The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 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 j despatches must be addressed New Yorx Henayp. 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. é VOLUME X! AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. DARLING'S OPERA HOUSE, Dreersert street and Sixth avenue.—COTTON & REED’S STRELS, a8 P. M.; closes at 10:90 P. M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, fot Brendes MEEBET atSP. M.; closes at 10:45 GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, late Barnum's Hippodrome.—GRAND POPULAR CON- CERT, at 5 P. M.; closes at 11 P. M. TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenue.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Tresine street, near Broadway.—MEXICAN JUVEN- BES 2 A TROUPE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. nda y Moron. COLONEL SI. ‘ARK THEATRE, xf ETY, at M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. Brooklyn.—VARL CENTRAL PARK GARDEN. THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERT, at 8 P. M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Beate and Thirteenth street.—English Comic Opera— CLOTTE, at 8 P.M. Miss Julia Matthews, Mr. G. 1, Macdermott. R ‘SON HALL, West Sixteenth street.—English Opera—PRINCESS OF FREBIZONDE, at 8 P.M. THEATRE COMIQUE, ie tos ha Broadway.—VARIETY, st 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 corer of Tire nth atrcet AYRES THE, SHOW: ‘ th street, — - Neat BP. Me; closes at 1049 P.M, Matinee at 2 P. M. GRAND 0! th avenue, comer Ti PSE? fieven well Ps a METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Nos. 585 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M. HOWE & CUSHING’S CIRCUS, foot of Honston street, East River.—Afternoon and evening performances. A HOUSE, jird street.—HAMLET, at 8 ACADEMY OF MUSIC, po ee ‘and Fourteenth | street.-AROUND THE IN EIGHTY DAYS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P. M. LYCEUM THEATRE, Ponrteenth street and Eighth avenue.—FRENCH OPERA BOUFFE, a8 P.M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, New atsP. BOOTRH’S THEATRE, ‘Dwenty-third street and Sixth avenue.—HAMLET, at 8 P.M. Mr. Barry Sullivan. = ita TRIPLE SHEET. a NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities age that the weather to-day will be warm and clear. Persons going out of town for the summer can | have the daily and Sunday Hxzaup mailed to them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Tue Frvanctan Srrvatioy in California is improving and a return of confidence is re- ported. We trust the bright anticipations of our despatches may be realized. A Franrot Ramroap Coniision has taken place in England, suggesting an accident similar to the recent disaster on the South Bide Railroad of Long Island. Now we shall see what our English cousins are able to do | sbout it. Tre Amentcan Consvut at Trrrort has gone way because it is deemed expedient to avoid unpleasant incidents. It is perhaps expedient that he should not return to his post, but this is a most remarkable way to sustain American honor. Tue Inpran Fravps continue to employ the pen of Mr. William Welsh, and in his letter to Professor Marsh, which we print this morning, he recounts the relations of the Indian agents and the Protestant Episcopal Church. The agents, he alleges, were cor- pupted by Washington influence. The letter Is one of the most vigorous and interesting of Mr, Welsh’s series. Tae Hermann Frstrvat.—The details of the Hermann festival, concerning which we had such full reports by cable, now reach us through the mails. Although telling the story of the celebration over again, the sub- ject and the ceremonies possess so much in- terest that our letter this morning will be read with avidity by all who care for Ger- many or Germany's hero. Tax Farncn Senarz.—Our letter from Paris this morning opens with an interesting paragraph relating to the assembling of the Councils General in all the departments. As the election of the Senate depends upon these bodies their meetings are events’ of great importance, and the choice of Senators will be watched with much interest by all the political parties in France. The future of the Republic depends more upon the re- sults of these elections than upon anything that has occurred since the fall of Sedan, Ma. E. L. Davexront, who is to play Hamlet at the Grand Opera House this even- ing, writes to the Hrnacp in excellent temper in regard to the singular announcements con- cerning American art and American artists which have emanated from that theatre. He disclaims all intention of degrading his art by carrying national feeling into a dramatic | , and, with a manliness that does him honor, he speaks with kindness | NEW YUKK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST’ 30, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Political Canvass in Ohio. We regret the new phase into which the Ohio canvass is passing, which is equivalent to a change of base on the part of the repub- licans. Their press and speakers have brought the school question into the fore- ground, and are waging a war against the Catholic Church rather than against the democratic party, This is unfortunate not only because. the introduction of religious questions into politics is contrary to the | genius of our institutions, but because in the pending Ohio canvass it so confuses the issues that nobody can