The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1875, Page 6

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Tux Heratp py Fast Man, Traws.—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, the South and Southwest, also along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- nections, will be supplied with Taz Henan, free of pu offers sdealers ly sending their orders direct lo (iis office. Watt Songer Yesreepat.—Stocks were a | trifle stronger. Gold opened and closed at 1147-8, the intermediate sales being at 115 1-4. Government and railway bonds were firm, and the latter active. Money on call 4 end 5 per cent. Taat Sweet Price, ‘Albert “Edward, is at Kandy. a Axronso’s Generats have again formed a terrible plan for the extermination of the Carlists. It is still on paper. Tar Russtays in Central Asia are dealing sternly with the peoples who object to their progress. thrashing, Genmasy Wr Mane Her Marx at the Centennial. The Federal Council has added one hundred thousand marks to the sum for promoting a German display at Philadelphia. | Tux Government Party 1x Feance ex- pects a large majority at the general elec- sions, which means that the government will leave no stone unturned to make such a ma- jority. ‘Tae Gnost or Szpay, it seems, was what frightened the French government from buy- ing the shares in the Suez Canal which Eng- land so readily purchased. Perhaps it was the ghost of Khiva which hurried the Eng- lish into closing the bargain with the Khe- dive. Tear of # war with Germany on one hand, fear of Russian advance in Asia on the other. Ghosts are materialized fears, Honesty ts Porrrrcs.—If it is to be under- stood, in these preliminary campaigns forthe government of the democratic party, that some one democrat elected to Congress is to stand out above and beyond his peers as the especial honest man, and that if he is not elected to the office for which he is presented by his friends it will alienate a half million voters from the organization, the result will, when the time comes to elect a President, prove——bad for Ue democratic party. Extraordinary inducements | The Kiptschaks have received a | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1875. TRIPLE SHEKT. The SpeaRership. ‘The canvass for the Speakership has be- come furious. The gamblers and the strik- ers and the adventurers are all swarming to Washington. Each candidate has his friends and each hour brings with ita new flock of rumors, We do not pretend to say how it willend. Mr. Randall's strength makes him lead the campaign, but it is just possible that it may be weakened by the officiousness of his “friends.” He represents the back- bone of the democratic party. If he is sup- ported judiciously upon his merits as aman, his conceded efficiency as Speaker, and the skill he showed in leading the democratic mi- nority of the House against the Force bill last session, he will be elected. Mr. Kerr ‘came into the canvass with the positive strength that always attaches to a man of convictions. But his campaign is injured by one or two influences. We have the indiscreet zeal of his “friends” also, who vaunt him as the only honest democrat in Congress, a vaunt strengthened by the World in its extraordinary assertion that if he is elected he “would add five hundred thou- sand votes to the democratic ballot boxes of next November,” Mr. Kerr is also injured by the fact that his nomination is pressed by the “friends” of Governor Tilden, These gentlemen believe that a Western Speaker is necessary to elect Governor Tilden to the Presidency. To make that election sure the Speakership should go to the West. In other words, the claims of all the democrats of the East, of men like Cox and Walker and Hewitt and Wood and Randall and others, to the recognition which would naturally be given them by an unprejudiced party, are to be thrown aside to strengthen the possible chances of a probable candidate for the Presidency. This course is marked with so much selfishness on the part of the “friends” of Governor Tilden that it naturally excites resentment. The democrats of the East, and of New York especially, say, and say truly, that while they are willing to consider the claims of Governor Tilden to the Presidential office when the time comes to nominate a candidate, they do not think them so absorbing and paramount as to justify the overthrow of every ambi- tion and every well-earned promotion which belongs to other democrats, especially those representing these Eastern States. There- fore, so far as Mr. Kerr’s nomination is the re- sult of the ambition of Tilden and the resolu- tion of the Governor's ‘‘friends” to destroy every leading democrat whose promotion may in any possible event interfere with him, it has injured Mr. Kerr. Democrats, es- pecially Congressmen, after all are human, very human. ‘They have their hopes and their aims; they do not care to be marched up to the block and