The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1875, Page 6

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Juvenile Opers { YORK, NEW 1875, | ations than the relations between our coun- | solved. | opinion of this country would be that if we | ent administration qnietly, unostentatiously, NEW YUORKK HEKABD, SATURDAY, N OVEMBER 13, 1875.—TRIPLK SHEET, President Grant's Duty—To Pay the National Debt and Not Crowd the Country Into a War of Ambition, Our Washington correspondent, in yester- day's Heraxb, called attention to the dis- quieting rumors that have been for some time in circnlation in reference to the admin- istration and the Cuban question. Our cor- respondent thinks that a large portion of the forthcoming message of the President will be devoted ‘to a presentation of our duties as a nation in the matter of the war with Cuba. Should the latest efforts of Mr. Cushing in urging Spain to settle the troubles in the island of Cuba by ceding it to | the United States end in nothing, the policy of a recognition of the Cuban Republic will | be recommended to Congress, a precedent for such a step being found in our course | toward Mexico in recognizing, annexing and subseqnently fighting for the Republic and | State of Texas.” Further reference is also made to the preparations at the Boston and other navy yards, and to the fact that the Secretary of State and the President are not in accord on the questions between Spain and this country. As our correspondent puts it, “The President and Secretary Fish will differ forever on the subject of a recog- nition of Cuba.” A despatch from Madrid | says that the Madrid Cabinet is now | | considering the reply that should be made | to the note of Mr. Cushing, which was some | time since delivered to the Spanish govern- ment, and the nature of which, as we were told at the time, was of an energetic and war- | like character. We only know of the tenor of Mr. Cushing's note from general rumor. Mr. Cushing has always had strenuous notions of the duty of a government in dealing with its rivals. He is not a diplomatist who would temper instructions if they gave him any latitude for ‘‘ vigor.” We can well assume that what he has said to the Spanish government will puzzle the ingenious and shifty statesmen of the Madrid Cabinet. We do not care to exaggerate these rumors in reference to oyr relations with Spain. ‘Those relations have been on the most delicate foundation, not only since the administration came into power, but ever since the time of Mr. Buchanan. The acquisition of Cuba was not only the dream of the old slave-holding poli- ticians who had no other ambition than the annexation of slave territory, but even of statesmen like Mr. Greeley, who held slavery and its ambitions in abhorrence. If this were the abstract question of the annexation of Cuba, if the pear were ripe and we were asked to pluck it, if there were no other consider- try and Cuba, the problem might easily be We venture to say that the general could annex Cuba in a Territorial capacity, and thus end the terrible and distressing war there raging, the country, without any serious difference of opinion, would consent tothe union and even welcome it. We have enough of our share of what Theodore Parker was wont to call “the land hunger” of the Saxon race, to take what we can find in the way of new territory. We should have been burdened with an indigestible San Domingo of half savage, nondescript races which have no sympathy and no possible affiliation with our people but for the cour- age and foresight of Sumner and Schurz. So long as there is a European Power on this continent there will be a strong public opin- ion, republican and democratic, in favor of any policy that looks like ‘‘vigor.” Demo- crats will be as anxious about “Fifty- four forty or fight,” if it comes again in the same old shape, as they were in the time of Polk. It is the surest passion to which the politician can appeal when in the stress of a party canvass. And when we find the pres- steadily fanning this passion, we see that the President is Zoverned by a high conception of what is possible to an ambitious and able man in the White House even with the lim- itations of our political system. These limit- ations will have more force under the coming Congress than in ordinary times, when the From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be slightly colder, partly cloudy and clear. Tae Heraty sy Fast Man, Trarns.