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art that the weather to-day will be cloudy,
with rain or snow. ,'?& ? ?" i
Wall Street Yesterday.?Gold receded
to 113 1-8. Money was in active demand at
7 per cent. Stocks were again lower, yet a
trifle more active. Investment securities
continue Arm.
Mount Vesuvius again threatens to turn
the earth inside out, but often as those tricks
have been repeated they have not lost their
interest.
President Grant's Meusaoe, as will be
??en from the extracts which we reprint this
morning, was generally discusscd by the
English press.
Canal Commissioner Thayer's Testimony
before the Canal Commission is instructive
reading, but the light it sheds upon the
practices of State officials cannot be regarded
with much satisfaction.
The Fren<% Assembly has completed the
election of Senators, and the other members
of the Senate will be chosen by the people.
The contest in the Assembly has been a very
remarkable one; but the elections which are
to follow are ip every way as interesting.
Our Australasian Advices this morning
are mostly about the mines and the crops,
but there is a word in regard to the Chinese
question, which is not dissimilar to the same
issue in California, and there has been some
disappointment owing to the falling off of
the Catholic vote. "
Another Steamship Disaster is reported
by the cable this morning?a collision be
tween the Gironde and the Louisiane?re
sulting in the loss of the latter vessel and of
sixteen lives. Gross carelessness, or culpa
ble lack of seamanship, must be the cause of
thevu constantly recurring disasters.
O. A. U.?The interviews which we print
this ETorning respecting thi# secret Order will
be found very flinny reading. A notable
peculiarity of maoy of them is that the per
sons whose opinions in regard to the OrdeT
are sought first deny that they belong to tho
society, and then tell many things concern
ing it wliioh could be known onlv bv its
members.
Northern ?nd KMttra Democrat#
Amy Right* Which Southern mnA
Western Democrat* Art Bound to
Respect l?^The Restoration of the
Bourbons."
The Speaker has made a grave blunder in
the appointment of the committees. Taken
in a practical point of view it would seem to
be of little matter what members of the
House wore assigned to committees,* so
that the business was well done. But
tho growth of this country, like that
of Groat Britain, has imposed so
many new duties upon the represen- j
tative body of the government that, prac
tically, legislation depends upon committee
service, especially in a government where
we do not have a cabinet responsible to the
House, a cabinet composed of learned and
gifted men, to draw up bills and see that
legislation is controlled by some sense of the
people's rights. In the absence of such a
body, which seems to be impossible in
our government, the committees of the
House, as the popular branch of the gov
ernment, assume an importance which can
only be understood when we call them minor
legislatures, practically responsible for tho
work of the session. There are some
committees the chairmanship of which
is of more importance than the Speaker
ship. A wise Speaker, thinking ^only of
the people, would select these commit
tees for the good of the country, regarding
also tho rights of a party majority, the claims
of States and sections and the best interests
of the nation.
Speaker Kerr seems to have been animated
by a variety of motives, so far as his motives
can appear from reading the names of the
gentlemen selected. First, and above all
things, he has taken care of his "bosom
friends." Mr. Morrison, as the champion
"bosom friend," takes the most important
committee. Many years of service in
the House have succeeded in convinc
ing the country that Mr. Morrison
is an ordinary wooden-headed Hoosior
politician, whose voice was never heard
in debate or council, and who, if Mr. Cox or
Mr. Randall had been Speaker, would have
been overjoyed with the Committee on Revo
lutionary Pensions or some such place. But
he happened to be a crony of Mr. Kerr, and
he is given the leadership of the House, to
defend his party against, perhaps, the ablest
minority over seen in that body, headed by
men as astute and experienced as Blaine
and Garfield, members of his own commit
tee. The spectacle of Morrison actually
called upon to antagonize these men
would be laughable, if it were not
a serious matter to a party which
tumbled into a rebel ditch before it was
a day in power, aud which has only too
many members dying for an opportunity to
take it into another one. Mr. Kerr may plead
illustrious democratic examples in this stand
ing "by his friends"?no less an example, for
instance, than John Kelly. But if the
Speaker has been reading any New York pa
per?which we doubt, as he has been in bad
health und not disposed to weary his mind
with irritating current events?he would
have known what came of John Kelly's
effort. The second consideration in his
mind seems to havo been the Mississippi
Valley. Among the cant of our recent poli
tics is this?that tho Mississippi Valley is
the ruling section of tho nation, that politi
cians are born there out of some natural in
fluences that make it the country for politi
cal development, and that the main busi
ness of t&e East and the North is to pay
taxes for the "Valley," to support a post
office department which has deficiencies be
cause of the sparse West, to endow railroads
for "the development of the Valley," and
to pay foreign capitalists that fearful tax
which they exact because the "Valley" is
always talking about repudiating the debt
and inflation. Mr. Kerr has given the "Val
ley" the control of the House, except so far
as he has asked the representatives of the
old Confederate government to aid him.
