The New York Herald Newspaper, March 30, 1876, Page 6

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Mexico up to the latest dates goes singing along with its revolution. No Spanish Re- public should be without one. Cant Voor, who fought the extradition treaties for three years here, seems to be as unsuccessful in his battles with the Belgian law courts as he was with those of America— and all to prevent a sudden death. DEFAULTING SPANISH QUARTERMASTERS run from Cuba to New York. American forgers gotoLondon. English forgers go to Brus- sels. Belgian forgers run to Paris. French forgers come to America. Where would American War Department swindlers go if they could run away? Tar Giupert Exevatep Rarroap, with Its promise of a double track to Central Park, will be o blessing in the mouths of New Yorkers to all time, if the company only keep their word. Now for the Supreme Court's confirmation of the Rapid Transit Commissioners’ report on the Third avenue line. Tue Brooxiyn Brivor is left in acondition | of suspended animation, with its two towers a standing reproach to our spirit of enter- prise, like two brawny laborers at the gate of a capitalist, asking in vain for a chance to turn his fallow land into a golden granary. Meanwhile the work of burrowing a tunnel under the English Channel is being prepared for in earnest, four hundred thou- sand doliars having been subscribed to begin the great submarine bore in France alone, ‘Tux Prospect or Prace in Herzegovina induces Russia, as we anticipated it would, | to throw off the mask of friendliness to the Porte, which she assumed because she | thought that the way to dismembering Tur- key might as well be paved with sweet words as harsh ones. Besides this it kept | Russia in line with the other Powers bent | politely on the same object. It is probable | that Austria has been more successful in her pacificatory endeavors than she desired, and if this unmasking by Russia sets the strife going again, and so demonstrates Turkey's impotence, Austria will accept a little abuse | from the unofficial Russian press with com- parative complacency. Tar Prortn or New Yors are not likely | either to forget or overlook the action of the | Assembly on Mr. Killian’s “No Seat No | Fare” bill, nor will they view with equanim- | ity a failure to investigate the causes which led to its defeat. The course of the Rail- road Committee was without excuse, and Mr. Killian’s remarkable absence when the bill was reported adversely and during the next day has not yet been satisfactorily explained. It was only natural that grave charges of vorruption should follow such an extraor- dinary legislative episode. When they were made there was an abundance of ‘‘personal explanations” and promises of an investiga- tion. But the investigation of the moment has already spent its force, and there is no indication of an inquiry by which the trath may be established. This was what was to be expected from the loud words and pre- tentious boasting of the ‘‘statesmen” who are responsible for the defeat of the bill, but ‘of pay of navy.” | that public opinion showed “confidence” in the public will not be satisfied so easily They must not complain if, in public esti- mation, a failure to inquire is regarded as NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1876,—TRIPLE SHEET. The Latest Developments from Wash- | Secretary of the Navy lending money on a ington—Where Is This to End? We have tried to be on good terms with the government at Washington, to do justice to the men in authority, and not to be carried away by the tempest of defamation which in our wild, inconsiderate way we are apt to invoke on the heads of all public men who do not happen to agree with us in politics. Whenever it is thought best to change a government for political reasons the first thing we are apt to do is to defame its members, so that the people will feel like sending them to the Penitentiary at the end of their terms and elect new ones, who gen- erally meet the same fate. This wildness of criticism has reacted upon the opponents of Grant's administration as it reacted upon the enemies of McClellan when the leader of the federal armies. No matter how much ™ thi ex is th to fellows who wanted to be ‘‘bankers.” nothing can excuse this throwing of a mill- ion and a half ef good money into the wildcat security like a ‘St. Joe and Denver Railroad” would be amusing if it were not too mournful as showing the reck- less and profligate manner the credit of the government has been | used for personal and private aggrandize- in which ent. We really cannot see even the shadow of an explanation for this transac- | tion. credit the support of a house like Barings and burden it with rickety concerns like It was bad enough to take from our ose of Cooke and Clews. But that might be cused, as so much of what Grant has done excused from day to day, on the theory at it was an ‘‘error of judgment,” a desire “aid the party” and ‘help” a few good But MeClellan was censured and his generalship igi sa “Jay