The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1876, Page 6

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Stocks were a trifle firmer, but the market was fluctuating. Government, railway bonds and investment securities were generally steady. Money on seall loaned at 3 and 4 per cent. Tux Naw Minister To Excianp-will be ap- pointed next week. We presume the Presi- flent knows by this time whom he will ap- point, and we hope his choice will be the sountry’s—Mr. Longfellow. Cooures.—Another shipload of Chinese coolies has been landed in California. It is no wonder when the Chinese come in such numbers that the people of the Pacific slope cry out against this noxious-emigration, which is impairing both religion and society and undermining American enterprise by giving Chinese cheap labor a monopoly in lighter manufacturing interests. A Tuovsaxp Cavatry arrived in Cuba yesterday from Spain. Before the summer is over most of them will have died from the effects of the climate, even if they entirely escape the insurgents. It is incredible that Spain should thus ruthlessly send her soldiers to Cuba to die to no purpose, but we suppose there is no help for it till the harvest of death is complete. Tur Mexican Trovsies are growing worse and worse and consist of the usual concomi- tants of astruggle in that unhappy coun- try—forced loans, outrages upon foreigners, assassinations and irregular fighting. Our special despatch this morning gives the latest catalogue of these, and adds a fresh chapter of crime to the history of Mexican misgovernment. Tur Surrix Bus, as amended by the | conference committee, has passed the Sen- ate at Albany and been sent to the Assem- bly. We presume it will also speedily pass the House. Necessary measures like this being out of the way there is no further oc- casion for the Legislature to pretend to work, especially as it is plain there is no in- tention to pass such bills as are required by the public interests. Tux Kueprve's Anmy has undertaken s ifficult job, and after a number of reported victories over the Abyssinians the Egyptians find their opponents eager for war and arro- gant in their demands as the price of * peace. Indeed, it begins to look as if the Egyptjan command has been outnumbered, outgen- eralled and beaten, and that concession on the part of the Khedive is all that is open to him. This isa blow which he cannot fail to feel keenly, but he is not likely to receive much sympthy from the rest of the world. Coxxirsa seems to be throughout the country rather a personality than a force. | ‘The people are asking for a man who is not very greatly identified with politics, and at | the same time they want » man who is neither a soldier nor a man intimately con- | nected with the civil service of the war. The | Southern republicans seem to appreciate the | fact that Conkling is the only Northern man whose record is not politically offensive. At the same time there is in the tone of the re- blican press a certain undefined some- | He seems to mean that Conkling temper in politics, Somuch the better. It is wisdom. He does not tell what he knows. If he should speak right | out we would know all he knows imme- diately, Conkling does not blurt. He keeps his deepest knowledge to himself. ee | 4 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1), 1876,—TRIPLE SHEET, 4 an Candidates for the Presi- dency. According to present appearances Mr. Conkling is steadily rising, and the pros- pects of his rivals ‘grow small by degrees and beautifully less.” In the first ballot at Cincinnati the votes will be so scattered that | they will have little meaning, in consequence of the instructions to several State delega- tions to give complimentary votes to candi- dates who are not to be seriously pressed. When the instructed delegations shall have discharged this transient obligation to local favorites the relative strength of the leading competitors will become manifest—perhaps on the second, or, at furthest, the third ballot. The ultimate choice of several of the instructed delega- | tions is already known, and the candidate who leads on the third ballot will probably receive the nomination, especially if he should have a great preponderance over every other. There are good reasons for be- lievipg that this advantage will be possessed by Senator Conkling. We insert a list of the States which, ac- cording to present gnformation, will support Senator Conkling as soon as the prelude of mere compliment has been performed and the delegations begin to give votes which “mean business.” We affix to the name of j.each of these States the number of its dele- gates, which is double the number of its Presidential electors, Parts of the list re- | quire explanatory observations, which we subjoin. The following are the States which may already be pretty safely counted for Conkling New York 0 Louisian: 16 New Jerse 8 Missouri, 30 California, 12 South Carolina, . 14 Oregon. 6 Pennsylvania 3S 6 Nevada Total... 2 Virgina The New York votes will be given to Mr | Conkling at the outset, and be “as true as steel” trom the beginning to the end of the contest, with two exceptions—namely, Mr. Curtis and Mr. Prince. ‘The other sixty- eight will give an unflinching support to Mr. Conkling through all the ballotings. ‘The Pennsylvania delegation will vote as a unit for Governor Hartranft on the first and | perhaps the second ballot, but will afterward vote asa unit for Mr. Conkling, until he is either nominated or his nomination is found to be impossible. The three Pacific States— California, Nevada and Oregon—will all send out-and-out Conkling delegations to Cincinnati, by the inspiration of Senators Jones and Sharon, who are the most influ- ential republican leaders in that section of the Union, and will easily control the choice of delegates. The Pacific States will sup- port Mr. Conkling with as much steadiness and zeal as New York itself. With respect to this part of the list, including the five States of New York, Pennsylvania, California, Nevada and Oregon, and casting together one hundred and fifty-two votes in the Conven- tion, we suppose nobody will question the correctness of our estimate. Deducting the two bolting delegates from New York, there remain one hundred and fifty votes of which Mr. Conkling 1s reasonably sure as soon as the Pennsylvania delegation ceases to vote for Hartranft, who is a courtesy can- didate, put forward with an under- standing that he is to be withdrawn when this mark of personal esteem and appreciation shall have been paid him by his own State. Even if the list terminated here Mr. Conkling would start at Cincinnati with a stronger support than any of his rivals. Neither Morton, Blaine nor Bristow has ahy appearance of receiving half as many votes at Cincinnati as will be given to Mr. Conkling by those five States which all intelligent politicians must concede to him, and to Which none of his rivals make even the pretence of a claim. We now proceed to state the reasons for assigning him the residue of the foregoing list. The delegates from Missouri and Louisiana will vote for General Grant on the first ballot, but their votes will be intended asa mere courtesy and mark of confidence, like those of Penn- sylvania for Hartranft, and will then be transferred to the candidate whom the Presi- dent is known to favor—that is, to Mr. Conkling. New Jersey, which lies con- tiguous to New York and Pennsylvania, will share their preference for Conkling, as there is no reasonable doubt that her delegates will support him. The attitude of the two remaining States of our hst—Virginia and South Carolina—may seem more open to question, but we think we have classed them correctly. It is true that part of the Virginian delegates are claiméd for Blaine, but the claim ig a hollow shell without substance. The members of the Virginia State Conven- tion had been chosen before it was known that the President favored Mr. Conkling, which put the delegates in an awkward dilemma. Blaine had been intriguing all winter without opposition in the Virginia Congressional districts which sent Blaine delegates to the State Convention before they understood the real situation, The Virginia friends of Mr. Conkling first came into the field in the interval between the election of the delegates and the meeting of the State Convention, and their tardiness is the only reason why a full Conkling delega- tion was not appointed to Cincinnati. To ease members who had been chosen as Blaine men a portion of the delegates to Cincinnati were given to Blaine in the same sense that the whole Pennsylvania delega- tion is given to Hartranft and the whole Ohio delegation to Hayes. Mr. Blaine will receive no Virginia votes at Cincinnati after the first or second ballot, it being already understood that they will all be given to Conkling as soon as the concentration begins on real candidates, The same thing is true of the South Carolina delegates, who will give ® complimentary support to Mor- | ton on the first ballot and desert to Conkling when the voting becomes serious, With so Jarge a support as Mr. Conkling is already assured of he is ceftain to grow in strength, according to the adage that ‘‘more men worship the rising than the setting sun.” He is fortunate in having no draw- backs which can hurt him in party estima- tion. He is, indeed, « stanch thick-and- thin partisan ; but so are all the really influ- ential public men in both parties and in all | free countries, and this objection would have the esme force if applied to Disraeli or | Gladstone as to Mr. Conkling. Whatever political carpet knights and Miss Nancies may say, men of influence have as little faith in rose-water polities as soldiers would have in a kid glove campaign. Other drawbacks than his vigorous partisanship Mr. Conkling hasnone. He has never been a Samson of in- flation, like Morton; he has no doubt- ful pecuniary transactions to explain, like another leading rival; he is not a mere “babe and suckling” in politics, like Mr. Bristow. In ability, eloquence, literary and social culture, in the kind of in- formation which befits a statesman, and in personal dignity and a high sense of charac- ter, Mr. Conkling is superior to every rival who is supposed to have any strength, The idea that because he has been a steadfast friend of President Grant he must repeat his mistakes is preposterous. No two men could be more unlike, except in the great point wherein all strong men resemble one another—inflexible steadiness, General Grant came to the Presidency without civil experience ; Mr. Conkling has a riper ac- quaintance with public affairs than any other man in the United States so young in years. The President is utterly destitute of eloquence and literary cultivation; Senator Conkling is the most eloquent and one of the best read statesmen in public life. President Grant has never outgrown his original inexpertness as a politician; Mr. Conkling is a trained and successful politi- cal manager. President Grant made the fundamental mistake of surrounding him- self with a Cabinet of army officers and per- sonal favorites; Mr. Conkling is too well acquainted with the ways of polities not to see the advantage of strengthening himself with a body of counsellors who possess the confidence of the country. No good judge of character can believe that a man so differ- ently organized and trained as Senator Conkling would give the country a tame repetition or servile second edition of the administration of General Grant, Mr, Conkling’s rivals are floating (if they can be said to be afioat) on an ebbtide which is rapidly receding and will leave them stranded, high and dry, on the political beach. Mr. Blaine will not even receive the united support of the New England States. He will not get either the Connecticut dele- gation, the Massachusetts delegation or the New Hampshire delegation, and even that of Vermont is likely to turn against him after the first ballot. He is out of favor in Penn- sylvania, his native State, and the only one of the large States on which he has ever counted. The fact that he could by no pos- sibility carry the indispensable State of New York, even if nominated, is a conclusive reason why he cannot be made the candi- date of a party bent on success. Morevver, his past record is rising up in judgment against him, and no party desires a candidate who must stand on the defensive. Cmsar repudiated his wife because she was sus- pected ; he surely would not have wedded a woman whose honor was not above sus- picion. Mr. Morton's chances are better than Mr. Blaine’s, if we can use the word “better” in such a connection. Mr. Morton will be sup- ported in the Convention only by States whose electoral votes are certain to be given to the democratic candidate. Even if he could be elected no political party de- sires a President whose physical infirmities make it doubtful whether it would not suffer a repetition of the evils which have always followed the accession of a Vice President to the highest office. Mr. Morton's prospects, like Mr. Blaine's, are going into an eclipse, from which they will not emerge. Mr. Bristow's chances are not worth discussing, for the simple reason that political conven- tions are controlled by politicians, and he is no politician himself and’ has no sup- porters who are. President Grant owes it to himself and his party to put out of the Cabinet every member who is either scheming for his own nomination or abusing his office to cross the President's wishes; and if this step were taken Mr. Conkling would ‘‘walk over the course.” ' Grant, the Cabinet and the Party. Our appreciative, but perplexed neighbor, the Times, is afraid that in urging upon Gen- eral Grant the propriety of making his Cabi- net a unit for Conkling we are not consistent with our position on the question of Cmsar- ism. If we warned the country against | Grant as a Cmsar why are we urging him to become a Cesar to the republican party? These are questions that might well be asked by those who look only on one side of a subject. The canvass has many sides. The President is of all men in the country the one most interested in having hisadmin- istration indorsed. He favors the candidate who will give the party the best chance of victory and at the same time not disown his administration. The proposal to “reform” the republican party, which comes from a few saints like Mr. Bowles, a few dandies like Mr. Curtis and a few of the old fogies of the Union League, is only another form for a repudiation of his administration. The President asks naturally enough, “How can I be expected to support a man—say Mr. Bristow or Mr. Adams—who runs simply on the idea that he is a much better man than I am, and who, if elected, will slaughter my friends?” It is not in human nature to expect this, and Grant has a good deal of human nature in him. But if he can name oa candidate who will not be ashamed of the administration, who willsnot be too hard on the Caseys and | Dents, who will be mindful of his military career, and who at the same time will not be | out of sympathy with the party, why sbould | he not do so? He knows the men around | him. He has no ambitions of his own, | since Babcock and Belknap killed the third | term. He knows who would make the best | President, He remembers what Jackson did with Van Buren and Jefferson with Madison. As the head of » party, and in some sense a trustee of its power, he is bound to show an | interest in its success, For these reasons he supports Mr. Conkling, and all that is neces- | sary to make that support effective is for him | to issue his mot d’ordre to the Cabinet and all in power to respect his wishes, even as | Jackson did with his Cabinet. If they will not let him find men who will? i Tammaxy's Oprosttion to Governor Til- den’s Presidential aspirations seems likely | to bring that powerful organization to grief. Mr, Tilden’s strength in the Utica Conven- tion is conceded, and the first use of it—as foreshadowed in ‘our Albany correspond- ence—will be to give Tammany a back-set inthat body. This is the first step toward the downfall of a secret society which has been the tyrant of our local and State poli- tics, and. none will regret its fall except those whose antagonism to Governor Tilden precipitated it. The Cab Question. 4 That we are to havea system of cheap cabs inthis city, and that very soon, there can be no question, Indeed, so much isalready con- ceded by those the reform will most affect— the owners of cabs, But this class of our public servants differ as to the proper method of attaining the desired end. The Public Hack Owners’ Association ask for a uniform system of licenses and rates, in order that fair competition may be had in catering for the public. This is a reasonable and just demand, for it is absurd to expect ‘cheap cabs while certain livery men enjoy peculiar privileges in their business. Give all hack owners an equal chance to secure custom, and place them on an equal footing, and the cab system is not only simplified, | but it is pnt on a basis that can be under- stood by everybody. The special license owners aro evidently trying to fortify their own position by asking for a cab commission or an increased number of inspectors. They ignore entirely the question of charges, as was to be expected: after the Henatp’s exhibit of their method of doing business. We now come to the consideration of the real question. Will | commission on cabs or more inspectors give us cheap cabs? Judging from past experience it is quite evident that‘this proposal will not solve the difficulty. A more thorough inspection will undoubtedly improve the cab service ; but two or three hundred inspectors even could not give us cheap cabs solong as the present scale of prices prevails. The new commis- sion will only add to the number of useless offices, for of course it would be filled by some political ‘chack,” who would pay more attention to primaries than to the duties of his office. alike, the rules for their government simpli- fied, the tariff of fares reduced to a reason- able figure and all hacks given the right to solicit fares when returning empty to their stations or stables. Then the police should have full power to enforce the cab ordi- nances, correct grievances brought to their | notice and maintain constant surveillance over that class of vehicles. This would bea simple solution of the whole trouble. In another column will be found the views of cab owners on the question now being agitated. It will be seen that they lay all the blame on the public, which, they say, demands a class of private carriages, instead of numbered cabs. That there is some trath in this assertion cannot be denied, but the cab owners ignore the fact that while there isa demand for elegant carriages by those who cannot afford, or do not care, to keep private carriages, the great mass of the public are desirous of securing the tempo- rary use of cabs ata reasonable and mod- erate figure. A merchant or a banker, be he never so rich, does not care to have two horses, a liveried driver and an “elegant” coach when ‘he wishes to save a few valuable minutes in reach- ing his place of -business. Neither does a tourist, just arrived on our shores, look for such a carriage when he wants to leave the steamer and go tohis hotel. The cab owners might as well say that the public who patronize cabs want plumes on the horses’ heads and a tiger in the rumble. Cut down your prices, give good service for fair re- muneration, Messrs. Owners, and you will find your business increased and really more profitable than it is now. Investigating the Herald. The investigating committces at Washing- ton seem to have great facility in turning back to Heraxp exposures in their inquiries, and they generally appear more anxious to discover how the Hzratp obtains its facts | than to unearth the facts themselves. We learn, for instance, that General Custer is to be investigated, and that the inquiry will be little more than investigating the Henan. Why do the committees of Congress go to all this trouble? If General Custer has done anything wrong—if he is even suspected of doing anything wrong—let him be investi- gated by all means; but a suspicion that in some way he has served the Hrratp is not sufficient ground for an inquiry. In the multitude of servants who from time to time have served the Heratp it is difficult to re- member whether General Custer was among them or not ; but even if he was he was only one of a distinguished company. Kings and emperors, as well as presidents