The New York Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1876, Page 4

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A Cewtrenntan Canpipate.—How would moon-faced, frosty-pated Marshall Jewell, who, as Holmes would say, looks like a “rose in the snow,” do as a Presidential candidate? We Have yet to see the first opponent of Mr. Conkling in the Republican Convention who is not inspired by some selfish, personal reason. The cry of ‘‘Grantism” is cant, coming from men who have followed Grant with slavish adulation. A Centennrat Canpipatr.—One advantage of Charles Francis Adams, as a republican candidate, is that it would be a comfort to Samuel Bowles, the famous country editor, and an encouragement to country editors generally. Curtis was the Brutus, Roberts the Cas- tius of the Syracuse conspiracy. But Curtis should remember that among the last speeches of his prototype was this:— © Julius Cwsar! thou art mighty yet: Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords In our own proper entrails. A Centennrat Canpipats.—We wonder if he republicans have any candidate stronger ban Grant—any candidate who, like him, ias retained his strength in spite of Grant- sm and Belknapism. This is a question to be pondered well by the republican augurs. Tue Inprenran Evroprgan Powers are about to do for Turkey what England is doing for Egypt—namely, put her finances in good order. In both cases, we suppose, the Powers are anxious to know definitely what they will have to pay for their next territorial dinner ; in other words, what debt they will have to assume when the annexation begins, A Cenrennian Canpipate.—If Edwin D, Morgan had not magnanimously withdrawn in favor of Mr. Conkling he would have been a formidable candidate. The name of Mor- gan, as the representative of the first com- mercial city of New York, may be quoted as first class, prime, gilt edged paper yet, especially if Lord Roscoe will write his gorgeous signature across its face. Waar a great thing it would have been if Mr. Curtis had addressed the Convention upon some of those social themes which he has been treating for so many years with thaste and glowing eloquence in the fashion newspapers, and if Mr. Roberts, the great | tountry editor, had read one of his tremen- dous leaders as to the proper time for plant- ing pumpkins! The Convention would have | teceived instruction as well as amusement, | A Centsnxrat Canprpats.—Hamilton Fish, as the republican candidate for the Presi- dency, would havea double advantage—as tho descendant of a Revolutionary hero as well as of one of the Knickerbocker patriots. Taz Hayriuay Revoivtionists, under the | stead of General Canal, are bringing the | black Republic into its normal state of con- fusion and insecurity. It would not be | much loss to the world if both Hayti and | Bt. Domingo were at a dead lock under a} general canal. A Ceytexsus Caxprpate.—In the tiara of | gems which republicans are now studying | with a view to display the crown diamond is Bristow, of Kentucky. He would make a cad Koh-i-Noor candidate, } NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1876.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. Convention—The Repuab- lican Sitaation—Opening of the Can- vass. If there is any virtue in a majority as the representative of the will of a party or a convention then Roseoe Conkling is the chosen candidate of the republieans of New York. Ifthis virtue has vanished then all party harmony isat an end. If this intrigue against Mr. Conkling, which began in the smoking room of the Union League Club and was championed by Mr. Curtis and Mr. Roberts, is to be arranged, then the vi- tality of the republican organization has de- parted. Itisa thoroughly selfish intrigue. Its insincerity is not. hidden by the fact that an accomplished essayist like Curtis and a strong-headed country editor like Mr. Rob- erts are at its head. It resembles the con- test of Greeley against Seward, which no one who honors the memory of Greeley ¢ares to remember now. ‘The great journal- ist destroyed the Presidential prospects of the great statesman because of a personal quarrel arising out of disappointed ambition. Seward lived as the dominant statesman of two administrations, Greeley never re- covered from the effects of his victory, for there is a rude sense of fair play in the masses of a party. The republicans of New York saw their favorite statesman stricken down and an alien put in command because of a political and personal quarrel five years before. It was revenge that took Greeley to Chicago. sent the dagger into the breast of Seward. But State pride was wounded. New York saw herself robbed of an honor she coveted. The result was that while Lincoln’s nomina- tion came as a direct result of Greeley's triumph Lincoln himself never showed his appreciation of the honor which he had re- | ceived. The Chicago triumph in 1860 was the end of the political career of every one who shared in it, simply because it violated the party sentiment of fair play. Roscoe Conkling to-day is in the position of William