The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1876, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the . Four cents per copy. Dea dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or tel ‘ic caper must be addressed New Yorg ales and packages should be properly | sealed. i Rejected communications will not be re- burned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 1a SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—-NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L’OPERA, Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms New York. AMUSEMENTS IS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LYCEUM THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 1:30 P.M. 3S PHEATRE. WALL. THE WONDER, at 8 P. TONY PAST’ VARIETY, at 8 P.M. W THEATRE. BROO: ROSE MICHEL. at 8 P UNION FERREOL, at 5 P. M. BRASS, at 8 P. M. BOWER ZATRE, DARLING, at 8 VM. Miss Maria Mordaant. Uk THEATRE. FIFTH AV. PIQUE, at 8 P.M. Matin P.M. Fanny Davenport, URTH STREET OPERA HOUSE. |. 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Government and railway bonds were barely steady. Foreign exchange firm. Tae Weatuer iv Enciaxp on Monday was not unlike what ‘Old Probabilities” gave us, snow being the order of the day. Tne Rvssrans are carrying the rope into Central Asia and have hanged the rebellious Khan Fulate. The Asiatic victims of Rus- sian aggression will find this to be only the beginning of their troubles. Kino Atronso is now in the days of his glory as wellas his youth. The Spaniards are hailing him as victor and deliverer, and it will be well for Spain if the enthusiasm of the moment is not merely momentary, A Sprenprip Scenz is that reported by the cable this morning, a fleet of four hundred wind bound vessels passing out of ‘the Mer- sey. It is seldom commerce so far forgets the prosaic element as to present such mag- nificent pageantry. Tae Aprraisen's Departwent in the Cus- tom Honse is the subject of an article this morning which will excite general attention. We can only suggest that where there is so much smoke there can scarcely fail to be some fire. Detar in the extradition of Winslow growing out of the discussion of the offences for which an extradited prisoner may be tried. No better time can be found for the settlement of this question, and it is best that the construction of the treaty be- tween the United States and Great Britain shopld be mutually determined at the earliest possible day. Tuere Is Mexico is on the eve of another revolution, and it is likely a strong effort will be made to overthrow the government of President Lerdo. Already the national troops are re- ported as having met with a severe defeat and heavy losses. It seems that a stable government is impossible in the Mexican Republic, but another attempt at revolution can only add to the evils from which the people of that es uphepey country are suffering, AN Ierengstixo Cxremoxr took place yes- terday at the Convent of the Good Shepherd nuns, seven young ladies receiving the white veil and three others making their solemn vows at the expiration of their novitiate. It | is in such as these that the spirit of charity | bas its brightest exemplification, and the teremony is one which always excites a pecu- | liar interest because of the consecration of | bright young lives to Christian duty. Twat Lerrenr. —There are many ways of concealing the truth without telling a direct falsehood available to those who do not de- | sire that ‘‘bottom facts” shall be made known. All the denials given to the Tilden-Clews tumor are reconcilable with the idea of | evasion. In no instance is it plainly stated that no letter was ever written by any person asking an advance of money for political pur- poses and promising that an opportunity should be afforded to Clews & Co. to reim- burse themselves through the means of early information of Treasury movements. Prob- ably nothing short of a Congressional inves- tigation will draw out the truth, and possi- | bly one of the best witnesses before such a committee would be General Horace Porter. l The Syracuse Convention—The New York Republicans Demand Roscoe Conkling. The meeting of the Convention at Syracuse | to-day will be an important event, as show- ing the attitude of the republican party in New York on the question of the Presidency. | It will go far toward determining what the party throughout the country will do. The action of the State of New Hampshire has shown that the country is by no means in the hands of the democrats. On the con- trary, there is no reason why, if the republi- cans are wise, it should not be carried by the republicans. Thus far the democrats have presented no issues, with the exception | of administration reform, on which they could expect to carry the country. Admin- j istration reform is an issue that may be | fought as well within the ranks of the re- publican party as outside. The republicans | have a half dozen candidates in reserve with as good a record for honesty as any that can be named by the democrats. They have also the power of the administration. Who- ever may be nominated Grant will be too anxious to win the indorsement or the quasi indorsement that must come with the suc- cess of the republican party to permit any hesitancy on the part of the office-holders