The New York Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1876, Page 6

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Watt Street Yxstenpay.—Gold opened at 114 1-2, rose to 114 5-8 and ended at (14 3-8. Eight hundred thousand dollars are engaged for shipment. The stock mar: ket was without feature, save that prices were generally lower. Money closed at 3 | per cent, after having been artificially forced to 7 per cent, and 1-32 commission. Foreign exchange was firmer. Tur Starz or tHe Forrion Manxets is very fully reported by cable this morning, This résumé of the week is valuable to all who are interested in the course of trade. Spain has been successful in chastising the Sooloo pirates. Now there is peace in all of the Spanish dominions except Cuba, but we doubt whether all the strength of Al- fonso’s kingdom is sufficient to overcome the Cuban insurgents. CoxGrxss.—The Senate was not in session yesterday, and the House, after devoting a short time tothe consideration of bills of a private character, adjourned, in order to en- able the various investigating committees, of which a résumé will be found elsewhere, to pursue their arduous labors. Ix tHe Canan Fravp Svrrs an applica- tion has been made fora struck jury. As the entire management of our canal system and the long series of frauds committed by the Canal Ring are to be inquired into on this trial the necessity of securing an intel- ligent and capable jury is plain. This con- sideration ‘is a sufficient argument to secure the order. To Snow tue Desperate Temrer or THE Srovx nothing more is needed than the report which we now have that they have several times attacked General Crook's com- mand on it# march from Fort Laramie to Fort Fetterman. Not an Indian on the Platte and White rivers but has heard of the fighting qualities of the “Gray Fox” from the Apaches and Comanches of the south, and trembles at his mame. Yet they make bold to harass him. Meanwhile the influx of white people into the Black Hills daily in- creases, and a general war on the North- western frontier seems more than ever cer- tain. Vigorous military measures only can prevent, by present risks, greater bloodshed in the future. Tur Bosion Cerepration of the one hun- dredth anniversary of the evacuation of the city by the British was creditable to the austere good taste of the New England cap- ital. blazoned on the walls along their chief street the ethic scrolls of Numa Pompilius, LGoston was reminded yesterday by the in- scriptions on her buildings of the historic | tors; second, limiting the Presidency to one | Fewtans in England gathered in the Cooper | events in her early history which are caleu- lated to awaken into flame the vestal spark | of patriotism in every American bosom. All | who ran could read these terse and brief | mementoes of a heroic past, which might, | perhaps, infuse a high significance into the | sympathetic rejoicing of the dullest citizen sharing the civic holiday. The houses were | illuminated at night, and Old South Church | was a scene of light, in which the memory | | needs to be reconstructed from foundation | was the subject of its last debate before the | tion as Senator Morton and Senator Thur- j It merely provides that | to the civil war, and, fortunately, the result Responsible Government in the United States. It grows more evident year by year that amendments of the constitution relating to the Executive Department cannot be much longer deferred, and it is to be hoped that the amendments may be comprehensive and thorough. ‘That part of the constitution which relates to the Presidency has not stood the test of time and experience, and it | to roof. Enlightened public opinion long ago condemned it in most of its leading features, The re-eligibility of the President ; the clumsy, dilapidated machinery of Presi- dential electors ; the power of the President to abuse the federal patronage ; the danger of a civil war which lurks in every close Presi- dential contest, are among the more obvious and glaring objections to the present system, and there are others of even greater weight which have not yet emerged into public notice. As a reconstruction of this part of the constitution is inevitable if | we are to preserve our free popular institutions it is the duty of the press to bring the whole subject under review and educate the popular mind to a full percep- tion of existing defects and dangers, Fre- quent amendments are undesirable, and whenever this part of the constitution is re- modelled the changes should be of such scope as to dispense with subsequent tinker- ing. One of the defects of this part of the con- stitution—a defect fraught with great dan- ger, though a minor one—has been for some time under consideration in the Senate, and adjournment to Monday. When men who differ so widely on almost every public ques- man unite in pointing out a public danger there is a strong presumption that the dan- ger is not chimerical. The danger to which we refer has its original source in the vague- ness of that clause of the constitution which | relates to the counting of the electoral votes. “the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.” This would be as safe as it is sim- ple if there were no possibility of a ques- | tion being raised as tothe regularity of the cer- tificates. There were no such cases previous of the election would not have been changed by the cases which have arisen since. The republican party has been so strong that no decision as tothe validity of the doubtful certificates could have affected the result. But in a very close contest, such as we may have this year, the counting or throwing out of the electoral vote of a State might decide the election, and if the defeated party should refuse to submit the country might have to face the horrors of a civil war. It is to be hoped that we may escape that danger this year, and that it may then be entirely re- moved by an amendment to the constitu- tion. Such questions are decided, as things now stand, by the twenty-second joint rule, which would increase the peril if the rejection or acceptance of disputed cer- tificates would change the result of the elec- tion. According to this rule ‘no vote objected to shall be counted except by the concurrent votes of the two houses.” If this rule is permitted to stand it will be in the power of the republican Senate or of the democratic House to prevent the counting of the electoral votes of any State to which ob- jection is made, and if the contest should be very close irregularities will be discovered or invented and the country be plunged into a worse than Mexican anarchy. Both par- ties concede the necessity of finding a sub- stitute for so dangerous a rule; but the difficulty lies in devising one which would not be in conflict with the constitution. Mr. Christiancy, who has one of the sound- est legal heads in the Senate, said in the debate day before yesterday, “If the two houses there is only one remedy—namely, to amend the consti- tution itself." Various plans were pro- posed by different Senators, but all encountered objections. Mr. Cooper offered an amendment that in case of disagreement between the two houses the question should be reterred to the House of Representatives, voting by States, but Mr. Thurman pointed out that this would be a temptation to the House to make objections, for the mere pur- pose of getting the power of decision. Mr. Frelinghuysen proposed that a difference between the two houses should be imme- diately referred to the Chief Justice, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of | the House. This might be a fair tribunal, but the constitution does not warrant it. Mr. Morton preferred to trust the two houses, saying that ‘‘if the vote of any State | is lost it would be like anything else lost in Congress.” This might be true if the loss of that State did not change the result; but if | the success of either candidate de- | pended on counting or rejecting those electoral votes it would certainly lead to commotion, and possibly to anarchy. But Mr. Morton frankly said:—‘My | opinion is that there is a defect in the con- stitution. I think this whole electoral col- lege business ought to be destroyed. The purpose of it has failed utterly. It is en- tirely useless; it is dangerous.” The necessity of an early and radical amendment of the second article of the con- | stitution being conceded by all competent | judges, it is desirable that not only the re- | cognized, but the unrecognized though equally real faults of that article should be | | remedied, The acknowledged evils are three, | and they are so palpable that the States can | disagree -by some intermediate body, and for the last ferior to that of England. The English Ex- ecutive is immediately responsible to the representatives of the people, a ministry being forced to resign as soon as it has for- feited confidence. We need to engraft this principle in our institutions in some form consistent with their general character. Various methods could be devised, but it is too early for the discussion of methods while the importance of the principle is not yet conceded, We know that it works well in Great Britain and is the very life of the gov- ernment. Everybody admits that the English government is more directly and promptly controlled by public opinion than that of the United States, although the for- mer is a monarchy and the latter a republic. Nobody can state.any good reason why our Executive might not as _ safely be subjected to immediate popular control as that of England. We are familiar with all that can be said against sucha change. It will be contended that in periods of excitement the passions of the people will overmaster their judgment, and that a fixed term for the Executive is a | necessary barrier against sudden, unreason- ing popular impulses. But such fits of | blind excitement are as likely to seize the popular mind in the year of a Presidential election as in any other, and the fixed term of office presents a remedy