The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1875, Page 8

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AMERICAN INSTITUTE, Chird avenue and Sixty-third street.—Day und evening. MIQUE, TY, at 8 P.M. ) MINSTRE y. corner of Twenty-ninth street, 3 PM. BE $ THEATR! Ewgnty third street und Sixth wenue. E PANTOMIME, ats © M."G. L. Fox. TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT AR’ TRAN Matrrary From our reports this morning the probabilities wre that the weather to-day will be warmer and clear. Tae Hera vy Fast Man. Taarns,—News- deaiers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North, the South and Southwest, also along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- nections, will be supplied with Toe Henaxp, free of postage. katraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers ly sending their orders direct to this office. Watt Srreet Yestexpay.—Fancy stocks were strong but feverish. Gold closed at 115 3-8, after morning sales at 115, Rag dol- tars are worth 86.68, Investment securities are firm. Canprsan McCros: and will probably offi the Cathedral to-da; y is now in Dublin | late at high mass at Tar Cc gland scored one | in a Parliamentary election in South West Lancashire yesterday. Yesrerpay was a sort of Black Friday on | the London Stock Exchange, and rumors of | Eastern complications snd financial embar- cassments filled the air. Tue Heraup'’s Sprctan Cantx despatch | from Paris predicts that the majority of the | French Assembly will support the system of | voting by districts. This will bea Minis- | terial triumph, always supposing that the calculations of our correspondent are correct, Tae News rnom tre Torkise Drerrcunty reports that the Austrian frontier forts are being prepared for hostilities. A sort of hap- hazard rumor comes from Ragusa, which is published ‘under reserve” at Brussels, to the effect that the Mussnlmans of Herzegovina | are exasperated against the Christians and that massacres in some localities are con- | templated. Tue Franxco-Amentcan gave a grand banquet in Paris yesterday, which was at-j tended by a number of prominent citizens is and statesmen of the United States, France and other nations, The sentiments of re gard | and fraternity between France and Ameri were warmly and eloquently expressed. he | account of the reunion given in the Henanp's special cable despatch will give an idea of the interesting character of the event. A Frontier Rabat. he wild and un- certain life of the frontier adventurer ig illustrated by the story told in the Hrranp to-day of the murder of Mr. J. K. Glenn, Jr., near the Dolores Mines, Mexico. derers appear to have been Mexicans, who, having enticed the young American to a meeting on the pretence of a horse trade, killed him for the purpose of robbery. It is to be hoped that justice or vengeance may overtake his murderars. | more one-man power in politics, and that | masses, and not the servile recorders of the The mur- | 2" geedaiaatiite of the Canvass. It is hardly time’ to study critically the canvass of Tuesday. The victorious clans have not ceased their exultations, and, as is natural, there will be some days of rejoicing over their unexpected and fairly won victory. The defeated clans have what we may call a depression of spirits.. They, find the sun rises regularly as it did before Tuesday, and | although we have had a little spell of rain | and gloomy weather we shall have fair days | again in spite of the defeat of Tammany | Hall. ‘There will be a hundred theories for | the defeat, and desperate councils upon one side and truculent resolves upon the other. The victors will be anxious to pillage the camps they have captured, the defeated to make as good terms with the victors as pos- sible; but the canvass in its graver aspects should not be allowed to pass without some consideration, In the first place the election of Tuesday did not largely affect the government of New York. By a peculiar coincidence the officers chosen on the cownty ticket were more or less judicial. There were two judges of the higher courts, two judges of the criminal | courts, two Marine Court judges, one Surro- gate and a District Attorney. If we may inclnde the Coroner, whose ancient office is partly judicial also, we may speak of the election as being altogether of that char- acter. The terms of the men chosen will, with two exceptions, last for many years. The successful candidates are not politicians. With the exception of | Mr. Hackett and Mr. Phelps the ticket con- | tains men who are practically new, who were chosen not because of their skill in manag- ing wards and conventions, but for their learning and character, and because they would strengthen the ticket and make good officers. The city receives an infusion of | new blood into its courts, and it is to be con- gratulated upon the fact that not one of the gentlemen who ascends the Bench by reason of the votes on Tuesday has a stain upon his name. In this respect the two tickets, Tam- many and