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NKW VORK.Sl'NDAY, MAY u'ti, W7.
NOTICK TO Col'N'iTlY DKAI.KRS.
The Ailam* Kxpre** Company run a special newspaper
train over tlie I'uiiiii-vlvutila Railroad and its vomit-ciions,
leaving Jerrey City at a quarter-past lour A. >1. daily and
Sunday, carryinc the rc.'iiiar cdilinu nT the I1kiiai.ii as tar
West as II arrUbur; anil >outh I" Wnihlnyrinn readmit;
Philadelphia at a quarter past six A. M. and WasliiUKton at
one P. -M.
From our reports this nwminy the probabilities
arc that the retathcr in New York to-day trill be
sliyhtly eooler and fair or partly cloudy, possibly
with an early morning or afternoon thunder
storm.
Wall Street Yesterday.?1Tbo stock mar
ket was active and, led l?,v tbe stocks of
some of tbe Western roads, advanced somewhat.
The only exceptions to this were the coal stocks,
which continue to show signs of weakness, Gold
opened at 1 (I(?7h and in tbo afternoon fell to
.10(in4, at which price it closed. (Sovcmment
and railroad bonds were strong. Money om call
wjis easy at 1 L_> a 'JLj per cent, thc former being
the closing quotation.
Claflin's Dishonest Clerk and his accom
plices lmvc been committed to prison in default
of bail.
The General Lack of Information upon
Russia's armament makes our special article on
'?Kiissiun Great Guns" of more than ordinary in
terest.
Supplies for the Indian Coffee Pot were
purchased yesterday in this city. There was a
noticeable increase in tbo number of outside
bidders.
Tiib Schoolship Mercury is uo good to go?
?t least at auction. Another attempt to sell her
yesterday failed, tbe. bidding not reaching to
fifty per cent of the reserved price.
There's Tyranny.?The Hoard of Fire Under
writers propose lliat the, use of rockets, squibs
and torpedoes on thc glorious Fourth should bo
made penal.
Ixkpez Has Not Yet obtained possession of
his bride. To-morrow it will be known whether
cruel Papa Morrison restrains his daughter's
liberty, or the young lady, on second thought,
regrets her bargain.
The Friends of Underground Rapid Tran
sit are bestirring themselves. Yesterday they
presented a petition to the City Fathers asking
for facilities and explaining the advantages of
their proposed plan.
Two Men Have Hken Arrested ami sent to
jail cm tbu charge of selling an imaginary busi
ness to u confiding young man for the sum of
eight hundred dollars! And people say the age
of innocence has passed away!
The Case ok Wn.u am Smith, arrested while
trying to sell a piece of silk to buy bread lor his
starving family, suggests some thoughts of the
terrible dramas being enacted ut our doors,
and of which we know nothing.
The Vitai. Statistics show that New York
Is rapidly going to the dogs. Four hundred and
righfy deaths and only three hundred anil
leventy-eight births suggest that the (iotbam
Itesare rapidly following the noble red man.
What Shall We Do with our hackney
roaches! The police will not have them wait
ing at corners, and some, other people wish to
irivo them from the public parks. Now, the
tacks must stand somewhere. If the police
sill not have them in the streets, nor the gruin
ttlers about the parks, where arc they to go?
Unmasking the Mormons.?The work done
by our correspondent in Utah iu showing the
true inwardness of Mortuonism is Waring good
fruit. New witnesses are coming forth to sus
tain the charges made against the Mormon
priesthood, and there is some hope that their
favorite theory of "blood atonement" may bo
carried out on themselves. Major Pond, who
resided for many years in Utah, confirms in an
interview, which w ill be found in another column,
the charges made against the Mormon leaders.
The Weather.?The heat urea outlined by
the isotherm of 70 degrees yesterday embraced
? portion of Canada near Montreal, the lower
lakes and the I pper Mississippi and Wed River
valleys as fur north as Pcmhinu. From the last
named point to North Platte, Neb., the line
rurved a little eastward, while westward to the
mountains the temperature fell rapidly. The
trea of highest temperature in the afternoon ex
tended from Northern Texas to the Middle
Atlantic coast, giving Nashville, Cincinnati, Pitts
burg. Haltimore, Philadelphia and New York
temperatures of Sit, SO, 00, sh, 87 nnd HO
degrees respectively. Variations on the coast
were very decided. New London and Ponton
had 02 and 65 degrees to our so. Tho low
pressure in Dakota continues to move very
slowly iu a northeasterly direction, while
that recently over Nova Scotia has passed
away to the eastward into the Atlantic.
