The New York Herald Newspaper, September 14, 1875, Page 6

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Wart Street Yesterpay.—The stock mar- | ket was excited by rumors and prices were depressed. Gold opened at 116 1-2, declined | to 116 and closed at 1163-8. Foreign ex- change was quiet. Money loaned on call at 1 1-2 and 2 per cent. Tae Carrie Disease threatens to become very destructive in England. There are six thousand cases in Devonshire alone. Sovrnenn France has again been devas- tated by floods and the crops have been greatly damaged. At St. Chinian about sev- enty persons are supposed to have perished from a waterspout. i ‘Tre Morprren Detaney, who killed Captain Lawrence last month, has been arrested in | Philadelphia. A second crime led to his de- tection, and the description given of his | personal appearance by the newspapers, as | usual, was of much aid to the police, A Mysrentovs Arrempr to murder is re- | ported to-day. It is not so much of a mys- tery, however, that the police should not be \ able to unravel it. But they have failed so | often in easier matters that it is not certain | they will succeed in this. Ovn Desrarcres from California show that ‘business men are beginning to resume con- fidence and everything isin a rosy con- | dition. In reading these despatches it is just to the San Francisco agent of the Asso- | in the same condemnation. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Vice President and the Ni Mean Policy. In one respect the Saratoga platform differs from the republiean plattorms in Pennsylva- nia, Ohio, California and elsewhere this year—it does not praise directly the Southern policy of President Grant. Is it possible that the republican politicians are at last learning wisdom? The Pennsylvania republicans in their platform, though they would have no third term, heartily approved of the Presi- dent's policy, and particularly ot his conduct of Southern affairs. The Ohio men were not less warm in their approval ; and the Califor- nians, since then very badly beaten, were just as strong. At Saratoga, for the first time, we hear a gentle, very gentle, remonstrance. A “just, generous and forbearing national pol- icy in the Southern States” is required, with “a firm refusal to use the military power, except for purposes clearly defined in the constitution.” And the Vice President hastens, in a letter to Massachusetts republi- cans, to ‘second the motion.” It is high time. The policy which the President and the republican administration have pursued toward the Southern States has been a huge blunder, in this respect, that it has been unaltered, It has made no allow- | ance for the great changes which time and custom have brought about in the South since the war, It is the same in 1875 that it was in 1868-9; the same when the patient was ill unto death and when he is past his crisis and convalescing. The republican doctors seem to have had not the least faith in their own remedies. One result of this iron-bound policy has been that the republican party has to-day substantially no existence in most of the Southern States, In 1968-9 it ruled in every Southern State, and it counted among its members a number of eminent Southern public men and many thousands of Southern whites. To-day it can count only on South Carolina and Mississippi, and not certainly on those. In the rest of the cotton States the party is to-day composed almost exclusively of the negroes and the federal office-holders. In Arkansas the republican party has been over- thrown and will hardly be reorganized. In Alabama it is hopelessly demoralized. In Louisiana it was fairly beaten in the last election, and is sustained to-day only by the federal power. In Georgia it is in a hopeless minority. In North Carolina it has squan- dered a large majority, and it is doubtful whether it can recover its ground next year. Even in Mississippi and South Carolina, States which have overwhelmingly large ne- gro majorities, the party isin danger. We need not speak of Tennessee, Kentucky, Vi> ginia or Missouri. In all the cotton States the republican policy has resulted only in arraying the mass of the white voters against it. In Louisiana, in 1874, not more, than five thousand white men supported the republican ticket, and these were the office- holders and their friends. In Georgia, to take another State, less than five thousand white voters belong to the republican side ; and again, these are mostly federal office- holders and their relatives and friends. Now, this is a very serious calamity. It means that in a number of the most impor- tant States of the Union the wealth, the in- telligence and the political skill are massed on one side, and opposed to the mass of the ignorance and poverty. There can be no per- manent prosperity under such a condition of things. Indeed, no’one pretends to doubt this. Senator Morton himself cries out against such a division of parties. But there is not the least doubt that the republican policy toward the South is primarily and almost en- tirely.to blame for it. A wise political management of the South, by statesmen anxious for the security of the colored people and the peace- able settlement of political questions, would have carefully sought to prevent such a division on the color line, and would have found it easy to prevent. In every State there are a number of men prom- inent and influential in its politics—men of brains, naturally and justly ambitious of political power, and capable, by social influ- enge and natural predominance, of inflnenc- ing others. Take all the men of this character and position in any community and they inevitably fall into two par- ties, by reason of differences in tem- | perament, old party associations, and per- sonalaspirations. For instance, in Georgia to- day there are at least ten candidates for Goy- ernor, all prominent and influential men— but all democrats. Under the republican policy they can be nothingelse. That policy has, in fact, made it impossible for any man | of real influence in the South to be a repub- lican. It has proscribed them all, and has | compelled them either to abandon public life | entirely or to unite, regardless of political | differences, in opposition to the administra- tion. No matter whether they are old whigs or democrats; no matter whether by tempera- ment thay are conservative or progressive; no matter whether, by political education or opinion, they are hard money or rag money men, for or against a protective tariff, op- posed or favorable to internal improvements: no matter how strongly they differ on all the most important points of national policy, all | are to-day united in a solid body of opposi- | tion to the republican administration. How can they be otherwise? The ad- | ministration since 1868 has united them all It has not asked their advice, or sought their help, or | offered public position and its accompanying ciated Press to remember that Ralston is | dead. | ‘Tur Norra Canorma Convention drags slowly along, and yesterday the only partic- | ular event was the proposal to amend the | constitution so as to make citizens who do | not believe in the Old and New Testaments incapable of holding office. “Back! back! malignant bigot!" What do such people as | you know about religion ? ‘THe Senvian Goverxment is doing all it | influence to any of them. It has reserved all its places of trust and honor in the South for strangers or for natives of no political in- fluence, and mostly of no character. suppose the President, carefully watching | itand Professor Marsh at the other. important saat: manded the repeal of the Enforcement acts ; would have crushed the Civil Rights bill; would have stopped federal interference in local affnirs. They would certainly have turned out the corrupt men who have robbed Louisiana and other States. But no man can doubt that they would have succeeded long ago in divid- ing the white vote; in bringing per- manently to the republican side in those States a large part of the brains, intelligence and wealth; and this, in itself, would have insured peace and rest for all, and absolute and permanent security for the colored people. The South has been, for at least three or four years, ripe for such a policy, and itis the gravest blunder. of the repub- lican administration that it has utterly refused to recognize its opportunity and has continued to rule only by harsh, repressive measures, by violence and the exercise of brute force. It is creditable to the Vice President's political sagacity that he was the first among the republican leaders to perceive the serious blunder which his party was making. Of late we notice some indications that other leading republicans begin to see it too, They are ready for a change; but they do not know how to bring it about. They are afraid of the President; and he is not in the least afraid of them, Indeed, it may be said that he has a genuine and searcely concealed contempt for the republi- can leaders. He does not advise with them; he does not care to know what they think; and for the present, as during the war, he ‘‘fights it out on the same line.” Meantime they praise him in conventions and talk spitefully about him in private. And if they are not carefal he will some day change his base and leave them all ‘‘out in the cold.” If he should suddenly determine ona radical change in his Southern policy and make conditions with the democratic leaders, binding them to give up inflation on condition that he would do justice in the South and rout the robbers there, might he not say that he had once more sayed the country from a grave danger; that he had stepped into a gap which no one else could fill? It may be that he is incapable of such a stroke; but he would not be withheld from it by feelings of affection for the republican leaders, or care for their comfort or future. A Breakfast with Secretary Delano. Long familiarity with the