The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD | * BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hxnatp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Youx | Henarp. | Letters and packages should be properly sealed, 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. Four cents per copy. } AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERAOON AND EVENING, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street.—PHE SPY, at 8 P. M.; closes a6 10.45 P.M. Matinee at 2 P.M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos. 585 and Oo7 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8P.M Mat- ines at 227. M. 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Crnrerntat.—Evidently the Philadelphia missionaries in France have awakened some enthusiasm for our great forthcoming show, and the indications are that the industries of Lyons and Paris will be well represented. Excnt Tuovsaxp Musonrry for an ultra- montane candidate in a district of the Ger- man Empire would seem to indicate that the elements of opposition to the stamping out policy are still of some consequence, Tue Emtoration inqurry.—This commis- sion sat again yesterday, and had before it Mr. Abram Wakeman and Me, Bernard Casserly. No more fight yas thrown upon | Nolan, and little of consequence tpon any- | thing else, Tuere Men were legally hanged yesterday | in the State of Tennessee, and one man was lynched. If they keep on purging the State | in that way they will hardly have enongh of | the thoroughly energetic element to send to the National Convention of either party, ‘There was also an execution in Virginia, at- tended with peculiar horrors, Ow tHe Racine Canawt,—By a report else- | where of Governor Tilden’s rhetorical ad- vance along the whole line of the enemy's works it will be seen that he means to fight it out on that line if it lasts from now till the day be is elected President or beaten on a fair count, His more particular demand | just now is that the people aball send honest | men to the Legislature, which is a very good demand indeed, and one that we have made | ourselves several times; but we doubt if the | | believe; and by that much it might be ar- 1837 and 1873. Some of the papers are reciting the history of the slow recovery of the country from the great panic of 1837 to show that we need not expect relief from the present depression in business for a good many years to come. ‘They point out that thé country did not, after 1837, return to general prosperity until 1843; and that meantime there was year after year a general and fond expectation that trade would revive, such as there is now. It is true that the crash of 1837 was brought on by inflation and paper money; all finan- sion of credit, leadingeto over-production in some branches of industry and yeneral spec- ulation. It might even be said that the | crash of 1873 was brought on by proportion- | ately greater speculation and over-produc- | tion than that of 1837, More of the country’s accumulated savings went by the board in 1873 than in 1837, in proportion to our wealth and population then and now, as we gued that, as our losses are greater, our re- covery may be expected to be even slower. But those who would argue thus would forget that we have now immense resources and means toward rapid recovery which were | not in existence in 1837-42. The means of | exchange have been since then wonderfully increased. Railroads, steamships, the tele- graph are now at hand to give us cheap and rapid transportation and facilities for the | exchange of products. Also the means for | the creation of valuable products have been immensely increased. Machinery of all kinds and agricultural implements and all kinds of labor saving inventions enable our population to produce more, to create a surplus more rapidly, and to replace waste and losses, therefore, much more quickly than in 1837. Moreover, we have had now for several Years fair crops of all kinds, which | have brought good prices. The truth is that | the country is not suffering any longer from | poverty. Some ofthe great industries are prostrated, mainly those of coal and iron ; but even the iron industry is slowly reviving, and it suffers to-day nearly as much from important changes in the nature of the de- mand as from lack of demafd. For instance, we have certainly stopped building railroads, | cial and industrial crises arise out of expan- | only where it is cheap and he can make it productive, Why should he venture his money in any other direction when he does not know whether his dollar will be worth ninety or fifty cents a year from now—-when he is imperatively assured by statesmen and | journalists that we may have anew war at | any time? But one thing is certain ; just as soon as we haye attained stability the coun- try is ready to go ahead. It has the means ; | it does not lack accumulated wealth, though | much of it has been swept away. Nor does | it lack the power of very rapidly producing more, The Lesson of North Carolina. The result of the recent election in North | Carolina, which is now claimed by