The New York Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1875, Page 6

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Rag money is worth 86.20. Money on call was quoted at four per cent. Ler tee Execrion Cry be ‘Strike the | whole Tammany ticket !” Fuysyy Fetzows.—It does not seem to be \go much of a joke to exhibit one’s capacity to explode a can of nitro glycerine in a public square ; but, as will be seen elsewhere, this appears to be thofight witty at Harvard; and perhaps it is ontside opinion that is at fault. Doran's Exp.—Dolan, the murderer of Mr. Noe, was yesterday found guilty and sen- tenced to be hanged on the 10th of December. This is an effective administration of the j hort, sharp and de- cases of this sort ‘Tre Scnest Wax to vote against John Kelly and the one-man power is to vote for the whole anti-Tammany ticket. It is better than the regular ticket. The nominees are of higher character as an average. It may be anfortunate to defeat some of the Tammany nominees, but it is no time to distingnish, Btrike the whole ticket. Let the battle be shoroughly fought and thoroughly won, | see, since last January, what the municipal -officers of his court? NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. The State and City Canvass. The ratification meeting at Tammany Hall this evening is got up for the benefit of the Tammany local ticket, as is shown by the wording of the call. Its purpose is to save Tammany by the imputed merits of Gov- ernor Tilden—a sort of vicarious atonement in politics, like that by which sinners are re- deemed on account of other merits than their own. It is thought by the Tammany chief that under the broad mantle of Governor Til- den’s reform and ex-Governor Seymour's elo- quence the undemocratic character of Tam- many can be covered. We assume that Mr. mour will speak only in support of the ate ticket; but the fact that Tammany in- vited him, that Tammany issued the call, that Tammany will organize the meeting, will be used to convey the impression that support of Governor Tilden is the same thing asa support of Mr. John Kelly. There are thirty or forty thousand democratic voters in ty who are not prepared to accept the this | view that Tilden and Kelly are Siamese twins. There are thirty or forty thousand democrats in this city who will vote for Governor Tilden's State ticket, while they scorn and spit upon | the Tammany nominations for city officers. In the foremost rank of the citizens who make this discrimination we may place Mr. Ottendorfer and his German following. His paper, the Staats Zeitung, gives a zealous sup- port to Governor Tilden and the democratic State ticket, though repudiating the Tam- many local nominations. There are twenty or thirty thousand honest German citizens who will give their ballots for the Syracuse ticket and yet do all in their power to de- feat the ticket of the Tammany autocrat. Most of the supporters of Mr. Morrissey will vote the democratic State ticket, though detesting Tammany. Their presence at the Tammany meeting to-night will merely attest their approbation of the reform policy of Governor Tilden; but Mr. Kelly intends to construe it as an indorsement of his odious autocracy. The Tammany call for this meeting is addressed to “all who are in fuyor of a wise | and economical administration of the muni- | cipal government.” Ifthe municipal govern- | ment had not been for the last year in the | hands of the demoeratie party this appeal be supposed to relate to democratic promises unembarrassed by democratic performance. But our citizens have had an opportunity to government really is under democratic con- trol. It is an act of singular effrontery to ask the people of the city to indorse such government as they have had since the begin- ning of the year. There has never been a period when the local government gave such universal dissatisfaction. It has been in the power of the democratic Mayor and democratic Governor, acting together, to reform every department of the city admin- istration; but it continues as bad as it was when Governor Tilden and Mayor Wickham came into office. The Mayor and Governor have been at loggerheads a great | part of the time, and the city administration is worse than it was under Mayor Have- meyer. It isan insult to common sense to ask the citizens of New York to come to- gether and indorse such a municipal admin- istration as we have had since the beginning of the democratic régime in January. What can Governor Seymour say in defence of our municipal government since it came into democratic hands? Nothing in praise of his friend Governor Tilden can change the opin- ion of our citizens that our democratic city government has been altogether bad. And yet he is called here and Senator Kernan is ealled here in the hope that their speeches in favor of Governor Tilden may shield the im- becile administration of the city. Our citizens have too much discrimination