The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1876, Page 6

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Tur Entry or Don Atronso into Madrid yesterday was a pleasant preparation for the work now before him in Cuba. Tm: Boys mw Licut Buve anp Dank Brive began their practice for the University boat race on the Thames yesterday. The contest will be viewed with special interest this year pn our side of the Atla: How Ir Looxs ror tax Panties.—Six re- publicans and three democrats, out of the twenty-one members of Assembly from New York city, voted last night at Albany against giving the tired working girl and weary workingman a seat for a fare on the horse pars. Evnorgan Farmers have suffered severely from the floods and storms of the past three weeks, but the future of the grain trade does not appear to be very perceptibly affected in the eyes of those who gauge the probable yield from the various sources of supply. Is tae Excutsu Racine Stasues the hum of preparation is heard and the ‘‘bookmakers” are deep in their computation of odds, Elsewhere will be found a letter on the pros- pects for the coming season, so far as they can be discerned at present, with other chat to charm the heart of a turfite. ‘Tn Doperrs.—Will the following mem- bers of Assembly from New York city inform their constituents why they were absent from the Chamber last night when the vote on the “No Seat No Fare” bill was taken:—Robert Strahan, republican; Matt. Patten, demo- erat; Felix Murphy, democrat; Joseph P. Fallon, democrat. Tue Encuisn Antisans who may come out here as representatives of the mechanics of their country will be welcome. We hope our trade unions will take advantage of the coming of these delegates of labor from the various ‘countries of Europe to give them a proper reception, just as travelling princes - are received by the prinees whose realms they visit. What greater empire is there than that of labor? CENTENNIALISM.—It is now proposed that there shall bea grand panorama or moving pageant—showing the various steps we have taken in attaining our national growth. Any- thing to keep the fires burning! But what a pageant we could have showing the vari- pus Scandals that have marked our politics, beginnirty with the interview between André and Arnold and ending with the interview betwoen Grant and Belknap, That would be @ pageant worth going to Philadelphia to see, Casteran’s Repry To Pavia in the Spanish Cortes had the merit of frankness, but showed how completely the great republican had been hoodwinked by this mere military adventurer. The man of action bas a great temporary advantage over the mere man of ideas in all the battles of life ; but we venture to predict that the next Pavia who attempts scoup d'éat on a Spanish republic will be shot with something less briiliant but more effective than an epigram. Ideas, if they aro sound, triumph in spite of the opposition of Senator Conkling and the Syracuse Convention, That Mr. Conkling will be put before the country by the Syracuse Convention to- York republicans is past doubt. On this the unanimity of the Convention will not be so complete—questions of great interest in- ; side the State and elsewhere. These ques- | sions are, first, whether the Convention, be- sides indorsing Mr. Conkling as its choice, | shall pledge the New York delegates to vote for him—and second, whether, if this be not done, the New York delegation shall be instructed to vote at Cincinnati as a unit. at Syracuse, led by Mr. George William Curtis, who will resist the pledging of | the delegates to Conkling, and also an | instruction to act as a unit. Mr. Curtis is a covert Blaine man, who thinks it impolitic to avow his preference, because the inveterate and irreconcilable | feud between Mr. Conkling and Mr, Blaine makes the support of Blaine in this State an espousal of his side of the quarrel, and would be taken by Conkling’s friends as a personal affront. Any faction in New York which gives its influence to a man with whom Mr. Conkling has not been on speak- ing terms for many years would exasperate his friends, inevitably split the republican party and surrender the State to the demo- erats. For this reason Mr. Curtis and his followers do not disclose their real purpose by an open support of Blaine. But their aim is understood, and will be met with j smothered but determined resentment. We mention the fact that Mr, Curtis is a secret adherent of Blaine as a clew to guide our readers in interpreting the proceedings at Syracuse to-morrow, in some parts of which more will be meant than'meets the eye. If, Mr. Curtis and the minority who will act with him were working in the interest of Mr. Bristow instead of Mr. Blaine there would be moro force in the arguments they are disseminating in such newspapers as they can control. They say that Mr. Conkling has been a steady and unflinching supporter of General Grant's administration; but this is equally true of*all Mr. Conkling’s leading rivals, On what occasion has Morton or Blaine put himself in opposition to the President? Did not Blaine and