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McDowaxy, the St. Louis Whiskey Ring convict, says that ‘Let no guilty man | escape” was uttered first by Bristow, and | then adopted by Grant, and was intended to | be ‘‘more honored in the breach than the observance.” Tae Itivsteiovs Frverrrve whom New York is letting slide from its memory like an | evil vision has been seen through the stars. * The police are supposed to have been | hunting heaven and earth for him, but an astrologer says he is hidingin a New York basement. The improbable part of the story is that there is a number of women | about the place and that his whereabouts are yet secret. | Tax Mississtrrt Senarortan Enectios.— Our Washington correspondent speaks of the strong desire felt by the democrats of both houses to see Mr. Lamar elected to the Benate in Mississippi. Colonel Lamar’s name is known and re- spected all over the country ; he is accounted one of the ablest and most statesmantlike of the democrats, and his defeat wonld be a- salamity, to Mississippi and would be re- | eretted by the country, In this they are wise. [The Campaign for the | tion, ambition and envy had not crept into | the | a generation which | relation between Church and State. | root in Germany with Luther and in Eng- | vexed the world for centuries. Thi PED, RR General Grant's Religious Crusade. It seems to be the old story over again. History is repeating itself, even in this America, free and independent, which is supposed to have all the advantages of the older nations and none of their burdens and cares, If there is anything which we seem to be fgee from in this country it is religion in politics. The dream of all good men has been to secure that perfect system where Church and State are apart in every sense; where religion and politics have no sympathy and no relation; where the things which are Cesar’s should always be rendered unto Owsar and the things which are God's to God. Is it possible that in celebrating the centennial anniversary of our independence we find that we have failed in this, and are really on the eve of one of the most important changes in our history— a change which has never been seen in other nations without humiliation and pain? Nothing is more beautiful in the history of Christianity than the narrative of its earliest years. In the two or three centuries after the crucifixion of Christ the persuasive and gentle influence of His life and teachings in- spired all Christian souls. Then Christianity was in its budding and blossoming time. Then persecution came from the remnants of that vast, mighty and intelligent paganism which once ruled the elder world. Then tempta- the hearts of the followers of the meek and lowly Jesus. They were disciples in the truest sense. They were content to live after the manner of those who fished in the Sea of Galilee and wandered from | town to town, not always knowing where to lay their heads. It was in that fresh and early time—those dawning hours of Christi- anity—that the Church was rich in saintly names, in heavenly illustrations of piety and virtue, in glorious martyrdom. Then it was that saints walked the earth. To that time devout soul even now turns with reverence when it would think of | the trials and sufferings and glory of the Christian life. The Church grew stronger as it grew in years. The de- scendants of the fisherman live in royal palaces. The servants of the Christ whose disciples were content with locusts and wild honey worship Him in splended churches, with all the pomp of a gilded age. Wher- ever we see the Church, either in its Catholic form, as in France, its Greek form, as in Russia, its Episcopal form, as in England, its Methodist form, as in America, we see a rich, striding influence, with daring spirits in its seats of authority, aiming to rule man- kind from the altar and the pulpit. This we see, too, in spite of that solemn lesson so often told in human artnals, that when the government of morals and | belief becomes assimilated with the government of human affairs the end | is disastrous, and yet there is scarcely | is not fraught with | the admonition. From the moment that | Christianity grew out of the earlier in- fluences, when living, as it were, under the | sacred shadow of the cross, it seemed to be especially hallowed, to be a religion of sim- | plicity and peace and harmony. We have | had, over and over again, the unfortunate | We saw it in Spain, when the resolute and ambitious Charles V. and his sullen, dark-minded, but no less able successor Philip IL, in their effort to stamp out opposition to their faith, gave it a new life—even the life which took | land with Henry VIII. We saw it in France, when the massacre