The New York Herald Newspaper, September 6, 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 Hxnarp will be sent free of postage. nema THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Your 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, be ie 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. VOL NE x L AMUSE MENTS TO- -NIGHT. - WALLACK’S THEATRE, and Thirteenth street.—English Comie Broadway Opera— BRAND DUCHESS, at SPM. Miss Julia Matthews, Mr, G. H. Macdermott ROBINSON HALL, West Sixteenth stphotce wslish Opeta—PRINCESS OF TeepizoN vn, asp. THEATRE COMIQU EB, Feu Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5. M.; closes at 10:45 WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street. HACE, ‘ug FACE, at M.; closes at 10:45 M. Matinee at 2 P. M. HOUSE, weuty-third street—MACBETH, at @P. M.; closes at 11 P METROPC Nos. 585 and 557 Broadw THEATRE, RIETY, at 8. M, THEATRE, LY teenth — street. Upera Bouffle—MADAME BRaCHbDoe. asp. HOWE & CUSHING'S CIRCUS, foot of Houston street, East Kiver.—Afternoon and evening performances. WORLD" 3 vSIC, .—AROUND THE BP. M.; closes at 11 P. M. BOOTH’S THEATR Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue. Po aMLEn, at 8 P.M." Mr. Barry Sullivan. DARL Twenty-third street and Sixth MINSTRELS, at 5 ¥. M.; closes OLYMPIC THEATRE, Ly ay Broadway.—VAKIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 GILMORE’S SUMMER GARDEN, Jate Barnum’. ‘Hippodr JRAND POPULAR CO¥- CERT, at 8 P. M. ; closes Ed! 128 West Fourteenth street. TIVOLI TH Eighth street, near Third avenue. RE, I OMTERICAN SUVEN- M.; closes at 10:80 P.M. PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty second street.—THE MIGHTY DOL- Lag, at8 P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Florence. K THEATRE, COLONEL SIN . nes at 1045 'P, M. Brooklyn.—VAKIETY, at CENTRAL PARK GARDE! THEODORE THOMAS’ CONCERT, at 8 FM. TRIPLE SILE E . SEPTEMBER 6. 1875, “YEW yor K, MONDAY, een From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warm and clear or partly clowly. Tae Berti Porice have only had their enriosity stimulated by the explanation our correspondent has given of how he obtained the Von Arnim sentence in advance of its proclamation by the Court last December. Mr. Moopy yesterday began his evangelical work in the United States by preaching in his native town, and this week will be joined by Mr. Sankey, and, of course, it is expected that a great revival will follow their united efforts. Trovr Currvrr.Long Island is cele- brated for artificial trout streams, and over one million of dollars is invested in the prop- gation of the fish. An interesting account of the culture and the principal streams and ponds will be found in another column. A Rarsnow or Peace is thrown over the dark war cloud in the East. Servia, which it was believed would be inevitably drawn into the struggle, has yielded to the argn- ments of the great Powers, and its govern- ment is pledged to restrain the party of ac- tion. If it can do this, if Servia can be kept out of the war, the solution of the Eastern question becomes easier. 8. Mn. Bercuen has an advantage over the majority of clergymen-—wherever he goes his sermons are reported by metropolitan jour- nalism. In the discourse he delivered yes- terday at Twin Mountain House will be found some decidedly piquant replies to re- cent criticism upon his preaching. There is considerable of the Old Adam remaining in Mr. Be and his critics have dound him quite ready to meet the issue they have raised about the proper observance of the Sabbath. cher's nature, said to have received from an English steamer a large quantity of munitions of war. ere probably are no finer troops of the kind in the world than these Carlists who, have for years main- tained a builliant defence against superior | In the character of their war they re- | force. call our own Confederates. same devotion, the the same brilliancy and the same poverty of There is the resources, The landing of this cargo at | Motrico is to the Carlists: what blockade running enterprise was to the rebels, It gives them what they need imme- diately the most—ammnunition and arms ; but is after all but temporary assistance. Don Carlos needs more than even a fleet loaded with powder and rifles to enable him to win, same desperate courage, | | a snecessfal | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1875—TRIPLE | SHEET. The Mississippi Improvement Commis- sion. The President has appointed another com- mission, composed of distinguished engineers, military and civil, to exatuine and report on the operations necessary for the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River at its mouth, and by which the bar, that at and free ingress and egress of vessels, may be reduced in extent and, if possible, re- moved permanently. The importance of the Mississippi River as an outlet for the com- merce of the Western States warrants the most lavish expenditure on the preservation of its navigation free from natural and artifi- cial obstructions, and we view with unquali- authorities of the Mississippi Valley States. In view of the magnitude of the undertaking and the large outlay involved in the opera- tions projected we would urge the utmost cireumspection in