The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1875, Page 6

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If things go on in this way the gteat Powers will be too late to preserve the peace of Europe. Germany is not unfavorable to the Cen- tennial, as has been reported, and will take an active and earnest interest in the Phiia- dephia Exposition. Idle rumors of this kind van only be fruitful of evil, and their circu- lation is to be deprecated. ded yesterday that the Panama Railroad cannot compete with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in the trade between this port and San Francisco. It seems that the powers of our Courts are limitless, and we shall not be surprised if one of our judges some day ties up our commerce altogether. Invaxt a 2 a » a valuable commodity. In Washington the boy Zana was kidnapped from the custody of the Court by his ‘‘owners,” and in this city the proprietor of Prince Leo is making a des- perate defence in order to retain the child. Nothing can be clearer, however, than the duty of the Courts to prevent these persons Jevce Doxouve de and others like them from using children to | make money for themselves, although there may be no actual danger in the feats the little ones are required to perform, | “Wen, We Can't Tell What Happen”"—The Cuban Question. It is «reported from Madrid that the members of the Spanish Cabinet are con- sidering a reply toa note of Mr. Cushing, asking Spain to fulfil more rigidly the provisions of the treaty of 1795. We infer from the tenor of this despatch that the claim of Mr. Cushing is little more than a revival of some of the old claims presented by General Sickles and Mr. Soulé, former Ministers to the Spanish Court. The point has always been made that under the treaty of 1795 American citizens, resident in Cuba, were to be tried for any offence charged against them by the civil courts, and not by the military authorities. ernment, during the insurrection, has found it advisable, at times, to enforce the military jurisdiction, As American citizens, as in of the crew of the Virginius, many occasions been tried by court martial | and summarily executed. The Spanish au- thorities claim the right to do this as a military power suppressing an insurrection, at liberty to use the severest means toward that result. The point has always been an open one, but so far as the law and the pro- visions of the treaty are concerned there is no donbt that the protest of the American | government is sound. An American citizen in Cuba, no matter what the offence charged against him, is entitled by treaty provision | to be tried before the civil courts and not | before a court martial. In presenting a point of this kind to the Spanish government the administration makes the strongest possible case. But what is there about even this point, appealing, as it does, to our sense of duty to protect our citizens, which did not exist seven years ago? Why, after our administration has tolerated from Spain all manner of liberties with the rights of American citizens, after it has looked on acquiescent, at least, if not with content, upon a painful rebellion, should this demand be made almost as a menace? Five years ago, and we could have decided the Spanish question without any special strain upon the resources of the coun- try. We could then have appealed to the sym- pathy of the world, to the common sense of our own people. There would have been no imputation of Presidential ambition or a desire tg serve a perplexed political party. ‘There would have been the natural sympathy of anindependent Republic for struggling republicans. Then we had not encountered the financial disasters and business difficul- ties and widespread mercantile ruin which have since befallen so many of the States. If we now force Spain to an issue that can only be met by war we give that country all the advantages that she could possess in such a contest and make war encumbered with every | disadvantage to ourselves. As we have shown, also, it is well to con- sider, in dealing with the Cuban question, whether Spain, if assailed in her sovereignty, may stand altogether alone. It is foolish in this to ignore the views of the London Times as expressed in the remarkable article we printed yesterday. When the Times speaks it is as a general thing with the voice of Eng- land. When the annexation of the island was broached in the time of President Pierce we found that Spain had France and Eng- land for allies. If the slave-holding power which then controlled the Union had aimed to extend the domination of the then slave- holding Republic over Cuba we should have found ourselves involved in a war with three great Powers. How do we know but that Spain may have allies now, who would be willing to assist her in resenting any