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MEW YORK. TUESDAY, JUNE 20. 187#*
bYom our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the weather to-day trill be warm and
clear or partly cloudy.
During the summer months the Hzbald will
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of twenty-Jive cents per week, free of postage.
Notice to Country Newsdealers.?For
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this office. Postage tree.
Wall Street Yesterday.?A decline oc
curred in the coal carrying stocks. The
ether speculative markets closed a trifle
higher. Gold sold at 112 1-2, with a few ex
ceptional sales at 112 5-8. Money on call
was freely supplied at 2 and 2 1-2 per cent
Government bonds were, strong. Railway
bonds steady. Foreign exchange quiet
Two Explosions and a commercial failure
are among yesterday's news items from
Great Britain.
"The More the Merrier."?The city of
Lyons, France, is to send its own delegation
of workmen to America. They will be
astonished, perhaps, to see what we have
been doing in silks when they reach Phila
delphia.
Military Polo Matches have been played
at Brighton, England, with great success.
As schools of horsemanship and dexterity in
tho uso of weapons by mounted men the
polo club cannot bo rivalled, and should bo
introduced into our system of cavalry train*
ing
The Lighting of tiib Piers is suggested
by the Dook Commissioners, and the Board
of Aldermen are already moving in the mat
ter. Such a project is a good one, and if
carried out will nff rd considerable protec
tion to life as well as to property exposed
along the river front.
Fires in Russia of large extent are con
stantly among tho reports from the Empire
of the Czar. They are mostly incendiary
and are attributed to the socialists,who take
this sinister method of protesting against
property in a country where the people
buve no voice in its affairs.
The Opportunity of examining Mr.
'August Belmont's fine art collection
should not be thrown away upon the public,
who, in paying a visit to Mr. Belmont, can
at the same time aid the Centennial Loan
Exhibition for tho Academy of Design and
Metropolitan Art Museum.
England's "Talisman."?The determina
tion of Great Britain to protect her subjects
and uphold tho honor of her flag has a fresh
instance in Earl Dcrby'B vigorous dealing
with the Peruvians in the matter of the im
prisonment of the captain and mate of the
filibustering Talisman.
Yale and Harvard. ?These old rival col
leges are preparing vigorously for their boat
race on the Connecticut River, at Spring
field. on tte last day of this month. The
history of the challenge and its acceptance,
together with some analytic observations
upon Harvard's crew, will be fonnd in an
other colnmn.
The London Coaching Club and its hand
some array of drags continue to form one
ot the attractions of the English metropolis.
Like horse racing tuid polo, this amusement
has its advantages in developing a taste for
improved horse flesh, which must result bene
ficially on the blood and breeding of the
roadsters. *
The Proration System in tho Methodist
Episcopal Church is occupying the attention
of that religious body, and calls forth a varied
expression of opinion from tho ministers.
The subject is one of considerable impor
tance to the advancement of the interests of
the Church, and, judging from the arguments
used at the conference of ministers, will ro
ceivo all the attention it deserves.
"A Hurried Gash With a Hasty Knife"
in the hands of George Knight oost tho un
fortunate and quarrelsome Joseph Bennett
bis life in * drunken brawl. Tho Court,
deeming the blow an unpremeditated one,
sentenced the prisoner to a year's imprison
ment, and this short term of punishment is
the price of a human life. This is a lucky
ekfc&pe for the homicide, but if the victim
had not spent that quarter of a dollar on bad
whiskey he might have been enjoying the
life to-day which he secrificcd "for the
drinks."
Tit* C*aT?atle? At Bt IjOwU.
The democrat* hare the advantage of
profiting by the example of the republicans.
The Convention at Cincinnati i* a lesson to
St. Louis. 80 far as success is concerned it
will bo hard to do better than Cincinnati.
