The New York Herald Newspaper, March 7, 1876, Page 6

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Vicrorn Emmanver opened the Italian Par- Jiament yesterday, and had nothing but good mews of peace to tell. Wrnstow, the reverend runaway, will re- furnyto this country in good time for the opening of the Centennial Exposition. He ‘will go to Boston first. Spary is about to get a much needed rest. The English cannon captured from the Carlists will accompany young Alfonso on his return to Madrid. After this always sorry spectacle of a nation triumphing over a portion of itself Spain can begin to ex- amine the flaws in her present rulers. Austrian Trape does not seem to have re- covered from the effects of the financial crash of 1873. ‘Trade is said to be at a stand- still, and a heavy failure in Bohemia tells of a tendency still downward. The same laws are operating in this country. After the vio- lent spasm comes the low fever. Tue Count or Genrnat Sessions, Part No. 2, is still without a chamber for the transac- tion of its business. How much longer is the city to be forced to go through the farce of paying a judge who cannot administer justice, although the calendars are heavier than ever? This state of affairs is a disgrace to our city government. Crear Gas.—New York would seem about to engage in a combat with the gas monop- olies, whose overcharges have so long taxed the public purse and patience. Unlike the people who are imposed on by the horse car companies, and must be packed like sar- dines or walk, the gas consumers can get a good light instead of gas by the use of ke~ rosene. If the oil movement becomes exten- sive we shall soon see how much cheaper gas can be furnished. Tue Corponation Cocnset and the Assem- bly committee should bestir themselves in forwarding their share of the horse car busi- hess. Every moment of delay is continuing the outrage upon public health, decency and comfort which the sardine-packing process inflicts. What has Mr. Nicholas Muller to say for himself in not pushing ao bill that so directly concerns his hard working constitu- ents? Are they to be neglected after the election? Tur Suspicions of the Herzogovinan in- purgents respecting the good faith of Tur- key are pardonable. They want to treat with Mussulman beys while still in arms, and ask for the withdrawal of forty battalions of Turkish troops from the revolted provinces | preparatory to negotiations. These terms the Austrian representative declares unob- tainable, and unless the Turk makes fresh advances it is probable that the war will go on. Mr. Apert Grant, Baron Grant, says he is coming to America to defend himself and General Schenck against the accusations of the witness Lyon, whom he asserts to be no better than his mame. We shall be glad to learn that our ex-Minister to England, who is on his way hither, is guiltless of accepting what can bo sonstrued as a bribe, but he will find it very hard to give anything like a satisfactory ex- the use of his name to sell the or Sate sometimes called | “peal the act, It refused, as was its duty, and tho Prest- | many months to hold Louisiana down for this fa. | “ i | counsel will only leave off trying to impress NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1876——TRIPLE SHEET.’ Is It » Personal Government? Ought the President of the United States to be the servant or the master of the nation? Are the powers of government intrusted to him to be exercised for the general use and good, or are they conferred upon him as a reward for previous services and to be used by him for his own pleasure and the advantage of his favorites? Is the Presi- dency a trust, or is it a prize which he who wins it may rightly regard and use asa piece of personal property ? These questions, asked at any time in our history before the accession of General Grant, would have been absurd ; but they are so no longer, for it is demonstrable that not even the third Napoleon was more possessed than he of the idea that the government is for his personal use and pleasure. Let us see :— 1. Ono of his very first acts as President showed o singular contempt for law and regard for his own will or desire alone, He nominated Mr. A. T. Stewart to be Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Stewart, undoubtedly acapable man, could not disengage himself from his vast commercial interests, and a law which had stood for almost three-quarters of a century on our statute books, and whose wisdom was unquestioned, forbade his taking the office under the circumstances. What happened? General Grant coolly asked Congress to re- dent sulked, 2 Next Grant drove General Cox out of the Cabinet because he refused toappoint corrupt and ineficient friends of the President to office in the Indian Bureau and elsewhere, in violation of civil service rules and honest government. & He drove Joseph Wilson, the honest Land Com- missioner, into retirement because he docided a Mis- sourt land ciaim of the Dent family adversely to their interest. 4. de appointed a poker-playing Congressman as Minister to England, and kept bim there until he was threatened with arrest, a public disgrace and scandal, in spite of his notorious connection with the Emma mine fraud. 