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The Philadelphia Press rejoices to know that,
under our management of the Mint, there can
be no such issue Of debased coin as has Just
occurred in England, where the new gold sover-
eigns are received by the Bank of England itself
as eight cents short of standard weight and
value, and where 10000, 900 shillings are allowed
to be coined by private firm which are exactly
9A per cent short in silver of the standard
shilling. The evil is attributed to the fact that
Mr. Lowe, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is also
temporarily Master Of the Mint, an Office for
the duties Of which lie receives no salary, has
no time, and is not fitted. In our Mint, On the
contrary, We have Director, Chief coiner, As
sayer, Redner, and Engraver, all Of whom re-
ceiVe salaries, and hence the Absence
Of all debasement in our coin.
Nov, as coin itself disappeared
from our currency some eleven years ago, and
instead thereof we have been producing paper
money which is at 8 discount Of from so per
cent to 10 per cent it is not easy to see wherein
our currency is SO free from the mishapa that
befau that Of England. Nor is it easy to see Of
what particular use so many officers for the
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The spread of cholera by railroads is attract
ing universal attention in Europe. It is not
long since that Mr. Radcliffe made report to
the English Parliament, calling attention to the
manner in which the development of the Cont
mental railway system vas assisting the propa-
cation Of the disease. N. Fernand Papillon, al
eminent French physician, has just made re-
port OF q similar character, which contains some
interesting facts. He describes the measures
which have been taken to stop the inroads Of
the disease from Arabia, Egypt, and Constanti-
nople, and he credits both the Turkish and Per-
aian Governments with considerable degree Of
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Brother Nasby detects, with sufficient accura-
cy, the sensational topic Of our time, by aeizing
upon the infelicities of marriage and the pangs
and heartrendings Of divorce as the theme Of
his last lecture. We seem to be approaching q
time when lectures must be either on marriage
and divorce, like Mrs. Stanton's, Miss Edgar
toms, Airs. Woodhul's, Theodore Tilton's, and
the Ike, or by people whose notoriety is con-
nected With divorce, like the late Mrs. Forrest,
Lola Montez, the Honorable Mrs. Yelyerton,
and half score Of others, or by sages who, like
Froude, have written up from new standpoint
the histories Of very much-divorced great men
and women. Nasby's "Hannah Jaue'' is the
pathetic picture Of martyred wife, who, while
her husband rises into greatness, fingers
beside the cradle Of his children, only
to find herself outgrown by her husband intel
lectually and socially, and in due time distanced
by younger and more tsintel1ectual competi-
tor. She sinks into the tomb, Of course,
martyr to his Indifference, and leaves him Tree
to pursue his more spiritual affinity. His second
marriage weds him to sort Of blue-bele, who
"combs his hair with the piano-stool, bursts
him up with bills, and, having bankrupted his
purse and broken his health, leaves him to die
while she goes off with her own affinity. We
half suspect Nasby aims to administer to the
gentler sex the most delicate Of all fattery,
since, next to being deemed beauty or saint,
no ambition so easily enslaves the feminine
mind az the thirst to be enrolled martyr.
OF course, every lady auditor of Nasty Will
see in Hannah Jane" the type Of the suffering
sex, while the female 1igh-dyer who succeeds to
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from the recent National voting-bee is, that the
po.,,tl;aa., ,,artr in IN 1n11anallr bict fhinr

from the recent National voting-bee is, that the
Republican party ia an unusually big thing.
If Colonel Jack Brown hae been elected tt
Congress, as now seems probable, in the Thirs
Georgia District, thera will be one-and onl.
ne-straighout Bourbon member Of the ne1
House elected By Republican votes.
The Springfield Republican says:
Mr. George Wi]Ecs VIC learn, announces i hxe,
purpose to abjEre President-making for tho future
aud devote himself to making good sporting news
paper. He Is understood to have simultaneously los
his interest in politics. bis confidence in human
ture,-he suspects Mr. Greeley Of unsoupdness th
one-term queston,-an6 number Of election-keta
1nshor he has discovered that the world Is hollow
and its dolls mainly stuffed with sawdust.
The Baltimore ,Su'. is in something Of
quandary with regard to the effect the recen
election will have upon party organization,
thinks new parties are likely to be organized d
suggested BY time and circumstances, withon
stopping to inquire what the effect will be.
, 1872-11-15

Mr. Charles Mathews, the veteran comedian,
contributes an article to the November number
OF 1insleys Magazine, on sheridan's play Of
THE Critic, in which he takes occasion to JUS
tify, to some extent, the use Of <'gags" on the
stage. "Gag" is the slang term in the theatri-
cal profession for interpretations made by the
actors, and the introduction of phrases and local
shifts" not to be found in the original text Of
the p1ay. It has been the custom OF critics
to decry this practice as one Of the
most pernicious of the profession; yet
Mr- Mathewe, an actor whose "1egitimacy"
will scarcely be called into question, comes to
the defence Of the practice with some excellent
arguments. For instance, sheridan's play Of
" The Critic" in which Mr. Mathews has acted
Puff Thousand times, Was essentially local in
its humor, and abounded in pertinent imperti-
nences, that were funny at etime Of it's origin
alproduction, but which would be simply incom-
prehensible to an audience Of the present day.
Certain local characters, including even the man.
ager Of the theatre, we're made the objects of
good-natured ridicule. Afr. Mathews contends
that it is only by supplying the place Of these
antiquated jokes with new ones, suited to the
time and place OF performance, that the interest
OF the play can be maintained. Besides,
there are stage traditions of 'business," or
action, that are handed down from one genera
ton to another, being originally the artistic ad-
ditions Of some great actor that contributed to
the success Of the play. It would be absurd to
discard these because they are not to be found
in the text. In spite Of the dictum Of the crit
ics, Afr. Mathews assures us that the authors
are exceedingly anxious to have the actors con-
tribute additions of value to the text or action
Of their plays. He tells us OF the rehearsal Of
new piece Of Dennery's upon particular occa-
sion when BouHe, the famous French come
dian, happened to be in bad humor
He contented himself with repeating the
lines OF the piece until Dennery
cried out impatiently: i" Mais qjoutez done,
Boufe uous n'ajoutez s-iea." Even Madison
Morton, WHO is regarded as the best English
farce-writer, has been known to complain when
his favorite actors failed to contribute some
thing Of their OWL. OF course, Afr. Mathews
condemns reckless Interpolation, but ne can
understand, from his revelations, that play
frequently owes its success more to the actors
than to the author.
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Senator Pomeroy: sometimes irreverently
styled sold Subsidy" has apparently tri-
umphed in Kangas. He is at the head OF the
troop again, all opposition to him having been
disarmed. Last summer, the Republican Con-
Tentions in half the counties in Kansas passed
resolutions denouncing him, and declaring that
no man should be elected to the Legislature who
would vote to re- elect him to the Senate A1onp
list OF charges against him, involving repeated
instances of personal and official turpitude, we're
presented by members Of his own party and
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these charges were mainly supported BY the tes-
timony Of his own letters. Against this stream
OF opposition Pomeroy battled successfully; he
has impeached the credibility OF his own signa-
ture and now, applauded and supported by his
former opponents, he stands higher in Kansas,
they say, than ever before. The next session Of
the Kansas Legislature promises to be reel
love feast, in which there will be IN abundant
table spread, and the hungriest members will
not 60 empty away.
, 1872-11-15

4 weI-informed correspondent, in one Of the
northern counties Of the State, writes that the
friends Of Mr. E. B. Washburne, in that county,
make no disguise as to the fact that he will be
Senate, against Governor Oglesby. The argu-
ment is that A1r. Washburne had won high po-
sition az member Of Congress-; that he has
served his country ably and well and at per-
sonal sacrifice, as Minister to France; that the
State Of Illinois should have its best men in the
Senate, and that giving the Office Of Senator to
Dir. Washburne, and that Of Governor to Mr.
Oglesby, will be an appropriate award Of honors
according to the fitness Of the two gentlemen
for the respective places.
, 1872-11-15

In the dropsical tendency and weakness Of the
kidneys of many Of the horses, which seemed a
few days ago to have recovered from the distem-
per, are signs Of a trouble that may be perma
nent. The Symphonic occur in the case OF ami
mails which have been greatly weakened by the
disease, or have been set to work prematurely,
and are, Mr. Bergh says, the natural result Of
cruel treatment during their sickness. Other
wise, the general condition Of our horses is
good. Only sixteen deaths occurred yesterday,
Division street cars will be in use again.
, 1872-11-15

Chief Justice Chase, We are informed by one
in daily intercourse with him, is not going to
California for his health OF for any other pur-
pose. and is not going to resign. His work
speaks for itself in the last volume OF the Su~
preme Court Reports az in the preceding. He
has performed ably and continuously his full
share Of Judicial work since October, 1871, and
has been absent from his seat during the
present term but single day. He is in vigor-
Gus physical condition, and, after his long
career of usefulness, finds his mind SIS clear as
when he represented Ohio in the Senate, or
administered the Treasury.
, 1872-11-15

One Of the most ine1plicab1e maladies which
has ever afflicted mankind is the mania which
persons suffering under an overdose OF geogra-
have for dying by freezing. There are now no
less than ten expeditions Of this class of acien-
tlhc suicides who desire to escape death by
drowning, hanging, consumption, liver COM
plant, horse disease, and, above all, the peacea-
BILE death Of q Christian in his bed, by betaking
themselves as near to the North Pole as is
necessary to extinguish human life. The pre-
tence that these expeditions sail northward to
make discoveries IVES exploded nearly century
ago, by the last man who could, in the nature of
the case, make discovery, for he discovered
that there nothing there to be discovered.
Since then, it is clear that the motive is death by
freezing, which is said to be peculiarly charm
ing and felicitous mode Of making ones exit
from this world. Mr.. Hal's American expedi-
ton has reached Tessiusa1, the most northern
Danish settlement in Greenland, where it is
trying to purchase sixty or seventy eledge-dogs
to carry it further. It is said that our Danish
friends in Greenland think that our American
expedition will succeed in reaching the Hame
point reached by Sir John Franklin and his
crew, viz: death by freezing The Swedish e1-
pedition, which sailed in July from Tromso, is
stopped a. Spitzbergen, and will start for the
Pole byreindeers sledge next spring. ANorwegian
expedition is also ci1cumnavigating spitzbergen
in search of the freezing point. A French a1-
pedition has put back, and failed, owing to
breaking the screw Of the vessel, while another
Norwegian expedition failed, owing to, its ina
bility to find an opening in the ice. Mr. Octave
PaVy is going from San francisco to Wrangelrs
Land or to the bottom, on monitor raft. Mean
while, all the information Of value which
has been obtained concerning the Polar
wastes has been picked up by the
Morse sailors and wha1emen who have
in the regular course Of their fishing dis
covered that the Siberian Sea, to the east Of
spitzbergen, and around Nova Zemb1a, is
warmed by the waters Of the Gulf Stream sufh-
ciently to keep it open nearly every summer
SO far as yet KNOWN q vessel might sail through
to Behring's Strait in single summer. This
discovery, the only one Of any estimahle I'M
portance made in Arctic explorations OF late
years, would have been made just as soon had
no expedition whatever been fitted out. The
London Ahen9un says "no more significant
TACT has been added to our knowledge Of Arctic
geography Of late years." and this fact is ex-
tremely Insignificant, az even II vessel could
sail through from spitzbergen to Behring's
Strait in one summer, it would be Of no con-
sequence, as there would be no reason why
any vessel should do it. Altogether, therefore,
it is clear that it is not the value Of the dis COW
cries made or anticipated that stimulate to
Arctic explorations, but the ecstacies OF de,tt b
by freezing.
, 1872-11-15

