New-York tribune., 1878-02-20
GENERAL NOTES.

The English steamship Timor, which is TO
carry aergo OF American locomotives 10 the port of
Plau, the borders of Russia and Prussia arrived al
Philadelphia sunday night She Is expected to sail next
week with thirty locomotives on board. At the request
of Russian Government twenty engineers and work
the and take charge OF the roll
ngstock for several weeks after IL Is placed on the roads
A Philadelphia reader Of THE TRIBUNE
suggests that after the passage OF the Band bill over
the veto, merchants the soaboard shall rate xeir
goods at reenback prices and take silver at It's market
rate OF discount With three legal tenders" he says
some such plan must DO pursued" He forgets that
a ten-dollar greenback is merely promise to pay tea
dollars and that the legaltcnder Is a silver
dollar tnc srcenbaek becomes promise pay silver
dollars. and that the promise to pay silver dollars
cannot IN the long run be worth any moro than tbs
silver dollars themselves.
Everybody who was anybody saw wash
ington chicken" " at Philadelphia darng the Exhi'
btion It OF tho most conspicuous oo'
jects IN the main vosibulc OF Memorial Hall-a hal'
length statue OF the father OF his country pcrched upon
the typical bird OF the snor Guarnero executed
the work expressly FOR the Centennial aud he expected
only that It would make great hit IN America ous
also that the government would pay literally forthc figure
In the opinion OF certain coDuoisscurs 500 or gov
would not have been an unreasonable price Tor the M
TO ask for the model when IL In his studio ~ W"
transported to tho gates of the Exhibition at the expehe
OF the Italian Government out the work OF rcmo'ios"
~
Upon the opening Of the Permanent Exhibition t, 20
lossal nguro was removed aud placed upon an hnn.
pedestal In the southern section 81 the Main baH"us
principal transcpi, where ~ has since rcinaihoL
Saturday II sold at auction for the n0n-paS heA'
customs duties, and only dollar was bid for u.
Ex-Ministcr Curtin, in the course OF con-
versation with George Alfred Townsend Gepcr'e' -
The Cincinnati Enquirer, asserted that, during '
Crimoan War, Nicholas felt the want OF moneyeIfnas
class-somethng between the military class and ,,'
serfs-ani that the key TO the policy OF Mexande' :.
has been the creation OF middle class and aeeoiansp
| " he emancipated the scrfs solitary and alone. %
Crown did IT, and the vast nobility was iGkewarm OF ..
| tagonistlc" 1t must not be forgotten however, e~
| after the Crnean War there no CONSERVATIVES
Russia aud that the Car, In Introducing admnistra
and judicial reforms and In emancipating the ser ~
| himself at the head Of National movement he s
the support and cooperation OF the nobility; IL was
Instinct OF q nation stung by defeat ths! ever!'A,s
must be changed from the bottom and all classes -
lied around him. confident that era OF Sa;'opa "s
Grafton close at hand. 10 vas not long
the nobility and the serfs realized that The ems
which had been wrought In the conditions ci
had not exempted them from the economic ps'st
which ether nations were weighed down enu .n ..fa
intelligent and wealthy middle class was mol W
| In single generation.
| All tho schoolmasters aud schoom'stresss
| In Boston are scolding John Mccullough for pronosI
ing Corlolsnus with the accent on The seeopa vha
The actors defence Is that ry,hm requires th's