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NEW YORK HERALD
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VOLUME XLI NO. 76
AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT.
SAN KRANC1SCO MINSTRELS. at S P. tt.
Globe THEATRE.
VARIETY. MB P. M.
booth's theatre.
IULIDS C.ESAR, at 8 P. M. Sr. Lawrence Barrett.
olympic~theatrk.
fARIETY, at 8 p. M. Matinee at p. M.
TWENTY THIRD "STBEBT OPF.R \ HO PRE.
SALIPOUNIa MINSTRELS. at K P. M. Matinee at 2 P. M.
WOOD'S MLSEI'M.
TOTES GENERAIs at S r. M. Matinee at 2 P. M.
LYCEl.M THEATRE.
fARIETY. at 8 P. .V.
WAI.LAt'K'S THEATRE.
rilK WONDER. ?t s I'. M. Letter Wallack.
tony PASTORS new THEATRE.
Variety, ?t s r. .m.
chickrkinu HALT*
ILLUSTRATED lecture, at 8 P. M. Professor Crom 1L
cn ATE A r M All 1LLK V A RI eties.
rariety, at M r M. Matinee at 2 P. M.
n rt t >o klyn The atrk.
LED ASTRAY, at 8 P. M. MIm Kate Claxton.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE.
ROSE M1CHEI., at 8 )>. M
PARK THEATRE.
brass, at 8 p. m. tieurge E'awcett Row*.
BOWERY THEATRE,
f E I.I. 201, at 8 P M Charles Poster.
kikth a Venue theatre.
flQl'e. at 8 P. M I'annv Davenport.
thirty eourthTtkeet opera house.
rARIETY, at 8 i' M.
C.KRMANIA THEATRE
IIE . E N LIERC H E N, at 8 P. M
PARISIAN' VARIETIES.
rARIETY, at 8 P M.
TE I PLE SHEET*
M? KUil, 1111 UM'Al. JllAHlil 10, it<76.
: _ - ? : -- ?:
/ r. m our re;?-rtx this morning the probabilities
nr* tk it tin leather to-day icill be cloudy, with
rain.
The 11iiaii> by Fast .Mail Trains.?JVexes- i
t- iters to i<l tin public throughout the country <
mi be miftfilirtt Kith the Daily, Weekly ami
ht m at ll? i.ai i>, tree of postage, by sending 1
11 fir t rdtrs direct to this office.
M ali Srr.K.KT, Yesterday.?Money on call
lonned at 5 and 6 per cent. Gold advanced
In mi 114 .1-H to 11 1 l-'2. Stocks were firmer. '
Government l?>u?ls strong. Investment
?#. nnti. s st< iuIjt. The report circnlates that \
M?e Krtnk ?>f the State of New York will
speedily resume.
Tm Dem< >< satic State Convention will 1
meet at flics on the 'Jfitli of April. Now let
the logrolling begin.
Niv? I'aii.i li s in One Dat and sixteen on
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bounced fr ui London. If lTncle Dick was
lti> r> with his paper dollars he would prop
up the financial structure, hut would scorn
t<> hear th? ni called a "sovereign" remedy.
Itrj.oiA* Four.nut go to l'aris and New
York. American forgers go to London.
I'ngliah forger* go to l'aris and Brussels.
Where d>> Fnnch forgers go? The men who n i
sign other men's name* to mercantile paper
always M-ck to hide themselves in the wilderness
of a great city.
Kv.i tsn has hod her full share of stormy
weather lately. March keeps up its roaring
|i >n reputation ot< r there. but weshall want
a new s?-t of weather |>roverhs here such as
W isier w * i amy time,
sprint i<> <k nut lor liusrjr r me.
I'ut< ii i>rnih*rft. up with car*,
hsnaa up the pap ( lata'ra
Ora hiouas Maiuiimb Whthib Bero*i
Merchants and ship owners, whose
vessel* or cargoes are in F.nglish waters, will
And the Htstin special cable wind and
weatlor report, published in our shipping
a. n/ ? * waft r % ton ill oalottlaltStrv t Ko timo
of arrival at. or accounting for delay in
reaching Kngltah porta. We ahall continne
Uitw report* daily hereafter.
A rnunm rn * The street rumor printed
in the HtlALD yraterday. that II r. Inane H.
Heed had overdrawn hi* account in tho
Hank of the rttate of X?tr York, did that gentleman
an injustice vhirh a* aineerely regret
and haeten to rorreet. Wi print elsewhere
a contradiction aignrd by klr. Duer,
the President of the hank, and vhirh ia entirely
<- me)naive on the point in <]veation.
OTMWHta ra rat froHoath ? The remedy
propnaed by the t'omiuittee on Hylava
af the Ikar l of K4n< ?twn for the dangerous
crowding of the vb?la la far short of a hat
the nm demands. The Board did not art
en the report yeaterday. bat there aboald be
no delay In doing ?v Every day in the
present ?ut< nf the schools involve* more or
lean injury b> the health of the little onea.
Any atep toward will be a boon.
Tna (Umaat) IW Tmaonnamra. The
Rttua'i aperml deapateh ln? Bismarck.
|t T.. thrown frreh light upon the shame,
fa! ttaAr in pool leadership*. t>y which
han lr?d? of thouannde of dollara a. re
ri totted from the soldier* and Indiana to give
--I ku riao ,,f f l!,.w rorrutitl' >f lists
ik? bnu of nlnrtKarl linag is Waahingm.
Tk* rcpnbli.ana kar? Lwn congratulating
themarlvea by Baying that it *u ouly
Rtlkiip. Now we iball Mt whoa the lightning
Mnhn.
|Tit Fm< i MnnvruiAL Hrirmirr appear*
to k*<* gut ti general aati*faction to <
thaw* it waa a<*l nereaaary to pleaa* - I
namely, the large body of mxienle republiraua.
M (iiunbrtua organ it r >t wholly 1
planned, hut the determine*!' n to aait for I
art* bef r. j . I, :-.f Ift. w ('?! met it cr- I. I
itable to the ex-Dictator, who baa learned i
with m re ??c - f .it ro - 1 rm > i
and certainly than any French republican. I
the motto of the watcher and worker, !
"Everything coma to hun who hnows how I
a walk" | '
NEW TO
A C*nUaal*l Lmmm?What llaft
Gained in Thraa II and red 1 aara 1?
A l<riioil for Ik* Tim*.
The law of life in a law of progrmi ami
decay. Thia ia what we h .irn fr >m every
history, of man aa well aa of nati"**. "A*
the days of a tree are the days of my |eopU,
saith the Lord. We bud, blossom. fl 'umli
in leafy strength and maj?ety and die.
There are no chapters of modern or ancient
history so suggestive and at the same time
so sad as those which tell of the rise and f?ll
and decay of empires. Carthage, ones cowtending
for the mastery of the world, is only
a name. Assyria, Greece, Egypt, Borne,
have all fuded or live only in the ruins of a
former splendor. The genius of an illustrious
historian has told of the decline and
fall of the greatest of theae empires, an empire
that once was mistress of the world, and
which leaves no monnment of its pridi and
power. If wo study the lessons ot the brilliant
Gibbon they will be found full of in
sirucuon even in mis centennial y< nr.
Onr orators from now until we bnTe
celebrated the formation of the constitution,
will be full of what wo have done in
these hundred years, and of whut we uiay do
if we last for two or threo centnries. Certainly
no theme is so inspiring to the
imagination of orator or poet In a century
we havo grown from a sparse and feeble
colonial condition to be one of the great
Towers of the world, and even envy, which
is as much a passion among nations as among
men, cannot refuse to acknowledge our
wealth and our power.
In the course of our national life the next
Centennial should rank us not only among
the largest but among the most populous of
the nations of the world. "When we think of
an empiro stretching from the Gulf to the
lakes and from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
with every advantage of climate and soil,
with rivers and lakes and oceans to float our
commerce, with mountains and prairies,
with wheat and corn and iron and coal and
gold, we can easily imagine, even without
the stimulus of centennial fervor, how we
could have within our borders a nation
larger, more powerful and more prosperous
than all the nations of Europe. Europe
is under the dominion of struggling and rival
races. Ilere we have one race and one language.
It is the advantage of our system of
government that all nations when they pour
into our Republic become republican. They
are American in sympathy and patriotism as
in name.- Englishman, German, Spaniard,
Irishman, African, whatever they may bo
when they come here, all gladly become
American. The depth and the devotion of
this American sentiment were seen in the
Btruccle for our national existence. Nor is
there any fear that this sentiment will die
away. Even the rebellion was, with all of its
faults and crimes, an American movement,
with Americans at tho head and no purposes
inconsistent with tho traditions of tho American
system of government. The issue then
was not whether we should become a fragment
of any European Power, but whether
we should be two, and, in time, a dozen of
American, republics. That is due to the
daring men who founded the Confederacy.
