The New York Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1876, Page 4

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Matinee at 2 P. pram NEW YORK, E, M Y, FEBRUARY 5 SATURDA From our reports this morning the probabilities Gre that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy. 1876, ‘Tue Herarp py Fast Mart Trarys.—News- dealers and the public will be supplied with the Dany, Wrexry and Sunpay Heraxp, free of John Quincey Adams Is It Warwick, or Napoleon? The vote of the New York delegation in the Cincinnati Convention of 1876 proba- bly may decide the choice of a Presidential candidate, as it did in the same place in | 1872, and the eagerness with which both the avowed and the secret friends of Senator Conkling seek to put it under his control at- tests their sense of the importance of the | purposes for which it is possible to use it. The engineering of the approaches for its | capture is prosecuted with an ingenuity which rivals any of the historical exploits of Thur- | low Weed, and that venerable patriot must indeed feel that he has not lived in vain when he sees the political methods which he invented copied so faithfully by a later gene- | ration and applied with such success to thwart his own advice and desires. It is said that within the last twenty-four hours, since our disclosure of the situation, Mr. Weed has awakened to its peril, ordered a fresh set of intrenching tools, and gone into the of countermining, for which until then he had been relying upon ex-Governor Mor- gan. As all the works are underground, and Mr. Weed’s intervention is so recent, it is not prudent for any one who sees only the unbroken surface of the plain beneath which all the burrowing is going on to haz- ard a positive opinion about the final issue of this battle of the great republican engi- | neers ; but on the assumption that Senator | Conkling’s galleries cannot be successfully countermined it is interesting to consider what he may or may not do with the New York delegation after he has captured it. It will be a proud, pleasurable and profit- able situation for the Senator to hold in his hand at Cincinnati the united vote of sev- enty out of the seven hundred and fifty-four delegates, especially if the remaining six hundred and eighty-four shall be about equally divided between the advocates and the opponents of a third term for President Grant. Instances in which ex- pectant Presidents have not thought it unbecoming to enter into specific pledges concerning the policy of their administra- tions to persons so situated are not lacking in the political history of the United States. Mr. James A. Bayard, for instance, the single representative from Delaware, demanded and obtained assurances from Mr. Jefferson in February, 1801, concerning the support of the public credit, the maintenance of the naval system and the subject of removals from office, as the condition of transferring the vote of Delaware from Burr on the de- cisive thirty-sixth ballot. The possibilities of patriotic service in respect to the restora- tion of specie payments, the reinvigoration of our navy and the reform of the civil ser- vice, which must occur to Senator Conkling from this historical reminiscence, are obvious. Twenty-four years later, in February, 1825, the votes controlled by Mr. Clay elected President, and a business | also made. postage, by sending their orders direct to this | Office. Wart Sreeer Yesrerpay. active and irregular. Stocks were A bearish feeling pre- vailed. A considerable short interest was Gold opened and closed at 112 7-8, Money was freely supplied at four and five per cent on call loans. Tae Ixrernationan Rivvz Marcn is by no Means certain, but we trust that there will be no break in the negotiations. In Herzrcovrna the insurgents have greater faith in themselves than in the policy of the great Powers. They seem to recognize the fact that it is only by fighting that nations become free. Tue Cantx Rerorts business in the great European centres as dull, there being stag- nation even in speculation. For speculative purposes Spanish stocks just now are the favorites with fancy buyers. Caprarx. Diapy has been elected to Parlia- ment from Dorsetshire. The new statesman is the son of a lord, and so, as we cannot see anything else of importance in this election, we try to find in it the dignity of English politics. Tue German Government has been thank- ing the British Foreign Office for the protec- tion afforded to German subjects by English ships during the recent disturbances in | Peru. These little courtesies cost nothing | and do much to promote good feeling be- | tween the nations. | Tar Enouisu Carrrauists in Egypt have | oo longer anything to fear from their French | rivals. We cannot forget, however, in,con- | nection with this announcement, that the month afterward Mr. Clay became Secretary of State—a combination of facts which also must be suggestive to Senator Conkling, whose admiration of the great whig leader is so well known. Just as the late Senator Sumner was fond of comparing himself both in mind and person to Edmund