The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD -—_+—_— BROADWAY ny. ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Hxnarp will be cent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Herap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ‘ LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEEP STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L’OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be | that could be given to the anti-Tammany received and forwarded on the same terms | movement, whose supperters will take new as in New York, VOLUME XL-+sseeeeeeeee Aihentacrensnes AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHIT. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirtoenth street THE OVERLAND | Jno ake M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. 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Jones GRAND OPERA HOUSER, corner of Twenty-third street and Kighth avenue,—OLD GUARD, at Sr. M. ; closes ut 10:40 P.M. Matinee ut 2. M. HOWE & CUSHI foot of Houston street, Kast Kive! evening. IRCUS, eclormances day and GLOBE THEATRE, Nos. 728 and 730 Broadway.—MINSTRELSY and VARIETY, ae P.M. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirtieth street.—ST SLOCUM, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Matinee at 2 P. M. BROOKLYN ATE Brooklyn.—EHRLICHE ARBEIT, NEW THEATRE, ARTETY, at 8 P.M. TONY PASTO! Nos. 585 and 587 Broad: MiverneL st and VAKIE’ TIVOLI THEATRE, Eighth street, near Third avenu TRIPLE SHEET, 1875, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, From our reports this morning the probabilities | te has a clear perception of the issues on are that the weather to-day will be warm and vartly cloudy. Tur Henarp sy Fast Man, Trams.—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 Southarest, also along the lines of the Hud- son River, New Yorle Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their connections, will be ocentic:p supplied with Tue Henaxn, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this office. Wart Sreeer Yestenpay.—Stocks were | ciples is a task which might bring a less lower and irregular in price. Gold ad- vanced to 116 5-8 and closed at 116 1-4. Rag money worth about 86.02. Investment securities were generally firm. Gamoetta Issvrs a manifesto in which he prédicts a great republican majority as the result of the approaching elections. He lays down as the future programme departmental voting, the restoration of State education and amnesty to the Communists. Yesterpay Was tue Nuvery-xrera Anwt- vensany of the battle of White Plains. The Westchester County Historical Society cele- brated the day, the feature of the procedings being an address by ex-Minister John Jay. Asketch of the address will be found in the Hixnarp to-day. Tue Ravaczs of the cattle disease in England is shown in the quarterly report, which shows that throughout England and Wales for the quarter ending October 16 there were over five hundred thousand cases of disease, and that the money damage is estimated at a million dollars. Tuere Was Some Goop Ractye and a large attendance at the Washington Driving Park yesterday. A railroad accident, fortunately unattended by injury to the passengers, de- layed the Baltitnore delegation until the first race had been decided. The winners were General Harney, Madge, Skirmisher and Diavolo, The latter carried off the purse for the hurdle race, beating Busy Bee. Ir Is Evcovnaatne to find that two moro murderers were yesterday sentenced to death. The day of their execution is fixed for the 17th of December. The condemned men are negroes, and their crime was the murder of the pedler, Abraham Weisberg, near West Farms, lastmonth. The evidence of their guilt was conclusive. When wo hear of three murderers being sentenced in two days we begin to believe that we aro living in the old days when the laws wero enforced, and not under our present generous police force, whose tenderness toward crimi- } NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OUTOBER 29, 1875, —TRIPLE SHEET. — Ex-Governor Seymour's Speech, It will gratify all true democrats to learn that Governor Seymour, who was industri- | ously advertised and paraded as the leading | speaker at Tammany Hall last evening, scorned to appear there at all and to give even a seeming countenance to Mr. John Kelly's mischievous autocracy. We wonder how Mr. Kelly feels after being snubbed by the most respected democrat in the State! Gov- ernor Seymour refuses to give even the countenance of his presence to the un- | democratic Tammany cabal. He has no | faith in that kind of organization. He has washed his hands of all complicity with it by going to Brooklyn to deliver his speech, and putting himself in an _atti- tude of entire separation from an odious autocracy which is the scorn and opprobrium of the democratic party of the State and the country. Throngs of people went to Tammany Hall in the expectation of | hearing him; but he put a slur and a stigma on the one man power and its doings, and delivered his speech in a place where he could appear without eém- promising his self-respect or his democratic | principles. This significant slight put on Tammany by the most eminent democrat in | the State is the most valuable assistance courage and need not doubt of a triumphant success, Governor Seymour devoted his address in Brooklyn mainly to great national topics and to State issues only so far as, they bear on national questions, In this wise selection of subjects Mr. Seymour has acted in accord- ance with his habitual eleyation of sentiment and scorn of vulgar politics. Keeping as clear of Tammany as a lady in clean attire would of dirty puddles in crossing a street, Mr. Seymour explains his views on the great questions which concern the na- tional welfare. There is no other man in the democratic party so gifted for such a task. Mr. Seymour is the most statesman- like member of the democratic party. He has more sagacity, greater breadth of view and amore persuasive eloquence than any other democrat in the United States. By elo- quence we do not mean the tawdry figures of speech and swelling bombast so often mis- taken for it, but such a clear and earnest presentation of the speaker's arguments as is calculated to secure respect and produce conviction. In this great faculty of enlisting the judgment of his auditors on his side we doubt if Mr. Seymour has a superior or an equal in this country. His speech will have the additional weight which belongs to a dis- tinguished adviser. Mr. Seymour has outlived personal ambition. Advancing years, grow- ing infirmities and an unaffected taste for quiet rural pursuits have cured him of {‘the last infirmity of noble minds.” The faintest intimation of consent would have been fol- lowed last winter by his: enthusiastic election to the federal Senate, where he would have been more than the peer of any member of that body. With a disinterestedness as rare as it was respectable he declined that honor in favor of his friend and neighbor, Mr. Kernan. Having outlived and re- nounced personal aspirations he has a solid title to be recognized as the most unselfish counsellor of the democratic party, and he is not unconscious of the responsibility which attends such a position. Knowing that his speech would command the respectful atten- tion of his party in every State of the Union he has risen above the murky atmosphere of local partisan contests to set forth his views of the general situation. It is the evident purpose of Mr. Seymour to sound the keynote of the approaching Presidential contest from his point of view. which the Presidential election ought to turn, and he states them with great fairness. He thinks that the business situation, the pecuniary distress which weighs upon all classes, is the central point of view, and it is the main object of his policy to alleviate the public burdens. He réalizes the difficulty of uniting the dem- arty on the fundamental questions of the period, and has bent all his skill to this most difficult part of the problem. To soothe and satisfy the West without the slightest surrender of sound financial prin- sagacious mind to despair; but Mr. Seymour has made the attempt, and if the Western democrats will listen to anybody with respect they will listen to him. He is too wise to denounce and berate them; he makes con- siderate apologies for their errors; he ac- knowledges their grievances ; but he is im- movably firm in opposing their financial heresies. He admits and maintains that the people of the West are the greatest sufferers from our false financial system. He states their grievances with more skill than they have ever been stated by themselves. He contends that the distinction between debtor States and creditor States, which makes the West tributary to the East, has a foundation in fact, and that it is a necessary consequence of our heavy public debt. He maintains that the enormous burden of federal taxes falls with crushing weight on the West, whose products must find their way to dis- tant markets, The tariff adds immensely to the expense of constructing railroads, and the West, besides paying the enhanced cost of articles of consumption, is burdened with increased expenses in the transportation of its products to markets, a burden from which the Eastern States are exempt by their nearness to the places where their products are consumed. Mr. Seymour's recognition ofthe unequal burdens which fall on the West by our system of finance and taxation will conciliate that section to his views on the currency. He attempts to convince the West that a return to specie payments would promote its prosperity as well as that of every other part of the country. He concedes the justice of their complaints against one kind of money for the bondholders and an inferior kind of money for the com- munity, but maintains that all such invidious comparisons would be abolished by making | the paper currency equal to gold. He deprecates a sectional issue on the currency question, and thinks it would be forestalled by appreciating the paper circulation toa gold value, This line of remark is as sound and sagacious from a financial poiut of view as it is wise and conciliatory for the purpose of Pala je #0 wold Snowe East and the West. A