The New York Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1876, Page 6

ree 6 NEW YORK 4 HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1876.-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDO} BENNETT, PROPRIETOR scars THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Three cents per copy (Sun- day excluded). ‘Ten dollars per ror at rete of one dollar per month tor period less than six months, or tive dollars for six months, Sunday edition included, free of | postace. All business, news letters or telegraphic despateles must be addressed New Yore Henacp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Jiejected communications will not be re- turned. BEaL PHILADELPHIA OFFICE— NO.112SOUTH SIXTH STR. LONDON OFFICE OF TH State YORK JiIERALD- ), 46 FLE REET. AVENUE DE L’ ‘OPERA. NO. 7 STRADA PACE. advertisements will be criptions arded on the same terns | teceived and fo as in New York KING LEAR, DAS URBILD L MERCHANT OF VE VARK THEATRE MUSETTS, at 8PM. Lotta, NION SQ Miss MULTON. are M ‘Open daily. now INNOCENT, at & U’. M. 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All dealers who have been threatened by the aews com- panies are requested to send in their orders direct to vs, at No, 2 Ann street, From our reports this morning the ili- ties are that the weather to-day will be colder oe partly cloudy or cloudy, followed by very low temperature and clearing weather. Wars. Stneer Yestenpay.— Without being unusually active the stock market was made firm under the leadership of New York Central and Lake Shore. Gold opened and closed at 107 1-2, selling meanwhile at 107 5-8 and 107 3-8. Money on call loans was supplied at 5 and.4 per cent. Railway mortgages were steady and government bonds strong. In Anotnen Cotumy will be found an additional chapter of the history of life in- surance, in which there is interesting read- ing matter for policy holders. Tux Interview with one of the Brooklyn Bridge Company's employés, which we printed, may lead somo readers to imagine that there ure wires and wires, and that the first pulling of them did not take place | when the ‘‘carrier” rope was stretched from pier to pier. Tar Exma Mixx is getting into the courts as deeply as it did into the stockholders. Counsellor Stoughton stated yesterday that the mine was what 1s known as a “pocket” mine. That is what most of the English stockholders say as they sorrowfully con- template ganhes denteted Basket eons Tr Wearnun,—After the passage east- ward of the depression which is now central in Western Canada and the northern part of the Middle States we may look for a short return of very cold weather at New York. With the area of high pressure in the West the temperature has fallen very low, the minimum at Fort Garry, Pembina and Bis- marck yesterday morning being twenty-five degrees, twenty-six degrees and nine de- grees below zero respectively. Snow was falling last evening at Saugeen, Canada, and | Grand Haven, Michigan, with very high winds on the lakes. Cloudiness prevails in the Northeast and Southwest, with rain in | the latter region. Tho sudden cold will have the effect of closing the Missouri and Upper Mississippi and Ohio rivers with heavy ice. The temperature, will, however, quickly rise again in those watersheds and ice | gorges will probably be formed which may prove as destructive os that at St. Louis. Precautions should, therefore, be taken to guard all floating and otherwise exposed property from the descending bodies of ice. The depression now developing in the Northwest will prove a genuine storm centre if the present indications can be trusted. Its course will probably bring it nearer New York than that now passing } hunted down like an outlaw. through the St. Lawrence Valley. In New York to-day it will be colder and partly cloudy, or cloudy, followed by # very low temperature and clearing weather, Our Bull-dored President, If the republican party is doomed to die without fighting another Presidential battle it deserves better than to die in a ditch, The hero of ascore of campaigns gallantly fought and fairly won should fall, if fall it must, ona field of honor. ‘The defender of the Union, | the author of emancipation and the saviour of the public credit, merits a more respecta- ble fate than to dwindle down to a contemp- | tible end by the desertion of decent men from its standard. Yet precisely this is the destiny which Chandlers and Camerons and ‘Tyners are shaping for it, and their instru- ment, we are both surprised and sorry to say, is no less a person than President Grant. Sorry, for the reasons we have so briefly given. ‘The place of the republi- can party in American history is too con- spicuous, and has been filled too brilliantly for a disgraceful termination of its record to evoke anything but sorrow. Surprised, be- cause it shows a very novel and unsuspected phase of President Grant's character. In the President's treatment of the elec- toral controversy there is visible for the first time in his public carcer infirmity of will and vacillation of behavior, He has been bent, like a reed in the wind, by every blast of advice from rash and radical counsellors. His original order to Gencral Sherman con- cerning the