The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1875, Page 6

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Persons gorg out of iow he summer can have the daily and Sundey Hexaun mutied io them, free of posiage, for $1 per month. * Wart Srraegr Yestxnpar.—Owing to the passing of the dividend by Late Shore the market near the close wes feverish. Gold ad- vanced irom 116} to 117}. War could not Mayor W: firemon’s warrants under a pr give the poor men’s families He could do this by remaining Manhattan Club dinner. ay from one Mencaxtmx Famcnes m Loxp tinue. Another firm has yiciced to the pres- sure, and liabilities to the amonnt of five taillion dollars are added to the previous list. The great city seems to be ihe cenire of & financial cyclone, Over Crstensian.—The Fr evidently takes a lively interes coming Centennial. A commitiee of promi- nent Frenchmen has been appointed to en- courage their countrymen to participate in the grand Exposition st Philadelphia. Ai bonor to the land of Lafayotie. Tux Borper Razps.—The news comes to us from the Rio Grande border of ‘the arrest of the notorious General Cortina, in Matamo- tos, by the officer in command of the ne- tional forces there. As Cortina has many de- voted partisans, both io the city and the country round about, it is not unlikely a $o- rious outbreak may follow. Tue Reaarta of the Central Hudson Club took place yesterday at Pourhkeepsic, and re- sulted in the victory of the Leroy, of New Hamburg, among the first class bouts, and the Mary Hmma, of Oyster Boy, L. L, among the craft of the second class, The Lulu was the successful competitor in the third class. ‘The race was over a twenty mile course. Tue Hantem Fists No the subjects before the Commun Council yes- terday. The nuisance was strongly de- nounced, but the Aldezmen «. their authority to abate it in one of ANCE Was re in doubt as view of the fact that there is no approp on for that purpose. The question wos referred to the Corporation Counsel for is oficial opinion. Te Commencem —The academie exer- cises of our leading educational institntions aro now the leading feature of the prosent time, and many parent's soul is ch the reports of collegiate triumphs wou arena of contending minds. Yale College and the Acad Vincent age reported in ano’ yere pf a very interesting ns see of Oon Rurtuway in Ireland are sill the path of success on which ously-entered a few days ago. for the Abercorn Cup at Doliya 5 mienced yesterday aud will be continu day, Colonel Gildersiceve end M of the American team, aud Messrs. Pollock nd Wilson, on the part of the Irish, making tho best scores. The reception of our victo- rious sbarpshoolers on their return to New York will likely be o most brilliant one, as are already on foot to extend to | them such 9 hearty welcome as they well de- are , the same terms | Bs crows and of their training, and the complete- still con- | NEW The Lntercoliegiate Regatta. In the forty-six years that have intervened | since the two great Englih universities frst | contended ina boating match the practive of | intercollegiate races has become an annual fete in America as well as in England. | | Though the annual race fails to create the | same furore on thie side of the Atlantic that | is created by the Oxford aad Cambridge | match on the other, it is not because less 2n- | terest is felt in the subject of boating by} our poople than that shown by the English. | Onur difficulties are physical and geographi- cal, A sparser population and longer dis- | tances prevent such an aggregation of | hums anity at Saratoga Lake as annually | gathers between Mortlake and Putney, but the | enthusiasm is as great on this side of the ocean as on the other, and the interest in the result is even more widespread. Besides all this, boating with us is still in its infancy. Physical culture was never regarded as of much value by American colleges, and its growth has been in | defiance of college rules. Institutions founded for sectarian .purposes could not be expected to look with much favor upon @ practice that was likely to place the body on a higher plane of development than the | soul, and it was a good many years after | the English universities had set us the ex- | awple that the American undergraduate took | to the oarat all Even when boating began | to attract attention only two of our leading | institations of learning furoished crews for ° the university match. Harvard and Yale | were satisfied to contend with each other | year after year, and none of the other col- \deges seemed to think it necessary to seek | to take part in the match. When the change | came it was a revolution. Experience dem- | onstrated that the so-called Harvard stroke was a mistake, and when Yale abandoned the system which had come to be regarded as American it began to be perceived that | excellence in rowing need not be confined to these two universities. Other colleges formed crews and entered the lists, and tho w England contests on the Connecticut er or Lake Quinsigamond became Ameri- well og in name Last N BR can in fact ag year Saratoga Lake was best and most fitting field for a contest