The rcpublicnns made a ticket which at once
unites ovcry wing of the party. We may
call it a small-boor, milk-and-water, half-and
half ticket, a union of mediocrities, but
when wc remember what antagonisms were
to be reconciled, what interests were to be
considered, what enmities were to bo settled,
wo cannot but congratulate the republicans
upon their success. It is a great deal to
hare a ticket which satisfies James Russell
Lowell and George Spencer, Gcorgo Will
iam Curtis and Doss Shepherd. Here is the
great triumph of Cincinnati. The demo
crats have the same problem at St. Louis.
Four years ago the democrats made their
nominations upon tho theory that there was
a vast, restless, dissatisfied reform clement
in the republican party which only needed
reconciliation. The result was the Greeley
nomination. But no such fancy animates
the leaders now. Tho Convention will try
no liberal republican graft upon tho old dem
ocratic tree. The fact that John Cochrane
is about tho only available plant willing to
be graftod may have something to do with
this conclusion, but we think it a sound one.
The democrats must win or lose this battle
with democratic loaders and upon demo
cratic ground. They must give the country
a platform which moans reform in the ad
ministration, a recognition of the war, the
absolute integrity of the credit, the protec
tion of all classes under the law. The aim
of the republicans will be to divert the can
vass from reform to side issues. They will
present two points?tho shotgnn and tho
Fope. They do not appear in tho platform,
but the whole temper of the Convention
shows that the canvass, ro far as the repub
licans are concerned, wilt depend upon two
issues. The first is to arouse the war feel
ing, on the ground that what the Southern
people failed to win with the rifle they are
striving to win with the shotgun. The sec
ond is an appeal to the suspicious, ever
active and aggressive spirit of religious
hatred, which the nomination of General
Hayes as Governor invoked in Ohio, and of
which he is the chief representative in the
republican party.
The republicans will not meddle with the
financial question beyond a certain point.
If they can make their platform mean one
thing in Ohio and another in Massachusetts
they will be satisfied. The money question
is a sword that cuts both ways in'both parties.
If tho democrats have William Allen the re
publicans have Willam D. Kelley. Ihe soft
monoy men in both parties have had a con
vention, and, as they are fanatics, there is
no knowing what they will do before tho
canvass is over. The leaders of the two
parties, tho men who seek in this canvass
only a scramble for power, would bo very
glad to postpone any question that involves
a principle. The republicans have shown
more discretion on this point than their
rivals. They have tolerated the widest dif
ference on the money issue. In Philadel
phia Mr. Kelley expects and will no
doubt receive the regular republican
nomination for Congress. But when
Mr. Allen ran for Governor in Ohio
the democrats in New York and in tho
East openly opposed him and rejoiced in
his defeat. Even as astute a lender as Fer
nando Wood publicly and with indignation
denied a report that he had contributed or
intended to contribute a dollar to the elec
tion of Mr. Allen. We pointed out at
the time the morass into which our dem
ocratic friends were rushing. Tho Western
democrats have never forgotten that enmity, j
The Cincinnati Enquirer, one of the boldest
and ablest newspapers in the West, has be- i
come the organ of this feeling, so that the
democrats meet in St. Loui6 menaced with
even a more dangerous mutiny than
that which menaced the republicans
at Cincinnati under Curtis and Dana.
tIio republican mutiny found a vent
in its support of Bristow and is
satisfied with Hayes. The democratic mu
tiny demands Allen, and the problem is,
How con it be satisfied ? In this revolt three
States will sympathize?Ohio, Indiana and
Pennsylvania. If we are to accept Colonel
McClure as on oracle, as these States go so will ,
go the Union. Pennsylvania from its demo
cratic side is soft money?its last Shite Con
vention was in that direction, lndinna is tho |
fountain of the 6oft money sentiment, and
we have many respectable mn in New York
who would bo glad to follow Mr. Cooper in
the same direction.
How far will this mutiny extend? Gen
eral Butler, Thurlow Weed and Peter
Cooper?all of them keen observers -have
been interviewed, and have expressed their
belief that there will l?e a secession from tho
Convention under certain circumstances.
We see nothing to justify that opinion. The
frionds of the murdered Alien -especially
those among them like Pendleton, McLean
uud others who regard Tilden as his mur
tlcrer will go to K?. Louis breathing fury.