sound currency would no doubt benefit all sections of the country alike, and it would abolish the invidious dis- tinction between creditors who are paid in gold and creditors whose claims are dis- charged in depreciated paper. But Mr. Seymour's idea that the national debt ought to be paid off and extinguished | as speedily as possible in order to remove Western discontent and jealousy, will hardly stand the test of fair inquiry. We jconcede that if the public debt did not exist the West could not complain of being taxed for the benefit of the Eastern bondholders. But the debt can- not be speedily paid off without heavy taxa- tion, which would fall with the same dispro- portionate weight on the West as the present taxes. We regret to see Mr. Seymour in- dorse the favorite fallacy of Secretary Bout- well, which is the worst blunder that has been perpetrated in our financial admin- istration. Under Mr. Boutwell’s ad- ministration of the Treasury Depart- ment the national debt was -paid off at the rate of about one hundred millions a year, and this was the chief boast of the republican party in the last Presidential election, It was a prodigious mistake to burden industry with crushing taxes for this purpose, when there were financial objects of infinitely more importance to be accom- plished. The first thing the government should have aimed at, after the close of the war, was to restore the currency to sound- ness and to take off all but the most nec- essary taxes in order to put our productive industries in efficient operation. We could easily and rapidly reduce the debt out of the profits of a universally revived industry ; but the first thing in point of importance was to restore specie payments and re- establish the machinery for earning wealth. The reduction of the debt might then have followed without any strain on our resources. Mr. Boutwell pur- sued the opposite policy of reducing the debt first, which was as absurd as to put sick horses to the plough, instead of nursing their strength for efficient service afterward. We are sincerely sorry to see so enlightened a-statesman as Mr. Seymour committing him- self to Secretary Boutwell’s worst blunder. There should be no haste to pay or reduce the national debt. Every resource of the government should be devoted to restoring the currency, reviving industry and setting all the wheels of industry in motion, which would enable the country to reduce the public debt afterward out of the rich resources of re-established prosperity. The blundering Boutwell policy began at the wrong end by attempting to reduce the debt before reviving the prosperity, which would have made the debt a comparatively light burden. High Winds During Great Conflagra- tions. It is always noticeable that during the progress of a great fire, such as that which almost demolished Chicago, a violent wind accompanies the conflagration and mainly assists in spreading it over a large area. In reality the fire creates the wind, and the lat- ter increases in force with the area and in- tensity of its exciting cause. Another feature of these fire winds, as we may call them, is that they blow from all directions toward the heated centre, and are influenced in their direction by lines of houses and narrow streets, which divert them or concentrate their power as if through a blowpipe. The generation of these winds in otherwise calm weather is due to the immense expansion and up-draught of the air over the burning area. This motion induces an in-draught from all the surrounding atmospheric volume to sup- ply the place of the inflated and con- sequently rarefied air over the fire. All such in-draughts are necessarily surface currents, affecting and being affected by objects and conditions on the surface. During the fires at Chicago and Boston the indraught wind along the surface, striking through the aper- tures of the burning buildings, fed the flames by renewing the supplies of oxygen, and lifted them up so as to actually bridge the streets with fire and extend the area of the conflagration. The general direction of the smoke from great fires marks that of the pre- yailing upper currents of air and is fro- quently opposite to that of some of the fire winds on the surface. When a strong wind, prevailing at the time of the outbreak of the fire, acts on a burnmg area, its own velocity is largely increased, and it thus becomes a fire wind in its own direc- tion. Telegrams describing the Virginia City disaster also mention the prevalence of a heavy gale during the fire, but do not state whether it prevailed before or was created by the fire. In all probability its force dur- ing the conflagration was due to both causes. Tae Great Free and tHe Mryes,—The latest intelligence by way of San Francisco gives hope that the mines are not damaged by the Virginia City conflagration to any- thing like the extent that was feared. The Henarp's special despatch states that the miners have been through all the mines in the range and find them all safe except the Ophir, which is damaged to the extent of thirty feet only. The shaft of the Consoli- dated Virginia mine has not been injured, and the great