THE TESIES PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY MOHNIKG, JUNE 3, 1880. THE DISTRESS IN IRELAND. to mankind. Warrior Goss appears to have RUSHING THE WORK. Tips STATESMEN'S WIVES.
Women Whose Husband are Looking Towards the White House. Washington Cor. Cleveland Herald. The wife of William K. Morrison, of Illinois a gentleman who is oonsidered in the Democrats party a very prominent "dark horse," is plump and rosy, with dark hair and animated Then, under the head of "Reason," the postmaster twists the sword in the wound and has done.
This sort of thing is a terrible blow to the conscientious editor. Perhaps some of ourreaders may infer that at the present moment we are writhing under such a blow and aro crying aloud for sympathy; nor will we deny that iu every particular the inference is correct. It is a subscriber to The Weekly Times who has thus wounded the spirit that loved him, and it is the postmaster at Canyon Ferry, Meaghcreounty, try and bring about an agreement on this question, we cannot but wish that Mr. Strahan had stayed at home. The co operation of so able and experienced a man of business is of course to be valued; but it might as well be understood at the outset that there is not the slightest probability of obtaining international recognition for a publisher's copyright What public sentiment in this country does favor and demand is an author's copyright that is, the legal protection of on author's property in his been more greatly damaged than the other warrior, for most of his front teeth have been knocked out.
For some time to come he will be compelled to eat porridge and other comestibles which require but little chewing. Warrior Ryan and AVarrior Goss have one good point about them. They possess it in common, and we will give them credit for it They have plenty of energy. To waste th energy on each other is a prodigal squanderin: of what might be turned to good account for the State. These men might be sawing stone or pegging boots, or making nails in one of the many penitentiaries the country affords for the working off of this class of surplus energy, It is a pity to see their talent wasted, AYhat they need is steady work.
Prize fighting is objectionable on account the spasmodic effort it causes. Its promoters and patrons pass a considerable time in com parative leisure, and then go for each other like jackals. It is a pity that we have not in our prisons the British treadmill. This is ex actly adapted to the necessities of snch male factors. To run a treadmill requires but little talent.
Steady exertion is the strong hold of the men who keep it in motion. These men have all the muscle that is necessary. When the surgeons have patched up their gashes and the dentist has fitted with porcelain artificial; the battered jaws of Mr. Goss, the two war riors may well be led oway to perform within stone walls and under proper legal restriction and stimulus the tasks for which their manly nature so well fits them. Tns one thing that shines forth in the Chicago dispatches is that the Bosses have lost their grip and that General Grant's defeat is not only possible, but more than probable, It looks at this writing as if the star of his destiny was to undergo an eclipse for the first time since the day when he was mustered into the Illinois voluntcersasasoldier of the Union, If so, that defeat will be the penalty of the overweening confidence and imperious methods of the Three Bosses who, for their own per sonal aggrandizement, have been running this campaign in his name.
All things are possible in a political convention and there may be some strong card which the triumvirate still have in reserve; but it is not easy to see how the third termers can recover the ground lost within the last two days. If they reenperate to the extent of enabling them to dictate the nomination of their second choice they will have about as good luck as could be expected from the present outlook. The anti Grant men, beside having the prestige of bringing Don Cameron to terms, have captured the committee on credentials, which will pass upon the contests the committee on rules, which will sit down on the unit rule the committee on permanent organization, which will keep Mr. Hoar in the chair and steady him in his seat, and, what is of as much consequence as anything else, they have worked themselves into confidence of victory and the opposition into a fright which may at any moment become a panic and a stampede. There is no knowing what a night may bring forth, but this is the reading of the latest advices.
There is a prospect of a bitter straggle to day a life and death strug gle over the report upon the contested seats, and when that is decided General Grant's fate will have been sealed and the most important elements of doubt will be eliminated from the problem. International Copyright. Very little aid will be given to the cause of international copyright by any such violent outbursts as that in which Mr. Wilkie Collins indulges in the International Review for this month. No language can be too strong to cnaractenze tne unreasonableness and unrighteousness of the failure or refusal to recognize the rights of literary property; but the existing state of things has no defenders now, aud even if it had, few persons would foci disposed to listen to a man who began his argument by denouncing them as thieves.
The calling of names has done more harm than good in the copyright discussion. Nearly fifty years ago Mr. Clay, in a report to tho Senate, presented the indisputable truths involved in this matter as strongly as they have ever been presented since, and there is no one now in this country who will not agree to all that he then said. "We should all bo shocked," wrote Mr. Clay, "if tho law tolerated the least invasion of the rights of property in tho case of merchandise, while those which justly belong to tho works of authors are exposed to daily violation without the possibility of their invoking the aid of the law.
The committee think that this distinction in tho two descriptions of property is not just." Here is the whole matter in few words, and the argument gains no added force from epithets and expletives. It is true that the position of this country on the question of international copyright has entirely changed since Mr. Clay made his vain appeals for justice, but the change has been caused by the logic of events and not by loud talking on either side of the water. Even at the time we speak of, the general proposition that an author ought to have some right iu his own works was generally conceded by those who took any interest in the subject, but the trouble was that there were very few pcoplo who did take any interest iu it. There were few American authors to le injured by the absence of a copyright, and what few publishers thero were preferred that things be left as they were, so that it was impossible to get up any public feeling on a matter of abstract principle like this, and it is only in response to some popular demand that legislation is ever likely to be effected.
It was indifference, therefore, rather than deliberate wronghcadedness that allowed the matter to drift along, year after year, to the disgrace of the country and to the grievous oppression of our native literature. The wrongs of American writers under this bad system were really greater than the more obvious and more loudly complaincd of wrongs of foreign writers for while tho latter got no return for the sales of their books in this country, the former could not sell their work at all, since the publishers could get all tho "copy" they cared to use for nothing. In spite of all this, however, American literature has continued to grow, until "piracy" is no longer confined to one sido of the ocean, and the English publishers appropriate American books with quite as much freedom as American publishers have used iu appropriating the literary property of Englishmen. It is customary to speak of this as stealing," and so, in a broad sense, it is. But the moral guilt of the publishers has been needlessly exaggerated by the indignant authors.
