The New York Herald Newspaper, August 26, 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 Yorx Henraxp will be | sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in tie 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 Yorx | 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. +NO, 288 VOLUME XL. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos, 585 and 587 Broadway.—V ARIETY, at 5'P. M. HOWE & Ct cIRCUS, foot of Honston street and East River.—Afternoon and even- ing performance. DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE. third street and Sixth avenne.—C! ae & REED'S BiNe RELS, at 5 P. :eloses at 1033 OLYMPIC THEATRE, is .* smdqenmeaimeal —VARIETY, at 8 P.M; closes at 10:45 GILMORE" ete Bornum’s Hi CERT, at 5 P. M.; mais "BONANZA, at A eighth tr “tet near Broadwa aFw, So P. ara Jewett, Ringgold. closes at 1 ARK THEATRE, closes at 10:49°P. M, eae a PARK GARDEN. THEODORE THOMAS’ ERT, at 8 P.M. goa thine h Ee bt eh Comic Opera— bent sirerk rhagieh. Coral 8 P.M. Miss Julia Matthews, Mr. G. H, ROBINSON HALL, West Sixteenth ree ae ap Opera—PRINCESS OF TREBIZONDE, 8 THEATRE MIQUE, ee 514 Brosdway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 * WOOD'S MUSEUM, B corner of ay street.—ST ipa a8 P.M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at 2 P. M. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, pac avenue, corner Twenty-third street.—AROUND THE RLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, at SP. M.; closes at 11 P. M. TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGU T 26, 1875. THE HERALD FOR TE SUMMER RESORTS, To NEWSDEALERS AND THE Pusric:-- The New Yorx Henarp runs a special train every Suniuy 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 Sunpay Heratp. Newsdealers and others are noti- fied to send in their orders to the Herarp 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 and clear, Persons going out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Henaup mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wau Steer Yestenpay.--Stocks were steady, the principal features being Panama and Pacific Mail. Gold opened at 1133 and closed at 113}. The money rates were a trifle higher. Crors.—The monthly agricultural report indicates that, notwithstanding the very ex- ceptional weather of the year and the rav- ages of numerous pests, the yield in cereals will be good and the potato product extraor- dinary. * Satisractory.—The inquiry into the abuses in the Kings County Insane Asylum has resulted in the dismissal of the incul- pated nurses and the recognition of the need of more thorough scrutiny in the choice of such attendants. Henny A. Wise has got been heard from this long while, but has just come to the sur- face to breathe and remained long enough to say that, with an extensive experience of the United States bank system, the State bank system and the Sub-Treasury system, he is convinced that every one of them was better than the present ‘‘no system” of our finances, Sound for Wise. Captars We EBB has succeeded it in swimming from Dover to Calais; and this is certainly a great feat and exhibits the wonders of which human endurance and strength are capable. It is, perhaps, not so useful an achievement as Boyton’s, for Webb cannot communicate his faculty to others for the price of an india rubber suit ; but it is far superior as an evi- dence of human capability to wrestle with adverse circumstances. Every one must re- joice in one aspect of the case, It seems to hold out the promise that we have at last got rid of Leander and Lord Byron as the typi- cal great swimmers. Who will dare to men- tion the swimming over the Hellespont that a man has swum across the English Channel? ‘Tue Carrir Disvasn rx E: we import only « few cattle from England, and those costly animals of fine breeds, it will be well to adopt precautions at all our against the introduction of diseased cattle, if the report proves true that a disease of the month and foot has broken out in Dor- setshiro with great virvlence. Twelve thou- sand animals are said to be down with it, and the distemper is spreading rapidly. Our farmers and stock raisers have had several severe experiences of cattle disease and will desire all possible guards to be sed against the introduction of contagion, now | sLAND.—Thongh | ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1815—TRIPLE SHEET, | The litical Party. We acknowledge the receipt of an invita- tion from the “United States Legal Tender August 13, 1875. In this invitation we are respectfully invited to ‘‘call at the committee during August and September,” to co-operate with its members in their efforts ‘for a United States legal tender sound currency, based on the faith and credit of the people of the | United States and their general government, and also on the revenues paid by the people | to the United States Treasury, and having in | addition a representative value in being re- deemable and interchangeable for three-sixty- | five United States bonds.” the club informs us, also, that his organization isin favorof tho issue of greenbacks “for | value toa sufficient amount to meet the de- H of the nation, and demand that greenbacks shall meet the necessities of peace as they met those of war.” ‘There is to be a series of public