hoisting works are to be re- stored as speedily as possible. The leading citizens have been active in raising imme- diate relief funds, and it is said that the gloom occasioned by the calamity and the fear of its consequences is passing away. Vigorous efforts are made to forward suffi- cient provisions to Virginia City to supply the destitute people. There is great need of money, however, and the charitable citizens of New York will no doubt contribute their share toward the relief of the sufferers. The loss is now set down at $7,500,000. Governor Titpen Gave Evipence of his good sense in refusing to preside at or attend the Tammany ratification meeting last night. For three days every influence was brought to bear upon the Governor to induce him to give the meeting the ade vantage of his presence, but he steadfastly refused. He will not permit himself to be mixed up with the local quarrel of the demoo- racy, and he is said to look with much dis. favor and regret on John Kelly's arbitrary harmonizing the discordant democracy of the | eonduct and political mistakes, Servia and Turkey. The report that the Servian Representa- tive Assembly had voted a ‘motion for war with Turkey” is contradicted, but such an act has been for some time imminent, and it is only in virtue of strong foreign support that the sovereign has been able so far to prevent this violent course. Should this extreme line of action eventually be taken, as seems not improbable, the Her- zegovinian insurrection will evidently not be altogether without results on the political condition of Eastern Europe. Servia pos- sesses an independent existence in virtue of the guarantee of the great Powers. Shedoes not stand by her own might and cannot so stand. She does not stand in virtue of any good will toward her at Constantinople. She has been a makeweight in certain political complications and has retained her political autonomy in virtue of those complications, and that autonomy is, therefore, not a fact of unqualified stability. In 1856 the Treaty of Paris placed the immunities that Servia then held from the Porte, ‘‘its inde- pendent and national administration, "under the guarantee of the signatory Powers ; de- clared for the maintenance of the Turkish “right of garrison,” and said, ‘No armed in- tervention can take place in Servia without previous agreement between the high con- tracting Powers.” In regard to the right of garrison, in virtue of which Turkey kept a body of troops at Belgrade, it has, perhaps, practically lapsed, for the troops, whose pres- ence led to frequent disturbances, were withdrawn in 1867, but otherwise the stipu- lations of the treaty are the public law upon which Servian independence stands. Servia cannot be too careful how she trifles with that law in the aspiration for better conditions. Do her people hope to whip Turkey single-handed? That is scarcely possible. Do they anticipate inter- vention in their favor under the guarantee? Certain of the Powers will not touch the case now on any terms, and those that might interfere would only do so if they approved the quarrel on which the conflict should arise. It is clear that the ‘‘war party” is not one with whose purposes they can have any sympathy. It isa party generally of agita- tion, and neither Austria, Prussia nor Russia will raise a finger to strengthen by support a party of this nature. Russia, indeed, has already hinted informally to the Servian Prince that he must keep the peace or take the consequences in the abrogation of the guarantee. It would bea sad result of the insurrection if it should close, not in the further extension of freedom to Christians in Turkey, but in the aggrandizement of Mos- lem power at the expense of S ervian inde- pendence, Financial Reports, Out of the measure of repudiation decreed by the, Turkish government in the early part of the present month there is likely to arise in Paris a lawsuit of peculiar interest to corporations that sell news and to the public that is guided in its financial opera- tions by,the intelligence thus furnished. Ru- mor had been busy with the subject for some time, and the apprehension that the Porte was about to tamper with its interest pay- ments naturally sent Turkish securities toa low point. Many wise men got out of dan- ger under the inspiration of that apprehen- sion; and our cautious friend, John Bull, made so good a use of his opportunity that London seems to feel comparatively little interest in what eventually occurred. But with securities thus depressed there was naturally a fine opportunity for investment or speculation in case it should turn out that the bad news from Constantino- ple was false; and there seemed to some persons reason to believe that it was false. Just as this notion suggested itself to the financial mind the Havas Tele- gram Agency published in Paris a positive statement that all these reports derogatory to Turkish credit were without foundation. It further stated that it made this declaration on the authority of the Grand Vizier. Six- teen persons operating on the Paris Bourse bought heavily on the strength of this re- port, and a few days later the