Cooke, McCulloch derided, he had with him the confidence of & Company’ after it was known that the head of the concern died in a large part of the most conservative men of the country, the affection of his soldiers and the respect of a great party which nominated him for the Presidency. We question whether any military fame will emerge more successfully from the criticism of the his- torian of the future than the once condemned McClellan. The stubborn- ness with which the people without dis- tinction of party have supported Grant, like the army support of McClellan, shows that the average sense of the American peo- ple is in favor of fair play. The people see all the time that Grant is the living type of the army which saved the Union, and of that resolute and mighty sentiment which arose in 186land wrestled with rebellion until rebellion fell and the nation was pre- served. We have so hearty asense of re- spect for fair play in everything, and espe- cially in our polities, that we have preferred to encourage this confidence in Grant, his men and measures, to joining in the hue and cry with which he has been pursued ever since he came into power, and with which, in the license of our modern politics, we generally pursue any administration. But upon what theory even of fair play and respect for honest intent can we explain these painful revelations about the Navy De- partment? There have been stories about this department for a long time—stories which we have always hesitated to believe. There seemed to be no foundation for them, and we attributed them to disappointment or revenge. But here we have evidence, official and direct, from the records of the department itself—records signed by the Secretary of the Navy. Let us place this evidence clearly before our readers. The administration finds the financial accounts of the government in the hands of one of the great houses of the world, that of Barings—a house that had relations with our government almost since its founda- tion, which had always been friendly in its financial dealings, which had aided us in many ways, notably during the war, when our credit was strained to the utmost, and when the most powerful influences were used to destroy our credit in the money markets of the world. To gratify a local firm in Philadelphia, which had grown into sudden and unhealthy prominence during the war, and another wildcat banking con- cern of the same character in New York, | whose chief spent.so much time in politics that he could not attend to the little ‘‘busi- ness” that had accrued to him, the adminis- tration transferred one branch of its foreign account, that of the State Department, to the house of Clews.and the naval account to the house of Cooke. We never heard any reason for this change except that the heads of these firms were “loyal” to the republican party and “bled” freely, like the post Sit traders on the Plains, for the ‘‘cause,” and were cronies of the President, assiduous in personal attentions and only too glad to minister to the comfort and repose of a tired Chief Magistrate anxious for a good time. The result of this transfer was to withdraw from our credit, at a time when we were negotiating our loans at a lower rate of in- terest, the strength of a great house like that of Barings, and saddle it with the weakness of mushroom houses like those of Cooke and Clews, which, even at their best, were young and new and without muscle, and helpless for any useful financial purpose, especially ina time as un- certain as the close of a war. The troubles which all the world outside of the Navy De- partment foresaw came. Jay Cooke failed on the 16th of September, 1873. Two days before this Mr. Robeson, then Secretary of the Navy, and at the time at Long Branch in attendance upon the President, sent a telegraphic order to the department to trans- fer to the London house of Cooke ‘one million of dollars for foreign account ont The Treasury two days after, hearing of the failure of the New York branch of Cooke's concern, interfered and would not send the money. Then came 4 despatch from Mr. | Cattell, formerly Senator and a familiar of Robeson, who, if report does not wrong him, has not lost much through his friendship for the Secretary, and who was in London in some syndicate job. The effect of this de- spatch of Cattell was to assure the Secretary in hi th ev W ex is th to se in of of Sp po to in, it to it fo: | al Cooke's London concern, and that if tho government did not “crush” it it would go onand do well. Instead of ‘‘erushing,” Robe- son, who is liberal in dealing with other folks’ money, four days later--that is to say, on September 22, 1873—directed the Navy Department to send a million and a | half of dollars to Cooke's house. The objec- tions of the Treasury were overruled by the President, for Robeson telegraphs:—‘Have Philadelphia, and that no life was left its English limb. The Belknap business was scandalous in every way, but we seri- | ously question whether the vulgar and shameless greed of Belknap, who did not hesitate to rob the poor soldiers on the Plains for diamond and lace money, is in itself an offence as grave as what now stands proved against the Secretary of the Navy and the President on no less evidence than the letters and despatches of Mr. Robeson mself. So, with all our desire to think well of ose who rule us—of the President, the Cab- inet and all in authority—how hard it is to | do soin the face of these daily recurring idences of maladministration and crime! e trust the committees of the House will probe this matter to its depths, that they will demand from the Secretary the amplest planation, and that unless this explanation so full that therecan be no question of e honest intentions of the Secretary he shall be called upon to stand side by side with Belknap before the Senate and answer the country for an abuse of power which ems to be a crime—that very kind of crime tended by the constitution in providing impeachment as a remedy and a punish- ent. The Brazilian Emperor's Journey. Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brasil, has already put eight hundred miles between him and Rio Janeiro on his way to New York. Yester- day morning he arrived in the splendid Bay All Saints, from above which the fine city Bahia looks down on its fair expanse. Much as His Majesty would have wished to gratify the loyalty of his Bahian subjects by ending a day or two among them, he proved too careful a constitutional ruler to violate the quarantine law which forbade communication between ship and shore. So, after accepting such a welcome as could be given under the circumstances, the good ship Hevelius turned her head, at five in the afternoon, for Pernambuco, from which int we hope soon to hear of His Majesty. Our special correspondent informs us—what will be read with sincere pleasure here—that, while desirous of avoiding public recep- tions, meet in person the illustrioug, Ameri- cans he has met only in books and on the lips of Fame. The Emperor proposes His Majesty will be glad to spend three months in the United States, and intends to visit California before attend- g the Philadelphia Exhibition; but if the latter opens, as expected, on the 10th of May, would leave him only twenty days from his arrival here to cross the continent and return, if he would take part in the opening ceremonies. This, we are sure, the authori- ties will respectfully press upon him, and is to be hoped His Majesty will be able to make some other arrangements fill up his time profitably in other directions than making a straight line across the continent, and so take part in the | opening ceremonies, which will be simple | enough to please his taste. Our public functionaries should see to it that becoming preparations are made for His Majesty's re- ception, as there are many ways of publicly honoring the ruler of a ‘friendly American nation well within the lines, outside of which | is not the Emperor's desire to be placed before the American people. Immunity’ to Witnesses. The surprising failure of the Senate to pass the House bill for the protection of wit- nesses is bringing some of the most impor- tant investigations toa dead halt. We can imagine no excuse or palliation for a delay which obstructs justice. there may be in the bill its purpose is right, and it ought to have been promptly taken up and passed by the Senate, either with or without amendments. The fact that the Whatever defects rm of the bill is exposed to some objections cannot justify the neglect of the Senate, The House would probably agree to reason- | able amendments, or, Senate would be free from blame if proper amendments were not concurred in, | republicans of the House, although they disliked some features of the bill, gave it an most unanimous support. They desired | amendments, but recognizing the urgeney of the bill they thought it unwise to cause delay. The Senate ought to have taken up so important a bill at once and have sent it | promptly back to the House with necessary | amendments, if they could not accept it in | its original form. The republican Senate cannot afford to screen criminals from ex- posure and punishment by refusing to pro- tect witnesses who can be induced to testify only by a perfect assurance of personal safety. at all events, the The Tar Verocrrr oF tHz Wrxp during the seen the President, and by his direction will | storm of Tuesday night reached the extraor- draw for a million more to-morrow. ‘The | dinary speed of seventy-two miles an hour money was drawn. It was sent to Cooke's | between 11:11 and 11:20 P. M., with a caleu- London concern. But even this credit could | lated pressure of twenty-six pounds per not save it. The firm has gone into bank- | some very doubtful securities for the re- covery of the advances thus made, in spite of the Treasury, as now appears, and by the square foot. Immediately previous to the ruptcy,and the government has to rely upon | first time indicated the wind velocity was | forty-eight miles per hour, vivid flash of lightning was observed, which was followed