Morton sup- port the Louisiana policy of the President? Did they not share his hostile sentiments to the South ? Have they not had their quotas ot the federal patronage in their own States, and used it in the spirit of Grantism to reward their personal supporters ? Did not Blaine make haste to adopt Grant's anti-sectarian school policy as soon as the President aunounced it—a com- plaisance which seemed all the more servile as Mr, Blaine’s kinspeople are Catholics? Did he not skulk the anti-third term vote near the beginning of this session, not dar- ing to give offence to the President even in concert with a majority of the republican members? On one point, to be sure, both of Mr. Conkling’s chief rivals were out of harmony with President Grant, but that dis- sent did them no credit. We refer to the ex- citing currency debates in the spring of 1874, which came so near splitting the republican party, when Morton was an open inflation- ist and ‘Blaine a trimmer. On that occa- sion Senator Conkling was one of the most strenuous champions of hard money, as he has _ always been. His record compares favorably with that of all his rivals except Mr. Bristow, but if there should be any pretence of support- ing Bristow by New York republicans it would be only a mask to conceal their in- trigue in behalf of Blaine. The movement must be judged by its intention, not its pre- texts. Mr. Conkling must take his chances at Cin- cinnati, and so many things may intervene that the proceedings of the National Conven- tion cannot be foreseen. But it is not diffi- cult to form a judgment as to what the Syra- cuse Convention ought to do. It should, in- deed, have been called six weeks later, but having been called and being about to meet, it must act with reference to the long inter- val. As Mr. Conkling will be the nearly unanimous choice of the Convention it ought to make its choice efficient by binding the delegates. But what difference does it make whether they are pledged or not if they are elected as friends of Conkling? The difference is this, that the members of a pledged delegation cannot be approached by Presidential intriguers from other States, whereas an unpledged delega- tion would be plied by all the arts of political trickery and cunning, and the State would be a theatre of incessant cabals during the twomonths. Ifthe State Convention had been deferred until within a week before the .as- sembling of the delegates at Cincinnati it | would make comparatively little difference whether they were pledged or not, because there would be no field for the political sap- pers and miners. If a Conkling delegation is elected, but not pledged, half of the As- sembly districts in the State will be nests of intrigue in the interest of Blaine, and that kind of corrupting influ- ence is to be deprecated, the merits of candidates. As Mr. Conk- ling is the real choice of- the New York republicans they are entitled to their preference, as expressed by their State Con- vention, and ought not to be cheated out of it by opening the doors to secret inflaenge | and cabals in favor of candidates whom the New York republicans do not want. the Indiana delegation pledged to Morton and the Maine delegation to Blaine the | equal battle if they did not erect the same | barrier for the protection of their own candi- | date. ‘ If Mr. Curtis and the other Blaine men in masks find they cannot secure entire free- | dom to the individual delegates, they will | perhaps consent to instructions to vote asa unit, as a substitute for a pledge to vote for Conkling. This would not help them much, | except for purposes of annoyance. It is cer- morrow as the favorite candidate of the New | ! ! | point there is not likely to be any dissent ; | | but there are two other questions on which | There will be a small but resolute minority | aside from | With | New York republicans would fight an un- ; | active in trying to disaffect individual mem- bers of the delegation, and so far as they had any success they would proclaim and exaggerate it asa proof that Mr. Conkling could not unite the republicans of his own | State, and asa refutation of the argument that he alone can carry New York. It may be that some other candidate (Mr. Bristow, for example) could carry New York for the republican party, but certainly not Blaine. Conkling and Blaine have been “‘at daggers drawn” for eight or nine years, and the per- sonal indignity of supplanting Conkling in his own State by such an enemy would never be forgiven by his friends. The success of | the Blaine intrigue would infallibly leave this State in the hands of the democrats. New York republicans should deprecate such a result, and in order to pre- vent it should pledge their delegation to Conkling, if for no other purpose, at least for defeating Blaine and preventing the nom- ination of a candidate whom a large portion of the party in this State would refuse to support. The question of pledging the dele- gation to Conkling involves the question of relieving the New York republicans of the necessity of deciding what attitude they would