The New York Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1875, Page 8

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A E THEATRE, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1875—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Modern Journalism—The Herald in Africa and the Arctic, A week ago we printed Mr, Stanley's graphic narratives of his achievements and adventures in Equatorial Africa, and now we have by cable an equally interesting report of the voyaging and adventures of the Pan- j dora in the ice fields of the North. In both cases the valuable intelligence we have been enabled to convey to the public was due | to that spirit of modern journalism which leaves none of the sources of knowledge unexplored, and no fair-minded person. | will deny to the Hxnazp any part of the | credit to which it is entitled for its part in these magnificent undertakings. The result | in each case, however, was not equally fortu- nate. We are able this morning not only to print the story of the voyage and return of the Pandora in these columns, but to com- municate this important intelligence to the entire London press simultaneously with its publication here, as was the case with our famous Magdala despatches. By following this generous policy our victory affords us a double satisfaction at the same time that it enforces the lesson we learned | from the misuse of the Stanley letters by our ally in the African expedition. In that case the terms of our alliance prevented us from following our usual course when we had news of vast and profound importance, and we even found ourselves anticipated in the publication of Mr. Stanley's story. If this had been a journalistic achieve- ment of our English or American rivals we should have been the first to acknowledge that we were beaten on our own field, and to recognize and honor success in others. As it was we were anticipated only by the jour- nal associated with us in the expedition, and roadway.—UUR BOYS, at 8 M.; closes at THEATRE, COLONEL SI. . wes wt 1040 P, M. BOWE RE, Powerr—6YKES THE at 8 P.M. John hompson. NOWE & CUs CIRCUS," Fourteenth street, opposite formances day and evening. Broadway, corner at "RENCH SPY, at 8 Pe ; eluses at 10:45 Fisher. Matinee at TONY PASTOR'S NEW THEATRE, Wos. 585 and S87 Browdway.— BP, LYCE Fourteenth street und .Brench Gpera Boufle—LE CANARD AT at SP. M, Third avenne, between Thirticth aud Thirty-first streets. — VARIETY, at'8 P.M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near @ving place.—EHRLICHE AR- SEIT, at 5 P.M. WALLAC , Broadway ‘Thirteenth street.—THE OVERLAND ROUTE, at 8'P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Mr. John Gilbert, Miss Ada Dyas. PARISIAN Bixteenth street and Broadway TY, at SP. M. OPERA HOt COTTON & REEDS closes at 10 2. M. aunt thigd stre YORK MIN OMIQUE, at 8 P.M; closes at 10:45 STITUTE, treet.—Day and evening. SAN FRANC. BOOTHS Twenty-third street and English Opera— IL TROVATORE, at 8 F ara Louise Kellagg. OLYMP! Pout Broadway Van AR, at 8 P.M. Mr. mand Mire GILMORE" late, Barnum’s "Hinpodrom CERT. at 8 P.M. ; closes at 11 P- QUADRUPLE. ‘SHEET. oe === | NEW YORK, SUNDAY, OCTOBER | ra 1878, e es From our reports this ‘icewingt the ‘probabilitife | are that the weather to-day will be cool, with oc- | tusional rain and clearing up in the afternoon. Tae Heratp py Fast Mam. Trarns.—News- dealers and the public throughout the States of | New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North and Southwest, also along the lines of the Hud= | son River, New York Central and Pennsylvania | Central Railroads and their connections, will be supplied with Tux Heraxp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers | by sending their orders aret to ssid office. ‘lorence. R GARDEN, AND PUPCLAR CON- | | Watt Srneer Seema tee currency | was worth 85.57. Gold closed at 116 7-8, sfter sales at 116 3-4 and 117. Money un- | thanged. Stocks firm but dull. we cannot characterize the singular course of ourally in this matter as anything short otf a breach of faith. In printing the substance of Mr. Stanley's letters in its issue of the 29th ult. the London Telegraph forgot both the courtesy it had ex- perienced at our hands and the sacredness due to a compact solemnly and earnestly agreed upon. We speak of this matter neither in the spirit of complaint nor of chiding, but merely to point out the fact that the axiom of American statecraft, ‘‘Avoid all entangling alliances,” is equally potent and impor- tant when applied to journalism. In the future we shall pursue the policy we followed in the past—the policy of independent effort | we found so successful during the Abyssinian war, in the expedition in search of Living- stone, and now again in the voyage of the Pandora. By this course we shall best serve ourselves and our readers and at the same time be able to serve our contempora- ries with the ripest fruits of our endeavors, The success which thus far has attended the expedition of Mr. Stanley into Africa and the not less hazardous enterprise of the Pandora in the seas of the frozen North show, among other thirgs, the progress which modern journalism is making in free countries. The wisdom of the gifted men who made the freedom of the press a cardinal principle of republican insti- tutions never received a better illustration than in the achievements of journals in Eng- land and America. Journalism, like religion, | does not prosper under a monarchy. A sub- sidized press, like a subsidized church, lacks independence and growth and true vigor. Thus we have always contended in discuss- ing the relations between the Holy See and _ | the great Powers of Europe that the Pope is only strong in countries where his Church is * | independent; that when he leaned upon kings and standing armies and established classes he leaned upon supports which would only be true to him so long as he served them. As is the consequence the only coun- tries in the world where the Holy Father can view with gratification the progress of the Catholic faith are countries where the Church is not only a minority, but is thoroughly independent and self-reliant ; while in coun- tries where he is in relation to the governing power by concordat, by treaty or by the subvention of his priests, he is constantly in trouble with the civil authorities, The same may be said of the In Germany and Russia and Spain, and toa great extent in France, the press is dependent upon the temper of the ruling powers for its very life. As a consequence journalism does not be- come anything more than brilliant essay writing. The best results of Paris journal- ism, in itself a school well worth study, are press. Tae Inctement Weatuen yesterday caused | the postponement of the races at Jerome | Park and Point Breeze Park until to-morrow. | A Tornapo made sad havoc last evening in | the pretty little village of Milford, Pa., on the Delaware River, and for a half“tour had | things pretty much its own way. Dow Canzos, in quarrelling with his gen- trals, and dismissing them frotn his service, shows in what a demoralized condition his affiirs are. Four of them, the cable informs us, have met with such treatment at his hands. Massacnusrtts Leorstarors are becoming very demoralized. A State Senator and a Representative have turned up missing, leaving their families and their creditors to mourn their absence. good place for Moody and Sankey to begin | their work of evangelization. Tur Haypen Svrvex is now Plished fact, the results being eminently | | accomplished writers j and the Boston would be a | an accom. | found in the writings of John Lemoinne, | Edmund About and Louis Veuillot, who are and would be as famous outside the press as they are inside. Journalism, therefore, in France is only another name for politics in literature. The greatest names in French literature in this century have, with scarcely an ex- ception, been closely identified with journalism. We cross the channel and we find the reverse to be the truth. We have no doubt that the great men of England have been, if the truth were known, as closely connected with the expression of opinion writing of articles in the London press as their contemporaries in France. But the policy of secrecy, of anonymous contributions to the pr has thrown a cur- tain over the personal between the writers and the journals, and at the same time given the press a great, absolute, mysterious, inde- — ent power. We hear, for instance, in a gue sort of a way, that Robert Lowe and r William Harcourt, and one or two others, | have written for the Times. We read the Satisfactory, especially when the difficulties | works of Mr. Gladstone and others in the with the Indians character of the country are taken into con- | sideration. Professor Hayden's official re- port will bea docume mt of rare interest. Tum Pope axp tax Kars: bad friends, after all, as one might imagine. [t is said that in consequence of the inter- pession of the former potentate the term of | imprisonment of Cardinal Ledochowski has been shortened, and that probably a full pardon will be granted to the Prussian prelate, ‘Tur Kersex Case still occupies a con- siderable share of public attention at Hunt- ington, Long Island, the extraordinary ver- dict of acquittal of the parties charged with the brutal outrage reviving interest in it. The feeling of the people in the village is aow wrought up to a considerable degree, snd the case mow sveuma o graver phase ere are not such | the weather and the monthly magazines, but the press of Eng- | land is to-day powerful as a leader of public opinion, because it is anonymous, because the writers on the editorial page have a free- dom of expression and thought which would naturally be denied them if they were writ- ing over their own name and with no senso | but their own individual popularity. In addition to the power which thus be- longs to the press as a leader of public opin- ion we have the still further power of direct- ing great enterprises. The people come in time to believe in their newspaper, and to go to itinstinctively as to the clock or the barometer ; they quarrel with it to-day and to-morrow just as they may quarrel with the clouds or the rain, but this quarrel is never lasting. When a newspaper brings so many where modest, needful records are carefully told which make it the inseparable compan- ion of our daily life. merchandise is the daily newspaper. This is its great power; this is why the London | Times can build a telegraph wire from Paris | | to London and print in the morning the whisperings. of Thiers ahd MacMahon the night before, This is why the New Free Press in Vienna can run a wire from | the capital to the frontier of that kingdom and publish the news free from the surveillance of officials. This is why the ambassadors of the Henap can trace the revolution through the jungles of Cuba and follow the mighty power of Russia through the deserts of Asia, and carry comfort and succor to the long lost Livingstone in the depths of the African jungle, and seek the new life in that located upon the continent of the icy North, whose problems have been the wonder and the aim of centuries. The { achievement of Mr. Stanley, apart from any geographical result, apart from his extraordi- nary contribution to literature and art, de- serves comment as showing the value of the free press as an institution of republicanism, and the still further fact that only in a coun- try of absolute freedom can journalism or any other institution dependent upon the human intelligence for support receive really its highest fruition. The return of the | Pandora from her perilous voyage is still further evidence to the same effect, and it is a coincidence that the intrepid men who had undertaken to unlock the secrets of the Equator and the Pole in the name of jour- nalism and for the benefit of mankind should each of them offer almost simultaneously a rich contribution to our stock of knowledge concerning these two interesting regions, Pulpit Topics To-Day. We donot find such a selection of pious topics for discussion in the pulpits to-day as was presented for last Sabbath. The range of thought, however, is wider and more comprehensive, and, if the pastors and peo- ple are so inclined, many profitable lessons | may be gathered from the discourses deliv- ered to-day. Mr. Hepworth will contrast Christ's Gospel with other gospels, and show by illustration and argument its superiority over all others, and then unite it with God's love, of which it is an expression, Mr. Hepworth’s successor, in another pul- pit, will at the same hour present the | Unitarian doctrine of the judgment and show the principles upon which every man must be tried at the great assize, and Mr. Lightbourn will give us a glimpse of heaven and of the coming of the kingdom of God among men, while Dr. Laws will prove the certainty of the judgment of every soul by the Lord Jesus Christ. But the kingdom will need a king, and the time and manner of his coming is just as important as is that of the appearance of his kingdom. Messrs. Snow and Blank will therefore tell us what the Bible says about the great event, and give us the reasons for believing that it is near at hand. The moral lessons of Queen Esther’s life will be drawn forth by Mr. Merritt, and those suggested by the Deluge will be present@d by Mr. Jutten. Many well inclined persons are troubled about the unpardonable sin, lest they may have com- mitted it. All such persons may have their fears allayed to-day by Mr. Selleck and his model friend. For all who do as wellas know the will of God there is an assured | welcome to His presence, as Mr. Leavell declares. The Price of Coal. Now that everybody is putting up stoves, in anticipation of the approaching cold weather, the price of coal assumes an im- portance that is patent to every householder. Just now the dealers in this necessity of do- mestic life are not disposed to run up the price of coal, but there is no telling how soon they may put on an extra dollar or two. The old Punch cartoon of the grocer asking his boy how the thermometer stood, and, finding that it had gone down a few degrees, saying, ‘Put on tuppence a pail, Johnny— God help the poor!” is as applicable to-day as it was when Leech was alive. The recent troubles in the mining regions and the ery | of areduced supply may soon be made the pretext for an increase in the retail price of the commodity we all must have to live. There is only one remedy for such a movement, and that is for consumers to practise a little economy and not waste their stocks of coal, thus keeping the demand down toa figure which will prevent dealers running up their prices. The poor always suffer most in such cases; for, being com- pelled to buy in very small quantities, they cannot lay in a stock when low prices pre- vail, and so must pay the current rates, no matter what they may be. We would, there- fore, advise all housekeepers to keep their consumption within reasonable limits, and not only save money, but really help those who are at the mercy of the retailers. By this means they will really be aiding in the charitable work of the winter, with positive benefit to themselves. , Joun Keuix, 1x the Rorz of King Carrot, does not raise the character of New York in the estimation of people outside the city. The Hudson Star says:—‘John