Robeson's Case

The boldest jmblio robber of the past decade in the United States, it'noliu the whole world, is George M. Robuson, Grant's Secretary of tho Navy, and now, by the grace of the Republican party, about to take lus seat as a Reprosentativein Congress. If he had any cotnpetitor, it was Tweed, but where Tweed stole his millions, Robeson stole his tens of millious- or at least connived at tho theft by others. The most reinarkable feature about it is that instead of the author of such colossal crimes being consigned to penal servitude for life, he has been petted and honored by the party to which he belongs, and even now his party iïiends in Congress are shielding him at every point from the punishnient he so richly inerits. The statute of limitation in his case comes to his rescue the 8th of March. if tho Rupublicans can stave off action on the Com tnittee's charges uutil tho present Congress shall have adjourned, Graut's corrupt Cabinet minister will get off scot free, and he will comeinto the Forty-sixth Congress plear of impeuding indictmonts. ■ -#-- - The New York Republicana have a project on foot to chauge the raethod of choosing Presidential electors in their State. It is designed.ift'ueRopublicans are successful at the Stato election in ,he fall, thus securing a Governor who will approve the measure, to pass a law at the next session of the Legislature, providing for the selection of one Presidential elector in each Congressional district, and two from the State at largo. [L this could be done the Rcpublican would have fifteen to tweuty electors from New York if they lost the State ; while if they did as woll a3 last year ;hey would have twenty-seven of the thirty-flve. The f act that the project ia luder serious consideration shows how ittleconfidence the Republicanshavo in ;heirability tocarry New York State in hePresidential election next year. It cannotbecarriediutoeffdct, however, uness the Republicans have things their own way in New York this fall : and of this there is no probability. Mr. Jiiy Gould's brow svvaat to some surpose on Monday of last week. By strict attention to business all that day, yy thorough improvomentof all its shinng hours he inanaged to provide hiinself with food and drink and lay asidu something for a raiuy day. It is derstood that from his sales of Union Pacific stock, which came to hini at .'30 and went from him at 78, he realizad Detweea tour and five raillion dollars. This amount may not seern large to a jlutnber or prima donna, but the average man will regard it as quite a sizeajlepluin.or souiething uncommoly snug and handsome. It is but a few weeks ago that it was given out that the wolf was reposing on Mr. Gould's front stoop, and eviuciug a determination to euter and niake free with his home. Iu the ight on Monday's revelation the iinpressiou will gain ground that what Dassert for a wolf was no beast at all Dut an animal knovrn to ornithologists as a decoy duck. For a paper pretending to be, and without doubt is, the leading journal of lts party in Michigan, the Vod and Tribune ought to be ashamed of ltself for calling prominent and respectable gentlemen, names. Forinstauce it characterizes Gov. Tilden as " Grrand'ather Smllweed ;" Fernando Wood, 'Furnandy Wud;" bosidus othor casos. Thia way of treating oppoueuts is below ;he dignity of village newspapers. It ia with surprise that a presa liUe our tnetropolitan cotemporary should so far 'orget the amenities due to public men as to de6cend to boyish performances. Lieutenant Blair, who had a wife and children iu Scotland, wooed and wedded Mrs. General Gordon Granger, a dashing widow in Washington whom Commodore Vanderbilt left a cool $10,000. It was a 'grand smash" of a wedding, and not oug ago either. Blair's eceentricitiea came to light and he was tried by court martial for bigamy. He hasjuet conFessed the charge aud will pr bably be dismissed the service and turned over to the Kentucky authorities for trial on the same charge. Mrs. Blair, who wouldn't believe a word of it, is now looking for divorce. An ecoentric spinster wbo died not long ago left a will, made a quarter of a century ago, naming Hcnry Ward Beecher and Honry C. Bowen as executors. The good old dame little dreamed that these devoted brethren would ever fall out. When the time came for Beecher and Bowen to qualify as executors both of thein failei to put in an appearance. "Bowen and Idon't sailin the same boat now," said Beecher to an interviewer, "aud the estáte is too insignificant forme totake an interestin." Smallestu tes have no charms for BrotUer Beecher. It has beeu definitely decided that Mrs. Christiancy will not accompany her husband to Peru, on account of the health of her mother, who is shaken by a paralytio affection. George Cuatar Christiancy, his youngest child, will go with his father, and Mrs. Curisüancy will join him soine time in the future. Mr. Christiancy speaks Frenchperfectly, he having acquired that language in early Ufe and improved it by reading the best authors in that language since. Another illustrationof the beauties of civil service reform is the ca90 of the Dafcroit post office. Mr. Kaple, who has given universal satisfaction during the past four years whioh he has oonducted its affairs upon strictly business principies, is superseded by Geo.C. Cudd.apoliticifin and packer of caucuses The King of Burmah is a jolly old cove. He bas just murdered all the princes and their families. They were in His Hajesty's way. His úneles and his couBins and his aunts will no longer trouble the King, as did Grant's when he lived in the White House.