The New York Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1876, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. i NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Henarp. Letters and packages should be properly vealed, 5 Rejected communications will not be re turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 800TH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD--NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L’OPERA, Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. severeeeesesceseeeeNO, 59 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, THIRD AVENUE THEAT! VARIETY, at 8 P.M. - ‘cu WALLA THEATRE, BE STOOPS TO CONQUER, ot 8 VM, “Mr. Lester Wal- cl OLYMPIC THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. 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TWENTY THIRD CALIFORNIA MINST! are that the weather to-day will be warmer and (hreatening, with possibly rain or snow. iis Bh Regular supplies... 600,000 Tur Henarp ny Fast Mat, Trarns.— News- es copie iet non | dealers and the public throughout _the country | Army sranspo! | till be supplied with the Daiux, Waxxiy and | B*tracks and quarters oe Kenpay Henaxp, free of postage, by sending | Total..........s.+000 500,000 their orders direct to this office. Besides these others:— Some New Booxs are reviewed in another | Horses for cavalry and artillery $400,000 a . rst Construction and repair of hospi 100,000 part of thisissne. Biography, reminiscence, | Clothing and equipage 1,500,000 National cometerie: ‘250,000 history and novels find a place there. Tue Wittamssurc Duevists cut a very sidiculons figure as they marched into the station house yesterday morning without having fulfilled their bloody intentions | Tar Apnerence or tar Duc Drcazes to the Republic, as presented in his letter to the electors of the Eiglth Arrondissement, will probably increase his chances of head- ing the poll. The cat jumps in that direc- tion just now. A Gexerovs Rerrixquisument in the in- terest of the Spanish people is the way Don Carlos puts his abandonment of the fight against Don Alfonso now that he has no re- sources for continuing the struggle. It would have looked a little more considerate to the people of Spain if he had come to this determination a couple of years ago. Tre Coxuston my THE Bay, resulting in the sinking of the pilot boat Caprice by the steamship New Orleans, is of a class which we do not wish to see of common occurrence. Last October the steamer John Gibson ran | into the yacht Mohawk; and, although the Mohawk is still afloat, there seems to be a similarity between the circumstances of the | two collisions which shows that there is a | danger to navigation in our port that should be provided against. We hope to see a rigid | inquiry into the loss of the Caprice, Tne Trivte to Crartorre CusnMan's memory by the Rev. Mr. Bartol, in Boston, yesterday, holds out a bright promise of the usefulness of the stage in enforcing the good pf the lessons of life which will be appre- tiated by the much-abused profession to which Miss Cushman belonged. In coupling the life of the great woman of the stage with that of an eminent divine the reverend gen- Heman was as bold as Béranger in his bean- tiful song of ‘‘The Two Sisters of Charity,” wherein he pictures the apotheosis of the actress and the nun. * Tue Rio Graxpt Borpen Question will probably soon attract a share of public atten- tion. It is evident that something must be done to protect ont citizens in | Texas, and that not of the nature of | MeNally’s exploit, which, gallant as | it was, is beneath the countenance of a great nation like the United States. We | have no desire to see the country drift into | fn Mexican war, and therefore, while anxions that our territory should be inviolate, the | greatest care must be taken in giving to the protection which it is right to extend the fall force and dignity of the government. | Warr Don Atronxso is following on the heels of the triumphant battalions of his generals and accepting the fruits of their vietory the whisperings of another struggle come from the Spanish Cortes, where Castelar in his glorious minority of one has bronght the monarchy to the task of explaining it- | self. The removal of the divine right Pre- | tender from the Spanish question will give Spain an opportunity to examine its govern- ment with some degree of minnteness. It | will be found that republicanism has not | disappeared in proportion to its lack of rep- resentation ot Madrid, | | Is it extravagant to say that one of the | richer. War Department Extravagance. We return to the estimates of the Secre- tary of War. Mr. Belknap appears té have framed these upon the theory that we are in danger of being attacked by somebody or of having to attack somebody, and that we must, therefore, keep up a formidable force. It may be taken for granted, however, that we are not going to war. To use a Western phrase, we could tell Mr. Belknap to ‘“‘put on his coat—there’s no fight.” ° Under these circumstances the Secretary will no doubt agree with us that one of the first items in his estimates—that headed ‘‘ex- penges of recruiting”—may be entirely strack out. This will save $107,920 at a stroke and be the means of saving several millions dur- ing the year; for to strike out this is to