The highest pressure is in the South Atlantic
States. Heavy rains fell in the Northwest yes
Icrduv, attending the disturbance in that region.
Hio indications of n Gulf disturbance continue,
the pressure is falling on the coast, and strong
rinds prevail from the eastward at New Or
leans, Galveston and Mobile. Hurricanes or tor
sadoes may be expected in the Missouri and
Upper Mississippi valleys, and violent wind
gusts ou tho lower lnkes, particularly Huron nnd
Ontario. Vessels and yachts iu New York har
bor shonld bo prepared against. sadden wind
blasts, such as that which capsized the yacht
Mohawk laet summer. The weather in New
York to-day will be slightly cooler and fair or
partly cloudy, possibly witk clearly morning or
gfimoos thunder storms
1 De Broglla and Mar Muhon?Tlie Coap
d'Intrl(u?<
Nobody would rashly compare Marshal
MucMahon, the President ol France, with
| the late Andrew Johnson, some time Presi
dent of the United States; but the character
of euch is to be judged in the light of those
leading elements, nurrow-minded, unintel
ligent obstinacy and the intention to be
just?elements mainly responsible for all
the blunders in politics and war. For a
man in his intention-to be just may be de
ceived and get on the other side. Ifhe then
acts in pursuit of that error with the reso
lute obstinacy that would be praiseworthy
in tho cause of the right he simply does his
utmost to ruin tho causo ho desires to serve,
and his very obstinacy prevents his en
lightenment. How does his country or the
world benefit, then, by his honest inten
tions? Neither the present time nor pos
terity can fairly declare that for the welfare
of a State there is any difference between
such u ruler and tho wilful miscreant who
does wrong in a merely vindictive spirit.
Andrew Johnson was far more used to
political ideas than MucMahon is. He
could reason in political methods while it
would not bo strange if MacMahon could
only comprehend facts when put in military
forms and relations. But the course that
1'resident MacMalion has just taken is in its
essential features identical with tho pro
ceeding that put tho political career of
Andrew Johnson out of joint. Johnson
assumed tho position that he was as much
tho representative of the nation as the
whole Congress was ; that Congress repre
sented tho people falsely, was not really
in sympathy with the purposes of
the nation and was disposed to make
laws that tho people did not want
made, but that he (Johnson) alone under
stood the nation, was alone honestly dis
posed to carry out the national will, was
alone intelligent and tho only man in tho
nation to be trusted, and thut this being
the case it was his duty as u patriot to head
oil' and defeat the machinations and per
verted purposes of the depraved and cor
rupt Congress. MacMuhon's position is
precisely tho same. Ho alone knows what
the country wants. Ho alone is honest and
disposed to act uprightly on tho dictates
of his conscience nnd his patriotism.
Every one else is either deceived or has
some' evil motive, some bud and mis
chievous end to subserve. They are
republicans, and the triumph of "their
ideas can only result in disorder
and in the humiliation of France." As long
as he holds power "he shall use it to pre
vent such results, which would bo the ruin
of the country"?that is, he will use his
power as President to prevent the Legisla
ture from making use of its legitimate power
under the constitution, because he believes
that tho constitution has in its operation
turned out badly und in a way that
the makers of it could not possibly have
foreseen. He cannot follow further
"in the wako of tho Assembly," be
cause it moves more and more tow
ard the liberal application in govern
ment of republican theories; and as he has
mude up his mind that these must inevita
bly destroy the country ho as an honest
man must oppose them. If the soundness
of the opinions were granted tho course of
action based on them would be proper
enough in any case in which a man is free
to act on Liu own judgment; bat what was
not observed by Johnson, and is not by
MucMnhon, is that the object of constitutions
and the formation of parliamentary systems
is to guarantee the smooth operation of
government, despite the opinions of some
old gentlemen that calamity must follow
upon this or that course. They make the
whole people the judge of what shull be
done; not any individual prejudiced by edu
cation and blinded by wilfulness or igno
rance.
But there is an element in MacMahon's
course that does not appear in Johnson's
analogous eccentricity?the Muchiavellian
instigator. This is the Duke de Broglie.