use of the army in the doubtful Southern States was timely and sagacious. But he has tolerated the employment of troops in an unlawful political service in South Carolina, His averment that either political party can afford to be disappointed in the result, but the country cannot afford to have the result tainted by the suspicion of unfairness, wus as teue in substance as it was concise in expression. But when he came to appoint observers of the proceedings of the returning boards at Columbia’ and New Orleans and ‘Tallahassee he selected them exclusively from the republican party. His disposition a few days ago to call democrats as well as re- consultation was wise aud patriotic. But it proved to be only a good prologue of a bad comedy. It} gave occasion for a personal quarrel and for the visitation upon the whole democratic party of the President's anger at the indis- cretion of a single one of its members. Worse than all, it led to his avowal, ina spasm of irritation, that in his relations to the counting of the electoral vote he claims a right to act as chief of,a party und dis- claims any higher ambition thun to be so re- garded. Now, omitting for the moment to consider this fluctuating course of conduct in any other aspect than as an interpretation of President Grant’s own character, its sig- nificance is alarming. It invests the solving of the electoral problem with a grievous un- certainty, ‘There are many contingencies between this time and the 4th of March in which the executive will may turn the balance between conflicting factions of Congress. Itis un infinite public misfor- tune that we can no longer count upon that will to be uniform, rigid and impartial. In the bloody march from the Potomac through the Wilderness to the James River the coun- try never doubted General Grant's unswerv- ing purpose. In the long siege of Peters- burg and Richmond which followed it never doubted the result; tor it trusted his in- flexible resolution. In the combat between President Johnson and Congress it rejoiced when the War Department fell under his control ; for it had perfect faith in his steadi- ness. But who to-day has any faith in President Grant’s consistency of purpose and conduct in relation to the succession to his office? He behaves like a bull-dozed negro. Leave him to himself, or put him under fair influences, and he seems to know his own mind. But let the Chandler and Cameron night riders swoop down upon him and he becomes an easy victim of temper or terror, Considering this unexpected weakness of President Grant and its possible abuse by unscrupulous republican leaders in its re- lation to the fortunes and the future of their party itisa just cause of the most serious alarm to every fair-minded man who is anxious to preserve that party's life and credit. Either party is doomed to shame and destruction which installs a President next March by any means which will not bearthe full blaze of the lime light of pub- lic scrutiny. If Governor Hayes is in- augurated by a partisan exercise of execu- tive force in defiance of a public conviction that his election, to use President Grant's own words, is ‘‘tainted by the suspicion of illegal and false returns,” the republican party is bound to die in aditch, in mud and in rags. The splendor of its past career will only intensity the of a miserable end. It has taken the demo- cratic party sixteen years of wretched wan- dering in the wilderness to recover from its responsibility for secession and rebellion. Often during this long period its life has hung upon athread. But for its masculine publicans into disgrace | nature and the extraordinary vigor of its | partisanship it would have died a hundred times since the April morning when the first cannon shot was fired at Sumter. The re- | publican party, more feminine in its char- acter, less coherent in its composition and more sensitive in its conscience, would wilt and perish within as many months under the shame of as desperate though more in- | sidious an assault upon the liberties of the country by the investment of a usurper with the Presidency. The great need of our country in this hour of perplexity is a union of moderate men to command a satisfactory settiement of the electoral controversy. The disposi- tion of the democratic leaders from that very quarter of the States whence Gov- ernor Tilden drew his chief support invites such a union, It isa feeble expres- sion of praise to style the temper of the Southern democrats in Congress admirable. ‘The natural promoter and guardian of such a union is the President of the United States. It should be made under his auspices and by his invitation. President Grant is the one man of all the forty- five million inhabitants of our land who is commanded by office, by honor, by duty, by patriotism, to set such a high example of impartiality, to show so perfect an illustration of that grand good sense which is the essence of true ehsenmiastaaen that all his fellow citi- zens, of whatever party, who are resolved to settle the controversy fairly shall sccept his leadership. But, in order that he shall take this position, which, firmly taken and steadily held, will not only save | his party from ruin but his