The New York Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1876, Page 6

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Investment shares, government and railway bonds generally steady. For- eign exchange was firm. Tur Pracve 1s Tue East, according to the latest reports, is not the plague at all, but an epidemic fever, which will yield to treat- ment. Tae Empness or Invi has rebellious sub- jects in the Punjab, and she may be com- pelled to blow a few naive princes from the mouths of cannon before her right to her new title is generaily conceded. Rarw Transtr had a victory yesterday in the passage of Mr. Husted's bill through the Assembly. Nothing must be left undone to secure quick transit now, for failure at this time means slow and overcrowded horse cars for many years to come. Oxsrmor at THE CeNTENNIAL.—It seems that while the Oxford boating clubs are dis- posed to participate in the Centennial re- gatta they make their acceptance of the in- | vitation conditional upon Cambridge and the Dublin University sending crews. The more the merrier, but we hope there will be no holding back one for another. “Tae Doo a Litrie Anean.”—The exploits of the House Committee in “investigating” Mr. Davenport remind us of the adventurous sportsman who went out with his dog to hunt a wolf. He lost sight of the chase, and made inquiry ofa passer by. He was in- formed that the dog and the wolf when last seen were close together, with the dog a little ahead. Tux Wixstow Casr.—It is difficult to un- dorstand the objections of the British gov- ernment to placing the papers in the Winslow case before the House of Commons, | as there is really no mystery in the matter and no negotiations which require secrecy. The weakness of the position assumed by the government is the real objection to a, Parliamentary consideration of the question, ‘The treaty is practically abrogated, and Mr. Disraeli and Lord Derby may bear the re- sponsibility. Is His Srrecu on the Chinese question yesterday Senator Sargent showed the roal grounds of objection to unrestrained Chi- | nese emigration, and the necessity of an amendment of the Burlingame treaty. There isno doubt that the influx of Chinese into | this country is morally pernicious as well as prejudicial to the business interests of our wn people, and the question is one which must be met and settled in the interests of humanity and civilization. Coacmxe in this country took a new phase yesterday in the starting of Mr. Delancey | Kane's splendid coach on its summer trips to New Rochelle. The start was witnessed by many interested spectators, and the design promises to prove o very great snocess. Nothing can bo more delightful than a trip on Mr. Kane's coach, and we shall be snr- prised if passengers are not booked for many weeks in advance throughout the | Troy Times speaks for its party in the rural | carrying the country at the next Presiden- | tial contest, provided the leaders do not |‘ throw the opportunity away. erp, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1876—TRIPLE SHEET. The Aspects of the Republican Can-/| those who heard the guns of Sumter than even republicans believe, there are also the questions of religion and finance, which may at any time assume a gravity of the most serious character. Democratic victory will only come as the price of republi- Vass. The Troy Times—one of the most influen- tial republican journals in New York outside of this city—contains an article in reference to the canvass, which we print elsewhere, and which will be read with attention, The to grow as we approach the meeting of the Convention, imposes upon the republican leaders a caution that may be felt in the destruction of the fairest hopes of any can- didates thus far named, Here is the danger of the leaders now prominently before the country in connection with the republican nomination, The manner in which these leaders treat each other conduces to repub- lican success, while at the same time it interferes with the ambition of men like sections of the State—for those earnest re- publicans who believe in the party and have no feeling so far as politics is concerned but the triumph of principles. We print this article to show that the detection of Mr. Cur- tis and the small body of gentlemen about the Union League who claim to run the re- publican party does not extend into the rank and file of the organization. The effort of the enemies of Mr. Conkling is to 5 if show that he has no power in| Morton and Blaine and Conkling, who have his’ own State beyond the “machine.” | been long in the strife, who have stood by the flag in many a dark hour and who have earned the honors of command by hard service in the field. The republican leaders seem possessed by the idea that they can win by destroying each other. There is no rec- ognized leadership—no one man to whom all may defer and whose councils should govern the battle. Like the fencing scene in the play, Laertes wounds Hamlet, and, chang- ing rapiers, Hamlet wounds Laertes, and both die to slow music. But the instinct of victory is too strong to carry these enmities beyond the meeting of the Convention. As we are to have a good deal of hail Columbia and Fourth of July in this centennial year we look for a harmonious canvass. The eff: ct of these internecine strifes will only be felt in Cincinnati. For these reasons we see in this canvass, as far as it has developed, the destruction of the hopes of the prominent candidates. Mr. Conkling has the precedence, but we do not see enough strength to win. His advantage over Blaine and Morton is that he has a growing strength in the certainty of the sup- port of some Northern and many Southern States when the time comes to break State combinations, But will these States break on Mr. Conkling? The President might assure this result if he were to support Mr. Conkling for the next few weeks as earnestly as Mr. Conkling has supported him for the last seven years. The fear is that Grant may let the canvass go by default, caring only for what concerns himself and not wishing to be bothered by the clamor of conflicting candidates, each of whom may feel that he has as much claim to the Presi- dent’s support as the other, The chances are that some unknown candidate—some man like Polk or Pierce or Lincoln, some “dark horse’—may come to the front at the last moment. The true part for Mr. Conkling ond his friends to play, therefore, is not to lose the race alto- gether, but to so shape it that the contestant who wins will wear the colors of Oneida. This is what Mr. Seward did at Chicago in 1860. Mr. Seward went to Chicago with even a stronger following than Mr. Conkling, but he was not nominated. He so controlled his defeat that he became the Premier of the new administration and the chief man in the government of the country for two adminis- trations. Not one of the men who had any part in his downfall was permitted to exer- cise any permanent influence. Weare glad to see the support given to Mr. Conkling by the Troy Times and other representative re- publican journals. That is worthy of New York and shows a true pride in the State. We are glad to see the earnestness of jour- nals like the Chicago Inter-Ocean. That shows a generous national feeling on the part of the West toward a New York leader. But the true policy of Mr. Conkling is to take the canvass in time and direct it, if not for the Presidency, for the ultimate fruits of the triumph, the possession of the power behind the throne which even in republics is greater than the throne itself. The truth is that he represents the deepest sense of republican feeling. As the Troy Times says:—‘If the republican party has been in the wrong, then Mr. Conkling has been in the wrong ; if it has failed, then he has failed ; but if it has been right in the main, if it has not failed, then Mr. Conkling has been right and has not failed.” This is the idea that we have pressed upon those republicans who argue that some new men is necessary to “‘purify the party.” No re- publican who has thus far been named for the Presidency with any chance of a nomi- nation has failed in his devotion to the Pres- ident, ‘There is not one of them who is not as much of a “Grant man” as Conkling. Blaine has never spoken against the Presi- dent above a whisper. Morton has been the President's chief counsellor in the most im- portant measures of the administration. Bristow is Grant's Secretary of the Treasury and must share with the President, whose orders he obeys, the praise and the blame of his office. Ifa ‘dark horse” should come first in the race he would have the approval of Grant and his friends. The republicans will nominate no man whose election would be in any way a censure of the administra- tion. The Chicago Inter-Ocean, the republican paper of Chicago, the one which has kept itself in sympathy with tho wishes of the leaders of the Northwest, also supports Mr. Conkling in an earnest and manly article, from which we quote. This support from the Northwest is an answer to the assertion that our Senator has no outside strength. The North American, of Philadelphia, under the control of the veteran editor and poli- tician, Morton McMichael, which charged a few days ago that Pennsylyania would never support Mr. Conkling on account of his opposition to the Centennial, has had its fire drawn by the statement that comes to us from well informed circles that the Senator supported every measure looking to the success of the Centennial. So that we may assume that Pennsylvania, under the skilful leadership of Mr. Cameron, will not fail to sustain Mr. Conkling after the compli- mentary vote of the State has been given to Mr. Hartranft. The Southern States, so far as they have instructed their delegates, show adesire to vote for Mr. Conkling on the same ground as Pennsylvania as a second choice. New England, which was to have voted for Mr. Blaine as a unit, goes to the Convention divided, with its vote