The New York Herald Newspaper, April 14, 1876, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON “BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. i All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. : Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OF FICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD ». 46 FL STREET, PARIS OFFICE—AVE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. B XM. ~ AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, CHATEAU MABILLE VARIETIES, at8 P.M, BOWERY THEATRE. LIFE IN THE BACKWOODS, at P.M. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET OPERA NOUSR. VARIETY, at 8 P.M, FIFT! TH PIQUE, at P.M. Fanv nport. GLOBE THEATRE. VARIETY, at 8 P. N. 3 EATRE. PARISI ateP.M. x GERMA DIE KARLSSOHUELE NIA ee HR, at® woods M. aad AWAKE, at 8 P.M. George France, Matinee 2 LYCEUM THEATRE. BLACK-EYED sv atSP.M. Minnte Palmer, THEATRE COMIQUE. VARIETY, at 8 P.M. THEATRE, WALLA‘ TWINS, at 8 P. M. BOOTH HENRY V., at 8 . M. RROC IE MIGHTY DOLL. jorence. TONY VARIETY, at 8 INION SQU sreM. € dr. EAGLE THEATRE VARIETY, at 8 P. M. PARK THE BRASS, atSP.M, Geo vu FERREOL, at APRIL M, 1876, ~ From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day wiil be cooler, cloudy, and, possibly, rainy. Notick to Country Nrwsprarens.—For prompt and regular delivery of the Herat fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to this office. Postage free. Wau Street Yrsterpay.—Gold was steady at 1131-4. Stocks were much depressed. The majority of prices lower. Money on call was supplied at 3 and 31-2 per cent, Government bonds easy, railway bonds steady and investment shares irregular. Ir Is Srnance that in all cases where Robe- ton and other members of the Cabinet are accused they plead that they are not thieves because they are fools. Tre Onsequies or Tur Late A. T. Stewart were conducted yesterday with all the solemnity that affection and friendship could surround the ceremonial, and a large gather- ing at St. Mark’s church testified the respect entertained for the dead merchant. Axornenr missing buoy is reported among the “Notices to Mariners” from the shoal at the entrance of Sagua La Grande, Cuba. The buoy has been missing since about March 6, and shipmasters are warned of the fact. The shoal is a very dangerous one, and is the same on which the bark Yumuri was wrecked last fall. Waar Ane tHe Rervsticans Dorxc ?— What have the republicans done with their majorities in the Senate and Assembly? Ab- solutely nothing! We have no spring elec- tion, no abolition of Tammany as a dark lantern Know Nothing lodge. Truly, it looks more and more as if John Kelly had captured the republican party. Can not some one give us the terms of the surrender? New Hoxors to tux Keystone Starr.— Senator Cameron complains because his State is not appreciated. But he is too modest. It was Covode, a Pennsyl- vanian, who was chairman of the committee which exposed the corruptions of Buchanan’s administration and pulled it flown. Clymer, a Pennsylvanian, is chair- man of the committee which is sapping the foundations of the administration of Grant. Tue Sxetcnes or Brazuasn History published in the Henaup to-day will be read with great interest in view of the com- ing of the Emperor Dom Pedro. tunes of the house of Braganza furnish a chapter in the history of royalty which, hap- pily for the people now ruled by the enlight- ened monarch of Brazil, has not been fol- lowed by the evil conseqnences that have formed the sequel of many other similar stories. Driven from Europe by the pres- sure of events the Braganzas sought in the pampas of Brazil a solid foundation for their throne, where, undisturbed by the shock of Seemutions, they bnve been enabled to | ence of one per cent in the income of prop- devote themselves to the peaceful advance- ment of their subjects. ‘| to The for- | Centexxtan Goops axp tur Custom | Hovse.—Our report of the case of Mr. Eliam and the investigation at the Custom House of the reasons why he was compelled to pay duty on goods intended for exhibi- tion at Philadelphia shows conclusively enough that this was due to inadvertency on the part of the intending exhibitor, who failed to present his goods to the customs guthorities with a properly authenticated record made up on the other side of the fact that they were to be exhibited at the Cen- tennial Exhibition. It is proper to have these things regulated ; but yet this is hardly an occasion on which we should adhere to rules with cast-iron tenacity, and it is worth a thought as to whether, in a case where a @an has como unprovided with documents through of what is necessary, it would not be well to have some means of the omission on this side without extorting the