interpret the result after the election is over. If the republicans carry the State on the school question the country at large will be left in the dark as to the public sentiment of Ohio on the great question of the currency, which is of vital in- terest to the nation, When the democrats startled the country by presenting the infla- tion issue it was desirable that they should be met and beaten on that naked questiog, in order that there might be no doubt as to the meaning of the victory. The inflationists cannot be crushed by defeating the demo- cratic party on the school question. But if they were soundly whipped on the inflation issue pure and simple they would have to acknowledge their defeat and would give no further trouble. The fact that the Ohio republicans are subordinating this. great issue to a religious question foisted into the can- ‘yass as a make-weight will be interpreted as a confession that they have no confidence in their ability to carry the State in a pitched battle with the inflationists. Spectators of the contest in other States feel anxious at this shifting of the main issue, especially as they cannot see that the school question is of any immediate urgency in Ohio. The republicans are fighting a chim- era. The common school system of the State is in no danger. A large majority of the Ohio democrats are Protestants, as firmly attached to the common schools as the repub- lican Protestants. Quite a proportion of the Catholic laity send their children to the common schools, and will continue to do so in spite of the priesthood. The Geghan law, about which such an outery is raised, was no doubt passed by the democratic Legislature to please the Catholics, but it isa harmless enactment, having no relation to the common school system. It merely pro- vides that persons confined in the prisons and penitentiaries of the State shall not be compelled to receive religious instruction from ministers who are not of their own faith. The religions issue which the republicans have dragged into the canvass is a false and factitious appeal to religious bigotry and prejudice. If they should turn the scale by such an issue the inflationists might still claim that a majority of the people were with them on the inflation question and that their opponents durst not fight it out on that line because they were conscious that they would have been beaten. The change of base by the Ohio republi- cans is a bad omen. It is an indication that their own party is so infected with the infla- tion heresy that they dare not risk a canvass on that issue. It is true, in point of fact, that the republican party of Ohio is divided on this question and that a considerable pro- portion of its voters are inflationists. In the last Congress nine of the twelve republican members of the House from Ohio voted for inflation, and they, no doubt, supposed at the time that they were in accord with their con- stituents. Those republican constituencies in Ohio may have waived their views, but not changed them, and this is probably the reason why the party dare not make a square fight on the inflation issue. Their change of base to the school question in the midst of the canvass is likely to be interpreted as a confession that on the inflation issue the democrats would carry the State. We had hoped that the Pendleton-Allen party might be defeated without the aid of extraneous issues and the inflationists receive their coup de grace. The whole country has reason to regret that the republicans of Ohio do not think it safe to meet the democrats on their chosen ground, since a defeat on that ground would take the inflation issue out of politics and bury a set of mischievous demagogues. The inflation demagogues in Ohio will try to make political capital out of the failure of | the Bank of California, for they have a pro- found trust in popular ignorance. It is possible that voters who are too stupid to see through their other fallacies may also be deluded by this. The argument of the glib- tongued Carey and his confederate dema- gogues will be that a specie currency is no protection against financial disasters, since California, which has always been a hard money State, has suffered a worse disaster than has overtaken any other community in the United States. Whether such non- sense will be swallowed remains to be seen. The obvious truth is, that no abundance of greenbacks in California could have pre- vented or mitigated this disaster. If green- backs had been the currency of the State, the Bank of California, with a scheming, am- bitious speculator like Mr. Ralston at its head, would have run the same course and have reached the same end. No kind of cur- reney can prevent people from running in debt, and when they come to owe twice as much as they can pay they are equally at the merey of their creditors whether the cir- culating medium is sound or not. The career j of Mr. Ralston is a close parallel to that of Jay Cooke, although one conducted his busi- ness in greenbacks and the other in gold. One gold dollar will no more pay two dollars of gold debt than one greenback dollar will pay a greenback debt of two dollars. The nature of the currency has no connection with the California failure. If the Ohio demagogues bring this topic upon the stump, let their sudiences ask them to explain how 4 greenback cur- rency in any possible abundance could have averted the calamity. No answer