5, He attemptea, against the will of Congress and the country, to annex St. Domingo, and sent out his own private agent, General Babcock, to negotiate a treaty in violation of the constitution; and he was se con- temptuous toward the laws that b ually sent to the Senate a secret agreement mado and signed with Baez by this unauthorized private agent, under pretence that it was a treaty; and only withdrew it when the Senate privately informed him that the constitution required treaties to be made and signed by agents publicly nomi- nated and coniirmed by the Senate, 6, To consummate the annexation, in which he had involved himself with a number of men notoriously engaged in a land speculation, he kept vessels of war on the coast of the island at a great expense to support the usurper Baez, and levied war on the Haytian Republic, in violation of the constitution, which re- serves the power of declaring and making war to Con- gress. 7. He caused the expulsion of Charl€s Samner from the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a post which he had held for many years and in which his services to the country were of pe- culiar importance, becauso he would not support the St. Domingo scheme, 8 Ho afterward tried to bribe Sumner to acqui- escence in the St. Domingo plot by the offer of the mission to England. This was when he saw that agaihst Sumner’s opposition the St, Domingo treaty must fail. 9. He appointed his brother-in-law, Cramer, to ahign diplomatic position, although this person had already shown himsel! notoriously unfit while holding an ob- scure consulship. 10. He appointed another brother-in-law, Casey, to be Collector of New Orleans, and there maintains him, in spite of his proved incapacity and corruption and his open violations of law. 11. When public opinion, outraged beyond endurance at Casey’s misconduct, demanded bis removal, he ap- parently submitted by requiring and ostensibly accept- ing Casey’s resignation, ‘to take effect on the appoint. iment of his successor ;”’ but he has never appointed a successor, and thus Casey remains Collector in spite of the public demand for his removal. 12. He removed a colloctor of internal revenue at Chicago because this oillcer refused to join Orville Grant, the President's brother, in a whiskey fraud. 14 Later, in violation of law, he gave to this same brother Orville the monopoly of trading with certain tribes of Indiaws, and caused the exclusion of other traders, certilled to be respectable men. This is the first time in our history when a i’resident’s brother has become an Indian trader, or has received a monopoly, contrary to an express law, from his brother, 14. Ho gave the federal appointments in the city of New York to a ward politician, said to be connected with the Tammany Ring, bat who was his own inti- mate, 15, He appointed and long kept tn the important office of Attorney General of the United States a man openly charged with frauds, known to be ignorant of law, unfit by character and aequirements for the place, but notoriously a subservient tool of his own. 16. He tried to promote this incapable Attorney Gen- eral to the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court, a public scandal which was prevented ouly with the ut- most difficulty, 17, He took away the custody of government funds from the solid house of the Barings, who had held it since the foundation of the goverument, and intrusted the pablic moneys to Clews & Habicht, as a reward for notorious partisan services and in spite of warnings that this house was not trustworthy or of good stand- ing. The firm has since become bankrupt, but the public dots not yet know how much the Treasury lost by its failure, 18, He gave to one of his former military aids, Leet, &@ monopoly of certain Custom House warehousing, and maintained him in it untu the outraged merchants be- came two clamorous at the injustice they were com- pelied to suffer. 19. He has accepted costly gifts and repeatedly re- warded the givors with public places for themselves or for their friends, 20. He permitted and defended the moiety frauds, by which the revenues of the country were farmed out to low politicians, with the known design of securing the political fortunes of some of his favorites and ad- heren ts. 21. He was and isthe intimate of Alexander Shep- herd, a man openly aud generally accused of corrup- tion in Washington, and 22, When Congress, compelled by a rigid investiga- gation, destroyed the District government which Shep- herd controlled, in order to put bim out of piace and power, the President had tho indecency to renomiuate him at once as the head of the now goverament—a nomination so scandalous that the Senate immediately and anauimously rejected it, 23. In spite of this he still retains Shopherd in favor as one of his most intimate associates. 24. He shocked the public senso of propriety by in viting to the White House, on a pablic occasion, Har- rington, the confederate of Shepherd, a person then undergoing trial for felony, and never acauitted of the charge. 25, He consorts constantly with mon of doubtful character, and still has among his intimates both Shepherd and Harrington. 26. In their defence he even went so far as in an an- nual Message to understate by several millions the debt of the District of Colambia; a gross attempt to deceive the public which was immediately exposed in Con- gress. 27. He was a party toan intrigue whereby his own salary was doubled, and caused it to be privately under. stood in Congress that the bill raising Congressional salaries would not receive his signature unless his own salary was Joubled. 