Burke, so Senator Conkling would copy the example of Henry Clay. In the admirable eulogy pronounced by Mr. Breckinridge on Mr. Clay in the House of Representatives, on June 30, 1852, he said that Clay ‘never felt that he was in the presence of a man supe- rior to himself.” Entertaining the feeling which he does upon a similar subject, how fortunate, indeed, it is for our country that both Conkling and Clay were not assigned by Providence to the same generation of Americans! As contemporaries they in- evitably would have been antagonists, but in the order of time in which one succeeds the other what otherwise might have been jealousy on the part of the junior statesman takes the shape of an ardent emulation of the career of his illustrious predecessor, and the control of the seventy votes of this State in the Cincinnati Conven- | tion may enable him to imitate it in one of its most peculiar features. In the event of the removal of the third | term question from the minds of mankind by the withdrawal of President Grant from the list of candidates at Cincinnati Senator Conkling’s position there as the controller of | those seventy votes will be scarcely less im- | portant. Who, in that event, will have | superior chances to his own? The deference | he will have shown to the desires of the | j dis | President will insure him the President's | Sowing NEW YORK HERALD, SATUR dent Grant and Senator Conkling can invent at their leisure between this time and the 14th of June, and hold in reserve for the crisis, as Polk was invented in 1844 and | Pierce in 1852. | Under any possible circumstances, there- fore, the part which Senator Conkling can play with the seventy votes of New York in the Republican National Convention is the | part of a Warwick, and it may be the part of a Napoleon. on his own head, like the French Emperor, he may select the head to be crowned, like the English Earl. Justly conscious though the Senator is of his own merits and abili- ties, the association of his name with those illustrious historical characters cannot fail to please him. It always has afforded us pleasure to observe the consistency of the Senator's career to his sense of duty. Inde- pendence of partisan obligations always was a crime in his eyes. Sumner, Trumbull, | Schurz and Cox committed what he esteemed | not a mere blunder, but a positive sin. Such an unfaltering faith in the discipline | of his communion would entitle its possessor | to the highest honors of the Church. Why | should it not reap corresponding honors in | the State ? If the Senator's theory is correct, | that the political regeneration of the United | States is to be achieved through tightening the girths of the republican party, there is no’ good reason why he should not be the candidate of that party for President in pref- erence to Blaine, Morton, Bristow, Fish, Hartranft, Hayes or any other competitors, | We tlierefore observe with a tender interest | the struggle for the control of the New York delegation in which he is so ardently en- gaged, and none of the little devices by which he prosecutes his lofty purpose sur- | prise us, although their ingenuity disturbs even the composure of so serene a soul as | Thurlow Weed. | | | | The Landis Case, In the report of the Vineland trial it is said that the friends of the accused are of | opinion that the Judge’s charge was “against him ;” but the friends of any gentleman on trial for murder are, perhaps, difficult to please on a point like this. From the out- | line of the charge that has come to hand it | seems to us very fair; and in its relations to | the medical aspect of the case it is as | plain for acquittal as words can make it. Perhaps the discrepancy between opinion here and opinion at Bridgeton may be due to the fact thatthe charge has got a little blurred in telegraphing ; for in subjects of | this nature, where the insertion or omission of a particle may alter the sense of a whole passage, this is apt to happen. As reported, the Judge said that if the abscesses to which death was directly due were caused by the wound which Landis gave then Landis was responsible for the death, and no failure of the doctors to deal properly with the abscesses removed or lightened that responsibility. But there was one aspect of the case in which Landis could not be regarded as responsible for | Carruth’s death, and that was in case the. effective agent for evil was the probe of the doctors and not the bullet of the assassin. If the ‘abscesses resulted from the injury caused by the bullet Landis is responsible ; if the abscesses resulted from injuries caused | by probes and not by the bullet Landis is not responsible. Now, on this very point the evidence is as clear as daylight. Those who assisted at the autopsy were unanimous in their testimony that all injury done by the bullet had healed ; that the brain was in | “a process of healthy repair” in the track of | the bullet, and that the bullet itself was guarded against as an intruder by the bar- riers that nature makes in such cases. It was testified with equal clearness that the abscesses were at