The New York Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1875, Page 6

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L Tae Deprcation or tux Boston CaTHEDRAL yesterday, described in our special de- spatches, was an event of the highest im- | portance to the Catholic Church in America. | NEW |The President, the Repu' and the School @ The Message of the President is so admira- ble in its most important features that we criticise it with regret. It disappoints the fears and in some respects the expectations it is conservative and temperate and at the same time consonant, in harmony with the | dignity of a great nation, On the Mexican question the President shows due respect for the intentions and embarrassments of a neighboring Republic. On the financial | tional credit, On minor points, such as the | Post Office, naturalization and the Interna- tional Exhibition, he speaks with propriety | and force, We question if this Message will | not be regarded as the ablest that has been | written by the President, and among the | best that we have ever had from any Chief | Magistrate, | When we consider the temptations which | surrounded the President in dealing with ; Cuba and Mexico—to use the army and navy | and the discipline of a powerful: political | party to force the country into a controversy that would make a third term necessary—we must do the President the justice to say that | he has shown a spirit of self-denial and courage. We like General Grant so much and have so profound a respect for his mili- tary career and his personal honesty that we would much rather praise than censure him, Whatever opinion the critics of this genera- tion may express of him, in good report or evil report, he must forall time be among the illustrious figures of ourhistory. The Presi- dent is not merely the head of Executive | power, but the type and symbol of military greatness, He is one of the men who will be | to our children what Marlborough and Wel- lington are to England, what Turenne and Napoleon are to France. The serious blunder in this Message is the recommendations on the school and church questions. General Grant proposes that the States should be required to afford “an op- portunity for good common school education to every child within their limits.” He sug- | gests that no sectarian tenets ‘shall ever be tanght in any school supported in whole or in part by the State or nation, or by the pro- ceeds of any tax levied upon any commu- nity.” This education should be made com- pulsory so far as to disfranchise illiterate persons after the year 1890, He believes that | all church property should bear its propor- tion of taxation. He thinks the centennial year the time when these measures could properly be put into force. We note as a striking coincidence that Mr. Blaine, in a letter which we publish elsewhere, written jon the 20th of October, took prominent ground in the same direction. Mr. Blaine’s points are worthy of careful consideration, especially when compared with those of the President, as throwing light upon this at- | tempt to bring the question of religion and | education into republican politics. Mr. Blaine argues that a majority of the people can, as the constitution now stands, ‘if they desire it, have an established church, under which the minority may be taxed for the erection of ‘church edifices which they never enter and the support of which they do not believe in.” He shows that this power, which really exists, has been exercised ; that the auspicious time to guard against am evil is when all will unite in preventing it: He proposes to cure this ‘‘constitutional de- fect,” and with it ‘‘all possibility of hurtful agitation on the school question,” by adding the “old Jefferson and Madison amend- ment” to the constitution, as follows :— No Stute shail make any law respecting an establish- ment of religion or prohibiting the {ree exercise thereof, and no money raised by taxation in any State for the support ot the pablic schools, or derived from any pubiic tund theretor, shall ever beunder the con. trol of any religious sect, nor shall any money so raised ever be divided between religious sects or de nominations, This amendment is virtually what General Grant recommends in his Message. The difference between the two is that Mr. Blaine speaks as the leader of a party, anxious to make party capital, while President Grant speaks as thé head of the nation, responsible to the constitution for his recommendations to Congress. President Grant's blunder, like that of Mr. Blaine, is in giving life to an issue that did not exist. The President's Message shows that he is under the Method- ist influence. He is known to be an ostenta- tious, if not an altogether orthodox, member of the Methodist Church. Since he has been in the White House we have observed a tendency to surround himself with Methodist clergymen, to be much under the guidance of Methodist bishops, to appoint the