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KEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 22. 1S78.
From rmr reports this morning the probabilities
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r r?*r? .? ? H-VWMV? ivniuy U'(U WC JtT^nty ClUUUy
and cooler.
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Wall Street Yesterday.?Stocks were
irregular and generally without important
change. Gold opened at 114 and closed at
114 1-8. Money was supplied at 3 and 4 per
cent. Government and railway bonds were
barely steady. Foreign exchange firm.
The Weather in England on Monday was
?w>t unlikowhat "Old Probabilities" gave us,
snow being the order of the day.
The Russians are carrying the rope into
Central Asia and have hanged the rebellions
Kban Filiate. The Asiatic victims of Ruseinn
nnrmiDeinn will AhA I? l*? I? ? I
nuu u^kCCTDiuu mil nuu IUIO VU UO UL11J llie
beginning of their troubles.
Kino Alfonso is now in the Juts of his
glory us well as his youth. The Spaniards
nro lmiling him as victor and deliverer, and
, it will be well for Spain if the enthusiasm of
the moment is not merely momentary.
A Splendid Scene is that reported by the
cable this morning, a fleet of four hundred
wind bound vessels passing out of the Mersey.
It is seldom commerce so far forgets
the prosaic element as to present such magnificent
pageantry.
The Appraiser's Department in the Custom
House is the subject of an article this
morning which will excite general attention.
We can only suggest that where there is so
much smoke there can scarcely fail to be
some fire.
There Is Delay in the extradition of
Winslow growing out of the discussion of the
offences for which an extradited prisoner
may be tried. No better time can bo found
for the settlement of this question, and it is
best that the construction of the treaty between
the United States and Great Britain
should be mutually determined at the earliest
possiuie uay.
Mexico is on tbe eve of another revolution,
anil it is likely a strong effort will be made
to overthrow the government of President
Lerdo. Already the national troops are reported
as having met with a severe defeat
and heavy losses. It seems that a stable
government is impossible in the Mexican
llepublic, but another attempt at revolution
can only add to tho evils from which the
people of that nnhappy country are suffering.
As IjfTBRESTiso Ceremony took place yesterday
at the Convent of the Good Shepherd
nuns, seven young ladios receiving the white
veil and three others making their solemn
vows at the expiration of their novitiate. It
is in auch as these that the spirit of charity
has its brightest exemplification, and the
eercmony is one which always excites a peculiar
interest because of the consecration of
bright young lives to Christian duty.
That Letter.?There are many ways of
concealing the truth without telling a direct
falsehood available to those who do not desire
that "bottom facts" shall be made known.
All the denials given to the TilJen-Clews
rumor are reconcilable with the id*a of
evasion. In no instance is it plainly stated
that no letter was ever written by any person
asking an advance of money for political purcoses
and nromisinu that an oncortunitv
should be afforded to ("lows ?fc Co. to reiiuburathemselves
through the means of curly
information of Treasury movements. Probably
nothing short of a Congressional investigation
will draw out the truth, and pos.sibly
one of the best witnesses before such a
committee would be General Horace Porter.
NEW TC
' The SyracnM Convention ? The Sew
York llepnbltenne Demand Homo*
Conkling.
The meeting of the Convention at Syracuse
i to-day will bo an important event, as showing
the attitude of the republican party in
New York on the question of the Presidency.
It will go far toward determining what the
party throughout the country will do. The
action of the State of New Hampshire has
shown that the country is by no means in
the hands of the democrats. On the contrary,
there is no reason why, if the republi
cans are wise, it should not be carried by
tho republicans. Thus far the democrats
i have presented no issues, with the exception
j of administration reform, on which they
could expect to carry tho country. Admin!
istration reform is an issue that may be
! fought as well within tho ranks of the republican
party as outside. The republicans
have a half dozen candidates in reserve with
as good a record for honesty as any that
can be named by the democrats. They have
also the power of the administration. WboI
ever may be nominated Grant will be too
anxious to win tho indorsement or the quasi
indorsement that must come with the success
of the republican party to permit any
hesitancy on the part of the office-holders as
to their duty in the canvass. More than nil
the impulse of party fealty will go far toward
drawing the republicans closer and
closer together. The fall of Belknap, so far
as it may withdraw Grant from the canvass
and destroy Caesnrism, may be a great good
to the party. Just now there is nothing like
the mutiny that was seen in the early part
of the canvass of 1872.
