The New York Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1875, Page 4

\ 4 NEW YORK HKKALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1875 - |The Forel NEW YORK HERALD, _ : It is impossible to explain the recent bravura of President Grant except as an ex- periment on the public temper, with a view to ascertain whether the people would in- | AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR BROADWAY NOTICE TO SUBSORIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly ‘editions of the New Yorx Hurarp will be sent free of postage. ——+ THE DAILY HERALD, published every way in the year, Four cents per copy. ‘{welve dollars per year, or one dollar per qwonth, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic xdespatches must be addressed New York of the Policy States. dorse him in precipitating a war with Spain. | sponse he was destined to disap- pointment. No part of the public press has given him any encouragement. ‘The independent press and the opposition press have declared their emphatic opinion that a war would be inexcusable in present ciream- | stances, and the press of his own party has | asserted that alarm on this score is ground- | less because they diseredited the prevailing | rumors. But he cannot be relieved from the | : : | charge of imprudence in putting the question | and disturbing the public mind when there | United | If he cherished hopes of a supporting re- | convulsion ; we had not a space man, ora spare dollar, ora spare ship to beased against & foreign enemy; the French Emperor was urging Great Britain to join um and sup- port the rebellion, and the ruling glasses | of England listened with favor to the proposal; yet, under those adverse circum- stances, peace was preserved without any compromise of the national honor It needed some patience, somo foresight, and a capacity to watch events and turn them to advantage as they occurred, to keep the na- | tional honor clear and yet maintain peace | under great povocations ; but Mr, Lincoln and his Secretary of State were equal | to the difficult task, and history has vindicated Our hands were then tied by a great domestic | President Grant and the School Ques- tion, Perhaps the most important service that can be rendered by the guides of public thought consists in pointing out the subjects | on which it ought to be exercised, Thero is no truer measure of the sagacity of a states- man than the sureness of judgment with which he selects the problems which ought to be solved while he is in power. It has been said that the principal attribute of a statesman is to ‘understand his epoch"”— that is, to possess a quick and clear discernment of the chief needs of his time’ Some political questions are frivolous ; some, though important, may be wisely postponed; some will settle them- | their wisdom. Under circumstances searcely less difficult Washington, Adams and Jef- | | ferson preserved the peace of the country | | | selves by the mere progress of events, if let alone; some are so related to a given period that a great opportunity is lost if they are not presented and decided at a particular pe | was nothing’ to-warrant it in dhe tate Sag great wars were waging in Europe, and MID, Ca lof our relations , with Spain. It is | bot England and France were inflicting in- Letters and packages should be properly | exidenku, eee Ges the feels axe juries on our commerce which wonld have ecaled. Rejected communications will not be re- | known, that there was no fresh reason for | jpstified war with either, if our statesmen bluster, and that Spain has done nothing | had not been controlled by the superior duty ‘new to provoke a hostile demonstration. | | What excuse, then, can President Grant give | durned. whirlwind which was then desolating the of keeping the country out of the mighty | LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and advertisements will be | zeceived and forwarded pn the same terms as in New York. | AMUSEMENTS. THIS APTERNON AND EVENING, PARISIAN VARI ie song street, near Bi way. atinee at 22. Me a8, RIETY, at 8 P.M. AMERICAN INSTITUTE, | Whird avenue and Sixty-third street.—Day and evening. SAN FRANC! New Opera House, Broadway, c BLS P.M. Matinge at2 P.M J-ninth street, | THEATRE pet Brondway.—V ARIE’ P.M. Matinee at 2 ANTOMIME, at 8 ND CONCERT, M.—CONUERT, New and on Bulow, ork Quartet, FiNh avenue PM Y Ats PARK THEATRE, rondway and Twenty-second si AR, at 3. M. Mr. and Mrs. 1E MIGHTY DOL. . Matinee at2 P.M. METROPOLITAN M Ea West Fourteenth stres M OF ART, ‘Open from 10'A, M. to 5 ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—German Opera—FIDELIO, at 2 P.M FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fwenty-cighth street, near Broadway.