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NEW YORK. TUESPAI, MAY 9, 1870.
l^rom our rejxnis this morning the probabilities
arr that the twither to~duy icill be cooler ami
oartly cloudy, with const rains, clearing vp
later.
Nottce to Country Newsdbalers.? For
prompt and regular delivery of the Herald
by fast mail trains or (Jim must be sent direct to
I his office. Postage free.
Wall Rtiieet Yesterday.?Stocks were
largely manipulated by professional*, with
"results that will be found elsewhere. Few
of the outside community are involved.
Sold advanced to 112 lt-4, but dosed at the
opening price, 112 5-8. Investment shares
were quiet, government bonds in fair re
quest and railway bonds without material
change. Money loaned at II anil 8 1-2 per
cent on stock collaterals.
Colonei, Gordon, the African Explorer, I
has abandoned his proposed expedition to
tho interior, owing, it is said, to lack of
funds. Wo fear that the exploration of Cen
tral Africa must become, after all, an exclu
sively American enterprise.
Several City Marshals, nominated by
tho Mayor, were yesterday confirmed by
the Board of Aldermen. We earnestly trust
that these new officials will be more partic
ular about charging legal fees -and nothing
more?than were tho cormorants who were
their predecessors.
A Dismai. Story of Shipwreck reaches
us from London bv cable. The French fish
ing ileet engaged in the Arctic serfs has, it is
feared, been entirely destroyed, the res- i
cued crews of the Emma, of Dunkirk, having j
reported the loss of six iishing vessels be- I
sid??s their own. It is to be hoped, however,
that the crews may have escaped to some of
the islands of tho Orkney or Hebrides
groups.
Rapid Transit.?Of course it' we are to
have an elevated railroad some persons must
be inconvenienced. We cannot have our
rake and eat it. Therefore, the applications
made to the courts for injunctions must be
looked upon as mere matters of selfishness
or demands for damages. But no matter
R-hat temporary injury may be experienced
by individuals, tho general public gain by
rapid transit is tho supreme interest, and
dominates all others. The community de
mands rapid transit, and those few who have
their profit in slow travel must get out of the
roail of New York progress. We trust tho
courts will, in the present case, so decide.
The Imsii Riflemen are trying their skill
at the butts to determine who shall compose
tho Centennial team. The second content
for places on the team took place at Dundalk
on Saturday, during which Mr. W. Rigby
made the magnificent scoro of 211 out of a
possible 22~>. Such tine shootingwill doubt
less have the effect of stimulating other con
stants to greater efforts, and we may safely
;ount on having a team from Ireland that
rill l?e worth defeating, and our marksmen
will no doubt experience in meeting them
??that stern joy which warriors feel in foemen
worthy of their steel."
The Impeachment Trial. Mr. Hoar made
an argument in support of the jurisdiction
of the Senate over Mr. Belknap. Judge
Black has thus far replied with sarcasm and
recrimination. We suggest to Judge Black
that h< should stick to the point and show
le s wit and humor and a little more reason.
A grave question, such as that before the
Senate, Is not to be determined by mere
smartness. It ought to be decided without
partisanship and in the sole interests of the
American people. All the nation wants to
know is what the constitution requires.
Tllden?Th?rm???B?y?rd. ??>* Demo
cratic Triumvir*.
If any candidate wishes to attain to tho
Executive office because hfl believes he can
sfrve the country moro effectively there
than any other man can ; if his patriotic
priilc and indignation animate him against
the horde of corrupt and unworthy creatures
that wriggle through the whole body politic
and eat away its vitality to such a degree
that he believes none other will extirpate
them with the necessary energy and earnest
ness ; if he believes that his resolution, his
will, his purpose, are especially what are
needed in the crisis ; if, in short, he wants
the office for the service he can do in it, he is,
by this reason alone, fit for tho place. But
if he wants it for any other reason whatever
he is unfit for it Any motive that is merely
personal is a pitiful piece of intellectual
turniture in the emergency that contronts
tho nation. Any other motive than tho
highest possible public purpose will not do
in these times. If any man shall in these
days secure the Presidency only to be tho
central source of its patronage he may bo
sure that ho will bo pilloried in infamy to
I the last day of our history as a people.
