The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1875, Page 6

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Isternationat Piczon Suoorme is now a divertissement in England, and a correspond- ent of the Heraup this morning tells how the American champion, Captain Bogardus, de- feated Samuel Shaw, his English rival, re- ently at Brompton. Tue Travr Prories, which England is working out, begins to attract attention even in Japan, and it will be seen from our reports from Tokio this morning that the Japanese are indisposed to become the en- | forced purchasers of English manufactures. Tae Drama is generally the vehicle by which national traditions appeal to human sympathy, and at this time no story con- nected with dramatic art can be more inter- esting than the ‘“Hermannschlacht” of the Germans. The interest felt in the victory of Arminius on account of the Hermann monn- ment festival near Detmold on Tuesday makes the subject a timely one, and many readors will find pleasure in its recital. Presrprnr Grant attended a Rhode Island elambake a few years ago, and he found the experiment so delightful that he repeated his experiences yesterday. The clam is a luscious bivalve, especially when the oyster is out of season, and the President was wise in partaking of this Rhode Island feast, for thereby he tickled his own palate and touched the heart of Little Rhody. Ir Is an Ixrenestrne Story which Mr. David J. Twohey tells this morning of"police morals and police practices, and though the facts he recites are only in keeping with much that was known before they show the necessity of reorganization, At best the police force, as at present organized, is care- Jess, inert and inactive, and these faults must be remedied at any cost. Tae Arras or Duncax, Suunman & Co. are now pretty well understood, and we have no doubt the proposition of Mr. William Butler Dancan, which we print this morn- ing, will be universally acceptable to the creditors. Itis in a spirit of fair dealing, and shows on earnest desire on the part of the firm to save their creditors from all annoyance and delay. If this offer is accepted the best interests of all are likely to be served, and we may predict as the rosult of such an arrangement the early re- sumption of business by the bouse of Duncan, Sherman & Co, : . the country would take pride. But they can- Prospects—Where Is the Mant if An ingenious and able contemporary, in speculating upon the prospects of the next Presidency, argues that the democratic party will, unless its majority in the House com- mit some unexpected blunder, elect the next | President. It contends, furthermore, that in the great political revolutions of the last half century an unknown man has been the suc- cessful candidate. Jackson, it says, was a new man, politically considered. The un- known James K. Polk was nominated against Van Buren, In 1852 Franklin Pierce, with a State fame, was nominated at Baltimore. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln, who was scarcely mentioned in public affairs antecedent to the Chicago Convention, was nominated as ‘the republican candidate. It argues, therefore, that, as we are upon the threshold of another great political revolution, the tendency of the | democrats will be to nominate some new unknown man, and thus repeat that lesson of history which was taught in the nomi- nation of Pierce, Polk and Lincoln. We do not accept the historical deduction of our contemporary as altogether sound. Andrew Jackson was by no means a new man when nominated to the Presidency. In fact, he was the most conspicuous American of his time, He was the hero of the battle of New Orleans and of other successful cam- paigns in the Southern States. His nomi- nation was a triumph of the popular belief in his honesty and courage over the am- bitions and intrigues of statesmen as able as Webster and Calhoun and Adams and Clay. The nominntion of Mr. Polk was a negative event and simply meant the defeat of Van Buren and Cass. The nomination of Pierce was the defeat of Cass and Buchanan. The nomination of Mr. Lincoln was the defeat of Seward. In all of these controversies there was a strong man either to be beaten or to be nominated. When weak and unknown men have been taken it has only been as the weapon to beat down some powerful an- tagonist whose ability or influence was dis- trusted. In the republican party we have only one man who can be honestly claimed to have a national reputation ag a candidate for the Presidency. That is Ulysses S. Grant. The republican party has been so thoroughly under the shadow of the administration that its rising statésmen have gone into a blight. | The influence of the White House has pre- vented any healthy growth among leading republicans. There is no leader outside of the President who can even pretend to a national ixfluence. Take Mr. Blaine, Mr. Conkling, Mr. Washburne, Mr. Morton, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Sherman or General Hayes. They have little more than local strength. They are known in theirown States. Beyond this they have the merest shadow of a follow- ing. Blaine and Wilson will be apt to de- stroy each other in New England, as Conkling and Morgan will destroy each other in New York, Hayes and Sher- man are antagonists in Ohio. Morton is so thoroughly overburdened with in- flation follies that he could not carry a single Eastern State. Not one of these men has any special strength in the South. There is a large negro vote, with- out which the republican party would have no existence in any Southern State. But these voters care more for a button on General Grant’s uniform than forall the other leaders of the republican party combined. This is to be attributed largely to the timidity of the republican leaders. There are many statesmen in that party who would make worthy Presidents, and in whose exaltation not expect to be man and dwarf at the same time, to stunt themselves with Presidential , patronage, to shiver and tremble under the shadows of the powerful discipline of the military organization at the White House, and to possess likewise the lusty vigor of free and independent statesmanship. Therefore, when we look at Conkling and Blaine and Morgan and Wilson and Morton and Sherman and Hayes, instead of seeing the true leaders of the party, men worthy to | and the Tammany Ring is master of many a this State. Two of the strongest points in his career are his war upon the Canal Ring and his destruction of the Tammany Ring. These victories will be weaknesses, because Tammany and the Canal Ring are strong in many ways. The Canal Ring is powerful enough to defy the Governor's investigation court and jury and will be felt in the elec- tions, The problem before the demoerats and re- publicans is, Who is the man? As for the republican nomination, we believe that it will be General Grant or some leader whose name is not now mentioned in connection with the Presidency. As for Governor Til- den, as matters look now, he will either be nominated by acclamation or he will be de- feated by some such combination as defeated Mr. Seward in 1860. So far as the Governor is concerned, our advice to him is to make hgste slowly. Sunday Excursion Perils. A correspondent calls our attention to the fact that the boat that leaves New York for Long Branch on Sunday morning raced down the Bay for a half hour with the steamer Northfield, that plies between the Battery and Staten Island. There was nothing to be gained in this race, as the boats were not go- ing to the same destination. They were excursion parties, and a minute or two one way or the other would have made no differ- ence. To gratify a reckless spirit both boats were put in peril and the comfort and lives of a large number of passengers were endan- gered. A contemporary pubMshes a letter from James Simonds, No, 417 West Forty- fourth street, who reports that he left Rock- away about sunset Sunday on a boat which carried three thousand passengers, the Will- NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, The Mayor's Opportunity. We read with delight that the members of the American team who are to arrive in New York will have a public reception. The great feature of this reception will be the speech to be delivered by Mayor Wickham. Those of our readers who have been disappointed be- cause the Mayor did not visit London and take his part in the great international ban- quet will learn from this speech what he might have done, had occasion served, in Guildhall. We believe we are not disclosing any secret when we say that this oration will be the Mayor's masterpiece. He has been studying it at his summer resort. His devo- tion to this great work prevented his signing the firemen's warrants. He feels that some- thing is due tothe reputation of the city for oratory. Carlyle has said that the two finest nations of the world, the American and Eng- lish, are quite going out in wind and tongue. Carlyle referred not to high oratory, Demosthenic in its character, but to the ordinary wayside gabble which we have on the sidewalks and in conventions. Wickham’s speech will be comprehensive, eloquent and worthy of the office which hq holds. Whether it will be planned on the orations of Demosthenes or Cicero we cannot say. Demosthenes is looked upon by the Mayor as the finest model for an orator, Some of his advisers, among them Colonel Tom Dunlap, have been urging him to model his speech upon Burke's charges against Hastings, Still others, and among them such men as Judge Dennis Quinn, have advised him to throw aside all ancient or foreign models and to give an oration in the style of Webster or Clay. It is the penalty of a man in the po- sition of Mayor Wickham, an orator of so much renown and wisdom, that he should be subject to this sort of advice. We trust that iam Cook. The boat was so densely crowded that one passenger fell overboard and was drowned. * This Sunday excursion business in New York has become a summer feature. Noth- ing is more grateful than for the people to leave their homes in the