But iiow tar will it go ? Will it bo satisfied
with tho destruction of Tilden, or will it de
mand a soft money platform ? Wo do not fear
a revolt. The democratic party broke at
; Charleston on a man. and they will not run
I that risk now. Behind Douglas and Brock
in ridge there wore the coming issues of the
war. Behind Tildou and Allou is a genii
| nirnt which few understand, and al?ont
I which it would be very hard to excite any
I political enthusiasm one way or another.
When it comes down to a question of har
mony and all pulling together, when the
gravo leaders ot the winning crowd have
their final midnight couforence, two or
threo Oabiuot portfolios can be "placed
where they can do the mojt good," just as
they were in 18M by Lincoln's managers at
Chicago, and, if the truth were ouly known,
as it wilt bo in time, as they were placed in
Cincinnati the other day by the managers of
Hayes. We see no revolt m St. Louis. A
party fighting for power will never
split for mere revenge. The money
question is nothing like the slavery
qnestion. Much hunger and many years
absence from tho fioshpots bavo mado the
democracy conservative. When human na
ture finds itself between roast beef an!
the Lord's Prayer it is apt to
i prefer the beet Thcee democrats all
need each other. If there is to be
a new administration, Tilden and Bayard,
Allen and Hendricks, Thnrman and Sey
mour will all be necessary to it. A na
tional convention is- really a struggle for
twenty offices, and not two. The nomination
of Hayes, if successful, decides the high
departments of the government and the chief
missions. There was as much of a slate in
volved in that break for Hayes as there will
be at St Louis. Jt is more of a scramble for
precedence than for place. A dozen gentle
men start out for the Presidency, and any
one of them wrll be content to win the Post
master Generalship or the Spanish mission.
The defeat of Blaine at Cincinnati makes
him Secretary of State under Hayes, just
as the defeat of Tilden at St. Louis would
make him the Secretary of State under the
democrat who beats him if the democrats
win.
Just now the democratic problem, like that
of the republicans, is to take the man that
wins. Nothing will corno from the threat
ened Ohio revolt. The lenders of the party
will have lost their cunning if they cannot
pacify Ohio in a ten minutes' chat behind a
parlor d?or. There is more than one duster
of grapes on the vine, as Ohio politicians,
with whom the grape is a growing industry,
will be among tho first to see. And after
sixteen ycare wandering in the deserts of the
opposition thoro are very few democratic
statesmen who will not be satisfied with
much less than the Presidency. The demo
crats have to nominate a ticket that will
grow. They must not underrate what tho
republicans have done. It is well enough
to say that they have pioked out two of the
scraggiest ponies in the stable; that they
have put aside Sherman, Morton, Conkling,
Logan, Blaine for one who was only up
to Grant's measure of a local Treasury
offioe; that they ignored Curtis, Dana,
Hartranft, Morgan for a Vice President
who was never known outside of his
district Concede this, and show how
much better any of us could have done, but
the pregnant fact remains that this is a nega
tive, growing ticket, hard to break, as round
as a hickory nut As Presidents go now we
need not quarrel with Hayes. The demo
crats will do well if they can find a man who
will unite them as firmly as Hayes has united
the republicans. As the canvass now looks
Mr. Tilden is ahead. Unless he should be
strangled by the two-third rule he will have
the majority of the Convention. Even if there
should be a two-third rule there is no such
minority opposed to him as was opposed to
Mr. Douglas. If Uncle Samuel crosses the
majority line he may be called the winner.
But his supremacy is challenged, as was that
of Blaine at Cincinnati. There are dark
horses on his flanks, around and about
him, who may ride him down at
the last moment, as Blaine was ridden
down by Hayes, Morton and Conkling.
It is difficult to see from what direction they
are coming. ' The St. Louis Convention will
be largely nninstructed. The South will
come almost as a unit for the man who can
win. The same is true of New England. If
Pennsylvania throws off New York and goes
with tho West then there will be a strong
barrier of States to oppose. If tho
Southern leaders see victory in Til
den they can and will nominate
him. If they have any doubt on that
point they will follow their instincts to tho
West, renew the alliance they formed on the
inflation issue, and give us a ticket of about
the same political and mental calibre as the
milk and water nomination of Hayes and
Wheeler. With two such tickets opposed
the canvass will be as tranquil as a Quaker
meeting, and we can give our enthusiasm
to the Centennial.
The British Crart* and Extradition.
The Louisville forger has followed his
Boston brother out of prison in parsuance
of England's determination to have an ex
tradition treaty with America that will em
body the limitations of the act of 1870. It has
been clearly demonstrated that the law in
question specially excepted tho Ashburton
Treaty from these limitations, but we aro
now for the socond time presented with tho
extraordinary picture of the Attorney Gen- |
oral of England offering no resistance to the
discharge of fugitive criminals amenable to
extradition under a solemn treaty. The
! ground on which resistance was first made
i to the surrender of Winslow was the
I act of 1870, but under the able showing by
i Mr. Fish of what tho law really covers and
j does not cover that ground has been abun
: doned, and tho British refusal now simply
| means "I won't" The excuse of Sir John
I nolker about the nndiscerned meaning of
tho violated treaty was mere moonshine. In
the absence of legislation forbidding officials
to carry out the provisions ol' a treaty ns
usually administered the rule of long estab
lished precedent should bo imperative. Mu
nicipal legislation by one party to limit the
scopo of a treaty may lead to serious re
sults in certain cases, and is at that
party's risk ; but the Attorney Gen
eral could not even urge such legislation as
nn excuse for his inaction, and we see the
strange Bight of a high British court of jus
tice placing tho blundering stubbornness of
a Cabinet officer above the law of the land and
letting the prisoner go. This phase of the
extradition coses deserves more than passing
comment. _
DcniNo tux Oun Si.avk Days the divines
of tho South were not conspicuous for de
votion to the cause of human freedom in
a block skin. They bad grown up under
the shadow of ths "peculiar institution,"
and never saw fit to qnarrel with their bread
and butter. We do not suppose that the
testimony of the Episcopal clergy of Bor
bados as to the Communistic aspirations of
' the blacks of that island will be given much
I weight by tho English Colonial Office. They
I are naturally as ranch in tho hands
of the planters as their brethren of
the Southern States were, and are doubtless
inoculated with tho West Indian religion
that any idea, save that of laboring in tho
sugar fields at tho cheapest possible rote, is
sinful in a black. Wittingly or otherwise,
' tliev have been made the tools of tho polit
' ical party which opposes Governor Hen
| nessy, snd, although they do not accuse him
I of being responsible for the black Barbadian
j equivalent of "forty acres and a mule," they
' m.iko a sly blow at him over the tnrned
i heads of the negroes. The cloth never looks
| well when disguising the politician.
Tht Vow JTerooy D?lt|?tIoB to St.
Lrali ? Batkwlum for Gororaor
Parker.
We print interviews with nil the members
of the New Jersey delegation. It is a strik
ing tribute to the character of Governor
Parker that the democrats of his own State,
who know him so well, think him the fittest
standard bearer of the party for the great
political contest which is now opening. For
aught we can see his ohances for the demo
cratic nomination are quite as favorable as
were those of Governor Hayes on the other
side a week in advance of the Cincinnati
Convention. Mr. Parker would have all the
negative and more than all the positive ad
vantages of the republican candidate. Like
Hayes he has escaped the envy and jealousy
of rivals. Like Hayes his personal charac
ter is above reproach and his official record
unsullied. Like Hayes he would be cor
dially accepted by the supporters of more
prominent candidates if the success of their
favorites should be found impracticable.