when the people have returned to their sober senses. Under the English system the mistakes resulting from a popular frenzy can be speedily remedied. It will be objected that imme- diate responsibility would make the Execu- tive too dependent on Congress. The answer is that they act in close concert now when both belong to the same political party, and that the fixed tenure of the Presi- dent and his control of an exorbitant patronage enables him to corrupt the representatives of the people who onght to judge him. But when they belong to different political parties the efficiency | of the government is liable to be destroyed by a deadlock between the departments, such as would have happened in the time of Andrew Johnson if Congress had not possessed a two-thirds majority against the President in both houses. It will be said that a responsible Executive im- plies the election of the President by Con- | gress. But this would be better than his selection by the party wirepullers who con- trol political caucuses and conventions, A direct election of the President by the people sounds well in the mouth of dem- agogues, but no such thing is possible in practice. The President is always selected forty years that intermediate body has been a national convention in which not one voter in twenty of either party was represented. The people merely decide to which political party they will belong, the President being really chosen by an irresponsible convention acting outside of the constitution, unknown to the laws, and representing nobody but the trading politicians. It is one of the mon- strosities of our executive system that the Chief Magistrate of the country is selected by the intriguing cabals and combinations of an irresponsible minority. A Question for Governor Tilden, We print elsewhere a suggestive despatch from the New York Evening Post. This de- spatch avers that Governor Tilden knows of a letter from Mr. Boutwell, when Secretary of the Treasury, addressed to Henry Clews, “which affords ground for the impeachment of General Grant.” This letter, according to the Post despatch, directed Clews to send money into Pennsylvania to control the elec- tion, promising to reimburse him with ‘‘early secret information of sales of gold.” The Post further says that the Governor, when questioned, neither denied nor affirmed the existence of the letter, and that Mr. Dors- heimer confirmed the rumor that such a document was in existence. We think this story should receive the immediate attention of those in authority in the democratic party. The time has passed when allegations so grave can be passed by as mere ‘newspaper rumors.” As was seen in the Belknap case, if the President or the democratic committees had read the Henatp they would have found a clear and explicit statement of the very matters which Belknap confessed a few weeks later. All the stories which now as- tonish the country as to the connection of Orville Grant with the Indian stores in the Sioux country were printed in the Heranp last summer. If they had been investigated then by the President there would have been an explosion long before this. For these reasons, and to the end that there shall be the most rigid investigation and reform in the public service, we think it is incumbent | on Governor Tilden and Lieutenant Gover- nor Dorsheimer to come out and tell what they know of this story. Iftrue, it compels the democratic majority of the House to take a graver responsibility than has yet de- | volved upon them—the responsibility of | asking President Grant and ex-Secretary Boutwell to appear before the bar to answer charges of impeachment. Governor Tilden should speak. If the story is true, then there should be a severo and swift punishment. If it is untrue, then the honor of the country demands a denial, Amentcan Mepratton has found ao new field, the commander of the United States | frigate Alaska having been ipstructed to arbitrate between the warring Africans at | Cape Palmas, The Greboes and the Samoans | have been the latest subjects of American | diplomacy, and it is not impossible that | another naked nation or two may be found | | be relied on to ratify amendments removing Like the Roman people who saw em- | them whenever such amendments are sub- | Rules and abide by the principles of the | mitted by Congress, The three amendments which would secure immediate adoption | | are—first, abolition of the Presidential elec- | term; third, such restrictions on the appoint- ing and removing power of the President as would secure an honest and efficient civil service, But there is a deeper question than any of these, and we are not without hope that the public mind will brought to appreciate its to be acted upon, and that what was origi- nally the weakest part of the constitution of the days of Paul Revere was revivified. It'was quite a féle day at the “Hub,” may become the soundest and best, is one point in which our government is in. be | importance | can citizenship and the injustice of his con- | much