His relation to the case might be understood
clearly if we should give the analogy a
hypothetical extension. If it were supposed
that Johnson hud not made his famous ob
structive campaign from his own vigorous
wrong-headedness, but had been inspired
by uomo very capable, ambitious and utterly
unscrupulous politician desirous to step
into Mr. Seward's shoes and undo all that
had been douo under Lincoln, wo should
have a tolerably fair parallel to l)o
Broglie's relation to the present adventure.
Such a man as General Butler is con
ceived to bo in the popular opinion of that
versatile statesman would be pretty near
the figure. Without malice, or ill-will, or
unlairness toward General Butler, we sup
pose it may bo said, lor the purposes of such
a comparison, that he is thought to care un
commonly little tor other poople's opinions
of the propriety of his acts, and not to bo
deterred lroin an energetic pursuit of his
purposes by consideration of other con
sequences than aro pictured in his mind's
eye by his desire to succeed ; and that he
pursues his objects through good and ill
report with a pertinacity ami talent not
often found arrayed on cither the best or
worst sido of any cause. Butler in an alli
ance with Johnson to throw Congress out
of its legitimate sphere and influence
and organizo the administration on a new
basis would have pursued the same methods,
and from the same motives that are seen in
De Broglie's relation to MacMuhon. Docu
ments and addresses would be filled, as they
are in Versailles, with fine phrases about
principles and exalted motives and patriot
ism and conscience, and disquisitions on
what tho country demands ; lor this catclios
the ears of all and touches tho mind of the
credulous; but the practical politician, whilo
thus bowing and scraping in metaphor to
tho public, would lose no time in his assault
on the plunder, and would fill every office
with his own followers and supporters and
take other necessary measures to guarantee
himself against an adverse tuture. Opinion
has done Do Broglie injustice if he is less
keen for what is really important in a caso
like tho present than this parallel supposes.
In short, the quasi revolution in Franco is
tho issue of an extensive and nuducious in
trigue planned and manoeuvred by tho
Duke do Broglio and tho ultramontano
forces, who put their own dexterity and
courage in the scale against the real
strength of the republicans in the country,
and play upon the good intentions and
amiable incapacity of the President to lead
him into a veritable parliamentary Sedan,
where he mast surrender at discretion, or
perish forever by being compelled to take
arms against his country. They who have
led the Murshal into this scrape?the Duke
de Broglie at the head?would be plcasod to
see him in arms and to see their political
opponents slaughtered by a fusillade on the
boulevards ; and they would persuade the
old soldier that in the use of the troops to
maintain order, if it shall come to that, that
he is not lighting against France, but only
against a party that troubles the nation's
peace. He will, however, see clearer ere
that stage is reached, nnd will not be the
dupe to the end of their gamo of a clique of
adventurous politicians. The old Marshal
will not ultimately be found?in the category
of those men who have endeavored to dis
place the national sovereignty and to enable
"an incorrigible minority to snatch from
the nation the privilege of self-govern
ment."
The Season at Wallack'*, nnd Its
Lesson.
Many canses combined to make the theat
rical season now closing one of the most
generally unsuccessful on record. Among
these causes wore the prevailing financial
stringency, the reaction after the Centennial
excitement, the dread inspired by the un
paralleled calamity at the Brooklyn Theatre,
and, during the last few days, the great
heat. It is with pleasure we note that one
theatre?and that our oldest and most firmly
established, Wallack's?has not only bravely
overcome these obstacles, bnt, as wo are
credibly informed, has made as much money
as in any previous year. Our readers will
see that this is most probable when they
call to mind the many attractive plays of
the season, beginning with "Forbidden
Fruit," nnd following with revivals of the
"Shaughraun" and several standard come
dies, including "Wild Oats;" then, "My
Awful Dad," which was plaj'ed for nine
weeks to very largo business, and now
"Rosedale," one of the most superb stage
productions ever seen in this country, and
which promises to form a fitting close to a
list of brilliant successes.
Mr. Boucicanlt's talents may be said to
have been mainly instrumental in carrying
through the first half of the season, but the
second has rested almost entirely upon the
shoulders of Mr. Wallack, and right well
has he borne the burden. It has been the
general opinion that Mr. Wallack has never
acted better than during the last few
months ; and this is only natnrnl, for ho is
nn artist who is always studying, and
though he is, of course, not so young in
fact or face as when he first charmed the
town he has lost nothing of the ease, grace,
dash and fervor which raise him so conspic
uously above the other comedians of the
day. Certainly he never before played the
hero of "Rosedale" so admirably as ho is
now doing. We may instance the dell
scene, where the emotion he displays in his
voice while singing the song to the child
and when he at last clasps in his arms the
object of his daring venture as among the
most perfect pieces of theatric art we can
call to mind.