K. Hackett, the able, fearless and uncompromising Re- corder of New York city, alike a terror to the dangerous classes and a safeguard to the rights and property of the honest citizen, is to be thrown overboard by Tammany Hall, because he refuses to place the patronage of his Court at the disposal of John Kelly. The politicians of New York have no use for an | honest man in office.” But the people have use for Recorder Hackett, and they will elect him in spite of the politicians. Tue Rive Scrrs are not yet at an end, The estate of the late County Auditor Watson is being proceeded against to recover the money of which the county was defranded by the convenient bills manufactured by Tweed & Co. Ingersoll was on the witness stand yesterday, and gave some damaging evidence regarding the rascality of his part- ners. Tae Inpurcepen Gatuerens in Darien things into our domestic life it isso thorough | have been attacked by the aborigines and and faithful a servant that even if the edi- Journalism has pro- | gressed so far that the cheapest article of | Return of the Pandora. The story of the Pandora which we print this morning is one of the most remarkable Arctic discovery has yet afforded. It is not astory of that complete success which we could have desired, nor is it the usual tale of horror which seems a part of a journey amid the ice. The gallant little craft has not finished her mission; but finding that it was impossible to complete it she has done the next best thing—returned home. She has not reached the Pole, neither has she met the fate of the craft which Sir John Ross left on Beechy Island a quarter of a century ago, nor were her officers and crew doomed to the death of Franklin and his companions threb years before. The Pandora made & swift passage, penetrating fields of ice and sailing over dangerous seas with a celerity that is astonishing. From the moment of leaving Upernavik she encountered many dangers, but met with no mishaps. Melville Bay was crossed in safety, and then there was a disappoint- ment at not receiving despatches from Captain Nares, who, by this time, is far on his way toward the Pole. But the Pandora had a different mission from the discovery of that enticing mystery, and her commander at once went in search of those objects of ten- der interest relating to the Franklin expedi- tion which it was an important part of his pur- pose to discover. Despite the pack ice and frozen seas he partly retraced his track through Baffin’s Bay, and, entering Lancaster Sound, visited Beechy Island, where tender is beached. Thence he through Reel Sound, and after a subsequent effort to penetrate the Northwest Passage, he decided upon return- Ross’ sailed ing rather than spend a winter on inhos- pitable shores or in not more hospitable seas, The story Captain Young brings will be read with avidity, and the Pandora's contri- bution to our knowledge of those distant islands of the North cannot. fail to have the effect of quickening an interest in Arctic discovery, and may lead to a final and suc- cessful effort to reach the Pole, even if Cap- tain Nares’ expedition should fail to explain the mystery which all mankind is so anxious to determine. |The New York Legislators and Alder- men. The city of New York has not heretofore done itself credit in its selection of legis- lators and Aldermen. metropolis with taxable property valued in round numbers at twelve hundred million dollars, with a growing debt of one hundred and fifty mill- j ions and an annual taxation closely ap- | proaching forty millions, ought to confide its lawmaking and taxing interests only in the hands of responsible and capable citizens. But the Assemblymen, Aldermen and Senators who have represented New York in the State Legislature and the Common Council have not generally ful- filled these requirements. This has been principally due to the fact that the nomina- tions on the democratic side have been in the gift of the leaders who have from time to time held control of the Tammany organiza- tion, and that the democratic majority has been large enough to elect the “regular” democratic nominees. The republicans, having no hope of success except from the superior character and qualifications of their candidates, have, as a general rule, put for- ward a better class of men for these offices ; but they have only occasionally succeeded in electing them. We have, therefore, too often been represented in our legislative bodies by political adventurers, destitute of character, responsibility, integrity or ca- pacity, and the natural results have been corruption in the local administrations and destruction of the interests of property and capital. We have now an amended constitution that promises some protection to property and some safeguards against official corrup- tion. But the business and financial inter- ests of the city are in such a condition that it is imperatively necessary to secure honest and able representatives in the bodies that make our laws and local ordinances and con- trol our taxation. Public improvements are at a standstill; real estate is crushed be- neath the double burden