Indians has had a bad effect upon Mr. Delano. He has gone upon the warpath, and appeared at the breakfast table yesterday in his war paint. We suppose this was what an eminent author calls ‘a Christian breakfast; hot rolls, eggs, coffee, beef,” as distinguished from the heathen meal of the Romans and Greeks, which was ‘a thrice-accursed biscuit, with half a fig, perhaps, by way of garnish.” Such a breakfast as he should have at a first class Washington boarding house ought to have put Mr. Delano into an amiable state of mind. He should have been mollified by his hot buttered rolls, and warmed by his fra- grant coffee. Yet, if this were impossible to his savage disposition, he should have re- venged himself on his wittles. He might have stabbed his beefsteak, impaled a potato, or scalped the butter. But such victories could not satisfy Mr. Delano when he perceived Professor Marsh calmly chipping his eggshells on the opposite side of the table. The sight of his enemy spoiled his appetite for food and kindled it for revenge. We are sorry to hear that the Secretary called the Professor a liar, and other names equally offensive, and shook his fist at him, and intimated that he could whip him. This sauce, more pungent than Worcestershire, was not relished by Profes- sor Marsh, who replied that he was not afraid of Mr. Delano. Fortunately knives and forks were not drawn, and the pepper caster was not shied ; but for awhile there was quite a tempest in the teapot. It is sad to think that two gentlemen cannot meet at breakfast without the danger that one of them will devour the other, and it is plain that one of the two must change his quar- ters. One ordinary boarding house cannot safely contain them both, and it would be charitable to wish that there were a place a hundred thousand miles long and that Sec- retary Delano might breakfast at one end of The boarders in the middle might then eat their meal in peace. Mr. Blaine Hoists the “Bloody Shirt.” It seems a pity—but Mr. Blaine has done it. At this late date, in full view of recent occurrences in Georgia and Missis- sippi, when even the President for the first time hesitates and refuses Governor Ames the use of federal troops; when Spencer has become a laughing stock in Alabama and Kellogg goes, about in the North asserting that “the adjustment”—which means a democratic majority in the Legislature of Louisiana—has qnieted that State; when Arkansas is at peace, though Brooks is only a postmaster; when the “bloody shirt” has become ridiculous and hateful to all sensible men, behold Mr. Blaine hoists that faded and ragged garment. Perrin, in Alabama, shot a hole through his own hat and there- upon shouted Ku Klux. It is too bad to see Mr. Blaine performing the same stale trick. Senator Morton going about the country ery- ing ‘Murder! murder!” was not nice; but one could laugh at that spectacle. But the ex-Speaker, thought to possess judgment, insight, knowledge, held up by his friends and admirers as the model politician of the country! It is too bad. a man Now, | He at least was supposed to know that the war is over. And here he stands up in Maine, a | the course of events, the important changes | kind of unblushing Rip Van Winkle, to of opinion in the South, had seized the op- | talk about issnes and revive recollections | portunity in each of those States of offering, say two years ago, important federal | ap pointments to some of the really prominent and influential men in it. ean to escape from the war upon its borders, On the one hand it has addressed a circular to | the chiefs of the districts, declaring that it is on the best terms with the Porte and ordering that no assistance shall be given to the in- surgents, while on the other it has ordered the mobilization of twenty-four thousand men to meet the threatening concentration of Turkish troops on the frontier. Severe fighting for three days is reported in Herze- govina, most of the Southern leaders one or two Cabi- net officers, and put upon these and their | political allies the work of organizing a real republican party in the South, allowing them | to put in the federal offices there such real | leaders of the white people as they would | | have known how to choose. Of course wouldhave had to allow to these Southern menajustand large influence in his councils, | But Mr. Blaine! ‘They would have altered his policy in many | of him. | Suppose he had chosen from the fore- | hi which are as dead as his own chances for the Presidency will be unless he talk about living issues. If the late Mr. Colfax or Mr, ex-Cor- poration Counsel Delafield Smith were making « public harangne in Maine | about these days, we should expect them to go on at great length abont the war | and the blunders of the democratic party some time in th last century, and we should he | confidently expect to see the “bloody shirt” hoisted and even nailed to the masthead. we It is a sad joke, They would have d+ ; ‘eads the news- | papers