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In one view the sudden, overwhelming and irretrievable disgrace of Secretary Bel- knap is an occasion for profound regret and ; Sorrow; but sentiments of this kind are merged and swallowed up in indignant ab- horrence of his crime and a vigorous desire to see it visited with just retribution. The of weak, womanish pity at the spectacle of blighted hopes and social ruin in which others are involved besides the detected and confessed criminal, Even the fact that a wife whose beauty and accomplishments have made her the grace, the delight and one of the brightest and most courted ornaments of Washington society, shares the guilt and disgrace of her fallen husband, cannot di- vert or soften the public exasperation at this culminating proof of the moral rottenness of the administration. The honor of the government jand the purity of official life are of such transcendent importance that no pitying indulgence for the sufferings of tempted weakness can be permitted to stand between an incensed public and the objects of its indignation, This stupendons shock to public feeling can be relieved and as- suaged only by such swift and unrelenting punishment as will serve as a warning to officers who may hereafter be tempted to abuse their trusts. If the case of Secretary Belknap were a solitary instance of criminal malversation a generous and magnanimous country would hold the President guiltless and regard him as merely unfortunate in the choice of one of his confidential advisers. But so indul- j gent and forbearing a judgment is impossi- ble when General Belknap is merely a sam- ple of the men by whom President Grant has been surrounded. The country has not forgotten that other members of the Cabinet have been forced into retirement by charges against theit honesty, although the evidence against them has not been so conclusive as to extort confessions of guilt like that which ‘has been made by General Belknap. At- | torney General Williams was compelled to i resign by unrefuted charges of spending the public money for landaulets for the private use of his wife and misapplying the funds of his department for electioneering uses in the Southern States, Secretary Delano was driven out of the Cabinet by unrefuted charges of corruption in connection with the Indian supplies. Secretary Richardson was | kept in the Treasury Department until pub- lic indignation forced him out, and the country was then scandalized by his ap- pointment as one of the judges of the Court of Claims, in spite of grave and unrefuted charges against his in- tegrity. Postmaster General Creswell resigned with a reputation which was far from clear, and Secretary Robeson remains, although the honesty of his admin- istration has been assailed on grounds which had as great a color of probability as any which have been Xeretofore alleged against | dheir orders direct to this office. Wat Srruer Yusrenpay.—The stock mar- Tket was unexcited yet irregular. Prices ‘elosed a trifle firmer. Money extremely easy at21-2a 3 per cent. Government bonds active and higher. Investment securities steady. Gold advanced to 114 5-8 Beuxxar Musr Nor be ‘thrown as atubto the whale. If the whale has sense he will not bestow much time on the tub, Aw Enorisn Swrxpie comes to relieve the monotony of the American article, It is in cotton. Don Cantos will reach London to-day on his run from the foot of the Pyrenees. It is expected he will now halt. Wrxstow, the Boston exile, seems anxious to put an agreeable face on the matter of his extradition, and professed in the Bow Street Police Court yesterday his entire willingness to return to America. The amiable bearing of the “Artful” in the same classic spot as described in ‘Oliver Twist” removes Mr. Winslow's acquiescence from the plane of originality. Iv tue Prestpext is not responsible for the crimes of Belknap he is responsible for his escapo from the justice of the House of Representatives. Cuartes O’Conor appeared in the Su- preme Court yesterday on the side of the yprosecution in the Tweed trial. This fact ewill rejoice thousands, and we hope to see this presence there become so common that municipal thieves of high and low degree shall resume the quaking they left off when ythe Nestor of the Bar lay in the hands of the doctors. Axorner Battie, with a defeat of the “Turks, is the insurgent answer to the re- ‘forms proffered by the Porte. Russia is bullying Montenegro into neutrality by word of mouth and keeping up the war feeling by suggestive winks. Austria is having her trouble for her pains in preaching pence when there is no peace. The Sultan cannot pay his bills. The outlook is not pleasant for the latter. Wares tHe Presipxnt adopted the policy of appointing stoff officers and not statesmen in his Cabinet he said that ho was respon- sible for the administration and meant to have men that he could trust. He appointed Belknap, when no one had ever heard of him ; he continued him in office after his compiicity with frauds had been made clear in the columns