assault upon her sovereignty? How can we expect England to quietly regard an attempt to destroy the sovereignty of a sister European Power over sister West Indian colonies? the case Supposing that we were to measure our- selves alone against Spain in a contest for the possession of Cuba, the cost of such a war under the most advantageous cireum- stances and with the assurance of victory would be infinitely greater than the mercan- tile value of Cuba as a possession of the Re- public. Charles Sumner—a high authority upon any question of this kind—said, when the Cuban question first took shape, that at the very lowest estimate a war for its pos- session would entail a debt of five hundred millions of dollars. The Spanish have a bet- ter navy than ours. They could destroy our commerce, such of it as survives the re- bellion. They are a valiant people and fond of war. The possession of Cuba is as dear to the Spanish heart as that of Massachusetts or Pennsylvania to the American heart. Cuba is among the last remnants of that splendid empire which } Spain once governed on this continent. It | is a monument of the glorious days when the will of her sovereign was almost absolute | throughont the civilized world. Therefore the Spaniard, passionate and proud, and | with an intense love of country, would | fight for the possession of this island with a | tenacity which we must respect and which it would be madness for us to underrate. But, laying aside any argument of this kind, we must look at the Cuban question wholly from an American point of view. It is not, after all, what England or Franco our policy, but what is best for ourselves. We do not need to spend a penny nor waste NEW YORK H The Spanish gov- | a consequence | have on | ominous, and if we did not see surrounding | toward | but they are instructive. One of the simplest | permanently endemic here, | scourge the city terribly this winter; for the may think that will, in the end, affect | ERALD, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET.-- Saxon race in this New World. A war orthe | apprehension of a war would fall upon the Centennial as a blight. Although it might well be reasoned that no free people should | for a moment permit a sentiment like the of an anniversary | to interfere the honor or celebration with questions are very often the most important. | It would be a great disappointment to the | tion of the one hundredth anniversary of its | independence a failure. Nor would there | be any recompense for this in winning Cuba | at the cost of a war. For these reasons we cannot resist | | pointing out to the administration and the | | people the duty of absolute peace. Nor | should we suspect the administration of any | purpose to break it, were not the signs so the government an ambitious’ party resolved to retain power at whatever cost. What may be called the regular army of the republican organization, the drilled cohorts who observe its discipline and follow its flag, mean to | fight for the third term, and, if possible, to win it. To them war is nothing but a step power. If they can inflame the country either by the fear of repudiation or by forcing a war upon the country to resent the “outrages of Spain” and to ‘free Cuba” they will do so as a deliberate act of political management. Against this we earnestly pro- test. We urge the President to remember that for him the highest fame is what is to be found in peace. He has won layrels enough | in the battle field to care nothing for West Indian trophies or for a military success over a friendly and sorely troubled people. Malaria and Poisoned Homes. Some little experiments are performed every year in most medical schools which are denounced by the philanthropists as cruel ; is done with two pigeons. Pigeon number one is put intoa glass jar previously filled with carbonic acid gas, and the pigeon dies almost as suddenly as if shot. This exhibits the deadliness of the gas and the unpleasant consequences of any effort to get on without pure air. Pigeon number two is then put into a similar jar, which contains pure air, but an apparatus is attached by which a small stream of the same deadly carbonic acid gas is sent into this jar also. Here the point of the experiment is the gradual introduction of the poison; the scarcely perceptible mingling of a deadly vapor with the life-sustaining air; the ‘‘adultera- tion” of the air to the last possible de- gree, and the exhibition of the extent to which the animal system will tolerate, when thus given in gradually increas- ing doses, a poison which kills almost instantly if suddenly substituted for the respirable air. This second pigeon does not die if the experiment is deftly done, and he may be kept for some min- utes in air quite as impure as that which killed the first, and will still