The New York Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, _ OCTOBER 30, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD pe ae BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIE NOTICE TO 8 after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Henarp will be tent frse of postage. HE DAILY HERALD, published every fey in the Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Uxrap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA, Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, VOLUME XL. year. to subscribers, +NO, 303 creak Fe WALLACK'S TIEATRE, and Thirteenth street —THE OVERLAND foot Tat 8 P.M: clones at 10-45 PM. Matinee at 2 dlr, John Gilbert, Miss Ada Dyas. 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There was a large attend- ance at the Tabernacle yesterday, and the interest in the revival does not seem to be abating. Tux Canursts claim another victory, and, ns n matter of course, the Alfonsists deny the claim. Jt matters very little which side is in the right, as even a victory just now can have little influence on the fortunes of the would-be king. Wuen a Toran Basy is born in England it is hailed as a national blessing both by the imperial family and the nobility. In the one case there is an increase in the annnal gifts of a loyal people, and in the other there is a lively topic of conversation for at least nine days. lt is consequently o ma’ of | present ction that the Duch of Edinburgh has just given birth to a daughter, Cura SEEMS to be less ‘than half satisfied with tho terms of her settlement with Great Britain, and Mr. Wade may have use for his | ships of war after all. We trust, however, that there is to be no fighting, or, if there | must be war, that those who are its causo will bo the only ones to take part in the battles, Four cents per copy. | The City Canvass. The leaders of the Tammany organization are conducting this canvass with the same ignorance and stupidity which marked their course during the nominations. Instead of meeting the issues they attack with unsparing | malignity the personal character of the can- didates of the anti-Tammany party, Instead “of showing what they have achieved during their one year of rule since Wickham came into power they dig down into the sepul- chres of the pastand ask us to look at this bone and that bone of some monldering rec- Kelly. They deplore ‘personality in the can- | vass,” and yet the amount of, bitterness and slander and defamation of character which Tammany leaders, writers and speakers have poured over Recorder Hackett and Mr. Phelps and other anti-Tammany can- didates is appalling. The enemies of Tammany Hall devote their canvass to principles, while the Tammany leaders are personal and yirulent. This shows the Tammany weakness. become angry they fear defeat. Now if Mr. Hackett, for instance, was a good enough democrat yesterday, if he was accepted as a blameless and honest citizen, and thought worthy of respect and confidence by the Tammany leaders down almost to the very morning of their nominations, why should he now be held up to odium and re- proach? The reason is plain. Mr. Hackett | as Recorder has not simply done his duty as = | a criminal judge, but he has refused to allow AMUSEMENTS "TINS APTERNOON AND EVENING, | his office to be made a part of the patronage of Tammany Hall. For this personal reason ' the canyass against him is marked with a malignity which we have scarcely seen sur- passed even in New York polities. convinced, drive the anti-Tammany leaders from their true ground. It is not their busi- ness to attack John Kelly. Because his hire- must not soil their hands by throwing mud siderations or passion to interfere with the great principles of the canvass. Their can- vass is by no means personal. They fight for the integrity of the democratic party, the independence of this municipality, the free- dom of the people. The anti-Tammany men are the real democrats of this controversy. They contend for pure democratic rule. They make war upon a system which is in violation of every tradition of democracy. This system takes its rise in @ secret society. We know from the teach- ings of the early fathers what the democrats of the Revolution thought of secret associa- tions in politics. As able a man as Disraeli recently repeated the warning. This system represses every expression of opinion or freedom of thought in the councils of the organization. It makes it the duty of a “committee on discipline,” which sits like the revolutionary committees during the Reign of Terror, to drive out, disfranchise, degrade and expel from office, if he hold one, or from political influence, if he pos- sesses it, any man who, like Mr. Morrissey leaders. This system makes the civil ser- vice in New York a source of corruption, a stigma upon our institutions. It puts at the disposal of Mr. Kelly every office- holder, from the chief ofa bureau down to the poor laborer