The New York Herald Newspaper, April 30, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HER ALD E@eet of the European War on Amer- BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ¥ HERALD, day im the year. DAILY BRE AVinday excluded). Ten dollars per trate of one doliar per month for any period loss ifars for six months, Sunday graphic despatches must be properly sealed. All not be returned. PERADELraTA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON “OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. FLEKT STREET. . 46 PLE! 4 PARIS OFFIVE~AVENUE DE L’OPERA. NAPLES OFFICE—NO, 7 STRADA PACE, Sub: advertisom: wilt be w Yor! received and (0. 120 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. WALLACK’S THEATRE—My Awrut Dap. GILMORE’S GARDEN—Mus: anp Cincus, UNION SQUARE THEATRE—Tux Daxicuxrrs, FIFTH AVENUE THEATR: x Puixcess RovAle GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Rosx Micnz. STEINWAY HALL. —Essi Recrrat Concent, BOWERY THEATRE.—ix tux Wzn, PARK THBATRE—Covomut. Setters. FRENCH AND AMERICAN CIRCUS. JON B. MURRAY'S GRAND CIRCUS, [ANIA THEATRE—Dax VixunAxxpoxe sve Osmn- ‘ORSTERAKICH. ConumBIA OPERA Bi TRIPLE SHEET. “"NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1877, NOMCH TO COUNTRY DEALERS. ‘The Adams Express Company run a special newspaper ¢rain over the Peausylvaule Hatiroad and ite connections, Jeaving Jersey City at a quarter past four A. M. daily and Sundi ing the regular edition of the HxnaLp us far West ax Harrisburg nd South to Washington, reaching Phi eceinhle: at a quarter past six A. M. and Washington at one P. M. From our reports this morning the probabilities are thatthe weather in New York to-day will be cold and cloudy, with rain, followed toward evening by clearing weather. Axoruer TERRIBLE Loss oF Lire has been, occasioned by fire, and with the peculiarly dis " tressing feature that nearly all of the killed and wounded met their fate while trying to save the lives and property of others. Russian Loraurr aNp AMERICAN Goop Wit. combined yesterday, with plenty of powder, to give fitting recognition to the Czar’s birthday. May he live many years to remember the vic- tories that seem awaiting his grasp! New York’s Own Srectat Desrroymc ANGEL is due at thousands of once happy homes to- morrow morning. Those wha have been so blessed as not yet to have met him will find him described under ‘May Moving.” Tue Brooktrn Excisr Commissioners aro going to license inns, taverns and hotels, and the promptness with which saloon keepers are arranging to whip the devil around the stump is extremely depressing to believers in a reign of law. Tne American Boy prods his pen into the HERAaxp this morning on accoant of some strict- ures we ventured to make upon “The Mimic Press” yesterday, and in his endeavor to explain away the existenco of certain individuals he shows that even in journalism the child is father of the man. Rev. Mr. Goopsent told tho exact truth in his temperance sermon yesterday when he said that the general habit of drunkenness cannot be overcome until the poor are better cared for. When, however, this truth is impressed upon the majority of temperance advocates there will be a terrible cooling of enthusiasm. Tne Mayor Suounp Kerr on Fite at his office a copy of the sentence of the Cohen brothers yesterday, and show it to applicants for the position of marshal. To know that they wight if appointed be resisted when in discharge of their duties at the cost, to the resistant, of only five dollacs would quiet many a tumultuous desire to serve the city. Tuere Is Somerninc Particutarty Tovucn inG in the letter of the discarded Shaker girl who, with her mother, committed suicide a few days ago. Tha sense of homelessness and desola- tion in one so evidently a mere child in the ways of the world will touch the hearts of thousands of women who are too frequently willing to cast stones at such as this girl is said to have been, Parsox Browxtow Is ConQuerep at last Had his vanquisher been human the fearless old man wonld have hurled his own peculiar vocabu- _ lary at him with annihilating effect ; but Death cares as little for objurgations as for prayers, and has given the Parson’s friends an opportunity to recall the many sterling qualities of the man who while living succeeded frequently in obscur- ing his every virtue with his single great fault. An Unvsvat Proportion or YesTeRDAY’s Senmons will strike the lay reader as having boen closely practical. The always unwelcome religious theory that men are not owners, but only stewards, of the property which they ac- quire was pressed upon one congregation, und the necessity and usefulness of contentment was explained to another. A sermon on self- eulture took this topic from the low plane where most people keep it and treated it from the standpoint of conscience. ‘One-sided Peo- ple” were the subjects of a sermon under which uo one conld have slept, for rare are the people who do not like to hear about all their neighbors, even on Sanday. ‘Tre Weatner.