The New York Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1875, Page 6

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TRIPLE SHE 3 SS sone President Grant's Cuban Policy. the President in permitting it to be given | mend the prudenge of such a course, and | we hope that all the organs of public opin- | ion will respond to his implied request with | | frankness and candor, It would be a per- sonal misfortune to the President and a grave | calamity to the country if he should act with | precipitancy or fall into error on a subject which so nearly touches the peace of the | country. The President's sympathy with | the struggling Cubans does credit to his gen- erous impulses, but he onght not to take any | decisive official step without a full survey of | the situation, ‘The country feels that the Centennial year — should be a year of peace with all nations, and, above all, a year of peace with its old allies in the War of Independence. One of | those allies was Spain, who declared war | against England in 1779, and did not make peace until our independence was recog- nized. Our ambassadors, with Dr. Franklin | at their head, refused to consent to a peace | which did not include all our allies, and | accordingly, in 1783, treaties of peace were | concluded, not only with the United States, but with France, Holland and Spain. It | would be out of keeping with the occasion | for our country to be at war with any of its | allies in the Revolution while we celebrate, with many nations as our invited guests, the hundredth anniversary of the indepen- dence which those allies assisted us to achieve. If it be said that this is a merely sentimental consideration it might suffice to reply that | the Centennial is to be a sentimental occa- sion; but this is not the only nor the most solid answer. Nobody can doubt that the great Exposition at Philadelphia will be of immense advantage to arts, industry and commerce if it should be successful; but a foreign war would put its success in peril | and very likely prove fatal to the Exposition. We are aware of the general impression that a war with Spain would be brief; that we should probably seize Cuba and end the contest within sixty or ninety days, thus re- establishing peace before the date assigned for the opening of the Exposition. Even if we should make so speedy a conquest of the island (which is quite uncertain) it does not follow that peace would be the immediate consequence, Spain is the most obstinate of nations. She did not relinquish her claim to her revolted colonies in South America for a score of years after they had established their independence. It is contrary to all we know of her national char- acter to suppose. that she would give up the contest as soon as Cuba had been wrested from her. Its loss would release her navy for other employment, and being no longer needed for guarding and defending Cuba it would be at liberty to cruise in all seas for the destruction of our commerce. The tena- cious Castilian blood would not permit Spain to make peace until she had inflicted on our commerce all the injury in her power. Even if Cuba should prove an easy conquest there is no likelihood that the war would be short. There is a still weightier consideration which seems to have escaped the attention both of our’ government and people. What if Spain should have allies ? Cuba is con- stantly discussed as if it were a mere question between the United States and Spain in which no other nation would interfere. Can we be so sure of that? This is nota question asked at random, not the suggestion of vague and remote possibilities; it has so strong a basis in fact and history that it cannot be ignored by any person wishing to examine every part of the subject and to see the whole ground. It must not be forgotten that so recently as in 1852 England and France attempted to bind the United States by a perpetual treaty never to acquire Cuba. Psi YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, , 1875, From our reporte this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and cloudy or partly cloudy. ‘fne Henacp py Fast Mam, Trars,— 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, the South and Soudhwest, also along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Tailroads and their con= nections, will be supplied with Tue Henan, free of postage. Extraordinary inducements offered to newsdealers by sending their orders direct to this Carprvat McCosxey started from Queens- town for New York yesterday. Henrzrcovixa.—Our correspondent at Ra- gusa gives us additional information con- cerning Ljubibratic, and adorns his letter with a description of a night spent in the in- surgent camp. A Romaw Tracepy is seldom comedy and the story of the assassination of Raphael Sonsogno, the distinguished journalist, told in another colamn this morning, is as terri- ble as it is dramati Arctic Voyacinc.—We print this morning still further details of the voyage of the Pan- dora, which are especially valuable from their descriptions of Beechy Island, and of the sounds, straits and inlets in that vicinity. ‘Tur Wasmixatox Sunday lay Chronicle has pro- nounced in favor of a thirdterm. This jour- nal must not be confounded with the Wash- | ington Chronicle, and the sudden change of front on the part of the Sunday paper can only be regarded as an abeurdity. Secnerany Cmaxpter has bought that old | democratic sheet the National Intelligencer | and put it im line with the third term-| movement. In the olden time the ability to pronounce the name was a test of personal | sobriety, but now it scems also to be a test of political inebriety. Tar Pounisament or tHe Conco Riven pirates, as described by the British com- mander whose report we publish to-day, was of so stern and summary a nature that it will long be remembered by the dusky dwellers government denied and strenuonsly resisted | be correct Mr. Stanley will have accom. | in those regions. It was a salutary lesson, no doubt, but justice in this instance was so blind that it punished innocent and guilty blike, We had many times given notice that we would never permit Cuba to pass from Spain to any other European Power. England and France gave us a counter notice in 1852 that the island must not pass from Spain to us. In a despatch from Lord Malmesbury to Mr. Crampton, then English Minister at Washing- ton (April 8, 1852), His Lordship said:—‘*The government of the United States has repeat- edly declared that it would not see with in- difference the island of Cuba fall into the possession of any other European Power than Spain. Her Majesty's government shares in the most unqualified manner in the views thus put forth by the government of the United States, and would never see with indifference the island of Cuba in possession of any Power whatever but Spain. The government of France, with which Her Majesty's government have been in communication on this important matter, cordially adopt the same view.” When England and France thus declared their opposition to see Cuba pass from Spain into the possession of ‘any Power whatever” they pointed this declar- ation at the United States. Unless there is some reason for supposing that the govern- ment of England has changed its views on this subject, it will not do to lay out of view the chance of Spain having allies ina war with us. Ifit should be said that the object of President Grant is not to acquire Cuba | for the United States, but to make | the island independent, it is quite certain | that the British government wonld regard | this profession as a subterfuge. England | has foreseen its possibility and protested against it in advance. In a despatch from | Lord Russell, who succeeded the Earl of | | Malmesbury in the Foreign Office, to Mr. | | Crampton, February 16, 1853, he said :—*A | | pretended declaration of independence with | a view of seeking refuge under the United | States would be justly looked upon as the same, in effect, as a formal annexa- | tion.” It is quite certain that President | Grant's proposed ‘strong policy” would ex- out that he will take a ‘strong position” in relation to Cuba in bis forthcoming annual | interest in this question which she cannot Message is to get an expression of public } forego.” opinion in advance as a means of judging | from which we have taken these short ex- how far it is safe for him to go. We com- | | that the United States and Spain would be | Possessions in the West Indies alone, with- | It is fair to presume that the purpose of | / out insisting on the importance to Mexico may be estimated from the esteem in which and other friendly States of the present dis- tribution of power, give Her Majesty on | The diplomatic correspondence tracts proves that it is not safe to assume the only parties to a war respecting Cuba. Sound policy and wise caution re- | quire that we should defer such an enter- prise until we shall be in a condition to face all its consequences. The Centennial year must pass in peace ; we must strengthen | our finances before we engage in a war, un- less one should be foreed upon us by foreign insult or aggression. We suppose no Ameri- | can has for the last half century doubted that Cuba will some day be ours ; but for ; | the present we must wait and watch the natural progress of events without inter- fering to hasten or force them. We should be reluctant to think that | President Grant could resort to foreign com- | plications and incur the risk of a foreign war as a means of influencing our domestic pol- | ities on the eve of a Presidential election. This is one ofthe devices by which Napoleon | IIL maintained his power in France, but the final result was a warning, not an example. Such a course would not only be unworthy of President Grant but inconsistent with the | character of any public man who values the honor or the interests of the country. It is still more difficult to believe that he is capable of descending to empty