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VOLUME XLI NO. 85
AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
BROOKLYN TIIF.ATKR
ROSE MICHEL, Ht 8 P. M. Matinee at 2 P. M. Mini Rom j
CXION SQUARE THEATRE.
FI RREOL, 11 8 1*. M. Matinee at 1:30 P. M. O. R.
Thorns, Jr.
? ? PARK THEATRE.
BRASS, at 6 P.M. Matlnre at 2 P. M. George Fawrett
Bows.
CHATEAU M \ 111 !.!.! : VARIETIES.
VARIETY, st g P. M. Msilnco ?t 2 I'. M.
BOW EKY" THE A TR E.
HEARTS ARE Till MI'S, at 8 I' M MUs Marlon Mordannt
FIFTH AVI'.M I'. hiKATRE.
PIQUE, at 8 P. M Mstlnro at 1 :30 P.M. Fanny Darenport.
TntRTY-FOURTH "STREET OPERA HOUSE.
VARIETY, at 8 P. M. MMinor at 2 P. M.
OKI! M A XIA THE A THE.
DER FRAUEX'ADooK.lT. at 8 IV M.
GUI BE THEATRE.
VARIETY, at 8 P. M. Matinee at 2 1". M.
CIIICKKKlNti~"llAI,L.
VON BL'LOW RECITALS, at 2 P M.
PARISIAN VARIETIES.
VAIMETV at 8 P >1 Matlnpr at 2 P. M.
oiitr.ri^ea naiunu xi^vtua.^u. ? auc f^u ai
steeplechase race came oft' at. Liverpool yesterday,
and we have a very full report of the
event this morning. Tlio race was one of
much interest and was witnessed by an immense
multitude.
Mb. Disraeli's Actios in withholding Mr.
Cave's report of his Egyptian mission from
the House of Commons is very severely criticised
by the English press and has caused
a panic in Egyptian securities. It is likely
this will prove the first stop toward the fall
of the Ministry which Mr. Disraeli has managed
so long to hold together.
In Congress Yesterday the Senate passed
the bill for counting the electoral vote for
President and Vice President, and the House
busied itself with the consideration of the I
Executive, legislative and Judicial Appro- j
priatioa bill. Congressmen's salaries was
Ihe bone of contention, but the discussion
was not an edifying one.
Comptroller Green has addressed a communication
to the Legislature protesting
against the removal of the penalties for the
non-payment of taxes and assessments. His
arguments will attract the attention of taxpayers,
and many of our citizens will join
with him in deprecating any interference
with the present system.
Tnr. Emperor of Brazil, as we learn by
a special despatch to the Herald, gave his
lurewcll audience at Jiio .Janeiro yesterday, j
?nd is ready to start on his visit to the |
United States. In a few weeks he will be j
with ns, nnd we trnst his sojourn here will
lend to muko the people of the two coun- j
tries better acquainted and promote social j
and commercial intercourse between them.
Arms fob Sebviy.?The German government
has been selling arms to Servia, and
Austria objects to the conveyance of the rifles
through Austrian territory. Wo remember !
when the German authorities thought it a
great hardship that American arms wero
sold to the French, but wo should not bo
surprised if some of these rifles were in- ;
eluded in the sale to Servia.
The Hat Hiooe Mystery.?It is a singu- '
d(aA. Af nntinn wliioli in rnniinti ni.
rated to tho Herai.d this morning l>j
William J. Bradley and John G. North in
regard to the treatment of the friends of
Thomas A. Hamlin. The case is one which
needs explanation, and wo hope Chief
Campbell and Coroner Simnis may he able
satisfactorily to explain it. It would be nnfortunate
if the Brooklyn police Rhould stand
in the way of the detection of crime or place
obstacles in the way of the identification of
tho dead.
FAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, at 8 P.M. Matinee at 2
P. m.
BOOTH'S 'niEATRE.
.1 I'Mrs C.ESAR, ut 8 P. m. m atinee at 1:30 P. M. Lawmice
Harrett.
O I. Y M FlTrf IITTAT R K.
VARIETY, at 8 P. M Matinee at 2 P. M.
TtYKSTY THIRD STREET OPERA HOUSE.
CAM FORMA MINSTRELS, at 8 P. M. Matinee at 2P. M. I
wood s museum.
O'FLANAOAN, at 8 P. M. Matlneo at 2 P. M.