anti-Tammany, were alike, the Tammany nominations doing credit to John | Kelly's discernment. The Aldermen and the members of the Legislature are not strong enough to change the government of the city. Therefore the practical result of the canvass on Tuesday is not to overturn in any degree the machinery of our government by those sweeping changes which generally follow an election, but to demonstrate the moral power of public opinion over a political organization. So far as the control of patronage is con- cerned New York will be under the influence of Tammany Hall. The Mayor, the local legislature and the heads of departments, where money is spent and patronage is con- trolled, are still Tammany. If the leaders of Tammany continue to follow the stiff- necked policy of Mr. Kelly they can keep their ‘‘machine” as strong as ever. There is no difficulty in finding a Committee on Disci- | pline so long as Fitz John Porter controls the public works and Mr. Wickham the Mayor's | office. There will be no trouble in organiz- ing a party so long as Mr. Kelly’s followers direct public improvements in New York. Therefore, if there is to be a reform in Tam- many Hall it must come from the inside. In | that respect, so far as the practical possession of power is concerned, the last election is an admonition rather than a defeat. Now, if | the leaders of the democracy, the men who | have given their lives to considering the higher principles of politics, who have held commanding rank in its councils—men | like Mr. Church, Mr. Tilden, Mr. Ker- | nan, Mr. Seymour, Mr. Fernando Wood, Mr. Hewitt, Mr. Clarkson N. Potter, Mr. Bel- | mont, Mr. Marble and Mr. Hackett—would take hold of the organization, there is no rea- | son why they should not put the democracy | upon as sound a basis as it is in the State. Governor Tilden had,a right to expect from New York State a larger majority in the in- dorsement of his administration than ho | received when he ran for Governor. If Mr. Kelly had conducted his local canvass in New York with a grain of sense he could have given him this majority. Therefore the duty of these democrats whom we have | ventured to name as worthy of respect and | authority in democratic, councils is to bring | the organization in New York up to that | point where it will harmoniously co-operate | with the organization in the State and give | Governor Tilden’s reform administration its merited support. This is to be done by the conscientious | men in Tammany Hall taking a new depar- | ture. First, let there be an end of this tom- | foolery of an Indian society, dances, ‘‘war- | paths” and secret meetings in a lodge room, with grips and passwords and countersigns. | Brush that away as the nonsense of politics. Then let there be no more Committees on Discipline to denounce and destroy honest democrats, like Robespierre’s guillotine com- mittee did with honest Frenchmen. Then let it he understood by every citizen of New York who believes in the principles of democ- racy as laid down by Jefferson, in popular | sovereignty, free trade and civil service economy in affairs and the rights of the peo- ple, that he is especially desired to take part | in a convention to reorganize the democracy. There are no elections to be held for the present. There are no disturbing questions to enter into this council, A convention of this kind should assemble. The most hon- ored men in the party should be delegates to it. They should reorganize the democratic party upon a basis that would last for years, This basis should be that there shall be no the conventions of the democratic party in New York should be the pression of the highest wisdom of its ex- will of one man. Let the democracy be so reorganized that im the future there will be no more Kellyism or Tweedism. These names are synonyms for the same evil. A few of the old place-hunters and machine | men may be disturbed by this revolution, | but it is for the interest of the party in the State and the party in the nation that it | should be accomplished without delay. This duty devolves primarily upon Mr. Seymour and Mr, Kernan, Mr, Kernan said in his admirable speech at Tammany Hall before the election that he took no part in our local quarrels, That was wise, and prob- ably saved the State ticket ; for if Mr. Kernan or Mr. Seygmour bad said a ward in the can- | tenders ? vass showing an undue sympathy with John Kelly Mr. Bigelow would have been defeated by the vote of New York city alone, But now that the local canvass is over Mr. Kernan and Mr. Seymour should take an interest in New York politics. They should come tothe city and insist upon reorganization. would find the masses of the party glad to accept their counsel and act with them. If this is done promptly and judiciously the defeat of Tammany Hall on Tuesday may be the beginning of the greatest victory ever achieved by the democratic party. pearls sea aaa Lt Pulpit Topics To-Day. The anxiety of the pastors and churches for a religious awakening in this city is very clearly manifested to-day in the very general consideration of the power and influence of the Holy Spirit in such awakening and the | qualification of Christians for co-operation in revival work. This, in one form or an- other, will oceupy the time and thought of Rev. Messrs. McCarthy, Barrett, Harrower, Seitz, Ganse, Armitage, Leavell, Knapp, Tay- lor and Jutten. Mr. Phelps will tate a trip back to Nineveh three thousand years ago to examine and report upon the great work which revived that city under the preaching of the half-hearted prophet Jonah, Mr. Lloyd will present two pictures—one of the sinner coming to Jesus and being received, and the other of Jesus coming to the sinner and knock- ing at the heart's door and being refused admission. And yet He should be received; for, as Mr. Leavell will show, godliness is profitable not only hereafter but here, also; and, as Mr. Knapp will demonstrate, it is within reach of all men; for there is salva- tion for the lost, and the Lord himself is the desire and portion of the good man, as Mr. | Willis will make it appear, and His presence insures liberty of the truest sort to the chil- dren of God. To insure a revival, however, believers must have travail of soul for the salvation of men, and love even for enemies must possess their hearts, as Mr. Selleck will show. The prophet and pastor of Mount Zion must be fond of fire, for he deals as freely with it as if it were a plaything. He has God's burning day for the world set and fixed already, and will let a favored few into the secret. Mr. Hugo will raise another earthwork in Harlem to protect our free | schools. The Von Arnim Case. The case of the Count Von Arnim, so familiar to our readers, is becoming a scan- dal. A prosecution was brought aguinst this nobleman by the Prussian government as an act of discipline. It has been carried from Court to Court. In every case he has been found guilty. We had hoped that the im- perial government, having satisfied the dis- cipline of its foreign office by securing the eanviction of the Count, would show its imperial mercy by pardoning him. The offence, after all, was but a nominal one. No one supposes that Count Von Arnim intended to do anything inconsistent with his rank a8 | a nobleman or his function as a diplomatist. It may be that the exigencies of the Prussian service require that even a constructive of- ferice against the laws of diplomacy should be punished as severely as actual crime. |The punishment that Count Arnim has already received is of a terrible character. He has been dismissed from his service, from his emoluments, from that promotion which would certainly have followed the signature of the Treaty of Paris. The Prussian govern- ment could not do a more gracious act than to pardon Count Von Arnim for the general offence charged against him, and to admit him again to the service in which he gained honorable distinction. Behave Yourselves. Here is another college row. Only a couple of weeks ago the Yale collegians, sitting on their sacred fence, had the bad manners to insult a procession of Odd Fellows, and sev- eral of them got their heads broken, which nobody regretted. Several others, we hear, have been suspended. And now we hear of trouble of the same kind at Hanover College, in New Hampshire, where, after misconduct- ing themselves in an auction room, a num- ber of students assaulted the auctioneer, imprisoned him in the railroad depot and conducted themselves generally in an in- decent manner. We hope the police and the courts will see to it that these young bloods are punished for their rowdyism. Boys and young men are not sent to college merely to acquire a little Greek, Latin and mathematics. The college is, or ought to be, a place for moral discipline, and, while we are not disposed to be over strict with young people, they ought not to be allowed to make a college a nuisance to the people who are so unfor- tunate as to live near it. Where students reject the control of the Faculty they ought not to be allowed to escape the penalties which other people suffer for violating the peace. No Cuance ror a Dontan.—The Secre- | tary of the Treasury, who is well known as a strict observer of the law, is, in ac- cordance with the resumption law of last session, coining silver small change as rapidly as the mints can do it. Meantime, it is noticed that the fifty cent scrip is less abundant than formerly. -This arises from the fact that the Treasury has ceased to print new scrip; and large quantities are con- stantly disappearing from circulation, being worn out, soiled and torn. The fractional currency has been contracted by nearly a | fifth in the last twelve months, simply by | not replacing that which is worn out and de- stroyed. If this goeson much longer there | will be a demand for silver half and quarter | dollars, dimes and half dimes. | that demand that Mr. Bristow is probably | preparing himself. It is for But if he can thus get rid of the fractional currency why could he not try the same plan with the larger legal If he shonld refuse to reissue legal tender notes paid in to the government and refuse to print new notes we shonld gradually come to an end of the greenback, and thus to gold. Rerrrpvri0n he victory over the Brook- lyn dictatorship is likely to be folliwed up by prosecutions against the defeated “Ring”. for alleged public frauds. The Taxpayers’ Association is said to have selected a law committee, in whose hands has been placed the evidence for the prosecution. of the offending officials and theix accomulices, . They | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1875.