The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1876, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every lay in the year. Jour cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. bY All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Henarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFIC —NO.112SOUTH SIXTH STRI . 3 OF THE Ww YORK HERALD—NO. 46 F T R , PARIS OFFICE—AV UE DE L’OF " Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. JOLUME XII. ——- NIBLO'S GARDEN. BABA, at 8 P. M. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, WO MEN OF SANDY BAK, ays. M. . BRO THEATRE, UNCLE TOMS CABIN. POM. Mrs. Howard, BOWERY HRATRE. FLYING BCUD, at KP M. elvil Kyun, WOOD'S MUSEUM. HECK AND NECK, M Matinee at 2 P. ML qi DONCERT, as 8 P. LY La FILLE DE MMR. BOO! TRE. SARDANAPALUS, at 8 P.M. 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Gold opened ut 109 7-8, and closed at 110. Government and railway bonds were firm. Money is quoted at 2 and 2 1-2 per cent. Rat Roastrxe by means of a kerosene bath and touch of flame will probably cause the loss of liberty to two brates arrested yester- day for making such sport of pain. Cumar Cans.—Another step was taken yes- terday toward giving body and being to the company which is to give New York cheap cabs. This is good news, Let us have the cabs as soon as possible, Brsnor Porrrn's address to the Episcopal Convention was very sensible. His remarks concerning the necessity of providing free churches for the poor and the middling classes are well worth attention. A Liczxsr ny tur Boanp or Excise does not seem to be a badge of respectability. The presentment by the Grand Jury yester- day shows that tho license hangs in’ the vilest dens of the Sixth and Ninth wards, thns increasing the legal difficulty of shut- ting them up. A Continven Can’ of business in New York city reveals a gen- uine growth in all, and, what is better, an apparently well-founded hope that the im- provement will continue. We warn onr citizens, however, not to give up their hard- earned habits of ¢conomy too soon. we o the foreign rifle teams are very well in their way; but what are our marksmen doing toward giv- ing our plucky visitors trophies to bear back | to their respective countries, which will make the memory of the great centennial contest live wherever a rifle bullet is fired at a target ? GrxznaL NEwroy, among the congratula- tions he has received, will not undervalue those addressed to him by the New York Board of Aldermen. It was just a pity, how- over, that some business did not intervene between the passage of the congratulatory resolutions to the great engineer on ‘‘the masterpiece of engineering both of ancient and modern times” and a vote of thanks to a polite ticket agent. Tue Tranxsatiantic Live of steamers ply- ing between New York and Havre or Brest, | better known as the French line, has been | visited with many misfortunes. The latest | was the loss of arudder by the St. Germain, which left her at the mercy of the waves for five days. Her opportune meeting with the National Steamship Company's vessel, Eng- land, probably saved the hives of all on board. Humanity like Captain Thompson's should not go unrecognized. Onto.—As the day for the State election approaches the interest in the way in which the Buckeye State will cast its vote will in- erease to an extraordinary degree. A few weeks ago all the attention was directed to Indiana, Ohio being looked on as certain for therepublicans. In the interval the true state of the case has become known, and Ohio is classed as doubtful. Our correspond- ent’s letter giving an account of the micro- scopic canvass of the State the democrats are niaking, and the calculations on which they found their hopes, is worth careful reading. “ . | ernment of ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. Tne History and Mystery of Tweed’s Surrender. Lest this heading shuuld excite more ex- pectation than we shall be able to satisfy we must say at the outset that we have no new secrets to disclose and no ingenious speculations or conjectures’ to indulge in. Now that the Franklin has sailed from the port of Vigo with Tweed securely on board we think there should be no longer any official concealments, and that all the steps which led to his arrest should be made pub- lic. We know no good reason for doubting that everything which has been done was legitimate. We recognize a necessity for secrecy until the felon was bagged, lest he should get warning and elude pursuit. But that reason no longer exists, and we hope Secretary Fish will permit all the facts to be known, especially as imputations have been cast which we are willing to believe groundless, It is fair to pre- sume that immediately after Tweed’s escape an application was made to Secretary Fish by our State authorities to demand his sur- render by any foreign government within whose territory he might seek refuge. Dili- gent search was made for him in Canada, and our authorities would have been strangely remiss if they had not arranged with the De- partment of State to have him seized with- out delay as soon as found. As they could not know whether he would be found within British