The New York Herald Newspaper, March 17, 1876, Page 4

€ ; 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 Yore Letters and packages should be properly sealed. , Rejected commnunicetions will not be re- jurned. PHILADELPHIA OF FICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK NO. 46 FLEET STREET, PARIS OFFICE—AVE DE L’OPERA, Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. es = VOLUME X AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND TENG, BOOTHS THEATRE. SULIUS CHSAR, at 8 P.M. Mr. Lawrence Barrett, OLYMPIO THEATRE. VARIETY, at 8 P. M. TWENTY-THIRD CALIFORNIA MINSTRE WOOD'S MUSE VOTES GENERAL, ats. M. Ms LYCEUM THEATRE, VARIETY, at SP. M. WALLACK’ THE WONDER, ats)’. M PHEATRE. Wallack, y THEATRE, ML. NG HALL U.LUSTRATED LE: at 8 P.M. Professor Crom- well, CHATEAU MABIL VARIETY, at 5 I’. BROO LED ASTRAY, at 5 i VARIETIES, M. UNION ROSE MICHEL, at 8 1. } PARK TH BRASS, at 8 P.M. G: Fawe RE. SIFTH AV Fanny RTH 1. M PIQUE, at 8 P. THIRTY-FOU FARIETY, at 897. M G NEGENLIESCL. TIV VARIETY, at 8 P. M, GLOBE THEATRE. Matinee at? M. SIAN VARIETIES, VARIETY, at 8 P. P. VARIETY, at 8P. M. . Mi EMENT. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with | rain, ‘Tre Heraxp ny Fast Mart Trams.—News- | dealers and the public throughout the country | will be supplied with the Darmux, Wrexxy and | Sunpay Henarp, free of postage, by sending | | seems a hasty inference. That the Governor | known before the meeting of the State Com- | cepted the nomination for his present office. | Such old stagers, who have been closely their orders direct to this office. Watt Srrerr Yestrerpar.—Stocks were moderately active andirregular. ‘The largest speculation was in Western Union. Money closed easy at 2 1-2 per cent. Gold opened and closed at 114 1-2, the extreme prices of | the day being 1145-8 a 1143-8. Govern- | ment bonds and railway mortgages were firm. Ix France the storm has been particularly severe, inundations being reported from all the rivers, causing a great deal of loss and suffering. Queen Vicrozra will start out for her tour in Germany on the 28th inst. It will be a} quiet family excursion, as she desires no public receptions, and will meet relatives by blood or marriage at every step. Barpwis (Rervpnican), or ALLEGANY, was the only member of the Railroad Committee jaithful to the interest of the people and who voted in the negative on the adverse re- | port to the ‘No seat no fare” bill. Tue Warerep Mmxmew aro contending in the Supreme Court for their right to sell | Croton in New York at ten cents a quart un- | disturbed by the machinations of the Board of Health. | Tae Errects or tHe Storm visitation in England seem to have been particularly se- vere. Indeed, the break-up of the winter in | Europe has caused widespread disaster, not | only in the British Isles, but all over the Continent. Tuer Honrme Tares or Tur Sra which we | instinctively recoil from as morbid unreali- ties, but which experience proves are but too possible and too true, have a fit compan- | ion in the story of the survivors of the Brit- | ish ship Great Britain. Mcuiier (pEmocr: ew York ; Cock (democrat), of Queens, and Worth (repub- | lican), of Kings, dodged their duty to their constituents by absenting themselves from che meeting of the Railroad Committee @#hen the report on the ‘No seat no fare” dill was up for a vote. Tae Excusu fENT is determined bo follow the lead of the United States in | Yegard to the carrying of transatlantic mails by abolishing the contract system and select- Ing vessels for their speed for the service snd paying by weight. Woe are glad to be ef service to England. Beavnecarpv also writes letters. He charges that he failed to pursue the federals at Bull Ran because he was cheated by a false alarm which made himself and John- ston believe that the Confederate forces had been outflanked. Hie says, too, that it would have been folly to attack the defences of Washington. If he had had means of trans- portation and of feeding his troops he would have passed around Washington into Mary- land. Grenartar, in addition to being an Eng- | lish fortress, is the southern headquarters of Spanish smuggling. As England backs her impious opium trade in the East with all the force of the Empire, so she looks with a kindly eye on the smuggling operations car- tied on under her guns at the Rock, and it | remains to be geen whether she will sur- render the felucea captured by the Spanish soastguard as a smuggler and recaptured by Vs own crew. Wo fear that the Spaniards have not guns enongh to make their de- mands reach tho ears of the British govern- | often as it is