meetings held in furtherance of this | proposition on the Ist of September. ‘The people,” says the Secretary, ‘‘are with us against the Quixotic hard money ring. They know and feel that ‘he who would be free, himself must strike the blow.'” We recognize in this courteous, but rather noisy, invitation the first step toward the formation of a great political party. It is well known that its head is no less a states- man than Uncle Dick, the greatest Congress- man that ever represented New York in the halls of legislation. So far as we can learn the party is thus far composed of Uncle Dick, Eugene Beebe, Theodore Tomlinson and Benjamin Wood. General Benjamin F. But- ler has expressed his acquiescence in the doc- trines of the club in a letter published re- cently, and we suppose that he will be present at one of these meetings. It is to be called a “greenback party.” It is to be outside of all other organizations. A party that con- tains Unele Dick has of course enough intel- lect. It will only need brute voting power, and if any man can find votes it is Uncle Dick. He could manage a canvass “long” or “short.” The party principles are plain. | There is to be no more gold or silver, | except as articles of merchandise, The government is to purchase one hundred | new presses, to print by day and by night ‘a sufficient amount to meet the de- mands of trade and to promote the industries of the nation.” We have now forty millions of people in this country, and Uncle Dick and Mr. Tomlinson have calculated that, by im- proving the character of the printing ma- chinery and working with due diligence, in the course of one year every citizen of the forty millions will have in his possession a million dollars of well printed greenbacks. A million times forty million may look to the ordinary mind a large sum, but statesmen like Uncle Dick and Mr. Tomlinson have given their lives to the contemplation of these vast sums. Like workmen who build towers they never grow dizzy. Consequently they are able to handle estimates of this magnitude with as much ease and certainty as ordinary people handle their own moderate incomes. Acccording to Uncle Dick's new party, when every citizen of the forty millions is in pos- session of a million dollars of greenbacks then we shall be ‘‘on the tide of great prosperity.” As these statesmen argue, the credit of the government belongs to the people, and why should not the people, in the exercise of their sovereign wisdom and authority, have the power of distributing the government credit in equal proportions and to any amount? Of what use else isa government of universal suffrage? If the government has the right to issue a million dollars of credit why not a million times forty million? As these great statesmen are cosmopolitan in their views, and believe in ‘extending and develop- ing the interests of the country,” and inviting to these hospitable shores the brawn and sinew of the older lands, in their “renewed policy of national prosperity” the same amount of greenbacks will be given to every immigrant as well }as every citizen. By the operation of this beneficent influence in five years we ought to have in this country a hundred mill- ions of the best citizens of France, England and Germany. As to what will be done with the Chinese and Japanese upon their arrival in California Uncle Dick has not de- termined. It is fairly argued that if a mill- ion dollars in greenbacks are to be given to every Chinaman who lands in California we shall have the whole Chinese nation within the next four or five years. As this nation is composed of several hundred millions it is easy to see that the end will be the destruc- tion of the American Republic and the estab- lishment of a great Mongolian empire. But althongh this problem distracts an ordinary mind it has no terrors for Uncle Dick, who will give us his solution in his own good time. A party based upon these gorgeous ideas is worthy of the profoundest respect. | It is not for ordinary men to venture to intrude upon the councils of statesmen of the calibre of Uncle Dick, whose mind grasps empires and whose genius bounds the circling globe; but if we were to make a suggestion to the “Legal Tender Club” it would be this: Why take the tronble | of printing greenbacks? It is an unnec- essary expense. It involves presses, en- gravers, paper and ink and wages. Why not use our own resources and take some- | thing more permanent than dust and rags ? Let us suggest clams. Here is the Jersey coast rich in clams, Why not issue a | clamshell circulation? There might be an The Secretary of | | a the industries | mandsol tale and:to pramote the indus | the Cooper Institute, letters from General Millennium at Last—The New Po- | as money, and, on account of their ornamen- Club, No. 1,193 Broadway, room 20,” dated | room: of the elub at eight o'clock any evening | | | principles alone. | This would be a new feature, and would | tal capacities, would find great circulation, especially among the Indian tribes, As we are about to have a party of universal credit | practical manner. An act of Congress mak- | ing the clamshells legal tender, followed by another act directing the issue of a thousand | millions of clams at so many a head to every citizen of the United States, would be a great achievement. It might be objected that per- ‘haps the clams would not be accepted in | other countries at our own valuation. But this is a free country, and we should do as we please, and if satisfied with our own circula- tion we do not see why we should be con- | cerned with the bloated aristocracies and decaying monarchies of the Old World. Of course a party like this, based on these courageous ideas, will not be content with There are offices to be It is well enough to have meetings at | filled. Butler and speeches from Pig Iron Kelley; but a great party cannot triumph without meeting the country with its own candidates. Perhaps its leaders think it is too soon to bring out candidates for the Presidency, and that their first duty is to ‘arouse the coun- try.” This is a mistake. Why should not the members of the club go before the coun- try with a full ticket, containing President, Vice President and members of the Cabinet? charm thousands of voters with its frankness, | Which leader is more fitted tor the Presi- | dency than Uncle Dick himself? For Vice President we suggest Uncle Sam Carey, of Ohio, the great statesman who has discovered “epupon clipping” to be a crime. Uncle Dick and Uncle Sam, on a clamshell plat- form, would sweep the country. What an administration we should have! For Secre- tary of State we suggest Gentral Butler, of Massachusetts ; for Secretary of the Treasury, Jay Gould; for Secretary of War, General John Cochrane ; for Secretary of the Navy, Pig Iron Kelley, of Pennsylvania ; for Attor- ney General that luminous and beneficent intellect, Theodore Tomlinson; for Secretary of the Interior, Columbus Delano, who now manages the Indian Ring with so much en- ergy and acceptability that he could not be spared, while for the Post Office Department who more competent than General Robert Toombs, of Georgia? With such a ticket and such a Cabinet the new party would enter the campaign with flying colors. It must not be timid. It must avow its principles | and select its leaders, remembering that often in politics ‘‘desperate courage makes one a majority.” The Halt in Rapid Transit. The Rapid Transit Commissioners appear to have encountered an obstruction to their work precisely where none could have been anticipated. They have not yet agreed upona route, and already it is intimated that the expiration of the time to which they are lim- ited by the law will find this important point undecided. The Commissioners have a plain duty to perform. They are not appointed to protect the interests of the Third Avenue Railroad Company, the Harlem Railroad Company or any other privileged corpora- tion. It is not their province to study the benefit or theinjury that a steam railroad may do to the real estate of this or that prop- erty owner. They have accepted the respon- sibility of carrying out a law designed to give relief tothe people of New York by the accommodation of steam communication be- tween the Battery and the Westchester border. If they fail to accomplish the work thewhave undertaken they will be classified hereafter with the venal Legislatures through whose corrupt intrigues rapid transit in New York | objection from the West that they have no clams; but still we must look after our own | interests in the East. If we can only lift the | humble and generally despised clam from its unappreciated position to be a circulating medium, to be currency, to be money in truth, we shall not only found a new indus- try, but we shall lead the people into fresh paths of progress. We can base the clam “on the faith and credit of the people,” just as well as the printed rag paper. Digging the clams would offer to thousands of worthy | members of the party sufficient support. The nutriment might distributed as spoils to the disappointed office-seekers, or | made into rations for the army and navy with which we are to conquer Mexico. | The shells could be sent all over the country be has been heretofore defeated. The first object of an honest and capa- ble Commission must be to enlist the confi- | ruption. Mr. Delano Bars the Way. The Henraxp has, on a number of occasions, subjected itself, by the ardor of its defence of General Grant, to the imputation of being and unlimited circulation let us begin in a | his organ. In a certain sense this is so. We like General Grant; we maintain that his fame is a part of the country’s glory; we see that whatever good thing he does redounds not only to his eredit, but to the credit of the country, one of whose representative men he | is ; and we have always been zealous to point out his good qualities, and also to show peo- ple the limitations of his genius, so as to pre- yent the public from demanding of him what, by nature or by training, he cannot give. Wehave ventured, also, on occasion, to offer His Excellency advice, and if sometimes he has not taken it we have always noticed that he had occasion to regret his course af- terward, which naturally makes us only the more ready to counsel him again, because we are painfully anxious that he shall acquit himself well and leave as good a name as pos- sible behind him. In this spirit we approach him to-day with the respectful suggestion that he shall as soon as possible rid himself of Mr. Delano. General Grant, to use a Western phrase, has