The New York Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1876, Page 6

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Foreign exchange, government and railway bonds were stepdy. Quvren Vicrorta departed yesterday on her visit to the Continent accompanied by her daughter and the Earl of Derby. journey of the Queen possesses no political significance. Lonp Ssarressuny does not like the title of “Empress of India,” proposed for the | Queen by Mr. Disraeli. He thinks something more homespun would suit the English people better. What do the Hindoos think | about it? They might be consulted, we think. Tue Enousn Srock Excnance reflects somewhat the panicky feeling in commercial circles arising out of the recent heavy fail- | ures. <A better condition appears to exist in the grain markets, where good prices are askedand paid. Home and foreign grain is in good demand. Ox or THE Sap Srorres or tHe Cry is that of the suicide of Mrs. Schuyler in a moment of insanity induced by illness, and the death of her invalid husband a few hours later on learning that his wife was | dead. Four children were thus in a day made orphans. ‘fur Farrurc. Commons or ENGLann are a sturdy body, and regard their dignity as paramount to the Queen's desire to travel abroad during a session of Parliament. We hope Mr. Anderson will be fully informed of the reasons for Her Majesty's absence from England. He seems a good deal exercised about it just now, : Tue Scuran or Tunxer is short of funds and would like a little advance from the Ottoman Bank. But the Sultan's credit is Bhaky, and the bank does not see things | throngh His Majesty's This makes the situation very unpleasant, partic- ularly for the Sultan. He will bowstring the cashier and toss the directors into the Bosphorus. r spectacles, ‘Tue Mare or tHe Marcia Greencear has been acquitted in England after trial on a tharge of shooting two of the crew while at bea. but surely some other means than homicide should be adopted for the enforcement of discipline on board ship. We hope that the verdict will not be misconstrued by other mates when dealing with unruly crews, Tur Loss or THe StRaTaMone attended with shocking loss of life and much misery among the survivors, who snbsisted rock for six months on the flesh and oqgs of seabirds, Fortunately an American whaling ship rescued the sufferers, affording them all possible relief under the ciream- stances, There must have been bad seaman- ship somewhere when a passenger ship be- same entangled among the reefs and shoals of the South Pacific. Tne Rose Youxo Ovtracr.—The full measure of responsibility for the inhumanity practised in the case of this poor woman's body should be assigned to the guilty parties, and the Police and Charity com- | missions owe it to themselves that these guilty parties should be punished, if not | ‘The greedy | by law, at least by dismissal. coroners should also be tanght a lesson. Buch shocking cases must be put beyond the possibility of recurrence, MILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH | REET. | likely to concur in} and have secured what | was easily practicable before trying donbtful | | lower rate of interest, and ten millions a | The | | probably | ‘The act was declared to be justifiable ; | has been | jal Debt—Imbe- House of | Refanding the Nat ecllity of the Democratic Representatives. We do not regard it as at all surprising or unaccountable that public feeling sets s0 strongly against the democratic party that ) not even the recent exposures have any per- | ceptible effect in arresting the progress of | the republicans in recovering lost ground, as was shown in the New Hampshire election. To be sure the merits of political parties must be estimated from a moral 2s well as a | fiscal standpoint. True it is that a small sum lost to the Treasury by theft or pecula- tion deserves a severity of condemnation | which cannof be justly visited upon losses | which result from an honest but mistaken policy. In the mere fiscal, apart from the | | moral view, the malversation of Belknap | is a bagatelle when compared with the waste which attends democratic folly. Bel- | knap's dishonest avarice entails no loss on the Treasury, and his illicit extortions | at the expense of the soldiers cannot have amounted to more than one or} two hundred thousand dollars per annum. But the democrats in Congress, by sheer folly and incompetence, are sacrificing at \ least ten million dollars a year under one | head of squandering neglect. We reter to » their inexcusable failure to take the requi- | site steps for enabling the Secretary of the | ‘Treasury to refund the six per cent bonds at a lower rato of interest. The necessary measures would have been adopted at an early stage of the session if the republicans had . retained their majority in both houses, and there is nothing which the democrats can plead as a set-off to this wasteful neglect. It is not the democrats, but Secretary Bris- tow, that stopped the leaks in the revenue from