There is a lesson in the success of the
present Reason at Wallack's, and we think it
is this: that a manager must be to a great
extent guided by the prevailing direction of
the public taste; that he should not at
tempt to force a play which does not seem
generally attractive, but rather that ho
should refrain from running a "hit" so long
that the audiences dwindle down to or be
low paying point, and that, this second
rule being observed, successful pieces may,
after a sufficient interval, be advuntageously
revived, if presented with the same care and
completeness as at first.
The Bad Boy of the Period.
New York, May 17, 1877.
To the Editor op the Herald:?
My pa says II I complain to you you will print In
your "Complaint Book" my letter, and thug bo the
meang ot stopping the boys on our block, Thirty
second street, between Third and I.exington nvonuos,
from all tbo tune ringing our bell Now, there's u
policeman named Obcsit, lor when ho is coming the
boys halloo, "Cbcsit, tho cop!" Now, won't you ask
Mr. Chtsit to stop tho boys and save mo the trouble
of running so ofton to the door?
FLOKENCE 01,Til AN.
The griefs of our little correspondent,
Florence, deserve especial attention; for at
her age, which we should infer to bo ten or
twelve, girls seem to have to boys an an
tipathy like that of cats to dogs. When
Florence arrives at tho ago of sixteen she
will not object to the ringing of ber
door bell by tho young men, nor
will she call on that unknown official,
"Mr. Cheese-it," to arrest them in
their ardent course. But there is no doubt
that tho bad boy of tho period is one
of the pests of society. lie not only rings
door bells, but throws stones, stops street
curs, teases children and makes himself a
general nuisance. It must bo admitted that
much ' of this seeming depravity is
only the intense activity of youth, which
can find no other expression than in
mischief. l)e Quinooy has a fine description
of the bad boys who arc a terror to tho coun
try side, and for whom terrible fates are pre
dicted; but some time, he Hays, when Eng
land is at war, and an English ship grapples
with a French ship, and (ho captain calls
out, "Whore are my boarders?" up spring
fifty of the bad boys of the period, and, cut
lasses in hand, leap over tho bulwarks for
victory.
There have been vessels boarded on tho
high Kcas, however, by armed men whowerc
not impelled by patriotism, and theso
pirates were the matured results of bad boys
whoso activity had never been restrained or
odncated. Tbo street hoy is always old enough
to know tho moral difference between fun
and malice, and when he yields to his in
clination to tease animals, troubled peoplo,
drunkards and other unfortunates, he is
none too young to be punished so soundly
as to recall his quick sense of the fitness of
things. If his parents cannot restrain him
tho authorities should do it, and do it so
thoroughly that the memory of his punish
ment will not bo one which ho will care to
divulge to his friends. Meanwhile, let
littlo Floronco and all others bo hope
ful for the had boj* remembering that
| all ages have their special faults, anil not
j forgetting the moral of Pitt's reply, when
j he was reproached for his want of experi
[ ence, "Youth is a orime of which I shall
get better every day."
The Mormons and the Herald*
The vehement and insulting denials with
which the Mormon press in Utah has met
the statements of our Salt Lake correspond
ent have led him to ask Governor Emory
and District Attorney Howard whether he
had made incorrect reports. These two
federal oilicers are the most responsible and
the best informed in tho Territory, and they
confirm completely tho reports of our cor
respondent. Governor Emory said to him
on Friday that "the presonce of additional
federal soldiers would have a salutary ef
fect." The Governor agrees with the Herald
that it is not probable that the Mormons
will venture to resist the federal authority,
but "at a critical juncture" ho thinks there
might be a conflict between them and tho
"Gentiles." District Attorney Howard said
to our correspondent, "I am satisfied that
the Mormon militia has been reorganizing
and drilling nt several places, at tho instiga
tion of the Church leaders;" and again,
"We have positive evidence of various meet
ings for drill and of tho issuanco of military
orders."