to vote for the nominees of Mr. John Kelly because Gover- nor Tilden has made war on the Canal Ring. What have the canal exposures to do with the fact that General Porter made. over the patronage of his department to Mr. Kelly to be used for political purposes? What | bearing has Governor Tilden’s reform policy on Mr. Kelly's determination to slaughter Recorder Hackett because Recorder Hackett refused to aliow Tammany to appoint the Our citizens have less knowledge of Governor Tilden’s State reforms than of the manifest evils of their city gov- ernment ; and, while Governor Tilden’s mo- tives are open to dispute, they think there is no ground for dispute as to the exceeding | badness of the city government. The at- tempt of Tammany to shield the municipal government behind Governor Tilden’s merits is a fraudulent dodge which everybody can see through. Our citizens know that Goy- ernor Tilden has not been in unison with the self treated its demands with contempt last winter, it seems inconceivable that so true and sound a democrat as Mr. Seymour can intend his indorsement of Governor Tilden to be construed as implying any degree of appreciation of an organization which has been a constant sore on the democratic party of this State, which broke forth as a malig- nant ulcer under Tweed, and which continues to lord it over free democratic action under Mr, John Kelly. Mr. Seymour would make a great mistake if he should say anything in the very able speech which he is certain to make implying indorsement of the Tammany methods. He needs to bear in mind that there are thirty or forty thousand demoerats in this city who will vote for Gov- ernor Tilden’s State ticket to attest their support of his reform measures, who, never- theless, detest and repudiate the undemo- cratic one man power wielded in this city by Mr. John Kelly, and who would sooner see the State ticket defeated than Mr. Kelly's arrogant dictatorship strengthened. Ex-Gov- ernor Seymour must not lend his eloquence and his great influence to whitewash Tam- many, which nearly destroyed the democratic party under Tweed and has failed to redeem its reputation under Kelly, If the weather favors there willbe a great meeting to-night, but it will be a tribute to the eminent speaker and to Governor Tilden, not an in- dorsement of Tammany. The Fire on the Pacific Coast—Inflam- mhable Cities. An appeal is made to us for aid to our brethren on the Pacific coast who have suf- fered a calamity which as yet is without par- allel except in our strange American civiliza- tion. The burning of Chicago and Boston and Portland is followed by the burning of Virginia City, one of the most prosperous communities of our Pacific empire. Virginia City has grown up in a few years, mainly on aceount of its proximity to the great silver mines of Nevada, to be a town of unusual brillianey, enterprise and prosperity. There has searcely been a mail from California during the last year that has not told us of the incredible wealth that has been gathered in the Big Bonanza mines upon which it stands. The city was built over these mines, ; and was really nothing more than a great would seem more pertinent, because it might | workshop for the use of those who lived by mining development. The destruction of the town is only a part of the evil of the fire. It arrests’ a great industry. It putsa sudden stop upon the large and daily in- creasing supply of bullion. It throws thou- sands of people out of shelter and employ- ment ata time when shelter and employ- ment are peculiarly needful. In all new settlements there is a tendency to build with the lightest and most easily procured materials. No one regards the structures so erected as other than tempo- rary, but every one puts up such temporary buildings, so that we find cities built of wood and arranged with all the method that can in- sure their destruction sooner or later by a general conflagration. Cities like Chicago and Boston, that had reached the age of per- being blotted out by great fires. Massive buildings of iron and granite, but roofed with wood, lined the streets. Warehouses that to all outward appearance were perfectly tinder boxes pierced with vertical elevator shafts, through which the fire from the lower stories raged upward with the melt- ing heat of blast “furnaces, presented the imposing appearance to the visitor that won for these cities their character for wealth and grandeur. But when the fire fiend came these magnificent buildings were shriv- elied into nothing by his breath, while many of the humble brick cottages escaped. Vir- ginia City, Nev., is the latest example of the fate of inflammable cities. Perched on the arid eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Moun- tains, near the California State line, this lately prosperous settlement was the centre of the mining activity and enter- prise of the State. Now, thanks to wooden houses, wooden churches, wooden hotels, wooden