The New York Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1876, Page 4

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Miter as far North as Harrisbarg and as tar South as | Washington by special newspaper train, ran by Adams Express Company, at the usual rat From our reports : this morning the probabilities | | are that the weather in New York to-day will be slightly colder and partly cloudy or clear, Jollowed toward night by increasing cloudiness. | Watt Street Yestenpay.—The bear move- | ment in stocks still continues. Prices were generally lower. Gold receded from 107 1-8 to 107, and closed at the first named figure. Money on call loaned at 7, 6, 5, and finally at 6 per cent. Government and railway bonds were generally steady. Not Aut DistrEssep Americans are at home, as our London letter will show. Partantunortsts Wro Are Ovt of work will | find something of interest in the last half of “The Cry for Bread” in to-day’s Henaup. MEn oF Straw are not usually of much consequence ; but those to whom we devote two columns to-day have done more mischief than whole regiments of good flesh and blood. Tur Prrxcrpat Worx of the House yester- | day could have been done a hundred times cheaper if Uncle Sam was in the habit of going into the open market for his men, See repori. Ayotner Gotp Mixer Reronren.-—This time | it is in the Third Disirict Court House, According to the evidence given in another column the prospectors struck paying rock some time ago, but failed to keep their | secret. ‘Tae Prrenps or THE LactomeTer may well be grateful that Orange county cows are not | competent to do jury duty in New York; for | the evidence given in the Schrumpf! case | yesterday was grossly insulting to every pet of the dairy. Exrraprrion Wirn EnoGianp.—General | Grant sent to Congress yesterday, | with a message, the latest correspondence of the State Department with the English | government in reference to the extradition of persons charged with crimes. These papers give the official statement of the | facts that were laid before the public in our | cable despatches several days since. Al- though the facts were given by the telegraph in clear and accurate outline, the concession as made by the British government was such a piece of diplomatic nicety that the cable was perhaps unable to do it jus- tice. Her Majesty's government expresses its desire ‘not to be understood to recede from the interpretation which in its previous correspondence it had put! upon the treaty,” yet does, in fact, sim- ply and strictly “recede from that inter- pretation.” It agrees toaurrender crimi- nals as the United States demanded, and as England refused to surrender them, but | desires still to be understood as maintaining the grounds of its refusal in theory, while | yielding the position in fact. It is scarcely a true view of the dignity of a great govern- | ment to bave such an anxicty to be ‘‘let | down easy. | ernor Stearns, who has a deeper stake in the | vassing Board to meet in his office yester- | obedience to the judicial mandate. | action of the Supreme Court of Florida | showed that, in the opinion of that tribunal, | the first canvass was illegal, | agers in Washington with consternation. | to this kind of proceedings that it is not | | thing ; but unabashed violations of law are | jot water or steam is not to be thought of. | tiny which they have incited against a judi- | cial decision will be interpreted by the A New Complication in Florida. A sudden change has come ‘‘o'er the spirit of my dream” in Florida—a change fitted to damp democratic hopes and thicken the per- plexity which besets the Presidential ques- tion, The despatch from Tallahassee which we printed yesterday seemed to indicate that the dispute respecting the Florida elec- tion was ina fair way to settlement. Gov- result than any other man in the State, bowed to the decision of its Supreme Court and advised the Canvassing Board to obey its order. Secretary of State McLin had notified the other members of the Can- | to recanvass the votes in | The day morning and the re- publican Governor, who has had so many motives to study the question and acquire a complete knowledge of the facts, was un- able to find any valid ground of opposition to the order of the Court. If the matter was to be left in the hands of the State authori- ties there would probably be a new canvass of the votes, with a probable reversal of the former result. This prospect filled the republican man- If it should be established by the new can- yass that Florida was really carried by Til- den all chances of making Hayes the next | President would collapse. The republican leaders in Washington, therefore, deter- mined to forestall such a calamity at all hazards. There were intimations to this effect in our Tallahassee de- spatch yesterday, but they seemed hardly credible. Our correspondent communicated a rumor that instructions | had been telegraphed from Washington to | disregard the order of the Court, declaring | that no backward