The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1875, Page 6

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Tne Consternation in tircles growing out of the reported indic ment of General Babcock and Orville Grant, brother of the President, at St. Louis, for complicity with the whiskey frauds is the sensation of the hour. ‘Tue Commrrrer on Crime was busy yester- day inquiring into the action of the Excise Commissioners in the granting of licenses. Nothing of importance was elicited further | than to supply the committee with a list of disreputable houses which should have been broken up by the police long ago. Juner banscwce has refused to quash the indictment against H. B. Claflin & Co,, who are charged with dealing in smuggled silks. The basis of this determination is | that buying smuggled goods is similar in character to receiving stolen goods, the same | tule applying to indictments for either of- fence. | Mr. Secrerany Fisn has another Spanish | tions, favorably as they appear to have | seems to be Aa desde for the ote | resulted for the outrage upon his hands, a naturalized Amer- ican citizen named Montes having been ar- rested in Cuba and banished to the Isle of Pines without trial, and, it is claimed, with- out cause. Whatever may be the merits of this particnlar case, outrages of this kind are no longer tolerable, and prompt measures should be taken by the State Department to secure better treatment of American citizens in Cuba. | portance ; administration | NEW _ YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. The “fince the Repubiican Party Elections. In the crude and halting, yet in the end effective, way in which a free nation ex- presses ijg will, the people have in the late elections signified their weariness of both political parties as they are at present con- stituted and officered. In the most forcible manner they have condemned the inflation politigal organization of Tammany, which ventured once more to raise its head, and to which Governor Tilden, unhappily for him- self, lent his countenance, But in an equally the republican leaders that they have not their approval either. The small majorities | which they have given the republicans at the dissatisfaction of the people with both par- ties. In reading the journals published in dif- ferent parts of the country nothing is just now more striking than the general desire expressed for a reorganization of parties, for new leaders capable and willing to return to the true American ideas. There is not, the least doubt that the appearance of a new party, in such strength as to have a hope of suc- cess in the Presidential campaign, would be welcomed all over the country; but there is not the least doubt, either, that no such party will appear strong enough to attract | | voters or to do more than make a muddle of | the election in 1876. Party machinery in this country has become too formidable to be easily overturned, and we must perforce work with thé means at hand. Dissatisfied democrats feel compelled to work for reform within the democratic party lines; dissatis- fied republicans labor for improvement within republican party lines, and the inde- pendent voter stands by, watches the efforts and intrigues of the politicians, and finds himself compelled on election day to make a choice between two evils—able to defeat the worst, but unable to overrule either side for the highest good. This is not avery satis- factory condition of politics, but such as it is we must accept it for the present and make the best of it. It is, therefore, an interesting question, How, under these circumstances, have the elections of this fall left the republican party? To a superficial view it seems to have regained somewhat of the strength which was lost to it last year. It has recovered a number of States, some of them of great im- it has cut down many of the large democratic majorities of last year ; it has re- gained ,the control of legislatures in some States and of the Executive Department in others. In the list of democratic States which we printed yesterday only four are Northern, and, in fact, the republican party, which lost the North last fall, appears now to have substantially regained it. There are doubtless #epublican politicians who will re- gard this result as evidence that the people have returned willingly to the republican side; that they condone the offences of the | party, and that, in short, the next election is safe. We believe such persons are very greatly mistaken. ‘The first and most important re- sult of the recent elections is that they have ernshed out the inflation movement. Noth- ing 1s clearer than that the people will not have this. Inflation, apparently so grave a danger, has been beaten in Pennsylvania by even a greater majority than‘ in Ohio. no longer a possible political