, and the last place we shall go to for onr ethics is the partv organ. If, ss the negro preacher said, there are only two paths—one leading to hall and - the other to damnation—right there we take to the woods. We believe, too, that outof tbe thickest woods the trnth and tbe right will find their way into tbe open. They live, while parlies die. If Heyesshkll be inaugurated, we shall not forget his counting in. If Tiiden shall be inaugurated, we shall not forget his watch cry of reform. Onr motives will be declared by tbe organs. Time will alsa declare them.

Eeraway Glrla la WMbiagtoa. ' [Washington Letter.) Those who are familiar with society in Washington can not avoid obeerving that all the girls have attenuated forms. We, who are accnstomed to tbe fine developments of western and southern women, look with astonlehment at the thin arms and tcraggy necks that are exposed to view. To render tbe attenuation more apparent, young ladies have adopted the cu se-clingirg skirts and corset-waists laced down the back. Thus attired onr girls can be likened to nothing bnt an exclamation point There is as mnch symmetry of form in one as in the other. When tbeee girls dance the German, hnmane persons are inclined to petition tbe gentleman to handle them with care, least they break in two the fifteen inch waist Handsome-ly-trimmed basques would be far more becoming to thin girls than the corset-waist, which, with them, scarcely reqniree any expansion from tbe waist to the the hipA Sacha style of dress was only intendsd for embonpoint and not for the fragile. Tha California Street and Meridian Street Methodists are having fruitful revival*

Bhakespsare makes tbe mag dan Prosper® moralize over tbe vanishing sple.ioora and eot hantments of life. It Is only too often that we • recompelud to dwe.l on tbe seeming evane* cenoe of good end tbe permanence of evil, fki# Is noticeably so in the cheats of com me roe - scented waps. lor instance B. T. Babbitt'S loiiet Soap aims at a reform, for it is dell ate. unrooted with pungent odor*, and the highest delight for the to-let and bathroom Fsrtha ose of babies nothing can compere with it. “Let me make the songs of the nation, and I •care not who makes their laws,” observes the philosopher, bat bemighthave said more truthfully: “let a nation use B. T. Babbitt's Bust