The New York Herald Newspaper, March 26, 1876, Page 8

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Money on call was supplied at 3a 3 1-2 per cent. Gold declined ffom 114 3-8 to 114. Government bonds were heavy. Investment securities steady. The bank statement shows a decrease in the legal reserve. Tux World points out with great ability how it was that Marsh came to run away. It was because he was frightened by a corrupt and degraded administration. But why did Marsh come home ? Bismancx is unrelenting in his hostility to Von Arnim. A London despatch says that the ex-Minister is arraigned for high treason, and that his property will be confiscated if he fails to meet his accuser. Tue Present AGE or PrcuLaTIoN seems Yo affect every one with the auri sacra fames. Now it is the receiving teller of the Fulton Bank, Brooklyn, who has walked off with about twenty-five thousand dollars not rightfully belonging to him. Oansmen will find valuable information in the letter which we publish to-day from our London correspondent, who has made o special visit to the Oxford afd Cambridge crews, and who gives an interesting portrait- ure of the contestants in the forthcoming race. Tue Rostor gains ground that William A. Wheeler was the captain of the miners and sappers who undermined the Conkling works at Syracuse. It is said now that Wheeler would like to have the Presidency tome from Ohio, an go on the ticket as Vice President. But Wheeler should go and see fooker’s rehash of Booth's Julius Casar. He would there learn that none of the con- spirators against Cwsar ever held the impe- tial dignity. — Axp Now we are told that So-and-So is to be appointed Appraiser of the Port because he is the “particular friend” of Mr. Conk- ling. When is this ‘particular friend” busi- ness toend? This is the way our civil ser- vice is degraded. ‘‘Particular friends” are selected to office, not men of fitness. Public pfficials are told that they will rise, not by merit, but by becoming ‘“‘particular friends” pf one Senator or another. ‘st point in the armor of our Senator. It is the vulnerable heel in one wha would other- wise have been impervious to arrow or bolt. Over Weatuen Prepictioxs of Wednesday and Friday have been verified in a remarka- | ble degree by the sudden changes from sun- thine to clouds and storm which wo have since experienced. Yesterday's violent rain storm has caused heavy freshets within the area of its influence, besides interfering tadly with the smoked glass scientists who bad made extensive preparations to view the | solar eclipse. Tho tfack of the storm centre was manifestly northeastward from the Mis. | sissippi, through the Ohio Valley and over New York and the New England States. Wo look for reports of freshets along this — line and particularly from the Ohio Valley, | where there are already indications of o rapid and dangerous rise in the river levels, The weather to-day promises to be threatens ing, and by this evening we may expect toex- perience the effects of the eastward movement of the low barometer now traversing the lake region toward the St. Lawrence Valley, a gradual shifting of the wind to the west- ward, followed by clearer and colder weather. It is rather too soon to discard winter over- | goats and goloshes for spring styles. We | | tho Mayor, were to meet him as he Iandsand | ‘will give our readers timely notice, however, when investments of this kind may be made with safety. , This is the weak. | The Coming Emperor: As we published in the Hznaup of yester- day, in a special cable despatch from our correspondent in Rio Janeiro, His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil and his wife start to- day on their journey to New York. Yester- day, we learn from our correspondent, a grand féfe was held in Rio to honor the anni- versary of Dom Pedro's swearing allegiance to the constitution, This féle may be looked on as his farewell for the present to im- perial state. His Majesty comes as a pri- vate passenger on a British steamer. He will be accompanied by a distinguished suite, and it is anticipated that he will arrive here about the 20th of April. He will visit Washington to pay his respects to the President, and will, it is believed and hoped, take part in the opening ceremonies of the Centennial Exhibition, It is thought that he will extend his tour as far as California, giving about three months to his trip. He then proposes to visit Europe and complete his tour in the far East. A Brazilian man- of-war left Rio Janeiro about a month since, with orders to rendezvous at Philadelphia, Centennial Exhibition and the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of our indepen- dence. The coming of the Emperor of Brazil is an interesting event in many ways. He is the head of a great nation and the heir to houses of Bourbon, Braganza and Haps- burg—three of the most ancient and illus- trious of the royal houses of Europe. His daughter is the wife of the grandson of Louis Philippe. He represents the royal splendor of dynasties of the Old World as well as the strength and wealth of one of the most