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20. THE SE (TS Tills MORNING, Fomi Crown Priaes of ('(-minny wit Baassds rcviiw of 90,000 Italiaa in Booie yesterday. Irish rjasispimtars w. re ob trial in Edinbui'i'h and in ('mk and Mr. stoue was truuidtd l.y BoHceBBea at Hawarden.

The Bpanish Bataistrj may laslgn in eoxtse qnence of lack of supiwirt in thc CoitaB, Re? ports received at Constantinople Iroin th( Soiid.ui state that Kl Mahdi with his anny irard from Ki Ol.cid. It iras riinion .1 Poria that Admiral C'oiulict has occupi((l Bontaj in icii without rt'sistaute, the BBTiag na ted tho pluco. the Senato hills wars laiiodaeed to rBSJStlatS the suh-lcttini' of niailcoiitraets. for the appolutment of a commission to invest ir-ate thc subject of railroad transportation, to pnasota the efficiency of the Anny, aud to consolidate the lim chu of Military Justice and Ootfsof Judite Advocates the Anny bill was passed ad iptinj fur tbs trict of Columbia the mw time rrtaadardj the re of the Comniittee on Rules wsj fun i Staa. In the House, after debate.

Skinner was SWOtB as a Representative from thc 1-t of Norla tarolina. New-Jersey TftaiPfrBacs Union met at Camden. Tho ItOaaaaas coiivi-ntioii made no headway. Mira Bo? Williams, of Baltimore, has broken her H. guinn was virtually convicted of setting Oro toa hotaL A Baafkt railway in.

Beal Red Hank, N. intermpted travel two hours. The cantilever at will be formally oDor.cd to-day. Nine persons are ill, two fatally, with trichinosl-', al 111. A mass meeting was held in ts express indifrnation at O'Donut-irs ton wan-hoiiM-a in Haltiiimre were burned.

The property of the lute Zeniis tanara, of Bulti moro, has been awarded judicially to the Mcdon? ough Institute. City and Si Conn, il of Reform presented lo the Hoard of Estimate yesterday a pro? test against extravagance in city es? pecially iii the Department of Public Works. In the Ai-ueduct Commission O. H. Totter sharply criticised Commissioner ItoaapsoB's Buaaaaataaat of jilans to iiici ease tho water supply.

Tho cross-examination of General di Cesnola was con? tinued. -Mrs. De Meli testilied in her suit for limited divorce. Alumni of Hamilton Col? lege ate their annual dinner. Navigation was impeded by the snow-torm.

Gold value of thelegal-teiKhr hilver dollar cents. Stocks were (ul ive only in spots, and after an early advance declined and closed unset? tled. Tile Wr.ATnr.n.?Tianrvi* local observations In dicate cloudy followed by fair weather and lower temperature. Temperature yesterday Highest, 3tJv; lowest, average. '40.

Thc rciriilations preBcribed by Major Edaon toKovern a(liiii--ioa into the Civil Berrica of tlie city nie apparently full and complete. Their success will depend in f-rcnt measure on tin aiiponitid iwixaiiiiiicr.s. Il tho llayoi niiiko Kood appointments, ho will have taken long r-tcp toward efteetlng a mock m-ciU(1 rifoiin in Un city I'oviiuuiLnt. Thc ainrinimi nts to tlie plan fur reorif.iniziniT; the Kcpublii party in this city appear well calculated to secure an honest expression of opinion taUWOga the primaries and The primary election law will make it (i.ii,f.-er OU8 for any Democrat to vote under tlie new plan, even if his name should bo on the rolls, and escape the scrutiny of the Committee of Eighteen. The Irish supporters of the dynamite war? fare do not appear to decrease in number because of tlie justice dealt out to them by the English Through fear of more explo? sions and murders, unusual precautions are now being taken in London und other cities.

Even Mr. Gladstone has become impressed with the great danger, and he wag guarded yester? day by detectives on his way to and from church. This is certainly a deplorable condition of affairs. Ireland will gain nothing and lose a great deal from the mieguided energies of tho dynamite fiends. The Democrats in the House havo set to to create several new committees, in order to provide chairmanships for their great states? men of the Perry Belmont typo.

General Keifer wants to assist in this work, though it is doubtful, from the action taken in the Houae yesterday on one of his resolutions, whether or pot his assistance will be of any benefit. But if a ou Won-un Siiftrage created, ns he proposes, the chairmanship ought by all means to lx? given Mr. Belmont. It would fill thc auratlTT of his ability and no doubt nibil great satisfaction to the workers in the Woman Suffrage cause. Tlie Speaker's troubles increase.

They were bad enough when he was only ti to distrib? ute 40 cliHinnaiiships to tlie satisfaction of 100 Democratic statesmen but now the suspicion is abroad at the Capitol that Colonel Mr. Carlisle's Prime Minister, is t-tiivin--- get incii appointed who think tlint Colonel Mouison would be an excellent Presidential candidate in 1884; other ambitious Democrats, therefore, are doing their beal to check this lillie scheme. Bat they seem to be on the wrong scent. Un doubtcdly l'lesidential considerations enter into tba chairmanship problem; but there is one gentleman's chances which the Speaker will push harder Dian Colonel Morrison's. His name is John G.

Carlisle. It is a good indication of the temper of the Republican party that the content for Speaker ia being conducted entirely free from factional feeling. The interference of retired politicians, without influence, cannot be accounted of any weight, nnd the candidates who Buffet from such a cause are unduly blamed. Then il DO evidence that the President or any member of Congreaa is interfering in the contest; and it is be hoped that the present good feeling will continue to tba end. lt ia especially important thai a good Speaker should be chosen this year.

The duty of investigating the government of this city should be intrusted to a committee that will probe to the bottom the frauds in the Public Works nnd oilier departments. That will depend altogether upon the Speaker. Tlie rapid increase in the number ol inmates in the city insane asylums is a matter for sci ions consideration. In ten years the increase baa been over 100 per cent. No doubt this is in some inoaMiie due to the fact that the range of mental diseases has been enlarged by medical Science.

The time was when only furious (pensy or complete idiocy Ol imbecility was re? cognized ns cause for railing a patient insane; now theie are man distinctions and nnmerons lannrni Rut it is also true that New-York ty baa to cure for many lunatics bronghl here from neighboring towns and States and abandoned on the streets. The asylums are now crowded to Mich an extent tlint several hundred patients cannot be propcily cared for. The Commissioners of Charities and Com (lion have not used the appropriation of $25,000 made last year to purchase a farm, because the sum was found insufficient. They were before tho Board of Estimate yesterday seeking a larger appropriation. The Commissioners make a mistake in finding out exactly what thej ''ant before asking for an appropriation of this kind.

That done it would be mistaken Eonomy for tho Board of Estimate not to granl the request, The proposal that the city should place its water suppl) at thc mercy ol one enoi mons dam ni Quaker Bridge, ukin with Ihe strong opposition of tax-payers like Mr. 0. B. Potter anil E. 8.

Jaffray, who have studied the question. The only persons arbo favor the project, apparently, arc Commissioner Thompson and bia engineers. And aa Con grosaman Potter said yesterday, "'hat the engi? neers of the Public Works Department want most is little common sense. If they were judged by the results oi theil on unbalanced bid contracts, it would be evident that something else besidi i common sense is needed. Mr.

Potter oannoi iee how Mr, Thompson a year to main? tain the present aqueduct. If lie follows closely the revelations in Tm: Taint NE he will bc able to where the nio.n-y goes. In Allan Campbell began thc work ol constructing a conduit to thc Bronx and Byram rivera, li eras to be completed in two and a hall, ami toeosl 12,250,000. Mr. Campbell had the contracts let within estimates when Mr.

Thompson became Commissioner of Public Works. The cost ot the work now about twice tbe original estimate, and i- not much over half done. Mi. 'I bnmpson laid ii year ago that the conduit would be completed autumn. Ile said yesterday that il Mould be finished next autumn.

No wendel Mr. l'oltei distrusted Mr. Thompson's statement. WASTING Pl DI.I< MONEY. The Democratic party begins to illustrate it? self, even before the House baa organized.

Everybody knows that each new committee involves new expense, well as new tanglement of buaineas through strife between as to precedence in action. Every person who knowe anything about legislation at Wellington knows, also, that then are too many committees, and the Important oom minces have been linnie too large. Public buaineas is greatly delayed by the difficulty of getting a quotum in the huge committees, and by the endless wrangles into which men of many minds" plunge such unwieldy bodies. But places must be made for Rooms must be provided for influent inl linders of the patty, aa all claim that distinction, ad? ditional committees munt be cleated, with additional expense lot rooms, for clerks who serve tho chairmen as private secretaiies in their correapondenoe with constituent-, br Stationery and conveniences which the com? mittee is supposed to need, but which the chairmen lind very useful, and for personal service of runners or servants. So the expense is piled np, while the public, business delayed ttnd confused, nil because, partisans jniist be provided for and honored at public cost.

Apparently to relieve the Speaker, and court the Greenback interest, the House Committee on Huies luis agreed to report In favor of separate Committee on That makes new chairman's place, doubtless for the member from Iowa who was chi ted ns ('ki n- back member, bat went into Democratic caucus i and voted foi Mr. Carlisle. Also, it gives other Democratic statesmen a chance for small dcina gOgtam. Put what is tlie use of i on Labor The principal duty of most of tho I Honae committees ia to consider the effects of proposed measures upon tho inti areal I of Amer- i ican labor. Next, let us have a separate Com- i mittee on Wealth, and another on Happiness.

lt has also been determined to create a new Committee on Rivers mid Harbors. There is no sense In thia, If an appropriations com- i mittee is flt for its duty, it ought to pass upon and report all bills making appropriations for a the different branches of publio service. If it is not flt for its duty, it ought to bo discharged, and new men selected. But the Committee on Commerce, not having enough else to do, has been principally engaged of late in contriving tt The Big Divide," which has given so much offence to tho people. Now it ls proposed that this great annual combination of and robberies, Jobs and meritorious appropriations shall have a separate committee for the sole ti purpose of contriving it.

