The New York Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1874, Page 8

a NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBEK 13, 1874—QUADSRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HER A I D| (marsctertatte of American Amuse- BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. aS 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 Yore Henaxp. Rejected communications will not be re- tnrned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. eee ee as LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions ond Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York, | Volume XXXIX... AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broad and Th ith strect.-OUR CLERKS, ICT ON PARLE FRANCAIS. and OFF THE LINE, wt 8 P, Mj closes at UP. M. J. Le loole. ASLIGHT, at8P. M.; closes nd Miss Sophie Miles, OLYMPIC THEATRE, foy™ Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes atl045, M. ; closes at LL Miss Fanny Jewett, Lewis James, Charles Fisher. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue —LA PRINCESSE DE TREBIZO tS P.M. ; closes at 10:0 P.M. Mie. Aimee, Mole, Mineli ; THEATRE COMIQUE, No, S14 Broadway.—VAKIBTY, at 3P. M.; closes at 10:30 ROOTH’S THEATRE, corner of 7 Sixth avenue.— VENICE PRE VED. at8 P.M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. John McCullough and Miss Fanny Brough, GARDEN, nee and Houston streets.—THE. Broadway, between The Kiraliy DELUGE, at $ P. M.; closes at I’. M. Family. ROBIN-ON HALL, Sixteenth street, between Broadway and Fifth avenge.— VARIETY, at 3 P.M. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-taira near sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, ato P.M.” Dan Dryant OBE THEATRE, VARIETY, at 3 P.M. Xo, 728 Broadway. + closes at 10 P.M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway, corner of ‘wenty-uinth street—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, ats P.M. METROPOLIT. No. 58 Broadway.—Parisian € EATRE, can Dancers, at8 P; M. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Fifty-ninth street and Seventh avenue.—THOMAS’ CON- CERT, at 8 P.M, ; closes at 10-4) P.M. AMERIC. NSTITUTE, Third avenue, between rixty third add Sixty-fourth streets. —INDUsTRIAL EXHIBITION, BAILEY’s C foot of Houston street, East Ki cs, atlP. M. and 8 P.M. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner oi ihirty-fiti streets—PARIS BY NIGH 45 P.M. QUADRUPL EET. New York, Sunday, Sept. 13, 1874. From our reports this mornmng the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy. Wart Srneer Yesterpax.—Stocks were fairly active, with a tendency to higher prices, which they reached. Gold was dull and steady, 109} a 1093. Dezspatcues from various places continue to be received denying and denouncing the re- ports that yellow fever prevails in the South. Tue Burrise Amatevs OarsMen are think- ing of paying us a visit during the Centennial ceremonies at Philadelphia. Tae Cusan Insvrnection still calls for more food for powder. Eight thousand addi- tional troops will leave Spain for the Antilles in the course of a few weeks. An Exrenstve Sreie of the cotton opera- tives is in progress at Boltcn, England. Sev- enty-four mills, employing thirteen thousand hands, are stopped in consequence of the strike. Tae Intecan Action of the Park Depart- ment in leasing the city property to an officer of the Corporation is likely to receive inves- tigation in the Grand Jury room. But this is not the only violation of law. —$$$___—__. | Tue Prospect Park Races yesterday were very interesting. Culpepper won the sweep- stakes for three year-olds, Quits the Consola- tion Handicap and Vesuvius the extra hurdle face, which was added to the events on the card on account of Limestone finding no com- petitor for the Hurdle Sweepstakes. An ac- count of the racing will be found in another column. | waves and colored it with the living azure of | | out of which ‘‘a fire fly shakes his light, under ments. The passionate interest the American people take in their amusements is kindred to the prodigious energy with which they perform their work. Their earnestness is deeply rooted, and while one branch of their tree of life is bright and beautiful with blossoms the other is laden with perennial fruit richer than the golden apples of the Hesperides. A people who work so hard are entitled to cor- responding rest, but Americans have not yet learned the secret of recreation and pleasure. The Italian dolce far niente is almost unknown | in this country, and the poet, Thomas | Buchanan Read, could never have written his charming poem of “Drifting’’ on the Hudson, | }on the Bay of New York, or even on the silvery tides of his own soft) flowing Schuylkill. It was only on the waters | of the Bay of Naples, with the far smoke of | | Vesuvius waving above his boat its out- | stretched hands and the sapphire gates of Capri inviting to her mysteries, that he could | have timed his verse to the rise and fall of the the sky. All American poetry is tinted with a sober earnestness, reflecting the nature of the people. There is the solemnity of Bryant's landscapes, as in ‘Ihanatopsis,"”’ where ‘yolls the Oregon, and hears no sound save his own dashings;"’ the fr zen simplicity of Whittier’s New England pictures; the melan- choly beauty of Longfellow’s autumnal woods and stormy seas. Even Poe, the greatest of all our poets, unsurpassed in imagination by any man of the aye, yields to this subjective influence, and kindles his splen- dors upon a background of darkness, as when the mystical planet of love rises over the dim lake ot Auber, and shines upon ‘‘the misty, wild woodlands of Wier.” Our poets cannot write with the freedom and pure delight in na- ture that Shelley and Keats possessed. The yellow primrose which Wordsworth found by the river’s brim, and the lily cup of Shelley, a cypress in a starless night,’’ are not flowers to be gathered in American forests. They are alien blossoms like the tabled asphodel. Too practical is our life and too serious, therefore, in their verse are our poets; it is only now and then that they escape from their bon- dage, and, like birds liberated from the cage, rise above the earth and sing only because they joy in their own singing. It this serious purpose is found in poetry, which ought to be and is the highest altitude | of intellectual freedom, we must expect it to exist more powerfully in the pursuits which are nearer to the commonplaces of earth. The | Americans make their amusements too much ot a business and have not yet discovered the fundamental principles of idleness. Laziness is a philosophy which it is hard for us to fully comprehend. We try to understand it, but gen- | erally fail. There is Mr. Weston, who amuses | himself and entertains thousands of others by his surprising performances as a pedestrian. No doubt this gentleman would be surprised if he should be told that he is actually working when he undertakes to walk five hundred miles insix days. We presume he thinks this | should be a pedestrian; the athlete who de- lights in his vigorous health should cultivate a taste for the analysis of games which are purely mental in their nature. Our lives ought to be made larger and happier by our amusements, and the earnestness we rightly cherish in serious duties becomes an evil when it causes one pastime to annihilate a taste for a multitude of others, Pulpit Topics To-Day. There are perhaps no two traits of Christian character so much needed in the world to-day as those on which Mr. Rossiter will preach— | charity and holiness. The former covers a ‘and sailors who bear honorable records— | side; multitude of sins and never faileth, Many waters cannot quench it, neither can the floods | | drown it, ‘The latter will not thrive well | where sin does exist and is inconsistent with it. So that the promotion of holiness in fact rather than in name or in theory is what cler- gymen of every denomination should aim at. A heart that is holy is a heart that has fixed | doctrines and fixed morals, and that gives no undue care to the wants or woes of the morrow. It trusts God from day to day, and such trust | and such fixedness of doctrmes and morals Dr. Thorapson will inculcaté to-day, That a man should attempt to rob God may seem an actof insanity, and yet the Scriptures declare that such a crime is committed by men, and Dr. Deems will set forth the utter heinousness of this species of robbery, and persuade men to give it up and take to honest methods between God and their own souls, as they do between man and man; for if they do not judgment will come at the end of the Christian dispensation, and some of those | who now rob with impunity may be found | without defence or counsel in that day. It will be well, then, to have shelter or support in the “Higher Rock” of which Mr. McArthur will speak, and to fecl that the hand that healed the paralytic centuries ago is yet stretched out for their defence and help; that He who can baptize with fire, of which bap- tism Mr. Corbitt will speak, can also receive the returning prodigal and make him forget the days of evil through which he may have passed. Mr. Hepworth is again at his post working and ready to work, and as the campaign is just opening beiore him he sets out this morning to show his people the difference between work that is productive of good and work that is good for nothing, so that they shall not waste time and energy on fruitless endeavors. And his maxims will, doubtless, be applicable to others as well as to bis own people, for we are all alike, yet different. Dr. Hawthorne will demonstrate the uni- versality of the law of vicarious suffer- ing and show how the loss of life may be the saving of life. He will also give some thought to ‘‘Paul’s prayer for Onesiphorous.’’ Mr. Chadwick, .who has been studying nature in its numerous phases during the summer, will open the campaign in his churck this morning with a discourse on ‘Natural Religion,’’ the twin sister of revealed religion. Both declare their divine origin and give evidence of one common parentage. And thus to-day will the | | \ performance really an amusement, though there are many men who would consider it a | labor to walk from the Battery to Central Park. The earnestness of Mr. Weston trans- forms his pedestrianism from a recreation to a business, The man with the steam leg, of whom we have read, could not be more thoroughly the slave of necessity than Mr. Weston, and it is probable that his ideal of earthly bliss is perpetual motion. Heaven he imagines to | be one vast treadmill. Then there are the base-ball players, the most of whom have | long ago changed the game from an amuse- ment toa trade, The average base-ball player | works almost as hard as a street car con- ductor, and when he goes into the contest | takes a risk like that of a soldier in battle. It is much the same with horse racing, skat- ing, fishing, gunning and many other out- door sports. The delight and excitement of physical exercise is often converted into an insatiable passion, which makes even the pursuit of pleasure a monotony. The billiard amateur too often becomes the slave of his pastime, and has no amusement except when he emulates with his cue the brilliant strokes of a Garnier ora Dion. The theatre goer goes year after year to see plays for which he does not really care, because habit is stronger with him than enterprise, and the boy who attended the circus every evening for no better reason than that he could not afford to waste the op- portunities a season ticket conferred was not more foolish in his views. The whist player con- ceives of no higher recreation than to lead tramps when he holds five in his hand, to establish his long suit, or to win the odd trick when honors are easy. The backgammon player will throw sixes and aces for hours, re- peating the same moves, making the same bar point with endless zeal. The chess player, especially, becomes absorbed in his gambits till he ceases to care for weariness or hunger. ‘Tae Excunston or Berteycx Patients yes- terday, an account of which we publish to-day, | was quite an enjoyable affair and cxorcised a beneficial influence on the poor sufferers. The presence of a few amat evinced the power of music on the patients, and the soothing strains of the banjo, the roll of the tambourine and the click of the bones were as grateful to the excursionists as Muzio’s orchestra would be tothe fashion- ables of the Academy. Governor Drx is not seriously ill, and the alarm of his friends is fortunately relieved. He has been confined to his bed fora few days by poisoning from elder leaves, of which | the painrul effects will no doubt be easily and | quickly removed. His sickness has not pre- | vented action in the case of Mayor Havemeyer. The decision of the Governor will be an- pounced to-morrow, and it is believed that | while His Honor will be censared he will not | be removed from office, Porsce Ovrnaces are unhappily too fre- quent in this city, but the last one on record is of such a flagrant nature that it must excite the utmost indignation in the community. Three respectable ladies on their way home were arrested by one William T. Graham, an | officer who is a disgrace to the force, dragged to the station house and arraigned before a police justice on the charge of being common prostitutes. They were, of course, acquitted, aud now it remains to be seen whether the Police Commissioners will retain on the force @ person guilty of puch infamous cgaduct. r negro minstrels | Life becomes to him little more than the movements of pawns and queens. He forgets the third term in thinking of his king; | spends his Sundays away from church with irreligious bishops, and occupies all his | days with knights, There is no end to this | perpetual performance of the same thing again and again, like the toils of the architect | Pisani, who in his dreams always saw his own | figure ascending infinite flights of steps, | spiral over spiral, in some vast cathedral, | which he was ever building, but was for- bidden ever to finish. Butan amusement should not be a stone of Sisyphus, to be eternally pushed up the hill, down which it is destined to roll. It is our fault that we devote ourselves to one