country from disorder, the first necessity is to emancipate him from the bull-dozing influences that now are exasperating his temper and warp- ing his will. Who candothis? We answer | unhesitatingly, that if it can be done by anybody it can best be done by the moderate republican Senators who now apparently are holding themselves aloof from the executive councils and abandoning the President to the influence of the Chandlers and the Cam- erons. Senators Sherman, Conkling,- Ed- munds, Frelinghuysen, Jones, Christiancy and Burnside, not to speak of others, owe the country a duty in this relation. No false sense of their Senatorial dignity, and no dread of a rebuff, can excuse them from a speedy and earnest effort to re- call President Grant to his former and | better self. We especially urge this lofty duty upon Senator Conkling. His personal relations to the White House enable him to under- take it with an assurance of success. He enjoys such a measure of the President's esteem that he was his favorite for the suc. cession. He has held himself aloof from all the acrimony ofthe political campaign. Often before this occasion he has shown a keen sense of honor, a high degree of indepen- dence and a warm spirit of patriotism in public emergencies. In his instance op- portunity now waits upon capacity. It is the crisis of his public career. If he will rise to its requirements, if he will speak the words his country yearns to hear--words to allay passion, soothe animosity and com- mand the union of all moderate men—we shall not mourn as now we do that the great political leaders of our fathers—the Web- sters and Clays and Bentons— have mounted to the skies; for we shall know that the prophet's mantle has fallen upon as great a successor, Elijah has gone forever, but Elisha will remain to Israel. Warlike Preparations, From the reports received of the diplo- matic cordiality at Constantinople it may be inferred that all the great Powers will be able to agree among themselves as to what it will be wise and proper to demand of Turkey ; but the inquiry of importance is, Will Turkey consent to do what they agree to require? Turkey has always yielded hitherto, and therefore it is commonly thought that she will yield now; but the kind of helpless complacency with which she has in the past ac- cepted the will of her powerful neigh- bors must have a limit somewhere—she will certainly resist at some point—and it is in the nature of her acts that when she does determine to resist she will do it in some sudden, unexpected and unlikely con- nection. It is this fact that Turkey's actions cannot be counted upon with any certainty that still keeps up the possibility that war may be the final issue of the deliberations at Constantinople, Russia apparently has little faith that the agreement of the Powers at Constantinople, even if satisfactory to her, will be abje.to se- cure the Sultan’s assent to the application of what she regards as the only remedy for the evils of Ottoman misgovernment. She has also abundant faith in her own capacity to enforce her programme by arms. Hence she does not interrupt her prep- aratious pending the diplomatic con- ference; on the contrary she urges them forward, that she may strike promptly and effectively if compelled to strike at all. It is evident that the Sadowa campaign and the recent war in France have profoundly affected the military minds of Russia with the lesson that to strike like the lightning with immediate and tremen- dous blows is the one great secret of success in war. Hence the mobilization of one hun- dred thousand more troops and the inten- tion to pass the Pruth, that the men may be not merely under arms, but separated by the least possible distance from the points at which they are to act in case of war. From the disposition indicated it seems that Russia intends to give the Turkish forces plenty of occupation if the Suitan de- termines to fight. ‘Three lines of advance are already developed—-one from the Can- casus by way of Armenia, and two in Europe. One of these is to be by the old Russian line on Shumla, Selimno and Adrianople; for this is evi- dently what concentration in Eastern Rou- mania means; and the corps in Servia is in- tended apparently to move up the Valley of the Morava, Evidently the ridiculously small estimate cf Russia's force recently made by the Berlin correspondent of the London Jimes is not believed in by the Rus- sian commanders, The Trovps at Petersburg. The message sent to the Senate yesterday in answer to the inquiry whether United States sgldiers were stationed at Petersburg, Va., on the day of election, and if so for what purpose, states that a company was ordered to that point and gives satistactory reasons therefor, provided that it is the duty of the administration to move troops hither and thither on information that a breach of the pence is apprehended. Many may ques- tion whether it is proper or desirable that the United States army should be used as a sort of patrol for such purpose, If a row had occurred at a charter election at Albany in the spring it would scarcely be | regarded as a good cause tor sending federal troops” to that city to insure a peaceful election in November. It is