The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1875, Page 4

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Nos. 585 and 587 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P.M, Mati- deo at 2 P.M pe sechTORUM THEATRE, ay ORHOHIDUG ws PM Maange at 1: tray ve HOWE & CU; foot of Houston street, East Ri ances. ING’s cIRCUS, Afternoon and evening ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving piece, and Fourteenth Street.—AROUND THE WORLD IN Eigury DAYS, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. Matinee at 1:30 P.M. gan FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, New Opera House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, aS P.M. Mat a2 Pr. AMERIC. Third avenue.—Day and roy ‘8 Ho ATRE, -third street und Sixth aven RICHARD TIL, at . Mr. Barry Sullivan, Motinee at 1:30 P. Mf. Twent: BP. A HOUSE, ue.—COTTON & REED'S Twenty-third street anc ones at 10 P.M Matinee at 1290 a STRELS, at 8 P. M. OLYMPIC THEATRE, ARLETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:45 SUMMER GARDEN, fate Barnum's Hippodrome RAND POPULAR CON- CERT, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. TIVOLI TH Eighth street, near Third aven FIFTH AVENL Twonty-elghth street, newr Bry ILE OP: "BRA TROUPE, at 8 Soledad Unda y Morou. “Matins E, —THE MIGHTY DOL- P. Broadway and Twenty-second str: jorence. Matinee at 1:30 LAR, at 8P.M Mr. and Mrs. P.M. COLONEL ARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. —VARI M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. tinge at 2 P. M. CENTRA! THEODORE THOMAS’ hh Comte Opera— lia Methown Bi, GRAND DUCHESS, at é H. Macdermott. OMIQUE, , at SP. M.; closes at 10:45 ‘ AND SORROW, ; closes at 10:45 Matinee an a0 P.M. nport. SEPT MBER i, 1875 xEW _YORK, From our reports this 1 morning the probabilidee are that the weather to-day will be cool and clear | or partly cloudy. Wat Srreet Yestenpay.—Stocks were un- settled and in some jnstances lower. Gold advanced to 117, after opening at 115]. Foreign exchange was feverish and money in demand at 3 and 4 per cent. Tue Pexnsyivania Democrats must be set down as a very badly conducted set of gen- tlemen, if we can accept the Erie Con- vention as atall representative. The scenes of confusion enacted during the election of State officers were well calculated to injure the party in public. estimation. CHINA AND > ENGLaNp.—Great Britain i is dis- playing her usual promptness and decision | in dealing with people who fail in respect to | orinsult the national flag. Mr. Wade, the Minister, has demanded satisfaction and is reported to have left for Pekin, where he will, if necessary, present England’s ulti- matum. Tue Henzecovinian Trovere does not wear fo serious an aspect as it did some days ago. Efforts are being made by outside parties to restore peace, and there is reason to hope they may succeed. It is rather a curious sight to see the Pope interesting himself to | save the Sultan, but it is not the less trpe that the Catholic priests in the disturbed districts have been advised from Rome to counsel subseission. Tne Mississiprt.—Captain Eads’ proposi- tion to increase the depth of the Mississippi at its bar by a system of jetties docs not meet with universal approval from the body of engineers. There is the usual disagreement among the doctors, and the public must wait | antil time solves the question. The Cap- | tain, however, has sufficient confidence in the success of his plan to undertake the | work with the condition that in case he fails | the national honor. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1875 WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Political Outlook, We do not know that we have ever seen, at least since the election of Mr. Lin: | coln in 1860, a more dismal political out- look than at present. Weare now on the verge of a/campaign for the Presi- dency—of a campaign that bids fair to be one of the most inportant since the foundation of the government. We see two great parties preparing for the struggle. We see grave questions affecting the honor and the .prosperity of the Republic. If at any time the people should be animated by a patriotic desire for the honor of the Union it would be in the Centennial time, when every day almost brings with it some memory of the trials and glories of the Revolution, and when we are about to celebrate thé hundredth year of our national indepen- dence, If there ever was a time when we should have a return of that “era of good feeling” whose existence forms so bright a spot in the early political history of our cen- tury it should be in 1875 and 1876. We look first to the republican party, as its views are expressed in many State Con- ventions. This isa famous party. Its tra- ditions are interwoven in our history. The time will never come when Americans will forget the republican Lincoln, who pro- claimed emancipation ; the republican Grant, who conquered Lee, It has been a party of great men contending for lofty principles. It was courageous enough to fight slavery in the full flush of its power, independent enough to compel a reluctant Lincoln to pro- claim emancipation and arrogant enough to force Johnson to the verge of impeachment. Yet this