The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1876, Page 4

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Even Senor Casterar is not sufficiently re- publican for the intransigentes of Cartagena. "hese republicans are too radical by half. Eama Mine Suanes have advanced. Next ve shall expect a revival of the famous Muf- in and Crumpet Company described in pages af the novelist. A Gracervt Act was that of the Empress Augusta in recognizing the attentions of Mrs. Dorrien Smith and other ladies of the Scilly {slands to the wrecked passengers of the Schiller. ‘Tae Frencu Exections show further gains for the conservative republicans. In view of these results it was scarcely worth while to prohibit the banquet which was to have been given to M. Gambetta at Marseilles. Is tHe Twererp Casz Judge Westbrook has ordered the Coroners’ to summon talesmen to complete the jury. This order puts an- vther legal quibble out of the way, but the aext may be expected in good time. Tax New Senator rrom Kentucky, who, \fter a protracted struggle, was unanimously nominated by the democratic cancus at Frankfort yesterday, is a strong, able man, who had a good record in the House and will make a useful, though not a brilliant, Senator. He is of Scotch birth, about fifty- five years of age, a lawyer by profession, and will replace John W. Stevenson, whose term expires March 3, 1877. Tvrxiso Prosects vor Pzacs.—Aund now we are told the Sublime Porte will pacify the discontented provinces unaided. If this can be done it will be the best thing possible for Turkish stability ; but we may well doubt whether the Sultan is strong enough to carry his projects into successful execution. Should he exhibit even a part of the strength required we may rest assured that the great Powers will place no serious obstacles in his way. . Carman Scuern has called a meeting of the Democratic National Committee to fix the time for holding the National Convention. As the 22d of February was chosen for the meeting of the committee we may almost expect the same patriotic instinct to dictate the Fourth of July as the time for the as- sembling of the Convention. As the centen- aial of American independence comes on Tuesday there can be no objection to the day. Tue CentenniaL Appropriation Brut was | discussed in the House of Representatives yesterday with some noteworthy results. From the discussion, and especially from the speech of Mr. Waddell, of North Ggroz lina, it appears that the debate on the | amnesty question has not alienated the South from the Centennial, and that the Southern people are still anxious to cast she mantle of oblivion over the past. ts well, and we hope the spirit of the North Carolina Representative will be emu- ated by his colleagues from the South and reciprocated by those from the North. The tigh constitutional ground assumed by Mr. Willis, of this city, needs no serious argu- | ment, and his speech can only be regarded us the gratification of the natural desire of a young Congressman to make himself heard. fn so far as it was necessary to answer the assumed by Mr. Willis it was done 5 Mr. Hewitt, his colleague. The subject will be still farther discussed before it is scted upon in Committee of the Whole -NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY; JANUARY 19, 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Our Difficulties with Spain. The appearance of Secretary Fish before the Committee on Foreign Affairs on Mon- | the recent diplomatic correspondence relat- ing to Cuba published, encourage a hope that | the mask may soon be lifted and the country | has already been disclosed to vindicate the ; correctness of the Henatp and expose the subterfuges of the administration. The first last, confessed, came to the public through a Heraxp despatch from Vienna several weeks ago. The truth of that despatch was denied until denial was vain. When this burrow- ing diplomacy was tracked out, and @ movement begun in Washington was dragged forth to light in the distant capital of Austria by the alertness and penetration of the Heraup the fact was at first met by a positive contradiction from sources in Washington supposed to be in direct communication with the government. What excuse can the administration make for its persistent efforts to deceive the pub- lic? What moral justification can there be for its attempt to discredit a despatch which it all the while knew to be true, and which it now substantiates by its own copfessions? All the contradictions which the administra- tion authorized or inspired were founded on aquibble, It continued for weeks to deny that any such note had been sent to all the European Powers, on the slender foundation shat the note was not addressed in form to the foreign governments, but to Mr. Cushing at Madrid, and that mere copies of it were sent to our representatives at other courts, with instructions to read it to their respective Ministers of Foreign Affairs. What a high toned exhibition of candor and sincerity! The American people have been trifled with and practised upon ; what was true in substance has been denied because it was slightly inaccurate in a minor detail ; half a grain of truth has been made to do the office ot a stupendous, deliberate lie! The Heraup'’s Vienna despatch is proved and acknowledged to have been authentic, and when we get the text of the document we shall have the means of exposing other misrepresentations inspired by the adminis- tration. There is no knowing how long this diplomatic transaction might have burrowed in the dark if the enterprise of the Hzratp had not forced it into publicity. The administration has been put on the defensive and is trying to justify its appeal to foreign Powers by precedent. It has put in circulation a statement which was thus reported yesterday by our special correspond- ent at Washington :—‘‘A curious fact comes out here to-day, in conversation on this sub- ject—namely, that in 1824, only a year after the announcement of what is known as the Monroe doctrine, the United States asked the mediation of Russia with Spain to pro- cure a cessation of the war which Spain was then making against her South American colonies. This precedent has, it is beliéved, This | been strictly followed by Secretary Fish in his note of November.” The main fact here stated is correct, although the date is inaccurate ; it was in 1825, not 1824, that the application was made to Russia. Its value asa “precedent” will disappear as soon as it is examined, and the public can then judge whether it has been ‘‘strictly fol- lowed.” There is only one point in which there is even an appearance of analogy between the two transactions, and that appearance is superficial and deceptive. It is true that an application was made to Russia for her good offices with Spain within two years after the Monroe declaration ; but, so far as relates to the Monroe doctrine, the cases are not paral- lel. Mr. Clay's application to Count Nessel- rode was in strict pursuance of the Monroe doctrine and intended to give it effect. The occasion of that celebrated declaration was a suspected purpose of the combination of European sovereigns called the Holy Alli- ance to assist Spain in recovering her re- volted American colonies. The warning that this would not be tolerated by the United States was given on a secret under- standing with Mr. Canning, who had as- sured Mr. Monroe of the support of the British government. The application to Russia was in pursuance of the very same object as the Monroe declaration— namely, the permanent independence of the Spanish-American States. The Monroe declaration warned the allied sovereigns that they must not interfere on the side of Spain, and Mr. Clay’s note to Russia was a request to one of those sovereigns to inter- cede with Spain to stop the war and recog- nize the independence of her colonies. The Monroe declaration and Mr. Clay's note had, therefore, precisely the same purpose, since both aimed to sunder forever the political connection between Spain and the American continent. Assuredly President Grant can- ot pretend that he is inviting European in et the political connec- tion between Spain and the West India Islands; and if this be not his object his movement has a totally different relation to the Monroe doctrine from that af President Adams. His defence, accordingly, breaks touched, The pretence of the administration that the precedent of 1825 has ‘‘been strictly fol- | lowed” is at total variance with the facts, The South American States had won their independence years before Russia was asked to intercede with Spain and induce her to | acknowledge it. Has Cuba also.won her in- the independence of the South American States three years before that application was made, and it had also been acknowl- edged by Great Britain. and the United States acknowledged the in- | dependence of Cuba? Neither has any | thought of doing so, and President Grant ' stated reasons in his annual Message why he could not even recognize belligerent rights—much less independence. How then, can the precedent of 1825 have ‘been strictly followed” when it has been so glaringly deviated from in its relation to the stage and cireumstances of the quarrel ? Spanish-American independence was an accomplished fact when Secretary Clay wrote his despatch to Mr. Middleton, our Minister | to St. Petersburg, “Throughout both conti- | day, and his professed willingness to have all | | put im possession of all the facts, Enough , knowledge of the facts, which are now, at | down in its main point as soon as it is | dependence? Our government recognized | Have Great Britain | power is subdued. The recent decisive vic- tory of Ayachuco has annihilated the last remains of the Spanish force. Not a foot of territory in all that vast extent owns the do- minion, not a bayonet sustains “the cause, of | Spain.” Does the state of things in Cuba | bear any resemblance to what Mr. Clay then | described? He took pains to communicate |to,the Russian government the long and | patient forbearance of the United States | | during the struggle between Spain and her | colonies, “It has existed,” he said, ‘‘in a | greater or less extent seventeen years. Its | | earlier stages were marked by the most shocking excesses, and throughout it has j been atténded by almost incaleulable waste of blood and treM%sure. During its continu- ance whole generations have passed away without living to see its close, while | others have succeeded