Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 14, 1881, Page 4

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Farwell Hatt’ Mndison stroot, botweun Ctark.and La Salle. Con- sort by the Contliental Club, in * TOURSDAY, APRIL Wy, 188th. . * Eactt House has knocked the head off Beveral more bills. This 1s the best disposl- tion that can bo madeof them. ‘The tore + dilly whose enacting clauses are struck off the detter for the peopl Tue alleged alarm of the Missourt Bourbons pver the luss of St. Louis, Kansas City, and” i} many other cities In the Inte election must be .. in large part affected, Missourl is one of those States In which the brenk is always *. ming, but never comes. Tt fs moreof n _ Bourbon stronghold than Georgia, or Ala- ‘s.pama, or Luulsinna ttseif, In the northern half of the State nlong the Hues of the enst- i; and-west railroads some growth of Republic vy an sentiment is poreeptible, But the south rn counties are n benighted region, into which the gospel of Mberallsim never peno- trates. Owlng fo their ‘siluition the Border + Btates developed a typa of Copperhondism more maligngnt than the spirit of the ex- Rebel States themsetves; and the former never had thelr ugiiness whipped out of them asthe Intter did, We shall look for tho pu- litical millennium in the old Confedurncy be- fore It-dawns on Kentuely,’ Maryland, or at Missourt. 5 A Numnen of property-ownurs, ordinarily Republicans, in the South Division, voted for Tinrrigon at the late eleciion becwuse they ~ understoud that he was opposed to any + 1ystem of general street improvements, In eu doing they pald Mr. Harrison s very dcubtful compliment, It is to be hoped that 7: Ne ns no such settled objection to well-paved. i, , streets assome of his supporters: seam. to 1°. have supposed, Mr, Clark, it 1s wall knowzn, “= was, and ts, In fayor of pavliz streets: that need to be paved, He helleves that the wholy » business section of the ‘elty should be tn i+ eluded in one general system of Improve- ment. And lo ls right. No elty in the world -of tho size and wealth of Cliieago isso wretch- edly provided with alreet-pavements, Lt tt was inde an objectlon to Mr Clark that he was In fayor of supplylug some of tho ex-" inting defictencles In thut respect, the ‘fact only shows thit there are a goo many short- we sighted property-owners In this elty, (Se ‘Tie Dill croating a Board of Pollee and Fire Commissioners for’ Chiengo now pend. ing In the State Senate should be dropped without ceremony, ‘Lhe elty has had expe ‘ yience of tha Bonrd system, and wants no more of ft for tho prosent atleast, A di- * vided responsibility In such matters Is next » tononout al. ‘Lhe Board system was in \ Sores in Chicago at tho time of the great fire, "and In the opinion of many ‘persons It con- 4 tributed to, If it did not cause, tint calamity, 48, The Inefiiclency of the Fire Departinent wus * direstly duo to ft ‘The enime causes under Mke elrewmstnnces will produce the same re- sults; and, though wo do not anticiyate that » Chieago would be burned up agaln Ifa State Board of Police and Fire Commissioners were appointed, wa do think tt Ikety that both Departments would be less useful than they noware, ‘Tha police behaved well at the Inte electlon, ‘They kept order at tho volls ant attended. to thelr own business. The creation of a Stata Board would’ not punish thom so much as It would the peopls of tho elly, who Joule forward with untura! apprehension to the Ng conversion of the two most Important 5, branches of the City Administration into a “a. huge political machine, Such a remedy for si! the wrongs of local misgovernment shold bo kept In reserve to bu applied only when the powers of the Mayor's oflize are abused > dan intolerable way, us they haya not yot +S been, —_—_—_—— Gen, Jasna D, Strevpwan, of Toledo, O, ee Jolus the critics of Gen, Sherman's account | of tho battle of Shiloh, addlng his tosthnony , that, in all materlal respects, the rat attael of the Confederate, forces was a surprise to the Union army, ‘The editor of the ‘Tolude Democrat adds; : Gen. Sherman knows well that whon his brie. ‘wade wow routed ho wus clowely puriued by 1 wonnted Hola, Forrest, who told the is Ger. writer of thiv of tha eldest himgelf, uid barely’ S anade his cécapo. Jt ie wll shour nousunse for i Rboymuan tusay bo was not surpriicd, dis out SPE not Tilalfy tho story of thy battle df Buiton af la tuto day to give bimsctt importunee. Is it not bettur to adinit that tho Unton: forges were taken completely by surprise "that April morning fy the wonds around tha Shiloh Church? If it could be shown that * Grantand Sher knew the Rebels were 4 Lnuypebing to attack, the question wend arise, “Why was the formur not on the ground that worying, Instead of being dowp the river fourteen miles, and why had pof tha lotter made sume prepasution to regelve th: Mebel assault? Itisfar more to thecredttof tho (onerals and the troops to faco tho truth and admit that they were taten by surprise and were wholly unprepared for the shock, But they got into Mne of battle in remarkably quick {line, and fonght a most desperate action tunder adverse cit eumatanecs, ‘Tho Rebels, who outnumbered the Union forces about 14,000 men, expected an ensy victory, Having stolen up to the Unton encampments: unpereelved at. the brenk of day, anid. then with a yell made a Tush tion ottr follows, who were engaged nt the momont evoking: their brenkfnsts, thoy fully reckoned upon putthtg the whole forecto flight, sthmperding It, and ennturlng theentire outiit'at the, river, except tha few that mizht miannge lo got neross to the ather side, But our surprised fellows, although caught napping, throw themselves together, stond to thelr guns, and made 10,00 Rebels bito the dust héfora tha sun went dawn, Wo have always batleved thatif Lew Wallace's division 0£8,000 mon had gotten on the fleld any thine before 2pm, thatday the Rebel advance would hava been completely checked, and -they would hove ‘stood whipped when night came. Wallaco’s fntlure to get up left our tines too qwonk to fully arrest the momentum of the Rebel push ad pressure, Itwns tho most degpernta battlé of the’ War by green troops on both stles; it} was: tho first. fight of three-quarters of. all tho men engaged on both sides, ‘here wos no harder or bloodier fighting at Waterloo. _ —————— Tie new Mquor dill in Wisconsin, whieh fines any man $5 who treats his friand, whilo it works some inconveticnce upon the score of friendship, fs secretly“ reanrded with plenstre by tho moderate drinker from another pointof view. Every saloon ts In- fested by gangs of loafers waiting to be treat- ed... Thatis thelr avocation, They Instantly confront overy nian who goes In to get 0 drink with. expressions of