The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1875, Page 4

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Tae Mencantiz Serrrine Br, introduced | in Parliament by Sir Charles Adderley to ap- | pease the public outcry raised by Mr. Dis- raeli’s abandonment of the Plimsoll measure, | has passed the House of Lords. The law | will give the government almost despotic power and is a great triumph gained by Mr. Plimsoll and his friends in the cause of humanity. Tue Brack Hu1s.—Our interesting letter from the Black Hills shows how even the lights of science cannot resist the ‘Auri | sacra fames.” The work of the expedition is being pushed on so slowly that considerable discontent is felt. Mr. Jenney seems more occupied with personal inte s than with | the carrying out of his instructions. Under these circumstances it might be well for the | suthorities at Washington to give this gen- tieman a hint that he was sent out to work, and not to amuse himself or to prospect for | his own advantage. Hans Canistiuan Anpersen.—Sorrowing | thousands yesterday followed to his last rest- | ing place Hans Christian Andersen, the won- der-story teller of the North. Not alone | did the powerful and the great of his own | Jand gather around his grave to do honor to | his genius and his worth, but from distant | Jands came loving hearts, bearing crowns and flowers to deck the bier of one whose pure Jife, reflected in his works, did honor to lit- erature and humanity. It is to the sweet- ness and purity of his life, as much as to the genius that shone through his writings, that the love and reverence with which he is re- gerded are due, and it is pleasing to note that these virtuous qualities, even in this age, secure for their possessor honor and im- perishable renown. Law or Nartons.—The annual meeting of | months of reform of $2,250,000. This is ao | bly inefficient, jas much of true NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT. wovernor Tilden on Cana: Reform. Governor Tilden’s speech at Buffalo was made at an opportune moment. The pre- liminary report of the Commission to inves- tigate the frauds upon the canals had just been made public. Some of the suits for restitution, based upon that report, had been instituted a day or two previously, The evi- dence adduced before the Commission, it was said, inculpated many prominent officials of both political parties. All that was needed to give new life and renewed vigor to Gov- ernor Tilden’s policy of canal reform was a word from the Governor himself. If this word was uttered fitly and bravely and at the moment it was demanded for the public good there could be no doubt it would bring fresh consternation to the Canal Ring and make a reform victory certain. With the skill and tact for which he is noted he has said at the fittest time and place exactly what it was best should be said, and he is to be congratulated upon an effort that savors statesmanship as it evinces a desire for pure administration. sustained in it by the people without regard public wealth will be brought to punishment | | long before the close of Governor Tilden’s | This is no party question. | term of office. The Canal Ring is composed of both demo- erats and republicans, and both democrats members to justice. The public interest is to be placed above all mere partisanship. In his Message to the Legislature last winter and in his speech at Buffalo on Tuesday Goy- ernor Tilden took the high ground fit to be taken by the Chief Magistrate of the Empire State, and all that is necessary to complete the noble work he has undertaken is that he shall be sustained by the people in the way he suggests. It will not do to pile ring upon ring. ‘When bad men combine,” the Goy- ernor says, ‘good men should unite,” and then he pertinently asks, Is it any satisfac- tion to a republican that aman who goes to | Albany to misrepresent his duties and the | public interests is called a republican, or to a democrat that he is called a democrat? In this there is a whole volume of political wis- | dom, and if it is pondered and acted upon by the people the result will be a new era of | official purity. The canals of the State, and especially the great water way from the lakes to the metrop- olis, are of the greatest importance to the people, Cheap transportation is the problem of the age and the country. The question is one of great interest to this city; for whatever impedes or obstructs transportation isa detri- | ment to the metropolis as well as a burden | upon the taxpayers. Indeed, it is to the Erie Canal that New York city owes its supremacy, and we owe even our railway system to the ne- cessity of competition with the great work De Witt Clintom bequeathed tous, Of late years | the canals have been in a measure inopera- tive, and as a consequence even our commer- cial supremacy is threatened. A combina- tion of leeches has fastened itself upon the public works, and its members have been fattening upon public plunder. This result, so disastrous to our commercial