The New York Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4, NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Heraup will be rent free of postage. —_—_- THE DAILY HERALD, published every “day in the year, Four cents per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per qonth, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henavp. Letters and packages should be properly vealed, “Rejected communications will not be’ re- turned. IU cose sg LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, NO, 216 | TO-NIGHT CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, THEODORE 1LOMAS’ CONCERT, at 8 P. M. OBIN ALL, et.—English Opera—LITSCHEN AND ILPERIC, acs P. 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Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Hznaup office as early as possible. For further pariiculars see time table. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy. ——= |{ 1875. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Hrraup mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wart Srrrer Yesrerpay.—The dealings indicated a dull market. The changes in price were insignificant. Gold sold at 112}. Government and railroad bonds were firm. Kerry on Moraissry.—‘‘Morrissey is scur- tilous and low, andis not worthy of notice.”’ Tae Froops my THe Wess continue to do much injury to property, and the Ohio and Mississippi rivers are still rising. Grave ap- prehensions of disaster are felt, as our de- spatches from all parts of the country show. France Has Decrvep to take part heartily in the Centennial Celebration of American independence, and notwithstanding the many calls on the public purse the National Assem- bly has voted thirty thousand francs for the benefit of French exhibitors at Philadelphia, Wate Atronsistr Vicronres are reported in the operations against the Carlists the projected constitution is in a fair way of adoption. This document will guarantee freedom of worship to Protestants in their own churches, and will, probably, lead toa great deal of religious and political agitation. Tae Remarms or Anprew JouNnson were placed in their last resting place at Green- ville yesterday, with appropriate ceremonies, elsewhere recorded. A stormy political career is ended, and hereafter we shall remember only the virtues of a man whose public ser- vices were conspicuous and whose example tad in it much that was worthy of imitation. Crcars which-have not paid the customs duty are much esteemed by a certain class of smokers, and, to gratify them, many expedi- ents are adopted by the smugglers. We print, this morning, the story of an exciting chase and capture of party of smugglers in the Lower Bay, with thousands of cigars in their possession, thrown from the steamer Columbus. Tae Wreck or Tr Scriven Still possesses ® painful interest, and the extracts from the register kept by Mr. John Banfield, Vice Con- sul of the German Empire at Scilly, relating to the identification and disposition of the bodies of the lost passengers, which we print this morning, merit and will receive general | attention. Governor Titpex’s Commission for the in- vestigation of frauds upon the canals has made o preliminary report affecting the Gen- esee Valley, the Champlain and the Eastern division of the Erie Canal. Although this report is only partial in character it shows the methods adopted by the contractors in robbing the State, and will be made the basis | of the suits to be brought against the Canal Ring by the Attorney General. The Com- mission so far has been doing a good work, | ond we trast that the investigations which are now going forward will result in bring. | ing back something of the honesty and fore- sight which characterized the mouagement of the State canals in their history. Where Is Governor Tilden Going? Will not some high democratic authority tell the Herarp and the great American peo- ple what is the real place of Mr. John Mor- rissey in the democratic party? Just now he looms up as the bead ot the party. If we may believe what he freely communicates to the reporters and newspaper correspondents it is only his modesty which prevents him from raising over his gambling house % Sara- toga a banner with the strange device, “Democratic Headquarters.”” He appears to be the bosom -friend of 4 number of demo- | eratic dignitaries. To him comes Tilden in his most confidential moods. To him are ex- pected to come Hendricks, Thurman and other democratic statesmen. Into his ear are poured the secrets of political campaigns; upon his shrewd advice, apparently, party | movements are to be founded. It may be all right. Mr. Morrissey may be the proper leader for these democrats, ‘The tools to him who knows how to use them’’ is an old proverb, only the people would like to understand the matter. If the brains of | the democratic party are really kept under John Mormssey’s hat let us know the fact, | and let Morrissey have the honors that belong | tohim. I! he made Mr. Tilden Govervor, and if he means to make Governor Tilden President, and if Tilden likes it, let us all understand it plainly. Then we shall know | where we staad. It would be a great advan- tage to a curious public to know precisely to whom to look as the head