Consequently it Is of the gravest importance,
not only to the party, bnt to the country,
what the Convention at Syracuse will do.
For some time past there has been a rising
current for Roscoe Conkling as the choice of
republicans in New York for the Presidency.
The general sense of the party, of
the men who do the hard work, has been that
Mr. Conkling is their natural leader and
should have the nomination. This sentiment
gTew naturally, and was the expresi
sion of the party's sense of the great
ability and service of Mr. Conkling.
| His enemies' criticisms are really his
I high praise. Enemies say that he is a
partisan, a combatant; that he has stood by
the administration through good and bad report,
never questioning any of its actions;
that he has been the leal friend of Grant,
lighting his enemies and giving him not a
halting, timid, questioning support, like
that of Edmunds, Morrill and others?who
are only republicans as long as they can
make anything out of the party, and hasten
to abandon it when there is any reputation
for "independence" to be won?but a support
that never varied in sunshine or
storm. Now, if this is the objection against
Mr. Conkling, and we can find no other, the
men who make it are men who have served
Grant for the greater part of his administration
with slavish devotion. "Who has done
as much to strengthen the President ns Mr.
Curtis, who now leads the opposition to Mr.
Conkling because he is a favorite of the
President? For years the voice of Mr. Curtis
has been eloquent and incessant in praise
of Grant. So long as there wore foreign Ministers
nnd Cabinet officers to be appointed
the statesmen of the Union League, who now
i clamor for "administration reform," were
the truculent champions of Grant and all
that pertained to his administration. Now
they censure Mr. Conkling for what they have
made a merit of doing themselves as long as it
was possible that the President might take
them into the service of the government.
No, gentlemen; whatever virtue there may
be an anti-Grant record within the republi
can party does not belong to you, or even to
Mr. Curtis. You have not the record to oppose
Mr. Conkling. Not one of you can
throw the first ^one. The difference between
Mr. Conkling and most of those opposed to
him is that he declined the highest office
within the gift of the President. They talk
about "administrative reform," which means
their own appointments to office. Looked
at from a mere party sense there is nothing
more selfish than the movement against Mr.
Conkling. It is a movement that should
not for a moment be encouraged by republicans
in New York.
The objections to Mr. Conkling do not
hold against him as a republican, however
they may affect him as a statesman. Should
Mr. Conkling come before the country as a
candidate for the Presidency it will be time
for the people to canvass these objections.
But they do not belong to a republican convention
; for when we ask Mr. Curtis
and his friends for their objections
their answer, properly translated,
is, that "Mr. Conkling is a republican nnd
' has never halted in his support of a repub!
lican administration." Well, this adminis'
tration has thus far won the support and tho
indorsement of every republican convention.
Can sincere republicans, then, object
to a man whose principal offence is that ho
has never abandoned his party ? It is said
that there is objection to Mr. Conkling because
he is not the choice of the State, like
Mr. Lincoln and Geneml Grant. This is the
argument of the Waning Pott. But tho
editor of tho Evening Pixtl is old enough to
remember that there were no candidates
more strenuously opposed in this State than
Mr. Lincoln and General Grant In the first
Chicago Convention New York demanded
Seward. In 1804 a large nnd influential
wing of the party, headed by Mr. Greeley,
demnndod Chase, and threatened a l>olt,
which came to a head in Cleveland. In 1868
if Chase had been nominated by the democrats
this wing was ready to go the extent
of leaving the party, as it did in 1872. So
far as acceptability is concerned Mr. Conkling
is much stronger with the party in New
York than any republican candidate ever
presented stronger than Seward even in
this, that Seward was opposed by Greeley
and a faction strong enough to destroy him,
while Conkling is opposed by Mr. Curtis,
Mr. Itobcrts, of Oneida, and a few unappreciated
statesmen around the Union I/eague.