and gathers his wits sufficiently to blush when we think | Tammany at Syracuse. The Democratic State Convention will move on smoothly enough in the transaction of its business as soon as it gets organized, but there will be a preliminary skirmish in settling the claims of contesting delegates from this city. There is a set appointed under the auspices of Tammany and an anti- Tammany set, whose champion is John Mor- rissey. The admission or exclusion of either would make no difference in the action of the Convention, but would have a great effect on the subsequent canvass for city officers. If the Morrissey men should gain admission at Syracuse it would bean indorsement of them as the regular democracy of the city, and with that prestige they could make local alliances which would give them hopes of electing their city candidates. It is not probable that they will be recognized by the Convention, because there can be no doubt that Tammany represents a large majority of the city democrats, We do not see that Governor Tilden needs to concern himself with this squabble of fac- tions. His great strength lies in the rural democracy. The New York delegates have lost their former power to dictate to the State conventions, The influence of Tammany was broken by the election last year, when Governor Tilden had a clear majority outside of the city. Neither Tammany nor any other city organization can any longer say, you must satisfy us with the ticket because you cannot elect it without our help. The rural delegates will act on their own judg- ment of what is most for the interest of the party. They will admit the Tammany men into the Convention, but will not allow them to control its proceedings. To make sure of getting in they have passed resolutions ex- pressing a great deal of honeyed commenda- tion of the Governor, and have attempted to disguise the fact that they are all creatures of John Kelly. The necessity for disguise grows ont of a resolution passed by the State Convention a few years since, requir- ing all delegates to be chosen in the separate Assembly districts, and making it a permanent rule to recognize none appointed by any local political organ- ization other than the democratic voters of each Assembly distriet acting apart. Tam- many has complied with this rule in form, but violated it in spirit; and this will be the strong point of the Morrissey contestants. They will offer to show that although sep- arate conventions were held in the Assembly districts, Tammany stood behind the scenes and pulled the wires by which its puppets were moved. But the Convention is not likely to go behind the external form of regu- larity, and a wrangle will be avoided by re- ferring the question to a committee and accepting its report in favor of the Tammany claimants without debate. There will a great deal of bustling activity on both sides in the streets and hotels before the Uonven- tion assembles, but probably no disturbance in the Convention itself. The Truth About Mississippi. H.R. Pease was until the 4th of March last a United States Senator from Mississippi. He is now postmaster at Vicksburg. He isa Northern man—a strong and even bitter re- publican. His last speech in the Senate de- picted Mississippi as a dark and bloody ground, and he has himself, since Congress adjourned, been the subject of a brutal in- sult by a ruffian in Vicksburg because he chose to do his plain and unfearing duty in the Post Office in selecting his own clerks, and among them a young colored man, per- fectly capable for the place. We state these facts about Mr. Pease to show that his testimony to the peaceful con- dition of Mississippi is not likely to be warped by democratic leanings. He tele- graphs to the Attorney General that the ex- citement arising from the recent riots at Yazoo City and Clinton has “in a great measure subsided,” and, what is of even greater importance, that ‘‘a civil posse, com- posed of good citizens of all political parties and of sufficient force to protect life and property, can be had in any county in the State.” He adds, what proves conclusively that Governor Ames has been playing the demagogue and grossly misrepresenting to the President the condition of Mississippi, that ‘‘no effort has as yet been made by the State authorities in this direction”—namely, to put down disorders by the help of citizens; and that ‘federal intervention is unwise and impolitic, and will only tend to aggravate existing difficulties.” Such testimony from such a man is con- clusive as to the condition of Mississippi and as to the course of Governor Ames. Ames is working for an election to the United States Senate. It would be a just retribution Senator, should impeach and remove him. He certainly deserves such a fate, for he has tried by false information to mislead the President into what would, as now appears, There is no doubt of his He aimed to coerce to his interference. motive in this. republicans of the State. By showing the negroes that he could command federal in- himself upon them as ‘General Grant's man.” And now he has failed; and in his failure the ‘bloody shirt” seems to have re- ceived a final rent ; it is now only a fintter- ing rag. Tue Moopy axp Sankey Revrvar.