The New York Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1876, Page 6

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HENRY V., at 8 P.M. THEATRE. M, Lester Wallack. MASO PROFESSOR CROMW FUN IN A FOG, at 8 P. . FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1876, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warner, threat- ening and possibly rainy. Noicr to Country NewspgaLers.— For bi and regular delivery of the Hrpaup by fast mail trains orders must be sent direct 10 this office. Warn Srreer Post free. ESTERDAY.—Stocks were feverish and the transactions small. Gold was irregular, opening and closing at 112 5-8, with sales in the imterim at 112 1-2 a 1123-4. Government bonds steady and investment securities firmer. Money on call loans was supplied at 3 a 2 per cent. AnotreR Broxen Cane is reported this morning, and communication with Australia is interrupted in consequence. Tne Pracve is raging in the East with great virulence, and this fact may serve asa warning to ourselves to prepare for the hot days of summer. In this city special admoni- tion always seems necessary to secure atten- tion to municipal cleanliness. ' Justice To Tuts Crry in the apportionment of the county into Assembly and Senate dis- tricts can hardly be expected from a repub- lican Le; ature, but it will not do to deny us the representation to which we are en- titled, Sno § We are glad to see that the suit against Mr. Bemis for speculating in the money of the Market Savings Bank has been decided in favor of the bank. But the place for men like Bemis is in Sing Sing. We regret exceedingly that no one has been puntshed for these manifold robberies of the poor. Aputtzratep Mitx.—Now that Patrick Cox, charged by the Board of Health with adulterating milk, has been sent back to the Penitentiary by the General Term of the Supreme Court to serve out his sentence, we hope that all milkmen will be warned by his late. But better a hufidred milkmen in the Penitentiary than lacteal adulteration. Rarw ‘Transrr gained a preliminary vic- tory over the horse ‘ar monopolies yester- day, before Judge Speir, in the modification of the injunction against the Gilbert Ele- vated Railroad Company. Though the order in the case is not decisive it is to be noted that the Court allowed the rapid transit company to move astep forward instead of compelling it to recede’a step. . Tum Governor Gener'an or Poanp has re- signed because the Russian government refused the appointment ot one Polish speak- ing judge in every governing town. ‘This was a worthy action on the part of Count de Kotzebue, but if the province does not obtain | a governor like him until the Russians do justice to the people Poland will have long | to wait. Y A Cononen’s Juny yesterday censured the East Broadway and Dry Dock Railroad Com- pany for instructing their drivers to look along the cross streets ior passengers, The death of a child was the consequence of obedience to this rule by one of the drivers. The practice is a pernicious one, but it will probably require a few verdicts for exem- plary damages to secure tho abolishment of thernia Goverxon Hexnessy’s QuieTiNe Desratcu from Barbados is supplemented by another of amore alarming nature. It is difficult to wnuderstand why the Windward Islands Con- federation scheme should create so much feeling one way or the other, but it must be yemembered that the inhabitants of these NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 28. 1876,—TRIPLE SHEET. After the Utien Convention—The Pres idential Outlook. Governor Tilden has reason to be satisfied with the action of the Democratic State Con- vention, for, although the New York dele- gates are not instrneted to vote for him at St. Louis, the injunction laid upon them to act asa unit ‘in accordance with the will ofa majority of the members,” binds them to sup- port Mr. Tilden as effectually asa formal and | explicit direction to give him their votes. It | ‘is beyond all doubt that a large majority of | the delegates are stanch Tilden men, and as the minority will have no separate will of their own, but are mere pawns in the hands of Governor Tilden’s friends, he has every advantage which could result either from a unanimous delegation in his favor or from explicit instructions to vote for him alone. The squabble over the contesting dele- gates from this city is the most prominent and singular, though one of the least im- portant, features of the proceedings. This question, which consumed a whole day, might have been settled in three-quarters of an hour if the Committee on Credentials had at once accepted mere proofs of regular- ity as o valid title to seats. This is the gtound on which the decision was finally made with a near approach to unanimity ; but the fact that it was so long postponed shows how much reluctance had to be over- come before the rural delegates could be brought to consent that Tammany should have all the seats to which the city was en- titled. Tammany, of course, gave assur- ances that it would support Tilden as the price of admission, and the long delay in deciding a