The New York Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henarp will be sent 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 be addressed New York Hera, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—RUE SCRIBE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL- AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, th avenue, corner Twenty-third street.—AROUND THE RLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P. M. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos. 585 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. 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Persons qoing out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Henatp mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month, Wau Srreet Yesterpay.—The market was irregular and without feature. Gold was steady at 113 3-8. Bonds were in fair request and firm. Tue Coxsviar Cornespoxpexce with the Department of State, from which we publish extracts this morning, presents some interest- ing questions affecting our trade in almost every part of the world. Jack Canren’s Venactty does not go une questioned, and the other side of the story is presented in the Henatp this morning. This makes an investigation all the more necese sary. Carrars Bocarpvs, the champion pigeon shooter of the world, who has just returned to this country after his remarkable successes in England, favors the Henatp this morning with an account of his experiences. The Captain talks as well as he shoots, and his ideas are as fairly hit off as his birds. Tne Rarm Transtr Commissioy, it is now understood, will agree upon a route within the time limited by law. It is of the utmost importance that they shall do this, for with- out such agreement we are as far from quick transit as ever. Only a few days remain for the completion of their inquiries, and" we trust not an hour of the remaining time will be lost. ‘Tue Ivrenxationan Reoatta at Saratoga began yesterday with the amateur races. Courtney, who won the State championship # year ago, held his own against all comers, and by repeating his previous success he has done much to assert a claim to be considered | the best amateur rower in the country. James Riley, a new man, won the junior race. In another column we present a full | | it difficult for some members of General | and the conduct of Indian affairs the ques- | and respected bythe people. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. Ought the Cabinet Resign? It would be an absurd and unheard of thing for a military staff officer to resign because he disapproved of the plan of cam- paign pursued by his general. It is his part to obey orders unquestioningly and unhesi- tatingly. That is.the imperative necessity of military life. Tennyson, in the ‘Charge of the Light Brigade,” tersely explained this matter. Thoirs not to reason why; ‘Theirs not to make reply; Theirs but to do or die, he says, and sums up the whole duty of all, even the highest subordinate military officers. But in arranged very differently. Not only maya civil officer, even of low grade, rightly refuse to obey’ what he believes to be an unlawful command from his superior; not only may he both “reply” and “reason why,” but in all free and what are called “responsible” governments the highest subordinate exec- utive officers are held to share in the respon- sibility of the chief executive. The cabinet | minister is the official adviser of his chiet. It is supposed that the chief executive lays before his cabinet the policy he thinks wise and proper; it is supposed that he consults | this body, and that on all important ques- tions he has their consent before he acts. | If any member of a cabinet disapproves of | the policy determined on by his chief, and | that policy is of real importance, it is sup- posed that the cabinet officer will resign, and this for the sufficient reason that if he retained his place the public, the country, would, with justice, believe that he approved, and hold him, in common with his chief, responsible for the course pursued. All this is very well understood and is necessarily so, because otherwise it would be impossible to obtain statesmen to serve in cabinet offices. The place, which is one of first rate importance in a free government, would on any other condition be degraded to that of a mere clerk or a staff officer. No one can imagine Clay, Webster or Calhoun, Jef- ferson, Hamilton or Madison, Chase or Douglas remaining in the Cabinet when they disapproved of a vital question of adminis- tration or policy, They would rightly have thought themselves degraded. In minor de- tails they might and did “agree to disagree;” but when it came toa really important and public question they preferred independence to a position only to be held at the sacrifice of principle or character. Nor is this merely a matter of etiquette. It has important uses and consequences. It increases the sense of responsibility of the chief executive, be- cause, however careless a President might be of general public opinion, which cannot make itself