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THE REJECTION OF MINISTER KEILEY.
Secretary Bayard's correspondence with
Austria regarding the appointment of Mr.
A. M. Keiley as envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of this country at
the Austrian capital, is entirely creditable
to the administration. Mr. Bayard assumed
a dignified attitude throughout. This gov-
ernment recognizcs no particular religion,
discriminates against no religion, in fact
takes no interest whatever in the religious
belief or want of religious belief of its citi-
zens. Austria, whatever may be its real
motive, based its objection to Mr. Keiley on
Ihe fact that his wife was a Jewess. Mr.
Bayard very properly declined to consider
this a valid objection, and as a result the
Austrian mission was left vacant, aad,
ns intimated in the president's message,
it i^ very likely to remain vac mt
during tbe existence of the present admin-
istration. 'When it became generally un-
derstood that the administration would not
nan e a successor to Mr. Keiley, the Austrian
minister to this country was recalled, and
relations between tbe two government are
new nearly altogether suspended. It i3just
as well that this should be the case* No in-
terests in tbis co'untry aro suffering for the
want of an American minister at Vienna.
In fact tbe mission to Austria was entirely
ornamental. It was a luxury that we cm
well alTord to have choppcd off. Austria
is not a maritime country of any eonse-
qucnce, nnd our relations with it were
never of much moment. But leaving the
question of the utility of main-
tainirg a minister at Vienna in
the background, the assumption of
tbe Austrian foreign minister tlist this gov-
ernment should consult the tastes of Aus-
tria in naming a minister, if not humorous,
is monstrous. That might be the custom
in Europe, but it will never do in this
country. American ministers abroad must
be ).leasing to tbe American government
nnd people, aud it matters not whotber tbry
suit exactly the governments to which they
are accredited. They represent tbe Ameri-
can government and people, and properly
have no mission but to watch the interests
of tlieir country. It is well known that in the
case of Mr. Keiley the objection raised by
Austria was a mere subterfuge. A natural
sou of the late Victor Emanuel is tbe Italian
minister to Austria. He is a particular
friend of the Austrian emperor, and it was
to please this Italian that tbe representative
of the American government was rejected.
This is the whole case in a nutshell, and
Mr. Bayard very pro;, crly resented the in-
sult in the most direct, manly and dignified
way possible under the circumstances. The
present administration was not called into
office on a jingo platform, but from the
tenor of Mr. Bayard's communication to the
Austrian government it is safe to say that
tbe power of the country is safe in its keep
ing. ________
THE STATE OF DAKOTA.
Dakota formally set itself up for business
as a Slate yeste'day. It comprises the
southern half of the present Territory of
Dakota, As will be seen by our press dis-
patches, the legislature of the new State or»
gsnized yesterday, the state officers were in-
augurated and provision was made for a
joint session of the two legislative houses in
a few days to elect United States senators.
It will not be giving away a secret to say
that the prospective candidates for
United States senators aro really the
authors of tho new State. Though the
machinery is all in motion, the officers in-
stalled, and the legislature grinding away,
Dakota is not yet a Slate, nor is the pros
f cct very bright that it will become a State
in the immediate future. Congress has yet
to pass on its admission to the Union. It is
very easy for a crowd of tax-eating poli-
ticians to come together, adopt a constitu-
tion, order tbe election of state officers and
legislator?, and prepare tbe other prelimi-
naries. These things have been done be-
fore without producing any flattering re-
mits. Utah has adopted two or
three state constitutions, elected as
many governors, chosen congressmen
ard sepalors at different times, suited to
every visible emergency, but all to no pur-
pose. Utah is still a territory. Washing-
ton also adopted a state constitution,elected
state officials and legislators and congress-
men and senators, but the United States
continues to appoint a governor of Wash-
ington Territory aud the senators elected
were never given a seat in Congress. It can
be suid for Dakota, however, that there is
really no substantial reason why it should
not be admitted to the sisterhood of States.
It bas a greater population thaa either Ne-
v id a, Oregon, Delaware or Rhode Island.
Its future looks bright. Its population is
composed of some of the best material in
tbis country. lis resources are great. It
is in a prosperous condition, and continues
to grow ricbcr and more populous daily.
