The New York Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1875, Page 6

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YORK, From our rez corte this morning the probabilities are thal the weather to-day wil be cloudy and rainy. 1 sar Persons going out of town for the summer have the daily and Sunday Hunauv mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month, Wart Sraeer Yeererpay.—Prices weré a trifle firmer, but the market was unsettled by rumors. Gold advanced to 116}. The ship- ments to-day will probably be $2,500,000, cam Geemayy is about to vote the money necos- sary to a proper representation of the Empire ei the American Centennial. A TrrnmLe Eartugvaxe, involving a loss of sixteen thousand lives, is reported from New Grenada; but we have as yet no par- tieulars of the calamty. BuicaspaGz in Irary is such an exciting topic that yesterday the Chamber of Deputies broke ap in disorder, owing to the tarbulence of the discussion of the ‘ball to suppress 1 it, M. Ouxtvier's Boox, if we may judge of its tone from the cable despatch which we print this morning, is not likely to make the sensa- | tion that was anticipated. It seems to be more an apology for the Empire and a justifi- cation of his Ministry than an arraignment of Prussia or the apnunciation of @ policy for the Louaparti TRLICANS OF Cantrorsts in their Convention at Sacramento, on Thurs- wel the lead of Pennsylvania and pon the third term issue, but, inspired e peculiar views of Senator Sargent, they ime that General Grant does not want another nomination. The party has taken a bold stand ogainst the Central Pagifie Rail- road and its triends, and the railroad interest promises to be a very important issue in tbe campaign. Jenome Pang Races.—The fourth day of the ing meeting of the American Jockey Ciub will likely be one of the most interest- ing of the entire’ series. The race for the Belmont Stakes will bring a large field of fivers tothe post, andthe contest for the Members’ Cap promises to be very Interest- ing Tho races at Jerome Park are always eure of the patronage and interest of our best people, as respectability is the distinguishing characteristic of the favorite racing associa- tion ov this side of the Atlantic Burotart mm Brooxiyy is becoming an everyday occurrence. Following the Shute tragedy another residence was invaded in exactly the same manner yesterday morning, and differs from the other only in the absence | ofa murder, In both cases the burglars os- caped, and we can scarcely expect the Brook- lyu police to find them. People will bave to take the punishment of burglary into their own hands, as did the Van Brunts in the ep- counter with Mosher 's and Douglass last year, Borstso or raz Gasper.— Rhode Island forgot to celebrate the centennial of the de- siroction of the Gaspee on its hundredth an- uiversary; buat there isa ‘Women's Centen- nial Executive Committee’ iu the little State, and this energetic body of patriotic matrons yesterday commemorated the one bnudred aud third anniversary of that eventinstead. If the people of “Little Rhody” want a clam- bake now and then we see no reason why any- body should object, and the State is big euough fora celebration once @ year if the patriots refrain from the nse of ficascra, | for the three States will be benefited to an | for the products of their gardens, | toaq NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, ‘wee Simances of the Cemtennial Mx- position, We publish this morning some interesting statements and estimates by ex-Governor Bigier, the financial agont of the great Cen- tennial Exposition. It appears by those esti- mates that, in order to make the Exposition a success, one and a half millions of dollars need to be raised before its opening, and it is the purpose of Mr. Bigler's figures to prove that subscribers to the stock have a reasona- ble prospect of reimbursement at the winding | up of the Exhibition. If his arguments should be accepted as convincing there is no reason why all the money needed should not be sub- scribed before it is wanted for use, Governor Bigler’s financial exhibit prosents aome points which deserve attention, Tho State governments. Of the thirty-seven States of the Union only three have made ap- propristions in aid of the and those three are Pennsylvania and has iteelt appropriated the handsomo sum of one million dollars, New Jersey one hun- | dred thousand dollars and Delaware ten thou- sand dollars. These appropriations are made a3 much from pecuniary as patriotic motives; priations, The immense throngs df people who will visit Philadelphia while the Exposition is open will create an enormous additional demand for fresh vegetables, milk, eggs and other products which the country within one | amount oqual or nearly equal to their appro- | | hundred miles of Philadelphia must furnish, | tho resolutions of the Board ot Health and and the appropriations made by the States of | the conferences of the Mayor and his subordi- | Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware will | nates, Ag it is we cannot overlook what is | | come back to tho pockets of the citizens | grotesque in tho official conduct of these gon- | through the larger market and higher prices farms, dairies and poultry yards, The States which have made no appropriations have no such | ready means of getting their money back, and thoir contributions to the funds of the Exposition will be given in a different shape. The city of Philadelphia has appropriated one million five hundred thousand dollars, which it can well afford to do, even asa pecuniary investment, if the Exposition should prove a success; for the profits made on the Exposition, ; two adjoining States. Pennsylvania | | remunerative investment there need be no | for its sanction to the planting of a pest bed | graciously accorded we cannot shut our eyes | justice to the humorous aspects of such sin- expenditures of visitors will remunorate its | citizens for the addition to their local taxes. But distant States and cities have no such pecuniary inducement to make sppropria- tions for this patriotic and praiseworthy ob- ject. Tho country at large will contribute its share of the expenses by visiting Philadelphia in immense multitudes and spending thoir money there, If the Pennsylvanians, and | especially the Philadelphians, will incur the expense of adequate preparations to mako the Exposition attractive they may safely rely on the combined motives of curiosity, patriotism and pleasare-seeking in other parts of the country | mission fees, | the Sanitary Commission and the Mayor sud- to swell the funds by ad. | Mr. Bigler’s statistical appeal rests upon the | prospect of a great income from admission fees. According to his estimate at least three millions of people will visit the Exposition, and if each person pays an entrance feo three times at a price of fifty cents ‘the income from this source will amount to four million five hundred thousand dollars. baudsome dividend on the investment, It 1s on the basis of this caleulation that be appeals to the public to make the additional advances | necessary to insure the success of the under- taking Mr. Bigler’s estimates may be open to some criticism, but, assuming their substantial accu- racy, the money ought to be easily raised, though in a manner somewhat different from that which he proposes. When it is reduced ion of advancing money certain to be reimbursed there is no good reason why the State of Pennsylvania or the city of Phila- delpbia should not rolieve the undertaking from uncertainty. It may be said that both the State and the city have already made lib- eral appropriations. Most true; bnt those appropriationsare gifts, for which they expect no other return than the pecuniary profits which will accrue from the throng of visitors. The State and city, having made these promises, - which they cannot recall, and appropriated money without any claim on the profits of the Exposition, are as free to make subscriptions to the stock as private individuals. They are as certain to yet their money back as any other class ot subscribers to the stock, and assuming, on the basis of Mr. Bigler's esti- mates, that there is no doubt of reimburse- ment, the advances would entail no additional burden on the taxpayers. No individuals in other parts of the country have so mnch in- terest in the success of the Centennial a4 tho great State and the great city which have | taken so large @ venture aud appropriated so much money which they have no claim to de- back out of the assets of the enterpriee. mat Now, if all the money which remains to be advanced is certain to be reimbursed, * it would be as safe an investment for the people immediately concerned as for scattered individuals in other States, who have no such strong motives either of pride or interest to make the Exposition a splendid event. When its fioancial affairs bave reached a stage at which nothing further is required but an advance of money, which is certain to be repaid, a State so rich as Pennsylvania may eately subscribe for the remaining stock, and rely, ike indtvidual subscribers, on the sources of reimbursement pointed ont by ex- Governor Bigler. If he were soliciting money as a gift this argument would not hold. But wheo he asks for an investment with a pros- pect of full returns there would seem no good reason why the wealthy State and wealthy city which he represents should not make the temporary advances which be shows would come back to them with @ fair dividend. scriptions are solicited on this ground, thera is no reason why the remaining stock should not be subscribed by the Stato which will preside over the diswhbution of the sasets and can propct itseff, as non-rosidents can- | not, against misappropriation of the funds, This reasoning goos on the assumption that Mr, Bigler has not indulged in sangnine exag- gerations, and that the financial prospects of the Exposition are as favorable as be deems | them. If the amount of money given with- , Oul expectation of repayment be sufficient to tenler fursher subsortplions to the stock | romanerstive the guocess of the lexyouition | pending disaster is an exhibition of such grim He calculates that this will reim- | ‘purse the subscribers to the stock, with a | if ; ut is a good pecuniary investment, and snb- | large will have made a handsome contribu- | of visitors we think fifty cents quite too low most remarkable is the general apathy of the | order that nobody might be repelled it would | should be regarded as assured; for Pennayl- vania cannot permit it to fail for want of money that would bo refunded. We incline to think, however, that Mr. Bigler is a little sanguine, We doubt whether so many as nine millions of admission tickets will be sold in the course of the season, but if that number should be reached the coyntry at tion to the success of the occasion, quite as large in proportion as Pennsylvania itsolf, considering its locat profit, which other parts of the country cannot share, But although | Mr. Bigler perhaps overestimates the number | | | for the ordinary admission fee, A great pro- | portion of the distant visitors would as soon pay a dollar or a dollar anda half; but in be well to set apart one or two days in each week when the price should be only fifty cents. By arranging a different scale of | prices for different days the total receipts | could be brought up to as high a figure as Mr, Bigler counts upon, even if he has over- estimated the number of visitors. His figures and caleulations are highly encouraging, for | whenever the enterprise reaches such a state that all the further money needed would be a misgivings as to the success of the Exposi- | tion. Joking Over an Kpidemte. If municipal administration was only an endeavor to be funny we should be able to ex- | | tract a good deal of delicious hunior out of tlemen. When we see the Police Commis- | sioners gravely ontreating the Board of Health in the heart of the city and find the consent to the absurdity of the action even if we per- ceive the full force of its wickedness, We cannot, however, attempt to do anything like gular misgovyernment, The pen of a Rabelais could alone deal with the subject in the words which best deseribe it. But when the Board of Health and the Police Commissioners and denly awake to the fact that to plant disease is to reap death and then resolve | that the danger is imminent and that it ought to be averted this year or the next, leaving it quite possible that an epidemic will sweep over the metropolis before anything is even attempted, we have an entirely different phase of the humorous, in which the objectionable nouns of the French eeclesiastio would en- tirely fail of their purpose. The keen satire of Thackeray or the voluble description of | Dickens could, perhaps, deal with an emer | gency where calling things by their right | names would be utterly ineffective, The cir- cumlocution of our officials in the face of im- and terrible humor that the goblin who stole a sexton must be the governing spirit in our | honorable boards. No influence loss Satan. | ically funny can inspire the Board of Health, tor it gravely resolves that what everybody | knew all the winter, and the newspapers have been saying daily for more than a month, is a tact, which it regards aga revelation. This revelation is the basis for fresh resolutions, but the Board does nothing except to vote, | and so the fun is kept up till the end. It is time, however, that these humorous resolves | and funny conferences were ended; for all tho | honorable boards, and especially the Board ot Health, must know that if an epidemic | sweeps over the city as the result of the | Harlem flats nuisance the people will not | overlook or forgive the practical joking of the officials. | Who Bunkee Hill? It lics between Prescott and ‘Old Pat," ae Washington familiarly called him in his cor- respondence, although the fastidious editor of Woeshington’s wnitings—the late Jared Sparks—substituted the formal ‘General | Putnam’’ in every place where the Father _ of his Country fell below the stiff dignity | which Mr. Sparks thought betitting. Most ot us profer to sce glimpses of the human side | of Washington's character. At any rate, “Old | Put’’ was one of Washington's pet favorites, and it is one of the lovable traits of so stately a man that he thoroughly appreciated the | strong qualities of the brave, careless old | man who rode about in the heat of the Bunker Hil action ‘‘with a banger belted across his brawny shoulders, over a waistcoat without sleeves,” and who was always equally vigorous aud equelly unmindful of starched dignity. There was such 9 contrast in the manners of Washington and Putnam that it is refreshing to think how thoronghiy “Old | Pat’ was valued by his commander. But | at the date of Bunker Hill Putnam had not | yet become known to Washington, On that occasion he was the busiest man in the field, | and the country will equally honor him, } whether he was or was not the technical com- mander on that raemornble day. We print an interesting communication | from Rev. Increase N. Tarbox, which sup- | ports, with striking force of argument, the claims of General Putnam to be considered as the commander at Banker Hill. Certain it ia that Putnam was a brigadier general and Prescott only a colonel; certaio it is that during some parts of the day he assumed to give com- mands, as if Le were the source of authorit; and Mr. Tarbox makes out o very plausible ease in favor of bis claim to the highest | honor of the day. Whether this conelusion | js accepted or not nobody will ever question Putnam's great services, and so long as the annals of our Revolution are read he will be regarded as one of the most interesting and | | attractive characters of the period, | Commanded at Tus Unvovavay Extzs have been sent to sea from Havana, and we presume they will come to this country. Why the American steamers should refuse to take them as passen- gers we cannot undersiand, unless the re- fusal was prompted by a fear of Spanish | hatred. The conspirators against the Repub- | lic ot Urnguay will be harmless in the Repub- , lic of the United States. Lax Seizvar or tar Ovravea is one of | those events which givo the customs officers, H the Cuban generals in Broadway, the “Span- | jah spies’’ in New York, the State Department and the consular offices a Little inaocent ox- | citement without doiag any regal injury to | aaybody. | thought of a real live Mayor at last visiting | that would appeal so warmly to the liberality | and public spirited and would pay their | the hands of his lawyers; but Jay Gould, | Dan, with millions of other people’s. These | eminent financiers aro now somewhat with- | thoroughly in any enterprise’ that would re- | and ‘Harlem flat essences’' to enable him to | addressing the London Exchange on the mys- | | given number of voters, | kisa, succeeding Moody and Sankéy as the | ment being to honor the Lord by worshipping | street, the clipped pigeons of politics, like ‘ stopping the ctroulation of the Catholic Gazette 1875.1 RIPLE The Eagie Over the Seas. The rumor that the Mayor has really re- considered his determination, and will visit London as the guest of the Lord Mayor, al- though not as authentic as we could wish, has been received with the liveliest satisfaction by those of our fellow citizens who glory in the American name. We sent abroad so many representative Americans in Tammany and shoddy and petroleum times that the London as the type of American chivalry and comeliness fills us with pride. The Mayor's fear that the public convenionce would suffer from his absence has been removed. As the only undisputed duty pow remaining to his office fs the reviewing of Irish processions Governor Tilden has kindly accepted the task, Ho has purchased an orange and a green coat—the orange for the 12th of July and the green for St. Patrick's Day. What is more, the Governor is an expert horseman, and could review the procession mounted, like the Emperor Napoleon, In this respect the | Governor is anperior to the Mayor, who never appears to so much advantage as in a hack. If wo only could indueo the Governor to go on horseback, with Wickham following after in an open barouche, holding the American flag aloft, the sensation they would make on Pail Mall would be remem- bered for ages as one of the brightest memo- | ries in our history, At such a spectacle— Tilden, the Ring smasher, and Wickham, the procession reviewor—the British lion might well slink away and hide his anger in the dark recesses of the Tower. But we cannot spare Tilden, Hoe has the Rapid Transit bill to sign and the Delafield Smith matter to set- | | tle and Comptroller Green to remove. Then he is not as handsome a man as the Mayor. Moreover, ho is a bachelor, The public spir- ited fathers and mothers of this Republic would never consent to be represented by a man who, with all of his virtues, makes his life a protést against the holiest and noblest emotions of the human breast. Now that the Mayor is really going let us sond him off with an imporial retinue. Thero is no hope of Green furnishing any money for the trip, but New York wili not stand ons matter of a million or two for a purpose like this, Woe could have a benefit at all the the- | atres, for instance, and assessments on the office-holders. Wedo not know any subject of the people as this proposed excursion, We should be willing, for instance, to pay Green's | expenses ourselves and to supply him with beer and tobacco if he will only go and stay, As for the four bosses, the money would come naturally. The Beef-eaters would gladly sub- scribe Boss Tom Marphy's expenses, while | the Swallow Tails wonld bave no difficulty in giving Boss John Kelly a princely outfit, | As for Boss John Morrissey, of the | | Short Hairs, and Boss Tom Creamer, | of the Plag Uglies, ‘they are both rich own bills and lavish largess on London citi- vena, Boas Tweed, it he could be released | | from the pressure of existing engagements, | would, no doubi, contribute with his historic | | prodigatity toward any enterprise that enabled | him to visit the homes of his ancestors. It is just possible Tweed’s money bas all gone into Tweed's old partner, would not be niggard in hia contributions. Then there are Uncle Dick, witb millions of his own, and Uncle drawn from public affairs and havo abundant ‘leisure to improve theiy minds and study | | Britieh civilization. If the matter was pre- sented to Uncle Dick in its true aspect he would pay the bills himself, for he has a widely reaching, elevated mind, and believes dound to the glory of our native land. As for Disbscker, ho will probably havo esrned enough from his ‘garbage extracts’’ rival the splendor of the Buchu Prince, his great predecessor, who now represents Ameri- | can enterprise and wealth in London, Tho | police surgeons could raise money enough in | Harlem in a day to give them a royal time ; abroad and secure them a long, long, long vacation, These financial difficulties vanish at the touch, We have only to firmly grasp them, Now York was never niggard in her | gifts. Never was there a subject which ap- | pealed so strongly to her generosity. We think of the glory that would inure from the | presenos ot Wickham in Guildhall; Wickham | in the flow and rush of centennial elo- | quence, dilating upon ‘the times that tried meu's souls"—the virtnes of Wash- ington and the vices of George IV. We! think of the long array of states- | financiers, clergymen and authors, who would proudly march down Pall Mall in His Honor's train to the tune of ‘Yankee Doodle.'’ We think of Big Bonanza Gould teries of the Erie management. We see the four bosses explaining bow the largest num- ber of votes can be extracted from the smallest We seo Boss Shep- | herd eloquently instructing the Aldermen | how to reconstruct London on the basis of | Washington, We see Andy Johnson, Ben Butler, Novada Jones, Centennial Dix and other representative heroes discoursing on | love and war and patriotism. We seo, Beecher and Tilton reconciled with a holy | apostles of a free and easy theology—a religion ot floriculture and oscultation—painting | heaven asa kind of rose garden, dedicated to | loro and wit and beauty, the chief command- one’s self, We seo the lame ducks of Wall | Carpenter and Chandler and Schurz—the soiled doves like Coifax and Patterson, all in happy processions, the Mayor proudly in the van, Barnum on ono side and Gilmore on the other, playing the national anthem in defiance of British tyranny. When we think of this long and brilliant parade and remember that it is jast possible that most of them would never return we cannot refrain from congratu- lating our Mayor upon the resolution to visit London. We bid him Godspeed, and ray with fervent heart, ‘Hail and farewell!’ Tur Prowmtrtox “oF Newsrarens is weak and foolish, and Bismarck will find that in of Baltinore in Germany he has only adver- tised the attacks af that journal upon Germen | policy. | New York. He sends it hither—perhaps to | we have described constantly take place, in | are the professional Irishman and the profes- | principal claim to political recognition. They | find depicted on the faces of those who are | now sleeping on the banks of the Shannon | are bound to respect. | will not be nominated because he is a profes- | totimaidation, SHEET. Ureoked and Straight Silks, No one is so vitally interested in the pre+ vention and the detection of smuggling as the honest merchant, for the smuggler takes him at @ most unfair and ruinous advantage. But all honorable and fair-dealing merchants are equally concerned that they or members of their class shall not be wrongly accused of smuggling, and that the public shall under- stand that the purchase of goods by a mer- chant at a lower price than they can usually be bought at in this market is not a proof that such goods are smuggled, New York is one of tho largest markets in the world, and it has one peculiarity well | known to all European manufacturersa—goods | can always be sold here if the prices are low enough, It happens, therefore, almost every year that surplus stocks are consigned hither, where their foreign owners are certain, by long experienco, that they can” get them off their hands at some price. For in- stance, a French silk manufacturer may ; supply the English, German, Russian and American markets regularly with his product. But as the season draws to a close he may discover that he has produced more than he hag a market for. He cannot afford to keep the surplus stock on hand; and he can, it deems, do so well with it nowhere as in his regular consignee. This merchant, prob- ably for good reasons, does not wish openly to lower his established prices. He employs a broker, who carries samples of the goods— not a bale, or even a yard, buta fragmont— to the merchants, and makes with them the best terms he can. Perhaps he employs sev- eral brokers, These persons, of course, con- coal their principal. They make the sale, de- liver the .goods and receive the price, ead they are responsible that the goods shall an- swor to the sample. Now, it is clear that if such a practice exists, as honorable merchants assert, the purchase of silks or other goods at a price considerably lower than the ruling or average markot | price is not justly to be taken as proving that the goods were smuggled. It is possible that smuggled goods may be put upon the market in the same way. Itiseven possible that a merchant should buy them innocently in his dealings with a broker; though he could be justly held responsible for not using proper ; precautions in such purchases. We are assured that transactions of the kind the regular course of business; that many, or indeed most of the largest mercantile houses here buy goods in this way, which are not smuggled, but are fair importations on which | duty has been paid, and which are put upon { the market for what they will fetch, the owner in Europe preferring to realize upon | thom, even at a loss, rather than keep them on hand. Of course m what we say we have no reference to cases which are now before the courts, Messra. Ciaflin & Oo. will have to show the nature of their transactions. We only desire to protect the general fair fame of the merchants by showing that the pur- chase of goods atan abnormally low price is not necessarily a proof that they were smug- gled. Under Which King? Now that we are about entering upon the municipal canvass it is interesting to note the ; influences which are gradually seeking to control the nominations of the different par- | ties. Thetwo classes that excite our attention | sional German. We have politicians who make their nationality and their religion a are o peculiar class, and their intrigues may be watched with interest and attention. The professional Irishman views with alarm ‘‘the | rapid growth of the German element in this country of ours,” while the professional Ger- | man apprehends with dismay ‘the rapid transit of the professional Irishman to politi- eal power and position’’ to the exclusioa of the descendants of the soldiers of Frederick | the Great. If it were permissible for the | dead to take an active interest in tho affairs of | the living what alarm and dismay would we and the Rhine! From the lands which have given us a Wellington and a Moltke, a Mooro and a Schiller, a Balfe and a Wagner, ao | Boncicault and a Wachtel, an Edmund Burke and Carl Schurz, Germans and Irish- men are now marching shoulder to shoulder, fighting as valiantly as the legions of Casar and Hannibal to uphold Tammany's doctrine that the descendants of the men who fought under Washington are entitled to no rights— at least in the city of New York—that the pro- fessional Irishmen or professional Germans Historical critics will observe that this is the first time that Irishmen and Germans | have acted in unison since William of Orange | and General Meinhart Schomberg scatterod the Trish battalions on the banks of the Boyne. There is another thought, however, that should not be overlooked. Irishmen and Germans should remember that they have registered an oath remouncing allegiance to | all foreign kings and potentates. They have | only to look at their nataralization papers to find that they are American citizens in the fullest sense of that word. We trust that no question of nationality or creed will be allowed to enter our party politics ; that aman sional Irishman or professional German, pro- fessional Protestant or professional Catholic, but only for integrity, fitness and capacity. Exection Fravps m Aranama.— We print | this morning the first of Mr. Nordhofi's | letters from Alabama, He gives a very remarkable account of systematic election frauds in that State. It appears from sworn | testimony that in 1874 some republican lead- ers organized and trained negro bands of re- peaters ; they held secret sham elections, at | which black voters were taught how to vote early and often; and while this was going | on United States troops were used to intimi- date democratic voters in the country dis- tricts by throats of arrest on blank warrants, | and bacon given by Congress to help those farmers who bad suffered by on overflow of the Alabama River was used by republican | Politicians as a means to gain votes for their | party and themselves. The details which | Mr. Nordhoft gives are grotesquely comio, Among other things it seems that the negro loaders have been shown guilty of seek | Princess of th: | cone The International Rite Contest, The selection of the Irish team who are te compete with the Americans for the prize of victory has been at last completed, and we can now form some definite notion of the na- ture of the struggle which will take place at Dollymount. The men who are to act as tha champions of Ireland are certainly danger- ous opponents, Not one of them but haa already won honors in matches where thoy were pitched against the best riflemen of Europe. Even such excellent shota as the Rigbys and Mr. Johnson are low down in the list of the twelve mon selected to represent Ireland in the coming struggla Our riflemen will of necessity be compelled to confine themselves to a team of six, They will then find themselves opposed to six of the best riflemen Ireland possesses, Should they come off victorious they will havo won double glory, and should they fail it will not be discreditable to either their skill or nerve. We doubt if .a much stronger term than the first six men on the Irish team could be found in any country in the world, Only three of the men who shot in the international match at Creedmoor will be included. They axe Dr. Hamilton and Messrs. Wilson and Milner, 1m his shooting, for he stands well ahead of all the Irish competitors, with a splendid score, while Dr. Hamilton and Mr, Milner are law down on tho list, the latter gentleman standing only fifth, the sixih competitor being only five points behind his score, The total number of points made by the compoti- tora are 4,535 out of a possible 5,400, giving as a result something over an average of centres during all the competitions, This shooting is remarkably close, but not beyond the best work of the men who have gone across tho ocean to represent America. Notwithstand- ing tho undoubted skill of the Irish marks. men the official return of the work they have done shows that another American victory is quite within the range of posibility, and this time with all the advantages in favor of the Irish champions. Tae Manca of the Black Hills surveying and geological expedition forms the subject of an interesting letter which we print thiy morning. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General Rufus Ingalls, United States Army, 1s at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Joseph R, Anderson, of Virg|nia, ls a0- Journing at the Windsor Hotel. Captain Edward Simpson, United States Navy, is siaying at the Everett House, Miss Vinnle Ream, the sculptress, is among the late arrivals at the New Yor’ Hotel, Senator Theodore F. Randolph, of New Jersey, has apartments at the New York Hotel, Mr. Samuel Bowles, of the Springfleid Repubtt- can, 18 registored at the Windsor Hotel. State Senator William Johnson, of Seneca Falta, N, Y., has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman George M. Beebe, of Monticello, N. Y., is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Secretary Robeson and family arrived at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday from Washingtun, General James Longstreet, of New Orieans, ar- | Tived ta the clty last evening and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Congressman Gilbert O, Walker, of Virginta, has returned to this city and taxen up his residence at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Teunyson’s new drama deals with the ilfo of Mary Tudor from her crowning to her decease, ane is entitied “Queen Mary: a Drama.” Chief Justice Cockburn, in inaugurating an Ars | Exhibition at Southampton, spoke of the study of artas necessary to complete the culture opeued | to the human mind by literature. Weare to bave a lite of General Burgoyne, of Revolutionary and Saratega memory, from the pen of B. de Fonbianque, which will be filled with English aud Awmerivan epaelas otsis o: @ cen. tury ago. Princo Gortschakoff {a talking pacing romance, flowers, sentiment—all things pretty, to the Em- | press of Germany at Saden-Baden; and at this | same romantic lady secant sheersas the Muse of Weimar, The King of Spain ca by royal decreo, created | @ Junta of Indies, whose mission will consiat ta i aiding the auth ritios in the hospital service, The Asturias 13 appointed president of the new body. A pigeon, cr ptured in a balloon during tne alera of Paris, wos sent by Prince Frederick Charies to nis mother, It recently escaped from captiv. | ty and returned to ts former owuer, in the | Boulevard Clichy, Who has prosonted tt to the Pigeonnler Militaire. The Spanisa government officially dectares that present time the electoral pertod ta 4 that consequently the press is entitied to discuss all constituiionai questions, on condt- tion that it does not attack the monarehical pria- ciple and the representative system, Thomas Uarr was fined {a an English eourt eleven suillings sterling for having exposed in tha market for asie twenty hens and a cock ina basket cigtteen Inches square and scarcely 4 foot deep. And if Mr. Berga will step around lively at the places where jive fowls are scld in this city he can get himselfinto amy quautity of tuis kind of trouble. Scaudal of magnificent proportions. It ts be- die in Russia that the Grand Duchess Mario lead: life of dally martyrdom with her Bricisa | husband, the Duge of Edinburgh, and the neart of every son of Muscovy burns ip listening to the goasip current about the til treatment which the | daughter of the Czar receives at home and the ramors ladies, He ti ne ef the most polite men in En- | rope, and in the midst of abundant small chat ha may be gathering tn groat information. In ole own country he knows everything that goes on in every family of importance. No mean spies, no policemen, tio vile mation. Itcomes gently, delicately, doubiy | Mlied In letsers fiom tnnumerable lady corre- Spondents, “Unser Frita’s'’’ two eldest sons are upon a pe- destrian trip ta Germany. They travel in strict in- cognito, accompanied only by their tator. At ote! in Fritzlar the excursiontsts, look- | ing perhaps rather tired and travel stained, or. Gered coffee, for wiich the landlord covsideratoly _ charged only two stibergroschen a head, on the |, Stoand that his guests were provadiy “a couple of T eekootboye on «@ trip from Cassel.” In another | place their ordor for tree rooms was bluntly re- fused, and they were otherwise (reated with @ tuous dis! rd, for which mine host could not find suMcient apologies as socn ag ne bad been made acquainted with the reai charactor of bis visitors. The London Spectator has a eriticism upon the “Lotos Leaves,” a publication by the Lotos Ciup of this city, written by mombers of our literary and artistic circl It praises the hymn of Jona Brougham as “the most vigor@s lines,” Jona Hay’s “Sonnet on Liberty,” which seemed to bo the best in the book to our American view, ta dis~ Missed as “the production of @ univorelty atu- dent,” and ‘many a youthful versifier who would be & poet has tarned out lines " The sounet called “Lethe” is “weak im ht and atterly destitute of music,” while ie C, Morio's drinking song “deserves praise neither for its language nor its sentiment.'t Chandos Fulton's story ja culiea “aiity,” and the essay of onry 4, Olcott is “a oawe of Intaggatiog Bistore = vivid isnuange. . ‘a Mr. Wilson seems to have improved - —— —