The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1876, Page 6

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Where do French and Belgian forgers go? “A Hearurer Sense of publi ‘uty in the distribution of posts” is the comment of the London Daily News upon the appointment of Mr. Richard H. Dana, Jr., to the Minister- ship to England. This will not bea good thing for republicans to quote in their cam- paign speeches on the ‘glorious record” of the administration during the last seven years. Tre Srovx rx Arms.—The news from the Black Hills is not reassuring to the lovers of peace. General Custer’s party is said to have been attacked by the Indians, losing all his horses and cattle. If any one can get out of a difficult position in the Indian country it is Custer; but, unfortunately, the incidents - reported are only the prelude to duly trouble. Pixcnpack received his quietus in the Senate yesterday when his claims to a seat were rejected by a vote of thirty-two to twenty-nine. After having so conclusively shown his persistency, Mr. Pinchback may now allow the matter to drop, and thus re- ceive the applause he never could have gained if the little irregularities in his elec- tion had not been so formidable. Tue Cupan Insuncents are reported to be disheartened. If this is true let the Spanish troops go in and disembody the insurrection altogether. We are afraid this encouraging advice will not be acted on to a large extent, as it has usually been found that when the Mambis’ hearts were taken out (in Havana) there was enough of them left on the hills to make travelling for troops very hazardous, Tae Top Avenue Savincs Baxx.—Jus- tice Duffy yesterday handed over the case against the officials of this savings bank to the District Attorney, who will, doubtless, lose no time in bringing it before the Grand | Jury. The case should have a full trial, and as the accused officers’ liability expires un- der the statute of limitations on the Ith inst. there is ample time to give the Grand Jury an opportunity to say whether a true bill can be found. Tar Owxty Reveemrixe Features connected with the Brooklyn horror are the devotion | the noble | and self-sacrificing labors of hearted Sisters of the Poor, who are endeay®= oring to repair the terrible loss sustained \hrough the fire. The efforts of these noble | women deserve to be substantially seconded | dy the charitable public. But even this one | oright spot in the dark picture must not divert us from a strict scrutiny into the cause of the disaster. We do not regard the fire as the primary source of evil. It is the conditions which rendered it fatal that demand investigation. .These are, plainly, outrageous negligence in the matter of pro- riding proper fireproof means of exit from a puilding occupied by a number of aged and infirm people and the use of so much in- | flammable material in its construction. The responsibility rests heavily on some one. We hope that the Coroner's jury will succeed | in exposing the guilty party to the just in- dignation of his fellow men, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1876. —TRIPLE SHEET. The Political Consequence. | “There is a tide in the affairs of men, | which, taken at the flood”—you know the | rest. It was the misfortune of that move- | ment in the republican party out of which | the present so-called liberal party grew that it was made at an unpropitious time. It started on atide too feeble to carry it over the shoal places, It originated in good im- pulses, but had no perception of political methods as apart from political science. ‘There were a few’ capable men who saw clearly the abyss toward which Grantism was carrying the republican party; and they | never stopped to consider that the people did not see the case so clearly. They acted, therefore, without attending to the fact that the people are the important element, | In their wisdom they denounced what | they saw; but the people did not see either the corruption or the danger, and looked upom the original liberals jas they would look upon some ghost seer raving at the counterfeit presentments | of a disordered mind. By their earlier per- ceptions and by their precipitate action the | honest men of the liberal party only suc- | ceeded in separating themselves from other republicans, and so losing the influence they had previously in their party. With that influence gone and the people not secured the movement was lost. Furthermore, it | was joined by hordes of mere soreheads, and | so, from having been merely hopeless, be- ! came contemptible. But now the whole nation sees face to face | what was seen far away by those earlier opponents of the President’s ‘‘policy.” Now he who runs may read. It needs no pro- phetic vision, no capacity to peer into the | future, for the people to see the conse- quences of such perversions of the authority | of his office as have been systematically practised by General Grant. Belknap at the threshold of ao prison; the President's private secretary only saved from a felon’s cell by the intimidation of witnesses ; undenied and specific charges of malfeasance made