them, growing | up from infancy to majority without ever | tasting the blessings of peace.” ‘In the | war which has so long been raging between | Spain and her colonies the United States | have taken no part, either to produce or sus- tain it. They have been inactive and neu- | tral spectators of the passing scenes.” Our government of that day, in spite of its in- terests,’its strong sympathy and its hu- manity, stood completely aloof until the in- dependence of the colonies was, as Mr, Clay said, “fixed and irrevocable; and if that precedent had ‘‘been strictly followed” President Grant would have waited for a similar state of things in Cuba, and then have intereeded to procure from Spain an ac- knowledgment of the independence al- ready existing as an irreversible fact. That precedent has not been followed, and it is @bsurd for the administration to cite it. We will discuss what has really been done on its merits when the documents shall have been laid before Congress. Private Letters and the Third Term, The latest report of General Grant's ‘Tfnten- tions in respect to a third term is that he has written a private letter to ex-Governor Mor- gan, in which he asserts positively that he will refuse a renomination. Another rumor is that Senator Sargent declared lately that he knew personally that the President did not expect a third term. Attorney General Pierrepont is said to have had private assur- ances to the same effect, For more than a year similar reports have been current, and if they are true we are compelled to believe that the President reposes in many persons the confidence he refuses to the people. As a public servant the President ought to be frank with the people on a matter of great national importance. Private letters to poli- ticians upon the third term are not re- spectful to the country, His personal friends, the members of his Cabinet, his party lead- ers have no claims upon General Grant which compare with those of his country- men, to whom he owes place and power, and if he speaks at all he should speak to them. For more than two years the people have waited patiently to learn the President's will in this vita] question in our politics. Jonventions of his own party have protested, the press of his own party has respectfully urged an answer, and finally Congress has virtually put him to his purgation by offi- cially denouncing a third term policy, as un- wise, unpatriotic and perilous to the Repub- lic. In the face of this authoritative, uni- versal questioning, we cannot see how the President can, with dignity, write private letters declaring his purposes, while refusing to render an answer to the nation. This is only to trifle with the situation. If there ever was a time when for him to speak openly on the third term question was undignified, it is past. If the President can afford to make confidants of Messrs. Morgan and Sargent, he surely might be frank with the country. It is silence that is want of dignity now—not speech. The Strikes. While the strike at the Lonsdale mills con- tinues the cable brings reports of a similar movement among the colliers of North Wales from a like cause—the reduction of wages. Everywhere in the New World and in the Old there appears to be a fearful stagnation in business, and the evils from which both labor and capital suffer are the consequence. Ex- perience has proved, however, that strikes, are a bad remedy, except in tare cases and under ,unusual circumstances, and we cannot regard the Lonsdale move- ment as among the exceptions. Hard as it would be to reduce wages to the standard fixed by the company there seems to be no escaping the conclusion that the ruling prices for the class of goods manufactured at Lonsdale are too low to justify keeping the mills running. Besides all this, the contest is a very unequal one. We have it on the authority of the Providence Journal, a news- paper thoroughly informed on the subject, that the owners of the Lonsdale mills are in 8 position to shut down their gates or to ran their mills without fear of commercial con- sequences. The will of the Goddard Brothers is law in their own mills, and their action will be law to all the other mill owners in New England. Already the Messrs, Chace, at Yalle Falls, have followed their example, and.they tod, we believe, are equally capable of vanqnishing their help. Itis precisely for this reason—the power on the one hand and the helplessness on the other—that we suggested arbitration as the remedy for the trouble. The question at issue is purely a business question, and if the strike is unwarranted because the re- duction is necessary it is not possible to establish it ina way more unmistakably or satisfactorily. The manufacturers may triumph without this, but it is the only way to do full justice to the operatives, and the more misguided they are the more necessary is some such method of settlement as we | suggest. Mx. Bovrwert expounded his bookkeeping while Secretary of the Treasury in a long speech in the Senate yesterday. The result is @ great mass of figures; but Treasury bookkeeping has long been one of those things which, in the language of Dundreary, no fellow can find out. tpl Tax Sreamsuir Sauer, which went ashore on the Brambles, has