favor- ites of Methodist prelates to important places and to send Methodist priests wan- dering around the world at government ex- pense when they needed a rest from their spiritual labors. Now, President Grant has Tween is still ‘the biggest thing out,” to use the language of a befogyed detective who was lost yesterday in wonder at the escape of the great thief. The preparations to confuse the detectives were evidently as elaborate on the part of Tweed’s friends as those to get the “‘old man” safe out of sight. Tax Law m tue Case of corporations which renders their charters liable to forfeit- ure is laid before the community in another part of the Heraup. A clear case is made out against Tammany, which, as a hotbed of conspiracy against the public welfare, de- serves the utmost rigor of the law. Tue Loss or Lire in the great colliery ex- plosion at Barnsley, England, will amount to one hundred and forty. Blasting in coal wines must always be dangerous to life, and endeavoring to perfect the safety lamp while large blasts are fired seems like saving life at the spigot and wasting it at the bung. Srary's Latest diplomatic communication to our government is said to be conciliatory, put evasive of the main point at issue—the pacification of Cuba, It is argued cogently that the President's reasoning in his Message | leaves his hands untied for graver action than Tue Souz Canan Purcuase by the English government is steadily assuming the aspect of a first move toward the dismemberment of Turkey. If the three Emperors beliove that ‘England is thus helping herself in advance too much common sense, we should hope, and is too much of a soldier and practical | man to fall under the influence of any | quality of priest, be it Methodist or not. | The danger of his position may be under- | stood if we suppose him as much in the com- | pany of Jesuits or Franciscans as of Metho- dists. How this country would resound | from the forests of Maine to the shores of | Lower California with invectives upon ‘the proselyting spirit of Rome” and “the dark influence of the Jesuits” and ‘the attempt to | revive the horrors of the Inquisition” and the persecuting fires of Savoy! With what fervor, with what vehemence, with what de- nunciatory rhetoric, with what direct ap- plication of the terrible imprecations of Holy Writ would the clergymen of the Protestant Church denounce the Presi- | dent who was influenced by the priests of the Church of Rome as President Grant is now by the priests of the Methodist faith! To show to what an extent this courting a | tician may reach, read the extraordinary speech of Bishop Haven, the Methodist prel- ate who, in Boston, the other day, proposed that Grant should be nominated for a thixl term. | we may use the word without personal | offence in speaking of a clergyman of a re- | spectable Church, consists not alone in the bringing of religion into the unhallowed waters of politics, but in the evil that it will | necessarily inflict upon the Church itself. There is no maxim of free government of the conynunity. On the Cuban question | | question he sustains his record on the na- | religious influence by a President and poli- | The indecency of this exhibition, if | tution to lay it down as a law, if our Presidents, who support and defend the constitution, break it in practice. Presi- ; dent Grant has done more than any other President to transcend this salutary law by surrounding himself by a Methodist court and showing that his administration never | fails to respond to the influence of Methodist priests. To this influence we trace this wanton throwing of this “school” firebrand into our politics. We repeat that this is not only a danger to our goveynment, but to the Church itself, We hold Methodism in high honor. It has done much toward the gqivilization of this New World. It has brought into reli- freedom, anda resolute driving on and on toward religious aims that we see in no other Protestant faith. No greater calamity could befall this Church, its honored prelates and its devoted members, than for its priests to attempt to control the administration of the country. When one sect, no matter whether Protestant or Catholic, aims for political power, the tendency isto unite all other sects against it and to bring scandal and reproach upon it, and in the end to do harm to the true spirit of religion. Therefore, President Grant in his Message has made a double error—first, as the head of the country call- ing into being a question sure to excite the animosities of sects; second, in throwing upon his Church, if he respects and loves it, the odium of dabbling in politics. There is no more danger to the free schools of America than there is to the free press. This phantom of “religious interference in education” is a political Will-o'-the-wisp which appears when a party is in distress. It is invoked every generation by dema- gogues who would gain political power. It is unworthy of