question so simple, if regularity alone was to be considered, can be accounted for only on the hypothesis that Governor Til- den’s friends merely waited for satisfactory pledges before admitting Mr. Kelly and his queue, The recalcitrant Tammany Boss was at last chained to the chariot wheels of the triumphant Governor. The resolutions adopted at Utica were, of course, drawn up in advance and submitted to Mr. Tilden for revision and approval. The moderation and discretion of the one which relates personally to himself and its tone of respectiul deference and appreciation toward other democratic candidates is in such perfect consonance with the advice given to Governor Tilden by the Hzraxp that we have put it out of our power to withhold ap- proval. ‘The democratic party of New York” (so runs this modest and courteous resolu- tuon) “suggest, with respectful deference to their brethren in other States, and witha ocratic statesmen, faithful, like him, to their political principles and public trusts, that the nomination of Samuel J. Tilden to the oflice of President would insure the vote of New York and would be approved through- out the Union.” Instead of instructing its delegates the Convention merely ‘‘sug- gests” Governor Tilden’s name with such an air of respect and such expressions of com~ pliment to the other statesmen of the party as tend to conciliate general good will and make it easy for Governor Tilden to gracefully withdraw in favor of some other candidate, if another should be preterred by the majority at St. Louis. This is the very tone and bearing toward his competitors which we have recommended for Governor Tilden’s adoption, and we are confirmed in the soundness of our friendly suggestions by finding that they accord with the Gover- nor’s own sense of fitness and propriety. A magnanimous recognition of his democratic rivals and a generous competition, confined within such limits as will make it easy for him to give any other candidate the same cordial support which he has a right to ex- pect for himself if he gets the nomination, is an exhibition of political amenity which is alike creditable to the courteous impulses and the enlightened judgment of the New York candidate. It puts him in the attitude of caring more for the success of sound prin- ciples than for his personal advancement ; and if he pursues his canvass in this praise- worthy spirit he will improve his own chances and be able to dictate the candi- date if he should not succeed himself. As things look now Governor Tilden is very far ahead of all his democratic com- petitors. The assured support of the great State of New York puts him ona high vantage ground from which he is not likely to be dislodged. He will probably be supported by the unanimous delegations of all the New England States, of the neighboring State of New Jersey, of a majority of the Southern States, of all the Pacific States and of ‘the State of Illinois, unless it should be taken from him by Judge Davis. To be sure, the New England votes, with the exception of Connecticut, the Illinois vote, if he gets it, and the Nebraska vote, of which he is certain, will be of little account in the election, because they are republican States, but they will be of great assistance in getting the nomination, and the St. Louis nominee has ut least an even chance of being the next President. Never since the war have the democratic prospects been so bright as at present. The re- publican party is divided and disor- ganized; its leaders are backbiting and destroying one unother in a bitter per- sonal war of jealousy and ambition; the hideous exposures of corruption made by the Congressional committees are causing a revolt of the moral sentiment of the people against the authors of these disgraces ; and the liberal republicans threaten an inde- the regular party in proportion to its success. ‘The democratic chances are, there- fore, excellent, with wise and discreet man- agement on the part of the democratic lead- ers. Turning our view to the republican side we will consider nothing beyond the possi- bilities at Cincinnati. It is a mere question as to who will be nomizated, not whether the nominee can be elected. Now, as for some weeks past, Senator Conkling holds the | foremost position in the race, but his recent | progress is not quite what his fiends had | reason to wish. The administration, though | giving him a quiet support, is not acting | with the decisive vigor due to the occasion. A lukewarm support by President Grant alienates Mr. Conkling’s rivals quite as ef- fectually as strenuous efforts. But a halting ) support is of little advantage to the candi- groups have had nothing else to talk of for years, and the qnestion is consequently of immense importance in their eyes, date whom the President is known to ,favor, There is a lack of courage and a cordial appreciation of other renowned dem- | pendent nomination, which would weaken | | lack ofhead—the two worst Incks that can | | attlict a political canvass, Although General, | Grant has no further hopes of securing an- other term for himself he has a deep interest | in the credit of his administration, and nothing could be so mortifying to his pride, or such a blot on his fame, as a condemna- tion by the political party that elected him. It cannot be unknown to the President that ; Senator Conkling’s rivals, or at least two of | them, are seeking success at Cincinnati at | the expense of his reputation. Secretary Bristow is industriously courting popularity on the ground that he has exposed and pun- ished the corruption of General Grant's ad- ministration, and Mr. Blaine is equally willing to have it thought that he would be @ great contrast to the President. The nomination of either of these gentlemen would be a virtual repudiation of the pres- ent Executive by the republican party. General Grant's pride should not quietly submit to such a slur upon his char- acter, and he will be wanting to him- self if he does not render the nomina- tion of either of these men impossible, ashe easily may if he acts with requisite vigor. As Senator Conkling is his real choice he ought to make his choice effec- tive. We have many times said that our opposition to the third term did not proceed | from personal hostility to President Grant, but was prompted by public motives, and we have given proofs of our sincerity by sup- porting for the successorship the candidate he is known to favor. We wish he would be as true to his favorite as we are to the repu- tation and credit of his administration. Our deep sense of his invaluable services in the war makes us anxious that he should retire with honor from his great station, and he | ought to see that he will not retire with honor if a successor is nominated who seeks to rise on the ruin of his repu- tation. It is incumbent on the Presi- dent to support Mr. Conkling with bold- ness and skill if he wishes the action of his party at Cincinnati to be an indorsement of his own administration. He ought to take counsel with an astute manager like Senator Cameron, who also tavors Conkling, | and to find means of supporting his favorite with skill and energy and of commanding the outspoken support of all his friends. | Otherwise there is danger that some candi- date like Bristow, who has no more tender- ness to the administration than a democrat, ora candidate like Blaine, who stands ready to stab the President under the fifth rib, will carry off the prize at Cincinnati and make the action of the Convention a con- demnation and repudiation of the adminis- tration of General Grant, Popular National Loans, The Commercial admits the splendid suc- cess of the great popular loan of five hun- dred millions which was so rapidly taken by farmers, mechanics, merchants, laborers and | all classes of the community in 1863, but our contemporary seems to think that it im- pairs the force of our argument founded on that remarkable stroke of finance by assert- ing that a similar attempt was made with the new five per cent loan in 1871 and failed. This circumstance, instead of weakening our argument, strengthens it. ‘The gist of the complaint we have so long been making against Secretary Bristow is his failure to improve the opportunity thrown in his way by the abundance and cheapness of money since closing out the new five per cent loam on the 16th of Novem- ber, 1875. The conditions most favor- able to a popular loan are a plentiful supply of money and a dearth of profitable investments. Money was plentiful in 1863 and in 1865, owing to the vast expansion of the currency, and Secretary Chase had the sagacity in the former year to avail himself | | of that circumstance in placing the five | hundred million loan,'and Secretary McCul- | loch in the latter year in disposing, by the same popular method, of the enormous amount of seven-thirty Treasury notes which brought him funds for paying off the Union armies when they were disbanded at the close of the war. In 1871 and 1872 the mone- tary current was flowing strongly in another direction. In that period of wild projects, delusive prosperity and intoxicating hopes a popular government loan could not attract purchasers, because there was such o multitude of rival investments which the people were cajoled into thinking more advantageous. it was the fatal era of chimerical railway and mining schemes and reckless specula- tion which brought on the stupendous crisis of 1873. ‘To select one instance out of the multitude we refer to Jay Cooke’s North- ern Pacific Railroad, by which so many credulous people were duped and ruined. Who would buy a five per cent government bond in 1871 when the Northern Pacific was offering seven per cent gold bonds and so many people had full faith in that Quixotic enterprise ? At present people cannot be inveigled into | that wild kind of investment; business is stagnant; there isso little use for money that many national banks are surrendering their circulation, and confidence is so under- mined that the possessors of money know not what they can safely do with it. There was hever & more auspicious time for float- ing a popular loan than this, which is slip- ping away unimproved, because Mr, Bristow does not ‘‘understand his epoch.” Buarr’s Expianatton.