The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1874, Page 4

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Tae Caruist Onven to shoot one republican prisoner for every shell fired by the govern- ment ficet off Bilbao is only another illustra- | and since the third term talk is in all mouths | toga to see the nine university shells, impelled Newsdealers | and others are notified to send in their orders | | cross the scarcely disguised aspirations of the i NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1874.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. This Year's Congressional Eleetions. | ning of his administration the Tenure (of | training of the militia superintended by reg- ‘The address of the Republican Committee may be rdel as the formal open- ing of this year's political campaign. We have already remarked on its significant silence respecting President Grant-an omis- | personal in‘erest and in that of the party. Condemn hii they could not, and to have re- cited his praises when the air is so full of rumors respecting his unavowed but scarcely preted as an indorsement of his supposed | toa galling fire from the enemy. The repub- lican party is not yet in a position to fight the him. Even if it should at last be persuaded alike fatal to him and it to lend them any ostensible countenance now. It is no more for his interest than for theirs to raise new } obstacles to the success of the party in the | coming elections, when it has already a load to carry under which it must bend and stagger. Since the election of the Con- gress chosen at the same time with General Grant much has been | done to weaken the party and alicnate its supporters, The passage of the s: grb and its repeal forced by clamorous public indignation, the Crédit Mobilier exposures, which sent Colfax and other prominent repub- licans to Coventry; Durell’s outrage in Louisiana, abetted by the President and | virtually indorsed by Congress; the infamous | of the rascalit Washington Ring, in which | the Presideni’s chief private secretary is im- } plicated; the panic of last fall, which ex- pleded so many vainglorious boasts of the financial success of the administration end covered Boutwell and his policy with derision; the tailure of Congress to reconstruct the | dilapidated and tumbling financial edifice and consequent disappointment of public expecta- | fion; the sharp conflict of views between (he President and the republican majority on this , question, the collapse of civil service reform, the disorganizing effect of the farmers’ move- ment in the West, are a part of the long list | of events since General Grant's triumphant re-election, which ‘cast ominous conjecture’ on republican prospects, and encourage the hopes of the opposition. A series of demo- | cratic victories in the most important of last tall’s and this spring’s State elections show in what direction the political current is moving under the influence of these untoward events. Until the republican party can see how it stands it may well shrink from taking any such new load as a third term, which is a “burden to sink a navy.” It would have been equally dangerous to | President by open condemnation of any part ; of his policy. The republican leaders | not provoke his enmity. If the least office- | holding interest shouid retaliate on the Con- | gressmen, or should even fail to exort their | zeal, the opposition would easily elect a ma- | jority of the next Congress, and the President ‘and the party would be engulfed together. ' ‘The republican candidates for Congreas want to succeed, and Grant wants them to succeed; part sion which many will think wise both in his | veiled imtentions, might have been inter- | wishes, and have exposed the republican flank | third term battle erther for Grant or against | soerced to favor his aspirations it would be | dare | Office act was virtually repealed by amend- ments. If they should sttempt to restore it they no longer possess the triumphant two- thirds majority by which Andrew Johnson's vetoes were so easily overridden. Grant's office-holding dependents include the most shrewd, active and cunning working poli- ticians in every part of the United States. If he chooses to work this tremendous lever for controlling the republican caucuses his sup- | porters will fill the National Convention with delegates pledged to his nomination. We had an opportunity to see, in 1872, how vain are attempts to stem this power. The ablest and | most widely circulated republican journals of the country were opposed to Grant’s renomi- nation, and were strenuously supported by a host of eminent party leaders like Sumner, | Greeley, Trumbull, Judge Davis, Schurz and Banks; but they gave up in despair and or- ganized the Cincinnati bolt, without even try- | ing to control the regular Convention against | Grant's irresistible arn.y of office-holders. If the Congressional elections shall show that | the party retains strength enough to be worth | controlling Grant will throw off all pretence of | awask and secure his third nomination as ular officers, who would not be moved by political considerations to pass lightly over their defects. Revival of Repudiation—A Stupendous Democratic Blunder. The democracy of Indiana, who held their State Convention on Wednesday, adopted a platform which should fiil the wise men of the party in other States with profound apprehen- sion and misgivings. The Indiana democrats have revived, indorsed and promulgated the | Tepudiation doctrines on which Pendleton made his unsuccessful and inglorious canvass | for the democratic nomination for the Presi- dency in 1868, It would have seemed incredi- ble, previous to the fact, that a body of sane men, assembled for opening a political can- vass, should pick up the dead -horse of repu- diation, set it on its legs by party propping, and gravely mount it in the expectation of winning the race. How is it possible that they could so misconceive the public sentiment of the country? The assembled Indiana democrats have the amazing folly to declare that “we are in favor of the redemption of the five-twenty bonds in greenbacis;’’ that ‘‘we are in favor of the repeal of the law of March, easily as he did his second. Postponement of the College Regatta. | The intercollegiate regatta at Saratoga was postponed yesterday on account ot the weather. | _ The postponement seems to have been una- | voidable, the water being so rough that no shell could hve on the lake. Keen as the disappoint- ment must have been to the college crews, | it was much more keenly felt by the thousands of spectators who had gathered from all parts | | of the country to see the race. It is to be | hoped the water will be smooth to-day, and | | that the great contest will be decided without | another disappointment. But just here arises that knotty question in polemics which trou- | | bled Professor Tyndall on the one hand and | the theologians on the other in their discus- | sions of the prayer gauge. While the deni- zens of this and other cities were congratu- | lating each other on the pleasant weather and | the delicious breezes of yesterday, the college boys and the thirty thousand visitors at | Saratoga Lake were expressing the deepest | dissatis‘action with what was our delight. If | the race is rowed to-day, everybody who 18 un- | | fortunate enough to be away from Saratoga will | be sweltering with the heat and sighing fora | | breath of air. Still, the great-hearted Ameri- | | can people will be content with a close, hot day | if for no other reason than that the nine crews | of undergraduate collegians now at Saratoga | may test their pluck and endurance and skill. | The race cannot fail to be an inspiriting one. | Had the contest been decided yesterday the | victory, wherever it had fallen, would have | been the signal for an enthusiasm never before | manifested over an aquatic match. The suc- | cessful competitors to-day will be received | with plaudits heartier even than those which | | the athletic Greeks bestowed upon the victors | | inthe Olympian games. The glory of the | victory, like the victory itself, has only been \ postponed, and the triumph will be enhanced | by the delay. Most people will wish this ' morning that they could be present at Sara- | tion of that extreme cruelty which has made , the President himself must approve of the dis- | by the brawny and athletic arms of the college the Spanish name hated in every civilized country. pelled to find some easier method of bearing the burdens of France than by the persistent taxation which was part of M. Magne’s pol- icy. Prince Bismarcx’s Escape from the bullet of the assassin with only a scratch in the wrist, received while his hand was touching his hat, was, as the press despatches describe it, miraculous. But now follows the rigor which always comes from the folly of at- tempted assassination. Whether or not there Was a conspiracy to take the Chancellor's life, Catholic Germany will suffer in consequence. Jam. Breakine is of such frequent oceur- renee in this city that a radical reform of our prison system seems necessary. case comes from Jefferson Market Jail, from which some prisoners are reported to have effected an escape. From Sing Sing to the ordinary house of detention it would appear that to break jail is one of the easiest things imaginable, especially when there's money in the question as an auxiliai Cumpres’s Prcnics.—The philanthropic ef- forts of the directors of the Poor Children’s Free Excursion Fund continue to meet with merited public support. To-day the children of the Fourteenth ward will be treated toa sail up the Hudson and a day’s romping in Excelsior Park. Mr. Williams carries on with untiring zeal the noble work he inan- gurated with such happy results. It would be difficult to imagine any charity more useful to the poor of this city than these excursions, which give the children of the poor breathing spells of the pureconntry air. [tis true beney- olence to rescue even for a day those chil- dren who pass their lives in the foul slums of the city and enable them to enjoy the health. giving beauties of the country. We hope the charitable will continne their support until every little waif in this human hive has been The latest | creet reticence of the Republican Committee in saying nothing in their address which could it would be prudent to run again until he has | seen the result of this year’s elections, and as- | certained from them whether the party can | bear any further weakening. sphinx-like silence on the topic which all his fellow citizens are discussing. If, after all | that has happened, it