thirst and temper that~ arguo trouble {ff the vis- itor does. not invite «them up, No one has ever beeit known to. resist. thelr silent but forcible entrenty. {tis a situation where prudence ‘is the better part of valor, A.man might as well atlempt to eat a meat in tho presence of a crowd of hungry: tigers with impunity as to drink alone In the pres- ence of . these thirsty snloon-lonfers, The situation has changed now. Ie hus an ex- euse for.omitting the custommry. Invitation: “Well, boys, what shall It be?” He ean now throw lilinself back upon his dutics as a eltizen, tho necessity for opservanee of the Inw, his disinclination to‘ encounter. the polleu and subject himself to arrest and pun- Ishment, and his unwillingness to drag them Up as witnesses and have then perjure them- selves by swearing he has not treated them, From thts point of view, as, well as from many others,—It might be added from every point, for treating is one of the worst curses of tha habit of- drinklng,—the new. Inw- Is. working wellfn our neighbor State.- Why not give {tn trina) In our own? i —_—_———— PUBLIC BUSINESS IN THE SENATE. ‘We stated yesterday the justification urged by those who are mulntaining the denttock at Washington for refusing: to act- upon or even to hold 1 session of the Senate te con- alder the nominations made by the President and now penillng beforothat body, Ofcourse, the Litorary Bureau tn the service of the lead ers who tnsist on this Huoof action Inthe Sen- ate is: furnishing the correspondents with special defenses of the: very, evident con- tempt shown to tho President and: the open disregard of duty to the’ country. "One of these correspondents thus Inspired furnishes his paper—the New York Herald—with the followings “tt 19 n' mistake to regard thé trouble In tho ‘Sonnteas a mere Vulgar pleaoof ollice-grabbing. Te means a great deul more than this, and that feshould went more ts a gurious proof of tho condition of unstable equillbricm”’ Into which tho polltics of: the Southern Stutes huye fallen, Southern Sonntors acknowledge that they main tuin the dendsock because tho cicction of Mr. Riddieborger would probatily give Virginia this fall tau conlition of tha Mahone Independents, and the Nurthern Republieug Senators in thelr turngay that they inenn Mutione Co cirry Vite gina this tall, and that to enuble him to vehlesa that itis nevossnry to show tho Virginia Lnda- ondente that the Republicans will staud by om to tho iuat. ‘To this it Is added that the election of Rid- dleberger as Sergonnt-nt-Arms will arouse in all parts of the Southern States a spirit of re- alstance to Buurbonism, which will result extensively In the destruction of the “Solfd” South and the building up in that section of a strong Republican party! We freely admit that this end is worthy of almost any effort whieh the Republicans In the Senate may consistently and properly make, But why cannut tho attempt to elect Itiddleberger ba deferred ntl the nominations before the Sen- ateare disposed of? Why will it be, moro fatal to Bourbonlsw-in.the South to push Riduteberger before tho Preaident’s appolnt- ments are considered thon atter that Is done ? The Literary Bureau hag nob answered these conundrums, ; = ‘Tlie President communtentad a large num- bor of exceutlye appolntments fully four weeks azo, and repeatedly since thon: has sent others, all of whileli Io unacted on upon | the Senute table. ‘Thess appointments are to fill yacanefas cunsed by resignation and by tho expiration of oflicial terms, -‘Thore Isa vacancy In the Suprame Court whieh re- quires to he fled ii order toSenable that Court to attend to business, ‘There aro but five Judges out of 9 court of ning able to alt in court, and this bare quorum ts actually compelled to adjourn whenever ong of tha Judges Is Ul or othorwise unable to attend, Tlera ts another ease stated inthe papers; . For several wooks tho olllca of-Unitol Btntes Marshal in the Distriot of Coluwbin bas peor vant by the expiration: of the coujmiasion of F, Dougtiad, which vucunoy had serlously |ntere fored with the bhusliogs: uf tho Courts, Suits muy be ontored, but if aummitry process ia ree anurad there {8 no way to exeente tho writs, Tn rornrd to §ull busineas it ta comparatively cass i sandy prisoner there, but ie there 4g nu Dliare ebul to sigs st rolouse it t9 not so cay to wet pris} onerd out,‘ ‘Thoro ure noollicora tosumMon wit. novos, ‘The consequence af nil this {a that tho. wheulw of tho Jaw ag regurds tho Criminal Court ure ologzed, Thore ure niuny prisoners in Jail bauixioug fora teint, Wud KoMe wha propog to pleyd quilty. Somo are under Police-Court gone tonce and desiru to appent, but just how to’ xet aut, 1f thoy convlude to gppent, ian question tut cusy of eolution until a Marshal is appulited, Tho aflles of Commissloner of Indian At fnlra fs also vacant, ‘Lhe nomination of Mr, Price to itll the place fies on tho table ty tho Benate, od the Indian . Department ls paralyzed for the want of an officer to Han tho papers fssulng from tho oflce, ‘There are, porlinps, 259 olives practically vacant In the Judicini, revenue, and other branches of the public service, for whlon the Prealdeny has inade nonlantions, but on which thesen> ate refuses te take nny action, “As the bust. huss for which the Senate: was convened Is to gonailer the executive messages which tho President may communtoate, this rufusal tuncton his nomlnations 9 a wanton disre- gard of publia duty, + : Now, ndmiteing all that jiag beon sald as to tho destrability of punbling Benatgr Malone to revolutionize <Yiiginin, and thug :inspira othar Mahones jn other Southors States to bronk down the compact organization of the Vourbons, wo suggest that tho success of Mahone can Jy jo possible sense be pro- woted by g refusal of tha Senate’ to act on the Presidenvs nominations, .. Certainly those porsons in Virginin who are expected tonbandun the Demycratic organization do “not muke it a condition that the Senateshall yefusy to act on President Garfield's nowina- tlons for ofllees in the Northern States. Mr, ‘Riddleberger is n candidate for Sergeant-at- Anny of the Senate, Why should tho appolutment of +a. Juatice of tho Sue THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, preme Court, or the Marshals of sev- eral States, or Collectors of _ Revenuo be postponed indefinitly until Riddleberger he made doorkeeper of the Senate? How ure Riddleberger’s ehinnees for the oftice to be weakened by the Senate coniirming a Mar- 4hul for the Stato of Mlnols, or a Marshal for the District of Columbia, or a Justice for the Supreme Court? Does tho success of Ma- hone's revolution In Virglula, and the site- cess of tha promised revolutions In Missis; sippl, Alabama, Georgia, aml othor States, depend