LYCEUM THEATRE.
VAUDEVILLE, at 8 P. M. Matinee at 2 P.M. Minnie !
Palmer.
WALLACK'S THEATRE.
ROM ANCE OF A POOR YOUNG MAN, at 8 P. M. TUB
WONDER, at 1 :30 p. M.
TONY PASTOR's NEW THEATRE.
VARIETY, at 8 P. M.
STEINWAY 1IALL.
THOMAS' SYMPHONY CONCERT, at 8 P. M.
ACADEMY <>E MUSIC.
LA CLOSERIE DKS GENETS, at 8 P. M. French Company.
eaoi.k theatre.
PEAKED, at S P. M. Matinee ul 2 P. M.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.
NEW YORK, SMl'IIDAY. MARCH 2."?, 1876,
From our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the weather to-day trill be stormy, with
rain or snow.
The 11 f.rai,J) by Fast Mail Trails.?Newsdealers
and the public, throughout the country
trill be supplied with the Daily*, Weekly and
Sunday Herald, J'ree of postage, by sending
their orders direct to this office.
Wall Street Yesterday.?At the close
some of the fancies were firmer, but the
market was generally unsettled and irregular.
Money loaned at 4 and 5 per cent. Gold
was steady at 114 1-4. Foreign exchange
quiet. Government bonds were higher.
Railway and investment securities steady.
Is France it is likely the state of siege will
be raised. The government is no longer opposed
to it and the Republic apparently is
sufficiently well established to allow the
widest liberty.
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NEW YORK
Thirteen Centennial Candidate#? |
E Plurlbu# C nam.
The Herald in willing to assist in bringing
the old motto of the United States again
into use in this centennial year, and is sincerely
sorry that it cannot be done in the
appropriate way of restoring coined money :
to circulation. Oar national motto is re- |
quired by law to be stamped on our national
coins, together with the eagle, which is i
idopted as the national emblem; but neither <
emblem nor motto is seen since coined ]
money has disappeared, the small trash of <
nickel and copper and the now silver trade <
dollar not having the bird or the legend, i
The motto, being in Latin, is in danger <
of falling into permunent disuse, and <
we will let our readers see how it <
looks in print after having been so i
long missed. E Pluribwt Unum meant i
originally "one out of thirteen," the in- i
definite plurts meaning the thirteen States
which existed at that time. We preserve the
thirteen stripes of our national flag, increasing
only the stars to correspond with the
present number of States. In recalling the
motto we desire to give it a slightly different
turn, changing the implied verb so that the
phrase may mean the selection of one out of
thirteen. From the thirteen centennial can
didates whose names wo suggested yesterday
let President Grant and Senator Conkling
pick nnt one and secure his nomination
if they cannot see their way clear for themselves.
K Pluribus Unum would bo a fortunate
motto for the republican party, because the i
grcnt number of its Presidential candidates
tends to distraction, and it would be a relief
if any means could be found concentrating
the public sentiment of the party on some
one of its numerous candidates. Unless i
unity of purpose shall in some way arise
out of the great diversities of preference we
do not see how the party can succeed, and i
the simplest method of unification is the acceptance
of our suggestion that Grant i
and Conkling select one candidate
out of the thirteen and make over
their influence to a statesman of their choice
as soon as they see that neither of them can
be a successful competitor for the prize.
Unless this benevolent advice is adopted the
party will be ruined by internal divisions. |
New York cannot be wrested from the demo- i
crats without the federal influence, which
will not be exerted for Blaine?first, because
President Grant dislikes him; and second,
because Conkling controls the political machinery
through which tho federal influence ]
acts, and it is too late to think of recon- '
structing the republican party of New York '
for the next election. Unity, in this State
at least, can come only by Grant and Conk- i
lint? seleetinc? a candidate whom thev will
O o - - .
jointly support, if neither of them can get 1
the nomination himself. No republican '
candidate can carry this State -with- ^
out their united aid, and it depends !
on tho Tote of this State whether 1
tho next President be a republican '
or a democrat. The President and Senator '
Conkling are therefore in ft position to die- J
tate the candidate if they Bhould be them- 1
selves ruled out, and in that event their die- 1
tation is the only thing that can B?ve the '
party.
The Herald loathes cant, nnd takes kindly
to Senator Conkling because he is freer than
most politicians from that sneaking vice,
which is as contemptible in politics as it is
in religion. Mr. Conkling's assailants are
as thorough-paced partisans fts he is, and
it is too late in tho day for them
to put on masks in the hope of
hiding their well-known faces. The only
difference is that he- is too proud to pretend
to more public virtue than he possesses and
scorns to act a part to which ho has no title.
The Herald is far enough from thinking Mr.
Conkling a faultless character, but it likes
the bold, anti-humbug tendency of his mind
and his superiority to cant and double dealing.
He is alike to be commended for the
steadiness of his principles and the sincerity
of his personal intercourse. He is not
base enough to simulate friendship when he
feels none, and his friends and enemies,
whether personal or political, know precisely
where to find him. He is inflexible in views
which he has once maturely formed. Ho
strenuously fought the Legal Tender act
when it was first introduced in Congress,
and he has been among the foremost advocates
of a return to specie on every occasion i
when the subject has been debated. None
of his rivals has so consistent a record for
unflinching support of friends, bold defiance
of foes, steady adlierenco to principles, manly
abstinence from cant, and scorn of looking
one way while rowing another. We are not
considering his talents, which everybody
concedes to be admirable, but his character,
which we are constrained to approve as we
approve things genuine in their kind. Mr.
Conkling honestly represents the political
system in vogue, making it appear neither
better nor worse than it is; and as the people
have no interest in being deceived they have
some reason for preferring a politician who j
disdains to he a Joseph Surface, like his
canting assailants who came upon the stage
in that disgusting role.
The IIuuld, as is well known to its readers,
has no faith in that part of the otherwise
admirable federal constitution which
relates to the election and the responsibility
of the American Executive. We are convinced
that our free institutions can be
saved only by a thorough reconstruction of
that part of the edifice. Until public opin- ;
ion shall become ripo for so fundamental a \
change wo think it better that tho present I
system of party management bo carried out j
in accordance with its nature, which is only
bud in consequence ot vices wnicn inuere in
the system itself. So long or sixty thousand
ofliers are prizes to be scrambled for every !
four years, and so long as the hopes and
fears both of the sixty thousand incumbents
and ten times as many aspirants can be
played upon by party managers, it is in vain
to expect a purification of puhlie life ; and, ;
so long as this bad system exists, it is better I
to let it work out its natural results. While
it lasts all hopo of genuine reform is a delusion,
and such delusions will be soonest
cured by letting the spoils system have free
course until the country perceives its real i
nature. The canting dissemblers who de- j
claim against its evils, but look no deeper ,
for remedies than threats of a bolt against
regular party action, would make precisely |
: HERALD, SATURDAY, M
the Rame use of power as the men they i
doorv Anil wo shall boo nnthintr hnt a :
demoralizing struggle of the outs against j
the ins between the two parties and within p
the prevailing party until the bad system is f,
plucked up by the roots by changing the n
mode of election and making the Executive f(
promptly responsible. Meanwhile, it is u
wiser to leave our present party organiza- p
tions in the hands of men who administer p
them according to their nature and who j jpractice
no deceit to make them appear :
:>ther or better than they are. The downfall : n
jf the spoils system will be hastened if ad- ( n
ministered by men who despise the hollow n
cant of pseudo-reformers, with which the e
country has of late been surfeited and sick- y
ened. Until we make up our minds to look q
at things as they are, and pour scorn on skin- a
deep remedies, we have not taken the first
Btep toward real reform. | C(
The Hziuld does not despair of the Re- | a
public, but is not sanguine that it can be ; a!
rescued without much bitter experience. If
we were in despair we should not seek ref- ^
uge in the badinage with which we fre- 1 ^
quently treat the hack politicians in com- |
meriting on their ways and showing up | ^
their blunders, which would be insufferable
if we did not feel at liberty to amuse our- ^
selves at their expense. We have no faith in j
the nostrums of political quacks, and sometimes
seek relief from deeper feelings by ^
trying to be merry over their follies. The ^
remedy will come, sooner or later, from a j
different quarter, and until that remedy is v
accepted it is our sober conviction ^
that there can be no substantial im- .
provement in our present political methods. ^
They are so dreadfully corrupting because .
they are mere scrambles for the federal
offices, and there is less demoralization in ?
administering a bad system openly, and, so ^
far, honestly, than in attempting to do the ^
same thing under a mask of disgusting r
hypocritical cant. The hands that hold the
overgrown federal patronage can control the ^
republican nomination for the Presidency, ^
and if recent events have made it impossible
for Grant to be the candidate we should be .
glad to see it wielded in favor of the* best ^
man in his party?for a reformer if ho be so ^
minded, but surely not for a canter. We have
given him thirteen prominent names for the
centennial selection, and ask him to make a
prudent choice.
ii
The Commiisloneri of Emigration, t(
It does not yet fully appear what is the n
precise bearing of the recent decision of the <1
Supreme Court on the law of this State ] si
organizing the Commissioners of Emigration. a
rho text of Justice Miller's opinion has not P
yet been published, but the abstract g
would seem to show that the State a
law is annulled and that there is
i necessity lor immediate legislation H
by Congress to supply its place with a better c
system. We are in doubt, because there is h
i former decision of the Supreme Court of if
the same general purport. We refer to the b
sase of Smith vs. Turner (7 Howard, 238), ?
in which it was held that "a State law which n
requires the masters of vessels engaged in "
Foreign commerce to pay a certain sum to a n
State officer, on account of every passenger "
brought from a foreign country into t^e F
State or before landing any alien passenger ?
in the State, conflicts with the constitution h
and laws of the United States." This de- g
cision, which is twenty years old, would d
equally seem to annul our State law, but it t
was not so construed in practice. Wo there- j I
fore wait for the text of the new decision be- j F
lore attempting to juugc 01 us scope ana ?
precise effect. It was pronounced in a case s
that came up from California, and is applied c
to our State law only by inference. Whether &
the inference is well founded can be deter- I
mined only by the actual language of the i
decision.
Who la Reaponalblo f
It often happens in this city that exhibitions
of brutality on the part of police offl- |
cers and other public servants sicken apd j 1
shock the community. We all remember n
the terrible details of the Stockvis case, oAd *
now another story?that of the woman Rose 1
Young, who was left to float in the water for J
twenty-four hours ?proves scarcely less re- j
volting. It is unnecessary again to recite
the horrible details, bat it is of the greatest
importance that the responsibility for tjiis 1
crime should be ttxed whore it properly belongs.
So far we cannot see that any real effort
is making to ascertain the facts in the case
officially, notwithstanding they have already
appeared in the newspapers and have shocked
nnd startled the community by the negligence
and indifference and brutality exhibited
all through this remarkable episode.
Neither the Police Commissioners nor the
Commissioners of Charities and Correction
have shown a proper interest in the matter,
and Superintendent Walling seems mote
anxious to shield his subordinates than to
ascertain where the responsibility ought to
rest. It is plnin that punishment can only
be secured by indictment, and we trust the
District Attorney will see to it that }he
guilty do not escape, for it would be unpardonablo
if such atrocious official negligence
should go without rebuke.
Victoria's New Title.?Apparently the
new title that is to be eiven to the
Queen of England has relation to the ad- !
vance of Russia in Asia. It is part of 1
the Premier's characteristic and economi- '
cal Rtvle of fighting the Russians. It is, like 1
a great many other wares manufactured in
that island, "stamped for exportation," or 1
for "use in tho provinces only." In England
it will have but little significance, but every 1
barbarous prince on the skirts of the Indian
Empire is expected to find in this flourish, (
this uppronch toward him of tho sovereign
dignity, an equivalent for tho physical approach
of tho Czar's soldiers, and. to be '
strengthened accordingly in his allegiauco
to his own Empress as against his neighbor's 1
tiuperor.
Constitt tionai. Unity is not likely to
prove so easy for Spain as would be tlcsimble.
It is to be Assumed thnt the Basque
provinces will be slow to yield their exclusive
privileges, but success in the obliteration
of provincial customs is the first step
toward the permanency of the Alfonsist
rt'jim?. Unfortunately, in Spain these local
questions are considered paramount in importance
to good government for the nation. ;
ARCH 25, 1876.?WITH S
'!? R?pabllr?a Party and th? Syracuse
Convention.