and indus- trial interests, has been one of growth, | and so strong was the power of the Canal | Ring that many of our best citizens despaired | of the possibility of breaking it. The Ring itself had hopes that it would be able to overthrow the Governor and all the elements | of reform. In the beginning it was defiant, and changing its policy it subsequently | sought to save itself by the subtlety of its machinations. In other words, a corrupt clique is endeavoring to triumph by the elec- tion of corrupt men to the Legislature. This is the evil at present to be feared and the | one to be guarded against by the people. There never was a time when the duty of | electing honest and capable men to the State | Senate and Assembly was so imperative as it | isnow. The last Legislature failed signally | to perform the duties imposed upon it by the | amended constitution. Instead of consider- ing and maturing the general laws made necessary by constitutional provision the tinte of the session was spent in the | passage of special acts expressly prohibited by that instrument. No sense of the restricted power of the Legislature had If the Governor persists in his policy and is | to party, as he ought to be, the thieves who | prey upon the public works and devour the | and republicans should unite in bringing its | easy to dislodge, and Governor*Filden would have failed, as his enemies pralicted, had not the press of the city and State sustained and supported him. The results already achieved are honorable alike to an inde- pendent Governor and an independent press. The Ring is broken. The malversations of corrupt contractors and their partnerswre likely to be punished. The tolls on the canals have been lowered while taxation is reduced, The standard of public and official morality has been elevated, and the public conscience quickened to demand better and purer administration, These are the fruits Governor Tilden claims as the first offerings of his reform policy, and he is entitled to much credit beeause his claim is so well sus- tained. We have already said that this question of canal reform is no mere partisan question. At the same time it appeals to parties with | as much force as toindividuals, Neither the democratic nor the republican State conven- tion can afford to pass the question by in silence. Both parties must have a canal plank in their platforms, and the declaration for canal reform must be no mere form of words. To be acceptable to the peo- ple it must be borne out by deeds. The party nominations, especially in the case of candidates for the Legisla- | ture, must be unimpeachable. The farce of | last winter, with legislators impeding the | policy of reform and playing into the hands of the enemies of the true interests of the people and the State, must not be repeated this year. The Canal Ring, like the Tweed Ring, must be completely crushed, and be- ing crushed it must not be possible for it | ever to exert its power for evil. Our canals | are too important to the interests of the city, | the State and, indeed, the whole country, to be tampered with and destroyed by any cor- rupt ring which seeks merely to enrich its members at the public expense, Moody and Sankey. The return of the now celebrated revival- ists, Messrs. Moody and Sankey, will, no doubt, be the occasion of an outburst of re- ligious enthusiasm as fervent and as general as that which swept over the British Isles in response to the efforts of the American apos- tles. In an age that prides itself on its intel- lect and that demands proofs and reasons for its faith, it is noteworthy that two men, with no other recommendation than their deep conviction and simple enthusiasm, should have given new life to the languishing churches of the British isles. The strides made by indifferentism among all sects of Christians in England during the past years aroused grave fears among thoughtful men that we were rapidly approaching a period of general unbelief, and it remained for two | unknown Americans to lift the British people out of that “Slough of Despond,” the spirit of indifference and unbelief. When we see the wonderful results accomplished by these two men of large faith we can understand how was accomplished the work of the early apostles—poor, lowly men, with but little of the world’s learning, but who spoke with “tongues of fire” and hearts burning with zeal in the cause of Christianity. In spite of the sneers of the English press at their earlier efforts and the coldness of even the ministers of religion, who were shocked at the democratic preaching and proceduro | of the men who spoke of salvation and the word of God without other authority than the spirit within which moved and inspired them, the two Americans gathered about them the people and called to repentance thou- sands whose hearts had never been touched by the colder and more formal appeals of the beneficed clergy. We give in another column a résumé of the good work accom- plished by Messrs. Moody and Sankey in | England, from which some idea may be formed of the great influence they have exer- cised over the religious thought of the British people. We hope that they will not cease from the labor of saving souls in which they have so successfully engaged. Here in their own country there is a wide scope for the exercise of that magnetic power which they have shown themselves to possess in | calling sinners to repentance and blazoning forth the words of salvation, The Powers of the Police. yet tome to the Albany statesmen.. Corrup- tion was the food upon which they had fed for so many years that all else was husks and stubble in their mouths. They were the | obstractionists of the Governor's canal policy | in the interest of those who were robbing the State and the people, and in the face of the | fact that the Canal Ring robberies were de- | stroying the commercial prosperity of this \ city and placing unbearable burdens upon | the people of the State. Under all the cir- | cumstances it required rare courage in the | Governor to expose the frauds of this com- | bination, comprising, as it does, some of the | leading members of his own party, and in following out his policy to its legitimate con- | sequences he shows not courage alone but a | strong faith in the people. Believing that a | new era of honesty has dawned he puts him- | self forward as the leader of reform. What- | ever may be his personal ambition his sup- posed Presidential aspirations are not to be | considered in a crisis like this, and we speak | these words in his praise simply because of | the good work he is accomplishing and seek- | ing to accomplish. It has been the policy of those who wish no harm to the Canal Ring to predict failure | to all Governor Tilden’s plans of reform. This course was initiated by Speaker McGuire in the Assembly last winter, and the predic- tion was taken up and repeated by all the adherents of the Ring. During the last few weeks failure has been announced as the fact, and reiterated all over the State. The | Governor’s speech is a conclusive answer to this cry. Notwithstan@ing the canal tolls have been lowered he shows an absolute sav- | ing in canal management during the first six The right of a police officer to cause the | arrest of a person dwelling in America and | deliver him up to the agent of a foreign Power is something startling. Does such a | right exist, and, if not, how comes it that | Superintendent Folk, of the Brooklyn police, took upon himself to surrender the English- man, Neeves, without authority from a magis- trate? This intelligent specimen of the American policeman did not even inquire whether the English detective had brought with him extradition papers. He supposed he had, and on this supposition Folk sent | his son to arrest Neeves, who was put on board a steamer and senf to England simply by the authority of Mr. Superin- tendent Folk. And this man has been on the police twenty-five years! He does not know whether or not he was authorized by law, and, evidently, did not care to find out. It may be that in the case of Neeves no great wrong was done, and that a thief was returned to the hands of jus- tice. But even if this can be shown it does ! not much alter Superintendent Folk’s fault. | It was not his business to administer the law, | and the safety of ‘the citizen imperatively | demands that no man shall be surrendered to a foreign Power without the authority of the proper courts. Policemen cannot be per- mitted to take such a grave responsibility upon themselves as to surrender without due authority even the greatest felon, After twenty-five years of police service Superin- tendent Folk ought to have known this, and that he did not proves that he ts unfitted for the responsible post he occupies. After the evidence he has given we no longer wonder that the police under his control are misera- There can be no doubt that #he Association for the Reform and Codifica- | proud boast for his administration and one | it would be to the advantage of Brooklyn to tion of International Law meets at The Hague in September. resented by several distinguished lawyer While the aims of this association are admi pble we fear they are also slightly Utopian. It would, no doubt, bea great blessing to ‘abolish war, ‘maokes us doubt that the instinct of the pow- ‘erful to rule oyex the weak will be ever erad- ainws that will be appreciated by the people, for | enormous amount. Under previous rule all | this and more went into the pockets of contractors, speculators and politicians. The Lords and Beldens - and Denisons put the experience of humanity might os well have owned our public | humanity. works, so completely were the canals under their managementand control. This Ring, so shh LOMA aroma ib, Wink Aol fry what a change of Police Superintendent America will be rep- | they feel its truth in taxes remitted to an | would accomplish. | Noran has made a statement to explain | that “big fee” which excited so much envy in the minds of all the lobbying portion of It seems that its volume was unexpectedly swelled by a great increase | in the nusaber of immigrants. Astonished A Xialan | Evening Press Enterprise. We print in another column an article from the Evening Telegram, which will be in- teresting as marking a step in the progress of afternoon journalism. Tho Telegram an- nounces that it has made arrangements to print daily, at noon, a cable despatch giving the exact report of the money markets and the state of trade in London at the close of the market. The differenve of time between London and New York enab’as the Telegram to print such adespatch at neon. When it is noon in New York it is nearly five o'clock in the afternoon in London. This is a new feature in afternoon journaliam, and that must necessarily belong to the afternoon press. The especial function of that branch of journalism is to keep the people through the day informed of the events that may occur from hour to hour. In a business point of view this will be a great advantage. Complaints have at times been made of errors creeping into the daily reports sent around to bankers and brokers by news companies and telegraph agents. It is feared, too, that these reports have been changed for purpose by malicious speculators with intent to deceive the public. ‘The Telegram quotations,” however, will always be a check upon the general commercial news’ despatches. If the merchant doubts whether the despatch which he receives in the ordinary course of his business from London is correct he can verify it by looking into the Telegram. By this means what it costs the merchants who subscribe to the news agencies large fees is furnished for two cents, and gives, as our con- temporary well remarks, ‘“‘every merchant and broker a trustworthy authority by which to verify the prices of shares and values.” We note this step in the progress of the even- ing journalism of the country, because any- thing which tends to strengthen our great calling and to make the newspaper, whether morning or evening, a necessity to business life, is an evidence of national advancement. Our contemporary also publishes an affidavit from its business manager, to the effect that during the month of June it published fifty- five thousand fiye hundred and fifty copies, being an average of over twenty-one thousand copies a day, and that this business was prac- tically continued during July. These are the warm, dull months of the year, and a circula- tion of this kind in an afternoon paper is worthy of note, and is, we presume, the largest that has yet been attained by any evening journal in the country. Rochefort and Cassagnac. We publish to-day the correspondence which passed between Messrs. Rochefort and Cassagnac in reference to their intended duel. It will be seen that the rival cham- pions were very fierce in words. Like the Chinese soldiers we hear about, who advance to battle shaking their shields and grimacing horribly at their enemies in order to inspire terror, the two duellists were more terrible in aspect than dangerous in action. In fact, all their ferocity was in their grimacing, and when that was exhausted there was nothing left. Tho picture of Rochefort holding a rifled pistol at close quarters is certainly awe- inspiring. The muzzle of a_ pistol at five yards from a man’s stomach is enough to cause the boldest an unpleasant sensation, and the fact that Rochefort insisted that the pistol should be rifled displayed a blood- thirstiness quite disgusting to a French duel- list pur sang. Evidently the Communist leader must have learned something of our Western customs while crossing the conti- nent He learned how real republicans settled their littlé differences with bowie knife and revolver, and was resolved to put an end to the farcical humbug which passes for mortal combat at Paris. In selecting Paul de Cassagnac to experiment upon he showed admirable judgment. If any two men were to be killed no two could better be spared than Rochefort and Cas- sagnac, It is to be regretted that the natural dislike of the French seconds to a real fight should have prevented the proposed duel. | Imagine what a benefit Rochefort intended to confer on Europe by removing himself from this world. ‘This act alone would have | entitled him to the grateful remembrance of the whole world; but in taking with him Cassagnac he would have rendered a service that only the gods could repay. We cannot recommend the correspondence between the | gentlemen as a model of taste, It has more | the character of an epistolary squabble be- tween fishwomen than the invitation to com- bat of men really resolved on fighting to the bitter end. It is a good example of the liter- ature of the slums. “" Telegraphic. Whether the Western Union, the Atlantic and Pacific and the Franklin telegraph lines are to be united under one management re- mains to be seen. Mr, Orton tells a Heranp reporter that he is not buying other lines just now, nor can he tell whether Mr. Jay Gould owns a large number of shares in Western Union, but he knows that Mr. Van- derbilt does. So faras this goes it is satis- factory to the public, whose interest in the telegraph lines lies in having them controlled by substantial capitalists like Commodore Vanderbilt and capable business managers like Mr. Orton, rather than by wild and mischievous speculators like Mr. Gould. As to the new company, composed of California capitalists, who propose, it is reported,.to build seventy-five thousand miles of lime—or words to that effect, as they sayin army court-martials—the seven men who are men- tioned as incorporators are actually existing Californians, about whose wealth, enter- prise, audacity and capacity to carry through what they begin there is no doubt in the world. Who knows whether they may not want to buy the Atlantic and Pacific line? It would set them up in business without delay. The public interest is to have cheap and abundant telegraphic facilities. Hence, for the public, the more lines the better. ‘The telegraph business is in effect a business of | writing a great number of short letters for the public,” says Mr. Orton; and, as usual with him, he hits the nail exactly on the head. Indeed, he hardly needed Mr. Simon- ton’s energetic approval of his explanation to the Henaup reporter. What he said was clear and conclusive. Tho question is, how to cheapen the writing of these short letters, | Roving fen ox twelve xomnm Mr, Qxton, matt marks, the telegraph service in the United States has been improved in efficiency, and “‘the rates have been reduced one-half.” That is excellent. It shows what a capable managerlike Mr. Orton can do. He has con- trived ways’ by which the writing of numer- ous short [etters for the public has been cheapened one-half, All we ask is tlint he shall not stop. The limit of cheapness has not been reached; at least, there is no reason to .believe that it has, The cheaper the rates the more people will use the wires, There.are still people in this country who turn pale-when they receive a telegraphic message, It\appears to them a portent of misfortune. ya dire emer- gency could induce then t» use the wires. In great cities, of course, fhere\is a numerous force of short letter writers: for the public; but if you go toa country station probably you find the operator asleep or gane fishing. He has but a small clientage. Mr. Orton really wants more customers, and:he is able to get them, He will not have to offer a chromo to every man who will senda tem line message by the Western Union line. His ingenuity is far above such devices, and if he can only keep Mr. Vanderbilt. in and Mr. Gould out, and give the whole of his mind to still further popularizing the tele- graph, we do not at all despair of his early and satisfactory success. One thing is pretty certain, if Mr. Orton does not sueceéd the postal telegraph looms up in the future. Shamefal Attack on a Statesman. We have been sorry to notice in the World some injurious remarks about that eminent democratic statesman, Mr. Morrissey. Our contemporary accuses him of nothing less. than blabbing. It speaks of him as it might of some garrulous grandmother or maiden aunt. We do not like to see such attacks upon @ man who has, for at least ten years past, shown that he knows admirably how to hold his tongue; whose former profession of prize fighter must have given him a thorough control of his temper, and whose course in Congress proved that he well knew that “silence is golden.” We believe the | World wrongs Mr. Morrissey. He does not blab.. A blabber is one who cannot contain secrets; who exudes private information from a natural incapacity to retain it. Now, our belief is that Morrissey is no such man as that. If he talks it is because either he wants to talk or because some one who controls him tells him to talk. In the present case it would be absurd to say that John talked deliberately and of his own will and motion. He is not in his dotage. Statesmen have blundered before now in that direction ; Gladstone, for instance, has sometimes acted as a bull in a political china shop. But Mor- rissey would rightly say that Mr. Gladstone was in bad form when he did so. No; if | John talks it is because the astute Green tells him to talk. ‘That is the secret of it. Green | is engaged in setting the New York democ- racy by the ears. Morrissey is his ally, and Green shows his shrewdness in using Mor- rissey. There is no doubt that his conversa- tion, his blabbing, as the World calls it, is. annoying and damaging to the people con- cerned. When Morrissey has half an hour with a reporter Green must feel as a general does who has just dropped a ten-inch shell into his enemy’s camp. But there is a cheap and ready remedy for this. Morrissey does not invent. The imag- inative faculty is not his. Now, if his conver- sations, his revelations, really annoy those who are the subject of them, they can easily put a stop to the annoyance. Let them cease to pour their confidences into John’s ears, It is not he who blabs, it is the others—the ‘politicians who go to advise with him, to air their griefs in his private room, to seek his | countenance and help. If they leave him | alone he will have nothing to say about | them, and that will be the end of their woes. But it is absurd to attack Morrissey and speak of him as though he was merely a gar- | rulous and leaky old gentleman. Tue Freer or New Yorx Yacuts made a — term seems to have been omitted by’ the Cum- berland county republicans, When we come to think of it, the Maine State Convent '0D Im June also forgot about a third term. But perhaps Mr. Blaine takes no interest 10 local politics. British Law. Justice Brett in refusing the applicatiort made by Colonel Baker to be tried by a special jury gave another proof of the imde- pendence and stern justice of the British law courts when dealing with persons charged with criminal offenees. Had the application made by Colonel Baker been granted it is probable he would have escaped merited punishment for the outrage he com- mitted against Miss Dickenson, ‘he Court, too, would have Inid itself open to the charge of having one law for the rich and another for the poor, a condition of things against which the British mind strongly ree yolts. Colonel Baker was well known as the intimate friend of the Prince o Wales, and, had it been posible to induce Justice Brett to wink at the transrferring of the trial to the Court o1 Queen’s Bench, it is: probable the master “would have been hushed up. But Justice Brett stood up for the Iaw and refused to allow any juggling with justice, Woe already know the result, Brought bes fore a jury of his countrymen—of the common people whom he despised—~ the gallant Colonel of the Tenth Hussars was found guilty of ‘indecent as- sault, and sent to jail like any other ruffian, There is in this stern and equal administra- tion of the law a lesson our own judges could study with advantage. Among us, notwith- standing our supposed democracy, the law somehow does not hold the rich and poor with equal grip. The poor rogue goes to State Prison, while the wealthy rascal too often goes free. Henzecovina.—The dangerous litth: wor spark which the Christian Herzegovanians have lighted refuses to be extinguished. So far the Turks have had the worst oft the struggle, and at least one Pacha has lost’ his tail. Ifthe neighboring Servians can bev re- strained from mixing themselves up in the row peace must soon be restored, for tihe Ottomans possess enough troops to crush the rebellion hopelessly as soon as thay wake up to the necessity for really active measures. Should it become necessary for the European Powers to interfere in all prob-- ability that ugly Eastern question will loom up again, and the result will, in al& probability, be such a war explosion as| Europe has not witnessed since the allies overthrew Napoleon. Sooner or later that( big fight is coming, and in all probabilityt Bismarck and his friends think that the present is just as favorable a moment to set-. tle the Eastern and Western questions as they are likely to find. It is in view of this dangerous inclination to war in Berlin that the trouble in such an out of the way place as Herzegovina becomes important to the rest of the world. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mayor E. ©. Anderson, of Savannah, is staying at the New York Hotel. Mr. Jay Cooke, of Philadelphia, is registered at the Brevoort House. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg arrived last evening at the Clarendon Hotel. Major Lachlon Forbes, of the British Army, is quar. tered at the Brevoort House, Judge R. D, Rice, of Maine, has taken up his rest- dence at the Fifth Avenuo Hotel. Mr. John B, Gough, of Worcester, Mass., is among the late arrivals at the Westminster Hotel. Senator William Pinckney Whyte, of Maryland, is ro- siding temporarily at the Windsor Hotel. Mr. Thomas Dickson, President of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, is at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Speaker Jeremiah McGuire arrived in this city yester- day from lis home at Elmira, and is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. James F. Joy, President of the Michigan Centrad Railroad Company, has apartments at the Windsor Hotel Colonel Dennis, of the Dominion Surveying Board, pretty run yesterday from the Bluffs to Newport. In the morning the weather was foggy, and even when it cleared enough to allow the fleet to get under way there was but little wind. Later on the breeze fresh- ened and a pleasant run to Newport was made, the Vesta being the first to cast an- chor, An interesting contest for the prizes offered may be expected. Mr, Wom Wersu is one of the great | merchants of Philadelphia, a gentleman who, aside from his wealth, is known everywhere | asa man of unbounded benevolence and of | the highest character. He was at the head of | the Indian Commission, and he has long taken an active and practical interest in improving | the condition of the Indians. His letter to Professor Marsh deals in a very direct and plain way with the mismanagement of Indian | affairs and tells some ugly tales about the Interior Department and Secretary Delano, | Indeed, it does not seem possible that after such positive statements as Mr. Welsh makes about Mr. Delano’s misconduct he can re- main in the Cabinet. He tried to sneer down Professor Marsh’s exposures as the writings of ‘a Mr. Marsh,” not caring ap- parently whether the country thought him an ignoramus, But he can hardly speak of this last exposure as made by ‘‘a Mr. Welsh.” The letter deals a blow at some other repu- tations as well as thatof Mr. Delano, Mr. Welsh evidently means to procure reform, He appears to have waited patiently for it for | some time, but will wait no longer. A Vorcy rrom Marmn.—If Mr. Plaine did not live in Maine a voice from that State might not be of much consequence, But under all the circumstances, and con- | sidering the rumored Chicago movement to persuade General Grant to accept a re- nomination on the ground of his opposition to inflation, and remembering that few im- portant things come to pass in Maine without the consent of Mr, Blaine, the action of the Cumberland county Republican Convention yesterday may have a certain importance, Resolutions were adopted, it seems, declar- ing that ‘President Grant deserves the thanks of the republican party and of the friends of a sound currency for the eminent ability and purity of his administration, and especially for his veto of the inflation bill of 1874, which saved the credit of the nation and rendered a return to specie payments possible !” ‘Tha cnakomary, xevolation agaias a. thixd will shortly visit Manitoba and inspect the works of the several parties on the Canada Pacific route. Mr. and Mrs, Sartoris arrived in this city yesterday, and, after transacting some private business, returned in the evening to their residence at Long Branch. Sir Edward Watkin, M. P., the representative of the English stockholders of the Railway Company, ar- rived from Liverpool in the steamship Abyssinia yester- day, and is at the Brevoort House. ‘There has been a Shakspeare quarto ‘find’ at Carlisle, in the shape of a volume containing six plays, issued during the lifetime of the poet, including the first edi- tion of “Troilus and Cressida,""—Athenorum. Among the passengers on the old Eagle steamship Gel- lert, which arrived at Hoboken on Tuesday night, was Baron Von Schloezer, the German Ambassador, He was met at the wharf by L. J. Stiasting, of Hoboken, who entertains him during his stay, They have just dissected an elephant in Philadelphia, and they found that his stomach was “a sac six feet in | length.” If some creature with a capacity to appreciate good cookery, such as Sam Ward has, possessed a gastric surface of that extent, what new revelations life would have for him, James M. Scovel, ex-President of the New Jersey Sonate, was the guest of Vice President Wilson at Con- gress Hall yesterday. The Vice President ardently urged a cordial reunion of all the republican elements for the campaign of ‘76. Mr. Wilson will speak at Brat- tleboro, Vt., on Wednesday next, Captain Belknap, United States Navy, whose deep sea soundings between the United States, Japan and China have but recently been finished, is now at Pensacola, where he was ordered for the benefit of his health, Ad@- yices received yesterday from there indicate that he is. in failing health, and it is feared his complaint will be- fatal. The French “Dramatic Cookery” gives this recipe:—~. “Flow to make a first walking gentloman—Take a hand~ some young fellow out of a dry goods shop. He must be very vain, Teach him always to thrust out his right arm 80 as to carry hig coat sleeve up to the elbow and te hold his shoulders yory square, Teach him that ities better to die than to cut his mustache, and thao the study of his part is beneath a man of genius. After sev eral years he will make an exceNent—insurance agent.” We announced the other day the disbandment of: his grand army of ninety troopers by the Prince of Lichton= stein, Some surprise is expressed at the existence of this sovereign prince, ag it was thought that Prussia had “mediatized” all these relics of old Germany, But Lichtenstein was left for a reasov, Prussia gave to every sovereign price whose military power was abe sorbed a rank in the German army in proportion to the number of his troops. Lichtenstein would have received the grade of sergeant, Kven in Berlin they thought, that too bad, and jeft him alone in his glory. They recently had « very droll discussion in the Freneh Academy in session on the dictionary, They were divided on the word republic, M. Mignet, M. de Broglie and M. Juies Favro were almost ready to coma to blows. In the midst of the storm a member arogy very calmly, and the Academy heard @ voice it has noger heard before, that of M, Ollivier, who has never yet pro. nounced his initiatory discourse, He proposed a defini tion that was unanimously accepted. It was as fol. lows:—‘Republic, a State in which the rulers are chosen by election, amd in which power le not bore, slisarx.??