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It is pleasant to know that the bone and sinew of that great State are on tie right side in this important que stion. Crecaco's “CnooKED” day afvrnoon seven of the largest distilleries in Chicwyo were seized by the revenue officers. ‘Isis docs not look as though the stories about %ecretary Bristow had any of the deterrent effect upon that vigorous official which it ishighly probable their con- cocters hoped they vould have had. Tur State or Steck has been raise France by the vote of tae Assembly, except in the cities of Paris, Lycns and Marseilles and tho town of Versailles As the three first named are the only places where there | is the slightest possibility of disturbance the | measure will change the face oiaffairs but | little, The Left voted for the bill on the half-loaf-better-than-no-bread principle. Tae Torsisa Dericvrry has not yet been | .settled, for the great Powers have not had | Count Andrassy’s plan submitted to them. The Sultan's firman promises a great deal more than he can perform without outside pressure, hence it is not likely that Europe ds to be satisfied with a simple mandate when it demands real reform. It may be that the groat Powers, with the exception of England, who has quictly bagged Egypt, do not care to see Turkey's troubles brought to an end dust at vresent Wuiskry.—Yester- A in | NEW YORK. HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 380, 1875.--WITH SUPPLEMENT. j--e New Phase of the Cuban Ques- tion. ‘The startling despatch from Vienna which we printed yesterday was a surprise to the American public; but if incredulity was mingled with the surprise, all doubts as to the authenti moved by an Associated Press despatch from Washington yesterday afternoon, admitting that Secretary Fish has sent a circular to all the foreign Powers relating to the state of things in Cuba We know not how long this piece of secret diplomatic strategy might have been kept concealed from the American people if the penetration‘and enterprise of the Heratp had not detected in the heart of Europe an intrigue which successfully covered its tracks at Washington, the place of its origin. Our ability to track out this burrowing di- plomacy and drag it forth into the light it | shunned is a fresh illustration of the perfec- tion of the Heray’s machinery for gather- ing important news, and a new tribute to the imtelligence and alertness of its European correspondents in following up the clews given them from the office in New York. We have suspected this strange diplomatic movement for some time, and while instructing our correspondents at every European capital to keep a keen watch, we, nevertheless, hoped to uncover this mancwu- vre by penetrating Cabinet secrets at Wash- ington, Our editorial columns have borne | witness for several days that we had grounds for believing the administration has been soliciting the co-operation of foreign Powers, and we were not without hope that by giving the suspected scheme a quasi indorsement we might induce the State Department to throw off its mask. But, while operating with this view, we suddenly found that such a line of tactics was no longer necessary when we received the important despatch from Vienna which we published yesterday, unveiling the secret of which we have been in pursuit. The prompt acknowledgment from Washington, through the Associated Press, that our Vienna despatch is in substance correct, satisfies us that our artifice for draw- ing forth the same information from the repositories of official secrets at the national capital would have suc- ceeded if the Vienna despatch had not made us independent of other sources of information. Having at last got hold of the facts of which we were on the scent we are prepared to express a deliberate opinion on the question which they bring into promi- nence, It is our judgment, and we cannot doubt that it will be the judgment of the American people, that the scheme which we have suc- ceeded in dragging from its diplomatic skulking places into the full light of ex- posure deserves emphatic condemnation. It violates the honored and cherished tradi- tions of the Republic in relation to foreign affairs. It concedes the right of European nations to a voice in a question purely American, and flies in the face of the Monroe doctrine, which has been for half a century more closely interwoven with the connected with our foreign relations. The exposure of this unseemly and skulking diplomatic intrigue comes from Vienna, the capital of Austria. But what concern has Austria in the policy of the Western Hemisphere? Why should her judgment be invoked on a question so disconnected from all herinterests, and in which she has no more concern than the government of China or | Japan ? What has Austria to do with the affairs of the Western Continent? What interest has she in Cuba or any other island of the West Indies that her advice or co- operation should be asked in a question so exclusively American? Secretary Fish’s cir- cular was also sent to Russia, which parted with her American possessions by the sale of Alaska, and thereby divorced herself from the affairs of this hemisphere. The circular was also addressed to Italy, which never had an American possession, and whose govern- ment knows nothing and cares less about the politics of this continent. Such a proposal to these governments is as indefensible and preposterous as would | be a circular from Austria addressed to Bra~ zil orChili asking its opinion on the state of | affairs in Herzegovina, Our diplomacy is made ridiculous by running all over Europe begging for indorsements in a matter quite beyond the range of their knowledge, their interests, their sympathies or their geo- graphical position. There are but three nations aside from Spain which have any substantial interest in the condition of Cuba. These three are, first and foremost, the United States, and then, subordinately, England and Mexico. England is, in one sense, an Ameri- can Power, owning the greater part of North America between the St. Lawrence ; and great lakes and the North Pole, and | having large possessions in the West Indies, She alone, of the European Powers, has a practical interest in the tranquillity of Cuba. | She, as well as the United States, was ag- | grieved by the affair of the Virginius, and | she was more vigorous in demanding,-wr at least more prompt in securing, redress for her injuries on that occasion. Mexico, an American nation bordering on the Gulf, whose commerce with Europe passes near the in the affairs of that island. But, with the ex- ception of Great Britain and Mexico, there | is no foreign Power which has the faintest | | color of a title to be consulted in relation to | Cuban affairs. Mexico, being an American Power, does not come within the scope of the Monroe doctrine ; and, in its original | declaration, it was not meant to include | England. The Monroe declaration was made in pursuance of an understanding with Mr. Canning, the English Foreign Minister, who | boasted in Parliament that he had ‘called a new world into existence to redress the bal- | ance of the old." The memorable warn- ing in President Monroe's Message was not | directed against England, but against the Powers of the European Continent forming | the so-called Holy Alliance. The fact that her brilliant statesman, Mr. Canning, was the real author of the Monroe doctrine is a | sufficient proof that the warning was not | meant to include her. We have always re- spected her title to her possessions on this | continent and its islands and have practi- | cally admitted that she ia. in « limited sense. ity of the information are re- | national sentiment than any other principle | shores of Cuba, has also a legitimate interest | an American Power. If our government had thought fit to come to an understanding with Great Britain and Mexico respecting the con- dition of Cuba General Grant’s administra- | tion would not have exposed itself to the damaging criticism with which it is certain to be assailed for the indefensible mancu- vre which the Heraup has brought to the knowledge of the American people. President Grant exhibits his contempt of the most cherished and sacred traditions of the Republic. The most important of these traditions connected with our domestic politics is the ineligibility of a President for a third term; and the most important one which relates to our foreign policy is the avoidance of ‘entangling alliances” and op- position to European interference with the affairs of this continent beyond the mainte- nance of their existing rights by the one or two European Powers that have important American possessions. President Grant in- sults American sentiment by violating both of these great Mistorical traditions, which have become so deeply engrafted in the public feeling of the country. He is aiming at a third term in defiance of one of these sacred traditions, and he is trying to bring Europe into a question of American policy in violation of the other. Having condemned the example of Washington in his pursuit of ambitious personal ends he proceeds to condemn and dishonor the Monroe doctrine, in the hope of making | political capital for the third term. No | tradition of the Republic is sacred, no deep- rooted sentiment of the American people is | thought worthy of respect, if it crosses the unscrupulous ambition of the present occu- pant of the White House. It is easy enough to detect the purpose of this absurd circular to all the courts of Europe. Its object is to get a European in- dorsement for a policy of interference in | Cuba which does not meet the approbation of the American people. President Grant | expects that European Powers like Austria, Russia and Germany, which have no real | interest in the question and care nothing | about it, will give their assent to his policy | from mere indifference or complais- | ance, and he hopes to parade their in- considerate indorsements as proofs that his designs on Cuba are justifiable. He never made a greater mistake in his life. When, in addition to the violence he has been doing to American sentiment and tradi- tion in seeking a third term, he gives an | additional and more sudden shock. by in- sulting the traditional sentiment against “entangling alliances” and European inter- ference in American affairs, he will find that | he has aroused a feeling of indignant remon- | strance which will sweep him into private life in spite of his dexterous appeal to religious bigotry and his hope to get re- | elected on the strength of sectarian animosi- | ties. A Teufelsdroeckh on American Civili- | uation, We were a good deal surprised tp learn | that some of the German newspapers had been denouncing America and Americans | because Thomas or Thomassen, the self-ac- cused dynamite fiend, claimed America as the land of his birth. We could not see the occasion of these attacks. It was not our | fault if he was born here. Assassination is not a national vice with us, nor is killing for the sake of robbery more common here than | anywhere else. So we thought, but now we | learn from our Berlin special despatch that | the Fremdenblatt and National Zeitung main- tain the Bremerhaven atrocity to be “‘psy- | chologically explicable as a corollary of the mercantile spirit of unscrupulous smartness fostered by American civilization.” his is very profound and smacks of the ruminative pipe and the metaphysical bier glass, but it does not trouble us. It might as well have been called a corollary of the pons asinorum. We have Jay Gould, and we lately had “Boss” Tweed, but they have had their Dr. Strousberg and their war on Denmark, both of which illustrate ‘‘unscrupulous smart- ness” in different ways. There is no neces- sity to defend American civilization, the most humane the world has ever seen, against such attacks, and we are rather sorry that the American residents of Berlin thought fit to call a meet- ing and make addresses to disprove such patent folly. It may be that the Americans in Berlin felt annoyed at the credence the ayerage Berlinese put in the libellous statements, but we have no doubt the Rey. Dr. Thompson in his appearance andin his lengthy address has proved conclusively that he, at any rate, has none of that unscrupulous smart- ness that leads to murder. We hope he has, and we have no doubt the American resi- dents went to their beds last night under the impression that they have ‘‘vindicated the honor of our flag.” This is a merciful age, or we would recall to them the story of Uzzah, who put his hand to the ark of the covenant, when the oxen shook it. America | needs no defence from aspersions like unto that of the Fremdenblatt and the National Zeitung. Tux Brown Wow Case Is Serruzp and Surrogate Hutchings’ decision, which we print, takes the sad family story out of public view. moral verdict, but nothing more pecuniarily than the last will and testament bestows, | except a dower right in the realty. The | document has been admitted to probate, and | thus by the strange whirl of events the dead | | man’s money will be doled out to his widow | | by her who succeeded the wife in the affec- tions of the husband. | Tax Boarp or ApporrionmMENT yesterday | | passed finally upon the city budget for 1876. | It provides for the distribution of nasty, | | thirty-one millions to carry on the city’s busi- | ness during the ensuing year. The apportion- | ment of the excise moneys, amounting to | over one hundred thousand dollars, among | New York’s charitable institutions was also | voted, and the list of charities benefited | thereby will be found elsewhere. Mrsstssrpr1 Is 1x THe Buack Booxs AGAIN.— | A story comes that armed bodies of law- | defying Mississippians have driven an in- | ternal revenne deputy collector from pillar | | to post, proclaiming that he cannot remain | in his district. Some United States cavalry | have been ordered to the spot to keep him | there. | with the ceremonial of the Pontifical Court | our despatches of yesterday ? | pay so trifling a tax rather than have the na- | which rests at present under a heavy load of | powers which Congress has never hesitated The discarded wife receives a | Our Cable Despatches. Again we find, with a chagrin that all sen- sitive persons will appreciate, that one of our cable despatches does not please the Sun, Our Christmas despatch from London was, it may be remembered, unsatisfactory to our contemporary. It was an admirable despatch, full of good points and capital reading to the general public ; but it quoted some old-fashioned Christmas rhymes, and our neighbor dislikes the notion of poetry by cable. Yet one would suppose that in the holiday season, and in the general relax- ation of the severe discipline of life that is associated with this time of festivity, the little privilege of a few rhymes might have been granted our correspondent. In fact, such a concession would have been hand- some from an editor who once published himself a very stout volume of other people's poetry. Yesterday our contemporary bestowed its critical attention on another correspondent, who sent us from Rome by the cable a very substantial little chronicle of what they did in the Holy City on tho Pope's nameday—an occasion equivalent in the life of the Latin races to the birthday with us. Our correspondent said that the Pope's military family received his blessing “kneeling.” The Sun asks why we add “kneeling,” when such a blessing is never bestowed on persons in any other posture. Unfortunately, newspapers have to be made for the general public, and there may be some persons not so intimately acquainted as our contemporary. It was, perhaps, for these readers that our correspondent was particular. Naturally he would adopt an- other style if all our readers possessed the keen critical sense and illimitable information possessed by the editor of the Sun, who is, we suppose, better acquainted with the pecu- liar customs of every country in the world than even Sergeant Bates or Daniel Pratt, the Great American Traveller. But may we venture to ask our neighbor how he liked | We had two very good specials from our own correspond- ents, one dated at Vienna, the other at Madrid. From Vienna our correspondent let out the game by which Grant goes all the | way to the Austrian capital to get support for a policy that he finds unpalatable at home. From Madrid we were told of the queer scheme of the restless people who wish, through Isabella, to get possession of her e800 and manuvre the Spanish government lin a corrupt interest. These were two good bits of political news exclusively gathered | for us by our active correspondents and sent by cable, and we sincerely hope our contem- porary liked them. But if even these were not satisfactory we shall make still greater efforts to please. Indeed, we may have a daily letter by cable from London, which our readers will become as much accustomed to look for as they now look for the daily col- umn from Washington. The Centennial Exposition, A correspondent calls attention to an over- sight in computations which we made a few days since in estimating ‘the per capita cost of the proposed appropriation in aid of the Centennial Exposition. The population of the United States is more than 40,000,000, and an appropriation of $1,500,000 would be only three and three-quarter cents per head for each inhabitant. The number of citizens must be small indeed who are unwilling to tion humiliated by inviting foreign countries to be present at a failure. It is contended by priggish sticklere for a strict construction of the constitution that Congress has no authority to appropriate a single dollar to this enterprise, and its friends are asked, with a dogmatic air of triumph, to point out any specific provision of the constitution conferring such a power. Whatever other merit this challenge may have it has no claim to originality. Itisa borrowed argument, and the logical charity basket, from which it is taken, will not com- mend it to acceptance. It is part of the political metaphysics of the ultra Calhoun school of interpretation, a school which never had any success in Congress, and odium. Congress has perpetually exercised powers for which no specific warrant can be found in the constitution. There is no spe- cific grant of power to maintain lighthouses; to construct piers, harbors and breakwaters on the great lakes; to erect a superb build- ing for the national Capitol or a costly Presi- dential mansion, nor to appropriate money for the statues and pictures in the Capitol or for the library of Congress. The national leg- islature has constantly made appropriations for these and similar objects, although no- body can point to the particular article and section of the constitution by which thay are authorized. There is a large field of implied to exercise and which logically result from those expressly granted. The reasoning by which these implied powers are deduced from the constitution may be worth tracing at some future time; but our purpose at present is merely to call attention to the fact that Congress has never acted on any such narrow interpretation of the constitution as that which is invoked against the Centen- nial. We ask attention to the various exploring expeditions which have been fitted out from time to time by the government, of which | that of Commodore Perry to Japan and that of Captain Wilkes to the Antarctic seas are conspicuous examples, The sumptuous vol- | umes, printed at the expense of Congress, | | containing the report of the expedition to | Japan, are full of information whose only value consists in the gratification of a libe- ral curiosity. The government sent out | botanists, geologists, astronomers, mineralo- gists, zodlogists, ichthyologists, and the reports of their labors, procured at great ex- pense, were published at still additional ex- | pense, and for the most part given away— | five hundred copies to Commodore Perry | for | himself. They were full of costly engrav- I iis and colored pictures of the animals, fishes, shells, plants, &c., of those distant | regions ; and whatever authority the govern- ment may have had for such contributions to useful or liberal knowledge is at least | equally valid for a contribution to th Centennial. Will the carpers tell u what is the authority for the con, enrvev? Will thev inform us by whit | | land specific provision of the constitution Con- gress was empowered to purchase Jeffor- son's library, filled with books of general lit- erature in various languages? What is the authority for the purchase of all sorts of mis- cellaneous books, having no relation to legis- lation or public affairs, made every year for the library of Congress? What was the au- thority for the resolution of 1824 to send a national ship to bring Lafayette to this coun- try on a visit? We think such legislation can be justified ; but we prefer, just now, to see what the cavillers against the Centennial appropriation have to say about it. The Impending Conflict in New Or- leans. Again we have reports of threatened dis- turbances in New Orleans, the trouble this time growing out of a purpose to resist the assessment of certain local taxes. Whatever may be the disposition of the City Council, it isin adilemma. If it assesses the taxes it places itself in opposition to the people ; if it refuses to assess them the Governor has power, under the laws of the State, to vacate their offices. In either case a conflict seems inevitable, while the effects cannot fail to be disastrous if the people continue in their present mind. What New Orleans needs most of all is freedom from agitation of every kind, Until absolute peace is assured for that metropolis it cannot expect to regain the commercial supremacy it has lost by the chronic state of disturbance from which it has suffered since the war. The taxes may be obnoxious, bur- densome and unjust, but even their assess- ment and collection are preferable it seems to us, to another conflict with the State, and, perhaps, the federal authorities. A repetition of the scenes enacted in the past would only result in a repetition of the evils which were a part of them, The peo- ple of New Orleans would not be the only sufferers, but the whole South would share the consequenees of any false step on their part. Republican leaders like Morton are anxiously looking for Southern grievances, and any disturbance in New Orleans would give them a pretext for harslfmeasures which otherwise it will not be easy for them to find, We trust there will be no conflict, and that moderation will be the motto of the op- pressd people of an oppressed city for a lit- tle while longer. of the South are in the ensuing Presiden- tial election, and we believe that patience in suffering will give them the victory in the end. Secretary Bristow and the Whiskey Ring. It becomes every day more evident that the issue of public consequence in the politi- cal conflict is to be found in the whiskey trials, and not in the fulminations of intoler- ance, whether put forth by the President himself or by such roaring “‘bloodhounds of Zion” as Bishop Haven. It is thought in some quarters that the President has made the issue for the next Presidency by his as- sault on the Catholics, and that in all its phases the conflict will be for Catholic or anti-Catholic. Inasmuch as the oat taking the country through, . in a hopeless minority, this division of the battle would make it very easy the anti-Catholic candidate. In- deed, the pith of the Presidential battle would be to determine what fortunate gen- tleman should stand in this position, for the democrats would offer their anti-Catholic candidates and the republicans could fur- nish regiments of them. It is diffi- cult to see how this battle could be made up, simply because we can- not see where the Catholic candidate is tocome from. But, Catholic or anti-Catholic, it is plain enough that no candidate can stand before the country who is not as straight as a ramrod on the subject of crooked whiskey. General Grant might con- sult his own interests by seizing some occa- sion to give the country a speech on this subject also. issue, but his attitude in the whiskey trouble is less clear. He might give in a few sen- tences his impressions as to Babcock’s inno- cence, and his ideas, if he has any such, on the unfairness with which Secretary Bristow pushes the case of the government, From such a speech one could tell at once what everybody is just now anxious to know—first, whether the President sympathizes, as is al- leged, with the assaults that are now made on the Secretary of the Treasury for the energy with which he discharges his duty, and, next, whether all the third termers have so completely parted with their wits that they intend tomake Mr. Bristow a formida- ble candidate for the Presidency by crowd- ing him out of the Cabinet on an issue on which he is so sound and they seem so rotten. A Chef.d’\(Eavre of Caricature. The art of caricature is one rarely seen in | perfection, The essence of caricature is irreverence, but it requires other high quali- ties in its composition before it can gain the recognition of the world of taste. There is irreverence enough in this age of idol-break- ing, but this only shows that the successful caricaturist is sure ofa wide circle of votaries. ‘The age which has produced the burlesque in drama and the opéra bouffe on the lyric stage is ready to applaud pictorial caricature if it isonly good enough. Applause means money nowadays, and hence the incentive to men of the proper training and qualifications to devote themselves to caricature is not wanting. As to training, the caricaturist musi be able to draw the human figure accirately and to sketch a good likeness in a few lines, This premises a good deal, but it is only the alphabet of caricature. He mist possess all shades of humor and be alle to give them expression with a touch so dicate and yet so masterly that his ex- zerations of form shall never cross the line cf distortion—he must, in short, preserve the similarity to the original, while twisting fea- tures, form, garb and surroundings into the expression he aims to convey, The degree of refinement necessary depends a good deal on the country and the age. In France and Italy, where true caricature exists, it often deals in subjects which in Eng- areheld too sacred to be touched by derisive pencil, and illustrates phases of life in caricaturing its prominent men which wonld shock American or Eng- Their hope and the hope | From what he.said at Des | Moines he is understood on the religious | lish decency. At tho beginning of the present century English caricature per- mitted a vulgar coarseness which has not left a trace at the present day. We are led to these remarks in looking at an exquisitely humorons cartoon in Punch, from the pencil of John Tenniel, who deservedly stands in the front rank of English caricaturists, It is entitled ‘‘Mosé in Egitto,” and gives us the marrow of England’s self-conscious com- placency over its coup in buying a con- trolling influence in the Suez Canal. Dis- raeli (and what a wonderful mixture of the ancient Hebrew and the London cad) stands sniggering in the desert with one finger of the left hand to his nose and ‘the key of India,” marked ‘Suez Canal,” grasped firmly in the right. In the background tho Sphinx winks its right eye and leers comically at the Oriental statesman with its left. Two ages, the remote, the dimly robed historic, and the actual, the trousered pres- ent, exchange sardonic laughs. Bonaparte's turgid appeal to forty centuries looking down from the Pyramids sounds empty beside their cachinnations. It is no longer the Israelites making bricks without straw, with Moses in the bullrushes, but the modern Moses tickling the Sphinx into a smile as if they were two Whitechapel cronies who had just done a neat stroke ot business profitable to both, It makes the accompanying epigram superfluous, which is, however, good enough in its way :— To get out of Egyptian bonds, as we know, Moses led to the Red Sea his clients Judaic, Now into these same bonds Britannia must go, To reach the same sea with a guide as Mosaic, Our Spanish Policy. Oliver Cromwell once said, “A man-of- war is the best ambassador;” and there is a very practical and vigorous kind of states- manship involved in that plain thought. It you have a difficulty with another nation that is worth attention deal with it in a way cal- culated to settle it practically; but if your difficulty is not up to the dignity of that treatment it is beneath the notice of a great nation. Our case with Spain illustrates this. In the complications that have arisen in consequence of the conduct of her men-of- war in American waters and in the proposed intervention to compel the termination of the barbarism with which she rules Cuba the principle is equally clear, We should have declared our will in such a style that neither the pitiful drivellers in Madrid nor the butchers in Cuba'could have misunderstoed us, or we should have left the case alone altogether. As it is, having done neither one nor the other, we have put ourselves in the false position of a nation that maunders over what it feels called upon to do, and gropes for pretexts at one time to excuse its inactivity, at another time to justify its in- terference. Our government has accepted from Spain the grossest insults, and now it sends around through Europe a sort of cir- cular subscription list for moral support for a proposed interference." For some in- scrutable reason it had not the courage to settle its own quarrel when the case was be- fore it, and now that the time has gone by with regard to that issue it imagines a new one, but simply has not the pluck cither ta act or to leave it alone. Tue Assempiy Commirrer oN on Crowe ad- journed sine die yesterday, and managed to end up with a little liveliness. This will be found in the somewhat tart correspondence we print which passed between Assembly- man Campbell and District Attorney Phelps | on the latter's declining to attend before the committee asa witness. It contains some amusing raps over the knuckles for the com- mittee's counsel, and a hint that at ont time the investigation was conducted as part of the Tammany campaign. On this point Mr. Campbell is mistaken in saying that the ‘press has never given expression to any such impression.” He can refresh his memory by a reference to the editorial col- umns of the Huraxp. District Arrorney Brrrron, of Brooklyn, has been charged by twelve members of the Kings county Grand Jury of not co-operating with them when there was an opportunity of indicting certain prominent officials, and thus attempting to shield them because they were “his political friends.” | What Mr. Britton says to this charge will be found else- where. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, puree FE: The Suez Canal pays seventy-five per cent, Californians had strawberries tor Christmas, General Logan is as convalescent as two pair, Superstition is spreading among the freedmen. The Khedive, proposes anew Eastern route via the Nile. The Pope indicates that he does not hold full ultra montane ideas, Disraeli says a Miss Rothschild is the most spirituelle lady in England. Sir Alexander T. Galt, of Montreal, is sojourning at the Gilsey House. Englaud proposes laws for purtfying rivers facturers oppose them, Fifty million dollars in American property are an- nually destroyed by moths. It is claimed that Mr. Morrison’s ambition was to go on the Military Committee of “the House. Mr, Matt H. Carpenter, of Wisconstn, arrived in the city yesterday and is at the Hoffman House. When you accuse an Englishman of making a bad pun he says you don't understand British politics. Sam Bowles intimates that Speaker Kerr chose Mor- rison because he hadn't anything better to choose. ‘The democratic papers insist that Ways-and-Means Morrison is nota fool, But not one insists that ho ts a wise man. Congressman James G. Blaine, of Maine, and Senator Lewis ¥. Bogy, of Missouri, arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel yesterday from Washington. James Grant, the novelist, who is not to be con- founded with Jainos Grant, the journalist, has abjured Protestantism and been received by the Cardinal Arch- bishop of Westminster into the folds of the Romana Catholic Church. Miss Cecilia Gaul, the Baltimore girl, whose piano triumphs, culminating inan engagement at Loipsic were chronicled the other Sunday in the Herato’s Paris gossip, is a favorite pupil of Lisat, and delights in play- ing the compositions of Chopin and Beethoven, She will return to America next year, Louise M. Alcott, in her next book, will tell the girls something about sense in regard to womay suilrago. She used to feel that it was a mistake that she was born a girl, because she did not like girls, but did Lie boys. She praises the ‘Rollo”’ stories of Jacob Abbot which se {s justified in doing, because they are healthy, The Lancet says that the throat symptoms are the most trustworthy for the purpose of dingnosis in the initial stage of scarlet fever. Tho soft part of the palate is extensively reddened, and not merely tho tonsils, ad is the case in the first instance in ordinary sore throat, When this condition is met with, accompanied by a very hot skin and a very quick pulse, accompanied or preceded by sickness, with athickly furred tongue, red borders and prominent pavillw, # case Of carlo feve? may be prepared {cr