that had grown ummensely in proportions as well | asin the interest that was felt in it, The | match this year takes place on the same | ground, and hereafter the beautiful sheet of | | water at Saratoga will doubtless be made the theatre of the annual intercollegiate re- gattas. Tn less than a fortnight the match for 1875 | will be rowed. Fourteen colleges have en- | te for the race, and not fewer than thir- teen are certain to take part in it. Active | preparation and thorough training for the match have been going on fora long while, and each of the crews seems to think it has a , bright prospect for the honors of the day. In another column we tell tho history of these £ our information, together with the vole map by which we illustrate the forthcoming match, will commend itself to boating men and to all who are interested in any way in the colleges or the regatta. The interest centres as a matter of course in Yale and Horvard and in our own Columbia as the winuer of last year’s race, but where there , are many neweomers and such re- doubled purpose to win on the part of the old contestants it would be rash | at this carly day to risk an opinion as to the probable result. Eyen with all the facts and | , information which we have gathered and which we place before our readers in the Henatp to-day an intelligent conclusion is impossible, This much, however, seems cer- tain, that the contest will be the most brilliant one ever rowed in this country, and whoever wins the match of 1875 will win it at the cost e skill and endurance than ever were nu before. The failures of the past have \t oll our*boating men an invaluable les- gon, and the newest crews are able to profit from the mistakes of the older ones—these mis- takes being warnings of historic significance. With so much earnest and manly endeavor it makes little difference who wins the race, but we wish to say to ali of the crews that as there can bo only one victor it does not foliow that there may not be as much manliness in defeat os i ory. We trust the contentions and bickerings of last year will not be repeated— first of all, because there shall be no | occasion for them. But even despite occa- sion, these college regattas can be conducted ‘with the utmost decorum and good feeling, and the college youth should remember that it is due to themselves and their colleges, as well as to the American people, that nothing should cecur to mar the harmony of an event 80 in which there is such universal and kindly | interest. If these intercollegiate contests are to become national in their character it can only be through manlinese as well as brawn, and this year more than any other will deter- mine the favor with which future races are to be regarded, We suppose the usual opposition will be mide to this as to the previous regattas by those who imagine that manly sports must be demoralizing in their tendency and effects. Ii is consoling to reflect, however, that this m is graduaily wearing itself out. ises being false its conclusions must | be o, and never since the old Latin mexim, Mens sana in corpore sano, was first uttered, has its truth been #0 clearly denon- el as since boating practically became of the training in American co!l- ‘ Che pastime has not interfered in any y with the collegiate duties of the crews, Ivy prer Ise ¢ while the boating men as a rule have shown themselves a4 apt in the class room as ou the water, They were able to bring re- | newed strength and vigor to their literary tame as siouiders, Nor is there any fear of over- training, so generally attributed to the neces- preperation for a fertheommg mateh. mon no longer train like pugilists, and more regularity in diet and cxere' the only regimen they compel themselves to At the same time the oar gives full Bostin: undergo. I cular system, and tes body is strengthened with more evenness thae by any other exer- | The time given to practice is more! cise, then regained in freshness for study, apart even from the sound physical growth which is to last for o lifetime, and it is not impossible, ) While human naisnea recnains what it is, that | chosen as the | ve result of their physical culture | and to carry clearer heads upon brawnier | to the development of the entire mus- | YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, the hours thus profitably spent would other- wise be devoted to tobaceo and beer. Even the college youth, wise as he is in his genera- tion, is not averse wo the use of narcotics and stimulants when he is unemployed, and the very good young men who are exceptions to | this rale are too few in number to allow us to discourage such healthful physical ex- { ereise a3 is promoted by these annual regattas in favor of the imaginary | mental and moral advantages which the “sunco’ gude” seem to think would result from their discontinuance, We believe the most important consequences in their moral, men- tal and physical aspects will ensue from the promotion of boating in our colleges, and the | easiest way to encourage the use of the oar is by these intercollegiate races. ta the past we urged serions objection to the intercollegiate literary contests