The New York Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1876, Page 4

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These chances need not have existed so long if Spain had any heart in the work of driving out this flimsy Pre- tender. It now remains to be seen whether the war will enter on the guerilla stage. Senvra calling out her troops and ordering allmen between twenty and fifty to report to the conscription officials, puts an unhope- ful look upon the peace prospects in the East. In spite of all the proposals and | plans for reform it cannot be definitely said | that the great Powers are not anxious to settle the Sick Man's affairs heroically. Tur Cuancrs AcainstT Senator Srencer tre to be investigated by the proper commit- tee of the United States Senate. In another portion of the Heraip will be found the specifications selected. ‘They do not em- | brace all the charges of corruption in ob- taining his seat which were presented by the State of Alabama. If, however, any of those remaining should be made good, the duty of the Senate is plain. Brow1xe Hor axp Coip.—It is very pain- fal to record the fact that the attitude of President Grant to Secretary Bristow in rela- tion to the whiskey fraud trials exhibits the former in the light of one urging aloud one day what he doggedly attempts to prevent the next. Even as a policy this is a mistake, for Grant is thus making Bristow the most important man in the country. Bristow must not let himself be driven out, no mat- ter what annoyance it costs him to remain. Tae Post Orrice Isvestroation by tho Committee of the House of Representatives | has brought a number of witnesses willing to testify to malpractice in high places in the department; and now the department re- | taliates by publishing the record of some of | those who have given testimony. These | certainly show badly for the reliance to be | placed on such witnesses, and if the charges | rest on their statements alone they cannot injure anybody. It must, how®ver, be re- membered that vital facts often become | known to the worst of men, and when con- | current testimony supports them their evi- dence has a certain value. Tue Porrrr Yestenpay.—If ever meteoric | influences were favorable to that lifting up | of the heart which the higher emotions of | religion need yesterday was an instance. The fresh, cool air and the radiant sunshine of themselves invited the soul to worship of the Giver of all good, and the ministers had | an easy task in turning this feeling of joy- ous reverence to account. The Rev. Mor- gan Dix, in telling his congregation that we want clear heads and good weapons for the contest of life; Father Elliott, in praying men to open their | hearts to the heavenly seed ; Dr. Hepworth, , in preaching that ‘‘the prayer of the right- eous is a delight to the Lord ;" Mr. Beecher, | in pleading for a broad and breezy reading of God's Word ; Mr. Frothingham, in pictur- | ing the bright thoughts of life that come at | ‘sight of a new-born babe ; Mr. Steele, in his | of the six years this greenback circulation | would be expanded to the amount of one | tion, all touched responsive chords in the hundred and five million dollars. Tho un- | the author of the dynamite horror, as told 1 view of our unsectarian constitu. | human breast. At the Hippodrome multi- | tudes brought the inspiration of the day to | would .be to inflate the currency to | deeply interesting chapter to that foarful the aid of the revivalists ; and so the Lord was magnified, to be left free to advocate their policy in the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1876.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. etal Interests. | It has become painfully obvious that what- | ness during the present year will ‘be owing | to the recuperative energy of our people, un- | assisted by the action of Congress. The ses- sion has about half expired, and no-step has yet been taken for the relief of the country. ‘The collision of opinions between the Senate legraphic | and the House, and between the members of | the dominant party in the House itself, makos it increasingly probable that nothing will be done. Whatever hopes may have been entertained by the democratic leaders at the beginning of the session, the utmost they now aim at is to patch up some kind of a compromise which will serve as the basis of a platform for their National Convention, and the prospect of accomplishing even this grows every day more dubious. The only compromise which anybody looks upon as possible is the Resumpgjon bill of Mr. Payne, | which is disliked by the inflationists, who | would rather have no action on the cur- | rency than a compromise. ‘They prefer Democratié National Convention, where they | do not despair of a victory. Their principal | organ in the West, the Cincinnati Enquirer, | denounces Mr. Payne's bill, and ex-Governor Allen says that its acceptance would be a | “capitulation.” As the democrats will do nothing, or noth- ing which will command public confidence, itis unfortunate for the party that it