The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY x AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON ~ BENNETT, PROPRIETOR —_————_ THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK- HERALD— 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York Volame XXXIX AMUSEMENTS 1 ‘THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ima NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. between Prince and Houston streets GRIFFITH GAUNT, at 8 j closes at 10:45 P.M. Joseph Wheelock and Miss Honrletts Yrving. BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue.— BELLE LAMAR, at P. Mt closes at 1030 #. M. John McCullough and Miss K. Bi Randolph, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street DICK WHIT- TINGTON ‘AND HIS CAT, at 2 P.M. a 7. be Me POOR AND PROUD OP NEW YORK at 10:30 P.M. Louis Aldrich and Miss opie’ “tic” GLOBE THEATRE, No. 728 Broadway —VARIBTY, at 2 P.M, and ats P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No, 595 Broadway.—Purisian Cancan Dancers, at 2P, M. aad at P.M, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Rowery —VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue. — nee and Female Minstrels,at8 P. M.; closes at THEATRE ats fe No. 514 pp —VARIETY, at? cloves at 10:30 P.M. ana at 8 P. M.; OLYMPIC THEATRE, No. 6% Broadway.—VARIETY, at2 P.M. and atSP. M.; closes at 10:40 P.M. Tony Pastor's troupe. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. Yifty-ninth street and Seventh avenue.—THOMAS’ CON- CERT, at 5 P. M. ; closes at 10:30 P. M COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirty-ffth sireet OLD LONDON BY DAY. ‘Open from 10 A. M, till dusk. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, “sha de 12, 1874, To NewspgaLers aND THE Pusiic:— The New Yorke Henarp will run a special train between New York, Saratoga and Lake George, leaving New York every Sunday dur- ing the season at half-past three o’clock A. M., and arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M, for the purpose of supplying the Sunpay Henavp along the line. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hupaxp office as early as possible. Irom our reports this morning the probabilitics are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy. Watt Sraeer Yzsrerpay.—Stocks were generally disturbed during the day by a break in Ohio and Mississippi, but rallied toward the close. Gold closed at 109%, atter selling at 109} and 1093. ‘Tue Frencu Government is looking sharply after the Communists at Marseilles. Does MacMahon sympathize with the King of Italy ? Anp Now tue Cororep Txoors are going to the tront in Cuba, and Captain General Concha has reviewed them. Unfortunately they are to fight to keep themselves in bondage. ‘Tue HanpvrcaP Race which took place yes- terday at Newport gave much satisfaction to the yachting community, as it gave every craft a fair opportunity to win. Unfortunately the wind was very light, and the race could not get off at the hour appointed. The wind, however, freshened, and a number of yachts were started with fair success. Tue Waz wm Cvna is maintained with a very considerable amount of animation in the field. The Spaniards claim to have lately dispersed the enemy at several points. This shows that there has been an enemy to dis- perse. The colored volunteers have been parading bravely in the presence of the Cap- tain General. American Creprr 1x Evnorz.—The wild cat system of speculation indulged in by so many over-enterprising Americans has pro- duced its natural effect in Europe. Capitalists are beginning to recognize the folly of giving their money to float schemes that pay no in- terest, and are turning their attention to in- vestments nearer home, where the prospects are less vast, but, en revanche, the profits are more tangible. Tue Icetanp Exrzprriox.—We print this morning an interesting letter from the Henatp correspondent on his way to Iceland, detailing the progress of the expedition and describing some sightseeing in the Orkney Islands. The journey is almost as novel as its purpose, and the impressions made by the scenes and peo- ple of these out-of-the-way places have much interest, especially in connection with Ice- land’s celebration. Tnrzmnationan Yacutixa.—The account of the International Regatta published in an- other column indicates the growth in France of an amateur seamanship quite at variance with the purely landlubber reputation of the French. The races, too, were very spirited and the winners received substantial rewards in the valuable prizes offered by the town of Havre and the private patrons. The Enchan- tress, an American yacht, attracted attention by her excellent performance, but, owing to an unlooked for accident, she only succeeded in coming in fourth. Our Cannan Crassrs.