felt, except at elections, and then often only indirectly, he would be care- ful not to direct all eyes upon his blunder or misconduct by carrying it to such an extreme as to provoke the resignation of a cabinet officer—a public protest by one who ought, in his position, to be a statesman of promi- nence and character. Of course, no one can determine the pre- cise cause for which a cabinet officer differ- ing with his chief ought to resign. That is a question addressed to the conscience, the sense of honor or the opinions of each mem- ber of the cabinet at the time. But one thing is certain—that, retaining his place, he commits himself to the policy. For in- stance, when, last winter, the New Orleans affair arunsed public attention, it was given out that at least two members of the Cabinet—Messrs. Fish and Jewell—were strongly opposed to the course which the President favored and ordered in Louisiana. But as their opposition was not publicly de- monstrated, as they retained their places, the public justly took for granted that they were not in fact opposed, but that they were in harmony with the President. Again, when thé President was known to favor and urge the adoption of the Habeas Corpus and Force bill, this did not dissolve the Cabinet; | and it is to be supposed, therefore, that all its members favored this extreme policy. Again, when the President sent in his star- tling Arkansas Message the Cabinet were silent, and the people understood, very properly, that they approved even this re- markable policy. The result has been that the American peo- ple, who undoubtedly condemn all these measures, which events have shown to be needless and very dangerous, condemn also the Cabinet, in common with the President, as the authors and supporters of these meas- ures. So completely has President Grant succeeded in forcing his whole Cabinet to support him in all parts of his policy, so en- tirely has he committed them to his own views, that they figure in the public esteem to-day as little ‘more than his chief clerks. The ablest of them has lost character and prestige by his submission to a policy many parts of which he must have disapproved; and we see the remarkable spectacle of a | Cabinet no one of whose members is regarded as a possible successor of the President, be- cause all are committed to his views. But just now a question arises different in kind from those which heretofore have made Grant's Cabinet to retain at the same time their places and their consistency. In the Lovisiana and the Arkansas measures and in the matter of the Force bill the question was | one of judgment. In the case of Mr. Delano tion is one of honor and honesty. Once | more comes up before members of the Cabi- | net, and before their friends and personal ad- | civil government matters are | | and punished. | this thing continues much the Indian Bwreau known to him. The ac- cusations against him are positive and cir- cumstantial, and are ‘made by men of honor | and character, who were in a position to know whereof they speak, The President jin the face of these serious charges retains Mr. Delano. Can the rest of the Cabinet afford to retain their places if General Grant does not dismiss him? Can Mr. Fish, can Mr. Jewell, can Mr. Bristow, can Mr. Robeson afford to retain their places, and thus say to the people that, on their honor as gentlemen, on their charac- ter as statesmen, all who accuse Mr. Delano are in the wrong, and that there has been no mismanagement, no corruption, in the Inte- addresses itself to the conscience and the self-respect of each of these gentlémen, and | each must decide for himself. ‘The public will decide later for itself. Most of them cannot be supposed mere chief clerks. Mr. | Fish, for instance, wishes, very properly, to be regarded as a statesman. Mr. Jewell and Mr. Bristow would like to stand on equally gone? They have swallowed some bitter | pills. Mr. Belknap’s despatch to Sheridan, the dispersion of the Louisiana Legislature, | the Arkansas Message, were not pleasant | doses. But here is one ofa different kind. The real question is, Shall they lend their characters to General Grant to shicld an | officer openly and squarely charged with | grave and systematic corruption and fraud? | We do not pretend to advise thom, for it is a | question which each must settle for himself. But we respectfully call their attention to the matter and assure them that the Ameri- can people are looking and waiting to see what they will do. The Georgia Troubles. The course of Governor Smith of Georgia, and the prudent self-restraint of the whites in the region where a rumor of a negro in- surrectionary plot prevailed, are extremely satisfactory and creditable both to the authorities and the people. The Southern white people, living among the blacks, and more or less isolated on their plantations, where a single white family is offen sur- rounded by a hundred or two of negroes, are extremely but not unnaturally apprehensive of negro risings. They feel that to a great extent they are helpless against a sudden out- burst