of heavy taxation anda policy of suffocation ; the growth of the city is checked, and, as a consequence, business generally is stagnant. There is no good reason why New York should be suffer- ing under these evils, for we have good prospects before us if we would avail our- selves of our natural advantages. With im- proved docks and rapid transit we should speedily double our present population and commerce. To secure these it is necessary that we should stop political plundering and economize wherever economy is wise and practicable. But as a preliminary to such reforms in our local government we must have capable, responsible and reputable rep- resentatives at Albany and in our Common Council chamber. If the present political leaders overlook these facts in their nomina- tions it is to be hoped that the people who cast the votes will not ignore them when they | go to the polls, Boston Apps Her Vorce to swell the pop- ular condemnation of Kelly's attempt to place the Judiciary under the heel of Tam- many. The ‘Traveller says:—‘Recorder Hackett, of New York, refused to make places in his court for tools of Tamman3, and Tammany pays him off by nominating another man for the place he has filled in a manner that has made him the terror of evil- doers. Efforts will be made to re-elect him by the better class of men of all parties.” Yes, and the efforts will be successful. The people's candidates will be elected by a ma- routed, with a Joss of fifty of their number— torial page should offend our sense of wisdom | a fatal blow at one of the most lucrative and fo¢ling there are twenty other columns | sources of trade in Panama, jority large enough to rebuke the arrogance of John Kelly, who forced the Tammany Convention to reject Recorder Hackett, The People’s Candidates=Tne Time for Action, The people of New York have shown on several occasions their power to defeat the nominees of Tammany Hall despite the large democratic majority in the ¢ity, The cases of Mayor Gunther, Miles O'Reilly, Mayor Havemeyer and Patrick H. Jones demon- strate the disposition of the citizens to resist the dictation of Tammany when the leaders of that organization set public opinion at defiance, No greater incentive to the union of all reputable people against Tammany could be furnished than supplied by John Kelly’s crusade agaist an upright, fearless criminal Judge, anf his effort to crowd the Bench and fill the District At- torney’s office with his political favorites. It is no doubt true that some of the gentlemen nominated on the Tammany ticket for the Judiciary would be incapable of wilfully degrading the Bench if they should be elected, but it is equally true that John Kelly is bold, exacting and unscrupulous; that he would not hesitate to cast such influences around the judges who might owe their offices to him as they would find it difficult to resist, and that an active asso- ciation with Tammany Hall as now con- trolled insidiously and surely destroys a man’s independence and reduces him to the position of an unthinking and unquestioning partisan, For these reasons the people of New York have risen in their might against the Tammany rule, and have resolved to up- hold a pure and upright Judiciary and an honest discharge of the duties of a prosecut- ing officer against the assaults of a political dictator. There can be little doubt that Recorder Hackett and District Attorney Phelps will be returned to the positions they have filled 8o satisfactorily, The vote on Governor last year in the city gave Tilden less than forty- three thousand majority over Dix. This was a strict party vote, all the democrats sup- porting Governor Tilden. Hackett and Phelps will this year split the democratic vote nearly in two, and it would not be sur- prising if their majority should be nearly as large as ‘that cast for Goyernor Tilden last year. They carry the popular heart with them, and would be successful on their own merits alone. But they are aided in a very important degree by that in- dependence and self-respect which rebels against John Kelly’s impudently assumed dictatorship and by the oppressive manner in which he,exercises his authority. In no district in the city are the democrats at liberty to choose their own candidates, whether for Senate, Assembly or Aldermen. The slates for the whole city are made up by Kelly, and opposition to his will is visited by the fate awarded by the ‘‘Discipline” Committee. Against this dictatorship two- thirds of the Tammany democracy is at heart rebellious, and they will take the oppor- tunity to rebuke it afforded by the popular uprising in favor of Hackett and Phelps. It will be necessary, however, for the support- ers of the people's candidates to be active and prompt, and to organize a vigorous cam- paign. The Bar should meet at once, and express through its most prominent mem- bers its indorsement of the popular can- didates. Charles O'Conor, William M. Evarts and others of equal fame should let the citizens hear their views on Kelly’s attempt to stain the Bench with partisan- ship. Attorney General Pierrepont would no doubt join in such a