The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1876, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DEUKMBER z, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. : EW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Pik Fiat — THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Three cents per copy (Sun- day excluded). Ten dollars per year, or at rate of one dollar per month for any period less than six months, or five dollars for six months, Sunday edition included, tree of postage, ‘ All business, news letters or telegraphic patches must be addressed New York de He LD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 0.112 SOUTH EW YORK TREET. JE DE L'OPERA. 7 STRADA PACE. sriptions an vertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. SIXTH STE LONDON OF HERALD. MENTS. THIS APTURNOON AN Booth, Matinee a GE THEATRE. DER GROSSE W PM. WEATRE, . Edwin Booth, Matinee, - THEATRE. 7 ; RDE: G Ne BARNUM'S CIRC RIE, at 1 and8 P. M. Ww. THE SHAUGHRAL PARK PikaTRE. MUSETTE, at S P.M. 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WESPIO: RANOATS WITH SUPP NOTICE TO NESDEALERS AND THE PUBLIC. owinf to the action of a portion of the carriers, newsmen and news companies, who are determined that the public shall not bave the Hxratp at three rents per copy if they can prevent it, we have made arrangements to place the Heraup in the hands of all our readers at tho reduced price. Newsboys and dealers can purchase any quantity they may desire at No, 1,265 Broadway and No. 2 Ann strect, and also from our wagons on the principal avenues, All dealcrs who have been threatened by the news com- panies are requested to send in their orders direct to us, at No, 2 Ann street. From our reports this morning the probabil- ilies ave that the weather to-day will be very cold and cloudy or parily cloudy, possibly with light snow. Watt Srreet Yesrzrpay.—The stock mar- ket was stagnant and prices generally ruled lower. Goldadvanced from 108 1-2 to 109— a gain of 5-8 per cent since Wednesday. The feeling abroad is reported feverish, owing to the unsettled condition of our po- litical affairs, and this has led toa decline in some of the government securities. Rail- way bonds were moderately firm. Money on call was supplied at 4 and 3 1-2 per cent. Twerp Rumons fill the air from day to day, but they change their character almost every hour. Our columns this morning re- flect the reports of yesterday, and it will be soen that they are mostly contradictory of those of the day before. Wuey a Venrrante Punic Orricer volun- tarily retires from a position he has held for man. ars and under both political parties, as in the case of Assistant Collector of Cus- toms Clinch, the oceasion is one deserving of at least a passing word. Thirty-eight years in the Custom House without reproach is a distinguished honor in these degenerate days. Mayor Wicknam yesterday gave some atiention to the charges against Park Com- missioners Martin and O’Donohue. The defence will be putin on Thursday. Tho | case rests mainly on the charge of paying laborers on the parks more than the wages paid by private contractors, and it is upon this point that the Mayor's decision is most anxiously awaited. Lire Ixsvnaxce has become a matter of | s0 much importance that anything which reflects upon the integrity with which tho business is conducted cannot fail to prove a serious injury. Ifthe fears of many of the policy holders in the defunct Continental | relating to a scheme between its stock- holders and the New Jersey Mutual, by which both are to profit by the acceptance by the latter of the policies | of the former, are well founded the whole business would suffer immensely. The whole subject is treated in another col- | umn, ond it will be seen from the state of facts there presented that it is of the utmost importance that the condition of the Conti- nental Company should be fully explained by the receiver who has its affuirs in charge. The Administration Retreats. It is a relief to learn, as we do from our Washington despatches, that it was decided in the Cabinet consultation yesterday to put a stop to General Ruger's illegal inter- ference with the South Carolina Legislature. It would have been better to have instructed General Ruger in this sense at the outset and have prevented the scandal and alarm caused by his illegal action. Every reason for stopping him should have been an equally good reason for preventing him. A government does not eppear to ad- vantage when it is ‘‘wise behind time.” If it is compelled to retrace its steps and re- trieve blunders such tardy wisdom is, indeed, better than none; but it evinces precipitancy and Iack of foresight for an administration to march into difficulties from which it is forced to retreat. After the inglorious Louisiana blunder two years ago and the emphatic public rebuke with which it was visited President Grant ought not to have been caught again in asimilarserape. It is idle to say General Ruger’s conduct could not have been foreseen. The whole coun- try expected him to act very much as he did, and the President was aware of that He had only to give precise same tenor as those which it was decided to | send him yesterday to have saved the coun- try from the great shock which fol- lowed