The New York Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1876, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD) | peters tcl mci BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ak THE DAILY HERALD, pwblished every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of post: All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hana. “ Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA ¢ SIXTH STRE SPICE—NO, 112SOUTH ‘W YORK | REET, LONDON OF HERALD—> | PARIS OFFICE —/ L'OPERA., | Subscriptions and ¢ sements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XT - (CO MINSTRELS, THEATRE COMIQUE, TIKATRE. P.M. Lester Watlack. BOOTHS THEATRE, TAR 9 THE NORTH, at 8 P.M. Miss Kellogg. Matinee a2 P.M. TONY PASTOR'S NEW THEATRE. VARIETY, av 8 P.M. UNION : THEATRE. CONSCIENCE, at 5 horne, Jr. E TRE, VARIETY, at 8P. M. CENTS ORCHESTRA, QUAR’ PARK BRASS, at 8 P.M. Mr. CHATEAU MABILLE usP.M. ter. M. VARIETIES, } THEATRE, P.M. 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Gold advanced to 112 3-4, but closed at the opening price, 112 Investment shares were quict, government bonds in fair re- quest and railway bonds without material change. Money loaned at 3 and 31-2 per cent on stock collaterals. Coroxein Gonrpon, THE Arnican ExprorEr, has abandoned his proposed expedition to the interior, owing, it is snid, to lack of | funds. We fear that the exploration of Cen- tral Africa must become, er all, an exclu- sively American enterpris Severna Crry Marsuais, nominated by the Mayor, were yesterday confirmed by the Board of Aldermen. We earnestly trust that these new officials will be more partic- nlar about charging legal fees—and nothing more—than were the cormorants who were their predecessors. A Dismat Srony or Surpwreck reaches us from London by cable. The French fish- ing fleet engaged ‘in the Arctic seis has, it is feared, been entirely destroyed, the res- ened crews of the Emina, of Dunkirk, having reported the loss of six fishing vessels be- sides their own. It is to be hoped, however, that the crews may have escapgd to some of the islands of the Orkn Hebrides groups. or Rarw Transit.—Of course have an elevated railroad some persons must | be inconvenienced. We cannot have our cake and eat it. Therefore, the applications made to the courts for injunctions must be looked upon as mere matters of selfishness or demands for damages. But no matter what temporary injury may be experienced by individuals, the general public gain by rapid transit is the supzeme interest, and dominates all others. The community de- mands rapid transit, and those few who have their profit in slow travel must get out of the road of New York progress. We trust the courts will, in the ‘present case, so decide. we are to | Tue Intsn Rertemen are trying their skill at the butts to determine who shall compose the Centennial team. ‘The second contest for places on the team took place at Dundalk on Saturday, during which Mr. W. Rigby made the magnificent score of 211 out of a possible 225. Such tine shooting will doubt- less have the effect of stimulating other con- sestants to greater efforts, and we may safely count on having a team from Ireland that | will be worth defeating, and our marksmen will no doubt experience in meeting them “that stern joy which warriors feel in foemen worthy of their stee Tax Inpracnment Trran.—Mr. Hoar made | an argument in support of the jurisdiction | of the Senate over Mr. Belknap. Judge Black has thus far replied with sarcasm and | recrimiination. We suggest to Judge Black | that he shonld stick to the point and show Je s wit and humor and a little more reason, | A grave question, such as that before the Senate, is not to be determined by mere | smartness. It ought to be decided without | partisanship and in the sole interests of the American people. All the nation wants to know is what the constitution requires, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1876,—TRIPLE Tilden—Tharman—Bayard, the Demo- cratic Triumvirs. If any candidate wishes to attain to the Executive office because he believes he can serve the country more effectively there than any other man can; if his patriotic pride and indignation animate him against | the horde of corrupt and unworthy creatures | that wriggle through the whole body politic and eat away its vitality to such a degree that he believes none other will extirpate them with the necessary energy and earnest- ness ; if he believes that his resolution, his will, his purpose, are especially what are needed in the crisis; if, in short, he wants the office for the service he can do in it, heis, by this reason alone, fit for the place. But if he wants it for any other reason whatever he is unfit for it. Any motive that is merely personal is a pitiful piece of intelectual furniture in the emergency that confronts the nation. Any other motive than the highest possible public purpose will not do in these times. If any man shall in these days secure the Presidency only to be the central source of its patronage he may be sure that he will be pilloried in infamy to the last day of our history as a people. There are many men now before the country who, if they desire this office, may consistently be believed to desire it only‘ with exalted motives, and distinguished among these are the democrat'c triumvirs, Tilden, Thurman and Bayard, the represen- tatives respectively of the great sections of democratic strength. Every one of thes2 men stands at a higher level morolly and in- tellectually than is common in our public life. Ordinarily this would be a fatal de- fect, an insuperable obstacle to their candi- dacy, for the common politician resents superiority. He dreads the notion of the presence in office of any man of such quality that he will not be as plastic to his schemes as clay in the hands ofthe potter. Any intel- lect sufficient to see through his schemes, and any morality or sense of duty robust enough to put them out of doors, are all that he has to dread in this world ; and he battles day and night against the candidacy of men en- dowed with such attributes. How common this sentiment is with this ordinarily om- nipotent class may be seen in the tone with which some time ago they treated the proposition to nominate Mr. Adams. They sneered at it as ‘‘respectable.” They filled their local journals with sarcastic ref- erences to “blue blood,” and the editor of, the Springfield Republican was laughed at from one end of the country to the other | because he persistently declared his opinion that a gentleman of exceptional ability and culture and of great experience in our poli- ties was a- thoroughly fit man to be Presi- dent. This sort of opinion originates with the men who want a dummy in office, who | want to wind him up and set the hands at what hour they please. Men of this class in the republican party surrounded and cap- | tured the President now in office at a very early period, and the whole order through- out the land has been made hungry by the instances of their success that recent inves- tigations have exhibited. But the men of this sort in both parties have begun to see very clearly that the present canvags is one in which the people mean to take part, and they reason that they must give up fora time those tactics which they may indulge with satety when the people are indifferent. They know that the party that nominates a dummy will be beaten, and that, if success- | ful with a capable man, they may still hope and strive, but if beaten with any other they may go for four years where the wood- bine twineth. Therefore the candidacy of men of exceptional ability is not impossible | this year, and Mr. Tilden, Mr. Thurman or Mr. Bayard may any one of them come out of the St. Louis Convention half elected to the Presidency. With men like these, men of high charne- ter and somewhat ripe experience, it may safely be assumed that mere personal ambi- tion does not count fora great deal in the aspirations with which they contemplate the | Presidency, for it is scarcely conceivable that men of accurate perceptions would choose to lie on the bed of Procrustes rather than on any other, merely because it is labelled with an honorable name. But men will venture that bed, or even a worse fate, in devotion to the public service; and we have not the slightest doubt that any one of these gentle- men if elected would administer the Presi- dential office in the spirit of such devotion. Devotion, however, does not attach undue importance to details; it rather, indeed, con- templates them with some indifference, and concentrates its attention upon essentials ; | and if three great democrats are resolute to serve the country in a perilous emergency ; if they are equally determined to do their | utmost to purify the public service, to re-es- | tablish the standard of our republican sys- tem, to save from insidious enemies a form of government upon which depends the liberties of forty millions of people ; if this is their purpose, and they address them- selves to the labor only to secure the success of this grand purpose, it is, after all, only a detail which of them shall be nominally toremost—whether any one of them, for in- stance, in signing his name to a document that confounds the plans of scoundrels shall sign it as President or as Secretary. It is reported by Arrian that when the Queen of Persia was conducted to the tent of Alexan- | der she entered, and, by a natural mistake, as the persons of the Greeks were of course unknown to her, threw herself at the feet of | Hephwstion and there appealed for the grace of the conqueror; but when she saw her error the King relieved her embarrass- ment with the |famous words ‘‘Hephmstion is also an Alexander.” This was in the | spirit of heroic fellowship worthy the men | and the occasion—a spirit that did not stand upon the digni of office and points of personal precedency ; and thus it should matter little with the great democrats which is Hephwstion and which is Alexander if | all labor together in the common heroic effort against the enemy. With Mr. Tilden in the Executive chair and Thurman and Bayard in the Cabinet, or with either Thurman or Bayard in the Executive chair and the two thus excluded from that office supporting him in the Cabinet, every great see- | be giving effect to the principle that under- lies all constitutional government—that the administration is formally and officially | put into the hands of those leading, capable and important men of every section into | whose hands the offices would naturally and necessarily fallif the government were an | oligarchy. This was the recognized prin- ciple of our system in its period of early purity and vigor, when the first President of the United States was named, forthe nation to choose any other man than George Washington the choice would have laid between Adams, Jef- ferson and Hamilton, and President Wash- ington put both Jefferson and Hamilton into his Cabinet, and if Adams had not been Vice President he would have had him in also. That was a principle so well founded in the nature of governments like ours that it searcely needed the consecration of this example to commend it to later administrations. It was less liberally ap- plied to all the great men of the country when the people divided into parties for and | against the views of different interpreters of the constitution, for neither party would have accepted the presence of a man in the government opposed to its principles; but this made the point all the clearer that the government must have the support of all the great men of its party, and it would have been properly regarded as an impolitic and dangerous course for any administration | to deprive itself of such elements as come | with the presence of all those party leaders who have the respect of the nation in such a degree that they are regarded as rival can- didates. Indeed, we have already noted— and it is familiar to the country—how dis- tinetly this principle was put into practice in the case of President Lincoln and his great Secretary, William H. Seward. In fact, this principle never was openly scorned in our history except by President Grant. He introduced the usage of making his Cabi- net a coterie; of choosing men to perform for their fitness or acquaintance with the duties, but because they were personally agreeable to himself. ‘This is so much the opposite to the system upon which our gov- ernment rests that a great orator happily compared the President's plan in this re- spect to the plan of George III. This plan was the source of one-half the evils that have troubled the government since, as in George ILI.'s hands it produced still greater evils in the English government. In the present crisis, however, it is not so much that the President put in office will be eager to get the assistance of experience and capacity in the administration. That he will need, whoever he is. But it is that as the sec- tional issue has reached an excessive promi- | | nence in our politics, as it has made a great and bloody war, it will continue in Presi- dential elections an element of mistrust and | uncertainty, and will therefore stimulate each section toa renewed endeavor to se- cure for itself the great post of executive authority, and these efforts will only be re- mitted. A harmonious concentration on a great man of one or another section will only be possible when the other sections shall | receive the guarantee of one of the great posts that are part and parcel of the collec- tive executive office. Unless one section's support of the candidate of another section is guarded by this condition it will withhold that support,.and no great leader can be nominated; but an intrigue will be formed, the party nomination will be given to some pygmy, and the party will be beaten. The Piper Murders. The confession of Piper, the murderer of Mabe! Young—which the Hrnatp announced | yesterday in advance of the other papers— comes upon the public with startling effect. On the very eve of his confessiot a motion had been made for a new trial, and only a tew weeks ago he had written a letter filled with protestations of his innocence. It was a letter rich in Scriptural reminiscence, | abounding in pious quotations, and explain- ing his terrible position on the ground that he had endeavored, in his cowardice, to es- cape the charge of murder by a falsehood. This feeble defence failed. Yet it isto be admitted that the circumstantial evidence against Piper was not sufficient to convince | the public ofhis guilt. If he had been hanged while declaring his innocence the people might have supposed him to be the victim of a mistake. But, happily, any doubts of the kind are extinguished. ‘he man has not only confessed that he murdered Mabel Young in the belfry, but that he was the assailant of MaryeTyner and also the mur- derer of Bridget Landregan. There can be little pity for this unhappy man. He accuses himself of monstrosity, of a thirst for blood and torture, which was in- This is a confession which, it is very plausibly said, is | intended to convey the impression that his | crimes were.the result of insanity or uncon- trollable impulses, induced by intoxicating drinks. But this story will not do. A few weeks ago this heartless criminal had the insolence to write a treacherous letter, tilled with Sunday school expressions, in which he professed his affection for children, and | | actually had the effrontery to lament over | the death of Mabel Young. Now the con- | temptible scoundrel admits that he killed Mabel Young and Bridgt Landregan, and attempts to escape the rope on the plea that he was urged by an un- controllable desire for blood, inspired by the influence of opium and rum. This plea of irresponsible insanity will not excuse the | brutal and heartless assassin, He has dis- | played too much sanity in his own defence | to be considered a lunatic in his apologies. | If ever any one deserved to be put ont of the | | world it is, perhaps, this wretched being, | who, according to his own statement, has a thirst for blood, and, according to the | known facts, has’ an insatiable appetite for | the lives of innocent children. Even those | who are not in favor of capital punishment | , in general, and who do not consider it a re- | | formatory agent in society, can hardly regret | the time when this hypocrite and monster, | the murderer of children, the assassin of the | innocent and pure, shall swing upon the | | gallows, and rid the world of one more | wretch who is unfit to live. | flamed by opium and whiskey. i Tue Prince or Wares has started on his | If it had been possible, | | now the functions of great political offices—not |, | citizens have done. The Centennial Exhibition—The Open- ing To-Morrow. Never, perhaps, since the workmen began the Tower of Babel has there been so much energy and enthusiasm as is now seen in happy, nervous, expectant Philadelphia, “all in a tremble,” if we may use the phrase, about her Centennial Exhibition which is to open to-morrow. Although they have been four years about it, where so many things are to be done much will be delayed until the last moment, The tendency to procras- tinate is so attractive that we feel its influ- ence in all undertakings of this magnitude and character. Our correspondents inform us that many of the departments are well ad- vanced and that the opening day will witness a much more complete display than was seen in Viena, There is some comfort in this, although we coald wish that many of our Americans had been further ahead. They shave none of the excuses that are found sometimes in distance, the danger of sea travel and the difficulty of exciting the in- terest in a foreign country. America should have been nearly as bright and new as a pin a week before the opening day. As it stands we are in a tumbled up condition, Some of the exhibits are behind and some ahead. Some of the special displays are very fine, others have no attractiveness. Some are representations of skill and taste and industry, others mere catchpenny advertisements. The foreign nations aro generally rich and unique. We are glad to hear that the South American countries are doing so well. These nations, with their most interesting civilization, who represent an influence on this continent as important as our own, will make a finer dis- play in Philadelphia than in London, Paris or Vienna. We wish that Mexico were fur- ther advanced, but before many days are over we ure in hopes our sister Republic will | show us something of the glory which gave their nation a splendor outdating that of the Saxon North. : Next to the United States the country holding the most important place in the Exhibition is Great Britain. The English government has shown a magnanimity and generosity in this Centennial affair worthy of special recognition. No one presumed for a moment that the English govern- ment would do anything that was not sensible and hearty in an_ ex- hibition of an international character. The interests of the two countries are too varied and important to be slighted in behalf of any sentiment that might exist as to the centennial year and the event it commemo- rates. Speaking as Americans, we think we may say that there is no memory ofa hundred years but what brings with it respect for the j valor and persistence of England, and especially for the stubborn, high-spirited and conscientious King who perilled his crown and kingdom to save his American empire. The English, so far from showing coldness and indifference, have entered into our fair with as much zeal as though it were under their own and not an alien flag. If we note this specially it is not in a spirit of wonder, but | of recognition. And why should England not rejoice in the Centennial fair? In the largest sense this is an English fair. As our correspondent expressed it the other day, Mother England sits within the sunlit palace of glass and iron, her brood of colonies nestled under her wings, her grandeur manifest to all eyes, a living expression of the strength of an Empire upon which the sun never sets, But there is none of her colonies or posses- sions—Canada, with her fresh and sinewy strength ; Australia, with her mountain of gold, its value summed up to a sixpence, or India, rich in gold and silk and gems—there is none of them whose history speaks with so much eloquence of the glory of England as the United States. For we owe what we ore as a free Christian people to the lessons we learned from the venerable Mother Land. Her presence in the Centennial palace is a most gratifying event, and we are proud to think that in all the essentials of a world’s fair her exhibition, in point of variety and extent, is second only to our own. As we have said, never since the Tower of Babel has there been so busy a multitude as the builders of the Centennial Exposition. We are afraid, from what we hear in the newspapers, that its experience will be like that of Babel in the trouble which came from the confasion of tongues, We hear of clashing and trouble. There are complaints, mutinies, dis- sents. The government of the Exposition is three-headed, and the three heads are General Hawley, General Goshorn and Mr. Welsh. Of course where there are three captains there is generally a council of quar- relsome commanders and a mutinons follow- ing. So we have controversies about the newspapers whose “rights” are infringed, about the selling of liquor within the gates, about Sunday and twenty other points. We trust that as the ditection have done so well thus far there will be no quarrels, no dis- sent. Let us have one celebration untainted by scandal. What everybody wants is a good even toa three-headed commission. As to the journalists who complain about “invaded rights,” our advice to the commission is that they give every journalist the “right” to pay his way and permit him to mind his own, business. This is all we ask for our own part, and beg the comm'ssion to give themselves no trouble about us whatever, ‘To-morrow, however, will be the great day—the day which has filled so large space in the imagination of the peosfle of Philadelphia and the nation. From all we learn the display will be much more ad- vanced, and in many respects much more attractive and interesting than has ever been seen before. We congratulate our sister city and our sister State upon what their It is a triumph the credit of which is largely their own, but in the honor of which we are proud to share. Tur Bercen Exrriosiox.—The strikers at the Bergen tunnel lie on the Jersey City bluffs, smoke their pipes and accuse the newspapers of meanness in suggesting that some of them exploded the magazine last Saturday night. But they are wrong. They are justly suspected of this terrible crime. They have attempted to control non-strikers tion of the democratic party would feel | homeward voyage from Lisbon, and will soon | by violence ; they have driven men away equally assured the government, of its influence upon This, in fact, would only arrive to enjoy the hospitalities of the Eng- lish metropolis. ; from the work needed to support their fam- ilies ; they have threatened to effect their Exhibition, and this would seem to be easy: SHEET. | ends by murder. Suspicion naturally at- taches to them, and it would be wise for those who were not principals in the ex- plosion to make a clean breast of the affair at once, Secretary’ Fish on the Extradition ‘Treaty. Mr. Fish’s long despatch, which we print this morning, is even a greater ‘‘sockdol- eger” in its way than President Grant's ro- cent Message in reply to the inquisition of the House into his absence from the seat of government. The two documents resemble each othér in a crushing array of facts which renders the opposing opinion ridiculous ; but Secretary Fish has outdone his chief in handling this most effective of controversial | weapons. Mr. Fish’s answer. to the British demand is a réponse sans réplique, or, at least, we do not see how any pos- sible ingenuity can even blunt the im- pression it is caleulated to make. It puts the British government so palpa- bly in the wrong that the despatch must produce an explosive effect when it comes to be read in England. It will give such a handle to Mr. Disraeli’s adversaries in Parliament that it may lead to the overthrow of his Ministry, already weak- ened by other blunders, Be that as it may, Mr. Fish has demolished the British pro- tence as to the meaning of tho treaty of 1842 as completely as any unfounded pretence can be demolished by facts 9nd argument, The language of the treaty is plain enongh, but it so happens that it has been judicially construed by so many tribunals and so many able experts in this branch of public law that Mr. Fish has a tremendous advantage in the argument beyond that which he would possess if this point were now raised for the first time and he were not supported by agreat body of adjudications and authorities. The ingenuity of astute criminal lawyers retained by the defence in dosperate cases may al- ways be relied on to discover every crotchet or sophistry which may be turned to the ad- vantage of their clients, and it has been ar- gued over and over again in behalf of pris- oners destitute of any other defence that they could be tried under the treaty of 1842 only for the specific offence for which they were extradited. This plea, as Mr. Fish shows, has been overruled again and agnin by the courts of justice, not only of this country, but of England, of Upper Canada, of Lower Canada and of New Bruns- wick. Mr. Fish cites the cases and gives the names of the judges, and the uniformity of decision among tribunals so various is a conclusive proof that the treaty does not admit of any reasonable dif- ference of interpretation. Beside the con- currence of enlightened and responsible courts of justice, Mr. Fish has other testi- mony of almost equal weight. This subject was investigated several years ago by an able committee of Parliament, who summoned before