—OTHELLO, ot 8 * M.; closes at 10:30'P. M. Matinee at 1280 P.M —LLAM- iT.’ Mr. Edwin Booth. FAGLE THEATRE, | Thirty-third street—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. GLOBE THEATRE, and 730 Brow INSTRELSY and VARIETY, . Matinee at Woon's 3 Frondway, corner of Thirtieth —JIBENATNOS AY M. Mr. t 5PM; closes wt 1045 P.M. Matinee at useph Proctor. TONY PASTO! W THEATRE, os. S85 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at SP! M. | THIRD THEATRE, Thtrd avenue, between Th aud Thirty-first streets. — aS P.M. Matinee ut 2 WINS TRELSY and VAR © M, LYCEUM THEATR ourteenth street, near Sixth avenu BOR P.M. 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Tue Herarp wy Fast Mam Trarys.— News- 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, te 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 Tux Heraxp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. Warn Sraeet Yusterpay.—Gold opened and closed at 1143-4, with sales in the in- terim at 115. Money on call was quoted at B1-2 and 4 per cent. Rag paper is worth 87.14. Government and investment secu- tities were strong ; stocks barely steady. Tum Irartan Government is going into the railway business, and the experiment will be watched with interest in other countries Pesides Italy. Av Least One Inpran Privce has formally received the Prince of Wales, but as the new Gaekwar of Baroda owes his dignities to British ascendancy the compliment is not so great after all. Tar Tweep Case, which, like ‘a wounded snake, drags its slow length along, came up for argument, in one of its branches, in the Supreme Court yesterday on a motion to vacate the order of arrest or reduce the bail In the one million dollar suit. It was ad- journed, however, till next Wednesday, and then, we presume, another scene in the drama will be enacted. The trouble is that Bobody can see how the play is to end, Tue Counsen To tHe Conporation, Mr. William C, Whitney, gives a very sound and, fn one respect, @ very amusing opinion to the Board of County Canvassers touching their duties. The question is the old one in regard to the election of judges of the Marine Court, and, after showing that the duties of the Board are purely ministerial, Mr. Whit- mey adds, “I am therefore of opinion that your Board is relieved from the responsi- bility of entering into the question whether here was authority of law for the election of the two judges of the Marine Court.” Whis good-natured sarcasm will please the forthe recent unwonted activity in our navy yards, which wore such an air of preparation | YARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. | for active hostilities? What excuse for not | at once contradicting the disquieting despatch sent from Washington by the Asso- ciated Press on the eve of cabled to London and occasioned the flurry there? These things, taken to- | gether, look like a studied attempt to practice upon the public sensibilities and | ascertain how far he would be sup- ported if he should plunge the coun- try into a war with Spain. Such manouvres, with such an object, are quite indefensible. It is no valid apology to say, when such an experiment has failed, that the country jumped to hasty conclu- sions respecting the demands he has made of Spain, and that the cause of all this com- motion was a yery harmless note. What was there, then, in an ordinary dipldmatic com- | munication to justify him in making this. | portentous stir in the navy yards and setting the country agog with feverish anxiety and apprehension ? When an occasion really comes for testing the patriotism of our citizens they will not be found wanting, and so sacred and noble a feeling should never be trifled with or wan- tonly practised upon. To make such experi- ments in a mere party or personal view is an abuse of that loyal public spirit which is ey ready’ to make sacrifices for the national honor. This deep and abiding sentiment should not be appealed to on trivial occasions. It is always prepared to support the government in a just or neces- sary war, and it is too respectable and sin- cere to be played upon for vulgar personal | or partisan objects. Attempts to arouse it unnecessarily are as absurd as it would be to subject a young soldier to daily depletions by opening his veins as a means of training lim to shed his blood for his country on the field of battle. President Gra&t would seem to have a great deal to learn respecting the diplomatic action of the government under his prede- cessors, who seldom lacked occasions for a | foreign war if they had chosen to makegne, bat who wisely preserved peace with foreign nations, with only two exceptions, sirfce | we achieved our independence. Since | the peace of 1783 we have had one | short war with Great