exhibitor's money in the form of duties, | | simply to maintain a demand which is Can the Five-Twenty Sizes Be Re- funded at Four Per Cent? Secretary Bristow closed out the new five hundred million five per cent loan Novem- ber 6, 1875, and since that date the refunding of the six per cent bonds has stood at a dead halt. The law gives him authority to sell three hundred millions of four per cent bonds not redeemable until fifteen years after the date of their issue; and, seeing that purchas- ers of the various classes of our national bonds at current premiums will realize but about four per cent on their investments, it would seem ‘practicable enough to negotiate a four and a half per cent loan if the Secre- tary of the Treasury would take hold of the task with the requisite energy and skill. Instead of acting he has stood still, appar- ently awaiting some further legislation by Congress. What he asks is that the time of .the four and a half per cent bonds be extended from fifteen years thirty, and that the authorized amount be inereased from three hundred million dollars to five hundred millions. Inasmuch as the transactions of the stock murket indicate that the credit of the govern- ment has nearly, if not actually, reached a four per cent basis, there is very little to be said in favor of either of these recommenda- tions of the Secretary. So long as capitalists go daily to the Stock Exchange and buy bonds redeemable in 1881 at a premium which makes them only equal to a four per | cent investment there should be no diffi- culty in disposing of four and a half per cent bonds not redeemable until 1891; for the ten years longer date is equivalent to an enhanced price, the rate of interest remain- ing the same, or to a lower rate of interest. If a bond having five years to run sells at more than para bond having fifteen years to run will sell a great deal above par at the same rate of interest, investors always pre- ferring the long bonds of a government in good credit. Four and a half per cent bonds having fifteen years to run ought to be readily salable in the present condition of the money market. At any rate, we see no reason why Mr. Bristow should not try the experiment; the result would at least show, by a practical test, whether he needs any new legislation to enable him to con- tinue the work of refunding. We of course do not undertake to main- tain that four per cent bonds could be sold to any considerable amount unless they had a long course of years to run. The more distant the period of redeemability the greater would be their value, and if Con- gress would authorize four per cents to run forty or fifty years we have little doubt that they would find a market. There is at least no harm in throwing out this proposition for discussion, and when the public shall have an opportunity to see all that can be said against as well as for it an intelligible opinion can be formed as to whether it is practicable, We are as ready to admit into our columns arguments by competent finan- ciers on one side as the other, for we have no dogmatism on the subject and only de- sire to nid sound conclusions as a basis for energetic action. Itis a discredit to our gov- ernmeft that it continues to pay war rates for the use of money eleven years after the . eee TS are compelled to surrender their six percent bonds, which bear a high premium, the gold in which they are paid will enable them to purchase the new bonds, which they will naturally do at once, as they are not likely to find better investments in the samo species of securities. The bonds of the United States are cer- tain to inérease in value, and long before fifty-year four per cents became redeemable they would bear a very high premium. The grounds of this certainty are perfectly intel- ligible. When the demand for any species of property is sure to increase and the supply is equally sure to dimin- ish it is not prophecy but calculation to affirm that the price will steadily go up. With the growth of onr country there will be a constantly increasing demand for gov- ernment bonds by savings banks, trust in- stitutions, ordinary banks for securing their circulation, and capitalists who wish a ready command of their resources ; and in the face of this growing demand there will be a regular diminution of the supply. Tho Secretary of the Treasury is required by law to purchase or redeem annually government bonds equal to one per cent of the national debt—a rate which will extinguish it before | the expiration of a forty-year bond. The certainty is, therefore, absolute that the value of United States bonds will increase by the diminished ratio ot the supply to the demand ; and this important consideration should have due weight