Abstract

The Week

The article presents information on various political developments taking place in the United States. Henry Ward Beecher also "took a whack at him" in his sermon on Sunday, calling him "an old crafty paralytic." The sermon was highly pessimistic, relating to the general decay of morality, which the preacher described as "the danger that the foundations of our society and polity may crumble away and let us down into the depths of ruin," which is certainly an awful prospect. The U.S. Congress House on its part has been chiefly engaged with the Army Bill, which it passed on Saturday. The Navy Investigation has concluded with a majority report from the House Naval Committee, which gives some facts additional to those contained in the issue of the "Nation."