trpon Mlddleberger’s election as Ser ceanteat-Aring before tha-Presidenva nomi. natlons for att othor offiees tn the military, naval, diplomatic. revenue, and Judtetal branches of the Government aro confrmed? A¢ this be asserted, then the country will bo glad to know. tho renson why. [twiil-be glad to know where’ fs the ‘conneetion be- tween Iiddleberger and his oflles and the Benate’s disregard of Its duty to the countrys Js St a confession that Moahone’s entlro political future and that the ennuelpation of Virginia from Bourbun rale depend not on the justice of the cause, nor oven on Riddle. borger’s election as Sergeant-at-Arms of the Sennte, but upon the sole polut that hw shall boslected before the Administration shalt bo permitted to fll any vacaney fn any branel Of the public servico? To confess to guchn condition of affairs ns this ia to cotifess to n moral or politien! weakness on the part of the Sonate which ts not encouraging to the country nor creditable to the Republican partys i ,. Tho duty of the Senate fs to act Immedidte- ly upon the Prestdent’s nominations; that willnotintetfore with Riddleberger’s chances: of lection. ‘The ennvass for that office can go ntong just ns well 1€ tho Senate consider the President’s messages ns It does now, Vostpouing executive business will not ex- pedite tho alection of Kiddleberger, nor ald Senator Mahone in his revolution In Virginia, Let the Sunnte do tts duty to the country, ‘and that fs the most certain way to brenk down Bourbonisu, ee A CONSPICUOUS MARTYR TO PRINOIPLE. “When a woman will, she will, you may depend on't, and when she won't, she won't, And there's an end on’t.? It Js not often that fg womnn gains her ond by suicide, except pliysieally speaking, but Miss Marla Horner, of Mupleville, IL, as we see by a paragraph flonting about in the newspapers, is one of this xtnd. Suicide ts not n yery cheerful: wny of accomplishing one’s purpose, but It has the merltof being effectual, and, ordinarily spenking, It must be a very dmportant pur- pose that warrants the resort:to such 0 desperate remedy, Of course there are ex- ceptions. Men and women have committed suleitde for very frivolous reasons. Boysof ten- der age have jumped iuto the Hifeto come be- enuse they have been ordered to stay at home and do chores when they wanted to go to the eireus. Young maltdens have taken cold. puisqn beenuse of the Indiiference of somo Adois for whoni they have pined, after the conventional manner of the héroinesof cheap novels. Eyen grown-up people, who were old enough to know better, have put them- selves out of tho world, and exhausted thelr Ingenuity in so doing, for tho most’ trivial of reasons, whila many without any renson at all havo blown out. thelr brains or ent their thronts and Jett highly sentimental letters behind thom merely for ‘tho sake of making a sensation tn the newspapers. But of all reagons that ever actuated the shuffling off the mortnl coll, Miss Marin’ Tlorner’s was the most extraordinary. Miss Marla Horner was visiting at ‘her brother's house, and In defiance of tha regulations of the honso seldom mado her appearmnece in the morning until after breakfast had been eaten by all the rest of the family, which sadly annoyed these enrly risers and kept tha servant ‘continually: disgruntled. Lying abed ynornings ns Jong ay she wished seems to have been her only falling, If this delight- ful hubltcan be enlled w falling, Consid- ered fram sentimental as well ns esthetic standpoints, the privilege of lylng in bed mornings fs a luxury in comparison with which most of the so-called luxuries of fifo are petty and. inconsequentinl, More non- sense of the didactic. sort has been talked and written about early rising tian about any other hablt of Iife, If the majority of mankind wore to speak thelr real fevlings they would say with one accord that of all tho suinll te- coptions practiced upon thom in early youth. nove aro more to be condenmed than the alluring balts of health, the glowing yisions of weéalth, the specious, promises of Wisdom, not to mention the spectnculay pan- ornmas of sunrises, slnging of birds, coolness of the morning alr, unfolding of flowers, and the questionable proceeding of the early bird in devouring the early-risiug worm, that have been held oitt to them as Inducements, ‘They may not have felt It then, but they know In later years that had the worm re- malned in bed he woulg never have beon caught, Migs Maria Morngr asserted her rights and resolutely remained in bed, un- conscious of the sun streniing the Orient with gold and crimson and klsying the ill tops with Nps of fird, disdatntul af the spare rows chirping {1 the eayes, paylng no atten- tlon to the first bell, but turning over for another nap, paying ne attention even to tha second bell, except to oxcerute it us dis turbor, only rlaing when: she no longer de sired to. remain In bed, and then mating her tollet and omerging from the sinajl fripperies of tho night's gnylron: mont without unneceswary “haste, lor brother was an carly riser, evidently one of that unenviablo class who awnke at the srt summons, full panoplied for tho day's work, with ull the facuitios wide awake, und never know the delicous luxury of rolling over futo a new placo and going tu sleop-agaln, Bolng of this habit, he remonstrated with Marla Horner. and infopmed her that shoe Must gut uv Js time for breakfast, Thero- upon Marin Horner waxed wroth, We have no reports of the conversation nor of the arguments that Marla Horner brought up to sustain her polnt, but-sha must have been worsted, bocnuse it $9 reluted that sho weut about the house pouting. all day. Women who have: gained ‘thelr onds never pout, ‘They exult or thoy snylle condescendingly ypon. the: weaker yeusal, Ibis ulso ovident that Maria Hognor wis convinced thatif he remafned in the house, another day shy would haye to riso "with tho first bell, ‘aud descend with- the “second, because she Jolt the house that very afternoon, She was datermined, however, to nssort her sight. She had been temporart- ly thwarted In the exeoution of her purposes, but she had not yleldod fer principles. Peln- viples are fmmortal, unless they aru political, tholr staying quallties in such 8 case depend: {ng largely upon the flnancia} aspocts of op- portunities, - She went to hop father's house, and that night ordered her sister out of her room, saying that she proposed to show them Now jong she could stay Inbed, She did uot risa the next morning, for the first bell, or the second, boll," wor would she have arisen had there boen ten thaysand belle, Nor will she arise until Gabriel blows his trumpet, and perhaps her obstinacy will keep her under then. Jt {sa long, tong nap, but that ly little to Maria Horner, She lias