with those who are charged with the duty of refunding the na- tional debt. The Alabama Surplus. Our commerce was fifteen millions of dol- lars the worse for the acts of the Anglo-Con- federate pirates, as was shown to the tribu- nal at Geneva, and that sum, was paid over by England and is in the hands of the govern- ment to reimburse the persons upon whom the losses fell, But who are those persons? There has been no trouble in finding legiti- mate claimants for five million dollars; but who owns the other ten? This cannot be paid to the persons whose ships were burned, for they were reimbursed by the insurance companies, Shall it be paid to the insurance companies? Congress says no, and bases that denial on the ground that the insurance companies repaid themselves by an assess- ment levied on the whole commerce of the country in the form of war premiums, As- sume that these grounds are tenable, and what follows ? Simply that this ten millions of money has.already been advanced by the merchants and shipowners of the country and that they are the parties to whom the remuneration is due. How can it be ascer- tained to what individual owners and in what proportion it should be repaid? Per- haps it may be possible to ascertain this and make a just pro rata distribution ; but if that is thought impossible there may be other means of giving the commerce of the coun- try the benefit of the indemnity. For in- stance, the money might well be applied in the endowment of institutions in the nature of the ‘Sailors’ Snug Harbor”—refuges for poor Jack when he has become legitimately used up in the merchant service—or for the foundation of asylums and schools for the close of the war, and we are only anxious to see the public burdens alleviated by a speedy end of this wasteful imbecility. Whether four per cent or four and a half per cent’ be the lowest practicable rate let us have the question debated and decided (so far as such a question can be decided without actual trial), ind then let our gov- ernment act with vigor on the conclusion which is reached, and take advantage of the present exceptionally favorable condition of the money market before the opportunity slips away. Any government in good credit is able to borrow, in time of peace, at much lower rates than the commercial community. The government of the United States ought to possess this advantage in a higher degree than any other, with the single exception of Great Britain, which pays only three per cent on its national debt. Supposing the ordinary commercial rate to be six per cent our government should be able to borrow at four per cent on bonds of comparatively short date, for the reason that such bonds, unlike other forms of property, are exempt from taxation. average rate of municipal taxation in this country is not less than two per cent, and a taxable six per cent property yields no more net income than a non-taxable four per cent bond, This great advantage of exemption from taxes must not be left out of the account in estimating the salability of gov- ernment bonds bearing a low rate of interest. Another decided advantage possessed by government bonds cver other forms of prop- erty is the fact that they serve most of the uses of ready money, and, at the same time, yield a steady income. Money kept on hand to meet emergencies earns no interest, but the owner of bonds can always convert them into money with- out loss, or hypothecate them for loans to nearly their full amount. A man who locks up his capital in real estate, machinery or merchandise has not this easy command of his resources, and cannot use them at once when opportunities arise for highly favorable investments. This circumstance of imme- diate availability is worth at least a differ- erty, which, added to the two per cent saved in taxes, makes a difference of fully three per cent between the commercial rate of inter- est and the rate which ought to be paid’ by | the government. Supposing the future aver- age rate on commercial loans to be seven per cent four per cent is as high a rate as ought | to be paid on long government bonds. on this question is the fact that new loans by our government would have no tendency to | | ; | Another important consideration bearing | | | glut the market for permanent securities. We can put owt mew bonds only | by calling in and cancelling old ones, | whieh is a very different case from that which | would arise if the new bonds were to be | so much addition to the existing public | debt. There is a large mass of individuals and of public institutions to whom this kind of property has become a necessity, and the | problem before us is not to find an enlarged market and draw property from other chan- nels into this species of investment, but The | orphan children of sailors, Be) ck for London. In the whirligig of time it would be one of the quaintest of changes to see Major General Schenck return to Lon- don as the representative of the United States, yet such oa fact is in the chapter of possibilities, His resignation is in the President's hands—is ‘‘at the Presi- dent's disposal”—nay, has been ‘accepted ;” but the place is not vacant, and General Schenck could reoccupy it without re- appointment. On the 8th of March the Senate inquired if leave of absence had been given to General Schenck, and on the 15th of March Mr. Fish sent a communica- tion stating the circumstances, and closing with the declaration that General Schenck’s resignation sent by him February 19 was accepted by the President March 6. what was it that was thus accepted? Schenck’s resignation, “to take effect when his successor was appointed.” That is the form of the resignation, and loads it with a condition which makes it necessary that the President and the Senate should agree on another appointment in order to get the present incumbent out of office. It is the principle of the Tenure of Office law that the President shall not have alone the power to remove a man from an important post without the man’s consent. If the incum- bent does not consent the President and Senate must act together, and they remove one man by the installation of another. In { this case Schenck did not consent. remains for somebody to show how much Schenck did toward defeating Dana. Tue Emma Mixe.— We must not allow the Washington correspondents to blind us as to the real points at issue in the Emma mine investigation. The inquiry thus fur shows certain incontrovertible points. is that © “mine” was found in Utah. The second is that this ‘‘mine” was sold in Eng- land for five millions of dollars, mainly by false representations as to its vaine. The third is that the purchasers of the shares in the ‘‘mine” were not capitalists, but humble investors—-women, clergymen and persons of limited means. The fourth is that the inducement to buy the shares was the in- dorsement of the mine by the American Minister, General Schenck, and the Ameri- can financial agency, Jay Cooké, MeCul- loch & Co. The agents who sold this “mine” made large sums of money, Tho women and clergymen who purchased the shares lost their money. Upon this state of facts, which no one disputes, the ques- tion arises, ‘Was General Schenck, in be- coming a director, indorser and patron of | the Emma mine, » knave or a fool ?” Tur Metnopist Coxrenences of New Jer- sey and the Eastern division of New York have completed their labors and appointed presiding elders and pastors for the several districts and churches under their jurisdic- tion. The utmost harmony prevailed and the meeting of the Eastern New York Con- ference has been finally adjourned. Russta proposes to go into the cotton growing business on a large scale in Central Asia. She must proceed carefully, picking already equal to the supply, When holders her steppes if she would succeed, But | It now | The first | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1876—IKIPLE SHERT, Wisdom in the South—What Is Needed. The controversy in the Republican Con- vention of South Carolina between Cham- berlain, the Governor, and the Whipper- Moses gang of ruffians, suggests one or two thoughts as to the proper mode for determin- ing the Southern question. We fear it must be conceded that the Southern people—those who were in the rebellion—have not wisely accepted the issues of the war. They have not succeeded in winning the affection of the old negro population with whom they have lived, and who would be only too anx- ious to act politieally with the men with whom they are bound by so many ties of sympathy and association. If the Southern men had been patient and forbearing with the negro there would not now be a South- ern State in which the races would not live in political harmony. The value of the Chamberlain movement and of independent journals like the Charleston News and Courier, which supports the Governor, is that if he wins his success will go far toward abolishing the color line in politics—a result which would be the dawning of a new era in South Carolina and the other Southern States. We read many fervid and passionate ar- ticles in the Southern newspapers about the condition into which these States have fallen. But we do not find in any of them an answer to this question—‘‘Why is it that the negro has been driven into the toils of the thief and the carpet-bagger?” It is no argument to say that they were seduced by Northern adventurers. The negro vote was in the hands of tho white men until the white men, by such legislation as was seen in Georgia and else- where, by repeated and unjustifiable out- rages, by denying the negro any of the ordinary functions of citizens, jury duty, or appointments to minor offices, threw the vote away. In the Southern States there is a pecu- liar condition of affairs. In all the States there is a large negro population. In three of these States the negroes outnumber the whites. Now, ordinary political prudence would dictate a wise course to the leaders of politics in these States. They cannot kill the negroes, They cannot return them to slavery. They cannot banish them. They are an important political factor; much more so than the German or the Irish in any of our Northern States. They should, there- fore, give them political recognition—the recognition which wise politicians in the North give to all classes who come here and accept our citizenship. By this we do not mean social recognition. ‘That is altogether apart from politics, The mistake of our Southern friends is in regarding political and social recognition as convertible terms. This is not so in the North. With us politi- cal and social relations are far different. If our Southern friends were wise they would consider the strength of j the negro vote in making their tickets, We have yet to hear of a case where this has been done. Has any one heard of a white demo- cratic mayor in a Southern city, in Savannah or Richmond or Memphis, appointing a negro to the office of policeman? Has any | one ever known ofa negro being appointed to an office, no matter how humble, by any Southern white democrat? Now we can well comprehend the answer that will come up to us from ten thousand Southern voices— “What! give a nigger an office, a black, de- graded nigger, to rule over white men.” | That is sentiment, we admit. But we are now talking sense. ‘You men of the South | want the negro vote. You complain that | this vote is taken from you ; that the negro | will live with you, trust you, fight for you, rejoice in your joy and sorrow in your griefs, but that he will not vote with you. Well, why should he? If he votes he wants loaves | and fishes, like his white brother, and if | his votes are worth soliciting they are | worth conciliating.” How long would the democratic or the republican party in the North have any influence with the German and the Irish vote tf, in the distri- bution of patronage and political power, | the American element were to treat the other as alien and unworthy of respect? There is | human nature in politics, and a great deal of it. Our Southern friends should accept facts, There is no use of whining over the ‘ost cause.” It is lost, and there is the end of it. Consider the negro as a voter and as not above having his voting power considered. Remember, above all things, that, having rescued the negro from bodily slavery, we cannot consent to see him reduced into po- litical slavery. There is nothing but defeat for the South on that issue. Accept the fact that the negro has as much right in ‘the South as the white man. Teach him that his vote is a solemn responsibility and that he should vote for honest men to secure cheap taxation and good gov- jernment. Let the white men of the South deal with the negro as we in the North deal with those who come fo live here from other lands, There will in time bo that feeling of confidence between the two races | without which thero can be no harmonious j action for the popular welfare. But once begin by laying it down as an axiom that the negro is only a little better than a dog, and we must expect him to leave his demo- cratic friends at the polls and go with those, him the consideration which no wise party ever yet denied the class or the race which had several hundred thousands of votes, Tue Pracur at Baopan is spreading with fatal results. Thirty new cases and ten deaths were reported on March 26. This origin, but has been frequently the deadly visitor of Southern and even Western En- rope. A sigid quarantine of the Mediter- the fell destroyer. We have little faith in the efforts of a people who only recognize “fate” in every misfortune. A Sprcian Despatcn to tor Henanp from Brownsville, Texas, says that General Por. firio Diaz, commanding the revolutionary | army in Mexico, has sneceeded in getting possession of the entire frontier line opposite American territory. This is an important advantage, because it gives him an extensive area for his operations and a secure line of escape if he is defeated. His have been paid up to the 11th inst, which will no matter how corrupt they are, who give | terrible scourge is peculiarly of Eastern | ranean ports can alone arrest the progress of | decidedly render him popular with the army. The officers of the United States gunboat are maintaining » watchful neu- trality, but render moral support to the Lerdo government. The Mexican customs officials and Labarra, ex-commander of Matamoros, are waiting for assistance in Brownsville. They expect help via Vera Cruz. Porfirio Dinz must make an effort to penetrate to the capital if he would reap any solid advantages from his recent suc- cesses. In his present position he ranks as little better than a magnificent highwayman. If he conquers the army of President Lerdo he will become a very great, because success- ful, hero, Such are revolutions in Mexico. What Will Mr. Curtis Do at Cincin- mati? Some enemies of George William Cur- tis intimate that when he goes to the Republican Convention he will not vote for Mr. Conkling. Now let us show these critics how it is impossible for Mr. Curtis to doany- thing else, When in the Convention he of- fered a resolution in the following words :— That while we should rejoice with pride if the candi- date for the Presidency in the election of this year should be selected from among the republicans of na- tonal reputation in the State of New York whom Now York most justly and most highly honors; yet recog- nizing that that nomination sbould be the result of tho Untrammeiled deliberation of the National Convention, we willingly leave the selection of the candidate to the patriotic wisdom of that body, in full contidence that it will present the name of some tried and true repub- liean, whose character and career are the pledge of a pure, economical and vigorous administration of tho government. (Applause. ) This resolution is clear. It committed the Convention to a definite policy. That policy was the waiving of any claim on the part of New York to name the Presidential candi- date. It was debated during a long session. Mr. Curtis spoke for an hour in its favor. ‘The Convention rejected it, and, on the con- trary, passed a resolution saying:— Asa statesman and a patriot of the highest ability and character, whose long and distinguished public career 18 without reproach, who has faithfully served the cause of ireedom and the Union through the great struggle of the last fifteen years, who has been stead- Jast to equal rights and financial honesty, and tho unilinching exponent of republican principles, and who possesses the experience, capacity, courage und firmacss which quality him to give strength and honor | to the goverument, we present Roscoe Conkling to the | National Republican Convention ws our choice tor the {| nomination ior President. Here, then, is the position. Mr. Curtis asks the Convention to do a certain thing. | It declines. It presents ‘‘Roscoe Conkling | to the National Convention” as the Conven- tion's ‘‘choice for the nomination for Presi- | dent.” It is, therefore, the duty of Mr, Curtis as a delegate, to ‘present Roscoe Conkling to the National Convention” as the choice of the republican party of New York for President. If he will not do this let him stay at home. He cannot as a gentleman go to Cincinnati and disobey the instruction of the Convention he represents. He is not, we are persuaded, the man todo such ao thing. It would not even strengthen him as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor before the Democratic Convention. Tue Navy DsrartmEnt.—Robeson’ seems to be rushing the press. A Washington cor- respondent reports the Secretary ot the Navy “still triumphant,” because “thus far nota word of testimony has been adduced showing that he has personally received a dollar.” But the Cattells have received one hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars, ac- cording to the evidence, not to speak of what A. G. Cattell must have made over in London. Does any one suppose that Robo- son allowed these favorites and parasites to grow rich without having his own views about it? If so, then who bnilt the Long | Branch cottages of Cattell and his bene- factor? Before. Robeson is “triumphant” he must make clear all about his relations with the Cattells, and the transfer of the naval account from the time-honored granite house of Barings to the pine wood concern of Cooke. Tue ‘New Croat Court.”-~—Here is one abuse that should be corrected before it | grows beyond correction. Some time since a bill was passed which gave us a third crimi-. nal judge. This bill was made necessary because so many poor wretches were in the Tombs waiting to be tried. The ‘‘new Court” | has been in existence since New Year's; but it has never been in session. Although we now pay for three criminal courts they never sit. Who is to blame for this? The matter will soon grow into an abuse. We shall forget that we are entitled to three courts, and be content with two. The judges will have a good time and the people will pay the bills. This is the way most abuses atise—maladministration at the out- set, indifference ever after. Give Us": Oxn ‘Tena Amenpmext.