mentioned in the Convention. | to Governor Tilden. | day, and were voted down. | vantage of being without a rival in his at- | tion | Strained from poaching on his manor and | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Democratic State Convention— Governor Tilden’s Chances for Con- trolling the New York Delegation. ‘The action of the Democratic State Com- mittee at its meeting in Albany on Wednes- day is generally interpreted as unfavorable tothe success of Governor Tilden in con- trolling the delegation to St. Louis, but this has enemies in his own party was as well mittee as it is since, and such hostility as exists was more likely to be exhibited in that small knot of hack politicians than in a con- vention fresh from the people. The State Committee is a body of fossils owing to the practice of perpetually re-electing its mem- bers from yearto year. Messrs, Allen C. Beach, Joseph Warren, John Kelly and a large proportion of the others have been on the committee time out of mind, as Governor Tilden himself was until he ac- associated in the past politics of the State with men who are now under a cloud, have more sympathy with managing cliques than with the rank and file of the party, and besides their other motives of dislike to Governor Tilden they feel that he has put a slight upon all men of their class. He controlled the nominations of the Syracuse Convention last fall, and instead of selecting the ticket from among the prominent old democrats who have stood with their party through good report and evil report he gave all the best positions either to recent recruits from the republican party or to very young men who had no political record. Such an ignoring of established claims and promo- tion of democratic neophytes is dis- tasteful to the party leaders, quite apart from ‘their former affiliations with a class of men on whom Governor Tilden has made relentless war. As the members of the State Committee hold on from year to year they represent a past era in democratic poli- tics, and the Governor will appeal from them to a convention freshly chosen by the demo- cratic masses. The Convention may not be unanimous for Governor Tilden, but una- nimity is not necessary, a majority being suf- ficient to pledge the delegates. If the State Committee were more hostile to Governor Tilden than there is any good reason for sup- posing it to be he might, nevertheless, con- trol the State Convention which they have called. Neither the place nor the time of the Con- vention can be deemed unfavorable to the Governor. Of all the cities in the State Utica is the one which Mr. Tilden should prefer ; there is no other where the surround- ings of the Convention would be so favor- able to his hopes. Ex-Governor Seymour and Senator Kernan are among his warmest | and steadiest supporters, and they have long been the idols and oracles of the Oneida democracy. The Utica Observer is the most | zealous Tilden organ in the interior of the State, and it has created a political atmos- phere and local public sentiment which will cause the name of Tilden to be greeted with a storm of applause from the spectators as At Syracuse these favoring conditions would have been reversed, Judge Comstock, ex- Attorney General Pratt and the other promi- nent democrats cf the place being unfriendly | | whose birthday is still celebrated, though | The time designated for the Convention | can be regarded as unfavorable only in the | sense that Mr. Tilden’s friends in the com- | mittee expressed a preference for an earlier | This merely | proves that there is some hostility to him in | he committee, not that the Convention will | be hostile. Mr. Tilden preferred that the Convention should meet while the Legisla- | ture is still in session, because he would hold the fate of so many bills in his hands that he would have the means of influencing their supporters. But that source of influence is not much impaired by the selection of the 26th of April. The Legislature may have previously adjourned, but the Governor is | allowed thirty days after the adjournment for the consideration of bills, and as he can keep bills ten days while the Legislature is | in session he will be able to operate on the | hopes and fears of interested parties for as Jong a period as could be of any service to him. Two months will intervene between the appointment of the delegates and the meeting of the National Convention at St. Louis, which will afford ample scope for Mr. | Tilden’s activity in other States if he should find that he is backed by the New York | delegation. Mr. Tilden has at least the negative ad- tempt to get