The sudden death of Hon. Schuyler Colfax

The sudden death of Hon. Schuyler Colfax, who dropped dead in Mankato, Minn., yesterday morning, removes from among men, one of the most genial, scholarly, aml popular characters which lma mingled In our political and social Ufe. As speaker of the House for inany ycars and as viee-piesidcnt witli Grant, he galned the f riendship of the leaders in bot li parties, and his woiulerful incmory for ñames and faces kept intact the Urge 'j i rel e of aerjiiaintanocs which his busy lite had blessed him with. The story lliat his integrity had been purchased for a few liiindred dollars was no more believed .Miainst him tlin.ii it was ngalnst Gsrfield, around whose unsuspicious nature schemiiiff tinaiieiers had roven a 6milar web of cuniiiiig. Uut the nature of Colfax was too sensitive to wish longer to be such a target for the shafts of politica] enciliies and caliimhiators as Uis high posltlon cxposed him to. So he resolved to wit h - draw himself entirely front politica. Consequently, his last years have been dcvoted to his books, his home, his friendi and hts Iecturce. Jn thiu luttur U'uji don he took great pleasure, and as he travelled about the country, everywhere meeting old frieuds, hll rare fund of anecdote, wit and Infonnatiou gave pli asant evenings to all who heard him. Of the truth of this, those eau testify who spenl an evenini; with him a few years ugo when he lctured hare. They ill never foret his genial, kiiidly marnier. At the age of C2 he goes to his long home. mourued by friends innumerable, The city paid In December a $17 gM bill for lighting the city clock tower. Xow the dial8 are tnuch bctter lighted by electricity for $6 per montli. Formerlv it was not lighted very freqnently because tne gas womu go uut. Tttns by tho udvent of the two electiic light systems tlie gas now usoil i li-tiT and cheiipcr tban formerly and the eleotrHty itself for stores aflordskfar safer, healthler, pleasanter llght. On Ttiesday eveulug, Jauuary 27th, and continulng three days, there will be a meeting of the superintendents of the poortogether with the Union Association, at Lansing. I). B. Qreene, of Ypsilautl, aB president of the associatum, has sent outnotice and progranime of the session. Tuk following littlc table, giving tlie speed man is enabled to obtain by the ald of his instruments of locoinotiou, will be of interest to many. Distance trayersed one müe: Gen. Grant has sent the following letter to some of his frienda wlio had set about relieving him from his financial embarrassment9. It is a noble and manly course for him to pursue. Congress ought to come to Gen. Giant's relief, and at once : New York, January 6, 1885. MT Dear 8ir: Througti the presa ard otherwise I learu that you witli a few other Iriends are engtieü 111 ralsing n subserlptlon for my benefit. I apprec:iaie botli the motive and the friendshlp wlilch have dlctated Ibla course on your pan ; but on mature rcflectlon, 1 regret ltasdue lo mvsilfaiul lumlly to decline tilla profli-red generoslty. 1 legret thal I dld not maki' tilín kuown earller. Very truly ynurs, 17. 8. ORABT. ToCyrusW.Field, Ksq., The last electlon üpoiled anothcr romance. It U8ed to be Haid timt l'ennsylvanla never lost lier presldentliil vote, and she ueverdld bofore. Tlllsyear lier cundldate Mr. Hlalne. has been defeated. And he was her cholee by a large majorlty too. But the chana Ís broken. Her prestige is gone. Presidenta can be elected without Pennsylvanla, una by and by. they may be elected without New York. - Ypsllantl Keulluel. But that time, every lover of tliis country lippes, will never come. The methods pursucd by a great section of this nation, wliicli lias made the election of a president possible " without the ud of Pennsylvania," can never be cmployed in the northern states. Ku-kluxisin, shotguniem, terrorir-m, and kindred tactics may intimidóte enough votes in a few of the northern state to keep the democratie party in power; but itwill not takc man; succe88es secured by sncli metbod, to turn the country f rom a republie to a monarchy - the ehertehed dream of the 8omli and its aristocracy. The last iífuc of the Prohibitionist, pays Gov. Alger the following coinpllmentary notice : Rossen A. Alger Is now Governor of Michigan. The Protiibltloniet welcomes and houors hlm nssuch. And Ihis not only becniiso of the office to wlitch the people ele'cled hl in, but also because ot hls Individual cliarncler and worth as a man. Governor Alger Is a Detroit man. and few men who haVe llved hl comparatlvely private Jife wen' mora wl.loly knOWO proviouu to hia DomlllSllOD for the gubeinatoriul office. Also. hls reputa tlon as a man of business itnri personal integ rlty was the very best. campal; ra bitter In Michigan as elsewhero, bot Gov eruor Alger passerl ihroiiKh it miNcttthed Heisa mau who we belleve wil! bonor hl high office, and whom the people at larg have Tensón to be proud of. Few stalfs ar as fortúnate lu thelr selectlou of Qoveruo as Michigan. But during the campalgn Gov. Alge had no more bitter, unfair, vindictive, 01 relentless opponent tlian this tatne papel that now put him on his liack. The Newaygo Bepubtlcan lias liad an other attack of sickly eenümentality over the " horrid law " that has for the pasl few years prevented grave robbing, and stopped tbe flood of ecnmlals a;iinst j ti - sicians, (and very often eminently respectable ones), of bciuj; eagsgad m or connected with .Tuve-rohbing schemes. WC claim that the law is not only a good luw, bilt a beniflccnt and humane law. That lt bas nccomplished as mach if' not more good for the people of tbie state Iban any other luw vr enacted by the legislatura. And that t bas worked injury or grief to very few. Thcre is one ttiing peculiar about tbis law. The only persons who cry out against it (after tbey fully understand its working) ure a tew flabby sentimentalÍ8ts, or tbinl clatt pollUotani who hope to manufacture for themselves cheap capital by posing as the very dear " friendg of tbe poor and oppressed." Our Xewavgo fi end would probably see nothinr wrong in cremation, but to take a body of a dead penon to ald the cause of science - and thus aid the hiunaii taniily, h saciilege - unless the same has been stolen froin the grava by a ghoul, and then its all rigbt- (if he isfi'tcaught at it.) Or the Illinois legislatura 100 republicana favor Gen. John A. Logan for Utilted State Senator whlle two favor gome om lse, but tlion two liold tlie balanc ot power. A líame