of the Henanp, and now he rescues him “from the just anger of the House, “Let no guilty man escape.” Torkisn Jucouery, applied to the interest on bonds in the possession of Englishmen, does not seem to be appreciated by the un- sentimental old lady of Threadneedle street. The Sultan, finding himself short of the in- terest on one loan, wished to transfer tho Egyptian tribute which is held by the Bank of England to pay the interest on another loan to the credit of that on which the deficit exists. This “robbing Peter to pay Paul” is highly popular in Eastern finance, where a province is plundered to pay off a brigade of cooks, and the cooks are in turn levied on to restore order in the prov- ince; but John Bull does not believe in such high art. Let the Sultan beware ! Such con- duct is slowly sapping the sympathy of tha English pation with his interesting Empixe, the Secretary of War. Even Mr, Fish, whose integrity no candid man doubts, has stood by General Schenck, who has been the oc- casion of the most unfortunate diplomatic scandal which has ever tainted the reputa- tion of the country. We need not refer to the minor cases of Babcock, of Leet and Stocking, of the President's brother Orville, his brothers-in-law, Casey and Dent, and the other brother-in-law, Corbin, who was mixed up with the Black Friday specu- lations, and other minor cases which have brought doubt and discredit on the purity of the administration. Some of these attacks have been attributed to reckless partisan violence, and their force has been blunted by the supposed malignity of their origin; but in the case of Belknap the evidence is so decisive and unanswerable that the culprit could make no denial, and hig confession of guilt strength- ens the presumption that other offenders were not unjustly accused. In the cases of Delano and Williams the facts have never been successfully impugned, and the pre- sumption of guilt is very strong in several of the others. The fact that Belknap eluded the vigilance ofthe President proves that his supervision of the departments has been inexcusably slack, and makes it credible that he has been equally blind to the dis- honest transactions of other officers. One of the worst features of these multi- tudinous scandals is the inflexible uni- formity with which the President has de- fended and protected the officers whose reputations have been assailed. He has turned a deaf ear to charges and proofs, and has done his utmost to stifle and defeat every searching investigation. Ho stood by Williams and Richardson and Delano until an outraged and indignant public sentiment forced them out of the Cabinet, and then gave them certificates of character, either in writing asin the case of Delano, or by ap- pointment to office as in the case of Kich- ardson, or by public acts of friendship as in the case of Williams. His efforts to shield ond save Babcock were not more indefensible than the attempt he made yesterday to rescue Belknap from the disgrace of a deserved impeachment. Bel- knap confessed his crime by offering his resignation, and tho President not only accepted it but took pains to convey prompt information of the fact to the committee of | the House with a view to forestall their action. There can be no excuse for this in- terference with the regular course of justice. | The President might with as much propriety accept the resignation of an officer after articles of impeachment against him had been presented to the Senate. The purpose of an impeachment is not merely to remove tho guilty officer, but to brand him with indelible infamy and make his punishment a terror and a warning to deter others from similar crimes. The pen- alty is not merely removal from office, but the stigma of disqualification for ever hold- ing any other position of trust under the | United States. The President has inter- posed to shield Secretary Belknap against the just punishmentof his deplorable crime, | If the resignation had not been accepted | there can be no reasonable doubt that an | impeachment would lie against Secretary Belknap. A resignation which is merely offered but not accepted does not terminate the right of an officer to exercise his funce ‘tions. If his resignation be not accepted | ne can again resume the office without conjuncture is too grave for the indulgence | a new appointment and a new confirmation by the Senate. His connection with the office is not sundered so long as he is not | put in such a position that a new appoint- ment by the President and Senate is neces- sary to enable him to resume its duties. Whether the acceptance of Belknap’s resigna- tion really protects him from impeachment is | a question on which opinions will differ; but there is no room for question that the pur- pose of the President was to bar an impeach- ment and assist a confessed criminal to flee from justice. This bold attempt to shield o guilty officer from the legal consequences of his crimes makes the President a moral accomplice in the guilt of Belknap. When ao member of his Cabinet who had abused his confidence and disgraced his administration is on the point of being arraigned for highcrimes and mis- demeanors the President ought to aid the | regular course of justice instead of attempt- ing to thwart and obstruct it. He should sur- render the culprit to the full legal conse- quences of his crimes. On the legal point relating to the im- peechability of an officer whose res- ignation has been accepted there was a difference of opinion in the House in the brief discussion yesterday, but we think it improbable that an impeachment can be sustained. Since the acceptance of his resignation Secretary Belknap is com- pletely out of office, and the federal consti- | tution authorizes the impeachment of nobody but civil officers of the government. General Belknap is no longera civil officer, and it seems very clear that he cannot be impeached. The point was made in the brief debate yesterday that the Honse should proceed to impeach him and leave this legal point for the decision of the Senate. But this would be a very idle proceeding if there is good ground for the opinion that the has no jurisdiction in such a case. no doubt that this will be the decision if the case is sent to the Senate, and we can there- | fore see no wisdom in spending time and effort in a vain attempt. The moral and political effect of Secretary Babcock's crime will be terribly damaging to the administra- tion, and the democratic majority of tho House will weaken their advantage if they make an abortive attempt to strain the law beyond its fair interpretation. This startling case makes every former ac- cusation against an American administration seem pale and tame. Hard things were said against the administration of President Bu- chanan because he had men in his Cabinet who proved to be secessionists, but the dem- ocratic disgrace of that period was not so foul as the sordid meanness of abusing high positions for mere private gain. In France Napoleon ILL. entered the road to ruin by his blind tolerance of corruption in the leading officers of his government, and the final re- sult was that when he supposed he had an army strong enongh to cope with Germany he found on trial that the money which should have been spent in equipping it had been embezzled by his faithless subordi- nates. The American government has made fearful advanees in a similar course, and it is high time for the people to come to the rescue. Brrxxar Has Nor committed suicide, as was absurdly reported. But he has mur- dered the republican party, The Coming Sioux War, There can be little doubt that we are about to enter on an Indian war which may extend over the wide tract of territory lying between the Missouri River and the Rocky Moun- tains. The endeavors to prevent it by peaceable negotiations last fall failed be- cause the Sionx chiefs could not agree among themselves as to the indemnity to be collectively asked by them of the govern- ment, afd the individual demands were either of a preposterous nature, such as no government could afford, or personally avar- icious and puerile. The council was broken up without approaching a conclusion, and the government Commissioners barely escaped massacre at tho hands of the wild bands through the timely aid of one of the chiefs, who not only informed the troops, but made such a disposition of his warriors as to foil the threatened repetition of the scene at the murder of General Canby. There is something very tragic in the con- dition to which the [ndian has fallen at our hands. Weare prone to condemn the greed and brutality with which the Span- iards treated the aborigines of Cuba, forcing them into slavery of such o terrible kind that the race entirely disappeared within a few years ; but we have nothing in our treat- ment of the red man ioc ‘atulate our- selves upon. He has heen sacrificed by us as fast as sacrifice became necessary to our aggrandizement. He has been pushed be- fore civilization or trodden down in its mareh. He has been taaght all the vices & civilization, and has improved only in learn- ing the art of killing. He cannot under- stand that it is useloss to keep up the fight with destiny. The white man has found gold in the Black Hills, and we are now face to free with the fact that a body of for- | tune-hunters can us into a war which will cosi more, perbaps, than the greatest sum asked by the Indian chiefs last fall. We are very likely to look sharply aiter anything like allowing ourselves to drift into a war with a foreign State, but our War Department has within its discretion the power of making wars that will require army supplies and bestow fat contracts on quite an extensive s While, therefore, it may be a necessity to strike and punish j the marauding bands, wo commend the entire question to the democratic majority of the House of Representatives to see that the acquisition of the Black Hills is not accom. plished at huge cost to the nation, to the | benedit only of thieving contractors and ac- companied by a further wholesale and un- necessary destruction of those whom out centennial orators call, with unconscious irony, ‘the wards of the nation.” force !—He has been called a thief, a plunderer, a boss, a conspirator, a states- man, a ballot stuffer, a demoralizer and a | democrat, and now his own counsel call him a victim. Fancy the indignation of Big Six when he learns that his costliest friends thus abuse his intelligence and lower his good | name among the inmates of the Peniten- j dary. Victim, bab! Poor Twe Senate would be compelled to decide that it | We have | The Republican Party—Streams of Cor- ruption and Demoraltzation. The downfall of Secretary Belknap means the ruin of the republican party. It is only another of the many streams of corruption and folly that have flowed from the present administration and from the party now in power. How can we fail to the inference that is seen in nature, science and history, that when the river is polluted the poison is most likely in the source. What foul streams’ have poured forth—the stream St. Domingo, | with the violations of law, jobbery and cor- ruption ; the stream French arms, with its infraction of international obligations ; the stream general order business, with its de- basement of New York politics ; the stream Akerman, with imbecility and oppression in the South ; the stream Richardson, with the Sanborn frauds; the stream Delano, with the infamies of the Indian Department ; the stream Babcock, with the frauds in the revenues. These are the currents of the present corrupt party. It is about time that the responsibility for this endless and ever- increasing flood should be placed where it belongs—on the party now in power. Let us see how this party has made itself responsible for this demoralization. Ricb- ardson, who approved the Sanborn fraud, shameless and unblushing as it was, was made a judge. Shepherd, driven from power as one unfaithful to his trust, was madea commissioner, and is the leader of adminis- tration society. Williams, after his sins were confessed, was intrusted with high duties. Schenck, after he allowed his name and his office to be the means of swindling women and children out of their income by bogus mining shares, was protected. Babcock came trom the dock of a St. Louis court, the cell of the jailbird McDonald, to become the private secretary to the President and Direc- tor of the Public Works. And now we have the Secretary of War, resigning his office, a confessedly corrupt and dishonest man, and protected from the just indignation of the House by the acceptance of his resignation. The true leaders of the party, the men who still possess the confidence of the people, should now take ground. Mr. Conkling ; has « higher stake in the affections of the re- publican party of New York than in any pos- sible devotion to the President. Is he in favor of corruption and maladministration ? Let him speak while there is time! Mr. Sherman is the leader of the republican party in Ohio, a State which is impor- tant to republican success. Does he approve of this stolid, depraved rule, which deadens the public sense of the nation? Let him speak while there is time! Mr. Blaine is the choice of New England for the Presidency—the representa- tive of a glorious Commonwealth. Does he feel that the legends of Andersonville are of more interest to the country than these pain- fal, ever increasing evidences of shame and crime? Let him speak while there is time ! For the time has come for every republi- can who sees in his party something more than a dumb echoing of Cresarism and folly to speak. It may be too late ! General Schenck and Little Emma. We have now the intelligence that Minister Schenck is about to return home to explain his connection with the deplorable Emma Mine business ; but before he leaves the teeming world of London behind we hope he will give a promise to go back at an early day. His own fair fame and the sadly shat- tered honor of his country alike demand such a pledge. Sheltered behind his diplomatic immunity he may remain safely in London ; but once leaving it and then disposing of his Ministership the wronged and robbed thousands of English investors would find the chance of testing General Schenck's responsibility as small as that of getting back their money. Hence our Min- ister at the Court of St. James should volun- tarily give bonds to return. It may be essential to General Schenck to fight the mat- ter out in Washington ; but unless he stands his ground in England his fature will be as clouded as that of the whilom republican Presidential candidate who stands con- demned by French law to a felon’s cell in contumaciam for his part in a similarly bot- tomless stock swindle. English law does not try a man in his absence ; but the eva- sion of a trial will, in General Schenck’s caso, be as morally destructive of his char- acter as the sentence of the French court on General Fremont. This Emma Mine business shows the gul- libility of the English people in a peculiar light. England is fall of peopte with small fortunes who do not desire to invest them in business, but