The New York Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1876, Page 6

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Watt Srreet Yesterpay.—Stocks were irregular and the market without other fea- ture than dulness. Gold opened and closed at 112 5-8. Money on call loaned at 3 1-2 percent. Government and railroad bonds were generally steady. Tue AvceRan InsurcEents seem to have little chance of success in their conflict with the French. fue Broxen Caste this time is the one known as the French cable. We trust it will be speedily repaired, instead of being made the pretence for advancing the rates, Rumors or Pxace and the extremities of war always go together, as is again illus- trated in the stories of a renewed armistice and the chances of successful negotiations between the Turks and the insurgents at the same time with reports of the unsuccessful sortie at Nicsic. It is likely, however, that, in spite of these hopes of peace, the-war in the East has only begun in earnest. Tur Escarr or Gas in the public parks affects both the roots and the foliage of the trees, and the Park Department is meditat- ing the use of kerosene for lighting pur- poses instead of the present system. It may be doubted whether any other method for illuminating streets and places of public resort is equal to the use of gas, but it is well enough for the department to ascertain what can be done in the way of illumination by some other system. Denmanx is excited. The lower house of the Rigsdag was dissolved some time ago be- cause the National Defences bill was beaten by a majority of eighteen, but the elections have resulted in an opposition majority of forty-six against the measure. Everywhere the millions for defence theory is being ex- ploded, and the Danish elections are only another proof that standing armies and armaments are becoming distasteful to the people. ‘Tne Sewrence or McKzx to two years’ im- prisonment and a fine of ten thousand dol- lars is not too severe for the offence of which he was guilty. When respectable men uso and profit by frauds on the government their offences must be sternly punished. | Pardon for men like McKee and Avery and Maguire is out of the question, and should the Attorney General recommend this in the | ease of any of these men he cannot escape the odium of the act. Tae Trurrix Hoo Caxvas.—The truffle fs a dainty that all It is a tuber that grows beneath soil, surface. If not found it rots away. A hog is trained to root into the soil and dig it out. For this service the hog is rewarded with a handfal of acorns. The truffle hog earns immunity and renown by his nose. We have him in our politics, and he never had so much reputation as now. Washington seems to be a vast Provencal forest, with a hundred truffle hogs running the hither and thither, digging the earth with | their snouts, eager to rake up some scandal that may give flavor tothe campaign. In the absence of a better designation we pro- ~ | members, epicureans cherish, | It has no power of coming to the | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1876,—TRIPLE SHEET. The Utica Ccmvention—Governor Til- deon’s Prospects. The delay and embarrassment at Utica caused by the contesting delegations will have no serious effect on the strength ot Governor Tilden, who has so large a» ma- jority of the Convention that he is quite in- dependent of the delegates from this city. | The struggle between: the Tammany and him in any other sense than that a division in the party might weaken it in the elec- tion. But there is really no danger that either faction would vote against him if he should be nominated for the Presidency by the | Democratic National Convention. The split in this city is not a split between the sup- porters and opponents of Governor Tilden, but between rival cliques who aim to con- trol the municipal government and appro- priate its spoils. The same motives which impel ‘the Morrissey organization to sue for recognition by the State Conven- tion act with equal force on Kelly organization in inciting it to efforts for retaining its prestige of regularity. Both factions supported the State ticket last fall, and they wili support the national ticket next fall, whether the candidate be Governor Tilden or some other citizen. Moreover, neither faction makes any avowed opposition to the Governor, who has no particular interest in their quarrel. Although the Utica Convention has not yet acted on the main business for which it | was called, its tone and temper have become so well known as to leave no doubt of its devotion to Governor Tilden by a majority so large as to be overwhelming. The sub- dued and muttering opposition which ho encounters will help him in other States, because it is certain to be interpreted as the growling of the corrupt rings which have been put down by his reforming hand. Itis a great advantage to a candidate to have some easy and creditable way of accounting for such opposition as he encounters, and Governor Tilden’s unrelenting war on corrupt rings gives him this advantage. If it should be said in other States, or said at St. Louis, that the democracy of New York is not unanimous for Tilden, it will be re- plied that this fact ought to strengthen him with honest men, because it proves that he has shown no mercy to the thieves of his own party. It will be said that the relics of the Canal Ring and the old Tammany Ring have abundant reasons for owing him a spite, and that their impotent enmity is the best possible evidence that he has not spared them and that his blows have been effectual. Their support would damage him more than their opposi- tion. His victorious control of this Con- vention proves that democratic opponents who dog his heels have had their teeth ex- tracted, and if they bark when they can no longer bite their barking is subdued to such a whine as to render them contemptible, This is the view which will be presented by Governor Tilden’s friends to the democrats of other States, and it has reason enough, or, at least, plausibility enough, to be widely accepted. No attempt will be made to pledge or in- struct the New York delegates to St. Louis to vote for Governor Tilden ; but as they will be required to vote as a unit the fact that he will have a majority of three or four to one in the delegation will be as service- able to him as specific instructions if he should be strongly supported by other States. His victory at Utica will give him a prodigious lift in other parts of the country, and itis quite possible that ‘he may enter the National Convention with very nearly a majority of the whole body of delegates. If he could only get an assured majority before the Convention meets le,would stand on very hopeful ground, because, in that event, his supporters could rescind the ab- surd two-thirds rule and make his nomina- tion a certainty. His chances of being the democratic standard bearer are probably staked on his ability to securea majority of the delegates from all the States in ad- vance of the meeting of the Convention. His friezds would thep be able to abrogaie the two-thirds rule in the initial proceedings, and they would have perfectly smooth sail- /ing afterward. But with anything short of a majority at the outset the two-thirds rule will be maintained, which would engulf Mr. Tilden’s hopes, for there is small likelihood that he could rise from less than a majority ‘at the outset to two-thirds in any subsequent balloting. The supporters of all his rivals would stand out against him, confident of their ability to secure his defeat, and some Dark Horse or compromise candis date would come in‘at last and win the race. It is the duty of Governor Tilden to act with reference to such a contingency. He must not permit his principles to be defeated because he cannot realize his personal hopes, The Utica Convention will adopt a platform of principles embodying the views of the Governor, and if the course of events should compel him to renounce his personal am- bition he must take care that the cause does not suffer. It seems pretty certain that he will be strong enough to hold every other | candidate in check, for he will have at least one-third of the delegates. He ought to lay his plans to convert this negative into a their social standing to organize corruption | positive control if he finds that he can- | not get the nomination himself, He is likely, in any event, to be strong enough to dictate the candidate by joining forces with some upright democrat who holds his sound | views on public questions, and thus secure | a triumph of more importance to the party | than the personal success of any of its If the candidate should | finally be taken from the West there is no prominent democratic statesman in | that section whose nomination would be so wiseas that of Senator Thurman, whom Governor Tilden could support without any | compromise of his own principles; and if | Mr. Thurman should be elected President | Mr. Tilden would doubtless be the most | trusted counsellor and the most honored and influential member of the new adininis- tration. But if Governor Tilden should go to St. Louis with & body of supporters | strong enough to -rescind the two-thirds rule there would be no farther need of pre- | cautionary arrangements. Tho adjournment of the Convention at eleven o'clock last night, to meet at nine this | anti-Tammany contestants does not affect | the | shows how difficult it is to adjust the local quarrel carried to Utica from this city. On one side equity required that so large a body of democrats as acted with Morrissey last | fall should receive some recognition by the Convention ; but, on the other hand, the Kelly delegation is regular in form, has pre- cedents in its favor, and showed an unflinch- ing determination to have all it claims or nothing. Tammany has gained its point, but there may be a stormy session when the Convention reassembles this morning. Judge Davis as the Unknown, The temper of the newspapers from the West is that there will be no candidate nomi- nated at either