The New York Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1876, Page 4

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Tuere Berna ao widespread and natural objection to purchasing water by the quart at the price of milk, and to having the water itself spoiled by milk being mixed with it, the action of the Board of Health against adulterators will be read with interest, figure. Frontpa’s Case Dozs not seem settled after all. Our special despatch from Talla- hassee tells how a large republican fraud was unearthed in Leon county by the House Committee, and explains the rejection of other returns whose incorrectness was ad- judged upon a technicality which was a mere quibble. Tuosk Wuo are interested in the condi- tion of the Ocean Bank will tind elsewhere a report of the meeting held by the deposi- tors. A committce of three was appointed to wait upon tho receiver, and in case of failure in procuring a settlement to apply to the Secretary'of the Treasury for relief. As the bank failed in 1871 the depositors cannot be accused of being hasty in taking action. Ix Srrre oy Weatuen in which even the wealthy suffer nothing adequate to the ne- sessities of the poor is yet beingdone. Pub- lic approprintions hang fire in the Board of Apportionment, and private benevolence has not yet come forward to make @@od the deficiency. The old Board of Apportion- ment goes out with the year, and before the new one can do anything the sufferings of the destitute will have become terrible. The sitnation can only be met by the wealthy and by whoever else has a spare dollar. For names of deserving cases see the Hznaxp’s daily reports. Evenrropy Remzempens how the Russian Bear stretched a friendly paw across the sea to us during the dark days of our civil war, while the.British Lionand the Gallic Cock were threatening us with tooth and claw. Our report of the coming Russian fleet will therefore be read with lively satisfaction. Twice before we have shown the Muscovite tars that Americans never forget their friends; but now, while Russia has some enemies of licr own, is the time to outdo our- selves in hospitality. The fact that our old acquaintance the Grand Duke Alexis ac- companies the fleet will stimulate the hearty feeling which is awakened in America by the mero mention of anything Russian, ZEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Admirable Behavior of the Southern Leaders—Will President Grant Rec- ognize It? It can no longer be said that the represen- tative men of the South are Bourbons if that name implies men who ‘‘forget nothing and learn nothing.” No political leaders ever evinced a better aptitude for profiting by experience. The wisdom, moderation and loyalty of the Southern members of Con- gress and other exponents of Southern opin- ion in this critical and exciting conjuncture ought to be met in a similar spirit by the President and by all good citizens. We at- tribute this praiseworthy attitude to the manliness of the Southern character, which has always scorned trick, subterfuge and bluster. After President Lincoln's election they disdained to cripple his administration by political mancuvres, as they might easily have done with a democratic majority in | both houses of Congress. Instead of this they withdrew their Senators and Representatives, reducing tlfeir friends, the democrats, to a minority, and leaving the republicans in full possession of the government. ‘They could not com- promise their character for sincerity. Hav- ing determined to secede they took their measures bold!y and relinquished the ad- vantages they possessed for thwarting Mr. Lincoln by adverse logislation. As soon as their military power was broken by the fall of Richmond they promptly accepted the situation, making no attempt to pro- long the contest by a guerilla war, | which would have cansed the North great tronble, expense and exhaustion. After a manly fight they made a manly sub- mission, Nota sword has been lifted nora musket discharged against the federal gov- ernment since, notwithstanding provoca- | tions trying to the temper of freemen. Their creditable bearing in this crisis is, | therefore, in keeping with the character for directness and sincerity which they have maintained throughout our civil troubles. | ‘The fact that the Southern leaders.are act- ing with remarkable sense, discretion and | loyalty in the present grave emergency is a solid guarantee that the peace of the coun- try will not be disturbed even by the count- ing in of a President whom they do not be- | lieve to have been fairly clected. Assuredly there will be no fighting if Southern men do not countenance it. The blusterers who are ‘invincible in peace and invisible in war” belong to the type who bore the derisive nickname of ‘‘copperheads” during the late struggle. The men | who fonght on that side were called ‘‘Con- federates,” and