The New York Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1873, Page 3

‘THE VIENNA EXHIBITION Our American Colony on the Danube. VISIT OF THE PHILADELPHIA COMMISSION Lessons To Be Learned by Our Philadelphia Friends. Hints, Hopes and Good Advice for the Centenary. What We May Expect from Europe and the East. Will the Khedive Build a Palace on the Schuylkill? The Appointment of Mr. Garrettson as Chief Commissioner, DEPARTURE OF VAN BUREN. A. Statement of His Case. Let Us Have Fair Play All Around. AMERICAN GOSSIP IN VIENNA. VIENNA, July 17, 1878, A summing up of the situation here, so far as American affairs are concerned, may not be with- out value in these midsummer days of the Exposi- tion. We have a commiasion of Philadelphians, to look after the Centennial in 1876. It is composed of gentlemen who go about their work with patience and courteay—men of presence and character, Philadelphia should be congyatulated on sending out 40 wise 4 commigsion, and I am sure its mem- bers will carry home abundant fruits. They will tell onr Philadelphia friends many good things to umitate, many foolish things to avoid, MISTAKES IN VIENNA. ‘Much could be said on this subject, There are mistakes in the Vienna Exposition that should be avolded in Philadelphia. In the matter of conces- sions, for instance, there are irritating regu” tations which go, far toward marring its pleasures. If you are tired and wish to uit upon 6 chair, if you care to hear the music under the trees, if you crave a. glass of water, if you have any necessary or natural duty for comiort or pleasure, it is taxed, harsnly taxed. And this came from the vicious idea that it was neceaeary for the financial advantage of Austria to obtain the largest amonnt of money from the Ex- position—to “make it pay’ as & money specula- tion, To gain this end concessions were granted to private parties giving the right to scll papers, to retail soda water, to furnish chairs, to superin- tend totlet apartments and retiring rooms. All these rights were given to ingenious speculators for 80 many thousands 0: dollars; and, of course, | the persons who obtained the monopoly impose the largest tax upon the visitor. While in the confines of the Expostion itself there is every lux- ury and courfort that the body can crave, you are compelled to pay largely for their enjoyment. ‘There is also a distinction in the admittance fee. On three days of the week twenty cents is patd—on others forty, being a necessity perhaps in a society of caste and privileged classes, where my lord docs mot care to be disturbed by his coachman when he goes to see the show. Therefore, it seems that the first lesson to be learned from this Exposition by our friends in Philadelphia is that no concessions should be made to any party Involving a tax upon the comfort or necessities of the visitors; second, that the admission should be as low as possible. To tnis you might add that there should be no free admission, and that the Presideut himself and the always welcome members of the press, the clergy- Men and school teachers and other classes, who are supposed to exist upon free tickets, should pay their admittance fee every time they enter the Duilding. ADVICE Af TO THE PHILADELPHIA PALACE, Another lesson to be learned 1s in the mechani- cal construction of the building. This Vienna Ex- Position is @stupendons affair. It 1s a little city in itself, or rather a Mosaic composition of ali the Industries and achievements of tie nationalities of the world pressed and packed im this Prater Forest—a gem by itself something that has never been seen before, and probably will never be seen again. So, while you admire it as a whole, say as a Picture or a gem, you fvel it grow upon you from hour to hour, as you wander through the corridors, among the trees and the little villages that sur round it, But it is an inefficient building for pur- poses of study or observation. If, for instance, you desire to go from the American Department where our sewing macnimes are im operation, to the Turkish department, where there are speci- mens of unique and wonderful emoroidered work, @one by the rude but cunning Oriental hand, If, as fs quite probable, you desire to compare the achievements of modern science in America with the quaintly wrought ancient industry of Turkey, you have to walk for half an hour—a journcy as far I should think, as from the Battery tothe City Hall. ‘There is no way to avoid it; 80 that to take a hasty stride through the Exposition building, beginning at the American quarter, stopping nowhere, but simpiy taking in general impressions of the Exhibi- tion, is in itself a long Sabbath day’s journey. ‘WOW THE PHILADEPHIA PALACE SHOULD BE CON- SIrRUCTED, Bo, for purposes of study and observation, the exhibition defeats itself, The plan lacks harmony. ‘There is no logical arrangement of its resources— no way of studying out any particular group or selection of objects without going from country to country and seeking it out, In other words, you have a series of pictures of nationalities and na- tional manners and not anexplanation. It 1s a splendid, dazzling, vast palace, and you go around the world in going trom one end of the building to the other, because you go from America to Japan. In France, in 1867, it was better arranged. Instead of aparallelogram, with fins, or wings, like Vienna, there was acircie with a series of concentric circies. Mf you tired of Turkey it was only a minute's {walk to Norway. The central rotunda was the ,Reart, and the blood came and went from the heart ‘Am regular, easy motion. Here the rotunda, a noble ‘edifice in itself, is given over to candies and rub- ber and models that mar the effect and jumble the mind, and you hurry through under the impression that there had been a fire in some great storehouse and the goods suddeniy huddled in to preserve them. Let our Philadelphia friends, avoid the parallelo- gram in their mechanism, mage the palace like a star or an octagon or square er @ wheel with spokes, as compact a8 they can, Let them take the spider asa model and build as he builds his feb, and those who come to see will bless the maker, POREIGN AID TO PHILADELPHIA. What will those nations do for Philadelphia? That is 8 question anxiously askea, Much will depend opon the Washington government agd tie manner In which the diplomatists serve abroad, Wi must arrange our laws to suit the exhibition, We should make the palace @ ouded wargyouse AD NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1873—WITH SUPPLEMENT: ‘who has confessed his misdemeanor it cannot be | Exposition and report to the government results admit all articles for actual show free of duty. In event of their being sold to our people we snould make a special abatement of duties—ten or twenty per cent—as @ premium to the exhibitor, Then, in event of additional orders for goods exhibited, there should be s similar inducement, I do not know as these coaxing measures will go very far, but they will do no harm, But we must not count upon a for eign exhibition. We cannot expect the world to bring to Philadelphia its treasures, But wecan ask the World to come and see what treasures we have in our new and almost virgin land. Still, much can be done by our Ministers in the various courts, Take Egypt, for instance. The Khedive has always felt kindly to America. As he is a man of. pre- eminent sagacity and enterprise, 1 have no doubt that with a little tact on the part of our officers in Alexandria His Highness could be induced to bulld on the banks of the Schylkilla copy of his model palace at Vienna, with its minarets and transport- able palm. The same maybe ssid of Turkey; for while Tuckey does not show largely, there aro evidences of its rude Oriental civilization that Would be interesting to our people. Rusala may be expected todoa great deal for America for rea- sons of ancient iriendship and sympathy. You can count upon Germany I am sure, It would bea Strange thing if Germany at home did not yearn to rival in industry and art and skill the Fatherland in America, As to France, I'do not expect very mach, If Napoleon were upon the throne, or if the central government had control of the industries of the country as ander Napoleon, you might an- tictpate as fine acontribution in America as is seen in Vienna. But the relations between France and America are such—in other words, we buy from the French mercbéntaall that they have to sell, and would buy so much more if they could furnish it, that it isa matter of indifference to their Merchants whether they send their goods for ex- position or not. Then always remember there is the wide sea to Cross and that ships go down, and Men who own fine tapestries and pictures and bronzes will heaitate to run the risk, AMERICA TO MAKE HER OWN RXHIBITION. An exhibition without France would lose 3 great deal in taste and display, but if you have England and Germany as largely represented as they are here, or even proportionately as large, you may spare France. We ought to have a better exposi- tion from Spain, for instance, than they have in Vienna, perhaps as good from Sweden and trom China and Japan. What you should expect from these foreign countries is not lavish contributions, but variety in display, and this you must supple- ment by an exhibition of industries of the great American Continent. It 1s too much to expect frem America wiat you sec in Vienna, or what you saw in Paris; nor is it fair to hope that we can rival these’ nations that show us the wealth and continued developement of thousands of years of civilization— 4 civilization like China, going back before the time of tne Pharaohs; a civilization 1ike Egypt’s, taking us to the time of Joseph, and so on to Austria and Spain, which recall the Roman Empire. It is un- fair to expect from America the variety and ful- ness, and richness and beauty and magnificence that we have from these nations. But if America cannot show the results of four thousand years of civilization as in Egypt and China, it can show what in two hundred or at most three hundred years mea of Saxon blood, inapired and developed by liberal institutions, have been able to do witha country where, four hundred years ago, the name of God had never been heard and civilization had'no life, So that, if our people are wise, and will take to heart the lessons of Vienna, and: avoid the; mis- takes they bave here made, and will inspire their representatives at foreign courts to due diligence and keennegs of action, they will have a display in Patladetphia as varied and interesting as we have in Vienna, and still more important to the world, as showing what Americans can do in art, indus- try and science. THE NEW COMMISSIONER, Passing from this to more immediate themes, as I Informed the HERALD thig morning by the cable, Mr. Henry Garretson, Chief Commissioner in place of Mr. Jackson 8. Schults, took tire oath of omce. Mr. Schultz only consented to accept the office of Chief Commissioner upon the urgent rep- resentitions of tre State Department, and he ex- Pressly made it @ condition that he should not con- tinue after the Fourth of July. He has made do- mestic arrangements concerning the stay of his family in Europe, and it was not possible for him to give further time to bis work. It is proper to state that during the few weeks Mr. Schultz held the chief office of the Commission he showed wisdom, tact and decision in dealing with the difficult questions that sur- rounded him, and contributed largely to restoring some of the good feeling which had been lost by the unfortunate dissensions connected with the opening. Mr. Schultz left Vienna a day or two after his resignation took effect, and Mr. Garretson has been officially in charge since the beginning of the month. Mr. Garretson was appointed originally by General Van Buren asa member of the Exccu- tive Commission, When the Board was suspended he fell with it, but ‘Was restored by an order from Washington almost immediately. His selection as Chief Commissioner is understood to have been the desire of Mr. Schultz, and it gives general satisfaction to the Americans here, even to those who sympathize with General | Van Buren and believe in his thorough integrity. Mr. Garretson is @ citizen of Cleveland, Ohio, a banker, @ man of fortune, high social standing, and seems calculated to inspire the respect and confidence of all with whom he is called upon to deal. GENERAL VAN BUREN, General Van Buren has been living within an hour’s Fide of Vienna, at the little Summer town | of Vésiau, and has visited Vienna dally, partly to give whatever assistance he could to'the Commis- sion, and partly, I suppose, because it was the be- lief of many of his friends that the authorities at Washington, after having officially considered the charges against him, would have restored him to the head of the Commission. Nor was this dis- pelied, at least in the minds of the friends of the General, until the actual arrival of the Commission which gave Mr. Garretson charge. I sappose that such a hope has passed even from his own min‘; for yesterday, witn his family, he left Voslau fora trip into Switzerland, intending, as I am intormed, to place his children at school in Germany, and then return to the United States to continue the campaign against his enemies, of which he has given the public suMcient and widespread warn- ing. THE V‘SNNA SCANDAL SUMMED UP, General Van Buren thus passes from the scere, hts work in the Commission at an end. Ihave not gone into the scandals with which his name has been associated, because it seemed that we could do our dear ther land better service than to expose her naxe.iuess to unfriendly eyes. But the Matter must cum? to Washington for discussion and revision, and it may be well to give some im- pressions that bave been formed in your corre- spondent’s mind, As to tie case against General Van Buren, no one seems to know it exactly. The special committee of investization, composed of Mr. Jay and Mr, McElrath, have been in session for some weeks, brood- ing over the circumstances in a silent, owl-like way, and have sent their report to Wash- ington. This report will probably go in the mail which carries you this letter. Its conclusions are sald tobe adverse to General Van Buren, although the tone of the report is personally kind to him. It is signed by Mr. Jay and Mr. McElrath, It avers that there were many irregularities in the trana- action of business on the part of members of the Commission, that one member took sums of money amounting to several thousands of dollars, if I may state the figures roughly, for concessions to build taverns and barrooms in the Exposition grounds, ‘The person who received these sums satd to the Commission that General Van Buren was cognizant of each transaction, and shared in its advantages, ‘This is @ matter of aMfidavit on the part of the com- missioner. General Van Buren has made an aMdavit Aistinctly denying any knowledge Of these transac- tons and giving an explanation of them which has fally satisfied his friends. There is said also to be Additional evidences from Mr. Stiasny, showing knowledge of irregaiar transactions between the General end some of iS subordinates, But how far Mr, Btiagny's evidenee goos I cannot swy. If the conclusions of this report are based upon a Delle! in the evidence of ome commugsioncr conclusive in the mind of the people, because in any question of veracity between General Van Buren and this commissioner, the country will be bound to believe the General, especially as the otter Witness confesses bis Incapacity to be a wit- 38 in Any Che favelshig Trait aad honor 80ME WORDS FOR VAN BUREN. I a he re) ate ite pnd apie ag tbe SHiGHBe TAS gahor Tglgg among the Americans in Vienna is that Geheral Van Buren has been harilly used. It is felt that if there is no evidence other than that of General Myer the reputation of a lifetime of usefulness and integrity cannot be squelched upon the word of a man wh» con(esses his own shame, and who nat- urally dees not care to fall alone, If the General has done foolish things it will be said truly that under no American law can you convict a man of scoundrelism because he has shown folly. It is possible that the General in his anger did some things he would not do again. He 1s blamed for the publication of his violent letter to the Presi- dent, But it ts explained that he sent this in con- fidence to Mr. George Jones, of the Times, his friend from boyhood, and that Mr, Jones allowed hia instincts as @ journalist to overcome the obligations of friendship, The General, as @ nervous, sanguine, enthusiastin, cheer- fal temperament, trusting and trusted, and not in the habit of having his name dishonored, was precisely the man to put his emotions on pa- Per, to show anger in letters and specches. Is {t Rot Macbeth who asks, “Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in a mo- ment?’ I should be disposed to answer, ‘Cer- tainly not, General Van Buren!’ Furthermore, when you think of a Commisstoner who comes to Vienna full of honor and hope, the chief of his em- bassy, the representative of the American nation in the presence of kings and emperors and princes, about to receive the sweet reward of months ot labor, to-be the first of his country and people in a representative capacity, to sit down with kings and walk in the same line with princes and tobe received in the circle with bejewelled and sashed and embroidered ambassadors, to stand ag @ peer among the darlings and idola of this splendid Austrian society, only suddenly to find himself thrown into the utter- most depths of despair, his name dishonored and his friends astounded, and those he loved and who loved and honored him oppressed with shame, we certainly can be too exacting in our criticisms upon lis speeches and actions. Soit was with Genera] Van Buren, and the rude sense of fair play which rests so largely In the American mind has, in Vienna at Jeust, surrounded him with sympathy and foliows him in his departare from this scene of hissorrows with the belief and the hope that. when the circumstances appertaining to his control of the Commission are fully examined his honor will come forth without a stain, THE CAUSES OF AMERICA’S FAILURE, I say this much for General Van Buren partly be- cause he has been a good deal abused and partly because I {cel that the Heap, will be only too glad to do him, as it does all men, justice. And it is more especially useful to bo said becanse the mistake made py the American Department and the almost ignominious position.in which our country has been placed can not be attributed with any justice to General Van Buren or to his commission. The tendency to take one man or one body of men as scapegcoats is a convenient ‘way of releasing the soul irom its anger or the con- science from penance and moral obligations, In the first place, nothing was done by our govern- ment to assist them in the Exhibition mntil it was too late. The appropria- tion was passed in February to enable us to make an appearance worthy of our country 1n May. The honorable members of Congress) were too busy investigating the Crédit Mobilier trans- actions and securing their own back pay to think of the tremendous opportunity that awaited the nation in Vienna. This was the first blunder, The second blunder was jn the appointment of the com- missioners, in not surrounding General Van Buren with 9 staf of representative men, who would have brought credit upon the country and done efMficientservice. If General Van Buren were in a po- sition to be criticised I should say that his chief blunder was in appointing the commissioners, not upon the principle of securing eMcient and active support, but upon the theory which pertains in our Custom House, giving the vacant position to the person who had the largest number of recommend- ation. When you remember that in America the business of sigping,peitions for any purpose is so loose that it would not be difficult to induce thou- sands of our first citizens to put their names to a paper askimg for the execution by court martial of Mr. Charles O’Conor or A. 'T. Stewart, you can un- derstand bow the judgment of a commissioner who sciected his assistants from a mass of mauu- script endorsements can be atfault. The conse- quence was that with a few exceptions the Gen- eral had @ most unfortunate commission. This was the second blunder. The third came from the apathy of the American people toward Vienna. Vienna is far from the United States; it lies away by itsel/ in those Lower Danube countries, the hign- way between London and Calcutta, bu’ the general tide of travel has never reached there. Our im- pressions of Vienna not having been o1 an inviting kind, the tendency of the popular mind at home ‘was to ignore tue Vienna Exposition as offering little more inducements than fairs at Constanti- nople or Northern Russia, Again, there were troubles about the patent laws, and the influence of inventors, or those who traffic in the genius of invention at home, was to destroy any enthusiasm for the Exposition for fear that if any ingenious ‘American were to bring a patent rat trap, or an explosive bullet, ora champion cocktail, or some- thing unusual, the tnicving foreigner woald in- | stantly seize upon the idca and adopt itin Kurope. THE REAL CAUSES OF THE FAILURE. All these Instances combined must be considered when you come to pass Judgment upon the Vienna Exposiuion, and it is neither justice to ourselves nor to the rights of citizenship for us to attribute our failure to the mistakes of General Van Buren. Tbvelieve that the General did the best he could do with his material. success of America in the Exposition. In fact, I | know of very few Americans who would be dis- posed by temperament to take @ greater pleasure im the careering of the American eagle and the flapping of the bunting aud the everlasting glory of the country than General Van Buren himself; for, as I have said, he is a man of that enthusiastic tem- perament and intense frankness, almost boyish- ness of feeling, that finds its great pleasure in these manifestations of national vanity and praise, in dreworks and oratory, and the happiness and good fealing of those around him. But we as a na tion did nothing toward Vicnna. It never seemed to occur to the governing minds of Vongress that here was @ chance to win for America victory of peace more renowned than any victory of war. These governing minas were too assidnous in the examination of the memoranaum of Oakes Ames, in caicniating the amount of back pay, in solving the moral problems presented by tne consciences of Colfax and Garfield and Bing- ham to consider the great opportunity. England, Franee and Germany sent trained men, Citizens of fortane and public spirtt like Sir Richard Wal- Jace and Baron Rothschild gave large sums of Money, The sovereigns and rulers vied with one Qnother in contributing to the success of their Rations. So it comes to pass that while you see in Austria, Germany, France, England, even in Greece and Turkey, China and Brasil, fair manites- tations of what cach country can do, ond illustra- ions of their wealth and resources, in America you see a straggling, imperfect, lonesome exhibition, rich only in machinery, and no more representa- tive of the country than the barren sketches of Sandy Heok are representative of the beadty of Colorado and tae wealth of New Yotk and Penn- Sylvania. ANOTHER VBXATION IN ‘RHE COMMISSION, There has been some trouble between what ts called the Executive Commission, over which Mr. Schultz has presided, and where now Mr. Garretsom Presides and a body of gentiemen, called the “artisan” and “scientific” commissioners, In the scheme for the representation of America at this Exposition it was provided that there should be certain number of men skilled in science and me- I believe that no man | would have been more proud and happy at the i | burg, leavit of their observations, There were also special appointments, made by the Navy Depart- ment and by the War Department, of officers high (mn rank and education, who were to come here also and obtain valuable lessons. ‘The frst visitor was Pay Director John S, Cunning- ham, of the United States Navy. Mr. Cunningham SHAH-ING. “Free Lance” Again Rises to Explain. missioners were in the agony of General Vai | A Prophecy on the Result of Making a Very Buren’a removal and Colonel Cannon's appoint- ment, and ag they had that instinctive conddence and yearning for the American untform which our citizens always feel in a foreign land, they took the aniformed Cunningham and placed him imme- diately in charge, begging him to be dictator of the Exhibition and to bring order out of chaos. Tho dictator reigned twenty-four hours and resigned, to Colonel Cannon's vexation. He explained that } The Marquis of Lorne’s Idea of his instructions from the Navy Department were of ® confidentia! and important nature, that Mr. Robeson was very anxious to know everything about the Exposition, to have the last results of science and navigation and steam brought to his feet, For this reason he sent Cunningham ona special mission, with extra money for expenses. It was too hard work. He did not choose to as- sume other men’a responsibiiities, He could not find anything about the Navy Department | in Vienna, and so he left, and is, I believe, studying now the naval resources of Saxony at Dresden, and in Bohemia at Prague, and in Switzerland among the Alps, and will probably furnish infor- mation on the naval resources of Lake Leman of so much value that Congress will demand his re- Ports, on meeting in December, with impatience, MONEY WANTED TO SBE LAKE COMO, The achievements of Mr, Cunningham in studying “naval resources” were not lost upon some of the scteritMe and artisan commissioners, These oMclals are allowed by the government a certain sum of money to pay their expenses. Ido not know how much, bnt still it is something, With that they came to Vienna, and saw the Exhibition and the music shows and the new Ringstrasse and the old imperiak Katserhol and the jewels. After they haa | 4 Reuter. exhausted their resources in the way of “observa- tion” and “inquiry” it occurred to them that the spirit of the government instruction was that they should continue their “investigations” all over Europe. The Lake of Como is full of ‘‘instruction” for scientific men; Baden Baden, Homburg, Wiesbaden, Monaco, contained “information” that the skilled artisan would be glad to acquire, One of the members 18 reported as being under the conviction that if he could do the Lakes of Killarney and the High- lands of Scotland the government would rejoice. Others believed that they could only carry out thelr instructions by making a careful study of Paris, of Venice, a little excursion into Germany. So some ofthe commissioners made a demand that im the pursuit of these scientfic and mechanical achievements and acquirements vhey should have thelr expenses advanced and be allowed to go drifting over Europe until October. But Mr. Garretson is @ man not apt to advance money towards paying for scientific expeditions in the wake of Pay Director Cunningham, or to see any necessity for a report upon the scientific resources of Baden or Lake Como or Jardin Mabille, and 80 he declined the demand. ‘There has been great feeling on the subject of ‘this arrogance, and the matter, I hear, has gone to Mr. Fisu. The commis: sloners still remain around here in an anxious mood, discussing the cholera, trying to find the ‘cool side of the American school house and feeling that no scandal exceeds this extraordinary act of the Commissioner. AMERICA IN. VIENNA, As to the American colony here J have very little to add except that, as is the cvstom in most American colonies abroad, nearly every one of our countrymen seems to be at grievous quarrel with an other, and most of them are anxious to entrust your correspondent with some charming piece of gossip or scandal, which he is to relate to the Heratp, But not feeling that either the Big Man Ont of a Very Small One, a A NOBLE YOUNG PRIG. Womanhood. LONDON, July 29, 1873. We've not yet lost sight of the Shah, He still Pervades the atmosphere. What he does and what he doos not doin Paria is solemnly telegraphed at ro end of expense, and with bated breath millions of intelligent beings read how His Majesty has posed for his bust, how he has bougnt diamond necklaces for the. harem, how all nis jewels, weapons, gala coats, including his state buckler and Mace, covering two long tables, have been ex- hibited to Mme, MacMahon and other ladies, and how he likes the ballet and never takes his eyes of the fgurantes—al of which information ia extremely valuable, highly beneficial in ite effect, acquainting the people with the dignity and mo- Tality of absolute despotism, And now the Shah has got into Parliament. The House of Lords 1s in & state of mind. ‘The Karl of Carnarvon declares that in the whole history of dealings between States and individuals there has never been so ex- traordinary a series of privileges conferred on any person as the Shah has conferred on Baron The whole thing reminds him of the ‘Arabian Nights.” He sniff’ Russia. He sees Baron de Reuter, repulsed by the English Hon, throwing himself into the rugged but warm. arms of the Russian bear, and bids the government beware! LORD GRANVILLE, however, is by no means frigitened at the picture drawn by the noble earl. He even refuses to give Baron de Reuter England’s “moral support,’ the cheapest thing England has to give, because he declares that moral support is nonsense, Conse- quently the Stock Exchange looks coldly upon tne sub-sovereignty of the anglicized German Jew. Capi- Ualists button up their pockets, refuse to invest and Reuter experiences an unexpected disappoint- ment, Nevertheless, he has no desire to appeal to Russia, probably for the very good reason that the Russian people are poor and tho Russian government has no surplus of money. He looks to Indian nabobs for help; le thinks that the | Parsecs, always shrewd und rich, will be lured by i dreams of power in the land of which they were the original possessors, Meanwhile the stock “hangs fire? and everybody speculates in—surmises, | My speculation consists in conceiving a universal European war consequent upon the Shah's advertising engagement, And it can come about in this wise. | i i | ENGLAND AND RUSSIA are jealous of one another. Both want Persia and neither will let the other become too influential in Asia, Kossian journals are already lashing them- selves into a fine frenzy and calling “perfidious Albion” names, “It is @ pretty story to take a lease of all Persia, through the medium of Baron Reuter, and = then to