scat- tered for Blaine, Bristow and Conkling. ‘The canvass of Mr. Blaine suffers every day from investigations which spring up in every quarter, and especially from the oppo- sition of influential newspapers like the Cincinnati Commercial and Gazette and the Chicago Tribune. These newspapers are supposed to favor Mr. Bristow, but we can- not see how their support means anything but Mr. Conkling or the ‘dark horse.” There is no middle course. The Bristow movement has never been anything more than a sentiment, like that of Mr. Bowles and a few country editors for Charles Francis Adams. It is in the hands of a few saints in Boston.and a swarm of detectives all over the country, who think that the only way to nominate a President is to send all the other leaders of the party to the peni- tentiary. We have a movement in New York which finds expression in a call we print elsewhere, signed by the most respect- able members of the republican party— among them citizens like John Jay, William E. Dodge, John Jacob Astor, A. A. Low, Jack- son S. Schultz, L. P. Morton, James Emott, Joseph H. Choate, J. Pierpoint Morgan, Alexander Hamilton and others—who may well be believed when they expressa desire for “reform,” the return of specie payments, civil service and retrenchment in all the public expenses. This call takes the shape of the Republican Reform Club, which should, and we trust will, exercise a power- ful influence upon the party if it does not fall into the hands of a few political mana- “had good renson to believe they were pro- e ike th id Citizens’ Associati e" these laws and the Turks violated them, is ot'Tweed, and Sweeny. ‘The, Republi | ote Whose effets will not be small at Bertin Reform Club can do more than any other aoe sc Pas rie rea fags: agency to strengthen and purify republican- a, Sul halen GAmURtWAe ism if its members go to work in the right with the % tan are hep are acatir and his way, and, instead of clamoring for any pecan bale tiated erage on one candidate, insist upon a platform \4 hee abuks avis 4 views BF rf im. which will satisfy the honest sentiment of | is Clear shat, hough a victory may be gener | ally deemed an advantage, he would have the country; for, so long as the party is | : Drie : ‘ under base influences, we shall have no ia without a victory gained as this purification of the government. No can- didate ever rises above the party which nominates him. It is midsummer moon- | shine to suppose that any one man, even if | he had the genius of Cwsar or the virtues of | Aristides, can reform a government which | depends ‘upon the votes of aCongress and the support of a convention and a caucus, Reform must come from the party itself. The republican party has fair hopes of | Turkey and the Great Powers. Turkey's victory at Nicsic is unfortunate for Turkey. It was not necessary, even to feed the half-starved garrison, and it was gained in circumstances which must neces- sarily deepen the impression that the.Otto- man authorities will never respect, except as it suits their convenience, any terms made with the Christian people. Hostilities had been suspended and arrangements had been made by the mediating Powers to revictual the place. It was known to the insurgent forces that measures of this nature were in progress, and this practically disarmed them, and many even went to their homes. In this | condition the Turks assailed their position, and, consequently, gained an easy victory. It may be that the Turkish commander was so far uninformed of the state of the case that he cannot be distinctly charged with reachery ; but the fact that the assault was made in circumstances when the insurgents Secretary Bristow is clearly shown to have had nothing to do with the Treasury de- cision in the case of the bark Mary Merritt, Assistant Secretary Conant assuming the whole responsibility for the action, Mr. Conant’s course in the matter was unusual, to say the least of it, and under the circum. | stances seems utterly unjustifiable. Reconpen Hackett, in his charge to the | Grand Jury yesterday, made a special point _ | against embezzlers and fraudulent trustees, 2 . The. New | the frequency of crime committed by men | Hampshire election showed that even Bel- | of high social and bnsiness standing makes | knap's disgrace did not weaken a single line | it necessary that a stern effort should be | in its array. For this reason the canvass on made to bring these offenders to justice, and | : : | the part of the republicans assumes an im- | yo gre glad the Recorder has taken the portance that thus far has not been given to | matter in hand. its opponents, However much we might for | nee national veasons desire to see the democratic | Mn. Brarnx has completely refuted the party in power, as a change of rulers which | story about his receiving coin bonds of the | would do good, we do not think thatthe Kansas Pacific Railroad some years ago, | generation which fonght the war for the re- | The invention of these