cut off at its fountain-head the cost of maintain. ing 5,396 soldiers, whom My. Belknap pro- poses to recruit during the year. As we are not going to war it is hardly worth while to spend $12,500 for the pur- chase of ‘‘field electric telegraphs, signal equipments,” &c, Half of the sum would be abundant. Next we come to an item—‘‘Travel, pay and commutation of subsistence to discharged soldiers, $500,000." Now, under “recruit- ing,” we found that about five thousand men were to be enlisted by the Secretary of War to keep up the force. Hence about the same number would die or be discharged during the year. We advise the committee toask Mr. Belknap why he needs half a | million to settle with these men. They are all counted in the estimates of pay, in those of subsistence, in that for army transporta- tion, and here, behold, they are up again for a half million extra. There seems to be no excuse for this appropriation, and it should be struck out. The “subsistence” head foots up in Mr. Belknap’s estimates this year’ $2,570,000, against $2,484,330 last year. Supposing the recruiting at once and absolutely stopped, as it ought to be, with no other reduction of the army than would result from this, at least one-fifth, or about half a million, could be safely knocked off under this head. So far we have shown that without making an immediate and forced reduction of the army, to which, perhaps, some Western and Southwestern members of Congress might object, it is still possible to save, from Mr. Belknap’s estimates, as far as we have’ got, these sums:— 3 Abolish recruiting service Buy fewer field electric telegraphs Pay discharged soldiers out of the rogular ap- propriations, where they are estimated for. 500,000 Saving in subsistence, by natural decrease of army... Total saving $0 faF,........0eeeeeeseeeeee But this is only a beginning, a fleabite, so to speak, and if we have stopped just here to summarize it is because the next item in | Mr. Belknap’s estimates is so monstrous that it needs to be looked at separately. It is | headed ‘‘Quartermaster’s Department,” and it contains these items:— Contingencies. 100,000 Concerning these last we shall say nothing here, though we imagine that if Mr. Randall has a good business man at his elbow he can reduce somewhat the items of ‘clothing and equipage” and ‘‘horses,” especially as, by stopping the recruiting service, he will cause a gradual diminution of the army during the year. We should say he could safely knock | off a fifth from each of these. But when he | comes tc the first named items, which foot | up twelve and a half millions, we trust he will stop and consider. The Secretary's estimates show that he has under pay, offi- cers and men, in all capacities, 28,648 per- | sons, including the General and Lieutenant General of the Army. ‘To lodge these, move them about—excluding the ‘expenses of officers when travelling under orders,” for which Mr. Belknap asks a separate sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars—to provide them with stationery, forage for horses, fuel and cooking stoves, quarters, storage, and to send them their arms and | equipments, Mr. Belknap asks twelve and a half millions, or over four hundred and thirty dollars a head for every officer and man in | the service; besides fifty thousand dollars | “extra duty pay to enlisted men,” which we | discover under a separate head. Is it wrong | to call this a ‘‘monstrous” bill of expense? | great express companies would undertake to | do it for half the money? We advise the | committee to scrutinize this bill with jealous care. Why nearly two millions for ‘‘bar- racks and quarters?” Last year Mr. Belknap | was content with a million and a half. Why halfa million more this year than last for | army ‘‘transpertation?" Why three hundred | thousand dollars more than Inst year for | “incidentals ?” Why three hundred and fifty | thousand dollars more for “regular sup- | plies?” If Mr. Randal! should knock off | three or four millions at once from this great | bill he would not hurt the army, nor need to | diminish it greatly. | Next come sundry matters which can, we | believe, reasonably wait until the country is | Nobody is going to attack us; hence it will dono harm to deny to Mr. Belknap | entirely the following:— | Varohase of a site tor powder depot, and its preparation for the erection of suitable magazines, only 750,000 Conversion ot heavy ord 500,000 | Frojectiles for heavy ord 250,000 | Carriages for heavy gun 250,000 Proving ground, &¢., * 250,000 Here is asum of two millions which can | | be saved withont the least injury to the | country. Mr. Belknap himself will not | sleep less soundly if he is denied these two millions. The enemy he dreads will not disturb his slumbers. The Mexicans do not | expect to conquer this country until after the centennial year, and our Spanish friends are | too polite to disturb us while we are feasting. If now we make up the account of what we have mentioned above —and we have omitted entirely the huge appropriations asked for | himself at the bayonet's point, for forts and arsenals-—we find that Congress can save, without immediately diminishing | of 1776 for the grand Declaration which was / the army, about seven and a half millions. But besides this Mr. Belknap demands for the manufacture