— Ners- dealers 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 Heranp, free of postage. Hxtraordinary inducements ’ offered to newsdealers vy sending their orders / | We must always remember that the Presi- House was in harmony with the President. dent is ebout to meet a hostile House and a Senate that showed on occasion at the last cation by the firmness of Mr. Fish, he has | earned as high a place in our esteem as Mr. Buchanan did when he stamped out the “Fifty-four forty” madness in the time of Polk, This Cuban question in any shape now would be a calamitous inteference with the interests and the aims of the eountry. We have a great duty and a great pleasure before us in this centennial time, The duty is the reconstruction of our finances; the pleasure is the coming Centennial. We have been looking forward almost with the eagerness of boys awaiting the play- hour for the festival which is | to show the world how old and how great and how hospjtable we are. We are build- | ing a palace which is to celebrate ourselves toall the world. We are to have foreign visitors, princes and kings among the num- ber, who are to be our guests. A war would fall upon our Centennial like a pestilential blight. This year, whatever we may be tempted to do, must be our year of jubilee. A Cabinet, with as ambitious a Minister as Pierrepont and as resolute and in- considerate a politician as Chand- ler, may be trusted to urge any policy, no matter how heroic. But the good sense of the country, which, no matter what party is in power, cannot be insensible to the grave duties of this centennial year, may be trusted to destroy any selfish manifestation of Presidential ambition. The President, if he listens to the higher impulses of his nature, will see that war now would be an act of moral treason, and, no matter what the issue, it would be a blight upon his fame, Let him put aside all ideas but those connected with the celebration of the centennial year of our national existence and the reconstruction of our finances, There rests histrue fame. He has enough of war glory. Let him give the few remaining months of his power to the higher duties of administration, to the pacifi- cation and the strengthening of the country, and he will have a renown as much excelling that which would come from a successful war, even for Cuba, as the everlasting glory of the stars exceeds the terrible splendor of a voleano. Mr. Hewitt’s Explanation. It gave us great pleasure to print yester- day the letter of Mr. Hewitt in explanation of his late remarkable speech, and still greater pleasure to notice the moderating effect of our criticisms on his views. He ac- knowledges that in his speech he used the words ‘‘Tammany Hall” and ‘‘democratic organization” ‘‘as interchangeable terms ;” but he now states that he regards them as entirely distinct and as having no necessary connection with each other. We are glad to find that the sweeping expressions in his speech did not convey his real views, and -that, in his ‘sober second thought,” Tammany is no necessary part of the democratic organization, although he incautiously used them as interchangeable terms. Having admitted that he identified in his speech two things quite distinct in their nature, we regret that Mr. Hewitt does not go one step further and advocate the putting asunder of what need not have been joined together. ‘To infer,” he says, “that I regard Tammany Hall or the Tam- many Society as essential to the continu- ance of free government in this city isa great misconception of my meaning and opinion.” He tells us that he has op- posed Tammany in the past; that he is ready to oppose it again if he should think its influence detrimental ; and that he considers it no necessary part of the democratic organization, although he em- ployed them as interchangeable terms—that is, as meaning one and thesame thing—in his speech. But if Tammany is 4 mere excrescence on the democratic party why should it not be abandoned? Its very name has become odious since the disgraceful uses made of the society under I'weed, and there is no good reason why the demo- cratic party should continue to bear such a stigma as has been fastened upon it by Tam- many. Why not let it relapse into its origi- nal character as a benevolent society? Why not divorce so odious and disgraced a name from democratic politics? Mr. Hewitt confesses that the democratig party does not need it; that the association is merely accidental; and in view of the session a degree of restiveness that may re- sult in serious differences at the coming meeting. It will be a suspicions Congress, disposed to investigate, to inquire, to hold the servants of the people to a strict scrutiny, to look sternly into the management of the government since the republican party came into power. A Congress thus disposed will not be anx- ious to encourage General Grant in any / direct (o this office. Sd Wau Steger Yesterpsr.