They were American always, and if it had so
happened that their government had become
a fact it would always have been the ally of
the sister Republic against the ambition of any
European Power, such an ambition as that of
Napoleon to found a Latin empire on the
Rio Grande. Whatever the coming centuries
may have in store for us, in tho way of
national unity, we need never fear that,
while we are a nation, we shall be anything
but an American nation.
But have we failed in no essential of
national duty? What do these thousand and
one stories of corruption that come with
every electric liash from Washington portend?
We cannot attribute them to political
enmity or the desire of unscrupulous politicians
to rise, no matter who falls?no matter
what shame may come to tho Republic.
Something may be due to angry partisans,
but the whole story of administrative misrule
is so sad that we can hardly bear to
ut'iii 11. ?? r ?. uu uui\ iiiiit a jiiiiiiuri iu iuu?e
annals of the later Roman Empire which
form bo dark a picture of modern civilization.
When Rome was in its splendor it
was really beginning to decline, for the
"glory" of the Csesars was tho glory
of decay?a glory that exceeds all
others when it comes even as the setting
sun exceeds the rising. Rome fell when
public virtue became furnished, when
the people worshipped a successful military
adventurer, when n taste for display
superseded the sober, modest manners of an
earlier time, when offices were bought and
sold, when the whims of a selfish, voluptuous
tyraut were allowed to sway the judgment
of a Senate. Of course there was "prosper
ity" in those days, the prosperity of good
living, gnyety and bright life. We question
if there wore "better times," as we use the
phrase, than when ltome was under the polluting
swav of the later Caesars. But the
life of the nation was tainted, nnd it could
only die, ns die it did, amid the contempt
and derision of tho world. Have we a government
inspired by any higher motives
than those which animated the men who
ruled Home in these days of corruption and
decay ? Have we a Senate more worthy to
represent a free people than the degraded
t?enatn of Rome? Our Senate, chosen to
represent a free nation, lias made itself tho
lavish register of the President's will, i
Uorged with patronage, its members have
never questioned when tho President comtnsnded.
His will has taken the plnoo of the J
will of the people.
In other words, the President has made a
compact with the Sennte, by which if its
members will only sustain him in his administration
he w ill giro each Senator tho ]
absolute control of the patronage of the Stato
he represents, This compact has been observed.
Conkling has been made the pro
consul of patronage in Now York and
Cameron in Pennsylvania, and so on
though Iho States, until we see Commonwealth*
as proud as South Carolina ond Alabama
at the mercy of adventurers like
Npenrer and Patterson. By this compact
the government has fallen into the hands of
kn oligarchy. Conspiracies defraud tho
revenue; military usurpations control the
Mate- in the South; civil service, which the
President in earlier and better days really
trod to sustain, is dead. The gorged and
degraded Senate only questioned the will of
RK ITERALD. THCRSDA1
the Prwident when he attempted to aeree
the eonotrv at the expenae of their patronage.
All thwte development* of crime in the varioati
|'in? t* iff r 'uuiry, ^iiinn'y nu^B iu iuo
W.?4, -sugar rings" in tho South, --railroad
rings" in the East, all these manifestations
of decay in national virtue, beginning with
the *{ | intment of vagabond relatives of the
IV si.lent to plunder soldiers on the Plains
anl ending with the disgrace of Babcock and
tlo iu|warhiu? nt of liclknnp, are to be attribute']
to the ambition of the President,
sustained and atrengthened by the Senate.
Set tng those things wo may usk "Have we
rear bed that j>eriod in our national life
which may be aaid to mark the beginning of
decay V Par Is- it from us to intrude unpleasant
thought* upon the patriotic mind
of the country at a time when we are to relight
the camp fire* of the Revolution, which
burned *o brightly a century ago. But what
would th? -e firm and stern patriot** who
gathered about the blazing fagots in the
dark bourn have thought if some prophetic
vision hod shown them what we all see now ?