take if Blaine should get the nomina- tion, * Conkling is entitled to fair treatment in his own State, and ought to be armed with the same weapons for defeating Blaine that Blaine possesses for defeating him. Certain it is'that the republicans cannot carry New York with a Presidential candi- date whom Senator Conkling and his sup- porters hate and detest. “No Seat No Fare.” ‘The death of the Killian bill on the floor of the Assembly last evening was the culmi- nation of a burlesque on legislation in which the introducer of the measure played the part of mock hero to the satisfaction of a select audience of privileged plunderers and to the disgust of the people of New York. From Mr. “Nic.” Muller, with his limping explanation of his ab- sence from the committee and . his vote in the interest of the railroad mo- nopolies, to Mr. Whitson, with his brazen ef- frontery in making a shameless defence of the most infamously oppressive of the mo- nopolies, we see what wretched human stuff represents the Empire City at Al- bany. Here is a measure which the entiro city in conimon honesty and justice demands, but which the few interested monopolies are able to slaughter through the aid of a fow legislative samples like Muller and Whitson. ‘These’ men pro- fess great indignation at the remarks of the Henaup upon their course. We are not sorry they feel the force of them, but we would remind these Assemblymen that those who make up their minds to play false to their public trusts should provide themselves with , hides thicker than a rhinoceros, lest they should feel the sting of popnlar rebuke. A coat padded an inch deep with greenbacks will not keep out the arrows of popular scorn, The shape which the ‘‘atguments” took that were used to defeat this measure in the Committee on Railroads is cer- tainly a matter for investigation; but whether they were merely an appeal to the instinctivo love of rich monopolies that burns in the bosoms of all cheap patri- ots or something more tangible the offence of bolstering up an outrage upon public health, decency and comfort remains the same. Mr. Killian may plead his spotless character, his legislative ignorance and his “engagements,” and try to soften his unpardonable neglect into ‘unavoid- able absence,” but his absence at the right time was worth thousands of dollars to those who fatten by robbing the tired working girl and the weary workingman of what they pay for, and worth thousands to the pickpockets who are the allies of the grasping railroad companies, Hence if Mr. Killian was to rise to questions of privilege until doomsday he will find his absence from the House as difficult of satis- factory explanation as Grouchy's from Water- loo. -So with the members of the committee, their readiness to wrong the people is capable of a hundred explanations, but cannot be ac- counted for on a single honest reason. ‘The vote by which the motion to recon- sider the Railroad Committee's adverse report on the bill was lost stood 48 to 44, with 32 absent. Our Albany correspondent gives a reason why some of the Assemblymen voted with the majority ; but, however such a flimsy pretext—the bragging of a lobby- ist—may weigh at Albany, we cannot see how any man who was honest and fearless could avail himself of it. If fear of one public corrupter and dislike to another furnish the motives for Assemblymen’s votes, we think corruption is firmly seated at Albany. Dropping Killian and his bill from sight, we think it is plainly demonstrable that ® properly balanced “No seat no fare” Dill can be passed if properly urged. It is possible that among the forty-eight who ranged them- selves on the side of the monopolists a num- ber will repent the act, and that of the thirty- two absentees more than two-thirds will take the side of honesty. Mr. Bergii's billis immensely superior to the crude measure which Mr. Killian abandoned to its enemies, Let it be taken up by somo’ legislator who j can attend to it, and the travelling public, | jammed like hogs into the fetid cars, need not despair of its passage. Turnry-Two AsseMBLyMeN, ef them from counties outside of New York city, wore allsent last night when the motion to reconsider the ad- verse report on the “No Seat No Fare” bill was lost. With afull house on ao fair voto we think it probable that enough honest men contd be found to turn the victory of the horse car monopolies into a defeat, if the carefully drafted Bergh bill were before | the Assembly. Tue Syowratn mx Scorianp has impeded | railway travel there to an extent that would do credit to the deviltry of ‘Old Prob” | wher he has a spite against the Pacific rail- “men of action,” because, sooncr or later, | tain that a majority of the delegates will be | roads. Our cable report states that one train they become infused in those who can join action to principle, as the body is joined to the sow. When republicanism kas reached this stage in Spain o firing party of simple soldiers wili save the intending Pavia the trouble of all explanations afterward, {inflexible Conkling men, and if they are | required to * cust