The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-21
SPIRIT Of THE PRESS.


The Commercial says: Let the two bod
les of our Common Council agree upon
81 25 per GOO cubic feet of gas, and we
shall zee whether the Gas Company will
rush into Courts Let them rusl.-The ef-
rt to choke off discussion in Congress on
financial measures will hardly succeed
Before month passes there will be All out
pouring of financial wisdom that will as
tonish the natives Between Bayard with
his resolution removing the legal-tender
quality from the greenback, the House bill
requiring the National Banks to keep their
reserves in coin. Culberson's bill doing
away with the National Bank system alto
gether, and half-a-dozen other preposter-
ous financial propositions, discussion
will worm its way into the
proceedings of both Houses, and
finally sweep away all barriers of restraint.
Numerous Germans oppose the election
Of School Board on common ticket.
from belief that such election would
weaken German representatives in the
Board. This belief or fear is groundless.
Mr.. Fleischmann, who introduced the bill
for an election at large into the Senate, is
himself German, and very intelligent
one, and certainly would not encourage
any law in the least degree prejudicial TO
his fellow-countrymen. The bill to the
same effect in the House was brought in BY
Mr.. D. Gano Ray, an accomplished German
scholar, and known to be most liberal
minded man in all educational matters.
Whatever was aimed at in either bill. there
fore. it certainly was not the design In
either case, as one person says, "to rob Ger
mans of their representation in the School
Board"
The Enquirer saws: Mr.. Fred. Hassau-
rex has gone to Washington with Mr.. G.
w. Muulton. brother-in law of Sherman.
Mr.. Moulton and Mr.. Hassaurek occupy
adj lining apartments at the Ebhitt House.
Mr. Hassaurek has no case in the Supreme
Court of the United States. Mr.. Moulton,
brother-in-law, is an accomplished lawyer
and seductive special pleader. Mr.. Has
saurek is brilliant editor of q German
paper, carrying large German vote in his
pocket, q talented novelist, but though he
has tasted the sweets of political life he Is
so innocent and unsuspecting virgin in
political ways that he can be easily seduced.
This journey to Washington is for the
purpose OF holding little private CONVEX
sation with John Sherman.-Mr. Parnell,
the Irish Agitator, will soon visit Cincin-
natl. A reception will be rendered him.
The greeting given him by the Queen City
of the West in this Western country should
be warm and hearty and general. He is q
man of ability and eloquence; but it Is not
merely for these reasons that this city
should welcome him heartfully and sympa-
thizingly. There are many Irish-American
citizens in Cincinnati who should be eager
to say, hall But the reception should not
be confined within these limits. He is a
guest from abroad, who has been widely
honored, but is not because of this fact
that Cincinnati should be chiefly glad to
bid him welcome. He should be received
cordially and heard attentively for the
cause he pleads.-The President on Mon
dav nominated James Russell Lowell to
be United States Minister to England. Mr..
Lowell is to be transferred from the Mis-
sion at Madrid to the foremost Foreign
Mission. He is to become Envoy Exraor-
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the
highest Court abroad. In this appoint
ment At compliment is paid to letters
James RUSSELL Lowell is sixty-one years of
age. In some respects he is the foremost
American poet He is not the warmest,
but he is perhaps, the most scholarly and
polished. His lines are marble.like, finished
as statue by Phidias He is notso grace
FULLY humorous as Oliver Wendell Holmes
but. he is capable of q satire stronger
and finer. He 10 not habit
ually so quaint and simple and
gentle and so constantly moralist, or q
serm onizer, as Whittier, but he is eminent
ly noble, and is more accomplished. He 10
not slways 50 musical as Longfellow, but
he has more force and equal grace. He is
probably the most intellectual American
poet, and 1t is possible that culture has in
some degree in bis case lessened the natu.