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Iter Java only to era twsifcjttw storage; (Sinzen wonts justice done, he wanta praise and censure alike given' amruty 'DetweeB' tne two ana mas ia so slight as to be rather a bar than an aid to Btitution'in the past; It is such no longer. Neither bulldozing nor highway robbery is countenanced in our reformed municipality, nor does a man necessarily forfeit his right to be protected from both forms of outrage merely because he works for the city and not for a private employer. An interesting experiment made at Niagara with a scow fourteen feet long, equipped with a mast and sail, demonstrates that the maelstrom in the Whirlpool Rapids has powers of suction fully equal to those of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The son of a New York clergyman, Mr. John L.

Seymour, has been sentenced by a Boston magistrate to confinement in the House of Correction for forging the name of his father to checks on the Broadway National Bank. Tho fact recalls a remark attributed to tho lato Jonathan Edwards. 'It has been my painful observation," said the great theologian, that a minister with a family of boys has little leisure for foreign missionary work." to the scaffold. 'Mary Anderson, itappears, hassnubbed the Prince of Wales. He asked an introduction and she said no, deoidedly no.

Mary's reason for this was that the Prince is a naughty man who has in times past talked with most reprehensible levity about actresses. As an advertisement there is nothing to be complained of in this story, but as a matter of good taste it is not quite so clear that our accomplished tragedienne did not err. Perhaps the Prince's sole object was to pay a courteous compliment to all the worthy women on the American stage through one of their representatives. It is difficult to see how Miss Anderson could have been hurt by taking this view of the matter, the more especially since, if we mistake not, she has her mother at hand to protect her. Moreover, the Prince is now getting well advanced in life and, according to many reports, hos gotten over the frivolties of his decidedly ill spent youth.

Pere Hyacinthe, it appears, is about to visit us, and would like to encounter Monsignor Capel in debate. There are fow intelligent men who would not enjoy hearing such exceptionally well equipped champions argue out their religious differences. There are, however, these obstacles uf tho way Hyacinthe cannot express himself fluently in English, Capel doos not carry on discussions in French, and it would be highly ridiculous to see them scarifying each other in languages which neither understands fully, and one of which the majority of their auditors would not understand at all. suyvo oDoya." I don't tlienwnaglng editor. "I think we ought to havo something on tha subject, bnt I don't see my way clear." "Suppose we iualst that if the savage had gone Into tho church he would havo lost one or both of big wives ta time," suggested tho religious editor.

"Oh, Lord, that wouldn't do exclaimed tho horrified managing editor. That would bring the whohj business down on us, quiok. I say, cau'fc you write a rilclo without taking any sido at all Can do that without writing any article," objected the religious editor. If you aro going to preserve au attitude of Btrict neutrality, you don't want to say anything about it. As I look at tho mattor, it is a question of a convert on one side and a wife on tho other.

Tlx only thing for tho church to do is to convort tho wives, and thoy will give up tho savage withiu a week. Then we will havo something to write about. In tho meantime, we'd better let the whole business severely alone. What do you think?" I don't know but what wo had better hold back little while and watch," slghod tho managing editor. "I don't think of anything else to day, unless something occurs to you." "No, I don't call anything to mind," returned the religious oditor, after a few minutes' careful study.

"I may take a walk and hit on something before I get back, at least I think I conld, if I had soraothlug to set my mind Into activity. You don't seem to recollect having anything about tho premises calculated to stimulate tho mental faculties to abnormal religious con. temp)8tion, do you "No," replied tho managing editor, gravely. "Your argument on tho last proposition shows mo that you don't need anything to sot you working on tho most abstruse theological theories. When you finish, If you are very much exhausted, and tho orticle is long enough to warrant it, I may find the cork screw, but not at the present juncture." "That'B all very well," muttered the religious editor, as he scuttled off to meet rieud with whom he had promised to go to tho races.

"Some day I'll tako his instructions and follow them out to the letter, and when he's hunting around for a job I'll remind him of this, and he'll wish that cork hadn't been in so light, now, you hear me duck and tho religious editor vanished around the corner aud proposed a game of "ponuchle" tohis friend for refreshment before hitching up for the raoo track. EMPLOYER AND DOMESTIC. One of the Trlalw of Modern House kecpins; Illustrated in a New York Police Court. Nicholas Gwynn, broker, of No. 40 West Fifty eighth street, New York, appeared in the York villo Police Court yesterday with his face badly scratched and discolored, and hia wrist bearing the imprint of a set of teeth.