of the blacks, and each white man naturally thinks of his own wife and chil- dren. Hence we have seen on several lamentable occasions, as at Coushatta, the whites rush frantically to arms at the first rumor of a rising of the blacks, and at once, with nnreasoning ferocity shoot down right and left. In Georgia, this time, the whites appear to have been more sensible. They | have, under the guidance of Governor Smith and the local authorities, preserved their self- possession. The danger—if there was really | danger—is over. Many arrests have been | “made, and now comes the time for investiga- » tion. ‘The Governor declares publicly that | he means to see equal and exact justice done to whites and blacks. We trust he will sce to it that if there was really a plot the leaders shall be discovered and their motives exposed. Generally, in such an enter- prise, the real. leaders keep them- selves prudently in the background. It will be the part of the authorities to ferret them out and to see that they are exposed The mass of the blacks are not responsible ; they are easily led away by designing men. This transaction ought to teach the people of Georgia to foster their common school sys- tem and to see to it that the colored people are educated. The ignorance of this class is the only source of danger in the South from them. They are mild, faithful, industrious, easily guided. They need only general com- mon school education to make them a safe and valuable laboring class. Hitherto in Georgia there has been a good deal of foolish opposition to their education, and, indeed, to common schools in general. It may be hoped that this affair will remove some of the prevailing prejudice against free schools for all. eee ete 4 AsseMBLYMAN Wruiarp Jonson is given an unenviable notoriety in the fourth report of the Commission to investigate fraud upon the canals, which is published this morning. The cost of the work executed by Johnson was $62,172 in excess of his contract, and the report charges him with defrauding the State out of $30,595. The case against the Assem- blyman seems to be an exceedingly strong one, and there are many reasons why he should be made to suffer the full penalty for his offences. He is a leading politician, as well asa prominent member of the Canal Ring, and it is by the punishment of such as he that honesty in the public. service can be best inculcated. Both civil and crimi- nal actions should be instituted against Johnson at once, and the people expect that they shall be begun without a moment's delay. Mn. Wersn’s Rerty to Gexerat Cowan, which we print this morning, is a still farther arraignment of the firm of Delano and Cowan and the Indian Bureau. The more exposures that are made of these Indian frauds the more there seem necessary to be made. If longer even General Grant can hardly consent to retain Delano in his Cabinet. ‘tin? Recest Decisiox of the California herents solicitous for their future, the qnes- tion, Can they retain their places if the | President perseveres in his course and sup- | ports Mr. Delano? That officer is accused of having misused his great place for corrupt | purposes. His accusers are men of high po- | sition, of established character, well known One of them, report of these interesting contests. Tae Swoouxe Cramptons on both sides of the Atlantic renewed their attempts in the watery element yesterday, Captain Webb starting to swim across the English Channel, | and Johnson accomplishing his great feat on the Delaware. We have not yet receiveda report of the success or failure of the former effort, while in the latter Coyle, who was Johnson's antagonist, gave up the? ndeavor after swimming six miles. Johnson's supe- riority is thus clearly established, but if Webb succeeds he will probably have a new contest on his hands for the championship of the world, Mr. Welsh, a personal friend of the Presi- | dent, does not hesitate to declare that only General Grant's curious blindness to the faults of his friends enables him to retain Mr. Delano in the Cabinet. But the public | remembers also that the President's brother has received important favors from Mr. De- lano, and it remembers, too, that the Presi- dent takes great care of his relatives. Nobody doubts who has read the charges | of Professor Marsh, Mr. Welsh, Mr. Walker and others, and the exposures made by the Heraup's correspondents and those of other journals, that under the management of Mr. Delano there has been gross corruption in | courts declaring Mrs. King, the wife of the | murderer of O'Neil, now in the State Prison at Sing Sing, a widow and entitled to inherit under the will of her father, as such forms | the basis of a very interesting narrative~in another column. | is generally sustained the estates of rich life | convicts can be settled as if they were ac- | tually dead. | Scroxon Genera, Hammonp has added to his reputation by his summary method of dealing with burglars. Although he suc- ceeded in wounding one of the men who at- j tempted to enter his honse yesterday morn- ing, and the police were on