and cabinet | | ministers and Congressmen and military and naval officers have enrolled themselves | among our contributors. Is every man who ever wrote for the Hynarp or gave the Henratp information touching public affairs to be investigated by some committee of the Senate or House of Representatives? This apparently is the motive in the case of Gen- eral Custer, and if it is it is a very silly rea- son for asilly proceeding. If Congress is to pursue this policy much further both houses may as well stop attempts at legislation alto- gether and organize into committees to in- vestigate the Hrnatp. Tue New Onreans Times, with o start- ling head line, but with conservative rhetoric, gives a report from the lips of an ex-officer of the United States Secret Service to the effect that during Lincoln's adminis- tration General Baldy Smith, as an investi- | gating officer, discovered certain irregnlari- ties in the business of officers of the army. General Smith recently, upon being inter- viewed, said that, while he had no reason to | love General Grant, the report in regard to | the President is untrue. other charges General Smith spoke with a | French shrug of the shoulders, implying thereby that he was not entirely without | knowledge of abuses by great men during the war. He says that if the report of his investigation was destroyed in the War De- partment he is able to furnish another copy whenever Congress shall call for it. The story in the New Orleans Times affects the ability of General Banks more than his char- acter, and it seems to flatter General Butler, while it brings in the name of his brother, who wasa colonel. General Smith's words The cabs ought to be all licensed | Concerning the | might seem to imply that, while the story is not wholly true, there are some things that a Congressional inquiry might have the ex- planation of from him, Ilustrious Examples for the Presi- dent. The Treasury is a great office, but some- how it fosters ambition. Hamilton cameout of it yearning for the Presidency. Crawford was so ambitious that he never recovered from lris defeat. It was in the Treasury that Calhoun endeavored through Ingham to foment his intrigue against Jackson, Wal- ker became ambitious in the Treasury of Polk and Cobb in the Treasury of Buchanan. Chase used the Treasury to supplant Lin- coln. The Treasury is a vast cflice with power greater in some respects than all the others together. Fish can control a few min- isters, Jewell a crowd of postmasters, Chand- ler a batch of clerks and Indian agents—we have no army and no navy worthy of the name, but the Treasury absorbs them all. Conse- quently when a Secretary of the Treasury becomes a candidate for the Presidency he takes into his support the living strength of the administration. This is the position of the present Secre- tary. He is a candidate for the Presidency. A young man who can well afford to wait, he allows a campaign which began for ‘‘ reform” to become a personal strife for place. Al- ready he has an army of spies and detectives in the under world and some well meaning but not well informed saints in the upper world ‘‘ making » canvass” for him. When Jackson found Ingham supporting Calhoun against Van Buren he drove him out of the Cabinet with high oaths, When Lincoln found Chase using his office for his own end he did not swear, not being a swearing man, but effectually silenced Chase by removing him from the Treasury and im- prisoning him for life in the icy solitude of the Supreme Court. Now, President Grant has made up his mind, and wisely, that Mr. Conklirig shall be his successor, so far as he has power to name a successor. Since Mr. Bristow inter- feres with that judicious choice, and instead of nursing his youth and waiting. his time, forces his canvass, General Grant should read up the history of Ingham and Chase and study well the examples of Jackson and Lincoln. The Queen's Cup Race. The New York Yacht Club will holda meeting in a few days to consider the chal- lenge of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club for possession of the cup won at Cowes by the America in 1851. It is not doubted that the required six months’ notice will be waived and the match sailed. Scarcely five years ago Mr, Ashbury and the club, after some sharp sparring, agreed upon terms which sub. sequently governed the Livonia contests, and all doubts as to conditions in respect to future races were supposed to have been then set at rest forever and a day. Still the question is often put, “Why should’not the challenging yacht sail against the whole fleet, as did the America in Eng- land?” We propose to answer this query. The English race was a sweepstake; the American race is a match. In a sweep- stake there are as many interests involved as there are contestants engaged. Each is the antagonist of the other, and the sole ob- ject sought for is to win the race without re- gard to the prospects of the other competi- tors. Ina match, on the contrary, there are but two interests and two sides, although the parties engaged may be constituted of unequal numbers. Thus the Cambria sailed the match in 1870, although