Considering that Oregon, Nevada and West
Virginia have been admitted to the Union,
it is difficult to see why Dakota should be
excluded. Of course the questions of poli-
tics and partisanship will be con-
sidered—they always are, nowadays—
and Hie fact lhat Dakota is
very strongly Republican will have
something to do with the discussion of the
proposed measure admitting the new State.
It will be said, and with considerable truth,
tbat the people of Dakota have not to any
pre at extent displayed eagerness that the
Teiritory should be made a State. It is the
politicians who are pushing the measure,
and who w ill profit by the consequent cre-
ation of new offices if Congress passes an
admission bill. It is really a political-
pnrlisan office producing question all the
way through.
THE BOYCOT AT ATLANTA.
The Atlanta Constitution draws the at-
tention of its readers to the fact that its re-
lations wiih its employes are agreeable, and
tliat it is independent of the printers'union.
Union printers sought to control the office,
failed, and quit work. It is boycotted by
tbe Atlai.ta Typographical union. For this
it knows no cause, except that the proprie-
tors control tlieir own office and do not pay
the w ages demanded by the union, but they
claim to pay wages satisfactory to their
w oi king force. It looks so, for the paper
is well printed. Tbe suddenness with which
tbe union printers quit is a new reason to
the Constitution why it does not subject it-
self to tlieir control. It appears, therefore,
tbat the y did not exercise the comity toward
the Constitution, with its mixed force, that
they are understood to exercise in any dis-
pute with a proprietor who has been iu
baimonious relations with their union. The
Constitution office bas been a nonunion
((lice about three years, but some union
men have worked in it. The boycot was
declarcel very recently by the union prin
ttrs, on their failure to bring tbe proprie-
tors to teims. Among other demands was
that the non union printers should be dis-
charged. Such boycotting as that is
simply an attempt to use boycotting to
carry an ordinary trades union contest to a
victorious issue. It will probably enlist the
suppoit of trades unionists to the extent of
influencing them not to take the paper; but
this tlu-y would scarcely do anyhow, simply
on bin wing that it is printed in a non-
union office. As to other classes, the de
claration of a boycot must be felt to be
importunate action, for they are not di
rectiy interested in the trades union, and
it is always their preference to select the
newspaper which gives them the news they
wa:,t. The feeling of the Atlanta union
printers and Knigbts of Labor is reflected
in an expression which occurs in their ap-
peal to the public, intimating that they
have at Inst resorted to " that terrible
weapon, tbe boycot." Now, in fact, the boy-
cot as a weapon is not terrible, except in
special cases where it may be approved by
a very large portion of the public. The
(illusion shows, pethaps, a sort of feeling
(of nn e xcess of power) which newly ells
covered things sometimes inspire. But
the old doctrine of no taxation without re-
presentation suggests a parallel in the new
industrial welfare.- Only when some con-
cern is flagrantly unfair, and so felt to be
by the general public, and not of public
uiiliiy, will public'sentiment bo af all fa-
vaaMe to freezing it out. There is a spirit
of libeialily to live and let live and a strong
resentment against attempts to compel one
citizen to espouse other citizens' quarrels
where he bas no interest and had no voice
in counseling as to the matters that brought
the quarrels on. If we have no voice
in the issue, say citizens naturally, way
should we be compelled to take sides unless
our own sense of right and wrong bids us
espouse ono side? The side tbat falls to
make allowance for the great moral fact that
this feeling pervades every enlightened
brain and heart in modern society will by
rudeness startle other men who were neu-
trals and causc them to becomc arrayed
against it as coercive in its spirit and me-
thod. On all sides might, not right, is too
obtrusive, and " if we choose to do so and
so we will do so and so." But blank might
is apt to be met by anything but tint sym-
pathy for right which is its antagonist in
spirit. On tho contrary, an approach to
the arbitrary rouses even a captious
and arbitrary resistance. Much more
justly may it arouse in every
neutral a vigilance to maintain his own in-
dependence in action. Not to convey any
other impression than the facts may warrant,
it is noted that the Atlanta printers, though
calling their action a boycot, simply appeal
to public sympathy, and, so far as their
address to the public shows, they seem to
leave their appeal for such approval as it
may find. They do not thus far intimate
any boycotting of advertisers or subscrib-
ers. For the credit of printers' unions it is
to be hoped they will not be so intolerant
and suicidal os to procced to that extreme.
