The New York Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1876, Page 6

6 pe NEW YORK HI HERALD | BROADWAY AN AND iD ANN” STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegral rape despatches must be addressed New Henarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. if Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OF FICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET, i" LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. . VOLUME XI AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. eccnces ence vel, 150 FIFTH AVENUB THEATRE, PIQUE, at SP. M. @LOBi THEATRE. VARIETY, at 8 P. M. GILMORE's GARDEN, GRAND CONCERT, ats P.M geo WALLACK’ 35 THK HE MIGHTY DOLLAR, . Mt. Titiiam J. Florence. UNION SI 7 E THEATRE. CONSCIENCE, at 8 P.M. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, u8 PM CED PTRAL PARK GARDEN. 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Gold opened and closed at 112 5-8, with sales meanwhile at 1123-4. Government bonds and investment’ shares were firm. Railway bonds and express stocks steady. Money loaned on call at 2 and 2 1-2 per cent. Centenntat Trets.—The suggestion that every citizen should plant a Centennial tree in commemoration of the anniversary of the independence of the Union is a good one, and should be adopted. “Puantation Manners.”—The Tribune re- ports that Mr. Knott is anxious to prove something about Mr. Blaine ‘‘at the point of the pistol.” Mr. Knott should reserve his plantation manners until he returns to Ken- tucky. Tre Triat or George D. Lord for canal frauds commenced at Buffalo yesterday, all efforts to secure further delay having failed. Should it end ina conviction the practical punishment of one of the alleged members of the old Canal Ring will not hurt Governor Tilden’s chances at St. Louis. “Tarn Last Ovrra _—The s strong point inthe speech of Mr. Blaine was when he said that the violation of his private corre- spondence was ‘the last outrage.” In that opinion every gentleman in the House and the country will concur—if not now, cer- tainly after the Presidential election. Tux Granxp Lopes of Free Masons is now holding its annual session in this city, Grand Master Elwood E. Thorne presiding. The opening proceedings yesterday were Interesting and impressive, and the Grand Master's address, although long, was listened 3o with marked attention. The session to- day will be devoted to legislative business, Boppixe Sraresmen.—We never knew we had so many statesmen in New York until we read the interviews with the New York delegates to Cincinnati the other day. Every one of them, especially Woodford and Judge Robertson, of Westchester, talked like a candidate for the Presidency. Tue Tunez Cominc Foxgian Crews,— From the interview with Captain Rees, in another column, it will be seen that our students are to meet a capital undergraduate erew from Dublin University, while her graduate four, including the first oarsman in Ireland, are to row at Philadelphia, as are also one, if not two, Cambridge crews. This | euts out plenty of hard work for both our students and other amateur oarsmen during the next three months. Exroncixe tax Law.—The Witness thinks the performances at Offenbach and Shook’s | beer garden the other evening, when there | were relays of waiters to take the places of } those who were arrested, and where, in defi- ance of the law and the presence of the po- lice, the sale of liquor went on witlout inter- ruption, were a scandal upon the administra- tors of justice. We think so top. Wedo not believe in our Sunday laws as at present ad- ministered, because their effect is to give all liberty to the rich and none to the poor, and because they permit unwarrantable lib- erties with private citizens. But the law is the law, and it isthe master of usall. When it can be openly violated as it was on Sun- day evening, when its violation can be made a public advertisement to attract visi- | ocratic President is out of the question, | prominent and genuine hard money demo- ‘erat in the West is regarded asa traitor to consent to Hendricks, who is a hard money tors toa beer garden music show, there is pomething wrong L NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1876--TRIPLE SHEET. The Outlook Toward St. Louis. There are some constant and some variable elements of calculation relating to the choice of the Demoeratic National Convention. The variable elements depend on the as yet uncertain action of the Republican Conven- tion next week. But there are other ele- ments which will remain unchanged by any- thing which may be done at Cincinnati. It is only these fixed points in the canvass that we purpose to consider at present and their bearing on the selection of the democratic Presidential candidate. We do not offer pre- dictions, but an estimate of tendencies and possibilities—an estimate which is confess- edly lame by the necessary omission of that important part of the data which will be fur- nished by the republicans at Cincinnati. No conceivable action by the Republican Convention can alter or dwarf the fact that there is a dangerous collision of sentiment