party, founded by Sumner and Chase and Greeley, which carried the country tri- umphantly through the struggle to which we owe the strength of the Union and the free- dom of our institutions under the Union, now lies cowering at the feet of a military chieftain. We see this in the declarations of the Convention at Saratoga. Here we have the most independent Convention, ina certain sense, that has assembled in New York since General Grant has been President. It gave Mr. Curtis a latitude of rhetoric which would have been hissed three years ago. It even spoke on the third term. But in all the essentials of political manhood its plat- form is of no more value than the sighing of the winds. There is nothing upon which the members can really rally. It presents no one sentiment to animate the coun- try. It is commonplace and feeble. It says there shall be no military in the Southern States ‘except for the purposes clearly de- fined in the constitution ;’ that there shall be honesty in office; that bad men should not be chosen to the Legislature ; that canal thieves should be punished ; that it will re- duce the taxes in New York to five million dollars ; that “further inflation” would be acalamity ; that taxation should be made equal ; that the free school is ‘‘the bulwark of the American Republic,” All this means nothing. It has been saida thousand times by every thieving, gabbling politician. When the Convention came to the vital point, the third term, it spoke with bated breath. In- stead of declaring that the office of the Presi- dent as it now stands, and as it has been strengthened by the constitutional violations since the war, is incompatible with repub- lican institutions and that, therefore, it should be limited, first by amending the constitution to make the President ineligible to re-electi@, second by limiting his patron- age, we have a cold, meaningless compliment to the President and a half-whispered hope that he will not run for the third term. Not one word on civil service, nothing on the financial question except a platitude, nothing on the Indian frauds, no allusion to the back pay or the salary business of the last Con- gress, a quiet ignoring of every misdeed of the administration. From this great party, lying, as we.say, pas- sive and cowering at the feet of the Presi- | dent, so submissive that even the eloquence of George William Curtis could not evoke the expression of one manly sentiment, this Convention of tide-waiters and Custom House officers, drilled by Alonzo B, Cornell, we pass to the convention of political tramps and vagabonds which has just adjourned at Erie, Pa. Here was a great party seeking | power in a great State. Never did it have such an opportunity. Pennsylvania has long resented its present republican admin- istration. Even republicans feel that the | leaders of that party have been false to their trust. The people showed in the canvass for the constitution that they were indepen- dent of any political domination. They adopted that constitution in spite of the | earnest protests of republican leaders. The spirit which rose in mutiny against Senator Cameron and adopted the constitution might well have been invoked by the Convention that met’ at Erie. On the contrary we have a record far more deplorable than that of the republicang at Saratoga. The platform is an insult to every American who believes in the sacredness of It isa platform which means repudiation, because the policy it supports is a policy which looks toward re- pudiation. It will so result unless the good sense of the people should defeat it. Instead of uniting with the democracy of New York and the East, who have shown themselves in every trial resolute in support of the national honor, who stood by the Union when it was threatened by treason, Pennsylvania demo- crats, under the leadership of the worst men in the party, go wandering after the wild, hare brained fanatics of Ohio and the West. When we look over the names of the men who controlled this Convention we arf pain- fully reminded of those Pennsylvania demo- erats who, during the war, did much to bring disaster upon the party and dishonor upon its record. Those men are po- litical tramps ind vagabonds. Itis fitting that a resolution whieh practically means repudi- | ation should be championed by that noted | says :—‘‘Not aline about this meeting, which he is to receive nothing. Japan has taken steps to give full posses- | sion of Saghalien Island to Russia, who— in exchange transfers to Japan the Kurile | Two American citizens were arrested | while travelling within the treaty limits of Yokohama by the Japanese and sent back to the foreign settlement. It is to the credit of the Japanese government that this outrage was inquired into and punished before any | complaint was made, which is a pleasing | evidence that the authorities at Jeddo act in good faith, tramp Francis W. Hughes, of Schuylkill. true to the proud legend of their State, that it is the keystone of the Union, they could elena: wha “flourished during the war, have taken possession of the party. A plat- form was adopted that isan insult to every American ; for Americans care little about what Pennsylvania thinks of the manage- ment of