The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1875, Page 6

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The managers of the democratic party én New York must not suppose that with the close of the election and the declaration of the canvass the labors of the strife will be at an end. We have had all manner of speculations as to the causes sof the recent municipal “tidal wave.” Practical politicians have congratulated themselves upon the fact that the prizes involved in the canvass were not of a tempting character; that they were mainly judges after all; that the real vower for governing the city, the control of | its patronage and the command of its treas- ury will still rest in the hands of Tam- many Hall. We have had one or two meetings of the General Committee which remind us of those meetings during the French Reyolutionary times when the Jacobin Club were wont to. condole Robes- pierre and to cheer him’ when he was dis- turbed by rumors that France was be- ginning to revolt against the guillo- tine, At the Tammany meetings ‘“‘reso- lutions” of an enthusiastic nature have been passed expressing extravagant con- fidence. in Mr. Kelly. He has been cheered to the echo in Tammany Hall. In- structions have gone out from Mr. Kelly and his Committee on Discipline to ‘reorganize the wards,” to enforce obedience to the man- dates of the leader and to so “reconstruct” Tammany Hall that the defeat of the last elec- tion will be turned into an overwhelming victory. The proposition of the Heraup that there should be a reorganization of the whole democratic party in New York, upon the basis of a union of all demo- cratic interests by the adoption of the glorious principle of popular sovereignty, does not meet with approval. This could hardly have been expected. A man who could drive the democratic party into the position whére Mr. Kelly left it at the close of the polls, and who could drive it there with his eyes open, in spite of the warnings of his friends and the taunts of his enemies, is capable of leading it deeper and deeper into the valley of destruction. The meaning of the election was not simply that a few laboring men resented the reduc- tion of their wages. It did not represent in any way a dissatisfaction with the ticket, nor a belief that Tammany Hallwas under worse influence than when Tweed and his pre- decessors were in power. On the contrary, the reduction of the laborers’ wages was only aminor element in the canvass. It formed no part of the arguments of the Times or the Sun or the Heraup, which, as newspapers, were mainly conspicuous in the contest. So far as these journals were concerned this issue was never made. It was only referred to by an occasional dema- gogne anxious to arouse the passions of his audience. As tothe people of New York opposing Mr. Kelly personally there was no such feeling. * On the contrary, we believe Mr. Kelly is held now, and was before the canvass, in as high esteem as any man who has controlled Tam- many Hall for the last twenty years. Nor was there any disposition to find fault with his ticket. The general expression, even among the most vehement opponents of Tammany Hall, was that in the per- | sonal fitness of the candidates for the places fot ‘ich they were nominated Mr. Kelly’s nominations were above reproach. Nor was any severe attack made upon the Tammany ticket. In all these points the canvass was conducted with moderation and respect for the gentlemen in nomination and with kindness to Mr. Kelly himself. The one thought in the minds of the people of New York when they defeated a leader whom they did not despise and a ticket which they respected was that they would not submit any longer to the domination of @ one-man power. This resolution took shape especially Kelly attempted to carry out his one-man power by striking to the ground an independent Judge who had declined to obey his will. It may be possible in a time of plenty, with the command of unusual patronage, for the leaders of Tammany Hall again to carry New York. Upon that point we make no predic- tions, knowing the fickle character of our politics. But it seems to us that the demo- eratic party has made up its mind that Tam- many Hall in itself, from its very nature, is the true principles of inconsistent with democracy. The wise leaders of that | organization see that it was Tammany | Hall which burdened Mr. Greeley into the dust when running against Grant and gave the republicans an easy victory. As sagacious a man as Mr. Tilden must see that his majority in New York was torn to pieces by the influence of Tammany Hall, and that if he had not taken especial pains to withdraw Mr. Kernan and Mr. Seymour from the canvass and adopt a policy of | Tar Vier Preswent, if he had a broken | neutrality leg, would not try to walk ten miles withit | geato, \ he would probably have lost the If Tammany Hall is permitted to control New York, and through New York ional Democratic Convention, the republicans may have an easy victory. He does not let it rest. Hence he is worse. | Tammany is only a democratic embodiment of Crooxen Waiskry.