by a deafening peal of Just then a direct order of the President, acting under | thunder, and the wind speed suddenly the advice of his Secretary of the Navy. How much the government will lose by | is this transaction we cannot say: Robeson's | some railroad iron, a decree of a court mak- ing him a preferred creditor, and ‘forty-five one thousand dollar bonds of the St. Joe and | reached the maximum given above. ‘There scarcely any doubt that the electric dischargy created a sudden rarefaction of | list of collateral is not encouraging. He has | the air, which was immediately followed by | an indraught from the direction of the | highest barometric pressure and a conse- quent extremely sudden but temporary in- crease in the velocity of the wind, The Political Canvass in Connec- th With this busy week the electioneering con- | test will close in Connecticut, the election taking place on next Monday. According to the present outlook there is a bare possibility, but not a probability, that the republicans will carry the State. If last year's election returns could be accepted as the only basis of calculation it would be safe to predict a democratic success; but the figures of 1875 aré only one of several elements that must be taken into account. Last year Governor Ingersoll received 53,752 votes, and Mr. Greene, his competitor, 44,272, making a plurality of 9,480 for Ingersoll, who had an absolute majority of 6,548 over both Greene and the temperance candidate, Smith, Mr. Robinson, thé present re- publican candidate, is, therefore, con- fronted with formidable odds, and if he should succeed against sich odds the republican party at large will be justifiably sanguine of a great victory in the Presiden- tial election. The more probable result in Connecticut is a reduction, but not an ex- tinction, of the democratic majority of last year. The discouraging thing for the democrats is the fact that the general sweep of the political tide has been against them for the last eight or nine months. The elections of last autumn were disastrous to the demo- cratic party in the three largest States of the Union. They lost Ohio, where they had a majority of 17,202 in 1874, the republicans electing their Governor in 1875 by a majority of 5,544. They also lost Pennsylvania, which they carried in 1874 by 4,679 majority, Governor Hartranft, the republican candi- date, having been elected by a majority of 12,030 in 1875. They did not quite lose New York, for they saved their State tickot, al- though the republicans elected a majority of both branches of the Legislature; but Mr. Bigelow, the leading candidate on their State ticket, received only 14,810 majority, whereas Governor Tilden’s majority in the preceding election had been 50,317. There is no reason for sttpposing that the causes which pro- duced these great democratic checks have ceased to operate or have abated their force. Until the Babcock trial and Belknap ex- posure there was good reason for thinking the democratic ebb to be still in progress, State election in New Hampshire gave no indication that those astounding events had arrested the current ‘which was running so strongly against the democratic party. If the recent exposures shall produce as little effect in Connecticut as they did in New Hampshire the same general causes which have set back the democratic tide within the last eight months will reduce, if they do not obliterate, Governor Ingersoll’s majority of last spring. His present competitor, Mr. Robinson, is a strong and popular candidate, and the most the Connecticut democrats can expect this year is to barely save the State, The Rights and Wrongs of Trastee- ships. The excitement attending the flight of Mr. William C. Barrett from New York, under circumstances of the most painful character, opens an interesting question as to the rights and duties of trustees. The whole question of trusteeships is one of the most important in a community like ours, where there is no law of entail or primogeniture, where there are none of those protections to property which exist in older countries, but which are not in sympathy with the spirit of our laws. With us a large and constantly in- creasing body of property is held by trus- tees—by men who are selected for their probity, their special fitness for the | transaction of diversified business affairs, or for reasons of affection, which are gener- ally so potent in arranging the last wills and testaments of the owners of large estates. We have no data upon which to base an ex- act statement, but we have no doubt that the amount of property held by trustees is enormous. Considering the amount of the property thus held, the fact that it is in most cases the sole support of widows and children, and that there is no security | for the fulfilment of a trust but the obliga- | tion of honor—which is not always a barrier against avarice and criminal intent—and that even the laws against its breach are slight and insufficient in their operation, we must regard the whole subject as worthy of the