Might not their hearts huve failed? Might
it not have been said "better old England
with her cra/y king and her taxes than a
Republic which will bring forth such fruits
in a short century ?" These are thoughts
worthy of the deepest attention even in a
time that we propose by general consent to
devote to the veneration of our ancestors
and the gloriticatiou of ourselves. What is
the remedy ? It m not in political controversy,
in the iucc?u or failure of nny one
party. The century which has blossomed
into tlieso pernicious results has l?eeii largely
given to the political domination of the
democratic purty a party whose record is
tainted with as many crimes and follies ns
the republican, a party which began tlio
evils of which wo now complain when it allowed
Jackson to treat the Presidency ns a
captured Indian camp, to be plundered by
himself and his friends. It is not in politics
that we are to find a remedy, but in ourselves.
Let us as a people look tlieso misfortunes
in the face, and, rising above party,
put an end to the rule of men, democrats
and republicans, who have given us ns the
ripest development of their career a Tweed
ns the master of Now York and a Belknap
ns Secretary of War.
The Syracuse Unfile Feeders of the
ling Rubjr.
Given "Undo Dick" Schell, Theodore R
Tomlinson and ex-Sponker MoGniro as the
leading spirits of a financial convention,
what will flic product be? Here you liavo
an alarming combination of "puts and
calls," windy Communism and shillelah.
finnKe inem 111 a poi, nou mem down, servo
tip the mess unci yon have h dish which may
be seen in another column, whore the resolutions
of tho Greenback Convention at
Syracuse yesterday are published. Uncle
Dick, with his dear old smiling face, must
have presided there in a Pickwickian blazo
of glory ; Tomlinson, who presents tho odd
political picture of a French Communist
grafted on ^he ghost of an old lino
whig, must, in his "brief address," have uttered
strings of nig baby sublimity that made
Uncle Dick look forward to tho millennial
period when one bootblack shall Ray to
another, "I bet yc a million of Uncle Dick's
uoiiars, unci toon pay i no 111 11 lie loses. as
to the redoubtable Jeremiah, we have no
doubt that he made Uncle Dick feel a glow
of warlike enthusiasm, as during his two
hours' speech he brought his stuffed shillelah
down upon the heads of bloated bondholders,
jingling capitalists, hard money
democrats nnd other public enemies. No
wonder they tired a hundred guns in honor
of General Jackson; they had to burn
powder to get off their enthusiasm
somehow, and perhaps the mystic Tomlinson
saw a subtle connection between Old
Hickory and hickory hams, whence by
wooden nutmegs he could slide down the
greased pole of his imagination to rag
money.
The conventionists of yesterday call themselves
democrats of the toughest kind. They
will call a State Convention to send rag bahy
delegates to St. Louis, where McGuire will
thunder with his shillelah at' the doors of the
Democratic Convention until the rag babies
within open wide the portals, and letting in
Tomlinson and Uncle Dick, hurl incon
tinently forth every New Yorker branded by
a hard-moDey die with the name of Sammy
Tilden. l>ut the resolutions of yesterday !
Gold and silver, those abominations of an
effete mercantile system, lit only to make
nose rings for cannibals, are merely mentioned
because it is necessary to condemn
them. Paper is the only thing of fixed
value, gold, unlike paper, being a whimsical
commodity that rises and falls in price
according to the supply. Silver, indeed,
is such base stuff that you can buy tons of
it with a note-of-hand?and collateral. Hut
the buse wheedling sixth resolution, meant
ns a bait to the Press ! Ah, Uncle Pick, wo
did not think you were such a sly old insinuator!
TnF. Christian Insurgents will not lay
down their arms and trust to Turkish kindness
for the removal of their grievances as
long as they can beat the Mussulmans as
they did in the battlo of Mnratovizza. The
Austrian proposals for reform, which wero
backed by Germany, llussia, France, England
and Italy, and accepted by the Porte,
are not likely to have much chance to be
put in operation. Surgery, not diplomatic
emollients, is what is wanted.
The "Xanigos" of Cuba exhibit very
strange peculiarities in their hideous religious
rites, which Recm an offj-hoot of African
heathenism. One hundred and fifty of these
deluded wretches were arrested in Havana
on Sunday. This arrest Beems to have given
rise to a number of exciting rumors, among
which was one that the negroes, who form
the bulk of the "Nnnigos," had poisoned all
the meat at a certain slaughter house. The
only painful result of this rumor was the
spoiling of n number of breakfasts.
The Logic of Accomplished Facts,
says Stfior Sogasta, is the only logic that
the Vatican will accept in dealing with
Church and State questions. In Spain this
would mean, accord religions toleration, and
ask ltomo to say how it likes it. Even that
moderately liberal policy is beyond th?
power of Alfonso's government.
r, MARCH 10, 1876.?TRIPI
t The Sew Hampshire Wsrnlnf to the
Democratic Party.
