The New York Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1875, Page 4

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He has, then, followed in the wake of Sharkey, the mur- derer, who was one of his pets in the old “Ring” days. Waux Street Yesterpar.—Gold receded to 112 7-8 after sales at 113 3-8 and closed at 113 1-8. Money showed a hardening ten- dency. Stocks were irregular. Investment securities were generally steady. Tue Suez Canatr.—The Khedive seems anxious to dispose of another large lot of shares of this great waterway. The English government is again a bidder, and its only rival is a combination of French capitalists. France is rather late in disputing the prize. Tue Exotisn ry Maxacca seem at last to have found a force of natives who are pre- | pared to fight. That the latter may offer serious resistance can only be gathered from the English commander's call for reinforce- ments. Sparn seems desirous of impressing the ‘world with her determination to pacify Cuba. ‘More troops and heavy guns are promised im- mediately, and when the Carlist war is over an efficient army is to be maintained in Cuba tsa measure of precaution. Thesaving clanse about the Carlists is rather funny, and sug- gests the catch of larks which we are to have when the sky falls. Tae Excirement on Tax Mexican Bon- per relating to the surrender of Harris un- der the extradition treaty continues, and a mmoros postpones a decision of this question, which is of such exciting local interest. It does not strike as as a» matter which is likely to involve the two countries in a serious difficulty. ‘Tue Faexcn Goverxaenr, in procuring the | of an amendment to the Electoral Districts bill reducing the representation of the city of Paris in the new Assembly from twenty-five to twenty, and that of | Lyons from eight to six, shows that it will | resort to any parliamentary expedient for keeping down the tndical population of these t Communistic centres. Cutting down Yepresontation is, however, & poor method of | special study long before he was promoted to ‘eontenting the masses, | defending an annual budget. “the function required nothing beyond a | ries that have spoken of the House commit- | such small duties as bring nothing into the , | Treasury. | rison is competent, and it makes little differ- | does not stop even here in its left-handed | | small way. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT The American Budget. That delicious stroke of satire in a noted French play, J! fallait un caleulateur, ce fut un danseur qui Tobtint, has been kept green in the memory of cultivated people by frequent occasions for its application to political ap- pointments. The assignment of a dancer toa place requiring the talents of a mathe- matician is got more grotesquely absurd than the appointment of a small, obscure, wire- pulling politician, like poor Mr. Morrison, to the highest position on the floor of Congress, Mr. Morrison is not indeed a dancer, except on political tight ropes, but he has | none of the talents of a financier or of a de- bater requisite for preparing, explaining and The selection | of a dancer to do the work of a mathema- tician might be defended by asserting that tapster's arithmetic ; and this is, in effect, the curious defence offered by Speaker Kerr's apologists, The only two of our morning contempora- tees with any patience or indulgence justify the selection of Mr. Morrison by attempting to lower the office to the level of the man. The substance of their argu- ment is that the Chairman of Ways and Means does not need to be a man of tals ents. The Tribune makes this defence cau- tiously in its Washington correspondence; the World boldly in its editorial columns. They agree, however, in making a virtual admission of Mr. Morrison's imbecility, and in dwarfing the requirements of the position to the small size of the man appointed to fill it, The Tribune says:—‘'The Ways and Means Committee of the Honse will be likely to have little business to transact during the present session of Congress. That no im- portant reduction of the tariff will be possi- ble this year seems to be admitted by the most enthusiastic revenue reformers.” If nothing is to be done it is of little conse- quence who is selected to go through the empty form of doing that nothing, The Tribune's logic is sound if we admit its prem- ises. But such a line of argument concedes that Mr. Morrison is incompetent if any important work were expected to be done, ‘Save me from my friends" is a form of deprecation for which there is frequent | occasion, and there is no man in whose mouth it would be more appropriate than poor Mr. Morrison’s, when it is found neces- | sary to belittlo his office to make it fit the pigmy size of the incumbent. The World's unconscious satire on the dimunitive talents of Mr. Morrison is still more damaging, especially as our modest | contemporary speaks in a tone of oracular | wisdom. We are diverted by the amusing airs it puts