as to their duty in the canvass. the impulse of party fealty will go far tow- ard drawing the republicans closer: and closer together. The fall of Belknap, so far as it may withdraw Grant from the canvass and destroy Cmsarism, may be a great good tothe party. Just now there is nothing like the mutiny that was seen in the early part of the canvass of 1872. Consequently it is of the gravest impor- tance, not only to the party, but to the coun- try, what the Convention at Syracuse will do. For some time past there has been a rising current for Roscoe Conkling as the choice of republicans in New York for the Presi- dency. The general sense of the party, of the men who do the hard work, has been that Mr. Conkling is their natural leader and should have the nomination. This senti- ment grew naturally, and was the expres- | sion of the party’s sense of the great | ability and service of Mr. Conkling. His enemies’ criticisms are really his high praise. Enemies say that he is a partisan, a combatant; that he has stood by the administration through good and bad re- | port, never questioning any of its actions; that he has been the leal friend of Grant, fighting his enemies and giving him nota halting, timid, questioning support, like that of Edmunds, Morrill and others—who are only republicans as long as they can make anything out of the party, and hasten to abandon it when there is any reputation for “independence” to be won—but a sup- port that never varied in sunshine or storm. Now, if this is the objection against Mr. Conkling, and we can find no other, the men who make it are men who have served Grant for the greater part of his administra- tion with slavish devotion. Who has done as much to strengthen the President as Mr. Curtis, who now leads the opposition to Mr. Conkling because he is a favorite of the President? For years the voice of Mr. Cur- tis has been eloquent and incessant in praise of Grant. So long as there were foreign Min- isters and Cabinet officers to be appointed the statesmen of the Union League, who now clamor for ‘‘administration reform,” were the truculent champions of Grant and all that pertained to his administration. Now they censure Mr. Conkling for what they have made a merit of doing themselves as long as it was possible that the President might take them into the service of the government. No, gentlemen; whatever virtue there may be an anti-Grant record within the republi- can party does not belong to you, or even to Mr. Curtis. You have not the record to op- pose Mr. Conkling. Not one of you can throw the first sone. The difference between Mr. Conkling and most of those opposed to him is that he declined the highest office within the gift of the President. They talk about “‘administrative reform,” which means their own appointments to office. Looked at from a mere party sense there is nothing more selfish than the movement against Mr. Conkling. It is a movement that should not for a moment be encouraged by republi- cans in New York. The objections to Mr. Conkling do not hold against him as a republican, however they may affect him as a statesman. Should Mr. Conkling come before the country as a candidate for the Presidency it will be time | for the people to canvass these objections. But they do not belong to a republican con- vention; for when we ask Mr. Cur- tis and his friends for their objec- tions their answer, properly translated, is, that ‘Mr. Conkling is a republican and has never halted in his support of a repub- lican administration.” Well, this sdminis- indorsement of every republican conven- tion. Cansincere republicuns, then, object to a man whose principal offence is that he has never abandoned his party? that there is objection to Mr. Conkling be- cause he is not the choice of the State, like | Mr. Lincoln and General Grant. This is the | argument of the Hvening Post. But the editor of the Evening Post is old enough to Mr. Lincoln and General Grant. In the first Seward. In 1864 a large and infinential wing of the party, headed by Mr. Greeley, demanded Chase, and threatened a bolt, which came to a head in Cleveland, In 1869 | if Chase had been nominated by the demo- | crats this wing was ready to go the extent of leaving the party, as it did in 1872. So far as acceptability is concerned Mr. Conk- | } ling is much stronger with the party in New York than any republican candidate ever ' presented—stronger than Seward even in | this, that Seward was opposed by Greeley and a faction strong enough to destroy him, while Conkling is opposed by Mr. Curtis, Mr. Roberts, of Oneida, and a few unappre- ciated statesmen around the Union League. Behind Mr. Conkling are the rank and file of the party. It would be unworthy of New York not to have a candidate for the Presi- dency, and it would be unworthy for the re- publicans in this State to abandon Mr. Conk- | ling. Any other name is an intrigue. The republicans need New York to carry the coun- | try. If Conkling cannot carry it who can? More than all | tration has thus far won the support and the | It is said | remember that there were no candidates | more strenuously opposed in this State than | Chicago Convention New York demanded | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, .1876,—TRIPLE SHEET. Union League smoking room loungers, who, having no offices, ery ‘‘ reform,” and fashion- able intelligence chroniclers should not be permitted to force the party into an attitude of hostility to the brilliant and gallant re- publican leader who now stands at the had of his party in the Senate and the country. The friends of Conkling comprise the vast majority of the republicans in the State. His enemies are a club cabal, every one of whom feels that he would make 4 much bet- ter candidate. It would be weakness in the highest degree, and not only weakness, but | ingratitude, for the republican party to aban- don Conkling. Such an abandonment would be areflection upon the State; for if New York does not present Conkling she will be dragged into some Eastern intrigue for Blaine or some Western intrigue for Morton. No republican who respects his State cares to assume this humiliating position. If there were a controversy between rival leaders—if the opposition to Conkling meant the nomi- nation of Evarts, Fish, Wheeler, Morgan, Dix or some other New York statesman—we could understand how there might. be honest dif- ference of opinion. But there is no such difference. New York is not asked to name | any other of her eminent sons, but to aban- don her favorite Senator, so that scheming politicians may use her for theirown ends in the Convention. This is not the position | which this great State should assume. We trust, therefore, that the Convention will put on record the will of the party—-namely, that Rosege Conkling is its candidate for the Presidency, and that the New York delega- tion to the National Convention will not only present his name as a unit, but support him first, last and all the time. Whatever objection there may be to Mr. Conkling as a candidate for the Presidency before the people there are none whatever to his nomination by the republicans for that high office, Saneeiey “SN The Great Storms. A peculiar interest attaches to the varying conditions of the weather at a season when the continents of Europe and North America are being swept by unusually disastrous storms. The office of meteorology is now extended to the prediction of these disturb- ances, instead of being, as formerly, limited to their observation and record. Without look- ing outside of the meteorological field of the United States we are enabled to prog- nosticate with a considerable degree of ac- curacy the development, direction, progress and duration of storms or changes in the at- mospheric state which more or less ap- proximate to them. Certain conditiens have been observed to be followed by a class of phenomena which are directly traceable to the operation of well known physical laws. We need, therefore, only recognize the primary causes to predict the consequences. The recent tornadoes in Missouri and Minnesota were preceded by peculiar conditions of tho atmosphere as regards temperature and density, and these extended over a large area of the continent. However, when they were ‘carefully charted and the opposing aerial forces assigned to their proper positions, the plans of the battles were as easy of com- prehension as that of Austerlitz or Gettys- burg, and the centres of the atmospheric warfare as clearly marked in relation to their surroundings as the farmhouse of Hougou- mont on the field of Waterloo. In recent articles we explained the process of develop- ment of violent wind storms, accompanied by rain or snow, and the marvellous precision of their generation under favorable condi- tions. We now come to consider the charac- ter of the storms which prevailed along the Atlantic coast and in the Western Gulf States during the past two days. A most re- markably low atmospheric temperature was observed at every point in the United States on Sunday and Monday last. It seemed os if a great wave of cold air had rolled down from the Polar regions and overwhelmed the Continent as far south as the Rio Grande and Florida, During Monday night the thermometer at Mobile indicated one degree below freezing point, and at Galveston, Texas, only seven degrees above. The temperature at Breck- inridge, Minn., was twenty degrees below zero, and the general records through the Mississippi Valley ranged from ten to twenty-five degrees. On the Plains west of Omaha an area of comparatively high ‘tem- perature and correspondingly low barometer existed, wedged, as it were, between two great volumes of cold air. These conditions favored the development of a ‘‘norther” in the region southward of Denver, and the heavy blow at New Orleans was clearly due to this cause. The escape southward of a dense body of cold air produced at Indian- | ola, Galveston and New Orleans a sudden fall of temperature and o barometric dis- turbance, but there is nothing to show any | connection between the high winds which prevailed at these points and the terrific | storm which has swept our Atlantic const. | has presented all the characteristics of a | genuine cyclone, one of those storms which originate in the equatorial seas and some- times touch our coasts in the sweep of their parabolic paths. The energy of these meteors largely depends on the conditions of the atmosphere through which they travel. Their paths are also affected by such physical obstacles as mountain ranges, and the Alleghany chain has without doubt | checked the westward course of this ocean | storm and deflected it northeastwardly along our coastline, Thus the storm would strike the coast at some point between Jackson- | villeand Cape Hatteras and impinge on the mountains, which would give its course a direction over New York, Boston and Hali- | fax. The winds blowing tangentally to the | circumference of the vortex would’ naturally be southeasterly along the const, and this would account for the extraordinary ;mumber of marine disasters recorded. | Of conrse when the vapor laden air borne inland from the sea met the cold condensing atmosphere it was converted into and pre- cipitated as snow, until the storm centre had | passed sufficiently to the northward to give | the indraught winds a more southerly origin. | Then the snow was followed by rain and | finally by clearing weather, with westerly | | winds. The conditions now prevailing in | the interior of the continent are very favora- | ble for the generation of tornadoes in the | This latter and most disastrous visitation | Mississippi and Missouri valleys. We shall not be surprised if such are reported during the coming week. Real Estate Owners ana Rapid Transit. An impulse to protect themselves from the encroachments and absorptions that are prac- tised by great corporations whenever they obtain a foothold is very natural on the part of property owners everywhere, and it is not surprising, therefore, to find the people on Pearl street in revolt against the con- struction of any portion of an elevated rail- road in that thoroughfare. In the fulmina- tion of their wrath these gentlemen say many things that are, from their point of view, true and just. They urge that the con- struction of the road will damage their prop- erty in such a way as to drive certain occu- pations to other streets ; that it will do fur- ther damage by obstruction of the sidewalk ; that if the Legislature had the authority to give the use of the streets to a corporation it is iniquitous to do so; that the corpora- tion should be compelled to purchase its right of way, and that in Pearl street the Legislature does not possess the right to give the use of the street, because the prop- erty, in the land on either side goes to the middle of the street, and the street itself is private property, never conveyed to the city for public uses, but only opened by | the owners for convenience. In all | these views there is, as we have said, an ele- ment of justice as seen from the standpoint ot the owners. But they must be contem- plated as well from the standpoint of a great public necessity. It isan absolute need of the people of this city, of every class and condition, to have very greatly improved facilities of transit—such facilities as can only be given hy a steam railway. If some men are to make fortunes out of this neces- sity it cannot be helped. Such a railway must be constructed somewhere, and, pre- sumably, to the inconvenience or injury of somebody ; for, as the law provides for in- demnities, it clearly contemplated that some- body's toes would be trodden upon. In a case of imperative necessity there will be some indifference in the common mind as to whether the people inconvenienced are in Pearl street or Water street. Now, as this road must run somewhere, should the com- pany be compelled to purchase its way? Probably that fact would at the start load the enterprise with a burden it could not carry. This necessity was the ruin of sev- eral companies in London, and crippled for years the whole system of rapid transit there. Doubtless the use of the ‘streets thus given might fairly be regarded as a sub- sidy. But had the Legislature the right to give Pearl street? That is a question for the courts. It is known that in different streets of the city the rights of the public have. different limitations—a fact growing out of incidents in municipal history; but any right well based on such limitations will be protected by the courts, As to the injury of property it is cited that an elevated railway will so obstruct the light that merchants will not be able to sample tea and coffee. In the next ten years one million people are to live five miles above the City Hall, and the men are mostly to come down town to their daily occupations, Imagine that million depending on the horse cars because a few hundred gentlemen have a fancy for sampling tea and coffee in Pearl street, with about fifty miles of other streets open to them in that quarter of the city. In the presence, therefore, of any rapid transit scheme likely to meet the public needs these reasons of the Pearl street men are of little account; but it is only for the public inter- est that such private interests can be set aside, and if, as is reported, this Pearl street rapid transit is part of a scheme for the be- trayal of the public interest in rapid transit and for the aggrandizement of a knot of sharpers the case is very different, Mr. Bristow’s Vindication. Mr. Bristow, like the honest, manly, straightforward statesman that he is, has gone before the House Committee on War Expenditures and explained his connection with the mule case, in which it is claimed that he took part in defrauding the govern- ment. His explanation is clear and con- clusive, and will be so accepted by the coun- try. We observe that the Secretary would have the committee inquire as to the anthor of the story. This would be profitless. The air is full of rumors, and the duty of the press is not to take any man’s character for granted, but to insist upon having every one investigated. Mr. Bristow should there- fore feel grateful for the opportunity of de- stroying a calumny, which, as we learn from Washington, has been in cirenlation for some days. In this season of suspicion and investigation no one can hope to escape | scrutiny. a whit more improbable than the story about Pendleton. So far as character is concerned Mr. Pendleton, until the railway charges were made, stood as high as Mr. Bristow. But when the serntiny came Pendleton fell, | while Bristow came out not only stainless, | but with renewed Instre. Therefore we repeat that Mr. Bristow never received a better service than when before the House committee. We congratu- late him upon his triumphant vindication, and we congratulate the country upon hav- ing at the head of the Treasury a statesman who has been tried in the crucible and found to be the finest gold. A Srxcunar Story of persecution on the one hand and subserviency on the other is that relating to the Bishop of Paderborn. It now remains to be seen whether the Ger- | man authorities will make a demand upon England similar to that which was made upon Holland, and whether Mr. Disraeli's government will yield to it if it. is made. We trust that the demand will be made, in | order that England may have an opportunity to reassert old-fashioned English independ- ence of foreign dictation. Usqvatirrrep AmwNesty finds little favor | among French republicans, only eight Sena- | tors and twenty-seven Deputies being in its favor, It is too early, perhaps, to expect Frenchmen to forget the events which attended the rising of the Commune, even though it was the Commune which gave France the Republic. The story about Bristow was not | the Hrratp gave him the chance of going § Rank in the Navy. We have published several communications from officers of the navy, both of the line and staff, in reference torank. The point of the quarrel is plain. Engineers, doctors and paymasters are graded according to their service and fitness, There are engineers who nominally rank as captains, doctors as commanders, and so on. There is another class of officers, trained to naval service, who are really captains, commanders, and so on. The members of the staff are given grades as acourtesy. They are not really captains or commanders in the naval service. An engineer ‘‘captain” is no more a captain than an engineer ensign, He is captain of his engines and of the coal heavers, the oil and coal. A doctor commander” does not com- mand anything but his pills and lancets. Now, as we understand the quarrel, it is this. The engineer *‘captain” wants to be a real captain, the doctor ‘‘commander” a real commander. That isto say, a doctor who has the rank and pay of commander may command all officers of a lower grade. Now it may happen, say in action, that line officers of high rank are killed. In that case the doctor ‘“‘commander,” who is down in the hold sawing broken legs, be- comes the ranking officer. According to the staff this doctor must at once throw down his knife and sponge, his ether and mustard poultice, and goon deck to fight the ship, He may bea fine surgeon and not know a howitzer from a martingale; but still his rank compels him to take command and direct the battle. As any person of common sense will see, the effect of this rule would be that the wounded sailors would die for the want of skilled care, and the ship would sink or be knocked to pieces for want of skill in the command. What the navy needs is a line officer who knows how to command, and doctors and engineers who know their business. A good doctor and a good éngineer, in their places, have most important duties; but their places are not in command. As to rank, the actual naval officers should have their rank, the doctors and engineers their own grades likewise. But their grades should have no connection. The officers of the line com- mand the vessel and all who are on board. The officers of the staff have no business whatever with that branch of the service. The pretensions of the staff to any such au- thority, or to any rank, actual or construc- tive, that would permit its exercise, are ab- surd. The best way to end the quarrel would be for Congress to take all rank what- ever from the staff, except what belongs to years of service in their own grade. Let rank and authority go together, where they belong, with the officers of the line. The Methodist Centennial. The Methodists of North Carolina have just celebrated their centennial, and we print this morning a very interesting report of the proceedings. There is no special sig- nificance in this celebration in so far as its centennial aspects are concerned, but the occasion serves to recall the history of a pow- erful religious movement, both in the past and at present. No one can doubt that it was the itinerancy which so pe- ‘culiarly adapted Methodism to a new country in which both men and con- sciences were struggling to bé free. In all respects the century of growth of the Republic has also been in an equal degree acentury of growth for Methodism. North Carolina is an example of this, particularly appropriate at this time, because the Metho- dist. Church, as an organization, was first established in that State just one hundred years ago. Up to 1776 Methodism was almost unknown in the South, and every- where it was still in its infancy ; but it grew with remarkable vigor until in the Southern, as in most of the Northern States, it is to-day the controlling religious influence. The secret of that growth and paramount in- fluence is in its adaptability. Its itinerant clergymen, missionaries all of them and men of great religious fervor and self- sacrificing spirit, were suited to do the work of evangelizing 4 new country, and it is not surprising that they accomplished it success- fully. Everywhere are the monuments of their zeal and their labors. The Methodists of the United States have much reason to be proud of their achievements, and of the Christian pride they take in their work this _ North Carolina celebration is an excellent example. West and Worth and Incorruptibility Inthe Assembly yesterday there was an- | other interesting episode resulting from the adverse report of the Railroad Committee on the “No Seat No Fare” bill. Mr. West, the chairman of the committee, led with an as- sertion of his personal and legislative purity, and justified his course on the ground that | Mr. Killian’s bill, was impracticable. This the Herat has always admitted, but it is no justification for Mr. West and the other members of the comtnittee who acted with him. The committee had complete power over the bill ond it was their duty to present it to the House in a prac- ticable shape. Failing to do this they will find it difficult to convince | the people of this city that money was not used to influence their action. It may be ‘ that » hundred millions of dollars could not but if this is the case he and his associates people of New York shall have no protection against the railfoad monopolies. Having arrived at this determination they made | their report in the absence of the author of | the bill, and, according to Mr. Killian, they deceived him as to their intention in tho | matter, But, to crown all, the reconsidera- tion of the action of the House on the report was prevented on the following day man who played it as a mistake of the heart and not of the mind. Mr. Worth is aman who says ho does not fear the press ; but the account he gives of | himself, even with the support of the press | right in opposing him two years ago, and He will find difficulty in making his constit- uents believe in his goodness of heart after this, and the incorruptibility of the com. | influence Mr. West's committee to do right; | by a trick, which is explained by the | | of.his district, is not flattering to him. Ac- | cording to his own showing, the press was | the people were not slow to find him out, | | as his beggarly majority last year proves. , r b ; too—long afore I'was your age; show a singular disposition to do wrong. In | | the first place they firmly resolved that the | = mittes will be found to stand higher in their own opinion than in that of the community, The speeches of yesterday prove more con clusiyely than ever that an investigation is necessary ; but to be of any practical value it must be one that will show the ‘bottom facts.” Moody and Sankey Maniacs. There may be a great difference of opinion as to whether the sort of emotional storms that are stirred up in a community by the Hippodrome process are of any permanent benefit in a religious sense ; whether the fer- vid piety and contrition and good resolutions that result from excitement are any more lasting than the excitement itself. But thero is one result of the Hippodrome campaign as to which there is very little room for doubt, and this is that it is largely increasing the number of religious maniacs, Every day cases of this character are reported, and it is in the nature of things that we should not hear of all the evilof this sort that is done. _ Only one case in ten of persons who are actu- ally driven to lunacy by this process of “awakening” is reported, and there are hun- dreds that are not driven to that point al which they lose control of their reason in whom, however, the balance of the mind is sadly shaken. Feeblo minds, persons whose morbid notions take always the direction of over-consciousness and self-accusation, should not be permitted by their friends te go within gunshot of the Hippodrome. They are like unseaworthy craft, that cannot stand an hour of rough weather, though they mav go on for a lifetime in smooth water. Our Reapzns will no doubt be surprised at the startling story of the alleged flight and defalcation of William ©. Barrett, a well known member of the Bar. The statement is made that Mr. Barrett has proved false in his trusteeship of several estates and that his clients will be heavy losers. It is to be hoped that when the real facts are made known the affairs of Mr. Barrett will be found in a better condition than now sup- posed. That so talented a man as Mr. Bar rett, holding such important trusts as he did, could play false is almost incredible, and we must wait for further details before giving expression-to any sense of condemna tion. Tue Decision or Mz. Justice Miter vir tually abolishes the Emigration Commission, and now we are to have a repetition of the wrongs and outrages which were once s¢ common unless timely legislation prevents, Congress must provide by a comprehensive statute for the reception and care of emi grants, and the sooner it is done the better. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Massachusetts favors Bristow. Two wild ravens killed an English fox, Primroses and violets are being gathered in Surrey and Kent, Imitation leaves of the Virginia creeper aro bk u trimmings by English ladies Is, The Rochester Democrat sa} “Kite flying, accord- ing to the Graphic, is the poctry of play; but Sam Wilkeson knows better. ”” Statistics prove that the frail, broken-down Amert- can woman lives longer on the average than ber round-faced English sister. The Cincinnati Enquirer says that the great publie need in Washington is of statesmen who believe ip buckwheat cakes and mol: The State of Massachusetts is In debt $15,000,000 on account of the Hoosac tunnel, and is now adding to this debt $1,000,000 a year on the same account, ‘Though Senator Anthooy 18 a downright Yankee, his friends claim that he cannot usea jackknife Does he pick his teeth with a pair of scissors? After a play a young Frenchman said to his friend, “I could play the lover better than that myself.” She replied, ‘‘Then why in heaven's neme don’t you?’? Mr. Aug. Grote surmises that the White Mountain butterfly was brought down from its original home in the north by glaciers, which advanced at the rate of less than a mile in a hundred years, Senator Ingalls believes that man originally went on all fours. He was convinced of this fact one morning when the lather was running down into his eyes and he was feeling around the floor for a towel. Mr. Darwin tells us that the pricking of the base of the brain and giving hydrocyante acid, together with strychnine, to an ordinary pigeon, brings on conyul- sive movements exactly like those of a tumbler, The Chicago Tribune is informed that we always give credit for items taken from other journals, We have even been tempted to borrow some good items, with credit, from the C. 7., but hated to reprint our old Jokes. On Sunday morning when a woman gets the blinds nicely peaked and, with frowsy hair and pallid calico gown, is looking at the street fashions, it is mean tor™ wind tocome along ard, slamming back 6 agit expose her. The other day, after Phil Sheridan rode up to the door, leading a bucking broncho with a side-saddle on it fora little fan with the young one, he was heard to matter, ‘‘Why does that nurse always look at meas if I were a fool?” ‘The Paterson (N. J.) Press, which usually speaks de lberately, says that while Senator Frelinghuysen’ chances for the Presidency arc not very seriously cal culated it is true that Conkling will not-have the New Jorsey delegation. Very great quantities of English and Australian sovereigns are Imported into India, but no one ever saw one in circulation, They disappear instantly, be- ing bought or kept for hoarding, either in concealment or in ornaments for the person. The Key West Dispatch notes with consternation au unusual abundance of those annoying insects, the ehiegos, in the city. Northern people may not know that this is not the species referred to when we say, “There she goes, here she goes.’” An effort is making in Chiirieston, S. C., to starts new daily paper. there being bat one in that city of 25,000 habitants. The experiment would bea hard one, becauso the News and Courier is one of the brightest provincial journals in the country, From London Fun:—Ancient Mariner (to his young: est}—"“Well, if you likes the girl why don’t you go and tell her so, ‘Enory. I mind the time—I'd married your mother—ab, and done my six months for woppin’ her but, lor’ there ain’t no speret in youth nowadays!” Since tho unification of Germany the Archbishop of Munich has always hoisted the yellow and white flag with the keys of St. Poter upon the towers on saints’ days, while upon political holidays the municipality has displayed from the two towers the black, red and yellow flag, surmounted by the imperial eagle. A correspondent of the Boston Globe says that there isan anti-Boarbon democratic movement on foot in Washington for the nomination either of Supreme Judge David Davis, of Illinois, or of Geners! Winfeld S. Hancock for tho Presidency, with ex-Governor Gaston, of Massachusetts, as second on the tickat. At the present time General Hancock holds the first place im the affections of young democrats, Norristown J/era/d :—*A lady at an ontertainment the other evening was so provoked and annoyed by her viow of the stage and performers being obstructed by bat perched high on the head of the lady 1 tront | of her that she didn’t notice the man who sat immedi ately behind her muttering audible imprecations be- cause be coulin’s seo over the top of her own bonnet.” Dr, Tyndall now finds that air can be rendered opti- cally pure by merely leaving tt undisturbed three oe four days inaciose chamber. All the floating mattes subsides, and the confined air will not transmit light, Solutions placed theroin remain unaltered, though lett for months, while similar solutions open to the ordi. ary air swarm with bacteria in twenty-four hours or two days,