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

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Owing to the action of a portion of tho carriers and newsmen, who are determined that the public shall potbave the Hxnaxp at three cents per copy if they cap prevent it, we have made arrangements to place the Heap in the hands of all our readers atthe reduced price. Newsboys can purchase any quantity they may Gesire at No. 1, 1265 Broadway : and No. 24 Ann street, From our reports this morning the probabil- ities. are that the weather to-day will be cool and partly cloudy or cloudy, with, possibly, light snow. The most misenie’ article we have seen in the press on the Presidential dificuity is in tho Hxxatn of to-day. — Express. What does the Express mean? Wart Srneer Yestrrpay.—Gold opened and closed at 1093-4, with sales in the interim at 109 5-8. Money on call loans was supplied at 4 and 3 per cent. The stock market, after a firm beginning, ended weak ind feverish, with the bears in theascendant. Government and railway bonds were gen- erally steady. Tue Pnrorestaxt Ertscoran Cuvurca in America opened its annual congress yester- terday in Boston. The subject of discus- sion was ‘Freedom of Thought"—na very wide one and scarcely to be disposed of ina few hours. Tue Views or Dirrenent Prorie in this tity and elsewhere, which we publish on the question of the Presidency, may not be of much value as guides to a solution of the great difficulty, but are certainly straws showing how the wind blows. Truancy.—The Board of Education is en- titled to particular credit for its endeavors to deal with the knotty question of habitual truancy in this city. It may be taken as a tule, with few or no exceptions, that the hab- itual truant of the lower orders is destined to become a unit of the army of criminals later in life, and every little brand of humanity snatched from the burning will be well worth all it will | cost. Custom House “Discountesy.—It would surely redound to the credit of Philadelphia to see that the foreign exhibitors when re- moving their goods, which have made the Exhibition instructive as well as attractive, should experience no vexatious delay. A little attention by the Centennial Commis- sioners in the shape of a representation of the facts to the Secretary of the Treasury should suffice to have the number of ap- praisers increased until the work of remov- ing the exhibits could proceed without inter- ruption. A Wanwrxe To Savixes Bask Orricrans.— If ony of our savings bank presidents and trustees should in the course of human events find it advisable to leave the United States and make a pilgrimage abroad they will do well to avoid Russia, The President and officials of the Commercial Loan Bank of Moscow, in that country, have been sen- tenced, some to perpetual banishment and some to imprisonment and fine, having been convicted of “irregularities” in the manage- ment of the institution. were trivial. What would have been their punishment had they offended like some of our savings bank officers? Yet their offences | Let President Grant Be Impeached. If President Grant has violated the con- stitution, as some of the democratic leaders so confidently charge, we say let him be impeached. + If, in sending troops to New Orleans, to Columbia, to Tallahassee, he has broken a law or a constitutional provision, let him be impeached. If in what he has said and done within a few days past he has attacked the liberties of the country, or has broken his official oath, or set at naught any constitutional safeguard whatever, we repeat, let him be impeached. If in his order to General Sherman the other day he broke a law of the land, let him be impeached. If in his order to General Ruger to see to it that the lawful custodians of the ballots should be proteeted in Florida in a peaceful count the President violated the constitu- tion, let him be impeached. If in his order to General Sheridan in Louisiana, or to General Hunt in South Carolina to the same effect, he has broken his oath to maintain and defend the consti- tution, let him be impeached. If it is asserted or insinuated that he has given or sent to these officers any secret instructions violating the con- stitution, Jet him be impeached, and let these officers, who are men of honor, soldiers of high repute, who have oftered their liyes for their country—let them be summoned to the bar of the House to bear witness. They will tell the truth, The country stands once more where it stood in 1860, The nation is’strong, health- ful, inclined to peace and order; but ovce more the politicians of the two parties are urging it on to war, They stand safely behind, out of any possible fire, but they do not scruple in the least to urge the people forward toward the danger- ous edge of things. Daily they increase the excitement ;.their constant effort is to stir up suspicion, hatred, alienation of one part from the other; to bring us nearer and nearer to an explosion, which, if it takes | place, will find them safely stowed away in | bombproofs and out of the line of fire. Wé have had enough of this. One