morning, spend a day on the Bay and return in the evening. But those who manage the excursion boats are animated only by a desire to make money. They care nothing about the com- fort of their passengers. If they can crowd three thousand people upon a boat built for a thousand they make more money, and that ends the matter. It is not long since one of our excursion boats was fined for overcrowd- ing, and we rejoice that the Secretary of the Treasury did not remit this penalty. There should be some discipline upon these vessels, or we shall have some terrible calamity that will startle the country. This story of the racing of the Long Branch and Staten Island boats is a painful one. There was no neces- sity for it and nothing to be gained by it. American Art at the Centennial. Very little that can be discovered is being done to make the American art department of the Centennial Exhibition worthily rep- resentative of the art of the country. Some few artists have been nominated here and thére to act as agents and collectors ; but this is not enough. Something must be done in an organized manner to awake in- terest in art circles, and this can be best accomplished by the organization of an art committee representing the great body of American artists. From Philadelphia, for such .a . committee, might be taken P. F. Rothermel, W. T. Richards, P. Moran, I. R. Lambdin, J. Hamilton, S. J. Ferris ; from Boston, Foxcroft Cole, George Inness, A. F. Bellows and William Hunt. Chicago might be represented by Leonard W. Volk and A. Healey. New York, as the great centre of art in this country, would give such men as E. F. Church, Edward Moran, Launt Thompson, Quincy Ward, Bierstadt, James Hart, R. S. Gifford, J. G. Brown, Eastman Johnson, Whittredge, Jervis Mce- Entee, McGrath and G. H. Story. Other gentlemen prominent in.art, whose names do not just now occur to us, might be added to this National Art Committee, and the result Would be a strong move- ment to bring out whatever is best in succeed the Websters and Calhouns and Clays of the past, we find a group of stunted growth, without strength or sub- stance, or worthy of national consideration. Consequently, whether we like it or not, General Grant is to-day the controlling mind of the republican party. It would be as mad to ignore this fact as it would be for a sailor to insist that the breeze was coming from the south when everybody kuew it blew directly from the northeast. This is the cardinal fact in the next campaign forthe Presidency. If republicans can find some obscure man, as unknown as Pierce or Polk, to overthrow Grant, then we shall have a canvass like that of Buchanan in 1857. But consider the re- sponsibility of overthrowing President Grant. The republican party is so controlled now that the Convention must nominate its next candidate for the Presidency in obe- dience to the Presidential will, or, in incur- ring his displeasure, rush upon disaster. President Grant can either make himself the republican candidate or name his preference. As to the democracy, we do not see that they are in a much better position. They have many promising candidates; more, per- haps, than the republicans. The party that contains Thurman and Hendricks and Sey- mour and Tilden and O’Conor and Black and Gaston and Bayard might select its can- didate as the boys play blindman’s buff and | be sure of a good President. Of these there is but one man looming up, and that is Governor Tilden. The next canvass will be, to use a sporting phrase, ‘Tilden | against the field” or “the field against Til- | den.” He is now the favorite, and he has all | the disadvantages of a favorite. Every point | in his record will be examined with micro- scopic minuteness from now until the time of the Convention, and, if he is nominated, from then to the election. whether Governor Tilden can control the New York vote is an important one. New York politicians would much rather have a Presi- dent in Washington who did not know the inside of their State, and who might be willing to take advice from this clique or the other, than o statesman who knows every city and county in the Commonwealth and who would make up his own mind as to the proper manner of administering federal gf- fairs, Therefore there is a danger that Gov- ernor Tiiden will not have the hearty sup- The question | American art for the Centennial. It would be the business of this committee to collect and arrange whatever works could be pro- cured from the studios and private galleries of the country. The works ought to include paintings by the earlier American artists, from Trumbull to the men of the present day. It would be of great interest to foreign visitors, and would do much to remove the impression that in their anxiety to promote the material development of the country Americans have neglected the cultivation of the high arts. Policemen’s Rights. It is evident that the captains of police in this city are a tame, spiritless and pitiful company—‘‘muddy mettled rascals, Who lack gall.” They must go to New