or other jurisdiction the application would naturally be made in terms broad enough to include all countries, Assuming that such a request was made we do not see that Mr. Fish’'s action is exposed to any just criticism. True, we have no extradi- tion treaty with Spain, but although that fact precluded our government from making a demand it was no bar to a request. The request was proper, and it is an occasion for congratulation, but not for surprise, that it was granted, The ‘mare's nest” which some people have discovered and the aspersions they have cast on the Secretary of State are a re- markable example of hasty judgment founded on apparent ignorance of facts. It is insinuated in some quarters, and openly charged in others, that Secretary Fish has purchased this favor by obsequious truck- ling to Spain and a long course of subser- viency to her interests. It is asked and re- iterated why the Spanish government has in this particular case acted in such surprising contrast to her usual practice. Such a ques- tion is born of sheer ignorance or inexcus- able perversity. It has not been the ordi- nary practice of Spain to refuse such applications when made by the gov- the United States. On the contrary, she has generally granted them in a most considerate and friendly spirit. The case of Sharkey is, in- deed, an exception, prompted, we presume, by a feeling of resentment at our harboring at that time a multitude of Spanish subjects who were plotting expeditions against Cuba. But in former years our government has had many occasions for acknowledging the prompt courtesy of Spain in surrendering fugitives from justice. The following reci- tal of facts is taken from an elaborate docu- ment prepared by Secretary Seward in 1864, in defence of his action in the noted Ar- guelles case :—‘‘Although we never had, in the whole course of our amicable and inti- mate diplomatic and commercial rela- tions with Spain, any treaty clause for the extradition of criminals, it was a most important and pertinent consideration for the President, in meeting this request of the Spanish government, that our government had not hesitated, with some frequency, when its important interests were con- cerned to make similar demands upon the comity of the Spanish government in the same interests of justice and humanity. Our commerce with the Spanish West Indies, carried on almost entirely by our own marine, made us frequent applicants to the Spanish gov- | ernment for the extradition of seamen of our vessels charged with mutiny, murder and piracy. It is believed that to all such applications the promptest and most respect- ful compliance has been yielded by the Spanish government, and it may weil be doubted whether our extensive and valua- vass of the leading lines | ble West India trade could have reached | and maintained its prosperity had the Spanish ports furnished protection and im- munity to these maritime offences.” If this statement of Secretary Seward was justified by the history of our intercourse with Spain the surrender of Tweed should cause no surprise, because it is in keeping with the customary comity of the Spanish government toward our own in cases of extradition. Nothing could be more unjust than to hold up the exceptional case of Sharkey as a proof of the ordinary prac- | tice of the Spanish government. The con- sular correspondence on the files of the De- partment of State exhibits many cases of | Spanish comity in such extraditions. We insert another extract from Mr. Seward, giv- ing instances :—‘tA brief notice of a few cases will illustrate our obligations to Spain in this behalf, and the sentiments and policy upon which our governiment, with the uni- versal approval of the people, has proceeded. In 1857 three seamen were arrested, lodged in jail in Havana, and sent to this country in irons, charged with the murder of the master, two mates and a seaman of the brig Albion, of Portland. In 1860 several prison- ers were sent from Havana to this country charged with a murder on board the Henry Warren, committed in the port of Havana. In 1861 & seaman was sent to this conntry as a_ prisoner from Havana, charged with mutiny and stabbing the chief mate of the brig Ne- braska, the crime having been committed in the port of Havana, And in the same year two seamen were surrendered as prisoners, and sent home from Havana, charged with mutiny and 6tabbing the mate of the steamer Ocean Traveller.” These specimens wiil suffice for showing how baseless and mis- taken is the opinion so industriously dissem- inated that Spain must have had some pecu- liar and mysterious inducement to surren- der Tweed. ‘This surrender is no deviation from her ordinary and habitual practice. The refusal to give up Sharkey was such a deviation; but it is absurd to harp upon the exception as if it were the rule. And yet it is only by such suphistry, practising upon popular ignorance, that any color of sus- Picion can be put upon the motives of Secre- H tary Fish. If we were to find any fault with Mr. Fish or with his predecessor, Mr. Seward, re- specting extradition between this country and Spain, it would be in the form of blame for not having made a treaty covering