—We publish in another column interesting communications from Warden Hubbell and an ex-convict. Both bear testimony to the fact that the con- viet is not quite so bad as he is painted, and point to the hope that the reformation of our criminal classes is by no means 80 hope- less ag it seems, The abuses complained of by the ex-convict ought certainly to be remedied. Itis disgraceful that men who have committed the highest crimes known to the law should be allowed privileges that are de- nied to the unfortunate who, tempted by want, may have sinned against society. Such unjust discrimination destroys the moral value of the punishment inflicted on the prisoner, and is likely to send him back, at the expiration of his sentence, a bitter enemy to gociety and law. The EdwardsCollyer Fight. To clench the fist, dart it swiftly forward fours scene cmygimieedenondenizes portion of some person in your vicinity, is @ diversion which, singular as it may seem, is not wholly unknown among us. And even in bygone days it is said to have obtained somewhat extensively. For we read that Dares was fond of it and Entellus and Mr. Butes and several other es timable gentlemen whose names are still preserved to us, while Spartacus thought that if he could catch even three of his compeers in a handy nook by themselves he might reasonably hope to get away with them. This modesty on his part could hardly have been looked for without some ultimate benefit accruing, and it is understood that he was vf the opinion that such conduct would be pleasing to the cow-eyed Minerva. For his sake we hope it was; for she was said to be fond of this sport, and was no doubt hang- ing around in those later days when the wager of battle used in ancient Britain to be deemed the best appeal when grave matters were at issue, and the gallant Figg and Jem Ward, Caunt, Cribb, Bendigo and the Corinthian, not with leathern cestus or gauntlet of linked mail, nor yet with the padded chamois of our day, but with the fist unshielded, hard and horny, buffeted valiantly for the mastery. But we do not need to look to these or Brettle or Sayers or Langham for memories of this gentle pastine, nor to the land of the quarter staff and the broadsword, for here at home, short lived as has been our nation, we have already a record; for who has not heard of Thomas Hyer ond the late ‘Country McCleester?” Or better yet, that ingenuous and high-toned person, the Hon. Yankee Sullivan, to whom alone belongs the honor of having first intro- duced among us that habit, so child-like and bland, of squirting tobacco juice into the eyes of his opponent during the progress of the battle? And Joseph Coburn, who taught us how to fall down before we were hurt? But we dwell too long among these fast re- curring memories, for now we hear of new glories for our noble prize ring. A little before one o'clock yesterday morning there crept slowly away from one of the Pittsburg piers a steamer laden almost gunwale down with human freight, and such a precious freight! For there were Tom Allen and Dooney Harris and Butt Reilly and Reddy the Blacksmith, and many more of their ilk. What o ead affliction to our be- loved land had some stray snag scuttled that hull and sent her down like ‘the Royal George, with all her crew complete!’’ But it was not so to be. On they floated down stream, making for the border line between two mighty States, so that, if mishap comes, these worthy people can step across the line and plead to the jurisdiction. And, sure enough, it does come; for following them sharply go the local constabulary and militia, and for much of the day these gentry beat about not daring to plant. At last they grow bold and pitch their ring—an exact square by the way—but what do they care for consist- ency or geometry? Matters point to busi- ness. By way of prelude the managing man, Barney Aaron, gets into a nice fight and takes a few thumps. The principals do not mind these trifles and get to work. They are in good shape and spoiling to be brotherly. Seconds stand to their corners—graduates, some of them, of our beneficent Tombs. One of the heroes leads off gayly and taps the other gently on the side of the face, who, in return, knocks him down. Then he does the same for the other. Next one lands terribly on the other's face, and the blood spurts in all directions. Then the same is repeated, and so they go on, battering and mauling each other, until sud- denly the seconds of the beaten man, whose face is now in a fearful condition, discover, or pretend to, that the other has on his knuckles a mixture which if it gets to the eyes of their man will surely blind him. The crowd breaks into the ring; the referee, as usual, is at hiswit’s end and makes some strange de- cision, and so ends another of the shameful exhibitions which we bolster up with the name of prize fight. There now practises at the criminal Bar of this city a man who is said to speak creditably many languages; who is well spoken of by those who know him, and, though not, like Bendigo, going about preaching the Gospel and trying to save souls where he used to de- face bodies, still a respectable member of society. Years ago he stood up to a really formidable man, ‘‘Australian Kelly,’’ and for four long hours fought his way through over two hundred rounds, and, though suffering ternble punishment, took it unflinchingly and won. Later ona wonderfully game man, of medium height and make, faced perhaps the most showy man who ever stepped into the American prize ring, one who, in height and weight and _ reach, had great advantages, and whoever won the fight no one out of the two great nations which, with intensest interest, watched every feint and blow, would deny that that same little man was one of the very bravest of whom they ever knew. Now, what like this have we in this shameful affair of yesterday afternoon? or in the miserable flasco between Allen and Coburn? To bolster up the prize ring and make it at all bearable to our people there must be straightforward fghting and absolutely fair play. At best this battering each other to pieces is wretched business, and we most heartily wish that the spectacle of two men standing up before each other, trained to the top of their condition and fighting with bulldog ferocity, not for any wrong one has done the other, but simply for a purse of money, may never again be seenin our land. Hardly any- thing will help more to this end than just such disgraceful doings a8 that at the close of yesterday afternoon's work, and we trust that the whole business has had its deathblow. But while we thus deprecate prize fighting let us not be misunderstood. The quality in it which makes it any way attractive is the courage necesssry to make @ fight of any length at all Men love courage, and if at times they so far provoke or insult each other that to hold back, except on purely moral grounds, would be simply cowardly, we have yet to learn, if they must meet, of any fairer way of settling their differences than by a fair stand up fight, Let this view become general in the land, and the age of the revolver, knifo and bludgeon will soon vasa away. Doauy strength and skill will recover their just estimate, and the result of any super- f heated blood will be some stray bruises or discolorations which a few weeks will efface, instead of a pool of life blood flowing inte the gutter. That this plan has worked well in England few who know her well will doubt, and we heartily eccord with that writer who has more than once, since his fight ‘at Rogby with ‘Slogger’ Williams, backed his words with brave deeds when he says to the Rugby boys:—‘Boys will quarrel, and when they quarrel will sometimes fight. Fighting with the fists is the natural and English way for Eng- lish boys to settle their quarrels, What substitute for it is there, or ever was there, among any nation under the sun? What would you like to see take its place? Learn to box, then, as you learn to play cricket and football, and no one will be the worse but very much better for it. Learn to box well, and should yon never have to use it in earnest there is no exercise in the world so good for the temper or for the muscles of the back and legs, As to fighting, keep out of it ifyou can, by all means. When the time comes, if it ever should, that you have to say ‘Yes,’ or ‘No,’ to a challenge to fight say ‘No,’ if you can, only take care that you make it clear to yourself why you say ‘No.’ It isa proof of the highest courage if done from true Chris- tian motives, and it is quite right and justifi- able if done from simple aversion to physical pain and danger. But don’t say ‘No’ because you fear a licking and say or think it is be- cause you fear God, for that is neither Chris- tian nor honest. If you do fight, fight it out, and don’t give in while you can stand or see,”” Fighting in Arkansas. The only lésson to be derived from the little war of races now going on in Arkansas is that pertaining to the high state of feeling which must exist among the negroes to make such an event possible. The mere shooting of a negro child by a white man is not sufficient to account for it. There must have been a previous cause or a series of causes to incite the blacks to make war upon the whites. Tho negroes are not such a bloodthirsty race, nor are they such an excitable and warlike people as to rush to arms upon slight provocation. We fear that when the truth comes to be known it will be found that the blacks have been suffering many wrongs at the hands of the whites, The Southern people never were prepared for the time when the lion and the lamb shall lie down together, and if there has been a disposition for a war of aces at Austin or anywhere else we have no doubt that the whites have done more to incite it than the blacks. What we are in the habit of call- ing the Anglo-Saxon race is composed of a very gentle, generous, obliging people, so long as they can have their own way in everything; but the Anglo-Saxons, who, in the present instance, are everybody except the blacks, are only too likely to destroy whoever comes in their way, and then lay the whole blame on their victims. We fear there has been too much of this sort of thing going onin the South. The negroes are entitled to an equal chance with the whites, and we do not believe they are half so apt to violate the laws by breaking the peace as the whites. They are ignorant, it is true, and the men who guide their political fortunes are mostly corrupt. They are unwise, feeble-minded, easily misled, but they are not a race to work out the preliminary conditions tor a war be- tween white and black. Nothing would arouse in them the spirit of such a war except outrages inflicted upon them by the whites. At the same time, when they arm themselves and break the peace, as they have just done in Arkansas, they must be punished; but we need have little fear that they will not receive as much punishment as they deserve—and more. Plymouth Church and Mr. Beecher. 1t will be seen from our reports this morn- ing that Mr. Moulton refuses to say anything further in relation to the important secrets in his possession. This policy is a mistaken one and it will be proved so in the end, but it is very broadly hinted that it is part of a com- promise which has been patched up between the parties by Plymouth church. Can Ply- mouth church afford any such trans- parent trickery of reconciliation as a compromise between these men must appear? We think not. The day of compromises has long passed for any of the parties to this un- fortunate scandal. Belief in Beecher’s guilt will be the result of o failure to establish his innocence. Even Plymouth church cannot avert this verdict if there is now to be cowardice and compromise; and rich and powerful as is that congregation it will share in the shame if it now becomes a party toa patched-up peace with the terri- ble charges against Mr. Beecher unanswered. It was Tilton’s boast in the beginning that they were unanswerable. Ina very few days we shall know whether or not that was an idle boast, and we shall know it by silence if not by speech. Tae Marre Hosrrrau Szevicn—Sailors and shipowners representing the American mercantile marine have prepared petitions to Congress in order to obtain a law which will secure the permanency of the existing administration of the Marine Hospital service. It appears from the petitions, which we publish in another column, that great abuses at one time existed in this most useful institution. Some fears are entertained of o return to the old vicious system, and hence the petitioners ask Congress to pass a law which will secure an honest ad- ministration of the hospital service. As the funds are raised chiefly by direct tax on the seamen it is only just that Congress should secure them an honest and effective adminis tration of their own funds, over which, strangely enough, the seamen have no control whatever. Congress should see to it that when our sailors are sick they may have such care as humanity demands, Tue Portcemen in the different precincts for some time past have shown a disposition to test their skill in rowing, and yesterday there was a very pretty match between a crew from the Twenty-third and a crew from the First precinct, the former winning the race. Matches of this kind are to be encouraged, and we are glad to find the sport so popular that the members of the police force find time to take part in it Bazaine’s “scape from Prison. ‘The govecament of Marshal MacMahon has received @ severe blow in the escape of Baguine, the traitor of Mets, from his prison in the Isle of Sainte Marguerite. This man had been the creature of the Empire; he had served well the Cesar who ruled over the destinies of France for twenty years, and as 6 reward had been promoted over the heads of better soldiers till the baton of Marshal of France was at last placed in the knapsack of the conscript Bazaine. A mere soldier of fortune, his aim during all his career was directed solely to his personal advancement. His alleginnce was given where lay his in- terest, not where honor commanded it; and when the man who had conferred