which some very worthy collegians have set up in rivalry of the boat races. We could see no good reason why months should be spent in oration for the mere purpose of a public ex- hibition in New York city, hundreds of miles away trom most of the colleges that were ex- pected to take part in it. Had the same time been spent in preparing twenty essays or twenty orations there might bave been some actual intellectual growth and culture which no public exhibition would be required to de- monstrate. The same reusoning does not ap- ply to boating or to the public exhibition of skill in the use of the oar. ‘The annual match is necessary as an incentive to training, from the fourteen colloges comprising the Collegiate Rowing Association were to as- | somble at Saratoga some fine morning in July of each year and row a match on the lake without any previous preparation it would be | as useless as it would be absurd. In their own sphere this is practically what the young es- | sayists and orators did at the Academy of Music last winter, but this is just what the rowing men do not do, The value of the an- nual regatta is in the previous training for that evont—in the physical growih and cul- | ture which make the crews victorious or fit for victory—and it is for these reasons that we seek, by all the means at our command, to | promote and encourage a generous rivalry in this manly pastime between the college crow Weare sustained in this by the American pe | ple, who take the liveliest interest in all the de- tails ofthe practice and preparations for the annual race and crowa the victors with the acclaim and approbation which belong only to a well-earned victory. The regatta of 18’ is looked forward to with greater satisfaction | even than those of previous years, partly be- | cause the prospect isan exceptionally brilliant one, as we so clearly demonstrate this morn- ing, but more especially out of a desire to make tbe college contests national and en- during. . ite Whe Kapid Transit Commissioners. We congratulate Mayor Wickham on the excelence of hig appointments under the new Rapid Transit law. Evcry one of the five isa business man of standing, energy, capa- city and pride of character. Their names, with personal sketches of their history and business achievements, will be other part of this paper. to let the thing tail for want of enterprise or lack of public confidence. We trust they will all accept. hour's notice, give the bonds which the law requires, even if it were five times the amount. They have been trained in large undertakings and know how to take hold of business at the right end. The Mayor has sanguine hopes (hat the enterprise with which pushed through with vigor, and we have no | doubt thet his confidence is well founded. Mayor Wickham bas caretully avoided ap- pointing either engineers or lawyers, announc- ing this as his fixed purpose in the beginning, but without explaining bis reasons. He If the Commis- sioners should need professional advice of main direction will come better from the undertakings. So much depended on a wise selection of the Commissioners that we again congratulate Mayor Wickham on the satisfactory mannex in which he has dis charged this important and responsible duty. ‘Tae Fruusen’s Sauances.—Mayor Wickham has again put himself on record as opposing and denouncing the action of Comptroller monthly warrants singly instead of by companies’ rolls, His exposure of the Comptroller's obstinacy and overbearing insolence is entirely justifiable, and his system is conclusive. “‘It is true that the law provides that the Finance Department shall prescribe the man- ner in which salaries shall be drawn and the mode by which they shall be paid.” Very well; if this be the case, the Mayor is clearly bound to respect the law, and he should sign the firemon’s warrants and allow the men to receive their pay. A law that gives such power to a subordinate officer of the city gov- ernment is altogether wrong ond should be amended as speedily as possible. any way of setting it aside or having its pro- visions modified by a lega! decision the Mayor should apply to the courts for relief in the future. Meanwhile, the firemen should not be inconvenienced and, in some instances, | | seriously distressed by being kept out of their overdue pay, while two sqnabbling officials stand like two Iubberly schoolboys ona nar- row pathway making rmouths at each other, and each stubbornly refusing to give the other the right of road. Gaeen is arraigned by Messrs Westray and Howe, Conimissioners of Accounts, who give his management of the Finance Department a thorough overhauling im the document they laid betore the Mayor CompTRoLLer yesterday. Their detailed statements deserve careful study by our citizens. Beside the many wastetul errors they det?ct and expose, they think his whole method is wrong and unbusineslike, and that be has annece sarily magnified the labors of the department by fhudy management of its details, which ro quire a working force of elorks out of pro- portion to the real wants of the pulic ser- vice, These unpleasant exposures eome trom | official accountamia who have no motive