We do not intend any offence to Brigham
Young and the other Mormon leaders when
we say that these words of Governor Emory
anil the federal District Attorney will re
ceive more credit here in tho East than all
the denials of the Mormon press. The re
ports sent us by our correspondent are en
tirely confirmed. But when we read further
wo find in the utterances of both these
federal officers evidence that very exciting
events are near at hand in Salt Lako City.
The Grand Jury meets to-morrow, and, as a
result of its investigations, Governor
Emory significantly says :?"I am confi
dent that Haigbt, Higbee and Stewart,
who participated with Lee in tho Mountain
Meadows massacre, will be arrested and
convicted;" nnd in response to a more
direct question, tho Governor added, "I
think tho chief criminals accused will also
be arrested, convicted and punished." Dis
trict Attorney Howard, who has searched
tho whole hiBtory of murder in Utah care
fully, says that since the Mormons entered
the Territory he has ascertained that about
six hundred murders have been committed.
It will be noticed that he significantly
speaks only of those which have been
"ascertained." Being asked whether
Brigham Young or other members of the
priesthood were likely to be indicted by the
Grand Jury, Mr. Howard very properly
declined to answer, but he said, "Young is
afraid of it; he has a keen sense of the fit
ness of things;" and he added, "My opin
ion is that Brigham Young would avail him
self of the earliest information of proceed
ings by the Grand Jury against him, nnd
that his organized Nauvoo Legion would be
called into notion to escort him and other
Church officials who luight be in danger of
arrest beyond the reach of the officers of the
law." Nor can the Mormons claim that this
opinion of Mr. Howard arises from preju
dice, for it is notorious that when Young
was previously arrested for murder he de
fied the United States authorities ; and only
two years ago he violently resisted the
United States Marshal, and two of his body
guard were indicted in consequence, one of
whom is now serving a term in prison for
the offence.
All the signs show that we may be on the
eve of exciting events in Utah. We trust the
federal authorities in Washington are awake
und alive to what is going on out there, and
that the Attorney General will not allow his
subordinate to bear the whole burden and
responsibility of the work in Salt Lake on
his shoulders.
The Polar Colony.
Another letter on Captain Howgate's plan,
from the accomplished Arctic explorer,
Julius Payer, will be found in our columns
to-day. It is a thoughtful contribution to
the comprehensive study of this scheme of
discovery, which seems to grow in favor
with the writers on the subject in propor
tion as it is considered either in the light
of arguments in its favor or those against it;
lor it bids fair to be conceded thut there is
no objection to it that does not equally
apply to a nautical expedition compelled
to winter in the Arctic regions, while there
appear to bo several points of great
importance in which it has a de
cided advantage over such expeditions.
Our readers will find many objections fairly
stated in the communication to which wo
refer, and wo do not believe that they are
made unduly prominent. No enterprise of
this nature is to be conducted oven to that
degree of success of which it is rationally
capable by shutting our oyes to the ob
stacles. Indeed, the choice of means for
accomplishing un end confessedly sur
rounded with the greatest difficulties is a
choice only between different sets of ob
stacles, and it has to be duly weighed which
of those, if any, is absolutely insuperable.
It is evidently the opinion of Payer that the
difficulties in this case aro not of thut na
ture. It may bo said now of this as of many
other projects first scouted as visionary that
the conscientious study of its possibilities
has placed itin the category of attempts sure
to bo made at no remote period in the future.
Pulpit Topics To-Diiy.
Except among Koman Catholics and Epis
copalians very few of our city pastors will
pay special attention to tho great event
which Christendom this day celebrates?tho
descent of tho Holy Ghost on the day of
Pentecost. Dr. ltylance will speak of tho
Holy Ghost as u Spirit of Power, and Mr.
Herr will describe His work in nnd
through tho believer, while Mr. Hull
will compare the stirring command of
Christ to His disciples with tho wonderful
promiso of His presence with them always,
and Mr. Frothinghum will present the les
sons of Whitsunday to his people. The
rent veil will be drawn usida by Mr. Ken
nurd, so that as to Mr. Rowell the unseen
may become visible to us also, and wo may
live to minister to others as Christ lived for
us. What Ho will do for those who follow
Him will be ably sketched by Mr. Lloyd,
and not tho least thing iH to enable others,
as he does Mr. Flumlej, to iralk he
fore the Lord as the Israelites did before
tho pillar of cloud when the light shined for
them in the dark places of which Mr. Mc
Carthy will speak to-day. The work of life
anil the motives to it will be set forth by
Mr. Alger ; the elements of woman's power
in the Church and in the world will be
pointed out by Dr. Woodruff, and the re
ward of personal sacrilice by Mr. Searles.