11.,kin.1 Mr Pnntlinc nre the rnnk nn<l tile
of the party. It would be unworthy of Now
York not to have a candidate for the Presidency,
and it would be unworthy for the republican*
in this State to abandon Mr. Conk;
ling. Any other name ia an intrigue. The
republicans need New York to carry the connj
try. If Conkling cannot carry it who can ?
IRK HERALD. WEDNESDA
Union League smoking room loungers, who,
having no offices, cry " reform," and fashionable
intelligence chroniclers should not be
permitted to force the party into an attitnde
of hostility to the brilliant and gallant republican
leader who now stands at the hlad
of his party in the Senate and the conntry.
The friends of Conkling comprise the vast
majority of the republicans in the State.
His enemies are a club cabal, every one of
whom feels that he would make a much better
candidate. It would be weakness in the
highest degree, and not only weakness, but
j ingratitude, for the republican party to abandon
Conkling. Such an abandonment would
be a reflection upon the State ; for if New
York does not present Conkling she will
be dragged into some Eastern intrigue for
Blaine or some Western intrigue for Morton.
No republican who respects his State cares
to assume this hximiliating position. If there
were a controversy between rival lenders?if
the opposition to Conkling meant the nomination
of Evarts, Fish, Wheeler, Morgan, Pix
j or some other New York statesman?wo could
' understand how there might be honest dif!
ferenco of opinion. But there is no such
difference. New York is not asked to name
any other of licr eminent sons, but to abandon
her favorite Senator, so that scheming
| politicians may use her for their own ends in
| the Convention. This is not the position
] which this great State should assume. We
I trust, therefore, that the Convention Mill put
I on record the will of the party?namely, that
lioscqe Conkling is its candidate for the
Presidency, and that the New York delegation
to the National Convention will not only
present his name as a unit, but support
him first, last and all the time. Whatever
objection there may be to Mr. Conkling
as a candidate for the Presidency before
i the people there are none whatever to his
nomination by the republicans for that high
office.
0
The Great Storms.
A peculiar interest attaches to the varying
conditions of the weather at a season when
the continents of Europe and North America
are being swept by unusually disastrous
storms. The office of meteorology is now
extended to the prediction of these disturbances,
instead of being, as formerly, limited to
their observation and record. Without looking
outside of the meteorological field of
the United States we are enabled to prognosticate
with a considerable degree of accuracy
the development, direction, progress
and duration of storms or changes in the atmospheric
state M-hich more or less approximate
to them. Certain conditions
have been observed to be followed
by a class of phenomena which are
J1 i1_ A t.1- A ^ A 1 1! __
uirecny traceuuio 10 iua operation
of well known physical laws. We need, '
therefore, only recognize the primary causes
to predict the consequences. The recent
tornadoes in Missouri and Minnesota were
preceded by peculiar conditions of tho
atmosphere as regards temperature and
density, and these extended over a large area
of the continent. However, when they were
' carefully charted and the opposing aerial
forces assigned to their proper positions,
the plans of tho battles were as easy of comprehension
as that of Austerlitz or Gettysburg,
and the centres of the atmospheric
warfare as clearly marked in relation to their
surroundings as the farmhouse of Hougoumont
on the field of Waterloo. In rccei*
articles we explained the process of development
of violent wind storms, accompanied
by rain or snow, and the marvellous precision
of their generation under favorable conditions.
We now come to consider tho character
of the storms which prevailed along the
Atlantic coast and in the Western Gulf
States during the past two days. A most remarkably
low atmospheric temperature was
observed at every point in the United States
on Sunday and Monday last. It Beemed
as if a great wave of cold air had
rolled down from the Polar regions
and overwhelmed the Continent as
far south as the Rio Grande nnd Florida.
During Monday night the thermometer at
Mobile indicated one degree below freezing
point, and at Galveston, Texas, only seven
degrees above. The temperature at Breckinridge,
Minn., was twenty degrees below
zero, and the general records through the
Mississippi Valley ranged from ten to
twenty-five degrees. On the Plains west of
Omaha an area of comparatively high tem!
pernture and correspondingly low barometer
! existed, wedged, as it were, between two
i great volumes of cold air. These conditions
favored the development of a "norther" in
the region southward of Denver, and the
I heavy blow at New Orleans was clearly due
to this cause. Tho escape southward of a
dense body of cold air produced at Indianola,
Galveston nnd New Orlenns a sudden
| fall of temperature and a barometric disturbance,
but there is nothing to show any
connection between the high winds which
prevailed at these points and the terrific
storm which has swept our Atlantic coast.
' This latter and most disastrous visitation
has presented all tho characteristics of a
genuine cyclone, one of those storms which
originate in the equatorial seas and sometimes
touch our coasts in the sweep of their
parabolic paths. The energy of these
meteors largely depends on the conditions
of the atmosphere through which they
travel. Their paths are also affected by
such physical obstacles as mountain ranges,
and the Alleghany chain has without doubt
checked the westward course of this ocean
storm and deflected it northeastwardly along
onr coast line. Thus the storm would strike
the coast at some point between Jacksonj
villcand Cape Hatteras and impinge on the
mountains, which wonld give its course a
direction over New York, Boston and Hali|
fax. The winds blowing tangentally to the
circumference of the vortex wool 1 naturally
be southeasterly along the coast, and this
would acconnt for the extraordinary
number of marine disasters recorded.
Of conrse when the vapor laden air borne
inland from the sea met the cold condensing
atmosphere it was converted into and precipitated
as snow, until the storm centre hail
passed sufficiently to the northward to give
the indraught winds a more southerly origin.
Then the snow was followed by rain and
finally by clearing weather, with westerly
winds. The conditions now prevailing in
the interior of the continent are very favora,
ble for the generation of tornadoes in the
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Mississippi and Missouri valleys. We shall
not be surprised if such are reported during
the coming week.
Real EiUt* Owners ana Rapid
Transit.
An impulse to protect themselves from the
encroachments and absorptions that are practised
by great corporations whenever they
obtain a foothold is very natural on the part
of property owners everywhere, and it is
not surprising, therefore, to find the people
on Pearl street in revolt against the construction
of any portion of an elevated railroad
in that thoroughfare. In the fulmination
of tjieir wrath these gentlemen say
many things that are, from their point of
view, true and just. They urge that the construction
of the road will damage their property
in such a way as to drive certain occupations
to other streets ; that it will do fur
iner damage oy obstruction 01 tne siaewnijt ;
that if the Legislature had the authority to
give the use of the streets to a corporation it
is iniquitous to do so; that the corporation
should bo compelled to purchase its
right of way, and that in Pearl street the
Legislature does not possess the right to
give the use of the street, because the property,
in the land on either side goes to the
; middle of the street, and the street itself is
I private property, never conveyed to the
| city for public uses, but only opened by
l the owners for convenience. In all
these views there is, as we have said, an element
of justice as seen from tho standpoint
ot the owners. But they must be contemplated
as well from the standpoint of a great
public necessity. It is an absolute need of
the people of this city, of every class and
condition, to have very greatly improved
facilities of transit?such facilities as can
only be given by a steam railway. If some
men are to make fortunes out of this necessity
it cannot be helped. Such a railway
must be constructed somewhere, and, presumably,
to the inconvenience or injury of
somebody ; for, as the law provides for indemnities,
it clearly contemplated that some'
body's toes would be trodden upon. In a
case of imperative necessity there will be
: some indifference in the common mind as to
' whether the people inconvenienced are in
i Pearl street or Water street. Now, as this
! road must run somewhere, should the company
be compelled to purchase its way?
