The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1876, Page 6

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This expectation, or this surmise, rests upon very good reasons, None of the known ‘candi- dates on either side has or seems likely to secure a majority of the delegates in the National Convention of his party. There are one or twoon each side who will receive a pretty large vote in the early ballotings, but it will be only large enough to arouse the jealousy of competitors and stimulate com- binations for defeating the one who has the best start at the outset. In the Cincinnati Convention Conkling and Blaine, who bitterly hate each other, will lead on the first ballot, and the friends of Morton, Bris- tow, Hayes and Jewell will hold their dele- gates steadily in hand, hoping that the two leading candidates will wear each other out in a protracted and fruit- less struggle which may generate so much bad blood between their supporters that the Convention can be harmonized only by setting them both aside and concentrat- ing upon some candidate who has stood neutral in this contest. Every other candi- date on the list, including even Hartranft, who was not put forward by Pennsylvania with any expectation that he could be nom- inated, will entertain hopes that when Conk- ling and Blaine are out of the race he may have o chance, since nobody can foresee go when they break and scatter. Morton, who has great skill as a politician, will do his utmost, not merely to keep his own sup- porters in hand, but to encourage the friends of the other minor candidates to stand their ground, seeing that he has no chance at all but in preventing a concentra- tion on Blaine or Conkling. But when these leading competitors are forced to with- draw it will be a smaller sacrifice of pride for their adherents to vote for some candi- date who has not been go active and resolute a rival to both as Morton has been through- out the preliminary canvass. Hostile as Conkling and Blaine are to each other in every other respect they will be of onemind in wishing to pay Morton off for his impar- tial opposition to both. The three leading republican candidates will thus be put on the shelf, and the contest will then be among the weaker competitors, or between all of them together and the Great Unknown, The chances are that Conkling, Blaine and From our reports this morningthe probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with, perhaps, rain. Notice to Country Newsprarers.— For ypt and regwar delivery of the Hernaup by fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to is office, Postage free. Tae Hearta or Carpman ANToNELII is sgain bad, but there is a touching proof of the mental vigor and pertinacity of this statesman in his having himself carried to the apartments of his physically feeble master, Pope Pius IX. Tue Poraro Bues are actively at work on Long Island, eating up the delicate vines and roots of that favorite tuber. The farmers have organized a regular campaign against these voracious insects, but ‘‘the cry is still they come.” Evex tHe Gxrmans.—The height of mag- nanimity to which the Parisian students who desire to hold an international students’ tongress have ascended is approximately measured by the solemn announcement that the invitations will include the German boys, Tae Cenrennia, Recattas.—Our special despatch from London confirms us in the belief that we shall have crews from the Dub- lin University both at Saratoga and Phila- delphia, and, after all the trouble taken in the negotiations, it is gratifying that the gal- lant Irishmen have responded, though the English universities did not. Some of the facts connected with the failure in the latter case will be found in our London letter. Count Axprassy is evidently well pleased with his project of reform for Turkey and sanguine of its success. Like all inventors he is so gratified with the promising appear- ance of his plan that he does not see its almost insuperable difficulties, The Porte, the imperial Powers and the rayahs may like the glittering look of the project in the Count’s handwriting, but the dength of the gap between it and falfilment isso great that we cannot altogether share his enthusiastic assurance of the continued peace of Europe. Probably it is from view- ing the project in this light, as well as the dislike of playing a second fiddle in the Eastern question, that holds back England's assent to the project. Tre Cznrenntat Exursrrion continues to furnish material for criticism on its general management. Ourcorrespondent complains that the catalogues which are thrust in your face at every corner of the grouhds are #o incomplete as to be wholly useless, and also points out many defects in the arrange- ment as to admissions which should be at once remedied. It is in the hands of the managers to make tho Exhibition a great success or a humiliating failure, and we sincerely hope that we will not be forced to record the latter condition by reason of any want of intelligence displayed by the Coni- missioners. A Viotext Storm of rain and hail pre- wailed yesterday through Eastern Penn- sylvania and Northern New Jersey, which is reported as having been terribly destructive to fruit trees and growing grain. Reports from Lancaster, in the former State, and Morris- own in the latter, of the passage of a meteor, show the direction of its track to have been northeasterly, in accordance with the general law governing the movement of these storms. The velocity of the progress of the storm was nearly fifty miles per hour, and its principal feature was the size of the hail precipitated. This is reported to be from one and a half inches in diameter to the size of a hen's egg. We called-attention in yesterday's Hanan | to the approach of stormy weather, and this visitor is one of the numerous storms that ‘are now whirling over the country, having been generated by the peculiar atmospheric eenditions in the West and South, Morton—whose supporters will form a large majority of the Convention—will prefer the Great Unknown to any of the second rate or third rate candidates. Being strqng men themselves they will feel a natural contempt for inferior abilities. Besides, they havea common motive for desiring the success of their party, and they know too well that this Presidential contest is to be so close and doubtful that the republicans have no su- perfluous strength which they can afford to throw away. The Great Unknown may be a far stronger candidate than any of their minor rivals, and it is for their interest that the republican candidate ‘be oa man whose name will com- mand public confidence as soon as it is announced, There is another motive which will have great potency. If Hayes should be nominated by the aid of Blaine’s friends Blaine would virtually control the federal patronage, to which neither Conkling nor Morton would consent. In like manner, if Hartranft should be nominated by Conk- ling’s assistance Conkling would be a “power behind the throne,” a result to which neither Blaine nor Morton would con- sent, If the three leading candidates are defeated, as seems probable, they will prefer seme one whom they can jointly support, and who, if elected, will recognize their claims and services, When, in the progress of the Convention, all three are put outside the pale of choice, the Great Unknown is: more likely to prove the winning horse than any Of the weaker ones who have been regularly entered for the race. But who will the republican ‘‘dark horse” be? That is a question which it would re- quire a prophet to answer, and the Hxraip does not profess to be either a prophet nor even a ‘seventh son.” But we think it safe to affirm that the republi- can party has several men in: its ranks who would discharge the duties of the Presidency with as much credit and discretion as any of those who yet make @ figure as candidates. ‘“Ihere are as good fish in the sea as any which have been caught out of it,” and as good candidates for the republican nomination as any of those who have been fished up and dangled in the face of the public. We need not go out of our own State to find more than one republican who would make a useful and honest President. Mr. Fish, Mr. Evarts and Mr. Wheeler are samples, and it would be easy to extend the list. It would be equally easy to suggest many good candidates in other States, but we will mention only one, who may serve as a favorable specimen, Mr. Washburne would not only be a popular and available candidate, but wonld make as successful a President as the very best of the gentlemen who are now on the cards, More effectually than any other candidate he would blunt the weapons of democratic attack. He has had no complicity with the corruption which has prevailed since Presi- dent Grant came into power. During his long service in Congress, before he went abroad, his reputation rested on his unflinching, persistent and indefatigable opposition to jobs and to all appropriations for purposes of doubtful utility. His char- acter in the House was that of a sleepless watchdog of the Treasury, allowing nothing | France we have had the disgraceful Crédit | Mobilier investigation and exposures, and a reference to the Congressional debates will | show that Mr. Washburne, at an earlier period, stiffly opposed all the legislation which enabled the Crédit Mobilier frauds to be perpetrated. He is the one man who, above all others, would satisfy the demand | for a reform candidate. He did not wait, before espousing the cause of honesty capital was to be made out of it. was in the other direction, and he put his where the Conkling and Blaine columns will’ to pass unchallenged. Since he has been in | and economy, until political and personal | When he , | was in Congress the whole drift of the tide | I popularity at stake by being so forward and | every proposition which had the least sem- Dlance of a job. In the battle for economy and’ integrity he is both an elder and a bet- ter soldier than any Presidential aspirant of either party. Moreover, he could be entered in the race as s reform candidate without an open rebuke to President Grant’s admin- istration. If Mr. Bristow, for example, who is the most conspicuous reform candidate on the republican side, were nominated, Presi- dent Grant would regard it as an affront, and the vast power of the federal patronage would not be exerted for his election, But the President would support Mr. Washburne cordially, both as an old and tried friend and because he knows that his zeal for economy is not a mere mask. for enmity or ambition. Mr. Washburne would have still other elements of strength. His noble and courageous conduct during the siege of Paris, and the protection he secured for the Ger- man residents, endeared him to every man who has German blood in his veins, and es- | birth and sympathies. If he should be nominated at Cincinnati he would receive the almost unanimous support of our Ger- man population, which is numerous enough to turn the scale in every doubtful Northern State. The Carl Schurz contingent, what- ever it may amount to, would go for Mr. Washburne en masse, for he meets every re- quirement insisted upon by the Fifth Avenue Conference. Charles Francis Adams hgs indorsed him as o man “with o head on his shoulders” and every way competent to make a good President. We do not undertake to say that Mr. Washburne is the veritable ‘‘dark horse,” but we are willing to stake our reputation for political intelligence on the opinion that he is the hardest candidate to beat that the re- publicans could put inthe field. His reform record is better than either Goyernor Tilden’s | or Mr. Bristow's, being of so old a date that | it is not exposed to the suspicion of self- seeking motives. His long absence from the | country must make him impartial between | the prominent candidates now in the field, and he would treat them and all their friends with fairness in the event of his election, whereas they could expect little considera- tion from one another. Conkling, Blaine and Morton have each their sets of friends, and any of them would favor his own set if | he were President, but Mr. Washburne | would come into office free from such per- sonal ties, and would harmonize the party by a just recognition of all meritorious claims. We have spent so much time in currying the republican ‘‘dark horse” that we must | leave the other unattended to for the present, although there isa great deal to be said in his favor. The Police and the Excise Law. The roaring excise farce, which -was en- acted in this city yesterday, with its opening scene ofa tricky policeman asking for a drink at the bar of a German lager beer saloon or American groggery, its second scene with a portly and indignant German or a swearing | Bowery bartender in a police station, and its closing scene ina police court where the culprit was gloriously ‘discharged by Jus- tice Duffy,” has its sad and suggestive sides, The New York public has been dimly aware for some months past, through random ar- rests of liquor men and saloon keepers, that there was a law somewhere against selling intoxicating drink on Sunday. Up to. yes- terday the citizen desiring beer with his dinner, a morning cocktail or an afternoon “bourbon straight” found no difficulty or danger in procuring his beverage. A law, however, explicitly declaring that he should not get itis on the statute book, and yesterday our Rip Van Winkles of the Police Depart- ment awoke to that fact from their sleep of six years. There was something so galvanic, so plundering and so futile in the way they set. about remedying their own offence of omis- sion that it makes a citizen ashamed of his rulers to think of it. We have above de- scribed the manner in which the police set their spies to work, and which recalls the final “genteel” occupation of Noah Claypole in ‘Oliver Twist,” who used pecially to American citizens of German | | their profits with _ The testimony which has been laboriously taken by the committee for investigating the Navy Department has been printed. It makes, in small, close type, a volume of sev- eral hundred pages, through which only those who take a special interest in the sub- ject will ever have patience to wade. We print in another column such extracts from this voluminous mass as we can find space for, and even these, small as they are in pro- portion to the whole, are sufficient to justify a public demand for the removal of Secre- tary Robeson from the high trust he has abused. If the evidence were of such a na- ture as to afford grounds for impeachment a removal, or an acceptance of his resignation if he should offer it, would not be the ap- propriate step. But it happens in this caso that while the proofs can leave no moral doubt in the minds of those who attend to them of Secretary Robeson’s guilt, he has acted with such consummate cunning and taken such care to conceal himself behind his instruments that it would be difficult to procure a legal conviction in conformity with the technical rules of evidence which are observed in a court of impeachment the same as in other courts, Secretary Robeson is clearly unfit for his place, and as impeachment is improbable the President ought to remove him at once, and thereby wash his own hands of all complicity with the shameful transactions brought to light by the com- mittee of investigation. The evidence is too extensive to be gone into in detail, and we will illustrate its gen- eral nature bya specimen. There are in Philadelphia two prominent gentlemen by the name of Cattell They were formerly partners in a firm styled ‘‘A. G. Cattell & Co.,” the senior partner, A. G. Cattell, a United States Senator from New Jersey a few years ago, being a most intimate and con- fidential friend of Secretary Robeson. His partner, E. G. Cattell, was one of the wit- nesses examined by the committee of investi- gation. It appears by his own testimony that after Mr. Robeson became Secretary of the Navy this Mr. E. G. Cattell entered into arrangements with firms who had been ac- customed to furnish materials and supplies for the navy, in pursuance of which he was | to receive a large share of their profits with- | out furnishing any capital or render- ing any service except such as might lead to securing them contracts with the Navy Department. Why did they think it for their interest to divide this Mr, Cattell? There is but one credible answer; they knew or were told that his influence with the Navy Department, through the intimacy of his brother with the Secretary, might be potential in securing profitable contracts. It appears by his own testimony that he kept the details of these transactions out of his books, and that he destroyed the stubs of his checks. Why did he thus obliterate all traces of what he was doing if he did not know that this part of his business was of such a nature as to require profound secrecy ? He testifies that he paid the cost of Secre- tary Robeson’s cottage at Long Branch, allowing Robeson to take the deed without pfotecting himself by a mortgage on the property, or receiving from Robeson any acknowledgment on paper of the in- debtedness, This was a strange way of transacting business. Cattell further testi- fied, after a good deal of squirming, that Robeson’s Long Branch cottage was paid for out of the profits which he (Cattell) made in his dealings with navy contractors. Nobody who is not an idiot ora lunatic can doubt that Robeson’s Long Branch cottage was a gift in consideration of favors to Cattell in awarding contracts. Other pecuniary favors to Robeson appear in the testimony which are equally incapable of explanation except on the hypothesis that he was to be repaid for enriching the Cattells. Mr. Robeson is clearly an unfit man to be at the head ofa department which has the power to make fortunes for its cronies and favorites, The Sermons Yesterday. A calm, clear day, marked by a genial summer warmth that distilled delicious to faint on Sunday outside the doors of charitable publicans, and on _ get- ting threepenny worth of brandy to bring him to would lay an information next day and pocket half the penalty. To cultivate a breed of sneaks and léave open a wide door for corruption no better mode could be de- vised than sending the police about such mean business. This, however, would be but a small consideration if it led to an enforcement of what is the law. But it does ngt. The arrested bartenders and saloon keepers have been let go as soon as brought before a police justice, the majority without any bond and a few on nominal bail. We cannot believe for an instant that with any attempt at an under- standing between the police and the Bench as to what really constituted an offence against the Excise law this wholesale farce upon justice could have taken place, ' making the police, and, what is worse, the law, the laughing stock of those anxiotis to defy both. Neither does it seem possible that, if the police had properly notified the saloon keepers that the criminal neglect of the department was at an end in this respect, and that ‘henceforth the law would be rigidly enforced, even the police- men who tempted saloon keepers to break the law would have found more than a stray victim. It must be admitted, however, that | the Excise law has been the football of local politicians so long that even the worst offender could scarcely believe that a threat of enforcement woe intended to be carried out. > As the matter now stands we have the fol- lowing deplorable state of affairs:—About five hundred men have been arrested and let | go again, though charged with a peniten- tiary offence; the law and the police are bronght into contempt; deliberate offenders are encouraged. When it is remembered how easily the law, however obnoxious, | could have been enforced without this scan- | | dal, we must blame the police authorities as | the perpetrators of a great blunder. We | have carefully avoided discussing the right and the wrong of the Sunday law, for much is to be said on both sides, but about the | there can only be one opinion—that it is dis- blundering display of spasmodic police zeal | fragrance from the blossoms and verdure of spring vegetation and filled the atmosphere with that delightfal odor of opening flowers which poets and lovers of nature love to de- scribe, attracted thousands of worshippers to the numerous churches of New York and filled aisle and nave with attentive listeners to the grand lessons of the Gospel. At Masonic Hall Professor Chadwick spoke of the functions of prayer and pointed out some of the many instances in which God has listened to the appeals of His servants for mercy and help. Mr. Hepworth preached on the fruits of the redemption and the beauty of religion as a moral motor. At St. Patrick's Cathedral Father Kane showed how invaluable are the powers of prayer as a means of attaining grace and mercy, and at St. Stephen’s church the same subject was eloquently treated by Father Costigan. The Rev. Morgan Dix preached to the congrega- tion of Trinity church on the immutability of moral laws, and showed how man’s salvation will mainly depend on himself. A short, but eloquent sermon, by assistant pastor Halliday, on the necessity of leading a Christian life, was the principal feature of the services at Plymouth church, and a large congregation at the Brooklyn Academy was ministered to by Mr. Bell, who preached o characteristic sermon on the merciful acts of Christ’s earthly career. At the Church of the Messinh Dr. Alger advocated liberal Catholicism, inasmnch as it furnishes ‘a profound spiritual luxury” by destroying ; Maynard preached at St. Paul's chureh, Will- iamsburg, to a military congregation com- posed of the members of the Forty-seventh | regiment. IHis remarks were chiefly directed | against merely emotional religion. other churches the sermons were equally eloquent and impressive, all appeaiing to | the better nature of man and encouraging him to remain faithful to the great princi- ples of religion which serve to unite him to his Creator. A Case or Mysterious Porsontxe has oc- curred in England which presents evidence that points very clearly to 1 murder. A Coroner's jury rendered a verdict of ‘Death graceful, by poison, administered by some person un- Christianity as preferable to orthodoxy and | the trammels of form. The Rev. Newland- At the | weeks that the affair is noticed in any of the London papers, although the victim is said to have moved in what is termed “high life” A more extraordinary instance of official and journalistic neglect cannot be found than that shown by the incompetence of the Coroner and the ignorance of the press in connection with this latest English tragedy. The only excuse the papers offer is that they were not informed of the in- quest. They are miracles of enterprise, these great London papers. % The English Press and the Centennial. The comments of the English press on the opening of the Exhibition at Philadelphia are, on the whole, kindly, and, as might be expected from a sensible people, bear little or no trace of the bitterness that signalized the strife of s century ago between Crown and colonies, England has proved her capacity to separate herself from the passions of the disagreeable past in regard to other and more domestic. strifes. Cromwell, the king-killer, though hidden for a time under the mustiness of obsequious Dryasdusts, is a great rehabilitated Englishman to-day, in whom all parties take genuine pnde. Even Charles Edward, the Pretender of the ‘45, is an object of sentimental concern. Napoleon L is undergoing the same re- habilitation in English minds. The secret is partly in the materialism of the race, and more direotly in its almost unbroken prosperity, which is a great de- cayer of bitterness, When the tory Standard has spoken of ‘the hundredth anniversary of an unprovoked rebellion” it turns toward compliment, having therein given a little partisan reply to a comical piece of partisanship in the whig Daily Telegraph of the day before, which runs as follows:—“It isa curious fact to: recall at this late date, but one not without its significance, that the inveterate financial blunderings of tory Chancellors led to the forcible separation of England from the States.” As we have said, the expressions are kindly and hearty asarule. Says the Daily | News:—‘*The Exhibition has the best wishes of all Englishmen for its success.” The Daily Telegraph pauses ‘‘to express the sin- cere good wishes and unaffected pleasure with which England sees her eldest daughter grown to such strength and stature.” The Standard says the occasion “is certainly a matter of historical and po- litical interest to the whole civilized world.” The Times, in an article devoted mainly to the Presidency and the longing for a purer political life here, speaks of testing our politicians “by the lofty standards which the development of popular government in the New World within the last hundred years exhibits and .enforces.” All this is gratify- ing, and when we see the English not only wishing our show success, but actually | claiming it more or less as their own, we must feel doubly grateful. Says the News:—“‘Of all the things which Eng- lishmen have done the creation of the American Republic is one of the noblest and greatest.” It is enough to make George IIL turn in his grave to hear such things; but as Englishmen see England in Cromwell and Hampden they are justified, in spite of all the Georges, in claiming kin- ship with the land of Miles Standish and Benjamin Franklin. The News happily calls the Exhibition ‘a vast object lesson.” The Telegraph dubs it one of ‘‘the Olympiads of commerce,” and casts a good deal of cant from about it when it says, ‘‘the time is past when too much is likely to be expected from enterprises of this kind in the way of producing eras of peace.” That was one of the effusive.ideas that it took half a dozen European expositions with bloody wars on their heels to explode. In fine, England takes a racial pride as well as a commercial interest in our show, and when an English writer improves on our euphem- ism of ‘the late onpleasantness” by refer- ring to our war of independence as ‘the mistake of Lord North’s time,” we can only call on the American eagle to scream as gently as a sucking dove in response to this pianissimo soar of the British lion. Tar Ternmce Miixc Catastrorum re- ported from Richmond, Va., the details of which are printed in to-day’s Heraxn, far- nishes another example to mine owners of the disasters that inevitahly follow the neglect of proper ventilation in coal work- ings, Fortunately there were only eleven explosion, otherwise the loss of life would have .been fearful. As it is there are eight victims, with a probability of two others being added to the number. The accumulation of the gas known as “fire damp,” which oozes from the coal seams into the workings, has been the direct cause of the explosion, but the penurious economy of the mine proprietors in failing to provide for the proper ventila- tion of the mine must be regarded as the chief one. We hope that the families of the dead miners will succeed in compelling these avaricious owners to pay dearly for the horrible sacrifice of life which has re- sulted from their gross neglect of the com- mon precautions necessary in coal mining. Tur Home ror Ace Hespews was appropri- ately inaugurated yesterday by a grand recep- tion at the new Home, at the corner of Eight: seventh street and avenne A. The practi- cal charity of our Hebrew fellow citizens is most creditably illustrated by this useful institution, wherein the sick and aged mem- | bers of their religious persuasion will receive all the care and attention thei? infirmities require. An example is shown to the other | churches and congregations of New York which may be profitably followed, for the | poor and the sick and the aged have claims | Upon our charity which we are bound by | every humane feeting to acoord them. Tarn fies AcADEMY, Dow open, makes @ fine display of pictures, the principal works | being fully described in an interesting letter | published in to-day’s Heranp. Several | American painters contribute to this grand | exh. bition and hold high rank among their | fellow artists for the beauty of their works. Such exhibitions give a great impetus to art | by creating an opportunity for the display of the best examples-of the earlier and modern schools, . men employed in the pit at the time of the | ' | game. “The office of Vice President has sometimes been called the fifth wheel of our political coach. For many years the office has had but little credit. Aspiring politicians de- spise it ; conventions think lit- tle of it; it has too often been flung to seo- ond rate men. In the early days of the Re- public the place seems to have had far greater consideration’; it was during many terms filled by first class men, and was, in- deed, the stepping-stone to the Presidency, Adams, Jefferson and others having gone from the lower to the higher office. Later in our history the office of Vice President has been carelessly conferred, but the death of three Presidents ought to convince the coun- try that it is better to make a careful selection. We have presented on several occasions the names of centennial candidates for the Presidency ; and we present to-day a cen- tennial list of democratic and republican candidates for the Vice Presidency for pub- lic consideration. The selection of a Vice Presidential candidate will necessarily be ruled by the residence of the Presidential nominee; for it is not probable that both candidates on any ticket will be Eastern op Western men. Democrats. Republicans, Senator English, Conn. M. Jewell, Conn. Senator McDonald, Ind. J. W. Gariteld, Obto, Governor Palmer. ‘m. Governor Bullock, Mass, Elijab Ward, N.Y, Wheeler, N.Y, W. R. Morrison, Til, LQ. ©. Lamar, Miss. D, A Wells, Conn. ker, Va. B. H. Bristow, Ky. R. B. Hayes, Ohio. . Freylinghuysen, N. J, S. L. Woodsord, N, Y¥. Alcorn, Miss. Booth, Cal. Ferry, Mich. ‘ne, Obio, Parker, Nod W. P. Lynde, Wis, ee Clymer, Pa, Charles Foster, Ohio, . W. Eaton, Conn. Angus Cameron, Wis. vues are thirteen Vice Presidential candi+ dates for each party. It is tolerably certain that the two conventions will select from these lists. Who will be the fortunate men? Traveutina ix Texas is attended with considerable risk, judging from the account which our correspondent gives of the capture of the United States mail coach by highway- men on the 9thinst. It appears that the coach had ten passengers besides the driver, eight men and two ladies, The highwaymen numbered only three, two on horseback and one on foot. With this force of nine ta three one would suppose that the passen. gers might have captured the thieves; but the reverse was the case. The ‘gentlemen of the road” quietly halted the coach, and, with presented pistols, made the passengers give up all their money and valuables, and then cut open and robbed the mail bags. The only passenger wha escaped being plundered was a young lady, ~ who defied the robbers, and was for her pluck allowed to go withont molestation, The coach carried a regnlar armory of weapons, but no one was bold enough touse one of them. Truly the woman was the only ‘‘man” of the party, and as for the thieves, “L’audace, Vaudace, toujours Vaudace.” Mississipri Poirrics.—We print elsewhere a letter to the President of the United States, from G. E. Harris, Attorney General of Mississippi. Mr. Harris is a republican, and he wrote this letter to inform the Presi dent of the real condition of affairs in his State. He gives a remarkable account of Governor Ames’ administration, and shows that the people of Mississippi had sufficient cause to be dissatisfied with Ames, The Senate Committee on Mississippi ia sitting with closed doors. We present to if this piece of evidence, by a republican of, as we understand, blameless character, which shows the value and character of the testimony which they have been getting from Governor Ames, and the kind of mise management which has made Mississippi » democratic State. Lacrossz has been introduced into Ire. land with great success. The Canadian players are trying their skill before the peo- ple of Belfast; their opponents being In- dians ot the Iroquois tribe, who are re-« nowned for their dexterity at this exciting In the opening match victory, after - a well contested battle, remained with the Canadian team. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Carl schurz is in St, Louis, Bavcock and Belknap live next door to each other. Mr. J. H. Estill w the leader of Georgia journalists, Boss Shepherd 1s a heavy weight, with a broad face, Richmond’s futare depends not upon commerce but upon manufactures. A Jersey youth irreverently speaks of bis father ag the elder Berry. General Hooker is at the Arkansas hot springs, foc gaining his health. Colonel Peter Donohue, a typical Californian of great wealth, is in Washington. Doorkeeper Fitzbugh’s whiskers are long and flowing Nike Belknap's. Ben Butler and Bonanza Jones live under the sam¢ roof 10 a magnificent granite house. * Postmaster Gencral Jewell 1s the most friendly to nowspaper correspondents of any public man in Wash ington, Joe Jefferson becomes a father frequently. The last son is just born; but Joo says that this one don’t count, Lawyer Felton, of San Francisco, having received @ million doliar fee for one case, has arrived at the Cons tennial. At Penobscot, Me., the body of a little girl who was buried a year ago has turned tostone, and requires several men to Lift 1t, Senator Conkling’s speech against jarisdiction in the Beiknap case, delivered in secret session, is sald t¢ have been the finest effort of his fife. Orvil Grant left Waghington as soon as tho India tradership investigations were under way, and iti satd that he is living at Etizabeth, N. J. Carlyle, since he became an octogenarian and ceased to write, has beea going much into society. He writes an upright hand, very plain, and his accent is broadly | Seoteh, Senator Davis, of West Virginia, began life as @ brakeman on a railroad, Now he is very wealthy, Boutwell rotimated that he knew nothing about Treas ury frauds, Bristow evidently thinks he does, for he ig his warm iriend. ‘The lives of some mon, Goethe has sald, remind us in their progress of the sudden changes and the view Jent turns of a lottery; the tives of others of the |. successive stages 1u the gradual solution of a mathee matical probletn. ‘The ‘Prisoner ot Chillon,”’ of whom Byron wrote one wet day at Geneva, after hearing that the prisoner had been chained for four years to ono pillar of hit dungeon, was Francis Bonivard, a learned Genevan wht lived in the sixteenth century. ‘Theodore Tilton bas been lecturing on “The Problem of Life” in tho West, At Meadville, Pa., he impresses the editor of the Democrat with the idea that he iso unsound mind. The Cleveland Leader says that after t disgusting performance, during which it was only char. ity to suppose that he was under the influence oj j lqaor, “Theodore returned to his hotel and to bie couch, In the morning he settled his biil'amd sited away. The landlord visited the room nnd tnvestignied, ° An empty bottle lay on the table,” &e