The Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton, Of Ohio

has been norainated fur President, by a few eccentric, over-zealous, but not very discreet Demócrata down at Atlanta, Georgia. Well, if it pleases their victim who'll complain. It ís now understood that Speaker Kerr will announce tbe Standing Conimittes of the House on Monday next, and that on the same day Congress will adjourn for the usual holiday recesa. _ _ J _ GEN. BABCOCK has been indited at St. Lonis, but the President has had a long talk with him and gives the publio to undersiaud, if subservient newspaper reporters are not at fault, that he believes him entirely innocent. Becausa of the indiotment, and at Babcock's request, the order for a military court of inquiry has been revoked, and the court dissolved. i- i - +tmm If Babcock shall be convicted at St. Louis he will probably enter his prison cell bearing a certifícate of good character, tViorough honesty and faithful discharge of duties from the President. It will only be necessary to remodel the certiflcate given ex-Attorney-Genersl Williams, ex-Secretary of the Interior Delano, and sundry other persons who have been retired to meet the demands of the public. At a Methodist ministers' meeting held in Cincinnati on Monday, a resolution censuring BiBhop Haven's third " term speach " was promptly laid on the table." The Cincinnati " brethren " are third-termers, and when Parson Newman (of the " court churoh ") speaks " by authority," they will make haste to fall to rank all through the country. This playing off in individual cases and localities is only for effect. Thb Ypsilanti Sentinel questions the right óf the Detroit Common Council to order liquor taxes refunded, or even the polioy of such action. Our cotemporary is undoubtedly oorrect. There is no warrant in law for refunding such taxes. As well, or better, refund the taxes paid on a house burned down, or to a man failing in and closing out a mercantile or inanufácturing business. The liability incurred and the tax paid that is the end of it. We appreciate a good thing no matter who says it, and therefore smile at the home-thrust which Secretary Bristow, in his annual report, gave those Democrats who have run after strange gods, and mere paper gods at that. Thia is it : " Those who opposed such issues (greenback8) at a time of extreme necessity, and insist upon further issues when the emergency has passed away, put themselves in the attitude of opposing war measures in the midst of war, and advocating them in the time of profound peace." The discharge of Henderson, special counsel iii the prosecution of the whisky swindlers at St. Louis, leads to the suspicion that the famons order, " Let no guilty maiv escape " was made with a mental reservation. Joyce, McDonald, and Avery conviced, and the tracks leading toward the White House, the President was led to cry " quits." Ha Henderson been discharged before the indictment of Babcock, the intimations of the reason being "personal and uncalled for refleotionsuppn the President" would have been more plausible. The public will watch the action of the new counsel with interest. The people of Michigan decided that they didn't want to be represented any longer in the U. S. Senate by Zack Chandler, and so the President called him to a eeat in his Cabinet. The people of an Ohio district also retired one J. Q,. Smith from his seat in the Houne, and Chandler, with a fellow-feeling that makes him wondrous kind (to fellow-sufferers at the hands of the terrible Democracy), calis Smith to a seat in his Cabinet. And there are heaps more of such " rejected stones ". all through the country, looking for, expecting, and getting similar rewardsor promotion. Defeat by the people is the Eepublican highway to a more lucrative place. v THE nomination of President Grant for a third term by that ecclesiastical blatherskite Bishop Haven, coupled with the Poster letter to Blaine, advising the ex-Speaker to join a secret antiCatholic order, in order to head Grant, already a member, off, is a bombshell of very large proportions, and rather prematurely exploded in the Bepublican camp. Grant's shrewder Methodist friends are denying Haven's authority tospeak for the church, but without directly disapproving Grant's pretensions, while Foster confesses to writing the letter, but says Blaine never received it. He persists in staking the existence of such a political order, and declares that he was advised that Grant was a member, and is to be its candidate. He also alleges, and with a good show of truth, that the unexpected result of the late New Jersey election was the work of the order. At TOE last Secretary Chandler suoceeded in his search for a man who wanted office badly cnough to be wüling to accept the Indian bureau and make himself a target for the uewspaper correspondents at Washington, and the journalists throughout the country. And his name it is Smith, John Q.. Smith, of Ohio, an ex-member of Congress, His predecessor was also one of the Smith family, and those who know the qualifications of both gentlemen, are not at all confident that the new Smith ■ is a bigger, braver, or of more sterling integrity (if that is needed or desired) than the old Smith. It is said at Washington that Mr. Chandler fouhd it hard to get his man, not because of the hard labor, poor pay, or business talent, required but because of the abusive news paper fellowe. It is fortúnate for the country that office-wanters have a wholesome awe ofsomething. Ir.' THE last Gongress thore was one wounded soldier on the staff of the ; House Clerk, nutubering forty, and now j ooines Mr. Port, of 111., Eepublican, with the following clap-trrp resolutioh : Resolved, By tho House of Hopresentatives, that iu all subordínate nppointments uuder any of the ofticers ot this House, it is the judgment ot the House tliat wounded soldiera who are not disabled trom tlie performance of duty should be preterred. And just beoause a Democratie offioer has the minor or "subordínate" appoiutnients. Mr. Fort and his Republiqan friends - 99 in number voting with him - had no -word to say in favor of " woundod soldiers " two, four, and six years ago, when the officers were at the disposal of their own politioal friends. THE leading Kepublican journals of the country backed Hon. S. J. Baudall for tlie Speakership, and with the Cincinnati Enquirer and a faw soft monoy Democratie organs, are very indiguant because Kerr was elected, It is intimated ia circles having the ear of the Administration, that good-natured-easygoing comtnittees of investigation were expected at the hands of Mr. Eandall, but the animus of the Repnblican support was really a desire to fasten the salary-grab clogs upon the Demooracy. The game didn't work. In fact, the support of the Eepublioans, with that of John Morrissey, was what defeated Eandall, who, despite all that is said of against him, would have made a good Speaker. And his course on the floor wili prove the Republican antioipations of him unfounded. The 8eason is fast upproaching when farmers plan their business for the ensuing summer. The Centennial ofifers such a rare opportunity for the acquisition of useful and curious knowiedge, that we feel oonstrained to cali our readers' attention to the importance of providing ways and means for every member to visit the exhibition soine time during the coming summer. Such as can afford the time and means will scarcely be able to spend three months more profitably or pleasantly anywhere else. There they can meet, face to face, people from all the nations of the earth. There they can find the best produotions from every clime ; the finest specimens of art, science and skill, now in existence. Everything which is useful or curious in endless variety. Disinterested men of good judgment have expressed their opiniou that more valuable knowledge can be acquired in three months at the Centennial, than by traveling abroad for three years. The Allegan Journal, writing up the opening prooeedings of Congress, says : " Kelley, of Pennaylvania, made a decided impressión in his manner of administering the oath to the Speaker, and1 his impressive elocution was frequently remarked. Kerr has the reputation of having been a bitter copperhead during the war, and a member of the notorious Knights of the Golden Circle (bosh), henee Kelley selected what is known as the iron-clad oath for hiui, and read it in such a manner as to bring out the strongest points." Kelley " selected " no oath, it was " sejeoted " for him by statute, unless Mr. Kerr saw fit to ask for the modified oath prescribed for " rebels" relieved by act of Congress or executive pardon ; and this oath Mr. Kerr had no occasion to cali for. Aa to Judge Kelley's " impressive elocution " and his briuging out the " strongest points," the writer of tbis paragraph was on the floor of the House at the time, heard no " eloquence " and saw no such " impressive " or ofFensive denionstration. The Journal, or the "organ's " from which it made up its " impressive " narrativo, labored hard to make a point. Again, the Journal says : " In swearing in the members Kerr selected what is known as the modified oath." Another error, or fais'ehood with a purpose. The members were called by States and the "iron-clad oath" administered until the Southern States were reached, when the Speaker announced that any member who could not take that oath would stand aside for the present ; and when the " ironolad " had done its work the Journal's " modified oath " was administered as the law requires, and not by Mr. Kerr's selection, to such members as had in any way given aid and comfort to the rebellion, either jn the field or in the civil service of the Confederacy. And in both branches of Congress there are Republican members in good standing who must needs take this " modified oath." The Journal is evidently hardpushed for capital. The Detroit Tribune speaks of Mr. Adams the newly-elected Clerk of the House, as " a Kentucky Bourbon." As Mr. or Major Adams, fought gallantly in the Union army during the late " onpleasantness," while the Tribune man was ind,iting bloody squibs at home (providing he had off his pinafore), it is eminently fitting that he should cali ñames, bandy epitheta, and throw diminutive rooks. How. Edwaed Q. Morton, one of the most prominent citizens of Monroe, and for nearly forty years connected with the press of Micnigau, died on Wednesday, aged 63 years. Mi. Morton has represented his county in both branches of the Legislature and in the Constitutional Convention of 1867. He was a Democrat first, last, and all the time, but had the universal respect of his Kepublican fellow citizens. A well-guarded system of education, providing instruction for all classes, has been in process of organization and development in India since 1854. There are three universities, at Calcutta, Madras, and Bornbay, respectively. With each uf these is affiliated a certain nutnber of colleges, which fit the university undergraduates for the higher examinations ; and next below in the scale are the high school, where students are prepared to enter the univorsity. These institutions complete the sóbeme for the educatiou of the wealthier classes. After them come the iniddle schools, where the course of instructions is intermedíate, between that of the primary and the Ligh-school. Elementary education is aftorded by the primary or village schools, of which the several provinces oonlain 37,544, there being 9,701 in receipt of government aid. Of colleges, there are twentyeight in Bengal, seven in the Northwest Provinoes, one in Oude, three in the Punjaub, thirteen in Madras, and eight in Bouibay. The total numberof highschools is 349, of middle schools, 3,096, of female schools, 2,011, and of normal schools, 132. The professional schools coinprise civil-engineering colleges at Rookee, Calcutta, Madras, and Poonah; medical colleges at Bombtiy, Madras, Lahore, and Calcutta; and schools of design and decorativo art at Calcutta aiid Madras. -