should turn out that the | party is not materially weakened by the elec- | tions oi this year, his chances of a third term will be worth considering, and he will be em- | boldened to make himself a candidate. But | if the republican party is defeated, if there } isno stake to be won, he will not enter the lists. Meanwhile he will not commit himself. He | prefers to keep open a line of graceful retreat. All his covert hopes are staked upon the ; success of the republican party in the ap- | proaching Congressional elections, and he can | he must, that an indorsement of bim under | present circumstances would prematurely com- | mit the party to his aspirations at a stage | | when it could dohim no good and might break down the horse on which he wishes to ride. But if the republican party can hold its own, or nearly bold its own, in the elections of this year, it may be strong enough to carry the ad- ditional weight of a third term candidate, and Grant will thereupon organize a vigorous per- sonal campaign for securing the republican nomination. | And if he tries for the republican nomina- | tion he will get it We do not believe he | could be elected. That is a different question. | Presidential candidates so easily deceive them- | selves as to their prospects that we have no | warrant for supposing that Grant would doubt his election if the | | the next House of Representatives. we are only discussing the possibility of his nomination. In reasoning on such a point we must not forget that nominations are not made by the great body of the party, but by a few active wirepullers, oe Ue 3 : | be construed as favoring his hopes. As a man | M, Maoxs's Frsanctat Bux, being rejected | of sense he cannot make up his mind whether | Plause of the multitude, by the French Assembly the Finance Minis- SS. ter has resigned. His successor will be com- Hence his | well afford to be patient at the way he is ig- | | nored in the republican address, knowing, as | republican party is | strong enongh to retain its ascendancy in | But | Not one voter in | treated to a glimpse of the green fields. 7" tive attends the caucuses of any party. These Tux Governon’s Vero or THE Wanenovse | bodies are packed. That candidate has the Bu.—Governor Dix has vetoed the bill | best chance who possesses the most extensive passed at the recent session of the Legislature | facilities for packing them. In this view incorporating the New York Warehouse and | Grant has the advantage of the federal office- Railway Company. A bolder or more reck- | holding interest with its wide ramifications— less and impudent measure was never passed | aM Interest which has become so powerful by any legislative body, and the Governo: | Since the beginning of the war that it has properly characterized it when he called it “a | enabled every President who controlled it to monstrous scheme.’ It was, in fact, giving | dictate his renomination. Lincoln, by means away toa powerful corporation not only the most important street in the city, but even the te powers of the municipality. The intent of the bill cannot be contemplated with- | opponents resorting to the Cincinnati Conven- out a shudder, so unscrupulous were the pnr- | tion. If it be said that this overgrown patron- poses of the projectors of this scheme and so | age did not help Andrew Johnson the reply deadly was the blow aimed at the commercial | is that he never had control of it. Congress supremacy of New York. So wonderful were | nnderstood its resistless potency and deprived the powers conferred by this bill that the | him of it by the Tenure of Office bill, which whole roadway of West street could have been | he vainly withstood by his veto. ey taken for warehouses by this company and | stripped him of the power to remove any of the entire water front of the North River | Mr. Lincoln’s appointees, who held nearly all would have been rendered inaccessible. There | the offices, without the consent of a hostile were similar monstrosities not in every section | Senate. ‘They rendered him powerless by vention of 1564, and Grant baffled and defied merely, but in every sentence, and the Gov- | disarming him, They cannot pursue the | ernor's yeto is trenchant exposure which | same tactics against Grant. All the men will attract general attention, of it, easily made sure of the Republican Con- | all opposition in 1872, his hopeless republican | | youth, skim the waters of the lake in generous | | but earnest rivalry for a victory which will make the shores resound with the wild ap- | The Mayor’s Defence of the Charities | Commissioners. | Mayor Havemeyer's defence of the Com- | | missioners of Charities and Correction is to be made on the ground that the purchases ; | of supplies under the present Commissioners | | have been in some instances made at lower | prices than under former commissions. He | ; cannot beiog the real issue by any such trick. | | The present Commissioners act under the | | present charter, and the law therein sets | forth their powers and duties. Have they | violated this law? Have they bought goods | | of relatives and friends in amounts forbidden | by the law? Have they proved their own | wilful desire to evade the law by “cutting up”’ these bills so as to make each separate account appear as if the purchases were made in comphance with the law instead of in its | violation? The other and equally serious | question as to the prices paid by the city | is another branch of the alleged offences, and | it is no defence to say that the goods did not ebst so much as they did three, four or five | years ago. When the Mayor has made his | promised statement we shall have something | to say to the District Attorney as to his duty | in the matter. Cowripence Swinpiing.