more should it be his right when the | latest device for deterring the practical solu- before the other necessary amendments come | viction and punishment, It is to be feared | question is one of life! We are not doubting | tion of the Eastern question, but it is not willing to test the efficacy of the Threo Treaty of Washington. Symparnizers with THE InPRIsONED | Institute Hall iast evening and were ad- dressed by speakers who talked about com- | pelling the release of Edward O’Meagher | Condon “by the roar of American cannon.” | It was urged that our government should “demand” his liberty, by virtue of his Ameri- | that the ‘roar of American cannon” would Turn Up the Gas. We hear from Washington that some mem- bers of both parties are expressing them- vast ‘smelling committee.” We are glad to most active and useful members are of an entirely different mind, and believe, as we believe and as the country believes, that the investigations are useful and necessary, and that the House—and the Senate, too, for that matter—cannot be employed at this ses- sion in more important and useful work than just this of bringing to light the cor- ruption, waste and extravagance which have been permitted to gain foothold in almost all parts of the governinent. The madness which followed the war and was caused by the paper money inflation has received a check. The country is poor; hundreds of thousands of able-bodied work- ers find no work todo. Taxes are high and money to pay them is hard to get. What better service can Congress do than to prune the estimates, and at the same time bring to discovery and punishment the men who have robbed the people, wasted their sub- stance and brought the country to bank- ruptcy and shame? What more important service can Congress do for the people than to expose maladministration and show the causes of the huge and dangerous de- moralization which has poisoned public virtue and made the public service the tool of rogues? So far from discouraging the work of investigation, we assure members of Congress that they have the ardent sympathy of all honest taxpayers, and that the people will thank them for every effort they make, by such in- | vestigations, to purify the public service, and oust from it corrupt men, time-servers, subservient tools of power, the whole gang of unscrupulous and greedy persons who | have lived upon the public with free power so many years, If we were asked to advise the democrats | in the House, who have these investigations in charge, we ¢hould tell them ‘‘Go on, gen- tlemen; the task you have undertalen ig se- vere and disagreeable; but it is your solemn duty. Spare no one, no matter what his party allegiance or his station. Be careful and patient; do not allow yourselves to be hurried; the public waits patiently, and will be grateful to you for all you do.” And if we were asked to advise the republicans we should urge them to show the utmost zeal in helping the democrats. The people will not fail to mark the men who hang back in this matter. They are already asking why the President and the Attorney General do not take some measures to get Mr. Marsh back to this country. What a Friend Lilly Ist In these dark and trying times, when no one knows whom to trust, when friends faint, ‘‘squeal,” break down and run away, it is refreshing to find a friend like Lilly, of Washington. Lilly is one of that numerous | body of gentlemen who live in Washington without any visible means of support, and keep themselves from all danger of arrest under the Vagrant act by calling themselves attorneys. It seems that a Congressman named Hays. of unsavory memory, who “represents” Alabama, was charged with having taken three thousand dollars te ap- point a lad to West Point. The evidence looked grim. The lad was appointed, the money was paid, the checks were in exist- ence and the lad did not live in Alabama, as the law directed. Of course the inference was that Hays, who probably | has ambitions to enter the Cabinet and | yearns for social distinction, had his share of the money. But in the crucial moment Lilly came on the stand and made the whole thing as clear as sunshine. ‘True,”-said Lilly, “the money was paid, the lad was nominated.” But dt was shown that al- though the lad only lived a few weeks in Alabama Hays certified that he was a per- manent resident of the State. Here came the nobility of friendship. Lilly swore that Hays did not know anything about it; that he received the money and did not give Hays a cent; that he coaxed the appoint- ment out of him, telling a little white lie to induce him to sign the certificate of resi- dence. There never was a more complete defence. The more we study it the more we | commend the example of Lilly to statesmen | in search of friends. Now, if Belknap had only taken Lilly into his confidence instead of the trembling, white-livered Marsh, there would have beon no trouble, no running away to Canada, no opportunity for Clymer | to make an emotional speech before a full House, none of