The New York Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1875, Page 8

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Prestpett Grant's Mezssacer, as will be seen from the extracts which we reprint this morning, was generally discussed by the English press. Caxat Commissroner Tuayen's Testimony before the Canal Commission is instructive reading, but the light it sheds upon the practices of State officials cannot be regarded with much satisfaction. Tur Fren@a Assempty has completed the elertion of Senators, and the other members of the Senate will be chosen by the people. The contest in the Assemply has been a very | remarkable one; but the elections which are to follow are in every way as interesting. Ovr Avsrratastan Apvices this morning are mostly about the mines and the crops, | but there is a word in regard to the Chinese question, which is not dissimilar to the same issue in California, and there has been some disappointment owing to the falling off of | the Catholic vote. | Anotnen Steamsnip Disaster is reported by the cable this morning—a collision be- tween the Gironde and the Louisiane—re- sulting in the loss of the latter vessel and of sixteen lives, Gross carelessness, or culpa- ble lack of seamanship, must be the cause of these constantly recurring disasters. O. A. U.—The interviews which we print this Morning respecting this secret Order will be found very funny reading. A notable peeuliarity of many of them is that the per- sons whose opinions in regard to the Order are sought first deny that they belong to the society, and then tell many things concern- ing it which could be known only by its members. | But this does not necessarily imply that we NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1875.—TRIPLE Have Northern and Kastern Democrats Any Rights Which Southern and Western Democrats Are Bound to Respect!—“The Restoration of the * Bourboi The Speaker has made a grave blunder in the appointment of the committees. Taken in a practical point of view it would seem to be of little matter what members of the House were assigned to committees,” so that the business was well done, But | the growth of this country, like that |of Great Britain, has imposed 50 many new duties upon the represen- tative body of the govérnment that, prac- tically, legislation depends upon committee service, especially in a government where we do not have @ cabinet responsible to the House, a cabinet composed of learned and gifted men, to draw up bills and see that legislation is controlled by some sense of the people's rights. In the absence of such a body, which seems to be impossible in our government, the committees of the House, as the popular branch of the gov- ernment, assume an importance which can only be understood when we call them minor legislatures, practically responsible for the work of the session. There are some committees the chairmanship of which is of more importance than the Speaker- ship. A wise Speaker, thinking only of the people, would select these commit- tees for the good of the country, regarding also the rights of a party majority, the claims of States and sections and the best interests of the nation, Speaker Kerr seems to have been animated by a variety of motives, so far as his motives can appear from reading the names of the gentlemen selected. First, and above all things, he has taken care of his ‘‘bosom friends.” Mr. Morrison, as the champion “bosom friend,” takes the most important committee. Many years of service in the House have succeeded in convine- ing the country that Mr. Morrison is an ordinary wooden-headed Hoosier politician, whose voice was never heard in debate or council, and who, if Mr, Cox or Mr. Randall had been Speaker, would have been overjoyed with the Committee on Revo- lutionary Pensions or some such place. But he happened to be a crony of Mr. Kerr, and he is given the leadership of the House, to defend his party against, perhaps, the ablest minority ever seen in that body, headed by Even men as fit and honored as Mr. Hewitt and My. Chittenden, of New York, are for- gotten bya Speaker who was probably so much engrossed in the contemplation of his “bosom friend” that he did not know that such men were in the House and that they represented there the highest commercial and social standing in New York. It is painful to dwell upon a failure so deplorable as that of Mr. Kerr. It shows the value of the adyice of the Hearn, that the new party should not take an ailing man whose mind has naturally enough been upon his nerves and who does not'seem to know the men in Congress, but an active, live, prpgressive man who would givé the party life and ambition. We never believed that the new Speaker was a Bourbon, but he has restored every Bourbon in the House to power. We have them one and