The New York Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY ABRALD. published every Three ceuts (Sunday exeluded). Year. of at rate of une ‘dollar pee than’ six months, or five dol month for any period for six months, 38 Sunday Id be properly sealed. Letters and c it ‘All not be returned. Rejected commun: PR: LADELPELA E-NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH BT! LONDON LOERICE oF ane NEW YORK HERALD— 46. LER’ vats OFFICE TENE DE LOPERA. APLES OF FIC ADA PAC dranignnente, will be in New York, BOWERY THEATRE. NEW YORK aQuat R Fisnes. TRIPLE NOTICE TO COUNTRY “DEATERS. Adams Express Company ron a special newspaper Railrond and connections, arter past four A, M- daily and dithon at RALD ns Car uy reaching i From our reperts this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York: to-day will be cool and cloudy, followed by rising temperature and decreasing cloudiness. Wat Srreer Yesrervay.—The stock market opened weak, but strengthened a little about midday. A fall in the coul stocks, however, dragged the other fancies down and the whole list closed weak. Gold opened at 1067 and ad- vanced to 107g, the closing price. Government and railroad bonds were strong. Money on call was quoted at 21g a 1, per cent, the latter be- ing the final rate. Presipwent Hayes Arnivep at Philadelphia last night to open the Permanent Exhibition and was received with glorious old-fashioned Phila- delphia hospitali A Tenper Metuop of disposing of surplus dogs has not yet been devised by the authorities, although a pistol bullet in the brain has alw: been an instantaneous cure for weariness of life. Bower AND BarKER continue in fpll posses- sion of the Hippodrome, though Kerr, their usual associate, is missing, while the imposing figure of St. Bernard towers above all others. ‘fo RecomMEeND TO Mercy a man who has assaulted a police officer may be a good way of indicating the kindness of heart of a jury, but as an encouragement to deserving officers it is a dismal fuilure. Tne Usvat Srory was told to the Custom House Investigation Committee yesterday. If business were done in a business like manner the United States would not pay best oes be served TaimtTeEN Tiovsanp GArM thousand loaves of bread gi annual report of the Female G out of the common run of “anniversary” reports and makes it of interest to everybody. IF THE BANKING Buu wi wl hich | passed at Albany yesterday becomes a law the devil will be s cessfully whipped around the stump, the whip being paid for by the depositors at a price that would buy all the whip factories in existence. Yesrervay was another active day in real estate transfers. Whether or t the prices showed any improvement upon late quotations we do not know, but any prices realized by actual ‘sales is of peculiar value just now as showing what rea! estate is actually worth. TION OF “AR- TILL in another column should not escape the attention of financiers, expecially those who are filled with patriotic indignation that no army appropriation can be made tor sev- eral months. to do its share of the work of national p the Department Commander, in his iments of every tru in his injunctions of respect toward the Conf erate dead. Tut Corporation Counsen ventilates very thoroughly one of the features of the propo: law for the removal of apparent. li estate. His claim is that the city treasu sutfer, but as all deficiencies in this ever- ing coffer have to be m ood by the g body of taxpayers Mr. Whitney's communica- tion should be generally read. 8 upon real Tue Weatier.—The barometer is low on the Atlantic coast from Florida to Nova Scotia and westward to the Lower Ohio Vall Light rains prevail over this exten: region, especially in the northeastern portion, ‘The winds, ever, are mod , except in the St. Lawrence Valley and a of the New England coast, where they are brisk to high. The Northwestern depression referred to in yesterd Heratp presents a very steep barometric gradient west- ward from Yankton, Breckenri: and Pe with high winds in the Missouri leys and decidedly threatening indications from Arkansas northward. now advancing over the Rocky Mountain regi is extensive, and will embrace the whole w ern country in ite eastward movement. The highest pressure is over the upper lake region. Another area of high barometer is moving slowly from the Southwest over the Lower Miss- issippi Valley. The central districts, therefore, represent a neutral area of which the mar, conditions present decided meteorological con- trasts and indicate the. probability of tornadoes in the Lower Missouri, Lower Ohio and Central Mississippi valleys. The temperature in this central region, but the thermal gradic na falls rapidly northeastward trom ed fortieth parallel. The temperature is very in the Upper Missouri Valley, and a t storm is probable over that region. The pressure con- tinues below the mean on the Pacitic coast. As the Mississippi is above the danger line at Vicks- burg, heavy rains in the upper wi atersheds will be likely to create dangerous and destruc- tive freshets and inundations in the lower valley. In New York to-day it will be cool and cloudy, followed by warmer and temyaaathy clearing weather, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 10, _1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. Justice 1 lt Lake. They are drilling and