The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1876, Page 4

2 NEW YORK HERALD AND ANN STREET. BROADWAY JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youre Henravp. sane and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO, 112 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 as in New York. AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND_EVENI\G. BROOKLYN THEATRE. poay MICHEL, at 8P.M. Matinee at2 P.M, Miss Rose stings. FERREOL, . er i a8 P, Thorne, Jr. SQUARE THEATRE. M. Matinee at 1:30 P, M. ©. R PARK T r, BRASS, at 8 P.M. Matinee y.M. George Fawcett Rowe. ATEAU BPM MaBI ARIETIES. M M. cH VARIETY, at BO! HEARTS ARE TRUM FIFTH PIQUE, at8 P.M. M port. 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MARCH 25 K ‘Tne Herat py Fast Maw, Trarxs.— News- dealers and the public throughout the country will be supplied with the Dairy, WrxKuy and Sonpay Heraup, free of postage, by sending their orders direct to U i Watt Srreer Yesrerpay.—At the close some of the fancies were firmer, but the market was generally unsettled and irregu- lar. Money loaned at 4 and 5 per cent. Gold was steady at 114 1-4. Foreign exchange quiet. Government bonds were higher. Railway and investment securities steady. Ix France it is likely the state of siege will be raised. The government is no longer op- posed to itand the Republic apparently is sufficiently well established to allow the widest liberty. STEEPLECHASING IN EncGuanp.—The great steeplechase race came off at Liverpool yes- terday, and we have a very full report of the event this morning. The race was one of much interest and was witnessed by an im- mense multitude. Mn. Disragni’s Action in withholding Mr. Cave’s report of his Egyptian mission from the House of Commons is very severely criti- cised by the English press and has caused a panic in Egyptian securities. It is likely this will prove the first step toward the fall of the Ministry which Mr. Disraeli has man- aged so long to hold together. In Cononess Yesterpay the Senate passed the bill for counting the electoral vote for President and Vice President, and the House bnsied itself with the consideration of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Appro- priation bill. Congressmen’s salaries was the bone of contention, but the discussion ‘ing one. ComrtrotLerR Gr has addressed a com- munication to the Legislature protesting against the removal of the penalties for the non-payment of taxes and assessments. His arguments will attract the attention of tax- payers, and many of our citizens will join with him in deprecating any interference with the present system. ‘Tur Emperor or Brazt, as we learn by a special despatch to the Heratp, gave his farewell audience at Rio Janeiro yesterday, and is ready to start on his visit to the United States. In a few weeks he will be with us, and we trust his sojourn here will tend to make the people of the two coun- tries better acquainted and promote social and commercial intercourse between them. Ans ror Senvia.—The German govern- ment has been selling arms to Servia, and | Austria objects to the conveyance of the rifles | through Austrian territory. We remember when the German authorities thought it a great hardship that American arms were sold tothe French, but we should not be surprised if some of these rifles were in- cluded in the sale to Se ‘Tue Bay Rincr Mystery.—It is a singu- far story of police action which is communi- cated to the Heratrp this morning by William J. Bradley and John G. North in regard to the treatment of the friends of ; The case is one which | Thomas A. Hamlin. needs explanation, and we hope Chief Campbell and Coroner Simms may be able satisfactorily to explain it. It would be an- fortunate ifthe Brooklyn police should stand in the way of the detection of crime or place obstacles in the way of the identification of the dead. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1876——WITH SUPPLEMENT. Thirteen Centennial Candidates— E Pluribus Unum. The Henatp is willing to assist in bring- ing the old motto of the United States again into use in this centennial year, and is sin- cerely sorry that it cannot be done in the to circulation. Our national motto is re- quired by law to be stamped on our national coins, together with the eagle, which is | adopted as the national emblem; but neither emblem nor motto is seen since coined money has disappeared, the small trash of nickel and copper and the new silver trade dollar not having the bird or the legend. The motto, being in Latin, is in danger of falling into permanent disuse, and we will let our readers see how it looks in print after having been so long missed. EF Pluribus Unum meant originally ‘‘one out of thirteen,” the in- définite plures meaning the thirteen States which existed at that time. We preserve the thirteen stripes of our national flag, increas- ing only the stars to correspond with the present number of States. In recalling the motto we desire to give it a slightly different turn, changing the implied verb so that the phrase may mean the selection of one out of thirteen, From the thirteen centennial can- didates whose names we suggested yester- day let President Grant