great civil’ war was brought on, contrary to the will of the people of this country, by the politicians. We give these gentry, these tailors of Tooley street, timely notice that they must not bring on another. They are playing ‘ gigantic game of bluff; but we, the people, are the stake. Let them pause. Forty millions of American citizens have not toiled and economized to let a parcel of demagogues waste their substance and spoil their lives. If these political leaders persist in stirring up hatred and strife they will have to fight it out, and they will find themselves this time held by the people personally responsible and in a manner which will not be agreeable to them or safe for them. The Evpress of last evening makes a per- fectly temperate and absolutely accurate article in’ yesterday's Hxnaup the pretext for a torrent of incendiary insinuations and assertions. It compares the conduct of the President and the present condition of af- fairs in the disputed States to the grievances which brought on the Revolution and the war of 1812, Weshould not notice such stuff from a different and unofficial source; but we choose to notice it in the Express. That journal is an official organ of the democratic leaders. It is said to be the property of Mr. John Kelly and other prominent demo- crats. Its sentiments are known to be in- spired by the most important of the dem- ocratic leaders. It is the mouthpiece of all these leaders; but wo trust not of Mr. Tilden. We warn these gentlemen to call off their dog. We warn them to muzzle the in- temperate zeal which in the present excited condition of the public mind tries to inflame the ignorant and indiscreet members of its party and threatens riot and civil dis- turbance if any one dares to point outa pence- ful way of solving our difficulties or ventures to hint that there are peaceful methods. We beg Mr. Tilden, Mr. Hewitt and the other democratic leatlers here and all over the country to remember their responsi- bility just now; and we beg the democratic leaders in this city in particular to bear in mind that they and no one else— they alone are responsible, and will be held responsible for the utterances of their organ, the Express. What that journal says has no importance other than asit is known to be controlled and owned by the supporters and friends of Mr, Tilden, What it says has no influence except as it is believed by the democratic masses to speak the sentiments of their leader. If in its mischievous and incendiary article of yesterday it does not speak the sentiments of Mr. ‘Tilden, let him and his friends dis- own its utterances: Let them call off their dog. This is not a time to be playing with fire; but if the democratic leaders mean to do so we warn them that they | will get their own fingers burned. It will not doforthé democratic politicians to let it be understood that they do not mean to abide by any just and lawful ver- dict which the people may give. It will not do for them now, when nothing is de- cided, to hint or threaten about what they will do if the issue goes against them. The people of this country have not forgotten 1861, and they do not mean to be dragged into another war by set of men the burden of whose blunders and wicked ambitions we are still bearing, We repeat, if President Grant has done wrong, if he has broken any law or violated the constitution by his acts of the last few days, let him be impeached. The demo- erats have a majority in the House of Representatives ; the Congress meets in December. Let the democratic House, as soon as it meets, accept and bring forward the charges framed and the proofs to be adduced by the democratic politicians. But let us have no bullying meantime, and let us have no threats of what will happen away off in February when the electoral vote comes to be cotinted, = It not a good time for such child’s play, and it is a very bad time for incendiary assertions and insinua- tions. If the democratic leaders are states- men, if they are anything higher than is unscrupulous demagogues, they must see that this is a time conspicu- ously for moderate speech, for mu- tual conciliation, for conservative lan- guage and conduct, for instructing their people in the ways of peace and honor; and not for misrepresenting the facts of the difficulty, inciting to suspicion and distrust, and thus inflaming the minds of the ignorant members of their party with sentiments which can lead only to riot and civil dis- order, and which to the cursory reader seem deliberately intended to produce these effects. What was tho tea duty, or even the principle of tax- ation involved,.which led to the War of Independence, compared with overthrowing a President who is elected by the people and installing & man in the Presidential chair who has been rejected by tho people ?