The New York Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1873, Page 8

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume xXXVIi... No. 250 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston | 0d difficulty of understanding them tend and Bleecker streets. —MzPuisto. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vanietry ENTERTAINMENT, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, Brosdway.—Fux iv 4 Foo—Mitky Ware, “tusTe: near NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tux Buack Crook. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, st_—Mipsumuxr Nicar’s Dai hth ay. and Twenty-third BOOTH’S THEATRE, Sixth ay. and Twenty-third st.— Rir Van Winkie. NEW LYCEUM THEATRE, lath street and 6th av.— Notre Damx, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 535 Broadway.—V anierr ENTERTAINMENT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tue Suxer Stracer— Marxep ror Lirs. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Tpirtieth st.— Be Diok, tae Cugvatiker. Afternoon and even: WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—CoLiezn Baws, “f Stace BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.—Orrra Bourre—L4 Finux px Mapame ANGot, BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner 6th av.—Nxcro MinsTRELsy, 4c. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth it Ri Manionettes. Matinee at 3 Perey, oe CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Svummer Nicuts’ Con- certs. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- ‘Way.—Sciencx aNnp Art. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No, 688 Broadway.—Sciznce anp Ant. QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, Sept. 7, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “IMPORTS AND EXPORTS! THE GOLD PREMI- UM! COMPLICATIONS OF OUR FINANCIAL CONDITION” —LEADER—E@ara Page. AMERICAN FINANCES! THE GOLD PREMIUM AND THE GOLD AND LEGAL TENDERS OF THE BANKS “GOING OUT WITH THE EBB TIDE” IN WALL STREET! STOCKS IN THE VOZE—TENTH Pacs, CASTELAR GIVEN ALMOST ABSOLUTE POWER IN SPAIN! THE CORTES UNANIMOUS IN GRANTING IT! SERRANO ON THE WAY TO MADRID! THE PORTO RICAN DEPU- TIES SUPPORT CASTELAR—NINTH PAGE. SUEZ CANAL DUES—PRUSSIAN DENIAL OF THE MEXICAN LAND PURCHASE RUMOR—THE DUC DE BROGLIE ON THIERS’ OVER- THROW—NintH Pace. THE NOVA SCOTIA STORM CALAMITY: GREAT LOSSES OF LIFE AND PROPERTY—Nintn WEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHE«Y. rae NEW YORK HERALD Imports and Exports—The Gold Pre- mium—Complications of Our Finan- cial Condition. On no subject is there more contrariety of opinions than on that of tho financial condi- tion and prospect of the country. The op- timista, who take a rose-colored view of every- thing, and the pessimists, who look gloomily at both the present and future, are equally dogmatic. Tho complications of the subject rather to make people moro positive. In this, as in other cases, the greater the ignorance the more dogmatism there is. Lot us en- Ceavor to take a rational and unprejudiced view of this important matter. In doing so we think we shall discover that the financial and commercial situation and prospect of the country are neither so bright as some imagine nor so gloomy as others would make us believe. In many respects our condition is abnormal, and involves, apparently, contradictions of an economical and a financial character. While, however, our national life and growth and the circumstances we are placed in by ‘the war, the debt and the want of skill in man- aging the finances are different from what had ever been seen before—that have, in fact, no exact parallel in the history of nations—the same laws of political economy govern here as elsewhere and now as in the past. If we cannot get all the light wanted from analogy with the circumstances of other nations we may learn from facts, from the application of general principles and from the exercise of common sense. First, then, let us consider our imports and exports, for by these we getan idea of the prosperity of the country and of the balance of trade in favor of oragainst us. Taking the period from the 1st of January to the present time—eight months within afew days—and making a comparison of the imports and ex- ports with those of the corresponding period in the two preceding years, we find our condition to be improving, and that rela- tively we are importing less and exporting more. The figures are:—Imports in 1873, $266,592,186; in 1872, $289,071,370; in 1871, $243,063,876. Thus, while the im- ports of the present year amount to a little more than twenty-three millions over those of 1871, they are nearly twenty-three millions less than those of last year. The exports were:—In 1873, $179,527,581; in 1872, $138,584,489; in 1871, $145,245,581. It ap- pears, then, that, while our imports for this year were less by twenty-three millions