sidewalks, wooden fences and wooden everything that could be made of wood, the city is a heap of ashes. Can we not learn something, even in this great me- tropolis, from the fate of Virginia City? Our water supply is abundant, it is true, and we possess a most efficient corps of firemen, trained to battle with the dreaded ele- ment; but our building system is s0 bad and dangerous as to invite destruc- | tion on the city. There is scarcely a | row of tenement houses in New York that is not a source of danger. Party walls are mere thin mockeries of the name. joists are recklessly built into chimney democratic city authorities. Everybody re- members the contem pt with which he treated Mayor Wickham’s removals. The present barefaced attempt to cover Tammany with the broad mantle of Governor Tilden’s merits cannot delude any citizen of ordinary intelli- gence. Our only reg is that Governor Tilden does not make his contempt of the democratic city magnates as conspicuous session last winter. Anxious as Mr. Seymour and Mr. Kernan are for the success of the democratic State ticket, they can have no real sympathy with Tammany, under whose auspices they come here to speak. They know that Tammany rests under the ban of the democracy of the State. They know that a man whom they both trusted, the late William Cassidy, offered a resolution in the Democratic State Convention of 1871 which put Tammany be- yond the pale of democratic recognition ; that that resolution was adopted, and that it remains the standing law of the democragy of the State. Their consent to come here and speak under the auspices of Tammany is mere tolerance, not approval. They know More Money Wastev.—Kelley, who once | iay heavy on the soul of the nation in the | form of the pig iron nightmare, and who | now lifts us from solid ground with the airy | fancies of inflation, has been to Georgia. He | says that people there have not got money | the free nection of citizens, They know too well what endless trouble Tammany has caused in democratic State conventions ever since they have been active in politics. They know too well how utterly re- pugnant it is to democratic princi- ples for a local oligarchy to override now as he did while the Legislature was in | breasts. | with an incendiary compound of pitch and | paper: Wooden fences, rendered highly in- | flammable by long exposure to the summer | heat, extend from house to house and from | end to end of every block, forming the most perfect conductors of flame in case of fire. | New York has hitherto escaped by a miracle, manent structures, have narrowly escaped | fireproof, but which in reality were mere | Flooring | Roofs are light and often covered | | Let us reform our building system and meet | | the mercies of God half way by exercising Peace on Wan.—‘‘So far as human judg- | ment can discern, peace is more assured now than at any time during the twenty years preceding the reconstruction of the Empire.” Such was the semi-prophetic observation made yesterday in the name of William of Germany to the German Parliament. Such a phrase from an Emperor may justly lead people to apprehend the early occurrence of war. | Tue Lexapro Mey on the anti-Tammany | ticket are Hackett and Phelps. About them | | a strong canvass is made because of the at- tacks of John Kelly upon our honest Re- | ney. But the friends of independent gov- | ernment in New York should not be content | with electing Hackett and Phelps. They | should elect the whole ticket, Let Kelly find his Waterloo on Tuesday. Let him be routed, horse, foot and dragoon, Let every voter strike the whole Tammany ticket and vote against every nominee from the top to with which to transact ordinary business, | that in no other part of the United States | the bottom. The good men whom Tam- This must make them regret the flush days of pontrast | does there exist such an arrogant cabal which | many has nominated and who would thus e Confederacy, when there was so much | dictates nominations and tolerates no dis- | be defeated can be taken care of in the money in circulation that a man often paid a | sent. As this kind of junta exists nowhere thousand dollars for » ten cent cigar. The | else in the democratic party,as it has been poverty of these days is lamentable by the | condemned by the Democratic State Conven- | future, when we have a reorganized. democ- racy. Now the fight is upon the one man power as typified by John Kelly. Let it be tion of New York. as Governor Tilden him- fought to win. corder and our high-minded District Attor- | The Case of Carruth. Finally, after a memorable struggle for life, Carruth has fallen a victim to the in- juries received at Vineland, seven months ago, froma pistol ball. His case was first separated from ordinary cases of this sort by the fact that he did not die in the ordinary way, and his apparent recovery-after a short convalescence gave scientific interest to the tragic story. It