Probably that fact would at the start load
the enterprise with a burden it could not
carry. This necessity was the ruin of several
companies in London, and crippled for
years the whole system of rapid transit there.
Doubtless the nse of the "streets thus
given might fairly be regarded as a subsidy.
But had the Legislature the right
to give Pearl street? That is a question
for the courts. It is known that in
different streets of the city the rights
of the public have different limitations?a
fact growing out of incidents in municipal
history; but any right well based on such
limitations will be protected by the courts.
As to the injury of property it is cited that
an elevated railway will so obstruct the light
that merchants will not be able to sample
tea and coffee. In the next ten years one
million people are to live five miles above
the City Hall, and the men are mostly to
come down town to their daily occupations.
Imagine that million depending on the horse
cars because a few hundred gentlemen have
a fancy for sampling tea and coffee in Pearl
street, with about fifty miles of other streets
open to them in that quarter of the city. In
the presence, therefore, of any rapid transit
scheme likely to meet the public needs these
reasons of the Pearl street men are of little
account; but it is only for the public interest
that such private interests can be set
aside, and if, as is reported, this Pearl street
rapid transit is part of a scheme for the betrayal
of the public interest in rapid transit
and for the aggrandizement of a knot of
sharpers the case is very different.
Mr. Brlilow'i Vindication.
Mr. Bristow, like the honest, manly,
straightforward statesman that he is, has
gone before the House Committee on War
Expenditures and explained his connection
with the mule case, in which it is claimed
that he took part in defrauding the government.
His explanation is clear and conclusive,
and will be so accepted by the country.
"We observe that the Secretary would
have the committee inquire as to the author
of the story. This would be nrofitless.
The air is full of rumors, and the duty of
the press is not to take any man's character
for grnnted, but to insist upon having every
one investigated. Mr. Bristow should therefore
feel grateful for the opportunity of destroying
a calumny, which, as we learn from
| Washington, has been in circulation for
; some days. In this season of suspicion and i
investigation no one can hope to escape
scrutiny. The story about Bristow was not
! a whit more improbable than the story about |
J Pendleton. So far as character is concerned 1
' Mr. Pendleton, until the railway charges
were made, stood as high as Mr. Bristow.
' But when the scrutiny came Pendleton fell,
urhilo Bristow came out not only stainless,
: but with renewed lustre.
I Therefore we repeat that Mr. Bristow !
never received a better service than when
the Hf.rahj gave him the chance of going j
before the House committee. We congratu- j
j late him upon his triumphant vindication, '
and we congratulate the country upon hav- !
| ing at the head of the Treasury a statesman
who has been tried in the crucible and found
! to be tbo finest gold.
A SraGtTLAB Stort of persecution on the
one hand and subserviency on the other is
that relating to the Bishop of Faderborn.
It now remains to be seen whether the Ger- :
1 roan authorities will make a demand upon |
England similar to that which was made
upon Holland, and whether Mr. Disraeli'R 1
| government will yield to it if it is made.
We trust that the dcrnund will be made, in
order that. England may have nn opportunity
to reassert old-fashioned English independi
once of foreign dictation.
tljCQfALOTiD Amxfsty finds little favor j
among French republicans, only eight Senators
and twenty-seven Deputies being in its
lavor. It is too eariy, pernipx, 10 expect
Frenchmen to forget tho events which
j attended the rising of the Commune, even
' thoogh it was the Common* which gave
] Franc* the B?pnblio*
PLE SHEET.
Rank la th? War jr.
We have published several communications
from officers of the navy, both of the line
and staff, in reference to rank. The point of
the quarrel is plain. Engineers, doctors and
paymasters are graded according to their
service and fitness. There are engineers
who nominally rank as captains, doctors as
commanders, and so on. There is another
elates of officers, trained to naval service, who
are really captains, commanders, and so on.
The members of the Btaff are given grades as
a courtesy. They are not really captains or
commanders in the naval service. An
engineer "captain" is no more a captain than
an engineer ensign. He is captain of his
engines and of the coal heavers, the oil and
coal. A doctor "commander" does not command
anything hut his pills and lancets.
Now, as we understand the quarrel, it is this.
The engineer "captain" wants to be a real
captain, the doctor "commander" a real
commander. That is to say, a doctor who
has the rank and pay of commander may
command all officers of a lower grade. Now
it may happen, say in action, that line
officers of high rank are killed. In that case
the doctor "commander," who is down
in the hold sawinc broken loos, be
comes the ranking officer. According to
the staff this doctor must at once throw
down his knife and sponge, his ether and
mustard poultice, and go on deck to fight
the ship. He may be a fine surgeon and not
know a howitzer from a martingale; but
still his rank compels him to take command
and direct the battle. As any person of
common sense will see, the effect of this rule
would be that the wounded sailors would
die for the want of skilled care, and the ship
would sink or be knocked to pieces for want
of skill in the command.
What the navy needs is a line officer who
knows how to command, and doctors and
engineers who know their business. A good
doctor and a good Engineer, in their places,
have most important duties; but their
places are not in command. As to rank, the
actual naval officers should have their rank,
the doctors and engineers their own grades
likewise. Bnt their grades shonld hare no
connection. The officers of the line command
the vessel nnd all who are on board.
The officers of the staff have no business
whatever with that branch of the service.
The pretensions of the staff to any such authority,
or to any rank, actual or constructive,
that would permit its exercise, are absurd.
The best way to end the quarrel
would be for Congress to take all rank whatever
from the staff, except what belongs to
years of service in their own grade. Let
rank and authority go together, where they
belong, with the officers of the line.
The Methodist Centennial.
The Methodists of North Carolina have
just celebrated their centennial, and we
print this morning a very interesting report
of the proceedings. There is no special significance
in this celebration in so far as its
centennial aspects are concerned, but the
occasion serves to recall the history of a powerful
religious movement, both in the past
and at present No one can doubt
that it was the itinerancy which so peculiarly
adapted Methodism to a new
country in which both men and consciences
were struggling to be free. In
all respocts the century of growth of the
Republio has also been in an equal degree
a century of growth for Methodism. North
Carolina is an example of this, particularly
appropriate at this time, because the Methodist
Church, as an organization, was first
established in that State just one hundred
years ago. Up to 1776 Methodism was
almost unknown in the South, and everywhere
it was still in its infanev : bnt it rrrew
with remarkable vigor until in the Southern,
as in most of the Northern States, it
is to-day the controlling religious influence.
The secret of that growth and paramount influence
is in its adaptability. Its itinerant
clergymen, missionaries all of them and
men of great religious fervor aDd selfsacrificing
spirit, were suited to do the work
of evangelizing a new country, and it is not
surprising that they accomplished it successfully.
Everywhere are the monuments of
their zeal and their labors. The Methodists
of the United States have much reason to be
proud of their achievements, and of the
Christian pnde they take in their work this
North Carolina celebration is an excellent
example.
West and Worth and Incorruptibility
In the Assembly yesterday there was another
interesting episode resulting from the
adverse report of the Railroad Committee on
the "No Seat No Faro" bill. Mr. West, the
chairman of tho committee, led with an assertion
of his personal and legislative purity,
and justified his course on the ground that
Mr. Killian's bill, was impracticable. This
the Hirapd has always admitted, but it is
no justification for Mr. West and the other
members of the comtnittee who acted with
him. The committee had complete power
over the bill and it was their duty to
present it to the House in n
A ? r.?v
ti cable shape. Failing to do this they
will find it difficult to convince
the people of this city that money war not
nsed to influence their action. It may be
that a hundred millions of dollars could not
influence Mr. West's committee to do right;
but if this is the case he and his associates
show a singular disposition to do wrong. In
the first place they firmly resolved that tho
people of New York shall have no protection
against tho railyoad monopolies. Having
arrived at this determination they made
their report in tho absence of the author of
the bill, and, according to Mr. Killian, they
deceived him as to their intention in tho
matter. But, to crown all, the reconsideration
of the action of the House on tho report
was prevented on tho following day
by a trick, which is explained by tho
man who played it as a mistake
of the heart and not of the mind.
Mr. Worth is a man who says ho does not
fear the press ; but the account he gives of
himself, even with the support of the press
of .his district, is not flattering to him. According
to his own showing, tho press was
right in opposing him two years ago, and
the people w ere not slow to find him out,
as his beggarly majority last year proves.
lie will find difficulty in making his constituent*
believe in his goodness of heart after
Uus. and the incorruptibility of the com
mittee will be found to stand higher in theif
i own opinion than in that of the community.
The speeches of yesterday prove more con.
clusiyely than ever that an investigation ii
necessary ; bat to be of any practical value
it must be one that will show the "bottom
facts."
Moody and Han key Maniacs.
There may be a great difference of opinion
as to whether the sort of emotional storms
that are stirred up in a community by the
Hippodrome process are of any permanent
benefit in a religions sense ; whether the fervid
piety aud contrition and good resolutions
that result from excitement are anv more
lasting than the excitement itself. But there
is one result of the Hippodrome campaign as
to -which there is very little room for doubt,
and this is that it is largely increasing tin
number of religious maniacs. Every day
cases of this character are reported, and it is
in the nature of things that we should not
hear of all the evil of this sort that is done.
Only one ease in ten of persons who are actually
driven to lunacy by this process o1
'awakening" is reported, and there are hundreds
thnt are not driven to that point ai
which they lose control of their reason in
whom, however, the balance of the mind is
sadly shaken. Feeblo minds, persons whose
morbid notions take always the direction
of over-consciousness and self-accusation,
should not be permitted by their friends tc
go within gunshot of the Hippodrome. Thej
! tiro like unseaworthy craft, that cannot stand
an hoar of rough weather, though they ma'
go on for a lifetime in smooth water.
Our Readers will no doubt be surprised at
the startling story of the alleged flight and
defalcation of William 0. Barrett, a well
known member of the Bar. The statement
is made that Mr. Barrett has proved false in
his trusteeship of several estates and that his
clients will be heavy losers. It is to be
hoped that when the real facts are made
known the affairs of Mr. Barrett will bs
1 found in a better condition than now sup- *
posed. That so talented a man as Mr. Barrett,
holding such important trustfe as he
1 did, could play false is almost incredible,
and we must wait for further details before
giving expression to any sense of condemns
tion.
The Decision of Mr. Justice Milder virtually
abolishes the Emigration Commission,
and now we are to have a repetition of the
wrongs and outrages which were once so
common unless timely legislation prevents.
Congress must provide by a comprehensive
statute for the reception and care of emigrants,
and the sooner it is done the better.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Massachusetts favors Bristow.
Two wild ravens killed an English fox.
Primroses and Tiolets are being gathorcd in SurreJ
and Kent.
Imitation leaves of tbe Virginia creeper are worn ai
trimmings by English ladies at balls.
The Rochester Democrat says:?'-Kite flying, according
to the Graphic, is the poetry of play; but Sam
Wilkeson knows better."
Statistics provo that the frail, broken-down American
woman lives longer on tho average than bei
round-faced English sister.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that the great public
need in Washington is of statesmen who believe in
buckwheat cakes and molasses.
The State of Massachuictts is in debt $15 000,00) on
account of the Hoosac tunnel, and is now adding to thii
debt $1,000,000 a year on tho same account.
Though Senator Anthony is a downright Yankee,
his friends claim that ho cannot use a jackknlfo.
Does he pick his teeth with a pair of scissors?
