The New York Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1876, Page 6

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Money on call was loaned at 5, 4 and 31-2 per cent. Foreign exchange firm. Government and railway bonds were easier. Tae Roson that William C. Barrett has gone to Europe to found a London Bar Asso- ciation is plausible, but not probable. Wr Have Not Heanp of any butchery of those captured on board the Octavia by a Spanish man-of-war. Can it be that her English flag protects them? Tar Race ror tae Lixcounsame Hanpr- cap was won, in a field of thirty horses, by a despised outsider, called Controversy. Put not your faith in ‘tips” and prophecies, Waar Has Roscor Conxrtxa done that George William Curtis should censure him? | They have hewn wood and carried water for Grant ever since he came into the Presi- flency. Wer Nore that the new Appraiser of the Port is eto be ‘named by Mr. Conkling.” Nothing is more painful than the interfer. ence of Senators with patronage. It has de- graded the Senate. Mr. Conkling would be stronger if he declined to have anything to do with the business. ‘Tue ‘‘Mantx Ant” was illustrated yester- day in a battle fought in Delaware between two Philadelphia pugilists, and won bya gentleman named Cleary. There was no | nnsportsmanlike interference by the an- thorities, and, indeed, the whole thing was a delicate compliment on the part of ‘the fancy” to the little Whipping-post State. Tar Ranpaut Faction in the Pennsylvania Democratic Convention were defeated yes- terday by the Wallace men in the contest for delegates-at-large to St. Louis. Carrying | the Convention, we would remind the demo- crats, isa very small way toward carrying the Keystone State, as they will find later on. Love Lavens not only at locksmiths, but st national hatreds. Here is the French Ambassador's daughter at Berlin betrothed | to Count Talleyrand-Périgord, a naturalized Prussian, and one who comes of a Protean | French stock, which, in the person of one man, was priest, republican, imperialist, legitimist and Orleanist-—everything political | that was French or that Frenchmen were. Let us have an entente cordiale. Tae Disonacervt Neoxrcr of the authori- ties in permitting the corpse of Mrs. Rose Young to remain moored to a pier in the | €ast River for twenty-four hours after its | discovery is surely worthy of more than mere condemnation, There are few things more pitiable on record than that of the hus- | band of the unfortunate woman watching wearily through the long night over the re- mains of his wife as they rose and fell and swayed with the tide. Can noone be pun- | ished for this outrage on humanity ? We Paist with pleasure the card from Mr. | W. Butler Duncan relative to the synopsis of the case of the foreclosure of the first mortgage bonds, amounting to six mil- lion dollars, of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, which was published in the | Henarp of yesterday. The case is pend. | ing in the United States Cirenit Court of Alabama, and ‘a trial of the facts may well put a different face upon the | matter to that which would appear from | reading only one side of the story. | the Presidency. | prominent candidates:—Roscoe Conkling, | William M. Evgrts, Edwin D. Morgan and | John Jay, of New York; Oliver P. Morton, | crats since they came into power. | mistake, The Syracase Convention. Of course the action of the Syracuse Con- vention was what we might have expected | after the result of the local conventions. The Convention was composed of the repre- sentative republicans of the State ; of men of all phases of opinion, from the faithful tide waiter whose vote was in the pocket of the | | Collector to the eloqnent and chaste chron- icler of fashionoble intelligence who left his books and his labors for fashion newspapers to show his ‘independence” of an adminis- tration which he has supported with a devo- tion that even Mr. Conkling cannot rival. The misfortune of the republican party in New York is that its leaders are all candi- dates for the Presidency. Consequently, when the voice of the State is heard in a national convention it is deadened by these contending interests, For the last few years, since the retirement of Mr. Fenton from active fellowship with the republican party, Mr. Conkling has been its natural and national leader. In many respects his lead- ership has not been as complaisant as is de- sirable from a statesman not above consider- ing the ambitions and susceptibilities of the | “party workers.” Mr. Conkling is said by those who have enjoyed his political conti- dence to be a haughty, impatient and some- | times an angry statesman, who would much rather quarrel with a follower than lie to him. All who know the value of diplomacy in politics will see the weakness of this. While Mr, Conkling may have incurred the enmity of men as powerful as Mr. Curtis and Mr, Roberts it is the general sense of the party that he is not only the leading repub- | lican of the State, but in the Senate and country. The contest in the Syracuse Con- vention was really between these two ele- ments—the dissatisfied few and the admiring many. The many won. There are older soldiers in the republican party than Mr. Conkling. New York is rich in eminent republicans who would adorn Let us take the list of of Indiana ; James G. Blaine, of Maine ; B. H. Bristow, of Kentucky ; E. B. Washburne and U. S. Grant, of Illinois ; General Hayes, of Ohio; Mr. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, and Mr. Jewell, of Connecticut. Here are thir- teen candidates—a suggestive number in this centennial year. Of these candidates New York presents five and does not exhaust the list. .If Governor Dix were a younger man we should have n candidate who would have as much of a national record as Grant. ‘Centennial Dix,” with his ‘‘shoot- him-on-the-spot” record, his services in the war, his Governorship and his lifelong antagonism to corruption and shams of all kinds would be the natural candidate. It is in no way a detraction from the services of the five or six statesmen who are named in connection with Mr. Conkling to say that he is the choice of the rank and file of the party. His position in New York is like that of Clay in Kentucky—‘‘the boys” believe in him. The men who do the work, who vote whether it rains or shines, who are “faithful” at the primaries, who are republi- cans summer and winter, see in Mr. Conk- ling man who has never questioned the wisdom or the discipline of the party. Be- tween Grant and Conkling a sympathy exists that will play a powerful part in this can- vass, Grant has all the weakness that comes from his ardent support of Grant. But he | has, likewise, all the strength that belongs to that relation. Grant, with his faults, is the head of the republican party still, and although his supremacy was weakened by the Belknap exposures he has shown by the election in New Hampshire that he is the trusted head and that the party is satisfied with him. This confidence has _ been | strengthened by the imbecility of the demo- When that party took possession of the representa- tive branch of the government their leaders could have made the campaign for the Presi- dency. But this chance was thrown away— first, by the selfishness of Kerr, and sec- ond, by the intemperance of the Confed- erates, The country is afraid of leaders like Kerr, who only know the Mississippi Valley, and like Lamar and Hill, who, having failed in a war to preserve personal slavery, would so shape the government that we should have political slavery. The country fears change. It wants repose. It is in no mood for experiments, and the democratic party is the party of dangerous experiments. We are not prepared fora campaign of dynamite and nitro-glycerine ; for the policy of explosion— the policy whicn tried to impeach Kel- logg on technicalities in Louisiana and seems to be about to do the same thing in Mississippi. Therefore, with this feeling of distrust arising out of the war and intensi- fied by the stupidity and selfishness of the majority in Congress, there is no reason why, | if the republicans nominate a good candi- date, they should not win and hold power until the generation which fought the war for the rebellion has been gathered to its fathers. ‘The towering candidates in this enumera- tion are Ulysses 8S. Grant and Roscoe Conk- ling. New York has pronounced for Conkling, and the nomination now passes largely into the hands of General Grant. If he sincerely means to retire from the fight then he should say so in a way that would admit of no York. If the President were to speak on | this subject and indicate Mr. Conkling as his choice it would be as decisive on the National Convention as wish of Jefferson for Madison and of Jackson for Van Buren. As it is, even if | this declaration is not made, Mr. Conkling will carry into the Convention the power to name a candidate. He will be the King, or the Warwick who names the King. In that respect the vote at Syracuse is decisive. Curtis and Mr. Roberts may go to Cincinnati as Mr. Greeley went to Chicago, resolved to slay Conkling as Greeley slew Seward. But their success will be suicide. The destruc. tion of Seward as a candidate made him a leader of his party as long as he lived and closed the career of Greeley. For white politicians who carry revenges into conven- tions, and who become the exponents of a | policy of political assassination are ‘wel- comed for the time, they are never trusted. | Mr. Greeley never got beyond a compli- | In doing so he would do the | | handsome thing by the favorite son of New. the | Mr. | | mentary vote in a veputtania convention. The lesson should not be lost upgn Mr. Our- tis and Mr. Roberts; for, as our readers may well understand, we regatd this cry about Conkling and “Grantism” as the veriest cant. No man in the State has done as much for Grantism as Mr. Curtis, unless it is Mr. Roberts. For seven years they have stood by the administration, smoothing over every blunder, extenuating every knavery. Therefore for them to come | into a republican convention and ask the