The New York Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1876, Page 4

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VARIETY, at 8 P.M. 6AN FRANCISCO MI VARIE’ GERMA NARCISS, at 8 P. . THIRD A VARIETY, ats P.M. ATRE, Lester Wallack, WITH SUPPLEM ENT. YORK, TUESDAY, FEBI VARY 8, 1876, From our reports this morning the probabilities ure that the weather to-day will be colder and vartly cloudy. Tux Henavp py Fast Mart, Trarns.— News- dealers and the public throughout the country will be supplied with the Dat.y, Werxiy and Sunpay Henaxp, free of postage, by sending their orders direct to this office. Watt Srrerr Yesterpay.—Stocks advanced ind were firm at the close. Gold was quiet at 1123-4 a 1127-8. Money loaned on call at 4 per cent. Good investment securities were strong. Prxcnpack was yesterday the béte noire of the Senate once more. Tue Anrancements for admitting the sinners seeking salvation to the Hippodrome must be improved. Doran has been resentenced, and the 24th of March is fixed for his execution. Before jeaving the court room yesterday on his way back to the condemned cell he took occasion to asseverate his innocence of the murder of Mr. Noe. Tue Rumor that a bargain has been made to pardon McDonald if he gives satisfactory svidence in favor of Babeock can be better sifted a few months hence than now. Every- thing promises a lively trial and a sharp tross-examination for the President if the iefence call him, Tue Exrvtsion or a Prusstan Journalist ‘trom Austria for ‘disseminating intelligence anfavorable to the realm” appears to have a liplomatic bearing, but it is not likely to make the two parties to Sadowa love each other any the more, although professedly in ‘the interest of peaceful relations. Ware tHe Porte 1s Concepine the re- forms asked by the great Powers Mon- tenegro seems anxious to get a slice of Turk- | \sh territory, and the wily Turk seeks to | satisfy that uneasy little principality with a promise to see about it at some future time. Turkey is the Micawber among nations, Canpinat Mannixo has put his foot upon the statement that he has had anything to do with bringing about a compromise be- tween the ritualists and Rome. Between the Public Worship act and the exactions of | Rome from all who would join force with her the High Churchmen of England are in s sad plight. > ARR MR eee ooo Tue Rio Granpt Troverrs are likely to increase in case a revolution breaks out in Mexico, and the proposition made by » well- intentioned jouftial, that both the United Btates and Mexico should police the banks of the dividing river, is likely to be only carried out on one side if the Mexicans fall to fighting among themselves. Mexico appears to be on the verge of an- other revolution, so hard is it to impress opon a people used to settling every little (ocal dispute by the sword the proper re- spect for government by ballot. Porfirio Diaz is the present disturber, and an alliance with the extremists of the Church party may put it in his power to reduce the sorely dis- tressed Republic to the chaos from which she is just emerging. Tax Spranisa Exvsctions will not do much ‘o satisfy the longings of the people for a tepresentative government. Nothing seems to have been left undone to secure a Minis- verial majority, whether bribery, intimida- tion or imprisonment was the course peeded. No doubt the counsellors of young Alfonso look on parliaments of all kinds as anjustifiable hindrances to them in their work; but the prejudice in favor of them is so deeply rooted that the Ministry gives Spain a Cortes, in name atleast. The first Napoleon acted very similarly to France, but | there is sufficient difference between the fimes and the men to warrant a scepticism 1s to its equal chances of success in Spain Serday. : | garlands, and opened their campaign against NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. “The and Sankey at the Hippodrome, We print a full report of the opening meet- ing of the evangelists Moody and Sankey at | the Hippodrome last evening. The career of {.these gentlemen is among the phenomena of | modern religion, We are disposed to view | their work with respect and to wish them all | success. Whatever comes to ys in the holy name of religion—so long as it is not a profa- nation of all faith, like the Oneida people, or midsummer madness, like the Millerites, or indecency, like Mormonism—we are bound to respect. And if these evangelists can res- cue one soul from sin, one perishing human life from eternal damnation, far be it from us to throw one straw in their path. At the same time, now that the movement has become a fixed winter sensation, and holds its place with the opera, the Centennial and the campaign for the Presidency, let us look into it for a mo- ment from a mere worldly point of view. These gentlemen appeared at the Hippo- | drome last evening crowned with triumphant the devil and his works. It was a wonderful success. Thousands were in attendance, and thousands were turned away. There has been every preparation for a vigorous cam- paign. George H. Stuart, of