The New York Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD! BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, ‘Three cents per isunday excluded). ‘Ten dollars per ‘At rate of one dollar per month for any period less ear. ix months, or five dollars for six mouths, Sunday juded. edition inci 1 postage. All business. letters ‘or telegraphic despatches must Ve addressed Ni ‘ORK Henan. Letters and id be ly sealed, * shou! Rejected ‘com muniests ill not be returned. acess Ye fi ce aie a PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH STREE LONDON OF¥ICE, OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— Patt ‘OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA, ‘APLES OFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACE. Fubecriptions und advertisements will be received and ferwarded on the weme te! in New York. VOLUME XL. ; AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. EAGLE THEATRE-—Crown or THorxs. GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Kose Micazn BROOKLYN PARK TH GERMANIA THEATRE: LYCEUM THEATRE—Camiuty. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Dow Cantos, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. EGYPTIAN HALL—Vaun NEW YORK AQUARIU. PARISIAN VARTETIES— COLUMBIA OPERA HO THEATRE COMIQUE—VamixrY. GILMORE’S GARDEN—Musxus xp Crmcvs. TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE—Vanixry. NEW AMERICAN MUSE! TIVOLI THEATRE—Vai TRIPLE W YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 16. 1877, RY DEALERS, Company run # special newspaper Ivanin Railroad and its connections, ‘Ata quarter-past four A. M. daily and Sunday, carrying the regular edition of the Herat us far West as fiarrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at « quarter-past six A. M. and Washington at one P.M, eS a cab Sua From our reports this morning the probabili- ties are that the weather in New York to-day will be warmer and clear or partly cloudy. ‘Tareves ARF AGAIN busy in Brooklyn. Burg- lars seem to haunt the City of Churches. Sprine Sovunps are heard at Newport as well as in the woods and fields. We tran- scribe some of them to-day. NOTICE TO COUNT The Adams Expt train over the leaving Jersey Rumors or Caniwet CHAnces are beginning to cirenlate in Washington. It is a relief to know that they are without foundation. CoystpERABLY More Is Totp To-Day about the affairs of the New Jersey Mutual, but none of it helps the reputation of the company or its managers. Tue Court or Apreats has rendered a de- c¥ion upon local fishery rights which will make lively work for lower courts and bad blood be- tween fishermen. ‘Tue Exvise Question is one that always in- terests liquor dealers, and they are going to send a committee on agitation to Albany. Does this mean more lobbying ? Two Aprarent ATTEMPTS TO KILL which were made yesterday should remind preachers that there is an old commandment bearing upon the posular diversion, homicide. Tue Pertixent Inquiry, Where does the Street Cleaning Bureau dump its money ? is par- tially answered in the Heranp to-day, and the information is of such a peculiar nature as to stimulate a desire for more. Tue Temperance Uston made its usual Sun- day attack upon liquor drinking yesterday. If ruy. is really such a terrible curse, is it not about tive to teach drunkards how to reform, and to recognize the fuct that men have bodies as well as souls? Rarw Traysir Is Havixe up-hill work in Brooklyn, and the company having one of the projects in charge found special cause yesterday to be grateful for the institution of the Sabbath, for they worked therein while no man could ob- tain an injunction. Russta may experience some little difficulty at present in deciding who are her friends in Europe, but no such uncertainty exists when she glances across the water. The Russo-American banquet at St. Petersburg, of which we publish a report, was the occasion of some hearty inter- change of good will. Our Rerort of “Death in the Milk Can” only explains a fuct to whose existence thousands of little graves already bear witness. As our city officials are generally too busily engaged in po- litical schemes to pay any attention to the life and health of our inhabitants it becomes the duty of every citizen to examine this subject for himself, and inquire into the habits and ante- cedents of his milkman as carefully as if he were selecting a confidential clerk or a family physician. Tne Tortcs or YEesterpay's Sermons ranged from birds’ nests and wirepulling to divine love and the Jaw of human responsibility. Among unusual subjects and those appealing to the higher order of thought were the Christian definition of culture, the reasons for belief in the Bible and the inequality of human con- ditions. Mgr. Chatard, rector of the American Catholic College at Rome, made an eloquent ap- peal at St. Patrick’s Cathedral for his institution. Dr. Talmage preached to housekeepers, who certainly deserve more sympathetic attention than any other class of human beings; and Dr. Fulton bemoaned tie prospects of the negro, as if that individnal had never displayed a re- markable aptitude for taking care of himself. Tue Weatuer.