The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-08-14
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

Judge Myrick of California has de-
clded that a man undergoing impris-
onment for life is civilly dead, and his
wife widow.
Mr.. Delano is politically dead and
nothing can save him. He is repudi'
ated by honest Republicans everywhere
and Cabinet ministers who have the
confidence of the country treat him
with contempt. In the face of this he
hangs on.-[ Cincinnati Gazette (Rep.
The contentious in the British cot.
ton industry have extended to Dundee,
where thirty. one mills are closed and
twelve thousand persons are unem'
ployed. These troubles evidently
spring from the general depression o.
the cotton trade, and seem likely tC
cause serious loss to both sides.
Matt Carpenter will never shine as
n prophet if he is correctly reported as
having predicted that Grant and hard
money would be the Republican con-
tribution to the next National Presi-
Dental campaign, while the Democrats
would offset by Judge Davis on a green
back platform.-[B Boston Journal Rep
At the Princess of Wales Garden
party, at which Queen Victoria was
present, the other day, she accosted Il
distinguished officer, and cOnversed
affably with him for some minutes.
At last the gallant General remarked
81 am really very sorry, madam, foI
being so stupid. | lam sure have seen
your face, and remember it perfectly
well, but ! can not remember your
name"
"A narrow grauge railroad through
the mountainous regions of Vermont
has been projected, and the northern
end of the route has been surveyed. II
is to run from Shelburne Falls in Mas
sachusetts, to North Troy, Vermont, {
distance of 2i6 miles. The estimate o
the engineers for building the lowel
end of the road is $4,000 per mile
and it is thought that the cost of lh'
upper end will be less. The marrow
gauge is continually growing in favo
for railroads where the prospective
traffic would not warrant their construc
ton upon the more expensive plan o
the ordinary gauge.
The Richmond Wing, repeating
what several of its cotemporaries hay,
tlltutly Suiu lht SubJttp, itiihi hS
''rhe time has not yet arrived whei
any man of the South who was in sym
pathy with the Confederate cause coult
he prudently brought before the coun
try for President or Vice-President
And no man who was not In sympa
! thy with the cause could be consistent
ly put upon the ticket with the view
of making him the representative o
the Southern sentiment and spirit o.
reconciliation. Such men as Ransom
and Gordon and Lamar are of inesti'
mable value to the South in the Sen
ate of the United States and the House
l>of Representatives.; but it would be
otherwise with either ofthem as can
didate for the first or the second office
OF the Government"
"A recent debate in the English
House of Commons has given English.
men peep through the Sultan of Tur-
keys keyhole. England seems to have
a right to look into the Sullan's affairs.
1t has lent him a hundred million
of pounds, has defended him i'm the
Crimea, and has entertained him in
London. The Sultan, it seems, ap-
propriates an income of e2,OO0,0O0,
while the income of his whole country
| is e7, 10000 The shores of the BOs-
phorus are studded with his vast pal
aces, and every day at dinner, the Sui.
tan, who dimes alone, has lO7 dishes
provided him. He maintains 500
wives, $50 enuchs, and 800 horses.
Thirty thousand oxen annually are
provided for the Sultan's kitchen, and
other live stock and poultry in pro-
portion.
A correspondent of The Boston
Globe paid a visit to Thomas Carlyle
and gives the following description OF
how the distinguished Scotch thinker
looks and talks: "He was dressed in
long, gray, monkish-looking morn.
ing gown, and was evidently engaged
i'm reading, and noticed that the two
volumes before him were Motley's
United Netherlands. He did not look
SO old as i supposed, and the ravages
of time were principally noticeable in
the feeble shaking of his hands. His
face, though furrowed, was fresh and
rosy, his gray eye piercing and full OF
luster, and his head was covered with
a strong crop of thick iron-gray hair. 7
During the conversation American af.
fairs were touched upon, and Mr.. Car
lyle seemed intensely amused and dis.
eusted at all the man and a brother ag'
itation which had been going on in the
United States, about what he called
the "niggers."
Whatever the blunders Of his ad'
ministration as President, Mr.. John
son must have credit for qualities OI
the most precious and lofty character
His sincerity was profound; his eour'
age passed safely through every test
his patriotism was unquestionablei
and his sense of dignity belonging tc
his Office was SO great that he refused
every gift as something whose accept
ance would be shameful in a Presi'
dent. And however great the detesta
tiOn that surrounded him as he retired
from power, il has since been changed
in most minds into a feeling ofrespect
The administration of his suecessol
has in some most important point
made his admirable by contrast; and
those who were lOudest in denouneinl
his tereiversations now pay honor 4
the fidelity which dared everything
rather than be false to conviction, anS
which broke loose from the most pow
erful party known in cur history rath
er than adopt a policy which threat
eDed mischief in the future.-Nei
York SIN.