The New York Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SU BSCRIBERS.—On and after Javuary 1, 1875, the daily and weekly . editions of the New Yorks Henaxp 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. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must he addressed New York Hana. Letters and packages shonld be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. eae LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENT WooD's MUSEUM, eot.—THE DUEL IN M. SI SLOCUM, ut 5 P. M.; closes at GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth avenue, corner Twenty-third sireet.—AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, at 5 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. 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ROBINSON HALL, ‘Wert Sixteenth street.—English Opera—PRINCESS OF TREBIZONDE, at 8 P.M. THEATRE COMIQUE, i, fe Broadway.—VARIETY, at 3 P.M. closes at 10:45 TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1875. THE HERALD FOR THE SUMMER RESORTS. To NEwspEaLers anp THE Pusiic:— The New Yorx Hxraxp runs a special train every Sunday during the season between New York, Niagara Falls, Saratoga, Lake 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 Sunpar Henatp. Newsdealers and others are noti- fied to send in their orders to the Huraxp office as early as possible. For further par- ticulars see time table. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cool, with light rains. Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Henarp mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wari Srnzer Yxstenpay.—Stocks were irregular, afd at the close not strong. Gold opened at 113 1-4 and closed at 113 3-8, Foreign exchange was firm. Avyotuer Case or Bany Farmrxe has been brought to light—this time in Rochester. It is not surprising that that community should be intensely excited over the revelations. Tue Inrennationan Rucatra at Saratoga is to begin to-day. It is to be hoped that pleasant weather and smooth water will con- tribute to the success of these aquatic sports. A Casx ror Ixvestication is the sailing of the steamship City of New York without the mails. There is wrong somewhere in this matter, and the Post Office Department must ascertain where the responsibility belongs. Tue Junxetines of English royalty are always the subject of agreeable gossip, and the proposed visit of the Prince of Wales furnishes the occasion for a pleasant letter in the Heratp this morning. Tue Loss or THe Anporsrorp is attrib- | uted to a miscalculation of the distance from Holyhead on the day of the disaster, and to insaflicient allowance being made for the force of the tide, Here are both bad arith- metic and bad judgment, and yet the cap- tain’s certificnte was not cancelled. Ovr Cunay Lerrer reveals important in- surgent successes and shows the hopeless- ness of the Spanish cause in the dependence of King Alfonso’s government for crushing the insurrection. Two noted and wealthy slave traders, Don Julian Zulueta and Don José Baro, have been exalted into genuine hidalgos and these, through the aid of Vale maseda and fresh levies from Spain, are the only hope of subduing the rebellion. But | cause in | even this will not save the Spanis' Cuba. Nia Bunwarp Brown's Exection Exrryses pre- sent a curious problem, and it is very re- | markable that there should have been an arrangement between him and the Cominis- sioners of Emigration for a compulsory sub- scription toward his election to the Assem- bly. I: ‘s also noteworthy that he did the express business of the department about the time he was a member of the Legislature. Evidently there is something in this case that ought to be more clearly understood. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. |The Republican Party and the South. The policy of the republican party towards the Southern States has had the serious fault of being, since the accession of General Grant, immovable, while the condition of the South was undergoing a very rapid and great change. What may have been sound statesmanship in 1868 was not necessarily so | in 1872, and was, as events have abundantly | shown, very blundering statesmanship in 1873-4. The problem which the administra- tion party had before it, after the war, was to make the conquered part of the Union con- | tent ; to secure to all its people safety in that the Union of the States is for their best interest and happiness. The republican leaders began wisely. ‘They gave the vote to the negro and placed him in every politi- jeal respect mpon the footing of an American citizen. This they were bound to do; and they were bound also to see that, during the turmoil which so tremendous a change was sure to produce, the black man party acted wisely and courageously, and it wus sustained by the people Where the republican leaders have erred is in not keeping themselves thoroughly and | accurately informed of the effects of their | policy ; in not remembering that the change | they commanded would, year after year, gain more general acceptance; that their policy must necessarily vary with the variation of public sentiment; that—to use a seaman's figure—it would not do to keep the helm hard down after the ship had gone about. Yet it is this blunder which they have made, and even worse; for they have attempted to add repressive meas- ures, and this so late as in the last Congress, when they actually adopted a civil, or more properly a social rights law, and attempted to pass a monstrosity in the shape of the Habeas Corpus and Force bill, while the President allowed federal troops to disperse a State Legislature amd forced the people of | Louisiana to submit to the most glaring frands in State election returns. 'The results of this cast-iron Southern pol- icy are seen not only in serious discontent in the South, but also in the gradual extinc- tion of the republican party in those States. That party had in 1868 among its member- ship a considerable proportion of the white population; it has to-day in no State except North Carolina more than a handful of the whites; and these are almost everywhere ex- clusively federal office-holders and their friends, and for the most part men of no in- fluence in the communities in which they live. In Louisiana, in Mississippi, in Alabama, in Georgia, almost everywhere in the cotton | States, the republican party has lost and is losing adherents among the reputable white population, and is to-day in a moribund con- dition. It is only necessary to remember how great is the influence of a federal ad- ministration in the politics of the States, how powerfully it has often been used by able statesmen to build up or to maintain and in- crease a party, to see that the republican pol- icy has been a blunder. The prime source of this blunder has lain in the propensity of the republican leaders to reject the help of Southern men in the government of the country. They have lumped the whole Southern white population as “rebel,” and have undertaken to govern without their sid. During the whole of General Grant’s administration no Southern man of prominence and great influence has been called to the Cabinet; not one has re- ceived any of the great prizes of the federal administration. Attorney General Akerman was nota prominent Georgian; and Mr, Orr was sent to Russia, where his influence was lost. Now, if the republican leadgrs had been shrewder men they would have remembered that there must necessarily be elements of opposition among the leading men in every State, South as well as North; they would have remembered how bitter was, in the old times, tye antipathy between the whigs and democrats in all the Southern States, which could never entirely die out; and they would have carefully sought to make use of this feeling to build up their party in the South on a solid base, as quickly as the turmoil left by the war and freshened by the recon- struction measures began to die down. Instead of rigorously excluding all the lead- ing minds of the South from office and coun- cil they should have carefully looked over two of the most influential of the younger pub- lic men in the South; they should have called into their party councils leading and con- spicuous men from every Southern State, and given to these the disposal of the federal patronage in their States; they should have arranged the important foreign missions so that several Southern men of real influence would represent the country abroad; they should have forgotten that there had been a war and insisted only that the men whom they called to their councils should take care that justice was done to all in the South, and that good men, men of influence in their communities, should be put in office. In this way they would have built themselves up in the Sonth and would have split that great white vote which their actual policy has only more and more consolidated. Of course in doing this they would have had to take the advice of their Southern allies as tothe policy which should be puysued toward the South. Men like Governor Brown, of Georgia, or General Morgan, of Alabama, real influence in any of the Southern States— would not have taken office under the repub- lican rule, except with the condition that they should have a responsible share in fram- ing the Southern policy of the party. Be- cause such just influence has been denied, men of this kind are now acting with the democratic party down there, and the only Southern men who could be recruited to the republican ranks have been persons of no | influence and for the most part of little or | no character. The Southern people are more easily led by a few strong minds among them than the people of any Northern State. This is not because they lack opinions of their own, but because they have more confidence in their public men and have long been accustomed to follow their lead. It is probably not an exaggeration to say that there are in every Southern State half a dozen men who, if they were determined, could carry their | person and property, and to satisfy them all | | property, should be protected from attack. So far the | the field and called to the Cabinet at least | or Governor Garland, of Arkansas—men of | State against the democratic party. In Georgia, for instance, it is probable that Gov- | ernor Brown and Mr. Stephens combined could carry the State for any policy which they approved, and by a very large majority. Of course they would be