The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1875, Page 4

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Money, after | transactions at 6 per cent, ended casy at 4 | and 5 percent. Stocks were dull and fever- | ish, No features were presented in the | market, Revorm i Torker is officially announced for one of the departments of the govern- ment—the judiciary. It is to be feared, however, that reform by imperial decree will have no more effect than the famous attempt of old Governor Stuyvesant to make war by proclamation. Ir m Arpanent from the reported agree- | ment between Prince Bismarck and Prince | Gortschakoff that there is to be no Eastern question and no general war for its adjust- ment. The security of the Ottoman Empire | is in the jealousy of the great Powers. When | €ngland and Austria want war Russia and Germafiy (lesire peace, or the reverse, and so ithe “sick man” Wfigers on from month to month and from year to year. 4 Tae Devrscuianp Drsaster.—It is not a wery pleasant picture of the Peggottys of Har- wich which the London News reveals in speaking of the Deutschland disaster. These good people, who regard shipwrecks as good fortune, answered the appeals of the drown- ing men with o pyrotechnic display, and gave them rockets instead of boats, The only justification of their conduct is in their poverty; but if these coasters and fishermen, to whom Mr. Dickens did too much honor in his “David Copperfield,” had possessed half ‘the courage for which he gives them credit, {the lives of all of the passengers and crew ‘might have bean saved. | to the President. Mr. Henderson’s removal | treading on eggs; he will be tender of the | Mr. Henderson as his | cation would be accepted as complete, and “Let Neo Guilty Man Escape,” but Call Of the Sleuthhounds of the Law. The discharge of ex-Senator Henderson from the management of the whiskey trials in St. Louis will make an unfortunate impres- sion on that a difficulty has arisen between the President and Mr. Henderson just at the point when the services of so energetic a pros- ecutor are needed to enforce the injunction, “Let no guilty man escape.” If he has given offence to the President it would have been better to let the affront pass un- and the honor of the White House are so deeply involved. The President should subordinate his personal resentments to his official duties. The vigor, zeal and ability of Mr. Henderson are aignally attested by the conviction of every whiskey thief and con- spirator who has been brought to trial under his management. It will be | deemed unfortunate that his skilful services are dispensed with ina case which excites a deeper interest than any other of the Whiskey Ring trials, and in which the | country will be indignant at any appearance | of favoritism in high quarters. If Mr. Hen- derson had been permitted to conduct the prosecution against General Babcock no- body would suspect that all the evidence against him had not been brought before the | | jury in the most forcible manner. With Mr. | Henderson as the prosecutor a verdict of | | acquittal would be accepted by the country | as a complete vindication of the prisoner. But when the case is put in different hands the public will have no confidence in the trial, and will ipterpret the change as an attempt to shield the guilty. Mr. Henderson, who has spent many weeks in diligent investigation of the whiskey cases, who has traced the conspiracy in all its ramifications, who is familiar with a hun- dred points which might escape the attention of a lawyer new to the subject, cannot be displaced without abating the vigor of the prosecution. No otherattorney, howeverable, can suddenly acquire his complete mastery of the facts. There is every reason why the trial of General Babcock should not be de- layed. The successor of Mr. Henderson, whoever he may be, cannot be expected to act with Mr. Henderson's fearless energy. | He will accept his office with a tacit under- | standing that he is to do nothing distasteful will operate on his successor as a warn- ing and a restraint. He will move as if sensibilities of the White House, lest he too should be suddenly flung out of the case by an Executive mandate, and the consequence will naturally be a feeble and nerveless prosecution. The imputations which would arise on an acquittal under such circum- stances are such as neither the President nor General Babcock can very well afford. It would have been better for the | President to have overlooked the real or fancied personal affront, and | have let the trial proceed under the same vigorous guidance which hus secured the conviction of every culprit who has yet | been arraigned before the Court at St. Louis. | If General Babcock could be acquitted with | rosecutor his vindi- nobody would thereafter question his in- mocence. The President's discharge of Mr. Hender- | son at this stage of the business will raise an