convention who will not rep- resent the ambition of that important section of the Union. Long continued power hath made our brethren of the Mississippi Valley resolute in their ambition to control the Union. The East may pay money to build railways and develop the country and sus- tain expensive postal routes, but there will | be no division of the power which has ruled the Union since the war began and will con- tinue to rule it as long as Jefferson and the Virginians did in the beginning of the cen- tury. First Lincoln, then Johnson, then Grant, and now ——-! That is the question agitating the souls of anxious politicians, who scan the canvass with anxicus eyes. However we may, as Eastern men, object to this, we may as well accept the inevitable, and consent to the election of some Western man who will be broad enough to take in the whole country. This is the way the democrats west of the Mississippi talk. They have also before them the apparition of the labor vote of the grangers and those curious movements politics. This leads them to consider the value of Judge Davis, of the Supreme Court, as the candidate who can carry three of the Western States—Indiana, Ilinoisand Ohio— without whose aid we can have no Presi- dent. So that, with the resolution of the West not to be deprived of empire, and with the evi- dent necessity of having the aid of the three States mentioned, it would not surprise us to have David Davis, of Illinois, as the ‘‘dark horse” at St. Louis. Louisiana Politics, Can it be true that neither party has yet learned wisdom in Louisiana, and that each is preparing to nominate a State ticket for which no conservative citizen of either side would willingly vote? It is a melancholy story which come’ to us to this effect. The republicans, it is said, mean to nominate either Warmoth or Chief Justice Ludeling for Governor, and the democrats talk of Mc- Enery or Wiltz. Is it not time for a ‘‘new deal” down there? Have not the merchants of New Orleans, the sugar and cotton plant- ers and other men of substance in the in- terior, energy and influence enough to force one of the two parties to nominate some new men, men that deserve to rule the State, and who have character, ability and moderation ? It is pitiful to see sorich a State as Lou- isiana torn by political factions, and injured in its prosperity by the determination of politicians either corrupt or turbulent, or both, to assert their petty ambitions. Lou- isiana ought to be one of the richest and most prosperous States in the Union. She hasall the elements of great wealth. No State, not even California, has a greater future, if only her people could rid themselves of the rule and strife of demagogues. We warn the people of the State that they lose the sympathy of Northern men and they repel Northern capital if they cannot master their politicians, The republican party has abominably abused the State ; it ought to be easy to drive out of power the thieves who have plundered it in the name of the republican party. Butit can only be done by the nomination of a conservative ticket containing the names of men of known character and moderation, and not by put- ting forward men who, whatever their merits, are identified with scenes of violence and kaown as leaders of the extreme wing of their party, disliked and distrusted by the substantial citizens. We hope yet to see good counsels prevail in one party or the other in Louisiana. The Savans in Politics. The third party does not grow. The trouble with theso saints in politics is that they support administrations until the pat- ronage is all given out, and if theyare not in the Cabinet they begin screaming ‘‘Reform !” Look how it happened in the last canvass. The reformers went over in a swarm to Grant after Greeley was nominated. What assurance have we now that there wonld not be the same exodus of the saints in the event of the nomination of some one who does not belong to them at St. Louis? When Napoleon went to Egypt he had with hima } company of savans, whose duty it was to tell him something about everything. ‘These savans were useful in their way. But when the fighting came it was the custom to form the troops into a hollow square and mass the savans in the centre with “the donkeys and the baggage,” to keep them out of danger. We predict that when tho battle begins next fall we shall find our saints in the hojjow square of some republican or democratic column praying for the battle to end, no matter how it ends, and willing to go with the victors and ‘‘reform” the country at good salaries in. comfortable offices. There is nothing a reformer likes so well as to “benefit society” in some good, fat, pleas- ant office, with timo to think and little to do. Ramwar Consoumation ix Germany has | become almost as great a question as was | German unity a few years ago. The trans- | fer of the railway system to the government | is one of the necessities of the Empire, and |} it is noé surprising that Prince Bismarck | should be working so steadily for their con- | solidation under imperial auspices. transit with a bitterness to be expected from these profitable monopolies, avenue road has obtained a temporary in- junction against the Gilbert elevated road, ‘ and if the courts can be induced to help the | horse car companies there will be no rapid | | transit. The people will jealously. watch | Judge Speir’s action in the case now before pose that the canvass of 1876 shall be known — morning, after a whole day spent without | him, as this question is one of public neces- ag the Campaign of the Truflle Hogs. | result by the Committee on Credentials, sity and the highest public interest, which threatened at one time to paralyze our | ‘Tue Honsz Ramnoaps are fighting rapid | The Sixth | Let Secretary Bristow Offer = Popu- lar Loan. Mr. Bristow has been so remiss and dere- lict since the closing out of the new five per cent loan, about the middle of November, that a strong pressure of public opinion needs to be brought to bear upon him to make him more mindful of his duties. Why does the government continue to pay the exorbitant and wasteful rate of six per cent on more than 4 thousand millions of the national debt, when money is so abundant that it commands only four per cent for commercial loans? Why has Mr. Bristow stood idle for more than six months with so great an opportunity beckoning him to im- prove it before it slips away? There are but two conceivable answers—it must be owing either to the imbecility of the Secre- tary, or to his want of legal power to seize this great opportunity before it passes. He cannot plead lack of legal authority, for the existing statutes permit him to sell three hundred millions of four and a half per cent bonds, and allow him to expend one-half of one per cent in effecting the sale. We must, therefore, conclude that he is negligent or | incompetent. ) Mr. Bristow might learn a great deal from the example of the ablest of his republican predecessors. Secretary Chase acted with the self-sustaining vigor of a strong and clear intellect, and his success in providing resources for carrying on the most expensive war in history reflects shame on the feeble successors who have not shown capacity en-ugh to save the government from paying six per cent interest, when private borrowers are paying only four per cent. A government in good credit, and in time of peace, can always borrow at less than the commercial rates, especially when its bonds are exempt from the heavy taxa- | tion which falls on all other descriptions of property. But instead of paying less than the commercial rates our government is pay- ing two per cent more, to its own great losg and the equally great discredit of the official | director of its finances. When Secretary Chase found, in the latter part of the spring of 1863, that the five hun- dred million loan hung heavy on his hands without takers, he determined to offer the loan to the great body of the people, and, as everybody knows, the success of this method was immediate and magical. The great im- portance of the subject justifies us in repeating here the striking quotation we made yesterday from Spaulding’s ‘‘Finan- cial 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 allover 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 $500,000,000 had been taken at par, and the rush was so great near the closing 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 author- ized by that act had been taken up.” : The Commercial Advertiser, in o careless and inconsiderate article yesterday, abound- ing in loose statements, tried to maintain that there was a great deal of trick and sham in the popular loans of Napoleon IIL We think it needless at present to point out its errors on that subject, because we have an example in our own history, fresh in everybody's recollection, of the wonderful success of a popular loan which was entirely free from any suspicion of deceit or strata- gem. What has the Commercial to say to the brilliant success of Secretary Chase in the great popular loan which he offered to the American people in 1863? Will the British Beat Our Amateurs at the Oar? New that two out of the three famous British rowing Universities purpose sending crews to row in the Centennial open amateur four-oared races, and it may be announced any day that Oxford also is coming, the in- terest is already naturally very great in the oarsmen we will be able to bring forward to mect them and in the probable result. The best amateur four that America can muster must certainly be made up largely, if not wholly, from the present racing teams of the Atalantas and Argonautas, or of Cor- nell, Columbia and Dartmouth. Untried crews sometimes row very fast; but the rulo is that the winning is generally done by old hands, and up to the present writing the crews named have earned front places more often than any others in America. Harvard, to be sure, beat Dartmouth at Saratoga, but she has now only one man from the crew she then had, and, though Cambridge did whip Oxford recently with a