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

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The defendant in such cases is generally of the opposite sex. | Tae Army Worm has put in an appearance in the most formidable manner in the corn fields of Long Island, and the farmers are | rushing tothe rescue of their crops armed with reaping machines and are digging trenches to stay the progress of their formid- | able foe. It is about fitteen years since the | last visit of the army worm in that region. — | Brxcuer held the first religious service of the season yesterday morning at the White | Mountains, and had a large congregation, con- | sisting of the guests of several of the hotels and the residents in the neighborhood of the honse | in which he is stopping for the summor. The | Daniel O'Connell. One hundred years back from to-day, on the 6th of August, 1775—a year rendered memorable by the opening of the battle for independence in our own land—there was born on the wild western coast of Kerry one destined to achieve the religious inde- pendence of another, an island united and endeared by many ties to this country. Daniel O'Connell first saw the light and found himself an Inshman near the small town of Cahirciveen, where his father, a remarkable man in his little sphere, carried on business and played upon the pas- sions of a village as his son did afterward on those of a race, on whatever land they rested. His uncle, called ‘O’Connell of the Hunting Cap,” was a neighboring squire, from whom he imherited Derrynane, and several of the family won title and distinction in the armies of France. Brought up among imaginative people, dwelling alongside the melancholy ocean and among a wild and picturesque scenery of shaggy wood and lenely moor and bold, bald mountain, where nature sends the gloud and the flash and the wind and the children of the air to sport with a strange fantastic joy unknown in tamer regions, it is not strange that O'Connell derived from such external aid astrong inward superstition, which colored considerably ali his actions and thoughts, and often even darkened his judgment through life. From a poor, old hedge schoolmaster, named David Mahoney, he received his child- ish education, but was sent at an early age abroad by his uncle to the ecclesiastical col- leges, first, of Louvain, in Belgium, and sub- sequently to St. Omer and the English col- lege of Douay, in France. Dr. Kupylton, the President of this last, in writing to his uncle, made the following almost prophetic re- mark:—‘With respect to the elder, Daniel, ave but one remark to make of him, that I was never so much mistaken in my life as I shall be unless he be destined to make a re- markable figure in society.” It would seem that O’Connell was first intended for the Church; but that idea was, for some time before his leaving Douay, abandoned. He returned to Ireland as the storm of the French Revolution was sweeping over Europe. But the trumpet tones which then stirred every nation of Europe found no echo in Ire- land and did not reach his young heart. Then, as ever in atter life, religion dominated every other sentiment. O’Connell was almost- a tory at this time. It was not until 1798, another memorable year, that O'Connell was called to the Bar. Fame does not tell of how his consummate talents first became known. But the reminis- cences of this period, which have been pre- served, present the image of a young and ardent spirit luxuriating in the exercise of its powers, and unwilling to confine itself within the prescribed limits enacted by the profes- sion of the law. With O'Connell law and politics touched each other at every point. Some are strong in thought and weak in action, Others are mediocre in the closet but strong among moving men. O'Connell was of the latter class. Everything was di- rected without much consideration of the | means to the one end—the carrying of Cath- olic emancipation. It was he alone who did it. No other can wear a leaf of that laurel, | In attaining thisend there is no question that he had recourse to many im- moral weapons when it suited his views or passions. His representations were shaped to suit the purposes of the moment, and as purposes changed so they varied, and men were black or white and | white or black, or “base, bloody and brutal,”’ or very angels of goodness over and over again. He dealt profusely in national vanity and laid it on witha ladle. But these are the vices of all such leaders, born of such a time and compelled to combat with such cir- cumstances, and none of the same giant pro- portions had ever less of them. He was, es- sentially, the representative man of his race. O'Connell's intellect, his nature, his counte- nance, his manner were all Milesian, on a giant scale. He was large in person, of im- mense physical strength and untiring indus- try, which belonged to most of the men who have influenced their kind. Thus sturdy Cromweil pushed broad-snouldered | Thus busty Luther breasted Babylon; ‘Thus brawny Cleon bawied the Agora down, And broad-limbed MoLammed clutched a prophet’s | crown. 