—The curious story | which we publish in another column of the operations of a confidence operator at Rich- mond shows the reckless manner in which too | many of our merchants do business. It is not creditable to the intelligence or common sense of our mercantile classes that swindles so transparent as those flashy confidence games should be successfully practised in business centres. Itis almost incredible that a per- fectly unknown man should be admitted to | the confidence prominent bankers and | manufacturers without their taking the slight est tronble to find out the truth of the repre- sentations made to them. In the case of this Van Ness or Livingston the vulgar ostentation of the man ought to have put the merchants of Richmond on their guard long before they seem to have entertained any suspicion of their distinguished visitor. That they were not victimized to some extent was due rather to the over anxiety of the swindler to make a good haul than to any sharpness of tbeir own. It is little wonder that dishonest men easily fall into the temptation of swindling wheu they find xo many foolish people ready to become victims. ot Ove = Minrriastey.—The discipline and | efficiency of the idilitia regiments is put to a | slight test by a day's duty at the Creedmoor | yrange. It ix to be regretted the result is not by wny means satisinctory. Although the | scores made by the men exhibit some im- provement, there is still evidence of want of instruction in the principles of firing. This, however, is a defect at time will no doubt | remedy, but the lack of discipline of which | some of the militia regiments give proof is a more serious matter. Armed men without dis- | | i cipline are rather a source of danger than a | protection to the public, and one is compelled ‘ sound principles. 1869, which assumed to construe the law so as to make such bonds payable exclusively in gold;" and that ‘‘we are in favor of the repeal of the national banking law, and the substitu- tion of greenbacks for the national bank currency.” We can conceive of no greater blunder which the democratic party could perpetrate, in the present state of public sen- iment, than to unbury the Pendletonism of | 1868 and present its corpse as a candidate for reception in living political society, This issue killed Pendlcton as a candidate, although it received a trimming indorsement in the national platform. The platiorm defeated the actual candidate, who had made able and vigorous speeches against its principle, and was as strongly committed as a statesman could be to a faithtul.payment of the public | debt. If the peopie ever decided anything in a Presidential election, and decided it irre- versibly, it was the greenback controversy in | 1868. When the repub.ican Congress, in the extra session of March, 1869, enacted the law of which the Indiana democrats now demand the repeal, it merely gave legislative expres- sion to the popular will as then recently declared by an overwhelming popular vote. The democratic party discreetly acquiesced in that verdict, and have never sought to disturb it until now. : Nothing is more certain than that the East- ern democrats will never countenance this | revival of defunct repudiation, which they , rejected when it was the seductive gloss of novelty. indorsament in the West tends only | to distraction and division at a time when the moral influence and political success of the party depend on compact unity in defence of It is astonishing that po- , litical leaders can be so misguided and throw away the fairest opportunities, There was never so splendid an opening for the demo- cratic party as is furnished by the present | financial condition of the country and the | egregious failure of the republicans to meet it by any measures of relief. If the democracy were capable of watching the situation with | | adequate sagacity and foresight the path to + | success would lie plain before them, But it is only as an organized phalanx, moved by ond purpose and strenuously acting together with pertect singleness of aim, that they can gain a controlling ascendancy over the public ; mind. If they only had the wisdom to “un- derstand their epoch” and stand as a compact host for sound monetary and fiscal principles, fighting again the great battle won in a former generation by Jackson aud Benton, they could’ carry the country with them in an assured march to victory. But the Indiana demo- crats, at least, are smitten with political blindness. Besides sowing the seeds of internal schism and setting the party by the ears by committing | themselves to doctrines which its wisest mem- bers detest, bringing the organization into the situation of an army whose battalions dis- charge their fire into each other instead of doing execution against the common enemy, the Indiana democrats are supplying the re- publicans with destructive weapons. They put it in their power to charge the whole party with repudiation tendencies. Party war- fare is never scrupulous or discriminating, and when the democracy of an important State like Indiana declare openly for repudia- tion it is mere customary tactics to hold the whole party responsible. ern State where this folly could have so dan» aging a general eifect as in Indiana. Its dem- ocratic Governor, who was the presiding offi- cer of the Convention, is one of the three or four statesmen most talked of as democratic | candidates for the Presidency. It has been | heretotore supposed that his financial views were sound, and he ought to have had influ- ence enough to prevent the passage of such insane resolutions. Indiana is also the home of Michael C. Kerr, one ot the most upright, judicious and respected democratic statesmen of the country, and a candidate tor election to the next Congress. There is no public man in the democratic party who has better titles to influence than Mr. Kerr, or who has been 580 uniform and strenuous an advocate of sound principles in every branch of fiscal policy. Why did he and Governor Hendricks allow the perpetra- | tion of so stupendous a folly? Why did they surrender the misguided democracy of Indi- ana to the control of the glib-tongued Voor- hies and imperil all the hopes of the party in | the next Presidential clection ? There is too much reason for apprehending | that the democratic party has lost all sense of the source of its ancient victorious strength, which consisted in pertection of discipline, complete unity of action and a sagacious per- ception of the value of opportunities, What a _ magnificent fight a thoroughly united democ- racy might have made against the financial absurdities and imbecile legislation of opponents ! spill all its contents. This enormous blunder must be retricved or the democratic party is doomed. Every democratic State Convention hereafter to be held must repudiate and de- nounce repudiation, or else the ‘‘tide” which, ‘taken at its flood,” might have ‘led on to | fortune,” will retire and leave the democracy | ot the country stranded “in shallows and in | now in office are bis creatures, At the begin- | to inquire if it would not be well to have the | miseries.” fresh and had | Its re- | There is no West- | its | But when the handle of the | pitcher was offered them they have grasped its belly, and it is likely to fall to the ground and The Spectroscopy or the New Comet, The spectroscopic analysis of the new comet seems to have so far been very imper- fect, and it is by no means certain our astronomers will determine the constitution of the brilliant meteor. When spectrum analysis was first applied we were promised disclosures m the domain of stellar and solar physics as great asif tho chemist could move his laboratory to the most distant star and analyze itstexture. We have, however, reaped but little of the promised harvest. And, as for cometary analysis, we may safely conclude, with one of the most eminent German spec- troscopists, we shall have no decisive evidence regarding the physical nature of comets until one.appears of such extraordinary brilliance thatit can be examined in all its phases. Such is not Coggia’s comet. Ifthe physical texture of comets were known spectroscopically, or otherwise, doubtless the interplanetary in- fluence of these bodies would be understood. We know that olefiant gas is present in the new meteor, as it was in Encke’s comet in 1871, and in the second comet of 1863, examined by Huggins. We know, too, the character of olefiant gas as the absorber of the calorific waves of radiant heat; and it is easy to see that a vapor screen of olefiant gas, stretching like Coggia’s comet (and of the same size) across the heavens, would exert a powerful thermal influence. Experiment shows that where such vapor of carbon is interposed it cuts offand quite arrests the radi- ation which seeks to penetrate it. It acts asa dam to divert or stop the obscure rays and thus becomes an agency for accumulating heat. This agency is so powerful that about seven-ninths of the heat waves are absorbed. Such an agency, if it was brought within our | atmosphere, would be attended with the most | marked results, electric, thermometric and otherwise. But the gaseous, cometary mat- ter, while opaque to the heat waves or obscure radiation of the earth sunwards, does not arrest or sensibly retard the sun’s radiation | earthwards; and in the present case the dis- | tanee of the comet from the earth, even when at perigee, on the 22d inst., is so great (be- tween twenty-five and thirty millions of miles) | that its agency in producing high temperature on the earth is impossible. It may be, however, that the cometary | spectra, when reliably obscrved, will show | the presence of other substances besides ole- | Giant gas. It may be that among the elements of the celestial wanderer will be found | { hydrogen, nitrogen, the vapor of sodium, or | of any religious ceremony, no matter the | gaseous substances, which, while allowing the | passage of the earth’s heat when radiated sunward, refuse the sun's rays passage through | their interstices. In that case (and it is fur from insupposable, since hydrogen, nitrogen and other elements have been found in the spectra of nebulw) we might anticipate the intercepting of the sun’s heat supply to us, and a reduction 6f terrestrial temperature for the time of the comet’s perigee. We say time of perigee because that is two days later than the period when the comet will be directly between us and the sun, and hence in the best position to arrest solar radiation. We shall look with great interest for the spectroscope to reveal the full texture of the comet. i _ —S ot Tue Grassuorrer Pracur.—The Minnesota papers criticise very severely the declarations of Governor Dayis that the people are on the potit of starvation and that tho crops have been destroyed. On the contrary, the Minne- apolis Tribune asserts that ‘outside of six counties, where there has been great destruc- tion of crops—and no one of which is noted for wheat raising—the crops were never in a , better condition. List year we had thirty millions of bushels of wheat to sell, and the praia eee aly prospect now is that we shall largely exceed | | that amount this year. The universal report is that, outside of the grasshopper region, the crops promise better than ever before. While a few of our farmers are made destitute the remainder will be bountifully rewarded for their Inbors and will be fully able to take care of their unfortunate neighbors. At least there is no present necessity for going abroad for assistance, and the course of Governor Da- vis in doing so before our own people had been called upon or allowed an opportunity to | contribute is a reproach to the State. Min- nesota is not yet in a condition to solicit char- ity, and will prefer to exhaust her own re- sources before doing so.”” ‘Tere Seems to be no end to the wealth of California. The Territorial Enterprise says State will harvest wheat enough to load a thousand ships, each of a thousand tons ; burden, and have enough left for home con- sumption.” Attention Cuba. The vomito has made its appearance at Havana, and appears inclined to commit rav- ages by sea and land. It has already affected the mariners in the harbor, as well as tho resi- dents, From the interior the news is scarcely more pleasant for the Spaniards. Tho official press gives an account of a number of encoun- ters with the Cubans, and evidently from the guarded manner in which the more important ones are spoken about the authorities have very little to boast of. In ones Spanish guerilla band was attacked, and a battalion sent to its aid was unable to find the enemy. We infer that the guerillas had parted company with the Cubans in haste before the reinforcements arrived. The most important fight was for a convoy. Here the Spaniards admit a loss of four officers and seventy-seven men killed and wounded. They do not tell us whether or not the convoy was abandoned. We aro inclined to think that it was, It is evident the Cubans in the fleld are still fight- ing gallantly, though so little is done by the outside world to aid them. It is a pity that such gallant fellows should have to depend on lukewarm friends for the means of carry- ing on the struggle. Tux Commincran Importance of the great republic as a postal highway between Europe and Australasia was significantly demonstrated by the last Australian mail via San Francisco, which arrived in New York yesterday, and nearly half of which, consisting of eighty-five bags, was despatched to Europe by steamer. The Pacific Railroad is evidently considered with more favor in Europe as a mail route from the South Seas than the Suez Canal. With a Darien ship canal in operation the oc- cupation of M. de Lesseps would be like that of Othello when jealousy took possession | of him. Porrrengss.—An odd case has arisen in a French town near Rouen. A few Sundays since a young Englishman, son of a manufac- turer of Manchester, stood with his hat on looking at the religious procession passing im honor of a festival of the Catholie Church. The Mayor of the Commune knocked the young man’s hat off, and a complaint on the subject was forwarded to tho Public Prosecutor of the Republic, There can be no defence of the act which has been made tha theme of remonstrance. At tho same time we.cannot too highly censure the rudeness of the stranger who would not in presence denomination or character, remove his hat. Such an act is due to the feelings and belief of the multitude around. He has no more right to wear his hat on such an occasion than he would to walk with it on his head into a lady's parlor. If a gentleman had any scruples on the subject from religious convictions he would go away. But the question was not oue of religion, but of courtesy. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Secretaries Bristow and Belknap lave returned to Washington, Captain J. W. Reilly, of West Point, is quartered at the Hoffman House. “ Commodore James O'Kane, United States Navy, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ww Would it be if & Chicago man should ge over now and set St. Louis on fire ? Mr. Robert C. Schenck, Jr., of Dayton, Ohio, is registered at the Fiiti Avenue Hotel. John W. Young, son of tne Prophet Brigham, is sojourning at the St. Nicho!as Hotel. Congressman E, O. Stanard, of Missouri, yester- day arrived at the Filth Aveyue Hotol. W. 0, Chariton, of the British Legation, apartments at the Westmoreland Hotel, England is to have a society of shorthorn breeders on the mode! of the Jockey Club, General James M. Robertson, United Statez Army, is residing at the Grand Central Hotel. Mr. S. E. Dimmick, Attorney General of Penn- sylvania, is staying at the Winchester Mouse, In Scotland, this summer, the lightning drove s tailor’s needie into tis hand. Sartor Resartus? London water was “turbid” In June with living things. They don’t drink much water there, how- ever. . Lieutenant Commander W. C. Wise, United States Navy, is among the recent arrivals at the Hoff- man House. Itis proposed to introduce the Spanish garrove into England as a substitute for the rope in capital punishment. The Duke of Brunswick's jewels were recently has | “ander the hammer” tn London, Ordinarily thats not a safe place for jewels. Mr. [saac Hinckley, President of the Philadel- phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Com. | pany, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel, that according to present indications “the | At the same time we are re- | minded of the declaration of a Senator from | that State twenty years ago, that he ‘would not give six bits for all the agricultural land in California.” So that we never know the good gitts that are in store for us, and where we expect gold find wheat—and, as seems to be the case in our Pacific Commonwealth, gather mines. Quicksilver mines have been covered in the Santa Ynez district. Cuntstians tn Convention. —The Christian | Union Convention has assembled at Ocean Grove. Its object is to harmonize the various | Christian sects and to promote holiness. Ex- | perience has taught churchmen the value of unity in the army of morality in its contests | against the Evil One. The success of these | friendly meetings in encouraging amiable | feelings among the different denominations | has been very marked, and this dwelling together of the brethren promises to grow into an institution. Ane We To Have a Suven Sxanpanp or more gold from the wheat than from the | dis- | boys. England has noi taken steps to introduce the encaiyptus globosus on the Gold Coast, because Dr. Hooker, of Kew, aoesn’t believe in tt, The women’s temperance oath that “no lips shall touch my lips that have touched a potte”™ Wil compel all the young men to use tumbiers or wine glasses, Mr. Vincent L. Bradiord, late President of the Philadeiphia and Trenton Ratiroad Company, has beep honored by the Washington and Lee Univers sity with the honorary degree of LL. D. Jones, of Nevada, is at Long Branch. He has a team of four horses and @ brilliant compiexion. Jones handles the ribbons with great success, and thus supplies in & measure tue loss of Jim Fisk, Now ts the chance fora scientific man. Let him tell the people in Minnesota what uselul and valu- abie article can be made out of grasshoppers. Petroleum was scorned a8 a nuisance lor hundreds of years. One Long Branch hotel has @ patent bowling alley that sets up its owa pins and has no need of Another intends to obtain an aliey that wil | Knock down its own pins aud save the players @ | Money ?—The vast increase of silver produc- | | tion and coinage relatively over gold within the last few years, and the prospect of a con- | tinned and greater increase, naturally gives rise to the above question. The Mint reports the amount to have risen in the three years from one million five hundred thousand dollars to nine million dollars, with prospect of the augmentation continuing. y | burst yesterday over Lowell, and did not ex- pend its violence until it had blown down a | number of public buildings. ‘The churches were the chief sufferers, several being badly injured and one totally destroyed. For \-twenty-five years Lowell has not witnessed so severe @ storm, | into the upper ten thousand \ felicivous fixture — . | hereditary aristoc Lowrnn tN A Stoxm.—A terrible storm | neediess exertion. Ingratitude is freshly exemplified by the St. Louis Globe, which holds that our reporters should be shot instead of pigeons at the pigeon matcies. But if our reporters were shot wnat would that journal do for news? Tue Governor General of Canada and Lady Dar- ferin, With suite, arrived in Quebec on the even- ing of the 14th, They wili proceed to Montreal on Monday next, whence they purpose making an extended tour in the Western provinces, Shima Yosniwo, Yeto Shimpei, fuxachi Tsuneaki, Nishi Yusnitada, Nakashima Rinzo, Asakura Hisi- take, Katsuki YTsunegoro, Yamanaka Ichiro, Shivemaisu Motokichi, Murayama Nagayasn, Nakagawa Yostizumt and seyosiima Yoshitaka were executed at Saga, Japan, for insurrection, A London journal! says marriage will soon take place between the Hon. Miss Marty Paliner, second daughter of Lord Selburne—late occupaat of the woolsack, 4nd writer of law and equity and Barl Waldegrave. It is eninently pleasing to those who talk about the imsusion of tres blood to witness sact nat the truly orrhodox will not xvenston of piety among our . be dispieased at t Au accident such as we trust may occur oftea happened recently at Nashville, Ketributive jus- luce visited a baggage smasher. He dropped a box in the manner of those gentry, and ‘he nivro- glycerine that tt happened to contain spoke tor itsell. He now repents in vanaages, It ts all very well to say the explosive had no igsi- ness there, But WU 1% will be there ovcasionally and will teach them to handle haggage genuy we abel. overlook the ofeuve of the senders