hasa | majority in the present House. Their abor- tive attempts to frame a financial policy will deprive them of what might have been their most effective weapon in the Presidential canvass. If the republican party had re- tained complete control of Congress it could have been held responsible for the failure of | the government to adopt any measures to lift | the country out of the depressing stagnation which has so long prevailed. But since the democratic party has had a great opportunity which it has abused and wasted, its denuncia- | tions of republican neglect and incompe- tency will be like the pot calling the kettle black. The democratic House re- | | | of profound wisdom if he had not had a | chance to open his mouth. It is no pallia- | tion to say that the democratic House is powerless against a republican Senate and President. It ought to pass sound measures, and put upon the Senate and President the responsibility of defeating them. It was | the proper business of the democrats at this | session to convince the country that the party deserves more power than it possesses. If the democratic leaders had the sagacity to devise measures of relief so obviously fitted to accomplish their purpose as to secure public indorsement their thousand | organs in the press and their thousands of speakers on the stump could stand up | before the people and say, ‘The repub- lican party has done nothing to restore prosperity ; the democratic party has carried excellent measures through the House; it rests with you to decide in this election whether the authors of these wise measures shall have power to make them effectual.” But if the democratic House makes a confession of incompetence by agreeing upon no measures, or such measures as have no tendency .to revive business, the country will be more inclined | to ‘‘bear the ills we have than fly to others | that we know not of.” Until the quack was | called in and asked to prescribe the patient | might have had some faith in him, but when the only use he makes of his opportunity is | to expose himself as a charlatan there is but | aslender chance that the regular physician will be dismissed. The only chance of an agreement among the dissentient democrats of the House | consists in the adoption of Mr. Payne's com- | promise bill or something resembling it. Every competent judge will say that the | House might better do nothing than to pass | such a bill. In the first place, Mr. Payne's bill proposes to repeal the Resumption act and postpone specie payments for an indefi- | nite period. A willingness to make this ob- | vious concession to the inflationists is the | only" point on which the democratic party has agreed. The hard money democrats see that a repeal of the Resumption act would bring ruin unless accompanied with steps in | the direction of specie payments. Mr. Payne's bill makes a pretence of such steps, but it is only a pretence. It marks time to | the beat of the hard money drum, but it does not march, It proposes no change in the actual currency. It leaves the amount of greenbacks and the amount of bank notes unaltered, and merely requires the banks and the government to accumu- late a stock of specie. It allows six years from the Ist of July next for laying in this stock of specie, and meanwhile leaves the currency unchanged and the business of the country to flounder. Six years is a long period, but Mr. Payne's bill makes no prom- ise of resumption even at its close. While the ostensible effect of the measure | is to keep the currency stationary for at | | least six years and assure the inflationists | against any danger of contraction at least until July 1, 1882, its real effect would be to expand the currency constantly and steadily up to that date. That it would operate as a measnre of inflation is apparent enough on examining the provésions of the bill. It re- quires the national banks to set aside and re- | tain from the coin received as interest on the | bonds by which their notes are secured an | amount equal to five per cent of their circu- | lation, but with this significant concession:— | “Provided that the coin by this section di- rected to be set aside and retained shall be counted and held as a part of the lawful money reserve which said associations are | required by existing laws to maintain.” That the effect of this provision would be aconstant inflation of the currency no man in his senses can doubt. It would release the legal tender reserves now locked up in the banks and put them in circulation at the rate of seventeen million five hundred | thousand dollars per annum, and at the end deniablo effect of Mr. Payne's bill the full amount of the reserves now required to be kept out of circulation and | dangerous illness to venture to preside at a | | remarkable testimony to his place in the | of New York we recall no previous instance | | public is the cordiality of the greetings with | it is not often the case that they like those | quite a delicacy when cold. | which was to puta railroad president on the | floor, and he who at once hangs on to a strap | and a consumption, all have the inestimable + Legislation and Business | locked up inthe banks. This is a curious | illustration of the New York democratic | motto, “‘Steady steps toward specie pay- | be steady steps backward at the rate of seventeen million five hundred thousand | dollars each year, with an ultimate infla- | tion equal to the whole reserves of the banks. We denounce Mr. Payne’s bill as an arrant measure of inflation under a false mask of preparation for specie payments. This steady expansion of the currency by | inundating the business of the country with | the present greenback reserves of the banks | would .steadily raise the premium on gold, | and as soon as specie payments were an- nounced there would be a contraction of the currency so immense, sudden and violent as to bring universal panic and ruin. If this | be the height of democratic wisdom the | | country will be slow to trust the democratic | party with power. | The State Charities Aid Association. | The gratification with which the public | have greeted the notice that Mr. Charles | O'Conor has sufficiently recovered from his | public meeting to be held this week, bears affection of his townsmen. In the history of such a public position as his, achieved aside from the opportunities and honors of office ; nor do we recall the name of any citi- zen whose labors for the public good, either | in office or out of office, have been more disinterested. It is well known to Mr. O'Conor's friends that the universal anxiety with which the daily bulletins of his condi- tion were watched while for several weeks he trembled between life and death was his greatest astonishment when he first learned of it during his convalescence, Perhaps it was natural that one trained like himself in the strict ways of sensitive integrity should wonder why the public were tenderly anx- ious abont him in this era of successful cheats and shams. LBoth the fact and the surprise were honorable; and no less honorable both to Mr. O’Conor and to the which the announcement is received of his return to his old fields of duty and useful- ness. The occasion upon which Mr. O'Conor is to preside—the fourth annual meeting of the State Charities Aid Association, at Masonic | Hall, in Twenty-third street, on Thursday eyening—relates to a branch of the public | service in which he always has taken an in- | tense interest. On previous occasions he has | attested in writing his sense of the value of | the association as ‘‘a benign and thus far successful effort, under the lead of Miss | Louisa Lee Schuyler, its lady president, to | rescue charity from the selfish clutches of | the politician office-holder.” Now we may | expect from him some wise words in speech | upon the contrast between the efficiency of | our public institutions of charity with those | organized and governed by the voluntary | benevolence of private citizens, and aj} geaerous tribute to the good work of Miss | Schuyler and her associates. Cold Feet. Some people profess to like cold feet, but cold feet to be their own. Cold pigs’ feet Will Mr. Pierrepont Explain? The Heratp has maintained an impartial neutrality between Attorney General Pierre- | ever improvement may take place in busi- | ™ents; no step backward.” There would | pont and its special correspondent at Wash- ington, taking no part in their controversy and making no other comments than seemed necessary for keeping the matter in dispute clearly before our readers. If we have pointed out, on the one hand, that Mr. Pierrepont’s ostensible denial was no Feal contradiction, we have dissented, on the other hand, from some of Mr, Nordhoff’s opinions on the moral aspects of the case. With equal consideration for both we have shown that there is nothing in the statements of either which raises a question of veracity. The controversy between them having apparently ended by the prudent reticence of the At- torney General since Mr. Nordhoff's last de- spatch we respectfully invite that officer to remove our own doubts as to the propriety of his conduct. We ask him to “explain his explanation,” and satisfy a legitimate public curiosity as to the motives which prompted that astonishing circular to the Western district attorneys. Our special correspondent was only con- cerned to support his own statements, but the Henaxp and the public care more for the real grounds of the extraordinary transac- | tion which his despatch touched merely in one of its incidental features. We had no sympathy with the attempt to extenuate the responsibility of the Attorney General by dividing it with the President. Even if Mr. Pierrepont had not disdained to take shelter behind so lame an excuse we could not have admitted the circular was a matter in which the President had no Jegal right to direct or control him, The Attorney General is the it, because | servant of the laws, not of the President, | and the sole responsibility for that strange act would equally rest upon him, whether he assumed or tried to shirk it. Asa matter of fact we are justified in