the ground a few minutes after the shooting, the burglars es« | caped. Grave crimes have been unusually frequent within the last fortnight, and yet not a single important arrest has been made. Such imbecility is disgraceful to the Rolice Devartment and to the citw, rior Department? The question is one which | high ground, Can they, without lowering their | | own colors, go any further than they have | The point of law is that | civil is equal to actual death, and if the rule | Iceland and Its Voleanoes, There could hardly be anything more in- congruons, as would at first appear, than the association of Iceland and a volefnic erup- tion. Yet the island in the Arctic Seas which bears that name has been during the present | year the scene of one of the most terrific ex- plosions, if we may so designate it, that has ever been witnessed, and it is particularly calculated to excite our sympathies at the present time, the Icelanders having only last year celebrated their millennial, or thou- | sandth year of their Republic. The island | itself has never been of great conse- quence in the world as a_ political | power, but it has been the seat of a remarkable intelligence. In area it ex- ceeds by about one-fourth that of Ireland, although only about seven thousand square miles of it are habitable. This portion is, as it were, only a girdle of green investing a vast collection of volcanic mountains, In many places this girdle is very narrow, in- deed almost entirely lost, while in other places it expands along the banks of rivers a good way into the interior. A population of from sixty to seventy thousand is thereon supported, mainly by the rearing of sheep | and cattle and the catching of fish—these latter being salmon and cod. Where pasture lands for sheep exist the flocks are large and the profits in wool considerable. In a strict sense there is no farming, although the ordinary garden vegetables are cul- tivated successfully. The people retain their ancient characteristics, and it is of interest to us to remember that the strongest element of our language, which we are in the habit of calling Saxon, is now spoken only in Iceland in its original purity. far away, are very near to. us. About one-third of the entire island has been, as it were, shaken to pieces, and the most disastrous consequences have, resulted from the pouring forth of streams of lava and the emission from the bowels of the earth of vast volumes of hot sand andashes. Nothing has, perhaps, ever equalled it since the awful catastrophe whith overwhelmed Pompeii and Herculaneum. The region most dis- turbed is the eastward of the centre of the island, and, beginning in the vast un- explored region of the Vatua Jékul, extends northward to the wilds of Myvatu. Most of this region is clothed with perpetual ice and snow, and out from this area of frost came on the 29th of March last a blaze of fire, show- ers of redhot lava and clouds of smoke and ashes. So dense did the latter become that in a short time the light of heaven was ob- secured. Candles were lighted at noonday. By four o'clock in the afternoon the shower of ashes had somewhat abated, and then whole farms were covered from one and a half to eight inches deep with this smother- ing, sulphurous blanket. The inhabited por- tions comprise, of course, but a small part of the area thus covered, but the pasture lands of Jokiildal and Flétodalshérad, thus converted practically into a desert, embrace three thousand square miles. Here and there patches are found where a few cows and sheep find pasture, but the people have’ mostly fled away. The safety of the people depends upon keeping their cows alive during the coming winter, for on milk and what they make from it are the Iceland- ers principally dependent. The demand is for fodder for these animals, so necessary to the existence of the people. A single ship load of grain and hay would be a Godsend to these unhappy dwellers in the North Sea, whom frost and fire alike threaten with destruction. Probably there has not been within the memory of any living man a year when the elements have wrought in various quarters of the world greater calamities; but no sad- der plea for help comes from anywhere than from poor, voleano-shaken Iceland. Civilized Infanticide—The Remedy. No animals are known to abandon their progeny, for the word abandonment cannot properly be applied to those few cases in which the young of certain animals receive no care because they need none. In every species where the progeny need care and de- fence it is the ‘one inseparable trait of animal ‘morality’ to furnish these to the last extremity if need be. Even those who hold that humanity is only the latest step of progress {from animal life must admit, therefore, that a growth which seems all’ in the direction of improvement has at least produced one re- sult which is a degradation, and puts man below the animals in benevolence; for all human races rid themselves of the burden of a superfluous progeny with more or less deference to forms. It might be superfluous to speculate as to the