really no use for that statesman. To keep him in his Cabinet any longer is as injudi- cious as though Mr, A. T. Stewart should in- sist on keeping on his counters a piece of damaged goods and pretend that it was per- fect, or as though an ‘egg merchant in Fulton Market should insist on offering stale eggs to his customers. It will not do, General Grant showed in 1868 that he understood the Indian question thoroughly. He then de- sired. to put the Indian affairs into the hands of the army, which every honest man who has studied the prob- lem knows to be its true and only solution. Congress, foolishly jealous of the army, forbade this. Thereupon General Grant did the next bestthing. He selected a commission of eminent citizens to superin- tend unofficially the management of the Indians, and gave the different reservations in charge of different religious denomina- tions. Unfortunately, pretty soon afterward he made Mr. Delano Secretary of the Interior, in place of General Cox, and then, as Arte- mus Ward used to say, ‘‘the trouble began: for Mr. Delano had real power; the Com- missioners and the clergy had only a show of power. Professor Marsh and Mr, Welsh have shown and are showing the public the result of the mixture, and it is not good. Mr. Delano is a piece of damaged goods which General Grant ought for his own credit and good name to put at once away under the counter. That he should have ap- pointed an unfit man is his misfortune ; but if in the light of such exposures as we have been for several months printing he keeps him in office, then, in the judgment of his best friends, he tarnishes his own good name and makes himself a partner, and, in fact, the head of the maladminstration and cor- This we, in common with all good citizens, should deeply regret tosee. Thegood fame of General Grant is too valuable to the country to be flung idly away. It is not his property alone, nor that of his brother Orville nor his too numerous brothers-in-law and cousins. It belongs to the country. He does us alla wrong when he kesas bad com- pany. Red Cloud. Our correspondence from the Black Hills and the map given to-day are instructive on several points of interest in one of the impor- tant topics of the time—the great Indian problem. Our correspondent's effort to in- terview Red Cloud and the diplomatic ob- servation of that celebrated red man that ‘‘the great paper man knows enough,” are specimens of the humors of this sort of intercourse; and indicate the keenness of the Indian in keeping an eye to the main chance. Indeed, Providence dence of capital in the undertaking, so that the money for the construction of a rapid transit road may be forthooming. To accom- plish this the route covered by the charter must be one that promises a remunerative amount of business. Some of the avenues are closed to the Commission. Broadway, Fifth avenue, and Fourth avenue above Forty-second street cannot be used. The west side has the Greenwich street line in operation. The Third avenue route, or the Lexington avenue route, lying between Third and Fourth avenues, seems to present advantages that cannot be overlooked. The travel over the Third avenue horse car line is larger than over any other line in the city, and, except a small percentage, is travel that would use a steam railroad. The route is built over almost unbrokenly from Harlem bridge to the Battery. A rapid transit road running along the Bowery and Third avenue would accommodate more people on its direct line than could any other route in the city, and would be more central than any other route, excluding Broadway and Fifth avenue, which are prohibited by the law, and Sixth avenue, which ends at the Central Park. These facts are known to every citizen of New York, and if the Rapid Transit Commis- sioners close their eyes to them the people will believe they are blinded by something else than stupidity. Tue Cortapse or THE Rac Bany.—The De- troit balloon threatens to collapse before it is fully inflated. The Inflation Convention, to meet to-morrow, seems likely to bea con- spicuous failure. Mr. Carpenter declines to speak, and says his name was used without authority. Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has thonght better of it and will not be there. Only Judge Kelley, “faithful among the faith- less,” will appear and speak; and Mr. Henry Carey will write a letter, which is sure to be long enough to fill up the time. Well, what with the defeat of Allen and Carey in‘Ohio, which begins to seem probable, and the col- lapse at Detroit, the inflationists begin to “see daylight.” They will presently dis- cover that though pretty much everybody | wants ‘more money” the American people are not such a set of idiots as to think they | | can get rich by picking each other's pockets, | or ‘enter on a career of unparalleled pros- perity” by trading jackknives. | Fat.