Philadelphia ; Morris K. Jesup, William E. Dodge, J. Pierpont Morgan and other eminent busi- ness men were the quartermasters and com- missaries of the army. Our best citizens were on the platform. Clergymen of many denominations were ranged under the Moody {and Sankey banner. Some metaphysical divines, like Frothingham, who do not be- lieve in an orthodox devil, held off, feeling that the revival would be neither an earth- quake nor a volcano, but a Yellowstone gey- ser, throwing out mud and stones and leaving true religion in a worse condition than be- fore. The Cardinal was not present, nor were any of his subalterns; and, as we have no expression of opinion from His Eminence, the inference is that he prefers to continue his war upon the armies of Satan with the batteries which have come down to him from St. Peter. We confess if there were only a religious aspect to this movement we might wish to see the hosts of religion and virtue fighting the hosts of Satan ina genuine alliance. The main trouble in striving with the devil is that he is one while his oppo- nents are many. They waste on intestine quarrels the energy needed to overcome the common enemy of mankind; for the time must come, as it is written, when this enemy will be bound in chains for a thousand years. To do this will require the aid of all Chris- tians, without distinction of creed. Mr. | Moody is said to feel convinced that the period of the Messiah’s coming is at hand; that He may come to-day or to-morrow, in obedience to the promise; and this hope gives his words their sincerity and fire. Ordinary divines, those who hold the highest rank in their denominations— | Beecher, Storrs, Hall, Frothingham, Father Preston, Hepworth and their companions in the ministry—have only achieved a moderate success compared with Moody and Sankey. Their culture, their years of labor, their study of the mysteries of faith, have resulted in churches which are poor and thin when compared with the multitudes that have fol- lowed Moody and Sankey in Europe and America and which swarmed around the Hippodrome. And yet we would not com- pare the evangelists with the clergymen we have named. They are, comparatively speaking, rude, unlettered men. They have not been trained for the ministry or ordained to its holy office. Mr. Moody is a tradesman who was led to teach Sunday schools, and from thence to the pulpit. We do not read that he ever read a volume of general theology. Mr. Sankey's career is somewhat similar. These two gentlemen, poorly equipped in all that goes to make a competent divine, began in England less than three years ago. They soon drew mul- titudes. They were new to England. There was something of prairie freshness about them. We knew it, for in our religious lifo the camp meeting takes a prominent part. The exhorter, the colporteur, the travelling preacher are common here; and we have no doubt there is not asummer when pious men as eloquent as Moody and as musical as Sankey may be heard at a dozen camp meet- ings of the Methodist Church. | But this was all quaint and new to the | English. The evangelists were democratic | and free and easy. They were not under the | rule of the Catholic or the Episcopal disci- | pline. They were liberal. Nor was it the | stern spirit of Calvin and Luther preaching against established churches and carrying their lives in their hands whenever they | ascended their pulpits. Their theology was easy, winning, comprehensive. It was | always the glory of heaven, the splendor of the great white throne, the streets of jasper | and the gates of gold. It was always the Jesus of love and mercy and tenderness, mourning for His sheep, and not the terrible Jehovah, with vengeance for all who did not fall down and worship. When this came in the telling epigrammatic, common sense | rhetoric of Moody and the tender notes of | Sankey, it fell upon the beartg of jhe people | ns something new, and so all London rang | with the praises of the American exhorters. They were the rage, the sensation, the topic of the hour. It was a protest against estab- lished forms and ceremonies. Here was a man whose grammar was bad; whose speech was marked with odd idioms; who dealt in sacred things with a freedom of manner startling to old-fashioned worshippers; who knocked down the blessings of heaven to the highest bidder; who proposed to con- | vert his hearers by galvanic shocks, by an electric process, making the solemn, holy, | inscrutable truths of revelation apparent in | an instant, as by a lightning flash. It wasa | sensation. It lived its hour and faded. The | actors went to other cities and other scenes. So we have seen the showman’s caravan, with | elephants and trumpets and gaudy trappings drawing multitudes to the canvas tent. In time it goes its way, the grass grows over the ring where the clowns gambolled, the excite- ment fades and society resumes its wonted calmness, So ithas been with Moody and Sankey elsewhere, and so it will be with us, we pre- sume, What word was said last night by the vigorous and rude evangelist which has heen