There aro many men now before the
country who, if they desire this office, may
consistently be believed to desire it only
with exalted motives, and distinguished
among these aro the democrat c triuin\irs,
Tilden, Thurman and Bayard, tho represen
tatives respectively of the great sections of
democratic strength. Every one of thes?
men stands fit a higher level mordly and in
tellectually than is common in our public
life. Ordinarily this would be a fatal de
fect, an insuperable obstacle to their enndi
dacy, for the common politician resents
superiority. He dreads tho notion of the
presenco in office of any man of Buch quality
that ho will not be as plastic to his schemes
as clay in the hands of the potter. Any intel
lect sufficient to see through his scheu.es, and
any morality or sense of duty robust enough
to put them out of doors, are all that he has
to dread in this world ; and he battles day
and night against the candidacy of men en
dowed with such attributes. How common
this sentiment is wi'h this ordinarily om
nipotent class may bo seen in the tone
with which some time ago they treated
the proposition to nominate Mr. Adams.
They sneered at it as "respectable." They
tilled their local journals with sarcastic ref
erences to "blue blood," and tho editor of
the Springfield Ilepublican was laughed at
from one end of the country to the other
because lie persistently declared his opinion
that a gentleman of exceptional ability and
culture and of great experience in our poli
tics Mas a thoroughly fit man to be Presi
dent. This sort of opinion originates with
tho men who want a dummy in office, who j
want to wind him up and set the hands at i
what hour they please. Men of this class in
the republican party surrounded and cap
tured the President now in office at a very
early period, and the whole order through
out the land has been made hungry by the
instances of their success that recent inves
tigations have exhibited. But the men ot
this sort in both parties have begun to seo
very clearly that the present canvass is one
in which the people mean to take part, and
they reason that they must give up for a
time those tactics which they may indulge
with safety when the people aro indifferent.
They know that the party that nominates a
dummy will be beaten, and that, if success
ful with a capable man, they may still hope
and strive, but if beaten with any other
they may go for four years where the wood
bine twineth. Therefore the candidacy of
men of exceptional ability is not impossible ;
this year, and Mr. Tilden, Mr. Thurman or
Mr. Bayard may any one of them come out
of the St. Louis Convention half elected to
the Presidency.
With men like these, men of high charac
ter and somewhat ripe experience, it may j
safely be assumed that mere personal nmbi- |
tion does not count for a great deal in the \
aspirations with which they contemplate the ;
Presidency, for it is scarcely conceivable that j
men of accurate perceptions would choose to j
lie on the bed of Procrustes rather thnn on ,
anv other, merely because it is labelled with i
an honorable name. But men will venture ]
that bed, or even a worse fate, in devotion j
to the public service; and we have not the ,
slightest doubt that any one of these gentle
men if elected would administer the Presi
dential office in the spirit of such devotion.
Devotion, however, does not attach undue
importance to details; it rather, indeed, con
templates them with souio indifference, and
concentrates its attention upon essentials ;
and if three great democrats aro resolute to
serve the country in a perilous emergency ;
if they are equally determined to do their
utmost to purify the public service, to re-cs- !
tablish the standard of our republican sys- ;
tem, to save troni insidious enemies a i
form of government upon which depends
tho liberties of forty millions of people ; if
this is their purpose, and they address them- \
selves to the Isbor only to secure tho success
of this grand purpose, it is, after all, only a
detail which of them shall bo nominally j
foremost?whethor any one of them, for in- j
stance, in signing his name to a document |
that confounds the plans of scoundrels shall
sign it as President or as Secretary. It is
reported by Arrian that when tho Queen of
Persia was conducted to the tent of Alexan
der she entered, and, by a natural mistake, ;
ax the persons of the Greeks were of course
unknown to her, threw herself at tho feet of
Hephmstion and there appealed for tho
grace of the conqueror ; but when she wvw
her error tho King relieved her embarrans
ment with the * famous words "Hephrcstion
is also an Alexander. 1 his Mas in tho
spirit of heroic lellowship worthy the men
and the occasion?a spirit that did not stand
upon the dignities of office and points of
personal precedency; and thus it should
matter little with the great democrats which
is Hephiestion and which is Alexander if
all labor together in the common heroic !
i effort against the enemy.
With Mr. Tilden in the Executive chair
and Thurman and Bayard 111 the Cabinet, or
with either Thurman or Bayard in the
Executive chair and the two thus
excluded from that office supporting
him in the Cabinet, every gr^at sec- j
tion of the democratic party would feel
equally assnred of its influence upon
| ttou government. This, in fact, would only \
be giving effect to the principle that under
lies all constitutional government?that the
administration is formally and officially
put into the hands of those leading, capable
| and important men of every section into
whos? hands the offices would naturally and
necessarily full if the government were an
oligarchy. This was the recognized prin
I ciple of our system in its period of early
purity and vigor. If it had beon possible,
I when the first President of the United States
was named, for the nation to choose uny
j other man than George 'Washington the
i ehoico would have laid between Adams, Jef
: for son and Hamilton, and President Wasli
! ington put both Jefferson and Hamilton into
his Cabinet, and if Adams had not been
Vice President ho would have had him
in also. That was a principle so well
j founded in the nature of governments like
j ours that it scarcely needed the consecration
| of this example to commend it to later
| administrations. It was less liberally ap
plied to all the great men of the country
when the peoplo divided into parties for and
against the views of different interpreters of
the constitution, for neither pai'ty would
have accepted the presenco of a man in the
government opposed to its principles; but
this made the point all the clearer that the
government must have the support of all
the great men of its party, and it would
have been properly regarded as an impolitic
and dangerous course for any administration
to deprive itself of such elements as come
with the presenco of all those party leaders
who have the respect of the nation in such a
degreo that they are regarded as rival can
didates. Indeed, we have already noted?
and it is familiar to the country how dis
tinctly this principle was put into practice
in tho case of President Lincoln and his
great Secretary, William II. Seward. In
fact, this principle never was openly scorned
in our history except by President Grant.
He introduced the usage of making his Cabi
net a coterie; of choosing men to perform
the functions of great political offices?not
for their fitness or acquaintance with the
duties, but because they were personally
agreeable to himself. This is so much the
opposite to the system upon which our gov
ernment rests that a great orator happily
compared the President's plan in this re
spect to the plan of George III. This plan
was tho source of one-half the evils that
have troubled the government since, as in
George Ill.'s hands it produced still greater
evils in the English government.
In the present crisis, however, it i? not so
much that the President put in office will be
eager to get the assistance of experience and
capacity in the administration. That he will
need, whoever he is. But it is that as the sec
tional issue has reached an excessive promi- ;
nence in our politics, as it has made a grt at i
and bloody war, it will continue in Presi- i
denti.il elections an element of mistrust and |
uncertainty, and will therefore stimuluto !
each section to a renewed endeavor to se- '
cure for itself the great post of executive
authority, and these 'efforts will only be re- j
mitted. A harmonious concentration on a !
great man of one or another section will only '
be possible when the other sections shall I
receive tho guarantee of one of tlie great j
posts that are part and parcel of the oollec- ]
tivo executive office. Unless one section's !
support of the candidate of another section
is guarded by this condition it will withhold
that support,? and no groat leader can be
nominated; but an intrigue will be formed,
tho party nomination will be given to some
pygmy, ond the party will be beaten.
The Piper Murilera.
Tho ccfhfession of Piper, the murderer of j
Mabel Young?which the Hkjuu> Announced j
yesterday in advance of the other papers?? I
codioh npon the public with startling effect I
On the very eve of his confession a motion
had been made for a new trial, and only a
few weeks ago he had written a letter tilled
with protestations of his innocence. It was
a letter rich in Scriptural reminiscence,
abounding in pious quotations, and explain
ing his terrible positiou on the ground that
he had endeavored, in his cowardice, to es
cape the charge of murder by a falsehood.
This feeble defence failed. Yet it is to be
admitted that the circumstantial evidence
against Piper was not sufficient to convince
the public of his guilt. If be had been hanged
while declaring his innocenoe the people
might have supposed him to be tho victim of a
mistake. But, happily, any doubts of the
kind are extinguished. The man has not
only confessed that he murdered Mabel
Young in the belfry, but that he was the i
assailant of MnrjwTyncr and also the mur
derer of Bridget Landrcgan.
There can be little pity for this unhappy
man. Ho accuses himself of monstrosity, of
a thirst for blood and torture, which was in- j
flamed by opium and whiskey. This is a I
confession which, it is very plausibly said, is i
intended to convey the impression that his |
crimes were.tho result of insanity or uncon
trollable impulses, induced by intoxicating
drinks. But this story will not do. A few
weeks ago this heartless criminal had the
insolcnce to write a treacherous letter, tilled
with Sunday school expressions, in which
he professed his affection for children, and '
actually had the effrontery to lament over i
the death of Mabel Young. Now the con
temptible scoundrel admits that he killed
Mabel Young and Bridget Landregan, and
attempts to escape the rope on tho
plea that he was urged by an un
controllable desire for blood, inspired by
the influence of opium and rum. This plea
of irrt sponsible insanity will not excuse the
brutal and heartless assassin. lie has dis
played too much sanity in his own defenco
to be conside red a lunatic in his apologies.
If ever any one deserved to be put out of the
world it is, perhaps, this wretched being,
who, according to his own statement,
lias a thirst for blood, and, according to the
known facts, has an insatiable appetite for
the lives of innocent children. Even those
who are not in favor of capital punishment
in general, and who do not consider it a re
formatory agent in society, can hardly regret
the time when this hypocrite and monster,
the murderer of children, the assassin of the
innocent and pure, shall swing upon tho
gallows, and rid the world of one more
wretch who is until to live.
The Princk of Walks has started on his
homeward voyage from Lisbon, and will soon
arrive to enjoy the hospitalities of tho Eng
lish metropolis*
The Centennial BililbHIOB-Tfci Op*?
Ing To-Horrow.
Never, perhaps, Mince the workmen began
the Tower of Babel has there been bo much
energy and enthusiasm as is now seen in j
happy, nervous, expectant Philadelphia,
I "all in a tremble," if we may use the phrase,
I abont her Centennial Exhibition which is to
i open to-morrow. Althongh they have been
four years abont it, where so many things
are to be done mnch will be delayed until
the last moment. The tendency to procras
tinate is so attractive that we feel its influ
ence in all undertakings of this magnitude
and character. Our correspondents intorm
us that many of the departments are well ad
i vanced and that the opening day will witness
! (\ much more complete display than wbb seen
' in Vienna. There is some comfort in this,
although we could wish that many of our
Americans had been further ahead. They
.have none of the excuses that are found
sometimes in distance, the danger of sea
tnivel and the difficulty of exciting the in
terest in a foreign country. America should
have been nearly as bright and new as a pin
a week before the opening day. As it
now stands we are in a tumbled
up condition. Some of the exhibits are
behind and some ahead. Some of the
special displays are very fine, others have no
attractiveness. Some aro representations of
skill and taste and industry, others mere
catchpenny advertisements. The foreign
nations aro generally rich and unique. We
are glad to hear that the South American ?
countries aro doing so well. These nations, j
with their most interesting civilization, who j
represent an influence on this continent as (
important as our own, will make a finer dis- J
play in Philadelphia than in London, Paris !
or Vienna. We wish that Mexico were fur- |
ther advanced, but before many days aro
over we are in hopes our sister Republic will
show us something of the glory which gave
their nation a splendor outdating that of the
Saxon North.