of St. Bartholomew, which was to exterminate the Protestants, was really the foundation of the Huguenot schism. The result of these efforts to make religion a political power was the | founding of a new religion in Ger- | many and England; a religion which | was only enabled to live after many eruel and bloody wars and generations of misery and disaster. We saw it in England, when a military adventurer of supreme and lofty genius founded a religious dynasty, | based upon a narrow creed, but so strong | that if his son had not been a worthless, | foolish waif, England to-day would hold al- | legiance to the name and blood of Oliver Cromwell. But that government, resting upon fanaticism and valor, fell, and the fall was disastrous to the religion itserved. From that day to this the name of Puritan has | never been a welcome one to Englishmen— | just as the result of the Spanish Armada and | the religious ambition of Philip was to banish Catholicism, so far as Great Britain was con- | cerned, into the mountains and bogs of | Ireland. | The seed which grew so rankly, and in the end to such an unwholesome fruitage | under the military protection of Cromwell | and his adventurers, found lodgement in New | England. Here and there and now and then there were little bursts of persecution | arising out of the settlers attempting to gov- | | ern their sparse colonies as their fathers and | friends had governed England. But the | braingy heel did not make a deep impression upon our hard, virgin soil. The provinces flourished. Episcopalian in Virginia, Catholic in Maryland, Quaker in Pennsylvania, Puritan in New England, When the Revolution came the wise men who accomplished it gave earnest, instant | heed to the religious problem which had y looked at it as statesmen and as Christians. For the good of the State as well as that of Christi- anity they made known that here religion and politics, Christianity and government, should for ever and ever remain apart—that | the things which were Cwsar's should be | rendered to our Cmsar, as expressed in the constitution, while the things which were God's should be rendered to God, It remained for the military adventurer who now presides over this country to imi- tate Cromwell and seek to destroy this happy | and well-tempered policy. It remained for | Ulysses 8. Grant to accept a nomination for a third term, a nomination whose very spirit implies an invasion of a sacred constitutional tradition from a religions Convention. We have never before seen this in our politics, and unless history proves the liar with America the end can only be disaster. Grant, like Cromwell, only seeks tho aid of religion when he wonld do an unlawfal deed. For if there is any value in that tradition which | civil officers of the States or Territories along | the border. | isin this language:—‘‘On the part of each | chief civil authority of said frontier States or | us during the Centennial year the best men at | | stolen cattle ever known along the Rio | larly hard that the T consecrates custom into a law, ns sacred as an enactment, the running of a President for a third term is an unlawful act. John Quincey Adams spoke of two terms as our “common law.” It is so clearly this that to violate it now is the infringement of a tacred precept of our liberties, It would be the first step to the Empire, and in that path the first step unresisted and successful is all. It may be said that the President is not responsible for the acts of a Methodist Convention and a somewhat lively mercurial Bishop, fluent in speech. But the Presi- dent is responsible to the country that no scandal shall fall upon his place, that no wrong shall be done to the constitu- tion, that no profane hand shall touch the ark of the covenant of our liberties. He is more responsible for the Boston Convention than Bishop Haven. In sucha time and before such a peril silence is a crime. He should have said,.and at once, with fervid speech, that the introduction of any religious ques- tion into politics wasa crime. He should have said with anger that the attempt to keep any President in power by religious fanaticism was treason to the very spirit of our liberties. He should have reminded these heedless priests and laymen that it was their business to save souls, and that the naming of his name in such a canting rela- tion as candidate for President on the plat- form of true Christianity was an insult to him, as well as to the flag which he served, and which is the emblem of no nobler right than the liberty of religion.. This is what Grant should have done. On the contrary, he has made himself a party to this nomina- tion, and permits his name to go to the coun- tryas the leader of a religious