The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1874, Page 6

Ne eae eetasiacsoramuzmme mammamantmaenesneecx EES USI RSD se enim eee rae ay ARSENAL? NEW YORK HERALD —-———_ BROADWAY 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. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York | Hirst. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. | canvass did not result in immediate success NEW YUKK HERALD, FRIDAY, SHPTHMBEH J, 1574--TRIPLE SHHET, Tne Democratic Opposition to Mr. Tilden. Although the recent attempt to induce Mr. Tilden, to withdraw from the gubernatorial | it will lead to important consequences. It is | the first of a series of mortifications of which we have forewarned our eminent and respected fellow townsman, and which will accumulate upon him if he persists in his candidature. 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M. ; closes at 10:30 P. M. i a avenue, een Sixty-third al 7 | streets.—INDUSTRIAL - TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, Sept. 11, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilities ave that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy | or clear. | Tammany is the sole prop of his hopes. By | given his opponents an advantage which they will consent to run. They have developed the | fact that there is an active, strenuous and | formidable opposition to Mr. Tilden in the | democratic ranks. They have shown that, in | spite of Mr. Tilden’s complacent assurance of | success, his nomination is a debatable and | debated question, and that every inch of | ground will be contested against him until he withdraws. Moreover, they have ‘‘ancovered his position” as the peculiar candidate of Tammany Hall and forced him to fall back openly upon his “base of operations.” The leading democratic organ, wishing to enlighten its readers on the new situation, knew precisely where to apply for authentic information on the Tilden side, It sent a re- porter straight to headquarters and printed yesterday, with head lines of unwonted size, a long interview with John Kelly, the con- trolling Tammany chiet. It appears from this interview that Mr. Tilden knows his backers; that immediately on his return from Albany he consulted Mr. Kelly; that he had been so far shaken by the Albany visit that he asked Mr. Kelly’s advice as to whether he should retire, and that the Grand Sachem of Tam- many would not permit it, Mr. Tilden’s democratic opponents will be glad to see all | pretence of oa mask so incautiously dropped by this public acknowledg- ment of his allegiance to the Tam- many chief, and this practical submission to his guidance in deciding whether he shall persist or withdraw. Had Mr. Tilden been less disturbed and upset by the encounter at Albany his customary wariness would have taken him to Utica for consultation instead of hastening immediately back to New York in the earliest morning train, after an exciting conference which extended far into the small hours of the night. For appearance sake and as a point of strategy he should have tried to make it appear that he had friends and strength in the rural districts. It has been asserted in his behalf that Governor Seymour and Mr. Kernan favor his nomination. Had he gone to Utica and come away supported by their advice, returning leisurely to New York as if he felt no alarm to hasten his movements, his professions of confidence would be taken with less abatement, and he might have partially concealed the fact that returning in anxious haste to the city and submitting to John Kelly the question whether he should withdraw, Mr. Tilden has ‘Waxt Srazer Yesterpay.—The strong un- | dertone was apparent again in a fluctuating | market, which left off firm. Gold was steady | at 1093. | Mz. Beecuer has been lecturing to the | Twin Mountain House sojourners upon his | European experiences. His Brooklyn ex- periences would have been a more interesting | sabject. Tae Carrarm Generat of Cuba, having | exhausted the money of the drafted men, | has begun to order them to the front. Five per cent of the enrolled troops have just been called into active service. pee STE RIEL? | Mz. Movtron instead of compromising with | Mr. Beecher intends to reply to him in full, | especially in respect to the account the latter | gave of the alleged blackmailing. The new | statement is expected to be given to the public to-day. M. Gumor, the celebrated French states- man and historian, is in his eighty-seventh year, a fact which makes his recovery from | severe illness extremely improbable. Our | latest despatches say that he is in a comatose state, and that his death is imminent. | | Tae Canuists have justified the act of | firing upon the German war vessels upon the | ground that they were endeavoring to land | armed men on Spanish shores. The semi- | official announcement of the German paper | that, as the Spanish fire was returned, the matter drops, very likely indicates the ulti- | mate result. Ove Corresponprst from Tuscumbia, Ala., know how to use. This false move in the | face of the enemy, identifying himself s0 | openly with Tammany, shows that he was | flurried and disconcerted, and lost his head on the field of battle. The very fulcrum on which his democratic opponents rest their lever is the assertion that he is the Tammany candidate, and he does them the favor of making denial impossible. Noman in sore straits ever had greater reason to cry, ‘‘Save me from my friends!’’ The indiscreet interview which Mr. Kelly has permitted to be published will damage Mr. Tilden more than anything else. The accusa- tions which his champion hurls at the demo- cratic leaders who are seeking the nomina- tion of Judge Church will provoke Mr. Tilden’s adversaries to strain every nerve to secure his defeat. Mr. Kelly’s wholesale charges of corrupt motives against the democratic leaders and journals of the interior of the State will constrain them, in defence of theirewn character, to resist and overthrow the Tammany candidate. He asserts that they are members of a scandalous “canal ring ;” that they object to Tilden and want Church for Governor because Tilden | would oppose and Church favor the corrupt contracts which they wish to obtain! This atrocious Tammany libel on Judge Church | will rouse the indignation of every honest democrat in the State. It will cause the Tammany supporters of Mr. Tilden to be looked upon, not as honorable politicians, but as the desperadoes of a sinking candi- date. Such a wanton calumny on Judge Church and his supporters is absurd on the gives an account of the social condition of | Tennessee which does not promise peaceful | relations of the whites and blacks. After a | careful examination of the situation he thinks | the white fire-eaters principally responsible | for the troubles, and exonerates the negroes | from a desire to provoke disorder. Tae Postic does not care so much to be | reminded that the new Court House was be- | gun thirteen years ago as to be informed | when it will be finished. It is getting to be an old Court House already, and resembles those ‘‘new ruins’ which English upstarts build on their estates to give them an air of antiquity. Tue Horne Story of cannibalism in the Far West is confirmed by the discovery of the five dead men whom Packer, the cannibal, confessed he had killed and in part devoured. His confession was not credited at first, and it was believed his sufferings had made him insane. But the details given by our Omaha correspondent leave little doubt of its truth, and indicate the speedy capture of the mon- ster. AN Intenestixo Review of the party in- | is. | ring to concede the Governorship to any face of it. The Governor has no more to do with awarding canal contracts than the Judges of the Court of Appeals. Contracts are given | by the Canal Board, of which the Governor is | not a member, but the Lieutenant Governor It would be for the interest of a canal strong candidate and get the consent of his friends to their selecting the second name on the ticket. If the rural democrats would sup- | port Tilden Tammany would be too glad to | let them have the Lieutenant Governor. Mr. | Kelly's coarse imputation of corrupt motives, in which he does not spare the most honored democrat in the State, will incense thousands of democrats and convert many lukewarm | supporters of the Tammany candidate into | aggressive opponents. How will men hike | Senator Ganson feel toward Mr. Tilden when his closest political friend pub- licly brands them with corrupt mo- tives? What kind of support will the | ablest and strongest democratic papers of | Western New York, like the Buffalo Courier | and Rochester Union give to Mr. Tilden when | the man most in his confidence and fresh from | | a consultation with him stigmatizes them as tools und organs of the ‘canal ring?” By delegates if he had not been suddenly struck with this calamitous head wind. Many of the districts heretofore counted for Tilden will send unpledged delegates. The possible acceptance of Church changes the whole situa- tion. The only delegates which Tilden can now be sure of are those from this city, who will be virtually appointed by Mr. Kelly. If Tilden does not retire there is certain to be a warm fight at Syracuse, and as he may find that discretion is the better part of valor at the last moment, if not before, the popular preference for Church, now that there is a chance of his acceptance, will revolutionize the whole face of affairs. In our judgment the impulsive heat of Mr. Kelly has effectually killed his candidate. The wisest thing he can now do is to with- draw Tilden in favor of Church while it can yet be done without the mortifying stress of compulsion. Mr. Tilden, at least, should have the sagacity to perceive that he is the same as beaten. He must have had a dim perception of it when he hurried home to ask Mr. Kelly's advico as to whether he should withdraw, and if he can doubt on the subject after the publication of the libellous and de- structive interview he is not yet cool enough to exercise his customary astuteness, If he and his adviser will make a virtue of neces- sity and gracefully give way for the unanimous nomination of Church by en- thusiastic, popular acclamation, even Dix may be defeated, and the national prospects of the democracy be wonderfully brightened. At any rate, two such competi- tors as Dix and Church would enliven the con- test, fill it with spirit and animation and bring out the whole vote. Both parties would be worthily represented on their gubernatorial tickets, and