The New York Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD ‘ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PEQPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after Jarfuary 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henarp will be gent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per ‘month, free of postage, to subscribers. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ee LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. (PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be meceived and forwarded on the same terms ‘as in New York. stent sid ‘VOLUME XL eee soon == AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. FIPTH AVENUE TE ‘ ATRE, Mwenty-cighth street; near Broudway,—LIVING TOO FAST and A BUNCH OF BERKIES, at © P.M. Vokes CENTRAL P. THEODORE THOMAS’ CO. ARDEN. RT ars P.M, THIRD AVENUE THEATRE, rd avenue, between Thirtieth and Thirty-frst streets— RIETY, at 5 P.M. ROBINSON HALL, Wost Sixteenth street.—English Opera—LITSCHEN AND YRITSCHEN and CHILPERIO. at 3 P.M. L WOOD'S MUSEUM, corner of Thirtieth street.—THE BLACK 10:45 P.M. Matinee ag 2 Pestres, JAVENGER, at 5 P.M; closes at 2, M.—sl SLOCUM, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth avenue, corner Twenty-third streek—AROUND THE KLD IN ELGHTY DAYS, ats P.M. .{ closes at 11 P.M METROPOLITAN THEATRE, WNos. 585 and S87 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8'P. M. GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, [ste Barnum's Hippodrome GRAND POPULAR CON- ‘CERT, at 5 P.M. ; closes at 11 P.M. TIVOLI THEATRE, PEighth street.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M WITH S NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, SUPPLEMENT. 1875, ae ner z = THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. ‘To Newspgeatrns aND THE Pupiic:— The New York Henatp runs a special train every Sunday during the season between | New York, Niagara Falls, Saratoga, | George, Sharon and Richfield Springs, leav- ing New York at half-past two o'clock A. M., arriving at Saratoga at nine o'clock A. M., and Niagara Falls at a quarter to two P. M., for the purpose of supplying the Sunpay Henaxp along the line of the Hudson River, | New York Central and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern roads. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Henan office as early as possible. For further particulars see time table. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cooler, with local rains, and clearing up later. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Heraip mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wau. Srnzet Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was dull, with a declining tendency in several securities, Gold advanced from 113 1-8 to 113 5-8. * Mr. Moopy, as shown in our report, has returned to his home in Massachusetts, and will in a short time “evangelize” in Spring- field. Tar Brack His country would seem to | ‘be losing its reputation as an Eldorado, | under the influence of persistent inquiry | and investigation, as may be seen by our | ietter in another column. | Rarm Tzansit seems to have come to a halt on the division of opinion as to the powers of the Commissioners. Difficulties | enough are in the way at any time, but if this project gets into the legal Slough of Despond we may despair of seeing it in this generation. Tue Covrr or Cratms.—Attorney General Pierrepont is evidently in danger. Here he | is fighting the Court of Claims and the | Union Pacific Railroad at the same time on a | half million dollars which the former had | awarded to the latter. ‘It will be a matter ‘worthy of curious attention to note what the Supreme Court will do with this case, The Democratic Campaign in New York. The call for a State Convention, issued at Saratoga yesterday by the Democratic State Committee, has two noticeable features— namely, the invitation to the liberal republi- cans and the placing of the canvass on the re- form policy of Governor Tilden. The call is addressed to “the democratic and liberal republican electors of the State,” which shows that the democratic party does not think itself strong enough to dispense with the support of the liberal republicans. The call for three delegates from each Assembly district is dictated by the policy of courting the liberals, its purpose being to enable them to send one of the three delegates from districts where they have any | perceptible strength, The prominence accorded to Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer in Governor Tilden’s recent tour was in contemplation of the same policy of cultivat- ing the liberal republicans. Mr. Dorsheimer was the liberal representative on the demo- cratic ticket last year, and although he now classes himself as a democrat it was a good | stroke of party tactics to parade him through the State as a warm indorser of Governor | Tilden’s policy, The renewed courting of the liberal republicans is a consequence of the attempt of the regular republicans to win them back, in the hope of rescuing the State from the democrats by their aid. The appeal by both sides to so small a body of voters shows tliat neither party is very con- fident of success, The open democratic bid for the liberal vote will probably secure the support of the liberal newspaper in this city, but it is otherwise of little consequence. The democratic call is a very complete, though indirect, indorsement of Governor Tilden’s canal policy and implies a purpose It contains