Seeing this property without legal protection, they have appropriated it, and finding that public opinion did not condemn their conduct, but rather sanctioned it by buying their stolen goods, and observing moreover that a prominent school of political economists, led by the late Mr. Carey, actually commended them, they naturally persisted in their course. But a wrong like this tends to work its own remedy. As long ns piracy was confined to tho leading publishers, nnd the courtesy of the trade" was recognized as establishing an artificial right in the one who first seized npon a book, whatever influence they chose to exert was against a copyright law. But a new class of pirates has arisen who know nothing of the courtesy of the trade, but as soon as a leading house has made a market for a foreign book bring out a dime edition and spoil the sale.
The cheap libraries have demoralized the trade, nnd the publishers now are more than ready to Join with the authors in advocacy of an international copyright. This fact, however, is not altogether so en couraging as it may appear. If the publishers have heretofore obstructed the way to an equitable treaty, by a more or less active opposition, it Is not lens true that they are now ob structing the way by an over officious advo cacy. This is true at least of some of them, and when we read that Mr. Strnhan, tho Lon don publisher, has sailed for this country to The Duke of Edinburgh Declares That It Has Hot Been Exaeeeratrd.
From His Speech at the Geographical Dinner. It has been believed by many that the ex tent of the distress on the west coast of Irelnnd is greatly exaggerated that the rel ief administered has not in all cases been necessary; but I can confidently stato, as the result of what I have seen and from an intimate knowledge of how the relief has been granted, that the distress in the main has not been exaggerated. It has been exenssively severe, and that it has not reached Ihe point it reached at the time known as the Irish Famino" is due entirely to the fact that preparations lor meeting it had been taken in time. I cannot refrain from expressing my sense of how much that taking in time was due to the charitable exertions of the Duohess of Marlborough. It has been a great pleasure to me to be associated with Her Grace, as well as with many others in this beneficent work.
We have also to thank the citizens of America for the great and generous help they have sent to Ireland. It was my good fortune to be able to be at Queens town to assist in the distribution of that magnifioent cargo which was sent from America. I must say that the distress is not over yet, nor will it be over for at least two months and a half, when the first crop the potato crop will be gathered nnd is followed by the general harvest. Until then. In many coses, actual relief by feeding the population in some portions of tho West of Ireland, including the islands, must be continued.
Otherwise the starvation which would have occurred in the first instance but for such relief will occur; yet I hope all those who are here this evening will bear in mind, and tell others who are charitably inclined, that the time boa not yet passed when much good may be done by sending subscriptions to those great funds which have already done so much to relieve the dis tress. It is to be hoped, too, that other things may be done, such as tlio undertaking of great works and the encouragement of the coast fisheries of Ireland. I feel sure that the organizing of the fisheries on the coast, which at present are very much neglected, would give the population there a more secure means of existence. The land is really incapable of supporting the population from natural resources, and I feel certain that, without the assistance of the fisheries, the same distress which has occurred will occur again. OLD WORLD GOSSIP.
News Pnragraiili by Cnble From England and the Continent. St. Petersburg. June 2. Advices stato that the death of the Empress of Russia is imminent.
Pauls, June 2. Paul Augustine Alfred Leroux French statesman and a member of the Cabinet under the last Empire, is dead, at the age of 65. Calcutta, June 2. Four companies of British troops have received orders to be in readiness to take up positions for tho protection of the frontier of British Burmah. Londox, June 2.
At a meeting of the bondholders of the Philadelphia and Heading Railway Company yesterday a protection committee was appointed and also a deputation to wait on Lord Cairns to ask him to set as chairman of the committee. A telegram referring to the famine in Kurdistan, Armenia and Western Persia states that forty thou sund persons must be fed for two months if Ihey are to be kept alive. The telegram implores for money to purchase the gram, which is slill in store iitMaush. One hundred ond thirty eight persons have died of starvation at Bishkulen. Twenty six villages are utterly destitute.
One hundred and seven persons have died of starvation at Alashgcrd. The lrebytrrlan Synod's Last Session, At the session yesterdav of the Synod of the Itcformed Presbyterian Church of America Dr. T. Sproule, of Pittsburg, introduced and had passed a resolution authorizing the nppoiulnient of acommit teo to prepare a memorial commemorating tho bi centennial, on Juno 22, ISM, of the promulgation by Kielmrd Connerow and Donald Cargill, nt Sangiihar, Scotland, of "A Declaration and Testimonie of the True Party of Scotland," declaring war against tho King as a tyrant and usurper and protesting against receiving the Duke of York in Scotland. The committee on traveling expenses reported the cost of the present synod at 8 1,0:19.75, to meet which $.1,056.59 has been contributed.
The proceedings of the synod were brought to a close last evening by pntycr and the singing of hymns. Prior to the ad journment Pittsburg was selected as the next place of meeting, nnd the fourth Tuesday of May, 1881, was fixed as the time. Poverty Stricken Senators. H. W.
Grady in Atlanta Constitution. It must not he imagined that General Gor don stood alone in being unable to wear Senatorial powers easily. Almost every Southern Senator holds his scat at the sacrifice of his peace of mind, and if he were to die would leave his family scantily cared for. Mr. Lamar is a poor man in the literal sense of the word.
Mr. Ransom is quite ns poor. Senator Hamp ton is hardly able to maintain himself, and General Butler is hardly so easy as Hampton: Senator Gar laud has little else but his salary, and Vance, Harris and Morgan are in tho sumo lix. Senators Davis, of West Virginia, and Beck, of Kentucky, are the only Southern Senators who may be called independent in circ*mstances. Tile Northern Senators, on the contniry, arc rich almost without exception.
The 'Niilre Wai Not Forgiving. John Bradley, of 520 Alaska street, with a miscellaneous colleolion of bandages and sticking planter enveloping his head and face, leaving exposed swollen lip, was called before Magistrate Smith csterday as a witness against John Whelen, a shoemaker, of 617 Baker slrcet, who had inflicted Bradley's injuries. But Bradley said he did not desire to prosecute Whelen, although he had a cut in his bock besides the other hurts. They were friends. Tho Magistrate wanted to know what Bradley meant by applying for a warrant then and said the case, being a felony, was beyond Bradley's power to compromise it.
He therefore held Whelen under Jl.OOt) bail to answer. Drowned In the Schuylkill. On Tuesday afternoon John O'Neill, 44 years old, a resident of 4 Ncwbold street, near Nineteenth and Wood streets, did not go to his work at the In dustrial Iron Works. He was seen around Twenty fourth and CallowhiU streets, apparently intoxicated, toward nightfall. Yesterday morning a drowned man was found in the Schuylkill near Vine street wharf, and was soon identified as O'Neill.