step must be taken, and | | saying that Judge Wood, of the United States Circuit Court, was on his way to Tallahassee. Strange and astounding os it may seem, the incredible rumor of Tuesday was trans- formed yesterday into an accomplished tact. The instructions from Washington proved to be no fiction. The mandate of the high- est judicial tribunal of the State, whose binding authority had been recognized by Governor Stearns, was boldly trampled under foot. A notice was served on At- torney General Cocke by Secretary of | State McLin, that the meeting of the Board of Canvassers would not be held. It had been suddenly decided to disregard and | defy the mandate of the Supreme Court, not because the republican State officers deemed it illegal, but because intrusive party lead- ers in Washington had urged them to re- tuse obedience. They were in danger of being arrested and punished for contempt of court, but they were reassured on this head by information that Judge Wood, of Montgomery, Ala., was on his way to Talla- hassee to discharge them on habeas corpus, as Judge Bond did the Canvassing Board of | South Carolina. This was the first attitude assumed by the administration. leaders in the State. But they evidently became frightened, and at- tempted to juggle with the situation by sud- denly holding a meeting of the Board. Despite the protests of the Attorney Gen- | eral, the Board, while recanvassing | the vote, took care to throw out a whole county and accepted several illegal returns while the true ones were be- fore them. The whole proceeding was a flagrant violation of both law and common | sense. To first refuse to obey the order of | the Court and then attempt to cheat that | tribunal by a hurried and illegal canvass | shows how desperate these men have become. The country is becoming so accustomed likely to be startled or surprised at any- not excused by their frequency. It isan aggravation of such offences to repeat | them. They might be committed once from haste or inadvertency, but they can be persisted in only by deliberation and in pursuance of a settled purpose, There is real ground for alarm when the de- | cisions of courts of justice are braved and defied at the instigation of distant party managers who assume to overrule the judgment of the regular tribunal. Pray, who clothed them with an- thority to supervise judicial proceedings ? By what law or under what color of law do politicians in Washington erect themselves into a court of appeals from the highest ju- dicial tribunal of a State, and decide, with- out a hearing and without argument, at the distance of several hundred miles, that the Supreme Court of Florida has made an iile- gal decision? This resistance to the highest tribunal of a State, when the Governor and ail the State officers had bowed to it, does not admit of any explanation which can reflect credit on the Washington intermeddlers. The mu- country as an admission that they dare not have the Florida count reviewed. They seem to fear exposures which will prove that the first count was illegal or fraudulent. They are unwilling to risk Mr. Hayes’ chances by allowing the curtain to be litted on the real state of the vote, What is this but a confession that Mr. Hayes’ claim to Florida is too weak to stand a sern- tiny? If he really carried the State why should his supporters have any fear that a | re-examination of the returns would over- throw his pretensions? As an ordinary rule it is not truth but fraud that dreads the light and shrinks from inquiry, and the party re- script from Washington to dety the Supreme Court of Florida and fight off a new canvass of the votes looks too mueh as if its abettors | were painfully conscious that the truth is not on their side, and that they have strong motives for hiding it. The fact that the State leaders disobeyed the injunction to resist thd Court does not relieve the Wash- ington Directory from censure in the | premises. One of the most disreputable features De these extraordinary proceedings is the ap- | parent readiness o federal circuit judges to lend themselves as pliant instruments of | party leaders, We need not go back to the | question, sorahan Judge Durell and tae. jac ‘midnight order,” so strongly denounced by republican committees of Congress, by which the choice of the people of Louisiana was nullified » few years since. Durell “committed suicide to save himself from | slaughter,” or, in plain language, he resigned his office to escape impeachment—a confes- sion of guilt which precludes other judges from pleading his action as a precedent. But Judge Bond, who hastened from Balti- more to Columbia to assist in a party scheme, has not yet committed judicial suicide, and we suppose Judge Wood, who is on his way to Tallahassee on a similar errand, will take | Judge Bond fora model. When the latter | went to South Carolina, two or three weeks in advance of the time for holding his court, it was industriously denied that he had any political purpose. merely to prepare for the