these scandals and shames that afflict a sorrowing nation. Belknap might still be drawing his little dividends | from the starving soldiers on the Plains, and his wife would still be the idol of a society | that mocks at her downfall. Hays, if he is a praying man anda Christian statesman, which we do not doubt, should lift up his voice in praise to the Giver of all Good for such a friend as Lilly. We hail him as one man in ten thousand. We trust that his firmness under fire, his veracity, his precision of statement, his courage, his complete self-possession, his devotion to his friend, will not be overlooked when the his- | torian of this generation comes to write its chronicles. And, in the meantime, if any enterprising statesmen at the national capi- | tal have ‘ business” requiring courage and | a shrewd legal mind, we commend them to Lilly as a salamander in the flames, an attorney precious beyond price. Have We One Law for the Jew | and Another for the Gentile? The application of Rubenstein fora stay of proceedings in order that he may have a hearing before the Court of Appeals is so fair | and just that we marvel that any judge | should hesitate for a moment about granting it. Wetake the broad ground that when a prisoner is under sentence of death he is en- titled to a review of the case by the Court of Appeals. Such a review is open to the citi- zen if the question is one of property. How the justice of the trial and sentence of Ru- | be futile without the rifled bores that could the ‘‘finest navy in the world,” benstcin. We think the trial was impartial We think the same of Dolan, with this differ- selves as tired of these ‘eternal investiga- | Who was trying to save his property tions,” and annoyed that the House of Rep- | from a thief. He was murdered at his own resentatives should have turned itself into a | home, wantonly murdered by a brutal ruffian hear, at the same time, that the best, the | his hearing before the Court of Appeals, TEW YORK AERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. j ence—that the crime of Dolan was much more atrocious than that of Ruben- stein. Dolan murdered an innocent man who came there to rob. But Dolan will have while Rubenstein is denied the privilege. We think it proper that this right should be awarded to Dolan ; but at the same time we do not think that there should be one law for the Gentiie and another for the Jew. Rubenstein belongs to a small and peculiar sect—a sect whose history is marked with many persecutions, with centuries of suffer- ing and wrong. If we deny to him what we give to Dolan the inference will be drawn that, because of his religion and his race, he is not deemed worthy of a hearing by our highest tribunal. We repeat that anything that looks like this favoritism is a blunder, a serious and inexcusable biunder. The way to prevent it would be to change our law so that when a prisoner is condemned to death the appeal to our highest tribunal should bea writ of right. The Court of Appeals should hear all such appeals within a month at least. If the de- cision is adverse then, the sentence should be executed without délay—say within three weeks or a month at the furthest. As it is, these dilatory motions and the uncertainty which attends them, paralyze justice and condemn the anxious and expectant wretch toa torture compared with which the tor- tures of the Chinese are a mercy. But while the law is so uncertain, and while this appeal is optional, we trust that one judge will be humane and just enough to declare that he will regard every application on the part of a prisoner under sentence of death to go to the Court of Appeals as an applica- tion to be granted as a .atter of right. Such a resolution would be the dispensation of St. Patrick’s Day. Jt was a miserable day—slush, snow and rain—and thirty thousand high hats were ruefully contemplated by their owners, The Irish gentlemen who intended to walk as a matter of duty began to think the parade would Rot be a particular pleasure. St. Patrick's Day, as usual, began in gloom There is a fatality about it, and the disap- pointment is a very grave one, not only to the high hats, but to the bonnets. We think the Saint himself must have been made unhappy by the perverse weather. “Wretched saint that I am,” he undoubtedly exclaimed, “is this the best weather I can have for my birthday? Out of the whole year is there no day but March 17 that it must always pour floods on the boys who like to do me honor? Would to Heaven that Iwere in purgatory,” he indighantly con- tinaed, “for about a day and a half, if so this matter could be fixed.” We say there is no doubt of this, because we know the nature of the Saint—his generosity, his benevolence, his humanity, and because it is impossible that a saint of his character, which is beyond reproach of-any kind, could be indifferent to the comfort of those who celebrate his birth. There are saints who are mean enough to see their friends suffer, without pitying them. But St Patrick does not belong to that