have their heads taken off one by one in a democratic caucus either in Washington or elsewhere to strengthen the doubtful candidacy of a democratic leader. It is this fact that has done more to throw the rank and file of the democratic party in Congress with Mr. Randall than anything else. Then we have had the argument dili- gently forced upon the country that the election of Mr. Kerr will be a tributetoa man of unusual honesty. The country says if the democratic party in its “tidal wave” triumph was not powerfal enough to elect men who would be free from jobs and corruption, men without a sin- gle exception honest and worthy, and if in this, the first caucus of the democratic ma- jority, it is to be assumed that honesty is so Tare a quality that its one conspicuous rep- resentative must be made Speaker, then that party will not retain the confidence of the country. Other members will resent the imputation thus thrown upon them by the arguments of the ‘‘friends” of Mr. Kerr. This especially when they see this imputation strengthened by the declaration of the World that Mr. Kerr ‘is one of the men whose elec- tion by the House for its Speaker would add five hundred thousand votes to the demo- eratic ballot boxes of next November.” If the House of Representatives, by the election of Mr. Kerr as Speaker, indorses the state- ment of the World, it puts the stigma of sus- picion and incapacity upon every can- didate who has been named for the Speakership with the exception of Mr. Kerr. It throws upon the coming House the imputation of havingfin its coun- | cils, not merely private members, but con- | spicnous members, who could not be elected | to the Speakership of the House without driving from the party flag a half million of votes. If we understand the human nature | of members of Congress they will not be willing to indorse by their vote any such declaration. Beyond and above this we have the baneful influence of Tammany Hall. Now we are told by the wise men of the democratic party that Tammany Hall has nothing to do with | the Speakership. Well, let us see about | that! Tammany Hall has been striving to control the nominations for the Presidency | and the legislation of the country since the time of Aaron Burr. Tammany Hall as- sisted Aaron Burr in his conspiracy to throw out Jefferson from the Presidency by an | intrigue. If he had succeeded in that almost | successful scheme we should have had the | | most desperate, audacious scoundrel in | American history at the head of our gov- | ernment. This, too, in our early days, | when a bad or an ambitious President might | have destroyed republican institutions in | their budding. We might show, if space permitted, or if the matter were not too clear for demonstration, that there has not been a convention of the democratic party for a generation or two in which Tammany Hall | leaders did not attempt to control the conn- try. We saw this during the reign of the | last Ring, when Tweed and Sweeny and | | Connolly and their followers opened the campaign for this purpose. They had their candidate for Governor, their candidate for | the Presidency and their agents all over the | | country. The money stolen from the treas- | ury of New York was spent largely in mak- | ing public opinion and hiring democratio pens to pave thé way for the advent of | Tweed snd Sweeny to power. Nay, they | went so far in their arrogance as to demand | that Mr. Belmont and Mr. Tilden should re- | Washington. It isa part of this campaign that Mr. Kerr should be Speaker. Link by link we trace this whole canvass for the Speakership from the nomination of Mr. Kerr in the West, until we find its source in the secret, dark lantern, Know Nothing councils of the Tammany lodge on Four- teenth street. We may try to cloud the truth in these discussions, but the truth is clear. The people of New York saw it in the last elec- tion. Then they were told by our demo- cratic friends, and by none of them with so much ability and eloquence and knowledge of the facts as the World, that Tammany Hall was above reproach ; that these impu- tations upon its secrecy and its ambition were partisan slanders, and that the people would only be too happy to vindicate the efforts of its leader, John Kelly, to “purify” New York. Well, the people answered the World by defeating Tammany by a large majority, even though Tammany was strengthened by the support of Governor Tilden and by the universal desire among men without distinction of party to help the Governor in his campaign for reform, We may say that'if this canvass for the Speaker- ship in Washington takes the same shape, if Governor Tilden and his “friends” force Mr. Kerr upon the country as a part of the Tammany programme for the Presidency, the country, when t comes to speak on that question, will speak with the emphasis shown by New York. This country is coming to the conclusion, irrevocably, that the existence of secret