crusade—as the new Cromwell, who would violate | the constitution to become the pro- tector of the Protestant religion. No President ever did an act more deserving of | severe censure. And we shall hold the democratic House as altogether unworthy if it does not exhaust its rights and preroga- tives as the representatives of a free people to oblige this military sphinx—who after rul- ing us eight years, because we were grateful | for his prowess, would now rule us to the end of his days by the aid of religious | fanatics—to show a decent respect for the constitution, the laws and the sacred tradi- tions of our government. The Extradition Treaty with Mexico. Our despatch from Brownsville, Texas, re- lating to the claim for the surrender of a felon confined in a Mexican jail at Mata- moros brings into view a peculiarity of our extradition treaty with Mexico, which differs | from all our other treaties of the same kind by allowing the demands to be made by the The fourth article of the treaty country the surrender of fugitives from jus- tice shall be made only by the authority of the Executive thereof, except in the case of | crimes committed within the limits of the frontier States and Territories, in which | latter case the surrender may be made by the | chief civil authority thereof, or such chief civil or judicial authority of the districts or | counties bordering on the frontier as may for this purpose be duly authorized by the said | Territories.” In the case described in our | despatch one Harris, who has been detained j for three months by the Mexican authorities, at the request of the federal court in Texas, and who falsely claimed to be a German sub- | ject, is still kept in custody awaiting a de- mand for his surrender, and the Sheriff of | Dewitt county, Texas, has appeared in Mata- moros to ask for his extradition. roposed International Cricket Match— “Eleven Gentlemen of Ireland.” . While, as is well known, our rowers and riflemen have been arranging to have with their work whom Europe can produce, and | that various other of our sporting interests are | active in the same direction, it is gratifying | to learn that friendly nations across the | water are already taking the initiative and | mean to put us to our best in still another | | direction. By advices from Mr, Wilson King, | the American Consul at Dublin, the ques- | tion of sending over a cricket eleven to | on attend the Exhibition is being agitated in | | good quarters. “Eleven gentlemen of Ire- land” is the project, and the hope is to have them men of high social position and skilled | cricketers. It is almost idle to add that these gentlemen will receive here as hearty a welcome as did our riflemen in their land, and that the friendly expressions of those of | our cricketers who have already heard of the plan but suggest what is in store for them | from the moment they land on our shores, | Should picked elevens from England and | Scotland also come, they, too, would find Brother Jonathan in his best vein, and have reason to always remember with pleasure his bounteous hospitality. MeNenry's Gattant Rar into Mexico, whereby he procured the first return of Grande, is described in our Brownsville | special correspondence, It seems particn- ‘exan rancheros should be left at the mercy of the Mexican cow | thieves by the United States. If the brigands, | however, only know for certain that a man like MeNelly is ready to cross the river after them the cattle business will be less risky in Texas. Tur Mernopist Ciencrmen do not all take kindly to Bishop Haven's prayerful nomina- | tion of President Grant for a third term ‘The series of interviews with clergymen of that persuasion which we publish to-day does not indie \te wide acquiescence in the | manner of Bishop Haven's nomination ; but | a good many of them plainly leave the door open for quiet action in that direction. It may be that the Bishop is looked on more as amarplot than a man in erroy This view of the case is particularly suggestive. ‘Tue Wuiskey Fravns are gradually assum- ing their proper proportions. The impulse for several people who have felt the lash of the law to tell all they know will eventually mark the furthest verge of the conspiracy, | and then it will be the fnult of the law if any guilty man eseapes. An ugly coincidence of dates for General Babcock is poittted out in | our Washington despatch, | were of the highest grade, 113 were medals | fourth national rank as to agriculture, and | RO gorgeous display of high art, but in her | difference that the prices of the former were Spain at the Centennial. The journals from Madrid announce that Francisco Lopez Fabra has been appointed Royal Commissioner to the Centennial