Annie Allen, a colored girl, employed in the Gwynn family, wbb arraigned as tho one who had inflicted tho injuries. Gwyuu said that on Friday last she had been very impudent to Mrs. Gwynn, aud after stauding it as long as he could, he interfered and ordered the girl to leave tho house, when, ho says, sho attacked him as described. The girl says that she had a dispute with Mrs. Gwynn and was attacked by the complainant who, she alleges, struck hor with a cane as well as his fists, and that after he had pursued hor to various parts of tho house was trying to choke her, whon sho bit him iu self defense.

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ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo SEARCHING) THE SCnTPTOBES. "My dear," Bald Mrs. Spoopandyke, glancing Tip from, tho hotter sho was writing, and praising tho nib of tho pen on hor thumb sail to sea why It didn't work any bettor. "Say, my dear, do yon know where to find that text, 'For the unbelieving husband is sanctified In the "In Exodus, isn't it replied Mr. Spoopendyke.

"It sounds like Exodus. Where's tha Bible "I was looking for it to day," rotumed Mrs. Spoopendyke, getting up and proparing for another search. "I don't think it is in Exodus, becausn it sounds more like Paul. I think some ono must havo stolen tho Bible, for I haven't seen it einco we came from tho country." "Thai's kind of ourlous," soliloquised Mr.

Spoopen dykc, arousing himself to assist in tho investigation. "I don't know who would want to steal a Bible. Don't you remember whoro you put It 1 Think It's in here 1" and Mr. Spoopendyke upset tho bandbox containing his wife's new hat, and thon made a lunge for tho fancy coal scuttle behind the stovo. "you had it last, what did you do with it?" "It wouldn't be apt to got to there, would it 1" suggested Mrs.

8poopcndyke, trying to divert her husband's attention by rattling the vases on tho bureau. "If It's tho orthodox Biblo, it's Iiablo to penetrate anywhere and everywhere retorted Mr. Spoopendyke, abandoning tho scuttlo and makings divo for tho button bag. "Strikes mo that Bible is keeping pretty quiet for the Word," ho ruminated as he tipped the buttons out on tlie floor, and dartod across the room to try tho bureau drawers. "Be in a flno fix if a minister should happen to drop in now and ask for family worship.

Havo to tcU him to go on his recollection or start a now theory of his own," and Mr. Spoopendyke pulled tho shamB off the bed and then got down on his hands and knee3 to look under it. "I'll bet a hat it's where I said it was." "Whore'B that, dear?" asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, supposing he had found it. "In Exodus," snorted Mr.

Spoopendyke, wiping tho ornaments off tho mantel piece and looking behind the clock. "Can't you remember what I say from one moment to anothor 1 If you had any memory, with your habits of classification, you'd only need tne coat of arms of all nations aud a llttlo moro incoherence to be a first rato dictionary 1 I don't kuow though," continued Mr. Spoopendyke, ruminating on this proposition while he toro the things out of the wardrobe. "I don't know but what you would havo to got a new binding and havo your sides murbllzed. You don't suppose that Biblo got lonely and wont off into tho country on its own hook, do you "I'm sure I don't know," murmurod Mrs.

Spoopendyke. "I can't imagine how it would do a thing like that. I think it is only mislaid. We'll find it." "Well, I should remark 1" replied Mr. Spoopendyke, without meaning the slightest irreverence.

"There may bo only one small fish or a crust of tho bread left, but we'll find what there is before we go to bed 1 Unless that Bible's gone to get itself revised there'll be no sleep in tho Spoopondyko apartments until wo lay our hands lovingly on that dear old family Bible Maybe it's hid under a bushel 1" and he capsized the waste paper ba9kot and scattered tho contents over tho room. "I dou't kuow but what it is in Exodus," said Mrs. Spoopendyke, with her finger in her mouth. "Now I come to think it over I'm sure it's in Exodus, so you needn't look for it any moro." "I know it's in Exodus," said Mr. Spoopendyke, kicking his wife's work basket across the floor and turning the contents over with tho toe of hiB boot.

But I'm going to flud out which end of Exodus it is in before I go to business again I Dow do you supposo any one's to know when we were married or when tho baby was born or when we dd if we dou't find that Bible? Think I'm going through life without a Bible to refer to when I'm lonely and depressed? Got some kind of notion because I'm good and' pious that religion comes natural to mo, haven't ye? Well, it don't. I've got to keep posted just as well as any one else Where's that Bible?" demanded Mr. Spoopendyko, rising in wrath as the book seemed to evade his search. "What'B becomo of tho pious injunctlous of my youth? How'm I going to bo able to tell Solomon's wives from the rest of his family unless I have tho book before me? Whore's my Maccabees aud my Zaochcus? Where are tho friends of my boyhood?" and Mr. Spoopendyko straightcd up in the middle of tho room and glared at his wifo as though sho had inflicted on htm a mortal Injury.