if the democrats of this city would also strengthen themselves by nominating Mr. Duncan for Mayor—who ought to imitate Judge Church's public spirit and conduct— the democracy might look with confidence for one of their old rousing majorities. After the passionate blunder of his astounding inter- view let us hope that Mr. Kelly may learn wisdom, and that his cooler judgment and “‘sober second thought” may recover him to ®@ magnanimous course. If he could only per- ceive that the democratic party is not his per- sonal property, that his position in it is a public trust, and that a conciliatory deference for others is one of the qualifications of a political leader, Mr. Kelly's unquestionable talents would secure him all the influence he covets. Another Harmless Municipal Row. Mr. Comptroller Green had the Board of Estimate and Apportionment pretty much to himself yesterday, and, with the help of Mr. Vance, made the meeting more lively than is usual when such dull subjects are considered. He complained of insufficient clerical force, and demanded more clerks to fill the desks of those who had been drafted into other depart- ments. His proposition to pave West Wash- ington Market with trap blocks, instead of the rotten planks now there, was met by Mr. Vance with an amendment to transfer sixteen | thousand dollars for that purpose from the appropriation made to pay Mr. Green's clerks. Mr. Green deprecated this amendment as ‘a monkey trick to which the gentleman had de- scended,” an imputation which Mr. Vance endured with Christian meekness. But he could not be patient when the Comptrolier attacked personally the Pres- ident of the Board of Aldermen. Mr. Vance said that Mr. Green had said what he knew was not true, and intimated that he might hear of it ina very forcible manner. To this awful but obscure threat Mr. Green replied that he had no intention to insult any one, and thus the war cloud passed over with terrible thunder, but very harmless lightning. The peaceful results of these Pick- wickian debates are so familiar to us that it is impossible to get up enough alarm to be decently respectful to the Comptroller. The public does its best to tremble, but it only succeeds in giving a poor imitation of Trabb’s boy, when he affected to be paralyzed with terror at the sight of Mr. Pip in his new clothes. An Interview with Don Carlos. The latest king our correspondents in Europe have interviewed, though he does not yet wear a crown, has a head that would honor one. The conversation of Don Carlos with a representative of the Hrraxp at Lequeitio ex- plains the vitality which his war tor the throne has shown. He discloses himself as a man of intellectual power, and there is a rare nobility in his candor. Many men in his position would promise Spain everything. This was, indeed, the way of the third Na- poleon, but Don Carlos declares that he will agree to no conditions, but expects to give the people, if he ascends the throne, more than he can promise. In reference to Cuba he is more definite. He pledges to grant amnesty, to abolish slavery within five years, and to grant the island self government, asking nothing in return but allegiance to Spain. This is virtually what King Christian | IX. of Denmark has just conceded to Ice- land. The whole interview with Don Carlos is extremely interesting and important as an evidence of how far the hereditary principles of royalty are modified by modern necessities. His compliment to tho Heratp and his anxiety for its goodwill are remarkable evi- dences of the power of the independent | press. Tue Ixpran Dergar iy Texas.—The bril- liant and energetic way in which General Miles punished the Indians in Texas proves that our soldiers have an Indian policy which they are always ready to execute. The announcement of this decisive victory was made by our special correspondent one day | before the government received the official re- | port of General Miles, and is another and striking evidence of the completeness and effi- | ciency of the news arrangements of the tzigues in relation to the approaching State elec- | openly brandishing such infamous accusa- | Henanp. By the laier despatches it appears tion, and especially to the election of Governor and Assemblymen, will be found in our Long tions Mr. Kelly has rendered the nomination of the Tammany candidate impossible, unless that the Indians were not only ronted, as our correspondent telegraphed, but were Branch letter to-day. The alleged designs of | his opponents have lost all reasonable self- | pursued for more than one hundred miles, Senator Conkling and his henchmen, the meaning‘of Tilden's candidacy tor the demo- cratic nomination, and the probabilities of | three-fourths of the delegates he is counting | commanding the Depariment of Missouri, has | the campaign are plausibly set forth and bear the impress of truth. But the political wire- pullers, whose characters are fai sketched in our correspondence, afuliy find | respect. | | In Mr. Kelly’s boast that Tilden will have | unhatched chickens. Very few of the dele- gates are yet chosen, and the unexpected Albany demonstration, which puts a totally new face on affairs, came just in time to their line of retreat with their tents and arms. being strewed General Pope, sent