—-One hundred and eight “‘slab-sided Yankees” met together yesterday at Norwalk and celebrated themselves in a fat man’s | feast on baked clams. The average weight of these men was two hundred and twenty-eight pounds, which is not bad for a dyspeptic and skinny generation, would appear once more to have supplied this remarkable race of people with a great man adapted to the circumstances. War would be hopeless, and an energetic fighting man would only insure the ruin of any tribe in which he might appear, as the Modocs dis- covered. But a crafty leader who can dis- cover the exposed side of his oppressors and make the most of it to their damage is worth all the war parties that could be organized. Few Indian agents would be shrewd enough to get the better of Red Cloud in ordinary transactions, if the Indian could help him- self; but the sanction of the law and the force of the white man are behind the Indian agent, and the red man cannot help himself; but in getting around the difficulty—in the discovery that the moral sense of the nation was in favor of honest dealing and in appeale ing to this through Professor Marsh and other- wise—this Indian has shown a superior com- prehension of his case and gives a new aspect to the relations of our government with his people. Tue Waren Surrry.—The evidence seems to be satisfactory that the Croton mains in the lower part of the city are insufficient for ordinary wants, and are so inadequate to possible demands of a great fire that this cir- cumstance affects the rates of insurance, There seems to be evidence on this point so clear as to entirely relieve the proposition for new mains from the suspicion of originat- ing in the wish to give a fat contract to a sympathetic pipemaker. Nevertheless tho republicans in the city government oppose the step, not out of regard to the public in- terest, but because it gives patronage to the Superintendent of Public Works, a demo- cratic fanctionary. They take their cue from Comptroller Green, whose theory is to op- pose the democrats, though you ruin tho city. Sourm Sea Savacus.—An English com- modore has been treacherously killed by savages in the South Sea, and the usual | prompt vengeance which England exacts in such cases has been taken. Much of this mutual violence could be avoided by the en- forcement of just dealings with the natives | of the South Seas, It is notorious that Eng- | lish ships are constantly guilty of piracy and | man-stealing in this favored region of the globe, The savage frequently avenges the wrongs committed by one set of white men upon another innocent of wrong-doing. Butif the man-stealers who bring their cargoes of | unfortunates to the Australasian colonies | were arrested and hung up, as they deserve to be, there would be fewer acts of violence on the vart of the savages, A Medical View of Our Statesmen. A New York physician writes to the Utica Herald offering to bet a thousand dollars thet Governor Tilden has suffered a stroke of paralysis which partly disables his,left side. It is an oda proposition, but it would have strange consequences if hereafter our public men should be regularly submitted to medi- cal examination like recruits for the army or navy. What singular discoveries might be made! It would have to be said of Governor Tilden that his detective organ is by no means paralyzed, But we might discover leading men in both parties who had suffered paralysis of very serious organs and faculties. In some of them paralysis has extinguished the capacity of distinguishing between right and wrong ; in some the power of telling the difference between a rogue and ean honest man ; others, yet, paralysis has incapacitated from knowing good money from bad, and many are reduced to the sad state of being unable to say what they think. And if bets are to be made on such delicate subjects we should presently read the oddest quotations in the betting reports :—‘Ten to one that General Butler has discovered a new version of the Ten Commandments.” ‘Twenty to one that Mr. Delanogloes not know the dif- ference between honest and dishonest Indian agents.” ‘Forty to one that the Cabinet do not know the proper time to resign.” “A hundred to one that Governor Allen does not know the difference between a rag baby and a dollar"—a most astonishing case of paraly- sis of the perceptive organs. ‘Five to one that General Grant does not know whether he wants a third term or not;” and ‘‘fifty to one that Spencer, of Alabama, does.” The medical betting ring offers an entirely new field for Mr. Morrissey, who might, with the help of a few doctors, get up regular politico- medical pools, in which, no doubt, he would sell Kelly against the field, as so far par- alyzed as not to know anything whatever. Bad News for Third Termers. Some of the republican statesmen still think it may be necessary to renominate General Grant; but, if we may credit General Burnside’s judgment, the third term is not, after all, what racing men would call a ‘walk over,” and the third termers need not expect to have things all their own way. Rhode Island, the General told a Henatp correspondent the other day, is pretty unanimously opposed to a third term. The people of Rhode Island want a change. General Dix’s Long Island fisherman, who complained of the hard times last fall on the score that he got now ‘only about half an eel to the pot,” also thought it well to have a change, and accordingly went to the polls and elected Mr, Tilden Governor, Possibly the clams are not abundant in Rhode Island this year. However that may be, Rhode Island does not approve of a third term. During the “late unpleasantness” a Southern soldier in Lee's army hailed a Northern vidette opposite, and being asked