The New York Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1875, Page 6

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Ed- wards Pierrepont became the Attorney Gen- eral of the United States, he honored a re- porter with an interview in which he gave his ideas, not only of the present political situation, but of what might be expected in the future. He was in a romantic and happy frame of mind. All around him was President Grant had all the vir- tues of Washington. The republican party was certain of perennial power. There would be no other party for the next few years. We were about to enter upon an ‘‘era of good feeling.” ‘The different States would take advantage of the Centennial year to “bury the issues of the past” and see only in the future the glorious flag of this Union and the constellation of stars. Mr. Pierre- pont’s enthusiasm was as charming as a poem of Shelley. ‘The ancient maiden lady married at last, after much waiting, is apt to indulge in rapturous visions and see nothing in her life but that endless ecstasy which comes with the last chapter of our three volume novels, For years and years Mr, Pierrepont had waited with patience, lamps ever trimmed, for the coming of the bride- groom. He came—late, it is true—in the shape of a Cabinet nomination. A Minister so honored in the first moments of con- nubial happiness would, naturally enough, think of nothing but the ‘era of good feel- ing.” When we recall the conversations of Mr, Pierrepont with our reporter, so pastoral and flowing and innocent, we well remember the happiness they betokened and that we wished him many years of such felicity. Buta few months have passed away and all this is changed. -Mr. Pierrepont honors one of our reporters with another interview at Saratoga. Sitting under the trees and drink- ing the exhilarating waters of the springs, a deep sadness has fallen upon him. All the smiles have gone. The sunshine has van- ished from his official life. He no’ longer talks about “harmony” and the “era of good g.” He does not prophesy as before. Evidently some disappointment has come upon him, He has found, we fear, like many elderly maiden ladies who marry late, that marriage, after all, is nota life of dreams. It has cares, frets and burdens. Our At- torney General feels the shadows. He is quite sure that Presidént Grant does not wish a third term, but beyond this every- thing is “chaotic.” The public mind has not “crystallized.” ‘It has not settled.” The Ohio election is ‘very important.” The President has been very kind to him and given him his ‘cordial co-operation.” But ‘‘both sides are in confusion and do not themselves know what they will do.” When the public mind ‘shall have crystallized” he promises to give us the benefit of his ma- tured deliberations upon national affairs. All this is very sad coming from a Minister who three months ago was so sunny,’ so happy and so bright, and who saw before him nothing butan ‘era of good feeling” and prosperity. There is an anxious tone about the Attorney General's conversation which recalls what Byron wrote shortly after his disappointing honeymoon—that there is not a joy the world can give like what it takes away. Evidently official life has not realized the long years of hope and dreaming. He shows that modest reserve which prudent ladies unhappily married dis- play in speaking of their inner life. He will - make no scandal. He has nothing but re- spect for the President, but everything is “chaotic.” He can see no fature. There are no issues before the country—absolutely none. All that remains for the poor Attorney General, who entered the office chanting to every reporter his hymn of joy over the hap- piness and prosperity of the party, is to sit by the spouting streams of Saratoga, and as he drinks the waters moan over the ‘‘chaos” and “uncertainty” of the public mind. The chaos and uncertainty are not in the public mind, but in that of statesmen like Judge Pierrepont. So far from there being no issues before the country there never harmony. Incenprarny Fines iy Russia are of such frequent occurrence that the burning of three hundred buildings in Ryeff is only in keep- ing with previous reports of similar disasters, Tae Track at Saratoca yesterday was very heavy, but there were four interesting | races, notwithstanding, of which we present | this morning a lively acconnt. Gop oy THE Brack Hrs, according to Pro- | fessor Jenney’s letter to the Indian Commis- sioner, can only be obtained in paying quan- tities by the employment of capital. San- | Guine miners had better forego the dangers | from the Sioux and other savages yet a while. | Mr. Grapstose’s Pampuiets on the Vati- can it seems, by the explanations in the French Assembly yesterday, are allowed to be sold in the shops of Paris, the prohibition extending only to hawking them in the streets, Tae Inrernationan Reoatta on Saratoga Lake, which is to begin