It would be unjust to substitute mere re-
venue reduction for tariff reduction, but this
is what is threatened in proposals to Uke the
duty off a few articles yielding considerable
revenue, and leave it upon numbers of arti-
cles of general consumption now taxed
above tbe best revenue-producing rate.
Again the people are requested to mark the
tactics of the Randallites. The administra-
tion has not met the issue much (if any)
more squarely than Mr. Randall. A school-
boy can see that if a tax is at 00 or 80 per
cent., and is stranding commerce, it ought
to be reduced, and let it produce more reve-
nue with less burden to the people; then
count upon tbe presence of such revenue to
abolish some other tiixes, selecting the most
oppressive. To do less than this is not or-
dinary Democratic revenue reform, but
rank protectionism. The people will not
expect statesmen to plead ignorance here-
after. They will know the indications of
courage and sincerity.
Tiie Painters' Progressive union, a boy-
cottin'g organization located in New York,
served notice on John Sherman, Warner
Miller and Secretary of War Endicott that
they should not patronize the Fifth Avenue
hotel. The gentlemen named returned the
notice without a response. It is a pity that
tho spirit of Mr. W. D. Cleveland, of
Houston, Tex., does not prevail more pro-
minently among northern politicians.
Over sixty congressmen want to speak on
the subjcct of changing or not changing the
rules. Better devote one session to the
matter.
Philanthropy is a fine thing when
coupled with hard sense enough to steer
it right. But the philanthropists who never
saw a gentle Apache on or oft the warpath
should inquire what interest is at the back
of pathetic st irics about tbe bloody white
man's raids on the peace loving Indian. Of-
ficialism dies hard. When it shelters be-
hind christian philanthropy it is in a bad
way. If the Indian business has not been
nine parts jobbery and one part enervating
charity, teaching the Indian to be a mendi-
cant and a humbug, appearances are decep-
tive.
Mb. Paknell and the Liberals agree al-
ready in one thing. He waits and they
wait to see what course Lord Salisbury will
take.
Senator Bi,air's bill to appropriate
money in aid of education is loaded with a
proviso that the studies shall include some-
thing on the effects of alcohol. Of course
federal inspection and congressional con-
trol of the schools loom up if any con-
dition is imposed regarding the course of
study. Congress could give temporary aid
to schools if it would without taking con-
trol, but it might be expecting too much to
look for such disinterestedness.
Tiif, Nashville American reminels Presi-
dent Cleveland that silver dollars are as well
payable for debts and dues of the United
States as gold dollars, and adds:
Tl>e dollars are st least legal ten !er for debts,
find it is time Ibey should be respected as such by
the gold gamblers of Wall street. It Is time. that
a clique or wealthy capitalists, baokers and stock
joht ers should cease to run the United Stite3 trea-
sury department.
In Detroit tliey quash indictments against
aldermen. That is economy. It saves the
expense of trial. In some more moral cities
than Detroit, and in the case of some officials
of cities bieger than Detroit, it would be
thought moral economy, as tending to avert
the evil influence of convictions which
might shock society and lower respect for
official authority.
Tiie Indians in the Canadian northwest
are in t:n unsettled conditiou and giving
promise of taking the warpath at an early
day. Gabriel Dumorct, the half-breed friend
and associate of Kiel, is reported to be at
their head. Canada has bad a good deal of
luck in managing her aborigines heretofore,
but it seems that the contagion of Indian
outbreaks is spreading northward. Canada
will not be likely to give beef and blankets
to the braves, however, after a scalp-lifting
campaign, and may furnish instead a rope,
which, after a few doses, the Indian is
bound to understand, and will conduct him-
self accordingly.