on the Boulevard. It compels the secret organization or be driven from his place. It takes away from the demo- cratic masses any power over the elections. It abolishes that great wise function of all parties, the right to meet in convention and select candidates. It remands nominations to the will of John Kelly, as five years ago it did to the will of William M. Tweed. Conse- quently there is no responsibility on the part of the leaders of the party to the masses. How can democrats, no matter how intrepid, arrest aring or create a reform, if they feel that the moment they open their lips they will be shackled by the Committee on Disci- pline and tossed into the tumbril ? The democratic party in New York, which should be the inspiration and comfort of the democratic party in the country, is really a burden to it. The democrats throughout the Union look upon the New York organization asascandal anda sore. Itisnotan expression of pure democratic life, but an ulceration. It was largely because of this oue man power, tol- erated in New York, unchecked and accepted by the democratic party throughout the country, that General Grant received his overwhelming majority in 1872, The deeds of Tammany were the strongest arguments in favor of Grant in that memorable campaign. Unless the honest democrats of this city break Tammany and John Kelly's one man power, and reorganize the party upon a basis that will admit into its active support all | who believe in their principles, the same re- sult will come in the next Presidential elec- tion. If Governor Tilden should be nom- inated for the Presidency, aided by Tam- many Hall as now controlled, his race would be like that of Sinbad the Sailor, when the | Old Man of the Sea leaped upon his back. democracy whose leadership comes from Tammany Hall. It never will permit the in- troduction into our national politics of the men who so long controlled New York. ‘This is not a censure of John Kelly, but of ! the system which he cherishes and repre- sents. We believe that there should be re- city; that Mr. Kernan and Mr. Seymour and Mr. Kelly and Mr. Fernando Wood and Mr. Hackett and Mr. Morrissey and the leaders of the various factions and clements out of the ranks every independent voter, establish a tribunal that would bring voters the administration of Governor Tilden ; that | would win votes and not destroy them. ‘The democratic party of New York properly gov- erned, based upon independence and free- | dom of opinion, would become a power so beneficent, so irresistible, that it alone might lead the democracy of the nation to victory in the next great canvass. Jt ismad- ness for the Tammany leaders to imperil that canyass by their course in this city. This they are surely doing, The arrest of the editor of the 7'imes upon a frivolous pretext is one of those incidents of the canvass ord. They complain because a few nom | headed leaders at ward meetings attack Mr. | When politicians | But this ferocity of attack will not, we are | lings throw mud at Recorder Hackett they | at him. Nor must they allow personal con- | for instance, dares to criticise the will of the | every office-holder to submit to the will of | This American nation will never accept a | organization of the democratic party in this | | should meet, and, instead of establishing a | Committee on Discipline that would drive | in; that would rally honest men around | which, while showing the desperation of Tammany Hall, will not be without its pain- ful effect upon the country, For however important the election may be as the posses- sion of a group of minor offices, mainly judi- cial, the great prize for which the de: mocratic party now contends, and which Mr. | Kelly and his friends should never permit | to escape their attention, is the Presidenc | Tammany in New York threw the Presidency | away four years ago, and it looks now as if Mr. ‘Kelly were about to repeat the blunder. | This is because the existence of Tammany as a representative organization in the democ- racy is at variance with the general demo- cratic sentiment of the country. If Mr. Kelly | were an original leader he would see this | difficulty. He would make a new departure. He would use his justly great influence to re- | organize the party upon a basis that would admit of all democrats uniting in harmonious action. He would abandon Tammany Hall and its antiquated customs. He would pre- fer the will of the party to the fiat of any one man. He would see in the revolution which now menaces his power not any war upon when he came into authority, and which he should rejoice in destroying. If he is a great leader, one of those men whom we are assured by Tammany orators was born to command, he will not follow in the political footsteps of Sweeny and Tweed, but give the organization a new life, and in doing so con- party throughout the country. Zhe Coming Princes, It is not from an undue sentiment of com- plaisance