next Tuesday, prom- | ises to be an interesting affair, second only in importance to the college races. In an- other column we give some account of the | contestants and the prizes and of the prepar- | ations which are making for the event. Tae Stovx Ixprans continue to be very troublesome, and all the evidence seefas to indicate that only a complete whipping will teach them good behavior. This is the view of General Crook, as expressed in an inter- view with a Hera correspondent which we print this morning. Guwepat Donnecanay is again reported beaten, and this time he is said to be hemmed in by the forces under General Jovellar. | Should he be vanquished the Carlist insur- | rection would be substantially at an end; | but his defeat has been reported so often that we are slow to accept tho stories of his enc- mies, Tar Revowvrionany Spit 1 Mexico is spreading, and one of the reasons for this un- satisfactory state of affairs will be found in the acts of men like General Devallos in Lower California, of whose brutalities a cor- | respondent, writing from Panama, gives an | account. Deyallos seems to bea more in-— human wretch even than Cortina, and Mexico can only regenerate herself by the punish- ment of such aa be | think of inflation or the prospect of | Presidency. Has he no candidate for that | was a time when issues were clearer | or more distinct. If Judge Pierrepont | is anxious to know the opinion of | the people let him ask them what they national repudiation, reconstruction of the South, of centralization of federal govern- ment, of the third term. He speaks with bated breath and that timidity which has overcome all republicans—a timidity which is their misfortune and that of their party. Why should Mr. Pierrepont cower under the | influence of the President and have nothing to say absolutely upon the only questions that are now alive? He knows that next | spring we shall nominate candidates for the | nothing. The truth is that if a second term is proper a third and fourth term are also proper. So long as we leave it optional to the President to be a candidate for re-elec- tion and to politicians to have it in their power to nominate him so long we have this danger of Cwsarism, The logical application of the argument against the third term is an amendment to the constitution limiting the Presidency to one term. We cannot accept as sincere declarations against the third term which do not take this form. President Grant is to-day the strongest candidate in the republican party. So long as men as emi- nent and independent as Judge Pierrepont act in silence, and say nothing in favor of the one term principle, they encourage Czsar- So long as State conventions like those of Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania do not close the door against Grant, but leave it ajar, so that he may or may not be a candi- date with their unquestioned support, we shall have his nomination a living question, This more especially if the wild men of Ohio and the Western States insist upon denounc- ing every holder of bonds as a “coupon clipper” and preach universal repudiation. The issue of ‘defending our national” honor will be brought up by the friends of Presi- dent Grant just as four years ago he was elected upon the issue of “reconstruction” and “pacification of the Sou.” Judge Pierrepont says nothing to prevent his giv- ing the President, in such a contingency, a support as hearty as he did six years ago, when he resigned from Tammany Hall and paid twenty thousand dollars to elect him. ‘The policy of Grant and his followers is to nurse some exciting issue into gigantic im- portance—something like inflation in the West, or war with Mexico or Spain—and in the emergency thus created to force his nomination and re-election as a “necessity.” The halting phrases of republicans like those in Minnesota, the meek meditations of the Attorney General at the spouting springs, instead of preventing this calamity, will only encourage it. We have as yet to hear a single declaration from any republican of importance or from any representative re- publican convention that would make it im- possible for them to support President Grant if he became a candidate for a third term, The republican party is committed to the third term issue. The only way to make its record worthy is to accept the teachings of Clay and Sumner and Greeley, and to avow it as a fundamental principle of republican government that our chief officer shall hold offite for one term and be ineligible for re- election, ism. Jefferson Davis’ Letter, In spite ofan earnest effort to admire the tone of Mr. Jefferson Davis’ letter there is some- thing laughable in the reason he assigns for declining the invitation of an agricultural society in Illinois to deliver their annual address. His reasoning is cogent enough, and we do not see how he could have pur- sued any other course, but at the same time