this subject. To be sure, it takes two parties to make a contract, and Spain is not a nation that easily adoptsimprovements. But when she was so anxious to get possession of Arguelles Mr. Seward might have taken ad- vantage of the occasion to propose a treaty of extradition. Mr. Fish had no such oppor- tunity in the case of Tweed, because we were the nation that was seeking a favor, But there is no evidence that either he or Mr. Seward ever made the faintest attempt to negotiate an extradition treaty with Spain. The whole drift and tendency of modern opinion, especially in free countries, is to withdraw this question from the discretion or caprice of rulers for the time being, and make it the subject of obligatory regulation, in accordance with strict rules. In international as well as domestic administration it is important to substitute ® government of law for a government of caprice. It is consistent with justice and necessary for the protection of innocence that surrenders shall be made only on evi- dence duly examined by proper magistrates. All extradition treaties make provision for this, and we trust the time is not distant when the old doctrine of international com- ity on this subject will be wholly super- seded by treaty arrangements. We are so near to Cuba and so near to Canada that it is especially important that we have extra- dition treaties with Great Britain and Spain ; but unfortunately we are dependent on the mere comity of one and have lately found our treaty with the other a worthless, broken reed. We would fain hope that be- fore Mr, Fish retires from office he will crown his career with efficient extradition treaties with these two nations. Drifting Into War. Events in Europe, not directed by any dominant will, are shaping themselves in such a way that the world may wake up some fine morning and discover the situa- tion to be such that war must inevitably follow. Already war is imminent, when but three days since the general prospect prom- ised peace. This condition is the legiti- mate result of the imbecile policy of the British government in dealing with the Turkish difficulty—a policy that is a marvel of short-sightedness and trusting to luck. Turkey exists as a government in Europe only by the toleration of other Powers, and if they declare formally that she must modify her system in important particulars she must doit, Their mutual distrust pre- vents these Powers from consenting to the extreme step of the expulsion of the Turks, or they would be expelled ; but in so faras they can agree upon any course that Turkey shall be advised or directed to take their will is potential, There is, however, one alterna- tive. If Turkey can be sustained against the will of her immediate neighbors by any Power competent to oppose them, and pre- pared to do soif they resort to force, then she can reject the advice of her neighbors and defy them; not otherwise. This has been true every day since the Crimean war. ‘Lurkey must accept the law from her neigh- bors or she must oppose their force, and the Power that supports her in rejecting the will of those neighbors must contemplate war in support of Turkey as a possible consequence of its action ; or, if it is not prepared for war and still encourages Turkey to resist the will of Russia, Prussia and Austria, it urges toward its ruin the government it assumes to befriend. This isthe position to which the Ministry has brought England. In May last the three imperial Powers prepared a memorandum as to what Turkey should be required to do in order to remedy the mis- government in some of the northwestern provinces, and to secure by timely reforms such an amelioration in the condition of the people as would remove the causes for the in- surrection which threatened the peace of that part of the world. England, to the surprise of Europe, refused to join with the Powers in supporting that memorandum, and it was never presented at Constantinople because tuheaction of England was known to have so far encouraged the Ottoman government inthe hope of possible resistance that it would refuse to accede to the propositions of the memorandum. The Powers did not wish to put themselves in a position to be defied where the consequence was an armed intervention. The British government, therefore, by its acts and the necessary in- ference from those acts, was compromised in the dispute as the supporter ofthe Sultan, War was made inevitable by the failure of the memorandum ; yet the British Ministry never dreamed that they could go to war on such a case, or that England could cope with the force which would be arrayed on the other side, They seemed to have hoped for some lucky accident to carry them through, and it nearly came. Had the Turks swept onward to Belgrade as they did to Alexinatz the haphazard policy would have come out with flying colors. But fortune was fickle; the Turks were stopped; the tide is the other way, and it looks very much as if by simple patience Prince Gortschakoff has completely got the better of England in the great game of diplomacy. England has led Turkey into a position where she cannot accept the terms of peace proffered because of her fear of her own fanatical