powerless to carry best reason to believe that the republican | leaders, had they made such men the dis- | pensers of federal patronage in their States and taken their advice as to a Southern policy, could to-day have established a large and, we believe, a predominant republican | party in most of those States. | (Nor is this a matter of merely party im- | portance. It is of the greatest consequence that there should be in all the Southern | States two parties, each containing a fair | proportion of the leading minds and the in- | fluential public men of the State. There can | be no permanerft political settlement down there until this takes place. Unfortunately, the policy of the republican leaders has hith- erto prevented it, by proscribing and reject- the South, and giving federal place, power and countenance alone to a class, part strangers and part low whites and persons of no influence, in whose hands the republican party has perished. Return of the Team. The reception yesterday tendered to the victors of Dollymount was a well deserved | recognition of important services rendered. It must have in great part consoled the gen- tlemen to whom it was offered for the many sacrifices and ‘labors’ through which, without hope of fee or reward, they passed for the honor and good repute of their country. Quiet and unobtrusive men, they must have impressed the people they met with in Europe as much by the modesty and dignity of their deportment as by the wondrous skill they displayed before the targets. Only skilled riflemen can fully understand the amount of self.denial and patient labor that were required to achieve the grand success which attended our men in their contest with the best trained long range riflemen in Europe. In teaching foreigners that the citizens of this Re- public have still the same cool, steady nerve their forefathers displayed in the struggle for independence, our riflemen have rendered the country a great service ; for it teaches those who dwell at a distance that we have hands and hearts ready and able to defend the national honor, though no hireling troops invest our coun- try. . The fecling displayed toward the team by the people was of the most enthusiastic nature, though the unfortunate downpour of rain interfered sadly with the effect of the parade. It did not, however, prevent the assembling of a large crowd at the City Hall and along the route of the procession, and everywhere the members of the team were received with warm demonstrations of weleome. More Bonds, Comptroller Green advertises three hun- dred and seventy thousand dollars’ worth of bonds and will receive bids for that amount. These bonds are for city parks, to meet as- .sessments and to pay claims and judg- ments. The rate offered for city bonds is gratifying to all who esteem the credit of New-York. This business of increasing our bonded debt should come to an end. The most serious complaint that we have to make against Comptroller Green is that, coming into office a reformer, he has steadily added to the burdens of our people. Now, it is very certain that if a business man managed his affairs upon the principle of adding to his debts every year by borrowing more and more, the end would be sure bankruptcy. If a city like New York manages its affairs upon the same principle, what else must come but bankruptcy? New York is a great, rich, powerful metropolis. Under a good government there is no reason why it should not from year to year pay its running expenses, This borrowing money and putting off the evil day and pay- ing the interest is the curse of our American governments. There is scareclya town ora village or a corporation that does not feel that its first duty is to go largely into debt. We are a debt burdened people and New York is a debt burdened city. We shall believe in no reform in New York that does not rest upon the clear principle that every year tax- ation shall pay that year’s expense, and that beyond this we shall not go. We do so in the national government, why not in this city? The Secretary of the Treasury is con- stantly selling bonds and reducing the debt. Here we are issuing bonds and constantly increasing our debt. The best evidence in the world that Comptroller Green ig a quack financier as well as a fraud generally upon good government is in this constant increase of our bonded debt. If he were a brave, original, far-seeing man he would earn a title to the respect of his people by insisting that New York should pay as it goes. Overcrowbep Stzamers.