—Ezpress. What does the Express mean? Italian Opera in New York. From that remote period when Italian opera first made its advent upon Manhattan Island, at Castle Garden, down to the pres- ent centennial year of grace, it has almost invariably been the fate of operatic purvey- orsand managers to be financially unsuc- cessful. There have, indeed, been rare indi- vidual cases where some leading light of opera, miserably supported by tenors of doubtful merit and incompetent soubrettes— a sort of galaxy of dead stars—has come off with a surplus of dollars in excess of expenses ; but this was, properly speaking, operatic concert, and not opera at all. With the single exception of the really brilliant season of a few years ago, when Nilsson and Capoul were the leading attractions, we can- not recall an instance of the pecuniary suc- cess of genuine ‘opera, Mr. Maurice Strakosch, the well known impresario, who discovered Patti as Columbus discov- ered America, detecting her true value as well as that of many other musical prodigies, returns to us after an absence of many years, and presents in an interesting communication which we print elsewhere, his plan for the permanent establishment of Italian opera in New York. He asks, witha great deal of truth, how a poor manager can make any money when a third of his profits are wiped out in advance, as in the case of the Academy of Music, where the rights of stockholders are so detrimental to managers and so unjust to the public. Considering the exacting notions of modern prime donne and the enormous additional expenses which managers are obliged to incur in order to present opera properly we cannot wonder that the milestone wrecks of former impre- sarios bear such strong and melancholy testi- mony to the justice of Mr, Strakosch’s com- plaint. That democratic New York should, as Mr. Strakosch says, be the only harbor for an aristocracy of music is obviously wrong, and we wish him all success in the consummation of his scheme of reform. The substantial and permanent establishment of opera in our city would, we believe, be the beginning ofa reformation of popular taste, extending to all kinds and classes of music, Weheartily commend Mr. Strakosch’s proposal, Wo cannot believe the Americans aro #8 demoralized as the HrxALp seems to believe, And we hope the republican managers will not take apy encouragement from tho article of that paper to carry out their evil design and to try the temper of the country.— Express. What does the the Express mean? “Cuba's Struggle. Important news from Cuba reaches us in the latest despatches from Havana. The efforts of the insurgent Cubans have long been directed against the town of Puerto Principe, the last Spanish stronghold in the interior of the Eastern Department of the island. Rumors have been floating around for some days in New York regarding the capture of the place by the patriots, but they lacked any shadow of confirmation. Now, however, we learn from Havana that “well grounded rumors ie current” of o fight at Puerto Principe which resulted dis- astrously to the Spaniards. ‘The report is, as usual, supplemented by another of the capture of Cuban correspondence, &c.; but the public are already too familiar with such cheap glory valiantly won by the Dons from the coast fishing boats, There is the usual’ announcement of an execution for political offences, but in this case a woman is the victim to the vengeance of the illustrious caballeros. The reported capture of the Spanish steamer Moctezuma by Cuban refugees, off the coast of St. Domingo, shows how daring the Cubans have become in their operations against their enemy. ‘The killing of the captain, chief officer and engineer was, per- haps, unnecessary ; but it is probable that these officers resisted the attack and lost their lives in the struggle. The action of the government toward the patriotic Cuban priests named in the despatch will have the effect of weakening still more its hold on the people by arousing their religious zeal against » power that seeks to regulate by police ordinances the prayers that are ad- dressed to the Almighty. None but a weak government could be guilty ot such a mon- strous piece of stupidity. We must there- fore conclude that the Spanish government in Cuba is both weak and stupid. The Senate, in the eye of the constitution, is no more than the House, If the former acts upon ap- pointments the latter holds the purse abd the sinews of war.—Ezpress. Isit not premature and slightly incen- diary to suggest just now “the sinews of war?” What does the Express mean ? Croox axp THE InpIANs.—The interview which we print in another column between General Crook and the Indian chiefs who ac- company him in the character of soldiers will be read with nolittle amusement, It recalls a scene from opéra bouffe to see the sergeants and soldiers talk up to their generals and prescribe a line of conduct forthem. One cannot help thinking’ that soldiers of this class are not very likely to prove very effeo- tive allies, and if the government would only undertake to encourage the soldiers of the army to do their own scouting the result would be found to be much more satisfactory than depending on treacherous savages, who only wait a good opportunity to betray the paleface. The experience of the last campaign showed that the private soldiers were both able and willing to do the most difficult and dangerous seonting service. We are glad that General Crook has made up his mind to push on the cam- paign rapidly, but we hope precautions will be taken to spare the troops unnecessary hardships. 