of arms o million ands | democrats will have made a great flurry for nothing ; but if the right of the Senate to try | world.” North Carolina stands out nobly in | them in their native land. | feat Jays no stain upon Scotch valor, but the | | seen in both’ struggles. half, for fortifications two millions and for the armament of fortifications a million and 4 quarter, in all four and three-quarter mill- ions, of which the House ought not to give him more than the vdd seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and thus save four millipns more, without the least danger to the country. That would make a total saving of eleven and a half millions—a very handsome sum for this centennial year of peace and jubilee. We conclude with one suggestion. Any scheme of proper and necessary economy such as we have suggested will relieve from their present duties a number of very able, thoroughly trained and highly educated army officers. It is not necessary for the House to put these gentlemen on half pay or to retire them from active service. If the friends of reform in the public service are in earnest they have here a force ready at hand to help them. No part of the public service needs way tothe great mountain of light that has | beaconed out the Republic for now so nigh a hundred years, Political Consequences of the Babcock Trial. Had General Babcock been found guilty the verdict would have given the coup de grace to the third term question, and it is possible that the mere indictment and trial may have that effect. There has beena marked change in the tone of public feeling during the developments connected with the trial. In the early part of the winter every intelligent observer who had occasion to spend a week or two in Washington had the conviction forced upon him that the confidential inti- mates of the President regarded him as a candidate and were actively intriguing to pro- motehis nomination. During the last month or two their zeal has slackened and their efforts have flagged until at present the third reformation so much as the Indian Bureau. Let the House direct that the two superin- tendents of Indian affairs, the seventy agents, the seven special agents, the three Indian inspectors and the very numerous persons otherwise concerned in distributing treaty goods and attending to the ‘‘civiliza- tion” of the Indians, shall be selected from army officers. In that capacity they will be extremely useful. When army officers only are made Indian agents we shall have taken the first real step toward the civilization of these so-called ‘‘wards of the nation.” We shall take another occasion to review the naval estimates. Impeachment of Governor Kellogg. We fear the democrats of the Louisiana House of Representatives will perpetrate a great blunder to-day by their contemplated impeachment of Governor Kellogg. They can have no expectation of securing his con- viction in a trial by the republican Senate. The movement is a trick, more dexterous than wise, for putting the democratic Speaker of the House in temporary posses- sion of the gubernatorial chair with a view to the next election. It is not so much an act of justice against a criminal as a scheme for gaining a party advantage. By the constitu- tion of Louisiana an impeached officer is suspended from his functions until the con- clusion of his trial, and in Kellogg's cas% it is calculated that such a suspension would be equivalent to an absolute removal. The Legislature is about to adjourn and will not meet again in regular session until next Jan- uary, when Governor Kellogg’s term will have expired. Ifhe is impeached now, and the Senate should not be in session to try him until the Legislature meets next year, the impeachment would have the same prac- tical effect as a conviction and sentence, which is the result aimed at by the demo- crats. In order to get beforehand with his ene- mies and defeat their game Governor Kel- logg has called an extra session of the Legis- lature to meet immediately after the adjourn- ment; but his authority to issue such a call is disputed on some techni- cality of which we cannot judge, not having a copy of the Louisiana constitution athand. But if the republican Senate re- sponds to the call the trial will proceed, and there can be no doubt of a prompt acquittal. If this is accepted as valid the and acquit is disputed the State will be dis- turbed by a new bloody conflict leading to federal interference for restoring tranquillity. There is no excuse for incurring so great a danger, and as the whole movement is a political trick the public sentiment of the country would justify federal interference. That unfortunate State has suffered enough from civil disturbances, and it is to be hoped that the passions of reckless politicians will be | held in check by the united public opinion | of the business classes, who have nothing to gain and much to lose by a renéwal of the old conflicts. The Moore’s Creek Centennial. The rich centennial memories of North Carolina, we are glad to see, are proudly celebrated by the children of the Old North State. Last year the Mecklenburg Declara- tion had its hundredth anniversary appro- priately honored, and to-day North Carolina celebrates the battle which took place on the 27th of February, 1776, at the Widow Moore’s Creek Bridge. In another column our Wilmington correspondent describes that gallant § affair, which prolonged the echo of the shot fired at Concord on its reverberating way ‘round the the records of that time of heavenly hope and manly endeavor. It will be seen, how- | ever, in the story of this victory for liberty, | that, while Massachusetts had to contend term is hardly talked about or thought of, although the prospects of the republican party have been steadily improving in conse- quence of the imbecility and dissensions of the democratic House. It is diffi- cult to assign any other cause for the fading of the third term spectre than General Babcock’s indictment and trial. In public estimation there was a strong prima facie case against him, and the efforts in his behalf were paralyzed at the critical junc- ture when the National Convention was called and the delegates began to be chosen. It does not at present seem probable that General Babcock's acquittal will arrest the ebb of the third term tide. President Grant's conduct since the indict- ment of his secretary has left a bad impres- sion, which is not likely to be effaced. It was indecorous for him to take the side of the accused and exert his official and per- sonal influence to thwart the prosecution. It was natural that he should be nervous and concerned in a matter that came so near home, but he ought to have left justice to take its course and have confided in the ability of innocence to vin- dicate itself before an impartial tri- bunal. His unseemly attempts to influence the trial will prevent the reaction in his favor which might otherwise have followed the acquittal. His dismissal of General Babcock from the White House is an ac- knowledgment that, notwithstanding his in- nocence of the main charge, his conduct was indefensible. Unless Babcock has done something to forfeit confidence there is no justice in compelling him to give up his place. The theory of the defence, as set forth by Judge Porter in his speech at St. Louis, was that General Babcock's inter- course with the leaders of the Whiskey Ring was not that of a fellow conspirator, but of an unsuspecting secretary with known friends of the President. He had occasion to witness, both in Washington and in St. Louis, the marked intimacy and open ex- change of courtesies between the President .and McDonald, and it was plausibly argued by Judge Porter that the recognition of such aman by the President was a sufficient war- rant for the confidence of his secretary. Conceding the force of this argument it is difficult to see why General Baboock should be punished by the loss of his position. His intimacy with thieves, not knowing them to be thieves, was a mistake which he not only shared with the President, but into which he was led by the President. It was the duty of General Grant to know the character of the men whom he trusted, but it was not the duty of Babcock to go behind the in- dorsement of his chief in regulating his own personal intercourse. We think the President is wise in dis- pensing with the further services of Babcock, but wise only in the sense of acknowledging his own fault. He was more to blame than Babcock for having such cronies, and he must always bear the greater share of the discredit. If his own intimacy with the whiskey thieves was justifiable that of Bab- cock would need no vindication. He cannot escape the implication that the dismissal of the Secretary is a condemnation of himself, who set the example which Babcock only followed. The confession that intimacy with the Whiskey Ring isa fault which requires expiation and an atonement to public opin- ion seems like a withdrawal of the third term pretensions. The republican party would court defeat by running a man for the Presidency who has had a kind of intercourse with whiskey thieves which disqualifies another man for the humble the dismissal of Babcock is not a deserved punishment, but a concession to public sentiment, the case is not altered, for the same public opinion which adjudges it in- decent for Babcock to remain in the White House would protest against the re-election of a President who not only committed the against the British soldiery, the militia and | minute men, led by Caswell and Lillington, | were opposed by their fellow settlers of | Highland descent under MacDonald. The | sturdy Irish Presbyterians and English set- | tlers who fought at Moore's Creek found foe- men worthy of their steel in the survivors | and descendants of the Scotchmen who | hazarded their lives in the cause of | Charles Edward at Culloden. It is strange enough to see those who owed the bitterest grudge to the House of Hanover laying down their lives in de- | fence of its assumption to rule in America. | But, so it was, and the misfortunes of '45 | overtook the Highlanders in their attempt to prop the power here which had bo pion The double de- | shaping power of Providence or destiny is | History has seen | few more mischievously worthless rulers | than the House of Stuart furnished, and, like | British rule in America, this royal house had to pay the penalty of misgovern- ment by extinction. Hence the battle | of Moore's Creek becomes especially inter- | esting as astudy. At Concord it was shown that the foreign soldier would be opposed to the death ; at Moore's Creek it was pro- claimed that the domestic partisan of the | foreign oppressor wonld have to answer for | Thus were events shaping themselves in the early part | to be made on the Fourth of July, and thus | South and North we gather up like jewels the centennial memories which strew the | same fault but set the example by which Babcock was misled. The letter which we publish from an occasional Washington correspond- ent is worth considering in this relation. | It makes out a very ugly case against both the Attorney General and the President in connection with the Babcock trial. we agree with our correspondent as to the necessity of a thorough investigation, we also think that the facts, even as they stand, make it impossible for the Presi- dent to reconstruct his shattered third term hopes. Tur Ovrcome or THE SapsatH Punrrrs, as sketched in our columns to-day, presents a body of striking and inspiriting thoughts. — In the Catholic churches the shadow of the Lenten season was thrown across the ser- vices, and the soul beauties that may | grow from bodily self-denial formed in great part the theme of the Catholic preachers. | Mr. Beecher, who, of late, almost always — strikes an agonizing chord from the pages of the Holy Book, preached on the sweet uses of adversity with beauty and pathos, as though every fibre of his intellectual organization was pleading his own enuse in drawing out the deep harmonies that vibrate from the sufferings of all the world, ‘Trials, he says, are given us to test our capacity to triumph over them, and Dr. Hall follows out this thought in teaching that | what is easy of attainment is always cheap and little appreciated. Mr. Frothingham, in his sermon on “Rights and Duties,” seems to have had this position of man toward his post of a private secretary. If it be said ‘that | While | goou ana evil fortune in view; but ne got no further in defining the duties of man than the French Assembly in the opening of the Revolution, which compromised the question by simply affirming that the duties of the citizen lay in respecting the rights of man. Centennial Nominations. a A correspondent favors us with this com- munication :— To ram Epitor or tux ReraLp'— Asan American, glorying in this centennial time, I 0 see your suggestion in favor of a canvass sidency in keeping with the period. Let us have a ‘Fail Columbia” canvass, one that will remind us of the times that tried men’s souls, We have had so much of the whiskey and other frauds, so much of Crsarism and other enormities, that the mind turns with hope to the times that tried men’s souls and to men who have in their veins some of the precious blood which was shed in favor of American liberty. Do not let it be a question of party, but a question of country. Let ux havea cen- tennial canvass. Lotus have Valley Forge and Cow- pens clubs, Let us, for this year at least, think only | of the heroes of '76 and sink every thought of party ad- vancement in the one thought of country. I heartily approve of what you say about the centennial canvass, andam sure that if the idea is only properly sented {1 will take the country like wildfire. Gi little of °76, AN AMERI New Yoru, Feb. 22, 1876, As our readers will remember, the sug- gestion which excites the enthusiasm of our patriotic correspondent was that wo should nominate Charles Francis Adams for Presi- dent and John Jay for Vice President, on the republican ticket, and John Quincy Adams (or ‘Johnny Q.,” as he is called by admiring friends), for President and Wade Hampton or Fitzhugh Lee for Vice President, on the democratic ticket. Our reasons were that in taking these candidates the American people would show their appreciation of the cen- tennial year by electing men to the chief | offices of the nation who represent in their names and lineage the great men of the Rev- olution. Charles Francis Adams is the grandson of the illustrious Adams, and John Jay the grandson of the venerated Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the cherished friend of Washing- ton. ‘Johnny Q.” is the great grandson | of Adams, and Lee and Hampton come from the best blood of the Revolution, blood that was shed at Yorktown, Moultrie | and Cowpens. It happens most fortunately that these gentlemen are of pronounced political opinions, as parties now go. Charles Francis Adams is a mild republican of an amber type, with gentle opinions on all questions, a free soiler nearly thirty years ago, and candidate for the Presidency on the first free soil ticket. Although he did not, receive any electoral votes he had | nearly three hundred thousand popular | votes; which shows that he had a strength even then. He is, therefore, an experienced candidate. Mr. Jay, we believe, has never been a candidate for office before the people, but he has held high place under the administration to the satisfaction of every one but a few knaves and some fools out in Vienna, who did not think his views on American barrooms were of the character that should become an American Minister. He is a republican of the finest ebony hue. Adams and Jay—amber set in ebony— would make a good combination. ‘Johnny Q.” has been running for something or other in Massachusetts ever since he came to years of discretion, and is a pronounced dyed-in- the-wool, redhot, brick-red democrat. He would have a fine colleague ingither General Lee or General Hampton, who fought in the rebellion, and who would rally to his sup- port all that remains of the old chivalry of the South. Furthermore, the candidates would insure a peaceful canvass, as Charles Francis would allow no one to abuse his son, and “Johnny Q.” would stand by his father like an Adams. We are willing to extend our list if the people favor our suggestion. We are not | wedded to any especial candidate, so that he represents good Revolutionary blood. And it might be well now to see what we have left in the way of available cemtennial stock. Unfortunately, we do not have & Washington. It is sad to think we have no Franklin or Jefferson to contend for centennial honvrs, We have several Hamiltons, all of whom | would make available candidates. Then, | in Maryland, we have the present Gov- | ernor, who is the descendant of the venerated Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, and who would come in finely with ‘Johnny Q."—for in- stance, ifin this anniversary of the greatest re- | | bellion in history we were not prepared to vote for the rebel Lee or Hampton. Governor | Fish is of Revolutionary blood, and he goes even back to the honest cabbage eating Dutchmen who founded this city. He would thus havea double claim upon ‘the affections of the people. John Cochrane is also of Revolutionary blood; but John ran for the Vice Presidency under Fremont, and is not an aspirant now. He lives but for the | glory of his country, and is busily employed | in writing a biographical dictionary of the | extinct liberal republican party. Pennsyl- vania-has several strains of the best blood, land it would go hard if we could not find | among the Baches or Cadwaladers some one | worthy to carry the centennial flag. £El- i bridge Gerry is still with us, if we cared to | gerryr@ander a little; and Roger Sherman | has left descendants enough, including our | own Evarts, to stock an administration with | first class men. There are the Bedfords of Delaware, the Henrys of Virginia, the de- scendants of the accomplished Colonel | Bland; the Huntingtons of Connecticut, the | Stocktons of New Jersey, the Middletons | and Draytons of South Carolina, the Haber- | | shams of Georgia—all names that may be | | | i } well scrutinized in making up a centennial ticket. Let us, then, have a careful roll call of the | men among us who have in their veins the | blood of that glorious time. It will be a few | | weeks before we have the conventions, and | | wecan have a list which may be taken by all Americans who have not lost their affee- tion for the Revolution, Let us have a fall centennial list of men who would be worthy to run on the ticket as ‘Hail Columbia” candidates. When the conventions meet our political leaders will have no trouble in | making a centennial ticket. Susan B. Axrnony has once more fallen \ into the hands of the Beecher scandalites, and we learn from Council Bluffs, where the | smallpox was introduced to the Indians by | means of infected clothing, that the redoubt- able Susan is a firm believer in Mr. Beecher's | guilt, and that Mrs, Tilton confessed it to | her. She might have unburdened her virgin | heart of all this without going to the banks of the Missouri. | An Excellent Example Set by the Com- ing English Professional Oarsmen. Boyd, Chambers, Bagnall and Nicholson, avery fast English professional four, are already together, and have taken a step which our best rowers, both professional and amateur, may well follow. They ask any four men in England to row thema race, not many weeks hence, over either the Thames or Tyne championship course. If this challenge is declined or if they win they will assume the title of champions of Eng- | land. This will settle in the fairest possible _ way who really deserve that title, and remove any doubts on a point which might, perhaps, afterward become im- portant. Thereupon, if successful, they purpose coming directly to this country to train for the Centennial races in late August and early September. Thus they are not only together early, and so have abundant time to get into the best condition and thoroughly learn the course, but they will have proved that they really deserve a place in that race at all. For, unless we are mistaken, the Schuylkill track will not properly accommo- date more than four crews abreast, and there is every indication that in that race there will be: several crews still abreast even far into the second mile. The probable competing crews for any one of the contests will almost certainly far exceed this number., Torowthe race in heats, even though arranged with the best of judgment, might throw entirely out of the great event—the final heat—some crews which ought to be in it, and which could beat some of those which would so get in, and'it is simply impossi- ble to get the conditions for the different | heats absolutely the same, to say nothing of the abundant opportunity for faulty manage- ment and the tiring of the vast assembly by needless delays. It would be well, then, for all crews which mean to enter to meet several weeks before, either on that track or at Saratoga, and de- termine who are the champions of our own country in their respective classes. This would save many of local repute and an over- estimate of their powers the mortification of so public and pronounced a defeat as would be in store forthem in the great event, and would only admit to the latter men worthy of a place in it. Already the two Boston teams have arranged for just such a preliminary trial, or, rather, for two such, the first to be next Monday, the second in June. If the ‘Longshores, of Portland, the team already made up at Halifax and the Paris crew of St. John should join them in these meetings it would thoroughly sift the claims of all American professional crews east of the Hudson to a place in this great race, while the Wards, Biglins and the Pitts. burgers could, by similar trials, tell who had better stay at home. Another and excellent result would be that the winners could, by trying the best man in the other crews in the place of their own poorest one, make not unlikely most advantageous changes, suf ficiently so even to retain the world’s cham- pionship on this side of the water, while on © the present plan it may slip away, though even only by a foot. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Some people are never happy unless thoy are un- bappy- Florida and California are each trying to be the first in peas, Blaine and Bancroft have both dined G, W. Curtimin ‘Washington. The atmosphere of Nebraska ten months of each year is as clear as the sky of Italy. It took a West Virginia poet to sing, “But the scent ot the whiskey hangs round its still.” F. W. Robertson thought that early rising gave the mind a tone of self-donial for the day. General Benjamin F. Butler arrived at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel yesterday from Washington, ‘ Wild geese are passing over Washington on their way North, but the ducks remain on Ponnsylvanis avenue. ‘M. Saint-Edme recommends nickel plating iron lightning rods. By and by he will want us to put stem-winders on the top. An affectation of elegance in behavior is the con- scious endeavor to assume something which does not flow easily from the fixed sources of habit. Mr. Trowbridge, in his last poom ona marriage, speaks of “glassy smiles.’’ But then you can haves glassy smile in almost any corner grocery. The reason why men scamper like sheep off the bows of a ferryboat for the cars is that they aro afraid that otherwise some of the ladies might get a good soat, Mr. Beecher in an old sermon says:—“I speak in figures, because I think in figures.” We can only re- peat that figures never lie when they are off the gas _ moter. Detroit Free Press:—“A young man at Nashville killed himself because he could not get anothemman’s wife. It is terrible to Jove somebody and seo het washing windows for another man.” “There are no occnit forces,” said Victor Hugo, “there aro only lumimous forces.” This is exactly what Brown said when the ice slipped out from under him and he saw the Northern Lights. A country editor advertises for a city proof reader for a fow hours a weok. And yet right in tbat oditor’s neighborhood there are, probably, a dozen men laying stone wall who would read his proofs on off hours with ordinary success. ‘The Secretary of War writes a letter to the editor of the Marshalltown (lowa) Times, rogrotting that he cannot lend Marshalltown a cannon from Rock Island Arsenal for the Fourth, and tersely adds:—I have no more right to lend a gun belonging to the United the Secretary of the Treasury has to lend money.” One of thore spasmodic persons who are sending their personal gricvances to the newspapers says, apropos of Mark Twain’s “Panch, brothers punch,” that for tonths he has been repeating, “Come to my heart my own stricken dear,’’ and wants a “psychological analysis’’ of his condition, “T. N.” evidently has a rush of brains to the feet, If it were possible to convince a French peasant that largo farms and large estates promote national wealth more effectually than petty freeholds he would remain not less immutably attached to nis fragmentary owncr. ship of the soil. Nevertheless, the subdivision of land in France is only majntained by the opera*'~r of posi. tive law. George Eliot, in her new novel, speaking of a gir! seeking her own pleasure at a timo when teas are fresh in the world, says:—"‘What in the midst of this mighty drama are girls and their blind visions? Tho are the yea and the nay of that good for which mes are enduring and fighting. In those delicate vessels iy borne onward through the ages the treasur2 of hamaa affections. ? The 30,000 English owners, half male and half female, recorded in the census, who have so often offended Mr. | Mill and Mr. Bright, would, although their possessions were unequally divided, have averaged about 1,000 acres apiece, Their average is now reduced te thirty: five or thirty-six ucres, although the great majority in number own nothing buta house and perhaps a strip of garden, The London World, in a biographical sketch of George Eliot, says:—“So thoroughly docs she think out her books, even to the structure of her sentences, before she commences to write them, that, unlike Dickens, though like Thackeray, her manuscript dis | plays scarcely an erasure or ‘blot, Both of these char- acteristics are nothing more than we might expect te find ina writer to whom authorship is charged with the same responsibilities as oxistence."” ey Og OE RS SRS Re a a RB ge