The New York Herald Newspaper, May 5, 1876, Page 6

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The effect of rail- way hostilities is evidently just being felt, Government and railway bonds were steady and investment securities are easier, Tue Steamer Gortue was off the Scilly | Islands yesterday, and will probably be safe in port to-day. This will bring relief to many who have been anxiously waiting for tidings from the disabled vessel. ‘Ine Porte agrees to a renewed armistice, but accompanies the agreement with a good deal of bluster about crushing the rebellion by force. If Turkey can do this an armistice is unnecessary, for this would settle the Eastern question for the present at least. “Currmxc” Fnricuts is one of the evils of our present milway system, and as the managers of the great trunk lines are just now engaged in this interesting divertisse- ment we print this morning the views of a number of interested and well informed | persons on sty , subject. { Broxen Cannes have: been reported so fre- quently of late that it is not surprising there | should be surmises of foul play in the mat- ter. Rigid inquiry ought to be made into the cireumstances attending these accidents, that it may be ascertained whether any of the cables were broken by design. Tue Exorisn Government hesitates to dis- charge Winslow because his discharge means the abrogation of the Extradition Treaty, against which there isa strong feel- ing of opposition among the English people. If there is any way out of the disagreeable dilemma we have no doubt that Mr. Disraeli will gladly avail himself of it. Rarznoap Competition is destroying the eanals, and the prospects for business this year are exceedingly gloomy. Canaling, like coaching, seems destined to “go out,” but the “raging canawl,” unlike the stage | coach, is never likely to afford a fashionable and healthy amusement. Yesterday was the day fixed for the formal opening of the canals, but as yet they are not open for busi- Dess, Cvpa.—We reprint this morning a letter | from Madrid to the London Standard which tepeats with great force what has already come to us in regard to the efforts at reform in Cuba and the utter hopelessness of these attempts. While Spanish dominion in the Antilles becomes weaker day by day the | courage of the Cuban patriots rises and the | Republic has a new President and is in- | augurating still more vigorous war measures. The end cannot be very distant, Senator ANTHONY made. a \ foolish speech in the Senate the otheg day in support of Mor- | ton, of Indiana. It was calculated to de- | stroy the influence of Morton's speech, which we regard as one of the ablest and most effective of the session. Mr. Anthony is an able, courteous and highly respected ; man, and, as « journalist, does his profession honor in public life. This is the greater season why he should not degrade himself | oy making/ speeches worthy of Patterson and Dorsey. | ther victory. The republican party has this | a state of political slavery? Then as to the | Allen? | the | frauds ” Camvase—The | of the! The Aspects of the Opportunitics and Perils Democratic Party. We could wish for many reasons that the democratic party might win the next can- | vass for the Presidency ; for, while we do not believe in the dishonesty of parties as organizations, we think that the radical change that would thus come would be a | benefit. We say we do not believe in the | dishonesty of parties as such, because men | are honest and dishonest from other than | political reasons. We have no doubt that | there are as many rogues in one party as the other, The rogues generally keep them- selves in line with the party that is in power. If there was a chance of democratic success we should find the whiskey and Indian thieves shifting ground with precision and energy. But the country demands just such | a change as would be seen in the event of the accession of a new party to power. As matters now stand there is a chance of the democratic party winning. We saya chance, | for we have never believed in the vitality of | the “tidal wave,” as it was called, of last | year. A ‘‘tidal wave” in polities in any other than the Presidential year is not to be relied upon. We had a “‘tidal wave” during the war, in the year when Seymour was elected Governor and when Indiana and Pennsylvania swung around under the demo- | cratic banner against the administration of Mr. Lincoln. It looked for a time as if the war was to be paralyzed by the success | of the democratic party in the great States | of the North. But the next year the repub- licans recovered their power, and they have | kept it ever since, excepting the defeat of | last year. As we showed at the time that defeat might become a warning to the repub- licans, which they might utilize for a fur- immense advantage—it is the party of the | war, the party around which clusters the | brightest memories of the generation. It is | a party of sentiment, formed by the enthu- | sinsm of the young men who fought for the | Union. It is» party of noble achievements, We owe to it largely emancipation and tho preservation of the Union. It has given us some of the noblest names in our history. More than all, it has the prestige and discipline of power. In any canvass such a party enters the fight with a hundred advantages in its favor. Therefore our democratic friends, if they | mean to win this government at the next election, must not count on an easy victory. | The strength of the republican party was never shown so clearly as in the vote of New Hampshire after the exposure of Belknap. That extraordinary and humiliating event, covering, as it did, the whole administration with shame, did not affect the republican | vote in this most intelligent State. It may be, and perhaps it is, the wisest plan to limit the democratic canvass to the one question of “reform in the government.” But we question if a cry like this will satisfy the country any more than the sentimental plat- form of Beil and Everett, in 1860, which em- bodied ‘the Union, the constitution and the enforcement of the laws.” ‘There could be no more romantic platform, but the country wanted something it could bite, and so it took Lincoln, who had a meaning in his canvass—a terrible meaning, also—as events proved. If the opponents of Lincoln had united upon some tangible platform it is possible that the war might have been averted and the Union as it was preserved. Without dwelling upon that painful and | dreary speculation there is this lesson to be learned—the democrats must go before the country with a platform that does not ignore the active sentiment of the country, and the country was never more active in political discussion than now. The questions which the advocates of | a “reform” platform would ignore are the | very questions which the country will decide in the election of a President. First, we have the South. ‘This is a tremendous issue and cannot be overlooked. What are we going to do with the South? Are we to allow it to pass into the hands of thieves and adventurers on the one hand, or those of men on the other who, having seen the negro emancipated, mean to reduce him into finances. What are we to do with our credit, our currency and our revenues? Is the | democracy to speak on that question with the voice of Tilden or with the voice of We have the school and church We believe that sensible men on question. But sensible men do | not make Presidents. The question is in | our politics, and we must notice it, | These are questions which the democrats | must meet at the next canvass. It is a mis- | take to allow any controversy to spring up | in Congress that will prevent the wise men | of the party taking patriotic ground on them | all, Look at the blunder in attacking the | war record of Governor Morton, of Indiana. | There is not a child in the public schools old | enough to read who does not know about | that record, and how brilliant and brave, it was. Yet the democrats invite from Morton one of the most conclusive and damaging | speeches of the canvass, It may be said that | Morton, with the art of a politician, shaped | the issne for his own benefit. But this does not excuse them. It is no democrat's busi- ness to pull Morton's chestnuts ont of the | Presidential fire. Morton goes before the country in a speech of singular ability and | adroitness as ‘defending the Union from | the assaults of the copperheads.” As such | this speech will be read over the whole coun- try. Nor do we see that good is coming out of the investigation of the manner in which federal officers punished — election | in New York. ‘Thus far the ad. vantage in that investigation is with Grant and his friends, It cannot be denied that never in the history of a free government were there such shameless frands as those which destroyed the franchise in New York and gave this city and State to Tweed and his gang. The democratic House goes before | the country in tie attitude of impeaching Grant for spending a few thousands of dot- lars to stop the frauds of Tweed. And we | shall have the administration papers in a | little while saying that the democratic ma- | jority is sustaining Tweed and Tweedism, | Nor is anything to be gained by corn. | eutting and nail-paring legislation, or | by small business in dealing with | | omy in the House be in an honest direction— | up the Mullett and Shepherd contracts in | the moiety business. Do not be led off by | Let the democrats take ground on questions ; inated for the Presidency whose name will | tothe country that the democrats mean to | abandoned. | both sides feel that this should have no | | place in our politics. ‘his cause, both in this country and in Eng- the Bina tay. Grant's veto of the bill reducing the President's sal- ary was a much more popular measure with the sensible people of this country than any act of the present Congress. Let the econ- in the reduction of the army and the navy, in the management of the Indians and in the suppression of rings around the Treasury and the Post Office. There is no people who have less of cant and nonsense about them than the Americans, and no picayune policy will ever be popular with them in the long run. Our advice to the democrats is to press their investigations in all directions where there has been expenditure of money. Take | public buildings. Go into the Indian sup- ply business. Inquire into the Alaska fur monopoly and the failure of civil service. Investigate the Attorney General's office and republicans to investigate the suppression of the rebellion and the prevention of fraud. | The democrats might as well investigate the | battle of Gettysburg on the ground that | murders had been committed there by armed republicans. Insist upon the negroes in the South being treated with political equality. Do not let us have a revolution like that which upset the Kellogg govern- menttwo years ago, or the moral revolution which drove out Ames from Mississippi—a | transaction which, we think, will have an | unpleasant prominence, so far as the democrats are concerned, before we are through with it. Let us have a clear platform on the currency question. which the republicans on their part are shirking, and about which the country feels a deep interest. Here is the one term amendment which is very popular—an amendment which involves fundamental principles of the government. It was upon this issue as much as any other that the |, democrats won the ‘‘tidal wave” canvass, They cannot afford to drop it now without | giving the country an impression of insin- | cerity, Then, as to the church question. | Let the democrats take that manfully by ac- | cepting the plan proposed by Mr. Blaine, | which fie threw out asa firebrand, and which | | | | | | i wisdom would have prompted a sagacious democrat to at onceadopt. This is a ground upon which both parties can meet, and in doing so drive the religious question for- | ever out of pclitics. Let some man be nom- be a guarantee of patriotic and conservative rule. Such a candidate on a platform like this—a platform liberal, wise, prudent and, at the same time, bold and progressive—a platform of ideas like what we should expect from the successors of Jef- ferson, would win the confidence of the country. The canvass is in a peculiar con- dition; the country is disgusted with the re- publicans and at the same time afraid to trust the democrats. It would change cap- tains to-morrow if it did not fear that the captain might have a crew that would insist upon his shooting Niagara. Let our triends in the democratic majority carefully sup- press these ‘‘Niagara shooters” and show the country. that it would be just as safe in their control as in that of the republicans. The resuit, we are convinced, would bea democratic administration. The way to do this is not to give Morton a chance to say punish him for his devotion to the Union in its dark days, or to allow Grant to complain that he is censured for suppressing the elec- tion frauds of Tweed. Barbados and the British West Indies. It isa little difficult to understand why the scheme of confederation of the Wind- ward Islands should provoke any real trouble in Barbados, or that Governor Hennessy, in seeking to promote it, should be accused of encouraging sedition and setting class against class. A closer scrutiny of the condition of the British West Indies may explain them. In spite of Exeter Hall and the English abolition societies, which are more hated in the West Indies now than when slavery was formally abolished, there is practical servi- tnde in these islands to-day. In Jamaica the landowners held on to their lands when emancipation made it impossible for them to work their plantations, and rather than permit the creoles to become owners of the soil most of the estates were practically Thousands of acres in that fruitful island have not been tilled for nearly half a century, and the whole cause of the degradation of the people of Jamaica and the decline in prosperity of the country was owing to the stubborn dog-in-the-manger policy pursued by the planters. If an oppor- tunity had been afforded to the colored people of the island to acquire land and a real interest in the country Jamaica would to-day be the most prosperons of the | Antilles. In Demerara the planters have been attempting to remedy the inconyen- iences of the abolition of slavery by a dif- ferent kind of servitude, and the East Indian coolies in that country are iittle above the condition of slaves, Barbados is the excep- tional island. Every acre of this little speck | in the sea is under cultivation. ‘The lands are in the hands of the few, and it is neces+ sary for all to work who would eat. Asa mat- ter of course there is much oppression; and the ruling class is extremely jealous of any attempt on the part of the workingmen to better their condition, This explains the hostility to any liberality toward the poor | people by Governor Hennessy, the absurd ery of the planters against sedition, and the exaggerated reports of outrages and crime on the part of the negroes, It enables us also to read tho version of the troubles, | which comes to us this morning by way of Kingston, between the lines, and will excite more sympathy for Governor Hennessy and land, than anything that has yet been said on the subject. Turne Is Mven Orrostrion to the selling | of liquor at the Centennial Exhibition, and | the question was to have been decided by the | Commissioners yesterday, but it was indefi- | nitely postponed. We presume this means | that liquor will be sold according to the } agreements already made with dealers who | | have acquired rights in the grounds for this | purpose . -special. His work is done, Clty Politics—The New Alliance. The New York Times, in the course of an | indignant article on the results of the late Legislature, arraigns the republican party in this State for one of the most corrupt bargains ever made in our politics. As the Times is the republican organ it of course speaks by authority :—‘‘Thanks to the re- publican Legislature,” says the Times, “the Park Department will pass, within a week or two, under the absolute control of Tam- many Hall; the same organization will be able to trade in advance upon the vast influ- ence of the finance department,” meaning that Wickham can name some man in the place of Green. ‘The law department will be open for another Tammany appointee in November.” “By the supineness of the majority of republicans in the Legislature and the jobbery of our new set of Tammany republican office-holders and their allies at | Albany” the republicans will lose the fruits of a victory even if they won in November. The Times must, of course, deal with its people in its own way. But we have a gen- eral interest in the meaning of these combi- nations. Why shonld the republicans, who are able men, give so much power to John Kelly? They are not men to throw away a single chance in the struggle for power. What consideration has John Kelly paid or promised for this surrender of so much patronage? He must have done something for his republican allies. The republicans would not throw away the control of this rich and great city fora song or a promise. ‘The only question which interests the repub- licans more than the control of New York is the control of the United States. Now, it will be remembered that at the election when Mr. Greeley was a candidate the republicans obtained a large democratic support here by means of a trade, which was not carried out in the best of faith so far as they were con- cerned, but which gave Grant great strength. Are we to infer that the republicans and Kelly have made a trade of this kind—the democrats to have the city and the republi- cans to have the support of the democrats for the control of the State? If it does not mean this what does it mean? The aver- ments of the Times, coming, as they do, from the official republican organ, and impugning, as they do, the good faith of the republican leaders, cannot be whistled down the wind. | There has been some trade, some knavery, and we are interested in knowing what it allmeans. Probably General Husted, who is denounced by the Times, may be able to tell us, Our Dear Old Friend, “The Special.” On Tuesday, the 18th of April, Mr. Henry Irving, the celebrated English actor, ap- peared in London in Tennyson’s play, | “Queen Mary.” It was a theatrical event of world wide interest, because of the author, the actors and the theme. On Thurs- | day, May 4, we have in a contemporary a charming criticism of this performance, | written with taste and knowledge—a fine bit | of “special correspondence.” The account would be a contribution to journalism but for one thing. The Hzratp, on April 23, published a criticism three columns long, containing not only all the critical opinions of the accomplished writer, but most inter- esting details important to womenkind, es- pecially as to how the parts were dressed and the stage was set. In other words, the Henatp printed a complete picture of the event just as our contemporary does now. The correspondents of the two journals were present and did their office fnithfully. The. difference is that the Henan sent its account by cable, while the other came by mail. The further difference is that, while the morning after the performance of a play by Tennyson all lovers of the drama would be curious to know ‘how it succeeded, no one cares now that the event is two weeks old. A criticism upon Mr. Irving as Philip is about as newsy as a criticism of Hazlitt on Edmund Kean. It is not news, but liter- ature. This only shows that the cable has de- stroyed the usefulness of the dear old | Let him write | never so well, let him turn his periods with never so graceful a flourish, let | him give his views, his recollections, | his learning and his hopes—who } really cares? It is so old a story. Everybody read it days before in the | Henatp. Although lovers of polite litern- | ture may lament the change, and look back to the good old time when people wrote at | their leisure and there was room for gifted men to discourse about Shakespeare and the musical glasses, we are very well content | as it is. Long Distance International Contests