? Next to the United States the country
holding the most important place in the
Exhibition is Great Britain. The English |
government has shown a magnanimity and
generosity in this Centennial affair worthy
of special recognition. No one presumed
for a moment that the English govern
ment would do anything that was
not sensible and hearty in an ex
hibition of an international character.
The interests of the two countries are too
varied and important to be slighted in behalf
of any sentiment that might exist as to the
centennial year and the event it commemo
rates. Speaking as Americans, wo think we
may say that there is no memory of a lmndred
years but what brings with it respect for the
valor and persistence of England, and
especially for the stubborn, high-spirited and
conscientious King who perilled his crown
and kingdom to save his American empire.
The English, so far from showing coldness and
indifference, have entered into our fair with
us much zeal as though it were under their
own and not an alien flag. If we note this
specially it is not in a spirit of wonder, but
of recognition. And why Bhould England j
not rejoice in the Centennial fair? In the
largest sense this is an English fair. As our
correspondent expressed it the other day,
Mother England sits within the sunlit palace
of glass and iron, her brood of colonies nestled
under her wings, her grandeur manifest to all
eyes, a living expression of the strength
of an Empire upon which the sun never sets.
But there is none of her colonies or posses
sions?Canada, with her fresh and sinewy
strength ; Australia, with her mountain of
gold, it* value summed up to a sixpence, or !
India, rich in gold and silk and gems?there I
is none of them whose history speaks with I
so much eloquence of the glory of England j
lis the United States. For we ows what we |
are as a free Christian people to the lessons j
wo learned from the venprablo Mother Land. |
Her presence in the Centennial palaco is a j
most gratifying event, and we are proud to
think that in all the essentials of a world's
fair her exhibition, in point of variety and
extent, is second only to our own.
As we have said, never since the Tower of
Babel has there been so busy a multitude as
the builders of the Centennial Exposition.
Wo are afraid, from what we hear in tho
newspapers, that it# experience will bo like
that of Babel in the trouble which
came from tho confusion of tongues.
Wo hear of clashing and trouble.
There aro complaints, mutinies, dis
sents. The government of the Exposition :
is three-headed, and the three heads are
General Hawley, General Goshorn and Mr.
Welsh. Gf course where there are throe
captains there is generally a council of quar
relsome commanders and a mutinous follow
ing. So wo havo controversies about the I
newspapers whose ' rights" are infringed, j
about the selling of liquor within the gates,
about Sunday and twenty other points. We
trust that as the direction have done so well
thus far there will bo no quarrels, no dis
sent. Let us have one celebration untainted
by scandal. What everybody wants is a good
Exhibition, and this would seem to be easy t
even to a three-headed commission. As to
the journalists who complain about "invaded j
rights," our advico to tho commission is ]
that they give every journalist the "right" to
pay his way and permit him to mind his
own business. This is all we ask for our
own part, and beg the coram ssion to give
themselves no trouble about us whatever.
To-morrow, however, will be the great
t1?v?the day which has filled so large a
space in the imagination of tho peojfle of
Philadelphia and the nation. From all we
learn the display will be much more ad
vanced, and in many respects much more j
attractive and interesting than has ever been |
seen before. We congratulate our sister
city and our sister State upon what their j
citizens have done. It is a triumph the ,
credit of which is largely their own, but in j
the honor of which we are protid to share.
The Berokn Explosion.?Tho strikers at
the Bergen tunnel lie on the Jersey City J
bluffs, smoke their pipes and accuse the
newspapers of meanness in suggesting that
some of them exploded tho magazine last
Saturday night. But they are wrong. They
are justly suspected of this terrible crimc.