those parts of the brain into which probes had been thrust; and as nothing but the probes had touched those points these instruments were the only con- ceivable causes of the abscesses. Upon the charge as reported, and in view of the testi- mony asthus given, it is difficult tosee how a jury can do otherwise than acquit ; but juries have ways of their own, especially in New Jersey, where there is an old-fashioned preju- | dice in favor of hanging somebody when a man has been killed. Local Legislation at Albany, That the Legislature at Albany is only a sort of common council tor this city was well illustrated in the work of yesterday. Mr, Morrissey's Labor bill, and Mr. Bixby’s bill, a dollar a day for every day's con- finement of a person imprisoned for non- efficient support in the struggle for the nomination, and thetwo hundred and fifty | payment of fines, passed the Senate, Mr. If he does not set the crown | More Union Soldiers Turned Out, What has become of the brains of the democratic party? They have a handsome majority in the House of Representatives in this year of a Presidential election. They | ought to be conscious that the country is watching them carefully to see by what | spirit they are animated. In one matter they had a really great opportunity to gain | the confidence and good will of the people of all sections, but they have miserably thrown it away. There are a considerable number of petty offices about the House, such as doorkeepers, post office attendants, document folders, &c. These places involve slight labor, and are well fitted for the support of soldiers dis- abled in the late war, where, on moderate pay, they could feed and clothe their little families. The republicans of the House never, in spite of their pretences of love for the Union soldiers, gave all these places to such poor fellows. They always reserved a considerable number for favorites who had not served in the Union armies, and for this they were often justly reproached. But what have the democrats done? They no sooner get into power than they kick out these poor Union soldiers and fill their places with men many of whom are mere politicians. We published last Friday a list showing that in the House post office alone ten Union soldiers, nine of them crippled by their wounds, had been thus flung out. We have since then received from the same corre- spondent who sent us the previous list another, which shows that in the Clerk’s office eight more Union soldiers have been turned out, and in the Doorkeeper’s office twenty-three others have been dismissed. One wonders at the folly or stupidity of the democratic leaders who permit such things to be done, especially when they had before them a course in this matter which had they pursued it, would have enabled them to enact a really fine stroke of policy. Many of these petty places were filled by the republicans with mere politi- cal hangers-on who had no claims as soldiers. Suppose Speaker Kerr and Mr. Morrison, the leaders of their party, had given orders that no Union soldier appointed by the republicans must be disturbed, but that the places held by men who had not served in the Union armies should be va- cated and filled with disabled soldiers of the Confederate armies. That would have been a truly centennial policy. It would have shown sound sense and patriotism. . It would have appealed to the good feeling of the whole country, and the men who fought, on both sides, would have been pleased. In- stead of that the democrats kick out the Union soldiers and put in their places, in many cases, a parcel of mere political favor- ites, who have no claim whatever, except that they are some Congressman’s friends, It.is not easy to have patience with a party whose leaders have so little tact and so little decency. The Eccentric Weather. A few dfys ago the innocent crocuses were blooming in the neighborhood of New York and the imprudent young shrubs” had budded into delicate green. The air was soft and bland and the spring seemed to have come up from the islands of the Carib- bean Sea. It is no wonder that the crocuses and the buds, poor victims of misplaced confidence in Spring, should have trusted this gentle wooing. But Spring is the Iago of the year—superficially mild, balmy and ethereal, but at heart treacherous, vindic- tive, diabolical. No sooner had this malig- nant season succeeded in its base deception of Nature than it .disappeared. Winslow did not take his departure for Europe more abruptly than spring did for parts unknown, The world woke up to find it gone, and in- stead of it the dynamite fiend, Winter, ex- ploding’ his wrath. The wind which had been a zephyr became a_ gale, sweep- ing the city with a velocity of sixty- six miles an hour, and playing havoc with roofs, chimneys, steeples and the shipping. The thermometer, after acting all winter like an insane acrobat, now sank into a hopeless decline. The climate realized the Swedenborgian idea of hell, which is that the wicked are alternately plunged into the extremes of heat and cold, and the whole community was obliged to take a kind of*infernal