Ex- hibition in Philadelphia, and would sail from Liverpool for New York early in the present month. To the newspaper press of the United States his selection has especial interest, for he was the founder and is the manager of the Fabra Agency in Madrid for the collec- tiop and distribution of news. Since his royal appointment the number of those pro- posing to exhibit Spanish products in Phila- delphia has suddenly and enormously in- creased. His popularity among the rich manufacturers and farmers of Catalonia and Valencia rests largely upon the intelligence and activity with which at the Vienna Exhi- bition he assisted the Commissioner Emilio de Santos. There are facts in the official report of the awards made at Vienna to different nations for excellence in agriculture which are cal- eulated to arrest the attention of those who associate the Spanish peasant with an ignor- ant worker in exhausted fields, untaught in the use of modern machinery, uninstructed in the application of steam to the cultivation of the soil, trudging stupidly behind a plough made after the pattern of the primitive agri- culture of Rome. It will be remembered that the year of the Vienna Exhibition was one. of the darkest and most distressing in the annals of the unrelenting civil strife of Spain. ‘There was insurrection in far-off Cuba; the Carlists occupied the best portions of Northern and Northeastern Spain; Communism and Can- tonalism in Malaga, Cartagena and Cadiz kept the then republican government at bay, and the capital had little communica- tion with the outside world, excepting by the short strip of the Mediterranean from Castellon to Alicante. One wonders how, out of such trials of war, she sent to Vienna either exhibits or exhibitors of peace. In- deed, her exhibitors in some departments were so few in the number actually present in Vienna that she was not, under the rules, entitled to a juryman, and this may at least. be taken as evi- dence that there was not intrigue or un- due influence in her behalf. And yet out of this blood and fire in the Peninsula 1,800 exhibitors attested by their exhibits the vi- tality of the Spanish race under long years of most calamitous adversity, of which 1,149 were rewarded by prizes, and of these 8 for progress, 365 were medals for merit, 21 were medals for fine arts, 4 for good taste, 43 for co-operators, and 56 diplomas of merit. The United States, on the other hand, had but 643 exhibitors, and received only 349 prizes. The awards at Vienna placed Spain in the this, in comparison with the seventh rank, which she held at Paris in 1867, makes ap- parent her real progress in that which, no doubt, is the secret of the vitality and endur- ance during the foreign or civil wars from which she has scarcely had interruptior since the beginning of the present century. As matter of interest at this moment, in re- lation to the coming Centennial, we give the following tabular statement of the awards at Vienna to each nation in the agricultural department:— —Medals for-— Co-oper-. Diplo- Nations, Progress. Merit. ators, “mat. Totals, Austria (Upper)... M4 19 ‘Austria (Lower) 3 7 10 59 3 12 | 12 22) Mu Germany . Great Britain N etherlands New Zealand. B] Hem omar Re Bacio mmm ee ma toe euscSBoBES! acutcBateBas-aneSaue PBRoBSS) awHol SHS! Sl el wl oS] oor he . I FETED EL ET TET EE TE betel PPLE Tat tet atl i Venezuela Victoria 1 In other industries the Spanish section | exhibited conspicuously the useful combina- tion of cheapness and goodness. There was | woollen, cotton, leather, earthenware and other minor industries she was well répre- | sented. The tiles of Valencia and Barcelona received the same medal of progress as did | Minton, of England, but with the practical much less forthe same quantity. Her woollen manufactures received the grand diploma of honor, her leather goods the medal for prog- ress and her inlaid steel and Toledo blades the diploma of honor. It is among the many advantages and bene- fits of the coming Centennial that it will, throngh the eye, teach our people so many things about foreign nations of which they are now profoundly ignorant, and remove a mass of prejudice unconsciously imbibed. For this reason, among others, we ought to welcome to Philadelphia Spain, her Royal Commissioner and her daily increasing ex- hibitors. Deatn axp Derrctive Drarnacr.—Else- where we print an article which sets forth | the great injury to health and consequent | lows of life resulting from the wretched de--| fects in the ventilation and sewerage of our most crowded tenements. While the grasping rapacity of landlords and con- tractors will account for the faults in construction it must be admitted that popular ignorance is most to blame for allowing the faults to go unremedied, If the poor who huddle and perish in the poisonous dens could only know for them. selves the dangers they run and the diseases they invite we are certain that matters would soon change. But those who suffer most | from these causes are the most apathetic. Meanwhile the Board of Health, which has at last placed itself abreast of the progress in the science of hygiene as regards new bwild- | ings, should see to it that they have their hands strengthened so as to compel a reform in the old, | diplomatist, | learned to understand our very simple form | New York's believing Christians toa sharp | with a-musket anda Bible, to the chilly, -wanting yesterday. We have patent heaters | | Ju A New Ally for Spain, We trust the President will be a little careful how he allows Mr. Fish to talk to Spain. That country has lately received a reinforcement so important and powerful as to make her formidable beyond, perhaps, any other nation in Europe. Her new ally is no less a personage than the redoubtable editor ofthe Cronista, the Spanish newspaper published in New York. Mr. Ferrer de Couto, seeing Spain in deep waters, hastened over to Madrid some months ago and offered his alliance to the Spanish government. Not only his alliance, indeed, but his advice; the sum total of his wisdom ; all he knows ubout the condition of the wretched country iff which he edits a news- paper; all he knows about the art ‘of war; about the arts of polities; about the management of national and interna- tional affairs. Mr. Ferrer de Couto, accord- ing to his own account of himself at a din- ner party which he gave last ménth in Mad- rid, we take to be a kind of second edition of Prince Bismarck, bound in calf. He seems to have been, like the late Mr. Pickens, of South Carolina, ‘born insensible to fear.” He has had the remarkable shrewdness dur- ing his residence in New York tosee through that hollow and glittering fraud, the Ameri- ean Union, and he kindly invited the jour- nalists and some of the officials of Madrid to dine with him, im order that he might make them, if possible, almost as wise as himself, Having invited these gentlemen to dine with him it was but natural, perhaps, that Mr. de Couto should take up the greater part of the evening with a speech. His victims appear, from the report before us in the Madrid Politica, to have listened with becom- ing awe to their host. On his part he evidently meant to impress them with his knowledge, power and general importance. He told them that they could make no greater mis- take than to imagine the United States a powerful nation. He gavea lamentable ac- count of the vast-and distressing burden of our debt—which we fear he cribbed from a campaign speech of Governor Tilden—of the internal dissensions which threaten at any moment to split us into three independent and hostile nationalities—the East, the West and the South ; of the poverty of our people and the weakness of our fleet, which, he has discovered, contains only fifteen miser- able iron-clads, not one of which dares stick its bow outside of the mouth of the river it haunts. Hoe showed them that the President cannot make war without previously getting the unanimous consent of the States, and he told them that Spain had only to show she was not afraid to make this great bully eat humble pie. A single article of his own, in the Cronista, had at one time, he assured his audience, suddenly raised the price of gold thirty-three per cent in New York and affected disastrously the value of not less than two hundred securities, and he hinted that in the sacred service of Spain he would not scruple again to inflict sucha blow upon our finances. Finally he sug- gested that negotiations were tedious and that war was a shorter method. ‘‘We,” he remarked—meaning, probably, Spain plus Mr. Ferrer de Couto—‘‘we could defend Cuba without losing a gun.” It was hardly fair in Mr. de Couto thus pitilessly to expose our weakness in Madrid—where, we are convinced, the gen- tlemen at the head of the Spanish govern- ment must have been as much amazed at his account of the United States and him- self as undoubtedly Mr. Cushing was dis- tressed and humiliated. At last advices Mr. de Couto had not assumed the command of the fleet to which—unless they are laughing at him as a yainglorious meddler—the Span- ish government must have appointed him. We advise the journalists of Madrid not to rely too firmly on Mr. de Couto. He is, per- haps, a fluent after-dinner speaker ; but his abilities as a statesman, a historian, or a rest on very slender founda- tions. In fact, there are people over here who laugh at him as one who has not yet of government, and who is sometimes