inquiry as to why it was not done before. A full week has clapsed since the speech of which the President complains. The sub- stance of it was telegraphed to the Hrrarp on the same day, appeared in our columns | thenext morning, and could not have escaped | the immediate notice of people who must have brought it to the attention of the | President. If it be a good ground for removal now it was equally a ground | of removal then, but the President has | allowed a whole week to pass and has foreborne to act until he learned of the | indictment of General Babcock, when all | of a sudden he bethought him of his griev- | ance, and took immediate steps for removing | Mr. Henderson ! ie public mind. It is regrettable | noticed, when both the interests of justice | | alucrative station. The democrats do not government of Executive interference with judicial proceedings and a violation of the legal privilege of counsel to argue cases with- out other responsibility than that which they owe to the Court, which alone is charged with the duty of keeping them within proper | limits. The dismissal of Mr. Henderson just as | the Babcock trial is to come on seems so ob- | viously in the interest of that officer, and is so calculated to undermine publie confi- | dence, that his acquittal cannot restore his reputation. It will be suspected that the evidence against him was not presented in all its force, and the result of the trial, if he | is acquitted, will have no moral weight with | the country. So extraordinary an interference with the course of justice as President Grant has ventured on in this case will naturally attract the attention of the House of Repre- sentatives, which is charged by the constitu- tion with a peculiar supervision over the conduct of the President. Any proceedings against him affecting the duration of his office must originate in that body, and there are few graver offences than an in- trusion by the President into the proceedings of the judicial department of the govern- ment. The courts have always been held to be as sacred against such interference as the proceedings of either House of Congress. The President has no more right to punish an attorney for what he may say in Court than to punish a member of Congress for words spoker in debate, both being equally privileged by law. We do not know what view the House may take of this extraordi- nary conduct of the President after full in- quiry ; but the House will doubtless think it a duty to order an investigation. Congressmen Crawling. We shall never have a proper sense of self- respect in our Congressmen at Washington until we send high-toned men to represent us. At the close of the last session of Con- gress there was much scandal among thoughtful people at the spectacle of Presi- dent Grant appointing defeated candidates for the Senate and the House to responsible offices under the government. The argu- ment was made that if representatives of the people are permitted to legislate in Wash- ington in the hope of being rewarded for their votes by office, then the legislative de- | partment of the government would fall intoa degrading dependence upon the Executive. This truth is greater than our people have been disposed to credit. We can trace the | acquiescence of the Senate and the House to | the almost servile demands of the President to the fact that there is not a republican member of either branch of Congress who | has not felt that if he were to vote against the will of the people in response to the will of the President, and were to be punished for so doing, that he would be appointed to seem to improve upon the republicans in | this respect, for we are told that an ex-mem- | ber of Congress, Mr. Rice, of Kentucky, has been selected by the new Clerk of the House as an assistant in place of Clinton Loyd. The spectacle of an ex-member of Congress quietly coming back to the hall of his former influence and duty to sit down at the Clerk's desk at a small salary to do humble duties in arranging the business of the House is humil- iating. It may be justly held that there is | no reason why a member of Congress should ; waive his claims upon his party or upon the | administration for support or even appoint- | ment to office should he fail to be elected by | the people, but it is not a pleasant thing to see Mr. Rice leave his chair as the Represent- | ative of a great Commonwealth and scratch | and scratch over minutes and calendars and proceedings as a subordinate officer of the | House. Kentucky is a proud State, and will | be apt to send a different class of men to Con- | gress in the future. Ovr Panis Lerrex.