—-The general senti- ment of fair-minded men, without distine- tion of party, is that Blaine has explained the bond story. We are glad of it. We may not want Blaine for the Presidency, but he is a distinguished and able man and we don't like to see him in the mire. We have much more joy over the escape of any leader from | charges of this kind than in his discomfiture, Many, many are the idols that have been broken in these latter days. Let us save what we can. Army Bumuers.—The evidence of Rice, the “general” and army bummer, as to the amount of money he made out of the post | | trading stores in the West, shows how shamelessly corrupt was the War Depart- | ment. Here was a loafer about Washington | who did no work, invested no capital, but | | because of ‘‘influence” with Belknap was | allowed to live in luxurions idleness upon money extorted from the poorly paid sol- diers of the Plains. These revelations make the blood boil, | questions than we of the Atlantic States, | that suggests the question whether it he lied The West and the Presidency. One of the arguments—and, we think, one of the strongest arguments—in favor of the nomination of Tilden as a democratic candi- date for the Presidency is that he would in all probability carry New York. We ques- tion if any candidate, not even Mr. Conk- ling, could take New York from him. We have in this State what Mr. George William Curtis calls *Lilden republicans,” of whom Mr. Curtis is himself an eloquent and scholarly leader, who would vote for Tilden in preference to any republican who is apt to be nominated at Cincinnati. We say “apt to be,” for we have no idea that the Convention is ready to nominate a man whose canvass will mean a repudiation of the administration and a destruction of all the President's friends and relatives, But, even if New York goes for Tilden, how will it be as to Indiana, Ohio and Illinois? These are States under peculiar influences. They fre unmanageable States in many respects, with their own notions about the labor and financial questions. May it not be said that the success of the democracy in these inland river and lake States is even more essential than success in New York? Then we must add ‘to this argument the still further thought that the Mississippi Valley has for twenty years ruled this country. Power only increases a thirst for power. Grant is one in the dynasty of Pres- idents. So greedy has the West become that during the last fifteen years the President has been from the West,and nine years out of the fifteen the second officer of the government has been from the same section. The West- ern people are more politicians than we of the East. They feel more deeply on all who have commerce and manufactures to in- terest us. The republican party found its strength in the West and has kept it there. Naturally, therefore, thoughtful democrats argue that the way to destroy republican prestige is to take some man who will carry one or all of the Western States. Two men come within that category—Judge Davis of Illinois, and Senator Thurman of Ohio. Davis was the friend and confidential adviser of Lin- coln, a republican in the best days of the party. He would carry Illinois, it is thought, as well as Ohio ‘and Indi- ana. Thurman has always been a con- scientious democrat and he is a nephew of honest old Bill Allen, a power in his way, who would make the hills of Ohio (for we believe there are hills in Ohio) ring with the praises of his relative. It would not surprise us to see Davis and Thurman coming steadily to the front. The Labor Vote. The “labor vote,” as it is called, was an important feature in our politics a few months ago, It did not come to a head, as other questions more exciting and immedi- ate came to supplant it. But it lives and will live as long as the questions which in- spire it are unadjusted. The labor question is not sectional, but national. It appeals to black and white, to | American and foreigner, and threatens to come tous inan ominous shape from the California coast, where the rushing tide of Chinese labor bids fair to engulf the Amer- ican population altogether. No candidate thus far presented by the democratic party stands as well on this question as Judge Davis, of Illinois. He was nominated as the laboring mans candi- date four years ago, and came near win- ning the indorsement of the Cincinnati Con- vention, which would have given him the vote of the Democratic Convention at Balti- more, and, perhaps, made him President. Now, if the democratic leaders mean to con- sider this labor vote, their duty is to take up a candidate who stands as well with the laboring men asthe Judge. Although Mr. Thurman, of Ohio, has not made as cleara record on the question as Judge Davis, he has sympathies with the laboring man. Since the change of the constitution of Penn- sylvania, making the autumn elections in the same month as the election for the Pres- idency, there is no longer that prominence for Pennsylvania which was formerly im- plied in the proud name of the Keystone | State. The keystone