The corpse was taken home. The Peace Vaion'i Anniversary. The fourteenth anniversary of the Universal Peace Union, of which Alfred II. Love, of this city, is president, will lake place at Baltimore on the 7th instant. The Union has issued a circular protesting againt the passage of the proposed militia bill," tho object of which is the enrollment in the militia of every able bodied male citizen in the States and Territories, BEST OF THE STATE NEWS.
Tho twelfth annual session of tho AVcst Branch Camp Meeting Association, at Lock Haven, will begin on August 17 and close on the 27th ol that monlh. At Iloutzdale the other day Captain Thomas Clarko was presented with a gold watch by the members of the Coal and Iron Polico who were on duty during the recent strike. Mm. Joseph Ihishnell, of Titusvillo, died in that place the other day from a singular cause. Her father died of erysipelas lost week and her blood was poisoned by kissing his dead body.
Mrs. Bush nell's 111 lo daughter, Ella, kissed her niolber aud is not expected to live. Tho project of a railroad from New Bloom field to connect with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Duncannon is being revived. At one tinio consider able slock was subscribed, but for somo reason the enterprise was suspended. Now the old officers ut the road are moving in the matter.
There was a bitter squabblo between tho Robinson and McJunkin factions among the Butler county Republicans. Robinson attempted to throw out Fairview and Pctrolia, but was unsuccessful. McJunkin has 113 majority for Congress. For Assembly William Bruliam aud S. D.
Bell were nominated. Tho Altoona Tribune says that a tramp was starved to death while stealing a ride in a freight car on Tuesdoy. The oar in which he had hidden was backed oil at Bridgeport that it might bo loaded with sand. The tramp had allowed himself to be locked in, expecting that the car would bo opened in a few hours. A horse thief, who had robbed the stable of Porlor Thompson, at Mexico, Juniata county, wns arrested by two officers at Klizabcthtown, Lancaster county.
While the Ulcers were taking their prisoner to the depot the Ihief, a muscular little fellow, turned upon themandwhipiied them both, llefurothe officers could recover hum his stunning blows the prisoner had escaped, Mrs. Charles Johnson, of Plunkett's Creek township, near Wllllarosport, found two rattlesnakes in the woods and concluded to keep them for playthings. She put them in a box and took them home. While playing with the snakes on Monday one of them fuslcncd its fangs in her hand. The arm bo camo frightfully swollen, and at lost accounts Mrs, Johnson's life was in great danger.
Tctcr and Benjamin Repshcr, brothers, lived Upper Mt. Bethel, near Easton. They are both 22 years old. Both recently foil In love with sisters, Both subsequently ran away on the same day. Two femalo children were born to the sisters on the same day.
Both the young men were arrested last Saturday, both were locked In the same cell on Sunday and both will be tried at the Juno term of court. This Is regarded in Easlon as the most Interesting string of coincidences ever known. When lips receive a rosy flush, And teeth become a dnzzlmg white Beuenth the ellhrls of the brush, When SozoimntIs ftsod urlglit; The mouth heroines sweet, pure and warm, And the fresh bruatli an odorous oliurm, adticr. Nervous Debility, Weakness, promptly cured by Allen's Brain Food, $1, All druggmu. Johnston, Holloway it 0U2 Arch street.
Advtr, Ul.ercitATIVK weaknesses nnd debilitating humors of females cured by Malt Bitters. Adver, Congress Aaxlaua To Adloarn Two Appro priation Bills 1'iiilahed Up. Special Dispatch to Thh Timks. Washikotok, June 2. The general deficiency bill occupied the at tention of the House all day, and when fin adjourn ment was had the bill had been reported from the committee of the whole aud the mam question or dered, so that the bill will be passed to morrow.
The various amendments relative to the silver question that were submitted yesterday were all defeated, as well as those directing that the salaries of Congress' men shall be paid in silver and the one proposed by Field, of Massachusetts, for the repeal of the silver dollar law. Indeed, the proposition of Bland that members' salaries should be paid in silver received only 11 votes, it being defeated by a vote of 11 ayes to 55 nays. That portion of the secUon relat ing to the judiciary committee which seeks in part to nullify the Federal election laws, notwithstanding the Supremo Court has decided that they are uncon stitutional, was retained in the bill by a party vote of 60 ayes to 76 nays, less than a quorum, but the limitation upon she use of tho $050,000 appropriated for united mates Marshals was, by way of compromise, omitted. This was done on motion of Cobb, Democrat, member of the appropriation committee in charge of tho bill. This is understood to have been done in obedience to those who still seek an early adjournment and who wish to avoid all unnecessary causes of political dispute.
Indeed, so strenuous are the exertions making in this behalf that it is said that the Demo cratic leaders will endeavor to prevent tho making ol speeches on the Chicago candidates and platform, from fear that should such speeches be made by the Democrats the Republicans would successfully resist an adjournment until alter the Cincinnati Con ven tion. It Is now in the power of tho Republicans to control tne time of adjournment, as tho Democrats will not be able to pass a resolution in the face of a unilcd Republican opposition. Tho ways and means committco will to morrow consider the subject, aud it is said will endeavor to fix the duto at June 10. The appropriation bills, us soon ns the vote shall be taken in tho House to mor row upon the deficiency bill, have all been passed save one. In the course of the debate to day Acklen showed very small spirit by moving to reduce to one hundred dollars tho compensation allowed to the short hand writer for reporting the testimony in the investigation against himself, and he was successful.
Cox, of New York, chairman of the committee, however, said that he should pay the deficit from his own pocket. Townshend. of Illinois, made a fierce attack upon the smaller Eastern collec tion districts, notably those in New England, but ho was put down by HawJoy, of Connecticut, who said thai if Townshend should ever try to run a circus ho would find that the boys would get in under the cur tain if he only kept one man at the main door. The Senate spent the day on tho river and harbor mil and finally passed it by a vote of 30 to 13. The amondmciits agreed to in committee of tho whole were adopted.
Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, was confirmed today as Postmaster General in place of Key, confirmed as united states District Judge Tennessee. ONLY FOUR PIGEONS RETURN. Speculation As To the whor*abonls of tlio Nineteen Oilier Itirds. Of the twenty three homing pigeons owned by members of the Ourmantown and lied Slur Homing Clubs, which were liberated at Orccnsburg, Westmoreland county, on Monday evening at 9.15 o'clock, but four hnvc returned home. Tho distance upon which the birrls were started is an air line course of 225 miles.