a pledged delegation from this State. The seventy New York delegates will either be pledged to him or go to St. Louis unpledged. If the State Conven- expresses any preference it will be for Governor Tilden, and if he should be defeated in his immediate object he will nevertheless have his chances for gaining over members of the | unpledged delegation, It is the custom in | democratic national conventions for the | delegates from each State to vote as a unit, | and Governor Tilden will not despair of | moulding the New York delegates to his | wishes during the two months, even if he does not succeed in getting them instructed. | His failure to control the Utica Convention, ifhe should fail, will not slacken his ef- forts to persuade the delegates, who, as they will not be pledged to anybody else, will be free to vote for him. But if they are un- pledged his Presidential rivals in other States will be equally at liberty to intrigue | with and try to influence them, whereas if | they should be pledged in advance to Gov- ernor Tilden other candidates would be re- seckin o undermine him in his own State. ave no desire to see Mr. Tilden Presi- dent, but it would have a good effect for him | to succeed at Utica. A compact Tilden dele- | gation from New York would strengthen the best efements of the democratic party. He might fail to get the St. Louis nomination, but he would hold the balance of power, | and could prevent the nomination either of | a semi-inflationist or an anti-reformer. His | control of the Utica Convention would infuse courage into the hard money democrats and | be favorable to the nomination of a reform | gives an excellent excuse for a holiday, | in cathedrals bearing his name in every | | green sashes will walk the strects of New | | day in the latter city, for it is not only St. | Boston, and the sons of Revolutionary sires | | Washington and St. Patrick will, as it were, candidate at St. Louis, Hoe might not be that candidate himself, and very likely. would not be, but he could and would turn the seale in favor of some honest rival of sound views. Reform ought to be the para- mount issue, and we wish well to every | Presidential candidate who has a record as a reformer. If Mr. Tilden should develop j strength and become formidable his oppo- | nents would be forced to bring forward | a man of high integrity to compete with him ; and we care not who the individual is if the Convention will only nominate a thor- oughly incorruptible man. For the same reason we should be glad to see Mr. Bristow go into the Cincinnati Convention witha strong support. We do not know that he would make a good President, but if he should grow formidable as a candidate no republican of low moral tone would have any chance for the nomination, or, at worst, Mr. Bristow’s supporters could turn the choice in favor of the least objectionable of his rivals. We wish that every State con- vention, of both parties alike, would pledge its delegation to some citizen of high and unquestionable probity, that the honest men of each convention would combine to defeat the trimmers and tricksters, and then let the strongest of their own number win. Miasm and the Park Ponds, For the production of the miasm to which intermittent fever is due it is held that the combined operation of heat and moisture on vegetation is an essential condition. De- cayed vegetable substances newly turned over and exposed to the summer sun; excava- tions made toa depth beyond that reached by the plough and which thus expose quanti- ties of earth rich with vegetable mould; or swamp lands whose grasses are covered by water at one season of the year and exposed to the sun at another—cases like these supply the conditions for the production and ex- tensive dissemination of miasm. In the case of the ponds just drained at the Central Park there were perhaps some elements of danger. Pond beds may become so packed with decayed vegetable substances that the whole body of their water is a saturated solu- tion of gases resulting from such decay, and as the water is vaporized in the summer sun the gases thus given off would be harmful. But the case would be even worse if there | should be any considerable difference of | level at different seasons, as matter sub- | merged at one time would in the dry warm weather of early autumn be thus exposed to the scorching heat. It isa good precaution that has been taken, therefore, in the clean- ing of these ponds. Some apprehensions are expressed that disease may be caused by | the present exposure of the matter taken | from the bed of the ponds, which has been used on lawns; but there