document was put forth by which the government sup- pressed half its interest payments for five years. All these losers thereupon demanded their differences from the Havas Agency, which they held had misinformed them in a way that made it responsible before the law. But the agency wishes to refer these gentle- men to the Grand Vizier, who, it seems, ac- tually “inspired” the despatch, and who, there is some ground to believe, was actually ignorant of the measure contemplated by the Ottoman Treasury. Naturally the Vizier has no responsibility in the case; and if the Paris courts sustain the view taken’ on the Bourse, the Havas Agency will find that speculative news is a dangerous article to deal in. “The Committee of Public Safety.” During the French Revolution, when ter- ror was triumphant, there was a tribunal called the “Committee of Public Safety.” This organization was a small irresponsible body, whose chief officer was Fouquier Tin- ville, a name infamous to all time. His busi- ness was to arrest suspected Frenchmen and send them to the guillotine. Every morning there was a batch of citizens driven in the tumbrils to the scaffold. The story of that committee's career is one of the most painful in modern history. Men, women and chil- dren were seized and beheaded. Of Fou- quier Tinville it is said :—‘‘He had no soul, not even that of a tiger, which, at least, pre- tends to be pleased with what it devours, Incapable of friendship or of anything even remotely allied to generosity he systemati- cally abandoned his successive coagitators in their hour of need and sent to the scaffold, without the slightest compunction, Bailly and Vergniaud, Danton and Hebert, Robes- pierre and St. Just.” The Committee on Discipline of Tammany Hall, in session now from day to day, re- minds us very much of the Committee of Public Safety. W. A. Boyd is the Fouquier Tinville who executes the orders of Robes- . pierre Kelly. Every morning we hear of a new batch of democrats decapitated because they will not acquiesce in the wish of this absolute ruler. Every morning there is a new story of punishment and ‘‘discipline.” The democracy, which last year rallied so | enthusidstically about Wickham, is to-day Sanne eee disheartened, in terror, and iis leaders are vainly endeavoring to achieve by feir what they failed to win by harmony and kindness, What Shall We Do With Tammany? In the event of the defeat of John Kelly and his, braves on Tuesday next, an event which seems more and more imminent, a question arises which might well be referred to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, As our readers know, the controlling spirits in Tammany Hall are members of an Indian tribe. They have a life of their own to which we are not admitted. We are told it is a beautiful pastoral life, rich with old In- dian traditions,and that John Kelly and Doug- las Taylor and Angustus Schell, Andrew J. Garvey, James H. Ingersoll and Mayor Wick- ham and other well known citizens call themselves sachems and wiskinskies and chiefs, smoke pipes of peace and dance around burning fires and talk about moons and seasons for hunting and planting. After next Tuesday there will be no temptation to continue these traditions. The question, What shall be done with the Tammany braves ? is one that cannot be postponed by a humane and intelligent administration. Our first thought is that they should be sent to a reservation. We are far from deny- ing to the Tammany braves the right to follow the traditions of their tribe, but evi- dently they are no longer of any use in New York. Our political civilization has grown beyond them, The Tammany braves aro moving toward ‘the setting” sun as inevita- bly as the Cheyenne or the Apache, Many of these tribes have been decimated by whiskey and evil practices and contact with civilization, and we are afraid the same must be said of the Tammany tribe in New York. The government, which has spent so much money upon the Senecas and the Sioux, can well afford to do something for the Tammany braves. Why, then, should not a reservation be laid out—say in the country of the Black Hills, a fine, healthy region—under command ofan officer like General Custer, to which they could be transported? Hero they could hunt and fish and spend their time in danc- ing around their camp fires and smoking the pipes of peace. Here Chief Wickham, whose eloquence is the wonder of the time, might have an opportunity to rival the speeches of Red Jacket and of Logan." Chief Kelly could organize his rings and indulge in bosom friendships without hin- drance or fear, The Committee on Disci- pline could sit all night and all day, with none to molest or make them afraid. Chief Tom Dunlap will scarcely want to go, as his sensitive constitution needs metropolitan comforts. Chief Croker could scalp his foes without bothering over bail. Chief Denis Quinn could howl about the ‘German influ- ence” tothe moaning winds. They could have blankets and rations and arms, and after a year or two of good behavior their squaws might be sent out to keep them com- pany. The Tammany reservation in the Indian country will be an interesting phase of