28. He was for months engaged in an attempt, at last successful, to make one of his intimates, Rutus Ingalls, Quartermaster General of the Army, and held vacant the Russian mission as a temptation to General Meigs, who stood in the way of this scheme. 29. He supported Kellogg as Governor of Louisiana without authority from Congress, confessing shat he | did not know who was the rightful Governor, and on | bis own will alone; and he has used the army for vorite. 90. He did not scruple last year to grossly misrepre. sent to Congress and the country the condition of Lout- siana and other Southern States, in order tbat he , Might thereby support bis corrupt personal followers there. 31. While a Congressional committee was in New Or- Jeans investigating the condition of Louisiana be vio. lently took matters in his own hands and in their pres- ence dispersed the legitimate Assembly of the State by means of the army. 32. He ordered his Secretary of War to send the ap~ proval ofthe whole Cabinet to Sheridan for the disper- sion of the Leselature and his banditti despatch, though it is known that he did not take the trouble to consult any member of the Cabinet in the matter, and that several members did strongly disapprove of these measures. 33, He refused to see or hear the committee which Congress had sent to New Orleans, and sent a message to Congress founded on assertions which the report of that committee of Congress showed to be false and » groundless, 34. Thus he first insulted bis Cabinet and then Con- gress in order to carry out bis personal aims, and sought, by artful misrepresentations and false state- ments, made when the truth was at his call and un- officially known to him, to justify a dangerous usurpa- tion of power by the military and the prostration of civil role. 35, He endeavored to intimidate a Congressional committee into making @ report.on the condition of Ar- kansas, to subserve his own views; summoned them beforo him, told them what they ought to report, and did not even take the trouble to ask them what facts they had found in their investigation. Fortunately, they were too independent to submit to his dictation. 36. One member of that committee, who made a minority report in accordance with hts wishes, he re- warded with the post of District Attorney at Chicago, an office from which he was lately dismissed for in- capacity, 87. He used the powerful influence of the administra- tion to cause the passage of the Habeas Corpus and Force bill, a measure ‘antly unconstitutional, and, as subsequent events hi jhown, without the excuse of necessity or expediency. 38. Ho insulted the public sense of honor and de- cency by retaining Mr. Delano in office long after the grossest scandals had been proved against him and bis subordinates in the management of Indian affairs; and when at last compelled by the dread of losing an im- portant election to dismiss him he gave him a strong testimonial of character and expressed his regret at parting with him. 39. In the prosecution of the whiskey thieves be gave his countenance not to the honest officials doing their duty, but to the political gamblers and personal adherents whoso crimes were threatened with dis- covery. 40. When an honest but overzealous prosecuting oficer uttered words fn the neat of argument at which the President chose to take ,offence, instead of pardon- tng bis words on the score of his honest zeal for tho public interest he ordered his dismissal. 41. He kept near him in the most intimate official re- lations two men, Babcock and Luckey, when both were under grave suspicion of complicity in rovenue frauds, 42. He restored Babcock to bis place alter a trial which did not in the gencral opinion clear his character of tho gravest suspicions of infidelity to public trusts, and when the President in his own examination was compelled to admit that important papers had been con- cealed from him by his secretary. 43. In his sworn testimony in dofence of General Babcock he had the insolence to say that he revoked the order of Mr. Bristow changing the supervisors at | bis own will, without consulting the Secretary, and as though he was dictator, 44, Unawed by public indignation, regardless of public decency, unmoved by the fact that State after State has been lost by the party which elected him, because of his misconduet, he only a few days ago flung a new de- fiance at the people by accepting, the moment it was tendered, and ‘‘with regret,’’ tho resignation of Mr. Bolknap, whose crime had been already made known to him, Is it extravagant, in view of the acts we have recited above, to say that General Grant has aimed, from the time he took the Presi- dential office to the present day, to establish a personal government? Other Presidents have rewarded political services, but he has reserved his favors exclusively for his per- sonal adherents. Other Presidents have made mistakes; but he alone has, in con- tempt of public opinion, adhered to a wrong policy after its disapproval by his party and the public became known. Other Presi- dents have quoted the constitution to excuse their performance of acts distasteful to them; be alone has violated the constitution and set aside the laws at his own will. Other Presidents before him have been charged with a partisan use of public interests; but he alone has coolly robbed the Treasury by moiety frauds and by the displacement of trust funds abroad to reward his personal adherents. From the very beginning of his Presidential career he has displayed on every possible