carried her point. She has shawn that there is one women in the world who cay sleep a6 long a3 she chooses, and though flils inmsy pot ix a goneral yule, operative in the cuses of all other. women who do not like to be dis turbed in tho morning, she has the proud conseclousness of knowing, If sho have any eonsclousness at all, that ale has fad herown way, Whieh enn bring comfort, It fs to bo pro- anned, even to the ghost ofa woman. From every point of view Maria Hornor appears to have been arin humorist. ‘Though we way not adinira her methods,—and tt would be something Hke a enlamity If all other women should follow hor example,—It is impossible not to admire hor personal herofam 11 wrest- Thug with the horrible dogmn of carly rising. THE HOMILIATION OF PERU, There is no tistatico tn all history of a mors complete subjugation of a country and af more crushing terms of puseo than those whieh havo been dictated tu Pert by Chill nnd necepted by her, It does not tempor tho, humiliation that Peru was the aggressor at frat and deserved puntalment, Aniple pune Ishivent was fnilleted long: before tho Cilllans entered Linn, The Intter were yictorions in almost every battle, by sea and land, and when Perit Iny at thelr merey they then entered Upon a war of congucst.. They looted and sacked overy celts they oectipted. 'Thoy drove off her functionaries, They mur- dered penecful- eltizens, ‘Chey destroyed public buildings, ‘They robbed and phin- slered tn every direction. Thu atmy of Chit, which lad certainly. shown at the ontect aillitary qualities which commended {t tothe ndutiration of the world, soun resvlyed iteclt Into a gang of bandittt and murderous high- waymen, Then thoy finposed terms of peace that show they ure determined to comoletely erish out Poru sand forover . prevent her from becoming agai. a prosper. ous ‘or powerful State. And — theso terms of peace nro imposed at a time when Porn’s treasury {gs banirupt and industry of avery kind ts paralyzed. The condltlons of pence which Peru hag heen compelled to ae cept Involva: First, the cession of Antofagas- ta, Jarapacn, and Tuena, her three most vat- triable seaports, Second, indemnity for war expenses in full, Including salaries of the ariny aud tho standing. army whieh Chill in- tends to tnain{ntn fa Paru, paymont for slilps and Ironelnds destroyed fn. the war, and, be- aldes this, indemnification for Chillans who have been expelled from Peru aml Bollyln. ‘The eash indemnity ‘alone 1s $30,000,000, of whieti Peru has to assume $20,000,000, Mean- while Chill fs to oecupy Callao and work tho wuqno deposits and the copper and saltpetre mines until the payment of the indemnity is made,’ After that the guano extraction is to be principally conducted in favor of Chili, Peru receiving but a small motety. In tye third, place, Chillan products aye to bo received upon «terms of . the most favored nations, Fourth, Pern and Bolivia are to bo consolidated, | Fifth, and most hum|liating of pll, Peru is not to fortify her ports for fifty years and to ralse no army or navy for forty years. ‘This pinees Peru edinpletely at tho mercy of Chul and ends lier career ag an independent State. Bhe fs substantinily a Chillnn province, and both Peru and Bolivia ara to all purposes blotted out from the map, ‘The Peruylans might as well hand ovyor their entire country to Chill aud tell her to take!t and manage tt. Itwould be more economical, less arduous, and legs. humillating than her presentrelations, Crush- ing us they are, Peru has organized u Pro- vistonnt Goyernment and’ set herself, reso- Jutely at worl: to meet than, and her patrl- otic people have already tendered a loan sufliciont. to make the: first money payment of the indemnity, ‘Che indomnity demanded of France by Germany ‘was consid- ered an extraordinary one, and the. Fronch* people. have, been commended’ for the equally « extraordinary — man- ner in which thoy pald Jt: But i proportion’ topopntatton und ‘resofivees’ It wns. a’ small matter as compared with the indemnity ox acted from Peru, nor was France stripped of her army. and navy, shorn of all her power, deprived of her most ‘valuable, seaports, or exposed to the Inumiliation of a standing Germ army within her borders, If Peru evar gets upon her feet again she will bo the adinirution of the world. f WASHINGTON SQO0LETY.. Mahone has becomo go tiresomo 9 subject andthe dendivek fn the Senate so monoto-~ nous that tho Washington correspondents haye Inrgely turned tholr attention to social’ matters, und have sought to make a sensn- tlon out of certain points of etiquet, ‘This will ban failure. Washington soctoty {snot very Interesting, even’ to tho peopla who are fA part thereof, and it certalnly has not iter estcnough to spread abrdad throughout tho country, It is madv up mostly.of shams. Questions of precedence ani formality are Ro nbsorbing ay to exclude all the ideng of en- joyment in social Intercourse which provall elsewhere, “Tho man or woman who aspires to take n lending position In Washington so- clety, or eyen one who strives to kuep up the socint dutics that attnch to certain oflichat pluces, becomes u sinve. ‘The wife of the President $3 regarded ns a person who must hold herself in readiness to be called upon at all thours, under all civeumstances, and by all classes of people, It appenrs that the present mistress of the Whity House, who fs'n woman of culture, given to reading nul fond of a quit thfe, has taken the Mberty of declining to reeelye cards ntcertaty hours or on certain days, and she has wlready been called to account by curtain howspaper correspondenta. Ono of the prinelpal reasons glyeh by a pronnont pub- Ne man for refuslng a proifered place In tha Cublnet was his consideration for his. wife's health nid ausiety leat the social obligations should be too severe natyaln upon hor con etitution, Mrs. Blaino, 16 is reported, has ine nuguraled a new réginie,—called by somo of tho Washington correspondents * unelvil re- form,"—whereby the wlyes of the Cablyot officers shall bo rellevod of the duty of yoturning calls, ‘his: departure ts ubout as nbsurd as was tho preylous rule re- auiring the “Indies of the Cabinet” to return all cails, ‘There sevms to be no good reason why the aceldental remoyal of 0 fan- Ny from Podunk to Washington, because the oad of the house has been chosen to sume Governmant position, should create uw rovolu- tlon in Its socls} status, Lt ls unrensonable to expect that public men shall muke slaves of thelr wives becaugo. they themselves wi dortaky'te serve tho people In suing official capacity, On the othvr hand, it fs ridluntous, for the wlyes of publioh men Jn thy country to sut up fur aristocracy because thelr hus- bands happen to ‘be chosen ‘to pubdile place, ‘The “ popular