The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1876, Page 8

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Gold was quoted at 114 5-83a 1143-4. Money was supplied at 3 a 3 1-2 per cent. Foreign exchange was quict. A Prrvcess born in Athens. A trouble- some moment for persons of that class. Tue Cosr oy tox German Any SrsTEm is commencing to tell adversely against the interests of art and industry in the Empire, Both will be worthily repregpnted at Phila- delphia nothwithstanding. Goop Trz.—The schooner yacht Vesta, New York Yacht Club, Mr. 8. M. Mills owner, left New London harbor on the 12th ult. and arrived at Queenstown on the 29th ult., making the very creditable winter pas- tage of seventeen days across the Atlantic, Good as this time is it will be remembered that the Vesta beat it in 1866 from this port nearly three days in her race with the Hen- dietta and Fleetwing. Canprnan Lepocnowsxi.—His Eminence of Posen and Gniesen has commenced to enjoy some of the earthly rewards of his sufferings. He has been embraced and specially blessed by the Pope. He will no doubt also receive his scarlet hat from the hands of the Pontiff. If charity did not prevail he would no doubt be glad to hear that his countrymen, the Poles, are likely to givea considerable amount of political and terri- torial trouble to the imperialist spoliators of Austria, Russia and Prussia, A Desrrvep Measvnr.—Mr. Strahan has introduced into the House at Albany a bill in reference to arrears of taxes in New York. This bill provides that any person may pay to the Comptroller the amount of any tax or assessment upon property, real or personal, within a year with interest at seven per cent | from the time of its assessment. The effect pf this measure will be to aid the Comptrol- jer in recovering unpaid taxes and assess- ments, and to aid the owners of property in paying such taxes or assessments. As ao measure of relief and of revenue it deserves the attention of the Legislature. Paciric Mat is disturbed by a “‘crooked- tess” in the accounts between its San Fran- cisco agent and the company. The amount in question is qnly three-quarters of a million of dollars, and the lawyers are try- | ing to find out who has got it. Tho fact that the amount was originally earned in the | China trade suggests that perhaps, atter all, | it was some “heathen Chinee” who cheated the innocent ‘‘Melican man” out of his money. The court is now engaged in determining what should constitute just grounds for suspicion in the premises. Woe respectfully suggest the fact that—the money is gone. es | Ler Sreaxrr Kern Take tux Stanp.—It | now seems that the chairman of the Commit- tee on War Expenditures is Mr. Clymer, who was a classmate of Mr. Belknap at college, | and that Mr. Blackburn, another member, through his wife was on terms of close inti- | macy with the Belknap family. Spenker Kerr might tell us who suggested these | names. ‘The coincidence is suggestive—too | much s0 to be comfortable. We know that | Mr. Kerr is an invalid and that the commit- tees were the work of a council of political doctors who took him in charge. But we | | govern the country. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1876—QUADRUPLE SHEET. ' Belknap’s Fall and the Republican Party. tion, to compel a reluctant Lincoln to obey its will and to drive a Johnson to the verge A Centennial Canvass. We print elsewhere some communications General Grant is responsible for the con- | of impeachment, to hold the true culprits | in reference to the proposition that the dition of affairs which bears fruit in the downfall of his Minister. We can trace the whole tree of corruption back to his idea that the Presidency was a personal possession and not a trust. The theory of representative government in England and in the United States until the time of Grant was that the Cabinet should be a council of statesmen representing the party, men experienced in the duties of administration who possessed the confi- dence of the people, and whose acces- sion to office would satisfy the demands of the party. By this means the government was kept near to the people. Cabinet officers felt that their promotion in the party and their chances of advancement before the country depended upon their devotion to the public welfare. It was not merely a chief they served, buta party and the country. The President brought into his office the dangerous and extraordinary idea that he was to command the country as he commanded the army. It was o per- sonal office. Republicanism became Grant- ism. The function of the republican party ceased when it elected him President, just as in Bonaparte’s times the function of tho French people ceased when they voted a plebiscitum. He gave offices to supporters as Napoleon was wont to give his crosses of honor to reward personal ser- vices. Having laid’ down this pernicious principle he first called to his Cabinet men who had been his cronies and who had ) made a pleasant personal impression upon him. Then he quartered his relatives and flatterers upon the public Treasury wherever he could find room for them—from Kremer, who was made a Minister, down