will be made because none is possi- ble. An unlimited command of greenbacks would not have changed Mr, Ralston’s na- ture and made him a cautious financier, though it might lave increased his facilities for getting h k into debt. But when he had reached the end of his tether the inevi- table failure would have overtaken him, as it and courtesy of Mr. Barry Sullivan, who ap- | at Booth’s Theatre to-night in the same overtook Jay Cooke. The inflationists claim that more greenbacks would give additional which Mr. Davenport is to interpret | facilities for credit; but the misfortune of in the rival house, tho Bank of California was not that it had too little oredit to abuse, but toomuch. If the Ohio inflationists drag this topic into their canvass, let them be put to silence by con- stant demands to explain how a greenback currency in California would have checked Mr. Ralston’s injudicious speculations or have saved him from their consequences. The continued depression of business, which the recent San Francisco and Balti- more failures serve to emphasize, will no doubt operate in favor of the democrats both in Ohio and elsewhere, Prolonged business stagnation fills the public mind with discon- tent, and the natural tendency is to wreak it upon the party in power. The democrats recovered Ohio from the republicans two years ago because the panic struck the coun- try in the midst of the canvass, The “tidal wave” last year swelled so high because the depression of business still continued. The condition of the country has grown no bet- ter, and the political effect of the hard times will probably be the same as heretofore. No real relief can come except through a wise financial policy, and it is to be deplored that the Ohio demoerats, instead of utilizing the public discontent to secure vigorous steps toward a sound currency, are appealing to popular ignorance and following a will-of- the-wisp which will lead them into bogs and mire. Weare sorry that the Ohio republi- cans do not see their way to defeat the infla- tion party without appealing to religious prejudices and confusing the canvass by irrelevant issues. The New Post Office. It is rather more than six years since that little triangular extremity of the City Hall Park, with its few shade trees and benches and its fountain, passed out of sight behind a high board fence, that became filled with the advertising posters of the period, and now there stands a palace altogether more satis- factory than any Aladdin would have fur- nished us. Aladdin might have been a more economical architect than Mullett, for it was one of the beauties of his system that several universes would not have cost eight million dollars. He would also have been more expeditious, and he would have deemed it a matter of course to have included a few rainbows in his composition, or to have thrown in their equivalents in some way for the sake of the urban eye weary with the collision of stone and dense material gen- erally; but that the structures of the Oriental friend of our youth would have been suffi- ciently substantial to hold up under the burden of a few million tons of mail matter every year we seriously doubt. Perhaps for the ordinary structures of a plain world the Mulletts are better architects than the Aladdins, though they neglect the eye, and aré-prosy and plodding in their processes, Every citizen will rejoice that we have at last secured so fine an edifice, and one that seems likely to meet so fully all the require- ments. It will always be a wonder that we were so long put off with odds and ends of edifices and never had a decent Post Office till so late in our history; but it must neces- sarily be a great while before the service will outgrow the one at last obtained. The Flocks and the Shepherds. The pulpits yesterday, both in this city and Brooklyn, mostly revealed strange faces, and where the pastors were in their churches it was because they were not yet sufficiently well known to make a summer vacation a necessity. It is a fact worthy of much study that celebrity is the first step toward the seaside or the mountain with our city preachers, and it is perhaps a matter not so much to be deplored as would seem at first sight to be the case. The absence of the regular clergy gives candidates from Phila- delphia and Boston an opportunity to be heard in the metropolis, and the departure of the more celebrated among our pulpit orators affords those who are not so well known a chanee to make reputation. These proposi- tions are well illustrated by the discourses we print this morning. Not one of our more famous clergymen was on hand yesterday to distribute the bread of life among the faith- ful. At the Church of Our Saviour the ser- mon was preached by the Rev. J. .H Hartzell, of Boston. Professor Griffin, of Williams College, filled the pulpit at the University place church. Dr. Porter, of the Methodist Book Concern, went over to the Tompkins avenne Congregational church in Brooklyn. The services at the De Kalb avenue Methodist Episcopal church were made somewhat re- markable by the Rev. 8. H. Platt, of Bridge- port, who recounted his miraculous cure. The Rev. W. T. Clarke preached at the Church of the Messiah and the Rev. J. M. Ludlow at the Collegiate Dutch Reformed church. The other pulpits were filled by the lesser lights among the clergy, and yet we scarcely lament the absence of the great names, for while our distinguished pastors are seeking fresh fields and pastures new the flocks which remain at home are findihg other shepherds. In all this there is a great interest, and we commend onr reports of the sermons this morning as an epitome of what can be done in the absence of our pulpit fa- vorites. Barz Acars Hzanp From.