If the movement against Mr. Confcling nna |
:s inspiration in a desire to free the country |
rom the debasing effects of the present ad
iinistration there would be some sympathy
)r the gentlemen who went to Syracuse
nder the lead of Mr. Curtis and Mr.
ioberts ; but any such claim is destroyed j
y the fact that the men now arrayed against
Jr. Conkling have been as obedient to the J
aa >?/> SUanafsvr liimaAlf. For !
early seven years, or until within three
lonths, Mr. Curtis has supported the adrinistration
in every pretension, excusing
very mistake, smoothing over every knavery,
i'hat Conkling has done in the Senate Mr.
lurtis has done in the Harper newspapers
nd Mr. Roberts in the Utiea Herald. Now,
' Mr. Conkling is unfit to lead the republisn
party in the next canvass Mr. Curtis
nd Mr. Roberts are certainly unfit to advise
s to its leadership.
The World, which Mr. Curtis seems to
ave selected as his daily organ, informs
s that it "has the best and most directly
ersonal authority for saying" that Mr. Curtis
rill not stay away from Cincinnati and will
ot vote for Mr. Conkling when he goes
here. The fact that Mr. Curtis selects the
Vorld for making this important announeelent
is pregnant with meaning. Does Mr.
Inrtis intend to follow his enmity to Mr.
!onkling into tho democratic party ? Should
e fail to persuade the Cincinnati Conontion
to reject Mr. Conkling will he
allow the mutineers of 1872 into some new
adependent Cincinnati movement ? If this
? his purpose?and we might not unreasonbly
infer as much from the delicate and
raceful manner in which the World accepts
is inspiration?it would have been frank for
Ir. Curtis to hnve avowed it when ho had
lie ear of the Convention. We are far from
lying that Mr. Curtis would not do well to
?ave the republican party altogether. In
let, we should commend him for doing so.
Ie has not been well treated by the republinns.
Ho was thrown over for Governor
a favor of Woodford, and he has never
een offered any of the high offices of the
ation.
The fact that he has won a national reputaion
as the author of a series of brilliant essays
n fashionable manners and how to behave
1 good society may have led the President
> feel that his mind was too. aesthetic, too
mch engrossed in the niceties of female
ress and ballroom otiquette to grapple with
->lemn questions of state. But this is only
nother evidence of the President's incaacity
for affairs. Addison wrote about
raveyards and country dances and was made
Secretary of State. Swift wrote directions
> servants and was a power in the Cabinet,
because Mr. Curtis has found profit in disussing
bandboxes and the proper manner
>r ladies to wear their back hair there
i no reason why ho would not
e as much of a power in politics as Addison
r Swift. Mr. Curtis is really a great jouralist
in the discussion of politics as well as
1 the discussion of fashions, and his war
pon Grant deserves newspaper sympathy
i this, that the one profession which the
'resident has always treated with contempt
i journalism. If Mr. Curtis were to make
lis war upon Mr. Conkling upon the same
;rounds as Swift upon the Ministry of his
lay?namely, because he has not been well
reated?his opposition would be intelligible,
f he goes frankly over to the democratic
arty, as looks possible from the sudden
riendship shown for him by the World, we
hall honor him. The democrats are in a
onciliatory mood now. They want recruits,
nd Mr. Curtis might be nominated for
jieutenant Governor along with Dorsheiuer.
Bnt it is not pleasant to find men like Mr.
Curtis and Mr. Roberts sacrificing the harnony
of the party and the honor of the State
o their personal grievances. New York |
vants to name the President, naturally, j
is the Empire State. The republicans j
resent a candidate who is the leader ,
f his party in the Senate, who has |
in honored name, who declined the j
lighest office in the judiciary that he i
night stay with the party nnd fight :
or its principles, let, because of an election
wrangle in Oneida, and because of Mr. Curis'
devotion to Mr. Blaine, the expressed
wish of New York is to be defeated ;
it Cincinnati. For, granted that this i
>ppoeition to Mr. Conkling destroys
lis nomination, no other New Yorker 1
an be named. Mr. Conkling's friends ;
will have five-sixths of the delegation. They
will have the support of Pennsylvania, most
probably, and a strong following in the
iouth. Suppose they deal with Mr. Curtis
in the spirit which he shows toward them
tnd their candidate. They have the votes,
the power and the will. If Mr. Conkling is
lot nominated the candidato will be taken
rrom some other State. Mr. Curtis in deitroying
Mr. Conkling exhausts his power
ind his usefulness- The other States mav
use him as Lincoln's friends used Greeley at
Uhicago. When they were through with
Greeley, when they used his arm to stnb
Seward, and deprive New York of a candidate,
Greeley's career was closed. Mr. Curtis
in setting up his own opinions against his
party invites the fate that befell Greeley ho
closes his career as a republican. He should
by all means follow Dorsheimer, and go over
to the democrats. As wo have said, they
would probably make him Lieutenant Governor.