or any especial desire to see our country honored by the presence of high per- sonages from abroad that we view with unu- sual interest and gratification the coming of the Crown Prince of Germany to the United | | States, The announcement that he will visit | | our Centennial Exhibition comes in a semi- official shape. He will be accompanied by his | son. The Crown Prince Frederick William Nicholas Charles is the only son of the present | EmperorofGermany. He is heir to the impe- rial throne. He is now in the forty-fourth year of his age, is a general field marshal in the German army, and was a famous commander during the wars with Aus- tria and France. His son, who is to ac- company him, Prince Frederick William Victor Albert, is in the sixteenth year of whose daughter the Crowm Prince married. The great age of the Emperor of Germany— seventy-eight—and the increasing contin- gency of his death may interfere with this trip. But the old Emperor continues actively in the government of his Empire. His health is vigorous and his mind so strong that we may fairly hope that his death will not prevent the coming of the Crown Prince, This is the second royal prince who has promised to visit America during the Exhi- bition in Philadelphia. The Emperor of Brazil has received a leave of absence from his Legislature for the same purpose. The King of Sweden, in an audience granted toa Heravp correspondent at the time of corona- tion, said that he thought of sending his son, the Swedish Crown Prince, to the United States during the Centennial. This lad, Prince Oscar Gustavus Adolphus, isa year older than the son of Frederick William. There is a rumor also that the son of the late Emperor Napoleon, who was born in 1856, will pay us a visit. The coming of these high personages to America will add to the interest of our Cen- tennial Exhibition. We shall be glad to see them all, not merely because they are princes, but because they represent nations with whom we are on terms of amity. The visit of the Crown Prince of Germany will be the most important ever made by a royal per- son toAmerica. The comingof the Prince of | Wales was that of a young lad—at the time not much older than the Crown Prince of Swe- den—on a round of observation and study, and who was taken from place to place by the Duke of Newcastle and a large suite, The Crown Prince of Germany is in the maturity of life, a soldier of great fame and experience, a statesman whose career has been tested in peace and in war. He is the heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. He comes to a country largely indebted to Germany and in which Germans have an extended citizenship. He will find millions of his countrymen here, men who share his affection for the father- land, who rejoice in his race and lineage, There could be no event more gratifying to the millions of our German fellow country- men than the presence of the heir to their imperial crown. The respect in which we hold the German character is so high that Americans will also go out of their way to show their appreciation of the honor paid them by this prince. His coming will be the most striking event of the Exhibition, especially if he can induce Bismarck, Moltke, Von Roon or some of the great statesmen and warriors of Germany to accompany him. | Such a visit is not merely an errand of cere- mony oreuriosity. It is the binding together of two nations in those ties of courtesy and friendship which, after all, are the surest guarantees of peace. Tue Martyrs’ Tomp.—It is asad story of neglect which we print this morning in con- nection with the obliteration of the old | “Martyrs’ Tomb,” near the Brooklyn Navy | Yard, It was at this spot where rested the remains of the patriots who died in the prison ships of the Wallabout during the Revolution. that struggle should witness this desecration; | but although the graves of the patriots are obliterated the memory of their deeds can | never be blotted ont. in a more pronounced policy in favor of the Christians, himself, but upon a system which he found | tribute immeasurably to the success of the | his age and is agrandson of Queen Victoria, | We cannot but regret that the centennial of | Tun Wuatskey Rixo, like the Tammany | Ring and the Canal Ring, is coming to grief, | and according to our Washington despatch the confederates are helping to punish each | other. Tae Trusrrvtyess 1s Tunkisn Reronms | is so slight that the great Powers are to be called upon by Russia to assist the Porte in keeping the pledges of the Mussulman to the y i his is an extremely liberal posi- tion toward Turkey for the Russian govern- ment to take, but if the Porte fails after all this liberality the Russians will be justified Mr. Gladstone's Latest Essay. We print this morning the introductory | pages to a long review of the relations exist- ing between the Italian government and the people of Italy and the Roman Catholic Church, Apart from