"They've boon dead some time," replied Mrs, Spoopendyko, who always took everything literally. "Anyway, you dou't caro about thorn to night." 14 And my Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah and his brethren Whoro aro they Supposo some fellow asks me to morrow who Judah's brethren begat, what am I to Bay What'ro ye standing thuro for, looking like a holo ia tho fence for 7 Think that helps you any "Say, doar," commonced Mrs. Spoopendyke. "Don't you romamher the night you and Mr. Spocklewottlo got into dispute as to whether tho prodigal son was thrown into tho pit, or was the ono whoso ear Peter cut off for hiding his talents in napkin I haven't seen tho Biblo Blnce thon.

You hod it out, and when you got through you put it in your silk hat, and hero it is now and MrB. Spoopendyke held up tho misBing volume, her faco wreathed iu smiles of delight that things had not been any worse. "Found it, didn't you growled Mr. Spoopendyke, snatching tho book out of hor hands. "Another tinio, when I got through with it, you remember what I do with it.

Now, let's find that measly text you were bo anxious about." And Mr. Spoopendyko pored through Exodus and then laid down tho book iu disgust. "There's no Buch thing iu the Bible," ho aaid. "I know there wasn't all the time, but I wanted to prove it to yon." "Let mo look," nuggestod Mrs. Spoopendyke, and, turning to 1 Corinthians, sho found and read it to him.

"I had au idea that it was in some of Paul's writings," she remarked as she shut tho book and put It away. "That's what you always havo roared Mr. Spoopen ARRR OOO TTTTT RROOTHH Ji BROOTHH RROOTHHo 3 RRRR HHH1I RROOTHHo RROOTHH RROOTHHo a JJJ Ii OOO SSSS OCCO It II DDDD OS SO OH II OH II II SSSS HHHH II SO II 1) a SO OH II Ij SO OH II SSSS CCCO II LLLLL DDDD the acquisition of either by thoso who speak the other. This has been no obstacle to Ger man immigration. Despite the difficulties the people become Americanized in tongue as quickly as in sentiment and habit, overcoming their additional disadvantages with courage and perseverance.

TJndor such circumstances it is oloar that our institutions present to the Teutonic character attractions that the monarchical systems do not. Tho German does not relinquish one monarchy for another. He does not leave his own country for or Great Britain. The Eopublic is his dream of government, and he endures sacrifices in order to realize it. Once here ho finds that the realization exceeds even tho picture of his imagination.

On the other hand ho is very welcome hero. His thrift, generosity and his gemuthlichkeit are akin to American characteristics his hatred of shams and his outspoken opinion rondor him a companionable person. But above all the German has the superb faculty of minding his own business, of resenting impertinent intrusion into his private affairs and of taking excellent care that his neighbor, like himself, shall have full liberty, circumscribed only by tho equal liberty of the rest of tho world. Sumptuary legislation, to which tho effete sentiment of tho country seems to be tend ing, is especially odious to the German. He is a natural Democrat, even though ho voted, as did many native American Democrats, with tho Republicans on the slavery question, and has continued to do so with diminishing enthusiasm by force of habit.

However, he is quite capable of voting according to his convictions, and has therefore all the essential qualities of a good citizen of tho republic. All good citizens, therofore, of native and foreign birth, had good reason to join with tho German Americans in their re cent celebration, aB no doubt they did in sentiment and good wishes. GENERAL CATLIN WITHDItA WAL. Tho interview with District Attorney Catlin, which we publish in another column, will bo read with interest by all of our readers who take a hand in local politics. General Catlin, as will be seen, is not a candidate for ronomi nationi Ho is out of the race.

This statement is important, because whatever may have been thought about the chances of his re eloction it has been conceded all along that if ho desired tho Republican nomination ho could obtain it. The courso is now clear for the various other gentlemen who respectively believe that they can defeat the representative of the Democracy. It will, however, take a man with a good many friends on the Democratio sido to ropeat tho eleetioneering feats of tho General. He has carried this county twice, despite its very largo Democratic majority. The last time, to be sure, he had an exceptional advantage in the divided condition of the Democrats and the unpopularity of his rival but on the first occasion ho had to face an opponent of high character and unusual legal ability.

He could never have overcome Winchester Britton and, later, ex Judge Troy, had he not possessed qualities and friends euro to count for more than any mere partisan nomination. Tho reason assigned by tho General for his withdrawal is tho Third Term cry which has been raised against him. Attaching no great importance to this in itself, ho perceives it to be an objection, and like a pool headed mon declines to enter a race whore for a Republican to be handicapped even slightly is to bo defeated. In tho Eagle's judgment, there is more in the talk against third termism than ho seems to appreciate. Except in cases of emergency there is no good reason for electing any man three times, either to an office like that of District Attorney, or to one of large emoluments.