Turkish bath. The next day it grew warmer; but Winter had not exhausted his resources. On a single night snow fell in this region to the depth of seven inches—a wet snow, which soon be- comes mud, and then water and then ice, and then slush, but through all its evolutions DAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1876. Kerr, Hendricks and Tilden. Speaker Kerr's position gives him good opportunities for estimating the drift of democratic sentiment, and he thinks it inexpedient for the party to run Governor Tilden. He doubtless thinks he has very good reasons for reckoning Governor Hen- dricks the stronger candidate. In the first place, Governor Hendricks is more likely to unite and harmonize the party on the troublesome question of the currency, He is an elastic hard money man who stretches his tolerance to include all dissenters, receiving the devoted support of both wings of the party in his own State. He is the decided first choice, not only of Speaker Kerr and Senator McDonald, who represent the hard money sentiment of Indiana, but also of Mr. Holman and Mr. Landers, who were rivals for the democratic nomination for the Governorship and are courting favor at home by soft money prop- ositions in Congress. Now, a statesman who thus operates as a political sol- vent in his own State and successfully combines the mutually repelling elements must possess qualities which would have the same tendency in a larger sphere. The great problem of the democracy is how to close up the chasm opened by the money question, and Mr. Hendricks seems well fit- ted to mediate between Ohio and New York, in virtue of the same qualities which win him the support of Speaker Kerr, whose democracy is of the New York type, and Messrs. Holman and Landers, whose democracy 1s of the Western type. Neither Governor Tilden, nor Senator Bayard, nor Senator Thurman has shown this extraordinary faculty of standing equally well with both sides in the currency dispute. In the second place, with Mr. Hendricks as the Presidential candidate the democratic party would have altogether better chances of carrying Ohio in October than with Mr. Tilden, and the October result in that State will virtually decide the Presidential elec- tion. For success in Ohio Governor Tilden would be the weakest candidate that could be found in the democratic party with sufficient pretensions to bring him within the field of choice. The Ohio democrats charge upon him their de- feat last October. His organs in this State were violent in their denunciations of the Ohio democracy, and one of them went so far as to openly and vehemently ad- vise the hard money democrats to defeat the ticket of their own party. Governor Hén- dricks, on the other hand, though a hard money man, went to Ohio and took the stump for the ticket. There is no other hard money candidate whom the Ohio democrats would support with such united zeal. It may, indeed, be said that the democratic party cannot elect a President without the vote of New York any more than without the vote of Ohio. This is true enough; but here is the difference, that if they are badly whipped in Ohio they cannot carry New York. If Ohio is recovered by the aid of Hendricks New York will take care of itself. All the influence which Mr. Tilden possesses in this State could be utilized by running him again for Governor, as New York was saved for Polk by making Silas Wright the gubernatorial candidate. In the third place, the democratic leaders in all parts of the country would rely with more confidence on Mr. Hendricks for a fair distribution of the federal patronage. Governor Tilden has never served in Washington in any public capacity, has never resided there and has but a limited personal acquaintance with the minor public men of the different States. He has all his life consorted chiefly with the democratic politicians of New York, and his personal preferences are so singular that the party leaders elsewhere would not think it safe to trust him. Governor Hen- dricks is more widely acquainted, is more tolerant and has none of Governor Tilden’s political eccentricity. Governor Tilden picks up unaccountable favorites; he de- lights in bestowing the chief posts of honor on very young men and on party neophytes, to the neglect of tried democrats. He dic- tated the State ticket at Syracuse last fall, and put at its head a recent recruit from the republicans, gave the second and most important place to another republi- can recruit, and selected youngsters of no recognized political or pro- fessional standing for the offices of Attorney General and State Engineer. The demo- cratic politicians who have rendered the party long and faithful services would not be willing to see the federal patronage appor- tioned by a democratic President in the same The Four Cambridge Volunteers—Give Them an American Reception. aah The interview with a Cambridge graduate, which we publish this morning, throws light on the second of the only two points raised by Cambridge in the way of accepting the American challenge. The first, as will be remembered, was that they could not om account of their June engagement at Henley, row here as asked about July 20; but, if the date were delayed a few weeks, this diffi- culty would be met. The plan, which we have steadily urged, of making the new in- vitation for fours and at their own date, in late August or early September, thus meets their views exactly; and we trust that the committee will leave np stone unturned to accomplish this end. On the second point, and that to which we would mainly call attention now—namely, the allowing the © crew to be made up in part of graduates, ” we are able this morning to furnish much. light. From the interview with the gentle- man referred to it will be seen that an un- dergraduate at Cambridge or Oxford means, not as here, one studying only for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, but who, instead of as with us, waiting till he has first secured that, and then singling out his profession and studying direetly for it, takes up a course of study at once on entering the university at eighteen or nineteen, and ap- plies himself to it all the way. Thus about everybody there, except the Fellows and other officers of the institution, is an under- graduate, The rules of the Rowing Associa- tion here bar all men studying divinity, law or medicine, thus cutting off a large number who would there be eligible for the univer- sity boat. But what Cambridge asks is if we will consent to graduates—men who are now through \Cambridge and scattered everywhere—pulling in the same_ boat. Happily our plan above mentioned meets this case completely ; for when volunteers were asked by the Heraxp correspondent at the Cambridge meeting yesterday. four at. once arose and offered to find two more if: graduates were allowed, and were heartily cheered for their pluck. But by making the - race for fours there is no need of the addi- tional two, and thus four men actually stand ready to come once they are asked. The asking should be done in the very promptest way. Let the Regatta Committee see to this, and if these four gentlemen do not have rea- son before they leave this land to be de-. lighted at their manly step then we do not know the temper of the American people. That the plan will equally insure Oxford's coming is self-evident, so that if both are not here it will be our own fault. Blood Stains. In another column will be found an article in which the authorities are presented on either side of the argument in regard to “blood stains” as these come up in murder cases, Naturally this subject is of great in- terest in the presence of the Rubenstein trial. By the use of the microscope and‘ otherwise a scientific gentleman has in this case done a great deal to further the cause of justice ; for the discovery on the prison- er's boot of soil proved to be identical with the soil of the field in which the murdered ' ody was found, the discovery of fibres like 4 those from the woman's shawl, clotted in , blood, on the same boot, and the finding of corn husks like those in the same field— these facts, aside from any other testimony, are, perhaps, enough to hang the man, Fortunately, therefore, though the testimony in regard to blood is of interest in this case, it does not depend upon such testimony; and we cannot be charged with putting a feather in the scale for or against the prisoner when our article shows that no person can be safely hanged-on testimony in regard to blood alone. Upon the first” observations of blood made by the micro- scope it was thought that by the use of that instrument human blood could always be distinguished from other blood. Nay, it has even been gravely argued that much finer distinctions than this could be made in re- gard to blood. Such a ‘Jiscovery became very important in crimii i jurisprudence; and many a man has been hanged upon the positive testimony of experts that certain stains were caused by human blood when but for such testimony he would have es- caped. But further inquiry made experts more careful; and the final opinion of scien- tific men is that the blood of certain animals so nearly resembles human blood that the microscope cannot distinguish between them. No man now, therefore, can be hanged merely on a declaration that a certain stain is made by human*blood; but this declaration may still be an important circumstance in the . ‘ carpet-bag votes which can therenpon be | Rogers introduced a bill making it a misde- tamed’ cores to ‘Mim “from the Bons: | heen for an officer of the New York city added to the seventy votes of New York, | government to enter into collusion with par- P js ‘ . ’ | ties toa contract for city work and forbid- will go far to secure it. Grant's relation | a Ps ie Bae, to Conkling will, under those circumstances, | ING) eee vee porp never changes the fundamental basis of a | nuisance. To-morrow it will probaby thaw or freeze, or we might have a thunder storm in the afternoon, and then a fog, and a few cases of sunstroke to wind up with. eccentric and surprising way. case. English did everything in their power to et bd defeat the Suez Canal project, and that had it not been for the French there would be no ship channel across the isthmus. No Seat No Fare. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, It must be distinctly understood that no lobby influence shall be allowed to defeat Mr. Killian’s bill for the protection of pas- Mr. Ida Greeley Smith looks like Edwin Booth. | Mr. Prince's bill to prohibit the dumping of Stedman, poet, has returned from Panama in good A Vicorovs Prorrst against the German ecclesiastical laws has just been made pub- lic at Berlin ina pamphlet by Herr Reichen- sperger. The rigor of Bismarck is creating Its own reaction, and if it is maintained in the future as it has been in the past the sta- ‘pility of the Empire itself will be seriously threatened, In the end these ecclesiastical | troubles must, at least, result in the separa- | tion of Church and State. . Axp so Batrennenc is not to marry Beatrice after all. It is not said whether the | (Prince's misfortune while engaged in pig | sticking in India has anything to do with the | ma'ter. However this may be, there is com- | for: in knowing that there are a hundred | mo:» equally eligible princes in Germany | wil. ag to fill the position of, husband to the only remaining marriageable English prin- coss, and the girl’s mother can have her pick | of the lot. | Anorican Rrrvauists have a singular | fuculty for creating much unnecessary theo- | Togical discussion. These high churchmen | havo strong tendencies toward sensational- | ism, and their sensations generally end in | mothing. A short time ago they were re- | ported as anxious to go over to Rome in a dody, and now that the Vatican has declared ‘this to be impossible they say there can be | no basis for any such negotiations unless | the ‘Vatican decrees ore retracted. This | the list, and the votes of the other dolega- flying. ‘Though slow to accept these reports | of @he demoralization which was the result | whole business is an absurdity, and we hope | tions scattered, as they would be, between a it would not be surprising that they should | wwe have heard the last of it, though we | dozen little men, it is scarcely possible that | be true, if the promises of the Spanish gov- not there will be fresh agitation over ’s decision reported by cable bear a curious resemblance to Jackson's rela- tion to Van Buren. We need not dwell long | upon this, for we directed public attention | the day before yesterday to the fidelity with | which the Senator always has served the President. Jacob did not serve Laban in | the house of Bethuel at Padan Aram with greater constancy. Faithful among the faithless, not a single vote in the Senator's | whole record from March 4, 1869, to the pres- | ent day, in opposition to any legislative measure favored by the President, can be produced; and we do not doubt that his de- meanor in executive session has been consis- | tent with his public course in that respect. | We are sure that so much cannot be said of any other Senator; and it will be just as | natural, under those circumstances, for Grant to wish to name this diligent ser- | vant his successor as it was for Jackson | to exert himselfas he did in favor of the nomination of Van Buren. If athird term of Grant's own administration is impossible the administration of President Conkling will be the nearest possible approach to it. But even supposing that both of these pos- sible uses of the solid seventy votes of the New York delegation by Senator Conkling should fail, a third use for them would re- main in their application by him to decide the choice among the other candidates. Sup- posing both Grant and Conkling erased from | the united vote of New York could not de- cide the result either in favor of any one of the dozen or of some new man whom Presi- ashes and garbage into Long Island Sound was formally reported. In the Assembly Mr. Carty introduced a bill to reduce the rate of fare on the Eighth Avenue Railroad, and Mr. Peabody a resolution requiring the New York gas companies to report a full account of their business within thirty days. A resolution was also introduced calling fora detailed statement from the Police Commissioners of the city relative to the arrest and detention of Mrs. Mackenzie and others, and of the rules and regulations authoring such arrest. In all this there seoms to bea zeal for the | welfare of the metropolis which has the look of being overzealous, and before long it will be necessary to inquire what these ten- dencies mean. Bowen Has Sroxen at last, not as to his knowledge but his convictions in regard to Mr. Beecher's guilt, declaring it as his opin- ion that the distinguished pastor ‘is guilty of the awful crimes of adultery, perjury and hypocrisy.” His reply to Mr. S. V. White will be found in another column, and it is as remarkable as anything in the literature of the scandal. illustration of the folly of agitating a case that only grows more sorrowful at every step. Dow Cantos is again reported defeated and ernment to end the war had any meaning. We can hope at ieast thet this Carlist strug- | gle is over. It is, however, only another | Yet they