wealth and titles on this adventurer was over- thrown the veil of pretence that he was a sol- dier was thrown aside and he became the in- famous tool of the enemy of his country in the hope of retrieving his fortune and the for- tune of his master. He had almost faded from the public mind. His escape, however, will bring him for a short moment before the public, It appears that he owed his escape in great part to the devotion of his wife; but the story as told in our despatches has a little too much the air of romance to deserve much credit. His wife, a Mexican lady, is represented as seiz- ing the oars and rowing her lord to the vessel that carried -him to Italy. When it is remem- bered that the lady scarcely ever saw a boat, except in the Bois de Boulogne, the value of this little romance can be judged at its proper value, The matter of most importance is that Bazaine seems to have made good his escape, and whether he did it by his wife's aid or by the aid of military traitors like himself, it matters little, It is well to recall at this time the cir- cumstances which reduced this once Marshal to the level of a felon. In all history we have few instances where the treason of a general pro- duced such terrible fruits os that of Bazaine in handing over the flower of the French army and the stronghold which covered the heart of France to the enemies of his country. That act rendered the national defence hope- less, and to it directly, even more than to Sedan, may be traced all the sufferings and disasters that culminated with the fall of Paris. Bazaine, the favorite soldier of the Empire, was the traitor who struck his coun- tryin the back and laid her helpless at the foot of the invader. ‘When the war was over he was tried; every latitude was allowed for defence; but the evi- dence was so overwhelming that the Court pronounced him guilty, sentencing him to military degradation and death. The sentence seemed a just one If the evidence justified the finding of the Court, and few who took the trouble to read the evidence will question it, the sentence should have been carried out in all its rigor. The plea of numerous ser- vices and many wounds was simply an appeal to an unhealthy sentimentality quite out of place in matters touching the well being and safety of nations. When the man who had grown gray in harness and had achieved honors that fally rewarded his services was taken out and publicly stripped of all his honors there were some men weak enough to cry out that the moral pun- ishment was sufficient and that the life of the miserable traitor should be spared for his fam- ily’s sake. Fow among these sentimentalists stopped to count the thousands of gallant men this traitorous General had sent to an un- timely grave—sacrificed to cover up his infamy and treason. Sortie after sortie was made from Metz with no apparent motive. Men were slaughtered by the hundreds in order to keep up the pretence that the army he com- manded was endeavoring to break through the lines of the besieging forces, when in reality they were doing Bismarck’s work, eating up the provisions of the garrison of Metz, and so rendering inevitable its surrender. Notwith- standing these proven facts Marshal Mac- Mahon allowed himself to be so far influenced by the appeals of Ba- zaine’s friends as to commute the death sentence into imprisonment for twenty years. That was an act of weakness which in its effect was a crime. The majesty of law was broken down, and that Justice who had shot to death Rossel, that first denounced this traitor Marsbal, showed that in truth she was but a vindictive assassin. From feelings of commiseration MacMahon saved the life of traitor, and now, regardless of the conse- quence to his benefactor, the traitor abuses the clemency shown him and escapes. Under ordinary circumstances a prisoner hag the Tight to escape, but this was not an ordinary case. In sparing the life of his old comrade MacMahon became morally responsible to France for the carrying out of the substituted punishment, Bagaine, on his part, was bound by every principle of honor to do nothing which would expose the man who had braved the public opinion of France by saving a condemned traitor from the merited punishment of his crimes. But the man who betrays his country is not likely to be over-scrapulous about betraying his friends, and, thinking only of himself, Bazaine bas left MacMahon to meet the storm of public reprobation which the cable informs us was called up by the news of the evasion. It would be difficult to over- estimate the influence that this episode is likely to exercise on the public opinion of France, [It is the severest blow the Marshalate has yet received. The cause of re- publicanism is