against five Cabinet officers ; nepotism, peculation, bribery— every known political vice shamelessly prac- tised ; the air reeking with stories of corrup- tion ; the worst imagination unable in the invention of scandals to outrun the evidence that comes to prove them; the President himself not merely failing to control and re- press the evil tendencies, but encouraging them ; not rebuking public robbers, but de- claring his confidence in them and giving them certificates of good character; never sympathizing with the law, with justice, with the interests of the nation, but always assuming that every attempt to punish a scoundrel is an act he must oppose. Ail this is what the people see in the centennial year of the nation’s existence. And the con- stant comparison is made, consciously and unconsciously, of these times with the old times. People remember that first Pres- ident, whose honesty was actually never tried, because his dignity alone—that strong outpost of a great nature— defended him from the approach of even an improper suggestion. They remem- ber John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe ; and these gentle- men, with whose names even the bitter hos- tility of party detraction has not associated any mean or sordid vice, are put into com- parison with him who now occupies the place they held, to the shame and degradation of the age in which he flourishes, Public scorn for the men who have so abused the trusts reposed in them, and in- dignation for the shame in which the nation and republican government are involved by their acts ; hatred, contempt and resentment will occupy the mind of the nation fora time as the scandalous disclosures continue; but the case will not rest there. Other considerations will inevitably follow— practical considerations; and the main points of this further consideration will be what elements of our society’ are responsible, and what is the remedy—how shall we escape the further operations of evils that threaten to rot out the vitality of our political system? Out of thoughts like these, dwelt upon in every city home and in every farmhouse—from the mind of the farmer behind his plough, who wonders what he can doto save from the Belknaps that Republic which he fought to save from an armed enemy; from the reflections of every citizen in every sphere of life, will come the noiseless, steady currents of opinion that united must constitute the sweeping torrent of public purpose; the great determination of the people to put down relentlessly the official thieves ; to purge the national offices of every scoundrel who believes that he holds one, not to perform a duty, but to fill his pockets; to take the country ont of the hands’ of adventurers, contractors, forgers, traders, bribe takers; to so clear the moral atmosphere that it will only be necessary to find out that a man is a rogue in order to secure not merely his exclusion from office but his incarceration in jail. Here will be the tide on whose flood it will be pos- sible to purify and reconstruct our political ) administration. Already the party men perceive the future very clearly in this respect, and their acts, as usual, have regard strictly to their own rela- tions to the storm, whose first gusts are seen | in the air. On the one hand we see the at- | tempt to mitigate the fury that is to come; | on the other hand some pitiful fellows hope | to trim their party sails so that what is ruin to the others will procure them only a pros- perous voyage. Republicans do not venture | to deny that there is occasion for the outery so naturally raised against the corruptions of their party; but they go as near to it as they dare. They systematically belittle every offence, and pretend that it is only a | slight variation from former official usages. j They catch up the President's habit and try to represent every culprit in the light of a martyr to the malignity of the press or of private enemies. They have no indignation for the great rogues, but against | the rogues who have made disclosures their wrath is hotand fierce. Belknap is to be pitied, scourge with scorpion whips. They are ready also to take steps to prevent the further discovery of crimes, for they would smother the disease that may destroy the Republic, lest its present appearance on the surface should destroy their party, Democrats seo but Marsh they want to hang or | in all this only the calamity of their oppo- nents, and rejoice over the national shame because it seems to open the way for their accession to power; forthe public treasury has been shut against them these many years and their statesmen are poor. But, if the country must choose between the horde of thieves who are in office, because they helped to save the nation from the rebels, and those rebels from whom they helped to save it, it may prefer the thieves. No remedy for the evils from which we suffer could well be worse than that of handing this country over toa party that is only the fagend of the Confederacy ; that believes Andersonville was a modern Garden of Eden and regards Jeff Davis as a martyr anda patriot. That is not a remedy that