The New York Herald Newspaper, December 25, 1875, Page 4

4 ‘or! BROADWAY: AND! AMIE GT RBET. political sagacity equals its sprightliness, makes & point io relation to the religious support of the third term movement which well deserves attention. Sun's suggestion is obvious enough the moment it is stated. It is the rarest and most valoable talent of @ journal- ist to see obvious things which escape JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR disinepel NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yor Huzaup will be sent free of postage, — THE DAILY HERALD, miblished every | cannot retreat from the position which day in the Four cents per copy. | (rant, and Blaine, in imitation of Grant, ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per | have taken in opposition to the American ‘: : | Catholics, Blaine’s demonstration is of little free: of postage, to. anbacribers. | account because it is so palpable an attempt to steal Grant's thunder, the original paten- tee being always preferable, in public esti- mation, to tricksters who copy his trade year. month, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatebes must be addressed New Youx | ‘Terap, : Letters and packages should be properly mark. But whether Grant, or Blaine, or led. 8 “| Bristow, or some other candidate sneceeds in sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- | quite certain that the republican party will not back out of its declared hostility to the | i | | ‘~med. { Detect | LONDON OFF OF THE NEW YORK | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PATIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be reecived and forwarded on the same terms contest. It is too late to recover the ground in the Presidential canvass. On this exciting issue General Grant's chances are better than those of any other | candidate, because he was the first to broach = | the question and because those who think it srctt:NO. 39 | of paramount importance care nothing for the third term. The negroes of the South, a majority of whom are Methodists, have not been educated in the traditions of the Re- public, and the objections to the third elec- tion of a President have no force when ad- | dressed to them. Like all ignorant classes, they pin their faith on persons rather 26 in New York. AMUSEMENTS THIS, APTERNOON AND EVENING, an oR 2 BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.CUNNIE SOOGAH, teak Mo lr and Sirs, Barmey Williams Satiuoe at 140 COOPER L ITUTE, fonrth avenue and Eig’ reet.-BENEPIT OF NEW LORK NEWSBOYS, at 7:30 P.M. Grand Duke Theatre Sompany. Matinee at 2 P.M than principles, and in the negro | oe. $86 atQRY PASTOR'S NEW THEATRE, mind of the South President Grant 08. SRG & wadway.—VARIBTY, at - tie z, . : Kos. S06 and 687 Broadway # ‘a is the representative and champion of | the rights of the colored race. ‘There is no reason to doubt that Bishop Haven, a Southern prelate, ZATRE, L s SERAPHINE, at 8 Yourtsenth street « YM, Padiston Cow THEATRE, ctl and: Thuy drt. stroata.— . stinee “6 4) have been told by their spiritual guides that President Grant is a Methodist, COLOSSKUM, Pitty foarth street antl Broadway. —PRUSSLAN STEGE OF AtiS. Open im P.M. to4 P.M. aod from 7 30 P.M Our dashing contemporary the Sun, whee | °F three other republican candidates he The force of the | Lim. The idea of the Sun that the Method- duller perceptions. The Sun states irre- | “ sistible reasons why the republican party | COP Ye@uon- getting the repnblican nomination, it is | Catholics in the approaching Presidential | it has lost with our Catholic population, and | it will push the religious issue to the utmost | truly represents their | views. A majority of the Southern negroes | as well as the foremost friend of the! the attempt of building ocean steamers to | large will have no option but to support him. If there should be two will go into the Convention with greater strength than any of them, and the rivals of | Blaine would perhaps sooner have Grant than ist influence with the Southern negroes is strong enough to give Grant the delegates from all the Southern States is probably cor- rect, and with such a compact body of sup- | | porters he need not despair of controlling the | He is likely to have threefold | | more votes on the first ballot than any other candidate, because the delegates fom every | State in which the republicans are a minor- ity will give him their support. ‘The relig- ious question will win him the Southern ne- | groes en masse, and his official patronage will enable him to virtually appoint the delegates from every other State in which the republicans are a minority. With the opposition to him divided between Blaine and Bristow it will not be difficult to get ; ahead of both