stories to injure the | bellion will consent to the rnle of the party | political prospects of public men is as dis- | under which the rebellion flowered into life. | graceful as would be the offence charged | Beyond this question of the South, which | against Mr. Blaine. We are pleased that the | after all is much deeper in the hearts of | whole story is shown to be a fabrication. can stupidity. This fear, which may be said | The Overcrowded Dwellings of the Poor. Moral and physical degradation are the legitimate offspring of poverty and unclean- liness. It is not difficult to trace the gene- alogy of crime when its parent conditions are found side by side with it, and the genesis of depravity is limited to a record so short that it enables us to recognize at a glance the close relationship which exists be- j tween the prime cause and the latest effect. We must not, however, confound natural depravity with the failings which are forced on man by the conditions which surround and control his actions. While we regard crime with abhorrence we must not be too hasty in condemning the criminal, but must see if, by reason of defective laws or the total absence of proper legal restraints on his mode of life, society is not in a large meas- ure responsible for his faults. It is impos- sible to imagine a more fruitful source of moral and physica) disease than that pre- sented by the tenement house system of New York and Brooklyn. Overcrowded communities always produce the dangerous classes, for the simple reason that moral ideas lose all their restraining influences when the barriers are removed that keep the social atoms decently separated. The unit of our social organization, which the family represents, is destroyed in the ten- ement house dens, where coresidency and consequent familiarity establish the closest intercourse between the occu- pants. Border ruffianism and city crime alike result from the inability of the law to reach and punish criminals. ‘The solitudes and the overcrowded tenements conceal of- fenders who ply their nefarious calling with impunity, and encourage others to follow their evil example. But there is another and, if possible, a greater evil connected with the tenement house system, which must be regarded as a perpetual men- ace to public welfare. The consequences of overcrowding the dwellings of the poor, when viewed from a sanitary stand- point, present a most alarming spectacle. From time to time elabotate reports have been published in this country as well as in Europe which contain shocking details re- specting the decay of populations under the influence of the unsanitary conditions that surround them. The annual report of the State Board of Charities for 1876 fur- nishes abundant statistical proof of the fatal influences of overcrowding on the growth of the population, and makes a statement which goes far toprove the truth of all the State Board’s deductions:—-‘Half the population of the city (New York) was (in 1873) re- siding upon an area so crowded that less than seven square yards of ground area was allotted to each tenement house occu- pant.” And again, of the whole in- fant population eighty per cent is found in tenement houses, and ‘‘of these scarcely one-half survive their second birthday.” Thus the young, the mature and the aged- alike fall victims to the pestilential poisons generated in these laboratories of disease. Can legislation remedy this monstrous evil and prevent the annual sacrifice of thousands of lives to the avarice of tenement house landlords? Without question, if legislators will only grapple with it unawed by the clamor of those who reap the harvest of death. We regulate by law the erection of houses so as to prevent, if possible, loss of life and property by fire; we surround the construction of railroads and steamships with certain restrictions calculated to insure safety to the travelling public. We interfere in almost every private enterprise which is undertaken with a view of reaping a profit from public patronage. Why, then, cannot we by law declare that no apartments shall be offered for rent in any tenement house which do not possess all the qualifications as - to size, air space, ventilation and all the other sanitary safeguards which the law may require? The capacity of all rented rooms for the proper accommodation of tenants should be certified to by public inspectors. Tenants should not be permitted to sublet their holdings to boarders and others unless within the legal restrictions against over- crowding. This would be followed quickly by a removal of the principal causes of crime and epidemic, because the former would cease to find a refuge and the latter a home. The War in Cuba. The conflict waxes fiercer in the “Ever Faithful Isle,” and the might of Spain is hurled in vain against the mountain and forest defended Cuban patriots, who are steadily approaching Havana and pushing their enemies off or under the soil of Cuba. ' After a struggle that has now lasted over seven years we find the area of Spanish domination on the island growing gradu- ally smaller every year, and the chances of a final suppression of the revolu- tion absolutely nil. The soil seems to swallow the enemies of Cuba, for army after army has marched eastward into these dense forests and rugged defiles, but | has never returned; for even disease is patriotic in Cuba, and yellow fever and smallpox mow down the columns of Spain as effectually as the bullet and machete of the Cuban insurgents. The Spanish troops at- present engaged in tho Cuban war are mostly young boys, dratted under the conscription laws that were in force during the civil war in the old country. The majority of these poor young fel- lows have scarcely attained the age of twenty years, and, being brought direct from a tem- perate into a tropical climate and exposed to all the hardships of a guerilla warfare, they speedily succumb to the terrible forms of disease incidental to a tropical campaign, | It is a fact, and one pregnant of fearful meaning, that the Spanish reinforcements for Cuba rarely bring arms with them, They are furnished with weapons from the ranks of their dead predecessors, and in turn surrender the oft transferred rifle to death and their successors. Thus the awful sacrifice of the young life ot Spain continues to satisfy the cupidity, vanity, and we might add ignorance, of the Peninsular government and its agents in Cuba, When the war will cease will only be determined by failtre of Spain to furnish victims. Tne Anmy Bummar.—The developments about trade posts, Indian supplies, postal rontes and moth contracts bring into promi- nence a character that will long be remem- bered. We mean the army bummer. Tho army bummer is usually » “General” who has been in the Quartermaster’s or Commis- sary Department, and whose rank represents influence about the War Office and days and nights of hard duty about Willard’s and the Arlington. Since the war he has been very “Joyal.” He has “‘sustained” the Union and “supported” the government. Unable to earn an honest living, without brains for any position higher than that of a car con- ductor, he lives by lobbying. He knows the inside of every office, the favorite wine of a Secretary and the kind of dinner fancied by this statesman or the other. So in time he finds himself in the enjoyment of a good income, for which he does nothing but eat and drink and talk. Ho is a disgrace to the army, whose uniform he wears for his own gain. The English Mission—The “Feeling” in England. There could only be one fecling in this country about the rejection of Mr. Dana as the Minister to the English court. It was the act of a combination of the democrats in the Senate and a few dissatisfied republi- cans. The democrats exercised their un- doubted party prerogative of voting against any candidate named by Grant. No one questions their right to do so, although it would be much better to have such names as Bayard and Thurman on the other side in a campaign for the Presidency. But what is all this excitement in the Eng- lish press about the Minister to the English court? The Saturday Review, the Spectator, the Daily News, the Pall Mall Gazette, and other newspapers are in a dreadful way about Mr. Dana. The London correspondent of the Tribune informs us that this condemnation is be- stowed ‘‘with an unsparing severity rare indeed with English journals.” In the first place, we do not think it the business of the English press whom we do or do not send to the English court. In the second place, wo have as good men as Mr. Dana, who will, no doubt, win the approval of the Senate. How would the English newspapers regard the comments of the New York press “with unsparing severity” upon the refusal of the English government to send some Minister who was pleasant to us? We should be told to mind our own business, and this is the advice we feel like tendering to our brethren of the English press. Tue Parapeteara Parzns announce that there will beno “extortion” in that city during the Centennial in the matter of accommoda- tions for the thousands of guests who come tosee the great show. At the same time they tell us that the hotels are about to raise their rates from four to five dollars a day. Now this is extortion. If the hotel keepers were governed by a sense of what is due, to the city, the Exhibition and themselves, they would not increase, but reduce their rates to three dollars a day. ‘There is not a hotel in New York that would not consent to make a contract to rent its rooms for six months at a reduction of twenty per cent if it could be guaranteed guests for that time. This is natural. The more guests in a business like hotel keeping the more profit. There is more certainty of making money at a low rate than if an exorbitant rate was im- posed, calculated to drive away thousands. The Philadelphia papers should tell the hotel keepers what happened to their brethren in Vienna when they attempted to make everlasting fortunes by charging guests six prices for everything. The end was a general bankruptcy in the hotel trade. The surest way to make the Centennial a success to the hotels, as well as the managers of the Exhibition and the railroads, is to bring everything down to the smallest price con- sistent with a reasonable profit. ‘Tur Exrraprrion Question.