true the con- dition of Virginia may be different trom that of New York, and we are not disposed to ob- ject to the use of the soldiers made by the President in the Petersburg case. Never- theless the message of the President would have been more satisfactory and in better taste, especially at this time, if it had re- frained from casting an unnecessary and apparently unwarrantable slur on the other Congressional districts of the State of Vir- ginia. In tue Brsnon Drvorce Case the hus- band’s statements emphasize our comments in yesterday’s issue upon the miseries of couples apparently happy. The absurd dispute about the existence of the twenty-second joint rule relative to counting the electoral vote, though it is maintained by Speaker Randall and a few democrats in the House, may be said to have substantially closed when the Senate, by an almost unanimous vote, a few days ago sustained the decision of the President pro tem., that it had ceased to exist. That decision was undoubtedly sound, and we advise Mr. Randall to say no more against it. He only makes himself ridiculous and weakens the force of other decisions he may be called on to make us Speaker. The twenty-second joint rule was only a mode of procedure under the constitution, as we pointed out last week. It provided a method for carrying out the constitutional duty of Congress in the counting of the electoral vote. It was framed in 1865 by a joint committee of both houses, of which a majority were republicans, appointed “to ascertain and report a mode of examin- ing the votes for President and Vice Presi- dent of the United States ;” and it is useful to remember that this exact phraseology, commanding the joint committee to report “« mode of examining the votes,” Was used without variation trom 1793 to 1863. During the existence of the twenty-second joint rule, of course, the motion was merely to appoint tellers, as that required. It may be taken as established, therefore, that the constitutional power and duty of the two houses to ‘‘examine” the electoral vote is as well settled as any constitutional point about which there has been no dispute since the foundation of the government. Not ® single Presidential vote has been counted from 1793 to 1872, both inclusive, in which Congress did not assume, by express and formal words, or by action, or by both to- gether, that it possessed the undoubted power and duty to ‘‘examine” the electoral votes. It amazes us therefore to hear from Wash- ington that there are leading and prominent republicans who assert that under the con- stitution the Presfdent of the Senate and he alone has the right to count and scrutinize the vote; that the twenty-second joint rule was unconstitutional and wrong, and that the two houses have no right to “exam- ine” the vote. We have hesitated for some time to believe these reports, but they are confirmed by the arguments we find in re- publican organs, by the conversation of prominent republicans, and not least by the fact that leading republican Senators, such as Senator Morton, having procured the abolition of the twenty-second rule now make no efforts to secure a new rule in its place, looking to the same object. Senator Ferry, the President, pro tem., of the Senate, is reported as saying that, ‘‘ac- cording to the constitution, the presiding officer of the Senate will, in the presence of the two houses, count the votes on the day set apart for doing so ;” and it is further as- serted that, in violation of a custom which has prevailed without a single exception since 1809, the Senate will refuse to go over tothe House of Representatives this year, to open and count the vote, but will ‘‘in- vite” the House to come to the Senate. We have been waiting for some time to hear such republican leaders as Senators Morton, Sherman, Conkling, Edmunds and Blaine give a flat contradiction to such alarming reports by motions in the Senate looking to the formation of a joint commit- tee ‘to ascertain and report a mode of ex- amining the votes for President and Vice President.” It is true that in former and quieter times such a committee was not usually voted until later in the sessiog ; but the Senators we have named must know that on this occasion a beginning ought to be made much earlier, and cannot indeed be made too soon. They ought to remem- ber, too, that they, the republicans, are alone responsible for the nbrogation of the twenty-second rule, which has prevailed since 1865, a rule which they and their party framed, adopted, used and at the last session, in plain view of the present elec- tion, refused to continue and declared of no further effect. Party feeling runs very high nowadays, but the Senators we have named and their party cannot evade the very grave responsibility put upon them by their own acts, continued during nearly twelve years, Nor can they afford to forget what the coun- try certainly remembers, that there are States where the result of the election is in dispute ; that in those three States the re- publican party possessed all the election machinery; appointed all the election officers and returning boards; used federal troops in the hands of federal marshals during the canvass to enforce their own rules; used federal courts and troops after the election to sustain their own returning boards and protect them against the action of State courts, and allowed those return- ing boards to sitand act in secret and de- clare the electoral votes of these States con- trary to the acknowledged official returns, and without explanation of the facts on which the change was made. All this the publio knows and remem- bers; and if to this republican Sena- tors now mean to add an assumption that the President of the Senate, one of their partisans, alone has the right to count and scrutinize the votes so collected ; if, having themselves repealed the twenty- second rule, they do not make haste to frame another, or if they can do no better to re-enact that, then it will certainly be their own fault if the country declares them guilty of the rankest and most disgraceful partisanship, dishonesty and injustice. « We ask Senator Morton, therefore, what he intends to do abont this condition of things which he and other republican Sena- tors have themselves brought about? We ask Senators Sherman, Conkling, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Blaine, and others, what do they intend to do about it? Not one of these but has in other times committed himself most clearly and positively, not only to the powor of Congress to ‘‘éxamine” the clec- toral votes, but to the necessity of a rule of procedure to regulate the manner in which this constitutional power shall be exercised. will not dare to deny it, It may be said that no man in vither house whose opinion | As to the first point, the power of Congress to “examine” the vote, we believe all those we have named are so clearly on the record that they | Morton and | had weight with his fellow members ever denied it. Even as to most of the details of this power they are committed. For in- stance, at the last session Senator Morton introduced and advocated a bill intended to take the place of the twenty-second rule, and one of the sections of this bill provided that where two sets of electoral returns come up from a State, and the two houses cannot. agree as to which is the authen- tie return, both sets shall be thrown out and the State shall lose its vote. Being questioned about this, Mr. Morton defended it at all points, as necessary and just. He said, ‘Ihe effect of this section is to determine which set [of electoral returns] is to be counted, and if the two houses do not agree, neither set is to be counted.” And again, ‘The vote goes out ; the State has no vote ; because unless there is some tribunal to settle which vote shall be counted you cannot count both, and therefore you can- not count either. You must have some tribunal to settle that difficulty, and what tribunal is safer than the two houses of Con- gress?” And again, ‘I do not accept the sug- gestion that the Vice President of the United States has anything more to do in the busi- ness of counting the votes for President. and Vice President than that specific duty which is prescribed for and enjoined upon him by the constitution. That duty is in the pres- ence of the Senate and House of Represen- tatives to open the certificates. There being ; no other duty assigned to him I inter naturally that he is to do nothing more. * * * There can be under the con- stitution no tribunal to decide on that [two sets of returns) or any other question arising in the course of counting the votes. The duty is imposed upon the two houses of Congress. They alone can perform it.” Senator Sherman, agreeing entirely as to the power of the two houses, remarked in the course of the debate, ‘‘The only question before the two houses is as to the form and sufficiency of a return, and that depends on matters rather of a historical character.” Senator Frelinghuysen said, ‘‘The constitu- tion imposes upon the Legislature the duty of making provision for counting the votes.” Senator Christiancy argued that even with- out a joint rule or Mr. Morton's bill it was a reasonable conclusion that if two sets of electoral returns were presented, and the two houses could not agree upon the re- ception of one of the two, ‘There is nothing to turn the scale in favor of either. * * * Could the vote be counted? Certainly not.” It being urged by Senator’ Thurman that it was a serious matter to de- prive a State of its vote, Mr. Morton re- plied:—‘‘There are two sets [of returns]. ‘Nhe Senate resolves in favor of one set, the House resolves in favor of the other sct. There is a disagreement. The Senator from Ohio [Mr. Thurman] said that it was the in- tention that the State should have a vote, and so say I. The intention is that the State shall have a vote, but if the thing is in that condition that Congress cannot determine which ig the correct vote it will be the misfortune of the State if the vote is lost. That is all you can say about it.” Wecould give many other extracts if space allowed. Finally, Senator Morton de- picted the dangers which would arise from the absence of a rule or method in place ot the twenty-second rule, saying :—‘‘There- fore I exhort Senators to avoid this danger by agreeing upon some method. It is not so important what that method is as that there shall be some plan agreed