—It will be seen from our report of yesterday that the author- ities have been taking active. measures to prevent the overloading of steamers. This is a subject that is thoroughly cévered by the law. There is no reason why the law should not be rigidly enforced so as to prevent the discomfort that is now visited ypon so many of our people and the danger Pad appalling } accident. During the midsummer months the only opportunity that thousands of our | people can have for recreation in the country | is by taking the excursion boat and spending the day in the woods or among the breakers, | As we are anxious to have New York made an attractive city during the summer, and as | it is a part of wisdom to bring the city into close relations with its suburbs, there cannot | be too much care taken with these excursion | boats. If an example can be made of two or | three of them for overloading it will have a | beneficial result. The whole subject is one which requires thorough investigation, We | trust that before the summer is over w& shall be enabled to chronicle a salutary reform. Gwoorarnry seoms to be the favorite study of the French savans, and the American de- partment in the Salle des Etats of the Tuil- eries, as appears by our letter this morning, is not the least important part of the collec- tions in that noble edifice relating to geo- graphical science | it fora policy of proscription. But thereis the | ing all the men of brains and real power in | Religion in Politics. We read with regret the speech of General Noyes, delivered at Bellefontaine, Ohio, a few days since. In this speech the General | alluded to the war made by Gladstone in | England, Bismargk in Germany and Victor | Emmanuel in Italy upon ‘the temporal pre- | tensions of the Pope of Rome,” to show that while His Holiness was losing his authority in government affairs in Europe he was turn- ing his eyes toward “this Republic, with its free institutions.” The Governor pointed out the fact that the Catholic Church in America has risen in eighty-five years from a numer- ical ratio of one in one hundred and thirty- one to one in six, and has become “‘arrogant and self-asserting.” ‘‘If it has become neces- | sary,” says the Governor, ‘‘to be a Catholic in order to be a democrat there will be fewer democrats.” The introduction of the question into the Ohio campaign gives it a morbid and unnat- ural importance. It has no business there. There is no real issue behind Catholicism and Protestantism. Speeches like Governor Noyes’ are the efforts of the demagogue to obtain votes by appealing to the religious impressions of the masses. It has always been the pride of our country that we grant absolute liberty of conscience. We think that the leaders of the Catholic Church have, in many cases, been ill-advised and strenu- ous in their devotion to their faith, We think the movement last summer, for in- stance, in New York by which it was pro- posed to divide the school fund so as to allow the Catholics to receive their share of the general school money was a mistake. It would be a blunder in violation of all the principles of republican government to con- sent that the public funds for the education ofthe young should be controlled by any Christian denomination. This would be to drift into the ‘very condition of affairs which has led to the troubles in Germany and Italy. Even apart from the mistake in a pa- triotic point of view of endeavoring to revive this question of religion there comes the further question of apprehending the power of the Catholic Church. As Governor Noyes showed, the Catholics in America are as one in every six. In otherwords, this is a country containing five Protestants to one Catholic. The United States is a stronger Protestant country to-day than British Amer- ica, Germany or Great Britain. It has the strongest Protestant power in the world. Nor does the Catholic Church make any un- usual advance in this country. Its increase comes largely from Ireland. But our emi- gration from England and Wales and Scot- land and Germany and the Scandinavian countries makes us question now whether the larger part do not belong to the Protestant faith. There is no fear that the Catholic Church will become a dominant power in this country. The tendency of modern thought, especially in liberal nations, is to swing away from the teachings of that faith. Even good, devoted Irish people complain of the difficulty they have in keeping their children who are born in this country within the circles of the Church. Therefore to ap- peal to the Protestant feeling against the Catholic religion is to ask the country to rise up and stamp on a sect which is only repre- sented by one citizen in six. It is not wise to pursue the discussion. If the republicans in Ohio cannot carry their State without invoking that dreaded phan- tom, “religions intolerance,” then they should retire from politics. We regard the public man who appeals to the religious pas- sions of the people to serve his political interests as the worst kind of a demagogue. Unjust Discrimination by the Federal Government. It is an established fact, we believe, that in this country one man is as good as another; but it is not so evident that one State is as good as another. Here, for instance, is Illi- nois. Itisalarge State, a fertile State, a populous State, a wealthy State. It is the State from which General Grant entered the army in 1861. It is the State from whieh he appointed his excellent Minister to France. It is the State which contains General Logan. It is, on all these and many other accounts, a State which does not deserve at the hands of the federal government such a grave and of- fensive slight as has been and is put upon it. We speak of the matter with pain, but in the public interest we can remain silent no longer. Ku Klux have raged in Franklin and Williamson counties, in Illinois, not merely for weeks or months, but for two