may be remembered that when this injury was received the victim was first cared for by a local practitioner of the homwopathie faith, who was, perhaps, his family physician. The case was seen once by Dr. Gross, the eminent surgeon, who gave the wound some attention, but by the wish of the family it fell entirely into the hands of the homeopathists. They deemed it well to spare themselves the pain of further in- quiry with regard to the whereabouts of the missile. Some symptoms in the right eye attracted their attention and apparently en- couraged them in jumping to the conclusion that the bullet was lodged in the immediate vicinity of thAt organ; and this opinion, not irrational in the circumstance, was a dis- couragement toany effort at extraction. They, therefore, gave the patient arnica, That is to say, under the thin disguise of giving him about a drop of arnica ona pound of sugar in the course of a month they left him alone, medically speaking. As no large ves- sels were opened he throve on this treat- ment until the orifice of the wound closed, and then the accumulating pus, pent in, ex- cavated nearly a whole lobe of the brain, in- capacitated the essential organ for its func- tions, and necessarily caused death. Dr. Gross had found, on his examination, within the cranium and an inch and a half from the mouth of the wound the fragment of bone that the bullet had forced before it in penetrating the skull, and the post-mortem has demonstrated that the bullet itself was in that immediate neighborhood. It can scarcely be supposed that the fact of finding this im- portant fragment so far within the wound was lost on the surgeon’s mind. He, more- over, was aware that all that portion of the cerebral matter which had closed up the course of the bullet a day or two later was so bruised that it must necessarily die, and he would have had no _hesita- tion, therefore, in working through it with a probe ; and so doing, on the hint given by that piece of bone, he would have found the bullet. Buta more important consequence would have appeared in the subsequent treat- human creature could have prevented the molecular death of the bruised parts of the brain; but he would have provided for the discharge of the results of Suppuration, for the outflow of that which,"being pent in, be- came at last the real cause of death. In his hands, therefore, the patient would have had his final chance for life; and as the patient actually exhibited the possession of the necessary physical stamina he would, in all probability, haye finally recovered, The post-mortem fully accounts for the peculiarities of the ease, and confirms pre- viously known physiological truths. As the course of the bullet in the brain was so short it cut no arteries of consequence, and hence the man did not bleed to death. Doubtless there was meningitis ; but in this disorder it is the product of inflammation that kills, and in the present case this product escaped by the wound. Only the function of vision was disturbed, and this was apparently beeause the bullet touched an optic nerve above the point of decussation. No other essential function was affected, and this agrees with the faet that the wound had not reached any of the great ganglia. But though the hemi- spheres are the seat of thought and though all the injury was in one of the hemispheres the man thought clearly and as soundly, at least, asever. One hemisphere, however, was uninjured and thought was in one sense embarrassed. Immediately after the injury the man did not readily respond to inquiries made, There was a delay of a minute or more sometimes before he could clearly com- prehend what was said or frame an answer. Intellectual operations, therefore, though performed, were performed with less facility. There was an impediment to the co-ordina- tion of these operations. If there is any ordinary act that men habitually do with two hands and they sud- denly find one hand crippled, they can, per- haps, do this act with the remainjng hand alone, but they do it clumsily and they are longer about it. This is only an illustration of the kind of trouble that came over Car- ruth’s mind when one-half the organ of intel- lect wascompelled to do alone what is com- monly done by the two halves in unison, and what the case seems to show in this regard is that while co-ordination of the two hemi- spheres is ordinarily the condition of intel- lectual operations the independent action of one is possible. “The Committee on Discipline.” It is distressing to read of the perpetual meetings of John Kelly's Committee on Discipline. We always suspect an army whose commander-in-chiéf finds it neces- sary to order out a squad of soldiers every morning to shoot mutineers. When an army is healthy and satisfied ; when it believes in its leaders, its principles and its flag, there is no need of ‘‘discipline.” The soldiers are content and cheerful. They stand by their cause and are willing