precise point of prog- ress toward humanity at which mothers find the maternal instinct less powerful than certain conventional considerations of good repute, or even of common comfort, but it is certain that the point is touched at an early stage of the growth of every society, and grows as the civilization is higher. In the semi-barbarous settlements of Asia, where children are exposed at the edge of the vil- lage at nightfall, and are seized by the prowl- ing wolf, and sometimes become the nursling of the she-wolf, whose heart proves gentler than that of the human mother, the crime is less common than in civilized China, whero there are recognized receptacles for the little wretches ; and in China it is still less com- mon proportionately to population than in Europe. In Europe: this vice has been treated in very different ways. It has been recognized and provided fo®, and stringent | enactments have been framed to repress it. In the Latin countries they have provided that the “exposure” of the infants should re- | lieve the unhappy mother without the de- struction of the child, and the vast foundling hospitals have done great service in that direc- tion. In England the Puritanical view has al- ways prevailed on social subjects, and in this case it had a characteristically vile thought behind it. Foundling hospitals were looked upon, not as preventing murder and saving children, but as affording facilities for evil, just as the known existence of a fecciver of | stolen goods may be looked upon as an in- centive to theft. They were so restricted, therefore, as to be ineffective as a remedy, murder called baby farming, by which little | ones are boarded out, and are not killed by violence but simply die from the want of prover care and nourishment. the profit to Thus the Icelanders, though so | and thence arose the English form of baby | the murderess being that a child may die in its first week and_ she will collect the board money for several months. In this country we have generally gone a step beyond Eng- land in our Puritanism, and have murdered the mother by malpractice before the birth of the child. But this: seems now to have be- come dangerous, and our recent news from Rochester is one more indication that we have receded a step and taken up the English system. There is hope, therefore, that we may recede yet another step, and that public opinion will turn favorably to the best result yet achieved by society in this direction— the establishment, as part of the public ad- ministration in every city, of foundling hos- pitals. : The Politicians’ Talk, The democratic politicians in the South and West are calculating on a union of those sections in the Speakership contest in De- cember and in the Presidential Convention of next year. According to this programme the democratic nomination for President is to go to the West, the South modestly fore- going any place on the Presidential ticket and asking only the clerkship of the House of Representatives. The Speaker is to be conceded to Pennsylvania, provided that State will act with the South and West in the National Convention, and thus secure to them a majority of the votes, and the Vice- Presidency is to go, like the famous Crédit Mobilier fund, where it is likely to do the most good, The ease with which the claims of Governor Tilden are disposed of in this pleasant ar- rangement will probably astonish the friends of the great reform candidate. New York has had her turn, we are told, and must now stand aside. McClellan was really a New York nomination in 1864. Horatio Seymour was resuscitated in 1868 and placed in the field against his own desire. Horace Greeley was the experiment in 1872. It will not do, say the united sections, to take a fourth candidate in succession from New York, and the claims of the Great West must not be ignored. So Governor Tilden is laid in his little bed, politically, in advance of the Convention. The perseverance and shrewdness that were so effective in fixing the criminal acts on the corrupt Tammany Ring are to go for naught. The boldness and vigor with which the canal frauds have been attacked and a firmly rooted system of plunder torn up and scattered to the winds are to bring no rewards. Our bachelor Gov- ernor is not to be our bachelor President, but is to stand aside for some such man as Allen or Thurman or Hendricks, or probably Pendleton himself. But the fact that the last three democratic Presidential nominations have been conceded to New York is not all that is urged against Governor Tilden. It is insisted that a can- didate from New York city will be recognized as a concession to the ‘bloated bondholder” and national bank interests, and will not be acceptable on that account to the West. We are promised from the foreshadowed combination a platform that shall not uphold inflation, but shall be severely denunciatory of the national banks. These instituiions are to be. branded as unconstitutional, as little better than public robbers, and their abolition is to be demanded. The whole volume of currency is to be issued