to the Dent who, we believe, still owns a swindling trade store in New Mexico, Having done this, and to strengthen himself with the only power he had to fear, the Senate, he began at once to debauch it with patronage. Sena- tors were shamelessly bribed, until the whole republican majority was debauched with power and place. Every republican Sen- ator became a creature of the President. Wherever we look in the country we find the’ federal offices filled with the friends and flatterers of Senators. The roll call in New York is little more than the roll call of the friends of Mr, Conkling. In Pennsylvania we have no one in office who cannot swear allegiance to the tribe of Cam- eron, So down the whole blue book we have alist of the offices which have been used by a despotic and arbitrary President to degrade the Senate. This degraded republican Senate, and every Senator has the President's patronage in his pocket like a bribe, became the coarse, dumb, uncomplaining register of his will. It is only worthy to be ranked with the Sen-' ates of the later Roman Empire. When the President at the outset of his administration asked the Senate to allow him to violate a law to oblige a friend, there was only one Senator, the lamented and illustrious Sumner, who dared to sayin his place that the dignity of a law was even higher than the whim, of a President of the United States. The example was soon forgotten. Every creature Grant sent into the Senate was confirmed. The only time when independence was shown was when the President forgot to oblige some Senator like the carpet-bagger West. Then the Senate interfered and claimed that ‘‘the claims of States should be recognized.” Even Grant was not al- lowed to name officers in such States as Ala- bama or Louisiana, forinstance, who were not acceptable to West and Spencer. So from step to step the whole patronage of the govern- ment was used for two purposes—namely, to aggrandize Ulysses S. Grantand to keep the Senate subservient to his will. We have now, as we have had since the accession of Grant to power, a government as personal as that of Louis Napoleon. It bears its fruits in the Belknaps, the Babcocks and the Shep- herds, even as the imperial government bore its fruits in the De Mornys, the Persignys, the St. Arnauds. The end in France only came when France, bleeding, torn, humili- ated, stripped, her fields in desolation, her cities in flames, her sons at the mercy of the j foe, saw the Emperor a prisoner at Sedan and the Empire overwhelmed with shame and disaster. Where will the end be with us?. It was only the other day that the Herawp printed an able and elaborate article | from one high in authority in Washington advocating the nomination of the President forathird term. We called attention to it as the culmination of the third term move- ment, as the official declaration that a party with a debauched Senate in power, with a retinue of flatterers, jobbers and adventurers swarming about it, with thieving rings in whiskey, in real estate, in mining shares, in post stores, proposed ‘to use this power to perpetuate the dynasty which now rules the country and which bids fair to go into history as the worst administration we have ever had—worse even than those of Buchanan and Johnson. We repeat that Belknap is a symptom of the disease, not sporadic case of personal dishonesty. This miserable and degraded wretch, who only yesterday was the Secre- | tary of War, is a sample of the men who now For this and for all that may come in its train the leaders of the republican party are also responsible. Mr, Blaine, Mr. Conkling, Mr. Fish, Mr. Morton, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Edmunds, are all as | responsible for this moral carthquake as the President. They have submitted to every command and indorsed every outrage. They have been the willing advocates of every act of usurpation which has marked the admin- istration from St. Domingo down. By their aid this crowd of adventurers and jobbers, whose representative is now under impeach- ment, were enabled to hold power. They consented to all of it. They had no protest, no objection, and now, when the whole Bel- knap business stands before us in its naked deformity, when we see ring after ring breaking and developing the deepest corrup- e when we find the American name over tne world the synonyme of official dis- honesty, when becanse of the infamy of this trusted leader of the administration our very institutions are in reproach, it is time responsible. These men have been the leaders of the party for years. There is not a republican Senator who can escape this condemnation. If they had been true to the party and the best interests of the country; if they had held their high place free from the contamination of patronage; if they had felt that some- thing was due to the spirit of our institutions and the welfare of the party as well as to the stubborn ambition of a military chief there would have been an end of this long, long ago. As it is, if the country, as now seems probable, will turn upon the republican party and repudiate it, the blame will rest upon Grant and his subservient Senators. The