ssidathongand times with more -his constituents at Birmingham, | efforts i ability and with equal earnestness by Storrs and Hall, by Frothingham and Preston? What truth was spoken that we do not hear every Sabbath day? Why should thousands pour out on a wintry night to the cheerless Hippodrome, which is one of the monuments of the career of the gigantic humbug of the generation, to hear the Scriptures expounded by this uncouth exhorter? That is one of the problems that we cannot solve. We con- fess there is little to encourage the hundreds of clergymen” Who study~and work from year to year to humble congregations, whose voices are never heard beyond the parish bounds, when they see the thousands who follow gentlemen whose gifts have not secured them even a Gospel ordination. We-trust that they will do all the good their warmest well wishers desire. As Mr. Moody said last evening, New York had been pointed out to him as a peculiar city, and not apt to respond to the influences which moved other places. But, as he well remarked, even New York was not superior to the power of God's Holy Spirit. This is very true. Our best wishes attend the evangelists. We trust they will not find that the seed has been sown upon a rock, and that, when they leave us, it will not be as a sensation, living its day and forgotten the day after. This is the danger with all sensational religion, and Moody and Sankey will be more fortunate than most of their predecessors if they escape it. Mr. Bright to the English Liberals, When the late Mr. Laird arose in his place in the English House of Commons and said that he would sooner go down to posterity as the builder of a hundred Alabamas than as “the man who set class against class” he thought he was fastening a withering stigma upon John Bright, And the cheers of the “country members,” which greeted him, doubtless contributed to the member for Birkenhead’s belief. The builder of the Ala- bama is now “nailed in his chest,” and safely on his short journey to posterity, but the great Commoner whom he characterized so flippantly is still at work upon giving that position in the government to the “lower” classes which has been so long denied them by the “upper.” The progress of all reforms in England is slow. We have seen how the extension of the suffrage, reaching those far below the British subjects enfranchised by the Reform bill of 1832, has left room for the return of a conservative majority in the House of Commons. That was termed ‘‘reaction” by the liberals and “a desire for quiet” by the tories, It sent Gladstone into retirement. It put Disraeli in power, and he and his party are endeavoring to balance this plan of quietude at home by a “vigorous foreign policy.” If left to itself this shifting of the scene to Egypt and India might answer for a time, as Englishmen like to exult in that marvellous empire of theirs which lies outside the British Isles ; but while the displaced whig politicians are busy picking little holes in the armor of Disraeli and quibbling over slave circulars and the like John Bright arises, and, in a single speech to opens up once more the unredressed wrongs of the masses of the people. It is not a violent appeal to the passions, but a plain, broad exposition of the inequalities of the law by which class was set over class and intended to be kept there. He places three live issues in British politics—the en- franchisement of the non-voting residents of the counties, the redistribution of seats ac- cording to population, and the abolition of the laws by which landed property can be entailed. Here are three points on which the British liberals can found a sweeping agi- tation if they are able to grasp them. It is true that the liberal party in England during the past eight years has become barnacled over with a class of wealthy representatives who make the word lib- eral, with a hyphen, the only distine- tion between them and the aristocratic party; they call themselves liberal-conserva- tives. From these such a vigorous domestic campaign would experience almost as much opposition as from the conservatives pureand simple. Hence the minority of the House of Commons must be reduced still further in numbers, like Gideon's band, before they will be actually ready to take up the land entail and county franchise questions and advance with them to victory. The liberal party, as it is, has not a single cry to march with ; and it has no distinct policy to oppose to the conservative majority. This state of things marks the favorable moment for the unfurling of the people's standard once more in behalf of the needed, wise and broad re- forts so strikingly sketched by Mr. Bright. Will Governor Tilden Take a Strap? It must not be supposed that the ameliora- tion in the offensively crowded condition of the city horse cars at all approaches a perfect cure for the evils which the companies inflict on the public. What has been done Pe as conclusively that the full measure of ‘‘No seat no fare” can be carried out with great ease and at no ex- traordinary expense. The cars still exhibit