won- derful nations in the New World. Brazil is, next to the United States, the most important country on the American continent. Its position in South America corresponds with our position in North America. We have close commercial relations with it, which grow in importance every day. Four-fifths of our coffee comes from Brazil. It sends us sugar, cacao and indiarubber in return for our machinery, petroleum and bread- stuffs. Nature has blessed it with vast and varied riches. We read of its forests and streams, its flora and animal life, as though it were some Arabian Night's dream, and wonder what His Majesty will think of our cold and gray North, when he remembers the profuse and luxuriant beauty of his own marvellous and richly-colored land. Brazil's the land of the diamond, the gar- net and the amethyst; of silver and copper and gold; of granite and coal. Rich as we are inso many ways, we have no such profu- sion of gifts as has been showered upon the dominions of Dom Pedro. If we are richer and stronger we owe it to our Saxon blood and to the further fact that nature demands industry and courage from our peoples:to build an empire on these rocky shores, while in Brazil, more thanin most tropical coun- tries, the energy of man is stifled by the pro- fusion of nature. But while the United States are growing to be the modern Roman Empire Brazil seems destined to become a modern Indian Empire, We have within us all those quajities—climate, energy, soil and population—which made Rome mistress of the older world. We see no reason why Brazil should not in time display the wealth, the magnificence, the rare and subtle cul- ture which have given India so peculiar and powerful a position in our civilization. Dom Pedro is a prince worthy of his king- dom. He has all the royal qualities that are supposed to come from blue blood. . But in an age when princes are supposed to be, asa general thing, expensive and privileged vagabonds, he has proved himself to be a ruler of rare judgment and skill, a student, a singularly accomplished man. He is be- lieved to know well the principal tongues of Europe, to be widely versed in classical and Oriental learning. This is o great deal ina ruler, and it should be remem! to his credit now that he is to come among us as our guest and friend. Apart from our per- sonal esteem for Dom Pedro—we note his visit as a national event—nothing is more to be desired in our modern civilization than the coming together of the nations. As in the ancient times the surest bonds of peace were the friendly relations of kings, so in our modern times peace will grow more and more enduring from the intimacy of nations, Brazil has.a loyal and deep affection for her | Emperor, and her people will look with | interest upon his reception here. They will | have some curiosity as to how we as a re- public will behave toaking. Noone doubts that the reception of Dom Pedro will be cor- dial and hearty. This is the American way of treating our guests, whatever their sta- tion. The reception we gave to the Prince of Wales, Prince Napoleon and the Grand Duke Alexis was gratifying to our royal guests and creditable to ourselves. But the Emperor of Brazil is something more than his royal predecessors. They were princes of illustrious honses, sons of kings, who might one day be kings. Dom Pedro is a monarch, the first of any European house who has ever come in his official capacity. | Louis Philippe and William IV. and Na- poleon IIL. were with us, but it was before they had ascended the throne. Two came | as exiles, the other as a British officer. The | question as to how we shall receive Dom | Pedro is one to be well considered. When he made his tour of Europe he travelled in- cognito, asa private nobleman, and did as he pleased.» He might do the same hero, but we understand his visit to be official. He comes asan Emperor, and should be honored as the head of a great sister nation with whom we are on terms of friendship and peace. | + As this is to be a season of ceremony, of and as this Emperor comes in his own of government. We have a fleet at Port Royal, and it might be well to give him a naval reception. This fleet could easily meet the Emperor's vessel outside or in the Lower Bay and escort him to our shores, If the | President and the high officers of the gov- ernment, the generals of the army and the adinirals of the navy, with the Governor and | greet him in the name of the nation, the State and the motropolis, it would be fitting. to take part in th® festivities attending the | many great names. He is a prince of the | more than ordinary solemnity and rejoicing, | person to do honor to our centennial anni- | versary, he should be received with all the | ceremony and state possible under our forms | We do not know what diplomatic etiquette prescribes in such cases, but we can afford of a great nation like Brazil. There might be a display of our militia, our Police and Fire departments—some modest represen- hotel. The holiday and the festivities would be grateful to our people, who have really in their hardworking lives too few