the people will accept, and they will not consent to remain in the hands of the thieves either. All the dis- closures, whose scandal we now deplore, will create a public opinion to which the platform-mongers and till-tappers of either side must give way, and which will put in power men of character and capacity, of whom the country has plenty, and will sweep into obscurity every man contami- | nated by the possession of office or by rela- tions with those office-holding and office- hunting conspiracies, called the republican party and the democratic party, Schenck Withdraws, Three or four days since the telegraph in- | formed us of the virtuous indignation of | General Schenck, excited by some evi- dence given before a Congressional com- mittee in relation to the Emma Mine. He appeared then to the mind’s eye as one fretted beyond endurance at the assaults on his good name, and raging with impatience, asa lion may rage against the bars of his cage, at all the obstacles that stood between him and the committee that seemed to have him on trial—at the three thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean and some other obstacles equally difficult to a man with a nice sense of propriety. It did not surprise us when we heard that General Schenck had obtained ‘‘leave of absence” to come and confront his accusers. But we were apprehensive lest, in his just and virtu- ous rage, in his haste to get home, in his fury against his accusers, General Schenck should forget some of the moralities of his position. He was, for instance, accused of complicity in a gross violation of English law. It was charged that he was a swindler. His diplomatic position protected him from trial; but his honor, not to mention the honor of the service in which he was engaged, required that he should step down from his diplomatic castle and meet the law as other men are compelled to meet it, and vindicate himself from scandal in a fair trial; for the man who is aspersed by slanderers does not want to be screened from the law by his office, He wants the law to protect his fame. We were afraid that in the hurry of his indignation General Schenck would forget this ; that in getting leave of absence to come home, while still protected by his diplomatic character, he might not remember his moral engagement with British justice, and we suggested that The Witnesses Against Seltnags It is an odd spectacle which is just now presented in Washington. While no man at the national capital or elsewhere doubts Belknap’s guilt the impeachment is at a stand, and the criminal prosecution is at a stand, by lack of witnesses to testify against him. His resignation is conclusive evidence of his guilt, and its prompt acceptance is a proof that the President thinks him guilty on his own statements. The sworn testimony of Marsh, which nobody discredits, is fatal, and the confession made by Belknap in the presence of the committee would corroborate Marsh if anybody suspected his veracity. And yet, with a case so strong as to carry irresisti- ble conviction to everybody, the impeach- ment proceedings are delayed and the in- dictment by the Grand Jury is delayed by want of legally admissible evidence! The management of the case must have been in- excusably bungled when a charge whose truth is so undisputed and indisputable halts on the brink of the prosecution by a dearth of competent witnesses and legal evi- dence, A considerable portion of the blame must rest on the Congressional committee wigich conducted the investigation. It is unjust and absurd to accuse them of a deliberate intention to get Marsh out of the way and prevent his testifying. They had no motive to do this, but. every motive to’ utilize his knowledge of the facts. Their stupid blunder was, of course, unintentional, but such an imbecile lack of foresight cannot be defended. They could have kept Marsh within their control and have prevented his leaving Washington, and their blunder seems to have resulted from their failure to discriminate between a Congressional investigation with a view to legislation and an investigation leadin; impeachment. When facts are wante guide legislation there is no further use for a witness after he has fully given his testi- mony, but an investigation witha view to impeachment is a preliminary proceeding whose ultimate success depends on the same witnesses who testify before the com- mittee, just as in an ordinary crim- inal prosecution the witnesses who testify before the Grand Jury in procuring the indictment are the very witnesses whose testimony is most important in the trial. The committee who recommended the im- peachment could not have wished that it should be abortive, and they ought to have foreseen that Marsh's testimony would be as important in the trial as it was in the im- peachment, When they foolishly released him and gave him an opportunity to abscond they imperilled the very proceeding which they had the strongest motives to promote, The unintended consequences of letting Marsh escape bring just discredit on the committee. The committee have also been slack and negligent in their fuilure to summon other