Nearly seven-eighths of the committees are
given to the West and the South.
Of the important committees only one, the
Appropriations, is given to an Eastern man,
Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, and grudg
ingly we can well imagine, remembering that
tho World took pains to intimate that if Mr.
Randall were Speaker he would drive a half
million votes from the democratic party in
November. Mr. Cox has an important com
mittee, but Mr. Cox showed in his course on
tho Speakership that he was much more of a
Western thun an Eastern man ; that he was a
Representative from Ohio still, who had come
with his carpet-bag to New York. So we give
him to the West. Virtually all of the leading
committees go West and South. Not one is
given to New England. Even in a party sense
nothing could have been more graceful than
for the Speaker to have recognized in the per
son of some such man as Banks, for instance,
that remarkable victory in Massachusetts
which made Gaston Governor. But Mr. Kerr
evidently has forgotten all about it, or perhaps
Mr. Banks was not "loyal" or "vigilant,"
or something of the kind, when Mr. Kerr was
in the field for Speaker. So New England is
not deemed worthy of recognition by a
Speaker who has chairmanship after chair
manship for the South, and especially for
men who would to-day be the rulers of a suc
cessful Southern confederacy but for what
was done by tho brave men of New England,
without distinction of party, to save the
Union.
Of course we are glad to welcome back to
Congress and public life men who took a
prominent part in the rebellion. Wo believe
in the broadest amnesty and the generous
treatment of them all as friends and brethren.
But this doos not necessarily imply that wo
think so little of all that was lost and gained
in the war as to approve of tho action of a
Speaker who does not have a single honor
for'New England, while he has twenty for
men who were on the side of the South.
That is a fact that will be remembered when
the masses of the country come to sit in
judgment on the work of this Congress.
Taken into consideration with the action of
the democratic caucus in not giving a
single honor to the East or tho North, it can
not but lead to the deepest feeling. It may
be said that this is "sectionalism." But the
"sectionalism" is not with us, but with a party
which has not yet bestowed a single honor
out of all of its multitude of gifts to any
Eastern or Northern man but Mr. Randall
Even men as fit and honored as Mr. Hewitt
and Mr. Chittenden, of New York, are for
gotten by a Speaker who was probably so
much engrossed in the contemplation of his
"bosom friend" that he did not know that
such men were in the House and that the}
represented there the highest commercial
and social standing in New York.
It is painful to dwell upon a failure
so deplorable as that of Mr. Kerr. It
shows the value of the advice of the Hebald,
that the new party should not take an ailing
man whose mind has naturally enough been
upon his nerves and who does not seem to
&uow the men in Congress, but an active,
live, progressive man who would
give the party life and ambition.
We never believed that the new
Speaker was a Bourbon, but he has restorod
every Bourbon in the House to power. ^Ve
have them one and all, and if they do not
make matters lively for all who have not a
"good record" it will surprise us. As it now
looks, the only interest that has been served
is that prodigious, untiring, extensively ad
vertised, quack-medicine intrigue to give
Mr. Tilden the nomination for the Presi
dency. From that point of view the action
of the Speaker and the caucus looks intelli
gent and well directed, showing a disposition
to give everything to the West and the South
provided that Mr. Tilden might have the
nomination for the Presidency. Prom this
aspect of the case we can understaud the
whole business. But with all respect for
Mr. Tilden we cannot fail to think that it is
about as small and selfish and unworthy an
intrigue as ever marked the advent of a
great party to power. More than all, it
will not succeed! We have given the
West and South nineteen-twentieths of
the power, and they will never rest
until they again have the Presidency. They
had it with Lincoln, Johnson and Grant.
They have the command of the army, the
Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court,
the Presidency, the Vice Presidency (in Mr.
Ferry), the Speakership, the principal
foreign missions, the control of the leading
committees in the Senate, and, practically,
everything in the House. It our quack
medicine statesmen in the East imagine that
this power will be surrendered they do not
know the men of tho W est and South. They
have no more idea of nominating Mr. Tilden
than of nominating Mr. Wood. That intrigue
has been used to strengthen the West in the
caucus. Xts uses are over. Mr. Kerr shows
that he believes in his own people, and that
he does not, as Speaker, think that the dem
ocrats of the North or the East have any
rights which he or his allies in the West and
the South are bound to respect
W ttinwriglit?Dolan?St*uderm?iiii.
Within a brief period justice has dealt
more or less definitively with tho cases of
throe distinguished gentlemen?Dolan,
Wainright and Staudermann. W ainright has
been thoroughly well hanged, and that is the
end of him, so far as this world's justice goes.
Ho killed a woman whom he, perhaps, once
loved. Staudermann also killed a woman
whom he, perhaps, once loved. Governor
Tilden has, however, oommuted liis sentence
to imprisonment for life. Whether tho Gov
ernor will pardon him next year or leave
him to bo pardoned by his successor
we cannot say ; but as commutation
for life is simply a preliminary
for absolute pardon in the vast majority of
cases it is quite safe to say that within the
next seven years Staudermann will be at large,
and once more probably waiting on a corner
with a pistol to kill some other woman for
tho crime of refusing to marry him. Strange
that the Staudermanns condemn peoplo to
death for so little and execute their sen
tences so resolutely, and that all the ma
chinery of the criminal law is brought to a
standstill by the effort to do as much. Dolan
murdered his man, was well caught by tho
police, was proved guilty, and was sen
tenced to death. But Mr. Beach, who
is of more consequence than the criminal
authorities and the law?all the judges,
juries and governors together?objected, and
the place prepared for Dolan boside the
three negro murderers was left vacant, for
Mr. Beach went to Judge Donohue about it.
Judge Donohue apparently sits on the bench
to do tho will of Mr. Beach and prevent the
operation of the law, so that Dolan still
lives. It was bad for Wainwright that Dono
hue did not sit on the bench in London;
bad for Wainwright that these pitiful British
judges and juries cannot take such a lofty
moral view of a murderer's case as has been
taken here over Stauderman.
"Civil Service."
Among the committees appointed by Mr.
Kerr is one on Civil Scrvice lteform. The |
duties of this committee are, we believe, to
soe that good men aro appointed to office and
kept there during good behavior. '1 he
members are also to censure all attempts to
dismiss competent men for political reasons.
This is a good idea, and the sooner the com
mittee goes to work the better., Let it in
quire how many competent men, men of honor
and capacity, who havo been for years in the
Borvice of the House, have been dismissed in
the past few days. Let it demand tho rea
sons for these removals, the names of the
persons appointed to succeed them, and the
reasons for the appointment of these new
men. Let it summon the Postmaster
and ask him for the names of
the battalion of ex-Confederate soldiers
which have been brought from Alexandria to
1 find snug berths in tho capital they tried so
hard to burn a few years ago. Let it give
the country the names of the members who
have recommended the wholesale removal of
old und faithful and efficient servants of tho
House to make room for the squ/ds of ex
Congrcssmen, pfiiticians, "bummers" and
rebels who have been quartered on the
House. There is no better way to begin this
civil service investigation. The House is
democratic. If the democrats mean to have
this reform now is their chance. *
It would not be a bad idea for Mr. Blaine
to offer a resolution that will enable tho
country to see how the party has observed
civil service reform. In tho meantime we
! would like one of our correspondents to
j Bond us a list of these removals, of tho time
each removed officer has served the llouso,
of those appointed and the names of the
Congressmen securing their appointment.
This will make interesting Christmas read
i inn "the civil service reformers."
Secret Soeletlea.
The exposure in the Huulld yesterday of
the secret "Order of the American Union"
has made a profound sensation. The an
nouncement that there is an Order, in this
country secret, opposing the Catholic
Church, or, to use its own words, "the in
tolerant, persistent, oppressive efforts of the
Romanists and their evident te^nuiflption.
to control the government of the Ignited
States and destroy our civil and religious
liberty," is a grievous event. It is more par
ticularly so when we remember General
Grant's Dos Moines speech, Mr. Blaine's
letter on the constitutional amendment, tho
declaration of Bishop Haven at the Method
ist Conference in Boston, and this disposition
of many followers of General Grant to make
tho third term an opposition to the Roman
Catholic Church. These are the elements
of the new political canvass. Take any
one of these incidents by itself, and it is im
portant enough as shadowing the purposes
of tho campaign ; but when we come to con
sider them as a whole, as a part of the same
drama, the object is clear. We see a con
spiracy against liberty, the magnitude of
which cannot be exaggerated.
This society, as our readers have learned,
is devoted to the fanning of the flames of
religious and sectarian bigotry. There are
no chapters in our politics so dreary as those
which tell of the efforts of Native Americans
and Know Nothingism and Loyal Leagues
to affect political results by appealing to the
religion of the people, to control the suffrage
through secret, oath-bound, dark-lantern
lodges. But when we see that President
Grant, Postmaster General Jewell and the
Cabinet, and Mr. Blaine, the leader of the re
publican party in the House, have taken th?
oath of allegiance to this Order?for this
information thus far stands uncontradicted?
then it assumes even a new importance. The
duty of patriotic men, without regard to
party, is to wage a persistent, earnest war
upon this whole system. The presence of
any secret society in a republic is a sure
sign of disease in the body politic. It is
as dangerous to liberty as treason to the
government, mutiny to the army, or a can
cer to the body. When we see this secret
society, combined with the friends of the
third term, a military class system, the Loyal
Leagues, the Grand Army of the Republic
clubs throughout the country, the most pow
erful Church in the nation 'in sympathy with
the movement, with trusted bishops, men of
brilliant and daring intellect, openly leading
it, and, above all, a well drilled political
party which has for years been in control
of the government, which is now repre
sented in Washington by men of ability and
farce?when we see all these evidences ?f con
spiracy, we cannot say with too much em
phasis that all questions in the next cam
paign must give way before this one ques
tion, "Can we preserve our liberties from a
religious and military despotism ?"
It is easy to sneer at a political campaign
based upon these apparently alarming ideas.
But there is nothing so dangerous to liberty
as over-confidence. If we permit the first in
vasion of our rights, we surrender. It is like
the dyke which keeps the ocean in its place ;
the breaking of a finger's gap would admit
the resistless wave; and if we were to
go back to the government as it was
before Mr. Lincoln came into office
and before the pressuro of the war compelled
many extraordinary exhibitions of power, we
could show how steadily there has been vio
lation after violation of the constitution.
Things are done to-day which, twenty years
ago, would have been looked upon as treason
able in spirit if not in fact. Therefore the
only way to win the next campaign is to lay
down the one principle that the only
question at issue is the liberty of the people.
Men, without distinction of party, must rally
around this platform. They must oppose os
tracism as shown in the attempt to enforce
iron-clad oaths and Force laws upon the
South ; they must oppose Coesarism as
shown in the effort to give President Grant a
third term ; they must oppose fanaticism
as expressed by the efforts of Bishop Haven
and his Methodist friends, and they must
oppose that demagogism which President
Grant exhibits in his messages, which has led
him to threaten war against Cuba and
Mexico and Spain in the interest of personal
ambition.
But the dangerous issue of all is that in
volved in this secret society. Here comes
the duty of the independent press. Of
courae our citizens have a right to assemblo
in secret, form their own passwords and ar
range grips and signs and countersigns, and
call themselves "Indians" or "patriots," or
"enemies of the Pope," or what they please.
There is no law against this; but there
should be a public opinion strong in this
doctrine, that whatever seeks darkness is cor
rupt, that any secret association attempting
to carry political influence by intrigue is in
imical to our Republic. When wo need a
secret society to save our liberty or our ro
ligion neither will be worth saving.
The N?lhodliti and the Third Term.
