The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1876, Page 6

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Gold ended at 112 5-8, and money loaned at B1-243 percent. Enouisu Quorations or Sriver show a de- cline in price. This condition of the bull- ion market must react on values oh our side of the ocean. Tue Avsrno-Hunaanan Castner Dispute threatens to precipitate a crisis in the political relations between the two countries. Although under one roler there exists a rivalry of interests, which Ministers some- times find extremely difficult to dea! with. The subjects of the Emperor of Austria do not like those of the King of Hungary, and the Emperor-King is in a pretty fix between them both. France is preparing to send a delegation of her workingmen to our Centennial Exhi- bition, where they will learn the possibili- ties of progress under republican institu- tions and be encouraged to uphold the new order of things in their own country. Nothing serves to impress men’s minds more than seeing the substantial outcome of the operation of great, principles, and we feel confident that the French workmen will re- turn home filled with the idea that France ean accomplish her highest ambitions under | her republican flag. Centran Amgnican Poritics are active so far as electing Presidents, fighting battles and burning cities can make them. The despatches from Panama report the forma- tion of the new Cabinet of the Colombian President, the election of a President in Costa Rica, the increase in the military strength of Nicaragua, the invasion of Hon- duras by a band of exiles armed with Rem- ington rifles and the burning of Copica. Guatemala has gone to war with Salvador | and inflicted a heavy defeat on the troops of that State. Altogether the prospects for the coming summer are decidedly lively. Biswanck’s Rarnoap Scueme is receiving the support of the liberals, as shown by a re- tent caucus of that party held to consider the railroad bill. This proves that the party | of action are desirous of supporting the man of action, a combination of forces which can gecomplish great things. The centralization policy of the present ruler of Germany, Prince Bismarck, presents many phases, being conservative and revolutionary, ag- | greasive and defensive at the same time, and will farnish the historian of the future with ample material whereon to moralize on the Tux Ovrpreak iN Parvavos is unex- ed by any despatches yet recvived. wen the British government does not appear to know much abort the matter, and the London press comments on the fact. A curious feature of the news as received in London is the statement that “‘incendiarism | has been rife, but not to an unusual extent.” It would appear from this that incendiarism is chronic in Barbados, and is regarded | much the same as is the Yellow Jack—a kind of West Indian plague. We fear, however, that injustice to the laboring element is at | the bottom of the trouble, and that Ah Sing, the coolie, is asserting his rights, torch in band | $500,000,000 had been taken at par, and the | | ceeded | Bristow is blind to the great opportunity | of disposing of the new loan except through | to emancipate itself. Popular Government Loans. Our clever contemporary, the Sun, preaches sound doctrine on this important subject from a mischosen text, The substance | of its argument entirely accords with the views on national loans which the Henap has of late been pressing on public attention, and we welcome so able, anally, notwith- standing its inadvertence in using correct reasoning on an occasion to which it does not apply. The Sun arraigns as a ‘blun- der” Secretary Bristow's advertisement for the sale of $5,883,000 five per cent gold bonds to pay the judgments of the Commissioners of the Alabama claims; the blunder consisting, as the Sun thinks, in limiting the bids to ‘lots of not less than one-half million of dollars.” With regard to this particular transaction our contemporary is in error, but its reasoning would have admirable pertinence and force if applied to Mr. Bristow’s general manage- ment of public loans instead of this limited sale of bonds for a specifig purpose. We insert the main points of the Sun's argument before proceeding to point out its misappli- cation:— The Secretary has committed a serious error, because it plays iuto the hands of a combination of toreign capi- talists and excludes all competition at home except in a limited circle. ‘Tho great success of the French loans was due to the fact that they were taken among the people of France The whole nation thus became inter- and it was hardly tn small sum ested in preserving the public credi affected even by a change in the dynasty or a revolution that upturned society. Mr. Lristow hus entire discretion, under the law, to reguiate the method of disposing of tne and he Las enorersed it against the judgment of most enlightened bankers and business men in ay to do harm to the very object he seeks to serve. drain on gold or its equivalent to pay interest on bonds of the United States held abroad 1s “one of the hardest because this money 3s all spent out of the 'o exclude the people of small means from subserib- ing for a national joan, or to turn them over to asyn- dicate of large speculators, who have no interest to promote but their own profits, is mdefenmble on gronnds of public policy ; and this 1s exactly what Mr, Bristow has done in the present case. The Sun seems to confound the five per cent bonds, in which the Geneva award was invested by direction of Congress, with the new loans authorized for the refunding of the national debt, otherwise it could not have said that ‘‘Mr. Bristow has entire dis- cretion, under the law, to regulate the method of disposing of the loan.” He has, in fact, no such discretion in relation to the particular bonds in question. The amount of the Geneva award (fifteen million five hundred thousand dollars) was paid by Great Britain a few days before the expira- tion of the year allowed for that purpose, and in pursuance of the act of March 3, 1873, it passed into the Treasury and was used, so far as it went, to redeem the public debt. The act further provided that ‘the amount equal to the debt so redeemed shall be invested in five per cent registered bonds of the United States, to be held subject to the future disposition of Congress.” A por- tion of these bonds was required to be sold to procure means of paying successful claimants, and has been disposed of to the highest bidder, It would have been absurd to receive bids for these bonds in such small sums as would permit “people of small means” to become compet- itors. The task of deciding which bids should be accepted would be endless on such a plan. Moreover, the claimants are to be paid in gold,and the people at large have no gold and no motive to acquire it for so doubtful an operation as making bids which might be rejected. There are other conclusive practical objections to distributing and frittering the sale of these particular bonds, as, for example, the diffi- culty of’ ascertaining whether the multitude of small bids were made in good faith and by responsible parties. The Sun assuredly did not intend to advocate anything so im- practicable. The whole tissue of its article proves that what it had in mind was the new loans, not the sale of the bonds in which the Geneva award was invested. When applied to the new loans for refund- ing the six percent bonds the reasoning of the Sun becomes relevant and cogent. Mr. Bristow’'s purpose to effect the conversion of the public debt only through a syndicate is really open to all the objections which our contemporary misdirects against the Geneva award bonds. Nothing could be more in point, as applied ta the larger operation, than the reference to the popular loans of Napoleon IIL, who was a truly sagacious statesman in internal affairs, and was ruined only by mistakes in his foreign policy. Our own financial history furnishes an example of the same kind, although its success was not quite so brill- iant as the famous popular loans of the French Emperor, which excited the surprise and admiration of Europe. The wonderful sales of United States six per cent bonds in 1863 afforded a signal proof of the value of the popular method of disposing of govern- ment loans. In April and May of that year a beginning had hardly been made in dis- posing of the five hundred million loan. The method of offering it in small amounts to the people at large was adopted, when the loan suddenly began to be taken at the amazing rate of nearly two mill- ion dollars a day, and was exhausted in the following January. We copy the follow- ing authentic statement from Spaulding’s “Financial History of the War”:—‘The loan became very ‘popular and was extensively taken by farmers, mechanics and laboring people in all the towns, villages and cities | all over the country. By the Ist of July, 1863, the amount of $168,880,250 was taken; and by the Ist of October following | $278,511,500 had been taken up; and by the | 21st of January following the whole sum of rush was so great near the clos. | ing out of the loan that nearly | $11,000,000 extra had been subscribed | and paid before notice could be given to sub-agents that the amount authorized by that act had been taken up.” This accorded with Napoleon’s splendid success with similar popular loans, in which the amount ofiered by the French people always ex- the amount wanted. Secretary which lies before him when he sees no way the stale method of heavy banking houses or a syndicate, from which the French gov- ernment first had the sagacity and courage j | | The new five per cent loan was closed ont | November 16, 1875, and we are now in the seventh month since the refunding of the | | six per cont bonds bas bean arrested by | | are Betts and Killian of this city, what the Sun calls the “blunder” and | we would characterize as the imbecility of | the Secretary of the Treasury. He dares not move a step without the countenance and support of a syndicate, which he regards as @ sort of protecting banister to save him | from falling over the financial stairs. But why does a syndicate take a public loan? Is it to hold the bonds as an in- vestment for the sake of the inter- est? Not at all; a syndicate takes ao loan as ao large cotton or grain dealer buys cotton or grain to sell again at | a profit. The ultimate holders, who wish to keep the bonds as an investment, are compelled to pay toll at the syndicate mill instead of getting the bonds at first cost. Why should not the government offer them | directly to those who really want them? | Why should it enable a syndicate to make a “corner” in bonds as forestallers of the market do in commodities? If Mr. Bristow had offered a new loan directly to the people he might have disposed of large amounts during these six wasted months, when money has been so cheap that its owners have not known what to do with it. . We believe nothing would have been so eagerly taken as a four and a half per cent or oven a four per cent loan if Mr. Bristow had enabled the great body of our people to invest in it. Men of Wealth and men who subsist by their labor would have equally sought it, Our savings banks have been breaking and engulfing their deposit- | ors, and if government loans had been ac- cessible a great part of the hundreds of mill- ions in savings banks would have been withdrawn for so safe an investment. Aman in moderate circumstances who has a few hundred dollars in a savings bank as a provision against ‘‘a rainy day” would find it equally available in the form of fifty dollar or hundred dollar government bonds, be- cause he could always borrow on that safe security the money he might want for occa- sional emergencies. The bonds would be equally available for discharging mortgages on ahomestead when they fell due or for any other use. We hope Mr. Bristow will abandon his slavish dependence on syndi- cates and be persuaded to offer a popular loan, which could not fail to have great suc- cess in the present plethora of money and dearth of good opportunities for investment. Centennialism in Philadelphia. A correspondent writes a reassuring letter about the charges upon visitors at Philadel- phia during the Centennial Exhibition. “The hotels,” he says, ‘‘will not advance their rates more than fifty cents or a dollar a day.” But why, we answer, should they make this advance? The fact that these hotels will have large crowds isa reason for reducing their rates and not rais- ing them. There is not a hotel in New York that would not gladly guarantee to reduce its rates a dollar or fifty cents a day if it could be assured of full houses for any rea- sonable time by doing so. The advance in the hotels in Philadelphia isan extortion and will in the end do harm. Vienna should teach the hotel keepers a lesson. There the rates were advanced ; not much, but enough toruin most of the hotel keepers, who ex- pected to make an everlasting fortune ‘‘out of the foreigners.” If the hotel keepers, who have not spent a dollar on the Exhibition and expect to earn huge sums of money; are wise they will reduce their rates and keep them down until the Centennial is over. A visitor will spend moré time if he can get along at three dollars a day than if the bill is five. In the end the result will be a greater profit to the city, the hotels and the Exhibition. The Dark Horse of the Democracy. The growing importance of Judge Davis as a candidate for the Presidency on the democratic ticket disturbs the calculations of the ‘“‘machine man” in that respected and ambitious party. His friends ask:—‘What candidate will have the best chance of carry- ing Indiana, Illinois and Ohio?” It must be conceded that no one thus far named will have more chances than Judge\Davis. There is the labor element to be consid- ered. What democrat has a better record with the laboring classes than Judge Davis? It is very certain that if the laboring men assert themselves as a class they can have a powerful influence upon the campaign. The labor question is not sectional. It appeals to the white man who binds the sheaves in the North as well as the black man who gins the cotton in the South. “Reconstruction” is a much more ominous word when applied to labor and capital than to the political relations of the States which fought for the Union and those which formed the Confed- eracy. ‘The argument that Judge Davis was once a republican would have some force if there were no republican votes to be counted; but, as uo democratic candidate can be elected without republican aid, are not the former republican sympathies of Davis a strength rather than a weakness? It would not be surprising to see Davis, of Illinois, come to the front as the Dark Horse of democracy. ai Betts axp Kinerax.—Two¥of the most despicable figures in the presqnt Legislaturo Mr. Betts voted against a bill of which he was in favor to please a distinguished statesman in his district, the Hon. Michzei Norton, of unenviable fame. Mr. Killian absented himself from the Assembly while one of his own meastres was being adversely reported | tothe House, and he not only took care to | keep away until the bill was completely | buried, but he broke his promises that his | conduct should be examined by a committee of investigation. What hope is thore of | decent legislation while two such men can hold their seats unchallenged during a whole winter at Albany? A legislative body which permits it must be as shameless as these men have been in admitting their | offences, ! | international friend Tre Caersra Munpver,vhich is at present agitating London, seems to have been the work of a professional criminal who was first hastily described as an American ; but as it appears now that he isa Pole with a dozen aliases, who only honored America hy keeping a billiard saloon in it during a por- tion of his career, when he kept up an ex- terior of honesty, we hereby renounco all claim to him, Y, APRIL 26, 1876,-TRIPLE SHEET. The Utica Convention—Am Interesting Episode. Among the shrewd sayings reported of the ancients isa derisive question put io a phi- losopher and his answer. ‘Why do philogo- phers seek the dwellings of the rich and the rich never go to the homes of philoso- phers?” “Because,” was the ready answer, “philosophers know what they need, and the rich do not.” One of our correspondents at Utica knows what he is: in quest of, and instead of hanging around the corridors of the hotels where politi- cians “most do congregate” he sought out Governor Seymour, the venerable “Sage of Oneida,” and held a conversation with him which might remind one of the dialogues of Plato. There is the same picturesque paint- ing of the scenc where the colloquy took place, and the high moral strain of the Oneida sage evinced his perception that he had an appreciative listener. The interview took place in the most beautiful street of | Utiea and one of the finest houses on the street—that of Senator Conk- ling—whose mistress is Governor Sey- mour's sister. This remarkable conver- sation will attract universal attention, not so much for its immediate bearing on the business whick is going on at Utica as for its tone of high moral sentiment. It is an extended commentary on the recent saying of Mr. Seymour that the republican party has lost public confidence and the demo- cratic party has not gained it. He thinks the demoralization of public men a nec- essary consequence of the tion of the people; that the recent exposures are no worse than other things which have been constantly taking place, and that they make so great an impression because the moral sense of the people has become quickened unddé the discipline of calamity. We will not attempt to sum- marize this remarkable conversation, for nobody will fail to read the report of it. It does credit to Mr. Seymour's political pene- tration and the elevation of*his views. Our reports from Utica also give a lively avcount of what is going on in the more or- dinary purlieus of politics. They disclose a strong undercurrent of feeling against Governor Tilden, which is rather muttered than uttered, but is very significant. We judge that the delegation sent to St. Louis will not be pledged to any candidate, especially as Governor Seymour is decidedly opposed to such a course. He seems to think that the South and the West will act in concert at the St. Louis Convention. The absence of any mention of Governor Tilden in this part of his conversation will be apt to strike the reader as an ‘expressive silence” which does not exactly ‘‘muse his praise.” Tarkey. The condition of affairs in Turkey gives little assurance of peace, although strong representations have been made to the Sultan by the representatives of the great Powers to induce him to refrain from an attack on Montenegro, on the grounds that the good offices of the Powers will be ex- erted toward a peaceable adjustment of the difficulty. While apparently consenting to this the Sultan does not abate a jot of his war preparations, but is mustering his forces for the struggle, feeling, no doubt, that it is inevitable. On the other hand, the insurgent bands are also in motion, massing for a great battle, which will be fought whenever either side is ready to strike, all the efforts of the diplomatists to the contrary notwithstanding. Ad- vices from St. Petersburg give the situa- tion a more favorable complexion, citing, as they do, the unanimity of the Continental Powers in favor of peace as n guarantee for its preservation. Although England has not yet assented tothe proposed arrangement her consent is expected. It would seem, however, that she is slow to entangle herself in an alliance which would circumscribe her freedom of action should a crisis arise. The solution of the Eastern question is invested with much more gravity now that direct English interests in Egypt have been crea- ated by the purchase of the control of the Suez Canal, and the English Minister of Foreign Affairs will naturally endeavor to secure for the English crown the Egyptian portion of the wreck of the Turkish Empire. By Spectra Despatcn To Tax Henarp we are informed that the grand musical festival of the Franco-American Union in aid of the proposed centennial statue to Liberty in New York Harbor was held last night at the Grand Opera. The address of M. Labou-- laye prefaced the opening, in