it was a vain hope in him to expect unani- mous consent upon such an occasion, We are not near enough to the millennium forthe fools in the West to be all dead, and we are surprised that Mr. Davis expected any such consummation. It is gratifying, however, that, even under the exasperating circum- stances which made Mr. Davis’ letter neces- sary, he preserved so much good temper as to exceed any former effort he may have made toward the restoration of friendly feelings between the sections, There has been great difficulty in the way of his uttering the phrase, ‘fellow countrymen;” but when he uttered it at all it was with reference to some short-sighted persons who objected to hearing him address an agricultural fair ina Western State. No man in the country was better qualified for such a task, and the letter shows that the interests of the West and the Southwest would have been benefited by the full expression of his views. Both sections must gain by promot- ing mutual confidence and cointelligence, and in calling attention to this fact Mr. Davis has done much toward the restoration of a better feeling, and, while we regret that he is not to have the opportunity to make the address he had contemplated, we are pleased that the occasion of the invitation was turned to such excellent account, His letter is frank and manly, and must do good, espe- cially in the North. The Poor Children, The trustees of the free excursion fund announce that they are unable to give a picnic this week for the reason that there is not money enongh in the treas- ury. This will be sad news in many a home; for thousands of children are still office? Has he nothing to say in behalf of some of the eminent men in the republican | party, who naturally enough have claims to | its leadership and the high honors it can be- | | stow? Is he for Dix or Conkling or Morgan? | | Has he no personal ambition looking to the White House? There has been no time since | the beginning of the confederation when, | at a period so close to the Presidential | election, we have had so little expression | of preference from the party leaders, Maine | does not dare to say a word in behalf of | its candidate, Mr. Blaine. Massachusetts is | afraid to show a preference for the Vice | President. Indiana scarcely breathes the name of Mr. Morton. The Convention at | | Saratoga will not nominate Mr, Dix or Mr. Conkling, Mr. Pierrepont or Mr. Morgan. Yet in all these States party leaders have _ their preferences, They would have another than President Grant, but they are afraid of him—afraid to offend the silent, mys- terious power which now rules the party and holds its voters in his hand as though | they were so many squadrons in the field. This is the influence which rests upon the mind of Judge Pierrepont. This is the secret | sorrow that preys upon his soul. He, too, | | has fallen under the shadows which have | | blighted Conkling and Morgan and Wilson | and Blaine. Like them, he will not | speak what he believes, because he is | afraid (o offend the imperial master at Wash- ington, ‘The position of General Grant is strength- ened by the uncertain Delphic utterances of men like Judge Pierrepont, as well as the | halting declarations of republican State con- on like that recently held in Minne- Wl TR RRORQUAGR avin a hpi looking forward’to the holiday they hope to enjoy under the auspices of the fund. Already seven thousand boys and girls of tender age have been taken away from the city for a delightful sail on the Sound, a bath in clean tide water and a ramble in cool and shady woods. The expense was $2,886 07, or about forty-one cents for each child. For this insignificant sum abundant food of excellent quality was provided and all kinds of amusements ‘furnished, such as bands, shows, games. When we con- sider how much has been accomplished by thoughtful and honest expenditure it is sur- prising that the trustees should be compelled to ask for money. These free picnics have done a great deal in the way of elevating the character of our street children, a fact well known to those cognizant of the nature of these waifs. It is, therefore, a great pity that a charity which secures so rapid and great a return should be permitted to lan- guish for want of funds. Contributions should be sent to Mr. Edward King, treas- urer, No. 73 Broadway. Hexzecovina.