sus- pected of a desire for notoriety. Cold * Weather and Warm Religion. The extremely cold weather yesterday put test of their devotion to the service of the Lord. The icy blasts, however, found the followers of Christ prepared to brave them, and the churches were well filled. This { could not be otherwise with a people holding | dear the memory of those sturdy pioneers who went through the winter snows, armed hard-benched meeting houses of New Eng- land two centuries and ahalf ago. The sermons, telling, in language hot enough to warm the shivering Puritans, of the flaming eternity prepared for sinners were, however, now that make our churches comfortable and allow the preachers to give us sermons cool and balmy enough for a summer's day ; 80 that he who looks over our religious re- ports will search almost in vain for hot homilies to set off the polar weather. Mr. Frothingham was coldly philosophic. He | discussed faith vs. reason at learned length | and concluded that the day of unreasoning | faith had gone by. The Rey. Mr. Hepworth joins issue with him on this and rebukes the | man who would rely on mortal knowledge, “Don’t worry,” he says; ‘if you have faith | in God you have everything.” It may be | winter without, but in Plymouth church Mr. Beecher gave out a breath of spring | when he said that the man who patterns his | life on Christ's will be filled with tranquillity | and will blossom out in joy. He preached & joyous, warm-hearted God of sunshine very grateful to the man who does not be- lieve that fasting and frowns are essentials to sanctity and acceptableness to the Great Dr. Armitage preached a campaign of Hbliness with a vigor that shows he does not believe that the army of the Saviour should ever go into winter quarters, but push the war ‘on Satan, In! this long struggle the ground is never too heavy for operations, Mr. Talmage, who takes his illustrations from anything of current interest, did not allude to the weather, but followed the | young man of to-day through the tempta- tions that beset him. He said, among other things, that he never has ‘had faith to pray | for an old politician,” This the old politi-. | Herzegovinian problem. cians will regret, as wedo. He supposes that God could convert one, but he never knew of a case; but if the reverend gentle- man will only bring home to that wicked class the truth of his saying, that “One with God is a majority,” he will hear of more con- verted politicians than he could count in the longest day of the year. It is worth a The President Pro Tem. of the Senate. The resolution of Senator Edmunds that the Senate elect a President pro tem. on the 7th of January, which has been referred ta an appropriate committee, was not offered in a spirit of hostility to Mr. Ferry, but in order to settle and put beyond doubt or cavil a question which might become troublesome if President Grant should be suddenly taken away. In that event it would be a public calamity if the Senate should recognize Mr, Ferry and the House should recognize Mr. Kerr as the legal successor. Of Mr. Kerr's title to the Speakership there is n@ question, but there is a question as to Mr. Ferry’s title to be consideréd as the President pro tem. of the Senate; and the doubt ought to be re- moved while as yet party passions are not inflamed to distort the law and bias the de- cision. There are conflicting precedents as to whether the President pro tem. elected by the Senate at the close of a session con- tinues to hold that office after the recess, and a point which may prove so important ought to be put beyond the reach of cavil or controversy. It strikes us that the wisest and safest way to settle this question would be by an amendment of the rules of the Senate. The House has a standing rule, which makes its Clerk and all its other officers elected at the beginning of each Congress, except the Speaker, to continue in office until their successors are appointed, and in pursu- ance of this rule the Clerk of the preced- ing House presides over the organization of a new one. The Senate should estab- lish a similar standing rule in relation to its President pro tem. It is usual, when there is a Vice President, for him to vacate the chair on the last day of a session and furnish an opportunity to elect a temporary presiding officer as a precaution against accidents to the President and Vice President during the recess. There can be no question that if both of these officers had died before the assembling of Congress Mr. Ferry would have become President of the United States in strict pursuance of law ; but it is doubt- ful whether his office did not end at the opening of the new session. It certainly would have ended then if Vice President