whiskey, and although they may justly | claim the credit of arresting the corrupt career of Belknap the fiscal advantage of forcing him out of office is trifling. If we pass from the fiscal to the moral aspect of public questions it is difficult to discover any solid ground of con- | fidence in the democratic party. Their | motives seem purely partisan and utterly solfish. They ignore every advantage to tho | ‘Treasury and the taxpayers which brings no | grist to their party mill. Had the public | good, and not partisan advantage, been their | ruling motive they would have made it their first endeavor to find such means of strength- | ening the Treasury as the Senate would be experiments. ‘They would have had the full | support of the Senate and the President in measures for refunding the public debt at a year saved in this way would be as great a relief to the taxpayers as a reduction of sala- riés and expenses to the same amount. But | they would have shared the credit of this species of economy with their republican rivals, and they feel no interest in any re- form which does not feather their own nest. This is shortsighted and suicidal, even from the partisan point of view. It advertises to the country that the | democratic party cares nothing for | economy or reform except as a lever of | party suceess. It shows that they do not woo economy for itself, but only for its dower, It betokens a purpose to subordinate the public welfare to party aims, which is hardly less selfish and dishonorable than the | prostitution of public positions to sordid private gains. If the democrats in Congress | had evinced asincere purpose to alleviate | the public burdens without regard to party advantage they might have established them- selves in public confidence. But this method of leaving the public funds to waste | at the banghole because the republicans would share the stoppage of that waste, and making a great parade of saving at the spigot, where they expected no republican co-operation, proves that they stand on the | same low moral level as their political | opponents whom they are trying to discredit and disgrace. It was in their power to save at least ten millions a year to the Treasury by co-operation with the republicans in reducing the interest on the public debt ; but, neglecting this great . opportunity | to serve and relieve the people, they have confined their activity to petty retrench- | | ments of salaries and expenses, in which | they do not expect the concurrence of the Senate, with n view to make party capital | for the Presidential election. Our respected contemporary, the Times, | though o party organ, is entirely right in | hing against the neglect of the House | | inv | to take any steps for alleviating the heavy | burden of the public debt. The petty and | For the Judicial Departinent | The | over the world could sell four and a half per cent bonds if | Congress would adopt the recommendation of his last annual report extending the | period of redeemability from fifteen to thirty years. The saving of interest by re- funding the remaining $700,000,000 of six per cent bonds in four and a half per cent bonds would be $10,500,000 per annum, which is a greater saving’ to the Treasury than the House will practically accomplish with all its ostentatious fuss and parade. By this measure, which could be carried through both houses in five days, enough would be saved to pay the whole expenses of the judiciary department, the whole ex- penses of our foreign intercourse and the whole expenditures for the Indians. The estimates for these three heads of expense for the next fiscal year, as appears from the annyal report of the Secretary of the Treas- ury, are as follows:— «+ $7,587,000 3,403,000 For foreign intercours: 1,352,000 12,842,000 By refunding the six per cent bonds at four anda half per cent the saving of one and a half per cent interest on $700,000,000 would amount to $10,500,000 per annum—an economy which makes the paring down of diplomatic salaries proposed by the House appear small and contemptible. jut inas- much as no party advantage would accrue from this great saving ‘the democratic House utterly neglects it. No political party can acquire public confidence by thus sacrificing obvious public interests to petty electioneer- ing schemes. Our News from Braril. The advance of modern journalism is seen in nothing more clearly than the despatch we published in the Sunday Henaup an- nouncing the departure of His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil on his journey to tho United States. communication with Brazil. The cable runs from Rio Janeiro, the capital of that coun- try, to London, and from London to New York. It forms a triangle, and before the communication arrives at New York it may be said to reach the third point of the mathematical combina- tion, It is somewhat of a tribute, to the glory and power of England and its world wide commercial supremacy that it should be necessary, in forming a direct connec- tion