The New York Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1877, Page 4

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BGYPTIAN HALL.—V. ra COLUMBIA OPERA 1 ROBINSON HALL.—Boxixa. WITH TTTON Ny Novick = TO The Adams Express Company run a special newspaper irnin over the Peunsylvunia tailroad and its eouncetions, leuving Jersey City ut 4 quarter past four A. M. daily und Sunday, carrying the revulur edition of the ALD As far West ax Huarrisvurg and Souch to Washington, reacbing TY aa at a quarter past six A. M. and Washington at one P. M. } From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy or clear, fol- lowed by increasing cloudiness toward night. Tue Promise oF Po.o appears iu our col- umns to-day, and the performance is sure to take place in due season. Tue Prrrci Story of Hannah Roach should have some influence upon the morals of fust young men and unfaithful husbunds. Sovutn Canrontna is now grappling with an enemy compared with which the carpet-bagger and white leaguer are harmless and manageable. We refer to her public debt. Rex Is Nor To Be onr only distinguished visitor to-morrow—President Hayes is coming. The last samed dignitary will arrive by the republican ferryboat instead of a royal steamer. AvsTRaLta has opened her Intercolonial Ex- hibition—an act which will make men feel old when they reflect that within the period of their recollection this great island has changed from a howling wilderness into a civilized land. For Years we have been importing English rats, aud iow it seems that England is adopt- ing ours, the difference in the two being that the former uttacked only farmers and boys, while the latter are expected to operate against big | ships. "*""' ‘THerr 1s 4 Grow1sG Sentiment in favor of at Teast a half holiday on tomorrow, Carnival Day. Employers who grant this concession will prob- ably find themselves compensated by the su- perior ability and industry which their employés will display on the next day. Ir Is Seprosep THAT Our Russtan Visttors are on the eve of departure. Whether they go only to make a speedy return or to project their heavy, noisy, penetrating arguments in favor of the Cross against the Crescent, they will leave | only pleusant memories behind them, and will, | we hope, have fully as many to carry away with | them. Tuk Mystery as to the identity of Rex casts | entirely into the shade the question, ‘‘Who is | | perfectly true, that “nearly every able, inde- | with the Mormon power.” Crisis im Utah=Where Is the Attorney General? If the federal officers of justice in Utah are properly and energeticaily sustained from Washington, our Salt Lake corre- spondent writes in a letter we print else- where, the conviction of the real authors and directors of the Mountain Meadows mas- sacre, and of other equally atrocious mur- ders, is not only possible but probable. But he adds that a failure of such necessary support ‘may prevent a consummation of justice which would probably consign to a doom identical with that of John D. Lee the greatest fraud and the supremest felon of the century.” Our correspondent is a careful investi- gator, not in the habit of jumping to con- clusions, and he has access to the best sources of information. We have no hesi- tation in calling the attention of the ad- ministration at Washington and of the country to bis words. He recalls what is pendent and feartess federal officer in Utah has been broken down in his contest | Brigham Young himself boasts of his success. He has caused in past years the removal of federal judges, secretaries, district attorneys and marshals whom he could not gain over to his sido by bribes or coerce by terror. But whoever of these officers has chosen to play into his hands has found himself pleasantly placed. One complaisant Governor had his board bills paid by the Mormon authorities during his whole stay in the Territory. Morey and men to carry on intrigues, not only in Utah, but in Washington, have never | been lacking. ‘Look at the fates of those who have foaght‘gainst us!” exclaimed the Prophet but a few days ago. It is not probable that the efforts to de- feat the attempts of federal officers to do justice will cease just now. On the con- trary, they are sure to be more desperately pushed than ever before, for never hitherto did the Mormon leaders find themselves threatened with a real danger; never before since they began their rule in Utah have they seen justice vigilant, undeterred by fears or by bribes, and actually on their tracks. “A nearer | approach than ever before is making toward the apprehension of the men reaily respon- sible for the Mountain Meadows and other massacres of the Mormon Church,” writes our correspondent, and, excellent as are his sources of information, we may depend on it Young and the other Mormon leaders are quite as well informed as he. He speuks, too, of “evidence unusually direct which ought to condemn to death several atrocious believers in blood atonement,” and in Dis- trict Attorney Howard's despatch’ to the Attorney General, which we printed on Wednesday last, he writes to his official chief:—“There are facts within my knowl- edge, not derived from Lee, that rébut the inference that there was written communi- eation between Lee and Brigham Young, but which will show that communication to | have been between Young and another party, which I will, if desired by yon, recite in a private communication.” In short, if the federal officers in Utah are encouraged and sustained from Washington as they ought to be the authors of the Mountain Meadows massacre and of other no less atro- cious murders wiil be brought to justice. The letter of our correspondent, which we print elsewhere, is simply an appeal for such support. He shows that District At- torney Howard has been a remarkably able, faithiul and courageous officer; that he has pursued without faltering the trail on which he iound himself in the prosecution of Lee ; | that the condemnation of that wretch was mainly due to the skill with which Mr. Howard isolated his case from that of Young | and the other Mormon leaders ; that before the Grand Jury, which meets at Salt Lake City on the 2lst—one week hence-and of Tom Collins!" As, however, he is to pass through some of the side streets, strict justice | demands that he shall not be any inember of the | Street Cleaning Bureau, for remorse at what he | would sec and smell would deprive him of all hie | dignity. Tue Descrivtion Given To-Day of the latest | battle piece by Miss Thompson will set critics to reforming their theories, It is more than | wonderful that these finished. and accurate rep- | cesentations of the phases of war should have been painted by a lady, and that their realism | should exceed that of male artists who have | personal recollections of great buttle fields, | _ Tue Reverations 1x THe Herarp of yester- Jay and to-day con ing the swill milk sheds at Blissville ave beyond expression disgusting | and horrible, From this poisonous centre comes much of the food upon w infants in New York and Brooklyn subsist, There are several methods by which the murderous nuisance can be abated. Is it nobody's business to see that or is baby killing an art which is prac- | tipally at Lome and with the consent | of the authorities 1 | Sunpay's Servoxs embraced almost the | whole range of religion and morals. The preva | lent war talk showed its influence in Mr. Tal- mage’s sermon, which was upon the battle of life, the great struggle which can be ended only by the death of the last combatant for bread and butter. The beauty and the nature of Christian love was the topic upon which | Father Kane descanted eloquently at the Cathedral. Mr. Hepworth recalled to his hear- ers all that is promised or toreshadowed of the coming life. Mr. Beecher, moved probably by the appearance of tweuty-tive babies for baptism, preached upon the fimnily relatic Father Cur ran unfolded the orthodox view of the services rendered by humanity, while Professor Adler threw religion down and danced on it without hurting it particle. Tar Weatiw: © low pressure still re- mains weet of the Mississippi, with rain in the | central districts and on the Gulf coast. Very high winds prevail in the Upper Mississippi Valley, blowing from the southeast toward the low area im Manitoba. The highest pressure is over the lakes and Middle States, with generally tlear weather. The areas of high temper- ature «preserve = their relative positions, | being still in the Northwest, the St. Luwrence | Valley and in the Southwestern districts. A | phenomenal variation of temperature is | presented ‘by the prevailing conditions. The barometer has fallen at San Frau isco and indicates an extension of the great low area westward into the Pa tific. The weather in New York to-day will | which, fortunately for the cause of justice, | misrepresent and calumniate, and thus to | within their reach if only they have support | court.” We have read frequently of late, | erippled by lack ot a few thousand dollars. | General ought certainly to let the public a majority are not Mormons, Mr. Howard will lay a mass of very important evidence, which should lead to the indictment of | prominent Mormon leaders ; that attempts to | deteat Mr. Howard, have already begun, and it would seem that so far as Mr. Howard and the other federal officers are concerned they have done their duty, and success is from Washington. But, with all that has been done, we are told “there