—The testimony in the case against corrupt officers of the revenue department is continued. It exhibits pretty clearly the limit of corruption ; for no mat- ter what the tax may be the expenses of bribery will always ultimately be far heavier. Dzrtcrexcy.—As the Custom Houses were | Passion of a vulgar throng and lived for two | formerly sustained in part by the receipt of | or three political seasons. It rested upon moieties, and as the m« s are no longer | ® secret lodge, midnight meetings in a collected, the service t ns to run short; club room, grips and passwords and but the Secretary objects to calling on Con- | | dark lanterns. It fell because as soon | gress to make up the deticien He proposes | | asthe American people came to know what | that the service be ent down accordingly } was behind it, with that common sense which | < ~~ : re | never yet failed our nation in any time of | Cantar, Pann.—The trouble with Cen- | real emergency, they struck it downand drove tral Park is that it is becoming about | it out. Tammany Hall is Know Nothingism as popular a place of resort as | in another form. It is governed by a secrot, graveyard. Even laying aside the bad | irresponsible cabal. Beginning under its drainage and chills and fever in the | charter as a benevolent and social society, ponds the restrictions are of a character to | with no connection with politics, it has drive all citizens out of its limits who do not | grown up step by step, by different abuses care to be troubled by the police. There should be an instant draining of the Park, Tho waters of the lake should be freshened. There should be a bridle path running par- the old Know Nothing idea. The Know Noth- ing party was 4 secret organization intended to unite the enemies of the Catholic Church and of foreign citizenship. Notwithstand- ing it was opposed to the fundamental prin- ciples of our constitution and to the manifest interests of our civilization, it struck the and variations of its original purpose, to be a see oath-bound, irresponsible club, gov- rned by men who call themselves ‘‘Sachems” and “'Wiskinskies” and other foolish, mean- allel to the drive, and the foolish restrictions | ingless Indian names, and who hold itin their imposed upon children who Wish to romp and citizens who would like to stroll over the | meadows should be removed. What we Want isa park, not a panorams- | power to prevent the democratic party in New York from expressing its will unless that will | is pleasing to them. Nor is this an extreme statement of the case, as our readers well know who recall the manner in which will. iam M. Tweed by the aid of this Know Noth- ing society of Sachems was enabled to erush the “Young Demoeracy” revolution against his infamous rule and to remain in power at the head of the Tammany organ- ization. If Tammany Hall, instead of being a secret, oath-bound, dark-lantern, Know Nothing club, were truly representative of the demo- cratic party in New York, its leaders responsible to the masses of the party for their good behavior, William M. Tweed would never have succeeded in stifling that Young Democracy revolution, New York would haye been saved millions of dollars which he stole from the treasury. The democratic party would not have undergone the defeat which fell upon it in 1872, when it tried to run a candidate for the Presideney with Tam- many Hall upon his back, The danger from which the city escaped at that time is vivid to all minds. Tammany is the cause of that danger. It is the ‘machine” which may lead us to-morrow into the same misfortune. It is as repulsive to the minds of all impartial, fair-minded Ameri- cans as was the Stamp Act to the minds of our fathers, and it should be destroyed. The way to strike down Tammany Hall is for the Legislature when it meets to repeal the charter granted to the Tammany Society. That charter has been vitiated. It has be- j come anabuse. Itis no more a part of our system than the Alien and Sedition act. Its leaders have the power of the forty tyrants, a dangerous power which cannot exist with- out putting our city and its freedom and its credit in constant peril. The Tammany char- ter should be abolished. This dangerous power should be cancelled. We should have the elections for municipal officers in the spring, not in the full, as now. Citizens | should be invited to take part in the government 6f the city, not as democrats or republicans, but as honest men who feel that they wish the metropolis governed like a large wholesale business—on mercantile