The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1875, Page 6

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From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy, with light rains. Persons gong out of town for ihe summer can have the daily and Sunday Hzpaup mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. We Popuisu to-day a map ot Dublin, show- ing the route of the O'Connell procession and the various points of historic interest in the Irish capital. Waut Sreret Yestzrpay.—Stocks were de- pressed by false rumors. Gold advanced to 114, and closed at 1153. Money was easy at 24 per cent and investment securities firm. Tue Encusn Suirrinc Bux passed the House of Commons yesterday. It was much smended in committee. Tlimsoll’s soul is re- joiced. Carprvat McCiosser sails to-day for Rome to make the customary visit of ceremony to the Pope, and receive from him his title with the hat and ring which are the insignia of his high office in the Catholic Church. Tux Tump Excursion for the benefit of the poor children of the city takes place to-day. The committee make an appeal to the public for funds to continue the good work. No better or more useful charity can be imagined, and we hope the appeal will meet with a generous | response. Some Errorr ought to be made to bring to | justice the scoundrels who attempt to wreck | trains. As this crime is becoming alarmingly irequent might it not be well to make the pen- alty of wrecking or attempting to wreck trains hanging by the neck tilldead? Some- thing must be done to check these systematic attempts at wholesale murder, Tue Deaptock in the Board of Aldermen on the subject of the new Croton mains con- tinues. It is simply a question of patronage; and because the republicans cannot secure for | themselves what they consider a fair share | they prevent the carrying out of a work of great public utility. This is public spirit with » vengeance. Tue Twrep Surr was before the courts again yesterday, and gave the opposing coun- selan opportunity tor some legal sparring. The matter was left very much in the same Ye as before, tbe effort to reduce Tweed’s bail having tailed. If the money stolen by Tweed were attached, as it would be in the q@se of a smaller appropriator of other people's property, we would have less legal squabbling. Tus Pouce anv Payer Trinves.—One of | the most disgraceful features of the police system of this city is the connection between tertain members of the police force and that most disreputable class—the p.inel thieves. learn on the authority of the detectives elves that the panel houses could not pxist for twenty-four hours if the police did their duty. As many houses of this claes carry on their nefarious business almost ‘openly there must be widespread corruption | smong the police, Push on the investigation, gentlemen, BELLES OF | M. Matinee at2 | ee ee a ee eae NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY AUGUST 7. 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. in Ireland and America. The event which was celebrated with so much pomp in Dublin yesterday, and less elaborately in many other cities in almost every part of the world, was something more than a national or ‘religions anniversary. It was not merely Irish nor exclusively Catholic. In O’Connell’s work every vation and every people struggling to be free may have a share. ‘The Protestant as well as the Catholic may rejoice that Ireland acknowledges him as her Liberator, because in gaining emancipation for the oppressed Catholics of his own country he deepened tho fountain an@ widened the stream of religious liberty in every land of either hemisphere. Free- dom’s battle is the self-same cause in what- ever name it is fought. It was a principle, not | a creed, for which O'Connell stragghd, and, however the creed may have been benefited, it was in reality only the principle that triumphed. In view of this the jealousies which disturbed the celebration of the O’Con- nell Centennial were exceedingly ill-timed and out of place. The Roman Catholic Church could gain nothing by making it a mero ultramontane movement. Fenianism could find in it nothing to justify the Amnesty | Brotherhood in diverting it to their exclusive | benefit. All,men, all nations and all creeds | were equally entitled to its privileges, be- cause the celebration itself was only the com- memoration of an aspiration common to humanity, and its success is the response | of a universal sympathy. Though the one great act of O’Connell’s life—Catholic eman- cipation—the one achievement which gave him his high place among the statesmen of his time and the benefactors of every age—was accom- plished for Ireland, its influence has not stopped with the land her Liberator loved so well. Free America rejoices in this anniver- | fathers in leaving every sect free to worship God in its own way. Enshackled Germany sees in it tne hope of a higher religious free | dom. Catholic Rome, in celebrating this anniversary, commemorates the princi- ple of religious liberty as well | O’'Connell’s achievement for Ireland. this broad and universal sympathy—-the bond which draws closer and closer the brother- hood of men—which gives significance to the occasion and forthe moment turns every eye to that green island so loved by its children. O'Connell's name is an inspiration of liberty, | andit is in response to this inspiration that not Ireland alone, but freemen in every city | and every clime have just done such signal | honor to his memory. The celebration in Ireland, as a matter of course, took precedence of the demonstrations | in other parts of the world. The cable this | morning bears ample testimony to the gran- | deur and importance of the occasion. The pro- | | cession was one of the largest and most re- | markable in history. Probably one hundred | thousand Irishmen walked the streets of Dub- | lin yesterday in O'Connell’ honor, and in all | its parts the celebration was as Irish as | Irishmen could make it. In no other | country could a like scene have been enacted. There was a struggle for precedence, ending \ in a fight, that could have happened nowhere else. There were rivalries and jealousies that uo other people would have thought of; but these things, characteristic as they were, may | forgotten. It would have been as well, doubtless, if the Amnesty Brotherhood had | been content with a more modest place in the procession; but it was not in the Irish character to be so cantent, aad we must remember, besides, that good Churchmen, even, were unwilling to give O'Connell over entirely to the Church. | He is to the Irish people what Washington is to us—the embodiment of a national senti- ment—and it is not possible that they should merely revere his memory, but revere it with direct reference to the hopes nearest their hearts. had an illustration of this within a few years. | During the civil war both North and South claimed Washington as the apostle of that liberty for which they were struggling. Being dead, either was sure | cf his leadership had he been living. | It was this feeling which prevailed in Dublin _ yesterday when those two thousand Irishe | men seized the head of the column and | held it throughout the march of the proces- | sion. There was no hostility to the Church in this, for every mother’s son of this pugna- cious brotherhood, we have no doubt, rejoices | as heartily in O’Connell’s work of liberation as the Pope himself ; but it was an effort to | utilize a great occasion in bebalf of a more | universal sentiment tban Catholic eman- cipation. We can applaud the feeling while we deprecate the act. Catholic emancipation was ao great achievement, certainly—an achievement which Protestants as well as | Catholics have every reason to commemorate ; | but O’Connell’s influence was of a kind that | outgrew as it outlasted his work. In becom- | ing the embodiment of a national sentiment— | the inspiration and incentive ot the struggling | element among his countrymen to-day as he | was of his own generation—O' Connell became | to Ireland all that Ireland hopes and desiresin | the way of political freedom. It was | impossible to rob such an occasion as this of its political significance. O’Connell’s name is now the expression of Ireland's | discontent with England, and no religious celebration couid deprive it of its political in- fluence. In America the celebrations, if not so im- | posing, were not less hearty than the mon- ster demonstration in Dubiim. Our greatest orator recounted the story of O'Connell's life, | but it was not left to Wendell Phillips alone | to commemorate his achievements. Go where | he may the Irishman never forgets the little | | green island where he was born, and to remember Ireland is to recall O'Conneli, In this respect the Irish differ from evory | other nationality. The English are more English and tae French more French abroad than athome. The Irishman in America is at once Irish and American, The old land has bis heart, while he gives his body to the | sary as an approval of the policy of our | as | It is | be deprecated, but are better overlooked and | Indeed, in our own country we have | humble. To all these O'Connell, the Liber- ator, means something mors than England's concessions to the demand for religious tree- dom. He is to them, as to the Amnesty Brotherhood in Ireland, a political prophet, and it is for this they honor and revere his memory; for this they celebrated the cevtennial an- niversary of his birth and told over agaiv the story of his life, though it was to all a twice- | told tale. America, next to Ireland, pulsed | yesterday to patriotic fervor of this occasion, and we may well rejoice that this is so, for to her Irish citizens is America indebted for many of her proudest names as well as for | much of the sturdy independence of her people. This O'Connell Centennial has many re- markable features, In America a new nation of Irishmen celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the leading statesman of the old. In Rome the grand altars of the Church do honor to O'Connell's memory, and to his ser- vices for Ireland is even attributed the Cath- olic revival in Engiand. In Ireland alone is there any division of sentiment, and there it was owing to political causes. Silence, we presume, was impossible, and we can scarcely condemn that which was the expression of a profound Irish feeling. K is, however, a cause of congratulation that a celebration which | raised so many antipathies passed off without bloodshed, and, whatever may be the worth of O'Connell’s work, it will do the wofld no harm for all parties to exalt his achievements and commend his virtues, Government by the People. Mr. Morrissey, the political ‘guide, philos- opher and triend” ot Governor Tilden, has not the same aversion that Falstaff had to “giving reasons.” On thé contrary, he is very liberal in that regard, and is always ‘ready to give the reason, so far as he knows it, of any startling tact in the politics of the day; andit must be conceded that he com- monly knows very well the reasons for what is done. He has just given a reason for that spasmodic outburst of Mr. Kelly's virtue | which has landed the friend of Tilden and | pure democracy outside the doors of the Tam- many General Committee. ‘Mr. Kelly,’’ he says, ‘‘wishes to control the nominations for the Senatorships in the districts now repre- sented by Ledwith and Fox. Ledwith and | myself, when we had charge of our districts, could nominate the Senator from our Sena- | torial district. Now, that we are turned out, Kelly can nominate whom he chooses in | the lower Senatorial district, Hayes’, Walsh's | and the First Assembly district. _ Kelly’s | intention is to renominate John Fox, and he knew that he couldn't do it unless he | took Hayes’ district away from him. I told Hayes five months ago that Kelly meant to renominate Fox.” Observe, gentle democrats out in the crowd, | the potential mood of this political gram- | mar: — Kelly can nominate, I cau nomivate. Hayes can nominate. Ledwith can nominate, Wa'sh can nominate. Now, in the democratic strongholds of this | city it is uot merely a proverb, it is an indis- | putable fact, that a democratic ,nomination is the same as an election. He who gets that nomination cannot be beaten, and if he who | gets a nomination for Senator in a certain | district cannot be beaten then he who gives | that nomination ‘‘elects” that Senator. It is | the theory, to be sure, that he is elected by the people ; but if there is no chance to elect | | any one else even then the theory of the rep- | | resentation of the people does not altogether | fail, for itis supposed that organizations of | the people give the nomination. But Morris. | | sey testifies that his difference with Kelly | | turns on this very pomt—which of them | | should choose two Senators to represent the | sovereign people of two districts in this city, Sometimes our patriotic imagination is ex- cited with the story of the rotten boroughs in | England carried in the pockets of private | gentlemen; but how much better is our con- dition? Goop News.--Drexel, Morgan & Co. yester- day issued a circular that will give comfort to all who have friends travelling in Europe | | with letters of credit from the house of Dun- | can, Sherman & Co. By the request of Mr. | Alexander Duncan Drexel & Morgan have un- | dertaken to protect the letters ot credit issued | | by the suspended firm. This news will give | public satisfaction in this country, and isa | pleasing proof of the bonorable spirit which | | marked the dealings of the house of Duncan, | | Sherman & Co. | | | Oma axp Japan.—There is some danger | that the peaceful relations which have | hitherto existed between China and Japan may be broken. Both nations desire to | maintain possession of the Corea, and | | diplomacy fails to settle the question. | Japan manifests a disposition to appeal | | to the arbitrament of the sword. It is | | to be hoped that European and American | | diplomats will exert themselves to prevent a | | rupture that might arrest the progress of lib- | eral ideas inthe East. Through Japan Enro- | pean civilization has the best chance of find- | ing entrance into China, and a quarrel be- tween the two nations would undoubtedly ob- struct the advance of liberal ideas in that ancient Empire, which must always exert a potent influence over the destinies ot the East. | Ovr Porsce.—Sarah Martin, charged with shooting at a police officer who, the states, | attempted to outrage her while under | | arrest, was yesterday discharged by the | Recorder. In setting the girl free the | Recorder remarked that he did not feel | called upon to punish her, as she evi- dently acted under such anu acute sense of | wrong as rendered her irresponsible for her | | acts. Somehow it happens thut all charges brought against the police are sroandloss—at least, the accused can always get witnesses to | swear they are angels—and conviction be+ comes difficult, if not impossible. The public seem just now to be in a vast conspir against the guardians of the public p new. It is this that infuses s0 much fervor | On all sides people are coming forwaed to into the Irish celebrations in this | make serious charges, 1 the poor innocent | country, in proof of which we have | jambs of policemen are bewildered. It is cer- | only to point to yesterday's com- | tainly very naughty of the public to treat our memorations. Wherever two exiles of Erin met throughout the day O’Connell’s name was spoken and nis memory revered; where | more than two met there was not only a word | of hope for Ireland, but a banquet, however | model policemen so barlly; but in the present | | case, though the officer, as usual, was proved | to be innocent, the Recorder evidently | | thought that “where there was smoke theré was fire,” | speech the phantom vanished into darkness. | merciless North sing a requiem over his | speaking in a deep, dull, sepulchral voice. | This was no other.than the apparition of the | famous Jefferson Davis, whose death we all | | currency some six years ago, and who has | of his former labors and vexes the souls of the | Allens and ‘Thurinans. | and misfortune into the hearts of men, have | tion ! Apparitions. Ever since the appearance of the Witch of Endor to the anxious mind of Saul, and of the ghost of Hercules to Ulysses, and of the weird sisters to Macbeth, the existence of apparitions has been a problem to the scien- tific and the devout. Like the evil genius which came to Manfred, these apparitions sometimes appear as ‘a dusk and awiul figure.” Sometimes it is as an old man coy- ered with a mantle ; sometimes it is a voice speaking out of the darkness, the voice of a familiar and loved friend bidding the hearer prepare for death; sometimes, as Martin Luther testified, they come in the form of the incarnate fiend himself. How far these legends, which begin with the beginning of literature and find their counterpart in the stortes of everyday life, are the results of the imagination, or of irritability of the nervous system or of legerdemain, it would be too curious a prollem for us to solve. We have had apparitions from the beginning, and we suppose we shall have them to tho end. Every poet and every dreamer and every poor, foolish prophet and philosopher, like the unfortunate Robert Dale Owen, who went clean daft the other day because the spirit of Katie King turned out to be a mischievous vagabond playing upon his credulity, will have a theory as to their origin. We are disposed to believe in apparitions more devoutly from the appearances that we have seen in our political life during the last few years. How many really dead men, so dead that the inscriptions on their monuments are moss-covered, do we see moving to and fro over the face of the earth! hero was the ghost of Braxton Bragg, whom we remem- ber in our early childhood days as the hero | of one of Zachary Taylor’s legends. This | ghost was seen walking in Texas not many months ago. Its conversations were actually written down and printed in the journals of the day. Yet everybody knows that Braxton Bragg has been dead these many long years, that he died even before the rebellion, and that he was duly buried, From Kentucky wo have a strange story describing the appear- ance of the ghost of Cassius M. Clay. This singular apparition floated into the hall of a democratic convention and made a speech, which was published at the time. After the Everybody knows that Cassius M. Clay died in the far distant Russia, amid the snow and cold, and that the hyperborean blasts of the grave. Only the other day we read in great detail how the spirit of one who was distin- guished in his day was gently floating from town to town in Texas, followed by groups of admiring friends, mainly women, and remember, for it was a fall that made a great | noise in the lund. This uneasy ghost seems to be doomed forever to walk the earth, probably as an expiation for his sin. As he | has been seen in Texas there is no reason why he should not make his appearance in New York. | are Here, buried away in the corner of the | column of sporting intelligence, we find | another strange story to the effect that the | apparition of the late Ben Butler was seen | on board of a yacht off the coast of Massa- | chusetts sailing in oa match against another | yacht commanded by the ghost of a once | famous Wail street speculator, Rufus Hatch. | According to the story these phantom ships, | commanded by phantom captains, ran merrily | before the wind and vanished into the waves. Yet we know that Benjamin F. Butler was gathered to his fathers last November, and that Rufus Match fell before the destroying arm ot Jay Gould. And here, all the way from Ohio, we hear of two apparitions taking part in the canvass. There is the ghost of the blatant Sam Carey, who died a republican and temperance orator about twenty years | ago. His phantom is now preaching democ- racy, repudiation and unlimited grog to the unterrified politicians. The other is the gen- fle, benign apparition of Pendleton—the, courteous, lamented Pendleton—who was suffocated under o mass of irredeemable paper been resting in peace during these recent tur- moils. Now his gentle ghost visits the scene Coming to our own city, we have other ap- paritions. ‘There was probably no death more lamenied atthe time than that of our glorious old friend, Uncle Dick, who died full of years and wealth and fortune, and was buried in the vational capital in the erypt intended for Washinglon, at the end of the short term of Congress. We dwell fondly upon our recol- lections of Uncle Dick. We recall that benig- nant smile that illuminated Wall street, the wit that once set tables ina roar, the enthu- siasm that brightened every dark hour, that | | | courageous intellect which took the whole | world in its grasp and dealt with kingdoms and dynasties as our ordinary operators now do with telegraph shares and mining stocks. | But he has gone, and his soul is with | the saints, we trust, and here is his ghost striding the stteet even as he lived, and in | acold earthy tone advocating the formation | of anew paper currency party. Ah, if that | mighty intellect could only haye lived to have seen how these evil spirits, who, it is well | known, use supernatural means to bring terror abused his gracious presence and made him the champion of dust and rags, how it would have risen in revolt and spurned the associa- And we havo with him the ghost of Theodore Tomlinson, who, twenty years ago, was an eloquent speaker, but who died with honest grief when he heard of the death of | Henry Clay. In our new movement of poli- | This time from Herz, ties we have the ghost of Conover, whose ap- parition is that of a reformer, and of Rutus | | Andrews, who was gathered to his fathers | Constitutional Conventions, When the democratic Legislature of North Carolina last winter culled a constitutional convention there were not wanting democrats in the State, as well as in other States, who thought the act imprudent. “If you carry the convention you will have an elephant on your hands; if you are beaten it will hurt your party.” This was what the opponents of the movement said. It appears now that the democrats have been beaten, and for this they have themselves alone to blame. ‘There was really no need for a revision of the State con- stitution by a convention, Both parties are agreed that two or three changes are required, but they @& bo perfected and proposed by the Legislature and would undoubtedly be adopted by the people, The feeling among conservative and prudent men in both parties in North Carolina was that it was not well to heid a convention now when opinions are un- settled and extremists and shallow theorists were more likely to rule than wise men, But the democrats did not leave the question of o convention to the people, ‘Laey were so eager that they made the election of delegates imperative. Thereupon the re- publicans committed all their candidates o an agreement to yote, on meeting, for an immediate adjournment, and as the republicans have, it seems, carried the State, there is likely to be no convention. No one need regret it. In Alabama the democrats have carried a constitutional convention by from ten thou- sand to fifteen thousand majority, and it now remains to be seen what they will do with it. Considering that next year we have a Presi- dential election, that the eyes of the country somewhat anxiously fixed upon the Southern States, and that there are still o good many shortsighted and noisy menamong the ‘Southern democrats, we sbould thought it wise in that party to put off their constitutional conventions for at least a couple of years. But it is probably as well for the country that the Southern democrats should be thrown on their responsibility now, so that the whole country may see what spirit animates them. Kentucky and Texas may also have constitutional conventions; tho result of the votes on the question in those States is not yet known. If so we shall seo the party put on its trial in three States. In Missouri a convention has just perfected a new constitution, which we judge, frein tho summaries we have seen of it, to bea very good instrument. It prohibits the creation of State and local debts, except to a trifling amount ; limils the percentage of State taxa- tion, lengthens the terms of the supreme judges, provibits special legislition, requires corporations to publish their accounts, and significantly strikes out the word ‘white’ in the clause describing the qualifications for Governor. for public schools for both colors. It is to be hoped the Alabama convention will do as well, and that the democratic constitution makers everywhere will remember that the Southern States are still in a transitory con- | dition, upon which fundamental rules ought not to be based. Rarm Traxsit.—There seems some pros- pect that the labors of the Rapid Transit have | Also, it makes liberal provision | | great oil conspiracy on ‘ foot, | stroy the oil. CE teal Re aan oo: 2 Ea ee, Ee cee NO Moody and Sankey at Saratoga. Moody and Sankey, the great American revivalists, who, afier converting Great Britain, are now on the way to the United States, will, we trust, arrive in time to take part in the festivities at Saratoga. From what we can learn of that celebrated Baden Baden, the amount of intriguing and display, of fashion worshipping and money seeking and gambling that now prevails there has never been surpassed. Even as venerable and aa cantious a statesman as Governor Tilden finds political sympathy of a questionable char+ acter, From what wo can hear of the machinations of the fifteen or twenty candi- dates for the Presidency who are now swarm- ing around the springs there will be a fine opportunity for the eloquence of Moody and the organ of Sankey. A revival at Saratoga at this (ime would go far toward clearing the air for the next political canvass. It would imbne the politicians with a healthy publie spirit; their bodies replenished by the strengthening waters and their souls chast- ened by the eloquence of Moody and the song of Sankey, we shail have a canvass marked with vigor, spirituality and power. Let us have Moody and Sankey in Saratoga until the Ist of Soptember, then bring them down to New York for a littl turn around during our municipal expe rience, and with the opening of Congress send them to Washington. Who knows but these two wandering evangelists may yet prove the salvation of the Republic? History may write that the Republic which one hun- dred years ago Washington founded in this great centennial year Moody and Sankey regenerated, Cuicaco has wisely decided to pay such of her creditors as failed to collect the interest due on their bonds from the house of Duncan, Sherman & Co. This act of honesty will recommend Chieago to persons seeking invest. ment for their money, and will profit the Garden City a hundred times what would have been gained by taking advantage of legal technicalities to avoid payment of a just debt. Crops anp F'Loops.—The damage done te the crops by the late floods amounts in many cases to half their value. Is it not time that some well considered plan were adopted by the national government to remedy the evil which im most cases is the result of defective drainage or a badly constructed system of levees? ‘Tho increased value of the crops would soon pay for the outlay. Ovr Lerrur from Parrott City will be in- teresting to persons anxious to try the miner's life. From our corresponder:’s description it does not seem over-attractive, No doubt it has its charms for some natures, but we are inclined to think they are the exceptional ones. Prrnotrum.—It is reported there is a and we have no doubt there is, but it is ao conspiracy to send up the price, not to de- It is a conspiracy to make | the people believe there is a conspiracy. If, for Commission will not be without a practical | result. Several good plans jor securing the great desideratum tor this city—rapid transit— have been proposed, and permission will no doubt be given to one or more companies to goon with the work. It is nota matter of much consequence whether the plan adepted be the very best; that must of necessity de- pend upon opinion. What is needed is a good, safe road, caurying passengers rapidly and cheaply from the Battery to Harlem. So that this is secured the public will be satisfied. Necro Munprrers Hanerp.—Justice by | the rope was yesterday done on two negro murderers, one in Alabama and one in South | Carolina. Both men had well merited tho | doom thoy met, and, though one denied his guilt up to his death, there is no reason to doubt that he was justly punished. We are glad to notice that in the South justice is speedily executed on murderers who happen to be- caught. There is .-no un. healthy sympathy for the criminal who is sent to his doom while the memory of his crime is yet fresh in the minds of the people. alty be made to exercise to the fullest ex- tent its deterrent influence on the ignorant and brutal. It is to be regrotted that a sim- ilar healthy feeling does not pervade this State. We have too much sentimental ten- derness for murderers and not enough for their victims. Aycrent Amenica.—At Nancy an American Congress has assembled with the object of discussing the important question whether there was a discovery of America before Co- lumbus’ time. Tho congress is made up of distinguished savans, ond promises to give excellent rosults. Our correspond- enco shows an evident desire on the part of the assistants to got at tho facts. Theories received merciless haudling and romance was evidently at a discount. We hope the work so well begun in France may be continued on this side of the Atlantic, and that the next meeting of the American Con- gress will take place at Philadelphia next year, so that our learncd men may have an edge about ancient America, Tur Peace or vin minute speck on the map is likely to do much damage by itself, but it has the same relation to latent destructive forces that a match has to a barrel of gunpowder. The latest ac- counts show the insurrection increasing in strength, and at any moment the Servians may trke a hand in. Should this happen there would probably result suc an explosion as would make the last war between Germany and France seer only a very small affair. In this way only can the death pen- | | opportunity of adding to our stock of knowl. | | whieh Courbet, the urtis' instance, the story can be well spread to market that there is on foot a con spiracy to destroy half the oil now in tanks and barrels on the surfaco and a fire should really follow, the effect on prices wonld be just in proportion to the extent to which the story had been spread and was/believed; but a thousand barrels would make o very big fire—just as big for all practical purposes of this sort asa million barrels; and we have full confidence that the men who are maneg- ing this conspiracy, and have mentioned it to the reporters, are economical persons, and will not burn more oil than is absolutely ne- cessary to make a proper impression on the market; for if they should get the price up how they would regret every extra barrel wasted. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Goneral Alexander S, Diven, of Elmira, 1s so- journing at the Hoifman House, Commander Lewis A, Beardslee, United States Navy, 18 registered at the Gilsey House, » President his recognized Nicholas Gaxiola as Consul of Saivador at San Francisco, Rev. Joba B. Dales, of Phitadetpnia, last evening at the Metropolitan Hotel, G, 0, orton, captain cf the stip Aurora, of New York, died in pan Francisco yesterday, Mr. George M. Pullman, of Catcago, 1s among the late arrivals at tie Brevoort House, Lu enant Commander Frederick Rodgers, arrived United states Navy, 1s quartered at the Heffman House, Mr. Mahlon Chance, United States Consul at }assau, 1s residing temporarily at the Filth Ave. nut Hotel. g ‘The Hon, Schuyler Colfax and wife arrived at Newport last cvening from Stamford, Corn,, and wili remain two ¥ '. Juage Joun P. Usher, of Kansas, formerly Sec- retary of the Interior, bas taken up his residence at the St. Nicholas {Hotel Attorney General Edwards Pierrepont, accom. panied by Jesse Grant, son of the President, are rived at Long Branch yesterday, Supplementary to Governor Allen’s declaration that he was once a baretoot boy, is the Republic opservation that he is now a barefaced demagogue. Major William Il. Johnston, Paymaster, United States Army, ilus been relieved trom duty in the Department of the Galf and ordered to duty at St, Louis, Mo. Assistant Surgeon D. L. Huntington has been relieved irom duty in the Department of California and ordered to reportin person tothe Surgeon General, at Washington. The Delaware Republican says that “of all the frauds in the State of New York for the past fif- teen years we believe Samuel J, Tilden, as a ree jormer, to be the most stupendous.” A cavie telegram from Parls reports that the Court of Appeals has confirmed the judgment by t, was ordered to pay the cost of restoring the Vendéme Column, Johnvou is the third President whose remaing are in Tennessee, and there 18 a project to bury him witn tne others in Nashville and erect a grand monument; but his tamily prefer a simpler | grave in Kast Tennessee. about the timo of Peter B. Sweeny’s depart- | Haypr has abandoned tho iriendship of ure for Europe, and of ex-Judge Dick Busteed, | prance to place hersel!’ under the risen | who sleeps under the magnolias of the tar dis- | of Germany. This is another victory for Ber- tant sunny South. Here also is the pale | jin diplomacy, but it is an act of questionable shade of ex-Judge Dittenhoeffer, who sleeps at | wisdom on the part of the Khédive, Other peace near the grave of Shelley in the romantic nations besides France have an interest in land of Italy. Surely when we read from day | to day of these apparitions, not only in New | and in case of trouble York but ail over the country, we cannot re- | Germany would be lk sist the conclusion that there are more things | in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. keeping Germany out of the Mediterranean, he Egyptian ally of ely to receive severa handling, whatever the ultimate iss struggle between the principal Powers might , be. jo of tho | ‘The President has appointed Henry N Bidke to be Associate Justice jor Montana Territory. he ) signed the commission of Henry H. Wells, e Umited States Attorney jor the District of Lolumobia, vice Fisher. Here is what they say in an Ohlo campaign song. Itts not poetry, but it may ve truth:— in ido2 Columbus crossed the ccean’s bine, fe found the A in his place— lle found the copper colored ri He found a ind co White men new— Hat here he jound—wul Allen, too | Two American lacles are just now making ¢ pedestrian trip tn the Highlands, and enjoying the best of all ways of traveiling amid mountals ery. They are alone, each having her knap se sack on bi ot each also armed with a re volver, Th apons were produced jor the in formation of a geateman, who certainly meant them no har We hope we may not hear tha these strong-minded ladies have shot themselves, or anyvody else, by misadven'ure,—Court Jown | ithe