—The aspect of the Herze- govinian struggle becomes daily more men- acing to the peace of Europe. Servia is already infected and Prince Milan has found himself called upon to appeal to the treaty Powers. The fanaticism of the Christian populations and their very natural hatred of Turkish rule may render the interposition of the great Powers inevitable. So far the insurrection is spreading with threatening rapidity, and unless the great Powers act immediately the Principalities may become involved. Then the Eastern question Would soon set Earove bho arte —— Tricks of the Trade. Some months ago the country was gratified by the announcement that the Western Union Telegraph’ Company, under the press- ure of competition by the Atlantic and Pacific Company, had reduced the rates of telegraphy between New York, Albany, Bos- ton, Washington and intermediate points. We were told by the President of the latter telegraph line, General Eckert, that the time had come when the great desideratum of modern times, cheap telegraphy, would be realized. The first sign of the millennium was this reduction of rates, Shortly after the announcement of the reduction it was discovered that the whole scheme was a stock-jobbing speculation of Jay Gould; that he had bought largely into the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company; that he had induced a prominent officer, of the Western Union to become its president, and, having made what money he could out of the rise of stock resulting from these movements, abandoned the enter- prise to its fate. We now learn that the two companies, the Western Union and the At- lantic and Pacific, have resolved upon in- creasing their rates to what they were prior to February 15. | This is an advance of twenty per cent, Under the reduction mes- sages were sent at twenty-five cents for ten words; they are now advanced to thirty cents to Boston and intermediate points, fifty cents to Newport and thirty-five cents to Long Branch. This announcement explodes the great bubble of “‘cheap telegraphy” with which Mr, Gould and Kis friends amused the New York market six months ago. So long as the lines in opposition to the Western Union are governed by that company in their tariffs there will be no cheap telegraphy. The Atlantic and Pacific is, therefore, nothing more than a tender to the greater line, This announcementalso will strengthen the rumor that Jay Gould is endeavoring to obtain control of the Western Union Tele- graph Company; that having possessed him- self of one monopoly, the Pacific Railroad, he desires another. ‘here is the story that Mr. Orton, the President of the yWestern Union, is assisting Mr. Gould in this scheme. But this we do not for a moment credit. Of course if Mr. Gould has money enough to purchase a controlling interest }in the Western Dalot’ Company it is his right fo do¥6, and to do with his own property what he pleases. But here comes a question affecting the welfare of the people. The telegraph system is as much a part of our daily comfort and convenience as the postal system. Now, suppose it were possi- ble for Jay Gould, or any other daring, reck- less speculator, to obtain control of the Post Office, and have the right to fix his own post- age rates, to give and withhold contracts, de- termine what cities should or should not have mail service, would it not be practically a surrender of one of the most important functions of government into the control of a man who has never put his hand upon any enterprise except to blight it—who is the vampire of business to-day? The tele- graph system is as important to the people as the postal system. As we advance in civ- ilization telegraphy will as surely usurp the Post Office as the modern locomotive displaces the old stage coach. The telegraph is noth- ing but an improved post office. What we seein the movements of these speculators, and the tendency to make this great interest of the people mere fancy stock, shows that we are in the presence of a grave danger, If this tendency to speculate im the tele- graph interests, to make this great system the mere football of a public enemy like Jay Gould continues, the time will come when the government must take the matter in hand and protect the people. That Negro Insurrection, The startling report from Georgia that a negro insurrection has been discovered in Washington and Jefferson counties may be accepted with a very large grain of salt. The idea that the negroes in two Georgia counties had planned to mas- sacre all the whites on a given day is as preposterous as any tale that has been told of late. Washington county has, according to the census of 1870, 7,530 whites and 8,312 blacks. Jefferson has 4,247 whites and 7,943 blacks. The two counties lie in the eastern middle of the State, in the latitude of Macon, and in the cotton region. Wherever, in the South, the negro is more numerous than the whites, the planters live in a secret dread of a negro insurrection, and so living they are very apt to lose their presence of mind on very slight pretexts. But there is no danger of a negro insurrection anywhere in the South, and least of all in Georgia, where the blacks have been kept under, and where they think a good deal more of moving west- ward to some other cotton State than of murdering their white neighbors. We trust that the Governor will see to it that a thorough investigation of this report is made, so that no injustice shall be done, It will, probably, be discovered that