General Grant, altogether un- worthy of his position as President, his fame | as asoldier, his character asa man of com- mon sense. We dwell upon it with pain as the one blot ina Message which otherwise meets our warmest commendation and which without this would have stood out among the ablest, most conservative and most patriotic documents ever addressed to the American people by an American Presi- dent. The Wreck of the Deutschland, Our cable despatch from London gives im- portant details of this calamity, derived di- rectly from the Captain. It appears that the ship was out of her reckoning and that an error in her course consequent upon that fact led to the accident. The North Hinder light- ship is off the Belgian coast and about one degree of longitude east of Margate or the mouth of the Thames. The Galloper light is about half a degree east of the same point and in a line about twenty minutes north of the North Hinder light. The Galloper warns off from the dangerous sands of the Essex coast and bids the mariner making down the channel to keep tothe south. The Hinder warns from the dangers of the oppo- site continental coast and warns the mariner to keep to seaward in bad weather or to the west and north, Now this light, if sighted from the starboard by a ship sailing west, warns to keep in one direction; while the Galloper, sighted in the same way, warns to keep in quite another direction. The North Hinder, in plain English, says keep to the right; the Galloper says keep to the left. Let the lights be mistaken for one another; let the warning given by the North Hinder be obeyed in sight of the Galloper, and calamity is inevitable. This is precisely what happened. As there could have been no observation in the storm the ship’s posi- tion was taken by dead reckoning, and sufli- cient allowance was not made for the force with which the gale from the northeast had driven her westward. She had made two hundred and fifty miles in about twenty hours, and she probably could not make this in ordinary circumstances. At the time the light was sighted she was, therefore, some forty miles further westward than the Captain, not making sufficient allowance for the wind, had reason to suppose she was; and, not believing himself yet far enough upon his journey to sight the Gal- loper, he was forced to the conclusion that the light seen was the nearer North Hinder. From this it would appear that there is no difference between these two lights by which they may be distinguished one from the other. As explained by the Captain's state- ment, the calamity was clearly enough the result of an error; but it is difficult to say that this error might not have been com- mitted by any man. In fact, this looks like one of those shipwrecks that cannot be guarded against by caution or skill— unless the world of commerce and travel is ready to accept a rule that ships shall not put toseainastorm, This ship “went down before she was twenty-four hours | out. It had stormed all the time. Celestial observation was, therefore, impossible, and the judgment of a ship's position by dead reckoning is delusive, and ample experience may be deceived in it. Yet it was upon the determination of the Deutschland’s position | by this means that it depended whether the light seen was one in view of which she might safely keep on her course or one in ‘view of which to keep on her course was cer- tain ruin. In the presence of such a catas- trophe there is little consolation to be given to the bereaved, and yet there must be some in the reflection that the lost ones were not the victims of the heedless incapacity that destroys so many lives on ocean steamers, Tae Morpener De.anzy, who is to be | hanged to-morrow at Hempstead, has made a confession which compresses into a life- time of twenty-four years as much utter de- pravity as a dime novelist would think of distributing among a whole fleet of pirates. Touched here and there with the relish for lawlessness, which can alone make sueh a gion life, courage, sincerity, tolerance and | career of crime possible, unlit by a single | ray of kindly feeling, the story of the man who syns himself ‘ Red Pirate,” alias “Cast- iron Bill,” will reconcile the community to the loss it is about to suffer in his sudden re- moval from life. The extraordinary docu- ment will be found elsewhere. | Tae Cuban Question overshadows in | Washington the work of Congress for the \they may proceed to carve Turkey in Europe | clearer than that between Church and State | present, Is it intended that the doings of ‘without much delay. An interesting letter | there should be a complete separation. This | the Executive shall dwarf the action of the from our London correspondent gives the Ainalish view of the purchase, — | separation should be in fact as well as in name. It is not enough for our consti- | Legislature, one wing of which has a ma- | jority hostile to the republican party? | ment in favor of cheap postage, | newspapers and the cheapness of every arti- Cant from Washington. Congress opened its session on Monday. The Message has been read. We are, we trust, to have a little peace until the com- mittees of the House are announced, In the meantime the correspondents of the party press are busy, and we read their elaborate lucubrations with interest and curiosity. We note the old canting strain. One would think from reading the despatches that Washington is divided into two camps—one of the absolutely good and the other of the absolutely bad. We are told of the fights between the “rings;” how ‘Tom Scott owns one man, and how another is the creature of Crédit Mobilier. We have pictures of Mr. Kerr “sitting in his parlor,” holding aloof, making no promises, giving no pledges; a man of lofty and ideal virtue, despising political machinery and manoeuvring, with his head in the clouds and his thoughts ever ascending to the purer atmosphere, Then we havea glowing, graphic picture of Fernando Wood ‘‘in his library, surrounded by his books,” proudly turning aside from the Speakership contest as some- thing beneath him, as a ‘dirty business” in which he would not put his hands. The im- pressions we gather from Mr. Wood, as he is thus painted, is that in a time of Roman vir- tue and purity of public life he would have been chosen Speaker without opposition. As it is, he is sacrificed to the decadence of the times. Then we have a beautiful pic- ture—small cabinet size, done in the style of the old Dutch masters—of Sunset Cox sitting at one end of the table, and, upon hearing the result of the second caucus ballot, order- ing Mr. Hewitt to direct his friends to sup- port Mr. Kerr. Then we have him approach- ing Mr. Kerr, and saying, in his sweet, chirp- ing, canary-bird tone, that in doing this he had no selfish aim ; that all he wanted ‘was to be appointed a member of his old Com- mittee on Rules! Tis beautiful picture is illustrated by a figure of our glorious Mayor Wickham in the background, beaming jo- vially upon the party, and ‘Light Horse Harry” Watterson, of the Louisville Courier- Journal, nodding in the corner of the room after the fatigues of the day. Then we have another picture, in dark Ribera tints, of Randall, of Pennsylvania, surrounded by lobbyists and gamblers and pool sellers, owned by Tom Scott, of Penn- sylvania, his record covered over with salary grab and other mistakes—altogether such a character as would compel his immediate expulsion from the House by a party “anxious for purity and good govern- ment.” But all of a sudden the caucus ends and the scene changes. Wood descends from his library to be a candidate for the chairmanship of one of the committees, and ; Randall is brought forward, after all, asthe real leader of the party anxious for ‘‘reform;” and Mr. Cox, who is said to have views on hard money which no one could discover when he was in Ohio last fall, is to have charge of the Committee on Banking and Currency. The democratic party is har- monizing. There are no more intrigues, no more jobs. Tom Scott’s name is not even mentioned. Thewhole panorama—thievery and corruption and conspiracy—sinks ont of sight, and the party stands before us ‘ready for reform.” These pictures would be interesting if they had any value. They represent the cant of these Washington correspondents. It is, especially in the party press, a dreary, dis- tasteful, untrustworthy business; and these correspondents write simply from their own feelings, from the desire to help or hurt—as partisans, not as spectators. The truth is that Mr. Cox and Mr. Kerr and Mr. Wood and Mr. Randall and Mr. Lamar and all the rest of them are politicians anxious for their own advancement. They have risen into pub- lie life by politics. They have been in that business for years. They are all tarred with the same stick. They know the schemes, the tricks, the subterfuges, the whole cate- chism from beginning to end. Mr. Kerr, with allof his ‘shonesty,” could no more go through an Indiana Convention or canvass for Con- gress without twisting and bending than he could ascend into the heavens like Elijah. Mr. Kerr is no better than Mr. Randall; no worse than Mr. Randall or Mr. Cox or Mr. Wood. They are all of aclass. They have their virtues and their faults, and so far from any election of the Speakership or any nomination of committees represent- ing honesty against dishonesty the elec- tion might as well have been done by a page, blindfolded, putting his hand into a box and taking out the first name. The democratic majority met, first and above.all things, to destroy the administration and build up their own party. They mean to carry on the affairs of the government and make as much capital as they can. All this cant about superfine honesty and desire for reform is midsummer moonshine. Cable Rates and Cheap Telegraphy. We have several rumors from the conflicting cable companies as to what they will do in the way of rates. It seems that the old com- pany and the new company are endeavoring to agree upon a general uniform tariff. It would be a mistake for the new company to do anything of the kind. It has less capital stock than the old company, and necessarily needs to earn a smaller rate. The old com- pany is governed by the Bourbon policy of making all the money possible out of the wants of the people and of treating the electric occupation of the high seas as a monopoly. The new company will make @ great deal more money by cheaper rates than by continuing on the basis laid down by the old company. The value of the cable is in its general use, People should be taught to use it. The press should be en- couraged to send columns of news from Eu- rope where they now send paragraphs. The wires should be kept at work to their fullest capacity. When one wire will not do there should be ten to follow it. The argument in favor of cheap telegraphy is the old argu- cheap cle that belongs to general consumption. We are convinced that if the new company will only be wise to adopt mrate of, say a shilling a word, and hold it there for a year or two, they will make a business large enough to compel the building of other cables. At the same time they will unite England and America by ties of even closer commercial and personal intimacy, YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1875.--TRIPLE SHEET. lit The National Finances. It is to be hoped that the democrats in Congress will have sense enough to give Mr. Bristow’s recommendations fair treatment. Legislation at this session, settling the pol- jey of resumption in 1879 by providing ad- equate means for its attainment, would take that issue out of politics and save the demo- cratic party from the most embarrassing question which threatens to disturb its harmony next year. . If measures looking to resumption are defeated by democratic oppo- sition the party will be justly chargeable with hostility to specie payments and be sunk by the same millstone which was tied to its neck in Ohio. Of course the recommendations of the Sec- retary are susceptible of improvement, and the democrats may render them more accept- able to the country by friendly amendments to the bills intended to carry out this ob- ject. The question will probably be first taken up in the Senate, and the control of the republicans in that body will make it easy to pass the necessary measures. When they are sent to the House the democrats can lose nothing by weighing them fairly on their merits. We see no objection which the hard money democrats can make to the plan of funding the greenbacks as an important step toward specie pay- ments. There is, indeed, room for differ- ences as to details, but none with respect to the main feature of the recommen- dation. The other measures proposed by Mr. Bristow are such as ought to commend them to honest men of all parties. Besides funding a part of the greenbacks the govern- ment ought to accumulate a stock of gold, and Mr. Bristow’s plan for doing it seems in most respects unexceptionable, There is no reason why the rree trade and hard money democrats should refuse to vote for the res- toration of the duties on coffee and tea, which would bring a considerable sum into the Treasury without perceptibly adding to their cost. His recommendations for consol- idating the customs districts, for abolishing the i 7 and thereby dispensing with needless officers, for reducing the thousands of arti- cles on which duties are levied to a smaller number, and simplifying the business of col- lection and making it more efficient, and for guarding against frauds in valuation by sub- stituting specific for ad valorem duties, are all in the direction of reform, and ought not to be opposed for party reasons. The demo- crats in this Congress have everything to gain by candor, moderation and sincere aid to all the sound measures proposed by their political opponents. They acquire and strengthen public confidence by convincing the country that they may be safely trusted with the possession of power. “The Restoration of the Bourbons.” When we called attention recently to the beautiful arrangement which had been made by the democrats for the government of the majority of the House we little thought that our mounting hopes would so soon fall. Speaking from democratic authority—nay, from no less a source of inspiration than the weird and beautiful Washington corre- spondence of the World—we pointed out how the successful House had selected three members that were to be a trium- virate. The first was Kerr, The Man of Honesty. The second was Randall, The Man of Capacity. The third was Wood, The Man of Deportment. By this arrangement Kerr was to be Speaker, Randall leader of the House, and Wood to be ‘Mentor,” as the gifted correspondent puts it, or ‘‘referee,” to make the word plainer to the general mind. But it seems that a party thus com- manded has fallen into error in its first