The New York Herald Newspaper, October 15, 1874, Page 6

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Wau Srreer Yesterpay.—The market con- tinued to show weakness, and prices generally declined. Gold was steady at 110. There were no rumors of commercial trouble. Tue Harp Money platform has wrecked the republicans in Ohio, and their inflation policy has defeated them in Indiana. What can they do to be saved? Tae Last Hore now to the republican party is General Dix. Should he fail to carry them through New York in November they will be lost beyond redemption, and the third term question will be settled. Presment Grant, in his Annual Message of December last, referred to the obliteration of party lines in the late elections. He may profitably enlarge upon this idea in his Mes- sage of December next. Pennsyivanta.—The republicans of Pennsyl- vania, having declared against a third term | to the President, have hopes of success in November. But even they may fail, for a general political reaction goes right on re- gardless of party resolutions, yea or nay, on any question. ‘Tax Raproan Temperance Movement—that is, the prohibition doctrine of the republicans | resulting from the late crusades of the women in the West—has received a heavy blow from the people in the Ohio Alection. The honest German's right to his lager must henceforth be respected by the republican party or it is gone. Tue Tarp Trerm.—From the general re- sults of the Ohio and Indiana elections it is evident that the third term movement for General Grant in the East is repudiated by the people of the West. It is one of those ‘monstrosities’ which are everywhere oper- ating to demoralize and swamp the republi- can party. Tux Orrosrtion to Tammany gathers force. There was an independent caucus last even- ing, and certain names of very respectable gentlemen were considered as to their fitness for the Mayoralty. The sky does not look altogether cerulean for John Kelly and the bosom friends. When so many clouds are seen banking up in the heavens there is dan- ger of a storm. Tae Antictz from the London Times, in reference to the debts of the Prince of Wales, the substance of which was telegraphed to us recently, is printed elsewhere. It will be | geen that His Royal Highness spends trom fifty to a hundred thousand dollars a year be- | yond his income. The Times shows that these are expenses necessary to the splendor of his station, and there is an intimation that | Parliament may be called upon to consider | the question. If it is worth having a Prince | of Wales he should be supported, and Parlia- ment could easily be induced to think so. NEW YUKK HEKALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEKT. The Recent State Elections. The successes in Ohio and Indiana ought to be an instructive lesson to the repubhcans, and they throw valuable light on the present tendencies of our politics, The first point to which we call attention is that these elections demonstrate the enduring vitality of the dem- cratic party. Such success as it has won in these important States has been gained with- out any alliance or coalition, in a straight, square fight with the supporters of the ad- ministration. It is not a liberal republican triumph, as Mr. Greeley’s election would have been in 1872; it is not a triumph of the farmers’ movement, which at one time seemed formidable in the West; it is a democratic triumph pure and simple, and it warrants the expectation that the minor side currents of our politics will be absorbed in one or the other of the two main streams. According to present appearances everything is tending to a grand struggle in the next Presidential election between the two regular parties, with no side movements of any importance. The dissatisfied republicans, who have for several years shrunk from joining the democracy, and have been contending that a disbandment ot the democratic party was the indispensable prerequisite of forming and consolidating a powerial opposition, must see now that there is nothing to be hoped in that direction. Republicans who have become alienated from the administration are reduced to the alterna- tive of joining the democrats or retiring from active politics. There will be no considerable third party; there will be no coalition like that of 1872; there will, as time moves on, be little of the squeamishness which has for the last three years held the republican opponents of General Grant aloof from the democratic organization. There is a visible progress in this direction in our own State. Last year the New York liberal repub- licans put forth a ticket of their own, made up | of selected names for the two others, This year they are merging themselves in the dem- ocratic ranks. Our vigorous and lively con- temporary, the Sun, has for some time for- borne to decry the democratic party and is efficiently, though not ostentatiously, support- ing the democratic State ticket. Even the Tribune wanifests a similar leaning, but, with more caution and reserve. Still every reader of the Tribune must see that it is quietly and steadily rgconciling its liberal republi- can readers to the democratic party of the