The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1875, Page 6

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The melancholy intelligence from Wash- ington falls upon the country with some- thing of the suddenness of an unexpected event, although the Vice President has been in precarious health for two or three years, and in such a condition for the last eleven days that constant bulletins have been sent to the press to meet the solicitude of | a sympathizing public. But these bul- letins have been of late so reassur- ing as to quite dispel the deep stricken down. On the evening before his decease it was telegraphed that the danger was so far past that the Vice President would be able to leave WashMngton before the close | of the week. But while early risers were reading this hopeful news in the morning papers of yesterday the soul of Henry Wil- son was passing through the dark portal which leads to the unknown. Like John Quincy Adams, he expired in dramatic surroundings of the death of that eminent son of Massachusetts, who fell in | spared the pains of a lingering illness, Un- like Mr. Wilson, Mr. Adams was conscious memorable words, “This is the last of the earth,” gave the public imagination some- thing it could lay hold of to assist its concep- tion of the departure of a great spirit. Mr. Wilson seemed to have no premonition of the summons that was so near, and qnietly | fell into his last sleep without either physical agony or apparent consciousness of his con- | dition. Fora man so isolated from tender | domestic ties this was a merciful dispensa- | tion. His faithful wife and only son were | taken from him’ some years since, and he | had no other near kindred. For any man, and especially for a man of Mr. Wilson's | kindly nature, the soothing presence and | affectionate assiduities of loving hearts bound to him by the sweet sanctity of domestic ties must have been a coveted support had he been conscious of his approaching end, and | for one who has outlived these sources of | consolation it is a blessing to go unwarned, On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires, When these are denied there is no place (apart from spiritual reasons) for the ordi- nary prayer against sudden death, The Vice | President, having been for many years an exemplary member of a Christian church, did not need time for a late preparation. Mr. Wilson has been for twenty years a prominent figure in our polities, and if some of his associates in public life have been more brilliant or more able, none has been more honest, sincere and patriotic, and few more useful. It would be inadequate praise to give him credit for mere industry and good intentions. No man of our time has excelled him in that primary requisite alike of a politician and a statesman, a quick and sure perception of what is passing in the public mind, a qualification without which the most resplendent intellectual gifts are impotent in the politics of a free country. Under institutions which make the average public sentiment of the masses controlling and supreme the indispensable requisite of political success is an accurate knowledge of the feelings, wishes and tendencies of the average mind. Mr. Wilson was, perhaps, a better judge of popular sentiment than any public man we have had since Andrew Jackson. No two minds could be more unlike in other respects; but Wilson and Jackson resembled each other in an un- erring and almost intuitive perception of what the people wanted and what they would | bear in any given state of public affairs. This faculty way exist with or without high intellectual cultivation, but it is more likely to be found in men who view things from the same standpoints as the mass of the com- munity, and who see and feel more strongly all that average people see and feel, judging by the same standards, Such men understand the pop- ular mind because they are in complete sym- pathy with it. They know all it knows, but know it more clearly; they share all its best impulses ina higher degree; the abstractions of the scholarly class of minds have as feeble a hold on them as they have on what Mr. Lincoln called the ‘‘plain people; and public affairs, like a scene in nature, present the same aspect to all who look at them from the same point of view, even if the eyes of some are assisted by magnifying glasses. The secret of Mr. Wil- son’s political influence was the fact that he looked at all public questions from | the standpoint of average men, his larger ex- perience and common sense serving as a field glass to enable him to see with greater dis- A Hier ro Mayor Wicknam.—John Ag- new would make an admirable Commissioner of Public Works in place of Fitz John Por- ter, whose term of office is soon to expire. Tue Scarves Triax is now fairly under way, and it is already foreshadowed that the main reliance of the accused will be based, as formerly, on the pleaof insanity produced by grief at the murder of Florence Scannell. Ir Is ANNouncED from Berlin that Prince Bismarck is in tolerably good health ; that | not rendered unsteady, any more than that tinctness the same thing which they dis- cerned more dimly but with equal truth of outline, Mr. Wilson's political vision was of ordinary people, by cross lights from the | learning or acuteness of minds of @ more in- tellectual cast. He saw precisely what the | masses saw, but saw it more clearly, and it | was his peculiar ability to look through their eyes and judge by their standards that made | him the best politician and safest adviser of | | service of his country. the republican party. The late Vice President had cultivation | armies of the Union during our great civil war, Mr. Wilson acted a part as able and useful as it was honorable. The late Vice President’s character as 4 man is even more creditable than his dili- gence as a public servant. He was honest as the day; he lived frugally and died poor. Tn such times as these this is noslight praise. To say that he was as humane as he was hon- est would do him but scant justice; he was more than humane; he was magnanimous. While there was no stancher Union man in Congress while hostilities raged he had the melting tenderness of a woman toward the misguided rebels when it was in his power to serve them without compromising the country. He visited Alexander H. Stephens when a prisoner in Fort Warren, in the har- bor of Boston, did all in his power to render him comfortable and exerted himself to se- eure his release. When General Breckin- ridge lay on his deathbed the Vice President made quite a journey to call on him and speak words of kindness, None of our statesmen of either party was more anxious to heal the wounds of the civil war and restore fraternal feeling. The South recognized and appreciated his good will, and in his tour through that section last winter and spring he was greeted with the every place he visited. He was as true and genuine a friend of the South as Presi- dent Lincoln would have been had he not been cut off in the very crisis when his genial sagacity was most needed in the great work of pacification, The Vice President will be | as sincerely mourned throughout the South as he is in the North, and the great outpour- ing of public sorrow in the North ex- ceeds anything we have witnessed on a similar occasion since the lamented assassination of President Lincoln. This is rather a tribute to his honesty, patriotism, lib- erality of sentiment and megnanimity than to his intellectual gifts, although these were respectable and were entirely devoted to the If we have had some men of greater ability there has been none in our time who was more sincerely devoted to the interests of the country as he under- stood them, and no statesman of his own party survives him who has a more en- lightened conception of what the true in- terests of the country require in this con- juncture. Peace to his honored ashes! The City Expenditures. The Board of Aldermen will meet to-day to consider the provisional estimate for the expenses of the city government for next year, as fixed by the Board of Apportion- ment. The gross amount of the expendi- tures is larger than that of the current year, and the rate of taxation for 1876, unless some reduction be made, will be over three per cent. The law which empowers the Board of Aldermen to review the several ap- propriations and suggest alterations is of but little value, as the Board of Apportionment is authorized to override such suggestions and to make a final estimate, upon which the tax levy for the year is based. Neverthe- less, the reform Aldermen may accom- plish some good by pointing out the extravagances of the provisional estimate and by forcing their associates or the members of the Board of Apportionment to place them- selves on record either for or against an economical administration of the city gov- ernment. It is notorious that many of the municipal departments are at present run as political asylums and not as business offices. The object is not to see how economically the de- partments can be managed, but how much money can be squeezed out of the city treas- ury to expend on the departments. In the present depressed condition of real estate it is absolutely necessary that this extravagance should cease. The extent of the city debt is not of so much immediate importance to the taxpayers as the exorbitant tax levy to which they are subjected for our annual expenses. Nearly forty million dol- lars a year is swallowed up in these monster budgets without liquidating more than an insignificant fraction of our indebtedness and without yielding any equivalent for the money. In homely phrase, we spend this enormous amount every year and have noth- ing to show for it. If the city government were managed as a citizen would manage his private business we should be living at not much more than one-half this expense. There are too many departments in the city government, too many bureaus in the departments, and too many high-salaried Commissioners and other officers living with- out labor on the public treasury, The ma- chinery of the city government should be simplified. There is no reason why there should be four Commissioners of Police, four of Parks, and three each of Fire, Docks, Taxes and Assessments, and Charities and Correction. The Department of Taxes and Assessments should be swept away and its business done by the Finance Department. ‘There are eight bureaus under the Finance Department when there ought to be but five at the outside. The collection of city revenue, of taxes, of assessments, of arrears, and the business of the present Department of Taxes and Assessment, could all be done by a single bureau with one-half | the force at present employed in the separate he attended the Parliamentary session yes- | enongh to make him a clear, ready spes aker, | | departments and bureaus. The Health De- terday, and that it was his intention to make speech. Any words that may fall from Bis- marck’'s lips will be anxiously looked for | and carefully weighed all over the civilized world, and none of the pedantry which introduces | irrelevant matter for mere display or soars over the heads of an audience. The highest | culture, indeed, avoids these faults even more sedulously, just as the most perfect simplicity of manners is found in the high- Tue Mark Layxe Reronr of breadstuffs in Exrope and of the prospect of the market is | decidedly favorable in tone to American pro- duce. It seems certain that the sowing has | been bad both in England and France, and although quotations are generally lower at present there is every reason to expect better prices and an increased demand for forcign supplies. ‘Tar CABLE ANNoUNcES that, in addition to | the long note from the Vatican to Spain, pub- , lished over @ Week ago, a secret note has the contents of which have not yet been | man in public life who would have dis- | payers, and it is to be hoped that he will use equal diligence | his power in the Board of Apportionment to It was in that position | secure such economies as are within his | reach under the present law. made known, Of eourse, in view of this announcement, the atterances of the pub- lished communication become valucless, and oll Christendom will wait anxiously to learn what His Holiness has to say in a quict aside to the Madrid government est society. Mr. Wilson did not avoid sham displays because he had passed through all the stages of intellectual cultivation and had risen above that kind of tawdriness, but be- cause all the information he had acquired was of the useful, practical kind. He was | a better speaker than many public men of | greater pretensions. He was algo an indus. ' | trions, attentive member of the committees pianned and shaped. He was the chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs | been addressed to the Spanish government, | during the war, and there was, probably, no | evinced a disposition to stand by the tax- | charged its duties with and efficiency, | that he made his chief mark as a | practical statesman. As the princi- | pal ally of Secretary Cameron and Secretary Stanton in organizing and providing for the partment should be simplified and the money expended should be made useful to the city under competent management, in- stead of being used as a political asylum fund, The useless burean of the Corporation Attorney, which does not do more work than could be discharged by a single compe tent clerk in the Corporation Coun- sel’s office, should be abolished. Above all, the Public Works and all other depart- ments should be strictly confined to contract work, open to all bidders, for large and small amounts, and the system of day labor should be entirely abolished. With these reforms we could at once reduce our tax levy thirty in which the legislation of Congress is | or forty per cent, and it is to be hoped that the next Legislature will take prompt action in the matter, Tur Lamentep Henny Wiison never did .® bolder thing during his long and useful Comptroller Green has | life than when he laid down the doctrine, even at the risk of displeasing those high in power, that the result of the recent elections demonstrated that in the event of another republican than President Grant running | for the Presidency it would be——good for the republican party, An Opportunity for First Class Ability. The business of carrying coals to New- castle has never been thought to promise great profits; but if our Yankee spirit and ingenuity have not decayed we have now an opportunity, it would seem, to show an in- eredulous world that, as Colonel David Crock- ett used to say, ‘‘some things can be done as well as others.” Some weeks ago a cor- respondent of the Henanp made public the fact that some New England cotton spinners had shipped a quantity of cotton goods to England, where there was a prospect of sell- ing them at remunerative prices. We hear since that several thousand packages have been actually sold in England, and they have gained a market mainly because they are found to be of better quality than Eng- lish goods. ‘It is the quality that tells,” a correspondent writes us, who has seen this new commerce growing; and, he adds, “American cotton goods are fairly established in English markets.” Nor is this all. The superiority of our cotton goods has begun to be appreciated in the South American and African markets, and the London agents of merchants in those countries have received orders of late for our cotton goods, on the ground that where they appear they at once command the market. There is here an opportunity for the re- establishment of our foreign commerce which we trust, enterprising Americans will assiduously cultivate. It is evident that our manufactures need only to be made known to secure a sale. What is required is capital and energy to make them known. The merchants who formerly controlled our foreign trade have for the most part either died or gone into other business. Tho irregular- ity of our currency during and since the war made the risks of foreign trade too great to be endured. There can be no doubt that if we were to-day on a specie basis a large foreign commerce in our manufactured products would rapidly spring up ; but even with the disadvantage ofan irredeemable currency it has become evident that we can command some markets abroad if we have the requisite energy. It is not only cotton goods that we can and do export to Europe. Alabama has sent for two years small quan- tities of iron to England, where it begins to be used for car wheels, in the manufacture of which a change is taking place in Europe, railroad companies beginning to substitute the American fixed axle wheel for that commonly used abroad. For car wheels the soft and tenacious iron of Alabama has important advantages, and the few iron- masters in that State have discovered that they can produce it at a price which will command a market in England. What is needed in this case, too, is energy in the prosecution and extension of this trade. We do not doubt that the Centennial Ex- hibition, next year, will make known to for- eigners a multitude of our products which they will desire, and for which, as soon as we return to a sound currency, we shall be able to secure a large demand abroad. Meantime we point out to our younger merchants that there are opportunities abroad for the exer- cise of their ingenuity and energy which, if they will avail themselves of them, will enable them to revive our foreign commerce, and thus greatly increase the prosperity of the country. Surgical Tragedies. Another case of death on the operating table in a public clinic has followed closely upon the one recently reported from Albany. Fortunately, the use of anwsthetics is too firmly established to be affected by mishaps of this nature, and an accident does not excite now, as it did formerly, an outcry against the use of these agencies for the prevention of human misery. It effectively, however, directs public and professional attention to the fact that an agency capable of suspending for a time certain of the essen- tial functions of life is never to be handled lightly, is never to be employed in that spirit of familiar ease which leaves the mind free of the consideration of the wonderfully delicate machinery whose operation is interrupted. It was once said by a capable surgeon in regard to the opera- tion on the human eye for the cure of catar- act that a man must have ‘‘poked out a hat- full of eyes” before he could do it success- fully. He quaintly recognized that all great ameliorations in our physical condition must have their martyrs. However it may be now with operations of that nature, or may have been formerly with anmsthetics, there is cer- tamly no need that there should have been any more martyrs. All is known of their optration that is necessary to make them saf} in proper hands; and the proper hands arenot so much skilful ones—forit is scarcely a question of skill in their cases—but they must certainly be careful ones. The few ac- cidints that occur now are from some con- travention of known and recognized rules that are not overlooked by careful men. Maty surgeons refuse absolutely to do opentions on the mouth or nose with their patints under anmsthetics, because the blool discharged into the trachea, and not felt ly the subject, may suffocate him before the fact that it goes in that direction is | noti¢d. If not unconscious he would cough | itup This last case was an operation inthe | mouth. Surgeons who do not have these accidints in their practice are indebted for this inmunity in great degree to the fact that hey scrutinize their cases; they know befor( they venture that the brain of the patiert is such as can endure the deep in- toxicajon and recover; that the heart and lungs have the vigor to revive from the par- tial panlysis to which they are to be sub- jected. Ir 1 Purasant To Br Inxrormep, as we are in ar despatches from Washington, that the sypathetic and appreciative editorial which \ppeared in the Henatp on the 11th inst., th morning after his sudden stroke of | illness, vas so valued by the Vice Prosident | that hdcut it out and kept it by him until the fatd termination of his malady. It 1s a melajcholy satisfaction to have been | @ ministr of consolation (9 such a \ TUESDAY, N OVEMBER = 23, 1875. TRIPLE SHEET. in his last days py faithfully reflecting the sentiments cherished toward him by his countrymen and the deep interest felt in his early restoration to health. Alas, that the public wishes and prayers were so vain! But we are glad that he was cheered by a knowl- edge of their existence and of the deep and affectionate solicitude excited in the public heart as soon as the news came that he was in danger, Is It a War Cloud? General Ord’s report on the condition of affairs on the Rio Grande and the recom- mendations by which it is accompanied will probably induce thoughtful people to in- quire whether there is not some probability that the ‘‘war cloud” for which all eyes have been looking in the direction of Cuba may not be actually discovered over the Texan frontier. The outrages committed by the Mexican banditti are of a more aggravated character than is generally supposed. Tho American citizens living on the line of the river have long held their _prop- erty and their lives on an uncer- tain tenure, The raids of the Mexicans into American territory have been regularl y organized and pursued as a business by the bands of Cortina and other leaders, and the plunder secured from Texas has been the almost entire subsistence of a large Mexican population who do the bidding and are de- voted to the fortunes of their chiefs. Mur- ders and robberies have been common occur- rences in the border country, and the history of the outrages has, singularly enough, been suppressed as far as possible by the author- ities at Washington. The Governor of Texas has appealed to the President, but has ap- sae in vain, and the State has declared that if her territory cannot be protected from invasion by the federal troops she will protect herself. The recent adventare of Captain McNally seems to have nearly brought matters to a crisis, and at any mo- ment a conflict may take place of a character calculated to seriously involve the two na- tions. General Ord, by his recommendation of suggestion of reprisals, proves that he appro- ciates the gravity of the situation. ‘Ihe brigand Cortina, although nominally under confinement, is, in fact, an honored guest at the City of Mexico. President Lerdo, who is looking for a re-election, is said to be anxious to gain the friendship of the border robber. The Mexicans profess to desire a war with the United States, and there are plenty of infiuences surrounding Lerdo not unwill- ing to promote such a calamity. Is it improb- able that such a result has suggested itself to the minds of our own rulers? A warwith a foreign Power would ruin the prospects of the Centennial. Would a war with Mexico have any such effect? A war provoked or invited by our own government would startle and offend capital. Would capital blame the President for a war with Mexico, brought on without his action, and certain to result in a profit to the United States? General Ord’s despatch furnishes food for reflection, and will attract attention to the troubled country along the line of the Rio Grande. A Hrt to Mayor Wicksam.—John Ag- new would make an admirable Commissioner of Public Works in place of Fitz John Por- ter, whose term of office is soon to expire. The Cuban Question in Spain. Our Madrid correspondent telegraphs that there is a general belief in political circles in the Spanish capital that there has been an amicable arrangement effected of the dis- puted questions between the Spanish govern- ment and our own in regard to the interpre- tation of certain clauses of the treaty of 1795. He adds that the Washington reply to the latest communication of the Spanish govern- ment is ‘anxiously expected” at Madrid. We have, in addition, the intelligence that Sefior Castelar, at present in Paris, has re- ceived by private telegram an assurance that the Spanish government is tranquil, and that Minister Cushing is assured that peace be- tween the two nations will not be disturbed. The public has received so many and such repeated and positive assurances from Wash- ington in the last few days that there is no danger of troublesome complications with Spain, that all the negotiations about Cuba are proceeding in the most kindly spirit and satisfactory manner, and that there is no occasion for uneasiness or alarm, that we begin to wonder why in the name of common sense there was any alarm or uneasiness at all. Why did the London Times get suddenly excited? Why did its correspondent here send out a danger signal? Why did the Associated Press agent in Washington send out a warn- ing despatch? Why, finally, is the American reply ‘‘anxiously expected” at Madrid ? It is certainly one of the most singular occurrences of the year, this Sidden, wide- spread, general alarm. It is even more re- markable than the sudden subsidence of the alarm here and in England. If the public had not such positive assurances from Wash- ington that everything is lovely a suspicious person would say that there had been serious causes for uneasiness, or, perhaps, these causes had prematurely leaked out to a few persons in Washington, Ir Wovrn Br Wise for republican leaders in considering the forced upon them by the death of Vice | President Wilson to remember the admoni- | party future. Mr, Wilson was one of the | few, if not the only trusted leader of the General Grant's nomination for the third lican party. dictment upon which he has been tried, cated in the whiskey frauds. The work thus reached, ers at Washington, and through whose in- fluence with the President the meaner tools of the fraudulentaing were retained in office pian | or restored after their removal, that there might presently be such, and that | question unhappi ly | tions of that statesman in reference to the | party, who dared to say that in the event of | term the result would be——bad for the repub- | Tux Wuisxey Fravns.—McDonald has | been found guilty on every count in the in- | This seems to promise well for the exposure | and punishment of all who have been impli- , vigorously commenced should be continued | until the very root of the evil has been | It is now more important than | | ever to ascertain who were McDonald's back- | The Vice President's successor. By the death of the Vice President Sen- ator Thomas W. Ferry, of Michigan, who was chosen President pro tempore at the extra session of last March, becomes the actual President of the Senate, and in case of the death of the President of the United States his successor in office. The constitution of the United States, arti- cle two, section one, provides that “Congress may by law provide for the case of the re- moval, death, resignation or inability, both of the President and Vice President, declar- ing what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected.” Congress accordingly enacted the law of March 1, 1792, which provides that in such a case the President of the Senate shall succeed to the Presidency ; and the same law, to provide for a possible neglect of the Senate, déclares that in case there shall be no President of the Senate, then the Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives for the time being shall act as President. The same act of 1792 provides that when both the offices of President and Vice President become vacant the Secretary of State shall notify all the Governors of States of the fact, and shall publish in the newspapers notice of an election for Presi- dent, ‘‘within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December then next en- suing”—an impossibility at this time; or, in such a case as this, ‘‘within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December, in the year next ensuing ;” and the electora are to meet and record their votes on the , first Wednesday in December, after their election. Three Vice Presidents before Mr. Wilson have died in office—George Clinton, who held the office, succeeding Aaron Burr, dur- ing Mr. Jefferson's second term, and the first term of Mr. Madison; Elbridge Gerry, who held it in Mr. Madison’s second term, and William R. King, of Alabama, Vice Presi- dent under Franklin Pierce. Municipal Expenses of the City on Paris. Sixty-one million dollars is the sum called for to defray the public account of the city of Paris for the year 1876, one-third of which is for what are called extraordinary expenditures—that is to say, expenditures not fairly to be regarded as a regular part of the municipal accounts. The estimate for ordinary regular expenses is, therefore, $40,600,000. From this sum is to be paid all the money, interest, sinking funds, é&c., to provide for the public debt of the city, which moneys foot up $19,400,000. Out of the $21,200,000 that this will leave there is assigned to the police department, $4,000,000 ; to public ¢harities, $2,600,000 ; to the assessment and collection of taxes, $2,150,000, and there are left for the multi- tude of minor items—for salaries, &., and the current expenses proper of all departments not named above—$12,450,000. Public in- struction, primary and other schools under the municipal administration, will consume $2,000,000 ; municipal architectural and decorative departments, $1,000,000; the administrative bureaus of the wards, $1,000,000; lighting the streets and promenades, $1,200,000; street cleaning, $4,000,000, and the sewera and water supply, $1,150,000. It will be observed, of course, that the provision for the city debt is the formidable item. Yet in the few years to come this will be larger, for the city has not yet received the last instal- ments of the debt contracted in the present year, and interest on the sums not yet paid in is of course not provided for. But the $19,400,000 is not all interest. On the con- trary a considerable proportion is for a sink- ing fund, as the general law does not permit cities to contract debts without this provision for their payment. Some, however, have been contracted for terms of sixty years. This law is practically ineffective, as the city always contracts one debt before it pays another. A Hint to Mayor Wicknam.—John Ag» new would make an admirable Commissioner of Public’ Works in place of Fitz John Por- ter, whose term of office is soon to expire, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Emperor William now a days talks peaceably. Field Marshal Murat Halstead 1s in St. Louis. Mrs. Livermore in her lecture eulogizes Wdndell Phillips’ devotion as a husband. Mayor Wickham could make his administration exe coedingly popular by nominating John Agnew to be Commissioner of Public Works in place of Fitz Johm Porter, who is about to retire from the department, Hon. A. G. Cattell, of New Jersey, is on his way home from Colorado, where he nas been restoring his health, American postage stamps lose their gum after lying about a tew days, In England last year 61,000 stamps were found loose in the postal boxes. Here is another girl—this time in Indiana—who has four legs. The boys have to be very careful for fear of stepping on her corns and getting kicked. it seems that when a man tries to transact business in a hurry he is arrested as a lunatic. At least this was the experience of a New York gentleman. United States Judge Dillon, of Iowa, who was men= | tioned in this column as a Presidential candidate, gets | to bo Sidney Dillon in some of the Western papers. Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has purchased the late residenco of Mr. Walter 8. Cox in Georgetown, and the | Hon. L. Q ©, Lamar, of Mississippi, will be bis guest during the winter. Mayor Wickham could make his administration ex- | ceedingly popular by nominating John Agnew to be | Commissioner of Public Works in place of Fitz John Porter, who is about to retire from the department. “For me,"’ once said Mr, Disraeli in an attack upon Peel, ‘‘there remains this at least—the opportunity of expressing thas publicly my belief that 4 conservative government is an organized hypocrisy Madness falls heaviest in Paris on the artisans and cooks. Next to them is the trading class, Insanity ts not frequent in men belonging to liberal professions, | and the proportion is lowest among gardeners and deslaborers. rom the very highest point,’ said Mr. Gladstone “where the Queen sits upon her throne of the greatest antiquity and splendor, down to the humblest cottager ‘u the land, every one is near to those about him, all feel themselves united.” A carpenter hanging pictures in the house of the | Governor of Jamaica let a wall nail go through a fine canvas, and the Governor whipped the carpenter. Does Jamaica always employ carpenters for banging pte- tures? A good place for Theodore Tilton. | In Saint Agnes of Savoy bears are numerous; so the | other day four bulls were turned out to pasture. The bears put the bulis to Might, d/a Wall street; but the bulls turned about and put the bears to flight, ala Wall street, The bulls got scored and the boars gos | gored. Mayor Wickham could make his administration ex, | coedingly popular by nominating John Agnew to bt Commissioner of Public Works in place of ¥itz Johw | Porter, who 18 about to refire from the department,