not the faintest allusion to ‘‘free trade” or ‘chard money” or ‘home rule,” the shibboleths of the last campaign, and stakes the whole prospects of the party on the suc- | cess of Governor Tilden’s crusade against the | Canal Ring. The Governor forced this issue by his recent tour and speeches. The demo- cratic party of the State cannot afford to quarrel with the democratic Governor, and, after dictating the form of the call, he will to make that the leading issue of the canvass. | former in canal management it is not a little strange that he failed to lend a helping hand toward the adoption of amendments which render extra payment to contractors impos- sible. A Governor Tilden was not the discoverer of the gross abuses which have so long prevailed in canal contracts nor the first to propose remedies, After prevention had been fixed in the State constitution, without assistance from him, he undertook, with laudable zeal, to expose the robberies of the past in detail and bring the thieves to justice—a truly valuable service so far as it goes, but not de- | serving to rank with the more quiet and un- ostentatious efforts which bore fruit in the amendment which makes the repetition of the same kind of frauds impossible. The great resource of the Canal: Ring has been the Legislaturag- After securing contracts by deceptive bids it has been their practice to | apply to the Legislature to have the work so altered as to allow a large use of the mate- rials which were put at twice or thrice their real value in the delusive bids, and such ap- plications were almost always successful. But when they failed the rascally contractors went to a subsequent Legislature asking for extra compensation, and contrived to get it smuggled through in an appropriation bill during the confusion and hurly-burly of the | last days of a session, The constitutional | amendment which we have cited frustrates such tactics for the future by a stringent prohibition to pay any contractor more money than he stipulated for in his bid. The temptation to delusive bids is removed, because the contractor is reduced to the alternative of doing the work at the stipu- lated price or throwing up his contract | altogether. But he cannot evade his con- tract at his mere pleasure. It requires the action of the Canal Board to release him, and they are allowed to cancel the contract | only when, ‘from any unforeseen cause,” the terms of the contract shall prova to be | unjust and oppressive. This shuts the door ‘and bolts it against relief from bids not metle in good faith, and holds the contrac- tors to strict performance except in cases in which hardship could not have been fore- seen. The amendment is a perfect guaran- | tee against canal contracts not meant to be fulfilled in strict accordance with their let- have no difficulty in controlling the action of | the Convention. It is already certain that | ter, and leaves Governor Tilden nothing to the platform will indorse and glorify his war | do in his réle of a reformer but to expose and on the Canal Ring and subordinate national | punish past swindlers, In a comparison issues to this local question. "In other words, | between the value of his services and the | Governor Tilden will be the platform of his | value of this amendment the people of the party, and the main question presented to | State can have but one opinion. It will not the citizens of the State will be the indorse- | always be the good fortune of the State to ment of his vigorous war on the Canal Ring. | have exceptional Governors, with a burning Such an issue has weak as well as strong | zeal against swindlers, like Mr. Tilden ; and points, and the voters of the State will weigh and consider both. The value of Governor Tilden's services | 48 a reformer will be amply discussed in | @ searching and perhaps a’ hostile spirit | during the canvass. His republican | opponents will gain nothing by impugn- | ing or disparaging his motives; for, al | though he is ambitious, his ambition takes \ a praiseworthy direction. There ig no more | defensible method of attempting to gain pub- lie confidence than by a bold championship | of official-honesty and purity. Governor Til- | den will pass unscathed through the as- | opponents will not succeed in shakingypub- | | saults on his motives, and the people of the | State cannot be misled into a depreciation of | to trace them to personal ambition. It were | to be wished that all aspiring politicians pursned their ends by equally legitimate paths. But there is another line of criticism which the Governor cannot expect to escape, and which detracts somewhat from the merit he assumes for his unrelenting war against the Canal Ring. It will be maintained, with perfect truth, that his crusade against the canal robbers is merely retrospective-; that its sole aim is punishment and restitution, and does nothing toward prevention and future security. The door was effectually shut against such frauds as he is exposing before he came into office, and without his | help or agency. All the cases presented in | the reports of his commission and upon which he has directed the Attorney General ; to commence prosecutions are cases in which contractors have received large amounts of money in excess of what was stipulated in their contracts, Of course the thieves ought to be punished and made to disgorge, but the amended State constitution affords com- plete security against the repetition of this kind of swindling. Governor Tilden is there- fore rathor playing the part of an avenger than of a reformer. Reform was secured before he began his vigorous attack on the Canal Ring. Among the amendments ratified by the | people in the last election, and which went into effect a day or two before his inaugura- tion, was one which cuts up by the roots the his services by the efforts of his adversaries | the constitutional amendment makes such | frands equally impossible, whether our | future Governors be men of strict or lax notions of integrity. Governor Tilden's fel- | low citizens will cheerfully award him the | praise of attempting to punish former rob- | bers, but they are too discriminating to | admit his claim as a reformer of abuses | | which were rendered impossible before he | went to Albany to take his oath of office. | In the approaching canvass Governor Til- | den’s record and pretensions will be the sta- | ple topic of discussion, and although his lic confidence in the excellence of his inten- tions or the justice of his pursuit of the canal thieves, they will have no difficulty in making it appear that he is only a gleaner in a field which was quietly reaped by the au- thors of the new amendments to the State constitution, to which there is no public evidence that he contributed even his good | wishes, and in ‘favor of which it is certain | that he never displayed any zeal. The Revolt on the Danube. / Turkey has an army of 140,000 men, with | plenty of artillery, available for service in her European dominions, and insurrection is a fact with which she is more accustomed in the world. Perhaps, therefore, the trouble that seems likely to spread through | the whole mountain region in the north- casion less concern to her than it must give | tosome of her neighbors, It is true that if | Servia actually votes to join and sustain the revolt now in progress the moral effect of such an act will be very great upon the whole Slavic population, and it may give the con- flict such proportions that an army of 140,000 will be unable to deal with it in a country of that nature ; for if the provinces make common canse they are the superior power. | 24,000 men; Servia, 132,000, and Roumania, 135,000, or a total for the three of 291,000 well equipped and supplied men | of all arms. But the contingency of | such a combination is as yet remote. So far | western extremity of her territory may oc- | | as appears it is a conflict not beyond the | Genenat Grant in Rhode Island is ap- | kind of abuses which he seeks to punish. parently eating baked clams and laying , That important and salutary amendment was Presidential pipe. As to the first occupation | in these words:—‘‘No extra compensation nobody seems to care, unless the clams may, | § ball be paid to any contractor ; but if, from Ottoman resources. But Austria and Ger- many and Russia are so much interested in the equilibrium of the ill-adjuste® forces of and as to the last curiosity isa little piqued by the fact that great pains is taken to keep the knowledge of, political conferences from the reporters. “Tur Coast or Banvanex.”—Once more our boys are in the old place, “sailing down | state ‘Treasury as Governor Tilden is making | Other Powers. ‘Therefore it seems difficult to | along the coast of Barbaree,” to stir up the semi-civilized authorities of Tripoli end teach them good manners. The people will | the value of his services relates only to the | her su be glad to know that there ise Power some- | past and belongs to the category of retribu- Dot put them down they must help her, | where against which the dignity of the colors can be sustained better than it is against | mate security for the future is more important ™ust require from her such a modification of | Spain. Tue Accipent to Tae Rovan Yacut.— Our special despatch gives the details of | ment, adopted without Mr. Tilden’s aid and lead to a repetition of the revolt, any unforeseen cause, the terms of any con- tract shall prove to be unjust and oppressive, the Canal Board may, upon the application of the contractor, cancel such contract.” This | | wise amendment gives complete security for 1¢ future against such robberies of the strentous and commendable exertions to punish. It is a complete demonstration that tion instead of reform. But in any just esti- than indemnity for the past. The existence of this important amend- | will remove the causes of irritation that may an accident in the Solent, by which the / previous to his inanguration, will be taken yacht Mistletoe was cut down and sent to | by the public as @ very considerable abate- the bottom by the Royal Yacht Alberta, with | ment from his lofty pretensions as a deliverer the Queen on board. It was a very lament- | of the State from the species of frauds he is able occurrence, but one that might have had | prosecuting in so demonstrative a way. The graver consequences. Some deaths and | preventive part of the work had been done gome severe injuries will be the result | before he came into office, and done, not among the persons on board the private | only without his aid, but against his sup- yacht; and these casualties, removed from | posed opposition. He was a member of the category of ordinary accidents by their | the first Legislature which acted on the new fartuitous connection with royalty, will | amendments, bet took no part in the discus- naturally excite a very deep sympathy for | sion and showed the utmost indifference to the sufferers; but a little further turn of | their success. It was understood last