of the political arch is Ohio. If Thurman can carry Ohio, or if, as the friends of Davis claim, he can carry Illinois and Indiana as well, then the nomi- nation of either becomes an important con- sideration. The Belfry Murder. The touching letter of Thomas W. Piper, which we print to-day, will be read with interest, for, whether the man be innocent or guilty, there is something pathetic in the love it expresses for his mother and his ear- nest desire that she shall acquit him though all the world should condemn. This man is sentenced to be hanged forthe alleged murder of Mabel Young, a little girl, who was found dead in the beliry of a church, of which he was the sexton, When he was arrested he told a story which he now admity was false, and the special point of his letter is whether the explanation he now gives may not be true. It is to this effect : that he found the child injured in the tower, by the fall of a trapdoor upon her head, and that while his first impulse was to call for aid his second thought was that he would probably be ac- cused of an assault. He left her, and sup- posed, he says, that her screams would at- tract the attention of other persons, This moral cowardice—if the story he tells be | true—has brought him to his present dan- ger. There is nothing improbable in his tale. The absence of apparent motive for the murder and the previous good repufa- | tion of the accused are facts which support the theory of his innocence. On the other hand, there is the fact that he told a falsehood when he was first arraigned, and then, he may not be lying now. It is nat- ural that a man should accuse himself of falsehood in the hope that he might be exon- erated of murder. This unhappy man, however, professes to have no expectation of executive mercy, and simply to desire that his friends and his relatives will believe him innocent. That he is innocent is cer- tainly possible. Many men if they were suddenly confronted with a similar situation to that in which Piper found himself, would instinctively desire to escape. Their imaginations would suggest that they would be accused of a crime, and they would perceive the difficulty of making & satisfactory explanation. To fly from the place would be the natural instinct of all who do not possess the moral courage which in all the great dilemmas of life rests firmly upon truth. This cowardice Piper may have shown, and it is 2 question whether he is not entitled to the benefit of the doubt, sus- tained by the weight of the argument which is based on the absence of reasonable mo- tive for the crime. Circumstantial evidence, strong as it is, is often not to be be- lieved. Thirty years ago a man was hung in England for the murder of a girl, and everything indicated that he was guilty. His knife was found near the body, and it was shown that he had enticed her to meet him in the woods wherein she was discovered in death. Like Piper this man told a false story when he was tried, and told another after his conviction. But he had told a lie at first, and, of course, no one believed the truth at last. May not this be the case with Piper? It is possible that in his fright he may have tried to escape all responsibility, and so have become entangled in the net of his own lies, and invoked suspicion by the cowardly methods by which he endeavored to avert it. Tammany at Utica. Tammany looks small when seen from the distance of a State Convention. Its attitude at the State Convention more than justifies the position of those indepen- dent democrats who hold that there can be no thorough organization of the democratic party in the city that does not recognize the fact that it is something more than a mere machine for the glorification of its leaders. The main point in the speech of Mr. Kelly was that he had desired to ‘‘give New York a good government.” No one doubts either the ability cr the intention of Mr. Kelly, who is in many respects as respectable a man as we have ever had in our municipal affairs anda great improvement on Tweed and his gang. But the evil with Tammany is with o system which ho has sustained, which is now the basis of his strength, which depends for its life upon the support of a dark lantern Know Nothing secret lodge, which meets in a club room and is bound together by grips and signs. Such an association—and without it Tammany would be nothing—is a reflection upon every democratic sentiment in the country. The action of Tammany at Utica is only a ward strike. It is the attempt of an organi- zation condewzed by the people aiming to hold power by meking a strike at Tilden. We have no doubt that the anti-Tam- many men will be as loyal to their flag as in the past and as loyal to democratic principles. But suppose that Mr. Morrissey and his legions should take the same obsti- nate ground as Mr. Kelly and refuse to sup- port a party that would not recognize then— such a course would make New York a very uncertain city in the fall. Without New York the State would be republican by a large majority. Tue American Carprnat.