Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-13

ter and somewhat SlInllar 70 naval engage \ ment. There are people, though, who think that to have the air full of flying tumblers and bottles, and the deck under their feet slippery with blood, are enjoyable features of a picnic and without some wholesome excite ment of the kind would pronounce the affair a very E'slow'' one.
 Jesse Billings, whose trial on & charge of murdering his wife is yet fresh in the minds of the public, seems to be a favorite of for tune. Since the termination of the trial he has hourished amazingly. He has sold ice at clear profit of $1O,OOO, has five canal boats under process of construction, and recently added fine farm to his possessions. He in- tends, it is said, to live in Saratoga, and the Eagle of that place says: Saratoga always welcomes men of brains, wealth and enter prise, and we have no doubt MT. Billings would find residence here pleasant and prof itable."
 fellow once walked out of a store in Gloucester, Mass, with fish which he had stolen tucked under his vest. He hadn't gone far with his plumber before he was brought . to halt by shrewd passer-by who, taking in the situation at glance, exclaimed ''See ! here my friend, you ought either to wear longer vests or steal shorter fish" The AL bany Journal aptly applies this anecdote to the Democratic party. and declares that the war record of the party ought to be longer than it is or else the party's present display of affection for the soldier ought to be short CT than it is.
 It is not the fault of General Garfield him self if any doubt exists anywhere as to his views on the great questions before the coun- try, for he has always spoken with frankness and courage. To remove uncertainties among those who have not followed his pub lie declarations carefully, the Industrial League of Philadelphia, of which the venera- ble General Robert Patterson is president, and which is made up from both political parties, has authorized a statement of what it understands to be his position on the import ant questions of the revenue and the tariff. The statement, of course, is in accord with the last production on that subject from Gen. eral Garfeld's own pen-namely, the state ment of the minority of the Committee of Ways and Means against the bill reducing aHd repeating certain duties offered at the last session
 It is not strange that F, GOO dentists find employment in the United States Dr. J. N Farrar, of New York city, states that not less than half a ton of pure gold, costing about $500, GOO, is annually packed away in the mouths of Americans, and, in addition to this, there is probably four times as much cheaper material, such silver, platinum, etc., used in filling cavities in teeth. He makes the curious and interesting estimate that only 300 years would be required to bury the amount of gold coin now in circulation in the country t$15O,- 900, O00) in the graveyards. The magnitude of American dental operations is shown by the statement that about 3,O0O,OOO artificial or porcelain teeth, mounted on various kinds of plates, are made every year. Dr. Farrar supplements these figures with the important statement, based on statistics compiled with painstaking labor, that out of an average of eighty people of all classes, only one can be found with perfect dental organs The other seventy-njne require dentists care As much as twelve years ago the Rev. Pe- troleum V. Nasby had his eye on General Hancock, who was then in command in Lou isiana and, having just issued General Or der No. 40" was in high favor with the Dem ocratio party and formidable candidate for the presidential nomination, although politi- clans of the Nasby sort could not take kindly to him because of his then recent services in the army. In one of his letters of that year. purporting to be addressed to President
 Johnson, Nasby said
 I would suggest that you, to wunst, take | the last order uv General Hancock and make \ it the subjeck uv message to congriss De tale in full the generals talk here, and add to 1 it ez only 700 kin. Tell congriss the general l is agoin to make the law the rool uv his con- duck, and that he proposes to uphold the corts and civil authorities, and will only yoos his military to these ends agin the niggers. Sling it here suthin' to the effeck that Ameri- can liberty (which, in this country, is a pe-
 keolyer variety of the article) is still an in heritance uv the white people, and shall allus 1 be. Tell em that when a soljer has onlimited power in his hands, and refooses to yoos it for l the purpose of satisfyin selfish ambishun, he presents a hefty sample virtoo under diff
 kulties Itwood be well at this pint to compare Hancock and Washington, makin the differ ence atween um merely nominal Say that l there may be officers in the army besides Han cock who immitates Washington, but you
 haven't sot eyes on em ez yit. Assert that ] Hancock is the first officer in command sence the close uv the late onpleasantness, what hez given utteruns to such sentimence in his ders, and demand that Congriss shell vote 1 him gold medil.
 I sejest this be done to wunst, for reasons which are obvus We desire Hancock to con- tinue in well doin, but ez that well doin in l our behalf mite lead us to his nominashen | for the Presidency, it iz well enough to kill
 l him of in that direcshun so soon as he is committed Hence write. Don't let Se- | ward diloot it, or Randall po1ifox it. Put in ! my naked idees, clothed in yoor terse and vigrus languidge, and 700 will hev done
 good thing. l Times have evidently changed since Nasby | thus wrote