all, and if they do not make matters lively for all who have not a “good record” it will surprise us. As it now looks, the only interest that has been served is that prodigious, untiring, extensively ad- vertised, quack-medicine intrigue to give Mr. Tilden the nomination for the Presi- dency. From that point of view the action of the Speaker and the caucus looks intelli- gent and well directed, showing a disposition to give everything to the West and the South provided that Mr. Tilden might have the nomination for the Presidency. From this aspect of the case we can understand the whole business. But with all respect for Mr. Tilden we cannot fail to think that it is about as small and selfish and unworthy an intrigue as ever marked the advent of a great party to power. More than all, it will not succeed! We have given. the West and South nineteen-twentieths of the power, and they will never rest until they again have the Presidency. They had it with Lincoln, Johnson and Grant. They have the command of the army, the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court, the Presidency, the Vice Presidency (in Mr. Ferry), the Speakership, the principal foreign missions, the control of the leading committees in the Senate, and, practically, everything in the House. If our quack- medicine statesmen in the East imagine that this power will be surrendered they do not know the men of the West and South. They have no more idea of nominating Mr. Tilden than of nominating Mr. Wood. Thatintrigue has been used to strengthen the West in the caucus. Its uses are over. Mr. Kerr shows men as astute and experienced as Blaine and Garfield, members of his own commit- tee. he spectacle of Morrison actually called upon to antagonize these men would be laughable, if it were not a@ serious matter to a party which tumbled into a rebel ditch before it was a day in power, and which has only too many members dying for an opportunity to take it into another one. Mr. Kerr may plead illustrious democratic examples in this stand- ing “by his friends”—no less an example, for instance, than John Kelly. But if the Speaker has been reading any New York pa- per—which we doubt, as he has been in bad health and not disposed to weary his mind with irritating current events—he would have known what came of John Kelly’s effort. The second consideration in his mind seems to have been the Mississippi Valley. Among the cant of our recent poli- tics is this—that the Mississippi Valley is the ruling section of the nation, that politi- cians are born there out of some natural in- fluences that make it the country for politi- cal development, and that the main busi- ness of fhe East and the North is to pay taxes for the ‘‘Valley,” to support a post office department which has deficiencies be- cause of the sparse West, to endow railroads for ‘the development of the Valley,” and to pay foreign capitalists that fearful tax which they exact because the “Valley” is always talking about repudiating the debt and inflation. Mr. Kerr has given the ‘‘Val- ley” the control of the House, except so far ashe has asked the representatives of the old Confederate government to aid him. Nearly seven-eighths of the committees are given to the West and the South. Of the important committees only one, the Appropriations, is given to an Eastern man, Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, and grudg- ingly we can well imagine, remembering that the World took pains to intimate that if Mr. Randall were Speaker he would drive a half million yotes from the democratic party in | November. Mr. Cox has an important com- mittee, but Mr. Cox showed in his course on the Speakership that he was much more of a Western than an Eastern man ; that he was a Representative from Ohio still, who had come with his carpet-bag to New Yorks: So we give him to the West. Virtually all of the leading committees go West and South. Not one is given to New England, Even ina party sense nothing could have been more graceful than for the Speaker to have recognized in the per- son of some such man as Banks, for instance, that remarkable victory in Massachusetts which made Gaston Governor. But Mr. Kerr evidently has forgotten all about it, or perhaps Mr. Banks was not “loyal” or ‘‘vigilant,” orsomething of the kind, when Mr. Kerr was | in the field for Speaker. So New Englandis | not deemed worthy of recognition by a Speaker who has chairmanship after chair- | manship for the South, and especially for | men who would to-day be the rulers of a suc- | cessful Southern confederacy but for what | was done by the brave men of New England, without distinction of party, to save the | Union. Of course we are glad to welcome back to Congress and public life men who took a prominent part in the rebellion. We believe in the broadest amnesty