at Saratoga. The race between the three fastest univer- | sity fours of Europe and the three fastest of | America seems (thanks largely to the energy | of the regatta committee and its chairman, Captain Rees), to be in an excellent way of necomplishment, and, great and wide- spread as was the interest in the Oxford- Harvard match in fours on the Thames in 1869, it promises to be completely eclipsed. And now the door is opened for a meeting never before possible in the annals of | aquatics, one which, for brilliancy, thorough- ness and satisfactoriness of test and valuable | results, will justly prove an event long to be remembered. On the second day follow- ing the international university struggle let Saratoga throw open on her magnificent | track a race for the chosen amateur oarsmen of the world. The prizes need not, indeed | had better not, be costly ; a laurel wreath was ample in ancient struggles for the mastery. America has no other such course, Boathouses are already erected. No other place has been nearly so successful in hand- ling great regattas, nor can approach it in comfortable accommodations for thousands ot visitors, while the stranger crews will train in a popular watering place, far north and high among the hills, thus avoiding the oppressive, almost intolerable heat of Phil- adelphia during the fierce August dog days, until the few days they will need to spend in the latter place in learning the Centennial course, Then, side by side with Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin, Cornell, Columbia and Harvard will start the Lon- /don rowing men and Royal Chesters, the | picked teams of Germany, France and Bel- | gium, the Argonautas, Atalantas and Nep- tunes, Buffaloes, Beaverwycks and Wabwah- | tations of patriotism. |.membered as the scholarly actor of a diffi- | Courtley, and it would be a kindnéss for Mr. NEW YORK AERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1876. --TRIPLK SHEET. sums, all masters at the oar, all fit to row a terrible race over the three whole miles till across the finish line. Then most interest- ing questions will be settled. ‘Then we shall know beyond cayil who are the better oars- men—the student amateurs or the non-stu- | dent; whoare the faster—the English univer- sity men or the American; which country has really learned to best combine skill, speed and stay at the oar ; after long years of wait- ing we shall at last see the famous English stroke with our own eyes and no longer at second hand, and, greatest of all, on a track superbly fitted for an absolutely fair test— tideless, currentless, straight and laned—it will be clearly proved who are the fastest gentlemen oarsmen in the world. On the next day bring the great professionals to- gether likewise, and thus, in the greatest racing week any of us will ever see, it may be found that the best oarsmen in the world are not professionals, do not live by the Thames or Tyne, but again at Cornwall-on- the-Hudson, or may be, better yet, by the lit- tle Kill Von Kull. The Dramatic Season. We are coming to the end of our winter pageantries and amusements, and perhaps it is just as well, considering that we are to have a ‘grand national pageant,” to use a circus phrase, for the Centennial, with con- tributions and star performers from all the | world, England and Spain and even Japan and China taking part. Whether the Cen- tennial performance will take the world away from New York we do not know. But | We are not afraid. It was said that the | Moody and Sankey revival would put an end to all amusements, and that we should all take to singing ‘‘Hold the Fort” and | kindred lyrics, But it was found that the | circus was never so attractive as after a re- vival. We have no more fear of the Cen- tennial as a counter attraction than of the revivals. There will be a good deal of hard work about the Centennial, and the sight- seer will soon tire of a world of machinery and pictures, and exhibits of coal and iron and soap and quartz. The Centennial managers even feel this, as we hear of all manner of auxiliary attractions, in the way of soldiers and races, parades and manifes- Still the season is going to the end very rapidly. Mr. Daly is in the last days of “Pique,” which has been a Sylvanus Cobb, Jr, sensation, thrilling and harrowing. Jarrétt & Palmer are coming to the end of their campaign at Agincourt, which, consid- ering that it is a second campaign, shows the power of Shakespeare's genius, even as a spectacle. Mr. Rignold will always be re- cult and trying part, and Mr. Thorne as having contributed to our stage in Fluellen a character as marked as Rip Van Winkle. At the Union Square we have the continued success of French comedy, mounted with sumptuous taste and rewarded with undying success, We are to have another experiment at the Union Square in the way ofan American drama, which we trust will have a better fate than ‘‘Twins.” We believe in the American drama, and feel sure that if our managers will only keep on in their work they will strike a bonanza in time, a dra- matic