they did nothing unbecom- | ing the character of soldiers, unless it was | by fighting fora mistaken cause. But even that mistake deserves some indulgence now that the contest is over. They had been nurtured in the State rights doctrine and were true to their convictions. That doc- | trine was a terrible mistake and they paid a | terrible penalty for it. Whatever leniency of judgment may Le proper on that ground there is no call for leniency on the i secre of military conduct, in which they need not shrink from a comparison even with the brave soldiers who fought against them in a better cause. They have seen their error, have frankly abjured it, and are as true in their allegiance to the Union as they were to the confederacy. It is a part of their character to be loyal to any govern- ment whose authority they acknowledge. They have seen enough of war; they know the desolation it brings; they would be Bourbons indeed if experience had not taught them the stupendous folly of an ap- peal to arms to settle a political dispute between citizens of the same country. Such of the ex-Confederates as have not got over their fighting propensities, like Mosby and Shelby, would be more ready te fight to install Hayes if he should be declared elected than to prevent his inauguration. But the cooler, more judicious men of the South will not fight at all. Since they dis- countenance fighting there will be none, This being the real state of the situation we do not see how President Grant can have any just ground of alarm. A great soldier should feel no uneasiness in consequence of the empty bravado of a few vaporing politi- cians. The obscure rumors of a military organization in Indiana and the belt of country which nourished ‘‘The Knights of the Golden Circle” should not disturb any- body. Even when the South was in arms and the copperheads might have fought with brave allies they kept at a safe dis- tance from gunpowder. President Grant can afford to despise them now. It appears, from an interview with the President, published in all the newspapers a week or two ago, that anonymous letters have been sent to him threatening his life. This is too common an experience of men in public stations to be deemed of any impor- j tance. Every head of a government is | menaced in this way in exciting times, and editors of newspapers whenever they stem a tide of popular passions are in constant re- ceipt of such missives. So far as we are | aware itis the usual practice to tear them up or throw them into the fire and think no more about them. The author of an anony- mons threat stamps himself as a coward by the very fact of sending it. If he really meant to take life he would not try to put the intended victim on his guard and ob- struct the execution of his own purpose. It is the device of a coward to act on the fears of persons whom he basely judges by himself. A man of sense and courago should care nothing for this stale trick of poltroons, and he is hardly excusable if, while despising them him- self, he makes use of them for political effect. We are sorry that the President divulged so paltry a fact in the inter- view to which we have alluded. He is not weak enough to attach any personal im- portance to it, and it surely has no value as political information. Its publication is an unworthy means of aspersing opponents and embittering public controversies. President Grant is suffering from his bad associations. He injures his reputation by making cronies and advisers of the Marats and Dantons of his party, who seek to make him an instrument of their selfish purposes, He has caught from the lips of these men lan- guage which does not become the President of the United States. Inone of the recent interviews published by his permission he so far forgot the decorum of his great office as to talkof what he owes to the republican party in this crisis. He is the Chief Magis- trate of forty-five millions of people, and not of a political faction. He owes no debt to the republican party which he should discharge at the expense of equal justice to the whole country. We do not see that he is under a very heavy obligation of grati- tude to the party that made him President. It took him from a permanent, lucrative office of great honor and light duties to put him into a transient place burdened with perplexities, It took him from a position where he received nothing but courtesy and generous appreciation to put him in a bed of thorns and make him a terget for party violence and personal vtu- peration. It deprived him of his | ease, of an employment congenial to his talents and suited to his education, of a position which wou!d have saved him from | the rust of idleness during the ripest years | of his life, merely to strengthen itself by his great popularity in a vulgar struggle for power. In an account current between General Grant and the republican party the balance of indebtedness would be due to him, not from him. He, of all men ever used by a party to save itself trom defeat, owes least to those who conscripted him into politics. Ho has many times declared thot he never sought the office and that | he sacrificed his personal interests in consenting to take it. Heated partisans are still using him for their own ends. Not content with the sacrifices he has already made they now wish him to sacrifice his dignity and sense of justice as a means, for- sooth, of paying the debt he owes them! } This is a little too impudent. Such of President Grant’s admirers as love to revert to his popularity at the head of the army would be glad to see him make a better choice of advisers and be again him- self. He has no real interest apart from the peace and welfare of the Republic. His name will live long after not only the Chandiers and the Camerons, but long after his successor in office shall have been for- gotten. Mr. Hayes or Mr. Tilden will merely stand in the long list of Presidents as one among the number, but so long as our history shall be read General Grant | and his achievements will fill some of its most resplendent pages. His fame belongs not to any political party but to the country, and he should not deface it by any act which his descendants would regret to see recorded in our annals. | 1 | | | | Compromise in Germany. Our despatches to-day indicate that an agreement has been reached between the two parts of the German Parliament on the paints of the code as to which the de- spatches a few days since announced a difference. It will be remembered that the Reichstag is the German House of Rep- resentatives—the Diet of the nation—while the Bundesrath, or Federal Council, is made up of the representatives of the several Ger- man governments of the confederation, just as our Senate is made up from repre- sentatives, not of the people, but of the States. In the Reichstag a bill was recently elaborated somewhat in the nature of a code, as it digested the laws on several important subjects. It was a measure that was looked forward to with much satisfaction by the whole German people for the wisely liberal spirit which characterized some important provisions. But the Bundesrath, in an excessively conservative spirit, refused to ratify some important clauses. This was, in fact, Prussia rejecting the lib- eral propositions of Germany-—for Prus- sia so outnumbers all others in the Federal Council that her voice controls. One of the important points rejected was that press offences should be tried by jury. The compromise leaves the authorities an option on this point. They need not let an offender go before a jury as the law stands—unless they are sure of the jury. Something Rotten in Denmark. His Majesty of Denmark is at loggerheads with his wise councillors of the Rigsdag, and is in a fair way to be short of money. ‘This has nothing to do with the murder of Hamlet’s father, but seems ascrious busi- ness. The King will have, it is true, a pit- tance at his banker's from the indemnity that represents the extinct sound dues, his little income from the sale of stamps, and six,or seven millions gathered from the distilleries. But for the regular budget of taxation the Rigsdag will not vote it and refuses with inflammatory speeches, and makes declarations that if the royal author- ities endeavor to collect/‘the taxes which the Rigsdag does not vote then the people must resist with arms if necessary. Certainly that is the correct.constitutional theory, and we rejoice to observe that “the main voice of Denmark goes withal.” His “Majesty is dis- posed to argue the point, but when temper once gets into the dispute “you cannot speak the State of 2 of reason to the Dane.” He wili stick to his point, and we suspect it will take anew Ministry to settle the differences. The re- fusal of supplies is a great constitutional process, and we may have to try it ourselves one of these days. Tur Preswsxt’s Satany.—The Senate yesterday took up the Message of the Presi- dent, sent to the Senate last session, vetoing the bill reducing the President's salary from | fifty thousand dollars per annum to twenty- five thousand dollars, and sustained the veto. Mr. Conkling voted in favor of pass- ing the bill over the veto, but in so doing only carried out consistently his action of last session and his general opposition to the increase. Mr. Bayard sustained the veto. The country will be very well satis- fied with the action of the Senate. The Presidential salary as it now stands is cer- tainly moderate enough, and no one would desire to see it reduced. Ir Wovtp Szem that timo alone will show what advantage, if any, will arise from the change in freights made at the recent con- ference of the directors of trunk lines, The | views of some of our leading merchants are | given in‘another column. The question is whether trade will be diverted trom New York in favor of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston, or whether New York is'to have hor fair share, Polo and Cavalry Tactice—Misjudged Economy. In another column we present the views of the West Point authorities concerning polo as an auxiliary to cavalry exercise. With the quick perception of trained and experienced soldiers they admit the merits of the game, though we apprehend that the influence of long habit has bred an extreme attachment to the old methods. It would be unseemly in us to differ too boldly upon | any point of military training with officers of the ability and experience of General Scho- field or Colonel Beaumont. Woe theretore defer with great respect to their opinions, while venturing the belief that polo is far superior to the traditional riding-hall tactics as a method of training cavalrymen. In the riding- hall feat of ‘cutting heads” and jumping hurdles the trooper performs set tasks which after iong practice come to be merely mechanical, both horse and rider cxecuting automatically the manwuvres demanded of them. The polo player, on the contrary, has no such easy advantage. His move- ments must necessarily be sudden and un- premeditated and his mind perpetually on the alert. The cutting of a fixed ‘‘head” compares with the stroke at a flying polo bali about as a shot at a sitting bird com- pares with a shot uponthewing. Theaction ofthe polo player can never become auto- matic. As the ball shifts like lightning from place to place he must follow it at every fickle turn, not knowing until the very instant how and at what point his stroke is to be delivered. He can no more plan ‘out his feats beforehand than cal- culate the next ‘figures of the kaleidoscope. This continual alertness, this necessity of quick and accurate strokes deliveréd in all imaginable postures, this familiarity with the mélée and this necessity of doing prompt and perpetual brainwork for both man and horse, form what we conceive to be the best possible exercise for the development of a perfect cavalryman. We submit the opin- ion, with our respects, to the learned and skilful authorities of the Military Academy, and we feel sure that when they have seen a game of polo in full action they will deem it not only a valuable adjunct, but an actual necessity to their system. The approval both of instructors and cadets is not, we regret to say, sufficient to cause the adoption of this desirable addition to the West Point tactics. It is a humiliat- ing fact that the provision for the wants of the Academy is too scanty to permit the slight expense of such an innovation. The institution is even suffering for absolutely necessary things. Last year Congress very parsimoniously refused an appropriation for the completion of the new hospital, already half constructed, notwithstanding’ the fact that the Board of Visitors had condemned the old hospital building as ‘utterly unfit for that purpose.” A new water supply is urgently needed, last summer's drought hay- ing amply proved the insufficiency of the present one. We believe Congress even voted away the Superintendent's small con- tingent fund, leaving no provision for the entertainment of visitors, of whom there are many of distinction every year from all parts of Europe. The nation owes a debt of gratitude to West Point. It is an institu. tion to be cherished and liberally dealt with, even from more selfish motives than that of gratitude. In addition to an ample appro- priation for ordinary needs Congress should provide a reasonable contingent fund to be used at the disctetion of the Superintend- ent. When the judgment of that trusted officer approves the introduction of so valu- able an exercise as polo his decision should not be made to wait upon the restraint of niggardly and undiscriminating economists, Let Congress attend to this matter and deal with a just if not generous hand. The Weather—A General Snow Storm. Yesterday morning rain or snow fell east- ward of the Mississippi and from Canada to the Gulf. The greatest precipitation is recorded at New York and Boston, where nearly one inch of water has fallen in the forms of rain and snow since the storm com- menced. At New London and Philadelphia ' | | | the fall was .70 of an inch; Portland, Me., | .44; Bangor and - Montreal, .42, and Baltimore, .40, At New Orleans .67 of an inch of rain fell, but was not due to the influence of the storm centre that has just passed near New York. An area of very high pressure is central in the Lower Mississippi Valley, and « depression is moving across the Gulf. The contact of the cold and warm atmospheres of these areas has resulted in condensation which cansed the heavy rainfall at New Orleans. The gale on the Texas coast was also due to the proximity of the areas of high and low pressure. The storm