the paternal influence of our govern- ment. After the next election the matter will take so serious a shape that we com- mend this humane idea of a Tammany res- ervation to the attention of our government. “Abandoned at Sea.” How frequently this expression appears in connection with a description of the fate of ships that leave port with all the prospects of very prosperous voyage and are overtaken by some casualty of the ocean which reduces them to.a state of helpless wreck! We are, however, as frequently surprised to learn that abandoned vessels keep afloat for weeks and months after their crews have left them and are met far at sea, drifting about, ap- parently not much injure, and certainly affording a safer refuge from death than tho | frail boats that bore away their crews. A philosophical survey of the situation is almost impossible when immediate destruc- tion stares men in the face. Panic—or let us say an uncontrollable desire to leave—seizes on every one when death steps into our com- pany, whether it be on the field or flood or in the infected city. Unless in the case of fire at sea, and when the destruction of the ship is inevitable, it seems almost absurd to abandon her and trust to small boats for escape. We believe that much of the philosophy expected from all truly brave and intelligent men should be exercised by such as follow the sea before they leave port, and by a foreknowledge of the floating capacity of their ship, which can be easily and accurately determined with relation to that of every description of freight known to commerce. Many vessels which are now abandoned through fear of their immediate sinking would be saved for their owners, and the lives of the crew who intrust their fate to the frail shells of their small boats would be spared. We will simply refer to a recent notice in the Henatp’s ‘Maritime Miscel- lany” to illustrate our views:—‘‘Brig Julia Esson, of and from Halifax for Porto Rico, was fallen in with September 7, in latitude 30 north, longitude 37. The wreck was dangerous to navigation, and was supposed to be in that state for at least two months. This was nearly six months after the Julia Esson left Halifax. It is remarkable that she should have kept afloat so long without being reported earlier.” Here we find the abandoned ship, but where are her crew? Did they reach land in safety, or is their ship yet floating long after the sharks have digested their remains? Tue Sprcrat Corresronpent of the Henatp from Ragusa, Austria, gives a graphic and interesting account of the prog- ress of the Herzegovinian insurrection, The Turks do not seem to be doing effective work toward the suppression of the insurrec- tion, and it is thought that the struggle will bea protracted one. Tho insurgents fight with persistency and ferocity, and have the sympathy of the Russians and Austrians to encourage them. The most painful part of the'story is to be found in the evidences of barbarity and suffering common to such a struggle with which it abounds, Tue Cmances or Tum Sxveran candidates for the Senate and Assembly in Oneida, Otsego and Herkimer counties are told in the Hxnaip's correspondence from Utica to- day. In Oneida it is asserted that the local conventions were carried against Senator Conkling’s favorite candidates, but this is denied by the Senator's friends, The cen- erat impression seems to tend toward a probable democratic victory in the State, but with a considerably reduced majority. A serious defection from the State ticket in this city might turn the scales against the democracy. A Tale of a Bashaw, The people of the United States will be startled this morning to learn that we have been on the brink of a fgreign war without knowing anything of our danger. Tangiers,. in Morocco, is blessed with a Bashaw who glories in the name of Kaid Jilaly ben Hamoo. This worthy but unpronounceable dignitary, being desirous of sending a quan tity of goods to the Sultan at Fez, seized alk the camelsat Tangiers, including those of for~ eign Christian nations, The Bashaw was free to do as he might please with the property of his own subjects, but the foreigners protested against the confiscation of their property. An application for restitution led to a singu- lar remark by the Bashaw. Notcontent with refusing to surrender the camels of English- men and Americans at the demand of their consuls he ventured to liken consuls in gen eral to monkeys. ‘Why, you consuls are like so many monkeys!” exclaimed Kaid Jilaly ben Hamoo; ‘whatever one does all the rest must do.” Without criticising the singular opinion expressed by the Bashaw, we may say that it was extremely undiplomatic. The Americar Consul, Colonel Mathews, so regarded it, although the British Consul was not disposed) to object to the Darwinian remark. Tha gallant Colonel, wrapping himself in tha American flag, demanded an apology from tha Bashaw, to be delivered inperson at tha United States Consulate by twelve o'clock ati noon of the’ following day. A refusal was to be the signal of the cutting down of tha American flagstaff and the departure of the Consul for Gibraltar. Fortunately no such! extreme measure