people, and thus Russia will be able to invade Turkey and force upon her not only peace bat that very law which but for England Turkey would have quietly accepted last May. Moreover Russia will move her troops, if she once begins, a great way, and when the treaty | of peace is made it will be on the basis of the uti possidetis. Tue Hostire Srovx are represented to be encamped upon the Little Missouri River, short of ammunition and food. There seems now to be a good opportunity for a winter campaign. That is undoubtedly the best season to catch them; for, although the hardships of such a campaign would be very great upon the troops, still it must be remembered that it is the only time when the wealth which loads up a supply train and provides tents and army blankets can be made to tell against a foe thatin the sum- mer can move without a commissary, Jerome Park Fall Meeting. To-morrow the fall meeting of the Ameri- can Jockey Club begins on the beautiful race course at Jerome Park under tlie best promise of fine sport and crowded attend- ance. ‘The racing will be continued on the 3d, 5th, 7th, 10th, 12th and 14th days of October. Thirty-three events are to be de- cided by the fleet-footed animals, which, in addition to their olden hold upon our admi- ration, are interesting from the glorification they have received at the hands of Professor Huxley. Just as the Bourgeois Gentilhomme of Moliére had been talking prose all his life without knowing it so most of us have been praising the horse and prating about im- proving his breed, without being aware what aid we were giving to the evolution theory of the scientists. These gentlemen look back through the ages, or rather down through the rocks to the time when the horse had four fingers and a thumb, and went about throwing hand springs over the rocks and bowlders of a very primitive world. If one of these hobbling, hoofless creatures could be revivified and entered for the Nursery Stakes the brilliant gathering of onlookers would have something worth gazing atas they saw the youngsters dash away from this very old horse. We should like to compare his time over four miles with that of Ten Broeck's the other day at Louisville. But we have not to go back quite so far to judge how much the Ameri- can Jockey Club has done for the breed of horses in America. When the turf was rap- idly drifting into disrepute and there was nothing so unreliable as the honesty of a horse race the organization of the American Jockey Club came to the rescue of this beau- tiful sport and gave gentlemen who desired to become the owners of blooded animals for racing purposes a firm ground on which to practise it, Hence arose a wider interest in the breed of the horse and a bestowal of public favor upon the racing gatherings of America, which is steadily on the increase, As this meeting falls within the centen- nial period we may expect to see thou- sands of the visitors who are flocking from all over the country to the Exhibition at Philadelphia spend a day at the races. With very few exceptions the visitors from distant points spend from a day to a weekin New York, and a carriage drive through Cen- tral Park is sure to be on their programme. As this ride throngh Central Park is by far the most delightful route to the race course, and as at this period of the year, when the trees are putting on their russet glories, the Park is at its best, we may ex- pect that the visitors will kill two birds with one stone—i. e., enjoy a day of genuine sport at the course and feast their eyes upon our lovely Park as they go and return. To- morrow’s contests will include a three-quar- ters of a mile dash with maiden allowances ; the Jerome Stakes for three-year-olds, two miles—always a fine race; the Nursery Stakes for two-year-olds, one mile ; the Man- hattan Handicap, one mile anda quarter; and a selling race, one mile and an eighth. We, therefore, look forward to fine sport and a brilliant throng, . with scenes upon the road that will make a pageant from Madison square to the gates of Jerome Park. Rediscovering the Gods. Vulean, we are told, was raised among the gods, but was kicked out of the heavenly abode and fell for nine days before he struck the earth. He presided over fires, and was always connected with flaming work of somo kind or another. Molten metal and metal at white heat quivering upon the anvil into shapes of beauty or strength figure in the history ofthe limping god. But day came when the great god Pan and all the court of Jupiter Olympus faded into night. Then their great souls be- came translated into stars. Venus, bright and beautiful, rose from the waves at eve and the great Jupiter beamed a glowing beacon in the sky. Red-handed Mars lived once again in a fiery planet above our heads, Old Saturn ranged aloft, a far, weird point of light. Fleet-footed Mer- cury was seen at rare times and for a moment's space above the western verge of the sky, as fitting to one whose mission was to go hither and thither between heaven and earth, and oftener on the road than visible in either. Neptune for centuries was lost, but lo! the sage Leverrier found him at last sail- ing serenely in his car on _ the far verge of