of the democratic party. ‘Then, at least, we should all know whom to holl responsible for the muddle of our city polities; for the misgovernment which still prevails here under democratic rule; for Green, and for all the rest‘of it. “Governor Tilden came into the Governor- ship,” say his admirers, ‘with summer skies and rising seas and bounding hopes only one year ago;’’ which means that the democratic party wants power. His friends saw that “sure haven which rounds the dreams of our modern greatness;’’ which means that they | and their allies yearn for spoils, His enemies conceded that “victory had perched upon his prow, and that he had simply to stand by the helm and watch the rippling waves and | revel in the anticipated comforts of a land flowing with milk and honey—a Presi- | dential lond—with two terms assured;” | | which means that the tired, hungry dogs will come right into power. Tilden was “the Ring-breaker;” which meant that he was a candidate for the Governorship. Tilden bad ‘overthrown Tammany Hall;’’ which meant that he was a candidate for the Presidency. Tilden not only ‘dethroned Tweed, but sent him to the Islan@;”’ which means that he is still a candidate. The Henan, the friend of all aspiring statesmen, and not alone wishing for the pleasantest sail- ing, was only too glad to throw up its hat tor Tiiden as the second Jackson, the follower of Jefferson, the rival of Washington. But all this enthusiasm has come suddenly to an end. Enemies and friends are asking, Where is Tilden going, and what is he domg ? admit to the society of their wives and children or their friends’ wives and chil- dren, The Heraup had hopes of Governor Tilden; it ranked him with such men as Bayard and Reverdy Johnson ;_ it did not ex- pect to see him following the demoralizing example of General Grant, as though one scandal of that kind were not enough. There never was a better opportunity for a great political leader than exists just now in this | country. The two parties are really more | like two political mobs than like organ- ized bodies. There has not been tor many man of acknowledged character, | and courage,,to make his influence pre- dominant and to gain adherents and success | for a wise, positive and honest policy, such as the country needs. The mass of the people of both parties feel that matters have gone | greatly amiss, and that not only in the fed- eral, but in the State governments, and not only in the States, but in the cities and coun- ties as well. The people have suffered very seriously from bad laws and a reckless and ignorant. administration, and they are per- fectly conscious that both parties are in fault. “If the republicans are accused of cor- branch of the government they point to the and States where they have had power. In such a case, where neither party has a clean record, there is clearly an opportunity tor in- | dividual character in statesmen to make itself felt. But what do we see? Everywhere our public men are either silent or hedging and seeking strange unholy alliances. Here are the republicans in Ohio, Pennsylvania, California and other States, | praising the wisdom and success of General Grant’s administration; and here, on the other side, is Governor Tilden going about with John Morrissey, and really making him the head of the democratic party, while Mc- Creary, democratic candidate for Governor in Kentucky, is allowed to tell his people that the bonds ought to be paid in greenbacks, and .the banks ought to be abolished. We acknowledge to a great deal of surprise at Governor Tilden’s course. He has always aimed to play the part of a respectable and somewhat reserved statesman; and has, to all contact with the lower elements ii our pol- itics. But of late he too has fallen, Police Outrages. It would seem that our doughty guardians of the public peace are in no way frightened by the proceedings of the Legislative Com- mittee. No doubt they look on all the ex- amination and cross-examination of witnesses by inquisitive legislators as simply a summer pastime for these gentleuref, not likely to lead to any practical results ; for the police officer’s shield is regarded a talisman that secures the wearer against the operation of the law. Hence the police officer is embold- ened to commit outrages that even the most reckless criminal attempts rarely. The story For here is our somewhat celebrated and powerful ruler of city politics, John Morris- sey, now a rebel from Tammany Hall—the Jack Cade of the democracy. John Morrissey is powerful man—among heavy weights without a superior—and when he speaks ; we hsten with the respect due to the hero of so many campaigns: John Morrissey unbosoms himself to our reporter, in an elaborate interview, which we will not follow now, but which contains some suggestive observations. Morrissey tells us how much money he has subscribed. He does not tell us how many men he has pounded, for that would be needless information to a community so well in- formed of his achievements. But it seems he has quarrelled with Kelly, with Wickham, with all the leaders of Tam- many. He, however, has not quarrelled with Tilden ; so he tells our reporter in emphatic phrase what he thinks of Tilden—how he admires him, how he believes in him—and he admits us to an interview which took place between them. We may well ask where Tilden is going, when we find hiw io this snug and confidential relation John Morrissey is now a rebel against Tam many Hall. Fifteen years ago he was a rebel against society. But society is generons and not exacting, and is only too glad to offer the olive branch. In the good old days, the days of a Greeley anda Silas Wright, when even Sunday newspapers were looked upon as an infraction of some special commandment, the spectacle of Tilden ond Morrissey in communion on affairs of State would have | been ao sore trial. Although we believe in a general dissemination of olive branches, and feel that Morrissey is a man who does not lie, he is still a gambler; and a Governor of New York must be in sore stress for counsel when he takes into his confidence » man who has the manliness to avow that his profession is an offence to society and a violation of moral law. Morrissey is no doubt an excellent man of his kind. He is believed to play a square game, as he formerly fought a square fight ; he is as honest at the green table as he was in the pugilistic ring ; he is not an office. seeker, and no one has contradicted his boast that he never held a city contract. But he is surely not the kind of man of whom a states- man aspiring to the Presidency should make a bosom friend and the confidant of his political secrets. He is not the stuff out of which Warwicks are made. When he holdsa political levée in his gambling house at Sara- | toga, do the aspiring politicians who attend it imagine the people do not note the fact? Does Governor Tilden think it increases the public respect for him and the belief in his fitness for the highest office in the country when Morrissey is able to tell ,the reporters that he was closeted with Tilden, and that deny it? | the papers that not only Hoffman and Church | owed their political preferment to Morrissey, | but that—more lamentable yet—Morrissey | himself boasts that he made T#den Governor and means to make him President if he con- ducts himself in such a way as to please him? |'The American people want good’ govern- | ment, reform of evils, a just and honest | policy—not in the federal administration alone, but in States and cities as well; but, also, they want respectable men at the head. They do not like to see their public men con- | sorting with people whom they would not | Tilden told him this and that, and cannot | Is it not pretty thing to read in | of the girl who charges she was outraged by Peliceman Finnerty, in the Battery Park, aided by his pal, is a pretty illustration of the conduct of the guardians we pay to pro- tect us. There is, however, a good chance that swift punishment will overlake the per- petrators of this latest outrage. The girl’s story bears the impress of trath, and for- | tunately the accused men are in the hands of the courts, where they will be dealt with ac- cording tothe law. We require an example to be made of policemen who use the power intrasted to them by the public to commit crime with something like impunity. When one of these black sheep is caught in the commission of a serious crime he should be punished with the utmost severity of the law. Tux O’Connutu Cxnrenany. —We print highly important despatches from Dublin about the O’Connell celebration, among them.an interesting interview with Cardinal Cullen. Our Irish friends seem to be more and more perverse in their celebration of the O'Connell centenary. We have the ultramon- tane movement on the part of the priests, who insist that the great leader was simply a ser- vant of the Church, and who propose that the demonstration shall be a menace to Bismarck. We have also the Fenians and the members of the extreme revolutionary party, who demand that the display shall be a rebuke to England for imprisoning the Fenians. Neither of these parties can remember that O’Connell was not merely a Catholic and an agitator, but a great statesman; one who knew when to march and when to stop; who loved his coun- try so well that he would not become the slave of any party or any sect. There could be no insult to the memory of O'Connell more flagrant than what is proposed in the action of the revolutionists and the priests, Tue Improved Postan Srrvice.—Govern- ments, as well as individuals, find a great in- centive in example. We read, for instance, that the Post Office Department is about to establish a fast postal train between this city and Chicago. This can scarcely fail to bea good movement, but it is worthy of remark that the idea never occurred to the Post Office authorities until after the Henarp had illus- trated its feasibility. Our fast trains to Sara- toga and Niagara showed what a little energy, when properly directed, could accomplish. Every city in the West was delighted by the receipt of the Henanp twenty-four hours in advance of the delivery of other journals through the mails, and the satisfaction was so great thateven the Post Office Department | has been aroused. There is at last to be a | quick delivery between the East and the West, | and it is not surprising even that the route | chosen is the same as tbat adopted by the | Heraup. It mattered little to us whether the | government increased its facilities, for we | have shown that we could command them for ourselves ; but we still rejoice that the lesson to be drawn from a successful enterprise has not been thrown away by the Post Office offi- cials, and that in consequence of our fast train the people of the West are to havea better postal service. Tammany Reoroaniation,—It ig evidently intended that the reorganization of Tammany Hall be effective, and the Committee on Dis- cipline has accordingly laid down to the new committees the law of loyalty which they are expected to accept. These resolutions are rather hard reading, but the faithful, doubt. less, can discover their moaning democrats, who are equally guilty in citiés | ruption and maladministration in the federal | outward appearances at least, seemed to shun | The Recent Storms. The telegraph has, within the past few days, brought us intelligence from all parts of the world of a series of severe storms and rains a parallel to which will be found, at least in Europe, only after searching back- wards for many decades. The storm that was so terribly severe in Geneva and its neighbor- hood seems, according to the best accounts, to have but begun at that place and to have subsequently extended northeastward and northwestward with a severity comparable | only to that of the great hail storm of July 17> years so good an opportunity for a public | honesty | 1788. This latter storm, in less than nine hours, traversed a belt of country twenty- | seven miles broad and five hundred miles long, destroying property to the extent of five million dollars. A special commission bas | been appointed by the French government to investigate the circumstances attending the recent storm, and it is to be hoped that from its report there will result such additions to our knowledge as will ivcroase, even in some degree, the accuracy of the storm predictions of the meteorologist. In a general way, however, the char- acteristics of the present summer heavy rains and low temperature seem to have been foretold some. three years ago by certain meteorologists, ‘who have deduced a connection between the solar spots | and the prevalence of storms, the temperature of the air, &ec. Such very general predictions, however, as are warranted by the conclusions of these savans cdn have comparatively little practical value to the man of business, who looks with more confidence to predictions based on data gathered nearer home. That the atmosphere of our earth is a unit; that the weather of to- day in Europe and Asia has a great deal to do with the weather of to-morrow and perhaps of next week in the United States; that the field of. our, observations must be made geographically more extended and philosophically more minute—these and sim- ilar principles are those that must be brought to bear if our farmers and sailors are to re- ‘ceive timely forewarning of such an atmos- pheric revolution as we have witnessed dur- ing the last weck in the sudden change that we have experienced from midsummer's heat to autumnal rain. It is not too much to say that, had this country received a week ago creditable assurance of the approaching floods, some crops would have been harvested even in their immature state, in order to save something from the wreck that would other- wise have befallen them, and that thus, as well as in other ways, a saving to the country could have been effected of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Thus far the Weather Bureau at Washington has not attempted to predict such local storms as are most destructive in the sum- mer season, nor, indeed, to predict any general weather changes more than a day in advance. Would it not, however, now seem time to un- dertake this most important work? Can not some foundation for such predictions be found in the data furnished by the magnificent bul- letin of international simultaneous meteoro- logical observations which the Weather Bu- reau is now able to publish for the further- ance of meteorological studies ? The English View of the Centennial. We print this morning an admirable article from the London Zimes of July 24, comment- ing upon the Centennial Exhibition in Phila- delphia and giving us a fair idea of the view entertained by foreign nations of this great work. The London Times commends the Exhibition warmly, and at the same time urges upon our people the erection of a high standard by which to measure the character of the objects exhibited. ‘The Times has no- ticed in recent exhibitions “an increasing tendency to turn the building into a place for the common vulgar advertisement of trades- men’s goods, without the slightest regard to what is supposed to be furthered by an exhi- bition—scientific improvement, artistic excel- lence, ingenuity of process or the like.” Where a tradesman is allowed to make a show of his wares of “ordinary goods, which you may see in twenty shops in Oxford street, without a single new idea suggested by them, the public feels that there must be an element of charlatanism and jobbery in the nature of these displays, and is repelled accordingly.’’ ‘The Times trusts that the Americans will do something to remedy this evil, and it thinks that we can do much toward renewing ‘the usefulness and popnu- larity of the ixtdustrial exhibitions’ by mak- ing a selection from the mass of merchandise, good, bad and indifferent, that will be sent to us by ‘‘enterprising firms.” We are glad to find an authority, representative in its character like the Times, so judicious and chary in its commendations, taking a deep interest in our Centennial Exhibition, We count largely upon the warm support of Eng- land in this display, because, while we cele- brate in 1876 the foundation of the Republic of the United States, we celebrate in no less a degree the greatness of that mighty nation from which we come and in whose relation- ship we feel an honest Anglo-Saxon pride, Rutz Ssoorme rm Coruxars.—The idea thrown out by the IHxraLp some weeks ago that'rifle shooting should be introduced into the programme of college sports is likely to be generally adopted. Cornell has already the nucleus of a rifle club, and within a few years intercollegiate rifle matches will prob- ably become as popular as rowing matches. Rifle shooting is peculiarly fitted as an out- door sport for students. Unlike rowing, it does not involve severe physical training and that overstrain which is sometimes so inju- rious to the oarsman. But it demands imper- atively temperance of life, soundness of judg- ment and bodily health, and will impress on the youthfyl mind the value of these qualities in the struggle of life. Democratic Noxsense tN Kentucry.— Colonel McCreary, who has just been elected by the democrats to be Governor of Kentucky, told his peoplo during the campaign that among the leading ini- quities of the day for which the republicans ought to be voted out of power are:—First, the promise to pay off the national debt in gold; second, the exemption of federal bonds from taxation; third, the establishment of national banks, and fourth, what he calls the ‘unequal distribution of currency.” That is to say the democratic candidate for Governor in Kentucky asked for votes on the ground really that if his party had power it would pay the national debt in 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. currency, tax the federal bonds and abolish the national banks. Is it not a little too much? In the Kentucky vernacular of a quarter of a century ago are not the demo- crats “piling it up a little mountaineously ?” When the House of Representatives last Feb- ruary voted.down the President's remarkable proposition to overthrow the State govern- ment in Arkansas a witty member remarked that “it seemed as though General Grant had bit off more than he could chaw.” It looks a little as though these Western democrats were as unwisely ambitious as the republican Presi- dent whom they do not like. Herzegovina. As yet the little trouble in the border land of Turk and Christian scarcely exceeds the dimensions of that bit of proverbial cloud that ultimately fills the whole heavens with the shadow of war; but yet it appears to be an obstinate trouble, and that is a region in which obstinate revolts lead very far, for the social and political relations are of the most delicate nature on every hand. There is no spot in Europe where the political status is less stable, or where so great a fire may grow from so small a flame. It is about three weeks since our despatches first told of disturbances which were then represented to be mere af- frays consequent upon conflicts with the Turkish tax gatherers; but now our news tells of the revolt of the people at widely sep- arated points, of battles with the soldiery in which the insurgents have captured cannon, and of a call for united action on the part of Bosnia, Servia and Herzegovina—say two million and a half of people. This, there- tore, is no accidental conflict with tax gath- erers; and what, then, is it? AJl the coun- tries between the Balkan and the Danube, the Black Sea and the Adriatic, are alike in their double relation to Mohammedanism on one hand and Christianity on the other. They are conquered countries. Anciently Chris- tian, but overrun by the conquering hordes that swept to the gates of Vienna in the days of Ottoman glory, they have been held ever since im the loose yet semi- savage grasp in which frontier dis- tricts are always held by a power like that which reigns at Constantinople. Nobody cared enough for these people to go and free them; they could not free themselves, and the Turk did not care for them enough to goy- ern them well, and, indeed, only held them to keep a half waste military frontier between him and his enemy. The people in these countries are of the Slavic race, and are in the vast majority Christians of the Eastern Church; so they come within the limits of the half-political, half-philosophical frenzy of Pan- slavism, and are supposed to live and die with their eyes turned toward Russia. Here, then, are Turkey, Austria and Russia all compli- cated more or less in relations with a Chris- tian people in revolt against an infidel gov- ernment; and this, therefore, is neither more nor less than that formidable Eastern question which for centuries has divided the attention of Europe with Franco-German wars—one uniformly being up for settlement while the other was in abeyance. Neither Austria nor ‘Turkey nor Russia is just now in condition to meet the case that such a difficulty, if encour- .aged, must open, and without the eneourage- ment of one or another of the Christian Pow- ers what can the people do? Only compel the Mohammedans to put them down, and this will be done. There is no hope for them, therefore. They must only go on as before— revolt from time to time, once in five, ten or twenty years—and one of these days their re- volt will coincide with a favorable juncture in the general politics of Europe, and they will see the Turks driven over the Balkin and be themselves organized into the Austria-~-Hun- garian monarchy, or in a revived Bulgarian empire. : Presidential Candidates, There need be no dearth of Presidential timber next year, for our own State alone can furnish at least nine candidates, between the two parties, and there are but few in this large number who would not fill the office credita- bly to themselves and the nation, while sev- eral of them would nobly lift it from the deca- denca into which it threatens to fall. To the republicans we could give Mr. Evarts, Mr. Pierrepont, Governors Morgan and Fish and Senator Conkling; to the democrats, Gover- nors Tilden, Church, Seymour and General McClellan. There are not more than two men in this list who could possibly take’ a small view of the Presidential office and nar- row its tunctions to the limits of a poor capa- city. With any one of the others any good citizen in either party might well be content, But how much practicable Presidential timber we may have in the State it will be for the conventions and the candidates to determine between them, for certain of these men only are candidates in the sense in which they can be regarded as having personally assented to the use of their names in such a connection. Tilden’s candidacy is recognized. Governor Morgan, as will be seen by a few lines of an interview with him, in another column, has “put himself in the hands of his friends.” Governor Fish would jump out of all the fry- ing pans in the United States if there was the least hope that any one of the jumps would land him in the fire of the White House. Pub- lie opinion does injustice to Mr. Conkling if he would not, supposing he knew how, stock the cards for his nomination. Names like those of Governor Seymour and Mr. Evarts are placed in this connection not by them- selves, but by persons who take a high view of the Presidential station and believe it should be held by men of pure character, great capacity and extensive experience in public life. In an article in another column will be found the current facts on this subject of perennial interest to the sovereign people. Morrissey on Kexiy.—‘‘The greatest evils under Tweed were accomplished by trades between democrats and republicans. Kelly learned that policy from Tweed and proceeded to corrupt legislation in that way. Kelly is self-willed, dogged, unforgiving, ungrateful and without ability.” Canna SERN Rnonnee In Cuna the Spanish cause grows more and moro feeble, and while disease is decimating the army and want stalks over the island the insurgents become moro confident in increas« ing strength, and we expect from present ap- pearances that the end is near at last. Even Valmaseda bégins to despair. We trust that | Spain will give up a hopeless struggle which has already cost too much blood and been the cause of the sacrifice of too many lives, A Memory of the Past. The death of the oldest surviving son of the illustrious Hamilton is an évent which under any circumstances should not be passed over in silence. It seems like bringing the past into the present to imagine a son of this Revolution- ary statesman living with us. Yet the Alex- ander Hamilton who died on Monday leaves behind him three brothers still in the vigor of as much health as can be expected from extreme oldage. The deceased was in the ninetieth year of his age when he died. As it is seventy-one years since Hamilton himself was killed, his surviving chiidren have all passed the limit ascribed to human life by the Psalmist. Itis along period since Hamilton died, espes cially in a history as brief as ours. We are now entéring upon the Centennial times, when every day almost is an anniversary of some of the great events of the times which ted men’s souls. First amoung the great men who led this country from its straggling, disordered condition as a confederation of provinces into the imperial rank of nations was the iather of the venerable citizen who died on Monday. He was a great man, by many believed to be the greatest of his day. ‘To him we owe much of the vigor and promptitude shown by New York in taking part in the war. He was the counsellor and friend of Washington. « He was the first Secretary of the Treasury in Washington's administration and a founder of our national representative system. When he retired from office it was because honora- ble ambition was denied to one who in all his temptation had led the life of honorable pov- erty. When he died by the pistol of a subtle and audacious opponent he was still » young man. Had he lived there is no knowing to what higher eminence he might have attained in the councils of the young Republic. The name of Hamilton grows loftier as his figure recedes from us. We are reminded how short atime has passed in the life of nations since the Revolution by the fact that we are even now mourning the death of one of his children, and that we rejoice still in the presence of three of his sons in honored,old age. Alexander Hamilton lived a quiet, retired life. He was an efficient, useful, modest citizen. He did what work fell upon him with dili- gence and propriety, and bore aloft a noble name. He bore it for ninety years stainless and exalied, never forgetting what was duo to the ancestor. In leaving it behind him he leaves it as a model for the emulation of Americans. Tuz Harem Fuars still exhale their dele- terious odors, and the reports which we print this morning show that no really effective measures have yet been taken to abate’ the nuisance. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, From Rochester tt is reported that the cucumber “works like a charm.” Ex-Governor EB, M. Pease, of Texas, is stopping at the St. Denis Hotel. Commander H, L. Gully, of the British Navy, ts sojquraing at the Brevoort House. Captain E. R, Moodie, of the steamship Botunia, is quartered at the New York Hotel. Professor Rains, of the University of Georgia, has arrived at the Metropolitan Bbtel. It is proposed in France to secure seats in the railway carriages, just as in a theatre. Ex-Governor Thomas P. Portet, of Kentucky, yesterday arrived at the Gilsey Houso. Mr. Heifry A, Tilden, of New Levanon, N. ¥., has apartments at the Windsor Hotel. Mr, Beverley Tucker, of Richmond, Va., arrived last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rey. W. Baker, B. D., of London, is among the late arrivals at the Grand Central Hotel. Congressman James A. Garfield, of Ohio, has taken up his residence at the Brevoort House, Lieutenant Commander James v. Graham, United States Navy, 1s staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. Filty dollars was what {t cost am American tn Liverpool for carrying @ loaded revolver in hig pocket. General Washington Seawell, and Dr. Chartes McCormick, United States Army, are at ,the Bre- voort House, Rear Admiral Allred Taylor, Unitea States Navy, ims returned to his old quarters at the Gilsey Mouse, One small doy, aged eleven years, has been flogged in a London prison for throwing stoues at @ railway train, Mr. and Mrs, W. J. Florence retirned from ELurope in the sieamship Bothnia, and are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel Thomas G. Baylor, of the Ordnance De- partment, United Stutes Army, is residing at the Metropolitan Hotel. Sir Keith G. Jackson, of England, arrived from Liverpool in the steamship Bothnia yesterday, aud is at the New Yurk Hotel. France has collected by taxes fpr .the first halt of the year $12,000,000 more than was collected for the same period last year. Captain Webb, the English swimmer, has now made twenty miles at sea, from Dover to Rams- gate, In eight hours and forty-five minutes. Governor Leste, of Kentucky, to-day appointed, J, Stoddard Johnson Secretary of State for Ken- tacky, vice G, W. Craddock elecied to the Legis lature. Miss Bateman has secured the exclusive right to perform Tennyson’s play in England and Amer- ica for five years, paying @ fixed sui for each night/s performance, Thorwaldsen’s statne of Byron, once remsed a place in Westminster, is at Cambridge, in the library of Trinity College. But thaws the Scandi navian, not the English ideal, President Grant and Mrs. Grant arrived at Elizaveth jrom Long Branch, yesterday, on the 12:06 P, M, train. They will spend a short time at Mr. A. R. Corbin’s, Itis brother-in-law. In the workhouses in Ireiand they pucup a notice offering two sults Of clothes and @ iree passage to any of the inmates who wiil take himself off and goto Scotland, But they don’t get rid of them rapidly. Judge Edmonds, of the United States Circuit Court, bas appointed ©, Hailen Receiver of the Paducah and Memphis Raliread, with W. M. Smith. ers co-Receiver, who are required to givea bond for $50,000 eaca. Alas! for Baden-Baden, There came a Russian princess, just a8 usual, Who did not know as yet the diference between these times and the oid times. On the first day she exhinited three toilets; on the second only two; on the third she remained all day in one; dh the fourth she aid not dress at all, but Went about in & morning wrapper. They seem to take it easy in Greece. The King was going along ina railway train and they ran out of coal. They sent to fetch some, aud when ft came the engineer was found to be very tipsy in nis locomotive, and not disposed to step down and out, So they carried the locomotive by storm, ‘Then they weat on and mot another train on the same rails and escaped a destructive collision by a hair’s proadth, With @ most cadaverous countenance and crape on bis hat he waited at a Paris station for the coffin to be lifted out of the train; butit was heavy, for it was lined with lead, And while the people looked on with sympathy ana woudered it 1t was his wife, his mother or his father, the well informed police invited him into a private room, where they opened the coin and emptied it of ita load of Brussels lace,