principles. Todo this Tammany must be destroyed, and we trust the Legislature when it meets will set about this work at once and do it so effectually that this monstrous system will no longer be part of the democratic party of the country to bring shame and discredit and misfor- tune upon our city and the property of the people. Sir Leopold McClintock on the Voy- age of the Pandora. There is no man whose opinions can be esteemed of greater weight on the points in- volved in the voyage of the Pandora than the famous navigawor whose name is so hon- orably associated with the mdst effective service ever rendered in the endeavor to follow the traces'of Sir John Franklin. Sir Francis Leopold McClintock has made four voyages to the Arctic regions. It was his peculiar fortune to fall upon the first relics ever discovered of Franklin's expedition, and to him, also, the world is indebted for the sum of the knowledge it possesses of the fate of Franklin and his men. He, moreover, has shown that Franklin is the first and only navigator who ever passed the critical point in the famous Northwest Passage; for at the time McClin- tock was at the point where the Erebus and ‘Terror passed two years in the ice there was open water all the way to Behring Strait. If any man has a right to give an opinion on further efforts in the same search it is cer- tainly this famous navigator, and his opinion of the voyage of the Pandora, frankly and handsomely given, will be found in another column. Captain McClintock views very prac- tically the two points—the Northwest Pas- sage and the exploration of King William's Land, for the discovery. of Franklin’s papers, believed with good reason to be buried at a point rather vaguely defined on that island. Either point gained would be a ‘sufficient honor for any. expedition. To sail from the Atlantic into Arctic waters in the spring, and to come out on the Pacific in the autumn, would be to accomplish a feat which the world has dreamed of for now nearly three centuries; and though many discoveries and a larger knowledge have so changed the relations of navigation to geography that success in such a voyage would not now have great practical value, still the man who first makes the voyage will be sure of a brilliant place in the roll of famous mariners. Commerce can never utilize a pas- sage beset with such difficulties ; but the conception of the existence of such a passage has given us all our knowledge of the upper half of our continent and the Arctic regions, and the final solution of such a problem will at least make a sailor's glory. As all the heroism of another age of the world was given to the thought of the golden fleece, so this Northwest Passage has troubled heroic souls in our own time until the search for relics of Franklin pushed it for a little out of men's thoughts. Oddly enough, the two problems are to be apparently made clear by the same stroke. From Behring Strait eastward, along the northern coast ofthe continent, there is open water in the summer to the neighborhood of King William's Land, and McClintock was the first to find in the maze of Arctic islands that promontory which is the eastern ex- tremity of the line of the continent. In | the angle between the coast of that promon- | tory running from northeast to southwest, | an and the general line of the continental shore | | running east and west, lie both the Arctica problems that in their human interest are more attractive than the purely scientific for the terrestrial for the pole is also in this thet is not found Franklin—there is the Northwest Passage, a passage that MeCtintock could not make be- | cause of a belt of ice three miles wide, | though the Pandora found the same belt fifty | miles wide. Evidently, therefore, the pns- sage could not be m and to winter there was of course search pole, magnetio Thero is all usele which any hope is left is a search made in the summer. From Captain McClintock's reasoning it would appear that there is a prospect to getto King William's Land by Peel Strait only once in four or five years; from the evidence it would seem, therefore, much easier to get at it by the open water from Behring Straite angle. | of | with regard to the { Franklin relies, because the only search for | Making Use of Cuba. ‘There has been an evident purpose to be very active in the navy yards, but the inten- tion of this activity is in doubt. It is thought that it may have meant “hostilities,” and that it may mean only a ‘‘demonstration.” At the time of the Virginius affront we made a “demonstration”—a regular naval war on Spain, in which we never fired a shot, though we must have bought a great deal of tarred rope and driven many a nail. That cost us about four million dollars, At the end of it all we accepted the outrageous settlement of the case that Spain