will," under the liduence of the caucns and tho myghine, cannot always ho trusted to sulect men who ure eminently Atted for public distinction; the sime uncer taln factor can hardly be trusted to desiguate the social aristocracy gf the country by thelr gholey of public servants, ‘The trouble with Washington ~ soctety fs. not merely that thero Is too much show, but too little Inder pendence and too jittle home lite Why shoulda't the wlyes of Cabinet oflleurs, Ike tho wiveq of other cltizens, return such eqlls as thoy desire. to return, and oult those which they do not care: ta recoguize?. Why ghould there bea rile fequiring the wlyes of Cabinet Ministers to make frst calla wpon the wives of. now Sepptera? Why should not the wife of the President of the United States exercise tha rlxht of the humblest woman In the Jand to deny herself to visitors when she {3 not In the nood to recelva ? The political Ife of Washington fs supesticial and sellish enough at beat’ without the ilmey APRIL 14, “tho Lattor Hyos in a grand palace at Strassburg, 1881—TWELVE PAGES. formalities of an arbitrary social régiine, ‘There are enough foolish things dono by public men—witness the dally eurrent pers formances In tho Unlted States Sunate— without enlllng in the usxistines of thelr wives to swell the Li ———— ENGLAND'S VOLUNTEER SERVIOE. A military wrltor in the United Service Magazine, In oritieising the volunteer sarv- tee of England, conveys some Interest trug Ine formation concorning that branch of En gland’s power which Is not genorally known, ‘Tho organization of the volunteer forees was the result of tho fear of French fnva- ston in 1850, when the relations betwaen the two Powers were stralned to that polnt that war scenied Inevitable. It Was tn November of that year that tho Governmont gave ils consent for the foriuntion of a volunteer ariny, and ina fow, days nearly o Wundred Uionsand men were under, anus, and were speedily drilled, Since that tine the force has grown rupldly, In ayear-{t swollad to 177,000 man, and now there are 200,000 well- drilled men in the volunteer ranks, who, by vegular target service, have beconw ox- vorleneed and , skillful marksmen, Ac- cording’ to the writer {to whom wo have rofdrred, the Government sup piles eneh battalion with an Adiu- tant, Sereant-Major, Drill-Instructor, Mus- ketry-Inatructor, and’ “Armorer, ‘all of whom are ‘regulars, ‘Thoy nro inspected yenrly by regular officers, and, upon certill- entes, each battalion receives $5 for avery man who ls up in drill and 10 shillings for ench extra-ofllclent, the test being his marks- ianship. All the other expenses are met by the yolunteurs themselves, They -pay for thelr uniforms and for thelr ammunition, ex- eept the conventional sixty rounds of ball- enrtridge for tarect practice, as well as for nll thelr ineldental expenses. Probably « million of dollara will cover the entire ex: penga of the Government for Its home army of 200,000 men, which answers to tha levies made by conscription on the Continent and excels them in soldlership, because they have the advantage of dyiland acertaln amount of Government inspection under the supervision of regular ofticers, They haye never yot been called into active service and probably never will, except In case of Invasion, which is a yery distant contingency, whon they wonld be utilized as a home guard belilnd tho tanks of tho reguiar army, ‘The writer in question does not ‘place a very high estimate upon thelr efiicieney, for’ tho renson that thulr discipline’ {s not kept up, and they ara erude and raw, but the same objection might have beon urged igninst our own volunteers nt the outbreak of the War of the Itebellion,- It dues not take very long to mold men Into shape and teach them to fight who are pa- triotie and in earnest, 1t was not very long before our volunteers went into battle with nll tho steadiness of regulars. ‘There {s no Teagon to suppose that English courage is Inferior to our own, Kixpeusive German Princes, Tho “dear Princes” of the German Em- ple must be very ' dogr" indeed to the Gor- man people, because it costs thom enormous aums to feed tho drouos, The’ amounts of money which tho crowned heads of Ruropo de- your annually aro actually culoseat, consltesue the enormous military and othor tax burdens which oppress the downtrodden people, ‘The civil Ustof the King of Prugaly amounts annually to twelvo miltion mers,’ Tho King, na Emperor of Gormany.doca not recolvouny compensation, but Chancellor Bismnrelk tatos 83,000 murka Instead, aud tho Governor of Alsaco-Lorralne, Gon, Mantonfel, the anug little sum of 215,000 marks; freo of ront, Next comes the King of Davari, with n civil list of 4,241,04¢ marks, to which must ‘ve added othor. appanages, smounting to 1,113,- g38 marka, ‘Then.comes the King of: Baxony, who drawa on his civil Jot 9,201,835 marks and ‘081,855 fur appinagos,. The Swablans (Wiirtem= berg) pay for the onjoyment of a King and a core ral full of Prinves, Princesses, Dukes, and Count- cases tho paltry aum of 2,163,000 marks, and the neaple of tho litte sample State of, Nadon, fur thoir Grand Duko and Duchous, ut tho’ rate of 1,788,100 marke por annum; while the Grand Duke of Hossu-Dramatadt, with half tho territory of the Grand Dulko of Buden, cun bless bitn- rolf with 1,228,288 marks, Tho rulers ot both the Mevktonburge draw over a million marks nnuuully, chietly from the runts of lands wot aside for this purpose. Tho Grand Duke of Baxe-Welmur receives for bis arduous services of visiting the thentre every night 63,000 murks; the Duke of Brunygjek, a. bachelor, #25,5%2 marks. In proportion te the number of its Ine bobltants the people of little Schwarzburg- Sondorahanson pay tho highost compensation to their Princo—viz.; 400,000 marks,org.0t murks por capita, ‘Tho Duke of Saxo-Selningen ctayms ROLY marke per annum and gets tt, and the Prince of — Sohwarzburg-Rudulstndt 280,005 marke, ‘Tho cli} lst of tho Duke of Oldenburg wmounta to 250,000 murks,-and ho of Suxe-Co- burg-Gothn recelyes 0,600 marks under tha singular beadlug of * pln-monoy for tho Duchcag, rents duo the Duke, gud. support of . the Court Thentre.” The Prince of Waldeck -pock- ete arnually 2,283 murks, heae figures me taken frota the Almanach do Gotha and: Ite ace companying Ainlomaticestatiatia aumual report for thu year 1661, Convérning tho otyll [sta of the smullor. German Prinetpulities, such ax Reuss, Anhalt, cte,, thoso books contuin no data. ¥ a * jal Moasures Against Yuters louul Consplratora, When, cight years ago, Spain made the proposition to tho Great Powers for united toe tion and uyyrcssive movomonts agalust ull lis teruatiqnal conspirators, Russia :declinod, polut blank, to be ong of tho purtied, Little did abe think thon how goon.sho