arming in Utab. Our correspondent at Salt Lake City tele- graphs that quantities of breech-loading rifles have been received by the Mormon authorities from the East during the last fortnight; that the faithful are drilling in meeting houses, stables and corrals, and, finally, that last Sunday Brigham Young un- expectedly broke out, in the Tabernacle, in a warlike address, in which he plainly said that if the Gentiles wanted blood they could have plenty of it—more than they would like. Our correspondent adds—what does not surprise us—that since then leading Gentiles are quietly preparing to remove their families from Utah. Those of them who have lived for any considerable period in the Territory know how great is Young’s authority and how certain his followers are toobey him to the most desperate extremes. There are about 100,000 Mormons and about 15,000 Gentiles in Utah; the army is small; and if Young is desperate enough he can command and procure a general massacre. Is he desperate? The important letter we print elsewhere from our special corre- spondent in Utah explains his anger. Jus- tice is evidently on the heels of Young and many of his most prominent followers. The details of the dark crime of Mountain Meadows have been investigated, unti! now that justice has been boldly asserted by the execution of Lee, the government has ob- tained further and most important evidence connecting the Mormon chiefs with that cruel and treachérous outrage ; and not only that, but with many other murders. The United States Grand Jury meets at Salt Lake City on the 2st of this month, and our correspondent telegraphs us that subpmnas have been issued for a large number of witnesses, and it is be- lieved that numbers of arrests will be made inashort time. Our correspondent gives in his ietter a sample of the evidence which will come before the Grand Jury, and | the tale of the Scotch witness, McGuftie, re- veals murderous deeds which will, perhaps, astonish the Eastern reader, but will not surprise any one who has been in Utah within a dozen years, or who has spoken with the Gentiles who lived there before the Pacific Railroad was completed. Justice is reaching out her strong arms toward Brigham Young and his chief agents, The trial and excution of Lee showed these miscreants at last that they were not abso- Intely safe. They had defied the United States authorities and public opinion so many years with success that they believed themselves secure against investigation and punishment. They fancied that the se- crets of their long and cruel rule would perish with them; and now they at last see that they are in danger. Natu- rally, they are desperate. They are at the endof their rope. They can no longer hope to resist the advance of an army by ordering their poor dupes to barn their farms and make a desert, before the troops, as Wells in- cautiously told the Heratn’s correspondent they did when General Sidney Johnston was ordered into the Territory. ‘Everybody remembers,” said the prophet Wells, ‘how the people behaved when ordered out by President Young to prevent Johnston from entering the Territory, at what might have seemed to another man a most dismal mo- ment of his career. The President issued an order which obliged us to burn forage in advance, set fire to the grass at night, carry off animals and do various other things to hold back the enemy;” the enemy being a federal army. That policy cannot be re- peated, because the Pacific Railroad now runs through Utah. Resistance must take some other shape. But why are the Mormon prophets ex- cited? What have they to fear from the United States? Why should not the federal officers investigate the Mountain Meadows massacre? When the Grand Jury is about to meet why should Brigham Young threaten bloodshed from his pulpit? ‘There were many long years in Utah when no Gentile's life was worth a day's purchase if he in- curred the enmity of the Mormon leaders; when the Gentile traders spoke only in whispers in Salt Lake City ; when the Mor- mon capital was entered by strangers as men venture into a wolf's den—very uncer- tain whether they would get out with a whole skin. The Scotchman McGuffie gave our correspondent a glimpse of those dark days when no law or authority in- terfered to curb the vilest passions of the Mormon leaders. The despatch of District Attorney Howard to the Attorney General, which we printed on Tuesday, shows that the federal authorities believe themselves to be able to connect Young and other prominent Mormons with the Moun- tain Meadows massacre. Now that it is seen in Utah that the federal arm is strong enough to punish murder and to protect the innocent evidence will not be wanting to develop the circumstances not only of this, but of many other crimes against de- fenceless travellers and residents, We take the liberty to suggest to the President that he should keep his eye on Utah. The federal authorities there ought to be made to understand that they are ex- pected to do their duty fearlessly, and that they will be supported by the whole power of the United States, The officers of the federal court in the Territory have a task of uncommon difficulty before them, and of no slight danger. The Mormon leaders will use all the arts to which despera- tion can prompt them to defeat justice, They will try corruption, slander, snbornation; they will not only spend money to get witnesses out of the way or to corrupt the officers of justice, but they will not hesitate to resort to more desperate mens- ures. When Brigham Young threatened bloodshed from his pulpit on Sunday it was because he felt himself and the other Mor- mon chiefs to be on trial for their lives. We should like to know that the President appreciates the situation in Utah, and that he had taken measures already that the fed- eral District Attorney should be supported by able and fearless counsel ; that the wit+ nesses and the Grand Jury before whom they are to come know that they will be pro- tected against the vengeance of the Mormon leaders, and that Utah shall understand fully and certainly that the time for trifling | and trickery is gone, The federal court which is to open at Salt] Lake toward the | end of the month has no common criminal work before it. The letters and despatches of our Salt Lake correspondent show that evidence will be brought out implicatirg the heads of the Mormon despotism in various murders. Brigham Young evidently appreciates the gravity of the situation. He is defiant, and is preparing for resistance. We do not suppose he will attempt to make war on the United States; but he will spare no pains or expense and hesitate at no means to evade justice. Attorney Gen- eral Devens has an uncommon opportunity to show energy and skill in this emergency. If he is slow or unequal to his task, if he suffers the whole great burden of these pros- ecutions to fall upon the shoulders of his distant subordinates, Young may still hope to defeat the laws; but if the Attorney General does his duty and is equal to the task he may confidently hope to see justice, slow, but sure, close upon the Mormon leaders, The War News. From their splendid strategic position on the lower bend of the Danube at Galatz, which they have seized by a brilliant coup, and are rendering inpregnable with untiring industry, the Russians are preparing to further extend their control of the river. The Turks now recognize how utterly stupid they have been in neglecting to secure this position, and are making unavailing at- tempts to repair their loss by bom- barding the Russian positions, But it is too late. Their great opportunity for defence has passed from them, and their present effcrts are but a waste of time and energy. ‘The Turkish fleet will soon be en- tirely cut off from aiding in the defence of Bulgaria, because the Russians are about to close the only navigable chan- nel of the Danube delta—namely, the Sulina Pass. This they will accomplish from Ismail and Kilia without much diffi- culty. The Russian movement up the river from Ibrail will force the gunboats of the ‘Turks further from that position and finally lead to the evacua- tion of the Dobrudscha to the line of the Kostendji railroad. The Roumanian attack | on Widdin from Kalafat covers the Rus- sian right and secures the railroad west of Bucharest from any Turkish raids. This Roumanian co-operation with the Rus- sians is one of the most important events of the war. In Asia all depends on Muhk- tar Pacha’s army holding the Sougalu passes. Everything now indicates his defeat and the capture of Erzeroum by the Rus- sians. The sympathizers of the Turk in England must certainly derive little comfort from the news from Asia, for the Russian columns are advancing with the certainty of victory. Architectural Manslaughter. From the report of Postmaster James’ commission and from the testimony before the Coroner's jury it is evident that the recent fatal accident at the Post Office must be attributed to the gross incapacity or criminal carelessness of the persons em- ployed on the building by the United States government. After the building was erected it was determined to remove the floor beams between the third and fourth stories and to pull down a wall which, in Mr. Mullett’s own words, ‘‘partially supported the roof,” in order to make a lofty, long room fora United States court room. In sending in- structions to his superintendent to do this work it is true the Supervising Architect, Mr. Mullett, requested him to carefully revise the plans, and added, ‘Inform me if there is any difficulty in carrying the same into effect, or if there are any errors in the figures or plans.” But it does not seem proper that the Supervising Architect should have originally drawn plans and ordered the work to be done without personally satisfying himself that the alteration, the hazardous character of which must have been apparent tothe merest novice, would not imperil the safety of the building. At all events the alterations were made, and there is not a particle of evidence to show that any person troubled himself to find out whether they would endanger the building or not, Mr. Steinmetz, the Assistant Super- intendent, testifies that he ‘merely exe- cuted the orders given and superintended the architectural work.” Mr. Barton, In- spector of Construction, says, ‘It was not my duty to examine the building myself in regard to details of execution; I merely exe- cuted the orders given.” Soon through the list of official incapables. No person seems to have cared for consequences, but all went on with their work as carelessly as if they had been building house of cards. The verdict of the Coroner's