occasion and in every possible way his insolent contempt for law, for Congress and for his constitutional advisers; his reck- less misuse of the public service to further the private fortunes of his relatives and per- sonal adherents, regardless of their fitness and honesty; his unscrupulous and indecent greed for money; his inability to understand constitutional limitations; his disregard of the civil power and propensity to act with the military power and in the arbitrary methods of a dictator. Our aim has been to show by the principal acts of his administration, recited above, not that General Grant is the worst President the country has ever had, but that he is animated by a spirit different from that of any of his predecessors ; that his acts have a purpose different from theirs ; that they are not tho blunders of a weak or ignorant man, but that they disclose, during a long period, a de- liberate and conscious purpose to use the powers of government for his own personal aggrandizement, regardless of the will of the people or the sacredness of tho: constitution and laws. And it is a remarkable corrobora- tion of this view that, like all men of des- potic tendencies and designs, he surrounds himself only with flatterers and with those whose corrupt designs make them his ready tools. He grows constantly more impatient of contradiction. In his messages he scolds Congress, and in private conversation he and his intimates do not scruple to express their auger and amazement at those who oppose his will. It is notorious that members of Congress who do not agree with him find scant welcome at the White House, and that he will not listen to advice or remonstranco even from the leaders of his party. Opposi- tion to his will he does not hesitate to punish in the most peremptory manner, Mr. Grapsrong anp Mn. Lows, in crying | over the fate of Sir Daniel Lange, whose “patriotism” brought about his expulsion from the London agency of the Suez Canal, are using their lachrymatories over spilt milk. His offence consisted in being found out, for it appears Sir Daniel was desirous some years since of having the throat of the com- pany cut in the interest of England—a wish M. de Lesseps cannot be expected to appland, even now, while England is sharpening the knife. Tax Suxixe Ur in the Tweed six mill- ion suit will commence to-day, and if learned | Upon the jury that it is the newspapers that are on trial instead of Tweed we may have an end of the case in a few days, —- “The Octéber States.” The straggling State elections which take Place in advance of the Presidential contest have so demoralizing an influence on our national politics that it is greatly to be re- gretted that all the State elections aro not held in November on the same day as Presi- dential elections. The effect of victory or defeat on subsequent elections is so great that parties are tempted to make a sacrifice of their principles in the hope of concili- ating States where the local sentiment is in opposition to their views, as was always done by the democrats in their national platforms so long as Pennsylvania held her State election in October. The predomi- nant democratic sentiment has always favored free trade, but no democratic na- tional cenvention has ever made a bold and unequivocal declaration to that effect, lest the party should lose Pennsylvania in the preliminary battle and thereby weaken its chances in the final contest. The conse- quence was that a small minority of dem- ocratic protectionists was always able to pre- venta frank declaration of party sentiment on the tariff. The recent change of the Penn- sylvania State election from October to No- vember has removed that source of danger, but a more formidable ono is presented in the two important States of Ohio and In- diana, which continue to elect their State officers in October, and in which the demo- cratio party is infected with a more danger- ous heresy than protection. If there were to be no October election this year in either of these States there would be little difficulty in harmonizing the democrats of Congress on the currency question. But the inflationists are strongest in precisely the two States which can exert the greatest influence on the Presidential canvass. The inflationists are sensible: of this advantage, and are deter- mined to make the most of it. If it were merely a question of flinging away Ohio and Indiana and letting them go to the republicans by default the democratic party should not hesitate to make the sacrifice. What vexes the demo- cratic politicians is their fear that the loss of these States in October will destroy their chances of carrying New York in November; for without New York they cannot elect the President unless they get the electoral votes of the October States. Ohio and Indiana to- gether have thirty-seven electoral votes, and New York has only thirty-five; so that if nothing were regarded but the mere count it would be better to lose New York than the two October States. The Southern States are equally sure whatever position the Na- tional Convention may take on the currency. That a trimming platform would hurt the party much in the Pacific States is not at all certain. Thecurrency of those States has always been hard money, and they have comparatively little interest in the legislation of Congress on that subject. The real question which agi- tates the democratic politicians is whether they have better chances for carrying New