years. “Shrouded sharpshooters” defy justice, and murder and intimidate at their own ferocious wills, The law officers of the county and State are, or seem to be, unable to check violence or to punish murder and rapine ; and yet we do not hear of federal interfer- ence. General Grant remains unconcerned at Long Branch, while the laws are defied by masked murderers in his favorite State. There is no proclamation warning these Illinois Ku Klux to disperse. There is no summons of troops to go to the scene of long continued bloodshed. The President, ‘so prompt to interpose his strong arm in South Carolina or Louisiana or Mississippi, so eager to interfere in Arkansas in the cause of peace and order, is utterly neglectful of Illinois. Why is this? Are the people of Illinois not as good as those of Arkansas and Louisiana ? Must men nowadays live south of Mason and Dixon's line to be entitled to the favor- able notice of the federal government? Have Northern or Northwestern men no rights that the President is bound to enforce with federal bayonets? Are Ku Klux to be destroyed in the South and to be encouraged in the North only? Andif so, why? This is a matter which touches the pride of States and of sections. As Northern men we can- not see with patience such gross and long- continued favoritism on the part of the federal government towards the South. Rarr Transtt.—Is it possible that the Rapid Transit Commissioners, after all, are to fail in giving us a plan for rapid transit? The time for the consideration of the ques- tion is rapidly passing away, and from our reports this morning it will be seen that the Commission is as far from a practical solution of the difficulty as ever. There must be no failure this time, and the Commissioners ought to know that they will be held respon- sible unless a practical and feasible route is decided uvon The Two Pilgrims. There can be no doubt that we are now freshly embarked in the campaign for the Presidency. The best evidence of this is to be found in the pilgrimages which have been recently made by Governor Tilden and Gen- eral Grant. The surest sign that a politician aims at continued advancement is when he “goes among the people.” When we find a statesman as old as the Governor leaving the comforts of Saratoga and Long Branch to lec- ture the people of Albany and Buffalo and Syracuse upon” internal improvements, we may well believe that he is not above the am- bition of ascending still higher in public life. When we find a politician as stolid as General Grant, and as much devoted to his comfort and his personal ease, leaving the attractions of the seaside Branch and the soothing and distinguished society which there surrounds him, to attend Sunday schools and clambakes, we are at liberty to put our own construction upon his motives, The campaign for the Presidency may be said to open with the pilgrimage of Tilden to the salt mines of Syracuse, and with that of Grant to the clambake of Rhode Island. The character of these two pilgrimages illustrates largely what we may expect in the coming canvass, Governor Dorsheimer is the handsomest man now in public life. As he has served in both parties and been hon- ored by each ho has an unusual experience in public affairs. Governor Dorsheimer illus- trates in his person the value of regeneration. A few years ago he was publicly sneered at as a beef-cater, asa vassal of President Grant, as a hanger-on at conventions and a stipendiary of the Custom House. There came a change of heart. Dorsheimer left his old party and found so much grace with the new that he is now the second officer of the State. He is no longera beef-eater, no longer a vassal, He is the representative of Young America, the rising De Witt Clinton of the State. Heis ‘Jonathan” to King David. This combination—the wisdom of Tilden and the beauty of Dorsheimer—have made a fine im- pression upon the State. The people have had the opportunity of looking upon the venerable features of our distinguished Chief Magistrate. They have seen the ring- breaker. Already the artists of the campaign are decorating their banners for Uncle Sam, and the political poets are finding rhymes for Tilden. Soon we shall have ditties bur- dened with Uncle ‘Sam. All the while our advice to the Governor is to make haste slowly. mk The Creedmoor Fall Meeting. A desire to make Creedmoor popular with the whole country and encourage all classes of riflemen to take part in the annual con- tests is clearly shown in the programme pre- pared by the National Rifle Association. Small bore and military rifles have been fairly classed, so that the competitors in all matches will be placed as nearly on a condi- tion of equality as possible. Members of the National Guard will no longer find them- selves pitted, without an equivalent allow- ance, against men shooting with superior arms. This system of classifying and handicapping rifles will no doubt cause some dissatisfaction among the possessors of special arms, but it must commend itself to the sense of fair play of all disinterested riflemen. Under the old system competitors using the regulation arm were at terrible dis- advantage at the long ranges. The difference in precision of firing between the regulation