Britain and one | short war with Mexico, the affair with the petty Barbary States not deserving mention in this connection. There have been at least a dozen occasions when we had better pre- texts for war than exist at present with re- | gard to Spain; but the skill of our diplomacy, under the guidance of able statesmen, saved ‘us from this scourge except on two occa- sions. And yet our diplomacy acted un- der greater disadvantages than any that exist at present. There has never been any feebleness or pusillanimity in the attitude of our government toward foreign Powers ; but firmness has been tempered with sagacity | and moderation and with a sincere desire to | maintain peace as long as it could be done | with honor. This was more difficult in | former periods than it is since we have be- come of the three or four most | formidable nations on the globe. In | the earlier and weaker stages | national existence the demands and pro- | tests of our government were not backed by | such a tremendous power of enforcement as | we now possess. Negotiations are more effective when they havea great naval and | military force behind them. We have never | had precisely this advantage, for it has been | the policy of our government not to burden | the people with great military estab- lishments; but we have had what is better—a high spirited, energetic and patriotic people, ever ready rally and fightin a just cause. one armaments; and our known resources, though dormant and requiring time to call them into activity, have powerfully aided our diplomaey. The difference between President Grant | ; and his predecessors is that they knew how | to take advantage of this great aid to diplo- macy, while he does not. under all his predecessors than it is under | trained to handle. It requwires consummate | diplomatic ability to secuge a peaceful settle- | ment of foreign difficulties in consistency with the national honor and interests when | negotiators are not assisted by the knowl- edge that there is a formidable force to | back them; it requires less ability to arrange disputes when such a supporting force is at their command. It hence follows that, | with equal diplomatic skill, it should be | easier for Genbral Grant to bring a foreign nation to terms without embroiling our peaceful relations than it was for any of his predecessors, when the country had not risen to such a height of prestige and power. If he cannot maintain peace with Spain without a sacrifice of national interests the success of his predecessors in numerous cases of greater difficulty is a standing reproach to his | incapacity. How slender is the task imposed upon him | the No- | vember elections, which was at once | of our | to | Our mili- | tary resources have always exceeded our | him ; but they supplemented it with skill | and made it efficient, whereas he isin posses. | | sion of a weapon which he has not been | world, Even the wars which we have had teach a lesson of caution, They were of inestimable | Service to the country in demonstrating the courage, energy, patriotism and fighting qualities of our citizens ; but nations do not | go to war for the mere purpose of making a display of heroic qualities. In every other | view the few wars we have had disappointed | | the expectations with which they were com- | menced. The war of 1812 was declared to pro- | tect our seamen against impressment and in | defence of neutral rights on the ocean; but | | it was terminated by a treaty in which ‘neither of these subjects was even men- tioned, leaving them precisely as they stood | before the war. The annexation of Texas, | and the Mexican war which was its conse- | quence, were intended to fortify slavery; but | | they opened controversies which led to the | civil war, by which slavery was utterly exter- ; minated. So fatile are human calculations in matters of this kind! The civil war itself | | institutions, | stage in the tide of affairs. The great test of sagucity is the ability to see what are the really important subjects which deserve im- mediate attention, and a statesman who possesses this capacity leads public opinion and is not compelled to follow it. Buta public man who aspires to this kind of leadership must not fail in discrimi- nation, as we fear President Grant is doing by hurrying into the foreground ill-timed or irrelevant questions, like Cuba and the pub- lic schools. His attempt to make the school question a | leading issue in our politics is particularly maladroit. We do not dispute the sound- ness of his opinion that our system of public schools is one of the main pillars of our free A vast majority of the Ameri- can people believe this as firmly as the President, and as they are not likely to | change