between the greatest nation of South America and the greatest nation of North America, to pay a wayside tribute to the British Empire.. But such itis. The rela- tion between the nations of the world, the coming together of great communities, the binding of’ continents Tar distant, diversified in policy, religion and tradition, form a singular evidence, not only of the in- ternational union of modern civilization, but of the great power of the press. The visit of the Emperor of Brazil is an event interesting in itself and politically of great consequence to America, He comes not only as a prince of illustrious’ and ancient lineage, but as the representative | of a sister nationality, anxious to pay a compliment to our Republic in this centen- nial period of its growth. However re- markable it may be to embody in the daily chronicle of current events a despatch as im- portant as that published in the Hxraxp of | Sunday, it is no less remarkable to note the binding together of the nations typified. almost omnipresent element of journalism is thus shown. correspondents spring up all almost on the theory of spontaneous vegetation. We scarcely knew we had a correspondent in Brazil until modern Henaup us with his presence and With the fact that ; he was the comrade of a great emperor on his errand of grace and comity; and we are so impressed with this phenomenon that it would not at all surprise us, in the event of Mr. Stanley being lost in Africa, to learn that he had been rescued by another Hrnatp cor- respondent of whose existence we knew nothing. Thus journalism is becoming as universal “as the air. greatest of his time, has said that the world is bathed with love as witha fine ether. We may take this pretty conceit from the lips of the illustrious author and say that one of the remarkable evidences of modern civilization is that all the world and all who inhabit it— its rulers and its subjects, its kings and its | citizens—are bathed with the spirit ot enter- prise as shown in journalism, even as the myriad worlds that roll through space are | wrapped in the ether of universal space, A Mankep CuanGer In THE WeatHer may be piddling economies of the democratic House in relation to West Point expenses and diplomatic salaries are a very sorry matter, indeed, in comparison with the important | and practicable reduction of the public | burdens, which might have been accom- | plished by appropriate legislation for re- | funding the six per cent bonds, * The Times says, with great truth and force:—‘'Unfor- tunately, the Secretary of the Treasury has no authority to issue any more five | per cents for funding purposes, and he does not seem to be able to sell at par bonds carrying a lower rate than five percent. It is now upward of four months | since the last bonds were called for pa ment, and we are losing the most favorable | opportunity for reducing the interest on the debt that we have had since the debt was | created. The hitch in funding is entirely | due to the inaction of the House of Repre- | sentatives. It is owing to the inefticiency | of that body that we are paying one per cent interest on $700,000,000, or $7,000,000 | a year more than we need to pay. The o matter is before the House, to be dis- | posed of as they see fit. If they do not like the method of selling bonds thyough a syn- dicate, let them provide for opening a popu- lar subscription. If they think it a sacrifice of our credit to sell bonds paying five per cent, let them borrow at as much less than five per cent as they can, The sole thing that should be insist that this waste of their money, in paying at least one-fifth more interest than is neced- sary on neurly one-half the funded debt, should cease as soon as possible.” $7,000,000, asthe Times bat $10,500,000 a year fi is not merely estimates it, ay rr, | refunding the remaining six per cent bonds. | Secretary Bristow does not doubt that he on by the people is | that could be saved by proper legislation for | | expected during the coming week, which will probably terminate the winter season in New York. During the next few days the Southern States will be visited by a succession of rain storms from the westward, which are likely _to cause a rapid rise in the Mississippi, Arkansas and Red Rivers, and possibly in the Ohio from its southern tributaries, the Tennessee and Cumberland. Great inunda- tions of the bottom lands will result from these storms. The spring floods will be con- | siderably augmented by the melting of the | snows in the upper valleys and the moun- tain regions to the westward, and it will be wise to take timely precautions regarding them. A rain storm is among the probabilities in the Lower Missouri Valley. The Hudson, | Delaware and Susquehanna being outside storm area, and free from ice, flow with increased but not extraordinary voltimes, due to the melting of the limited amount of snow over their | respective watersheds. During the move- ment of the areas of low barometer now | existing in the West