York on atrimming platform after success in the October States or on a hard money platform under the discouraging effect of the loss of those States. We have no doubt that | the bold, honest policy would be the wise one, but the action of the party in Con- gress gives no reason to hope that it will be adopted. But if the National Convention puts forth a ‘trimming platform and never- theless loses the October States a sweeping overthrow in New York will be inevitable by the double effect of the October reverses and the rotten platform. Ecypttan Finance is giving great trouble to the statesmen of Europe, and it is evident that the Khedive is alarmed at the prospect of England seizing entire control in his do- minions. He is a perfect sieve for money, but he thinks that he can keep the balance of power pretty even if he can set one cred- itor against another. This is probably the meaning of the plan for a national Egyptian bank, with an English, French and Italian commissioner representing their respective nations on the board. England does not be- lieve in getting such a meagre equivalent for her money ; but Disraeli puts his refusal to co-operate in the scheme on the ground that it would involve commercial relations be- tween the British government and the bank, This argument is ingenious, but as it attacks Disraeli's own act in the purchase of the shares in the canal, which is a commercial enterprise, it can easily be seen that the English government have other grounds that they do not care to state. Tue Preswent has become famous for emitting at long intervals what elated repub- | ‘licans called ‘‘watchwords.” A couple of years since he started one about “‘unload- ing,” but he only succeeded in casting over- board the honest men of his party. Those of the other kind whom he was forced to send adrift were given certificates of character. While the nation is writhing under the disgrace of Belknap, we now see the Attorney General write that the se- eret of his letter to the Western district at- tornies was betrayed by the President's sec- retary, General Babcock, who copied it or caused it to be copied and handed it over to his counsel to be used, as we know, to intim- idate some who may have been anxious to tell what they knew to his detriment. Will Babcock, after this flagrant breach of trust, obtain a certificate, including ‘rogrets,” after being ‘‘unloaded?” Why not? Tur Post Trapen Fravps.—The entire country will approach the seething lake of corruption which has had its fountains at the War Department with sorrow and indig- nation, When the magnitude of the frauds has been gauged there will be such | an uprising against the heads of a system which has flooded the coun- try with disgrace that purity will be placed: above party and the guilty punished with full measure of the law and that pub- lie scorn which is more terrible still in its withering effects. Let those who wish to gain some idea of the ramifications of the awfal jobbery read the statements of old army officers headed by General Sherman, which will be found elsewhere. Axornen Costiy Vierm.—John Dolan, o boilermaker, was forced, through the crowded state of a Brooklyn horse car, to ride on the step. The conductor, in his anxiety to gather every fare for his grasping masters, | muscle, pluck and blood are to win | which crushed his foot, rendering amputa_ tion necessary. This operation cost the company six thousand dollars, or the equiva- lent of one hundred and twenty thousand fares. It would be cheaper to provide every Passenger with a seat. Salt Water and Our Sanitary System. The revival of this project, which occu- pied public attention about seven years ago, and which occupied the attention of our aldermen yesterday, renders a canvass of its merit® necessary before any decided action should be taken toward itsadoption or rejection. Recent experiences have demonstrated that our present water supply for fire purposes forms no protection against the spread of great conflagrations, and that while the Croton water is dribbling from the hydrants millions of dollars’ worth of property may be consumed. The proposed extension of the Croton water supply system involves so many vexatious delays, and such an immense expenditure of money, that it really becomes a question worth the attention of our city authorities, whether a quicker and cheaper solution of the problem is not worthy of consideration. Such a plan is the introduction of salt water from New York Bay, for the doublepurpose of extin- guishing fires and of cleansing our streets and sewers. The practicability of the plan is beyond question, and there only remains a doubt as to its utility and cost. With an inexhaustible reservoir like New York Bay, where the recurrence of the tides causes a re- newal of the supply of salt water free from sewage impurities, New York should pos- sess an abundant safeguard against fires. In- deed, practical experiment has demonstrated that salt water possesses superior extinguish- ing qualities to those of fresh water, and this alone is a strong argument in favor of its use. The additional advantages which might be gained in the way of sanitary improvements, such as the flushing of the city sewers and the washing of the street gutters, form‘yery attractive features of the plan, especially to a pepulation which suffers so much from the present very defective system. For all do- mestic sanitary purposes salt water may be used with advantage, and the consumption of Croton water per capita of the population reduced to a mere fraction of the present consumption and waste. If the estimated cost of pipes through the city does not ex- ceed a reasonable amount wo see no reason why the proposition should not be adopted. One thing is, however, absolutely necessary in the proper application of the new system, and that is the collection and removal of all sewage matter flushed out of the sewers. It would be useless to clean the sewers of the city if the refuse was permitted to deposit along the water front and poison the waters of the bay and rivers from Dobb's Ferry to Staten Island. At present the city sewage reaches tide water only to a limited extent. ‘This accounts for the comparative clearness of the water and the horrid foulness of the sewers, Gentlemen of the committee, ex- amine every plan carefully that promises any improvement in our defective sanitary - system, and, with all your faults, “future generations will call you blessed.” The Coming Cambridge Team from University. At last the word has come from England which will send a thrill of joyful anticipa- tion through the heart of every live young man in America. President Close, of tho Cambridge University Boat Club, puts it ad- mirably when he says ‘‘American amateur oarsmen have twice pluckily come over to race Englishmen in our own waters. It is certainly now our turn to return the com- pliment, and I shall spare no effort to bring this about.” And while they mean to have over one of their best college crews, it is gratifying to learn that the very difficulties which seem to deter the University team from coming are such as can be promptly overcome, and in just the way that we have for months urged. Instead of rowing in sixes, a craft evidently unknown to them, they are now to be asked to row in fours, with which both they and we are thoroughly familiar, enable them doubtless to get the very best four they wish out of their 'Varsity eight, a far easier matter than to get six in whom they would have equal con- fidence. And the other obstacle—the time— is to be arranged to their equal satisfaction. On this point President Close says the date formerly asked ‘‘would leave us but ten days practice after our arrival in America ;” but now they are to have nearly seven weeks, all they desire. He further calls attention to the question of eligibility of resident graduates, at least we take it to mean those now resident at the university. Our men wisely purpose overcoming this trouble also. The main desire throughout is to bring together the fastest teams which can be made up from men now regularly and ac- tively connected with their universities and with ours. By thus not limiting candidates for seats in the chosen four to men reading for a particular degree, but making the crew absolutely a university one, it will be seen at a glance that the very best material will be had, and the crews will be as thoroughly representative as they could be made. Now at last, instead of groping about as we have done fof many years, trying by hearsay evi- dence to decide what is actually the English stroke, we are to have a look at the genuine movement with our own eyes. Now is coming | the finest test in all that Exhibition, not of the past performance of men in wood or iron or stone, but of men in all the pride and glory of their best possible physical condition, struggling with equal tools in a contest absolutely fair and wholly friendly, to seo whose skill experience, whose the honorable victory. And Cambridge, by her manly course, has opened the door, for we think we run little risk in that it will not be many weeks now till Ox- ford and Dublin also send the same welcome story. Tue Frexcn Exectrions of Sunday on second ballotings for the Assembly give sup- | porters to the constitution in the ratio of | two toone. The Cabinet difficulty will not be solved until the meeting of the two | Chambers, when President MacMahon can more fitly judge of the political complexion his ministerial advisers should have. This, despite its momentary inconvenience, is the pushed Dolan off the car, the wheels of | safer and simpler course, and which will |: Is Belknap Worse than Grant} By a law of Congress it was made Mr, Bele knap’s duty to designate certain persons to be post traders ata large number of mili- tary stations. It was presumed that he was the authority most fit to fill such places ; that he would be less under local or corrupt influences, and that he would appoint strictly from a view to the good of the ser- vice ; that in such a function he would be absolutely out of the reach ot personal influ- ences. But it is shown that in at least one instance he appointed a person who made “presents” to his wife; who gave that lady at one time ten thousand dollars in hand, and transmitted to her at regular periods various important sums. Some people call this a sale. No well bred person, no - person of delicacy or refinement, would apply such a coarse and vulgar name to a transaction in which there is clearly a mera interchange of courtesies and kindnesses. Mr. Belknap gave to Mr. Marsh a post trader- ship for a hundred good reasons, because Mr. Belknap thought it a lucrative place, and wanted todo Marsh a favor. Can any act be more innocent than this? On the other band, Marsh gave Mrs. Belknap ten thousand dollars because it was her birth: day, or would be her birthday at some time oranother. This also is as innocent as pos- sible. There is only one fact here that the censorious seize upon—the fact that he gave money. If he had given a diamond, it would have looked better, but would it have been different? In order to seo that this transaction was not a sale” of posts—not bribery, but a fair and proper interchange of good offices— let us suppose that Marsh had not given money. Let us suppose that he had kepi his ten thousand dollars and five’ successive payments of six thousand dollars each, and that with the forty thousand dollars thus lefi in his hands he had purchased at Long Branch a cottage and grounds and given these to Mrs. Belknap, or even Mr, , then it would have been evident that it was a mere offering of friendship and not a bribe. Some gentlemen gave Grant a cottage in that way, and though one of them was Secretary of the Navy and another Collector of this port nobody gaid that Grant had’ sold those offices, and he has not been impeached and is not likely to be. But if they had given him forty thousand dollars, the price of the cottage, it might have been otherwise. Or if Mr. Marsh had bought for Belknap a house in Washington, as was done for Grant; or a house in Philadelphia, as was also done’ for Grant; or ifhe had kept his money till it became as much in quantity as the hundred thousand dollar purse that was made up in this city for Grant ; in any one of these cases Belknap might have given him ali the post traderships in the army—except, of course, those that are claimed by the Presi- dent's brother—and it would have been all right. For all this has happened in Grant's case, and itis all right; and what is right for Grant must be right for Belknap. But: he gave money—filthy lucre, vile trash! And yet it is a pretty nice distinction be- tween Marsh’s money and that hundred thousand dollar purse given to Grant; though, of course, a purse makes a difference and gives a refined air, especially if it is a silken purse. “ ; Concness Passrp 4 Law handing over the post traderships to Belknap, against the en« treaty and warnings of the officers of the army, with General Sherman at their head. Can the republican party and the President, who are responsible for this law, expect ta have Belknap alone made the scapegoat of their sins? Read the interviews with Gen- eral Sherman, General McCook and officers stationed in this city upon the act passed in favor of Belknap. Iv tue Senate yesterday Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, called up the resolutions of the New York Chamber of Commerce against the re« peal of the Resumption act of 1875, and de« livered a speech snpportimg them. He was followed by Mr. Bogy, of Missouri, on an- other bill advocating the repeal of the act. Ricwanp H. Dana, Jr., vice Scnencs, Re SIGNED, is the form in which the Emma mina shareholders in England will learn of the re- sumption of civilian character by the Min- ister to England, who baited the hook that they bit at. Senator Lor M. Monn, of Maine, is chosen by the President to succeed Belknap in the Secretaryship of War. One just man could not save the Cities of the Plain. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, eile Canada docs not like Tilton. Senator Gordon is for Tharman. Pendleton has hosts of friends in Georgia. In Manitoba a colony of Icelanders has settled. In Virginia City, Nevada, there are 300 ex-convicts, Tho Duc de Brogli¢ halts between the Revolution of 1848 and the monarchy. Pendleton is alroady urged for the chairmanship of the National Democratic Convention. Sam Bard's failure to get tno postmastership of At lanta excites ridicule in the South. Seth Green says that all the sea lionsin San Fran. cisco Bay do not destroy as many fish as one Ching man does. “H. V. R.,’ of the Cincinnati Commercial, finds that in the South the democratic fecting is not for Tilden, but first for Hendricks and second for Pendleton. Dr. Berthand says that you mast not smoke more than four or five cigars or plpefuls a day, and he i¢ much in favor of cigarettes. After the first outburst of indignation there comes from the press of the country a sort of sentiment for Belknap, Strike a medium somewhere, It is said that Secretary Chandler ts very sensitive te being called a drinking mam, and that really he is quite a temperate man. In Towa the remains of amastoclon valued at $30,000 have been discovered. That is the Stato whence Grant discovered Belknap. Whe Buffalo Commercial points to tho fact that Bel. knap did not make monéy ont of the government, but out of the sutlers who dealt with the federal forts, Marat Halstead says that soda water ts frequently poisonous. After many arguments with Murat to con- vince him that he ought not to drink soda water ho hat at Inst consented. Awniter from the South puts the list of Presidential Preferences on the repulyican sido as follows:—Next to Grant stands Blaine; next to Blaine, Morton; next to Morton, Bristow; next to Bristow, Hayos. Grant was impressed with Lelknap’s merits, first by asplendid speech Belknap made before the Army of the Tennessee, and second by the fact that, as Collec- tor of Internal Revenue at Keokuk, he showed the talents of a man whose mind was full of pigeonholes, Voltaire, seeking in popular errors themselves the ‘means of preservation from them, said to his Iriends, the D'Holbachites, who had railed too much ‘against the Divine Being at supper, “As I do not wish to bo mar. dored by my servants to-night allow mo to shut the doors.”