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

6 EW YORK HERALD caer! BROADWAY AND AN STREET. ee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR {THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- pual subscription price $12. pes BeBe All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yor Herxarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 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 ———— Pie at PAR Broadway, between iwe d_ Twenty -seeond Streets —GIL DED AGE, joses at hd 30 P.M, Mr. John 1. Raymond. BOOTHS THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and’ Sixth avenue.— FAIRY CIRCLE; OK, CON U'CAROLAN'S DREAM, Mr. and Mrs. Barney WALL. ZATRE, Proadway.—PARTNKRS FOR LIFE, at $ P. M.; closes at 10.30 P.M. Air. HL J. Montague. NIBLO’S GARDEN Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets. —THE DELUGE, at 8 ¥.M.; closes at P.M. 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Room for McMaster! Tae Untrep States Scientifie Commission ordered to observe the transit of Venus has landed in Japan, and the latest intelligence of the expedition is contained in a letter to the Heraxp dated at Nagasaki, September 3, West Vincrsta Ponrrics are examined in our Lewisburg correspondence to-day, and a full democratic delegation to the next Con- gress is considered certain. The Legislature will also elect a democrat to succeed Senator Boreman. Ovr Cuarieston Lzrrer shows that there is hope for South Carolina in the purpose of color:d men to defeat Chamberlaine by uniting with the conservatives, Ring rule seems to be unendurable even by those who helped to establish it. Formcsa anp Japan.—The particulars of the arrest of General Le Gendre at Amoy, as the agent of the Japanese, are given by our correspondent at Jeddo, and throw new light upon the recent troubles in that region. The United States Consul General was instru- mental in causing this arrest. Genmany And Austria are evidently in per- fect accord on the Eastern question; for Rou- mania and Servia, hitherto inclined to fight, have adopted a peaceful attitude toward Turkey, in consequence of representations from Prince Bismarck and Count Andrassy, “The sick man,”’ it may, therefore, be said, is in no immediate danger. A Critican State or Tunes is our latest re- port from New Orleans. Kellogg appears to be an intractable marplot. Peace and for- bearance, however, is the only wise course of the people of the city and the State suffer- ing from Kellogg's obnoxious administration; for surely with the reassembling of Congress the needful measures for the relief of the State will be adopted. We cannot believe that Congress will dare any longer to blink this question, Scmieswia—A Farr Anprrrator.—It is re- ported that the idea of referring the Schleswig difficulty to the arbitration of Queen Victoria is gaining ground in European diplomatic | goes into Court, that case in circles. One would certainly suppose that the Queen of England, whose eldest daughter is the Crown Princess of Germany, as wife of the Crown Prince, and whose favorite daughter. | in-law is the beautiful Alexandra of Denmark, would hold the scales of justice fairly be- tween the German and the Dane on the Bahleswig or any vther question, State Election—Possibilitios the Canvass. From the most trastworthy information ob- tained at the headquarters of the respective parties and in other places we learn that in the canvass now in progress in this State both sides are absolutely sure of success. There never was before such unanimity of the people in favor of either side as there is now in favor of both sides, There never was such enthusiasm for a candidate nor such liberal contributions for election expenses as have been brought out by the influence of Mr. Tilden’s name, nor were there ever before so many voters brought over from the republican side as will now come over to support this nomination. There never was such enthusiasm on the part of the public as Dix’s nomination stirs ; the Custom House and Post Office never came down more handsomely, and the num- ber of regular old democrats of eighty years’ fidelity brought over by the attraction of the republican ticket never was so large in former years, Mr. Tilden’s famous services in the suppression of Tammany roguery are vividly remembered and will rally the honest masses of the people to his sup- port. There is no doubt that early in the war General Dix sent a telegraphic despatch to somebody down South directing that in a cer- tain contingency he should “shoot ’em on the spot;” and, though this has been mentioned several times, and, though nobody was shot on that particular spot, and, though it is argued that anybody could have sent a tele- graphie despatch to that effect, yet the magical influence upon the public mind of these thrilling words has not passed away; and, therefore, the honest masses, even though it puts them under double duty, will also rally to General Dix’s support; in fact there will be more honesty and virtue brought out in this election than has been seen at the polls lately, and there will be more success altogether and larger majorities on both sides than were ever known before. We rejoice over these sanguine anticipations of the friends of the candidates. We are glad that they are happy. But with due respect to their perceptions we believe they know next to nothing of the likelihoods of the canvass. At the present moment the balance is so little in- clined toone side or the other that an acci- dent may be decisive, all the virtue, public morality and talent of the candidates to the contrary notwithstanding. Another event like that which recently occurred at New Or- leans would ruin the hopes of Mr. Tilden’s friends. Even a succession of those small outrages in the South against the peace and rights of the negro—outrages which the republican party seems to deliberately cultivate with a full comprehension of the results they have on the minds of the generality of the Northern people—would arrest absolutely the movement of revolt against the corruption and misrule of the republican party that was till lately in Our ot | such favorable progress in this State as well as through the whole North. It seems hard, no | doubt, to democratic statesmen and patriots, and it will sound queer to believers in the open and direct results of popular election as an expression of the intelligent will of the people. but it is true, nevertheless, thatthe choice of a Governor in this Empire State will depend less upon whom the peoplemay deliberately prefer in a calm comparison of the two candidates than upon whether some negro in an obscure corner of Alabama or Mississippi or Texas in aweek from now shall vaguely threaten to shoot some ome or to burn a haystack, and shall in conseqnence get his dusky throat cut, with the dusky throats of his fmends and re- lations who have come to his assistance. That is one of the great pivots on which majorities turn just now. As one blast on the bugle- horn of the Highland bushwhacker was worth a thousand men, so one negro jugular in Georgia at this critical period is equal in value to ten thousand votes in a Northern tate with a population as large as ours. Sever that jugular only, and it shall go hard if Attorney General Williams will not get out the troops, and if in- geniously framed telegraphic despatches do not make it appear that the firing on Fort Sumter was child's play to it. Doubtless the democrats can comprehend how plainly the relations of the South to the government have been turned over to the Attorney General by the President, and they should be able to per- ceive thatthe one object for thatunprecedented course was that the lawyer should, in the lan- guage of the streets, ‘put up a job’’ for the Southern people and entrap them into acts that might destroy in the North the chances of the only party from whom the Southern people can expect any reasonable sympathy or fair treatment, All this they have been slow to act upon, however, and they have not yet apparently warned the Southern people that their true course in poli- tics is to play dead till election day comes; to | | Tepress every natural impulse; to keep down in- dignation and impatience; to ‘play ’ possum” with Indian stoicism, and put all their revenge in their votes. Because they have not warned the South of this an accident in Arkansas may beat Mr. Tilden. On the other hand, perhaps, a few more letters on the subject of retainers, or a few more of the check books of reconstruction might be a very heavy burden for General Dix to carry. ‘There is too much common sense in the country for the people to be imposed upon by the poor device of counsel fees in cases whose severest trial is to be not in Court but in Congress. In the rural districts they have heard of the striped pig, and the notion of paying a man ostensibly for one service in order that he may in reality do you another is readily enough comprehended by people with such experience. Now in the relation of retainers to bribery we have simply the striped pig in politics. On one side is the pig which you pay to see, but as to which you have no curiosity; and over yonder is the whiskey or brandy, the sale of which is for- bidden, but a good drink of which the exhibi- tor hands over without consideration, §o if General Butler is paid one thousand dollars for his services as counsel and never court | will stand for the curiously painted pig in | any company; while, when he is called upon | to act in Congress as ® Representative on the very same problems that | would have pleaded in court as coun- | sel, the simple fact that he gives | tie vote without consideration assimilatea that service to the passing of the beverage, which is an understood formality in the well known exhibition, Our people know very well that it is quite possible for men to take fees as counsel and yet act with down- right honesty in Congress on the political aspects of the same cage ; and they are pre- pared to believe that virtue enough for such an adherence to principle has existed in public life in this country, and may still exist, but they are not prepared to find it in the chosen circle of distinguished men whose relations to Louisiana reconstruction are simply superadded to their relations to the Crédit Mobilier corruption, the salary scram- ble and the piratical enterprise of the moieties. There is no knowing just how much a camel will carry or fail to carry until the placing of that final ounce produces the disaster, and it is just possible the republican voter may play camel to some one of these little operations of the republican leaders. We have no faith, therefore, in the thou- he | naturally | sands claimed as prospective majcrities on either side, but. we have the most distinct con- viction that the victory, whoever gains it, will create a peculiar excitement in national politics, If Mr. Tilden should carry this State, if despite a fair platform and a candi- date popular and acceptable on all accounts the republicans should lose New York, it will be an evidence that the people are not deceived by the fair appear- ances put on to cover the corruptions of power in every part of the country and the unparalleted misgovernment of the Southern States. States that are under the heel may pronounce for the democrats and the vote be lightly esteemed as of little significance ; but if New York, with no such reasons as they feel, but with a normal disgust at robbery and chicanery, and with adeep mistrust of the motives of the republican rulers, shall pronounce against thei, it will be an unim- peachable evidence that the face of the peo- ple is turned away from the party in power, and we shall see the politicians preparing to stand from under the impending ruin. It, however, Dix is elected, though it will not definitely establish the converse of this in its general effect on national politics, it will originate some very enjoyable difficulties in the Republican National Convention; for Dix is a man of national reputation, esteemed and honored as widely as he is known—a man who has some knowledge of our system of government and can comprehend the prin- ciples on which it is supposed to operate; and this, we think, the people may eventually re- quire in Presidents, Such a candidate, with his great successes in New York as a special support, will present a commanding figure to the eyes of delegates assembled to choose a party candidate for President. One distin- guished party man, who is now thought to own this State, will be little in the compari- son, and even the great project of a third term may find this candidate the greatest of its difficulties. Altogether, such a success would complicate delightfully the difficulties of the wire-pullers and magnates of con- ventions. The President En Route to Texas. President Grant and party left St. Louis on Saturday last, via the Missouri Pacific and Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads, for Texas. At Sedalia Generals Sheridan and Augur are to join him, and a company of Eastern railway magnates returning from an overland trip to San Francisco will meet the distinguished travellers in the Indian Terri- tory. On the return trip certain Indian dele- gations of and in said Territory are to have a big talk with their ‘Great Father.” But what otherwise is the meaning of this Presidential expedition into Texas? Is the object the bet- ter regulation of the ‘‘bad Indians,’’ who are on the warpath over all the region from the Indian Territory to New Mexico? Or is itthe reconstruction of the federal office-holders in Texas? Or isit, on the part of said railway magnates at least, to impress upon the Presi- dent the public advantages of the Southern Pacific Railway and its branch lines, and of some grants of lands and bonds to aid in the building of the main line? Or does General Grant go down to Texas simply to see the country? In the course of a few days we may be able to answer these questions. It is pos- sible, however, that the railway magnates aforesaid are most deeply interested in this Presidential excursion and in some prodigious land grabbing schemes for which they desire to open the way into Congress, But nous ver- rons. Anti-Rent Reminiscences. The violent death of Calvin Finkle, better known, perhaps, to the readers of the Hznarp as “Big Thunder,”’ from his long connection with the anti-rent troubles of this State, re- calls the period of disturbance on account of the almost feudal tenures of the patroons. Though the land tenures, copied from those of England and Holland, had been abolished by act of the Legislature, many of the lords of the old manors had continued a form of deed by which their former vassals became their tenants on terms precisely similar to those abrogated by the laws of the State. The rents and services under these deeds were accorded to the descendants of the patroons till 1839, when associations were formed to devise means for getting rid of the burdens, The opposition to manorial rents soon came to be a disturbing element in politics, and deeds of blood, not dissimilar to that by which Finkle lost his life on Saturday, were committed in a number of places. Governor Seward discussed the question in his message in 1842, and a com- mission to settle the difficulties was appointed, but it failed to accomplish anything. The disturbances grew more frequent as time elapsed, and in 1845 Governor Wright was compelled to issue a proclamation declaring Delaware county ina state of insurrection. So strong was the feeling against him on this account that the next year, when he wasa can- didate for re-election, he was defeated by over ten thousand majority by John Young, whom the anti-renters had nominated. In 1846 the question came before the Constitutional Con- vention, and a provision was adopted making twelve years the limit of all agricultural leases. After this the excitement died away, and the manor grants have since given so little trouble that it is only an event like the death of Finkle which recalls the disturbances | between 1839 and 1847. ‘Big Thunder’ was famous in bis day as the leader in resisting the claims of the Van Rensselaer estate, and his fate, so terribly provoked by himself, will be heard with regret by many persons to whom his name was once familiar. NEW YORK HKALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Mosquito. The mosquito seems to be ubiquitous just now, if we are to judge from the complaints of our correspondents ; but we really don’t know what to do for those aggrieved persons. They actually write to a newspaper about this trouble as if it were some social or municipal evil, like the Beecher scandal, or the dirty streets, or the Tammany ticket, which the power of the press might abolish or, at loast, alleviate. But the power of the press has not much weight with a mosquito. Tf one were put in a Bullock press, for in- stance, he would sit on the flywheel and laugh at the engineer. If we thought edi- torial writing could cause the blush of shame to rise to his cheek we should have tried it long ago; but argument has no effect upon him, nor is even abuse of value. In this hardened contempt of reason as well as in other qualities he resembles the average poli- tician. Mosquitoes and politicians bite and sting and steal and buzz, and are too insig- nificant and small to punish. You bring down your hand heavily upon them, and when you lift it again they are gone. You ‘can hurt your hand, but the insect escapes unharmed. We did not create the mosquito, nor do we know why he was created. Butin one respect we recognize the wisdom of Providence, and that is that he is made so small. This is as far as our sinful souls can go in the way of gratitude in regard to the mosquito, and it shows, we think, a religious disposition. The mosquito himself does not aid us in practis- ing the virtues, but, on the contrary, is re- sponsible for much blasphemy, which, it is tg bo hoped, the Recording Angel will blot out, ashe did Uncle Toby’s oaths, with a tear. In the silence of the night he comes and makes his statement to the sleeping ear. This little horn is more ternble than the roar of a lion, and when it is heard we groan. Like the voice in “Macbeth,” it cries “Sleep no more! to all the house.” It is then that the trouble be- gins. We know that slumber is impossible. With wild beatings of the face and head the dreadful conflict begins; muttered oaths and moans of wretchedness arise from the wounded, and it is no consolation that blood must wipe out the deadly wrong, for whether you get the better of the mosquito or he gets the better of you, you know that it will be your own blood. The mosquito has no blood except what he steals, but he has im- mense capacity for holding it. The Chinese children are said to go to sleep with lamps burning by their beds to attract the mosquitoes from their parents, and the force of filial piety could no further go. But this, we fear, is a heathen flam, told to the missionaries to induce them to go home, for in such a land religion would be superfluous. In the United States the children have never paid such respect to their parents, and, there- fore, we have to depend upon nets, Sancho Panza said, ‘Blessed be the man who invented sleep,” and it might be trans- lated, “Blessed be the man who invented mos- quito bars,” for the two things are in this climate synonymous. The only time when a mosquito is really agreeable is when he is outside ot the net and you are inside of it, and you know it. Then his buzzing is musi- cal as is Apollo's lute, and in its solemn tones are heard the thanks of millions yet to be. Spenser, in his ‘Faerie Queene,” might have addef the voice of the dis- gusted mosquito to the sounds which lulled Morpheus in his slumberous cave. Up and down the net he hovers, with his melancholy buzz, seeking vainly an entrance to the banquet within. ‘The dish in this case defies the diner. Now it is the time of the mosquito to swear, and his curses. sound like serenades. The more mosquitoes who join in the chorus—tenors, sopranos, barytones and bassos—the more harmonious it seems, and when morning comes, baffled and hungry, the maddened crowd fly to their bloodless lairs, If there is anything a mosquito hates it is a net. The scientific name of the mosquito is Oulez, and’ it is « horrible name for a horrible creature. The dictionary tells us “it hasa sharp-pointed proboscis, by means of which it punctures the skins of animals and sucks their blood, the minute wounds thus made being often attended with swelling and a con- siderable degree of pain.” The dictionary is quite right, but it is not necessary to go to it to learn these facts. Any one can convince himself of the accuracy of the definition by leaving his net open at night. Our cor- respondents can profit by the suggestion, and so can Culex. Art Frauds in Italy. We publish in another column an article taken from the pen of a distinguished Italian critic dealing with the question of art frauds charged against some American sculptors by Mr. Healy and others. Notwithstanding the eloquent defence made by Miss Hosmer and some other friends to American art, not them- selves attacked, it is difficult to understand why the sculptors incriminated do not take legal measures of redress against Mr. Healy for the publication of a libel, if, as they as- sert, his charges are unfounded. Mr. Healy, on his part, seems resolved to push the attack, and has forwarded us proofs of letters and articles intended for publication. As they are very long, and merely reiterate the charges already made public, we cannot give them space; but the persistence with which Mr, Healy challenges the accused sculptors to enter the arena of the law, where the truth or falsehood of the charges can be proved, looks as if he were perfectly confident of his po- sition. Some of the defences put forward by friends of the accused have been very in- judicious, and we think it would be well for the honor of American artists that the whole subject should be thorongbly sifted. It will not mend matters to call Mr. Healy hard names or impute to him improper motives. The charges he makes are well defined and capable of proof or disproof. If he has done an injustice to certain American sculptors by stating to the world that they are charlatans who put off the work of Italian modellers and carvers as their own nothing can be easier than for these gentlemen to begin a suit for libel and come into court and furnish legal proof that the works which bear their names were at least designed and modeiled by them. This much they owe to their own character, and we are surprised that some of the gentle- men who have loudly denounced Mr. Healy have not adopted this simple and effective mode of setting the slander. if slander it be, at rest Yorever, If this course be not pursued the American publio can have no choice but to believe that where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. The Sermons Yesterday. Owing to the presence in this city yesterday of many distinguished clergymen, who are in attendance upon the Protestant Episcopal Congress, the pulpits of that denomination were mostly filled by the bishops ot the Church and eminent divines from other cities. At the Church of the Transfiguration the sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Lich- field. Bishop Selwyn in his discourse spoke only of the importance of Christian work for the salvation of souls. The venerable Bishop Huntingdon spoke on the Indian question at Grace church, inculcating the duty of all Christian people to endeavor to save, and not to slay the savages. Bishop Stevens, of Penn- sylvania, occupied the pulpit of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, taking the answer of Agrippa to Paul, ‘‘Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian,” as his theme. His discourse was an earnest appeal to ‘“‘almost’’ Christians. The sermon at Trinity church was by Bishop Robertson, of Missouri. His theme was the need and value of missionary labor in this country. Dr. De Koven was in the pulpit of Christ church, Dr. Whittle, Assistant Bishop of West Virginia, at the Church of the Holy Trinity; Bishop Gregg, of Texas, at the Church ot St. John the Baptist, and Bishop Whitaker, of Nevada, at St. James’ church. Scarcely ever betore in the history of New York did so many Episcopal bishops speak to the people in a single day from so many pulpits. At the other churches the services were scarcely less interesting. Father Bjerring preached at the Russian chapel. Dr. McGlynn, of St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic church, in his discourse yesterday, made an earnest appeal in bebalf of St. Joseph’s Seminary, at Troy. The want of priests is severely felt by the Church, and consequently the sermon of Dr. McGlynn is likely to attract general attention. The sixth anniversary of the Cuban revolution was celebrated at the Church of Santiago, where a sermon was preached by Father Palma, of Havana, in the course of which he rebuked the conduct of the priest in Kingston, Jamaica, who tore the Cuban flag from a coffin in his church. At All Souls’ Protestant Episcopal church, Brooklyn, a “Union Church Demonstration”’ was held under the direction of Dr. Porteous. Mr. Beecher preached on ‘Immortality’ at Plymouth church, and Mr. Frothingham de- livered one of his characteristic discourses at Lyric Hall. Though not specially as a de- fence of the recent opinions of Professor Tyndall it was in facta subtle argument in the same direction. Aside from Mr. Froth- ingham’s somewhat heretical declarations the sermons yesterday were only remarkable for orthodox doctrine and the inculcation of old- fashioned Christian duty. The Third Term and Commerce. ‘Will the- republican party live?” is the pertinent question which the Philadelphia Commercial List asks in reference to the trou- bles in the South, and especially in regard to the commercial depression of the country. Merchants, it is said, are more anxious to re- duce than extend trade, and look more ear- nestly after those who owe them money than those whom they might trust. ‘‘There can be but one cause for this uneasy feeling,’’ it argues very forcibly. ‘It is the result of a tinkering goveroment. The financial ques- tion has been hammered and turned and beaten and remodelled until it is about as much muddled as the reconstruction of the South.” Tuere is considerable truth in these remarks, for the financial policy of the gov- ernment has been almost as aimless as a rud- derless ship, dritting with the winds and waves. What Mr. Bristow may make it it is too early to judge, but he cannot do worse than his predecessors, and it is probable that he will do much better. But the Commercial List points out that the third term movement has become a dis- organizing element to make confusion worse confounded, and that now ‘we must look forward to the work of patching up the gov- ernment as it stands and protecting it from the greed of office in the Chief Magistrate, in- stead of putting shoulder to shoulder to push forward, North and South, upon a path of progress and advance toward prosperity. Instead of a policy of recuperation it must be one of resistance against further disorder.” This is something which the President would do well to consider. He was re-elected to save the country from the financial disaster which it was declared the election of Mr. Greeley would cause, and the most important event after that victory was the worst financial panic we have had since 1857. Perhaps the President is not to blame for that. It might have happened in any case; but now we learn that his third term aspirations not only disturb the politics but injure the commercial interests of the country. The Commercial List, we believe, speaks not only the opinion of Philadelphia, but of busi- ness men generally, and it is right in asking if the republican party can carry this burden of public misfortune, distrast and ambition and live. We think not, and everything wo learn confirms the belief that the mere suspi- cion that o third term policy exists alarms the people and makes it General Grant's duty to protect commerce and dispel doubt by driving the unwelcome ghost of Cmsar from American shores forever. Let him be the magnanimous Brutus to this imperial shadow. Mr. Robeson says that the President regards the third term discussion as unworthy of no- tice. The facts we have cited should convince him that it is his duty to speak; if not for his own sake, for the country’s, A Botp Rospzery of a police station is re- ported from Hoboken. It was a strange place to choose for stealing, but, in justice to intel- ligent American criminals, we must say that the prisoner was both young and a foreigner. Tux Options of so eminent an Englishman as Mr. W. E. Forster upon American affairs must be interesting, if not importént, espe- cially ag he is one of tho leaders of the liberal party in Great Britain. Dur- ing our war he was the firm friend of the North, and showed his sympathy ina manly way. His study of our institutions has been thorough, and he will correct them now by personal observation. Some of Mr. Forster’s opinions on English and American politics, oducation and labor are olsowhere published, 3 eee Tux Taneaxy Tnoveres,—The account we Publish elsewhere in to-day’s Hgpaup of the gossip among tho politicians and the troubles in the Tammany ranks seems to hold out a prospect of a lively local campaign to offset the dull insipidity of the State canvass, At Present there is much talk of an opposition to Tammany on the Mayoralty ticket, as well as in most of the Assembly and Aldormanio districts, The ill feeling against the Tam- many leadership has, it appears, been intensi- fied by Mr. John Kelly’s imprudent announcement of Mr. Wickham as “My candidate,” and efforts are being made by some to get up a people's democratic Mayor in opposition to Mr. Kelly's candidate, and by others to induce a union of the republicans and disaffected democrats on a combined ticket. It is possible these efforts may fail. But it seems at least tolerably cer- tain that there will be a general democratic Donnybrook fair in the Assembly districts. It is said that the dissatisfied democracy will have a valuable assistance out of the well filled republican official purse; and money will ac- complish wonders in democratic constituen- cies. Tue Rev. Aprronpacks Munnar has resigned his pastoral charge in Boston for two very re- markable reasons. He wanted an assistant to preach part of his sermons for him and a bigger and handsomer church; but could not get them, and consequently he found that hia usefulness was impaired. It is strange that a parson willing to bear so many hardships in the mountains should wish so much ease and luxury at home. Muscular clergymen should not demand such enervating opportunities as an assistant pastor and a new church would afford. In Mr. Murray's case it would cer- tainly unfit him for camping out in the woods or fishing in the rain. A Bruwant Victory over the Indians has been won by General Mackenzie, as told in our special despatch elsewhere, The Chey- ennes were surprised near the Red River and completely routed, while the only loss to our troops was one soldier wounded. Hero again we find the army virtually obliged to decide the Indian question. When will the divided authority which produces these troubles be ended, and the army, which’ has annually to redeem the blunders of the agents and commissioners, be allowed to pre- vent them? Our present policy is the frait- ful cause of Indian war; the army control would establish permanent pence. Tue Srrmrr of a Japanese Emperor com- manded the murderer of the German Consul at Hakodadi to commit that crime. Was it really an emperor, or only one of the imps accused by Andrew Jackson Davis of assuming heavenly forms to deceive mortals? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Frezzolini is singing in a café chantant at Ven. ice. Weston’s wetkness isin the wrong place for a walkist—the legs, Professor Coppée, of Lehigh University, is stay- ing at the Sturtevant House, Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota, is among the latest arrivals in Washington, Professor C, S. Peires, of Harvard College, is so- journing at the Brevoort House. Captain Edwin R. Ames, United Statgs Army, is quartered at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Judge~Benry Parker, of Virginia, is among the latest arrivals at the Sturtevant House, In Turkestan some one has discovered a wild silkworm from which @ durable thread is made. “Ten Years of Gentlemen Farming,” by half a dozen English gentlemen, will shortly be pub. lished, W. F, Gill & Co, will publish Wilkie Collins’ story of “The Frozen Deep,” the scene of which ts laid in the Volar regions, Mayor P. R.L. Pierce, of Grand Rapids, Michi- gan, and a member of the Episcopal General Con- vention, is staying at the Spingler House. Professor Ebers, of Leipsic, exhibited at the Con- gress of Orientalists, in London, an Egyptian “sys- tem of Medicine,” written in the sixteenth century B.C. Dick Connolly ruled not long since in our locat democracy and dic-tator rules now. ‘Tell your proud imvaders that we wish no more changea like this. Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, have just com- pleted their republication of the Ohio State Re- ports, consisting of forty-three volumes, being the published decisions of the Supreme Court of Uhio complete. In 1869, 2,240 persons were arrested atthe Paris barriers endeavoring to take eatables into the city without paying the octroi; in 1373 the arrests for the same offence were 5,914, One etfect of taxes on food. So it’s aliright about that French frigate at Civita Vecchia, France might just as well take her home because the Pope doesn’t want to go te sea and wouldn't goin her if he were ever so much inclined to a voyage. Ecclesiastical authorities in France are consider. ing the beatiacation of Louis XVI. Arguments in favor are based on the tact that Pope Pius VL, in an allocution of June 17, 1793, pronounced the un- happy monarch a victim of his religious faith, Dr. John Erickson, the great E.gilsh surgeon, whose authority 18 extensively quoted in tha country, 1s in Washington. The physicians have tendered him a public reception, which will take place at the Army Medical Museum, in Washing- ton, this evening. At a recent benefit given in Paris to the yeteran actress Dejazet, Queen Isabella of Spain occupied abox and with her the Prince of the Asturias. He is a handsome you th of seventeen, well grown. of a graceiul figure and with an open and intelli- gent countenance. The telegraph has added to the Catholic hierar: chy two bishops, named Montes and Estrade, by a slight misinterpretation of a statement in French that @ benediction was pronounced by “deux ¢veques, montés sur une estrade’—two bishops mounted on a platform, At Frankfort the money changers say that Bis- marck agreed with Serrano tocash the Spanish loan if Porto Rico were turned over as security ta become German property in case of non-payment, But this arrangement failed, and therefore the government merely assists the loan in the German markets. Ecstasy in Vienna! Alexander of Russia is by compliment colonel of ap Austrian regiment, the Sixth Uhlans. Ona@ recent anniversary the Sixth sent @ depatation of its officers to St. Petersburz to present its compliments to tue Czar, who in turn gave @ banquet io their honor, and at tnis banquet the Ozar gave as a toast “The health of his best friend, the Emperor Francis Joseph,” Grant's Wasnington organ gives his views on the third term. It says, “Pooh, pooh! for Wash- ington, Jefferson, Madison and Adams;" for the conduct of @ great General 1s not to be regulated on precedents made by such novodies. Grant has not yet made up hia mind, but when ho does it ‘will be without regard to “‘the hasiy and til con- sidered notions” of those grandmothers of the Ke- public. Moltke is reported as having said that “the in- troduction of breech-loaders bas demoralized ail the armies in Europe except tho German and the English.’ His view of the case seems co have re- lation to the tact that the rapid consumption of ammunition soon leaves the cartridge boxes empty, and the troops of the two nations named are ihe only ones that can be kept aulet in suce clrenmatances,