They have attempted to control non-strikers
by violence ; they havo driven men away
from tho work needed to support their fam
i ilies; they have threatened to effect their
ends by murder. Suspicion naturally at
taches to them, and it would be wise for
those who were not principals in the ex
plosion to make a clean breast of the affair
at once.
Iwretsry Flih on tit* Extradition
Treaty.
Mr. Fish's long despatch, which we print
this morning, is even a greater "sockdol
eger" in its way than President Grant's ro
cent Message in reply to the inquisition of
the House into his absence from the seat of
government. The two documents resemble
each other in a crushing array ot facts which
renders the opposing opinion ridiculous ;
bnt Secretary Fish has outdone his chief in
handling this most effective of controversial
weapons. Mr. Fish's answer to the British
demand is a rtponm nans rtpliqw, or, at
least, wo do not see how any pos
sible ingenuity can even blunt tho im
pression it is calculated to make. It
puts the British government so palpa
bly in the wrong that the despatch
must produce an explosive effect when
it comes to be read in England. It
will give such u handle to Mr. Disraeli's
adversaries in Furliament that it may lead to
the overthrow of his Ministry, already weak
ened by other blunders. Be that as it may,
Mr. Fish has demolished the British pre
tence as to the meaning of tho treaty of 1842
as completely as any unfounded pretence
can be demolished by facts and argument.
The language of the treaty is plain enough,
but it so happens that it has been judicially
construed by so many tribunals and so many
able experts in this branch of public law
that Mr. Fish has a tremendous advantage
in the argument beyond that which he would
possess if this point were now raised for the
first time and he were not supported by a great
body of adjudications and authorities. The
ingenuity of astute criminal lawyers retained
by the defence in dosperate cases may al
ways be relied on to discover every crotchet
or sophistry which may be turned to the ad
vantage of their clients, and it has been ar
gued over and over again in behalf of pris
oners destitute of any other defence that
they could be tried under the treaty of 1842
only for the specific offence for which they
were extradited. This plea, as Mr. Fish
shows, has been overruled again and again
by the courts of justice, not only of this
country, but of England, of Upper Canada,
of Lower Canada and of New Bruns
wick. Mr. Fish cites the cases and
gives the names of .the judges, and the
uniformity of decision among tribunals
so various is a conclusive proof that the
treaty does not admit of any reasonable dif
ference of interpretation. Beside the con
currence of enlightened and responsible
courts of justice, Mr. Fish has other testi
mony of almost equal weight This subject
was investigated several years ago by an able
committee of Parliament, who summoned
before them the most skilful experts in this
branch of inquiry, and on the point in ques
tion the same view was held which has been
affirmed by the tribunals of Great Britain
and her North American provinces, nswell as
by the courts and law officers of this coun
try. Beside this strong array of authorities,
which Mr. Fish recites in detail, he calls at
tention to the fact that soon after the act of
1870 our government addressed a note to
Sir Edward Thornton, informing him that it
understood the twenty-seventh section of
that act as excepting the treaty of 1842
from its operation, and that our extradition
arrangements with Great Britain remained
on their former basis. As the British govern
ment took no exception to that note -we were
entitled to regard its failure to object as
acquiescence; and it is surprising that it now
suddenly rejects all that it has heretofore
assented to on that subject.
What is the motive for this strange somer
set? We hinted at it a week or two since
in so significant a way that one of our contem
poraries indiscreetly called upon Congress to
investigate us and find out the facts of which
we seemed to be in possession. If Congress
wants to investigate anybody let it summon
Mr Fish, for it is evident from this despatch
that he is acquainted with the same facts at
which the Herald hinted. He, indeed, ex
presses himself with the same caution which
we thought it prudent to observe, but the
substance of his intimations is identical '
with ours. Referring to the case of Lawrence,
Mr. Fish says:?"It is supposed that prose
cution of these cases might possibly disclose i
names on either side of the Atlantic in con- j
nection with the alleged irauds not yet '
brought before the public." Stripped of its !
diplomatic reserve, this is a suggestion,
almost a charge, that the exposures which !
might attend the trial of Lawrence are the
reason for the sudden and astonishing
change of attitude by the Disraeli Ministry.
