The New York Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1874, Page 6

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Frag ar Szs.—The Ohio, of the American {ine of steamships, sailing between Philadel- phia and Liverpool, has had a narrow wseape from destruction by fire while at sea. After considerable exertions the fire was got under, and the ship was brought into Queenstown. It is believed that the firein the hold is still burning, but the lives of the passengers, at least, are safe. "Tam Fawous St. Jonn’s Counce has been paved. Thanks to Bishop Corrigan! Thanks to good government! Had St. John’s been a Protestant church it must have gone to the hammer. The Protestant clergy of this coun- try should study this Jersey case and learn a lesson. The Master's maxim should not be forgotten—‘‘First count the cost.’’ Forrunate Prrvu.—The birds have made Peru rich. According to news just received from Lima the guano deposits, as ascertained ‘by Peruvian engineers and the officers of the Britwh war vessel, the Petrel, amount to 7,650,500 cubic metres. This may be worth, wt least, a hundred million dollars, and probably much more. Pern, it is now said, will have « large surplus fund after paying all her debts. Tae Lavor Txovste.—The war notes | Bounded between the workingmen and the | employers have died away without producing | conflict. The disturbers of the peace seem | to have thought it more prudent to leave things as they are than run the risk of a General strike among the trades affected, ~which would have had the result of injuring ‘the trade of New York without effecting any permanent good. It would be well if the #ame prudent spirit always animated the con- tending parties. Tae Centra America Canat Scrver has een completed, as stated in the special ‘Henatp despatch from Havana elsewhere. The government has done well in causing | a thorough exploration of the different | xontes deemed most favorable for tho great Amarchy in Arkansas. Events in Arkansas seem already to indi- cate the approach of that dangerous stage in civil strife when the disorderly elements called forth in the interests of ambition act from a view of their own interests only and | Superiors, Between Brooks and Baxter it is pretty clear that all the cutthroats in the Southwest are likely to concentrate at Little Rock, where, encouraged to every act of license and violence, set free from the restraints of the law by the authority of those who pretend to executive power, they will hold a carnival of outrage, sure that while they reap the profit in indulgence and plun- der the odium will tall on others, and that the warring candidates alone will get the blame. And it is, of course, upon the heads of the political intriguers who have planned the dis- turbance and made the pretexts for it that the odium must fall, It is evident that the ruffianly politicians and evil plotters who are active in the trouble feel the full importance of the step they have taken in the arrest of the judges, for ener- getic endeavors are made to escape responsi- bility for that act. Our first report of the occurrence seemed to come from the Brooks faction, charging the act upon the Baxter fac- tion ; but since then we have-had from Bax- | ter an earnest denial of the charge that the act was done by his authority, and, further, an explicit declaration from him that it was done by Brooks’ men and purposely laid to the other side to provoke prejudice against it. | Perhaps there are few acts that men like those who have now the upper hand in Arkansas | would scruple to commit if they saw an ad- vantage in it; but, asa matter of fact, men in such a situation seldom act on these Machi- | avelian principles. Straightforward violence and outrage they are fully equal to, but they never go into the abstruse and indirect nice- ties of villany. In Baxter's charge, there- | fore, there is little probability; but, on the other hand, there is no evident reason why he should seize the judges. The very judges arrested have decided a case involving | the points now in dispute, and decided it in | accordance with the view taken by Baxter's partisans against the dissent of the Chief | Justice of the State. These judges held with the whole Court that the question whether a | given person has been duly elected to the of- | fice of Governor is placed by the constitu- tion with the Legislature, and that no court of the State has jurisdiction for the decision ofa suit involving a contest on that point. | Although the suit that was to come before | this Court on appeal on the day on which the judges were seized was different in nature from that in which the above judgment was | | given, it involved the same subject, and it | | seems in the highest degree reasonable to sup- pose that the point so definitely made could not have been avoided by the Supreme Court, but that it must again have declined to de- termine an issue it believes to be placed by constitutional authority out of its reach. It would appear, therefore, to have been altogether in Baxter's favor that the Court should sit; but that he should ignore the | probabilities of a decision that would morally | strengthen his case, and should fall into the | grave error of endeavoring to stifle the voice | of justice, and excite against himself the prej- | udice that is sure to fall upon any case which | its partisans are not at all times ready to have | fairly judged, seems somewhat difficult to be- | lieve—supposing him always to be a person of fair intelligence. It is therefore likely enough that this seizure has been a consequence of excessive zeal in his subordinates, and is an evidence of the general condition that has been brought about by the quarrel. Bands of armed men seem to be recklessly riding hither and thither through the State, acting | on their passions and caprices and making the unarmed and helpless generally the vic- tims of their fury. How long is the State to be permitted to re- main in that condition? How far must it go down in the scale toward recurring barbarism before the general government will feel called upon to interfere—to protect the existence of the State government from “domestic vio- lence’ and to ‘‘take care that the laws are faithfully executed?” Some little of the same sort of vigor that so triumphantly determined | the financial trouble—a very few words from | the Executive, like the words of his recent | veto Message, would silence thestorm. Here are the words of George Washington, when an insuzrection in one of the States threat- ened the peace of the country:—‘“‘I exhort all individuals, officers and bodies of men, to contemplate with abhorrence the measures leading directly or indirectly to those crimes which produce the resort to military coercion; to check the efforts of designing men to sub- stitute their misrepresentation in the place of truth, and their discontents in the place of stable government; and to call to mind that, as the people of the United States have been | permitted, under Divine favor, in perfect freedom, after solemn deliberation, and in an enlightened age, to elect their own govern- ment, so will their gratitude for this blessing be best distinguished by firm erertion to maintain the constitution and the laws.”” We do not see that any Executive can err by the most vigorous prosecution of this very policy— the maintenance of the supremacy of the law over violence. ‘work, and it will not be long before the ques- | tion as to which route is best will be settled. | ‘Then, with the necessary data to act safely upon, the governments and capitalists of the ‘world can open a connection between the jwoters of the Atlantic and Pacific. Tae Manaatran Crves Nationa, Porrricas. Revmion.—The reunion at the Manbattan Club, designed to celebrate the recent demo- cratic victories, ypromises for the future,’’ as the invitation ex- “with all their glorious | There can be no hope for a settlement of this difficulty except through the interference of the United States government. The au- thority lately recognized in the State seems to | be practically nullified by the insurrection, | or, if it is still capable of asserting its su- premacy, 1t cannot assert it as an application | of the law by ordinary processes to cases of the violation of the law, but the assertion of its power would itself be civil war. Anarchy, therefore, must reign, or peace must be se- NEW YORK reject even the control of their nominal | rival claimants for a State government, yet this is what it undertook to do in Louisiana; bat it is clearly and unmistakably its duty to prevent anarchy or civil war, and this is what it fails to do in Arkansas, perhaps from ap- | prehension that it may repeat the false steps of ite former endeavors. But the two things are distinct and as easily separable as the functions of the President from the functions of Congress, In Louisiana the government | accepted the initiative of a judge whose im- peachment is now under discussion, and was thus committed to a bad course without delib- erate examination of the merits; and once committed, the administration seems to have no capacity to recognize that it is in error, oF to retire from a false position. In Arkan- sas what is wanted is not a judgment, not a determination from the government which of the claimants is Governor of the State, but the organization of the armed force accessible in the name of the United States government and the maintenance of order and protection of life and property un- til by some proper process it may be legally or judicially determined who is entitled to recognition and support as Governor. Any delay.in taking action that looks to this result can but have an obstructive and bad appearance, and will inevitably look like favor to the insurrection in continuing the disturbance it has brought abont. A Southern Branch of Industry. No branch of industry has proved so suc- cessful in the Southern States since the war as cotton factories—a number of which have within the past two or three years sprung up in Georgia, Alabama and other States. In- stead of shipping cotton in bales to Europe and New England and importing the manu- factured article at high prices, in several of the States the cotton is manufactured within a few miles of the plantations, and thus the cost of export and importation is saved to the pro- ducing States. One company—the Graniteville Cotton Company, near Augusta, Georgia— last year divided over twenty-two per cent on their capital between stockholders, and even more gratifying results have been achieved by other attempts in the same direction. The Southern press, from these ex- periments, advocate the erection of cotton mills wherever water power in the cotton-pro- ducing region is attainable. All the States aro blessed with abundant water power, and there is no reason why the rivers of the South ten years hence should not be dotted with manufactories like the rivers of New England, and about them spring up towns swarming with honest, industrious operatives. New England has had a monopoly of the cotton manufacture long enough, and the South, or at least those States that have escaped from carpet-bag rule, by fostering care can success- fully compete with her. Asan extra induce- ment for capital to seek investment South the Legislatures might wisely enact laws ex- empting the mills from taxation for a stated period. The benefits sure to accrue would more than compensate for the remission of taxes on this kind of property. An Evil Example. A situation of affairs like what is now seen in Arkansas cannot continue for any time with- out leading to evil results from its example to the other Southern States. The South is far from reconstruction. The valiant spirit that gave the Confederacy ita strength and com- pelled its practical recognition by the nations does not exist in any apparent form. The leaders of the armies and councils of the Confederacy no longer wield any influence over the South. Some are dend, some are in exile or under the shadow of disfranchisement; | a fw like Longstreet are regarded as prac- tical traitors to the cause they served with so much constancy. So there is no fear of an armed uprising like that which Jefferson Davis, in 1861, dictated from Montgomery. But the spirit of the Confederacy is not dead. There is a large element of disaffection in the South—warriors who fought toa reluctant and regretted surrender, young men who were lads during the war and who have all the enthusiasm and emulation of youth. We see evidences of this sentiment in occasional gusts of passion which come now and then, and may be called summer clouds of rebel- lion, like assaults upon negroes, or Ku Klux visitations, and the mobbing of Northern men. The effect of the condition of affairs in Arkansas is to fan this spirit into new and active life. We have little fear that it will assume a dangerous aspect, but it is not wise to give it encourage- ment. We do not believe in a ree vived rebellion, but we do believe in the danger of a diseased reconstraction— in what might be called an ulcerated condi- tion of affairs in the South, endless pain, irritation, outbreaks of passion and feeling and a postponement of that sound and per- fect reunion for which every patriot hopes and prays. The President cannot view with apathy the peril that must result from this Arkansas dis- ease. It is local in its influence to-day, but where may it spread to-morrow? If it is not arrested now can it be checked when it ex- tends into other States? Is it safe to assume for a moment that attitude of indifference which may be called a temptation to renewed rebellion ? s Taere 1s a Genenat Disarporntent in Great Britain over Sir Stafford Northcote’s speech in presenting the budget to Parlia- ment. The Pali Mall Gazette says that ‘it is not lyrical enough,’’ and declares ‘‘there is no | reason why questions of debit and credit | should not wear the fascinations of rhetorical ornament, and only the absence of genius can excuse the presentation of the national ac- counts in a plain, dull way."’ In this country we know that these latter statements are true, presses it, takes place to-morrow evening, | cured by civil war if the State is left to itself, | and we are sorry that they are. We have from eight to twelve P. M. The object of this gathering is, no doubt, to initiate a move- anent for the consultation and co-operation of all opponents of the present national admin- istration, with @ view to 4 anion in the next \Presidential election. The Committeo on In- vitations is composed of John R. Brady, August Belmont, Samuel J. Tilden, Emanuel B. Hart, Douglas Taylor, William H. Wick- ham and Robert B, Roosevelt. Several promi- | and only the general government has the | power and authority to relieve the people of | Arkansas from the dangerous dilemma in | whieh they stand. No case for the interfer- ence of the government was ever more clear, | nor was there, perhaps, ever a case in which | ite duty was plainer. Mistakes in Louisiana | May naturally be supposed to make the admin- | istration mistrust the advice on which it is | compelled to act in these cases ; but it seems many rhetorical financiers, and we could help England to a Chancellor who would obscure her accounts with a profuse foliege, gemmed with flowers of speech whose wild beauty | should be the excuse for o subsequent ‘Treasury deficit. Tax Sanporn Ixvestication, after having consumed a great deal of time, is ended. At | least it is believed and hoped #0, ‘The com- ,nent citizens have been invited, and it is ex- | to us that the duty of preserving order, pro- | mittee had submitted its report to the House ypected that Governor Ingersoll, Governor Seymour, Senator Cooper, Governor Weston, Judge Parker and Congressmen Crittenden, Potter, Clymer, Cox. Wood and Barnum will Be Riesent, tecting the people and guaranteeing the State is divided by n very definite line from the temptation to decide the point in dispute. It is not the province of the national execu- tiye to settle the point in dispute between | despatch says, @ feeling of relief, at which we | are not surprised; but when the Ways and | Means Committee met yesterday morning another witness, who had boon ssuociated HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1874.—TR | of Representatives on Monday, with, as the | with Sanborn, wanted to bs heard, and he was examined. It is said, however, that no evi- dence calculated to change the opinion of the committes was brought out, Whatever may be the nature of the feport as regards the in- dividuals concerned, there scems to be little doubt that the moiety system is doomed. The City Politicians—Effect of the New Laws. | The effect of the laws passed by the Legisla- ture relating to the government of the oity is anxiously discussed by the politicians on both sides of the fence. The republicans thought to gain additional strongth from the measures pushed through towards the close of the ses- sion, while the democrats hoped to make cap- ital by denouncing the ‘‘partisanship” of their opponents and taking upon themselves the character of martyrs. As if a democratic Legislature has not always made and would not again make every possible effort to strengthen the party by special legislation at the expense of ‘the people! The result, however, will not be so important one way or the other as may have been expected or hoped. The stupidity and incapacity of the republi- can majority at Albany and of the lobby boobies by whom that majority was run have deprived the partisan laws they passed of all real value, while the eccentric course of our venerable municipal figurehead renders it doubtful what use he may make of his new power. The one thing certain in the midst of the confusion is that the republican leaders build all their hopes of success in the next municipal contest upon a division in the democratic ranks growing out of the dis- satisfaction manifested with the iron rule of the Tammany chiefs, But these hopes rest upon a foundation of sand. The democratic masses have been humbugged by their leaders long enough, and find as the result nothing but the loss of the loaves and fishes. Hence the probability is that they will pocket their differences of opinion before the day of election comes round, and be found wheeling into line to the sound of the Tammany music when the polls are opened. It is unlikely that there will be more than two municipal tickets in the field— one that bestowed upon the democracy by Sachem John Kelly and his associate braves, and the other the republican reform con- glomeration to which we are indebted for Mayor Havemeyer, Comptroller Green, $39,000,000 annual taxation, $136,000,000 debt and the general decay and stagnation of | the city. It is very certain that the people are heartily sick of this sort of ‘‘reform.” Two years of its administration will drive off all its honest supporters, and, while it will receive the addition of Mr. Michael Norton, Mr. Andy Garvey and a few other reformed individuals, it will never again possess one-half the strength it displayed in 1872. It is doubtful whether the special legislation designed to strengthen the combination will be in any degree bene- ficial to it. No person can predict what flight the venerable Mr. Havemeyer will next in- | dulge in, and he is just as likely to appoint | ®@ rousing democrat to the now vacant Police Commissionership as to bestow it upon the highly respectable ex-Judge Howland, who has no knowledge of the police business, and would be a mere cipher in the Board, or upon the sharp and wiry politician, Davenport. Hence we see but little prospect of the success of another attempt to impose upon the people | of New York with the “reform’’ cheat. ‘When we review the deplorable history of the city government for the past eighteen months we cannot but rejoice that the dishonest char- acter of the combination which made Mr. Havemeyer Mayor is so fully exposed, and that the reign of deception and incapacity is likely to be speedily brought to a close. Literature and the Newspaper Press. The relations of the newspaper press to literature are becoming more clearly defined every day. In looking over the announce- ments of forthcoming books in this country and in England we are impressed with the fact that some of the most noteworthy works of the season are based upon previous con- tributions to the leading journals. Mr. Stanley’s narrative of his experiences as chief of the Heraxp expedition to find Livingstone was the first of a new class of books of travel which have since appeared in rapid succession. The Russian war in Central Asia, the Cuban struggle for independence, the Carlist insur- rection in Spain and the English expedition against Ashantee were all movements which required the participation of newspaper rep- resentatives. Not to speak of the books relating to Sir Garnet Wolseley’s little war on the Gold Coast of Africa called eut from the cor- respondents of the London press, we may re- mark that every one of those movements has prompted a Hzraxp representative to enter the lists of the bookmakers. Mr. Stanley, - wisely reserving his account of the Abyssinian war, in which he participated on behalf of the Henaxp, is about to publish it in a volume with his story of the recent expedition, where he performed his latest service for this journal. Mr. Macgahan who went to Khiva with the Russian expedition for the Henatp, being the only correspondent to overcome the difficulties of the journey, also has a-book in press, Mr. O’Kelly’s book on his Cuban and Spanish ex- periences will appear in a few days under the quaint title of ‘‘Mambi Land.” In the West Indies it is much more common than in our own Southern States to introduce African words into vernacular speech. The English of Jamaica and the Spanish of Cuba have many naturalized African words and phrases. «“Mambi’”’ is one of these, which the Spaniards apply to the insurgents, the meaning being something like the signification of ‘‘the beg- gars” during the war against the Dutch Re- public or the words ‘‘copperhead” and ‘“car- pet-bagger,”’ invented for special purposes in | this country. As in most cases where a people are fighting for » just cause, the word of con- tempt has been adopted by those to whom it was appliod in derision, and that part of the island in the possession of the insurgents is now Mambi Land. ‘These facts have in them something more significant than the mere announcement that a number of newspaper correspondents have ntilized their contnbutions to their journals for the purposes of bookmaking. It shows | that the field of adventure is first penetrated by the journalist and that modern events of permanent interest find in him their best and | readiest chronicler, not for the day merely, put foc history. It was the newspaver corre- IPLE SHEET. spondent who wrote the history of our civil war, and the best’ narratives of the Franco-Prussian battles in 1870-71 were written with the sound of the hostile cannon in the ears and the whizzing of bullets flying over the head of the correspondent who was rapidly sketching the grand scenes of the action for the next issue of his journal. It seems to us that in the very near future almost everything worth preserving in a book will be gathered from: the hasty, but none the less accurate or interesting, narratives and essays of newspaper writers. Indeed, the tendency has long been in this direction. Dickens would not have been a novelist had he not been a journalist. Whittier would scarcely have thought to be- come a poet, that is to say a singing poet, if his earlier journalistic engagements had not opened the way for his poetry; and most of his pieces first appeared and became popular through the newspaper press. The Tenny- sonian era of English poetry owes both its art and its inspiration to the journalistic spirit in literature. Literature finds its real vocation in journalism and journalism in turn fosters literature. This is a plain lesson which even journalists and literary people have been slow to learn, but its truth is seen not only in the new books to which we have just pointed as the direct results of newspaper energy, but in the additional fact that fully one-half the thoughts and ideas, facts and fancies which are daily appearing from the book press have already done duty in the newspapers. Interference or Anarchy. We could understand the hesitancy ‘of the President about interfering in Arkansas affairs if there was any uncertainty about the right or the wrong in the case ; but there is no uncer- tainty. Whatever doubt may have once existed was dispelled by the publication of the letters addressed to the Henaup by the claim- ants for the Governorship, Mr. Brooks and Mr. Baxter. The case was thus presented fully, and public opinion decided that upon Mr. Brooks’ own presentation of the case he was in the wrong. As we showed at the time, to accept the’ doctrine of Mr. Brooks was to introduce the principle of anarchy into our governmental system ; for if the case he pre- sented could for one moment be admitted, then there is nota State Executive that could not be overthrown by a writ from a local court. With such a precedent embalmed in our laws it would only have been necessary for Tweed, in his power, to have made and unmade his Governors by a mandamus from one of his “judges.” Tweed, however, in the most audacious flights of his genius, never con- ceived this plan. It would have saved him a great deal of money in election expenses, The mandate of the constitution on this point is of the most imperative character. We do not see how the President can resist it, If there was any competent tribunal in Arkan- sas to which the claims of the contestants could be submitted with any hope of a verdict that would really be accepted there would be en excuse for delay. But there is no such tribunal, and, sooner or later, the question must receive Executive consideration, As tothe courts, there are none that can be called courts of justice; and as the judges are mn danger of being taken out of railway cars with pistols at their heads, no miatter how they decide, we can understand their helpless- ness, Nothing remains but Executive inter- ference or anarchy. So far from interference producing an armed conflict, we are convinced that upon the declaration of an opinion by the President as to his attitude there will be instant acquiescence. The moral interference of the President is all that is needed. One word from him at this time would restore or- der to sorely troubled Arkansas. The Consistency of Political Reform- ors. ; The Police and Parks law, as it is called, gives the Mayor the sole appointing power, in case of vacancies, of all heads of departments and commissioners, while the charter passed last year provided, in filling vacancies as well as in original appoinments, for nomination by the Mayor and confirmation by the Board of Aldermen. The new act also limits the Park and Police commissions to four members each; but this is only that the republicans may make sure of such power and patronage as they now possess in those departments. The Custom House re- publicans drew and lobbied through the Legis- lature this new charter. A year ago they bit- terly denounced the ‘‘one-man power,” but | that was when Mayor Havemeyer described | them as men who “gamble all night to cheat each other and intrigue all day to chcat the people.” On February 10, 1873, these Custom House republicans, alluding to the Mayor's wish to have the uncontrolled appointing power, said: —‘‘He wishes to be the sole repos- itory of power—to have the nominations and appointments all inhis own hands. It isa most unheard-of demand, and one which it would be criminal in the Legislature to grant. No one man should have such unlimited power as Mr. Havemeyer would exact.” This year, after making a new bargain with the Mayor for their full share of the spoils, they urge the Legislature to perform the “criminal’”’ act of making Mr. Havemeyer the “sole repository of power’’ whenever vacancies are to be filled. On February 15, 1873, the Custom House republicans said :— ‘Should the absolute power of making appointments be vested in the Mayor? We cannot find that any intelligent man asks for so extravagant a measure. A. Oakey Hall exercised this despotic authority, and a pretty mess he made of it. The Board of Aldermen is a very proper body to exercise an opinion on the Mayor's nominations. It is elected by the people ; it cannot be s0 easily | misled as one man may be."’ This year, having made a new ‘‘dcal’’ with Mr. Havemeyer, they advocate ‘so extrava- gant a measure,” secure for the Mayor ‘this despotic authority” and ignore the Aldermen “elected by the people.” On February 20, 1873, they asked where Mr. Havemeyer found hia ‘‘warrant for sup- posing that a Mayor is logitimately an auto- crat and that self-government means democ- racy tempered by imperialism ?"’ and declared that “the ‘ring’ charter’ for the first time gave the appointments to the Mayor, and that “ander this an irresponsible ‘ting’ were able to steal millions before they were found oat.”’ This year, having concluded a trade with Mr. Havemeyor, they make him an ‘‘auto- crat,” interpret self-government as meaning ‘demoorncy, tomvered by imperialism,” and | in the fooh'teps of the old Tammany ” And this is the co.0sistency of political “yetorm''—this the sort of legislation the people of New York get hom the Custom House republicans! a A Danger and Perhaps = Calamity. When the President vetoed the acf ofin- flation he commended himself to the county asa Chief Magistrate who, no matter what might be his apparent indifference to the national exigencies where minor affairs were concerned, was ever prompt and brave when grave interests were in peril. What he saw in the Inflation bill was not so much the actual increase in currency it provided ag the principle it involved, a principle that threatened to become a monster as terrible as the Afrit in the Arabian fable, who, whem released from the vial, became a terrible, destroying shape. The country approved the veto with a unanimity of commendation that maust have recalled to the President the hour of unprecedented and triumphant glory which made him ‘the conqueror of Lee. There is now another opportunity. Arkane sas is a scandal and a danger; to-morrow it may be a calamity. There is only one way of settling it; by Executiveinterference. Law is paralyzed, the courts are mocked and insulted, justice is dead, party strife has superseded statesmanship, the honor of the State has been invaded, industry is arrested and enter- prise forbidden, public credit is destroyed, and all through the South the untamed spirits that animated the Confederacy await the wel- come note of civil war. Thir, we repeat, is = danger, @ very grave and serious danger. follow The President cannot ignore it. He cannot . postpone its consideration. He has only one thing to do. Let him declare that, while he recognizes the sovereignty and indepen- dence of all States and the necessity of the utmost care in interfering with them, he sees in Arkansas a condition of affairs that violates the constitution which he has sworn to ob- serve, and menaces the public peace which it is his duty to protect. Nothing more is necessary than a declara- tion of this kind. It will have a moral effect to-day which Sheridan, at the head of fifty regiments, may not have if this state of anarchy is not terminated. Taz Base Baxi Srason.