jury clearly points out the causes of the disaster, and places the responsibility where it belongs. There is surely matter here for the attention of a Grand Jury in New York as well as of the authorities at Washington. The Wadesville Mine Disaster. Science has done much for the safety of men employed in dangerous duties, both on sea and land, but it is impossible to fully conquer the elements of nature. All pre- cautions are unavailing to prevent the re- currence of such terrible calamities as the mine explosion so vividly described in our despatches this morning. The Wadesville disaster will take its place in the long and gloomy list of accidents which have attended coal mining in Pennsylvania. What caused the explosion of gas is not yet certainly known ; but whether it was carelessness or not the risks of this employment have a fearful illustration. The men who were in- stantly killed were more fortunate than those who suffer a lingering death by fire and were spared the agonies of the unhappy beings who were buried alive eight hundred feet below the surface of the earth, Who can tell what pangs were endured by these men who found themselves suddenly shut up ina living tomb? One feature of the event on which the miud can dwell with satis- faction is the zeal and energy with which their fellow miners labored to extricate them from their dreadful position, What methods for preventing explosions and what means of egress were provided by the company which owns the Wadesville mine are matters which ought to have the fullest investiga- Mr. O’Conor’s Ideas of Government. { publican Politicians, he is still a weak man, operating too boldly. ‘There is more Akely The remarkable address delivered by Mr. O’Conor in the Academy of Music on Tues- day evening was a brilliant exemplification of the oft-quoted saying about the ‘follies of the wise.” The intellect of this con- summate advocate is rather acute and in- genious than circumspect and comprehen- sive. His sturtling deviations from the average sense of the community on public questions support the maxim that “everybody is wiser than anybody.” When at the outbreak of the civil war Mr. O’Conor maintained the rightfulness of slavery he was not more out of accord with the sentiment of his countrymen than he is now in his unique views respecting the proper organization of civil government. We cannot follow him over the whole ground of his really able and incisive discussion, and will confine our comments to his two leading practical recommendations. One of these is that our legislative bodies should consist of a single chamber; and the other that the Executive should not be elected as such, but be selected by lot from members of the Legislature, to serve one month, and then give place to another transient Governor, selected in like manner by lot, and so on through the twelve months .of the year. Both of these projects are chimerical, but a Legisla- ture consisting of a single chamber is not so wild as a change of Governors every month. Mr. O’Conor would have this strange plan adopted in the federal government as well as in the State governments. First, as to a Legislature consisting of a single chamber. Its practical effect would be to remove all checks on crude or hasty legislation. Even with the power of review, amendment and rejection possessed by each branch of the Legislature on bills passed by the other, the Governor has frequent occa- sion to exercise the veto power in every ses- sion, and the vetoes are so generally and so manifestly correct that not one in a hundred is overruled. But the veto power is incom- patible with Mr. QO’Conor’s plan of a monthly change of Governors selected by lot from members of the same Legislature which had passed the bills. Mr. O'Conor'’s plausible argument in favor of a single | chamber involves a great fallacy. He says that the conventions which frame our written constitutions always consist of but one chamber, and argues thatif a single body can be trusted to frame the fundamental law a single body can also be trusted to make the minor and subordinate laws. This specious argument overlooks a main element of the case. A constitutional convention does not enact a constitution, but only pro- poses a plan of one for adoption or rejection by the people, whereas the acts of a Legisla- ture are binding without submission to the popular vote. Mr. O’Conor’s argu- ment cannot stand a moment in the face of this broad distinction. A body which assembles merely to frame pro- posals does not need to be under the internal check created by two chambers, because there is a more efficient check in the power of the people to reject its work, But a Legislature which, by the fact of its being a Legislature, enacts laws which bind and coerce the people and does not submit proposals which they are at full liberty to reject, does not stand on the same footing. It is absurd to draw a parallel between a constitutional convention anda Legislature, and argue that the mutual checks exercised by two chambers is not needed in the one because it is safely dispensed with in the other. Secondly, as to a monthly succession of Governors selected by lot from members of the Legislature. This proposition is really too grotesque for serious argument. Mr. O’Conor, with the logical consistency in which he seldom fails, would