witnesses. There are twenty military posts as important as Fort Sill, and there is great reason for believing that Secretary Belknap practised the same corruption in all. Every trader at those posts should have been sum- he should put himself under some positive obligation to return to England after he had vindicated his character in Washington. How just our fears were is now plain to the naked eye. In his rage to get at his tra- ducers General Schenck actually forgot that he had resigned his office. Some persons he referred them to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. That would have been proper if General Schenck had been a foreign Minister; but it was not proper, as he had actually resigned already and was not a Min- ister, and this fact he quite overlooked. Or shall we say rather that he wns giving Eng- land a final lesson in the great game of poker? When they anted he blinded the ante, and his first raise was so high that they were afraid to call him. They believed he held the Ministership, which is equivalent to four aces, when straight flushes are barred, as they are in good company. Apprehensive of a hand of that sort, they dared not force him to a show; and in simple truth he was ‘‘bet- ting his tens of thousands with nary a pair in his hand.” He was simply running away from the officers of justice. He had resigned the place that gave him immunity, and if this had been known he would have gone to jail; but it was not known, so he put a bold face on the matter, and so is safely at sea. Is there any further humiliation than this to which dishonesty can make a nation subject? Non-Resident Traders in Maryland. A case was decided by Judge Gilmor in the Baltimore criminal court a day or two since, which is of considerable interest to the class known as commercial travellers. Mr. W. C. McCarty, a travelling agent of Henry Mayo & Co., of Boston, was arraigned for selling goods without a license under the State laws, and was convicted and fined. This case aroso under the same Maryland | Statute as the case of Ward vs. Maryland | some time ago, when the decision of the | State court was appealed from, and the United States Supreme Court decided that the Maryland law was unconstitutional and void, in so far as it required a larger license fee from outsiders than from citizens of the State. Judge Gilmor holds that only so much of the law was declared repugnant to the constitution as makes a discrimination against the citizens of other States, and that it is valid so far as it requires the same | license and the same fees from residents and non-residents. It is argued that the Mary- land traders would be unjustly treated if they were required to pay a license from which the agents of other traders are ex- empt. The effect of Judge Gilmor's de- cision is that the State of Maryland hasa right to require licenses of its own traders and to enforce the same uniform rule on non-residents doing business in the State, the decision of the United States Court | merely annulling so much of the law as made discriminations against non-residents, Itis possible that Judge Gilmor's decision will be appealed from, but not probable that the appeal will be sustained. No Revonvrion 1 Servra.—How a story | gathers in going! A row at a communal election swells into a fight with Communists, and before the story reaches the frontier it has carried Prince Milan along with it and left a republic in the princely void behind. This is a fine specimen of the canard. served a warrant on him at the station, and | moned, and there ought by this time to be a cloud of witnesses in Washington capable of giving important testimony. It is scan- dalous that, with all the clews in the pos- session of the committee, the impeachment has come to a halt for want of testimony, But if the committee is chargeable with negligence and imbecility we fear that the administration has exposed itself to a graver inculpation. It would be monstrous in such a conjuncture to frighten witnesses from testifying by holding up before them the terrors of a personal prosecution if they give testimony incriminating themselves. Conviction for such crimes is impossible ex- cept by the evidence of accomplices, and if the administration takes away all hope of protection it shields the thieves. Instead of frightening accomplices the govern- ment should encourage them to come forward and testify. President Grant could easily bring Marsh back to this coun- try by causing an assurance of impunity to be conveyed to him through some appropri- ate channel. If he fails to do this when the interests of justice so obviously require it the country will be forced to believe that he wishes to shield Belknap by shutting out the evidence which would convict him. It is the President's clear duty to make it known that accomplices may safely testify against Belknap both in the impeachment and the criminal trial, and his failure to do this will cause the country to believe that his sym- pathies are not on the side of justice, but of the criminal. Peanuts and Tobacco on the Street Cars. respondent of persons who eat roasted pea- nuts in