Unless the legal profession has run to emptyings there must be and continue to be a dozen 3'oung or middle aged men on either side of the political household fit to discharge properly tho duties of public prosecutor, and to hold tho position for a singlo term is a fortune not in money but in reputation, if the services rondered aro good. Whoever is elected to bo District Attorney is placed on a pinnacle where he must attract the attention of tho community, and if he be worthy make for himself a reputation sure to be of great advantage when he returns to private practice. Because of this it seems to the Eagle a good thing to pass the office around, so to speak, while tho young lawyer who strives to obtain it, so far from being open to impeachment on tho ground of mercenary motives, ought to stand before tho public in tho light of that commendable ambition which seeks tho approbation of good men for important and honorable deeds. Nor, indeed, should the opposition to third termiBm be limited to tho District Attorney's office. It is au excellent thing to change officials.

At present, to be sure, tho cant about Civil Servico reform has almost gone the length of a proposition in favor of giving all our functionaries a life tenure but no matter what any sot of ono idea men may say, tho average American citizen knows that it would not be a good thing to mako a groat and distinct office holding class cut. off from dependenco on the common transactions of life, as soldiers aro. Moreover, it is appreciated, oven by those who cannot eiqress it very clearly, that one excellent way to keep alivo in the popular mind tho spirit of self government is for the peoplo to show that they can govern by sending up from year to year from private stations hundreds of their neighbors to handle the reins of power. If wo wore to submit either to long terms of office, or to Buch a system as tho more extreme civil service men contend for, tho office holders might not only come to regard themselves as indispensable to the country, jbut plain people might lose that faith in thomselve3 without which a democratic form of government would be as worthless as the freedom granted by tyrants on condition that it bo used as they desire and not otherwise. In short, the opposition to third termism, instead of being a thing to bo derided or lightly waved aside, is as logically related to popular government as the conclusion of any valid syllogism is to its premise.

General Catlin, wo observe, feels himself indebted to tho Eagle for what he terms its "generous and manly treatment" of him during his official career. It is unquestionably a pleasant thing for an official to be sustained in tho discharge of his duties by an influential newspaper, read in tho houses of all tho people for whom ho is acting; but no officer who receives such support from the Eagle need feel himself under the slightest personal obligation. Tho Eagle would not be itself if it did otherwise. If it had no higher motive it would do so because it pays. No matter what our journalistio organ grind where they are deserved, and he is not at all under the impression that the official who differs with him politically must be other than an upright and efficient functionary.

At all events, that is the Eagle's opinion, and by acting upon it we have secured at once the gratitude of offi cers like Generol Catlin and a popular sup port enjoyed, we believe, by no other newspaper in any single American Ab to the General's administration, the whole truth can be told in very little space. The Eagle has not always been able to agree with him, but it has never seen any reason for doubting that he was acting according to his belt judgment of what ought to be done on behalf of the community, that he was above all sordid influences, and that, however affected by momentary zeal for tho object he was pressing, he bore the warm heart of a good neighbor and the high spirit of a gentleman. TWO GREAT RIVERS IN ALASKA. Two dispatches from San Francisco relative to recent explorations in Alaska are not so clear as they might bo. One of these states that Lieutenant Schwatka, the tireless ex plorer of Northern lands, has made his way to the headwaters of the Yukon River after traveling 2,800 miles overland, and that he descended it on a raft of logs to its mouth, a distance of 1,829 miles.

He describes it as discharging fifty per cent, more water into the ocean than the Mississippi a great river, indeed, and one worthy of close attention on the part of the commercial world. But a similar dispatch comes from San Francisco that another great river hitherto unknown to the world, but vaguely hinted of by natives, has been discovered by Lieutenant Storey. It discharges into the Arctic Ocean and was followed upward for some distance by its discoverer. From the immonso sizo of tho logs that aro carried down it Lieutenant Storey estimates that it is of great size, and indeed the Indians claim that in places it is twenty miles wide. It can scarcely bo possible that the two reports relate to the same stream, but if they do not it is clear that Alaska is likely to prove fully worth tho sum paid for it to the Russian Gov ernment.

With two such great rivers to facilitate transportation, an abundanco of heavy timber to repay exploration and fauna and flora found nowhere else in tho samo latitude, it is not unlikely that capital will take a hand in searching out the mysteries of this terra incognita. It is a reproach to our boasted sense of rectitude and morality that the natives of Alaska have steadily deteriorated since their transfer to the United States. The Ruasian Government, odious as it is in its dealings with tho peoplo, did attempt to educate and civilize its Aleut subjects. Undo Sam has done nothing for them he has not oven protected his own citi zens who have gone among them, and it is a standing disgrace to our own Administration that many of these latter owe their lives to a foreigner in command of a British man of war. Perhaps now that tho civilization of Alaska and its people may be turned to account in dollars and conts, our people may take a sud den and fervent interest in tho moral and spiritual condition of thoir neighbors.

The reproach that Americans can be very virtuous when virtue is paid for handsomely is not a new one. OUR SPECIAL GABLE LETTER. On the first page of this issue our readers will find specialJetter, by cable from London, to tho Eagle, giving a gosBipy account of affairs that transpired, not a fortnight or a week ago, but yesterday and laBt night. This is not a substitute for our associated press dis patches but supplemental to them. The mat ter of chief local interest written about is the arrival of General Roger A.

Prj'or, who, it will be remembered, was sent by Irish men from this country to assist in the defense of O'Donnell. The General, it will be seen, lost no time in getting into communication with his client and the legal gentlemen with whom ho is to cooperate. According to the letter, while ho has made several suggestions, which are specified, ho is well pleased 'with what has been already done in tho case, and is confident that O'Don nell's plea of self defonso can bo made good if the jury be unprejudiced. Curiously enough, he desires that no more money be subscribed by the Irish National League to defray tho expenses of tho defense, because, if such subscriptions aro made, it will bo difficult, if not impossible, to overcome tho impression on the part of the English public, and subsequently of tho jury, that O'Donnell did act as the agent of an Irish organization. The good sense of this request is so evident that it must commend itself at onco to reasonable men.

At tho same time tho General's own appearance can hardly fail to be as suggestive as anything the league might do in tho way of sending money. It will be a very stupid jury, indeed, if some member of it does not perceive that a distinguished American lawyer would not be laboring for the prisoner if his countrymen on this side of the Atlantic did not take more than ordinary interest in him. Of courso, it does not follow at oil that O'Donnell was in, any way privy to a conspiracy against the life of Carey from the fact that he is being helped in this matter. Carey was such a dotestiblo beast that tho man who slow him, even if it were by accident, would have been looked upon as something of a benefactor to the human family hod ho been a Hottentot or a Fijii Islander. Moreover, special efforts may well bo justified in the case on the ground not that O'Donnell followed Carey to kill him, but that in order to secure simple justice more than ordinary efforts will have to be made because of English prejudice.

Still, after all is said and done, it will bo marvelous if tho jury and the Judge do not regard General Pryor's presence as proof that there is more involved than the matter of fact question whether or not O'Donnoll acted in self defense. And yet the prisoner has this in his favor, that the more thoughtful subjects of the Queen must desire to see the plea of self defense made good, because in that event the Irish secret societies would bo deprived of all credit for a transaction which has done more than any other recent event to make them a terror to persons disposed to become traitors. There is an amusing touch added to tho serious part of the dispatch by the announcement that O'Donnell and the jail physician are on bad terms because the latter has ordered the prisoner's supply of tobacco cut off. The physician says that just at present tobacco would be injurious to him, but O'Donnell is of the opinion that personal hostility is the motive. Whatever the merits be, there is a sort of grim humor in the spectacle of a man getting greatly worked up about a few pipes ful of tobacco, while other men are about to TWELVE PAGES.

SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1883. The Sunday Morning Edition of tlie Eagle has a Large and Growing Circulation Throughotit the United States. It is the Best Advertising Medium for Those tclio Desire to Beach all Classes of Newspaper Headers in Brooklyn and on Long Island. The Daily Eagle is now in iti Forty fourth Year. Its Circulation is Larger Than That of any Other Paper oj ittt Class in the United States, and it is Steadily Increasing Keeping Pace with the Growth of the Great City of which the Eagle Admittedly the Journalistic Iteprcsentative.

IlOW THE TARIFF PROTECTS. "We find in one of our Pennsylvania contemporaries the following suggeativo little pieco of news: "It is announced officially that the Thomas Iron Company has decided to blow out two of its furnaces ns soon as materials on hand are used up, and that a third fur nace will vory probably bo ordered out within a few' weeks. The report comes in directly that the one remaining furnace of "the Allentown Company will likewise be "blown out shortly, and also that a more or less general movement in tho direction of curtailing production of pig iron is in pro gross." Announcements of this kind must have becorao painfully fuuiilar to tho men employed by the chief iron masters of the country, and if their right significance has not been appreciated by tho great body of American Bkilled and unskilled laborers wo must find the explanation in the lack of serious thought rather than in any obscurity in tho lesson. "While our wage earners aro urged by newspaper organs and politicians to sustain our so called protective tariff as tho barricade which defends them against "the paupor labor "of Enrope," the spectacle of enforced idleness is reproduced from season to season with almost as much regularity as tho stated performances of "Humpty Dumpty" and "Kip "Van Winkle." The iron interest has been especially coddled by tho patrons and fabricators of the tariff. Tho cost of building railroads has been nearly doubled, to the oud, according to tho pretexts advanced, that our mines might bo developed and a high rato of wages maintained.