believing that the President did prompt it, and that it was done in pursuance of his wishes ; for Mr. Pierrepont, having every motive to frame a denial covering that point, failed to do so. But no complicity of the President can shield the Attorney General in a matter wherein no law gives the President author- ity to interfere. The Attorney General virtually asserted, in his quasi-contradiction of our correspond- ent, that the circular was issued by reason of facts not yet known to the public, and that those facts are a complete justification. He then owes it to his own reputation and to the decencies of judicial administration to remove the veil of secrecy. That we may do Mr. Pierrepont no injustice we insert his language :—‘‘I stand by what I wrote, and when the facts are exposed, as they will be, which required the letter, the community will understand it. It was a purely official letter, are—exposed by gross impropriety. I only wish that those who criticise it would first read it, even without the light of the facts which induced it, and be assured that I take | the responsibility and ask no cover from the President's name.” There are strange rumors, which have found expression in some of our contemporaries, that Secretary Bristow is to be put out of the Cabinet after the conclusion of the Babcock trial, and that his character is to be blackened to (pickled) are wholesome for men, even if | not healthy for pigs. Calf's-foot jelly is | But with these | instances the merits of cold feet, so far as we | remember, end. But at the point where the | few merits end the innumerable evils begin. | Death should be painted, not as a skeleton, but as a centipede, shaking his frozen heels in defiance of his foes—the doctors. Any person interested in the study of cold feet will find the best field ina New York street car. There is generally on a chilly day or night a nice draught from the door, and, as it is the nature of cold air to sink and warm air to rise, the passenger has the benefit of two temperatures, which are H equally disagreeable. His feet are often | below zero while his head is above boiling | point. The extremely tall man named Shell, of whom it was written that ‘‘to stick his head in heaven he must thrust his feet in hell,” was not more ac- eustomed to thermometrical extremes. The doctors tell us that to be well we ought to keep our heads cool and our feet warm; but the car companies are not | Managed by the medical faculty. A lady | passenger may have on thin shoes or a gentle- | man thin boots, but the companies care more for their own ‘‘punches” than they do for other pegple’s “cobblers.” What care these | cold-hearted directors for the cold-footed public? So long as the conductaire punches in the presence of the passenjaire a buff trip | slip for a six cent fare, what is it to | them whose toes are froze? They en- | dure none of the evils they inflict, for | never was a street car director seen in one of | his own cars. If seventy people ride to | Harlem ina Third avenue car it is safe to say that not one of them has anything to do with the management of the road, If we could compel the directors to ride in their own cars there would be no necessity for the press and the Legislature to enforce reform. The rule would be as beneficial as Punch’s plan for preventing railroad accidents, cowcatcher. Cold feet in the street cars contribute largely to the death list of the city. Nothing is more appropriate tothe scene’than the ad- vertisement of a doctor in the panel of a car. The man who is contracting pneumonia from a crack in the door, or who is getting lumbago from a window that will not shut, the lady who is absorbing bronchitis from a river of cold air along the privilege of reading of the remedies for | those diseases. This is the only favor the companies see fit to bestow upon the public. But, stop! we are wrong. Their advertising | directories may be still more useful, for | sometimes they are kind enough to place in their cars the sign of an undertaker. Tue Stony or Mrs. Toomas, the widow of elsewhere in an interview, adds another | officer? | tale, which would seem incrodible in the | pages of romance, reconcile the public to his dismissal. Do confidential—as all official letters | the mysterious assertions and innuendoes of | the Attorney General have reference to that Does the ‘coming event cast its shadow before” in these mysterious givings out of a state of facts which will vindicate a proceeding which has filled the country with indignant wonder? amined that strange circular with care- ful attention, and stand ready to prove that its unexplained language bears out the interpretation put upon it by the country. If excusable at all it can only be excused by the concealed facts so darkly shadowed forth by the Attorney General. If his dusky assertions and threats are, not levelled at the Secretary of the Treasury it is difficult to see how they can have any per- tinence as a justification of that amazing circular, which is a plain intrusion into the province of the Secretary of the