The New York Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1875, Page 6

6 W YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE .TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, tlie daily and weekly | editions of the New York Hxraxp will be | sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yor« | Herawp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 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, VOLUME XL... ~~ AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-cighth street, near Broadway,—A BUNCH OF BsBRiES, a8 P.M. Vokes Family. METROPOLITAN THEATRE. Nos. 585 and 587 Broad way.—VARiMTY, at 3 P.M, GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, Inte Rarnum’s Hippodrome.—GRAND POPULAR CON- CERT, acs P.M. ; cuses at P.M. SENTRAL PA GARDEN. HOMAS’ BRT, at3 P.M, ROB N HALL, West Sixteenth street. — ish Opera—LITSCHEN AND FRITSCHEN and CHILPERIO, at 3 P. M. TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street.—VAKIETY, at 3P. M. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street. P.M. | closes ws 10:45 P. Matinee at 2 THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, Third avenue, between Thirtieth and Thirty-first treeta—CINDERELLA AND TH LITTLE GLASS LirribR, at 8 P.M. SR! ¢ THEODORE 1 —THE SPY, at8 P.M. 8, To NewspzaLers and THE Pusric :— Tue New Yorx Heraup runs a special train every Sunday during the season, between New York, Niagara Falls, Sara- toga, Lake George, Sharon and Richfield Springs, leaving New York at half-past two o'clock -A. M., arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M., and Niagara Falls at @ quarter to two P. M., for the purpose of supplying the Scxpay Heracp along the line ot the Hudson River, New York Central and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern roads. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Heraxp officeas early as possible. For further particulars see time table. From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be hot and partly cloudy, with, possibly, local rains. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Henaty mailed to | them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wau Sreeer Yestzrpay.—The stock mar- ket was barely steady, Distrust still exists. Gold receded to, 113§. Investment securities) continue firm. © Aw Excrrmse Anricre in respect to the Po- lice Department is elsewhere published, and contains some very candid statements on the part of Commissioner Smith. Tue Meanest of counterfeiters, and yet the most skilful, are those who try to swindle the people out of five cent nickel pieces. The latest revelations of their nefarious experi- ments are contained in an interesting article elsewhere. A Temnwiz Exprosion occurred yester- day at the Bridesburg Arsenal, in Philadelphia. Our special report ex- plains its causes and describes the | results, and fortunately exonerates the | military authorities from recklessness or mis- | management. The origin of the disaster was | evidentiy carelessness on the part of one of the young mén employed in the laboratory. | Mayor and | Tue Fmewen’s Par.—The Comptroiler are still at loggerheads about the | manner in which the firemen shall be paid, | The firemen, who want their money, are the | pufferers. The Mayor and the Comptroller | bave no doubt drawn their own salaries for June and July. They do not quarrel about | so mutually interesting a subject as that, | but to spite each other they make victims of | eight hundred of the city’s employés. | Tax Mtssissiprt.—The deluge of rain has | swollen all the tributaries of the great river | to such a degree as to have already submerged extensive tracts planted in cotton and corn, | and the apprehension. was that the trouble | would be far worse ina few days but ttre | latest reports are more hopeful. We must, | moreover, count together the good and bad results of the rain. In some parts of the | South it has been of such service that it is | estimated that in consideration of this ad- | vantage the country can afford to lose two \ hundred thousand bales by the swollen river. | Probably the owners of the cotton to be lost might not comprehend this equilibrium, and | we have not heard that the people who will gain by the rains in Georgia think of divid- | ing, with those who lose by the river in other States. Taz Tawmaxy Commrirex.—Tammany rules with a hard and iron hand. Years of success have flushed it with ambition, and it frowns upon insubordination. Yot Tammany itself has experienced too many revolutions to | frown upon the independent democracy altogether. It may attack John Morrissey | and his friends, but can it drive them out of the party? We think not. The democratic party has depended upon such leaders in the past and may need them in,the future. The republicans of the Custom House— men who trade with the politicians whom they are supposed to antagonizo—may rejoice in these troubles, but no sincere democrat can seo anything but disaster in the divisions of his party, We learn that the Tammany com- mitteemen are resolved to drive out of the party all who are supposed to be recaleitrant members; but they should pause in their rash and hasty legislation before they expel suc- | ways | or Derry? NEW YORK HERALD, sUNDAY AUGUST 8, 1875.~TKIPLE SHEET. The Dead Summer. Woe are now in the dead summer days. New York is an abandoned city. An evening stroll up Fifth avenue or down Broadway recalls Hawthorne's weird story of a new Adam and a new Eve coming upon our civilization, and walking down State street at high noon, the Sabbath of eternity shedding its stillness along the street, no breath of a created being dis- turbing the earthly atmosphere. The fashion- able churches are closed, and country preach- ers, who come with rural fervor and piety, complain ot empty benches.’ Every Euro- pean steamer is burdened with pleasure-seek- ers, anxious for the boulevards and the Ger- | man springs. The theatres are given over to strolling players, who wander from the coun- try towns in the hope of obtaining even a summer recognition in New York. The libraries are closed. We have a faint touch of summer life in the musical gardens of Thomas and Gilmore. The hotels are prac- tically abandoned. The city has come to a standstill. The newspapers devote them- selves to sentimental questions and have hardly the energy to take up living issues. New York has thrown a large part of her | population into the suburbs, to the sea shore ; and mountains. The familiar faces at our clubs, our court houses, on Wall street, Fifth avenue, are to be found in the Adirondacks chasing the deer, or panting along the trout streams of Pennsylvania, or scudding for bluefish on the Jersey coasts, or gossiping around the springs at Saratoga. We long for an excitement, a murder or fire or an elopement case—for anything to break the dead, dull midsummer silence. New York is in a cendition of suspended anima- tion, and will so continue for the next six weeks, This arises partly from the natural tendency of all to fly from the heats of the city to the seashore and mountain to find rest from a long winter's labor and to gather strength for | the labor of the winter that is to come. At the same time much of the desire to abandon the city during the summer arises from affec- tation—from a foolish fashionable notion that it is not proper or becoming for those who be- Jong to high society to spend the summer months in New York. Consequently there is a conspiracy on the part of society and those who govern us to make New York during the summer months practically a dead city. There is no reason why this should be 90. So far as physical comfort is concerned there are few days, indeed, even in this dead summer season, when'New York is not agreeable. We have the cool breezes from the sea and the tempering influences of the rivers. Central | Park is always open and always attractive. There are no rides in the world to be compared with the ride to Fort Washington or into the Westchester valleys or over the Brooklyn boulevards to Fort Hamilton and Coney Island. There are the Palisades, with their wonderful view of Jand and ocean and their high, clear, pure air. There is New | Jersey, filled with beautiful and attractive | } places, the bay studded with villas and the ocean within an hour’s ride from City Hall. Take our poor, despised, neglected Battery, which no one thinks of visiting and which is | given over to emigrants and sailors. If such a walk as the Battery existed in London or Paris or Berlin our tourists would write home in raptures about the magnificent view of hill and river and sea, and speak in most eloquent tones of bounteous nature bringing ecean breezes, as it were, to the doors of the inhabitants. The view from our Battery and the attractiveness of this quiet little park to those who really know its merit are only | equalled by those at Hamburg and Venice. We print this morning a succinct narrative of the resources of the city as a summer resort, of the multitude of charming summer places | that win the weary citizen from his day’s labor and permit him to return the next day fall of life and vigor. If we only treat New York properly and utilize her resources we should never have reason to complain of the dead summer days. New York should be as inviting in the gim- mer time as Paris is to France or London to England. We can understand the wisdom which leads so many of our people to take a few weeks of recreation in the midsummer months. Even if New York itself were as charming a summer resort as the Bernese | Alps or the lakes of Killarney it is al- wise to seck a change of air asa preparation for the stirring duties of winter. Why should not New York be made a summer resort for thousands of our fellow countrymen who take summer jaunts? Why should not a trip to New York be as mucha matter of interest to the citizen of Illinois or Wisconsin or Georgia asa trip to London is to the resident of Northumberland or Ayrshire There is no reason other than our incapacity to make it so. If we abandon New | York and close up every object of interest or amusement; if we seal our churches, close our libraries and picture galleries, aban- don our theatres and opera houses and drive all life and amusement and opportunity for instruction out of the city, what is there to | induce an Iilinoisan ora Georgian to make us 4 visit in the month of July? What we should dois tomake New York as attractive in July as in December. When our theatres close their winter season they should be ready with a summer season. If we have Shakespeare and high English com- edies from September to April, why should we not have opéra bouffe and vandevilles and the lighter comedies from April to September ? Instead of two music gardens, one of them very much out of the way and the other a mere temporary experiment and not as comfortable as it might be, why should there not be musical gardens in the Central Park and Madi- son square and even on the Battery? Why should we not have a macadamized Fifth avenue leading to the Park, to be a great sum- mer drive? Why should not our streets be | cleaned and euch nuisances as the Harlem | flats be abolished without delay? Let us | have rapid transit, so that a citizen residing on Fortieth street might go to the Battery and return, if he chooses, in twenty minutes, and we can easily imagine how that beautiful promenade—the bay at our feet, the ocean at a distance, the blue hills of Staten Island and the curving coasts of New Jersey in the back- ground—could be made one of the most delightful evening walks in the world. It is not many years since Jenny Lind achieved her great success as @ singer on this very Bat- tery. With rapid transit there is no reason why it should not come back again to our affections as a summer evening resort. Why not also havea summer musica! garden at the lower end of Central Park and another at the upper for the use of the inhabitants of Harlem? Why should not this magnificent | pleasure ground be kept open in the evening, | with Mr. Thomas or Mr. Gilmore presiding over a well appointed band and with moder- ate and innocent refreshment for those who | care to spend an evening under the stars lis- tening to Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner? | And so we might continue, showing a hun- | dred different points where, without any ex- pense practically, but by simply following a sensible and wise policy, New York might be made as attractive, not only to those who live here, but to those who are anxious to pay it a | yearly visit, as Paris or London, What we | complain of is that we do not do the city jus- tice. The dead summer days which we all | dread so much and which bring with them apathy and prostration and business depres- sion might be made bright summer days. The season of our city prosperity would not de- | pend upon winter or summer, but go round | and round with each change of the revolving year. | | Pulpit Topies To-Day. With the incoming of August, more from custom than from any pressure of the weather, the pastors take themselves and their themes to the country places and leave their city pulpits in the hands ot exchanges or temporary supplies, who are indifferent as to the impression they may make on the com- munity to whom they minister for the time being. This, we presume, is the reason that so few of them of late announce their pulpit topics for Sunday. They take for granted that the few who care to hear them will go to church any way, and it is not worth while inviting the masses, who do not usually go to church, or the strangers, who may not know specifically where to go. ‘‘The Leadership of Jesus” constitutes ‘a theme on which Mr. Haskell might very easily and with much profit speak for thirty or forty minutes this morning, just as Mr. Lightbourn might, and doubtless will, speak this evening about the uncorrupted public man. In the midst of almost untversal cor- ruption an uncorrupted public man is such a rarity that he ought to be set forth for the gaze and admiration of the nation. That pil- grims may and do sing is an established fact, but Mr. Taylor will give us an old version of God's new song, as sung by His pilgrim peo- ple while journeying on their road to Zion, Such a song should have mirth as well as music in 1t, and not be drawled and droned out as if the pilgrims were sorry that they had ever started and would gladly retrace their stops if they could with the least con- sistency. Professor Loutrel will set forth Job as an example of long suffering, affliction and patience; a manin whom patience had her perfect work, so that when he was tried his character shone with a lustre that it could not approach before. Miss Anna Oliver, a theo- logical student anda stirring temperance lec- turer, will crystallize the beauties and advan- tages of cold water to thirsty souls in what | she may say this afternoon, And converts, no doubt, will be won to the temperance ranks by her winning words and ways. The Cruise of the Yachts. Yachting without wind and in the depress- ing influences of constant rain is not an ex- | hilarating sport, and the yachtsmen on their summer cruise are therefore not to be con- Newport yesterday may be classed as a pleas- } ant exception to this rule. But of the whole number of those whose summer vaca- tions are enjoyed on the water only a small proportion care for that side of the sport that is most legitimately exhilarating; while to all | the rest the life on the boat, breeze or no breeze, the separation from the daily routine of life on shore, the social freedom and ease, are the charms of the yearly occasion, while to | the race in a good wind, the fine seamanship, | the handsome manouvre, the evidence of | speed, they are, though far from indifferent, | at least less attentive than to comfort, pleas- | ure and good fellowship. Allehis is natural | and in a degree very much as it should be; | but for the indulgence of this sort of taste the cruise must bein summer, which is the season of general holidays and the time of pleasant weather for outdoor life; but which is there- | fore also the season of calms and drifting | races; and as this side of sport is preferred the absence of good breezes for a race must be taken as a general accompaniment. Races in the autumn and ‘outside,” and which cultivate the sport in its more vigorous aspect, have the advantage over the other sort | that they lead to the fuller development of one | of the yachtsman’s aspirations—fine experi- ments in naval architecture. Our little pleasure | craft; made for cruising in the river and up the Sound in the summer calms, are in pic- turesque contrast to those ideals of the lover | of the sea, that, with all the fine lines and | dainty aspect of the little favorites, are also | fit to buffet the Atlantic in even its least | amiable moods. Our- yachting activity pre- vents fertility in the production of craft of | that sort by a sort of “natural selection’? m | favor of craft of the lighter kind for summer | fun. But in another direction the New York | Yacht Club goes on with the vigor of a fresh | vitality. It has established, in great degree | through the energy of Vice Commo- | dore Garner, a fine and commodious club house by the water side, much in the fashion of the famous castle at Cowes, the marine headquarters of British yachtsmen, and is not, as formerly, neces- sarily separated at its club house from the scene of its aquatie activities. All this con- | duces greatly to fhe comfort and pleasure of | the members, and, like the tendency of the | summer cruise, prowises to strengthen the | club in its social aspects, and without any | undue sacrifice of the spirit and rivalry of the sport. | | | | | Tue Poor Campren ann rue Pupiic.— Yesterday another free picnic was given to the poor children of New York. Over fifteen hundred little ones participated in the enjoy- ment of the day, and no one who is not a child nor poor can appreciate the delight and surprise of the excursion, To these little children the weekly picnic is an event to be remembered for years, and the op- portunity offered of doing so great a good at a cost so small is one which our benevolent and enterprising citizens should not neglect. gratulated on their weather. The run to | Mr. Manager Green and His Puppets. Nothing in the world is more amusing than a puppet show. The wooden figures stalk about as solemnly, fling their arms around as majestically, enact their various parts as gravely as the more real actors in flesh and blood; and the excellent joker who sits be- hind the curtain and pulls the strings which set his characters in motion meantime utters for them the deepest tragedy or the most friv- olous comedy, while the spectators do not know which is the _most laughable, the ferocious bandit or the light hearted clown. Look, for instance, at the amusing comedy with which that celebrated and very able impresario of marionettes, Comptroller Green, is lightening the burden of a rainy summer. Nothing half so good has been seen in our theatres for many a month ; nor, indeed, could anything nearly so meritorious be expected, for not every manager has the ability and the experience of Manager Green, and not every manager has the good fortune to be able so completely to control his play- ers, to manage his machinery and to impro- vise his situations. The manager of a puppet show has ad- vantages in these respects which the manager of real live, salaried, eating and drinking, conceited, jealous, ‘self-conscious, disobedient performers has not. Look at this fortunate Green, as he sits in his snug cubby hole in the City Hall, with the strings within his reach. He has only to pull them as he only knows how to pull them, and all his characters per- form precisely as he wishes. Here is Kelly, the ferocious villain of his play, striking an attitude and muttering indistinct anathemas at Morrissey; here is Tilden, the Artful Dodger of show, running about, whisper- ing first in one ear and then in another; here is Morrissey, leader of the Short Hairs, launching out hia left and uttering Ajax-like defiances; here is Wickham, leader of the Swallow Tails, pulling on his yellow kids and making his and everybody else’s best bow; here are Porter and the pipe men, the City Hall and Tammany Hall; Fernando Wood trying to look like | Henry Clay, and the rest of the city democ- racy trying to look like Tom Benton and Silas Wright, and looking so horribly and ridiculously seedy in the effort that the be- holder of this most admirable tragi-comedy is convulsed with laughter; and all the time the great artist, the man of genius, to whom we all owe the delightful and amusing spectacle, sits with an air of unconcern on a chest marked ‘City Treasury,’’ and pretends to be counting greenbacks and examining tax re- ceipts. He is a true artist, Manager Green, He knows that the perfection of art is to conceal art. He would like to persuade us all that he has no share in the performance; that it is not he who inspires the mutterings, the whispers, the defiances; that when his po- litical puppets stalk and stride and strike an attitude it is not because he pulls the strings. It is not too much to say that the Comptroller is the greatest artist of the day. He has had few natural advantages; for it might be said of him as it was of another— Tall and erect, unmeaning, mute and pale, O’er his blank face no gieams of thougut prevail. But he has had great teachers and great op- portunities. He had the astute Sweeny for his model, who taught him that modest avoid- avee of daylight is best calculated to prolong the success of an intriguer, and who failed only when his vanity got the upper hand of his caution “and led him to show his hand. Green pulls the strings in modest conceal- ment. He would not for the world have the audience guess that it is he who moves the puppets. Here is the celebrated puppet Mor- rissey, for instance, waging a terrible war against Tammany, determined, to all appear- ances, to “sink or swim, survive or perish,” in the most approved and dauntless spirit. But it is only Green pulling the Morrissey string which produces all those remarkable effects. Here again is the amusing Kelly puppet shaking his fist at Morrissey and squeaking out, “Off with his head!’’ Don’t be uneasy—it is only Green pulling the Kelly string and speaking the words in the Kelly voice. When Wickham smirks and bows, when Fernando buttons his coat and straight- ens his figure, when Porter shows his swal- low tail to the pipe men through the crack of a closing door, when Tilden praises Silas Wright or consults with Morrissey, when Morrissey reports his own great politicul deeds to the reporters, when the battle of the clans grows tiercest—it is all only Bottom, the weaver. The Comptroller is really an able man, a person of very varied talents, of great ambi- tion. But we fear he is attempting too much, and in too many directions. We do not doubt his ability to manage the discordant elewents in New York and at Saratoga; to maintain an equilibrium between the factions by setting them by the ears; but, meantime, unluckily, the city finances are going to the demnition bowwows; the people begin’ to wonder which is increasing most rapidly, the taxes or the debt ot the city. Mr. Green is | economizing: at such a rate that he has to borrow continually to make up his deficien- cies, and whenever he borrows he pays hand- some interest. It may be a great stroke of financial genius to make alow tax levy and then add to the debt enough to make up the deficiency; but there are people who do not understand it, and Mr. Green would do well to give the whole of his great mind to an ex- planation of his financial system, or to give it up altogether, else some day there will come a proposition to make him manager of the City Hall and Tammany Hall democracy, and let some less able but more easily compre~ hensible person take a turn at the finances. It begins to be suspected that Mr. Green's genius is thrown away in the Comptroller's office. His forte is political wirepulling. The Real Estate Market. ‘The sale of the Grand Opera House at auc- tion on Friday brings up once more the ques- tion of the condition of the real estate mafket. Those who base their judgment upon the results of this forced sale will probably say that the depression in real estate continues and shows no sign of recovery. But they will fail to remember that the Opera House prop- erty is, and was when it was built, a specula- tive venture, The business centres of New York have been in a remarkable degree mov- able for many decades. Aside from the general tendency of the dry goads and retail trade up town, which, is a natural result of the uptown movement of residences, there have been nu- merous and sometumes very promising ten- | the day, but also according as speculators ptide of population and investment seems dencies to one side or other of tne] town. Of these speculators have always availed themselves, fancying that, with the help of capital and energy, they could divert the business of the city in one or another direction. In such an effort the Grand Opera House was one of the means used. It was believed by Mr. Pike, who built it, and by Fisk, who bought it, that it would be possible | to draw the city over ‘to that side. Results have shown, however, that neither business | nor pleasure can be permanently diverted from the centres they have chosen, Of these centres it may now be said, with certainty, that they are fixed. One of them is marked by the New Post Office building, which will draw around it more and more a large variety 8f business; for the cen- tring in one spot of the Post Office and the United States and principal city cogrts, with other city offices, marks this as the conspicu- ous business centre of New York, Another such centre is Union square, about which the dry goods trade, so many years on the wing, now more and more gathers, with all the trades which usually follow it. Rapid transit, if we ever get it, while it will develop the upper part of the island and change its face and its values, will not interfere with these two marked spots on the map of the city. Now the real estate placed near these estab- lished centres can never suffer notable fluctu- ations in value. It will steadily increase in importance and price; but no crisis or financial revulsion can affect it, because, whatever happens, the main business of New York will always go on and increase in magnitude, and those solid houses which control and make that business are not permanently or gravely affected by the fluctuations of trade. Speculative real estate, however, stands ina different category. It necessarily rises and falls, not only with the fluctuations of more or less energetically and shrewdly scheme to draw population or business in this or that direction. Accordingly we see prices rise and fall, in irregwar waves, in different localities, within or without the city. The to surge now in one and again in another direction; watchful speculators eagerly follow it, and the receding wave leaves them oftenest high and dry, with their narrow margins eaten up and their mortgaged lots the prey of the Sheriff. Shrewd investors, mean- time, study the real laws which move and guide an increasing population, which are, after all, natural laws; and, holding not on margins but by actual purchase, such men have learned, by an experience of half a cen- | tury, that there is no such safe and profitable investment in this country as carefully selected real estate in and near New York. To them the hardtimes mean only a delay in realizing profits, which, nevertheless, they have learned to regard as absolutely certain in the end. It is well known that real estate | is the last commodity to feel the | speculative tendency upward. All our periods of depression and succeeding pros- perity or inflation have’ ehown this. After 1837, 1857 and 1861 the revival of business | did not, for some time, apparently revive the | real estate market. This means, however, | that speculation exhausted itself in other com- modities which could be more quickly turned before it took hold of land and houses. In the meantime the revival of legitimate busi- ness very quickly made itself felt in a mod- erate advance of rents and prices of the really valuable property of this kind. This must be the course also as | business revives from the depression under which it has lain since 1873: The process of weeding out merely speculative ventures is constantly going on; and, as a result, rents and prices in those parts of the town where va\pes are not real, but have been exaggerated, have steadily fallen. This is a good result. It brings the market down to a solid basis, and prepares the way for a real and lasting improvement. Meantime it be- gins to be remarked that property which has an intrinsic value by reason of its sitvation holds its own very well, and it is such prop- erty as this which will first feel the move- ment given by renewed activity in trade and consequent prosperity. | i | | A Groat Opportunity in Africa. An enthusiastic Western journalist proposes the ‘utilization of Africa.’’ That continent remains, in truth, as Stephen A. Douglas used to say of Vermont, a good place to go away from. It isa point of departure rather than a port of entry. Its exports continue very largely to exceed its imports. It has no home manufactures to speak of. Its currency isina very disorderly condition, consisting for the most part of gold. Few of its millions of inhabitants have tho slightest suspicion that a national debt is a national blessing. The heathen in his blindness does not know the felicity of selling short; we doubt if there is a watered stock between the Gabcon on the west and Benguela or the Mozambique Channel on the cast. Puts and calls are un- known, and the only straddle with which our African brother is familiar is connected with the cavalry branch of the army. Of tings he knows so little that he thinks of them chiefly as nose ornaments. He has no more idea of corners than of cofner lots, and is as ignorant of subsidies as of universal suffrage and ballot box stuffing. In fact, it may be said that Africa knows scarcely anything of the blessings of civilization, What a happy thought it would be in the | American people to make the centennial of our | independence memorable by conferring upon the benighted Africans our redundant | blessings !—those surplus sources of our great- | ness and power which we could best spare without feeling the loss, On the evening of the first Tuesday after the first Monday in No- vember, 1876, there will be a great, number of enterprising, active, ingenious, more or loess | intelligent and ambitious American citizens to whom life will appear a failure; whose oc- cupation, like Othello's, will be gone; who will be cast down, disappointed, disgusted; to whom the world will seem a hollow and not very glittering fraud. Africa offers a career to those disappointed patriots, ‘ We shall be able by that time to spare the Pennsylvanian Kelley and the Ohio Carey, Allen and Pendleton; and we could afford to fit these gentlemen out with ao first class paper mill and a number of printing presses out of the surplus no longer required in the Treasury Department, and thus they will be millions an unceasing stream of ‘the very best currency the world ever saw.’’ We can spare them Mr. Boutwell and Mr. Henry C. Carey to develop thelr home manufactures, and Mr, Jayne and Mr. Sanborn to “instruct them in the collection of taxes. Jay Cooke will be ready to serve as a sort of financial Jack-of-all-trades ; he can show them what advantages arise out of a national debt; how to manage a freedman’s bank and how to sell - railroad bonds. Marshall Packard and Gov- ernor Kellogg, who will find Louisiana unin- teresting after next year, can mass the col- ored vote to their hearts’ content in Senegam- bia. Senator Spencer, whom an ungrateful population in*Alabama is about to dismiss, will know how to colonize votersin the Desert of Sabara and to get up.sham Ku Kilux in. Ashantee. We could spare Wendell Phillips and General Toombs, Jeff Davis and Jack Lo- ganas model statesmen. General Hawley might go over for a while to teach the African poli- tician how to maintain a firm and graceful seat on the fence, but we shonld want the General returned to us. John Kelly would be useful to eliminate the brains from the African Tammany and General John Coch- rang to got up a liberal party and superintend the nomination of a President. Morrissey could teach them how to run politics across a faro table, and if he is as communicative in Africa as at Saratoga what he does not tell them they will hardly have tume to hear. ‘Tweed will go ont, of course. It will bede- lightful to hear him ask the people of the Soudan “What are you going tu do about it?” Minnesota will lose the services of the illus- trious Bill King, who will take out a few fine cattle and sheep and his own private editor. John T. Hoffman will seek a new career in Monomotapa or Damaraland. Senator Dor- sey, of Arkansas, will ask fora grant of East African bonds to build a railroad from the Equator to the sources of the Nile—be the same more or less, Mr. Jay Gould will natu- rally control the great transcontinental broad gauge line from Cape Lopez to Cape Delgado in the interest of the foreign shareholders. The ghost of Schuyler Colfax will hover around as soon as a Crédit Mobilier is estab- lished. There will be a great emigration of professional whitewashers and blatherskites, to whom an African career with ap unlimited currency will offer great temptations. To help along in the political settlement of tho continent and the establishment of free institutions New York can furnish a great number of expert ballot box stnffers and re- peaters; Louisiana can supply a model Re- turning Board and a form for forged registra- tion certificates ; ex-Attorney General Will- iams can receive reports of outrages and in- timidation; and that remarkable patriot, McArdle, of Vicksburg, will, no doubt, hasten to Liberia to head a white man’s party and es- tablish a color line in politics, It is possible that by next year the New York city debt will be so great that we can spare Comptrolier Green to become General Political Manager of the African Continent. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. More Tweed suits. Isn’c that a rather warm material for this weather? P Rev. Dr. Hubard, of Norfolk, Va., is sojourning at the Metropolitan Hotel Sir Samuel Hayés, of England, has taken up his residence at the Gisey House, Mr. Hector Cameron, Q. C., of Toronto, 1s regis- tered at the Hotel Brunswick, Rev. W. Mitchetl, of Montreal, 1s among the late arrivais at the St. James Hotel. Mr. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, has ag rived at the Fiith Avenue Hotel, Congressman ‘homas ©. Platt, of Owego, N. Y., 1s Staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Major James I, McGinness, United States Army, is quartered at the Westminster Hotel. General James 5. Negiey, of Pittsourg, arrived last evening at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Lieutenant William W. Mead, United States Navy, is stopptug at the Albemarie Hotel, Mr. Francis Thomas, of Maryland, recently United States Minister to Peru, has apartments at the Everett House, One of Governor Tilden’s organs argues that If @ man is a rogue no lawyer should take up his case, Did the Governor always hold that doctrine? His Exceliency Governor J. F. Hartrantt and fainily arrived at the Minnequa House on yester- day afternoon, to spend some weeks. Does Governor Tilden aeciine to act on Mayor Wickham’s removals because he suspects the charges agalnst the doomed ofiicials may be of @ “sham?! churacter? Senator Sherman is talking honest money, and | he says that Senator Morton will, when he getson We beiteve this 1s Morton's —Boston Herald. Colonel RK. Aiston, of the Atlanta Herald, guest of Hon. H, G. Nastman, of Poughkeepsie, was serenaded Jast night and made aspeecn in the interest ofihe South and the general outlook. If Mayor Wickham was tndiscreet enough to “give himself away” to Governor Tilden, as ex- Congressman Morrissey alleges he did, it ts only the old story of the 1ox and the goose—and tho fox won, as usual. It was observed by Byron that “Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; but he has not @ monopoly, for it seems the elephant is alittle reasonabie too, and finds m South Africa a fruit of Which he ts very ond, on whici ne gets “nowl- ” Who is the Tammany boss now? Is it Tiiden or Green, or Morrissey or Kelly, or Wickham or who? This is @ greater puzzie than the one that troubled the sma!i boy when he couidn’t make up his mind whether chickens came out ol eggs or eggs out of chickens. A Tammany ts in great want of.a leader just now; and some youth to jortuue and to fame unknown, but with plenty of impudence and an aspiration to ve great, has a fine fleid before him in stepping up and taking charge of that establishment. What's the boy’s name? Js it true that Wickham, in his simplicity, pro- posed to Governor Tilden to turn out Comptroller Groen on sham charges? If 80, is not this the key to tne Governor's refusal to turn out any- body? How was he to know that all the Mayor's charges were not of a similar character ? If Tiiden doesn’t quit talking about what a nice thing a demvcratic victory in Ohto would be, somebody else will be President, thinks the hard- money repuplican of Springfeld, Sammy, talk just as much as you lease; Somevody cise will be President either way.—Afllwaukee Sentinel, There is a manin Paris, named Ducasset, who saw the head of Moreau, the murderer, when ts fell from the knife of the guillotine into the basket. He has seen it ever since—some- times falling, sometimes going up, Lately several other heads have joined tt. They bounce against one another all around him, ana come plump into his face, and feel cold and disagree- able. He has been taken into custody, and deprived of his liquor. ‘The marriage 01 Dr. Livingstone’s danghter, at Hamilton, Scotiand, to Mr, Alexander L. Bruce, one of the partners of @ well known Edinburgh firm (Messrs. William Younger & Co.), on the 2sth of July, Was an event in the fashionable world, The bride received presents from nearly ail parts of the glone. The venerable Dr. Moffatt, the African missionary, performed the ceremony, and the little town of Hamilton had on tte bess holiday attire, It-was in the neignboring mitls of Blantyre, the weaver boy Livingstone learned lus the stump in Ohio. honest money able to confer upon untold and eager African Latin deciensions, while working at the loom,