—The storm was central yes- terday morning over the lnkes, but the pressuro gradually increased during the day, until toward evening the area of lowest pressure con- tracted to a very small size and moved tastward, attended by heavy thunder and ligitning, with rain. Rains have fallen along the coast ond in the Inke re- gion, and sgow westward of Lake Michigan. High pressure now prevails in the Southwest, Northwest «nd Northeast, making the low area over the lakes a vast depression, into which pours the denser atmosphere from three separate sources. Colder and clearing weather in the West marks the movement of the disturb ance. High winds are yet felt on the Texas const and around the storm area. The Mississippi River has reached the danger level at Vicksburg, and may do some daunago to plantations along the lower valley. In New York to-day it will be cold and clondy, with rain, and followed toward evening by ~ elearing weather, jean Business and Finance. It is always well in attempting to form a correct judgment on any subject to survey it on all sides and from different points of view. General Butler, in an interview printed yesterday in the Sun, dissents from the general opinion that the war in Europe will contribute to our prosperity. General Butler is one of the most astute and active-minded of our public men, and on ® question which has been as yet so little discussed we are not warranted in rejecting his opinion without examination. The country cannot afford to be the dupe of its hopes, and any man is a benefactor who saves it from so serious an error. On the other hand, if General Butler is wrong, something will be gained in clear- ness of view by exposure of his mistakes, His mind is under a well known bias on financial questions, but it does not follow that his greenback crotchets disqualify him for reasoning correctly respecting the effect of a foreign war on American prosperity. General Butler does not dispute that the immediate effect of the war will be to en- hance prices and increase our exports, but he thinks this will be offset by consequences that will make it a doubtful advantage, He is reported to have said:—‘'I apprehend a little different effect in this country from it from that entertained by some of the press. I don’t believe it will help us much. True, it will send up the price of breadstuffs, pro- visions, leather, vessels, materials, &c.; but your laboring men, now at simply support- ing pay, will have to get higher pay in order to buy flourand corn. That means an in- creased price for labor, and when that comes again our manufacturers cannot compete with those of other lands. That will be one effect. Watch things and see ifit isn’t. Then there's another. There'll be a demand in Europe for gold. They'll pay more for it there than it’s worth here, and our stock will go there. That means higher price for gold, and the greenback, which is payable in gold, will go up too; or, in other words, property here-will depreciate still further. How are we going to resume specie pay- ments—-pardon me, gold payments—in 1879, under such circumstances? There is a little clond no bigger than 1 man’s hand here now, but it will be big enough pretty soon. Something has got to be done, and the peo- ple won’t stand fooling.” As regards the effect of the war on our la- boring classes General Butler is partly right and partly wrong. He does not dispute that it will raise the price of commodi- ties; indeed, this is the very basis of his argument He thence draws the inference—a perfectly valid inference— that it will increase the cost of living and render the wages of labor less efficient for the comfortable support of families. But this view is too narrow ; it includes but a mere corner or fragment of the subject. It is true of all prosperity that it adds to the cost of living ; but did any community ever consider enlarged markots and high prices an evil on that account? High prices, by stimulating production, give full employment to labor; and when that large class of our industrial popula- tion which has so long suffered and languished: from enforced idleness is able to earn wages the condition of the laboring class as a whole will be greatly improved. Besides, wages are sure to rise in a condi- tion of general prosperity as soon as the de- mand for labor begins to outrun the supply. But there is another consideration of great weight of which General Butler quite over- looks the proper bearing. We refer to the early resumption of specie payments, which he thinks the war will render impossible. On the contrary, immediate resumption is the proper and efficient means of guarding against the consequence to the laboring classes which General Butler seems to dread. If we resume prices will be kept down to the specie level, and the wages of the laboring classes will go further in procuring them the necessaries of life. There will never be a better and safer time to resume than when prices have a strong upward tendency owing toalarge, briskand permanent foreign demand. The chief reason why resumption has been such a bugbear for the last ten years was its apprehended effect in depreciating the value of property. There now comes suddenly a condition of things which is certain to give buoyancy to prices and carry them up, and if our government is sagacious enough to seize this favorable opportunity and re- sume at once the effect of the change will be imperceptible. Resumption alone would depress prices, the war alone would raise them to a great height; but if we resume in the midst of this strong upward tendency there will be a considerable advance on the whole and resumption be attended with no shock. Our government will prove itself an incompetent financial pilot if it does not float the ship over the bar on this rising tide of prices. We agree with General Butler that “something has got to be done” at the approaching extra session, and in our judgment the fit thing to be done is to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to resume specie payments at | once. This will put an effective check on | fictitious high flying prices and forestall the evil to the laboring classes which gives Gen- eral Butler 40 much concern. If they are able to buy goods at specie prices the pur- chasing power of their wages will not be im- paired to the extent that General Butler apprehends. Even on the specie basis prices are likely to be higher than they are at present, but with full employment the in- dustrial classes may get on very comfort- ably. The opinion of General Butler that ‘‘the war is going to make gold resumption diffi- cult” by increased employment for gold abroad stnkes us as untenable, Laying out of view fluctuations and disturbances from transient, accidental causes, and judging by the general drift of steady tendency, it seems probable that more gold will come to this country than will be taken from it during s war of any length. It is conceded that there will be a large increase of our exports at advanced prices. The natural consequence will be that the balance in our favor, which has ‘been so large for the last year, will become im- mensely larger. Our increased exports will enable us to meet all our foreign obligations ).the Health Board, and the Health Board and there will be left a surplus on our side of the account. How can there be a drain on us for gold while we are exporting a great excess of commodities? There will never come a time in this generation when we may venture so boldly on the experiment of specie payments as during this war, which will enable us to discharge all our current foreign obligations with the ex- ported products of ourindustry. If, as is not improbable, some of our railroad bonds are sent home for sale the proceeds will be sent to Europe in the form of commodities. What Congress should do at the extra ses- sion is to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to fund a sufficient amount of greenbacks to bring them to par, and then resume specie payments at once. The re- duced volume of greenbacks would be as good as gold for domestic transactions and be kept at the gold level by their convertibility. The Treasury would have no difficulty in re- deeming all that were offered. ‘The amount presented would be only what was barely sufficient to prevent a premium on gold so long as there was a large balance in our favor in the exchange of commodities. Tho new Congress will be a set of incapables if they do not see and seize this splendid opportunity to put our currency on a sound basis without shock or convulsion ; without derangement of business or perceptible effect on prices ; without danger of having the experiment thwarted in its early stages by a drain of gold to foreign countries. We can never safely resume with so small a/| reserve of gold in actual possession as at present. The idea of an extraordinary demand for gold in Europe for war purposes is a vis- ionary exaggeration. It is the uniform ten- dency of war among nations financially weak to dispense with specie altogether for domestic circulation, The currency of the American Revolution was the depreciated Continental money; the currency of the ; French Revolution was the depreciated assignats; of England during the great Na- poleonic wars, depreciated Bank of Eng- land notes; of the United States during our civil war, depreciated greenbacks; of France in her recent struggle with Germany, the paper of her national bank. It is absurd to suppose that