Jersey to get some perception of the rights of police cap- tains. All these gallant captains—Willian®, Burden «nd so on—who have permitted a committee of the Legislature to extort from them the secrets of all their little games, and who have thus furnished the timber of which their scaffolds will perhaps be made, can see in the record of the Long Branch Chief of Police how greatly they have erred by an in- suflicient self-assertion. Some of the loose fish of Long Branch were brought before a justice there, and one was fined fifty dollars for keeping an improper house, Our city captains ean see at once the tendency of such an oc- currence. It would ruin the police every- where. If a justice may fine the people who keep improper houses what inducement can these people have to pay the policeman for keeping them out of court? None, of | course; and thus the police would lose the source of an important revenue, Their Pactolus would be dried up. But the Long Branch head policeman was a man of spirit, and roundly told the Judge he would not | have any such nonsense in his district; that i | the house was satisfactory to him, and so put | the case out of court, Here was a grand ex- | amplé if it had come in time, Only the end | is not yet seen, and there is a kind of Jersey | justice that seems disposed to know whence | this policeman ¢ d his authority, Tne Races ar Sanatoca yesterday were run undera fair sky and before a brilliant assemblage, There were three capital races, and, best of all, so far as the sport is con- | port of the leading men of his own party in | cerned, two of the favorites were beaten, he will be above the temptations of imitating even a Demosthenes or paraphrasing a-Web- ster. We want an oration that will live in history and that will be a monu- ment of his administration. ‘The subject is full of opportunities. Let him enlarge on that beautiful sentiment of bosom friendship which bound a Kelly to a Wickham, an O’Morrissey toa Hayes. Let him dwell in eloquent terms upon its beauty, its romance and its poetry. Let him show how he came into office as ‘no man’s man,” but only his own man—resolyed to be a master, not a slave. Let him tell us how he drove the stony-fisted, hard-headed children of Mullin- gar and Tipperary out of the possession of the best offices in the party and gave them to the curled darlings of the Manhattan Club. Let him explain how under his administra- tion these curled darlings can gain large in- comes and sinecure positions, while honest laboring men from Clare and Westmeath are compelled to tumble the granite blocks from morning until night at one dollar and sixty cents a day. Let him tell us about the great controversy with Comp- troller Green on the fireman question, On this alone he might speak for an hour, and might paint in glowing colors the embar- rassments and wants and sufferings of the honest firemen—their grocers’ bills unpaid, while he was studying Cicero and Demos- thenes by the fresh breezes of the sea. And so rising with his theme the Mayor might look into the future; he might paint the troubles that will surely come unless the royal descendants of the great Irish kings shall harmonize and give us steady govern- ment. He might appeal to the imagination of his hearers by painting the invasion of the Yankee Huns, the pouring in of the hordes of New England to occupy the places of an O'Brien and an O'Kelly, an O’Brennan and an O’Sweeny. Such an appeal from one whose lips never opened without golden words dropping from them might give us that peace for the lack of which the true de- mocracy is starving. By all means let the Mayor be worthy of this occasion. Let those who have business with the office give him comfort and peace until the time comes. Let him have repose. Let his great mind have restnow that he is slowly fashioning this work of his life into shape, so that when we come to report the welcome oration delivered by Wickham we shall say that the nineteenth centuryof the Christian era and the first cen- tury of American independence has pro- duced an oration worthy of Cicero or Demos- thenes, an oration worthy of the centennial period of our nationality. Cross and Crescent. If it be true, as reported, that the Bosnians are to any great extent in revolt, and if the whole people of the valley of the Save are up in arms, then the Turkish authorities cannot suppress the trouble without such acts on their part as will greatly excite the sympathy of the people of the neighboring countries for the insurgents, hnd Austria may find her- self implicated before she knows it. Chris- tianity is generally the pretext of govern- ments. If Christianity affords a good reason for interference with a power with which they wish to interfere they are ali vigorous and even furious Christians; but if they have reasons which incline ther to leave their neighbors alone Christianity appeals in vain. Thus Turkey might, for all the governments would care, butcher her in- surgent subjects into civility, unless the crisis in her affairs came