party to repudiate Mr, Conkling for being selves is to insult the intelligence of the | party and its sense of fair play. These gen- tlemen, and Conkling with them, must stand or fall together. They are weak as Grant is weak, and strong as he is strong. It is too late to ask the sympathies or even the pa- tience of republicans in their efforts to “reform a party” they have been supporting for seven years. This is the lesson of the Convention at Syracuse. It did well not to | be driven into a false and cowardly position by the political assassins who followed the lead of Mr. Curtis, of Staten Island. New York, therefore, has spoken, and the question is, What of the country? There is a candidate even stronger than Mr. Conk- ling, who has supported Grant without in- curring the odium of Grantism; who has done the party and the country a gram‘ ser- vice; who has passed throngh the fire of in- | vestigation without even the smell of fire on his garments; a man who is regarded as the embodiment of reform—Mr. Bristow, of Ken- tucky. The real value of Mr. Bristow in the canvass must be considered at a later period, when we see what Grant will do. As it now stands the Convention places Conkling in the field with the power and majesty of the Empire State behind him. If to this we have the deciding voice of the President there is a fair chance that the momentum of date of the National Convention. If Grant should say nothing, and the mutiny which came to a disastrous end yesterday takes new life and spreads over the country, Mr. Bristow will have a position which cannot be challenged. As it is now the Convention presents the name of Conkling, and in doing so has done worthily. There is no reason why Mr. Conkling should not be the repub- lican candidate. When it comes to elect a President it will be time to inquire whether he is the fittest man for that high office. A Centennial List. It is singular that in this centennial year the republican party should have hit upon thirteen candidates for the Presidency. If there is any luck in numbers, and in odd numbers, too, it may be a happy augury. Here is the list:— ROSCOE CONKLING, of New York. HAMILTON FISH, of New York. W. M. EVARTS, of New York. E. D. MORGAN, of New York, JOHN JAY, of New York. F. T. FRELINGHUYSEN, of New Jersey. JAMES G, BLAINE, of Maine. ULYSSES 8. GRANT, of Minois, OLIVER P. MORTON, of Indiana, B. H. BRISTOW, of Kentucky. GOVERNOR HAYES, of Ohio, E. B. WASHBURNE, of Illinois. MARSHALL JEWELL, of Connecticut This is the constellation of candidates from which the lucky star is to be chosen. Who @ill be the happy star? Will it prove | the stgr of victory? How proud New York should be that in this centennial year we have five candidates out of the thirteen, and the galaxy by no means exhausted. We do not feel that we are violating any confidence when we say that New York alone can name the whole thirteen candidates and no extra pay required. Amnesty in France. The French government's plan of action in relation tothe proposed amnesty reminds one forcibly of the dying Corsican who was told he could not go to heaven unless he for- gave his enemies, and who thereupon called his eldest son to his bedside and said:—*I forgive them, but thon needst not forget them.” The government want to draw fine lines between offences and offenders, but if they wish to take full popular benefit for clemency they might just as well come plumply to the point of amnestying the Communists remaining alive who | have been tried by French law, The wholesale slaughter of men and women on the entry of the Versailles troops into Paris, and the wholesale and prolonged executions at Satory, left the boon of mortal breath to very few of the prominent Com- munists who fell into the hands of the na- tion. Some, like Cluseret, escaped altogether, and a few, with Rochefort at their head, escaped from New Caledonia. The former has been industriously decrying his fellows ever since and has possibly lost caste among the fiery blue blouses; but Rochefort, secure in Switzerland or Belgium, has poured (out his venom against everything re- | spectable in France, his attacks on President MacMahon being particu- | larly scurrilous. It would, therefore, appear that Rochefort is almost the only man whose present activity makes him objec- tionable to the government, and when we consider that by having him within the power of French law and stripping him of the garb of political martyr the force of his sting would be gone we cannot see why he | should not be allowed to return. There is, | of course, the very tangible ground of his personal offensiveness to the Chief of State, but that should not weigh in a poptilar gov- ernment. The Cabinet is, however, acting cautiously, and that itsseems willing to see amnesty made almost complete without de- siring to reap the popular applause which a full act of oblivion would bring must be re- membered to its credit in this age of pos- turing in public affairs. form democracy to take up the cases of Schu- | maker and King? These statesmen demand “vindication,” and their claims will most likely be forgotten unless the sluggish ma- jority are spurred to their duty. We Hap tue Jacostx Civs in Paris, In New York we have the Dark Lantern Know Nothing Tammany Club, which would give | us simply bosom friends in office. Now we have the Union League Smoking Room cabal, | which objects to Mr. Conkling because he is arepublican. The whole business of ‘clubs in politics” is bad. the same manner of republican as them- | this support will make Conkling the candi- | Wovtp it n not be a good thing for our ré- | The Mission to England. It is to be regretted that Mr. Dana, the | proposed Minister to England, and the Sen- ate Committee on Foreign Relations have drifted into a false position. In the first place we cannot conceive it possible that the Senate or the committee would for a moment care to reject Mr. Dana. His high personal character; the generous support he has re- ceived from Massachusetts, without distine- tion of party ; the welcome acceptance of his name by the press of Americaand England— all contribute toward making his appoint- ment an exceedingly fitone. On the other hand, the opposition to him is so manifestly personal, malicious and unjust that it should be an element of strength. The fact that General Butler, for instance, deems Mr. Dana to be an unfit Minister will be an assurance to a dozen Senators alone, if no other reason existed, that he is the fit and proper nom- inee. But the committee have offended Mr. | Dana, and Mr. Dana has offended the committee. There is a quarrel and temper—just what Mr. Dana's enemies rejoice to see. Mr. Dana falls back upon his ‘honor as a private gentleman,” says he | never asked the office, does not want it and | will not go to Washington to defend his character. The Senate falls back upon ‘‘its dignity as a co-ordinate branch of the gov- ernment,” and says that if Mr. not see fit to answer the summons of its com- mittee he must not expect its ‘advice and consent” to his nomination. And yet all this time the country is satis- fied with Mr. Dans. The President nomi- nates him and will not withdraw his name ; and the Senate, we have no doubt, if there were no artificial issues at stake, would at once confirm him. Now, is there no way out of this difficulty? The true plan is for the merits alone. open Senate. Do not let any misunderstand- ing between this gentleman and the Senate operate to do a wrong to the public service as well as toa distinguished citizen. Mr. Dana has friends who will set him right in the event of any assault. It would be a calamity and a scandal if the intrigues against a man like Mr. Dana were to prove successful. Let the Senate give Mr. Dana's nomination a hearing. Do not smother him in a committee under some side issue or technicality. We want such aman as Minister, and we are con- vinced that if the Senate will only give his name proper consideration he will be con- firmed witheut question or delay. The Price of an Introduction. The rascality and corruption which honest Sefior Gil Blas describes in such a lively manner when he was‘at the Court of Madrid were not greater than the revelations at Washington this winter. Gil Blas tells us that everybody bribed or was bribed at court for places, from the Prime Minister down to the lackeys; and so it is at our American Court. Belknap supplied the tragedy, and General E. W. Rice, of Iowa, now supplies the burlesque. This veteran hero is the man who charged poor Mr. J. S. Evans one thou- sand dollars for introducing him to General Belknap—the highest price which perhaps any one over paid for that felicity and honor. It seems to us that Mr. Evans could not have known many people in Washing- ton, or that General Belknap must have been extraordinarily inaccessible. Perhaps he supposed that General Rice, of Iowa, had unusual influence with the Secretary. But, whatever may be thought of the necessities or simplicity of Mr. Evans, what must we not think of the meanness and colossal ra- pacity of Rice? Was it his business to in- troduce strangers to the Secretary, and did he always charge that fee? :There is noth- ing more absurdly contemptible in all the scandals than this charge, which is more ex- cessive than even Pendleton’s. One thing is sure—Mr. Evans would not pay General Rice that sum now for an introduction to General Belknap, and if he should sue for his one thousand dollars he might get it back, with interest. The Lobby at Albany. Mr. West, the chairman of the Assembly Railroad Committee, confesses to a singular curiosity in regard to the ways of the lobby. According to his own account when he first went to Albany he was accustomed to en- courage lobbyists to come to him “for no other reason on earth than to see how it was done.” ‘They used to come to my room at the Delavan,” he said, ‘before breakfast, and I've had them offer me five hundred dollars to go for a certain bill.” The en- conduct for an honest man, and not the least singular part of it is that nobody ever heard of anybody being kicked down stairs at Mr. West's hotel. ruptible, ever think it his duty to expose | the men whom he confesses have tried to corrupt him. We infer, however, that now he is ready to unbosom himself, and that heis culiar way, about the lobby. Let us havea it is plain that many interesting develop- | ments will be made. West will contribute Killian has a number of points which he is doubtless panting to explain more fully. Many persons want to know which of his | Personal friends deceived him in regard to the time when the report on his bill was made to the House. He can also give more complete information in regard to his ab- singular that the standing committee of the Assembly, before which he says he was on that occasion, should have held a meeting while the Huuse was in session. Many points suggested by these worthy statesmen need elucidation, and we hope everybody concerned in these queer transactions, of which West, Killian and the rest have told | us, may come out of an inquiry with their | blushing honors thick upon them. Ton1s appears to be a hot place for con- suls, irrespective of its high temperature. The Italian Consul is the latest upon whom | ® murderous attempt has been made; but as the would-be assassin was killed Moslem fanaticism may require the visit of an Italian iron-clad or two before it will be quite safe for foreign officials to take their promenades. Signor Puliga attempted to pull against Tunisian etiquette. Dana does | | Senate to take up Mr. Dana’s case on its | Let the charges be made in | couragement of this sort of thing was queer | Nor did West, the incor- ; courting an investigation that he may be able | to tell all he has learned, in his own pe- | committee of investigation by all means, for | an invaluable report of his lobby tests. | | sence on that occasion; for it is not a little | | Presidential Candidates. There is at least no scarcity of Presi- dential timber in the republican party. Though its men may differ widely from one another in their relative fitness for the high post, yet in this centennial year it can fairly claim the possession of thirteen stars ad- mittedly of Presidential magnitude—thir- teen men between whose qualities and the office the country would see no dispropor- tion. These are Messrs. Evyarts, Bristow, Washburne, Conkling, Blaine, Grant, Mor- ton, Morgan, Fish, Frelinghuysen, Hayes, Jewell and John Jay. All these men are candidates ; some by their own selection, some noisily pressed by the class of men un- pleasantly known to fame as working poli- ticians, and some hoped for by all who de- sire to see purity and capacity in office. Several of these men can, perhaps, scarcely be regarded as candidates with whom the republican party can go before the country with a very confident hope of victory. Mr. | Morton has been the subservient tool of | every bad policy that has been labelled with | the party name. Mr. Blaine has ex- hibited more brilliantly, perhaps, than was ever before done in our _his- tory his utter want of political wis- dom, and has become distinguished as a man who deems no wire too contemptible to be pulled in his own interest. Mr. Morgan, spectable from every point of view, seems still without the positive force to come out of the shadow into which he is thrown by the fact that he is from the same State as Mr. Conkling, who must for the moment be re- garded ns the hero of Syracuse. Many of these candidates have a fame that is too strictly local. Several can boast a point of strength that is sometimes overwhelming in conventions. They could, in certain con- tingencies, be designated by the President in office as his chosen successor, and their nomination by the Convention, as it would | stand to the country for a party indorse- ment of the past course of the administra- tion, would for this reason be sought and pressed in that body with all the power that the official world could bring to bear. Mr. | Conkling is the most distinguished of the apprehend at Cincinnati is that the dele- gates there may be afraid of this point. They may not take kindly to any candidate so related to the administration that his nom- ination would seem to commit the party at this critical moment to an _ indorse- ment of the kind of government that has brought us to the present condition. In short, they may havea wholesome regard on this occasion for the opinions of the people. If that sort of sentiment prevails such names as those of Evarts and Bristow will come prominently to the front. These names are the two real diamonds in this mass of glittering California quartz. Mr. Bristow isa clear headed, upright, calm, strong man, whose fame is clear of every re- which we have had a recent exhibition in his dealings with a calumny concocted appar- ently by some of his ingenious rivals. Mr. Evarts has a great name, the greatest in civil affairsin this nation, and ata time when statesmanship, when the capacity to reason in politics is the great need of the country, he should come as naturally to the head of the people as would Sherman or | Grant if the nation were menaced with war. But he isa man of character and will, and not ductile in the hands of the traders in politics. But sometimes it happens that conventions have to take men whom they do not like in ,order to keep the people from going over to the enemy. No More Bonds. It is proposed to build a btidge over the Harlem River at some point between Fifth and Fourth avenues. At the meeting of the Board of Apportionment on Tuesday Mayor Wickham moved to issue bonds to the amount of ten thousand dollars with which to begin the work. Mr. Green opposed the motion, but he was beaten. The motion was passed, the bonds will be issued and the | work will begin. ~ We are in favor of building not only this bridge but of giving a bridge to every ave- nue across the Harlem. In time this river will be spanned with bridges even as the Seine and Thames are now. We approve of this, but not of the manner in which it is done. This issuing of bonds for every im- provement is driving usinto bankruptcy. There can be no economy in any business or government managed on this plan. If we were ina war, or in the presence of some great calamity, or if we were called upon to meet some sudden emergency, we could see the people should be used when necessary, | But this is not the time. Instead of issuing bonds we should be recalling and extin- guishing them. This is what the national government is doing and what the city gov- ernment should do. | should pay for them. If we have no money we should raise it by taxation. We should | surplus should be applied to the payment of a portion of the debt. This business of issuing bonds for every want is wasteful, and will in time be ruin- ous. Some means should be taken to with- now possessed by the Board of Apportion- ment. Every dollar of debt we create now is only a tax upon our children, New York { trust that the friends of municipal reform | will insist upon her doing so. Ir tae Emicratiox Commisstoyens have been declared by the recent United States | Supreme Court decisions to have no legal | right to collect the head money from steam- ship companies under a State law the sooner Congress takes up the question the better; | the practice of leaving emigrants to shift for themselves and be at the mercy of the har- pies known in old times as emigrant runners some of our model Tammany statesmen | have been drawn. It is possible the steam- ship lines would organize some form of protection, but it would surely prove in- adoguate, because irreaponsible, whose candidacy would be eminently re- | candidates of this class. All they have to | proach, and which has that sterling quality | that enables it to stand investigation—of | the wisdom of issuing bonds. The credit of | If we build bridges we | so grade our rectipts and expenditures every | year that we could have a surplus. This | | draw the power to pledge the city credit | is rich enough to pay as she goes, and we | for the country cannot think of returning to | and baggage smashers, the class from which | Trustees and Their Obligations. In the case of Mr. Barrett public attention is very forcibly called to what must seem to every one a very defective state of the law. Here is a man who has spread ruin all about | him by the misuse of fands and other prop- erty intrusted to his charge ; yet his offence under the law, if it has any existence at all, is only trivial; and the punishment that could be inflicted, if he were in the hands of justice, not only bears no adequate rela- tion to the wrong he has done, but is not equal to that meted out for the forgery of a check that would ruin no one. Dispropor- tions like this are the monstrosities of the law, and are the real source of that wide- spread opinion that all men are not equal with regard to it, but that it contemplates the high and the low, as to social station, with very different eyes. Every one recognizes that cases like this are very difficult to deal with under the general principles of the law ; that a large discretion must be given to trustees who have to invest money for others ; that every allowance must be made for what are really errors of judgment ; but it does seem as if legislation could afford some further security to estates in this matter. Jewsutrrs Beware !—The robbery of the store of the jeweller, Kuntz, on Third avenue, at 113th street, is - the third of its class in New York and Brooklyn, One successful crime is cer- tain to produce a number of others, and hence those having a large quantity of valu- able goods exposed that do not occupy much | space and are thus easily carried off should prepare to give thieves a warm reception, The thieves’ plan is simple, only requiring coolness and boldness, qualities many of them possess. A jewelry store is entered by two men who engage the salesman’s attention, and when in a favorable position he is knocked insensible or frightened by the display of a pistol into inaction while the store is ransacked. He is bound and gagged, and the thieves decamp with the property. A crime of this kind re- quires to be met promptly and punished sharply, as “garroting” was in London, be- fore the criminal class will turn to some less alarming branch of their nefarious art. The police should turn their attention to this, as a timely arrest like thatin the Grand street case would do much to stop it. Tue Bogus Lorp business has always flourished in America, and the individual styling himself Hugh Leslie Courtenay and “operating” as a nephew of the Earl of Devon—who has recently made this country his ‘stamping ground”—has proved no ex- ception to the His range is very wide, for he is said to have extracted goods from tradesmen in London, twenty-franc pieces in France, sovereigns in Melbourne, pape1 dollars in “New York and hotel board out West. An extended notice of his career will be found elsewhere. Moral.