—The President is perfectly sound when he says that there is no law that the President should not run for a third term ora fourth. This is what the Napoleons said in their day. In © they were ‘necessary to the and in the end there “was no law against” their running for life. But un- written law in nations like the American and English has all the force of a statute. Here it is consecrated by time and tradition, and becomes a law in the most sacred sense, This unwritten law prescribes that there shall not be more than two terms for any President. Unbroken custom has conse- | erated the custom of Washington, Jackson j and Jefferson, This is why we think that it would be an improvement to our constitu. tion if we were to have the one term amend- | ment, as desired by Clay and the earlier statesmen, Tue Street Orexixe Svrr against the city to recover over one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars for fees and costs claimed | to be due to the Commissioners tor the | widening of Broadway, a work commenced | under the Tweed régime, has been stopped — by an injunction from the Supreme Court, | on the application of Corporation Counsel | | Whitney. The exorbitant charges and | their allowance by the Court withont any opposition being made thereto by a former | | Corporation Counsel shows to what an extent | the city has been plundered under the legal | forms with which the thieves surrounded their stealin, * Bevknarisa In Greece is creating consid- erable excitement. A minister, a judge and | several archbishops have been sentenced to | fine and imprisonment for bribe taking, and the despatch from Athens states that ‘all | were impeached for corruption and simony.” | Fortunately we bave no bishops or other ecclesiastics involved in our own troubl s; | otherwise the parallel would be complete ‘ _ Hinw to re BF. “Statesmanship” is not as safes busines! nowas it was in the past. In the old tims, when Walpole and his friends were in power, a statesman when he had business with thi” government finished it in an expeditious man. ner. There wereno rubs or blotches, Thegolé was paid down and nothing was said. We have fallen upon evil days, Gold has gone out of date. If a statesman wishes to serve himself or a friend, to make-a little “stake” or “rake” out of the poor soldiers or the rings, he runs a fearful risk. There is the risk of a check being indorsed, of a bill be- ing marked, of a telegraphic despatch being found by a subpena, It was the tell-tale memorandum which ruined Schuyler Colfax. It was the tell-tile check which dismay upon Tweed and his followers, If Tweed had not kept his accounts in the Broadway Bank he would never have been found out by the inquiring Tilden; ‘ Take the disclosures before the House com- mittees, What assurance can a statesman have when he transacts a little business over the wires that there will not be a legal process to bring the whole thing to light ina few years—after he has reformed, perhaps, and taken a prominent part in “the work of reform?” . Old Van'Buren used to say that it was better to travel a hundred miles to de- liver a message in person than to trust to a post. -Now, how much more harassing is it to trust it to a telegram with Mr. Orton to come into court’years after and swear a ‘‘statesman” into perdition? Would it not be well for Mr. Orton to institute a service for statesmen? Let him guarantee that as -soon as all states- manship despatches have been delivered , there will be an end of them. This would _ bea shield thrown around statesmen cal- culated to tranquillize the breasts of those noble, self-sacrificing patriots who serve their country for their own, and sometimes, asin the case of Maguire, for the country’s good. ‘Tunxis Fuxaxces are so complicated that we are prepared for any news respecting the efforts of the Porte to disentangle itself from the meshes that surround it. The latest plan under consideration is an exchange of the bonds held by Jewish and other denom- inations for’ lands in. Syria. But what guarantees are offered for Turkish good faith do not appear as yet. Tho question is an important one, especially for Syria’s people. Frexch Expronation mm Araica.—Elso where we present another chapter in the story of the expedition of M. Largeau, the French explorer, to the centre of trade in the great Desert of the Sahara, It will be found graphic in depicting the strange scenes the party passed through, and deeply interest. ing, particularly in its commercial bearing. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Hayes stock is rising in Iowa. Shall there be foot racing at the Centenaial? Mr, F. M. Hollister becomes the editor of the Buffalo Express. Tho Republican says that St, Louis ts not a good theatrical city. Florida visitors are returning North, Three hundred’ sailed from Jacksonville in one day last week. A Georgia preachor recently delivered a sermon from the text, ‘(And the vale of the Temple was wrapped ut twine,” nh The Cincinnati Enquirer says that Taft would make as good a Presidential candidate as Hayes, Both an from Ohio, Senator Sharon, of Nevada, left Washington last evening for Califoraia, via this city, He does not in- tend to return here this session, To-day is Good Friday, It wason this day of the week and of the month eleven years ago that President Lincola was assassinated, Siduey E. Morse, Commodore of the St. Augustint Yatch Club, has arrived in this city with bis family and is stopping at the Gleuham Hotel. An English critic writes of his own country :—“We do not require Mendelssobns or Raphaels, Hurdy- gurdy turners and photographers are more in our hne. Give us a brazen tune, a speaking portrait’? The Buffalo Courier, which is always sensible fa po- litical discussion, says that since the Senate of the next Congress may be tied between the two parties the position of Vice President, who casts a deciding vote becomes of increased importance, Danbury News:—'*Monaay was one of those dreary rainy days when @ man stays home all day and pulls out all his private papers, with a view to straightening things, and, after looking them caretully over, .caves them in a beap on the table for his wife to put away,” ‘We have for some time been trying tochp an origt pal bit of personal intelligence from the Washington Chronicle, Patience is at last rewarded. The Vhroni- cle says:—“Nero fiddled while Rome was in flames, and Alexander wept that there were no more worlds to con. quer.”? The son and namesake of Dr. Leonard Bacon, of New Haven, who has been some three years in Europe, is now established at Geneva, He preaches rogularly and is editor and pubhslier of the Chronicle, a sem weekly paper, issued simultaneously at Geneva, Dres- den and Rome. Protessor Merriman’s scientific prophecy, that withis 10,000 years the ocean will be rolling 1,000 feet deeg over America and that a beautiful new continent will appear in the Southern Hemisphere, is exciting con- siderable interest and compels many people to hesitate whether or not to go to the Black Hills. Norristown Herald:—“Tho New Yorx Heracp ov Sanday contamed seventy-two columns of advertise ments, said to be worth $12,000. The reason the Nor. ristown: Herald didn’t contain that many advertise ments on that day, is because we don’t print a paper on Sunday. There are other reasons also, but they aro not worth mentioning.” ‘The Richmond Whig says:—Thomas Jefferson rode on horseback to Washington, hitened his horse toa rail fence and walked over and was inaugurated. — Exchange. “Yes, and if Justice White had been there dealing ow aw, he woald have fined him $250 for violating the city ordinance by hitching his horse to that rail fence within the corporate limits,” A well known Paris dentist, residing in the fashion- able quarter, bas been arrested, and is in Mazas Prison, accused of buving for years past, while drawing and cleaning teeth, introduced slow poison into rich pas tients’ mouths at the instigation of their heirs, ard thus committed many marders, Two hundred wit hesses ate sald to be subpoenaed, The arnusemeats of the Spanish poor aro of the sim- plestand rudest order—the bull and cuck tights, the rosarios and other religions processions, gambling (chiefly with dominocs or cards), the wine shop an¢ the fairs, and tho “loose balls” or gallumbos, Add te these a rough sort of bat, trap and ball, and tho game of “rough bowls," and tue list is complete, Norwich Bnltctin:—“There have been some radical | Changes In the last century. A hundred years ago they kissed a lady’s hand; now you kiss ber lips—that is, of course, if you happen to be behind the wood pile and nobody is looking, and you don’t want to.disap. poluther. It may take 100 years to got from ber hand to her mouth, bat we never felt that tho time was mie spent." According to tha Voss Gazette Berlin gots all hor are ticles, not only of laxury and fashion, but also of come mon necessity, from the French. Hooks, shirts and) | butter are imported ta large quantitios from France, the productions of their Gallic neighbor being. « td better and cheaper than those of Germany, on like this,” says the philosuphic Gozttr, “France will soon get she paid to her conqueror, and which, hover peo-"*~! the leas, advantage to. meng,” Fol i MY “ ’ vf wl “