It is very well to talk of "respectability"
und "reform," and so on, but when it comes
from men who have been tramping after
Grant through every ditch for seven years,
it is the veriest cant. This mutiny will
not really injure Conkling. In another
year Curtis and Roberts will
be in the same bed with Dorsheimer
and Bigelow as full-blooded democrats. A
few of the loungers of the Union League
smoking room may go with them, but tho
great mass of the republican party is with
Grant and Conkling. unless i.iirna ium
Roberts go with the democrats they have only
one career that of political tramps, like John
Cochrane, without standing in nru- party,
begging at the door of one convention to-day
and of another to-morrow Outside of Central
America men never really win power by
mutinies, pronunciamentoes and political
assassinations.
UPPLEMEOT.
Tit* Solar E?llpi?>
One of those extremely interesting astronomical
events, an eclipse of the sun, will ]
take place this afternoon about lour o'clock, ]
and will be visible in a partial phase over the j
United States northward of Florida. The | t
eclipse will last about one hour and forty
minutes, and will present over the wide area
of visibility, embracing the North American
continent, all the phases, from the annular
to the mere external contact, between the
disks of the sun and moon. Beginning at
the edges of shadow, the obscurity will
increase the nearer the observer is to the
central line, and at points in Washington
Territory in the United States fully eleventwelfths
of the solar disk will be obscured.
The eclipse is recognized by astronomers as
the fifteenth repetition of one that was observed
at Naples in 1605, and it is expected
that it will present features very similar to
those recorded at that time by Kepler. The
causes which produce eclipses of the sun and
moon can be easily comprehended when we
consider that the former is the source of light |
in our system and the latter a body which is !
constantly revolving around the earth and at 1
certain intervals crossing the apparent path J
of the Bun, or the ecliptic. If the orbits of <
the earth and moon were exactly on the same 1
plane a solar eclipse would occur at every 1
new moon, when the latter would be in con- 1
junction with the sun, and a lunar eclipse i
would occur at every full moon, when our i
satellite was in opposition to the sun. Owing i
to the obliquity of the planes of their i
orbits the periods of opposition and con- '
junction are irregular, and we therefore i
have eclipses only when the moon's nodes i
correspond with the phases of full and new i
moon. When the eclipse is total or annular ]
the observer stands in a direct line with the i
centres of the s\in and moon and in the j i
umbra or shadow projected by the latter i '
body. When the eclipse is partial, as <
will be the case in New York to- i
day, the observer stands in the penumbra
or indirect shadow of the moon, produced i
by the sun's converging rays being intercepted
by relatively opposite limbs of the
moon, and by which a portion of his light is
thus cut off from the earth. This peculiar
feature of eclipses leads to an explanation of
the difference between the total and annular
phases of a solar eclipso. In the first case
the apparent diameter of the moon is greater
than that of the sun, and therefore a total
obscuration of solar light takes place. But
in the second the apparent lunar diameter
is less than the solar, and a ring or annulus
of unobscured light remains visible, surrounding
the dark disk of the moon. Recent
researches into the character of solar
combustion have been rewarded by many
interesting discoveries, and advantage is
taken of eclipses to make spectroscopic
analysis of the photosphere. An interesting
letter from Professor Parkhurst, published
in to-day's Hebald, on the subject of the
eclipse, makes reference to this particularly.
It is to be regretted that opportunities for
scientific investigation will not present
themselves in satisfactory forms during
to-day's eclipse, the centre line of obscuration
being too far to the northward
to permit astronomers to avail themselves
of them. If the weather permits, a piece
of smoked glass will reveal to even the least
learned a beautiful phenomenon, which will
illustrate the grandeur of the work of the
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nothing.
Poker in Virginia.?"By a large majority"
the Virginia House of Delegates
has adopted a resolution for the removal
from office?by impeachment presumably?of
a judge of a county court for
conduct regarded as inconsistent with the
judicial dignity. He played poker. If this
thing had been done in Connecticut what
howls would have been heard of the revival
of the Blue laws ; but coming from Virginia
the significance of the fact is (\ifferent. It
does not mean the persecution of liberal
manners in the interest of severe formality.
