Churches, Carriages, Chairs, and all Upholstering 168 N. NOYES: We are much pleased with the Elastic The Largest and Best Assorted Stock in the City fully equal to your recommendation-a cheap, pleas- 168 GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS. OF S HOOL, LAW, MEDICAL, DENTAL, CLASSI- BOOKS, C. F. MANNING, Coal Dealer, 65 Second street. H. S. FORNEY, House Furnishing Goods, 11 North H. SANDERS, Pianos and Organs, 79 W. Fayette st. GENERAL BANK AND COUNTING-HOUSE graph Co. Of all kinds. W. WOODRUFF, Grocer, Madison av. and Biddle st. Elastic Sponge Church Cushions. BLANK BOOKS MADE TO ORDER IN ANY STYLE FROM FRIENDS' MEETING, LOMBABD STREET. OF BINDING AND RULING. HE ATTENTION OF PERSONS DESIRING HDKF'S.. SUSPENDERS, 168 168 BALTIMORE, 10th mo., 15th, 1868. Tto invest money in a safe and remunerative man-meeting-house purposes they are superior to any 168 ner is invited to the facilities offered by the Monumental Permanent Building and Land Society, which is now in successful operation, under a liberal charter from the State, and officered by well-known citizens. The par value of shares, $400 each, may be paid up in full at once, or in weekly instalments of $1 each. The funds are invested by loans upon mortgage on Real or Leasehold property for from one to ten years, at the rate of six per cent., with a bonus additional, making in all a return of nearly nine per cent. The security, ample in itself, is made doubly good by the weekly repayment of PRINCIPAL, INTEREST, and BONUS, which, with other weekly receipts, are loaned in the same manner. Thus the funds are compounded (weekly) again and again to the great gain of the Society. No salaries are paid; no money kept idle. The owner of one house borrows with it for security to build another, the rent of which will pay his dues. Lombard street poses. WM. H. DIFFENDERFFER, M. D., WM. H. BROWN & BRO., The Builder of his first house borrows while building, HOUSE-FURNISHING HARDWARE, Etc. receiving safe instalments until the house, is erected, having previously given bond against Liens. The Society has had no suits, no default. The earnings for the first year will probably justify a cash dividend of 25 per cent. We have abundant applications for money, and confident that we are aiding in the improvement of the City, we wish to increase our facilities still more. CORTLAN & CO., 216 AND 218 BALTIMORE STREET. IVORY HANDLE CUTLERY, COMMON CUTLERY, PARIAN STATUARY, PLATED GOODS, Shares may be withdrawn at any time without loss, and Borrowers may obtain a Release of Mortgage when desired, upon payment of the amount remaining due, and a Release fee of $1 per share. Certificates of paid up shares ($400) bear dividend FRENCH AND ENGLISH CHINA, interest from their dates, and where weekly payments have been made, dividends are paid upon the amounts subscribed, properly averaged for the year. Dues are received at the office, corner Second street and Postoffice avenue, daily, between the hours of 9 and 4, where the Board of Directors meet on THURSDAY EVENING of each week. For further information inquire of the following G DRESSING GOWNS, BRUSHES, COMBS, &C., &C. THE MOST COMPLETE MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS IN THE CITY. OUR GREAT SPECIALITY IS SHIRTS, READY MADE, OR MADE TO ORDER. I REAT DECLINE IN THE MEN'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING, REGARDLESS OF COST. Noah Walker & Co., 165 and 167 West Baltimore street. NEW HOUSE FURNISHING STORE. SAMUEL CHILD & CO., No. 20 NORTH CHARLES ST., IMPORTERS OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH Porcelain and White Granite Ware, Foreign and American Table Glass Ware, PLATED GOODS, TIN, WOODEN and JAPANNED WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, RY GOODS. DR FALL, 1868. HULL, ATKINSON & CO., 258 Baltimore St., Baltimore, Offer their large and elegant stock of BRITISH, CLOTHING Patent BREAD CUTTERS; St. Germain's Study or FOR FALL AND WINTER. Office LAMPS; Patent MEAT CUTTERS; Patent J. Importer, Jobber and Retailer of DRY GOODS, And Manufacturer of LADIES' CLOAKS, &c. NEW EW STYLES A Fine Assortment. J. P. HARTMAN & SON, THE NEW ECLECTIC, A MAGAZINE OF Selected Foreign & American Literature, PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY TURNBULL & MURDOCH, 49 LEXINGTON STREET, BALTIMORE, The publication of "The New Eclectic" was commenced with January, 1868. It has met with such immediate and flattering recognition throughout the whole country, that the Publishers feel a degree of confidence in recommending it to more extended favor. Some of its distinguishing features are: 1st. That it makes its selections from the whole field of current periodical literature, including the most esteemed publications in France, England, Germany and America. 