The New York Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1876, Page 6

6 ¥ .NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youre Hnavp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. z : Rejected communications will not be re~ turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. ‘LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET, PARIS OFFICE—-AVENUE DE L'OPERA, Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms yas in New York, v4 VOLUME XLI. een NO, 75 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1876—TRIPLE SHEET. Fallure of the National Bank of the | ments which purported to give the condition State of New York. The news which began to circulate in the street a little before noon yesterday caused a flutter of excitement for the ensuing two hours, but be- fore three o'clock “the wave passed under’ the ship” and the business of the day closed in comparative still water. The sudden had never been distrusted, naturally gave a shock and excited alarm, but the re- assuring character of the facts developed during the day allayed the uneasiness, and it is believed that the only serious sufferers will be the stockholders of the bank, The depositors will be paid in full, although they will suffer some inconvenience by inability to use their funds while the affairs of the bank are in the course of settlement. But they will ultimately be paid in full, and the note holders are, of course, secured against less, as all note holdersare, under our national bank system. A large proportion of the capital of the bank is swallowed up in this failure, but the loss falls on the stock- holders, and the community will not suffer. AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND EVENING, PARISIAN V. T! VARIETY, at 8 P. M. yasmin ‘BAN FRANCISCO MIN: GLO: ‘VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Mai BOOTH'S THEATS TULIUS CASAR, atS P.M. Matinee at 1:30 P.M. Mr. wrence Barrett. . OLY) VARIETY, at 8 P. M. TWENT CALIFORNIA MI E. PEAKED, at 8 P.M. { v *VARIETY, at 8 P. AM. wo BUIL GAIR, at 8b. M. WALLACK'S TE TRE. FHE WONDER, at 8 P.M. Lester Wallack. TONY PASTOR'S NEW THEATRE. VARIETY, at 5 P. ¢ Pipverearep L ell. CHATE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M BROOKL THE TWO ORPHANS, at THEATRE. M. Miss Kate Claxton, UNION 8 ROSE MICHEL, at 8 PARK BRASS, at 8 P. M. TRE. Fanny Davenport, THIRTY-FOURTI )PERA HOUSE. VARIETY, at 8 PM RMANLA ATRE. PIEGEULIESCHEN, at 8 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, W AY, MARCH 15, 1876, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be generally clear, Tur Herarp ny Fast Maw Traws.—Nevs- dealers and the public throughout the country will be supplied with the Dary, Wrexux and Bunpay Henarp, free of postage, by sending their orders direct to this office. Watt Srrerr Yexsterpay.—The _ stock market was much unsettled by the suspen- sion of the Bank of the State of New York. Prices declined several ser cent, but after- ward rallied. Gold fell off from 115 3-4 to 114 3-8. Money on call hardened from 3 1-2 to 7 per cent and 1-32 commission. Govern- men ts were higher, especially for 1867's, Tue Anyssty Derxnar is confirmed, and the King hag asked for peace. The Khedive of Egypt is indebted greatly for this victory to the assistance of American officers, Spain aNp THE CENTENNIAL.—A large quantity of goods, sent to the Centennial Exhibition from Spain, were sent on Satur- day to this port from Havana. Servia makes no concealment of her sym- pathy with the insurgents. Belgrade was illuminated the other night in celebration of their recent victories over the Turkish s troops. Tre Senate has passed the biJl to reduce the salary of the President. His salary was raised to fifty thousand dollars a year in a mean way and with dishonorable conditions, but we question the advantage of changing what has been done. We believe in paying our officials well. Kizpovrne has gone to jail for his con- tempt of Congress in refusing to tell what he knows of the District of Columbia real estate pool. What motive has he for concealment if the transactions were perfectly legitimate, as he claims they are? We hope the House will not let this man defy them with success. A Misrrante Wretcn was hung yester- day at Hamilton, Ont., with unusual melo- dramatic effect. The clergyman repeated the Lord's Prayer, and when he uttered the word “deliver” the drop fell, and, as there was no miracle, the criminal’s neck was broken. We are glad to hear that the execu- tion was well managed; but are not these religious mockeries on the scaffold in some- what bad taste? Senor Horaarpo has turned up safe if not sound. His mysterious disappearance is due to his own choice, and he has been passing his time in comfort at a hotel, while his friends have feared he was the victim of acrime. The story he tells is improbable, though not impossible, and the Spanish Consul to-day may find out more about the lottery tickets of which he claims to have been robbed. We give the latest facts in re- gard to this singular affair. To-Dax is a gloomy day in London. The members of the Stock Exchange have to settle their balances, and ‘‘the quarter of an hour of Rabelais” is proverbial for distress, That celebrated humorist was delighted to sit and make merry all day long, but when it came to the end and he had to pay