at certain portions of the day the over- crowding, with all its concomitants of un- healthiness, indecency, discourtesy and dis- comfort, which we originally complained of, In fet, until the Legislature has passed a law defining strictly the duties of the com- panies it is idle to expect that they will vol- untarily remedy the evil which puts so much more money in their coffers. Rumors reach us from Albany of specious being made by the = rail- road lobbyists to stave of and finally defeat this measure of relief; but we inform all concerned that a strict watch is upon them, and that members will be held hereafter to a strict accountability. Can not Governor Tilden devote a little of his at- tention to the pressing need of the chief city of the State? The city horse car routes may not be so long as the Erie Canal, and certainly if placed end to end they would not reach from Albany to the White House; but the voters of New York area little more interested in comfortable transit just now than in making ‘political capital out of De Witt Clinton's great ditch or in pipelaying for the Presidency. He is great at figures, and let him calculate the comfort which any one of his constitu- ents can get when he is a unit in the seventy- seven cilizens lammed into 9 Third eyenue car. Will he take a strap for five cents in journey down town the next time he comes to visit Mayor Wickham ? : Blaine and Davis. It would be difficult to decide which of these mischief-makers is the most wrong- headed and indiscreet, or which of the two is the more ready to give way to fits of passionate impulse without foresight of consequences, On the whole, Mr. Blaine is the more reprehensible, because he reopened the controvi about the Andersonville prisoiiers, Which, but for him, would have slept, and gave occasion for the war of re- crimination which has arrested the healing of the old wounds, There is a great deal to be forgotten and forgiven if good feeling is ever to be restored between the North and the South, and among the things “which ought to be kept out of politics and consigned to history there is none whosé re- vival is so purely mischievous as the horrors of the Andersonville prison. The primary responsibility for raking the cinders from the decaying embers and blowing them into a flame must rest on Mr. Blaine, who reck- lessly provoked all the wild and mad things which have been said in reply. Jefferson Davis has played the part of a political lunatic in writing his passionate answer. The pretext that he was provoked to it in self-defence will not avail him. If he is innocent of the inhumanity with which he is charged he could have trusted to time for his vindication. Tho accusation of Mr. Blaine is not new. It was made at the time when the Andersonville horrors were fresh, and when the government was eager to hang him after his cap- ture. The government did hang Wirtz for this very offence, and if it had evidence connecting Mr. Davis with those cruelties it would have been too glad to mete out to him the same justice which was inflicted on Wirtz. The fact that it never even indicted him for complicity in those cruelties is a prima facie vindication on which he might have rested until impartial history shall pro- nounce its verdict. He has played into the hands of Mr. Blaine in writing his foolish, passionate letter. Mr. Hill's unwise reply to Mr. Blaine, on the floor of the House, was bad enough in point of policy, but Mr. Da- vis’ letter is worse. If he had a grain of polit- ical sense he would know that his defence could not possibly be in such bad hands as his own, for the North is not disposed to give him a friendly nor even an impartial hearing. And then hecan never write or speak without flaunting his attachment to the lost cause and thereby weakening the moral influence of the advocates of a magnanimous policy toward the South. The passionate egotism and _ intense personal selfishness of this man, who is willing to assist Mr. Blaine in reopening the breach when he sees the slightest chance of identifying the South with his fallen fortunes, is a perverse ex- hibition of character which proves that he cares more for himself than for the welfare of the unfortunate and misguided people who followéd him in the civil war. His un- repentant old age could be better employed than in writing serviceable campaign docu- ments for the malignant enemies of the South, A Great Need Supplied. We print in another part of the Henatp the admirable report of the Training School for Nurses, an institution which, although barely three years old, has made itself in- valuable to the community and supplied a most important want in medical practice. The school was opened in 1873 with only six pupils. The first year of its existence was almost entirely employed in overcoming prejudices and inducing the right class of women to enter as pupils. It has now forty pupils, all women of good character and intelligence. Organized under a charter, it is founded on the same sound principles as those established by Florence Nightingale, and all candidates for