but to state the exact Gath, the preparation of a prize essay or a prize | and training is physical growth, If the youth | found in an- | They are not men | Each of them could, at an | theso Commissioners are intrusted will be | probably feared the quibbles of lawyers and | | the crotcheis of engineers. either kind they can easily procure it, but the | strong common sense and trained business | capacity of men accustomed to manage large | Green in insisting on drawing the firemen’s | argument in favor of the company payroll | At the same time he | If there be | The Brooklyn Jury. A communication signed by eleven of tho jurymen was sent to Judge Neilson yesterday stating that there is no possibility of 1 ver- dict and asking to be discharged. Accom- panying this was a communication from the | other juryman saying that he did not think they ought yet to be discharged, as they were still discussing the evidence, and he thought they might profitably stay out longer. On receiving these communications Judge Neil- son gave notice to the counsel of the parties to come into court and meet the jury. There was a flutter of excitement and expectation, and the court room was filled long before the couusel appeared. When the jury filed in and took their seats there was a general hush and all eyes were fixed on them. Mr. Car- | penter, the foreman, in reply to Judge Neil- son's questions, stated, with a positive air, that the jury could not agree if they should deliberate a month, repeating, what appeared in the written communication, that eleven of the twelve were decidedly of this opinion, In reply to further questioning Mr. Carpenter said that they did not differ on points of law, but questions of fact. They were thereupon sent back to their room for further deliberation, the Judge expressing great regret at their inability to agree in so important a | case, aud urging them to make further efforts | to reach a verdict. Of course nobody expects | am agreement, and they will probably be | again brought into court to-day and dis- charged. The inference which some of the friends of Mr. Beechér have drawn from Mr. Carpenter's statement as to the standing of the jury is un- | warranted by anything he said, He did not say that they stood eloven for Beecher and one for Tilton, but that eleven saw no pos- | sibility of agreeing, while one had some hopes of a verdict, If that one were a Til- ton man, standing out against eleven Beecher | bring them over to his side and secure a ver- {a ict. Moreover, if the one man who still ho} for a verdict is for Tilton, and the | eleven who despair of a verdict are for | Beecher, their settled opinion that there can be no agreement is absurd. For, if only one | juryman stands out against them and he shows signs of wavering & ver- dict would be. highly probable A | more reasonable conjecture is that the | jury have heretofore stood ten to two and that | the juror who thinks an agreement possible is | ono of the two dissenters from the majority. | If this be the state of the jury it would seem | that one of the two Tilton men is ready to | change sides and go with the majority if his | dissenting colleague will gowith him. But of | this the vleven whose opinions are fixed have | not the faintest shadow of a hope. ‘The con- | sequence is that the six months of this weari- | some trial have been wasted and the parties revert to the same condition in which they | stood at the outset. Tho community at large will share in Judge Neilson’s regret aud mor- | tification at so impotent a result. We do not at all join in the reprobation ex- wish to hold the jury together until they come to an agreement. Judicial trials have two objects. One is to do justice between the parties and the other to put an end to coniro- versies. ‘Ihe first chicfly concerns the liti- | gents and the other the public. This trial hag been carried on at a heavy expense to the county of Kings for the sole benefit of these private parties. It would be monstrous | tor the county to be subjected to this heavy expense a second time, and yet a second triai is the natural legal consequence of a disagree- ment of the jury. If 1t should not be the because Tilion has not as perfect a right to first, but because he may not be able to find counsel who will again serve without any prospect of fees. If the jury could find a verdict, either lor one side or the other, it would end the litigation and protect the counly against a repetition of this burden. It is perfectly right for Judge Neilson to in- sist on a verdict which would give this nauseous scandal a final quietus as a subject of litigation in the Brooklyn courts, If the parties or the community continue to wrangle over it that is their own affair and nobody | can prevent them. Buta yerdict for either | side would settle the legal controversy for- ever, unless an appeal should be made from the judicial rulings, for which there’is no | ground, the counsel on both sides conceding | Judge Neilson’s impartiality and correctness, | It is not for the public peace to allow citizens to be their own judges and redress their own wrongs, and hence tribunals are established