Now that the smoke has lifted from the Bos-
ton fire, and that the tables Of losses and in
surances are corrected, the real facts arc made
apparent and these real facts, reduced down to
their ultimate, tend to make it manifest that
Boston has been indu1ging in an expensive at
tempt to rival the Chicago fire, the absurdity Of
which is probably before this very clear to the
people Of that city, The events both during
and since the fire point to this very clearly.
The first news which Boston sent us WAS that
her loss was two hundred millions. That was
our loss, it will be remembered We made the
game claim, and We established it within six
millions, while Boston has fallen off one hun
dred and fifty millions. The next news was, that
the fire had demoralized the insurance interests
Of the country and excused the majority of the
companies from doing business any longer. It
will be remembered that Chicago accomplished
this result very satisfactorily, and not only wound
up most of her own companies, but several
others through the country, not forgetting
New England in the distribution of her fayors.
It now appears that the Boston fire has done
little harm to insurance, and that those compa-
MES which have closed up business have been
mainly country companies, not accustomed to
city eondagrations The measures instituted in
Boston in regard to relief, while they we're based
upon ours, failed to approach them in real
grandeur Of extent or elaboration Of detail.
Boston could not even achieve q Cincinnati
soup-houHe. It has not enjoyed the edifying
spectacle Of a Beacon street millionaire taking
his place in the procession Of applicants for the
purpose of getting an overcoat, nor of shrewd
mendicants coming round twice in the process
sion, on the same day, and duplicating cooking
stoves and sewing machines. On the other
hand, having met together a few times, the
people are uncertain whether they want any
relief at all, and so we're reluctantly obliged to
yield the palm again to Chicago.
There is another fact which goes to show the
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Is just now being discussed in the various
British journals. A correspondent Of the PaH
-4faU Gazette suggests novel substitute. He Is
in favor Of the use Of the galvsnic battery, and
contends that while q current may be run
through the criminal, sufficient :" to resemble the
breaking of bones OF the touch Of hot iron, - it
could be stopped at once, and all pain would in
:stantly disappear, leaving no "1acerated flesh,
or Iyid welts," as souvenirs Of punishment.
We doubt very much whether this form OF pun
ishment would be sufficiently shocking to deter
3 criminal from his villanies, however much it
might astoniah him for the time being.
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preservation Of the purity Of our coinage are
when the country has no coin. II we coin our
gold for export, is it worth any more for export
coined than uncoined7 Certainly, our Director,
Chief Coiner, Aaaayer, Refner, and Engraver,
all combined, Lave not enabled ths masses of
the American people to SEQ coin for many
years. And yet wo have a class Of so-called
fRanciers who want to see our circulating
medium adn further detased by reissuing $44,-
G0o,Q00 Of greenbacks.
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n. saint-GeEmain Leduc, French advocate
OF Womans rights, has just published long
and stupid novel, under the title OF III. le
Comte ct Mime. Ia Comtesse," which is intended
to advance his sentiments and assist in the
emancipation OF French women from the trials
they suffer after marriage. Nov, II. Saint
German Leduc and his dreary novel to the con-
trary notwithstanding, French women after
marriage do not need half the emancipation
that French women before marriage ought to
have. The married woman in France is
about as Independent creature as can be imag-
ined in petticoats. She is free to go where she
pleases and do about what she pleases, and there
is seldom any comment upon her actions. She
frequently retains the property which she
brought to the marriage in her own right, aud
dsl3oses Of it as ahe will. According to the
Catholic service, she is not even obliged to
promise that ahe will tobey." She is
absolute mistress in her own house.
The civil contract makes every French
marriage marriage de conrenance, in which
the rights Of the wife are distinctly defined. It
is rather the unmarried woman Of France who
is in need Of emancipation. The French girl
is the product Of the convent, poor, weakly
hot-douRe plant, that is nipped and Withered
by so ciety when she is brought out to be- pluck
ed. Ter schooling is not practical, her sur
roundings are narrow and cramped, her imagina-
ton is rendered morbid by depriving her Of con-
tact with the world, and she is in every way
poorly prepared for the life upon which she is
thrown at an early ard immature age. II. Saint
GERMAN Leduc should rather write q novel
called "The Daughter Of IL 1e Comte and
Nine. La ComtesBe."
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Hannah James husband, and who in real life
sometimes marries him before Hannah Jane gets
there, is not regarded as being for whom the
sex at large are responsible.
We do not doubt that there are cases where
mans intellectual growth after marriage carries
him far out Of the range OF his wifee sympathies,
and Lifts him above her intellectual companion
ship. There are some cases. also. in which 8
woman equally outgrows her husband. In
all these cases, doubtless, the preservation
of genial companionship between them becomes
mutually difficult, perhsps often impossible.
The error, or half-truth, in Mr.. Nasbv's lec
ture, consists in assuming that the offence be
describes is peculiarly masculine one. There
is a Hannah Jane whose career and martyrdom
are Of different sort from that he describes.
Inheriting from working parents wealth OF
physical resources which needs expenditure in
some active field Of e1ertion, she finds herself
welded to husband of intellectual, professional,
or business pursuits, and consequently relieved
from the necessity of personal e1ertion. While
his mind is occupied by business, hers has no
proper field of useful effort. Her children, il she
has any, are the cara of servants. She and her
husband board with their domestics. In few
years breach begins and widens. The husband,
strained and drained Of his energies at eve-y
point by the necessity of performing all the
labor that Nature intended should be divided
evenly between them, becomes an invalid. Per-
haps it is consumption, paralysis, Or something
else She, with her energies undrained by labor,
Ii dissatisfied with an invalid companion, and,
after few years Of wrangling, elopes or is di-
vorced. What shall be said Of this Hannah
Jane?
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curious and rather significant occurrence
took place recently in the little French village
La Chatre-Lang]in- a violent thunderstorm
devastated the fields Of the peasantry, which the
parish priest had previously blessed, assuring
them in doing SO that their crops we're thereby
secure. The e1asperated people resolved to
hold him responsible, forced their way into the
church while he WIS there, thrashed him
soundly, and then tore down his dwelling.
Fourteen OF them were arrested and condemned
to pay fines Of various amounts. The verdict
against them seems hard one. It is difficult
to see what moral responsibility attaches to
people who would take stock in such security as
WAS offered them by the parish priest. The
negroes in Africa have long reserved to them
selves the right to beat their sorcerers if they
did not prophesy ightly,-apractice which tends
to make the latter very careful. The RESPONSE
biity in the French case ought to have been
divided in some way between the priest and his
flock.
, 1872-11-15