issue. It is in- conceivable that the democratic party should be foolish enough to take it up or tolerate it next year. But this means that the issue on which the republican leaders began this fall to count as their most important card is worthless. Resumption seemed likely to be their heaviest tramp ; it is no longer of the least value in the game. It follows that they must look elsewhere for a cry, an issue to bring before the people. The fall elections have, in fact, done more for the democratic party than for the repub- lican, for they have probably given the pre- dominance among the democrats to their ablest and wisest leaders, while they have cut from under the republicans the favorable ground on which they had expected to fight their battle next year. They are compelled to seek a new position, and in doing so there is very grave danger that they will blunder. It is always more difficult for a party in power than for a minority to rise above its old record, to cast out its dangerous and self- ish elements and to initiate genuine re- forms. This is because the reformers in a party which possesses power are likely to be out of favor with the controlling elements; their efforts are at once resisted by those who hold power and who are necessarily opposed to reforms, else they would make them with- ontcompulsion. The republican party is now | what the democratic party became during the administrations of Pierce and Buchanan. It is a strongly coherent force, whose rulers have a great deal at stake, which they fear to lose by such changes as we call ‘‘reform.” | It is a body which has great momentum, but | only in asingle direction. To change the di- | rection or the purpose of such a mass involves the sacrifice of a multitude of subordinate agents, and the resistance of these minor forces is almost always too great to be over- come. the Western democrats was si light by the republican politic zed with de- | ns ; it gave | entirely safe for them. Hence, again, no sooner has this failed than we hear every- where among the republican politicians a cry of “danger to the public schools,” determination to bring the religious question into the next canvass. All this means only which the people demand; an energetic pur- pose to do anything and seize on any pretext which will enable them to evade the real and | vital issues which are in the people's minds. We conclude, therefore, that the fall elec- republicans, leave that party in greater danger than before, by so much as they may result in weak- ening that element in the party which is in harmony with the popular de« mand for reforms, For there ean be no doubt that the people desire and impera- | tively demand some trenchant reforms. They are repelled from the republican party by seeing that its leaders countenance ex- schemes of Western democrats and the secret | foreible and distinct manner they have warned | moment when they were determined to con- | demn the democrats show conclusively the condition of the public mind—the profgund | It is | Hence the inflation outbreak among | them an issue which they perceived to be | and see a | a quiet but stubborn resistance to the reforms | | travagance and condone ae conceal corrup- tion ; they see that the worst, the most self- ish and the most dangerous elements of the party rule in its councils; they see with a growing aversion a constant and vehement desire to shield offenders; a studied con- tempt for public opinion; a determination in | | those who control the party to “stick to- gether,” no matter what exposures there may be of maladministration and corruption. | The attempt to put off the popular demand for radical reforms next year by evasion, by | hollow promises or by projecting into the canvass such false issues as the religious or school question, will probably end in the | overthrow of the party unless the democratic | leaders should commit some extraordinary | follies. We repeat, therefore, that the elec- tions leave the republican party in greater danger than before, and that to save it from defeat next year will require either some now unforeseen piece of good fortune, some dark trick of policy, or the successful efforts of the reforming element in the party to se- cure the contro! and leadership in their own | hands and make it a true party of honesty, with a head in whom the mass of the people | can have confidence that the promises in its platform will be faithfully carried into ef- feet, | | | | An Open Polar Sca. As published in the Henaup of November 2, a California paper reports the arrival at | San Francisco of the whaler Onward from | | the Arctie Ocean via Behring Straits. Her | | commander states that he experienced very warm weather in the far northern latitudes, | the sea being wholly free from ice and the | whales “further east than ever before, almost | teaching the mouth of the | River.” This latter point is in latitude 68 deg. 45 min., longi- | tude 135 deg. west, and is abont | | twelve degrees southward of the latitude of | the cold pole of the American continent. If | | the sun’s heat alone governed the Arctic temperatures there would be a regularly graduated scale of variation for these lati- tudes throughout the year, But the exist- ence ten degrees to the southward of the terrestrial pole of two distinct poles of cold, one north of the centre of the American and the other of the Asiatic continent, shows that there is an influence exercised on polar temperatures independent of that of the sun. | The inferences to be drawn from this fact favor the theory of the existence of an open polar sea during the Arctic summer. We | have shown in recent articles the nature and | general direction of the atmospheric and oceanic currents. Of the latter the | warm streams, after leaving the Equator, flow northeastwardly toward the Pole in the | northern and southeastwardly in the south- ern hemisphere. The Gulf Stream and Japan | | Current penetrate the polar region via Ice- | | land and Behring Straits respectively and | converge on the Pole by these routes, carrying | avast body of heat in that direction. In like | manner all cyclones and other storms move obliquely poleward, carrying an almost equally constant supply of warm air to the same focus of convergence, so that the united influences of warm air and warm water are exerted within a limited area, the polar basin, from whence these elements return as they cool. The peculiar northeastward movement of ; all storm centres has been satisfactorily studied by scientific men, so that no doubt | now remains regarding them as the bearers of warmth and humidity tothe Pole. Dr. Kane's expedition claimed to have discovered | an open sea as far north as eighty-two degrees, which was void of ice and of a com- | paratively high temperature, while to the southward the ice was fixed and impenetrable. In case the British explorers should discover a similar open water and be able to navigate itto the Pole, all that will remain to be solved is the cause of the ice belt that sur- rounds it. We fear, however, that such an open sea would be continuously covered by a dense fog which would render navigation impossible. Mackenzie | situated | Russia and Turkey. Russia is assuming a firm attitude on the Eastern question, and on every hand there are indications of a more prolonged conflict than was thought probable a month ago. An interesting interview with Ljubibratic, the Herzegovinian leader, which we print in another column, gives some idea of the rebel strength and of the sentiments and feelings which animate the insurgents; but even more important is the semi-official declaration of Russian policy which we extract from the Voie newspaper. It is only natural that the Czar should look with disfavor upon Turkish crueities toward the Christians of the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire, and the declarations of the Russian journal acquire a new force from the recent interview of Gen- eral Ignatieff with the Sultan. The mal- administration of thecountry and the discon- tent of the people are the proper subjects of diplomatic representation at this time, but it is impossible to predict how soon they will become the excuse for, if not the cause of, interference with the internal affairs of Turkey. The great Powers are doing little more than upholding Turkish misrule, whereby the Christian provinces are held in constant oppression or forced into chronio | revolt. Turkey has it in her power to em- broil Europe in war at any time, and this | fact alone tends to force Russia into precipi- tating the conflict. Sooner or later it certain to come, and it seems | more imminent now than at any time since the Crimean struggle. It has long been the purpose of the Czar to place the Porte with- out the pale of Enropean dynasties, and this purpose has only been restrained by the at- | titude of the other Powers, In view of the | acknowledged crnelties of the Turks and the | inherent weakness of Turkish rule the great | Powers may not be ablo to restrain this pur- l pene much longer, and even now Russia Tue Vatican insists upon the enforcement of the concordat with Spain, and, declaring that the civil war is the result of religious | toleration, demands an ecclesiastical trial | | for the captured Bishop of Seo de Urgel. This policy sounds strangely in the nine- teenth century, but we cannot think that the Papal demands will be acceded to even in. Spain. Kelly as Robespierre. In the good old times of the French Revoln- tion, when the guillotine was taking ofits fifty or a hundred heads a day and before the pub- lic opinion of France showed any resentment at the bloody course of Robespierre and his followers, that famous chief was in the habit of rushing to the Jacobin Club, followed by Couthon, Saint Just, Fouquier-Tinville, Le- | bas, and his gang of followers, and making a speech. In this speech he called upon France to know how incorruptible he was. He denounced the malcontent newspapers | | dition of the real estate market and the for venturing to criticise them. He reminded the French people that he had given them, | or tried to give them, a good government, and generally concluded his remarks by ap- pealing to his satellites to stand by the old | flag of the guillotine and to strike terror into | the hearts of his opponents. It was the cus- tom also for Lebas, Saint Just and the rest to shout and cheer Robespierre, and to fol- low him around the streets as the saviour of France, Sometimes Robespierre made as many as three speeches in four days, in which their whole subject was his own glory, his own honesty and the perfidy and weakness of the French people. In like manner our New York Robespierre, Kelly, defeated by the public opinion of New York and properly denounced as the author of all the recent disasters of the de- mocracy, himself and his organization, rushes into his Jacobin Club on Fourteenth street, followed by Frank B. Spinola, William A. Boyd, General McMahon and Colonel Tom Dunlap, and makes aspeeeh. In this speech he denounces newspapers for not supporting him, and politicians on the other side for not obeying his commands, and the people for | not permitting him to give them a good gov- ernment. And we observe that at the con- clusion of his speech Generals McMahon and Spinola and the rest throw up their hands and cry out, ‘Long live Kelly !" just as their predecessors in the French Revyolu- tion were wont to cry out ‘Long live Robes- pierre !” No one doubts that Robespierre was an honorable man. He never stole anything from France, and, although for a time master of its revenues, he died in honorable poverty. He was not as fortunate as John Kelly, even in his honesty, for he did not live long enough to be Sheriff of Paris for two | . | The Bureau of Permits should be abolished, terms, or he might have also been an honest man living upon a good income arising out of the prudent investment of large | fees, and we have no doubt that Robespierre was sincerely anxious to govern France well, | and we have the authority of Napoleon L. for saying that it was his intention to have put |anend tothe Reign of Terror after having beheaded all his opponents. His pure ambi- tion was to give Paris a good government. John Kelly’s ambition has been of this same character. By driving out of Tammany Hall every democrat who opposed him, after ex- pelling from office every democratic partisan who would not vote for him, we have no | doubt that John Kelly, like Robespicrre, would see that New York was governed well ; that there was no stealing ; that Spinola, Tom Campbell, Denis Quinn and William A. Boyd and the other irreproachable states- men who surround him would fill the high offices. But the great trouble is that New York does not wish to be governed by John Kelly, but by itself. It is a weakness in the republican form of government, which has no doubt oc- curred to Mr. Kelly during the meditations of the past few days, that the people will have some voice in the choice of their rulers. By this we mean that when a majority of the citizens of New York desire a certain person in office by the constitution as we have it from Jefferson they are entitled to that priv- ilege. But by’ the constitution, as Mr. Kelly proposes to amend it, good government is not to come from the people, but from an_ irresponsible dictator, who, by the aid of a secret society of Sachems and Indians, controls the organi- zation, and this is the whole controversy. No doubt Robespierre was honest in his de- sire to govern France, but France was just as honest in its resolution not to be governed by him, and in the end France proved the stronger. We have no doubt that Jolin Kelly is perfectly sincere in his wish to give good government to New York, and what better government could there be than that of Spi- nola and Campbell and Quinn and Boyd and Dunlap? But, on the other hand, New York is perfectly sincere in its desire not to be governed by John Kelly, and in the end New York will win, as it won on Tuesday. It is an unequal fight; Kelly and his Sachems and followers and incense-bearers on the one side and the people on the other. ‘Tweed found it so, although he stole millions of dollars with which to strengthen his do- | minion. Kelly has found it so, and whoever succeeds him will find it so again, This demonstration at Tammany Hall on Thurs- day night is nothing more than one of the old demonstrations at the Jacobin Club. It means nothing, because the public opinion is against it. Tue New Counsex To tar Corporation has saved us at least one item in next year’s tax | levy. He gave an opinion before the Board | of Apportionment during the discussion of | the city estimates in fayor of an appropria- | tion for building an armory for the Seventh Regiment, insisting that the law was man- | datory. On the strength of that opinion the Comptroller voted for the appropriation. Butas the President of the Department of | Taxes still remained unconvinced the Cor- | poration Counsel undertook to give the grounds on which his‘opinion had been based, The argument of the learned coun- sel, however, caused the Comptroller to again change his vote to the negative, and the biti cheno was lost. Tue Tarp Avast 8 Bank Farnune has been the cause of much dissatisfaction among the depositors, and the appointment of Mr, William S. Carman as receiver was received with much distrust. An effort is making in the courts to secure his removal, but Judge Westbrook yesterday postponed the hearing until Saturday, allowing the re- ceiver in the meantime to receive interest | money on mortgages and deposit it in a trust company. Itisa case where the Court is Sav bound to act as the gnardian of the deposi- | tors, and we trust Judge Westbrook will ex- \ ert all his power to protect their interests, | The City Government and the Next Legislature. It is evident that the citizens of New York cannot hope for relief from the heavy burden of taxation by which they are oppressed through the voluntary action of the munici- pal government. Year after year each de- partment seeks to secure the largest possible appropriation. ‘The object is not to conduct the departments economically in the interest of the city, but to get as much out of the city as possible to expend in the depart- ments. Notwithstanding the depressed con- scarcity of money we find the estimates for next year, which have just been passed by the Board of Apportionment, considerably higher than the estimates for the present year. The final estimates, as passed by the Board for 1875, less one-half the amount to be raised for the Fourth avenue improve- ment, amounted to $36,156,472. The total estimate for 1876, with one-half the Fourth avenue improvement tax added, is $36,223,231, But when we deduct from both totals the amount of State taxes we find the actual increase in the city expenses proper to be still greater, as the following figures will show:— Total estimate, 1875,...+4+ Less amount of State tax. . Total city expenses, 1875. Total estimate, 1876... Less amount of State tax ‘Total city expenses, 1876. The estimates this year were arranged in secret sessions of the Board, so that the peo- ple have not been permitted to see the pro- cess of wrangling and bargaining by which the exorbitant expenditures of the different departments were finally reached, Of course the Mayor had to agree to give the Finance Department over a quarter of a million dollars to spend next year, in order to induce the Comptroller to give the Public Works Department the handling of nearly a million and three-quarters, and so on through the list. With such bargains driven in secret sessions by those who fix the estimates it is not surprising that the rate of taxation should steadily increase. The people must look to reliet: from the Legislature. Economy must be reached first by lopping off the unnecessary offices | for which the people are compelled to pay. and the duties should be performed bya single clerk in the Comptroller's office, One-half the bureaus in the Finance Department are wholly unnecessary, and should be swept away as so many frauds on the city treasury. The Law Department should be prohibited from having any pen- sion list for political lawyers, known as a “contingent fund.” The bureau of the Cor- poration Attorney, which is wholly unneces- sary, should be cut off by law, and the busi- ness transacted by the bureau should be done by one or two of the almost sinecure clerks in the Corporation Counsel's office. The Health Department, while it should have a sufficient appropriation for the effective preservation of the public health, should be simplified, so as to render it impossible to make it what it has hitherto been, a sort of pension office for political paupers. The Tax Receiver’s office, which is wholly unne- cessary as a separate bureau, should be abol- ished and its duties performed by the De- partment of Taxes and Assessments. Other departments should be similarly pruned, so that if would be impossible hereafter for a | trading Board of Apportionment to swell the annual city expenses to the frightful amount of thirty-six million dollars. The Legisla- ture of next year should apply itself to this work with honesty and vigor, and as Gov- | ernor Tilden is a consistent reformer he | would not venture to veto a measure of such evident justice to the overburdened people of the metropolis. ‘ Our Poor Friend Wickham, At the risk of anticipating the philosophic interference of Mr. Bergh, whose devotion to the cause of the prevention of cruelty to animals is world-renowned, we must inter- pose a word in behalf of our poor friend Wickham. Last summer all New York was urging our handsome, our eloquent, our benevolent Mayor to go to London and raise his voice in Guildhall and publicly tramp on the tail of the British lion until it howled in anguish. Now when he appears in Tammany Hall he is hissed. He is made the scape- goat of the democracy. ‘If it had not been for Wickham there would not have been any trouble.” “If Wickham had not interfered the laborers would not have had their wages reduced.” John Kelly publicly protests that when Wickham did this crowning act it was against his desire, although he does not explain how it was that a committee headed by his unfortunate friend, Denis Quinn, assembled to punish Mr. Morrissey for pro- testing against the act. Why should Wick- ham be driven out into the wilderness in this sad manner? Is he not as sincere a democrat as John Kelly? In fact, we think in his course during the canvass he has shown judgment ond discretion. He has not denounced the press. He has not called upon the people of New York to view him as the only honest man of the city. He has not interfered in the canvass. He has shown an amount of reticence that deserves commen- dation. Altogether we think Wickham is a badly used man. If the truth were known about the stories which circulate in reference to his position they arise from jealousy. These gentlemen who would make Mr. Wickham a scap goat dread him, They fear that he might take Tammany Hall in his hands and | reorganize it, and with his clarion voice go from district to district and summon the clans around the old banner. We do not think Mr. Wickham has made the best kind of a Mayor. We wish he were not so thor- oughly atraid of Mr. Green as he proves him- | self to be when they meet in public, and we can never to lament that he did not visit England when he had the opportunity. But there men than Wickham in New York, There are worse democrats in Tam- many Hall. The attempt to saddle him with allthe misfortunes of the party is cowardice, If Wickham is » man he will not endure it. We advise him to take his position at once and demonstrate to the Tammany Hall com- nittee ina speech of unanswerable power and cloauence -®ich a speech as we know he can cease are worse | | | deltver—that he has in no way brought upow Tammany Hall the disasters of the past weely Pandora’s Box in Modern Times. While the letter which we print thia morning as part of the literature out of out Pandora's box—a box of good rather than of evil—contains no story either of remarkabl¢ discovery or thrilling adventure, yet it will be read with great interest as an important contribution to our knowledge of the North- ern seas and of the inhabitants of the frozen North. The ladies of every country, ex. cepting only the Esquimau girls, have found knights to do battle in their honow and poets to sing their praises. At last these Arctic fairies find in our correspondent and in the men of the Pandora not only ade mirers but celebrants of their charms. It must not be said hereafter that the women of Disco are mere coal heavers, nor must either “dirt” or “filth” be imputed to them as a fault common to all the ladies of the North. The children of science, intent on finding the Pole, or sailing the open Polar Sea, are too apt to have no eyes for beauty when they see it out of the drawing rooms of London and New York. But our voyagers of the Pandofa were not blind to feminine charms, even in the Arctic regions. They sing the praises of the Esquimau with a fervor that is surprising, and we should nof be astonished if a summer trip to Baffin’s Bay to see the girls of Disco and Upernavik became as common a divertissement as the an« nual retirement of My Lord This and My Lord That to his hunting box. It would at least have the charm of freshness, and we know how the world sighs for something new, wore shipping with a sincere devotion the novelty ofthe hour. Our Pandora's box this morn« ing presents a pleasant picture of the outward passage of the vessel—the coaling at Disco, the run across Melville Bay, a visit to Carey Islands, where the Arctic voyagers in the light of the midnight usually establish their simple post offices—but interesting as ard these sketches of Wonderland this unex pected championship of Arctic beauty is tha most surprising as well as the most interest. ing of its treasures. After this we shall exe pect no more plagues from the mythological casket of evils, having obtained from ony modern Pandora only pleasant surprises and unexpected revelations of feminine loveli« ness, Kelly’s Best Hold. Orne1.to—Is he not honest? IaGo—Honest, my Lord? Shakespeare, John Kelly says, ‘Iam nota great man, but Tam honest.” Only one part of this is true. As to his greatness the statement ia accurate; but the little man who is cone scious of his littleness, and yet endeavors ta fill a place and to perform functions to which only a great man could be equal is not honest. It is not honest to pretend that q pint of shandygaff will fill a quart measure, That bullfrog which endeavored to persuada its small family that it could puff itself out to be as big as a bull and was bursted in the experiment was not merely a humbug, it was a dishonest reptile. Tux Des Ancrs Casz, it is expected, will close on Monday on the part of the prosecue tion. The trial is a very important one, and its progress is followed with a jealous inters est by all who wish to see justice done and the laws enforced. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General M. G, Vallejo is writing a history of Spanisly California. The great defect of the English people is mental in dolence, says Mr, Gladstone, A Georgia girl, afflicted with rheumatism, has not been able to turn in bea for two years, Mr. William M. Gwin, formerly United States Senator from California, is sojourning at the Windsor Hotel. Miss Emily Faithful, who 18 over twenty-five, advisog females not to marry until they are twenty-five yearg old. Vassar girls believe ina fish diet as a good thing for the brain, and never miss hooking any sucker who fallg in their way. The Bank of California, under the management of Mr. Ralston, paid eighteen percent dividend on itd entire capital. Ice forming, skates glistening in shop windows and so much pinchback clothes that she can’t ever come th¢ grapevine twist again. There is a girl on exhibition in Charleston, 8. C., hav- ing four well developed legs and feet, and it will be just like her to want a pony and a side saddle, Alexander H. Stevens has gained two pounds, and if he keeps on being so dreadfully wholesome he will weigh a hundred and filty in twenty-five years, James Fair, the fourth member of the Bonanza firm, isa man of liberal education, the only one of them sa endowed, and is the original of Bret Harte’s Colonel Starbottle. It is asserted that “a lady writer in the Woman's Journal gives expression to the idea that the holines¢ of woman's love almost cancels her shame when she ig led astray.’ Hon, B. H. Hill, of Georgia, says the demoeratio Congressmen from the South will be very conservative and will oppose all claims against the government og account of the war, Jefferson Davis’ namo has been brought forward ag that of Senator from Mississippi, but Mr. Davis cannot have that democratic honor and Mr. Lamar will probe ably wear the toga, ‘The Butalo Courier says of the election :—‘Its necess sary cfect is that for a time the best men of bow parties are made weaker and their worst men stronget than they were before.” The Chicago Times says:—Miss Phorbe Cousins has@ lecture prepared reviewing the decision of the Suprem¢ Court on the woman suffrage question. Its title is “4 Woman Withouta Country.’’ ‘The Oakland (Cal,) Transcript eays:—There are many men in San Francisco who have become rich very sud+ denly, and who are likely to lose their money just ag suddenly as they acquired it,” Cecelia Cleveland bas written a book called “The Sigh.” And now the bays are hanging around her hack stoop and singing that well known melody, ¢f Sigh for a Cipher, But f Can’t Cipher Thee,” “Yrofessor Becker states that the great Comstock vein has passed from inclosing walls of porphyry and syes nite into solid syenite, which indicates, the scientists say, that the vein will soon cease to yield altogether, The Boston Herald says:—“The people aro still choosing between two evils, and the discontent with both of the old parties is steadily increasing. They are looking forward to that party of the future which shalt embody the best half of both.’ The Utica Herald, Hon, Ellis H. Roberts’ paper, saya ‘that the canal ring was least influentialof all the causes which contributed to the democratic disaster, and that tho republicans make their most overwhelming gaing in sections where that influence never ponetrated. The Boston Advertiser, writing of the political fature, | says:—"The noxt change wilt involve a breaking up of | the old parties and the organization of now ones. The republican party can prevent such a result by answore ing the resonable expectations of tho best elements of the national life." Said a democratic momber of the present House of Representatives, in forecasting what he deemed the Probable result of the next general election:—“Whep We get into power you will perhaps see for the Heep four rs more stealing than the republicans themge selveg have ever beou guilty of,"