menace on | so important a subject, hoping to win a cheap popularity by proposing measures which he does not expect Congress, as it is now constituted, tosupport. If the ‘strong policy” of his Message should stir the coun- | try to a war fever the democratic House might run in advance of him in sucha race for popularity. If the democratic party, | which repeatedly tried to acquire Cuba when it was in possession of the govern- ment, should reclaim its ‘stolen thunder,” the inflationists might be glad of so good an excuse for flooding the country with new is- sues of greenbacks as ‘‘a war measure.” The President needs to look at the matter on this side as well as on the other neglected sides before he comraits himself irretrievably in his Message. If the President contemplates nothing beyond according belligerent rights to the | Cuban insurgents it needs but a slight fore- sight of consequences to see how difficult it would be to stop there. To do that and nothing further would not benefit the Cubans. Belligerent rights are acquired at the expense of neutral nations. As a neutral acknowledging a state of war we should be compelled to respect the belligerent rights of Spain as well as those of the Cubans. Spain would be entitled to stop all our merchant ships and search them for contra- band of war. The only reason why her seiz- ure of the Virginius was illegal was that our government had not acknowledged a state of belligerency between Spain and her revolted subjects. If we had recognized the parties as belligerents Spain would have had an unquestionable right to search the Virginius, though sailing under our flag, and to capture and confiscate her for carrying contraband of war. With belligerency recognized vessels laden with arms could not hover around the island safely awaiting a thick fog or a dark night to run in and land their cargoes, as they may now do under the protection of a neutral flag. It is obvious, therefore, that we. should rather harm than help the Cubans by according them belligerent rights and proceeding no further. Having taken that step and indorsed their cause we should be forced to go on by resulting entangle- ments. We could not preserve our neutral- ity because our people would be encouraged by the action of the government to make ex- peditions in aid of the Cubans, and the exer- cise by Spain of her belligerent right of cap- ture as soon as the vessels were fairly out of our ports would stir up such a commotion that war would be unavoidable. So until our government is prepared to go all lengths it had better do nothing beyond protecting merchant vessels entitled to carry our flag. We shall be in a more favorable condition to deal with this important question wisely twelve months hence than we are at present, when a foreign war would fatally disturb our Centennial celebration and prevent the re- covéry of our financial and industrial pros- perity. Judge Daly on Ptolemy and Stanley. We print this morning a full report of the recent discourse of Judge Charles P. Daly on the exploration and discovery of the Nile sources before the American Geographical Society. As the production of the learned president of this body of savans the address would command attention at any time, but just now it cannot fail to excite unusual in- terest. Mr. Stanley's latest letters have opened up the subject anew, and the prob- ability that he will be able to settle the question definitely and forever would compel respect for any utterances so dis- tinguished a geographer as Judge Daly might choose to make. Not only the press but scholars and savans everywhege are earnestly discussing the problem. The British Royal Geographical Society meets to debate it this very day. While Mr. Stanley is pursuing his mission and until long after its accomplish- ment the subject will be the theme of earnest comment and argument. But JIndge Daly's address, apart from all these considerations, is a remarkable paper. It will be observed that it takes bold ground and maintains the interesting position which Judge Daly had previously assumed by forcible reasoning. According to this posi- tion a knowledge of the Nile sources was not a mystery to the earlier geographers, and Speke and Baker have only rediscovered that which Ptolemy taught ages ago. ‘On the | western boundaries of the Anthropagi,” said | the old geographer, “are the Mountains of cite the active jealousy of the British gov- | ernment and lead to complications which, if | marshes of the Nile. they must come at last, had better not come in the Centennial year. Our government claimed in 1852 that the status of Cuba is a peculiarly American question. The British this claim. Lord Russell, in the de- spatch from which we last quoted, said:— | ‘Her Majesty's government at once refuses | to admit such o claim, Her Majesty's | the Moon, whose snows are received by the gards as of the greatest significance, and he fixes the locality explored by Stanley as the marshes of the Nile mentioned by | Ptolemy. Should this hypothesis prove to | plished, when his work is ended, more than even the most sanguine conld have expected, for he will settle a vexed question and be- | come the real discoverer of the source of the | its influence for good far bevond the circle of | grandmother. the mother and tho sister of This Judge Daly re- | | Nile. ‘The value of his Poe so far | his discoveries are held by eminent scholars, and we are justified in expecting the highest results both for ‘science and for journalism from his expedition. “Well, We Can't Téll What May Hap- pen"=—The President of the United States. The above are the words of the President in response to an inquiry as to what he thought of a third term. The Commercial | Advertiser, one of our oldest, as it is one of the ablest and most respected of our evening | journals, in commenting upon some observa- tions of the Heraxp as to the policy of the President with respect to Cuba and Spain, ad- | vises us not to be ‘‘run” by ‘‘designing men” and led to do violence to the common sense ofthe country, and to oppose “‘a rising tide.” The editor of the Commercial Advertiser is a politician of long experience, of courage and resolution, who, if he had been an older man, would have been the superior even of Thurlow Weed in all that goes to the har- mony and success of a great party as he is superior to him in ability. We listen to him as the Mentor of a great party, whose organ his journal is, and whose advice it would be well for that party to follow. Mr. Hastings is anxious that the Henatp, which he regards as a ‘great lever of public opinion,” should | not be used against the best interests of the country. By this Mr. Hastings means that we should not oppose a policy that looks to | a war with Spain for the possession of Cuba, an island that is coming nearer and nearer every day, which is a ripening pear, and only needs patience to be plucked. Whoever advises the President to make war as a part of the campaign for the Presidency shows shrewdness and a deep knowledge of na- | tional character. Mr. Kinglake, in his de- scription of a great general of the English army, said that it was characteristic of his blood ‘to fire strangely and suddenly at the prospect of a fight.” This may be said of our own’ people. We cannot resist the summons to the fight, if it really comes in earnest and in such a fashion that to decline is to show any want of patriotism and cour- age. A successful war at this time means the election of Grant as a ‘‘ war President,” a ‘‘necessity to the peace and preservation of the country.” Then would come an ex- tension of his term, and a gentle floating into the sea of imperialism. It was by this easy and gentle process that the Roman Republic fell into the hands of Cesar and the French Republic into the hands of Bonaparte. We may feel that we are proof to any such temptations, that we are much better than the French or the Ro- mans, and not to be caught by the same influ- ences. But if we cared to follow the paral- lel we might show how our Republic has fallen under imperial influences even as Rome did. We are not satisfied with the ways and teachings of the plain and sim- ple fathers of the Revolution. The White House, which was good enough for Jefferson and Jackson, is not grand enough for our President, who is to have a new Tuileries in the suburbs of the capital. This is the be- ginning of the beginning of imperialism, and we are not surprised to hear the notes of war as the accompaniment. We have a pretext for war. Our relations with Spain are in a delicate condition, as they have always been since the Spanish and Saxon races became neighbors on this Continent. We have as much cause for trouble as we had in the time of Adams and Buchanan, and more. It is always easy to quarrel with a neighbor, if we only mean to do so. We can set the dogs on his children or pull down the wall. Ifwe want to fight Spain the pretext and the time can be found. But for every reason such a war would be ignoble to the last degree. It would serve no interest but the ambition of General Grant. At the best we could only win Cuba, which is coming as surely as the night comes after the day. We should have a few hun- dred millions of debt extra. Our bonds would come surging back from Europe. Oar finances, which need strengthening and the utmost care, would fall into ruin. Gold would go rushing up. We should have as much inflation as even Governor Allen would want. More than all, it would destroy the Centennial, which we all look to as a national festival, and to the success of which we are pledged by every consideration of national self-respect and of courtesy to our guests. We can well under- stand the mood in which the President finds himself when he ‘‘can’t tell what may happen.” He remembers how the dormant and listless North, insensible to insult or en- treaty, rose like one man when the guns of Sumter were heard, and how no voice was heard but warlike voices. Such a summons would be another crossing of the Rubicon, another Eighteenth of Brumaire, with con- sequences as alarming to the fate of this Re- public as these events had on the fortunes of Rome and France. Let it be understood that now, and for this generation, at least, to talk of war is as much an offence against the country as it was for Davis and Toombs to talk of treason fifteen years ago. We want peace. War at any cost or with any assurance of victory would | bea crime. The Pulpit and ‘the . Press. The full reports of the sermons and ser- vices in the metropolitan churches have be- come so marked a feature of the Hrap that a reference to the fact at this time is scarcely necessary; but in return for a gentle reproof | a week ago, and in a true Christian spirit, the Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, in his discourse at the Park Congregational church, South | Brooklyn, yesterday, commended this jour- nal not alone for its secular enterprise, but its | religious influence. In acknowledging the Henatp's facilities for spreading religious | knowledge, which, he felicitonsly says, is | offered like salvation itself, without money and without price, Mr. Smith not only pays a hand- some tribnte to the daily press, but shows a liberality worthy of the pulpit. Our col- | the substance of the most marked discourses delivered in the churches yesterday, fitly illustrate the trath of his remarks, and show how well his compliments are merited. excellent sermon of Mr. Hepworth, among | the best and most striking he has yet deliv- | ered at the Church of the Disciples, through the report in the Menaxp to-day continues umns this morning, replete as they are with | The | the clergyman’s hearers yesterday. Mr. Beecher is enabled to expound over again the doctrine of the Holy Ghost. Dr. Armitage pleads with thousands, instead of hundreds, that they should turn to righteousness, Mr. Frothingham’s discourse on the waste of physical and spiritual forces by dis- sipation becomes universal in its appeal. Father Costigan is able to hold up the exam- ple of the early Christians as models for Catholic and Protestant alike, and Father Fransioli reaches men of every eréed while showing the causes of indifference in re- ligion. These few examples out of many other discourses which find a place this morning serve to show the value of the daily newspaper for disseminating religious texchings, as well as for bringing to the pop- ular knowledge the news of the Church uni- versal, which in other days, as Mr. Smith so justly remarks, was waited for a whole year and could only be obtained when the anni- versaries came round. Our Advice to the Mayor, We note: that Mayor Wickham has found a multitude of new friends, who are advising him what to do in the present complication of city affairs. They advise him to “strike” and rebel, even to fight his ‘‘bosom friend,” John Kelly, to whom he owes his whole ad- vancement, and who, if he threw the Mayor over, did it for the good of the ship and the safety of the crew. ‘This ‘‘advice” is to be | weighed warily by our joyous and handsome Mayor. He must not make a false move. If he has been thrown over he should swim and not sink merely to oblige his old oppo- nents and present ‘‘advisers,” who care nothing for him, and if he were out of a place to-morrow would scarcely give him a ticket upon the public works. Wickham wants to leave office as quietly as possible, The decree of ostracism has been written against him. He should bow as gracefully as he can. Moreover, we are to have a Legislature in session very soon, and it should pass an act enabling us to have our municipal elections in the spring. It was a great blunder to change the day. City elections should not be the same as others. The issues are different. If we had not had the State elections the other day we should have gained ten thousand votes more against the one-man power. Now, with an act providing that there shall be a municipal election in the spring, Mayor Wickham could retire with dignity into the soothing shades of private life. The people could elect a Mayor who would not, like Wickham, commit suicide by submitting to thé vassalage of John Kelly. We have looked over this question care- fully, and have come to the conclusion that the two best men to nominate for Mayor are, Henry G. Stebbins, of the Park Com- mission, or Andrew H. Green, the Comp- troller. The qualifications of Mr. Stebbins are well known to all who admire his in- tegrity and ability. Mr. Green is not a man we have especially admired, and we do not now advertise him as a model ruler. He is obstinate, ungracious, stiff-necked. But he is an honest man, has held the thieves at bay, and has saved the city hundreds of thousands by his policy of fighting every unjust claim. But take Green away from his books and ledgers, and his mind might enlarge and awake to the great opportunities that await a Mayor who is not insensible to the glorious destiny that awaits New York. Green would not be the slave of Kelly nor of any one else. He would recognize in Kelly an irresponsible tyrant, who cannot be removed or even voted against, who holds his power from a secret lodge like that of the old Know Nothings, and who represents the worst form of tyranny in this, that it cannot be reached. But as we have said, let Wickham put his evil counsellors to one side and prepare for retiring with dignity. Let us have a spring election, and in the future let our elections always be in the spring. Let us have Steb- bins or Green for the next Mayor, and we may feel that we have taken a new departure, The Cemetery of Picpus. It is somewhat remarkable that French- men, wishing to present to the people of this country a commemorative work of art on the occasion of our national Centennial, should not have chosen a statue of Lafayette, in- stead of an abstraction in the shape of a statue of Liberty; for Lafayette was in him- self an embodiment of all that was most chiv- alrous as well as of all that was most practi- cal in French sympathy with our Revolu- tionary struggle. But we must not be un- mindful of the homely maxim which forbids us to “‘look gift horses in the mouth.” And we must remember, too, that in France there is not and may never be the same unanimity of sentiment toward Lafayette that exists and is likely always to exist in America. To Frenchmen he is a person about whose pub- lic character and career in his own country, there are differences of opinion. To Ameri- cans he is the most conspicuous, as he was the most important, of the Europeans who gave their services to the cause of American independence—the dearly cherished friend of Washington, the figure around which cen- tres all that we like to remember in the con- nection between the French nation and our- selves at the period when we began to be a nation and to have acountry. Yet the little cemetery where Lafayette and his heroic wife were buried remains without a suitable mon- | ument to his memory, and we may add that it is singular that such a monument has not been placed there by American hands, | The Cemetery of Picpus, situated just out- | side of the ancient wall of Paris, between the Barrier of the Throne and the Barrier of Saint Mande, is the spot where Lafayette and his wife were interred. As a burial place of cer- tain families it has a very touching history connected with the tragedies of the Reign of Terror. Between the lith of June and the | 27th of July, 1794, from thirteen hundred to sixteen hundred persons perished by the guillotine at the,Barrier of the Throne. The bodiés of the victims were thrown into a trench opened in an enclosure in the neigh- borhood and covered afterward; but the pre- cise spot was not discovered until several years had elapsed, when Bonaparte was First | Consul. ble executions were many persons of both sexes belonging to the highest families of the French aristocracy. ‘Three of them were the Among the victims of those horri- | Mme. de Lafayette. These delicate and high- born women, accused of no crime, and ob- noxious to the ruling powers only because of their aristocratic blood, died with a grandeur of Christian resignation that was never exceeded in the whole annals of martyr- dom. After General Lafayette and his family were released from Olmutz, and were living in retirement at Lagrange, at some time about the year 1803, Mme. de Lafayette was informed by an ecclesiastic in Paris of the discovery of the spot where the remains of the victims of 1794 had been placed. The ground belonged to the Princess Hohen- zollern, whose brother was buried there Mme. de Lafayette and her sister, Mme. de Montagu, wished to have the place conse. erated to the use of the families who had been drawn together by a common affliction ; but they could only purchase the adjoining property and a chapel which then stood npon it. These were acquired by funds subscribed, at the instance of Mme. de Lafayette and her sister, by the relatives of the Revolution victims. The chapel was restored and en- larged, and the names of the victims, taker from the lists of the Conciergerie, were placed upon its walls. The little cemetery thus founded became the burial place of the families who united in establishing it, and there Lafayette and his wife were in- terred beneath two very simple tablets united at the top by across. Their names are recorded without any of the titles of their rank, Lafayette being described only as citi- zen and general. Centennial Athletic Philadelphia. Steps should be taken at once ts hold at Philadelphia next July an athletic meeting worthy of the time and the nation. Already a series of water contests, covering an entire week, have been arranged, but these test the physical powers in only one way, and are but a branch of what might and ought to be fur. nished in comparing the power and stay o/ men. Let there be a meeting at which the Scotchman may toss his caber, the Germar turner, with his superb agility, may com- pete with the lithe Frenchman in feats gymnastic, and the sturdy Englishman, the tireless Cossack, the hardy Canadian, the bold trapper or the fleet Indian, may walk or run us down if he can. Nothing in all the Exhibition will more interest our youth or leave a deeper impression on their minds than this matching of the best men of all nations. Omit entirely the coarser manly sports, let absolute fairness be guaranteed, hold out generous rewards. Let the fittest committee the country can afford be promptly organized, get in communication with the first athletes of the world, secure their passages here at low, rates, and their comfort while here in a way which will make the trip within their grasp and inviting, prepare the grounds most carefully, and be sure to comfortably accommodate the enormous throng who will gladly vary their day of pleasure seeking with 1 look at these hurtless and manly pastimes Can the English outrow, outshoot, outwalk outrun or outjump us, beat us at base ball, cricket or football, or swim a faster mile on the Schuylkill? Captain .Webb has, and most ‘deservedly, a world-wide reputation, but he little knows the hearty reception. which awaits him if he will give us a look at him on this side of the water. Take a list of all the best performances in walking o1 running contests in modern, indeed in any, days, and the great majority of the winners are Englishmen. Scattered over our land there are more good runners, both profes. sional and amateur, than most men are aware of, while the interest in fast walking over both short and long distances has been of late years decidedly on the increase. The large and very successful athletic meeting of the students this summer at Saratoga when the racing occupied a whole day, and thie the third year only since these contests were inaugurated, and the doings of the New York athletic and Scottish clubs alone show how popular these pastimes have already be- come, and it would be unfortunate to lose so rare an opportunity to give to them an im- petus which can scarcely now be estimated, especially when the cost of such a step will be comparatively trifling. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. A Moeting at One Welsh girl will never bave anything but Neural gia—for her name. In Michigan, last year, 518,493 people were married, and we are sorry to say that nearly half of them were men. A man, who has travelled, says that it didn’t take him long to find out that the brakemen own all the railroads and the clerks all the hotels. Dom Pedro will wear a $100,000 diamond pin; and the ex-Tammany Ring man sets down his hod and glances at his shirt front with sad memories. Dr. Lorenzo de Montresar, Minister for Guatemala, and Sefior Don Manuel Eliseo de Sanches, Secretary / Legation at Madrid, are at the Windsor Hotel on their way to Europe. Gambetta’s eloquence has become sedentary. Hi speaks now from his editorial chair—ez cathedra Fancy a letter columns in length declining an invita tion to dinner. A Philadelphia girl’s lover got jilted because he made fun of the Centennial. There are several married mer in Philadelphia to whom making fun of the Centennial would bring no reliof. Many newspapers throughout the country are discus- sing questions of household taste. In the panic @ great many people have got poor enough to begin to think of keeping house again. Kladderadatsch must change his cut of Prince Bia marck by leaving out the Jesuit under the Chancellor's chair, and supplanting him with an agent of Gortscha kof in quest of Eastern’? crambs, While Mr, Kerr, as a candidate for the Speakership, is the most popular man in the South, it is remarkable that tn North and South the only candidate over whom there is any real fighting, upon whom extraordinary praise and abuse are thrown, 18 Mr, Randall, The 20,000,000f. Ieft to the discretion of the city of Geneva by the Duke of Brunswick ts again under discussion, A son of the Countess do Civry, daughter of the Duke, says his family ts deprived of i in violation of natural, divine and civil laws, Au aggravated case of mishap is reported from Oi City. A gowticman entering # machine shop there ac cidentally fell into a tank baif full of mud and water, He sank up to bis bips ip the mud, but had just caugh: hold of the top of the tank to pull himselfout by mais strength, when a workman, who was neur-sighted, camo along with a barrow {ull of dirt and dumped it on lim. MITW. J. V.0" writes from Washington to the Cinein- nati Commercial:—‘Speaking of the, third term te. | minds me that Ihave heard more of {t, and more ex pressions in favor of it during this weok than ever be fore. Iam beginning to believe that all the sentimen in favor of a third term is not, after all, going avow under General Grant's hat, Brother-in-law Casey ha | been particularly ostentations and lond in declarim that the “emergency” has arisen, and that Gran would again be compelled to be a candidate for the pup pose of again saying the country.”