Treas- ury as defined by law. Section 838 of the Revised Statutes makes it the duty of every district attorney to prosecute in any case of fine, penalty or forfeiture within his district, ‘unless he shall de- cide that such proceedings cannot be sus- tained or that the ends of public justice do not require that such proceedings should be instituted;’ in which case he shall report the facts to the Treasury Department, It is the clear intention of this statute that the Treasury Department shall decide in revenue cases where a district attorney thinks that the ends of justice. do not re- quire a prosecution—which, of course, in- cludes the acceptance of confessions by an accomplice. Unless the Secretary of the Treas- ury or the Commissioner of Internal Reve- nue are abusing the power with which the law clothes them in this respect there wasno rea- son for the Attorney General’s interference, and his concealed facts, if they are at all rele- vant, must inculpate the Secretary and Com- missioner, and are a dark threat to arraign them for abusing the discretion with which the law invests them. There are several things which we think it incumbent on Mr. Pierrepont to explain, but this mysterious allusion to concealed facts and covert thrust at the Treasury Department transcends all the others in significance. The Attorney General levies heavier tax onour mere faith than we are disposed to pay when he rests his defence on alloged facts of which the public is kept in ignorance. Will he di- vulge them in justice to himself and a mys- tified public ? Impure Murx.—Any legal means of pre- venting the adulteration of milk will be hailed with joy by the community, which too often pays the price of milk for a large proportion of water. The proposed law is intended to prevent adulteration by the wholesale dealers who supply the city re- tailers, and if this is accomplished it will be a long step in the right direction. It will not go far enough, however. An immense amount of the water and other adulterations are added after the arriyal of the milkin the city, the commonest way of doing this being for the dealers to carry # can or two of water, plain or colored. in each cart, to the We have re-ex- | depots, and then, at favorable moments, to mix the adulterations with the milk. This can be done so easily, simultaneously with the delivery to customers, owing to the dark- ness of the early hours and the absence of people from the streets, that the retailers and, above all, the storekeepers who sell milk through the day, will require looking after, The French Elections Yesterday. The fruition of the hopes of those who wished well to the struggling French Repub- lic has come with the general elections yes- terday. The moderate republicans have again triumphed, and the doting friends of the monarchy and the scheming friends of the Empire have been beaten ignominiously. The fortune which divided the monarchists into bitter factions and the Bonapartists into hostile rabbles has left the way clear for the solid sense of France, rejecting all extremists to pronounce in mass for the con- servative, practical Republic. ‘The trinmphs of the radicals in the great centres of Paris, Marseilles and Lyons are, we think, without danger to the present wellbeing of France. It is better that their fiery ebullience should find vent in the legislative chamber than behind barricades, Besides, the Republic needs a good deal of legisla- tion in their direction, for a great many of their points of political faith, when stripped of the ghastly fantaronade they wrap them in, are not so unwholesome as those who break into a cold sweat at the bare mention of the Red Spectre imagine. In a Legislature where they will form a small minority the wheat of their doctrine may be safely winnowed from its chaff. There is not half the dynamite in these | gentry the old women of politics fervently believe. The government is in strong and, we believe, faithful hands. When the administration has been placed in accord with the true sentiment of the coun- try by the ejectment of M. Buffet and the formation of a republican Cabinet, France can be fairly complimented, not merely on surmounting her domestic dangers, but on setting a sound republican model to the rest of Europe. The Centennial Rifle Match. From every point of view it would be highly regrettable if the English riflemen should decline to send outa team to com- pete in the centennial rifle match. They had a team entered a hundred years ago, and it would not be gratifying to see them un- represented now. The targets on both sides were not on the Wimbledon model then, but they were just as trying to the marksman’s nerve and skill. That celebrated match has passed so entirely into the domain of history that the descendants of the English team can look back to it as serenely as they do to | the Wars of the Roses, or as we do, who thank- fully enjoy its fruits. The century which has rolled round finds us calling all the nations of the earth to join us ina hymn of thanksgiving, and the response has been as hearty