If the disgraceful Belknap exposure had
1 not intervened to electrify the country the
| republican victory in New Hampshire would
not need explanation. Up to the time of the
1 exposure the political tide had been setting
strongly against the democratic party both
before the meeting of Congress and since. \
The "tidal wave" receded early last year, j
the loss by the democrats of the great States I
of Ohio and Pennsylvania and the heavy
diminution of their majority in New York
being conspicuous proofs. The democratic
tide was running out when Congress assembled,
and everything which happenod in
that body up to the exposure of Belknap
lowered the party in popular estimation.
Their divisions and imbecility on tho currency
question disgusted the country,
and the supreme folly of Mr. Hill, of Georgia,
in giving the republicans an opportunity
to revive and inflame the passions of the
war, put the democratic party in such a predicament
that a humiliating defeat in New
Hampshire was inevitable as matters stood
previous to the testimony of Marsh before
tho Committee on the Expenditures of the
War Department The New Hampshire
democrats felt this, and were making an
apathetic and hopeless canvass when the
sudden disgrace of Belknap stimulated them
to activity. The event proves that the Belknap
exposure had no political effect. Belknap's
fall did not inspire confidence in the
democratic party, and the people of New
Hampshire did not quite see the wisdom of
jumping out of tho frying-pan into the lire.
They deemed it "better to suffer the ills wo
have than fly toothers we know not of." The
impeachment of Belknap has been so mismanaged
as to bhint the effect of his
exposure, and the damaging charges
made against prominent democrats
have deprived the party of the political
capital it might otherwise have
made out of the fall of President Grant's
nf Wnr Whon fVtn nof rmrfv trnnfl
into ft political canvass with the kettlo party
neither votes nor confidence can be gained
by the pot calling the kettle black.
The democratic party has a great deal both
to J earn and to unlearn beforo it can entertain
any reasonable hopes in tho Presidential
election. It needs to make an entire
change of base, but it is pretty lato in the
day to make such a change in the face of tho
enemy, even if the party would unanimously
consent to it. Tho country would gladly
fling out the republican party if it saw any
chance of putting the government in better
hands, but the people have no faith in the
democratic leaders, for the good reason that
they deserve none. They are doing some
service as detectives, but detectives are not
necessarily statesmen, nor even honest men;
otherwise the maxim of "set a thief to catch
a thief" would never have gained acceptance.
Tile Alaska Swindle?Hn<l for Kx-Socretary
lioiitwcll.
"We print in nnother column a detailed his- !
tory of transactions as scandalous as any '
which have lately shocked and disgusted the
country. The scene of these transactions is J
so distant that remoteness may have its usual
effect in blunting public interest, and the
perpetrators perhaps relied on this very remoteness
to cover ut? and conceal their mis
doings. The company which, six or seven
years ago, was awarded a monopoly of the
ftir trade in Alaska is making money by millions,
and could have afforded to pay
roundly for%the illegal favoritism by which
it was put in possession of its bonanza. By
law this lucrative monopoly was required to
bo given to thoso who would make the highest
bid for it; but, in defiance of law
and against the official opinions of
two successive Attorney Generals, Secretary
Bontwell awarded it to tho parties
making the lowest bid. Nobody
knows the reason for Mr. Bontwell's illegal
decision; but anybody who examines the
facts will see that it is a decision for which
the favored party could have afforded to pay
a large sum of money. It is certain that the
bid most favorable to the government Vns
rejected, and that the Alaska Commercial
Company, which put in the lowest bid, was
awarded the privilege for twenty years, in
defioncc of law and of the official opinions of
Attorney General Hoar and Attorney General
Akerman. It is tho plain doty of Congress
to investigate Mr. Bontwell and give him an
opportnnity to explain that illegal transaction
and clear himself of the sxispicions
which naturally arise out of the facts. The
detailed statements, supported by documentary
proofs, which we print this morning
place the ex-Secretary in a light in
which ho cunnot afford to stand.
The Itlflo Shooting Season.