apply this system to the federal government. Imagine an important negotiation with a foreign Power passing under the direction of six different Presidents in the course of six months ! If each of them were as well versed in foreign affairs as was Jefferson or John Quincy Adams they would make a sad mess ot it; but if selected by lot from three hundred members of Congress our foreign policy would be as unintelligent as it would be inconsistent. This system would be as absurd as a daily change of judges in the course of a trial—as absurd as selecting a member of the jury every day by lot to sit upon the bench and decide the points raised by opposing counsel. It is needless toargue against so wild a crochet, for not even the great name and fame of Mr. O'Conor can seduce anybody to think well of such a proposition. Ei A Weak Spot in the Cabinet. They say in Washington that Attorney General Devens does not feel very comforta- ble in the Cabinet and that he may pres- ently accept another place. President Hayes made a hit with most of his Cabinet ; the general opinion of the country as strongly approved as the opinions of the republican politicians disapproved of his selections. about Secretary Thompson when his name was first made public, but his activity and the determination with which he has gone into an investigation of the actual condition of the navy have satisfied the people that he is a proper man for the place. The name of General Devens was also a surprise—and there is « general impression that it was the least judicions and least successful of the President's selections. To be plain, it is said that Mr. Devens is slow ; that he is too great an admirer of red tape; that he does not masicr the details of his department; that he is not entirely in harmony with the President's policy, and that it takes him long time to make up his mind on even minor details. We judge that all this is true. Mr. Devens is an upright, dignified, slow-going old gentleman, who made a mistake when he left the Bench of Massachusetts to take office in the federal Cabinet. He was not intended originally to be Attorney General, but Sec- retary of War, for which his military ex- perience was supposed to give him some special qualifications, It was by an accident that he became Attorney General; and while he is undoubtedly an improvement over his predecessor, Mr. Taft, who was for There was a little hesitation | occupying a place which requires a strong man, and in which it may happen that a weak man may do much mischief. It does not displease us, therefore, to hear that Mr. Devens is uncomfortable and would like an easier place, and we hope the Presi- dent, who is a clear headed and ready wilted man, will presently give him a place more to his liking. In that case we have no doubt he will take care to put a stronger and more vigorous man in the office of Attorney General, which is one of the most important in the government. What the Omnibus Bill Provides. Some of our contemporaries confound the provisions of the Omnibus bill, which is now in the hands of the Governor, with those of the New York Charter Amendment bill, known as the Woodin charter, which is still before the Legislature. It is signifi- cant that in advancing reasons why the Governor should withhold his approval from the Omnibus bill the journals which make this mistake commend the provisions it really contains and condemn those which they erroneously suppose to be there, but which are not in the bill at all. The Omni- bus bill provides for a spring municipal election, gives the Mayor the power to appoint heads of departments without re- quiring confirmation by the Board of Alder- men, reduces the salaries of Aldermen trom five thousand dollars a year to two thou- sand, abolishes the Dock and Build- ing departments, the office of Public Administrator, the Bureau of Licenses and the Commission for the Erection and Completion of the County Buildings, trans- ferring their respective duties to other de- partments ; places the Park, Fire and Excise departments each under a single Commis- sioner, and the departments of Police and Charities and Correction each under two Commissioners ; makes one officer, the Re- ceiver of Taxes and Assessments, perform the duties now spread among three officials— namely, the Receiver of Taxes, the Collector of Assessments and the Deputy Collector of Assessments; and authorizes the revision and redetermination of the tax budget for the present year by the Board of Apportion- ment in order that the amount of tax to be levied may be decreased to the extent of the economies secured by the bill. The Gov- ernor will no doubt carefully consider these provisions, and his decision will be gov- erned by the merits of the bill, and not by its effect on individual or political interests. Country Wives for City Husbands, Our fair correspondent ‘‘Audrey” elo- quently advises city young men to marry country girls, and the reasons she gives should makethem pause and reflect. Noth- ing is more charming than a lovely and in- telligent girl, who has lived with birds and flowers. That such creatures should con- sent to wed poor city clerks and exchange the freedom of the country for the confined life of the city isstrange, but their anxiety to be courted by city men is another proof of the generosity of the female sex. We are told by ‘‘Audrey” that there are thousands of young ladies in the country only waiting, like roses, to be gathered and transplanted to bloom in city homes. All that is said of their fitness to be good wives is true, for the country girl is generally independent, self- reliant, accustomed to work and happy, and competent to take charge of a household. A girl brought up in babits of economy and simplicity is likely to make a better wife for @ poor man than one to whom the luxuries of a city have become almost the necessities of life. But ‘‘Audrey” must not suppose that the domestic virtues blossom only in villages and farms. In New York there are many young women of intelligence and cul- ture who support themselves by daily toil and depend upon no man forhelp. They would be good wives to young men with small means, but who wish to establish happy homes of their own. This, however, should not prevent young gentlemen who are in search of a wife from acting upon ‘‘Au- drey’s” excellent suggestions, and we have her assurance that there are not likely to be many refusals. Indeed, the anxiety of ‘‘Au- drey” to make proposals popular is so plain that it recalls the old ballad:— “It you should desire for to marry, And pity this sorrow and woe, I desire you, young man, not to tarry,” Said the pretty mar milking her cow, The American Grain Trade, The stimulus given to the American grain trade by the Russo-Turkish war gives added interest to what is always an interesting commercial subject. We suspect that during the month of April the American speculators in wheat rather overshot the mark and that some of the more adventurous of them will suffer. We mention wheat in particular because speculation has been more active in this than in other grains, or in those articles of food which the market re- ports class as ‘‘provisions.” The reason why speculation has run to wheat is sufficiently obvious. This is the one article of which the war makes a large curtailment of the sources of supply. The ports of the Black Sea and the Danube are, next to the United States, the chief exporters of wheat to the markets of Western Europe. While the war lasts England, which is the principal con- sumer of foreign wheat, will depend almost wholly on this country for her supply. She will be obliged to take from the United States alone nearly as much wheat as she has heretofore taken from this country, Russia and Turkey together. But in other articles of food we shall not have to fill such » large vacuum in the market. The countries bordering on the Black Sea and the Danube, though large exporters of wheat, are not exporters of Indian corn, pork, bacon, lard and other food staples of which the United States havea practical monopoly. This explains why the movement in wheat has been so much more active than in corn and provisions. In the former our principal latter we have never had any competitors worth regarding. The war, therefore, creates no great sudden chasm in the maize and provision market as it does in the market for wheat. Hence an activity in wheat which has not extended to other articles of food. We suspect that the speculators in wheat have exaggerated the effect of the war and competitors are pushed out of the field; in the | to be a decline in prices than a further advance, and the operators will try to save themselves hy underrating the supply in the American market. They can do this with great seeming plausibility by quoting authentic figures of recent wheat receipts in Chicago and Milwaukee. During the month of April there was a falling off of about one-half in the receipts of wheat at these two important lake ports as compared with the receipts during the same month last year, while the receipts of other grain and hogs are larger than in April, 1876. To & person who should read the figures with- out reflection this would look as if there were but little wheat in the West ; and could that impression be diffused the present speculative price of wheat could be main. tained and the over-venturesome operators - be saved from loss while they are unload- ing. But the diminished receipts at Chi- cago and Milwaukee do not prove a scarcity of wheat in the West, but only that it has been rushed forward to the Atlantio sea- board by other channels than the one it usually takes in the spring of the year. Ordinarily a great amount of wheat is poured into Chicago and Milwaukee in the month of April, to take advantage of the opening of lake navigation and cheap transportation by water. But this year the speculators are too impatient to get their wheat to market and realize the buoyant war prices to await the slow and circuitous navigation of the lakes and the Erie Canal, and the greater portion is sent by rail. Tho region of country south and west of Chicago ships directly for the Atlantic ports, without sending the wheat to Chicago. The receipts in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore are larger than they have ever been before, notwith- standing the great falling off in the lake ports, With these precautionary explana- tions to prevent readers from being misled we invite attention to the interesting grain statistics in our commercial columns. Tue Present Is Ricut.