the solar system, as he did over the waste of the waters of old. Vulcan seemed lost forever, but at last it was shrewdly thought that, if he had been saved from annihilation and had a choice of abodes, that surely his would be near where the met- als that he whilom loved to work were incan- descent in the mighty furnace of the sun. And by long looking they found him where he had floated for centuries ‘‘dark with ex- cessive bright.” On the 2d or 3d of October he is to pass between the earth and tho sun, and all the great telescopes of the world will be turned to watch for the flitting of a small black spot. The knowing men at the eye- pieces will recognize it as the soul of him who fashioned the armor of Achilles and jammered out the thunderbolts of Jove. This is the romance of the stars, Facts from South Carolina. We reprint elsewhere a remarkable article from the Charleston News and Courier, of Sep- tember 22. It gives a melancholy picture of lawlessness in the lower parts of the State, The News and Courier is a democratic journal, but it is conducted by honorable men, who did not hesitate to speak ont when the Ham- burg massacre occurred, and who have shown by their course that they are sin- cerely desirous of justice to white and black alike, The instances of lawlessness they recite are aggravated by the manner in which the republican State government deals with them. Nothing is done by the republican Governor or the republican judges and other officers to repress or punish outrage. Governor Chamberlain abandons his post of duty in the midst of such events. He is ready enough to call for federal troops ; but he and his officers are evidently unit for their duties. Yet they seek re-election. Of course they onght to fail; and we again advise the peaceable colored people of the State to vote for General Hampton and the democratic ticket. It is their duty to the State and to themselves to do so, But Mre Chamberlain, inefficient, clearly unfit tor his office as he is, has the support of the Northern republican leaders. For the furtherance of his own ambition he allows 8 whole State to fall into social disorder, and he is countenanced by the national repub- lican party, or by its leaders. Can they afford to support him? Can they afford, in the face of the approaching election, to identify themselves and their party with Chamberlain? Is it not necessary, before they can properly ask Northern men to vote the republican ticket, that they shall openly cut the party loose from such hangers-on as Chamberlain, Packard and Spencer? Married Women as Teachers. The Board of Education last week directed the Committee on Bylaws to consider a very important subject—the employment of married women as teachers in the public schools. The committee will meet this afternoon at the hallof the Board and will discuss the question within the limits of the following resolution:—‘That the subject of the employment of married women as teach- ers in the public schools and their continu- ance in the employment of the Board as teachers after marriage be referred to the Committee on Bylaws, and that they be re- quested, after a careful consideration of the subject, to report what legislation, if any, is required in regard to such employment.” To us it appears that there should be no difficulty in coming to a just conclusion. The object of Commissioner Fuller's reso- lution, which we have quoted, is not easily understood. No objection that we remem- ber has been made to the employment of married women as teachers, and no special reason for this investigation is known to us. It may be inferred, however, that there is a belief in some quarters that married women canno: at once do justice to their school and family obligations, and that it is for the in- terests of education that teachers should be spinsters, This may be true in some cases. The old woman of Mother Goose celebrity, who lived in a shoe and had so many chil- dren that she didn’t know what to do, would not be able toadd a publio school to her domestic responsibilities ; but all married women are not in that predicament. Many of the best teachers have been married women, and the reason is evident—they have had experience in the management of children, and the practical common sense learned ins household besomes broad and general in the conduct of aschool. The art of teaching does not wholly exist in hearing recitations from books, but in moral influ- ence and maternal watchfulness over the characters and tendencies of the young. To be sure, single women may possess all the tact and authority a teacher needs, but married women are uaturally likely to pos- sess these valuable qualities. So far from excluding them from the profession of teach- ing upon the theory that family duties divert their attention from the school we would prefer that the Board of Education should decide that a certain proportion of teachers in our public schools shall be mar ried women. We believe that a careful in- quiry would show that the standard of scholarship in classes taught by married women is quite as high as in those taught by spinsters. Another point to be remembered is that any sweeping legislation by the Board of