determining the plans for the proposed improvement; for we are deal- ing with one of the mightiest of natural forces when striving to curb and regulate the flow of the turbid waters of the Missis- | sippi River. The scale of our labors is so great that irretrievable errors may not be- come apparent until a vast amount of harm | has been accomplished; indeed, a temporary success may crown the efforts of the engineers at certain points on the sphere of their operations only to | render the evils sought to be abated more irremediable than they are at present. The mud-laden waters of the Mississippi River have formed at its mouth a vast delta of allu- vial deposit, which is yearly, daily, hourly increasing in area and height, This muddy plateau is gradually advancing into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico in a direction almost perpendicular to the northern edge of the Gulf Stream, which flows eastwardly across the mouth of the river and along the coast. The nd held in suspension by the river water is deposited when the gravity of the particles of earthy matter overcomes tho | motion of translation imparted by the river current. In this way a deposit takes place at the mouth of a river when the velocity of the stream is checked by contact with the sea; but when the force of the river current is strong enough to overcome the resistance offered by the sea water we find that the cur- rent penetrates seaward for a more or less considerable distance. Now, such is the case with the Mississippi. The current strikes seaward with force enough to carry with it a large amount of earthy matter held | in suspension. It is immediately acted on by the eastward-bound Gulf Stream, the two forces acting nearly at right angles to each other from northerly and westerly points, respectively. The resultant, or direction given the mud-laden’ river current after its contact with that of the | Gulf Stream, will be southeasterly. We | therefore find a general eastward bending of the mouth of the Mississippi River | and a southeasterly extension of the delta, | with an ever-increasing eastward tendency. | of Mexico the stronger will be the influence of the Gulf Stream on the river current that supplies the material for its growth, and a gradual closing up by deposit may be ex- the river, which will in time open on an area of slack water between the Gulf Stream and the shore line. up is illustrated by the condition of the streams and bayous lying parallel to the Mississippi below New Orleans, and which | formerly constituted its subsidiary outlets or passes, but are now searcely navigable. In | planning the improvement proposed forghe | | month of the Mississippi River the engineers are compelled to devise a means of removing the bar or shoal formed across the navigable entrance of the river, and which is, in reality, but the foundation laid for the exten- sion of the delta, Dredging or any ordinary mechanical process of removing this natural obstruction is out of the question. All the | dredging machinery of the United States would imake no impression on a de- posit that accumulates at the rate of half a million of cubic yards per day. An attempt is being made, under the direc- tion of a very skilful officer, to concentrate the foree of the current of the river itself on. | this accumulation, in order to dredge it away, or, in other words, to tear it up and wash it | further seaward, so that a greater depth of water can be obtained on the bar for vessels entering or leaving the river. By means of wickerwork mattresses and piling, which are arranged to form artificial banks on each side, it is hoped that the river ean be nar- rowed so as to create a scour of its bed, and | a consequent deepening of the navigable channel. This plan will, if properly carried out, secure an improvement, but it will also create the necessity for an almost constant extension of the works so as to preserve the scour; it will also compel the gradual narrow- ing of the channel as the river extends into the Gulf of Mexico, because every yard gained will be at the expense of grade, which | loss must be balanced by a more direct con- centration of effort of the volume of water coming down the river. There are two fixed factors in the calculation for every plan con- sippi River mouth whi and provided for. These are the quantity of mud to be deposited and the volume of wa- ter to be discharged. It has been proposed by a former commission to cut a ship canal from the Mississippi River to | the sea across the neck of alluvial deposit | forming the eastern bank of the river at | Fort St. Philip, a short distance only. canal was to be provided with a lock at the river end, through which vessels would pass from the sea to the river, and back. The lock was to be fed from the river, and water ad- mitted only when a ship was passing, so that the canal-would receive seareely any of the | mud brought down by the stream, and would therefore be easily kept deep. This plan is, we believe, yet under consideration, possesses certain intrinsic merits, but owing to the enormous depth of the mud deposit of the delta and the instability of the soil, the feasibility of building a suitable lock | and entting the canal itself is questionable. We will watch with much interest the prog- ress made by the engineer commission ap- pointed to deliberate on this important im- Provement, because we feel that on the result present forms such an obstacle to the safe | fied approval any efforts made with that | object by the general government or by the | The further the delta extends into the Gulf | pected of the southwest and south passes of | This process of closing | sidered for the improvement of the Missis- | 1 must be recognized | This | and | | | of its labors will depend the interests of one of the most important sections of the country. The Return of the Clergy. The clergy have returned, and are wel- unnsual warmth. They do not come back a day too soon, for morally, as well as meteoro- | logically, the summer has been very bad. The weather has not been of a nature to en- courage pious dispositions, and mosquitoes, | Mr. Bergh, Mr. Green, the Post Office pie- man, the police and other disturbers of the peace have thrown our public into a de- eidedly unchristian frame of mind. Our good men have become sinners, and sinners have become more wicked. There is an area of | low religious barometer over New York and Brooklyn, with a probability of still further depression. We have had a summer of crime. It was notable for assaults, thefts, | see that the whole city seems to have fallen | from its former state of grace. With our | clergy absent it is like the army in the | | Shenandoah Valley with Sheridan twenty miles away. Every one who has the welfare of the city at heart will, therefore, hail the return of the clergymen, They are no doubt shocked and astonished at the changes their absence has cansed. ‘They come back to us as mis- | sionaries go forth to the heathen. They find the fair garden they had so carefully planted and lovingly cultivated choked with weeds and thorny with brambles, The bright flowers of virtue have withered on their stems and perished in the noxious odors of unholy blossoms. The clergyman finds his congre- gation scattered; some of his disciples have wandered away to find other teachings. Methodists have been attendant upon Epis- copalian ministers; Unitarians have been to Presbyterian churches, and points of doc- trine have become confused. ‘To restore or- der out of this disorder, to define the lines of creeds, to raise the standard of religion, to drive evil from the advanced positions it has gained, are some of the great duties they have to perform. In fact, they have to re- convert the city and to make it again the metropolis of American religion. Conscious of this necessity the returned clergymen yesterday made a combined effort to impress the indifferent or hardened popu- lation, and with what marked success our columns elsewhere will show. Mr. Talmage made a strong attack upon the foe in Brook- ly: Dr. Eggleston attempted to rally his | scattered congregation; the Rey. Father Reilly fought under the holy banner of St. Rose of Lima; Dr. Armitage, in a warlike argument, urged his flock to cultivate a spirit of hatred toward sin; Dr. McGlynn led the other wing of the army in an able exposition of the philosophy of humility, and other clergymen, in temporary posses- sion of the pulpits, proved the necessity of prompt reinforcements. We trust that the ministers who still linger at Saratoga, Long Branch and other popular places of resort will perceive the condition of the city and hasten to raise the siege. | Cuba. There is a significant lull in the Spanish military operations against the Cuban insur- gents. Once more the Havana authorities | find themselves compelled to stop the work | of slanghter from their inability to persevere, Disease and Cuban bullets have swept away the last reinforcements, and so the military | operations are of necessity brought to a close until such time as more food for powder can | be shipped from Spain. Valmaseda thinks that with a reinforcement of twelve thousand troops he can suppress the insurrection, | The experience of six years of unsuccessful warfare has shown clearly enough that these promises have no significance whatever. If the twelve thousand men, for whose transporta- tion to Cuba Valmaseda lms taxed the Havana merchants so heavily should be sent out they will merely serve to prolong the war. They certainly will not end it. Fatigue and disease will do their work on these thousands as they did on former reinforcements. During the past year the insurrection has grown toan importance it never before at- tained. All throngh the Eastern and Cen- tral departments the Spanish troops find themselves obliged to keep close to their | fortifications, or if they show themselves | they must move in large bodies. On | the other hand, the Cubans have re- | cavered their hold on _ the Villas, and their raiding parties burn and | destroy, almost with impunity, the sugar | estates of Remedios, Cienfuegos and Sagua, | The result of this policy of applying the | torch will be the utter prostration of com- | merce, When Cuba ceases to yield a largo | revenue Spanish patriotism will not care to make any great efforts to preserve the island to the mother country. It is in this belief | that the insurgents pursue their policy of | destruction, and unless Valmaseda can speeds ily check the progress of the insurrection | Spain had better abandon a struggle that has hitherto brought her only dishonor and defeat. | Gronota.