the vigor of the style and the boldness with which this great ques- tion is diseussed the paper has additional | interest in the fact that it is from the pen of Mr. Gladstone. In his previous pamphlets on “Vaticanism” the distinguished states- man considered the problem in its theologi- cal aspects. The present paper has a politi- cal rather than a religious bearing, and it must be confessed that there is no man in Europe more capable of discussing this ques- tion, especially from a Protestant stand- point.” The temporal power of the Pope- dom he considers in the light of the claim of the Latin community dispersed all over the world to the right of citizenship in Italy. Italy must cease to be anation, Mr. Gladstone thinks, or the Pa- pacy consent to the mutilation of the triple crown. This is the key to his whole argu- ment, and it affords him ample scope for the | consideration of the relations of the great | Powers to Rome and toward each other. He | first illustrates and enforces the changes | which have taken place in Europe within the | last quarter of a century and then contends that the restoration of the temporal power would compromise the very existence of the | German Empire. But the most remarkable part of the paper is that in which he pre- dicts another war between France and Ger- | many—a war for restoration rather than supremacy—and assigns to the former Power as her ally the ultramontane minor- ity which pervades the world. These few sentences indicate the scope and purpose of Mr, Gladstone's essay, and | while we do not share his fears that the polit- | ical well-being of the States of Europe is to be disturbed by an ultramontane alliance with France or any other Power, we recog- | nize it asin itself a significant fact that a thinker so profound and a statesman so emi- nent as Mr. Gladstone should sound a note of alarm. It will be seen from all this that | the paper isa very important one, its chief | value being in the clearness with which it | points out the tendencies of modern thought on both sides of the question. There may be no war of force growing out of these conflict- | ing views and purposes, but there is certain to be a conflict of opinion so heated and stubborn that it will outlast the present and perhaps the coming generation, affecting the political and religious condition of every State in Europe, and even moulding the future of Christianity itself. | | | } The Great Lake System of Central Africa. The exploration of the equatorial regions of Africa proves the existence of a grand sys- tem of lakes or inland seas, which form the sources of such rivers as the Nile, the Zam- bezi and the Congo. The immediate sur- | rounding of these great bodies of water isa depressed plain, extending from the south- erly limits of Sahara to about the twentieth degree of southern latitude, and to within from three hundred to five hundred miles of the eastern and western cost lines of the continent. Being immediately under the Equator these lakes are mainly within the | limits of the neutral zone on either side of which the atmospheric and oceanic equa- torial currents diverge to the north and south. Therefore, while a vast body of yapor-laden air is carried over them from the ocean on a line with the Equator, and from which they receive the water that supplies the loss by their river drainage, they lose nothing by evaporation. All the moisture raised from their surfaces by the sun's heat returns again in the shape of heavy and almost continuous rains, which are precipi- tated within the zone of evaporation. Our explorer, Henry M. Stanley, describes his journeys through vast regions of swamp. Dr. Livingstone died from the exhaustion in- duced by fatigue in passing through one of them, and thus, by his death as well as by his writings, has corroborate. the testimony of Stanley and other explorers re- garding these great shallow lakes. If they were subjected to an evaporation that drew off their water in vapor, which was in turn transferred to other regions by atmospheric currents, they would quickly dry up in such a latitude, and Sahara itself would soon be changed by their waters into a wilderness of verdure instead of being one of burning desert sands. In the equatorial zone, witpin which these great lakes lie, there must be almost a congition of atmospheric stagnation; we do not mean an absolute im- mobility of the air, but the confinement of its movement within fixed geographical lim- its. Storms are generated over the African lakes, but they do not pass outside the nen- tral zone referred to; they are local in origin and action and accompany the phenomenon of the heavy rains, having had the same ex- citing cause—evaporation. Such being the case the gigantic forest growths of these re- gions and the generally fatal character to human life of the atmosphere, can be ac- counted for by the fact that the vast volumes of carbonic acid gas evolved from the putre- faction in water of the vegetation impregnate the air and render it most favorable for the vegetable, but fatal to human life. The un- healthiness of the coast lines is mainly due to their low levels, and in the case of the Guinea coast to being on fhe line and paral- | lel to the themnel equator, which traverses the greatest width of the continent, about four degrees northward of the geographical Equator, The theory of the source or the | sources of the Nile and other rivers in Equa- | torial Africa will, we are confident, be es- tablished when Stanley's scientific explora- tion and survey of the great lakes is com- | pleted and its results given to the world. Poor Vor Ausiat had not met with all his misfortunes when he was convicted and im- | prisoned on the Bismarck charges. He is | about to be eashiered from the public ser- vice, and apparently the only thing open to him is to emigrate to America, A worse fate than this might have befallen him, and there is room here not only for him, but we could find a place even for Bisir imself. Carrars MeCursocn's Taran closed | yesterday, but the decision of the Board of Police has not yet been announced, Sut- ficient testimony was adduced during the progress of the case to show that McCulloch is not a desirable person for the office he now fills, the scandals with which his name is associated being in themselves sufficient cause for his removal. If the Police Depart- ment is to be reorganized it must be by the removal of men against whom such strong objections are ire urged. One of John Kelly's Candidates. Mr. John Kelly has professed a desire to reform the character of our public officers in the nominations he forces upon the Tam- many democracy. The insincerity of this claim is exposed in a letter which we publish to-day from Mr, John Morrissey, the inde- pendent democratic candidate for Senator in the Fourth distriet. ‘Tho Honorable John characteristically strikes straight out and hits his opponent a damaging blow without any dodging or fencing. He declares that John Kelly's candidate, John Fox, while a member of Tweed’s Board of Supervisors, voted in favor of paying to the worst of the ring accomplices, Garvey, Ingersoll, Keyser and four or five others, dishonest claims to the amount of two million five hundred and seventy-six thousand dollars, This amount, says the Honorable John, ‘upon the recom- mendation of John Fox, his official as- surance of the fair and equitable nature of the claims, and with his sanction, was stolen from the public treasury,” and he places in contrast with such a record the fact that he himself has never sought office in his life and lias never received from the public treasury one dollar, save and except his proper salary asa member of Congress, We may fairly regard it as a little political exaggeration to charge that the whole amount paid to Garvey, Ingersoll, Keyser and the rest by John Fox’s vote as Super- visor was ‘‘stolen from the public treasury,” It is, however, fair to conclude that a large percentage of the bills of such men was fraudulent, and that in paying them two million five hundred thousand dollars at least one and a half millions were dishon- estly taken from the public treasury. There are many things in Fox's career as Super- visor which John Kelly—having forced that candidate down the throats of an unwilling constituency—might consistently be called upon to explain. Everybody knows that the bulk of the plunder of twenty millions secured by the ring robbers was obtained through the new Court House job. In February, 1866, Supervisor Smith Ely, Jr., charged the Court House committee with extravagance and fraud, and demanded acommittee of inquiry. If that committee had been raised and honestly composed it would have stopped the whole Court House plunder. The investigation was defeated by one vote, those combining against it being Tweed, Hank Smith, Hayes, Roach, Stewart and John Fox. Three of these—Tweed, Smith and Fox—were the majority of the impeached Court House committee. John Fox afterward moved an _ investigation, which was ordered, and as chairman of the investigating committee, from which Smith Ely, Jr., was excluded, he made a report in the following June declaring the contracts to be honestly and economically made, and in- dorsing the manner in which the building of the Court House was conducted. There is no question that this shameful report blinded the eyes of the people and prepared the way for the twenty millions of plunder afterward secured by the Ring. Supervisor Fox was a member of the Com- mittee on Stationery, in connection with Tweed, Hank Smith and Orison Blunt. In 1865, when Fox first became a member of the Board, the amount expended in stationery was under thirty thousand dollars. In 1869 there were paid to two ring firms, for stationery alone, over three hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars, for all of which John Fox voted, both