so- cieties controlling our politics is incompati- ble with liberty. No matter how much democrats and republicans may desire to honor men of personal character ; no matter how much they may respect men as worthy of respect as Mr. Tilden and Mr. Kerr and Mr. Kelly and others, they will do noth- ing to perpetuate this principle. If these gentlemen are mad enough to believe that they can gain power in the country by con- tinuing the political dynasty which began with the treason of Burr, and which bore fruit in the rapacity and robbery of Tweed, they have read the public heart of America in vain. Tammany Hall must die sooner or later. Ifthe men in its organization like Tilden and the rest could only see this they would cut aloof from the association and contribute to its destruction. It be- longs tothe past. It is an excresence, a sore, a political cancer. It has no place in any republic which respects democracy. It is because the canvass for the Speakership in behalf of Mr. Kerr is only a part of the Tammany programme to maintain power that we oppose that canvass. Unless the democrats in Washington are brave and dis- creet enough to arrest Tammany in this new movement to gain control of the coun- try they will burden the canvass for the Presidency as heavily as they burdened the last campaign when they matched Greeley against Grant, and compelled him to carry the odium and shame of the Tammany Ring. The Savings Banks and the Courts. Fortunately the run on the savings banks, * which followed so naturally the several failures, seems to have exhausted itself with- out having unnecessarily carried down any more of these institutions. There is an in- structed opinion abroad to the effect that these establishments are all at bottom in such a condition that there would be ulti- mately less loss to the public if the greater number of them should go down now than there would be if they should linger on and fail at a later day with ampler deposits, However this may be, we regard it as for the moment a public advantage that the storm has passed over. This will be a hard winter with the poor of the city ; and its miseries would be greatly increased if the many poor persons who believe they have a little pro- vision made in the banks should find that source fail them in the bitter emergencies of cold and hunger. It is to be hoped that with regard to the banks that have actually gone all is not lost. With the case fairly in the hands of the courts we ought to be able to feel some security in this respect ; but it is to be apprehended that the courts do not take in cases of this sort pre- cisely the same view that the public would take. Courts should be regarded in such matters as the adversaries of all persons related, however remotely, to the swindles and as:the defenders of the victims. It does not seem to be proper that they should have any inspiration from Albany, for next to the savings banks the Banking Department itself will need to be investigated. Through delinquency, or forsome other reason, that department failed to perform its duty under the law in regard to them, and is, therefore, not free of the charge of lending its coun- tenance, if not its assistance, to their practices against the public. If the courts act in the case of these banks on advice from the de- partment, investigation, in regard to its rela- tions with them will prove ineffectual, and the remedy of the public against organized swindling will not be satisfactory. Tue Insurrection Acarmst Turkey does not dwindle. Two Turkish battalions are said to have been starved into surrender at Goransko. The Porte has protested against the Montenegrins taking part in the rebel- lion, and the great Powers, it is said, sup- port the protest. But as the Moslem-hating Montenegrins who are helping the insur- gents have probably crossed the border Montenegro may have much difficulty in make ing other reply than an application of that well-known opening of the recipe for jugged hare, ‘First catch your Montenegrin.” ‘Tax Cause or Cupa turned up yesterday in the Chamber of Commerce, where a commit- tee of five was appointed to consider the effect which a continuance of the bloody struggle in the Gem of the Antilles would have upon American commerce, This mat- tet-of-fact way of looking at asubject hitherto regarded by Americans from a sentimental standpoint is significant. The price of mo- lasses may move men to frenzy in behalf of the patriots, whom the slaughter of a bateb of human beings would not rnffein the slightest. Evidently the insurgent torch is not an ignis fates. The Suez Canal. We now learn, by a special despatch, that France, in refusing the shares first proffered her by the Egyptian government, was actu- ated by the fear that a‘purchase might bring victorious Germany once more in arms to her doors. This, if authentic, seems a far- fetched excuse for a blunder which gave England a splendid opportunity—one which