and Senator Conk- ling pick out one and secure his nomination if they cannot see their way clear for them- selves, E Pluribus Unum would be a fortunate motto for the republican party, because the great number of its Presidential candidates tends to distraction, and it would be a relief if any means could be found concentrating the public sentiment of the party on some one of its numerous candidates. Unless unity of purpose shall in some way arise out of the great diversities of preference we do not see how the party can succeed, and the simplest method of unification is the ac- ceptance of our suggestion that Grant and Conkling select one candidate out of the thirteen and make over their influence to a statesman of their choice as soon as they see that neither of them can be a successful competitor for the prize. Unless this benevolent advice is adopted the party will be ruined by internal divisions. New York cannot be wrested from the demo- crats without the federal influence, which will not be exerted for Blaine—first, because President Grant dislikes him; and second, because Conkling controls the political ma- chinery through which the federal influence acts, and it is too late to think of recon- structing the republican party of New York for the next election. Unity, in this State at least, can come only by Grant and Conk- ling selecting a candidate whom they will jointly support, if neither of them can get the nomination himself. No republican candidate can carry this State with- out their united aid, and it depends on the vote of this State whether tho next President be a republican ora democrat. The President and Senator Conkling are therefore in a position to dic- tate the candidate if they should be them- selves ruled out, and in that event their dic- tation is the only thing that can save the party. The Heratp loathes cant, and takes kindly to Senator Conkling because he is freer than most politicians from that sneaking vice, which is as contemptible in politics as it is in religion. Mr. Conkling’s assailants are as thorongh-paced partisans as he is, and it is too late in the day for them to put on masks in the hope of hiding their well-known faces. The only difference is that he-is too proud to pretend to more public virtue than he possesses and scorns to act a part to which he has no title. The Heratp is far enough from thinking Mr. Conkling a faultless character, but it likes the bold, anti-humbug tendency of his mind and his superiority to cant and double deal- ing. He is alike to be commended for the steadiness of his principles and the sincerity of his personal intercourse. He is not base enough to simulate friendship when he feels none, and his friends and enemies, whether personal or political, know precisely where to find him. He is inflexible in views which he has once maturely formed. He strenuously fought the Legal Tender act when it was first introduced in Congress, and he has been among the foremost advo- cates of a return to specie on every occasion when the subject has been debated. None of his rivals has so consistent a record for unflinching support of friends, bold defiance | of foes, steady adherence to principles, manly abstinence from cant, and scorn of looking one way while rowing another. We are not considering his talents, which everybody concedes to be admirable, but his character, which we are constrained to approve as we approve things genuine in their kind. Mr. Conkling honestly represents the political system in vogue, making it appear neither better nor worse than it is; and asthe people have no interest in being deceived they have some reason for preferring a politician who canting assailants who came upon the stago in that disgusting réie. The Hrraxo, as is well known to its read- | ers, has no faith in that part of the other- | wise admirable federal constitution which relates to the election and the responsibility of the American Executive. We are con- vinced that our free institutions can be saved only by a thorough reconstruction of that part of the edifice. Until public opin- | ion shall become ripe for so fundamental a | change we think it better that the present | system of party management be carried out | in accordance with its nature, which is only | bad in consequence of vices which inhere in the system itself. So long as sixty thousand | offices are prizes to be scrambled for every | four years, and so long as the hopes and and ten times as many aspirants can be | to expect a purification of public life; and, | so long as this bad system exists, it is better to let it work out its natural results. While it lasts all hope of genuine reform is a delu- sion, and such delusions will be soonest cured by letting the spoils system have free course until the country perceives its real nature. The canting dissemblers who de- | claim against. its evils, but look no deeper for remedies than threats of a bolt against regular party action, would make precisely appropriate way of restoring coined money | the same use of power as the men they decry, and we Shall see nothing but a demoralizing struggle of the outs afainst the ins between the two parties and within | the prevailing party