supplies to the Antelope Hills for Gen- eral Miles, whose brave troops are in a barren country, almost without water. ‘The effect of this complete defeat of the hostile their schemes of little avail before the strong | startle the Assembly district conventions and | Indians will be to make a large territory determination of the people to re-elect Gover- | mor Dix. “give them pause.” It is very likely that | | Mr, Tilden might have had a majority of the | near the Red River secure from their depre- dations, The Country and the Southern States. In all ages it has been held that a conqueror may either crush or forgive the people whom his sword has made subject to his will; but all political wisdom and all experience de- nounce the impolicy and the ruin of a middle course. If punishment is to be inflicted on the people of refractory States it must be such as to cripple them for a generation and so render them unable to give effect to their natural desire for revenge; but if they are to be forgiven—if it is hoped to reconcile them with the condition to which the hard fortune of war has brought them and to make them again a sound, integral part of a common nation—then the pardon for their revolt and hostility must be so free, so full, so generous, as to remove every source of irritation and, if possible, even the very memory of defeat. How has our treatment of the conquered South met these requirements of a political science soundly based on the observation of inevitable human impulses? Certainly, we did not overwhelm the South with a policy of repression; but just as certainly we did not treat it with that generous forbearance and consideration which might have given us all the good results of our lenient policy. No Northern Alva went down to depopulate South- ern cities; nor even a Jeffries to spread abroad the horrors of a bloody assize. Our people would not have patiently witnessed such visitations, and the government which would have had the bad inspiration, to attempt such a course would have lost the respect and felt the resentment of the Northern people; for, whatever may be the shortcomings of the American people, it must be chronicled to their eternal honor that the widest and largest toleration of differences in political views is combined with the most tenacious adherence to distinct political principles. It was admitted by the Northern people that the error in which the war arose was an error into which a people with sound head and sound heart might naturally fall; and further, that the error was sustained on bloody fields with a manly hardihood and a glorious valor that made us proud to feel such men were our brothers, and glad to welcome them home again under the old roof, crowned by the grand old banner. It was the impulse of the nation to forgive the South, and it was not its intention to qualify that generosity; but what happened had that effect. Although we did not let loose an Alva or a Jeffries we did let loose a harpy who, for his peculiar capacity to stir up evil, was equal to both together. Our specu- lative fortune-hunting politician was the plague with which we scourged the South. He went down as the ally of those men in Congress and in the North who saw in the results of the war, not the triumph of free- dom and popular government against slavery and an oligarchy of landed proprietors, not the preservation of the Union and the safety of the nation, but the means of perpetuating the domination of that political party in whose councils they had high places and | which assured them plunder. In the deliber- ations of these men ‘‘the reconstruction of the South” was a term with a very different meaning from the one it bore with the peo- | ple. As conceived by the popular mind re- construction was a simple process. It meant the organization of the old States with the in- stitution of slavery blotted out, and with only such changes in their laws as would be made by the abzolute obliteration of every trace of | that evil. Beyond the constitutional surgery necessary to excise that source of offence the nearer the States could be kept to their identity with that disease cut out the better. But the thought | of the politicians was, ‘We must establish dominion here.” In that early restoration of the States which the country ardently desired they foresaw the appearance of majorities hostile to their party and the consequent loss of power ; so they wrought for the supremacy of their party with a lofty indifference to the welfare ot the country that only the true poli- tician ever feels. They resolved to so recon- | struct the South that hostile majorities should not hurt them ; to hold it down till sure of the result, and to make it a waste place if the desired end could not be reached in any other way. But their policy has finally turned against them and threatens to insure the results it aimed to prevent. cured to the Southern people their lives and | lands and political rights, and the tactics with | which the dominant party has been permitted | | to torture them has excited in their breasts a hostility to that party more intense than any ever before seen in our political history ; and the most obvious consequence is that the political power of the South will be used to | give effect to