is a disadvantage in the lack of money to secure the attendance of witnesses who have removed from the Territory and to carry on necessary proceedings in the in Washington despatches, that the appro- priations for the Department of Justice were exhausted, but we did not suppose that maiters had been so managed there that one of the most infportant criminal investiga- tions this country has ever known was to be Can this be true? [f it is the Attorney know it. It is necessary to speak plainly in this matter. We call on the Attorney General to show that he is doing his duty in this matter; that he is awake to its importance ; that he is tamiliar with all its details ; that he is supporting with proper energy the District Attorney, Marshal and other fed- eral officers of justice in Utah, and not leaving upon their shoulders the whole burden of « contest which, he ought by this time to comprehend, will be waged on the Mormon side without scruples as to the means they use and with all the money and influence of the Mormon Church at their absolute command. So far as the public here or in Utah knows the Attorney General | of Richmond hinted that perhaps too much | is paying no attention to these investiga- | tions. Now, not only is there no reason for | secrecy on his part in the matter, but it is of great importance that the public, par- ticularly in Utah, should understand that the federal administration does take the most thorough interest in the work of District Attorney Howard; that it means to give the most vigorous support to | this officer; that it is determined to have | sate keeping during the ex-President’s con- | justice done, no matter who is struck down, | nection with polities, the company found There is an impression that Attorney Gen- | around the White House rendering the pre- | caution a prudent one. mild and easy-going old gentleman, with | however, in their seabbards, and there let eral Devens, thongh an able lawyer, is a be slightly warmer and partly cloudy or clear, with increasing cloudiness toward night. little energy and a good deal of deportment, $0 far as the Mormons know in Utah this | We therefore hasten to explain that General is a correct description of Mr. Devens. But | the Atlantic. But should his sword ever be we trust the President has his eye upon the Attorney General’s office, and that he will know how to infuse the necessary onergy into the Department of Justice. If Mr. Devens is not equal to the Utah emergency the President should not hesitate to replace him with a better man. He ought to act promptly ; he will not be blamed for mak- ing a mistake in the selection of a Cabinet officer ; but he will be justly blamable if for any reason he retains one who neglects an important duty or who is unequal to a great and vitally important work. If the efforts of District Attorney Howard and the other federal officers of justice in Utah to bring to justice some of the most atrocious criminals of the century fail because these faithful and courageous men are left without suff- | cient support: and encouragement, that will be a blot on the new administration which we hope not to see. Brigham Young evi- dently counts on their failure. He has broken down » good many federal officers; he is not yet much afraid of District Attor- ney Howard; he blusters about blood in his | sermons and brags at the Lion House about the disagreeable fate of those federal officers who have “fought” against him. He sees so far, evidently, no sign in Washington that the times have changed, and he knows, perhaps, that the Attorney General’s office has been too busy for some years with Southern political campaigns to pay much attention to justice. The Best of News. ‘ It was peculiarly appropriate that the good news of the safety of the City of Brus- sels should have arrived on Sunday. No other ship ever sailed from the United States with so many prayers and pious wishes following in her wake, and upon whose satety hung so many devotional aspi- | rations and longings. The feeling which | inspired the most prominent body of her | passengers was religious, and its manifest | sincerity aroused the sympathy and secured the good will of thousands who were o: religious faiths differing from that of th pilgrims. Our humorous fellow citizen | who left the ship and returned by the City | prayer brought about the accident, but the | faithful will never cease to believe that in | the assumed cause of the trouble was the real | assurance of safety. It is no secret that apprehensions of a most serious disuster have been numerous. It was a dismal prospect to contemplate, the possibility that a steamer should have been | twenty-two days on the most frequented of | ocean routes without being spoken by any outward bound steamers and still be safe. Old sea dogs bethought themselves of gales, icebergs and collisions, and shook their heads doubtfully. Devout men who be- lieved of the Church, and consequently of its pilgrim representatives-—that the gates of hell should not prevail against it, could not forgel that the steamer carries, General Newton, before whom the modern Hel! Gate disappeared. Had it been known how near cur own shores the breaking of the steamer’s shaft occurred there would have been even greater cause for apprehension, for it would have been natural to expect that some one of the many steamers which | cipal elections in the spring. have since arrived would have spoken her. But in the blessed fact of safety all causes of fear ure lost, and thousands of hearts beat happily to-day that for a week or more have been the prey of the most agonizing fear. Sinking a Turkish Monitor. Aspecial despatch to the Herarp from Jassy gives a spirited account of the artillery combat near Ibrail, which resulted in the | destruction of the Turkish double turreted monitor Loukfigelli, with her entire crew. It appears that two lucky shells hit her be- low her turret base and, passing through her deck into her hold, exploded with such effect as to blow large holes through her sides and bottom. Consider- ing that the battery that accomplished this effective work was two miles distant from the monitor respect for the marksmanship of the Russian artillerists will be greatly increased among the commanders of Turkish monitors and other war ships. The long range also accounts for the descending line of the projectiles which must have pene- trated the most vulnerable part of the vessel, her deck, in a downward sloping di- rection, and possibly reached her side or bottom before they exploded, With such excellent practice at long range the Russians can afford to have the Turkish iron-clads in- creased in number on the Danube, for the more that come the more will be destroyed. The awful loss of life on the Loukfigelli must strike terror into the crews of what | may be termed the surviving gunboats, and we fancy they will not reconnoitre Ibrail again in too great a hurry ; at least they will | try to keep further away from the town than two miles. So much for the psychological effect produced by two shells, No Cause for Alarm. While the nations of the Old World await in anxious suspense the moment when the hot breath of war, already spreading devas- tation along the banks of the Danube and through the fields and mountain passes of Armenia, may wrap all Europe in flames, a small item of news, flashed across the cable from this side of the Atlantic, may add tothe general consternation should it be suffered | ecutive. drawn against a foreign foe its edge would be found to be even sharper than it was when turned against the home enemies of the Republic. The Omni s Charter Bill. We think it is the duty of Governor Rob- inson to act on this important bill without further delay. He has already taken time’ enough for making up his mind. The Legis- lature reassembles this evening, and to-mor- row the Goyernor should either sign the bill or send it back with his objections. At this late stage of the session it would be a most unwarrantable thing for him to retain it in his hands for the full ten days allowed to him by the constitution, If he vetoes it he must do so while there yet remains time for the, Legislature to frame and pass another bill which. shall contain the gocd features of the Omnibus with those to which the Governor objects eliminated, ‘The Dill as it scands makes three changes of capital importance, each of the three being excellent in itself, and two of them capable of being introduced with advantage into any conceivable frame- work of municipal government. One of these fentures, which has an in- dependent merit of its own, is the spring election. An election in the month of May is equally compatible with every form of charter. It hasno necessary connec- tion with any other reform, Its effect would be beneficial if the present charter were to remain unchanged in other respects, and beneficial if accompanied with great or with smallchanges. Let ourmunicipal organiza- tion receive what form it may it is desirable to take our city affairs out of the maelstrom of State and national poli- ties. If the Omnibus bill is to be vetoed at least this most valuable part of the cargo should be saved from the wreck. It is incredible that Governor Robinson will object to this part of the Omnibus, and it he does not it will be easy to save the spring lection if he sends his veto in time tor the egislature to pass a new Dill. A spring election is warmly approved by everybody except the