1 The European War Cloud. The announcement by cable that Turkey will be compelled to accept the conference by the representations of England is of the more consequence inasmuch as it is evi- dent that Turkey’s objections were the re- sult of English inspiration. In themselves these objections were preposterous. They held that the Sultan could not negotiate on the internal affairs of his kingdom because this disputed his sovereignty, while it is, of course, known to the world that only the internal affairs of his kingdom are or have been under consideration. But Turkey was put forward simply to make an objection that England might recover ground lost through a blunder. There is scarcely any doubt that the pres- ent threatening aspect of the trouble is due to the blundering of the diplomatists. Eng- land's present demand, as indicated by Earl Beaconsfield, is for the terms of the Treaty of Paris. Turkey also demands that the negotiations shall proceed on the basis of the Treaty of Paris. That treaty puts under the’ protection of the signatory Powers ‘the independence and integrity of Turkey.” This is very different from the requirement made by England that Russia should assent that the conference proceed on the basis of the “integrity ofthe Turkish Empife.” That the word ‘independence’ was not dropped from that formula by the inadver- tency of the’ reporters is shown by the ex- tract from the Nord, the Russian organ at Brussels, as well as by the London Times’ article published by us yesterday. The Nord adroitly calls the attention of Europe to the fact that the English Foreign Office had only demanded the “integrity of the Ottoman Empire.” It does this under cover of complimenting Lord Derby for the moderation and practical wisdom of his demand. The Times declares that the Brit- ish government closes the way to the con- ference by a demand for impossible conces- sion. Now the concession of the integrity of the Ottoman Empire was not impossible, for it was really made by Russia. England has, therefore, evidently made the demand that Russia should also as a condi- tion of the conference agree that the ‘‘inde- pendence” of the Sultan should not be en- croached upon. Russia has peremptorily refused that demand; and-if England should insist upon that war would be inevitable. This attempt on the part of England to revise her own conditions was probably made before the dinner at the Mansion House ; and the British Premier, with that taste for the theatrical in politics which is an inseparable element of his nature, fancied that if the British lion should seem to be stirred up and should roar grandly on that occasion, it might alarm the Russian capital and secure an immediate accept- ance of his terms. How thoroughly he erred in that particular is now evident. He went, in fact, only from blunder to blunder; for to take the world into a case that is be- tween cabinets is to render it scarcely possi- ble that cabinets can again secure the en- tire possession of it. It is possible always for a cabinet to retire from a position it finds untenable; but if the head of a gov- ernment has declared itself before the world retreat is impossible, and this is a case in which some one must retreat, or war results. The despatch referred toseems to indi- cate that ‘Turkey has been instructed to re- cede from the preposterous position taken in the name of the Treaty of Paris, which treaty isa dead letter. As Turkey thus re- cedes England may conveniently say, as she did with regard to the armistice, that she spoke as the friend of the Sultan, and can- not object to what satisfies him. This, therefore, gives the situation a more pacific aspect. The two houses are co-ordinate branches of tho Legislature, and the attempt to set one above 4! other, or to deny the power of cither, or to lea the muking of a President to the Senate alter the tion has veen practically decided by tho peop! simply the use of the pen to encourage the use of the sword, —Kxpress. This is very eee What does the Express mean? Diphthoria in New Jersey. In the city of Paterson diphtheria pre vails to such an extent that the Mayor has deemed it advisable to initiate extraordinary measures for the improvement of the condi- tion of the city in its sanitary aspects. Though official notice seems not to have been taken of tho fact Jersey’ City is scourged in an equal degree by this terrible disease, Its severity in the latter city is readily enough accounted for by the general filth of the place, its horrible condition as to miasmatic emanations, and, above all, by the fact that the drinking water is drawn from a stream contaminated by the sewage of the city of Paterson, as well as by the sewage from Newark, which is sent up the stream by the tide. Paterson is in a better position with regard tothe water, but the sewers are in a very bad way, and are a source of extensive contamination of the air. This is a factory town, with o crowded and ignorant population, not only unacquainted with hygienic needs, but in- different to all notions of that sort, and dis- posed to treat .scruples in regard to cleanli- ness as a kind of fashionable nonsense. The original Jersey element in the population is not superior in this respect to the factory operatives, and is equally intolerant of new ideas in regard to the way in which people live. With this sort of people there seems tobe a sort of preference’to sleep sixin a room as near as ‘possible to the open mouth of a sewer or other source of poisonous gases, and an epidemic is a necessary consequence. Tae Wratner.