became necessary. The Bashaw, after church, called at the consulate to apologize. His apology was recoived by, the Consul sitting, but after it had been made the gallant Colonel rose and shook hands with Kaid Jilaly ben Hamoo, tha camels were released and war was averted.: The Bashaw will probably never liken a con- sul to a monkey again, Mn. Norpnorr’s Lerrer from Cincinnati is full of interesting statements respecting public opinion in Ohio since the election.. Inflation is like the cow struck by a locomo~ tive—‘“not dead, but a good deal discour= aged.” Mr. Nordhoff thinks the people ara impatient of the business stagnation and ready to accept any change rather than re~ main as they are. The hard money demo- crats are expecting Governor Tilden’s ticket to be elected in New York, but their hopes are not very high, as they will be satisfied with ten thousand majority. A larger ma- jority would take out of inflation-what little life remains in it; but that or some other financial folly is likely to revive unless some~« thing is done by Congress. Would that Con- gress had the wisdom and courage to meet the demand for change by decisive steps in the right direction ! Wesrcnxstzn County has done well in re« nominating Mr. Charles M. Schieffelin for the Assembly, Such nominations are needed to raise the character and improve the work of the State Legislature. Mr. Schieffelin was the representative of his district last year, and his course in the Assembly will in- sure his re-election. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Senator Morton had along interview with Presiden? Grant yesterday. Now that Virginia City has burned down Nevads Senators have no place to come from. Vice President Henry Wilson left this city yesterday for his home in Massachusetts. Congressmen’s wives a(fect furniture in browns thir year, because of the dust in Washington. Gail Hamilton 1s not in favor of corporal punishment since the pin-back dress has come into fashion, A modern essayist defines gossip to be the “putting of two and two together and making five of them.”” Alexandre Dumas, having finished his play of “The Stranger,” has returned to Paris from his country resi- dence. The Austrian army will have the new bronze-steer cannon, which is noteworthy for the accuracy of its shots. Secrotary Chandler is exvected to introduce a novo, clvil service in the Interior Department, This must be pure fiction. Ex-Governor Seymoar made a brief visit to the new Post Office yesterday. Postmaster James escorted him through the building. It is now reported that Guibord will decline “any longer to participate in religious disturbances, on ac~ count of bis health, French and Italian papers say that the interview be. tween Kings William and Emmanuel was divested of political significance by the absence of Bismarck. Senator Sargent, of California, has completed the purchase of a handsome new residence on Connecticut avenue, Washington, and will soon take possession, The Belle Boyd whom many porsons havo said is not’ Bello Boyd continues to lecture in the South. A Soutly Carolina paper says her manner is “defiant and at~ tractive.” General Newton, of tho United States Engineering corps, and Bruce Bell, of Scotland, members of the Montreal Harbor Improvement Commission, are at Ottawa, Ont Civilization follows the path of the white man, A number of lamp posts have been put up at Cheyenne, and the Indians stand round them seeing which cam. spit the highest, It is announced that General B. F. Butler has pur- chased a gold mine in the vicinity of Fredericksburg. Recent developments have attracted considerable atten- tion to the mining resources of that section of Virginia, The Boston Pilot thinks that if men and newspapera did not let girls know what bad is they would not do bad. Yes; one morning Adam brought in the Chicago: Times with its story of the boy who stole apples, and Eve immediately went out and eat the pippin. ‘The debt of Alabama is equal to one-fifth of its tax- able property, and there is an effort toward repudia- tion. Tho difference between Alabama and Ohio demo- crats is that the former would repudiate a State debt, while the latter would repudiate a national debt, Indian corn in North Germany often assumes a placa among the household plants, It is regarded thero ag tropical, In our country it becomes tropical only uns der the name of Bourbon, and then it warms a man up 80 that ne feels as if he were under the tropic of Capri+ corn. Most of the sporting men are contributing $50 toward @ monument for American Girl, and most of the great statesmen are, in 4 spirit of rivalry, going to contribute toward a monument for Washington, So far, Amerie can Girl’s chances are 200 feot higher than Wash- ington’s, The airy philosophers may have a now idea of coinc!- dences. The girl who was murdered and chopped up in London the other day was Harriet Lane, and the man who murdered and chopped her was named Wain- wright. It willbe remembered that in tho battle of Galveston Harbor, during the late war, the cutter Har. riet Lane was in charge of Commodore Wainwright, who was wounded and afterward restr murdered on her deck.