deepest and most careful attention. Even the moral stain which falls upon a trustee who is false to his trust is in many cases allowed to pass away. It is said of one who thus proved false that in other years and under other circumstances he had committed a crime like that for which he is now a fugitive. Now, in addition to the moral and social ostracism which should fall upon the false trustee there should be a | penal statute of the most stringent char- acter. Thus we send the poor wretch who condemn the luckless forger to keep him company; but when ao trusted and honored friend or business asso- | ciate appropriates to his own use or wastes in foolish investments the fortune left to his care for orphans and widows he is not even expelied from his place in the Bar, but permitted to hold his station where he may in the future repeat the offence. He | is excused on the ground that he had “made mistakes in judgment,” that his investments had ‘turned out bad,” that he had been deceived as fo the security, and that he would gladly make all right “if he could,” and so on and 90 on. Now there is nothing easicr in the vorld than to so manage a trust as to have # perfectly secure. This, too, is a | and fot left to the option of trustees who havé lively imaginations and fancy that ev@y prospectus of a mining company is trustworthy. It should be declared that the only securities open to trustees for invest- | trast companies and mortgages on real eftate, well secured, and allowing for the tural depreciation even in that prime class | property. Nothing should be left to ance. ‘The trustee who invests his money nds of States like North Carolina and eorgia, where the State credit is subordi- ate to party ambition and _parti- gan atrifes, should be ae criminal and the town elections of New York and the | their denominational eccentricities behind steals a ham to prison for ten years, and we | matte that should be provided for by law, | m/fnt are the securities of the nation, sound | Pacific Mail or Union Pacific or in the | o———_ before the law, s criminal to be pun- | ished with severity. There is no excuse for any trustee who thus violates his trust. | The right path is so clearly marked that | even the blind may keep it without a guide. The securities which are first class and above reproach are few, itis true, but they are well known, as well known, we might say, as the stars which shine above us. Let the law make the breach of trust a crime of its proper magnitude, There will be fewer scandals like this which now op- presses and alarms our people, and which, we fear, represents a loose and false method | of doing business—a method that at some time or other may bring sorrow and ruin upon many who are now secure, apparently, in the possession of estates which have long since vanished into the business abyss of “margins,” stock-jobbing and worthless bonds. The Hippodrome Convention. The revival which Moody and Sankey have had in hand for the last few weeks cul- minates in the Convention which is now being held in the Hippodrome. Ministers of all denominations and from incredible distances have come to the central fire, hoping to carry back a lighted torch with which to ignite their several congregations. The assembly is certainly unique for more than one reason. In the first place, sectarian methods are laid aside and the common Christian belief is made prominent. Views are freely exchanged on such important questions as, How the outlying masses, who hear the church bell but do not heed it, may be reached? how clergymen can make their pulpit ministrations more effective? how Sunday schools, prayer meetings and inquiry rooms can be made more serviceable? and, in a word, how a vast deal of monotonous re- ligious routine can be got rid of and more modern and efficient machinery substituted ? All the journals of the day have treated this Convention, as a component part of the re- vival movement, with a large and generous courtesy, because religious effort, when it becomes undenominational, is matter of public interest. When the end of a preacher is to make Episcopalians, or Methodists, or Congregationalists, the work is moxe or less partisan, and in proportion to its partisan character is the subsidence of journalistic commendation. When, how- ever, all preachers come together, leaving them, to consult about the general weal, to devise some means of putting religion within the reach of all classes, then the movement commands the good wishes of every right minded man. In the second place, the Convention is unique because of the character of its leader. Generally a call for an assembly of this kind is headed by the prominent scholars and the most eloquent orators of the day. At the Hippodrome, however, the gray haired and honored clergy, the profound and venerated D. D, and the popular orator with his constituency of thousands all sit at the feet of a layman, who is sublimely and swettly indifferent to the ordinary rules of grammatical speech, and learn from his strong common sense what the