the bill he was invariably sad. Some of the London bankers are likely to be as badly off as ‘Uncle Daniel” was a few days ago, but no financial ¢: is anticipated, Tue Frexcn Assempix has been perma- nently organized by tho election of the Duke d’Audiffret-Pasquier as President of the Senate, and M. Grévy os President of the Chamber of Deputies. The subordinate officers chosen represent a decisive victory for the republicans, under Gambetta's leadership. It is likely that M. Ricard will be elected to the vacant life Senatorship, and will, in consequence, retain his place as The effect on general business will be slight and almost imperceptible. This event, whose immediate consequences are happily of so little importance, deserves attention as a symptom of the condi- tion of our national banks, and an indication of the merits and defects of the system. We will first look at the bright side of the picture, which we cannot present in a more favorable light than by comparing this failure with the unex- pected failure of the banking house of Dun- can, Sherman & Co., which was equally sud- den and startling and drew so many victims into its vortex, There is a striking contrast between the two failures. When Duncan, Sherman & Co. suspended it was found their assets fell short of their liabilities by several millions, and that besides the irretrievable ruin of the banking house many individuals and firms were severe sufferers ; whereas the failure of the National Bank of the State of New York drags nobody down except the stockholders of the bank, This difference illustrates one of the best features of the national bank system. Duncan, Sherman & Co. continued to do business for years after the concern became insolvent, because it was free from the supervising control of any authority empowered by law to inquire into its affairs and publish its condition, No national bank can thus trade on its reputation and maintain a factitious credit, if the national banking law is rigorously or even fairly ad- ministered. It is a chief merit of the system that none of the banks included in it can go on deceiving and imposing on the public for any length of time after it has become insol- yent. The career of the National Bank of the State of New York has been arrested at so early a stage that none of its-creditors will be involved in serious loss, whereas a banking house not subject to the same kind of super- vision may continue to do business on a false reputation until it engulfs a multitute of innocent parties in the final crash. Had Duncan, Sherman & Co. been obliged to make frequent reports of their condition to the Comptroller of the Currency, had they been liable to a scrutiny of their affairs under the direction of that officer as often as he thought it necessary, their career would have been cut short much earlier than it was, and un- suspecting people would have been saved from great losses. The difference between these two conspicnous cases of failure is a strong argument in favor of the national bank sys- tem, which detects insolvency at so early a stage that creditors of a bank cannot be ruined if there is reasonable vigilance on the part of the Comptroller of the Currency, The advantage of government supervision of banking institutions also furnishes an argument against the wild crotchet of the soft money democrats, who would abolish the national banks and make legal tender notes the only currency. If that should be done the busi- ness of banking would be surrendered into private hands, and there would be no effi- cient check on such abuses as were practised by the house of Duncan, Sherman & Co. The government acquires its right of super- vision and examination through the connection of the national banks with the issue of currency, and if all the currency were issued by the gov- ernment and banking were made a pri- vate business, the community would lose its chief safeguard against the abuses of a factitious credit. Any banking firm which had once enjoyed a high reputation could trade on that reputation long after it had become insolvent, and inveigle an unsus- pecting community to make deposits which would be lost when the sham was exposed, The security of tho creditors of the bank which failed yesterday, as contrasted with the losses of the creditors of the important private banking house which failed last autumn, demonstrates the superiority of a system which keeps the banks under an active sur- veillance and forces them to suspend before they have sunk the greater part of their as- sets. This is the favorable side of the account; but there is another side which is not so sat- isfactory. The failure yesterday justifies distrust and anxiety respecting the condi- tion of the national banks. Who can know how many of them are as _ close upon the verge of bankruptcy as the institution which went down yesterday? Five days ago the public had no more reason for distrusting the National Bank of the | State of New York than for suspecting the solvency of the great multitude of kindred institutions. Nobody knows how many ‘of them are in an equally fragile condition. Nothing can be more utterly delusive than the reports they publish from time to time for the supposed information of the public. The Comptroller of the Cur- rency may have some knowledge of their condition, but