Gail Hamilton Devotes A Column

and a half letter to Stanley Matthews, whoni she calla " The Fourth Estáte." ÏHAT colored West Point cadet, Flipper by name, was neither bull-dozed nor killed, but graduated last week, the fiftieth in a olass-'of seventy-six. He is the first 'colored graduato of West Point. Dowíí in Florida a one-armed man is exempt frotn taxation on his business unless ho is a liquor seller. The law makers " calkerlate" that one arm is sufficient for a concoctor of gin cocktails, mint-juleps, and " sich." Senator Conklino bas gone to Europe, under his physician's advice, and hopes to regaiu his health, lost at about the opening of last fall's cainpaigu, in timo to be at his post on the opening of the extra session of Congress. " H. H., or Miss Helen Hunt Jackson, says she is n't Saxe Holm, and Saxe Holtn indignantly donies that she is " H. H.," or that " II. H." is she ; yet the literary ciitic of the New York Tribune persists in charging " on is t'other aud t'other is one." Perhaps the Tribune writur knows more thmi both the ladies in question. Hojt. D. D. PEATT, furmerly United States Senator froin Indiana, and later Commissioner of Internal Reveuue, died suddeuly at his residence in liogansport, on Sunday last, of hoart disease. Hon. John Puttit, another ex-Uuited States Senator, and very prominent in his day, died at Lafayette, Ind, on Sunday, aged about seventy. $800 : that is what the Detroit Tribune is called upon to pay for perpetratingajoke at the expense of James A. Randall, a Detroit lawyer and one of the Circuit Court Conimissioners for Wayne County. That is the Tribune called it a joke, but Randall and a Superior Court jury callod it a libel. Tho Tribune must contine itself to facts horeafter and let joking alone. Rev. Joiin S. C. Abbott (sometimes called " Napoleon Abbott," becauso of lus laudatory biographies of Napoleon and Napoleon III,), died at his home in Fair Haven, Conn., on Sunday last, in the 72d year of his age. Mr. Abbott was born at Brunswick, Maine, in 1805, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825, in the same class with Dr. George Cheever, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Jonathan Cilley. Ax ITEM in the Architect and Building Xetcs says that the Michigan building on the Centennial grounds, not having been removed, has been pulled down by order of the Park Commissioners. Other buildings, including the Arkansas building, the Municipal building, and one of tho buildings of tho United States Government shared the same iuglorious fate. The General proposes to sue the Finance Committee for the destruction of its property. The game law enacted at the recent session of tho Legislature is a lame law. It protects thein in the very months the legislators intended to permit thein to be shot, and pennits them to be shot in the brooding months when they should be protected. Woodcock inay now bo bhot, if there is no error in tho oiScial copy of the act, from the first d9y of January to the fifth day of July, and are protectod from the fifth day of July to the first day of January. That gamelaw maker was evidently out of time when he let his little bill go through. A l'HELIMIXARY contract has beon made for the consolidation of the Detroit Post and Adxertiacr and Tribune, and the appraisers of good will and material have been selected. Tne new paper is to bo christened the Post and Tribune. Tho stockholders of both papers cannot fail to be the gainers by tho consolidation, and the move is also politically a wise one : that is for the Republicans. The Democracy aro the only gainers by having two Republican organs in Detroit, fighting each otber instead of political opponents. Tiiose Republican politicians who have a desire to build up an administration party, and to be considered inain spokos in tho government wheel, are likely to come to grief. Boing brawling administration men is to give them no claim to step into the shoes of official and party soreheads, and they must clap for the President in the capacity of private citizens and disinterosted patriots and not as office-holders. The latest official declarations upon this point are found in a letter from the Postraaster-General to recently discharged clerks from the postoffice of a largo western city. Complaining to the Postmaster-General, they alleged among other things that their successors wero raw and inefficiënt hands, and that "the postmaster was not loyal to the Administration." The Postmaster-General laid their complaints before the President, and theruafter, by authority, responded to the complainants, by letter, frora which the following extract luis been given to tho public : " It appears from evidoncos in tlie department that tho olïioo is weü oonducted at present, and that tliü Bpeoial agent has made favorable reports as to its present organization and management so that the public aro uot sutleriug for want of good servico. Th oflice is wetl managed now, so tliat the complaints are more in the Datare of private rather than pubiic grievanoes. The pustoiïice is not a politicil institution. It' it bo trun, as you state, that tho incumbsnt opposes the pohcy of the admimgtration, that he has a right to do, and it is no cause of removal uulcss in his zoal and activity he sirik tho postmaster in the politioian. It aoyone, whuther ho support or opposo the admiuistration, noglucts siich duty by being ii busy politician, or makes himsuil obnoxious by reaaon of inconsiderate and foolish zeal, ho ouht to be removed, but if he attends iatthiuily to lus duties and makes a good and accoptablu poatmxstar hu should not be removed) though he bou fit to opposo the administratioo. The President feols no suiliciont -;ius! íor a change iu tho postónico." Let applicanta for postoffices "put that in thi;ir pipos and smoko it." Til" heaviest ilueco of wool thus far roportud is '11 pounds, It was sheared (rom ii throo-year oíd rain belonging to Mr. T. H. Lyon, of Aurolius, Ingham County. Po8TMAster-GeSèe,Al kËY bas written to a special agantof his drpartnumt, who desirefl to be assigued to duty iu Iiis own State, where ho " oould lie most useful in building up th administration party," in tuis wias : " You wore not appointed to orgaaize or build up an aiimiaistration party in your State or elsewhere. You wore appointed to do woik iu the l'ostoffico Department. You serve your party best by doing tliat work, and I shall take great pleasure in removing an agent and redueing thü force wben I discover that ha has auy time to attond t.o party organizatiun aud party discipline." Doos Mr. Key uiean to strangle the once prond Rppublican party 'i Senator Blaine repudiates the idua that eithor ho or anyono elso " innpiros " the letters of Gail Haniilton, and in illustration of his idea of Gail, tells the story of the Peansylvania woinan who responded to the notary's question, " do you acknowledge tho execution of this instrument without fear or compulsión from your husband or anyone '( " with conteinpt in both manner and voice, " Me afoard ! I gueBs, jedge, you don't know the family." Blaine is supposed to know the faniily, and judging by the by the habit Gail has had of " slinging ink " and invectives these many years, she don't need any " inspiration " from the Senator.