The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1875, Page 8

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OCTOBER 19, 1875, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cool and cloudy, with occasional rain, followed by clearing skies and frosts. Tue Henatp sy Fast Mam, Tratns.—News- dealers and the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as inthe West, the Pacific Coast, the North and Southorest, also along the lines of the Hud son River, New Yorke Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be supplied with Taz Henatp, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office, Wat Street Yesterpay.—Gold was steady at 116 7-8. Rag money at this rate was worth 85.57. Government bonds were easy. Money on call unchanged. Stocks were a trifle firmer, Tue Pourrican OvtLoox in this State is the subject of an interesting letter which we print this morning. In the country districts both parties are working hard, and there is avery prospect of a heavy vote. Jenomz Panx.—Yesterday was the last day of the regular autumn meeting at Jerome | Park, and the attendance was grand as the sport was excellent. The weather was splendid, and in every sense it was a gala day. Karsex Wruuiam has arrived at Milan, where he was received by the King of Italy and the members of the Italian government. The German Emperor was greeted with much | enthusiasm, and the visit on his part seems | designed to promote cordiality and friend- ship between the people of the two countries, Lorne’s Love Porm, which is reviewed at length in these columns this morning, shows the Marquis in a very different light as a sentimentalist from what the L eustomed to regard him. world was ac- For a young man of his expectations he married extremely | well, but it is the object of his poem to show that a noble knight may love a low-born maiden and be all the better. ‘Tux Fuencu Rervusiuc.—M. Thiers is doing himself marked honor near the close of a long and distinguished career by the zeal and intelligence with which he champions NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1 Senator Conkling’s Speech. The republican Senator from New York is not only the most considerable member of his party in this State, but he stands in the first rank of republican statesmen in the nation, Mr. Blaine and Senator Morton being the only two who can contest his claim to them both, though in vigor of mind and po- his peer. in this State his title is uncontested, and great expectation was raised when it was an- nounced that he would open the active republican campaign in this State with a great speech at Albany last evening. We must frankly express our disap- pointment on ‘reading his speech. [t is, indeed, dexterous and able; but the talent it exhibits is not that of a statesman, but of a mere politician. He dis- cusses every subject he touches on the low plane of vulgar partisan politics. There could not be a greater contrast between the productions of men of real ability than this speech presents to those which used to be made by Mr. Seward when he was the lead- ing New York Senator. Mr. Seward’s method was entirely different. Instead of a long tis- sue of gibes and invectives against his po- litical opponents Mr. Seward filled his speeches with original and often startling ideas, which electrified public sentiment by their novelty and boldness, as, for example, in the famous ‘“‘irrepressible conflict” speech at Rochester. But Senator Conkling does not aspire to carry political thought forward by advancing to new heights. His speech nowhere rises above the level of stale par- tisan recriminations. It falls short of the demands of this new era. Instead of carp- ing at Governor Tilden it was incumbent on Senator Conkling to have got in advance of him by pointing out more efficient methods of reform. Instead of arraigning the demo- cratic party as inflationists it behooved him to outline a plan by which the act of last January, prescribing resumption of specie payments on January 1, 1879, could be made practicable and efficient. There is noth- ing, absolutely nothing, in Mr. Conk- ling’s long speech which sheds new light on any political problem or her- alds an advance in the political ideas of the period. From beginning to end it is a mere tirade against the democratic party, whereas it is the proper business of a states- man to show how things can be done and not merely to carp at false measures pro- posed by others. Governor Tilden has shown himself to be more of a statesman than Senator Conkling; for he has really done something to stir public thought, while Mr. Conkling merely finds fault and proposes nothing new, which is as futile as it would be for a newspaper to waste its space in be- rating its contemporaries instead of accom- plishing feats of enterprise which would compel them all to talk about and advertise it. It was not by mere invective and nega- tive criticism that Mr. Seward attained his great eminence, and