was pleased to put upon us ; for even four million dollars’ worth of paint and tarred rope and copper nails would not make our navy effective against even the few good iron-clads that Spain possesses. In weighing the character of the activity recently inaugurated in the navy yards it is to be remembered that His Excellency the President does not yet possess the power to make war under the constitution of the United States. No such acts of a foreign enemy are in any way so imminent as would authorize hostilities under cover of the general power to see that the laws are faithfully executed; and in the absence of a pretext of that sort it is the duty of the Executive to lay the case before Congress, which as- sembles in little more than two weeks. It must follow, therefore, that as the President cannot make war he means to make a demonstration. His communication to General Sherman, referred to in this con- nection, is also evidently demonstrative. It is somewhat laughable to find that the Presi- dent would not, in this case, have had the demonstration all to himself. Don Carlos in- tends to demonstrate also. It is not often that the cable gives us a bit of genuine comedy ; but the despatches which recount the Don's projects and propositions apropos to Cuba are in a vein of political drollery that no writer of comic history has ever approached. | Carlos shows what use may be made of Cuba even by athroneless monarch, in the moun- tains of Navarre. His capacity to make what he calls ‘“‘war” is now thoroughly exhausted. He has not a foot to stand upon, militarily speaking, and so he proposes to discontinue his operations, to consent to a truce, in order not to be an embarrassment to the operations of his little cousin against the United States in case Cuba leads to war. Poor Don Quixote! What wrong has been done him in the assumption that he was mad! Happily the pacific reports which follow so often on hostile preparations are already afloat, and we are assured that Spain's re- sponse to the United States is so peaceful in its character that war has ceased to be im- minent. Journalism and Progress. The compliment paid to Mr. Stanley, the correspondent of the Nrw York Henan, who is now finishing Dr. Livingstone’s work in Africa, by a gentleman as distinguished as Sir Henry Rawlinson, is not merely a trib- ute to the intrepidity and foresight of Mr. Stanley, but an illustration of the progress of modern journalism. Sir Henry Rawlinson is an authority upon Oriental questions. Much of his life was spent in the Kast. He is now a member of the Board of Council for the government of the East India domin- ions. He concedes to Mr. Stanley ‘‘a title to rank with the greatest explorers.” He thinks that the fitting out of the expedition of the London Telegraph and the New York Henaup shows a munificence ‘‘which puts to shame our public institutions,” and has given an impetus “to African explorations that must soon produce practical results to com- merce and civilization.” The fact that the press, sented by the London Telegraph and the Heratp, is enabled to identify itself with the highest form of progress and civilization, is a compliment to our calling which comes gracefully from Sir Henry Rawlinson. It shows, further- more, that in the progress of our free insti- tutions the press must, from day to day, as- sume a higher position. This is not because journalists are, as a class, any better, any wiser, any more infallible than other people, but because they are sustained by a public opinion which respects independence. Rest- ing upon the people for its support, iden- tifying itself with the welfare and pros- perity of society, with no interest transcend- ing that of the publié welfare, daring to at- tack what is wrong and brave enough to support what is right; with the people in peace and in war, in joy and in sorrow; sharing their hopes, their fears and their ambitions, journalism becomes, as it were, the highest expression of progressive civiliza- tion. Naturally, therefore, it seeks a func- tion like that now performed by Mr. Stanley. As it grows in strength it grows in desire and enterprise. It is not enough to re- port the murder around the corner, or the fire across the street, or the debates in Con- gress, or even the battle on-the plains of France ; it is not enough to take upa public question, to destroy an error like repndia- tion, to sustain a truth like free trade, to as repre- Ring, to support a reform Goverfor like Mr. Tilden, to assail an indifferent adminis- tration like that of Grant. All these are responsibilities and, at times, duties of jour- nalism. There is a higher duty which heretofore has been the work of nations or of adventurous individuals. It adds to | its news discoveries and the solution of those great problems of creation which have | never