That was quite a love feast held in the Opera House, Lynchburg, Va., a few weeks since, when local politicians, United States officials and Northern business men of the city united, regardless of party prejudices, in tendering a supper to capitalists from Pittsburgh, and all joined in applauding the name of Blaine, from whom a telegram was received during the evening, “until the rafters rang again.” * * * * * Whatever opinion we may form as to the justice of the charges made by Senator Dawes or the sufficiency of Secretary Schurz’s reply, we can and do rejoice that they seem to vie with each other in demanding justice for the Poncas, and we would commend not alone to the Massachusetts Senator, but to all the members of Congress, the appeal of the Secretary of the Interior, and express the conviction that the American people will not hold them guiltless of a large share of the guilt incurred in that matter, if they fail, before adjournment, to carry out the recommendations of the President. Mr. Schurz concludes his letter to Senator Dawes as follows: “Permit me now to make an appeal for the Poncas to you, Senator. Let these Indians at last have rest. Recognize their rights by giving them the indemnity they justly asked for and which I asked for them years ago. Let them quietly go about their farms and improve their homes and send their children to school, undisturbed by further agitation. That is the best service you can render them. They would probably be in a better condition already had that agitation never reached them.” * * * * * SENATOR BROWN ON THE EDUCATIONAL QUESTION. Hon. Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, who has recently been elected U. S. Senator, has for a long time manifested an interest in our work. A short time since he gave $50,000 to an institution under the auspices of the Baptists, for the education of the whites. On the night before his election, in an address to the Legislature, he expressed his appreciation of the importance of education in the following words: