The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1876, Page 6

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Mr. Mortey, the American historian, is to be especially honored by the city of Antwerp on the occasion of the Rubens centennial. His histories of the struggles for liberty in the Low Countries entitle him to this high honor, and Antwerp does herself credit in ronferring a distinction a the historian. Corrvuption.—A correspondent at Wash- ington sends usa strange story concerning the manner in which army sutlers are ap- pointed and the exactions made of them, which, while apparently well authenticated, we trust, for the honor of the country and the credit of the official referred to, may prove susceptible of an explanation consistent with both. Tue Eastern Question.—Austria is begin- ning to play a bolder hand against Turkey, and the men-of-war at Kleck may _precipi- tate hostilities between the two empires. Wars often occur in this way, and the atti- tude of the two navies in Kleck harbor seems to suggest a quicker settlement of the East- ern question than by Andrassy's plan. Tue Cantst War is not yet over, and if the reported battle between the forces of Don Carlos and the government troops should terminate in victory for the former it is not easy to predict when the end will be. One thing is certain, however, that the more the struggle is prolonged the greater will be the injury to Spain and to the Spaniards, without regard to party. Peatunsep Lovistana.—And now the spirit of discord again stalks abroad within the limits ot Louisiana, and we are threatened with a renewal of the scenes which resulted in the temporary overturning of Kellogg's government and the sad spectacle of United Btates troops interfering in the affairs of a State. This is tho result of the efforts of zertain scurvy politicians to keep themselves In power, and can be easily avoided bya little conservative action at the national cap- Ital, which shall look to the good of the State and country rather than the advance. ment of any man or party. ‘Tne Sate or Liqvonrs tx Praces or Amusr- wenxt.—In the Assembly, yesterday, Mr. nglehart introduced a bill amending the vw of 1862 relative to the sale of liquor in wes where theatrical performances are ‘idt . The amendment virtually repeals that pirt of the law which prohibits the sale vt liquor in such places, while it prohibits the employment of women as waiters in places where theatrical performances or ex- nibitions are held. It will be seen, there- fore, that if the bill becomes a law liquor can be sold in places of public’ amusement, but the waiters and others who furnish the drinks must be of the masculine gender. The measure is one which interests that large part of the comnynnity who desire to drink én music with their beer, and to enjoy fire- water simultaneously with their enjoyment of red fire | NEW ‘YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1876.--TRIPLK SHEET, The Campaign for the Presidency. We must not permit Moody and Sankey to destroy our interest in what is after all the crowning question of the year—the cam- paign for the Presidency. Even if we should all yield to the evangelists’ influence it would still be necessary to provide for the government. Elections must be held, and the air is fallof rumors. This will be a novel and perplexing canvass. ‘The South heretofore, at least before the war, dominant in conventions, is neutral. The Southern republicans want Grant or the candidate who comes nearest to him. The democrats will be satisfied with whoever can beat. Grant. The West, still giddy with inflation and arrogant with the long possession of power, insists that the Mississippi Valley is the seat of empire. Pennsylvania, according to Senator Cam- eron, wants a candidate who will give pro- tection to that much protected Common- wealth. New England thinks we should still decide the issues of the war, and if Mr. Blaine is to be trusted as the representative of his section we are to have an Anderson- ville canvass, with its war memories, Over all we have the shadow of the third term. The cloud, no bigger than a man’s hand, now overspreads the heavens. ‘The horizon of politics is darkened. All issues are in- volved more or less in the one absorbing issue, and there is nota calculation as to Presidential chances in which it is not an important and determining factor. It is natural that with all interests now turning to the Presidency New York should have a voice. General Grant shows his ap- preciation of New York by giving two of her sons portfolios. Why should not the Empire State aim forthe Presidency? Rich as we are in men worthy of the office, one man stands out as the natural nominee of the republican party. We do no injustice to Morgan or Dix, to Fish or Pierrepont or Wheeler or any other republicans who have been or may be named for the Presidency when we say that whatever honors that party has to bestow should be awarded to Roscoe Conkling. George William Curtis would have it otherwise; but as the political useful- ness of Mr. Curtis consists largely in recom- mending impracticable schemes his opposi- tion is a confirmation of the practical sound- ness of our position. Roscoe Conkling is the natural leader of the republican party as drilled by Grant. There are olderand it may be better soldiers, but it is not so much republicanism as Grantism that needs repre- | sentation, The republican party is as differ- ent from that which won the Lincoln victory in 1860 as the army which fought under Bonaparte at Austerlitz was different from that which followed Dumouriez. That stu- pendous transformation must be considered when we speak of republican candidates for the Presidency. If Seward or Chase or Sumner could visit the scenes of their fame they would feel as Rip Van Winkle when he awoke, from his long sleep. ‘The old party is at an end. Its war cries are hushed. Its banmers are folded. The old leaders have fallen by the way, or are driven from the ranks. The party of ideas and enterprises, which be- lieved in liberty and secured emancipation by war; the party which drove Buchanan from power, and compelled Lincoln to pro- claim emancipation, and forced Johnson to the verge of impeacliment, now lies at the feet of Grant. Itis a drilled legion, nota thinking party. As the ragged battalions of Valmy and Jemappes grew into the disci- plined armies.of Marengoand Wagram, so the party of Sumner and Chase, which had no idea but liberty, and permitted no consider-"} ation of availability to interfere with that stern, solemn duty, has become the compact otganization of Grant. In no State is itso thoronghly drilled as in New York. To no man is this result more due than to Roscoe Conkling. He has been the Ney of our Napoleon, the bravest of the brave. It was Conkling who assailed Sumner on St. Domingo, who defended the French arms sale from Schurz, who drove out Fenton and Trumbull, who made un- sparing war upon Greeley, who carried his party flag from Manhattan Island to Niagara Falls in the last great campaign. And if, when Centennial Dix was in the field for Governor, he was cold and pouting it must be remembered that Centennial Dix took the liberty of questioning the President's right to run for a third term. Therefore the apathy of Conkling was only a delicate, chivalrous courtesy to his lord. He has never failed in any emergency. We may question, for in- stance, what Blaine, or Washburne, or Mor- ton would do in the event of a candidature for the third term. But no one will doubt for a moment what Roscoe Conkling would do. He is loyal to every test of loyalty. He has the fitness for the office. Even his ene- pies concede that Roscoe Conkling would make a magnificent Presi®nt. He is the first orator in the Senate. He bears a stain- less mame. No spot rests upon his es- entcheon. In a time of universal sus- picion and reproach even etlander itself has spared him. Rings have been broken, schemes have been exploded, grand juries have found indictments, com- mittees*have investigated, but Conkling has been ever free from reproach. To use the metaphor of Tennyson, record after record has leaped to light, but he has never been shamed. He has disdained the dark and winding ways of advancement. The re- progches of his enemies are really tributes to his probity and courage, Whenever Conk- ling has appeared in the arena it has been as the noble knight, his visor up, his lance in position, disdaining quarter and granting none. In the highest sense of the word he has been the leader, and no one of all the men who have been named for the nomina- tion is more worthy of the honor. It is said that the real motive of the Senator and his friends is to keep him in line simply to enable Grant to perfect his schemes for another nomination. But we aro confi- dent that all such suspicions are unworthy. Senator Conkling can never be the stool pigeon of President Grant. an honest canvass. If he goes into the Con- vention it will be as the choice of New York—the favorite son of the Empire State. Seward, There will be no bargain and sale. It will have no second choica If Mr. truth, a candidate. party mata be served pea the nomination of General Grant he is the man to say so now. The fact that he has preserved his silence thus far and permitted his friends to raise his banner means that he is, in name and Nor will he stoop to win the high place. It will do well enough for the Blaines and the Mortons to rummage among the débris of the war for some mil- dewed battle flag, to bring up Andersonville and Jefferson Davis as issues, and to chant campaign lyries about loyalty and hanging rebels. Roscoe Conkling will never descend to an office so unworthy. He will win asa soldier or fall like one. If, therefore, the Senator who has been the Brutus to our Cwsar means to be Brutus in fact, the reason will be found in the hearts of his friends. When the best beloved Brutus thrust his dagger into the heart of Cesar it was not that he loved Cesar less but Rome more. Roscoe Conkling as the choice of New York for the Presidency means that he feels that even his friendship for a man must give place to his devotion to his party. The nomination of Conkling means that the party craves a President who will find fit men for place outside of lis domestic circle, and confidential servants who will not fall under the condemnation of a Missouri Grand Jury. It means that even the well drilled legions of New York republicans are afraid of athird term. It means, also, that the republicans of the seaboard are not will- ing to abandon all power to the Mississippi Valley. It only remains, therefore, for the party ranks to close around Conkling. New England, since Wilson died, has had no one more worthy. She should command her sons to postpone their ambitions in tho presence of so wise and popular a nomina- tion. Pennsylvania, with that magnanimity which the Centennial will naturally inspire, should hasten to stand shoulder to shoulder with New York, and not destroy our favorite son as she destroyed Seward. The West— the mighty, the free, the magnificent West— can find no one more in keeping with the character of her people than our resolute, stalwart and aggressive Senator. Even the South will see in him a statesman too proud to persecute and too brave to tolerate perse- cution. The more the claims of New York and our Senator are considered the more it will be found that no man is more worthy of the confidence of the party. The Fire in Broadway. A large fire occurred in Broadway yester- day on premises famous for their fire record— the historic ‘‘444.” The buildings destroyed extended from No, 444 tp No. 452in Broadway and through to Crosby street in the rear. It is assumed the cause of the fire was super- heated steam, but apart from its origin the conflagration was due to causes of which we have often complained—inflammable mate- rials used in the construction of the build- ings, a want of the necessary appli- ances for extinguishing the fire before it had gained headway, and a scarcity of water. The entire structure—for we believe the buildings were in reality but one edifice—was built of wood, and the floor, the beams and girders, and indeed all the material‘ of which it was composed, were only tinder for the flames. The fire leaped from floor to floor and from apartment to apartment with great rapidity, and the efforts of the firemen, some of whom lost their lives in the attempt, were powerless before it. On the outside of the buildings there were none of the appliances which prudent men provide for preventing the de- struction of their property by fire, and it was found impossible to get a sufficient supply of Croton from the mains in the neighborhood effectually’ to quench the flames. Had the conflagration occurred dur- ing a high wind a large part of the city would inevitably have been swept away. As it was the loss is said ‘to exceed four millions of dollars, besides the lives that were sacri- ficed in fighting the flames. The lesson which this fire enforces readily suggests itself to all property owners and business men—fireproof buildings, effective appliances for extinguishing fires and more water mains in the lower part of the city; but when a building erected on a property marked in the history of the city for its fatality to fire was constructed in a way to make it mere fuel to the flames we despair of the lesson ever being heeded. Reform will not come until the insurance companies refuse to take risks on buildings only built to be burned. Tue Vienna Scanpat.—Mr. Jay writes another letter to the Henan, in which he confines himself to the Vienna scandal. In this communication Mr. Jay has two pur- poses—-one to correct the assumption that irregularities which caused the scandal marked the management of the whole Ameri- can Commission, and the other to ask for the publication of the report of the special com- mission which investigated the affair. We can hardly join with him in this demand. The policy of silence has too long character- ized the conduct of the State Department, and in this instance Mr. Jay shows not only that the rights of the American people ought to be respected, but that the publication of the record would regain for us some of the consideration abroad which we have lost. We trust the correspondence and report will not be much h longer \ withheld. Coxenress.—The House yesterday passed a bill repealing the Bankrupt law, which may be regarded as another expression of demo- cratic sentiment regarding the powers dcle- gated to the general government, apparently the only live issue between the two parties. The debate on. the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill drags its slow length along, some of the more prominent members of the majority taking strong grounds against the reduction of the consulates as striking a direct blow at American commerce. It is to be hoped the Western members in their laud- able pursuit of economy will be enabled to look a sufficient distance beyond their corn | fields to see how much the prosperity and His canvass is | greatness of the country depends upon this commerce, and do nothing to decrease it, Tnat Mooren Question, the marriage of | Prince Battenberg and the Princess Beatrice, New York will go for him as it went for | still disturbs the English mind. Now, the story of the engagement is reiterated and, as | a matter of course, the donbt makes the Conkling thought that the best interests of the | gossip all the more delightful, The Opening of Parliament. We print this morning an interesting spe- cial despatch by cable from London giving an account of the opening ceremonies of Parliament. Many circumstances contribute to the splendor and significance of this event. The Queen for many years, especially since the death of her husband, has practically withdrawn from public life. Her appearance now is largely in deference to public opinion. The pageant was exceedingly gorgeous. The royal cortége passed to the House of Lords in the presence of half a mil- lion of people. Her Majesty looked exceed- ingly well—healthy. and almost youthful. She bore herself with dignity, amounting almost to imperiousness. The interior of the House blazed in the shimmering light of the diamonds which were worn by princesses and peeresses, while the uniforms worn by princes, peers, generals and ambassadors were varied in their brilliancy. We print a verbatim copy of Her Majesty's speech, with a report of the first debates and work of the session. Mr. Disraeli will have some ex- citing questions before Parliament, and he may well seek for every method of adding to the popularity of his government. The purchase of the Suez shares, the visit of the Prince of Wales to India and its political significance, the Herzegovinian question and the tremendous results therein involved, the financial condition of the Turkish Empire, are all full of moment to the peace of the Continent and the prosperity of England. There are also social questions which cannot be avoided. The foolish pageant of Dr. Kenealy, who came to Parlia- ment surrounded by a mob, and whose retinue was dispersed by the police, shows the existence.of a feeling which will make itself felt sooner or later, and which even a negative Ministry, anxious only for a pleas- ant time and no responsibility, cannot ignore. The circumstance that so important an event as the opening of Parliament should be reported by cable as fully as the opening of our own Congress in Washington is a new step in the progress of journalism. London is now as near to us as our federal capital, and the enterprise which tells this graphic story is only another indication that thé press, with science as its minister, is bring- ing the nations of the world closer and closer together. Ex-Governor Hoffman on Manicipal Reform, There fre few of our public men who are so well qualified by experience and intelli- gence to form a sound opinion on our local government as Mr. Hoffman. After a long period of service as Recorder he was for four years Mayor of the city, and then filled the office of Governor for two terms, at a time when our municipal affairs occupied a large share of attention at Albany. There is not in the State a more fair minded and judicious citizen than Mr. Hoffman. His present se- clusion from politics and his entire discon- nection from city affairs by his change of residence to Albany exempt him from sus- picion of having any other purpose than the public welfare in gxpressing his views on the reforms needed in our city government. That part of his lecture on Thursday even- ing is therefore entitled to respectful consid- eration. Governor Hoffman is very clear and de- cided in his indorsement of a spring elec- tion. The following is a condensed report of what he said on this branch of the sub- ject:—‘‘A separation of the municipal from the general election would seem to be wise. The local elections in the towns throughout the State are held in the spring. Itis a mistake to suppose, as some do, that the at- tention of the people cannot be aroused at a municipal election, held separately. The statistics show that duying the many years when the city election was held in the spring the vote for Mayor was as large and some- times larger than that cast in the following fall for State officers. Holding a municipal election in December, a month or less after the general election in November, as was the practice for some years, was a great mistake. That marked the election for city officers as a secondary affair, whereas it: ought to be to you, whose home interests are exclusively involved, at least asimportantasany. More- over, the municipal election in December would be more or less controlled by the political combination of November.” This is the opinion not only of Governor Hoffman, but of almost every wise and fair minded man in the State who has no active connec- tion with current politics. General Babcock’s Trial. The trial of General Babcock upon charges of complicity with the Whiskey Ring at St. Louis is rapidly progressing, and a few days will settle the question of his innocence or guilt. A jury was obtained yesterday, and District Attorney Dyer opened the case for tho prosecution in a concise and straightfor* ward speech, in Which the accusations of the indictment were reiterated. It now only remains to prove the charges, Without any disposition to prejudge the case or to utter a word which could be construed to the prejudice of General Babcock, we must say that the evidence which the govern- ment seems to have in its possession will require great ingenuity and skill on the part of the defence either to weaken or de- stroy. Atthe same time we hope Babcock will be able to explain all the suspicious cir- cumstances which the proseeution is weav- ing about him to the satisfaction of the jury. It is disagreeable, to say the least of it, that an official who has such intimate relations with the Executive Mansion should be charged with an offence like that im- puted to the President's secretary, and his conviction would cause general regret, not for his sake so much as on account of the diseredit it would bring upon the coun- try. This sentiment, however, must not be allcwed to interfere with the course of jus- tice. If General Babcock is guilty he must be punished, and the question of his guilt must be determined by the testimony ad- duced on his trial. He cannot expect leniency, but must be content with justice, and this the trials which have preceded the present case are a certain proof is very sure to follow. If he is convicted the effect cannot fail to be beneficial, but only upon the clearest evidence of guilt, ¢ . A Race with the English Graduates. The plan proposed.at the recent meeting of the Cambridge University Boat Club, of sending to this courtry, not an undergradu- ate crew, but one in which graduates too might row, would, perhaps, operate well enough for the open amateur races at Phila- delphia and elsewhere, but in the infercolle- giate race would tend to work confusion. Naturally, on recalling famous members of past crews—men like Griffiths and Chambers, Kinglake, Lawes and Goldie, or at Oxford Morrison and Darbishire, Willan, Tinnie and Yarborough, most of them young enongh to be still very effective at the oar—the clubs would like to make sure of at least one or two of these confessedly better men than happen now to bein the Universities. They might very properly conclude that the best crew of Cambridge or Oxford men living, not simply those who happen now to be undergraduates, would be the truest repre- sentatives of their respective skill and prow- ess atthe oar. But whether there or here, the plan would necessitate crews being made up which had rowed together ; for, as they say, they must row at Henley, afid not with amixed crew, but one composed solely of undergraduates. They would then leave for America at the earliest day possible, and so have no time to work together at home, while our Oarsmen must row as undergraduates alone until July 19, and would hence have butabout a month to break the graduates into their style, or vice versa. The sugges- tion to call in graduates, however, was based on the six-oared plan, and on the need at Cambridge of calling in two graduates to make up the number. But the Heraup plan of having the race in fours quite re- moves the need; and so, if pressed, as it is likely and manifestly ought to be, will insure the much desired struggle without more delay. But out of all this an excellent idea offers. We, too, would like much to see these famous men of past days, for their names are household words also on this side of the water. And this is the way todo it, Let our best graduate oars meet at once and unite in a challenge to any four graduates of Cambridge University, of Ox- ford and of Dublin. Messrs. Bacon, Stoz- kopf, Bennett and Kennedy, of Yale ; Eustis, Rodgers, Downs and a fourth, of Wesleyan ; four of the ’72 fast Amherst team ; Rees and Rapallo, Timpson and Robert Cornell, of Columbia, and Loring, Watson, Simmons and Richards, or Willis, of Harvard, to say nothing of a score of other good men, could soon have together teams that never used to do their Universities’ fair name discredit, and could take good care of it even in this greatest pass ofall. Such an invitation would indeed bring to our shores the flower of English amateur oarsmen, would make the Centennial races even yet more interesting, and, as all would at once see, would bring together the best amateur rowing