2nd. That it is identified with no political party or religious sect, but in the sole wish to discover truth, to promote liberal culture, and a thoroughly informed and discreet Christian activity, it will seek to represent, as fairly as its space will allow, the best and truest views of various schools and parties. 3rd. The subject of Education will receive special attention. 4th. A pleasing variety of articles will be given in each number, including Scientific and Artistic subjects. 5th. Liberal space will be devoted to reviews of new publications, and a full list of new books will be given each month for the convenience of readers. 6th. It will contain a monthly miscellany of short items-humorous, literary, etc. In the character and range of its selections, the quality of its typography, and in all the appointments of a first-class magazine, "The New Eclectic" challenges comparison with any similar pbblication in the country. Although in the selection of articles, preference is generally given to those bearing strongly upon the Immediate issues of the day, it is believed the general excellence and ability of the writings will give them permanent interest, and render the bound volumes of the Magazine valuable additions to a library, as books of reference. Each number of the Magazine contains 128 8vo. pages, carefully arranged, and indexed for binding. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. The character and reputation of "The New Eclectic" may be gathered from the following extracts from the opinions of the press: "The vast proportions which periodical literature has assumed creates a demand for such publications as this. Even with the amplest leisure one cannot as much as 'dip into' the swarm of English and American reviews and monthlies, and yet we must keep up with current thought. What then? The Eclectic Magazine the cream of periodical literature selected for us. We know of no other that does this so admirably in all respects as this NEW ECLECTIC, showing in its whole management, catholicity of spirit, tact, and industry, It is ahead of all others in the breadth of its liberalism, its purity and elevation of tone, and the range of its gleanings."-New Orleans Daily Picayune. 30 Elegant Rosewood Pianos... For Testimonials of Remarkable Curez see "ROSA-150 Sewing Machines... 250 Musical Boxes.. DALIS ALMANAC" for this year. 300 Fine Gold Watches. 750 Fine Silver Watches.. PREPARED ONLY BY DR. J. J. LAWRENCE & CO., For Sale by Druggists Everywhere. RUPTURES DR. J. A. SHERMAN, Artistic Surgeon, respectfully offers his services in the application of his Rupture Curative Appliances, at his office, ......... Fine Oil Paintings, Framed Engravings, Silver Ware, Photograph Albums, and a large assortment of Fine Gold Jewelry, in all valued at 1,000,000 DOLLARS. A Chance to Draw any of the above Prizes by Purchasing a Sealed Ticket for 25 Cents. Tickets describing each Prize are SEALED in Envelopes and thoroughly mixed. On receipt of 25 Cents, a Sealed Ticket will be drawn, without choice, and delivered at our office, or sent by mail to any address. The prize named upon it will be delivered to the ticket-holder on payment of One Dollar. Prizes will be immediately sent to any address, as requested, by express or return mail. You will know what your Prize is before you pay for it. Any Prize may be exchanged for another of the same value. No Blanks. Our Patrons can depend on fair dealing. REFERENCES.-We select the few following names from the many who have lately drawn Valuable Prizes and kindly permitted us to publish them: able, and deserve their success."-W'kly Tribune, Feb.8. Mr. S. T. Wilkens, Buffalo, New York, $1,000; Mrs. 697 BROADWAY, corner 4th Street. E. Stuart, 70 Nelson Place, N. Y., $500; Miss A. Monfrom his long and constant devotion to the Treatment Dubuque, Sewing Machine, $100; Philip McCarthy, The great experience of DR. SHERMAN, resulting roe, Chicago, Ill., Piano, valued at $650; W. Curtis, New Haven, Gold Watch, $200; Robert Jackson, and Cure of this disease, assures him of his ability to Louisville, Ky., $500; James Rogers, Washington, D. relieve all, without regard to the age of the patient, or C., Musical Box, $150; Miss Emma Walworth, Milduration of the infirmity, or the difficulties which they may have heretofore encountered in seeking re-waukee, Wis., Piano, $500; Rev. T. W. Pitt, Cleveland, Ohio, Melodeon, $125. lief. Dr. S., as Principal of the Rupture Curative InWe publish no names without permission. stitute, New Orleans, for a period of more than fifteen OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. years, had under his care the worst cases in the coun"They are doing the largest business; the firm is relitry, all of which were effectually relieved, and many, to their great joy, restored to a sound body. "We have examined their system, and know them None of the pains and injuries, resulting from the use of other Trusses, are found in Dr. Sherman's Ap- to be a fair dealing firm."