recrea- tion to the exclusion of all the others. Asin business, so is it in sports; no man can excel in everything, yet we should make these pass- ing pleasures of life tributary to its permanent content. This cannot be if any favorite pursuit is allowed to rule the mind which it should obey, and to of the wings of the bird. The wise man will seek to multiply the sources of his enjoyment, like the banyan tree, which has the faculty of making its bending branches take root in the earth, and, in their turn, become sustaining trunks, He will remember that the pleasures of life occupy much of its duration, and ought to be directed as prudently as the affairs of the counting house or the details of a profession. Contrast and variety sre essential elements. The chess player | Shakespeare Sabbath hours be passed in meditating on topics moral and material, practical and theoretical. Value of the Discussion. There is one important point in the Shake- spearian discussion, which at present re- ceives so much attention from the literary world, upon which we must be permitted to differ from Mr. Horace Howard Furness, whose brief but able contribution we recently published. Mr. Furness said :—‘‘The subject now being discussed is one in which I take but very little interest. The name of has become a household word, and the authorship does not affect the quality of the plays. A diamond is a diamond, whether found in a gutter or in Golconda.’’ It is likely that this distinguished student spoke hastily, for upon reflection he | must perceive that the question of person- ality, as between Shakespeare and Bacon, is The Shakespcarian of the highest importance. If it were a question as between Shakespeare and Jones, or Smith, or Nemo, we should agree with Mr. Furness, for the mere name is nothing. But Bacon is not a@ name, it is a personality. He was the founder of modern philosophy, a man who, in his own immortal words, ‘took all knowl- edge to be his province.” If there is the slightest probability that he was the au- thor -of Hamlet and Lear, the study of the evidence in his favor cannot be neglected. If Bacon wrote these plays then the world has a new revelation of the power of the human intellect; all manhood is exalted to heights hitherto unsuspected, and if our belief that we are not as dust that rises up and as dust falls again is based upon the achievements of the mind, then we should have in the evidence that Bacon included Shakespeare new evidence of immortality itself, This is not an exaggeration; it is philosophy. But, dismissing such grave con- siderations, which perhaps have no place ina literary debate, surely the great men of his- tory are as interesting and important to us as their works? With this brief comment upon the observa- tion of Mr. Furness, which we make simply because we believe our views to be essential to proper understanding of the dignity of this question of the authorship of the plays, we introduce to the public some new contri- butions. Recorder Hackett, who inherits a love for Shakespeare, which he has strength- ened by his own study of the plays, sums up tie argument as a judge. We are indebted to him for this valuable service, but as the evi- dence is not all presented his charge to the jury will have to be withdrawn. The Supreme Court is the tribunal by which the facts and the law will ultimately be submit- | ted to the public, and then we shall beg the honor of offering the Recorder a seat upon the Bench. But we would porticnlarly commend to the intelligent public the contribution of Professor Y. Gulliver Rigadoo, who has a contempt for Shake- | speare’s plays which amounts to the sublime. | Sir Toby would have adored him, and he comes into this serious conference much as Mark Twain might go into Plymouth church. If Shakespeare is all that this same learned | respect of an adversary, and, I can assure you, | so gallantly on opposite sides to fight to- A Good Movement for Peace and Re- construction. Tn and around Vicksburg some-of the hard- est fighting of the war of the rebellion was done. The names that figure in history as actors in the bloody drama belong to soldiers Grant, Sherman, Ord, Logan, Porter, on our Pemberton, Joe Johnston, Loring, Breckenridge, on the side of the Confederacy. | The siege was prosecuted vigorously by the Union army, aided by the fleet. The defence was such as brave troops, faithfully led, might be expected to make. That it was fruitless was owing to the military genius and the iron will of the great comman Jer who pressed on- ward from the Mississippi until the life was crushed out of the rebellion; but his own words bear honorable testimony to the gal- lantry of the defence. ‘Men who have shown so much courage xnd endurance as those now in Vicksburg,” wrote General Grant to the rebel commander, ‘‘will always challenge the will be treated with all the respect due them as prisoners of war.’’ And Lieutenant Gen- eral Pemberton, who defended Vicksburg, did not suffer the gall of defeat to deter him trom doing equal justice to the bravery and the gen- erosity of the Union leader and his army. From Vicksburg, where a little over twelve years ago the horrors and passions of war prevailed, comes the first note of a movement of trme peace, reconciliation and good will, which we hope may find favor all over the United States, North and South. The sol- diers of the late war have established there an organization known as ‘‘The Order of the Blues and Ginys.”” As the name implies, its members are composed both of those who fought under the Union flag and of those who did service under the banner of the Confed- eracy. The object is to ioster kindly relations between the men who stood a few years ago in hostility to each other, and to practically bury the animosities growing out of the un- natural confiict. We can conceive of no more effective means of accomplishing this desir- able end than by drawing into social inter- course and personal friendship the soldiers who fought on both sides, and who have learned to respect each other, as brave men always do. One such association as this is worth a thousand political union leagues or white men’s leagues. It brings together the fighting element of the country, and prepares those who fought gether, shoulder to shoulder, under the com- mon banner of a united nation, should the occasion tor foreign war ever unhappily arise. The example set by the Blues and Grays in Vicksburg might well be followed by the Grand Army of the Republic. What better contribution could the members of that splen- did organization give to that peace and re- construction with which we should all desire to celebrate the Centennial than the throwing open of their doors to the soldiers of the Con- federacy and hailing them as comrades in the new army of the Republic? The Drought—The Cotton and Corn Crops—Prayers for Rain. We regret to say that the September returns of the Department of Agriculture show a very heavy decline in the prospects of the cotton crop in all our cotton-producing States except Virginia, in which State the product, con- fined to a few of the Southern border counties. is too small to exercise any appreciable influ- ence on the general result. In North Carolina the decline in the promise of the crop since August has been fifteen per cent, in Georgia seventeen per cent, in Alabama nine per cent, in Mississippi fourteen per cent, in Ten- nessee thirty-five, in Louisiana twenty- one, in Arkansas forty, and in Texas forty-one per cent. The promise of the crop of the whole cotton-producing section is one-sixth cut down from the promise of August. In other words, the drought since August has resulted in a loss to the South of, | say, half a million bales in its maturing crop | of cotton. In manf districts hot winds have blighted the crop, and in one or two cases they have | destroyed it within half an hour. These hot | winds are analogous to those from the great | desert of Africa, which sometimes within an honr blast the crops of the exposed districts of Algeria. Our southwestern hot winds, which this season have been so destruc- five to some of the exposed fields of cotton, come from the arid piains of Western Texas and of New Mexico and Chihuahua (a vast semi-desert region over which there has been little or no rainfall for many months), and our cotton States directly exposed to these | pblighting winds are Eastern Texas and Loui- siana and Arkansas. Hence, notwithstanding their rich alluvial soil and their deluging rains of last spring, those States have suffered more severely than any others from the drought of August and September. Not only are their cotton fields most disastrously affected, but their Indian corn has been pro- portionately blighted, and the blight has ex- tended more or less to all the corn States of the Mississippi basin, so that but for the in- creased area planted the decrease in our aggre- gate corn crop would materially this coming winter enhance the prices of every article of it is corn is ‘‘firm’’ in the market, with an up- ward tendency, and should this drought con- tinue even a week or two longer the general blighting of our pasture fields will materially contribute to carry up the price of corn. But we hope that during this week the drought will be extinguished in bountiful and general rains. Meantime, the soil of Southern New Jersey has been so thoroughly exhausted of its mois- ture that the cranberry bogs have become combustible beds of dry peat, and the fires in them, from their intense heat, are unap- proachable. From the smoke of these fires in the swamps and woods of ‘Jersey and Long Island has come much of the haziness of the atmosphere over this city of the last three or four days. From Poughkeepsie comes the complaint of a serious drought throughout the valley of the Hudson, and from Ontario we have reports that the creeks are drying up, that the cattle are starving and that bush fires are raging in alldirections. In the heart of Pennsylvania work in some of the coal mines is suspended, owing to the scarcity of water. In Philadelphia they so keenly feel Theban declares him to be, the Baconians would do well to abandon their claim for their of the wines of the bird, The chess vlaver | Wustzious chie& the effects of the drought that prayers for rain are to be made in all the Catholic and Episco- nal churches this day. No hotter evidence | declares that Tyndall is rampant; that there | energies. Hence matter cannotbe assumed to | a tendency toward materialism itfact, though | subsistence throughout the United States. As | thy 2 this of a painful extremity could be given in ge, eral sufferings and apprebensions, only to be re,‘ieved through the intervention of a merciful Providence. And we hope that these prayerse"ill be mercitully answered in general and gener,.28 rain. The Religious Pa“? on Tyndall. As might naturally be ntpposed, the re- | ligious press of the city this's’@ek has, with almost entire unanimity, taker .Professor Tyndall's latest utterances in hand ad de- nounced or refuted them as best suhvd their tastes and treatment. The Independent is very little that is noteworthy in the posi- tions taken, and nothing at all that is con- vincing in the arguments by which they are supported. It shows the absurdity of a large part of his address, as it is related to English- men who are intellectually free and untram- melled, and insists that his heroism is slightly superfluous. ‘Between true science and true religion,’’ says the Independent, ‘there cannot be conflict. No man is truly religious who does not with devout and joyful mind accept every truth which God has revealed in nature ; and no man is entitled to much consideration as a scientist who does not know, what Pro- fessor Tyndall admits, that there are some things in human nature which cannot be gauged by the balance or the yardstick.” The Methodist intimates that the fact that last Sunday men went to church as usual, prayed to a God and sang hymns of praise to Him, notwithstanding Mr. Tyndall's declara-. tion in substance that there is no God, is proof that there is in man’s own nature a witness to the being of Gcd—a witness that can stand against all the learned Professor's argumentations, It says tbat Tyndall does not call his statement a fact or truth of science, but a confession of his own faith, in which his ‘vision is prolonged backward across the boundary of experimental evi- dence,” and as this is the only evidence the Professor accepts as valid he goes, says the Methodist, beyond the boundary of all evi- dence, It feels sorrow for him; but it has no fear that his confession wili disturb the established faith ot the human race. The Christian <Age says that Mr. Tyndall does not deny, for he cannot, the existence of a creator of matter. He admits that ‘the whole process of evolution is the manifesta- tion of a power absolutely inscrutable to the intellect of man. As little in our day as in the days of Job can man, by searching, find this power out.’’ The Christian Intelligencer finds in Dr. Tyn- dall’s late address the same objectionable statements which he had dragged into his lec- ture on “‘Light’’ in this city two winters ago, and for which Dr. John Hall so causticelly reproved him. The Intelligencer proves from his latest utterances and “his abandonment of all disguises that he believed then as he be- lieves now, though he very adroitly on the former occasion denied the plain and natural inference of his words. It insists that Tyn- dall’s threadbare process of bringing up the Inquisition and Bruno and Galileo as evidence of the hostility of religion to science is baby- ish and worse—it is dishonest and malicious. He must lug the catapult of his wrath away back tothe sixteenth century to get swing enough on it to lodge it where he longs to see it, in the breastworks of the present faith of Christendom. The Examiner and Chronicle reviews some of tne Professor's statements, and declares that between his fucts and his conclusions there is a chasm which no logic can bridge and which itis not fair toleap. It then asks :—‘Are we blamable for suspecting that Professor Tyndall is more moved by hostility to Chris- tianity than by pure zeal for science?’’ It therefore classes him with those whom the Scripture says ‘‘do not liketo retain God in their knowledge.”’ positively the assumption that all matter shows the phenomena of life, ‘‘All matter is not expressive of inherent meatal and moral | have, in and of itself, the potncy of every form and quality ot life.”” The Baptist Weekly thinks that or such views | as Mr. Tyndall's men will not bewilling to re- nounce the faith and hope bornof the Scrip- | tures. Weare not to congratuate, ourselves | that we were created a little lwer than the angels, but that we have sprug from and risen a little above the monkeys. The beauty of Tyndall's style, says the Weeky, hidés the hideousnesg of his doctrine, bt when we come really to grasp his meatng we find nothing but the most dreary naterialism. Matter, we are taught, is eternal atoms may certainly change, but that is all, nd death is | a cessation of being. The Boston Pilot considers it stnge that in this latest summary of science wi fail to find | we do find it in words. As or scientists | advance, they begin to realize th hard truth | that they are working on a globe, ot a plane; their course bends to the spowhence it started, and the Beyond stares 1em in the face mysterious and inscrutable asver, Tue Inpian Manavpers on the?lains find General Davidson a less agreeablaistomer to deal with than the Quaker agents Our cor- respondent at Fort Sill informs us’ the prep- | arations for an active campaign inst the hostile tribes, and advises the Umd States authorities to disarm the so-called endly In- dians and deprive them of the largynantities of stolen stock they have on hand. He also gives the particulars of an interestinnterview with a Kiowa chief, who seems to.ve made up his mind as to the ultimate extmination of his race. Tux Internationa, Rirte Mas which will sbortly take place at Creedmotbetween | the Irish and American teams bi excited such general attention that the comjhensive article on the subject we publish tlay will be read with interest. The records Creed- moor are now pretty well known, t every one wishes to learn something abothe pre- vious achievements of the Irish nksmen, Their record is indeed a brillianke, and they are likely to prove formidable ¢onents to our crack shots. The cight reprettatives of American skill in marksmanshipill be chosen to-morrow, and the arrangetts for the grand tournaments will be compld, A Srxcutan Surcipr is recordedn our columns to-day, the unfortunate mtbeing the reputed, son of Mendelssohn, ¢ great composer. He was highly sccotished, | epeaking several languages, and, érding to his own statement, being a doctor of medi- cine and professor of chemistry and anatomy, The prevalence of suicide at the present time is very remarkable and can only be accounted for by the unusual dearth of moral feeling among a certain class. Senator Browsiow.—In an interview with our correspondent the veteran Senator from Tennessee takes strong grounds against the Civil Rights bill, expressing the opinion that its passage and attempted enforcement would necessarily result in a military despotism throughout the South. He finds a precedent in Grant’s alleged aspiration for a third term in Andrew Jackson, who, as he states, pro- posed to become a candidate for that honor, and was only prevented from doing so by physical ailments. Tne Arrare oF tHe Vrrcrstus is likely to cost Spain dear in the end. The British gov- ernment, after waiting with exemplary pa- tience for the consideration of its claims, now demands a settlement of them at no distant date, and the demand, though couched in the most courteous terms, is firm and uncompro- mising. Between Lord Derby and Mr. Caleb Cushing urging the claims of their respective governments in relation to the “unfortunate affair’ the Spanish authorities will regret the inconsiderate zeal that prompted a wholesale massacre shocking to the civilization of the age. Any Comprnation to keep back the crops to increase the price of grain would be worse than highway robbery. It would be a crime against humanity, and in America ought to be an impossible one. For this reason we expect that the rumor of a combination between the grangors and Chicago wheat speculators will have prompt and effectual denial To with- hold food from the market is a conspiracy which has for its object the starvation of the poor. Gznenat Butizr has opened his canvass for re-election to Congress with one of those re- markable speeches in which he has scarcely a rival. It is published in our columns, and deals principally with Southern outrages and with the financial condition of the country. He thinks the war is not over yet and that his mission is not ended. Upon both of these points there is likely to be a difference of opinion in his district. Tue War or tHe Screntisrs on religion, in which Professors Huxley and Tyndall are the leaders, receives a scathing rebuke from our correspondents, ‘‘Theocritus’’ and ‘Pru- dentius’’ to-day. The consequences of ad- mitting the theory of moral irresponsibility and upsetting the belief of centuries in the existence of a Supreme Being are set forth in all their absurdity and deformity. When science attacks religion in its most vital part it only makes itself ridiculous. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. —— Appearances in Spain are not promising for the Repubite. General P. G. T. Beauregard and H. H. Douglass, of the war ship Bellerophon, are in Torouto, It costs France $6,000,000 a year to protect the boay politic irom the ravages of the criminal classes. One Sundsy—the first of the shooting season— the number of dogs taken ont of Paris by train was 2,200, The british beer seller put 250 grains of salt in each gallon of his beer, and the authorities have taxed him $150 for the privilege. Aman incharge of a charity establishment in Dublin whipped a child severely, but did not Kil him, and has been committed for trial, How un- enlightened is Dublin! As the Pope passes the whole summer in Rome, even August, and retaing his excellent health, there is some wonder whether the Eternal City is Teally an unheaithy place, Mr. Morley, M. P., has a mill. Some of the men in tue mill had a “prejudice” against some of the The Eraniner then denies | machinery; but the fire was put out before the mill was completely destroyed, On the Swiss part of the French frontier the cus | tom house police and the smugglers have had a veritable battice. If the smugglers concentrate themselves France cau whip them, By a recent order of the British War Omice every Waterloo soldier will hencejorth receive a pension of eighteen pence @ duy, and it is hoped this will keep the veterans from beggary. Oxiord has treated itself to a copy in marble of the statue of Achilles, in Hyde Park, which is im fact the Duke of Wellington dressed in a heimet, and the students have put a batning dress on him, On the 10th ult. two treaties between the Unitea States and Turkey were signed at Constantinople, one for the extradition of criminals, the other for the naturalization of men of either country in the dominions of the other, Corruption in Russia ts sufficiently bold. Some men-of-war in good condition have lately been condemned as unfit for service and sold tor the price of the old material in them by collusion of the officials with outsiders, Genefal H. R, Jany, the Venezuelan Consul in this city, has been decorated by his government with the medal “Del busto del Libertador simon Bolivar,” @ decoration which the Republic dis- tributes to persons of great merit only. General Jany has, since bis arrival here, done a great deal to introduce American improvements im hia country. The French legitimists are circulating a medat thus devised :— Which is to be read, luz, paz, lex rer—light, peace, law and the King—and which means to intimate that these Commodities are not to be had sepa- rately. This is the style in which the veteran French Politician, Pierre Veron, treats the third term im arecent number of Charivart :—*Caretul tellows, those Americans. Lately a republican convention ejected by a great majority the proposition to agsisé the re-election of President Grant for a third term, We like exceedingly the wise distrust of these Yankees. However disinterested a Prest- dent may be it is not well to tempt him too greatly. In the Unitea States people don’t believe in ‘providential men.’ They believe that true strength is in the character of tne nation ana that slavery 1s degrading, no matter who ts the master. Ah, if we could take @ leaf out of their book |!" Here’s a chance for any one who wants to buy book:—A greut literary curiosity is now for sale at Pekin. It consists of @ copy of a gigantic work, composed of 6,109 volumes, entitled “An Imperiab Collection of Ancient and Modern Literature.’" ‘This hugh encyclopedia was commenced during’ the reign of the Emperor Kang-he (1642-1722), and! was printed at the Imperial Printing fice, where a complete font of copper type was cast cor the purpose, Its contents are arranged under thirty. two divisions, and embrace every suoject dealt ‘with within the range of Chinese literature, Un. fortunately, the greater part of the type emgaoyed in printing the work was, after the publication of the frst edition, purloined by dishonest omctats, @nd the remaining portion was melted dows to be coined into cash, The result is that very fow coples are now in éxistence, and aul fewer over come into the market. The price asked {or the present copy by, the Chinese owner {3 about aan 10d