State. There is no longer any attempt by any leading journal of the country to create a new opposition party to take the place of the democracy. The prejudices growing out of the war are supplanted by the feeling of in- tense hostility to the administration, and the demonstrated strength of the democratic organization in the recent elections tends to make it the sole rallying point of all the ele- ments of opposition. We regard this as a healthy tendency. All good citizens will have reasons for congratulation if the democracy shall become strong enough to put the republican party on its best behavior. It is a wholesome thing for our politics that the opposition is not likely to be frittered away by division or to lose its coherence by coali- tions. The only important parties in the im- mediate future will be the republican and the democratic. Another important consequence of the dem- ocratic recuperation will be its potent moral effect in setting aside the third term aspira- tions of President Grant. If the republican party had held its own in the elections of this yearand come out of them with unimpaired strength it might have thought itself capable of carrying this heavy weight. But with parties nearly enough balanced to render the contest doubtful the republicans cannot afford to take up such a load. If the democrats should carry New York and make gains in Pennsylvania General Grant himself will see that the republican party-is no longer strong enough to carry such a rider as a third term candidate. We expect, therefore, that he will prudently forego every attempt to secure another republican nomina- tion if New York follows in the wake of Ohio. The democratic successes will discourage the third term movement in another view. They will cause the South to turn once more with hope to the democratic party and to expect relief by its triumph. In despair of any other remedy the Southern people have been tempted to weigh the protection which might be given them by a friendly despot, whose power they had favored, against the hideous misrule which they endure under negro supremacy. They will no longer think of so desperate a resource. As soon as they shall see a sufficient number of Northern States in democratic hands to enable the Southern democracy to turn the scale and | make a democratic majority their free instincts will revive in full force. They would gladly exchange their present condition for military rule if reduced to that choice, and they would even accept imperialism rather than carpet- bag oppression. But as soon as they see a chance of relief by the success of the demo- cratic party they will drop General Grant and his irregular aspirations. If the November elections should be of the same general com- plexion as those which have just taken place the third term question will be practically settled. The republicans ought to learn some wis- dom from the visible decline of their party strength. It is not too late for them to re- trieve their losses if they will reform certain leading features of their policy. They cannot afford to repeat nor to persist in their blun- ders in the Southern States. There must be no more of the unwarranted intermeddling by which Kellogg was made Governor of Loui- siana. Congress must give that State a fair election as soon as it assembles, and the Pres- ident and his superserviceable Attorney Gen- eral must leave the local affairs of the South to local management. The administration must relievo itself, so far as it legally can, from all responsibility for what is done in the South. It must shift the responsibility to the shoul- ders of the Southern people. Had McEnery been inaugurated as Governor of Louisiana in | January, 1873, a8 he would have been if the President had not interfered, there would either have been no troubles in that State or they would have been chargeable to a demo- cratic State government. It is impossible to govern a State well against the wishes of the best classes of its people. It was sheer rash- ness for the republican party to undertake such an experiment. It would have been The Times’ article is evidently intended to teat | better, in a party view, to have left Louisiana gublic avinion. in democratic Lands than to have so responsibility for such a state of things as has existed under Kellogg. The gam principle is applicable to the other Southern States. They can be better governed at home than they can be from Washington, and if they are to be ill-governed the republican party had better acquit itself of all responsibility. If Congress, when it meets, will do prompt justice to Louisiana; if the President will select his Southern appointees from the best classes of the people; if he will take a re- spectable Southern man who understands and sympathizes with his section into the Cabinet; if he will hereafter have just as little to do as is legally possible in local Southern affairs, the republican party can recover lost ground and elect the next President, if it nominates a new and good candidate. The Legal Points in the Louisiana Controversy. The interesting legal discussion, of which the Heraup is the forum and two of the ripest