centre which passed near New York city yesterday followed the western side of the Alleghanics, as predicted inthe Henaty. It moved eastward between Albany and this city and passed off the coast at Cape Cod. Snow is now falling over a large area, which extends eastward from Indianapolis to the Atlantic and north- ward of Philadelphia. A very low temper- ature prevails in the West, Northwest and in Canada. We shall begin to ex- perience this cold this afternoon, A depression is moving very far to the north in Manitoba and may descend into our territory when the high pressure has shifted to the coast. We print else- where a very full account of the effects of yesterday's storm and the discomforts suffered in city travel. We regret that several serious accidents have occurred from slippery sidewalks, but, fortunately, the snow soon covered the icy coating on the streets and gave a surer footing to pedes- trians. The weather in New York to-day will be cold and cloudy, or partly cloudy, possibly with light snow, followed by falling temperature and clearing skies. Jupce Bonp's Casz.—The House of Rep- resentatives is not always carried away by partisanship when called upon to act ona political question. Yesterday the House refused to adopt a resolution offered by Mr. Warren, of Massachusetts, directing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the act of Judge Bond fin releasing the members of the Canvassing Board in South Carolina from custody, with o view to his impeachment if he | { nate. The Henaxp does not propose to drop exceeded his power. Judge Bond’s act is of questionable legality, and he has not gained credit by his course in South Carolina. But his decision must be reviewed by the Su- preme Court of the United States, to which an appeal has been taken. It is therefore not a subject for the action of the House, at least at present, and the resolution was properly rejected. Secking a Remedy. The Senate yesterday, on the motion of Mr. Edmunds, took up and passed the resolution for the appointment of a commit- tee of seven Senators to act with the House committee in devising means to count and declare the electoral vote. Mr. Edmunds | will, of course, be on this committee, and his conservative views and fairness will make him one of its most valuable members. He has evinced an earnest desire to arrive at s solution of our present difficulties, and if one of his propositions looking to that end did not seem to us to bea desirable way out of the trouble we are prepared to give the Senator from Vermont full credit for the most excellent in- tentions, The joint committee, which will no doubt embrace some of the best men in both houses and of both political parties, is the best tribunal to-receive, digest and dis- cuss all propositions looking to the desired end, and Senator Edmunds does well to withhold his own further plans until he can submit them to the consideration of the committee. Senator Wright’s bill, intro- duced to-day, does not refer to the count and the declaration of the resuit in the joint convention of the two houses, as re- quired by the constitution, bnt seeks to provide a legal appeal to the courts, after a President or Vice President has been declared elected, by any candidate who considers that the decision is not in accordance with the actual result of the election. It gives the defeated candidates for President and Vice President the same opportunity for a civil contest as the laws afford to other civil officers,. The bill might, however, be referred to the joint committee as relating to the business of the electoral vote. It seems to be complicated in its pro- visions, and we doubt whether any bet- ter method will ever be devised for the settlement of disputes over the electoral vote of a State than an appeal to the State courts, provided the authority of the courts is not swept aside by military power. Madhouse Abuses. Mr. Townsend's lecture on the treatment of the insane commands attention through the lecturer's practical knowledge of kis | subject, and from a lawyer who carefully weighs his words we therefore’ get knowl- edge of our asylums which is terribly hu- | miliating. The boasted precautions of 1872 | and 1874 are found to be at best only half | way measures. When o Commissioner of } Lunacy was appointed, and invested with | all needed powers as an inspector, the relatives of insane persons fondly hoped that their friends would be protected against inhumanity, but Mr. Townsend believes | that the office was created in the interest of asylum officials, and hé’n@vises its abolition so that the abused and their friends may be saved from illusive hopes for justice. Mean- while things go on in the good old way. Superintendents deny all charges; govern- ing boards, who know little or nothing about the treatment of patients, consider that their principal duty is to whitewash