at the public expense for deciding their dis- putes, But such controversies must have an end, and there is no way so effectual of end- ing them as by the verdict of a jury. When twelve impartiel men have unanimously de- cided a question one way ‘here is no possibil- ity that twelve other impartial men could be brought to decide it the other way on the same evidence, This is the ground on which the verdicts of juries are required to be unanimous. The unavimity ends the contro- versy, and protects the public against the ex- pense of new trials, unless a higher court should overrule the points of law. All citi- zens who have a clear perception of the rea- | approve of Judge Neilson’s desire that this | trial may not close without a verdict. A great deal of crade trash has been uttered | about the interest of the genera! public in this trial, It is really a trial between the two | private parties, Tilton and Beécher, and the Court can recognize no others, The interost | of the public (aside from the county of Kings, which bears the expense) is a mere interest of curiosity or officious partisanship, with which neither Court nor jury bas anything to do. ‘They are bound to render justice between the plaintiff and detendant, and to save tho county from a repetition of this burden for their benefit, but they owe nothing to the prurient curiosity of the country at large, | which will form its opinions without the jury | and in spite of the jury, according to its pre- possessions and habits of mind, It 1s the duty of the jury to decide the controversy be- tween these litigant parties and end it, and that is their sole concern wt the case. Judge | Neilson is entirely vight in his strenuous wish the possibility of this scandalous suit ever coming up for new trial. Tux Sino Siva Tracepy.—% cruel, atro- gious murder bas Yeon added to the blood- pressed in some quarters at Judge Neilson’s' men, it would be absurd for him to expect to |: actual practical consequente, it will not be | brivg a second suit as he had to begin the | sons and basis of the jury system will heartily | that the jury agree on a verdict and preclude | ‘JULY 2, 1875—~TRIPLE SHEET. stained annals of our State Prison, A convict named Hogan was killed by a desperndo in the same prison, who thought to avenge him- self for fancied treachery on the part of his victim. Tho damaging evidence of eye-wit- nesses and threats by the murderer may change his term of imprisonment muterially, or, perhaps, consign him to the scaffold. The Politicians and the City Lebor- ‘ors. The city politicians are sorely perplexed over the question of the reduction of the city laborers’ wages. greatly overburdened, the movement in favor of economy is popular, With the working- men, who spend the whole of election day at the polls, it is unpopular. The policy of re- duction was initiated by Mr. Van Nort before he retired from the Department of Public Works, and was advocated by him, in an offi- cial communication, on the ground that whilo laborers in the service of coniractors are compelled to be satisfied with ten or twelve shillings a day for ten hours’ work it is un- just to compel the citizens assessed for street improvements to pay two dollars a day for eight hours’ work. Mayor Wickham, Police Commissioner Disbecker, General Porter, Mr. Van Nort's successor; Mr. Wales, of the Dock Department, and Colonel’ Stebbins, of the Park Department, took the same view of the matter, and consequently the laborers’ pay was cut down to twenty cents an hour, or one dollar and sixty cents for eight hours’ work. Either this reduction was fair and expedient or it was an injustice to tho laboring classes who work for the city. issue is very distinct and is not to be evaded. If the laborers were paid too much it was an injustice to the property owners which de- mandeda remedy. If they were paid only a fair day's wages, according to the market value of labor, for a fair day's work, it was cruel and oppressive to compel them to ac- cept a lower rate. It is not surprising to find the ward poli- tician, who is willing at all times to piay the part of the ranting demagogue, denouncing the reduction of the laborers’ wages and de- manding that before the workingman shall be compelled to give up a portion of his earnings the large salaries of the heads of do- partments shail be reduced. Such declama- tion must always be expected in a y gov- ernment which yields a living to anermy of political paupers and corner grocery declaim- ers, But itis singular that the well known promoters of the reduction movement should lack the boldness to justify their policy. on the subject evinces a disposition to evade the issue. Even Mayor Wickhem, in writing a letter to a workingman’s meeting, makes some ‘singular and unnecessary excuses for what can only be justifiable og an act of justice and equity to both the ‘tax- payer and the laborer. He endeavors to show | that twenty cents an hour is better pay for the laborer than two dollars for erght hours, because on some days when is rains in the morning and clears up in the alternoon the men may work under the hour system for under the day's wages sysiem. He