crew almost wholly new, Harvard can hardly hope for similar good fortune. While all of these crews are thoroughly alive to the great struggie in store for them, and aro working hard to be as ready when the time of trial comes as they possibly can, it is far from certain that, at their best, they can keep the world’s amateur championship on this side of the water. Cambridge es- pecially is exceptionally strong, and long before her recent victory all England was very confident that she would win. Can any crow we have whip a picked four out of her renowned eight? Thisis the question which will ere long be in all mouths. Neither is the support she will have from Dublin to be for a moment despised. More than once at Henley have both Cambridge and Oxford learned that the little Irish University could teach them how to row, and Messrs. Pentland, Hickson and the two Barringtons, already in active training, will doubtless pull avery fast race, ‘The London Rowing Club, or a team chosen from it, and the Royal Chester, of Liverpool, will also take excel- lent care at the oar, as they have often done, of England's fair name. Cambridge will outweigh any team we have, will be trained with the utmost care, and few rowing men will believe that there is anything in America that is likely to show such superb form as she did on the Putney course. If we are to win, unless our form improves amazingly during the next four months, superior en- durance alone is all that will win us the laurels at the Centennial contest. But it beat us on our own waters, one thing is pretty certain: we will so thoroughly learn how they did it that it will be long before they can do it again. 4 The Logic of Operatic Failures. Although another performance is prom- ised the Belocca season of Italian opera may be considered practically at an end, and that, too, under circumstances which com- pel the confession that it has been a failure. It is not surprising, however, that this latest endeavor of the Messrs. Strakosch should have failed. In many respects they ex- hibit remarkable skill as operatic man- agers, and but for them New York would oftener have been deprived of opera than has been the case since they undertook the direction of the Academy of Music, But they have failed more frequently than they succeeded, and always because they assumed that a single swallow was enough to make a summer. In 1873-4, when they gave us Nilsson, with such artists as Campanini, Capoul and Maurel to support her, together with a strong and efficient chorus and a well balanced orchestra, the season turned out to be as prosperous as it was brilliant. The Albani season failed for precisely opposite reasons, and now the Belocca failure is still further proof that it is impossible to give operatic concert and have it accepted as opera. In the case of a very great artist, such as Titiens, for instance, the public may be willing to accept operatic surroundings as preferable to the cold and barren concert stage, but. Mlle. Belocea can- not expect to find herself in that position for many years tocome. The young prima donna is a very good artist ; but, while she possesses both culture and talent, it is impossible that she should bear upon her own shoulders the whole weight of an operatic season, She has been unfortunate in this country; but she has done herself no discredit, and under more favorable circum- stances she would secure in this city and in this country a complete triumph. This can only be, however, when she is properly sup- ported and not tried beyond her strength. But to ask the public to go to the Acad- emy simply to hear Mlle, Belocca is to ask what they will not do. If Mr. Wallack man- aged his theatre on any such principle we should soon have no Wallack’s Theatre. In dramatic management we see one house after another closed because of insufficient attrac- tion. Indeed, the two extremes seem to meet, and we have no vaudeville ti etre for exactly the same reason that we have little successful opera. In proof of this we have only to point to the fact that the Lyceum Theatre is empty, though ® little real talent behind the footlights would securo full benches in front. So, too, at the Academy. Real opera will always fill the Irving place opera house, while the pinchbeck article will ruin everybody con- nected with it, We trust that at last Messrs. Strakosch have learned the logic of operatic failures and that they will take their latest mishap so much to heart as to avoid in the future all the causes which have led to it. What we want is opera, not operatic concert—a perfect ensembie, not one or two good artists supported by a bundle of sticks. We shall look to them and to Mr. Mapleson, if he brings a company here, to give us this, and if they do it they may rest assured that the New York public will support them, The Labor Movement in the West. The ‘friends of the laboring man” are not dead by any means, but waiting for their op- portunity. We know the importance of this diversion when we consider the value of the labor