at a moment when they thought themselves. able to benefit at her expense; and then they would compel her to ‘do justice,” or conquer the country and do justice themselves. But the people are less subject to political reason, and the populations of the two banks ot the Save, who are of the same race, but who are on one side in the Austrian Empire and on the other side in Turkey, will practi- cally be one against the Sultan’s soldiers, Every throat cut in Bosnia will turn out a gun in Slavonia, and deep excitement will spread through the Russian Church when “the story spreads that the Mohammedans are hunting the Christians in the border lands, Altogether it seems very likely that the Czar and the Austrian Emperor may yot feel them- selves called upon to propose their media- tion, and may peacefully loosen the hold of Constantinople on the mountaineers, If the subject should come up in that shape it will not be settled without Berlin, and if Prince Bismarck is still the same power the upshot will be that the Sultan will be driven beyond the crest of the Balkan. It will be a great card to this ‘enemy of the faith,” and one that he will use to the utmost, to be able to do for Christianity in the Danube Valley what au tne popes together have not been able to accomplish, Cheap Money in England. The despatch from London printed yester- day challenges the thoughtful consideration of Messrs. Pendleton, Kelley and Butler and their inflationist allies and disciples. That despatch repeats what we knew before, that money was a drug in the London market and the rate of discount merely nominal. The instructive part of the despatch, which purports to be the substance of an article in the London Times, is its description of the consequences of cheap money as felt by the weaker portion of the trading community. Instead of operating for their advantage and relief it prevents them from getting loans at all and renders failures inevitable. Such a result is in accordance with general experi- ence, When the rates paid for the use of money are very low its owners are notanxious to lend, and demand the most perfect secu- rity, whereas a high rate of interest tempts banks and capitalists to incur considerable risks, We have constantly witnessed the operation of this principle under our usury laws. The law of the State of New York which forfeited the principal when more than the legal rate of interest was taken has never prevented loans at a higher rate than seven per cent, ten or twelve per cent always tempting lenders to risk the total loss of their. money, principal and interest alike. Now, the class of people to whom the demagogice clamor for ‘‘more money” and ‘cheap money” is addressed are debtors of doubtful credit, or would-be bor- rowers who cannot furnish good security, and who fancy they could easily procure loans if the currency were more abundant and the rate of interest very low. The pres- ent staté of things in London should teach these deluded people a little sense. There isa great amount of currency lying idle in our banks. Nobody has any difficulty in precuring the loan of os much money as he needs if he offers sich goourity as the banks think it safe to accept. When the tate of interest is high lenders are willing to take some risk and are not so particular as to se- curity. But when, as happens in London at present, the rate of interest is exceedingly low, there is no temptation to run any risk, and it is impossible for persons of doubtful credit to procure loans at all. The instruc- tive London despatch which is the occasion of these remarks deserves to be pondered, by the American advocates of cheap money. Cheap money in London is instructive in another and more important point of view. It proves incontestably that low rates of dis- oo surprised at the left-handed compliments he pays to his nephew, Senator Thurman, or that he should consider himself an eligible candidate of the rag money democracy for the Presidency. Epwin Boorn.—Wo are pleased to learn that the accident which befell the eminent tragedian Edwin Booth on Monday was not so serious as the first reports led his friends to fear. Unless some unforeseen contingency should result from his injuries he will be restored to health in time to fill his engage- ‘ment at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, and we are rejoiced that the American stage is not to lose one of its brightest ornaments. In at deast three parts—Brutus, Richelieu and Hamlet—Mr. Booth, if not without rivals, is the leading actor on the modern stage, and he is just now in the meridian of his fame and his powers. Classic tragedy would suffer severely if deprived of his superb art. We trust many years may be still in store for him in which to delight his admirers with the ripest efforts of his genius. Tae Beer-Earers’ Quannet.