which he an- nounced that the municipality of Paris had contributed handsomely to the fund. The great musical féature of the entertainment was the grand chorus by the celebrated com- poser, Gounod, entitled, ‘Liberty Enlight- ening the World,” sung by the united Rupert choruses and Orpheonio societics of the Department of the Seine. This was the first rendering of the work and it elicited great applause. The festival was honored by the veteran and patriotic statesman, M. Thiers, accompanied by his wife. They oc- cupied the box of tho American Minister. The despatch states the ‘whole affair was a brilliant success,” and it will be very grati- fying to the American heart tolcarn that the great capital of France, the mother of revo- lutions, assembled her brightest sons to do honor to the idea expressed by tho rifles of Lexington and the cannon of Trenton, when | they gave forth the first flashes with which Liberty enlightened the world. Tue Arriva, or tae Parser or Warts at Maparp and his splendid reception by the young King of Spain is not the least im- portant incident in the journey of the heir to the British throne. extefded the helping hand to Spain in her difficulties, and Spain owes England a great | deal of money, which there is but little pros- pect will be paid immediately. Those two important facts should serve to cement the ip, because Spain can- not afford to lose a friend and England tho larze amount invested in Spanish loans. Tar Dratk or Banxey WitiiaMs will bo heard with sorrow in every city on this con- tinent. Few men, even few actors, were better known, and his geniality and good humor mado him a favorite everywhere, Mr, Williams was not a great actor, but in his demoraliza- | England has often | ; Davenport. can scarcely regret that his school dies with | port has committed any crime let him. He was an earnest worker ip all that he undertook, and the ‘Ragged Pat” of the Trish stage never had a more complete repre- sentative, Without friends or education or money Barney Williams fought single handed the battle of life, and he raised him- self not only toa very fair position as an actor, but has left behind him a memory that will long be green in many hearts. His acts of kindness and charity will never be forgotten, and he was one of those of whom it may truthfully be told that the world is better because he lived. The Marvellous Growth of New York. Only the “oldest inhabitants,” who are properly regarded as very reliable authori- ties on conditions bearing a relation to the past as well as the present, can fully appre- ciate the marvellous growth of New York during the last half century. We have all heard one of these amiable and communica- tive individuals begin to relate his or her experiences with tie words, ‘‘Why, my dear, I remember, when I was a boy (ora girl), paying o visit to a farmhouse that stood at about the northwest corner of Twenty—— street and ——th avenue, sur- rounded by green fields and forest trees. My gracious! how the city has grown!” These good people love to travel back in memory to the days when New York was putting aside the homespun costume of the Revolution and laying the foundation, as it were, of her present greatness, Then the grand avenues and boulevards, the magnifi- cent Central Park, the Croton Aqueduct and the hundred other fine public works of ornament and utility that now adorn and benefit the city, had not even attaineda place in the dreams of the future which haunted the men of that day like the forethrown shadows of things that were to be. The pushing, driving, money-loving, yet. prodi- gal race that has taken the place of the staid old Knickerbockers on Manhattan Island has set its seal on the brow of the youthful city, and a thing of beauty, grandeur and wealth has grown up under its influence. The report of the Superintendent of Build- ings furnishes some very interesting infor- mation regarding the growth of New York within the past decade. In it we find that the number of buildings on Manhattan Island forms a grand total of 84,200, in- cluding all classes. Of this number 67,156 are dwelling houses, which are divisible into eight classes, as follows:—Tenements, 20,485; stone dwellings, first class, 7,136; stone dwellings, second class, 2,142;* brick dwell- ings, first class, 5,052; brick dwellings, second class, 16,172; frame dwellings, all classes, 15,799; French flats, 198; hotels, 172, Of the other buildings, used for miscellaneous purposes, the follow- ing general classification is made:— Stores, 8,292; stables, 5,099; factories, 2,724; churches, 425. The public buildings num- ber 33; banks, 67; hospitals and asylums, 66; breweries, 56; theatres, 27; markets, 11, and distilleries 10. Of the stores 2,621 are considered as first class and 703 are built of iron. Of 56,185 dwelling houses of stone and brick only 12,188 are for one family, the balance accommodating from two to fifty families each. The largest number of what are known as first class dwellings are in the Twelfth ward, while the wards having the largest number of buildings of all kinds are the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth. Dur- ing the last thirteen years, or since the Department of Buildings has been in existence, 20,607 new buildings have been erected in New York, and 11,337 were altered and improved. The progress of building during that time has been at the follow- ing rates:—From 1862 to 1869 (the lat- ter inclusive), 10,995 new buildings; in 1870, 1,899; 1871, 2,036; 1872, 1,662; 1873, 1,469; 1874, 1,295, and 1875, 1,251. Among the most modern of the im- portant buildings in New York may be named the New Post Office, the Henanp office, the Equitable Life and Western Union offices, all fronting on Broadway; the Hudson River Railroad Depot on Forty- second street, St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth avenue, and the Masonic Temple on Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue. Could we but obtain a relief to our city travel by means of a well devised plan of rapid transit, and which would also relieve the overcrowded condition of the dwellings of the poor and thus improve the health of the city, it would be difficult to form’an estimate of the growth of New York during the next twenty years. We may now claim to em- brace within the metropolitan district Kings and Queens counties on the Long Island side, Westchester county beyond the Harlem River, Hudson and Essex counties in New Jersey, all forming with Manhattan Island a grand area of occupied territory which rivals that of London, and which will, at our present rate of growth, surpass the English capital in wealth and population before the celebration of the centennial of the battle of New Orleans. Pexpieton’s Bustyxss.—The Tribune in a chivalrous mood explains that those who charge Mr. Pendleton with doing wrong to his wards in the Bowler estate injure him in this: that he was never a guardian of the Bowler estate, consequently all these stories about him are cruel, and so on. But tlie essential fact in the whole business is not met by the Tridune. The wrong was his using his personal influence with the Secretary of War to induce the Treasury to payaclaim about which grave doubts existed, doubts which have not been cleared away. Out of this claim Mr. Pendleton took as his share many thousands of dollars, The country will never believe that a man whose time is so valuable that he can earn seventy-five or a hundred thousand dollars a month lob- bying around the War Department can afford to serve the country atthe present rate of compensation. The whole Pendleton busi- ness is as shameless a job as ever disgraced an administration ; and the sorrow is that a anan so amiable and until now so highly es- teomed as Mr. Pendleton should have com- mitted political suicide by taking a part in it. Decency 1x Pusric Lire.-—The Sun justly calls attention to the incredible brutality and indecency of Mr. Caulfield, the chair- man of the committee ex:mining Mr. “Are you,” said Mr. Caulfield, “the person known as Little Johnny Daven- own school ho was unequalled, though we | port ?” As the Sun well says, if Mr. Daven- him be punished; but diminutive as his body may be ‘‘it is not so little as the soul of the man who would insult him on that account” Because Mr. Davenport is a republican and an officer of the government he is not neces- sarily the subject for insult by any low- minded Congressman who happens to have official dealings with him. Keop the Ermine Out of Politics. We cannot look with patience upon the effort to nominate Judge Davis as the demo- cratic candidate for the Presidency. Laying aside all question of fitness, which we con- cede for the sake of argument, it is ill becom- ing a party which claims power to. reform a corrupt government to take a Presidential: candidate from the Supreme Bench. We have never elected a President from the Su- preme Bench. We hope we shall never fol- low a precedent which comes to us from Mexico, whose President, Lerdo, was iormerly a ju2ge. Yet there is scarcely a canvass in which we do not have some judge scheming for the Presidency. Judge McLean schemed to win the first republican nomination when Fremont was taken. Chase went to his grave a broken-hearted man because of his pe pointment. We have Judge Davis a candi- date for this nomination now as he was four ‘years ago. We should impose upon our judges a vow of political celibacy. They have no business to mingle in politics. A high-minded judge, such » man as Chief Justice Waite, for instance, was prompt in his refusal to have his name even considered for this office. It degrades the Bench to shave its judges discussed in connection with any elective position. It should be con- demned by public opinion. party ever takes much root without a name. This! seems to be the want of the “reformers” who are so anxious to ‘‘reform” the country at the best possible salaries. They do not want to be called ‘‘saints” or ‘‘old maids” or “Bourbons,” for while each of these epi- thets has a value, neither is calculated to inspire the enthusiasm of the country. But in view of what we learn about moths and the effect of moth money upon the con- sciences of General Garfield and Donn Piatt, ‘ why not have a gum camphor party? This is a party that will win the applause of the ladies, who are becoming a power in politics, and who would support a gum camphor party with intelligent zeal. Ler Us Have Rest.