would appeur before tho Powers os'a potifonor borgoif relterating tho ganio propositions which 1 fow yours ugo gho refused to nceept when ulferud by little Spain, In consequence of povoral attompte to - tako tho life of tho Emporor of Gormpny, Ruasta's prayer has found 4 wiltlug eur ia Bore lin, where tho Reichatag has already adoptad a rogolution, with only throw disaonting. vores, asking tho Governmont to ugg Its Intiuence with the other Powers fur united action against Anternatl: tho “nbuso of tho. right of asylum granted by, certain . Btutes to. Nihij- fats, .. royloktos, and .gonspfrators , in Ronora}. ‘Tho Berliner Natlonat Zeng asserts (aud Ite assertion bas nop beon contradicted) taut Disimargk proposea ty open negotintons with allothor Governmonts fora suitable chunge and rovision of existing treaties yoverning tho extradition of miurdgrors, Russht hag cause to fool grutified at this prompt noon on tho part of Germany, Whothorernot tho thor Ruropean: Cabinets will "go ws fac-ad Germany would porhups bo willing to yo is iminatorlat for the Present, ‘This much, however, t¢ curtalur that the feolings aud yiows predominating tn ull of the European Cabinets are more ur lvss favorable to tho mousures propused by Russin and Ger taany, Although $n’ Frutcy. the four of tho Copunandy aud Leds . hay . considerably eubsided, thosu of tholr leudera = whe wore reloasod from.‘captivity und deportys don by quunosty, afterwards returning: to Varls, will seo to it thug this fear will not ons, tirely gle out Tho Vronph Goveryinent aud Chamber of Doputica have shows by thelr cons. duct aluco tho assusinution of tho Canr thut they are unsious to sogure KRusaid's triondehip, While aug year ugo. France flatly refused to doe yer the Niniist Hurtmann to Wussia, sho fs dor tug now all in bor power to cosregt her sn! take (?) by ber procegdings pyalust all news- papers which are oxultant tn thelr, articles over the murder ofthe Cappy, Eoyland, oxposod to tho, novorrosting wyltaiion of tho. Laud League, hag alroady. found {t.- peossury to fntroduco excepuonsl laws for Ircland, und, ib would pot. astonish any, ove Af she should assist tn tha furmation of laws for gthor States, whluk, in A casa Of oniosyuncy, abo might readily copy herself, Whilg the Aus. triun Ewporer dope not aopm fo huye coyse (9 four any attoipts against bis life, bots too wall disposad and too vioasly aliiod with Germany ta deny hia assistauco jn ailemforte to strengthen the foundations of other tottering thronvs. It fatruo, Cairolt bag declared that In case of ins tornational mousurosugatoat regicldes bo would not doviute from existing international (awa on tua subjoct; but Cafrott bus loet bis prestige aud intuvuce In the Jallan” Goyerument; and tho Conservatt of ehould como into power tho internuioanl roles and Inws!" would expounded to sult thamselves, auch clreumstances, what ct Coutedcration de? Tho anes to this queation may bo found ft an interview whieh o corres Apondont of the Berliner Taycblall had tho other day with Mr. Roth, tho Hwise Ambassador at the Court of Auatehy, and whieh Tits Tipusn pale shod nt tho the. Mr, Roth sald: “Tho right of msylumn i¢ based upon tho Constitution of the Swiss Confeduration, but this dovs nut Klvo tho right to any rofugeo to deinand that rightor Switzerland, In casa tt should tond to interne Uonal diiteulttes.” ‘This. enna, in athor bins guage, © Wash my neok, but don't make It wets" At tho onrnest requost of any Power the Swiss Uundesrath imny duolde in. the onse of nny rofugeot: * Wo can wrant you the right of nsy lim, but you? mitiat not demand ft; we -yant no dMoulties “with other “Powers, Weentise tight’ {3 atrongor than right" At nil ovents, tho mensures propused by Itnssia for a Joint netion on tho partot the Powers. for nn abridgment, or closer définition, of tho tight of ‘ngylum wilt lend toa discussion of. yory serious questions, and the first one will bet. Who js, or whut constitittes, a political rafugoo? Isa pos Itient refugee, in tho trio singe of the ward, ane who blows tip a railroad train beowse tha Ruse alan Catr is abonrd, all tho pussengurs nro killed or wounded, but the Czar, escapes compara: tlyely unharmed? Is he a .polltien! rofugeo who undcrinfucs a portion of « street, lords his ming with dynamite, and blows tho strect, densely pagked with people, among whom ts tho Czar, to‘ the four winds of heavy en? With: tho same show of fairness tho Russian Czur might rend othe wholo population of St. ‘Petersburg, to Sibo- tin veeause «tho: Nihillst who porpetrated the act, and whom he could not othorwisy appre ; bend, was among thom! If tho Mosvow nttempt toblow up the train contnining the Czir had heon sttecossful {11 80 far that the Car had been: atlghtty wounded, but hundreds of travelers hid lost thelr Hyves, the acto of Branco in tho Hartmann caso would undonbtedly hive been diferunt. would be woll if thoze and simitar questiona were settted, but it would be deplor- nble Indeed If tho qucation of Nihilisin, Rugsin’s bane, were used by the potentates of Europe as fn exeuso for n general reaction tn Europe, | << Tho Scnatorinl Deadlock. ‘To the Laitir uf The Chicago Tribune, Cicaqo, April 13.—There Is n great deal sald in the papers about the denitock in tho Seunte, Vleasy expliin what it menus. Republicans have a mujority, us they claiin, why du they not go. on and cleut thoir ollicers? Wo can understand that a minority. might wbsont themselves and brenk a quorum, but thuy donot seuin to hive done It. ‘ Though the Republicans hove a constitutional majority they cannot get n vote on thelr resolu- tlon electing Gorham and ftiddieberger, because tho Domoernts aro constantly Interposing dili- tury motions, A motion tu adjourn, or to ad- Journ tonday certuin, orto go Into oxccutive session, Lng precedcnee over u resolistion provide ing for tho clection of new oilicers; and tho latter two motions are debatable, The report of the proecedings each day bogus somewhat in this fashion: f g Mr. Dawes move to take up the resolution for tho vlection of Senate ailleurs, ‘Me. Ail interposad o motion that tho Senate preveed to the consideration of .executive busi- ness, Ar, Cull apoke, cte., ete, Thore [s-no provious question in tho Senate, and cach Senator bag the right‘ to spenk as lone ng hoe chooses, Fifteen Seantors have the power to call for tho yens and niys, They ean demand votes on tho threo dilatory motions, und debute two of thom; so that if {t- should-come ton cone test of physical endurance they could relieve each othor, while every Republican would hive toreinuin in bis seat tobe roudy for wn yoto in cago tho deadluck should bs broken, ' or ‘Tne! question Is sometimes asked, How much money linve British enpltialists invested and | at interest? ‘The London Bankers’ Magazine un dertakestopnswer tho question and givesun estl- mate of the’ total holdings of British monos- lenders: Loaned to the Britis Government, $3,70,000,000; luaneil to the Colonies and. to for- elgn countries, $3,750,000,000;, home railways aro down for $3,600,000,0%, and forolgn companics for $1,000,000,00; Initiin Government and ratl- "way stucks foot,up §000,000,000,° Other sccurl- tes of all kinds held by Nritish Investors, Includ- ini¢ eunnls, dooks, shipping, land, Ananeial, tron, conl, mining, manufacturing, and | industrint companies,—in short, commercial Joint” atoct compnnies of ull kinds,—being up the zrand total to £3,163,000,000, ov $17,32h,000.009, or nosrly ten times the Atncrican national debt. The average Interest {a sutd to bo 4!