—The question as to the treaty of extradition between this country and England is about to become a serious one. Practically the treaty is dead, unless the English recede from their posi- tion. If the English do not return Winslow how can they expect us to return any one? America claims that the English should not break a treaty by an act of Parliament with- out at least consulting the other contracting Power. This is sound. England, on the other hand, insists that prisoners taken from her shores for one crime shall not be tried for another. This isalsosound! Any other plan might lead to serious violations of the right of asylum—such, for instance, as ex- traditing a Communist on the charge of rob- bery and trying him for shooting the Arch- bishop, a proceeding that no civilized coun- try would tolerate. We are sorry the treaty has fallen on account of this misconstruc- tion. The English have wantonly thrown it away by allowing an act of Parliament and the judgment of a court to violate a treaty | obligation. Before making a new one the | question may arise, “‘How long can we expect the treaty to last?” Tne Liqvorn Question at THE Czy- | Tenx1at.—The proposition to suppress the sale of wines, beer and liquors within the | grounds of the Centennial Exhibition would be well cnongh if the sale could be sup- ; around the gates is a swarm of drinking } shops of all kinds, where the sale of liquors is free from restraint. If the sale is prohibited within the grounds the effect | common sense plan with all questions is the | of all articles inside of the grounds that is enjoyed outside. Open the grounds on | Sunday! The objection to this comes from a small and narrow portion of the commu- | nity, whose members can go to the show on | the weck days, and falls with severity upon | those who cannot go on account of their duties, and to whom Sunday would be the most advantageous time. The argument against opening on Sunday is solely ad- | dressed to the rich and pious, against the poor. | Amenrcan Creprr.—-The London 7imes, in | an article on the credit of the various na- tions of the world, singles out ‘English | consols, United States funded, and, perhaps, | | French rentes,” as the only securities that are not to be affected by political ramors and | | the schemes of speculators. This is » high honor, remembering, as we do, how our credit was scouted a few yearsago. It should be a lesson to those desperate politicians who pressed outside of the grounds also. But | | will be to send the visitors outside. The | best. Allow the same liberty with the sale | think that the way to win political renown is to trifle with the national credit. There is no reason why our credit should not be the best in the world, better even than that of England, for we are not menaced by those political and social conditions which threaten to play an important part in the near future of English politics, and which must in some way affect the credit of the country even as they. affected our credit during the war. peace AGP By MERA) The Opening of the French Salon. We print this morning an important de- spatch from Paris, sent to us specially by cable, giving a brilliant picture of the opening of the Salon for the spring exhibition. This despatch will inter est all who watch the progress of art. It is in these exhibitions that we seq that ‘‘confederation of the nations,” that “parliament of man” of which the poets write and theorists dream. ‘The effect of the opening of the French Salon is to determine the art taste of the world forthe season. We take our fashions in art from France as well © as our fashions in other things. Our corre- spondent notes a tendency among the painters to achieve excellence in the clas- sical school, which is a wide departure from the tendency to realism which came with the rise of the pre-Raphaelites, and which so keen a thinker as Macaulay hoped would spread, because only by spreading could it lose an influence which he regarded as trivial and pernicious. This description of the opening of the French Salon is inter- esting in other features than its mere artistic value. It shows that journalism is compel. ling from the cable the same cffice that has hitherto been performed by the post. Yes. terday and the art world of Paris was study- ing with varying emotions the achievement of art genius on the walls of a French Salon. To-day, thanks to the cable, the art world of New York is enabled to follow these studies in the columns of the Hxgazp and to learn the lessons of beauty and taste which an ex- hibition like this teaches, not alone to France, but to mankind. ‘Wa