—The letter on Georgia which we print to-day gives very clearly Mr. Charles Nordhoffs explanation of the mis- fortunes of that State. The principal cause of the want of prosperity he attributes to the fact that it is an old State with worn lands, adjacent to new and fertile neighbors, who | offer its inhabitants, both white and black, many inducements to emigrate. Still, Georgia is not without many elements of success. | Her small farmers #re prosperous and her | cotton ynanufactures are being steadily deve- To point out the evils of society is | the first requisite to their removal, and the people of Georgia will, no doubt, recognize | the value of our correspondent's ‘Suggestions, | olped. Hxnzraovina.- give of the speedy suppression of their re- bellious subjects, Spain has repeatedly sup- pressed the Cubans and the Carlists—in pro- Mr. Seward ended our war in ninety on paper; and now Server | Pacha the world that the troubles in the Kast are nearly over, and that clamations ; days hi informed there will be no need for foreign mediation. There are prophecies which it is safe not to believe till they are fulfilled, especially when they are read in the light of our news to-day from Lelgrade. comed by the people of New York with’ | robberies, homicides, defaleations, murders | and misfortunes. We look around us and | The Republican State Convention. This body will organize at Saratoga on Wednesday, The delegates are already as- sembling, and the intervening two days will be spent in consultations. ‘There will be no great difficulty in agreeing upon a ticket, the chances of electing it being so slender that candidates will not press eagerly for a nomination, The only person on whom there is yet any concentration of party senti- ment is Mr. Frederick W. Seward for Secre- tary of State—an excellent nomination, which is likely to be made by acclamation. We see no reason to doubt that the other candidates | will be equally respectable and equally un- objectionable both to the Morgan faction and the Conkling faction. With the odds so greatly against them the party cannot afford to put forward candidates who are personally weak or whose political affiliations would dis- turb harmony. ‘The construction of a platform is a more difficult problem, ‘There are two points which it will tax all the dexterity of the party leaders to handle—namely, the reform question and the third term question. The uncompromising vigor of Governor Tild®m's war on the Canal Ring makes it difficult for the Republican Conven- tion to take high ground on this question without indorsing him and seeming to follow in his wake. He has made it impossible for them to ignore this question, but there is no obvious way of dealing with it which will not inure to his advantage. If they declare that reform is the paramount issue they will merely echo his views and celebrate his praise. Ina canvass conducted on the reform issue the supporters of Governor Tilden .will claim the advantage which performance always has over profession. They will ask why none of Governor Tilden’s republican predecessors took the Canal Ring by the throat, The democratic battle ery of ‘Tilden and Reform” will have a significance which cannot be infused into an imitation re- form cry taken up by cumpulsion to serve an electioncering purpose. To construct a platform which shall put reform in the fore- ground without virtually indorsing Governor Tilden is a task which the Saratoga Conven- tion will attempt, but the prospect of success is not brilliant. It is certain the subject will not be ignored. On the other difficult question, that of the third term, it is possible for the republicans to take refuge in silence. The Times, which has never been very subservient to President Grant, gave the Convention a broad hint a few days since by saying that there might be worse evils than athird term. There is a strong motive for silence in the fact that the federal patronage is greater in this State than in any other, and that the party cannot come within hailing distance of success without the vigorous co-operation of the federal office-holders. On the other hand, the be- lief that General Grant will again be a can- didate was never so widespread or so firmly rooted as it is to-day, and if the Saratoga Conyention does not speak out its silence will betoken consent, and the democratic press and speakers will so construe it. The New York republicans might set this ques- tion at rest by an unequivocal declaration that, under no circumstances, will they ever assist in electing any citizen to the Presi- dency for athird time. They would thus disarm the democrats of a formidable weapon and remove a chief obstacle to success in the Presidential campaign. The Troubles on the Mexican Border The interesting letter from Long Branch which we,print to-day presents the views of ex-Marshal Ochiltree of Texas on the con- duct of the raidipg Mexicans and the proper method of dealing with them. The enthu- sinstic ex-Marshal declares his readiness to vote for President Grant fora third term if he will take the Mexicans in hand and give them a military chastising. x-Marshal Ochiltree’s zeal outruns his knowledge. The day is past for General Grant to promote his third term prospects by getting up a war with Mexico, or with any country. It will not do to reason upon such subjects without regard to the limitations put on Executive power by the federal constitution. ‘The President can- not declare war; that power is vested solely in Congress. This fact makes it idle to speculate on the danger or the possibility of President Grant plunging the, country into war to promote his chances for another election. Both houses of Congress must concur in a declaration of war, and, as Implicit faith can never be | | placed in the assurances which governments | the next Honse of Representatives has a large democratic majority, anxious souls may rest assured that there will be no war in the personal interest of General Grant. Ifthe national honor or the protection of our fron- tier should require the punishment of Mexico the necessity must be so obvious and so urgent that both political parties would acknowledge it, one party having control of the House and the other of the Senate. But if the redress of grievances could be post- poned without outraging popular fecling the democratic Honse would certainly stave, off the subject, in the hope that a democratic Executive might conduct the war. Even if President Grant had power to make war, or if he had a subservient major- ity in both houses of Congress to declare war for him, it is unlikely that he would be driven to that desperate expedient to help his canvass. The democrats are doing more for him than he could do for himself by a foreign war. Their indescribable folly in thrusting inflation into the foreground as a political issue will almost force the ye- publicans to nominate General Grant again if the democratic party should carry Ohio, On this issue he has a better record than any other republican. His courageous veto of the inflation bill gnakes him the natural leader in a national election turning on that issue; and the cautious, steady-going, con- servative business classes would ratly to his support, which they would not do if he farther unsettled business by plunging the country into a foreign war, if he had power to make war. While the democrats are lev- elling all obstacles and preparing the way for his nomination he has only to stand still and watch the progress of events. Th of his provoking a war with Me promote his personal ambition is siniply preposterous, in view of the fact that one branch of Congress will be in demo- cratic hands until after the next Presidential election, The Rejoicings of Germany. We observe that throughout the German Empire the anniversary of Sedan has been celebrated as a national holiday. On this day fell the French Empire. We can well understand how an event of such im- portance would interest a people like the Germans, who have for centuries been yearn- ing for national unity, History will record the battle of Sedan as the most important anniversary of the age sinee Waterloo. We also think it will be a question whether the results of this great victory will be to the advantage of civilization, or even to the wel- fare of the German people themselves. There is no peace between France and Germany, only a suspension of hostilities. The paramount thought in the breast of every Frenchman is that the time will come when he will redeem his country from the humiliation imposed upon it by Germany. Impartial thinkers also feel that, in gathering up the results of the war, the Germans made a mistake, They did not see that even victory would not justisfy them in attempting to destroy a rival nation, France is not destroyed. Her people have shown a great- ness surpassing even the anticipations of their most sanguine friends. We question whether, even with the vast payments made by the French to the Germans, France is not richer to-day than her great antagonist, The penalty which Germany pays even for national unity is a vast standing army. This she imposes upon her neighboring nations. How can a truce which converts every citizen into a soldier and every village into an armed camp be called a peace? Eu- rope is now an armed camp. This is mainly because of the battle of Sedan. Germany has 1,700,000 men underarms, including her army and navy. For these, although she is economical beyond any other nation in Europe, she pays $100,000,000 a year. Eng- land's soldiers and sailors comprise nearly half a million men, at a yearly cost of $124,000, 000, Austria spends $54,000,000 a year for an army of 535,000 men, although she has difficulty in paying her debts. We find even little countries like Belgium and Denmark with large armies, costing millions of dollars every year. Spain, whose credit is a mockery in the money markets of Enrope, whose industry is paralyzed and her commerce little more than a name— Spain, with every impetus to economy and retrenchment and peace—must have 270,000 men, for which she pays over $30,000,000 year. France, with her army and navy, has 1,700,000 men under arms, costing $135,000,000 per annum. Even Greece, who cannot suppress the brigands that infest her hills, must have 50,000 men. Italy, which would not send a commission to