and the generous treatment of them all as friends and brethren. think so little of all that was lost and gained | in the war as to approve of the action of a | Speaker who does not have a single honor | for New England, while he has twenty for | men who were on the side of the South. | That is a fact that will be remembered when | the masses of the country come to sit in | judgment on the work of this Congress. ‘Taken into consideration with the action of | the democratic caucus in not giving a | single honor to the East or the North, it can- not but lead to the deepest feeling. It may be said that this is “sectionalism.” But the “sectionalism” is not with us, but with a party which has not yet bestowed a single honor out of all of its multitude of gifts to any that he believes in his own people, and that he does not, as Speaker, think that the dem- ocrats of the North or the East have any rights which he or his allies in the West and the South are bound to respect. Wainwright—Dolan—Staudermann. Within a brief period justicé. has dealt more or less definitively with the cases of three distinguished gentlemen—Dolan, Wainright and Staudermann. Wainright has been thoroughly well hanged, and that is the end of him, so faras this world’s justice goes. He killed a woman whom he, perhaps, once loved. Staudermann also killed a woman whom he, perhaps, once loved. Governor Tilden has, however, commuted his sentence to imprisonment for life. Whether the Goy- ernor will pardon him next year or leave him to be pardoned by his successor we cannot say; but as commutation for life is simply a preliminary for absolute pardon in the vast majority of cases it is quite safe to say that within the next seven years Staudermann will be at large, and once more probably waiting on a corner with a pistol to kill some other woman for the crime of refusing to marry him. Strange that the Staudermanns condemn people to death for so little and execute their sen- tences so resolutely, and that all the ma- chinery of the criminal law is brought toa standstill by the effort to do as much, Dolan murdered his man, was well caught by the police, was proved guilty, and was sen- tenced to death. But Mr. Beach, who is of more consequence than the criminal authorities and the law—all the judges, juries and governors together—objected, and the place prepared for Dolan beside the three negro murderers was left vacant, for Mr. Beach went to Judge Donohue about it. Judge Donohue apparently sits on the bench to do the will of Mr. Beach and prevent the operation of the law, so that Dolan still lives. It was bad for Wainwright that Dono- hue did not sit on the bench in London; bad for Wainwright that these pitiful British judges and juries cannot take such a lofty moral view of a murderer's case as has been taken here over Stauderman. “Civil Service.” Among the committees appointed by Mr. Kerr is one on Civil Service Reform. The duties of this committee are, we believe, to see that good men are appointed to office and kept there during good behavior. The members are also to censure all attempts to dismiss competent men for political reasons, This is a good idea, and the sooner the com- mittee goes to work the better. Let it in- quire how many competent men, men of honor and capacity, who have been for years in the service of the House, have been dismissed in the past few days. Let it demand the rea- sons for these removals, the names of the persons appointed to succeed them, and the reasons for the appointment of these new men. Let it summon the Postmaster and ask him for the names the battalion of ex-Confederate soldiers | which have been brought from Alexandria to find snug berths in the capital they tried so hard to burn a few yearsago, Let it give the country the names of the members who | have recommended the wholesale removal of old and faithful and efficient servants of the House to make room for the squ@ds of ex- Congressmen, pcditicians, ‘‘bummers” and rebels who have been quartered on the House. There is no better way to begin this civil service investigation, The House is democratic. If the democrats mean to have this reform now is their chance, ~ It would not be a bad idea for Mr. Blaine to offer a resolution that will enable the country to see how the party has observed civil service reform. In the meantime we would like one of our correspondents to send us a list of these removals, of the time each removed officer has served the House, of those appointed and the names of the Congressmen securing their appointment, This will make interesting Christmas read- Eastern or Northern man but Mr. Randall. . | ine for “the civil service reformers.” of | Secret Societies. ‘The exposure in the Hznaup yesterday of the secret “Order of the American Union” has made a profound sensation. The an- nouncement that there is an Order. in this country secret, opposing the Catholic Church, or, to use its own words, ‘the in- tolerant, persistent, oppressive efforts of the Romanists ang, their evi ty aigation to control the government of the United States and destroy our civil and religious liberty,” is a grievous event. It is more par- ticularly so when we remember General Grant's’ Des Moines speech, Mr, Blaine’s letter on the constitutional amendment, the declaration of Bishop Haven at the Method- ist Conference in Boston, and this disposition of many followers of General Grant to make the third term an opposition to the Roman Catholic Church. These are the elements of the new political canvass. Take any one of these incidents by itself, and it is im- -portant enough as shadowing the purposes of the campaign ; but when we come to con- sider them as a whole, as a part of the same drama, the object is clear. We see a con- spiracy against liberty, the magnitude of which cannot be exaggerated. This society, as our readers have learned, is devoted to the fanning of the flames of religious and sectarian bigotry. There are no chapters in our politics so dreary as those which tell of the efforts of Native Americans and Know Nothingism and Loyal Leagues to affect political results by appealing to the religion of the people, to control the suffrage through secret, oath-bound, dark-lantern lodges. But when we seo that President Grant, Postmaster General Jewell and the Cabinet, and Mr. Blaine, the leader of the re- publican party in the House, have taken the oath of allegiance to this Order—for this information thus far stands uncontradicted— then it assumes even a new importance. The duty of patriotic men, without regard to party, is to wage a persistent, earnest war upon this whole system. The presence of any secret society in a republic is a sure sign of disease in the body politic. It is as dangerous to liberty as treason to the government, mutiny to the army, or a can- cer to the body. When we see this secret society, combined with the friends of the third term, a military class system, the Loyal Leagues, the Grand Army of the Republic clubs throughout the country, the most pow- erful Church in the nation in sympathy with the movement, with trusted bishops, men of brilliant and daring intellect, openly leading it, and, above all, a well drilled political party which has for years been in control of the government, which is now repre- sented in Washington by men of ability and ferce—when we see all these evidences 8f con- spiracy, we cannot say with too much em- phasis that all questions in the next cam- “paign must give way before this one ques- tion, “Can we preserve our liberties from a religious and military despotism ?” It is easy to sneer at a political campaign based upon these apparently alarming ideas. But there is nothing so dangerous to liberty as over-confidence. Ifwe permit the first in- vasion of our rights, wesurrender. It is like the dyke which keeps the ocean in its place ; the breaking of a finger’s gap would admit the resistless wave; and if we were to go back to the government as it was before Mr. Lincoln came into office and before the pressure of the war compelled many extraordinary exhibitions of power, we could show how steadily there has been vio- lation after violation of the constitution. Things are done to-day which, twenty years ago, would have been looked uponas treason- able in spirit if not in fact. Therefore the only way to win the next campaign is to lay down the one principle that the only question at issue is the liberty of the people. Men, without distinction of party, must rally around this platform. They must oppose os- tracism as shown in the attempt to enforce iron-clid oaths and Force laws upon the South; they must oppose Cesarism as shown in the effort to give President Grant a third term; they must oppose fanaticism as expressed by the efforts of Bishop Haven and his Methodist friends, and they must oppose that demagogism which President Grant exhibits in his messages, which has led him to threaten war against Cuba and Mexico and Spain in the interest of personal ambition. But the dangerous issue of all is that in- volved in this secret society. Here comes the duty of the independent press. Of course our citizens have a right to assemble in secret, form their own passwords and ar- range grips and signs and countersigns, and call themselves ‘‘Indians” or ‘‘patriots,” or “enemies of the Pope,” or what they please. There is no law against this; but there should be a public opinion strong in this doctrine, that whatever seeks darkness is cor- rupt, that any secret association attempting to carry political influence by intrigue is in- imical to our Republic. When we needa secret society to save our liberty or our re- ligion neither will be worth saving. The Methodists and the Third Term. We are sorry that the meeting of Metho- dist ministers in Cincinnati adjourned with- out coming to a vote on the question of cen- suring Bishop Haven. A resolution of cen- sure was offered, and after a warm and pro- tracted debate the meeting adjourned with- out taking any action. The attempt of Bishop Haven to drag the Methodist denom- ination into the mire of party politics was wholly inexcusable, and deserves the strong rebuke of his clerical brethren. The third term is # very different question, in all its moral aspects, from the great question of slav- ery, which split the Methodist denomination in twain previous to the civil war and led to the noted lawsuits in relation to the Church property. Slavery was question which touched the conscience of the Church, and it was justifiable to hazard a schism rather than show any tolerance for an institation which the great founder of Methodism denounced as ‘‘the sum of all villanies.” But the third election of a President is not a moral ques- tion ; it isa mere question of politics, To divide one of our great religious denomina- tions on such an issue would be an egregious folly, and Bishop Haven deserves censure for so mischievous and hazardous an attempt. When the Methodists divided on the glavery question it was o subject relating to the internal ef their, Church, the anestion being discipline | whether siaveholders should be admtttea to the communion. But the election of Presi- dent Grant a third time is a matter entirely outside the limits of ecclesiastical jurisdic- tion, with which no denomination can inter- meddle without subjecting itself to the im- putation of favoring a union between Church and State, Bishop Haven has not been for- pay sured by his Methodist brethren, | bul he received a warning, which he ought to heed, that he is putting the peace ofthe Church in peril by his impertinent advocacy of the third term and his attempt to dishonor the memory of Washington. Tilden and Kerr, The Tribune speaks admiringly of the ‘merve” exhibited by Speaker Kerr in disre- garding Mr. Fernando Wood's claim to the chairmanship of Ways and Means. The truth is that Speaker Kerr is the political ally and supple instrument of the Tilden clique in New York and has been governed by its wishes at every critical point in the formation of the committees. Governor Tilden staked all his chances for the Presidential nomination on the adoption of the New York platform by the democratic party at large, and every secret wire he could pull was used to bring forward Mr. Kerr as a candidate for the Speakership and secure his election. When he had succeeded in this point nobody should have doubted that the committees would be composed in the in- terest of Governor Tilden, Speaker Kerr is his creature, and it was not to be expected that he would rebel against his New York creator. When he knew that neither Mr. Wood nor Mr. Cox possessed Governor Til- den’s confidence it required no ‘‘nerve,” but only facile subservience, to set aside the pretensions of both to the chairmanship of Ways and Means. Mr. Kerr's election to the Speakership is the pivot of the Tilden canvass for the Presidential nomination. It was an inevitable consequence that the com- mittees of the House should be organized in the Tilden interest. It was not a display of ‘merve” on the part of Speaker Kerr, but the fulfilment of a political bar- gain, The composition of the committees is intended to forestall the action of the Democratic National Convention and force it to adopt the New York platform, thereby shutting the door against any Western rival for the democratic nomination. Speaker Kerr is the puppet of Governor Tilden’s political supporters, and it would have re- quired “‘nerve” and independence to have crossed their wishes. Mr. Morrison owes his promotion to his subservience to the New York clique. He has been their echo in the politics of Illinois; he was their tool in Washington in the zealous work he did for Mr. Kerr; and it isa part of their tactics to reward their friends and punish their enemies. Mr. Hewitt hasbeen shoved aside and slighted because he does not accept the free trade shibboleth. Mr. Kerr's instructions bound him to promote every insignificant man who is ready toshout for Tilden, and to humiliate every democrat who willnot work for Governor Tilden’s nomination, Hence the strange composition of the House committees, John Kelly’s Address. We have been honored with a copy of “the address to the electors” by John Kelly's dark lantern, Know Nothing lodge, Tammany Hall. This address tells us about “the principles of the democracy,” ‘the creed of Jefferson,” ‘the year of democratic rule,” the desire of the committee for rapid transit and the