in the committee and in the Board. The character of this | transaction may be gathered from the fact that the estimate for the whole expenses of advertising, printing and stationery in the provisional estimate for next year, now under consideration, is one hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars, As John Kelly has forced Fox on the people of the Fourth Senatorial district perhaps he will let the constituency know what he thinks of this much of his candidate's record as a Tweed Supervisor? and State Rights many. In the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies the ultramontane address to the King praying him to dismiss the liberal Ministry has been adopted by, a vote of 79 to 76, Hitherto the government of the German Empire has run smoothly enough in the federal groove, It has not been called upon to endure a strain of any sort whatever. In the wars with Austria and France the Prus- sian shooting was found to bé so infallible that every little German kingdom and duchy recognized in the Hohenzollern a veritable Captain Scott, and came down when sum- moned without requiring the expenditure of any ammunition. It will some time seem one of the strange spectacles of history, this quiet acceptation of a new réle on the part of those States; this submissive falling into line asso many veterans trained to subordina- tion might fall in at the sound of the sergeant’s voice. But the claim of State Bavaria in Ger rights promises to come early and to prove a first test of the opera tion of the new system. With us the conflict as to State and national supremacy arose on the right to keep slaves. In Ger- many it arises on the point of religious lib- erty. As Bavaria makes the issue that is its character, With us both North and South claimed to fight for freedom, and in Germany both Bavaria and the imperial government equally claim to be the champions of relig- ious liberty. Southern men claimed that they should be locally free to hold slaves, and the North held that there could be no freedom where slavery was tolerated, conceived the word freedom in a widely dif- ferent sense. In Bavaria they claim the free. dom to submit themselves to Rome if they will. In Berlin they answer that there can | be no spiritual freedom till the religious preponderance of Rome is set aside, Hith- erto the Bavarian King has governed with a Each | ministry in general harmony with imperial | purposes; bunt now he is face to face with a chamber in which there isan ultramontane | State rights majority. This may sound like a queer qualification-a majority which de- | clares itself the patriotic champion of Baya- | rian rights against imperial Germany, and which derives its inspiration notoriously from Rome; but the qualification is aecu- rate, and exhibits the hollowness of the whole case. In the presence of this majority the King is ina dilemma. Can he govern with a ministry opposed to the majority 1 Can he by the dismissal of this ministry and the appointment of one in sympathy with the party in power put himself in open hos- tility with Berlin? Can he, by the dissolu. tion of the Assembly dare the spirit of revo lutionary agitation throughout the country 1 Evidently the triumphant party is disposed to drive him to extremes, and the near future of Bavaria is filled with stormy possibilities, In all the gloom there is one certainty—the man in power at Berlin is named Bismarck, not Buchanan. Homicidal Crime. The frequency of homicide in this city is one of the alarming signs of the times, Within a fortnight there have been nearly half a score of convictions for murder or man- slaughter, and five of these were for murder in the first degree. The last of the capital convictions was the sentence of Charles Wes ton yesterday for participation in the mur der of Weisburg, the pedler. In every cas¢ the guilt of the culprit was clearly estab- lished, and the doom of the criminals fol- lowed so quickly upon their crimes that the effect of these speedy trials and convictions cannot fail to be most wholesome, A stern enforcement of the law is essential at this time, for there’ seems just now to be a mania for homicidal crime A few days ago wo referred to the many mur. ders and attempts at murder growing out of jealousy and disappointments in love; but it seems that the mania isstill more dangerous, and that the relation of father and son, and even of son and mother, is not sufficient to preserve society from this terrible tendency. It is only a week since a young man was con- victed of murder in the third degree for brutally kicking his mother and leaving her on the floor of. her wretched apartment to die. Drunkenness was the cause of this horrible offence ; but later still we had the story of a drunken father shooting his son while in a condition so besotted as to be apparently unconscious of the crime he had committed. The latter caso is one of the most lamentable that has come underour notice in a long time, and while the cause is plain enough the remedy is not so apparent, The advocates of prohibition will find in ita strong argument in favor of their theory, but experience has shown that crime cannot be prevented by this mode of repression, Some other means of preventing murders of this kind and of every kind must be found, and the only method likely to prove effective is the stern punishment of the guilty. Mur- derers must be taught that drunkenness isno excuse for crime and that the full penalty of the law is certain to follow the offence, In no other way is it possible to eradicate the disease, especially at a time when there is a strange mania for homicide, If so many murderers were not allowed to go unpunished so many murders would not be committed. Until within a few days hanging seemed, in the expressive language of a crime inal who expiated his offence on the gallows, to be almost “played out,” and juries were in a great degree responsible for this state of things. There was a tendency to convict of the lower instead of the higher grades of murder where only the full penalty of the law is equal to the emergency, but we are glad to see that a change has been wrought in this respect. In the future we must ree press homicide by hanging all murderers, and though the remedy is a terrible one ita application now may do away with its ne- cessity in the future by the operation of a wholesome fear growing out of the certainty of the full enforcement of the law. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Bright has declared that in mental power girls are not inferior to boys. Fifteen cents a bushel 1s the price of apples in some parts of Pennsylvania, The Boston Journal hopes that among the ruins of defeat in Ohio Senator Thurman will find the back- bone which he lost some months ago. The failures for the past nine months aggregated $151,171,000, That sum represents exactly the infla- tion of business for the period specified. That clown of all guessers, the Boston special of the Springfield Republican, predicts that Charles Francig Adams will vote for the democratic candidates in Mas. sachusetts, Investigation has shown tbat not only persons of great mental capacity but also lunatics occasionally possess brains which are considerably heavier than the average brains possessed by ordinary but sane people, Dr. Edward Warren, surgeon in ehiet of the Egyp. tian army, has resigned in cousequence of ophthalmia, contracted in the Khedive’s service. Dr, Warren is a Baltimorean, and was medical director of Genoral Lee's army. He has located in Paris, ‘Acorrespondent wonders why Northern newspapers aro sentimental over Stonewall Jackson, “the seces- sionist."’ The correspondent ought to be satisfied that ifa Northern bullet killed the secessionist it did not destroy the fact that he was an American, Atthe Georgia Stato fair the prettiest baby was awarded a cooking stove, The real danger of giving a stove toa baby 18 that some day when his mother is out he may put it in his mouth, and then he would have to swallow atea-kettle before she could get sup per. Carlyle says there may bo a courage which is the ab. sence of fear. There is also the courage which is tho result of excitement, and manifests itself in the pre- sence of crowds, Such bravery falls immediately be- Jow trie cgurage, The great masses of the race are dependent on society, Balzac says that Parisian ladies have a genius for graceful walking, and seem to imprint in the fold of their robe the mould of their tiny feet. When an Eng- lish or a German lady attempts this step, he states, “they have the air of a gronadier, marching en avant to attack a redoute.” This time it 1s Admiral Porter's son Essex who hat been invited to take a fighting position inthe do. intnions of the Knedive of Egypt. The other day tt was General Joo Johnston, If the Khedive keeps on getting officers into Egypt there will be no room for common soldiers. He was a countryman and went to Paris, Thoy showed him the Lagcoon, and told him it was “the three Graces.” He said, “Ab, yes—Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.” “That is it, the three Graces of tho Republic!” “But,” he said, “What is the sorpent?” “The Commune, of course.’? Near the Bowles residence, at Springfeld, Mase., the other night, the eats made a great disturbance, As a filteen-pounder fell off the back fence and sissed as he struck the cold ground, one of the little Bowleses sung ont, “Pa, what is that?” The able parent replied, «J can’t think of anything but Charles Francis Adams," ‘The Paris Figaro says that a great number of English people are applying to insurance companies for policios on the life of the V'rince of Wales, apropos of his jour. ney to India, They have paid extra rates of premium for the policies, the companies thinking tho subject ome of extra risk, notwithstanding that the Prince bas taken five fire engines along with him,