the proceedings of Tuesday. ‘‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” We rejoice that the adminis- tration has retreated from a wholly untenable position, but it is no compli- ment to its prudence and caution that it did not foresee on Tuesday the retreat it would be compelled to make on Friday. There could not bea more flagrant viola- tion of the constitution than that which was perpetrated by the federal troops in taking possession of the South Carolina State House on Monday night and posting corporals at the doors to deny admittance to mem- bers of the Legislature. The brilliant idea of ordering a federal corporal to examine and pass upon the credentials of the members of a State Legislature and judge of their right to seats was as grotesque as it was illegal. It is a thing which could not have been persisted in without raising storm of indignation and derision against which no administration could stand. President Grant's Cabinet saw the signs of the gathering tempest, and has concluded that it is not safe to pursue the dangerous voyage. But if General Ruger had received proper instructions in the beginning there would hav8 been no occasion for rectifying his blunders and extricating the administra- tion from a faise position. What has caused this sudden retreat? It may be a recognition of the fact that the course of General Ruger is utterly indefensible. This is, indeed, a suffi- cient ground for giving him different orders; but it was also a sufficient ground for giving him correct orders three days earlier. With constant telegraphic communication between Columbia and Wash- ington there is no excuse for not rectify- ing the blunder within half an hour after it was committed. It would be ridicu- lous to say that it required three days for the administration to find out that military interference with a Legislature is unconsti- tutional. The change of front may be owing to the more moderate members of the Cabinet. If this is the true explanation of the retreat it isa pity that those members were notconsnlted sooner. Their advice was not asked, or at least not taken, until popu- lar indignation called on the administra- tion to halt. The earlier proceedings seem to have been an experiment on the public temper. Had it aroused no remon- strance outside of the democratic party there is reason to believe that the highhanded military outrage would have been persisted in; but when the independent press and a portion of the republican press protested and exposed the utter unconstitutionality of the proceedings at Columbia the advice of the conservative members of the Cabinet had a chance to be listened to. It would have been inexcusable for the President to indorse General Ruger without the unanimous approval of his Cabinet, and as soon as its law-abiding mem- bers could geta fair hearing and an opportu- nity to state their objections the misguided counsels of hot-headed partisans could not stand a scrutiny. Moreover, persistence in a’ bold violation of the constitution would have led to animpeachment of the President on very solid grounds. A President under- going a trial for impeachment in the last days of his term would be shorn of moral influence, and be crippled in his attempts to secure the peaceful inauguration of Mr. Hayes if Hayes should have a majority of the electorai votes, We rejoice that President Grant has so far respected public opinion as to give place to the ‘sober second thought,” which is always wise when hasty and inconsiderate steps have been taken. If it should turn out that Mr. Hayes is fairly and legally elected it will be the duty of President Grant to protect his rights against. attempts to prevent his in- duction into office. But if General Grant could be unwise enough to expose himself to the charge of procuring the election of Hayes by illegal military interference pub- lic sentiment would not acquiesce in meas- ures for inaugurating'a President of his own creation, It is only a President honestly counted in without his interference that General Grant can inaugurate with the ap- probation of the country. He must respect the choice of the people and leave the counting to the proper authorities. His oficial action must not be an expression of his private wishes, but o constitutional support of the candidate who has been really elected. President Grant's authority in delivering his office to his successor will depend on the fact that he is enforcing not his own irregular choice but the legal choice of the people. The President has probably become con- vinced that any chimerical hopes he may have indulged of holding over were base- less. To be sure, he has the sword, but the sword is a powerless weapon without the purse, The army is » mere handful, and without the authority of Congress he cannot increase it. He might apply for State mili- tia, but the militia when called into the federal service have to be paid out of the national Treasury, and it would be impossi- ble to get a dollar appropriated for that purpose with a democratic majority in the House of Representatives. The militia would not serve for any length of time without pay, and there will be no means of paying them so, long as a democratic House holds the purse strings. The appropriations were so cut down at the late session as to cause complaints that they are insufiicient for ordinary purposes. With scant means for keeping the govern- mental machine in motion in time of peace where are the resources to come from for paying militia? It is idle to talk of increas- ing the army when not a soldier can be enlisted without the consent of Congress; and it is equally idle to talk of supplement- ing the regular army by State militia when there is no money to pay them. The House of Representatives holds a complete check on the President if he should attempt to use any other military force than the diminutive army which Congress has authorized and for which it has made appropriations. Even the means of supporting this small army will be exhausted on the Ist of July unless the House consents for a new bill providing for its future pay. A new administration can go on only for a brief period of four months without further legislation, and it is not probable that the democratic House will pass any appropriation bills in the com- ing session until after the second Wednes- day of February. If the democrats are cheated out of the election they can block the wheels of the government, and this fact may have some influence in arrest- ing the boldness of the administra- tion. We hope that, after a full sur- vey of the situation, both parties will see the folly of attempting to overreach each other and will recognize their power- lessness to carry on the government with the public sentiment of the country against them. It is only by demanding nothing which is not clearly just that either can command the support of the country, and the one which has not the support of the country will be forced to succumb. We hope this retreat of the administration may pave the way for a pacific settlement. Church and State in France. Its disposition to support religious insti- tutions has put the government in France in collision with the republicans in the Chamber. Attitudinizing was, perhaps, the primary idea of Prince Napoleon in his speech on the “estimates for public wor- ship ;” yet he cast a firebrand into the dis- cussion, for the relation of State and Church is one of the points that most profoundly divide parties in France. If Prince Napo- leon had spoken for the imperialists it would have been of some significance to find him arrayed against the Church, since if that party and the pronounced republicans wero to act together this itenr would be cut out of the budget and a crisis would be- come imminent. But it is well known that his words never have any deeper inspiration than the little wit of which he is the per- sonal possessor. It was, therefore, in the last degree impolitic for the legitimists to reply to his assault by offensive references to the history of the Empire. This skirmish may, through their folly, yet prove the pre- liminary to a troublesome array against them on this important issue. Plon Plon takes ground boldly as a leader of the anti- Church agitation, but the caustic refer- ences to the Empire from the republicans seem to indicate that their memory is too good for him to become dangerous. It is possible, however, that there is even yeta field in France for princes envious of the fame of Philip Egalité, and it is certain that this poor specimen of the Bonapartes has stirred a smouldering fire, ready to burst into flame. The defeat of the Ministry on an item in the estimates for public worship is an instructive indication that an effective majority of the House differs definitely with the government on the obligations of the country toward religious institutions, and this dispute once fairly opened must lead to very troublesome agitations. Common Sense in Education, Aschool director of a rural township of an interior county in Pennsylvania, who de- scribes himself as a friend of education because he knows the want of it, reada paper recently at o teachers’ meeting which is more replete with common sense than is usual with compositions of the kind. It is especially interesting because of the hints it gives us not only of the growth of the public school system in that State, but of the difficulties it was compelled to meet and overcome. The school directors of forty years ago, Mr. Wilhelm tells us, took no interest in the system, and a large part of the people was opposed to it. The teachers were only remarkable for ‘their bad tongues, their long fingers and the hoop-pole punish- ment they inflicted on the children.” Mr. Wilhelm goes further, and gives an in- stance of o teacher who tried a milder dis- cipline and was compelled to relinquish his school because of such an unheard of inno- vation, ‘That was the beginning of a new era,” says the director; ‘the impressions he made remain, and as the victims of the rod grow up they begun where he was obliged to leave off.” As a con- sequence of the introduction of a little com- mon sense into the prevailing notions of edu- cation inhumanity was banished from the school room, and the public school system became the very bulwark of the State. Enmities ceased and prejudices disap- peared. A grenter interest was taken in the schools and a better class of teachers em- ployed. Now there is no better school sys- tem in any of the States than in Pennsylva- nia, but in no part of the country must the people fail to remember that common school education is only in its infancy. The sys- tem needs all the encouragement which school officers, teachers and parents can give it, and, above all, it needs that practical common sense which in a few years, com- paratively, has raised the public schools of Pennsylvania from what they were to what they are, There is nothing that we possess for which we ought to be more thankiul than the system of free education which has now become almost universal and the numberless blessings which have been the result of the | system, Why the Republicans Should Show Fair Play. Whoever is shown on a fnir, open and ‘honest count to be elected President will | of course be installed, and no American will | be so idiotic as to grumble. When Mr. Lincoln was inaugurated, in 1861, his fore- most competitor, Stephen A. Douglas, stood behind him and held Mr. Lincoln's hat while he took the oath of office. That is the true and American way, and if either Mr. Hayes or Mr. Tilden is fairly and honestly shown to have a majority of the electoral vote, in either case we advise his defeated competitor to attend the inauguration and follow the example of Mr. Douglas. Meantime everybody has a right to ask for fair play; for a conspicuously honest count. This concerns not the candidates, who are of small moment in so vital a mat- ter, but the nation, Are the proceedings in the disputed States such as ought to satisfy the nation? Let us see. 1. In South Carolina the vote has been declared ; the State is officially given to Mr. Hayes. There is reason to believe that on a fair count Governor Hayes and General Hampton would have been shown to have a majority ; but the Returning Board, entirely republican and containing three candidates for re-election to State offices, have by their irregular and tricky conduct forfeited the confidence of the nation. They were prob- ably satisfied that a fair and open scrutiny of the vote would give the. State to Hayes, but they saw also that it would at the same time give the democrats the Governor, and the Legislature, which elects a United States Senator. Hence their trickery, their law- less and unauthorized casting out of demo- cratic counties, their defiance of the Su- preme Court. These demagogues care nothing for Governor Hayes or the repub- lican party. ‘They care only for their own selfish fortunes, and their outrageous miscon- duct has left even the result as to the elec- toral vote of the State in doubt ewithout that degree of certainty which it ought to have. If the Northern republican leaders were wise they would insist on ao fair and conspicuously honest count in South Caro- lina, so as to get the electoral vote of that State in a way satisfactory to honest men. 2. Take next Florida. There has been so much petty republican trickery there that the vote of that State cannot now be counted for Mr. Hayes without such a public scru- tiny as shall be declared satisfactory by honest democratic witnesses. The republi- cans claim Florida; but if it has honestly gone for Mr. Hayes ought they not to take every care to make this plain and indisputa- ble? Does not every trick of theirs, every bit of sharp practice, make it more difficult for them to satisfy the country of the hon- esty and fairness of the count? And do they not see that this is a very serious mat- ter for them? Finally we come to Louisiana. The Loui- siana Returning Board has conducted and is conducting its scrutiny of the vote in a manner so shamelessly and clumsily parti- san and dishonest that no result it arrives at will have the confidence of the nation. It has openly allowed the returns to be tam- pered with; it has refused to hear evidence on the democratic side; it has had even the contemptible weak- ness to refuse to send for returns from democratic parishes; and to refuse applica- tions made to it to compel republican super- visors to send in such returns, which they are withholding contrary to law, declaring at the same time that if these returns were .not in by a certain time it would refuse to count them. In fact, its jugglery, its trick- ery, its fraud, all have been, as republican Congressmen declared them to be in 1874, open, glaring, clumsy and shameless. One of its latest expedients has been to keep out of New Orleans and away from the witness stand an army officer who has declared that in the parish in which he was.stationed with troops—Morehouse—the election was full, fair, free and peaceable. Is it not very un- wise for the Northern republican leaders to permit such things? They claim, and no doubt in many cases sincerely believe, that Louisiana has gone for Mr. Hayes. If this is so ought it not to be honestly shown? Could it not be honestly proved? Can they afford to have their claim to the State rest on the secret manipulations of a returning board which begins by refus- ing to admit a democratic member, in viola- tion of the law, and which at almost every step of its open proceedings has shocked the sense of justice and decency of such repub- licans as Senator John Sherman and of the whole Northern public? Do not the repub- lican leaders see that, even granting that the three disputed States cast majorities for Hayes and Wheeler, they have