—Fair or clear weather pre- vailed during yesterday all over the country east of the Mississippi, but light rains have fallen in the Northwest attending the depression in that region. The pressure continues low on the Pacific coast, the area of low barometer hav- ing moved southeastward somewhat. The temperature has risen in the South and West and through the Mississippi Valley as far ns Keokuk. ‘The thermometric gradient thence northward is rather steep. On the Atlantic coast all traces of the recent storm have disappeared to the eastward, and the cy- clonic disturbance is now moving toward Eu- rope, but with @ decrease of energy. The Mississippi River continues above the danger line at Cairo, and is leas than two feet below it at Vicksburg. The other rivers have fallen. The ts of « continuance of dry weather for gome time lends gravity to the forest fires in Pennsylvania and New York. The weather in this city today will be warmer and clear or partly cloudy. Le a a TN ht ae NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1877.-TRIPI.F SHEET, Lines of New Departare—Let Us Have an Era of Good Feeling. President Hayes has it in his power to make his administration either one of the most successful or one of the most disastrous in history. It may be as brilliant as that of Jefferson or as ludicrous as that of Tyler, But he must continue in his heroic policy until he has formed a new party. When he threw aside the barons of the republican party, the carpet-bag barons like the Blaines, the Chandlers, the Camerons and the But- lers, he invoked a spirit which will rise up and destroy him unless he destroys it. The men whom the new President has in the most public manner repudiated are the men who made him President, without whom he would still be in Columbus—the men who can wreck his administration before it is launched. He must not despise nor deride their power. Mr. Evarts is admirable as the Secretary of State. Mr. Schurz is com- mendable as Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Devens will expound the law. It is pleas- ant to have a kind word from the inde- pendent reform organs, and the support of Mr. Curtis and Mr. Bowles will be so novel that the sensation will be agreeable. It is gratifying to have the chambers of com- merce, the business interests, the clergymen and the poets all sending words of comfort and encouragement. As the new President looks out of the White House and sees all this incenso rising, and remembers how the acolytes treated his predecessor only a few weeks ago, he must feel that his lines have truly fallen upon pleasant places, But what an administration needs even more than incense is votes—votes in Con- gress and votes in convention. This is where the new administration is weak. Mr. Evarts and Mr. Schurz, Mr. Devens and Mr. Curtis, the chambers of commerce, the clergymen, the poets and the reformers, have not political power enough to carry an election district. It is because they have never been in that line of business and know nothing about it. Mr. Evarts is, if we may say it without offence, ten thousand times more respectable than Don Cameron, but Don Cameron could control ten thousand times as many votes as Mr. Evarts. As to the reformers, who are so well tuned now, Mr. Hayes has learned, or, if not, he soon will learn, that when reformers preach ‘‘reform” they mean that they shall be called on to reform the country at large salaries, Politics with us, as indeed it is in all representative govern- ments, is a practical business. Men who give their lives to it may have exalted ideas of what is due to the country and the peo- ple’s welfare, but they have no less clear views as to their own personal in- terests, They are apt to support the administration which supports them. If President Hayes thinks that his work is done when he has thrown aside the Blaines the Butlers and the Camerons and the carpet-baggers he will only have to wait until the meeting of the next Congress or the autumn State conventions to have his mind disabused. He will then have to confront a party in mutiny and to take refuge with the democrats as Johnson did. They will keep him as long as he serves their purpose, and kick him out when he is no longer useful as they kicked out John- son. What, then, remains to the President? He must make a new party. He must summon from the republican and the democratic ranks the men who will unite with him in an effort to reform the civil service and bring about an era of good feel- ing. Public opinion is ripe for such a change. If Hayes pursues his war upon the barons of the republican party and the carpet-baggers he can defeat them, even as Richelieu defeated the feudal lords of France and consolidated all power in the Crown. He must appeal from the politi- cians to the people. He must lay down broad lines of policy—such a policy as will command the confidence of the country. He can destroy the barons by destroying their power. He can Gestroy their power by cutting away from all :elations with parties as they now exist. Thecountry sees that both parties are corrupt. In one we have the car- pet-bagger and the whiskey thief; in the other we have the repudiator and the Tam- many chief. But the great mass of the American people—democrats or republi- cans—do not fall within these degrading distinctions. The farmers, who dwell on their own soil; the merchants, who buy and sell; the grim soldiers, who remember how they followed with honest, daring heart the flag of the North or the South; the multitudes of pious, God-fearing men who swell our religious denominations; the citi- zens, who have no interest in politics ex- cept that right shall be done, that there shall be low taxes, freedom and pros- perity—these are the materials out of which