—The disturbance which influenced our local weather during yester- day has moved off the North Carolina coast and is already on its way across the Atlantic. It is followed by the area of high pressure, whence the recent ‘‘norther” on the Texas coast proceeded, and which now extends from the Gulf to the St. Lawrence Valley and into Canada along the western side of the Alleghany range. The rainfall in New York yesterday amounted only to 0.54 of an inch, which is not a very cheering exhibit with réterence to our Croton water supply. As already announced in the Henavo, an- other depression has moved from the North- | west into Dakota and Nebraska, with a com- paratively high temperature at its centre; but {ms surrounding atmosphere, even as far south as ‘Texas, is very cold. Cloudiness generally prevails all ever the region east of the Rocky Mountains, except in the Lower Missouri Valley and ata few places in the Upper Mississippi Valley where the weather is clear or partly cloudy. The weather in New York to-day will be cold and cloudy or partly cloudy, with, possibly, light snow. A Few PI Words. We occasionally hear of an excitable democrat here in the North who mut- ters threats of what may happen if mat- ters do not eventually go to his liking, ahd who ‘feels in his heart that Tilden is elected.” It would be well for the democratic party if such persons would for the present keep silence. The country does not forget that in 1860 similar threats were -made by democrats, and that in 1861 the greater part of that party attempted in a violent manner to overturn the result of a fair election. Nothing can be more damaging to the democratic party, or can more quickly deprive it of all public sympathy, than the utter- ance of foolish and perfectly vain threats. The country is not just now in a temper to bear with such things. The elec- tion is not yet lawfully decided ; it will not be until the returning boards in the dis- puted States have done what the laws in those States command them to do. It will take some time to complete the investiga- tions prescribed by the laws; and what, in the meantime, any one may ‘‘feel in his heart” is not evidence and is of no impor- tance. Measures have been taken to see that the returning boards conduct their investi- gations fairly; in New Orleans leading democrats have invited leading republicans toa council for joint action, which is emi- nently proper, and at this stage of the busi- ness no one has a right to say that foul play will be successful or even attempted. Moreover, if the laws and the men who execute them are bad in such States as Louisiana, we beg the democrats down there to modestly remember how they became so. If they had accepted their defeat in 1861 in good faith they would not be where they arenow. We do not countenance injustice, nor does the North desire it. The recent election should show the Southern whites how little the North sympathizes with wrong- doing in the Soyth and against the South. Thousands of Ife-long republicans here have voted against their party on this South- ern question alone. We warn the Southern whites that they will be sorry in the end for any course which shall make these republi- cans regret their votes. The laws as they exist must be faithfally executed and scru- pulously obeyed yntil they are lawfully changed. That is the sound and only rule in a free country. Every one knows that this means submission toa perann, and partial tribuoal, which there is reason to lieve bas made up its mind in advance to throw out Mr. Tilden and to count in Mr. Hayes, although Mr. Tilden may have fairly and legally a majority of the electoral vote: well as an overwnolming majority of the popular vote.—Kzpress. Is it not ‘playing with fire to endeavor to excite the people on dangerous assumptions like this ? What does the Express mean? Incendiary Appeals to the People. The.Eepress is, in some degree at least, a recognized organ of the local leaders of the democracy, and, it is said, of the national leaders of the party. It is the exponent of theirideas, the supporter of their theories and the vehicle of their hints and innuendoes. It criticises our argument that, so long as the political machinery of the gov- ernment operates in its accustomed way, so long as the law is observed and acted upon in the choice of the Presi- dent, the people must and will accept the result, though there may be a moral convic- tion in some quarters that the election is de- clared dishonestly. his argument