The New York Herald Newspaper, June 28, 1875, Page 6

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Tux Farenps of rapid transit in New York may learn something from the description our London correspondent gives of transit in that sity. ‘Tam Baccatacegats Sermons delivered yes- | terday will be found very interesting reading, especially the eloqnent and thoughtful argu- ments of Dr. McCosh, of the College of New Jersey; the address of President Porter, of | Yale, and that of President Cattell, of Latuy- ette College. Tur Heatev Ten is worse than the third term. Yesterday the sun poured torrid beams upon the town, and those who believed 0 few weeks ago that the winter would last all summer found their error when the ther- mometer stood at ninety-five degrees in the shade. Fortunately, it was the blessed diy of rest, and thousands of our citizens sought | fresh air on the rivers or in the Park. Tas Evento the avti-Tammany meeting | will be held, and we shail «ee if there is any truth in the theory of the Tammany leaders that the new party is without strength. It is | not a good time of the year tor political meet- ings, but the laborers whose wages have been rednoed suffer enongh and waut to make it hot for somebody else. Roser tx Asta.—We print this morning an exceedingly interesting letter from Si. Petersburg describing the movements of the Russian power in Asia. [It will be seen that notwithstanding the assurances of the envoy sent by the Czar to the English government before the invasion of Khiva the victorious Emperor has been compelled to occupy the best part of the Khivan dominions. The assuragce of the Emperor was one point, the necessities of Russian ambition another. As our correspondent shows with so much learn- ing and eloquence, Russia means to win her way in spite of England to the dominions of Asia Terran Expronation Sourawann mm Ar- nica. —By a special cable telegram from Rome we are informed that the expeditionary force vhich was commissioned some time ago by the government of the Bey of Tanis to explore the territory southward from his seat of gov- How to Save the Republican Party. ‘The number of Presidential candidates who are anxious for the republican nomination is slowly but constantly decreasing. Friend after friend doparta; | Who bath got lost a iriend? It begins to be generally suspected that in spite of democratic foolishness the country is turning its face toward that party and its back upon the republicans. ‘The shrewdest men in the republican party are making up their minds to a ‘demooratic interregnum ;"' and a good many of them are not sorry. If the democratic leaders North aud Souta had | only managed to inspire the country with a little confidence in their conservative wis- dom in the last four or five years they would carry off with them next year a large and the best part of the republican party. This is a disagreeable state of things for the republican leaders; but they have themselves alone to btame for it, and they have the remedy in their own hands if they have but the courage and wisdom to apply it. They are not yet ruined, and they need not be; on the contrary, they have it in their power now to confer © great benefit on the country, and at the same time, as we believe, rescue their party from a threatening defeat. If it should be known to-day that the leading republicans of | | the different States—men of the stamp of | Blaine and Wilson, of Whecler, Ellis H. Rob- | berts and Wood!ord, in New York; of Hayes ond Foster, in Ohio; of Willard, Poland and | Edmunds, in Vermont; Phelps, in New Jersey; | Willard, in Michigan; Ferry, in Connecticut; Kasson and James F. Wilson, in Iowa; McVeagh, in Pennsylvania, and others whom we might name—had met together for con- sultation, and that they had called to them such honest Southern republicans as Sheldon and Judge Steele, in Louisiana; Judge Tar- 4 bell, in Mississippi, and Buckley and others, in Alabama, as well as a number of Southern whigs; and if to-morrow the result of this | consultation should be made public in an ad- | | dress pledging the signers, on behalf of the | | republican party, to repeal, at the earliest | moment, the enforcement acts and put a stop to all federal interference in the local affairs | of the Southern States, there is very little ! men, shut up in the Brooklyn Court House, doubt that the repubiican party would have removed the only really formidable obstacle to its success in 1876. ~ | No sensible person in the North any longer | doubts that this interference, however proper | and necessary it may have been during some | | years after the war, has, during the last two or | three years, and even longer, been the ineans | of keeping in power in the South a set of un- scrupulous politicians, who have misgoverned and robbed and used the federal power to sustain themselves. Even those who believe { that violence and lawlessness are still the rule in the South—and their number decreases | daily—acknowledge that the republican rulers there are bad men, who are guilty of | grave and dangerous maladministration; jand it is evident to all who have paid attention to the subject that the federal power, under the enforcement acts, is used now in the South only to bolster up a set of corrupt and incapable men who injure the republican name and crush out every at- tempt by honest republicans at reform of the | party there. Now, the republican party is re- | sponsible for this federal interference and its | results. It had the courage to adopt the en- forcement nets at a time when Southern soci- | ety was still disdrganized by the resulta of the | war. Has it the courage to demand and | | promise their repeal, now that circumstances | have changed, and these laws are not a safe- guard but a curse to the country? If the re- | publican leaders have the courage to do this | they will relieve themselves from the respon- | sibility for the evils and oppression suffered by the Southern people; but they cannot avoid this issue, which, do what they may, will be the predominant one in the next can- vase, as it ought to be, unless they now take itout. For, not only cannot the country go | on longer in the extra-constitational path in | which it has been drifting, butit is impossi- ble for the intelligent people of the Southern States, no matter what their party prefer- ences or their political principles may be, to | allow the attention of the people to be di- | verted from the one evil and danger which | afflicts them,and by sympathy us. Unless the | | republican party thia year repudiates the fed- | eral interference, and with it the class of cor- | | rnpt men who have thriven by it, this ques- | tion must and ought to be the most prominent one in the canvass of 1876. There aro a number of reasons why the conservative part of the people, South as well as North, would prefer to see a conservative, honest and liberal republican statesman at the | head of the federal administration during the | next term, if the enforcement acts are repealed. ¢ dificult to find in all the Southern States democrats who think thus. Probably | | the great body of liberal republicans have the | same desire, as well as not a few thoughtful | Northern democrata. But there is no doubt | | that this whole mass of honest and thonght- | | fal citizens will welcome and support a demo- | | erat for the Presidency rather than run the | | risk of » continuance of the federal inter- | ference, and of esnch extr-constitutional government as has oppressed, irritated and | robbed the Southern States for some years. Nor would such a declaration as we suggest, | made by a convention of leading republicans, merely relieve their party of an odinm from | which already they suffered in last fall's elec- | tions, and which becomes constantly more fatal to them. It would give them the oppor- tunity to place trae and beneficent issues be- fore the country in 1876, and to make them- selves once more the exponents of the honesty and patriotism of the country. It is ‘time to unload, as Grant | said two years ego. The republican Jeaders have begun to unlowd Grant; but ¢ timidly «cling to his policy, and there is where they will make ship. wreck. If we are to perpetuate a policy of repression, of irtitation, of spoliation, thon | upon the question of the amount of damages | who insist that Mr. Beecher has been guilty, | institution at present but little known. | will probably enter yet, and as the gradnatea | iwportant secount of the proposed treaty re- | ernment has reached the town of Cabes, in | General (rant is undoubtedly the bea man. the Galf of Cabes, Africa, The men of the For that he is eminently-fitted, by his iron command wers in excollent health. Theyhad | hand, his ignorance, his disregard of charac plonty of food. The supply of labor was equiv- | ter and contempt for constitutional methods lont to the demand, and Bedouins were obe- | if any man sincercly believes what the Penn- diemt fo the orders of the sheik, who leads | sylvania and Ohio repubscans assert in their che party in person. The expedition will ex- | platforms, that the administration of (ene- plore the Island of Jerba, in North Africa, a | ral Grant deserws praise for statesmanchip fertile spot, The party has already exploded | and bas been successful he ought to stick tho story of the ancient topographers of the | to the President; fer on that line he isteace of @ canal which connected Syrtis | the best man. But if we are to return to cou- Tranean, with | stitutional ways, and to the discussion of the | | areas is and vital questious of curtetcv, loxur, ‘ea economy, &e., and if the saaibicans want to lead us in that divection they must not only repudiate the third term, but the works and policy of the third-termers. And they have no time to lose. It will be too late next year. The country has learned to dis- trust platform promises. The republican op- portunity is now; the rank and file of the party would respond at once and joyfully to such a declaration as we have suggested, made by the true leaders of their organiza- tion; it would inspire the party with new life and rescue it from the fatally false position in which General Grant and the bummers who ure his favorites have placed it The Division of the Brooklyn Jury. The horrible idea has just occurred to us that possibly the Beecher trial is not near its end, but that the jury having been obliged to listen for six months to irrelevant testimony and exhaustive speeches, intend to revenge themselves upon Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton by staying out six months longer, and keeping them both in dreadful suspense. It is natural that they should have such a feel- ing, and nothing, probably, prevents them from indulging it but a decent respect for their own comfort. ‘The heat has for several days been extrome, and these unhappy gentle- have visions, no doubt, of the Bay, of the parks, and cool places where Beecher will cease to trouble and Tilton must let them rest. Their own sufferings will induce them to dispense with the awful revenge upon the parties in the trial which otherwise they would have been likely to in- flict. The jury were charged by Judge Neilson on Thursday, and locked up to study their lesson. It is evident from the length of time that they have consented to uncomfortable imprisonment that there is a serious division of opinion among them on the merits of the case. An immediate verdict, such as Mr. Beecher’s partisans affected to believe the jury would render without leaving the box, could not have been anticipated. A decent respect for the great issues of the trial, for the weighty evidence pre- sented and the elaborate arguments of the counsel, imposed upon the jury the duty of a formal re-examination or recapitulation of the facts. Some delay was, therefore, compulsory, but one day would have been sufficient for the jury to have recalled events already fixed in their memories, and to have reported their verdict to the Court, had there been no deep and well grounded differ- ence of opinion as tothe guilt of Mr. Beecher. When the jary remains outfor more than three days it is natural to infer that such a difference of opinion exists. It cannot be to be given to Mr. Tilton, for he has an- nounced that the only damages he is inter- ested in are those which Mr. Beecher is to re- ceive. Thp question of money could be set- tled in an hour. We must, therefore, conclude that for three days there have been jurymen and that there are others who insist that he is innocent. If this is the situation, what right has either side to expect a verdict in its favor? Yet itis said that the jury will agree. We cannot see how this is possible if all the mem- bers are conscientious, for if, after six months, each juryman had not formed a decided opin- | ion the trial has had less influence within the court than it had outside of it, The jury- man whom Mr. Evarts couid not porsuade to believe in the defendant's innocence or who could not be convinced by Mr. Beach ot his | guilt would not be likely to be sincerely changed in his opinion by the arguments of his companions. ‘That these twelve men may unite in a verdict is possible ; that they can unite in a conscientious verdict it is impossible now to expect. Their absence of three days has settled that point and prepared the public for their disagreement and their final dis- charge by the Court. That would probably be the most satisfactory end, for a disagree- anent of the jury is all that Mr. Tilton could ever hope for and is quite as muchas Mr. Beecher has any good reason to expect. The College Foot Races at Saratogs. | Among the events which cluster around the coming University race not the least inter- esting will be the series of foot races thrown | open to the stadents by the gentlemen of the | Saratoga Rowing Association. It will be | seen by our advices in another column that the number of entries for these contests has | already surpassed expectation, and not only | fully establishes the success of the meeting, but bids fair to make it eclipse any event of the kind ever kuown in America. The committee have wisely thrown the races open, not merely to the colleges which send competing crews to the boat race, but to the students and alumni | of every coliege in America, and we shall not be surprised or annoyed to see the finest prizes carried off by the representative of some Asa feature of the general awakening in the matter of a sound and symmetrical physical develop- ment among young men these meetings are well worthy of notice, and encourage the hope that a gradnate of an American college may be- | come synonymous with a man whose mind and body are sound, educated and strong. A thing that the reader will hardly fail to re- | mark in the long list of entries is the large number from Wesleyan College, while both Yale and Cornell, by bringing forward their | men who did so well last year, make sure of a good record. The times made then were only | fair, but we look now for something really | brilliant, especially as several of the crews number some wen of kuown speed and stay- ing power. A Letree from Tokio to-day contains an vision in Japan, a step which the government of that country seems inclined to take. There are many compacts with foreign nations | which need to ba readjusted, that concerning | consalar jurisdiction being one of the most | important, Tue Ixreestarn Reet Maron shot on Satarday was notable for the fact that one team shot in New York and the other in San under similar conditions, each | team being under the supervision of a repre- sentative of the other, The California troops | defeated the Twelfth regiment of New York | by twenty-thres points, avd wo elaswhere give Mae BOUT ey Francisco, | killed yesterday. The Rats at the Bin. Our readers may understand, if they give much attention to the reports of the move- ments of Local politics, that we are now on the eve of another great excitement aa tg the control of the city. It seems that there is a controversy impending between Boss John Kelly, who commands the swallow-tailed democracy, and Boss John Morrissey, who commands the short-haired element of that dominant faction, These two athletes are stripping for the encounter. Slowly coming up to tho front and forming in line to take whatever part may fall to them in the strife we have Boss ‘om Murphy, who commands the republican beef-caters, and Boss Tom Creamer, with a detachment of plug-uglies from Mackerelville, whose expenses he is lib- erally defraying out of the one hundred thou- sand dollars he recently made in Wall stroot. Eyory day we have a bulletin from our local statesmen as to the condition of the fight and the points involved. That profound Gorman scholar, Mr. Justice Quinn, who made him- selt immortal some time since, when ho viewed “with alarm the growth of the German power in this country of ours,” bas given us his views of the strife, Boss John Kelly, who isas silent as Grant, Youchsafes occasionally, in an oracular phrase, to tell us what may or may not be done. Boss John Morrissey holds loud council in an uptown barroom, threatening the defianco of Achilles between his cups. Boss Tom Murphy is too busy eating clams at Long Branch and too assiduous in his personal devotion to the President to give the time necessary to 6 proper conduct of his party. Altogether there never was so much excitemont, so much noise, so much clamor and so much strife, and the destiny of New York may be said to turn upon the “combinations’’ of the next few weeks. And yot what does it all mean? It is really nothing more than the clustering of rats around the bin. Their only purpose is corn. | All these declamations about home rule and reform and solf-government are the gnawing of the rats through the heavy plank. What they want is corn, treasury corn. What they have lived on all their lives is corn. They have been in and about the public treasury ever since their tecth were sharp enough to scratch through a pine knot. Every year we have this clamor, this excitement, these “combinations,” this burrowing through the newspapers, this scratching into clubs and conventions. It is simply the rats at the bin, eagerly striving who will first get through the plank and who will have the largest share of oorn, We wonder what are the thoughts in the }. mind of that gray old rat who has had his own good times in the bins of the past as he looks out upon the scene through the bars of Ludlow Street Jail? What advice Boss Tweed could give to these scheming, rushing, scram- bling adventurers if they would only come to the old man’s cell door and listen. We won- der what must be the musing of that alert and never very conspicuous rat Peter B. Sweeny, as he slyly saunters along the Boule- yard in the dusk and dawn and thinks of the days when he was in command of all the bins in New York and gave or took the corn as he pleased. What discussions over table dhéte and brandy and water between that colony of rats—Tom Fields, Harry Genet and the rest—who wander around the Conti- nental capitals out of the reach of Mr. O’Conor’s indictments. They know how hollow all this is, how unnecessary all these | professions of ‘‘devotion to the people,"’ how there is no difference between one politician and another, between beef-eater Tom Mur- phy and swallow-tailed John Kelly, short- haired John Morrissey and plag-ugly Tom Creamer. They are all rats at the bin eagerly scfatching for corn. What they want is corn all the time. They live on corn. The only means of obtaining corn is from the bin of the public treasury. If the people would take a proper view of this matter and see that so long as New York is governed by politicians it will be badly governed, then we might hope for a real re- form. If from year to year the bin is to be abandoned to the rats why, then, the best that we can do is tolook on and listen to their gnawing, and have as mach amusement as we can out of their tricks and struggles and con- tests and efforts to eat through the planks, Grasshoppers. Few subjects are of greater interest to the | Western farmer than this terrible insect, which is so destructive to crops that some | States have deemed it wise to treat him as a crop himself, aud fix his price anywhere from twenty cents to two dollars and a half a bushel. At the latter rate the scourge would prove an advantage to the people; for there is no other crop they can get for so little labor and sell for so much money. But States would soon tire of this transaction if the grasshopper should become, as he threatens to, a permanent incident of the Western sum- mer in proportion as the country comes under cultivation. In that case he will simply take his place with the other obstacles that natare opposes to man’s endeavors, as if only to stimulate his energies and his ingenuity in the battle for life. Many of the devices already practised by the people against their formidable foe are given in the entertaining sketch of the grasshopper by Mr. Dodge, of the Agricultural Department, which we print in another column; butthe people will im- prove upon these. It seems likely, however, | that the direction is indicated in the bint of a grasshopper machine. “What wonderful inventiona we have seen, signs of true genius and of empty pockets!” No doubt some one willinvent a machine to take the grasshoppers out of a field withont injury to | the growing crop os readily as a cultivator cleans out the weeds. In # communication also given elsewhere it is suggested that these insects can, perhaps, be profitably made into animal charcoal, and an apparatus for the purpose may be presently on sale in every country town, though our correspondent is of opinion that any farmer can make an ap- | paratus of his own. If the grasshopper can be made valuable in any way the people will certainly regard his visitation with far less | terror. Tar Doo ‘STAR. — Several mad dogs were It is to be hoped that this hot weather will not bring on us another hydrophobia panic, like that of last year, when people who were dog-bitton diod of fright, oven if thay escaped the poison. Drama — Shall ne Playodt The appearance of Tennyson's drama, “Queen Mary," is one of the great literary events of the century. Both in its merits and its faulta it is a surprising effort, Wor strong and vigorous English it is unsurpassed by any poem in the language, and it is, besides, ex- ceedingly rich in daintiness as well as lusti- ness of spooch, Many of its best lines and best speeches are introduced apparently tor their own sake, just as we sometimes see & characteristic part introduced into a working drama for the sake of affording a favorite actor a coveted opportunity, The fourth act in Mr. Tennyson's play, which is, by all odds, the best piece of writing in the dramatic form since Shakespeare, is justified only in its ex- Tennyson's y | cellence, for Cranmer'’s imprisonment and death were only incidents, not pivotal events, of Queen Mary's reign. Wyatt's rebellion was another incident, and yet if the poot had not given it a prominence beyond its actual im- portance as a part of his work we should not have gained qne of the best pieces of prose ever penned—the speech of the rebel- lions nobleman to the dissatisfied pop. ulace, More in keeping with the drama as a drama is the daintiness of treatment ac- corded to the Princess Elizabeth. Her love scene with Courtenay is exquisite, and throughout tho piece hor actions are subordi- nated to those of the Queen with a skill evincing great dramatic insight Another effective scene, even in an acting play, is the quarrel in Mary's presence betweon Gardiner and Pole, and we are not sure that in good hands it would not bo of its kind one of tho example which might have been profitably fol- lowed elsewhere. We havo cited enough vari- eties to prove that no one oan exouse hia irre ligion in New York on the ground that he cannot find a ereed to suit him, We can accommodate all shades and kinds of Ohris- tians, Buddhists, Brabmins and pagans, and if a man has any new doctrine not already provided for there is nothmg to provent him from preaching it himself. Rosecra: and Sherman's +Memoirs.’* We publish this morning an interesting lot- tor from General Rosecrans, who, during the war, was one of our most conspicuous and esteémod commanders. General Rose- crans, im commenting upon. the publica tion of the Sherman ‘‘Memoirs," ap- proves of the course of the General in giving, to the world his views of the great events in which he took #0 prominent o part. Ho intimates that he may himself write fulty his own narrative of these famous transac- tions. The General alludes to the description of his military operations in the West by Gen- eral Badean in the ‘Official Life of Grant’ as “calumnies” which ho has “left unnoticed thas far, because the time has been inoppor- tune and the exigencies of a government and a party render it necessary to prevent the, truth from becoming known, which would fend to destroy the popularity of the leader, who, albeit against their better instincts, its chiefs have felt it necessary to set up.” We infer from this that General Rosecrans believes the time will come when ho will find it necessary to challengo the military suprem- Genoral Bo much may be. said the. work—there are so many for honest difference of opinion—and mere stage snocess is, after all, a problem,that can never be determined be- -yond dispute unless the curtain is raised and the lights turned upon an actual representa- tion, that itis likely, in spite of all our praises of the play as a poem, its merits asa drama will be practically tested before the excite- ment occasioned by the appearance of the work is allowed to die out, The only ques- tion is, Where is the manager who has the courage to undertake its representation ? But this is a question that we presume will not be answered unless the public evince a very strong desire to see the play on the boards of one of our leading theatres, Shadowy as most of the characters are the actors would gain great favor by investing the parts with the fire and potency it is the mission of the stage to supply. No such opportunity is likely to occur again during the present century for ond cultured elocution as that af- by Tennyson's faultless and vigorous verse. Oould a company be found capable of reading the lines and looking the parts suc- cess might be won through triumphant elocu- tion. This in itself is worth striving for, though, it must be confossed, exceedingly diffi- cult of attainment. If the play is not an act- ing drama—and it is our deliberate judgment that it is not—it still might be the subject of ® great dramatic reading that in the ond would work a revival of what is almost a lost art. Many of Shakespeare's plays are nearly as deficient in acting qualities as Tennyson's “Queen Mary;'’ but if they were well read people of culture, who are shocked with the wretched elocution of the minor actors, would take pleasure in the recital. Reading is an art that is lost to the stage, and here is an opportunity to restore it and at the same time afford the public a chance to judge of the dramatic worth of a work that must be tested behind the footlights before people will be content to accept it as a drama suited only to the study. The Vartety of Religion in New York. ion in New York is remarkable for its variety. In countries where one Church is established by law, and where other churches are forbidden or at least but tol- erated, there must be a monotony of wor- ship. The history of the Jews illustrates this offect. Required to worship bat one Su- preme Being they were continually running off after false gods, a tendency which gave the prophets a great deal of trouble. In this city religion resembles more closely that of the Greck Pantheon, wherein every worshipper could choose any god that he liked, some preferring Mercury, others Pal- las, and others Diana or Bacchus. The pious mind must be fastidious indeed if it does not find in our churches some religion that will suit it, and if it has any difficulty in the matter it has only to act upon the ad- vice given by printed placards in fashion- able stores: —‘‘If you dou't see what you want ask for it."’ The sermons we print to-day give some evidence of this wonderful variety of re- ligiou, Some of our churches overflow with piety, no expense or labor being spared to procure the most eloquent clergymen and the finest choirs. Other churches have just as little religion as they can get along with without being classed with lecture rooms and Sanday clubs. Mr. Frothingham gives re- ligion in homeopathic doses, a grain of Christianity being mixed with a gallon or so of heathenism. Yesterday he compared the Saviour with Tom Paine, and considered the latter to be in some respects the nobler char- finest stage pictures in the historical drama. J acy of General Grant. If he has any contri- bution to make to history on this subject the sooner he does so the better. Our general’ comment upon this whole discussion arising ont of the publication of General Sherman's “Memoirs” is that nothing should be allowed to hide the truth; that sooner or later it must bo known, and that the more fully and frankly’ our generals write about their military trans- actions the better it will be for their own fame. A contemporary infoftayts that General Shor- man not only thinks his own book was in “good taste,"’ but would like to have Genoral: Sheridan write another of the same kind, Wa, confess that we should rejoice to have a book from General Sheridan on the war. The General is a racy, pointed writer, with a ten- dency to speak plain, which would give his book even a more interesting quality than that possessed by the ‘““Memoirs’’ of Sherman. We are further told that Admiral Porter is prepar- ing a book of recollections of the war, to be published after his death PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. pereeeniisrcneaee Mr. George L. Fox, she comedian, ts among the Jate arrivals at the Grand Central Hotel. Mr, Edward P. Smith, Commissioner of Indiam Affairs, is registered at the Windsor Hotel. Professor Ellot Lord, of the Untted States Naval Academy, is sojourning at the Windsor Motel. Lieutenant Governor H. G, Knight, of Massa- cnusetts, 1s staying at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Secretary Robeson arrived in the city yester- Gay trom Washington and is at the Filth Avenue Botel. Ecclesiastical Meteorology.—In one part of Europe they are praying for dry weatner and im another for rain, convineed on either hand that ‘the organization of nature ts at fault. uy ‘“Backsheesh” is the title under which Oolonet Thomas Knox’s travels in the Orient will be given to the world. It will be issued by subscription by A. Dooley Worthington, of Hartford, and is being rapidly pat through the press. A Maine girl left her clothing in an opon boat and hid herself, and yn her parents were cry- ing and saying that if they only had her back thoy would obey her slightest wish, she appeared and said she wanted to marry Jake. Preliminaries have been arranged for the colla- tion of Australian exhibits for Pbiladeiphia. The royal commission appointed for that purpose has as its president the Chief Justice, Sir James Mar- tin, and has already commenced its sitting. Evidently the New Zealander gets nearer and nearer to London. One of the great Maori chieis, who died in 1849, is to have over bis gravee marble obelisk, in the most approved style ot civilized fame. Cost of the obelisk, $41,000, One of the peeullarities of the paper on which the Bank of England notes are printed 1s tte strength, A bank note will support thirty-six pounds before being sized, and aiterward suppors a man for years if it is only for the rigut amount, Pittsburg papers claim to possess the person of the next President; and every Pittsburger re~ mombers that wher he was@ baby somebody put hands on bis head and said be would yet be Prest- dent. Each man 1s willing to make the sacrifice. ®Ex-Mayor Selby, of San Francisco, who recently dled in that city, was born in New York, was a clerk with A. T. Stewart aud was a Forty-niner. His monument ts # San Francisco shot tower which he built, He was siso one of the Lick tras tees. According to the Sohlesische Zettung the totat number of post offices in the entire Kussian Em- | pire, both in Enrope aud Asia, 18 3,200, In London alone (reckoning tue pillar receiving boxes) tuere are 600, and in England and Wales (exclusive of Seotiand), 9,280. Recently at the Burg Theatre, Vienna, Austria, Mme. Haisinger, the first o1a woman, celevraved y Of her début upog the stage. The Crown Prince was the frat to tarow s gigantic boaquet to the artiste, whois an eapectai favorite with the imperial family. She is seventy- mix years old. 1t is reported thom India that the Englisn aa- thorities there have in their possession a letter written by the King of Burman to one of the small chiefs of bis country which would #1 thetatter as an instraction and authority for the murder of Mr. Margary. Of course such a letter will justify and assare the deposition of His Majesty. In the village of Baraon, in the cistrict of Sha- acter of the two. A strong contrast with this is found in Mr. Talmage’s sermon in Brooklyn, in which he showed that the recent revival in his Tabérnacle had resulted in what he called a “spiritual haul’ of five thousand two hun- dred and eighty souls, who fled from the wrath tocome. This was certainly to have done well, and the converter announced that the congregation needed a rest and that the Tabernacle would be closed until September | 5. The centenarian clergyman, Mr. Boelim, took a view of the character of Jesus direetly opposite to that of Mr. Frothingham. Mr, Beecher spoke of a cloud of witnesses (there were one hundred and ten in the trial) and of the occupation of the saints above. Mr. | Hepworth preached upon the humility of | Christ and the importance of emulating His spirit of sacrifice, Then, to go to another extreme, the Progressive Spiritualists listened toan address from a lady who was inspired by several well-informed ghosts, who ro- mained in the background and whose names we were not able to ob-| tain. §=They were spiritual wirepullers, | holding a relation to the lady, Mrs, Hyser, | similar to that which the Albany lobby does to the Logislature, At St. Patrick's Cathedral | | | i | | | | | Father Kano announced that no sermon would be preached on account of tho heat. aa | he leaves in the car when he gets out. babad, a tiger of large size was sitting tn a sugar- gether many people, among whom there were two Gowalla youths, who had heen tending their buffaloes close by. While the whole crowd dared pot approach the tiger one of these young men proceeded, bare handed, toward the ferocious animal, which in one leap brought bim ander hie body. The man, althongh in sach position, nad the presence of mind to catch hold of tne fore lega, of his adversary, while the other youth, with an- parsiletod boldness and dexterity, hold of the tiger’s neck. the spectators now lending their assistance, the brave Gowalla youths came out victorious with their adversary slain and fallen at their feet. How is ta done by bankers and brokers and leg | islators the public knows; and this is the way it is done by the boys who peddle on the trains, as New Orleans Picayune "You each boy is furnixhed with Jnst so much frait, so many books ana papers, and he is either obliged to show them ap at the end oF the route or else tarm over the money tor which been sold. The oniy way it can be dona OOK, SRY, 10 & passenger for is tt, and then we give bim anew a. He book worth fifty cents for the one he has r | He is genorally willing to make the exchange, aad $1 50, reads the new one. This, when finished, he ts willing to swap for a ten cent paper, which pezor ‘This papet we pick ap 8nd pus back im our pile, having al! of our books and papers and $1 60, Tha ia abous the only Khow we have: wiskoat ib We Coma nos | make a decaas Uviagy