It may mean conviction and progress. It
may mean the discovery in the Old Dominion
that, as poker and whiskey and cock
fighting and genial pursuits of that sort go
together, they should not go under the
ermine. If this is the significance of the
fact it is a useful and valuable discovery for
Virginia to have made. But it is possible
that this judge is only some obnoxious |
republican who was in the way, and for 1
whoso removal by formal process only a pre- i
text was wanted. In that case the virtuous J
move against poker is of less importance.
Jtdgk Donohve.?This Judge's action in 1
the Supreme Court yesterday was of the
kind that may recall to the public
mind the good old times of Ilarnard
! nnd Cardozo, the times not pleasant to ;
recall, when judicial action was mainly taken
to farther the games and schemes of financial
sharpers of various stripes. Judge
| Davis, it appears, issued an injunction yesterday
morning in tho regular course of judicial
proceedings, and this injunction was, :
in the afternoon, brought to the attention of
Judge Donohue, who dissolved it in three
' minutes, without any opportunity given to
counsel to argue their case or even to state
it. It would be a bad enough violation of
judicial propriety?it tends sufficiently to
bring the Bench into contempt?for one
judge of the Supreme Court to deal with the ,
| acts of another judge of the same Bench in
this cavalier manner, but to add to this a
! denial to hear counsel in the case presents
\ justice to the public in a ruffianly and brutal
, form. Doubtless the Bench in this neigh1
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ooruoou wuuiu i?o ijnimj inijirovni uy a
little impeachment ease.
The Weather promises to be very onset- !
tied during the next few days, and there
are strong indications of the approach of a
severe storm from the westward and southward,
which may reach us within a few
hours. At thirteen minutes to five P. M., j
Washington time, yesterday, an area of low
i barometer was central over the Mississippi
and Missouri valleys at St. Louis and was
rapidly moving eastward. It is probable
that the Ohio Valley region will suffer considerably
during its passage. The chances
of having a favorable condition of sky for
the observation of the eclipse to-day are
growing slim. We are likely to have a succession
of atmospheric disturbances during
tbs coming week.
The Alabama Surplus.
One of these days Mr. Waite, of the t
British Parliament, intends to ask Mr. <
Bonrk?. ?n llnHo, s?(-r?tiirv for Foreiizn
tffairs, a momentous question, apparently in
:he interest of some of the insurance companies
on this side who want to get at the
noney paid on account of Alabama claims.
He intends to ask the British government
whether out of the fifteen million dollars
paid by England on account of Alabams
daims the United States has still ten million
lollars in hand for which it can find no
owners. Naturally the government will tell
aim it does not know, and that if we have
?uch money it is none df their business, inismuch
as they have paid the judgment of a
court in that respect and know no process
by which to go behind that judgment. But
is our government has, in the distribution
if the Alabama money, assumed a stricter
standard than the Court did which amde
the award, it appears there is a very
considerable surplus that tho government
scarcely knows ' what to do with.
Here is a suggestion for the disposition
of tho money Divide it
between a proper number of our greater
colleges, with the condition attached that it
be used to establish in each chairs for
the more thorough study of international
law and the principles of arbitration between
nations. It may prove in that way a pretty
nest egg for the nation, and bring us home
in the future many millions in verdicts
igainst others, besides saving us the millions
?ro might otherwise spend in wars. It
might also prevent putting the nation again
in the position in which it was placed on the
indirect claims. There should be an especial
course of study to urge the importance
in every case of making all claims in arbitrations
several millions larger than the losses
were. By that means the endowment of
chairs can be kept up, and our arbitration
3chools will grow and their fame will fill the
world. Scholars will come to them from all
countries?even from England?and thus we
may yet reform John Bull out of his own
pocket.
The Disorders in Mexico continue, and
it is not impossible that the whole country
will soon be in an insurrectionary condition.
Vera Cruz has been declared in a state ol
siege, and General Lebarra has been raising
money by a forced loan at Matamoros.
These things indicate the general unhealthiness
of the body politic, and it is plain that
only a strong government can give peace to
Mexico and afford protection to her people
from rebellious chiefs on the one hand and
plundering leaders on the other.
The Jacmel Pronttnciamento which we
print this morning hardly seems a justification
of another revolution in Hayti. It
would be much better if these black republicans
could learn to endure the ills they
have rather than fly to others that they
know not of. v
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Shakespeare I* being translated into Polish.