A few hours after starling upon their journey the atmosphere begun to thicken and the lowering clouds indicated slormy weather. As the rain descended tho birds, one loy one. became dazed nnd lost their course und alighted at sumo point on tho wny, weary and wet, to pass tlio night. When tlio first rays of daylight dawned the Antwei ps resinned their course, but up to Inst evening only four hnd been able to find the homeward track. Tho first bird to come home was a Goi'mantown Antwerp, of a mauve color, owned by John Hall.
This pigeon did not reach Clermnntown until 10.30 A. M. At noon a blue bird, owned by D. S. Newhall.
came in at McKcan, Newhall and Hone's ofliee, No. 2S Church street. An hour and a half later a blue checker, also owned by Mr. Newhall, arrived, showing tinmislakuble evidence of having experienced a very rouxh passago. At 6.0.1 P.
M. the fourlli bird, of all ash color, alighted upon the tower of McKcan, Newhall and Boi'ie's sugar refinery, tired and with plumage wet and milled. The failure of such a large number of the birds to return is something remarkable, inasmuch as all of those started on Monday had flown from Altoona to Philadelphia, an air line course of ono hundred and seventy live miles, on May 23. Although nineteen birds are yet missing they have not been given up as lost. A month mny elapse before they return, but as time passes, it is believed, they will gradually find their way home.
Fully three fourths of the entire number started aro expected to come back to headquarters this week. Of the twenty three birds liberated D. S. Nowhull owned John Hall, Charles W. Henry, George V.
Crcsson, It. U. Mills, A. West, 1 Rhodes, 1 T. Braithwaitc, 1, and George Hargrave, 1.
All of the birds that return will be entered for the inter State contest of 270 miles, to come off on the 16th instant. Although it is thought that a well trained homing pigeon could find its way hom*o at a distance of ouo thousand miles, the experiment has never been tried. The longest pigeon fly on record took place in 1878 between Rome and Brussels, a distance of 730 miles. Although eleven hundred birds started but sixty wero able lo find their way home. The loss of such a largo number of birds was attributed to the course, which was obstructed by two mountain ranges that completely puzzled the most experienced Anlwcrps.
Countering on Ihe City Solicitor. An injunction was filed in the Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, yesterday, by George Bull, attorney for James K. Booth, against City Treasurer Martin and Charles Weiss, objecting lo the payment to Mr. Weiss by City Treasurer Martin of the rental of premises on Chcttcn avenue, Germantown, leased under an ordinance of June 11, 1878, for tho use of No.
19 Fire Company, on the grounds that It Is illegal and is increasing the debt of the city. The ordinance authorized the lease of a building, to be erected by Weiss, as nbove, at a rental of SSoO per year for ten years. The advocates of the Walnut street bridge contend that the terms of this lease aro precisely similar to that which it is proposed that the city should make with the bridge company, and that if the latter is Illegal, as the City Solicitor holds, then theGcrmantown lease Is illegal also. In order to de cide this question the present issue is made, Mr. Booth coming into court as a tnx payor to ask that the City Treasurer be restrained from continuing the payments.
Non Intercourse Iletween Masons. New York, Juno 2. The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Stale of New York passed an edict to day of non.iutcrcourso between Masons of the State of Now York and tho State of Connecticut. This action was taken in consequence of the Grand Ixxlge of Connecticut granting a dispensation to two members of Webotuek Lodge, duch*ess county, N. who had united wilh others in signing a petition lor a new lodge at Sharon, and declaring that, having enrolled as members of Hamilton Lodge, in Connecticut, they severed their connection with the Webotuek Lodge.
The Grand Master was authorized to suspend such edict should the Grand Lodge of Connecticut show a desire to submit the matter for arbitration to tho other Grand Lodges of the uuiteu Suites. Found Dead In a Thicket. Henry Drummond, a roller employed at the rolling mill of Alan Wood Conshohockeii, was overheated on Tuesday, but worked his day out. Arriving home in the evening, he complained of severe pains in his head and stomach. Before Bimdown he started out, having told his wife and four children that perhaps a little walk would do him good.
He did not return and yesterday morning his dead body was found in a thicket known as Jones' clearance, about throe fourths of a mile from his home. Tho Coroner held an inquest yesterday, which resulted in a verdict of death from effects of heat. Mr, Drummond was about fifty years of age. T.lneoln University Alumni Meeting. The annual mooting of the alumni of Lincoln University was held yesterday.
An executive meeting was held in tho afternoon at Liberty Hall, on Lombard street, and a public meeting was held in the Broad Street Presbyterian Church at night At the latter William II. Hargrave, of Maryland, delivered the annual oration and addresses were delivered by Peter A. Morgan, of New York, on English Literature;" Lawrence Miller, of Missouri, on "The Future of the American Negro," end A. Hopkins, of North Carolina, on "Kace Reconciliation at the South." The exercises were interspersed with music by the university choir. An Kloeutionary Contest.
The closing exercises and preliminary contest of the spring senior class of the National School of Elocution and Oratory took place last evening in Association Hall, Among the selections notable for the excellence of their delivery wcro: "The Immigrant's Story," by Miss Kdilh V. Hedges; "Archie Dean," by Miss F. Adele Search "The Young Gray Hoad," by Miss Iliitlis B. Halo, and How Kuby Played," by David II. Ross.
The object of the contest is to select six persons lo whom will be awarded class honors. The Ross Johnson Rare Off. Boston, Juno 2. The raco between Ross and Johnson has been declared oil'. After tho olio sided race yesterday both men met In the evening and indulged in mutual knock downs, and both to duy asked to be allowed to withdraw the stakes, which the referee granted.
The polico had to bo called on to stop the encounter. i'adet Wlilltnker HUH Hludying. roUUHKKEPHirc, Juno 2, Lieut. Knijrht, counsel for Whltlakcr, this morning staled that Whit tukcr Is still pursuing his studies. He is dangerously low only in philosophy, and Lieutenant Knight thinks he will safely pass the examination now In progress.
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Blaine lias been lighting his way at Chicago there has been effected in Maine, a change in the political situation which is rather interesting and may become important The Democrats and Greenbackers, who were thought to be pretty far apart this year, have como together with considerable enthusiasm in the joint nomination of General H. M. Haisted for Governor. He is described as not a brilliant or showy man, but one of the best political organizers and most persistent and thorough workers in the State. He is fresh from the Ecpublican ranks, only a year ago was considered a third lermer, and has done good work in his time lor the Republican ring against which he now takes the field.