power that was given them has been used for theirownaggrandizement. Belknap in the dock or at the barof the Senate is only typical of the position which the republican party in the persons of its trusted leaders now holds before the coun- try. All are guilty alike—guilty of subser- viency to the will of s military dictator, guilty of selling their Senatorial influence for patronage, guilty of betraying their great party into the hands of a gang of military adventurers who only came into the party when it gave them office, and who have no sympathy with it outside of the gains it has bestowed upon them. Because of the slavish submission of the Conklings, the Shermans, the Blaines, the Mortons to the will of the President this shame has come upon the nation. Men not only say that the institutions of a republic are insuffi- cient for the purposes of an economical and free government. They ask whether, after all, we should not, in this cen- tennial year, take the whole fabric to pieces and see if we cannot have an ad- ministration machine which will give us something other than ‘‘cronies” in the Cabinet, slaves in the Senate and thieves in the public offices. Our London Cable Letter. The arrival of the fleeing Pretender, Don Carlos, in London last evening ends for the present the troubles he has brought upon Spain during the past five years, three of which he spent in that unfortunate country He can now show his fine form in perfect safety to the admiring gaze of the London ladies, The English press do not take kindly to him, thinking that a whole skin is not much to his credit. If he pays the mill- ion he owes to his English admirers the papers will not judge him so harshly, for no one can discriminate better between the scorn to be pointed at a worthless Pre- tender and the respect to be paid to a customer than your Englishman, Disraeli, on whom the sun shines now, even if it leaves all else in London rayless, keeps on his conquering way. If he scorns any title himself he may make his Queen an Empress, and that is a sort of privilege that in a land of caste he may be well envied for. From England, too, the Belknap shame comes back to make us hang our heads. The dubious greed of Bacon, the corruption of Walpole, the avarice of Marlborough, belong to the past, and we can only resolve that in the future we shall be able to look back to the time of Grant and Belknap as ; calmly as the English historian looks back to the worthies we have mentioned, and when even Mr. Schenck's dealings with Little Emma will be confounded with another kind of scandal. On the heels of Little Emma comes to us a racy description of the sport over which London is going mad—the rinkomania. It went mad over velocipedes just as we did here some years ago; but the enthusiasts think it will only fall when London Bridge is tumbled into the Thames. How our Ameri- can horses are faring in England is also re- ported, and with the chat of the theatres and gossip of a dozen kinds our London letter is replete with varied interest. Our Paris Cable Letter. The lull before the coming battle in the new French Chambers leaves Paris flounder- ing in a state of uncertainty which the bad, dull weather does not help to make bearable. Paris loves motion, and hence at pres- ent, with Lent thinning the theatres, politics quiet, and the ball season over, our correspondent celebrates stagnation. Itseems however, that the Bonapartist organs have seized on the Belknap ignominy to preach therefrom a sermon on the danger of repub- | lican institutions. This audacity must be | very amusing to French republicans. We | need not palliate or condone any offence | among the officials of our Republic to re- mind the shadows, Jackeys and ghouls of the lower Empire that in their case infamy was protected, corruption connived | at, inquiry stifled, enormous fortunes made out of State secrets, and the nation at last left cheated and empty to her fate, at the | hands ofa relentless foreign enemy. How | the ghosts of Louis Napoleon and De Morny | must chuckle over the sheets that talk in the name of Bonaparte against the dis- | honesties of republics! The corruption | of the grave laughs to the corruption that sat on its tinsel throne in the Tuileries. To | steal is a crime here, and it was to protect | theft laws were made and decrees issued | there. Let rebuke come from any source | but that and we may accept it with sadness | and silence. The theatrical news from Paris | mostly foreshadows the future. It gives us | a promise of Italian opera here during the | Centennial. Purmapetrnta had a great fire yesterday. The entire loss is estimated at nearly half a million dollars, and was principally in dry | goods. It is very seldom that the Quaker | City distinguishes itself in this direction ; | but this is its centennial year and the era of | great events. Tar Ixvestication of the muddled ac- } counts of the Third Avenue Savings Bank | has developed that the officers kept a set of | ledgers in which the entries do not corre- | spond, and consequently no one can tell | which of them is correct. In order to establish beyond doubt the beauty of the | style of bookkeeping in favor of the broken | bank Colonel Sellers has been employed to should like to have these two appointments | for the people, and especially for honost | find out if “there's millions in it.” The dis- explained. Wero tho friends of Belknap | Woking ont for storms? | republicans who remember the proud days when the party dared to proclaim emancipa- appearance of the savings of the duped de- Dositors sets at rest all doubts on that score, American people should celebrate this con- tennial year by departing from the dirty and dangerous paths of party politics and nomi- nating some one of our citizens fur the Presi- dency in whose veins runs the noble blood of the Revolution. “ML” suggests that we take John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, and John Hancock, of Toxas, and asks, “What more glorious names for the centen- nial year than Adams and Hancock?” “Centennial” writes from Philadelphia and nominates Senator Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, “grandson of General Frelinghuy- sen, of the Revolution.” ‘Continental” writes from New Jersey, indorsing our sug gestion generally, but without naming a candidate. ‘Convention,” writing from Washington, proposes thet the Hxnanp should call a ‘Centennial Convention, to meet on June 1 or sooner, to discuss great national questions” and ‘‘inaugurate a national people's party.” If the Henao were to call this convention, our correspond- ent thinks, ‘“‘all the people would say, Amen !" As to the nomination of Hancock, of Texas, we should like to know whether he has in his veins any of the old Revolutionary blood before we enroll him on our list of ‘‘centen- nial candidates.” This point is essential and is the first qualification. As to Freling- htysen, he has a good name and very good Jersey blood, but he unfortunately has be- longed to Grant's subservient Senate. He is one of the Senators who have allowed tho country and the party to drift without pro- test into the control of a ring of military ad- venturers and advocates of Cresarism with- out ever raising a voice in favor of the Repub- lic for which his grandfather fought with so much valor. We want no one from this de- graded Senate, a The proposal that we should have a con- vention to rearrange the constitution is timely and will bear careful thought. What we want is an old fashioned Hail Columbia- Yankee Doodle canvass—one that will bring back the men and the memories of the Revo- lution, Religious Press Topics. The Plymouth Advisory Council receives attention from the Independent, which is not, of course, at all pleased with the results of its investigation nor with the commission pro- vided for by that body in case new or, as the Independent calls it, undeveloped evidence, is forthcoming within the sixty days specified. The great distress of the editor is that the Council did not provide for a secret commis- sion, and that it insisted on the charges and specifications being presented, with tho proofs thereof, to insure any notice being taken of them. The Council was “easily captured by gush” and ‘‘has done no honor to Congregationalism,” says the Independent. The Evangelist has a better opinion of the Council, which it thinks was on ‘the whole able and fair and contained some of the best known and most honored names in the Con- gregational denomination. The questions of Congregational order and polity that have been decided, the Evangelist thinks, are of very little importance compared with the graver questions which interest the whole Christian public—namely, Does the Congre- gational system allow of a full and fair trial of an accused pastor and church? And has Mr. Beecher already had such an ecclesiasti- cal trial? The Hvangelist thinks the Andover proposition should have been accepted, and, while it seems to have a lingering doubt of Mr. Beecher’s innocence of the principal charge uttered against him, it hopes that his innocence may yet be made clear to all. The Baptist Weekly bas seldom seen a more noble body of Christian men in council than the late Advisory Council, and their decision will not fail to command the confidence of all fair-minded men. It admires Mr. Beevher's boldness in challenging the closest scrutiny into his life and actions, and agrees with the /verior in declaring that, if it was the courage of innocence, it was most sub- lime. The Weekly confidently anticipates a day of righteous retribution and of com- plete vindication for the Plymouth pastor. The only other topic noticed with any great degree of unanimity by the religious press is education, either secular or religious, The Christian Union tells us that the New Testament method of teaching religious truth is by the social element. ‘‘We,” says the editor, ‘‘do not dare to say ‘I love you’ to anybody, except here and there one in some corner, but Paul threw out love by the hindrance to the richness and power of religious life at the present day is the want of the social clement. The Freeman's Jour- nal pleads for the replacement of the pa- gan classics in our higher educational in- stitutions by Christian classics, and cites proofs that the Catholic Church has thus pleaded for a long time, but evidently in vain. This is in the line of the Christian education which it demands in the public schools. The Christian Intelligencer quotes from a letter ot Thomas Jefferson to George | Ticknor, recently published, to show that he had a much better appreciation of the value and importance of education than Bishop McQuaid has, and he urged the State to provide free education, from the element- ary to the classical, for all its citizens. The Hebrew Leader thinks religion is a means of culture, and in proof thereof cites the case of the Hebrew nation, which existed for ages, in contrast with the Roman Empire, which, for lnck of religious culture, was casily blotted out by its borbarous neighbors, The Belknap Disease. Department cannot be dismissed as an inci- dent of the hour, as the crime and the folly of one man, to be punished by his impeach- admit what the Paris newspapers say as to this being an evidence of the decadence of American institutions. The French news- papers forget what was proved by no less an authority than the Duc d’Audiffret-Pasquier as to the jobbery under the Empire. itis idle rhetoric to attempt to show that the crime of a man like Belknap is an evidence of the corruption of a whole party or a whole peovle, There has never been a society or a handsful.” The Union gives illustrations of this promiscuous loving of the great apostle, and says the greatest | The revelations in reference to the War | ment and indictment; nor are we disposed to | system, monarchical or republican, that did not have its sewers of corruption. We have no doubt that if, like Asmodeus, we could lift the roofs from Washington life we should find o thousand cases of peculation as flagrant as this of Belknap. The discovery is the seandal. Tho fact that an officer who sat at the side of the Prosident as his trusted counsellor, and had the care of one of the most important departments of the govern- ment, should show himself to be not only a common thief but an oppressor of the poor soldiers shows the insensibility of the present administration to the common obli- gations of any government to the people, It must not be dismissed as an isolated case, but as a symptom of a deep and terrible disease. Mr. Bowen's Statement. Bowen—one of the best abused men of the time—a man who had veritably become a sort of Brooklyn sphinx—has at last written and published a statement, with proper reservations, of his knowledge of the career of Henry Ward Beecher. It is a terrible story, and the least important indication it gives is that on the famous trial for adultery the Plymouth pastor was saved by the legal strategy that shut out the testimony of nearly every important witness, It is nearly two years since the Beecher scandal came out in such a shape as to force Plymouth church to take public notice of it. Before that even much had been whispered of what Mr. Bowen knew, and not a week has passed since with- out mutterings from some quarter of the na- ture of the revelations he could make, In such circumstances a much promised or much threatened disclosure is discounted in the imaginations of the public. Men and women speculate as to what it may involve, and they carry their speculations very far, and generally they go in this way so much beyond what can be truthfully disclesed by anybody on any subject that the very dis- closure when it comes is thought tame and | falls flat. It is a just measure of the gravity and severity of Mr. Bowen's tecital to say that it does not fall flat in the circum- stances, and that it is beyond what was pictured as possible by any person having no other acquaintance with the facts than what was accessible to the gen- eral public. Bowen does not pander to any prurient curiosity. He does not give the names of the women to whom he refers as the victims of Mr. Beecher previous to his liaison with Mrs. Tilton, but he states the cases sufficiently, and has declared already in what circumstances he will give the names. It is not enough to answer this with a defiance to come out with the whole story. That sort of evidence of a clear conscience may be given the more easily and cheaply because it is known that Bowen isa man who can hold his tongue, and will do so if he deems it proper. Meantime, Bowen's declaration is a challenge, a specification to Plymouth church on what terms exactly it can have all the facts it pretends to want ; and it takes very great pains not to meet the challenger on the ground he has chosen. But there is one way, clearly, in which the church can have the facts, and that not Bowen's way. Mr. Beecher can now sue him for libel. Mr. Bowen has written this state- ment, and he, we suppose, has made it pub- lic. Here, therefore, is a chance for tho whole story to come out, and on a trial for libel all the parties would be competent wit- nesses, even to Mrs, Tilton herself. ™M. Our Paris letter gives an account of this the last great theatrical event in France—an event that has a certain interest for readers even at this distance, but in which our countrymen and countrywomen resident at the French capital have a much more lively concern. It has been understood that the character in this play from which it derives its title is intended for a satire on American women as they are seen in the glare of Paris gaslight. Indeed, this fact has been so gen- erally given ont that, as we have already had occasion to inform our readers, M. Dumas underwent the labor, the torture, we might | say, of reading thirty books about America in order to prepare himself for the tre- mendous feat of presenting to the Parisian audiences a man and a woman of this profli- gate race. But for the fact thus made known of his intention to have the heroine of his play understood to be an American we cannot see that any one would have guessed her nationality, and his American woman might very well be classed with those supposititious Arabs in the zouave ; regiments who were all born in the Fau- bourg St. Antoine. She is an American who has never breathed any other air than that of Paris. Her first appearance is as an in- triguante, She is a matrimonial mancu- vress ; and if this is one of our national in- dustries we were not aware of it. Her next appearance is that of a woman in love and | jealous. Neither is this characteristic of us | as a nation to our knowledge. Nor can it be said that under impulses thus arising this woman acts otherwise than women do in | most countries, but more particularly in the country with which M, Dumas is best ac- qnainted, It is singular that M. Dumas should attribute some extravagant passions in this woman to the fact that there is negro blood in her veins; and it is singular that he should himself be personally qualified to de- pict passions that may have such an origin, This is a strange psychological fact. Dumas’ New Play. appears to be American—this is that when he has a duel he kills his man. That, at all events, is not French, Pulpit Topics To-Day, Under various pretexts of one sort and nity a prejudice against uniting with the Church, and under the specious pleading that if one is a Christian he or she can be as good out of the Church asin it. Mr. Hep- worth will dispel that illusion to-day, and to emphasize his arguments will receive thirty- | three persons into his church membership, | over whom the eye of God as well ns tho eyes of the Church will rest. When the at- traction of the Cross is felt and its influ- and made plain as Mr. Soitz will make it, and when tho spiritual transformation has taken place which Mr, Horr will describo, Thero- is only one trait even in the husband that | another there has grown up in the commn- | ence and powcr presented as Mr, ‘Lloyd will present them; when tho, j meaning of salvation is understood << $3. $$$ and the transformed soul has confessed Christ and followed Him in the way that Mr. Nicholson will point out, then wjll the Church have not the form of godliness merely, but its power also, and the king- dom of God, as Mr. Jptten believes should be, will be the first object of search. Dr. Armitage will offer the sheep that was lost as @ peace offering, and Mr. Saunders will send the Prodigal Son into God’s vineyard to work instead of keeping him to herd swing. The salvation of some persons is of such a sort that it may well be described by Mr. Phelps as by fire. Mr. Alger will present the evidences for a belief in the retognition of friends in the future state ; Mr. Leavell will discuss the communion question, and Mr, Rowell will claim the Christian's legacy left him by the Founder of Christianity. Mr. Dowling will enter tho solitary places and with voice and eloquence proclaim the glad truths of the Gospel. Dr. Fulton and Mr, Mulford will make Mr. Belknap their text, the former comparing tho fallen War Secretary with Stanton and proving by the comparison the necessity of personal integrity to public faith. The latter will contrast the complex robbery of Mr. Belknap with tho simple theft of many a poor man who is now aton- ing for his crime in a murky dungeon. Mis- sionary addresses will be delivered by Mr. Vail and Mr. Leavell, and the visions of the prophet Daniel will be harmonized by Mr. Snow, the curse laid upon woman will be lifted by Mr. Giles, the lessons found in the boyhood of Jesus will be taught by Mr. Mc- Carthy and a converted live Yankee will be exhibited by Mr. Morgan, not as a rarity, but to illustrate the traits and tricks of the species. . PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Gilmore will deafen San Francisco in April. Let us have a first class rhyme for Belknap, Mrs. Congressman Wheeler, of New York, is dead. Mr. Jones, of the New York Times, is in Washington Belknap was not shrewd; he ought to havo been subtier, There wasa time when the Secretary of War could husk corn with any able bodied man. Senator Sharon is bald-headed. This proves what wo | have always said, that he is nota bachelor. Some of the people out West are wondering how much Biilow paid for tho United States, While the President is looking around for a Secregary of War will he permit us to suggest Jem Mace ? Belknap was a man of simple tastes. He would not drink champagne when he could get rye whiskey. Sinco Bailoy, tho Danbury News man, began to rap for ‘Governor’ his young ones no longer call him “Jim.” California raises great quantities of almonds fer phil- openes, It was understood yesterday afternoon that the Pres- ident had tearfully asked Mr. Sankey to take the port folio of War, “Yes,”’ said Grant, ‘Belky was always a very bearty follow. He always spit on his hands betore he wound up his watch.” We are sorry for Belknap, because there are several prize-candy boys on the cars that, we hoped, would be killed off first. Appleton’s Journal sercams out, ‘‘Make cider; make cider!” Will yo please tend to your own business, and not bothor with ourcider. In Dickens’ novel of ‘Little Dorrit” there ts a sketch of Mr. Merdle and his wife, the bosom of society, Washington officials should read that sketch, The Norristown Herald says:—‘‘A ‘Constant Reader’ asks us ‘Why lamps explode?’ We can’t tell, unless it is because he neglects to tie strings around them.” “No,” said Senator Edmunds, “I have nothing to say about the Secretary. I knew he wouldn’t amount toanything when they told me he could crack nuts ‘with his back teetb,’? Dolan, the alloged murderer of Noe, has been respited by the Governor unti! April4 But up to that time he will continue to write the “Current Topics” of the Rochester Democrat, Off the coast of Oregon an infant seven foot sea serpent hasbeen caught. At least they think it isa sea serpent ora jackass with his legs cut off, or a writer for the Kansas City Times. “D, €,."—The Hrrao should reach Washington about two o’clock in the afternoon, If it isthe ‘Per- sonal Intelligence” that ‘'D. C.’? misses he may find it in next morning’s Chronicle. A Twenty-third street man went into a millinery shop yesterday and asked to have his hair cut, and when he was refused he said he saw seven pairs of bare bers’ poles in front of the place, “Yes,” said a distinguished Freuch politician, “1 visit M. Thiers occasionally now, tor he is troubled with bronchitis, and between two fits of coughing one can sometimes get in a word.’”” “Rembrandt”’—It is impossible for us to inform you of the metrical quantity of ‘two fingers of rye.” In Detroit 1t depends very much on the rye; in New Jersey it depends on the fingers. Detroit Free Press—“The attempt to feed Robert Toombs mint julep with a spoon was a failure, ‘Gimme that bowl a minute,’ whispered Uncle Bob, and the next second he saw the knothole in the bottom of it’? General Phil Sheridan was putting a spoonful oo sugar in the end of a cambric handkorchief, and trying to tle it into a little bulb for the poor toothless young ono to chew on, when the nurse asked him who it was for—‘Helen Blazes.” Senator Sharon is now paying his first visit to New York. Yesterday he visited the Stock Exchange, Sub- Treasury and other places, dining in the evoning with J. M. Selover at the Union League Club. He returns to Washington to night, NE The girl who has been going round lecturing under the name of Bessie Turner ts over six feet high. She says you might have carried fouror five feetof her round the house in her ball dress, but the rest of het wouldn’t be any such fool. “N. D. T.”’ writes:— ‘My partner having led spades, second band having paid the tray of that suit, and I, as third hand, baving a choice of throwing away a queen of clubs or tramping with the king, what shall 1 | do” Sir, are you talking about playing cards? The Chicago Tribune says:—‘The New York Heratp wants rhymes on Conkling. Itmay send pay for the following to the Reputtican Campaign Committec :— “The rising Blaine will before long flin ‘Avengthening shadow over Bowes Conkling.” Benjamin Franklin, the representative American of his age, appeared before the French Court in blue worsted stockings. The people of the United States will never be satisfied until thetr officials appear in equal simplicity. Mrs. Belknap should have thought of this. Aman in Providence, who was recently bitten by a mad dog, ha¥ adjusted all his business aflatrs, paid all his bills, made bis will, bad a room constructed for hig | uso, and made other arrangoments for his own and nia | family’s benefit when he shali be attacked with hydro. | phobia. Rey. Robert Collyer nsed to be a fireman, and that ie the reason why he stands on his side of the old machine and says, “Now, Jump ber, boys" A man who will fight the fire of the futuro with this spirit deserves « red shirt and to write a book on what he knows about firemen. | The news comes that several lady loaders of fashion in Washington are exulting over the social ruin of the | elegant and beautiful Mrs. Belknap. Ladies, after she has gone you may pull andstrain and hump up your shoulders and squeeze your toes together, and yet there will not be one of you who can get on her No. 1% shoe. In England they tell how Sankey walked up toa srenadicr, and, taking him affectionately by the bolt, said, “Young mau, I likewise am a soldier, a solaler of heaven."’ “Old 'un,” returned the grenadier, “you're from your barracks, anyhow.” Well, very rough young man, whom Sankey saw Staring vround at the close of the meetings, and kindly asked, “Young man, are you looking for salvation?” “SNo,”’ was the reply, “I am looking for Sal Jackson,”* { “Let us sing a bymn,” said Sankey,