festivals. It would therefore be a gracious thing to make a festival of the Emperor's arrival. Our peo- ple would enjoy it. The Emperor would appreciate the honor, coming as it would freely from the citizens of the metropolis, and Brazil wonld accept it as a friendly at- tention and recognition. If the authorities will only move in the matter New York will do the rest. We have plenty of time for preparation—time to bring the fleet from Port Royal ; time for our regiments to trim up their uniforms ; time for the citizens to do their part. Let the Emperor hear the re- echoing thunder of cannon from ship and him meet the chief of the Republic as he steps on our shores. And let him see as he | passes up Broadway how magnificently New York can receive a prince whom we shall all delight to honor. Our London Cable Letter. If the Queen of England had to stand ina public place and beg the suffrages of the people for her proposed title of Empress of | India she would doubtless feel as much dis- | taste for the operation as Coriolanus did to | showing his scars to the Roman plebs. We have changed all that, but the request | for votes is transferred even with such high and mighty playthings as an im- perial title to the press and the Parliament, Disraeli, who stands sponsor for the new style, has had to bear all manner of re- | proaches, from the solemn repyoof of Gladstone and the Cyclopean irony of Lowe to the fine lance thrusts of the penny press. The new title is not pop- ular, but the reason for this is hard to find as why Hamlet knew a hawk from a handsaw when the wind was southerly, The tory majority in both houses of Parliament has been safe all along, and we have no doubt that Disraeli, knowing this, has been careless of blame, and assured that some fine morning, when the fog lifts for a moment off London, the vor populi will be a unit in hurrahing for the Empress and saying the English rose will smell as sweet under an imperial as a royal name. The act of Parliament business recalls the Haytian assumption of the imperial title, and if the Emperor Soulouque had only started out a quarter of a century later his opéra douffe empire might have been perpetuated in his black dominions. The Queen of Eng- land meanwhile goes to Germany to passa | few weeks’ vacation with her family, and as the Prince of Wales has not yet re- turned from the East—he was at Suez yesterday—the London season lags for want of royal countenance. The sporting probabili- ties are very bright, the Polo clubs being par- ticularly busy. It will gratify American lovers of horseflesh to know that Preakness and his companions are bettering in con- dition. Our Paris Cable Letter. After earning a place by the Treasury gates the French republicans find that ac- | cess to the vaults is not so easy as they be- lieved.: Let us not be too hard! upon them. If they had been in; power and the Bonapartists or royalists | | had supplanted them there would have | | been eighty-four prefectures open to the Napoleonic or legitimist patriots in twenty- four hours, instead of the beggarly thirteen places, which are very few to go round among so many. Let us, therefore, weep with the disappointed patriots, who would certainly make as good prefects as the present incumbents. Let us also shed a tear for the placemen who are holding on by teeth, nails and eyebrows to their official posts, while one detachment of republicans is pulling at their coattails and another de- tachment is searching with lynx eyes for some flaw in their lives and records. This tugging and investigating is one of the ungen- tlemanly features of republican institutions; for under an empire, the Third Napoleon's, | for instance, your De Mornys and Belknaps | | are safe from prying eyes and unpleasant | exposures. Joan of Arc, after having been | rejected as one of the saintly choir by the managers at the Vatican, has ac- cepted an engagement from M. °Ha- lanzier to lead o mortal chorus at the Grand Opera House to music com- posed, we beliove, by M. Edouard Membrée. | An imitation of the angelic choir, to be sung by fifty Parisian soprani in tho “wings,” is promised, but we decline to say how they will compare with real angels untfl we have received fuller informa- tio about the singers. We do not fancy the likeness will be great between | the seraphim and the half score of ecstatic | German harpers who are to accompany the “hbove angels. Other operas and plays are | | promised, America, thanks to Maurice | Strakosch, is to get her share of operatic | novelties, and, after a number of proper pre- | liminary flourishes, we learn that Mlle. | Belocca is on-h i A Bangvet To Minister Ont was recently { given in Vienna, of which we have a report this morning. The occasion was the return | of the Minister to this country to enter upon | the canvass in his State, where he is the re- | publican candidate for Governor. Mr. Orth’s speech was characterized by excellent taste, and it is gratifying that ho is able to retire from his post abroad with so much credit to himself and his country, and that he prefers the honors of his fellow