pretend surprise,” exclaimes the Moscow Gazette. The English reply, “You're another.” If Reuter seduces Indian or English capitalists, Russia will intrigue. Itis only sixteen years since Eng. land wrested Herat from the Shah, with intent to hoid it. Russia is wiiling that Herat should belong to Persia; Russia will henceforth administer sooth. Exhibition or journalism or the country is best served by obeying these admonitions, your corre- spondent has avoided these scandals as much as possible, Gencral Meyer, the failen ange: of the Commission, has not becn seen in Vienna since the Fourth of July. Iam told that he went to Mr. Jay and made what 1s called “a fall confession” of his sins, adding furthermore that General Van Buren knew of all his financial transactions with the hotel keepers and approved of them, and that a report to this effect has been forwarded to Washington. Dr. Ruppaner, who will probably be known, among other official designa- tions, as the “great American traveller who went from Vienna to America and back in twenty-eight days,” has resigned his commission for the second time. It seems rather hard alter two journeys across the ocean tnat the Doctor cannot be al- owed to keep his badge and receive his share of the honors that are falling from imperial eyes upon our representatives here. But on his return from Washington matters were not comfortable ; he did not maintain the best relations with Mr. Schultz, and 80, immediately upon recelving his note reanpoint- ing Lim by President Grant, wrote to Washington resigning his position absolutely. Mr. Rounds, one of the suspended commissioners is still here, aud I believe corresponds for one of your con- temporarics, and is not disposed to write an epic oem upon the Vienna Exhibition. Mr, Clayton Kromichae! of Philadelphia, who was reinstated by the President, was here last week. After re- ceiving the intelligence of his restoration Mr. McMichael, resenting his treatment by the President, resigned his commission absolutely. Many efforta have been made to induce him to change his resolution by those of the Amer- icans here who would be glad to have a gentleman of his experience and nore, in the service of the Commission. But he has inflexibly refused to ac- cept his duties, Mr. Seasongood, the other restored Commissioner, is stiil here, very busy, but disposed to go to some o1 the German baths and flnd consola- tion in the waters for his disappointments. Mr. Schuits has gone, Mr. LeGrand B. Cannon was in town yesterday, looking as iresh and frosty as a rear admiral Of the Bi jtish navy. Dr. Russell, of the Times, 18 here—rather lonely, one fancies, with out lis Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. Jonn M. Francis, of the Troy Témes and Minister to Greece, ig here on his way home, and gives honest work, in the hot weather, to the Exposition. The hnndred thousand friends of Mr. ‘ancis will be pleased to know that he looks well—ratner ayer than before he left, and that he as forgotten nothing about America while learning everything about Greece. Charles Francis Adams, the junior and lineal candidate for the Presidency, has gone off to the Tyrol country on a carriage excursion, Ar, Ja: .as gone to Saiz- Mr. De’ laine i. Summer mood at the head of the Legation, General Kiddoo has gone to Dresden, suffering much from his wound. Mr. Pulitza, of St. Louis, is studying the show and awaiting the retarn of his friend Cari Schurz, who ‘wus bere for @ fevy days, but leit, intending, | sup- jake a Fourth of July speech somewhere. r, Ellis H. Roberts, member of Congress from Utica, las arrived from Russia. He had heard no Americas news fora month, and I sent him a file of newspavers, and for one happy day he bathed in murders, executions, investigations and exposures, that now fill a large portion of home journalism. Mr. Roberts goes tome, and as soon as he can put his fingers on his back pay will return it to the Treasury, LITERATURE OF THE EXPOSITION. I should, perhaps, add a postscript fo this rather long lettef, that our American troubles iv Vienna have taken a poetic turn, and that among the last developments is @ broadside lithograph given away to exhibitors and visitors. It is signed by one Edward Hammond, a correspondent for a Western journal, and i8 in poetry, to the amount oi ten stanzas. You can gather the tone of it trom the two or three which Isubjoin as @ contribution to | the literature of the Vienna scandal:— JOUN JAY! WHAT WILL THRY “SAY?” (Exhibitors Song. Vienna, 1873.) What will they “say” at home? John Jay! When of our woes they hear, Ot scorn, disgrace and sad dismay, We're iorced abroud to bear; The thousands spent, lorious cause To turther here, L we Were used to feed som dy “mawe” Jn greaung thelr machine | What will they “say” at homet John Jay! John Jay! whiat will they “say?” ar “Ulysses” grant and roar, And “Fish” is sore oppress’d, We know our eagles proudly soar, annot e nest; is No sign nor shingle near To show the ed way; ‘Tis hard to find our eag’é here, "Tis hard to find John Jay! What will they ‘‘say” at home? Joho Jay! Jonn Jay! what will they “say?” With Sehulta $0, 8) man who saved Our cout mn if Our Consul, Post, and Herz behaved Like men'in the right place, Oy God and Beaet we now implore ‘o help us in distress, And give us better men, far more, ‘And of theac shysters less. What will they “say” at home? Joha Jay! John Jay! what will they "say?" ing syrup. Would it be very difficult to quietly get English companies into dificulties or throw Baron Reuter into @ gasometer or chop off some English citizen's head, thereby rousing the English lion! Or let us reverse the medal, Already Russia 1t¢ beginning to play her game. The Society for the Promotion of Russian Com- merce and Industry has adopted the following reso. lution :— In view of the great influence which will be exercised by the concession granted to Baron Reuter upon the com- meree between Russia and Persia the Society will sub- mit to the consideration of its Moscow committees during the iair of Nizhnec-Novgorod, several questions relative to the understanding en Baron Reuter and wie Persian government, respecting the privilege of fixing the customs tariff, by which the treaties of commerce be- tween Russia and’ Persia inight be paralyzed, Repulsed by England, Reuter embraced her enemy. England looks on suspiciously until India seems to be threatened, Expostulations ensue, and a Benedetti plunges two empires into war for the sake of athird, ‘Thereupon INDIA sees her opportunity for freedom. Her princes have been devoured with envy at the spectacie of England's reception of the Shah. High and mighty as they are—many of them able to buy up the King of Kings—they see them- selves prisoners on their own estates. Will Eng- land allow them to visit her shores ? No, indeed! She refuses to welcome them with the number of guns their rank entities them to, aud rather than submit to this indignity they remain at home. Clever ruse on the part of England! But they will have their revenge. The people side with the Princes because English officials are bullies and the country is being impoverished by heavy taxation, Here, you see, are two fine ware. Well, then Franee and Germany renew hostilities. The Times coi jpondent gravely asserts that, in any case, the Shah has done singular mischief to | the Repub!ic, and the Telegraph's correspondent | quotes the remark of’a charming woman—‘Cvtte | Sete est Venterrement civil de la République’—to | prove how coming events cast their shadows be- fore. The Shah’s diamonds and the general magnif- icence of display occasioned by his majestic pres- ence having put the last nail In THE REPUBLIO’S COFFIN, @ civil war follows, insult is offered to Prussia, Bts- marck orders his troops to march on Paris, and thus we have as pretty @ scene of carnage as the wildest imagination ever conjured up. Perhaps you will not invest in my dgring specula- tion. Asthe stock is notin the market you will have no opportunity. But as truth is stranger | than fiction, and as Asia is doomed to be the cause of endiess intrigue between England and | Russia, who knows what may happen? The mo- ment Nassr-ed-Din returns to Teheran IJ shall gecure my passage for America. The moment tt is known into which scale—EKngland or Russia— Baron de Reuter steps 1 shall pack my trunks, ‘Those Americans who are sighing for Europs had better make haste while uncertainty shines, In the midst of all this hurly barly America will look on with the greatest composure. We will make @ lot of money by quietly supplying every- body with the means of killing one another, and we will give moral support to all such peoples as are fighting for liberty. Disgusted with an imbecile government, unwilling to be more heavily taxed Jor the sake of a foreign possession, the English people will rise against their rulers and proclaim a republic, which we will immediately recognize. Encouraged by this coup d’<tat, repub- Neanism everywhere will take heart and show its SPAIN, BEING TORN TO PIBCES, will require all her troops at home. Cuba will as- sert her independence and slavery will die a sud- den death, Thus an absolute despot willbe the cruse Of universal regeneration. What will become of Persia and her king I cannot imagine—first, because an Asiatic traveJer has proved to me that there is no such conntry a Persia, Nassr-ed-Din rules over afew towns, and the remainder of his desert is held by a Jawieas tribe, glared at from a distance bya Rus- so banefal as to temporarily kin the book trade amd injure the theatres, who hateg music and whose esthetic sense was most gratified by Madame Tussand’s wax works, being made an honorable member of the Society of Arts! Those bigwigs attached to American colleges, who confer degrees upon unscholastic Cnief Magistrates ana Members of Congress, can henceforth fall back upon England for precedent. Though, too, the spectacle of the Shah drew away the public from the more legitimate drama, the theatre is not permitted to turm @ penny by turning His Mpjesty into ridiculs! The Lord Chamber- latin, keeper of the public morals, who makes himself universally beloved by the marvellous con- sistency with wiitch he regulates theatrical censor- ship—taking FRIGHT AT POLITICAL CARICATURE while tolerating unadorned indecency—has once more covered himself with glory by signifying his displeasure at a burlesque on Shahing, and de- manding that a certain Mr. Corri shall not look like Nassr-ed-deen, To this bull Mr. Hingston, the Matager, replies:—‘Uniortunately, Mr. Henry Corrl, who personates the Padishah Doo-Deen, happens to bear a strong resemblance to his Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia. To get rid of that resemblance I have tustructed him tomake up’ his faco differently and whiten features, so that he may not have even the Plexion of a Persian. 1 hope that when he'is thors oughly whitened it will not be thought that Mr, Corri is a portraiture of any illustrious personage, and that Mr. Burnand and myself will be exoner- ated from the charge of wilfully burlesquing any sovereign whom it ia our duty to respect.” What Will happen to the Christmas pantomimes, which @re doomed to hold the Shah up to nature, I won't predict, Undoubtedly the Lord Chamberlain has already -put a rod in Pickle for them. If managers had the spirit of men and chose to combine they could soon put down this unjustifiable tyranny. It is only fawning that pays. Lord Mayors know it, consequently royalty never gets so well treated as in the city. People’s money freely for the sake of a title? When THE PRINCE OF WALES returned thanks at St. Paul’s for bis recovery a Lord Mayor was baronetted and a sheriff knighted. The reigning Lord Mayor is baro- netted and sheriffs are knighted, because—to bor- Tow Mr. Gladstone's own words—“of the splendid | Feception accorded to His Majesty the Shah on his late visit to the city.” No wonder that the city {s always lying in wait for great people. The city means trade. Trade means vulgarity. -Titles mean, fashion. Fashion means heaven, ‘Give us each year our King or Shah and lead us into Court circles,” is the aldermantic prayer. Talk about the caste of India! It pales before that of England, yet the Marquis of Lorne recently declared at a meet- ing of “working men” that “classes in this country were more closely connected than in other nations and they could not be classt- flea.” This he stated in spite of the fact that merely because of his being a marquis and the husband of a princess he had, notwithstanding his youth, been asked to preside over a meeting at which matare men, like Lord Lyttleton, Mr. Mundella, Mr. Tom Hughes and others. assisted. English subserviency to rank isan unending sur- prise to me; but never was I so astonisned as when Mrs, Grey, a leading woman suffragist here, invited this same young MARQUIS OP LORNE to take the chair at a meeting tm support of co-education of the sexes. — “I will preside,” replied the noble marquis, “provided no woman ta allowed to speak.” False to her sex, Mrs. Grey, with- out consulting the committee who would never have listened to such an insulting proposition, bowed acqiuesence. The coolness of this dictation strikes, me the more forcibly because the first woman I heard speak here in public was the Princess Louise, his wife! Evidently princesses may rush in where plebelans must not tread, Undoubtedly the foolish young man acted upon the wishes of the Queen, who ig violently opposed to the woman movement. Victoria, ruler of the British Empire, opposes the equality of the sexes before the law. Consistency, thon art not a Guelpe! FREE LANCE, Very Largst.—The Shah has bought a bicycle for the use of the harem. Here is a capital opportue nity for the Shahesses to run one another down. LITERARY CHiT-CHAT. Some OF OUR METHODIST friends have lately been discussing the causes of the “decline of Methodism” in the United States and the best means of counteracting the downward tendency. Ifit be true that Methodism is upon its decline in this country, which certainly ig not apparent to | ordinary observers, we should imagine that one of the most powerful means of reviving the interest of the denomination would be the example afforaed by the life and labors of the late Rev. Alfred Cooke man, whose biography, written by the Rev. Henry B. Ridgaway, D. D., has just been published by Messrs. Harper & Brothers. This volume forma one ofthe most interesting religious biographies that have falien under our notice, and we nave na doubt it will be as warmly welcomed by readers of other denominational views as by that great body of Caristians with whom he was connected by ecclesiastical ties and among whom his itte was passed in earnest and self-denying labors. The Rev. Alfred Cookman was no common Preacher. Inheriting from his father, the Rev, George Grinston Cookman, an unusual gift of elo-~ quence, and from his very cradle consecrated to the service of the Christian ministry, to which his life was devoted with apostolic zeal and earnest- ness, he exercised upon his hearers a fascination searcely second to that of the pulpit oratory of Wesley or of Whitefield. Wherever he preached the people heard him gladly, and the influence of his ministry was powertul and widespread. The an- nouncement that he was to preach was sufficient to fill the largest audience hall or church, or to gather thousands about the platform at camp meeting. Nor was the example of his life less salu. tary and powerful; indeed it has been said of him that hie life was the best sormon he ever preached. He never forgot his sacred calling, and, though never obtrusive in urging his views, he impressed even casual acquaintances by the sincerity of his purpose and his constant anxicty to preach through his life as well as by word of mouth. The story of such a life is worthy to be remembered, and we are giad to welcome the affectionate biog. rapby in which Mr. Ridgaway has recorded the jabors and character of his friend. Mr. Cookman died in 1871, at the early age of forty-four. There are thousands who felt the influence of his ministry, in the pulpit and through personal intercourse with the man, who will be glad to revive their memory of him in the pages of this interesting volume. Mr. HOWARD PavL has exploited from American newspapers, for the benefit of the serious British public, “The Book of Modern American Anecdotes,” which Routledge has published. The leading idea of the editor, he tells us, was that ‘each tale and scrap should be funny and characteristic.” Lorp Stanaore’s proposition in the House of Lords to confer an order of merit on men distin- guished in literature and science is received with general disfavor by the British press, The Stand- ard says:— We can do nothing better for literature, science and art than to leave them alone. The State cam con‘er no distinction on those who are worthy ot honor in this order, and it ought not to distinguish those who are not worthy. ‘The idea of State tronage to literature is altogether foreign to the and alien to the feelings of its Lychee The only patron which they recognize eerie lic, and the only reward they covet is that Noah is impossibie for kings and ministers to bestow. ‘The Daity News remarks :— 1g’ Har Maem ‘There is no reason in the world w' le ty’s Ministers stould be good judges of poems, states ‘and scientific propositions, The Times says :— ns ag those proposed nota wabsctent te ‘or merit in any calling. Miere’we find ourselves at once in the midst of a mi tr of conflicting ambitions. Who is to ju sian fortress on the north and an English fortress on the east. There mever was such a fraud as this “King of Kings,” I've even heard it whispered that his diamonds have been put in pawn and that the jewels he now wears are nothing but paste! In fact, the Shah is Jeremy Diddler disguised in the ‘This poem deserves one commendation—it would | !snguage and dress of the Orient, And fancy this Chanica, who were to visit Vienna to stmdy the | be ‘iinnit to write a warne one, man, whose presence in England nas been between the ‘popular ‘ineer, pre Poet an tp oacentes of a new dye? ‘Mn. JavPRRSON Davis 16 still engaged at inter vals on bia “History of the Confederate States,” though saffering ‘rom defective eyesight, ‘Tar Spectator, in an article on the marriage question, candidly admits that “the first command | ment for the poor is—‘Leave England.’ > What Lord Mayor wouldn’t spend the*