the superintendent, brutal nurses lie without stint and honest attendants cannot speak the truth without losing their positions. To make matters worse, it is almost impos- sible’to use in the courts any of the testi- mony that is offered by the sufferers, for the fact that they are or ever have been inmates of an asylum is prejudicial to them in their capacity of witnesses, Defective as the New York laws on insanity are, those of most other States are a great deal worse. It is, therefore, the duty of the press, whose united efforts no villany can long withstand, to ceaselessly agitate this | subject until the public understands what chambers of horrors exist in every State un- der the guise of asylums for the unfortu- the subject until lunatic asylums become what they profess to be, and until it is im- possible for any combination of brutal nurses and incompetent superintendents to outdo in secret the horrors of the Inquisi- | tion. bes A Word to P: dent Grant, We ask the President to take care that he does not in these last days of his public life fatally stain his own fair fame. If he acts | according to his intemperate and unconsti- tutional language he may do the country a great injury; but he is sure in any case to leave the Presidency an object of*contempt and disgust to the very men whom he must meet face to fuce in Europe. They will in- evitably regard him as an ignorant and reck- less partisan and not as a statesman or patriot; as the fit ieader of a taetion in Mexico or Bolivia, but as most unfit to have ruled a great nation, or to associate on terms of equality with themselves, the states- men whorule Etrope. It will require all his efforts during the remainder of his term of office to redeem himself from the ridicule and aversion with which the most eminent statesmen of England and other European countries will be filled by an utterance of which he ought {o know not one of them, from the highestto the lowest, is capable, and which, if one of them used it, would drive him from public life in irretrievable disgrace. General Grant is not the ‘‘repre- sentative” of a party; he isthe President of the whole people; the President of the democrats as well as of the republi- cans, Let him {ake great care to remember this. He cannct afford to act a partisan part in the events of the next few weeks, The very threat to do so is a revolutionary. an unconstitutional and dangerous act in him. Can he not see that when ho thns announces himself as a mere partisan he invites and challenges opposition from the other party; that he solicits suspicion and justly alarms and repels all tair-minded men? The most honorable men of | both parties in Congress are coming | together to prepare a measure tor “examining” the electoral vote. Does the President, as the “representative” of a | party, mean to oppose end to veto any bill | they may agree upon if it shall not happem to favor his party purposes? The scrutiny of the votes in the disputed States goes on. Does the President mean to support the Louisiana Returning Board in resisting the demands of a Congressional committee to see its work? Does he mean to interpcse himself, as the “representative” of a party, between the country and the discovery 0% wrong inthose States? Is hesocompletely the victim of the Camerons, Chandlers, Mor- tons, Logans and other extreme partisans that he cannot see how these men are, with a contempt they scarcely conceal, using him for their ends? Does he imagine that they did not perceive long ago that he was ignorant of civil affairs, and therefore a fit tool for them, because they can easily de- ceive him? General Grant means to travel in Europe. How does he hope to face the men he must meet there? How can he escape their keen and cynical contempt, if in these weeks when a great question is to be honorably decided, he docs not rise above the petty ‘‘representative” of a party? And where, we ask him, will he be if, when divested of the power, influence and respect of the Presidency, once more a private citizen, he shall figure only as the “representative” of a party? Can he not see the painful, the ludicrous, the humili- ating future he is preparing for himself? Troops in Washington. We can discover no good reason either for alarm or invective at the fact that a few ad- ditional companies are arriving at Washing. ton. The District of Columbia is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the national govern. ment, and the objections to the employ- ment of federal soldiers to do police duty in the States have no application to the national capital. Tho government is responsible for the maintenance of order in the District, and it can employ its own troops for that purpese as f.eely as the States can employ their militia for maintaining peace within their own limits. If there should be an outbreak in this city our uniformed regiments would be called out to suppress it, and they are always at hand for such a service on two or three hours’ notice. ‘Their practice of parading on gala days not only affords a splendid spectacle to enliven the streets, but is of great public util- ity in exhibiting to the dangerous classes the overwhelming force they would hav to encounter if they should give way to their evil passions and stir up a riot, The federal troops may be just as legiti« mately employed at the capital for purposes of protection and warning. There is na probability of violence and disorder at Washington during this exciting winter, but even its possibility makes the presence of soldiers in the neighboring barrack¢ and forts a wise measure .of precaue tion. In this peaceful city of New York we should all object to the disband. ing of our local regiments as we would to the suppression of insurance com« panies. There is hardly one chance in a thousand that any particular man’s house will be burned, but he would feel anxious and nervous if it were not insured. The very presence of an adequate military force in the vicinity of Washington will probably prevent a necessity for calling on it for any service. It is a safe thing to have them there until the public mind shall have settled into its ordinary state-of political apathy. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, One may fry onions with call’s liver. Howell says tbat Satan has a fine intellect, A man who 1s sweariug off should eat much, The trost has almost destroyed the Fiorida orange crop. Italians like veal cutlets fried in a thin batter of cheese. A nice stew may be made of kidneys and mushe rooms. The Oakland (Cal.) News has suspended. It was ¢ good paper. The ourang of tho Worcester Press calis a Retarning Boara a boomerang. Rear Admiral Agustus I. Case, United States Navy, is at the Gilsey House. ‘The Chicago Post nominates Gencral Grant for United States Senstor from Iilinois, * Calcutta makes 40,000,000 bags a year, half of which aro sent to California wheat growers. Mr. Robert M. Reynolds, United States Minister to Bolivia, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Aldrich, the foet, would like to import some polite and ctyi! Paris hackmen for New York. ‘The Hon, John Young has been appointed sole Com: | missioner for Canada to tho Leyden Exhibition, Mr. Conkling says that there 1s some foundation for the rumor that be may leave political for protessional Ufe. Coleridge, with a humility that should not be without its lesson, designated some of his poems “rhymed prose.’” Thackeray:—“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new," An English critic says:—“‘A man may talk the purest rubbish in the purest English, pertect in style, faultless in grammar," ‘ Onions and celery are good for the nerves, The head- line writer of the Chicago Times eats onions, whether he gets much celery or not, There are some white men sent every year to the New York Legislature who bave no better education or morais than the Soutbern negro. Norwich Bullelin:—‘Mr, Sankey’s song, ‘Hold the Fort,’ has been arranged as a waltz for the piano. If is popular among those who hold the pianoforte.” ‘The influence of art cotlecting bas reached California, An old woman of San Francisco was found dead in @ garret, where she had four trunks full of pitchers. Henry Watterson, in Courier-Journal:—“When Grant took the sword of Lee he perhaps didn’t think that he might some day have to surrender a rebel army him- setl.”? Evening Telegram :—A colored minister in Jersey City has closed his church after preaching an entire year for $2. He was not willing to work for such @ deuce of a salary.”? Darwin says that the different phases of emotion express themselves naturally 1m a man’s actions. This fact fas irequently been noticed in a man who sat down on a new silk hat, Thero is a New Jersey butcher who tries to give away yellow pups to his customers, Ho gave away twenty-seven belore his customers found that he wae selling more meat than formerly, Mr. Talk, im Louisville Courier-Journal:—"'Clove. jand young Women write comments on the margins of the library wovels they read, Ove emotional creature writes:—‘the pangs of love is gratei have ben there my solt.’ ”” Representatives Cox and MacDougall, of Now York; Rice, of Ohio; Waddell, of North Carolina, and Wells, of Mississippi, the Congressional committee, arrived in the city yesterday from Washington and are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Tue New York World has resumed its old size as an evidence of prosperity. Typograpbically the World is now very beautiful, greatly resembling the Spring- field Hepublican, with some snprovements, On the editorial page the writing of the editor in chief is dis. linguished from that of his stail by a different size of lypo—a method which adds a certain porsonality toa portion of the paper.