the vote of the | State os a nnit the whole seventy | votes would as certainly be given for Conk- ling as if they were all pledged. But the fomeaters of the Bleine intrigue would be j took fourteen hours to accomplish a journey usually made in forty minutes, The ditfer- ence between the number of “ wee draps” consumed on the journey and the number usually taken is a mere matter of computa- tion, twonty-seven | a |The Shower of Flesh in Kentucky. is that given by our correspondent in his entertaining letter published this morning. He visited the place where the strange sub- stance was found, took all the testimony and systematic investigation. The mystery | still remains unsolved, even with this light thrown upon it ; but several important facts are clearly established by the evidence. The first of these facts is that the story is not a hoax perpetrated for fun or gain. Mrs. Crouch, who, with her grandson, was | the only person who saw the shower, isa woman who for thirty years has borne qn ex- cellent reputation in Bath county, Kentucky, | and her neighbors bore witness to her intel- ligence and veracity. No one else claims to have seen the shower, and this isa strong argument against any collusion, for if there had been a conspiracy, either for gain or sport, the whole Crouch family, probably some of the neighbors, would have declared they also wero eyo- witnesses of the event. Yet if this good lady had simply said she had seen flesh fall from the sky, or had ‘‘seen a man i’ th’ clouds and talked with him,” we might have believed her deceived by her senses and dismissed the whole matter. But it is just here that the testimony of the rest of the family—Mr. Crouch and others—comes in with force. They found the flakes of this mysterious shower scattered over the earth and sticking to the fences and briars. | ‘They saw them eaten by hogs and chickens, Finally other persons gathered the sub- stance, and quantities of it have been pre- served. It is a curious fact that none of the people questioned agreed as to its nature. Some thought it looked like pounded beef- steak ; others that it resembled fresh mut- ton; some pieces were fat and lean, like meat; others were like gristle. One wit- ness, who saw it when fresh, said its fluid looked and smelt like blood, and when it had been kepta week it was said to have the odor of putrid flesh. Other qualities, inconsistent with flesh, are attributed to it, as, for instance, a woolly fibre. Now, if this had been the flesh of any ordinary ani- mal these contradictions would not have hap- pened. Thus we see that all the elements and conditions which are generally found in col- Iusion, or in hoaxes are absent from this story. The suggestion that the Crouches got up this shower to sell their farm is not only inconsistent with the facts, but is ab- surd on the very face of it. Celestial manure of that kind is not likely to increase the value of land either as a fertilizer or as an advertisement, A more plausible supposi- tion would be that the shower was intended to attract visitors this year to the Olympian Springs, but in that case an enterprising land- lord would have had it happen nearer to his hotel, while a prudent landlord would not have had it happen at all, lest it might throw unjust suspicion on his future stews and hash. All the circumstances, therefore, go to prove that on March 3 there fell from a clear sky in Bath county, Kentucky, a shower of an unknown substance closely resembling flesh, yet neither flesh, fowl, nor good red herring ; and we have just as good reason to believe that story as to believe that it snowed here yesterday, and better reason to believe it than many of the reports which come to us from Herzegovina or Berlin. The principal mystery of this shower lies in the fact that its substance is unknown, but it is not likely that it will long remain unknown. Science has explained many things more wonderful and referred them to,the simplest causes. ‘The shower of flesh” does not rise even to the dignity ota preternatural event, and any superstitious feelings in respect to it are more absurd than to imagine it the result of the explosion of an inhabited asteroid. ‘ Military and Naval Cadetships. The lesson to be learned in the Hays case isa simple one. Let us putan end to these ever recurring scandals about the mili- tary and naval academies, by throwing them open to all the young men of the country whose parents can afford to give them the scientific and professional educa- tion that is to be obtained there and that is not within their reach any- where else in this country. Why should these institutions be closed to the sons of men who will not stoop to beg or to buy the privilege of admission from members of Con- gress? There is no good reason for it, As Mrs. Beardslee, the mother of the cadet whose nomination was purchased, put it to the committee the other day, she knew she could not get the prize without “some sort of hugger-muggering,” and she thought the simplest and most inde- pendent way was to buy it. Nov, most honorable and economical gentle- }men of the