~QUADRUPLE SHEL1. The Health of New York. The interview we published with General Viele the other day in referencs to Central Park and the many communications and publications that have appeared in the press as to the sanitary condition of our city are worthy of prompt attention. We believe the stories about malaria in New York are ex- aggerated. If it were not so our death rate would be much larger in proportion to that of other great cities than it appears irom pub- lished statistics. At the same time New York might be a much healthier city if it were properly governed. We have not been visited for many years by any general disease like the cholera or yellow fever. So far as location is concerned the site is healthier than London, Paris or Vienna. We have the great ocean at our side and the mountains around us and two rivers constantly draining the soil. We have the best water in the world from ‘the Croton River, free from any taint of sew- age. We have but few graveyards in tho city, and those far removed from one another and small in size. In London there is com- plaint that the soil is so permeated by the sewage as to be incurably poisoned, and un- less science can find a means of eliminating the noxious elements the question of health will become, in a generation or two, one of the gravest character. In addition to the natural advantages of New York science has brought draining to per- fection. There is not an engineer who could not arrange in an hour a plan for thoroughly draining New York and removing every ves- tige of malaria. But we are careless in this respect, as we are in most things. We open boulevards and tear up the earth in the upper sections. We allow water to gather and vegetable matter to decompose, and go on building and digging and scratching and leave these exposed places to generate typhus and diphtheria. All around New York there are plague spots which arise wholly from our indolence and recklessness. General Viele says that in Central Park our pleasure lakes have been so indifferently handled as to threaten to become also an offence to the community. Instead of as we have stag- naht ponds. Now if John Kelly and the Tammany Hall people, who still have control of the city, mean to give us good government, let them take hold of this question of malaria. New York can afford well to pay twenty million dollars to have the country south of Yonkers thoroughly drained and brought into a healthy condition. The lives we lose, the money we spend, the griefs we endure, the bad reputation that comes upon our city be- cause of the neglect of this first function of government, costs us enormously in the end. Now that we have brought rapid transit to the point of success, why should not our city government take hold of the question of the sanitary condition of New York? Let a commission of physicians and engineers be appointed to enter into the whole subject. Let a plan be matured that will thoroughly purify New York and make it healthy and in- viting. For such a plan the city will will- ingly pay all the money required—millions if needed. A Parliamentary Experiment. As the Servian Skuptschina has adjourned for a month, peace between Servia and Tur- key is assured for that time at least, and the members will have time to cool their heads and may return ina different temper. One of the quaintest experiments yet made in par- liamentary government has come out of their ridiculous spirit of pugnacity. In their stormy sessions the Servian national existence may be said to have been atstake. If theissue of war does not actually determine the inde- pendence of Servia as a State, it will, it is well nigh certain, determine finally the reign of Milano as a sovereign prince. If Milano can keep the peace between his people and the Turks he is the man the great Powers want on that particular throne. If he can- not keep the peace even a successful war will not save him. With these facts clear before his eyes he has to deal with a Cham- ber that regards itself as sovereign and which is composed of one member for every thousand persons of the population. Re- cently the Chamber, furious for war, seemed to have passed so far beyond restraint that when the Prince presented himself before it there were threatening demonstrations made against him as almost the only man in favor of peace. Milano lighted his cigar and left the Chamber, much, apparently, in the style in which the Duke in Rigoletto goes out singing, ‘‘Donne e mobile.” But he sent for all those gentlemen to come to the royal palace. They went. There he demanded of them, ‘‘Who among you are for war and who opposed to it?” But he did not take a general and clamorous answer. On the con- trary, he called each member's name from the roll, and each member, thus isolated, answered for himself. Only a dozen Depu- ties voted for war out of an assembly that a few hours before had howled for it with unanimous fury. Milano is evidently the man for the place he holds. Rarm Transtt.