opening of his court; but subsequent facts demonstrated that this was a false pretence and that the real object of his early visit was to be on the ground to grant writs of habeas corpus to cireumvent the action of the State Su- preme Court in the interest of the repub- lican party. His lending himself to be a tool of party was a judicial scandal, and he was so conscions that he had made an untenable decision that he arranged with the Associate District Judge for a disagreement which would carry the case up to the Supreme Court of the United States for final adjudication. He knew well enough that the appeal could not be decided in season to redress the wrong, and he must rest under the charge of hav- ing prostituted his judicial office to partisan demands, It seems too evident that Judge Wood has consented to tread in the footsteps of Judge Bond. He is on his way to Tallahassee at the beck of unscrupu- lous Washington politicians. He goes | there to re-enact the part played by Judge Bond at Columbia, and nullify a decision of the highest State Court. It is expected that the Supreme Court of Florida will arrest the members of the Canvassing Board for con- tempt, and Judge Wood is to be on the ground to release them on writs of habeas corpus. There has never been in our poli- tics anything quite so scandalous and de- plorable as this ready prostitution of judi- cial functions to partisan ends. The public mind, which reaches just con- clusions without going through the tedious forms of law, will have no difficulty in esti- mating this outside interference with the action of the Florida courts. It will shock | and repel all candid minds. Their censure will not be softened by attempts to assassi- nate the reputation of the Florida judges. If they are unworthy of confidence that fact should have been discovered before. No- body thought of impugning their integ- rity until they decided, three days ago, that the Florida votes ought to be recanvassed, andthe trumped up charges against them will be regarded as inventions of partisan malice and disappointment. If Hayes really car- ried the State why should his supporters violate every rule of decency in fighting off a new scrutiny of the returns? What Are You Going to Do About It? The presidents and officers of our street railroad companies have kindly notified the | public that on one point in regard to the popular demand for warm cars they are all agreed. They have no idea of paying any attention to the subject or of granting any relief to the suffering people this year, and practically repeat the famous “What are you going to do about it?” Some of them are gracious enough to admit that it would be de- sirable if their death pedlers’ wagons which they call horse cars could be conveniently heated, but they all profess to find in- superable objections to every plan pro- posed for that purpose. Stoves are of course out of the question on crowded lines. The weight of the chaufferette and the water, one railroad authority declares, would re- quire an extra pair of horses to drag it. To be sure the whole arrangement filled with water would not weigh over one hundred and fifty pounds, or about the average weight of a passenger, and we certainly never knew a street car conductor to refuse to squeeze one extra fare on to his platform out of compassion for the horses. Another expert in the art of making passengers uncomfortable declares that the wet leather of boots coming in contact with the hot plates would cause so offensive an odor in the car as to drive the people out. But this indjvidual finds nothing objection- able in the foul, pestilential air of one of the | close, decayed, dirty night cars on the Third avenue line, packed like a sardine box with human beings, not all of the most cleanly order. It has long been evident that the people who have foolishly given away valuable franchises to these greedy, grasping compa- nies can expect no voluntary relief from their officers. If the passengers are to be protected at all it must be through the action of the Legislature or the Common Council. A bloated corporation like the Third Avenue | Railroad Company, which is piling up divi- dends by the one hundred per cent, trusts probably to the strength of the money made through the people to defeat the just de- mands of the people. The experience of the | past would appear to justify this confidence. But if the Alderman who has manifested a disposition to compel the companies to yield | something to the public does not turn out to be another Killian we may yet bring the rail- road people to terms. Cuavuncucorxe Witt Be numbered among the lost arts if any more accidents like that | at Astoria take place. There is a touching sense of fitness about the lightness of church galleries, for they seldom have to support more than their own weight ; festly improper that when for any reason this rule is broken the galleries should break too, Eviences or Tue Inspinatioy of the Bible are seldom offered in earthly tribunals, but, after