The New York Herald Newspaper, July 10, 1875, Page 4

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Newsdealers and others are notified to send 4n their orders to the Hznaxp office as early as | “possible. From our reports this morning the probabilifies are that the weather to-day will be partly sloudy, with occasional rain. ‘ Persons going out of town for the summer can we the daily and Sunday Hrnzaup mailed to Free of postage, for $1 per month. War Sreeet Yestenpary.—The stock mar- Ket was dull and unsuggestive. Gold re wovered to 1163. Foreign exchange was firm yeand money easy. 4 , Tere Wux Be a large gathering of foreign and native Mayors at the Guildhall in London yon the occasion of the international banquet fo be given there on the 29th. 4 Tur Detar in opening the traffic by the di- yect cable with America is apparently caused by some flaw, which the Faraday is busy mend- Sng. The steamship Prussian spoke with the Faraday on the Ist inst. The cable was then buoyed, apparently for repairs. . Tue Cuvese River Pmarzs seem to be | sgain becoming troublesome. From Hong ‘Kong accounts reach us of an attack on a European ship at Foo-Chow. A little grape ‘and canister judiciously applied is the best remedy. " Moopy axp Sanxny continue their religious exercises with unabated success. Crowds flock to hear the new apostles, and so great is the anxiety to listen to them that it is with difficulty the worshippers can be kept in order. A panic was caused at a service in Camberwell, but, fortunately, no lives were lost. Tuene Anz Inpications cf a serious out- break in China against foreigners. The American Mission at Ku-Kiang was attacked and sacked by a mob on the lst of May. The trouble arose from the disappearance of a boy, ;vhom the Christians were accused of spirit- ing away. The boy bas not been tound. Tux Cantist Cause has received a severe -blow in the relief of Vittoria, The blockade of this important city gave to the Carlist cause great moral weight, and its relief, coupled ‘with the retreat of Dorregaray, cannot but ex- ercise a depressing influence on Carlism, At Trevino the adherents of the Pretender were defeated with a loss of six hundred killed and sixty prisoners. It is sad to think so many useful lives should bo sacrificed to the ambition of one man. Ax Important Decision was yesterday ren- ‘dered by the Supreme Court on the important yquestion—What constitutes public waters in jtheso United States? It was held that navi- ipability was the true test. atreams are, therefore, subject to govern- mental regulations. © Oanapa.—England, we learn by the Lon- ‘don Times, esteems highly Canadian loyalty. Wt appears, however, that o desire is ing up to put it somewhat more severely the test. In fact, it is intended to make fe pleasant for our neighbors by asking for “larger proofs"’—probably in the pe of taxation or contributions toward aintaining the integrity of the Empire. hey want to make Canada a source of ‘etrength instead of weakness in time of war. at how does Mr. Bull propose to accomplish iui ou All navigable | The Calamities in France. This may be said to be a season of eccen- tricities and contradictions, A prophecy was made some time since that the present sum- mer would be the dryest that had been known for some years. The winter was so rainy that in the very nature of things the summer would be the reverse. Not long since, in the northern parts of France, the drought threat- ened to destroy the crops, and the worship- pers prayed for rain. Now the churches are filled with heart-stricken worshippers praying that the fall of the waters may cease. In the United States we have not had much to lament since the spring frosts, which remained long after the time appointed for their going and threatened to rob us of our fruits. There have been some few com- plaints from England as to the dampnegs of the weather, but it looks now as if these are not well tounded, and that England may feel sure of an average harvest. The storms in France, which seemed to be limited to the valley of the Garonne, have extended their sway. The rivers of the North are ris- ing, and fears are entertained for the valleys of the Seine and the Marne. This brings the danger directly home to Paris and to all that rich and beautiful country extending from | Paris to Havre. More than all, we read | that Geneva—beantiful, historic, cultivated Geneva—has been visited with the same calamity. A cable despatch gives us the liveliest apprehensions tor the valiey of the Rhone, as that “blue, arrowy’’ river of Byron's fancy is rising in angry and threaten- ing volume. MHailstones huve fallen with such violence and in such quantities that people have been killed and wounded. The shores of Lake Leman—and we have no ground more classic—are stricken with the | disaster. From Hungary we have a sad story. The storms in and around Pesth have been | terrible in their fury. In one locality alone | twenty-eight people have been found dead, while over a hundred are missing. The villas on the elevated places, the houses on | the mountain slopes and property of every character have been injured and destroyed. It is difficult to realize the magnitude of these | misfortunes. When we draw a line from the valley of the Seine to Geneva, and from thence to Pesth, we embrace one of the largest and richest portions of Europe. When we think of the storm king moving on in his desolating march from town to town, from province to province, destroying houses, drowning crops, tearing up bridges, taking the lives of old and young, we cannot esti- mate the magnitude of the disaster, and fear that as much misery will be found in his path as was ever found in that of a conquering army. We can understand this more clearly when we look at the reports we have from unhappy | France. Thus far, all that is known of the | misfortunes in Switzerland and Hungary are the brief narratives by cable. They are neces- sarily brief and unsatisfactory, ond further news may change the tale. But our reports from France are very full, and every mail | only shows the extent of the calamity. This | land of beauty and promise and historic fame, this land of poetry and song and devotion, this lovely Languedoc, lies abandoned and | | stricken. Desolation sits on fields that only | yesterday were burdened with the rich and | bursting harvests, The valley that was flow- | that France did to win our independence. We have grown nearer and nearer to France by our commercial and social intercourse. The rise of her Republic gives us a stronger tie ; for if there is any vir- tue in republicanism it will be found in that fraternity of nations which in time we trust to see encircling the civilized world in an alliance of democracy and peaca, So that if the common impulses of humenity did not bid us to do our part toward alleviating the appal- ling distresses which have fallen upon a noble and generous people we have the teachings of generations of friendship. We are glad to see that there have been many munificent re- sponses to the appeal for aid now addressed by France to all the world, To sucha sum- mons America has never been silent, and we should speak with a prompt and con- siderate emphasis, now that it comes from France, our ally when friendship was national salvation and our ever since constant friend. The Rockaway Railroad Disaster. Mr. Hinsdale, the Vice President of the Southern Railroad of Long Island, sends us a card in defence of Mr. Poppenhusen, the General Manager of the road. It will be re- membered that the latter gentleman was on the train at the time of the collision, and, though well aware that some irregularity in running the trains had occurred, did not take the trouble to telegraph for information con- cerning the position of the delayed train. Had he done so—and, os the manager of the road, it was his duty to have interested himself for the protection of the lives of the passengers—the frightful accident which cost so many lives would have been avoided. There is no disposition to condemn Mr. Poppenhusen unheard. If that gentleman has anything to say in defence of his conduct the columns of the press are open to him. It may be quite true that Mr. Poppenhusen is not much more to blame in this matier than other officers of the com- pany; but this would only go to show that others were criminally negligent as well as the General Manager. It will be difficult to persuade the public that Mr. Poppenhusen is free from blame for the accident which has brought him into an unenviable notoriety. “Publication.” lished some references to Mr. Chandler, of Michigan, which from that gentleman’s point of view were libellous. He consequently sought a remedy in the courts having juris- diction where the offence was committed—that is, where the libel was printed and given to the public; but the proceedings did not give him satisfaction. It is now proposed to re- move the case to the District of Columbia and try it there, on the ground that the libel was previously published in Washington | city—this publication being accomplished by the act of the correspondent when he de- posited his copy in the office of the Western Union Telegraph Company for transmission by the wires to Detroit. alleged before this that to intrust despatches to the Western Union is equivalent to a publication of their contents; but the present claim is not pre- cisely of that character. It is claimed in this case that to file the copy of a telegram in the office of a telegraph company is to publish it, ing with oil and wine, even as the valleys of the Scriptures were said to flow with milk | and honey, is barren. Homes that only yes- | terday were the loved abiding places of sim- | ple, thrifty peasants, where they lived as | their fathers had lived before them for | generations, have been swept away. Tou- | louse is a noble, glorious city, but her glory has fallen into mourning, for the flood has | destroyed one-fourth of her dwellings. So | swiftly came the floods that not only were the poor people drowned before relief could come, but soldiers sent to their relief died in the attempt to succor. In many cases the farmers, with their wives and children, sought | safety on the housetops, only to find in the | end a common grave. This is a country | densely populated, as may be understood | when we remind our readers that the depart- ments it embraces