its fury against its oppressors. | If we contemplate this fact in connection with | the very extensive reaction against the repub- | lican party throughout the country we must see, first, that the republican party must surely fail to elect its next candidate for the Presidency, and second, that for the first time in upwards of twenty years the people of the North and South are in vital political sympathy | and acting together for a common political purpose. In the election of Franklin Pierce the democrats carried every Southern State but two and every Northern State but two, and their candidate was successful against a soldier anda hero who had served the country well and whom it admired and loved; but the | party which sustained the old hero was com- mitted to a policy of agitation and sectional strife, and the democrats were committed to | the support of Henry Clay's compromise— committed, therefore, to a policy of peaco | | and amity and national good will. And with | such programmes to choose between it is as clear where the people will be in the coming | canvass as itis where they were in that of 1852. But to the republican politicians the signifi- cant fact of these two is that they must lose the country and fail utterly to elect their President unless they can put the drama of | “reconstruction’’ back to that point in tho story where they were able to o' of the people at the polls or to throw out the vote of any State that dared go against them. Hence the proposition to sen! troops to the South to revive the military occupation. With | the South free the case is clear. Half or two- | thirds of the North is absolutely sure to go forany good demccrat, and the South will add enough to carry the country. Outside of that there is not room for hope unless such a Our national generosity has se- | about as will throw out all the States which e the voice | condition of things in the South can be brought | KL the negroes cannot carry, In the purposes of | without opinions, or if they pave, without such a scheme, not elsewhere, can be found the objective points of the military expeditions that the Attorney General proposes to launch against the enemies of his party. It is in- famous at this time to propose the further use of troops in the Southern States. Half a dozen men are murdered in Tennessee and as many more in Louisiana, in consequence of some local quarrels, and it is proposed to keep the peace by the armed force of the United States, and this by the Executive which stood still with the whole State of Arkansas embroiled in ® really serious quarrel. No event has oc- curred in any Southern State witb which the local police is not competent to deal, so far as the facts are known, and constant interference in such cases will establish precedents that would keep reconstruction forever incomplete. It is a treason to send armed forces against a people whose hostility is to a party and not to the nation, and a dozen murdersarono reason for such a step. It is with a view to find the bases of a sound reconstruction that we have proposed a con- ference of delegates of the States on the con- dition of the country. We need a reconstruc- tion different from that that is fitted to sub- serve partisan purposes; an understanding between the people as to onr mutual relation- ships under the constitution ; arepresentation of the need for the South to tolerate its polit- ical opponents for the sake of the freedom the law guarantees, and of the equal need that the North should not threaten the use of troops whenever there is a riot or a murder; and the occasion when South and North seem coming into close political sympathy is especially pro- pitious for such a conference. The Spelling of Shakespeare or Bacon. There was an ingenious gentleman in Phila- delphia who published a few years ago a mar-, vellous Shakespearian pamphlet. It consisted wholly of the name Shakespeare, spelled in over two thousand ways. There was Sbak- speare, Shakespere, Shoeckspear, Sheakspare, Shuckspere, Shikespere, and almost every- thing but Spokeshire or Shyspoke. It looked like a list of letters written by over two thou- sand lunatics, transcribed by delirious postal clerks and put in type by a band of inebri- ated compositors. No one ever pretended that Shakespeare wrote his name Schaek- speer or Shaxpir, but the object of the pam- phlet was to show in how many ways he might have spelled it if he had wanted to. This work attracted a great deal of attention, and the author became famous, though just now we must confess we cannot remember his name. The success of such a fruitless piece of in- genuity, the labor of months, no doubt, shows how universal and permanent the interest in Shakespeare is. This generation is far from being contented with the criticism these plays have received from the great men of the past. Ben Jonson’s enthusiastic verse, Milton’s ref- erence to ‘‘Nattire’s sweetest child,” Dr. John- son’s brilliant analysis, tho estimates of Schlegel, Goethe, Pope, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, the annotations of Stevens, Malone, Knight, ‘ Halliwell, Dyce and hundreds of others do not satisfy the investigating spirit of the day. Never before did his genius have such world-wide recognition, nor was the de- sire to know the man ever so intense as it is now. New and splendid editions of the plays are constantly issued; every doubtful verse or phrase is analyzed; even the force of a comma or explanation point is meusured, as in the ‘Jottings on the Text of Hamlet,’ recently made by Professor Hiram Corson, of Cornell University. Shakespeare is in the full meridian of his glory, and nearly three hundred years were needed to enable the werld to comprehend him. Those who stand at the feet of mountains cannot see their greatness. It is revealed best to those who leagues and leagues away behold them relieved in jet against the suuset and journey toward them in the gigantic shadows they cast. So Shakespeare stands alone and supreme in far away grandeur for us. The evidence we have had of this universal interest in the plays is unexpected. The pub- lication of the article from Eraser’s Magazine | entitled ‘‘Who Wrote Shakespeare?” has called forth responses from students, actors, lawyers, poets, teachers and journalists; and the high character of many of these contribu- tions is evidence of how closely the subject has been studied. We print to-day another collection of opinions which must aid the public in forming a conclusion. Judge Pierrepont is thoroughly convinced that Shakespeare wrote the plays, and, indeed, avers that all people who believe Bacon their author are insane. He did not at that time know that the Shakespearian scholar, Mr. Daniel Dougherty, holds that Bacon was probably one of the authors. Mr. Dougherty thinks, and is prepared to show his reasons hereafter, that ‘the plays which were brought out under the name of Shakespeare could not have been produced by one man alone.’’ Mr. A. Oakey Hall, on the contrary, thinks that one man alone must have written them. We also give to-day an interview with both Shake- spearo and Bacon, through the politeness of Mr. Foster, in which the . former admits that the glory belongs to Bacon. It is a pity that while the two spirits were about it they did not give a curious public more defi- | nite information. Mr. John E. Owens, like most actors, is firmly convinced that Shake- speare wrote both the plays and sonnets, and that the Baconians, by admitting the au- | thenticity of the sonnets, have destroyed their own argument. Thus the controversy has progressed, and weare glad to say it has been conducted in an honorable spirit. But a few of our cor- respondents appear to be quite indignant at the claim set up for Bacon. Two thousand of spelling Shakespeare’s name have | v | b wants the credit of the “Novum Organum’’ and of “Hamlet” also, then the proper way | to spell Bacon would be Hogg. | Tux Buffalo Courier, the organ of the demo- cratic party in Western New York, looks with favor upon the proposed national convention | of peace and reconstruction, and thus shows Generally speaking, the politicians 1 to say anything about it. ‘They want ‘ime to think. In other words, they wait to seo how public opinion will drift before declaring themselves. The truth is, our politicians, even those who claim to be | leaders, are @ poor, cowardly. shallow set, wisdom, are afrai n given to the public, and some of our friends, no doubt, think that if Lord Verulam | courage to muke them known. A year ago, when the Hrsatp shadowed the third term idea, it was derided. Now it concerns every Political convention, and no less a person than Vice President Wilson fears that it will menace the party’s existence. But it takes about a year for the average politician to arrive ota comprehension ot the ideas of an independent journal. An Amenroan Convictep om France.—The conviction in Paris of Charles Perkins, for- merly United States Consul at Lisbon, and his sentence to a year's imprisonment, may be just, but at the same time it appears to have been brought about by political in- fluences. He is charged with obtaining thirty- nine thousand francs by representing himself to be negotiating a loan for Don Carlos and to have a concession for a cable between Spain and England. But he is also mixed up in Spanish affairs, and is married to a niece of ex-Queen Isabella. How far politics may have contributed to his arrest and sentence we are not informed, and the evidence is yet to be published and may throw a different light upon the case. But itis not creditable to our government service abroad that even an ex-consul should be convicted of crime. Fortunately it is rarely the case that our representatives are even accused, although “Little Emma’ is not o pleasant thing to recall in this connection. Tue Proroszp Gr or 4 Statvz.—It seems at the first a subject for regret that the Central Park is administered on rules so rigid as to have deprived the great public resort of a fine monument to one of our political Titans, It appears a great pity to lose a fine statue of Webster. But if we contemplate the possibil- ities that might come on us without such arule as this which deprives us of the statue, wemust deem the rule a wise and good one, notwith- standing the present result of its enforcement, What would become of the Park if everybody could place in it any statue satisfactory to himself, and even choose the point where he would put it? Could we ever, for instance, survive the disgrace of seeing there some day such a piece of sculpture as that brown stone Father of His Country that once stood in front of the City Hall? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Washburne has gone to Carlsbad. Dr. J. H. Kinsman, United states Army, is quar, tered at the Windsor Hotel. General E. #. Jones, of Binghamton, is regis tered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor Rufus B. Bullock, of Georgia, ts staying at the Sturtevant House. Chancellor John V. L. Pruyn arrived from Albany yesterday at the Brevoort House. Ex-Senator James A. Bayard, of Delaware, has apartments at the New York Hotel. Postmaster ©. W, Lowell, ot New Orleans, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Ferainand Strakogch, of Paris, is among the recent arrivals at the Everett House, Political query—Should Tilden be nominated may not the voters conlound him with Tilton ? Arithmeticians say that our Governor has Itved DIX. (509) years, and is a quintuple centenarian, Mr. P. G. Desionde, late Secretary of State of Louisiana, 1s residing a1 the Westmoreland Hotel. Mr. Herbert Spencer’s health prevented him from taking any active part in the proceedings of the British Association. ‘The French authorities are erasing from the rolls of the Legion of Honor the names of a great many men who Were decorated for insufficient reasons. Now that the Count de Jarnac is French Am bassaqor to London, the French wits bope he will not indulge in the coup de Jarnac against the Englisn. Columbia Comnenus, @ girl of seventeen, de- scended from the imperial famlly that once reigned in Constantinople, has just taken a degree in the school at Aix, in France, In order to settle the great topic as to who shall stand on top of the Vendéme column, the Chart vart proposes that the members of the Assemply shall take turns and each stand there twenty-four hours at a time. Here are some proverbs which Alphonse Karr says are Russian:—‘I{ you are & mushroom let them put you in the basket. Debts are not noisy, but they keep one awake. One Is not loved be cause he is handsome. but handsome because he is beloved. Make iriends with the bear, but keep hold of your hatchet.” Baudry, the decorator of the new opera house ig Paris, wus sadly bothered for an idea by which to represent the ‘music of England” emblematically in his frescoes. He painted finally three little genti, One carried the Irish harp, the other the Scotch bagpipes, and the third paid the two tirst for playing, and tried to look as if he understood the music. The Courrier du Havre gives an account of the suicide of Gordon Gordon. it says that on his first arrival in this city he made himselt intimate witb “Tweed, the Mayor of New York Hall, with Gen eral Butler and other statesmen. He became the possessor of several millions, when he spent to bardanapalian orgies, and he was the idol of the New York populace.” In Paris the dealers in refreshments have had @ Congress to agree on the important reform of re- ducing from six to five the number of pieces of sugar served with a cup of coffee. Formerly they served six pieces with each cup; the customer put three pieces in his coffee, two in his pocket, and left one on his saucer out of respect for pubdlia opinion. Now that only five are served he puta toree In the coffee, still ieaves one out of asense of public decency—and there only puts one in hu pocket. so much about kiduapping! Now here’s the other side of the story—a child too many. In the train trom Nantes to Paris there wasa little girl of six years whom no one knew and who answered to all questions ‘don’t know.” On her hat was sewed an address in Paris, to which she was to be taken, She was sent there when the train arrived, but no such person lived there as was named in the direction, and now the inquiry is who wants @ pretty little girl? ‘The Caté Procopius, in Paris, has finally put ap its shutters and is definitely defanct. Voltaire sat there, and J. J. Rousseau and D’Alembert and Cre billon and Diderot, It was at No. 13 Rue dé VAncienne Comédte, and the changes made in the whole life of the Pays Latin by the great avenues that Haussmann cut are what have Killedit, I was the first havse of the kind in which news- papers were put on the tabies a5 4 gratuitous treat to the guests. The Rosado-Couto duel was fought near Tour nay. The men were placed at thirty paces dis tance, to fire where they stood or to advance if they chose seven paces each, At the signal Couto advanced five paces and stoppe nd at the in- stant he stopped be received Rosado’s bali in ing right side, the latter having fired from his first } position. Couto did not fire, as the pugnacity was ont of him just then, and the parties were reconciled on the spot. Watts, D. D., of Belfast, caused some excite ment to the British Association by the presenta tion of @ paper, which was rejected, entiiled, “An Irenicum; or, & Piea tor Peace and Uv-overation Between science and Th og:.? Bis were posted in the town, announce thit tals rejected paper would be read in Elmwood chureh, and a large and sympathetic congregation was thus drawn together. However praiseworthy the Writei’s Intentions might be, it ts clear that, a there is no section for tueology, the only courat open to the committee was to reject such a com munication.