certam to be favora- bly influenced by it, for it will prove that the Bonapartist faction is in active sympathy with treason and is prepared to condone any crime that may be committed against the nation for the benefit of the imperial party. The government pro- claims its intention to punish severely those who aided Bazaine in his escape. But what moral right have the men who made them- selves the accomplices of a traitor, by inter- fering with the action of the law, to punish those lesser criminals who only followed the example of MacMahon by further commuting the traitor’s sentence from seclusion to exile ? Tux Jews m Rovaanta have, it appears, a grievance—the government declines to allow them to engage in the manufacture of fer- mented liquor. This is done under the plea that Jewish liqnor is bad for the peasants, Probably this is due to the presence of some Americanized members of the faith, and the government in Roumania is not yet enlight- ened enough to vermit the sale of rotgut, The Indian War Cloud. There is every reason to fear that the Indian tribes along the border are preparing for a general war. The appearance of prophets among the Comanches, preaching o crusade against the whites, may be taken as a pretty fair indication of the state of public opinion the noble red men. It would be un- to underestimate the influence of the hets in shaping the course of action of cpr page Superstition has ever been the strongest motive powers in the wa ec ie en can the Indian, whose wild life and constant con- tact with nature make him receive with deep Hil ceives very clearly that unless he checks the advance of civilization he will be swept by its tide out of existence. It is natural that he should object to make way for the pale face, and that he should prefer to die fighting like a warrior than to perish miserably by famine and disease, So far the boasted Christian civilization of the white man has brought only degradation and death to the Indian. Why it should have been so is not difficult to dis- cover; but why this, so great a reproach, should be permitted to continue, cannot be answered 80 satisfactorily. It is urged by men inter- ested in maintaining the existing system that the red man cannot be civilized; but we have proof of the contrary in the many tribes that have settled down and adopted, with fair success, an agricultural life. But the truth is that honesty and fair dealing are strangers in the Indian De partment And were a new system of dealing with the Indian tribes inaugurated it would conflict with too many established in- terests to render it welcome to the politicians and agents who grow rich on the infamies practised on the unfortunate tribes. Most of the Indian troubles are caused directly by the ill conduct of the whites; and if it were not so, the present eleemosynary system—which aims only at maintaining in idleness the various tribes—would be indefensible. If the Indian be the ward ofthe nation, as is pretended, the government should do something more for him than supply his physical wants. He should be trained to a more useful purpose than to become a loafer around an agency. The true solution of the Indian question must be found in persuading the tribes to abandon the no- madioc life which they follow at present on the Plains. It might require the sacrifice of some millions of dollars in the beginning, but this would be amply compensated for by immunity from costly Indian wars and the gradual lessening of the annual burden as the tribes advanced in civilization and became self- supporting. At present the duty of the gov- ernment is clear. All indications point to the outbreak of an Indian war of unusual propor- tions; and while military expeditions are pre- pared to operate against the hostile tribes care should be taken not to leave the frontier unguarded. The concentrations of troops already effected appear to expose the settlers in the Platte and Republican valieys to attack from the hostile Indians should they try a flank movement against the troops marching to punish them. If this be so the government should not delay in order- ing troops to this point, They can be well spared from other sections where their pres- ence is merely ornamental. The Grand Project for Adding a New Sea to Africa. The bold and grand enterprise of ad- mitting the waters of the Mediterranean Sea to the arid plains of Algeria is undergoing considerable agitation in France. The idea is not more chimerical, and its realization would be incomparably cheaper, than the Suez Canal at first promised to be. In ancient times the Algerian districts extending from the Mediterranean toward the oases, near Con- stantine, were refreshed by large lakes fed from the sea by channels