After a play a young Frenchman said to his friend,
'I could play the lover better than that myself." She
replied, "Then why in heaven's name don't you?"
Mr. Aug. (Jrote surmises that the White Mountain
butterfly was brought down from its original home in
the north by glaciers, which advanced at the rate of
less than a mile In a hundred years.
Sonator Ingalls believes that man originally went on
all fours. He was convinced of this fact one morning
when the latf.er was running down into his eyes and
he was feeling around the floor tor a towel.
Mr. Darwin tells us that tho pricking of the base of
the brain and giving hydrocyanic acid, together with
strychnine, to an ordinary pigeon, brings on convulsive
movements exactly like those of a tumbler.
The Chicago Tribune is Informed that we always give
credit for items taken from other journals. We have
1 SICII uwu icui|>ini lu uullun DUIUU (una 1 vcrun, Willi
credit, Irom the C. T., but listed to reprint oar old
Jokes.
On Sunday morning when a woman gets the blinds
nicely peaked and, with frowsy hair and pallid calico
gown, Is looking at the streot fashions, it is mean for a
wind to come along sr.d, slamming bans the screen,
expose her.
The other day, alter Phil Sheridan rode up to tha
door, leading a bucking broncho with a side-saddle on
It for a little fun with the yonng one, he was heard to
mutter, "Why does that nurse always look at mo as 11
I were a fool "
The Patcrson (N. J.) Preti, which usually speaks do
1 llberately, says that while Senator FrelingbuysenT
chances lor the Presidency aro not very seriously eal
ciliated It is true that Conkling will not .have the Nee
Jersey delegation.
".Very great quantities of English and Australian
sovereigns are Imported Into India, but no one evei
saw one in circulation. They disappear instantly, he|
log bought or kept for hoarding, either In concealment
I or In ornaments for the person.
The Key West Ditpalck notes with consternation an
unusual abundance of those annoying Insects. th<
chiogos, in tho city. Northern people may not knou
that this is not the species referred to when we say,
There she goes, here she goes."
An effort is making in Charleston, S. C., to start I
new daily paper, there being but one in that city ot
2.1,000 inhabitant*. The experiment would ben hard
I one, betauso the Xrwi and Courier la one of the
! brightest provincial jonrnala in the country.
From London FunAncient Mariner (to his youngest)?"Well,
if you like* the girl why don't you go and
tell her so, 'Enory. 1 mlnil the time?I'd married yoni
. mother?ah. and done my six months for woppln' her
; too? long afore I wa* your age; but, lor' there ain't
: no sperel in youth nowadays I"
Since the unification of Germany the Archbishop of
. Munich haa always hoisted tho yellow and white flag
I with tho keys of St. I'oter upon the towers on saints'
days, while upon political holidays the municipality
haa displayed from the two towers the black, red and
yellow flag, snrmocnted by the Imperial eagle.
A correspondent of the Boston G7?6e ?? vs that there
^ la an anti-Bourbon democratic movement on foot lu
Washington for tho nomination either of Bnprema
Judge Pavld Pawls, of Illinois, or of General Wlnfleld
| 8. Hancock for tho Presidency, with cx-Gorernoi
I Gaston, of Massachusetts, as second on the tirket Al
the present time General Hancock holds tho f.rst placs
! m the affections of young democrats.
Norrtstown Uera'd .?"A lady at an cniertalnment
! the other evening was so provoked and anoorcd by
her viow of tbo fcla^o and perloriner* being ob?iruel?d
by ? hat perched high ?n the head of the lady in front
of her that she didn't notice the man who sat immediately
behind her muttering andiblo imprecations because
ho couldn't see over the top or her own bonnet."
l)r. Tyndall now finds that air can bo rendered optically
pure by merely leaving it undisturbed three M
four day* in a close chamber. All the floating matut
subside*, and the confined air will not transmit light, '
Solutions placed therein remain unaliered, though left
for months, while similar solitions open to the ordinary
air swarm with bacteria in twenty-lour hours w
| two days.