—Speculation was | confined to two or threé stocks, and there | were few orders outside of the street. Gold | ‘was sold between 114 1-2 1143-8. Money | on call loans was quoted at 3 and 4 per cent. Rag paper, 87.24. Vice Presipent Witson continues to im- Prove, and we may expect that his pleasant ‘| countenance will beam down upon the Sen- ate at the assembling of Congress. Ir Has Been Asxep whether the discreet Mricnds of the President believe that his @peech at the White House after the elections mcant that the republican successes gave the arty the opportunity of electing some new gman to succeed him. If yes——good for the ican party ! Gamperra’s Pourrica, Exprprent for keep- | {ing his own party in power in France has Mailed; but the radical leader does not de- | spair. Nothing is to be feared from his per- wistency, however, and the Republic cannot | fail to be strengthened by the better repub- | licanism of the Ministerial plan of voting for | Quixotic adventures in search of his lost power. He will meet an inquisition, nota body of supporters. At the same time, with a restless Congress peering into all man- ner of curious problems—into Indian and revenue and railroad and other ‘‘rings”— what conld better distract and destroy its usefulness than a question like this, about which so much has been said and writ- ten for the last generation, and about which so much sympathy is felt by all who admire the courage and perseverance of the devoted band of patriots who have sustained for seven long years the Lone Star flag of the Ever Faithful Island? If the President, by | raising the war halloo, can take the demo- cratic hounds off his track; if he can throw into their councils a question about which there will be as much difference of opinion | as in the republican. councils; if he can by any means revive the old war feeling and that yearning for strife which is one of the noblest, if at times one of the basest, of human emotions ; if by any policy, | no matter how strenuous or desperate, he can throw the House into s confusion that will last until after the election, he may members of the Assembly. r \ Carrats Generar Vaumasepa has often | Aistinguished himself by his stringent de- erees, but his latest order has in it a tinge of humanity that is not found in many of the pothers. He prohibits persons living in the occupied districts from travelling after dark, ‘test they be shot by the patrols and pickets. * There is, however, so much danger of being x in every part of the weet in the daytime st seems , fisland that the order ) hog os ta %: . i le are generally on 1 w bullet, ‘ serve his own ambition, the hopes and grandeur of his party, and either win \a third term or excite a feeling which will allow him to name some creature to take | his place, This is the real danger of the | | Cuban question. It comes too late to be the | sincere expression of a Presidential desire to | serve a suffering people struggling for lib- erty. If that had been his feeling he would never have waited for seven years and until ‘we were on the verge of an election for the | Presidency. If, as our correspondent inti- mates, we have been saved from this compli- | infamy which Tammany brought on the democratic party under its former “Boss” we think it would be wise for the party to cut loose both from the name and the thing. Porar Exprorations.—An excellent rec- ommendation has been made to the German government by the proper authority, as will be seen in another col- umn, for the organization of Arctic dis- covery on a scaleand with 9 method not hitherto contemplated. It is proposed to approach the Arctic regions on the line be- tween Greenland and Spitzbergen, and to make permanent establishments at high points both on the Greenland and Spitzber- gen coasts. These points of observa- tion and study would be the ont posts of science in that direction, and the highest post would be the real base of operations for Arctic explorers. Supplies of proper character would be regularly sent to these stations, and, in short, a regular Arctic service would be maintained for as long a time as was thought desirable. It is recommended that this system be initiated Geography and Style. It gives us great pleasure to find that our brilliant and vivacious contemporary, the Sun, has “high appreciation of the enter- prise" of our correspondent in Africa. One of the things for which a man might well labor in this world—for which he might en- counter daily with good will the many dangers of such a journey as Stanley has undertaken—is the approval of that journal— a journal whose praises are not cheapened by a too liberal distribution; but one that, on the contrary, might well be supposed to hold that creed of superior persons—that Not to admire Is all the art I know; To make men happy or to keep them so. Every one of its many readers will, we doubt not, rejoice with us that the Sun takes an interest in African geograplsy, and will be glad to hear, from itself, that it is thoroughly acquainted with the subject. It has over- come with dash and gallantry nearly all the difficulties of local journalism. Its war upon thieves