The New York Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1876, Page 6

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Gold advanced from 112 3-8 to 112 1-2, with exceptional sales at 112 5-8. Government bonds were dull, but steady. Investment shares and railroad bonds were ! firm. Money on call was supplied at 2 and 2 1:2 per cent. Busmess ought to be improving when two million dollars’ worth of dry goods can be sold at auction in a single day in New York. , Tur Bartrone Races.—The spring meet- ing of the Maryland Jockey Club began yesterday at Baltimore. The attendance was large, and the winning horses were Austral, Pera, Ore Knob and Colonel Nelligan. : Tne Execution of the four Greek sailors who murdered ‘the captain of the British ship Lennie will cause little regret. They were sentenced on the 5th inst. and were hanged on the 23d. This is the qnick way in which England does justice, and we wish it were emulated here. A Dzctsion or Importance to stock cor- porations was yesterday rendered by the United States Supreme Court, the special point in question being -in respect to the right of a company to obtain relief by additional subscriptions to its capital stock. Tur New Jensry Democratic ConvENTION, ofcourse, declared Joel Parker to be its choice for the Presidency. Joel Parker delegates were solected for St. Louis and Senator John P. Stockton and Mr. Abbott made earnest Parker addresses. The resolutions insist on hard money, a tariff for revenue, sevorely review the present administration and thank the House of Representatives for its investigatior Tar Mexican RevoivtTiox.—The news from Mexico is vague, because it is not news enough. We hear from Havana that the rebellion is extending and that President Lerdo is preparing to leave the capital. A change of government in that Republic now would undoubtedly complicate the relations of Mexico to the United States. Butifa government is not strong enough to main- tain itself that is a misfortune which we can- not help. Much as we desire peace an intermeddling policy with Mexico's affnirs | would be a national error. Certainly we have enough to do at home without interfer- Ing in the domestic affairs of our neighbors, Tae Henaty’s Wearnen Prepictrioxs of Sunday, in which the probability of severe local storms over the Western and Middle States were duly foretold, have been fully verified. The reports from the Northwest inform us that ‘within the past twenty-four hours” a series of destructive storms have swept over that region, causing great damage #6 crops and other property. In Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois the fields have been deluged, and a terrific wind marked the progress of the meteors, In Pennsylvania and New Jersey another storm on Sunday afternoon caused considerable damage along its truck, and on Monday atten minutes to seven o'clock, the ly rim of a violent storm, accom. | panied by a considerable electric discharge, struck Now York city, the centre passing | over Northern New Jersey and the Hudson River in the vicinity of Sing Sing. Althongh these visitations have been very destructive wo Ind given the readers of the Hxaanp nearly day's notice of their approach, whieh is o step toward mitigating their effecte time for securing property damaged. Nees The President for Conkiimg- Capacity to seize the critical aspect of a | case and to present it to the common per- ception in a telling way has been repeatedly j noted as an attribute of the President's tration of the possession of this faculty, for | the latest political oceurrence is the result that which several times in the war summed up the whole case before the country in one | happy phrase. But this time the result is an act and not an epigram. It is not the least of the contradictions which strew the line of General Grant's history that he—a soldier mostly known for hard service, for the literal stolid application of force to facts, and, withal, a taciturn soldier, a man as speechless tothe public as William the Silent or General Monk—should yet have mere phrases than any other person save two or three of its really great thinkers. But as he gave us phrases when acts were all we looked for, now, when we have accus- tomed ourselves to expect phrases of no par- ticular value, comes an act, happily con- ceived and deftly executed, and the effect of Presidential politics, must necessarily be very great, Buta short time since the Presidential field was the least defined of all political spectacles. It was like a race with no favor- ites; no animal in it of such achievements | or such supreme strain as to give a confi- dence in his possibilities thot might over- whelm the doubters, Every political trainer or stable boy or jockey hurrahed for his own nag 0 lustily as to impress the hearers, and the consequence was that thought did not gather to any common centre, but was distracted and lost in vain speculation, Conkling, Blaine, Morton, Bristow, Fish, Hayes, Washburne, Hartranft, Pierrepont and a dozen others came and went like an endless panorama before the eyes of the republican party; and the worst of it all was that no man could positively say that the least likely of all might not be nominated, or that the nomina- tion would not fall upon some person s0 much less likely than any one of these that no’ one had yet.even hit upon his name in the consideration of possible persons. It was, in short, the characteristic feature of the canvass that such a fact seemed the only possible solution, because the number of candidates of great prominence implied an obstinate conflict of their respective interests as the condition that must eventually be removed by compromise on some man pre- sumably amenable to all these influences. Our readers know that we have regarded such a result with apprehension, and it must be conceded “by every person of fair judg- ‘ment that to have a feeble person—some mere makeweight of a compromise—in the Presidential office during the coming term would be a national calamity. It would es- tablish such a relation of parties as to put the simple obligation of duty tothe country in the scale against the republicans if the ! democrats should present any man only moderately better than such an obscure non- entity. It would provoke a revolt against the republicans of the whole non-party vote in the nation, and that vote is to decide this contest. It would produce, therefore, inev- itably a democratic victory, thongh many men who would thereby assist that victory are not yet convinced that the democrats are to be trusted with power. But that possibility has grown less and less as the strength of several candidates has been put to positive tests. And now as the party mind separates those who are seriously men ofnational and Presidential proportions from those merely local magnates over whom their adherents made agreat.clamor in hopes not that they could be nominated, but that they might secure some substantial advan- tage as the price of relinquishing an attitude that embarrassed the action of their party— now that this division is made it is found that the number of men who can go to Cin- cinnati with any rational hope to be harmo- niously nominated is very small indeed— smaller far than it commonly is on these oc- casions. : At this peculiar stage of the case, there- fore, the President's coup d'état is of great importance. He perceives that ot the small number of men who are thus possible the one of the number who, for all reasons taken together, must be considered the most satis- factory, is Senator Conkling; and he acts on that opinion, takes steps at once to make his opinion felt and to gather in an effective unity in support of that candidate the some- time divided, unsettled and even distracted party sentiment. By this course the Presi- dent recognizes his moral obligations to the party as its ostensible head. He abandons | that attitude of indifference in which ho was ‘presented when, » short time ago, he was reported as saying'that he had no pref- | erence as to his successor. They who were | interested in the distractions of the ro- publican party applauded as a piece of | virtue the notion that a President must | stand neutral in such cases, If a | | man believes that the victory of a cer- tain party is necessary for the national welfare, and that the party will win with one candidate and lose with another, he must not help the one he believesin! Fine virtue that! But the President has a more robust common sense, and has acted on sound tra- | ditions and healthy impulses. There comes ! a time when there is sucha balance that | some one must say whose turn shall come ; | first and who must wait, and the proper person to say this is the one who has the | power to declare the law of party discipline | in the most effective way. This is what has | been done, and from this time the republi- | can side of the Presidential conflict has a | new character. The word to “close up” has | géne down the lines, and the party feels the | will of the leader and is conscious of pur- | pose and power. Pennsylvania is the State that is first brought into line as a consequence of the act which gives her an important place in the | Cabinet; but this direct effect is the smallest | consequence of the act. It needs only to be- come known in the party throughont the land that there is a positive opinion at head- | quarters as to what the course of the party should be in the circumstances before it, and further, what that opinion is, for it to be ac- cepted in the most loyal and earnest spirit, { mind, and he has just given another illus- | of an intellectual operation precisely like | reached the mind of the nation more by, his | which, in clearing up the confusion of | , and the masses of republicans were never | reagier io acospt ths indgment of the head of the party on any point than they are now on this supremely important one of the can- didate. Having moved on this line the Pres- ident will no doubt fight it out without | change, and the friends of opposing. candi- | dates, if any obstinately hold ont, will find that he is a man who only conceives of men as for him and against him. He waged the war on that view, and he will make a candi- date on it ; and opposition within the party will find its little pleasant places looking like the Shenandoah Valley cleared of those who supported the enemy. From this loca- tion of the candidacy in an Eastern State it will doubtless follow that the Vice President must be named from the West, and the claims that have been so well urged on be- half of Governor Hayes, of Ohio, may be gracefully recognized by that office. The Sunday Spasm of Police Au- thority. The raid of the Police Commissioners on the liquor dealers last Sunday is generally disapproved; not because any good citizens object to the proper enforcement of the law, but for the reason that these spasmodic attempts to put in operation a statute that has been suffered to remain a dead letter for years are seldom productive of good. In this particular instance the arrest of a large number of men for doing only what they have done Sunday after Sunday under the eyes of the police without let or hindrance was rendered the more ridic- ulous since scores of liquor stores and beer saloons’ within a stone’s throw of the police stations were allowed to accommodate their customers all day long by taking the precaution of allowing en- trance and egress by a side door. Indeed, upon the adjournment of the courts that were opened on Sunday evening for the re- lease of the five hundred prisoners, it is stated that judges, counsel, bailers and bailees adjourned to neighboring establish- ments to refresh themselves with lager and whiskey after their exhausting labors, Few people who have lived their lives in New York can fail to recall a number of in- stances in which these spasmodic evidences of energetic action have been afforded by zealous and generally newly appointed officials. There are many who will remem- ber occasions when the German beer sellers, in the earlier days of lager drinking and “bier gartens,” were dragged through the streets and clubbed by the police for keep- ing their houses open on Sundays, Periodi- cal raids on disorderly houses, gambling houses and policy shops are as much an in- stitution in New York as the annual elec- tions. Yet, after they are over, the business of Sunday beer selling, gambling and policy dealing is renewed with increased vigor. The liquor raids are the most ineffective of all, because the dealers know that hotels and club houses sell wines and liquors on Sundays as freely as on other days, and that, as on Sunday last, a side door and a satisfied policeman are all that aro required to turn aside the of- fended majesty of the law. Hence the un- fortunate individual who does openly what his neighbors do secretly, or who has not a friend in uniform, feels that he is unfairly treated, and regards himself as o victim in- stead of a violator of law. ‘There is shrewd suspicion, too, that these spasms of official virtue frequently cover blackmailing opera- tions, and they bring the law into contempt instead of making it respected. No person doubts that in a few weeks, if not next Sun- day, there will be as free a trade in beer and liquor as there has been for months and years, despite the terrific onslaught of Mayor Wickham's Commissioners. If we are to have a Sunday liquor law that can be enforced we must have one that satis- fies the good sense of the people and the ob- servyance of which will be demanded by popular sentiment, Itis unjust to allowa law to become obsolete by disuse and then suddenly to pounce upon and punish its violators, Probably the wisest policy would be to leave tho power to regulate the Sunday traffic in beer and liquor to the Common Council ina city like New York, and then such ordinances as the masses of the people desire would be enacted and enforced. The London practice of requiring all saloons to close their doors on the Sabbath until six o'clock in the afternoon would no doubt meet with approval here ; but it is not de- sirable that the Germans of the city should be compelled to forego the amusement of taking their families to a beer garden on Sunday evenings and of enjoying themselves as they do athome. Itis especially unde- sirable that a law should be suffered to lay dead for yeats und then bo suddenly en- forced only to drag in a netful of victims and again as suddenly allowed to become practically defunct. This unwise and nn- just course brings not only the police au- thorities but the law itself into contempt. The Commissioner of Jurors. At length, after a prolonged litigation in the courts, the controversy between Mr. Douglas Taylor, the former Commissioner of Jurors, and Mr. Thomas Dunlap, the present incumbent of the office, as to which is en- titied to the position, has been definitely settled by the Court of Appeals. The latter tribunal, to which the case was carried on appeal, has just rendered its decision in favor of Mr. Dunlap. The Court holds that the act of 1873 vested the power of the ap- | pointment of the Commissioner of Jurors in have been its previous character, and that, notwithstanding the anomalous relation ex- New York, there is no incongruity in com- mitting to the city government and to offi- cers appointed by the city authorities eon- | trol of the subject of selecting and returning county. Viewing this subject outside of its j legal aspects and result, Mr. Taylor ought not to complain very much. He can well afford to step down and out, and particularly | as the salary has been greatly reduced from | what it was during most of the time he held the office. * Crxtran Aarentca,—Pence has been pro- | claimed between Guatemala and San Sal- | vador. The particulars of the settlement of | the difficulties of the two republics are pub- lished in our columns to-day, the Mayor and Common Council; that this | made it distinctly a city office, whatever may | isting between the city and the county of | | jurors within the territory of the city and | _NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, |; New York a democratic State. | preference to those who have had experience The Republican Candidate for Vice President. With the strong likelihood that now exists of the nomination of Senator Conkling for the first place on the Cincinnati ticket the selection for Vice President becomies a qnes- tion of interest and is brought within the range of calculation. Until the first place is awardea the second remains in doubt, be- cause the ticket must have a geographical balance. If one is given to the East the other will probably go to the West, and vice versa. It is, therefore, impossible to specu- late intelligently in relation to the Vice Pres- idential candidate without making the loca- tion of the Presidential candidate the start- ing point of the discussion, Assuming that Mr. Conkling will be nominated for the higher office there is no difficulty in form- ing a judgment as to who is the strongest republican to run with him. It should bea Western man, of course ; and of all Western men Governor Hayes is the one who would contribute most to the success of the ticket. The two grand key positions of the campaign are New York and Ohio. If the republicans ean carry both of these States their triumph is assured. For winning one of these piv- otal States Senator Conkling is the strongest possible candidate, and Governor Hayes is the strongest possible candidate for win- ning the other. Governor Hayes would carry Ohio with justas much certainty running for the Vice Presidency as he would if run- ning for the Presidency ; but, on the other hand, he would have nothing like Mr. Conk- ling’s chances for carrying New York if he was assigned the first place on the ticket. Joined together Conkling and Hayes would assist either, like the two blades of a pair of shears, and between them they would clip the garments of the rag baby into very small shreds. It will be a more difficult task for the republicans to carry New York than Ohio, Ohio being at present a republican and The Empire State is, in fact, the grand hinge on which the Presidential election is to turn, and if the republicans are wise they will subordinate all minor considerations to suc- cess in New York. To achieve this Senator Conkling is the man ; but even he can rescue New York from the democrats only by a strenuous effort, which will be greatly aided by a splendid preliminary victory in Ohio in the October State election. Governor Hayes, running for the Vice Presidency, would insure them such a victory, and, by the ordinary effect of earlier upon later elections, the republican ship could be floated over the bar in New York by the buoying force of Senator Conkling, who knows the State so well, and who is the strongest and most popular man in the country with the New York republicans. A ticket inscribed ‘‘Conkling and Hayeg” is the trump card of the republicans for this Presidential game. Free Baths for the People. The Legislature at its last session provided for the appropriation by the city of sixty thousand dollars for the construction of four new baths for the free use of the people of New York. At present there are only two public baths, and these have been found in- adequate to accommodate half the persons who desire to use them. During the present summer one of the old baths will be moored at the foot of Eleventh strect, on the North River, and the other at the foot of Fifth street, on the East River. . Before the appro- priation provided by the Legislature can be- come available the Aldermen will have to pass upon it, and the question will probably be brought up at the meeting of the Board to-morrow. If the action of the Aldermen ke favorable the new baths will be at once constructed, and it is suggested that they be placed at Grand street, Twenty-third street and in the neighborhood of Thirty-fourth street on the East River, and at Twenty- third street on the North River. These six baths will accommodate s large number of persons, probably all who-desire to use them, and the proposed locations are probably as good as could be selected. As cleanliness is next. to godliness, and as the ‘health of the city can find no better protection than in free bathing for the population, it is to be hoped that the Aldermen will act favorably and promptly on the proposed appropria- tion. Indeed, it would have been better if they had sooner disposed of the matter, so that the new baths might be now available. It seems probable that we are to have a hot summer, and the sum of sixty thousand dollars, or six hundred thousand dollars, appears a trifling amount to secure the ad- vantage of the constant and free use of the waters of our splendid rivers for sanitary purposes by the three-quarters of a million of people who are compelled to remain in the close city and in crowded neighborhoods during the heated term. It is to be hoped that tho, management of these public baths will be as good under the present Commissioner of Public Works as it has been under his predecessors, One of tho main points to bestudied is tho selection of competent persons to take charge of the swimming baths, and especially of thoso used by females. It is essential that the attendants should be expert swimmers, com- petent to give instructions in the art, and with the experience and nerve requisite to save life in case of emergency. No accident has ever yet happened to the female bathers, although on several occasions the attendants have been called upon to rescue persons in | danger. Every one ought to learn how to swim, and the lessons in the art given at the free baths have been an important and valu- able feature of the institutions. Merit and competency in this branch of the service, instead of political favor, should command employment at the baths. One case of drowning through incompetency, timidity or neglect on tho part of the attendant would bring the baths into discredit and disuse. There should be an obligation on the part of the Commissioner of , Public Works—enforced by resolution of the Board of Aldermen if neces ary--to employ as at- tendants in the female baths only such per- sons as are expert swimmers, and to give the in the business nnd whose efficiéney and présence of mind have been tried. + Tnx Wixstow Casr.—We shall soon learn what are the claims of the United States and what are the objections of England in respect to the extradition of Winslow. That 1876—-TRIPLE SHEBT. offender has been remanded to prison in | The Comptroller amd the Tax Levys London for eight days more, and the official correspondence in the case will be submitted to the House of Commons. The Madness of Inflation. The Henaxp’s special correspondeuce from Columbus, published to-day, affords a very interesting insight into the hopes and alleged plans of the Western inflationists, especially of the rag money enthusiasts of Ohio, and gives an amusing sketch of the venerable Ohio poli- tician who, beaten in his own State for Gov- ernor last year, seeks again to mount his crippled hobby and ride for the Presidential race. Our observant correspondent likens the division between ‘the sound currency men and their rag money opponents in the Buckeye State to the quarrel between the hunkers and barnburners in New York, and declares that the bitterness of feeling is as intense now between the democratic factions in the West as it was in this State when John Van Buren promised to send the political corpse of Lewis Cass up the lakes in the autumn of 1848 Indeed, the friends of Allen are represented as citing that chapter in the history of the democracy as a prece- dent they are determined to follow should their hopes of controlling the St. Louis Con- vention prove fallacious. But the precedent is an unfortunate one, since it brought de- feat on the d&mocracy and made a breach in the party which took years to heal, and which was mainly instrumental in bringing the republican organization into life. Wherever we examine the positions taken by the Allen inflationists, as recorded in our special correspondence, we discover at once their weakness and the Quaker character of the guns that frown from their defences. They lay stress upon the importance of carrying the October elections in Ohio and Indiana, and declare that the only way to keep these States out of the hands of the re- publicans is by laying down an inflation platform at St. Louis and placing the ven- erable ex-Governor upon it. But what can they show to back this assertion? Mr. Allen was beaten in Ohio a year ago on a rag money platform, when the republican party was not too firmly united and put forth no special exertions to win a victory. Indeed, it was the boast of Mr. Allen und his friends at the time of his nomination for Governor that the inflation policy would divide the republicans of the State, and that half of them would support the democratic ticket. How can they claim a certain victory in the State now on the same exploded issue when all the strength of their vpponents will be concentrated and put forth in the Presiden- tial struggle? Their next position is yet more untenable. Beat Allen and rag money at St. Louis, they say, and you lose Ohio and Indiana in October. Whatfollows? In that event they build high hopes of winning in the Presidential race by a bolt in the St. Louis Convention and Allen as the third party candidate on a ‘purely greenback platform.” In other words, as Ohio last year beat inflation, as Pennsylvania repudiated the heresy, and as all the strong democratic States declared for and many of them tri-’ umphed with sound financial platforms, therefore “Old Bill Allen” and rag money are to win a majority of the electoral votes with the democratic party split asunder and the republicans united: Inflation in its madness; like socession in its madness, does not hesitate to threaten sectional strife if its heresies and fancied personal rights are disregarded. Mr. Allen will not probably help his chances of anom- ination—if, indeed, he ever had any—by his expressions of contempt for the East, which he describes as ‘‘an ornamental fringe hang- ing on the edge of the West,” and as “a pygmy bullying o giant.” The growing strength and influence of the West are every- where recognized, and upon that strength and influence are built high hopes for the future greatness of the nation. It would be lament- able, indeed, if it could be conceived that the power of the vigorous and strong-limbed young West could ever be used to strike down the national credit, to dishonor the na- tional character and to breed sectional strife, Let us hope that there is no real sentiment of hostility to the rest of the Union in the breast even of an inflationist, and that while, in the expressive langnage of our correspond- ent, the Western rag baby republicans want Morton and the Western rag baby democrats ery for “Old Bill Allen or a bolt,” they will all be willing to consult with their brethren of other sections of the Union in their na- tional conventions, and to support such can- didates as the united good sense of the par- ties may select for the Presidential office, Tre Usrtep States Rerorm Assocration is the titleof a new organization devoted to political reform, and asserting that it is “one of the most powerful in numerical strength” in the country. It claims to have nearly thirty thousand members in New York, over twenty thousand in Pennsylvania and Massa- chusetts respectively, seventeen thousand in New Jersey and eleven thousand in Connec- ticut, and besides this to have an effective or- ganization in twenty-one States, with six hundred and fifty-ons branches. The names of the leaders are unknown to the political public and appear to represent the working- men of the country. The association nomi- nates no Presidential ticket, but affirms that it will act as a unit in the canvass, and will throw its vote in favor of the best man. If it be true, as the circular declares, that the members ‘belong to the classes which gain their livelihood by the lnbor of their own hands,” this society ought to have some de- cided influence on the Presidential canvass, But we must wait to see the development of its policy, The name of the workingmen has been often taken in vain, and we wish to sce whether the United States Reform Asso- ciation is really in earnest or whether it is simply one of the usual tools of our clever politicians, Tue Ixsorence or Doonxgsren Frrz- HUGH surpasses even that of Kilbourn, He walked off the. other day with documents which are the property of the House of Rep- resentatives and now threatens the demo- cratic members with disgrace because of the secret information he possesses. Can it be | possible that the democratic party depends upon the magnanimity or revenge of a door- keeper for its future? Somebody should see Fitzhugh and persuade him to give up his dynamite, ‘The question as to the power of the Mayow to nominate and, with the approval of the Board of Aldermen, to appoint a Comp- troller under the charter of 1873, is rendered of grave importance by the duties devolved upon the head of the Finance Department in relation to the city estimate and tax levy. The law requires the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, which consists of the Mayor, Comptroller, President of the Board of Aldermen and the President of the Depart- ment of Taxes and Assessments, to make a provisional estimate of the amounts re- quired to pay the expenses of conducting the public business of the city and county and the Board of Education for the then next ensuing financial year, ‘between the 1st day of August and the Ist day of Novem- ber” in each year. Within ten days after November 1 this provisional estimate is to be submitted by that Board to the Board of Aldermen, and the latter Board is thereupon to be eonvened in special session to consider such estimate and to make such rectifica- tions and objections as may seem desir. able. The Aldermen are allowed fifteen: days within which to reach their final conclusions on the provisional estimate, when it must be returned to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, whose duty it then is to consider such objec tions and to make a final estimate, the amount of which is certified to the Super- visors of the county by the Comptroller as the basis for the year’s taxation. In making both the provisional and final estimate the concurrent vote of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment is required. The term of office for which Comptroller Green was appointed under the law of 1871 expires on November 20, or when his, suc- cessor shall have been duly appointed and qualified. It is not probable that the final estimate for the tax levy of 1877 will be com- pleted before that time. If Mr. Green should go out of office on November. 20 his successor would have to complete the unfin= ished duties of the Comptroller in relation to the final estimate. Should the new Comp- troller's appointment be illegal the tax levy of next year would be vitiated, and any per- sons who chose to do so might resist the payment of their taxes, block the wheela of the government and involve the city in litigation. It is, therefore, es- sential that the doubt existing as to the legal authority of the Mayor and Aldermen to appoint a head of the Finance Depart- ment, under the defective law of 1873, should be removed by a judicial decision before Mr, Green is allowed to retirefrom his office. The simplest way to accomplish this will be through an injunction restraining the Mayor from nominating and the Aldermen from confirming a Comptroller until the’ legal question has been decided. Under the law Mr. Green holds over until his successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, His official acts after November 20 would, therefore, bens legal as are his official acts to- day, and no legitimate interests will suffer by a few weeks’ delay in his retirement, even if it should eventually be decided that the charter of 1873 does not preclude the Mayor and Aldermen from appointing his successor, The people of New York would feel more confidence in the head of the Finance Department appointed by the Mayor to be chosen next November than in one selected by Wickham, at John Kelly’s dictation, and confirmed by the present Tammany. Aldermen. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Simon says Don's up. Macaulay hated Carlyle, Mexicans cart beans into Texas, Piper insists that ho is crazy, and Governor Rice says “You be hanged.” Out in Dakota scalping a man is considered Siouxing him for bis hair. Ex-Chief of Police G. W. Matsell is rasticating at his country seat on Wapsil Creek, lowa. i A plump lady said she kept healthy in spring time by eating nothing but potatoes and dandelion greens, Balzac said:—"The woman who weeps in the pres: ence of her lover is no longer her own keeper,”’ The average wages of men teachers in Connecticut is about $70a month, and of women teachers only $57. f Ia Stamboul there aro twenty-four places of business whero Circassian beauties are sold, A nice one costs 350 lire. Washington used to have bis horses’ hoofs blacked and polished. It is time that this official oxtravagance js stopped. : A French illustrated paper shows Victor Hago in the act of speaking white the choir is in the act of singing, Art is long, but it isn’t always sensible. The handsomest fish in Florida is: the red grouper. His spots are strikingly beautiful, his throat and guile are as crimson us the most gorgeous sunset, and his eyes sparkle like rubies. A negro writing in Fraser's about his own raoy says that the American slave came from the most dogradod of Alrican tribes; but that the musie of religion isis hissoul. He is naturally a Protestant, A tall, gaunt Reese River, Nevada, man watkod up te ‘a bar and said, ‘“‘Ive got an agid mother back in Mis souri; I was brought up religius; 1 ain’t prepared 1¢ die; and what I want to know is, if the suakes i strained out of them air whisky.” George I. Fox, the pantomimist, who is under treat: ment at the McLean Insane-Asylum, at Somerville, ‘Masa,. mixes frecly with the convalescing patients, and isa great favorite. His health has already much improved, though but little hope is ontortained of hig Fecovery. . At Jefferson, Texas, whiskey 1s very cheap; and the Leader says:—“Who can fall to admire the pallid beauty of these lovely nights? The mind is lured’ to some dewy hour, there to wroathe ‘a trellis rare of fragrant thoughts,’ gliding fancy with the seents and tints of every flower.” Pierrepont used to be a Sachem of Tammany Hall, After the fight on Tammany began Nast gavo a cartoon in which all the Sachems wore represented. The car. toon was studied froma photograph group. Ono of the fucos was that of Pierrepont, who was, about that time, a republican, we think, A great many Jokes are made over Dr. Mary Walker’s alleged statement that Calitornia giris would in their hurry marry Chinamen if they were not watched, Seriously, this 18 Incorrect as concerning the average California girl There may be low, worthicss girls, who would marry Chinamen, but John is regaried usually with contempt. Time cures, A prominent gentleman of Richmond, Va, writes toa Springfield triend:—I find that there is moro kind feeling expressed by our citizens for tho people of Boston than for those of any othor Northern city- Before the war we thought them the worst of the Yankees; now we consider them tho best, They have atleast manifested more substantial sym. pathy for us than many others up there”? ‘The Rev. Robert Wilson, speakin; of the sabterra nean streams of South Carolina, says they aro iike | springs, five toeight feet wide, and of unfathomable depth, containing countless numbers of hoge basa, pike and perch, Tradition says that an Indian once dived mto one hole of Eutaw Springs, which gave their } Dame toa revolutionary battle, and emerged from an. other hole, Tho negroes now-a-days superstitiously peopl th With webet ae? Pe