—Mr. Cowles, of Cleveland, is despondent about the future of the republican party in Ohio, and yesterday told the President so. Mr. Cowles thinks it is the Southern policy which dis- gruntles the Ohio republicans. Our Colum- bus correspondent says it is the offices ; and we believe him rather than Mr. Cowles. The President himself is cheerful ; he told Mr. Cowles that in the end the party would be the stronger for pursuing a just policy. We fear he did not convey much comfort to Mr. Cowles by his figure of a surgical operation ; for we suspect that Mr. Cowles fears the patient may die. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Phillips Brocks hates clerical jesters. In Georgia blackberries are 25 cents a quart. Secretary Evaris continues to be a sir rejoinder, Gcorgia is constantly increasing her cotton weaving factories. Colonel Hinton helps to edit the bright San Fran- cisco Post. Since bread is going up it might be well to feed tramps on cake. J. M. Batley has stopped lecturing for the season and gone to eating peanuts. Sutro ana the Comstock owners are trying to com- promise about the tunnel, Out of 200 deaths in San Francisco three are by murder. The Hoodlum is rampant. A Rossian who eloped with a San Francisco girl paid $38 for chickens for her. His sins came home to roost, ‘The newspaper man who gets beaten at chess goes back fo the office and writes that Paul Morphy is crazy. A writer says that American music has too much of tho odor of money. Do the musicians play ‘‘Money Musk ?”” ‘The editor of the Rochester Democrat proclaims his belief in water, and now you can tell what his equa forte 18. "A white percale for morning dresses is made with a stripe broken into two colors, as, for instanco, blue and brown, in cubes, Augusta J, Evans (Mrs, Wilson), author of “Beulab,’” &c., has an elegant hotse in tho suburbs of Mobile, She will write no more. London Saturday Review:—“One of the chief attrace tions of American journals is tho column headed *Per- soual [ntoliigence’ of the New York Heap.” In St. Louis the merchants are semi-tropically indo- lent, and smoke thoir lethargic cigats, whilo im Chicago every man is on hig feet and goes Ike a borse car, Bullalo Express: “The New York Henap says:— ‘According to the Russian law two brothers cannot marry two sisters.’ Can one?"? Don’t be so greedy. Danbury News:—“Thanks tothe liberality of com- mittees in providing their church pews with the Moody and Sankey bymn books, nearly every home in Dan- bury has a copy.” Charley Levine, a boy of ten, travelled from Chicago to San Francisco on five cents, His method was when he was put off a train to wait for another, Emigrants supplied him with food. Pitsburg Conunercial:—"A man in Kentucky wae found dead with several builet holes in his head, and the astute jury summoned to hoid an inquest returned a verdict of ‘death trom undue excitement.’ ’? List night, about twelve o’clock, there were some cats on the back fence, who, in talking over the map ot Europe, requested one another the lines should be drawn around “I'schkaljatoch-m-ayou! ”” ‘Admiral Semmes, who, the other ide of the so, called chasm was a so-called pirate, is a proficient practitioner of law at Mobilo, He 18 slim, with stoop. ing shoullers and his thin hair falls over his sharp Stick a ginger snap on tho end of a knitting needle aud you havo the latest style of parasol.”"—Herald P, J. “And wrap a sheet of foolscap around the neck of a mineral water bottle and you have tho latest style of gent’s collar,”"—Norristown Herald, The London Telegraph insiats that the Russias Churchists wbip the men, women and children of the Voles in order to make them adopt tho Greek faith, Some ol the men have even been driven away trom their families in order to escape punishment, Cincinnati Commercial:— Pur away bis little ulster; Lay vis fanneisin the drawer; Bring bim torth bis linen duster; Lead him from the city’s roar, Gone to get a sherry cobvler, The noblo Indian comes into camp and says;—"T killed your wile, I harmed your daugnter, I burned your baby. | find no buffalo to eat, 1 surrender, Gimme rum and pork and tobacco for peace, Who | shall mourn for Logan?" And the voice of the plo neer comes, “Not a darned one,” Speaking of garden schools im cities the Evening Telegram says:—In her old-fashioned squares in the part of the city below Twenty-third street, and is some of her woused priors on the river sides, it prop erly fenced, and on the Battery, New York possesses the facility for trying the experiment oven in the most populous localities, In ai! that part of the island from the beginning of the Contral Park upward the facility is greater, but we would combine the two, We would supplement the more limited resources of the jowor part of the city by occasional transportation of the childern, under the care of tne achers, to the more favored places, it needs, as we have said, only tho intelligent co-operation of our public officers chiefly of the Board of Education with the Park Come missionerr—to organize such a scheme into practical forin, Some preparation of the grounds assigned tor the use of garden schools would be needful, but i would cost very little money. Intelligent and instruct+ ive arrangements of the public parks would be inore expensive than tho present system of unmeaniog | the most part a mere obedient tool tion, of the worst and most desperate of the re- are likely to get their fingers burned by ornament,”