Suourp Lrxz to have the opinion of some great financial genius like Comptroller Green, who knows the value of money, as to what is the proper fee for lawyers. Here wa have a case before the Superior Court in- volving this question. In this case the wit nesses on one side, headed by Charlet O’Conor, John K. Porter and John McKeon, said that o certain service was worth $10,000, Witnesses on the other side, Luther R. Marsh and Judge Fullerton among them, thought the work was worth about $500. The jury found a verdict for $3,000, This question of fees and allowances, which haa become such an abuse in the courts of New York, finds a pertinent illustration in this case. The matter should have legislative attention. The lawyer should have his hire like any other laborer. But the way we ar- range it now leads to manifold injustice and corruption. Morrow, or Inpraxna.—One of the noblest acts during the war for the suppression of the rebellion was that of Governor Morton, of Indiana, when the democratic House of Representatives of his State refused to pass appropriation bills to enable the war to go on. He took upon himself the responsibil. ity, aided by the general government, of fit- ting out the regiments necessary to defend the honor of Indiana in the field. This was the foundation of the Governor's fame. It was this, among other things, to which General Sherman alluded when he was talk- ing about Morton the other day to a reporter as one of the great men of the country. Now we learn that the democrats in Congress pro- pose to “investigate” the Governor for this act as a “violation of the law,” Would it not be as well while on this branch of inquiry to ‘dnvestigate” the battle of Gettysburg? That was also a “violation of the law.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Boston is planting elms. Negroes in New Orleans scare little school girls. ‘The Rochester Democrat calls John Morrissey a Mose artist. ASan Franciscan proposes the whipping post fot hoodlums. . Governor Hayes’ friends are working for him through Southern agencies. Four hundred thousand silver quarters have arrived in Washington from San Francisco. This time the neighborhood of Little Rock has a woman fighter—a sort of Joan of Arkansas, Freemasonry has been discovered among the rev ligious and ‘medicine’? rites of the Osage Indians. The Chicago Jnter-Ocean, speaking for the republican West, says that Conkling is rapidly advancing to the front, ig Congressman Wheeler, of New York, is a vory strong Presidential candidate among his associates at the capital, : The statement that Bristow’s own county in Ken- | tnexy has elected Morton delegatemis pronounced un- truc on the ground that the county has not yet elected dolegates at all. The friends of Senator Sargont claim that he was not in Congress at the time he is said to have been the agent of the California Whiskey Ring, and that he wag personaily the enemy of that ring, Detroit Post:—'Frank Moulton says that either he ought to be in the Penitentiary or Beecher ought to be out of his pulpit. There is no getting around that, But Mr. Beecher’s failure to do his duty is no excuse for Moulton neglecting his, Let him go to the Peni- tentiary.” A correspondent, writing of Congressman Payno to the Cleveland Plaindealer, says:—"“No oneever saw a single lock of that silvery hair out of place. It sweeps up from the forehead ima curve it has kept for years and clings affectionately round the crown, where it ig gtowing thin.” Senator Wright, of Iowa, is a Conkling man, though | he believes that Blaine stands best in that State. He says that in Washington Conkling is working with a pluck that will not stand defeat. Sonator Wright be, lieves that in the end General Sherman will be nomi« nated against his wishes. Bismarck (Dakota) Tridwne:—‘Soon alter the publi- cation of General Hazon’s Northern Pacific letter a gen- tloman interested in that enterprise, being in Washing- ton, was talking with Weneral Belknap about Hazen, when Belknap remarked that if he know of a meanor place than Baford he would order Hazen to it at once,’ Macaulay said of Talleyrand that “His bead is sunk down between two high shoulders. One of his feet is hideously distorted. His face 1s .as pale as that of o corpse and wrinkled to a frighttul degree. His cyes have an odd, giassy stare quite peculiar to them, His hair, thickly powdered and pomatumed, hangs down , his shoulders on each sido as straight as a pound of tallow candles."* Danbury News:—‘A very flashily dressed young miss was chatting with a couple of young men in front of the Post Office yesterday afternoon, when an old woman, rathor plainly dressed, came along. The young miss suddenly turned her back toward hor, but tho old Woman recognized her. ‘Anh, is that you, Maggie?’ ox- } claimed the elderly party, ‘And so your mother has | got work aguin, has she? Well, I'm glad to hear it? ‘This unseltish burst of congratulation caused the young | miss to flush to the roots of her hair,”