1 He possessed all the humor, the cunning, the ingenuous scheming and the double- | edged satire of his people. He fortified a real | grievance with humbug, and rounded off gen- uine eloquence with cajolery. He appealed | to traditions of greatness and supremacy in the mythic periods of history, and gathered | multitudes, turning on those traditions, to | glorify in historic dreams of victory at ‘the Rath of Mulla mast,’’ and was crowned with | the ancient Irish cap at ‘Tara of the Kings.” In fine, he was in all things on Irishman, a ‘exercises were similar to those which, charac. | splendid specimen of his people. Even his terize the Friday evening talks at the Ply- | overflowing warmth of heart, to which his mouth church lecture room, Beecher, how- ever, being the only speaker. No Nonsensz.—Mr. Beck, of Kentucky, who is usually a very sensible man, is reported to have said in the heat of the recent Ken- tucky canvass that he hoped the first act of the democratic House of Representatives, in December, would be to abolish the office of Lieutenant General and stop Sheridan’s salary. Wedo not suppose the democratic majority in the House will attempt anything so silly. They have enough on their hands elready. Tue Povouxrepsie Races.—Yesterday was the second day of the first summer trotting meeting of the Hudson River Driving Park Association. The first race, three heats of | which were trotted on the preceding day, was won by Clementine, the second by Jack Draper and the third by Hopeful. The favorite in the last race was unaccountably | distanced in the second heat, much to the | ebagrin of his numerous backers. Tue Srxra Avenve Car Company is to be hauled over the Aldermanic coals. Com- plaint has been made that enough cars for the public accommodation are not furnished on that line between the hours of five and soven in the morning. The Railroad Com- mittee of the Board of Aldermen have the matter in hand, and so long as the horse cars are our only means of transit it is to be hoped the interests of the people will be properly | friends testify, went to make up the character. | He felt their feelings, suffered their griev- | ances. He was great in giving voice and em- | bodiment to their wrongs. In this was his | | true greatness. | Asan orator O'Connell was of unsurpassed power, tested in the three great fields of elo- quence—before the Bar, the House of Com- | mons, the multitude. He realized fully the | ideal of Cicero. The listening people was | charmed and captivated by the force of his | eloquence, and felt a pleasure which could | | not be resisted. Audiences were flushed with ., . | joy or overwhelmed with grief, smiled or | i a Ligeia drei wept, loved or hated, scorned or envied; and, | the disclosures of the investigating committee | in short, were alternately seized with the va- | rious emotions of pity, shame, resentment, re- morse, wonder, hope and fear, as they were influenced by the language, sentiment, {and action of the speaker. There | was peculiarity in the construction of his sentences which added much to their effect. They were formed of the very fewest words, condensed to the closest degree. These sentences he threw off without an effort, the manner of the younger Pitt, on which he modelled himself, and who almost spelled his words. In style Bourdalone was his favorite. “It is,” he said in a debate, in 1835, ‘‘quite consistent with the genius and disposition of my country to mix merriment with woe; the sound of laughter is often heard while thé soul is wrung with bitter anguish and the tear of sorrow dims the cheek;” and, in accord with this national characteristic, in the midst delivered with a remarkable slowness, after | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1875.—TRIPLE of Kis most intense "pictures of sorrow, he occasionally introduced the most ludicrous remarks and stories. In looking back on O'Connell's career the only one grand act which he accomplished was Catholic emancipation. But that laid the foundation for the one he looked to fol- low—repeal. For this he shaped his ends. In every way he sought to gain power and in- fluence for the class with whom he sympathized—the Roman Catholics of Ire- land. They were tho helpless; he made them the powerful race, and made government im- possible without him. He brought Ireland into formidable array for another great victory. It was not given to him to see it. He bequeathed to the Irish race—what was then deemed a dream—repeal; but which every hour since the hand upon the dial of destiny draws nearer. In man- ner O'Connell was, as pictured by that fastidious critic Charles Greville, in his “Memoirs,” both courteous and easy and full of anecdote. His fault was being too much of an actor, and he repeated again and again the samo stories, with precisely the same words and actions and gestures. In society the higher classes of England regarded him with a pleasing fear, as they would do a sleek tiger. O'Connell, no one can doubt, loved Ireland deeply and well. His death attests equally with every act of his life the warmth and un- alloyed fervor of that love. It was the famine seen and felt, though it was through an earthly medium which smote down hig soul and sent him to die on the shores of the Med- iterranean and share the calamities of his people. In Rome, where his heart is en- shrined, and in every spot to which her power extends ; in Ireland, where his body rests, and in every spot where the love of that land reaches, will many heads be bowed and hearts give beating to-day in memory of the Liberator of Ireland. The Mississippi Democrats. The democratic party of Mississippi have been divided upon a somewhat important point of poliey—whether, namely, they should make this fall’s campaign in their State on the color line or not. Colonel Lamar, who was recently unanimously renominated for Congress in his district, is the head of the anti-color line movement, and it would seem that he carried the day in the recent State Convention at Jackson. The platform adopted “recognizes to the fullest extent the civil and political equality of all men, and asks the aid of voters of both races and of all parties to secure honest government for the State.” The color line, we are told, was entirely ignored. This is good news, for it shows that moder- ate counsels have prevailed ina State where the colored voters, under the leadership of corrupt white men, have certainly given some serious provocations to those citizens who de- sire good government, and where, on the other hand, some democrats have shown a bad and intolerant temper which alarmed the blacks and did much to fling them bodily into the hands of designing political schemers. Colonel Lamar has been foremost among those Mississippians who urged moderation and who saw that the-color line could not usefully and safely be maintained in politics in any State, and least of all in Mississippi, where the colored men have a majority over the whites. The negro politicians of Mississippi are, in the main, an unscrupulous set. Lately they have held several public meetings, at which they themselves advocated the color line and tried to persuade the colored citizens that they ought not to affiliate with white men in politics. The new attitude of the democrats now taken in their Convention will be apt to lead the colored voters to reason. We hope Colonel Lamar’s health will enable him to canvass the State thoroughly, and particularly the Yazoo Bottom and the region generally where the colored men have large majorities. His own election is assured. He will receive not only the solid democratic vote in his district, which is the majority, but probably a considerable part of the republican vote as well. He could do no more useful or important work this fall than to address the colored people of his State, and explain to them how their own interests are involved in good government and why the color’ line is particularly injurious to the blacks. He is known everywhere as an hon- orable and just man, of moderate views, and the colored people would listen to him be- cause they know they can trust him. Kiyo Kazaxkava’s Horen Brix, like Ban- quo’s ghost, keep rising up before the Board of Aldermen from time to time, marring the pleasure of the intellectual feast. At yester- day’s meeting they were again sent back to a committee, some Aldermen insisting that one hundred dollars a day for a parlor and fifteen hundred dollars for a liquor bill were some- what objectionable, especially when the ex- penso was incurred by a former Board. Alderman Vance, who figured as a high dig- nitary in the Kalakaua days, urged the pay- ment of the bills, and immediately afterward voted against the expenditure of money to extend the water supply of the city and against an ordinance fixing two dollars per. day as the rate of pay for city laborers. Tue New Bystvess in which the Police Commissioners have recently enlisted—the thieves and other offences—was continued | yesterday. Captain Williams, Detective War- low and Captain Ulman took parts in the per- formance, which will evidently partake more of the character of a farce than a tragedy. As have thus aroused the energies of the Board it would be well to bring up for trial the de- | tective who got back Assemblyman Alvyord’s watch as a favor to a commissioner and let the thiet escape, Axorner JupomEn ‘ST Toe Crry for | one hundred and seven thousand dollars, for street cleaning under the Brown contract, ' was filed in the County Clerk's office yester- | | day. As the claim has existed since 1871 and been fought in the courts to the last extremity the loss to the city in interest and costg will be heavy. Eeyvrr is making brilliant preparations to be fitly represented at our Centennial Exposi« tion. The Khedive evidently recognizes the greatimportance of the occasion and wishes to show the world what has been done in the trial of officers charged with complicity bie Tilden and Morrissey. A correspondent, who sends us some excel- lent observations upon the example set by a Governor of the State consorting with gamblers, must not understand the badinage of newspaper controversy as a reflection upon the personal character or political integrity of Mr. Tilden. Our Governor is a distinguished and honored ¢itizen, of blameless life and purity of character, who has lived on into ripening years without a scandal upon his name. He was probably never in a gambling house in his life, and would look with horror upon the habit of gaming and its moral influ- ence upon a people. It would be a source of deep pain if we were even to seem in the play of political badinage to, throw a stigma upon the personal character of any citizen, of one especially who had risen to the emi- nence of the Governor. We are the more anxious to make this explanation to our | correspondent because there is nothing we deplore so much as this habit of indiscrim- inate slander upon our public men, The tendency of a people to pull down;their gods is a sure evidence of moral and political de- cay. And our great men—our leaders in thought and action and in political affairs,, those who govern us in religion and literature and office—are our gods, Reverence is one of the noblest virtues. Even an iconoclast as merciless as Carlyle never wearies of his theme of hero worship. Grant, Sherman, Johnson, for instance, with all their faults and limitations, are among the national idols, In honoring them we honor‘somo quality which a free people always respects. Mr. Tilden, asa citizon, has done as much to en- title him to the grateful remembrance and esteem of his countrymen as any of our lead- ers. ‘To have destroyed the old Ring was as noble a service as to have destroyed rebellion. Mr. Tilden, in that task, did his part with courage and persistence—with the highest courage, for he was warring upon his party and apparently closing the avenues to ad- vancement and power. ° - When we speak, therefore, of the relations of Morrissey and Tilden we must not be un- derstood as charging our Governor with the viee of gambling, or with any act inconsistent with his character as a self-respecting gentle- man. The fact that our excellent cdrre- spondent so feels should bealesson to the Governor. People will not draw the distine~ tions that rest in the Governor's mind. Governor Tilden sees Mr. Morrissey in a double relation—political and personal. He sees him personally as a gambler in the active pursuit of a profession which lies Executive he would suppress and punish, He sees him politically as an enterprising political leader, who has been in Congress, who has power over conventions and elec- tions. As a candidate for office Mr. Tilden may see no reason why he should not have political relations with Mr. Morrissey. Well, as poli- ties go ingNew York there is probably no rea- son. It is, we regret to say, too often by means of the Morrisseys that our statesmen rise to power. They represent that dema- gogic influence betore which even a Til- den, scholarly, sensitive, high-minded and pure, must bow. Our political idols are like those in the old Hindoo mythology. The of cholera, the god of peace and the god of rapine. Mr. Tilden may well say, in re- sponse to the censures of men as good as our correspondent, that he is a siatesman, that his career is politics, and that he must bow to the idols in our mythology of universal suffrage, to Morrissey and those like him, even as the devout Hindoo must kneel to the god who has charge of the treasures of the earth, who is a monster with three heads, his body covered with sores. We admit that this is one of the debasing offices that popular suffrage exacts from our statesmen. And when we see Gov- ernor Tilden in relations of confidence with Morrissey—recognizing his leadership and courting his power—we feel as we should if we saw a pious Brahmin prostrate before the deity who controls the tempest and the rain. It is in this sense—a political sense alone— that we make any criticism upon Governor Tilden and the relations which, we are assured by Morrissey in a dozen interviews, exist be- tween himself and the Governor. Far bo it from us to throw a stain upon an honored and blameless personal life. But at the same time we think that the Governor would command a higher degree of confi- dence and esteem if he regarded Morrissey as he regarded the old Tammany leaders—representatives of an influence he is too proud to conciliate and too brave to fear. He is the Governor of a great Common- wealth and a candidate for the Presidency. He is anadmirable Governor, and would make an excellent President. In the honors which now enfold him and in any honors that he may win the Herarp could only take pride. But he is now a national man. For every vote he can receive from Morrissey he would lose @ hundred votes from those who regard Morrissey as one who is willing to live beyond society. Governor Tilden should rise above these influences. He could find ah ex- ample worthy of emulation in the life of the younger Pitt. When power and wealth and yank were offered Pitt if he would only bow down to the spirit of intrigue and venality which came into English politics from the Walpoles and Pelhams he disdainfully put them aside. He took the loftiest ideal of duty and service. He won the honest, manly, law-respecting and God-fearing heart of Eng- land. He became the first man ot his age, and throngh his whole life was a master and aking. He spurned the gods before whom his fathers had knelt in abjoct devotion. Let Samuel J. Tilden be worthy of his character, his instincts and his fame ; let him rise above the mere Morrisseys and Greens, who offer him tainted power, even as he rose above the ‘Tweeds and Sweenys of the past when they tempted him with the same temptation, and his life will be enriched with the honors that never come so grandly and with so much abundance as when they come from the moral sentiment of the people. Tur Poor Cumpzen of the Fourteenth ward will be gladdened and benefited by a free picnic excursion to Oriental Grove, Long Island, to-day. The scene which took placo at the distribution of the tickets yesterday ‘showed how the little ones appreciate the kindness and liberality that originated and Land of the Nile since he took the reins of government in hand, that still keop up those excursions during the deadly haat of summer, under the ban of the law, and which as the | Hindoos have the god of wisdom and the god | SHEET. General Grant as the Only Probable Republican Candidate Collector Casey says General Grant will take another term if the people need him, and Senator Carpenter says he will cortainly be nominated and probably defeated. Mr. Carpenter is as good a prophot as the Western States have lately produced, As it is now well understood that General Grant will accept a renomination if the republican party believes that the country requires his services it is a matter of some interest to examine the probability of the party having that opinion next year. F In the first place, the party’s opinion will be expressed in the National Convention. In that body the Southern delegates will have one hundred and thirty-eight votes, and they will be able to nominate a candidate with the help of only one or two Northern delegations. Now, if there were anybody in the field conspicuously in opposition to General Grant, it might be possible, with good management, to make a break in this solid Southern vote. North Carolina might send delegates for Blaine, Georgia for Wilson, Mississippi for Butler, But tho tendency of the Southern republican, which means chiefly the colored voter, is to stick to General Grant ; and as nobody so far has set ,up any pretensions in opposition to him, and as the federal office-holders in the South—who number, with their deputies and assistants, perhaps two thousand five hundred in each State—compose, with their personal following, almost, if not quite, the whole white republican vote in most of those States, they are not unlikely to come to the Conven- tion prepared to support General Grant, as their colored constituents will want them to. Of the Northern delegation Senator Conk- ling would, undoubtedly, do his best to carry New York for Grant ; Senator Morton would uge his great influence to carry the Indiana delegation; General Butler, counting, per- haps, on a second chance, would unhesitat- ingly throw his influence in Massachusetts in the same direction; General Logan would try to bring votes from Illinois ; Senator Sar- gent would help with California; Senator Frelinghuysen would try to carry the New Jer- sey delegates; and out of all these there would even be votes to spare. And who is there to oppose such a project? No one, so far. The republican party re- mains to this day fully committed to General Grant’s policy. Its leaders have nowhere, in any way, repudiated or even criticised it, but, on the contrary, have officially approved it. The Vice President has certainly spoken, but his opposition was vehemently denounced by the party organs and received in the most complete silence by the party leaders. ‘ So far asthe public has any reason to know Mr. Wilson stands absolutely alone among the leading republicans in his opposition to Gen- eral Grant’s policy, and it may be fairly said that if the chief repub- licans were dissatisfied with the policy of their administration they would think it prudent and necessary to advise the Presi- dent to change, or, if he would not, to make known to the country at once their differ- ences with hm; for either they believe his policy sound and likely to secure a republican victory next year, or they belieye it mistaken and likely to breed defeat, But in the last caso they would hardly conceal their opinions; for to do so would be to unite themselves vol- untarily in the same condemnation with him, and that without the least reason. So far, therefore, as now appears, not only could the President count upon a sufficient number of votes in the Convention to renom- inate him, but the party leaders are, with the single exception of Mr. Wilson, in harmony with him, and would, if any one of them were chosen in his place, continue his policy. But if that is so, and if the republican party really believes General Grant’s policy right— the best and most likely to sueceed—then it is very likely to unite upon his renomination, and for several reasons. First, no doubt he, better than any one else, can carry out the policy which he has begun; second, his name is a greater power among the Southern republicans that that of any other man ex- cept, perhaps, General Butler; third, he has the machinery of the party and the federal party success, could probably wield it more expertly and powerfully than any outsider. It would seem, then, that all the indications within the republican party, so far, point to the renomination next year of Genera! Grant, The election, of course, isa different matter; but it is pretty certain that the more des- perate the fortunes of the party appear the more certain are its leaders to regard with is defeated we are rid of him, and if he wins we are saved with him. If the demo- crats should blunder so greatly as to give a reasonable hope to the republicans to beat them then Grant’s chances would be lessened, for rivals would appear. But while his own policy continues to sink his party he, who is, perhaps, that party’s shrewdest politican, cannot fail to sce that his chanees for a re- nomination constantly improve, and that he is really preparing the contingency under which, as he frankly remarked in his letter, he would not decline to serve, Tur Bio Inpuy or tHe Wicwam is re- | solved to make his victory over the rebellious | Morrissey complete. He not only scalps his enemy, but kills his squaws and pappooses and burns his huts. The expulsion of the contumacious general committees has been followed by o clean sweeping out of the | district committees which are supposed to be in sympathy with the fallen hero. Kelly's | shillalah is held on high, like Gessler’s cap, and descends with fatal effect on the heads of all who refuse to bow down before it, Tae Boarp or Aupenmen yesterday paid a tribute to the memory of Andrew Johnson by the passage of a preamble and resolutions, which were ordered to be engrossed and transmitted to the family, The resolutions cannot be regarded as a literary masterpiece; nevertheless it is proper that the Common Council of the first city in the Union should by such an act evince its respect for the memory of the deceased ex-President. Tar Pumasvnes or Traverse in Colorado aro graphically set forth by our correspondent with the Hayden Surveying Expedition in a letter which we publish to-day. The ascent of Sultan Mountain appears to have been a patronage in his hands, and, looking to mere | complacency the renomination of the Presi- | dent; for, they will say to themselves, if he | Sisyphean task, and the mosquitoes at Castle Springs showed bloodthirsty proclivities equal to those of their neighbors, the Utes. Rich silver mines were found in San Juan county. che Wrangling Officials Firemen’s Pay. It is not surprising that Mayor Wickham should stand on his dignity and assert hia right to be de facto as well as de jure tha head of the city government. He is accus- tomed to rule. He was the head of his fira company when he ran ‘‘wid de machine,” and the head of Apollo Hall in spite of the O’Brien. In his newpolitical position, which John Morrissey characteristically describes as “the tirst prize he ever drew,”’ it is no doubt ‘annoying to be snubbed by a subordinate in the city government who desires to reduce the office of Mayor to an ornamental position similar to that of the prize pig at the village fair. Nor is it surprising, on the other hand, that Comptroller Green should continue to usurp funetions that do not belong to his office, and to assume the power of a dictator over the Mayor and all other city officials. He played the réleso long under the dull, good-natured Mr. Havemeyer that he is not willing to accept a less important part under his jovial and rollicking successo?. Naturally, however, two such important in dividuals cannot get along harmoniously in one establishment, and the result has been a constant biting of thumbs at each other by the quarrelsome officials. Their wrangles, while not calculated to add dignity to the city government, were comparatively harmlesa until they interfered with the payment of the members of the Fire Department. Since Mr Green resolved to compel Mayor Wickham ta sign a separate warrant for each fireman, and Mayor Wickham resolved not to sign anythivg but companies’ warrants, eight hun- dred hard working employés of the city gov- ernment have been kept out of their pay and put to serious inconvenience, The Mayor can enjoy himself on Long Island and the Comptroller on his pocket edition of the Cen- and the are unable to pay their rent and their grocery bills, and are suffering seriously for the want of their two months’ overdue pay. The squabbling of the two jealous officials, ia most important departments of the city gov- ernment. Both are stubborn in their deter- mination not to yield. There certainly should be some way of putting a stop to an evil that seriously imperils the safety of the city. So think the firemen, who now begin to talk about taking legal steps to compel the pay- ment of their salaries. It speaks well for the discipline and forbearance of the firemen that they have not marched in a body to the City Hall and made a demonstration which neither the Mayor nor the Comptroller would be likely to disregard. Tur Latest Tere¢rams from the West con- firm the fears expressed in earlier despatches that a general inundation of the bottom lands would result from the extraordinary rain- storms that have prevailed all over the cen- tral portions of the Mississippi Valley. Already large plantations are submerged in the vicinity of Memphis, and at New Ma- drid the river waters have escaped from their | regular channels and are sweeping through the lowlands. ported to be steadily rising, and the planters are making desperate efforts to save their crops by repairing and strengthening the levees, The hungry floods have claimed their first human victims, and further loss of life is threatened by the bursting of the reservoir at Celina, Ohio, caused by the heavy rise in the Wabash River. The scenes of these disas- ters lie within the area of the lowest levels of the Mississippi Valley proper, and which aro now beginning to receive the vast rainfalls of the surrounding country. , PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The trouble with Dizzy appears to be that his head swims. Alexander H. Baliock. of Massachusetts, bas ar- rived at the Fiftn Avenue [Hovel. The Turkish Ambassador to the United States is at Montreal at the St. Lawrence Hall. Shearman in London matigns tae whole Amert- can people in order tv defend Beecher, * Senator Henry B. Autuony, of Rhode Island, is residing temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Horel. Brevet Lrigadler General Joseph A. Potter, United Staves Army, is staying at the St. Nicholas fotel. Lieutenant Commander Henry L, Johnson, Untted States Navy, is registered at the Union Square Hotel. Mere’s nnother reason why Grant should step aside next year. Weare out of ex-Presidents,— Boston Herald. Lientenant Commander John Schouler, of the United States Naval Academy, 18 quartered at the St. James Hotel. * United States District Attorney Warner M. Bateman, of Cincinnati, is sojourning at the Grand Central Hotel. General Allan Rutherford, Third Auditor of the Treasury, arrived at the Metropolitan Hotei yes- terday from Washington, Judge W. L. Learned, of the New York Supreme Coart for, the Third Judicial district, has apart- ments at the St. James Hotel. Acavie despatch from Havana, unter date of yesterday, Says that Seflor Zulueta has been re- elected President of the Casino Espaiol. Signor Alexander Marotta, of this city, has ac- cepted the position of Prolessor of Vocal Masic in the Beethoven Couservatory of St. Louis, Governor Garland has received a letter trom Generai Joseph E. Johnston declining the Presi- dgncy of the Arkansas Industrial Ont versity. Here’s an aquatic fancy, An ingenious miliiner is decorating ladies’ bonnets with prepared sea- weed—far more beautiful than artificial fowers, The Hon, William Allen never stole anything; and we do not like, in these times, to speak une kindiy of that sort of man.—Oincinnati Commer. cial, ‘The Boston Post 1s of opinion that the cats owe tne Baroness Burdett Coutts for ber plea tn ther favor “a mewnificent reward.” A fit sudject for the Muse. W. K, Muir, General Superintendent of the De- troit and Milwaukee Railroad, has resigned, and will take the general Management of the Canada Southern Raliroad. Mr, Kelley, it 1s said, will not speak again, The newspapers very uneXxpectediy published his only speech, and it will take montis before he can get another like tt.—Pitisburg Jost, It 1s said that a Dane connected with the Ob- servatory at Copenhagen hus discovered a inode of sendimg any number of telegrapiic messages over the same wire, by the simple metnod of pitch- ing each message in a different Key with the aid of tuning forks. In the Canary Isles the vine ran out, and that was the end of “good Canary wine.” Then they raised cochineal, and now tue soil is exhausted for good qualities of that articie. So they have tried tobacco, and that will in future be their @reat crop, and they will apparently produce an article Aner than ever before known, tral Park, in Massachusetts, while the firemen . therefore becoming a public nuisance, and © threatens the disorganization of one of the. On all sides the rivers are re- . a