and most eminent jurists of the United States have thus far been the principal dis- putants, has attracted universal notice in the pross of the country. The controversy is not yet ended, and other distinguished constitu- tional lawyers will present their views in our columns. It must not be supposed that Mr. Reverdy Johnson, whose first letter to the Heraup set the ball in motion, volun- teered his opinion or obtruded his views on the public. His opinion was solicited by the editor of the Heraup, and he gave it only in compliance with our request. We desired that the judgment of the American public on one of the most difficult and recon- dite questions which has ever arisen in our constitutional jurisprudence should be assisted bya higher order of discussion than is commonly met with on such topics. We applied to Mr. Johnson because his great professional learning and experience are united with so much fair-minded liberality that bis opinion was not likely to be tinged with party bins or personal prejudice. We felt that if we could prevail on him to accede to our request he would give ug an opinion as impartial and as able as could be written by a Chief Justice of the United States—a station which Mr. Johnson would have adorned had he been called to fill it. Our first preference fell upon him because he is a statesman as well as a lawyer, and the point on which we sought his opinion lies in that middle ground where the provinces of the statesman and the jurist meet. It is only under our American constitution that these two orders of thought are often blended and that men are produced, like Webster, who are great in both departments. Mr. John- son’s double experience as a lawyer and a statesman, standing in the front rank of both pursuits, led us to think that his conclusions were entitled to peculiar respect, He has earned the just thanks of the country, not only for his own instructive contributions to the public en- lightenment, but also and perhaps equally for a compliance which has enlisted in the same discussion other great jurista, who would not have cared to break a lance with an inferior antagonist. The result is that we are having one of the most inter- esting discussions which has ever appeared in the public press. Every intelligent mem- ber of both houses of Congress will read it and be better qualified to discharge his duties at the approaching session. Nothing so abie as this discussion has appeared in the press of the country since Hamilton, Madison and Jay made it the vehicle of the papers collected under the title of the Federalist, which ranks as our most important political classic. Fatal Fire—Censuare Jury. Corporations have no souls, therefore the individuals who compose them feel pretty much at liberty to do what they please, with a clear conscience. We wonder what the per- sons who compose the Gutta Percha Rubber Company will think when reading the censure of the Coroner’s jury, which lays at their doors the blame of the-death of two human beings. Will the members of the corpora- tion merely shrug their shoulders and console themselves by thinking that it is not they but the impersonal and soulless corpora- tion that is to blame? Perhaps their hearts, like their gutta percha rubbers, keep out the moisture of human tears by the cement of an impervious selfishness! It is disgraceful to the city government that no proper super- vision is exercised over manufactories known to carry on a dangerous business. Had adequate provision been made for the extin- guishing of fire two lives would not have been sacrificed and valuable property would not have been lost. But the recklessness of the company, supplemented by the gross indiffer- ence of the authorities, leave the lives and property of the citizens very much at the mercy of blind chance. by a Coroner's CONVENTION oF THE Episcora, CauRoH.— The Episcopal Convention has resulted in & movement for the virtual merging of the Canadian and American branches of the Anglican Church, Under the existing or- ganization it is found impossible to administer the Church to the best spiritual advantage, and hence the dele- gates were inclined to give greater powers to the bishops. It was recommended that no licenses should be issued to clergymen unless they were recommended by the bishops ot their dioceses. The question of the revival of consideration. Some unpleasantness caused by the exclusion of lay delegates from the pri- vate proceedings of the Convention was bridged over ; but the nomination of a bishop in Illinois produced quite a storm and is still under discussion. Taz Appz AND THE ApMrnaL.—A ques- tion of veracity has arison between the Abbé McMaster and the Madrid press. He does not believe, and so declares in a communication addressed to the Hxnanp, that Admiral Polo wrote the letter attributed to him by the papers of that city, in which appeared all the statements in the Hreeman’ s Journal rela- tive to the reported cession of the Isle of Porto Rico by Spain to Germany. “All that has been published by the Freeman's Journal on this topic," says the letter, “is a network of contemptible calumnies.” The Abbé cannot credit that the Admiral ever wrote this shocking statement, or read it, or signed it with his own band, the order of deaconesses was also taken into” “Whe Herald Roll Call.” The New Haven Palladium, commenting upon the ‘“Hzraxp Boll Call,’’ printed the other day, in which the opinions of the Senate and the House upon the third term question were given, complains of the classification by which some Congressmen were put down as for, others against, and still others as ‘‘trim- mers.” This the Palladium calls ‘a peculiar method of recapitulating.'’ But the Palladium must agree with us that it was just. The questions which our reporters were instructed to ask every member of the Senate and the House were these :—‘‘Are you in favor of a third term?’’ ‘Would you support General Grant if he were to be nominated again for the Presidency?’’ Many said they did not like the idea of a third term, but would support the President were he to be again nominated. These gentle- men we felt justified in claiming as practically in favor of a third term. Others did not know how they would act, preferring to wait for a year or two, They did not like the third term, but still they would not express an opinion. These gentlemen we felt justified in claiming as trimmers, but as reasonably sure for a third term-under pressure of party dis- cipline. Those only who were so firmly con- vinced from every reason that the election of a President for a third term would be a viola- tion of a constitutional principle as sacred as any provision of the constitution itself were credited as opposed to it, and as sure to op- pose it under any circumstance. The Evening Post prints a remarkable com- munication on the same subject, The pub- lication of the “roll call” is regarded as a feat in journalism ‘‘equal to the discovery of Livingstone.” Then allusion is made to the “extraordinary success” of the Heraup ‘in working up a great question while all the time protesting against it,” and that the Pres- ident, who ‘never retused a good thing,” must feel under obligations to the Herap for making a third term pos- sible. In other words, the Heraup in- vents ‘a sensation,” induces twenty-four Senators and seventy-eight members to accept it, twenty-one Senators and one hundred and five members to ‘‘trim’’ on the subject, gives it such a consequence that Vice President Wil- son regards it sa the most serious load the republican party has to carry in the canvass, and Cabinet Ministers anxious for seats in the Senate make oracular declarations concerning it, This would seem to us to be a most extraordinary evidence of ‘‘the mysterious in- fluence of the Hznatp,”’ of which so much has been written on different occasions. The Chattanooga Convention. The fact that the republican politicians of the South have come together in “a conven- tion shows that they are becoming amenable to public opinion. When people assemble in a convention they invite criticism and obser- vation, and only by criticism and observation ("can we hope to influence the new rulers of the South. The Warmoths, the Pinchbacks, and the new crop of statesmon which has sprung up out of the ruins of the Hamptons and the Breckinridges, wust learn that they represent nothing, not even the cupidity of their party. Party cupidity goes far with the Southern car- pet-baggers, and in the presence of the revolt of the colored men in Louisiana, of the revolt, flight and resignation of Busteed in Alabama, we can understand why there would be a convention. This body adjourned yes- terday, but with Smo wholesome result, Resolutions and an address were adopted charging all the misfortunes of the South upon the democrats, But we do not see that any opinion was expressed as to Mosesism in Carolina, Kelloggism in Louisiana and Brooks- ism in Arkansas—subjects upon which any statement from the Convention would have unusual interest. Diphtheria. Well considered sanitary regulations, strict- ly enforced, should well nigh eradicate froma city like this every disease that is propagated principally by contagion. If it be definitely certain that a disease is kept up in a commu- nity only by contagion, and the authorities have such power to deal with it as the Board of Health has in this city, it is conceivable that such a disease could be so thoroughly under the control of the sanitary police that @ person who caught it might have his right ot action against the city, just as he would for an injury resulting from a defective pave- ment. Over diphtheria, however, it cannot be conceived that they can have soclear a control, simply because, though mainly con- tinued contagion, its manifestations are appa not limited to such an origin. It is a disease, nevertheless, that is indisputably of the number of those that are kept down by an effective sanitary police, and the fact that it is unduly prevalent in certain parts of the city and has become endemic points to the inadequacy of the steps taken to compel the report of cases and the isolation of the cases reported. Diphtheria seems to depend alike on the pestilential elements that abound in badly kept neighborhoods and on atmospherte in- fluences that must be common with these and with neighborhoods that are irreproachable hygienically. Our city is now subject to a scourge of malaria, and this has its influence, no doubt, in keeping up the malady; and it is possible that the promiscuous daily min- gling of many hundreds of little ones in our public schools has an influence in the same way. Whatever may be the especial circum- stances in our hygienic condition which foster this disease, they seem to call for an attention which they appear not to have received from the sanitary authorities ; for, with the winter coming on, the cold, the hunger and the misery that it may find in the homes of the poor will tend still more to spread the con- tagion that may assume the proportions of a public calamity. ‘Tue Granoers.—The grangers, so far, are an unknown quantity in the results of the late ‘Western elections, and their weight as a bal- ance of power appears to be of no consequence. We Parr elsewhere an extract from a pri- Hartford, descriptive of a typhoon which swept over the harbor of Nagasaki last Au- gust. The letter is written ina style worthy of Fenimore Oooper or Captain Marryat, and the young gentleman, should he culti- vate his literary gifts, may win as much fame with his pen as he seems to be capable of winning with his sword, vate letter of Midshipman Shufeldt, of the | The Pennsyivania Election. Pennsylvania, by the adoption of a new constitution, has abdicated the pernicious pre- cedence she had in the politics of the country. Radical journals, once democratic, such a8 Forney’s Press, which shuddered at the name of Hamilton, see in this coincidence of elec- tions, new illustration of a craving for Hamil- tonian unification. To us of the outside and independent world it is simp!y matter of con- tentment that the unfortunate influence which ® community notoriously in its politics cor- rupt was able to exercise is at an end for- ever. All such phrases ag ‘‘As Pennsylvania goes so goes the Union” are obsolete. She votes with the other States in November, and her agents, democrats or republicans, need not come here any more for tribute. Still Pennsylvania is too important an integer in the political sum to be overlooked, and this year her crisis is an interesting one. Why, it may not be amiss to show. For the first sixty years of her constitutional his- tory, democracy—old-fashioned, honest, prej- udiced democracy—held sway. The elections of Heister, and Ritner, and Johnston and Pol- lock were accidents and exceptions. Democ- raoy proved itself corruptible when Mr. Biddle bought eight or ten Senators in 1836, Simon Cameron largely assisting, and Old Thad Stevens playing Hecate at the caldron. Thus inoculated the disease spread and both parties soon showed very puralent superficial sp ots. In 1860 radicalism captured the citadel, and has been intrenched there ever since. Tho war came, and gallantly as Pennsylvania soldiers behaved at a distance, at home cor- ruption reigned supreme, until, as now, mis- government, which the familiar word ‘‘ring- ism’’ inadequately describes, has become so hatefully oppressive that revolt outside of meré party organization, in‘fact extending to both parties, threatens to make itself felt. The first symptom that signified anything was the adoption of this very new constitution, which, from one end to the other of the State, was bitterly opposed by the corruptionists. For the Ring Convention at Harrisburg, which nominated Paxson and was manipu- lated by an audacious leader lke Mann, to pretend the constitution was their work was the most grotesque im- pudence. It was the work of the discontented masses, afd there is no reason (and hence one element of interest and hope) to suppose that a preliminary victory will be thought suf- ficient. If any considerable share of this feel- ing can be infused into the coming contest, strengthened as it may be by aversion to ‘third termism,’’ and to ‘Crédit Mobilier’’ and “salary grabbing,” in which Pennsyl- vania republicans (with one or two demo- crats) largely indulged, there is every reason to anticipate a decisive opposition victory in November. On the other hanti, there are ele- ments at work which foretell a different result. The local municipal ‘“rings,"’ controlling elec- tion machinery and with obsequious judges to back them, will not surrender without o desperate struggle. They know if once dis- lodged the fate of Tweed is theirs, and that even Philadelphia justice will be inexorable. Then, too, the contro! of the Legislature has especial importance in this that on it devolves the duty of electing a Senator on the expira- tion of Mr. Scott's term. This raises a peculiar tangle. Mr. Scott, though elected asa Cameron man, has proved restive. His intelli- gent sense of duty to himself and his State has prompted him to revolt, and it is perfectly well understood that, in his subterranean way, his colleague is moving heaven and earth to defeat him. This time General Cameron has @ more sentimental motive than usual, which we are not inclined to condemn, and which, possibly, is as intense as if it werd a matter of personal ambition. He sees in public life a succession of Adamses and Stocktons and Frelinghuysens