en, but its grandiose manner does not blunt its logical perceptions. It is curious to see how mercilessly the World slaughters poor Mr, Morrison while it thinks it is defending him. It has discovered that the chief task of the Committee of Ways and Means in this Congress is merely to go over the tariff list and drop out such articles as yield no revenue.. How simple, how sub- | lime is science! The great business of the Committee of Ways and Means is to nibble | at the excrescenses of the tariff and bite off If this be all no doubt Mr. Mor- ence whether we have un danseur or wn calcu- lateur at the head of the committee. Does the World realize what a blow it is dealing at the head of poor Mr. Morrison? If his du- ties are shrivelled to the petty dimensions so oracularly described it truly requires no ability to discharge them, and a dancer on the political tight rope would be just as competent for the chairmanship as a statesman who has given his days and nights to fiscal studies. But the sagacious World defence of poor Mr. Morrison. Besides lim- iting his function to the application of ‘‘the | rule thumb” to the list of dutiable articles, it proceeds to ‘‘coach” him in the perform- ance of sosimple a function. It paradesa list of thirty-eight articles which yield a | revenue of less than twelve thousand dollars, j and instructs him that he has only to go through the whole tariff in this spirit, drop- | ping the minor articles, to establish his | competency against all cavil. If the} task be indeed so simple the raw- | est member of the House should be equal to it without the elaborate and rather too pretentious coaching which the World thinks it necessary to bestow on poor Mr. Morrison. It unwittingly stamps him as an imbecile by first lowering the requirements — | tion and defence of a budget in all govern- | report Years of Financial Policy,” published in 1861, bears witness. Gladstone and Disraeli have been Chancellors of the Exchequer for longer periods than they ever held any other office, and the names of Pitt and Peel will occur to everybody as conspicuous in the illustrious line of statesmen who have been charged with the preparation of budgets. The official machinery for digesting a bifdget differs in different nations, but the principles of fiscal science are the same in all; and the same kind of abilities are required for the prepara- ments where the annual supplies are voted by the representatives of the people. The English budget is prepared by the Chancel- lor of the Exchequer, and the American budget by the Committee of Ways and Means; but however prepared it requires defence on the floor of the House. By the custom of the English government the explanation and defence devolves on the Chancellor of the Exchequer; by the custom of our government it develves on the Chairman of the Com- mittee of Ways and Means. But the task is substantially the same, and a feeble man is incompetent for its performance under either system. The keenest intellects of the oppo- sition are always alert to detect flaws in the budget, and the man charged with its defence must be equipped to parry all thrusts on the instant. If cunningly mischievous amend- ments are offered he must be ready to expose their fallacy. He must so fully understand the strength of his case as never te weaken it by failing to discover the best arguments at the moment of the onset, This requires such a complete mastery of the subject in its principles and its details that only a first class man is equal to the situation. But what a ludi- crous contrast is poor Mr. Morrison to the Pitts, the Peels, the Gladstones, the Disraelis of English finance and to the succession of able men who have acted as chairmen of the Committee of Ways and Means in our House of Representatives! The contrast is so striking, so overwhelming, so grotesque, that the apologists of poor Mr. Morrison confess its force by lowering the requirements of the office to the acknowledged incapacity of the incumbent. We might perhaps adda word, if propri- ety would justify it, on certain recent exhi- ditions of journalistic manners. But when any of our contemporaries think it necessary to pronounce eulogies on themselves and assert their superior wisdom we can only look with curious astonishment on a kind of exhibition which is never witnessed and would not be tolerated in cultivated society. There is no accounting for tastes; but, so far as we have observed, pretentious self-asser- tion is more characteristic of persons who feel that their position is doubtful or equiv- ocal, and who ‘try to make up by airs what they lack in recognition, than of people who have no reason to feel uneasy as to the recep- tion they are likely to meet with among | those who know them. An Official Denial. “But when we see that President Grant and the Cabi- net * * * have taken the oath of allegiance to this Order—for this Information thus far stands uncon- tradicted—then it assumes even a new importance,” We have good amthority for denying this absurd | story, so far as it relates to the President and the Cabi- | net, They have not been initiated in the Order’’ re- ferred to, and know nothing whatever about it. The HeRaup may accept this as an authorized contradic- tion.