It is hardly too much to say that, after his
eccentric manner, tbe loftiest and brightest
genius native to Georgia and the South
passed from tbis breathing, fretful world,
yesterday, into a world of invisiblo realities,
with the death of Kobert Toombs. If "we
arc such stuff as dreams aro made of, and
our little life is rounded with a sleep," then
here indeed was a case of most wondrous
dreaming and most eloquent somnambulism.
With capacities for victories of intellect in
any field of exploit, aad not without ambi-
bition of its sort, Kobert Toombs
was, nevertheless, largely a failure.
A matchless debater in Congress,
combining the inefsivo logic of
Calhoun with the rounded and ponderous
lhetoric of Webster, and the salient quali-
ties of both, with something of tho rich and
splendid oratory of Prentiss, the master,
withal, of almost boundless stores of eru-
dition relating to politics, history and gerer-
eral literature, he failed to inspire either the
American people at large or his own south-
ern countrymcn with a confidence any-
where near to the height of their admira-
tion. The secret is not far to seek. He
lacked the symmetry and equiposc of true
greatness. A giant in intellect, ho was al-
ways an irrepressible child—un enfant
terrible in temper and impulse. He
made logical consistency a passion — a
religion. This impelled him to exclaim
that he hoped to see the day when, in the
exercise of his constitutional rights, he
could ring his slaves to and from their la-
bors under the shadow of Bunker Hill
monument; and after he had seceded with
his State fiom the Union, this impelled him
to remain a seccdcr to the last and refuse to
be recognized as r. citizen of a forcibly-re-
stored Union. The momentous period suc-
ceeding our great civil conflict has seen no
grander character in the way of a political
Bourbrn. He bas dreamed his fitful dream;
he has rounded his troubled sleep; may he
wake to a peace and happiness passing all
human understanding.
Ben Perley Poore, in a letter to the
Boston Budget, says:
After General Grant had appointed Judge Taft
secretary oC war, he Invited a number of the lead-
ing Republican senators to dine with him at the
White house, tbat they might become personally
acquainted. He forgot, however, to in*iC3 Judge
Tat t, who consequently was not present, so those
invited to meet mm diet not have the pleasure of
seeing him. On another occasion, when Congress
was investigating tbe Washington real estate pool,
General Grant sent one of his sons to the capitol to
invite informally a dozen Republican senators to
dire at the White house for a conference. Tbe
young Grant mistook the staunch Democrat, Sen-
ator Eli Saulsbury, for Senator Morrill, of Ver-
mont. and ro Invited tne Dflawirlaa. His presence
acted like an extinguisher on all political talk, and
he, after wondering all through the dinner why he
«os invited, hurriedly took his leave when the
cigars were introduced.
The story liaa been told before, but there
is liumor enough in it to send it around.
Tiie inter-etlieiic force must be in some
■way connected "with perpetual motion,
which problem is doubtless tbe thing Keely
is after. At least he and his shareholders
have got as far as perpetual adjournments
to another day.
Says the Philadelphia llecord :
Seme of our New York Democratic friends who,
*hen tbe election of Cleveland seemed doubtful,
were for pushing t because of free trade, have now
acquired new darkness on the subject, and want to
consolidate the party and intrench upon the
ground that has been won before (Joiner anything
to fulfill the party's pledge' of tariff reform. Their
present idta is tho union of a Democratic machine
with Rtpublican monopolists in New York, Con-
necticut and Kew Jersey. These little souls cin
form no idea of anything larger than a ring or a
ctuf piracy. Si ill less do they seem to understand
that no pai ty ever yet proved recreant to the ta*k
of carrying out its principles and was given a
ft cond charce to do so, although it sought that
chance bitterly and with tears.
Congress seems bound to grant a pen-
sion of pOOO and other privileges to the
widow of the late General Grant. A bill
of this kind passed the Senate yesterday
and was ii-troduced in the House. It is a
questionable measure. It is expected that
the book written by General Grant before
his death will net his widow $300,000. She
has incomes from other sources beside. S'ae
is not in need—in fact, is living in afllu-
encc. Why should the people of this coun-
try be saddled with an extra burden of
$5000 a year for her when she is not in need
of it?