The National llifle Association has issued
its prospectuses of the three meetings for this
year?the spring, the full and the Centennial
contests. Naturully the widest interest will
centre in the latter. Of the three matches
therein the International Long Ruiige Match,
open to teams of eight from any country, for
the championship of the world, is by far tha
most important. The rung nro right hundred,
nino hundred* and one thousand vnrds,
with thirty shots at each distance, or double
the number tired in previous international
competitions. Fifteen shots are to be tired
at each range on the first day and the same
number on the second day, thus bringing
the strain of eye, nerve nnd inn.?de for one
day within the limits of endurance, although
npplying a very exquisite test to the skill |
nnd physical forces of tho riflemen.
Each team will tiro seven hundred
and twenty shots, and a contest of
such Titanic proportions cannot fail to
furnish a result which will bo decisive.
Here, tben, is a match to make the months
of tho riflemen of the world water for its
honors. If Sir Lucius O'Trigger lived in our
day he would heroine so enthusiastic over it
that be would cross the Atlantic a dozen
times for the chance of seeing the On tennisi
nnvntliArn wtfViin rtHo elwxf nf
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lllundcrbus Hall. We ere already aasnred
of having tint elana tcnma from Scotland and
Canada. Ireland will undoubtedly rcxpond,
and when England reads the enticing form
of the match wo shall bo very much sat niahed
if ahe doea not waive all her objection",
which are founded on a misunderstanding of
her own creation, and fall into line at Creedmoor
next September. The apirit of Jack
Absolute will effoctuallr oovcr no anr snook
.E SHEET.
that coald for a moment be taken for the
ghost of Bob Acres. "The Rivals" as it will
be played at Creedmoor will be such pure
sport that nothing should prevent the chililri'fi
r>f ?h? Vnnliuk artin ncrfnpmi'd in
the great drama a hundred venrs ago from
adding tho craek of their pieces to the
friendly rifle dialogue of next fall.
The National Hide Association should follow
up the work it has so well begun by
putting the range into first class condition.
In the first place the iron targets should be
ehnnged at once for the more accurate can- '
vas targets. Telegraphic communication <
should be made between the targets and the
firing points. There should be no question <
about these improvements but how soon i
they can be made. The spring meeting will
open on the 25th of May, and we observe
that in the mid-range matches rifles are
handicapped by distance; thus scores on
military rifles are to be made at five
hundred, on special military at six
)"intul t*i..1 o nil nn unnrf inrr virioc o co\-nri
auu VM nj/v'tntu^ iiuvo ( ov? * u
hundred yards. In the mid-range match of
the Centennial contest the handicapping is
military rifles at five hundred, and
all other rifles at six hundred yards.
We are at a loss to know why
the distinction is made between these
matches. If allowances are to be made
at all for differences in patterns of
rifles?and we doubt the feasibility of
doing it fairly in all cases?perhaps the distance
test is the best, but making a differ- i
ence of two hundred yards between one
pattern of rifle and another is ridiculous.
The allowance of one hundred yards, as in
the Centennial mid-range match, is ample
at a second class target, and if three classes
aro necessary let the distance against
special military rifles be not moro than fifty
yards.
The hate George II. Pendleton.
The political corpse of this distinguished
Presidential aspirant will be conveyed from
Washington, the place of his decease, to
Cincinnati, the city of his birth, for final
burial. "Man goeth to his long home,"
says an ancient writer, "and the mourners
go about the streets." Tho greenback dem
UtlWlB Will ."JIUUCICItV lUIUt'UI/ II1U IJIlllUlt'lY
fato of their chief apostle, but their tears
will be unavailing to restore their late candidate
to political life. Dean Swift had a
whimsical fancy that the very seeds of hemp
tend to suffocation even when steeped and
passing down tho inside of the throat in the
innocent form of a toa ; but there can be no
doubt as to the external effect of full grown j
hemp when applied to that part of the human
frame. Poor Mr. Pendleton died of
greenbacks, for, although he wonderfully
survived tho dilution of the currency
when taken internally as mental theory,
tho external contact has proved fatal.
The greenback theory is the seed of tho
greenback practice, inflation stimulating tho
desire to become suddenly rich. Mr. Pendleton
has not been politically suffocated by
greenback seed, but by the matured libre !
applied, not to his neck, but his fingers.
There is no form in which either hemp or tho
greenback is so deadly as by external contact.
"With only the greenback heresy in his
head Mr. Pendleton might have continued
to go in and out among us as an eminent 1
politician, but with the concrete greenbacks
of n railroad company and minor children
sticking to his hands ho is as dead as Schuyler
Colfax. Those eighty thousand dollars
are a garment of greenbacks which servo
both as a Nessus shirt and a winding sheet
The honest voters of no political party
would desire a President who would administer
his public trust as Mr. Pendleton
lias administered a privato trust
It was a double trust which Mr.