Education dismissing from their employ- ment all married women without discrimi- nation would be to place a brand upon marriage. It would be injustice to some of our ablest teachers who have made teaching the business of their lives, and who depend upon that profession for their livelihood. We believe that Commissioners West, Beardslee, Baker, Hazeltino and Walker, who compose the committee, will take a ‘liberal view of the question, and report in favor of the married ladies. Tur Finst Snow ov tHe Szason appeared on the summits of the Catskill Mountains yesterday morning. The despatch from Ulster county, published in the Henaxp tc- day, also states that a slight snow squall visited Tivoli on Wednesday. It was due to the rapid rise in the barometer and equally sudden fall in temperature. The atmo- sphere in the region indicated was suf- ciently humid, the degree of moisture being equal to seventy-one per cent, to produce the rainfall, which was converted into snow | as it descended through the cold stratum of air. The recent severe heats of summer must be compensated for by a cold winter, and this early indication of its approach serves as a timely warning to prepare for its coming. The present distress among the poor will be further aggravated by the pierc- ing cold, and now is the time for the chari- tably disposed to prepare for giving out of their abundance to those who sadly need relief. Invalids will also suffer from the sudden change, and we may look for a de- cided increase in the number of cases of pneumonia and its kindred diseases, which are due as much to indiscreet exposure and delay in donning of warm winter clothing as to natural delicacy of constitution. Oxz or Szewanp's Men.—Mr. Evarts in his eulogy of Seward justly spoke of the con- duct of our relations with England and France in the difficult phases of the war and the keeping the peace between them and us as the great Secretary's greatest achieve ment. Few even at the time comprehended the dangers of our relation in that regard, or the difliculty of the labor so happily per- formed in the avoidance of complications which might have given those Powers just grounds or even a fair pretext for coming to the rescue of the rebellion. One of the men associated with that great achievement—al- most as much entitled to the main credit as Mr. Seward himself—was Mr, Charles Fran- cis Adams, then our Ministsr to England. This gentleman is now a democratic candi- date in Massachusetts, and his great achieve- ments are forgotten by the party which claims to possess all the patriotism, and he is reviled and vituperated by republican papers. Is tHe Expime State the canvass, al- though started, is not yet in fall blast, A letter giving the impressions of a trip through a number of the river counties will be found elsewhere. So far as the people have awakened to the issues things havea Tildenish look, “Economy and Reform” in Earnest. This economy and civil service reform business is getting serious. The people have been so belabored about the necessity for greater economy in the government and for a reform in the civil service that they be gin to believe in these doctrines. We wart the politicians of both sides to be on their guard. They will have to live up to their professions. It was said in 1861 by a shrewd politician that the long-continued outcry about “danger to the Union,” kept up by democratic politicians against the republi- cans, was fatal to the Southern democrats when they attempted tosecede. The people, warned by the democrats, turned against them when they proved false to their pro- fessions. It threatens to beso now about reform and economy. The people ‘believe in it.” Here, for instance, is a series of questions ‘which are addressed to several Western candidates for Congress by voters who do not want to see the federal taxes in- creased, and who are alarmed about Southern war claims:— First—As a Representative in Congress, are you In favor of, or oppuned to, relunding so the rebel States, out of the United states Treasury, the $2,492,110 direct taxes paid by them? Second—Are you in favor of, or opposed to, refund- img the cotton tax, whole or im part, levied and collecied from 1863 to 1864, and amounting to $68,072,383? Third ~ Aro you in favor of, or opposed to, the pay- ment of stores and supplies taken or of rent lor the use and occupation of property, including vessels, where the claim is in favor of a citizen Who was dis- loyal during the war? Fourth—If you are opposed to the peyment of such claims, are you tn favor of, and will you aid in the Passage of a resolution, or bill, ur scme declaration by the House of Representutive, against the recognition or payment of them by the United States? ‘To these questions candidates are re- quested to make categorical replies, and our advice to them is to ‘answer quick.” Southern war claims to the amount of sev- eral hundred million dollars are likely to be brought up; some are already before the present House of Representatives. Ifa candidate really favors economy he will pledge himself to reject them all, for it is not reasonable that we should pay the ex- penses of both sides in a war which we did not begin, and