sordid, trading politicians, who have a better chance to make coali- tions, traffic in mutual influence and give and take nominations when State officers, Senators, Assemblymen, members of Con- gress and municipal officers are chosen at the same time, end candidates can enter into log-rolling combinations. Governor | Robinson will forfeit public respect if he objects to this part of the bill. His demo- cratic predecessor, Governor Tilden, is on record asastrong advocate of holding muni- Governor Tilden’s Municipal Commission unani- mously recommended on spring election | for all the cities of the State, and would make it o part of the State constitution. It is not supposable that Goy- ernor Robinson can be of a different opin- ion, and if he vetoes the Omnibus the spring election must be secured by the im- mediate passage of a separate Dill. That provision of the Omnibus which gives the Mayor the sole power of appoint- ment ought also to be saved. When his nominations are subject to confirmation by the Board of Aldermen all experi- ence shows that they will reject good candidates in order to gain a hold on the patronnge of the departments and secure the means of rewarding their friends and tools. We should undoubtedly have better officers if the selections of the Mayor were not liable to rejection by a trafficking Board of Aldermen. The reduc- tion of expenses by consolidation of depart- ments and giving most of them single heads is another good feature of the bill which ought to be saved by new legislation if the Governor sends in a veto. He will be inex- cusable if he delays action until there is not time to re-enact the really exvellent features of the Omnibus by the passage of a new bill or bills. The Custom House. The commission which is inquiring into Custom House affairs should be careful in its doings to adequately discriminate be- tween the law, which is for Congress, and execution of the law, which is tor the Ex- A failure to thus discriminate may confuse, if not mislead, the public. The machinery for the collection of duties on imports is readily divisible into three parts--two of statute enactment and .one of personal administration. The two of statute enactment are, first, the rate and amount of duties which Congress directs to be levied, and, next, the things which Congress author- izes the Executive to do in order to take possession of imported property and se- | curely hold it till the assessment is legally levied and paid. ‘The third part is the ap- pointment, the supervision and the acts of the agents who enforce the first two. It is possible for the first two to be very good and the last very bad, or the last excellent and the others in need of re- vision and change. For the first two Con- gress is chiefly responsible, but for the last the Executive is solely responsible. Of the rates and amount of duty now ex- acted by law, whether those rates are too great or too small; whether they should be ad valorem or specific, or both combined; whether the free list should be increased or diminished, we have nothing now to say. That is a large question, over which, owing to pass without explanation. Itis announced | to the size and diversified interests of this that General Grant, the greatest commander of the age, has drawn his swords. Coupled with the fact that the distinguished soldier has just thrown off the cares of state in his own country and is about to visit Europe, such an announcement may possibly excite the apprehension of foreigners, and espe- cially of our British cousins, whose eyes, already magnifying the bear into a de- vouring monster, may grow yet more terri- fied at the spectre of o destroying eagle. Grant has only drawn his swords out of the United States Treasury vaults, where, being of great value, they remained for The swords are, nation, there are views which severely con- flict, and it is one over which the now en- franchised South should and will have much to say. The system of laws and regulations by which the rates, whatever they be, are levied, although within the control, and always to be kept within the control, of Congress, need not vary or be changed with the rates or with an ad valorem or specific plan. No system, however, that can be devised will be pleasant for importers if the rates ‘are high and complicated, because the levy is in its essence an arbi- trary act of government and against natural right. Onder any contrivance the government must keep a watch for ar- riving vessels, must take physical posses- sion of them and all on board and must hold us hope they may remain. Genefal Grant | | hag none but pacific intentions in erossing the merchandise till it is examined, the duties levied and actually paid. A credit for duties