and Southwest the winds in the vicinity of New York will be north- easterly and northerly, shifting to north- westerly, with cold, after the passage of each | storm centre across our meridian. If the the | will | storms are diverted to the northeastward by | the Alleghany* Mountains we may expect | heavy rains in Pennsylvania, New Jersey | and New York ; but there is but slight proba- bility of this occurring from present indica- tions, Lonisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, | Georgia, South Carolina and Northern Flay ida will get the largest share of the rainfall. A “norther” is likely to occur in the Indian Territory and Texas, | Tue Derantune oy Mixtstrr Orn for | America is announced by cable. On his arrival he will doubtless explain things, We have no direct cable | the modest pulsations of the cable acquainted | A great American essayist, the | NEW YORK AERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Enforcement Act Decisions. The two opinions delivered in the Su- | preme Court yesterday by Chief Justice | Waite on cases arising’ under the Enforce- | ment act of May 31, 1870, for acts committed timely and will do much to mark more | clearly the relations of the United States to the *various States in matters relat ing to the suffrage. It was, perhaps, natural that in the period succeeding the rebellion, when the centripetal forces evolved | in that great struggle were still acting, that a republican Congress should overstep the limits of the constitution in its haste to | secure the moral and material fruits of giving citizenship to thenegro. The constitutional amendments forbade the States to ‘‘abridge” the privileges or immunities of any citizens of the United States, or the right to vote of any citizens on account of race, color or pre- vious condition of servitude; but the triumphant majority in Comgress leaped at j once to the extreme of making the ‘appropriate legislation” the vehicle | for creating new privileges which the constitution did not confer, and decreeing unconstitutional pains and penal- ties for the denial of the privileges so created. With o general election looming up and the country in a calm mood to con- | sider constitutional limitations it is well to hear the voice of the Supreme Court re- buking such legislation, and declaring it in- operative for want of power and incapable, in its penal parts, of application for want of precision. Inthe Grant Parish case the in- dictment is completely riddled. In the opin- ion of the Supreme Court the United States cannot be called on to do ‘mere police duty in the States,” the offences which the prison- ers were charged with conspiring to commit being such only as are within the scope of State laws. The invasion of the right of as- sembly is forbidden to Congress, but it isa | matter for the States to forbid such invasions to its own citizens. And so with the other offences a conspiracy to commit which were charged. ‘The Kentucky case presents another branch of the subject, but equally brings in clear light the constitutional nullity of certain sections of the Enforce- ment act. Politically speaking, these deci- sions will, doubtless, act injuriously on the prospects of the republican party in the South, but it is high tigne fora return to constitutional limits, and no party is de- serving of success that cannot win within them. CrnTenntaL Canprpatrs—Democnatic.—In this centennial time it seems odd that in the race for the Presidency thirteen candi- dates should enter for the strife. Here are the democratic entries:— T. F, BAYARD, of Delaware. G. B. McCLELLAN, of New York. HORATIO SEYMOUR, ot New York, S. E. CHURCH, of New York. 8. J. TILDEN, of Now York. J. 8. BLACK, of Pennsylvania, T. HENDRICKS, of Indiana, ALLEN G. THURMAN, of Ohio, WILLIAM ALLEN, of Ohio. ASA PACKER, of Pennsylvania. JAMES E. ENGLISH, of Connecticut, DAVID DAVIS, of Ilinois, MICHAEL C. KERR, of Indiana, These are the regular entries. But sup- pose the dark horse wins, some one not even named :— “ of ” The Fancy Price of Introductions, Introductions may be some day quoted in the stock market as a regular matter of business. We know what the value of an introduction to General Belknap was worth | by the testimony of Mr. Evans, who paid General E. W. Rice, of Iowa, one thousand dollars for the honor of the acquaintance of | the ex-Secretary. Now, General Belknap is no longer Secretary of War, with post traderships to distribute, and the price of that security has declined in the market, But there seem to be other introductions of still greater value. The honor, if we may call it by that name, of knowing Mr. Albert Grant, the great English speculator, has | small social worth, we suppose; but, com- mercially, it has held a very high price. We are informed, upon respectable authority, that Senator Stewart paid fifty thousand dollars for an introduction to Mr. Albert Grant because of the influence he was sup- posed to possess in selling the Emma mine shares in England. The English