cam- paign, and altogether through the interfer- ence of its ‘‘Mentor,” or ‘‘referee.” The story of this discomfitura,has been told in the papers, but there is one point about it which has escaped observa- tion. It is reported that Mr. Kerr and Mr Wood “advised together” as to the course to be pursued in the Louis- iana matter. Mr. Randall does not seem to have been admitted to the conference. Perhaps The Man of Honesty and The Man of Deportment did not care to be governed by ‘The Man of Capacity at so early adate. So the battle was foughtand lost. The point of this controversy is too grave to be overlooked. It shows beyond peradventure that the warning of the Hunaxp against the restoration of the Bourbons was timely. The very first act of the leaders of the democratic | party is in itself revolutionary to the highest degree. In the first place, the demo- crats put themselves on the record as attempting to violate a sacred compact— namely, that compact made between dem- ocrats and republicans in Louisiana, to the effect that if Kellogg was recognized as Gov- ernor the republicans would recognize the democrats in the Legislature. This com- pact, clearly understood, agreed upon as a settlement of a grave question which might have caused a revolution, and meant for the best interests of the State and of the country, is calmly thrown aside by these Bourbons in the first hours of their victory. The second point is that Mr. Wood, in ask- ing the democratic majority to recognize the government of McEnery, put himself in the position of a direct advocacy of rebellion. Mr. Wood cannot have forgotten that the President treated McEnery’s government as rebellion, commanded it to disperse within five days, and bade the army and navy to be ready to rush upon Louisiana the moment his commands were disobeyed. And yet this movement, which stands in the history of the country to-day as much an act of re- | bellion in {intent as the firing upon Fort Sumter, is indorsed by the action of the leaders of the democratic party. We say now as we have said before, and we cannot be too earnest in repeating it, that if this democratic party means to return the country tothe rule of the Bourbons it leads to its own ruin. For while the country elected democrats to power, and would gladly continue them there, it was for the purpose of reforming the government; that they might act asagrand inquest upon the ad- ministration of the republican party for the last fifteen or twenty years; that they might brush away the few remnants of pro- scription and ostracism which remained as legacies of the war, It was not that they should endeavor to restore the power that \was only broken down bv the exvenditure minor Pe roca to i of thousands of milfiond of dollars and the wasting of hundreds of thousands of lives. When the Bourbons came back to France their first act was to regard the Revolution as nothing, andall the events that had tran- spired between 1793 and 1815 as never having occurred. We know what came of that effort. The Bourbons lingered along for ¢ few years and finally were dismissed from France with the contempt of their people. ‘They have lived ever since in exile. If Mr. Wood and his triumvirate propose to lead’ the democratic party into the same path by repeating the foolish and mischievous—wo might almost say criminal—action of Mon- day, the end will be the triumph of the re- publican party at the next election, even if it should have General Grant at its head as! a candidate for the third term. The Herald as a Newspaper. Yesterday’s Hxnatp contained seventy columns of reading matter—the most varied, interesting and valuable collection of intelli- gence, perhaps, ever presented to the publio in a single copy of a daily paper. Our special cable despatches from London, and Madrid were of great interests In tho former was told the thrilling story of the loss of the Deutschland. This was illustrated! with a map of that part of the English coast: where the disaster occurred, showing all the: treacherous sands of that dangerous sea, The messages of the President and the Sec- retary of the Treasury, making a page each, were printed in the same issue with the shorter story of theecretary of the Interior. Fuller particulars of Tweed’s escape were given, with the report of a minute examina- tion of a large portion of the district) drained for the Croton water. All the news by telegraph from Europe: and all parts of our own country; our usually full reports of current events, | decisions of courts and similar topics ofi local interest ; our unexampled collection: of ship news, our commercial and financial, intelligence and a full page of literary criti- cism ; all this together constitutes a budget) of news such as is not every day presented! even in this paper—and never in any other. Different newspapers are conducted on’ very different theories. News is to be gath- ered by an extensive organization of appro~ priate machinery, and