their opinion there is no present necessity. for bringing this question into politics. The common schools are safe for a period extending far beyond his official, and even his natural, life. It may be true enough | that the priesthood of one of our many re- ligious denominations do not look with favor on our common school system, but it is equally true that an increasing portion of | completely disappointed the expectations of those who forced it. It was begun by the | | South in defence of an institution which was | swept away by its progress. Considering | how often sagacity is at fault in estimating | the consequences of a war, it is always wise to exhaust every honorable expedient for | peace before venturing upon a mode of re- dress whose results so often baffle foresight | and stretch beyond the bounds of calcula- | tion. This has been the wise policy of most | of our Presidents, and the few exceptions do | not invalidate the rule. It has been the settled conviction of the | wisest of our statesmen that our path to | greatness does not lie through bloody en- | counters with foreign nations, They have | thought that the true field for our wonderful | energy and enterprise was in the develop- | | ment of our immeasurable resources and in exhibiting to the world an example of the | beneficent influence of free institutions in | making a great people prosperous and happy. | | We have full scope for all our energies in | | building up our industries and commerce, in | perfecting our institutions, restoying our cur- } | rency, diffusing intelligence among our peo- | ple, elevating the standard of public | and private morality, and promoting a taste | | for arts, refinement and culture. Wars may | | sometimes be forced upon us by foreign in- | sults or aggression, but this danger con- | stantly diminishes with the growing power | of the nation; the chief advantage of power | being the protection it gives against wanton provocations. With this great advantage our statesmen must be wanting in capacity or in | patriotism if they cannot maintain peace with | small third class nations by a firm and skil- | ful diplomacy. Why? Among the Wall street reports of yester- day was one to the effect that several persons | were buying gold, very cautiously, very | quietly, but still buying. These purchases | | naturally attracted the attention of brokers and others interested in keeping a close | | watch upon a feverish and uneasy market ; | and it was believed by some, at least of those | | who sought to fathom these transactions, | that they had ascertained who were the | buyers. Itis difficult usually to discover who are the principals in a cautiously con- ducted speculation ofthis kind, but it is not impossible, and several well known names were mentioned in this case. We do not in- | tend to mention these names at present ; it | is sufficient to say that they belong to per- | sons who, if there is any secret just now in | our diplomacy ; if, for instangs, an attempt | against Spain should be meditated at Wash- | ington, might, without any great stretch of | imagination, be supposed to be the recipi- | ents of confidences on this subject. At this moment everything seems to be | quiet, and the pacific nature of the answer made by Spain to Mr. Cushing's last note ap- | pears to be undoubted. Nothing but the sud- den arming of many of our war ships gives the | least cause to suppose that we are to have | any trouble with Spain or with any other foreign Power, and even about this there is | the laity of the same denomination send their children to these schools, and the prac- tice is certain to grow in proportion as our immigrant. population become more and more Americanized. The only thing that can arrest this tendency is appeals to religious prejudice, which may unite and consolidate the Catholies by in- creasing the influence of the clergy over the laity. If bigoted agitators will let this ques- tion alone thé public schools will quietly win their way to popularity, even among | the Catholics, in virtue of their merits and excellence and their superiority to parochial schools. President Grant would therefore be making a mistake, even if the common school system were within the province of national politics. But his mistake is greater in view of the fact that the national government has nothing to do with the subject. The common schools are cre- ated by State legislation, supported by State taxes, regulated by State control, and the highest officer of the federal government is going quite beyond the domain of national affairs when he attempts to make the school question an issue in general politics. There | are national problems enough of first rate , importance, and President Grant would