last election. This it regards as ‘the temporary success of placemen and demagogues.” ‘We have expected a Te Deum,” says the committee, ‘but lamenta- tions alone resound. The minor key of re- gret may yet swell into the symphony of self-condemnation.” If this means anythipg at all it means that the last election was a blunder and will bring harm upon the people because certain gentlemen were chosen officers, mainly judicial, defeating certain other gentlemen—namely, the candi- dates of John Kelly. No one denies that the ticket nominated by John Kelly was a good one. The fight was not upon the men, but upon the principles which those men repre- sented. What reason has the Tammany Committee for saying that the men who were successful will disappoint the people? The judges who come upon the Bench by the action of the anti-Tammany and republican alliance are men of stainless character and high reputation. We question if the Bench ever received the same number of judges of as high personal character as Sanford, who goes on the Superior Bench ; Van Hoesen, who goes on the Common Pleas ; Gilder- sleeve and Hackett, who take the criminal courts; Sheridan and Goepp, who become Marine judges. Notaword has ever been breathed against any one of these gentlemen, not asingle charge affecting their character as citizens or their integrity or capacity as judges, Therefore, for the Tammany ad- dress to intimate that they are bad men, “men whose names are an evil and reproach to the community,” is a slander unworthy of any political society and characteristic of the desperate demagogues who control this secret lodge and who, so far as they could, made the last campaign one of slander and defamation. Tammany Society grows quite eloquent over national politics, We have a great deal about the Whiskey Ring and the Crédit Mobilier and Grant’s course in the South, We are told of the ‘bloody shirt” of recon- struction and of ‘the howling dervishes of Know Nothingism,” but we have nothing whatever about the reorganization of Tam- many which was promised by the leaders at the close of the last canvass. John Kelly seems to ignore the one fact—namely, that the city of New York is disposed to manage its affairs upon good, sound business princi- ples. Tammany Hall, although it may nominate four or five good men, as it did last year, is yet quite capable of putting thieves in power like Tweed or imbeciles like Wickham. Kelly should know that the people of New York of the dem- ocratic faith propose, above all things, to strike down the dark lantern lodge which is the keystone of Kelly's power. This address is of itself so silly and absurd, such a violation of good taste and political common sense, as to be only another evidence of the incapacity of the leaders of Tam- many Hall to understand the first drift of csc ait Mi Te aan on SE OP punnc opinion. These leaders are about as competent to lead the democrats of this city as the swine who when possessed by the devils ran down into the sea. The Troubles on the Mexican Border. The disturbances on the Rio Grande con- tinue, and the exasperation they occasion only needs skilful nursing to make them, by and % a formidable instrument of President Tant’s ambition. It suits his purpose to play the religious card at present, but he holds Mexico and Cuba in reserve for a later stage of the gameif he should find them nec- essary.. It depends on the mere wil of the President to influence the border troubles to such a pitch that a war with Mexico would be inevitable. - Nobody doubts that wise and prudent management would bring these dif-_ ficulties to an amicable settlement; but nobody has any confidence that they will bo * dealt with in a proper spirit while we have a President who is bent ona third election and will hesitate at no means which he may judge necessary for success. ‘This fore- boding distrust of the Chief Magistrate of the country is a grave evil, because it unsettles the confidence of business men in the future at a time when there are so many other elements of uncertainty in connection with the finances and the currency. Presi- dent Grant could easily restore confidence and reassure the country if he would but renounce his third term pretensions.in une- quivocal language. He will not do this, and the public mind is accordingly full of jeal- ousies and apprehensions, watching every small cloud in the political horizon in the fear that it will gather into a storm, blacken the whole sky and pour down a deluge of ills. When the remedy is so simple Presi- dent Grant is inexcusable for not uttering the few decisive words which would be ac- cepted as a guarantee of tranquillity. Tax Brooxtyn Rive.—The papers in the long impending suit against the Brooklyn Ring were served yesterday, and the com- plaint is published at length in the Henanp this morning. The defendants profess to be anxious for a speedy trial, and we trust an opportunity will be afforded them to put their professions to the test. Spanish Ounces have long been famous for their effectiveness in diplomacy, but we doubt whether they will prove as useful in war. Their efficacy is to be tested in Cuba, however, and a price has been set upon the heads of the insurgents. Ten doubloons is a high rate for the killing of Cuban patriots ; but if anybody can be found to kill them for the price, it will be much cheaper than over- coming them by means of an army and regu- lar soldiery. GenznaL JoveiaR is to become Captain General of Cuba once more. We presume | that his second appointment, like that of Valmaseda, means that he is to pacify the island. Spain deals with Cuba as if she was playing a game of political hide and seek. It is not long since Valmaseda was sent to the Antilles to stamp out insurrec- tion, and now Jovellar returns to coax it out. Through all this the condition of the island remains practically unchanged, and the in- surrection is stronger to-day than it was five years ago. Wuen Men do an act which distinguishes them from their fellows it is proper the - story of their lives should be recorded. The world would gladly remember the names of all the heroes who assisted in defending the pass of Thermopylw, and it is not unlikely that most people will believe that the eighteen Congressmen who voted for a third term should also be immortal, In order to provide for such a contingency we print this morning sketches of their lives, together with a synopsis of their opinions on the question which gave them fame. Poxrricat Consistency. —When Mr. Blaine, as Speaker, appointed Mr. Kelley and Mr. Garfield on important committees he was de- nounced by the democratic newspapers for daring to show by such an act that he ap- proved their course on Orédit Mobilier. What a time they did make over this ‘“‘offi- cial indorsement of corruption!” Now, we find that Mr. Kerr, the democratic Speaker, elected mainly because he was the only honest man available for the place, has ap. pointed the same.gentlemen to the Ways and Means! Wo await with anxiety the angry comments of the World upon this extraordi- nary defiance of democratic ‘‘honesty.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Secretary of the Senate Géorge C. Gorham has jum become a widower. Senator John H. Mitchell, of Oregon, 1s residing temporarily at the Hotel Brunswick. Garter snakes are inoffensive, their chief delign: being to eat rats, The same may be said of Chinamen Spoaker Kerr is sald to be using his political powes wholly in the service of Governor Hendricks for the Presidency. If so—goou. Maria Davis, charged with bigamy at the Old Bailey, London, was released because the first busband, being totally blind, was unable to identify her. Mrs, Destonde, the new novelist of the South, is the daughter of the late Colonel Darrington, of Alabama and sister-in-law of General Beauregard, Mount Vesuvius has again begun to send forth great flamo of volcanic fire, and a Neapolitan who can not light nis cigarette at it deserves to go without @ smoke. ‘The crew of an English vessel certify that a sea ser- pont lifted itself out of the water sixty foet and alse whipped a whale, although there wasn’t much whiskey aboard the vessel either. President Grant recently wrote an editorial article about a column in length for the Washington Republi- can, So says Murat Halstead, wno has just left Wash- ington, and is drinking plain soda in Cincinnati. Josoph Arch, the English reformer, whose son was rocently sent to jail for stealing, seems to have deco negligent with his own family while trying to set the world on fire, This caso reminds ono ot Mrs. Jellyby in “Bleak House.’’ General William T. Sherman, accompanied by Mra. Sherman, and Colonel John E, Tourtelotte, of the General's staff, arrived in the city yesterday trom Su Louis, and took up his quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, The Boston Journal says:—‘Tt is a bit of forgotten history that Jefferson waa formerly nominated to the Presidency for a third term by the Legislatures of Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhode Island. He promptly declined the nomination.” Letters are distributed fifty-six times daily in Paria through pneumatic tubes, from and to the central offea ‘and its succursals; tim? of transmission, three minutes, If wo only bad such things in America G. W. Bluat and Private Dalzell could be kept busy, Just after the publication of his second volume Buckle attended @ séance by the notorious Home, and de scribed the effect on himself as being so peculiar that be never dared to go again, though extremely acsirous of investigating the mysteries of this subicct