the Cen- tennial Exhibition of Philadelphia for rea- sons of economy, can afford to keep several hundred thousands of men under arms at a cost of nearly $50,000,000 per annum ; while little Holland, one of the most useful and harmless countries in Europe, finds 100,000 men necessary for her independence. Even Sweden, away, we should think, from the sweep of European ambition and protected by her isolation, is compelled to keep 160,000 men under arms. Switzerland has 180,000, and Turkey is rapidly going to the devil with an army of 300,000 men. Altogether, therefore, Europe to-day has over 9,000,000 soldiers under arms, for which she spends nearly $700,000,000 per annum. This is one of the fruits of the policy pur- sued by Germany since the great victory at Sedan. The Conference of Virginians. There has been a conference in New York of citizens of Virginia interested in the prog- ress of that State. Its action will be looked upon with interest by all who feel a pride in the growth of the Old Dominion. This con, ference has been for the purpose of bringing the resources of Virginia before the country and the world. Its leaders desire especially to show the advantages of the State for im- migration, As a contemporary puts it, “They ask only that we should look at their fertile valleys, see what has been done in supplying schools and colleges and churches, ascertain whether society there consists of bushwhackers or respectable, intelligent families, and then judge for ourselves whether the cheap farms of Virginia need go begging for purchasers or be sold by the tax- gatherers.” ‘This is a movement which com- mands our whole sympathy. We should re- joice in nothing more than in the restoration of the Old Dominion to its once imperial position as a rich and powerful, as well as a proud and illustrious, Commonwealth. Vir- ginia must always be dear to America. Even those who lament her attitude in recent times will find nothing in the deeds of her sons, of a Jackson and a Lee, to bring dis- honor to the American name, Any move- ment that looks to the regeneration of Vir- ginia in a commercial and agricultural sense will meet the earnest support of our peo- ple. More than all, we believe in these movements toward the building up of the elder States. The modern legend, ‘Go West,” has lost much of its attractiveness. We do not deprecate the planting of States near the Rocky Mountains or on the Pacific. Many great deeds have been accomplished in the Mississippi Val- ley. The time may come, as has been so often prophesied by our enthusiastic State builders of the West, that the seat of empire will be on the banks of their great river. But this will hardly be in our time. So long as the spirit of adventure runs in our Saxon blood we shall have emigrations to California and expeditions to the Black Hills. Theo- dore Parker once said: that the Anglo-Saxon disease was “land hunger.” We have the symptoms now and then in proposals to annex St. Domingo, conquer Canada and make war on Mexico ; but since the war and since the extinction of slavery has destroyed the great propagandizing power of the Union our wiser men have felt that the way to build the Union is to consolidate and strengthen what‘we have, and especially the older States. We could find room for twenty millions more on this side of the Ohio and not be as populous as many nations of Europe, who are not above looking after emigration as a means of recruiting their armies. We have spread too rapidly in some respects for our own Few of our Western States are self-supporting. We pay for their vortal service ond for their military good, MG), s MTS ROOTS ae ee defence. We are paying for their railroads in the dishonor that has come upon out credit by the wholesale repudiation of rail way bonds, This cry for “cheap transpom™ tation” which has so long threatened our polities is only another name for more help for these outlying States. While as a govern- ment we should do as much for Minnesota ad for New York, we should be careful .not ta allow all of our legislation to ran into West ern interests. We should listen to the ap- peals of Virginia and the South as well. The Bank of California. The statements that this great institution will soon be resuscitated are so constantly repeated and are traced to such responsible sources that we begin to think them worthy of attention and perhaps entitled to credit, If it be true that quite a number of its stock« holders are heavy millionnaires, ambitious ta, inerease their wealth by developing the re« sources of the Pacific slope, it is not easy ta see why they should lack either the ability or the will to put the collapsed bank agaim on its feet. If it can maintain its former connections and keep its hold on its cuse tomers, its corporate franchise is still worth many millions, which the stockholders would throw away by leaving the bank prostrate. Its revival is necessary to their own personal credit if they expect to remain in California and continue to be looked up to as leaders in the great local enterprises. Of their ability to reinstate the fallen bank in public confie dence there can be no doubt if their indi« vidual property is as great as has been repree sented, If the depositors of the bank should