—The New York Times. We print the above paragraph in justice to President Grant. Of course the denial from the Times is official, and we are glad to believe that the President has not so far forgot him- selfas to form any relation with a secret political association. At the same time we cannot help saying that President Grant would add more to his popularity and keep himself more in sym- pathy with the people if he were to relax a little from the sphinx-like silence which has long marked his character and put an end to stories of this kind as soon as they appear, not only for his own good, but for the good of the nation. No one desires to associate with the President's name any story | or scandal that would do him harm or bring ‘dishonor upon his office. This denial which comes from the Times is prompt and conclu- sive, and if the President will only follow the example he thus sets in the future he will keep more in sympathy with the people and stamp out many of the unfortunate stories which have floated into circulation, and too frequently, we fear, into general and | accepted belief. | Borrowrna Rates rm Watt Street.—The | in our financial column that bor- | rowers at the Stock Exchange had to pay a premium of 1-32 of one per cent, beside | the legal rate of interest, for the use of money over night need surprise no one. of his place to the capacity of a dancer or a | tailor, and then instructing him how to meet | them. A Chairman of Ways and Means who needs the caution of the World to confine | himself to the mere fringes of finance and | who needs its oracular coaching in clipping | the ends of these fringes, must be a very | small pattern indeed. But we must, in can- | dor, admit that Mr. Morrison or Mr. Any- | With sixteen million bushels of grain ‘‘in | sight” at New York; with two hundred and fifty thousand hogs slaughtered this season | in Cincinnati alone, and with a cotton crop | to move estimated at four and a quarter | millions of bales, there seems to be oceupa- tion enough for the capital of the country in the channels of production and commerce, Newspaper Statesmen. We have two classes of journalists in America, each useful in its place, One is that quict, industrious, unpretending class which stays at home, edits its news- paper and minds its own business, The other is the statesman class, which never seems to be happy except when away from home, and feels that its function is to let the paper run itself while it runs the country. Of course it is not for us to criticise our gifted contemporaries, who believe that journalism is only a means toward a politi- enl end. We read also with interest of the occasional appearance of these press statesmen at Washington and other places, of their conferences, of their plans for “saving the country.” In one of the graphic pictures of the weird and beautiful correspondent of the World we had a delight- | ful etching of ‘Light Horse Harry” Watter- son, the editor of the Louisville Courier- Journal, taking a nap ‘‘on the sofa in Speaker, Kerr's room, after the fatigues of the day,” with Mayor Wickham beaming on him. Then we had a convivial picture in the Rubens manner of Mr. Bowles, editor of the Spring- field Republican, a distinguished statesman, and Mr. Halstead, of the Cincinnati Com- mercial, who has attained the rank of field marshal, and several other jour- nalists whose names are not unfamiliar, dining at the board of a member of the Cabinet. Now there is no reason why journalists should not dine with members of the Cabinet, especially if the dinner is good ; nor should we discuss the matter had it not come to us in the daily press. We note that these Cabinet dinners, these pilgrimages to Washington, produce certain results in the shape of favorite statesmen who are ‘‘brought ont” by these journalists. The Cincinnati movement, which ended so disastrously for Mr. Greeley, was a newspaper movement. Every month or two we have a new candi- date for the Presidency groomed and rubbed down and trotted on the course. Now it is Tilden, again it is Bristow ; and the singular thing is that these nominations for the Pres- idency, this grooming of favorite candidates, are as a general thing contemporaneous with the visits of the newspaper statesmen to Washington and the dinners around the boards of aspiring statesmen. But the favorite business of the newspaper statesmen is to separate General Grant's Cabinet into sheep and wolves. The Presi- dent stands between two influences—the wolves, headed by Secretary Chandler, and the sheep headed by Bristow and Jewell. Bristow and Jewell, we are told, are always on the point of being turned out of the Cabinet. They are “fighting whiskey rings and post office thieves.” They are ‘endeavoring to purify the administration.” Grant is “angry with them,” and they are “striving to sus- tain the honor of the country in spite of the President.” So steadily has this notion been fostered by the newspaper writers that there is an actual impression in rural communities that Bristow lives in terror of his life from Grant because of his war upon the Whiskey Ring. How far Mr. Bristow and Mr. Jewell are responsible for the impressions thus cre- ated it is not for us to say, but it looks as | if these two members of the Cabinet are newspaper statesmen of the same class as the newspaper generals who became so familiar during the war. The newspaper general was an officer who gave more time to writing letters to newspapers than to fighting. He kept correspondents on his staff. He saw that his portraits were sent to the illustrated newspapers, and letters de- scribing his achievements to the daily press. But the poor devil dropped into retirement before the war was over and has not been heard of since. The newspaper statesman spends most of his time on Newspaper Row. He hangs around the correspondents. If in the Cabinet he drops mysterious hints as to his ‘desires for reform” and his ‘‘diffi- culty in controlling the President.” If he is in the Senate he takes pains to have his | “independence” proclaimed to the world, along with his eloquence and virtues. He is diligent in season and out of season writing packages and dancing around the lobbies of newspaper offices. In time the truth comes out as in the case of Schuyler Colfax, who was probably the greatest newspaper statesman that ever lived, and the country discovers that the carefully puffed prodigy has been a fraud from the beginning, and not simply a fraud as a politician, but a cor- | tupt, shameless jobber. We believe with grand old Doctor Johnson, that nothing is better than to purge the soul | | of cant. Let us commend this advice to Washington correspondents. This cant busi- | ness from Washington has become a great nuisance. Correspondents are men like all of us—open to courtesies and gracious man- ners. give half a column to the newspaper states- man who betrays secrets to them and plies them with champagne, and ignore the mod- body is perfectly competent to revise our | without the large demand upon its resources | est, retiring statesman, who does not know revenue system on the plan so instructively | to carry along a hundred millions or so of | them efter six inteodectionn, paraded by the oracle, which correctly per- | ceives that the office must be dwarfed to | make it fit the small dimensions of the man. | paper representations of yalue in Wall street, which fluctuate from day to day to the joy or grief of their momentary holders, but with- | But when that ordeal comes which tries statesmen as well } as soldiers the champagne giving officer is nearly always as much of a humbug as But is the preparation and defence of the out adding one iota to tho real wealth or | Schuyler Colfax, while the distant, silent C y . e » annual budget of a great nation so petty a | matter as poor Mr. Morrison's apologists assume? Is it true that any person who can gain access to last year's revenue returns, and who weakly fancies that he has a mo- nopoly of its figures, is entitled to make a | spread of plumage and inscribe his name on | the roll of great financiers? The meanest | clerk employed by an English Chancellor of | the Exchequer in collecting the raw mate- | rials for his budget is equal to such a thange in the office of Chief Justice at Mata- | display if he could be so lacking in com- | mon sense as to air his wisdom in that But the real task of » Chan- | cellor of the Exchequer cannot be discharged | at so slight an expense of brains. He is not a quarryman, but an architect. He does not build his reputation on a cheap parade of misapplied statistics of no valfe in the hands | of sciolists, but on a broad grasp of the fiscal | situation, In no English Ministry has there ever been a teeble Chancellor of the Excheq- uer, and the office has been. generally held | by statesmen of a high order of ability. Sir Statford Northcote, who fills it nt present, is one of the least brilliant in récent times, but | even he made that class of subjects his the office, as his elaborate book, ‘Twenty | hardened sinners bei: prosperity of the community at large, On what are these valnes founded ? Tue Ricumonp Karraquake, which hap- pened at midnight of Tuesday, was not such a poor affair after all. Our correspondent in- forms us that the ‘first of the shocks was the most terrific of all, shaking and swaying the honses like the rocking of a cradle, rattling glasses and glassware, ringing Vells apd in many cases throwing persons | from their beds with force and violence to the floor.” Notwithstanding all this no- body was hurt, and we are glad to learn that | the short spasm of Nature had all the good | effects of prolonged ‘‘revival" led by | Moedy and Sankey, many of Richmond's ng suddenly converted, 1x have received an tions and opinions, and elicited a great many startling facts. The evidence taken yesterday was particu- larly interesting, and we commend that re- lating to forms of justice to our lawgivers, and that describing the adulteration of liquors to those about to celebrate Christmas and who intend making calls on New Year's Dave Tue Commitrre 0% immense mass of sugy | oer. | official is the real man after all. rence. Pierrepont on Case of Law- Extradition is a subject with which, if the general government is wise, it will not permit its would-be smart subordinates to play any foolish pranks ; and for this reason | the pote of Attorney General Pierrepont to Mr. Bliss, with reference to the case of Law- rence, is to be commended as delivering with proper emphasis precisely the right word at | precisely the right time. Lawrence was sur- rendered to our government by England on the charge of forgery—a crime specified in the treaty. The pretence set up Bliss, that with the criminal once in our possession we may try him for what crime we please, is the shallow, vaporing view of a trickster. It is even worse; it is an argument in the interest of this criminal, in the inter- est of all criminals, and that tends inevita- bly to the defeat of justice. TO take a crim- inal from the hands of England, surrendered | for forgery, and proceed to try himon charges for which she would not have surrendered him, is bad faith to her, and tends to weaken | the obligation of the Extradition law-—a result in which only criminals can take vleasure. letters and sending | It is not surprising that they should | by Mr. | If Lawrence's trial for forgery iw veen com- plicated by the other charges this would have justified an appeal from England to onr gov- ernment that might have resulted in the dis- charge of the criminal. From the false po- sition in which we seemed likely to stand on this case, and from the compromise of the national dignity, we have been rescued by Mr. Pierrepont's interference. Christmas Eve. There is a gradually rising scale of domestic excitement in the week preceding Christmas which finds its climax to-day. It culminates in an acute attack of brown paper parcels, morocco-covered boxes, small trees and ropes and wreaths of evergreens. As the master of the house (if it has a master) must furnish the tissue which is thus abnormally absorbed, Christmas Eve generally finds him ina debilitated state of pocket. . As with vaccination, however, the patient is generally able to withstand its effects, and even finds heart to be joyful over the dangers he will escape at the price of a little pecuniary de- pletion. Who would not rather rejoice the hearts of Bridget and Susan down stairs with new shawls and dresses than live a year of such misery as a recalcitrant cook and a vengeful housemaid can inflict? Who would not gladden the wife of his bosom with some jewelled trifle, however costly, rather than have his every hour out of doors counted over to him with reproachful and fiendishly persistent regularity? These, certainly, are the most selfish views of the case ; but in a season of ostentatious liberal- ity it does one good to be reminded how large a part the capital I plays in the comedy of Human. Life. We feel certain that every reader of the Heranpy who comments aloud at the family breakfast table on the above thought will denounce it as worthy the age of the Troglodytes, and not of New York in the ninetcenth century; but in the secret recesses of the heart he or she will indorse it. But we do not mean it unkindly. Why should we? When a man feeds his vanities and ministers to his selfishness by making others happy, we say to him, in the name of all the virtues, Go ahead and buy your Christmas presents ; gather them in ; glad- eyes of those for whom you intend the pretty is your last chance this year; improve it. Once it goes by you cannot recall it. Light up the Christmas tree, and, no matter how calculating your largess has been, you will garner a harvest of happjness that alone is worth the outlay. The Two “Washingtons.” The striking resemblance of Mr. Martin Farquhar Tupper’s new play of ‘‘Washing- ton” to an American play of the same name, written by Mr. David Sinclair and published in Boston in 1874, was first pointed out by the Heraxp, and has since been the subject of general comment. It is proper that we should correct a misapprehension of the press. Mr. Sinclair has not made any charge of plagiarism against Mr. Tupper. That charge was ofiginally made by a correspond- ent of this paper, who had read Mr. Sin- clair's drama and compared it with the ex- tracts from Mr. Tupper’s manuscript, as given in a letter from Colonel J. W. Forney to the Philadelphia Press. On looking care- fully into the matter it appeared to us to be a question of grave literary importance. found the two plays to be so marvellonsly | alike that the resemblance could only be ex- plained upon the theory of plagiarism