fall, | fortane’s wheel might have made what isa | when the amendments were submitted to the | private misfortune a national calamity. And | people, that Mr, Tilden did not desire their , this escape will make the occasion, in Eng- | adoption, and certain it is that the demo- | Jland, one of general congratulation. It is cratic organs most devoted to his interests | clear that there must have been very bad | did not advocate them. If he then expected | geamanshiy pomowhera | to bloom out as the most conspicuous re- - that part of the world that their concern | must necessarily be greater than that at | Constantinople. Each Power is interested in the preservation of the peace there, be- | cause peace is the only condition that cer- tainly prevents the aggrandizement of the see how they can avoid an early complication in the quarrel, whether Turkey puts down | bjects or fails to do so; for if she does { and if she does put them down then they | her dealings with her Christian subjects as | Tur Communtcation signed ‘Trenton” in another column makes several well-sus- tained allegations that seem to require the attention of the persons implicated. One is the charge of brutal indifference to the life of a passenger on the part of the captain of the steamer Bristol; another is the charge— which, unfortunately, never needs much support in this quarter—that the body was robbed while in. the hands of the police, and the third, that it was kept in the water ata time when obviously resuscitation was pos- | sible. Tue Croton is a subject of interest at this season, even to the least furious friends of temperance, and the report elsewhere given of the steps taken to increase t) be read with satisfaction by everybody, The Scramble for the Rag Baby. ‘The hard money men having resolved on a convention in @incinnati in October the greenback people have determined to be be- forehand and to meet in Detroit next week. They are wise in their generation. Now is the time for the discussion of the currency question ; and the hard money people would have done well to follow the advice given them by the Heraxp, to meet as soon as pos- sible, and before instead of after the Ohio election, But we are only too glad to see the question come up for earnest discussion at any early date and in any shape. It is ® question that must be settled; it can only be settled by convincing the mama of the people ; and that can be done only by thorough discussion at the hands of able and prominent men. The Detroit Inflation Convention is to be addressed by three public men of a good deal of prominence and more or less im- portance—Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, re- publican ; Senator Gordon, of Georgia, dem- ocrat, and ex-Senator Matt Carpenter, of Wisconsin, independent. We are sorry that General Butler is not also announced ; for it would be useful to get there and then a complete exposition of the wishes, the methods and plan of the inflationists. Hitherto they have done little more than ex- press a general desire for greater prosperity, in which the hard money men_ heartily join them. Both sides wish for better times, for a renewal of prosperity, a general revival of industry and an increase of commerce, General Butler's let- ter, besides expressing his sympathy with “Uncle Dick,” is mainly taken up with a statement of matters which he does not understand. Many people will say that it might easily have been made longer; and undoubtedly it does not exhaust the list of things which General Butler does not compre- hend, and which he would perhaps say, using the language of Lord Dundreary, “no fellow can understand.” Governor Allen, of Ohio, again, says hard money is a profane, barren ideality, which reminds one of John Pettit’s remark concerning the Declaration of Independence, that it was ‘‘merely a glit- tering generality.” What is wanted from the inflation people is a full, clear, concise statement of what they would like to do, how they would do it, and what they expect to accomplish by it Let them look their Rag Baby squarely in the face, describe it accurately, and tell us pre- cisely how the joints move, where the squeak comes in, and what we may expect to hap- pen when they toss it up. In other words, let them agree upon something definite, on which the whole body of inflationists, demo- cratic and republican, will stand, and to which they will pledge themselves. Mean- time the country will look on with a good deal of interest at the struggle between democrats and republicans for the possession of the famous Rag Baby. We suspect that those who finally get it will in a very short time be glad enough to drop it at somebody else's door. Spain. Carlism has fallen on evil days, and there is a good prospect that the struggle in the northern provinces will dwindle into an in- significant war of partisans. The peasants, who have so long and gallantly defended the cause of Don Carlos, must be heartily tired of a struggle which gives no hope of ter- minating except with their own destruction. Whatever hopes of success may have been entertained by the followers of Don Carlos during the disorganization that succeeded “the establishment of Castelar’s Republic and its fall must be rapidly dissipating before the reorganized force of liberal Spain. The momentary strength of Carlism was due to the feeling of hostility entertained by the army for the Republic, a feeling evoked by the unwise utterances of socialistic dreamers | and which threw the conservative