also argues, with great profoundaess, that when men are to be paid two dollars for a day's work of eight hours, it is “impossible to measure the time’ when they work at night, as they do in the Street Cleaning Bureau, ‘These and other special pleas by which the Mayor seeks to excuse the reduction aro un- wortby of a sincere and honest public officer, and it is not surprising that his communica- tion received on unfriendly greeting. The | advocates of the lower rate of pay should not fear to meet the issue, for it is one they can- not successfully evade. By timid and un- worthy apologies for their action they only forfeit the respect of its supporters while failing to satisfy its opponents. Major Leech’s Resignation. We learn with regret that Major Leech, to whose exertions the Irish Rifle Association owes its existence, has resigned the captaincy of the Irish team. In doing so the gallant Major but carries out*s resolution formed when the chailenge for the retarn match in Ireland was issned. At the preseut moment the resignation strikes us as somewhat indp- portune, because it is calculated to give rise to comment at this side of the water and to some misconception of the motives which have led to Major Leech’s action. It is quite hastened by the discontent felt at the compo- sition of the Irish team and to the want of that organization which it is the team cap- tain’s duty to create and maintain, No doubt public opinion in Ireland, smarting under the sense of defeat, may have rendered the | further holding of the captainey of the team unpleasant, and the Major, who is a sensitive and polished gentleman, considered himself called upon to retire from a false position. It may be that the members of the Irish Eight who will have to coniend at Wimbledon desire the services of a practical rifleman as captain of their team. ‘The importance of or- ganization and discipline has»been deeply impressed upon their minds ‘by the two victo- ries won by America, and which have becn of our representative riflemen, But whatever the cause, we feel cerlain that it is not in- tended as on expression of discontent at the Essex county jails in the adjoining State has guilty ones attempted in vain to screen them- selves and to justify their proceedings, but across the river, was evidently against them, and justice of the stern Jersey kind will likely overtake them ere long. Tou Rerveuican Auprermen who were de- clared in contempt three weeks ago, and have sinco been under aboo and excluded from participation in the proceedings of the Board, reappeared in their seats yesterday in par- suance of an understanding that their con- tempt should be purged without any humiliating concessions, One or two domo- cratic Aldermen sapke in opposition, but the nécessities of publio business overruled | panctilios, The most important acts of the Board reanitcs the cougurrance of thres-fourths With the taxpayers, already. The | Every head of a department who is questioned | half a day, while they could not work at all } possible that his inteuded resignation was | due in great part to the admirable discipline | American victory, for none bore more grace- | | fully the reverse at Creedmoor than did the resalted in unearthing and exposing a shame- | he bb bn hae was & less, plundering ring of officials, Some of the | @ atm! broken, ie ara be Seger public opinion, which isa tormidable power | A Jersey Rie Broxen.—The investiga- | tion of the managoment of the Hudson and | of the members, and all business of this class was blocked while the republican Aldermes were excluded. Thoy were, therofore, in « position to extort from the democrats who had declared them im contempt a free and full condvaation without any yielding on their part. They are as glad to get back as the democrats were to receive them, and both sides willingly bury the hatchet and smoke the pipe of peace, A Confederate Ghost, “Rest, perturbed spirit !" will be the senti- ment of all healthy minds on reading the wild, frantic address of General John & Preston to the alumni of the University of Virginia yesterday. The University of Vir- ginia was founded by Jefferson, and he regarded it ay one of his proud- est trophies. In the epitaph he wrote for his own tombstone he classed it with tho authorship of the Declaration of Independence as one of the three things for which he thought he deserved to be romem- bered, If the flighty orator yesterday had inherited something of Jefferson's taste for chaste and condensed composition he would have done greater honor,to his Alma Mater., The frothy rhetoric of a sophomore does not become the mouth of am alumnus of an institution of learning founded by one of our great statesmen who had the groatest contempt for empty bombast, But the sentiments of this stilted address would be out of taste im any diction. Genoral Preston exhibits himself as a ghost linger- ing over the grave of the late Conled- eracy and cherishing all the sentiments which it felt in life. He delivors such blows as a ghost might give whose arm is thin air and whose stroke eamnot wound. To do him justice he is not quite insonsible of the vanity of Lis