New-York tribune., 1884-01-10

Anything to beat Pendleton' was on the banner
of the jackson Club' Of Dayton, as 1t marched
into Columbus on Monday. PRECISELY II was
Jackson who held To the vctors belong the Spoils"
1t was Pendleton who supported a bill for Civil
Service Reform.
The president of the International Polar Com
mittee DR.. Wild, has received adyices from all the
meteorological stations except those manned from
the United States Signal Service. He ought to have
been informed of the return of the party from
Point Barrow, but of course has not received any
tidings from Lady Franklin Bay. The work of the
observers at Fort Rae, Godhaven, Cumberland
Sound, Jan Maycn, Spitzbergen, BossekOp, So
dankya, M0ller Bay and the mouth of the Lena
was successfully accomplished. The only failure in
the Northern belt was that of the Dutch expe-
dition, which could not reach its destination and
was wrecked in the Kara Sea. In the Southern
Hemisphere there was another disappointment the
Italian party being shipwrecked Off the coast of
Patagonia. The French expedition to Orange Bay,
Terra del Fuego, returned in November after a most
successful twelvemonth of scientific work. The
German station at Moltke Harbor on the Island of
South Georgia, was occupied during the same pc
rod, the party having arrived at Hamburg IN
safety. Observations were taken at all these sta
tiOns simultaneously during the year ending Au-
gust J., 1888. Tho work at the Lena delta and at
Sodaukyla is to be continued another year.
Ex-senator Thurman uses some strong language
in his letter about the Ohio SenatOrship He does
not want to see political cut-throat bos5ism in
augurated forthe bcnef OfacIose party syndicate"
He Perceives that a machine is being created,
amply supplied with money to work It, and under
the absolute control of boss or bosscs," which
seems to refer to the of the Pocket
fpr Tn order To SET nm m
he finds people at work to kill Oft the men who
have heretofore enjoyed the confidence Of the
party" and fatty refuses to be pal-bearer at
their political funerals" There is considerable
harmony to the square inch in Ohio, at present.
But 10 hear the genial Thurman talking in this way,
after all that he has undergOne In the classic
language of Hosea Bigow, Who'd expect to see a
tater all on eend at ben' billed ~
An extraordinary mishap has befallen Mr.. Swim
burne-a mishap which is not without its ludicrous
phase. In a holiday annual appeared over his
name poem entitled "Dolorda, the authorship
of which ne immediately and vehemently dis
claimed. But things were not what they seemed;
he was grievousy mistaken when he thought that
he knew his own poetry. Mr.. Swinburne," the
editor of the annual gent Y rejons, sis one Of my
literary gods. 1t is my misfortune, not my fault
that he does not recognize his own inimitable STYLE
Nobody but himself would, and as far as at pres
ent know nobody but himself has dared to- doubt
the genuineness of the lines which bear the indel
bic impress of his genius Perhaps, when tell
him that discovered tbs pearl of pearls in the
troasure-house of friend who is the direct inheri
tor of the same from lady who was proud of Mr..
SIS friendship, as he was proud of hers-from Miss
Ada Isaacs Menken-when tell him that | copied
the poem from his own unfOrgeable handwriting,
am sure that even the fances of poetry will permit
him to recognize the stern fact that the lines are
his. 'Pamam qui merut feratn Mr. Swinburne's
acquaintance with my name-a pleasure hitherto
denied to me- but now an accomplished fact-will
alone sufficiently repay me for the trouble have
taken IN making the beauties of his own work
known to him.