is no danger in such exposure without warmer days then | any we ever have in March. Mud taken from the bed of a pond is not agreeable to the nostrils ina pleasure garden, and that | is an objection to such use of this substance, but it cannot affect the public health, Day ana mirdcuation | Day. Sinners are indebted to saints for many blessings, but those which they seem to ap- preciate most are the birthdays of those holy persons. Here is St. Patrick, for instance, St Patrick's the good old man has been gone from this | earth about fifteen hundred years. It is probable that his birthday has done much to | perpetuate his précepts and example, for it | We fear that a good many people who are enthu- siastic over the saint on March 17 do not think of him much on the other days of the year. However, it is commendable to re- member him at all, for he is one of the finest saints in the calendar. Shakespeare | makes Hamlet say that ‘‘there’s hope a great | man’s memory may outlive his life half a year; but, by’r lady, he must build churches then.” St. Patrick took ample precautions | for his fame in this direction, for the old | song tells us that ‘the built a church in j every town and on it putasteeple.” He has kept on building churches by his influ- ence ever since, and here in New York to- day solemn high mass will be celebrated in his honor in St. Patrick's Cathedral and also | Christian country. But the day will not be commemorated by religious ceremonies alone. He was avery good-natured saint, and his birthday is kept with joy and fes- tivity as well as with reverence and worship. Ten thousand Irishmen in high hats and | i} | | | | | York to-day, rain or shine, in honorable | emulation of the saint’s pilgrimage through | Ireland. The Knights of St. Patrick and the | Friendly Sons will close the day with ban- quets, from which song and eloquence and | wit will not be absent. There will be no parade in Philadelphia this year ; but in Boston elaborate prepara- tions have been made. It is a double holi- Patrick's Day but Evacuation Day. One hundred years ago, under the frowning bat- | teries with which Washington commanded | the town, General Howe, with eleven thon- | sand British troops, marched out of Boston. It was both a military and a moral victory. | It encouraged the whole country and united | the colonies, and none of the centennial | celebrations are more interesting than this. | Boston will be illuminated by fireworks and eloquence, the troops will parade and the H battles of the Revolution will be fought over, with no shedding of blood, but with a great | flow of champagne. The fact is authentic | that the selection of the birthday of St. Pat- | rick was the result of » compromise. . The H nurses could not agree whether he was born } on the 8th or the 9th of March, so they added | the dates together and made it tho 17th. His birthday is naturally observed with | twice as much enthusiasm as that of any | other saint, the advocates of the 8th cele- brating that day on principle and the 9th | from courtesy. Something like this will be | seen to-morrow. The friends of St. Patrick | will join in the joy over the evacuation of will unite in giving glory to the saint. embrace, and Boston, the mother of many | great and good men, will, on this occasion, | feel as if she had twins. | eam prove so recreant Mone Farvres are reported in England. Settling day seems to have a very unsettling effect. What Nextt? We trust our friends in Washington will not overlook the important despatch which was published in the Hznaup yesterday from Bismarck, D. T. The terms of this despatch are clear and undeniable. It shows that at Fort Lincoln a single post paid Belknap twelve thousand dollars a year; that among those who shared in the proceeds are a Sen- ator, an ex-Senator, an ex-Governor of a Ter- ritory and an ex-Territorial marshal. The despatch further avers that among those who controlled the sale of these appointments was Governor Campbell, of Wyoming Ter- ritory. An office-holder in Iowa is named as the recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars gained in an illegal manner. General Rice, of Washington, Belknap’s friend, comes to the front as a sharer in this blackmail—‘‘a bachelor of expensive hab- its,” who had to live on the robbery of the poor soldiers. These are grave charges. Their value may be appreciated when we call the attention of the House to the fact that days before Bel- knap confessed the Hrnaxp printed the sub- stance of his confession. If the President and Mr. Clfner’s committee had examined into these charges when they first appeared there