talent in the world. Tho great ad- vantage to both graduates and undergradu- ates is that there is abundant time yet to make all arrangements and get into thorough condition; while there has been about the same partial training already on both sides ofthe ocean. Let no time be lost in bring- ing.about these two very desirable contests. Lawyers and Their Clients. If all persons are thieves who are so called by newspapers, and if no lawyer must de- fend such persons in court on pain of the displeasure of the newspapers, people will have some reason to rejoice that the news- papers are not the government. Justice might be more inaccessible to many unfortu- nate men under that system than it has ever been under the systems that have been set aside by Magna Charta and that class of documents. For theft is highly improper, and should a lawyer defend it in court? Of course not.’ Murder. also is objectionable from a high nioral standpoint, and forgery and burglary and all kinds of peculation, and in fact crime of any and every sort, and virtue cries out against them continually, especially the sort of virtue that likes to get on the housetop ; and the lawyer must nec- essarily set his face against virtueif he takes up the cause of any person accused of crime. It would follow therefore that the only time that a man could not have the services of a lawyer would be when he had most need for one. There might be some little incon- veniences in this, but real virtue, per- haps, would not heed such a trifle. It might happen, for instance, that men had been wrongfully accused of crimes, and if they are to have no lawyers to sift the evi- dence in their favor—if there is to be no.law in their cases but what is against them—the fact of their innocence would very often never appear. Indeed, it is supposed that this very point of guilt or innocenee is what a trial is intended to determine, and that a man’s lawyer assists at that inquest in his interest. There is, in fact, some old-fash- ioned, musty theory of law that a man is innocent until he is proved guilty, and Mr. Field, in defending any of his clients, may have acted on that theory, and may have thought that _he was not defending theft or thieves, but simply engaged in the effort to prove that certain persons,were not thieves. Now, however, he will understand that that isnot the proper course, and in future he will write to the nearest newspaper to know if the accused, who applies for his assist- ance, is guilty, and if answered in the affirm- ative he will refuse the retainer. A Port or Iytenvatronan Law.—Tho steamship Rotterdam, on which Winslow, the Boston forger, is reported to have sailed, has put into Gravesend,’ where the vessel is coating.” This raises a question touching the extradition treaties which ought not to be overlooked, but fally tested in the present—namely, whether the Dutch flag will protect the criminal in British waters. In American waters Winslow might have been arrested, even after he had shipped on the Dutch steamer, and he might have been brought ashore, even if the Rotter- dam had returned to an American port after being at sea, As regards the pun- ishment of criminals, a British port, under the treaty, is to all intents American, and we are inclined to think the rule allows of Winslow's detention and extradition. At any rate, the question onght.to be made a judicial one, and we are anxious to have the opinion of the English courts upon it, It is not so much a matter in which the Dutch adopted in the centennial year, th reform is not likely to be carried during the \ifetimn« of any citizen who is now a voter. If \t suc- ceeds at all in this generation its succes will be owing to the public feeling which) has been awakened by the third term danger which the Henan was the earliest to see and proclaim, and which the greater portion of the American press first derided, then con- sidered, and finally acknowledged to be the chief peril of thetime. It is curious to look. back on the course of this question and trace it from the contemptuous scoffs with which the Heratp was assailed when it opened the dis- cussion to the general conviction of the pres¢ and the public that President Grant really desires a third election, and that the patrom age of this office has grown so colossal tha he may control the nomination of one of our political parties against the time-honored precedent set by Washington, indorsed by Jefferson, and accepted by the country as having a binding force hardly inferior to the constitution itself, Our success in arousing public sentiment to the magnitude of the danger encourages us to believe that we shall secure a like indorsement of the only effectual remedy. We are prepared for the incredulity which has always greeted reformers who were ever so little in advance of theis time; but the grounds on which we pro- ceed are so solid and the arguments we have to offer so convincing that they only need a fair hearing to control the public judgment. It has been for nearly fifty years the settled conviction of our wisest statesmen that the re-eligibility of our Presidents was the chief peril of our institutions, and the time has at length come when the danger can be re+ moved. The third term discussions have sq impressed the country that but a single step remains for securing the most important change that could be made in the federal constitution. Butif the third term excite. ment is allowed to pass without plucking its most valuable fruit nobody can foresee when so favorable an opportunity will return, i We believe that the proposed amendment can succeed only by reducing it to the simplest form and accepting the incidental consequences of the most direct dealing with the subject. We would, therefore, change Mr. Randall's amendment to language some- thing like this :—‘‘Article 16. The President and Vice President shall hold their offices forthe term of six years, and the President shall not be re-eligible.” This is about the form in which such a provision should have been inserted in the original constitution, and as the amendment is intended to be per- manent there is no good reason for deviating from the form which ought to have been adopted in the beginning. An incidental effect of such an amendment, if ratified dur- ing the centennial year, would be to extend President Grant's second term to six years, inaccordance with the permanent rule. But i/ a six years’ term is wise on general principles there could be no great evil in allowing any particular President to have the benefit of it.” The amendment would merely give General Grant the same term of office which it would confer on all his successors, and even if he should come a little prematurely into the line of the six years Presidents that would be a mere bagatelle in so important a reform, Blood Stains. Dr. Richardson, of Philadelphia, presents. in another column some exceptions to infer- ences from his writings made in a recent arti- cle in the Henatp on a point of medico-legal jurisprudence. It was held that this gentle- man appeared to argue that the stains made by human blood were readily distinguished from stains made by other blood, and thal in so doing he suppressed the fact that thi blood of some animals so nearly resemble human blood that the distinction betweet them is very difficult, if even it is possible He explains that he did not mention thi names of the animals thus referred to for fear the knowledge might be _improp., erly used by criminals, anf that if was the less necessary to mention them be- cause they are ‘‘well known” to experts, Dr. Richardson writes like an innocent minded microscopist of good intentions but a little moss grown. Does he believe that a murderer who has a few drops of blood on him will go and kill a dog for the sake of making evidence? Is he not aware that those fellows never expect to be caught and that that is the real occasion of their indiffer. ence to stains that they could always remove if they cared to take the trouble? He does not wish to keep this sort of knowledge from experts, for they already possess it; he only wishes to keep it from the gentlemen wha cut other people's throats, and for this reason he carefully excludes it from an article con- tributed to the American Journal of Medicat Science and the London Monthly Microscopica — Journal, which is complimentary to the readers of those periodicals. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Tho 4th of March, 1877, comes on Sunday. Thag — doth fate favor Cesar. Bayard Taylor says black-eyed women do not love ag fondly as blue-eyed ones. S. S. Cox got his nickname froma gushing descrip. tion of a ‘sunset’? be wrote. Everything beyond their own district is unknown ground to the French peasantry. Emile Olivier marriod one of Liszt’s daughters, and Von Bilow married the other. Holland has among its educated population a greater. number of linguists than any other country in Europe, “Ta, awfully ta," is the new sling tn London. Ta, or ta-ta, is baby tal and means “thanks” or “thank you.” The parsimony of the French bourgeois isa guaran. tee that he saves for those belonging to him more than for himself. A Rochester reporter got kicked in the check by « mule and quietly remarked, “It feels a little ike snow.’” A spirit medium showed a Milwankee editor that he could raise him upon a table. This was whilo they were both under the tablo, In Florida a cave of gigantic petrified warriors hat been discovered and Mr. Bowles proposes to call the whole batch Charles Francis Adams, In towns on the Rhine, where Dateh girls are ones fent to school, they enjoy among their German com- panions a special reputation for beauty, Rear Admiral William E. Le Roy, United States Navy, commander of the South Atlantic station, has . arrived in the city and is at the New York Hotel,