in green- backs, instead of half in greenbacks and half in national bank currency. Our paper money is to be of one denomination and all legal tender. Then we shall have the re- lease of the reserves, and, by so much, infla- tion. Then the whole amount of paper money issued will be at the command of the business interests. Then it will be im- possible for speculators on Wall street to lock up greenbacks and create a financial panic. This ig said to’ be the programme of the South and West; but.the poct tells us that “the best laid schemes 0’ mice and men gang aft a-gley,” and Governor Tilden is a shrewd plotter and a vigorous worker. It may be that the arrangement, so smooth in theory, may meet with difficulties in practice, and that, despite Ohio, the Democratic National Convention may refuse to perform the opera- tion of hari-kari. Tue Cotorep Propie or Grorara.—Else- where will be found a second letter on Geor- gia from our special correspondent in the South. Mr. Nordhoff relates one fact which is both surprising and gratifying—that the col- ored people of Georgia paid taxes last year on over six million dollars’ worth of property, and that they were the owners, at that time, of 338,769 acres of farming land and of city and town real estate to the assessed value of $1,200,000. This is certainly a fine showing. It proves that they are industrious and have begun to accumulate. It proves, also, that they have been in the main safe in life and property; for they could not else have ac- cumulated so mnch in the short period since they became free. Surricrent Apprrionat Svupscrtprioxs to the Poor Children’s Free Excursion Fund have been received to enable‘the trustees to give another picnic, which is to take place on Saturday next, It is still too early, how- ever, to cense these benevolent excursions, and we trust the grand total of the subscrip- tions is yet far from being complete. Con- tributions should be sent to Edward King, Treasurer, No. 73 Broadway. OvencrowpEp Excursion Sreamens havo been leaving the docks in this city almost daily ever since the opening of the season. We can conceive of nothing more reprehensible, and we are pleased that the penalties for the violations of the law are about to be enforced, Suits were begun yesterday in the United States courts against the owners of the Plym- outh Rock, the Wyoming and the Twilight, and although we do not like the form these actions necessarily assume under the statute, yet a penalty adequate to the offence must be enforced in this way if it can be done in no other. “Hien Banpany.”—Quite recently we had the story of an insult to the American Consul at Tripoli, and now it seems the officers of the Congress and Hartford have been hooted by the mighty Tripolitans, But the Ameri- can Jack tars could not sing the old song— ‘There's « lofty frigate to windward, And another upost our lee, As we cruise along the coast Of High Barbary— in peace until the insult was atoned for, and we read that satisfaction has been given to our men-of-war, ee EER A Story of “More Money.” Among the speakers who are to addres the coming Inflation Convention at Detroit there is one who, if he chooses to do so, cam give the meeting an instructive example of . the results of easy credit and inflation upor a farming community. We refer to Senatos Gordon, of Georgia, Georgia had until last year a law admire ably calculated to extend the credit of cote ton planters and make it easy for them ta borrow money; in fact, so far as they were concerned, to make money very abundant. This was the Lien law, which empowered a farmer or planter to mortgage his coming crop to a factor, to obtain advances of money—that is to say, by pledging cote ton which was not yet harvested, or, ine deed, planted. The planters were poor; needed more money, as pretty much everys body does; and here was a device which seemed sent down by Heaven or Mr. Kelley, which enabled them to get ‘more money” at once. In fact, it made the planting busi« ness quite lively, All that an impecunioug planter had to do was to go to town and show a factor that he had so much good cotton land, capable of raising so much cote ton, worth so many dollars; and that he needed so much money to plough and plant, and cultivate and harvest, and gin and bala the crop, and send it to town for the factos to sell. The security, under the Lien law, was perfectly good, for it gave the factor the absolute and exclusive control of the crop when it was made, and authorized him ta take his advances and charges out of the pro« ceeds, before any other claims. Every Georgia town at once had factors, who stood ready to make advances to planters on their coming crop. They charged the planter on per cent a month; they sold him his sup. plies, charging him two per cent conimis« sions; they sold his cotton, and charged him two and. a half per cent on its value for that service. They were very helpful to the planter; and this happy being found himself at once with ‘‘more money” than he had seen for some time. ‘ But, alas! when the crop was made, and” the ‘more