—In another column we | print a second note from Manager Maurice Grau touching the bit of intelligence lately given in one of our cable letters from Paris with reference to Zulma Bouffar. It is ac- companied with a note from that actress which is written in the happiest vein of fem- The country will approve of the manly position of Mr. Henderson, as explained by him yesterday to our correspondent at St. | Louis. District Attorney Dyerand Mr. Eaton, who is associated with them, were present at the interview, and both indorsed the | course of Mr. Henderson. Their joint atti- | tude is not one of bravado or defiance of | the President, but they stand together as | self-respecting lawyers, conscious of having | done no more than their duty and unwilling | to sacrifice the honor of their profession. Mr. Henderson caused the stenographic notes of the impugned part of his speech to | be exactly written ont and sent to Washing- | ton, and, while disclaiming any intention to | be offensive, he said to the Attorney Gene- ral, “I stand by the speech as made.” He and his associates think ita defensible exer- cise of his rights as an attorney, and it is an awkward business for the President to punish a lawyer for the proper discharge of his duty. It is absurd to say that the President was Mr. Henderson's client. The government was his client, and President Grant is merely one of its officers. It was | the duty of Mr. Henderson to be faithful to | is real client, the government, and to pro- owt the interests of that client to the best of | he speech of a the discharg or ni» (uty: Looe eye lawyer in court, like ee | gress, is privileged and calor ber Welly” called in question elsewhere. they may say in an argument before.a court of justice. their responsibility is to the Court before which they conduct their cases. Everything right to call them to account for anything which he permits. Lawyers are no more | accountable outside of the Court for what they may say that happens to | be offensive to the President than for what | is offensive to any other individual. Presi- | dent Grant has no more right to punish an | attorney for words spoken in Court than he | has to punish the presiding judge for allow- ing such remarks to be made. Counsel, | while subject to the direction, are also under the protection of the Court, and this is the first and only instance in the history of our | his ability, Whoever might be wounded by | Lawyers ard | protected from slander suits for anything | They are not irresponsible, but | they may do or say is under the direction | of the presiding judge, and nobody else has | inine diplomacy. In the note given Bouffar, | as will be seen, prepares the way for another | note, in which she means to declare that it | is impossible for her to fulfil her engagee ment to act in this city. She has remem- bered a terrible gastralgia, which she presses | into the service for the occasion, and she scolds at her doctor for his harsh refusal to let her come ; but she means to obey hin and stay in Paris, where she has made a hit. Our cable letter gave the news of this decis- | | ion, of which the manager had not definitely heard, and we are happy to note that he | gracefully acknowledges the accuracy of our correspondence. Twexep.—A story of singular dramatic in- terest is that which we print this morning, giving the details of the Herarp expedition in search of Tweed, The journeyings of the | distinguished fugitiye to and fro and his | hiding places in town and country are mat- | ters of the deepest interest. There is no | reasonable doubt of the hypothesis that the ex-‘‘Boss” was in hiding in Connecticut for | some days, and the traces of the route he | took in reaching his hiding place seem un- mistakable. That he is not in Con- necticut now seems equally plain, and | the only theory that seems tenable | now is that he has returned to} this city and is concedled for the present | in New York. If these hypotheses are cor- | | yoct and the police show reasonable energy aud sagacity in following them to their legit- | mate xostilts, Tweed’s return to Ludlow | Street Jil is onlyo question of time. In | any event tre remarkable chapter which we | | print to-day wir \command universal atten- | tion both on accou. of its intrinsic interest tins of Tweed’s where- and the traces it con abouts since his escape, Taxes,—Tax Commissione,” ADdtews, in his testimony before the Senate , rvestigating Committee yesterday, showed con ~dusively that the city is compelled to pay muc..