Russia will substitute coin for her present depre- ciated paper during this war, or that Austria, | whose currency is also a depreciated paper, will do anything of the kind when she is drawn into the conflict. Gold will be needed only to purchase arms and muni- tions in foreign countries, and, as we aro likely to sell more of these than any other nation, we stand a good chance of getting a share of the gold which the belligerent na- tions will borrow and expend. We believe, therefore, if our government has the fore- sight and courage to resume specie pay- ments at once the war will bring a great balance of advantage to this country with- out inflicting any perceptible injury on our laboring classes. . Low Tolls on the Canals. The joint resolution fixing the rate of canal tolls for the coming season of naviga- tion as recommended by the Canal Board was adopted by the Assembly on Wednesday after a very spirited opposition. The rates are considerably lower than those of last year, and this reduction formed the ground of objection to their adoption. It was in- sisted that the receipts under the new tariff would not be sufficient to meet the year’s expenses, and that there would in conse- quence bea deficiency which must be met by taxation, Such a result would, of course, be very undesirable, but we do not believe that it need be apprehended. There is likely to be an active movement of produce to the seaboard this spring and summer, and this will cause a corresponding briskness in other freights. The canals may make up in the amount of business for the decrease of tolls; but New York-has powerful com- petitors for the grain trade of the West, and the State canals have their old opponents, the railroads, to contend with. It would be simple folly to put the tolls so high as to make it impossible for our canals to com- pete with rival routes and parallel railroads, What we need is elasticity in the canal man- agement. Nothing can be said in favor of a system which prevents these channels of commerce from fitting their tolls to the con- dition of business and either reducing them or increasing them just the same as the railroads are at liberty to do. The Canal Board, however, claims the power to raise the tolis above the rates fixed by the Legislature, although prohibited from lowering them. But as this power is doubttul it would be well for the Legisla- ture to adopt a separate joint resolution conferring such authority on the Canal Board. This would remove the fears of those who imagine that we may be left at the close of the year with a deficiency and would give to the Canal Board a license which it ought tu possess. Sucha resolution might safely be intrusted to the final de- cision of Governor Robinson, and, should it receive his approval, both its constitution- ality and expediency would be satisfactorily established, Lager Kegs and Liberty. That there is ‘death in the pot” cannot be denied without insult to the poet and the temperance orator, but that there is life in | the beer barrel has been conclusively proved by a late sojourner upon Blackwell's Island. The shrewd knave bored air-holes in ono head ofa lager keg, knocked out the other | end, placed his own head inside the keg and himself in the river, and swam and floated away to liberty while the guardian of the Island’s treasures probably gazed upon the slow-gliding keg with only the sad reflection that the picnic season had been inaugu- rated somewhere up the river and the exigencies of the public service had forbidden that he should be there to taste. ; It would be impertinence to wonder how o lager keg came to be upon tho Island atall, for the known temperance principles of all the city’s employés mako it certain that the keg | was smuggled overas a portion of theabun- dant baggage which convicts are always allowed to carry to prison with them. Hereafter the Jager keg will be the emblem of sweet liberty, and when the street cleaning officials determine to do something without waiting for NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1877.~TRIPLE SHEET. goes to work without dangling timidly at | among the dangerous classes, that police the heels of everybody else, and the ad- mirals of dirt scow squadrons unload their fragrant cargoes where they please, a grate- ful public will rejoice to behold the minta- ture lager keg depending lightly from the watch chains of all these emancipated officials. and Other Turkish Sta Prince Charles of Roumania is about to declare himself an independent sovereign under the protection of the Emperor of Russia. Independence would be of more value if it did not require the ‘‘protection” of powerful neighbors; but at least the Roumanian ruler will be far more at ease in the shadow of Russian power than in the relation he has hitherto held to the Sultan, and therefore if he does