between the democracy of the East and the democracy of the West on the money ques- tion. This difference must be reconciled, and reconciled, too, in some way that will permit the selection of a hard money candi- date. This necessity is inevitable if the party is to succeed, because none but a hard money candidate can carry New York, and without New York the election of a dem- This being a necessary condition of success the difficult part of the problem is to soothe and reconcile the West. The infla- tionists would more easily’ acquiesce in the | selection of an Eastern than a Western hard money man, because they look upon hard money democrats in the West as false to their section and of doubtful allegiance to their party. Ohio, for example, ostracizes Thurman, accusing him of opposition to the general sentiment of the party in his own State, which has repeatedly bestowed upon him the highest honors in its gift. Every his Western constituency, and for this reason the soft money democrats could more easily accept an Eastern candidate. They might man with soft money principles; but it would be as impossible for Hendricks to carry New York as for ‘Old Bill Allen” himself. Allen has the bold, blunt honesty of a man who stands by his colors, and if the citizens of New York could vote for an inflationist at all they would prefer one who scorns to wear a mask. Hard money men who have any sincerity despise Hendricks as a cow- ardly trimmer, and they would rather have a candidate like Allen, whom they would merely feel called upon to oppose, to one like Hendricks or Judge Davis, whom they would loathe and detest. The Eastern democrats will not give their votes toan open inflationist like Allen or Pendleton, much less toan unreliable trimmer like Hen- dricks or Davis. Thurman might be ac- cepted by the Eastern democrats if he were strong in his own State ; but with the single exception Governor of Tilden there is no hard money democrat in the United States whom the Ohio democrats would oppose in 8 more resolute spirit. believe that this attempt to reawaken sec- tional hostilities will prove futile ; but it is none the less certain that it will be made and be a main feature of the canvass on the republican side, The democratic party may think it safe to select its candidate with a view to this inevitable form of assault, and if so there is no democrat who is so invul- nerable as Mr. Parker, the noted war Gov- ernor of New Jersey, who won golden opin- ions from every description of loyalists dur- ing our great struggle for the Union. Although a democrat he stood in the front rank of the renowned war Governors of the period—by the side of Curtin in Pennsyl- vania, Morton in Indiana and the lamented Andrew in Massachusetts, these three repub- licans and Parker, of New Jersey, having been more zealous, efficient and successful in raising and forwarding troops in time of need than the Governors of any other States. There is no other democrat in the country whose record during the war is so unassail- able as that of Governor Parker. His nomi- nation would blunt all the republican weapons drawn from the period of the war, being superior in this respect to Tilden, Bayard and every other democrat who has been talked of as a Presidential candidate. There are many democrats who would have done as well if they had had the same op- portunity, but it is impossible to prove it by such conspicuous and irresistible evi- dence as is found in the official conduct of Governor Parker. So far as the loyalty issue is to be of any weight in the canvass there is no comparison between him and any other democratic candidate, The election, however, will not turn on tional issue alone, nor merely on these two together. It is possible that the reform issue may predominate over both, and on that Governor Parker, though a man of sterling and tried integrity, would have no advantage over Bayard, and would. lack something of the éclat of Tilden. We must wait until the Cincinnati nomination has been made, and until we can see how it is received by the country, before we can form an intelligent opinion as to who would be the strongest democratic candidate, The Stewart Estate. We print an interesting narrative this morning showing some of the penalties which attach to the possession of great wealth. The death of a citizen of the emi- nence of Mr. Stewart, leaving so large a for- tune, would naturally excite the cupidity and ingenuity of that large portion of the com- munity who live upon fortune like the is not surprising that there should be suits, petitions, proposals to compromise family claims, If Judge Hilton desires to dissipate the gigantic estate left to his inheritance and management he has only to begin a system of compromises. The attack upon the ‘Tich- borne estate, where an adventurer set up the claim to a baronetcy and a vast property, shows the possibilities of human rascality and ingenuity. Although the Tichborne claimant was defeated in his pretensions and Bearing in mind that no inflationist or. semi-inflationist can carry New York, and that the soft money democrats will not con- sent