the community is constantly deceived. Readers of the last weekly state- ment of the banks of this city would ‘have supposed that the particular bank now under discussion was one of the safest and most solvent of our moneyed institutions, and the fact that its stock has recently been sell- ing at six per cent above par proves how grossly the public has been imposed upon and how egregiously misleading are the Minister of the Interior. These important | weekly bank statements. We will copy the - @omtests seem to have passed off quietly. figures of the last of these deceptive state- ] of this insolvent bank on Saturday last, Its reported assets on the 11th inst. were, in round numbers, as follows:— Loans. Specie. Legal tendei Total assets. Its liabilities, as represented in the same ' , | deceptive statement, were as follows :— suspension of so old an institution, which | - Deposits, Circulation,. Total liabilities Me . $3, 105,000 According to the last weekly gstatement this insolvent bank was in a most excellent condition on Saturday last, having a clear balance of nearly two million three hundred thousand dollars of dues over debts. What are the weekly bank statements worth when they convey such false impressions? What a miserable cheat and farce it is to publish such statements, which can serve no purpose but to hoodwink the public, The de- ceptive part of these statements are the figures printed under the head of “loans.” In a well-managed bank the loans represent real assets—that is to say, good debts, which will be paid on maturity. A safely conducted bank, which makes no imprudent loans, is put on the same level in these deceptive reports with institutions whose loans can all be called in and made available within a period of ninety days. Bad debts are not property, and yet the | bad debts of mismanaged banks figure as property in ‘the published weekly statements, and it is this circumstance which makes the statements so worth- less and misleading. Loans which will never be paid should not be reckoned as assets, but in the weekly bank statements they are lumped with collectible debts and serve no purpose but deception. The public has no means of judging to what extent the banks of the country have deviated from sound principles and made loans which they can never collect. Banks which confine their transactions to the legit- imate business of discounting commercial paper drawn against real transactions can never be in any great danger. The property represented by the bills or notes which they discount is a security for payment, and when the loans come in at periods of thirty, sixty or ninety days, they have the means of meeting all their engagements. But when they grant loans on speculative stocks and shares or fixed property at inflated values they go beyond the sphere of legiti- mate banking and risk their capital on gam- bling ventures. We fear that many of our banks are in this condition. The prolonged stagnation of business has left so much idle money in the hands of _ the banks that they have been tempted into speculative ventures, and the advances they have made on property at fictitious values is a source of danger which nobody can esti- mate at its full magnitude. If we had any means of discriminating between the good and bad debts of the banks we could form a more intelligent estimate of the financial condition of the country. The New Hampshire Election. The result of the vote in New Hampshire was anxiously awaited by the country, simply because it desired and expected to seein it the effect of the Belknap expo- sures upon politics. In other respects the election was important because the Legislature created by the vote of yesterday is to choose a successor to A. H. Cragin in the United States Senate. But such con- siderations always fail to interest the people in periods of excitement as muchas imme- diate results. Mr. Belknap was supposed to be on trial in New Hampshire, and the admin- istration was brought in as his accomplice. Well, upon that issue both Mr. Belknap and the administration have been acquitted. In spite of the great scandal at Washington the State has gone republican. But New Hampshire is a little State, and, therefore, easily controlled. The majority for either of the great parties is generally small—that for Grant in 1872, having been remarkeble, 5,745—and last year a scattering vote of 792 threw the determination of Governor into the two houses of the General Court. In such a State, with oa shifting small majority, it is easy to affect the result by money, and we judge from the despatches of our impartial and cbservant correspondent at Concord that money was expended freely during the recent campaign and that tho republicans had the longest purse. They have re- elected Governor Cheney and a ma- jority of the Legislature, according to the latest returns, and will, there- fore, continue the republican representation of New Hampshire in the Senate. But it is unlikely that the republican party will be much elated or that the democracy will be much depressed by this event. It was not a national field. The issues were too narrow. The majority either way is too small. A grand national question cannot be tried ina police court, and New Hampshire’ is actually, when we consider the closeness of its partisan vote, and the facilo methods of affecting it, of little more importance than a ward in New York. If the administration claims a victory in this election upon the issne of Mr, Bel- knap’s guilt, then it suffers a practical defeat; for, to win upon that issue is——bnd for the republican party. Our opinion is that local matters, the stake of the United States Senatorship and money—the latter most of all—determined the result yesterday in New Hampshire. The general appeal is yet to be ninde to the higher tribunal of the nation. Tar Garr in Ener has been unprece- dentedly violent and has caused, as we an- ticipated, a number of marine disasters and distressing loss of life. The storm extended all over the British Islands and to a con- siderable distance south of Paris, in France. This would indicate that it approached the European coast from a direction a little south of west. In all probability the storm had its origin in the equatorial belt to the eastward of West Indian points of obser- vation. Tne Vautey or tHe Seine has suffered considerably from the recent floods, Many | houses that were undermined by the waters | have been destroyed by the gale on Sunday | last. The city of Paris has sustained much loss in buildings and other property, and several fatal casualties are reported from that city, The Pendleton Transaction. Hon. George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, a leading democratic statesman, candidate for Vice President on the ticket with General McClellan, and an aspirant for the Presi- | dency, has been before the Committee on War Expenditures to explain his connection with the claim of the Kentucky Central Rail- road Company against the government, Mr. | Pendleton says that the claim was for nearly one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He was president of the company and the administrator of the Bowler estate. As pres- | ident he made a contract with himself as agent, by which he was to receive fifty per cent of the claim. The government, through the aid of Mr. Belknap, paid him the claim, eighty thousand dollars of which he retained as “fee”—sixty-eight thousand dollars going to the company. He swears that none of this money was paid to Mr. Belknap or to any of his family, or to any one representing the Secretary. It is difficult to characterize this transac- tion. If Mr. Pendleton received the eighty thousand dollars for his ‘‘influence” then comes the uncomfortable reflection that ‘‘in- fluence” is much too valuable, especially when p@ssessed by a democratic statesman over a republican administration. If the money was really due the road then Mr. Pendleton, as president, awarding him- self the larger share of the claim, is in a painful position, one that will admit of an intelligent explanation to the stockholders of the road. If the money was not due then Mr. Belknap in awarding the claim was guilty of a breach of duty, in which Mr. Pendleton shares. It opens up the whole question of ‘‘influence” in the departments, a question underlying much of the corruption that has been devel- oped in Washington. It is not long since we had a suit against General Butler for the portion of a fee of twenty thousand dollars paid him for his “influence.” It is not pleasant to see George H. Pendleton in the same business. Altogether the transaction reflects no credit upon Mr. Pendleton, however we may view it. He may have been legally entitled to the money which he earned under his contract, But morally the whole business isa job. Its revelation closes the career of Mr. Pendleton as a useful and trusted leader of his party. It will be re- garded with sorrow by the country, Gaslight and Other Light. For about half a century the people of cities have enjoyed the luxury of gaslight, which, as compared to most of the lights that were before in use, is as sunshine com- pared to a tallow dip. But in the course of that half century very great changes for the better have been made in other methods of illumination, and very great changes for the worse in the supply of gas. At present, consequently, people do not regard the pos- session of this means of lighting their homes as an unmixed benefit, and can contemplate without despair the entire removal of their meters. Formerly the advantages of gas were cleanliness, convenience, safety, cheap- ness and a brilliant light; but this was in comparison with candle light and light from lamps that burned fish oil or camphene. Camphene was dangerous, oil smelled offen- sively, candles only made darkness visible, and all were dearer than gas was in the days when the companies did not give their whole attention to the enlargement of dividends, Kerosene of the best quality gives a light equal to gas in almost any lamp, but in an improved lamp a light far superior to gas for reading or writing—superior in the essential elements of whiteness and steadiness in the flame. Such a light costs one cent for abaut five hours, and gas, for the same period, would cost ten cents when the price is three dollars a thousand feet. Such a light, there- fore, is cheap, good, clean, safe, and when the lamps are properly cared for has no odor. Under the system of inspection maintained by the Fire Department in this city explosive oil cannot be found in the shops. Gas, on the other hand, is poor, gives a dim light, is outrageously dear, and its use puts the people at the mercy of that worst of tyrants—an unreasoning monopoly, Pledged Delegations. Governor Dix's deprecation of the appear- ance at a national convention of a dele- gation of republicans pledged to the support of some favorite candidate will meet with that favor in public opinion which is com- monly secured when any reputable person expresses distinctly what is thought by all. It is in the same direction and to the same effect as the more positive declaration made a few days since by the Union League Club, and is the essence of the movement which seems to be making quiet progress, not for a third party, but for the purification of that party against which the people are disposed to revolt only because of its corruptions. Republicans who propose to take an active share in the attempt to purify their party must not leave their opinions in doubt on this subject of a ‘pledged delegation” for Cincinnati. All the point of the battle is just there, and if the vote of this great State goes to Cincinnati as the property of the office-holders—to be delivered at the pells to whoever will make terms with office-holders’ committee—the — republi- cans of this part of the world will have lost the last opportunity to save their party. Pledged delegations imply, of course, packed conventions—that the delega- tion is the personal property of the person | to support whom the pledge is given, and that that person will use its vote for himself or another in any way that seems good to him. The attempt to seenre a delegation pledged to any man implies also a modest apprehension on the part of such a patriot that if left to stand before the Convention on his own merits he might not stand at all. But the country is just now concerned with other facts than the welfare of all the hole- and-corner patriots who may secure pledged delegations ; and this is a good time to have national conventions restored to their char- acter as organizations whose fealty and obli- gation is to public opinion and to the voters of a party, not to the jobbers and traders in votes, FericuisM IN THE Sovrs.—While some of the negroes of the South have advanced in civilization many of them, being free from the religious influence of their old homes, have drifted into revolting and barbarous an } fetichism. Freedom seems to have revived instincts for the habits of heathens. At Vicksburg they worship balls of cloth and feathers. In several of the States they have sprinklings of earth upon fire, or they all contribute a bit of dust to a tub of water and then worship it, There is also a prevalent idea that one person may make another ill by casting upon him “the evil eye.” If one negro has a grudge against another he looks evilly at him or he places a dead hen upon a fence, with the bill toward his victim's door. If the victim becomes ill the charm has worked. This barbarism is more widely prevalent than we of the North suppose, and perhaps we do not fully realize why the white man does not wish to be ruled by the witless black, Politics in France. Only a little while ago there was in France sort of parliamentary revolution against an Executive that in the administration of the government of a republic went too near, as it was thought, to the notion that the majority should rule. Thiers was driven out because he mado no secret of his opinion that the elements of tho political future were toward the Left, and MacMahon was put in power as the safe type of a conservative re- action. His first Cabinet was formed by the Duke de Broglie, and the monarchists recov- ered their hopes ; but the republicans drove the government from point to point, until the strongest representative of the conservative reaction was M. Buffet, who had been one of the social republicans of 1848, and an ex- treme liberal, for those times, in the Cabinets of President Louis Bonaparte. One might fancy there was no great comfort for conser- yatism in a character of that sort, and no fact to greatly distress or excite the republicans ; yet when the elections came Buffet was dealt with as extravagantly by the voters as was that American man-of-war by the sea when, in an earthquake on the South Ameri-' can coast, she was lifted from her anchorage and deposited somewhere on the slope of the Andes. Buffet, the last stronghold of the conservative revolt against Thiers, went out ; a new Ministry was constructed which pre- sumably represents the President's ideas of something more liberal than Buffet, and against this new Ministry the republicans raise their voices and denounce its appoint- ment as a violation of recognized constitu- tional principles. siete In all this there seems to be very great and rapid progress in France in the development of republican ideas, and if this progress were as great and sudden as it seems we might apprehend that our friends over there were going too fast and would presently tumble over an abyss. In fact, this appearance of rapid progress is only due to the false indi- cations given by the late Assembly, which are confused with the fairer evidences of the state of political opinion in the country. The general elections held last month are the first that have taken place in five years, and they represent the ideas that have secured a firm hold upon the public mind within that period—the