not exchange his subordination for a really substantial inde- pendence, at least he changes his suzerain very satisfactorily. This declaration is a deferred response to one on the same subject made in Constantinople in December or January last. It was then declared by the Sultan’s government that Roumania was an integral part of the Ottoman Empire, and that certain formalities of homage to his suzerain on the part of the Prince invested with the government would not in future be dispensed with. Against that declaration the Prince protested in vain. It was an ex- pression of the purpose of revived Moslem- ism to draw very closely lines that had been Roumania Nominally | permitted to become so loose that they prac- tically ceased to define or bind. It was the opinion in Constantinople just then that the Sultan’s authority was perishing for lack of a sufficiently vigorous assertion. Conse- quently the Prince was compelled to reo- ognize that his independence, if it were to be enjoyed in future, must be supported by distinct relation to some armed force greater than his own. His natural disposition to incline toward Russia was theretore stimulated, and he was forced into the attitude of consent to its use of his territory and into the practical alli- ance he now makes. No doubt a similar declaration of independence will presently be made by Prince Milan of Servia. It will be remembered that the project to promul- gate such a declaration miscarried during the recent Servian war. There is now very little doubt, we presume, that the treaty which will close this war will recognize that Bosnia is equally independent of the Sultan, even if it does not in addition recognize that it has become part of the Austrian Empire. InEgypt is to be observed the same centrifu- gal tendency. The‘Khedive wisely hesitates to send to the Sultan the military assistance demanded of him, and Western Europe warns him not to spend in Ottoman wars the money due to his own creditors. If he de- termines to hold aloof in the quarrel a dec- laration of independence on his part. would be wise, as it will not more anger the powers in Constantinople, and may secure Russian favor and a gurantee of immunity against the day when peace is made. By these'early inci- dents of the strife it may be seen how readily the Sultan’s vast domain will crumble away into separate kingdoms; how the Commander of the Faithful may be deprived of political and military consequence in Europe, and the Emperor of Russia yet keep his promise not to acquire his neighbor’s territory. Who Will Be Speaker? There are naturally a good many loose speculations about the Speakership of the next House, because there are a good many persons desirous of the place. ‘The repub- licans have had some hopes of being able to elect a Speaker, and Mr. Garfield’s friends at one time professed to be confident that he would be the man. It was urged on his be- halt that the President desired him to be chosen; but the President has never said so. Hevhas been careful not to interfere in such a matter, and if any republican could carry off Southern democratic votes it is not Mr. Garfield, who has never belonged to the moderate or liberal wing of the republican party, but Mr. Foster, whose Louisiana re- port in 1875 and his course since have won him the esteem and confidence of Southern men. There are, however, no signs of any im- mediate break in the democratic ranks. The democrats will be almost as numerous as the republicans in the next Senate, and may even have a slight majority. It is not probable that with such strength in one house they would easily give up the organ- ization of the other totheiropponents, Mr. Randall appears to have the greatest strength among the democratic candidates; his course, both while presiding in the House under extremely difficult cir- cumstances and in the selection of committees, made him esteemed by the leading men of both parties ; and his re- election to the Speakership is not cnly probable but in every way desirable. His influence on legislation was conspicuously good. He was the opponent of all jobbery ; and the admirable record of the last session, in the matter of special and jobbing legisla- tion, is due largely to his care and to his obstinate and courageous opposition to everything of this kind. Wo notice that in one or two journals General Banks is spoken of as a compromise | candidate; but if there is to be a fusion of elements Mr. Banks would be probably the last man to be chosen as its representative, because his course in the last House was not independent, but neutral, and his position, when it was last known, was that of an op- ponent of the President's Southern policy. The New Police Athletic Club. We are pleased to hear that the police, in response to our recent suggestion of the ur- gent need of some simple and effective sys- tem of athletics which shall make them equal to their often dangerous duties, have already organized a ‘Police Athletic Club,” with the well known Captain Williams at its head and Captain Saunders as Vice Presi- dent, while they have fortunately secured tho services of the mighty Greco-Roman wrestler, Professor Miller, as their mentor. But what they want is not so much the burly power of the latter and the ability to make both shoulders of the burglar or other desperado touch the ground at once, as quickness and agility in the use of their hands and feet. Thus the conviction might be soon established, ospecially officers are very ugly men to deal with. The gentlemen in charge of the club must see to it that the patrolmen, above all others, have every facility and a proper share of the benefit sure to come from sensible and systematic work in such aclub as this. They are the men who are usually nearest the danger and in whose hands we trust our lives and property. All progress in this new direction will not only increase their own self-respect, but the re- spect of the public forthem as well. Manage this club well and it will not be long until— as it should—there will spring up in every precinct a similar organization, and then all will begin to wonder why was not this good thing started long ago. Captain Will- iams and his companions have it in their power to confer a lasting benefit upon our city, one sure to be taken up and copied in every city where there is life and vigor in the management of the police, and happily, too, so far as the present plan tndicates, without causing the city to incur one cent of expense in support of the movement. Herald War Maps. Should hostilities continue in the East for a long time our readers will have no cause to complain of a want of clear and accurate maps of the theatre of war to illus- trate our descriptive articles and mark the changing fortunes of the belligerents. Al- ready we have presented in the Henaup maps ofthe entire region in which active operations are destined to take place. Without crowding our map of European Turkey with unneces- sary details we give the chief points of in- terest in the valley of the Danube from Orsova to the Black Sea, the chief towns and the railroad lines of Roumania and the topographical features of the country. Southward of the river we give the railroad lines connecting the fortresses with the Black Sea ports of importance, the line of the Balkans and other features of interest. Of Asia Minor and Armenia our war map embraces the entire area, together with that of the Caucasian provinces of Russia, the greater part of Persia and of Northern Arabia, with a part of the Nile Valley. This, with Southern Russia, the Black and Caspian seas, the Bosphorus and Levant completes the most comprehensive map of the seat of war in Asia yet published. As the opera- tions become more defined we shall have opportunities for affording our readers further gratification by publishing such de- tails of the topography of the country where they occur, so that nothing will be wanted to make the Heratp’s war maps the most perfect illustrations of the scene of every stirring event. Another Protocol. That no duel is to come out of the Mar- quis de Talleyrand’s difficulties with the Paris Pays can scarcely be regretted by such ofthe gentleman’s friends as take a liberal view of the relations of public men to pub- lic opinion, The Marquis became ‘‘con- verted,” as the phrase goes, to republican- ism—that is to say, he became satisfied that the republican theory was the only one on which his country could be safely governed in these days, and he had the moral courage to declare his thoughts on the subject. He was consequently criticised with over- caustic spirit by the Pays, and o defiance was the result; but Cassagnac, who is assumed to be responsible in diffi- culties with that journal, faving been just condemned to a term of imprison- ment for vilifying the Assembly, the diffi- culty with Talleyrand seems to have fallen to Rogat, an associate. That great essential, an antagonist, having been found, it became possible to appoint seconds, and again equally possible for these gentlemen to con- sider the case profoundly and furnish the easiest possible solution by simply refusing the demand for an exchange of shots on the ground that no proper provocation had been given. Talleyrand comes out very well, for the tone of the world in which he lives would not permit him to ignore criticism of the kind complained of; but having sub- mitted his case to a friend, if this gentleman agrees that the occasion does not justify a duel that is a satisfactory termination. American Shipbuilding. The interesting despatch from Chester, Pa., which we printed yesterday, gives a cheerful picture of the recent progress of this