the State treasury; they care much about its record upon inflation, This is a sad spectacle, and all we can do is to appeal to the better sense of the people. As it is, General Grant's position as a repub- lican candidate has been strengthened beyond measure by this Pennsylvania action. It is just possible that the vagabond political tramps may come into power. ‘This will never be if the wiser sense of the Pennsyl- vanians is aroused to the true meaning of the declarations of the Convention and the in- finite danger to the credit of this great Re- public if these declarations should be sup- ported by the American people, Moody and Sankey. Moody and Sankey have begun their great revival work in this country, doubt that the snecess which attended their efforts in England also awaits them here, and we are equally certain that Christian people | of every denomination will wish them ‘God- speed” in their undertaking. Strictly speak- ing, there is nothing sectarian in their en- deavors, and if we considered only the moral advantages to be derived from their teach- ings we would be compelled to encourage them in their work. There never was a time when a higher sense of the value of moral and Christian obligations was so necessary as itisnow. Our politics are sordid and cor- rupt, and even business principles are want- ing in business men. The teachings of re- ligion and the chidings of conscience seem to have lost their hold upon the hearts of the people. This downward tendency of public and private morality is not only to be depre- cated, but, if possible, to be remedied. Only a great awakening can show the people the dangers of their — sitna- tion or make them earnestly strive against the evils which surround and threaten to destroy them. A religious revival, come in whatever it may, will prove a bless- ing; but from ther source is it probable, at this time, except from the two distin- guished evangelists whose efforts at quicken- ing the consciences of men had such re- markable results abroad. It will be seen from our news coluyns that their beginning is an auspicious one,the little town of North- field, in Massachusetts, pulsating with a religious fervor that seems to spring We cannot | from the personal magnetism of these effec- | tive workers in the Master's vineyard. Ina few weeks we may expect one or other of the great cities to become the chief field of their operations, and it is to be anticipated that their evangelizing influence will spread all over the country. In any event their labors will be watched with great interest by all classes and become as much the theme of public and private comment here as they were in England. Gold Going Up. The Ohio inflationists did not greatly alarm the country ; but the concurrence in their movement of the Pennsylvania dem- ocrats on Thursday bears fruit at once. The prudent part of the public begins to take alarm. Gold, which stood at 147 on Wed- nesday, reached 17 yesterday, with 9 ten- dency upward; and the strength given to the inflation movement by the Pennsylvania democratic platform is the topie of anxious discussion in bank parlors and among con- servative men on the street. The general opinion seems to be that gold will be higher before it is lower; and _ speculators, as is but natural, are already trimming their sails to take advantage of this breeze, They will do all they can to exaggerate the natural propulsion upward; and if the democrats carry Ohio we may see an attempt to make another corner in gold. The inevitable result of this condition of things is to cause prudent men to lock up their capital, to avoid all ventures and en- terprises whatever, and to make the times even more stringent than they already are with what it pleases the demagogues to call money” even more abundant and more per- sistently withheld from active use. This is the natural result of the inflation movement, and we call the attention of all workingmen, mechanics and tradespeople to this fact, that the politicians who lend them- selves to the inflation movement are prepar- ing a hard winter for the poor and for all who live upon legitimate industry. As for the speculators they have before them the pros- pect of lively times and of great gains, That is what the inflation movement means, Cvuna.—Valmaseda is evidently unhappy. Failing to crush Maximo Gomez he has turned upon the Mayor of Havana and humbled that functionary to the dust. It is evident he aims at establishing a purely personal } government and will have no exhibitions of independence on the part of subordinates, Even Zulueta, the leader of the slave power, is dissatisfied and naturally resents a blow struck at his office while he remains the incumbent. From the seat of war we learn the significant news that the head- quarters of the Spanish troops are to be placed on the lines of railway. This new order will compel the abandonment of meny strategic points through the interior, which the Spaniards have preserved with their native tenacity. Everything, however, points to the final disruption of Spanish power in the island. Day by day the torch of the in- surgents increases the area of de¥astation, and by the end of the year there will be few sugar plantations to fight for, so that Spain is losing blood and treasure in the vain 80 | effort to restore her broken rule, Waar Miout Be Exrecren.—The Lvening Mai, commenting upon the several de- spatches in the Heranp from California, | was the most remarkable popular demonstra- If the democracy of Pennsylvania had been | tion known since the time of the Vigilance Committee in 1856, appears in any of the despatches of the Associated Press, The have done more toward reviving national | Hera, as usnal, has its own news and gives credit, strengthening the confidence of foreign governments in our financial tegrity, aiding the administration in funding our debt, and, in the end, bringing to our burdened people the sure blessings of specie | arrangements and carries them outin its own | to the figs American Cardinal. in- | the resolutions in full. Why is it alone among the morning papers in this respect ?” The answer to this question is very simple. | costly token of their esteem. Is There an Insurrection tn M series. + + In Alabama last year one Perrin, who held at the sathe time the offices of deputy United States marshal, United States supervisor of elections and distributor of government bacon, was also a candidate for the Legisla- ture. Fearing that the election would go against him he went out into the woods one evening and shot a hole through his own hat, and thereupon rushed to headquarters and ordered a squad of federal troops to scour the county in search of Ku Klux, who, he’ asserted, had shot at him. He gave to the troops blank warrants to arrest such demo- crats as should seem to them suspicious characters ; and in his sworn testimony on this matter he remarked that in fact a number of planters left the county for fear of arrest. It looks a little as though Governor Ames had been firing a hole through his own hat. He calls for United States troops, on the ground that he is not able to maintain the peace of the State. It is, unfortunately for him, an old trick of his, and it looks a little as though he had now tried it once too often, for the Attorney General is going to find out whether there is really an insurrection, and whether the Governor has really made an effort to preserve the peace, if there is one, before he advises the President to put federal troops under his orders. We hope Mr. Pierrepont will make a thorough investi- gation, and we tender him in the Henarp of this morning the evidence of one Mississip- pian, who is so little alarmed about the con- dition of affairs in the so-called insurrection- ary district, that on Tuesday last, having occasion to come to New York on business, he left his wife and children on a plantation within six miles of Clinton without the least fear of their suffering violence. If the two races were actually in hostile array in this region, as Governor Ames pretends, white women and children would be very quickly removed, for the couity in which Clinton lies has a very large preponderance of colored people, and if the whites were attacking them they would, even though beaten and dispersed, take care to retaliate. The same informant reports that when he left Clinton on Tuesday morning the colored people were in the fields picking cotton, which is an essentially peaceful occupation, in which women and children as well as men engage, and which has never, so far as we know, been pursued under the fire of an enemy. Governor Ames has probably overshot his mark. Instead of calling out for federal troops his duty was to go to the scene of the riot and take care that the Sheriff did his duty in preserving the peace and arresting offenders. Instead of that we hear that the Sheriff, a colored man, ran away from Clinton as soon as he heard the first shot fired, and was, two days after the riot, in Jackson, in consulta- tion with the Governor. Meantime, so in- capable or worthless are the authorities of the county, with the Governor back of them, that the duty of policing the disturbed district seems to have been surrendered by them to companies of private citizens. The whole affair shows clearly the vicious consequences of the policy of federal inter- ference in the local police of the States. It demoralizes the local authorities and en- courages lawlessness; governors, sheriffs and other peace officers shirk their duty and fling it upon federal troops, and naturally, in such a state of things, clemagognes use their power to command federal troops, not only .to put down disorders, but to create and pro- long them. Governor Ames is not fit to have the con- trol of federal troops while he is the civil ruler of Mississ ppi. He has shown on pre- vious occasions that he is capable of misus- ing this power very grossly and dangerously, While he can command the troops at his pleasure he controls the negro vote, which is, by this show of his power, misled to be- lieve him the representative of the will of the Northern people. If the President re- fuses to interfere now he will do much to restore and maintain order in Mississippi, for he will cripple Ames. Tur Rapp Transrr Commisstoners have re- turned to work and will be ready to hear the engineer's report next week. So far they have discharged their difficult duty in a way to give general satisfaction. The need for rapid transit is too great to admit of any fur- ther delay in securing it, and any well-con- sidered proposition recommended by the Commissioners is pretty certain to be adopted. The interest felt in this question is shown by the appearance of the venerable Peter Cooper on the scene with his proposi- tion to secure rapid transit by « railway moved by an endless rope. It is always pleas- ant to see the kindly face of Mr. Cooper and to note his unceasing interest in the welfare of the city ; but we confess we are glad that we will not have to depend upon his coil of endless rope for our fature travel. Mr, Cooper's plan would drag too much, Tue Comine Fasutons.—Those old fogies who have groaned as they saw their wives and daughters shrink before their eyes from the full proportions of the hoop skirt of twelve or fifteen years ago, to the present skimped ‘‘tic-back” skirt will now have a new grievance. The Paris fashion makers are about to introduce geo- metrical, zoological and floral designs on dresses, and Mrs. Grundy will presently ap- pear in a brocade gown, sprinkled profusely with lions, tigers, panthers, griffins, monsters find chimeras dire. The mother of a family will present rather a startling spectacle to her younger children, arrayed in such a dress, or in another “exquisitely pretty,” in which ‘‘various insects are introduced ;” but this new mode will enable careful mammas to unite self-gratification with the instruction of their children, by illustrating their dresses with objects natural and artificial and making a kind of kindergarten of themselves. We read of a “most lovely pattern,” the princi- pal figures in which are keys, about three inches long. Tur American Resrpents at Rome yester- day presented Cardinal McCloskey with a Perhaps the pleasantest feature of the'affair was the join~ It is because the Henatp makes its own news | ing in of Protestant Americans to do honor This was a payments and a sound enrrency, than any | way, and is not governed os to what it shall | gracefal acknowledgment of the compliment | other State in the Union. But the old Bour- bon copperhead politicians, the tramps and or shall not print by any news combination to which it may belong. paid to this country by the Pope in confer- ring the red hat on Cardinal McCloskey, The Guibord Case in Canada, The excitement in Montreal over the case of Guibord shows how a small matter may become of world-wide interest. The whole story is in a nutshell. Guibord was a proper and worthy citizen, a member of the Catholic Church, While in the enjoyment of this membership he became also a member of a literary association, which fell under the dis- pleasure of the Bishop of Montreal because its officers would not, in obedience to his command, remove from the library certain books that were interdicted by the Holy See. Because of the action of these officers the Bishop placed them under excommunica- tion, Guibord objected to the action of the Bishop and appealed the question to Rome. In the meantime he died, and, although he made confession according to the rules of the Church, he was denied the last rites be- cause he declined to withdraw from his membership, The Bishop _ for- bade him the rights of sepulture in the Catholic cemetery because, having died outside of the Church, he could not claim to be interred in consecrated ground. The case was taken to court, the friends of Gnuibord contending that he had in no re- spect forfeited his position as a Catholic, and that the Bishop transcended his power in for- bidding him interment in a cemetery in which he owned a lot. The matter was car- ried from court to court in Canada, until it reached the highest tribunal in England, that of the Privy Council. The result was that an order was issued by the Privy Council commanding that sepulture be given to Guibord in the consecrated ground. This mandate had not been obeyed because of the action of the people of Montreal, who sym- pathize with their bishop, and who as- sembled at the cemetery and violently pre- vented interment when the remains of the deceased were brought to its gates. The question has taken so angry a shape that an outbreak is expected at any moment. It is difficult to see how such a question can be decided without trouble, because on one side we have the authority of the Queen, who is the Sovereign of the Kingdom, and on the other side the authority of the Bishop, who represents the Holy See. Our own belief is that the question should never have arisen. We think that if the rulers of the Catholic diocese of Montreal had been wise they would have avoided a controversy with the Queen, It is certain that if the Privy Coun- cil of the realm, the highest tribunal known to the law, decided a case against the Catholic Church, that its decision will be en- forced if it requires all the military and naval power of England. Reasonable men will also say that a decision from so high and impartial and respected a tribunal must be equitable and just. The Privy Council is sure to decide a question of this kind upon its merits as a matter of law and not from religious feeling. Therefore we repeat that it is unfortunate for a Cath- olic bishop to assume the position of an- tagonizing the Crown. It only gives rise to the assertion so frequently made that the aim of the Catholic Church, and especially since the proclamation of the dogma of in- fallibility, has been to elevate the Pope over the State. It certainly looks like this when, at the O'Connell dinner in Dublin, the Lord Mayor gave the place of honor in the toasts to the Pope, proposing his health before that of the Queen. Now, when we find the Bishop of Montreal declining to obey a man- date from the Queen, the decree of the su- preme tribunal of England, it is hard to reconcile its attitude with that due loyalty to authority without which society would cease to exist. Another Nile Notable. Itis reported by the Atlanta J/erald that General Joseph E. Johnston, the distin- guished Confederate commander, has ac- cepted the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian army ; that he will ‘receive a bonus of one hundred thousand dollars and an annual salary of twenty-five thousand dollars, and that he now accepts the post after having repeatedly refused it. If this report be true the Khédive has secured the services of a most accomplished and capable soldier, and if victory should not favor his colors in the wars he has to apprehend it will not be for the want of military talent in his commander. General Johnston is not only the ablest living soldier produced on the Southern side in our great war, but, in the opinion of persons who have closely studied the conflict, he is the ablest soldier that ap- peared on the scene, from first to last, in support of the Southern cause, and the only Southern General of great conceptions in strategy. No thoughtful Southerner will ever be able to free his mind from painful reflections of what might have been if the conduct of the war had been thoroughly in Johnston's hands—and the North must always rejoice that there was a Jeff Davis to thwart him. With the many admirers of Johnston's tal- ents as a soldier his character also stands high, because he fought, as he understood it, for his country and freedom. Different views may be taken now, as he seems to become a mere soldier of fortune in an Oriental ser- vice; but against the antique prejudice on this point it tends to become more and more recognized that war is an inevita- ble fact in the progress of nations from old to new conditions, and that it is one of the more than human economies to have it con- ducted on scientific principles. There will, moreover, be no wars there but such as his friends might envy General Johnston tho chance to assist in; for the Khédive will do no fighting of consequence till he is com- pelled to defend against Turkey his own declaration of independence. Pactrio Man.—As our despatches show, we are to have a revival of the Pacific Mail scandal, arising from the desire of the com- pany’ to recover seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which, it is alleged, Mr. W. 8. King knew something about. The probabilities that any considerable portion of the money will ever be recovered are very slight. It may, however, be worth while to teach the old lesson that no matter how sue- | cessful di or later r tonesty may be for a while it sooner od punishment. selves mex ‘Tur Coroner's Jury empanelled at Ports- mouth, England, to find the canse of death in the case of the mate of the, Mistletoe, drowned in the collision with Queen Victo- ria’s yacht, returned a verdict of accidental, death, but tacked on to it were a few lines that sounded very like a censure for Hes Majesty the Queen. The Centennial and ue! The Convention of the Micawber domo erats, assembled at Erie, came very neat nominating for Governor the Hon, Willian Bigler. It is hardly to be expected that an organization of political tramps like these should have finally consented to put sq. sensible a man at the head of its ticket. A the same time we think it was a mistake fox Governor Bigler to have allowed his name ta go before the Convention. He might have tuken the nomination for Governor if it had been offered to him by acclamation, because it is very hard for any member of a party ta refuse an honor of this kind. To be sure, we have just seen Mr, Evaris and Mr. Bigelow decline nominations in the Saratoga Conven« tion, but that was because they did not choose to be made disinfectants to purify q corrupt party which in the days of ita power had neither honors nor offices fox them. Mr. Bigler went into the Convention, struggled through ten ballots and was finally defeated. This injures his record as a leadex of Pennsylvania polities. His greater mis« take, however, was in becoming a candidata at a time when he was the agent of the Cen« tennial Exhibition, This great national un« dertaking, which grows in magnitude every day, should not be tainted by polities. When Governor Bigler became its agent he should have thrown every such temptation behind him, feeling that if the Exhibition succeeded his political future would be the brightes with the glow of its success. We trust that the managers of the Centens nial will insist that their agents shall refrain from all political affiliation until their work is done. It would have been bad enough if the agent of the Centennial Exhibition had been nominated for the Goyernorship of Pennsylvania, but it is worse, much worse, to find him a defeated applicant for the post. Keep the Centennial clear of politics. Mover Porice.—The testimony given yes« terday by policeman James Walters entitled that individual to instant promotion. A man with lis peculiar views of life and con« duct ought not to be merely a_ police« man, he should be a captain. Under a system of police administration which seeks to protect the criminal rather than the citizen it is eminently proper that Jameq Walters should be a policeman if not a police commissioner. He has in him the stuff to make a great man, and all he wants is an opportunity. We think tha talents of such a man ought not to be wasted in the police force. He needs wider scope, and we think the Commissioners ought ta see to it that he be sent away. Inrerxstine information ef the progress and development of Newport will be found in a letter from that fashionable watering place, published in another column. New port, like all other places, has felt the resulé of the hard times, and there has been mani« fested a tendency to lower prices consider- ably, but there is everywhere promise of future prosperity. Bisnor Hare was yesterday up for exame ination before the Red Cloud Investigating Committee. His testimony was marked by its absolute impartiality, and was very note. worthy as supporting Dr. Marsh on many important points. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Plenty of peach brandy to be made in Delawaro this year, Rev. Dr. Duncan, of Ashland, Va., is registered at the Astor House. Captain C, H. Wells, United states Navy, 1s quartored at the New York Hotel. Mormon Bishop John Sharp, of Salt Lake City, ie | Staying at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Count G. Galli, Italian Consul at New Orleans, hag apartments at the Hotel Brunswick. ‘The news from Nevada is that “Dr. Mary Walker passed Eiko going West on Friday last.”? Mr. W E, Chaualer, of New Hampshire, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth avenue Hotel, # Mr. T. B, Blackstone, President of the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company, 18 at the Windsor Hotel, Mr. Rodney W. Daniels, Collector of Customs at Buf falo, is residing temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Seftor Don G. Videla Dorna, Argentine Chargd @’ Affaires at Washington, is sojourning at the Albemarle Hotel. The “land where every season smiles eternal o'er those blessed isles” accepts an invitation to the Cen- tennial. General E, A. Merritt, the republican candidate for State Treasurer of New York, has arrived at the Metro~ politan Hotel. Dr. Charles F, Macdonald, Superintendent of the Money Order Bureau of the Post Office Department, ia stopping at the Windsor Hotel, It is a pity that Jeff Davis did not discover that “the people of the Mississippi Valley must be one” before #¢ many lives were lost in his effort to make them two, Secretary Belknap, who has been making an ex. tended tour in the Far West, arrived in this city last evening and took up his residence at tho St. James Hotel. The Washiygton National Republican says the nearest thing to a funeral is to see a small boy, with a waters melon under his arm, whistling, “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” Capital punishment in Brooklyn for refusing to stand when ordered by a policeman, ‘There is a want of pro- portion in the Brooklyn notion of the gravity of offences. Colonel Thomas A. Scott, President of the Pennsylva- nia Railroad Company, arrived in this city, with hig family, last evening, from Lake George, and $s at the Windsor Hotel. Itis related that man spent ten hours in Bostom recently trying to find a clergyman to attend a funeral People should die at watering places if they must have funerals, —New Orleans Republican, An editorial excursion party, composed of membera of the Virginia Press Association, arrived at the Grand Central Hotel last evening from Philadelphia, where they have been making an inspection of the Centennial Exhibition buildings, Mr. ©. FP. Magee, of Guatemala, is at the St, James Hotel. He is a bre of the British Consul who wag publicly flogged there, and on whose account the gov. ernment was compelled to pay an indemnity of $60,000 and salute the British flag. ‘A. Macdonald, of the London and Canvass Land and Colonization Association, is at the Stevens House. Ha comes to complete the purchase of a tract of forty-two sqitare miles from the Kansas Pacific Railway to be sete tled by English and Scotch farmors Goyernors Kellogg and Warmouth, of Louisiana, ov capied Manager Stuart's box at the Park Theatre last evening. Verily it has come to pass that the lion and lub lie down together, Ma or and Billings ham Livermore were also in ' Louise Latean, the Belyin of whose hysteria attacks such notorious use be by the privat. | hood of that country, i# no longer regarded by thent ag asaint, First her family quarrelléd with the priests and shut them out of he ©; then Louise had the typhoid fever, upon her reed to present the phenomenon of the stigmata, and became a awlully commonplace person, with “an appetite Mega ogre."? No saint ever has an appetite,