we commend his ex- ample to our present republican Senator. Mr. Conkling devotes the early part of his speech to an arraignment of the democratic party for its opposition to the policy ef the republicans on the negro question. He re- calls the democratic opposition to President Lincoln, to the emancipation proclamation, to the enlistment of negro soldiers and to the new amendments of the federal constitu- tion. What he says on these topics is his- torically true, but politically irrelevant. If there is any force in his argument the dis- tinguished men, including Patrick Henry, who tried to prevent the adoption of the con- stitution, should never have been permitted to hold any office under the federal govern- ment. If Mr. Conkling’s principle had been carried out it would have precluded the ap- pointment of Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan to high positions in the army because they had been supporters of President Buchanan. It would have for- bidden President Grant to appoint the rebel General Longstreet to a position of trust. It would preclude the election of intelligent Southerners to Congress or to any State office. Such a line of argument is quite absurd. Here is the most plausible thing Mr. Conkling finds to say on it:—“If you were going to select a pilot for a North River steamboat you might like to know how many times he ran against snags and rocks, and even against buoys and lighthouses.” But if Commodore Vanderbilt had proved to be a bad pilot on a North River steamboat would it follow that he was unfit to manage a railroad? Is it a necessary consequence of Mr. O’Conor’s support of slavery that he is not a great lawyer? Even on Senator Conkling’s rule there is a credit as well as a debit side of the account. The democratic | party unanimously agreed with Mr. Conk- | ling in opposing the Legal Tender act at the | time it was passed, and if an irredeemable paper currency is the curse which he deems it he is bound to acknowledge that there is one great subject on which the judgment of the democratic party was sound. Senator Conkling’s arraignment of the democratic party for its course on the negro question is Tweed Ring question and cannot be right on the Canal Ring question, because he dif- | fered from the republican party on the qnes- pretensions. Another part of his speech which people of good sense and honorable feeling will not admire is his unsparing attack on Mr. Bige- | low. Imagine the late Mr. Seward belittling | himself and his party by this sort of spite- | fal inveetive! Mr. Bigelow’s personal char- | acter was certified by the republican Senate the commission, and his irreproachable con- | det in that office was indorsed by the offer of the Republican State Convention to put him at the head of its ticket. It is now | charged that he was sailing under false colors, | permitting himself to be considered as a | republican, although he had voted for Mr. the Republic in France. His speech at | Tilden. But the people of the State will Arcachon, if we may judge from the brief | approve of his putting reform above party. synopsis furnished by cable, was a singularly | They will only wish that more of our public comprehensive and statesmanlike effort, and | men would subordinate partisan consid- his confident words must have a powerful offect im strenethenine the republican couse. erations to the public welfare, The head and front of Mr. Bigelow’s offending is that | efficient support to reform? superiority. In mere eloquenge he outranks | sion. litical discernment either of them is at least As the foremost republican leader preposterous unless he is prepared to maintain that Governor Tilden |could not have been right on the | tion of slavery. This desperate and foolish attempt to keep dead issues alive does no | credit toa statesman of Senator Conkling’s | in voting for his confirmation as a member of he accepted a democratic nomination. But | why should even a republican refuse his position in the commission gave him op- portunities for judging whether the canal abuses are important enough to require a sacrifice of partisan feeling for their suppres- If he believed Governor Tilden in earnest it was quite right to support him. Senator Conkling nullifies his asper- sions on Mr. Bigelow in ‘another part of his speech. He charges that every one | of the six cases of canal frauds on which the commission has reported arose when Board, and that they are all examples of democratic dishonesty. But he does not charge, and cannot charge, that Mr. Bigelow, as a member of the commission, has shown any tenderness to the democratic rascals. The only intelligible reason for putting re- publicans on the commission was to prevent lenity to democratic offenders, and not even Mr. Conkling dare assert that any such len- ity has been practised. Mr. Bigelow has shown no more mercy to the democratic thieves than Mr. Conkling himself would have done had he been on the commission. Mr. Conkling