avart from possession or right to NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1877—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Se a repossess the property will probably never be sanctioned. Here there is abundant cause for friction between the government, which must keep its hand on the goods till all duties are paid, and the importer, who seeks to get his property in his own hand to sell and deliver as quickly as possible. Five things are to be done:—First, a taking pos- session by the Collector ; second, an exam- ination by the Appraiser ; third, an assess- ment of duty by the Collector on the report of the Appraiser ; fourth, a payment of duty by the importer, and, finally, a delivery by the Collector. h Under our existing plan the Collector is the chief legal authority for the port, as his name implies. The Naval Officer is simply an independent revising and checking officer to whom the law gives power to ar- rest the delivery of merchandise if he finds an error of assessment of duties. The Sur- veyor furnishes the outdoor eyes, ears, hands and legs of the Collector. The Ap- praiser is a quasi-independent judge, au- thorized by law to examine and tell to the Collector and Naval Officer what is the de- scription, quality and quantity of the things imported and entered into the Custom House. With the discretion of this apprais- ing judge no power—not President or Cab- inet—can interfere, if the Appraiser follows the law in coming to a conclusion and mak- ing his report. All this seems to be simple enough in general outline, but is it in pos- sible execution? Is the actual system as defined in the statute book defective, or is the administration of it faulty, or is there a little of both? Let the commission dis- criminate between the two in its examina- tion and report. The taking possession of one’s property by the executive branch of the government, excluding the owner therefrom and refus- ing to deliver 1t to him till certain sums of money are paid isa tremendous power. It isa higher exercise of power than the levy of a tax on one’s house or land and selling the same if it be not paid. Both are to be exercised by the Executive in obedience to e law requiring and justifying it. No sys- tem of law does or will ina free country give to the Executive in that matter absolute control, but requires the Executive to al- ways submit his acts to the examination and judgment of the judicial branch of the government as to whether the authority conferred by the legislative branch has been strictly followed. ‘This the commission will, of course, not fail to keep constantly in mind, and to remember that the fewest pos- sible presumptions are in favor of tax gath- erers where the lawmaker has spoken am- biguously or in doubttiul terms. The Country and the City Mouse. It is natural that the letter of our corre- spondent, “Audrey,” urging the young men of this city to marry country girls, as likely to mike the best wives, should excite the indignation of our own unwedded belles. They protest against the assumption that a New York bachelor whose income is mod- erate must go into the country to find an economical wife, and insist that plenty of unextravagant girls, who do not demand silk dresses, operas and carriages, can be found in town, They are evidently alarmed by the proposition that our young bache- lors shall pass their summer vacation in fishing for wives instead of trout, and will not consent to see the percentage of old maids in New York increased by this raid from the rural districts upon their pres- ent beaus and probable husbands in the future. This rivalry is to be deeply regretted for many reasons, but it may increase the matrimonial value of the average metropolitan bachelor. He is put up, as it were, at auction, and the cheaper he is bought the better for himself. > Happily it is not leap year, for if it were he would be exceedingly embarrassed. The pretty girl from the country would plead her skill in household affairs and how she could tell unadulterated milk from swill milk and real butter from the all prevalent oleo-margarine. The city girl would claim | her superior knowledge of city ways and | her ability to buy the best dry goods at the | lowest rates. Placed between two such sup- plicants the eligible young bachelor might find it hard to choose and could find itin his heart to try to be happy with either. Itis rare for a young man to be placed in the position | of the wooed instead of the wooer, and it is | to be hoped he will not be too proud of the | distinction. Audrey of the fields and Rosa- lind of the court are both suitors for his | smiles, and we trust he will display his | magnanimity by marrying one or the other. Operations on