revive when taken out. Hundreds of people in natural sympathy with the friends of this bird that is “the symbol of purity” will cry out, perhaps, at the cruelty of such an experiment, and they are quite welcome. But let them first | cast an eye about their homes, and be sure that they are not now actually, every day and night, performing an experiment just like this on their own little pigeons. From one-quarter to one-half of the children in this city are treated every day just as the pigeons are treated in this experiment, and this by the connivance of parents, landlords and the city authorities. Our houses are so many glass jars, made reasonably tight to keep out the cold, and this condition sufficiently keeps in the deadly gases, which rise out of a cellar saturated with the pent-up moisture of some old marsh or watercourse. As if this were not enough, we attach to the sewer a good sized pipe, with from twelve to twenty open- ings in the house, one for every room or hallway or bathtub or closet. So here is the whole apparatus—the waste pipe that con- ducts the poison up from that pestilent con- gregation of vapors, the sewer; the walls of the house that confine it just sufficiently, and the unconscious prattlers upon whom the poison acts with such certainty—poor little fluttering pigeons on the floor, in the trundle beds and the cribs. In some of the houses in the worst quar- the | | duties of a nation, still those sentimental | people of this country to have the celebra- | ters the children are killed suddenly some night as the steam from a neighboring factory or hotel discharged into the sewer drives the gas up in enormous quantities by its sudden pressure; but in most places they are killed slowly—the poor little life wanes gradually under the influence of the poison breathed through weeks, months and years. In many places the malarious emanations have been so marked through the whole autumn that all diseases originating in miasma or in- creased by it have exhibited its influence, and the diphtheria, that has become apparently threatens to weakened constitutions of children, poisoned by sewer gas, are a favorable field for its ravages. “Ox to Cuna !”—It is said that the Spanish power is so decrepit in Cuba that we have a life for Cuba. It is the ripening pear, and must, sooner or later, fallinto our lap. Woe have our internal affairs to arrange, ing up again and in an intensified form all the evils of the rebellion, so far as the war for its suppression affected our industry, our credit or our commerce, It would send our bonds rolling back upon ns. It would weaken our credit in every money market of Europe. It would advance gold, paralyze our re- millions of greenbacks—enough, we fear, to satisfy the most enthusiastic infla- tionist. Beyond this we have our Cen- tennial, which is slowly becoming a national { event in which every American will, sooner or later, feel a personal pride. We pro- hundredth anniversary. show to the world what we have done in the arts and sciences, in the perfection of gov- ernment and in material prosperity in these hundred years. We propose to give an ac- count of the century of stewardship which our | only to warn the Spaniards out of the island | to seenre their departure. We are reminded in Cuba. But it should be remembered that when President Johnson menaced the French he was fresh from the great war, he | had the best army of the world at his com- mand, with Grant and Sheridan only too anxious to cross the Rio Grande. ‘Tue Peace or Evroprr is assured as often nowadays as the Union was saved in the years just previous to our own civil war. The latest bulletin to this effect comes from % , that Andrew Johnson and Secretary Seward | finances to strengthen. War would inter-| drove the French ont of Mexico by a| rupt all this, It would bea relapse, bring- | threat, and General Grant is censured | for not doing as much with the Spanish | | an active agent in the exposures last spring | of thé St. Louis Whiskey Ring. He gives a | curious history of the origin of this Ring ; | of many of the persons who were concerned | | ment for his offences, he lodged a bullet in | 4”yiimar, formerly Clerk ofthe Confederate House; This is far | P® . apy viving manufactures and add to the currency different from the situation now. “On to | its mysterious influence at Washington was Cuba !” must not become another “A'Berlin ! | - -~- } frauds upon the revenue were detected ; of May | Providence bas imposed upon the Anglo- “Well, We Can’t Tell What May Happen. It may happen that the President will wanta third term. It may happen that he | will order the next National Republican Convention to renominate him. It may hap- pen that this time a renomination will not be equivalent toa re-election. It may happen that he will need some great measure to arouse the party and rally the country to his support, It may happen that he will accord belligerent rights to the Cuban insurgents. It may happen that this step will be followed by a war with Spain. It may happen that the war will be a naval war. It may happen that our coasts will be partly blockaded and our commerce injured. It may happen that England, pursuing her ancient policy, and, fearful of the fate of her own West India pos- sessions, will form an alliance with Spain. It may happen that instead of a short war, re- sulting in the easy conquest of Cuba, we may have more war than we want. It may iMppen that even a victorious war may cost more than Cuba is worth. It may happen | that the country will be constrained to sus- | tain the President in such a war, and that the third term will become a national neces- | sity growing out of a national blunder. | But if these things do happen which may happen, then others of vast importance to the American people must happen. It must | happen that the supreme power of the nation will be lodged in the hands of the Executive. It must happen that his power, already equal to that of a constitutional monarch, will be enormously increased to that of modern imperialism. It must happen that the change in our traditional government will be | from democracy to despotism. It must happen | that we shall contract another immense | debt and be burdened with new taxation, It must happen that resumption of specie | payments will be postponed far beyond 1879, probably for twenty years longer. It must | happen that our bonds will come back from Europe sunk in ruinous depreciation, both abroad and at home. It must happen that the policy of inflation will triumph at last. It must happen that there will be a bitter division of the American people upon the necessity of such a war with Spain, far deeper than the divisions of the wars of 1812 and 1846. Itmust happen that the Centen- nial Exposition will be destroyed, and all the benefits of peace, good will, art, science, commerce and comity we expected to derive from it be segttered to the winds. Yet when the American nation understands what must happen, if it is now forced into | war, what may happen might be very differ- ent from what is now conjectured. ‘Then it | may happen that the people will declare irresistibly for peace with all the world, and that the President himself, like a man stand- ing on the verge of a precipice, will draw back from the danger and hesitate before he takes the leap. Tweed's Defeat in the Court of Ap- peals. The Court of Appeals rendered its decision yesterday on all the points presented by Tweed’s counsel, and the appeal was dis- missed as legally untenable on every point. In relation to bail there were two points—one that an arrest cannot be made and bail re- quired in cases where the property of the de- fendant is attached, and the other that the amount of bail fixed by the court below is excessive. On the first of these points the Court of Appeals has decided that although au attachment was issued it does not state that property was actually taken to satisfy it, and that even if property had been taken it was in the discretion of the court below to order both an attachmentand an arrest. On the second point, as to the amount of bail, the Court of Appeals decides that it is also in the discretion of the court below, and is therefore not reviewable. It is also decided that there is no force in the argument of Tweed’s counsel that a second suit on the same matter of complaint is not maintainable because the first suit had not been finally closed by the payment of the defendant's costs. On the only remaining point, that the new act under which the second suit is brought is unconstitutional, the Court de- cides that it can properly come up only in the trial of the case, and gives its own opinion, though not positively and finally, that the constitutional objection will not hold. So Tweed is defeated on every point, and there seems a prospect that he will be no longer able to bafile justice by the skill of his lawyers in raising legal technicalities, Tux Lvening Post, in an able and thought- ful article elsewhere printed, alludes to the fact that Americans are apt to be encouraged in an extreme course by the remonstrances | of the London Times. As the Post well re- marks, ‘the reason that the Times gives for believing that it is inexpedient for the United States to interfere in Cuban affairs will make no impression upon the enthusiastic patriots who are eager for hostilities with Spain ; but other persons will attach due weight to these reasons.” It is not to “enthusiastic patriots” that we address this discussion of the Cuban question, but rather to that sober-minded, common sense class which has all to lose and nothing to gain by war. Awar, even for Cuba, is the surest means toward inflation, and from inflation to repudiation. Every friend of the nation’s credit should pray for the nation’s peace. Tur St. Lovis Wuiskry Rinc.--We print elsewhere this morning an interesting letter from Colonel William M. Grosvenor, for- merly editor of the St. Louis Democrat, and in it ; of its relations to and effect upon th used ; of the singular method by which its the tricks used to avert exposure and punish- ment, and of the reasons which induced cer- tain minor members of the Ring at last to confess. Of course the end is not yet. The pose to celebrate with due honor this one | Russia; but there is another view of this | Grand Jury has not completed its work. The We propose to | question besides the one apparently put by | prominent men concerned in this huge fraud | answer of a juror in tle Scannell case yester- lities of the State ; of the manner in which | his brain. 4 7 ; | on it was believed his death was certain, and | consequently a nolle pros. was entered. “Our Aven Every city has its great street—Paris, its avenue of the Champs Elysées; London, its Piccadilly and Regent streets; Vienna, the Ringstrasse; Berlin, Unter den Linden; Madrid, the Prado, These streets are repre- sentative, They are marked with architec- tural beauty, with decorations, trees and plants and pleasant drives. Here all classes flock, the poor and the rich, to enjoy the sunshine of the warm days; here the world sees the world, citizen meets citizen in friendly conversation, and gossip and fashion and duty find concourse. The traveller has a picture of the national life in which he mingles moving before him, Fifth avenue is in this sense the representative street of New York. It runs from one small park to the Central Park. Its architectural decorations are excelled by those of no other city in the world. These are improving from day to day, and the traveller in New York, a generation from now, will find nothing to interest him more than the pageantry and splendor of Fifth avenue north of Fourteenth street. We should do our share, therefore, toward mak- ing the avenue worthy of its fame and worthy | as the representative street of our city. To this.end it shonld be macadamized. Science has shown that the macadamized pavement is the best. All other experiments have failed. We haye spent millions on wood, plaster and asphaltum, and chemical com- positions which looked well enough on the first blush but did not last be- yond a winter's snow. To attempt further experiments in this direction would be acrime, jf it were not a crime in the be- ginning to rush so heedlessly upon them. A macadamized pavement is the most con- venient. It improves from year to year for a generation at least. It can be easily mended. It would be an advantage to all classes. The city, therefore, can do nothing better than to make Fifth avenue worthy of its representa- tive position. ‘To do so we should macadam- ize it at once. The Central Park. It would be a dreadful commentary upon the efforts of the courageous and far-seeing men who gave New York Central Park to find that wonderful and attractive pleasure ground turned into a plague spot. Yet this is what. we have now to fear, There can be no doubt the drainage of the Park, and especially of the lakes, is defective. These bodies of water, which are calculated for the amusement and the instruction of the people, have been so much neglected that they are little more than fever spots. The surface of the water is covered with a thick vegetable matter, decomposing, and throwing off poisonotis gases. The attendants com- plain of chills and fever and inform us that unless the whole system is revised our peo- ple will as soon think of going to the Small- pox Hospital in the Lower Bay for amuse- ment as going into our noble pleasure ground. All this should be arranged by the competent men who have charge of the Park and who gained so much honor by their re- fusal to allow it to be made a political ma- chine. They can amend it. In doing this they shonid abolish the fretting restrictions which make the Park of little more use to the children who go there in such large numbers and the families of the poorer classes than a panorama or painting. The Park should be made a pleasure ground in the fullest sense of -the word. It should not be under police sur- veillance as if the people were tramps or pickpockets, and as if the mere fact of their going into the Park was proof presumptive in the policeman’s eye that they intended to commit crime. While rearranging the Park we should have a bridle path running parallel with the car- riage ways. Altogether our Park Commis- sioners will lose whatever fame they have gained by the management of this famous pleasure ground unless they take the whole subject up seriously and reform it altogether. Tnx World, in an ingbnious and scholarly article, elsewhere printed, discusses our treaty relations with Spain, and especially article 7 of the treaty of 1795, upon which so much stress is laid in our com- munications between the State Department and the Spanish government, The main | point of the World’s argument is against the recognition of the belligerent rights of the rebels in Cuba, and it shows that if we press this point to the recognition of these rights we shall have a ‘Spanish man-of-war claiming and exercising in American waters over American ships” the | right of search. The cry, “On to Cuba!” may have the same effect as the cry, ‘‘A’Ber- lin !” with which the French began their war upon Germany—a war which is a well known chapter of this century’s history. Comprrotier Green has written an open letter to Mayor Wickham criticising General Porter's management of the Department of Public Works. It is bitter and scathing, and although Mr. Green is not much of a favor- ite he makes some points against the Com- missioner which the public will warmly in- dorse. If Green's charges are true there are inefliciency and wastefulnéss in the Depart- ment of Public Works, and neither Mr. Wick- | ham nor General Porter can afford to rest under these imputations. Horrors Acc} such an extent that even Jersey justic evaded, Our columns this morning are re. plete with illustrations of this remark ; but the most remarkable instance, perhaps, is the case of John Huber. Acting on a piece of friendly advice, to the effect that he should | go and shoot himself and so escape punish When the day for his trial came Huber recovered, however, and is now ont again, but he still carries the bullet. Huber's plan of escaping from the punishment of his crimes is worthy the attention of other crim- | inals. NATTEMPTED Sarcasm in the ‘Turre Was the Russian journal, Three emperors striv- | upon the government are still hoping to | day, who said, in reply to a question as to ing for peace are quite as likely to make war, | escape; the people are looking on and | whether he had read all about the previous and whether they resolve upon either makes | watching for the result. But Colonel Gros- | trials, ‘I hears so many von dem cnses.” | little difference to the struggling Christians of Herzegovina, venor's letter throws some important light on the mysteries of this iniquity in St. Louis. The irony was against public morals as well as public law, | to General Dorr Homicides occur so fre- —_————_—$—<—$—$—$—$—$—$—$—$— $5 —— rrr quently that each succeeding crime effaces the memory of the crime that preceded it, and it would indeed be a remarkable mem- ory that could retain any of the ‘‘many von dem cases,” Gulbord’s Burial. Guibord’s body is disposed of at last, and, contrary to the general expectation, the burial was quietly accomplished, The law hat been vindicated, and that is something, and, what is of greater consequence, it has beer vindicated without the shedding of blood But now that the affair is over it is only jus’ to say that the issue is one whick ought never to have been raised. We see no reason why the Roman Catholic Church orany other Church should not have the right to prescribe who shall be buried in the ground consecrated by its rites. The ques- tion took a different shape, however, and the issue beeame one of obediance to the civil power or to an ecclesiastical authority. After the State had made an order in the premises there was no course possi- ble except to compel compliance, but the order was the result of bitter sectarian feeling, which was unwise and un- necessary. There should be no conflicts anywhere growing out of questions of relig- ious sepulture, and we are afraid that the wicked will long continue to sneer at this exhibition and that Christianity will suffer in consequence, We trust it will be a long time before we shall hear of a similar occur rence, Jurors and the Plea of Insanity. There must be some defence for the publiv against theplea of insanity now brought ny regularly im favor of every murderer foi whom no other defence can be found or in. vented. This is made manifest by the atti- tude of counsel in the case of Scannell Hitherto men have been tried on the issua not whether they did the act, but whether their insanity did not render them irrespon- sible; now it is proposed to find a jury on. this issue. To such a degree is the defiance of justice carried that the lawyers pro- pose toexclude from the jury in a murder case not ‘merely citizens who have formed opinions on the crime charged, but such as have formed opinions on the favorite mode of defeating the ends of justice Let us say rather that they propose to ex- clude only such as have formed their opin: ions adversely. Justice, impartiality, is far from what they want. If aman has formed his opinions in favor of the defence of insan- ity—if he believes that capital punishment should be abolished under cover of thia ruse, he is the man they are eager to secure. They wish, therefore, only to exclude those who have formed an opinion that this species of defence should be scrutinized with pecu- liar care, and who believe that murder should not be committed with impunity under this pretence. That is to say, they wish to ex- elude from the jury all men of common sense or common honesty, and who_ are not fanatics. The question named seems to usa most improper one for any judge to permit counsel to putto a jury; but this conduct on their part will force society to adopt some other system in trials where there is any probability that such a defence is to be made. Issues of insanity must not be left to an ordinary jury. Either the judge must have power, when such a de- fence is made, to immediately refer the case to a commission of experts to determine that particular point, or the trial must be had ex- clusively on the issue of insanity, and that plea, if made, must be referred to the Gov- ernor in mitigation of the penalty if the case is against the culprit on the issue of fact. Without some such change it will soon be- come impossible in this city to even try men for murder, much less to punish them. THE Prince ov Waxes is going to Ceylon to hunt elephants. We can only hope that the sport will be fine and that the elephants | will not take a fancy for hunting him. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Senator Roscoe Conkling is residing temporarily af the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr, Bright is fishing in the Nortn of England, ane never went fishing before 1n his life. Rear Admiral Charles 8, Boggs, United States Navy, has takeh up his quarters at the Everett House. Senator Sargent ought to be satisfied. Senator Fre- linghuysen has been elected President—of @ Bible so ciety. Me Gladstone now denies that the Sublime Porte of fered him the charge and “rectification” of the publit ‘Treasury. Mother Stewart, famous in the “temperance crusade” | in Ohio, has received an’ invitation to begin a similar movement in England, Hon, J. Watts Kearny, 4 son of General Phil, is said by the Frankfort American Cutizen to have the inside track for the Kentucky Speakership this year, ‘The San Francisgo Ledger, a morning yaper startes at the time the Call fell into disfavor on account of the Ralston excitement, has ceased to be published. ‘The French Cbargé d’Atfaires at Pekin, the Count da Rouchechouart, has obtained from the Chinese govern. | ment an indemnity of 40,000 taels for the friends of the murdered missionary at Szchuen, Mrs. Scott-Siddons was robbed at Danbury of a silver nutmeg grater. Anybody who will tuke anything buts saw and buck to operate on a Connecticut nutmeg de serves to have the Danbury News man retain that silver toy in his family for years. Sefior Manrico Levek, Commissioner of the Republic of Mexico to the Centennial Exhibition, President of the Mining Society of Mexico and editor of the Mexican Miner, loft this city yesterday on the steamship City of Havana, bound for Vera Cruz and home, Governor Hayes, of Ohio, wrote to a friend who pro- | posed him for President:— Dean Sin—Content with the past, Tam not ina state of mind about tht future, Tt is for us to act well in the | present, George BE. Pugh ased to say, “There's no po- wate iN New Junsey to | Htica! M4 " ( litical hereafter, ’? Don Carlos appears to like brevity, Hore is a letter ray, who desired his recent defeats in- vestigated: —“AgL fight for justice, I consent to satisty your desire that either your past record may be con- firmed of that you may receive the full penalty of the law,’? Among the candidates from tho South for the Clerk- ship of the next House of Representatives aro ex- Congressman Shober, of North Carolina; Hon, Charles Hon. Mr, Barksdale, of Missis#ippi, and General Dudley M. DuBoxe and ex-Congressman Adams, of Kentucky, At Rawlings, W. T., @ fellow standing on the depot platform of the Union Pucific Railroad ac cidentally shot off ns rifle. The ball went through a weather board, through a man’s coat tail and bewweem an invalid lady and ber little daughter, Amid the sen- sation the fellow looked at the weather board and gaid, | “Tusa damned smuthe hole.” General Joseph E. Johnston writes from Savannah, Ga. ing that he could not attend the Gri Fair, because the invitation came late, He says:—I could attend no gathering of Southern people with more picasure than one in Selma, in which the soldiers @ Alavama oxpected to be reunited (including the Fourt® ‘egiment), in which you both were so distinguished, and which, with you, stood by me so manfully in uy first fight for the Confederacy,”