therefore vituperates its composi- tion*to no purpose. In charging that every one of the frauds was inaugurated under a democratic administration of the canals Mr. Conkling cuts the throat of his own argu- ment and acquits Governor Tilden of any design to shield the rascals of his own party. The people of the State will think it of no consequence whether Mr. Bigelow was ap- pointed as a democrat or as a republican if he has shown no mercy to democratic scoundrels. The actual work of the com- mission is the best possible defence against the charge that it was composed to shield democratic villany, and Mr. Conkling pays the highest possible compliment to the in- tegrity of the investigation when he pro- claims that all the frauds it has dragged to light took their rise in a democratic Canal Board. The Cotton Mills. We print elsewhere to-day a third letter on the condition of the cotton manufacture. The facts brought out by our correspondent in these three letters give promise of a healthful and prosperous future for this in- dustry as soon as general trade and enter- prise shall revive. For the present, as is ine evitable, the cotton manufacturers are suffer- ing with the rest of the country. Consump- tion has been severely checked and producers must wait. We seem, consequently, to have too much of everything, and at the moment, no doubt, many a one thoughtlessly imagines our abundance tobe acurse. But we suspect it would be true of most of our other indus- tries, as our correspondent shows it is of the cotton manufacture, that it has not ip fact been overdone but that it is not more than adequate to-day to supply a full and active home demand if such should arise. Unless our correspondent is mistaken, when prosper- ity returns to the country and it bas once more asound currency it will be found profitable even to build more cotton mills. The necessities of the manufacturers and the lack of a sufficient home demand are, it seems, stimulating them to efforts after a for- eign market for some part of their product. Our export of cotton goods is slowly increas- ing and promises once more to become con- siderable. Their present losses should teach the manufacturers the imprudence of relying entirely on a home market. If they com- mand also a foreign trade they have a way of disposing of any surplus which may remain otherwise unsalable on their hands, and which must, while unsold, affect the price of the whole product. Our correspondent seems to have been struck by the fact that there is no such rela- tion of independence on the part of the mill owners and subjection on the part of the op- eratives as was pictured by the recent strikers at Fall River. He shows that the mill owner suffers such serious loss by stopping his works that his interest is to continue, even if he is working at an absolute loss) He cannot afford to scatter the laboring force Mr. Bigelow’s | the democratic party had control of the Canal | which he has trained; he cannot stop with- out deterioration to his machinery, and if he stops work he has still many expenses. More- over, it seems that there is no such over sup- ply of cotton operatives as would press upon ‘this industry in even moderately prosperous [tie and that, therefore, wages will probably regulate themselves usually with- out the intervention of strikes or lockouts, and by the operation of the law of demand and supply. If this is true it is an important fact, worthy of the attention of trade union leaders. Tre Corrision between the yacht Mohawk and the steamer John Gibson on Saturday is one of those accidents which would not oc- cur in the absence of a grave fault on one side or the other. It will be seen from our reports this morning that each party charges the fault upon the other. The people who were on board the Mohawk at the time al- lege that the steamer, miscalculating the speed of the yacht, attempted to run across her bow, while Captain Winter, of the Gibson, charges that the yacht, when approaching | his vessel, hauled up tothe wind and put her wheel to starboard, running into the | steamer. Practically these countercharges mean that the steamer put herself in the way of the yacht or that the yacht deliberately undertook to run down the steamer. Each side may do the other injustice, but under thé laws of Congress it was clearly the duty | of the steamer to keep out of the way of the sailing vessel, and if Captain Winter had | strictly obeyed the law it is probable the | mishap would not have occurred. Avtuors’ Riouts.