country in the construction of iron ships. This branch of industry which has gained so promising a foothold within the last few years is certain to grow in any event, and it is possible the European war may give it a mighty impetus. ‘The encour- aging progress thus far made is owing to the superior quality and recent cheap- ness of American iron. For the last two or three years England has almost en- tirely ceased to export iron to this country, and now that we are able to compete with herin the production of the material of ocean steamships our enterprise and mechanical ingenuity are pretty certain to do the rest. Previous to the civil war we surpassed.all the world in building wooden ships. But while wo stood at the head of that branch of industry wooden ships went out of date for the greater routes of commerce, and the war struck such a heavy blow to our navigating interest that wo were unable for a long time to compete with other nations in building vessels: of iron, But cheaper coal and cheaper iron are beginning to restore us toacondition of equality, and when we are once again fairly in the race we may hope to distance all rivals. If the European war should spread beyond the immediate parties and become general we shall doubtless recover our former standing as the second nation in the world in ship- building and navigation, and then pass rapidly from the second rank to the first. A general European war will open a vast market, and our resources for supplying it are without limit. The Corner Loafer. | Everybody knows him at sight. What ho does by daylight is a mystery, for his face would exclude him from every business but the mock auction, and his clothes do not qualify him for that. By night, however, he is a critic, particularly of the gentler sex, and while he is not destitute of apprecia- tion his favorable remarks are more to be dreaded than his criticisms, He selects his professional stand on the most crowded thoroughfares, where policemen most dc congregate; but he is let alone as tenderly by officers as if he were a burglar or t roper-in for a gambling house. He never appears alone, but is a consistent believer in the theory of co-operation, and what remains unsaid by him and his asso- ciates concerning any lady who passe them is beneath the oapacity of the meanest blackguard to conceive. Utterly depraved himself, he cannot imagine that any one upon whom he looks can be otherwise. Instinctively a coward, his lips are sealed in the presence of a lady accom- panied by a gentleman or even a half grown boy. Having only two feet, he cannot be shot like the Spitz dog or any other perambulating nuisance; being a voter he cannot be arrested without dam- aging the prospects of some human nuisance equally dangerous but more politic. The only relief from him seems to reside in the toe of the manly boot. Self-constituted vigilance committees of one might profitably employ a few evenings in the interests of society by watching these ruffians and in. flicting punishment immediately on the commission of any offence, although the marvellous faculty of officers for arresting the wrong man would dictate that action should be taken only when no policeman is in sight. PERSONAL 5 INTELLIGENCE, Greece cannot hold a candlo to the Russians. Spring lamb is now springing round tho old ewe, Pinked out frills are taking the place of knife-plait ing. * Time flies and stockings will be clocked again this year. Tho Russians are advancing on Kwgrisownptggro- vitchsk!. ‘Tho Sultan has put tho helm of the ship of state hard a Porte, Tho mountain pink with stern discouragement com. pels the rocks to smile, Jersey tarmers’ wives are now yanking their own lettuce out of the garden. “Decollette,” if we may bellevo the Buffalo Express, means “necks to nothing. Boston Commercial Bulletin: —\'New York has donned her spring garb—garbage.”” One of the new spots on the sun fs 7,000 miles wide, It has beon named Sol-deno. Some of the speculators about the war were long on flour. Pie crust remains short. Brown silk, trimmed with bright golden brocade, looks very beauti{ul in the evening. The man who for the first time hears Liszt is like a baby listening to its first thunder storm. An Elizabeth man wants to know what is the mean- ing of ‘‘drops.’” Liquor is drops, of course, Boston Post:—"Tho Topsy in ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin” ‘at the Bowery Theatre, Now York, is dyed in the wool. Mr. Caleb Cushing, United States Minister to Spain, was at the New York yosterday, en route to Washing. ton, A dominic hen has frequently hatched turkeys; and discontented republicans should not be severe on Hayes. Some men while playing whist slam the cards down with o bang as it their brains were all in their knuckles, From a Hrratp window on a rainy day the umbrel- Jas moving up and down