Wilson had lived and taken his seat. Whether the mere sufferance of the Senate without a new election establishes such a valid title to continuance as would make him | the lawful successor of a deceased President isa point on which the conflicting precedents and the absence of any settled rule throw so much uncertainty that it ought not torun on without an authoritative decision; and it was proper for Senator Edmunds to raise the question and attempt to bring it to a settle. ment. The fittest thing for the Senate ta do under the circumstances is to adopt a standing rule that the President pro tem. elgcted on the last day of a session shall con- tinue in office until his successor is ap- pointed or the Vice President appears in his seat. Ifthe Vice President then happens to die or to succeed to the Presidency during a recess there will be no possibility of a va- cancy in the office which stands next in the line of succession. As such a standing rule might not operate retrospectively it would still be safe to re-elect Mr. Ferry, which wa suppose might be done without serious op- position, as the question is not raised to dis« place him, but only to settle a doubt. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. . The Chicago Times makes Tennyson live at Gad’a Hill, Mr. James A, Bayard, of Delaware, is residing tem. porarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Ex-Speaker Blaine was in early life Professor of Mathematics in Drennon college, Kentucky. Witham Irwin, Governor of California, is a native of Butler county, Ohio, and forty-eight years of age. Donald G. Mitcholl, (Ik Marvel) nelped to get up tha designs for the Connecticut cottage at the Centennial, A girl of San Luis, Mexico, struggled with a burglar and assaulter for three hours, at the end of which time she killed him, Living In part of a house may be plebian, but nobody will deny that it is aristocratic to live on a flat, even if it be part of a house. The Hebrew Leader thinks that the Jews hava. | strengthened, as a race, by dispersion, and that they will not return en masse to Palestine. _ That much talked of telescope, it is said, has really brought the moon within ten miles of tho earth. One or two turns more of the scrow may bring the whole thing down on us. Says a scientific authority:—‘Tno wine crop of France this year would fill aditch three and a-half feet wide, three and a-half feet deep and 4,000 miles long,” Now, don’t you wish you were a ditch ? The Mobile Register ondeavors to show that the peos ple of the South are in a better condition than those of the North, by.proving that in the North investments in cotton spinning mills yield an average of 17.98 por cont, while the Southern mills pay an average of 24.14 per cent, or over six pg cent more.than the ae mills, At Rawlins, Wy. 7, a new comer went up *s one of all the young ladies who were sitting on the gentlemen's laps and, inviting her to dance the next set with him, was taking her away, when tho pard from whose lap she had risen pointed his revolver ag the now comer and said, “Stranger, sot her back, sot her back.”” Mr. James T. Ficlds visited Pomeroy, the boy mur- derer, in his jail recently, and learned from him that he had been a great reader of blood-and-thunder stories, He had read sixty dime novels, all about scaiping and other bloody performances, and he had no doubt thes¢ | books had put the horrible thoughts into his ming which led to his murderous acts, A more moderato project which was some years ag¢ proposed by the historian Ranke bas lately been ro vived by Mr. Von Sybel m a 8; h at Berlin on the The iggestion that thr Mohammedans should occupy the towns and the Chrie tians tho rural districts, though it sounds strange might perhaps not be found utterly impracticable, “Hailstones the size of oranges recently fell in Chi huahua, Mexico.” Thisttem shows how production as Buckle might have said, has an effect upon language If the hailstones bad fallen in Union square tho item would have been, ‘‘Hailstones the sizo of billiard | balls,’ in Boston, ‘the sizo of fall pippins;”’ in Cincin. nati, ‘the size of coal dust;” in Clevoland, “the size of popcorn balls’? it is now claimed that the Presifent had nothing t do with Henderson’s appointment, beyond signing thy commission at Attorney General Piorrepont’s request When after Henderson's attack the Attorney Genera asked of the President why he did not suggest tha Henderson was hig personal enomy, the President it reported to have said:-—-‘Because {had determined at the beginning of this exposure of fraud to do nothing that could be construed into a wish to interfere in the htost degree with the punishment of the criminals, ? Why, than. was Hendaraom remawad?