¢ per cont, and to aggre- gato $885,000,000 annuatly,’ Thut is about 23 porannum peg tndividual in the British istands, and about $10. of that ts paid from foreign suuroes, ‘Thirty-two millon pounds of this intercat monoy' is disbursed in January, £15,000,- 000 In Fobrunry, £12,500,000, In Mares, £19,000,000 in April, 423,000,000 In May, and £3,500,000 In Juno, and practically simitur puymonta aro mide dur- ing tho Inst falt of the your, The bonplag up of tho payments In certain seasons of (hu year ex- iste here ns woll 18 thore, and the tendenuy In both cases fs to dlaturb tho money inarket un- necessarily and undesirably, Excluding tho Metropolitas Board of Works Joan, tho French dunn, and loans partly held abroad, thore was pald up on new Jolntatock schomos In London durlug Jununry and Febranty no, loss than 20, 730,000, and Murch ‘(to tho 18th), £1,190,000, “tha total amount of the faca of ‘the new shares fasied In January was 20,000,000; in Fobruury, £5,000,000, and in March (to the 18th), 24,259,000, So tho ball sooms to he gaining hondway rthor than losing it. These figures might have turned tho ‘hod of Creeaus, and fairly baye turned tho Nends of many Londonora, { — ‘Ming grant question In Wiseonsin at the preacnt thine is, Po treyt or nut ta,trone’’: Whother it fs nooler in tho mind to suffor Tho sudurs und sircasins of thirsty loufers, Or nennly, weakly save onosall the tromblo, * And wan Invigution end thom. ‘La drluk—-to | ren rs ‘Ascore, and by that treat to say wo gain” Bo mun ols, and tho-miengune. unmo of 2 bul ve i A bully fellow—'t/s aconsumination + : Deyougiy to po wished. To drink, uo treates To treit—perchince thred-spoie—ay, thoro’s the rib, For in that thoughtless treat what crowds may join z Whon {havo Just Juyited up the Lays Must give yan U8, here's the reauct That nates ealanity of this whole thing, For who would bear tho diate upon. hls puree, ‘Tho linsbergurod broath, Uv lonter's company, | ho off-culored kee tho todinua yarns, The Insolence of bummera, and tho trluks Tho brainless sekee on the unwary phys, Woan he night bhuselt bls beverage tke : Tn decent quot } Who wold danidehoats tl With smooth "Old Crow" and costly." Hennes. Bey,’ fh Hut {hat tlio dread that something wight bo suld, = ‘That ungotinable ter mon'satavor Which ay ongcnn te ot nate us wie nid mites tis mithor buuy the ils wo buyo baa ity to othors that wo know notory ~ Nhakepcare, adapted to Barroom Keating a Tin Bulletin de le Navigation par te Canal de Sues, for the lugt quurter of 1880, cone salmng alsa a esnppsis for the whole year 1890, bos appeared under the sypervision of tho Lgyptlan Minigtry of the Interlor qt Calra, During tho year 2,017 abipa passed through tho eanul, sneqsuring #600418 tons accordius to alllclul catey lation, but holding In fact 1,078,004 tons. The grows of thoso ships numbered In apt” 193,430; tho pngsongery, 63,517, OF these ships 1,001 went south and Yoo north, ‘The British dag Was'carrled by 78.28 por cent of all tho ships. passing through tho canal, Of the ships 1,470 wero Boglish, 100 ‘Yvrench, 60 Austrian, 6) Dutob, S&S Statlan, 85 Spanish, 8, German, 2 Rugalan, 31, Turkish, 1 Pyyptiay, and. 8 belonged to other “nutiong, According to tho ofticiuily accepted tonnoyy, tho result Js somuwhut diferont—yla. 5 2,247,000 tons wero En- gilst, 177,771 French, 75.6:0 Auatring, 124,083 Dutch, 71,089 Lallun, 55,245 Spanish, 98,103 Gere quan, 20,007 Russiyn, .7,0u7. Tuskiah, 8,083 Exyp= than, ong off other nations 25.160, . feagite nt Oxtx two’ generations ago the possesslons of Turkey nin from the River Fruth to, Capa Satapan, oud barring Huggin it wus tho jurgest ¥inpico fu Europe.’ But Turkey haw beoy vx- fenalvely cupped urd ‘bled alice, that time. Little Qreeco was cut off jn'tho suuth, and, sot up housekcoping Yor {teolt; than Bervis guid Roummnta- were cut of “In tho north. Binco ‘Turkey's fast war with Tudalg; Augtria bas ap proprlated Posnluand Kurzogovinn; Pulzarhy galued (In fact its independence; ‘Eudtera Rou- inella a state ‘of semi-Indepengence; tnd Bor- ylu, Roumanta, and Montenegro wero enlarged by several allces of Turkey, ‘This loft Turkoy in Europe orto of 1 sinalicst Ruropean Bintcs, 80 far ‘Turkey hag lost two-thirds of hyy Rue, ropent possessions, The Yuropean- pupulation of Turkey bus.dwindted down from twenty to five williions of people, In 186 Turkey owned; whit State “oxtsting be Undor tho Hiths Swiss f tho: 00,000 rquare miles of Huropean territory; to. day abe tins abort 60,000 aquaro inties teft. “nut this Is not sufivients anothor carving of Tur. coy Is attempted by tho couferenee of the Powors, whiol proposes ta presout nw slice of 17000 sate inttes, with 750.060 Inbubstaute, to fireece. But oven thts large alive of ‘Turkey iy hot cuongh for the cormorant stomach of the Groehins, who had not the cottrage to Aght for it by Joining Russia during the Into war, a Som amusing remarks in the Datroit Free Preaa night tend the peopte of that citys suppose that’ its ndvortising patronage com. pared favorably with that of Tis Treinen, Hut tho Free Presa his nshoct amuller by two Inches one way und threo Inches the other thin Tug Nranussy and its advertieomonta are of g Rpechtl character taken at nominal prices, Thy ‘Treamunr's advertising ‘patronage Inet Suna, was in tho rogulnr cutirso of business, ang charged for nevording to tho elroulation of tha paper and tho worth of ita space, Nu dally trewspaper In the country wost of Now York bowing tu have sugh au advertising patronage ag Tun Titnunk,-thoso that pretend to the con. trary surrendoring their space at the Lare cost of composition or. Inserting bogus ndvortis. ments toducelva tho’ public. We look forwan to the thme whon Ste TurmoNe still surpass oi the Journals in this country tn the valuo of tts ndvortising patronage, ag tt already docs in the fiuality and uinount oF ite nows, a Duntna ‘tha winter senson of 1879-'80, about 20,000 studonts studied at tho twenty untversis ties of Germany; during