in office, even though it some- times assumes the aspect of a mania, will forever be an honor to it, and, as it seems now to find that these are not enough to fill the circle of the activities of a great news- paper, we welcome it to the higher sphere of journalism, and. do not take unkindly its exuberant notion of its own excellencies as exhibited in its criti- gism of some fancies thrown out by us. Criticism from such a source is in itself always welcome, because it implies that the judicious deem our achievements worthy their attention; and if the criticism is against us we may reflect, perhaps, upon the physical impossibility of all the journals in the world securing the services of the one or two critics who are always right. But if the Sun's assault on our theories could disturb us how would our souls be soothed with the balm of its reference to our style! It ap- pears to say that we write inastyle with which it finds no fault—in fact ‘‘elegantly.” This is certainly very handsome. More- over, if we consider the drift of public opinion on the subject of Heraxp articles it must be admitted that it required very great moral courage to say that we write elegantly ; and we recognize this higher sort of courage as the great attribute of our contemporary. But it seems to us that the Sun might gracefully have begn more just, even if not generous, to Stanley ; and we regret that it did not choose to deal with him on the legiti- mate ground of his deeds or misdeeds as an explorer rather than from a purely liter- ary standpoint. There are, in fact, some good reasons why a successful explorer could not be possessed of special ‘literary merit ; and nearly all the explorers of Africa have their books practically rewritten in London. Stanley's qualifications are that he is a robust, hardy and brave gentleman, full of daring and manhood ; enthusiastic, impul- sive; inspired with what might fairly be called the chivalry of enterprise. But this combination of qualities seems of little con- sequence to the Sun, because he writes ‘‘vul- garly.” This is to put a mere dilettante vanity above all good standards of excel- lence. Ifwe had sought fora man capable of writing admirably an interview with Liv- ingstone rather than a man fitted to find him our, journalistic cap would have lacked afeather. It seems to us very regrettable that a brave fellow struggling in the wilder- ness in an honorable ambition, perhaps to leave his bones there, a victim to fever or to the savages who massacred Debelleford, should, in the little he hears from home, hear, with the rest, that he is of little ac- count because he writes ‘‘vulgarly.” As for the geographical problem proper, it is amusing to see the degree to which pas- sion enters into the support of theory. Our contemporary declaims against us for our “Ggnorance” of a subject of which no civil- ized man has any positive knowledge. We are rated for our presumed support of a theory, and the only standpoint of him by whom we are rated must necessarily be an- other theory. Our guilt—our ‘‘ignorance”— is that we do not accept his theory. Itis a battle of theories. Once upon a time—the time of Ben Franklin—there was a war of this sort about lightning rods, and particu- larly us to whether they were more effective with knobs at the end or without. Franklin was against knobs, and on the day when tle it was thought his authority would carry the vote, But a significant intimation was given that this was regarded as the opinion of a ‘man unsound in electricity as well as poli- tics, and that His Sacred Majesty George LI. rod without a knob. So the knobs carried the day. It seems to be again a question of authority, and while we are waiting for the demonstration we incline somewhat to the philosopher of the occasion. Livingstone believed that the Lualaba went to the Nile, in 18797, by which time it can be known if | other nations care to co-operate at other points on the line of advance toward the Pole. Jax Gourn's Spxcra Inrormation touching the decision of the Supreme Court of the | United States in the case of the Union Pa- cific Railroad turns out to have been purely | mythical. A despatch from Washington this | morning informs us that no decision has been arrived at, and it is not likely that the case will be determined for some days, We can only repeat the advice we gave to the public yesterday, to avoid the dangerous stock just now, and so escape becoming the dupes of persons who are naturally anxious to sell it. Tur Press Brow introduced in the French Assembly yesterday raises the state of siege in the departments usually considered the most dangerous, and extends greater freedom to the newspapers than under present con- ditions. This isan excellent result of the Ministerial victory on Thursday, and we are of opinion that he may have been right. But if anybody