Meanwhile, the fact stares every intelligent person in tho face that tho premium put upon tho homo by means of tho impost placed upon tho foreign product does not go to labor that tho labor most poorly paid and most completely subject to combinations of capitalists is that engaged in, the great protected enterprises, and that instead of fostering a healthful and self sustaining industry, tho tariff operates to alternate periods of panic, which reduco poor peoplo to wretchedness, with periods of abnormal activity which pour vast fortuuea at the general cost into tho coffers of a comparatively few men. What does this blowing out of furnaces and stoppage of mills mean if it be not that both the labor and cajital of the country have been misdirected, our ability to compete in tho open markets of tho world destroyed, the law of supply and demand vitiated here at home and a clique of capitalists put in a position to profit more by closing their works from time to time than by continuing in operation all tho year round on tho terms which unrestricted competition would yield For the laborer, tho meaning of this cannot bo misunderstood. Given steady employmont, with a concededly low rato of wages, and ho may with frugality keep himself out of debt, nt least; but whatever the'rato of wages, nothing is more certain than that frequently recurring periods of idleness will breed demoralization first, and utfer pauperism afterward. As the matter stands, those iron workers do not, at tho best of times, oiru more than will sustain them as civilizod beings ought to be sustained, so that when occupation is denied there is nothing left them but the roftige of debt and its attendant misery. This question of tho tariff is of interest to every honest man in the country, whether he bo rich or poor; but whilo tho wealthy can afford to treat it with comparative indifference, those who must exercise their muscles to mako a living cannot slight it without sacrificing themselves.

With free trade, or rather a tariff bused strictly on revenue principles, tho markets of tho whole world would be opened to our enterprise, with the effect of presenting our merchants and manufacturers with an opportunity to sell in other regions of the earth every article produced in excess of the demand here at home. In brief, this blowing out of furnaces and general stoppage of work, consequent upon an agreement between rich employers, is tho inevitable ontcomo of a system founded on ignorance, bolstered up by prejudico and streaked all over with rascality. Ell MAN SIN THE UNITED STATES Tho recent celebration by the Germans of the United States of the bi centennial of tho arrival of the first German colony in this country was an event which has a greater significance in its way than tho recent festival in the Fatherland. The latter related to a unified country rejoicing in a great political work achieved through more than a century of toil, and the guarauteo of future protection from hereditary foes. Tho American Germans rejoiced that they had followed their forefathers to tho laud of freedom nnd plenty, and had rapidly assimilated themselves, their character and their customs with a kindred stock developed on English soil and impelled by similar motives to seek living in the Now World.

It has already surprised superficial observers that tho German immigrant should so speedily settle down as nn American citizen with a full and complete realization of his duties and restraints. Coming as he does from a country which circumstances have forced into a military despotism, whoro his lino of conduct and almost of thought is marked out for him by a paternal government, ono would suppose either that he would incline to tho direction already given him or that the reaction of freedom would unsettle his judgment. On tho contrary, the German, no matter what his previous station in life, immediately perceives tho principles of our Government and adjusts himself spontaneously to them. It cannot have escaped observation, either, that in tho history of emigration the natural flow of a superfluous population haB been in tho direction of its own language. German immigration to America is exceptional in this regard.

There is nothing but a structural A bill is to be introduced in the Rhode Island Legislature abolishing the office of Coroner. It ought to pass without a dissenting vote. A Coroner in Rhode Island generally manages to be as ridiculous a person as he is in New York or Connecticut, and that's saying enough to warrant any lawful measures which the Providence Plantations may take to get rid of him. The advocates of a national bank note circulation urge the retirement of greenbacks in order that Congress may have no temptation to tamper with the currency. In other words, they repose moro confidence in the bank managers than they do in the representatives of the peoplo.

Their doctrine contemplates nothing less than the permanent establishment of a moneyed oligarchy, to support which' the country is taxed at least to the extent of tho interest on the Federal bonds deposited to secure the noteB of tho banks. But such a gift of power as that implied in tho proposed delegation of the control of the cur ency to a few men will never receive tho sanction of a majority of the people. General Pope is a luckier man in peace than he was in war. The disaster that followed his well known proclamation of "Headquarters "in the saddle" is imperishably associated with his fame as a military leader. But since the bugles sang truce at Appomattox, and war's dread alarms ceased, fortune has turned toward him a smiling faco.

