The New York Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1876, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERA BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. poo ak pO eatiatinaas THE DAILY HERALD, puwhlished every in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. p All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youre Henaw. The Fifth Avenue Flies on # Political Coach Wheel. A list of the participants in the Fifth avenue conference shows that they are, al- most without exception, republicans, ex-re- publicans or quasi republicans, and consist, | in unequal proportions, of soreheads and | sentimentalists, the sentimentalists being | the mere tenders or entourage of the: sore- heads. Disappointed ex-office-holders and ex-candidates for office make so large a figure in the gathering that the public will not fail to note their presence and speculate on their motives, A few of the most prominent may turned. rd eam) 7 serve ag samples of their quality. Mr. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH | Schurz, long a favorite and popular stump SIXTH STREET. BS speaker on the republican side, was rewarded eer a MO nie Tee Fa is first with the mission to Spain, then with a PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. | high command in the army, and was elected Subscriptions and advertisements will be | Senator from Missouri when so large a pro- received and forwarded on the same terms portion of the Missouri democrats were as in New York. disfranchised that the republicans had a majority. When his Senatorial term was half ont and the disfranchisement of the democrats was removed, giving them control of the State, Mr. Schurz broke with the republican party, of which he was so dis- tinguished and honored a member, losing its favor and yet failing to be re-elected by the democrats. So he is out of public life and dissatisfied with both political parties. Mr. John Jay has been a zealous republican, was appointed Minister to Austria, had a falling out with the administration, and now ap- pears in this conference as a niember from New York. Mr. David A. Wells was nur- tured as a republican, gained great distinc- tion as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has been several years out of place, ran this spring as a democratic candidate for Con- gress, was defeated, and now consults on the welfare of the nation in sympathetic company. Quite a proportion of the leading spirits in this affair have their grievances, but would, nevertheless, be glad to return to the republican communion if they could do so on terms that would save their pride. If they could make a reform candidate for the Presidency believe that they helped him to a nomination they Letters and packages should be properly ed. Rejected communications will not be re- VOLUME XLI AMUSE PARISIAN VARIETIES, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 2 P. M. THIRTY-FOURTH VARIETY, at 8 P.M. KELLY & at 8 P.M. iET OPERA HOUSE. Ul § MINSTRELS, FIFTH AVE! PIQUE, atSP. M. Fann GLOBE TUKATRE. VARIETY, at 8 P. M. ies THEATRE, woe UNDER TH GALLOV BROO PRIDE, st 8P. M. Ob SAN FRANC! atSP.M. THEATER VARIETY, at 8 P. M. GARDEN, SHORUS, at 8 P. My RDEN. Difenbaeh, THEATRE. P.M. Lester Wallack. CENTRA, ORCHESTRA, QUARTE’ GILMOR: GRAND CONCERT, at 8 EAG! VARIETY, at 8 P.M. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 16, of some Southern Congressman like Ben Hill afford a color for the charge that the | malignants are as rabid as they were in the worst times of Southern domination, Be the truth as it may, it is certain that the republicans will give that turn to the canvass, and, so far as they act on the ag- | gressive, it will be against the threatened reorganization of our polities on the old basis of a united Southern dictation assisted by the Northern democrats. All the stress and emphasis of the Cincinnati platform will be laid on this point. Now, if this is to be the chosen battle ground of the republicans they are not likely to select a candidate like Mr. Bristow, who would merely represent reform and not the leading issue of the party, The spirit of this conference, so far as it has been developed, indicates a de- cided preference for Bristow; but he is not publicly identified with the questions which connect the republican party with its his- tory and its triumphs. Instead of him the Cincinnati Convention will select a candi- date whose record makes him a representa- tive of the past struggles of the party and of the issue on which it will mainly rely ‘in the present canvass. The Cincinnati nominee will have to bes man of unassailable integrity, but he must also satisfy the demand for an aggressive campaign directed against a party which the united South will control as soon as it is once in power. We are not stating our own view, but that which will prevail at Cincin- nati, and it is too evident that with hostility to Southern domination as the chief issue Mr. Bristow will have no chance for the nomination. The attempt of the Fifth ave- nue conference to give him a boost will be “love's labor lost.” The M ang Race. The race against time, which comes off to- day in Fleetwood Park, is a trial of human as well as equine endurance, The thirty horses will deserve less credit than the one man, Francisco Peralto, who has undertaken what is, even for a Californian, a severe ride. The wild horse of the California plains, descended from the Arabs which Cortes and | would support him with zeal in the canvass, and thereby re-establish a title to recogni- tion by the party. The soreheads who got up this conference saw that it would not quite do to have it consist entirely of men of their own stamp, and so they have con- trived to merge themselves in a body of well- meaning, disinterested gentlemen, who are eminent and venerable in their own walks PARK BRASS, at 8 P.M. Mr. THEATRE MADAME COVERLET, at 8 FEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY his successors brought into Mexico, has retained many of the features and qualities of the Arabian horse. It is a small horse— nota pony, though pony-sized; it has im- mense endurance, is very sure footed, has good though seldom extraordinary speed, and can live and prosper on very rough fare. It is singular that among the native horses of California, as among the Arabs of of life, but are babes and sucklings in poli- tics. This bevy of political flies has lighted on a 5 oy the wheels of the republican coach, and wrt pt alge older Hen. ie when it gets in motion they are prepared to ty fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to | claim their share of the credit, and ery out this office. Postage Jree. to the horses that pull the vehicle, ‘What a That they can exert From our reports this morning the p are that the weather to-day wil and cloudy, with, possibly, rain, be cooler Want Srrrez Yzstetipay.—Stocks were | dust we raise!” heavy and the market dull. Gold opened | 2° real influence on the nominatioh \und closed at 112 1-2, with sales meanwhile | is obvious to all bystanders. The greater at 1125-8 Money on call loaned at 2 and | part of the delegates to Cincinnati have been 21-2 per cent. Government and railway | chosen and will follow the wishes of their bonds were quiet and steady. constituencies. So far as they look to the PRgin REAR country at large they will try to please the republican party, not the soreheads and sen- timentalists who assume to instruct them without any warrant from regular constitu- sss RENIN LAD! encies or any right to speak for republicans Tur Cunan Insurcents are determined on | who are\inside the party. Nothing will be awarto the knife with the Spaniards, and | done at Cincinnati either to please or dis- denounce all as traitors who in the name of | please these self-constituted advisers. They the Cuban Republic offer any terms to Spain, | will be as completely ignored as if they had save those of independence, for closing the | never existed. There is no advice which insurrection. they could offer to the Convention which Pion Prox has been elected at last to the | Would not be superfluous or mistaken. French Chamber of Deputies from Ajaccio, On the curreney question the Cincinnati which looks as though the Corsican tiger | Convention is certain to go right, in order was changing its stripes, but is by no means that it may take advantage of the in- & proof that he has lost his claws. Prince sane blunder of the Western democrats. Napoleon carries out the old Napoleonic The inflation platform put forth in Ohio legend of making love to the Republic as last year made it a point of strategy for the the way to power. Rouher represents the republicans to unite as a solid phalanx for idea that the peopls want the Empire. hard money, and their brilliant success on ——— that platform makes their future course so clear that the Cincinnati Convention cannot miss the right road. On the other great question of the canvass—administrative re- form—the policy of the republicans is marked out for them with equal certainty by their democratic opponents, though in a dif- ferent way. The Cincinnati Convention will be constrained to nominate an honest man by the fact that the democratic canvass will consist almost wholly of vehement and in- cessant denunciations of the corruption of the republican party. The democratic lead- ers have spent the whole winter at Washing- ton in storing their magazines and arsenals with weapons and ammunition for this kind of attack. There is a preponderance of chances that Governor Tilden will be placed at the head of, the assaulting column; but whether he isor not the democratic plan of campaign will be the same. They will make it their chief business to keep up incessant discharges along their whole line of the missiles they have been so indus- triously accumulating since the meeting of Congress. It is not what the Fifth avenue conference may tell them, it is what they themselves know of the democratic plans CrEEDMooR seems a dangerous place for burglars to practise at since the rifle range has been in operation there. August Bauer thinks so, at any rate. Tua War or Tue Porsce Boarp upon the Board of Health is one of the most unseemly exhibitiens of official arrogance, petty jeal- ousy and narrow mindedness conceivable. We had a great many extraordinary episodes in the days of Matsell and Disbecker, but nothing more Philistian has been seen in po- lice affairs since the days of Dogberry than’ the attempt to oust the Board of Health from its quarters, which Judge Speir, of the Supe- rior Court, stayed by his decision yesterday. Rarw Transtr.—The first fruits of the Fourth avenue tunnel improvement to the city of New York are now presented in the shape of sixteen extra trains running from the Grand Central depot to Williamsbridge and back at fares rising from ten cents as far as Mott Haven to thirty cents at Williams- bridge. The patronage which these trains will receive even at these fares will probably induce Commodore Vanderbilt to increase the accommodation as far as possible with- out endangering the safety of the other regu- lar trains running on the same tracks. Frowrrs ror THE Poor.—How the eye of sickness is gladdened by a flower is an ex- perience that has come at some period or | ¢hat will cause the republicans at Cincinnati other to nearly every human being in bear- | to be careful and wary and fortify them- ing the burden of life. When we think of | seives on the side where they must meet the bare walls of an hospital ward, where | the brunt of the democratic attack. It is, sickness always is, or the unrelieved squalor | therfore, altogether probable that the coach of the tenement house where it has crept | i) be drawn in the same direction for in among the rags of poverty, we can think | which the flies on the wheels are buzzing of few things more angelic than the mission | gnq give them the excuse they seck for ex- which undertakes to place a bouquet of changing congratulations with the horses, a flowers by the bedside of the sufferers. But it is, nevertheless, certain that the Buch is the work of the ‘‘lower ladies” of | Cincinnati Convention will not consent to New York, and may the bud-blowing sun- | jake reform the sole nor even the main \ shine and the bloom of the flowers be in | isu of the canvass. To do this would their hearts fofever. (ie be to permit the enemy to select the | Harm is putting up a nine-pin govern- | battle ground and to compel them ment which is announced as “provisional” | to fight on the defensive throughout with a superfiuity of expression doubtless | born of late exciting events. They are to | have five black pins of one sort and four black pins of another sort set up, and it is all arranged how they are to be bowled out un- legs some unforeseen episode sets the balls rolling before the appointed time. They | appear to want honesty down there in pub- lic office, but views differ so as to the amount of stealing which really constitutes honesty that we have no hope they will know.an honest man there until they find him turning the customs duties in a steady stream into his private coffers. To provide the campaign. The republican leaders are not such blundering strategists as to put their party in a position where it must stand and take blows, or ward off blows, and give none in return, The great issue presented by the republicans will be the immitiint danger of the ex-slavehold- ers of the South regaining their old ascend- ancy in the government. They will attempt to show that the politics of the country are reverting to the same condition in which they stood previous to the civil war, when united South, aided by subservient democrats in the North, were the impelling | force of our politics. It is quite true that the | should be Spain, the tinto, or piebald,@is a favorite color where speed and bottom both aro de- sired. A well known Southern Califor- nian once rode from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara and back, a distance altogether of nearly two hundred miles, in a day, using but three horses for the ride, and stopping two hours in Santa Barbara to transact busi- ness, The road is an extremely rugged one, and crosses two high mountains, and the rider was nearly fifty years of age. This feat shows what such horses and riders can do. There is no doubt, however, that the dry, pure air of California gives both horse and rider there an advantage in such vio- lent exercises which our moister climate does not offer. The mustang is ustlally broken at from three to four years of age, and the process is one which teaches him at once the superior power of man. The animal, singled out of a herd, is Inssoed, thrown to the ground, |, blindfolded, and the saddle put on while he lies prone. A nose strap is used in- stead of ao bridle and bit, and the rider mounts before taking the blind from the creature’s eyes, Then begins a contest between man and horse, in which the spur is freely used, and the object is to force the horse to go ahead at top speed until he is exhausted. This treatment, continued for some weeks, is followed by a more regular training with the heavy bit used by Cali-’ fornians, and he is finally taught to obey the slightest impulse of his rider's leg or finger and learns to take an intelligent and almost human delight in the management of cattle and in all the tricks of the rodeo or annual cattle marking. The Comptrollership Question. Public sentiment will indorse Comptroller Green's action if he decides to resist by all legal means at his command the consum- mation of the bargain by which the Finance Department of the city government is sought to be aggin turned over to the control of Tammany. Lawyers, who have examined the charter, express the opinion that, in con- sequence of the peculiar wording of the section relating to the appointing power, the authority of the Mayor to nominate and the Aldermen to confirm a Comptroller is at least doubtful, while some insist that the appointment of that officer is positively prohibited. . The official acts of a» Comp- troller illegally appointed would be null and void, and any bonds and stock of the city issued by him would be worthless, Bence an injunction should be granted in the public interests restraining the Mayor from nominating and the Board of Aldermen from confirming a successor to Mr. Green until the legal point involved shall have re- ceived a judicial decision. Under the law Mr. Green holds over until his successor is duly appointed and qualified, and’ his offi- cial acts performed after #§e expiration of his term would, theref0f, be legal. If the courts should decide that the Mayor and Aldermen have the appointing power no injury would be inflicted on the city and no wrong done to anybody by the delay pending the decision. The people of New York desired that Mayor Wickham prevented by legislation from ap- pointing a Comptroller for four years within afew weeks of the expiration of his own term of office. The bill for that purpose was defeated at Albany by a corrupt combi- nation. If the contemplated legal proceed- ings accomplish the same result ns ‘would have followed the enactment of the proposed law, by postponing the appointment of Mr. Green’s successor until the next Mayor comes into office, the respectable portion of the community will be well satisfied. A Trinrry Cornnrer Four on the Schuyl- kill is the best Cambridge University can do toward our Centennial regattas. We shall be glad to greet the English oarsmen in whatever guise they come, but it is too bad against all miscalculations the last clause in the new constitution is “Long live revolu- tion." South is as solidly democratic as it was be- fore the war, and the intemperate speeches they cannot send, us representative univer The Turkish Danger. The desperate position of Turkey needs all the care which astute and cautious diplo- | mats can bestow upon it to prevent the crumbling ruins of the Ottoman Empire from falling to the ground. Like a house propped on every side it depends for safety upon the support of each of the guarantee- ing Powers, and the effort of the imperial architects is at present directed to keeping them in their position of beams against the walls of a crazy structure. That it would be to the benefit of all of them to have the present Turkish government torn down and something adapted to modern civilization reared in its stead is true, but there must be @ present loss to them in the tumbling of Moslem rule, and no one of them can be certain that they would be pleased with the new government. Hence the finesse of con- ferences where the three Empires of Europe feel each other's pulse. Hence, also, the subtle intriguing at the little courts of the principalities, where every move of Russia and Austria is tested upon the populations surrounding the revolted provinces and by them carried, electrically, almost, into the insurgent camps. On her side Turkey has done worse than nothing toward *smoothing the difficulties of her position. Let the Porte do what it will in giving its adhesion to diplomatic notes and pacificatory plans, it has only to attempt obeying the first or putting the sec- ond in practice to find its Moslem subjects obstinate and insubordinate. This is what makes Turkey's position desperate. Har- assed with importunate demands for money from the Sultan’s bankrupt Treas- ury, the Mussulmans find that all their pe- cuniary sacrifices only bring the infidel that knows not Mohammed closer to their doors, and an order to elevate the Chris- tian dogs whom they have trampled on for ages to equality with themselves. The disgust of the Southern planter for a condi- tion of government in which his late slaves became from their voting power his masters is not deep or embittered compared with the repugnance with which the true Turk would regard any attempt to make the despised rayah his equal. To the difference of race must be added a religious fanaticism whose brightest traditions are those which picture the Moslem scimitar at the Christian throat. To such a people a holy war would be hailed with joy. The murders at Salonica point this with extreme force, and the slightest indiscretion on the part of the government would make every town and village of Turkey a shambles for Christians and next for the Turks them- selves, when Europe would rush to the new crusade. From such a prospect the great Powers, though each anxious for its ag- grandizement, may well recoil in hor- ror, for the end of the holy war would only mark the beginning of a still more stupendous struggle— that of the elated victors striving for the spoils. To gain, therefore, as long an armistice as possible with the insurgents, to punish sternly the murders at Salonica and so give the Porte a fair and final chance for making some effort at administrative and financial reform, is a politic programme. It is the best devisable, but its success depends on more than the simple acquiescence of the Turk. It needs positive enlightened action on his part, and that is its fatal weak- ness. Operatic Plans and Possibilities. In the report of a conversation with Mr. Strakosch we yesterday laid before the pub- lic some news that was certainly read with great pleasure. Both the tenors whose ill- ness interrupted the season of Italian opera are nearly recovered, and the performances will shortly be resumed, when the people will be able to appreciate fully the quality of Mile. de Belocca, of whose talents they have formed already a good opinion. But Mr. Strakosch, full as he is of pleasant prom- ises for the immediate future, holds up to our eyes a more tantalizing vision of what he may possibly present next winter. He has “conditional agreements with some of the most eminent and celebrated artists in Eu- rope ;” he would support these artists with “9 good company, a good orchestra and fine scenery;* in this spirit of management he believes the opera could be made perma- nently remunerative here, and he would evi- dently like to make the Academy of Music the scene of an experiment to 'test the possi- bility of sustaining here regularly year in and year out this noble entertainment. Itis one of those bits of cross purpose from which the public so often suffers that while one man seems to have all the am- bition, and ample resources in the way of artists, another man has possession of the Academy. Possibly Mr. Mapleson has at his command, in addition to Titiens, artists of whom we do not hear, and who in talent and number will, in the hands of so experi- enced a manager, leave us no reason to re- gret that the Academy has fallen into his hands. But what he may be able to do is in doubt, while the campaign sketched by Mr. Strakosch is definite, and the public has ac- quired the habit of depending upon this gentleman's promises. Without the slight- est disposition to make invidious distine- tion, it may be said that Mr. Strakosch is an old acquaintance, associated with very pleasant parts of such musical history as we have; almost a New Yorker, in fact, though since the great triumphs achieved with Patti, which were initiated by him in the Academy of Music, he has spent less time with us than formerly. This regard for old acquaint- ances never goes with the public to the ex- treme of establishing a cameraderie in the in- terest of any manager; but it is commonly a guarantee that the manager thus distin- guished has o thorough intimacy with tho tastes of the musical public and has catered to them successfully. There is oné point happily touched by Mr. Strakosch. He promises a good company. We may concede his view as to the necessity of a star, or two or three stars; but we would carry it just a step further and wish to seo.| every part in tho hands of an artist of star- like quality in his way. Our most success- fal theatre is conducted on that principle. Lately the city has laughed ata tragic buf- 1876,—TRIPLE aginarily artiste-also. This has been carried to even greater extremes in opera than in the drama, and it is the bane of the entertain- ment. It reduces the opera to a concert. There is‘no art but when the principle per- former comes on. Let Mr. Strakosch reform this for us, give us a well balanced, capable company, and he willhave no difficulty in the project of making an opera season a per- manent feature of our city life, Secret Investigations. The House has refused to throw open the doors of the investigating committees, mainly by a democratic vote; and now we see that the republicans in the Senate follow the mistaken example of the democratic House, and are investigating the condition of Mississippi with closed doors and in secret. This is all wrong and a blunder besides. Nothing is gained and much time is lost by secret investigations. Not only this, but committeds are likely, when they work in secret, to lose many important wit- nesses, An open inquiry attracts the atten- tion of the country; everybody reads or hears about the evidence, and new and vol- untary witnesses turn up from unexpected quarters. This has been the experience of all the committees which have sat with open doors, We hope the investigating committees in both houses will abandon the un-American and useless practice of working in secret. If it is continued much longer it will make all these inquiries odious or partisan, or both, in the public esteem; and thus the ends of justice and the public good will be .more injured than they could possibly be by the utmost publicity. There is no greater mistake than that which petty and partisan men make in thinking that secrecy increases the importance of their proceedings. The contrary is true. It oftenest defeats the very object of the in- quiry. There can be no doubt that if the Committee on War Expenditures had made the Belknap investigation with open doors they would have been saved some mortify- ing blunders, and would have brought Mr. Belknap’s offence to light just as surely ; for it is well known that all the persons impli- cated knew of the inquiry going on—only the public was kept in the dark. There is little doubt that several important investi- gations begun in the present Congress have failed of results mainly because the committees closed thejr doors and kept their work from the public. We trust there is common sense and public spirit enough in both houses of Congress to order the doors of all investigating committees thrown open at once. Miss Dickinson’s Opinions of the Stage. Miss Anna Dickinson’s courage will be universally admired, for having once put her hand to the plough it would have been folly to have turned back because of the ad- verse criticism she received. The opinions she expressed in the Heratp yesterday show that she has lost nothing of that deter- mination and faith in her own ability which distinguished her in her earlier life. She believes that she succeeded both as author and actress, and says that she carried the feelings of her audience with ‘her to the very end, This isa consoling belief, and one which all great actors have possessed. It does not follow, however, that all who possess it are great actors. Her criticism of the critics is quite lively and amusing, She does not in the least degree regard their opinion, in which she also resembles all great actors, for we have never known one who did not insist upon his indifference to what newspapers said in censure of his performances, and this is ® proof that the dramatic profession is not as sensitive as the world supposes it tobe. Miss Dickinson’s complaint is that she can find no two crities who agree; one says she has no humor, another that she -has no tragedy; so that while they are nearly all united in the belief that she failed they differ as to the reasons, Inexperience, she concedes, was one cause of her shortcomings; human beings would oppose her way on the stage, and she would become ‘painfully aware of a chair or a table, and her enthusiasm would be shocked as by a cold water plunge.” This was to be ex- pected, for the difference between the lec- ture platform and the stage is great; far greater than Miss Dickinson appreciates. An illustration of how much she has yet to learn of her new art is supplied by her naive answer to the question why she wrote her own play. It was because she could find no ‘character that suited her. There is an almost pathetio simplicity in this confession, for it is the peculiar faculty ofan actor, the distinguishing char- acteristic of dramatic genius, that he seeks expression in forms different from his own nature, An actor ought not to expect his characters to suit him; he should suit himself to the characters, Ability to per- sonify isthe ultimate test of fitness for the stage, and Miss Dickinson cannot hope to prove that she has it by making her own parts as she does her costumes. In writing “A Crown of Thorns” she evaded the usual standard of comparison by which a débu- tante is judged. If she had appeared in any of Shakespeare's characters (and surely the women of Shakespeare, ifnot as good as Miss Dickenson’s Anne Boleyn, are not wholly unworthy of her consideration) the extent of her success might have been more easily measured. Nevertheless, we applaud her bravery and hope she will persevere in her dramatic experiment, and that the public, which generally judges rightly, will, at the last, take from her intellectual brow its pres- ent crown of thorns and replace it with a wreath of laurels. Arcupisnor Woop, of Philadelphia, the venerable Roman Catholic prelate, eays it would grieve him very much to see the Ex- position open ali day on Sundays, But he adds, after an able argument, that “among the means of innocent relaxation of soul and | body Ican see none more harmless than an afternoon visit 1o the Exposition, where the poor and the laboring classes (and they are most numerous among us) may enjoy a few hours of rational pleasure. * * * In- | deed, I believe that it will have a most bene- | Presidential nomination, id A Good Reason for 8 5 Bere ough. The Territory of New ico, with an ten atiacat theve tees that o\ | the State of New York, has a population{y of less than one hundred thousand a of whom only about two tho nd are Ameri- cans, the remainder bein'ig Mexicans, Indians and half breeds. | jit has been © settled by Europeans, as Mr. jnStevenson, of Ulinois, remarked the other} day in the House of Representatives, for Pitwo hundred and fifty years; it has been gh Territory of the United States over a quar{ter of a cen- tury ; it has mines of gold, silvege and other | minerals to attract population ; nd yet o such small general attractiven: is it that, after all these years, it contains popula- tion than some wards in New Yor and fewes Americans than are found in masihy villages in the interior. In 1873, in the wahole Ter ritory, there were only one hum—dred and sixty-four schools of all kinds, armgd in only ten of these was the English nguage taught. Mr. Stevenson showed that@\a single county in Illinois produced more gmgain and has nearly as large a population New Mexico, and has two hundred and figifty-four free schools, besides academies and @olleges. It seems absurd to make a State off a wild: and unimproving region, which, r being for nearly thigy years under our g, has to-day no more than two thousand meri cans among its scant population, which produces less than many single cou es im other States. In fact, there is nt one reason for making New Mexico §§ State. That reason is named Elkins, Mr. cing is the Territorial Representative in gress from New Mexico. If you ask anyb@mly in Washington about him you will le that “Elkins is a good fellow—a very goo™ fel- low.” During the last session of Compre the House nearly voted to make New Mipxico a State, and the reason which was given by many Representatives was that $hey “couldn't resist Elkins—he was such a fellow.” } It is hard to oppose in such ca. . \ande we will not doubt Mr. Elkins’ goodnes jf ery kind. But this is too serious. a iter, for trifling. It is not Elkins that -ongress is asked to erect into a State, but New Mexico, and New Mexico as a State would be a rotten borough. We have enough of these already. We hope the House will resist the blandishments of Mr. Elkins and leave New Mexico what sho is for the present, ~ Misrortunes oF aA Pourrictay.—Ex- Speaker Blaine is an unfortunate man. Politically, the Fates seem bent on working him mischief. He has a brother, like the farmer in the play of “‘Toodles,” and thie brother’s name being J. E. Blaine, in sound so similar to J. G. Blaine, the stock transace tions of the one, who is unknown to fame, are naturally attributed to the other, with whom the world is familiar. Then again, the ex-Speaker has a cousin, General Thomas Ewing, Jr., who so closely resem- bles him that they are frequently mistaken the one for the other. Thus Speaker Blaine is supposed to have held a private interview’ with J. B. Stewart and received from him. transfer of twenty-four thousand dollars’ worth of Kansas Pacific bonds, when lo! it is discovered that Stewart's visitor was Blaine’ cousin and not Blaine himself. All this is unfortunate, especially as it will take Mr, Blaine so long to explain that he is likely to be left behind in the race for the Presidential nomination. ‘ Spanisn Froxances in Cuba seem to be ade ministered in a strangely empirical way. No sooner is a new style of tax devised and decreed than it is changed for some other more or less odious tax. The philosophers have there a fine opportunity for studying how high the percentage is to which a people may be made to pay taxes. The Cuban financiers make no senseless distinctions between taxes which are unjust or oppres- sive, but they are continually stopped in their bold tests by inability to collect be- yond a certain point. The latest experi- ment seems to prove that thirty per cent on incomes is too high. No Woxspzr Tex Cnancep tHe Svpsect in the Methodist ministers’ meeting at Newark yesterday, when Rev. Mr. Grave made the remarkable statement that he would play with fire to snatch a brand from the burning, even to the extent of scorching his moral fingers ‘‘a little.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Five hundred Indians live in Florida, Ohio’s capital sends delegates for Tharmas. The Eastern fine cut tobacco manufacturers are try ing to forl the Westerners, ‘ Edward Everett Hale isin Texas, near Mexico, buf he ig still a man with a country, The Louisville Courier-Journal says that “Grant useq giasses."” Does this mean goggles or gurgles? The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer says that Columbus ie Prosperous because its women wear common clothes manufactured in its own mills, The country newspapers are pictorial with giraflee looking over palm trees and of Hon-tamers ‘patting little rings aroand big lions, The circus 1s coming. Satd a man inacar yesterday:—What is the use of taking Washington’s false teeth to the Centennial whem they can go to Mount Vernon and get the Teal ones?” Fox was, like Pitt, extremely fond of partridge shoot ing; but he used to grow so excited when the birds lay well that he often put the shot into his gun betore the powder. Is it any sign of the times that Bristow ts the only candidaio in whose name political clubs are being formed? What ts the essential meaning of clubs ig politics? 4 ‘An Eastern writer in San Francisco says that the Chinaman isa gleaner, stepping afier a white man has loft, and doing the small, but valuable work that @ white man would scorn to do, The Chicago Tribune praises Bristow because in @ time of republican deadness and corruption ho intro- duced a system which gave to the party all the life ov worth of life that it now possesser, [Me Cincinnat! Gazetts, wouching the subject of the of the soil commanding a higher price than those of skilled labor, advises men who are iding _ around cities to go to the Western fields, So great is the superstition of the Southern negro and so strong his faith in the power of witchcratt that a Georgia colored man believes that an Atlanta womao charmed and tricked him, and that he now has fortys ‘mine live snakes in his log. Ex-Senator William M. Stewart, of Nevada and of Emma mine faine, 15 in Calitornia, and is fond of ree iterating that Conkling has the inside chances for the He found a growing Conk- ling sentiment in Nevada. Tho fal. Mall Bulyet says:—“Nothing could be more foon who played Hamlet with ‘‘an imaginary | ficial effect; that it will tend to prevent | spiteful or moro ignorant than the harangues in which company,” and apparently he thought it a new idea; bnt in fact it is plagiarized from the star system, whero one actor or artist sity crews for the contest on Saratoga Lake, | stalks to and fro amidst figures that are im- many disorders, and to check to a great extent that desecration of the Lord's Day which is, unhappily, » growing evil in the community.” men like Mr. Webster, Mr. Seward and Mr. Charlee Sumner cultivated the favor of the Irish born electort—- holding up England to exceration as a tyrant, ruthlessly trampl'ng the lives and Liberties of the Irish people im the dust,”