We are sorry that the meeting of Metho
dist ministers in Cincinnati adjourned with
out coming to a vote on tho question of cen
suring Bishop Haven. A resolution of cen
sure was offered, and after a warm and pro
tracted debate the meeting adjourned with
out taking any action. The attempt of
Bishop Haven to drag the Methodist denom
ination into the mire of party politics was
wholly inexcusable, and deserves the strong
rebuko of his clerical brethren. The third
torra is a very different question, in all its
moral aspects, from the great question of slav
ery, which split the Methodist denomination
in twain previous to the civil war and led to
the noted lawsuits in relation to the Church
property. Slavery was a question which
touched the conscience of tho Church, and it
was justifiable to hazard a Bchism rather than
show any tolerance for an institution which
the great founder of Methodism denounced
as "tho sum of all villanies." But the third
election of a President is not a moral ques
tion ; it is a mere question of politics. To
divide one of our great religious denomina
tions on such an issuo would b? an
egregious folly, and Bishop Havon deserves
censure for so mischievous and hazardous
an attempt. When tho Methodists divided
on the slavery question it was a subject
relating to tho internal discipline
of their Church, the anestiou bcina
whether tfl&yeholden should be admitted to
the communion. But the election of Preai
dent Grant a third time is a matter entirely
outside the limits of ecclesiastical jurisdic
tion, with which no denomination can inter
meddle without subjecting itself to the im
putation of favoring a union between Church
i and State. Bishop Havon has not been for
mally censured by his Methodist brethren,
but he has received a warning, which ho
ought to heed, that he is putting the peace
of the ( hurch in peril by his impertinent
advocacy of the third term and his attempt
to dishonor the memory of Washington.
Tiiden And Kerr*
The Tribune speaks admiringly of the
"nerve" exhibited by Speaker Kerr in disre
garding Mr. Fernando Wood's claim to the
chairmanship of Ways and Means. The
truth is that Speaker Kerr is the political
ally and supple instrument of the Tiiden
clique in Now York and has been governed
by its wishes at every critical point in the
formation of the committees. Governor
Tiiden staked all his chancos for the
Presidential nomination on the adoption of
the New York platform by the democratic
party at large, and every secret wire he could
pull was used to bring forward Mr. Kerr as
a candidate for the Speakership and secure
his election. When he had succeeded in this
point nobody should have doubted that the
committees would be composed in the in
terest of Governor Tiiden. Speaker Kerr is
his creature, and it was not to be expected
that he would rebel against his New York
creator. When he knew that neither Mr.
Wood nor Mr. Cox possessed Governor Til
den's confidence it required no "nerve,"
but only facile subservience, to set aside the
pretensions of both to the chairmanship of
Ways and Means. Mr. Kerr's election to
tho Speakership is the pivot of the Tiiden
canvass for the Presidential nomination. It
was an inevitable consequence that the com
mittees of the House should be organized in
the Tiiden interest It was not a display of
"nerve" on the part of Speaker Korr,
but the fulfilment of a political bar
gain. The composition of the committees
is intended to forestall the action of the
Democratic National Convention and force it
to adopt the New York platform, thereby
shutting the door against any Western
rival for the democratic nomination. Speaker
Kerr is the puppet of Governor Tilden's
political supporters, and it would have re
quired ""nerve" and independence to have
crossed their wishes.
Mr. Morrison owes his promotion to his
subservience to the New York clique. He has
been their echo in the politics of Illinois; ho
was their tool in Washington in the zealous
work he did for Mr. Kerr; and it is a part of j
their tactics to reward their friends and
punish their enemies. Mr. Hewitt has been
shoved aside and slighted because he does
not accept the free trade shibboleth. Mr.
Kerr's instructions bound him to promote
every insignificant man who is ready to shout
for Tiiden, and to humiliate every democrat
who will not work for Governor Tilden's
nomination. Hence the strange composition
of the House committees.
John Kolljr'i Addresa.