than those of last year, the exports amounted to forty-one millions more, making a difference of trade more favorable to the United States to the amount of sixty-three millions. We refer here only to the export of produce, and not to specie. How the balance will stand at the end of the year, four months hence, we cannot say, but as the crops are generally good, and there is likely to be a considerable demand PaGE. MURDERESS OF MAGGIE HAMMILL CON- FESSES! SHE FIRST STRANGLED, THEN SMOTHERED HER VICTIM, AND SET FIRE TO THE PLACE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF DESTRUYING THE EVIDENCES OF GUILT! THE FUNERAL—Firtu Paae. IMPORTANT TESTIMONY OBTAINED KELSEY CASE! THE IN THE HURD’S KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRAGEDY! CORONER BAYLIS ON THE CASE! ARSON FEARED BY THE ANTI-TAR PARTY—FIFTH Pace. HUNT FOR CLEWS IN THE SOLUTION OF THE NATHAN MURDER MYSTERY! THE POLICE LOOKING UP IRVING'S WIFE! PAST EFFORTS NOW DISCLOSED! THE DOG! JOURDAN’S CLEWS! IRVING IN- TERVIEWED—SEVENTH PaGE. STOKES’ CASE IN A HUMANITARIAN LIGHT— THE LEIGH SMITH EXPLORING PARTY IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS—THE BROOKLYN TREASURY, THE TRUST COMPANY AND THAT DEFICIT—SEventu Page. GERMAN REPORT OF THE FINALE OF THE AUSTRIAN WORLD'S FAIR! THE PROMISES THAT WGRE BROKEN TO THE HOPE— Firti Page. MEXICO AGAIN THREATENED WITH A RE- VOLT! MONTEREY THE CENTRAL POINT! MILITARY GUARDING THE PALACE AND CAVALRY SENT TO REINFORCE THEM— NINTH PaGE. WHERE THE PASTORS WILL LABOR IN TIE SPIRITUAL FIELD TO-DAY! PRAISE FOR HEBREWS! CATHOLIC ACCRETION IN ENG- LAND AND AMERICA! MODERN SPIRITUAL- ISM ANALYZED! DOINGS OF THE DI- VINES—DR. VIDAVER ON LIP SERVIVE— Sixta Pace. BUTLER AND THE BLUE-BLOODS! THE FIERCE FIGHT FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS GOVER- NORSHIP TURNING AGAINST THE BACK- PAY KNIGHT—NintH Pace. ) BURGLARS ESCAPE FRUM A JERSEY PRISON! RECAPTURE AFTER AN EXCITING CHASE! ONE SHOT—Firru Paces. NEWARK'S DEFAULTING TAX RECEIVER! ANOTHER RODMAN IN THE FIELD OF CORRUPTION ! CITIZEN AGITATION — TWELFTH PAGE. STARTLING REPORTS OF THE MAGNITUDE OF THE RECENT BOND FORGERIES! HOW THE COUNTERFEITS WERE MADE CUR- RENT AND BY WHOM—THE FEATURES IN AMUSEMENTS—SeventTH Pace. THE JOHNSON FORGERY CASE! $1,000,000 SAID TO BE ON THE MARKE’ THE LAW'S DELAYS—Testn Pace. Tue Spanish Cavrset Cnists.—The poet Minister of Spain gives promise of a serious intention to rele the Spaniards according | to the plan of government which is termed “vigorous” in Europe. He has demanded and obtained from the Cortes almost dictatorial | power, remaining, of course, accountable to | abroad for our breadstuffs, particularly from France, and, perhaps, from England as well, in great nations which, fike that of the ele ments, brings about in time an adjustment and equilibrium. The most perplexing thing connected with our financial condition and future prospects is the premium on gold. It will not go down, seem- ingly. It has stood for some time between fourteen and sixteen, fluctuating only a few fractions lately above or below fifteen. It did at one time fall below ten, though it seoms now to linger about fifteen, as if that were its normal position. Two years or so ago, when the United States Treasury held gonerally over a hundred millions of gold in its vaults— nearly as much as the specie reserve of the Bank of England—there was a great deal of talk in and out of official circles about specie payments. Now little is said, except by cer- tain newspaper writers and other financial theorists, who clamor for specie payments without knowing how to reach them. Tho Treasury has but little more gold now than is liable to be called for to pay what it owes. Nor do we see how it is to accumulate again such a stock as it had a year or two ago. Supposing it could would that bring us nearer specie payments than we were then? Gold, in fact, is with us only an article of merchandise, and the mistake that has been made was in regarding it as any- thing else and in attempting to make a sort of mixed currency, having different values. All the specie we have, and more, in addition to all we can extract from the mines, we owe abroad. As long asthe balance of trade is against us our creditors across the ocean can take the gold we have when they want it or when they please. A more favorable state of trade, such as we have noticed as growing up during the present year, might leave us a pretty good supply and bring down the pre- mium; still we are, and must be for some time, at the mercy of our creditors. While there is reason to be hopeful as regards the genetal welfare, progress and prosperity of the country, we are in an anomalous con- dition as to the gold question and currency. He would be a prophet indeed who could tell how and when specie payments can be established, or even the gold premium be much reduced. Why, an able