—A despatch from Havana this morning announces an- other attempt at revolution in St. Domingo, and gives us the further news that the notorious Baez has been proclaimed Presi- dent by the revolutionists. In such a case as this the American people can have only one wish, and that is that Baez may be captured and hanged. There can be no peace for the Dominicans with this man tak- ing advantage of their ignorance to urge them on to strife. Bayanp Taytor’s Porm on Goethe is printed in another column. Goethe's name, like Shakespeare's, will last forever, and the celebrations of Saturday, even more than Mr. Taylor's verse, show that— Still through our age the shadowy Leader goes; Still whispers cheer, or waves his warning sign; The man who, most of men, Heeded the par: from lips divine, And made one talent ten! Brackwett's Istann is so often the scene of brutality and cruelty that we are not sur- prised that two of the keepers are to be ar- rested on a charge of murder. The Henany has often exposed the wrongs inflicted on prisoners by the officials, but it is only the punishment of the guilty which can prevent the recurrence of outrages like that in the Btockvis case, Telegraph Consolidation, We have an announcement that comes in an official character to the effect that the directors of the Western Union and Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph companies have been in consultation for the purpose of agreeing upon a basis for consolidating the two lines, This negotiation has been denied and re- . affirmed in every possible shape for the past few weeks. The public will take little in- terest in the terms of the negotiation, look- ing upon the whole matter as simply a stock- jobbing enterprise. The conclusion of this alliance will virtually bring to an end all those pleasant dreams of cheap telegraphy with which the managers of the two lines amused the public some few months ago. It is impossible not to observe also in this con- solidation the fact that Jay Gould becomes a prominent influence in our telegraph system, Whatever objections there may be to the government taking the telegraph, and we are not insensible to them, there is no dan- ger so great as that which threatens it now. It is an open secret that the stock gamblers are preparing to makea demonstration on the Western Union Telegraph. They have been gambling with our telegraphs for the last few months. It was to gratify this gambling instinct that the stock of the main company was so largely watered as to be far beyond its real value. Once permit these desperate speculators, such a man, for instance, as Jay Gould, who has never put his hand upon an enterprise he did not blight, and when he retired from the management of a great corporation two or three years ago was compelled to return millions of dollars which he had unlawfully appropriated—once permit this man to take possession of the telegraph and we have one of the most im- portant functions of our modern government at the mercy of a desperate adventurer who may place any rates he pleases on the tele- graph ond make it so much a burden to the people that the government will be com- pelled to buy it from him at his own price. This whole question of telegraphy and its relation to the general government must be settled soon. We have no especial fault to find with the Western Union. We believe that it is managed as well as any of our large public interests. Mr. Orton, its President, isa capable and honest man who will do nothing to prejudice tHe rights of the stock- holders. He has no power over the holders ofthe stock nor over the votes they may choose to cast when they come to another election. The spectacle of a great interest, an interest that belongs to the people as much as the Post Office, or the army, or the navy, hovering on the verge of this Niagara of bankruptcy and degradation, that abyss into which the Erie has fallen and to which it was driven by Jay Gould and his partners, is not reassuring. If the goy- ernment cannot interfere to protect the people from one of the gravest.possible dan- gers then it failg in one of the elementary duties of government. A New Phase of Journalism. In the hurrying growth of our modern journalism it takes many shapes. The anx- iety of the editor to present to the people the best picture of the world from day to day leads him to do frequently odd and unusual things. We have read nothing with more pain than the series of narratives which we find in the Western papers giving an account of the life of Robert Dale Owen since his retirement to an insane asylum, and the other accounts of the life of Mrs. Lincoln, the wife of the late President, who is now under restraint because of insanity. Mr. Owen is in the seventy-fourth year of his age. He has lived a long, honorable and useful life, and, though not without many eccen- tricities of thought, his is a life of one anxious to benefit his race—a conscientious, truthful man, amiable, courteous and just. A few weeks since he fell ill from insanity and has been secluded in a public institution for the treatment of the insane. Mrs, Lin- coln’s misfortunes have been known to the public for many years. Ever since the shock- ing death of her husband she has always seemed to hover upon the verge of insanity. It was therefore not a surprise to the country, but rather a gratification in some respects, when it was found necessary to officially certify to the fact that the blow which took her husband's life had taken her own reason. It would seem to the ordinary mind that a man as distinguished as Mr. Owen, who had held a high rank under the government, anda woman as celebrated as Mrs. Lincoln, with a celebrity almost sacred when we remember the great man whose life she shared, would be protected in their sor- rows from the prurient gaze of the public, But, on the contrary, we have every few days a narrative of their sayings and doings. We have elaborate conversations of Mrs, Lin- coln’s about Spiritualism and those strange, odd fancies which creep into the minds of persons in this unhappy state. We have Mr. Owen's hallucination about killing two burg- lars ; his belief that he is the descendant of a great Scottish earl, and other evidences of his wandering mind. The persons who have charge of Mr. Owen and Mrs. Lincoln seem to regard them as spectacles for public news- papers. It is acalamity unspeakable and far-reaching when people of any station of life, not to speak of Mr. Owen and Mrs. Lin- coln, fall under the shadows of so terrible a disease ; but it is an insult to our humanity that any truffle-hog, calling himself a jour- nalist, should be allowed to publish from day to day reports of what they may say or do in their moments of wandering madness. Tue Snacens.—The Mount Lebanon Shakers held the first meeting this season yesterday, and in another column we present a very interesting report for the benefit of “the world’s people.” These poor dupes be- lieve they have received a new dispensation, and that Jesus Christ has appeared a second time, in the form of a woman. In other words, Ann Lee seems to be the Christ of the Shakers. Their peculiar tencts are set out in the sermon of Elder Evans, which we print, and its.acrimony against all the Chris- tian sects cannot fail to be considered a re- markable outgrowth of asceticism. It is not surprising that a society based on such feeble notions of religion and duty should be dying out, and Elder Evans’ discourse is sufficient proof that there will be no cause to regret the extinction of the doctrines of Ann Leo, The Amateur Rowing Championship, Several of our contemporaries, at a loss to understand the recent easy victory of four students in the Atalanta boat over the famous Beaverwycks and Argonautas, are just awakening to the fact that the students are not only the fastest amateur oarsmen in the country, but can probably beat all, or all but one, of our fastest profes- sional crews, Nearly a year ago, shortly after the seemingly brilliant performance of the Beaverwycks in seizing the amateur championship, we called the attention of our readers to the fact that, genuine as was the surprise created by these Albany men, their work was, after all, not fast. Dif- ficult as it was, in the absence of any ex- act measure of the allowance to be given the four-oar for carrying two oars less than the university boat and for the turning race over the straightaway, there was yet little to justify the conclusion that these differences would reduce the eighteen minutes thirty- four seconds of the Beaverwycks to the sixteen minutes forty-two and one-fourth seconds of the winning Columbians. This year we see that though older and heavier and seemingly better seasoned, they are beaten so badly that during the home mile they could hardly be called in the race at all. They have been defeated, too, by four recent graduates, not one of whom ever sat in a winning university boat, and one of whom was unknown to the rowing world till three months ago. No excuse was proffered, at any rate beforehand, and they were so de- cidedly the favorites in the betting that the foolhardy odds of five to one were offered and taken on them against the men who have thus brought them so hollow a defeat. In casting about for the causes of this sur- prise, always bearing in mind that the pub- lic opinion which hit so wide of the mark in the forecasting was evidently not based on the careful observation and judgment of old'row- ing men, two at least are patent—one, that the Beaverwycks, and the famous Argo- nautas as well, erred signally in judgment in overrowing the first half of the race, a mis- take that both were old enough to know bet- ter than to make; second, that the students know how to row better than the others. Our oarsmen are gradually beginning to find that it requires a head as well as a body to row a hard race and win it; that not only must it be clearly understood beforehand exactly what must be the stroke and what the distribution of the power throughout the dis- tance, but there must be the iron resolution to row just that stroke, and at just that rate of distribution, till the boat's heel is safely over the finish line, even though it brings the rower home stark blind. Rough, scratchy, excited work in any part of the contest, with sound judgment forgotten, can no more win on Saratoga Lake than at Dollymount. Many. as are the advantages of the amateurs, who, unlike the collegians, instead of rowing together for two or three years at most, and often