That such a is not for the publio Interest is obvious. Dcm- 0 ocratio members will find next year not a few of tl their constituents who will wish to know why it was made. They will probably give in answer every reason but the true one tho now oom- mittee ia to be created, ii at all, solely to com- pose differences between wrangling Democrat! aspirants foi place, and to give a better chane for making a waste of public money servo part bain ends iii certain districts. TROUBLE IN THE TRANSVAAL A dispatch to Tiik Tunu sk last week state that thc Hoers have executed a native chic "despite the aaaoranee of President Kruge that thc sentence should not be carried out unti he had held a conference on the subject will Loni Delby, the British Colonial Secretary. The Boers hiive probably not minde their patl any easier by what appears fi om this stall men to have been BB act of inexcusable bad faith But judging from the pa-t ooaree of these peo pie they do not care whether they offend or con ciliate any Power, being endowed not only wit! a most spirit ol independence, bu being also ol'that intolerant temper which on own Pflgrim Fathers so strongly manifested Vet the Boen hara at this moment good renew for behaving with common eoorteay to Erne-land foi they have demands pending before the Brit i-h Government of considerable, bnportance themselves.

They demand complete autononn and absence of inter-erence with their foreigi or domestic policy by Engbwd. As the latter ii under pledge to protect the native tribes whosi territory inarches with the Hoer frontiers, uni the Hoers even now propose to annex part ol Bechuanland, whose inhabitants DC special claims upon English protection, it lookl BB il there miglit bo makings of a verj pretty Qltanel here. At present the Hons de? mand Stcllaland and Goshen, saying that it neeeaaary to annex them foi the sake of pearn and order. But, as Uri ieir sug? gests, "Is there not too much reason to fem that the vision of the Tranavaal annexationlsti may never fail to disOOVer a new Ste llaland "Goshen Jual outside tho limits of the countrj which bal moat reoently been included behind the Transvaal frontiei England'aembarrassment i-o-? from the fact that the Hoer-, il once the) are given the com? plete independence they demand, will be cer? tain to lind abundant excuses for further and yd farther and that since it impossible to bold thc native tribes with an absolutely tight rein, there Leno means of renting them from occasionally playing into the hands of au aggressive and determined commu? nity like that of the Transvaal, sin- cannot abandon these tribes altogether, or if she does -in- might areli prepare to withdraw from South Africa. She therefore cm hardly afford to make the concessions requin-d ot hei bj Ihe Boera, and ii-he does nol the Boers are quite of renouncing her suzerainty, and reeding with theil policj ol annexation in spite other.

Ir a difficult situation, 1.t course Mr. Gladstone does not want even to-cern io interfere with tlie Ba and yet be maj be compelled to choose between a pol ic) of coercion and om- oi abandonment, and il ia not Likely that English public opinion will sanction tlie latter. Thc truth that the Boers and the could probably on nri li enough il tin- former did not covet (he land of tin latter. The na have found, iii instances, that even Ihe stern and arbitrary rule ol theil white neighbors preferable to the ana and Insecurity of their oam territories, and it Ld to themselves thej would quite imssiblj welcome incorporation with thc I ransvaal. Hut forcible annexation arouses resentment and challenges resistance, and that excuses harsh i cruel methods, and so from bad worse thc ju.mel No m.in.

i what virtues the maj have, and tiny have many, it must that tiny an- a vt -ry Impracticable people, I MARE'S SI ST. The constitutional lawyers on the Democratic -ide of the Senate lune found .1 mare's uc -t iu the lil-t of the plop, i-eil Ili'W code ol I ll es alni I ire greatly agitated ovei the discovery. This is limply a provision thal when the President pro Inn ol the Senate finds it alrsent be may designate another Sen.ito: to preside in Us absence, such designation not to hold good innie than three days, Some ol the Democratic Son 'tors, notably Mr, Bayard, see in thu .1 gra re langer to the Presidential succession. Tiny 1 mint to the present situation for a proof ot the langer. Suppose Mr.

Edmunds to be called iwaj from tin- Capitol for three days. lusignates a Senator to preside in his stead. During the three President Arthur hilly dies, and, the Democratic loaders irgue, the Senator whom Mi. Edmunds hu- casually selected becomes the President tim United States until March 1, 1885, aa thc lime ha- passed when, under the statute, a ipecial election could be held to precedo inguration next Miinh. Such a situation would if course raise a gnat many embarrassing luestions; bul it is reassuring to reflect thal lure is no reason tm believing that tin; intu? ition could ever exist.

Senator Edmunds Stated both the law and the practice and the common sense of tin- question he said Ibo other day that a Senator lesignated in this way to preside could novel jaimtobein the line of Presidential auecea don, for tho icason that such a designated Senator baa never exercised any of tim tm initiiiit functions ol the i'lesideut pro teat. Ili? never, bo far ns tim iccnih al the Senate (bow, signed a bill or a joint or lune thing mole than mi a stop-gap In be chair. This is the practice, nnd the Law nnd sense coincide sj ith it. The real lent pro fsaj is tho man whom the Senate elects Unit place, and it UOtlly iea-onablc to Mjsje that he continues to hold the place so long is he is able or willing lo do IO, or until the renate 1 booses his succea 01. CUT lions THE EXPENSES.

As prominent and trustworthy a Dcmociat as tobertB. Roosevelt ls authority for the lon that the office of rlegistex of this 1 voi I li a year. This is twice the salary paid the President of be United states. It is ten times the salary iaid the Governor ol' this State, lt ia greater iy $38,000 than the combined salaries nnd llowanoea of nil tho Judges of the Court Appeals. It is greater by over than he combined salaries of the Secretary of State, lie State Controller, the State Treasurer, and of lie entiro clerical force of those three dcpait ienta, What occasions this txtiaoiilin.iiy ney? Wherein consists the evident and pal abb- injustice! Is tho Register preposterously verimid, or are tho other publio officials whom have mentioned preposterously underpaid? 'hese aro questions which deeply concern all nod citizens.

They como homo with irresistible to wary man that has taxes to pay, and mt, very naturally and very properly, is disjo? ined to pay more than is really necessary. Jid there cannot bo any doubt in regard to 10 way in which they wIU be answered by people. Whoevor is really in favor practical, wholesome reform, of tho kind lat is concrete and that begins at homo, will iy that it ts little bettor than robbing tho treasury to pay out tho groat sum of 100,000 for admlniutering one city office for a The fact that the Register is paid by fees, and not out of tho proceeds of taxation, makes not a jot of difference. The fees ought to go into the city Treasury to lessen the burdens of the people. The office of Register ia of much importance and responsibility, and that fact, of course, Ls to be given full weight in determining tho compensation that should go to its incumbent.

But say that he received ten or twelve, thousand dollars for his does anybody protend to argue that he would not be generously paid Applying tho business principle test, does anybody suppose that similar services rendered to a banking or mercantile corporation would command more than if 10,000 a reai I The minds of the tax-payers of tho Metropolis are in a state of healthy ferment just now. Tm Tumi nu's exposure of tho reckless and prolligate manuel in which the great department of our local government is conducted has pro? duced a profound sensation. There is a general, non-partisan demand for such a radical change in methods and in men as will accomplish a thorou-Jli correction of abuses, and make econ? omy and cfliciency the rule in tho management of the affairs of the city. This righteous de? mand of public sentiment will not be fully met so long as Ihe emoluments of some of the city mid county ollices reniaiu at the present out? rageously 4'xtravagant figure. On the theory that a Register is expected at short, stated intervals to "whack up" handsomely for tlie benefit of the party the present coin pen sat ion of tin- onice is explainable.

If the Register puts into his own pocket, and gives his party 050,000 to send into "close districts? during important campaigns, there is no ground foi complain! on the part of Ihe taxpayers unless it happens that they labor under the impression that the people ought not to bo asked to pay the expenses of political organizations. The next Legislature is certain to be Baked to pea. measures in the interest of New-York offioe-boldera. The annual tinkering at the charter of the Metropolis gem rally is largely for their benefit Let the law-makers of 1SH4 institute a change. Let them approach the consideration of the rjneetaon of the needs of ibis city tlie point view of the tax? payer and not of ihe tax-consumer, i DANGEROUS TOPIC, We suspect that las World aol Quite char in its mind about the tariff.

At all events, it keeps trying to explain Itself, day aft'-r day, willi consciousness bal all it- previous efforts to explain Itself have been in ita own estimation abortive. The ilifflculty seems to be thal Tht World wants to save the DV party and rel to lay something about tin- tariff. Now the tariff question bl fl in of nitro-glycer? ine in the hol.l of the Democratic steamship, whi.ii cinu.ii bestirred ra-hiv without danger of blowing the whole concern apart tn no lime. Hut it would be well, nevertheless, for Tht World io pul the question before the public c.indi.Iii and without misrepresentation, Republicans not object to a reduction of tax. or to a reduction of surplus revenue a bat they desire to disturbing and pros? trating the Industries of the country unneces? sarily.

The majority of De moe i its propose to reduce the surplus of the laves by cutting pro out of the tariff. That doe- not seem to Republicans the wisest way i nh tho desired end, because il trill disorder the in? dustries of the country, and be nose no one can reasonably expect that a moderate or prudent reduction of duties will result in a reduction of revenue, A part of the Democrats, bul not a i.iii-, because they supported Mr. Randall were beaten mole than two to one. would like to cul off revenue bj ratting off internal t.i\. Hut the Eb publicans do not see good reason for that Thia year, the reepon ribiUty being arith De-ooerata, theta i- a uin i il disposition among Republicans to wait, th.ir souls in patience.