the re- publicans by a very small majority, ought | not unduly to elate that party in other State They have been saved from a defeat, not by their party strength, but by the opposition of conservative democrats to the changes which were proposed in the constitution. The last Legislature, strongly democratic, contained a number of members who be- longed to the silly wing of their party—a wing which appears to be dangerously strong | in other States also, These people, some of whom had loud voices and others a talent for political intrigue and.wire pulling, gave their whole attention during the session to an effort to ‘fix things” for a constitutional convention. The sensible and moderate leaders of the party did not want a conven- tion called ; but, as usually happens in such cases, they did not resist the others, Thecon- vention was called, the people were unwill- ingly summoned to elect delegates, changes were proposed which were distasteful to a great many democrats and which would have turned out some democratic office- holders in almost every county in the State—for the democrats intended to break up the township government which the present constitution first established, and which has proved very acceptable—and the result is a democratic defeat. To count North Carolina as largely or cer- tainly republican, because that party has not lost. the present election, would evidently be imprudent; but there can be no doubt that the democrats have received a merited re- buke, and a blow from which they may not and this lessens very much the demand for iron. Butalso almost all our railroads now lay | down steel rails to replace their worn tracks, | and this is especially distressing to those rolling mills which produce only iron rails. | But in the main the country is no longer | stagnant. It is noticeable, for instance, shat | in the political campaign in Ohio, where | every conceivable argument is used by the | democrats to win the people to their side, it | is mainly in the iron and coal region that | they talk about the hard times. Why? Be- | cause the farmers are not suffering ; because | the various manufacturing interests of Ohio | are, in the main, prosperous ; because, for | instance, some of the agricultural implement | works which employ so much skilled labor in that State have more orders than they can fill ; because even the lumber trade is slowly reviving. The country is, on the whole, doing very well. What is needed is confidence—a | belief that what is will continue. Nobody who has money is willing to invest it in new enterprises. Capitalists are cautious; and they are right, for we have not come toa stable condition. Such enterprises as would give full employment to the great amount of capital which is lying idle, or is let out at low rates of interest all over the country, re- | quire time for their development. A prudent | man looks ahead and asks himself what will | be the condition of the country in two, in four, in six years, and he finds it impossible to decide. Here, for instance, is the Sonth. To believe the principal organs of the repub- lican party, the South is to-day planning an- other rebellion; it must be kept down by main force; conspiracies are hatching, and such republicans as Senator Boutwell and Senator Morton gravely assure the country on honor that affairs look very serious in- deed ; we may have bloodshed at any time. | Now, if this is true, every man who has got a hundred dollars in the country had better turn it into gold and lay it away in a stock- | ing, and a capitalist would be an idiot to in- | vest in anything except bread and butter and | asecond hand overcoat. Of course it is not,) true—it is all balderdash. But it alarms | capital, which is easily alarmed; and | this is one of the main causes why | trade languishes and new enterprises are put off from year to year. There are democratic | journals in the South and republican jour- | | | | nals in the North who combine their efforts | to keep up this state of alarin—thg pe by | silly threats and bravado, the other by care- fully copying every foolish article and mag- nifying its import. Meantime demagogues and self-seeking politicians use this to main- tain a policy toward the South which is in- Jnrious, which unsettles the people of that section and does a great deal to interrupt the systematic development and progress of in- dustry in that part of the country. ‘Then, again, here are the democrats in Ohio | demanding inflation; the democratic Gov- | ernor of Kentucky proposing to pay the bonds in greenbacks; democrats all over pro- posing all sorts of ridiculous paper money schemes. Of course they will not succeed. The country is honest; and he who appeals to American farmers and mechanics to cheat their creditors is pretty. sure of defeat. But, meantime, all this alarms capital. If it were probable that such people as Allen and Pen- dleton could succeed in 1876 gvery jaan who has # hundred dollars ahead would do weil | to buy gold at once and stick it behind the chimney; and a capitalist would be a fool to | engage in any enterprise whatever, whether | | of commerce; manufacturing or building. people will do it. a ™ sp7ATOGA Porrrics.