If the Dakota politicians are really sharp
they will see how to expedite the state ad-
mission project by electing ono Democrat
and one Republican to the United States
Senate, and making the delegation to the
lower house as politically inoffensive as
possible.
The Tory cabinet bas resolved to hold no
alliance with the Parnellites. This is likely
to be very much in the way of sour grapes.
It seems to be understood that the Parnell-
ites used the Tories for election purposes
only; in other woids, to reduce the Liberal
majority. After the election tho Parnell-
ites desired it understood that they were
not with the Tories; so the declaration
coming from the cabinet at this time sounds
humorous. It is evident that the Tories aro
very badly in need of sympathy.
Cocaine deadens the moral sensibilities,
say the medical sharps. Will the president
pro tern, admit cocaine with the cold tea,
or can a cocaine taker go through a sitting
of tbe Senate without the effect wearing off?
Pbince Alexander, of Duljaria, noti-
fies tbe powers that he will entertain a pro-
position for disbanding his forces when
Servia pays indemnity for the late cam-
paign. Evidently Alexander's backbone
is perpendicular and he fully understands
his grip.
The London Times kicks because its
correspondent was ordered back from Bur-
mtih to Rangoon by General Pren:iergast.
Newspapers have been kinder to generals
than generals to newspapers. The plunder
business, with incidental killing, objects to
having light thrown upon it.
Don Carlos, the pretender to the Spanish
throne, is a thorough Bourbon, lie desires
it understood that he favors no matrimonial
alliance with the family of his cousin, Al-
fonso. He stands upon his rights or noth-
ing. If he is not squarely entitled to the
Spanish throne he will engage in no expedi-
ents to gain it for his posterity. Don Carlos
is a mossback to the core. He would rather
be consistent than king, even though con-
vinced tbat consistency in his case would
not be a winning game.
The New York Financier says:
The southern aud southwestern States are lie-
conning tired of silver. They have been treated to
a succession of the l.sues of siher dollars, nnd the
masses are thoroughly disgusted with the
coin. If the southern representatives do as
their constituents dee ire, there will be an end to
silver coinage.
Continuous reference to the exchanges of
The News does not at all sustain these al-
legations. Moreover, there are two or three
prominent southern papers now advocating
the continuance of silver coinage that were
recently advocating its suspension. Among
these is the New Orleans Times Democrat,
which now says:
When Mr. Oleve'aml took the occasion of pre-
ferring bis views on this subject before hiseijct.ion
to the preeldency, it did not cause any waverin?,
he* iiat K>n or desertion on the partof tho Demo-
cratic friends of silver in Congross; nor do we
Ihiii^ his rressagewlll brinx this about to diy.
The matter is of too much moment to tho sections
and claeseB that these congressmen represent to
cause any wavering In their ranks; they can not at-
tack and weaken a metal of which this country is
the chief producer; they can not atT^rd to raise
the price of money, nor compel their constituents
to pay in gold debts that were contracted In silver
or paper, nor will they suddenly change the finan-
cial system of this country—bimetallism—the sys-
tem of the great majority of eivillzeel nations, in
order to please monometallic England.
MTATB rHEMt.
What th« laterlor Papers lif.
Several Tixsb papers indulge in long edito-
rials on the death of Vanderbilb The Bosque
County Blade cuts its mention of the fact short:
"W. H. Vanderbilt is dead." That is about
all there is of it. " Tbe rich man died also."
In this case he did not bid for posthumous
fame by charitable bequests.
The Blade says:
Deep water at Galveston Is Texas's greatest
need. With it every acre of land in the State
would be worth 25 per cent, more than it is
now worth. Like Peter Smith, we Bay if it
can be done no other way, amend tbe constitu-
tion and Impose a tax on the people to make
tbe improvement
The Orange Tribune says:
For the third time Jay Oonld retires from
Wall street.
The Parthians were most to be feared when
they pretended to retreat. Gould will doubt-
less yet turn many a nimble penny.
The Orange Tribnue says:
Qalreston'a burnt district will soon be re-
built. The Island city will have forgotten the
Ore in the course of a year or so. A wholesale
dry goods merchant of Galveston said, the
other day, that his bouse had sold more goods
this fall than ever before.