she improved. Without entering here into the political aspect of the purchase, we may examine, for the benefit of the mercantile com- munity, thearticle which has changed hands. The exact number of shares owned by the Khedive was 176,602. The whole number of shares in the company is 400,000, of the par value of 500 francs, or $100, each, In pur- chasing the Khedive’s' shares for £4,000,000, accordingly, the British government is pay- inganadvance of about ten per cent upon the par value, if the figures are correctly stated. The latest French papers show that the shares are quoted on the Paris Bourse ata considerable premium above the par value of 500 francs, sales having been made within the month of November as high as 718.50, a premium of nearly forty-four per cent. The actual revenue received by the shareholders last year was twelve and a half francs per share, or at the rate of two and a half per cent, The shares of the Khedive, however, as compared with the others, draw no divi- dends until January 1, 1895. This is the result of a contract between himself and the canal company, made in April, 1869, whereby he bought back from the company some of. its properties for the sum of 30,000,000 francs. It was first agreed that the payment of this sum should be made by detaching from his shares so many of the semi-annual coupons payable in future years as should be necessary to make the equivalent thereof, discounted at ten per cent. It was afterward agreed that the equivalent should be computed as fifty of such semi-annual coupons on each share, covering the period of twenty-five years from January 1, 1870, to July 30, 1894, both inclu- sive. Ten per cent is a high rate of interest toenter into sucha calculation, and it is easy to see that a low rate of profit must have been assumed as the probable revenue of the shares in order to result inso longa term as twenty-five years. The canal com- pany made these coupons available as cash by making them the basis of a special loan by the issue of what were called ‘‘delegations” to the number of 120,000. These were issned at the rate-of 270 francs each, pro- ducing 32,400,000 francs, a sum somewhat in excess of the amount which the coupons were taken to represent in the transaction with the Khedive. The profits on the shares were pledged to pay—first, interest on the delegations to the amount of twenty-five francs on each ; second, their reimbursement | at the rate of five hundred francs ; and, third, a complementary division of the surplus profits earned by the shares over and above the payment of interest and reimbursement. The delegations were eagerly taken up by the shareholders and were almost immedi- ately quoted at a premium. The revenue derived from them last year, like that on the shares of the company, was at the rate of two and one-half per cent—that is, twelve and one-half francs on each delegation—and they are quoted on the Bourse at a handsome premium. Nineteen years of the term during which the Khedive's shares draw no profit remain unexpired. If we adopt the mode of calcu- lating the value of the profits attaching to shares that was employed in the arrange- ments between him and the company in 1869 it results that the value of the British purchase is impaired on this account by about the sum of £1,000,000. One re- port says that the Khedive proposes to allow interest on the purchase money for nineteen years. This, of course, would make good the deficiency in every respect. But even if he should not do so it is clear that the British government would get their shares at no higher pride than the market quotation, if it be computed that 19,000,000 francs should be deducted on account of the loss of profits for nineteen years from 88,301,000, the value of 176,602 shares at par. This leaves 69,300,000 francs as the value of the property for which the British govern- ment pay 100,000,000 francs, or @ pre- mium of forty-four per cent, the premium at which the ordinary shares are quoted in the market. The whole capital of the Canal Company is 200,000,000 francs, ,Jt has an outstanding loan of half that amount—namely, 100,000,000 francs—and no other liabilities save the dele- gations, for the extinction of which special provision is made as already described. The actual mechanical cost of the construction of the canal amounted to almost precisely the aggregate of the capital and loan—that is, 300,000,000 francs—which must be con- sidered as fairly representing the value of the works. Other expenses to a large amount were incurred during the course of construc- tion, but these were covered by the indem- nities received by the company from the Khedive. The compan also owns consider- able quantities of land, the sale of which from time to time has been expected to yield an income in addition to the canal tolls. ‘The British purchase, therefore, may be jus- tified by commercial reasons. ‘Tax Cass or Mancaner Tvonsy, who met a horrible death from the flames of burning kerosene, is strangely complicated by the dif- ferent stories told by the two actors in the tragedy. If the first story told by the woman is near the truth Patrick Tuohey deserves a long rope and a short shrift. Her second story would acquit him altogether. Hisown version differs from both of the victim’s nar- ratives. In addition to all this both were | somewbat the worse for liqnor. It is a hor- rible affair throughont. | Commussionern Ponren gives additional rea- sons why the laborers on the Public Works | should not have two dollars a day, He asks | the Board of Aldermen to “put themselves | in his place,” and then say whether the city | should pay more than . the laborers are willing to take from private contractors. If he brought his argument, based upon the tire from the Democratic National Corn- | ‘Tue Isvxpation 1x Bnooxtyy yesterday | great depression in the labor market, home mittee to give place to Tweed. The same | morning, from the bursting of a large water | to himself, we believe that a great many | | main, did not rival in its disastrous effects Commissioners of Public Works could be | influence exists to-day. Governor Tilden’s candidacy for the Presidency takes root in ‘Tommany Hall. and it naturally extends to | that in the valley of the Garoune, but it was not bad for Brooklyn. found in New Jersey who would take half his salary and do all the work. Let Us Have Light. Our esteemed and scholarly contemporary, the World, throws light upon the canvass for the Speakership. We agree with the World that “it is the business of the democrats of the House to elect a Speaker.” Recognizing that journal as the organ of the party, we are glad to sit at the feet of its editor and learn democratic wisdom. Any criticisms that we may venture to make upon a matter 50 sacred in the eyes of the World as a demo- cratic caucus are inspired wholly by a desire to obtain light and knowledge. If the demo- crats elect Mr. Kerr Speaker that is their business, as the World emphatically puts it, and none of ours. At the same time, if we were a democrat, we should ask, Is it the best way toward Kerr's success to aver that “he is one of the men whose eleotion by the House for its Speaker would add five hun- dred thousand votes to the democratic ballot boxes next November?” Of course we accept this statement from the World with implicit faith, because the World knows, But it awakens uneasy thoughts as to the character of the other democratic members. We believed, because we believe in the World, that the democratic party, in its “tidal wave” triumph, elected none but honest men, free from “rings” and jobs and corrupt associations, any one of whom would be fit for the Speakership, so far as integrity is concerned. Did not the World exhort us to this effect? Yet here is the disheartening confession that there are democratic members of Congress whose elec- tion to the Speakership would drive away from the polls a half million of democratic voters. Now, what are we to think? Ifthe World desires it to be understood that Mr. Kerr is to be chosen Speaker upon the ground that he is the only honest democrat, in Congress and that his election would satisfy this half million democrats, who would run away from Mr. Wood, Mr. Cox and Mr. Randall, then the canvass is plain. But what can the country think of a House of Representatives the majority of whose members are put under a serious imputation by their leading organ? The World iNuminates its interesting dis- cussion of this question by another point, which should not be overlooked in our effort to do justice to its opinions. It denounced the Advocate General, Judge Holt, the other day, because he was ‘among the ‘political renegades of 1861.” By this the World means that Judge ‘Holt was one of the democrats who left the democratic party of Buchanan to sustain the republican party of Lincoln. Are we to understand that the same cam- paign which gives us Mr. Kerr as the only honest democrat in Congress, which presents Mr. Tilden to the country as the only honest democratic Governor in the States, is also to denounce as ‘‘political renegades” the dem- ocrats who, in 1861, followed John A. Dix, Edwin M. Stanton, John A. Logan, Mont- gomery Blair, Stephen A. Douglas and George B. McClellan in the advocacy of the Union and the support of the war? We hesitate to express an opinion upon a matter so grave as this, but it seems to us that the generally temperate and magisterial World allows its fervor to warp its judgment. If the democratic party proposes to carry this country upon these issues—first, that none but Bourbons shall come to power when power is to be given; that Mr. Kerr ig the only honest democrat inCongress; that Gov- ernor Tilden is the only honest Governor in the States, and that the democrats who pre- ferred the Union cause under Lincoln to the weak and treacherous administration ef Buchanan are “political renegades”—then the republican party in the next campaign for the Presidency will elect its candidate by as large a majority as that by which Mr. Grant defeated Mr. Greeley. Rarm Transtt.—The order given yester- day by the Supreme Court, General Term, appointing Messrs. Oliver H. Palmer, John T. Agnew and E. Z. Lawrence, Commission- ers, mainly to determine whether Third ave- nue is a proper route for an elevated rail- road, is another step forward in rapid transit. We may expect tremendous efforts on the part of the horse car company to procure a negative reply to the question, but as the line will be for the benefit of the entire city, and not to suit the exigencies of a close cor- poration, we have little doubt that the esti- mable citizens appointed to decide this ques- tion will do so fairly and honestly. The people demand the Third avenue for rapid transit. It is the best as the most obvious line for such travel, and we hope the Com- missioners will waste no more time than the law compels in arriving at the only proper result. Dissorve THe Tammany Dark Lawrern So- crety!—We print elsewhere an interesting article from the Hvening Post, in which ex- Attorney General Barlow, Judge Fancher and other prominent jurists express their opinions as to how the Tammany charter may be dissolved. They think it lies in an action at law, and that the Legislature has no power in the matter. They all agree that its dissolution is obtainable. Let it be ob- tained. The charter was framed solely to extend relief to “proper objects of charity.” It would make a funny procession about the City Hall, if John Kelly called the Tweeds, Connollys, Sweenys, Ingersolls, Keysers and Garveys, with all their following, to testify | that they were “objects” within the meaning of the charter. It would be the best defence the burly, masquerading Grand Sachem could make. Donan aND THE Tunes Neoro Munpenens | had their last judicial chance of escape from the gallows swept away yesterday, when, at the sitting of the General Term, the judg- ments of the Court below were in each case | affirmed. Scannell, on his way to the insane | asylum, whence, by some legal nicety, he | will doubtless be speedily liberated, can call | himself thrice fortunate, but even-handed justice may regret that he is not. of the com- | pany of five who stand in the fearful shadow | of the fatal tree. i} chet natihiahra omit | Tue Water Surrty.—We give to-day an | account of some observations from one of | our reporters made in the district of country | from which the Croton water is drawn, It must necessarily be of great interest to the public. At the danger of disgusting the people with this necessary clement of all its cookery and even all its potations, we pre- sent the facts as we find them, for itis only through impulses excited by the public dis- gust and horror and indignation that we shall ever get a remedy for these evils. It is said that for the moment the frost protects us from the evil of malarious influences. ‘This is only true with regard to direct ema nations from the earth. The water holds in solution the miasma taken up through the summer and sutumn, and the heat of the system gives it its effect. Tue Late Senator Harnzis,—In the death of Ira Harris, which took place at Albany yesterday, New York loses one of its most re- spected citizens. Senator Harris came from one of the families which went with Roger Williams into exile. For nearly fitty years he had been # member of the Albany Bar. » During that time he held various offices— first asa member of the State Legislature, afterward a delegate to the Convention for revising the constitution of the State, subse- quently as a momber of our State Senate. In 1847 he was chosen to be Judge of the Supreme Court. In 1861, at the outbreak of the war, he was elected a Senator at the close of a contest memorable in our New York pol- ities between William M. Evarts and Horace Greeley. Mr. Greeley was opposed by the friends of Mr. Seward on account of his action in defeating that gentleman at the Convention which nominated Mr. Lincoln. The election of Mr. Harris was a compromise between the two factions—Evarts, the Sew- ard candidate, and Greeley, the anti-Seward nominee. Judge Harris was a respectable Senator, took an active part in debates, and was always conservative, moderate and trust worthy. ‘Tue Sunyysipn Oaramiry.—lInvestigation must show in the case of the Sunnyside either one of those ghastly crimes by which a ship's bottom is prepared for destruction with e view to the insurance, or that the boat was utterly unseaworthy, and that it was scarcely less than murder to put passengers upon her for any voyage whatever. She was cut down by floating ice which was moving with her in the current, forshe was coming down stream. How great was the impetus of that ice? How great the resistance opposed to it? Is if conceivable that new ice, three or four inches thick, moving down stream, could cut inte the side of a good boat so that she could gg down almost immediately? Then she broke in two as soon as she got wet, as if she wera a French roll, because she had been cut in two and lengthened. Have we really no legal Nemesis for the people who carry pas- sengers on such boats ? Generat Frrz Jonn Porter has taken the button off his foil in his combat with out good Comptroller and stabs savagely at that trusty official. Here, indeed, will be wit nessed fence worthy of the Hippodrome. Our upright Comptroller is not the man to be “pinked” without making the point of his smallsword whisk in agitating proximity to his foeman’s vitals. If the fight waxes warm and bad blood is shed, so much the worse for the man who bleeds. If our jovial Mayor was only on the ground, armed with a fire trumpet and acting as bottle-holder, the public would be additionally delighted. The trouble is all about street openings, 4 A New Mararm Nonszzy.—It is now pro- posed to dump the city’s garbage on the “sunken meadows” southeast of Randall's Island, on the East River. If the citizens desire to make a few acres of land at the ex- pense of an epidemic they will allow this little plan, which has been approved by the Police Board, to go into effect. It is am emanation worthy of the champion pest breeder of Harlem flats. Poo Sxnniva.—We are glad to learn that the Grand Jury proposes to take action on this question of pool selling. It is a bad business. We do not like to see it at Wash- ingten. It is nothing more than an effort on the pert of the gamblers in politics to ‘bull the mazket” for their own favorites. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Sadik Pacla, the new Turkssh Minister to France, Is expected to rive in Paris on December 3. The earlies\art students made arrow heads. Some of the latest a students make chuckleheads. Charles Read says that the children of England ro- quire a longer tme to learn to read than the echildrem of other countrns do, Prince Von Reiss, German Ambassador to Russia, has threatened toresign. Baron Schwelnetz, now at Vienna, will probasty succeed him. Royal cordiality tvis:—Victor Emmanuel to Emperor William—“Yes, yes; we are and always shall be good friends.” To this tht Emperor replied, ‘Yes, wo shall always be—always, alrays, always,” Boy. Giendenning prached his first sermon betore his Henry (IIL) congregwion last Sabbath, His prayers raised a great deal of fervent feeling in the congroga- tion, While the tears wee flowing, Mary Pomeroy lay cold in her grave over in Jersey City, Herr Detbriick, n delivering the recent “Specch from the Throne,” laid great stress um the necessity of plac- ing the telegraph and postal servce under one depart- ment. The German Parliament wi be asked for the necessary funds to complete this arrangement without delay. Prince de Hohenlohe, German Ambassador at Paris, during a visit which ho paid to one of his-olleagues of the diplomatic body, satd:—“I am glad toand public opinion in France much calmed down and more reas- sured. I sball certainly not bo the person hy my words or my attitude, to cause any disqaietude’ Women are beginning to obtain now privilges im Minnesota, At the late eleetion @ large majority was given (or a constitutional amendment, providing that | any woman of twenty-one years of age and oldermay vote at any election for officers of schools, or onany measures relating to schools, or may be eligile to iny office pertaining to the management of schools, Every once in a while some man having his con science wakened, sends afew dollars to the War or In- terior Department, saying he would like to have thy returned to their rightful owner, the government, ‘Then Belknap smiles sweetly over the Cabinet table at Chandler and remarks, ‘Brother, what prayer meeting will you attend to-night?” ‘The journals} of Milan announce the death of the celebrated Marietta Brambilla, one of the most charm. ing contraltos that ever appeared on the stage. She was called the great Brambilla to distinguish her from hor sisters, nieces and cousins, all distinguished vocal- tats, The deceased sung for several seasons in Paris between 1940 and 1850. ‘The fact that Henry Wilson's brain weighed more than the average giveprise to the renewed statement that weight of brain determines a person's ability, A London cartman had the heaviest brain ever weighed. Quality, not quantity, gives greatness, A cow has a bigger brain than a mosquito, but she couldn't keep man awake half the night trying to hit her all over, St. Lowis Globe-Democrat:—Is \t not about time for ex-Senator Schurz to inform an anxious public as to whother his residence at present is in St. Louis or New York? It is not a matter of agonizing consequence but the ex-Senator owes it to his reputation for frank ness to give somo answer tothe ugly rumors which a, cuse him of lying in walt for Conkling’s chair when it shall become vacant,