are always on the lookout for any stock investment that will bring any rate of interest higher than the old comforta- bie three per cents. They are not rieh enough to go to the fountain-head for infor- mation like large capitalists, and hence must rely on the representations of others. ‘They mostly belong to the decent classes, and to thousands of them the loss of their fortune meens beggary. For them is the glittering prospectns made, For them is it studded over with names that seem synonyms of honor, stability and safety. For English projects a man or two of title is necessary, but for an American trap no bait could bo more alluring than the name of the American Minister at the Court of St. James. His business, to be sure, is nota promoter of bubble companies, but his name in a pros- pectus is as incontestable a fact as a fiy in amber, althongh it may trouble every honest man in America to know how it got there. How did it? The casual visitor to Salt Lake City in the summer of 1871 gontd learn that its wealth and that with all in sight, geologically remote as the prospects of a poker player ‘filling his hand” when draw- ing to a single ace—a form of comparison we have specially used to bring the matter home to General Schenck. It was even reported that the owners were afraid to work the mine for | General Schenck’s means of information in- ferior to that of the stray visitor to Utah? Or did he lend his name to the speculation without taking the trouble to inquire? Decidedly, the plea of being a victim is as dangerous to him as any other he could i make draw | the Emma Mine was only a rich “pocket,” | the chance of finding o true vein of | ore within the radius of the claim wes as | fear of its prematurely “petering out.” Were | | State of affuirs in Superintendent Kiditle’s | SHEET. The Street Cars. It is to be hoped that the street car com- Panies are pleased with the results of the interview of their agents at Albany with the Railroad Committee, for the people certainly will be. In the pithy conversations between | the members of-the committee and the agents of the companies, as reported by our correspondent, the public can see the whole case ata glanee, Mr, Sullivan, of the Brook- lyn City Railroad Company, argued for the | interests of that company at some length to prove that a proper administration would ruin it, and then was forced to admit that its shares are now worth ‘one hundred and eighty,” which scems to indicate a pros- perity not to be easily damaged. This gen- | tleman pleaded the dreadful hardship of his company that it only made seven-tenths of a cent on each dollar; but this sum- profit on each five cent fare, is four- teen per cent—a fact which should have been considered before complaining at such again. There arc several facts that some of these railroad men should explain at Albany, and one cf them is in regard to the incapa- city of the streets to accommodate their cars | if they run more than are now on. They say that cars will then be ran so close to- gether that people cannot cross the streets. If that be true, how is it that anybody can now cross West Broadway, in which street are run all the cars of three companies ? Sixth avenue, Eighth avenue and Broadway cars now run down that street, and the cars of two lines run up it, yet other tratlic is not greatly troubled. The Killian bill is rather strengthened than hurt by the assault made thus far, and, with the improvements that Mr. Killian proposes, will be an. effective measure. In the modifications contemplated he should keep in view the bill drafted by Mr. Bergh, and should incorporate in his own measure all its essential features. Tue Stienxce or Brarxe.—Mr. Blaine had nothing to say yesterday in the House on the question of Belknap’simpeachment. He had ne word of criticism upon the resigna- tion of the Secretary and its acceptance by the President in defiance of the House. Mr. Blaine had a fine opportunity in the House to show that he is interested in other matters than the legends of Andersonville. Should the Cabinet Resign?! It is a question whether the whole Cabinet should not resign. The administration is rotten, and millions of people who did not believe so yesterday are convinced of it to- day. The confession of the guilty Secretary of War is a revelation. He could not have been guilty of the crimes he has confessed and remained undiscovered in a Cabinet that was pure. It is aday of judgment. The political heavens are rolled together like # scroll and are consumed with fire; vainly the wicked call on the mountains to overwhelm them and hide them from the wrath to come. e The terrible force of Secretary Belknap's confession, the horrible meaning that is em- bodied in his guilt, is unbroken by the fact that there are pure men in the President's Cabinet. He was their associate, and they were jointly with him the President's ad- visers. There is not entirely a divided re- sponsibility in the Cabinet. Mr. Fish and Mr. Bristow and Mr. Jewell are not merely officers charged with the conduct of affairs of State, of the Treasury and the Post Office. The Cabinet is in its highest capacity a unit. Every member of it has the honor of the government in his keeping, and that honor cannot be lost by one without more or less responsibility attaching to the others. Were these men blind, that they could not see, till a democratic Congress compelled them, that the head of the War Department was selling the soul of the government? They were blind—for we do not believe them corrupt— but their blindness has given the nation eternal shame. Because of the indifference of the President and the Cabinet to the scandals which long ago darkened the War Department the country is now humiliated in dust and ashes. The pure members of a corrupt adminis- tration are like living men chained to a corpse, We presume that the first thought of Mr. Fish when he knew of this fearful fali of his colieague was whether he could in self- respect remain a member of a disgraced Cab- inet. This is not the ‘first disgrace, but the culmination of a long series of infamies that area part of the history of the administra- tion. The corruptions of the government are so numerous and notorious that it is a question whether the self-respect of an honest and honorable man will permit him to be connected with it. We are more sorry to write this of the government of the United chee than any American citizen can be to read it; but we write simply what is the | truth. It is a question, we say, whether the whole Cabinet should not resign, and, happily, we are not called upon to answer it. Mr. Fish and Mr. Bristow must judge for themselves, But one duty they have to perform is plain. Ifthey remain in thie rotten, disgraced ad- ministration, they must de: d of the Presi- dent the authority to reform it. That is the only condition upon which self-respoct aud | a Cabinet office can now be reconciled, If the President refuses to concede this right the sooner all honest men leave him the better it willbe for themselves and for the natry. | Iv tre Action of the President in accept- ing Belknap's resignation means anything at allitis that he means to stand by his friends* whether Lhey are right or wrong. pitt Health in the Public Schoots. There cannot bea subject of graver im- portance than ‘he ventilation of onr public schoolhouses. Badly constructed class rooms, especially when more children are put into them than they can accommodate, will work greater injary than a plagne. Il health is a common thing among the chil- dren in the public schools in this city, and the cause of it in nine eases out of ten is’ in the crowding of so many persons into the schoolrooms. Attention was called to this annual report, but it isa peeulisrity of our mimnicipal boards never to act in any watter until forced to it by public opinion, Neithe the Board of Education nor the Board of Tiealth bas taken any tiotice of tha Buperin tendent's vegge* and uniess our citizens learn that their children are being poisoned day by day in the public schools, both on account of the want of ventilation of the schoolrooms and the way in which the chil- dren are huddled into a space fit for only half the number, even under the most favor- able conditions, there will be no remedy. We trust, however, that official indifference will not be allowed to continue much longer, but that sufficient accommo- dations will be provided for all the children in our public schools, and that all of these buildings will be rendereg health- ful in every respect. The Evidence Against Belknap. The evidence of Mr. Caleb P. Marsh, of New York city,- against Secretary Belknap states that he paid the Secretary in all twenty thousand dollars out of the forty thousand .dollars he received from the ap- pointment to the post tradership at Fort Sill, I. T., given him by the latter. This forty thousand dollars was clear profit, as Mr. Marsh testifies that by an arrangement with a Mr. Evans, the post trader before him, the latter carried on the business, giving Marsh » bonus of twelve thousand dollars a year for two years and six thousand dollars a year since. As Mr. Marsh received the pay- ments he regularly halved them with the Secretary of War. The money was sent in various ways or handed over in person. The appointment was procured in 1871, Mr. Marsh testifies, through the offices of the de- ceased Mrs. Belknap and his present wife, then Mrs, Bowers, the deceased wife's sister. On being served with the subpmna’ to give evidence before the House Committee on Expenditures in the War Department Mr. Marsh went to Washington and con sulted with Secretary Belknap and his wife as to what he should do. Belknap was ex- cited and begged Marsh to extricate him from the impending ruin. Mrs, Belknap suggested a plan of evading the truth in the matter, but Marsh told her it “would not hold water before the committee.” Marsh offered to leave the country, but his counsel pointed out that he would have to remain away until the present Congress expired; the Secretary said Marsh’s going away would ruin him equally with Marsh's telling the truth, Mr. Tomlinson, Mrs. Belknap's brother, suggested another evasbry plan, by which only a part of the truth would be told. Marsh at last threw all the plans overboard, went before the committee and gave the above account of the transaction. PERSONAL’ INTELLIGENCE. Supervising Architect Potter has a fine tenor voice. Mrs, General Burnside still remains in a critical con. dition. The Chicago Tribune says that trial by newspapor never acquits. People who study books on poker and whist are usu, ally losing players. Milwaukee newspapers are now edited with seven. shooters and canes. In the New York market you may now buy straw- berries at $2 a smell. a Ernest Longfellow, son of the poet, has recently made $8,000 from his paintings. Liszt the pianist’s fingering is described as that ofa ‘man who tried to pat a buzz-saw. Overa thousand pamphlets have been written show the patient hen how to lay eggs. , Senator Thurman uses a red bandanna handk and it ain’t any lazy kind of a handkerchiet either. One bushel of shelled corn makes four barrels of popped corn, General Belknapshould have thought of this, “Why,’? said Phil. Sheridan to the nurse, ‘the poor young one has no teeth. You couldn’t live without teeth.” People who do not wish to be “at home’’ to callers this year may let the servant say, ‘Gone to the Cin- tinyal.” Probably the best way after al! to stop the tramps from roaming the country is to call a general democratic convention. Ex-Governor John Letcher, of Virginia, was stricken with paralysis yesterday, morning. His condition is considered serious. Sardou, the scurrilous dramatist, is sick with influ enza, and every time he begs a piece of tobacco he sneozes forth—‘A-chew!”? The kangaroo is now raised for food m Paris. It may bo well to meption that the kangaroo {s an Australian animal that carries its young around in its vest pocket, Minstrelsy, which has faded out of France and Germany with the extinction of the troubador and the minnesinger, still survives in Servia tm all its mediwval vigor. A Washington physician argues that love proceeds from the stomach, and that the heart has nothing to do with it. Then, after all, a heart-ache is only a sublime sort of colic. Dr. T. ©. Duncan, of Chicago, says that the mild winter is likely to be succeeded by an evidemic of some kind growing out of influenza, and he predicts a very unhealthy spring. “Who didn’t steal watermelons when he was a boy ?’» asks the Christian Witness. We didn’t. The editor of the Christian Witness took so many that there were none left for us to steal, x “Max'’ wants to know how ho may break through the conventionality which compels him to leave his girl at half-past ton. Give a minister $4 50, and toll him to put a stop to it, Statistics show that the average hog iast year weighed 221 pounds. This year he weighs 263 pounds, If the Chicago Tribune thinks that this item is nota “personal” ft is too modest. Aman offers a prize for the best shirt made by the girls at a certain college; and the girls retaliate by offering a prize for the best French yoke cornucopis made by the foale students. Indians raid for horses in the embryo towns along the Union Pacific Railroad. Yet the government is more tender of an Indian's feolings, if he has any, than it is of the white pioneer's horses. General Garfiela is reported as laboring in his district, the Nineteenth Ohio, to secure delegates to the Cincin- nati Convention who will be externally for Hayes and internally and eternally for Bixine, Professor Wilder, of Cornell University, says that if you are choking gu upon all fours and cough. Brother Shearman, when choking with tears, has been doing this for years; but while prancing around like a yearling sorrel colt he has never been able to scratch car with bis left boot. Aw advertisement In @ newspaper in England am nounces that “a grand pianoforte will be exchanged for three of four small pigg.”” The worst of it is, that when © piano gots squealing you can't stop it; but a pailful of ewill will stop a pig from playing at any time, ifthe pig can only get both feet into the keyboard. Dr. W. K. Brooks has rend a paper on the affinities of the mollusca and mulinscoida, The claseification of the yarious groups designated by these two names has eon the subject of cadiess disputes, and all the schemes proposed have boon disproved and abandoned one after another, Dr. Brooks bas never seen the Parisian Va- Treties on the haif shell. President Gilardin, one of the most tearned and equitabic of Fronch judges, said:--“Long experience on the bench has convinced me that the vast majority of persons who suo for judicial separation were not fitted for wedded life, They never fail to urge that 1 Sages ake t h and what if they the person from be seyarated they might bave bere ay Ue true tn some Tew gages, bul gew role at ease one Of the partion te semper ix wholly ‘ntractable, and 4 nuGece What wouln be gained by allowing (his party | to fo aud marty agiin and maite ® second avme as wrovehed Ga he or she hag mide the first.” .