Tho life and works of thb late Dr. Muhlen
berg is a fruitful theme not only for Episco
palians, who are justly proud of him, and
which will be faithfully sketched by Mr.
Smith this evening, but such a life is a
blossing to the age and the nation as well as
to the Church to which it is given. And it
would be a great loss to those who knew
that good man if there were no recognition
in heaven. But Mr. Hatfield will give
proof that there is, and laith is helped
or hindered by the belief or the denial of
this doctrine, for it is one of the ele
ments of Zion's glory, about which Mr.
Knnpp will speak to-day. Tho environs of
Jerusalem will bo described by Mr. Swcet
ser, the prophecy of Jonah touching the
destruction of Nineveh (the Sabbath school
lesson for to-day) will bo expounded by Mr.
Moment, and tho providence of (Jod made
manifest by Mr. Hepworth. The responsi
bility that comes with ago will be shown
and enforced by Dr. Armitage, tho duty of
tho Church toward non-churclx goers sot
forth by Mr. Martyn, and the stox-y of an
outcast who was once a king will bo told by
Mr. Boll. Spiritual husbandry will have a
place in Dr. Deems' thought, and Christian
fatherhood in Mr. Tyng's. Mr. Giles will
tell us what "free religion" is and how to
get it, and Mr. Hubbell will repeat tho
story of the lato Carnival lizzie, and so end
tho programme.
Diamond Cat Diamond.
A cartoon in a late number of tho London
Punch represents Kenealy do Morgan, a
member of Parliament who has made it the
business of his life to proclaim himself tho
"friend of tho honest workingman," al
though ho never did a day's honest work in
his life, as surveying with indignant dismay
another member who has declared in favor
of giving every poor man an independent
fortune, and declaring that his rival is tak
ing the bread out of his mouth. The Tani
mony Kenealy do Morgans are in much tho
same plight at Albany, where for the past
two days tho republican Assemblymen have
been indulging in the most degrading dema
gogi.4m, appealing to the worst passions of
an excited mob of laborers, and inviting a
riot on the floors of the Assembly chamber
for the purpose of intimidating the Legisla
ture into passing over the Governor's veto
the corrupt and scandalous jobs they in
serted in what used to bo the public rob
bers' house of refuge?the Supply bill. Al
though, so far as the Tammany democracy is
concerned, this resort to demagogism is
only turning against them their own
weapons the contemptible conduct of the
republican leaders in provoking mob law in
the Capitol of tho State cannot be too
severely condemned.
Besides, the attempt to prejudice Gov
ernor Robinson with the working classes by
the charge that his veto of tho one million
dollar appropriation for the new Capitol is
a blow struck at the laborer will not suc
ceed. The laboring classes are not so dolt
ish as Mr. Alvord, Mr. Husted and others
suppose. The one million dollars put into
the Supply bill was not intended for the
laborers, but for the hungry politicians and
contractors who lobbied it through, and who
have made the new Capitol at Albany as foul
a public scandal as the Tweed Court House
in New York. An urmy of these cormorants
stood ready to seize on the greater part of
the one million dollars if the appropriation
had been allowed, and n very small fraction
would have been left for future work. No
proper restrictions were placed on the uho
of tho money, and it would have speedily
been swallowed up in payment of claims
not of the most honest character.
But although it would be no justification
of an extravagant and improper appropria
tion of the public money that it would give
employment to labor, the question as to
who really desires to help tho laborer in this
Capitol work can readily be settled. Tho
Senate has passed an appropriation of live
hundred thousand dollars for that work.
Tho Assembly should add a provision
strictly requiring that tho amount shall bo
used for labor to be done in tho next twelve
months, and not for payment of a single
dollar of old debts, with the exception of
any back wages that may l?e due to daily
laborers. It is well known that the Gov
ernor will sanction such an appropria
tion. This will give employment to labor,
and as the republicans in the Assembly
have the power to secure this amount they
will be clearly responsible if all work on tho
Capitol is brought to a standstill for want
of funds.
Journalistic Personalities. ?