The fusion of the two parties was effected quietly and effectually. So careful an observer as the Boston Herald says that if Mr. Blaine does not win at Chicago Maine will be one of the most thoroughly canvassed, the most closely fought and the most doubtful States in the Union. Two set speeches were made, or rather read, in the convention, yesterday, one by Cameron and one by Hoar, and although speech making is not exactly in our young Senator's line, it must he admitted that of these two his was the better. It was not only shorter, but there was more meat in it.
From a Grant point of view it covered the whole ground, and yet there was not a word in it to shock the nerves of even such a sensitive auti tliird termer as Brother in law MacVeagh. Mr. Hoar's, on the other hand, was a rehash of one of his Congressional speeches, interspersed with a bit here and there from the platforms of the year and garnished with the old commonplace flummery about the mission of the Kcpublican party not being ended until such and such things are done. It requires cheek of a sublime quality for a man who helped count Hayes in by sustaining the Returning Board frauds to lift up his voice and bewail the rape of the ballot box. Mr.
Hoar is a man of light weight and adjustable conscience. Tim City Solicitor, when he returns from Chicago, will liftvo tvu opportunity defend in court his ingenious opinion upon the Walnut street bridge. Mr. West has laid down the principle that a covenant to pay a yearly recurring rental would be equivalent to incurring a debt, and as this is forbidden to the city, such a covenant would be illegal. The advocates of the bridge have brought forward what they claim to be a precisely parallel case, and by way of testing the City Solicitor's law they have attacked a contract lately entered into by the Councils, by which the city covenants to pay a yearly rental for ten years for a building to be erected in Germantown for the use of an engine company.
This is a small matter and the other is a largo one, but the legal principle seems precisely the same, except that the lease of the engine house is for a term of years, while the proposed lease for the bridge is only terminable by purchase. Perlinps the City Solicitor may bo able to 6how that this difference is vital, but it looks very much as though, in going out of his way to oppose the bridge project, he had assumed a posit ion that 'it will give him some trouble to maintain. Trie complaint against the neglected state of the public squares breaks out afresh every summer, and with good reason. These so called pleasure grounds are going from had to worse, year after year, and it appears to be nobody's business to try to keep them in order. The superintendents draw their salaries with the utmost regularity, but beyond that no one of them was ever known to do astroke of work.
They do not mow the grass, they do not clean or roll the walks, they do not trim the dead branches from the trees, they do nothing that a respectable gardener would do who had a little park under his control. There is an appropriation made every year for labor and repairs, for sodding and manure, for tools and whatever else may be required, and an unofficial gardener would rejoice in such an opportunity as these public pensioners enjoy to show his skill. But they appear just capable of creeping in and out ot their watch boxes and making themselves disagreeable to children and of nothing more. Can nothing bo done to mend all this? We put the question in all earnestness to Mr. Commissioner Dixey and to the members of the Councils.
The squares are a disgrace to the community. They are having a terrible time up in the Thirty first ward. They arc always having a time up there, but the present occasion is one of extraordinary solemnity. It seems that Mr. W.
J. White, with that rare discernment which ho displayed in the exercise of his brief authority as of the Census, appointed among his enumerators for the Thirty first ward no less than sixteen members of the Kcpublican executive committee. When Mr. Steel came in these patriots were not retained, nnd the Kcpublican executive committee was accordingly plunged into excitement not unminglcd with grief. And when it came out that the chairman of this very committee had in some wny been indirectly consulted in the making up of Mr.
Steel's list, then the committee just rose up in its wrath and deposed that conscienceless chairman and denounced him to the world as a disloyal person and everything else that is bad. Who can wonder at the righteous indignation of the fifteen patriots whom Mr. iSambly should have protected and did not A man who does not take care of his own committeemen is worse than an infldcl and entirely unlit to prcsido over the destinies of the great Kcpublican party of the Thirty first ward. Warrior Goss pummelcd Warrior Ryan and Warrior Ryan pummeled Warrior Goss. Both of these braves Buffered severely.
Their eyes are blackened and reddened. Their noses are battered out of shape and all that may have once been bcautiAil in their rlsages is thumped Into a state of hideous distortion. It might have been well had each warrior pouhded out of the other the last trace of anything human. Sinking as they did somewhat below the level of the beasts that perish they might well try to efface all that linked them A riSk A This lady is gifted with that rare, precious quality which enables its possessor to put every person around her at ease, diffusing sunshine and blessing wherever she moves. Mrs.
Washbume, a lady of French descent, speak i ing the French language wilh fluency, is pleasantly remembered here since the time Mr. Washburne was a member of Congress and later a member of the Cabinet. Mrs. Washburne is described as petite, dark eyed, emotional, a fine conversationalist, an enthusiastic, wnrm hearlcd friend. As mistress of a household she was alert, a faithlul mother of numerous children, yet ever ready to entertain on short notice Mr.
Washburne's constituents and not only so, but to enter with zeal into their plans. Mrs. Speaker Randall Is a woman who comes from an excellent family, having a fine education. Mrs. Randall is rosy and stout and in manner quiet and self poised.
Mrs. Randall pursues the high aim of rendering her home thoroughly comfortable for her husband and his many callers. How well she fulfils this holy endeavor may bo divined by the tender Word by which Mr. Randall always addresses her Mother" as if her gentle inilucuce reminded him of a mother's love. Mrs.
Blaino is fair haired, tall, rather stout, with a distinguished carriage nnd a manner earnest and practical. Sincerely conscientious, Mis. Blaine seemi to belong to a class of New England women not always to be met with even among tho rugged hills, and rarely seen elsewhere. A beautiful home life is the result of her wise management. Already arc her sons in business and popular in society and Miss Alice, tho eldest daughter, a beautiful girl of eighteen, stands beside her mother like a younger sister.
Mrs. Senator Windom is one of those sprightly women whose brilliancy attracts. Tall and graceful, wilh an animated face that lights up in conversation, an easy, affable and engaging manner the unstudied expression of a warm heart it is no marvel that callers at Senator Windom's tarry loirg, thus virtually orowning the hostess queen. The school whero Mrs. Windom educates her children is in their own home and she herself is their sole teacher.
Mrs. General Garfield is of delicate form, in rosy health, a domestic, devoted mother, filling her four young generals for college or for active life, a lady of sunny spirit and of a very quiet, dignified bearing. The wife of the Nestor of tho Senate, Edmunds, is a person of line culture. The first impression is that of repose nnd gentleness and quiet dignity, with a soft manner not in the least self asscrlive. Of medium figure and brunette complexion, the arched eye brows remind one of those French beauties, such as the old masters wero fond of delineating us expressive of devotional spirit.