House of Representatives, you can purify your own body and effect a great saving to the country by surrendering this ‘‘deadheading” privilege that you have assumed and let these national institutions be run on the principle of the great military | Schovis of france, England and the other European States. When young zen choose to fit thomsel¥es for tho army or navy they should have a chance withont having to resort to the crime of buying or begying the right from Congressmen or cadetship brokers. i Tovex axo Crewk,—Alihough Tilden with a ‘“‘comicsl” look “has no papers ;” al- although Clews denounces the auther as an “qnfamots liar,” wo still think the bettom has not been reached in this Tilden and Clews story. spondent says that there ise rnmor that “‘s letter was written, not by Secretary Bout- well, but by a gentleman prominent in con- ducting the republican canvass, who asked the advance of money, and gave assurances | tunity of making up the amount in specula- tions.” This is a rumor worth ingciring into. The Times, in an editorial comment, says :—‘‘The presumption seems to be that some such missive was sent by one of the less scrupulous party managers.’ The Tribune, in a Washington despatch, sug- gests that on the subject of money in elec- The fullest and most authentic account of | the recent mysterious shower in Kentucky | possible, and seems to have made a thorough | and j though Dorsheimer knows nothing abont it; | The Times’ Weshington corre- | | that might have been supposed to be author. | | ized, that Clews & Co, should have the oppor- | ys NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. | tions “General Horace Porter might be a good witness.” We feel sure that there is | semething in this business—something that | needs light ar ell The Methodist Centennial. Nearly a decade has passed since the | Methodists of the United States commemor- ated their centennial anniversary of the | founding of Methodism on this continent, end in the enthusiasm of the occasion they contributed for education, church extension, missions and other connectiona! interests, thirty millions of dollars. The rich of their wealth contributed liberally and the poor gave ‘of their poverty, that they and their | posterity might be able to say in the years j to come that they had done something, if | not all that they could do, in honor of such anevent. But while 1766 was the year when Methodism took foothold on Northern soil, and, like other isms of its time, held on and prospered because’ of the | hard knocks it recéived, this was not actually the beginning of efforts to establish the sect on this new continent. In 1735 John Wesley came to Georgia and tried to plant Metho- disin there. But Wesley was too ardent an abolitionist, and by his outspoken utterances },on “the sum of all villanies,” as he styled | slavery, he neutralized his influence as a preacher, ‘and his following was scarcely worth numbering. Three years later, in 1738, Whitefield came hither, and like a meteor he flashed up and down the land from Georgia through the Carolinas and the Old Dominion to Massachusetts. He made seven | visits to this country, and finally died and was buried here. North Carolina was the only State that with any degree of cordiality wel- comed the new sect ; not because it wasa new sect, but rather because it was looked upon as an erratic daughter of the venerable estab- lishment of Great Britain. Her ministers and members received aid and comfort from Episcopal ministers in the States where she tried to maintain a foothold; and to-day in the South, as also in the North, it is the largest and wealthiest denomination in the land. Starting almost with the nation’s birth it has kept pace with the national growth, and in everything that marks the advancement of the Republic the Methodist Episcopal Church can show step for step in its progress. The people of Raleigh, N. C., have something, therefore, to commemorate to-day in the growth of a Methodism which one hundred years ago numbered its commu- nicants at six hundred and eighty-three in that State and Tennessee, where to-day it has tens of thousands.. The only man who attended the first General Con- ference of Methodists in the United States and who remembered its growth of nearly one hundréd years—the venerable Father Boehm—died a few months ago near this city, in the one hundredth year of his age. There is one other venerable minister now living in the South who has attained nearly the years of Father Boehm, and who, after him, knows more about Methodism’s infancy than any other living man—the Rev. Dr. Lovick Pierce, father of the Bishop of that name of the Church South. There is also another minister residing in this ¢ity, nearly at the close of his ninth decade, who remembers when there were not as many Methodists in the United States and Canada as there are now in the city of New York— the venerable Father De: Vinne. What hath God wrought within the lifetime of those men for this Church and by this Church! Three of the bishops of the Sovth will to- day trace its progress of a cen- tury