H. Seward sixteen years ago. He is the chosen leader of the republican party in New York. He has shown his de- votion to itin every way. In order that he might not be taken out of its ranks he de- | clined the highest office in the gift of the President—that of Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court. He preferred the danger and uncertainty of a post in the field to the se- cure and lofty seclusion of the bench. He has a stainless and honored name. His elo- quence and his courage have placed him at the head of the party, precisely as Mr. Sew- ard had been. No New Yorker ever has rea- son to blush for his State when he looks from the Senate gallery upon the majestic presence of Roscoe Conkling. His faults— those which are urged against him by his enemies—are only another name for virtues. He has the capacity for anger. He would rather quarrel than lie. His manners are imperious ; his frankness sometimes wounds. Now we yearn for some of those qualities in public life. We have too many men who | would rather lie than quarrel .for manliness Be courage and sincerity. The political faults attributed to Mr. Conkling are that he has always supported Grant, that he has been a servile champion of the administration. These are faults to be considered in their proper time—when Mr. Conkling is before the people as a candi- date, and not when he is before a republican convention. When we see whom the demo- crats nominate we can discuss ‘‘Grantism,” and how far it affects the Presidency. But we submit that for any republican conven- tion, for Mr. Curtis, or Mr. Roberts, or the loungers in the Union League smoking room, to assail Mr. Conkling on this score isa political outrage. Who has done more for Grant than these very men who oppose Mr. Conkling? What republican conyen- tion has said a word against the administra- tion? What has Mr. Curtis been doing these seven years, that he should mount to the highest place in the synagogue—Pharisee among the Pharisees? What act of Grant, what feature in his administration, have these gentlemen opposed? When they cen- sure the ‘“Grantism” of Conkling they cen- sure themselves, and the party is not deceived by their hypocrisy. No, gentle- men, you are strong as Grant is strong, you are weak as Grant is weak. The party honors Roscoe Conkling because he has been true to every article of his faith. How will this nomination affect the coun- try? Well, so far as the country is con- cerned, the New Hampshire election proves two things—namely, that it does not crave a change and hesitates to trust the democratic party. It would rather bear with the ills it has—even Belknap—than fly to others it knows not of. We fear it must be laid down asa political fact that the generation which fought the war of the rebellion will never give power to the party which aided the rebellion. We wish this were otherwise, for many reasons. We would have new men in public life and a clearing out of all depart- ments. But we must take facts as they are. We see a democratic party which has learned nothing and forgotten nothing, which would undo the emancipation in the South by establishing a system of political slavery, whose leaders in the House act as if there was no Union outside of the Mississippi Valley, whose Convention in Pennsylvania is directed by an agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. If this party had been wiser the tidal wave of 1875 would have swept on to victory. But that success led to mad and selfish councils. The monster spirit of rebel- lion seemed to rise in the South and stretch out its hands to the monster spirit of repudiation which arose in the West. The party has no issue. It demands administra- tive reform, for instance, the only question even approaching an issue which it pre- sents. To this the country answers:—‘‘We can have administrative reform in the repub- lican party, with Evarts or Bristow, even | granting all you say as to the rest of the can- | didates, and without running the risk of Ben Hill-ism in the South and repudiation in the West.” Therefore, thus far in the canvass the re- publicans hold the field. Thus far the two dominant candidates are Grant and Conk- ling; the two eminent and spotless candi- dates are Evarts and Bristow. Now, if the working men of the party can see victory within their ranks they will give us Conk- ling or Grant. If it is necessary to seek re- cruits and alliances they will give us Evarts It was revenge that | | upon us. or Bristow. The value of the Syracuse Con- vention is not the nomination of Conkling, but as showing that Grant holds the party in his hands, even as he once held the armies of the nation, and that Conkling commands his Imperial Guard. If Grant means to run again he is as strong now as he has ever been, and Conkling will lead his troops as bravely as Ney when he carried the flag of Napoleon over the icy fields of Moscow, If he has any feeling of magnanimity or appreciation of personal or political service he can give the command to Conkling. All depends now upon the im- pression the Syracuse Convention will make upon the President and his followers. If the mutiny spreads it may be necessary to select anew name. But whatever the name the power remains where it has been con- firmed by the election in New Hampshire and the Convention of Syracuse. Even if Evarts or Bristow were to be nominated the Warwick who crowned them would be War- wick still. The alliance between Grant and Conkling represents the actual driving power of the party—the horse, foot and ar- tillery. As to what Mr. Curtis, with his bandbox; Mr. Roberts, with his paste pot, and the disappointed Congress of the League smoking room may say, it avails little. The rank and file are with Conkling, and Conkling is with Grant. It is in their power to wear or confer the crown. This is the lesson of Syracuse, and the more closely our politicians study it the better will they comprehend the political situation. A CenrenniaL Canpipate.—Would it sur prise the bookmakers to see in the last quarterstretch, as the horses strain their pace, the colors of Washburne creep slowly to the front? We should not only feel no surprise, but would throw mp our hat with the crowd, House Hunting. That most terrible of all seasons in New York, the season of house hunting, is again Bills with ‘Io Let” printed on them stare boldly from the fronts of nearly one-half the houses in the uptown streets, and gangs of house hunters go up and down the thoroughfares of the metropolis like so many chiffonniers seeking for treasures where there’are none. This annual migration of our people, the weary hours spent in find- ing a new home which at best is not better or cheaper than the old one, the irruptions of hordes of house hunters into what ought to be quiet and peaceful households, the la- bor and discomfort and wear and tear of moving day, is simply a nuisance. We are a nomadic race, going about from place to place for no other reason than the desire for change. In many cities the annual Directory ! is useful for five years at the least. Trow’'s and Goulding’s undergo a complete transfor- mation every year. Change with us is a dis- ease and discontent with our abiding places a chronic ailment. Valued friends exchange addresses nearly every time they meet, and if Broadway was not a universal thorough- fare would lose sight of each other alto- gether. This spirit of constant change is a sign of an unsettled state of society, and is to be deprecated as an evil. We want more home stability for the culti- vation of homely virtues and the growth of social culture. No people can be thoroughly happy until their affections centre upon some spot made dear by many associations, Old people die when transplanted from the hearthstone around which the period of their youth and manhood was spent, but that old age must be cheerless indeed which has never known the same hearthstone for more than a yearatatime. Such is the lot of too many denizens of this migratory city. When the spring comes the house hunting fever breaks out, and it burns with increasing heat until the inevitable moving day is past. Let us all discourage this ; landlords by an hon- est effort to secure and retain good tenants, and householders by a determination to re- main in a good home when they find one. We must learn to consecrate home by the tenderness of its associations, and discour- age the nomadic tendencies of our people. If one spot is better than another it is where children were born or dear ones have de- parted; and until we learn to value these things we must continue to be what we have been too long already, a cheerless and un- happy race, seeking relief in change and constantly recurring rounds of house hunt- ing. A Crxrensta, Canpipats.—The fact that Governor Hayes has a good war record, and that, while no one supports no one opposes him, makes him a vital candidate, especially in a generation which has seen the nomina- tion of James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce, Sometimes the lost knowledge is in not being known. Let Us Have an Investicatron of the Railroad Committee of the Assembly. Mr. Killian said that he would like to have it, Whether he does or not let us have it, Let Mr. West be called to testify as to the re- markable announcements he made in the Assembly on Tuesday. He then stated that he had been repeatedly approached by lobbyists, whom he encouraged until they offered him bribes in sums as high as five hundred dollars. Let him give the names of these lobbyists, that honest people may be warned and knaves punished. Let him tell the specific jobs they wanted to bribe him to support. Lawmakers should not shield or encourage lawbreakers. At the same time let Mr. John Kelly and Mr. Chauncey Depew be called to tell what they know of why Mr. Killian ceased to take interest in the ‘No Seat No Fare” bill. Let Mr, “Nick” Muller and Mr. Whitson be investigated. A Cewrzystat Canprpatr.—Roscoe Conk- ling is the Harry Clay of New York. His banner has never been dragged in the dust. We are not afraid that the authors of essays upon fashionable society, like Mr. Curtis, or country editors, like Mr. Roberts, can tear it down. Ir Is No Ixsuny to Reticion to see a scoundrel take a pious garb to serve the | his hands the subsistence of widows and | Breach of Trust and Embezzlement. By the laws of this State the man who be- trays the trust reposed in him by a corpora- tion may be consigned to State Prison for from five to fifteen years, in proportion to the amount of money involved in his offence; | but for the man who betrays trust to any amount whatever by which the property of many orphan children is put into his hands the criminal law of the State has no penal-, ties. This is all wrong, and should be rem- edied without delay, It is mere sentimen- tality to treat the nature of the relationship between the trustee of a private estate and the heirs of that estate as though they were apart from all other human relations in which while there is confidence on one side there are obligations on the other. Trustees are men who are dealing with other people’s money, and, with all allowance made for the latitude that must be given to them in order that they may keep the money safe or invest it profitably, the courts should have the op- portunity to discriminate where, in any given case, honest errors end and fraudulent appropriation begins. Human life is to be made as sacred as possible by the protection of the law, yet it is doubtful if Rubenstein | and Dolan together have done as much harm to society or scattered so much misery in the families of their victims as is scattered | by the villany of one trustee who has left in | orphans and squanders it all away. But Rubenstein and Dolan will in all probability hang, and the trustee may come and go none | the worse for all the terrors of justice. Our | State prisons are filled with wretches whose small crimes a fraudulent trustee con- templates with contempt. Men who have forged sume one’s name and gained fifty dol- lars ; who have pried open a door at midnight and stolen asilver-plated teapot; who have re- lieved some plethoric millionnaire in a crowd of an indifferent watch, they are in for two years, ten years, five years. Twenty men could be named in any of our prisons the aggregate of whose sentences would foot up a hundred years, while the aggregate value of the property stolen by them would not foot up a thousand dollars, But a gentle- manly trustee who has converted to his own uses a hundred thousand dollars or two hun- dred thousand dollars put into his hand to be kept for others, may drive past the prison doors twice a day and never feel uneasy at the sight of them. He has committed no crime in the eyes of the law; he has only done an injury to the heirs, for which they can have a civil rem- edy against his estate; and it is supposed not to be the fault of the law if his own es- tate was all squandered before he began on the trusts. Indeed, on this point the law is not so bad as on the other. If trustees | are appointed subject to the authority of the Surrogate he may, and in certain cases | must, require them to give bonds; and then if they converted moneys to their own uses their bondsmen were responsible. Unfor- tunately, however, for people in this neigh- borhood, the Surrogate’s office is a part of our local administration that has been in no | greater favor with honest men than some more notorious of our courts, and one of the things naturally desired was to make the administration of estates as far independent of the authorities as was possible. This is a natural impulse on the part of the people, and through this impulse they are shut out from that method of disposing of their property which the law seems to contemplate as regular. By the state of the law and the corruptions of our administrative system people are forced te put their property into the hands of trustees, and because, for this reason, they do not get the security that the law pre- sumes is given, the Legislature should give an equivalent guarantee by providing that trustees of private estates as well as officers of corporations shall be liable to the penal- ties for embezzlement as provided in part IV. of the Revised Statutes, chap. 1, art. 5. Our law contemplates that a breach of trust is an injury for which there is a civil remedy—is an offence whose evil effects are restricted to the immediate victims, and not acrime in so far as a crime is an offence against society at large. But this distine- tion is scarcely a good one in the present condition of society here. With rotten- ness prevalent and spreading, with a Surrogate’s Court at the mercy of Tammany or any other political party, with large accumulations of wealth that force the creation of trusts, the great body of society becumes interested in such charges, and the act that shows that they may be abused with impunity, and so tends to encourage dishonest courses, is a crime against the whole community, and if ever a severe penalty could be fairly applied on the | theory that it prevents crime it can now in cases of this nature. A CenrzxstaL Canprpate.—William M. Evarts is the first citizen of the Republic in many respects—a man who has honored every station. Why should not the Presi* dency honor him? Coroner's Law. If we had a poet like Hood, whose tragical touch could bring the horrors that writhe and fester under the surface of everyday life | home to our hearts, what a theme to stir | humanity with indignation could he find in the night vigil of James Young over the corpse of his wife, as it stirred with a horrid semblance of life to the pulsing, heaving and lapping of the dark waters of the East River! But it does not need the aid of verse to tell this story in tones as sad and heart-wringing | as hers who plunged into Lonfon's lamp- reflecting river, glad to be “anywhere | out of the world.” He had missed his wife from home on Monday night. On swinging his club, to place the body on the shore, He begged that, until the law deigned to move, the form of her who had borne his children and nestled in his breast might not sway and rise and fall with the coming and going of the tide. But no, not even that poor boon. So, mad with his grief, he hurried | away to beg the law to move. At sta- tion house and Coroners’ Office he sought the aid of the law in vain. Think of it! The woman's body had lain eight hours in the water, as James Young returned at nightfall, helpless and heartbroken, to take up his long vigil at the river's edge, with the gruff policeman still there, James Young is a poor man, of rough occupation; but what pen can tint the horrors of the hours of that watch of his by the floating dead that was to him so dear in life? The poor man mourned in the night by the lamp-reflecting river with the corpse swaying at his feet; the law, like an immovable, ferocious brute, by his side, and the thought of the little ones beyond the river, waiting in vain for their mother, knocking at his heart. He waited till mid- night, when the cry of the littke ones grew louder in his ears, and from the black de- spair around him he fled to comfort them. At early morning he came back to beg his dead ; but not even now. He went to the Coroner's again ; he returned once more to the river. At last the dead wagon came, but the brutes who tended it would not even tell him where they would take the corpse that had lain in the water twenty-four hours. Again to the Coroners’ Office. The Coroner was away. He hurried after him, and there Coroner Croker, before he would listen to James Young, made him serve on a coroner's jury over the body of a burned child! This is horrible—almost incredible. Habit may bring a man to look on the greatest suffering with an indifferent eye, but there is a grim brutality about this shocking to human nature, Yesterday morning James Young got the body, but it is doubtful if any in- quest was held over the remains. What, then, have the officers of the law— police and Coroners—to say to this outrage on decency—this gross wrong? They shrug their shoulders. The body could not be moved without a permit. There was no- body to give one. The coroners had gone home. Red tape ceuld not weave a harder knot than this case presents. They have police, telegraphs, coroners, dead wagons, attendants, a Morgue—all that the pity of a great community could provide to meet such cases; but because the man was poor and coroners lazy and brutal and police- men heartlessly indifferent, James Young could beg the law to move his wife’s body from the water in vain. When Coroner Croker was lodged in jail charged with murder another Coroner could hurry at a politician’s beck to violate the law and let the accused murderer go; but none of them could turn a step to have Rose Young’s body removed from the river. James Young must be a patient, law-abiding man, for not a few men in his place would have taken the law into their hands, cost what it might. Is not reform needed? A Centenntan+ Canprpate.—James G, Blaine has one strong point in his tavor— “namely, that he was once an editor, There is a still stronger point against him—in this, that conscientious journalists should not en- courage their brethren to lower their pro- fession by descending even to the Presi- dency. Will Pendleton Explain His Explana- tion? From his latest statement of his connec- tion with that Kentucky Central Railroad claim it would appear that the finest speci- men of a democratic gentleman which the West can produce has an account to settle with common honesty on a new point, He defends himself from the charge of hay- ing taken an improper advantage of his infant wards by the allegation that when the claim was allowed the portion of the rail- | road regarded as the property of ‘those wards had been adjudged by the courts to be not their property but the property of certain counties of the State of Kentucky. If it was not to the Bowler children as | owners that the claim was due he did them no injustice in agreeing to give himself so large a share of it ; and if he only wronged certain counties of Kentucky, why, what are counties that anybody should be affection- ate and honest on their account? But it is further reported that though the road was the property of the counties through which itran, and notof Mr. Pendleton’s wards, that this gentleman nevertheless paid to these wards, and not to the counties in question, that part of the claim which under his agreement belonged to one or the other. If it did not belong to his nephews and nieces he did them no harm by an unequal bar- gain ; but if it belonged to the counties why did he pay it to his nephews and nieces ? CextrnntaL Canprpates.—John Jay is named for the Presidency by those repub- licans who would honor the memory of the illustrious sire by honoring the virtuous and distinguished son. The namo of John Jay, recalling, as it does, the times of the Rev- olution, is well caloulated to invoke the spirit of the Revolution. Tue Annest or Cxanues Ratston sees, we are told, the last of the Roberts gang of forgers, robbers and swindlers safe behind bars. The story of the crimes he is charged with will be found elsewhere, and if his long immunity and final arrest impress on the young and the tempted the certainty with | which punishment comes at last to those who war on society, the country will not be at a loss in boarding him free for a fw years. Orrick axp Pottrics.—' jongress is en- Tuesday morning he left his little ones to seek her. Gruff official routine at Police | Headquarters scarcely turned its head to | help him. He had heard of a woman found dtowned, but hope deafened his ear, until | he saw a crowd of idle wonderers standing by the river's brink gazing at a dark object in the water. Something smote him at the devil in, but each such case points the moral | heart, and he rushed among the crowd to | that a man’s honesty is not to be gauged by | find that the dark object was all that was | the extent to which he shows the white of his eyes. Tho operations of the pious book- | keeper charged with embezzling twenty- eight thousand dollars of the Marine Bank's money may be read with profit, mortal of his wife. It was fastened by a rope to the pier ; it had floated face upward or face downward, as the tide willed, for | | hours, and he piteously begged the law that |, Stood deafly by, in the person of an officer | more than that its chance to get through all | the ‘Trovatore’ sing a dramatic réle like Ovello gaged on a bill ont of which, by some lucky accident, may come a good and important law. Its most important provision is to prohibit officers of the gov- ernment trom contributing money for politi eal purposes. This will, through, save the poor laborers in custom honses and post offices from the exactions of those unmasked burglars and highway- men who collect an assessment on the sala- | ries of these men for election expenses. But if the bill accomplishes no more than that it will be of small consequence in its effect on | elections, and if it is intended to accomplish | if it ever gets | | nice stuif about italy being the er: the stages of legislation is small. If some+ body could put into that bill one plain pro- vision declaring that if any person holding office under the United States government should sit as a member of any political or party convention or take any part in the proceedings of such a convention his office should thereby become vacant, and it should be the duty of the Executive to appoint another person to that office, that somebody would almost give usa good civil service system at a single blow. Tus Excration Comatisstox.—We can- not look forward with any complacency to seeing the care of the thousands of immi- grants arriving at this port turned over to the steamship and railroad lines. Emigration from Europe has fallen off considerably, and we do not care to have the rate still lowered by allowing the report to go abroad that the peasant who comes here will be handed over to the harpies of our cities as soon as the steamship lines have done with him. Congress should take hold of this matter at once and provide for a continuance in some shape of a system which, in spite of some faults, has worked well, giving the poor immigrants breathing time and a fair chance to. get started in the New World without first paying a heavy roy~ alty to the predatory classes that flourished long ago in the First ward. Empness or Inpra.—The division in the House of Commons yesterday on the final reading of the Royal Titles bill shows a more determined effort on the part of the opposi- tion to defeat it, but the majority was still large enough to give the Ministry confidence inits popularity. It now goes to the House of Lords, where assent is certain, A Verpant Enoiisumay, who sits in the British Parliament, wants his Foreign Office to tell him if our government have five or ten millions of the Geneva award that they cannot find legitimate claimants for. We think Uncle Sam has some claim, so the British lion need not worry, trying to twist its tail into an interrogation mark about it. Tue Manacer or « Co-orrnative Bank in England has been sent to Newgate to await his trial for obtaining money and securities under false pretences and with intent to de« fraud from the trustees and depositors. Is it no crime in this country? A Crnrenniat Canpipate.—If Oliver P, Morton had a few more friends as sincere ag Tecumseh Sherman what a run he would make, in spite of the inflation handicap buckled upon him by Indiana! Tse Mexican Revowvrion is progressing satisfactorily—that is to say, it is coming t a head, which we hope the government may prove itself able to chop off. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Figs grow well around Mobile, Ala. Florida is sending peas to New York, The St. Louis Kepublican tinds that since the repeal of the law licensing the demi-monde of that city public demoralization has increased, A baby weighing nineteen and a half pounds was bora at Boone, Iowa, the other day, And the girls already hail him as a Boone companion. The St. Louis Republican thinks that 1f Professor Tice were to go over and examine that shower of flesh he would be able to tell meteors from mutton, Professor Tyndall has gone to Naples. His special attraction thither is the aquarium, which is very fine, and is the first in Europe started on a large scalo, “Can you see me, dearest?” said a Chicago man to his dying wife. “Tell me, can you sce me?” “No,” she taiutly whispered, **bat 1 can smell your breath,” The Second Adventists and Millerites claim that the big smash-up of the world will come certainly this year, We shali havea full account of the thing, with. a map. The quayel at Syracuse was between a bandbox, a box of kid gloves, a pair of news-clipping shears on the one side, and the great mass of the republican party on the other. Oh for the good old political days of thirty years ago, when Webster, Clay, Hayne and Calnoun were the pride of America, and whiskey was ouly twenty-two cents a gallon! M. Jules Simon seems to have a tremendous task be. fore bim. Out of total population of 36,102,921 in France, 13,324,801—or more than one in every three~ can neither read nor write. The route from Cheyenne to the Biack Hills is ove yast ashy plains studded with troublesome sage brus! and broken by infrequent but muddy streams, Treet are scarce and the nights are cola, An English authority says:—“Thoe thinker loves symmetry, the humorist hates it; and therefore the two classes are radically opposed.” Mr, Belknap loved symmetry and yet he kleptonly for the fun of the thing. ‘There is no reason to believe that the peasantry of France are in the least priest-ridden; on the contrary, they are exceedingly jealous of any trespass on the part of the priest upon matters which thoy regard ag specially thoir own, The St. Lonis Republican thinks that some of its per. sonals and some of ours are on the same subject True, “Great minds,” says an old proverb, “run tm the same channel; but the Republican's personals, somehow, always appear about two days after ours do Day after day the Southern press, and especially that of Virginia, indicates more and more clearly that the active, intelligent conservative element in polle tics is desirous of forming a party which shall be neither democratic nor republican, but opposed to destructive radicalism. Is the whig party really re- viving ? The Detroit Free Press is moved to make fan of tha dress of the Sandwich Island women. But, seriously, itis the most sensible and picturesque dress in the world, consisting of a single, ample sleeved garment, buttoning atthe throat and falling gracefully to the instep. The hats frequently a wreath of leaves and flowers. “Tho moral problem," says Sainte-Beuve, *whick the character of Talioyrand arouses in us consists alto- gether, so far as its extraordinary and original nature it concerned, in a anion, assuredly singular and unique is its kind, of a great intelligence, a clear good sense and an exquisite taste, with the most consummate corrup. tion, disdain, /aisser aller and superciliousness,”” The novelist Oulda is in Florence, and bus become almost entirely waltanata; she may any day be scen driving very fast, with her horses belied and feathored in Italian style, and she lives mile or twa out of town im one of the most celebrated villas of Tus. cany, shut in beautiful gardens, where a little later in the searon she gives garden partics. The Cornhill Magazine, speaking of English training and school tyranny, #ays:—"'One of the chief dangers of the pedagogic mind 1s the desire to conform othor minds to it8 own and secure universal sway for Jis pet systems and modes of thinking, and it is hard to im agine anything more likely to produce mental coliapse and stagnation than the power to enforce this, with jeh recent lawmaking bas endowed the heads of the great schools.” Balow aplaried out not tong ago:—“There’s all that jo of art, and s¢ on, Cradle of art, indeed! Humph! So it was; dat whatofit? They have been satisied with being the eradie, und have rocked jt so long that they've gone tosieep, Verdi is largely responsible for ii. fam & thorough-going and conscientious enemy of the Verdi style of music. It rus the whole art of singing; rams the voices and sen indeed bas already sent, the vocal artinto decay. I should like to hoar a man whe has got accustomed to screeching out that Manrico ip <-