to die for it. No | fatigue of the march, no danger of action, no labor in the trenches, neither cold nor hunger nor wounds nor disease nor death appal them. They have within the burning fire of a great cause. That is their sustain- ing hope, even to victory. But when matters go badly; when the general | loses his head; when trusted offi- cers are overthrown and favorites are placed in command; when the pay is cut down; when contractors are allowed to rob the soldiers; when'shoes are of paper and uniforms of shoddy; when they begin to find that, after all, there is no principle at stake; that the war is a war for personal gain, is it any wonder they mutiny? This is the con- dition of Tammany Hall. Every morning | we read of the meeting of the Committee on | Discipline, and that another batch of de- | serters has been shot. ‘To-day it isin one district, to-morrow it in another. Poor | John Kelly and his officers are riding from rank to rank, from camp to camp, sabring here and shooting there and threatening elsewhere. and breathing ment of the case, Neither he nor any other-.| wrath and defiance. All the time the mutiny keepson. The army is going to pieces. It is because John Kelly is wrong in his ideas of leadership. It is because he has no longer the confidence of his army. It is because he is endeavoring to force the soldiers to support secret organizations and one man power and absolutism. It is because he is recreant to the true principles of democracy. No wonder the army mutinies. No wonder that the Committee on Discipline, like the old committees of the French Revolution, are up to their knees in the blood of decapitated de- serters and are yet as far from “harmony and victory” as ever, The Monument to Edgar Allan Poe. It is fitting that some memorial should mark the grave of the greatest of American poets—one who in some of the very highest elements of genius has never been surpassed. The gentlemen who conceived the idea of the monument which to-day will be dedi- cated in Westminster churchyard, Baltimore, deserve much credit for the zeal and modesty with which they have performed their duties. It gratifies a natural feeling that this tribute shall be paid to the uncon- scious sleeper. Everywhere throughout the world it will please those who have felt the magical spell of his genius to know that he is thus honored by his countrymen, Poe has suffered much from the slanders and the injudicious praises of his biogra- phers, and everything that throws light upon the facts of his life becomes more im- portant as the greatness of his place in Eng- lish literature is appreciated. The remin- iscences of his last hours, which Dr. J. J. Moran, of Baltimore, publishes for the first time to-day, will, therefore, be read with profound interest. It has always been said that Poe died in Baltimore from the effects of & prolonged debauch, but Dr. Moran intimates that his death was caused by an overdose of opium, taken to subdue excessive nervous excite- ment. But one story is not inconsistent with the other. The facts narrated by Dr. Moran do not contradict, but rather support, the supposition that Poe had been drinking to excess in the few days preceding his death. The dying words of the poet seem inspired by a terrible remorse, not justified, in the opinion of the world, by the wrongs he had committed, but a remorse inevitable to his proud and sensitive soul, as the result of vast powers abused and mighty opportuni- ties neglected. ‘Poetry to me,” he said in the brief preface to his poems, ‘has not been a purpose, but a passion, and the passions may not be trifled with.” The dialogue which Dr. Moran reports shows that his physical sufferings were not to be compared with his mental agony. Of its substantial accuracy there is no question, but it is no re- flection upon Dr. Moran, who watched over the dying man with fidelity and tenderness, to express the opinion that the exact words of Poe are not in all cases given. We cannot imagine Poe, even if delirious, constructing such a sentence as that begin- ning, ‘‘Langnage cannot tell the gushing wave,” &.;or uttering in the hour of his death the abstraction about “the arched heavens.” But independently of the verbal exactness of this report in one or two cases, in which the memory might easily err, it is a picture of Poe's deathbed which makes a deep and solenin impression on the reader's mind. There is nothing more tragic even in his own poetry than his own end. He died, in remorse and misery, just before the day appointed for his marriage, and thus re- peated in actual fate the story told in his poem of “Ulalume,” where the poet wander- ing at night in the month of October, follows in joy the mystical splendor of the star of love, and in the moment of his rapture and bliss is stopped by the door of a tomb. Mr, Blunt on Stonewall Jackson, Mr. George W. Blunt is too patriotic, else he would not look into the past so closely or object