and speak of the sturdy character of its founders and of the many methods of its propagation, which for three-quarters of a century were peculiar to itself, but which are now more or less in vogue in all other denominations, their usefulness hav- ing been fully tested. Among those methods none, perhaps, have had such an influence on Methodism, or been so successfal in its promotion, as camp meetings, where, at the beginning of the present century, it was not an uncommon thing to see fifteen or twenty thousand persons present and at the close of one such meeting to count three thousand converts. > The mectings are held still, but the converts cannot be counted. An Assemblyman’s Finer Feelings. It is gratifying to know that Mr. Killian has had enough of public life, and we are only sorry that it is his finer feelings which are driving him from the legislative halls back to his old’ place on the ‘Blue Line.” Evidently it was a mistake for him to enter the Assembly at all. A man of feeling can have no peace where there are crowding am- bition and conflicting interests and hostile committees and a lobby. If he is ambitious himself life to him must become a burden. Poor Killian is a victim to his own daring and the wiles of other people, who, unlike him, were destitute of the finer feelings. Be- sides, Mr. Killian is a man of marked orig- | inality, and original genits has little chance in this cruel, workday world. He says, for instance, that he introduced his ‘‘No Seat No | Fare” bill into the Legislature before it was | advocated by the Henap in the interests of the people. We would remind him that he | adopted a Henatp idea and introduced his bill into the Assembly because the Hrnatp had made the measure popular, but refrain from a fear of doing wrong to those finer feel- | ings to which he alone, of all the politicians | at Albany, cun lay claim. Killian is to be | pitied—pitied for his vaulting ambition and | his terrible fall Hear the poor man talk of himself and his works:—‘This was a bill,” | he says, ‘which I had originated and in which | I felt a peculiar interest. It was,” he adds, however, ‘drafted too hastily, and many of its provisions are unconstitutional, inasmuch as / they conflict with the charters granted to the H street railroad companies.” In spite of ail this he says he “strenuously fought for it,” ; and he declares, almost in the same breath, that he could have pushed the bill through | the Assembly, and that from the beginning | be was co ced it would not pass. Only himself so flatly, and it requires much fitle | feeling to enable a legislator to cail the | inembers of a committee his ‘personal feiends" and yet insinuate that they have | been guilty of both faisehood and corrup-/ tios. Gentlemen of the Assembly, Mr. Kil- lian has his opinion of you. Now, let us | know whiat in your opinion of him. Who | deceived him when his bill was adversely reported in the Hoyse? What were the eome ‘westerly blow. aman of great originality could contradict | bination and influence brought to bear upon the Committee on Railroads which were tod strong for him to control? Mr. Killian thinks the railroads will not undertake te buy off the bill a second time. Which of them bought it off the first time, and how? What has Mr. West, the chairman of the Rail- road Committee, tosay? What have the othe: meinbers of the committee who voted for the adverse report, and especially Mr. Whitson, to say? What has Mr. Muller to say! Somebody's character is impugned, and it will not do to let the matter rest here, Either Mr. Killian’s finer feelings must be | respected, or he must be sent back to the “Blue Line” at once. Let us have an inves- tigation of this whole subject, that the infamy of this transaction may rest where it pra»z-\y belongs. Ves a eam A Winter Snow Storm, The remarkable season which is now draw- ing to a close has partly unprepared us for a genuine snow storm, such as that of last night. We were in hopes that we could slip quietly into a pleasant spring without any meteorological incident which would remind us of our escape from the severity of a long winter. But the season of storms and cold is asserting her rights to recognition, and presents herself all of a sudden in her mantle of white, as if to remind ua that ‘her powers are as yet unex- hausted after the long struggle with the genial airs of the tropics which have invaded her domain. The vast accu- mulation of moisture in the atmosphere after a prolonged season of warmth fur-. nishes the material from which winter weaves with her icy breath the snow shrouds that she casts over the sleeping earth. When this vaporous element is acted on by air of temperature lower than thirty-two degrees condensation and precipitation at once fol- low which assume the form of snow o1 frozen rain. This phenomenon will con. tinue until the excess of moisture in the air is precipitated and the density of the atmosphere raised to a degree which will enable it to resist the influx of cold winds. In reality these winds are caused by the peculiar conditions of the air, the most im- portant