He captured the rank of major general when tho common belief was that it would bo conferred upon a more popular officer, and now he has been assigned to the command of the Department of tho East in place of Hancock, a post esteemed the most desirable in the service. General Popo is fond of ontortaining and of being entertained, and will feel at home in the social circles of tho metrofiolis. In one of our local Republican contemporaries we find tho following passage in an article discussing Mr. Bartlett's nomination: Tho Democratio nomiucc for the Supreme Court bench in this district owes his selection to a political trick which is as transparent to thoso who care to look into the circumstances surrounding it as it is rovolting to honest, self respecting Democrats. This is very fine for tho honest, self re specting Democrats," but the foolish person who wrote the article forgot himself when in another part of it ho said That he is comparatively unknown in this county, or that ho has novor been known to try r.

case at the local bar, need not ho reasons snlhcient to alienate from him tho support of the Democracy, for a majority of its adherents have little knowledge of our leqtd tribunals save such as is acquired through their forced attendance upon them for trial or sentence. Whon "honest, self respecting" men, whether they be Democrats or not, see rot of this kind written about a party to which moro than half tho peoplo of Brooklyn belong, they can hardly bo at a loss to understand why tho so called Rejmblican organs of Brooklyn rarely get further in the way of influence than is required to excite contempt for themselves. The Executive Committee of tho Nihilists has issued a circular demanding that the Russian Government shall put a stop to tho cruel treatment of prisoners. We have no difficulty in comprehending tho feelings of the Nihilists for thoso who are brought before the infamous "Third Section." The Third Section is tho dreaded secret police, whose chiefs have been, ono after the other, tho mark of tho bullet of populor revenge. A history of all the horrors and crimes perpetrated by this disgraceful institution would fill many volumes, before the contents of which tho most sensational novels would appear tame and shallow.

Tho verdict of a court has no value whatever for the Third Section. Not only acquitted political offenders ore, as a rule, transported "administratively" to some distant town of tho Empire, but oven the judges themselves, whon they are considered tohave passed too lenient a vordict, aro liable to bo forced into resigning their office, and to be then exiled in company with the very prisoners who had stood before them. There havo been several religious maniacs who have offered up their children as sacrifices well pleasing to heaven, but Barnesville, has developed a new typo of theologian who did his best on Sunday to mako a sacrifical lamb pf a clergyman. Objecting to his doctrine, he called upon him to prove it and the proof not fully satisfying his mind, he called upon him to stop down from the pulpit. Tho clorgyman not obeying promptly the divino command of the inspired lawgiver, who yelled that God had sent him to do this and to make a sacrifioe of blood, even his own if necessary, the man of God drew long knife from his coat sleeve and advanced toward the preacher who then backed downward and retreated toward tho door.

Ho was closely pursued by the avenger of heresy, and made his escape with difficulty attended by tho screams of tho female portion of the congregation. It is doubtful if oither Peter or John ran faster than the terror stricken minister. Six stalwart deacons then thrust each other toward the inspired braudisher of the sacrificial knife aud might in time have come near enough to pounce upon him. He saved them from this unpleasant necessity by slipping out of his coat and leaping through au open window. He is probably still pursuing, knife in hand, the fugitive preacher and it is a harrowing thought that ho may possibly be gaining on him.

The question naturally arises whether a shepherd can properly be converted into a sacrificial lamb, and, if so, whether clergymen instead of children are henceforward to be offered up as expiatory victims. Many of the younger clergy are no doubt eager for martyrdom, and this case seems to open a door of opportunity to them. There is no doubt more than one crank in every congregation who would esteem it both a pleasure aud a privilege to insert a carving knife in the clerical stomach. AN INTERNATIONAL INQUISITOR COMING. Henry Irving's visit to this country is to mark an ortistic revival in more senses than one, for while he is to show to American audiences the highest British ideal of dramatic art his reyelations aro to bring about a corresponding exhibition of American taste in what may be termed domestic art.

One of the great illustrated papers is about to send in Mr. Irving's suite ono of its most celebrated artists whoso work during the Egyptian war has provoked tho admiration of the world, and this gentleman is to be a commissioned inquisitor into the condition of the American mind on this subject. His reports will appear from time to time in pictorial form in his paper, and Europeans will thus bo afforded a good opportunity of judging of our vaunted The publicist who has conceived this original idea must be either a wag or a cynic of the most disagreeable mould, for he proposes to obtain the information desired from accurate drawings of the mansions of American millionaires. No doubt his commissioner will be found a gentleman of large grasp and keen perception of the ridiculous; likowise, beyond peradventure, ho will be im plored to give every mansion in tho country the benefit of his scrutiny. We predict for this interesting student of American domestic art a most interesting time.