Wall street speculator can almost defy the Treasury De- partment and send gold up or down, as long as that is considered money and the regula- tor of values. If we could return to specie payments and make specie the money of the country there would be a very different state of things in Wallstreet. But making gold money for one thing and not for another, and when it seems impossible to come to a specie basis, opens the door for gold gambling and all sorts of financial demoralization. In short, it enables a few men with a few millions of the precious metal to disturb the markets and to change the value of thousands of millions of property. A remedy is needed for this complicated state of things, and it remains to be seen whether the government can find one, or whether the country will be left to work out, by the force of circumstances, its own the prospect is that the balance sheet will look fully as favorable at the end of the year as at present. Itis to the cotton crop especially that we look for paying our indebtedness abroad, and from all accounts the money value of that is likely to be greaterrather than less than in the preceding year or years. So far, then, everything looks well. Now, as to the specie movement, we find that the export since the Ist of January last amounted to $38,304,986, while for the cor- responding period of 1872 it was $56,173,986, and for 1871, $52,877,863. Nearly eighteen millions less of specie was exported this year than last. The relatively diminished impor- tations and increased exportations will account for that in part. Here is another healthy sign of our financial and commercial condition. The total exports of produce and specie since the year commenced amount to $217,832,567. The imports, as we have shown, were $266,592,186. There is still a balance of $48,759,619 against us. But the balance against us for the like period last year, notwithstanding we exported over fifty-six millions of specie, amounted to $94,312,895. But, it will be asked, how are these balances paid? Thatof the present year is little more than half that of the last year, and so far is gratifying, yet it is still a large balance. It is paid by sending national and other securities abroad. A better way to state the case would be, perhaps, | to say that our national securities and | railroad bonds and other such good pay- ing things are bought upin Europe and ao great deal of the proceeds is sent over in the form of merchandise. The enormous manu- factured products of Europe press everywhere for a market, and no better one is found than in the United States. Foreigners are willing enough to take our bonds in payment. Of course the transaction is conducted indirectly; that is, our merchants do not pay directly in bonds, but in the end it amounts to the same thing. The bonds pay the balance of trade. Well, it may be asked, is there no limit to this? Can we go on from year to year paying | our debts in that way? Is it possible that the | balance of trade will always be against us ? that we can go on paying it in securities and | ' | thus augment our indebtedness ad libitum? No | doubt it is an inconvenience to be a debtor nation and would be far better to be a cred- | itor one—such, for example, as France and England are—the debts of which are mostly held at home, and which usually produce the Parliament for his use of the extraordinary privileges which have been accorded to him. | Sefior Castelar must himself grieve over the public situation which has rendered his de- mand necessary; but the defence of liberty frequently requires very painful sacrifices on | the part of leaders of the people. ‘Tae Kansas Murprner Benp: Astranger taking dinner, the other day, at a house near ‘ ; Acra, in Greene county, N. Y., was identified by a lady as the horrible murderer Bender, of | Kansas; and the inhabitants of Acra and that neighborhood are reported as scouring the mountains in search of the tramp. We hope they will find him, and that he may prove to be Bender. Tae Otarmant vor tHE Murper or Naruay.—We publish to-day an account of an interview with the man Irving, who puts in a claim as being the murderer of the late Benjamin Nathan. Sifted thoroughly, it is evident that his story is a sheer fabrica- tion from beginning to end, and that the fellow himself is a fraud of the first water. Is there no way of punishing impostors of this kind? and sell more than they bay. Still there | isa limit to ranning in debt. The law of | demand and supply regulates all that in time. But, after all, the money we obtain abroad, whether it comes in the form of merchandise | or not, is used here to build our railroads, to | 1% improve the country and to increase the wealth | | of the nation, Some of it may be wasted in luxury and extravagance, and too much of | | itis, unfortunately, buta great deal goes into | | profitable employment. No inconsiderable | amount of the interest on what we owe abroad | is left here for reinvestment. If we get the money of foreigners at six per cent and make twelve out of it or add that much to the na- tional wealth it is an advantage to us; we can afford even to send the interest away and still be growing richer and stronger. It is not such an evil, therefore, as some might suppose to be indebted abroad as long as the credit of the conniry is good. Some great national disaster or crisis might bring serious trouble to a country largely in debt abroad, but hap- pily this Republic is better fortified against redemptidn. The “Oroton Bug” Pest—Shall There Be a War of Annihilation? Like the locust swarms of Egypt have the so-called ‘Croton bugs’’ taken possession of nearly every dwelling house, office, warehouse and other buildings in the various parts of the city. Scarcely adesk, bureau drawer, closet, wardrobe, or even the refrigerator, is exempt from the presence of these annoying insects. The flour barrel is a special hive for them, resting and breeding there by the million under the hoops, headings and wherever a crevice can be found. Even the sanctity of beds and bedding is not exempt from their visitations, and, no matter how careful and tidy a housewife may be, she cannot over- come the myriads of these pests as they swarm from wainscotings, mantels, sur- bases, dining tables, window sills, floorings under carpets, from cupboards, and else- where and everywhere. ‘They revel in the “dead shot’’ powders that are represented to be their ‘“‘sure exterminators,” and dance—it may be the “dance of death’’—in the dough trough and bread basket, if they are dosed with Paris green, a poison so fatal to haman life, and which they can track with them wherever they travel. They are said to be as harmless as crickets, but unlike the cricket, which is seldom visible, they are to be seen with the naked eye almost everywhere. The cricket is heard, but not seen ; the Croton bug is seen, but not heard. It does not bite, but pinches and scratches. On their first appearance they were sup- posed to be without teeth or fangs, but by cul- tivation and high living they are now not only able to show their fangs but to rake over the sheepskin binding of a copy of Blackstone as if it were simply a copy of the “Cricket on the Hearth’’ in paper or pasteboard. Of the genus cockroach, they seldom get so fat as that insect, and hence are not so valuable as an article of food to produce obesity or plump- ness of form in the Circassian and Georgian female slave marts of Turkey and Egypt. A friend determined to lay a trap to catch a swarm. He laid a cloth in a spot where they most did congregate in his kitchen, close by the range, for they covet warmth, hence may not be considered a Siberian or Northern bug, but rather a bug of the Timbugtoo tribe. Ina few minutes the cloth was covered with, per- haps, a million or more of the insects. Our friend cautiously gathered the corners of the cloth together, and in a twinkling dumped the whole cargo into a sinkful of Croton water— their natural element! Instead of seeing them sink and drown, what was the surprise of our friend to see them curveting around like champion skaters on a skating rink, cutting the celebrated figure ‘8’ and other capers. Atter disporting themselves to their satisfaction they crawled up on the family towel and aired and dried themselves at their leisure. Pulverized borax has been recommended for their extermination; but instead of driv- ing them away they seem to think that the borax should be used as young ladies do a s0- lution of the same to improve their complex- ions. Powdered alum also has been tried for their riddance, with no more effect than a green persimmon would have had—perhaps not so much. They have been known to travel over a bowl of broken ice, and, reaching 4 champagne bottle, crawl up and perch them- selves on the cork, looking as if they were giving a lusty “cock-a-doodle-doo !’’ over such a disaster, through its boundless and varied resources, than any other country in the world, Then there is a financial elasticity their achievement. It is all very clever for quacks to assert that their compound, or liquid, or powder will drive them away. Per- naps 1t will, unless they are hungry; but it drives them only from one shelf in a cupboard to another, from one drawer to another, from one crack or crevice to another, to return, in a briof period, with a grand army of reinforce- ments, It is stated that the large number of fur- nished houses to let up town arises from the fact that their owners have been actually over- whelmed and driven out by these bugs—and some of the owners consider themselves ‘big bugs,”’ too. They are supposed to be partial to French flats, but this is not so; they shower their favors alike upon the high and the low tenement, the rich and the poor. Being truly democratic, all flats are alike in their national greed. Some of them are quite large and bave wings, and in flying around it is so pleasant to have them pop into your face and then drop into the plate of ice cream of the young lady who is enjoying the luxury and your pleasant conversation at the same time. But it is useless to try and make a little fun out of these pests. They are a positive and a growing nuisance almost everywhere in the city, and whether or not the Croton water or the Croton pipes or the Croton reservoirs are to be held responsible for their creation and propagation, it is certain that any philosopher who can invent or suggest a plan for their complete annihilation will deserve the thanks of the community. Who Struck Billy Patterson? This question was first started somo years ago, and we do not know that it has ever been satisfactorily answered. Nay, the generation which gave it currency is almost growing out of recollection of it, and few of those who recognize it, and who will also de- tect our purpose in recalling it, could offer a correct explanation of the circumstance that gave it birth. Neither is it necessary that they should, particularly since a much graver question, with no touch of lightness or humor about it, is now on the lips of every one who has heard of the Huntington tragedy. ‘Who tarred and feathered Kelsey ?”’ is the query that shoots straight from the heart of every honest man and woman in the Huntington commu- nity. Who, in the midst of a prosperous lit- tle society, which religion and nature seem equally to have blest, had the fearful audacity to apply so barbarous a form of retribution? Vain are the attempts which have been made to insert an element of jocularity into the trag- edy. Itis an attempt against which all the other elements rebel, A shadow steals out from the grim spot where the outrage was performed and says, ‘Make jest of me if you can.’ A voice by the lonely shore where what was left of the dishonored body was found repeats in hollow accents, “Make light of me if you dare.” There is a phantom for the time being in every moonlit grove of Huntington, and, whatever may have been the vices or, mayhap, the crimes of the murdered man, the ghostly voice his fate has left behind him resounds above the plaint of the Sabbath bells and the preacher’s platitudes of peace. The whole village is transformed. It has risen up and is divided against itself. The magnetism of crime is on the community, and has produced upon virtuous and vicious its due results. Not a breath ruffles the changing leaves but seems to ask, ‘Who tarred and feathered Kelsey?” Not a wave breaks upon the beach of Oyster Bay but echoes the same refrain ; not a shadow or a gleam of sunshine flecks the forest but joins in the dismal chorus. The fatal November evening of a year ago makes its reverberating murmurs heard through the sweet silence of September. The crime and the suffering take shape and groan like a man in the agony of nightmare. Itis not often thata beautiful and fertile landscape is surcharged with a preternatural influence like this. It is not often that one is reminded that human nature in some of its manifestations is akin to devilishness, as life is akin to death or yester- day to to-morrow. The moral and mental elements of such a community offer a psychological study as rare as itis sad. One can almost imagine that if a person wholly ignorant that a crime had been committed at Huntington were suddenly to find himself there he would feel in the air that baleful something which would proclaim it the at- mosphere of outrage and murder. And yet the sunlight falls as bénignantly there as on some pure and undiscovered island unpolluted by the tread of man. The dews come out and the stars shine and the rains descend, and all the thousand sweet beneficences of naturé ex- press themselves there, and in the gloaming the air is as fragrant and the breeze as tender as though no murderous echo came breathing from the forest, imploring Heaven’s justice upon the doers of a deed men blush to name, The Educational Question. With to-morrow the second week of most of the schools and colleges throughout the land will have commenced. We have devoted some space of late to the consideration of edu- cational subjects, because of the mistakes which even accomplished teachers constantly make and of the extent to which an influence in every way undesirable is making itself | visible in pupils. More than one reference | has been made by us to the errors committed | in the education of girls—errors, the result of which is to fit young ladies principally for the parlor and drawing room, and to deprive them of those accomplishments upon which the hap- piness of home greatly depends, Perhaps just as great mistakes are made in the educa- tion of young men. In educating our youth care is concentrated in the endeavor to give them the learning of books, and to leave un- developed those powers which lead a man to | think for himself and to become a pioneer in | knowledge. The present is an age in | which science promises to take a firmer hold than ever upon the young. It is an exceedingly sceptical age, full of questioning and counter-question- ing, when traditions are swept aside and old | authorities meet with no more reverence than is their due. But'we still see the instruction of the young confided to timid intellects, whose aim seems to be to repress thought rather than to encourage it. These intellects dose the youth under their charge with the formule in books, and do little or nothing for any faculty beyond the memory. A few days ago we expatiated at some length upon this false tendency, and we attempt nothing more at present than to reinvite attention to the point, and to express our conviction that our youths and young men will be lacking in the noblest virility of the intellect until they have , a been trained in the processes of independent, [‘TRe Closing Days of the Vienne brave and original thought. The Return of the Pastors. The city schools have opened to the holiday- ruddied children and the city pulpits havo opened to their rusticating pastors. So comes once more the toil season for those whose call- ing is the cure of souls and who were fortu- nate enough to get a breathing spell in the pure, fresh air of our mountains, or in the bracing salt breezes from the sea. They come back refreshed in body, browned on the face and hands, freer of motion and lustier of thew, and it will take them a full month to get back to the strait-laced, white-faced and angularized figure which a false conventionalism has identified with the profession of saintliness. Any other man may be religious and upright without being compelled to wear his sanctity on his sleeve, his immaculate- ness on his shirt collar, and without making his gait symbolical of the Pilgrim's Progress. The Rev. Elijah Pallidman, who has filled the pulpit of the pet pastor during his holiday- making, retires with a sigh to obscurity again. He sighs, and his regrets may be easily com- prehended, if we note, as he does, how the con- gregation rejoices to see their beloved once more, how the old members hang upon his words, and, above all, how rosy and healthy and happy the pet pastor looks os he warms in his words of grace. Surely these are things to make Mr. Pallid- man think that green fields, waving trees and pleasant waters are goodly, though he cannot feel the inspiration from them except at second hand. But has the pet pastor come back to town fortified in spirit for his captaincy in the battle with sin? Have the spiritual muscles been -rendered more elastic? Has the air from heaven infused its fine soul- ozone into the life-blood of the moral being until it throbs in unison with the great pulsa- tions of the All-Good? Wehopeso. There is high need in our cities for all the moral strength that a bold-tongued, lofty-pur- posed ministry can bring to bear. In high places as well as low crime has asserted itself while the ministers were gathering posies of pretty similes by ocean shore or mountain top for future ser- mons, or, mayhap, Lord help us! while they were idling days and nights away where in- anity and fashion and sham go godlessly hand- in-hand in the dear name of making summer holiday. There are bold words to be uttered, stern truths to be told, and _ hollow, silken-clad hypocrisies to be mercilessly lashed, which the dainty similes of the sum- mering will never convey, which the time lost in dallying with fashionable folly will render more difficult to the tongue. We welcome them all back to their pulpits, and often could wish they had not been so long away. The powers of evil are not like the currents of trade, that leave dull times at certain seasons of the year. It would never have been more unsafe to give the police force a long holiday than during the past summer. All the strong, faith-filled purpose, and the gentler art that “allures to brighter worlds and leads the way,” are needed here on the part of the ministry to check the inroads of crime in places where it should never obtain a foothold. Let their words, then, tell us that their holiday-making has strengthened their pulpit powers. Our Republican Flag in Disfavor with French Officials. According to the telegram from Paris, which we published yesterday, the republican government of France does not look with favor upon the United States flag; at least, it does not like that republican freedom or prin- ciple of which our flag is the emblem. It was natural, if not in good taste, for the large American colony in Paris to be desirous of celebrating the anniversary of the Proclama- tion of the French Republic by displaying the Stars and Stripes. No doubt the gratification of our American citizens at the payment of the indemnity to Germany and the consequent evacuation of French territory by the Ger- mans had something to do, also, with the proposed display. But the Prefect “strongly objected,”’ to use the language of the telegraphic despatch, and the Americans abandoned the idea. What sort of republican- ism is that which cannot endure the sight of the emblem of liberty, which has floated over ahappy and prosperous republic for a cen- tury, and which is the flag of one of the fore- most nations of the world? Is there any- thing in that to demoralize Frenchmen or dangerous to France? Trifling as this in- cident may seem to some, it is very sig- nificant, for it tends to show how inimical the ruling parties in France are to republicanism. They would, we sappose, if they had the power, strike the word from their language. Poor France! We fear she has a terrible ordeal to go through, with the existence of such a spirit and her rival factions, before either the Republic or any other form of gov- ernment can be established. “Mzncy to Hi tTaat Snows Ir.”"—A sym- pathetic lady correspondent sends us a letter, which we print to-day, on ‘Stokes and His Fate.” She concludes her argument by de- claring that the State ought to observe the rule, ‘Mercy to him that shows it.” Unfortu- nately no rule could be worse for her argu- ment. Mercy to him that shows it? What mercy did Stokes show, that he should be- come the subject of peculiar clemency ? Let our lady correspondent ponder this. A Spore Loosz 1x THE Hun.—We see it in the solemn warnings of the Boston Advertiser against the nomination of Butler for Gov- ernor by the republican party of the old Bay State. Nominate Butler if you please; but then look out for comets, tidal waves, earth- quakes and the collapse of our federal Repub- lic. These are the dangers which now men- ace ns, But the worst will be known about Butler, or the best, on the 10th or the llth of this fair month of September, and we do not despair of the Republic. ‘Tur Great Nova Scotian Hurricane. —We continue to receive details of the lives lost and property destroyed on land and sea by the late destructive storm in Nova Scotia and the neighboring provinces. It is probable that the sufferings of the people there from these disasters may, when fully made known, require some outside assistance, and, if 30, we are sure that New York, as usual, will be ready to answer the call. Exhibition, ‘ Our German letter from the Austrian metropolis, published in these columns to- day, unrolls another picture of that grand panorama of nations and their industry which, like a gigantic magnet, drew (or was meant to draw) the precious bearers of pre- cious metals from all quarters of the globe to the banks of the proverbially beautiful and blue Danube. But, alas! the crowned heads, its foremost attraction, the innate delight of the loyal Old and the acquired taste of the un- sophisticated, admiring New World, are gone. The observer's eye, no longer dazzled with imperial halo, with royal purple and princely diadems, now ventures a searching glance over the long row of nations constituting the World's Fair. And strange things, forsooth, come to light. The browned subjects of the Ruler of Rulers, whom only Rothschild is audacious enough not to be acquainted with, owe their rich hues to the moderate sun of Hungary and Bohemia only, but never yet bestrode the peaceful camel, panting under vertical rays in the romantic deserts of Central Asia. Tho aquiline noses and sparkling, jet black eyes that had seemed to indicate the genuine fire-wor- shipper, dwindle down into unmistakable signs of Mosaic origin, and, instead of the Orient’s flowery phrases, Austrian traders’ slang, interspersed with the time-honored idiom of the Old Testament, greeted the. ear of the only monarch whose name, if nothing else, is trath—the Shah. The turbaned in- fidel finds his aller ego happily imitated in faithful Catholic Tyrolese, whose muscular calves obstinately refuse the true Constantinc- politan bend, even on the softest pillow, and who in vain apply powerful lungs to the fra- grant chibouque. No longer can the fierce aborigine of our Plains boast of his bronze, the only safe passport to the happy hunting grounds nature has given him, and which civilization bestows upon the noses only of her favorites; for Ethiopian blood, aided by @ judicious application of the tar brush (which makes savages also among us), has effectually superseded this original beauty. The romantic wigwam, so dear to all youthful admirers of Cooper, is no more. Instead of the slain foe’s bloody scalp there dangle from its walls the greasy hats of jolly topers; the gay priestess of Gambrinus has triumphantly taken the place of the pensive squaw drying her liege lord’s buffalo loins ; the hellish warwhoop has died out amid the cheerful ‘‘prosit” of