for not more than one, may remain together as long as they like, and when there can be no question as to their maturity, all results so far seem to point to the con- clusion that the student has made the better use of his time. The Beaverwycks are very strong men, and so are some of the Argo- nautas. Let them wisely take the lessons of defeat, and when the last week of next sum- mer comes around they may regain the posi- tions they won last year, when it was really not hard to win, and which they have now so completely and surely lost. Valmaseda’s Loan. The curious document addressed to the wealthy merchants of Havana by Count Val- maseda, which we publish in another column, will give a good insight into the condition of affairs in Cuba. Notwithstand- ing all the bragging despatches from the seat of war in which the official Spanish journals indulge, it is plain that the Cuban tactics are telling on the resources of Spain. || So long as the fight was maintained only in the Eastern and Central departments the Spaniards could have continued the struggle indefinitely at a certain outlay of human blood, of which Spanish governments have never been chary. The torch has proved more effective than the sword, and unless the insurrection can be suppressed this winter the wealth of Cuba must disappear. The prospect before Cuba is not very reas- suring—to be saved by Valmaseda or ruined by the insurgent torch is only a choice of evils. But bad as is the destruction of prop- erty involved in the burning of the sugar estates, it may in the end prove the most humane policy. It will terminate the strug- gle within a given period; for when the Spaniards find nothing worth fighting for they will very soon abandon the struggle to maintain themselves in Cuba. We doubt very much whether the twelve thousand men promised by Valmaseda in return for the forced loan of eighty thousand dollars will interfere much with the march of events even should they ever reach Cuba, which, although the Spanish government promises them in September, is still doubtful. Wall Street Robbers. Acontemporary, speaking of the transac- tions on Wall street recently, says:—‘The market was clearly under the subdued influ- ence of a long-continued ‘milking’ process, by which small percentages are daily and almost hourly drawn from the pockets of that un- fortunate class known as outsiders. It isa system which begets distrust on the part of large numbers who haye other pursuits, but who, when trade in their several specialties is dull, endeavor to while away the weari- some days and turn an honest penny in Wall street. This being the class of persons from which in the main the speculative market must draw its recruits their general discour- agement is a permanent and an apparently irremedial detriment to the commissioned brokers.” This is a public announcement to the effect, namely, that the highway rob- bers who control Wall street have not been doing well lately, because business travellers no longer go that way. This whole Wall street business must some time or other come to anend, It is a sure sign that the end is approaching when we have a public declaration to the effect that the banditti complain that business is falling off because they can find nobody to rob, It shows that honest citizens who have money to invest, and who would be well enough pleased to put it into good securities if op- portunity offered, keep away from the streel and place their money in other directions. If we look down the list of stocks and shares which we report from day to day and which we have been reporting for months past we find that they represent rotten, suspicious gambling interests, People look upon Wall street as given over to thieves and robbers. If they continue to withhold their patronage and avoid purchasing any of ‘‘the favorite stocks,” in time the business must come to an end. One thing is certain, when the Wall street banditti do not find ‘‘outsiders” to rob they will retire altogether. The Eastern Question. There seems to be some danger that the struggle between the Turkish government and its Christian subjects may extend. A thousand Servians have crossed the fron- tier into Herzegovina. By the unwise, forcible occupation of a convent near the Bosnian fronticr the Turks have provoked an outbreak just at one of those points where every effort should have been made to preservethe peace. The meet- ing of the Servian Skouptchina is also not without danger, as it is well known to be radical in its composition, It is, however, difficult to see what advantage Bosnia could obtain by breaking off its present relations with the Porte. Sosmall a territory, sur- rounded by powerful States, can only hope to enjoy a nominal independence ; and the liberty enjoyed by Bosnia under its present relations with the Porte is certainly greater than would be permitted to it if an Austrian piotectorate were to be substituted. In all probability the great Powers will interfere to restore peace, or, at least, to prevent the trouble spreading. Neither Russia nor Aus- tria can just now desire any interference with the affairs of Turkey. It js evident that the disintegration of that Power ap- proaches rapidly ; but the consequent divi- sion of the spoils would be so certain to pro- yoke a general European war that all saga- cious statesmen desire to stave off the sick man’s last hour as long as possible. Mr. Bzrcuzr preached another sermon at the Twin Mountain House yesterday, in which he took occasion to answer the ob- jections of the world to what the devil’s dis- ciples call “the gospel of gush.” Faith, hope and love, these are things tho great pastor tells us the children of the evil one call “gush.” Mr. Beecher forgets. “Gush” consists in the manner of treat- ing these qualities or virtues, whichever we call them, and not in the qualities them. selves. When “gush” takes the place of worship and godly living we are inclined to think that not even Mr. Beecher would de- fend it, ready as he is to parry the blows of the ‘‘devil’s disciples.” Rocxaway.