—The people of New York have another instalment of rapid transit through the opening of the Greenwich street railroad extension as far as Forty-second street and Ninth avenue. Next week the spider line will reach Fiftieth street, and in three weeks is expected to be running to Sixtieth street. This latter extension will ve passengers the opportunity of connect- ing with the “Belt” railroad at Fifty- ninth street, and ‘so getting across to the east side. This will be something gained. But the Third avenue line shouldbe none the less vigorously pushed forward, and if, as is alleged, the property owners, under the influence of the Third avenue horse car line, withhold their consent to its construc- tion, there should not be a day’s delay in taking the appeal to the courts provided for in tae constitution and the law. Great ConsTennation was created at an early hour yesterday morning by the fall of a portion of the large wall of the Jones brew- ery, running from No, 619 to No, 637 Sixth avenue. Fortunately, no person was hurt. The wall had for some time been considered unsafe, and had bulged considerably through the storage of a large amount of grain in the upper part of the brewery. If the fall had taken place in the daytime there mnst of necessity have pbecn a heavy joss ot iife. Of course the building department knew nothing of the dangerous condition of the wall and cared Since Mayor Wickham suppressed the investiga tion of the Duane street church disaster, after the Coroner’s jury had presented the Building Department as grossly mglectful of its duties, the Superintendent has been able to laugh at such accidents as the one we now record, Views of the Religious Press. The Observer and the Evangelist treat the Brooklyn revival from the orthodox stand- point. The former points out two errors into which the churches here and elsewhere seem to have fallen—first, that because the labors of Moody and Sankey have been so greatly blessed in Great Britain therefore a revival of religion is not to be expected in a city until they visit it; and second, that a revival is certain to attend their labors. The latter thinks that all the aspects of the re- vival seem to affirm that it is from God and not of men, and unite in pointing to Mr. Moody as one divinely directed and helped. The Christian Union thinks it makes little difference to the masses what form his theology takes if Mr. Moody comes to them, as he does, full of helpfulness, of .cour- age, of a contagious and irresistible confidence in divine love, calling men to itself, The common people hear him, as they heard his Master, gladly. It is love, faith, hope, that men hunger for, and getting that divine wine the shape of the cup that holds it is of small account. The Christian at Work gives the reason why Mr. Moody would not preach in the Unita- rian church at Northfield during the sum- mer. It is that a few years ago he did preach there by invitation of the pastor, and, having finished his discourse, the ‘Chris- tian” minister said to Mr. Moody, ‘‘Christ’s blood has no more to do with us than the blood of a chicken.” This was such an in- sult to Mr. Moody that he resolved never to put himself in the way of receiving another like it. The Methodist says there is some danger in special services that a frivolous and distempered enthusiasm may take the place of common sense and fervent piety ; but nothing of that sort, it adds, is charged by anybody against the evangelists of Brook- lyn, in whose services the interest has steadily increased. The Boston Pilot has a very sensible article on working for the Church, in which it takes the ground that a Catholic voter should not cast his ballot at the dictation of a priest, nor should he drag his Church questions into secular politics any more than a Methodist, Baptist or any other citizen. If ‘Catholics are honest men, who live good lives, worship- ping God according to their faith, good neighbors, good citizens, they are working for the Church, says the Pilot, in the best way. The address of Senator Kernan on the public schools, as might be expected, has received the attention that it ought from both Catholic and Protestant papers. Tho Freeman's Journal is in great grief because the Senator had the temerity to say that the Roman Catholic clergy are wrong in object- ing to the public schools. It regiets that it gave him its support three years ago for Gov- ernor and later for Senator. But nqw the editor and the Senator must sail in different boats. Some of our Protestant exchanges are delighted at Mr. Kernan’s utterances, though they think he did not speak by the book. The charge made by Dr. Ryder at the late Universalist Convention that his breth- ren and Church did not aim to con¥ert men to God also receives a good deal of attention from the religious press, which praises him for his stinging rebuke of such apathy. The Third Avenue Swindle. It ought now to be plain to the public that the managers of the Third Avenue Bank, after inducing depositors to trust their money to the institution through false re- ports of its solvency, are endeavoring to obstruct the interests of the creditors and to prevent any effective measures from being taken to hold the faithless trustees to accountability. It has always been absurd to believe that an officer of the bank- rupt institation who owed his position to the trustees, who united with them in making false statements of the condition of the bank so as to extend the area of its victims, and who was secretly appointed re- ceiver at their request, through the aid of a suspiciously friendly Bank Superintendent, would act in the interest of the depositors against the trustees. From the desperate efforts of the trustees to keep their agent and old employé in the position of receiver it is evident that there is something more at stake than the retention of a friend in that capac- ity. There have been rumors of dishonest transactions on the part of some prominent persons connected with the management of the bank which may form the basis for criminal proceedings. The conster- nation caused by the probable removal of Mr. Carman seems to give color to such sur- mises. If the affhirs of the bank have been honestly managed and will bear investiga- tion why should the trustees be in such dread of a new receiver? Why should they not be as willing to trust the winding up of the business to a disinterested and competent man as to their own old employé if they have no frauds or irregularities to conceal ? The case of this bankrupt institution is one of great public interest, reaching far be- | yond the circle of the defrauded depositors, The part played by the Superintendent of | the Banking Department in the whole affair | must be looked upon with suspicion. If that officer can legally suffer a bank to entice de- positors into its meshes after it is clearly rot- ten and bankrupt, and can then aid it in se- curing a friendly receiver by stealth, without the knowledge of the creditors, then there is no security for the depositors of any savings | bonk in the State. It is essential that the | Superintendent's course in this matter should be thoroughly scrutinized. It is also important that the trustees of the broken bank should be held to a strict account- Savings Bank ability. Their bonds should be pros- ecuted at once, and no Court should do any act to prolong the reten- tion of Mr, Carman in thd receivership asingle day. It is also desirable that the responsibility of the trustees in criminal proceedings should be tested, and that the Courts should decide whether men acting in such a capacity can induce people to ir ese money to their keeping by means of false protences without incurring the penal- ties of the law. The Staten Island Ferry War. There is some reason to suspect that the Jacobus Vanderbilt ferry mo- nopoly is about to attempt another outrage on the property of the Inde- pendent Ferry line and the New York Yacht Club on Staten Island. The false statement was made yesterday through gome of the New York papers that the club house was to be removed from its present position with the consent of Commodore Garner and the club. It is believed that this report was spread for the purpose of deceiving the people of Staten Island. The supposition is that the Jacobus Van- derbilt monopolists, with the redoubt- able Blunt at their head, contemplate another attack on the club house as soon as it is closed for the winter, and that they seek to make the Staten Islanders be- lieve that their operations are simply the work of Commodore Garner and his friends., From the spirit that animates the people of Staten Island it is evident that any such attempt would be fatal to the Jacobus Vanderbilt party. The Independent Ferry line will be protected by the citizens to the extent of the law, and, as Commodore Garner says, if the club house should ever be re- moved by its friends the Staten Islanders will have due notice of the event. Four Huxprep Minsions.