to what regiment he belonged replied, ‘The Sixtieth South Carolina ; what regiment do you be- long’ to?” To whieh the Northern man promptly replied, ‘‘The four hundred and ninety-second Rhode Island.” ‘That does not sound well for the Southern Confed- eracy,” remarked a laughing Southerner, and so Rhode Island's opposition to a third term seems to block the wheels a little. Garcta Morzeno—Our news files give in fuller detail to-day the story of the assassination of this small Cmsar of a Spanish-American Republic. In all the Spanish-American States we see the rapid advance through various forms—the early ripe and early rotten condition—of politics with the hot-tempered races. Ecua- dor was only as rotten as the rest when Moreno came upon the stage, and like all Cwsars he immediately purified the atmos- phere in certain respects only to make it fouler in others. He ruled for fifteen years, and would have ruled for fifty but for the machete, which proved the only limit to his term. He organized himself in office on the ring system ; but it was not a contractors’ ring nor an Indian ring. It was a ring more in consonance with Spanish nature—a priestly, Jesuitical ring. He agreed to give to the Jesuits the plunder of the State for their services to him in the retention of power. It worked superficially to a charm both for him and them ; but it filled the shadow of every wall with vigilant enemies, and it sharpened the inevitable knife of the assassin. A New Spanisu Manntace.—Spain is to havea new royal marriage. King Alfonso will, it is rumored, marry a princess of the house of Montpensier. Another daughter of the same house is married to ‘the Comte de Paris, so that the long sought-for union be- tween the French and Spanish royal houses is about to be consummated. This news will make the Orleanists in Paris jubilant, and, no donbt, will not be very pleasant to the republicans. Germany, however, may have something to say to this family arrangement. It would not be astonishing if Bismarck had some advice at the disposal of the royal cousins. ~ Bocarpus on Piceon Snoortna.—Tho suggestion made by Captain Bogardus, that in pigeon shooting matches ‘“boun- daries” should be abolished and ao time allowance to gather in the bird substituted, deserves the attention all sportsmen. Under the present rule matches are often decided by pure luck. Strong birds, thoujzh badly hit, drop ontside the boundary and the sportsman is credited with a miss. This is manifestly unfair, and it would be a great improvement to allow three minutes to gather in the birds, doing | away entirely with the boundary system. If | this rule were adopted the best shots would always win and pigeon shooting cease to be a game of chance and become an absolute trial of skill in marksmanship. This would be a change welcomed by all good, reliable shots. Tue Penny ‘BOAT YLLISIO! “From the testi- mony taken yesterday in this case the ap- | pearance is that the Twilight was entirely to blame for the accident, From the evidence of the people on the Twilight, even, this fol- of | | lows; for the only way in which the North- | ‘field could exe sape collision was by going off her course to the eastward. This she did, but was persistently followed up by the other boat until the deviation from the course was greater than can reasonably be ‘is the lowest element of baseness. —_- accounted for on any other theory than thad of an effort to avoid collision. The Degradation of the Drama. We can permit an ordinary amount of license to our players and play managers in their attempts to catch the public. The public, as Mr. Barnum, the most celebrated quack of modern times, has laid down in his life, is ‘a strange animal” and must be managed carefully. Weare disposed to view with amusement, certainly without anger, the attempts to manage the animal so long as they are kept within moderate bounds, such as a dinner, a serenade, pictures in to« baceo stores, accounts of “‘hairbreadth escapes” or striking achievements, or even practical jokes. These are within tolerated limits of advertising. But the attempt on the part of one of our theatres to play ‘Hams let” on Monday night as an ‘“American™ piece, by ‘American artists” and in a house decorated with ‘American emblems,” is @ degradation of true dramatic art. It invokes aspirit which in the past has led to many serious and fatal disasters in our great cities, It is not quackery, but an incentive to riot. Mr. Barry Sullivan will play “Hamlet” at Booth’s Theatre. He returns to this country after an absence of many years, He is re« membered as a strong, original and good actor. His engagement was injured at tha outset by the injudicious attempts of his managers to make his appearance in New York a national event. This has not been pursued, and he comes on his merits, Suddenly we have an announcement front the Grand Opera House that Mr. E. L, Davenport will play ‘‘Hamlet” with ‘‘an Ame« rican company” on the same evening. Thig is intended to be a rebuke to foreign artists upon the American stage, Mr. Sullivan being a foreigner. Mr. Davenport was received in England with great courtesy and attention, Why should he take part in a demonstration against an English artist? This thing of ap- pealing to a spirit of nationality in America It is rowdyism in art. It was by these appeala hat we had the controversies between Mac« ready and Forrest, which ended in a serious disaster, loss of life and a stain upon our national character. In that unhappy strife Mr. Forrest behaved toward his English antagonist with brutality. He aroused a feeling which drove from our stage and even from the soil one of the most accomplished artists in the profession— a man who at one time thought so much of America that he considered the propriety of making it his home. There is no danger of the attempt of Mr. Davenport to play ‘‘Ham~ let” with ‘‘American artists” resulting in any« thing more thana burlesque. The motive is too apparent. Our regret is that an artist of the distinction and ability of Mr. Daven« port, certainly one of the best actors on the stage, should lend himself to such a proceed ing. There is no reason why he should not play ‘‘Hamlet” as wellas Mr. Sullivan and aa often as he pleases. That is not our com~ plaint. We complain that he should ostene tatiously shape his announcement s0 as to make it virtually an insult to a guest, to his own profession and to the American people, Tue Count or Pants’ Histony.—The third and fourth volumes of this interesting work are reviewed at length in another column, At the rate of progress thus far made the work will apparently make at least eight volumes and will be the most elaborate history of oug civil war yet attempted. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, And still another Charley Ross is not the one wanted, General J, T. Wilder, of Tennessee, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman John I. Vance, of Ohio, is sojourning at the Hoffman House, Mr. Robert M. McLane, of Baltimore, is among the late arrivals at the Hoffman House, Governor Tilden is said to be worth $4,000,000, He probably made it breaking “rings.”” Mr. Washington McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, And now the President’s friends seem to fancy that even Jewell himself is “too unanimous,’? Senator Phineas W. Ilitchcock, of Nebraska, hag taken up his residence at the St, James Hotel. Surgeon General Joseph Beale, United States Navy, arrived last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Lieutenant Commander George M. Bache, United States Navy, is quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel, Mr. C. B. Wright, Vice President of the Northerg Pacitic Railroad Company, isat the Brevoort House. Aristarchi Bey, Tarkish Minister at Washington, are rived in this eity yesterday, and is at the Albemari¢ Hotel, Mr. HL. H. Wells, the recently appointed United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, is residing at the Hoffman House, Cardinal MeCioskey goes to Chartres on Friday, from Paris; thence to Nantes, and returns to Paris before starting for Rome. Is there a pardon ring at Albany, and, if there is, when does the Governor intend to begin against it a great bate tle in the people's cause ? Secretary Belknap is gone to Helena, M. T., and it ie thonght he will return the same way. It depends upom the quality of the beverages, Rev. G. B. Porteous will resign the charge of Alt Souls Independent Episcopal church, Brooklyn, in con- sequence of numerous engagements to lecture, Near Cologne a German was brought into court on the charge of talking against Prince Bismarck—in his sleep, Unfortunately for this patriot he had slept in a café om that occasion. Bergamo will have a great musical solemnity in Sop-. tember, and will celebrate at the same time the memory of two of her sons—Donizetti and Donizetti's master, Jean-Simon Mayr. The Saratoga Sun believes that Saratoga is Injured by Morrissey’s establishment; but this view does not allow for the natural “cussedness” of humanity, Virtuo hag ruined Baden-Baden; Apartments were taken at Deanville for the Prince of Wales, and expectation was on tiptoe for his arrivaly but this heartless Prince went ngrth instead, just to shoot iniserable Seoten grouse. Mr. and Mra, Sartoris will sail for England on Sature day, and the President gives them a farewell dinner to- night in the cottage by the sea, Jesse Grant, the youngest son, goes out with the happy couple, An order has been issued by the Paris police forbide ding any person to drive four-in-hand or tandem in the streets of the city unless furnished with a certificate of capacity, to be issued by the police after inquiry, Some one up at Saratoga cri the position of the Hon. John Morrissey, and ix sorry to see that he doce not take at the spa the same view of the laborers’ wages that he takes in the metropolis by fifty cents a day. Marshal MacMahon entertained the Grand Duke Con- stantine at dinner lately, and the papers mention with especial emphasis that it was not a diner intime, but a dinner blazing with all the apparatus that Horace hated, and more, In the recent death of Admiral Excelmans, in France, a curious coincidence is noted, His father was Marshal Excelmans—a great cavalry soldier of the First Empire, and most famous fora wonderful charge of horse at Roequencourt, He was inthe saddle on tho 10th of July 1852, was thrown in the rond and killed. On the | 2ad of July 1875, bis son’s mind ran strangely on that event, He talked about it all day. In tho evening be rode out, was thrown and killod in the same manger