so sternly to the sentiments uttered at Richmond on Tuesday when the statue to Stonewall Jackson was unveiled. It was an event in which there was no dishonor to the memories of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers whose bodies fill graves from the Mississippi to the Potomac, as Mr. Blunt affects to believe. Nothing of the kind was intended, and we are sure the living soldiers of the North will not regard it as any reflec- tion on their dead comrades. They are not more likely to forget the side on which Stonewall Jackson fought than Mr. Blunt, who shows himself incapable of forgiving it, but they will remember also that the flag, in battling against which General Jackson earned his great renown, was everywhere displayed along the line of the procession in his honor and was greeted with enthusiasm by the vast multitude. No thought of disloyalty was in the minds or hearts of the thousands who participated in the ceremonies, and those who love their gov- ernment best were foremost to honor the memory of its most earnest foe. Such an event would not have been contemplated in any other country, nor would it have been permitted anywhere else; but this only proves the liberality of the American people and their confidence in their institutions. Ina republic the people can afford to honor the virtues of even their stoutest enemies, and this was all that the Virginians purposed or attempted. The name of Stonewall Jack- son is very dear to them, not so much be- cause he was a stern and successful soldier as because his virtues shone as resplendent as his valor, and for this reason the whole country looked on with satisfaction when they erected an enduring monument to his fame. A Contrasr.—Two items appeared in yes- terday’s Henatp which are calculated to ex- cite some attention, One is contained ina despatch from Washington, and tells us that “the total force in the office of the Treasurer of the United States consists of three hundred and ninety-six persons, and their salaries aggregate $414,000." The other is embraced in the city budget now be- fore the Board of Apportionment, and shows that the amount to be appropriated to the Comptroller of the city of New York for ex~ penses of his department for next year is $255,000. This year the Comptroller re- ceives for salaries $225,000 and employs about one hundred and fifty persons. ‘Thus it will cost nearly two-thirds as much next year to run the city Comptroller's office as to run the Office of the Treasurer of the United States. It will also be observed that, while the sala- ries of the employés in the United States Treasurer's office average only a trifle over ) $1,000 per annum, the salaries in the Comp- troller's office this year average $1,500 per an- num. The Downtown Fight—The Lion and the Fox. The great battle of the municipal campaign will be fought in the Fourth Senatorial dis- trict. On one side John the lion, on the other John the fox, The lion and the fox struggle for the Senatorship, Callahan and Quinn for the Civil Justice. The real fight is between the lion and the fox, the big John and the cheap John of New York poli- ties, the one maintaining that the salaries of Wickham and his lazy officials shall be re- duced, and insisting that the poor laborers shall receive two dollars a day; the other de- claring that Wickham and his men shall re- main undisturbed and that true economy consists in lessening the wages of the laborer. Mr, Justice Quinn is a conspicuous politician, the trusted friend of John Kelly, who made himself immortal in New York politics by first viewing “with alarm the rapid growth of the German element in this country of ours.” Itis remembered to his detriment, also, that Justice Quinn presided in Tammany'’s General Committee when the decree of condemnation was entered against the laboring men of this great me- - tropolis, He sat in the tribunal when the proclamation of banishment was issued against Morrissey and his followers because they had the manhood to raise their voices against this Ring, John Kelly demands that the laboring men of New York shall confirm Tammany’s misdeeds by electing to office his flatterers and servants in the ban- ner district of Tammany. The fight grows more and more intense. Whatever the people may think of many instances of Mor- rissey’s character they know he will not steal, and that he will not shrink from an emergency, and that he has no interest apart from the people. He is neither a liar, a coward, a thief nor a sluggard. Before the canvass is over it would not surprise us if John Kelly learned in the banner district of Tammany the lesson of Shakespeare:— The man that once did sell the lion’s skin While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him, Tuanxsatvinc.