demonstration. The merchants and business men in the city should do their part toward upholding a pure judiciary. The laborers should raise their voices against the men who have sought to use them as their tools. For the next two weeks every independent citizen should lend his efforts to the good work and do his best to make the rebuke to John Kelly as emphatic as was that administered to the Tammany dictators, of whom he is the lineal descendant. Views of the Religious Press. The religious press this week is far from being a unit on the topics discussed. Mr. Beecher, in his Christian Union, extends a hearty welcome to the evangelists Moody and Sankey, and wishes there were a hun- dred like them to engage in similar work. After stating and answering all the objections that are usually made against revivals and revivalists the Union says Christian minis- ters ought to rejoice when auxiliary men are raised up to take heed to neglected work. For itself the Union will do all in its power to encourage and help the revivalists in Brooklyn. Dr. Talmage, in the Christian at Work, declares that Brooklyn is ready for work, but the expected revival will not be all peaceful and easy. There will be much opposition, but the truth will triumph. There are men living in Brooklyn, says Dr. Talmage, who are five thousand miles away from church. There is an illimitable desert between them and the house of God, and the evangelists will carry the Gospel to some of these. The Observer is not quite so sanguine of a revival of any great proportions or lasting in its results as it was a short while ago. It says many good and wise men doubt the propriety of extra- ordinary efforts to revive religion and con- vert sinners. Whether religious revivals are blessings or a curse to the Church, says the Observer, depends wholly on whether they are of God under the guidance’ of the Holy Spirit and of judicious men, or whether they are of human production. We have had re- vival excitements in the past, it says, which have left the churches like arid, parched and desolate plains, instead of being refreshed and watered as the garden of the Lord. The Observer, however, does not think that Messrs. Moody and Sankey will produce any such results by their ministry among us. The Baptist Weelly is confident that, whether the evangelists come here or not, we shall have a great work of revival and conversion here. All the signs reveal a deepening and intensifying of the interest and expectation on this matter. The prayer meetings, it says, show a growing attendance and fervency in supplication, The Christian Leader la- bors hard to show, at least by indirection, that Mr. Moody teaches Universalist doctrine, because he has said that while God hates sin He loves sinners and sent His Son into the world to seek and to save the lost. The Leader says this search must be continued until all the lost are saved, because God is everlasting fove ; fhe search must be success- ful, because God is omnipotent. But this logic will work both ways, and, pushed to its ultimate, it may be found to prove too much even for Universalism. Try again, Brother Lee. A correspondent of the Evangelist urges the and the Churches to give up looking for a revival “by and by,” and to look and labor for it at once, and it will surelycome, The hope put off paralyzes the efforts for immediate re- sults. The Hraminer and Chronicle corrects an impression which some of its secular con- temporaries gave out last week that the Baptist pastors of this city were opposed to Moody and Sankey. The contrary, however, is the fact, as evinced by the earnest resolu- tions adopted by the Southern New York Baptist Association at its annual session a few days ago. None have been moro cordial in their expressions of wel- come and indorsement of the evangelists than the Baptist pastors of this city. Tue Arrempr oy Jonn Keuxy to drive Re- corder Hackett from the Bench is everywhere rebuked. The Washington Chronicle says:— “Recorder Hackett, of New York, is said to be an honest man. For this reason Tam- many shuts the door in his face. The re- publicans have indorsed him and the better class of democrats will support him. It ia hoped that through this union at least one honest man will be elected in New York." The people of New York will take care, not only that the fearless and able Recorder shall be re-elected, but that all the judge- ships now to be chosen and the District At- torney’s office shall be kept out of the clutches of Kelly’s nominees. Porrrican Arvarns in the northern districte of the State are nearly as lively as even in the metropolis. In the Senatorial district composed of the three counties of Broome, Tioga and Tompkins the attitude of the liberals is a matter of perplexity to the dem- ocrats and republicans, but it is thought they will return to the fold of the latter. Charges and counter charges against the candidates are numerous, and shrewd and sharp politicians are at the wires. Tue Notce-Brown Taover Svrr was con- cluded yesterday at Trenton, the fair plain- tiff receiving a verdict with $1,887 16 dam- ages. The story will be found in another