question in the last canvass against John Kelly. What defeated John Kelly was the fact that he was paying creatures like Tom Dunlap large salaries while he cut down the wages of the laboring man on the Boulevard to a dollar and sixty cents o day. We cannot underestimate the importance of such a cry in the country at large. We have as eloquent a man as Wendell Phillips and as bold a man as General Butler waiting to raise the standard of labor. Conse- quently, when the democrats of Illinois talk about Judge Davis, of Illinois, now a mem- ber of the Supreme Court, as the one candi- date who can carry this vote, and who can also carry the States of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, we have a problem presented which (contains in its solution the elements of vic- tory. The question of reconstruction in the South is an important one, but not so im- portant as the question of reconstructing the relations between capital and labor. That is a question as interesting to the labor- ing man in the cotton fields of Alabama as in the wheat fields of Pennsylvania—to the black man and the white man. If Judge Davis comes as the representative of this sentiment he may become the champion of the democracy, the winning horse in the great race, the ‘great unknown” who is so carefully studied by political philosophers all over the country. ‘The fact that the Judge was a republican would have some value as an argument against him if the democratic party did not need to conciliate republicans enough to elect their ticket, Tue Great Metrororitan Staxes, among other events, was run yesterday at the Ep- som spring racing meeting. It had seven starters, and Prince Soltykoff's New Holland proved the winner. Mr. Sanford's American horse Bay Final was in the field, and though’ he made a creditable fight for two miles, finished nearly last. Tut Groncia Detzaates to the Democratic National Convention are reported as move favorable to Tilden than to any of the candi- dates named forthe St. Louis nomination. As these delegates were chosen in the Congress districts, and not by a State convention, their sentiments may be accepted as indicating Southern feeling and as foreshadowing the nomination of either Tilden or Bayard. A Ricnrroys Venpicr is that found against Matthew P. Bemis and William Van Name in the suit to recover money taken from the Market Savings Bank and lost in stock speculations in 1869, The case shows the utter disreyard of honor in business which characterizes the managenient of mapy of our banking institutions, and it would be far better to be beaten in such a | reveals one of the most remarkable and dis- contest than not to row it, and if in this graceful episodes of the kind ever brought first visit of British boating gentlemen they | before » court of justice, Brotherly Love in Politics. This campaign is so dark and bitter that any indication of harmony will be welcomed. Nothing is more pleasant, for instance, than the manner in which the democratic candi- dates treat each other. When we hear Bayard talk about Tilden or Tilden about Thurman; when we hear the Sage of Oneida, Seymour, in a prolonged interview, how sweet and fraternal is their conversation !. All is love, appreciation and brotherly harmony. In fact, it seems as if there would be some dif- ficulty about the democrats makinga nomina- tion, each candidate seems to be so anxious to decline in favor of another. More than all, the democratic newspapers protect their candidates, while the republican journals delight in nothing so much as in destroying a republican leader. See how tenderly the Word shields Pendleton from the conse- quences of his iniquity, and how we have never a word calculated to smear the party, ‘The republican candidates are, on the other hand, quarrelling like so many mastiffs ina dog pit. They spend their time in setting up dynamite machines for each other. Blaine is to blow up Morton, and Conkling is to destroy Bristow, and so they all go! Wash- burne will have nothing to do with Conk ling, and Blaine has not spoken to him for years. Could anything be more beautiful than this democratic love or more painful than this republican antagonism ! Tue Cenrenntat Commission was in ses sion yesterday, and there are some indica tions that its meetings will not promote hare mony in the management of the Exposition. So far as appears on the surface at least the work of erecting the Centennial buildings and preparing for the Exhibition has been intel- ligently and efficiently done, and any fac tious oppositionin the commission at this late day would be as unworthy as it is un- necessary. What the American people want now is to make the Exhibition a success in every way, and nothing must be done in the commission or out of it to mar the fortunes of this great enterprise. Barzapos is quiet, and we hear that since last Saturday not a single white man has been injured bya negro, All the stories of war which came from that sunny island turn out to be exaggerations, and for the future we may expect