—By our Saratoga letter | St will bn" een that gentlemen with missions | more fully employed; before trade can re- | gan team have done themm ives and their Before we can retarn to, prosperous times ; before the laborers of the country can be once | care all they think about up that way. Mr, | vive and industry go ahead freely, we must | ‘Tilden is regafn."4 48 9 man with a mission | have stability; and that we cannot have until | 4o improve polities! Cookery and work his | the South is at rest and content and the | way to the White House by the cultivation of | value of a dollar is fixed. Specie payments #10 culinary taste, If bd saveceds in im. | anda settlement of the Southern question recover by next year. The event ought to warn democrats in other States that they cannot afford to let the silly wing of their party rule. It will not do. If they want to succeed they must put forward men and measures deserving of success. The Ohio democrats have not been wiser than their brethren in North Carolina; and the sight of | Allen and Carey running on an inflation ticket, and in the names of Thomas H. | Benton and Thomas Jefferson screaming for more irredeemable paper money, make some republicans rash enough, already, to think of renominating General Grant. Belittling the Financial Issue. Judge Church and Mr. Fernando Wood, of this State, agree with Senators Thurman and Morton in declaring the financial question of minor consequence. But, next to the great question of honesty (upon which both par- ties will make equally loud professions), and after the question of the third term, it is really the most important of our political issues. Mr. Morton’s attempt to belittle it is not surprising, considering that he is a Pres- idential candidate with a very bad record on that subject. On that issue he could have no hope of a nomination, and General Grant or some other hard money republican would carry off the prize. The democrats depre- cate the financial issue rather for party than for personal reasons. It tends to division and disruption. Even Chief Judge Church has Thurmanized. He says he does not think the Ohio democratic platform is inflationist. “I. admit that the plank you allude to was unfortunately framed,” is his mild expression. He thinks it of great importance to the democracy at large and to their success in other States that they carry Ohio, and deems the unfortunate expressions in the platform of trivial conse- quence. Mr. Wood, withont affirming any- thing respecting the Ohio platform, says that the financial issue is of no importance— ‘mone whatever.” Further on in the inter- view he says, ‘I do not think it worthy of a thonght whether a hard or a soft, a yellow or a green, on financial questions is made Presi- dent.” Such declarations by prominent democrats cannot be understood otherwise than as confessions that the party is so fall of dissent on this great subject that it could not } work in harmony if the financial issue were prominent. What is to become of money, free trade and home rule” as | the great deitecmtia issues? Even Governog | | Tilden had not a word about tnis triad o: | principles or any one of them in his recent | speeches. Are they to be consigned to ‘the tomb of all the Capulets ?” Rervnn or tue Victors.—The members of the American team are now on their way home, When the good ship that bears them to this coast arrives they will be welcomed by the whole nation. The knights errant we sent forth come back crowned with lanrele, and the American name is greater and more honored because of the vitortes They havé won—peaceful vie- | tories, it is trae, but closely allied to war. The world has legened that busy Americans in the bustle and s{snggle of life have not lost the steadiness of ner,*, the quickness of” eye, which wero worth to™pur fathers the splendid heritage of freedom we” inherit. At a time when great nations in Euroye counted their battalions by the thousand aiMl placed their faith moro in riffes than in justice, truth or honesty, it was: well that some half dozen American freemen ,should have shown how citizens also can uses. gun when honor or country calls. The memb ers of the Ameri- country honor. It only now remains for their countrymen to mark then ‘ appreciation in a fitting manner, Pe SAR ESTAS Tox Trp Tenw.—In a conven ‘tion with ‘;uoving the public morals in Shis respect | can alone give us the certainty which will | a Hxnaxp correspondent at Sarate, % yeste™ and converting us from the depravity of some | start new enterprises and unlock the safes of | of our more popular dishes, this great fact | capitalists. There is no other road to re- and the little circumstance of his efforts | newed prosperity; there is no other way out | @ candidate egainst corruption will entitle him to an | of adry rot. The country is ready enough | ho would not accept the nomination everlasting fame, Mr. Morrissey appears as | to go, but it waits to see what lies in the fu- | were tendered him. Precisely, except, ® man with @ mission to be silent, which | ture, And it is right to wait. No prudent | haps, in case of the emergency to which shows how thoroughly he comprehends his | capitalist to-day can see anything but real | President referred in his letter followh 8 day Judge Pierrepont unequivoca lly de- polyp see ia ‘ an every year. It is a sticcessful speech, because lange if it | the only constitutional requirement in re- per- | gard to a Queen's speech is that there shall the | be nothing in it. But there is, in fact, one The Exhibition in Philadelphia, We print this morning an interesting letter from Philadelphia giving an account of the progress made thus far by the Centennial Commission, Our correspondent describes at length what has been done in completing the buildings. The main Exhibition Build- ing, which is longer than seven New York city blocks, or, to make the distance more clear, as long as from Twenty-third street to Thirtieth street, is two-thirds finished. This building is to cost one million six hundred thousand dollars, Although the contract does not require its completion before the 1st ‘of January we learn that it may be done within a few weeks. Another building, known as the Machinery Hall, which will be one of the most important features of the Exhibition, is so far advanced toward its completion that it will be ready next month. The Art Gallery, or Memorial Hall, is a per- manent edifice, built by the State of Penn- sylvania, and will costa million and a half dollars. It is of granite, and will be a great advantage to the city long after the Ex- hibition is over. The Horticultural Hall is also to be a permanent building, and will re- main as an ornament to Fairmount Park. We understand that a larger space will be given to flowers and fruits than has ever been attempted at any previous exhibition. Over thirty acres of the Park will be devoted to the flower show, and applications have been received from Belgium, France, England, Holland, Australia, Cuba, Mexico and Cali- fornia for the display of their plants, This bringing together the fruits and flowers of the world into one comprehensive part will undoubtedly furnish an interesting study, and we congratulate our friends in Philadelphia upon their action in this respect. The Agricultural Hall was only commenced on the 5th of July. Asanotable feature of this department, the importance of which in an American exhibition cannot be over- estimated, there will be a trial of mowing and reaping machines on some of the adjoin- ing farms. The United States government is» also building an edifice in which to exhibit its own resources. This will cover an acre and ahalf, A further building, called the Post Hospital, will be open and kept in con- stant service in the event of sickness or injury to any of the visitors to the Exhibition grounds. The British government have begun to erect two buildings for the use of their Commissioners. The Germans, Japan- ese, Norwegians, Swedes, Turks, the Egyp- tians and the Liberians have asked for space for representative national buildings. The Khédive will, it is believed, construct an Egyptian street in miniature. Liberia will build a Mohammedan mosque and a Christian “church in juxtaposition, The different States of the Union will also build special buildings for the use of their repre- sentatives, and plans have been already received from Ohio, New Jersey and Kansas; 4 Missouri, Massachusetts, Nevada and Indiana have also asked for space for the same pur- | pose. There is to be a Woman’s Pavilion for | the exhibition of woman’s work, anda Judges’ | Hall for the use of those who decide upon the premiums. The National Photographic Asso- ciation will display their photographs in special buildings, and many private parties will have buildings for their own business. There will be fountains, statues and various ornaments; a monument to Humboldt, by the Germans; a large fountain, by the Catholic Total Abstinence Society; a Jewish fountain; a monument, by the Presbyterians, to Witherspoon, and by the Italians to Co- lumbus, In the grounds there will be a double track dummy railroad, to run so as to enable the visitors to cover the long spaces | that are found so disastrous to international exhibitions. There are ten horse railways leading directly to the grounds, and six steam railways which have arranged to dis- charge their passengers at the gates. The prospects for a full representation, our correspondent informs us, are very good, especially from foreign countries. We regret to learn that as much interest is not shown by some of our American States as by Euro- pean nations. In the Machinery Hall we are surprised to learn that there are but thirty- five applications for space from manufactur- ers of silk, cotton, woollen, paper, twine and mixed fabrics. Unless we do better than this it is very certain that in the manufacture of these staples we shall be overshadowed by the more industrious and enterprising coun- tries of Europe—by Belgium, England, Swit- zerland and France. We have no representa- tion of the shipbuilding trade. Textile fab- rics threaten to make a poor show. As to the financial success of the Exhibition, the Board informed our correspondent that they have ag opereheng s,. Zhe pgonty report they meeting with moderate Biéééas in gather- ing subscriptions, but at the same time we think the country should take the Exhibition more seriously in hand, Thus far all that has been done has been the work of Pennsyl- yania, with occasionally a straggling help from the outside, The Centennial Exhibi- tion has gone beyond the control of a mere State. The honor of the country is identified with its success. Thus far wonders have been accomplished considering the limitations sur- rounding the gentlemen who have under- taken this work. A little effort on the part | of the other States, New England, New York | and the great Commonwealths of the West, and the Centennial Exhibition of Philadel- phia will be made a success not only wor- thy of the country, but going far toward strengthening the reputation of American in- dustry and American enterprise in foreign lands. PantrameNnt Pronocven.—The British Par- liament has secured its summer vacation, de- spite the many threatening appearances that clouded the sky o while ago, and the school- boys of the great debating society are already scampering wildly over the moors, or lying off Cowes in souwesters, or dipping them- selves into the sea anywhere on the French const. Her Majesty had no great things to say to them as they went away. European peace, East African slave trade, murder of Englishmen in China, colonies prosperous, new measure to preserve the peace in Ire- in it—a reference to Plimsoll’s victory; NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT: bill which, of all others, the Prime Minister wished a little while ago to scratch from the list, Spanish America. Between the fanaticisms of the extreme ultramontanes and the quarrels of the poli- ticians the populations of Spanish America have rather an uncomfortable time of it. The progress of liberal ideas has, however, been on the whole satisfactory, and were it not that immense masses of half caste and Indian inhabitants are sunk in absolute ignorance there might be some hope that out of the bloody struggles constantly occur- ring would come political and religious liberty. For ages the Church has been to the poor Indians a protector—not always a disinterested one, it is true, but still a pro- tector. In the earlier days of Spanish con- quest it threw round the native races the protection of religion, and lifted the oppressed and despised red man to an equality before God with his proud and haughty conquerer, In exchange for this protection the Church exacted from the neophytes implicit obe- dience, but in return gave them the promise of the future life where the slave of this world would sit in triumph among the legions of God’s chosen children, So long as the political interest of the State and of the Catholic Church remained one this powerful influence of the priesthood was an advantage to both; but with the war of in- dependence this union of interest was broken. Whatever may be the theoretical advantages of liberal government its practical useful- ness to people situated as were the mass of the populations of the Spanish American States at the outbreak of the war of inde- pendence is open to serious question. In making the spoliation of the South Ameri- can Church one of the cardinal points of their policy the liberals made a serious blun- der and prepared the way for the calamities that have since fallen on all the Spanish American republics, It was this spirit of hostility to the Catholic Church which rendered the stable ‘organization of govern- ment impossible. Had a different system been adopted this same Church might have | been made one of the most useful agencies in educating the mixed populations of the South American republics up to the standard of intelligent self-government. But the lib- erals, in their haste to secure ideal perfection of government, estranged the priesthood and that vast mass of the population who saw in the priest the agent of God and in the Church their best and truest protector. Political fanaticism aroused the sleeping de- mon of religious discord, and the result has been an unceasing warfare carried into every relation of life and watering innumerable battle-fields with the best blood of the | people, This introduction of religion into political questions has been an unmixed evil It has tended to make the Catholic | Church intensely reactionary, and so in- | flamed the minds of the more ignorant por- tion of the priesthood as to lead to the insti- gation by them of scenes such as lately dis- graced Salvador. The disorders of San | Miguel were happily arrested by the vigor- ous action of the government, and we learn | with satisfaction that the active participators in them have suffered the extreme penalty of death. It would seem, however, that the government did not feel itself strong enough to deal out the same stern justice to the priests implicated in the riots and massacres at San Miguel. This is very much to be re- gretted, and shows a sad lack of moral cour- age on the part of the government of Sal- vador. The execution of one priest would have had more deterrent effect than the shooting of the fifty catspaws who only did his bidding. It is evident that so long as | the clerical garb is permitted to shield evil | doers from punishment by the law outrages like that at San Miguel will continue to occur. Hazy Seas Over.—Captain Webb, the re- markable English swimmer, has failed in his | attempt to swim the English Channel from | Dover to Calais, and was compelled to give up by rough water when half way over. But | even Boyton in his india rubber apparatus failed in his first attempt to cross the Chan- | nel, and a similar mishap is, therefore, no | tried it again so probably will Webb. It may be remembered that this gallant sailor has already swam the distance of twenty thiles without leaving the water, both in the Thames and at sea. But the distance across the Channel is twenty-eight miles, and as it is the last ounce that overloads the camel, so this final bit of eight miles may make the feat too great L human endurance. as a lake it is not often so, and even when so | that they may know how much gold there | and induce the government to buy the cou.-* discredit to a naked swimmer, and as Boyton | Although the Channel is sometimes as smooth | revenue authorities to encourage rather than oppress the growing industry of cigarette king, The Interior Department. Our Washington correspondent sends us an interesting story to the effect that the Presi- dent has resolved to tender the appointment ot the portfolio of the Interior Department to the Hon. J. Russell Jones, who has for six years past been Minister to the Belgium Court. ‘The President, it is said, has offered this portfolio to Mr. Jones, and given him a carte blanche to investigate the Indian frauds and punish the contractors and thieving agents in the West, and he has selected Mr, Jones on account of that gentleman’s personal de- yotion to him. It is believed that he will make such a raid upon the Indian Ring as Bristow has made upon the Whiskey Ring. Mr. Jones is not widely known in the poli- ties of the country, having been absent for so many years. His appointment to the In- terior Department would not be surprising in a Cabinet which has contained men who, at the time of their selection, were as little known as Mr. Robeson, Mr. Borie, Judge Hoar and General Belknap. If Mr. Jones will only make sn¢h a war upon the thieves in the Indian country as Secretary Bristow is mak~ ing upon the thieves in the Whiskey Ring ho will, whether his nomination pleases th» politicians qr not, entitle himself to the grati~ tude of the country. Casz or Coxonkn Baxen.—Elswhere will be found a report of the case of Colonel Baker recently tried and sentenced in Enj- land for an indecent assault on @ lady in a railway carriage. This case, as an example of expeditiows justice in a slow country, is worthy of especial note. There are some things that it takes them a great while to doin, John Bull Jand; but when a lady, riding in. a railway car, has been grossly assaulted by @ person in the station of a gentleman, it is quickly enough seen that such a fact must be protested against with all the emphasis of the law! Nominally the sentence does not sound very heavy—a year in prison and a fine; but when we consider the man’s posi- tion and the social effect of this sentence we see the efforts of a life tumbled suddenly, into irretrievable ruin, and the heaviest sen- tence a court could give could therefore scarcely be worse than the effect of the sen- tence given. ° $ In THe Brack Huus.—Spotted Tail, as will be seen by our despatch, has called person~ ally upon the white men at Custer’s Gulch to take a look at them washing out gold, to see it with his own eyes. He seems very amiable | about it; but the red man never storms and scolds on these occasions. On the contrary, he smiles with pertinacity, but takes pains to keep a feather edge on his scalping knife. It is, therefore, not yet evident how mach sincerity there is in Spotted Tail’s asse~iou that he is glad to have the white men they try. It gives a frigid impression of the sta’+ of mind of the miners expelled from th» country to see them taking steps to protect | the claims they fancy they have established for utilization when the country shall be le~ gally open. Why does not some one organize a big joint stock company to purchase the district from the Indians, and pay, as they want the money, out of the proceeds of min- ing? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. George Sand gets forty cents a line in the Iedye de Deux Mondes. Professor Fairman Rogers, of Philadelphia, has arrived, at the Albemarle Hotel. 4 Mr. Joaquin Miller, of Orogon, is among the late arri- vals at Barnum’s Hotel. Gencral L. Pope Walker, of Alabama, is staying at | the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. William Stickney, of the Indian Commission, is stopping at the Grand Central Hotel. Mr. John H. Stewart, United States Consul.at Leipsic, is quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Solicitor Bluford Wilson, of the Treasury Department, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Alonzo M. Viti, Italian Consul at Philadelphia, isy | residing temporarily at the Hotel Brunswick. Prince Starenberg and Baron de Wordmer, of Austria, are stopping at the St. Lawrence Hall, Montreal, Barou F. Seilliére, of Paris, arrived in this city yester- day from San Francisco, and is at the Hotel Brunswick. | Mr. R. W. Scott, a member of the Privy Council of | the Dominion of Canada, is sojourning at the Everett | House. Colonel Thomas A. Scott, President of the Pennsylva- | nia Railroad Company, arrived at the Windsor Hotel | last evening from Philadelphia. | United States Consul J. H. Steinart, of Leipsic, Ger- many, returned to this city in the Neckar yesterday, | after being at his post for five years, | Secretary Bristow, who has been spending a few days | at Saratoga, returned to this city last evening and took. | up his residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Figaro reports that Mme, Judic has refused Mana- ger Grau’s offer of $40,000 for an American trip of nine it is doubtful if it ever remains in that months, and that she showed him she could earn as i iti i | much in the same time in Paris. ours, 01 oug! 1 over. Thus he will probably never succeed if smooth water is a necessary condition of success. ‘Tur GrocrapnicaL Exsrerrion my Panis. — By a special correspondence from Paris we | have a complete and most interesting account | of the assemblage and proceedings of the Ge- ographical’ Exhibition Congress which has just been closed in the Tuileries, The event | was worthy of the age in which we live. The | splendors of the ancient monarchies were re- called to the eyes of the people alongside of the trophies of the peaceful agencies by which the miseries and ruin, which were : produced by tho royalist barbarisms, have been gradually effaced The United, States of America represented the Genius of Peace | in a quiet and unostentatious, and, we may | hope, effective manner. Hampenma Inpusrry.—The refusal to nd- tobacco is a great blunder. For the sake of a few dollars duty the Internal Revenue Com- missioners are disposed to hamper o grow- mit the clippings of cigars as unmanufactured | hair down, becanse otherwise “it takes solong to dry,” it was tho enfant terrible who said triumphantly, “Yamma leaves all hers at the hotel.” Figaro writes severely against tho use of the cat om the backs of criminals in England, and Miss Alice S., of London, answers that this punishment 1s more merei- ful than the treatment of girls in. French boarding: schools, Tt was after the dinner and it was dull; the conversa, tion did not seem to start in the least. Then the Cynia said, “Will nobody go home that one may have a fine opportunity to tear him all to pieces as soon as he leaves ?”” It will be remembered that the Madrid government absolutely refused to Quecn Isabella permission to enter Spain, where she wishes to go for sea baths, Don Ca los has written to her that sho is welcome anywhere within his dominions. ‘ When Raoul Rigault was at the head of the Commu nistic Police Department im Paris an old friend came to | request the favor of the release from prison of a mam supposed to be a reactionary, “Lipossibio,”” said Rigault, “impossible. But I'd be happy to dv you any other favor; and if there’s any other man in Paria you want locked up you have only to name him.”” During the trial of the case of Father O'Keefe against Cardinal Cullen, in Dublin, in the course of the enoss examination of Cardinal Cullen, the plaintiff said the discipline varied in different dioceses; for instance, im the archdiocese of Cashel he would ke suspended if he took @ glass of whiskey before dinner, but in his own ing industey in this country. Cigar clippings | giccose he would not be suspended if he took five, are used in the manufacture of cigarettes, & | paron Dowse remarked that ho “might not be sus- branch of industry that has grown up in this | pended, but he would be prosirated.” The following advertisement appeared in the Irish land, &.—the commonplaces of any and | country since the immigration of Oubans be- gan. In refusing to admit the raw material out of which these cigarettes are chiefly made tically putting a fine on cigarette making in this country. We hope the Commissioners point. The value of the revenue derived the Internal Revenue Commissioners are prac- | will reconsider their determination on this | Times of July 2:—‘Matrimony.—-A mother, suffering from ® mortal disease and longing to see hor two daughters suitably married before she leaves this world, wishes to meet two gentlemen, respectable parentage; minimum income £100° age under forty, Girls are good humored, trained housekeepers, very handsoino (advertiser can guar antoe this), ages twenty-two and nineteen, eldest very sensible, youngest a little flighty, fortunes £300 each, from this source cannot be very great, and point concratulation pom the passage of that Enclose carte, & Address Y., 72, office of this policy, if not justice, ought to induce our | paper”