revelling bacchants, and merry drinking songs apologize for the expiring enemy's death groan ; and the ghastly gore of single combat has fled before a deluge of fluids shed in mul- titudinous contest! But the worst is yet to come. The pioneer of Western progress, the American barkeeper, despairingly sees in his commanding place, behind the marble-topped black walnut, a dull and long-whiskered cousin from across the Channel imposing sham cobblers and mock juleps upon sporadic and unappreciative greenhorns ! Such is the degeneration of this our boasted age of enlightenment and progress ! Such are the fruits of our so-called civilization! Sure enough, if old Cicero could this day breathe the close air of that much-admired rotunda, his immortal lips would open in silent wonder, but only close again after thundering another 0 tempora, O mores! PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Assistant Secretary Sawyer left Washington last night for New York on government business. Brigham Young's party returned yesterday from Soda Springs, Idaho, to Salt Lake, improved in health. William F. Kelly has been appointed Minister from the Republic of Guatemala to tne United States, and will leave: Panama for Washington about the 24th of September. Rev. J. M. Haswell, of the American mission at Maulmain, India, proposes to publish a vocabulary and grammatical notes of the Tdling language, which is rapidly falling into disuse. Prince Arthur of England, says the Paris Journal, came very near being drowned recently at Trou- ville. Being a good swimmer, he ventured out too far. His aide-de-camp, Mr. Lane, seeing him strug- gle against a dangerous current, rushed to his res- cue, but only endangered his own life, for both he and the Prince were being carried away, when two bathing masters went in after them, and, throwing out a buoy with a cord attached to it, brought them safely ashore. One of the last public acts of the late ex-Duke of Brunswick was to bring 4 libel suit against the Paris Figaro. When he fled trom Brunswick he took all the money in the treasury and the crown diamonds of the duchy with him. Hence he leavea an enormous fortune, 25,000,000 francs of which he has bequeathed to the city of Geneva, where he died. He has disinherited all his children, includ- ing the Countess de Civry, who is living in pov- erty. He was a black Branswicker, indeed. Acomplete uniform of Frederick the Great, in which he died on the terrace of Sans Souci, is now for sale. It was in the possession o/ the heir ta Frederick's valet, it being the old custom in Prussia that a valet receives the last uniform of his master when the latter dies. The uniform in question waa first sold for $500, Then an Englishman bought it for $8,000, and now asks $20,000 for the same. A prince of the Prussian royal family wanted to buy it, but found this price too high. It is coming to America for a moral wax-works. ‘The Peking Gazette quotes a most romantic Chinese episode. There lately lived a young lady of Anhwey, who was @ model of every classical and domestic virtue from her youth upwards, She twice cut pieces of fesh from her arm when her mother fell ill, and eventually committed suicide by throwing herself from a pagoda, when her filial remedy had failed and her mother had gone to the land of spirits. She left a letter requesting to be buried as she fell, and begging her father net to grieve, as she had vowed beforehand to accom- pany her mother if she died, and was only fulfilling her oath. Li Hung-Chang petitions the Emperor 10 allow @ memorial arch to be erected in her honor, and his Majesty consents, LITERARY OHIT-CHAT. MESSRS. GLENDENNING, Davis & AMORY, Of Wah street, have caused to be prepared, in the form of a chart, an admirabie compendium of the quota- tions of the New York Stock Exchange for the last ten years, In other words, it ts a monthly history of the principal railroad, steamship, express and telegraph shares and their various fluctuations, The reasons thereior are given im the shape of memoranda of the remarkable events which have attended stock speculations daring the period named, The compilation has evidently been made with great care and constitutes probably the most complete map indicative of the course of speculation that has ever been prepared. Messrs, Sarnp & BREMER'S great work on the “pirds of America,” in three magnificently illus. trated volumes, will soon appear from the press of Little, Brown & Co. Miss CooreRr, the author of the “Life of Arabella Stuart,” has nearly completed a Iife of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, containing many of his letters that have not yet seen light, A great feature in the book is the “thorough” Earl's work in Ireland—his abolition of piracy in st. George's Channel, his formation of the coast guard and his Btroduction Of the linen manufacture Lato Ireland, { t