would have been an earlier suppres- sion of the crime. Now here are charges much more grave than those printed against Belknap. They involve the honor of half a dozen public men—Senators, ex-Senators and officers of the government. The House cannot afford to ignore them, The country begins to fear that there is no heartiness in the House investigations. The fact that two men as intimate with Belknap and his family as Blackburn and Clymer should have been put on the war committee is a coincidence too suggestive to be pleas- ant. The fact that by the direct agency of Clymer the witness necessary to the impeach- ment and conviction of Belknap is out of the country excites apprehension. People ask, and not without reason, do the members of this committee really mean to press these investigations, or is it, after all, a political manwuyre? — It may be said that this committee— Clymer, Blackburn and the rest—are honorable men, all honorable men, and to be ‘trusted.” This will never do, We must trust nobody—take no one's character for granted. This is a revolu- tionary time, when every patriot is bound to suspect! Who was as “honorable” six months ago as General Belknap, Secretary of War, or more entitled to the esteem of all who respect position and character? Yet even then this ‘thonorable” Secretary was robbing the poor soldiers on the Plains in order that his wife should wear diamonds and lace. Who was more “honorable” yes- terday than George H. Pendleton—‘‘gentle- man George” Pendleton, the darling of the | Ohio democracy, candidate for the Presi- dency and leader of his party? Noman in the country had a better character. Yet he is seen to be a Schuyler Colfax after all— even worse than Colfax. The time has come when no one can be “trusted,” when no “character” can be taken for granted. The watchwords now are, ‘‘suspect,” ‘in- vestigate,” “‘arraign,” ‘impeach,” ‘‘root out,” ‘destroy.” These watchwords must animate the House committees. There is no excuse for ignoring the revelations of the Henrarp weeks ago. Let us see if these still | further and graver revelations from Bismarck | will be acted upon by Mr. Clymer’s commit- | tee, or ignored like the former. “No Seat No Fare.” The throwing out of Mr. Killian’s bill to legally affirm the right of every passenger on the horse cars to a seat for afare shows that | the railroad lobby has been busily and, so far, successfully at work. It is, indeed, piti- | able that by using ‘‘arguments” with two or | three of ‘‘the boys” the member from | Squash county, the members for Squirtville | and Tadpoletown, and getting the mem- ber for Rings’ to keep out of the way, a city like New York should be left at the mercy of | grasping monopolies willing to pay the price. Of the New York members of the Committee on Railroads, to which Mr. Killian’s bill was referred, Mr. George Y. Whitson is said to have gone over body and soul to the monopolies, while Nicholas Muller kept out of the way when the vote was taken. The adverse report of the | committee was accepted by the Assembly, but this by no means need end the fight. In the first place, Mr. Killian’s bill was de- fective in not providing adequately for the enforcement of the *‘No seat no fare” rule; and although Mr. Killian was willing to | have it amended in accordance with the draft of a bill drawn up for Mr. Bergh, no steps were taken to that end. The fact that | the adverse report on the Killian bill was | tushed through the Assembly in Mr. | | Killian’s absence shows that the majority of | the committee had carefully calculated their time. The proposal now made to have the | Dill discussed in Committee of the Whole | may bring out the real feeling of the House | upon the subject, and will at any rate putin the pillory of public scorn the members who to their trusts os to choose in favor of the plundering horse ear companies and pickpockets of New York against public decency and comfort. We should like to see in a full list of yeas and nays the names of the creatures of the horse ear companies who are willing to say by their vote that the tired working girl, the woary workingman and citizens generally have no rights that the grasping monopolies and the pickpockets, their allies in plunder- ing the people, are bound to respect. The admirable draft of a bill submitted by Mr. | Bergh should be substituted for, or its main provisions incorporated in, Mr. Killian’s bill. | The monopolies must be taught that ‘‘con- vineing” the majority of a committee is a | different thing from buying pp an entire Legislature, or else the Legislature must go down to history as the cheapest and most contemptible of the line of iibels on law- making bodies that have earned the disgust of the people. | Governor Trupen and Lieutenant Gov- ernor Dorsheimer deny having in their pos- | s session or knowing anything about a letter | from Senator Boutwell—alieged to have been | written when he was Secretary of the Treas- | ury—to Henry Clews, promising administra- | tion favors to the latter in return for sixty thousand dollars, to be used for republican | tion was received here on the same day. He, ; sence” on the same day on which his resig- | withhold from him any privilege of citizen- | ent ability shown in other. cases he might | revive the torture, no matter the enormity | | for his life as Dolan. | cause of his ancestry, which is of the high- | _ citizenship. America owes a great deal ‘to | campaign purposes. A statement to the effect that they had control of such a docu- ment appeared in an evening contemporary and excited comment. Diplomatic Retreat. On February 8 General Schenck proffered his resignation, and on the 9th was informed that the President did not deem it necessary to act on that proffer, but on the 11th he was informed that the President had recon- sidered the subject and would accept the resignation. He, therefore, wrote his resig- nation of the 17th and mailed it on the 19th. On the 2ist, when this document was two days out, he asked leave of absence to re- turn to the United States and face his ac- cusers. Such leave was accorded on the 23d, but he was informed that the inquiry was only into the conduct of the State De- partment, and that consequently he had no accusers, On the 29th he was told that his appearance before the committee would be appropriate, and he said he would sail on the steamer of the 17th of March, and re- quested that action on his resignation be suspended. On the 3d of March he was told that action on the resignation could not be suspended, that it would be acted on as soon as received. It was then thirteen days out, He sailed next day—March 4. His resigna- therefore, left London ‘‘on leave of ab- nation was received in Washington. If he had sailed on the 17th he need not have come on leave of absence, but might have come asa Minister resigned. «But then he would have been some days without the cover of his diplomatic privileges, and might have been ‘‘annoyed” by the courts. The Case of Rubenstein. We have no doubt that the verdict which sentenced Rubenstein to the scaffold is a just one. We have never seen any reason to think the contrary. But, at the same time, it will bea mistake if this sentence is car- ried out without .a hearing before the Court of Appeals. Such a hearing is the un- | doubted right of every one in peril of life by a legal sentence. The only trouble is that the law is so loosely constructed that | this right depends upon the whim of judges who may be under the pressure of an angry and unreasoning public opinion. Ruben- stein is an alien. He belongs to a small and peculiar sect, a sect which, from its paucity of numbers, its peculiar faith and its sorrow- ful traditions of persecution and suffering; is entitled to more than usual consideration from those who administer our laws. There should be no possible right denied to this prisoner which is open to any other citizen. Yet we have the courts reprieving Dolan from time to time and giving him o hearing before the Court of Appeals, Dolan is under sentence of death for a murder much more atrocious than that attributed to Rubenstein—the murder of an innocent, unsuspecting citizen who, was striving to defend his property. People will ask why is it that the murderer Dolan— | and no one, we. believe, doubts that he is a_ murderer, and justly under sentence of death—can have so many privileges, while | this poor Israelite is denied them all. We | think that Dolan is entitled to his hearing before the Court of Appeals. We would not ship; but we ask the same right for Ruben- stein. We cannot help thinking that if Rubenstein were defended with the persist- secure this right. It seems to be a miscar- riage of justice to deny it to him. The truth is that our whole law of capital punishment needs revision. It should be | more certain and swift. - When a prisoner is condemned to death he should be entitled to an appeal to the highest tribunal in the State. It should be made the duty of the | Court of Appeals to hear it without delay. Once the sentence is confirmed there should be only a short time before the execution. These delays are unjust to the people, who suffer from the delays in justice, and unjust to the prisoner, who hangs between life and death like the