-—-The Royal British Commission on Copyright has been ap- | pointed, with Lord Stanhope at its head, | and now we may expect many interesting | inquiries touching authors’ rights, even if a | treaty between the United States and Great Britain is not the immediate result. The organization of this commission is the theme of a valuable letter in another column. Escapes rnom tHe Isuanp have always been too frequent, but the fact that a pris- oner reappeared at the Tombs Police Court yesterday for the third time since the 10th of September indicates greater carelessness than we suspected. The Commissioners of Charities and Correction must look into this matter. General Butler in Self-Defence. We are quite willing to print the letter in which General Butler attempts to parry our criticisms on his recent speech in this city. He supplies fresh proof of the justice of our strictures and makes a further exposure of | the financial ignorance which courtesy com- pelled us to charge him with as the only way of extricating him from the graver charge of a wilful falsification of facts. He asserted in his speech that the Bank of England had three times ‘suspended specie payments” since the act of 1844—namely, in 1847, in 1857 and in 1866. That assertion was so false in fact that, in our considerate wish to shield General Butler from the guilt of intentional misrepresentation, we charitably supposed that he is new in such studies and had con- founded the suspension of a particular pro- vision of the Bank act, which he did not un- derstand, with a suspension of specie pay- ments. He has pride enough to be mortified at our exposure, but his indiscreet attempt to justify it reminds us of Webster's figure of a strong man struggling in a morass and sinking deeper and deeper in his attempts at extrication, If General Butler sunk to his chin in his speech he has gone down over head and ears in the bog in his letter of de- fence which we print in another column. His original blunder was a misinterpreta- tion ofthe word ‘‘suspension,” which, in his thorough ignorance of the subject he was dis- cussing, he understood as meaning a suspen- sion of specie payments, when it meant, in fact, a partial suspension of the Bank act of 1844. He now falls into an equally ridicu- lous blunder founded on his misapprehen- sion of the word “reserve.” He contends that the Bank of England did really suspend specie payments in 1866 (it suffices for the purposes of refutation to explode one of his examples) because its “reserve” was on that occasion reduced to nothing, and he quotes Bagehot’s interesting book, ‘Lombard Street,” as an authority. Bagehot himself, if General Butler had read his book with in- telligence, should have saved him from so ridiculous a mistake. General Butler thinks that the reserve referred to was a specie reserve for the redemption of the bank notes, and that its exhaustion was an exhanstion of all the specie in the Bank. In reply to this astonishing exhibition of ignorance we will inform General Butler that the word ‘‘re- serve,” which so constantly recurs in the luminous pages of Mr. Bagehot, has no such sense. To quote Mr. Bagehot’s own lan- guage :—‘‘We speak not of the currency reserve, but of the banking reserve—the reserve held against deposits, and not the reserve held against notes.” The banking reserve held against deposits consists chiefly of bank notes; the currency reserve held against the notes consists of coin and bull- ion, and it is a grotesque exhibition of ignorance to confound the two. In the “suspension” of 1866, on which General Butler lays so much stress, the Bank of England had nearly eighty million dollars, reckoned in our money, in its vaults, of gold or bullion, which the law compelled it to pay out for notes whenever notes were pre- sented. But General Butler is ignorant enough to suppose, and to try to convince the readers of the Herarp, that the Bank could not possibly have paid specie on that occasion because its stock of bullion was exhausted! Because Mr. Bagehot had said in his book that the ‘bank reserve” was exhausted General Butler jumps, in the profundity of his ignorance, to the conclu- sion that the bullion in the Bank was ex- hausted! We will give him the figures and let him digest them if he can. ‘Black Friday” or “Overend Friday,” the day on which the Bank act, was suspended, was May 11, 1866. On the preceding day, May 10, the bullion in the issue de- partment of the Bank was £16,279,670. One week later, May 17, it was £15,837,325, show- ing a reduction during the darkest week of that memorable panic of £442,345. Will General Butler write us another letter in reply to these figures? They prove that specie payments were not suspended, be- cause they show that the Bank paid out more than two million dollars of our money in the redemption of its notes. They show that there was not the remotest danger of specie suspension, for a week after the panic had set in the Bank had $79,166,625 of our money in gold, held for the redemption of its notes. These figures, taken from the official reports of the Bank, are submitted to General Butler, with “assurances of our most distinguished consideration.” Tue Commnc or Moopy snp Sankey has made the subject of a religious revival the absorbing theme among evangelical Chris- tians. ing yesterday the possibilities of a reawaken- ing were discussed at great length—offensive- ly discussed by some of the ministgrs—and the determination was general to make the intended revival successful. Murperrrs on Triat.