* — than a just proportion of the State eT | press himself clearly, intended | declaration he might have made it in lan- | times for their own personal benefit. Many , General Grant's record shows the possession Adjournment of the Babcock Court of Inquiry. The Court of Inquiry at Chicago has done 4 very proper thing in declining to proceed with the case of General Babeock now that he has been indicted by a Grand Jury and is to be put on trial in a civil court. The very able argument read by General Hancock yesterday before the Court of Inquiry sets forth the impropriety. of further proceed- ings in so convincing a light that the mil- itary tribunal could not have gone on with- out a manifest violation not only of decorum but of justice. General Babcock asked for a court of inquiry because he professed to think that he was deprived of an opportunity to vin- dicate himself before a court of justice ; the reason for calling the military court therefore nolonger exists. The witnesses and the docu- ments by which he is to be convicted or cleared would be the same in both trials, and in the conflict of jurisdiction as to which of the courts should command them, the decision must necessarily be in favor of the civil court, on the fundamental principle of our government that the civil is superior to the military power. Moreover, the presence of the defendant is necessary in either form of trial, and he cannot be present in Chicago and St. Louis at the same time. The Court of Inquiry yielded to this strong array of arguments, and decided to merely adjourn from day to day until they could receive further orders from the War Department, This wise action is in accordance with the ground taken on this subject by the Heratp yesterday, As soon as we learned of the in- dictment of General Babcock we felt that the order for a court of inquiry should be at once suspended. We only regret that in- structions to that effect were not promptly sent to Chicago from Washington, and that it was left to the Court of Inquiry to take the responsibility of disobeying the order under which it was summoned, There is a higher and prompter sense of honor and propriety among the officers of the army than exists at Washington. Did Mr. Henderson Refer to the President? In the whiskey cases on trial at St. Louis remarkable successes have been gained in | the cause of the public service. An example of the greatest consequence has been set. It has been shown that with the ordinary ma- chinery of justice and courts of law, plain judges and juries and honest counsel, rogues may be got at who had vainly plumed and boasted themselves that they were beyond reach because of the high protection they had secured by judicious division of the fruits of their plunder. It has been demon- strated that no conspiracy, however gigantic, against the public treasury, has any more immunity once brought face to face with Justice than a scheme for petty larceny, when the cases are in charge of a vigorous prosecuting officer. But the exhibition of this fact, so satisfactory to the nation, awakens but little interest in Washington. They do not care much there about the main point of the case, but they are very inquisitive about a detail. They want to know whether the coun- sel for the prosecution referred to the President in the course of his arguments. This is the great problem of the hour. For | the time the famous problem as to whether | saltpetre will explode becomes insignificant. People no longer ask one another whether indigo will sink or swim. They do noteven refer to the prospects of Pacific Mail. Men | have actually become callous as to what sort | of a horn it was they blowed about Jericho or | who made the Wandering Jew’s boots, These | points of heroic doubt which once divided the world are crowded from the minds of men by the overwhelming wonder whether Colonel Henderson did really refer to the President or refrained from such reference. If he refrained he may go on ; if he referred he must get out of those cases—yea, even | though Colonel Babcock should escape jus- | tice by this exclusion from the case of the | counsel most familiar with it. That is a_ dreadful risk ; but the President will stand it. | Is It the Endt A correspondent from Washington says | that President Grant's lines about the choice of a successor at the close of his | Message are understood by his friends to | be an intimation that he has personally waived all hope for the third term. Now, if | the President, who understands how to ex- | such a | guage that could not be misunderstood. | of two qualities—that he can propound rid- dies like a sphinx when he is in oracular | mood, and declare his intention with clear- ness and force when he has an idea to con- vey to the country. We can recall many sen- tences from President Grant that became party cries and went to the heart of the na- tion like electric shocks, ‘I will fight it out | on this line if it takes all summer.” “Our enemies are robbing the cradle and the grave.” “Let us have peace.” ‘Let no guilty person escape.” “I demand an un- conditional surrender.” These are all plain phrases, the meaning of which nobody ever thought of discussing. Why does not Presi- dent Grant say on the third term question, “J will under no circumstances be a candi- date or accept the office of President for a third term, believing, as I do, that such an act would be a violation of a sacred tradition of the constitution.” This is the way for the | President to end the third term dicussion, and not by writing oracular phrases which have different meanings to different readers. Detaney Hanoxp.—The dying speech of Delaney, the murderer, hanged at North Hempstead yesterday, was in strange con- rast to his previous utterances. It was quiet ind penitent, whereas his declarations before oreathed only anger and fiendish bravado. His crime was great, and it is to be hoped in suffering the extreme penalty of the law his ‘ate will be an example to others tempted as Jelancy was to avoid the terrible offence for vhich he was punished. Tar Repverio mm France is gaining The city is without representation in the Board of Equalization, and virtually the | | State taxes the city. The next Legislature | s. ought to provide a remedy for this wrong. | | In the end the whole State will suffer because | md m | the metropolis is made to bear more than its | sred in v. share of the onblia buedena, trength with the test of time. In the elec- ion of Senators the second offieial scrutiny ows the choice of sixteen republicans and three members of the Right. More aly ore the safety of the Republic is as- | speculations and bad investments, some- | have a hard winter because of these robbers | of the poor. | The Bishop explained several points and left j others in doubt, but he explicitly declared | himself in favor of a third term in these ‘ye security of the present govern- *. nent hy cr seme mete NEW YORK HERALD, SATUKDAY, DECEMBER Ul, 1875--witH SUPPLEMENT. Firebratds in Politics, The National Council of the Union League Club, which, we believe, is a secret organiza- tion, very much like the dark lantern, Know Nothing lodge on Fourteenth street called Tammany Hall, has had a meeting in Phila- delphia, A resolution was offered by Gen- eral Daniel Ullman, who will be remembered by our older politicians as the candidate for Governor on the Know Nothing ticket, in favor of ‘‘an amendment to the constitution of the United States prohibiting the estab- lishment of religion, and so on, and in reference to non-sectarian schools.” The fact that this Know Nothing politician and thoroughly played out fossil, who was be- lieved to be dead, should come forward the “leader of a movement” and should make his first campaign in a secret Know Nothing lodge, is suggestive of the disposition of the republican party to make its next campaign for the Presidency upon a platform of fire- brands. Thus far we have had the Cuba firebrand, the third term firebrand, and now comes the religious firebrand, All of this is deplorable, as showing to what extremity politicians will sink to gain political power. With a President controlled by Methodist priests, with a leader of the House pander- ing to religious bigotry, and with the old Know Nothing Ullman and his dark lantern lodge of the Union League in Philadelphia passing the firebrand resolutions, we are apt to have as bitter a campaign as we have ever had in this cquntry since the native Ameri- can days of 1844, when churches were burned and people were butchered on the high streets because of difference in religious belief. It is gratifying to feel that we have in reserve the common sense of the country, to which we can always appeal, as we ap- pealed from the Know Nothing meetings of 1855 and the native American frenzy of the generation preceding. Faith by Works. The democratic party gained more politi- cal capital during the campaign which ended by what was known as the ‘‘tidal wave” triumph from the controversy against Owsar- ism than on any other issue. The essential point of that controversy was that the Presi- dency should be an office held in trust for the people ; that it should be as much as possible free from any undue control or patronage, and that it should be held for a single term. There was no question so clearly presented to the American people or discussed with so much energy. Naturally enough, we should expect from the democrats the moment they came into power an expression of their faith upon Cwsarism. If these leaders, who went from stump to stump denouncing the cen- tralization tendencies of Grant, were sincere in their faith, and not merely indulgiftg in claptrap political demagoguery, they would have put themselves upon record in Con- gress, even before this time, upon the ques- tion of one‘term. But nothing was done by them during the short session. Then the argument was that the democrats, as a minority, had no responsibility for legisla- tion. We trust that the wise democrats will not continue their blunder. The country expects from some leading democrat—Mr, Cox, Mr. Wood, Mr. Randall or Mr. Lamar— an immediate campaign in the House of Rep- resentatives in favor of one term. Unless this is done the argument will be urged with irresistible force that the democratic party is willing to use a political question to gain power, and, succeeding in that, will throw aside the issue and hold power under a false pretence. The country expects from the democratic party in the House the passage of | a resolution directing an amendment to the constitution limiting the office of the Presi- dency toone term. ~ Rossers or tHE Poor.