—The revival meetings of Messrs. our correspondence and appear to increase in interest. Mr. Moody's illustrations may appear grotesque and almost too familiar to | those cultured Christians who are accustomed to the scholarly sermons of our clergymen, and the imaginary letters he addresses from the citizens of Northfield to the Heaven and the King of Kings may be criti- | cised by the fastidions church-goer, But it must be remembered that these evangelists do not profess to preach like Dr. Hall or Dr. Armitage. They have a special mission, and hope to discharge it by their own peculiar methods. criticise them from any standpoint of ofdi- | nary enlture or by the canons of what we con- sider to be good taste. Their work must be judged by its results, and if their curious | anecdotes and homely similes sronse the for his scandalous and dangerous course if | the next Legislature, instead of making him | have been a dangerous and needless act of | will not only the demoerats but also the | tervention at his will he meant to impose | Moody and | Sankey at Northfield, Mass., are described in | King of | It is unfair, therefore, to | sleeping coatiaaiien of sinners it must be approved. We are glad to hear that Messrs. Moody and Sankey will visit New York this fall. No city needs a revival more. If they can diminish sin in this community they will achieve a task which has baffled the combined efforts of the clergy and the police. The Guibord Controversy. The letter addressed by the Bishop of Montreal to the Catholic population of that city in reference to what is known as the Guibord controversy is an important docu- ment. The Bishop informs the faithful that while it may be possible, in obedience to (he mandate of the highest tribunal in England, for the body of Guibord to be buried in con- secrated ground and in the lot of which during life he was an owner, that ‘by virtue of a divine power held in the name of the Lord of Lords the place where the body of this rebellious child of the Church shall be buried will be not only cut off from the con- secrated cemetery, but shall be for the future aceursed,” By virtue of this ‘divine power” the Bishop does put upon the grave of the deceased the interdict of the Church. We are informed that this letter has produced a profound sensation, ‘‘falling like a thunder- bolt,” and that so far from the difficulty coming to an end public agitation is rising. In the administration of the duties of his sacred office the Bishop of Montreal has a right to direct the discipline of the Church. One question arises as to this anathema. In the grave in which Guibord is to be buried lies the body of his wife. This woman lived in the Catholic faith and died in the full communion of the Church, Are we to un- derstand, therefore, that His Grace, in inter- dicting this spot, putting upon it the curse of the Church, means also to curse the rest- ing place of one who was faithful? We are afraid that in this whole matter the Bishop has been hasty. He certainly should never have allowed the question to grow into an issue with the English government. That government, although Protestant, is liberal in its dealings with all denominations. It is especially so to the Catholic Church. The Crown protects the rights of every Catholic, permits its discipline, its awards of honors and punishments, with as much impartiality as it protects its own clergymen. Therefore, for a Catholic prel- ate enjoying the protection of the Crown, and we might almost say the hospitahty of the nation, whose sceptre isin Protestant hands, to invite an issue with the highest judicial tribunal, is to commit a grave indis- cretion. There could have been some way out of this difficulty without the agitation which now disturbs Montreal. Much of the sympathy with which fair-minded Protes- tants regard the position of the Catholics in Germany will be withdrawn if it is found that in a country like Canada, where there is tolerance and religious equality and every desire to allow the Catholic faith liberty, upon aminor question of discipline the Bishop openly defies the Crown and answers a royal command with an anathema. What England Thinks of the Erie Convention. A special despatch which we copy in another column from the Evening Telegram of yesterday shows the first fruits of the Pennsylvania Democratic Convention at Erie upon our credit abroad. An ‘‘uneasy feeling” is reported as characterizing the London market for United States govern- ment securities. There seems to be less desire on the part of investors to buy, and “the tone of the market points to still lower prices.” There can only be one explanation of this phenomenon at the present time, with money cheap in London, and especially re- membering that a few days since, when the money markets of Europe were almost at a panic on account of the threatening attitude of affairs in the Principalities, American se- eurities remained firm. We then congratu- lated ourselves that our government was so strong that in atime of general disaster in Europe its securities would become an asylum for anxious investors, Now we find that in consequence of the madness of the democrats in the. great State of Pennsylvania this confidence has passed away. Our credit is as seriously affected as though we were threatened with war. With all our resources and beautiful resolutions to make our credit the finest in the world we. are sinking rapidly into the financial condition of Spain and®furkey. This is one of the first fruits of the policy of inflation, which is only another name for that of repudiation. Impending Ruin in Rhode Island. There are rumors of an impending strike and a general crash in Rhode Island, In no State in the Union are the relations of capi- tal and labor so intimately interwoven or so dependent on each other. Politically speak- ing, the mill owners have a power equal to that of the barons of the Middle Ages, and their operatives are their vassals, compelled | to do their bidding on all occasions, Each | town is a satrapy, owned by a Goddard, a Sprague, a Lippitt or a Howard. They con- trol not only their mills, but the machinery | of the State government and the banks and other moneyed institutions. Under such chiefs the workinginen fare badly. one-half of the operatives in the factories are disfranchised. They are overworked, underpaid and underfed. Discontent is the thing is made to snbserve the purposes of a fow political magnates. But a general strike is an event more to be deplored even than the injustice and wrong to which the operatives are subjected. Such a course would be found as fall of evils as Pando- ra’s box. The mill owners would be ruined, | and with their destruction the industries of | the State would destroyed. Forty thousand operatives would render them- selves homeless, Many of the banks, especially the banks for savings, would go down in the crash. The disaster would be one of the most severe ever felt in this coun- and the distress would be universal. Evide ently the remedy for the evils from which the workingmen of Rhode Island are suffer- | ing is not in the proposition for a general strike. It must be found, if it is found at all, in a wiser and safer policy, Universal suf- frage must be guaranteed to every citizen free from the restrictions imposed upon it by a narrow and selfish statecraft. Baronial rule must be supplanted by.a government be Fully | natural outgrowth of a system where every- | ——Ke sbputbtike: ta test as wellasinname, The laws must be made to bear equally upon all classes. Labor must be protected in all its rights, and the savings of the poor guaran- teed by a statute like the Savings Bank law of this State. When these things are accorded to the workingmen, and when labor is fairly remunerated, a new era will dawn upon the State, and we shall hear ng more of impending ruin in Rhode Island. An Unfortu: Precedent. We observe by a despatch from the West that a person named Shehan, charged with complicity in the whiskey frauds, has been found guilty of the offence, and that the pen- alty may be two years’ imprisonment and five thousand dollars fine. We “view with alarm,” as Judge Dennis Quinn would say, this tendency on the part of juries and judges to send statesmen to prison. There is no knowing how far the example may ba followed. Shehan has not shown the proper courage. He should have come to New York and engaged some lawyer of the ability of Dndley Field and paid him twenty per cent of his emoluments; and eyen if he had stolen six millions his punishment would have been simply nominal. So long as our criminal classes confine them- selves to hams and overcoats and win- ter shawls the law is a ‘‘terror,” and its ‘‘stern” administation will always be commended by a powerfal and independent press; but when, ascending into the higher regions, they begin the work of robbing rail- roads and making “‘restitution,” of robbing the Treasury and proposing to start “a bank- ing business” with the proceeds, and of cheating the government out of the revenue whiskey tax and of taking millions from the County Court House, there is no reason why there should be any imprisonment or trouble whatever. Jay Gould is not imprisoned, yet he confessed by his act of “restitution” that he had Several millions of dollars that did not belong to him. Mr. Tweed is only nominally under duress, yet everybody knows that he took six millions of the people's money—enough to build a rapid transit railroad. The worst we have been able to do with the leaders of the canal frauds is to put them under bail. What our whis- key people should have done in St. Louis was, like Gould, to have made “restitution,” or, like Tweed, to have engaged an accom- plished lawyer. A Cuaprer or History.—A Lexington cor: respondent sends us a copy of a letter writ- ten by the late Mr. Greeley to Chief Justice Shea, of our Marine Court, in reference to the late John C. Breckinridge and his return from exile. Our readers will remember that when Breckinridge came home there was a story widely circulated for purposesof po- litical mischief to the effect that Mr. Greeley had invited him so to do. It has alwaya been a question whether it was true or not, as Mr. Greeley never saw fit to make any public declaration on the subject. The cor- respondence which now comes to light through the columns of the Heraup will form an interesting chapter in the history of the rebellion and show how far-seeing and wise Mr. Greeley proved himself to be, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Keeley, the moter man, wears diamonds, Jeff Davis is seventy years old, and still he ts “not happy.” Bonapartist documents are sent into France packed in sardine boxes, Coloncl A. Piper, of West Point, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. John T. Hoffman arrived from Albany yesterday at the Clarendon Hotel. Brevet Major General John H. King, United States Army, is at Barnum’s Hotel, Senator Branch K. Bruce, of Mississippi, is sojourn- ing at the Westmoreland Hotel, Moncure D. Conway is to revisit America mainly to see his old friend Walt Whitman. Rear Admiral Fabius Stanly, United@Btates Navy, has apartments at the Hoffman House, Mr. Galusha A, Grow, of Pennsylvania, is among the Jate arrivals at the St. Denis Hotel, Congressman Solomon L. Hoge, of South Carolina, it residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. State Senator Henry ©. Connelly, of Kingston, N. Y., is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Victor Hugo bas just published another book, “Pendant PExil’”—twenty years in Jersey. Mr, George E. Pugh, formerly United States Senator from Ohio, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Baron and Baroness F. Seilliére, of Paris, arrived at the Hotel Brunswick Jast evening from Long Branch, A colored preacher of Mississippi has been arrested for stealing a ham, and yet no one has put up a tent for him. Colonel Thomas G, Baylor and Colonel T. J, Tread. well, United States Army, are quartered at the Metro. politan Hotel. A Maine woman dreamed that her sister was run over by a railroad train, and the next morning learned that she had had twins. Judge Theodore Miller, of the New York Court ot Appeals, arrived in this city last evening and is at the Fiith Avenue Hotel, ‘The Fitch-Sherman necklace, presented by the Kho- dive of Egypt, is said to remain in tho New Work Cus- tom house, awaiting the payment of duties, Rochefort has had an escape from drowning at Geneva. Out with his daughter on Lake Leman; squall | came; upset boat; timely assistance; saved, | ‘There are 77,000 men on the payrolls of the Lyons Railway Company in France. Thirty thousand are soldiers in the reserve or the territorial army. Dr. Lindermann, of the San Franciseo mint, will this week arrive in St. Louis, to investigate the advantages of the latter city ax a situation for the central mint, | Charivari imagines the Kastern question asan old stain that always reappears on the green eloth of the library table, spite of much benzine and elbow grease, Dr. Balfour insists that some plants, when mutilated, | act sullon, awkward, and sensitive. If Mr. Bergh | learns this fact we shall not be allowed to cut up live cabbages. James Wharton, for the first time, Inced Mrs, Whar. ton’s corset, and she, bursting into tears, said, “Jimmy, if you hadn’t laced a thousand you couldn't | have done it so well as that,” Commodore John Guest, Commanders J, A. Greer and B, B. Taylor, Medical Director Robert T, Macconn and Chief Engineer Edward A. Latch, United States Navy, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Farl Russell has been much censured by Austrian and Hungarian journals for his letter on Herzegovina, Says one:—"The blood be on Russell's head which may still be shed 1m the Herzeg » Not for twenty years has the School of St. Cyr had such a triumph as that on the examinations of August 31. All the candidates passed, and the army receives 270 sub-licut its trained to the highest point, accord, ing to the French system. General Joseph KE. Johnston, who has jnst arrived at Savannah, Ga, from the Virginia White Sulphur | Springs, stated to the Henan correspondent that the | Teport that he had been tendered the command of the Khedive’s armies is without foundation, Fischietto, ot Turin, reports that the King of Hot. land, who bas a villa by Lake Leman, enjoys a cigar in the open air—and enjoys it more particularly when his costume is 80 light a8 to be called semi-Adamitic; but that the English ladies who go boating object, and so the Swiss government has had to request his Majesty to dissimulate his fue proportions in more tailor’s trash