citizens | at home to those be could earn at a foreign court. . Ovr Romax Sprcta, D#sratcn brings us the sad details of the death of Consul Gen- | eral Dahlgren and the consecration of | | the American Episcopal church in the | Eternal City, at which Bishop Little- | john, of Long Island, officiated. Tha | programme of the new Italian Ministry of | the Left is also given, and certainly promises a great deal for a State as diffenlt to regulate | as Italy has proved. Still, as much has been _ done in the past ten years, we are content | | to hope for the best from Victor Emmanuel's now advisers, H to make a precedent in welcoming the chief | tative procession—from the Battery to his | fort as he comes within Sandy Hook. Let | Saturday Review and the hacking stabs of the | | | to | lars to Wesleyan University, Middletown, | cannot pay either princtps orinterest. And | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1876—QUADRUPLE SHuEKT.” Tne Great Inundations in Holland. | exist, but without muct controversy, and Despatches from London announce that | the river dikes at Hertogenbosch or Bois- le-Due in Holland have failed to resist the pressure of the floods caused by the recent storms and have been swept away by the furious waters. Bois-le-Duc is a fortified city, situated at the confluence of the Aa and the Dommel, the united waters of which rivers, with those of, the Beers and the Ley, dis- charge into the Meuse, near the village of Rosmalen, a short distance to the northeast of the city. Numerous canals, forming a part of the main system, which extends across the country from Maestricht on the Meuse to the same river three miles north of Bois-le-Duc, intersect the latter city and carry within its limits the waters of the inun- dation. The level of the plains of Holland is in some places as much as sixteen feet be- low that of the sea, and the main rivers are, in consequence, considerably higher than the general surface of the land they in- tersect, being, like the Mississippi south- ward of Memphis, the aqueducts through which the drainage of the more elevated watersheds is conveyed to the sea. The very low lands are drained more by canals than rivers, and the banks of the latter are, conse- quently, lined with earthen dikes, by which the river waters are confined and inundations prevented after poriods of heavy rains and storms. These dikes, or levees along the rivers, must not be con- founded with the great works which protect the coasts of the Netherlands from ‘the en- croachments of the North Sea, The ocean dikes are so massively built of éarth and ma- sonry, protected by piling and fascines, as to withstand the heaviest storms. But pre- viously to their being brought to such per- fection the most awful calamities recorded in the history of the Low Countries were due to the failure of these dikes to resist the assaults of the sea. Holland istherefore pro- tected by her dike system from external and internal sources of inundation, and the ca- tastrophe at Hertogenbosch has een caused by the destruction of the river dikes in its: vicinity. The river Meuse drains a territory of between eleven and twelve thousand square miles, and within the area in which the recent great storm expended most of its force. ‘The river became gorged with the flood water suddenly poured into it. The united waters of the Dommel,, Aa, Ley and Beers, which discharge into the Meuse near Hertogenbosch could not find an outlet, and backed up on the down pouring floods from their own watershed, causing an overtopping or bursting, followed by a total destruction of the dikes. Until the floods in the Meuse subside there are no means of relieving the inundated districts from the waters, because they now “»rm the basin into which a great deal of water from the main river, in addition to that of their own streams, finds its way. The wide range of the calamity, the number of unfortunates involved and the general interests of the country demand that a careful inquiry should be made by the government of Hol- land into the causes of these disastrous in- undations and the proper means of prevent- ing their recurrence. By applying the re- sults of such an investigation to the protec- tion of our own Western valley lands a vast amount of money might be annually saved to the country. Religious Press Topics. The topics of the religious press this week are as varied as the‘denominations represented and as the news of the day. The Independent | commenting on Alabama's virtual repndi- | ation of her debt, says there is no meannesg, | equal to that of a State which has contracted debts and solemnly pledged its faith and then turns round to its creditors and tells them, in substance, to takojwhat it offers— one-half, one-quarter or one-tenth of the just debt or lose the whole. The creditor has no remedy, and, being caught in the jaws of a dishonest State, he must consent to be robbed at its plgasure. The Independent, | thinks the federal coristitution ought to be so amended that no State in the Union shall have power thus to disgrace ftself. Tho 0b- server discourses very