—Louisiana proposes to name General Hancock as the democratic candidate of that State for the nomination ta the Presidency. This will not do, General Hancock is a gallant and true man, but he is wanted in the army. We have had enough of soldiers in civil life to last us for a few years. We propose to keep the army and the Bench out of politics for a term or two. Drsnazxt declines to facilitate discussion on his Royal Titles bill, feeling that the measure is unpopular with the masses, al. though supported by the tory and aristo. cratic majority in Parliament. Why any ob- jection is raised to the Queen assuming anew title is one of the mysteries of English poli- tics. Canit be possible that a little sprout. ing of republicanism 18 disturbing the great roots, of the royal oak? If not, why this. strong opposition to the increase of the royal dignity? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, California can raise hops, but not poles. South Carolina boys are killing mocking birds. Lace mitts are to be very fashionable—so Joe Coburg: rays. It you have sealskin hats to shed, prepare to shed them now. Of the 8,000,000 people in Mexico more than 6,000, 00t are non-producers, The vocal bullfrog now indicates the location of tht improved country roal estate, Mr. Reuben E. Fenton arrived in the city yesterday, and is at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. Boston Commercial Bulletin:-—-“This being leap year they are having a frog opera in New York.” The indications are that there will be much moving out of large stores into smaller ones in New York thig year, This is the season of the year whens man wondere whether he will have his hair cut or wait till he won" catch cold, ; Now 1s the time to hang rubber boots in the garret and use them as wall pockets for weathor strips and coal shovels, You havo to go innocently past a store window half ‘a dozen times before you have the pluck to goin and buy a new hat. San Antonio (Cal.) Herald:—‘‘Yesterday being the Lord’s Day we noticed that the boys who were flying kites good clothes on."’ The who feels the meanest nowadsys is he whq ‘with the new hat on his head tries to keep the old oné out of sight under bis spring overdoat, Herr Klesmer, in George Eliot’s “Daniel Deronda,* speaking angrily to'an arrogant M. P., says:—“A create ive artis¥is no more a mere musician than a great states- man is a mere politician.” In taking off the sheathing of a Kentucky house the other day some hens’ eggs were found sixty years old, They must have been laid about the time that some of the St. Louis Republican's jokes were started, Acable telegram from London, under date of 25th inst., reports:—Mr. Godlove 8, Orth, ex-United States Minister, from Austria, and family will sail from Liver: pool to-morrow for New York in the steamer Egypt. A Leavenworth correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says that while Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, is professing to work for Bristow he is secretly working for Blaine, The people of the State are, however, against his ef forts, A North Carotina witness testified that a man dose | not get so crunk that he does not know what he w doing. As evidence on this point he said if adrunken man is bothering you and you give him a good licking he will never bother you again. Chicago Times:—“There isa singular proneness of tho average American to indulge in the pleasures of thr imagination, which causes him to accept the shadow for the substance.” WasaChicago Times man eve known to accept the shadow of a black bottle? Mra, Avery, wife of the convicted Treasury clerk, 6 a lady ot unusual talent. Charles Sumner was her par. ticular friend. She made a copy of “Titian” in one day, and was offered $50 for it. Now the poor woman offers her pictures and her house for sale to get money on which to live. Washington Chronicle (probably stolen):—“In China, where labor 1s cheap, a Chinaman will sit all day long clinking gold pieces in a leather bag. By constant process of attrition the leather becomes filled with gold dust, which, when collected, affords him fatr remuneras tion for his day’s work.’” It js nearing the Ist of May; and Brown, who yess terday tapped his boot with his caneas he priced straws berries. and coolly remarked that they were getting too cheap, Was seen Inst night scooting through the darkness from the old house to the new with a stoves pipe ander ono arm and a roll of rag carpet under the other, with his hat down over his face, A queer copyright question has been decided by the Ttalian Court of Appeals, Action was brought by the publisher ot a collection of the Pope's recent speeches against the Abate Milone, who had printed a rival edition; but the Court held that “The speeches of the Supremo Governor of the Universal Church can 6@ subject to no rights of private ownership” —