been mastered by the genius of men. Mr. Stanley's expedition into Central Africa is only another form of the news gathering for which we send a reporter when we hear of an affray in the lower wards. ‘But the difference between the ordinary reporting of the press and that of an expedition like Mr, Stanley’s is precisely the difference between journalism in its first conception—the mere nalism as it is now—the embodiment of the strength and freedom and courage of a great nation. Mr, Cranies Norprorr addresses us a let- ter, published in another column, in refer- Sankey over in Brooklyn. This brilliant summary of what these distinguished gentle- will be of deepest interest to the thousands who have listened to their ministrations and the tens of thousands who look upon their ; “The Conqueror Worm,” each a separate star fight « corrupt combination like the Indian | gathering and printing of news—and jour- | ence to the work now doing by Moody and | men have done and their mannér of labor | 1875. —TRIPLE SHEET. work as the ESS of a revival of re- ligion. No doubt Moody and Sankey are a phenomena of an unusual character, and the estimate placed upon their efforts by an ob- server as cautious and able as Mr. Nordhoff will be read with profound attention. The Poe Monument. Twenty-six years haye passed since the death of Edgar A. Poo, and yesterday, for the first time, his grave was marked with a stone. ‘There was no real ingratitude in this long neglect of the great poet's resting place. Before printing was invented monuments of stone or brass were necessary to commem- orate events for the informationof men, But now funeral urns, obelisks and statues have ceased to embody history ; they have become curiosities upon which the antiquarian may ponder or the poet muse, but of which the world can take little note, All that was vital and valuable in these mute records long ago passed into books. Books are the true mon- uments of illustrious men, and Pharaoh’s earthly immortality will exist in the Bible long after his pyramid is levelled with the desert sands. No marble was hitherto placed above the grave of Poe because that tribute was not needed to preserve his fame. His memory lives in the music of his verse, in the fascination of his mystical dreams, in that vast world of imagination which he swung into the heavens and which dazzles with its cirgling flame long after the brain that made it sleepsin the dark and quiet tomb. This monument is not raised so much to the memory of the man as to that of the poet. Poeseems to have had one nature for the world, another for his friends, and to have been pursued by hate and consoled by love to the end of his stormy life. All his biographers have admitted his great faults, but some of them have been careful to con- ceal his merits. The discussion of his per- sonal character, however, very properly was not a part of the ceremonies at his grave. It was his genius that was thus honored. For- tunately, any comparison of his works with those of other poets of this age is unneces- sary in determining his place in our litera- | ture, for he stands alone and unapproachable. Most of our American poets reflect English poetry, but Poe formed his own style, and all his inspiration came from within. His individuality was intense, and he seemed to move within a magic circle which no other foot than his could cross, His imitators aro many, but they are all below contempt. It is impossible to imitate poetry which is so profoundly original, though it is easy to parody his verse. No doubt Poe spoke truth when he said that poetry to him had not been a purpose but a passion, and that the pas- sions must not be trifled with. Had it been ® purpose he would have written volumes, but as it was a passion held sacred by him, and wedded with sorrow and conflict and remorse, he produced very little in quantity. But how great this little is! There is ‘The Raven,” ‘To One in Heaven,” ‘Israfel,” “Annabel Lee,” ‘For Annie,” ‘“Ulalume,” in a strange and vividly burning constella- tion. His poetry also found expression in his tales, and the finest of these have no paral- lels in fiction. Thus it may be said that he is greater or less than such or such a poet, according to the critic’s taste, but it cannot be truly said that he is like any other poet. It is in his utter unlikeness to others that much of his singular fascination exists. Much of Poe's labor was given to criticism, and he is not forgiven even now for his se- verity. It is the custom to sneer at him as a critic who concerned hiniself only with the mechanism of art, and not with its higher elements. But we believe that he rendered a great service to American literature by his analysis of forms, his direct censure of in- | competent writers and the war he ever waged against mediocrity and pretence. He was the Pythian of the age, and his arrows always hit the mark. In many respects we regard him as the ablest of American critics, and it is a misfortune for the literature of the | present day that he is without a successor. | Cheap Telegraphy. We have received a circular from Mr, Oliphant, chief representative in Amer- ica of the Direct United States Cable Company, in which he informs. us that his company is struggling to break down the monopoly in cable telegraphy. We find, however, that the Direct Cable charges as much per word for the transmission of de- spatches from America to Europe as the other line, the rate to France, Great Britain and Ireland being seventy-five cents a word in gold. This is more than was charged be- fore the eable was snapped, which, unfor- tunately, happened a few weeks ago. Mr. Oliphant informs us that, owing to the ex- pense consequent to the delay in laying down the cable and recent obstacles to its successful operation, the managers “regret that they are compelled to put the tariff ata somewhat higher rate than the one origi- nally intended; but~ they trust, as soon as their second cable is laid, still further to reduce it.” The managers of this line will discover, as has been discovered by the managers of all other telegraph companies, that the cheap- est rates in the long run will bring more business and consequently inure to the | greater profit of the owners. Thus far the promise to reduce rates is little more than a | promise. It would be a stroke of genius for | Mr. Oliphant’s company to send messages | over the ocean at a shilling a word. This | wonld be a great advantage to the people, and in the end we aro sure would be to the profit of the p Coney itself. aalesneethn We: Pnarxt this morning an interesting com- | munication from a stockholder in the Panama | Railroad Company in reference to the estab- | | lishment of a line of first class steamers | between New York and San Francisco. Our correspondent shows that this proposition is feasible, and that if steamers of proper calibre | should be built for the Central and South American trade it would result in a great benefit to American commerce, He thinks that | the Panama Railroad directors are capable of managing this line. We trustthat the enter- prise may be successful. ‘The Pacific Mail has not only been a monopoly on the Pacific, but it has been so badly managed as to be- come ascandal. We believe that the more lines | wo have ranning on the Pacific const, notonly between California and the East, but between Yanama and the Northern and Southern coasts, the better ‘for our commerce, Ow correspondent presents a strong case, and wé trust his expectations will be realized. Comptroller Green's Lotter. ‘The letter addressed by Andrew H. Green, the Comptroller of New York, to Fitz John Porter, the Commissioner of Public Works, published in yesterday's Henaxp, deserves attention as an interesting and important document. In this letter Mr. Gyeen arraigna Fitz John Porter for his management of the public works, and incidentally defends him- self from the charge of having, as Park Com. missioner, voted for measures of which, ag Comptroller, he does not approve, Our ob- jection to the Comptroller's letter is that he shows a narrow-mindedness in dealing with the future of New York. He is wrong when he opposes the improvements in the upper part of the island. It is a mistake to say that New York should not have boulevards and sewers and streets beyond the line of population, It is as necessary to pre- pare for the growth of a city as it is to build a railroad before we have villages. If Mr. Green's policy had governed the builders of the Pacific Railroad that enterprise would never have reached San Francisco, because we should have waited until cities wera built along the line. Instead of a railway following a city the city should follow the railway. Instead of boulevards and im- provements following the growth of New York they should precede it. It is just ag necessary to have boulevards and “‘improve- ments” in the upper sections of the island as it is for the farmer to sow the soil with oats if he expects a crop. The money thus ex- pended is never spent in vain, provided it is honestly devoted to the improvement of the town. We agree with Mr. Green in his comments upon the work of laborers that are so often employed by our Public Works, and in his criticism upon the manner in which these selections are made. If a stranger came to New York, and happened to pass by where the city laborers were at work, he would wonder ‘at the apathy, the indo- lence, the want of energy shown by them. We have no doubt that a thousand well paid, active men under such a discipline as is im- posed by private gentlemen in managing their own affairs, in building houses and opening parks, would do as much