practically and pointedly on fictitious donations to colleges and benevolent institutions, by which means the donor gets a great deal of personal and newspaper applause for his liber- ality, while the institution supposed be benefited by him receives little or nothing. Daniel Drew and his “liberal” donations to edireational institu- tions is the text for the Observer's essay. Among “Uncle” Daniel's published liabili- | ties are the sum of two hundred and fifty i thousand dollars to Drew S sminary in Madi- | son, N. J., and one hundred thonsand dol- Conn, All that this millionnaire Methodist gave to those institutions was his promise to pay and interest on that promise from year | to year. And now he is a bankrupt and { yet for years back he has been receiving the | plaudits of the Methodis? world for his gen- | erous gifts to those sdhools of learning. | How much better it waald have been for | him to have given this money;to the institn- | tions named than to have gambled it away ; in Wall street! The Christian Advocate shows | a lack of faith in the revival. There seems to its editor to be a want of symmetrical presen- tation of the great spiritual doctrines of the Gospel by the revivalists. The exceeding sinfulness of sin is not duly emphasized, | nor are the doctrines of repentance and for- giveness made sufficiently prominent. Still the editor inclines to hope for good results even from the apparently more superficial religious experiences of the present time. | Tho Christian Leader demands positive preaching for this age. It wants no Rev. Protoplasm or Shifty Schemer going | through the theological, circumlocution | offices, but it does want men who have a | positive belief and who are not afraid to de- | clare that belief tothe world. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is one, the Leader thinks, that must be preached positively if it would be successful. And the preacher should realize this and be quick and bold to pro- claim what it seems to Trim clear that re- ligion teaches. The Christian Intelligencer is fully convinced that out of the present evan- gelistic movements all over the worid | will come large accessions to the lay agen- | cies, the prospective ministry and the working forces of the churches. Denomi- national differences, it says, will continuoto there are growing tendencies to and solid reasons for closer union among all truly Christian Churches, ministers and people. And this unity of action and purpose is becoming more and more necessary because iniquity abounds. The editor of the Christian at Worl has been on a visit to Montreal, where he had an interview with a nun, and | he comes back elated to tell his readers that the chief power of the Roman Catholic Church is in music and mercy ; Hér assem- blages roused by the most skilful organ playing in the world; her sick cared for by a system which makes kind nursing a part of its religion. The Freeman's Journal, the great Catholic guardian of the godless com- mon sghools, belabors those institutions over the back of the Massachusetts State Prison report, which tells of crime having doubled since the war. This, by the Journal's logic, is the result of godless education in that State. And it is no better elsewhere. The Jewish Messenger, which has hitherto re- frained from commenting on Rubenstein's case, now declares that that most precious heirloom, trial by jury, wasa mockery on his trial. The evidence of three unimpeached witnesses was ignored by the jury, and Judge Brady has done a merciful ‘act to give him another chance and trial for his life. It might be well to inquire beforewe make up our minds on the Samoan question by what right the captain of a British ship took possession of Steinberger's navy. It is said that the reason was that Steinberger carried the American flag,. Well, suppose he did, is it the business of a British officer to say whether he had or had not the right to carry this flag? Certainly America can protect her own dignity. We remember there was the same activity shown by a British officer at Samana Bay when the American company was assembling in St. Domingo. We do not believe in Samoa, nor did wo believe in Samana, but the enterprise was American in each case, and was entitled to American protection. Suppose some flighty, restless Englishman, like Steinberger, had fastened upon Samoa or some Pacific island and an Americart naval officer had turned him out, would Englishmen exult over it? We think not. Steinberger may be a good many things that are absurd and narrow, and we may wish his island was at the bottom of the sea, but he is an American. It is not pleasant to see British officers hauling down American flags and kicking American citi- zens about as though they were Hottentots or kings of Delhi. The President should look into this business and see what it means. Pulpit Topics To-Day. Mr. Moody having gone through a series of doctrinal sermons in his Hippodrome ser- vices other ministers are turning their atten- tion toward the same doctrines—some to controvert and some to elaborate his ideas. To-day Mr. Giles will