papers may reproach republican institutions be- cause a poor Indian post trader pays one thousand dollars for an introduction to the | Secretary of War; but we think that there must be quite as much corruption in Lon- don and the other English cities when a British speculator can estimate the value of Ris acquaintance—a liberal percentage de- ducted--at ten thousand pounds. It seems that, as a fancy stock, the introductions to Grant are worth fifty times as much as the reputation of being able to claim the honor ot a personal knowledge of General Belknap. Recent events have caused these stocks to decline in the market. In Wall street we hear they are quoted below par. Belknap's introductions, which, when General Rice was a “bull,” were quoted at one thousand dollars, are now dull at fifty cents, forty cents and twenty-five cents anda half. In fact, Mr. Evans himself, who once paid o officer, would now sell out his unfortunate | acquaintanceship at over a hundred per cent discount. We suppose that Mr. Marsh would gladly pay thousands of dollars to obliterate his intimacy. ‘The “bear” rules the market. As for Mr. Albert Grant, | he will never again be able to sell the credit of his name for fifty thousand dollars. Weshould estimate him at a cipher in the speculative | stock market. As it is, successful specula- tors would rather hold South Carolina stocks than Belknap's acquaintance, or Confederate | bonds even than that of Albert Grant. Tar Inmicnants.—We hope that our rep- resentatives in Congress will lose no time in preparing a bill to continue the safeguards for immigrants which the State of New York | Commission. The Supreme Court decision, | which is understood to have declared the States powerless to tax owners of vessels bringing immigrants hither, the sustaining power of the commission ; but as the “head money” system has been found a fit and convenient means for relieving the country of the burden of providing for tho immigrant’s immunity Congress should in Louisiana and Kentucky respectively, are | pass proper laws continuing the practice under federal control, and might, with | proper restrictions, make it applicable to all j Ports of entry in the United States where immigrants are regularly landed. Such ac- tion would settle some vexed questions in these parts, as, for instance, where the Cu- nard line turns immigrants adrift in New Jersey. Prices of Real Estate. Prices for real estate, as shown in recent transfers, are not such as to encourage holders who would like to sell, nor such as | to be agreeable to owners who, though they have no anxiety to put their property on the market, may have the habit of deeming themselves richer or poorer, as the prices of property like their own rise or fall. But it should be reflected that recent quotations are not instructive as to the value of real estate in any but a very narrow sense—that sense, in short, in which the value of a thing is ‘what it will sell for.” Ifa picture by Meissonier were under the hammer, and the sale were attended by an agent of A. T. Stewart and agents of half a dozen other gentlemen of great wealth, the painter might well be satisfied to take what it would sell for as the measure of its value. But if the agents of the millionnaires were not there and did not care to come, and the sale were at- tended only by moderately impecunious peo- ple, and could not possibly be postponed to another day, the painter would probably take these facts into consideration before he would | permit himself to be deeply discouraged by such a measure of value as. what his picture would sell for. Real estate owners must also take the facts into consideration before they get too blue over the prices that prevail; and the most important fact is that the sales are all sales under orders of fore- closure, Sales of this sort are forced sales in the extremest sense, and if they come at a time*so unfavorable for any sales as the present they depict the case in colors which exaggerate its gravity. But the truth must be recognized that some of the prices indi- cated by the foreclosure sales are nearer to real values than the balloon prices which have figured in the schemes of speculators. Inflation has been nowhere more extravagant in its addition cf ciphers to given values than in the real estate market here, and the” effect has been extremely bad for the city. Owners have had comparatively little advan- tage from it, and it has built up a loose, half-settled suburban district within a radius of twenty miles from us. In other words, while city property was ticketed all over with fictitious prices on the grandest scale, the element of a thrifty population which could alone give real value was driven out with great advantage to the farmers who owned the mosquito breeding districts in New Jersey and the flats of Long Island. It will be an advantage to the city, an ad- vantage to property owners, an advantage to the people at large, and the ruin of no one thousand dollars to know the impeached | influence now | erected in its laws creating the Emigration | but the speculators when, with that inflation taken out of prices they come down, as they must, to the point of a proper increase on the prices that ruled before the war. Trusteeship and the Laws. It is the presumed function of the law in civilized society to so clearly define the rela- tions of men to one another and to authority that involuntary trespasses upon a man’s rights will be impossible, while designated penalties will make the other sort dangerous, and it is supposed that law thus secures life and property. No doubt it does so, though we perforce, from the frequency of examples, are compelled often to reflect upon the in- security of both in this metropolis. But if we imagine for a moment what our condi- tion would be in the absence of all law we can see how great is really the security given by the administration of justice in our courts, so commonly believed to be corrupt and partial. If all the moral restraint of the law were taken away we should, instead of a murder a week, havea hundred a day ; and instead of the complaint of dishonest prac- tices on every hand that now fill the air and that the people hear in some new form every morning with dismay and surprise, the real surprise would be to hear of any property whatever that a man could hold | unless he stood over it night and day with a | cocked. revolver. Justice and the law there- | fore certainly do a great deal for us, but | they might do more. There are many points | in our social organization that it entirely } neglects, and where the guarantee it could give is greatly needed. One of these is tho point that relates to the custody of property by trustees or executors to whom power is given under a will to deal with the wealth of others. Here, as in some other points, it seems to Ne clear that the defects of the law are due tothe fact that society grows and changes, develops new relations, new con- | ceptions of older relations, even gets new ideas of what is honest and what is dishon- est, and the law does not grow accordingly, | but continues nearly what it was before, as if it were in ao fossil state. Some of the greatest crimes practised in our time against property have no names whatever in the law, and the authorities can only get at them by roundabouty processes and fictions; and | while subtle genins thus evades its grasp the law plods.on forever and forever with its old-fashioned crimes of forgery and burglary | and the rest, as, if its function were not to make property safe, but only to consign to prison yearly a certain number of small criminals, Our Legislature needs to be revolutionized a little in this. It shonld | | be made a statutory crime for a trustee to | defraud the heirs of an estate committed to his charge. It is monstrous that it is nota | crime already under our laws. Boston Navy Yaud Faavpe—The sub- committee of the Naval Committee of the House of Representatives has collected a startling array of facts proving a sink of job- bery and corruption to have existed for years past in the Boston Navy Yard. A de- | tail of these discoveries will be found else- where, Oe, Tue Senviax Goveryatent, through its | Minister of Foreign Affairs, assures Austria of its peaceful intentions regarding Turkey. assuine a peaceful attitude toward Europe | We will next learn that Portugal intends to | will cut off | | generally. There is nothing needed but a diplomatic assurance of this kind to settle forever the difficulties of the Old World. The Montenegrins are, however, bellicose and refuse to be pacified. ° The Centennial Canvass. What does the canvass for the Presidency thus far show? So far the democrats are concerned, simply, what Maryat tries to ex- plain in his novel, “Japhet in Search of @ Father.” Here is a great party—once the ruling party of the continent—that looks only for men and is lame of principles. Sinking in the Slough of Despond it calls for whoever passes to help it upon dry ground. We question if anything could be more painful to a proud, ambitious party, with high traditions, than the penalty thus im- posed upon the democracy, the abandon- ment of principles and the seeking fora man. But political necessities are immi- nent, and no one knows what may come in a centennial year. If we could elect a demo- crat from the diamond cluster of thirteen statesmen we now present, without, of necessity, bringing the party into power, what a comfort it would be! It seems to be the fate of good democrats that before they enter upon the high offices of the Republic they should become republicans. It was so with Hamlin, Johnson and Grant. Would it not be well for some of the thirteen to follow the example? As tothe republicans what shall we: say? Here all the power converges upon Grant and Conkling, and as the next President will undoubtedly be a republican—so far as mere human eyes can see through the clouds that darken the horizon—why should not Grant and Conkling lay aside all mere per- sonal