be more usefully employed in trying to con- centrate public attention on such of these as are of immediate urgency. The Coming Princes—International Courtesies. A meeting, composed of some of our most respected German citizens, was held in New York a few evenings since to make ar- rangements for the reception of the Imperial Prince of Germany, who was reported to be preparing for a visit to this country during the Centennial Exhibition. These citizens expenses of a proper reception to His High of the Crown Prince ; but we shall hope that the first information, coming, as it did, from the Cologne (Gazette, is true. of the heir to the imperial throne would be political event of the greatest significance. If the Prince does come it will be in the fulness of manhood, with an illustrious name as a soldier and statesman. He would bring with him his son, who is doubly wel- come because of his father, who isthe heir to the German throne, and of his mother, who is the daughter of Queen Victoria. ‘The wel- | come to Frederick William would be national, Americans would be only too glad to unite with their German fellow citizens in doing honor to this Prince and showing their appre- ciation of the friendship which fora hundred years has subsisted between the two countries and of the value we set upon the German character as an element of our citizenship. At the same time we note with pleasure that the French citizens are actively moving to take part in the celebration of the Centen- nial. There is a movement to build a statue on one of the islands contiguous to New York to celebrate the alliance between France | no such certainty as alarms the public, In- | | deed, it is quite remarkable that the extraor- | It was smaller | dinary article in the London Times and the flurry of rumors which followed here its ar- alarm such as would, if it were felt, quickly raise the price of gold or disturb the finan- celal situation. It is quite remarkable that the London Times’ alarmist article did not affect | the price of our securities abroad, and did | rival on this side have not led to any general | and America during the Revolutionary war, of which we have some interesting news this morning. It is intended that this figure some point like Bedloe’s or | Island, where it could be seen at a great dis- | tance, and where it might be utilized as a | lighthouse for the direction of navigators. At the same time the American citizens in Paris propose to build a monument in the not prevent or delay the taking up of the re- | French capital to indicate our appreciation maining instalment of our five per cent | bonds. In anormal state of the market just now, and without alarming or disturbing causes, gold is more likely to fall than to rise ; hence the curiosity felt to know why shrewd operators, likely to be well informed, should be buying gold. ampled villany was expiated on the gallows at Rochester yesterday in the person of John Clark, whose successful evasion of the law's penalty for so many years demonstrates how powerless our protectors of the peace are against an accomplished and utterly fearless criminal. At the same time Henry Nichol- sen was hanged at Coushatta, La, for the people, whatever may be its effect upon the | in connection with Cuba compared with that | murder of a pedler to whom he had ex- Board. of President Lincoln during tho civil war! | tended the rites of hosnitalite Tur Patan Trev.—A long career of unex- | of the friendship of France. One citizen has | subscribed ten thousand dollars toward the , work, We have no doubt that it will be a | success. friendship between France and America or recall to the minds of this generation what ! our fathers did a hundred years ago will be grateful to the American people. France's Starve to Linerty which is to be erected in New York harbor promises | | tobe worthy of both republics. The féte ‘at tho Palais d'Industrie yesterday was a— great success, and was participated in by the deagendants of some of the most distinguished among them the Marquis de Rochambeau and Oscar de Lafayette. Evidently the | Cetitennial is to make she American nation subscribed fifty thousand dollars to pay the | ness. Later advices throw doubt on the visit | The rela- | tions between our country and Germany | are of so intimate a character that the visit | should be of large size, and should be on | Governor's | Anything that goes to cement the | French officers in the American Revolution, | | bolster up that credit, which has received so \ WITH SUPPLENENT. better know, in the Old World, and American lilety more thoroughly under- stood and appreciated. Herzegovina-ts the Revolt a Myth? The Eastern \uestion is looming up again, much after tel fashion and while Russia