opinion that has steadily grown up in the presence of all the crises and changes, the mines and coun- termines of the politicians, that the safest system of government for the country is the republican system. If only a few months ago @ contrary opinion seemed to prevail we must not assume that the country was then of that opinion and. has now changed to its present opinion. That contrary opin- ion was held by M. Buffet, or perhaps even by Marshal MacMahon. It was an in- dividual view of what the opinion of the country was, or perhaps only a pretence to cover party purposes. But the vote cor- rects all and shows that it was a mistake. Rightly interpreted the vote should also have shown to the Marshal that his latest Ministry is also a mistake. It was an error that may, perhaps, be ex- cused to the non-political Marshal MacMa- hon to have given the formation of a new Ministry into the hands of M. Dufaure ; but an error nevertheless, for he was not the gentleman designated by the circumstances. But, taking M. Dufaure for granted, that gentleman himself has in the choice of his associates not done justice to the opinions that were entertained of his tact and political perceptions. In a political sense it is the same old ship, covered with a thin coat of paint and called by a new name. Indeed, that is the best that can be said of it, for in some particulars it is worse than the same old ship, It is called a Ministry of the Left Centre. If all the republicans elected to the Assembly be counted at three hundred they may be divided thus:—Left Centre, fifty; re- publican Left, one hundred and fifty; Ex- treme Left, one hundred. From the weakest faction of the republicans, therefore, the Ministry is chosen, which is certainly the pretence of the Marshal and his supporters to know what the country wants better than the country knows it, or is otherwise a de- fiance of the people. Yet the position of this Cabinet, with regard to support in the As- | sembly, ts not hopeless ; for all the elements of opposition to the republicans will number about two hundred. With these and the fifty of the Left Centre the Ministry can di- vide the Chamber agninst the republicans, whose two hundred and fifty, made up in so great a degree from the Extreme Left, will be far from compact. Presipent MacManon's Appress to the French legislature is more definitive of his policy than any of his recent messages. He is evidently earnest in his wish to maintain the Republic and to protect it from its ene- mies until it has been fully tested by time. He properly argues that power cannot have a higher origin than that power which was given to the Executive and the legislature by the recent vote of the people. If MacMahon is not a Washington, he is cer- tainly emulating Washington's example; and France is fortunate in having a chief magis- trate who seems to obey no party but obeys the nation's will. Is Ir Lirtte Ki?—Several days ago we | copied from the Utica Observer a statement | that facts relating to the dishonor of a federal official who had paid for his position had been sent to the proper committee at Wash- ington. The Albany Argus says that the army officer who refused the bribe in the first instance was General Kilpatrick, and that the person who offered it is supposed to be General Butterfield. Let Little Kil be called, a ———————— A Parental Poll:: of the Schools Fathers and mother: whose children at- tend the public schools are often puzzled to account for the sudden illnesses whi>': seize . on their little ones, frequen'ly bringing them to death’s door, and too often past ‘the grim portals, The father whose business pursuits limit the time which he can devote to the care of his children cannot be held responsible for evils which he has no oppor- tunity of guarding against, and it therefore becomes the mother’s duty to protect her children by exercising an un- tiring vigilance in all that concerns their welfare. The mothers must become the sanitary police of the publig schools and wage a persistent warfare against the abuses which render these establishments hotbeds of disease. To a mother who has failed to discover the real causes of her child's illness we address the following explanation:—The child has been sent by you, madame, to a public school at a considerable distance away from your residence because you have taken up the idea that the lady principal is a superior teacher. You take a pleasure in recommending your friends to place their children under her care, and her popularity has crowded her school to such an extent that the classroom in which your daughter studies for six hours a day it literally packed with pupils. The child sits near a window and close toa heater. When- ever the atmosphere becomes absolutely in- tolerable the window is opened, anda cure rent of icy cold air rushes into the room and plays on the right side of your daughter, while her left side is exposed to a tempera. ture of perhaps from eighty to ninety degrees, Tho delightful sensation of being cooled makes the child a willing victim of this bar- barous system of ventilation, and it is not until she begins to feel the chill creeping through her system that she complains to herschoolmates of being uncomfortable. But the lady principal is a strict disciplinarian, and permits no pupil to leave her seat during