column, anda breach of promise case will be brought by Miss Noice next month, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ex-Governor £. M. McCook is at Denver. Mark Twain is a quest of P. T. Barnum at Bridgeport M. Guillemin calls comets ‘the vayabonds of the heavens.” Nine thousand persons annually commit arson in tht United States. A Chinese Horace Greeley lives in San Francisco. Ht says “Hop Yeast.” Thirteen hundred letters were mailod from Vasea College in one day. Arsenic eaters in Styria gay that their habit induce strength and great age. Ex-Speaker Blaine went to see “Our Boys’? at the Globe Theatre, Boston, Thursday aight ‘The Iowa Legislature is said to be in favor of Secre tary Belknap for United States Senator. Senator Aaron H. Cragin, of New Hampshire, arrives last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Southern journals are everywhere congratulating themselves that the cotton crop is a gold crop. A Savannah judge has decided that an umbrella & private property. Theoretically the Judgo is correet. Judge Jere. Black calls the act of the government ft making money out of paper an act of transubstantia tion. Private Dalzell has been elected to the Ohio Logisla ture; but the supply of legislative stationery is usually small, A Prussian tn Dassetdorf killed his wife and daughter because they indulged in sarcasm on his flaming red hair. If Charfes Francis Adams could only be nominate for something Mr. Bowles might be induced to keeg quiet. Miss Bismarck is a plump brunette, Sho is an expert in needlowork, and has all the homely and honest Ger man virtues. ‘The Duke of Edinburgh took up the fiddie and the bo wat the great Russian fair, and led the orchestra in his own waltz, “The Galatea.” Victor Hugo is a fine water-color painter, and whilt he was in exile he used to send sketches to his Parit friends as New Year’s presents, Admiral Porter and Vice President Wilson left thir city yesterday, the former for Washington and the latter for his home in Massachusetts. Chicago Times :— °Tis better to have bet and lost Than never to have bet at all. James T. Fields opened a Sunday course of lectures a Milwaukee on the 3d inst. He will be followed by Car, Schurz, Bayard Taylor, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bret Harte. Jefferson Davis, in his De Soto specch, said that there was bat one way to restore specie payments, ang that was to bring about a balance of trade in favor of the United States. Since the Germans are credited with having carriea Ohio for honest money the Cleveland Herald reports the democrats as cursing ‘‘the damned Dutch,” and one paper amases itself by saying that Bismarck’s daughter has big feet. Tho Buffalo Express says:—*Ifall the gold in the world were welded into one solid cubic block, one side of tha cube would measure only twenty-three feet, It isn’t much of a lump, to be sure, but wo should like to play with it a day or two.” ‘The Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, was sere naded at Raleigh, N. C., last night, and complimented with a military turnout. His reply was merely pleas ant, no reference to national politics further than sug- gesting preparation for the campaign of next year, He did not indicate any policy as likely to be pursued by the democrac; Hosing, the great German politician of Chicago, it ia said, goes around about four hours every day promising his support to one set of candidates, and stirs taem ap to work for him ; and then he goes around the next day to another set and promises his utmost support to them, and gets them to work for him; and then he trusts in God that the two, bad or four sets won't find each other out, Ex-Senator Gwin, of California, profers Tildorf as the democratic candidate for President, though ho says the people of the Pacific coast generally prefor Thurman or Hendricks. He thinks that the South, in trying to be foremost in the democratic party, without possessing qualifications for betng foremost, is a load to the party, He says that Grant will be the republican candidate; that hig declining is only letting go of the rope to spit on his hands for a new pull. The Chicago Tribune believes in regard to the Ohio clection that, “notwithstanding the fact that the casy arguments were all on the side of tho dilutionists, and that the republicans had to fight ignorance, credulity and prejudice with hard reason; and notwithstanding the fact that this inflation issue was marshalled and led by mote of vigor and brains than any other democratia issue over commanded in Obio, the republicans baye smashed it by a decisive majority.” The Mobile Register, Hon, John Forsyth’s paper, say! “The South was not originally responsible for the bonded debt, This is true also as to tho abolition of slavery. Both are consequences of the war. They are among the results of the war that tho South has ao- cepted. The South does not admit itself to be in tha position of a conquered territory, It claims that of co- equal inthe Union, To attempt, therefore, to destroy the value of the bonds would be-as clearly an act of bad faith as to tev to re-enslavo the negro,’