and Bayards, and why not Camerons? He wishes to attain the unusual honor of seeing himself and his son in the Senate at once. For this he strives, and a good deal of power of mischief still survives even in the ashes. Mr. Scott is not, we imagine, ready to be sacrificed on this account, and, doubtless, is busily at work. Hence new dem- ocratic hope, though it may bea matter of policy to help Mr. Scott. A decided demo- cratic majority in the Legislature would, of course, choose a decided democrat, and we may see Mr. Buckalew restored or Senator Wallace elected, or it might be Judge Black, or the recluse, Mr. Cowan. It may be that Mr. Scott's friends will hold the balance, and then, it seems to us, obvious policy would point out the clear path before those who have to make the choice. These, then, are the most striking aspects of the coming Keystone contest. Aserrtcan Ancuirecrs In ConvENTION.—It is a good sign to see the members of the Archi- tects’ Institute endeavoring to call public attention to the state of the Building laws. One of the great sources of danger to our cities arises from the ignorance of the men who erect our buildings, public and private, and this evil will never be cured until the super- vision of all buildings in the course of erection is given to properly quali- fied architects. In Europe this plan is found to prevent fraud, as well as to secure the use of proper materials and the execution of work in a sound and lasting manner, This is just what we want in America, and if the American architects can induce the State gov- ernments to pass proper building laws they will have rendered « great service to the pub- lic. It is to be regretted that they do not bring before the putlic more clearly and more frequently the abuses of the present building laws, with which they are so competent to deal. Sournzrn Ovutrases have failed to servo the republicans this time in Ohio. It is a cry of ‘wolf !'’ which bas so often been repeated that even the old women of the Western Re- serve are no longer frightened by it. The Chattanooga Southern Republican Conven- tion on Ku Klux and White League atfocities comes too late for the Northern market, Taz Francia, Question mm Ont0o.—The Cincinnati Gazette (republican) says that ‘‘on a platform of repudiation, inflation, anti- temperance and general cussedness, the demo- cratic party has carried Ohio by a decided majority."’ The Cincinnati ‘er (demo- crat) says that ‘‘the election means opposition to the national bank monopoly ; that the vol- ume of the currency should be enlarged, and that there should bs a tariff for revenue only.” The Ohio and the Indiana democratic plat- “arma in this late canvase declared for the re- demption of the national bonds in green backs; but if these elections mean green- backs and inflation they still mean something more and something better. The Stilietto in the Siums. The sentence passed by Recorder Hackett on Joseph Vaccari in the Court of Special Sessions will meet with general approval from all thinking men, The prisoner was an Italian ragpicker, who killed his fellow countryman because they disputed about the possession of two cents, It is evident a person who places such slight value on human life will be better in State Prison than in the crowded slums of this city. His punishment, too, will no doubt have a deterrent effect on men of hié class. This is the more to be de- sired a8 we seem destined to hold in our midst a large Italian colony, and it would be dangerous to allow them to imagine for a moment that they can use their stillettoes om every one with whom they may quarrel fora few cents They have already made themselves unpleasantly conspicuous by the use of the knife, and it is now time for them to learn that if they will stab they must go to State Prison; or if that will not restrain their fierce passions we shall most certainly try what the gallows can accomplish. We hope the Recorder's lesson will impress itself on their minds, and we would advise them to send back their stillettoes to their friends, as here they will do better without them, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Typhoid fever is very severe in Rome. General Changarnier ts seriously tndisposed. Ab enormous yield in the Bordelais vineyards, State Senator D. P, Wood, of Syracuse, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman Lyman Tremain, of Albany, is atay- tug at the Gilsey House. Mayor John H. Buch, of Lockport, N, Y., is regia- tered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain Kennedy, of the steamship Baltic, has arrived at the Winchester House. Major J. M. Whittemore, United States Army, uw quartered at the Albemarle Hotel. Secretary Robeson arrived in this city last even~ ing and is at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Dr. John Eric Ericksen, the eminent English sar- geon, 1s residing at the Windsor Hotel. Mr. J. G. Beals, uf the Boston Post, is among the recent arrivals at the Westminster Hotel, Butler thanks God that he had no hand in the Alabama arbitration, So do the rest of us. Mr. William Black's new volume of short stories deals with the life of the Asher people