—The more en- gaging in manners the nobleman you meet who wants to borrow a dollar the less the chances of his being a royal duke, Rarip Transrr.—The report of the Rapid Transit Commissioners was up for final ar- gument yesterday before Chief Justice Davis and Judges Brady and Daniels, holding the Supreme Court, General Term, and the ob- jectors had their last opportunity to suggest stumbling blocks to the accomplishment o1 the city’s great need, The confirmation of the report by the General Term will put the scheme fairly on its legs, and we hope to se it at an early day. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Wendell Phillips is urged for Minister to England. ‘The students of Denmark are greatly influonoed by the writings of Darwin, Mill and Spencer. Lacy Hooper does not believe tnat studying music alone in Europe is safe for an American girl. | The Norwich Bulletin says that the town clock hag stopped and the hands are thrown out of employment, The use of east and west in Highland speech is ascribed by Miss Gordon-Cumming to the days of sun worship. “Going to ehurch” in Gaelic is still ‘going to the stones,” a description that carries us back to the days of the Druids, The Palt Mali Gazette advises ladies to stop wearing the bodies of innocent birds on their hats, and te patronize rats and mice. In Minnesota the winters are clear and cloudless, and the air so quict that over tho villages smoke rises ir high, straight white columns. Wo feel authorized in announcing that the name oi | Mr. Pendleton will not be submitted to the next Demo. cratic National Convention. Un the carcass of a boar which was hung outsides restaurant in the Strand the other day might bo read the inseription, ‘‘Shot by Prince Bismarck in the Roya Forest.”? Dr. Donis Dowling Mulcahy, the Irish exile and ex- political prisoner, sailed for Queenstown on the steam, ship Wisconsin, on Tuesday, his term of exile having expired. The Utica Observer defends the women of Washington against the men, saying that the latter aro the more extravagant, and quoting Tennyson’s ‘As the husband 1s the wife is,” Communications suggesting nominations for the Presidency must always be accompanied by tho name ofthe author, not necessarily for publication, but in | order that there may be no doubt of the good faith o/ | the weiter, ASt Louis woman says that a good waltzer neve; shows her ankles, and that it is no worse to encircle: Jady’s waist with your arm than to bug your friend’, | sistet on the back stairs. ‘The republican tiara this year will, in commemora tion of the Centennial, consist of thirteen diamonds— | Conkling, Fish, Evarts, Morgan, Jay, Frelinghuysen | Blaine, Grant, Morton, Bristow, Hayes, Washbarw and Jewell. The editor of the Kansas City Times says he canno Pronounce the name of “‘Oulda."’ An African does not | readily take to foreign languages. It is pronounces “Wee da’ and not “hoop-la.”” _2Candidates for the Presidency who wish to hav themselves tmmortalised in this column are requester to faenish references. We do not choose to ran thr risk of accepting nominations from candidates whe write in a disguised band or ander an assumed name, This rule will admit of no exception. In sight of Monticello, Va., is the residence of Colonel | Thomas Jefferson Randolph, the grindson and nearest surviving descendant of Mr. Jofferson, He is still | robast and has many pleasant anecdotes of “my grand. | father, Mr. Jefferson,” as he invariably calls him. |, Senator Bayard has been cempelied by the pressure | of bis duties in the Senate to dectine with great regret | the invitation extended to him by the committee of the Tammany Society to address that society on the bitth- | day of Thomas Jeflerson. At this moment the Capitol is clearly the post of duty of every public servant who understands his duty so weil and does it 80 courageously as Senator Bayard. The political astronomers have a galaxy of thirteen | stars for the Centennial year irom which to select the Star of victory. Five of these stars—Conkling, Fish, Evarts, Morgan and irom New York; two of them—Washburne ray re irom Ilinvis; New Hogland furnishes Blaine and Jewell; New Jersey hae Frelinghuysen, Indiana Morton, Kentucky Bristow and ie Hayes—thirteen in all, not counting Ben Batlen and with Delaware to hear from. [