New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-24

into his calculations. For instance, he has bee,.
announcing that Senator Lamar would mako
speech against the Silver Bill and then in okea
ence to the wishes of his constituents would VOTE
for Its passage.
Signs multiply of the ebb of the silver tide Even
in Ohio they are not wanting. They exist in tba
cautious reticence of Presidential candidates ana
in the increased buster of the imitation press ore
brilliant luminary in Illinois declares that IL tina
East defeats unlimited silver in Congress, the West
ern States will pass silver acts of their own. Them
is hardly school boy in the land who doesn't know
enough to see the utter absurdty of that threat
Illinois can pass a silver bill. but she will only rob
her own citizens by doing it. The ely of gold
bug" is a respectable argument compared with
such an exhibition of ignorance as this
General Mcclellan seems to be running for Pres;.
dent in spots. Over very large sections Of thu
country his canvass creates no irritation whatever.
but here and there it is breaking ont with great yo
lence. The congestion in Philadelphia has subsidized
somewhat lbut General st. Clair AlulhOlland, wholed
his veterans up to "address" Governor Mcclellan
just after his Inauguration. is not the man to let
canvass langIish if he can help it. Therefore Gen.
eral ST. G. H. refuses to disband his associated vet
erans and swears that they have enlisted for tbrea
years or the war. General Mulholland has bcauti.
full name and lie means business.
The Ewing wing of the Democracy in Ohio per-
ssts in its demand for submission or scpara.
ton on the part of the Eastern Democracy.
They say the soft money policy in the National plat
form will give them the votes of Ohio, Indiana
Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois-79 in all whle
the hard money policy will secure only the so OF
New-York, Ncw-Jersey and Connecticut. They will
have lively time carrying Michigan and Wlscon.
sin that issue to say nothing OF Ohio and Illinois,
Their case will not bear examination, and the party
at large realizes this fact for outside of the imitation
headquarters in The Cincinnati Enquirer office, the
proposal has not a single friend
Trenton, N. j., is an inviting field for spectators
who subsist by rehypothecating swaow-tail coats
The rural legislator of that commonwealth inyari.
ably owns in fee simple garment of this festive pat
term but il is usually constructed of blue material
and decorated with brass buttons. When the Gov.
ernor was advised of this fact he relaxed the strin.
gency of orthodox requirement. and allowed these
gentlemen to appear at his first reception
in the new suits which they down
to the Inauguration. The general effect Of this cos.
tune is said to have been so painful to those who
constitute the upper social circles at the Capital
that full evening dress i'll be insisted in future
If any innovation in the way of social events had
been anticipated before election Assemblymen
could have drawn on the State Committee for
dress suit as a necessary campaign expense; bat
former Governors of New-Jersey have lived
nowhere in particular, browsing around,
as it were, and " entertaining only to
the extent Of an occasional oyster stew or some
other economical conviviality, where only two or
three were gathered together, and where the regu-
latiOn coat could be dispensed with without doing
any violence TO court etiquette The world moves,
however. aud the swallOw-tail coat Is no longer
luxury at Trenton, but necessity. Hence the sug-
gestiOn at the beginning OF this paragraph; There
are few more attractive openings for a broker who
represents a good stock of swalowtail coats to loan
on call at reasonable rates.