Governor Parker's forward and zealous loy
alty during the war, the steadiness with
which, as Governor of New Jersey, he kept
the democratic party of that State firm for
the Union, and his admirablo promptness
and efficiency in furnishing troops at every
call of President Lincoln, put it out of the
power of the republicans to shake publio
confidence in hi* unfaltering loyalty to the
Union. In this respect he is more abso
lutely invulnerable than any other demo- j
crntic candidate, even including General i
Hancock, whose unsullied lustre as a Union j
soldier cannot bo disputed. The difference !
is that General Hancock, as a faithful sol- '
dier bound to obey orders, had not the Bamo
freedom of action as the Governor of a State,
whereas Mr. Parker's splendid exhibi
tion of loyalty was entirely voluntary and
unconstrained. If a candidate is to be
nominated at St. Louis with a view to spike
the republican guns Mr. Parker's resplen
dent record as a war Governor puts him not
only in the first rank, but in the foremost
place in that rank.
Another strong point in favor of Gov
ernor Parker is the soundness of his opin
ions on the currency question, combined
with the fact that he has given no offence to
the Western democrats. He has no advan
tage over Governor Tilden in the correctness
of his views; but, unlike Governor Tilden,
he has not incurred the deep and bitter hos
tility of the Ohio democrats. If they are
compelled to accept a hard money candidate
they can support Governor Parker with a
smaller sacrifice of pride than would bo re
quired of them if the Convention should
nominate a man who has aroused all the an
tagonism and stirred all the venom of the
soft money democrats. The Cincinnati Con
vention, by its weak declaration on the cur
rency, has put it out of the power of the re
publicans to make any politioal capital as a
hard money party. There is, accordingly,
no necessity for the St Louis Convention to
emphasize its devotion to hard money by
selecting an aggressive advocate of
specie payments. Governor Parker's views
are decided enough to meet the require
ments of the canvass, and he has a better
chance than any other candidate for har
monizing the dissentient democracy of the
East and West on this difficult question.
These ore the strong points of Governor
Parker's canvass; but still his chances for
the democratic nomination depend on the
inability of the leading candidates to get the
support of two-thirds of the Convention.
If the two-thirds rule should defeat Gov
ernor Tilden and his leading rivals Gov
ernor Parker seems to have the fairest pros
pect of coming in at the end of the race as
the successful dark horse. But if Governor
Tilden should be within eighteen votes of
the requisite two-thirds the New Jersey
delegation will come to his rescue and give
him the nomination. So far as they express
any second choice their unanimous second
choice is Tilden.
The Progress of Materialism.
The Catholic Bishop of Orleans, Felix
Dupanloup, is also a life Senator, and his
utterances, therefore, have a double value,
i for he speaks not only us a cleric but as a
' politician. It is. however, true that this
mingling of functions, which tlio spirit of
the age regards more and moro as incongru
ous, tends to take away from the authority
of what he lias to say of a purely religious
nature. Ho has written a pamphlet, styled
"Whither Are Wo Going?" which, a short
cable despatch says, "endeavors to show that
society and religion aro in the greatest peril
through the triumphant progress of atheism
and materialism." This is not by any means
a new cry, although we have no doubt that
the acute mind of the great French cleric
will have presented it in a very striking
form. The progress of materialism is, in
deed, undeniable, but the question of how
far society^ imperil led thereby is one which
must be Wren out of the heat of politics to
meet with fair consideration. That it imperils
religion goes without saying if the progress is
admitted to be great With M. Dupanloup
it is evidently a politico-religious question,
and its discussion now will be attributed to
the defeat of the monarchists in tlio French
elections, the victorious republicans being
held by their enemies to reprosent triumph
ant materialism. How unfair this may be
we shall not attempt to discuss at present,
beyond stating that among the monarchists
of Franco the progress of materialism is
only the less marked becauso it is veiled
under indiffurentism.
The danger to society from materinlism
nud atheism lies not so much in their being
the professions of certain individuals ns
that, unchained by any moral code of their *)
own, they might, if adopted by the ignorant,
be held to absolve them from morality alto
gether. There may be nothing in thfe rejec
tion of a personal God, or a belief only in
the physical manifestations of nature by un
alterable laws ns opposed to inspired ac
counts of tho economy of the universe, to
i drive a man into dishonesty or any other
crimo against society, unless it is admitted
that the fear of a hot hereafter and tho
anxiety for an eternal reward in the next
world are the only motives that can avail
to keep a man in the path of rectitude.
But it is eminently- a subject for the di
vines of the present day to grapple
with. When the Evangelical Alliance
met in thia city three yeais ?s?
W# commented upon the fact that only
one address of any importance directed
against the progress of materialism was de
livered, and that by a German doctor. ' It
has been the fashion to say that atheism
gained ground only in Catholio countries,
where liberal minds revolted against its ex
travagant pretensions to infallibility, but
Protestant Germany is in reality its head
quarters, and a great many Protestants
would be astonished to And that in their joy
over the attacks of Bismarck upon the Ger
man ultramontanes they have been taking
part morally in a war which gains most of its
anti-Catholic force from the enemies of all
religions. In England materialism claims
men of the highest social and scientiflo in
fluence, and in America its forces are
far from unfelt. Here, we submit, is work
for the divines of all creeds. What M.
Dupanloup says to-day was said by Professor
Christlieb three years ago, if not in the same
iorm, at least with the same object, and in a
few years at furthest it is likely to be the
subject on which all Christian sects shall
approach unity in striking at a common foe.
At present recriminations between Prot
estants and Catholics are the order of the
day. Say the Protestants 'Catholicism
forces men into atheism by The law of ex
tremes." Say the Catholics:?"Protestant
ism leads to materialism like steps down a
ladder."
Tli* Caldwell Despatch?An Infamous
Afklr.
Tho republican party has reason for
gratitude, not unmingled with terror, at its
narrow escape from Mr. Blaine as its Presi
dential candidate. The notorious Caldwell
despatch, which he so fiercely assailed Mr.
Knott on the floor of the House for suppress
ing, is proved to be a shameless and un
scrupulous trick for practising upon the
committee. Mr. Knott's suspicions of its
genuinoness, which induced him to with
hold it, are fully justified by the facts, now
that they have become known. That de
spatch was telegraphed from this country to
London, in order to be cabled back, for the
purpose of imposing on the committee
and deceiving the country. Its skulk
ing concocter did not dare to sign it with his
name nor to address it by name to Caldwell.
It was sent from the Western Union
building, in this city, addressed
to "Favo," in London, subscribed
"Philadelphia," with this direction:?
"Cable this immediately to chairman
House Judiciary Committee, Washington."
What followed was an exact draft of the
London telegram received by Mr. Knott.
This is one of the basest fabrications ever
perpetrated, and it will cover with ineflace
able infamy every man who was a party to it
or an accomplice in it Its detection and
exposure are due to Mr. Hewitt, whose inti
mate knowledge of th6 telegraph business,
from his having been the president of one of
the cable companies, enabled him to direct
the investigation with the requisite skill for
uncovering this scandalous fraud. We trust
that its skulking authors and all their accom
plices may be detected and put in the
pillory of public contempt.
It is clearly the work of Mr. Blaine's
friends, and there is a strong presumption
that it was done with his knowledge. The
fact that he knew all about it before Mr.
Knott, to whom it was addressed, and the
two or three gentlemen to whom he had men
tioned it disclosed its existence, is a strong
circumstance against Mr. Blaine. His ac
quaintance with the transaction was so minute
that he surprised and almost oonfounded
Mr. Knott, by telling in the House the sub
stance of its contents and the very hour
when it had been received. Mr. Blaine's other
attempts to tamper with witnesses and to
manufacture or suppress evidence, seem
small matters in comparison with this. Even
his method of procuring his letters from
Mulligan is less disgraceful. This extraor
dinary and astounding transaction justifies
the suspicion that the Mulligan letters were
not read by Mr. Blaine as they were written,
and that he garbled them to deoeive the
House and the country. The republican
party had an escape as lucky as it was nar
row when Mr. Blaine barely failed to get the
nomination at Cincinnati.
The Impeachment Trial in the Senate, it
is now decided, will proceed on the 6th of
July and not bo adjourned until November.
To this order is added the proviso that the
trial "can only proceed while Congress is in
session." This proviso opens the door for
another contest in which the majority in the
Senate will endeavor to force the minority in
the House to remain in Washington during
the summer;?something the democrats, who
want to work in their districts, will not like.
The whole trial has become so bound up in
the Presidential campaign that each party
will fight for effect before the country. The
republicans, who are anxious to punish Bel
knap for the good of the party, will have to
fight the Fabian tactics of Belknap's counsel.
The democrats, who can get as much politi
cal capital out of tho case if it is left un
finished by the republican judges as if
Belknap was convicted, are not likely to
help the Senate in its difficulty. For the
sake of public business it would be as well
to get the case out of the way before the fall,
but for a cool trial perhaps November would
suit all parties better.
A Fobgeb in the Toils or the Law.?
William H. Veltman and his alleged confed
erates are now under arrest for extensive
forgeries committed on Messrs. Bryce A
Smith, of New York. The forger was the
bookkeeper of the firm, and was of course
Intrusted with its banking business. This
trust he has betrayed and now stands com
mitted to Await tho action of the Grand
Jury. The circumstances surrounding
the crime, the cold blooded spirit of
thieving exhibited by the forger, who was
not in need, will weigh heavily against him
in court, but we regard his case as an addi
tional warning to merchants as to whom they
shall trust with their check books. The fre
quency of the crime of forgory suggests the
necessity of some change in the manner of
making checks, by which private marks
known only to the principals and to the
bank officials would defeat the forgers, no
matter whether they are confidential clerks
L or stnu%ers.
A Imll la til* Eaitora Q,a*sM*w.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times is a sagacious man, who can see as faf
into a stone wall as most people, who can
distinguish a hawk from a handsaw when
tho wind is southerly, and, given a common
place phrase, so it oomes from an Emperor,
can foreshadow European politics therefrom
as readily as a clairvoyant would tell a girl's
fortune on receiving a tress of her hair. Said
the Czar of all the Russias to a lady the
other day, "I hope they'll not bother me at
Jugenheim as they have at Ems." The
ingenious correspondent builds a mighty
structure upon this and draws conclusions
sound enough in themselves, but as little
dependent upon what the Czar said to the
lady as the nomination of Hayes last Friday
was upon the sometime famous remark made
by the Governor of North Carolina to the
Governor of South Carolina. The fact is the
correspondent wished to lot the world know
that he knew somebody who knew a lady
who had exchanged the time of day with a
live Czar, and ho used it to give iclat to the
dish of prognostications he had prepared
from solid facts, just as the ingenious child
of Erin made limestone broth by putting
the beef, potatoes and spices that
he had borrowed by way of sea
soning into the pot where his limestones
were simmering. It has been pretty plain
for some time past that the three Emperors
have been bound over to keep the peace of
Europe for a month or two at least. This
has been accomplished by Disraeli, who,
while the three Chancellors were busy eon
cocting plans in the North, by a supple
movement changed the aspect of things in
the East so completely that there was nothing
left for Russia, Austria and Germany to do
but sit quiet until they could judge how the
government of Mourad V. was likely to work.
Turkey with its new ruler, new promises
and new endeavors, backed by England, is
left to herself for the present, but that does
not mean that the trouble is all over.
The financial difficulty, the insurgent diffi
culty, the Principalities difficulty remain to
Turkey. She has a better opportunity of
dealing with them than a month ago seemed
possible, but her chances of surmounting
them are not more discernible. The insur
gents refuse to lay down their arms, having
tasted Turkish blood and Russian sympathy
and felt the breath of freedom in their
nostrils. The Principalities ask for territory
as the price of peace. The ups and downs
of Turkish bonds attest that the will and the
deed are two different things in the payment
of coupons. Meanwhile it is not to be
supposed that Gortschakoff will cease to
breed trouble, that Bismarck will pocket
the snubbing he has received or that Austria
cannot again be tempted into making dem
onstrations of her desire to stand before
Europe as a peacemaker. The outlook in
general is not so threatening as it was before
Abdul-Aziz went boating down the Bospho
rus one rainy night, but indications are not
wanting that new combinations dangerouf
to European peace are taking shape.