and special arms up to five hundred yards is not very considerable, but at all ranges be- yond, the heavy charges and bullets of special rifles gave competitors using them a most unfair advantage, This injustice we are glad ‘to see the Council of the Rifle Association has had the courage to remove. Another pleasant feature of the fall programme is the recognition given to the off-hand riflemen. The intro- duction of an interstate match will do more to make Creedmoor the American Wimble- don than could be accomplished by any amount of patriotic appeals. This year, no doubt, the representation from the States will not be very large, but next fall will in all probability witness the assembling of riflemen from every State to compete for the championship of the Union. We would suggest that the council go one step further and introduce the Wimbledon system of dis- tributing prizes by stages in the champion- ship matches. It would tend greatly to increase the interest felt by riflemen in these contests, by preventing the few crack shots from sweeping away all the important prizes. A Venetran Recarra is an event of peculiar interest in these days of boat races, and our letter from the city of gondolas will find many readers in consequence, Tue Intsn Question obtains a new interest because of the excitement occasioned by the O'Connell celebration. In our Dublin letters this morning we present an interesting analysis of the situation, together with an interview with O'Connor Power on the issues involved between Ireland and England. Fol- lowing the example of Mr. Froude, the his- torian, who came to this country three years ago to present the English side of the controversy, Mr. Power purposes visiting America to present the Irish view. This gives his opinions as expressed to our correspond- ent a particular value and enables ‘us to judge somewhat of the young parlimentarian who is soon toappear among us, Necro Insvrnections my tHe Sovrn are always problematical at best ; but the antici- pated Georgia uprising is more absurd than any that have preceded it. That all the white men were to be murdered in a country where the whites almost equal the nagroes in num- ber is an absurdity in itself, but that the ugly women were to be included, while the pretty ones should be spared, stamps the whole story as a foolish canard. Even the Southern negroes are not sufficiently igno- rant to entertain a proposition like that con- tained in the confession of Jack Mooreman and others, Tae Herzxcovintan Revout.—Although the Porte is reported to have already refused to grant to Herzegovina an independence similar to that enjoyed by Servia, it is plain from the tone of the European press and the attitude of the treaty Powers that this con- cession must be madé if the insurrection — the liberation of the outlying provinces of Turkey. The Theatrical Season. The theatrical outlook for this season is re- markably promising, This week the theatres open with a rush, and we may look upon the full season a6 fairly inaugurated. As might be expected, the motley crowd of the variety stage form the advance guard, and throw themselves with characteristic dash into their work. Last night saw the doors of the Comique thrown open, as Well as those of the favorite Olympic, The pleasant little home of minstrelsy where poor Dan Bryant was wont to amuse the public with his light- hearted jokes and caperings, and which has heard no song or laugh since he died, last night reopened under new management. The spectacular drama, represented at present by a version of Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days,” at the Grand Opera House, will this week be rein- forced by a second production of the same story at the Academy of Music, which it is promised will exceed in brilliancy of effects any spectacle ever witnessed in this country. Next week the serious drama will claim public attention and two Hamlets dispute for the crown of public favor, The appearance of two so well known actors as Mr. E. L. Da- venport and Mr. Barry Sullivan cannot fail to be of great interest. We are glad to sea our native actors desirous of measuring their capabilities by the standard of the men Eu- rope sends us ; but they should be careful to do itin the spirit of generous rivalry and appeal to the judgment and art taste of the American public rather than to a narrow spirit of faction. Italy will this year send us her great tragedian, Rossi, the man who, in the public opinion of that country, rivals in dramatic power Salvini, whose performances have seldom, if ever, been equalled by any English speaking actor. Theodore Thomas, in his pleasant Central Park Garden, caters for the lovers of classical music; Gilmore, in his garden, supplies a more popular form of musical entertainment with great success, and a merry band of opéra bonffers, under the leadership of Miss Julia Mathews, have taken possession ‘of Wallack’s austere stage. “Big Bonanza” reappears at the Fifth Avenue to fill in the preliminary season at that house. So the tide of amusement rolls on, and New York promises to be as pleasant a place this win- ter as plenty of good dramatic entertainment can make it. 5 PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Vory