she represented one interest and an entire fleet the other. It was a joint stock concern of many part- ners, with a community of interest on the one hand and a single representative on the other, and it was the duty of the partners to ignore any personal ambition and to band together to defeat the enemy. The merest tyro in yachting will perceive that a squad- ron mana@uvred en bloc can be made seriously to interfere with the progress of a single op- posing vessel, and that for the latter to win under such circumstances would be almost a hopeless task. A There exists, however, an unanswerable reason why the fleet cannot be allowed to sail in the race, and it lays in the fact that | Mr. George L. Schuyler, the sole surviving donor of the cup and a signer of the deed of gift, has explicitly defined the meaning of the document and the conditions under which the club are now custodians of the trophy. These are simply that it was the | intention of the givers that ono single vessel only should be pitted against the challenger, In the Livonia contests four boats of different styles were chosen to meet the visitor, and the one best adapted to the prevailing sea and wind was named each morning. English | yachtsmen criticised this arrangement very severely, as wanting in true sportsmanship, The New York Yacht Club will avoid’a renewal of like unfavorable comment if they will select from their splendid fleet one repre- sentative vessel and turn over all the work to her, whether the event is to be decided by one or in a series of races, 7 What Is Wrong with Mr. Walsh? The Tammany Society street the other evening elected the old Board of Sachems, leaving off the name of William A. Walsh. No one objects that Mr. Walsh is not a good man and a good demo- erat. Noone thinks that Mr. Walsh would not make a good Sachem. He is as good as when he was elected a year ago. Why, then, should he be removed from the Board. Simply because he did not. support John Kelly last autumn. The removal of Mr. Walsh means that the secret dark lantern Know Nothing lodge on Fourteenth street will not permit any demo- cratin its authority who does not support the wishes of John Kelly. Yet, in spite of this fact, which even the editor of the Bepress will not controvert, we are told that there is no relation between the Tammany dark lan- tern lodge and the Tammany democratic organization. The truth is that T:mmany, as 1t is organ- ized now, is governed by a secret lodge which is as much at the beck and call of Kelly as it was of Tweed. It is anti-demo- cratic and should be broken down, or it will destroy the democratic party as effectually in the next campaign as it did in the last. on Fourteenth | Too Many Heirs. é One of the Paris courts has lately had be- fore it a case which exhibits the capacity for matrimonial vagaries that is to be found in the Eternal City. Cardinal Antonelli’s nephew married Miss Garcia, whose father was ennobled on the occasion, and who sub- sequently had the good taste to die and leave his large fortune, as was supposed,’to his only heir, the bride. But this fortune had been gained in’ the West Indies, and it was ina little while evident that there were com- plications. Numerous Garcias of different shades came forward. Ramon ‘was one, a certain Mme. Jannesse was another, and these were the children of different negro women to whom dear old papa Garcia had been wedded in his time, more or less irregularly. Other heirs, the children of other ,dusky beauties, believe their claims too slight and did not come into court. On the Antonelli side it was sought to show that all these parti-colored relatives were illegiti- mate, when, behold those impudent people straightway proved that the niece of His Emi. nence was the daughter of an actress, tc whom her papa was married only a long while after the dear child’s birth was in- scribed in the public records. Justice seems to be a very scandalous and shameless crea- ture when she deals with the family rela- tions of the great. Ar Last it seems as if Turkey had no resource but to fight it out with the insur. rectionary provinces. A sanguinary battle has been fought near Trebigne, in which the insurgents took the offensive, and their zeal and yigor are becoming greater the more the » struggle is prolonged. If the great Powers will keep their hands off there may be a more satisfactory settlement of the Eastern ques- tion than any which can be gained by diplomacy. None Tue Wuisxey Fraups Exrosvrzs have found a new field, and now it is San Fran- cisco instead of St. Louis where the trials and punishment of men who have been de- frauding the government are to be prose- — cuted. Rings have been exceedingly unfor- tunate of late all over the country, and the people have reason to rejoice at the vigor with which corrupt officials and dishonest men have been brought to justice. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Hawthorno says that the idle are always cruel. A Paris landlord levied on his tenant’s wooden leg. Shaftesbury said that gravity is the essence of im. posture, Tho Washington Jobby is not making much money this year. Young Lord Lytton, son of Bulwer, is handsomer than his father was, General William Tecumseh Sherman fs at the Gran¢ acitic Hotel in Chicago, wd Mr. Manson, an Englishman, went to Oregon in 1825, ana he js known as the oldest settler. The snow is deeper in the Sierra Nevada mountaing than any white man ever saw it before. Five hundred boys aro educated at Girard College, Philadelphia, but the legacy has go greatly increased that room is being made for 2,000 pupils. The sub-editor of the Paterson (N. J.) Press onght not to criticise this column and atthe same time de- liberately reprint these items as original with local adaptations. Mr. Henry W. Raymond, son of the late H. J. Ray mond, will, while engaged in the bookselling business in Chicago, be the correspondent from that city of the Boston Globe, A mountain of rock soap has been discovered in Cal- ifornia. Itis beautifully veined, like castile. Henry Clay Dean need not worry. It is all rock, and oaly looks like soap. In the South the newspapers are having a hard time, Some of them are models of provincial journalism; but the people are poor and are spending most of their money for other fertilizers, Fanny Elisier is very rich, She is only sixty-seven, She has never been married. Some man hasbeen saved from being danced around with a stove lifter and always expecting to be scalped. No finer criticism could have been made than that which was uttered by a San Francisco Chinaman, who, being pushed off the sidewalk by a white maa, tersely uttered :—“I heathen; )ou Christian; goo’ by.” Christ hated warfare, yet during the present revivals throughout the country three-quarters of the religiout songs and literature are fall of “Soldier of the Cross,” “Fight with Jesus,” ‘Hold the Fort,” “Tho Sword of the Spirit,” &c., &e. Tho Wilmington (Del.) Commercial finds that oate made fine Grecks, fine Enghsh horses, fine Swedes and fine Scotchmen. They contain eighty-five per cent of sohd matter which makes a Scotchman lean his back against a post and fect his oats. Certain Southern papers praise such men as Jere. Black, Vallandighata, &c., because they were ‘‘neutral’” during the war, always claiming, however, that they did not favor the North. Isn't it strange thata man can nover be called a high souled neutral who did not fa vor the Soutn? The Louisville (Ky,) Ledger does not think that Bris. tow is very strong in his own home, The Ledger ape | preciates the fact that Morton represents the negra sentiment in the Southern States. It is just as evident that Conkling represents the Union sentiment, black and white, in all the border States, St. Louis papers say that negro minstreis always got ‘an audience In St. Louis, while a high class of music ia uot well patronized. Dr, Von Biilow left a bad per, sonal impression in the West, Chicago critics wish © that a representative pianist like Mills should health- fully follow in the path which was made ridiculous by Von Balow. Suppose the movement in favor ot “the scholar in Politics’? should be successtul? Professor Seelye has made a point among scholarly mon, but not among the people. What the people really want !s an honest demagogue—some one who is not more fastidious than the popular Movdy, but who 1s sensible enongh ta keep down undue exaltation. The Courier Des Etats Unis, which bas never de- parted from its original idea of being a sober and dig. nifled newspaper for French residents of New York and victuity, celebrates ite progress sinco 1828 with meritorious prido by givinga short history of ite course, The Courier is the poerof any of its Paris contemporaries in style, and it excels most of them in Journalistic enterprise. Tho plague, which a century anda half ago bogay on the Euphrates and travelled westward like the Van. dal and the “star of empire,” is again threatening. 11 is worthy of constderation that where buman life and civilization began, where fine horses and smallpox and amber and religious waltzing and Reecbers and ro mauces came from, European politics centre and s world-threatening plague begins. ‘The Chicago Inter-Ocean has an article about the tari, rate on quinine. When a man’s shakes must be regus Jatod by government, when he can’t have a chill with. out a percentage, and can’t chatter his teeth together were a fraud avd thet men’s instincts are better than polities A loness always licks her cub the way the hair grows, but pro‘ectionists sometimes seem to make the hair stand om end. ‘The St. Louis Republican is authority for this story:— “An intelligent and closely dheerving lady, upon whose head the snows of age are lightly drifting, bas recently returned to her St. Louis home after a prolonged rest, denee im Europe. Speaking to a fiend of the aiffer- ‘ence betwen the social usages of the Old World and the new, she said, ‘The fact is, my dear, there is no Place in. American society: for old women, I don't mean women of sixty-five and upward, but those onthe shady fide of forty and the sunny side of three score; women | Who are too old to indnilge in the follies’ of fashion, and Yet too young to want to epter a coffin or a convent, What enjoyment, does America provide them 7» Lan rerinaye *