a new party can be formed, an American party, republican and demo- cratic in its best sense, the party of national honor. Such ao party can be formed by laying down certain precepts of political action and calling upon the people to support them. The President should say frankly, ‘There is no use for the republican party. Its work is done, It was a war party and will only march to the sound of the drum. There is no use for the democratic party. It is something between o conspiracy and o railroad speculation, It rests on no solid basis. It isa fancy stock, like the Erie or the bonanza mines. It should go into bank- ruptcy. Buchanan and Tweed and Jcff Davis have frittered its resources away. Even Tilden, the shrewdest railroad lawyer in the country and familiar with the hand- ling of broken corporations, could not realize on its assets. What we want now is peace. Let us have an era of good feel- ing. Let us have peace and civil service reform ; peace and justice to the South; peace and specie payment; peace and re- vision of the tariffs ; peace and the revival of industry and credit ; peace and reform of the powers of the Presidency, the Senate and the States. Let all who believe that the war is over ; that there should be protec- tion to the black and justice to the white ; that public servants should be treated as men, not cattle ; that there should no longer be patronage in the management of the nation’s business ; that the debt should be paid dollar for dollar—let all who believe in these precepts and are willing to unite with the President in enforcing them rally around the administration.” To such an appeal as this the country would respond. Having thrown aside the old barons of his party, the President must find new men. He must have his chiefs in the Senate and the House. He cannot depend upon the poets, the rhetoricians and the Sherman family. He was long enough in the army to learn that you cannot fight a battle with bands of musicians. He has been long enough in civil authority to learn that bosom friends will not strengthen an administration. He must take men like Conkling and Lamar, Hoar and Thurman, Adams and Bayard, and to them he must intrust the leadership of his party. He has now an opportunity as splendid as that of Jefferson, Jefferson came into power in a period as stormy as that through which we have just passed. He came with a challenged title, like Hayes. He came after a great soldier, Washington, as Hayes comes after a great soldier, Giant, He had to reconcile conflicting interests, allay sectional strife and found a democratic sys- tem. Jefferson appealed from the politicians to the people, and the response was ardent. He not only governed the nation, but he founded anew party; he composed a new creed ; he left the country so peaceful that his successors lived in an era of good teel- ing. His opponents, the Burrs and the rest, were swept into obscurity, and his name be- came one of the great names of history. If Hayes is wise and brave he may be an- other Jefferson. He stands now at the part- ing of the waters. A few weeks will decide whether,we are to have an administration like that of Jefferson or one like that of Tyler. Mayor Ely Asks for Explanations. We are glad to see that our worthy Mayor has followed the advice of the Heratp and taken a practical step toward a thorough in- vestigation of the cause of our dirty streets. He asks the Police Commissioners for a statement of their expenditures for street cleaning during the past three months. This demand for an account of their steward- ship gives the officials an opportunity of explaining how they reconcile the steady disappearance of the money with the equally steady accumulation of dirt on the streets, for .the removal of which the money has been appropriated. The figures they give us for the month of March, as published in the Henatp of Sat- urday, explain nothing beyond the fact that the street cleaning fund has been reduced over fifty-two thousand dollars in four weeks. Doubtless their accounts, to bo rendered to the Mayor, will be equally un- satisfactory; for it is the easiest thing pos- sible to say that they have spent the money, the difficulty being as to how it was spent. We are satisfied that, so far as street cleaning is concerned, the Police Commissioners cannot accuse themselves of any ex- travagance, If it turns out, as it probably will, that the more money is expended by the Street Cleaning Bureau the dirtier and more neglected the streets become, the ques- tion will present itself whether it would not be well worth while to reduce the appropri- ation, in view of the possibility that with a less sum at their disposal the officials would do more work. There is always danger to the public service when irresponsible men get large amounts to spend for publio pur- poses. According to the statements of the Mayor and the Comptroller the Street Clean- ing Bureau is independent of their control. Therefore we must regard itas irresponsible and consequently unworthy of trust. If the officials had shown any ability or desire to do their duty we would recognize the force of their arguments respecting the difficulties they pretend to contend against. But when under their system of operations a large sum of money is expended without any adequate result beneficial to the city we are forced to the belief that these diffi- culties are only the creation of their imagi- nations, put forward for the purpose of