to the nomination of Thurman or Tilden, let us inquire whether any candidate can at the same time carry New York and unite the party. There is no Western man who can do both, but there are two good hard money democrats in the East who.would command a full party vote in all sections of the country. These two are Senator Bayard, of Delaware, and ex-Governor Parker, of New Jersey. If the currency question were the sole issue there would be little to choose between these honest and popular statesmen. Senator Bayard has a wider national reputation and ranks higher in the scale of abilities and ac- complishments, but Governor Parker has never been brought into sharp collision with the inflationists, as Mr. Bayard was in the currency debates in the Senate. There is no hard money candidate on whom the democratic party could be united with so little humiliation to the West as Governor Parker, who is perfectly sound and trust- worthy, but has never been called to do any public act which is specially offensive to Western sentiment. Unlike Governor Til- den, he has not been charged with desir- sent to prison his case became a national question. A member of Parliament was elected by an appeal to popular sympathy in favor of the claimant, and the guardians of the estate were compelled to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to save it. The batch of letters we print forms an in- teresting chapter of credulity and greed. Mr. Stewart was one of the shrewdest of men. He had the Scotch-Irish fondness for his family and his name. If he could have found one relative it is very certain that he would have been only too glad to have rec- ognized the affinity. To suppose that he died in ignorance of all these affectionate kinspeople is absurd and out of keeping with his character. One claimant recalls that in his youth he slept in the same bed with Mr. Stewart; another remembers him as a ‘“‘small man;” another } appeals to the wife of the deceased as ‘‘Dear Aunty Stewart,” while an Indiana Stewart, “a private in company B,” claims to bea second cousin and is willing to send vouch- ers, Atrance medium has a message from the deceased, in which he asks his wife to pay out his money liberally and to circulate chills and fever remedies among his late em- ployés. A Canada Stewart will be content with a trifle, while a New York member of ing and seeking the defeat of the democratic party in an important elec- tion in a sister State. Unlike Senator Thurman, he cannot be accused "of ingrati- | tude to his immediate constituents, who have given him office and honors. Like Senator Bayard, his attitude toward the Western democrats has been marked by per- fect courtesy and candor, but he has the ad- vantage of Bayard in having been out of public life during the currency discussions, so that he cannot be prejudiced by quota- tions from his speeches, There is no genuine hard money man on whom the democratic party could more easily unite if the cur- rency were the only been involved in the canvass, There is another point on which it is not necessary to await the action of the Cincin- nati Convention before taking a survey of the situation. We know in advance that the republican party, whomsoever it may nomi- nate, will do its utmost to stir up the old feeling of hostility to the South, on which the organized, and which party was became so mighty a force in politics during the war. This is a safe piece of tactics for the republicans, because under no circumstances has their party anything to hope from the South. It is a foregone certainty that at least fourteen of the fifteen ex-slave States will give their electoral votes to the democratic candidate, be he whom he may and on whatsoever plat- form nominated. The republican party has therefore no motive of expediency for treat- ing the South with tenderness, A cue will be given in the Cincinnati platform for reviving and inflaming the old sectional animosity. The fashion has already been set by nicknaming the democratic House as the ‘Confederate’ Congress. It will be proclaimed in every republican journal and on every republican stump that our politics have reverted to the same condition in which they stood before the war, when the democratic party consisted of a united South with subservient allies in the North who enabled the South to rule the country. We the family would like ten thousand dollars, with which to go into business. There isa cheerful proposition overheard in the Park to kidnap Mrs. Stewart and demand a mill- ion dollars ransom. The Bulletin for Cincinnati. A few enthusiastic Washington correspond- ents and some of the extreme party papers think that Mr. Blaine’s vindication makes him an available candidate for Cincinnati. But the temperate judgment of the party counts him out of the race. Mr. Blaine must see himself that his fight is not tor leadership, but for existence. after belong to the invalid corps of the republican army. But he passes out of the line of promotion. He can never be a Pres- ident of the United States. It is even a question whether he will have any power at Cincinnati over the councils of