call all these things Probabilities ! In the old time, when the four seasons were steady, they would have been called impos- sibilities. Then Spring was Spring and Sum- mer was summer, and people knew what to expect of them. Painters and poets were safe in their descriptions. They could truthfully portray Spring garlanded with blossoms, Summer crowned with flowers, Autumn burdened with fruit and Winter clad in furs. But now the artist who would depict Nature as she is, not as she ought to be, must paint Spring in an overcoat, with a cold in her nose; Winter in a straw hat and | white breeches, Autumn with an umbrella | and Summer on skates. In truth, there are no longer only four seasons—there are five; the fifth includes all the vices and none of the virtues of the others, and it lasts all the year round. Next to Spring we believe this | new season to be the worst of the whole | lot; but for devilish malignity, Mephis- ‘ tophelian ingenuity and general cussedness | Spring cannot be beaten, as this year she | will prove. Tue Watsxer Fravps in the West are still | productive of crimes. Now it is charged that | two Chicago Aldermen conspired to destroy | a public building in Milwaukee in order to | obliterate proofs of these frauds. The report | {8 a startling one, but not surprising in view of the widespread conspiracies to defraud the | revenue in most of the Western cities. the latest sensation in New Orleans, sengers on the street railways. This meas- ure is to be introduced into the Assembly on Tuesday next, and its motto is ‘No seat no fare.” But for the lobby such a law would have been passed long ago, and the disgrace and discomfort of overcrowded cars, which have been common to all the roads in this city ever since street railways were built, would have been prohibited. Even as late as last year lobby influence destroyed a measure of this kind, and simultaneously with a knowledge of the present bill comes the warning notes of activity in the lobby. This time, however, the corruptionists must not be allowed to triumph. Every member will be held to the strictest accountability in this matter, and the committee to which the bill is referred must be made to feel that it would be perilous to smother it, In a word, the railroads must not be allowed to buy the Legislature, nor the Legislature to sell a measure s0 necessary to the protection of the people. Every member who directly or indirectly opposes it will incur a responsibility involving his political future, and punishment will be made to follow dere- liction, Already the agitation of this ques- tion has resulted in a great increase of ac- | commodation, as was noted yesterday, after the severe starm of the previous night, espe- cially on the Third avenue line. Now that | the reform has begun it must not stop until | there is a seat provided for every passenger and sufficient accommodation for all. | can only be secured by some such measure Tue Impracument or Jupor Hawxins is as that proposed by Mr. Killian, and the | Passage of his bill is a necessity. This | health. Two hundred and ten thousand more males than fe- males on the Pacific Slope. And now Jimmy Blanchard proposes to become a witness in the new Beecher case, Ex-Senator Carpenter and ex-Congressman Butler are practising law in Washington. Meissonier, the French painter, parades himself with ribbons and croses on his coat. Brot Harte received three invitations to be dined by the Arcadian Ciub, and he did not reply to them. Strauss recently wrote in a lady's album, ‘Love is the exchange of two quadrilles and the contact of two waltzes," General Charley Van Wyck, once a popular Congress" man from Orange county, New York, is now improving a farm in Nebraska. Congressman Lucius Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, ar- rived in the city yesterday {rom Washington and is at the New York Hotel. Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson has accepted an invitation to address the literary societies of the University of Virginia on the 29th of June. A cable telegram from Lisbon, under date of the 4th | {nst., announces that Baron de Sant’ Anna, the Portu- guese Minister at Washington, has been nominated | Centennial Commissioner. The World, of February 4, speaking of a European scandal. says of the gentleman:—‘‘He ig said to have lavished 8,000,000: or 10,000,000 roubles upon this tady during a5 many years.” A couple of million years | don’t make much difference in a man’s age, | Macaulay could repeat all Demosthenes by heart, all | Milton, a great part of the Bible m English and the | New Testament in Greek. He took great delight im the | Bible, and there were few better biblical scholars thag | he. And yet he couldn't shovel the snow off @ side | walk without putting bis foot in it, | Hon. John Elwyn, of Now Hampshire, just dead, at the age of seventy-three years, was wealthy and « great scholar. Ho would never ride, He sometimes | walked from Portsmouth to Philadelphia, and once ro. | turned the whole distance on foot to get a shirt he had forgotten. damocrab { {t ie monecessary to say tbat be waa &