theological seminaries have never taught. Mr. Moody's mighty earnestness and his vast experience in dealing with the doubtful, the indifferent and the evil minded seem to be worth more than whole libraries in the practical work of the ministry. We have watehed this whole movement from the beginning, and come to the con- clusion that the clergy will be benefited by itas much as any otherclass, The pulpit tends to the clouds. It soars too frequently and lights too seldom. It teaches religious truth in terms too technical and uses rhet- oric that astonishes when it fails to in- struct. It has too much of the lofty ambi- tion of the eagle and too little of the humility ofthe ground bird. Mr. Moody never gets up very high, but his flights are so encourag- ing to the masses that they seem half in- clined to try their own wings. The object of preaching is not so much to show how well the minister can fly as to teach the people that they also have wings. Though by no means beyond the reach of | honest criticism it must be confessed of tir evangelists that they have created @ great demand for the Bible and set the whue community thinking about religious matters. They have revived pulpit, pew and people, and deserve the hearty sympathy of all for the singleness of their purpose and the honesty and fervency of their zeal. The Czar’s Healtn. The German influences at the Russian Im- perial Court have been, during the last cen- tury, strengthened by ties of blood relation- ship, and since the time of Peter the Great | they have been more or less felt. Of late years two formidable forces have been | operating to weaken this feeling of alliance inside and outside of Court circies—one the nativist party, which, among the aristoc- | racy, presents Russianism as the main stay | and Russianizing as the mission of the Muscovite Empire; the other the socialist party, which attracts all classes, and, while distinctively Russian, is opposed to the cen- tralized sway of the Empire, no matter how beneficently exercised. Outside of Russia it is hard to measure these forces, but it is evident that the prospect of even a temporary change in the ruling spirit at St. Petersburg causes dismay among the European statesmen who are satis- | fied with the present bearing towards each other of the leashed imperial tigers which constitutes the chance of peace and pres- ervation of the balance of power. The, health of the Emperor Alexander has not been good for many years; rumors of his | gloominess almost amounting to misan- thropy have been flitting about; the | word insanity has been uttered once or twice; but without seeking an exact diagnosis of the Emperor's disease the | ukase of his physicians sentencing him to a prolonged residence abroad may be | taken to indicate that his bodily state is far from reassuring. If the absence from Russia is to bea long one a regent will in all probability be a necessity, and that this would devolve on the present Czarewitch, Alexander Alexandrovitch, is apparent. | This young prince is an ardent dativist, and hence the haste with which the European diplomats flurry themselves over the first | warning of what must be sooner or later. / \ know | see EEE Enna The Harrisburg Convention. This is a week of preparation among the | republicans for the Cincinnati Convention, but of all the State conventions which Lave been held so far that at Harrisburg yester- day is the most important. ‘The selection of the delegates at large from Pennsylvania shows that the party is still controlled by that veteran leader Senator Cameron, and the tone of the resolutions indicates that General Grant finds no favor with the republi- cans of the Keystone State. There is not 10 | much as a crumb of comfort for the admin- istration, while the Belknap exposure leads toa declaration more forcible and epigram- matic than is often found in party platforms. Not only do the republicans of Pennsylvania ask for honest men in office, but they demand men with brains enough to dishonesty when they see it and courage enough to fight it wher- ever they find it, The third term could not have received a more terrible blow even if it had been direct. But the name of Pennsylvania's candidate for the Presidency is not a subject for so much con- gratulation. The indorsement of Hartranft is only a blind, which deceives nobody and is scarcely meant to deceive anybody. He has no more chance for a nomination at Cincinnati than a hundred other gentlemen we could name, and his indorsement was only a convenient cover for the support of Blaine as against Bristow. The platform was Blaine's in every essential particular, especially in the school clause and in the resolution antagonizing the South, while even the time-honored pro- tection platitudes of his native State cannot be distasteful to him. Bristow, on the other hand, receives no recognition whatever, and it is so painfully evident that the Convention meant to turn him a cold shoulder that we may well doubt whether the Pennsylvania republicans know an honest man when they