Personality in American journalism has
happily been discarded by most of the load
ing papers of the country, and now to lind
a respectable journal, and especially a city
journal, indulging in that inefficient weapon
of controversy is the raro exception and not
tho rule. Occasionally we find personal
abuse in the columns of a paper, but it gen
erally transpires that it got there without
the knowledge and much to the inortilica
tion of the responsible parties. Purely
partisan organs still insist on growing
heated and unscrupulous in their attacks on
political opponents at election time, but
there have been so many positive prooisthat
the use of such untair weapons do more in
jury to those who wield thorn than to those
against whom they are raised, that there is
good reason to hope that oven this undesir
ablo feature of journalism will l?e
eradicated from tho American press. In
tho West, however, a great amount of savage
and personnl abuse still disfigures editorial
effusions, and wo are delighted to find in a
Western paper u very decisive condemna
tion of such writing and of the editors who
resort to it. One Western paper, which Iiuh
long been at swords' points with a contem
porary, recently denounced his rival as "a
bushwhacker, a murderer and a yellow
dog." Tho construction of tho sentence
shows that in that part of tho country a yel
low dog is worse than a murderer, which
pour be admissible if tho dog is a Spitz.
To which the canine editor retaliates that
his assailant is "an unhappy wreck, a poor
lost soul, a lishwoman, a maniac and an un
mannercd sot." We cannot wonder that
these gross personalities should have called
forth an indignant protest from a neutral
neighbor, the Miuini Republican, who verj
commondably denounces with severity tli6
resort to personal abuse in a newspaper, and
exclaims, "What a miserable, mule-cheeked,
cowardly set of libellous dirt sliugers these
newspaper crews must be" to ro.-.ort to such
personalities.
Our London and Paris CnliU Loltori,
Paris has a spasm of indignation
over the dangerous step taken by
the Marshal-President, and so wa
lienr nothing of her heel kickings
and humors, her drama, her scandals or
her fashion-. We sincerely hope and be
lieve, however, that sho Las had some
of each during the week to keep her
rising anger from bubbling over into
barricades and bloodshed; for your gay
Frenchman has a faculty of being particu
larly bloody minded on occasion. London
has a mild war fever troubling her nerves,
but Gladstone proposes a series of Turko
phobic demonstrations as a counter irritani
to her nervous system, which wanti
a sedative. Wagner has been wagging hil
buton there with great success, wo are glad
to learn. They talk of giving a marshal's
baton to tho Prince of Wales in ouse they
have a war with Russia, but it would
bo much more appropriate to giv<
Albert Edward a harmless one like
Wagner's. If they have any doubt
upon the matter let them ask General
Grant, who will soon be among them, and
whom, we have no doubt, they will treat
handsomely, and, as Arteinus used
to add, often. The coaching club
has had a magnificent meet, with
twenty-eight handsome teams in line.
Wo hope they will let General Grant see
one of their turns out during his visit. He
will probably take more interest in it than in
all their old piles of stone and wildernesses
of brick and mortar, and his opinion
on tho horseflesh will be worth having.
The City of Brussels has again been
seen at sea, and wo hope to be able to an
nounce her safo arrival, pilgrims and all,
by to-morrow, or Tuesday morning at latest.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE
Go fan yourself.
Fine day for llunnel.
Tbo Sultan Is a harem aoarom.
lieu Wade is live feoi five Inches high.
Fnwcolt, the blind philosopher, loves to flsb,
Tbo bosom ot tbo briny doop Is now udcollete'.
In a quarrel tbo wlnuiog tnau always leels hurt.
Boston Bulletin :?"A Pbllopena?Shoridan's twins.*
Schuyler Colfax tried to get here tn tlrao to join th?
Carnival.
Ex-Senator Logan will play ace blgb in Colorado foi
the suminor.
Governor Warmoth is to marry a Newark lady on
the 30th inst.
Dr. 11. J. Phillips, United States Army, sailed (or
Ku rope yesterday.
Count Hippoiyto do Tocqucvllle, a lito Senator of
France, diod in Paris yesterday.
raltorson, of South Carolina, Is a jaunty fellow, and
he wears bis gray hair as If it were a wig.
The Boston J'ast says that Webster's highest to
tainiog fee was only $100. Yot we have read that hi*
vory lust foo was $S,000.
Kltza Pinkston has decided that, having once been
over to the democratic party, she will hereafter re
main with the solid Nortb.