money” so easily got was spent, and settling day came, as it must come na matter how easy it is to borrow, then the planter discovered that, what with advances and interest and commissions, the crop belonged, in fact, to the factor; and the planter had sometimes not enough left to keep him over winter, and very often nothing with which to pay the wages of his laborers. However, the beneficent Lien law enabled him to borrow again on the next crop; and this he did. Meantimog, however, the shrewder planters began to noe tice that, whereas formerly a forehanded and skilful’ planter could get very limited ad« vances from merchants and banks, now no« body would lend to any planter except 4 factor. The factor was able to horrow of banks and merchants; but the planter could get money only of the factor. Moreover, the whole planting community presently dis- covered that though they could get money more easily than ever before, yet they wera running more and more deeply in debt,‘and in spite of all their exertions were getting poorer all the time. By and by, as debts in« creased, the factors refused to make more advances; the sheriff began to go through the country, and the end of the business wag that the Georgia Legislature last winter waa induced by the planters themselves to repeal the Lien law. Perhaps Senator Gordon will explain to the Detroit Convention why the planters thus demanded the repeal of a law which certainly enabled them to borrow easily and to obtain ‘more money’ just when they needed it. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. John T. Hoffman arrived last evening at the Clarendon Hotel. Professor F, L. Ritter, of Vassar College, is staying a the Everett House, The polico “ha assailant of Mr. Noo. Protessor D, Cady Eaton, of New Haven, has‘arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, ies Mr John Knapp, of the St, Louis Repudlican, 18 60 journing at the Windsor Hotel. Rear Admiral Henry K. Hoff, United States Navy, i@ Togistered at the Everett House, Judge John A. Meredith, of Richmond, Va, hag apartments at the New York Hotel. Congressman John 0, Whitehouse, of Poughkeepsie, is stopping at the Albemarle Hotel. Mr. Trenor W. Park, President of the Panama Raile road Company, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Every rogue in office is under fire, and of course you cannot remove « man while he is under fire. Hope Mr, Weed doesn’t think that poisoning a Mae sonic plot, on account of his Morgan disclosures. ,U. 8. Grant, President of the United States and publi¢ protector of official thieves, That is the full title. Mr. Max Strakosch arrived from Europe in the steame ship Scythia yesterday, and 18 at the Everett House, Adjutant General Jack Wharton, of Louisiana, among the lat arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Brevet Brigadier General Bennett H. Hill, United States Army, is quartered at the Sturtevant Honse, * Mr. G. Bakhmétef, of the Russian Legation at Wash. ington, is residing temporarily at the Albemarle Hotel, Generals Sherman and Slocum and Miss Sherman passed through Kansas City last evening, en route for St. Lonis. M. Bartholdi, French Minister at Washington, arrived in this city yesterday from Newport and is at the Bre voort House, Brevet Major General William Hoffman, United States Army, has taken up his residence at the St, Nicholas Hotel, If they do not want an insurrection in Georgia they will have to deal sharply with all connected with the present attempt Jol Davis is invited to lecture at the home of Old Thad Stevens in aid of “a weak Baptist church weak, perhaps, because of too much water, “The Sandwich Islanders believe that Beelzebub walks the earth inthe form of a woman; and the fact that this is also believed in several other countries must have great value in the selence of comparative religion, The following notice from the War Office appeared in the London Gazette, August 13:—“Half-pay—Lienten. ant Colonel and Brevet Coloncl Valeutine Baker, half. pay, late Tenth Hussars, has been removed from the Triny, Her Majesty having no further occasion for his services Dated 2d August, 1875,” An enormous leopard recently arrived at Liverpool from Asia and was sent by train to London. He made got a clew” to the burglarious Fach good use of his time on the journey that whem the train stopped he stepped out—and there he was—a leopard at largo in Euston station, ‘There was a panio and they were compelled to shoot him. In the Russian army Pringg. Woronsoff was com- mandant of tho regiment of Hussars of the Guard and was promoted, General Mayendorif receiving the plaoe made vacant, But Mayendorit is a an,or of 6 German family, and upon his appointment fifty-four officers of the regiment requested permission to resign, The Philadelphia North American has discovered that the decay of our commercial marine is due to the efor of a school of “political dreamers,” whose contro of operations is in this city of Gotham, People have wome dered why the North American lingered on tho stagay but this discovery shows that it has not lived id yam