Political Clippings

It is not for signal administrativo ability that the restoration of Grant is sought hy this cabal of his dosigning friends. It is not hecause that administration was an ülustviouR example of justioe and equity. Nor y et because of lts rcmarkable purity ; nor uu account of it h eoonomical management of the treasury and its vaat interesta ; nor fur its strength from the personal sympathy and support of honest and incorruptible men ; nor in fact for a single one of thosa cbaraotoristics whioh could make its roduplication desirable in any seuse. But it is unfortunately for tho very opposite of thoso that the preseut scbeme tor his renoniinatiou is chenshml. The era of political dissolutenes9, iu which corrupt designs notoriously Hoiiriah, is whttt it is the plan to restore. In a pandemonium of politioil vices it i secretly hopod that conspiracies against the' treasury may coinimmd suovesaL - ■ Jinstvi Post. The great office questiou tilled all minds and stii red all tongues. Notbing elae was mentioned. Moreover, the manner ef its iutroduction attests the importance that is attached to it. ' WhereaH," ruus Mr. Sargeut's preamble, " the restoratiou of the Democratie party to power would be a great national calamity, to avert which all patriotic citizens should put forth their best eiforts." A solumn begtnning, truly. And to avert the druadful calamity thus foreshadowed, the California Senator proposes - what 'i That the Republican party shall entreat the l'rcsideut to resoind that nisuiorable civil service order which he has p.ot even attomptud to entorce ! - A York Times. Is the millennium at uaud 'i Don Cameron, Stanloy Matthews and James (K Blaine lovingly locking arms, and parading Penusylvania avenue together, the President and the Itepublicim Smiatora gently conferring with eaoh other, Tbeodore Tilton providiug a glimmer residence for his wife, Prince Bismark meditating to bring about an amicable uuderstanding between England and Russia, and the residence of the Germán Minister in Paris crowded with the elite of French society ; it really look as if there were piping things of peace ahead, with the war paint all wasbed ott' and the tomahawk buried in the bowels of the earth. - Ciiicinnuti Commercial. It is not, however, m series of defeats nor the fact that the Republioan party represent a minority of the nation and of the most of the States, that gives its leaders most uneasiness. Guilty recollections of the great crime against popular government for which the party is responsible, tends more than anytbing else to demoralize it. - Búfalo Courkr. Secretary Evarts aays the Cabinot is haruionious and huppy, and has not a Presidential aspirant in it. This announcement is a credit to the aagacity of tbe Cabinet, but it does not remove any stupendous obstacle from the