Mr. Kurd von SchlOzer, German Minister at Wash
ington, sailed yesterday in tbo stoamsbip Rhein for
Europe, to bo absent about throe months.
Hayes would bo lakon for a good old countryman
who didn't put too many potatoos on tbo top of the
measure, but who did uot skimp tbo moasuro any.
Secretary Evarts always looks like your grand
mother when she has forgotten to take ber falsi
teeth out of tbo goblet in the morning and plant them
wbcre they will do tbo most good.
When you go Into a botol tbo long bearded clork
seems to bo paying atlontton to you alone, but all
the while be la looking at your baggage, so that bo
may calculate that you will oot boat blm.
President Hayes has tbo peculiar stylo of smile and
of shaking bands wblch belongs to Frank Loslie. It la
gonial and yet repressed. It is open and reserved. It
has all the windows opon and all the shades pulled
down.
Tbo comots which aro wafting their talis like snnflsb
In the upper heavens cannot bo soon with the naked
eye; but if tbo naked oyo puts on a pullback in tbe
shape ol a telescope tbo comots may bo soon swingtng
tbeir trains around in fashion.
Nearly every President of tbe United States has bad
bis Individuality; bnt President Hayes, having beard
that certain groat papers aro trnstwortby and repre
sent tbo highest opinion of the country, Is *barp
enough to adopt tboir views, and be representative
ratber than original.
Aleksoovoir. a Russian ponsant, recently said at a
mooting, whllo be was speaking of too emancipation
of the sorts, "We were given a littlo land that was of
uousotous. Evidently wo aro still serf". If we are
obliged to ask lor a rlso of wages we are punished by
banishment to Siberia."
Whon a woman drinks soda she bolsts tbe glass at
an ungle of eight degrees, bonds over, bolds In ber
dress, and as sbo looks out of tbe corners of ber eyes,
seeming to bo In an ocsiacy o! appreciation, a little
drop ol soda runs down oil ber chin and goes like ?
pearl pluinmot to tbe floor.
Philadelphia Bulletin:?"A man never more firmly
believes in the motto 'L iok forward, not backward1
than when bo has been looking back and smiling at a
pretty girl who has just passed, while at the sam?
time be most unceremoniously bumps into bis wife,
who has thus caught blm in tbo act.
Some of tbe sentimental papers are going Into rap
tures because the Russians have lor some purposei
proscribed tbo Polish language in Polsod, sotbatwueri
a man would have a.ild "Olsobskl wlllskl glvski youski
a puucbskl In the snootskl," tbo poor toliow is com
polled to say, "iiiskvitcb willvltcb givlvitcb yousvltel
a punobvitob in tbo snootlvltoh."
Rev. R. 8. Storrs is tall and square shouldered. Hf
Is delicate in bis rhetoric, and lie Just escapes being s
g-mi us. He has not enough color in bis character to
, make him us great as ho might be; but be is every
way no a and pure aud clean. Tbo only thing against
lnm Is that ho ucver bad tbe moral courage tn our
day and generation to come right out and say what he
thought about llsechor.
Tbo Marchioness ol Abergavenny recently wore s
train and corsage of magnificent navy blue and tllleul
embossed satin, oriiainontcd with navy blue satin and
ostrich leather trimmings; petticoat ol lillcul poult do
sole, draped across the front with tllleul gaze, fringe
ami ostrich feather trimming, a long scarl of navy
bine satin, lined with tllleul, artistically arranged at
the bnqk. Couture, plume and veil; ornaments, tiara
and necklace ol diamonds.
Evening Telegram:?"ll It very insufficient consols,
tion tor the swindled depositors in the Third Avenua
Havings (lank to listen to tbo dctenco of Superintendent
Ellis lor not closing tho bank for sovcral months after
be knew it was insolvent, llo kept It open, bis lawyei
argues, lor leur that closing It would cause a panic.
For month alter mouth bo suffered poor men and
women to mount iho stops of the fraudulently valuod
bank building nuu pour their hard earuod wages into I
hole winch he knew nad no bottom in It, lest sbuttln|
the doors should convulse business at large. He now
contends that those doirnudcd martyrs ought to hi
satisfied with the benevolence ol bis intentions and
reconciled tbsrsbjr to their lossos. This Is tbe idosi
shameless and abominable plea which wo over knew a
public officer to sot np against punishment for doreho
tlonpf duUr."