The New York Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1875, Page 6

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TIVOLI THEATRE, Erghth street, between Second and Third avenues.— Fotformence commences at 3 o’clock and closes at 2 o'clock: N HALL, Opera—GIBOFLE- WoOooD's MUSEUM, Pros dwa) corner of Thirueth street—POMP; OR, ‘WAY DOWN SOUTH, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1043 P, M. | BLD AT BAY, ata ve. Mt GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN Jate Barnum’s Hippod! RAND POPULAR CON- CERI, até P.M; M. TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, TUESDAY. JULY 13, 1875, THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS, Pint “ane he To Newspzanres asp THE Pusuic :— Tue New Yorx Heratp runs a special train every Sunday during the season, between New York, Niagara Falls, Sara- toga, Lake George, Sharon and Richfield Springs, leaving New York at half-past NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1875—TRIFLE SHEET Race Week at Saratoga—Our Olym- Pico Games. The Freshman race at Saratoga takes place to-day, and this is to be followed to-morrow by the contest which excites more interest than all the other sporting events of tho year—the University regatta. On Thursday the athletic games, which have already be- come a feature of the race week at Saratoga, will be edntested. Between the boating, walking and running matches there will be something for every taste at the favorite American spa, and the suecess which it is an- ticipated will gttend them will be still further proof, if proof is needed, of the deep hold of outdoor sports upon the people of this coun- try. It is not many years since horse racing was our only amusement, and the turf was far less reputable then than it is now. There were no courses like those at Jerome Park, Long Branch and Saratoga, and beauty and fashion had not yet learned to seek the grand stand on racing days as one of the chief delights of life. The history of yachting and boating, and, indeed, of athletic sports of every kind, is comprised within a very recent period, and it is only within the last ten years that the interest excited in events like ihose which are to take place this week became so general as to give them a national character. Now, however, every village has its athletic club, and physi- cal culture bas come to be recognized as quite as important as mental training. Yachting has grown in interest and impor- tance year after year, and boating become an almost universal pastime, From the begin- ning of June till the end of September there is a constant succession of races and regattas; but, while all of them excite much interest and attention, what we may call our Olym- pian games are the sports conducted under the auspices of our college associations, Saratoga Lake is the annual resort of the American Hellenes, and our Olympic games are not less famous or beneficial in these days than were those in Elis while Greek civiliza- tion was in its glory, and when it was sacri- lege to invade the Elean territory during the month of Olympiad. Speaking of the Olympic games leads us to commerid the wisdom of the Collegiate Row- ing Association in refusing private gifts asa reward for victory in the University race. As in the games of the Greeks a simple wreath was the badge of Hellenic immortality, so in this not less important event, to be in first at the finish is the highest glory. Expensive cups, and, indeed, gifte of any kind, instead of aiding would probably only detract from these annual contests. The College race is a race for victory, and we trust it will retain till the end something of the severe simplicity of its beginning. It is true this is only a senti- ment, but in such contests we are ever bound to hold their sentimental aspects as sacred. | two o'clock A. M., arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M., and Niagara Falls at ® quarter to two P. M., for the purpose of supplying the Scwpay Hznazp along the line ot the Hudson River, New York Central and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern roads, Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hrnaxp office as early as possible. For further particulars see time table. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy, with possibiy light | vains. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Hemaup mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Tuer Carz Marx Reoarra attracts general attention on account of the large number of fine yachts that are entered. The weather yesterday was so bad that the race was post- poned till to-day, or, in case of a second tail- ure, till to-morrow. Our Cape May letter con- tains the particulars of the arrangement. New Yorx and its neighborhood has re- cently been notorious for the great number of brutal murders that have been committed. Brooklyn seems to have the bad pre-eminence, but Jersey City is in close competition, as our report of the Kehoe homicide trial to-day will show. It is one of those horrors which make our civilization a mockery. Tau Tweurre or Juxx did not pass over | without a riot, Throughout the Union the day was observed by the Orangemen with comparatively little demonstrativeness, and it is to be greatiy regretted that at Lawrence, in Massachusetts, this peaceful demeanor should have been met by an unprovoked and violent attack by a mob of Irishmen, who were only restrained from taking life by the courage of the Mayor, whose conduct in this disgraceful emergency is worthy of the highest praise. Tux Rarm Travsrr Question naturally tterests all our citizens, and there seems to be considerable complaint that the matter is | not pushed with greater energy. But we ad- vise the public to reflect that the Commis- sioners are new in office, and that it is | only fair to give them time enough to consider the various projects | which are offered for their approval. After all the trouble the public has had to geta good rapid transit act passed, it would bea wrong to the Commissioners to expect them to decide ina moment the question which has been in dispute for several years, Tue Express Rospen.—Nothing in crim- inal matters is so romantic as the escape of a criminal trom his jail. Human nature inhe- rently sympathizes with the escapes of noto- rious prisoners, as in the cases of Baron Trenck, Joe Blueskin, Jack Sheppard, the Po- land patriots, who were condemned to lifelong confinement in Siberia; the prisoner of Chil- Jon, whose hair turned white in a single night; the Count of Monte Cristo, the aged inhabitants of the Bastile, and hun- dreds of others, in fiction or in fact, ‘whose strange adventures ‘‘happed by land or sea,” it is unnecesary te mention. The latest romance of this kind was furnished the other ,day’in our coluzans, when we reported the “finding of the skeleton of Filkins, the express robber, in a sewer of Clinton Prison. It is now supposed that this desperate outlaw es- ecaped and that the recent express burglaries ‘were executed under his direction, This may be the truth, but a man who defies law must finally yield to the law. Our letter from Bos- ton contains # great deal of interesting infor- But while we commend the action of the Row- ing Association we are free to confess that their reasoning is illogical, There is as mach reason why the successful crew should accept all gifts offered for the occasion as one pro- vided by the Regatta Committee. Evidently a mistake has been made in this matter, and hereafter it is to be hoped no prizes what- ever will be offered for this race Inj this way no unpleasant controversies can arise, and the simple bonor of victory will be enhanced by its freedom from all meretricious surroundings. The same rule, however, would not well apply tothe other contests, and especially to the walking and running | matches. These cannot expect the celebrity of arace which is by its very conditions his- torical. In the olden time it was the foot races which brought the highest glory, for the victor in the running matches was alone en- titled to have his name inscribed on the lists. Now the boat race is the chief event of the Olympiad, and it is the college crew which must be content with the simple reward of be- ing proclaimed victor. Daicles, the Mes- senian, is celebrated through ali time because this was his only recompense, and the winner of the boat race of 1875 can obtain no fitter reward, We trust that hereafter we shall hear nothing of proffered cups for the College race, and that all trophies other than that of victory will be reserved for the walking and running matches or for individual competition on the water. While we are compelled to acknowledge that our athletic games are still in their infancy it is surprising how much we resemble the pure and polished Greeks in out-door festivals. During the last half century row- ing and running, indeed everything which comes under the name of out-door sports, both in this country and in England have grown in popular appreciation. In the same way it took a long time to give the Olympiad its high place among the festivals of Greece ; but when it was once firmly established it lasted for nearly a thousand years, The stadium in Elis became not only the resort of all the Hellenic tribes, but the sacred groves of Olympia did more to preserve peace among them than all the appeals of Grecian orators and statesmen. What is true of the ancient | is true also of the modern world, and it is only a few days since we hailed the victory of the American rifle team at Dollymount as the harbinger of a better understand- ing between America and Europe than any contest except a friendly one could have brought us. The gladiatorial com- bats of the more sanguinary Romans had nothing to compare either in manliness and courage or skill and grace with the simpler exercises of the Greeks, and the archery of the Middle Ages lacked the perfection displayed | at Creedmoor and Dollymount. We surpass | our more immediate and rader ancestors both | in our weapons and in skill in their use, while it isin the Olympic games from the time of Lycurgus till alter the Roman conquest that we find the prototypes of our own out-door | exercises and amusements. It is right that we should cherish them al] the more because, like those after which they are modelled, they | are at once so innocent and so excellent. We may sing as Horace sang to Macenas, that it is pleasant to gather the dust from the chariot course, the wheels touching the goal as they pass ; and in our trotting races, almost Olym- pian in kind as well as in character, we pre- sent our counterpart to this, But, after all, the groatest charm is in our ‘brushing oars,” whea— The bord’ring people, roused by sounding famo O} Trojan feasis aod great Aceates’ name, The crowded shore wiv acciamations fil, Part to benoid and part to prove their skill, Chariot racing was of old only possible to mation of Filkins ané the robberies in which ho was the principals the few, as yachting is now; but the oar is within the reach of all. In lacking the boat race the Olympic games lacked that which would have made them endure forever; and we not only have this, but all the Greeks pos- sessed besides. At the same time it is doubt- ful whether we are as constant in our devotion to out-door exercises as were they; and it is in this most of all that we must emulate their example. It is to be regretted that the Freshman race to-day neither excites nor merits the interest which ought to be felt in the preliminary event of the annual Collegiate regatta, It is true it} is difficult to make a crew ina single year, but more might perhaps be done than most of the colleges accomplish, The Freshman boats ought to be the traming school for the university crews, and until they become so we must expect much feeble work at Saratoga every yearand much crude rowing even among the best, Prizes cannot recompense the want of systematic and steady training, and the excellences of some of the crews, as they have been described in the Hxzaxp, prove that only those who have been systematically and thoroughly trained can win them, These evidences of completeness are very gratifying, and we hope the race to- morrow will bear out all the kind things that have been gaid of the best of the crews. Not the future of rowing only, but of athletic games in general, is dependent for enconrage- ment and support upon the result of this year's match. We want no bickerings nor con- troversies of any kind—not so much as over @ cup which somebody has had made for the victors of Wednesday—and we hope that such precautions have been taken as will make an accident, even, impossible. A fair and an evenly contested race will establish the College regatta as in itself the most prized event of the sporting year, while it will give to the athletic games which are a part of the week’s amusement at Saratoga that Olympic character which is necessary to Olympic per- manence. In the future prizes for the foot races, and perhaps for single scull races on the lake, will not be thrown away, and this will be at least one valuable lesson from the experiences of the year. We think we are jus- tified in assuming that last year’s foul taught the crews how to avoid a similar result this year; and hereafter if the prizes are not thrown away on victors who get too much glory to value them the athletic games at Saratoga will make the week of the college Taces our Olympic season. Pig Iron Kelley in Ohio. This stanch devotee of protection and A Suggestion to the President, We have noticed, as we suppose the public has, that General Grant usually puts his foot in it when he undertakes to act without the advice of the most zealous of his supporters. It he had consulted us about bis Arkansas Message we could have told him it would only bring him defeat and odium; if he had asked us about the Force bill we sbould have been ready to assure him that it was a blunder end must fail. We did warn him against the absurd Civil Rights ‘bill, but he chose to sign it vevertheless, and it defeated the republicans in the South, and will give them ‘infinite trouble, we fear, next year in the North, And then there is his third term letter, which has covered him with ridicule, not only bere, but, as it now appears, even in England. Why did he do it? He mast feel by this time that writing, which came to him, we suppose, as it came to Dogberry, by nature, is a danger- ous accomplishment, If he wanted to go fishing for the third term we could have told him of half a dogen different and better ways: indeed, if he had only kept still, he would have been better off than he is now. And if he was determined to try the people—if, hke Cesar, he wished to refuse the crown, in order to have it forced on him—in that case we should have recommended to him two models for his letter, one of which would have at least lett him a door open for retreat in case the people were tired of him, as it seems they are. He might have written, for instance: —“The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the Executive govern- ment of the United States being not tar dis- tant, and the fime actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that impor- tant trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expres- sion of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed to decline being considered among the num- ber of those out of whom the choico is to bo made,” And he might have added:—‘“In withdrawing the tender of service which silence in my situation might imply I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest, no deficiency of grateful re- spect fer your past kindness.” If he had written thus he would, little as he may think it, have used the words of General Washington, the Father of His Country, in 1796. Or, if these words did not suit him, he might have written:—“That I should lay down my charge at a proper period is as paper money has just made a speech in Ohio which will make him popular with the demo- cratic inflationists. None of the democratic speakers who go upon the stump to advocate the re-election of old Governor Allen will be so serviceable as this noted republican, who has made an elaborate argument to the assem- bled ironmasters of Ohio to prove that the prosperity of the country can be revived only by a new deluge of paper money. Kelley and Butler will spike the guns of the republican party in Ohio, whose most formidable battery against the party that supports Allen is denunciation of this financial heresy. The Ohio republicans who accept the doctrines of Kelley will be tempted to vote with the democrats § in this election, because the democratic plat- form expresses their real views. At any rate, the Ohio republicans will not make converts of the hard money democrats when theJatter can point to conspicuous republican leaders who are more crazy on the currency than Pendleton himself. They will prefer to stand by their own party and try to reform it with the aid of the Eastern democrats. Kelley and Butler have opened the way for Thurman to go upon the stump and do effective service in this canvass. ‘To be sure,”’ he will say, “the democratic party is not yet united on the cur- rency question, but the republicans are also divided upon it, and it ill becomes them to denounce us for views which distinguished Eastern republicans come here to adyo- cate.” Kelley has put him in a position to make a powerful exposure of repub- lican inconsistency. He will refer to the course of Morton, Logan and Ferry, and show that there is no evidence that they have abjured the inflation policy which they advocated in Congress in common with Kelley and Butler. He will easily parry all the blows aimed at the democratic platform by proving that its assailants are pots who profess to be horrified at the blackness of kettles. Thurman will feel very much obliged to Kelley for loosening his tongue and supply- ing him with a line of argument which is al- ways effective on the stump. The exposure of the inconsistency of opponents by truth fully saying “you're another” is always a taking electioneering mancuvre, and Thur- man does not lack skill to employ it. Tne Floods in France, Our first anticipation, when the news of the floods in France came,to us by the cable, was that in the hurry of telegraphing the disaster had been magnified. The difficulty of obtaining any exact information in an event of this vastness is natural when we remember the extent of country covered by the floods, the character of the disasters and the various forms of devastation. The Moniteur prints an official telegram showing that the number of lives lost was exaggerated—that about two hundred bodies have been recovered in Toulouse, This is a much smaller number than was ex- pressed in earlier despatches, but it does not practically diminish the extent of tho calamity. Further news shows that the country of the Garonne does not alone suffer. The Bur- gundy district near Magon—where the best Burgundy is grown—has been laid waste for about twenty-five miles. This is a rich, ripe country, representing one of the noblest districts in France. We learn that fine wheat and vine crops have been destroyed. We trust that our people will not miss this opportunity of showing the French people our sincere sympathy with them in their great and cruel misfortune. France has never been silent to the voice of friendship and charity. Americans have now a splendid opportanity of showing their high regard for the people of France and their appreciation of the thousand kindnesses we have received from them since the foundation of the Republic. Tur Sranwa See-Saw is o beautiful ma- much a duty as to have borne it faithfully. If some termination to tho services of the Chief Magistrate be not fixed by the constitu- tion or supplied by practice, his office, nomi- nally for years, will become practically for life, and history shows how easily that de- generates into an inheritance. Believing that @ representative government, responsible at short periods of elections, is that which produces the greatest sum of hap- piness to mankind, I feel it a duty to do no act which shall essentially impair that princi- ple, and I should be unwilling to be the person who, disregarding the precedent set by an illustrious predecessor, should furnish the first example of prolongation beyond the second term of office.” It is unfortunately trne that these would have been rather strong words for General Grant to use, seeing that he was fishing for a third term, and not like Jefferson, who wrote them in 1808, absolutely declining a renomi- nation, which had been urged upon him by the Legislatures of Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and North Carolina, As the friend of General Grant, sincerely anxious for his fame and comfort, the Hunarp regrets to notice that not a single Legislature has as yet asked him to accept a third term, while three or four conventions of his own party have told him they do not want him. This is awkward, and, of course, such a letter as Jefferson’s would be hardly suitable, in his present opinion, for his actual position. If, however, he could divest his mind of the wish for another term, we could still recom- mend Jefferson’s letter to him. It contains -sound sense, and, as General Grant is not likely to have any Legislature to address it to, there would be no impropriety in directing it through the columns of the Hznap to the American people. Our journal is nobody’s organ, not even His Excellency’s; but when- ever he makes up his mind that he cannot get another term we will gladly publish his renunciation free of charge. But we advise him, on the whole, not to attempt an original production. It is not im his line. Let him tell General Babcock to make a fair copy of Washington's or Jefferson’s letter, and then let him sign his name to it, It can be sent by telegraph at our charge, and it will relieve the minds of the other republican candidates, who begin to see that the last let- ter “meant yes,” «Tne Derenpers or toe Hartrm Friars Nouzance.—In the Board. of Apportionment yesterday Comptroller Green did his best to second the efforts of the republican Aldermen to prevent any abatement of the abominable and dangerous nuisance of the Harlem flats. He oppused any appropriation for the protection of the health and lives of the citizens, and backed up the state- ment of Alderman Vance regarding the pest beds of Disbecker, Jones and McQuade, In spite of his opposition the Board passed the resolution appropriating twenty-one thousand dollars, the amount of unexpended balances of the Health fund of last year, to the partial filling of the flats. This will go but a little way toward effectual relief, and Alderman Vance, of the unsensitive nose, and Alderman Simonson, with their associates, will still be responsible ehould a pestilence visit the city in August and September. But such partial protection as the citizens have now secured is nevertheless welcome, and the Mayor, the President of the Board of Aldermen and the President of the Department of Taxes and ‘Assessments are deserving of credit for hay- ing successtully resisted Comptroller Green’s attempt to prevent any abatement of the dangerous nuisance. Perm B. Sweenr Coming Home.—Peter B. Sweeny has expressed his willingness to return to New York and meet the charges against him. He has stipulated that in the event of doing so he shall not be held to ex- chine, Just now the Alfonsists are up; but who can tell when their end will be down and Don Carlos will ride in triumph cessive bail—in other words, that he shall not be locked up in Ludlow Street Jail until three or four millions of security gan be found for his appearance to answer the suits { worthy information respecting the minerat now for the first time brought against him. We believe this offer will be resources of those regions. But it is stready certain that the Black Hills are not the El accepted and that very soon the great | Dorado they were cried up to be, and that if ‘Tammany leader will have ap opportunity of meeting Ingersoll, Garvey and the rest of his old vassals before a jury of his countrymen. In doing this Mr. Sweeny takes the advice of the Hxnazp, He could do nothing elso. Mr. Pockbam informs our reporters that Mr. Walsh, sgainst whom is also an indictment, will pay twenty-five thousand dollars to settle the case. Mr. Walsh was an old Court House Commis- sioner, and he is charged with neglect of duty and not with any crime. This distinction has been allowed to his benefit, and proceedings against him will be dismissed upon the pay- ment of the sum specified. We commend this example to Tweed. If Tweed had given to the city the half million of dollars he has paid to lawyers, leeches and blackmailers the people would listen with composure to his pleas for mercy. Our Riflemen at Wimbledon. The status of our riflemen at Wimbledon has been at last clearly stated, It seems now that the Wimbledon authorities were discuss- ing the propriety of arranginga contest be tween the American team and representative teams from Ireland, Scotland and England when Colonel Gildersleeve’s letter appeared. Accepting that letter as final all idea of a team match was abandoned. In order, however, to give our riflemen an opportunity to measure themselves with the best shots of England the Council of the National Rifle Association have kindly decided on offering a valuable cup, to be shot for by the members of the American team and representatives of the three British eights of 1874 and 1875. This will furnish ample opportunity for such of the Americans as desire moro jame to bring home some branches of English laurel entwined with the wreath of shamrock won from their Irish friends. In their great generosity the Britishers have taken all possible precautions to keep the cup in the “tight little island,” Not alone will the teams competent for the Elcho Shield this year enter the list, but all who shot last year will be requested to come to the front, Eng- land expecting ‘every man to do his duty.” We have no doubt that our riflemen will willingly accede to the proposed match. There seemed so much chance a few days ago that John Bull would shut up his Wimbledon show shop and go out of the rifle shooting ‘business as soon as our boys were landed on English soil that they will be glad to compound with him for a match on any terms, Next year the English will organize, they say, an imperial team to shoot against any roving Yankee marksmen who may drop in at Wimbledon. As the Irish riflemen have promised to visit America on the oceasion of the Centennial it is not probable that many Yankee riflemen will ventare into the sunless regions of England. But a little later we will be glad to accommo- date the imperial team ¢ither at Wimbledon or on ourown ground at Creedmoor. John Buil can push on the work of preparation, so | as to avoid the necessity for excuses, The Cuban War. Still goes on the slaughter in the “Ever Faithful Isle,” and at no period has the strag- gle been so fierce or waged over such a vast extent of territory. Valmaseda, notwith- standing his boasting proclamations, makes no real headway. Now and then his troops manage to kill an odd rebel of some impor- 'g| tance, but it does not seem to affect the Cuban cause. Other leaders, more formidable and active, spring up to take the place of those who fall The Cuban forces, too, though constantly cut to pieces in the Spanish bulletins, grows stronger and more audacious after each defeat. Instead of sweep- ing the rebels across the trocha in fifleen days, as Valmaseda rashly promised, he is still pelting them with paper proclamations from behind his intrenchments, But, strangely enough, the rebels no longer melt away before the terror of Valmaseda’s name, On the contrary, they raid up to his guns and invite him to combat—an invitation he an- swers by a proclamation calling on them to come in and surrender. He is the great Spanish showman, and, like a clown at a fair, he constantly informs the Cuban rebels that **now is the time to walk in and see the great show—the triumph of peace.” But the rebels simply carry out their policy of fighting and flying, knowing well that they have only to hold out long enough and that Spain will be forced to let go her grip of Cubs trom sheer inability to hold on. The Biack Hills Country end Gola, The correspondent who gives the result of his observations in the letter from Camp Har- ney, which we print to-day, presents a lively picture of the Black Hills region, and makes it too evident that the gold hunters who are thronging thither are the dupes of their too sanguine expectations. That there is a gold tract there is quite true, but thongh extensive in area it is so deficient in yield that the driver of a horse car or a laborer on our pub- lio works at the present reduced wages is in receipt of a better income than the most for- tunate of those who have gone so far and risked so much in qnest of gold among the Black Hills. The wild and wonderful ac- counts by which multitudes of sanguine adventurers were set crazy have been proved an utter delusion, and it is to be regretted that they are paying so dear for this experience. They are still led on from place to place, but the ‘pay streak” is always ‘‘over yonder,” and, like an ignis fatuus, it is never reached by the deluded pursuers. There is no gold to be had by mere washing or sifting that is worth the labor of collecting, and whether the amount imbedded in quartz rock is sufficient to justify s heavy outlay for machinery can be determined only by scientific explorations. There isa survey nowin progress of which our correspondent gives a description, The party is divided into two sections, each with an escort for protection against the Indians, Mr. Jenney, with competent mining asasist- ants, has started for Rapid Creek, in the north ; and Mr. Newton, geologist, and Dr, McGillyenddy, topographical engineer, with part of Company I, Second cavalry, under command of Lieutenant Hall, have gone south- ward to explore the country between Camp Harney and the South Fork of the Oheyenne. From their reports we may expect trust- the gold mines are ever worked to advantage it must be by a heavy investment of capital in powerful machinery for crushing the ores and Scientific appliances for separating the metal. Mere hund labor by isolated miners will not enable them to earn the wages of a hod- carrier, It is unfortunate that this infatuation has seiged so many, not only because their expec- tations are doomed to bitter disappointment, but because there is imminent danger that they will stir up a troublesome Indian war. Our correspondent also describes the nature and sets forth the magnitude of this danger, and we refer our readers to his interesting letter for the details of the situation. South Carolina and the Centennial, We publish a letter from Governor Cham- berlain, of South Carolina, expressing the cordial interest of the people of that gallant State in the Philadelphia Exposition, but confessing that nothing has yet been done io enable its citizens to be represented with ad- vantage on that occasion, He will recom- mend an appropriation at the next meoting of the South Carolina Legislature, and hopes there will be a creditable exhibition of the products of the State. But we fear that the means of South Carolina bear but a slender proportion to her patriotic good will. While she is rich in Revolutionary memories and distinguished names the misgovernment of recent years has left her poor in resources. But the wealth of a State is no criterion of its patriotism and valor. The countrymen of Wallace or of Tell would not have made an imposing figure in a centennial exposition of art and industry, and South Carolina may rival either of them in the poetry of hero- ism. Where in our Revolutionary his- tory can we look for parallels to her Sumter and her Marion? Bryant's noble ‘Song of Marion’s Men’’ is one of the many spirited things inspired by the romance of South Caro- lina’s part in the Revolution: — Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that Marivn leads— The guster of their rifles, ‘Tne scampering of thetr steeds. The Draytons, Pinckneys, Rutledges, Mid- dietons and Gadsdens were men of high eul- ture and statesmanlike views, as well as P devoted patriotism, and South Carolina was also illustrious by her Moultrie, Laurens, Horry, Pickens, Williams, the Hammonds and many others who rendered signal servics in the Revolution. The Philadelphia Exposi- tion will of course be no representation of the Revolutionary services of the States, Of the thirty-eight which will participate in this Ex- position only thirteen have any Revolutionary memories at all South Carolina was tho peer of any of the thirteen, but she cannot take her famous battle grounds to Philadel- phia, She will do what she can and do it heartily, for no State will be in more com- plete sympathy with the occasion. Tne Commissioners or Ponrce IN BRooxLrn are desirous of reforming the police, and the difficulties and purposes of the revolution they propose are explained in an article else- where. ERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. J. L, Toole, thé comedian, is sojourning at the Westaiuster Hotel. Dr. C, H. FP. Peters, of Hamilton College, ts reg- istered at the Hoffman House. A brother of the Most Rev. Archoishop Croke ts a Catholic priest in Caitfornia. General D. P, Grier, of lliiacls, has teken up hia resiaence at the Iifth Avenue Hotel, Sir George Arney, ex-Chief Justice of New Zea- land, has arrived at the Brevoort House, Mr. Dantel Dougherty, of Pailadeiphia, ts among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Kdinborzh and bis Duchess take eighty tons of luggage in their little sammer trip to Russia, In France it is proposed to put @ tax on the perambalators in whica the nurse takes baby for a ride, The King of Saxony is chosen Rector of the University of Leipsic—"Recior Magnificentissi- mus.” Depnty Quartermaster General Rams Saxton, United States Army, 1s quartered at the St. James Hotel. Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, arrived at the New York Hotel yesterday,on the way to Saratoga. Captain William Prince, of tbe Ordnance De- partment, United States Army, is at the Metro- politan Hotel, Sidney Dilion and party left Omaha for the East yesterday. The King of Saxony has conferred the title o8 | Order of Albert on Dr. A. M. Koss, tae naturalist, of Toronto, Mr. Thomas Dickson, Prestdent of the Delawara and Buason Canal Company, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General B. R. Cowen, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Windsor Hotel. Sefior Don Manuel J. Yrrarrazaval, a member of the Onihan Senate, is resiaing, with his family, at the Clarendon Hotel. Two Englishmen were arrested in Mayence as spies. Hope the Germans are not getting as crazy as the French om that bead, Its proposed to abolish passports tn Russia; but, a8 passports are only a cover for a polk tax, the case seems far from easy. Hail, horrors, hail! One handrea and fifty “picked Welsh singers” are orgaatzing an expedi- ton to attend the Centennial at Philadelphia, What does Secretary Bristow cnow about Hooch-* noo? Does it really possess all the requirements of first class frewater, and does it pay the tax? Senator Logan arrived at San Francisco yester- Gay. He states tnat he has no intention of taking part ja the campaign in the State. He is thereon business. Two Marillos were sold with the ptctares owned by Mr. Gladstone, Tney brongnt $27. The next Prime Minister who sells out had better send his pictures bere. Joseph Bony is on trial im Dablin for attempting to blow upa@ statue of Prince Albert. Doubtless be was tired of Albert, who was a frightfully good man and is becoming & terrible bore, In St. Petersburg tt is proposed to hand over two monasteries, with ali their revenues, to the curators for the indigent clergy of the vishopria because in the sald monasteries there are no monks, Did any one tm the South really believe that General Sherman personally handied that toron ? Don’t they know that the only geverais who cut such capers are the sort that dourish in froat ot the footlights at the Bowery Theatre. @An swiul calamity hangs over England, Hi« Royal Highness the Duka of Cambridge, com- mander of the army, threatens to resign. It ia queer that im peace dukes over there, aad in 3. an English missionary deputation catied on the Sultan of Zanzivar to request some ‘privileges in his dominion, “Oh, certatmly,” he replied through an interpreter; “your holy men will be made wek come, and I am autte sure We ball be able to am vert them,”