The Ideal legislator is still in demand. The
Laredo Times says:
Good, conservative men should be cho'en;
men who can discriminate between liberty and
license, between the legitimate wants of labor
and its captious and arrogant demandi. The
leaders of public thought in each county should
be fully alive to tbis most important matter,
as the well-being of society for many years
will depend upon the material composing the
next legislature. It is a question of InQuitely
more importance than as to who will he tha
text governor, or United States senator; and
though tbe election is a year off, it is none too
soon to prepare for the struggle sure to be
sprung in almost 67ery legislative district.
The Bandera Bugle has celebrated its sixth
birthday, but does not blow much about it:
Whatever faults may be found with the
Bogle—and what newspaper Is without the n?
the editor thinks that both in letter and spirit
he has attended to the interests of the oounty.
Tbe editor has besides aimed to make a good
household paper.
He has done well. It says:
Tbb Dallas News, or rather Belo & Co.,
have bought out tbe Dallas Berald. Thus the
South ard the North are to be dominated by
cne concern, which has hitherto taken the side
of the people, and so long as it does this it will
be powerful for good.
The Dallas News continues to exercise to
the full, but within becoming, limits the right
of free tpeecb. Bterett Bays what he thinks
and thinks what be pleases: "as gay his
thoughts, as free of wing," as the garden bird
of Fitz Green Halleck.
The Star saye:
Nacogdoches county can boast, of as many
prosperous farmers in proportion to her popu-
lation as any county in the-State, and a larger
per cent owning the land they cultivate.
The farmers seem determined to hold on to
these advantages. Tho Star says:
There is hardly a dollar spent except for ac-
tual necessities, and to pay old debts. The
people seem to be determined to free them-
selves of debt.
The Orange Tribune says:
If the system of boycotting now being prac-
ticed in Texas is continued much longer it will
result in losing to the Knights of Labor their
strongest prop and support—public sympathy.
Public sentiment will never indorse a mea3ure
tbat is unreasonable and unjaBt, and the
knights should practice the greatest caution
end care in all their undertakings. They
should be sure they are right; and even then It
would be the partof wisdom toproceedslowiy,
tbat the public may have time to understand
and see the justness of their course.
The Tribune reports shipments of lumber
by sea for GalveBton. Prices have advanaed,
but the Tribune de$s not give quotations.
Beaumont prices are given in andtber part of
The News.
Tbe Austin Statesman gives thUhinttosjme
papers that need it:
When you send out "dodgers" or adver-
tising circulars, of any hlt^d, through the
po8tclBces, folded in your newspapers, you
are liable to a fine and Imprisonment. If you
must send these out, do eo in a supplement to
your ebeets, and thus there will be no danger.
The Denison News calls Denisonthe "daisy."
Some of the papers think they have seen the
word often enough for the present. No lot of
school boys ever wore a by-word more com-
pletely to tatters than the newspapers. Dude
and mugwump are having a rest, but daisy i]
always on duty. Denison seems likely to have
need of anotber popular phrase, the proverbial
boom. Tbe News sajs:
Tbe attention of capital Is being attracted to
the advantages offered for investment in
northern Texas, and In no direction is that ad-
vantage more apparent than in Denison and
Grayson county. A a umber of representatives
of wealib; eastern syndicates have visited our
city during the past few weeks, aU of whom
express themselves most favorably at the
prrspect aud promise to make an early re-
turn.
The Uvalde West Ttx.m says:
We are extremely gratified, and feel highly
honorrd on receiving in exchange The Dallas!
Daily News, which, like its parent stem at
Galveston, is a glowing monument to Texas
journalism, and Dallas is truly fortunate iu
having such an enterprise within her gates.
"The Brenham Banner says:
It is too soon to put any candidate regularly
in nomination. As between Ross and Swain
for gove-rncr it would choose Swain.
The Hempstead Ledger says:
The Fort Worth Daily Gazette must bs hard
up for matter, when it occupies twenty four of
its coiumrs with the report of the postmaster-
general.
Yet the Gazette boasts of this plec9 of
stupidity. Not one of its 500 readers reads the
report.
The Victoria Advocate seams to think tha
circus costs too much, like Ben Franklin's
whistle. It says:
The circus management secured from
four exhibitions at Victoria and Cuero 1377-5
from admissions alone. Besides this there
were perhaps I-IUO received from the salo of
reserved peats, which swells the aggregate
sumtof4175 In addition to this, by various
devices ihe people of the two towns were
swindled out of one-half as much moro (it is
utmost certain that Victoria contributed fully
f 1000 in this waj), which would mike the total
=bp
cost of the circns to tbis section rata the
rather high figure of $8000, bestdu Ibosi of
time and necessary expenses ot visiturtroaa a.
distance. And in return for this Kb sum
practically nothing was received, ad th»
worst ot it is, lhat most of this monef as de-
rived from those who bave little or nt rplus,
and whose condition in life is such thilollar
expended at a circus means the curtaiUnfc of
expenses in some other direction. Ibooio
there will of necessity be a period (Strict
economy, and to many a lessenisgf the
amount heretofore devoted to the gratlatloa
of themselves aud families.
A TEXAN IN WASHINGTON.
A STALWART DEMOCRAT'S OffWIV k>
HO.\S OF MATTKH8 AND Mitt.
The Major-General on Hla Travela-Nol firtlcu-
larly ftiuck on the Administration^
Home Rary UosHp
ITo The News.]
Washington City, D. C, Decetnter 12,
1E85.—I bave just finished weeping at the
monument of G. Washington, Esq. I wept
upon tbe same principle as did Mark Tvaia at
thtf tomb of Adam—an old gentleman charged
with the crime of originating the humsn fam-
ily some time back in the misty past, aid who
is generally understood to have been a better
man than any of his boys.
I had hardly got over the grief at the grave
of tbe Father of bis Country, and was contem-
plating with sincere feeling his tribulations in
crossing the Delaware, when I ran up on his
manly form and benign face and
nude physique east of the capltoi
building, with the thermometer about
twenty degrees below zero, and old C. Colum-
bus, Esq., in the same natural garb,was throw-
ing snowballs at tbe old fellow. I wept again
at tbe indignity of this evidence of youth
(giddy youtb) on the part of Mr. Columbus,
and the tears made Icicles on my nose aa long
asaWillard hotel bill, when a congressman
came along and suggested that Uncle George
and Mr. Columbus were playing " Anthony-
over." I thought on the matter, and immedi-
ately went to onr congressman, and he pro-
mised me that he would Introduce a bill for
the relief of our Uncle George Washington, la
order to provide a blanket to wrap op his glo-
rious old form during the inclement weather.
That was three days ago, and I did
sot hear of that congressman until this
morning, he having got lost In the basement
of the capltel while trying to find out where
the heat came from that made the bulldtng so
comfortable. He, however, lound Wash
Jones's old hat and tbe shoe he lost in the same
Jilace three years ego, Jones having gone be-
ow to get up a heated Imagination on the
greenback question.
The message of Mr. Cleveland is the absorb-
ing topic in tbe lobby and corridors of tbe
capitol. To illustrate the general ideas of
western and southern members, and to use a
congressman's language, " there is more steak
and lees gravy in that repast than ever was
served in an American Congress." His tariff
ideas are absorbed from the gentlemen from
Pennsylvania, and snit to a nicety the East
and Republican members. His ideaB on tbe
silver question bave caused the inference that
be is alone guided by and through the interest
of New York capitalists. His civil-service
ideas are not satisfactory to three fourths of
thote who elected him, and expressions are not
rare tbat bo will meet with barriers to the
consummation of his policy.
Mr. Garland seems to be easier of approach
than any otber head of department, and seems
to be a favorite with all members of Congress.
Whitney, Manning and Endicott are fairly
approachable, while Bayard, Lamar and Vilas
are more unapproachable than even the presi-
dent. Mr. Vilas is frequently referred to as
tbe bickory nut headed fellow up at tbe post-
cfllce department.
Zeb Vance called on Mr. Lamar, recently, and
after staying for a time in the luditoMam, or
onte-room, be said to tbe young man in wait-
ing: "Tell Mr. Lamar tbat Zeb Vance called
simply to find if North Carolina was in the
United States, and I desire you to sav to the
secretary cf the Interior that he reminds me of
a borse I formerly owned. He was a horse of
seme good traits, but be bad two serious de-
fects One was that when he got loose you
could not catch him again, and that when you
did catch him be was not worth a d n."
His little philippio had been delivered to tiie
sen of the secretary, but then you know the
ex governor of North Carolina does not believe
all that Geo. Vest, of Missouri, tells.
Governor Throckmorton is not so well again
to day. Mr. Crain is doing well after a severs
and acute attack, and will be In his seat in a
few days, and will get all the scalps of scala-
waggery on bis belt that he can. He is above
an averege in ability in this Congress. Texas
has now the best delegation she ever had In
Congress, and said to be the best from any
State, aa a whole. Mr. Coke is rapidly rising
in Lis place, ai.d closely contests with Mr.
Beck for tbe leadership of our side in the Ben-
ate.
I could bave wept, also, while looking in the
Senate chamber (if Maik Twain had ever
wept over mummies ) There is old Judge Ed-
munds, Saulsbury, John Sherman and Joe
Brown that need a weeping willow.
Old residents say that there are less office-
seekers here than at any time in forty years.
TexaB bas enly ten on the ground. We met
Colonel Elliot, of Denver, formerly of Austin;
Colonel John D. holds himself erect. Major
Dorn Is here simply in tbe interest of human-
ity— but the Island of St. Thomas is all that
TexaB will get, Dr. King agreeing to take a
thousand m year and serve the country. Texas
is and will be left out in tbe inclement atmos-
phere, and no help for It. Some of our con-
gressmen refuse to go to the departments,
saying tbey do not know tbe secretaries
even on sight. Onr congressmen are sound.
Colonel Pope if working industriously to get
his matters in shape. Some opposition to
Colonel Chenowetb, but he will go through, I
reckon, though you hear doubts expressed.
Cbenowetb is the right man for the place.
Very little, if anything, will be done before
the holidays.
Sweeney will go through, and so will Gary.
Some little fear for Cooper, however, but not
based correctly, I think. Frank Hurd Is push-
ing his contest, and Daniels's election to the
Senate Is gratifying to all the Virginians we
bave met. All is harmonious at present, but it
is thought tbat there is dynamite under the
capitol, metaphorically speaking. Judge Han-
cock is Hanking the city, and E Pluribus Unura
Is ihe word. One of the Boys.
Speaking Book*.
[Pall Hall Gazette ]
Why does not some modern Gutenberg do
for tbe phonograph what has already been
<5one for tbe printing-press? Is a question
asked by a writer in tbe new number of the
Nineteenth Century. To stop short at the
pboncgraph end not go on and invent a read-
ing machine whereby books should be printed
upon cylinders of metal, would be as if th*
age of Faust and Gutenberg had remained
content with immovable t) pes The written
word has already been made immortal, and the
world bas been half revolutionized thereby: 16
only now remains to complete the revolution
by Riving immortality to the spoken word at
well. The metal cylinders might be worn In
the bat, and the sounds be conveyed to the ear
by wires. There would bo no more cases of
blinded eyesight by rouriog over miserable
bocks; the old quarrel between physical and
intellectual development would disappear, tor
" tbe good genius cf humanity " in his motal
box would accompany men to the moor and the
fields and the ditch The weary learning
cf nn unpbonetlc written language could b»
neglected, and precious years of our lives
would be saved from waste. Foreign language*
would be learned with far greater ease, for
wherever a book was there the spoken
lai guago Wi uhl lio. Tbe political consequence
of tbe invention is passed over by the writer,
but it would clearly be most important For
one thing, the necessity for a representative
parlismect would disappear, and direct gov-
ernment by tbe people would once more be-
ccme possible.
I)n. Otto Finsch, the German explorer of
New Guinea, denounces tbe reported discov-
ery of gold on the Fly river, in that country,
as a fabrication. a journey of 1000 miles
slorg the north roast ban convinced him th it
the island is well adapted for colonization by
Europeans.
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