been got off and pro- ceeded om her voyage. A remarkable series of accidents has attended the vessels of the North German Lloyds Company, the Salier New England Censures Mr. Blaine. The New England States, and notably Massacliusetts, the most important of them, express strong disapprobation of the brilliant strategy by which Mr. Blaine succeeded in annoying and foiling the democrats of the House, in violation of the liberal sentiments of his section of the country and at the ex- pense of his own constituency. The ocen- tennial celebration at Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill, last spring and summer, | had a powerfal influence in allaying old animosities and strengthening that dispo- sition to oblivion of the recent past of which the late Vice President Wilson was, during the last two or three years of his life, so zealous and devoted an apostle. When the, formal eulogies are pro- nounced upon him in the Senate next Friday that sentiment of patriotic mag- nanimity will deserve to be, and doubt- less will be, one of the chief topics of praise. There has been no remaining bitterness toward the South among the mass of New ; England people since the centennial greet- ings and hospitalities at Bunker Hill, but a cordial, fervent wish that the dead past may be buried in charitable forgetfulness, The Boston Advertiser, the leading repub- lican journal of New England, laments this victory of Mr. Blaine. ‘‘So far as the repub- licans are concerned,” it says, ‘‘it is a back- ward , step, and is not in sympathy with the spirit and tendency of the times.” The Ad- vertiser goes on to say:—‘'The republicans gained a fruitless victory at great cost. To the Southern republicans we fear it will prove a disastrous triumph.” Our Boston contemporary sets the inconsistency of Mr. Blaine and the republicans who follow his lead in a strong light by showing how. dif- ferently they acted on the same subject in the last Congress. The Committee on Rules, consisting of Speaker Blame and Messrs. Maynard, Garfield, Cox and Randall, agreed ‘on and reported a bill which was passed by the House, and which included Jefferson Davis in its scope, as was declared by its authors when it was on its passage. We re- produce the official report:— (From the Congressional Record, Dec..8, 1873.] GENERAL AMNESTY. Mr. Marxarp—I ani instructed by the Committee on the Rules to report the bill which 1 send to the desk. It has met the unanimous approval of the committee, and when it has been read I will, unless some gentlo- man wishes to ask questions or to make opposition to it, move the previous question. (The bill removed all disabilities imposed and remaininy on any person on account of his participation in the rebel- lion, It furthermore provided that such persons, if elected to any office of honor or profit under the government of the United States, should before entering upon it take the modi- fied oath prescribed by the act of July 11, 1865—the samo that has been required of all persons who were in the Con- federate service and are now holding honorable positions under the constitution. | Mr. Marnarp—I move the previous question, Mr. Lawnexor—Would not that admit Jeif Davis to at on this floor? VERAL Mempens—Certainly, Mr. Lawrence—Then I object to it, Mr. Hoar made a point of order that the resolution could only be admitied under a suspension of the rules, wiich the Speaker sustained. Mr. Marxanp—Then I move to suspend the rules, so as to allow the committee to report this bill and to pass it, In answer to the question of the gentleman from Obio (Mr. Lawrence), | tell him frankly that this bill will, if enacted, admit the President of the Southern Confederacy, just as the Vice President has been already adwitted, to a seat in either house of Con- gress, provided the people where he lives shall think proper to send him here, It is general amnesty as recommended by the President, and it also repeals whatis called the test oath, substituting the modified oath we have all heard sv olten. Mr. BurLur—I do not object to the bill if it has been considered and reported by a committee. Mr. Maynarp—It is reported by the Committee on Rules wer. Mr. Butixn—ail right, The Srgaxue—The bill would require a two-thirds vote to pass it, Mr. Cox—Is there any objection to passing it unan- imously? The President recommends amnesty; let us unanimously wind up this foolish business of taking the test oat! The question was taken on Mr, Maynard’s motion; and on a division there were—yeas 141, nays 29. So (two-thirds voting in favor thereof) the’ rules were sus- pended and the bill was passed. This bill, which passed the last republi- can House by a majority of nearly five to one, was lost in the Senate, and when Mr. Ran- dall introduced a bill identical in scope and effect Mr. Blaine stultified his own record and that of his republican associates by raking up and brandishing the most exas- perating topic of the whole history of the war. It was inexcusable to tear open the old wounds for a paltry party triumph and a theatrical exhibition of Mr. Blaine’s parlia- mentary skill. The International Rowing Race. The Dublin University Rowing Club and the Dublin University Boat Club are in much doubt for whom the American association