Rev. J. Hickey, of Pittsbarg, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel, The Governor General will return to Canada in the early part of September. Mayor G. W. C. Johnson, of Cincinnati, is registered at the Union Square Hotel, Paymaster Henry B, Reese, United States Army, is quartered at the Grand Hotel. is Does General Banks funcy that Grecley was merely four years ahead of his time? The Mayor of Cincinnati yesterday paid a ‘visit to Mayor Wickham at the City Hall, General J, B, Stonehouse, of Albany, arrived last evening at the Hotel Brunswick. State Senator S. S. Lowery, of Utica, is among the late arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Kentucky is supposed to be good for 100,000 majority against Bristow if he should ve the candidate. Captain James B. Eads and Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, of St. Louis, are residing at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Tshii Yoshitaka, Centennial Commissioner for Japan, has taken up his residence at the St, Nicholas Hotei, Mr. Thomas Dickson, President of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, is sojournibg at the St Nicho- las Hotel. A cable despatch of ast evening announces that Car- dinal McCloskey will remain in Paris until the end of the month. Mr. Bronson C. Rumsey, President of the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad Company, is stop» ping at the New York Hotel, An “ugly scandal’? about Shakespeare has been re- fated, and sensitive people who were just beginning to feel uneasy about it are relieved. Frightful stories are reported about tramps killed on the railway, Cannot more of them be induced to pre- fer the railway to the high road? ! The police crime at Weehawken is sufficient evidence, if such were needed, that a line cannot be drawn that will put the policemen on one side and the murderers on the other. Jefferson Davis has received invitations from Des Moines, Iowa; Charleston, Ill, and other points in the West to deliver the annual addresses at the meetings of several agricultural societies this fall. Mr. James Mooney, a wine arf spirit merchant in Dublin, has been arrested on a charge of indecently as- saulting a lady named Mrs. Milton while travelling ina first class carriage between Dublin and Drogheda. : Mr. Gladstone, thanking a German author for the dedication of his work, writes as follows:—‘‘Germany now holds the first place on behalf of the world in asserting the necessity of limiting spiritual powers to spiritual things.” It 1s reported that Russia’s refusal to take part in the Contennial was brought about by M. Catacazy. Scarcely. The northern bear may be led, but not with that sort of ribbon. If there is any spleen in it, it is the memory of quite another affront. Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister, and Mr, F, Adam, of the British Legation, are at the Clarendon Hotel, awaiting the. arrival from England of Sir Ede ward’s family, who are passengers by the steamship Scythia, duo at this port to-day. “Sentimental reconstruction” is apparently the new ereed in Boston, anda pretty good creed too, And the party that stands on it might win if the people could cast aside their political projudices as readily as do the philosophers and philanthropists; but there is more ballast in the people, Those are the days of fraternal reunions of Northern and Southern soldiers, Northern and Southern poli- ticians, &c., all of which isan indication that all men who want an honest government—no matter what their previous history—are nearer to one another than they are to the politicang, The testimonial which ft ts proposed to give to Charles Mackay is intended to prevent his reward being entirely posthumous, Tho Duke of Sutherland and the Duko of Westmeath, the Marquis of Lorne, the Marquis of Hartington, Lords Rosebery, Russell, Wharncliite and others are on the Testimonial Committee, Victoria Anderson, a rope dancer from Shefield, who will be remembored as the Queen of the Lofty Wire at Barnam’s Hippodrome, aged twenty-three, fell, om Monday, August 9, at Berlin, from a velovipede on a rope eighty fot high, on which she. was performing She was fearfully injured and diod shortly afterward, In St, Louis it is proposed to pay off the national: dobt at the expense of the dogs, which aro said to rep- resent a waste of $80,000,000 that could be put at com- pound interest, ke, But does anybody want to buy! the dogs at any price? If, however, Missouri has dog- goned capital to the extent of 430,000,000, perhaps a, few other States will throw in their pups, and compound | interest will scarcely be necessary. A. P, Rogers, of Anoka, Minn., writes to the Pioneer Press in rogard to the history of William Morgan, He states that his father was a missionary in the Wilder. ness of Northern Maine from about 1850 onward, and visited al! tho sottioments in that district; that one day he camo upon a cabin in the woods inhabited by a soll. tary man; be subsequently often saw this man, whom ho thought he knew, and whom he eventually recog- nized as Morgan. Hoe had known Morgan barlier in life, Morgan finding himself recoenized loft the neighbor. continues, Even the London Times favora | hood secretly .