be paid or secured in full within a short period, they would be cured of their distrust and continue to do business with the bank as heretofore, The advocates of a sound currency would rejoice to see the Bank of California revive and give a splendid example of the recupera~ tive energy of a hard money institution. It would be a gratifying contrast to the great failures in the Eastern States. If California has been fayored by its proximity to the riche est mines in the world, it has suffered, on the other hand, from its political and financial relations with a country which has demoral- ized gold. Gold has an irresistible tendenoy to leave a country which has banished it from general circulation, and California has suffered drains to which it would not have been subject if the currency of the whole country had remained sound. Besides the large amounts she has recently sent to the Atlantic cities her banks have furnished the means of buying up the whole wheat crop of the Pacific States, whose harvest is a little earlier than ours, and whose grain specu- lators were stimulated by the short crops in several parts of Europe. The gold advanced for this purpose will return to San Francisco within a short period and add to the prod. uct of the mines in making money plentiful, In spite of this disadvantage of her connece tion witha country which has driven coig, out of general circulation California will ree tain her gold currency and profit by it as she has from the beginning. It will be a great triumph for the hard money side in our politics if the Bank of California should pay all her depositors and speedily resume. The attempts which ara so promptly made for its rehabilitation show that the sense of financial honor has not been blunted in that gold-circulating community, After a great and disastrous failure the first thing done by the suffering stockholders is to make provision for the payment of theix creditors in full, A gold medium ‘has not the demoralizing effect which is exerted on & community by a debased and fluctuating currency with which men may cheat their creditors with the sanction of law, Fisurve as a sport and fishing as a business pursuit are two very different things, and amateurs will be entertained by the descrip- tion we give of life among the famous fishers men of Long Island. The hardy men who cast their nets in the South Bay are quite as peculiar in their habits as if they were a thousand miles away from New York. Flow tae Porice Ane Emproyen.—Crushe ing a butterfly upon a wheel or raising a whirlwind to drown a fly are occupations not more ridiculous than the employment of the whole police force of New York to, catch a female black-and-tan dog. A general alarm was recently sent to all the precincts to look out for such a dog, but we have the best reason to believe the animal has escaped. If our police cannot catch a murderer how can they be expected to catch a dog? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The Jersey dofalcation is called Sony generis, Mr. John H. B. Latrobe, of Baltimore, is staying af the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain F. Grogan, of the steamship Egypt, is quare tered at the New York Hotel. Captain W. H. Thompson, of the steamship Britannia, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. There will soon be room for immigrants in Arkansas, ‘They hang all who deserve it—six at a time. Schuyter Colfax says that 60,000 women can keep @ secret. It would get away from any smaller number, Colonel E. P. Villanueva, of the Spanish Ordnance Commission, is sojourning at the Metropolitan Hotel. Rev. Olympia Brown is called by the boys of her neighborhood Olympy, just because she carries @ crutch. They are trying in Montreal whether the Bishop or the govermment governs. Up to this time appearances are in favor of the Bishop. In the craw of a quail lately killed in Ohio were found one cutworm, twenty-one striped vino bugs and 104 chinch bugs, but not a single grain of corn, “Among the late arrivals at the Twin Mountain House, N. HL, are H, M. Cleveland, publisher of the Christian Union, and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Patton, of New Haven, and Mr. T. H, Ismay, of Liverpool, arrived from England in tho steamshiz Britannic yesterday and aro at the Fifth Avenue Hotel “Thirty-nine Jashes on the bare back" is proposed is New Jersey for any man who accepts an office the duties of which he knows himself incapable to perform Go up bead, Jersey. O'Connor Power, M. P. for Muyo, arrived yesterday by the Britannic, and is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, He comes under engagement to lecture on Ire Jand and Home Rule, It is the policy of the venerable Hunker of this city never to pay lis debts until he can do so im hard money. “No, sir!” he says wh emphasis, “the demo. crats of Ohio may do as they please, but T shall never cheat my creditors with ordinary rags.” —Rochestes Democrat. Sooy's default over in New Jersey was what is called nical.’ He had used the money of the State for ra, but was “good for it.” Nevertheless, the money was not where it should be, and the Vompe troller, believing law to be law, enforced it. With @ few more such Comptroliers thore would be feweg defaults,