them the most skilful experts in this branch of inquiry, and on the point in ques- tion the same view was held which has been affirmed by the tribunals of Great Britain and her North American provinces, as well as by the courts and law officers of this coun- try. Beside this strong array of authorities, which Mr. Fish recites in detail, he calls at- tention to the fact that soon after the act of 1870 our government addressed a note to Sir Edward Thornton, informing him that it understood the twenty-seventh section of that act as excepting the treaty of 1842 from its operation, and that our extradition arrangements with Great Britain remained on their former basis. As the British govern- ment took no exception to that note we were entitled to regard its failure to object as acquiescence; and it is surprising that it now suddenly rejects all that it has heretofore assented to on that subject. What is the motive for this strange somer- set? We hinted at it a week or two since in so significant way that one of our contem- | poraries indiscreetly called upon Congress to investigate us and find out the facts of which we seemed to be in possession. If Congress wants to investigate anybody let it summon Mr Fish, for it is evident from this despatch that he is acquainted with the same facts at which the Henaxp hinted. He, indeed, ex- presses himself with the same caution which we thought it prudent to observe, but the substance of his intimations is identical with ours. Referring tothe case of Lawrence, Mr. Fish says:—‘“‘It is supposed that prose- cution of these cases might possibly disclose names on either side of the Atlantic in con- nection with the alleged frauds not yet brought before the public.” Stripped of its | diplomatic reserve, this is a suggestion, | almost a charge, that the exposures which might attend the trial of Lawrence are the | reason for the sudden and astonishing | change of attitude by the Disraeli Ministry. | When this is proved to be the fact the fall of | that Ministry will be only a question of | hours, or, at most, of days, not of weeks, The Central Park. | As we have now a new manngement | in the Park Department it may be well to revive the question whether the | splendid grass plots of the Central Park | should not be thrown open to the public and devoted this summer to the recreation of the people instead of being kept for show | and for the profit, to somebody or other, of sheep grazing. In all the parks of Europe the people are at liberty to walk over the grass and the children are permitted to make the grass plots their playgrounds.+ Why should we not have the same privileges in New York? What satisfaction is it to the tens of thousands who visit the Central Park to see the tempting verdure and to be met at | every turn by the notice “Keep off the grass?” Let us have something like com- mon sense in our park management and let i every inch of the ground in Central Park | be devoted to the use of the masses. The Park is of no value to the people if it is to | bean iron bound parade ground in which | the visitors are to be restricted to the hot, dusty gravel paths, and in which every child | whose exuberant spirits leads it to make a plunge among the daisies is to be subjected to the rebuke of a Limerick gentleman in gray uniform. : Miss Dickinson's Denut.—The story of Miss Anna Dickinson's first appearance on the stage last night is told in our Boston correspondence. She was received by an exceptional audience, not inferior to that j how to win the respect which welcomed and supported the produse tion of Mr. Tennyson's “Queen Mary” in London, and has no cause to complain of the result of her enterprise. But it is evi- dent that Miss Dickinson did not achieve a genuine suécess as an actress, although her abilities as an anthor could not be entirely hidden. The stage is a strict mistress. It is like Rome, which could not be conquered in a day. The stage exacts long servitude, as Rachel required a-courtship of twice seven years from Jacob, and no special preparation in other professions will com- pensate for the lack of direct experience, Miss Dickinson seems to have been inteb lectual, but ineffective. Yet let it be com sidered that last night was her first appears ance, and that it would hardly be generous to absolutely judge her by one performance, Dom Pedro. It is to be regretted that our illus trions visitor has not been able to devote more time to his visit to the United States, but the cause unfortunately lies not withiz the province of human will toalter. Hie Majesty's present voyage has been chiefly undertaken with a view to the re-estab- lishment of the health of the Empress, Her Majesty, by the advice of her physi- cians, is about to seek restoration to health at the waters of Gastein. The time ap- pointed by her medical advisers for taking the waters is toward the end of July, and Their Majesties’ departure from the United States will have to be regulated with a view to the arrival of the Empress at the German waters at that time, His Majesty was, therefore, reluctantly compelled to put off his visit until such time as the seasons would allow Her Majesty to come into the northern latitudes without risk. It would, however, be amistake to assume that His Majesty's tour through the country is unproductive because made rapidly. The facilities everywhere placed at his disposal by the prominent manufacturers enable him to see more in a given time than could any ordinary trav- eller, Then, His Majesty has made it his custom through life to acquaint himself with the various industrial processes in every branch of manufactures, and therefore, when new methods are presented to his observa- tion he is able to form an intelligent opinion withont the need of that lengthened examina- tion which would be indispensable to one whose powers of observation were less developed. There is, therefore, but littl danger that our illustrious visitor will carry away unsound opinions as to the social o industrial organization of our people, Hitherto, it is true, he has seen little of their social life, but that was owing to the necessity of completing his California trip before the opening of the Centennial Exhibi- tion. Although desirous of avoiding anything like public receptions during his stay in this country His Majesty took an early oppor- tunity to distinguish between public and social receptions, On several occasions he has said that, though he would steadfastly refuse ‘to be speeched at and féted by public bodies, he would willingly accept such invitations to American society as might be offered to him asa Brazilian gen- tleman whose name was not unknown to the outside world when the acceptance of such invitations would not interfere with the more important work of studying the in. dustrial progress of our people. So far His Brazilian Majesty has shown himself thor- oughly consistent in his action. Heis the first crowned monarch who has visited the young Republic, and has known and esteem of our citizens by the more than repub- lican simplicity of his life, as well as the sound common sense with which he shows himself to be endowed. We venture, how- ever, to hope that during the time that still remains to him His Majesty will find fre- quent opportunity to study the social life of our people in the homes of our citizens. On cuz Fexcxr—The poor liberal republi- cans! ‘they had better get down on one side or another, or they will have to sit on the rail till the end of the campaign. This is not the right time for hesitation. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mullett is in Europe. Congressman Kelly is cconomieal. Brigham’s son, John Young, has but ono wife. Postmaster Jowell’s daughter ts to marry a poor young man. Sick Chicago babies will have a hospital ship on the ake this year, From all indications spring bonnets will be followed by local storms, An old master and his ex-slave sit together as mem. bers of the South Carolina Legislature. Cholera is carrying off St. Louis pigs, and the Repub lican fears that it will soon lose its funny column. At last one may bay five cents’ wortn of something in California, the silver balf-dime having been introduced. The spirit of Vasquez, the dead Califorma bandit, hae revisted earth, and is throwing stones at houses in broad daylight, A Scotch writer says that it is not so bad to steal a Tose as to steal tobacco. There, we forgive the Chi cago Triiune, 1t has good taste, any way. A Toulouse oyster opener found a fine pearl in an oyster, and the customer Insisted that peart, oyster aud hclis all belonged to him. He appeals to the law. The St. Paul Despatch begins an article on Belknap _ with this heading:—“Belknap a Martyr—The blonde | Secretary the victim of conspiring and devilish demo- crats, but he had his @ugers in many political pies.” Mr. Byers, the wealthy editor of the Rocky Mountain News, having openly confessed bis partin a recent scandal case, comes’ out and asks people not to blame religion for it, because he never belonged to the Chureb. His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey 1s still at Soton Hall Coltege, Orange, N. J. Though still very feeble he is rapidly improving. He rides for an hour every day and takes ocensional walks around the college grounds. | He is not expected to leave Orange until June, Miss Florence Nightingale potnis out that great care muat be taken by public nurses not to demoralize an¢ pauperize families; that w: may be induced to deny himself to help a ayek witor whereas if everything {8 provided for her he Will only have additional temptations to self-indulgence, Pittsburg Dispatch:—Gencral Vieasenton was one of the most dashing cavalry officers of the war. Bus peace having come the General bas turned his attention to blue glass. Bive glass is a very exceilent taken in moderation, but when taken in such large doses as to effect the mental vision the case becomes at little alarming. The Omaba Bee has the following in regard to ex- Senator Tipton, whose final conversion to the demo- cratic creed 18 announced by the Omaha Herald:= “According to Mr, Tipton’s son-in-law, Henry Atkim fon, the true cause of Tipton’s rupture with Presiden Grant was the re(usal of the President to promote Tip- ton's son, who held a United States Consulship at Bradford, England, which) gooa to show the base hypocrisy of this sham reformer when he prated about ‘Bepotism,'?