admission, applications for which are now being constantly received, are required to possess a certificate from a physician and a clergyman of her physical and moral character. After one month's trial the nurses enter upon the hospital training of the school, which means the high standard of careful discipline and drill, order, cleanliness, method, trustworthiness and obedience so absolute and intelligent as to enable them to replace an absent physician in the execution of his orders. But this education means more. It adds to the nar- row list of women’s means of livelihood an organized form of work and usefulness. These are the objects of the training school, and they must be classed among the highest order of noble charities. They are not only to soothe the sufferings of the poor hos- pital patient, but to provide at every bedside of sickness a competent and responsible nurse, whose cool, skilled hand alleviates pain and inspires confidence and comfort. As usual with benoficent enterprises of this charactgy the training school was origi- nated by a fow thoughtful and generous la- dies, who have found time to advance the institution to its present perfect system. First among them stand Mrs. Joseph Hob- son, Mrs, Alexander Hamilton and Mrs, Hartman Kubn, and the treasurer, Colonel Henry G. Stebbins, has well seconded their efforts. Under their auspices, and although supported only by voluntary contributions, the school can already boast of the entire nursing of over three thousand patients in Bellevue Hospital, as well as of supplying sixty private families within the past year with trained nurses ; besides this, matrons, head nurses and superintendents have been sent to different institutions here and else- where, who in turn become teachers and trainers also. To effect all this has cost a very consider- able sum of money, and in common with other undertakings of the sort the institu- tion is in need of a larger income, not only to be enabled to enlarge its sphere of use- fulness, but to avoida check to its present progress, which would now be a public calamity. We hope, therefore, that the ap- peal which the committee make to the public may not be made in vain, ‘Tur Srarers are in a lovely condition now, and the students of slush have a rare oppor- tunity for pursuing their inquiries into the imperviousness of shoo leather to melting sDow, Martin EF. Tupper’s “Washington.” Mr. Martin Farquhar Tupper has kindly sent us a copy of his play of “Washington,” preliminarily printed for publication in America during the centennial year, accom- panied by a letter relating to the charges of plagiarigm which have been made against him. his interesting commanicetion is private, but we are authorized, and, indeed, requested by Mr. Tupper to use its sub- stance. He desires us to tell all the Western World that the assertions that he plagiarized his drama from ‘one Sinclair, or any other, are simply false.” It is impossible, he argues very justly, that he could have plagiarized, as he never even heard of another play of “Washington,” and certainly was ignorant of Mr. Sinclair's. If the point had not touched honor or honesty he would have passed it by, but he thinks the misstate- ment needs to be stopped, as it is well known that nothing runs further or faster than an unanswered lie, Mr. Tupper, therefore, requests us to stop it for him in America, and we do. Mr. Tupper must now be acquitted of plagiarism. His word is enough. When a man has devoted his life to literature, has had his works printed in fifty languages, and no resemblance to Coleridge, Words- worth, Shelley or any of his cele- brated” conteniporaries has ever been detected in his poems, it is a little rough upon him that he should be accused of stealing in his old age. It does not sur- prise us that Mr. Tupper is indignant. In fact, we are surprised that he bears the | charge with so much unproverbial philoso- phy. Philosophers frequently fail to prac- tise what they preach, and if Mr. Tupper had lost his temper entirely we think he would have had an ample excuse. Yet if Mr. Tupper were familiar with the circumstances of the case he would see how plausible this charge of plagiarism seemed. Extracts only from his play, with a brief synopsis of the plot, were first published in our papers two months ago. Ameri- cans were delighted that so eminent @ poet should have complimented this country with a play about the Revolu- tion. But it was soon discovered that Mr. David Sinclair, of Boston, had published a drama with the title of ‘Washington” in 1874. Numerous resemblances were pointed out The characters were toa great extent the same and the stories were similar. It is not strange that many persons believed that Mr. Tupper had done Mr. Sinclair the ser- vice which Mr. Boucicault tells us Shake- speare rendered his contemporary dramatists. But Mr. Tupper must not imagine that Mr. Sinclair ever accused him of plagiarizing, for that gentleman has never taken the slightest part in the controversy.: As for Mr. Tupper's statement that he had never heard of another play of ‘‘Washington,” we can only regret that the admission betrays an unexpected ignorance of American dramatic literature. We have now before us three printed plays entitled ‘‘Washington.” One is Mr. Martin F, Tupper’s, in five acts; another is Mr. David Sinclair's, in four acts, and an- other, Mr. Ingersoll Lockwood's, in five acts. Each of them is written in blank verse, and the coincidences in all the three are start- ling. Yet we do not now believe that the three poets ever read each vther’s produc- tions. . Mr. Tupper, we are glad to learn, contem- plates visiting America this spring to give public readings of his play. He will be welcome with it or without it, and we trust he will not neglect to read Mr. Sin- clair’s and Mr. Lockwood's plays in private. He will be then convinced that the charge of plagiarism was not made in mere caprice, but with apparently just cause. Brookiyn Water. It is reported that the ‘‘waste” from an es- tablishment which manufactures lampblack flows into one of the reservoirs from which Brooklyn is supplied with water. Waste from a slaughter house, waste from a petro- leum refinery, even waste from several of | Peter Cooper's glue factories, would perhaps be savory and fragrant material by compari- son with the waste animal matters that have gone through a lampblack factory. 1t is not astonishing that cases of fever attributed to | “sewer gas” are connected with the use of | this water, for water so contaminated could not but become saturated with suchgas. Neither is it astonishing that the authorities do not interfere, for it does not appear that any of them could make any money out of it. Per- haps it is hardly strange that the proprietors of the factory are insensible or indifferent to the consequences of their neglect; but surely for every case of illness and every death traceable to such a cause the propri- | etors of that factory are as clearly responsible in damages as a railway company is for every passenger it kills; and, contrary to what is generally supposed, the cause of death in such a case can be sworn to by the dockiad Faey Lottie, The Court of General Sessions. Recorder Hackett, in commenting yester- day on the complaint of the last Grand Jury | respecting the inconvenieriéé of the room ; they were assigned to, disclosed a very dis- | creditable neglect on the part of the city | authorities in failing to provide proper accommodations for the important Court | over which he and Judges Sutherland | and Gildersleeve have been elected to | preside. The enormous increase of criminal cases coming before this Court | necessitated the passage of a law last year | providing for the holding of a second branch | and the election of an additional judge to share the work. The extra judge has | been elected, but the Commissioner of | Public Works bas given him no court to sit | in, The Grand Jury deliberates in a damp | basement and the petit jury is sent to a_ cheerless attic. This state of things is | ridiculous and disgraceful. A court which last year disposed of seyenteen hundred in- | dictments, and which tries tie most im- | portant criminal jury cas ; surely of sufficient importance to be properly housed. | The Grand Jury, which fulfil so important a function in meting out our criminal | law, should not be forced to perform their duties with danger to their lives, | and we see nothing in the common juryman to warrant his being marched up three flights of stairs to an attic and down peain, ovory time he ia conscientious enough not to verdict without leaving the box, We expect to soe these things reme- died without delay. The law expressly de- mands that room be provided for the hold. ing of a second part of the Court, and while the aity authorities are about it they should take up the whole question of the accommo- General dation for the Sessio: ‘ it altogether.” er ee —_———__s Court Fees. As the Comptroller has stil] probably an account to settle with the former or Tam- many administration of the Marine Court, the statement of the first return of fees under the new administration will furnish him with an instructive ground of com. parison for the basis of the settlement, Mr, Coughlin, the new clerk, who is understood to have acquired his position under the influence of the movement for reform represented by the last election, has just made his return for the month of January, which foots up twelve hundred and sixty. one dollars, and the former clerk's n for January, i8%5,, was two hundred aa Be, two dollars, or nearly a thousand dollars less. If the Comptroller will apply about this difference to every month of the returns of the former incumbeat he will have a nice’ littlesum due him from that gentleman's estate—if he has any. It would be a very nice point of investigation for an ingenious adept at arithmetic to inquire whether the Tammany administration in all our courts returned the fees in the same way they were returned by the former clerk of this par- ticular court, and, if so, to demonstrate what sum the city treasury has lost thereby through Tammany's many years of suprem- acy. A Dreadful Theory. It is reported that between the President and some members of his Cabinet there has been a ‘‘stormy scene” on account of some differences of opinion in regard to whiskey trials, This may be true, foreven a Presi- dent cannot be superior to those peculiari- ties of temper and feeling out of which stormy scenes arise, But thereis one point in the report that we hear with dismay, and that we can only credit upon the strongest testimony. It is reported that a member of the Cabinet other than the ome whose conduct gave rise to the stormy scene said that ‘‘No one man is ab- solutely needed torun a government.” Is it possible that there is any one in Gen- eral Grant's Cabinet who believes this? and, above all, can this insidious, horrible and dangerous theory have come from a friend and supporter of General Grant? Why, this isthe view of the people who oppose the third term. They concede Grant's merits, but deny that either Grant or any other one man is so ‘absolutely needed” that a great constitutional tradition should be set aside in his favor. Do we hear aright, are we cor- rectly informed, when we are told that there are others in the Cabinet besides Mr. Bristow who do not believe in ‘‘providential” in- dividuals ? A Persistent Champion of the Third Term. The letter of the ex-Confederate Coloned Swann, advocating the re-election of Presi- dent Grant, has less novelty than many of our contemporaries seem to think. As long ago ° as last June he expressed the same views in a speech before a political convention in West Virginia, the substance of which was immediately telegraphed and published in the Hzratp. The curious and significant feature of Colonel Swann’s utterances is the fact that they are always given forth imme- diately after he has had ample opportuni- ties for conversing with the President. Colonel Swann is one of the numer- ous body of General Grant's relations. | When he made his third term speech last spring the President had recently been a guest at his house in Charlestown, W. Va., and it was a fair inference that, being fresh from personal intercourse with his distin- guished relative, he faithfully represented his wishes. There is a similar conjuncture 01 suggestive circumstances in connection with Colonel Swann’s recent letter. He has just made a long visit to Washington as the guest of General Grant at the White House. It ia a noteworthy coincidence that a second time he publicly advocates a third term immedi- ately after opportunities of confidential inter. course with the fountain of inspiration. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Washington belles are'to have a leap year German. The Crown Princess of Germany believes in Strauss and Voltaire Thé Rothschilds are $3,400,000, 000. In Chicago gas has come down to $2 50a thousand, just nalf the price of oysters. Our late Minister to Peru had 60 little to do that he went into business in Lima as a pawnbroker. President Hill, formerly of Harvard, says that @ child should not be taught to reason until it ts twelve = ’ estimated to be worth 7 s Senate wants a law providing that every article 19 a newspaper shall be signed with the name oF the writer, O'Brien, of the firm of Flood & O’Brien, the big bo- nanza men, has bought the San Francisco residence o Senator Sharon. Chicago's wholesale grocers use in thelr business » capital of $7,500,000 and employ over 1,200 men. The amount of sales for 1875 was $62,500,000. American industry triamphs, A Michigan town Inst season shipped sixty tons of limburger cheese, which was so loud that people along the railroad thought \y was hurrahing for the Centennial. The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist says:—‘We say frankly to all men of the Bast and Wost that the South has seen her worst days, and can stand the ‘results of the war’ just as long as they can.”” Lavater says:—‘‘Hazel eyes are the more usual tn- dications of a mind masculine, vigorous and profound jost as genius, properly fo-called, is almost alway: ‘associated with eyes of a yellowish cast, bordering o# hazel.”” In Venice the beauty of the city has been increaset by the ase of color on plaster walls of a sober bat delb cate pink red, which contrasts exquisitely with the green waters and the solt grass-green shutters of the windows. General Rovert E. Lee wrote in 1867-—*I beliews every one who has {Investigated the afflictions of the federal prisoners is of the opinion that they were inch dent to their condition as prisoners of war, and to the distressed state of the whole Southern country; and) they were fully shared by the Confederate prisom ers ia federal prisons "’ A Chinese doctor says that Americans boil tea, ant thereby loge the flavor, while the Chinese make it by infusion, They piace a small quantity of tea leaves & bowl, pour boiling water upon it and then cover the bowl The strength of the tea depends on the tm ‘the tea is allowed to draw, ‘And,’ said the speaker “when making ao infusion 46 now boil the wate hastily at (rst, Milk or sugar should never be ase. with vea."? Y