-N. Y. Herald, Feb. 28, 1868. "Last week a friend of ours drew a $500 prize, which pliances; and, with a full knowledge of the assertion, was promptly received."-Daily News, March 3, 1868. he promises greater security and comfort, with a daily Send for circular giving many more references and improvement in the disease, than can be obtained of favorable notices from the press. Liberal induceany other person, or the inventions of any other per-ments to Agents. Satisfaction guaranteed. son in the United States. EVERY PACKAGE OF SEALED ENVELOPES Prices to suit all classes. It is the only, as well as CONTAINS ONE CASH GIFT. the cheapest, remedy ever offered the afflicted. PhoSix Tickets for One Dollar, 13 for Two Dollars, 35 tographic likenesses of cases before and after treat- for Five Dollars, 110 for Fifteen Dollars. ment furnished on receipt of two 3 cent stamps. All letters should be addressed to DENTIST, "This is the best Magazine of selected literature pub-M. W. WILSON, M. D., lished in the United States. Its articles are always of the highest order, the finest that can be found in the whole field of current periodical literature, including the most esteemed publications of France, Germany, NO. 99 NORTH CHARLES STREET, cor. Mulberry. and this country."-New York Evening Mail. "The selections are made with care. They are pure, high-finished, entertaining articles. The political phi reader of generous scholar, losopher, the person of s, and the Christian general may all find someting to cheer and to improve."Richmond Christian Advocate. "The articles are well selected; most of them short, pithy, and pleasingly varied. French, German, and English sources all contribute to this very readable mélange."-New York Daily Times. "Though so recently started, "The New Eclectic " has already achieved a wide popularity, and it deserves a popularity still wider."-Louisville Journal. The New Eclectic is fairly carrying out its opening promise to give solidly able and carefully selected articles."-The Round Table. In addition to many other attractive features, "The New Eclectic" is now publishing two interesting new novels, by Anthony Trollope and the author of John Hallax. TURNBULL & MURDOCH, Publishers, 49 Lexington street, Baltimore. All styles of Dentistry done in the best manner. JULIAN J. CHISOLM, M. D., Surgeon, Oculist and Aurist, OFFICE-67 N. CHARLES STREET, Office Hours-9 to 11 A. M., 1 to 3 P. M., 5 to 6 P. M. COLTON DENTAL ASSOCIATION, originators of the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas for Rooms-81 WEST FAYETTE STREET, second door west of Charles. PATAPSCO GUANO COMPANY. MMONIATED SOLUBLE PHOSPHATE, Warranted equal in quality to any fertilizer. It is superior to Peruvian Guano in its effect upon Crops, and is a permanent improver of the soil. Communications addressed to HORATIO E. BERRY, Secretary, No. 65 South street, cor. of Pratt st., Baltimore. Price $60 per ton. A liberal discount allowed to dealers. HESAPEAKE GUANO-AN AMMONIATED CSOLUBLE PHOSPHATE, suitable for all Crops, and permanently improving the soil. Warranted to be equal to any Fertilizer in the market, and foundHE BEST PLACE superior to Peruvian Guano by those who used it. Prepared and sold by TO GET A SEWING MACHINE Where all kinds are sold; where the Agent is not ISAAC REYNOLDS & SONS, Baltimore, interested in any special machines. COR. OF COMMERCE ST. AND EXCHANCE PLACE. Machines rented, repaired, and exchanged at F. W. WILDS, For Price and Certificates, send for Pamphlet. A liberal discount to Dealers. 78 West Baltimore street, near Gay. Al kinds of Machine Needles can be ordered by mail. HOLLIDAY ST. THEATRE. STAGE MANAGER.....................MR. THOS. A. HALL A Fashionable Success. SECOND WEEK OF THE GRAND DRAMATIC SPECTACLE, By Charles M. Barras, called the BLACK CROOK! WITNESSED EVERY NIGHT DURING THE WEEK, BY THRONGED, FASHIONABLE, and DELIGHTED AUDIENCES, NOW PERFECT IN SPLENDOR AND BEAUTY. Exquisite Specimens of Stage Art, WM. KNABE & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT PIANO FORTES. WAREROOMS, No. 850 West Baltimore Street, near Eutaw, BALTIMORE. These Instruments have been before the public for nearly thirty years, and upon their excellence alone attained an un-purchased pre-eminence, which pronounces them unequaled. Their Tone combines great power, sweetness and fine singing quality, as well as great purity of intonation, and evenness throughout the entire scale. Their Touch HAMMER AND ANVIL, A NEW NOVEL BY The Greatest of Living Novelists. Translated from the German expressly for THE BALTIMORE STATESMAN. The Publishers of THE BALTIMORE STATESMAN take pleasure in announcing that in their issue of Decemis pliant and elastic, and entirely free from the stiffness ber 12th was commenced the publication of a translafound in so many Pianos. In tion of Spielhagen's new Novel. Workmanship they