When this is proved to be the fact the fall of
that Ministry will be only a question of j
hours, or, at most, of days, m>t of weeks.
The Central Parle.
As we have now n now management
in the Fnrk Department it may be
well to revive the question whether the
Bplendid grans plots of the Central Park
should not be thrown open to the public
and devoted this summer to the recreation
of the people instead of being kept for show
and lor the profit, to somebody or other, of
sheep grazing. In all the parks of Europe
the people are at liberty to walk over the
grass and the children are permitted to make
the grass plots their playgrounds. ? Why
should we not have the same privileges in
New York? What satisfaction is it to tho
tens of thousands who visit the Central Park
to see the tempting verdure and to be met at
every turn by the notice "Keep off the
grass?" Let us have something like com
mon sense In our park management and let
every inch of the ground in Central Park
be devoted to the use of tho masses. The
Park is of no value to tho people if it is to
be nn iron bound parade - round in which
tho visitors are to be restricted to the hot,
dusty gravel paths, and in which every child
whose exuberant spirits leads it to make a
plunge among the daisies is to be subjected
to the rebuke of a Limerick gentleman in
gray uniform.
Miss Dickinson's Debit.?The story of
Miss Anna Dickinson's first appearance on
the stage last night is told in our Boston
correspondence. 8he was received by an
exceptional audienoe, not inferior to that
which welcomed and supported the prouiis*
tion of Mr. Tennyson's "Queen Mary" in
London, and has no cause to complain of
the result of her enterprise. But it is evi
dent that Miss Dickinson did not achieve ?
genuine sndcess as an Actress, although her
abilities as an author conld not be entirely
hidden. The stage is a strict mistress. It
is like Rome, which could not b?
conquered in a day. The stage exacts long
servitude, as Rachel required a courtship ol
tw ice seven years from Jacob, and no special
preparation in other professions will com
pensate for the lack of direct experience.
Miss Dickinson seems to have been intek
lectual, but ineffective. Yet let it be com
sidered that last night was her first appear,
ance, and that it would hardly be generooa
to absolutely judge her by one performano*.
Do in Pedro.
It is to be regretted that our illo?
trious visitor has not been able to devot*
more time to his visit to the United States,
but the cause unfortunately lies not withii
the province of human will to alter. Hit
Majesty's present voyage has been chiefly
undertaken with a view to the re-estab
lishment of the health of the Empress.
Hur Majesty, by the advice of her physi
cians, is about to seek restoration to health
at the waters of Gastein. The time ap
points by her medical advisers for taking
the waters is toward the end of July, and
Their Majesties' departure from the United
States will havo to be regulated with a view
to the arrival of the Empress at the German
waters at that time.
His Majesty was, therefore, reluctantly
compelled to put off his visit until
such time as the seasons would allow
Her Majesty to como into the northern
latitudes without risk. It would, however,
be a mistake to assume that His Majesty's tour
through the country is unproductive because
made rapidly. The facilities everywhere
placed at his disposal by the prominent
manufacturers enable him to see more in
a given time than could any ordinary trav
eller. Then, His Majesty has made it his
custom through life to acquaint himself with
the various industrial processes in every
branch of manufactures, and therefore, when
new methods are presented to his observa
tion he is able to form an intelligent opinion
without the need of that lengthened examina
tion which would be indispensable to one
whose powers of observation were lesa
developed. There is, therefore, bnt littli
danger that our illustrious visitor will carrj
away unsound opinions as to the social 01
industrial organization of our people.
Hitherto, it is true, he has seen little ol
their social life, but that was owing to the
necessity of completing his California trip
before the oponing of the Centennial Exhibi
tion.