covering up their delinquencies. Excise Laws. Our Legislature has. rightly judged that the beverages of the people are of the first importance. Hence the care taken to se- cure by every material and moral guarantee in regard to the persons licensed to sell liquor that the liquors shall not be bad through the dishonesty, want of knowledge or other delinquency of the dealer. To be- come a liquor dealer one must pass a sort of civil service examination in several branches of related art. First, he must prove that he is of good moral character. This prevents a man palming upon the public camphene under the specious name of gin and aqua fortis for corn whiskey. This was a wise provision of law. Another provision is that the dealer must satisfy an excise board that he has “‘sufficient ability to keep a hotel.” This implies the highest order of intel- ligence. Liquor dealers filling this requirement will not be imposed upon by dealers in ‘bonded warehouse liquors,” ond inadvertently poison their customers by the processes referred to. Another important requirement of the law is that the liquor dealer must always keep ready ‘‘three spare beds with good and suf- ficient bedding.” It may be remembered that Willie brewed a peck o’ maut, An’ Rab an’ Allan cam’ to pree; Three blitber hearts that leo-iang nicht Yo wad na find in Christendie, Remembering this and foreseeing the in- evitable consequence the Legislature pro- vided that the liquor dealer should be pos- sessed of the means to put his customers to bed when they could no longer sit up. Hence the three beds. There are a great many other requirements about the dealers keeping hay and horses, &c., and some of them certainly do keep very fast horses. But it is alleged now that nearly all the liquor dealers have been licensed without regard to the provisions of this law; that they are men who cannot and do not keep hotels—have neither hay nor horses, nor spare beds, nor moral character. This is & startling disclosure. But there is one con- solation in it. It is provided by the law that any excise commissioners who license aman contrary to the above provisions are guilty of a misdemeanor. There is a hope, therefore, that we may see all our precious functionaries of that sort in close quarters. This would compensate for a great deal of confusion in the liquor trade, Tne War—Who Is To Fight? Turkey’s response to the-protocol is in substance this :-‘‘In 1856 the nations of Europe agreed on certain principles with regard tome; now in 1877 they agree on certain other principles, also with regard to me. In my opinion their agreement of 1856 was far more favorable to me than the later one; therefore I respect, honor and applaud the first and scorn the last. Ibelieveand de- clare that the first was just, upright, virtuous and valid, and the last is without force and void.” But it was not regarded as of great consequence what Turkey would say unless she said yes, Her acceptance was the only way to peace, her objection insured war, without regard to the form of the rejection, and, therefore, the world wilf'pass without notice the slightly irrational process of a na- tion pretending to choose-what set of princi- ples othernationsshall be guided by, even in their conduct toward her. Doubtless a shark might have his preferences as to the kind of sauce his fins should be eaten with, but that point is generally determined with- out regard to his wishes. So the Sultan will find that if the style of the protocol is preferred in the northern capitals his own taste forthe Treaty of Paris will be of no moment. As to the point of great importance to Europe—the likelihood that others than Russia and Turkey will be involved in the war—the indications are meagre, and there never was a case more susceptible of mis- conception. It is within the bounds of pos- sibility, certainly, that all Europe may be aflame before the summer is over, and the drift of opinion is that way ; but we should not be surprised to see the war fought to ® legitimate end and not a shot fired by other troops than the Sultan’s or Czar's, save only the Czar’s Persian allies in Asia. It is declared to be ‘‘the inflexible resolve of France to remain neutral.” This may well be believed. It could scarcely be otherwise. Without France beside her what sort of a figure would England have made in the Crimean war? and will she go to the East alone now, with a tremendous opposition at home? England is not foolish enough to plunge into a great war without some faint hope for success, and where is that hope in this case without allies? Can she deal with Austria? In the conference of the three Emperors at Berlin, out of which the Berlin note grew, Austria was made aware of the necessity of co-operating with her northern neighbors, and her reJa- tions to Prussia constitute a material guaran- tee that she will not forget the necessity. In the partitioning of European. Turkey Austria will be treated with o consideration that will satisfy her, and itis only through any doubt on that point that England could approach her. The Irish Soldicr. General Butler's testimony upon the abil- ity and bravery of the Irish soldier does no more than justice to a set of glorious fellows whose virtues are too seldom recognized until their possessors have changed their quarters and gone to a country where earthly praise carries neither fame nor money with it. We believe the gallant General has never kissed the blarney stone, but he had noneed to do so before talking on this subject, for facts are too thick to admit a single word of blarney edgewise. At home and abroad, in ancient times and to-day, the Irishman has always been spoiling for a fight, but he has never spoiled after the fighting began. General Butler traces Commander-in-Chief Wellington, Marshal O'Donnell, Marshal- President MacMahon and General Jackson back to Irish parentage, and he might have ex- tended the list indefinitely. Wolfe, the hero of Quebec, and the gallant Montgomery, who surrendered his sword only to the con- queror Death, were of Irish parentage, while the extraction of the heroes Sheridan, Corcoran and Meagher, of our own genera- tion, is known to all men, and no soldier of our late war fails to recall a host of Irish names from among those of his fellow sol- diers. The Irish soldier is found in every civilized army, and always at the front; he has marvellous faculty for breaking the enemy’s lines without ever allowing a break in his own; he is merry when his comrades are grumbling, impetuous when danger makes other soldiers cautious, and when occasion demands he dies as bravely as he has lived. If his superior exists it is in some sphere from which no military critic has ever returned with a report. In fact, his bare equal is the man for whom the sover- eigns of Europe are on the lookout to-day, More Farmers Needed. The almost total cessation of immigration which is reported by those who know can be partially explained by the stagnation of business; but an important feature of it can be traced to the neglect of States and the nation to devise inducements for foreign agriculturists. Atthe present time, when life and property promise to be of uncertain value in Europe, America should be receiv- ing ship loads of small farmers. The in- dustry, economy and thrift of these people are sorely needed as exemples to our own rather careless and wasteful farmers, while additional wealth and income would result to the State itself by the occupancy of lands which at present yield only prairio and forest fires, ague and rat- tlesnakes. It is not enough that such desirable persons should be offered home- steads that are too far from markets to be available or too poor to have been attractive to professional land-grabbers. The experi- ence of the General Land Office is that even native Americans are slow to avail them- selves of the Homestead Jaw. What, then, can be expected of foreigners? 1t would be to the interest of every State to make special reservations of land for would-be settlers from abroad, decreasing the quantity if nec- essary to make up for the special value and advantages of the land. Further induce- ments might with profit be extended ; but this much, at least, is practicable every where, and would be not only inexpensive but profitable, Cheap Opera. The stalest of all stale information in New York is that it does not pay to give operas here. As managers claim to have done their very best with the singers and other resources at their disposal there is but one other direction in which to seck the cause of pecuniary failure, and that leads direct to the box office. ‘The price of opera tickets is too high; it is too large, at any rate, to allow any one to ever see the Academy of Music filled with paying listen- ers, While a dollar will pay for a seat at the best play it cannot be expected that pleasure-loving New York is going to pay a greater price for an entertainment which, thanks to lack of competition, is only what the manager may kindly consent to give. Opera tickets have Intely been reduced in price from two dollars and a half to two dol- lars, with satisfactory results to the manager. Why, now, should not the price be further lowered, at least to the theatre standard, so that whoever cares to listen to ‘‘Don Carlos” or any other opera can do so ata cost which will not frighten him? Such a policy on the part of the management would be heartily indorsed by the cultured por- tion of the populace; which means that in the long run it would be more remunerative than the exclusive tariff at present in opera- tion. In literature and other businesses which depend upon the more intelligent classes for support reductions of prices have been ordered with the most satisfactory re- sults. There is no reason why in music the same beneficial effect should not be felt upon the manager's bank account. There need be nofear that the reduction suggested would lower the standard of the patrons of opera, Fine tastes and thin purses are almost inseparable companions, while in these hard times even the most aristocratic of opera goers will forbear to grumble at cheaper tickets, The Herald Maps. Even the Heraxp is grateful for appreci- ative words, and we are glad, therefore, to show to our readers a letter from General Alvord on the service rendered him and the country, ata critical moment, by a Heratp war map of thirty yearsago. The General was then a participant in our unpleasant- ness with Mexico, and the possession of one of our maps enabled him to make arrange- ments which led tothe capture and occu- pation of Jalapa. It is only through acci- dental disclosures like this that the immense value of our maps is impressed upon the public mird. That which costs little is lightly valued; so the person who gets his Henatp daily for three cents and finds in it one or more maps of important localities is too likely to overlook the immense amount of painstaking preparation which is necessary to the production of these accurate assistants to the reader. Whether fully appreciated or not, however, similar maps will continue to appear in the Henatp whenever there is an occasion for them. However the general public may un- derrate them, the warrior, the statesman and the scientist find them invaluable; and to serve the greatest of men, and through them to serve the nation and humanity at large is one of the rarest of the duties and privileges of the press. Some of the maps by which we have thrown additional light upon the explorations of our correspondent Stanley have been in essentials superior to any that can be found in standard atlases; those which we shall publish in future upon this and other subjects shall be equally timely, thorough and accurate, no matter what may be the pains and cost necessary to their preparation. The Democratic Press and the Pres- ident. The treatment which leading democratic newspapers think it expedient to bestow on President Hayes is not calculated to revive the waning confidence of the public in party organs. The independent press aims to be as faithful as a photograph, distorting nothing, perverting nothing, exhibiting nothing in false perspective, but repre- senting things just a8 they are according to their true merits. When President Hayes is acting so wisely and so nobly, and is disappointing the expectations of his own party by doing precisely what Mr. Tilden promised one would suppose that the democratic press would encourage and strengthen him in so just and independent a course. But instead of that they arraign him for the very things which their professed principles should lead them to commend. They have the as- tounding assurance to vilify him for desert- ing the poor negro and abandoning him to the tender mercies of his white oppressors in the South. They repeat with pathetic gusto the calumnies of Wendell Phillips ; they stultify themselves by. praising Blaine, who has been a chief butt of their abuse for the last ten years; they be- stow on him their warmest plaudits for his spasmodic opposition to the very Southern policy which they have heretofore advo- cated with all the zeal of vehement apostle- ship. How can they expect to retain the confidence of their readers when they thus “turn their backs upon themselves” and traduce a policy to which they stand com- mitted? They cannot expect their readers to forget how constantly, during the canvass, they scoffed the fair promises in Mr. Hayes’ letter of acceptance, on the ground that whatever a candidate might say for electionecring effect, no President, and least of all Mr. Hayes, should he be elected, could emancipate himself from the control of the leaders who managed his canvass. ‘The democratic organs derided everybody as a simpleton who professed to believe that Mr. Hayes could possibly have the courage and firmness to keep his promises against the influence of party leaders like Blaine. And now when the President is doing this very thing, when he is making it a matter of conscience and principle to keep the pledges in his letter, the democratic jour- nals, instead of acknowledging the injustice they did to his character, instead of praising his unexpected magnanimity and political courage, instead of rejoicing that he is at- tempting to do what their own party prom- ised, they abet the fanatical radicals in their attempt to punish him for his fidelity to his own pledges and the relief heis giving to the oppressed South. The country will be apt to regard such treatment as a glaring abdication of honor and principle and as a new reason for putting no trust in the party press. en Sra —— The speakership. The extra session makes the organization of the new Congress a topic of discussion ~ and speculation earlier than is usual. Nothing could be more stupid than the no- tions put forth by a portion of the republi- can press which is weighing the respective chances of Mr. Garfield, Mr. Foster and General Banks, as if there were chances of the election of a republican Speaker. Ac« cording to our estimate Mr, Garfield will probably be nominated by the republican caucus; but neither he nor any other re« publican will be elected. Yet it is given out in some quarters that even President Hayes has hopes in that direction. We bee lieve he is too clearsighted to hope any- thing of the sort. He may no doubt rely on the support of quite a number of dem. ocrats in his Southern policy. But an ex: pectation that any one of the number would vote for Garfield or any republican fo1 Speaker is: preposterous. The election of Speaker is a party question pure and simple. There is no justification which a democratic member could offer to his constituents for voting for a republican candidate for Speaker. There are other questions on which democrats may support Hayes, His Southern policy is a milder type of the democratic policy on the same subject, and no democrat should hesi-« tate to uphcld the President against his radical assailants. But to vote for his can- didate for Speaker would be a different thing. It would be an inexcusable desertion from the democratic ranks. It would stamp and brand all the participants as parties to a discreditable bargain. It would be as in« jurious to Mr. Hayes as to the recreant democrats to have it supposed that hig Southern policy is the result of an in triguing coalition with his political oppo. nents, The strength and dignity of hig position