long since choked and dried up. The proposition, favorably en- tertained, of M. Lesseps, is to open one of these sea water conduits, and refill the once well supplied lakes upon which Algerian climate and agriculture depend, and which would give France commercial access to the irrigated re- gions. The want of far-penetrating inlets of the sea has been long recognized as the greatest drawback to the improvement of littoral Africa and its commercial con- nections with the outside world. The Geo- graphical Society of France, it is said, indorses this magnificent plan of adding a new sea to the old Continent and refreshing its parched and salt-incrusted tracks with abundant moist- ure. The inland sea which existed in former times, after its communication with the Medi- terranean had been intercepted by the forma- tion of sand banks, was speedily reduced by the evaporation of an African sun, and its primeval bed is now covered with glistening crystals of salt To restore the communica- tion it is only necessary to cut a passageway of about twelve miles, at an expense, estimated by the engineers, of three million dollars, The Isthmus of Gabes is the chief obstacle to the Mediterranean inflow, and that, once broken through, the old basin of the Algerian Chatts (as the former sea was called) becomes the Baltic of the great ‘classic sea,’ The pro- posed new sea would’ be partly in Tunis and partly in Algeria, and would penetrate a re- gion containing several millions of people under French dominion. The project gains friends as it is discussed, and both the Alge- rian and French governments have given pecu- niary support in providing for the preliminary surveys, The benefit of the Suez Canal, in improving the climate of the territory it intersects and furnishing moisture where it was terribly needed, is one of the arguments used for the present scheme. It is forcibly argued that the fertilization of the eneircling districts would convert them into valuable and pro- ductive oases and thus repay the French government for the expenditure incurred. There can be no question that the evaporation from such a restored sea would be beneficially felt through all Northern Africa, covered by the Barbary States, the population of which is about ten millions It may be doubted whether the artificial channel across the sandy Isthmus of Gabes would not be obstructed. But thero is also the possibility of its en- larging itself by the eromve action of the cur- rent, so as to require, only hero and there, engineering akill and labor to remove bars and sand banks. And there oan be no serious, or, at least, no insurmountable difficulty, in pro- tecting the sides of the cut, since the suc- cessful experiment at Suez, whose great water~ way courses through a bed of moving sand. The undertaking would be another of the grand movements, on converging lines, to at- tack the problem of African geography and reveal its long-concealed’ secrete, History has furnished instances in which, by cutting the dykes, the waters of the ocean have been invoked to fight man’s battle. Why may they not be used in thirsty Afrioa to restore fertility, verdure and health to the soil and climate? Mr. Cochrane’s Call. Mr. John Cochrane has a wonderful com- mand of language. He has just issued “call,” addressed ‘‘to the liberals of the State of New York,” in which he names the 9th of September as the day for holding a State Convention of his party at Albany, and fore- shadows the principles which ought to guide the action of that body. It is in this docu- ment that he displays his singular powers of diction. After declaring that his organiza- tion is at last a party he gravely informs the party that a crowd of political evils are ex- horting the people to break loose from party bonds altogether. This is the logic to be ex- pected when a crowd of evils exhort. But there are besides many grand things Mr. Cochrane is going to accomplish. One of these is to restore their rights to the people by putting democrats and republicans out of office and liberals in. He is going to make the civil service honest, Ho will ‘te move the freedom of the press be- yond oppression."’ He is about to apply wise maxims to the intricate relations of capital and labor, but what these maxims are or how they are to be applied we do not know, because his language is more mysterious than that which treats of the phi- losophy of the unknowable. He is also to “drag away’’ the public domain from rail roads which have already got it. He is going to release ‘‘the life ond purse of States and persons’’ from official spies and plunderera. His financial policy is to ‘‘stanch the drain made upon private resources ;" but, while he tells us that the drain is made by ‘‘the capri- cious vacillations of a contracting and expand- ing paper currency,’’ he does not tell us how he is going to keep the money in everybody’s purse. Ina word, Mr. Cochrane is going to “estimate the false professions of party oor- ruption,’’ devise and apply constitutional re- straints for all emergencies, repress everything and protect everybody. It is a grand mission, and the party will doubtless succeed if the convention can find a committee on resolu- tions capable of translating his wise maxims into English and investing them with &~ appearance of common sense. Bown Rossenres.—A clever capture has been made by the police of some persons im- plicated in robberies of bonds. By accident a clew was discovered to some missing bonds, and the police followed it up with unusual sharpness and success. It is very important that the*futility of this olass of robbery should be demonstrated. It affects most injuriously commercial confidence, and generally proves very unprofitable to the thief. The officers who effected the capture deserve credit, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Tampered with. In France thoy say, “Le ring Francais 1" They are still arresting Prussian spies in France, So! Mrs, Hooker-Beecher also! Does it run im the family? New York’s Green is a great deal worse thas Paris green. Captain 8. R. Knox, United States Navy, is at the Astor House. Major E. A. Carr, United States Army, ts stop- ping at Barnum’s Hotel Jules Favre will espouse Mile, Wetten, of the Ecole Evangélique, at Versailles. Rey. Dr. Je R. Wilson, of Columbia, 8. C., has apartments at the Evcrett House. Who is this Elien Wood in the Beecher case? and how many women are there? Ex-Congressman D. J. Morrell, of Pennsyivania, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Motel. President Andrew D. White, of Cornell Univers sity, is staying at the Hoffman House, General T. V. Benét and family are at the Grand Hotel, Thirty-first street and Broadway. Commander William A. Kirkland, United States Navy, is quartered at the St. Denis Hotel, Now it is evident where Ben Butler comes int The Beecners are important in Massachusetta, The domain of Eremenonville, oclebrated by Rousseau, is offered for $240,000, without buyers, Captain W. H. Thompson, of the steamship Britannic, has quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Secretary Belknap is at New London, Conn. where he will pass @ week or ten days with his family. And now Tilton is celebrating his brass wedding, Won’t some of his friends send him 4 loataer medal ? ‘There are in France 5,671,000 smokers. In every fifteen eight smoke pipes, five cigars and twe cigarettes. Mr. W. K. Mair, Superintendent of the Great Weatern Ratlway of Canada, is registered at the Windsor Hotel. Mr. Jay Cooke, of Philadelphia, and ex-Governor Henry D. Cooke, of the District of Columbia, are at the Hoffman House, . Mr, Robert M. McLane, of Baltimore, formerly United States Minister to China, bas apartments at the Hoffman House. Mr. Alfred T. Goshorn, Vice President of the Centennial Commission, is among the recent ar- rivals at the St, Nicholas hotel. Rear Admiral Thomasson, of the Frencn Navy, will visit Montreal this week and will be received and éftertained by the Council. Count d’Ostiani, Italian Mintster to China, ar- rived from Europe in the steamship Pereire yea- terday and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Baron von Lederer, late Imperial Austro-Hon- garian Minister at Washington, sailed for Europe yesterday in the Eagle line steamship Lessing. That baby who went to Brazil to be born was born, but the journey was too much for him, Melancholy satisfaction of the other heir to the throne. what isa mutual friend? One to whom you in- trast your private correspondence for safe keep- ing, and who never after will surrender it to your. sell or anybody else. A correspondent asks:—‘Would you please te inform me through your columns ff Boucicault ts sole author of ‘Led Astray?’ If not, has he at ang time claimed to be?” Answer: See Uctave Feu let. Secretary Belknap arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel yesterday morning trom Washington, and left in the afternoon for New London, Conn, Where his family are spending the summer, Carlist bands near the French frontier have taken to crossing the line lately and visiting the little watering places on tho Pyrences, They went for the cash im tho Casino at Pont-du-Roy, bus missed tt. Major General Smyth, with 14,000 soldiers, en- countered and whipped Prince Kdward of Saxe Woimar with 15,000, at Woolmer, England. No, body hurt. They call them autuma manwavres. even in Auqust, a ——C(titOCOCti(tttitititit(iw#eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee