The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1876, Page 6

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War Srreer Yesrernay.—Stocks were ower, the principal decline being in Western Union. Gold was firm at 114 a 114 1-8 Money on call was supplied at 3a 3 1-2 per cent. Government and investment securities were firm. Foreign exchange steady. Barrish Privek was exemplified in the re- apture of an English trading vessel by her crew from the prize crew which had her in wharge near Gibraltar the other day. ‘Tue Froops in HunGary are proving most Hisastrous in their effects. Even the suf- ferings in France a year ago scarcely ex- pecded those which these poor people are mow enduring. ‘Taere Is Great Resorcixe in Havana over the defeat of Don Carlos. The joy would have been equally hearty and heartfelt had It been his triumph which was to be cele- brated. Leyt.—To-day the solemnities of Lent be- gin, the most impressive season of the Chris- tian year. It is not observed now 80 se- verely as of old, and the Church is morein- dulgent to believers, yet more than usual self-denial and more compliance with the forms of religion are required. The Savan- nah shad, which is now to be bought in our markets, is éne of the hardships which many xigid churchmen will humbly endeavor to j endure. JA ConnesroxpENt, referring to the hand- some manner in which John Quincy Adams alludes to Mr. Hastings as the member of an Albany delegation to Jackson, reminds us | that Uncle Dick was the friend of Jefferson and counselled the purchase of Louisiana. ‘We should like to know the authority upon | which the claim is made that Uncle Dick took an active part in politics as early as 1804. It would be interesting to have this point settled. In the case of Mr. Hastings the evidence is clear, but it is not so in regard to Uncle Dick. Still it is possible, for Judge Herring, who died a few days Bince, was on the Marine Bench in 1805, Marpr Gras was celebrated yesterday in most of the Southern and Southwestern cities, notably in Cincinnati, Memphis and New Orleans. The meaning of these fes- tivals in American cities is not very clear, but they seem to unite the old time English merry-making of Shrove Tuesday with the Italian idea of the carnival which precedes | Lent. Whatever their purpose they bring a season of merriment and good will, and it must be confessed that there are too few pleasure days in the busy calendar of our ‘workday years. Ovr Japanese Apvices this morning, though there are, perhaps, too many threat- mnings of war, are in the main bright and thatty and an evidence of the great progress Japan is making in the arts of Western civ- ilization. The item in regard to the recep- tion accorded Minister Mori, for instance, recalls a familiar name to Ameriqan readers and shows us that in a few years we shall feel as much interest in Japanese statesmen as we now have in an English premier or a French president. Then we hear that the Japanese Commissioners are on the way to | the Centennial Exhibition, and this must another tie to bind America and the “Went to Japan and the East, _NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. | Don Carlos—His Attempt and Failure. | sibility for him. There was neither energy If Don Carlos were not a Bourbon, or if it were not a recognized impossibility for any impression to be made on the Bourbon mind | by experience, it might be poped that the career of the present prince of the race of Spanish pretenders would suffice to eradicate finally the grand infatuation of their attempt to secure a throne. No previous Don Carlos of this species ever saw so many opportuni- ties as offered themselves to this one ; none other ever saw the stones of the mountains turn themselves into soldiers at his will to such an extent, nor did any other ever see himself so aided by the distractions and im- becilities of his enemies, nor find a crown so often within the grasp of a resolute hand. It is safe to say that no previous prince ever saw so frequently the smile of fortune. No successor will have an equal happiness in this respect ; and the fact that with so much in his favor Don Carlos yet failed and is a fugitive may be taken as a final evidence that the Bourbons of this branch are not of the race of men who conquer kingdoms. But it is, perhaps, too much to hope that the Don Carloses of the future will profit by this example. It is recognized that if a certain kind of pigeon flies in a peculiar way and interrupts his flight with a particular series of tum- bles, that fhis habit of the nerves and muscles becomes hereditary, and that the latest scion of the race will indulge in the same vagaries that distinguished his remote ancestor. In the race of Don Carloses it is an inherited peculiarity to tumble over the Pyrenees once ina generation at least, and issue pronunciamentos and claim the throne, and it will take many ages to breed out the habit. Don Carlos is the fourth of the pretenders who, under that namé, have claimed the Spanish throne, His grandfather was the son of King Charles IV., and, consequently, the brother of Ferdinand VII. Upon the death of Ferdinand that earliest Don Carlos claimed the throne, to the exclusion of Ferdi- nand’s daughter, Isabella, upon the ground that the Salic law excluded female heirs, and that though a decree had been made by Ferdinand to set aside that law he had no power to make such a decree, and that if he | had a right to make it he had also made a second decree overruling the first. This is the ground of the claim made by all the fam- ily since Ferdinand’s brother, or the first Don Carlos, waged in his own cause the so- called ‘‘seven years’ war” .of Carlist annals, which began in 1834. His two sons were suc- cessive Don Carloses, and the second of them renounced kis claims in 1868 in favor of his son, the Carlos now on the hands of the French government, who thus succeeds in the pretence his father, his uncle and his grandfather. With a claim of this nature in abeyance, with well defined descent from the throne, and an argument at least presentable that no other descent was equally legitimate, and himself in the vigor of life and ambition, it was but natural that Don Carlos should come before the world when the revolution that drove Isabella from the throne of Spain seemed -to open the way for candidates. From the standpoint of Carlos Prim, Serrano and the rest were indistingnishable from Isabella; for all were usurpers alike and all equally concerned in the conspiracy to exclude him from his rights, despite which he might have accepted the throne from them if they had been willing to give it, and they, it is possible, might have given it but for the consideration that such a step could not be taken without reviving a party that would repay the gift with slaughter and pro- scription. But when the throne was given to Amadeus of Savoy the cause of Carlos was directly strengthened before the whole country ; for in the exclusion of Isabella, if the magnates of the kingdom decided not to take Isabella's son from apprehension of the con- sequences of a minority reign and a regency, then the natural course was to recur to the nearest collateral line, and this process would have led to Carlos as the legitimate heir. Nearly the whole Spanish nobility did, in fact, at that period have its eyes turned toward Don. Carlos. Accepting the dethronement of Isabella, content with the exclusion of Alfonso because of minority, they yet had the prejudices of their order and their race in favor of | a scion of the royal family, and Carlos filled the requirement, and they saw a foreign prince favored against him with discontent which they did not endeavor to disguise. An intense Spanish jealousy of foreigners fayored the growth of the senti- ment far beyond the limits of the nobility, and when Amadeus abdicated and the coun- | try found itself surprised with the possession | of a republican government in the hands of | \ the few republicans in the Cortes—thongh this was hailed effusively by many de- claimers—it had no safe foundation in pub- | lic opinion; but it helped Carlos with all conservatives and threatened at one moment | | to fairly stampede the officers of the army to | | Avenue road has no other significance than the standard of the Pretender. For this. individual Pretender, therefore, the scene was grandly prepared by events brought about with a view to that end. His canse had already made great progress while Amadeus was on the throne. Carlist com~ | mittees in Madrid, Valladolid, Zamora, Bur- | gos and other cities were suppressed by tho | government in April, 1872, and somewhat | | earlier in the same year armed bands wero ! abroad in the mountains in the name of | | Carlos. Serrano treated with officers who | had gone over to the Carlists for | their return on the basis of the} retention of their grades in the army. In tho year that passed between the elevation of Carlos’ standard and the abdica- | tion of Amadeus the cause of the Pretender | made great progress, and the only feeble point in the whole case was Carlos himself. | to be with them, but was not with them, At | thusiastically by some ragged battalions ready to die in his cause, seemed to bo seized with chagrin, and hurried away again to the comforts of life on the French side of the line. His retirement on that occasion greatly retarded the progress of his propa- ganda, and, as the event proved, every mo- | ment was important. mer of 1872 was simply frittered away, that human ingenuity could never have | He promised to his retainers over and over | ‘ P peptone | wary to be caught in such a trap, and Mr. nor sagacity, neither spirit nor persistency inthe pursuit of any policy. It seemed as if the Prince thought the Spanish crown a butterfly that he could catch under his hat at any moment in the mountains of Navarre. He was, in fact, so sure of it that he would not make the alliances that would have given it to him; and, in that light, it is only one more of the ‘‘sure things” that always fail. Had Carlos made such use of '72 that the abdication could have been fairly attributed to his efforts it would have given him great prestige, and the country would have risen for him against Castelar’s Republic; but Carlos had done so little that the pretence of a connection between his advance and Amadeus’ retirement was laughed at as ridiculous, Yet, with all his weakness and his failures, he maintained for four years a war that will for a long while make the name of Carlism redoubtable to Spanish rulers. It was, however, a useful war to Alfonso; for as it just fell short of the strength that might overcome the Republic it left his ad- vent possible; and as again it fell short of the strength to overcome his forces it supplied the danger that compelled those forces to be properly equipped and efficiently officered. It gave his government legitimate, practical occupation ; saved it from the common dan- ger of Camarillo influences, and as the first duty of any Spanish government was to whip the Carlists it has given this government at the eutset of its career the prestige of a great success. The Attorney General’s Answer. Ten days ago the House of Representa- tives asked Attorney Genera] Pierrepont ‘by what authority and for what purpose” he wrote his letter ‘discouraging witnesses.” After a week's delay Mr. Pierrepont sends in a reply which is no answer. He does not say by what authority nor for what purpose he wrote that letter. One thing we remark about his note to the House. It is in a very much milder vein than his note to the Herraup. He seems to have recovered his temper, and that under peculiar aggrava- tions; for*the whole press, West as well as East, has been ever since reproaching him for that letter, telling him that it is in- jurious to his reputation asa lawyer, and that it touches his honor as Attorney Gen- eral; while lawyers everywhere regret to see a brother lawyer calmly sitting down under such a cloud. It is an unpleasant spectacle, and the worst of it for Mr. Pierrepont is that it will not help him. Congress will go on asking questions, and he cannot forever go on evading, while he seems to have greater diffi- culty in “exposing” the facts which, as he hastily remarked in his letter to the Henan, would enable the public to understand his letter, than he or some one very near him in Washington had in ‘‘exposing” the letter in Washington. Mr. Butler on Street Car Radiation. Mr. T: R. Butler, the President of the Sixth Avenue Railroad, sees things with a vision denied to other men and argues in behalf of his own interests with a logic whichis peculiarly his own. ‘The cause of the crowding of street cars in New York,” he said, in an interview published in a sympa- thetic journal, “is the peculiar shape of Manhattan Island, which is twelve miles long and less than two miles in average width. London is ten miles long and seven miles wide, and Paris has the same super- fices. In those cities cars are run on streets radiating like the ribs of a fan; but here they must run in parallel lines.” All this sounds very profound and important, but it is not true, and it would make no difference if it was true. In this city the street railways all start in the neighborhood of the City Hall, the cars on nearly all the avenues on both the east and the west sides starting within a tew feet of each other, and we know of no better figure to describe their routes than Mr. Butler's figure of the fan. But what difference can it make whether the streets through which the cars pass radiate or run in parallel lines? The same law applies to both, and there may be overcrowding in the one case as well as in the other. London is as long as New York;so the difference in width makes no difference in patronage, and it is just as easy to provide for the travel within the two miles width of New York as the seven miles width of London. There tho population is much greater than here, and so Mr. Butler's logic falls to the ground, Now, the point of this whole controversy is } simply this :—The people of New York want | a sufficient number of cars on the street rail- | ways to accommodate the travel, and, at the same time, to provide every passenger with aseat, while Mr. Butler opposes it because it would reduce the profits of his company. All the logic of the President of the Sixth to prevent a few dollars from radiating out of the pockets of his stockholders, Busrxxss Inr Ty seems to be prized less | and less as the relations of trade are ex- tended. In this city many of the recent | failures were in fact fraudulent bankruptcy, and the same thing seems to apply to those of London and Liverpool. The cable this morning brings a report of the failure of a | firm of cotton brokers in the latter place who bought freely on their own account while pretending to buy for others. Tho boasted honor of English tradesmen is fall- ing toa level with other nations, and it is to be feared, from present indications, that it will suffer more in the future than in the past. Governor Trupen’s Exanixation as a wit | ness in the Tweed suit was finished yester- day. At times it looked as if Tweed's lawyers were disposed to push the inquiry into the political relations of the two leaders, but the simple-minded Governor was too last he crossed the frontier, was hailed en- Field’s questions resulted in no injury to Mr. Tilden’s Presidential prospects. M. Gamnerta has only to continue the conservative and conciliatory policy indi- eated in his Lyons speech to become not only the republican leader of France, but assure tho permanence of the Republic. In | pursuing this moderate course he is showing Then the whole sum- | and | | it was the summer that had the greatest pos- | true statesmanship as well as political saga- city. generally accept his policy and act upon it, Tne Democrats in Congress and the Currency—How Not to Do It. The deadlock between the hard money and rag money democrats in Washington recalls a story told by Horace Walpole and applied to some ministry of his time. A shipmaster calls out, ‘Who's there?” A boy answers, “Joe, sir.” ‘What are you doing, Joe?” ‘Nothing, sir.” ‘Where's Tom?” ‘Tom answers, ‘I am here, sir.” “What are you doing, Tom?” ‘Helping Joe, sir.” This odd sort of helpfulness in | doing nothing fitly represents the relation | to each other of the two wings of the demo- cratic party on the currency question. If the people call out to hard money men and ask what they are doing on that subject, they could only make answer that they are doing nothing, and the rag money men | dense cold air, A canopy of cold atmosphere was formed over this space toward noon, and it was owing to & sudden rupture of this superincumbent volume, and the upward rush through the opening so created of the confined warm air, that the whirlwind or tornado was generated. The contact between warm and cold volumes of air always creates the phenomena of storms in some of their many forms ; but when, as in this instance, the enclosed warm air repre- sented a volume seeking an outlet through an enveloping mass of cold atmosphere, the consequence of its escape would represent, but on a grand scale, the terrific forces un- loosed during a boiler explosion. This evidently occurred immediately over or very close to St. Charles, and the violent whirling movement of the air which accom- could, in this sense, say with great truth that they are helping the hard money men. ‘The latest method proposed by the hard money democrats for doing nothing is a bill said to have been drafted by Senator Thur- man, of which leading provisions are: first, resumption of specie payments at the end of ten years ; second, a regular annual accu- mulation of gold during that period, both by the national banks and the Treasury ; third, permission to the banks to count their preparatory stock of gold asa part of their lawful money reserve. It cannot be disputed that accumulating a stock of gold is a necessary preparation for specie payments ; but this bill proposes to manage it in an expensive and clumsy man- ner. So far as the Treasury is concerned the government would lose the interest upon a greater reserve of gold than it would be necessary to accumulate on a more judicious plan. At the expiration of the ten years nearly the whole amount of gold would be suddenly paid out within a few days, for the proceas could not stop so long as there was the slightest fraction of difference between the value of currency and gold. There would be a sudden, vio- lent and convulsive contraction of the cur- rency, whereas the contraction ought to be so gradual, steady, quiet, and spread over so much time as to cause no rude shock to the business of the ‘country. By the proposed bill the contraction would come all of a sudden, ‘‘at one fell swoop,” when the ten years were up; but the reasonable method is to contract the greenbacks meanwhile by a slow process of funding, which would bring them to par before any‘gold is paid out for their redemption. By this method there would be no sudden drain on the stock of gold at the date of resumption, and only a comparatively small accumulation would be needed. It may, indeed, be said that the paying out of a vast amount of gold within the first few days after resumption would cause no real contraction of the currency, inasmuch as every hundred dollars of paper money taken out of circulation would be replaced by a hundred dollars of gold, leaving the volume of currency as great as it was before. This is a short-sighted argument, because the sudden substitution of an exportable fora non-exportable money, in an expanded state of the currency, would be immediately fol- lowed bya heavy foreign drain. It is not more certain that greenbacks would be rap- idly exchanged for gold until their value was equalized than it is that that gold would be rapidly exported from the country until our currency was brought to the level of that of other countries. The method proposed by this bill would produce a sudden and enormous contraction of the currency at the end of the ten years, bringing convulsion and ruin. The only safe way is first to bring the currency to par by gradually fanding the surplns greenbacks, when a moderate re- serve of gold would suffice, because nothing could then be gained by a run upon the ‘Treasury. If Mr. Thurman’s bill has been panied its upward flow destroyed everything | movable that lay within reach of its influ- ence. This terrible visitation suggests the propriety of redoubled vigilance on the part of the Signal Service observers, in order that some indications might be discovered which will warn us of the probable generation of these meteors. Capital Punishment. The efforts for the release of Rubenstein and Dolan, two prisoners convicted of mur- der and condemned to death, suggest the revisal of our whole criminal code, We take it that the general sense of the whole community is that these two unhappy wretches are guilty and that their lives are forfeit to the law. ‘They have been certainly fairly tried. But we have appeals from friends, motions for a new trial, money raised to fee greedy lawyers, heaven and earth moved to secure their freedom. In the meantime Justice is unsatisfied. The murderers see how Scannell and Stokes escaped. They naturally feel that. if these red-handed murderers can evade punishment they may do the same. In the meantime the wretches themselves are in no condition to die. They are not preparing for death, for they have no idea that justice will have its way. The few weeks which the humanity of the law allows to condemned criminals for preparation for the last great change are occupied in struggles for liberty. There is no certainty about the law, no assurance of justice. All interests suffer—the interests of law and of humanity as well. The way to avoid this is to pass a law giving all prisoners under sentence of death an appeal to the highest tribunal of the State, the Court of Appeals, Such a writ should be made a writ of right. The law should declare that upon the conviction of any criminal of capital crimes it should be the duty of the District Attor- ney to certify the whole record to the Court of Appeals. The Court, within thirty days, should take up the whole case, and decide whether the forms of law have been ob- served. This should be a writ to right; for, certainly, if we give a claimant fora bit of property the right to the highest judicial de- cision the same right should be given to a citizen in peril of his life. This right would put an end to tho interminable effort, in nearly every capital case, to have a new trial. After the decision of the Court of Appeals, if adverse tothe petition, there should bea short time (not more than three weeks) allowed the prisoner in which to prepare for death. These long delays between judgment and execution are in themselves cruel beyond imagination. They are not, really, humane. Once that the dread sentence of death is de- livered the sooner it is over the better for the interests of justice and the wretch who is doomed to die. The value in the penalty of capital punishment as a preventive of murder is its certainty and swiftness. The murderer should know that he must die. As it is, our law is very unsatisfactory and should be amended. correctly described, it is the height of im- provident absurdity. It is exposed to another fatal objection by its skulking tendency to inflate the currency throughout the ten years. “Noth- ing could be plainer than that it would have this effect. The inflation mischief lies hidden in the provision authorizing the national banks to reckon their accumulating stock of gold as part of their lawful money reserve. The green- backs now locked up in the bank reserves would be released and put in circulation by the substitution of gold in their place, so | that Mr. Thurman’s bill is an artfully dis- guised measure of inflation. There could not be a more convincing proof of the strength of the rag money wing of the de- mocracy than this attempt to harmonize the party by an inflation measure masquerading in a hard money costume. The Western Tornado. The tornado reported from Missouri and Indiana has proved exceedingly destructive along the line of its narrow pathway from St. Charles to Princeton, The meteor struck the first named town, which is situated on the peninsula formed by the junction of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers and near St. Louis, like a thunderbolt, and before the in- | habitants could realize the cause of the dis- aster laid a portion of it in ruins and killed several people. The whirlwind then took a southeasterly course, and on reaching Princeton nearly destroyed the town and se- verely injured a number of the residents. It is very difficult to determine the true causes of these phenomena. However, 4 careful examination of the meteorological conditions which preceded and attended the tornado of the 27th may throw some light upon them, On the afternoon and night of the 26th an area of high temperature extended north- ward, its edge stretching from Leavenworth to Pittsburg, with an advanced curvature | and with butter, sugar and lemon juice, de- Pancakes. Nobody knows why pancakes are eaten on Shrove Tuesday more than any other day of the year. The custom has descended to us from remote antiquity like many other rites the origin of which is lost. Why pan- cakes should be eaten is clear, for they are palatable, wholesome and cheap; but why eat them on Tuesday and not on Monday? There is the problem which puzzles the pro- foundest philosophers. To see a great theo- logian or antiquarian pondering in Vain over asimple pancake is touching. All deep thinkers know why they peck eggs at Easter, hut pancakes are as bad as the origin of sin in one way, though much better in another. They are plain os the sunlight on a plate, being a cake made of flour, eggs and water, cidedly good. But historically considered a pancake is as obscure as Robert Brown- | ing’s “Inn Album.” Shrove Tuesday | comes in and makes o mystery of | the pancake. Shakepeare, who refers | to everything, refers to the custom in ‘All's Well That End's Well,” where the clown says that his answers fit to all questions as well as a pancake for Shrove Tuesday; but even the immortal bard does not attempt to explain it. Neither do we. It is enough that the excellent custom exists, and that it | was yesterday generally observed. Pan- j cakes are good on all days of the year except during Lent, and why should not they have | one day dedicated to their virtues? Let us not meditate too long upon such matters, but eat the pancake first and cross-examine Shrove Tuesday afterwards. This is a phi- losophy which might have more general ap- plication, Sr. Domo has exiled another president. The action of the free citizens of that Repub- lic is even more remarkable than usual in this instance. President Gonzales is twice reaching as far as Keokuk, where the temper. ature was as high as sixty degrees. An op- posing cold wave from the northward had at the same time been forcing its way south, and had reached Omaha, where the ther- mometer indicated thirty-seven degrees. On the morning of the 27th the cold wave had forced itself further southward in the shape of along, narrow, curved protrusion, which had Cairo at its extremity, where the temper- ature fell twenty-three degrees in eight | hours. In the meantime the thermometer at St. Louis had only shown a fall of eight degrees, and that city became the centre of It will be well if the radical leaders | an area of high temperature, which was sur- rounded on three sides by a wall of) | defeated in battle; he is then tried by the | Legislature and acquitted, after which he re- signs the presidency and determines to leave the country. Something like this might | have happened in our own Southern States | after the war, but.an American Gonzales is | not often as accommodating as this Domin- ican. i Dow Cantos, finding his occupation gone, does not know exactly how to dispose of | himself, and he goes to England apparently | | Decause he can go nowhere else. We expect so many kings and princes in this country during the summer, or we might ask him over to the Centennial, Wanted—A Real Rhyme to Conkling. The Pope once invitell all the architects of Europe to compete for the honor of building achurch in Rome, and many of them sent plans, but Giotto appeared before the judges without a design, When asked for the proofs of his ability he simply drew with a single motion of his hand a perfect circle. The tribunal was satisfied. ‘He who can de | this most difficult of feats,” argued the judges, ‘can do anything.” To Giotto, therefore, they awarded the prize. All arts are,alike in their fundamental principles. It is in poetry much as in archi- tecture. The man who is able to find in the English language a single legitimate word or phrase which accurately rhymes to Conk- ling deserves to be crowned as a Columbus in words. He utters a perfect sound, equal to the absolute circle which Giotto drew in space. When a great singer had studied for years with Porpora, the celebrated Italian composer, and in all that. time had done no more than swell single tones from the crescendo to the diminuendo, she asked when her musical education would begin. ‘It is completed,” said Porpora, embracing her (for even at the age of ninety that great man retained his presence of mind), ‘you have no more to learn.” So with him who rhymes correctly with Conk- ling. He must be admitted to be perfect, asarhymer. He has done the most difficult thing in his art, and all other rhymes are more sport than labor. But there is no such man, or, if there be, he is the husband of Mrs. Harris, the undis- covered friend of Sairey Gamp. We have received thousands of Conkling rhymes, not one of which is correct. No one has yet found a recognized word in English, or any other tongue, in which the,N and the K sounds in the first syllable of the name of the great Senator have the same blending, Thus the poet may say to the Spanish Pre- tender, ‘Don cling,” but the K sound is not in the first syllable, where it belongs, but in the second. The word to be rhymed with is Conk-ling, not Con-kling. ll these. forms are but approximations to an absolute rhyme, while such nouns as “honkling,” which is an exact rhyme, are arbitrary inven- tions not to be found in any standard author. The right word, therefore, is unfound, and elsewhere the public may see to what ex- tremes our American poets have gone in the search. Tue Suez Canat has become so much a cause of jealousy between England and France that Sir Daniel Lange has been dropped from the direction of the company. This gives rise to much ill-feeling, which ig justified by English interests in the work. Nerraer Bosy1a Nor Herzecovrna is likely to accept the amnesty offered by Turkey. The insurrection will go on unless the Great Powers interpose to quell it. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Lieutenant Governor Morris, of Manitoba, has gone to Ottawa, to be absent until May. Sir Alexander T. Galt, of Montreal, arrived in the city last evening and is at the Gilscy House. i Henry Ward Beecher owns a farm im Barron county, Wisconsin, which be has just mortaged. It is said that Fanny Fern, with ber dying breath, urged her husband to marry her daughter, Again the green Missouri cditor likens the “‘P. 1.” of the Hsnap to the wit of two boiled owls. Too-witty. who? The Rev. A. L. Garrish, late of Pittsfield, Me., was last evening installed pastor of the Free Baptist charch, at Olneyville. Mrs, Attorney General Pierrepont wears pale lemon colored stik under illusion dotted with “small snow flakes of gold.”” “E,.P. D.'"—We do not know what you could put on your lip to make mustaches grow; but a little nutmeg ‘will raise the hair on a Tom and Jerry. A “regular reader”’ of the Heravo insists on know. tng ‘in plain language what shall we do to remedy this infernal atmosphere of politios?”’ Eat cloves. In Zion church, Newport, yesterday, the Rev. C. & M. Stewart was ordained a priest by the Right Rev. Bishop Clark, of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Secretary of the Senate George C. Gorham, an old ally of Leland Stanford, is going for the Central Pacifia Rallrond. Mr. Gorham and Senator Jones married sisters. : in Indiana the rage is for fried onion parties. It Brother Shearman could only get up one of these par- ties for Plymouth church he could excite tears and still preserve the aroma. Mr. Proctor does not belicve it is a sign of good luck to see the moon over your right shoulder; but he doosn’t say anything about trying to get both sides of a lamppost at the same time. In Los Angeles a sprig of geranium, grafted on 4 tomato yine, is blooming. This is not exactly a per sonal, but the reference to tho tomato is afigure of speech for the Kansas City Times man. Now, when Senator Christiancy comes home and slings his bat in a corner and asks for his littl “ootsey, tootsey, wifey, pifey,"” the nurse says, “Sh-o-o, don’t make a noise, sho’s tocthing.”” Dr. Hayford, of Laramie, who drew up the Woman Suffrage law for the Wyoming Legislature, says there are not twenty-five people in the Territory who would now vote for its repeal. Fights at the polls, street brawls and barroom rows never occur. The Boston Gazette says:—‘‘We can easily under- stand how the Shah of Persia, upon sceing the soloma countenances of the dancers at a ball at which he was present, asked the Prince of Wales why his subjects did not have people to do their dancing for them.” M. Plater, the colebrated Jutanist or late player, ont evening dropped asleep while playing, after partaking of an unusually liberal supper; he continued to “is. course sweet music’ correctly and tastefully, until ruused from his drowsy nap by the noise of his lute falling on the floor. While Storrs, at St, Louis, was crying “Think of hit children at home praying for him,” the dear little feb lows really were on their knees with their hands rest- ing in each other's hair, and one of them was saying, “Johnny, if you don’t give me back that ten spot I’) walk right up the bridge of your nose,’’ “No connection,” says Mr. Crosskey in a sermon, ‘that may be established between the act of thinking and the peculiarities of our bodily organization can alter the fact that to exist as beings capable of thought and moved by passion implies relationships which the elements into whieh our flesh and blood may be re solved do not share.” Senator John P, Jones’ baby is a girl two monthe old, and there sits John, dancing her up and down, saying, ‘Political economy be hanged,” Hychee, pyeh din’ and Kissed the oye hed made pro Tutfolari, tutfloree, 0, tutflori, twang, The London Bookseller, while admitting that in the matter of news collecting the American now: are greatly superior to the English, tinds flippancy and an absence of scholariy polish and dignity in the daily journals of the United States, It says the oxperiment of « London newspaper with foreign and political news and local intelligoneo given with the fulness of Ameri ean metropolitan journals is yot to be tried. A tow years ago there was exhibited in England a Deautiful model of a ship, pronounced by competent Judges to be a perfect specimen of naval architecture, every detail being proportioned and finished with nicest exactness, It was made by the imbecile son of a gar- dener in an interior county, Up to thas time, it is claimed, he had never seen the sea or a ship, his pate tern being a printed ship on an old pocket bandker- chief,