allowed the returns to be so manipulated as to make it now almost, indeed, quite impossible, to establish this to the,satisfaction of honest men? And do they forget that in 1872 and in 1868 they themselves set precedents for throwing out the vote of States where the election returns seemed to be tainted with fraud? Of course they do not mean to “bull-doze” a Presidential election? The Weather. Yesterday's cold took New York by sur- prise, judging from the expression of aston- ishment and dismay depicted on the faces of the shivering pedestrians that hurried through the streets. Lut the temperature as experienced in this city was almost tropi- eal when compared with that which pre- yailed in the West and Northwest, particu- larly in the early morning. From Northern Dakota to the Lower Missouri Valley the thermometer indicated from 20 degrees below to zero. Thence to the Gulf of Mexico the temperature varied from zero to 32 degrees above, or freezing point. Northword of Punta Rassa, Fla., there was no point in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains that had a higher temperature than 36 degrees, or 4 degrees above freezing. ‘Chis remark- able area of cold is almost unprecedented in extent and presents some interesting features to the observer. It is rare to record the fact that the weather was two degrees colder at New Orleans than on the northeasterly coast of Nova Scotia, a region which is gen- ernily associated with all that is cold and | miserable. Yet such has been the case, The pressure yesterday was extremely jw. in the Northwest and corre- spondingly low in the Northeast, show- ing a barometrical difference of 2.67 inches in the afternoon. Snow is falling over the lake region, Canada and as far south as Nashville, and rain on the Atlantic coast, but clear and very cold*weather pre- | vails west of Chicago, During the past month the highest pressure recorded was 30.392 inches and the lowest 29.554 inches. The highest temperature was 73 degrees and | the lowest 21 degrees. The precipitation of rain and snow amounted to 4.40 inches and the highest velocity of the wind was 50) miles. Tbe number of days on which rain or snow fell was 15. The weather in New York to-day will be very cold and cloudy or partly cloudy, possibly with light snow. A Great Disappointment. Notwithstanding the efforts of the British people to appear satisfied with the perform- ance of polar expeditionists, a deep sense of disappointment pervades the nation at the failure of the attempt to plant the ensign of St. George at the North Pole. This feeling is rather strongly expressed in English journals, especially those devoted to naval affairs, and bears out our own opinions of the conduct of the expedition. Itis clear that, although many difficulties presented them- selves to Captain Nares and his companions, none were so great as to warrant the aban- donment of the attempt after one season’s trial. It looksas if conclusions based upon the merest surmises were eagerly jumped at to form an excuse for returning to a more comfortable climate than that experi- enced in latitude 83 deg. 20 min. 26 sec. The instructions given by the Admiralty to the commander of the exploring ships clearly indicate that the government did not expect the return of the expedition until after at least two years, and it was fully understood that provision was to be made for the relief of the Alert and Discovery by sending a ship to the entrance of Smith Sound in 1877. The story of the trials and dangers of the explorers certainly proves that their labors in the cause of science were not holiday sports ; but no one expected they would be, for the experience gathered by previous ex- peditions showed that the Pole can only be niente won by the most courageous efforts on the part of those who seek to reach it. Incongruities appear ‘too frequently in the official report submitted to the Ad- miralty to secure for that document the confidence of the English people. It reads too much like a paper prepared with the special object of giving a good color to a very poor piece of work. It is filled with contradictory statemenis, some of them ridiculously so, that neutralize the’ effect produced by the really interesting informa- tion it contains ; and when it seeks to settle the question of polar exploration by stating that the Pole cannot be reached the effect is to raise doubts instead of to in- sure conviction. Particular stress is laid by Captain Nares on the perma- nent character of the ice formations surrounding the Pole. He has given this barrier a Greek name and expects that to settle everything; but he gives us the soundings taken in a sea covered perma- nently, as he says, by ice one hundred and twenty feet thick. We publish to-day a long and interesting letter, with a map of the latest discoveries, from Dr. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, who explains therein his reasons for not accepting without further question the report of Captain Nares and his officers. Thereis no doubt but that this document will receive more attention from the critics than the writers anticipated, and that the enthusiasm that now greets the re- turn ofthe explorers may be changed to a feeling of another kind. We regret the failure of Captain Nares; but we would niuch rather he would call it a failure and spare us the details that only provoke smiles from experienced Arctic navigators. Employment for Women. We have received the following moving appeal :— To tax Eprror or raz HeraLp:— Dar Stx—What is thero for the women ‘who have not been educated to the washtub and physical labor to do in order to earna living? I can think of moth- ing that will support us. 1 am not the only one; my case is that of thousands. lam willing to undertake s of living. The stores reiuse me as a salesiady because I’ve had no expe- rience; parents do not wish a teacher for their chil- dren because I’ve no other pupils to rofer to. Can you, and will you saggest something? The winter is before me, and I canuot apply to charities, I have moderate talent and ambitivn. T've tried to get most anything before aj you. If.you cannot spare space in your ¥: per for this, and can suggest anything, will you do so? and accept the heartfelt thanks of one who is really anxious to procure employment and savo the city the expense of \ncarecrating one more LUNATIC. It is very difficult to give practical or sat- isfactory advice to our correspondent. Evi- dently she cannot find employment at any- thing to which she has been educated—else she would not write as she does. Practi- cally she is, therefore, to be considered as a person without a trade or occupation in which she is skilled. Whatshe needs is the opportunity to learn a trade or business, with such wages while she is a learner as will give her food and shelter. Thero are several benevolent societies in New York which have for their purpose to seek and to provide employment for women'who need it. If our correspondent finds no better open- ing we advise her to apply to one of these. The following occur to us :—The House and School of Industry, No. 120 West Sixteenth street ; Ladies’ Union Aid Society, No. 255 West Forty-second street ; New York Female Assistance Society, Reform, Church, corner Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street ; New York Juvenile Guardian Society, No. 101 St. Mark’s place; New York Ladies’ Home Mission Society, No. 61 Park street; Work- ing Women’s Protective Union; No. 110 Sec- ond avenue ; St. John's Guild, No. 52 Varick street. Women are at a disadvantage in the strug- gle for bread, partly because of their lack of strength, but partiy also because they are not pertinacious in seeking work. It is a half-hearted business with most of them ; and it is this, in spite of all the talk about the equality of the sexes, because the sexes are not in reality equal, They do not start fair. A boy is brought up to the knowledge that he must make his own living, and not that alone, but the living of other persons, women and children, who are or may be de- pendent on him. A girl grows up with no such expectation. Her friends, her parents, her brothers, her companions, all expect her to marry ; she herself has the same outlook into the future; and if sho is put to a trade the chances are that she pursues it not as a boy does, as the business of his whole Ife, bnt as something which will have to be ‘dropped when at !ast she comes to the real business of life for a woman, which is to be # wife and mother, Now, it results from this that the women who do not marry and who do enter the labor market are in an exceptional position ; they are disabled by many circumstances, and by none more than that there remaing always the doubt in their minds and that of their employers whether they will not some day leave off day's work and marry. Itiss pity and a hardship that women should labor under any disadvantages, and the societies which are established to seek and supply work to women who want to work deserve the public aid and sympathy. Aw Intenestina Scene was the sale of the Exposition buildings at Philadelphia yester= day. The Main Building brought two hun. dred and fifty thousand dollars, and most of the others were sold at very low prices. In a few weeks, or months at most, what may be called the City of the Exhibition will ‘have disappeared ; but the spot itself will always have something of the sacredness of one of the great battle fields of the Revolution, which the Exhibition was designed to come memorate. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Schurz will winter in St. Louls. Caleb Cushing will sail December 6, “‘Paragraphist’’—Mark the next one, The female loboy, has arrived in Washington, Detroit Free Press:—‘‘Give us an honest arithmetie.» Makay, of the big Bonanza, has a ch&tcau peat Paris. Del Valle thinks that academized sidewa!ks are an imposture. Senator William W. Eaton, of Connecticut, is at the New Yor k Hotel. Senator Phineas W. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, is af the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Senator francis Kernan and family are at the Wind. sor Hotel, on their way to Washington, Collin trimmings sent from San Francisco to San Louis Obispo carried smallpox to the latter place, A French’ admiral and his family have been poisoned with wine that was found to contain sugar of lead, Another count beard from. Nick Mullor, on a winter’s aay, Went to Congress via the Pennsylvania, It is'so windy in St. Louis that ‘“Waterloonatio,” of the Hepudlican, has to put a bat of cotton in his east ear. On July 4, 1825, it was recorded that there were 30¢ New Yorkers in Philadelphia, filing twenty-five stage coaches. The Czar is worse in health, and the effects of a busy winter in cold St. Petersburg are seriously appre- hended. Somebody said that Watterson hasa ea‘la fiy check, and now we want to know why you should calla lily by that name. “Can a man’s education be determined by his autos graphy’? Certainly, when he writes it likethe gable. end of a sawbuck. Sam Bowles went right back to Springfleld when he saw that the statue of Webster had no pistol pocket im the pantatoons, Said a man ina car yesterday:—‘‘Vat dish gundry vonsh ish a broberdy kevalivigation, Nobody vowsh vidout he kopsh a sdore,”” AFrench billiardist promises to teach a quick and improved method of manipulating at billiards. Probe ably he means to teach the p’s and q’s. ~ Fulton Times:—“George Wilham Cartis has written an able article on pie crust, much more satisfactory im its way than the Lord’s Prayer on a ten cent piece.’’ Mrs, Smithers, in her. new steel-blue silk, said te Smithers, “How do you like me in gros grain?” “Very agriculturally, madame,” and he made arye face, “Henry”: If you swore off with your friend not te drink anything betore Now Year's in the United States you must keep your promise—unless you should be in Now Jersey. Chicago Republican (rep.):—“When the farce of “Adam and Kve’’ was lately brought out in Now York none of the Iadies wanted to play Eve because the dresses would be so expensive.” Ngeu Ngoh Liang, Chinese Minister to the United States; Jan Shun, of the Chinese Centennial Commis: sion, and Yung Yuen Poo, of the Chinese Educational Commission, are at the Sturtevant House. There are licate impulses that a good womag cannot resist; she cannot hesitate to put three hairs pins and a spare shoelace into the first shaving mug eh¢ secs. Women are better than meu in thts respect. Norwich Bulletin:—‘*A biubbering little fellow ex. plaimed his tears to a companion, ‘Pa sent me after cod. fish for breakfast, an’ I went fishin’ and was gono all day, and now we have been havin’ some bullduzin’,’” Colonel Poter Donohue] is travelling around the United States in a palace car made for his own use, Hots now at Paterson, N. J, Twenty-five years ago he hada biacksmith shop ina tent on the beach at San Francisco, It ts claimed, probably with great reason, thal puerile city writers for country papers without pay bave their cards printed with alarming emphasis, and call upon actresses, managors and public officials with fraudulent impadence. Jeremy Bentham once said:—“I should wisn that the years which I have yot to live could be passed each at the end of one of the centuries following my death; I should then be a witness of the influence which my works will exercise on posterity.”” Romo Sentinel:—*‘This Louisiana business is pervert- ing the morals and humauity of the nation. A Rome cat last week returned @ count of seven kittens, and then the lady of the house assumed ministerial and clerical powers, and threw six of them out.’”” When « blustering man goca ¢own town in the morning, whistling knowingly at the clear, blue sky, and, after reading the Hena.o'’s prophecy that there will bo rain in the afternoon, says, ‘It’s another elec. tion lie,’ don’t blame that man if he gets his new overcoat soaked through. Thero is eet clerk in an uptown store, who all day long says, ‘Ah, moe ladee, ah,” in trac Philadele phia style, and in the evening, while he ts playing shufleboard in a lager beer saloon, he says, “If these devilish scoundrels in Florida count Tilden out } wouldn't give five cents for a tour-biadea kuifo in thig country. ‘rhe influence of great uad classical names still pro yails. AS aman puts on a paper collar in the morn ing and sees on it the word “Romulus,” ‘Cesar, “Deiphian,” “Empire” or “Sardanapaius” he feels a sense of importance about the throat, and when he takes Mis turn at bakiag the buckwheat cakes and gives the griddle an extra grease trains of classicay thought bling him to earthly things. It is In such swelling moments that a man feels like a grown-up grocery store with a tar sidewalk, A man who was being examined for a school teacher im Maine, after stumbling through some simple arith. metical problem, was asked where Boston is. He am swered, “I know all about it, probably just as well as youdo; have heard of the place several times, but can't, somehow or other, seem to locate it.” With a view to hoiping him out the committeeman said:—*It is the capital ot some State, is it not?’ “Yes, I believe it is” “What State?” “Well, I know, provavly, as well as you do, what State Boston is the capital of, but you see L haven't got the flow of Janguage to express ne Evening Telegram vill of tare for detectives :— necerccerorecesecersre re secroere se rorererereeey sour. 3 Stews that can be stirred up, H Fist. "'Muss"’cles—"Shad"ows—Smelt as applied tot mice, EXTRERS, Anywhere with a warrant, ROAST. Pig, or anything else that “squeals,” Head-q ers of Beet, VRGRTAULES, Raidishes. Gann Stall” fed Pigeons—Night Hawks, MOTTO, “Watoh the Prey.” DRSHERT, Peachers—Mulverry (street) Pudding, DRINKS. Eau de Vi-docq. 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