Comstock lode, which will make all their fortunes. Itis a mistake to suppose that in a country as full of character as ours we should not have dramatic fund of origi- nality and humor. So we honor the Union Square people for their courage in stand- ; ing by the country and its dramatists after the failure of the experiment at Wallack’s. Speaking of Wallack’s, we have to note the continued success of that famous and meritorious house. In ‘London Assur- ance” we have a splendid comedy superbly played. Miss Dyas has added o new laurel to her overladen crown by the spirit and genius she throws into the part of Lady Gay Spanker. Mr. Wallack, who is the best Charles Courtley on the stage, shows what he can do with the ingenious but uncon- genial part of Dazzle. We wish Mr. Mon- tague comprehended the part of Charles Wallack to tell him what it really means. But he continues on the ascending wave of a popularity which his real merits as a faith- ful actor deserve. The lesson to be learned | from the success of Wallack—and this we commend to Max Strakosch and the man- agers who are ever explaining why they fail—is that good plays will always bring large houses, and once that a theatre wins the reputation of always doing the best things in the best manner it will win re- | nown and that popularity which brings | money as well as renown. Ovex Our Parks.—The Central Park is be- ginning to put on its spring robes and this leads us to say to those who have it in charge | that it should be made a park and not a pic= ‘ture. The trouble with our public places like the Park is that we regard them as orna- | ments and not pleasure grounds. The Cen- | | tral Park was intended to be for the people | | what the conntry gentleman's lawn is to its owner—a place for amusement and oceupa- | tion and healthful recreation. This idea of | closing the grass reservations to all but the | mowers, of limiting the visitors to narrow | paths, is a mistake and violates the princi- | pal idea of a park. Why not throw the Park | open to the cricket players and the base ball | | clubs? The result would be an attraction that would make the Park more in harmony with the spimt which prompted the City Fathers to give it tous. Let the spring open | with a liberal policy so far as this and all of our parks are concerned, and it will make the commission, which already stands so well with the people, mugh more popular. Coactuxe.—The feet) that Mr. Delancey | Kane's coach has all its ‘seats reserved for a month ahead shows the interest that is taken | in this innocent and honest recreation. Our reporters note as a singular evidence of the zeal which Mr. Kane throws into his work that | the time tables of the coach are as regularly observed as cn a railway. It would not sur- | prise us to hear that the people in the upper part of the island were timing their clocks by the conch as a chronometer. A more gen- erous amusement we have never known than — coaching, and we welcome it as an addition to our stock of amusements—as a contribu- | tion to our methods of civilization, We trust to see a half dozen coaches running | out of New York everv dav to the Hudson. the Palisades, the Sound, Coney Island, the sea and the Monmouth coast, and if, as some enthusiastic writer proposes, we, could have a coach to Philadelphia to the Cen- tennial, it wou! be a brilliant, but, we are afraid, to think a tiresome ride, at least for one day. Our Old Folks. The other day we printed aon interesting conversation with the venerable Cook St. John, of this State, in which he gave many | Pleasant details of his experiences in this city and elsewhere nearly a century ago. Mr. St. John never saw General Washington, although he was born as early as 1773, and was in Norwalk, Conn., when the Father of his Country passed through that place on his way to New York. To-day we give an inter. view with Mrs. Mary Reynolds MacDonald, who has still a vivid recollection of Wash. ington and his appearance. “I know just how he looked,” she said, ‘for I used té sii hours and hours and see his picture, and . his every feature is impressed upon my mind.” Some of these recollections are exceedingly quaint. Mr, St. John related a curious story of Arnold and his colored servant, and of the bribe money which the | traitor concealed and the negro unearthed. Not less quaint is Mrs. MacDonald’s recollec- ! tion of the watermelon which a Pennsyl- vania farmer provided for one of Washing- | ton’s Christmas dinners, or Judge Bibb’s reminiscences of Lafayette’s visit to Alabama in 1824. All these things are not very im- portant, perhaps, but their sources and their quaintness lend them an interest which must yield pleasure to many readers, especially at this time, when everything relating to our | revolutionary leaders has a freshness which only the centennial of our national inde- pendence can give it. Porrtics and Inpustry.