are unexcelled, using none but the very best SEASONED MATERIAL, the large capital employed in our business enabling us to keep continually an immense stock of lumber, etc., on hand. All our SQUARE PIANOS have our New Improved Overstrung scale and the AGRAFFE TREBLE. We would call special attention to our late improve CHAS. S. GETZ, G. WINDERLICH and J. PARKER, ments in ment of Fashionable CARRIAGES on hand, of his own make, in the city, and at all prices to suit. Persons in want of Carriages will find it to their interest to give me a call, as I will sell low for cash or approved paper. WILLIAM MCCANN, No. 35 South Gay street. MARY & CO., 163 NORTH HOWARD STREET, Pittston White Ash Coal, Baltimore Company, Wilkesbarre, Lyken's Valley, Sunbury, George's Creek and Cumberland Lump, Smiths' and Steam Coal, at lowest prices. C near Franklin, wholesale and retail Oak and Pine Kindling Wood, of all sizes, delivered free. CARY & CO. HAMMER AND ANVIL, which is now appearing as a serial in Germany. The publication will be continued from week to week until the work is completed. TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS Remitting Their Subscriptions for the Year 1869, THE STATESMAN will be mailed free of charge from the beginning of this Romance until the 1st of January, 1869. THE STATESMAN is issued every Saturday morning. It is Published by the VOL. I.-NO. 16. NOTES OF THE WEEK............................................. The Mayor's Message BALTIMORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1869. .255 S THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM ............ 253 of grace by any unjust discrimination, or to give war the sympathies of the people of Maryland to the country another illustration of his disposi-were divided. Since the return of peace they tion to do things by halves. The very Commis- have been almost altogether on the side which 256 sion that tried and sentenced these men made a was not represented by General Grant in the late Some Pictures................................................................................................ ..257 marked discrimination in Spangler's favor, by canvass. Baltimore and Maryland did not vote The Ethics of Art CONTRIBUTED: Peabody Institute-Academy of Music-Sixth Or chestral Concert........ REVIEWS: February Magazines HAMMER AND ANVIL. A Novel by Friedrich Spiel hagen. Chapter XI.............. NEWS SUMMARY............... CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. THE MARKETS..... .............. 256 258 .260 262 vertisements must be left at the Office on or before sentencing him to six years' confinement-the for General Grant for President. Any demon................258 other two for life! By this very distinction they stration, therefore, of personal enthusiasm or of stultified themselves, and unconsciously testified political sympathy on the part of our people toto their own conviction of Spangler's innocence. wards General Grant, was not to be expected-and The charge against him was that he, as a stage- would have been wholly out of place. Besidescarpenter and scene-shifter at the Theatre, as- he came here not in any official capacity, but 263 sisted Booth both in his preparations for the com- simply as a citizen, to attend a meeting of the 264 mission of his crime, and in his escape from the Trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund. He THE STATESMAN will be mailed to Subscribers Theatre. His complicity, if it existed at all, was was received with all the consideration due to the out of Town, and furnished to Newsdealers in the that of an accessory before the fact. If guilty, he high station which he holds, and the yet more exCity every Friday evening: Subscription price deserved the full penalty which was inflicted upon alted one which he has been called to fill. We Three Dollars per annum-payable in advance. Herold, upon Payne, and Atzerodt. If the Com- believe nobody here said anything to him about Persons residing in the city can be served by Car-mission had thought him guilty, they would have politics or office. At the private entertainments riers, by prepaying at the Office, or at the rate of had no hesitation in sentencing him to death with at which he was present, guests of opposite poliThirty Cents per month, payable to the Carriers. as little scruple as they sentenced Mrs. Surratt. tics freely mingled, burying for the occasion old Books intended for Review should be sent in They sentenced him to six years' confinement! differences and animosities. At the public levee early in the Week to receive prompt notice. Ad- The Boston Advertiser, a Radical journal, which which he held at Barnum's Hotel, the authori Thursday, otherwise they will be too late for inser- has uniformly contended that Spangler was en- ties of State and City united to pay him honor. tion in that Week's paper. tirely innocent, and