Englishmen are spoony over Australian soups.
Those Marseilles coverlets called waffles are now la
season.
The third torn spectre Is not necessarily a whiskey
inspector.
S. B. Mills has nearly completed hta book of studies
for piano virtuosi.
An eminent English physician reeommenas Dieeaing
for cases of pneumonia.
Two thousand protesslonal clairvoyants is Parli
prophecy what never happens.
Dana might furnish a pun for the rural newspaper
when the Senate gels through with him.
What Kentucky wants Is not a shower of chicken
salad but a patent flask that won't gurgle In the mlddla
of the night.
Miss Flora Sharon, tbo daughter oftho Nevada Sen*
ator, is described as an unaffected, wee, childish flgara
in deep mourning.
Was it not Caleb Marsh who, quoting Poe's "Annabel
Lee," said that "the winged sheriffs of beavou
went coveting her and me ?"
The artistic tramp gets his drinks by drawini
pictures in soap on rural barroom mirrors. The mat#rial
ho uses is a sarcasm on himself.
It is too bad that Herbert Smith, the author-trnvellei
who married the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda,
should have bis bride run away with another Groomc.
The Pittsburg Commercial asks:?"How docs lh?
New Yoke Hkkalo like mule meat as a diet t" Whes
we are reduced to the necessity of feeding on you w?
will let you know.
Sheridan drag* his loot wearily oat of bed Is the
middle of the night now, and, pressing hie brow
against the window pane, asks, "la this a l'hll-harmonie
society ? I wish I were forty miles away."
Tho Danbury JVev>? says:?"They had Just snch a
shower of flosh as that recently occurring in Kentucky
in Great Hritaiu two bnndrod years ago. There's no
use in trying to compete with a monarchical form of
government."
Mr. Olrott, a Mew York journalist, Is about to taku
Pr. Sladc, the spiritual materialist medium, to Russia,
In order that he may manifest his powers before the
philosophers. Dr. Slado can do many marvellous
things, but no science has ever explained him.
Among the Christian Karens of Indo-Cbina Rasa'
pale alo is used for the church communion service, and
as It froths greatly It Is passed around quickly in
several glasses. The first communicant gets only froth
and the last one gets real beer.
If yon think of buying or renting a place In the
country now is the time lor going out and finding fault
with It. You will now see It in ail Ita muddy disadvantages.
Throe months hcnco you will see the country
in all lit green and pink glory and be deceived.
"Ik Marvel"?thai Is, Donald O. Mitchell?who, a quarter
century ago, was quite the rage aa a sentimental
literary man, haa been asked to take part in politics.
Thank God, he haa refused! In the spring time he
will look at the sweet plum blossoms and fold his arms
and dream, and be as cross a stick as anybody. Mitchell
is not slwsys a pleasant man, but he Is a most
splendid writer.
On the summit of Tike's Peak, over 14,000 feet above
the sea level, where there Is not a trace of any vegetatlon,
or, Indeed, any earth upon which shrubs o?
grass could grow, the mountain rat, an animal twice
as large as a Norway rat, abounds in vssl numbers,
overrunning the United States signal station on the
apex of the mountain.
Everywhere In tho South Ihc solid, conservative
element seems to be willing to abnegate to personal
r.n and In wish Ihst urhll? lh? v'ntih
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may furnish good government Ita own section may b?
spurred to undertake new enterprises in agrleultnrs
and commerce. The epiril of this wise old clement U
sensible, healthy and worthy of praise.
Icelanders and Mennoniles from Southern Russia an
cultivating larnis in Manitoba; French Canadians,
half breeds, and .Scotch servants of iho Hudson Uaj
Company congregnlo round the old trading posts
white at Kootenay Pass, In the Rocky Mountains, i
Chinese settlement claims protection from the Cana
diao authorities.
While tigers are, on the whole, a persecuted and a
diminishing body, there Is no fear that, for some yean
to come, tncy may not bo found in sufficient numben
in India to test the skill and rewird the porseveranca
of men who, making light of hot winds and the titer
motneler in tenia at 100 degrees, will rise at four A. M.
In o month of April, and will not return to camp til'
; two P. M., whou the sky is like copper, the ground list
i iron and the rays ol the sun are not felt In their Intensity
only because the attconpbero Is thiek and heavy
I with fine sand and dust.