needs no support. -It is obviously true, unless the public mind is already made up for another civil war, since opinion’ is actually in such acondition that if Hayes is declared Presi- dent the democrats will believe they are cheated, and if Tilden is declared President the republicans will believe they are cheat> ed. The moral conviction of wrong is cer- ‘tain to exist on one side or the other. But, under the pretence of objecting to our argument, the xpress insidiously urges that if the result shall be declared against Tilden the people must resist. They are reminded that the war power of the nation is in the hands of the democrats; that, to use its own words, the democratic House ‘holds the sinews of war.” ‘They are told that the Henaxp’s argument for emoderation proposes a cowardly surrender of their rights. In short, the poison of dissatisfaction with the possible result of the canvass is instilled into the minds of the democratio voters on no good basis of facts, on no evidence that there is dishonesty or is likely to be dis- honesty, but only on the wild theory that if the result is against the democrats it must, therefore, necessarily be a villanous de- ception, Does this incendiary and suicidal appeal represent the policy and the pur- poses of the leaders of the democracy in this city ? It is ingenious and careiully prepared, and its sub- stance is that tho people submit to the action of the United States Senate, ves right or wrong, in declaring who shall be ~ Express, Is it not an incendiary fneteeeiaie to hint that the people should not submit to the appropriate authorities? What does the Express mean? We Reoner Exceepixauy that the Alder- men, by their action in reference to the ex- emption of the trustees of the Catholic Cathedral from the payment of sewer per- mits, should open a disagreeable question by their ill-advised and selfish action. In stepping aside trom the course adopted toward other churches and sects in this matter they have acted from, mean and paltry motives, seeking to gain credit with certain of their constituents by a trick as sharp as the unjust steward’s. Furthermore, they have put an ancient and honored Church under the ban of the ‘‘deadhead”—a position that its venerated ecclesiastics and rich con- gregations in this city by no means desire to fill. Itasksand need ask no favors in advance of other religious bodies. All de- cent men will turn aside with disgust from this act, which seeks a petty personal ad- vantage at the expense of the great Church which contained all there was of Chris- tianity, until the Reformation, and which since has remained intact, while the follow- ers of Luther are split into numberless fragments. More Election Muddles. Many of our citizens are doubtless ignorant of the fact that we have our own election mud- dies at home, as well as those in the South, to amuse us. Certain enterprising politicians who maintain that the election of aldermen provided for in the -charter by Senatorial districts is illegal, and that the City Fathers must be chosen under the Aldermanic dis- trict system, have got their names voted by a few persons in the old districts, and now claim to be the regular Board of Aldermen of New York. Last year a Board of Assistant Aldermen was chosen in the same manner and claimed to be regularly in office as a portion of the Common Coun- cil. But their official services have been only imaginary, and we presume the duties of the contesting Aldermanic Board thie year will be much the same. Neither body will be likely to receive its pay, and its en« terprising members will always remain in their own opinion much wronged creditors of the city, unless, indeed, in some future day, when Tammany resuscitates its Tweeds, the contestants should get their claims audited and settled. There is also an indi- vidual, we believe, who claims to have been elected Comptroller and to have a legal title to that office, but his case, although it occa. sionally appears on the surface, does not seem to make much headway in the courts. At all events our election muddles are not at present so exciting as those in New Or. leans, Charleston and Tallahassee. , Warez Tae Bic Porrrictans are longing for a triumph on the broad field of national politics the hoarse hum of the city sover- eigns, anxious for the more modest but not less lucrative berths in the departments, is heard on the breeze. Comptroller Green expires shortly and becomes plain Andrew H. Green, unless Mayor Wickham ,lends an attentive car to the seductive song of the sturdy official who does not want to go to grass. Mr. Green is sai¢ to have arranged with a phalanx of his trusty contractors, backed by the blind men, thi organ grinders, the scrub women, the big pipe men, the little pipe men, the porl packers, the fat renderers and the peanul vendors, to keep tp a stream of deputations which will not only prevent the considera- tion of anybody else’s claims, but prevent His Honor from even taking his usual game of leap frog with his patient secretary. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, IMtnois butter sells at low prices in New England, Count Brunetti, of Spain, is at the Brevoort House, In desolated Metz there are 3,500 apartments to let, The Chinese laundryman ts about to invade London. ‘The Queen of Madagascar has probibited the sale of rum. Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, of Boston, is at the Wostminster Hotel. Germans call a newspaper a “pho.” That is because they rely on a male edition. Cider warmed in botties until they run over, and then corked tight, will keep awoet. Mr. Charles Francis Adams left the city last evonthg for bis home-in Massachusetts, The Turks have an original proverb which says:— “God hangs grea! ights on email wires.” ‘The only daughter of the lato Start King is married to Congressman-elect Davis, of San Francisco, The wile of a German professor is considered to hy am uneducated woman by the Saturday Revisw. A private letter to a Boston journal says that Eowlt Adams is not dead, and that he was saved from ship wreck. The Lockport Union is glad to see a now wate trough in that city because it reflects the facos of the horses that drink thereirom. A Tennessee man wont to Texas some years ago with $300, Hes now worth $40,000 in cattle and his chik dren aro all druokards or worse, Dr. Carpenter bolieves in confining an habitual drunks ard long cnough to have new food, without alcohol, produce new, healthy tissues of the body. An Italian kidnapper, whose business was confined to stealing girls for exportation, mainly to England, died recently, leaving a fortune of $100,000, Sir Charles 1, Young and Sir Matthew Wood, of England, arrived iron Liverpool in the amship Abyssinia yesterday, and aro at tho St. James Hotel. Hon. David Mills, the newly appointed Minister at the Interior of the Dominion of Canada, was re-clected to the Dominion Parliament, in Bothwell, yesterday. | Professor William Everett, son of the great orator, resigned his position in Harvard because he did not like to teach the new methods and pronunciation of Latin. Joha Y. Foster, of Nowark, N. J., in his letter to Mr. Biaino on the religious question, did more to give New Jersey to the democrats than any other man ip the State, Wondell Phillips at school was a gravo, conscientious, honorable boy, at the head of his class, and daring a school rebellion he had a medal struck bear! words, “Resistance to tyrants; obedience to G M. Foydeau tells us, on General Yusul’s authority, that the conquost of Algeria was really effected by mules, they being the only beasts which could carry the Fronch artillery up the pathless bills whore Abd- el-Kader and his adherents took refuge. A little New Jersey boy ot seven, cult piano golo ata part whoro accompaniment cease and the simp: remarked, “It was sailing along like a ship, whon the sides fell off, and 1t sailed just the samo,”” The Pope seems to have renewed his youth, is robust, brilliant in thought, eloquent in gesture and flucntin speech; and, adds Mgr. Guibort, who saw His Holi- ness, he is stronger in mind and body than the most renowned preachers of France in their prime. In their jokes the tunny paperd have hobbies, The Detroit Free Pres# makes jokes about wood piles; the Danbury man about goats; the Rochester Democrat about not having sald ill of some person who has just returned; the Chicago Times about the Haratp, &c. Sir Charles Dilke says:—*‘All who love children must love the Japane: most gracious, the most cour- teousand the most siniling of all peoples, whoso rural districts form, with Tirough-tho.looking-giass country and Wonderland, the three kingdoms of merry dreams,” A European critic, comparing Walt Whitman with William Blake, claims for Whitman the post of Ameri- cau laureate, and, praising his powers lor description, says that if he would apply his strength he might abandon ail other titles ™ that.of America’s first historian. Senator Norwood, of Georgia, is forty-six years old, and thoson of atanner. When olected to the United Senate ho said he did not kaow thirty members of she Legistature that elected him. He is knuwn ag “fanyard Tom,” and can beat any mangin Georgia tell- ing a joke. Andrews! Bazar:—"'Tho good old days aro dead and gone; the rich celoring has faded out of the warp and woof of the past, and Jet wer rejoice thas it ts still true that a pretty womao cannot ride by her lover's @tunoel without emerging in a hat that had been struck by lightoing.”” Though a Mohammedan who marries a French girl 1s not required to renounce bis religion, be cannot cone tract a valid marriage with another woman during her Ifetime. These unions usually turn out well aud are extremely prolific, and the Arab husband submits pas sively to the dominion of his French consort, a vhough ho tacitly acknowlodged himeoit of an inferior race. | Tt is satd by an English eritic that houseliold art Pannot exist for itself alone, No inatter how complou and cultured the oaken chimnoy-picce with tts tilee move if itis not adapted for warming the particular room itis in; if comfort, or it has been srcrificed to ite artiat morally ugly, and being unit for its purpose, has ao ‘\rue right to call itself artistic at al, |