Thb Dodwell Murder famishes another
terrible temperanee lesson, for it was olearly
the result of the intemperate habits of the
mnrderer, who was laboring under the in
fluence of mania a potu when he oommitted
the crime. It presents one of those
coses in which the law finds it
difficult to distinguish between an mot
of deliberate slaughter and the fatal
violence of a man whose reason is destroyed
by the abuse of alcohol. The evidenoe gath
ered at the Coroner's inquest goes to show
that Dodwell was a peaceable and well dis
posed man except when under the influence
of strong drink, and there is an entire ab
sence of motive for the murder, so that the
tragedy presents a problem which can only
be solved by the most careful examination ol
the facts.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Spnrgcon is coming.
President Harrison came from Ohio.
Morjon worked longest and lost most
Ex-Governor Noycs thinks be did it alL
Ex-Senator Dooltttlo says that Hayes is strong
A Kentucky double-yolked egg hatched out two
chicks.
Sam Bowles says that Cockling was tbo host of
the lot
Tbero was s time when even Belknap was not
known.
Tom Hnrphy was so chagrined over the loss of Conk
jlng that bis (ace turned pink.
That Hayes will in good tlmo reward his (rienda la
the opinion ol Mural Halstead.
The Chicago Timet heads the news announcing Hayes1
nomination"A Fool lor Luck."
Kx-Coniedcrato Judah P. Benjamin is lbs most
famous advocate of the English Bar.
Ex-Governor Koubon E. Kenton thinks that Jndgs
Davis will be the St Louis candidate.
An exchange saya that thero la a Kansas town which
Is called Woman'a Waist. Of corset in
Mr. Hayes suddsnly said, "Hy dear, We won't fatten
more pork than we can use alter the 4th of March."
Schurz, in a linen duster, dusted out of Cincinnati
under the beliel tbai when the people get exoited they
forget him.
? Kx-Congressmsn Poraeroy is very smart, hut he sen
use more capital "l's" to the quart than any ana In ?
convention.
Dr. Colfelt snys that alt great authors are plagiarist a,
referring pronably to the paragraphera of the St Louis
Ulobt- Democrat W
Captain Kads Is bronzed and ban returned to 8L Louis,
saying that the channel in the South Pase Is eighteen
and a halt feet deep.
Cincinnati Enquirer:?"George William Cnrtls is to
the politics of the country what Colonel Delanoey Kane
la to stage driving.''
Koiza, a lead or in the Mexican warfare to "restore
God to Mexico." has a harem la Micboecan stocked
with ten beautilnl girls.
It is understood that Hayes Is plsdgsd to give the
South a show in tbo Cabinet; but how can he give a
ahow in a democratic Cabtnot?
Deacon Richard Smith says that Rrtstow can catch s
thief and pnt him Into the penitentiary while most
other men are palling on tneir boots.
Ben Eggloston, of Cincinnati, telegraphed to Hdyef
on Friday morning, saying that the Governor wouM
be the nominee. He shall he made a consul
Dr. George I. Mi!lor, oditor ol the Omaha IteraU^
and principal fugleman tor Sam Tllden, passed througl
Chicago wit boat stopping, oir his way to New York.
The Pali Mall Chuette makes the mistake of eayini
that Offenbach, on the night ol his arrival In Mas
York was serenaded with Moody and Sankey hymns
A Vermont son said at his mother's funeral that hi
and his lather were very much obliged to the poopli
who came, "and we hope that the time is not fai
distant when we may do the same for you."
Dr. Wllsou, a high toned physician ol Staunton,
Vs., has been in the habit of giving his lady
patients chloroform, and taking advantage ST them.
Like moat of his kind he seeks Canada for a residence,
Only one race on the face of the globe hae the
patience to conquor ihs ashy waste* ol Wyoming,
Utah, and Nevada, and thtt race la the Obinesr. The
atmn*-uoaaunn m. "Dnmrtaor Chinese ehan# labor I"