tha summer season of 1880 nhout 021, and during tho wiuter season 1980-'BI nbont 21,104, The Inst number ts divided, among tho different high sohouls ns follurs: Rerlln, 4,107; Lelpaig, 328; Munich, 1,800; roe Jn, 1881; Halle, 1,213, TAbingen, 1074; Gbttine gen, (0; Witraburg, 021; Bonn, 8875 Koulgsberp, 788; Strassburg, 745; Marburg, 004; Greif. wali, 689;-'Ieldeiberg, 613; Erlangen, 473; Freiburg, 403; Jem, $383. Gleseen, 291; Kiel, 23; and .Rustock, 200... ‘twenty per cont of the atudents nat Hetdelbery wero for olgners; 13 ‘per: cent of those .. studying at Strassburg: 6 per cent of those at Reriln, Munleh, and Wiirzburg, and 4 per cont of those studying ut Hallo and Gottingen. The numbter of thusa studying medioine hrs inerensed tho most—viz.: from 8,670 during the winter scasoo of Atal to4,405 turing the winter senson of BI. * % Le EE Tur Pars Unie Nutlonate, the organ of tho French Chauvinists, reports the foltowlog from Berlin: Everything was prepared for te dopartitre of the Crown-Prince (> Our Keita") tort. Peters burg, when suddenty Bisinirek, bolding a tele- grain in big hands, mude his appearance in tho Arnperhtl pili Tho telegram stated that the railroad to St, ore rali ty, hud been undermined in several lucuitties. and ff the Crown -Prince ins slated on gouty lila Hfy would be io erent danger, ‘Che Emperor would not belleve the Infurmation and demanded that bis son should leave lngtune ter for the Kussian Court. Bismarck then drew Mitnself upto his fel ight, and with bls brik Ig own, answered: my rr, poouliariy . » your Majesty seems to be de wed, bave no “further objection that’ the | Crown-Prinee shill leave in company of Gen. sinntentols” but Ldecidedly. object and protest that Fleld-Marshal dloltke ‘al voneatt my peat. Devan huve vite one Moltke, and lilt’ I siicerely desire’ to kv View uf unothos trip to ttunaig. sole If not true, jt is not a bad Inyention, Se ee Tus St Louls Globe-Democrat ridieutes tho Konsus City Times for attributing to Gov, Crittenden, tuo losé. of those tio cities to the Domnuerats, Itgnys: ‘Whe idea that half a dozen netty nppolatments could erento two gruut political revalutions is ubsurd, ‘Che fact fs, that tho people of Mise Rourl are getting tired of Bourbons and Bours bonita We aro afrald they will not long etay “tired " but at the next ‘election awing back to thelr Bourbon straight. ‘ eR A connrsronpent of the Hamburger Nuchrickten writes from St. Poteraburg that Czar Aloxandor II]. saturated bis pocket hand: kerehtef with tho blaad of lils dying father, says Ing: wlll keep this ne a sacred relic, ap that it forevermore muy remind me of: tho onth I have sworn in the Inuermost of my heart tn thly ter rible and trying hour." See Conkrino's saying thatthe was" {nn posltion ; Where he wns oblired to commit sulgide or wut ‘der, and* he’ preferred: murder,” does very well for an epigram, but tt doesn’t describe tho situs ation, Conkling Isn't any more Iikely to commit inurder than John Pheonix wng after be had In« Borted his nose carefully between his opponent's | teeth, rc a Pensoss on the fovkout for houses will do well to be cuim, Itents will ba lower before they aro higher: Thore bos buen a decided renction within the list two weeks, In many cased It may bo nevessary to submit to a stight advance over Just your’a rates, but the exorbitant advances of 16 und 20 per cont cannot bo maintained, ——— Possmiy some of tho politicians who are complaining of tho manner in which Br. Clark's cumpntgn was conducted, will bo gratified if thoy aro nominated for oilice nt sume future timo and supported as they say he should have ‘been,—In silence and tenrs. ——_—— Ttonenrson, Conkling, Mahone, Middle berger, and Hen Jil aro really actors In one grout consplrucy to disturb tho peace of nuws paper men, But for them there would be no toptea going exenpt ‘the wenthar and reforin in Central Africu. Hi re . ‘Tae mienntum will dawn in Clacinnatt at thoend of this week, shurp. There will bo no mura vice in tho city under Means, tho new Mayor, Ha bas declded to abolish tt, The Gar zelte suya 80, * , fi ———— Trshould not te in tho mouth of a man who was on tha defeated tlalcet of two yenrs ngO to complalu of tho character of the nominations this year, * —————_— PERSONALS, Siiting-Dull must bo aut of provistons, Ie is comlug in to surrender, : “Many Enster eggs are not as bad as thoy aro painted, Tils will cost you $2,"—S, J. Tilden. Tho new Czar fs. a ‘confirmed tromboue Playor, . We now understand why so many peo plo in Russia are Nihilists, Poraons who have falthfutly observed Font arg to be rowarded, Tho trial of tho Sprague divorco cave Wegins Easter Mondiy. Anoxchange publishes an article headed “Hoy to telly mhd dog." We havo notolny to foil u mad dog that we cau not communicate by telephone or postal curd, ‘the New York World ts, carrying on § abarp tight Just now with the Zritiune. Prove ably Jay Gould wants to seo which ono of Hls editors {3 poully tho smartest, Augusta Victorin, the bride of tha young Gormun Prince, drives through the strovts of Berlin in « great ginss couch, It is: very evle dent that this young ludy dooan't throw stones: i Lillan Ward writes té a Cluelunatl paper tuat Geneyioye Ward "is a living, breathing womnn."’. This statoment fs ealcitatod to do gway with the Improsgion that Miss Ward isa stuffed club oru typo-werlting mucbine. Books will aoan bd opened. In Now York for subsoriptions ta purchaso a ehip to xo 1a acureh noxt your of tho whuloy that bus zone ia agonreh of tho Joannatte, No first-class country: should bo without a loat Polar expedition. ~ By an announcement at tho head of is editorial colunns It appears that tho New vor That baa boon ontorod at the Pust-Oillce of Ler olty uy.gcvand ulus mattor, ‘Tho Foderal 0 vile ure ovidently disposed to fatter our ef teemed contemporary. «) 2 WMond " sends ys a poem beginnings ‘The meonbuams snivar upon tho river, ‘qo eraoer thllians aur ve stiliners, _ and dewy obitiness ts.an the toa, ite ‘Te this fe.eo, Maud, you had potter quit ing, put on your Hyorpad, and go to bed. Althongh Aynod Khan, and Abdyrrahwan Khan, and tho Gukwar of: somothing or at) gro alt engaged Jn tho row at Candabar, sur dou't scom to bring matters toa focus. It lool ae though Mjnlmor Wjirnsterne pret oi the Abkound of Swat would havo to bo sent Yofore the trouble fwover, jal: , Tho’ Empress ulgénto’s favorit material, women. way Nike to know, jy nun’e cloth. me Jong crapo voll suo weard ula rollieuse, Princess ot Wales woars berg au 4 abroud by ite face, ‘Tho Husslan tourning voll ts rolee ‘sit {ereptly from tho vell usually word ta eee foldg down the’ back, }t forms a thick a tbe of crapa oyor phe head and on the wap) st nicek before tf fs allowed to shroud the shoul bebiud, > a 1 L