Broadway for half a mile look like a sea of black billows. A Western democratic papor says that Hayes is a republican, and a Western republican paper says that ho is a democrat, They aro correct. If General Grant goos to Russia is he likely to ree ceive courtesies {rom tho imperial family after big lack of courtesy to the Grand Duke? The Columbia River salmon fishers mean to erect a dam, behind which salmon may be propagated and the extermination of the fish be prevented, In Nopaul, India, tho three wives of Jung Bahadoor were burned with hia corpse, Nepaul is a province over which Victoria, in 1877, is the Empress. The dietary of the French soldior is a cup of black coffee on getting up, and called ‘‘diane,’’ or the morns ing gun; then two meals of good soup and bread. The Norristown Herald accuses papers of stealing its paragraph, ‘Lager sings in staves.’ Weil, Mr, Williams, ‘tho second thiet is the best owner.” The Milwaukee Sentinel considers itselt well written; but, judging fromyita recent Englisb, the spirit of Shakespeare musifpore boon dictating to a medium, Philip Harris, of ennsylvania, cured bis blindness by rubbing hi @ with the cut edges of a sour apple, or else the Pennsylvania papers are not to be believed. Ex-Governor Noyes worked for Hayes’ nomination, Ex-Governor Noyes will be made Minister to France. “Moral:—Thero 18 not much Sunday school politics in that, iJ Evening Telegram:— Tho rapidity with which the Russian army purpoges to get to Constantinople is shown in the tact that it intends to take Kars at the start’? Courier. Journal:—"The Chicago Times has a para graphic department of ‘Pearls,’ which 1t casts betore its readers,” Tho C.-J. seems to be one of its readers, S’boy. * When a fond mother can go into a schoolroom and whalo a six-foot teacher for whipping her boy it is not wise to say that If she were in politics sho could not Tun a primary meeting. The Street Commissioners are going to havo a tole- phone attachment from tho garbage to their houses, The tones of tho garbage are so loud that they can already bo heard half a mile away. Wendoll Phillips the other day lost a favorite set- ting hen, In the goodness of his heart he took the eggs home, talked to thom warmly for fiiteen minutes about Susan B, Anthony, and they hatched out, Chicago Tribune:—**A gentleman from Chicago called upon Mr. Emerson tho other day, and introduced bim- golf with the remark:—‘I hopo I don’t intrade,’ ‘That dopends,’ said the philosopher, “upon how much we have in common.’”” Judy:—"Nico Uncle (improving the occasion)—Y ou see, my dear, you don’t generally call boys ‘pretty;? but if thoy are very, very good indecd, they may grow up ‘bandsome,’ Olive Branch—Oh, Uncle! why didn’t you be a good boy?” When you see a woman looking out of a second story window, and she has patches of whitewash all over her hair, while her husband in tho back yard is trans. planting her winter geraniums top sido down, sho will soon have the call on him. Sometimes when a man is to be hung for outrage and murder churchy women send bim beautiful bouquets, while the grave of the poor child and the home of the heartbroken parents are left unadorned, What hum. bugs we humans sometimes are! Very small greon nasturtium seeds, picked as soon as the flowor has fallen, and pickled, make a fine sub- stitatg for capers In white sauce for boiled’ mation, ‘The nasturtium will grow almost without encourage. ment, and trained on strings against fencos has a brill- fant effect. ‘An English vicar and his wife determined to reform their church and Sunday school. They tore lockets from children’s necks, turned out girls who had flow. ers ou their bonnets and abused people who wore cuffs, Tho congregation and school loft ina body, and it ts probable that the vicar will seek o situation as waiter at Mr, Hayes’ White House, Presidont Hayes has invited his uncle, the venerable Austin Birchard, of Fayetteville, Vt, who is cightys one years old, to make him a visit at the White House, and promises to his son Webb as an escort. Bat Mr. Birchard declines, on account of his age and physt- cal infirmity, and also bis disinclination to mingle society on account of the death of his daughter, who was killed at Ashtabula, and go the President will probably visit the old gentleman himeoif curly in the summer. The Evening Telegram, spoaking of an Essipoff con- cert, gives somo advice that will apply to all con- certs:—'*We suggest to certain couples who keep up aa incessant senseless chattering, in spite of dagger looks from their neighbors, that the audience aro more ine terested in the music than their private affairs, and that common decency, not to say ordinary politencss, should induce them to hold their tongues w! the masic ts 1m progross, Either keep auiet and lot other poople listen comfortably or else stay away.’? ¥