We have been honored with a copy of
"the address to the electors" by John
Kelly's dark lantern, Know Nothing lodge,
Tammany Hall. This address tells us about
"the principles of the democracy," "the
creed of Jefferson," "the year of democratic
rule," the desire of the committee for rapid
transit and the last election. This it regards
as "the temporary success of placemen and
demagogues." "We have expected a To
Deum," says the committee, "but lamenta
tions alone resound. Tho minor key of re
gret may yet swell into the symphony of
self-condemnation." If this means anything
at all it means that the last election
was a blunder and will bring harm upon tho
people because ccrtain gentlemen were
chosen officers, mainly judicial, defeating
certain other gentlemen?namely, the candi
dates of John Kelly. No one denies that tho
ticket nominated by John Kelly was a good
one. Tho fight was not upon the men, but
upon the principles which those men repre
sented. What reason has the Tammany
Committee for saying that the men who were
successful will disappoint the people? The
judges who come upon tho Bench by the
uction of the anti-Tammany and republican
alliance are men of stainless character and
high reputation. We question if the Bench
ever received the same number of judges of
as high personal character as Sanford, who
goes on the Superior Bench ; Van Hoesen,
who goes on the Common Pleas ; Gilder
sleeve and Hackett, who take the criminal
courts; Sheridan and Goepp, who become
Marine judges. Not a word has ever been
breathed against any one of these gentlemen,
not a single charge affecting their character
as citizens or their integrity or capacity as
judges. Therefore, for the Tammany ad
dress to intimate that they are bad men,
"men whose names are an evil and reproach
to the community," is a slander unworthy of
any political society and characteristic of
the desperate demagogues who control this
secret lodge and who, so fur us they could,
made the last campaign one of slander and
defamation.
Tammany Society grows quite eloquent
over national politics. We have a great deal
about the Whiskey Ring and the Credit
Mobilier and Grant's course in the South.
Wo are told of tho "bloody shirt" of recon
struction and of "the howling dervishes of
Know Nothingism," but we have nothing
whatever about- the reorganization of Tam
many which was promised by the leaders at
the close of the last canvass. John Kelly
seems to ignore tho one fact?namely, that
the city of Now York is disposed to manago
its affairs upon good, sound business princi
ples. Tammany Hall, although it may
nominate four or five good men, as it did
last year, is yet quite capable of putting
thieves in power liko Tweed or imbeciles
like Wickham. Kelly should know that
tho people of New York of tho dem
ocratic faith propose, above all things,
to strike down tho dark lantern lodge
which is the keystone of Kelly's power.
This address is of itself so silly and absurd,
such a violation of good taste and political
common sense, as to be only another evidence
of the incapacity of the leaders of Tam
munv Hull to understand the first drift of
jroono opinion. These leaders are about at
competent to lead the democrats of this city
as the swine who when possessed by tha
devils ran down into the sea.
Tit* Troubles on the Mexican Border.
The disturbances on the Rio Grande con
tinue, and the oxasperation they occasion only
needs skilful nursing to niaku them, by and
b^r, a formidable instrument of President
Grant's ambition. It suits his purpose to
play the religious card at present, but
holds Mexico and Cuba in reserve for a later
Btage of tjie game if he should find them nec
essary.. It depends on the more wili of the
President to influence the border troubles to
such a pitch that a war with Mexico would
be inevitable. Nobody doubts that wise and
prudent management would bring these dif
ficulties to an amicable settlement; but
nobody has any confidence that they will ba
dealt with in a proper spirit while we have a
President who is bent on a third election and
will hesitate at no means which he may
judge necessary for success. This fore
boding distrust of the Chief Magistrate of
the country is a grave ovil, because it
unsettles the confidence of business men in
the future at a time when there are so many
other elements of uncertainty in connection
with the finances and the currency. Presi
dent Grant could easily restore confidenoe
and reassure the country if he would but
renounce his third term pretensions.in une
quivocal language. lie will not do this, and
the public mind is accordingly full of jeal
ousies and apprehensions, watching every
small cloud in the political horizon in the
fear that it will gather into a storm, blacken
the whole sky and pour down a deluge of
ills. When the remedy is so simplo Presi
dent Grant is inexcusable for not uttering
the few docisive words which would be ac
cepted as a guarantee of tranquillity.
Ifli Bbooklyn Kino.?The papers in the
long impending suit against the Brooklyn
Bing were served yesterday, and the com
plaint is published at length in the Hebali>
this morning. The defendants profess to bo
anxious for a speedy trial, and we trust an
opportunity will be afforded them to put
their professions to the test.