the taxes are high enough now. And here is another equally important question, which constituents begin to thrust at candidates for Congress:— Will you, it elected, confine yourself to givin; formation or advice to the Executive, when asked, and for the rest mind your own business, leaving the President and departments (o attend to theirs? That means civil service reform. Every Congressional candidate, democrat and republican, ought to have this question put to him, and ought to be required to answer it. A House of Representatives fully or even largely committed by public pledges to such non-interference with the appoint- ments, would have time to attend to ita legitimate duties, and would give the next President, whether he is republican or dem- ocratic, a fair opportunity to introduce and perfect a reform in the civil service, which is more necessary to an economical admin- istration than anything else. Basqur Pxivireces.—The determination of the Alfonsist government, in Spain, to destroy the exceptional privileges of the Biscayans known as fueros seems to have thrown the provincials into an attitude of sullen refusal to part with what has so long been their pride. While we may be senti- mental over the manner in which these gale lant but narrow-minded people have fought for their olden laws, we think that the utter obliteration of these special privileges will tend to make easier the progress of liberal government in a united Spain. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Where is the volce of Conkling? General Sickles is in West Virginia, Belknap will have a farm !n California, George William Curtis does not believe im founces, There are one-fourth more blondes than branettes, Senator William McMaster, of Toronto, is at the Albemarie Hotel. “‘Man-afraid-of-his-hot-Seotches” is helping to edit tho St Louis Republican. Seventy-eight per cent of the Union soldiers in the late war were native Americans, The Richmond Dispatch says that there is no prevent danger Of a dissolution of the Union. Professor Theodore D. Woolsey, of New Haven, ar- rived last evening at the Everett House, One hundred and eighty-five electoral votes are necessary to elect Tilden, and he claims 197, Nitro-glycerine, 1 18 said, will develop 8,000 times its bulk in gas; but Kilpatrick is only five feet three, The girl who wears the biggest bustle lives in Buffalo, She has to send back brakeman to fiag pedestrians on a busy day. Brigham Young once, waiking down the street, said toa four year old girl, ‘‘Whas’s your father’s mame?”* “Your'n,’’ said she. A writer says that (wo pounds of sunshine will cover ‘an acre, but he never saw a rotten tomato strike @ ro publican procession, of old people and children on the sea shore, and {t calls them “galloping snobs.”’ From Judy:—"Mr. Blank—‘I always found that at school the stupidest boy carried off ail the prizes,’ Misa Sparklo—‘Did you get many ?'”” The St. Louis Republican, giving a long description of St. Lows forty-six years ago, sadly says, ‘At that tume thero was but one brewery.” You can now sneak a gill of hot chestnuts into your coat pocket for ten cents while you are makiag bee lieve that you look across the street, Both parties agree that the country fs in a bad way; but the republicans wart to try the homeopathic remedies, wherein like cures like, and the democrats want to cure its headache by putting mustard plasters on its feet, Russia, it is alleged, hae by her recent acts dissolved the spell of orthodoxy which held Greece so long, ren- dering her imcapable of hearty co-operation with any Catholic or Protestant Power, and laying her always open to the sport of Slavic ambition, Several negroes were passing through the Berlin zodlogical gardens, when the African animals, espe. cially the giraffes, the hon jd the elephants, became frantic and unmanageadl id the negroes were hur- ried away, These animals wore ail carpet-bagzers, Saturday Review:—'The French people would hava eon spared a great deal of anxiety respecting their national future if they had remembered the existence of light and shade in politics, They seem alway expect that thetr horizon will be altogother lear of altogether dark." An English crit ys that it may be @ question whether, for the sake of securing the very transient charm of modern innocence—a charm on!y accordant with extreme youtb—it is worth while to expose our children to the dangerous results of that biind ignor. ance on which only it can oe fou H c, B. Boncherville, Premier; Pierre Gar. neau, Commissioner of Crown Lands; H. G. Maibiot, Commissioner of Railways; Mr. Ouimet, M. P.; Joba Ross, President of the Legisiative Council, and Simon Lesage, Assistant Commissioner of Public Works, of (he Province of Quebec, are at the Grand Central Hotel, on their way to Philadelphia. Tue Saturday Review says that spiritaal manifesta. never heard of except ina select company in room, and under circumstances in which almost any amount of trickery may be practised; that the voices of the spirite usually talk nonsense and bad grammar, and that there has never bee ° their supposed coi deen of the slightest valae, Punch cartoons those people who ride through groups | Se ‘i » _—