and carry off the prize if backed by the Methodist influence through- out the country. President Grant’s strong | point is his control of all the Southern dele- | gations through the Methodist influence over | the blacks, and when he has once achieved the republican nomination the whole party will do its utmost to secure his election, Am American Transatlantic Steamship Company. The decline of our mercantile marine is one of those painful topics which it has been | the fashion to discuss with a good deal of re- | gret and but little hope. Thousands of | Americans visit Europe yearly, making the | Atlantic trip on steamers carrying the Eng- lish, German or French flag. Doubtless many of them would prefer to take pas- sage under the Stars and Stripes, | but although they are the wealthiest of our citizens we have heard of little | beyond their desires. Our laws, which are | Chinese in this respect, refuse an Ameri- can register to foreign built vessels, and as, up to very lately, labor and material were so | much cheaper on the Clyde and the Mersey than with us, American capital shrank from Wo 100 BL race, and they will stand by him both | compete with those built abroad. It would Hresduepiand Saieceenie eoeeie AaTaTabe EKG zesies | O8 religious and political grounds. They | be ap akepsesae spesite etl emia ene Me i0seL ML Mz. Joua Gilbert. Matinee at 130 PM. know nothing of Blaine. Blaine is not a | these conditions have changed. Iron is | - } PARISIAN VARIETIFS, Sixteenth street, uewr Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 2B. M. RMANIA THEATRE Tourteenth street.—COMTESSE HELENE, at 8 P.M. would look with favor on Blaine. 2 BROOKLYN THEATRE, (rene lich we NY Ys et8P.M Me | in the following paragraph of its article:— In the first place let us consider the probable effect on the colored constituency of the South. Of these people a very large proportion are Methodists, or pos- Sessed of sirong aud ardent Methodist sympathies, | They know little of what there is in tue written consti- tution, and still less of tradition and usages; and neither «third term nor a tenth term would have any terrors to them, if it were only lilled by one whom they could regard as “a man and a brother.” These GRAND OPERA HOUSE, | twenty-third, stroe: ighth avenue.VARTETY, at 8 | eM. Tony Pastor's ay. Matinee at 2 2. BL ARK THEATRE, UNION . reot.—BOSK MUCHEL, as 8 Broadway ana Fourveen Oo Mf. Matinee as 10 P.M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, VAKIETY, at 8 P.M, Matinee at2 | | for General Grant for a third term on the anti-Catholic | issue. said Bishop Ha No 624 Broadwi % at, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, BROOKI. ¥ ¢3P. M. Miss Clara Morris, Yrootiyn. CAMILLE, when, in the Boston meeting, ho ardently requested the Methodist clergy and brethren to pray for the renomination of General Grant. Is it to be supnosed that he had not long before bad the colored Methodist preachers and the colored Methodist brethren at the South praying for the same thing? These people are in earnest, and very strongly inclined to act and to vote as they have prayed. We are aware that it may be asked, of what consequence it is what the sentiment of the Southern negroes may be as to President FIFTH AVENCE TOKATRE, fwenty-clghth streec, near Broadway.—PLQUT, at 8 P.M. Janny Davenport. Matinee at 1:30 BM BROOKLYN RINK Srookiyn.—GRBCU-KOMAN WKESTLING, at 8 P. M. Auler Cartoron. THEATRE COMIQUE, 4 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 3 P.'M. Matinee at 2 | PARK THEATRE, Prosdway, and Twenty-second streat.—THB CRUCIBLE, at Va. Onkoy Hall. Matives at 2 P.M. ? at least thirteen of the fifteen Southern ¥ OF MUSIC. States will give their electoral votes for the pete POSTILION OF LONG: | aamocratic candidate. Snch a question be- EAGLE THEATRE, trays but a superticial view of our politics. Prosdway and Thirty-nird street —VARIETY, of OP. M. | President Grant's renomination depends on quite a different set of influences from those which would contribute to his re-election, His great point is to get nominated, and if his nomination can be accomplished no- body doubts that the whole republican party will do its best toelect him. The vital point is the nomination. secure a majority of the delegates in the Republican National Convention the third ACA Forrteenth street, —Ger: TUMGAU, a8 P.M W, BOWERY TH B, Gowery.—1778, at 8 P.M. Mr Matinee at 2 P.M. | SAN PRA New Opera House, UP M. Matiues at NSTRE corner of Ty . M. t, | woo | way. corner of Thi peas et 1Ode PM FL 8.0 And 2 z GLOBE THEATRE, | Now. 728 and 730 Browdway.