is uttering peac¥ul sentinents Great Britain Seems preparing\for intetvention. Not the English Cabinet done, but the great Powers also are represent(d as comsidering the ques- tion, The Londop Times, following out the ideas of Earl Rustell, declites that the Chris- tian provinces must be separated from the Mussulman Empire, and the Russian journals are one day yarmly in favor of the Christians ani the next as warmly in favor, of{ peace. Turkey, too, is proposing refprms|and offering guar- antees for their exécutim. With all this news, however, we are without trustworthy information. It is not byany means certain that there is any rt in Herzego- vina at all worth condderig, and if there is we fear it is completely nanaged in the in- terest of speculators. | So far as the outside world is concerned it has uw significance be- yond its influence op the price of Turkish bonds. As in the early striggles of the ad- herents of Don Carlos battles are fought only on paper, and victories altemate to suit the market. There has been zo movement in Wall street in years more dsreputable than the manipulation of the new: relating to the Eastern question, and a Ring nore formidable than any ever formed in thi: country seems to control the Herzegoviniaa revolt for its own purposes. The only renedy for all this isthe truth in regard to th» insurrection. Let us know if there is really wir in the Chris- tian provinces of Turkey, andif there is, let the great Powers at once ditermine what they are going to do about it. A war on pa- per, to suit the purposes of speculators in Turkish bonds or any other lind of bonds, is the worst of all wars, and this struggle seems to be one which serves only the pur- poses of those who are keeping »ther nations ignorant and uncertain in regarl to it. At the first glance the Turkisi proposition reported some weeks ago as haying been made to Mr. Gladstone to take supreme control at Constantinople of the Ottoman Treasury and | the whole Turkish financia! administration at a salary of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year sounded like an endeavor to severe a blow by the recent measure of par- tial repudiation, and which is constantly weakened and paralyzed by these contra- dictory reports of the insurrection in Herzegovina. But there was more than that in it. If it was made at all, it was the recurrence ef that instinctive appeal of Oriental Powers for aid from Western intelligence that has several times previously been made. Already an English administrator, Mr. Scudamore, is in charge of the Turkish Post Office. Long ago China enlisted in its service the diplomatic talents of Anson Burlingame ; and quite re- cently the Egyptian Khedive endeavored: to secure the tried skill of a great American soldier to command the many of lesser repu- tation already in his service. All this is the recognition of the Eastern nations that they must adopt the Western systems or perish, and their further admission that they cannot comprehend these Western systems nor operate them; that they are as little children, and must be taught. It is the spectacle of the/old, old East coming to school to the young and vital West; and it is creditable to the East that it has finally learned the useful lesson that it must trust some one; and creditable also to Western men that no dishonest use has yet been made | of the opportunities thus offered. Should Turkey be able to secure an administrator like Mr. Gladetone, even for a short period, these scandals would come to an end, anda stock jobbing war in the Christian provinces would no longer be possible. Malaria in Cities. A paragraph recently called attention to the alarming spread of diphtheria in New Jersey, attributed to improper drain- age. This whole question of the health of New York is one that must soon meet our gravest considerations. Here is a city so placed, geographically, that it should be one ofthe healthiest in the world. Itis drained by two rivers. The ocean is at its doors. If we were governed by statesmen, or even by men of common sense, we could make New York a model among cities for cleanliness and healthfulness. But our streets have been left by the old Tammany Ring so that many of them are really little more than fever spots. Boulevards are opened, water is allowed to accumulate in pools and become | stagnant, our drains are imperfect, and we build and improve in so hurried a manner that we have environed New York, as it were, with a fever and ague belt. Yesterday we printed a story of the defective sewers in the Eighth avenue which is not only disgraceful in itself but asuro indica- tion that a plague spot has been recklessly and deliberately planned. Brooklyn is little better off, and according to our re- ports to-day there are malaria and death even in the air of Prospect Park. We lose more money by the misery which falls | upon the people because of these constantly spreading epidemfes, by the ill name which the city receives because of its want of health, by the loss of time and absence from busi- | ness, than would thoroughly renovate New York and make it as healthy as any city in | WoMEN'’: KionTs iN Jersey.