—Yesterday was a notable day in the Court of Oyer and Termi- ner, one alleged murderer being placed on trial and two others arraigned upgn indict- ments found by the Grand Jury. The case which excited most interest was that of John Dolan, charged with the murder of James H. Noe, Circumstances seem to point conelu- sively to Dolan as the guilty party in that terrible murder, and, if he can be convicted, his punishment will be some assurance that burglars and murderers cannot escape with impunity. Saroon Kerprrs will find an interesting definition of what constitutes a gambling housé in our court reports. Judge Suther- land decides that when saloon keepers allow people to play for money in their saloons they are practically keeping a gambling house. Tue Jacosvs Vanpersiut monopolists threaten to prove rivals of John Kelly in audacity. Not satisfied with attempting to drive off all oppcsition to their ferry placer, by fair means or foul, they now propose to dictate nominations for the Legislature, and to “discipline” objectionable candidates after the most approved fashion of Tammany's great Mogul. ‘The people of Staten Island should take care on their part to send to the State Legislature some member who will have the ability and the disposition to procure such legislation as may be necessary to pro- 875.—QUADRU PLE SHEEr. At the Methodist Preachers’ Meet-, tect the community against the oppressions of a monopoly, and to guard against a repe- tition of such outrages upon private property as that attempted by the Jacobus- Blunt combination a few days ago. Recorder Hackett and Dictator Kelly. “Whatever may have been the political sins of former leaders in Tammany Hall, they never increased them by even suggest- ively interfering with the independence of the Court in which I have the honor to be a judge.”—Recorper Hackerr's Repuxe 10 Joun Kenny. In these few lines are comprised Recorder Hackett’s offence against Tammany Hall. With a proper sense of what was due to the honor of the judiciary he repelled the attempt to compel him to put the officers of his Court at the disposal of John Kelly, and in so doing reminded the present dictator that even Tweed and his associates, corrupt as they were, never went so far as to endeavor to interfere with the independence of the Court of General Sessions. He refused to allow the General Committee of ‘Tammany Hall in this or that district to dictate to him who should be the officers of his Court, and he gave his reasons for such refusal. These reasons were, first, that un- der any circumstances it would be improper to place the criminal records, the service of process against criminals and the custody of prisoners in the hands of political partisans; and next, that the law very properly placed the power of appointing such officers in the Court and not in the Tammany committees, But he did more than this. He told John Kelly-that he was assuming an authority that even the old Tammany rulers had never been unscrupulous enough to claim, and it is this merited rebuke, united with personal en- mity, that prompted Kelly to force the Tam- many Convention to refuse to renominate the Recorder. The people admire Recorder Hackett’s in- dependence and appreciate his endeavor to keep the courts of justice free from the de- moralizing influence of partisanship. They will accept the Recorder as the candidate of the independent electors much more cheer- fully than they would have accepted him as the Tammany nominee, and by his re-election they will not only prove their appreciation of faithful public service, but will rebuke the arrogant attempt of John Kelly to make our judges the mere partisan tools of the organization over which he at present rules. The Pennsylvania Election. As things have turned out it was a pro- digious blunder for the Pennsylvania de- mocracy to adopt the Ohio platform. They had a strong local issue, which would have carried them to victory if they had been prudent enough to keep aloof from the cur- rency complication, which threatened to divide and destroy the democratic party. But their State Conyention impetuously re- jected the good sense of its Committee on Resolutions and foisted in the worst feature of the Ohio platform by a majority of two to one. Asa piece of low electioneering tactics this seemed promising enough at the time. At that date little doubt was felt of Governor Allen’s election ; and if inflation had been indorsed in Ohio Pennsylvania might have been carried on the same issue. But it is now apparent that the Pennsylvania demo- crats are riding a dead horse. They can neither dismount with credit nor keep the saddle with any hope of winning the race. The best thing that can now be done is for the hard money democrats who were overruled in the Convention to “spit upon the platform,” and for the other wing of the party to make an indirect renunciation by