—VARIETY, st 8 P.M. Mati. | peo wt 2 P.M. Methodist. In a ehoice between him and | now Granta hundred Southern negroes would | of 7 give their suffrages to Grant for one that | reduced to make the building of ocean steam- The Sun | puts the case forcibly, but not too strongly, | commerce for freightage and passenger fares | paid into the coffers of foreign corpora- | tions makes it a necessity as soon as it is a ignorant but enthusiastic peopie are represented to be “‘Lhave been asked lo speak forthe South,” | Havre. | tion, engines, fittings and speed shall have | Grant's re-election, since it is inevitable that | | to assist a really national undertaking at a If General Grant fails to | term question will be quite out of poli- | WiTH SUPPLEMENT | ties; but if the National Convention | ‘ ey "| pominates him the whole republican | SEW YORE, § DECEMBER 1s75, | Party will be pledged to his support co Mae ‘and will make a vigorous fight under | From our reports this morning the probalvilities are that the weather to-duy will be cloudy and the third term banner, with the religious question as the main issue of the can- athe, | vass, For the present it is idle to look ‘ | beyond the nomination. If President Grant _ tue Eimear secnres the nomination the republican party Jaap Peel cay : ys of the country will be forced to stand by New York, N nd Pennsylvania, as ts aneussk Se: aie | him and share his fortune, well as in the We fie Coast, the North, the South and Southicest, also along the lines of the Hudson Riv New Yorke Central and Pennsylvania Cen Railroads and their com- rections, will be supplied with Tam Herat, ‘vee of postaye, offered lo newsdealers by seruling their orders direct to this o i Wa Street Yestenpay.—Stocks were dull end foverish. Money on call loaned at 6 and 7 per cent. Gold was heavy at 113 1-5 a 113. joyernments were weak. The bank state- uent is not flattering. Tne Garat Pre Mm is settled at last. Thomas, who attempted to destroy the Mosel moans of dynamite, was born in Prussia, | ind it was only his Brooklyn associations which spoiled him, Convention, and if President Grant is strong enough to secure that he will havea very good start in the race, It must not be forgotten that, in our national party conventions, represented in proportion to its electoral votes, without any regard to whether the party can cast those votes in the election or not, For illustration, let us take the State of Kentucky, which has twelve electoral votes. ‘hose twelve votes will, of course, be given to the democratic Presidential can- didate, whoever he may be ; but the repnb- lican minority in Kentucky will have as much influence in the Republican National | Convention as if it could aid the election of the candidate whom it assists to nominate. | This is equally true of the Southern States asa body. Their republican delegates may secure the nomination of General Grant as the republican candidate, although the elec- toral votes of those States are certain to be given to the candidate of the opposition. It must be borne in mind that, for the present, General Grant is playing only for the republican nomination, and that he has the means of defeating any republican rival. For the purposes of the nomination it really makes no difference whether the delegates to the Convention have electoral votes behind them or not. States like Vir- ginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, which will vote for the democratic candidate in any event, are just as valnable to General Grant in the Convention as if they would support him in the election. The organization of our national nominating conventions is, of course, absurd, because it permits States which cannot aid the election to control the nomination, But it is certain that the system will not be changed, and the ad- wrrrying in this city. We think, however, | vantage it gives to General Grant for secur- . 4, in spite of any explanation he may ing the republican nomination is manifest. weko at this time, bis official conduct can | He can easily control the delegates from all Le yudged only by the entire testimony in | those States in which the republican party ia « . case, and it is for the Canal Investigating | s minority, and, having secared the nomina- Sonn ission to determine the question Aatraordinary inducements Tue War 1% Mazacca is going on with victories for the English, but without blood- thed, at least to one side. That is a com. nendable way to make war, but bloodless tories are often the most costly. Governor Cuampertary, of South Caro- ‘ina, seems to be doing effective work in op- posing the corruptionists of that State both t and out of the Legislature, as will be seen ‘a1 our news this morning. Nor Cowrent with the troubles on the Rio Graude some of the uneasy spirits on the wonticr in Southern California and Northern \lexico are seeking to embroil the two re- yublics in war. The only way to cura such tisorders is to punish the bandits on both ides of the line. Anp Now Avuprror Juaver explains that he was able to reduce his indebtedness to the Troy City National Bank from fifty thousand dollors to five thousand dollars in a single «ar by the sale of flour, which he had been | pudiate the nomination of its own National | each State is | low enough in price, and wages mechanics and laborers sufficiently ers profitable. The vast drain upon our possibility to stop this financial transfusion’ and let our money circulate in American yeins. The very trade which the provision- | ing and fitting of such vessels, if American, would bring, is at present poured into the | laps of Liverpool, Glasgow, Bremen and It is now proposed to build here a line of | steamships, which in material of construc- | no superiors in the transatlantic trade. Sub- | sidies are out of the question; they are a pre- | mium on commercial sloth as well as a bur- den on the country for the benefit of a class. Hence the money must come from those immediately interested in ocean freightage and from those who are willing fair rate of profit. It is contemplated to raise the capital by subscription in shares of one hundred dollars | each, par value, so as to put it | within the reach of all persons of mod- | erate means as well as capitalists. We | wish the project every success. Outside of the commercial advantages which are things of the present there is another which | thoughtful Americans will not’ overlook. This is well emphasized in the following | from Postmaster Jewell's report touching | the conveyance of our ocean mails:— | “The great bulk of our mails for Europe is carried by steamers under foreign flags, sail- | ing from the port of New York. Asa matter | of national pride, as an aid to the revenue of American commerce and as a means of sup- | for immediate use by the government in case of war, provision should be made for the transportation of our mails on important ocean routes in steamships officered and | manned by our own citizens and sailing under our own flag.” The want of sucha line is severely felt. Its further non-existence would be a shame to American enterprise, and we believe that, carried forward as we have indicated, the project cannot fail to attract the favorable at- tention of all patriotic and liberal minded Americans, who thus can serve their country while safely investing their spare fands, A Bic Man was seen in Havana, and im- mediately some impetuous people declared he was Tweed. It is not likely that Tweed would go to Havana, because that city just now is as much @ prison as Ludlow Street Jail, and less comfortable. But while we are speaking of T'weed's whereabouts we may as well ask Mr. David Dudley Field what he meant by telling a reporter of the Henarp the other day that he could communicate with William M. Tweed within an hour? Was it one of those vapid jokes in which old men sometimes indulge, of mentally sub- stituting another person of the same name for the person meant? If Mr. Field was speaking of William M, Tweed, and not William M, Tweed, Jr., there is in this in- formation an important clew for the police, ° Ma, Lester Wattack sends a letter to the Herap contradicting a statement to the effect that he is sixty-two years old. We concede that nothing can be more annoying to an artist than overstatements of his age, because somehow in the case of an actor this question, so interesting to most people who frequent the theatres, is intimately asso- ciated with his business and his art. But Mr. Wallack is too well known, as an artist of rare excellence to be injured by any mis- statement, All the patrons of his model | place of amusement know the worth and | completeness of his acting, and many of , those who have seen his strength as an artist increase with his years would gladly ex- change their youth for his years even if he wore a4 old asthe paragraph represented (ton by their assistance, tha erty ab | him, plying an efficient steam marine available | Heme ne (TOW, BR. EDO NaI On NEW YORK HKKALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1875.-wrrH SUPPLEMENT. Bethichem at the Bogimning of the Year One. The small village of Bethlehem, where Christ was born, was so insignificant at the time of that great event that, if the modern press had then existed, it may be doubted whether the circumstances would have been reported with fulness enongh to satisfy a legitimate curiosity. Rome was then the capital of the world; but if tliere had been an enterprising Roman news- paper entitled to be culled the Rome Henap, it is not at all certain that _ its conductors would have detailed alert cor- respondents to report the greatest fact in the history of the haman race, Judea was an outlying province of the Empire; and even if there had been a wide-awake provincial newspaper at Jerusalem it might have had no conception that the lying-in of the wife of an obscure peasant from Nazareth, which happened in a stable because there was no room for her at the inn, was the master event in the annals of the human race. Mankind will always have reason to regret that the enterprising modern press did not exist either in Rome or Jerusalem at so im- portant an epoch, and that even if it had ex- isted the most important occurrence of the time would probably have escaped its atten- tion. But what would we not give fora file of a Rome Henaxp, or even of a Jerusalem Telegram, published at the time! The slightest mention in small type in the ob- scurest corner of such a journal would have been invaluable to subsequent generations, The more authentic fixing of the date of the birth of the Saviour of the world would have been worth a great deal, For want of such facilities nobody knows when Christ was born, and we are quite uncertain whether our Christmas celebrations come in at the right point of the calendar. It was not till the fourth century of the Christian era that the 25th of December was fixed as the proper date, and the day was then se- lected by the Church on mere vague tradition, without accurate data. Nobody can ever know whether the 25th of December isthe correct date or not, and the improb- ability of shepherds watching their flocks by night at the time of the winter solstice in so severe a climate as that of Judea may, perhaps, justifya doubt. But if there had been an active newspaper press at that time, recording all events as they occurred, it might be possible to fix the date with cer- tainty; but we know nothing about it, and the world must always remain in ignorance as to the real date of the most important event that has ever occurred in its history. The contrast between ancient and modern times— between the period when there was no press and the present—is strikingly illustrated by our uncertainty as to the real date of an event which eclipses every other in the his- | tory of the world. New Opportunity—Will There Be Two Associations? Yale's The action of Harvard, in accepting Yale’s | invitation to a four-mile straightaway race, in eights, with coxswains, gives the latter an opportanity which, sAve in one contingency, may bring her far greater renown than she has ever yet known. Should she now, believing that she can row Harvard and whip her, and that the two conditions—that the race be in sixes and without coxswains— imposed by the Rowing Association in its challenge to the British universities, will prove fatal to a race, challenge the latter to their own sort of con- test—namely, a four-mile in eights with coxswains—she will make it so hard for them to decline that she may have the only race with them after all, and may win it. But, on the other hand, should Harvard beat Yale, and then the British do the same, it would be Harvard's turn, and if she should succeed in returning the favor Oxford did her on the Thames it would seem only right. In any event the challenge to the English | ought not to be long in going out, for there is really no time to lose. training, and, if Harvard joins, will probably induce the three gentlemen of her last crew who, though still at the University, had in- Her ac- challenge makes it ceptance of Yale's ' strongly probable that she bas rowed her last race in the association. For rowing in asix without, and in an eight with acoxswain, requires such essentially different sorts of work, that where, as this year at Harvard, first class oarsmen are scarce, it will be almost , impossible to have two separate teams, and as the eight are now in for it the six must give way. Bowdoin, too, is already reported weakening, and it will not be odd if, on the reassembling of the colleges after the holidays or at the meeting of the as- | sociation in this city, on the 4th of January, word may come of the nine New England colleges preparing to row by themselves if they can find what they have never yet found in New England for so many crews—an absolutely fair course—to say nothing of adequate hotel accommoda- tions for even a third of their friends, Should these crews, or the pick of them, row the visiting Englishmen and be beaten they will yet have accomplished one good thing— they will have gotten the latter here; and if ‘before they let them go they will permit Cornell or Columbia to interview them some afternoon for about seventeen minutes on wicked Saratoga Lake, possibly, in their cooler moments aféerwards, they may not regret it. . Covrtrsy Amone Journats dictates that when one paper feels called upon to condemn the course of another its strictures should, first of all, be grounded upon fact. This, unhappily, is not always as rigidly carried out as could be desired. An English journal, commenting on a despatch published in the Boston Herald of November 23, which was coptad into the New Yor Heraxp of the 24th and duly credited, has seen fit to give us all the discredit which, from its view of the case, the inventors of the story deserved, The Boston story related to a supposed probabil- ity of war between Great Britain and the United States growing out of the Canadian fisheries question. was any truth in it, and said so, Yet the English journal Henavp was equal to the occasion, and ex- plained at once the story which it possibly invented and affectionately fathered.” Sum- ming yp the matter, itaawe—“Of course there If accepted it will | put Yale to her best efforts in the way of | We did not believe there | says:—“The New York | was not a word of trath in the story. The | Tne Position ef Turkey—Appointing » Henaco itself'admite as much, * * * and one can only wonder why so patent a lie could have been invented and circulated.” This language is not in itself a model of taste, but applied to the New York Henaxp is a mani- fest injustice. Would it not have been moro ereditable and considerate in the English journal to have been first sure that the story was published by us as original matter? Could it not have taken the small trouble to see that it was copied trom another paper a3 an extravagance, and so alluded to editorially by us? President-Making im Congress. It is no new thing for the Congress which precedes a Presidential election to oceupy itself with political manceuvres intended to bear on the approaching contest. But this year the disease has set in at an early stage and bids fair to rage with unusual virulence. It would naturally grow from four years to four years, both by the force of habit and by the increasing patronage of the government ; but it is worse than ordinary now, because both political parties have facilities for play- ing the Presidential game during the session. The House is controlled by the democrats, the Senate by the republicans, and, what has never happened before, we have a Presi- dent near the close of his second term who is bent on a re-election. He dips in his oar and assists to beat the legislative waters into Presidential foam. President Grant began to give the proceed- ings of the session an electioneering turn when he put in his bold bid for another term by broaching the school question. His most formidable rival, Mr. Blaine, attempted to take the wind out of his sails by proposing a constitutional amendment on that subject. Senator Morton tried his hand by raising the bloody shirt as a party flag and urging an in- vestigation in Mississippi. Neither Presi- dent Grant's bid in his Message nor Mr. Blaine’s amendment nor Senator Morton's waving of the bloody shirt would have been resorted to if this were the year after instead of the year before a Presidential election. The democrats of the House are attempt ing a counter game, but they do not play it with skill The anti- third term resolution which young Mr. Springer so suddenly sprung on the House, though a temporary triumph, was a substan- tial mistake, because it is for the interest of the democratic party that General Grant should be the republican candidate, and foreing the republicans to vote against a | third term blunted the most trenchant of the democratic weapons. Speaker Kerr’s strange composition of his committees was equally maladroit asa Presidential maneuvre. While meant to be in the Tilden | strengthens the democracy in those States which are most hostile to the New York can- didate. It has weakened him at home by disgusting the strongest democratic mem- bers from this State. The slights put on Messrs. Wood, Cox, Hewitt and Ward will make trouble for Governor Tilden in the State Convention for choosing delegates next spring. He has active demo- cratic enemies in New York, and they will be | strengthened by the blunder of insulting the constituencies of these experienced Congress- men. It has become impossible for Gov- ernor Tilden to go into the National Conven- tion with the unanimous delegation of his This attempt to purchase the West and South | will so alienate the demoecrary of New York that he will have no vigorous support. He | has merely enabled Mr. Kerr to use the free trade and hard money sentiment of the party in his own interest, and the Western democ- racy will prefer Kerr to Tilden as a candi- common platform of both, Governor Til- den’s subtlety has been too fine; he has overreached himself and given both oyster and shell to the Western democracy. Etheric Force and Electricity. Mr. Houston, Professor of Physics at the Central High School of Philadelphia, has interest it | i | Speaker. Receiver. The telegram from Vionna that Turkey ia preparing for a war was intended apparently to affeot some financial interests between that city and London; but tho statement made simultaneously in Berlin, Vienna and London as to what is to be done by the great Powers is evidently worthy of more confi- dence. It is given out as their programme that the ambassadors at Constantinople of the neutral Powers shall hencetorth consti- tute practically the government of Turkey in Europe ; that ‘the reforms in the prov- inces” shall be under their special direction and control rather than in the hands of the Sultan ; simply, of course, because the Sul- tan cannot possibly become a reformer in a Christian sense, and that if he pretended to this would only be the repetition of a time- honored political swindle. ‘Tho effect of giving such power to the ambassadors would be analogous to the appointment of a re- ceiver in any ordinary case of financial em- barrassment. This body of ambassadors would, in fact, constitute asort of component receivership, and would be preliminary to settling with the creditors, and winding up the concern, At this rate it will not be many years before the Sultan will be sent to Asia. The Holiday Adjournment. We trust the members of Congress will have a pleasant time when they reach their homes to exchange holiday greetings with their friends. We fear the occasion will be more festive and exhilarating on tho repub- lican than on the democratic side. Mr, Blaine, the republican leader in the House, cannot fail to be in high spirits, considering who is pitted against him asthe leader on the democratic side. He can easily wind poor Mr, Morrison around his finger in every debate and win a succession of cheap vice tories, ‘Pig iron” Kelley should also be very happy daring the holidays, as he will re- ceive many congratulations for the honor conferred on him by the free trade, hard money Speaker, who slaughtered some of the ablest men of his own party for a very slight leaning toward Mr. Kelley's views. Mr. Morrison will also pass the holidays happily, as he has not yet encountered the formidable antagonist who is likely |to strip him of his blushing hon- ors in the arena of debate. Thera are few other members whose joy is likely to be exuberant while exchanging the compli- | ments of the season: When the admirers of | Mr. Cox and Mr. Wood approach these de- lighted gentlemen and congratulate them on | the political honors they have received at tho hands of the democratic Speaker whom they assisted to elect it will require all their courtesy to maintain the dignified smile of the one and the jovial cordiality of the other. Mr. Hewitt and Mr, Chittenden are members whom it will be equally adventurous for their friends to congratulate on the official recognition given them by Governor Tilden’s ‘The holidays will be an occasion when political enfuns terribles should be kept shut up in the nursery, lest they spoil the pleasant festivities of the season. Exrraprrion on THE Borper.—A curious | case has arisen under the Extradition law on the Rio Grande border which, like every- own State, and failure on that point is fatal. | thing else in that interesting locality, seems difficult of solution. While the proceedings were in progress the Judge before whom the case was brought was removed by the Gov- ernor and the prisoner's counsel appointed to the Bench in his place. As the etiquette of the Mexican Bar does not require a judge to refrain from giving a decision in a case in | which he has acted as counsel, and as, im date if they are compelled to swallow the | this instance, the new appointee has the | question of rendition under advisement, the | outlook for the alleged criminal may be re~ | garded as very favorable. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Patt! paid $12,500 for a fur cloak, | | Hon, Alexander H. Stephens coughs very much, ' communicated to the press of that city some | observations on the so-called ‘‘etheric force” | of Mr. Edison. He is of opinion that no | new force has been discoyered, and that the | phenomena relied upon to demonstrate the | existence of anew force can be accounted | for without going beyond what is already known of the operations of electricity. Phenomena which to Mr. Edison were ir- reconcilable with the presumption that the force in operation was electricity all find in Mr. Houston’s view ‘a satisfactory explana- tion by the presence of induced electrical currents.” From ‘this criticism it would appear that Mr. Edison simply got lost in the scientific dust he made, and, arriving at a well known cross road from a new direction, did not recognize where he was. His appa- ratus was so arranged that an electrical enr- rent moved in each direction separated by a time so infinitely little as to be inappreciable tosense. The result of this double current was an electrical equilibrium, and this equi- | librinm accounted for the fact that the | “force” did not respond to the tests for elec- | tricity, which were all tests for a direct cur- rent only. Another Political Nostrum. It is proposed by a philosopher, who is, perhaps, ‘‘only nor’ nor'-west mad,” that the country shall be saved from the dangers of negro suffrage by the balance wheel of fe- male suffrage, ‘‘with an intelligence clause.” By giving votes to the slaves it is admitted that we have adulterated the political life of the nation, and to the extent of that adul- teration debased and degraded the body pol- itic; but the addition of the women as voters will neutralize the evil effects, because their yote will outnumber the negro vote, and so, | practically, count Sambo out, provided, of course, the suffrage is given only to the white women. That is, of course, the meaning of “the intelligence clause,” which therefore could only stand the assaults of demagognery , till it was thought by some one down in New England that the votes of the colored sisters would be useful. Then Dinah would come in beside Sambo, and we should have the prettiest kettle of fish, politically speaking, the world ever saw. There is only one point | of view from which this proposition can be | suid to offer any advantage. Things are | pretty bad as they are, but before they can mend they must, perhaps, be worse, and this will make them warae Sometning ails Bass, the great brewer, Ho ts not expected to recover. Lord D'Arcy Osborne, of England, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. APronch doctor says that all great crimtnals have been great smokers, Where did Cain get hia long-cus from, Doctor? Captain Paul Boyton is expected to arrive on tha Germante, which is due on Sunday. He will goon re- tarn to Paris. ‘The Chinamon of Virginia City, Nevada, have started a billiard saloon, which is well patronized by these knights of the queue, Senator John P. Jones bought some land on which he has digcovered a mine of castile soap, John P, al- ways did manage to have the suds. ‘The Kar! of Dunraven, who has been on a@ shooting excursion in Canada for several weeks past, retarned to this city yesterday, and is at the Brevoort House. Moody says that the devil goes to church more regularly than anybody else, Now you folks that have been going to church regularly stop lecturing, will you, John Burroughs’ “Winter Sunshine” is calculated to warm the coldest heart and brighten the darkest hearth, as bis ‘Wake Robin’! cheered wherever it wag beard. “fhe moon is dead," said Professor Proctor, Them Murat Halstead took @ slice of lemon out of his punch and said to Watterson, ‘lce-hay, Henry, how’s that fur a moon?” ' Belkaap don't know whether Morrison will be a good heaa forthe Ways and Means Committee or not, but thinks he would make a good leader for a country do- nation party, Dr. Holland (Timothy Titcomb) thinks that the care for gossip ia culture, Ob, Doctor! don’t you know that colture may add to the size ofa berry, but that it takes away all flavor ? Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, haa accepted an In- vitation to deliver the opening address of the Southern States Agricultural and Industrial Exposition at New Orleans on February 26 next “Soriety in Wasbingtom isn’t what it sald ae republican Congressman the other day. “Schuyler Collax always ate with the back of bis knife, and never put the sharp side in his mouth,’’ A tramp arrived in Sussex cout jew Jersey, where the authorities gave him stones to break before he had his dinner, Then up spake the tramp and said, “When they ask for bread will ye give them a stone?’* Io France the average salary of workmon (withoat board or lodyng) 18 sixty-eight cents; Italy and Switzerland, thirty-eight cents; in Eagland eighty-three cents, living being thirty per oent dearer then in France, Mr Speaker Kerr and family arrived in Philadelphia on Thursday, to remain during the Congressional vaca- tion with his friend, Colonel Henry D. Welch, but yeu terday he received a telegram announcing tho iliness of hie brother, James K. Kerr, of Pittsburg, and will leave to-day for that city. He expects to retura in & few days. Abernethy, the great physician, said thata glass ot ale before bed time is a cure for sleeplessness, Anothor authority says that holding the hands in water wilt bring slumber to the eyelids, Now arrives a writer in Moore's Rural New Yorker who recommenda a hoart- felt prayer as 4 romedy for those to whom Moreheas does not easily coma, Thank you. ws p= @