—‘‘A Charleston Catholic” supports the suggestion of the Henaxp in favor of the nomination by the Pope of a Southern prelate to the rank of cardinal, and thinks the suggestion of Bishop Lynch, of South Carolina, timely. “Bishop Lynch,” he informs us, “is a de- scendant of the Thomas Lynch, of South Carolina, who signed the Declaration of In- dependence, a native of the State, the de- fender of the South in the hour of its peril, and a prelate of learning and virtue. The South would welcome this honor to him as an honor to itself.” America is large enough for a half dozen of cardinals. We should have one in St. Louis, a second in San Fran- cisco and a-third in the South. Tae Weatuer Convitions for New York and New England during the next few days will be changeable, owing to the approach of an area of low pressure from the Northwest. Yesterday rain fell in the upper lake region and west of the Mississippi, and cloudiness prevailed on the lower lakes, all furnishing indications of the approach of an April storm. The remarkably steep thermal gra- dients in the Northwest lead us to expect news from that region of sharp local squalls, which may extend over the lakes and prove dangerous to the smaller shipping. Trovbie at Rep Croup AGeney is again threatened because the Indians are starving, owing to neglect and delay in forwarding supplies. This is but another phase of the endless complications which come out of our Indian system, and there will be fraud and neglect one day and starvation and massacre the next so long as we keep gathering the savages into reservations to keep them in idleness. We must either fight the Indians on the Plains or compel them to work for a living. Canirornta For Buarnz.-—The California Republican State Convention gave Mr. Blaine an unequivocal indorsement for the Presidency, and the delegation will go into | the National Convention strongly support- ing the Maine statesman for the nomination. It is fortunate tor Mr. Blaine that he receives this strong support from the Pacific slope, especially after his slaughter by the Massa- chusetts republicans. Tae Bevxnar Imegacament Trfan began with a plea for delay, and four hours for the argument of the question were allowed by the Senate yesterday, but the effort for post- ponement failed. Now the real argnment will follow on the question of jurisdiction, | | and in a short time we shall know whether | Belknap is to be tried or not. American Exrnapitioy Ricnrs, under the treaty with Great Britain, are being more generally recognized by the English press as the subject is more thoroughly under- stood. The position of the British govern- ment in the Winslow case is clearly unten- | able, and there is more dignity in receding | from than in maintaining it. Biase at Home. —The defeat of Blaine in | Massachusetts means that the favorite son of New England will not carry his own section. He is a poor prophet in a tial sense | who is without honor in his own land. We Ans Arnaip our democratic friends are losing interest in the revelations of Mr. Davenport, A Magnificent Scheme—The Formation ef a New Sea in Western Asia. The triumphs of human genius and ine dustry in the peaceful contest with nature's obstructiveness to man’s dominion over material things have ever proved the crowning glory of nations by perpetuat~ ing their fame after every other trace of their existence has disappeared. Already the successful completion of the Suez Caual is influencing the political and social con- dition of the civilized world, and the union of the waters of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean is cementing and dissolving alliances and sapping the founda- tions of more than one European throne, The Mont Cenis tunnel, once regarded as an impossibility, now forms a closer bond between two peoples than all the treaties that were ever inscribed on parchment, and busy brains are engaged in planning a sub- marine line of communication between Eng- land and France, undismayed by the diffi- culties that will attend such a stupendous undertaking. In our own country immense results have been and are about to be pro- duced by schemes for the facilitation and development of commerce and manufac-~ tures. The Erie Canal has made New York what she is to-day—the commercial metrop- olis of the North American continent. The Pacific railroads tie the East to the West, as the Mississippi ties the North to the South, for the building of the former and the im- provement of the latter are calculated to develop an immense area of territory hith- erto unoccupied and fill it with busy cities and blooming fields. Then, again, we look at the speedy attainment of a navigable line of interoceanic communication across the Isthmus as a necessity to our progress and the promotion of our commercial interests in the Pacific. All these grand undertak- ings, either already accomplished or to be so within a reasonable time, will enable us to contemplate intelligently and set the proper value on the magnificent scheme re- cently proposed to the Russian govern- ment by an eminent American engineer, Mr. Spalding, and which bids fair to eclipse all others in the magnitude