Il leoma to them tolerablj tura that the Democrats will an unwise way of it docing taxation, il any. They can afford to wait, with that idea, until tbe Democrats get nady to say what they mean to do, CHINESE 8ECEET SOCIETIES. Wherever the Chineee have established colon? ies they have, sooner ol COme into collilict with the existing authority through their secret societies. In cases these have grown so rannoiis nm! powerful that they have attempted to overthrow the government of the country. In lin- British coloniee, where Chinese are numerous, it has been found necea shiv to deal directly and in a summary way with thia qneadon.

In some Oriental countries col? onial by Chinese lhere have been serious strug? gles for mastery between the colonists and tho government. In San Francisco the secret soci? eties have longezercised itnoppie-sive away over the Chinese quarter, and there are few China? men so powerful aa to escape their black-mail requisitions. In Bacramento, a fen weeks ago, two bands of hired lighters belonging to liva Organisations of the kind, had a tight with pis? tols and knives in the public street, and there were several serious casualties, 'l'iic adminis? tration of Justice iii American courta, where Chinese are concerned, Is often interfered willi, and times completely prevented, by the ter? rel i-iU of thc secret societies. Only a few days since a Chinese who had acted as Interpretor In a Ban Francisco oourt, ninl who had been useful in detecting the fraud? ulent repreaentotionaof Chinese immigrant la? borers who BOUght to pass as merchantB, was forced to resign hu position, md to appeal to the police for protection against the so-called highbinders," or hired bullies and aasaSSUU of the seelel When a Chinese crime is committed il is very difficult to Hud arlin are afraid to testify, because by eo doing they will be marked for vengeance. The highbinders'" ere all crbitlnals.

They are in the pay of the societies, which latter, for their own pnrpoaea, shelter and protect and en? able them to establish a criminal guild, to tbe ih pu il.ttlons of which the indiistiioiis and law abiding Chinese ara exposed without remedy. The general result, bi thal the Chinese colony is dominated bj its worst elements, and that even the wealthy merchants aid compelled to pay blackmail, while the American laws are practi? cally Inoperative whenever opposed by the secret organizations of Chinatown, How to put an end to this condition of things la, Thopolice and thc municipality ol' Ban Francisco have tried to do so inetli ct nally. Thel.egisiatuio of Califor? nia has also failed to solve the problem. The language is, of course, one of tho greatest ob? stacles. Chinese interpreters are Louieepenaable to all proceedings concerning Chinese, and no way has been found of preventing them from being intimidated or suborned.

This dilliculty ol bunging Chinese colonies under thc sway of our laws is really tho most serious objection that has yet been raised to Chinese immigra? tion, and there can be no doubt as to its reality. Tho Chinese secret societies aro beyond our jurisdiction. They can commit the gravest clinics, exercise tho most outrageous tyranny, levy blackmail wholesale, punish their enemies by the whole colony, and defy our police and.courts. If the Chinoso ar? to remain in any Amorican State in considerable numbers, permanently, aa appears probable, it I hu wiUoertninlybeneceseary to devise means suppressing their secret societies, and brlngin their colonies within the purview of our and form of government. Thus far thia ht not been done.

COLORADO AND THK SILVER QUESTION. Mr. Kelley in the House and Mr. Morrill In th Senate are at one on the silver question. Th opposition la represented by Mr.

Belford. Th country, for its own interests, wishes the colnag of silver stopped, and those who desire a doubl Standard aro as earnest about the matter as thoa who desiro a singlo standard. But Colorado, ing silver mines, wants the coinage continued. The wealth of tho State of Colorado is not i its mines. It is a rich agricultural One day it will look back upon its mining stag with something like contempt.

Its niLnin camps die out; Leadville, for instance, is nc what it was. Nevada carno into the Union silver State, and a man need not bo very rich own tho whole State to-day. Mines get exhaust Tho development which rests upon mine; as a busis is uncertain. Hut Colorado can better; its agriculture will make the State rici long after its mines have fallen to sccondarj importance. Yet at present Colorado thlnki silver mining a matter of life and death.

Thc Democratic Senators had rather poor suocesi in their nttempt to exhibit themselves os the genuine Civil Service Reformers. With a vacancy lill, and a competent official to restore to his place whom the Democrats had turned out, the RepubU cans certainly had a good case, so far as Roforn principles are concerned, respecting two of moro Important of tho offices. And if tho Democrat) are in favorof tho introduction of pormaneut tenun in legislative point which is open to should prove their sincerity ir actions, not in words. The State of New-York has an Indiau problem on its hands in the shape of the Onondaga tribe, onc? the head of the proud Iroquois confederacy, aud now peaceful dwellers in the neighborhood of Syra? cuse. Tho last Legislature took steps to alu nt a di- islon of tho land constituting tho Onon? daga Reservation, and to rcs.

ne the tribe, if possi? ble, flinn a condition which is alleged to bc strangely degraded, in spite of the inila en.is that surround tlcun. It is stated that thc tribe are divided BCCOrdillf to their manners and tho proposed treaty, tho Christien element, which has a bare majority, favoring it, while the element nhichadheres to indian tra? dition-, sad has acquired a worse than Indian morality, objects toit. Caro bas been taken, ap parently, that the Indians shall not lie made tbs vii mus of or sharpers, as so many mi.es hove been who have been dealt within the lame-Baanor by tbs Qenerai Qovernment, A divi? sion La severalty of Um whole or apart of tin- thou rand acres.nposing the reservation is provided for ander such conditions that it shall Ik- forever lo? ll tenable snd untaxable. The civil it of the State is involved in this matter, bs it is declared that the annuity ni m. w.iiiian child has placed a premium upon unmorality, Utah isaeivl virtuous community by comparison, if ahatissaidoi theOnondagaIndians he true.and the siaie sseins io have a difficult task before it.

Tbs wcitlcr-wisc Vennor Benin. Hs tells the hil.tren of olen th.it the rad skies which have lclighted them of lats are to bs rasjardad as tho Indict of warm weather for the next two months. Ile may be rUht. hut he must admit that the nu yesii rday was not too sn rifest ive of streets that had bseome what you rnlghtcall parched by ann i ether. Still tim war of rumors lil Wall Street continues.

Hie hostile parties bombard each other wit hyams, Ibo Beal purly professing certainty that all the alibi and mines aad mstehants are going to the logs, nn.l that all the railroads are going t') i'(Minuit ldc fur tbs benefit ol ipseulatoia, while the Hull i.arty insists that everything and everybody a tbs country is ptosperoua, and that all apparent are te bs settled this afternoon, lou. hiiii; tin- pool, for instance, one party rays that the contest cannot bu settled, sad that be Builini'toii sad tbe Northwestern r.u.ls are to build linea tapping the Union and Kansas 'nellie in every direction from Ogden te Omaha, isving already anrreytng, parties out for ereral new toads. Thia ls trna. Bot he other party that bo rs Western freight igonta even now secretly perfecting tbs new which will suddenly be made puldio and before any wretched hear has shanes to over. It bi also stated, apparently with ioma aithenty, that the Wabash andMiasonri Paeitle ompanies will Join bas Union Pacific in tin-new hut this the Hear pasty It ialso state.1" that President Hllon will resign at Union Paeiftc meeting to? ny, ami this loterssting rtatement ls flatly denied the office of tbe company.

"You pays your money nd you takes jour eic ii. said the shu mau. Holman, of Indiana, tells a reporter that tba tanocratlc National C.invention will not he held atll August That wiU be pretty late, still there ill bs time rsHragh betweeu August andNovem er for tho party to organize the defeat that waits it. If report from Philadelphia ls correct, tv rn trunk line pool bas a difficult mattel to settle, he rcjMirt, ls that General Freight Agent Wilson de lares that the Pennsylvania Railroad "will take a rm stand auaitist furl lier lioiiOBSBBlWBI to rival nes." That means Hie West Shore, whloh hm ap lie.l tor admission to the pool, and, of course, foe a slice of the traffle. If any slice is to he given, imcbody now in the pool must suffer.

Hut if the eiinsylvaiiia will make no concessions, the Bolt! toro and Ohio, being still further fron the new ae arid less afteoted by it, will doubtless take the ian- course. Then thc Krie will say. mu uunatur lly, "our Western business will not he affected hy ie addition of a new line close to tic New-York i-nlral." Hut th- latter rend is quite sure tn refuse efl the saerlfiess which must be mads in der to introduce th- West Shoro road Into the ippy family. It will nason that it is squally ini- I irtant to all the roads to avoid a general war of tcs. Thus the differences do not seem altogether the Pennsylvania will make no ure A.

dispatch from Bristol, ruthlessly ijiv.M ie iianie of man who committed sui. ale, killed ro of ms ohildren, and made a set. mt very sick, by living in a hoaa of which tba ak-pipes emptied Into a tightly covered pool, the phyrdoians of New-York should begin to print hat they know of deaths from similar causes, am would be a wretcned time for a great many nml tenants. Hy way of continulngour citations of Demo, iat ettmony regarding Deaiocratis tendencies io the nilli, we give this caid, which Judge I'. Mays, Botatourt County, Virginia, says was recently te kimi fudge K.

P. li to notice von that von tVS tills count- Iii (Ive lin- nile putty of county determined that do Etepubllran offli Isl shall ld Office In tills county, unit BO RsdleaJ Hhall live here rote bera, JTou sw Uerefon ordered to raslgs your lee anil the ooanty, or sager tim penalty retai? lors rtliull millet. We ure in enrui-st, mi titki- warning. Ten Diimoi hats. rheas ten Democrats did not have the r-ourage sign their nani's, and so their party fi lends have in their power to claim that tho note ts not e.

Hut lt is not customary for tho senders of letters to them, and it has baan stomary for Southern Democrats to send such Hers. It is only now and then that men like those Coolah County, Mississippi, have the courage of cir mid nay what they mean over eir owu names. According to Ihe Herald, the men who supported r. Parnass for fbaaskat raisod tho tarni lane ldly, clearly and squarely." This is valuable in ruiatioii, aud we hope it may uot bu contradicted ithiu aduy hy tho men themselves. "Let those ju pa ahead boldly mid- ti rm ly on tho lino they ve aiifpi-ii," ooutinuos their self-appointed guide.

A consummation devoutly to be wished. But if they do, lt will be the first thing they ever did "boldly and firmly." Unless all signs fail, these Mme men will be shouting for extreme protection? in some nine calendar months. PERSONAL. Ex-Senator Yaloe. who is now building a fiuo residence in Washington, is said to be the richest citizen of Florida.

His fortune is estimated at about three millions. Dr. Edward Lacker, the German socialist leader, has returned from his extended trip through this country, and is living at present at No. 102 Lexing ton-ave. He intends to stay In this city until tho latter part of January, when he will return to Ger? many, and resume his sent in the Reichstag.

The Rev. F. A. Douglas, for many years the secre? tary of tho American and Foreign Bible Society, has accepted a call to the Baptist Church in Middletown, N. near Long Branch.

It ls one of the oldest Baptist churches in tho country, having been or? ganized in 1688. A Cleveland leader correspondent a Repre? sentative in Congress as saying of Senator Brown, of Georgia: "Did you ever seo him carry an umbrella when there was no raiu falling Ile holds it in front of him. Well, he does that because he is too mean to put the umbrella on the ground, for fear he will wear out the ferule." When Mr. Polk was inaugurated," said Simon Cameron the orhor day, talking over old tunes, Mr. Buchanan came to me aud said Cameron, Polk has tendered me tho position of Secretary of State In his Cabinet.

What would you do about itt' 'Whv ask met You have already made up your mind to accept Then who will succeed ms as Senatort' 'I think Simon Cameron Mr. Buchanan walked away, aud was never after my friend, although we never quarrelled. I have always thought he had a candidate of his own. When the Legislature met to choodo Mr. Buchanan's successor, I was elected.

My seat in the Senate was directly behind that nf Mr. Calhoun, and he was very kind to me from the day I entered public life. Next to Mr. Webster, he was the greatest man I ever knew." Miss Mary Anderson's photographs are having a wider salo in London, it is said, than those of any other actress, English or foreign, who has played ni that city, and they areto beseen in almost ever im? aginable costume aud attitude. So many sittings ha vs seriously encroached upon the time she wishes to devote to other things.

But," says she, Braal am I to do I come down to breakfast and lind ii beautiful bouquet waiting for me. By its aids lies dainty little note from ancuterprisinglpliotogiiiph. which reads day we have SBMa Isas inquiries for your photograph. We have, of course, to send our customers away without being ulric to satisfy their demands. Could you sit to our artist should he very grateful to you, etc' and it generally ends in my compliance." But Miss Anderson doesn't sit once for each attitude.

Uh 110, She makes them take her in a dusts, positions si tum-. That is to say, she has them BRanaaa dozen cameras sad operators bi samoa, a semi-circle, and then she down or stands in thc centre, and is photographed from a dozen different points ol'vier simultaneously. Hut when particularly elaborate is to bs done, she Blakes the photographer bring his apparatus to her own drawing-room, and take ber picture there. Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxs is said ta bars had a putty tough experience in going to tho other day to administer the ute of eontiiiii.ii.i.ii First ho got in a train going the wiling way, and h.i<I to get Livonia and aita to I rey him to Genesco. Getting there, hs found that his rsliso.

containing his surplice, which bad cossa by train he iboaldhave taken, was locked ap in the depot, aud it took some time to Bad the -Li? tton master who had key. Getting his sur? plice, he mule a rush for tbe church, tbs Bren ahead- under way, hut thought it sa ry to have a drink of water before beginning his dut les. The only man rn ho was .1 to be ihlo to get the Wiltef Wits tile -liloU el'. Hld llS could only go for it on condition that Bishop took his place at the bellows, which the Latter did. liven then BO water could be obtained, and Bishop had to take Part In the services with his throat full of dust.