challenge was meant. But all doubt on this poixt can and should be removed at once by promptly challenging both. The real ques- tion is, Who can win, the picked Irish, English or American University crews, in the greatest rowing race of modern times, one open to them all? Who are the best oarsmen? Our universities and colleges are now all in session, and if they have not yet empowered the Regatta Com- mittee (as we just before their recent Conven- tion urged them to) to take the proper steps in the present emergency, let them do so without a day’s delay. Supposing both so challenged, their obstacles are alike, and are two. The first is the expense of the trip. Now, this should hot stand in the way for one moment. When Harvard crossed Mr. Inman kindly reduced the cost of passage by half, and that of the boats and stuff to nothing, while the at- tention of the offjcers and mén glike yas al- most endless. From his own remarks at a lunch party given our crew on his estates at Birkenhead there is little doubt that he would be very happy, especially in a year when America is doing so much to his direet benefit, to place the comforts of his fleet at the disposal of these distinguished visitors. Indeed, the subject need only be broached to the proprietors of any line of the transat- lantic service to end any fears on this point. As to the expense while here, it is in finding our guests houses and boats. The contest will in all likelihood be at Philadelphia or Saratoga, and it would be a reflection on the hospitality of the good people of either place to say that they would let their visitors lack for anything. The only other difficulty worth mentioning | is one which can be remedied with almost equal ease—namely, as to the day on which to have the race, Our university race is fixed for the 19th of July, and the purpose was to have the international contest during the same week. But the Irish- men cannot decently get out of the annual Henley regatta and of the Dublin Metropolitan, the former of which will fall this year, owing to the late Easter, in mid-June, the latter somewhat later yet. Our guests could not then well reach here hefore early July, and should have at least nents,” he said, “from the western limits of | taking the place of the Mosel, which was to | six weeks in which to train. Then, let the the Tinited States to Cane Horn. the Snaniah have replaced the Deutschland | international race be sot for the last week in August or the firstof September. Instead of all thirteen of the American crews con- tinuing their training after the university race, let the three foremost in that event alone meet the strangers. They could thus lay off for two or three weeks and yet have abundant time in which to again reach the top of their condition, Racing twice in one season is nothing for good men, as witness Oxford and Cambridge at both Putney and Henley, or our own crews at their class races and then at the University. We are exceedingly glad that the only ob- stacles in the way of this intensely exciting struggle are so easily surmountable. In- deed, they aro so inconsiderable that if our students do not have them completely over- come and all preliminaries of the contest arranged by the middle of March, they throw away one of the greatest opportuni- ties that will come to them in all their lives, and cast a cloud upon the enterprise of American youth which has no right to rest there. The Operatic. Season. The visit of Mr. Mapleson, the English operatic manager, to this country has naturally excited much curiosity. He has not yet announced his object, but we may safely assume that he wishes to judge tor himself of the musical prospects in America for the centennial year. This would be wise, and it is made more probable by the fact that Mr. Mapleson’'s operatic season in London this year will be brief. The new opera house on the Thames embankment, intended to be the most complete in the world, will be opened under his management in Febru- ary, 1877, and to give effect to that event Mr. Mapleson is likely to elsewhere deploy his_ musical forces in the interval. America seems to us, of all fields in the world, the finest during the centennial year. Tho International Exhibition will attract an im- mense number of people from Europe and all parts of America to New York as well as Philadelphia, and to leave music out of that grand m, oping ofthe arts would eae, ing the Prince of Denmark out of “Hamle' Another fact to be remembered -is that this year is unlike all others, as the season will begin earlier than usual by several months and will include the whole summer, fall and winter. extraordinagy nature of this opportunity is probable. He has certainly not visited America to engage artists, and we take it for granted he has come to arrange for bring- ing them. We compliment him upon the sagacity which this purpose implies. If Mr. Mapleson, in conjunction with Mr. Stra- kosch, should begin an operatic season here in the spring or summer we believe it would successfully extend far into the next winter. Her Majesty's Opera embraces some of the finest artists in the world, and would com- mand a larger musical public in America than even in the English provinces. The present season has been