Pendleton abused. In the first place, he
was president of the railroad to whom the
money was due, if due at all, and he had no
right, as the responsible guardian of its interests,
by a bargain between himself as
president and himself as a claim agent, to
convey into his own pockets the greater part
of the money which really belonged to the
road. In the second place, ho was the ad
*1 - -
uuiiinuaiui ui uu rnuuu uwuuu mill'fifths
of the roiul, and a great part of the
money which he appropriated to his own '
nse was the property of minor children incapable
of defending themselves and depend- 1
ent on him to protect their interests. If lie 1
had had no official connection with the road j
and no fiduciary connection with the heirs of
the estate, and his whole relation to the case
had been that of an outside counsel or claim
ngent, the driving of such a bargnin would
not have been creditable ; but in his double
trust as the representative of parties to whom
the money belonged snob a bargain was [
disreputable and scandalous. The consent
of other parties in interest is no defence nor
even a palliation. The minority interest '
could not help themselves, and he, as the
representative of the controlling interest,
betrayed his trust when he took advantage of
his position to divert their property into his
own pockets. It is idle to say that it was an 1
Agreement, because ho was the only party to
the agreement on either side. As president
of the road it was his clear duty to collect
the claim in its interest and exact no greater
compensation than is ordinarily given for
similar services. A man of a fastidious
sense of honor wtmld hnvo taken no pay at
all for such a service, beyond his regular
salary as president of the road of whose
interests he was the guardian ; but he might
honestly haro reimbursed the expenses of
his two journeys to Washington with a
reasonable compensation for his time on tho
scale he would have charged an ordinary *
client. His rapacity and breach of trust '
have given him an everlasting quietus as an i
aspirant to high political honors.
The Price of
Already the resolution of tho people to i
l?nrn kerosene tins had its effect upon the
inipud? nt corporations which have ho lorvj '
extorted outrageous prices for gas and dealt (
in a style so peremptory nnd offensive with
every remonstrance against their miscon- <
duct. Home have reduced their prices and 1 1
other* promise to reduce them. In the Inttcr
rat* gory is numbered the liarlem company, ;
whi<h, a *h<>rt time since, declared with i
lofty defiance that it would never reduce its
price*. Now it comes down and mounts a 1
h not halt so hi ah. Hut the people will 1
make * gnat mistake if thejr relinquish tho '
kerosene campaign because of these tactics i
of their enemy. There are two jrood rea- [ i
sons why they should continue. Out
i? iom me reunction is a mere uontc,
trap. If the people put aside their lamps,
abandon their indignation and take to gas
once more the first convenient or plausible
pretext will be seized for putting up the
price again, and the companies will stand
more arrogantly than ever on the assumption
that the people cannot do without
them. Another reason is that the reductions
are absurdly small - a mere drop in tha
bucket. Instead of ten cents a thousand
the reduction should be from fifty cents to
one dollar a thousand, and the people should
persist in the kerosene movement until tha
companies would bo glad to get customers
lit such a reduction on pr^sont prices.
Eight thousand cubio feet of gas can
be made from one ton of coa)v and at
two dollars and a half a thousand the companies
thus get for the product of one ton
of coal twenty dollars. It is not suppos&ble
that the gas companies are victims to the
coal combinations as the people are ; and it
is a very liberal allowance to count that th?
cool costs them five dollars a ton delivered
at their yards. In the difference between
the cost of coal to the companies and the
price of gas thero is, therefore, room foi
stupendous profits, and those profits must
be reduced, not by ten cents, but by a far
more important figure. But even if the companies
should satisfy the people by an adequate
reduction in the price of gas what
satisfaction will they give for the thefts practised
under the cover of that mechani"?^
pickpocket, the meter?
Rlrliurtl II. Dana.
W hat a wonderfully tender conscience the
American Senate has suddenly acquired
respecting the rights of literary property ! It
is about to reject the nomination of Mr. Dana
as Minister to England on the ground that
he appropriated some of the notes (unprotected
by copyright) of another editor of
"Wheaton's Law of Nations," although this
virtuous body has again and again refused
to take any action for the protection
of the literary property of English
authors whoso works aro pirated by American
publishers to the manifest injury of tho
foreign authors whose labors are thus
habitually stolen, and of American authors,
tho value of whose copyrights is impaired o*
destroyed by the competition of these stolen
productions. It is a truly refreshing spectacle
to see the Senate so sensitive to the
rights of literary property after the utter
indifference to such rights which the same
body has always heretofore exhibited.
Even Mr. Lawrence does not pretend that
Mr. Dana has taken a cent out of his pocket
or added a cent to his own by the alleged
literary pilfering. Mr. Lawrence freely gave,
or at least professed to give, his lubors fot
tho benefit of Mr. Wheaton's heirs. Mr.
Dana equally gave his labors for their benqfit,
and as Mr. Dana's edition had a sale
while thnt of Mr. Lawrence did not, the real
party in interest, the family of Mr.
Wheaton, has jreason to be grateful
for Mr. Dona's edition. It may not ba
amiss to recur to the reason why Mr.
Dana was requested to prepare his edition of
NVheaton. It was solely because Mr. Lawrenco
had foisted into his edition of that
standard work the secession doctrines which
Lad fallen into discredit with his countrymen.
The interest of Mr. Wheaton's heirs,
for which Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Dana alike
professed to work, was undeniably promoted
by an edition which rejected tho unpopular
secession heresy, and the salo of Mr. Dana's
edition, while that of Mr. Lawrence
encumbers the shelves of tho booksellers,
shows how advantageous to Mr. Wheaton'a
family was tho edition which did not insult
tho loyal sentiment of tho country. It ii
curious to see the American Senate ranging
itself on tho side of secession under a pro.
tence of zeal for the rights of authorship.
'Nothing could be more shallow, falso, hollow
and ridiculous thnn such a pre*
tence. It is not Mr. Dana's literary
squabble with Mr. Lawrence
but his political squabble with General
Butler that lies at the bottom of his proposed
rejection. The former is only a protext
; tho latter is tho real motive. Mr.
Dnnn ran against General Butler for Congress
in the Essex district in 1872, and,
after an abusive canvass on both sides, Mr.
Dana was badly beaten. His real offence ii
bis consent to bo a candidate against thtf
regular republican nominee. It is also charged
that he voted for Mr. Greeley, which is
"the head and front of his offending," And
may reconcile the President to his rejection.
But, apart from those miserable and passionvte
squabbles, Mr. Dana is the fittest Minister
to England that could be appointed,
unless Mr. Charles Francis Adams would
jonsent to resume his former post.
Thf. Spaniards have captured a British
ressel laden with arms and munitions of wai
iff St. Thomas. If her papers are all right
wo think the Dons will givo her up without
the formalities so delicately observed by us
in the case of the Virginias.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
The future way of the corner grocer 1* hard.
11 war n novr onirr wiiuwinw iun mnuap s nail.
A Jackson (Tcnn.) mother Is eleven and a half rear?
>ld.
The cold weather gives renewed hope to the sherry
:obbler men.
When Caleb Marsh was told "Paro to dorigbt'h?
said he dared, but wouldn't.
A Concord (X. C.) man tried a long time to open th?
first postal card he ever received.
The great Calvert sugar rolinery of Baltimore Is to
>e re estnlillshcd with largo rapital.
Coventor Tilden is said to l>e Jealous of Lieutenant
[Jovernor Porslielmer, In a political wajr.
Josh Billings is creating a sensation In tha South,
ind ConKling's chances are diminishing.
Senator J?ties wants to get ofT atiotbcr awfully smart
thmg. i-et lilm call silver a tinkling symbol.
Richmond Knf*irer "Bet yon a dollar he dies o
Irtnk In less than live rears Irom March 4, 1877."
Danbury AW*:?'"Thare is no doubt that Blame is the
:oraiug man. The question Is, Shall we wait for hlin V
........ ... ...? ..in/ uit-iiiuor 01 mo vice cnhinot
a ho has a corotorior, noil ho arearj hi* around hil
nock.
General Salgn, Chiof Commirmoner of Japan, with
uute. arrived yeaterday on the City of Peking, at San
KranOloco, bringing a largo quantity of exhibit* for the
>ntonni*l.
The Ror. T. Pe Witt Talmitge I* on a lecturing tour
n Canada. }]? ia now In Montroal. on hi* arrival
nere ye?terd*y ho wn* mot by a number or citizen*,
tmong whom were several member* of I'arliainoot 11*
iddrrjued the Theological Seminary yesterday morning,
be Young Men'* Cbrlatlan Astociallon at noon an4
Jie public generally last night.