Mr. John Pope Hen- nessey’s government to be as placid as the waters of the Caribbean Sea. Bristow’s Trrvmpx in the Massachusetts Republican Convention at Boston yesterday will give the Secretary of the Treasury great prestige at Cincinnati. With the exception of Judge Hoar all the delegates at large are his friends, and Judge Hoar is not likely to oppose the sentiment of his State if Mr. Bristow’s nomination is possible. Womam Surrrace mx Enauanp, a8 in the United States, is annually voted down by the men who have-authority to pass upon it by virtue of men’s votes ; but if women were allowed to determine the question for them- selves the majority against it would be even more overwhelming than that in the British Parliament last might. In both countries it. might be well to dispense with the annual farce for a few years at least. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Grant organs are always cabinet organs, Red pepper ana salt pork are good for canaries, ‘Walter Scott, the great novelist, was a firm frend To raise the wind—get up a syndicate for acyclona Four hundred million Chinamen eat with a one-tined fork. The Khedive of Egypt ws forty-five, and has fous wives. Tho Buffalo Republicaner, a German paper, supports Conkling. Tho Baltimore American thinks that Tilden has ne strength outside of New York. Prince Lucien Bonaparte, grandnephew of Napoleon, is writing papers on the English dialects. Kurd Von Schlozer, Gorman Minister at Washington, arrived in the city last evening and is at the Brevoort House. Democratic Randall says that Republican Blaine ‘‘hag not left his enemies a single peg to stand upon,” But to hang upon? Nominating conventions have less todo with the public pulse this year than they bave had any year since the foundation ef the Republic. Charles Austin has been assigned to the Philadek phia Exposition to represent the London 7imes. Mr. stin served the 7'imes in Paris during the Commune erward in Spaindaring the Castelar Republic, He is a feliow of St. John’s College, Oxford, and one of the most brilliant members of the London press, Dr. Hall says:—“Take something to éat as soon ag you wake up.’? Doctor, itisn’teasy todo. The Amer. tean way is to get up, tura the water pitcher just over your mouth, loose your hold, drench yourself, crawi back, turn over on your right side, and say, “Yer call me? Well, there’s a viush."’ Someboay accuses us of having plagiarized the re- cent paragraph, “Lettuce have peas,” and ascribes it | toCharles Dudiey Warner. We did notdo it inten. tionally; it was only a case of great minds running in the samo river bottoin, aud if other editors will only be as honest as we are, haif the papers of the country ‘will be begging pardon of this column, New Orleans Republican:—* ‘You see,’ said the despondent man, ‘some people has good luck and some people has bad luck. Now, I remember, once I was walking along the strcet with Tom Jellicks and he went down one side of jtand I went down on the other, We hadn't got more'n half way down when he Jound a pocket book with $216 in it aud I stepped’ ona woman's dress and got acquainted with my present wife.’ Get up at five o’clock in the morning and tell your wife you are going to dig mm the garden, and breakfast on oatmeal mush, and get healthy and strong. As she stands looking on and admiring your physical strength, and you are sure you can never spade up another row 1, ask ber why she don’t go im and get th ; and them you can sneak out of the back gate for a cocktail Always make your good resolutions in spring ume. . Since the publication in the Herat, some days ago, of John Swinton’s appeal in behalf of the paralyzed poet, Walt Whitman, a large number of subscriptions to the new $10 edition of lus coliected works, published by himself, have been forwarded to him. The action ot bis admirers in this city and London has cheered the old “Good Gray Poot,” who, wo are told, will welcome furtber subscriptions to his new edition at his rest. dence, Camden, N. J. A “tramp”? writes to the Providence Journal of hie profession a8 composed “of men who go trom place te place through the country, gathering and disseminat- ing, of course, a great amouut of useful inf relying mainly upon the public hospitality for sheir temporary maintenance, never wearing out their wel come by 8 long #ojoarn in one place, nover interfering in polities, carefully and conscientiously abstaining from all agitation of the labor question in any of its phases." Averyand McDonald, the convicted Whiskey Ring thieves, wero being taken from St. Louis to the prisoo when the following conversation occurred ;—Avery ‘My God, McDonald, this is a damned outrage! It is infornal shome to crush av innocent man thi way. I have aiways been a religious man, Lams Christian, and 1 am going to pray God Almighty to se this thing mght.” To which McDonald replied: “Avery, if you expect to keep out of the penitentiary by praying, you had better get at it damned quick, for J we shall be on the way im lane than iwanty minnion™