and importance of its results. It is nothing less than the restoration of the arid plains and valleys that surround the Caspian and Sea of Aral, in Western Asis, to their origi- nal condition as the bed of o vast inland sea, and the refertilization of the barren steppes of Russia by the healing moisture that will fill the air, over what is now a waste, bare of vegetation and unfit for occu. pation by man. This can be accomplished by cutting a canal from the Black Sea east- ward, toward the Caspian, which is nearly two hundred feet below the former in level, The undertaking would be similar in many respects to that of the Suez Canal, but, owing to the great fall inland, the work of ex- cavation would be largely performed by the inrushing waters through the narrow cui first made for their admission. The glory of this great conception, in all its details, belongs to one of our own countrymen, and there can be but little doubt as to the feasi- bility of forming a great Asiatic sea by the proposed plan, on the waters of which na- vies’could, in the future, exercise the same influence they now possess on the Mediter- ranean. Poertic Justicz.—R. H. Dana as the head of the republican delegation from Massa- chusetts to Cincinnati is an illustration of poetic justice. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, State prison stockings are again in fashion. Evening gloves are very long—regular Balbriggans. Under the California big trees the snow is sixty feet deep. The old Bank of Califormia—Ralston’s bank—is doing a large business. The Cleveland Leader thinks that Conkling will show all his strength on the first ballot. English newspapers are in favor ot Charles Francis Adams for President of this nation, A Western paper says that “Blaine is stalking through tbe land.” He is talking. True. The Erie Despatch says that it is growing warmer and that there will soon be bats. In his hat? In California political State committees are more powerful and arbitrary than in any other State, The Chicago Times thinks that a great want in American religious affairs is that a minister should not bea flunky. It was tho Rev. Dr. Crosby who said to the milkman, the other moruing, ‘Pull off your chin.’? Then the milkman replied, ‘Wipe down your vest.’’ A New England Senator, according to the Boston Traveller, is authority tor saying that Secretary Bristow would not accept a Presidential nomination. The editor of the Rochester Democrat is a Greek philosopher. He was booted the other day, and said that he believed tn the transmigration of soles. The Louisville Courier-Journal replying to one of our aerial flights says that what is good for the goose it good for the gander. This isthe first time we have ‘been called a gander. Among the weaitby ancients the coarser dishes of the table were resting in a bed of rose leaves, just as the original items of the Cincinnati 7imes ars imbedded among Herat paragraphs. Mr. Suburban has determined to have plenty of cu- cumbers this year, and after having had a halt acre of garden spaded up has planted three bottles of Crosse & Blackwell’s chowchow to cach hill, : ‘The rice paper plant of Uhina, with palmate leaves, 4s being cultivated as a dooryard adornment in the warm parts of this country, It is from the pith of this plant that the: Chinese make a sort of drawing paper, The Pittsburg Dispatch ‘When the Pacitic Railroad was being built it was considered lucky thing that the Chinese came over here in large num- bers to help to buitd it, and great encouragement was given to them then to leave their own country ana come to the United States. ’” The editor of a New York religious newspaper hag moved into Essex county, Where the peach trves are in bloom, Having provided all his pious neighbors with bouquets he says it is a beautiful dispensation of provi- dence that one may have blossoms in the spring and plenty of frat next summor. Sefior Rabi, the Commissioner sent out by the Span- ish government to examine ito the flnancial condition of the Island of Cuba, arrived from Havana in the steamship Vera Cruz, and is at the Clarendon Hotel. ‘The Commissioner is accompanied by Sefior Lianos, of the Spanish Customs servico, wd Captain Paez, of the Spanish Navy. They are on the way to Spam, A physiognomist says that a large eye will take in more ata glance, though perhaps with less attention to details, than a small one. Generally speaking, large eyoa sco things in general and small eyes things in par ticular, The one sees many things at a whole, consid ering them in a philosophical or speculative way, oltet seeing through and beyond them; the other sees fowl things, but usually looks keenly into them and is ap preciative of detail. It was under an inspiration that Senator Sargont tht other day sat down and inscribed ona piece of brows paper the following lines, which show that the practh eal Senator from fornia, although managing State | Politics with the deft hand of Richelieu, still rewem- bers bis boyhood days :— Now doth the little onion Poke up its little head, And the restions little rad! ‘Stretch in bis litte bed. ‘eb