—Yesterday was a “light day” for Rockaway. This is better than that thonsands of lives should be jeopardized on overcrowded steamers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Pasir meets Sen Sree Mr, Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is among the late arr vals at the Brevoort House, Mr. E. L, Davenport, the tragedian, has taken up his residence at the Sturtevant House. Judge W. W. Crump, of Richmond, Va, is residing temporarily at the New York Hotel. Cardinal McCloskey will prolong. his stay in France, He will return to Paris on Tuesday, August 31. Finally the French republicans have got a nickname for the Prince Imperial. They call him “Invasion [V.’” Thad. C. Davis is quietly sojourning at his resi- dence in Buffalo, He arrived there on Saturday night late. Chevalier Ernest von Tavera, Secretary of the Aus. trian Legation at Washington, is staying at the Albe- marle Hotel. Miramar, once the home of Maximilian, is being put in order for the use of Don Alfonso, the Bourbon brother of Don Carlos. ‘The new national union party seems to be disposed ta begin its prond career by getting everybody into the Navy Yard.—Boston Herald. Hitherto the copyright between England and France permitted “adaptations and imitations.” Now these are forbidden and the English ‘‘original’’ writers will be in a bad way. “Opera concert” was Tietjons’ great popular enter- tainment in London. In this, with a magnificent orchestra, she gave the finest gems from the finest operas; and this is what she will do here, ‘An awfully impertinent Frenchman writes to a Parie paper about the women in England who, since the Baker case, are inclined to carry poniards. He says the most of them are better defended by their faces. They are now making gilt edged paper collars, and just as soon as the public can be educated up to the point of wearing them there will be no further need of dollar store jewelry.—Detroit Free Press. Philanthropy has within fifty years so improved the condition of the prisons that a tramp takes to one for a term of six months as ordinary humanity might toa first class Saratoga hotel, with all the bills paid. It is a good plan for the President to keep a rascal in his Cabinet, knowing him to be a rascal, merely be- cause the said official desires to be permitted to keep Ins place “till after, the Ohio election!” —Hartford Times. In the Bois de Vincennes, near Paris, a practical joker hanged himself to a tree with the rope under his arms but arranged so that it appeared to be around his neck, He did it for the pleasure of kicking the people who came to cut him down. An Englishman living at Naples had a fine garden and sold his flowers. He was informed by the flower dealers that he must sell at their prices, bat declined. Some days later’he was found at the bottom of a well in his garden, and his gardener is now on trial for the murder, People will scarcely believe that the hint from the President, by Delano’s friends, that Welsh and Marsh are corrupt men, has saved Delano thus far; but it is true. How easily the President believes in corruption sometimes; how difficult itis to convince him of its ex- istence at other times! “Old Put” has a good many lineal descendants in Connecticut, where he always lived, died and war buried, and in Massachusetts, where he was born. On Tuesday his descendants had a reunion i Haverhill, Mass. No fewer than sixty of Putnam's lineal descend: ants were present from the one town of Danvers, hit native place, Mansart owns a French menagerie; fertod is a dealer in wild aninfals, Bortod had a beautiful bear, which Mansart bought, and it was sent home in a cage, but mysteriously disappeared, Now Mansart snes for dam: ages in a Paris court, and proposes to prove that Bertoé nover sent the bear, but sent instead a man made up a a bear, who walked away when not observed, There isa man named Appleton in Paris who wante the Boston people to keep Jesse Pomeroy for expert: ment. He is sure that the crimes committed, ostensl- bly by Pomeroy, are really the crimes ot departed scoundrels, who, as devils, operate through this innocent youth; and he wants the case studied to throw light on this view. He does not offer any babies for the experi- ment, Does Mr. Appleton’s theory represent the aver. age intelligence of Boston ? ‘As the doctors have killed several insane patients ir St. Louis with conium they fancy it worth while te study the operation of that medicine, and Dr. Hoss has with that view, administered it to Dr. Vanghan, ‘Twe hundred and forty minims of Miller's preparation wert given in four hours and a half, with no effect bute slight dizziness, Seventy minims of Squibbs’ fluid om tract caused, in two hours, general numbness and pap tial paralysis, and the experiment was discontinueds