the Danube. The reported concentration of the Russian forces near Giurgevo seems to indicaté an intention to attempt the passage of the Danube between Rustchuk and Silistria. This is the point at which the strictly physical obstacles are least; but it is, on the other haud, the point at which the Ottoman forces can oppose the most effective resistance. From Rustehuk up the river as far as Widdin, though there are points at which the river may be passed, there is no good passage for a large force, because of the wide marshes that spread through the whole district on the left or Roumanian side of the river. From Silistria down the river the left bank is also rather a succes- sion of morasses than firm land. Be- tween Ibrail and Toultcha, though the’ country is wet, there are several effective passages ; and the great advantage of an effort made at this part of the river is the little likelihood that the Turks can oppose it successfully, at least with troops, They may be able to embarrass the operation with gunboats, as they evidently did an at- tempted movement near Reni some days since. But the gunboft that was sent to the bottom opposite Ibrail is an evidence that the Russians are prepared to deal with these craft. By reason of the distance of the extremity of the Dobrudscha from the Turkish line of operations it would be difficult for them to supply troops at that point maintained there to watch or oppose the Russians, and that is doubtless the reason why the force sent there upon the first advance of the enemy ‘was withdrawn in a few days, But the Turks could easier feed their troops at the extrem- ity of the Dobrudscha than the Russians, if army advancing against the line Silistria- Varna It is possible, therefore, that a large force isto be put over the river ata point between Ibrail and Toultcha, and te co-operate near Silistria with a larger force that it is intended to put over between that point and Rustchuk. The force moving from the Dobrudscha will be so large, no doubt, that it the Turks attempt to force it to a general action that operation will sufficiently divert them to render effective resistance to the passage of the other force impossible. But if tho force con- centrating at Giurgevo is put over the river between Rustchuk and _ Silistria without an effective diversion in its favor it will fall into a hot place. It will fall between Rustchuk, Shumla, Varna and Silistria, the four strong points of that country, the great defensive position upon which the Turk counts for his capacity to resist in that quarter. In or near these posts is the whole Turkish Second corps, of perhaps ninety thousand men, and at least as many men of the First or Guard corps. The Russian commander would have to reckon with this force before he could consider himself safely over, and if the concentration at Giurgevo means @ pase sage near that point we may hear of a great battle ina few days. The attempt of the Turks to occupy Oltenitza, on the Rouma nian side of the Danube, has been defeated by the Roumanian forces after a spirited contest, his collision, with that at Kala fat, sets, the question of Roumanian nen- trality at rest, and tho plucky little State is now fairly at war with her ancient enemy the turbaned Turk. PERSONAL INTELLIGENUE, 'The way Sunset Cox goes for Secretary Pelton. Lawrence Barrett 1s rosticating at Cohassot fora month. Tweed used to weara solitaire, and now he plays solitaire. Mr. Edward Cowles, of the Cleveland Leadez, is um Washington, Dom Pedro said be found only one thoroughly truthful pewspaper in America, “Van” says that the democrats publicly bow te Hayes ana privately sneer at bin. ‘The funniest man in Europe is an artist on the Lon- don Fun who signs himseif ‘0, T.’’ The Graphic unas some pictures of African maidens so true to natare that we are sure Worth makes the man, President Hayes has been readily responding to re- questa for his autograph. This was the style of Heary Clay, a Marseilles, France, imported ninety-two tons of buman bair last year, and French bash is worn Pom- padour, No, 1—‘‘My husband 1s up in art ana up in science and up in literature.” No. 2—‘Mine is up in the Island." Redfield says that the South Carolina whites will go to war before they will permit the repubiican party to rise again. The oldest man who graduates at Harvard this yoar ig thirty-one and the youngest eighteen and a half years old. The housecleaners for May are all at sea, At least some of those who are putting down carpet are taking another tack, Horace Grecley thought that Gencral Banks was much of a schoolmaster in the chair of Speaker, and likely to be severe, Every day we read of some littie tour-year-oid child being kicked to death by @ savage horse; aud yet Eli Perkins escapes. Buffaloes are good weather prophets, When astorm is coming they stick up their tails like a lightning ro¢ and scoot for shelter, s Rev. 8 Irenwus Prime sailed for Europe as @ delegate to the Presbyterian Council at Kdinburgh and to councils un the Continent Kate Claxton was registered in Milwaukee the other evening and the next day there was a bonfire in Cal cutta, Shall this continue? Genoral Edward F. Beule, United States Minister to Austria, arrived from Liverpool in the steamship O.ty ot Richmond yesterday and is at the Brevoort. Wendell Philiips once wrote a letter to the President of Harvard College berating him for setting a bad ex- ample to the boys. Now let him write one to Soldene. Paterson Press:—*‘Invisible wire for hanging pic- tures, instead of the heavy cord so long im use, The object is 10 give them ‘no visible means of support.’’? Burney Caulfield says that the report that he will leave Cuicago to livein St. Louis ts a he with an adjoce tive composed of a desh und two d’s, Barney fixing tnom up. An old lady ot Atlanta was at prayer when a shot- gun fell down, went off and bit ber im the toot. It she had been out on the cellar door blacking her busband’s boots she would have been saved. When you are walking with a girl under a close-dowa umbreila in a spring shower while she 1s pressing near you und she says, “Pa, hold it a little over yourself,” you may be sure that the passors by will mot know you. Wrekty HeraLp:—To remove grease spots from carpets, mix Fulier’s earth to a stiff paste with cold water, spread on the spot and cover with brown pape-. 1t will remove the grease ina day or two, A secon appheation may be necessary. She and he nad been married two months, and she | was sewing, while noe was hanging his legs over the side of the chair, Then saia she, “I’m sewing; yoo go out and take in a nip and [ll take tn another tuck.” For a while it was nip and tuck. ‘The (doa of having the capital of a State central is making trouble, Georgla talks of removing her capital from Atianta, in the upper part of the State, to the misignificent Milledgeville, As legisiatora usually, if not always, reccive railway passes, it might be well to have the cap!tal jn the cluef city, whero whiskey ts cheapest, In a Massachasetts mill, yesterday, a poor little girl, only nine years old, had her huir caught in a swift running cogwheel, which slung ber round and round, hitting her poor little bead every twenty thou- sand revolutions @ minute on the tard, cold wall, until at last she saw tho map of the war in Europe and Tur- key quite distinctly, Amoug the candidates for Commissioner of Agrical+ ture is Donald D, Mitchell (ik Marvel), the oid time sentimental writer, whose cold, exasperating temper ts not like his hteratqre, If we read newspapers cor- rectly, Mr. Janes, the Agricuitural Commissioner of Georgia, seems to bo about the right man forthe piace, He knows the South at least, which sectio: most needs building up agriculturally. Ps A piano company bave sent a piano to Mrs. Prosi- dont Hayes asa presont. Mrs. Hayes will, of course, in all regard for civil service relorm, send it back. The wife of a President could no more permit the Piano of any one manutactory (in big gilt letters) to be displayed in the White House, thap she could afford to advertise a grade of whiskey, or a new style of lobbying, or a new fashion for a foreign Minister. Boston Commercial Bulletin:—‘We make the fol- lowing verbatim extract from the romarks of one of our German fellow citizens on the subject of the fre- quent grass cutting on the Common. de is evidently a Hayes man. He says:—Off 1 coold write so goot english vat I speek, I vould say to dose vellers mit der Shtate House, how you vas cut dose grasses so much effery tuy, unt gife embloyments to some mens vat do better to sweep dose streets out, and doant lief der beoples get shmell of dose hay vat combs ven does gtasses is leit standing sometimes, Hay?!’” Evening Telegram:—“‘Arguing upon general princi. ples, reintorced by cbservation, we arrive at the con- clusion that there are just as many considerations that make the country girl audesirable for a poor man as those which make her desirable. She would have @ Great deal to loarn, as well as to unlearn, when trans planted to the new and untried sphere ef metropoli- tan life, and itis far from being certain that she woule not imitate the city young lady so effectually as adopt all her vices and orrors, The only advice m | have tor poor young men /s to do as well as they cam they pass the river at that pointin force, can supply from a base-in that neighborhood an and when they want to marry and can afford todo sa to marry the girls they love, whether city or count