explaining it away. The reform issue is quite as timely and pertinent in Pennsylvania as it isin New York. The whole stress of the canvass should now be put on reform. The State government of Pennsylvania has long been notorious for corruption, and on this subject the action of the Democratic Convention was right and vigorous. Not only was corruption de- nounced in the platform, but the ticket was made up of conspicuously honest men. It is a great pity that the party handicapped itself by indorsing the Ohio inflationists. We hope they will shake off this deadweight as far as is now practicable and ignore all other issues than the paramount one of reform. Even then they might not save the State, but they would make it easy to bring the Pennsylvania democracy into line on the re- form issue for the great Presidential battle of next year, Meteorology and Commerce. The influence of the electric telegraph on the management and relations of commercial enterprises has revolutionized the former by annihilating the elements of time and dis- tance between the centres of exchange, and has established the latter on bases more just and reliable than could possibly have existed before. In this connection we wish to point out a new feature in commercial transactions based on the exchange of perishable mer- chandise. The conditions on which such goods as grain, cotton or other like commodi- ties are insured now depend on certain well known effects produced on them by varia- tions of the weather. Not only are the mar- kets affected by reports of crops being above or below the average, due to favorable or unfavorable conditions of weather, but also by the weather reports at the period when large orders are being filled to supply sudden demands, Thus we find that when disputes arise as to the fulfilment ot certain conditions of insurance on grain the whole question turns on the weather reports of the time of the shipment, and the records of the Signal Service Bureau are accepted as con- | clusive evidence in the case. In like man- ner orders for shipments are as much gov- erned by the ‘‘Probabilities” as by the actnal necessities of the consignee, In a recent article we commented on the value of the weather charts published by the Signal Service Bureau as guides to commercial men in their business transactions. We observe that these important documents are now ex- hibited for reference in all the business’ ex- changes in the cities of the United States. This enables every merchant to get the most reliable meteorological information regard- ing the various eas of prodiction and ship- ping centres of the country. The prospects of an early closing or opening up of canal and river navigation are discounted by the shrewd business men of Naw York, who gan now calculate from reliable data. Heavy snows in the Rocky Mountains may prevent the transportation of teas and silks from the Pacific coast; "but, by means of the Signal Service observations and the telegraph, the freight can be started eastward one and often two days in advance of the threatened storm. The prompt display of cautionary signals at the sea and lake ports has saved untold mill- ions of dollars’ worth of property «wad thousands of human lives; and the strongest argument that need be employed in advo- cacy of this great system of weather signals and of improving the condition of that most deserving and intelligent body of public servants—the observer sergeants——is that the saving of one ship and her crew is worth all the expenditure of the government in that service. The delicate machinery of com- merce is, therefore, saved from many a clog and jar by a study of the science of meteor- ology. The Red Cloud Indian Investigation. We print this morning a comprehensive abstract of the report of the commission ap- pointed to investigate Professor Marsh's charges of mismanagement and fraud at Red Cloud Agency, and his imputations of com- plicity on the part of the Secretary of the In- terior and the Commissioner of Indian Aftairs. The Commissioners have devoted the last three months to the investigation of the al- leged irregularities and frauds, and to the analyzation of the mass of evidence ob- tained by them from every source of informa- tion, whether suggested by the Professor or sought out by themselves in their field of operations, and, while they find the most serious charges to be without any foundation in the evidence, they haye discovered and exposed some frandulent operations and have made many excellent recommendations for the improvement of the Indian service. Under all the circumstances shown they were wise in recommending the removal of Agent Saville at Red Cloud. He was evi- dently not adapted to the duties, and, recog- nizing this fact himself, he has resigned; but Professor Marsh is not sustained in im- puting dishonesty to him, and the commis- sion fully exonerate him from the charge of collusion with contractors. J. W. L. Slavens, J. H. Martin and