lie in the idea that it has been taken from a simple, disinterested sense of justice. The moment it is degraded in public estimation into a trading intrigue for politi. cal support in the House all the moral ele~ vation which has hedged the President, as divinity is said to hedge a king, will vanish, and he will be regarded as a vulgar, schem< ing politician. We refuse to believe that President Hayes is inspiring any dicker respecting the Speakership or that he is a party to any bargain for gaining a republican Senator from Louisiana as the price of withdrawing the troops from that State. If he should act from any other motive than a sense of right and regard for his constitutional obligations he would forteit the confidence of the country. The election of the Speaker is no proper business of his, and we are persnaded that he will hold himself aloof from attempts to influence it. Mr. Gar- field will probably be the republican can- didate; and this mark of honor will giva him prestige and influence as the republi« can leader in the House. All the indica« tions point to the nomination of Mr. Ran« dall by the democratic caucus; and noth ing is more certain than that the candidate of the democratic caucus will be the next Speaker. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Toxas has granges. Lager sings in staves, Ben Wade dislikes Hayes. Talmage js a Jersey Dutchman, General Horace Porter 18 in Paris. Tom cats now patronize the telephone, Mr. Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, is st the Windsor. Cardinal Manning writes in a Latinized, cumbersome, sincere style, A New Jeraey girl who was invited to go fishing said she had plenty of hooks and eyes, Somebody has discovered that thore were Mongolt in Persia before the Persians were thero. fhe difference between Grant and Hayes is that what Hayes likes in cousins is bang-up style. , When one really thinks how old Tom Thumb is tt becomes necessary to look up to him with reverence, Mr. £lthu B, Washburne, United States Minister to France, arrived in the city yesterday {rom Galena, IIL, and is at the Fifth Avenue, The San Francisco Chronicle says that the average land of California is not so rich as that of Illinois, and that the wino grape is the only staple crop of the great Pacific State. A man in Spain, with red clothes, a long tail, a pitchy fork and a strong smell of sulphur, has been trying to ropresent the devil. Mr. Storey, of the Chicago Times, 18 atill in Europe. One ot the most expensive frauds in this country ia the government expenditure for what aro called river and harbor !mprovements. The expendituro is always used to help local politicians. The Chicago Tribune thinks that one of the great evils in trade, especially in country produce, is that speculators who fail with extravagant credits are too easily and kindly reinstated in confidence and busi+ n Athenaun:—''The trie artist’s yearning for perfec. tion causes him to feel more pleasure im the perfect representation of a loaf than in the picture of a bound- less forest, which, from its very extent, mast be ime pertect.’? In Russia the agents of the government go round condemning to celibacy all horses which are not of heaitn{ul formation and promise, and the result is that the peasant never has a word of fault to find with regard to his horses, Chicago Inter-the-Ocean:—“The old whig party died, Tt ought to have di timentin favor of justice to all men permeating its rank and file, it had not the courage to assert its beliefs or make a manly stand against the constaat aggressions of the slave democracy. Saturday Review:—"It is a question whether it 19 better for a family to fall into the hands of the healthy or of the nervous and debilitated tyrant, For the lat ter, bad as has been the influence of his health on his character, some excuse may be made, He does deserve pity for having drifted into that state which the Scotch idiom describes as ‘all eggshells,’ A sudden noise, an inopportune interruption, a painful story, affects some people with a physical shock which the robust world knows nothing of. There are moments of languor, apart irom actual suffering, in which every sensation is modified anguish.’’ Barlington Hawkeye:—"'Mra, ex-Secretary Fish ale lows no smoking in her elegant house, And she makes you stand and paw over the scraper and door mat for ten min\ies before you can come in, and then if itis very iwoddy sends you around to the side door and she 1..kes you take off your overshoes on the porch and Jeave thom outside, and the dog always comes around and carries them away to pound the yard with, and somehow or other, after you havo visited the Fishes once, you always feel as though you didn’t feel like going back again, as the man said who was blown out of bis state room by a boiler explosion.’? Among the Samoan islanders arrows are pointed with human thigh and parietal bones. Tho products, milky exudations, &c,, of several trees are used, among othors what ia supposed to be callophyllum inophyllum. The weapons are dipped into the fluid, to which there is addod a substance obtained from wasps’ nests, besides the putrescent hquid of decomposed sea cucumbers (hotothuria), A kind of kiln is then prepared, where the arrows are smoked, afver which they are inserted into the dried flower-stalk of a species of tacca, tu pre-e vent humedity, and then bundled ready for use, Th effects of the poison on the human systom produce convulsions aud tetanus,