ele- | to deal than any other regular government | ment among all classes of Spanish society into the arms of Don Carlos, With the return of Alfonso the chance of a Carlist success came to an end, because all classes of liberals preferred a schoolboy king to the re- turn of a ‘divine right” monarch, with its natural sequence—a clerical revenge, There is no longer any large class of citizens out- side the four northern provinces, which have ever been the home of Carlism, who desire the triumph of the Pretender, while none among the liberals but the least intelligent and most fanatic of even the socialist faction would accept an alliance with Don Carlos. : | If the Alfonsist commanders decide on push- Montenegro can put in the field | , ing a vigorous winter campaign in all proba- bility the Carlist bands will disperse. The Ice and the Rains. Recently arrived steamers report that the Atlantie is full of ice, and this explains the mystery of the incessant rains from which the Eastern seaboard and indeed the whole | country has been suffering for more weeks than it isa pleasant thing to think of. It is probable that there has been a mild winter and early spring in the Arctic regions. | This has caused open waters, which have | borne into the Atlantic an uncommon quan- tity of ice. This great mass of ice, drifting into lower latitudes, is rapidly melting ; and the vapors arising from it are drawn to the land and yield us the too abundant rain storms which have caused floods and more or less injury to crops. The land, gathering heat more rapidly than the ocean and giving it out dlso more freely, heats and rarifies the air upon it, and the vapors arising from the melting ice rush in to fill the vacuum thus constantly created by the summer heats. If this explanation is correct we may have a continuation of the rains for some time to come—until the masses of ice are melted, or until their remains drift further sqath. It is not a pleasant thing to think that the disagreeable weather of the last few weeks may continue for some weeks to come, But we may look for a charming autumn, and this will reward us for the sufferings of the most disagreeable summer of many years. Ix Monammen'’s Corrrs—That’s where Matsell and Disbecker are thought to be resting just now, while the Governor ex- | amines the charges made by the Mayor in regard to “street cleaning.” If the Governor had taken a smell of the Harlem flats before he went out on the raging canal he would esupply will | have had a keener appreciation of the case than any written document will give | its great men. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT, The Lesson of the Mississippi Floods, A special report of the Chief Signal Officer at Washington in relation to the floods in the Mississippi and its tributaries shows that very rapid variations of the river levels are occurring at several points along their re- spective courses, Tho regular reports have shown from day to day the actual progress of the inundations by reference to the sev- eral points successively threatened and the more @r less rapid rise or fall of the waters at these places. A noticeable feature of all these reports is the doubtful expressions, under the head of “probabilities,” regarding the rise or fall of the river levels at cer- tain points; for predictions of this character must necessarily be based on the uncertain movements of a succession of waves of in- undation created by local rain storms, which produce the oscillations in the river levels observable during periods of heavy rain, such as are now being experienced in the northern, eastern and southwestern sections of the Mississippi basin. The great length of the rivers and the immense area of the watersheds drained by them create the pos- sibility of extraordinary relative differences of level as compared with the ordinary height of the river at several points. Thus @ rapid riso may be taking place at Cairo and New Orleans simultaneously, while tho intervening centre of subsidence pre- sents itself at Vicksburg. These oscillations are very rapid on all the Ohio Valley rivers, and are due to the topography of that water- shed, which is favorable to the speedy dis- charge of a heavy rainfall into the natural lines of river drainage. The regions whence the destructive floods that are. devastating the lowlands have descended are peculiarly liable to storm visitations, being within the zone which lies between the areas of genera- tion of warm and cold currents, and where these contending pneumatic forces struggle for the mastery and develop in their meet- ing the atmospheric disturbances that culminate in the meteoric phenomena of rain storms, tornadoes and cyclones. The Mississippi below Cairo has received all the waters of the recent storms, and which, being brought down by the tribu- tary systems, have gathered force and volume in their descent, and rushed into the main river with the accumulated energy of the entire rainfall of an immense area collected in one body. It has been geologically demon- strated that the junction of the Ohio with the Mississippi marks the northerly limit of the area of valley or bottom land subject to inten- dation, From this point to the Gulf of Mex- ico stretch the great alluvial plains of ‘the Mississippi bottom,” and it is from here that the levee system must be perfected on either bank of the great river for their protection from inundation. The floods that have de- stroyed so much property along the exposed or badly defended