—It is not a very good time to ask for subsidies, for the people are poor, the times are hard and the taxes are high. Nevertheless the following “great expectations” are announced: Northern Pacific Railroad. Southern Pacific Railroad. New York and Erie Canal Tonnessee River, Improvements of Misa Levees of Mississippi. Chesapeake and Ohio Seven of the ten projects here named are Southern, and for that reason will probably receive special attention from the politicians in Congress. But on the whole it is a poor time to ask for subsidies, Tue Ractne Szason at Jerome Park for the present year closed yesterday with a brilliant day’s sport. There wero five races, all of which were well contested, and McDaniel’s stable was unusually fortunate. The first race was won by Josie B.; the second by: Madge ; the third, the Members’ Cup, by Big Sandy, and the fourth, also by Madge, all of which were McDaniel’s entries. In tha fifth race J. G. K. Lawrence's Resolute carried off the prize over the steeplechase course, his competitors being Osage, Diavolo and Dickens. The season has been a very suc« cessful one, and it closed with a day’s racing which speaks well for the prospects of next year. Tue Henaww’s Spectan correspondenca from Milan gives a spirited and interesting account of the preparations for the reception of Kaiser Wilhelm at Milan. All Italy was in a ferment over the event, and Victor Em- manuel was as proud of his magnificent visitor as he is of his magnificent mustache. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, “A Danbury man” robbed Mrs. Scott-Siddons, The new Senator from Tennessce is a soft Money Koy. People won’t patronize tho St. Louis bridge, and it does not pay. Wyoming has a lake at tho bottom of which is a layer of Epsom salts. The children ery for it. The deadliest conversationalist in St. Joseph is named tiram A. Hall—which he never does. In California 3,000 Chinamen are native born Ameri- cans, Within ten years they will vote. Problem. Mr. Bowles thinks that the new great independent party will really come from the reformers in the demo~ cratic party. Judge Dillon, of lowa, decides that a postmaster may destroy scurrilous postal cards, but that there is no pen- alty for sending them. In England a judge has decided that you are liable in damages for keeping a noisy rooster. No republican editors in that country. Mr. Thomas Winans, of Baltimore, is having built for his private residence the largest organ in America, - It will be heard a mile distant. Space for exhibiting women’s modern clothing is not to be allowed at the Centennial. Too bad, for they can exhibit without much space, ‘The Springfield Repuldican says:—“It continues to be the great fact that Tilden has a larger stock in trade than any democratic politician in tne country.” Mr. Nicholas Chichkine, the Russian Minister, ar- rived in the city last evening, from Washington, and is sojourning with his family at the Clarendon Hotel, Dom Pedro, of Brazil, will bring $200,000 worth of diamonds when he comes to visit this country, And the burglars are beginning to sing Sankey’s pwans, Baron Blanc, the new Italian Minister, who has been, sojourning at tho Brevoort House since his arrival im this country, left tho city yesterday for Washington, The latest Kastern novelty is a journal to be estab- lished in Constantinople for the benefit of the harem ladies, The name of its Brooklyn correspondent is not yet announced, Murat Halstead thinks that Senator Thurman is a likely democratic candidate for the Presidency, be- cause he is fairly entitied to say:—I was against this unfortunate issue, and told you so,” The time is coming when the whole duty of a United States Senator will not consist in seeing how much: he can get out of national appropriations for the benefit of the creek or hamlet from which he came, Major Cameron, who has been at Quebec for some time completing the business of the British North. American Boundary Commission, having finished his: labors, left on Friday evening, en route for England. The Chicago Tribune thinks that the tutare will de~ velop great journalists; but the newspaper office which does not possess a man who thinks he whistles all the latest operas can never boast of even a mod- | erate journalist. - The Richmond Whig wants the democratic party to | recruit from the disaffected republicans of tho North. The Whig sees tho end, but does not proscribe the means, which many think will be the revival of the whig party from the South, Soft money gentlemen will be Interested in reading, the following from an ex-Confederate shoel, the Leb- anon (Tenn.) Aerald:—More than once, during @ period of four years not now nocossary to particularizo, we paid $100 or $150 for a pair of boots. You seo ‘the volume of currency was equai to tho necessities of traae,?” ‘The St, Loals Republican (dem.) says:—"No reflecy- ing democrat can look upon these conquests in the South as a cheerful indication when they aro offwt by losses in tho North. The North is the seat of powor, and must continue to be for years to come; and the democracy can never again be national power tll it regains the lost art of attracting the sympathies of that section,"” Senator Anthony’s Providence paper says:— was when $25 was a sufficient allowauco for millinery, even for a fashionable outit, Wo very pretty faces and very bright eyes shining forth from Leghorns and Dunstables that had been made over for the third or fourth time, while the flowers and rib. bons that trimmed them had sceu service like the yonnets.”” ‘Time