it is to be presented with more or less editorial skill, Some jour- nals that do not gather a great deal plume themselves greatly on the taste and dainti- ness and literary nicety with which they set that little before their readers. No doubt, if a man has only a radish and a cracker for breakfast it is better to have this put before him with all the accessories of snow white table linen and cut glass saltcellars. It is well to feed his eye if you are compelled to leave his more craving appetite not altogether satis- fied. And in this sense those of our contem- poraries who cultivate journalistic art fill their small sphere completely and use- fully. Our own opinion is that the public needs a hearty meal in the matter of news and likes also to have it served neatly and dec- orously, and our extensive organization for the gathering of news, covering every ship- frequented sea, every civilized country and several uncivilized countries, our provisions for the capable discussion of public topics and the mechanical resources for putting all the matter thus furnished in a handsomely printed form in the hands of the reader, are all without rivalry in extent and effective~ ness, Our latest features of a regular Sunday letter of gossip by cable from Paris and of financial intelligence by cable from London are intended to be permanent additions to our news machinery, and our London bu- reau and our extensive Paris office and read- ing room will not only be rallying points for our countrymen abroad, but will afford us great facilities for carrying out a still larger programme for the use of the cable, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Vice President Ferry used to make shingles, Mr. Swayne, of Toledo, Ohio, is to marry a daughtes of Judge David Davis, the millionoaire politician of Illinois. Hon. Joseph Edouard Ouachon, member for Quebeo Centre, has been sworn in as President of the Dominion Council. “Laughter,” says Mr, Vasoy, ‘is one of the products of civilization. In uncivilized tribes laughter is entirely unknown." t Mr. Henderson, of St. Louis, who abused Genera, Grant in the Avery trial last week, is @ disappointed politician who had s grudge, If James G, Blaine, of Maine, becomes the republican candidate for President noxt year his success will be aided very much by the follies of the democrats, The Windsor uniform has been ordered tor every member of the Dominion government. The pareel is expected at Ottawa, from England, by an early packet. Ex-Sonator Gwin, of California, who, on account of democratic triumph, has recently sprung again into notice, has taken rooms with his daughter, Mrs, Cole- man, at Washington for the winter, ‘The President and Mrs. Grant do not expect a visit from their daughter, Mrs. Sartoris, before spring. Mra Sartoris and her son are in fine health, and onjoy the comforts and beauties of their English home. Senator Newton Booth has taken apartments and will not keep house this winter, owing to the delicate health of his father, which prevents his mother from leaving her home in Iodiana and presiding ovor his household. ‘The Russian Minister at Washington, who has takon @ house opposite the residence of Donn Piatt, is gaid to have come to this country prepared for sump- tuous entertaining. He has fifteen foreign servants an hasseur; the latter attends His Excellency upon the streets, This imposing individual adds greatly to the dignity of the Minister. Jules Verne’s latest story of “The Mysterious Island Abandoned” speaks of “Vineyard” (probably Martha's) asa whaling port in the State of New York. Then. Jules Verne, speaking of an albatross which had beem captured, says:—‘‘Perhaps in his heart Gideon Spillote, in whom the journalist sometimes came to the sar. face, was not sorry to have the opportunity of sending forth to take itschance an exciting article relating tho adventures of the sottlers in Lincoln Island. What a guceess for the authorized renortor of the New Yorum Heraup and for the number which should contain the article if it should ever reach the address of its pro- prietor.”” Ex-Congressman Ellis H. Roberts, in his paper, the Utica Herald, displays critical statesmanship in writing of current political affairs, He knows wisely and truth. fully of what he speaks when he says of tho United States Senate:—‘Who is to make good the gaps in the republican ranks? Wealth has come in from Nevada But where are scholarship and transcendent ability, and broad experience and Comprehensive statesman. ship? Those who remain fill their own places, But they must foo! more than any one else the falling away from their stde of trusted companions, of loaders who thought and who acted.” Mr, Roberts eloquently adds:—Victory will porch upon our banner again when we appeal to moral influences, to tho highest purposes of citizens, to their deopost fiith in tho right and in the Republic, and refuse to palter with on age or to prolong Executive dominaven,'?