learning from our court reports of the service which a disappointed contractor asks of the law, the most materialistic reader will appreciate the profundity of St. Paul's sentiment, that ‘the law was made for sin- ners,” It was proclaimed by | | telegraph that he was so early on the ground but it is mani- | The Railway Controversy. Now that the agreementgbetween the “trunk lines” is published we tre confirmed in the views expressed by us at the time it was entered into. The railway officials made a great mistake in not giving it out at \"once to the press. A contract affecting so many and such widely extended interests could not long be kept secret, and while its contents were only partially known repre- sentations were necessarily made and ac- cepted according to the prejudices or pur- poses of the parties. If the managers of the the industriously circulated” reports that they had failed to protect New York they have only themselves to blame, The full | text of the agreement is a complete answer | and vindication. The contract declares its purpose to be to establish equal rates to the seaboard upon all competitive busi- ness and to equitably adjust that which is purely local, and provides that all busi- ness shipped through any port upon through | bills of lading, or shipped to any port locally and then reshipped or exported, shali be competitive and at the equal rate, and that the elevator, lighterage and ter- minal charges shall also be upon the same basis. There was a time when New York controlled the whole of the export, and, therefore, most of the import trade of the country. Since science has tunnelled moun- tains and carried railways over their sum- mits, and shorter distances and superior | local facilities and advantages have cheap- ened transportation to and from rival cities, the discrimination alwnys heretofore allowed them has told more heavily every year against this city. It was plain that if this policy continued we must ultimately lose a good portion of our trade, while upon equal terms we could not only retain all we have, but regain what has been diverted. The wealth, power and prosperity of this city are due to and depend upon its commerce, and if that is fostered and protected by our railroads they have performed their duty. By this agreement they have succeeded in revolutionizing the principles which have governed in one form and another the traffic of the continent and neutralizing any advantages possessed by other seaports. The mileage basis is done away with, geographical location is ignored, the cheaper handling and stor- ing of other cities is adjusted, and dur merchant receives and exports his goods upon a total freight charge pre- cisely the same as that paid at either of the competing cities. Except during the recent disastrous railroad war we have always had an allowance of from thirteen to twenty-four per cent against us, and even during its continuance the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road maintained a difference of about ten per cent, all of which is now swept away. Thus ninety per cent of our business, and that which chiefly concerns us as a great mercantile community seeking to make and keep New York the exporting and importing and distributing centre, is relieved from an onerous and dangeroustax. While we would have been still better satisfied if the Balti- more and Ohio and the Pennsylvania roads had not insisted upon the privilege of dropping on their way to New York the freight destined for local use and consumption in their respective cities upon a basis which retained, in a modified form, | the old mileage difference which formerly governed all traffic, yet, restricted as it is to a limit that prevents its disturbing our local business, it was not of sufficient importance to peril the greater gain by refusing to con- cede it. While the New York roads by this arrangement have gained a great point for themselves and for this city, the Pennsylva- nia and Baltimore and Ohio railroads have shown sagacity and wisdom in no longer pursuing a course calculated to destroy the railroad property of the whole country for | the purpose of preventing a settlement which at some time was inevitable. If the agreement is faithtully adhered to it will be a most fortunate ending of the most disastrous railroad war in our history. American News in Europe. of the kind of opinions and statements of facts which contribute to give to the average European inind its ordinary impressions as to what sort of people we are in this coantry. our current history than the large majority of newspapers in Europe, and has superior opportunities to form intelligent opinions of | us. If, then, the Times errs thus, how must it be with the others ? Apropos, doubtless, to the publication of | the message and documents, the Times con- | gratulates us upon the splendid financial | | Speci itically upon the elevation of our credit | from the level of that of Turkey to a position | superior to that of France. Perhaps it would | be unhandsome to be critical with one who is choosing his strongest illustration with a view to do‘ you most honor. ‘Odds fish! must one swear to the truth of a song,” is an old saw that covers an instructive view of | good manners ; and this Pindaric view of ‘our credit is in the nature of a | song. But yet that word Turkey is difticnlt to get over. It is absurd to compare the credit of our government with that o¢ Turkey. As to the comparison with France, | we regret that we cannot altogether agree |, With the sanguine view. If the judgment of the Times is formed upon a consideration of our resources—our real wealth—and the com- | tainly it is just to rank us as financially higher in the scale than France ; but our opinion of the world of investors. As to the wild story of military organiza- tions in the South the correspondent has been hoaxed. It would form a quaint chap- ter in the history of the curiosities of news- paper literature if it were shown in how great a degree the more extravagant miscon- ceptions of this country have been due to theineradicable habit of playing upon the credulity of strangers by relating to them as extreme flights of the imagination. Tar MeNonia1 Forwanpep Yestrnpay to Congress by the solid men of New York is a noble document, and one which should be New York roads have suffered in any way by In another column will be found a budget | This budget is published in the London | Times, which is infinitely better informed of | | light rain fell at New Orleans. achievements of the years since the war, and | parison of these with our burdens, then cer- | credit is certainly not equal to hers in the | sober truths fictions conceived only in the | | may not push her case unduly, she certainly | strument should prove inadequate Europe | ocean the present weather will favor quick | Bridge” read the bids for wire and the re- | the negro is not above adopting the tactics 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT duplicated by every city in the land. Pol- iticians, and even conscientious legislators, need an occasional reminder that govern- ment was made for man, and not man for government, and no one can do this service with such grace and power as large property owners. Contumacious Turkey. Although the formal answer of the Sultan as to his acceptance or rejection of the re- | forms proposed by the conference was not to be given until the session fixed for to-day | there are already some indications that this | answer will be an adverse one, and that con- sequently the operations of the conference will proceed no further, and that war will follow, It is reported, for instance, ri the Coun- cil established by the new constitution sat yesterday for the first time and voted for war. We are to presume apparently that the Sultan in the performance of his part as a constitutional sovereign had submitted the proposed reforms to this body, as re- quired by the new law. Evidently, there- fore, if this body has in the performance of its constitutional function advised him to fight rather than accept the conditions it is sought to impose, he is placed in a dilemma by the very machinery contrived in his interest to take the wind out of the sails of his European guardians. He wishes to make it appear to Europe that the constitution just promulgated is not merely waste paper, and conseqnently he cannot disregard or contemptuously put aside the first application of its principles. | He must show the sincerity of his purpose by acting on the constitutional indication. Yet itis clear that he might wish at this moment to be in possession of his full free- | dom to accept the terms which united Europe dictates, and thus his constitution troubles him at the very start. Our special despatches aiso indicate that there is little hope fora peaceful answer, since they regard Russia's failure to secure the concentration of her troops in time as affording the most substantial ground for supposing that there will be no war. It was expected that Russia would have three hun- dred thousand men in position ready to cross the Danube by the expiration of the armistice--that is, by the end of the year. There are that many Turkish soldiers, it is believed, on the Danube _ be- tween Widin and Varna, counting one ‘hundred and fifty thousand of the reserve. These hold a double line of defence, of which the second is the line from Shumla to Varna, and the plan of operations upon which they are posted is said to have been drawn up by General Klapka at Constanti- nople. There is no doubt that half of the command on this line—one hundred and fifty thousand troops of the active force— constitutes a first ratearmy. Prepared to de- tend the country resolutely, this body is not improbably also in a condition to make a rapid forward movement if occasion should require, and it would be very unfortunate for Russian prestige if the Turks should get to Kisheneff before the Russians at that point got started for the Danube. Considerations of this nature have evi- dently moderated the vigor with which | Russia formerly made her demand for the occupation of Bulgaria; yet, though she cannot refuse to meet the full consequences of the demands that the conference has made upon the Sultan, mainly at her in- stance; and if, as seems imminent, the plenipotentiaries leave Constantinople be- cause the Sultan refuses to indorse their scheme, Russia, ready or no, cannot escape the responsibility of her position. It seems erroneous to suppose, however, that it will be even then strictly a case between Russia and Turkey. The war will then be to force upon the Sultan the accept- ance of the will of Europe. Russia will be the instrument of that will, and if this in- must supplement it with other instruments, The Weather. The chief features of yesterday's weather | were the movement of a large area of high pressure eastward from the Mississippi to the Atlantic and the advance of a depression through the Gulf from the southwest toward Florida. Accompanying the former areas of snow and rain extended over Nebraska and Dakota and from St. Louis through the Ohio Valley to Montreal, in Canada, In the South The Gulf depression was very slight, and has moved | into the Atlantic off the coast of Georgia and will probably slightly inflsence our weather during to-day. The highest press- | ure is now over New York, with cold, clear weather, and the lowest off the Nova Scotia coast, with cloudiness and low tem- | perature. A depression is advancing from the Northwest, but does not as yet indicate | more than a moderate snowfall. On the passages to Europe, but ships bound to our ports from the cast will experience head | winds and frequent snow areas. The region | of ocean storms is now northward of the | forty-fifth parallel and eastward of the for- ticth meritian. The weather in New York | to-day will be slightly colder and partly | cloudy or clear, followed toward night by increasing cloudiness, Usper tHe Hrap or ‘The East River ports of ‘breaking strains,” note whose | wires were tenderest, either singly or by the square inch, and observe how weak wires, low prices and public suspicions all lead | backward to a single name. Ix Our Drspatcn from Mexico General Mejia reveals in a few words a great deal of the secret history of his unhappy country. He predicts that Diaz will fail because he is controlled by inecmpetent advisers. Very likely ; similar causes have unnerved strong hands in our own model Republic. AccorpixG To Ovn Wremrxeton despatch of which he complains, If the facts are what they appear to be Sambo will learn that not even a black skin will save a man from hav- ing his own sins return to curse bim. Ir Epoar A, Por were still alive he might outdo himself over the material of ‘‘A Mur- derer’s Vision” published to-day. Let Governor Hayes Speak Out. We have a sincere respect for Mr. Hayes, not, indeed, as a man of great and com- manding abilities, but as a gentleman of © excellent moral impulses and _ hitherto stainless character. We regard him as a virtuous, well-meaning citizen, who would scorn the Presidency or any other office unless elected to it by the free choice of the people in accordance with law. It would’give us great pain to be compelled to change this opinion; but he cannot reason- ably expect the press of the country to go on defending his character if he thinks it of so little value that he will not shicld himself. The country is full of rumors utterly disgraceful to him if anybody could suppose them true. These rumors are daily coming to us in such forms and at- tested by such evidence that it requires o great stretch of charity to discredit them. Our respect for Mr. Hayes is so great that we have treated these stories with stubborn incredulity, but it is an up-hill work to de- fend him against aspersions which he could silence at once if he thought fit. Is it true or is it false that an intrigue is on foot, with Mr. Hayes’ knowiege and con- sent, for securing him the support of Southern members of Congress, with an | understanding that he will indemnify them if they lose the confidence of their constituents? He cannot be ignorant that such charges are indus- triously circulated. He must know that his character suffers in proportion as they are believed. He owes it to himself and the country to stop the circulation of such stories if they have no foundation. His silence cannot be excused on the plea | that if such intrigues are in progress they are managed by his supporters and parti- sans without his upproval. Silence implies approval from the moment that such in- trigues come to his knowledge if he does not openly wash his hands of all complicity and puta stop to them bya public rebuke. If there are such intrigues he can arrest them. If misguided supporters are trifling with his honor and his character by a proffer of bar. gains to Southern members of Con- gress he owes it to himself clare that he is neither an open nor a silent partner to such arrangements. He ought to satisfy the country that these flying rumors are false, and that he neither desires nor would accept the Presidency unless it comes to him without any taint of fraud or any collusive bargains with political op- ponents. He cannot afford under any cir- stances to appoint anybody but known republicans to places of honorand trust in the government. There is renson to sus- | pect that his partisans are holding out this bait to prominent Southern democrats, and he ought to lose no time in declaring that all such expectations will be disappointed. We desire that he will treat the South | fairly if he should become President, but he cannot afford to have it supposed that such treatment is the result of a political bargain instead of proceeding from his sense of jus- | tice. He must keep clear of all dishonorable entanglements, and as the air is full of rumors injurious to his character he should make | it known by an explicit and authentic dec- | laration that he is no party to any of the Washington intrigues, and that he will repu- diate all promises to political opponents made by men professing to act in his | interest. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Pigs are good swimmers, Senator Sharon has started for Washington. Der p sea fishes cannot live in shallow water. Dr. Redfield says that the South will not fight mit Tilden. Senator Simon B. Conover, of Florida, is at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Captain Luiz'de Saldanha, of the Brazilian Navy, is at the Buckingham Hotel. An Illinois girl played Logan’s photograph for the Jack of spades, and said, “He's a tramp.” Senator John J. Ingalls, of Kansus, arrived at the ‘Hoffman House yesterday from Washington. Baron Max von Thielmana, Secretary of the German Legatron at Washington, is at the Hotel Brunswick. ‘Tho late General Bartlett said that even dime novol | reading was a good leader to better reading, and for this saying James Russell Loweil complimented him, Wroblensk', a Pole, and a music teacher of Mii- wankeo, was found out, but, while claiming to be in- hocent, appealed to tho principles of pedagogue and Magog. Governor John Lee Carroll, of Maryland, and Mr, Robert Gordon visited the Post OMfice yesterday and were escorted through the building by Postmaster James, The ice continues to be coolly imperative on Broad- way, and several wealthy Spaniards have noted that a few young ladies come down in a sort of academy. semi-quaver, A Broadway indiarubber firm recontty telegraphed to St. Lous, “Arctic shoes, St. Louis size, are not built in this city, But we can send you a model of the Great Eastern. ’” An English writer says that at a country fair in Wales you are expectod to exchange some little token with every man you meet. If you don’t it will make the Welsh rare a Lit, The Boston Transcript says that all true music is in phe middie notes. We nad remarked this fact when @ member of the Phitharmonic Society found ten cents in a paper of tobacco, Kansas City Times:—“A recent graduate of Brown, now studying law iu New York, writes toa classmate in this eity:—‘Hayos is probably Tilden by a smuil party of both majorities.’ * Every once in a while somo scientist rises and says that the moon is dead. This scientific fact 18 what makes young lovers on a frosty night linger at the gate and look up at the corpse, A Louisiana paper wants to know what a New York citizen would think tf ho saw in New Orleans tho most beautifal giris in the world? Probably he would think of—in New Orleans-—more lasses, There is many a trac believing Christian man who hides a mean act from his companions, but who has very little respect for the invisible angels that see him, Yet he is just the man to brag on angela. It is said that before Senator Norwood became a politician, he was a proctical ormithologist—m tact had @ perfect passion for birds, Bat he never could describe a brick bat, even after he became a politician, Mr. Je€. Derby, of Appleton’s, celebrated bis Christ- mas worthy of the di of Agamemnon. Twenty children and grandchildren surrounded the “old folks at home’ and danced around the Christmas tree, Graphic:—"It ts easter foracamel to go throagh the knee of an idol than for a young man to go through acburch fair without being compelled to buy tickets in the rattle of eeven pineushiong stuffed with bran." To the snow lover aad the generous hearted man; \o even the miser and the thin blooded churl, holiday time comes with poetry Init There 1s poctry im the sighing breeze, in the reverboratide ice snap, on tho ruby sunset, on tho lozenge and the motto paper. Evening Telegram: —“No loss than thirteen chemists bave expounded the lactometer in Seurampt’s case, and yot Judge Sutherinnd now tells the jury that the question on trial is not tho virtues of (hat instrament, but merely whether Sehrumpi's milk was watered, | This may be all tightin the eye of the law, but im the meek eye of science of what possible consequence ie Schrumpf compared with an opportunity tor Chanuler and Doromus to swear at one another on cxperte’ pay?” to de. ;