utterances. Hore is one specimen of his despairing rhetoric + — "The bloody tumult of tho storm which fell upon our peaceful grandeur may have subsided, but our poor watrlogged vessel is still flapping hor shivered sails and rolling heavily and helplessly in the yawning troughs.” This is a specimen of style for the imitative young graduates. The whole composition is of this tissue, and the main purpose of the address seems to have been to evoke out of its grave the spirit of the dead Confederacy. Here is Geneml Prose ton’a view of the permanency of our Union: — “Not space, or time, or the convenience of any human law, or the power of any hu- man arm caa reconcile institations for the turbulent fanatic of Plymouth Rock and the God-tearing Christian of Jamestown.” The whole address is in a strain of similar turgid extravagance and bad temper, and it is pain- fulto make quotations. They jar 60 upon the spirit of the recent Centennial celebra- tions, and on the enthusiasm of the young Virginians who lately went to Bunker Hill, that we ere justified in supposing that General Preston stands alone, Surely there is nothing resembling this in the excellont address of Mr. Hunter, the eminent statesman, to another Virginia college a day or two since. It is not the sen« timent of the great body of the ingenuous young men of the Southern States who cher- ish hopes of their own future and that of the country with which their destinies are hound up. Alas, poor ghost! Tax Corvon Cror.—The reports from the various departments in the South concerning the cotton crop are highly satisfactory. The indications are far more favorable than those of a year ago. The South shows commend- able energy and perseverance, even under the most depressing circumstances, in endeavor- ing to regain nte-bellum prosperity. . Apmiat Worpzy, of Monitor fome, waa received with such unequivocal enthusiasm ! and honor at the German port of Kiel that he felt impelled to give public expression of thanks for the courtesies extended toward himself and his otiicers,, The entente cordiala between Uncle Sam and Bismarek may there- fore be considered as unbroken. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. “Strawberry blonde” is what they call the Prem- dential complexion, Colonel George A. Woodward, United States Army, is staying at the Hofman fouse, Mr, Galusna A, Grow, of Pennsyivanta, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, State Senator Wiliam Johnson, of Seneca Falla, N. Y., 18 registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Hydrophobia cocktails, made with ‘a hair ol the dog that bit you,” seem to be the best kind, Colonel Viermont L, Best, United States Army, has taken up his quarters at tne Grand Hotel, Surgeon Alexander B, Hasson, United States Army, 18 sojourning at the Union Square Hotel, Rear Admiral Cnarles 8S. Boggs. United States Navy, arrived last evening at the Everett House. Geveral Benjamin F. Butler arrived in the city yesterday morning and left in the evening for Washingion. General Albert J, Myer, Ohief ol the Signal Ser- vice, United States Army, is residing temporarily at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel. . Secretary Belknap and family arrived in the city from West Point last evening and took up thew residence at the St. James Hotel, Baron Von Schwarz-Senborn, recently Austrian Minister at Waslungton, was among the passen- gers tor Kurope in the steamship Rassia, instead of going to War the Prussian govorn- ment has offered a reward of $2,600 for the ats. covery of # material that will act like plaster ot Paris for moulds, but will be more durabi Figaro ker ps « oynic, whose last utterance ts:— “if you wave tmprucentiy been of service to any person do your atmost to make him believe that ts was on account of some interest of your own, for only thas will you escape the consequences of hiv remembrance of the tavor.? lke Carter, of Arizona, has only been visiting in Massacinse:ts six months, but he was halt drowned at the Mill River disaster, had his haw | and eyebrows burned off at the Holyoke church, and by the bursting of @ cannon in Boston he had muttering, “1 kin deiead myselftn Arizona, va- goa." itwaukoe News. In the Italian Chamber of Deputies Hon, Agos- timo Bertant made, on Jurie 10, a motion for im quiry into certain alleged irregularities tn the liatan Consulate in this city. [tts claimed thay excessive rates are charged on moncy orders., yhere is aiso complaint im italy im regard to the tobacco sont thither from thi# city, whicn Is ap- parently purchased by the Consal; and tt appears {to be thougtt that he buys ® damaged article amd charges the government for sound tobacco, Admiral Rows, of the British Navy, writes to the Loudon Times in favor of cock ighung. He n 1827, in command of the Rainbow, £ brougnt ten Englishebred cocks from Sydney to Malacea, and joaght ten batties wi Oninese merchant who bad defeated all the Malays, We won every battle, and £ would go 200 miles to see amain between the Cresjite piles and the Lance. shire black-breasted reds if there were no legal probiition|" Of course he would bet an tia rong, for they ar@ tue best birds,