as we could desire. Our riflemen have asked all to come, and among their warmest anticipations was that of greet- ing an English team. Who, they argued, can be more friendly than the children of old-time chivalric foes, over the deep grave of whose quarrel the olive has bloomed a hundred times? What salvo of rejoicing would be complete without the peaceful powder smoke of those whose battle cloud arose from the trenches that faced our own? | Whatever kindly sentiment there may be about our centennial rifle matches demands imperatively the presence of an English team, and we are much mistaken if anything will prevent the Englishmen of to-day from taking their part in a friendly trial of skill, when on a wider field and for a sterner pur- pose they came cheerily in thousands to look along their shining barrels a hundred years ago. owe have seen it stated that the English riflemen expected to come as part of an im- perial team, and, failing that, not to come at | all, This, we sincerely trust, they will reject as too hasty a conclusion. We have pointed | out in these columns that the plan of an im- | perial team has its weaknesses ; but we see no occasion at present to repeat the argument, as our grounds for hoping to.see the English riflemen among us this year lie outside all calculations upon the scoring strength of those who accept the American invitation. The gallant acceptance of the Scotch rifle- men makes it as impossible to get an imperial team as it would be to make a triangle out of one side and a base. The acceptance of the Canadians, who area part of the British Em- | pire, shows that they are determined to participate. We have little doubt that the gallant Irishmen will also respond for them- | selves, and hence the Englishmen should take counsel with their acknowledged prowess before the butts, and, waiving all | former resolutions, resolve to do their share as Englishmen, pure and simple, in the con- | test to come. The Fast Professional Oarsmen Alive to the Situation, The hint to American professional oars- men in the Hxnatp of the Ist inst., that if | they mean to win at Philadelphia they must | bestir themselves mightily, has already been promptly taken up. One of the four then suggested as fittest to keep the world’s cham_ pionship on this side of the Atlantic, where it has now remained for nearly five years, has put himself in communication with the others with a view to making up the pro- posed team. ‘Three of the Ward brothers are announced as on the lookout for a suit- able fourth man, and any man who breathes will have to work hard if he thinks he can fill that place. And now the word comes from Halifax that her four mean to be on hand, and that a purse of two thou- sand dollars has already been made up toward showing the whole world the very best product the Bluenoses will have to exhibit. And they need not re- | gret their readiness, for when England's two fastest fours visited this country in 1871, and rowed in Halifax Harbor a terrible race of nearly seven miles, the renowned Taylor-Winship erew—with Joseph Sadler, the champion sculler of the world, at one of their midship thwarts—only led these modest Haligonians across the fin- ish line by two seconds, while the Biglins | } | | | were three lengths behind and the other English crew were nine, To bor ~~ their bow, George Brown, a gooa man, is dead; but hardy fishermen who can pull am oar all day if need be are not scarce in that rugged Northland. And from the adjoining prov- ince the famous Paris crew—who at the Paris Exposition races came’ in ahead of the Lon- don Rowing Club, of Oxford, and of tho French Geslings—are not at. all likely to let this fine occasion slip. With such a four from Pittsburg as Morris, Scharf, Coulter and Kaye, with the Ward and Biglin fours from the Hudson, Faulkner's faust quartet from Boston, the Longshores from Portland and these two excellent provincial teams, if all will work their utmost in the interval, either the champion British oarsmen will have to row a magnificent race on the Schuylkill or the colors will still remain on this side of the Atlantic. Centennial Guest—The Emperor. We print an interesting letter from Rio Janeiro in reference to the proposed visit of the Emperor of Brazil to the United States, Our correspondent has been received in audience by the Emperor, who treated him with a royal courtesy. His Majesty will leave Brazil on the 26th of March, and should be with us in time to take part in the open- ing of the Centenni@l Exhibition. As this announcement comes from His Majesty's own lips it may be accepted as official. We need not say that the Emperor will be welcome. The sovereign of a great nation, he comes from an illustrious lineage, He represents in his blood the houses of Bra- ganza, Bourbon and Hapsburg. By his father he descends in a direct line from that great house of Braganza which began with the- reign of John the Fortunate, and goes back to the Burgundian princes who once ruled in the Peninsula, His mother was an Austrian archduchess. He is a near relative of the Bourbons, with whom his family is still more closely connected by marriage. In addition to these advantages of birth the Emperor of Brazil is one of the most accomplished men of the time. He speaks and writes with fluency the principal languages of modern Europe, he has trav- elled wide and far and is a man of wisdom and genius. Although in the fifty-second year of his age he has been on the throne of Brazil thirty-six years. He has had a happy and prosperous reign, He has no title to glory more enduring than that which will come from the emancipation of the slaves, which took place in 1871 in the promulga- tion ofan edict for the gradual but total abo- lition of slavery in the Brazils. This act, the noblest that can fall to any sovereign, will rank the Emperor with the liberators of history—the highest rank that even sov- ereigns can hold. , The Empire of Brazil is the fifth in terri- torial extent of all the nations of the world. It ranks next to the United States, is three- fourths as large as the British Empire, and, if we omit Alaska, it is larger than our Repub- Our Coming lic. In population it is thirteenth in rank, having over ten million$ of people. It hasa small but efficient army and navy. Its nat- ural resources are vast. Buckle speaks of it as one ofthe countries where nature is so lavish that man’s energy is exhausted in struggling against the variety and plenitude of the riches showered upon him. The main staples are coffee and sugar, and the importance of the Empire commercially may be understood when we say that we receive | one-fourth of the Brazilian exports com- pared with one-third which goes to Great Britain. The result of the imperial visit in strengthening these relations will be bene ficial. We need not say that while all the royal and distinguished guests who choose to visit us during the centennial year will be wel- come, none will be more so than Dom Pedro IL, Emperor of Brazil. As én American sovereign our interest in his coming will be almost fraternal, He will find many things to learn in this land—like his own among the youngest of nations. There are, no doubt, many, many things we could learn. from him if he chose to give us the results of his experience. His visit will be among the most interesting events of the year, and he will be met everywhere with the respect due to a prince of ancient rank and rare attainments and the chief of a free and great empire. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, A highwayman who roams the vast sage brush plains of Nevada is called ‘‘Alkali Jim."” An English reviewer says that theories are the refuge of a genius deficient in spontaneous power. Miranda’s marble work for the Centennial is nearly finished. It is entitled “Virtue Entering Society.’’ Queen Elizabeth’s nightcap was wrought with gilded silk, and she always had two pillows all to herself. Marc Antony’s daughter had earrings attached to the lamprey eels that used to swim in her fish pond. ‘An English judge says that the logal theory of a hus- band and wife being one person is a figure of speech. When oranges were first introduced into Germany tors were opposed to them as ‘‘refinements full children how to speak; French mothers instruct them how to talk. , Hon. E. G. Squier will soon publish bis studies among the antiquities of Peru, The English scientific press heralds the book with considerable enthusiasm, Thornton Hunt, son of Leigh Hunt, once swapped wives with G. H. Lewes, the historian of philosophy. Mr. Lewes is now the husband of George Eliot, the | greatest student of character since Shakespeare. It was rumored yesterday that the venerable Car- | dinal McCloskey was seriousfy ill, and the news pro- duced a profound impression among all classes of soct- ety. Inquiry, however, showed that the Cardinal had merely caught a cold, and would, no doubt, be out as | usual in a day or two. Away down East toward the home of ‘Jim Slaine’s ” pare flourishes a fair city sometimes called the “fabs” In Pip a el a host of friends, who will stand by your Senator Roscoe Conkling . (In his political journey) ‘As the Ftench stood by Napoleon in his march on to “Moscow-to-win.”” Hon. M. ©. Kerr, Speaker of the House of Represen- tatives, whose failing health necessitated a temporary suspension of duty some days ago, arrived in this city in company with his wife, on Friday last, and has since been stopping with Mr. Thompson, a friend, at bis house No. 235 Madison avenue. Mr, Kerr's purpose in visiting this city was to place himself under the treat- mont of his physician, ex-Surgeon General William A. Hammond, of No. 43 West Fifty-fourth street, Dr. Hammond stated last evening that the Speaker is almost entirely recovered, and that there is very litte probability of @ relapse. He isso much improved ia health as to enable him to return to Washington, wiiich he will do early this morning to attend the meeting of the Democratic National Committee, which will be held at Willard’s Hotel this afternoon. Spoaker Korr will resume his duties as Speaker of ine Rouge o@ Wednoa ~ morning,