that his continued imprison- He was taken to various places of interest in the Applications from Persons desiring to act as ment was an outrage, says that it wishes to have city, including some of the principal manufacAgents or Canvassers received at the Office. Com- nothing to do with the cases of Doctor Mudd and turing establishments, the tobacco factory of munications should be addressed to Arnold-that by reason of their associations with Messrs. Gail & Ax, the Abbott iron works, the Booth, "by their own act, they fell under the dark Baltimore Copper Works, Mr. Kensett's oyster shadow of his crime," and consequently merit packing establishment, &c.,-a mode of enterBaltimore. their fate, whatever that may be! A fine rhetori- tainment which to a man of General Grant's TO CORRESPONDENTS.-To remove all possible cal reason, truly, for shutting men up for life practical turn of mind, must have seemed, as it Not that really was, infinitely more sensible and compliground of misunderstanding, or any imputation in a military prison in the Gulf! they are guilty in substance, but in "shadow!" mentary than an equal amount of senseless junof discourtesy, the Editors of The Statesman Not that they had any hand in Booth's act-for ketting and speechifying. And not to be outdone beg leave to say, that while they are happy to that was never pretended by anybody. According by private citizens, the city exhibited for his inreceive and consider communications upon all to all the testimony of all the witnesses, on the spection two of her "model" institutions-of the topics, and from any quarter, they cannot under-fatal night of the 14th of April, Doctor Mudd efficiency of which she is justly proud-and which take to answer the letters and inquiries of correswas at his own house, thirty miles from Washing-are in reality models for every city in the country ton, and Arnold at Old Point Comfort, Virginia. -the Police and the Fire Department. pondents, or to return contributions which are But they fell under Booth's "dark shadow!" not accepted, or to hold either personal interviews The one had been previously associated with or correspondence upon the subject. Booth in a plot to do something which was never done or even attempted; the other set Booth's fractured leg. We do not see how any fairminded man can make or find any distinction between the merits of these three cases. for the sake of humanity, that President JohnWe trust, THE STATESMAN, No. 162 Baltimore Street, Communications upon matters connected with the business interests of the paper, are invariably referred to the gentlemen having charge of that department, by whom they will be promptly answered and attended to. Notes of the Week. son will make no distinction in the exercise of his In enumerating the various attentions of which General Grant was the recipient while in Baltiit should be recorded, for the bencfit of our more, Radical brethren, that at the public reception on Saturday, "American citizens of African descent" were not debarred of the opportunity of paying their respects to the General. In this State, negrocs are not citizens in the political sense of the term; they enjoy an equality of civil rights with white people; are equally protected in person and General Grant's visit to Baltimore last week property; are admitted to testify in the courts, ought to have given eminent satisfaction to that but they are not qualified to vote or to serve as We see a paragraph going the rounds of the taciturn hero. He spent three days in this city, jurors. In the District of Columbia, by the grace daily papers-based upon the authority of certain during which he was not called upon to make a of Congress, they have every privilege which white Washington correspondents-to the effect that speech to anybody, and nobody made speeches to men possess, and many more besides. Yet we President Johnson has definitely made up his him beyond a few cordial words of welcome. He believe it to be a fact that the real reason why the mind to pardon Doctor Mudd, one of the Dry was not made a show of, but was treated with re-idea of an Inauguration Ball, at Washington, has Tortugas prisoners-nothing being said as to his spect, courtesy and hospitality. The attentions been abandoned, is not because the Senate refused probable action in the cases of the other two un- which he received were such, we should imagine, the use of the Capitol for the purpose, or because fortunates-Arnold and Spangler. We trust that, as best accorded with his own taste and inclina- the Republican managers could not find or build in so plain a case, the President is not going once tions, and were most becoming and appropriate a suitable structure for the occasion, but because more to neutralise and destroy the effect of an act on the part of our people to offer. During the they shrunk from the alternative of either admit ting or excluding ladies and gentlemen of color designed to heighten the burlesque effect of his that the Senate will refuse to ratify the "protofrom the Ball. The "man and brother" theory previous statement-it must be confessed, was a col," and that negotiations will be renewed under is all very fine as a theory; but it doesn't alto- very back-handed compliment to those distin- the incoming Administration upon a very differgether work smoothly in practice. Imagine, at guished English statesmen. What Mr. Johnson ent basis. General Grant utters so few opinions such a Ball, the belles of Beacon street or of Fifth meant, however, by describing General Grant as upon any subject-in fact, seems to have reduced Avenue-the wives and daughters of Republican a "blacksmith"-when everybody knows that the the art of silence to such a system-that we more magnates and millionaires-encountering Cæsar only mechanical handicraft with which he ever than doubt the truth of the story which attributes and Dinah in the figures of the quadrille, or in the had any connection, was that of the tanner-we to him such a departure from his habitual reserve, mazes of the German! The idea evidently was do not clearly perceive. Joke again-we suppose! as well as from those requirements of delicacy not pleasant to contemplate, and hence the aban- Some recondite allusion to the hammering pro- which belong to his present position. The ratifidonment of the Ball. Why-unless for a similar cess which General Grant employed so success-cation of the Treaty is a question for the Senate, reason is the case of Mr. Menard, the colored gen- fully against the Confederate armies, or to the not for General Grant, and amid all the changes tleman who is understood to have been elected to the hand which he is supposed to have had in weld- which our Government has undergone, we have House of Representatives from Louisiana, still ing together the fragments of our disjointed not yet quite reached that point when matters of hung up in the Committee of Elections? Do the Union. We submit that these or any other ex-grave public policy are disposed of to meet the Radical majority intend to dodge the question, by planations are preferable to the very uncharitable wishes of an individual-even though that indipostponing it until the night before the end of hypothesis that Mr. Johnson's mistakes are the vidual happen to be the President elect. result of ignorance. the session, and then pass a resolution to the effect that Mr. Menard is entitled to his seat, consoling him with the empty honor and his back pay, and at the same time escape the necessity of sit ting and voting with him in Committee and in the House? We did the thing more honestly in Baltimore the other day. We notice that some of our contemporaries are A day or two since Mr. Sumner presented a One of Mr. Johnson's recent jokes, by-the-way, memorial of the Union League of Winchester, elicited a curious admission from an English jour-remonstrating against the removal of the disabil nal of no less critical authority than the London ities imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment in Spectator.. Our Minister had been invited to be the case of Judge Parker, of the Frederick Cirpresent at the distribution of prizes at some pub-cuit, in Virginia. This League is composed of lic-school exhibition. As usual, he made a few adventurers, scalawags and deluded negroes, and remarks, in the course of which he told the pupils, as it probably includes some ambitious carpettaking in very serious part Mr. Reverdy John- by way of encouragement, that with patience and bagger, anxious to succeed Judge Parker, it is son's humorous observations at a Workingmen's study they would come in time to speak and write not singular that it should memorialize Congress, meeting held in London the other day, in regard the English language as well as it is spoken and and still less singular that Mr. Sumner should be to there being no difference in the conformation written in this country. Whereupon, The Spec-selected as its organ of communication. There is of human skulls. They seem to think that Mr. tator remarks that there was more truth than a question, however, which is worthy of even Johnson betrayed in his remarks a very lamentpoetry in the jocular observation of the American Radical attention-Do the privileges which the able and mortifying ignorance of well-established Minister-that, in point of fact, the English lan- Parliamentary law secures to Senators include the and universally admitted physiological facts. guage is freer from the corruptions of dialect and right to utter calumny and slander? In presentSuch undoubtedly would be the case, if Mr. provincialism in America than in England; and ing this paper, Mr. Sumner took occasion to say Johnson's speech is to be understood as seriously that in respect of purity of style and diction, there that Judge Parker was worthy to be classed meant. We are of the opinion that he was only is no living English writer who is the equal of among the Atrocious Judges of history. So joking. Since he has been in England, Mr. John- Hawthorne! gratuitous an assertion in reference to one of the son has appeared in a new rôle—that of a humorpurest, ablest and most conscientious judges of ist; and the particular form of humor which he It would be unjust to Mr. Johnson to take note Virginia is a humiliating evidence of the low tone seems most to affect is that of misstating histori- only of what he has said in England, without which pervades the Senate of the United States. cal and physical facts-something in the style of coupling therewith a word of acknowledgment of It is not a matter of surprise that Mr. Sumner's Mrs. Jarley. For instance, when he spoke to an what he has done. We are quite of the opinion own sense of Senatorial propriety failed to sugEnglish audience of King John as a benevolent of those who think "he has been speaking out gest to him the gross injustice of such an asperand Constitutional King, and of the gratitude in too much"--which, he says, is "the only charge sion upon an absent gentleman. But there were which his memory is cherished on both sides of that has been brought against him," though we Senators present who knew Judge Parker-and the Atlantic for the great boon of Magna Charta, imagine that it is the quality quite as much as the we confess to some astonishment that Mr. Willey it is unreasonable to suppose that Mr. Johnson quantity of his talk that has provoked so much or Mr. Van Winkle had not the manliness to rise was in earnest. So when he says, as he did say hostile criticism. But as an offset to all his and rebuke the insinuated calumny of Mr. Sumto these English workingmen, that we had speeches, post-prandial and other, he has con- ner, by the utterance of such a tribute to Judge thought at one time in America that there was cluded three treaties with the English Foreign Parker as their own personal knowledge of his a difference between white skulls and black-but Office; one in regard to the rights of naturalised unblemished personal and official character would had changed that opinion--he was obviously turn- citizens, which is a decided improvement on those have justified. ing into ridicule the extravagant assertions of negotiated by Mr. Bancroft in Germany-one for some of our American negrophilists. To suppose the settlement of the San Juan dispute, and a The negotiations for the acquisition of Cuba that Mr. Johnson really meant that there is no third preparing the way for a peaceful and equi- seem to have encountered a formidable obstacle in difference between the cranium of a negro and table adjustment of the Alabama claims. In this the conclusion, on the part of the Spanish Provithat of a white man, seems almost preposterous. latter Convention or "protocol," as the diplomat- sional Government, that a truthful interpretation He might just as well have said that there is no ists insist upon styling it, Mr. Johnson has ob- of the sentiments of the people forbids them to difference between straight hair and woolly, or tained from the Earl of Clarendon every conces-entertain such a proposition. We have never been between a black skin and a white one. Of course, sion which he was instructed to ask-everything informed of the grounds upon which Mr. Seward Mr. Johnson knows better than to talk such non- that Mr. Seward demanded, or the American based his expectations of accomplishing the pursense. It was simply another of his jokes-the people had any right to expect. The terms of chase of the island. We presume that even so wit of which is not very obvious, it is true, and the Convention have been published in full in the enthusiastic a statesmanship as his must have had hence doubtless the error into which our contem- daily papers; a synopsis was given in our last something more substantial than hope to go upon. poraries have fallen, of treating his humorous number. We recur to the subject now only for Possibly, he may have received some intimations, remark as a serious observation. The compari- the purpose of noting a foolish statement of a through Mr. Hale, from the Republican leaders, son which he instituted at the same time between Washington correspondent to the effect that Gen- who hoped to shape and control the new governthe State Papers of the Liberian Government eral Grant has expressed great disapprobation of ment. If that be so, the cable dispatches of last and those of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli, if the terms of the proposed adjustment of the Ala- weck, which announced the results of the elecnot conceived in the same vein of pleasantry, and bama claims, and that it is expected, therefore, tions, have settled the question. The high con |