one being a lack of density. The effects will cease to be produced when the causes cease to exist. Nearly all snow storms come with a northeasterly wind because the centre of low pressure and the line of contact between the warm and cold air waves lie to the westward of us. Directly the wind changes to the southward the low’ barometer is on our meridian, and its constant eastward movement is followed by @ corresponding tendency of the flow of the winds from westwardly directions. Thus, in a short time the snow storm will turn to rain with a southerly wind, and will be fol- lowed by clear, cold weather and a north- On rare occasions the low pressure passes to the southward of New York, when the wind backs from the north- east to the northwest, and cold comes with out the intervening period of rain. Farsz to tHE Prorre.—The following _ members of Assembly from the city and county of New York voted last night with the horse car monopolies against the bill for providing each passenger with a seat: George Y. Whitson, democrat; Charles 4, Peabody, Jr., republican; Nicholas Muller, democrat; James T. King, democrat; A. J. Campbell, republican; Isaac A. Englehart, republican; William T. - Graff, republi- can; Fred Gugel, Jr., republican; Joseph Hoffman, Jr., republican. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Why eall Belknap a Bill-poster? Nitrate of amy! cures seasickness, Caustic ammonia cures rheumatism. Aconite cures cancer and snake bites. Secretary Taft has been twice married. 0, Tafty! Heart disease is prevalent where the access of sew air is prevented. if The Earl of Derby owns 56,597 acres, with a grosa rental of £163,326, The New Orleans Times says a mag always feels put out when he is taken in. A Georgian sent to a Liverpool friend two Savannah shad frozen into two blocks of ice. It is said that George Washington never begged a chew of tobacco in his hfe, From Judy:—Old Fashioned Doctor—“Well, Madam, and how is our good gentieman to-day?” A Pacific Coast paper says:—‘*We are compelled te print a good deal of local news this week, the Easters papers being delayed by the storm.” Middle Tennessee will, within the next few months, ship 40,000 lambs North, These do not inetide the editor of the Nashville American. Mississippi farmers say that they will hereafter make their own smoked meat and dot give cotton for bacon to Western smoke houses. Judge Reid, the sable Solon of Sonth Carolina, sont a man to jail for twenty days for calling a lady friend “a duck-legged heifer,” Longfellow’s Cambridge house is 116 years oid, but he can snore in one of the bedrooms just as easy as if the thing had jast been built, Only last week Tennessee was listening to the song of the bluebird in the soft spring sunshine, but is now trying to peer through the lacy curtains of the Snow. California is to have a golden lamp at the Centen- nial, California would have sent m some of its gas, but couldn’t flnd a pipe big enough to hold it fliram Powers, the sculptor, who had spiritual vis. ions, said that if a man’s nervous system were care fully separated {rom the rest of his body it is so com. plex and great that it would appear as @ perfect repre. sentation of the man, “Why, then,” said he, “cannot that which is below the delicate nervous system be revealed to us in spiritual manifestations?” The treatment of American prisonors of war by the English in the Revolution, and especially those who were in the old Jersey prison ship, was revolting to hu- manity, Yet why do we forgive the Enghsh and re. mnember Andersonville ? The Washington Chronicle states that in Pekin is pubiished the oldest newspaper in the world, itis over 1,000 years old. It is a ton page paper, with a | yellow cover; bas no stories, no “ade,” uo marriage or death notices, no editoriaic, no subseribers, It simply contains the offeial aotices of the government, Among the roporied opinions of loading democrats concerning the action of John Kelly in opposing @ delegation pledged to Governor Tilden for the Press deney, thas been stated that Mr. Angust Belmom thonght that Mr. Kelly had been unkind and ungrave ful, The truth is that no person has interviewed Mr, Belmont on the subject, and that he has not given any opinion. This reprohensible custom of publishing bo gus Interviews cannot be condemned too strongly, The new Secretary of Wor, Tatt, is thas described:— “Largo, atrong foatares, of habitually phiegmatic. ex pression; full, high forehead, over whieh his straight black hair, tain and slightly tinged with gray, was smoothly brushed; decp set, bright dark eyes; heavy, firm under jaw, showing, as an old lawyer bere whe lis ofteu practised betor® aud against him exprossed | # Miat “When Taft bas made up his mind, though o's stow to do it, he is muliakly stabvorn;’ and, over all, a quiet, ruminative air, that would not illy become A bookish collogs protessor, ald indicating that, though a Yonkee ingrained, by dosceut, education and breed ing, ho lacks in toto the Yankee nervous temperament, and is neither easily aroused nor liable to act hastly when stirred ap." s