some ruffians have lawlessly interfered with the rights of the blacks and aroused these to self-defence, which they are too apt to decline. This is the most probable explanation of this negro insurrection story. The fact that eighty blacks were arrested and put in jail without opposition, or a fight or bloodshed, shows sufficiently that the negroes had not put on their war paint, and ifa fight is precipitated we fear it will come from unruly whites rather than sanguinary blacks. Governor Smith discredits the story in refusing to send the militia to find the insurrection. ‘Tue Rac Basy Once More. —A correspond- ent in this city writes us that he is not anin- flationist, but only desires to abolish the banks and substitute greenbacks for bank notes, He would like, also, a law compelling the government to pay him interest on his money when he has no other use for it, but | allowing him to take it back whenever he can use it to better advantage. Well, he represents only one view, and there are half a dozen other plans to multiply at will ‘‘the best currency in the world.” We still prefer to await the conclusions of the Detroit Con- vention. Let us see what that body will bring forth. All views will be represented there—Senator Gordon from the South, Mr. Kelley from Pennsylvania and Mr. Carpenter from the W&t—and we shall see what the It will be time | currency platform really is. 7 ane wait until the rag baby is maferialized before we take hold of it. Meantime we trust the Detroit statesmen will not attempt any Katie King business, Rapid Transit in Brooklyn. Rapid transit is as necessary to the growth of Brooklyn as to New York. With rapid transit all that beautiful country lying be- yond Brooklyn, fringing the Sound and the Bay and the ocean, could be opened to set- tlement. Rapid transit from Brooklyn ferry needs but another link, when the great bridge is finished, to bringit tothe City Hall, Some time since a project was exhibited for build- ing a steam railway along Myrtle avenue.. Of course there were objections, The property holders rebelled, as they always do, as they rebelled against gas and Croton water, as they rebelled on Greenwich street and pro- tested that the elevated railway would destroy their highway. The result of this oppo- sition has been that the Board of Aldermen of Brooklyn have foolishly concluded to aban- don Myrtle avenue as a road for rapid transit. Now the question is to be fought over again. If a new street is chosen there will be the same difficulty. Suppose Flatbush avenue, or Fulton avenue, or Vanderbilt avenue, or any one of the streets that radiate from the ferry is selected, and we shall have the same complaints. The Aldermen, yielding to this local clamor, will go on selecting streets and changing them, stepping from one difficulty to another. Rapid transit will die in sheer disgyst. There is no better site for a rapid transit railway than Myrtle avenue, unless it would be Fulton avenue. Myrtle avenue binds Brooklyn with Williamsburg. It runs paral- lel with the river. It skirts, although it does not go through, the best portions of the city. It is largely given to trade, It passes the beautiful Fort Greene Park. It is alto- gether a hallucination to suppose that an elevated railway destroys a street for trade. Take Greenwich street, where the elevated railway in New York now runs. Greenwich street is as valuable now as it was before the road was built. Rents are no lower than they are in corresponding parts of the city. People buy and sell as they did before. If we did business there and had our choice we should prefer to have an ele- *als gallyoy ryuning shove she giderely passing swiftly along once or twice an hod¥, to a lumbering street car every two minutes, blocking the way and making traffic almost impossible. Furthermore, the building of the way stations. necessary to the elevated railway really brings trade. It would not surprise us if the elevated railway in Green- wich street were found in a few years to have given that avenue a new prosperity. So that the inhabitants, in opposing the running of arapid transit route, may be doing what they did in the past in oppaqsing the introduction of gas and Croton water. But if our friends in Brooklyn are to. have rapid transit they must select a route and stand by it. This shifting from street to street in response to the clamors of a few grocery keepers and real estate agents will destroy the whole business. Politics in France, We have a perplexing despatch from France to the effect that at the recent elec- tions for Presidents of the Councils General a majority of those elected were ‘“conserya- tives.” It is difficult tq understand the meaning of this word when applied to French politics. There are four distinct parties. Each has a conservative and a radical wing, Therefore when the cable speaks of con- servatives we do not know whether it means Bonapartists, Orleanists, Bourbonists, or simply conservative republicans. We pre- sume the despatch means that the conserva- tive republicans have gained the day. If it had béen any other party we should have heard so very clearly, As French poli- tics now go the republicans are really the only conservatives. They are under the best discipline. They afford the surest guarantee for Church and State. They have no policy of exile or ostracism. The success of the Bourbonists means the banish- ment of the Bonapartes. The triumph of the Bonapartists means the exile of the Bourbons and the confiscation of the prop- erty of the Orleanists. The Republic is broad enough to accept the services of all parties, It has no enemies but those who are enemies to France, Much as M. Gambetta should be com- mended for the general patience and courage and prudence of his political management, his elevation to power now would injure France, not only in the eyes of the Euro- pean nations, but with her own people. The danger would be that M. Gambetta, however disposed to be conservative, would be open to the influence of those con- scientious and austere radicals like Louis Blane, who believe in ideal forms, and who would be contented with no government that is not the republic of their dreams. France must grow steadily toward repub- licanism as we grew in America, There can be no permanent republic that begins with the violent wrenching of old institu- tions—such an upheaval as was seen in 1793. Our own Republic grew because the earlier counsellors were Hamilton and Jay, who be- lieved in a strong government, We did not give way to the extreme counsels of Jefferson and his followers, who saw their ideal repub- lic in that France which destroyed the Bas- tile. The time came when republicanism in America was content to accept the platform of Jefferson. ‘The time will come in France, we trust, when the Republic will be willing to be guided by the counsels of men more liberal than M. Thiers and M. Buffet. This will hardly be in our generation, nor is it natural that it should be so. France is an old country. Its institu. tions have lasted for hundreds of years, There are Church privileges, family rights, customs, traditions, local laws and prejudices all to be reconciled. A republic to grow well must grow slowly, not like the gourd, which springs up in a night to wither in the morn- ing, but like the spreading oak, under whose branches generations after generations gather. Rerormina Backwanp.—It is a crab-like reform by which the telegraph compa- nies have just distinguished themselves. Having had their heads together for some weeks they at last announce that the pub- lic had better pay higher rates for their the great American people with the cheapest’ Possible telegraphic facilities appears to have ended in a determination to increase tha charges. At this rate the telegraph managers appear to be playing into the hands of tho postal telegraph people. But perhaps that is their little game. It would be a nice speculation for Mr. Jay Gould to obtain con- trol of all the telegraph lines in the country and then unload them on the government at a good round price, Such a scheme would be worthy of a person of his genius, Tramps. It is the season of tramps, and they are abroad —tramps of all sorts. But the worst sort, to our notion, is the political tramp, and we would warn the people, especially the Western people, to be on their guard against this dangerous customer. Against the ordi- nary tramp a heavy built yellow dog, witha short tail that won't wag, is a sufficient security. But what yellow dog will prove a defence against that roaring Cyclops of Ohio, old Allen, on his paper money tramp, at tha very sound of whose voice any well bred animal would retire under the woodshed ? And is it not evident to the experienced that if that other resolute tramp, W. D. Kelley, ot Philadelphia, should raise his voice in Michi- gan, as he threatens, the dogs will subside aa they might if they heard the myriad echo of “the wolf's long howl on Onalaska’s shore ?” Let’no one, therefore, rely upon hissyellow dog in presence of this pest of the segson; for the dog will be silent, and even the most disrespectful pup—a terrier of three months old that would screech his thin note against the village parson— would probably slip away through the grasa like a lizard at the aspect of the regular polit- ical tramp. An ordinary tramp is only alazy rogue, disgustingly flavored with his unadul- terated humanity or with the odor of his humanity a little softened, even a little sweetened, by the odor of bad rum and worse tobacco, If one analyzes the intellect~ ual operations that have made him a tramp he must find it made up of virtues and pleas- ant notions; for what should take this gutter snoozer away from his handy grogshop in the slums, save that his fancy, like the lying Jack Falstaff, “‘babbled o’ green fields?” Is it not an aspiration to lie under the hedges and th frees. to fill is pats ih she, ase oF the her Yiown hay and alto- gether to dilute his vileness in the amplitude of the rural purity? Is not this the taste that Chaucer glorifies when “‘longen folks to go om pilgrimage ?” But the political tramp has far dess amiable impulses. He is afraid that the people will be honest and pay their debta and that he will be the poorer man for it, and we give them a timely warning to beware of his blandishments. Tae Coron Liye iW Mussrssrepr.