the street cars. We do not know why he should complain. If they ate pea- nuts that were unroasted then serious ob- jections might be raised on the score of bad taste, but roasted peanuts are not to be despised. In eating roasted peanuts it is our opinion that these persons show excel- lent judgment. If they should eat them raw it would be difficult to defend such a bar- baric habit. But science makes that an im- possibility. Peanuts contain phosphorus in considerable quantities ; phosphorus stimu- lates the brain; the mind thus becomes active, and the intellectual faculties perceive that peanuts must be roasted to be good. It follows that peanut eating dictates, as it were, the method of peanut cooking. It used to be not uncommon to see the sign “No gentleman eats peanuts in a first class theatre.” The natural result was that when a gentleman did eat peanuts in a theatre he defended himself on the ground that it was not first class, but second rate. Our correspondent would like to see such a sign placed in cars, but we are compelled to differ with him altogether. We think that a street car is just the place to eat peanuts, just as a hog sty is the proper place to ent hog food. Where would you eat peanuts? In a church, or at a wedding, or at a funeral? Our corre- spondent would hardly go so far as this. If he looks into the matter more closely he will perceive that of all places in the world a street car is the very place where peanuts Bitter complaints are made to us by a cor- | should be eaten, The natural fitness of | things, the harmony of the universe, require it, For this reason we defend the custom | ticket in New Hampshire next Tuesday it | any political calculation, and insist that it be coutinued. We would also advocate tobacco spitting in the cars and smoking on the front and rear plat- forms. The streetcars are managed on the peanut principle, and any attempt to intro- duce decency in their conduct would be an impertinent interference with the directors. The French Legislature. The opening of the French Chambers at Versailles yesterday marks a new era in the history of France. We may for the present leave retrospect aside and congratulate the land of Lafayette on the prospect before it. We are the more encouraged in this that we observe a wise and contained spirit an- imating the Senators and Representa- tives in setting about the work before them. Notwithstanding many hostile criti- cisms aimed at the paucity of states- men among the members of the French Legislature we think that they will be able to make a very respectable showing of able men in both branches. It-is the necessity of the case that the majority of the Deputies should be new to parliamentary delibera- tions; but the veterans are by no means few, and the party organization, which is well de- fined among the members, although hard to be comprehended by outsiders, will keep up discipline. It would be absurd to expect that a French Assembly can proceed with its deliberations as calmly as yesterday's exercises would seem to promise, but if the members vent all their superfluous steam upon each other, and give the people carefully digested laws with as little ‘‘argency” as possible, France and the world will be the better for it. The presi- dency of the Senate and that of the House will be in firm and impartial hands when the Duc d’Audiffret-Pasquier and M. Grévy take the French equivalent for the gavel in hand. More Air for the Little Ones. ‘There can beno much-needed reform in which our citizens will take a more gracious | interest than that which aims at reducing | the dangers to health of the children in the public schools, There are some leather- lunged individuals who think they have a right to astrap in a sardine-packed horse ear, but we do not think that the most in- veterate ‘“‘strapper” would hesitate to de- nounce a system ruinous to the health of his own, his brother's, or even his neighbor's child. We do not believe in coddling chil- dren, but we should at least give the little ones pure air to breathe during the six hours they are enclosed in the schools. In another part of the Heratp will be found the statements upon this important question by Mr. Kiddle, the superintendent of our schools, and of Dr. Moreau Morris, formerly of the Board of Health. From the first can be seen the present condition of the schools in respect to dangerous overcrowding, and from the second what theschools should be. Read- ing these carefully the public will see the defects of ithe present system and how they may be remedied or ameliorated. In a great and rapidly spreading city like New York it is inevitable that we should outgrow our accommodations as the boy outgrows his jackets; but the liberal and wealthy parent—Manhattan—only requires to have ifs little children’s wants put plainly Before it to supply them. The schools want air, more .of it and_ better. From the gentlemen above named and the sanitary authorities they ‘quote ‘it will be seen how grave the danger is and how quickly the cure should be applied. We are not at all prepared to see the matter disposed of by turning the surplus thirty