—Base ball has asserted itself already, and the season of this national game may be looked on as well be- gun. A spirited contest took place yesterday between the Atlantics, of Brooklyn, and the Baltimore Mosquitoes, which resulted in a vie~ tory for our neighbors. Reports from other parts of the country show that the athletic youth of the country are getting up their muscle, so we would advise prudent mammas to lay in a small stock of court plaster. Conoress AND Anxansas.—The Congressional mind is sorely troubled by the Arkansas squabble, and the Conscript Fathers are very careful about committing themselves to a policy. As will be seen by a number of inter- views published in another column, the desire to let the question alone is very general, Im the meantime Arkansas is drifting into a civil war, which, if not promptly suppressed, may create unlooked for complications, it would be well for the general government to act promptly and put down either of the lawless factions that now set the law at defiance, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The widow of General Cavaignac is dead. Hans Christian Acdersen ts again dangerously sick. Judge Reuben Hitchcook, of Ohio, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General W. B. Tibbite, of Troy, 1s residing at the Sturtevant floase. General George S, Har:suff, United States Army, is at the Sturtevant House. Ex-Speaker Dewitt C. Littlejohn, of Oswego, is again at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman H. H. Hathorn, of Saratoga, is registered at the Windsor Hotel. T. B. Peterson, the Philadelphia publisher, is staying at the Fifih Avenue Hotel. The Marquis de Chambrun arrived from Washk- ington yesterday at the St. Denis Hotel. Assemblyman George M. Beebe, of Sullivam county, N. Y., is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Gore-Jones, naval attaché of the British Legation, has arrivea at the Vlarendon Hotel. State Senators William B. Woodin, of Auburn, and John H. Seikreg, of Ithaca, are at the Metro- politan Hotel. . The Yuke of Richmond has added a shilling & week to all the laborers and mechanics on his Goodwood estate. Messrs, J. D, Cameron and Wayne MacVeagn, of Harrisburg, are among tie recent arrivals at the Brevoort House. By & law promulgated on the 17th (29th) of April, the Czar’s birthday, imprisonment for dept is abolished in Russia, ‘The Earl of Granard has been nominated Knight of the Grand Cross of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Pins IX. Lord Granard is @ convert to the Catholic religion. Bismarck and the Count von Arnim are on very bad terms, it seems. Contrary to all diplomatia etiquette, the former Is publishing certain, tell-tale despatches sent by the Prince Chancellor im 1869-70 while he was representing Prussia at Rome. ‘The Tichborne claimant weighed 310 ibs, whem he entered Newgate Prison, but the confinement has greatly reduced his size, He eats very httle of anything but bread, which alone ts not /attening food, General Sir Archibald Aiison, Bart. has im timated by letter to Councillor MacBean, cor- vener of the Committee of the City Industrial Mnsenm, of Kelvingrove, Scotland, his intention of forwarding to that institation @ small wooden: stool taken from the royal palace at Coomassie. James H. Pies, the colored Chancellor of Sardia, Miss., ts in jail for larceny. The lawyers who ar- gued cases before him, missed thelr books, and, ob taining @ search warrant, they were found in us house, with the owners’ names crased and “J. H. Piles? substituted. He was convicted and the Chancellor of Mississippi is still in jail. On the 2th of April Mr. Alexander Sprot, pre- prietor of the Garnkirk estate, Scotland, attainea | his twenty-firat birthday, and the event was cele brated with appropriate rejotcings on the estate and in the villages of Chryston and Muirhead. The “young taird,” who, haviag completed his studies at Cambridge, has been gazetted to a | Heutenancy in the Sixth Dragoon Guards, the regt ment of “carabineers of Tichborne celebrity, i extremely popular in the neighborhood." Ronert Roberts, an Englishman, has tried numer- ous ways of getting a living during the past ten or fifteen years. He was once a medical student, once @ teacher, twice a policeman, and finally he became peoidier, A military life was too monotonous, 8 Mr. Roberts soon leit the British army without leave. His experience, however, had given him 3a idea as to 8 new method of procuring subsistence, which he speedily put into practice, He presented to several Victuallers documents certifying that te was a recruiting sergeant, and was billeted upon them, Some of the mnkeepers paid him not to im flict himself upon them. Mr. Roberts’ ingenious sctieme did not work long, however, He was ‘ar- rested, recognized as a deserter, and he will not Ply any of lis many callings for some tiple Bote alter. \a