In answer to inquiries, the vote of Ga1ena
was-Greeley, 841; Grant, 620. In 1878, Grant
had majority.
-We believe it is not contemplated to elect q
United States Senator by the Indiana Legisla-
ture until the regular session in January; but
the caucus resolution indorsing Morton was
required to relieve members from importantly,
and let them attend to the business for which
the special session was called
The vote Of San Francisco was:
1868. 1872.
Grant HSs Gsant ss9
seymour '15'o01 Greeley. IL 2s6
OConor. q
There are vs. lawyers among the 1873 delegates
in the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention
The late Legislature Of Tennessee 80 dis
tricted the State that it was thought impossible
for the Republicans to elect more than one Con-
gresham; and, especially to defeat A1r Maynard.
the Knoxville (or second) District was made ESQ
miles in length, to extend from North Carolina
to Kentucky, and to run over into Middle Ten
nessee. This was regarded the perfection Of
partisan wisdom; but vengeance turned up on
the wrong side.
The vote for members Of Congress in the
Brooklyn (N. ~ districts Was:
2 geh9maEsr.. aefnazs 1884 perrT Repaalsan*: sao
4. colahan..-..--.- 10,096 Crooke.. ..., Il,0I0
-Ihe Pittsburgh Gazette says: tsThe next
House Of Representatives will be House of
great promise" Then it won't differ much from
it's predecessors
The Moberly (Mo.) Monitor proposes
Thomas A. Hendricks, Of Indiana, as the
Opposition candidate for President four years
hence.
1t is said that Mr. Jesse Grant, Postmaster
Of Covington, Ky., not having very good eye
sight, dropped in ballot for Judge Arthur, the
Liberal candidate for Congress-
The moral which Senator Anthony draws
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The Chicago money-market continues strin-
gent. Merchants are collecting in the country
with moderate SUCCESS, but the banks have e1-
tended great deal Of temporary accommoda-
ton to property to assist their building
operations, and these obligations are not
being promptly met.
, 1872-11-15

On the British coast, nearly hundred lives
and many vessels were lost in the terrific gales,
Wednesday night. Stralsund, in Prussia, was
flooded by the sea and twelve vessels were
wrecked in the harbor; at Lubec, the waves
swallowed the Custom House, and an the Ger
man shores seern to have been devastated by
storm and inundation.