—The President has issued the usual proclamation, recommending the observance throughout the whole country of that good, old-fashioned festival of whose celebration the Puritans gave the first exam- ple, ‘though in a manner quite different to that most favored in these days. The proc- lamation is not altogether in the usual style, and makes some declarations that will be criticised and starts from some assump- tions that will not be admitted, but its gene- ral recommendation will be none the less welcome, for the festival is of popular origin and needs only general consent to the date; and the only use of the proclamation is to fix this. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The Palace Hotel at San Francisco is already full—or waiters, Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana, has returned to his home in New Orleans. Mountains of isinglass, worth a dollar per pound, is the newest Black Hills attraction. Utica has set all her tramps at work, and now there is nothing for the natives to do, Darwin now says that ail men were once plants, ‘There are still a great many small potatoes. The Marquis of Lorne has written alove poem. And yot he has been married as much as two years. Fiftoen thousand eight hundred and seventy-five sur- vivors of the war of 1812 are on tho pension list, Senator Ambrose E, Burnside, of Rhode Island, has taken up his residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mr. Horatio Seymour arrived in this city yesterday from nis home in Utica, and is at the Windsor Hotel. Lieutenant General Sheridan has returned to Chit cago from his trip to the Pacific coast in improved health. M. Chichkine, the new Russian Minister, Jeft the Bro yoort House for Washington, D. C,, yesterday morn- ing. He will to-day present his credentials to President Grant. Mrs, Ellen J. Foster was admitted to the practice of the law in the Supreme Court, at Dubuque, Iowa, Wednesday, the Tirst yonor of the kind accorded to any lady in that State, The Louisville Courier-Journal says that ‘“Protes tants should devoutly pray by night and by day that the alternative of Grant or Romanism may never bo presented to them.” The first volume of Mr, Bryant’s ‘History of tho United States” is about ready for publication. The poet has the assistance of Mr. Sidney Howard Gay in tho preparation of the work. . Jefferson Clyne, who lives near Wythville, Va, is only three feet six inches high in his boots, which are No.. 11's, He is seventy years old, weighed twelve pounds at his birth, and now weighs forty-seven pounds, A woman cured her husband of staying out late at night by going to the door when he came home and whispering through the keyhole, ‘Is that you, Willie?” Her husband’s namo is Jobn, and he stays at home every night now, and sleeps with one eye open anda revolver under his pillow. The Springfield Republican dooen't want Gaston, put it doesn’t want very much of Rice. It says:—‘The nar- rower the escape of the republican party from defeat next Tuesday the better the chance for getting good conduct and good work out of it during the coming year. It was whon Jeshurun waxed fat that he kicked.” The Mobile Register says:—"Up to very recently ‘Ba- rope’ was the word that sounded in the ears of all Northern persons of this country in bad health, but now ‘the South’ is rapidly taking its place, Our section of the country is fairly beginning to attract that atten tion which it justly merits as a health resort, and so wo know tho battle is more than half wou.” The other day Sam Bowles went to charch in Spring- field, Mass, and, feeling the effect of his severe editorial Javors through the week, fell to napping. By and by he was awakened by the preacher, who struck his desk and shouted, “Who shall be able to stand up in the presence of the Lord on that awful day?” Ana Sam Bowles, rising in his pew, remarked, “Charles” Francis Adams 1s the only man that can do it, and 1 nominate him for the position.” ‘The St. Louis Republican says:—“If the next Con. gress wore republican ft would probably bring about specie payment on the day fixed by the same forcing pro with which it accomplishes all its objects; but the fact that the next House is democratic, and the democratic majority is composed very largely of West- ern and Southern members, makes it reasonably cer- tain not only that the Resumption act of last spring will not be perfected by additional legislation, but (hat its repeal will be attempted.” The Baltimore American (republican), speaking of political rings in both the city and Stato where it Is pablished, says:—‘‘Our General Assembly has degon- erated into a convention of small, politicians, many of whom are both ignorant and corrupt. A few menot average intelligence and honesty are sent to Annapolis, put their best efforts scarcely make the legislative pro- ceedings fit to be put in print, Any man who examines the acts of 1874 will be astonished at the ignorance and stupidity of the men who passed them.’ The private bills were prepared by outside parties, who had a per- sonal interest in their cuactment, and are drawa im the wsiial laeal form.