—President Mac- Mahon will scarcely be xeached by the intrigue on foot in Paris to induce him to withhold the money voted for sending French workmen to Philadelphia. It is pretended by those who urge this step that there is danger that the workmen will give more attention to politics while in this country than to the more legitimate objects of the visit. If they should while here give some attention to politics it will do them no harm. Should they discover that our politi- cal system, in spite of many defects, is the most admirable product of*the country, and report on their return that it seemed to them .the thing most worthy imitation of all that they saw, they would probably horrify none but reactionary deputies. This expression of a fear that these visitors will study cur politics is an indication of how ignorant the average deputy is of our institutions. If they wish French workmen to learn thor- oughly that civil liberty and communism are totally different things this is the place to send them; but this fact the deputies do not know. Doubtless the movement re- ferred to in the despatch is the reply of the ‘ conservative party to the Hugo demonstra- tion. It is a pity that this envoy of work- men should have become a party question, but since it has it is at least satisfactory that it is favored by the stronger party. Tur Ancument on the question of the jurisdiction of the Senate in the Belknap impeachment trial was begun yesterday, Mr. Montgomery Blair addressing the Court in opposition and Mr. Lord on the part of the managers of the House of Representatives, No great ability was displayed on either side, and we fear the question is not to be argued with the ability adequate to its ime portance. , PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Texas peaches are blushing. New Englanders are poputating Arizona, Justice Miller, of the Supreme Court, is called a dark horse. The St. Lous Republican compares Blaine with Winslow. William Penn is about to be investigated by a Com gressional bee, The Oswego (N. ¥,) Palladium is entnusiastic for Seymour The San Francisco Bulletin calls Conkling “grand, peculiar, purple.”” Before election a man is in the hands of his friends; afterward they are in his. Three hundred alligators are cn route to the Centen- nial as specimens of Florida fruit. Georgians have picked up 500,000 pounds of old lead from the battle fields around Marietta, A Sacramento Grand Jury indicted one of its own members for keeping a gambling saloon, The Cincinnati Times’ editor has a campaign song which he calls, “Oh, Let Us be Jaw-full."” Governor Hardin, of Missouri, is the recipient of @ pair of white buffaloes captured im Colorado. Colonel Whitley, the detective, says that the admins istration motto is ‘Let no innocent witness escape.”’ Ik Marvel says that Belknap did not spring from the plough, But how he could jump over the brooketick. Ivis asserted that Judge David Davis, goes about | Washington taiking ot his own merits tor the Presi- dency. Dr. Glenn, a farmer of Colusa, Cal,, has only 22,750 sacks for holdmg his this year’s wheat crop, and he is asking for a fow thousand more, Count Carl Lewennaupt, the new Swedish and Nor. woegian Minister to Washington, arrived on the steam. shipScvthia yesterday morning. The Worcester (Mass.) Press wishes that the great unknown snall not have petty vices and shall never need Congress water the next morning. The Syracuse Courier says that ex-Governor Sey- | mour’s pretty refusal of the crown only strengthens his | chances. The way the up-country papers talk one would think the State was chock fall of Lapercais. Lord Dundreary was asked if he thought John McCullough would succeed in London. The actor re- plied, “I do; be has dash and firc; he 1s a student and has evidently founded his readings on the great German critics,”” New men in politics, according to the Denver (Col.) Tribune, always run splendidly, because, while they are freo from partisan entanglements, they represent the strongest combination of popular feelings, New men alone inspire enthusiasm. Louisville Courier-Journal:—In a recent lecture at Leavonworth a Mrs. Sturrett said “4f God had beon @ mother He never would have madea hell.” She ert dently supposes that nobody but a father knows where the present administration ought to be sent to, ‘The Richmond Enquirer, discussing the rights of ex- Confederates, says, “Our people did not want to re- | same their citizenship, but were torced into it; and } now that they have come back under compulsion they | are entitled to their full share of the honors as well aa the burdens.” The Danville (Va) News editorially gloats over the stagnation and rain of business in the North; calls ita | Just recompense for ill treatment of the South, and is especially happy over the failures in Boston, Mr. News, the South will never bo revived until the North has the ‘Wealth to revive you with. The editor of the Rocky Mountain Herald has medical authority for stating that in some cases if liquid food | be applied to the body it will merely, by being ab- sorbed, sustain life. The editor had'a molasses jug forcibly applied to himself, and his hoad not only in- creased in size, but it has been # sweet-looking head COT male