—Iho Board of Chosen ¥recholders of Jersey City have given their practical adhesion to women’s rights, An tngallant effort has been made to turn out the lady keeper of the great keys of Hudson County Jail and put a soiled politician in her place. But the Board, by refusing to confirm the lady's successor, have continued \er in office. As the fair jailoress makes tle jail a model of cleanli- ness and discipline, and is proof against the wiles of the politicans, the people are well -eontented with the result. Donatp McKay's Varm Spaina Inprane have been disgracing themselvesin Washing- ton to such an extent that they even suc- ceeded in shaming the Indian Bureau. It is about time that these visits to the Great Father by Indian tramps ceased altogether, and we hope this exhibition will be the lass of the kind that will be pernftted. PERSONAL INTEULIGENCE. + Is Sam Bowles, too, becoming a wird tormagant? The Boston Globe permits some editorial writers to sign their articles, ‘ Every man in Philadelphia who las anything to soll is in favor of the Centennial. Clark, the Rochester murderer, sail that ho made @ mistake in engaging counsel. Dr, Kenealy wanted a two hours’ interview with the claimant Orton-Tichborne, and got it, ‘The King of Denmark, in England, wint to seo Em- press Eugenie and also Irving’s Hamlet, | Professor Bonamy Price says that examinations im £nglish colleges depend upon the tutors. Senator Theodore F. Randolph, of New Sorsey, is re- siding temporarily at the New York Hotel, Lord Houghton arrived in this city last evening from Washington, and is at the Brevoort House, “4 Josh Billings says:—‘*Yu can't change a dato by cussing after an edition has been worked off.”” The St. Louis Globe- Democrat thinks that the springs of Mr, Tilton’s intellectual power have dried up. Senator John H. Mitchell is at the St, James Hotel, on the way to Washington from his home in Oregon. Paris laughed for two days because Gambetta was #0 fat that he could not get down on his knees in church, Mr. Forster says that Gladstone's government strengthened England’s connection with the colonies, Mr, Schurz is writing more nowadays for his paper, the Westliche Post, of St. Louis, than for several years past, The Domus” is a new London club intended to have home comtorts. Why not bave a home with club com- forts? A total failure of the sponge crop on tho Florida coast is reported, But the New York free lunches ara well patronized. ¢ Miss Antoinette Stirling refused to sing before the Queen in a low-necked dress, and the Queen respecter that lady’s modesty. Holmes, six feet eight inches, is the tallest man in Massachusetts, and still he has been known to play tho King to his partner’s jack. Many Southern members of Congress insist that the Clerk of the House shall have been officially identified with the late Confederacy. Sam Bowles affects to discover that Colonel George H. | Butler has gone to New Orleans so that he may become a Congressman from that city. Zack Chandler is said to be turning all the old rata out of the Interior Department just as they are getting fat. Now the country bas got to fatten up a lot of new Tats. Martinsville, Va., still has the bell which called to- gether the convention of 1775 at Richmond, when Patrick Henry said, “Give me liberty or give me death,” A Washington correspondent tells about a woman who encourages her husband in talking about his first wife's virtues, When that man gots it he will got tt all | in a jump. Mr. William HL. Neilson, President of the Board ot Education, has accepted the Presidency and generat Company. “The grand will, in its fulness,” said Emerson ro- cently, “we call character,”” But when a man has twa | or three widows thoy tako all the character out of any will he ever had. Castelar has been interviewed tn Paris. His"policy he defines thus:—‘‘In politics [ have two hates—ultra- montanism and the monarchy, I have also two loves— liberty and the republic.” Amun writes from New Jersey that several Indian summers during the November opera season havo wakened the mosquitoes, and that~they are sti!l mis- taken for tacks on the wall, Detroit Free Press:—“A wife will hardly over notice | whether her husband has had bis hair cut or not, but Jet him go home with a strange hairpin sticking in his overcoat and she'll see it before he reaches the gate,” A new telescope in Paris brings the moon within ten miles of the earth. When it gets only eight milos off and we can sling a hawser aboard the members of the moonarchical government shall have the Heaaup every morning at earth rise. A Down Eastern critic, writing of one of Von Bilow'a concerts, said:—“The orchestra was especially notice- | able for the artist who played second fiddle. Nero | himself could not have played better when some metro- nomic incendiary applied the torch to Rome.’’ The Utica (N. Y.) Herald thinks that Tilden fought the Canal Ring in order to kill off Sanford E. Church ag a candi for the Presidency, and that Tilden and Church will be compelled to unite on Seymour, But, Mr. Roberts, If Church is dead how can he influence anything? A Vassar girl wrote homo:—“Deo Paw-paw, we study | Latin fo’ owahs a day, Fwench seven up and science evan 60 louag. The good matrons nevah let us go owet. Won't yousend me my leggins and skates for a poo’ Little girl who lives in the village, Don't forget the heel straps.” Prince’ Edward Island oysters are sent to England packed in oatmeal, and by the time they reach London they are plump and wholesome, commanding about sixty cents a dozen, And yet each individual oyster takes his oatmeal, not because he loves it, but because | he heard it was healthy. Marshal MacMahon wants a settlement with King Alfonso’s government. England has been paid for the Virginius and Vinegas matters, America has accepted a few thousand for the Santiago outrage and France now insists on terms for the murder of Reygondaud Thia | is forcing diplomacy on the boy King. ‘ For Speaker, according to the latest ciphoring in Washington, Randall is just @ little ahead of Kerr, and | thero ftstauds, If Randall does not win in caucus he will not go for Kerr (is he in favor of Hendricks for President)? nor for Cox or Wood (is he in favor of Til- den for President)? but for a “compromise” candidate, “Compromise” candidates are fattening up. Hiram 8. Beers, one of the original proprietors of the | Boston /erald, 1s now a type-setter in the office of that | paper. A few days ago he had the pleasure of setting a “take” from an article on -finance by Mr. Bennett, printed in the New Yor Herato thirty-cight years ago, which he recognized as having been set by him when it first appeared, The “take” came to him the second time in the usaal way—by lot. Whea the San Francisco Chronicle does anything it ' the world. Now that we have rapid transit in a fair way let our government take hold of this health question. To that end it | might be well to have a commission com- posed of physicians and engineers to search out the whole subject and adopt a plan that wonld extinguish these malarial farms and make New York thoroughly salubrious, no | matter what the expense may be. The ad- ministration which renovates New York will be as popular as that which has given us rapid transit. , Germany and THe Cxntunntan.—Instead of being lukewarm toward the American Cen- | tennial, Germany turns out to be the most earnest and active of the European Powers in promoting that great object. As many as eleven hundred and forty exhibitors will be | represented, and one of the chief féatures of the Exhibition—the treatment of the wounded in time of war—will be German, does it in fine style, Ateleven o'clock on a Sunday | night it sent a reporter to get the news about the bark | Iinnois, It says:—‘The clock was on the stroke of eleven, but a reporter was despatched to work up tho case immediately.”? Then (this being Sanday) the re- | porter “immediately!” appeared on the following ‘Tuursday morning and told the story in big type, Toe Chronicle says:—‘‘Tho tired seeker for information ‘swarmed’ aboard as the city clocks were striking one,” | ‘That was four days before. Sefiator Newton Booth, of California, according to the Louisville Courer-Journal, in speaking of tho late eloc- | tions, said that he was glad to seo that the votes wore so | close. That there had been too much fraud and cor- ruption in the public affairs of the nation, and that the | people should cheok it by rebuking the party respon. | gible. That he did not believe the financial question could be made a party question in 1876, He said that this party strife should ceage in tins country, aud ho bolieved tt would some day, and thought he saw signa pointing that way now; that none bat good and puro | men should be elected aud placed tu offices of trast and honor. His friends im Indiaua claim that he will occupy | independent ground in the Senate, but upon matters of public policy will most likely volo with the conservar tive side of the house management of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad |