The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1876, Page 4

4+ NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year, Four cents per copy. | Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per | ‘month, free of postage. * All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Henrarp. Letters and packages should be properly Bealed. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. Eo LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and gdvertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. VOLUME XLI..-.---+2+-+ ae AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERAOON AND EVENING, THEATRE COMIQUE, ri Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5’. M. Matinee at 2 THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, Phitd arenne, between Thirties and Thirty:tree strecte.— A, at SP. M. 4 cou Atreet and Broadway. RUSSIAN SIEGE OF mm from 1 P.M. tod . HS ae aud (rom 7:00 P.M We 10 P.M. TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at SP. M. ATRE. 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Investment securities con- tinue strong. A Spxcran Desratcu to the Hxeratp by | table this morning confirms the original | statement of our Vienna report concerning | as the bold act of a demagogue to spring The Republican National Convention. 'The selection of the place and time for the nomination of the republican candidate for the Presidency will be for a few days a topic of comment and speculation, especially in that profound part of the press which seeks in a mine for what lies on the surface. The conjectures as to the bearing of the place on the prospects of particular aspirants, and the influence their friends may have had on the and sufficient reasons apart from personal favor, The Convention has been called at Cincinnati because it is indispensable to the success of ‘the republican ticket that the party should carry Ohio in the October elec- tion. Since Pennsylvania has changed her election to November Ohio is the key of the situation in every important polit- | ical contest. The moral weight of a great victory there is worth thirty thousand votes in each of the great States of New York and scale in every doubtful State which holds an election in November. Last fall Pennsylva- nia was lost to the democrats from the morn- ing on which the result of the Ohio election was published, and the democratic majority in New York fell thirty-five thousand below what it was the year before. To carry Ohio is like taking a height which commands all the defences of a fortified town. It is to help to secure this commanding advantage that Cin- cinnati has been selected. We suppose the relative strength of candidates stands very much as it did before. The time is not ‘significant, although somewhat later than the average of republican national conventions. That of 1872, how- ever, was also held in June, but a little earlier in the month—the 5th instead of the 14th. ‘The lateness of the date is favorable to President Grant if he meditates a grand coup in foreign affairs to aid his nomination. At any rate, the 14th of June fixes a definite limit to his efforts in that direction. It is too common to reason as if the whole sum- mer and autumn were at his disposal, whereas he has only the five months that intervene before the meeting of the Republican National Convention. If he fails to get the nomination he will fail en- tirely, and there will be no talk of a third term thereafter. The difficult part of Gen- eral Grant’s canvass is to control the Na- tional Convention, Whatever public meas- ure or stroke of policy he undertakes with that purpose must be brought on the carpet before the delegates are chosen, or at least before the Convention assembles. If he should make some astounding coup while the Convention is in session or on the eve of its meeting his motive would be so suspi- | cious, or rather so transparent, that all his rivals for the nomination would denounce it the Convention. ry with the startling stories suddenly put in circulation on the day of an election to which our political slong aflixes the name of ‘‘roor- backs.” A Spanish outrage on our flag, or a Spanish butchery of our citizens, swiftly resented and punished, just as the Conven- tion is to assemble and in the very crisis of the fate of candidates, would damage Presi- dent Grant more than it could help him, because it would destroy all confidence in his character. ‘he country would believe, and his own party would not deny, that the whole thing had been planned to influence the Convention, and such a stratagem would be regarded as an affront to its dignity and independence. If we are to have a war with | Spain it must appear to proceed from | public motives, and not to be prompted by reckless personal ambition. It would never do for President Grant to pre- cipitate the country into a foreign | embroilment at such a time, for he could get | nobody to believe that it was not ‘‘a put up | job.” He is too good a strategist to bring | on an inflammatory foreign difficulty in a | conjuncture when it would so certainly re- coil against him by wearing the appearance | of a stupendous political trick. Whatever General Grant does im this line he must do at a considerable interval before the Conven- tion meets, if he expects it to help his nom- ination. All his Wishes, plans and efforts are bounded, for the present, by a horizon which does not extend beyond the month of May. If he needs a war to help him to the re- publican nomination he must bring it on soon or make up his mind to definitely give itup. The temptation to begin a war for | his personal advantage will be entirely re- sudden trap on would be classed President Grant's circular to the European Powers on the Cuban question. i Quen Vicrort has had a busy time find- | ing husbands for her daughters, but if there | is a German prince left and she succeeds in | securing him for the Princess Beatrice dur- | ing her visit to Coburg her life work will be | ended. It is to be hoped she will be com- | pletely successful in her delicate mission, | Tae Accipent to the French steamer | L'Amérique, as we learn from a special de- | spatch to the Evening Telegram, which we re- print this morning, is likely to give rise to many lawsuits. This case is another illus- tration of the necessity of a clearly defined international code for the benefit of com- merce. ‘Tne Porte has yielded sutliciently at last to listen to the representations of the Great Powers, and the proposed Turkish reforms will now be guarantéed by a stronger arm than that of the Sultan. To this complexion it Was necessary the affairs of the Ottoman Empire should-come, and the feint of resist- | ance has happily ended, we are led to be- lieve, after a very faint attempt at keeping it alive. DY Shalt ae Repvarscan Freuxo 0 Fravce is strong, withont excess or extravagance, as is evident | from the reception which is accorded to Marshal MacMahon's proclamation. Even Gambetta’s organ regards it with favor and | finds in its tone and purpose confirmation of | the Republic. All this we regard as among | the best signs we have seen in France at any | | | | time since the establishment of the present | government. Moderation in the Republic is | the surest safeguard against either the monarchy or the Empire, and this spirit | seems to animate even the radicals just now, but it will not hurt to have Hugo and Blanc in the Senate. Such republicans in their old | age cannot fail to be worthy Senators of the Bepublic. | ination. moved if he should not be nominated at | Cincinnati, and greatly diminished if he should be nominated. | In the event of his nomination he will expect the united support of the republican party, and feel that he is strong enough to | secure an election without recourse to desperate expedients, The reaction against the democratic party in the election of last year, and its weakening internal dis- sensions on the currency, together with the expected republican reinforcement on the anti-Catholic issue, will make | General Grant. hopeful and confident if he | | gets the nomination. He would prefer to | rest his claims on the soundness of his finan- cial views and an appeal to the steady-going | conservative classes rather than unsettle the public finances and private business by a foreign war. There are other reasons why he should wish to avoid a war if he should get the nom- The objective point of a war with Spain would, of course, be Cuba, and the deadly climate of that island during the sum- mer and early autumn is not favorable to | military operations, The yellow fever is an | enemy to which the bravest troops would succumb. Even if he could gets great army ready during the summer ought not to expose it to be deci- mated by pestilence, and news ‘that our soldiers were dying by thousands as victims to the climate would rise a cry of horror and denunciation throughout the country, which would be fatal to the party operations could not be safely commenced | before the month of October, and if they | should then be attended by areverse, just on | the eve of the Presidential election, it would be all over with the republican candidate. Naval engagements would indeed be possible earlier in the season, but the chances would be against us until our nayy had been con+ NEW YORK. HERALD, selection, seem futile when there are obvious | Pennsylvania, and is certain to turn the | months he | siderably strengthened. As soon as the war broke out there would probably be a truce a east with the Carlists and the whole Spanish fleet | made necessary by the late war and the con- |The Annual Report of Harvard Uni- be sent into the Cuban waters, Another reason why war is improbable un- less it should be begun before the meet- | ing of the Republican National Convention | is the impossibility of creating armaments and making preparations subsequent to that date. Congress will adjourn about the time when the political conventions are held, and the President has not only no authority to de- clare war (a difficulty which might be got over by provoking one), but he has no power to raise a soldier or spend a dollar without the sanction of Congress. So the President will be helpless after the adjournment of Con- gress, and any illegal or extra constitutional measures would be fatal while he was run- ning as a candidate for a third term. A sur- vey of these disabilities justifies the conclu- | sion that we shall be pretty safe if we get | past the political conventions and the ad- journment of Congress without a war. All the danger lies within the ensuing three or four months. The D: Austria is less diplomatic than she might be in what is put forth as her first thought on the occasion of the presentation of Count Andrassy’s scheme of reforms at Constanti- nople. She seems afraid that the world will | not recognize in her the natural protector of | the Sultan’s Christian subjects, the Power | “with a mission” to carry the civilization of | Western Europe down the valley of the Danube. Doubtless it will be all the better for the success of this mission if less is said about it at Vienna. Russia and Prussia have accorded to the Vienna government a sort of primacy and representative character in their dealings with the Sultan, paitly be- cause these dealings are of no great conse- quence and partly because the outrages that are the occasion of the diplomatic interven- tion immediately affect the tranquillity of the Austrian frontier. But if Austria under- stands this as an assent on their part that she should become the executor of the de- funct Empire, or if out of the position ac- corded she endeavors to assume the rile of the great Christian protector of the op- pressed people, events will proceed less | smoothly, It would be a much better course on her part to assume the protectorship as far as she may quietly and talk about it when she gets its for all that she says about it in the meanwhile, though it will not startle the Turk, will excite some susceptibilities in St. Petersburg; and against St. Petersburg Austria can only have the whole valley of the Danube when she sends word to Berlin that she is ready to surrender her German provinces. bian Empire. Blaine’s Mischief. Mare Antony, in the play of ‘Julius Cesar,” is not a lovable character. To his great qualities, his courage, boldness and wit, are allied an insidious demagoguery whose cunning display is one of the grehtest triumphs of Shakespeare. Dangling the pierced robe of the dead Cesar hefore the eyes of the Roman rabble, he stirs their | hearts to mutiny while deprecating any tu- mult. He brandishes Cesar’s will, and as the inflamed populace rush off to burn the houses of the conspirators he rushes down and cries with fiendish exultation:— Now let it work. Misebief, thou art afoot; Take thou what course thou wilt, If James G. Blaine, after his Andersonville speech, had sat for the picture of Marcus Antonius, the poet would not have changed | a line, Between the ‘curled Antony” and Blaine there is, however, a striking differ- ence. The one held up the robe of Caesar, newly slain; the other gesticulates as, with nimble fingers, he holds up the mouldering | gtave clothes of the Union dead whose corses he turns over in their sepulchre to get the makings of a party flag. Outside of | the minority in the House of Representatives who cheered deliriously at the wily speech, we may ask, Can Blaine awake any other feel- ing than disgust as the sacred cerements of the dead Union soldiers drop to pieces in his | busy fingers? The dead of the Union shall never be forgotten, but the ghoul who robs | their graves to make a party flag shall not be thought a hero. The flag to sweep the coun- try must be of fairer bunting than can be woven from the “bloody shirt” of Morton or the ‘grave clothes” of Blaine. There is one other view of Blaine postur- | ingas the republican Mare Antony which | must not be forgotten, for it is, in Mr. | Blaine’s eyes, of the greatest moment— / namely, How will it tell for Blaine? Able and cunning, with the Antonian flavor of | ostentatious bluntness, he lets his wishes | appear as the undercurrent, rather than the tide, of his speech. Like Antony in his most | effusive sentences he would be read between | the linés. When he fied precipitately to the cloak room to dodge the third term vote he let his halting excuse of delicacy on account | of being spoken of as a Presidential candi- date tell the under story that he only re- frained from striking Grant's ambition be- cause he loved Grant. It is the fault of such men to reason too finely with themselves, and expect the world to be cozened with a | half-attered thought, Mr. Blaino knows | that his fight with Mr, Hill, in which the | latter deserved to be beaten as much as | Blaine deserves to be censured, is a doubtful | advantage to himself. Brutus said to An- | tony at Philippi ~~ The posture of your biows are yet unknown; and this may be repeated to Blaine; for as | Antony was but clearing the way for young | Octavius Cwsar to mount the throne over | Antony's corpse, so the blows of Blaine may | tell for Grant, whom Blaine loved too much | delicacy that Grant is not likely to recipro- cate if the gate to a third term is but left ajar. GunMany AND THE VATICAN are about com- ing to terms. This is well, for seldom has a great statesman betrayed a great nation into less meritorions persecutions than those | which Prince Bismarck inflicted on the Ro- | that exposed them to sucha fate. Military | ™42 Catholic prelates in the name of the | German people. Tue Eoxrtian Anwy is achieving successes over the Abyssinians. The pleasant part of | the story is that the American generals in the Khedive’s army are showing superior valor over the English soldiers opposed to them. When we get thedetails we shall find per haps ample cause fos congratulation, | jobbery could not be exposed on the | this, and that both parties will be accordeda | to destroy as o Presidential candidate—a | SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1876. Speechmaking in Congress. The accumulation of practical legislation tingencies growing out of it doomed speech- making in Congress to a secondary place in public and popular esteem. In the House itself all measures of national importance were shaped in the committee rooms and not in Committee of the Whole. So general had become the practice of relying upon the ‘committees for practical legislation that Con- gress was only a ratifying body for the se- | oret juntas constituted by the Speaker. The | eloquence which at one time was wont to electrify the country became a thing of the past, and speechmaking was allowed to fall into desuetude. In the Senate, it is true, the freedom of debate was undisturbed, but the influence of the five minutes’ rule which obtained in the House was felt even there, and it was only on field days, when men like Sumner and Schurz and Conkling took the floor, that the fashion of the capital crowded the galleries. At no time since the war has anybody expected to hear a speech worthy of oratory in the ‘bear garden” of the Republic. With men like Blaine and Randall and Banks apd Wood in the House there was no possibility of debate, asin the old time, because the severity of the rules was an effective check to all oratorical dis- play. The habit of making speeches merely for their political effect, as was illustrated in the Andersonville debate, has also helped to stifle statesmanlike argument. If mat- ters are allowed to go on much longer as they have been going speechmaking in Congress will become one of the lost arts, and we shall look back to the time of Clay and Webster and John Quincy Adams as the golden age of oratory as well as states- manship in this country, It has been too much the custom to decry speech-making and to laud the benefits of the stifling process. Even floor of the House, for five minutes, which could only be obtained with dif- ficulty and as a matter of favor, is too short a time to battle successfully with the schemes of the lobby. Under such conditions modest merit could not be heard in Congress at all. Argument was supplanted by repartee, and a jest was more effective than reason. Cox came to the front, while Dawes was profanely referred to as the heavy father of the House. Even General Butler could not have been heard had not his tongue | been freighted with bitter words. Up to the present Congress, under republican rule, it was only courage or favoritism which could obtain a hearing in the House. We trust the democratic majority will change all fall and impartial hearing on the floor. It is time that all public questions should be fully and fairly debated in Congress, and the democrats will honor themselves and benefit the country if they reopen the ave- nues of debate and senew the speechmaking era in our national councils. Just now the whole theory of our government is being | tested, but the test cannot be impartial or beneficial unless all the representatives of the people are fully and freely heard. Tue Cast or La Pace.—La Page, just convicted in New Hampshire of the murder of a schoolgirl, experiences the benefit of a peculiar law, which is certainly not in ac- cordance with the common idea that justice, to be effective, must be swift. He is sen- tenced to be hanged in one year from the present time, the law of the State providing that criminals under sentence for murder shall have one year in which to exhaust all the possibilities of the law as to stays and exceptions and new trials. Indeed, it ac- cepts the fact that there will be delays, and fixes to them a remote limit, but certainly a limit. That murderers are ruthless and sud- | den is no good reason why the law should be without mercy; but certainly the terror of the law must come to a culprit’s ear with 9 softened sound when the Judge is compelled to tell him that he shall be hanged in a year, particularly if the prisoner has the sanguine spirit that can fill every one of the interven- ing three hundred and sixty-five days witha chance for escape. - Tux Assematy is busy ldying out the work of the session, and already some of the com- mittees are reporting. Mr. Bergh’s bill to prevent injury to horses was favorably re- ported yesterday by Mr. Strahan, and a bill for the safe storage of combustibles in this city was also favorably reported. Another matter of local interest was the calling up of the resolution asking Comptroller Green for information in regard to salaries in this city. The resolution was amended by Mr. Sloan so as to declare that when the salaries were fixed the financial condition of the country was better than it is now, and that, as the prices of commodities have fallen, salaries should be reduced. It was referred to the proper committee, as was also a resolution protesting against the imprisonment of per- sons suspected of crime without judicial ex- amination. Both houses adjourned until Monday evening. Tue Statements made by Captain Jen- nings, of the steamship Adriatic, and those | | of his officers, touching the collision had on | | the night of December 30, are quite contra- | | dictory, to say the least. The Captain | | first says that the whole story about | | the Harvest Queen being the collid- | | ing vessell is o fabrication, and then | he goes on to say that the strange vessel | simply carried away the steamer’s. boom ; | and he adds that, hearing a cry, he lowered | two boats, but nobody was found in the water. The language of Captain Jennings | in speaking to the reporters was reprehensi- ble, to say the least of it, and his careless- ness in not reporting a circumstance which was probably a serious disaster calls for care- ful inquiry. Orvevry at Sra.—Following closely upon the stories which we recently printed con- | cerning the captain of the Jefferson Borden | is the sad and singular tale of the British | bark Island Belle which comes by cable this | morning. Cruelty at sea is becoming almost | as common as it was in the era when mutiny | wasacommon offence. The revelations in | this case and the haste with which Captain Aarlsen, of the Norwegian bark Prinds Oscar, was acquitted upon a charge of murder, are further proofs of the necessity of an interna- tional maritime tribunal which shall bare | | the ceremony for the purpose of shedding cognizance of such cases under the law of Hl nations. versity. President Eliot, in his annual report, says that the average age of the Harvard under- graduates at admission has gradually in- creased throughout this century, being now about eighteen years and o half; that as many come of poor as of wealthy parents, but that far the larger number are from the respectable middle classes; that a sixth of them are sons of widows; that culture is more hereditary than wealth, and that the educated insist that their children shall be equally or more favored. Also that Harvard is gradually reaching out of New England; that her number from the Middle States grows steadily greater, one-eighth of her whole list coming from New York alone. Professorships of music and of the history of art have been founded and are encour- aged, and the latter aids the student either of the classics or of the mod- ern languages noticeably. But the most marked change in the last year's record is the introduction of voluntary attendance by the Seniors, instead of compulsory, as ordi- narily, While the effect on the scholarship, as tested by the examinations, is not marked either way, it is found that a healthy emula- tion has developed among the professors to each make his branch of especial interest, and that the students are pretty certain to choose those branches really most valuable. Meal times have been changed so that din- ner comes at six instead of noon, and reci- tations are wisely through at half-past four, leaving an hour and a half for exercise. Re- port of progress at the gymnasium is omitted, probably, as usual, because, as in those of most of our colleges, there has been none. Four dollars and a half a week boards the majority of the students at commons, in the great Alumni Hall. The Divinity School has doubled its advantages, but its number of students has fallen off sadly com- pared with the earlier days. The Law School intends to demand here- after that the candidate for admission must have some academic preparation and the resulting mental power. The Medi- cal School will do likewise, and we will have fewer poor lawyers and doctors, as all men of the right stamp, if such a condition is im- posed, will fill it. One hundred and thirty- four thousand dollars out of the two hundred thousand wanted for the new Warren Museum have been subscribed. The library ean no longer hold all the books, and as nearly ten thousand are added yearly it’is to be pieced out. The financial condition of the University is reported as satisfactory. Dr. McCosh's suggestion that Princeton sadly needs debating societies holds equally good of Harvard, and as the English Univer- sity debates, in which so many great men have figured, are daily telegraphed to the press, and the statesman and every intelli- gent person naturally like to. know the opinion of Young England, so, and even more so, would they in this land that of Young America. The press is ready; will the students do their part? Nursing a King. The Prince of Wales has witnessed a series of elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo and ram fights at Baroda, and the English newspapers are shaking their heads. At the age of thirty- four a man might be thought old enough to be treated as a man, but the gravest of the Eng- lish journals are never tired of dry-nursing Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who may some day be King of England. He has been thirteen years married, and has handsomely provided for the direct succession, which is about as much as could have been expected of him as a prince; but still the wise old Sairey Gamps must occasionally take him on their knees and shake their fingers at him and tell him he is a good boy, but he mustn't be falling down and soiling his white pina- fores, so he mustn't. All this may be very comforting to the proverbial British penchant for having something to patronize, so well typified in the blacking manufacturer's wife, who used to say, ‘‘We keeps a poet.” The Sairey Gamps say, ‘‘We keeps a little king; and if we keep a telling him he’s a little pet and he mustn’t make mud pies it’s because we want him to be a goody, goody king, when his mamma bids us goodby, my dear.” To the outside world it looks very much as if the English people were all the time sur- prised that the Prince of Wales is not a fool or a prize-fighter, a blackleg or a burglar. If he lays the corner stone of a hospital for debilitated hunchbacks the newspapers apologize for his speech and praise his smiling bearing during the reading of the Directors’ address, as if they were as- tonished that pe could string half a dozen sentences together without shouting ‘“thoup la!” in the middle of them; and that, instead of listening like s martyr to the fulsome praise of his father, his mother and himself, he had bonneted all the old professors and wound up by playing leapfrog with the fifteen specimen hunchbacks, brought to tears of gratitude at the proper moment. The English people have paid the expenses | of his trip to India much as they send their children to the Crystal Palace in care of the governess and nursery maids. But their royal baby who wears a long beard and | is growing bald wants to see the Indian “elephant” in all its native ‘glory and not a | stuffed skin ; so he went to the young Gui- | cowar's show without thought of the Berghs | and old-horse-loving societies of Great Britain that would go into fits at the news, As a consequence the cry has gone up, | “There, our good little Prince is puddying his pinafore again!" He does not deserve this treatment. The young gentleman is comparatively harmless and might be hence- forth let alone, while—and we commend the idea to the English press—his eldest son, who has the correct royal marks upon him, would be a fit and fresh subject for the coddling of the Sairey Gamps. No Counctu.—It turns out that there is to be no council after all, and the decision of the differences between Mrs. Moulton and Mr. Beecher, in the language of Judge Van Tux Reoonp oy Farures during the past and previous years is, indeed, suggestive, and it will be found that the whole subject is carefully collated in out news article this morning, New Elements in the South. Before the war nothing more strongly marked the distinction between the civie lizations of North and South than the methods of public discussion. The South. erner, and especially the Virginian whe did not go to Congress, was unused to debating with political opponents. Groups of colonels and majors gathered on tavern porches, and, being agreed as to the general subject of discussion, had only to wrangle about little details and to split con« stitutional hairs. They read English bookd of the Tory school in preference to Northern books. They were isolated, feudalistic, haughty; and, though usually broad on abstractions, were usually narrow on praca tical subjects. Two new elements are now entering a@ leavening into Southern civilization—th¢ lyceum system and the evening newspaper, Our readers will be surprised to learn the evening newspaper, which is consid less as‘a luxury than as a domestic necessity! in most Northern cities, is rarely known in the South. The Northerner can hardly fancy a life which does not include an after-suppew® local journal. But the newsboy is beginning to’cry his cuckoo notes in the twilight of Southern cities. The result will be to make, the sitting room rather than the inn porch ‘a place for evening gatherings, The system of public lectures, which has had great influe ence in making Northern communities dem« ceratic, and in connecting widely separated localities in thought, is beginning to find operation in, the South. We welcome this innovation as one which will aid to join the two sections in sympathy. If Boston and Richmond can be stirred by Anna Dickinsow in the same week; if Wendell Phillips, eloquently talking of ‘Lost Arts,” cam soothe American buncombe in Cleveland and Memphis in one fortnight; if even Josh Billings can excite laughter from Savannsl, to Philadelphia, there will besuch a brothers hood and such a community of interests be« tween the two sections as we have never had before. Tue Amnesty Bux met its coup de grace'im the House yesterday through the brilliant tactics of ex-Speaker Blaine, who, in all this contest of words that are not things, hag shown himself a most accomplished matador, Very few ifany of that great public whose sers vants the windy orators upon both sides are supposed to be will fail to understand that the entire debate was for political effect, without any reference to the meritg of the question, and the speeches will ba received at their proper value. Meantime the fact remains that the very great mass of the people of the North are in this, the cene tennial year, in favor of complete and uni« versal amnesty, and they will be slow to for« get the demagogues who, for their personall advancement, have raked up the ashes of tha dead past to its defeat. In Toe Twerp Surr the question now ig whether the Court has power to summom talesmen to complete the jury. The ques tion would not arise, perhaps, if Mr. Tweed’a friends were sure of the good fortune whi attended the selection of the twelfth juror the play of ‘The Crucible.” Tue Wanuixe Preparations continue, an@ while the naval vessels are concentrating af Port Royal military stores are being gathw ered at St. Augustine, where General Den# has command of two companies of artillery with full batteries. Tarmrzen Guitty Distmiens have subd mitted to their fate in Chicago. As only six teen were indicted but three remain to be tried. It will be seen from this that the Chicago triumph is to be as great a victory as that at St. Louis. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘A cable telegram from London, under date of th 14th inst, reports that the Rev. Henry Varley, thq celebrated revivalist, is reported to be hopelessly ill. Grant posted Blaine. ‘Texas has groen corn. ‘The Overland Monthly is dead. Migration to California is great. Striped stockings are poisonous. Mrs. Ross thinks Charley ts alive. Sunset Cox should look out that be don’t spoil on hig own hands. Mrs. Postmaster Ge: @-al Jewell wears golden brow silk with cameo tinge. Fashions of 1776 are to be revived; but bow-leggog men can’t strut around in knee breeches. ‘Tho Sierra Nevadas on the line of the Central Pacifig Railroad are piled with snow cight feet deep. Murat Halstead and Henry Watterson, on each side aff Grant, deuy that he is the saviour of his country, The lower lip first shows signs of intoxication. It iy the lower lip which first shows signs of grief in a baby, There is a faint clew now being run out ina Southe ern city that promises to elucidate the mystery of the fate of poor Charley Ross. Ex-Governor Bigler, of Pennsylvania, was taken sude denly ili Thursday night, but yesterday was in a som@. what improved condition. The East Tennessee birds, deceived by the wi have gone to making their nests, and an pee wren is reported to be trying to hatch four eggs. The editor of the Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune is g brilliant man, He knows how to make a pretty paper, Ho gives prominence to the New York H&Raup’s “Pete sonal Intelligence," and he is welcome to copy it as hig: own, We like to write for the million, The Springfield Aepublican, speaking of hard times, says that our banks, which, in their two forms, repree sent the capital of the capitalists and the capital of the laboring and great middie classes, nave it in thoty power, if notto make men, certainly to break thy er to prevent their breaking, and they are called to og Pecial prudence in their dealings with the community, to pursue the proper medium, which shall save th@ most and break the fewest. The Sun of yesterday contained the following: “and so the Henacp lectures the Sun on ‘sensation’ tg Journalism! It 1s said that practice makes perfect, ‘and if this is so the leetarer ought certainly to be quale fied for his task. The Mxnaun accuses the Sun of sone aational Journalism tm sounding the alarm of war with Spain, The Hxmaup has been doing precisely the same thing from day to day, and if the Sun bas created which the Herasp has not if the larger circulatiog which mm the special cable telegrams tothe Hrraty and put theng before the world, and called attention to them as we have to the President's Message, and perhaps that hag caused a sensation, We trust, however, that the tele» grams are accurate, although in this instance they have not, like most of those to the Hrxann, veon verified in advance by the mails, When the Heraio accuses the Sun of a disposition to ‘hound’ the President on t@ war it is entirely tp error, Wo conceive tt to be ous duty as faithfal journalists to open the eyes of the peox ple to the prospect of a war now threatening themy and in this labor we have been conspicuously assisted by the enterprise of our now complaining contempérary 5 but we are altogether epposed to a war at present, and consider the policy which would lead to it shortsighted, Tk might re-clect General Grant; it certainly would ins orease the national debt, sacrifice many lives and renow the general demoralization from which the nation, | almost im vain, to now struggling to arise,”