—Governor Til- den’s reform campaign has not been as suc- | cessful as would have been expected, mainly, | we think, because he has been badly served by his lawyers. Anyhow, the people may give him the credit of attempting to do well. But here is another opportunity. Let him, as Governor, investigate the broken say- ings banks. Let him make a campaign upon the robbers of the poor. The directors and officers of these savings banks have commit- teda crime the turpitude of which is far greater than the crimes of Tweed. Tweed | robbed the city, and in so doing imposed | taxes upon the people, The directors of these savings banks have robbed the poor, taken their savings and lost them through a poor Dennis or Bridget or Patrick will Yet no one has been punished ! The country has almost forgotten the voice | of the poor crying for their bread. Gov- ernor Tilden, as the chief of the State, should champion their cause, take these savings banks in hand and punish the rob- bers of the poor. Bisnor Smorpson ror 4 Tummp Trrm.—No man hojds a higher position in any Church than Bishop Simpson holds in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his opinion is always entitled to respect. His views upon the third term question and Bishop Haven's nomination of Grant, as given by the Phila- delphia Item, in an interview elsewhere pub- lished, will be read with particular interest, | words :—‘‘All I can say is, that should Presi-,, dent Grant be re-elected the people will have done wisely.” It is significant that all the other Methodist clergymen of Philadelphia who were questioned agreed in the main with the Bishop. They all professed that Bishop Haven had no right to speak for the Church, but, speaking for themselves, they all ap- proved his nomination of Grant. Tar Sranisa Jovrnat in Havana, the | Vor de Cuba, is very fierce in its denuncia- | tion of President Grant’s Message in regard to the Cuban insurrection. As it is impos- | sible to please the people who are pre-emi- | nently ‘‘good Spaniards” it is unnecessary to worry over this journal's displeasure. ‘ Ficurine ot Mississrert is of such frequent | occurrence that people will cease to wonder at it at all, or wonder how it is that only negroes are killed in these negro insurrec- tions. The latest trouble of the kind is re- ported this morning from Rolling Fork. | swallowed by accident, rr Crooked Whiskey or Straight Piety. ‘There may be some mistakes made in high places as to the issue on which the forthoom- ing Presidential battle is to be fought. Gen- eral Grant evidently intends to ‘hold the fort” of straight out piety ; to fire thence “double shotted salutes” of good orthodox Protestant doctrine ; to shell all the woods filled with the imaginary enemies of free schools and religious liberty. His course is intelligible if not intelligent. He believes that he can thus “teach the doubtful battle. where to rage.” His notion is that if he makes enough noise in the neighborhood of that fort the deluded enemy will suppose that it is the key to his position, and will gather all their forces there and hurl them against his guns in the reckless endeavor to storm the useless post. Our own notion is that the enemy will reconnoitre more effectively than he supposes, and if they do they cannot fail to note that his line can be turned by a resolute advance on the village of Crooked Whiskey immediately in his rear. Crooked Whiskey is not defensible, and that point once occupied by the enemy Grant's position is not only untenable, but his line will be doubled up, the ‘straight piety” garrison will be cut off, the baggage, ammunition wagons and reserve artillery will all be captured. This is now the great problem of politico-religious strategy : Which of these points on the Presidential battle field is really critical or relatively the/most important? Bishop Haven, commander of the orthodox forces of the government re- ligion, thunders apostolically from the fort, and gives the place an air of importance by the noise he makes; but the resolute Hender- son’s advance on the weak point at Crooked Whiskey has filled bigotry and hypocrisy with dismay, and their fears of what may be done in that direction are instructive. Let Us Have the Facts. The Sunaptly puts the case of Tweed when it says that, although he has escaped from trial, ‘‘punishment he has not escaped and can never escape.” ‘Will any sum of money pur- chase for him esteem, companionship, self- respect, peace of mind, happiness? These he shall find again nowhere and never more.” Furthermore, ‘these five years have told upon him,” “his fortune reduced, his name and reputation lighted.” How could Tweed’s fortune be reduced? He has been engaged in no business. All the money he has paid out has been given to lawyers and persons claiming to have influence with the courts to save himself from punishment. Tweed said to a reporter some time ago that he had spent five hundred thousand dollars in that way. Now, is it not a slander upon the law as an honorable profession and upon the administration of justice that lawyers should be permitted to become accessories tothe robbery of the treasury by exacting vast sums, from a confessed plunderer like Tweed? Would it not be well for the Grand Jury to summon Tweed’s lawyers and ask them how much they received from him and what service was rendered for the money? This would enable us to open an entirely new field of discussion, and one which would be of much interest to everybody who be- lieves in the pure administration of justice. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Carlyle was eighty last Saturday. Mrs. Speaker Kerr is said to be handsome, Extromes meet. The height of ‘a girl divinely tall” is said to be s’heaven feet. General Wyatt M. Elliott & Co, have purchased the Richmond (Va.) Whig. Rome is the name of Garibaldi’s new grandson, ane he does as all little Romans do. Ex-United States Congressional Clerk McPherson is writing the life of Thad Stevens. Speaker Kerr, through Mr. Holman, his colleague, defeated Fernando Wood for Mr. Blaine. Wagner, the composer, feels jolly because he hat found a man who can play on the basso-bassoon. President Garrett, of the Baltimore and Uhio Rail road, has been re-elected for his eighteenth term, Senator Joseph E. McDonald, of Indiana, arrived in the city yesterday, and is at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Edward C. Marshall, the only living child of Chie Justice Marshall, is a clerk in the Interior Department. A movement is on foot in the South to raise an en dowment fund for Julia, the only child of *3tonewall” Jackson. ‘The Chicago Inter-Ocean fiend has been respited long enough to say that the Inte cemented Guibord {s about to figure as a character in a play, As the office of Judge Advocate General was incor. porated into the army afew years since Mr, Holt re tires with half pay and allowances, Wives of Congressmen are having their cards printed “Mrs, “Hon, So-and-So.’? Well, Washington used to have his horse's hoots blacked and polished. It is reported that Potter Palmer intends to go inte the wholesale clothing business in Chicago early in the spring, and to outdo all the other houses in that line now in this city. How is it that some friend of the President can always understand an Executive document to mean that there is to be no third term, and the people cannot understand it so? Ex-Senator Matt H. Carpenter, the Goliath of Wis. consin republicanism, has been attacked by H. A. Chittenden, Jr., the David of Wisconsin journalism, and the pebble hits hard. Boss Shepherd has offered to lick Murat Halstead at sight. Both are in Washington. Shepherd is afraid he will lick Halstead at sight, so he turns his head when he sees Haistead coming down the street, General Babcock is Major of Engineers in the regular army, Military Secretary to Grant, Commissioner ov Public Buildings and Grounds, President of the Distriet of Columbia Lying-in Hospital, and Engineer in Chiet of the Washington Aqueduct, The suggestion made in this column the other day that Senators Jones and Sharon, of Nevada, are likely to find their personal interests to conflict with their public business this winter, is now emphasized by the statement which comes from California that the twa gentlemen will not take their seats inthe Sen Mr. Sharon is even said to contemplate resigning his Sena torship. Few oritice shoutd abuse Sharon for his action, He has acted nobly in regard to Ralston’s affairs, The Augusta (Gn.) Constitutionalist, in a spirit of fine statesmanship, devotes a leading article to showing that Downing, the colored keeper of the House restau. rant, should be deposed, because he is practically « republican, Iteays grandly:—"Now this man ts a superb purveyor of food for Solons and Sam Wards, but he ts not the only artist tn the world, and therefore cannot claim that perfection will depart with him. We are strongly persuaded that there are many white mon his gastronomic superiors, and we hope a democrat ot the Caucasian race will be selected to take his place.” Could Bentham have done better? Readers of Wilkie Collins’ novel of “Poor Mise | Finch’? will be interested to learn that there is a man,, an inmate of an asylum in Wisconsin, whose skin, ale though he is a white man, {s as black asanegro's, This was caused by a dose of nitrate of silver, which he The acid coming through the pores of the skin was turned black by the light of the sun, and remains so. He \s crazy, howover, and sub- Joct to fits, during which he often falls and cuts himself. ‘The wounds heal up with new and very white skin, thus leaving the white scars all over his face and head, which look stit| whiter on account of the blackness @f his skin,