of the He- brides. Generai J. Meredith Read, Jr., United States Minister to Greece, is sojuurning at the Fut Avenue Hotel. Stupid peonle arg the most gogtinate, and ir ta natoral that ¢ man should stick to his ideas when he bas but few. Captain Gore Jones, naval attaché of the Britiaa Legation, arreved from Washington yesterday at the Clarendon Hotel. Major Joseph A, Potter, of the Quartermaster's Department, United States Army, has quarters at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin has arrived im Philadelphia and is giving his time to promoting, the success of the Ventennial Exposition. Is the Onto election @ triamph of “General, Cussedness,"” and if so, would general cussedness perhaps be a good change {rom republivan virtuer Butler was sound on the fisheries, and that is the only topic his district is tnterested in, As for moieties and all that they are magnificently to- different. How much i given in political circles for the heads painted on banners of those distinguished politicians who expected nominations but did not get them? 7 The remarkable work of Professor Quatrefages, “The Natural History of Man,’’ has been trans- lated by Miss Youmans, and will be published by D, Appleton & Co, The daughter of Baron Alphonse de Rothschii@ has just passed at Paris the examination re- quired for persons who intend to adopt the proiession of teacher. From tne Ohio returns it would appear that the Northern people do not place ali their confidence in the Southern “outrages” that occur go regularly just before election time, If Russia shoula request Prussia to execute those stipulations in the Treaty of Prague, by which it was agreed to settie the Schleswig Hol- stein dispute, it might be done. Hurst & Blackett, of London, have in prepara- tion a new work, entitled ‘Wild Life in Florida,” from the pen of Captain Townshend, of the Second Life Guards, the author of “Ten Thousand Miles of Travel.’ An excited railway man who shouts into the cars the name of the station, and who. hears great deal of complaint because the names are called indistincly, wants to know if the public expects tenors at $40 a month? An operator onthe Paris Bourse died witn a broken heart because of his tailure to meet his obligation. He died a few weeks since only, but he said, “Write on my coffin that I died om April 5; that was the day on which 1 did not pay my differences.” Either a great many thoughtful persons are very ‘wrong in their judgment of the administration in its relation to Louisiana and the liberties pf the people, or the elections to come between now and the next national canvass will sweep the republi- can party away as if a whirlwind had caught tt. Patti will sing Valentine in French at the French Opera House, Paris. The management of the Italian opera seems not to like it; and Patti saya that “when one has been go long away froma house they may easily mistake the entrance and ‘go in next door’—which is just a little spiteful. The ‘Civil Damage Act’’ is better than a pro- hibitory law. Rum was sold to a lad, which led to his death, and the father has recovered $2,000 damages {rom the man who furnished the fluid. It 18 possible, therefore, to compel dealers to exer- cise some discretion in their sales, and that is what is really wanted, Attorney General Williams decides that itis tha duty of the United States authorities to enforce every act of Congress, and Congress deems it its daty to enact anv law lt may deem “appropriate’’ to the condition of the Southern States, Why not recognize at once that there are no Southern States, that all power over the Southern people is in Congress, that the States are blotted out by. the fourteenth amendment as interpreted? Cardinal Cullen, of Dublin, has come out against the opera and the scenes it presents as scandal- ‘ous, He seems to describe the opera of “Robert the Devil,” and his objection is that it presents om the stage a Catholic church. He says:—“The pro, ceedings commenced .with a procession of pre- tended nuns, represented by the ballet girls of the theatre. After this scene the disguised actresses took their seats in the choir, ana chanted, in a most discordant and disgusting way, the litanies or psalms used in the sacred liturgy of the Church, and went through other theatrical pretences of prayer.” If they sang discordantly denunciation serves them right. An envious Englishman, named W. D. Cooley, has poured out his spleen against Dr. Livingstone ina pamphlet entitled ‘Dr. Livingstone and the Royal Geographical Society.” Mr. Cooley is @ acientific geographer who, without ever having. set foot in Africa, has written several books apous that country, His books are honestly and well done, and deserve greater fame tnan they have received; but Mr. Cooley, in a fit of blind jeulousy fat the popular acceptance of the iabors of Africam travellers, now attacks in the magt ibellous terms both Livingstone and ‘the Geographical Society and its colaborers. He abuses and defames the men who have “walked across Africa,” and en- deavors to “get even’’ with Livingstone, who once described Mr. Cooley as “an old armchair geog- Tapher who wrote ‘inner A(rica Laid Qoen!"