D. J. McCann, contractors for pork, flour and transportation, have been convicted of irregular and fraudu- lent practices and are to be excluded from future contracts with the government. The sentence is not severe enough, for the offence is serious and the finding seems to be justi- fied by the evidence. There are plenty ol honest men who are willing to do business with the government on sound and fair busi- ness principles, and the examples which the commission make of the delinquents will have a salutary influence. The Secretary of the Interior was found, oddly enough, to have had no inimediate con- nection with the management of Indian affairs, and he is acquitted of the Professor's imputations. Nor is there any evidence against the personal or official integrity the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, although the commission find occasion to censure him for many errors of judgment. We refer ou readers to the report, which is able and in- teresting, and to the list of recommendations, many of which, no doubt, will be carried out after the meeting of Congress. Gvrporp’s Remarns are to be buried in obedience to the order of the Privy Council, after which the ground will be cursed. The long threatened breach of the peace is not likely to happen. It will be seen that in this way both sides win a victory without any blood being shed. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘The Jews own nearly half of Berlin. General Sheridan is at the California Geysers. Corlyle has had a public square in Chelsea namow after him, Mr. N. Aubin has been appointed Swiss Consul for the Dominion. South Bend, Indiana, professors keep their big girlt good by kissing them. Hon. George E. Pugh, of Ohio, says that Carey killed the democratic ticket in that State. Cincinnati Enquirer—*What’s the matter with the gold? It ought to be down to $1 10 by this time. ‘M. Maurice Delfosse, Belgian Minister at Washington, has taken up his residence at the Brevoort House, The Springfield Republican thinks that as soon as agirl is insulted by aman sho ought to inform het family. : “pilly” Carr, the republican Sweoney of San Fran cisco, secludes himself since Pinney, the paymaster, defaulted. - Von Moltke says Generals Sherman, McClellan, Lee and Johnston were the only real geniuses of the late war in the United States. Miss Ida Demorest, whom the Grand Duke Alexit considered the handsomest woman in the United States, has married a Nebraska doctor, Hon. Reverdy Johnson has withdrawn his offer te the Baltimore American to plead its cause in the forth- coming suit of Governor Groome and Comptrolle Woolford, Colonel W. R. Holloway, one of the new owners of the Indianapbdlis Journal, is the Postmaster of the city and a brother-in-law of Senator Morton, He has been proprietor of the same paper once before, Mr, Anthony Trollope, the author, who has been te Australia on business connected with the British Post Office Department, arrived in this city yesteraay from San Francisco, and is at the Brevoort House, Mount Holyoke Seminary has supplied 115 wives for foreign missionaries, the last’ two graduating classes furnishing eighteen, They usually go abroad first af teachers and are speedily married by the missionaries: Major M. R. Delany, of Charleston, S. ©., is writing for a Southern publishing house a history of the African race in America, from their first importation “by the Spaniards” (sic) till the passage of the Fifteenth amend. ment to the constitution. The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist says:—‘‘Genoral Grant will perhaps attribute the refluent wave of party triumph to his speech at Des Moines, That was shrewd trick, and he looms up more conspicuously than ever as a Presidential candidate.” ‘The Richmond (Va) Enquirer says:—‘Lot us look at the composition of the voting population of the State, It consists in round numbers of about 250,000 voters, One hundred thousand of these are black men, Whita men may go over to the negro, but the nogro will not come over to the whites, Captain A. B, Andrews, who has been for eight years superintendent of the Raleigh and Gaston and Raleigh and Augusta air line railroads, has resigned that post. tion and accepted the superintendenéy of the North Carolina and Northwestern (North Carolina) roads with headquarters in Ratoigh. Heesing, the German democratic politician of Chi, cago, accepts the nomination for County urer: admits that he needs the office, and says:—“But if t don’t get this office I will move into the most humble cottage in the city and sell everything 1 possess in or dor to pay the last dollar { owe!” Tho Chicago Times says:—‘Thore 18, howover, one and only one, possible way in which the domocratic generals may snatch victory from the jaws of defeat 1 consists in the resumption of specie payment and a coir tonder before the Presidential election. It is the only chance, the only possible ground of hope whieh thy domoerats have to alot the next President,”