class. His tears mingled with the tain, and many a high hat was unconsciously wet with holy water. Those who truly hon- ored St. Patrick knew that they,had his sym- pathy. - and were confident that what little influence any saint can have in Washington would be used in their behalf, ‘Sure enough, the Saint succeeded in coaxing the Weather justice in its highest form. Rut the proper way is to amend the law and make our whole capital punishment system more effective and humane. Bristow Arraigned. We print elsewhere a letter from Kentucky giving particulars of a charge against Mr. Bristow, the Svvretary of the Treasury. This charge is made with elaborate detail. The names of witnesses are given who are said to know all tha circumstances. It is due to the Secretary that it should be investigated without delay. In ordinary times we should hesitate be- fore printing so serious a charge against an Bureau, and sbout alev, o'clock the sun shone bright and Was it another miracle? there was jealousy in heaven; th, ftalian and German and Spanish | saints walked gloomily apart, their boso},, bursting with envy. They never have\ their birthdaye celebrated with the entht,iasm that wat displayed in New York sSresterday ; they never see thirty thousafd people walk in honor of them, nor the Mayor and mw ~icipality pay the: erence. Bui who caree for th or foreign saints? St. Patrick is a nattealized saint, who is as highly ected in Anerica as in Treland, and the cergmonies at the City Hall yesterday were proof of it. St Patrick looked down with /approval, and eobably whistled the ‘‘Wearing of the Green” 45 he gazed out of the heavenly windows. officer as high in the confidence of the coun- try as Mr. Bristow; but these are not or- dinary times. The air is full of suspicion and innuendo of the most serious charges against men of the loftiest station. We are ina revolution, As in the Reign of Terror, every patriot must “suspect” his neighbors. Mr. Bristow cannot escape the temper of the time. ‘ More than all, Mr. Bristow is a candidate for the Presidency. No man can run for that station who has a stain on his garments. If Mr. Bristow is so unfortunate the sooner he is shoved over the Tarpeian Rock the bet- ter. If he is stainless, then these attempts to destroy him will redound to his glory. For these reasons, and without abating our confidence in Mr. Bristow, we print the SUTY 1fOM Kentmcky amd cuggeot om) IM- mediate and thorough investigation. No Seat No Fare—Infamous Legisla- tive Jugglery. Mr. Killian, a member ofthe Assembly from this city, is one of those remarkable states- men who assume to work in the interest of the people but only succeed in destroying the measures upon which they bestow their championship. Seizing upon a public ne- cessity this astute statesman introduced a bill into the Assembly, which is now gener- ally known as the ‘‘No Seat No Fare” bill. It was not altogether what was needed by the travelling public, but Killian declared his intention of so amending it in Committee of the Whole as to make it satisfactory to our people, and it thus obtained a sup- port it would not otherwise have re- ceived. Unfortunately, the Railroad Com- mittee, to which it had been referred, re- ported against it—a circumstance which in itself is sufficient proof of the power of the monopolies at Albany ; but the worst feature in the case was the absence of Mr. Killian, who should have been in his place to take care of his measure. Yesterday he was also absent. Such negligence on the part of a public servant, to say the least of it, is ex- ceedingly reprehensible, and it will be very difficult for Mr. Killian to convince his con- stituents and the people of New York | that his conduct was the result of mere negligence. His continued absence from the Assembly gives rise to a suspicion that his championship of this measure was in the interest of the railroads, and that the bill was only introduced to deceive those who desired its passage. The action yester- day is further evidence of this, but the | scene which took place in the Assembly, by which a motion to reconsider was evaded, was the most disgraceful episode in our leg- islative history. Mr. Worth’s parliamentary trick was simply infamous. It was at once an insult to the Speaker, to the Assembly and to the people of New York. For the first time in the history of the State a pri- vate bereavement has been used to defeat a measure in the pub. lic interest, and in itself Worth’'s conduct was so detestable that even the lobby cannot fail to be ashamed of it. Under the circumstances the only way to retrieve the good name of the State is for the honest men in the Assembly to unite upon Mr. Bergh’s bill and secure its passage. Is there virtue enough among our legislators in the face of Mr. Worth’s insult to the Speaker | and the House to condemn this wicked trickery? If there is it is only by the con- sideration of Mr. Bergh’s bill that it can be shown. We have had enough of this infa- mous legislative jugglery. Now let