the Repub- lican Convention. The power of Mr. Blaine will be given to Washburne. With this power Washburne becomes the leading candidate of the repub- lican party. The only influence his friends have to fear is that of the Jay Goulds and Tom Scotts, who will have no President who is not amenable to railway dictation. On this point the record of Washburne is better than that of any candidate in nomination. But the power of the railway men, of those who look for land jobs, subsidies and so on, is very great. It may destroy Washburne to build up Hayes or some third man, on the theory that it is better to have a probable Washburne, proclaimed and violent. In the meantime New York stands like a stone wall behind Roscoe Conkling. The Empire State has nailed the Conkling ban- ner to the mast. it remains to be seen whether so much devotion will be rewarded with the victory it deserves. Ir Appears THaT A Man Cayxot always do as he likes with his own. Mr. James Daffy undertook to cut his own throat yester- day and was sent to prison for six months for the attempt. the ‘currency issue alone, nor on the sec- | children of Israel waiting fcr the manna. It | foe than one whose enmity is like that of | England’s Attitude om the Eastern Question. Our exhaustive Sunday cable letter from London describes very graphically the bellicose attitude of England on the Turkish question and her intrignes in Constantinople, and after citing various extracts from the English papers gives one from the Daily News as follows:—‘The idea of maintaining Turkish independence by British arms is out of the question.” We think we can give the clew to the difference between the ap- parent and real intentions of England. It is well known that before the deposition of Abdul-Aziz she had declined to accede to the memorandum about to be presented to the Turkish government by Austria, Russia and Germany. She assumed an independent position, and made a showof maintaining it by despatching war vessels to the East, munitions of war and troops to Gibraltar and Malta, We think all this very capable of explana- tion.’ ‘Disraeli long ago said_that England was becoming an Asiatic Power. Since he became Premier, in pursuance of that idea, he has purchased nearly one-half interest in ! the Suez Canal and contrived to affix to the Queen's title that. of Empress of India This distinguished writer, orator and statesman has all the versatility of genius ; from race and associations he is an Oriental, both in thonght and action. One can see from his character of Sidonia and glow- ing Eastern sketches in ‘‘Tancred” that his mind is filled with ideas of Oriental gran- deur and magnificence. In his political career he has always endeavored to startle and dazzle,’ and we now await his latest coup. We think that all this political coquetry with the great Powers, his seeming reluctance to put a pressure on Turkey, his declaration in the House of Commons of a determination to thwart the intrigues of Russia, merely a prelude to securing for Egypt a severance of its vassalage from Turkey, when the Khedive will become King of Egypt, independent of all except its new ally, England. For since the Crimean war the balance of power of Europe has completely changed; Germany has become a military counterpoise to Russia; the latter might ‘take Constanti- nople and occupy it as its winter capital without in any way interfering with Eng- land's pathway to the East. With Egypt in possession of her ally, the Suez Canal in that event virtually under her control, she would have, beginning at Gibraltar, Malta, the Suez Canal, Aden, a great highway to her Indian Empire guarded by a chain of magnificent fortresses, impregnable and un- assailable so long as she retains her vast and dominant navy. That this is no unreasonable speculation on our part, but perfectly justified by past events, we may gather from the late mission of-Mr. Stephen Cave to Egypt to examine the financial position of the Khedive. Mr. Cave is a Privy Councillor, member of Parliament, and held a position during Mr. Disracli’s last administration, and it is unlikely that a man of his rank would be | sent to Egypt merely to oblige the Khedive. Certainly jthere might, have been a minor motive, and one which the Premier would consider that John Bull would look on with complacency—that of seeing whether any future Egyptian dividends were likely to come into his breeches pocket; but, no doubt, apart from finance, there was a dream of future policy in that inquiry into Egypt's resources and indebtedness. It may possibly interest our readers to know how Mr. Cave found the finances and how it is proposed to administer them in the future. The funded debt amounts to £54,793,000 ; unfunded, £36,207,000; total, £91,000,000. This it is proposed to consolidate into one stock, bearing an interest of seven per cent per annum, redeemable in sixty-five years, by a sinking fund set apart for that purpose. The anuual charge on this operation will be £6,443,000, to meet which the Khedive as- signs a sum of equal amount from the gross revenue of the country, which is upward ot nine millions