At onco, as yon enter Mrs. Edmunds' drawing room, you perceive an air of refined domestic culture, such as pertains to a New England home. There are books and music, pictures and embroidery, all bespeaking the taste not only, but the talent of the gentle hostess. Mrs. Senator Bayard is a graceful, polished, attractive dark eyed lady, too busy with her many children to devote much time to society.
It is understood that Mrs. Bayard inherited great wealth. The two elder daughters are in society, graceful and accomplished young ladies. Mrs. Thurman is a matured woman, lo whom the "brains of the Democratic side of the Senate," as Thurmnn is styled, seems lo be still the tender lover, both being quite stooped and jogging down life's hill together.
Mrs. Justice Field Is fine looking, many years the junior of her husband, brilliant in conversation, though often reticent. Mrs. Sherman, the tallest of these expectant ladies. Is lithe, well formed, with the frank simplicity and sincerity of sweet seventeen.
Kindly and cordial and equable, her nearest friends note not the slightest elevation of soul since Eood fortune has raised this amiable lady to almost the pinnacle of American society. Now, as ever, she seems sweet and happy and gentle and benevolent. She is the daughter of Mr. James Stewart. OLD WHITAKER'S MONEY, Judge llanna Recrecs That It be Dlalrib uted Among the Heirs.
The first account of William Overingtou and Edward J. Robinson, executors of the estate of Robert Whitaker, has been audited by the Orphans' Court, and Judge llanna has made an adjudication as to how the fund should be distributed among tho heirs. The cause came on for audit February 2, but was postponed until the present by the pendency of the trial recently concluded with a verdict for the Whitaker heirs. The account presented for audit shows a balance of principal in hand of SS09.023.37. of which 841,53.99 is in cash.
It is ordered that thero shall bo retained in the hands of the executors, to meet the expenses of the administration and claims against the estate, a fund of 300.000 and that the balance, after the deduction of attorneys' fees and other allowed claims to the amount of $15,000. shall be distributed among the heirs. For the present a distribution of the income amount is deemed inadvisable, and it will remain with the executors, to be disposed of in their second account. The will under which this adjudication is made is that of October 4, 1871, to the exclusion of the instrument presented for probate by William R. Dickcrson, Tho will pronounced to be the genuine one gives a $1,000 Susquehanna bond to the vestry of Oxford Church and a 51,000 Susquehanna bond each to the Pennsylvania Hospital and Episcojal Hospital.
The remainder of the estuto is given to the heirs, who are tho nephews and nieces of the testator, as follows William Whitaker, Hubert Whitaker, Amelia Hall, Matilda Bowen, Clarissa Hall, Mary Fox, Henry W. Butterworth, Sarah Ann Booth, Eliza Jane Butter worth, Amanda Butterworth, Mary M. Cooke, Sarah A. Whitaker, William Cartright, Henry Cartriglit, Sarah C. Jackson, John Cartright, Robert Cartright, Mary Cartright, Elizabeth C.
Fontaino, Amelia C. Mole, Annie Cartright, Matthew Cartright and Josephine Rowland. The William Whitaker first above named died in the testator's lifetime, leaving six children, James Whitaker, William Whitaker, Mary wife of David Nimlet, Robert Whitaker, Virginia Whitaker and Thomas D. Whitaker, and tho children of a deceased son, Henry, William L. Whitalcor, Charles W.
Whitaker, Albei Whitaker and Harriet Whitaker, minors, for whom a guardian is to be appointed. Sarah Ann Booth, above named, also died in tho lifetime of the tcslator, leaving five children, Amanda ltoolh, Adelaide, wife of George Collom, George L. Booth, Harry L. Booth and Clara, wlfo of a Mr. Block.
The above named Josephino Rowland has been duly declared a lunatie and the Fidelity Trust and Sate Deposit Company appoiutcd committee of her estate. Bernhardt Surely Coining. From Yesterday's Boston Herald. The cable dispatch published iu laH evening's papers, concerning the engagement of Sam Bernhardt for America by Manager Abbey, is authentic. A private disaU lo Mr.
Sehocllel, Mr. Abbey's partner, says he has secured her for on engagement of 100 nighu, and the great actress will first appear at Booth's Theatre, New York, in November, and sub sequently make a tour of the country under Abbey Schocliurs management. Mr. Schocllc) and Treasurer Tillotson, of the Park, went to New York last night to complete certain details of the engagement. Judge 9Jenullen's Orders.
From the Cincinnati Commercial, 1st. In oliedience to instructions from Judgo William McMullcn, of the Randall Club, of Philadelphia, the proprietor of the Walnut Street House hung out a Randall banner at 3 o'clock P.M. yesterday. The instructions also provided for the erection ol a band stand in front of the house aud for tweuty five pieces of Currier's Band. Mount as the Savior of Ilia Country.
From the Evening Bulletin. When Mouat pronounced against Grant the Grant boom perceptibly last force and the chances now are that the designs of the usurper against tho government are checkmated. Mouat will be regarded by future generations as the savior of his couutry. Arresting a Canadian Crieketer. I.okdox, June 2.
Mr. Jordan, captain of the Canadian cricketers, who were playing at licos tcr to day, was apprehended us a deserter from the Second Horso Guards eight years ago. THE JERSEY NEIGHBORS. Allicrt Hankins, night engineer at the Glass town factory, Millville, fell dead about nine o'clock on Tuesday night while at his post. Tho signal station of tho Volunteer Lifo Guards' Association at Atlantic City will bo thrown 0cn to the inspection of the public on Sunday next.
Tlio corner stone of the Union American M. E. Church, Clioslnut street, abovo Seventh, will bo laid on next Sunday afternoon, with impressive ceremonies. Coroner Iszard last evening held nn inquest on the body of Lewis Worts, the young man who died recently from injuries received by having his fool crushed on the Wost Jersey Railroad. The encampment of the Grand Army of tho Republic of New Jersey will tuko place in Borden town, at Bonaparte Park, from tho 16th to the 20th of August, its special feature being a sham baltlo on tlio closiug day between laud and naval forces.
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Hosiery, Underwear. Cook dt Buoraaa, and 03 W. JCioutk St, Montana, who has assailed ns with the barbed arrow of the printed form. And yet, after all, while the wound is cruel, the weapon that inflicts it also brings healing. Down at the bottom of the post office form appear the cheering words, chceringto us at least, though rather dismal from the standpoint of our late subscriber, Reason Murdered." Looking at the matter dispassion ately, we are forced to admit that this is a good and sufficient reason for stopping even so good a paper as The Weekly Times.
It is all veey well for Senator Cameron to tell the people not to donbt for a moment the strength of Republican institutions, but when he was bull dozing the national committee the other night the anti Grant members were inclined to think that even Christianity was a failure and civilization itself was played out. Thoy breathe freer now. Over in New York the ice companies bto giving symptoms of a desire to clutch the innocent citizens by the throat and extort from them fabulous sums in payment for the chill blessing without which mint juleps are but a delusion and cobblers a tepid snare. Down from its lofty pinnacle, tho Evening 1'ost drops upon tlio terror stricken New Yorkers those cheering words: Persons who think proper to do so can easily club together, charter a vessel and fetch ice from Maine." Why, of course and just pile it up in the back yard and cut off chunks as required. Or each member ot the ice club might buy an old ice wagon and keep his ice in that, standing it out by his front door.
Keeping the ice after getting it is only a detail," anyway. The portraits of those sturdy anti Grant Republicans, Chase, Sumner and Seward, must have worn a frown as they looked down upon the Three Bosses in the convention hall yesterday. Zach Chandler's, however, no doubt smiled approval, except when his glance fell on his son in law. Captain Jordan, of the Canadian cricket team, now in England, doubtless looks upon himself as a much abused man. It is rather hard on him, of course, to bo arrested as a deserter from tho British army at the very moment when an exciting match is at its height; but then, looking at tho matter from the other sido, it is a sinful sort of a game to be a deserter from tho British army.
But a blunder on tho part of Captain Jordan worse than his crimo of desertion was his going back to England, whero ho could bo arrested. It was a regular case of walking into the den of tho British Lion, and that voracious animal has only been true to himself in that ho has snapped Captain Jordan and shaken him. The Court has ordered the distribution of Whitaker's estate among his heirs and it is likely that we have heard tho hist of tho fraudulent will. But what has becomo of the forgers? After the long civil suit and its result there ought to be some criminal proceedings about this time. Judqe McMullen, as they call him in Cincinnati, having arranged matters thero to his satisfaction and hung his banners ou the outer wall of the Kandall headquarters, has moved on to Chicago to seo what he can do to make himself useful to his country while tho bosses aro at war.
The 'Squire, good Democrat that he is, would bo delighted to take a hand in the nomination of Grant, and if Cameron had only thought of it sooner the galleries yesterday might have pre scuted a different spcctaclo. A dispatch comes hurrying along from Poughkeepsie announciug the dreadful fact that Cadet Whittakor is "dangerously low in philosophy." Poor follow! Ho must have used it all up in reconciling himself to the condition of his cars, There seems to he no donbt about it. Sara Bernhardt is actually coming to America, and that as early as next. October. A special dispatch to The Times says that Henry E.
Abbey, who, with J. Ii. SchoefTel, controls the Park Theatres in New York and Boston, together with Booth's in New A'ork, is the lucky manager who has bronght her to terms. And now let all theatregoers go to work and rub up their French. The appearance of Mr.
ITale as the maker of tho first motion in the Chicago Convention reminds the country of how much cause for gratitude it has in that he has been kept out of Congress for two years. The jiew German morning paper, the Philadelphia Republikaner, showed its enterprise yesterday by issuing an extra in the afternoon with the telegraphic report of tho proceedings of the Chicago Convention. The Germans in this city have not been accustomed to see their newspapers display so much vigor, and if the Rrjyublikaner which, by tho way, is not for Grrut can keep it np in this way it will win success. PERSONAL. Ex GovErtNon Theodore F.
BAxnoi.pn, of New Jersey, and Galusha A. Grow arc ut tho Continental, John Brougham was so much better yes terday that Dr. Gtllcllo, his physician, thought his recovery probublo. Bishop Lougiit.tn, of Brooklyn, Railed for Ku rope yesterday. He will visit Ireland nnd (hence will go to Rome to pay his respects to the Pope.
George Wright, the famous base ball plnyer, resumed his old place on the Iloston nine last Saturday and doubtless will play with thein through the season. Feed Douglass amused the crowd at the Grant meeting in Chicago on Monday night by nn nouueing when ho got up to speak that ho was present to give color to the occasion." Captain Bodine, of tho American Eiflo Team, which will compete In a fourth intcrnalionnl mutch with an Irish Rifio Team at Dollyiiiouut, will sail with ten rules from New York to duy. The resignation of the comedian Coquel lin, the elder, from tho Theatre Francuiso does not take effect until the 1st of August, 1SS1, and It is hoped that in the interim the matter will bo arranged. A cable dispatch to the Boston Journal, from Edward King, says that Sara Bernhardt has ncccpted Mr. Henry E.
Abbey's offer for an engagement in the ITuitcd States for ono hundred nights, the season to begin in November next." Mrs. Elizabeth Bowman, who died at Corydon, a few days ago, was one hundred and four years ol age. When sho was a girl her father moved into the country of the Shewanee Indian and she witnessed miuiy euoountcrs between the pioneers and the redskins. HirroLYTE Piiilibert Passy, a French statesman of note half a century ago, died yesterday at the ripe old age of 87 years. He was a soldier in his youth, serving in the later campaigns of the Empire and being present and assisting at Waterloo when the Imperial eagles went down for tho Inst time.
Then he went Inlo politics, sticking to this profession until his Liberalism was outraged by tho coup d'etnt of December, 1H51. During the latter portion of his lifo he bus lived for tho most part hi Italy, devoting himself to serious literal uro. A Summer Day. The flowers lay sleeping beneath the dew But the Mothcrhad watched tho whole night through, Tho wild sweet carol of one small bird Was the sound that the weary watcher heard. And the Summer dawn grow into the Morn, But still she sat weeping beside her first born, Life was fading from cheek and brow, And the Mother's heart was hopeless now.
Not one sound in the chamber of death Was henrd savo the Maiden's luboring breath) No word of murmur the Mother spake Silent and calm aro the hearts that break. Morning passcd and the Noon so still Bathed iu warm loveliness wood and hill. Slumbrous sin from the West went by, And the Mother watched for her child to die, Afternoon came And the Maiden lay Llleless and soulless a mold of day I Rain came down as from eyos that wept, Watching was over the Maiden slept. Through the quiet falling of evening rain The bird's soft oarol stolo in again I Then tho Mother said 'Tis a message for me, To tell me, 0 child, that 'tis well wiUi thoe 1 And the Sunimor day cycled, for "late or long, Erery day wesreth ven song." Chamtar Journal, own work, whether he be a native or an alien. Just as we allow a foreigner to patent an invention at Washington, so we should allow him to copyright a book, but we will not give exclusive rights to foreign publishers who are simply the manufacturers of the books.
True, a copyright, to be of any value, must be assignable, but it may be assigned to an American publisher; conversely, an American author, copyrighting his book in England, would have it printed and published in that country. In either case the alien author should have precisely the same rights and should be entitled to precisely the same protection as the existing copyright laws secure to a native author, no less and no more, but the copyright could not and should not extend to a book manufactured in a foreign country. If the publishers will make up their minds to this, and if they aud the representative literary men who are active in tho matter will agree upon a simple, straightforward and equitable form of law that could be adopted by both countries with justice to themselves and to each other, the Congress of the United States cannot and will not withhold its assent But they will need to advocate the recognition of authors' rights alone, and in doing so they will further need to muzzle all such importunate authors as Mr. Wilkio Collins, who has not learned that a good cause is best served by dignity of argument and temperance of speech. The South at Chicago.
It is a mournful commentary upon the per sonnel of the Republican party in the South that the representatives of that section at Chi cago are generally spoken of as in the market and for salo to the highest bidder. Nor is it considered safe to depend upon them after they are bought in some cases the purchase was made long ago, but until the goods are delivered the purchaser has no assurance that his bargain is a fast one. Is it any wonder that respectable people in tho South hold aloof from the Republican organization, although its principles may not be objectionable to them, so long as such people as fill tho Federal of fices, even under the Hayes administration, and are sent to National Conventions, are put forward as its representative men, upon whom devolve the duty of framing its plat form, shaping its policy and naming its candidates Let us glance for a moment at the list. Ar kansas sends tho carpet bagger Dorsey, now really a resident of another part of the country and representing Arkansas for this occasion only to further the third term conspiracy, while Powell Clayton, a man of the same base sort, is the only other person iu the delegation whose name is known beyond the limits of his State. The rest are puppets in the hands of Dorsey aud Clayton and have to be watched lest they strike a bargain on their own ac count.
There are respectable Republicans in Alabama, bnt they are not sent to Chicago, and the same may be said of Georgia and Florida. All of these States send nobodies petty Fede ral officials and their tools and field hand poli ticians. Biistow is a Kentucky Republican but his party does not commission him for this duty. Louisiana sends AVarinoth, the turncoat adventurer; Ludeling, the judicial prostitute; Kellogg, the officc some Custom House sweepers, while McMillen and Badger mark this delegation's nearest ap proach to respectability. Mississippi has done better in sending one of the cleanest of his race in the person of Senator Bruce, but thero lior roll of honor cuds.
Tho best that North Carolina can offer arc Barriuger and Kehoe, although AVestern North Carolina was full of Unionists during the war, who have tried to be at once Republican and respectable ever siuce. South Carolina comes along with those of the old crowd of public plunderers as aro still out of the penitentiary. Bowcn, the bigamist; Maekey, the practical miseegenationist, AVhip per, Lee and Hayne are all odorous reminders of the days of official thievery. Tennessee sends dummies and Virginia sends not one man who rises above mediocrity. It is a re lief to come to Texas, where Davis and Flana gan aro the heavy weights of a delegation representing a State that is an empire in itself.
It is behind such men that the intelligent people of the Sonth aro asked to fall inline; it is to keep such men at the front that the Republicans of the North have been baltlin for years; it is such men who are to name the candidates of the Republican party in this campaign. They represent nobody but them selves and not one in the list can give any assurance that any man whom the convention may nominate would carry a singlo Southern Stale. So far as the real Republicans of the South the negroes aro concerned, they have but one candidate and that candidate is Grant; but these pseudo delegates, chosen by office holder conventions, aro for anybody that will do the most for them individually, and if they support Grant it will be because they are brought to it by personal considerations that can bo discussed only in secrecy anil darkness. It is towards capturing this floating vote that all the efforts of the Bosses on the one hand and of the Sherman men, at least, on the other aro directed. Every adjournment from one day to another and every hour's delay in getting to a ballot increases their chances of making a good bargain.
It is a beautiful state of affairs. TniNOS cannot bo quite so bail around Bur mah as tho tenor of recent dispatches would im ply. A telegram from Calcutta announces that four companies of British troops aro under orders to advance for the protection of tho fron tier. This is about the number of men that King Thee Bau is said to massacre overy week or so. Probably that slaughtorously disposed monarch is not as black as he is painted.
Saint Descolius his remains aro lying in state In tho "seizure room" of tho New York Custom House. The good saint has not been captured in tho act of trying to smuggle himself ashore, as though he were an obelisk he has paid the regular ad valorem duty on saints and has como into the country all regular and proper his precious old bones being neatly articulated and done up in a coating of transparent wax, moulded to represent a human form and richly clothed in embroidered silks." He isa well to do taint, and he has been placed in his present quarters merely becauso they aro tho most comfortable that the Custom House affords. Ho is bound for Cincinnati, but not as a delegate at large to tho convention. Ho is the property of an enterprising nunnery. There does not api'eab to be any particular reason why Utah should stir up strife in the Republican Convention, since the Mormon question is not understood to be an Issno in the coming campaign but if thero is fighting to be done it might as well begin at Utah as anywhere else, and Mr.
Conkling is expected to make at this point one of the greatest efforts of his life. A peremptory order to "stop my paper" always grates harshly npon the feelings of the conscientious editor. Knowing that he is striving earnestly to make the paper acceptable to all his subscribers without regard to previous sex, ageor condition of so rvitude thisunqualiftod protest Against what he knows is his best work wrings tho heart of the conscientious editor and makes his spirit sad within him. And if thero Is any one way above another by which a subscriber can make this rejection of the editorial offering especially bitter, it is by contemptuously Ignoring its existence, by loaving the papor to accumulate in tho post office until tho postmaster, In sheer desperation, sends a printed form containing the soul crushing notification Pursuant to instructions from tho Postmaster General, I beg leave to inform you that your paper, addressed to is not taken out, but remains dead in this office. You will please discontinue the same." i.