an off year in music. That is an important fact to be con- sidered in estimating the success of the next season. Mr. Strakosch, with that enthusi- asm as a manager for which he is well known, has triumphed over many difficul- ties, and will begin a short season of Italian opera on the 24th inst., with Mlle. ‘Titiens in some of her finest riles. It comes late, but is none the less welcome. This enter- prise, however, would only promote the grander and far more extensive season of centennial opera) We should expect Mlle. Titiens to remain, and are certain that other singers not less celebrated would be in- cluded in the company. There is, indeed, no want of artists. The Wachtel season is ended, and the famous tenor would, no doubt, remain. Mlle. Pappenheim has been studying Italian réles, and Miss Adelaide Phillips has been organizing a company. All that centennial opera requires is a great manager. We shall be happy to find him in Mr. Mapleson. It is to be trusted that his visit to America will not be useless, and that in consultation with Mr. Strakosch he may plan a brilliant, victorious musical cam- paign. We can assure him that the Ameri- can people desire and expect a great season of centennial opera in New York and Phila- delphia especially, that they are able to sup- port it, and we would remind him that in music, not less than in war, “the king’s name is a tower of strength.” Legislative and Political Albany. ; Both houses of the Legislature are begin- ning to give us a foretaste of their work at this session. In the Senate yesterday Mr. McCarthy called up his resolution referring that part of Governor Tilden’s Message relating to national affairs to the Speaker of the Assembly, and moved a substi- tute expressing regret at the small space allotted in the Message to State affairs &hd tho failure of the Governor to suggest remedies for abuses in State administration, . Mr. McCarthy made a long speech in sup- port of his resolution, arguing in favor of General Grant's administration. In all this Mr. McCarthy only aggravated the fault of which he complained in Governor Tilden. Mr. Gerard offered a joint resolution amend- ing the constitution so as to abolish the Superior and Common Pleas courts in this city, and to transfer the judges and causes tothe Supreme Court. The Governor sent ina message in reply to the resolution calling for the results of the Canal Commission investiga- tion. He refers the Senate to the Attorney Gen- eral for information, and reproves that body for making light of the reform task he has undertaken, Assemblyman Watts’ bill gives the Mayor of New York authority to issue licenses to persons desiring to engage in scavenger business without interference of the Board of Health, which he claims now only allows the Odorless Company to do the work. Mr. Peabody's Bank bill, introduced in the Assembly yesterday, provides that when the capital of a bank is impaired a pro rata assessment on the stockholders shall be made, and in case one or more fail to pay within the ninety days allowed by the present law, any other stockholder can pay the amount of the as- sessment and have a lien against the stock held by such stockholder. The bill grows out of the late Bull’s Head Bank trouble, where it was found impossible to collect the assessments from some of the stockholders, The Fire ent bill, ordered to a third reading in the Assembly yesterday, gives the Commissioners power to pension off firemen permanently disabled. ar Points at, That Mr. Mapleson perceives the ; after ten years’ service, on half pay. Those permanently disabled when not in active service, before the ten years’ service is com- pleted, are granted a pension not to exceed four hundred dollars, Ifa fireman leaves a widow she will get three hundred dollars 8 year. Where only children are left they get the three hundred dollars. These per sions are to be taken from an annuity fund, to be derived from the income of a fund of two hundred thousand dollars created under the bill. Why It Will Not Down, Harper's Weekly, replying to a question o} the Times, makes a very emphatic declaration on the subject of a thirdterm. The Times asked whether it would oppose General Grant if he received the ‘‘regular republican nomination.” Harper's Weekly replies that it ‘would oppose to the end a candidate so nominated,” and that it ‘would not support a scheme which would be a fatal blow to our free republican institution.” It adds :—‘If the attempt at renomination fails it will not be because there has been no such purpose, but because its folly and peril have been ex-, posed.” We are glad to see the frank admission madein this last sentence, and are only sorry that it comes so late inthe day. The Henauy, like Harper's Weekly, has opposed the third term, not out of hostility to General Grant, but as a question of principle. When thé “folly and peril” of this scheme were firsl exposed in the Hzrarp we were decried as aiming at a mere vulgar sensation; yel nothing was further from our aim, as Harper's Weekly now acknowledges in confessing the necessity of such an exposure, But many signs show that the danger is not yet over; and we should be glad if the Weekly, which is a journal of great influence in the republican