Nor was this the lad of his trials. Wln-n the service was over, by flouts nnderstanding there was no carriage in waitiag te take hun to tlie house where In- was to spend tbs night, Bud he had to ride thither in a Ssh-wagoa. which whs the only conveyance procurable. And finally tba horse rea awaraad narrowly avoided upsetting tin- Bishop into the gutter. We trust," says The Ornetto Hepublk, that tho Bishop will not nave soy hesitation in coming to Genesco lu the future." Dee.

uer.il anson G. Mo Cook, the new of the S-mite, made his UTSt official appearance in the House this announcing the passage of a Senate joint resolution. Ile was warmly applarded by his old and received many congratulations. TALER ABOUT TOW S. Tin.

i.xt*(i<rui-:s. ff O'Uri, BBB -(lad to BBS Ui at Iii. rs ls oas paper wits, sssnrsgs ssssaak to attack ms cn na) Works. Isn't lt strange trie oilier pupen ignore the faith I When Die IBBMB published tits figures I gave them about tht- Tweed i uur tin- oilier pupers copied tlictn, particularly Tiur.i sk, and lt I other corrupt oflh-crs, too. which not fellow TllK Twill SB'S IcikI will -yet loft," I tell voil, will have to print tin- facts when au olllclal iBVBSBlSBBBBB lg lusilc by the Legislature.

You warn to tum to IBS "big pipe contracts" which are controlled a ut contractor, throug-i Maurice II. I'lynn. These contractors tift all theae contracts at big prices and furnish nffbt weight nnd short, (piantlty. All la being ls .1 with lufdior pipes at this very moment. The inoimy made on pipe contracts" ls enormous.

The city doesn't get more th.ui than three-quarters of a mile for every mlle of big pipe lt pays for. NEW Nl'WSl'Al'EB VENTURES. Fred. SfktU, hear that the Tejat aVafafB man. Kni.x, is oh.oily to rn large weekly in thli eily, to be edited by Hugh McDermott, lt ls to bo after Oakey old pa-ter, the Liader, aud ls to bs mod.

ou that sheet, with a loucti of the humorous lu aryle. Ubi I don't know that thc sculptor, who fought a bogus duel Uh Knoi, ls to illustrate lu The new penny aftcmoou paper is supposed to be backed by tho sutl-uioiiopoly crowd. AUTIIL'U AND McCOOJC. Or-unje ir. course, after (tciieral Mcl'ook'i BBlSSttOB bf the fciiate caucus the candidate ir Secre? tary I no chance for the nomination for Serge mt il Anus, lull 1 shou'd have won if Ibo Secretary aSBtSSSBS fiomsome other State.

I soe that some of tba p.i->tss liyliiK to tu.iki- it SPPSBB that cess waa a slap at l'realdcut Arthur. It bad no -1 I meaulng. Ninety percent of tho saBSBBCS who rstsSl for afcOook are friendly to tho President. i.cn.-i.il John A. Logan undoubtedly believes be eau bo nomin? ated and elected BSBaSt-M bee lu lils rBB whole bin-of "em.

Hilt BS candidate I.liked ui yt is SS wuk in titi, state, where the ISSI light uextycar i- lie, nu lieueial Logan. Illa persi-tcul attacks upon in ral Porter injure bim lu Ulta Slate, led about icu thousand New-York flStdlSBB BBS WBO, snit. Tbctbor ho ass sr irsi sociality ol RsasBB, taay ittlf swear by kna. Mit. AUX llil.A.*UKl>.

id ifouM Vanderbilt sss sal been si sr tty alteiliuf In- nailery: BS BBS really bulk new gallen at a co-I for the building alone of ifl Vi.niio. 'Pia- 1 build a very handsome residence for ordinary mortals, wouldn't lt I I uuilt-rstaud lhat tho gallery wdl plBf about Ino pictures uever before 1.. ie. CLEAN STKKl'TS ANT) CLEAN R-tOOBM Street Cummi.tiuner Colt ma hts f(St SBBW Bf UBI BBsSSn both late and Ught. Such a fall BBSS rot snluii-ly incommode merchants or Uii'icd.) trav.

1. 1 1 did not pal BB BB extra force to clean lt yestmljy I could have a thousand more In the effort, but lt would have been wasted. 1 could easily hundred or a and llfty tUousaiid do.Urs moro radi yeal than I do without having cartload more of dirt to remove from the city and without improving our sanitary condition, but it would be useless. Oil streets which 1 now clean once a week I could dally take up som-dirt, but the cost would be seven ss much, and still only tho same amount of dirt bo ri mo. cl.

Tbs only advantage would be that tbe atreets would look SIS saar. This ls tho point tbe people generally do not ap? preciate or understand. The siiuiiary condition of New York waa nev or better than now. Thia ls largely duo to the rigid enforcement by the llealth Board of tbe sanitary laws, particularly as they apply to U-ueuiont houaes. No, Tiik Tani.nb has uot yet touched upon my buicau of tbs Di paruueut.

Whoa it docs I bops to be Bant) with good and satisfactory explanation. I think lt ls an error not to reply promptly to cbargea la wblob tbe vttbli? Interested. Public opinion qmokly formed wben la mom lamed uudar charges of tbe kind ms lame Nii IS masing, aad no power can sttiud lot sasinst puoiw f'.