and political ambition, and give the party a candidate whose name will rally around its flag all the winning elements of the party which has ruled the country since the war began, or which will rule it m all probability until the generation - which fought the rebellion has been gathered to its fathers? Why not, in this centennial time, with all hearts beating in unison with the aspirations of the men who flourished in the time that tried men’s souls, select a can- didate who will represent the highest aims of the country, and not the promptings of mere party ambitions ? Conkling and Grant can give us a candi. date and probably a President. Will Conk- ling give us Grant or Grant Conkling? Or will they strike hands and give us a man who can unite and strengthen the party? CxnxTenntat Canpipates—Rerusiicax.—In this centennial time it seems odd that in the race for the Presidency thirteen can- didates should enter for the strife, Here are the republican entries:— CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, of Massachusetts, HAMILTON FISH, of New York. ROSCOE CONKLING, of New York, JOHN JAY, of New York. E. D. MORGAN, of New York. . W. M. EVARTS, of New York B. H. BRISTOW, of Kentacky, GOVERNOR HAYES, of Ohio. = « O. P. MORTON, of Indiana. U. S&S GRANT, of Illinots, E. B. WASHBURNE, of Illinota, MARSHALL JEWELL, of Connecttewt, JAMES G. BLAINE, of Maine. These are the regular entries. But sup- pose the dark horse wins, some one not even named :— : RRR aerirabanety * pede" Investigate THR Rawnoap Commmrrer.— Mr. Killian treated the Assembly last week to a threat that he would call for an in- vestigation of the matter of alleged corrup- tion in the extraordinary defeat of the “No Seat No Fare” bill. What has become of the fiery resolution that ther throbbed in his every fibre? It is the barest justice ta the plundered citizens of New York, to the dear car monopolies, to Mr. ‘‘Nick” Muller, to Mr. West, who is bursting to tell about lobbyists’ five hundred dollar bills ; to Mr. Whitson, the unblushing horse car company champion ; to Mr. Killian himself, with his fine feelings, that he should call for the in. vestigation. Why is his tongue tied ? A Pactrication Coymisston is holding 1 session at Ragusa to determine what action is to be taken regarding the Herzegovinan refugees who have entered Austrian terri- tory. We would recommend to their con- sideration a general amnesty and a reform in the abuses that surround Turkish rule in the revolted districts. Peoples are not pacified by pow-wows. A Resvurr to Taz Twerp Party was given in Supreme Court, Chambers, when a mo- tion in Mr. Charles Devlin’s artful dodger suit against the Board of Supervisors ¢ al, was denied by Judge Donohue. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Reno, Nev., tsa played-out town, The last faro bank has closed, In Ohio Bristow holds the republican sentiment next to Hayes, The Norristown Herald man thinks that onty saloor keepers trast the democratic party. Virginia democrats would not be dissatisfied withe soldiér nominee if he were General Hancock. Many German ropablicans throughout the codhtry prefer the outspoken fighter from Now England—dot ish Blaine. Elihu Burritt, having completed his book on the | Sanscrit, fecis as proud as a man with a pair of three Dutton kids, It t@ hard to tell what a California paper thinks un- Tess one has a list of the papers that Stanford has bought up. (mois raised $50,000 worth of peppermint last year, and thus as the gentle julep of a high civilization comes in the infantile ache 1s chased away. They complain that at Fort Sill the frauds charged $1 50 for soothing syrup, about fifty per cent advance, But what do soldiers want with soothing syrup? Hugn Hastings apparently bas given up teaching Sunday sebool. He advises people to swear, “1 don’t care a continental ——,.’” The Austrian government bas established a school for workers in atone. Perbaps the Austrian government never #aw & Sunday erowd of American hoodiums vem. thating the windows of a deserted machine shop, That blind California boy sees persons in the moos and people won't believe him, But Murat Halstead one night fourteen hens nding on one leg ona hen- roost, and next morning nobody could sec a single fow!. Men, says Adam Smith, are natorally unsentimental Aman will scoop the inside out of an egg without thinking thatthe mother of that egg ts perhapse sand miles awny on the sunny side of a barn taike politics and scratching autographs like Spinner's, From the Boston Herald:—‘An exchange says, ‘The identical chairs and desks of s, Calhoun, Webster, Clay, Douglas and Benton stilt remain in the Senate Chamber, and aro in daily use? Wo shoula suppose thgt those six chairs would accommodate at jeast half of the present Senate.’’ We recommend the erudite editor of the World te Peruse the following: — Disee, puer monitus, versus expendere cura, Quos juvatin chartis scribero swpe tibi; Bt formose puer, nimium ne crede colori, Nam nos exterres marmoris usque color.