Although desirous of avoiding anything
like public receptions during his stay in this
country His Majesty took an early oppor
tunity to distinguish between public and
social receptions. On several occasions he
has said tliat, though he would steadfastly
refuse 'to be spoeched at and feted by
public bodies, he would willingly accept
such invitations to American society as
might bo offered to him as a Brazilian gen
tleman whose name was not unknown to the
outside world when the acceptance of such
invitations would not interfere with the
more important work of studying the in
dustrial progress of our people. So far Hi*
Brazilian Mujesty has shown himself thor
oughly consistent in his action. He is tha
first crowned monarch who has visited
the young Republic, and has known
how to win the respect and esteem
of our citizens by the more than repub
lican simplicity of his life, as well as the
sound common sense with which he bIiows
himself to be endowed. We venture, how
ever, to hope that during the time that still
remains to him His Majesty will find fre
quent opportunity to study the social life
of our people in the homes of our citizens.
On riiK Fence?The poor liberal republi
cans! They had better get down on one
side or another, or they will havo to sit on
the rail till the end of the campaign. This
is not the right time for hesitation.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Mullett is in Europe.
Cougr< s>ia?n Kelly is economical.
Brigham's ton, John Young, lias but one wife.
Postmaster Jowell't (laughter ta to marry a poor
! young man.
Sick Chicago babies will have a hospital ship on tht
ake this year.
From all indications spring bonnets will be followed
by local storms.
An old master and hi* ex slave sit together as mem
bers of the South Carolina Legislature.
Cholera la carrying off Ht. Louis pigs, and the Repub
lican lean that it wtll soon los*? its lunny column.
At last oik' may buy live cents' worth of something la
California, the silver balf-dimo having been Introduced.
The spirit or Yasquez, tho dead California bandit, hat
revisted earth, and is throwing stones at honses in
broad daylight.
A Scotch writer savs that It Is not so bad to steal ?
rose iut to steal tobacco. There, we forgive tbe Chi
cago TrilmtK. It lias good taste, any way.
A Toulouse oyster opener found a fine pearl In ao
oyster, and the customer Insisted that pearl, oyster and
shell* nil belonged to him. Ho appeals to the law.
The SL l'aitl Jtf4palch begins an article on Belknap
with this heading"Belknap a Martyr?Tbe blonde
Secretary the victim of conspiring and doviliah demo
crats, but lie hud his Angers in many political plea"
Mr. flyer*, the wealthy editor of tho ftockg Mountain
Xm, having openly coafoseod his part in a recent
scandal case, comes oat and asks people not to blame
religion lor it, becauso ht never belonged to tb?
Church.
His Kmlnenot Cardinal VcCloakey is still at Sotnn
Hall Collage, Orange, N. J. Though still very loeble h<
Is rapidly improving. He rides !or nn hour every day
and takes occasional walks around the college grounds,
lie U not expected to leave Orange until June.
Mm* Florence Nightingale points out tbst great cart
must lie taken by pvblio nurses not to demoralize and
pauperize lamilies; that n licu a man is given todrlnk b?
may t>e tadii' ed to deny himaolf to help a sick wllei
whereas if everything Is provided lor her he will only
have additional temptation^ to self.indulgence.
Pittsburg Di*patch:?General l'lcasenton was ono of
J the most dashing cavalry officer* or the wir. But
peace having come tbe General ha- tnrned his attention
to blue glass. Uiue glass is a Tery excellent thing when
taken in moderation, but when taken in such large
dotes as to effect the mental vision tho case becomes at
; litt le alarming.
The Omaha Hft has the following in regard to ex
gen stor Tipton, whoso dual conversion to tbe demo
cratic rrecd is announced by the Omaha HermUi:
. '?Aoeordlug to .Mr. Tipton's son-in-law, Henry Atkia.
son, I ho true cause of Tipton 'e rupluro with Presides
Grant was the refusal of the President to promote Tip
ton's son, who held a United States Consulship at
| Bradford, Kngland, which goot to show tha bait
hypocrisy ot this sbam reformer when he prated about
| acpotuu.''