the hours of study. Your daughter shivers for half an hour or so, and when the blood vessels of her head and chest are con- gested and the flow of the vital fluid almost arrested, the teacher discovers that there is a draught in the room and orders the window to be closed. This order remains in force until the room is again overheated, and your daughter is again subjected to the cool- ing and roasting process already described. She comes home some day in such a condition of prostration that you become alarmed, and the family doctor has the difficult task to perform of restoring her to health. In this he sometimes succeeds after a long struggle, but very often fajls. If you had only taken the trouble of seeing for yourself whether your child’s health was properly cared for at school all this trouble would have been - avoided. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Rain is spoiling California crops. Now they call Robbins 8. T. 1860—XX,"" Clara Morris will go to Florida for her health, Stewart L. Woodford will stump Connecticut, Senator Morton sings “Pinch, brothers, Pinch,” An Irishman supplies Chicago with most of its lager Deer. Corn, as a crop, has greatly supplanted the grape in tho Madetras, The Chicago Times likens Belknap to the creat but corrupt Marlborough. Mrs. Nelhe Grant-Sartoris does not expect to visw her parents before autumn, ‘What this country really wants is an oyster openee who does not spit tobaceo juice. Senator Sharon don’t drink much, but he can carry an ordinary Comstock load. W. F. Storey denies that Tilden, Wood and Randall have tried to buy the Chicago Times. At §Professor Tyndall's wedding were Thomas Car- lyle, Professor Huxley and Dr. Hooker, Ex-Secretary Gideon Welles arrived from Washington last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Orville said to Ulysses:—“I wish I had been shot in the neck.” Ulysses sai “I wish you had.’ A Western correspondent says that Congressman Lamar is affected, and roars like a ‘*pennyroyal bull ® The Cincinnat! Commercial thinks that there were a woman and threo or four democrats at the bottom of it. , A writer in the Jnternation1/ Review bewails that the home of the old Southerner js fenceless and without a garden. Judge Black Jere. thinks it will take something more than the Belknap scandal to flpat the democrats into power. Senator Richard J. Oglesby, of IMinois, is at the St. James Hotel, on his way from New Hampshire te Washington. The Norristown Herald thinks there was no use of having a shower of meat in Kentucky so long as the whiskey held out. It ss fanny to sce a San Francisco merchant making his collections in specie payments with a chamois leather bag in bis band. People who do not croak about that shower of frog spawn in Kentucky think that it can be nothing but the voice of jug-a-rum, The logic of the Mobile Register is that the negro ia still a slave, with only a change of masters, the carpet bagger baving supplanted the Southerner. The Baltimore American, speaking of the era of women’s extravagance in Cress, contends that Bessie Turner was upheld in her sereneness by her consciouse ness she was well dressed and was having her pice ture taken. i King Kalakaua got his thirty.second Masonic degree as a monarch and without being able to work his de. grees, which is opposed to the tenets of Freemasonry. The Geneva (N. ¥.) Gazette says that there isa lady in that village who remembers when Mra. Belknap was a happy schoolgir.,, tn a pasteboard sunbonnet, The Chicago Jnter-Ocean claims that there are a few of the women lobbyists at Washington who would not sacrifice their virtue even to secure the passage of — bill, It certainly is a fact that doctors are so “‘courteous”* and so ‘*professional’’ toward one another that they sometimes lewa patient die. Yet they really hate one another. , I. B. Shillaber, “Mrs, Partington,’’ is sevonty-seven; has white hair, He is in Calitornia for his health. He says he studied the character of “Ike from his owr son. The old wom—man, we mean—ts still jolly. Norwich Sulletin:—“At a little gathering the other evening somevody asked a Preston man it he was fond of opera He sald he was, passionately. He alway liked that part where the lady rides around and Jumpe throagh the hoops.” Boston Advertiser:—In speaking of a cierical riend who possesses a very rubicund countenance, some one said the other day :—‘I don’t think he drinks; in faet, I kuow he does not, for he told me so; but be probably sleeps in a bed with very red curtains,’ ” A few mots from Dumas’ “4 Etrangéro:”—When onefit no longer young they imagine every one else to be the same, The proiessions ihat demand talent are only she resource for poor devils Love ‘s physic, marriage chemistry, Hazard does not exist; it 1s the God of the ignorant, To love is nothing, to make lov. ry: thing The wife's native land is the country whereshe loves, The friends of Judge Robertson, of Westchester, are | Pushing him against A. B. Cornell, str. Conkling’s cam- didate for Governor, “General” Jimmy Husted t# making an absurd offort for the Prospective nomina- tion, But there are prophets who say that Congress. man Wheeler, who has suddenly taken @ solid plage just in advance of machine republicanism, will win the Prize Mr. Wheeler certaimiy is the strongest man whe has so far been mentioned,