thousand little scholars adrift. That would be a cheap way to settle the difficulty, but no father would deprive one child of his dinner because there was only room for his other four at the table, We are too proud of our schools and our children to accept any such solution of the problem. The way to reform is clear. Let the Board of Education take prompt counsel of science and common sense, Let them say where the erection of new schools is absolutely necessary, where alterations of existing buildings are required and where the introduction of suitable ventilating appliances will make the class rooms fit for the use of scholars. There should not be an instant's delay in stating these things, for the statistics are at hand for collation. It is a matter the necessity of providing for which monetarily is appa- rent, and the Board may rest assured that the money will be furnished ungrudgingly. Superintendent Kiddle thinks a quarter of a million dollars would remedy the present disgraceful state of things. We do not like approximate sums, and we call on the Board to make such a report as we have indicated, with a close calculation as tothe cost. This is the business way of setting to work, and there should not be a day lost about it. The New Hampshire Election. If the republican party should elect its would be a more incomprehensible phe- nomenon than has ever been presented in American politics. Last year Governor Cheney's plurality over Roberts, his demo- cratic competitor, was only one hundred and seventy-two, and if the recent scandalous exposures do not wipe out that slender ma- jority no reliance can afterward be placed on The people of | New Hampshire cannot affect to djs- believe the charges against Belknap, and, after every allowance is made for bribery, it will be strange if revolt | against exposed and scandalous corruption does not prevent the success of the adminis- tration party. A change of eighty-seven votes would reverse the republican majority of last year, and if the recent disgraceful ex- posures should not have that amount of in- fluence there would be reason to despair of the moral sense of American citizens, In spite of bribery, in spite of brazen political lying, in spite of the attempts made at Wash- ington and repeated in New Hampshire to confuse and befog the issne, we cannot be- lieve that the democratic party will fail to overcome the slender majority by which it | was defeated in the Granite State last year. A1roxso's Trovpies are by no means over, The fight has been transferred nearer Madridy that is all. The Carlists could never cross the Ebro, but liberal opinions can crop up anywhere, What isin the near future may be guessed from the fnet that the Spanish | government have requested France to expel , Spanish republicans from her dominions. | city on Thureday, where he got his first ee Rapid Transit. The three Rapid Transit Conimissionen have made their report to the Gen eral Term of the Supreme Court, ap proving what is known as the Third avenue route, particulars of which, with ite intersections or branches, will be found in _ another column. ‘The crooked arrangement of the streets in the lower part of the island made the question of the route there a matter of great nicety, but it was along the clearly marked line of the Bowery and Third avenue that the great est opposition was manifested. Where thir opposition was organized it is not difficul to trace. Indeed, the Third Avenue Rail. road Company, with its usual audacity, makes little secret of its desire to keep the citizens in its avaricious clutches, The opposition, including many dubious claims to property ownership along the east side route, only mustered twenty-nine per cent of the total valuation, of which perhaps not more than one-half is bond side. On this showing the whole matter goes before the General Term for confirmation. This gives the opposition a final chance; but, as they admit, it is a desperate one. Under the present satisfactory state of the case there can beno doubt what the decision of the judges will be. We would only pray them to give the citizens of New York the benefit of an early confirmation of the report as re- quired by law. The Commissioners deserve the thanks of the community for their com- mendable industry and patience. In reject- ‘ing the line across Ninety-second street and along Eighth avenue northward we believe they have acted wisely. There the opposi- tion was heaviest, and a favorable report upon it might have jeopardized the whole scheme, or at least delayed for some time the application of its main features. This is a route from the Battery to the Harlem River. With that and some necessary branches down town New York will for the present be satis: | fied, as the question of a road through Ninety-second street or elsewhere up town can be reopened hereafter. Tue Conrrapictions in the current Mex- ican revolutions place all chances of dis. covering the true state of affairs at a great distance. As for heads, it has, like Cer- berus, three, but those heads seem to be without bodies. On the other hand, there are a great many small fighting bodies whose heads are unknown. We would say that there are a great many banditti, and probably be near the mark, as after ‘‘pro- nouncing” the next thing is a ‘forced loan,” which civilized people would call robbery. Tue Tweep Venpict agrees with the con- clusions upon the case formed by every honest man in the country. Mr. Field's great ability could not screen the fact that he felt he was pleading a hopeless case, no matter how bold a face he put upon it. Let us now see how much the city can collect upon the judgment. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, It was General Logan who wafted his “hand” and said, ‘If any man pulls down the American flag shoot him on the tray.”” : Surrogate Van Schaick is suffering from ill health and will leave the city, probably next Saturday, for a ten days’ visit to the South. ‘When Frelinghuysen heard about tho sad affair he sald, “I feel as mean as though I had sat down and forgotten to take a quarter’s worth of eggs out of my coat tail’s pocket. ” Anew London fashion. in hair isto make the head look very small, This fashion is only for ladies, and there will be no chance for the Chicago Times to make the head of its ‘personal man” feel small ‘the next morning.”” When a man goes home at two o’clock in the morn. ing and turns the key of the tront door and pushes the bolt conscientiously and all the time does this while tho door 18 three foet open he ought to go the next night to the Hippodrome. If yoa ever ate Belknap’s dinners you will show how Piggish you'are by saying he ate a great deal, and if he ever wrote you a decent private note rush into print with it and show how much less of a gentleman you are than even he was. Murat Halstead, who, in many respects, is statesman. like, persists in his error that ‘‘sasperilia” contains little besides water. He has not tasted any in nine years. Aman should be up with the age before he makes a broad statement like that. The Boston Transcript says that a gas chimney just tinged with bluc is good to sew by. We have fro. quently, of a gentle evening, tested the truth of this idea whilo sitting sewing. But no earthly chimney, so far, will prevent you from getting on the buttons up- side down. The obituary poetry of tho Philadelphia Ledger wag written for that peper from timo to time by poor people who had lost dear relatives, and the sentiment which inspired it was more hearty than that which would inspire a laureate to bewail a prince. It ia homely and honest and respectable. There is a saying of Schopenhauer that “women re- main all their life big children; they have am eye for the thing which is nearest to them; they attach them. selves to the present; they mistake the appearanco for the reality; and they set aside the most momentous question for the veriest trifle.” Mr. Crookes calculates that the force exerted by the sun’s hight 18 equal to thirty-two grains on the square foot or fifty-seven tons on the square mile, or 3,000,000, 000 tons on the whole earth, a repellant force which, but for tne far more powerful attractive force of gravitation, would drive the earth off into space. Bostou Glode:—A son of General Belknap, seventeen Years old, is apupilat the Adams Academy, Quincy. He has been summoned to Washington. He was in this tigence of his father’s disgrace by taking up an evening paper as he was waiting for his turn in a barber shop. The shock threw him into a state of great nervous excite. ment, and he went straight back to Quincy and took to his bed. Herr Krupp has now been engaged in the manufac. ture of stecl guns for thirty years, His first six-pounder was exhibited In London in 1851, and sinee then he hag provided nearly all the European States with guns, Ris last achievement i in of thirty and anal centimetres calibre ty-seven and a half tong weight, These guns are to be supplied to the Turkish governmnent for the fortifications on the Bosphorus, The projectilo is of cast secel, it weighs 520 kilo. grams, and, whon fired with a charge of 125 kilo. | grains of prismatic powder, has an initial velocity of 475 metres. Young George Washington asked permission of # Mr. Cary to address bis daughter before he ventured te speak to herself The reply of the old gentleman was:—CH{ that is your business here, sir, 1 wish you to leave the house, for my daughter bas been accus- tomed to ride in her own coach.” Tho lady General Washington afterward married resembled Miss Cary as much a8 one twin sister ever did another, Washington Star:—One of the most elegant toilets seon was that of Mrs. Jones, wife of the Nevada Sena- | tor. A puffed tulle train was worn with an overdress of White satio, embroidered iu white silk, studded thickly with bugles; the embroidery was arranged in hori- zontal bands, The skirt was en traine and the corsage tow, filled in with white tulle and garnished with bands of embroidery similar to that used on the skirt, Her necklace of solitaire damonds, of unusual sige and purity, was worn on a band of black velvet about her fair throat; the earrings were very large and brilliant Solitaire diamonds and the gold bracelets were set with | similar precious stones,