Political Clippings

General Butler is represented as saying in an interview concerning the defcat of Simmons that four years ago he pledgod bis reputation for Simmons' uprightncss and ability, and that the person had fully justified his confidence in him. No ono will gainsay General Butlor's statement. We do not know to whom ho pledged his reputation ; thero has boen nothing in his career during these four yoars to indicatu that it was in pawn, nor anything to show that he has redeemed it ; but if his maintaining the samo oíd roputation is any sign that Simmons filled the bill for whioh it was pledged, there can be no further question about it. But supposo Simmons had fuilod after General Butler had " plodged his roputation " for him - what, we beg to know, would have becomo of the holdor of tho plodge? - N. Y. Tribune. Even in this country, whoro overy man is by instinct a constitutional lawyer, none of thoso who havo consurod President Hayes for not iuterfering to rescue Gen. Anderson from the sontenco procurod in the forms of Louisiana law have responded to our rcquest to have them define in what manner tho Presidont should interiore, and to point out his authority in the Constitution or statuto. This is a strange iuability in thoso who aro so positivo that the President should sail in. - Cintinnati Convention. Tho Chicago Tribune rebukes the Richmond Whig for clamoring for greenbacks without explnining howthey will be put iuto pockots that aro now empty. Yet the 'Tribune has just got through clamoring for tho dollar of the daddies without any oxplanation how it is to bo got into tho ompty poekets - Vree Pres. Ben Butlor's rascality is liko Bismarck's diplomaoy ; it is disguised in bluntness. Whilo tho other inílationists aro down on thoii knoes in pretended worehip of a silver imago, tho valiant Butler openly proclaims that he wants a government dollar issued, intrinsically as worthless aspo8sible, that nover shall be redeemed, and that shall bo a universal legal tender throughout tho country. - Philadelphia lteeord. Gen. Butler, with his now "American system of financo " - and it is indeed new ! - confronts the Constitution, the Supremo Court and the two great political partios ; declares credit and property worthless, and proposes to destroy exisüng credits and values, and have men hereafter work for and support their families on irrodoemablo and wothless rags, stamped by the soal of tho United States Government. Gold and silvor, farowell ! Nickels, adieu ! Gen. Butler has proclaiuied your values are based in ignorance, and hfi dospises you ! - Boston Po&l. The salt shipments from Bay City for Fobruary foot up SG,1GO barrels, noarly ouc-hnlf of which was shipped iu bulk. Th o ico has 11 brokon up in Saginaw liay uud tho fishormen broke up thoir suttlemont at tho mouth of tho river on iSaturday. A barrel of coppor has been sent from the Boheinian mine to the Paris Expoöition. As this is likely to be tho only sample of Lako Superior copper that will bo sent, tho Bohemian mino is entitlud to credit for its onterprise. Bobemians, by tho vvay, are generally wido awake, and on bnhslf of the press we say : " Hurrah for our Ontonagon Bouoinian." - Hancock Journal. ïiir Nabob. From the 'rench of Alphonse Daudet. liy Lucy H. Iloopcr. Boston ; Estos aml Lauriat. Thoro ia, perhapa, 110 denying the power of the book, but concerning the pleusure or profit to be found iu ïeading it, we eau imagine some questiou. Koino onc has caüed DauJet the Hiiwlhorno of Frunce A certain similarity in tliü power with which ho portrays characti-r and auvailB ovil to tlie light oi day, we notice iu the "Nabob," but we fail to sec the caruust pulposo which seems to us to underlie, rather to permoate, most of Huwthoriie's writings. Abouttheonly moral woshoulddraw frora the story would li tlie dangoi n acoinnulating greut weulth, nccessary enough in this day perhap ; atill there aio ïow who posaoss untoid mitlions, and it is to be hopoü 01091 of these unfortunatus have a htllu more coinmoo sonse than our t'riend tlie "Nabob." Iti spite, howevor, of nis Qnprapoteeflfling appoarance and lack of culture or icIiiHUn'Mit, lus kindly qualitio8, aml a aometbirig ol innato nolilencss, enlist tor him our svinpathy mul interest, and the way in which peisecutions are heaped upon hm, and door attcr door oí escape closec in his vory facu, na it wure, leaves us with au uupleasant impiession that .M. Daudet decided againat him at Jirst sirht and doliveied him over to the iat.es and furies coinbiued. Uonccrniu the othcr characters, most of them ure introduced to U3 alroady so. irabued with sollishnesn and iniqmty that there is little chame for any developmont, good or bad. Jenkius is certamly a modol hypocrite, but the vcry unctuousuess of hia sniile savors of over-npenesB to begiu with, and we are wholly prepared for the denouement. Paul de Gery and the Joyeuso iamily raouopolize the sunshiue in the picture. Nothing couid be pretticr than the youthful ' grandmamma" and her homo f uil of children,- not the least troublesome aud eutertaiuing of vvhom is " iapa" himself. Their innocent pleasuros and quiet home-life are the sweetest of relief to the reader who is wearied with the details of intrigue and slander. Though worthy of reading as a work of art the book begins and ends iu glooni, and leaves one with the uncomfortsensation of a tragody that might have been avoidod. Uoe cannot help woudering it " art" raight not have been as perfect with less of fihadow.