Editorial Notes

Ben. BnTi.sn, the Bmunu "son of dost'my," is broken down finaucially and physically, it is said. He is now 70 years old and upwards, and has lost his glip upou affairs of state, etc. Tho last carapaign was loo tnuch for him, and besides, the four oampaigns be made for governor of Massachusetts cost liitn fabulous ainounts. Well, ho has the satlsfaction . of kuowing that few men in thid world have been more roundly ábused, more respectably notorioua, more fenred as an antagonist, on the field, on the platform or at trie bar. He has acfinired a fume that will glve him a place in the h story of this nation- thotigh it raay not be such a placo as somc of the rcfined Bostonians would desirc. Anothkr man who took a false step in the last campalgn is now rcalizing it. In nis old age Hcnry Ward Beecher carne to believe that personal spite instead of principie should be the motive to guidc political action. That false tlieory be acted upon, and is now reaping bis reward. A New York correspondent has this to say of him: Slnce the Brooklyn clergymau caiueoutso ll:ii -Iciiinl agalnsl tbe repuollcuu candtdate and fouglit o hard lor hls demolltion, It Is unquesllonable true Ihat he has lont vastly in theesümatíonor people who used tofollow him. Wlthln tbe paal three monlhn Mr. lioecber haa lectured half a dozeu times in Isew York city ior varlous socleties, and ho has tipoken out of towu fur the benoQt of a number of speculatora. I in In the way of knowliiK tbat he has not once addruoed u paylng audleuco slnce the campatcu closed. Last nlght the absence of desire to lier him reached a cuimluatlug polat. He was to have spotten In Culckerlng hall for the benefit of the Ladies' art unlon. Kut when he carne upon the stuii a little after tto'clock, theru were le.ss than 100 people In the auditorium, and Mr. Beecber dlsralssed them, saylug he would prefer to charge uothlug for coming trom Brooklyn ratber tban talk for a who! evenlng to so siaall a gatherlng. Wbether Mr. Beréber was rlght or wrong In bis attitude during tbe campalgn Is not, the fjuesttOD. Cerlaluly It la true that tbe great bulk of Americana llke a man who sticks lo hls frlcnds under all clroumstances, aDd the peron who deserts an acqualntance, a party, or a principie Kets to be looked upon without much enthualasm. It la hard work fora public man to stoer hls oourse always in tbe dl - rectlonof popularlly, partlcularly if that is what he is seeklng. l'be public In thts country best lovev the man who Is tenaclous in all things. Followino close upon the news of tlie death of the brave Gen. Earle, and tbe noble Gen. Gordon who was betrayed at his poat of duty at Khartoun, comes the sad intelligence of tbe death of Oen. Stewart, who died of wonnda received at the battlu of Abu Klea Jan. l'Jth. It is sad that such brave, gallant men shonld be slatightered because of the dilatory and dilly-dallying policy of the Knglish rovernment. Gladstone should either have kept out of Soudan, or be should have been more active In war ïneasures. Il wlll tüke months tor Kngland to regain what she has lost within the past few weeks, if she ever does. Ok the 27th of Jan. 187, the state of Micliigan will be 50 years old, and it is proposed to have a bighalf-century blowout at Lansing In honor of the event. All rlght We don "t care a cent.