work as three thousand ‘‘ticket” laborers on the pub- lic works. Comptroller Green deserves credit for his courage in exposing this abuse. He shows’ that Fitz John Porter, while a good man and more sinned against than sinning, is unfit to hold his present high position. A Commissioner who testifies that he has allowed barbers and politicians and worthless people generally to act as inspectors of sewers merely becauso he was told todo so by Tammany Hall is unfit to hold a position so important as the head of the Department of Public Works, and it is no defence that he was told to do so by John Kelly. We want a strong man in this department, and now that General Por- . ter’s term is expiring we trust that his sense of unfitness will become manifest, and that we shall have a new, resolute, strong-minded business man i ‘Tweep's Lawyens fight for every inch ot ground. Their present contest arises on an interpretation of the decision given by the Court of Appeals. As that Court decided that only one penalty could be inflicted, it decided thereby that there was only one cause of action. And as the culprit has been once tried on that cause he ‘claims his con- stitutional immunity from further molesta- tion. Axornen Six Huxprep.—There is some reason to believe that there has actually been a battle between the Turkish troops and the insurgents in Herzegovina. Sixteen Turkish battalions are reported as having been en- gaged, and six hundred is given as the num- ber of the insurgents slain. his is impor- tant, if true, since if there were enough insur- gents there for six hundred to be killed the insarrection is evidently not done with yet. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Paris laundresses use more chemicals than soaps. In an English wine cellar a brown tree; without loaves, grows from a pent bin flat against the walls, Ear! Russell will nest month publish a pamphlet en- titled, “Is the Mabometan Empire in Europe Worth Preserving?” Senior Raphael Merry del Val 18 appointed to replace. Count Xiguena as Spanish Representative at Brussels, and Sefior Emilio Maruaga will succeed Sedior Merry as Minister Plenipotentiary in Mexico. John Welkins, an English miser, wanted to cheat his mother; so on his deathbed he ate up bils to tho amount of $150,090. The numbers were registered and the old lady got the money back from the bank. Mr. Owon, the British Executive Comrfissioner for the Centennial, wishes that the buildings at Philadet- phia should be preserved as « sort of museum in which relics might be deposited for the second Centennial, Seville held a festival recently to celebrate tho restor- ation to its place, in the Cuthearal, of the portion of Murillo’s picture of St. Anthony, which was cut out and carried off by thieves, Now they want the thief sent over trom New York. Rats that live in granaries are said by a professional rat-catcher not to be poisonous, while those that feed on refuse meat inflict painful wounds, This is another argument in favor of the vegetarian theory, and every pious family should keep a granary. A great many old English Crimean officers thought that considering the fact that fngland has friendly relatious with Russia the holding of the Balaklava ban- quet was in good taste, Is there any of this feeling among federal and ex-Confederate officers in our country ? The Chicago Times thus characterizes the average democra: ‘He is politically the stupidest thing on the planet, and must conform to the requirements of his stupidity, Incapable of bringing himself forward to the living present, be will continue to vote for the dead and buried democratic party, and to expect tho mountain to open and release from bis sepulchre of ages the rock rooted democratic Barbarossa,” Mr. W. P. Talboys, of the New York Yacht Club, hag written a charming little book called ‘West India Pick. les,” which that most enterprising of publishors Curte- ton will publish next week, It ts a diary of the cruise of the Josephine among the West India Islands last winter, Mr. Talboys is a well known wit, and now and then repeats himself, but then we are all lable to do that, All you have to do isto put your knife on gour glass and Le will surely stop bis music as well as his story. Captain J. C. Symmes, United States Navy, fifty years ‘ago believed that the earth is hollow, and that itis habitable within as well as without, Symmes thought there were openings at the poles; and Count Romanoff offered to help him with money in investigating the theory. Symmes patriotically deelined w serve Russia. A yessel, according to the theory, would sail into » pole, without apparent change of course, except from the hiding of certaly stars ora change of horizon. The main fact upon which the theory depends is the warm air and temperate flora that float soulbwar® from the North Pow