—The repub- lican party in the State of New York is not very large, but it is large enough to quarrel. We read that there has been a meeting of the ‘anti-administration republicans,” who propose to forma new organization’ Upon looking into this movement we discover that the only point of difference between these mutineers and those who now control tha Custom House is that they are outside while © the others are inside. Since the time of the Garden of Eden there have always been the ins and the outs, and they have always fought. The hungry man on Wall street takes different views of political loyalty from the well fed clerk who sits within this great granite building and calmly contemplates his salary and the Collector and the third term from the window. If these republicans se- cede from the old organization, and are really serious in their withdrawal, they should put their dissatisfaction upon some definite basis, some principle. Unfortunately, the great mass of the party is content to crawl at the feet of the President in subjection and to show no sign of mutiny umless when the offices are changed and they are threatened with dismissal. Tuar Investiearron.—The head-money investigation still drags on its weary way. No one but Nolan evidently knows anything about the distribution of his “big fee,” and he, sphinx-like, refuses to speak, Now and then odd scraps of curious information come out, which, though they have no direct bear- ing on the case, are not without interest. It count have no necessary connection with the | amount of paper money in circulation. There has been no increase in the paper cir- culation of England since the passage of the Bank act in 1844, more than thirty years ago. The business transactions of England have quadrupled within that period, but the same amount of currency is not only found to be adequate, but money is sometimes such a drug that it can be borrowed at two per cent.+ Let our crazy inflationists attempt to digest this tough fact. Let them tell us, if they can, why the laws of trade should not operate in the same manner in Great Britain as in the United States. In great truth they are as invariable as the physical laws of nature, and it would be as absurd to expect water to run down hill in one country and up hill in another as to fancy that the principles of eur- rency and trade operate differently in differ- ent countries. The large part played by bank checks in modern payments and the settlement of bank balances by clearing houses dispense with a great amount of cur- rency. They enable England to transact her enormously increased business with the same amount of paper money which she possessed thirty years ago. And yet she has abundant money and cheap money beyond any other nation in the world. Grant on Pustic Dury.—General Grant has sent a beautiful order to somebody out West whose duty it is to collect the revenue | on whiskey. This order closes with these | words:—‘‘No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.” This is a beautiful sentiment. It means, of course, that no such consideration should stand in the way of a mere fellow whose duty it is to collect the whiskey tax; for what right has such a creature to have friends—at all events, to consider his friends before his duty? None. That is as clear as daylight. But then naturally it makes a lit- tle difference whether you are a president or a tax collector. In the eye of the law it does not, of course; we know that; but, then, pshaw! everybody knows it does. It always did. ‘That in the captain ’s but a choleric word, which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.” There is plain Shakespeare, for the fact that the same act is of. very different character if done by men of different station; and is not the President rather higher in station than a tax collector? Let no one, therefore, be so ill-bred as to suppose that this beautiful sen- timent has any reference to the President's friends, or that by ‘personal consideration” is meant his support of Delano in difficult circumstances. Tue Axsurprry or Treaty Srrpvnations with the Indians is well illustrated by the conflicting views of Red Dog and General Crook, as narrated in our letter from the Black Hills this morning, Sooner or later | the entire continent must yield to the de- mands of civilization, and it is usoless to make treaties which are only made to be broken, The Indians must be compelled to | accept the situation imposed upon them by the necessities of progtess, and a determined policy may as well be entered upon now as | at any other time, Governor ALLEN, or Onto, has been talk- ing toa Henarp correspondent, and it will be found that his views are among the spiciest political utterances of the day, He believes the financial question will be the issue of | the next Presidential election, and defines his positions upon it, past and present, without cireumlocution. When the nation was out of debt he believed in hard money, but since it possesses what Sam Wilkeson has called a national blessing he is in favor of a rag cur- rency. In other words, while the nation was able to pay he would be content with nothing but gold and silver, but now that it cannot pay he insists that printed promises xe better than money, will be difficult for the public to decide on the merits of the case, in view of the flat con- tradictions which various of the Commission- ers utter. But one thing is certain, that for an innocent seeming man Mr, Nolan has cov- ered up his tracks very well. Tux AssAssINATION or Pristpent Moreno, of Ecuador, has already been announced, and effects of the crime upon the fortunes of the Republic will be awaited with anxiety. We print this morning the views of Sefior Flores, the Minister of Ecuador at Washington, which throw much light upon the question, but inspire us with no bright hopes for the future. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Captain Stephens, of the Royal Engineers, British Army, is registered at the Brevoort House. Mr, William Govett Romaine, ©. B., of England, has taken up his residence at the Breyoort House. . United States District Attorney D. T. Corbin, of South Carolina, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Naval Constructor Robert W. Steele, United States Navy, is quartered at the Union Square Hotel. Over $3,000,000 have been subscribed in France for the benofit of the sufferers by the inundations, Professor Spencer F, Baird, of tha United States Fisheries Commission, 1s sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Captain Robert B. Hall and Captain Alexander M. Miller, of West Point, are residing at the St. James Hotel. Sefor Don Carlos Erenchun, Secretary of the Spanish Legation at Washington, arrived last evening at’ the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ‘ Evidently there is a sour apple tree up at Winnebago, Ill, and if Jef. Davis wants to know how it is himself he'll go to that agricultural fair, An editorial inquiry is made why a doctor who goes into the country should take with him “Bichat on Life and Death.” No reason can be given unless it is certified that the doctor is a great deal older than Bill Allen. “An heir to immense estates and connected with the English nobility.” Thatis the vein in which Robert Dale Owen’s mania runs, That's the man’s mind with- out theories—and it is very different from socialism. Hon, Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States, arrived at Rutland, Vi, from Saratoga this even- ing en route for Brattleboro, whore he is engaged to de- liver an address before the Vermont Veterans on Wednesday. Mallette and Manning were rival doctors in Texas. Manning now flourishes alone. He killed Mallette and absorbed his practice. First they fought with bowie knives and neither was killed. Then Mallette went gunning for Manning, and, instead of making a success- ful sport of it, he was shot himself. ‘This vendetta was fought out in the neighborhood of Serbin. Such are the amenities of the medical profession in Texas.—Chicago Tribune, The Institute of International Law, which holds ite sessions at the Hague on the 25th inst, proposes to consider the following subjects;—Private international law, procedure in international arbitration, examina- tion of the three rules of Washington, examination of the deciaration of Brussels upon the laws and usagom of war, private property at sea, under what conditions and how far the customary law of Europe is applica ble to Oriental nations, There are at progent forty- three members representing fifteen different national- ities, The United States are well represented by five Americans—Messrs, W. 1B, Lawrence, Dudley Field, E. Washburne, Wharton and Woolsey, An immense bank of pink coral has been dis- covered on the coast of Sicily, and 600 boats be- longing to the different guilds of coral fishers of Torre del Greco and Schiana, are squabbling over the bank and fighting naval battles with such | flerceness that the government has been compelled to | send the Explorator and another steamship of war to | compel the disputants to keep the peace, But their inter- vention is confined to the surface; they cannot prevent the divers from fighting under water, an amusoment im which they appear to indulge with inveterate animosity. Within twenty days eighty quintals of pink coral were fished up, #0 that ladies’ cars and necks may be gare ished with the much-cherished article at a less ruinous rate than heretofore, It was down in Georgia, There were three of them sitting lazily upon the platform, looking like cast-troth tobacco signs, “Dere's goin’ to be anoder 'publikim paper here purty soon, de fokes say,” said one, ‘An wo | all niggers got to subscribe, kase do ‘lection ts coming nigh unto hand,” said another. Seribe nothin’! said the third one, as he loosened up his cotton sus- | Ponder; “I’m done wid dis ‘publikin business, 1 im Didn't | hear de preacher readin’ de Bible ’bout da *publikins? Why, when do Lord Hisself was on de yearth dey used to set in de high places at do front gates of de towns an’ take up taxes an’ ‘sesamentg from de fokes. An’ now dese ’publikins doin’ de samo ting, don’t yer see? Now, dey don’t git no more ‘sossmonte After this weare not | outen dis uigzor fur po ‘lggtions, ‘saribins ap’ pasunt