victim of some horrible Chinese torture. ‘The law does not wish to of the offence. Let us have the whole system of capital punishment revised, and, in the meantime, we trust that some judge will be brave enough to give Rubenstein as good a chance | There should not be | one code of justice for the Jew and another tor the Gentile. The Coming Princes. The announcement comes officially that we are to have at least two princes with us for the Centennial Exhibition. The Emperor of Brazil will sailin a few days from Rio | Janeiro in a Brazilian man-of-war and di- | rectly for New York, The second son of the King of Sweden will come later. The Em- | peror of Brazil is one of the most distin- guished of living monarchs, not only be- | est, but from his patriotism and personal | charactor, Atatime when it is generally | thought that a prince is only another name | for a rich and privileged vagabond the Em- | peror of Brazil is one of the most indus- trious of students and among the most ad- | vanced thinkers of modern times. He comes | from a sister American nation, in whose for- | tunes we have always felt a profound and friendly interest. He will have a repubdli- can, which he will see to bs even more than a royal, welcome. The son of the King of Sweden will also be welcomed with unusual heartiness. No European country has shown | so much interest in the Centennial as Swe- den. We have a vast number of Swedes, | and no people have adapted themselves so | readily to the higher and better duties of the influence of the Scandinavian character in building up her States and Territories, and a visit from the son of the King of ‘den and Norway will be peculiarly grat- ifying. | Itis hardly to be expected that we shall | have an overflow of foreign visitors. Any | ulation is a wild one, based upon ‘an enthusiasm and our disposi- tion to regard tho Exhibition as a new and | brilliant toy which no one has ever seen bo- fore, and which all the world will hurry to soo. But all tho world, with the exception er of the United States and Brazil, have seen these exhibitions, and, after Vienna, Paris and London, few Frenchmen or Germans, or even Englishmen, will be willing to risk the journey over the seas to’ look at a mountain of quartz and a wilderness of whirling ma- chinery. We shall have a few distinguished men interested in the growth of the country or who will come for political reasons, like the Emperor of Brazil and the Prince of Sweden. We shall have a few adventurous sportsmen who will drop in at the Centen- nial on their way to the hunting grounds of the far West. We shall have commercial travellers, who will come with their wares. But there will be no general coming of the people from any foreign land. The ocean it too wide and too stormy, and, as we hare said, the Centennial, so far as the Exhibi- tion goes, is an old story. The real value of the Centennial will be as an American show for American eyes. So far as the royal guests are concerned the more who come the more opportunity we shall have todo them honor as the repre- sentatives of nations with whom we are on terms of peace, and whose presence with us will be a gracious courtesy which we shal} cate be too HamET so eoyoewerer, Proressor SutimaN, who gave evidence before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives in reference to his connection with the Emma mine, seems to have been unfortunate in the cable synop- sis of his letter to Mr. Hewitt which was transmitted to England. He quoted in this letter the very telegram which is now cabled back asa discovery, We wish that every- thing in connection with the wretched busi- ness could be as easily explained as this blunder of the cable epitomizer for the Eng- lish papers. It needs no factitious aid of telegraphic blundering or partisan dema- goguery to make the selling of the shares of a worthless mine to the English people appear a disgraceful swindle, let the par- ties concerned shift the blame among them- selves as they may. “Murvrer Wun Ovr.”—The discovery ot the alleged murderer of Mrs. Keys, of Stewartsville, N. J., is a startling vindica- tion of the old proverb. The crime was com- mitted nine years ago, and the husband of the unfortunate woman, who had been ar- rested on suspicion but finally released, has unjustly borne the stigma ever since. A few frantic words uttered by the mistress of amiscreant who was beating her in Cleve- land, Ohio, have led to the discovery, and John Cunningham now lies in jail to stand face to face with Jersey justice. A Brack List.