river fronts are now pour- ing into the Gulf. The slight variations of level at Cairo, Memphis, Vicksburg and New Orleans are due to local rain storms, which have a slight effect on the volume of water in the river, or to the gradual downward progress of the swollen waters being checked at certain points and dammed back by the sinuosities of the channel or other causes, Never,*perhaps, in tho history of the Mis- sissippi floods has a better opportunity pre- sented itself for a complete study of the physics of the river, from which plans'may be devised by which s permanent and reli- able protection can be afforded for the future, The Heraup has frequently pointed out the necessity for the adoption of protec- tive measures against the frequent and de- structive inundations that threaten to utterly impoverish this important section of the— country, and has recommended the work to | the attention of the local governments of the interested regions as one in which co-opera- tion would produce the grandest results and | assure the material prosperity of the river | States. Millions of dollars’ worth of prop- erty is annually destroyed along the line of | the Mississippi and its tributaries which would be saved if a determined, united and well directed effort was made to remedy evils that ariso from ignorance, apathy and jealousy. The United States engineers who were detailed to examine and report on the Mississippi levee system and the general | condition of the river have recommended the remodelling of the whole plan of dyking out the waters from Cairo to the Gulf. This work should be commenced at once. Any errors heretofore made in the location and construction of levees should be rectified, so that the capacity of the channel will not be impaired and a free flow be permitted to | the flood waters from the upper watershed. Great disasters, such as are now visiting this fertile region, cause a disturbance in the trade and financial equilibrium of the whole country which reacts on every branch of in- dustry, and, although one section may be | temporarily benefited by the prostration of another, in the long run each will have to bear its share of the cost of building up again with years of painful labor what a few well timed efforts might have saved from de- struction. The Irish Centennial. Our Dublin letter recounts with some de- tail the characteristic scenes of the celebra- tion of the hundredth birthday of Daniel O'Connell. Every occasion of this sort has, like ‘a good sherris sack,” a twofold opera- tion. It has its historical aspect, in which it glorifies the past—its great thoughts and It has its practical aspect, in which the historical occasion is only seized for the propagation and furtherance of the | purposes and theories of to-day. O'Connell's character and his achievements furnished in this latter sense a good oceasion for the glorification of Catholic purposes, and an | equally good occasion for the glorification of | the patriotic impulses of the opposition to English rule. Each of these elements sought to possess itself exclusively of the occasion as of a battery from which to bombard its enemies with terrible oratory, But tho Church party was not permitted to use the holiday for its own purposes altogether, and | the other party, not able to dispossess the churchmen, was, at least, able to try, and so to insure the utter absence of jl harmony in tho great event, and thus the occasion that might, rightly improved, have hada national significance, only served to exhibit anew the chronic divisions of an unhappy people, \ A Chance for Another Plimsoll. We are glad to see that Captain Addison Low, Supervising Inspector of Steamboats, has been busily engaged “upon a plan for prosecuting the owners of the excursion steamers that have not been complying with the law in regard to carrying passengers.” The laws governing the steamboat inspec- tion impose a fine of fifty dollars and an im- prisonment of six months for each passenger tuken on board beyond the limit prescribed. We congratulate Captain Low upon his reso- lution, One of the attractions of New York in these hot midsummer months is the oppor- tunity of visiting the hundred inviting sum- mer resorts that line our rivers, our bays and the contiguous sea. It is a great comfort to thousands of the poor classes who have not the opportunity of visiting Long Branch or Saratoga that they should be able to leava home in the morning on a commodious boat, spend the day in the woods or the breakers and be home again before night. Thésa excursions have become a feature of our summer life. They are especially an advan« tage to the poor. ‘The result is that the owners of steamboats, have become carcless and rapacious. They run the worst kind of boats for excursions, overcrowd them, and take no pains whatever to secure the comfort of theiz passengers. Now and then, as was the caso last Sunday morning, they indulge in @ race, running so closely together that the least jarring of a wheel might lead to a ters rible collision. Some of these days we shall have a disaster on these waters of an appal- ling character. Then our people will awake to the evil which has been slowly growing. We trust that Captain Low will enforca the laws against the owners of these boats. ‘The evil has assumed such | proportions that there is a fine opportunity for some philan- thropic citizen like Mr. Plimsoll to detect and expose the captains and the owners. We regard the summer excursions as one of the most interesting and pleasant features of our New York life, and we sincerely trust that our authorities will take pains to see that they are conducted with prudence, disci- pline and care, Tux Faran Barioon Ascenr.