else is in favor of knobs and the Congo we shall not deal with him any more harshly than our uncle Toby did with the fly. Quarantine ManacemEnt was the subject of investigation by the Assembly Committee on Crime yesterday, but the witnesses re- ported the officers as honest and the conduct of the department excellent. This testimony remark, Gewerat Gnant could hardly have been thinking of the prospects of a war with Cuba when, in his election speech at ‘the White House, he said, ‘‘We have an assurance that the republicans will control this government for at least four years longer.” If the Presi- dent thought that this meant simply that the elections made him a probable, or even a possible, candidate for the Presidency —-bad Sor the republican party ! Picxrockets, especially those who infest so dangerous that the extreme ponalty of the law should be visited upon all of them who are convicted. Recorder Hackett on Thurs- day sentenced William Gleason to fifteen years in the State Prison for stealing a watch on a Third avenue>car, A few more such sentences will have a salutary effect. ‘Tne History of the East River Bridge is another story of fraud, six millions of ‘dol- lars being spent on the two piers. In an- other column we print the details of this remarkable starv. Subject was to come before the Royal Society | would not hear of such a thing as a lightning | is so exceptional that it is worthy of spécial | the street cars, are a class so, detestable and | Mayor Wickham as a Leader. Almost as much interest is felt in the mys- terious speech of Mayor Wickham as in the election speech of General Grant. All the Custom House politicians are wondering whether the President meant the third term or not, All the Tammany and anti-Tam- many statesmen and the descendants of Irish kings are wondering if Mayor Wickham means to fight Tammany. There are rumors that the Mayor will take a new departure and war upon John Kelly. A war be- tween the Mayor and the deposed chief of Tammany would-be a Chinese contest, we are afraid, with more noise than combat. Wickham's strong qualities are not combative, and Kelly must recover from his encounter with Morrissey before he throws his castor over the ropes and challenges a new antagonist. We can hardly think it credible that Wickham would think of mak- ing war upon a man who, whatever his errors in the management of the party in New York, has always been his friend, and who really made him the Mayor. This would be to repeat the fable of the living ass and the dead lion. Mr. Wickham, as we understand from some of his friends, complains that he was made the scapegoat during the canvass and made to bear the burden of all the sins against the laborers; that he was thrown over and hissed in Tammany Hall. Well, it is due to Mr. Kelly, or to the captain of any political ship, to say that when the time comes to throw over any of the cargo or any of the passengers he knows how to select, If he honored Mr. Wickham with this extreme and unavoidable courtesy he certainly knew his man, and who could be spared. About the last thing a floating passenger should think of doing is to return to the ship and claim to command. His business is to swim and to attract the attention of some other craft. If Wickham can swim long enough to attract the observation or excite the sympathy of some of the other cruisers—of O’Brien or Shafer or Roosevelt, or even of Tomlinson, with his three rag money patriots, whom he takes around in a boat—let him do so. That is his chance, and he should not waste bis strength on anything else. Let him swim. He might have known before he was thrown over, and he will know, if he ever finds himself on a political deck again, that leadership requires capacity. A man does not always lead because he finds him- self suddenly on the top of a heap. These accidental leaders every now and then ap- pear, but they represent nothing. They are like the boy who sits on the eae with the omnibus driver. ‘The boy may be allowed to play with the'reins going over meadow lands. The rough places require nerve and skill, Mr. Wickham will never be anything more than the boy on the box. He is not like the real leaders of the party in the past, like Fernando Wood or Peter B. Sweeny. His speech, therefore, means nothing. Whether he sits on the box or not the stage will drive on. Crew Lists or Coastina Sreawens.— The burning of the steamer Waco off Gal- veston bar has brought to light a practice which ought to be remedied, even if it re quires a special act of Congress, The Waco’s crew consisted, officers and men, of thirty or thirty-five persons, but the owners or man- agers here were able to produce no record of their names, and thus it is not certainly known who actually composed the crew. The owners in this matter have violated no law, for the law exempts coasting steamers from the supervision of the Shipping Com- missioner, and does not require them, if we understand rightly, to keep or produce any such record as is required of foreign bound ships. Naturally, when a ship is lost there are anxious inquiries regarding the persons who may have intended going in her, and it ought to be possible to answer these inquiries at once. In the Waco's case the only crew list, we are told, was on board the ves- sel, and was, of course, lost with her. Owners of coasting steamers ought to keep an accurate duplicate of their crew list in | their offices; and if there is no other way of getting this done the law ought to require it of them. A Puitosorner has cast the horoscope of General Grant and gives us the happy assur- | ance that he will not have a third term. |! This, as we understand it, is owing to the transit of Saturn, The philosopher also informs us that General Grant will prob- ably live to be eighty-seven years old, but his seventy-third year will be a critical period in his life. As the President is still to enjoy this planet for thirty-four years he has no occasion specially to fear the troubles in store for him about the year 1895, and the prospect of long life that is before him ought to console him for the decline of his political | prospects and the loss of athird term. * Tue Srxaxersure of the next House of Representatives is an absorbing subject all over the country, and the extracts from the inland journals which we print this morning show conclusively that either Wood or Cox would make an excellent Speaker, that La- mar may be acandidate, that Kerr is sure to be elected, that Randall is the man and that Walker will be chosen as a compromise. With so much certain information our readers cannot be in doubt &s to the result, Tue Wuisxey Rive in the West has found misfortunes to follow fast and follow faster. More of the indicted members of the Ring entered pleas of guilty at St. Louis yester- day, and other indictments were found. Amniong the latter, it is said, there are some against Washington officials. This is indeed meted out to the guilty as it ought to be there will be fewer offenders in the future, Tar Downraun of the Brooklyn Ring, fol- lowing so closely upon that of the Tammany Ring, the Canal Ring and the Whiskey Ring, will about complete the work of ring- breaking. Attorney General Pratt is taking the preliminary steps to bring the Brooklyn Ringmen to justice, and we trust the case will receive vigorous treatment. Tux Dissonvtion of the French Assembly onght to follow the passage pf the Electoral bill, and we trust the conservative party will succeed in bringing it about, If France is republican a new election cannot hurt the ' Republic, asad day for rings, and if punishment is | ae ea Dangers of the Sound. The accident to the Providence ot Wednesday night reveals a danger te which the passengers by the Sound boats ought not to be exposed, as it cam be easily prevented with proper care. We mean the very grave danger which may arise from lack of discipline and self-posses- sion in the crew in cases of serious accident. According to the published accounts some ot the crew of the Providence showed remark. able lack of discipline when the steamer was boarded by a sea. Waiters stove in the win- dows and doors of staterooms, the chief mate shouted to the already sufficiently alarmed passengers, ‘Put on your life preservers!” and some of the crew cried out, ‘Hurry on deck | the ship is sinking!” Such conduct is inex- cusable, and argues a lack of discipline and of control by the officers which might lead to a panic and tho gravest results in needless loss of life. The Sound steamers have been very fortunate; they have carried a great number of passengers safely ; but it will not do for their officers and the managers of the lines to neglect proper preparations for a time of disaster. Without thorough disci- pline even a slight accident may be the cause of a great loss of life. The crews of these steamers, including the stewards and waiters, ought to be drilled in their duties im time of shipwreck, so that when the emer- gency occurs they may be useful, instead of helping to create a panic. Crooxep Wuiskey.—The Commissioner of Internal Revenue believes that he can, if Congress will give him a few amend- ments of the Excise law, collect the presént high excise duty on whiskey. Also’ he reports that evidence in his possession shows frauds on the revenue durigg the year, by distillers and rectifiers, which deprived the government of taxes te the amount of one million six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. ‘‘This,” he adds, ‘is, of course, but a portion of the fraud committed;’ and we must suppose that im the case of detected frauds the government gains in penalties and forfeitures from the offenders and their bondsmen a sum at least equal to what it has lost by their fraud. It would do so, at least, if the cheating dis- tillers are not able to follow their nefarious practices for a considerable time undetected. The Commissioner recommends the rigorous prosecution of the bondsmen of storekeepers and gaugers who have been detected in con- niving at wrongs upon the revenue, and he asks Congress to make the penalties on recti- fiers as severe as upon distillers. Tae Cenrrat Panx.