sterling. Further details would be uninteresting to our readers. The Khedive's prodigality has been enormous. He has spent many millions in Constanti- | nople in securing the rank of Khedive and He will here- [ the hereditary succession in a direct line ; at the same time he has expended much on the internal improvement of the country ; on magnificent docks, on the Suez Canal, on various manufacturing establishments and on railways. These latter, in the year 1874, gave seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds net earnings, and last year nine hun- dred thousand pounds, and it is evident these will confer a lasting benefit and greatly con- tribute to develop the resources of the coun- try. The Khedive also told Mr. Cave that he estimated his own private property at twenty-one millions sterling. That he knows how to spend his money in a lavish Oriental style is well known to all who have visited Egypt. We might pursue this subject more in de- tail ; but we have said enough to justify our prophecy that before long we shall havea modern Pharaoh in Egypt. Grandfather Peter's Canvass. The apathy which is shown by our friends of the press in presence of the tact that a distinguished and illustrious citizen is in nomination for the Presidency and has ac- cepted the honor is surprising. It is not generally the habit of New Yorkers to be insensible to honors paid to their fellow citizens. When this high distinction is given to a gentleman as illustrious and be- loved as Grandfather Peter Cooper the over- sight is more striking. Mr. Cooper is in the field asa candidate. He represents the views of that energetic and resolute class of citizens who believe in unlimited greenbacks. We do not share the opiaions of our friend and cannot conscien- tiously support him on financial grounds ; but as politics now drift the issue will government reform and the purity of public life. On this platform no man has a better record than Mr. Cooper. His whole life is one long argument in favor of honesty, in- dustry and econon:y. To his liberality we owe one of our noblest charities. The fact that such a man should enter intoa public can- vass is a happy sign of elevation in politics. As to the financial views of Mr. Cooper, they could not be carried out without the aid of Congress, and while the friends of hard money have advocates in the House as able as Mr. Hewitt there ia no fear of soft monex, Mr. Cooper would have the opportunity of doing great good. He would turn out the thieves and the jobbers and the corrupters of the public service. He would bring back the times of Washington and the Fathers. He would teach economy and industry, and his name would go down to posterity as one of those pure men who had sacrificed the comforts of private life and the peaceful re- tirement of old age for the public welfare. But whether we support Grandfather Peter or not let us anyhow remember that he is a New Yorker and worthy of metropolitan ree- ognition. Pennsylvania in the Canvass. We print this morning an interesting chapter of political history in the shape of a series of interviews with the delegates from the State of Pennsylvania to the Cincinnati Convention. Pennsylvania, always a pecu- liar and difficult State to comprehend, was | mever more so than now. At a time j when the republican party throughout the Union is seeking the strongest man to rally the forces of its discordant men in the organization are directed of a party burdened with the mistakes of seven years of unchallenged power, we have the delegates from Pennsylvania stand- ing by a candidate who has at the best only a limited local strength. A gentleman who was elected Governor by the anti-Greeley tidal wave of 1872 against the protests of the best men in the party, and who has madea fair, but neithera brilliant nor a great execu- tive—whose very name is unknown to half the States of the Union—is pressed by Penn- 8ylv ania with an enthusiasm which recalls "the devotion of the old “whigs to Henry Clay. In a canvass where the shrewd men eof the party see that there is a tendency to throw over the old traditions and seek for victory in the person of some “Great Unknown” there isa hope that the quarrels of the candidates may lead to the choice of a local favorite. This was the position of the democrats of Pennsyl- vania when they insisted upon the nomina- tion of Mr. Packer asa candidate, who had about the same claim upon the State that Mr. Cooper has upon New York—namely, that he was a gentleman of vast fortune who had bestowed generous gifts upon a public institution, The result was that Pennsyl- yania had no voice in that Convention, and was silent and helpless in the selection of the standard bearer. The support of Hartranft by Pennsylvania is an evidence of State enthusiasm which will command all respect. At the same time it will make Pennsylvania either a cipher at Cincinnati ora potent and determining influence. There is no idea, we take it, in the minds of the ruling men of the delega- tion that Governor Hartranft can have any- thing more than a complimentary vote that will make him a favorite candidate for some Cabinet place in the event of the election of arepublican administration. The idea that the nomination of Mr. Cameron to be Secre- tary ot War was intended to deliver the State to Mr. Conkling is destroyed by our corre- spondent, who reports that Mr. Cameron and his friends are among the warmest friends of Hartranft and will stand by him so long as there isa hope that he may be the ‘Great Unknown.” This loyalty on the part of the Secretary of War is another illustration of that feeling of sympathy for a man anda principle which has been a governing prin- ciple in the policy of the Camerons. At the same time it is known that the better judg- ment of the Senator and the Secretary of War is that the State can do no better in the event ofthe abandonment of Mr. Hartranft than record the vote of the State for Mr. Conkling. The friends of Mr. Blaine are-led by Mr. McPherson, the former Clerk of the House and one of the shrewdest politicians of the | State, Morton McMichael, the venerable j journalist of Philadelphia, General Bingham, { one of the leaders of city politics, and John H. Hampton, of Pittsburg, one of the strong men in the western part of the State. On the other hand the men who are known to be in favor of the nomination of Mr. Conk- ling as.o second choice are Mr. Cessna, formerly a member of Congress, Mr. Mackey and Secretary of the Commonwealth Quay, also a local politician of experience and courage. When we add to this the will and power of the house of Cameron we have an idea of the strength of the Conkling move- ment. There is a dispositon on the part of some of the Philadelphia delegates to mutiny underthe leadership of William B. Mann, also a prominent member of the Philadelphia Ring and a politician of daring and experience, but who has never been in sympathy with | the House of Cameron, and there isa like dispositon in other parts of the State; but the strength of Conkling in Pennsylvania may be summed up in one sentence— “What is the strength of the Camerons?” If that powerful feudal organization can hold | its long-continued and unchallenged power we may expect Pennsylvania to fall in line side by side with the friends of | Conkling in New York. It will be a gratify | ing spectacle to see the two greatest States , of the Union fighting under the banner of the one chieftain. Although there is much uncertainty and a disposition to give Hart- rantt a romantic support it looks as if when the time came to vote seriously Pennsylvania would prefer Mr. Conkling to any ‘Great Unknown.” This expectation is strengthened by the misfortunes which have overtaken Mr, Blaine, and which, in the judgment of the wisest men in the party, make him not only an impossible candidate at Cincinnati, but with a limited authority in a party which and seemed only too proud to follow him | into the autumn canvass as its candidate for the Presidency. Tur Boanp or ApronrionmeNt meets to- | day. The subject of the Brooklyn Bridge bonds will come up for action, Zhe bonds should be issued without any further delay. The law authorizing their issue has passed through every test and been twice indorsed more than a two-thirds vote, Every inter- est involved has had ample opportunity to be heard, and any further obstruction of the work must be nnrely fantiana factions, when the efforts of the wisest | toward a canvass that will secure the victory | But in the duties of general administration | | a prominent politician of Philadelphia and | Opera Bouffe Offenbach. Opéra bouffe Offenbach has been looking at us with merry eyes and writing about us to the Figaro, All Paris is having its own opinions of the great Yankee city and our appreciation of genius, The admirers of “La Belle Héléne” will be pleased to hear that during the rough weather on the upper Atlantic the creator of the “Grande Duchesse” spent most of his time at prayer, ‘“com- mending his soul to God.” Offenbach at prayer would make a fine theme for some of our artists—some one like the Morans, who could give a proper effect to the sea surround. ings. There was a serenade and he madea specch, ‘just like Gambetta,” ‘Thank you, sir.” He also had ao dinner at the Lotos Club, which some one tells him is the first club here, and where he met “literary men, artists, merchants, bankers, many news paper men of all opinions.’ Afterward he wert to the Press Club and met many “spirituel” gentlemen, ‘‘who nearly all spoke French.” It is comforting to know that our opéra bouffe friend and guest is well pleased with the country as far as he goes, and it is to be hoped that when he comes to write his opera about the United States he wil) not omit the fine touches of character he must have seen at sea and among his club friends. “A Lotos Dream,” by Offenbach, for in- stance, with sketches of the leading meme bers of the Lotos Club, would make a sensa- tion in Paris. “Tae HeatHen Cutvex.”—The Chinese question is assuming grave proportions, We have a despatch from California em- bodying a singular letter from a secret organization opposing Chinese labor and all employment of Chinamen. There are two sides to this, as to all questions, But there is one point that should not be overlooked, and that is, if the Chinese come to this country and claim the protection of a constitution which insures them all the rights of citizenship they should become citizens, As it is the China- man comes here without any intention of making his home with us, without any desire to identify himself in any way with our for- tunes or our national prosperity. He comes without his family and never becomes a citie zen. He gives us his labor for about one- half of what we could obtain the labor of . other nationalities, He goes home when he has saved enough to live on. This is not the industry we desire, and if it is encouraged we shall find ourselves in time under the control of the most degrading aristocracy. As a machine the Chinaman is one of the best, but we want a Republic of men and act of machines, Tue Baxxer District.—Speaker Kerr tes- tifies that he offered an appointment for life in the regular army, one of the most valu- able in the gift of a member, to two of his - constituents, and that, when they refused, he could not find any one else to whom ta offer it, and consequently selected a New Yorker with recommendations so complimen- tary that he was afterward dismissed. Mr. Kerr's district deserves to be known as the banner district of the Union. We do not know of any other which would allow an ap- pointment to go begging as far as New York. Tse Scnran’s Deatu.—Nineteen doctors in Constantinople certify that the Sultan died from the opening of the veins and ar- teries in his arms. Now, if nineteen other doctors will tell us who opened the said veins and arteries we shall begin to get some knowledge on the subject. If the Grand Vizier should request them to say that Abdul opened these vessels himself the phy- sicians will be too polite to refuse—unless they can get on foreign men-of-war between the signing of the certificates and their re- ception by the Vizier. Honors to New Yorx.—Let us suppose that the democrats nominate Mr. Tilden and the republicans Mr. Conkling for the Presidency. We shall then have three dis+ tinguished citizens of our State in nomina- tion for the highest office in the gift of the people—the Governor, the Senator and Peter Cooper. New York should rejoice in the abundance of her gifted sons. If the sprouting candidates keep on growing we 1 shall have about a thousand all ready for the field in another four years. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Belknap looks brighter. Blaine woras from Truthful James. Musicians get bald-headed long bofore other peopte ao Mr. Kerr is said to live entireiy on his nervous sys- tem. The Boston Post says that both lowa and Mulligan have gone ‘or Blaine. Clara Louise Kellogg goes to New Hartfora tor the summer the jast of this month. Massachusetts savings banks may, after this sum. mer, pay a lower rate of interest. Harriet Beecher Stowe and family have just arrived at thoir home in Hartford tor the summer. The evening paper to be published (rom the office of ‘the Chicago Times is to be called the Telegraph, California farm houses are usually email, homely, distasteful cabins, to which the word home seldom ap- plies. Two lions were brought to the Hgratp office the other day, There was no use of trying to read between the lions. Ibis not necessarily a sign of a man's being a good husband that he is constantly lauding the accomplish meats of his wife, advertisement in a Boston paper:—‘‘A lady tn Clare. mont, N. H., of Emersonian thought and sentimeny desires to secure summer boarders.” Westminster: ts a noteworthy pheno! mm that English conservative critics are beginaing to study the works of their opponents in a more appreciative way." A clergyman says that Brisiow once during hig year's military service did not take a horse, The horse now turns up and says that he didn’t take Bristow— very far. Senator Apthony looks straight ahead, with severe and saintiy gravity, when he walks New York's Broad way. He still believes in Addison, and tones bis voice by the ice pitener. George Enot say: “It ts well known that tn gam. the bi j only yesterday rejoiced in his leadership He elas: <ccria ggg neta wh» has the sigength of mind to leave og when he bas only rutmed others is @ reformed character.” The Boston papers speak very highly of the charac tor of Mr. Maliigan, the witness agains: Blaine, He i¢ filty years old; has, when not at business, occupied one bedroom for twenty years; 1s very methodical, and bas been trasted With millions of dollars, Professor Jeub w that literature and art had been sacred energies and public deiights to the citizens ol free Athens. To the writers and artists of Antioch or Alexandria they were agreeable industries, inviting re- ward or awaiting correction tr8m aristocratic patrons, A jb by the Common Council, the last time by whove artificial canoos encouraged either an elaborate ‘Vagueness of expression or the pretence of an occult profundity. In this sense nothing is so democratic as laste; Mor could there ge a better illustration than & | cacao tee the abdepbg anccacst'e akon Of she Pigleminn, .