—The few and humorous notes found on the person of the unfortunate reporter who lost his life in the late balloon accident are in peculiar contrast with his fate. They sound like the quips and cranks that Hamlet missed from the chapless skull of poor Yorick. But they give no actual information of the circumstances that led to the calamity. It seemed at ona moment possible that Donaldson, more ex- perienced in such occasions, might have held on and been carried to the shore; but it appears now to be generally conceded that a body which has been seen in the lake ia his, Tux Two Conmisstonrnrs,-—It is one of the misfortunes of our municipal government that it every now and then exhibits the scandal of dispute over the possession of an important office, merely because some recent legislation | is so ambiguous and contradictory as to make | the tenure in the greatest degree uncertain. This trouble now comes upon us in such shape that it may invalidate the whole jury service, for citizens may refuse to serve at the summons of either Commissigner, and it is at this moment a mere toss up how the courts will determine, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. They call Pere Hyacinthe a sixpenny Calvin. Baron A. de Vauronne, of Lyons, France, is sojourm fhg at the Windsor Hotel. Bishop John J. Conroy, of Albany, is residing tempo rarily at the Gilsey House, Alexander H. Bullock, of Massachusetts, has taken up his residence at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. | Mr. Alexander G. Cattell? of New Jersey, is among the late arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Rev. C. D, Foss, D. D., has accepted the Presidency of tho Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn. Sir Edward Watkin, of England, returned to this city yesterday from Montreal, and is at the Brevoort House. here has not been any one hanged for a great many | years'm Jowa—and they complain a great deal about it. Captain William Gore Joues, naval attaché of the British Legation at Washington, bas arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. It is now positively reported that General Schenck will marry Mrs, Hicks in October. Well, that’s better Judge Charles Daniels, of the New York Supreme Court, arrived at the Grand Central’ Hotel yesterday from his home at Buffalo, British virtue is on the move against opium, and the people in India hint darkly that it is better wo take too | much opium than too mach gin. J. Perault, Secretary of the Canadian Centennial Commission, has left for Philadelphia, where he will re- main until the close of the Exhibition. Governor Lippitt, of Rhode Island, has appointod Mrs. Elizabeth H. Doyle, a member of the Female Board of Visitors to State penal institutions, Rev, Dr, Samuel K. Lothrop, of Boston, arrived at the | Westminster Hotel yesterday, and will sail to-day for | Europe, intending to be absent about two years. Alexander Dum’s’ little daughter, aged six, asked him | cwhat is the difference betwoon a woman and a man?” | They were in a railway carriage, and he told her that tho difference is that a woman always bas extra baggage, Morton, in his Ohio speeches this year, does not say anything about the age of Governor Allen, Last year, when he referred to that subject, Allen retorted that, “old as he was, he was ablo to stand up and make @ speech, which was more than Morton could do.”’ Would you like to know why “Monte Christo” was. written with so many short lines? It was paid forat three francs a line, But the people who paid thought Dumas camo it strong when a line sometimes contained three syllables—say a franc a syllable, He was paid af- terward by the letter—one-fifth of a cent for every letter. To the hundreds of thousands of those descendants of high but broken down Virginia families that are now be- wailing their hard lot, we say, go to work. To recruit | and restore your fortunes and your rank and prestige, | do what your ancestors did to establish them—go to | work. In these days all honest work is respectable, — Richmond Whig. Mrs, Scott-Siddons has distinguished herself as » volunteer riffewoman, The Bideford and Torrington |, Rifle corps have obtained a new long range, which was recently formally opened by Mrs. Scott-Siddons. In the presence of Sir Edward Green, the local gontry and the officers and men of the respective corps, Mrs. Siddona took a Martini-Henry rif_lo and fired at the target, mak- ing a ‘bull’s-eye” the first time and a “contre” with her second shot, The trip to Vionna of Prince Milan, of Servia, was thought to have some connection with the trouble im Herzegovina, but is more peaceably accounted for, His betrothal to Miss Natalie von Keckso, daughter of a Russian colonel and large landed proprietor, and niece of the Moldavian Prince Mouroussy, took place at the Goldene Lamm Hotel August 5, The marriage is fixed for next October, Generals Sherman, Sheridan tived at Cheyenne, Wy. were mot at the depot by the officers and band from Fort Russell, General Sherman, with his daughter, and General Slocuin lunched with Colonel Stanton, after which they drove to Fort Russoll, and at four o'clock left fur Denver, Genoral Sheridan, accompanied by his wife, Colonel and Mrs, M. Sheridan, wont west, en route to California and Orovon. and) Slocum T., ybsterday, ar They