He will have difficulty, no doubt, in keoping down tho rebellious hair that will incline to stand on end in presence of the architectural and decorative nightmares that he will surely encounter. It will be hard for him to keep a straight face, and, having done so out of politeness, wo may be sure that he will not bo in any mood to suppress the grotesque fea tures of some of our millionaire households. Turned loose in the castles of tho bonan za kings, tho raurcad barons and tho border ruffians who have lived upon tho spoils of monopoly he will, no doubt, observe plenty of barbaric splendor, but of art nothing. We bespeak for the enterprising publication a comic character that Punch in the days when it was really funny never approached, and a circulation in European capitals that will greatly increase tho hilarity of tho Old World, even if it does not magnify the respect entertained for the culture of the greatest of American products the pretentious plutocrat. SPANISH SWAGGER TOWARD FRANCE.

Spain is rather overdoing the highly dignified and sternly self respecting role that she assumed just after the Alfonso affair in Paris. Her present attitude toward Franco partakes of swagger and bluster rather than chivalry and courage. To accept with lofty courtesy and generous forbearance tho apology of one who has done wrong is tho part of the gentleman as between individuals to exact humiliation from one who expresses regret is rather that of the paltry vulgarian who has hitherto been the offender and hardly knows how to mako tho most of his advantage when the case is for the first time reversed to his advantage. France has made all the concession that international courtesy demands. Spain ought to be satisfied with President Grevy's assurances, and to express a willingness to believe that only the lowest rabble of Parisian slums, not the characteristic Frenchman, would insult her royal representative.

Moreover, while France may not be in a position to fight the strongest military power in the world sho is quite able to crush tho weakest in single handed encounter. Consequently behind Spanish brag at this moment it is easy to detect alien encouragement. Bismarck is pursuing his policy of exasperating France into a warlike demonstration while isolating her in Europe, and Spain is merely his catspaw. So far tho French government has shown patience and good temper in a bewildering situation, and has defeated such schemes as were based upon her betrayal into rash and heedless action. She can well afford to intimate to Spain that the farce has been played long enough without giving her enemies an opportunity to condemn her.

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dyko, enraged by his dafeat. "If you should ever run short of ideas you'd be a comparatively smart woman I Some day I'm going to put a spiggot in your dod gast ed mouth and start a public school with you, unless I change my mind and conclude to open a branch college for the preparation of married women for the lunatic asylum 1" aud immensely pleased with tills business outlook Mr. Spoopendyke dropped his clothes in tho middle of tho floor for his wife to pick up and tumbled into bed. "I don't care," murmured Mrs. Spoopendyko, as she took down her back hair and screwed herself around to see if it reached to her waist.

"I don't care. He can poke fun at mo all ho likes, and he can upset everything in tho house, but I know that Mrs. Specklewottle wears a switch, and sho can deny it all sho wants to, she can't deceive me," and with this consolatory reflec tion Mrs, Spoopendyke popped into bed, and after thinking for awhile got up and puttered around in tho dark, putting tho room in order in case anything should happen to herself or her husband in tho night. AN AHSTB.USE QUESTION. "Well, what particular lino of theology would you like to havo worked up to day usked tho religious editor, as he entered the sanctum aud lighted tho managing editor's pipe.

'Wo haven't had anything yet about this refusal of Sitting Bull to give up ono of his wives on entering tho church," roplied tho managing editor. "I ahould think yon could take that up and draw a highly moral lesson from it. You might dilato on tho coareo nature of tho savago and tho manifestly alight hold that Christianity had ou him, and wind up by showing the tendency of even tho church to count Its chicken 8 before they are hatched." "Anything elso?" demanded tho religious editor, without trying to concoal tho Binlle of contempt on his faco. "Want to claim that ho waB right or wrong Am 1 to hold that he should havo given up his wives, or that ho was justified iu foregoing tho church 7 Thcro's nothing intricate about the question, but which side shall I take That's all I want to know, which position do you want mo to assume 1" "Can't you get around it somehow asked the man aging editor, a llttlo doubtfully. "I don't see tho use of tackling tho subject of his wives at alt.

Or, if you do, you might handle it delicately. Why not assume that having become civilized, ho couldn't expect to keep two and that his vory conversion ought to teach him the necessity of giving up one of thom7" That's a prime idea," laughed tho religious editor. Which ono would you have him give up? Ho seems to prefer either to assured salvation and why should we interfere I'll do whatever yon say, but whon a man is better satisfied with his wifo4thau he is with a certainty of heaven what do you propose to do about it Can't you take the position that there may bo something the matter with tho church?" inquired the managing editor anxiously. I don't know what the church has got to do with it," retorted the religious editor. Tho church is not responsible for tho man having two wives and thinking ft good deal of them.

I don't see but the church is all right. If you will Indicate the line of abuse you want heaped on the chnrch I'll wi ito it up." And the religious editor put his hand to his ear that he might not lose a word or his chief's instructions. "I don't aOvocate abut ing the church at all," remonstrated the managing editor iu distress. Then if you will tell me on what ground I am to abuse the Indian I'll do that," replied the religious ed.