contain more than four millions of people. In other words, if we | could imagine the whole State of New York or | the States of Pennsylvania and Ohio suddenly | overwhelmed with a flood that swept away | bridges, destroyed crops, and desolated towns and villages, we could comprehend the com- parative extent of the calamity which has be- fallen France. This comes ata season when the material sufferings are without a remedy. The coun- | try has not only been largely peopled, but the | lands are highly cultivated. The farmers ‘raise the olive, the grape and grain. Upon | the success ot the harvests depends largely the comfort of the people, their material prosper- ity and the revenues of the French govern- | ment. There is no way of retrieving this har- | \ vest. The farmers who have lost their crops | cannot expect to renew them until next year. | Some of the crops will not be recovered for sev- eral years, perhaps. All the prospective income | of these unfortunate farmers andall the results | of the labor thus far bestowed and the capital | invested fade away. The people will be vir- i tually hel ‘for another year, unless, as is happily péssible, reniembering the character of the French, they have something laid by for the rainy day, which has come to them | surely and sadly enough. So that, in consid. | ering the magnitude of this disaster, we must remember that these inhabitants of the Garonne are virtually a ruined people until a gentler season brings them a surer harvest. We must | remember, too, that even France, with all her wealth, will find it very difficult to meet the | case thus thrown so suddenly upon it. The | | French people are now severely taxed to mect their large war debt and the enormous charges necessary 40 revive the war establishment. For a section so large, so rich and vital | in its industries and resources, and so | | necessary to the success of the gov- ernment, to be suddenly reduced into a condition of want and dependence upon the | | central authority, is not merely a disaster to | | communities, but a new tax upon France her- | | self, which cannot be borne without the aid of neighboring and friendly nations, | There is no country that should be more | willing to take the lead in any such noble and bumane movement than America. We are very near to France. The history of the | nations blends into one, and itis a history that | could be remembered at no more fitting time | jtbag this qemleunial season, which recalla al | noptonce. | other. not of course in the ordinary sense of publi- | cation, bat in the legal sense of the word as applied especially to the publication of a libel. In this sense tho word ‘publication’ means the communication of the libel to another person, or to other persons, without regard to their number, and does not necessa- tily involve any of the facts implied in the word as commonly used. Perhaps, therefore, the legal point here is well taken, and it may yet be seen whether Washington juries will deal with difficulties that arise between Con- gressmen and newspaper men in a way to jus- tity the notion that the people of the capital are not the same in mind and life as the peo- ple of other parts of the country. ihe signif- icant point in the case here, as in some pre- vious cases that involve this point, is, however, the evident faith on the part of Congressmen that they can get in Washington an article of ‘justice’ more satisfactorily to themselves than they can get in the States which they represent and in which presumably are their homes, In this faith there seems an implication that their own constituents are less than just or that the people put on juries in Washington are more than just; and the implication is com- plimentary neither to the one nor to the Tf a man can be elected Senator from ® State in whose courts he cannot get justice it points to a queer condition of politics; and if a correspondent can be punished in Washington for an offence that cannot be punished elsewhere the administration of justice there would seem to need reconstruc- tion. For our part we anticipate that if one of these cases ever comes fairly before a Washington jury it will be discovered that if there is » place where a Congressman is [ooked ‘upon with sovereign contempt it is the national capital. But we do not believe that the present case will go there just yet, for it will take a great deal of argument to raise dust enough to so confuse the nature of \things as to make judges believe that the deposition of s paper in the telegraph oflice is a communication in the legal sense. Crm 1s New Yors.—Ugly revelations continue to be made by the witnesses called by the Legislative Committee on Crime in this city. There seems to be a disposition on the part of some parties comnected with the Police Commission to withhold evidence. Such a course can only in the end injure those adopt- ing it; for, in view of the evidence of cor- ruption already elicited, the investigation must be pushed to its logical conclusion. We cannot afford to have a police force on which are men suspected of complicity with thieves and other dangerous members of the com- munity, New Yore Jvsticz.x—Mark Brown was hanged yesterday at Monticello for the murder of Sylvester Carr. The killing was done while Brown was under the influence of drink. He put in o plea of insanity, but it was not entertained. In his dying speech he ad- mitted the murder and attributed his sad’ end to his intemperate habits. Brown was an Englishman and a man of some intelligence, and in his last moments seemed to display true courage and a spirit of sincere re- ” ti th i | sesgayigbocrasdetg gatihansl epcks Mea sndaala Lda | sectional; the other national; and Breckin- | ridge’s brilliant qualities both as a debater It has been | General Francis P. Blair, Jr. The death of General Frank P. Blair, Jr., 1s an event that will recall many reminis- cences of the struggle between slavery and freedom which ended in the civil war. The son and namesake of an eminent politician, who still survives after the battles of more than half a century, General Blair was early educated in the political strategy of the times, but he marked out a career for himself which seemed to run counter to all the teachings of his youth and gave him a high place among the anti-slavery leaders of an epoch when it was perilous to oppose the ‘peculiar institu- tion” of the South. Never an abolitionist in the merely sentimental sense, he was from the beginning of his political life a powerful foe of the system of forced labor which had ob- tained such a strong hold inthe Southern States, and his fame will rest toa great ex- tent upon his anti-slavery record. Starting with his service in the Missouri Legislature he was throughout +is whole career in the House of Representatives the earnest political enemy of the slave system, and it is a compli- ment to his statesmanship as well as his ora- tory that he advocated emancipation long be- fore the results of the war made it a necessity. In those early days, while he was in the very bud and flower of his youth, he evinced a grand conrage in the part he took and earned alcading place among the statesmen of an era who have not yet come to be studied and measured. His skill as q soldigr is onlya secondary consideration in estimating his character, and the political courses of his later years form but a very small part of the value of his public service. The more recent condition of national politics was unfavorable to the career of a man who was essentially a champion only in a great crisis. But once in the last quarter ofa century had champion- ship had a fair and free field for the display of conspicuous ability, and it is only doing | proper honor to General Blair’s memory to say that in that epoch he outshone most of his contemporaries. Most of the public men of to-day are the products of the war; but General Blair was greatest when the war begun. As Breckin- ridge was the type of the young South of that day, so Blair was typical of the young America of the same period, The one was merely Southern; the other American. The one was and a leader were fairly rivalled by Blair's originality and force. When Blair was chosen to Congress a new element was mak- ing itself felt in American politics, Tho Jacksonian era had become what the policy of Madison had long been and the anti- slavery struggle nowis—a reminiscence of the past. Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Benton, were all dead, and their Titanic contests were fading into a tradition. New men had come upon the scene, and with them new thoughts and new purposes. Douglas was rapidly be- coming the mouthpiece and champion of the Northern democracy. Sumner sat in Web- ster’s place. Breckinridge, fresh trom the glories he had achieved in the House, was President of the Senate. Buchanan was the head of the nation, and he was surrounded by a Cabinet intent on making a new empire of the South. The republican party had just come into existence, and Blair was among its first representatives on the floor of the House. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JOLY 10, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT. It was an era of political revolution as well | as civil war. intellect as sincere of purpose, could make a commanding figure in such an epoch. If Blair’s success was not equal in poliiics and in war he was, at least, conspicuous in both, and his services in Congress will yet demand and obtain a higher recognition than it has been the fashion to accord to them. He was so essentially American that his career in the House is a key to the study of the men and measures of his time, and that time is tho most momentous in the history of the Re- public. At the time of his death General Blair was comparatively a young man, but many of the conspicuous men of the epoch to which he belonged are already dead. The years of the war and immediately preceding the war were a severe tax upon the vitality of the partici- pants in the struggles of the time. Douglas died almost as soon as his work was accom- plished. Sumner has been dead a year or more. Breckinridge, who was born the same year with Blair, preceded him only a few weeks to the grave. Ina few years but few of the statesmen of the anti-slavery struggle will be left, and these, like General Blair’s father, Francis P. Blair, Sr., the represen- tative of an earlier but almost as strongly marked era, will only remain to remind this and the next generation of the giauts of the past. In the death of these men, statesmen and soldiers, as one by one they drop into the grave, there is cause for much sincere regret, and none of them deserve to be more sincerely mourned than General Blair. He had his faults, but these proved only that he was mortal, while his merits and services far out- shone them. As we lay him away to that rest which comes at last as a welcome boon to all of us, we can only remember his many high and noble qualities, and with such remembrances we would embalm him for his obsequies, Our Riflemen at Wimbledon, The special despatch which we publish this morning gives hopes that, after all, our rifle- men will have an opportunity to measure themselves with a purely English team. Lord Wharncliffe displays marked courtesy toward our riflemen and the American press. He is willing to grant every facility and to level all the difficulties in the way of a friendly trial of skill. This is a chivalrous spirit, and we have no doubt will be reciprocated by the gentlemen of the American team. We regret that on account of the decision arrived at by the American team there will be no further opportunity to test the relative merits of English and Scotch teams with our own. It was the original intention of the Americans to shoot only one team match during their visit, and they have resolved to adhere to this course. They will, however, compete for the Albert Cup and in all matches open to all comers, so that the English and Scotch rifle- men will be able to measure themselves individually with our American marksmen. Last night the American team left Irelanal for Glasgow, and no doubt Scotland will give them as warm a welcome as did the people of | the Emerald Isle, Only a strong man, as sound of | | The Aldermante Champions of the Pestilential Fiats. The republican members of the Board of Aldermen have taken upon themselves a very serious responsibility in banding together to defeat the ordinances providing for the filling of the pestilential Harlem flats and the in- crease of the water supply of the city. The danger threatening the metropolis from the insufficiency of water and the inadequacy of the small sized mains has been officially recorded by the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, who has shown, after ® careful investigation, that a conflagration in some of the most crowded and hazardous localities could not be checked with the means now at the command of the depart- ment The foul nuisance of the Harlem flats is a public scandal. The rascalities that have led to the creation of this plague spot in the heart of a crowded city are very well known, if they have not yet been fully exposed. Even those officials who, in fear of risking their powi- tions, were at first induced to deny the ex- istence of this nuisance and make light of its evils, have been compelled to recall their statements and to acknowledge that the pub- lic health is in deadly peril from the pestilen- tial vapors of Disbecker’s dumping ground. The police surgeons, one after another, have recorded their protests against the continued existence of the deadly nuisance. The Board of Health have stamped the brand of danger upon it. Yet the republican Aldermen have ventured to put themselves on record as .obstructing the increase of the water supply and the protection of the public health by the filling of the Harlem flats. If we should be visited by a disastrous conflagration next fall, or if a pestilence should sweep over the city during the months of August and September, the republican Aldermon would be, in a great degree, responsible for the destruction of property and the sacrifice of hfe. The insufficient excuse the obstructionists make for their reprehensible defeat of these necessary ordinances is that the democratic city government would give the work to be done under them to democrats, and might by this means increase their vote next fall. The mere statement of this miserable excuse is suffi- cient to brand those who advance it as false to the interests of the city and to their official oaths. It is officially made known to them that the city has outgrown its present water supply; that the mains in many localities where the property and the lives of the citi- zens are the most exposed to the danger of fire are entirely inadequate; that should a bad conflagration occur it would be impossi- ble for the Fire Department to get enough water to check it, and this especially in some localities where theatres and other places of public resort are situated. Yet,in the fear that democrats would be employed to do the work, the republican Aldermen determine that we shall get no better supply of water, and that the peril pointed out by the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department shall be kept hanging over the city. In like manner the Aldermen know officially that the Harlem flats have been pronounced a dangerous nuisance by the Board of Health. If they travel in the neighborhood of the foul spot they can discover for themselves the stench that renders the whole district abominable. Yet, because they believe democratic laborers may be employed to cart and shovel the dirt with which the pestilential swamp is to be covered, they vote that the nuisance shall re- main unabated during the sweltering summer months, and that the graveyards shall con- | tinue to be filled with the victims of the deadly vapors of the flats. The action of these Aldermen is the more inexcusable from the fact that they are not elected by the people, but are legislated into office on the ‘‘minority representation’’ prin- ciple, which they are doing their best to bring into contempt. They have not the confidence of a majority of the electors in their districts, and could not hold their positions by the popular voice. By a single vote they can de- feat a two-thirds ordinance, and they use this power in a factional manner and for party purposes to obstruct the business of the city government. They have no regard for the safety, the interests or the wishes of the people, but study only their own narrow-minded partisan interests in their public acts, They have entered the lists as republican politicians, and only seck how they can embarrass and cripple a democratic adminis- tration, Weapons are sometimes used in warfare, especially in boarding ships in a sea fight, known as “stinkpots,” which, being filled with materials of an offensive and sutfo- cating smell, are intended to paralyze and destroy the enemy. On this principle the re- publican Aldermen throw in the face of the democratic city of New York the foul stench of the Harlem flats, in the hope of thereby securing a party victory. They are the ‘‘stink- pot” warriors of the Aldermanic Board. But unless they abandon these tactics they are likely to be regarded as nuisances as offen- sive as the Harlem flats, and to be buried under a load as heavy as that which, it is to be hoped, will before long be heaped upon the foul deposits now stewing and rotting in Disbecker’s dumping ground. We Punts this morning on interesting letter from Japan describing the progress which that curious and interesting country is making toward the acceptance of Western civilization. One of the most gratifying f atures is the extension of American influence in that distant land. Rarm Transtr.—The Commissioners ap- pointed by Mayor Wickham have not yet in which they are rolling up their sleoves we may look for some vigorous efforts on their part. These gentlemem have a splendid opportunity to achieve renown and gain the eternal gratitude of the people of New York. Let us hope they will not neglect the opportunity of doing good to the city which has been placed in théir hands. Only let them decide upon some feasible plan, and the money to carry on the work will be imme- diately forthcoming. If only ordinary econ- omy be used in the construction of a rapid | transit road in this city it must prove @ most | pemunerative investment, Capital in plenty | investment such as a good rapid transit line would undoubtedly offer. The whole respon- sibility now rests on the Commissioners, and New York expects they will do their duty, Lemdgrompilys fairly got to work, but from the manner | is lying idle for want of a profitable moans of | Interstate Rifle Matehes. An effort is about to be made to impart to Oreedmoor the same national character that belongs in England to Wimbledon. The way in which it is proposed to accomplish this ig by the organization of an interstate matelr between the various bodies, to which the national guard of every State will be invited. It is only proper that New York, having taken the lead in the movement which has introduced rifle practice as part of the regular drill of our citizen soldiers, should continue her exertions and, if possible, induce other States to follow her example, The method that seems to offer the best promises ot success in this work would be the creation of a national trophy, similar im character to the Elcho Shield, to be shot for annually by teams from every State in the Union. In the absence of any legal authority it is not probable that the officers of the Siate could make any official provision for such @ contest. But no doubt individual largess might be relied upon to supply a suitable trophy. Governor Tilden is known to be a man of large means and great liberality. What more graceful thing could be done by him than to inaugurate this interstate mateh by an offering from the Governor of the State ot New York of a trophy to be contended fox by the riflemen of the whole country? Lord Elcho, by his donation of the ‘Elcho Shield,” which is competed for by teams from England, Ireland and Scotland, is ad- mitted to have done much to estab. lish and stimulate marksmanship among the volunteers of Great Britain. California already has o team. Sa has Nevada, and Connecticut has taken steps to organize ranges. Now Jersey and Illinois are evincing interest in the subject, and would undoubtedly send skilled marks- men to compete. We might also expect @ large representation from the South. The troops of South Carolina who participated in the Bunker Hill celebration avowed to gen- tlemen connected with the National Rifle Association that it was their intention to send ateam to compete at Creedmoor during the present fail, and their example will undoubt edly be followed by the citizen soldiery throughout the Union. What more gratity- ing spectacle could be presented than to wit- ness riflemen of the North and South, many of whom buta few years sinco were arrayed in strife against one another, testing theix skill in a peaceful contest at Creedmoor in am interstate match? We trust that the Na- tional Rifle Association will uso all their endeavors to make this national contest a success. It would be the means of making the association more popular than anything it has as yet accomplished. Tur Corrzcr Oarsmen are busy on Sara- race, The conditions of the various crews, their styles of rowing and the probabilities of success are ably and interestingly discussed in another column. Many of the crews da not appear to be doing good work, and scarcely any of them are equal to the best crews of last year. There is, however, good promise of a spirited and interesting contest, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Miss Annte Louise Cary 18 among the Iate ar- rivals at the Everett House. Bishop Charles Todd Quintard, of Tennessee, ts residing at the Metropolitan Hotel. Surgeon Major J, Jameson, of the British Army, is registered at the Fifth Avenne Hotel, | Secretary Delano returnea to his duties at the Interior Department yesterday morning. Congressman William H. Barnum, of Connectl- cut, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Pay Inspector William W. Williams, Unitea States Navy, 1s quartered at the Hotel Brunswick. Sargeon Frederick E. Potter, United States Navy, has taken up bis quarters at the Metropoli- tan Hotel. Majors John ¢. Cash and Augustus S, Nicholson, of the United States Marine corps, are at the Alvemarle Hotel, Judge David L. Follett, ofthe New York Supreme | Court for the Sixth Judicial district, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Governor James Milton Smith and Attorney Generali N. J. Hammond, of Georgia, arrived lass evening at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Speaker Jeremiah McGuire, of Elmira, and Assemblyman Thomas G. Alvord, of Syracuse, have apartments at the Metropolitan Hotel. ‘hey cleaned out she Boston frog pond, and didn’t find a single frog; bus If they look sharp they'll find a great many little toudies near by. They have a little play iu Paris, the scene of which Is laid at Sparta, ana the young Spartaus sing in chorus, “Hurrah for wine, love and to- bacco!’ We coubt ifthey had real fine Havana on the Eurotas, Cotton came from India along while to be spun, bat now the mills threaten to go to India to spin the cotton. Jron in America, cotton in india AS trial supremacy ? Another counterfeit, The Austrian foundries are counterfeiting Krupp’s cannon. It willbe a fine thing for Austria if her armies some day suc- ceed in counterfeiting the victories the Prussians bave gained with them. ‘vhey say in Franee that the Duke of Edinburgh ‘will slip over to Trouville to invite the Austrian Archduke Albert to spend part of August with the Queen at Balmoral. Albert is a widower, aged fifty-eight. He 1s cousin to the Emperor's father, and commanded at Custozza, St. Ignatius Loyola is now the patron saint of Buenos Ayres, vice St. Martin, some time Bishop of Tours, removed. Martin didn’t keep away tue yellow fever uor the smallpox; dida’t give raim when they wanted it, nor stop it whea they had too much. So they have displacea him and will try our friend ignatius, The German press complains of the inactivity Im regard to the Philadelphia Bxhibition which ts shown by German manufacturers as contrasted with the efforts that being made in France and Engiand. The Uologne Gazette atiributes this lethargy to @ want of appreciation of the import- ance of the occasion jor the export trade of Ger- many, to the existing depression in industrial circles, and, finally, to the false reports of the im security ol exhibited goods which have been otr- culated by New York competing firms, and adda that an inadequate representation at Philadelphia of German production will resuit in 4 marked decline in American demand for German exports. ‘M, Michel, dealer in works of art, bougnt im April, 1874, of M. Coquet, a sculptor at Rheims, a | landseape, signed "Ch. J.) aud bearing oa the back the name in full, “Ch, Jacque.” The price paid was 600% The painting was afterward sub- mitted for verification to the artissto whom 1% was attributed, and he returned it to M. Michel with two notes written onitin common ink the top, infront, ‘This daub is not one of min and on the pack, “Those who put my name here are thieves.” M. Michel, in consequence, called on the seller to take back the picture, which the | other refused to do, saying ‘hat it had been spoils by the inscriptions pus on it, An action was brought belore the Civil Court at Rheims, gnd a yordict was given for the plainti, Coquet veing allowea to deduct from the 600!, he had to reim~ burse a sum of 40/, for the depreciation the paint | ing wad undergone, Ou apegal Lye indement was toga Lake making ready for the great annual _ this rate how is England to maintain her tndus- .