until the bad system is plucked up by the roots by changing the mode of election and making the Executive promptly responsible. Meanwhile, wiser to leave our present party organiza- tions in the hands of men who administer them according to their nature and who practice no deceit to make them appear other or better than they are. The downfall of the spoils system will be hastened if ad- ministered by men who despise the hollow cant of pseudo-reformers, with which the country has of late been surfeited and sick- ened. Until we make up our minds to look at things as they are, and pour scorn on skin- deep remedies, we have not taken the first step toward real reform. The Hxnarp does not despair of the Re- public, but is not sanguine that it can be rescued without much bitter experience. If we were in despair we should not seek ref- uge in the badinage with .which we fre- quently treat the hack politicians in com- menting on their ways and showing up their blunders, which would be insufferable if we did not feel at liberty to amuse our- selves at their expense. We have no faith in the nostrums of political quacks, and some- times seek relief from deeper feelings by trying to be merry over their follies, The remedy will come, sooner or later, from a accepted it is our sober conviction that there can be no substantial im- provement in our present political methods. They are so dreadfully corrupting because they are mere scrambles for the federal offices, and there is less demoralization in administering a bad system openly, and, so far, honestly, than in attempting to do the same thing under a mask of disgusting hypocritical cant. The hands that hold the overgrown federal patronage can control the republican nomination for the Presidency, and if recent events have made it impossible for Grant to be the candidate we should be glad to see it wielded in favor of the* best man in his party—for a reformer if he be so minded, but surely not for a canter. We have given him thirteen prominent names for the centennial selection, and ask him to make a prudent choice. The Commissioners of Emigration. It does not yet fully appear what is the precise bearing of the recent decision of the Supreme Court on the law of this State organizing the Commissioners of Emigration. The text of Justice Miller's opinion has not yet been published, but the abstract would seem to show that the State law is annulled and that there is a necessity for immediate legislation fears both of the sixty thousand ineumbents | played upon by party managers, it is in vain | by Congress to supply its place with a better system. Woe are in doubt, because there is a former decision of the Supreme Court of the same general purport. We refer to tho case of Smith vs. Turner (7 Howard, 238), in which it was held that ‘‘a State law which requires the masters of vessels engaged in foreign commerce to pay a certain sum to a State officer, on account of every passenger brought from a foreign country itito the State or before landing any alien passenger in the State, conflicts with the constitution and laws of the United States.” This de- cision, which is twenty years old, would equally seem to annul our State law, but it was not so construed in practice. We there- fore wait for the text of the new decision be- fore attempting to judge of its scope and precise effect. It was pronounced in a case that came up from California, and is applied to our State law only by inference. Whether the inference is well founded can be deter- mined only by the actual language of the decision. ‘Who Is Responsible? It often happens in this city that exhibi- tions of brutality on the part of police offi- cers and other public servants sicken shock the community. We all remem the terrible details of the Stockvis case, now another story—that of the woman Rose Young, who was left to float in the water for twenty-four hours—proves scarcely less re- volting. It is unnecessary again to recite the horrible details, but it is of the greatest importance that the responsibility for this crime should be fixed where it properly be longs. So far we cannot see that any real effort is making to ascertain the facts in the case officially, nothwithstanding they have al appeared in the newspapers and have shi and startled the community by the negligence and indifference and brutality exhibited all through this remarkable episode, Neither the Police Commissioners nor the Commissioners of Charities and Correction have shown a proper interest in the matter, and Superintendent Walling seems mote anxious to shield his subordinates than to ascertain where the responsibility ought to rest. It is plain that punishment can only be secured by indictment, and we trust the | District Attorney will see to it that the disdains to be a Joseph Surface, like his | guilty do not escape, for it would be an- pardonable if such atrocious official negli- gence should go without rebuke. Vicronria's New Trrtx.