upon that will avoid these dangers that are right before us.” Well, “these dangers” are now just nine months nearer than when Mr. Morton spoke of them last March. Why is he now silent? Why are the other republican Senators silent? Is it because they love party better than country? We do not like to think s0, and therefore we ask and await their reply. Love and Murder. While every murder deliberately planned shows a vicious spirit that shocks every thoughtful man, and while the murder of a woman by a man is a degree stronger of that crime, the premeditated attempt of a lover to take the life ofa woman whom he had wooed with a view of joining his entire life with hers shows:a deeper turpitude. These cases are occurring every few months. It has not been long since a man in Phila- delphia cut the throat of his mistress in daylight, near the entrance of the Park. Again, a few months ago a German killed in Chatham street of this city the woman to whom he had plighted his troth. In both of these cases the marble shafts over the graves of the victims keep silent but awful record that in the name of the law their deaths are to this day unavenged, and the ruffians who cut off their fair lives exist as shameful evidence against the milksop nature of the juries who acquitted them because they were crazy. Tho insanity was in the jury box, and what is the result? An awful arraigument of all such juries was made yesterday by the blood of another victim. A horrible mischance gave to the murderer a name which is the incar- nation of love. Euffene Christ leaves the station house where he had slept and way- lays Mary Kelly at the corner of Twentieth street and Tenth avenue. He shoots three times at the unfortunate woman, and she falls to the ground. He flour- jches his pistol in the air and bonst- ingly shouts that he had told her he would shoot her, as she would not marry him, and he had done it. Then he throws himself on the bleeding woman and kisses her passionately. This act may have been a wild reaction in his mind and the repentance of remorse. We make the prophecy, however, that when the case comes to trial this very revulsion of feeling will be insisted on by his lawyers as sure proof that he was insane, This man would not have committed this deed if the murderers in the two other cases had been hanged. We hope the law will vindicate itself in this case and check these crimes in our cities, Tue Determination, detailed elsewhere, of our City Fathers to light at least one avenue with oil means fight, and taxpayers are hoping for a victory like that gained in Brooklyn, By the fateful light of the kerosene lamp gasmakers our sister city seemed to see a profit in prices which they had previously scorned, but before the dis- covery was made they lost considerable money which the city saved. Wade Hampton’s Inaugural Address. General Hampton was sworn in yesterday as Governor of South Carolina. He deliv« ered an address which is reported in full in our news columns. In this document he recites, with great severity of indignant comment, the proceedings at Columbia during the last few weeks. But he only protests and denounces; he does not suggest any resort to violence. So far from that he praises the moderation of the conservative members of the Legislature for their forbearance, discretion and peace- ful demeanor under circumstances of great provocation. It is the right of an aggrieved party to arraign and expose its opponents, to remonstrate with warmth against their injustice, to hold them up to pub- lic reprobation, and to resort to all legal and peaceful methods for the redress of wrongs. Governor Hampton could not have been expected to “speak with bated breath” on such an occasion, and he will be better able to restrain and control the pas- sions of his people and keep them within the limits of the law by letting them see how fully he shares their indignation, ‘there can be no doubt that he has acquired such a moral ascend- ancy over the citizens of South Carolina that there would be no substantial opposi- tion to his government if the federal troops were withdrawn. He is able to preserve peace, maintain order and tranquillize the State from the instant that the right of local self-government is respected. No intelli- gent observer can doubt that every South Carolina interest would be promoted under an administration so wise, just and conside erate as his certainly would be if outside elements of disturbance were taken away. “Governor Hampton renews with emphasis the pledges he made to the colored citizens of the State during the political canvass, He alludes with grateful appreciation to the large numbers of them who voted the con~ servative ticket, but he declares his purpose and pledges his honor to treat those who voted against him with equal justice, There can be noreasonable doubt either of the sincerity of his promises or of his ability to fulfil them. It is to be deplored that the people of South Carolina are not permitted to have a government which might be so securely relied upon to give them order, contentment and pros perity. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Texas girls chew navy plug. ‘Mr. Evarts bas rooms in Washington. Lester Wallack is registered in Boston. A wild deer was caught at might in @ Crincionat) strect, General Robert C. Schenck, of Obio, is at the Aston House, Samoan girls dancing in the moonlight look like bronze fairids. Thero is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, Hews itt, how you will. Boston thinks that Essipoff plays well, but does not select her pieces well. Cronin, ot Oregon, 18 an Irishman, and he used te live in Nashville, Tenn. ‘The botting merchants would have taken commis. sions on the pool of Siloam. Who was tne ‘brute who said that what Soldene Jacked in skirts she made up in mouth? Senator Burneide’s billiard bald head is now covered with a skull cap, so that he is black bald. Sefior Don Eleuterio Avila, of the United States and Mexican Ciaims Commission, is at the St, James Hotel Danbury News:—“Saturday being a day of intense cold and gevore wind most Danbury people had their 7 coal put tn,” St. Louis Republican:—“‘Edwin Flye is the successor of Blaine in the House, making some one for Butler to “shoo'? when Cox is away.” Some man afraid of monarchism wants to know what shall be the name of the Emperor of New Jersey. How would Apple Jack 1. do? General de Bielsky, Alexander Pletneff, L, Poliakoff and L. Nicholsky, of the Russian Ceatennial Commise sion, are at the Albemarle Hotel. , Boston Post:—‘‘Brace up and bave some style about you,’’ satd @ newsboy to the gentioman who suddenly sat down on the sidewalk yesterday. Henry Meiggs, formerly a great San Francisco spece ulator, and nowa railway capitalist in Chill, is sixtys five years old, He was born at Catskill, on the Hudson, The Washington Chronicle tinds fault with us for printing in this columa an item which was not pare ticularly personal, and then it steals the whole column, as usual, It is said that ex-Secretary Belknap and Mrs. Bel. knap aro writing a book which will give an account of society and political life in Washington during the last five or six years. Tho London Lancet prescribes the following com- pound of snaff to cure cold in the head:—Triswitrate of bismath, six drachms; palverized gum arabic, two drachms, and hydrochlorate of morpbia, two grains. Toledo Blade:—“The speaker at an anniversary meeting mournfully said:—-‘One by one our trienaa are passing trom as into the land of shadows.’ ‘Weil, exclatined an old lady, ‘you wouldn’t have ’em go two be two or all in a huddle, would you?’”” Burlington Aawkeye:—“The bulldoze cocktail hag just made 1ts appearance at the fashionable bars. You must tilt about @ teaspoonful of watcr into the glasa and immediately intimidate it with as much wi as the glass wHl hold, Then, when the count ts made throw the water vat.” The French coat is revived in ladies’ fashions, There are louls XY. and Louis XVL. coats, with pans or tails, baving pockets across the back of them and opened over a waistcoat or ‘vost, all covered with emvroidery, Tho bodice, whiel fits the tigure closely, fails to re- semble in cuta ’s coat—for @ very natural reason, In Washington wedding presents in great number and of unusual magnificence are being ordored tor a Jady whose surname begins with C., it is conjectared from the order for marking. The members of the foreign legations appear to be particularly interested in this wedding, and have ordered very bandsome gaits. The example of Sir Richard Wallace in endowing Paris with that bumane institution, the drinking foan- tain, bas at last been followed by a Frenchman, ove M, Leguay, a retired sugur refiner, who has died, leaving to the city the handsome sum of £16,000 sterling fur the erection of public drinking eames on & modo} Invented by himself, Should an Engish force be sent to Constantinople the foliowing 13 a ‘‘correct card’’ of the officers who are ty hvid the first commands :—Commander-in-Chief, General Lord Napier of Magdala, G. C. B.; second in command, Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Steele, K. ©. B,, and Lieutenant Generals Sir Alfred Horsford, K. C. B., and Sir Charles Ellice, K. C. & ; Major Gen- erals Parke, ©, B., und Stephenson, C. B. The remains of a balloon have just been found on the coast of Iceland, In the car were some buman bones, forming an incomplete skeleton, and a leather travelling bag, in very bad condition, containing papers so deters ora‘ed by wet that the writing could not be deciphered. A conjecture is formed that this is the balloon in which Price ascended during tho siege of Paria, being the only ‘one that was not accounted for. | No doubt the balloon has been 1n tho clouds ever sinee. Evening Telegram :—“The proposition to send Mr. David Dudley Field to Congress tor the brief remnant of this-session 1s growing in favor every day. It was notto be expected that it would meet the approval of Mr. Charles O'Conor and other retired gentlemen who share old-fashioned notions and scruples about purity tn law and politics. But it appeals forcibly to a large part of the 120,000 active democratic voters, who feol that they have no adequate representative of their standard of politics in the presont delegauion. We bave beard tt maliciously said that be voted tor Hayes for President; but evey if it is trae that makes litle diffarence in these timas. ’ he