take up the doctrine of the blood of Christ, and show what it is and how salvation is effected by it according to common sense principles. Mr. Hepworth will traverse the journey from Jerusalem to Jericho; but we hope he will not fall among thieves, for he may not have the good fortune that one before him had on that road, to find a Samaritan who might relieve his wants and his wounds. That one journeyed that way by chance; there might be no friendly hand to cherish now. Mr. Leavell will take the shorter and less dan- gerous walk from Jerusalem to Emmaus, doubtless in company with Mr. Saunders’ Christian veteran, and not with Mr. Harris’ moral coward, and both looking unto Jesus with Mr. Hawthorne’s intensity of spirit, will, undoubtedly, eventually reach Mr, Merritt's heaven. But before they reach that happy place there is, as Dr. Armitage will indicate, plenty of vineyard work to be done, strangers to be received and the spiritual life to be cultivated and improved, as Mr. Seitz will point out. The meeting between the two greatest an- tagonists, Christ and Satan, will be por- trayed by Mr. Harris, and the Tower of Babel will be torn down by Mr. Lloyd and its builders reproved for their supreme folly. While many are at this time debating among themselves whether they ought to join the church or not Mr. Pullman will give them some reasons in the affirmative, and show them that Universalism is neither a heresy nor dangerous to Christian faith and morals. Mr, McCarthy will clear up the mystery of temptation and Mr. Gunnison will point out the perils and the safeguards of our civilization, while Dr. Raymond will make plea for the higher education of woman, because of her share in our national history. Mr. Andrews will break the first four Apocalyptic seals, and show us the four stages of the Church's history repre- sented thereby; and Mr. Snow, who declares that fools call him insane, will inquire what the present condition and prospects of the papacy are a sign of. This apostle delights in garments dyed red, in bloody contests and destruction of religious systems, and yet, though he has indulged in this sort of pulpit instruction for years, he has failed to build up a church thereon. Churches exist on love rather than hatred one of another. Tue Morty Macuines have acquired such | an unenvinble notoriety in the mining dis- tricts of Pennsylvania that it must be galling | to the minds of the members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians to bo compared with them. Two Roman Catholic prelates have done so, and the A. O. IL brethren propose to make a feature of this indignity at their next convention, which will meet in this | Gexenat Croox telegraphs from the In- dian country to the Lieutenant General of the Army that he scouted the rivers Tongne and Rosebnd after St. Patrick's Day, went for Powder River, destroyed ‘Crazy Horse's village, and found that the hostile redskins were in collusion with those fed, armed and clothed by the government at the agencies. It bas always been so with the wards of the nation. Tum Prixcx or Warrs has got as far as Egypt on his homeward journey from India. He has happily eseaped all the perils that fanatics, tigers, jungle fever and Thugs might have placed in the path of his journey through, thosé districts over which Mr, Disraeli wants him to rule as Emperor, | could not help himself. _ & German Poet's Funeral, When a great singer of the people passes away the tribute to his memory is sponta- neous and heartfelt, As it was with Ferdinand Freiligrath, in Germany, a few days since, so it was with Béranger twenty odd years ago, Freiligrath was not a “fashionable” poet, particularly of late years, when national events transpiring around him seemed to move his ideal of Germany further and further from the reality. Like Béranger, indeed, several of his lyrics had forced their way into the salons as well as into the cottages of the land. His sympathi¢s were undoubtedly with German unification, but it was a union of peoples and not of bayonets that he for—a grand German republic as wide as the Teutonic language, Such poets’ memories ean wait for complete recognition; but a foretaste of what is yet in the dreams of his colaborers was surely given in the scene around the quiet grave at Cannstadt. For our German fellow citizens we have presented the noble words of Carl Mayer's panegyric in their native tongue, and as they read the touching tribute each one will wish that he was there to drop a flower upon the grave of him who sung of ‘Freedom and Right,” a noble lyric, which Mangan’s stately verse has made familiar to many English readers. Suprost Bnistow on Brarve on Morton should be nominated for President by the republicans and elected. The new ad- ministration will need the support of the re- publican party in the State, just as Lincoln needed it in 1861. Lincoln held the party by recognizing Seward and his friends. He The new republi- can President will be in the same position. He must act in harmony with the party, and the party will be in the hands of Mr. Conk. ling. What chance would Curtis and his fellow mutineers have for “recoghition?” Just about as much as Grecley had under Lincoln. Greeley’s Chicago mutiny carried him in time to Cincinnati, and made him the nominee of the democrats for President, Estimating the political stature of Curtis by that of Greeley the logical inference is that his Syracuse mutiny will carry him into the democratic State Convention and make him its candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Donsuermen anv Curris.—The proposal o} the Heraxp, that Mr. Curtis should follow his mutiny into the democratic party, meets with the approval of many democrats, Mr. Curtis would be justified in taking this step. .He has not been well used, and the administration is not a “reform” govern- ment. If he does become a democrat he should be nominated for Lieutenant Gov- ernor, with Dorsheimer for Governor. Dors- heimer left the republicans four or five years ago, after a difficulty with Conkling, and he was made Lieutenant Governor. Why not confer the same honor upon Curtis? He would make a capital Lieutenant Governor. Dorsheimer and Curtis, as democratic candi- dates, would be standing inducements to unappreciated republicans to leave their party and make more hospitable alliances. Srrrxa Fasuions.—Notwithstanding the vagaries of the weather, when wind, rain and sunshine seem to have an equal share of power, the time has arrived for the solution of the all important question in the female mind, ‘‘What to wear and how to wear it.” In another column will be found a very in- teresting essay on this subject, to which we refer our fair readers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Spiritualism has broken out in parts of India, Punch says that this year woman proposes, but Got disposes, Montreal has sent eighteen car loads of goods to the Centennial. Pat Gilmore has been invited to bang a gong at tho Centennial. ve Fifty thousand tons of rails will lay a road bed 55¢ miles in length, In Japan the freedom of the press is advancing, by « decree of the McAdo. < The Duke of Devonshire has 132,996 acres, with(, gross rental of £140,403. Chrysostom was the first who appliod the wort “Bible” to the Scriptures. The Hon. H. L. Pierce is working hard for the com firmation of R. H. Dana, Jr. Canada is again agitating about the building of a Pacific Railway to British Columbia. Inorder to hold government office in Germany one must bave a university education. Postinaster Generali Jewell was confined to his house yesterday with an attack of rheumatic fever. It is scientifically dectded that rust causes fire. Thit ig thg reason why a silver dollar will burn a hole tt your ket. Randall's follies aad Wood's illness have left Cox ant Kerr the Congressional leaders; but very few prefer gas to Kerr-osene. The Black Hills have started two sawmills, and here is achance for Vice President Ferry and Congressman | Platt to do a little log rolling. In Utah and about Salt Take City mud prevents trade from being lively, The same evil infests thi bratns of many demvcratic Congressmen. The Baltimore American says that the recent prize fight was, by the ald of the railway authorities, well conducted, One of the conductors punched, &« Ex-Treasurer Spinner does not cut an orange inte sections and spurt the juico all over his shirt bosom. He quietly punches a hole in the end and gives tt the cross-buttock throw. Since hydrophobia is prevalent in Western Masse its pharmaceutical preparation has been ased with great success in curing the disease, A firm of publishers in San Francisco ts trying to obtain a legislative enactment by whieh it may fur- nish California with home rule school books. This ts avery narrow idea, worthy of California, It ts universally found, says a European authority, that when a currency ts undergoing depreeation the fall of value ts more rapid than the rise of prices. It was so in the United States during the civil war, and it 1s so in India now, Tho Norristown Merald says:—‘' What ts editorial courtesy?” asks aSouthern paper. Why, itis when a Southern editor is caught stealing ctfickens at midnight and bis brother editors kindly allude to the matter as# ‘strange freak of a somnambulist,’ English people have a mania for dosing themselves, Where a Frenchman would apply some such mil@ remedy as a /ait de poule, or a glass of harmlessly medicated lemonade, an Englishman will be content with nothing short of a strong pill or draught, An “irregularity’’ bos been discovered in the oyster ¥ A dealer has been ex- of putting Dutch oysters into native shelis and selling the bivalves to his retail cus- tomers for natives, The practice is supposed to be general, The English Saturday Review says:—“ln countries where official purity is the, rule certain Amorican im Btitutions hare not yet been adopted. it is worth | while to consider the tendency of turther changes ia the directton of democracy, Chivalry, according to Barke, was tho cheap defence of nations, The ad- | ministration of public affairs by gentlemen may, per- | haps, also tend to cheapness,” chusetts it may bo well to repeat that eleeampane or i