party, would help us to warn the country of this fact, That the President has not given up hts third term designs is an opén” secret among observant politicians of his own party. ‘There is not a republican Presidential candi. date but knows that he has General Grant as his rival. Not an honest republican visits the White House but is made to feel that opposition to the third term weakens his in- fluence there. But, what is still more signifi- cant and conclusive, there is not a corrupt or unscrupulous republican base enough te adopt the third term but is a favorite at the White House. That is to say, whoever, to quote the words of Harper's Weekly, supports ‘‘a scheme which would be fatal to our free republican institu- tions,” is at once a favorite, a person of influ- ence at the White House, no matter how low his character or base his record. Take, as an example, Senator Spencer, of Alabama, @ person whose political career has been ex- posed time and again, and who is one of the worst of the adventurers who have made tha name of the republican party odious in the Southern States. Senator Spencer is an opea and zealous third termer, and he has proba- bly to-day greater influence and more inti- mate access at the White House than any one or half dozen of the real leaders of the republican party. Take, again, the signifi- cant fact that all of General Grant's inti- mates, from General Babcock and Mr. Shep- herd up and down, are open third termers; that whoever desires a favor from him knows that the surest way to be refused is to ba known as an opponent of the third term. All this does not look as though the country | was out of danger from a “scheme which would be a fatal blow to our free republican institutions,” Tae Waiskey Caszs, both in St. Louis and Chicago, haye a new interest in the near approach of the trial of McKee, McGuire and Babcock. These cases are the theme of ru- mors and speculations in our St. Louis de- spatch this morning, and the Babcock trial especially will be watched with painful anx- iety. Tae Lovrstana Sznarorsuir was up in the Senate yesterday during the morning hour, and will come up again this morning. As a matter of course it is to be the football for athletes like Morton, Conkling and Thurman during the session. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, a This item aj in the Los Angeles (Ual.) Herals of January 0 grass in the vicinity of Sanw Monica is the tullest in the valley.” The Chicago Tribune is authority for the story tha on New Year's Day Mrs, Tilton retused to receive thi bouquets and calls of her two daughters, who live wit) their father. * The Spectator says:—Personally Yankee politiciam never blush, but politically they blush like girls a nothing at all; yet it is not a dignified habit and fu from a useful one. ‘ The Court Journal says:—'‘The Americans now cali the dress the one-legged which the English ladies have named the bishop on account of its clinging like as apron to the lega.”” Ahoydenish Vermont girl recently killed a wolf and now she wears the tail on her bonnet, How muck more pious she would be if she had gone to Sunday school and winked at the librarian. The managers of the New York Produce Exchange have before them a proposition to establish two ‘calls’ daily in provisions, after the style of the Stock Ex- change. Does this mean a new betting ring? Ben Hill, lawyer and planter, formerly an old whig, and never before trusted by the democrats ot Georgia, has suddenly become the democratic hero of that State, and he will probably go to the Senate next year, Ho is considered the liveliest orator in Georgia, The Southern correspondent of the Cincinnat! Com. mercial inakes the following predictions:—“In making up your estimates for the Presidential election this year you may count all of the electoral votes of the Southern States as suro for the democratic candidale save those of South Carolina.’” Herr Von Schmirling, formerty Premier of Austria, re. cently made a speech to an association of journalists, in which he stated that he, though now a judge instead of a minister, had never given up his project of raising Austria to the headship of Germany, and he believed Austria would yet be successful. ‘Murat Halstead is being criticieed for having written a lotter to General Halleck 1m 1863 telling him how to fight the battles of Tennessee; but it would seem thas however cheeky the Field Marsbai’s letter may have been, it contained a great deal of sound sense, military or journalistic, and there is not much difference which. Saturday Keview:—When the case of Queen Caro- line was before the public Mary Lamb, Charles Lamb's sister, and in a certain way a woman of keon insight, remarked, ‘I should not think the better of her it she ‘were what is called ‘innocent,’’’ meaning that mind and character are of more significance than a partiow Jar and casual act, A party of 200 Indiana editors, many of them accom panied by their wives and daughters, arrived at the Fitth Avenue Hotel last evening trom where they have been examining the Centennial Ex- hibition buildings and othor objects of interest They will remain in the city until to-morrow afternoon and will then leave for Washington. vrooseding thence te their homes in InMiang —z