Spanish Ounces have long been famous
for their effecti^ness in diplomacy, but wa
doubt whether they will prove as useful in
war. Their efficacy is to be tested in Cuba,
however, and a price has been set upon the
heads of the insurgents. Ton doubloons is
a high rate for the killing of Cuban patriots ;
but if anybody can bo found to kill thom for
the price, it will be much cheaper than over
coming them by means of an army and regu
lar soldiery.
Geneiial Jovellar is to bocome Captain
General of Cuba once more. We presume
that his second appointment, like that ot
Yalmaeeda, means that he is to pacify the
island. Spain deals with Cuba as if she
was playing a game of political hido and
seek. It is not long since Valmaseda was
sent to the Antilles to stamp out insurrec
tion, and now Jovellar returns to coax it out.
Through all this the condition of the island
remains practicully unchanged, and the in
surrection is stronger to-day than it waa five
years ago.
When Men do an act which distinguishes
them from their fellows it is proper the
story of their lives should be recorded. The
world would gladly remember the names of
all the heroes who assisted in defending the
pass of Thermopylae, and it is not unlikely
that most people will believe that the
eighteen Congressmen who voted for a third
term should also be immortal. In order to
provide for such a contingency we print this
morning sketches of their lives, together
with a synopsis of their opinions on the
question which gave them fame.
Political Consistency.?When Mr. Blaine,
as Speaker, appointed Mr. Kelley and Mr.
Garfield on important committees he was de
nounced by the democratic newspapers for
daring to show by such an act that he ap
proved their course on Credit Mobilier.
What a time they did make over this "offi
cial indorsement of corruption !" Now, we
find that Mr. Kerr, the democratic Speaker,
elected mainly because he was the onlj
honost man available for the place, has ap
pointed the same.gentlemen to the Ways and
Means! Wo await with anxiety the angrj
comments of the World upon this extraordi
nary defiance of democratic "honesty."
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Secretary of the Senate George C. Gorham baa ju?
become a widower.
Senator John H. Mitchell, of Oregon, Is resldini
temporarily at the Hotel Brunswick.
Garter snakes aro Inoffensive, tbelr chief dellgh
being to eat rata. The same may be said or Chinamen
Spoaker Kerr Is said to be using his political powe>
wholly In the service of Governor Hcadrlcks for tt><
Presidency. If so? gotfli.
Maria Davis, charged with bigamy at the Old Bailey,
London, was released because the first husband, boini
totally blind, was unable to Identify her.
Mrs. Deslondo, the new novelist of the South, Is the
daughter of the lato Colonel Darrington, of Alabana
and sister-in-law of General Beauregard.
Mount Vesuvius has again begun to send forth ?
great flamo of volcanic Are, and a Neapolitan who can
not light (lis cigarette at It deserves to go without s
smoke.
The crcw of an English vessel certify that a sot ser
pent lifted itself out of the water sixty feet and alsa
whipped a whale, although there wasn't much whiskuj
aboard tho vessel either.
Prealdont Grant recently wrote an editorial article
about a column In length for the Washington Republi
can. So says Murat Halstoad, wno has Just left Wash,
jngton, and Is drinking plain soda in Cincinnati.
Joseph Arch, tho Knglish reformer, whose son was
recently sent to Jail for stealing, seems to have been
negligent with his own family while trying to set the
world on fire. This case reminds one oi Mrs. Jellyby
In "Bleak House."
General William T. Sherman, accompanied by Mrs.
Sherman, and Colonel John K. Tourtelotte, of th?
Genoral's staff, arrived in the city yesterday from St,
Louis, and took up his quarters at tho Fifth Avenus
Hotel.
Tho Boston Journal says:?"It ? Wt of forgotten
history that JolTerson was formerly nominate'! to tli?
Presidency for a third term by the Legislatures ol
Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhodo Island. He promptly
decllnod the nomination."
Letters are distributed fifty six times dally in Paris
through pneumatic tubas, (Tom and to the central olDcs
and its succursals; timi of transmission, three ininutaa.
If we only bad such things In America G. W. Blunt and
| Private Dalsell could be kept busy.
Just after the publication of his second volume UuckU
attended ? itanct by the notorious Howe, and de
scribed the effect on himself as being so peculiar thai
be never dared to go again, though extremely desirous
I of investigating the raystortes of this tubiocL