mem- | bers repudiate it by the passage of an honest | bill or share the infamy, i oa A Moxtexronin Prack Missrox is the Tae Domrion Parvramenr is once more approaching the qupstion of the political status of the leaders in the Manitoba insur rection, Riel, Lepine and O'Donoghue, The movement is begun apparently in behoof of O'Donoghue, whom it is doubtless the desire of his friends to represent as the least ‘tainted of the trio. He has written a letter to a member of the House of Commons, de- claring himself guiltless of participation in the murder of Scott, and denying the exist- ence of an affinity with Fenianism among the raiders of the Red River country. In February an address was voted to the Queen asking an amnesty to all the rebels, with the condition of a probationary banishment of Riel, Lepine and O'Donoghue for five years, The new apparition of the question will probably cause a fine tempest of debate among the Dominion statesmen. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Did Orville Grant rain Belknap? The World has not heard of the Pendleton case, No punster has so far called Clymer a pizen Heister, Mrs. Belknap’s married sister was buried on Wedncse day. pa Francisco has had 120 days of rain on the just and on the unjust. Chicago Inter-Ocean :--‘*Marsh came on like a lon, but went away like a lamb.”” Sefior Don Antonio Mantilla, Spanish Minister at Washington, is residing at the Clarendon Hotel. Senator J. Rodman West, of Louisiana, arrived from Washington last evening at the Metropolitan Hotel, Emerson says that n’s action is only a picture beok of his creed. He does after what he believes. Tho Union Pacific trains are again snow bound, and this is a bad argument for building another road fur- ther north. The buffaloes in Monty bands, which is consid early spring. Hugh Hastings grocer,” snysthe Hsravp, “is hard.” present weigh is hardor. Daniel Drew's assets show $150 worth of watch ané chain for time and only $130 worth of Bibles and hymn books for eternity. If Pendleton had only been a republican, how the scholarly editor of the World and the wierd and beau tilul “E. B. 8." would have gone for him. ‘The dog is always a faithtul friend. At Raleigh, N. C., people tried to take an old lady out of a burning house, but the canine refused to permit her to be touched. Some of the politicians say:—‘‘Beiknap was a fool not to slip out before the thing happened.” Well, if you are so wise, why don’t you take oat yourself, now? A lady tells that Washington Irving once said that “onthusiasin is a gilt of God.” We don’t like to spoil this; but weren’t the New Hampshire democrats a little enthusiastic? a Right Hon. Hugh C. FE. Childers, M. P., President of the Great Western Ratiway of Canada,is at the Bro voort House. He wili sail for England on Wednesday next in the steamsbip Abyssinia. Thackeray onc? described a kiss of etiquette as ‘a kiss which is sike the contact of oysters.” Bat a kisa not of etiquette is like a rip ina yard of calico; you can’t tell where it begins or ends. Now that Dr. Storrs has sat down let somobody cls¢ get up and say thatthis is a mighty big subject about which he will say little. “Ha! said Ingo to Othello, “I like not that.” Then Iago made betieve he had not said it, Rochester Democrat:—‘‘First bablos are the cause og rather awkward mistakes sometimes. Phil Sheridan brought home a grown up bonnet the other night ané startled Mrs. Sheridan with the romark that his daugh ter should wear it next summer,” Contederate generals paid largely for their part tn the war, The widow of Stonewall Jacksog had her fur. niture sold for debt, and now at a bankrupt sale ¢ frend of Mrs, General Gideon Pillow has had her has band’s library bought in for her. Abill in the Lowa Legislature will prevent blinds and sereens from berg used in saloons. Screens always were a nuisance. A fellow cither attempted to open one of them sidewise or went through it likoa cireus actor through a hoop, and got put out of the saloon, The Chicago Times says that Pendleton did not get too much of a percentage on his claim, because the whole thing waz a fraud, which had been several times refused. Thus G. H. P. appears as a residential can- didate who used his influence as the relative of @ rebel lady who married a republican Secretary, Mr. Horace Bingham, acarpenter, recently of Mass- are ranging north in large @ good indication of an “The future Sway of the corner Yes, but hit | likely that it will have any important results. The insurgents are too determined in their There | send projectiles through the iron armor of | and that he is fairly under condemnation. | hostility to Turkish rule to stop fighting, at | least antil they are beaten in the field. achusetts, but for some time since of Faribault, Mion, recently had removed from his stomach a dark brown water snake four ject long. Ho remembers while drinking froma stroam sixteen years ago that something of a “‘orcign nature’ passed down his throat, but he only found out the nature of it seven | years ago.