—The democrats having, under the influence of Mr. Lamar, abjured the color line in their State Convention the other day, it seems that the negroes are now enforcing it. At Sena~ tobia, in the First Congressional district of Mississippi, the blacks yesterday split thea Congressional Convention, and nominated a candidate of their own, one Howe. The white republicans nominated G. Wiley Wells, at present United States District Attorney, and a good man. But either, Wells or Howe has a better chance to ba struck by lightning than to be chosen to Congress from the First Mississippi district, in which Colonel Lamar is the democratio candidate. He is the most popular man im the district, and will poll a great many re~ publican votes besides the solid democratia vote. Meantime, if the colored men of Missia-. sippi determine to maintain the color line in polities, they will presently succeed im driving every white man out of their party. The kind of men, like Cardozo, Turner andj Crosby, whom the black Mississippi spoli- ticians have put forward, are not the sort for whom decent white men can vote, Brazm, and Panacuay.—The continued oce cupation of Paraguay by the Brazilian forces: is criticised with some acerbity by the liberal; party in Brazil. An explanation, of the reasons which induce this policy will be found in our letter from Rio Janeiro this. morning. The letter also contains an in-. teresting account of the condition of labor im Brazil. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, It ts horribly said that the distinguished tragedian is, getting on Boothifully. Captain Francis A. Roe, United States Navy, is stay ing at the St, Nicholas Hotel. \ Colonel W. M. Grosvenor, of St. Louis, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain William T. Truxtun, United States Navy, hag taken up his quarters at the Everett House, Brevet Brigadier General Richard H. Jackson, United States Army, is residing at the Sturtevant House, Pay Inspector William W. Williams, United States Navy, arrived in this city yesterday, and is at the Hotel Brunswick. If the Irishmen who heard General Butler at the Boston O'Connell dinner were not very glad that he was not an Irishman, they were poor fellows. Secretary Belknap and party left Helena, Montana, omy the 17th inst., for Carroll and Bismarck. General Sher- idan arrived at Salt Lake, Utah, last evening. Hon, Alexander Mackenzie, Premier of Canada, sailed) from England by the Allan steamer yesterday. The: | Hon, George Brown is expected to sail on the 26th inst, “It is a pleasant thing to see roses and lilies growing upon a young lady's cheek, butabad sign to see ® man’s face break out in blossoms,” Joke of the pro~ fessional agriculturist. The distinction of commander in the Order of the Legion of Honor has been conferred by Marshal Mac- | Mahon bn M. Alexandre Adam, the veteran Free Trader and stanch friend of England. ‘An enthusiastic pig fancier: —“The Berkshire is prob. ably the nearest thoroughbred among swine, and in that | class is like the Arabian among horses, It is undoubt- edly the highest type of hog.”’ Imagine a person who ‘can ‘see the similar ty.”” General Sherman and party arrived at Denver, Col, Jast night, and will remain a week or ton days in th ‘Territory, visiting points of special interest, and then roturn East by way of Leavenworth. General Hj W. Slocum is a member of the party, ‘The age is clearly utilitarian, Workmen are now en~ gaged destroying the remains of Cwsar’s camp on Witm~ biedon Common, England, one of the most interesting: relics of the Roman invasion, Sir Henry Beek, to pro- serve it, offered a fair price, but it was rejected, ‘The Swedish government had a gold modal recently struck for presentation to Captain J, W. Thomson, of the ship North Star, of Bath, Me., for his gallant rescue of the crew of the Swedish bark Rosalie, of Seronberg, tw a heavy sea and a severe gale blowing, The preacn* tion took place at Cardiff, Wales, Augast 5. Martin Foisemolle, supposititiously the original oft Hugo's Jean Valjean, has just died at Ternes, Depart ment of Seine-ct-Vise, France, Hé was sent to the galleys in 1842 for killing a priest andor provocations was pardoned in 1862 for his devotion during a cholera epidemic; made a fortune 4 a doctor and became the enough phen 49 Wb abemk ite Wo prvdex ig Ldeanaichin Zhe glopine ta aanqapadabe | ayad uagol of te oor in uid weibyslooe