—The members of the As- sembly Railroad Committee who voted in favor of the adverse report on Mr. Killian’s “No seat no fare” bill were:—West (repub- lican), of Saratoga ; McKee (republican), of Herkimer ; Gridley (republican), of Oneida ; Whitson (democrat), of New York; Power (republican), of Columbia. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, A Westchester boy handed a minister a ouchre deok and said, “I’ve been converted, and don’t need thom apy more.’’ The Pittsburg Commercial asks, ‘‘Quis custodict cus. todes?”” Clymer; but we don’t know whether he cust odiet or odes. England wants to help poor Walt Whitman. This is a good return for the help that Americans gave to Her- bert Spencer. Says an exchange:—“Santa Anna advises Mexicans to cultivate catnip.’? Asif they were not already cul- tivated cattle nippers. The Egyptians used to worship onions, but as Ameri cans we get down to beefsteak and onions, with teart meet for repentance. In a French play the plot shows that the late Ameri can rebellion was caused by President Lincoln impos ing a tax on absinthe. A Wisconsin paper says, “Mr. Otis stopped drinking, and his third set of teeth came out.’’ Well, why didn” he put them in again? The women lobbyists are coming to grief. Who is the strange woman in close custody of the Sorgeant at-Arms at Willard’s Hotel? Pinchback now says, ‘‘l have been stabbed in she house of my friends.”’ Stabbed? You were hit right over your paper collar with a 7x9 brickbat. “Prax” wants to know whether that shower in Ken+ tucky was of bird or beast or devil? Bird, for there were no hairs inthe hash, A-hash-you-’ear-us? When Dr. Mary Walker was confronted with the bogus Dr. M. W. she looked derisively at the detective and red “That aint pants; them’s a pell-back, you fool. A Boston scientific sociologist and all that says ‘man cats most when he is alone. With ‘nobody in the house with the diner it isa little surprising to see how he will play a lone hand. After all what right has a legislature, elected by the people, officially to condemn a committee chosen by representatives elected by the people? It might more reasonably condemn its two Senators chosen by itself in the name of the State, The Oneida Community, which practises promiscue ousness of the sexes, has been tolerated because it hat heretofore minded its own business and bothered no- body. Now that it purposes to disseminate its doc- trines by means of a newspaper decent people may - fight back. . Sam Bowles, enthusiastic in economy, says that when a French family of moderate circumstances re- ceives company one of the family retires to makes place at table. How much better, as in America, te give little pieces all round and bake the pancakes | smaller. Danbury News:—"It has come. We thought it would. The moral of the Belknap affair is simply that public officials should hive without ostentation. The man who can afford to spend $10,000 a year should live on $800, and put the rest in a bank for the encourage- ment of the man with a salary of $1,000 The only ob- jection possible to make against this plan is the scarcity of banks.” Norristown Herald:—‘The Japanese saloon keep. | ers must do a large credit business. A Northamptos county man has contracted to ship 75,000 slates 1 Japan.” Phil Sheridan, in fatigue cap, was peering out into the night and saying, ‘I wonder where in Chicago the darned fire ts.” Then a voice said, “Philip, don’ scare the baby 80."” Nothing will make @ woman so mad on Sunday morning, when sho ia squinting across the street te sce that delayed new bonnet go in, as to find she hasn't been holding the eup under the coffee mill, Tho Courier-Journal twiddles its thambs and thinks that Sharon is not the ferryboat man on tho classical Styx. The Cowrier-Journal is Charonical, and that's | what Styx us. A physician says that many a man with delirium tremens-ts killed by keeping from him the neodful stimulant, Are we to believe that when tho Secretary svos a snake he should hot Scoteh it? Papers like the Worcester Press are talking about having the scholar in politics, Tho trath is that some of the most partisan and wrong-beaded men in Com gress are well educated. Andy Johnson was not # “scholar,” but Le was a statesman, and ruthless olé Ben Wade, with his good square guess at trath, aid moro popular good in his tine than scholarly John | Randolph did in his, A Missouri farm contains a fountain of whitewash, and all the owner has to do js to take his house over to the spring and have the job immediately done. Thasie avoided that disastrous experiment of standing in am oll plug hat and linen duster ona tipsy stool on tha backstairs end trying to lay iton smooth without get (ing a drop im your eye,