or | upon the hypothesis of an astounding coincidence. The two plays have the same title, the subject is the same, the characters are the same, the meth- ods of treating the subject are the same, and the plots are wrought out in much the same manner. The resemblance of the style is still more significant. Passages from Mr. Tupper’s play might be transferred bodily to Mr. Sinclair's, and passages from Mr. Sin- clair’s to Mr. Tupper’s, and no difference in their poetical merit could be detected by the | ablest critics. These facts seemed to us not only to justify but to compel the inquiry, Is Mr. Tupper a plagiarist? But Mr. David | Sinclair has thus far made no claim, no | charge, and probably rests upon the convic- tion that, whatever may happen to Mr. Tup- per, his fame will not be harmed by the re- sult of the investigation. The correspondence which we print else- where relative to this painfully interesting subject contains some new points. Mr. Palmer makes the important annotncement that a complete manuscript copy of Mr. Tupper’s “Washington” is now in | this city, in the possession of Mr. An- drews, the humorist. We alsolearn that the | play was offered by Mr. Tupper for produc- | tion at Booth’s Theatre, but that the manage- ment was not fully assured that it was suit- able for the stage. This is to be regretted, and we question whether, if ‘‘Washington” could be brought out with the splendor of cessful. Several of Shakespeare's plays pos- sess the same foults as Mr. Tupper’s, though the merits are not in every case identical. Therefore, if ‘Richard IL.” and ‘Julius would be bat just to the modern poet to give his play the benetit of the same advantages. us that Mr. Sinclair is not an American, but a Scotchman. This, of course, will gain for his ‘‘Washington” the enmity of those | | Nebraska, I found it to be @ fact that Mrs, Southworth who believe that plays for the American Cen- tennial should’ be written by Americans—as Americans on gnard to-night"”—but we at- tach little importance to the nationality of | an author. Most of the plays we now have were stolen from each other, 80 that we see no reason for in- troducing Know Nothingism into the drama, question of plagiarism which has been un- happily, but unavoidably, raised between Mr. Sinclair and Mr, Tupper, and which it is absolutely necessary for them to settle, Tur Proposrrios that the ambassadors of the neutral Powers to the Porte shall super- intend the carrying out of the reforms in the | diseontented Turkish provinces is business- | like, Tt will certainly give the ambassadors plenty to do, and may stave off a while longer the day of dismemberment to Turkey. We den the tradesmen who sell; brighten the | things. Hang the evergreens high. To-day | We | “Julius Cesar,” it would not be equally suc- | Owsar” can be adapted to the theatre, it | | tion came, | noc A correspondent in Norfolk, Va., informs | Washington himself said, “Put none but | Englishmen, who stole | them from the French, who stole them from | | Such discussions are wholly foreign to the | (He oter more distasteful to Mussulman pride thaw submission to such external control. Turkey is the land of promises, and knows better even than Spain how to ‘‘keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope.” The Noble Band of Third Termers. In the multitude of Congressmen there were eighteen who stood firm in the day of peril. They faced not only the onset and furious affront of the enemy, but the certaim knowledge that they would be seen by tha country to have sold themselves respectively for messes of pottage. To danger and shame alike indifferent they stood nobly by the great source of Executive patronage. An examina~ tion of the composition of this forlorn hope of the third term may have some interest. It igs made up of four classes of persons, Thera are Northern men, resolute for spoil; therd are Southern men who believe that the offices they may secure will be of tangible value, but who doubt if this can be said of the na- tional freedom and constitutional precedents; there are carpet-baggers ; there are ‘‘cullud pussons,” who were slaves before the war. The negroes are Charles E. Nash, Louisiana; Josiah T. Walls, Florida ; Jeremiah Haralson, Alabama ; John R. Lynch, Mississippi; John Adams Hyman, North Carolina, and Robert Small, South Carolina. People who were born in slavery and received political rights but yesterday, as it were, can scarcely be expected to comprehend those prob- lems of national politics on which this topic turns; while, in common with their race, they tend to carry hero wore ship to deification, Their vote, therefore, is natural, and they with unconscious instinct favor aform of government that would cers tainly be better for them than any other form, because it would put them in political tutelage not greatly dissimilar from slavery. G, Wiley Wells, of Mississippi, and Solomon Hoge, of South Carolina, are carpet~ baggers, while John D, White, of Kentucky, and Alexander 8, Wallace, of South Carolina, are Southerners to the manor born, so far as known. Both the latter have probably a lively sense of official favors to come. Nat- urally the carpet-baggers have, like the cheap shops, ‘only one price,” which is—al] they can get. Wells, of Mississippi, haa had his pay in advance, for all the fed- eral patronage of Mississippi was recently transferred to him from Governor Ames. Of the eight others, California, New York, Towa, Illinois, Maine and Vermont have each one to be ashamed of, and Michigan has two. “Mail contracts” accounts for one, and the Internal Revenue Department knows most of the others. Five of these men are natives) of New England States, and the New York member is a Scotchman. Of this eight thera | are three who ‘didn’t mean to do it ;” that is to say, who voted for the third term fos some other reason than because they are in favor of it. It is to be hoped the reason were satisfactory—and substantial. A Tramp Cune is not an easy thing te find, but the example of Sussex county, New | Jersey, is likely to be followed extensively next tramp season. Sussex county lessened the number of these predatory idlers within its borders by furnishing them with stones to break when they asked for bread, and | finally giving them ‘‘cheap but wholesome food” when they had broken the stones, Like the nouveau riche of a hundred yeara ago who took his first ride in a bottomless sedan chair and thought it was very much like walking ‘except for the look of the thing,” the tramps would just as soon work | for a living as break stones for their break- fast ; hence they gave Sussex county, N. J., a black mark inthe ‘‘Tramp’s Own Guide Book.” ‘Tur Srare or Sonora, Mexico, seems to be in a state of anarchy. The Governor has levied a special tax to allow him to defend the quiet people from pillage by the revolution~ ists. They thus have a choice of evils. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Lester Wallack is sixty-two. The young French ladies do not, in, skating, exchange a word with their partners ‘ Charles Dudley Warner says beer is more soughtafter in Munich than Wagner's operas. Olive Logan is writing a book on “Butter.” Itis not a biography of John Morrissey. Volcanic Vesuvius has burst forth to redden the sky for miles round, like the nose of a Tammany Convens tion. Rev. Dr. & 8, Lows, of New York city, has been elected President of the University of the State of Missouri. Senators Theodore F, Randolph, of Now Jersey, and Henry Cooper, of Tennessee, are sojourning at the New | York Hotel. Speaker Kerr left Washington for Philadelphia yes- terday morning, where he will remain until after the Christmas holidays. Cinncinati Times:—Spinner, who is in Florida, writes his signature on the sands of a bayou, and the alligators come up to look at {t and iinmediatoly get the jim-jams. Professor F. V. Hayden, in charge of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, has been, elected an honorary member of the Circolo Geografico Italiano of Turin, Italy. General Sutter, on whose lind in California gold wae first discovered, is eighty years old, and lives in a poot | cottage at Litiz, Pa, where he is educating his grand- children in a German school. Many recent discoveries have been, made on the area Of ancient Chaldea, whence Rawlinson thought clviliza- Fifteen centuries before Christ there wero ks made on baked bricks by Kilah Shergat, One of these brick primers 18 thought to have hit Blee Pahter- ron, Bayard Taylor says:— “During a Jong tour of observa tion lust season, extending from New Hampshire te is still the novelist most in demand in the circulating Hibraries, yet, notwithstanding this fact, it is pretty certain that the lowest point of literary demoralizauion liad been reached and passed.’ Men are always gvod matured around Christmas Leta poor fellow go along the streets witha sy hemlock or spruce Christmas tree on bis ashing the eyes and noses of men, and they will not scold him, They think of how happy his children will be; they gently push aside the seratehing sprays and cast their eyes toward the striped stockings de of the street, When Genetal Sherman said that there ts room in America for 40,000,000 people who may be willing to toil in the country instead of lingering as clerks around cities he told a truth that ought to be heeded, If his remark | will aid to distribute some of the middle men of cities to the Western prairies the grangers may have their theory fulfilled without the aid of politics, It ig Mary Murdoch Mason who divides her sex into throo classes--the giddy butterflies, the busy bees and the woman’s righters, The first are pretty and silly, the second plain and useful, the third mannish apd odions, Tho first wear long, trailing dresses and smile at you While waltzing; the second wear aprons and give you apple dumplings, and the third want your manly prerogatives, your dress coat, your money and can, however, scarcely imagine anything | your voie