—If the Central Park is to be merely an ornament, a series of toy walks and toy pastures, we might as well have it in a showroom like the panoramas of Paris and London. [If one has only imagina- tion enough he can enjoy the Bois de Bou- logne and the Hyde Park in # museum or through a stereoscope, Or he can take pass- age on the ferry boats and see the Brooklyn Heights or the Palisades. Buta real park is as much a part of our city’s life as the highways. We have always urged that the Park should be made as popular as pos- sible; that it should be thrown open to the people that they could enjoy it in its fullest sense. To achieve this nothing is more needed than that there should be bridle- paths parallel with the drives; that there should not be so much exclusiveness about thé grass and the meadows. The Bois de Boulogne is the model park of the world, and the more our people adapt its generous, democratic features to our Central Park the more it will realize the highest wishes of ita founders. Tue Lost Pacrric.—This vessel proves to have been struck amidships by the sailing ship Orpheus, which was itself afterward lost, not by injuries received in the collision, but by a mistake in sailing, through the captain taking one light for gnother in the night. The captain of the Orpheus, his wife and two seamen have been picked up, and thus the mystery of the fatal accident to the Pacific will flow be fully cleared up. mA PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Maiden ladies rejoice. Helen of Troy was forty when she eloped, France requires two years residence in a place to quality a voter. L. Q@ ©. Lamar, of Mississippi, seems to be the com- ing Southern leader. Southerners believe that since the Yankees once settled them they should now go and settle among them. A 1,000 pound chunk of brimstone, from Nevada, will be exhibited at the Centennial to give hope to the wicked. Sefior Don Ignacio Mariscal, Mexican Minister at Washington, arrived in this city yesterday aud is at the Astor House. Carlyle says there may be ® courage which ts the total absence of fear. That is when the fence is bo tween you and the dog. General George Williamson, United States Minister te the Cenirai American States, arrived from Aspinwall with his family in the steamsbip Colon, and is residing at the Grand Central Hotel. . Don Carlos has ordered each municipality in Biscays to furnish ten men, with axes, to destroy the foresaw and property of every suspected hiberal, This js com mencing at the root of things, European journals are solemnly insinuating that the Emperor of Germany's jast address to the Reichstag Was not truthful What is the use of being a monarch if such a little privilege is dented. The St, Louis Westliche Post says that the Grand Jury which investigates the whiskey frauds have evidence based upon telegrams from Washington to distillers; and it Insinuates that the telegrams are from Grant, King Kalakaua ia in trouble Three lepers have escaped from the island of Molokal, and, as they ap- proach the capital, they meet with nobody anxious to obstruct them, They are determined to have a per sonal interview with the King. The Commercial Advertiser oxpresses some annoyance at the Herano, for which we are sorry. It is annoyed that, as it says, the Heratp should ‘worry about the next republicaa candidate for the Presidency."" Well, the Hwranp is not worrying itself about the matter, We are sorry to think it is worry: Commercias, W6 have a very natural curiosity it the republican candidate for the Presidency, for if he should be a first class statesman the Henato would probably support him, and Recorder Hackett’s friends flatter us by as- serting that the Hunato’s support is almost as good ag an election, The Commercial, however, seems to have been worried by the Heraty into a very grati- fying declaration against tho third term. “The people,” it says, “will settle who is to succeed Genorat Grant” This isthe first time the Commercial, so far as we remember, has openly declared against a third term, and we congratulate ourselves on having brought it to that. Further, the Commercial adds an assurance that “the candidate, whoever ho may be, that is nominated by the Republican National Convention, will be the next President.” Ifthe Commercial isa prophet, or a witch, or a fortune toller, that simpiides mattora a good deal. Lt ia ‘‘imoortant if trae" ee ee ae