—Apparently the new title that is to be given to the Queen of England has relation to the ad- vance of Russia in Asia. It is part of the Premier's characteristic and economi- | cal style of fighting the Russians. It is, like agreat many other wares manufactured in that island, ‘‘stamped for exportation,” or for ‘‘use in the provinces only.” In England it will have but little significance, but every | barbarous prince on the skirts of the Indian Empire is expected to find in this flourish, this approach toward him of the sovereign dignity, an equivalent for the physical ap- proach of the Czar's soldiers, and, to be strengthened accordingly in his allegiance to his own Empress as against his neighbor's Emperor. Coxstirutiona, Uniry is not likely to prove so easy for Spain as would Wé"Wesira- ble. It is to be assumed that the Basque provinces will be slow to yield their exelu- sive privileges, but success in the oblitera- tion of provincial customs is the first step toward the permanency of the Alfonsist régime. Unfortunately, in Spain these local questions are considered paramount in im- portance to good government for the nation. it is | different quarter, and until that remedy is | | The Republican Party and the Syra- cuse Convention. If the movement against Mr. Conkling had its inspiration in a desire to free the country | from the debasing effects of the present ad- ministration there would be some sympathy for the gentlemen who went to Syracuse under the lead of Mr. Curtis and Mr. Roberts ; but any such claim is destroyed by the fact that the men now arrayed against Mr. Conkling have been as obedient to the administration as the Senator himself. For nearly seven years, or until within three months, Mr. Curtis has supported the ad- ministration in every pretension, excusing every mistake, smoothing over every knavery. What Conkling has done in the Senate Mr. Curtis has done in the Harper newspapers and Mr. Roberts in the Utica Herald. Now, if Mr. Conkling is unfit to lead the republi- can party in the next canvass Mr. Curtis and Mr. Roberts are certainly unfit to advise as to its leadership. The World, which Mr. Curtis seems to have selected as his daily organ, informs us that it ‘has the best and most directly personal authority forsaying” that Mr. Curtis will not stay away from Cincinnati and will not vote for Mr. Conkling when he goes there. The fact that Mr. Curtis selects the World for making this important announce- ment is pregnant with meaning. Does Mr. Curtis intend to follow his enmity to Mr. Conkling into the democratic party ?. Should he fail to persuade the Cincinnati Con- vention to reject Mr. Conkling will he follow the mutineers of 1872 into some new independent Cincinnati movement? If this is his purpose—and we might not unreason- ably infer as much from the delicate and graceful manner in which the World accepts his inspiration—it would have been frank for Mr. Curtis to have avowed it when he had the ear of the Convention. We are far from saying that Mr. Curtis would not do well to leave the republican party altogether. In fact, we should commend him for doing so. He has not been well treated by the republi- cans. He was thrown over for Governor in favor of Woodford, and he has never been offered any of the high offices of the nation. The fact that he has won a national reputa- tion as the author of a series of brilliant essays on fashionable manners and how to behave in good society may have led the President to feel that his mind was too. msthetic, too much engrossed in the niceties of female dress and ballroom etiquette to grapple with solemn questions of state. But this is only another evidence of the President's inca- pacity for affairs. Addison wrote about graveyards and country dances and was made a Secretary of State. Swift wrote directions to servants and was a power in the Cabinet. Because Mr, Curtis has found profit in dis- cussing bandboxes and the proper manner for ladies to wear their back hair there is no reason why he would not be as much of a power in politics as Addison or Swift. Mr. Curtis is really a great jour- nalist in the discussion of politics as well as in the discussion of fashions, and his war upon Grant deserves newspaper sympathy in this, that the one profession which the President has always treated with contempt is journalism. If Mr. Curtis were to make his war upon Mr. Conkling upon the same grounds as Swift upon'the Ministry of his day—namely, because hé has not been well treated—his opposition would be intelligible. If he goes frankly over to the democratic party, as looks possible from the sudden friendship shown for him by the World, we shall honor him. The democrats are in a conciliatory mood now. They want recruits, and Mr. Curtis might be nominated for Lieutenant Governor along with Dorshei- mer. But it is not pleasant to find men like Mr. Curtis and Mr. Roberts sacrificing the har- mony of the party and the honor of the State to their personal grievances. New York wants to name the President, naturally, as the Empire State. The republicans present a candidate who is the leader of his party in the Senate, who has an honored name, who declined the highest office in the judiciary that he might stay with the party and fight for its principles. Yet, because of an election tis’ devotion to Mr. Blaine, the expressed wish of New York is to be defeated at Cincinnati. For, granted that this opposition to Mr. Conkling destroys his nomination, no other New Yorker can be named. Mr. Conkling’s friends will have five-sixths ofthe delegation. They will have the support of Pennsylvania, most probably, and a strong following in the South. in the spirit which he shows toward them and their candidate. They have the votes, the power and the will. not nominated the candidate will be taken from some other State. Mr. Curtis in de- stroying Mr. Conkling exhausts his power and his usefulness. The other States may use him as Lincoln's friends used Greeley at Chicago. Greeley, when they used his arm to stab | Seward, and deprive New York of a candi- date, Greeley's career was closed. Mr. Cur- tis in setting up his own opinions against his party invites the fate that befell Greeley—ho closes his career asa republican. He should by all means follow Dorsheimer, and go over to the democrats. As we have said, they would probably make him Lieutenant Gov- ernor, It is very well to talk of ‘‘respectability’’ and ‘‘reform,” and so on, but when it comes from men who have been tramping after Grant through every ditch for seven years, it is the veriest cant. This mutiny will | not really injure Conkling. In an- other year Curtis and Roberts will be in the same bed with Dorsheimer and Bigelow as full-blooded democrats. A few of the loungers of the Union League smoking room may go with them, but the great mass of the republican party is with Grant and Conkling. Unless Curtis and | Roberts go with the democrats they have only one career—that of political tramps, like John Cochrane, without standing in any party, begging at the door of one convention to-day and of another to-morrow Outside of Cen- tral America men never really win power by mutinies, pronunciamentoes and political assassinations. wrangle in Oneida, and because of Mr. Cur- | Suppose they deal with Mr. Curtis | If Mr. Conkling is | When they were through with | } The Solar Eclipse. One of those extremely interesting astro- nomical events, an eclipse of the sun, will take place this afternoon about tour o'clock, and will be visible in a partial phase over the United States northward of Flonda. The eclipse will last about one hour and forty minutes, and will present over the wide area of visibility, embracing the North American continent, all the phases, from the annular to the mere external contact, between the disks of thesun and moon. Beginning at the edges of shadow, the obscurity will increase the nearer the observer is to the central line, and at points in Washington Territory in the United States fully eleven- twelfths of the solar disk will be obscured. The eclipse is recognized by astronomers as the fifteenth repetition of one that was ob- served at Naples in 1605, and it is expected that it will present features very similar to those recorded at that time by Kepler. The causes which produce eclipses of thesun and moon can be easily comprehended when we consider that the former is the source of light in our system and the latter a body which is constantly revolving around the earth and at certain intervals crossing the apparent path of the sun, or the ecliptic. If the orbits of the earth and moon were exactly on the same plane a solar ‘eclipse would occur at every new moon, when the latter would be in con- junction with the sun, and a lunar eclipse would occur at every full moon, when our satellite was in opposition to the sun. Owing to the obliquity of the planes of their orbits the periods of opposition and con- junction are irregular, and we therefore have eclipses only when the moon's nodes correspond with the phases of full and new moon. When the eclipse is total or annular the observer stands in a direct line with the centres of the sun and moon and in the umbra or shadow projected by the latter body. When the eclipse is partial, as will be the case in New York to- day, the observer stands in the penumbra or indirect shadow of the moon, produced by the sun’s converging rays being inter- cepted by relatively opposite limbs of the moon, and by which a portion of his light is thus cut off from the earth. This peculiar feature of eclipses leads to an explanation of the difference between the total and annular phases of asolar eclipse. In the first case the apparent diameter of the moon is greater than that of the sun, and therefore a total obscuration of solar light takes place. But in the second the apparent lunar diameter is less than the solar, and a ring or annulus of unobscured light remains visible, sur- rounding the dark disk of the moon. Re- cent researches into the character of solar combustion have been rewarded by many interesting discoveries, and advantage is taken of eclipses to make spectroscopic analysis of the photosphere. An interesting letter from Professor Parkhurst, published in to-day’s Hzeraup, on the subject of the eclipse, makes reference to this particularly. It is to be regretted that opportunities for scientific investigation will not present themselves in satisfactory forms during to-day’s eclipse, the centre line of ob- scuration being too far to the northward to permit astronomers to avail themselves. of them. If the weather permits, a piece of smoked glass will reveal to even the least learned a beautiful phenomenon, which will illustrate the grandeur of the work of the Creator, who has drawn everything out of nothing. Poxer in Vincrnia.—‘‘By a large ma- jority” the Virginia House of Delegates has adopted a resolution for the re- moval from office—by impeachment pre- sumably—of a judge of a county court for conduct regarded as inconsistent with the judicial dignity. He played poker. If this thing had been done in Connecticut what howls would have been heard of the revival of the Blue laws ; but coming from Virginia the significance of the fact is different. It does not mean the persecution of liberal manners in the interest of severe formality. It may mean conviction and progress, It may mean the discovery in the Old Domin- ion that, as poker and whiskey and cock fighting and genial pursuits of that sort go together, they should not go under the ermine. If this is the significance of the fact it is a useful and valuable discovery for | Virginia to have made. But it is possible that this judge is only some obnoxious republican who was in the way, and for whose removal by formal process only a pre- text was wanted. In that case the virtuous move against poker is of less importance. Jvuper Doxouve.—This Judge's action in the Supreme Court yesterday was of the | kind that may recall to the public mind the good old times of Barnard and Cardozo, the times not pleasant to recall, when judicial action was mainly taken | to further the games and schemes of finan- cial sharpers of various stripes. Judge Davis, it appears, issued an injunction yes- terday morning in the regular course of ju- dicial proceedings, and this injunction was, in the afternoon, brought to the attention of Judge Donohue, who dissolved it in three minutes, without any opportunity given to counsel to argue their case or even to state it. It would bea bad enough violation of | judicial propriety—it tends sufficiently to | bring the Bench into contempt—for one | acts of another judge of the same Bench in justice to the public in a ruffianly and brutal form. Doubtless the Bench in this neigh- borhood would be greatly improved by a | little impeachment case. Tur Weatner promises to be very unset- | tled during the next few days, and there ‘are strong indications of the approach of a severe storm from the westward and south- | ward, which may reach us within a few hours. At thirteen minutes to five P. M., Washington time, yesterday, an area of low | barometer was central over the Mississippi | and Missouri valleys at St. Louis and was rapidly moving eastward. It is probable that the Ohio Valley region will suffer con- siderably during its passage. The chances of having a favorable condition of sky for the observation of the eclipse to-day are growing slim. We are likely te have a suc- cession of atmospheric disturbances during the coming week. judge of the Supreme Court to deal with the | | this cavalier manner, but to add to this a | denial to hear counsel in the case presents | The Alabama Surplus. One of these days Mr. Waite, of the British Parliament, intends to ask Mr. Bourke, an Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, a momentous question, apparently in the interest of some of the insurance com- panies on this side who want to get at the money paid on account of Alabama claims. He intends to ask the British government whether out of the fifteen million dollars paid by England on account of Alabama claims the United States has still ten million dollars in hand for which it can find no owners, Naturally the government will tell him it does not know, and that if we have such money it is none 6f their business, in- asmuch as they have paid the judgment of a court in that respect and know no process by which to go behind that judgment. But as our government has, in the distribution of the Alabama money, assumed a stricter standard than the Court did which made the award, it appears there is a very considerable surplus that the government scarcely knows ‘what to do with. | Here is a suggestion for the dis- position of the money :—Divide it between a proper number of our greater colleges, with the condition attached that it be used to establish in each chairs for the more thorough study of international law and the principles of arbitration between nations. It may prove in that way a pretty nest egg for the nation, and bring us home in the future many millions in verdicts against others, besides saving us the millions we might otherwise spend in wars. It might also prevent putting the nation again in the position in which it was placed on the indirect claims. There should be an es- pecial course of study to urge the importance in every case of making all claims in arbitra- tions several millions larger than the losses were. By that means the endowment of chairs can be kept up, and our arbitration schools will grow and their fame will fill the world. Scholars will come to them from all countries—even from England—and thus we may yet reform John Bull out of his own pocket. Tue Drsorpers 1x Mexico continue, and it is not impossible that the whole country will soon be in an insurrectionary condition. Vera Cruz has been declared in a state of siege, and General Lebarra has been raising money by a forced loan at Matamoros. These things indicate the general unhealthi- ness of the body politic, and it is plain that only a strong government can give peace to Mexico and afford protection to her people from rebellious chiefs on the one hand and plundering leaders on the other. prESE DROIT CHENEY CEES 6 Tur Jace, Pronuxcramento which we print this morning hardly seems a justifica- tion of another revolution in Hayti. It would be much better if these black repub- licans could learn to endure the ills they have rather than fly to others that they know not of. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, . Shakespeare is being translated into Polish. Englishmen are spoony over Australian soups. ‘Those Marseilles coverlets called waffles are now im season. ‘The third torm spectre 18 not necessatily a whiskey inspector. x 8. B. Mills has nearly completed his book of studies for piano virtuosi, An eminent English physician recommends bleeding for cases of pngumonia. Two thousand professional clairvoyants im Paris prophecy what never happens. Dana might furnish a pun for the rural newspaper when the Senate gets through with him. What Kentucky wants 1s not a shower of chicken salad but a patent flask that won’t gurgle in the middle of the night. Miss Flora Sharon, the daughter of tho Nevada Sen. ator, is described as an unaffected, wee, childish figare in deep mourning. Was it not Caleb Marsh who, quoting Poe’s ‘‘Anna- bel Lee,” said that “the winged sheriffs of heavon went coveting her and me ?”” The artistic tramp gets his drinks by drawing pictures in soap on rural barroom mirrors. The mate rial he uses is a sarcasm on himself. It is too bad that Herbert Smith, the author-traveller who married the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda, should bave bis bride run away with another Groome. The Pittsburg Commercial asks: ‘How does the New York Hexap like mule meat asadiet?” When we are reduced to the necessity of feeding on you we will let you know. | Sheridan drags his fcet wearily out of bed imthe middle of the night now, and, pressing his brow against the window pane, asks, ‘Is this a Phil-har- monic society? I wish I were forty miles away.”” The Danbury News says:—‘“They had j such a shower of flesh as that recently occurring in Kentucky in Great Britain two bandred years ago, There’s no use in trying to compete with a monarchical form of government.” Mr. Olcott, a New York journalist, is about to take Dr. Slade, the spiritual materialist medium, to Russia, in order that he may manifest his powers before the philosophers, Dr, Slade can do many marvellous | things, but no science has ever explained him, Among the Christian Karens of Indo-China Bass” pale alo is used for the church communion service, an@ as it froths greatly it is passed around quickly in soveral glasses, The first communicants gets only froth. and tne last one gets real beer. Ifyouthink of buying or renting a place in the country now is the time for going out and finding fault with it, You will now see it in all its muddy disad. vantages. Threo months hence you will see the coun- try in all {ts greon and pink glory and be decerved. “Tk Marvel’—that is, Donald G. Mitchell— who, aquar- | ter century ago, was quite the rage as a sentimental literary man, has been asked to take part in politics, Thank God, he bas refused! in the spring time he will look at the sweet plum blossoms and fold his arms and dream, and be as cross a stick as anybody. Mitch. ell is not always a pleasant man, but he ts a most splendid writer. On the summit of Pike’s Peak, over 14,000 feet above the sea'level, where there fs not a trace of any vege. | tation, or, indeed, any earth upon which shrubs or | grass could grow, the m in rat, an animal twice as large as a Norway rat, abounds in vast numbers, overrunning the United States signal station on the | apex of the mountain. Everywhere in the South the solid, conservative clement seems to be willing to abnegate to personal | ambition for office, and to wish that while the North | may furnish good government its own section may be | spurred to undertake new enterprises in agriculture | and commerce. The spirit of this wise old element it sensible, healthy and worthy of praise, Icetanders and Mennonites from Southern Rassia act cultivating farms in Manitoba; French Canedians, half breeds, and Seotch servants of the Hudson Bay Company congregate round the old trading posts, while at Kootenay Pass, in the Rocky Mountains, ¢ | Chinese settlement ciaims protection from the Cana diag authorities. While tigers aro, on the whole, a persecuted ands | diminishing body, there is no fear that, for some yeart to come, they may not be found in sufficient number im India to test the skill and reward the perseverancs of men who, making hght of hot winds and the ther mometer in tents at 100 degrees, will rise at four A. M. in 9 month of April, and will not retarn to camp Ul two P. M., whon the sky 1s hike copper, the ground lice | tron and the rays of the sun are not felt in their inten. | sity only because the atmosphero is thick and- heavy | with fine sand and dust,