him. It is these things which give the Harrisburg Convention its great significance and make the platform the key- note of the coming campaign. Even the Cincinnati platform will be only an elabora- tion of Mr. McPherson’s declarations in regard to democratic purpose in the South, the silly chatter about the public schools and the other unimportant questions upon which it is intended to make the canvass hinge. The real issues before the country are carefully kept out of sight, and it looks as if we are to have another campaign with candidates and platforms but without prin- ciples. A Rewanxaste Pxenomenon manifested itself during the height of the storm on Tuesday at about 11:35 P. M. The baro~ metric pressure had then fallen as low ag 29.31 inches, showing a steady decline since Snorning of sixty one-hiundredths of an inch. At the hour above indicated the atmospheric pressure underwent a sudden change, which affected even the gas pressure all over the city at the same moment, and caused a fail- ing of the light which lasted over ten min- utes. At the Hxraxp office the cause of the phenomenon was discussed, and the opinion expressed that it was due to a sudden baro- metric change. On reference to the official record yesterday at the Signal Service Office we found the oscillation clearly marked on the diagram of the self-registering barom- eter. An illustration of the remarkable change appears in another column. Asstention rrom Votive by the minority in the French Chamber of Deputies will for- tunately not interfere with business there, and when this stupid means of protesting against the will of the majority is resorted to by the reactionists it can only result in demonstrating further to the country their hopeless impracticability. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Tho Philadelphia Ledger has enlarged, Georgia cries peas, green peas, when there is no peas. Foster Dewey, Jacksonville, Fila, Tho Baltimore American says that Tilden’s place im politics is that ofa fussy man from New York. The Milwaukee Times says that men hke clinging women. That is what made Medill baldheaded. When silyer comes into genera! circulation the people will have to carry around 1,400 tons of metal Thackeray was the only man upon the Punch staf Tweed’s old private secretary, is at | with whom Mark Lemon was not upon thoroughly easy terms. Down in Virginia you are not considered a good, high toned politician if you can spit clear of your shirt bosom. “po you take sugar?’’ asked the hostess of th¢ Rochester Democrat editor, “‘Yes’m; one lump, and just a mite of bitters.”” A San Francisco man writes a knowing essay on per+ sonal journalism, because he was kicked by an Assem. blyman, There are Southern people who object to Belknap being compared with Bacon, because Bacon went the whole nog. A new line of steamers will soon commence run-+ ning between San Francisco and Panama, touching at the Mexican ports, Scientists who havo examined mounds in the West recently report that the ancient American was more like Jem Mace than like Carivle. Seven hundred men were employed on the Truckee division of the Central Pacific Railroad this winter to try to keep the snow drifts down. In Northern Missouri geese are fifty cents apiece and pasture is $2 anacre, Mr. Randall can now cheaply obtain a local habitation and a name. In Wisconsin there is an insane horse, which is de scribed as small anda blood bay, No doubt, from its biting ways, it is a little horse reddish. Bananas are becoming plentiful in New York, and you can slip down on a tropical fce-pond ofa banana skin as if you wishod you were at the antipodes, The Danbury News says:—“Long hair isa glory te a woman unless she neglects to clean the comb and brush before her husband bas occasion to use thom.’” Jersey Dutchmen are wishing for the good old times when they dropped silver quarters into stocking legs and waited for the stocking and themselves to get full, Congressmen are complaining that tbo afr in the House of Nepresentatives is very bad this year, and yet not one -bas had the statesmanship to suggest cloves, A coriander seed sprouted in the cavity of a tooth worn by a California woman, and caused it to ache For miles around the people used to adviso her not « taik, for fear she would spoil the crop, . “Yes,'’ she sobbed, “he was a good, unselfish souk Ho used to scrape the ugly, hard, crisp beans off the top for himself and leave us the nice, soft ones, He used to say nothing could hurt his teeth, poor soul,’ Now comes in the gentle spring time, with a favor of buds and bioonis in the air and little bits of faint green grass coyly peeping from ander the warm sides of old troes, and men going down on ell fours, with a table | knife, digging heads off of obstinate carpet tacks, Tho New Orleans Picayune says:—"Pinehback having overcome the fatigues of travel is now engaged in laying his political plans forthe future Heutenant governor’ ship. Himself aad ex.Governor Warmoth spe. yesterday morning at the office of the latier, om Si. Loais stree,"” ‘