The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1875, Page 6

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The government has issued another call. Government bonds strong. Juper Grupersixrve knows the value of practice. Yesterday he was on the bench with Recorder Hackett, taking the range of the trials and preparing himself for his own share in driving the bullet of justice into the bull’s-eye of crime. Prepext Sparx !—It is said that in her | reply to the recent note of our government | in regard to the Treaty of 1795 Spain will | defend her rights with energy, but modera- tion, and will express the hope that her | desire té maintain good relations between the two countries wiil be reciprocated. At the same time she sends reinforcements to Cuba. Prudent Spain! In roe Quvannen between the Ames and anti-Ames republicans in Mississippi Gen- eral Grant appears so far to have taken sides with Ames, who is a third-termer. General Grant said, “We have an assurance that the republican party will control this govern- ment for at least four years longer.” If he | meant that, with the help of such politicians as Ames, he can procure his own renomina- | tion—bad for the republioan party. “Writ, Wi gE Teun Wat May Hapr- | PEN,” says the President, when asked about third term prospects. He is right once more ; we can't tell. We may have a foreign war; we may run up the national debt snother thousand millions; we may be forced to a new expansion of the currency ; we may see gold once more at 250 all these things may happen; ‘‘we can’t tell,” as the Presi- dent says. And then fous, or five years from now we may again find ourselves where | we landed in September, 1573, and where we have stuck since, with a panic and a gen- | eral paralysis of business, ‘We can’t tell.” | | Windward Islands, and the Be wme cupan Question in Its Most Aspect. The remarkable leading article which we copy from the London 7imes is fitted to ar- rest public attention in this country as dis- closing the energetic hostility which Presi- dent Grant's ‘‘strong policy” in relation to Cuba is certain to encounter in Great Britain. The Times inclines to think that the Presi- dent does not mean what he says, and that it is a mere diplomatic flourish with a view to make personal or party capital. ‘The more probable explanation,” says the Times, ‘is that President Grant is not unwilling to try whether the prospects of the republican party orof athird term can be brightened by a ‘spirited foreign policy.’” It would not be possible for the most powerful organ of European opinion to express a more morti- fying view of the character of President Grant, or to say anything which would so lower him in European estimation as this hypothetical explanation of his attitude toward Spain, It represents him prostituting the highest and most solemn of all his public to the promotion of sordid personal ends. It holds him up in the face of Europe as the Chief Magistrate of a great nation who is so lost to a sense of what he owes to his country as to run the risk of embroiling its foreign relations fora selfish party pur- pose. It was a noble saying of Webster that “our party differences cease at the water's but if the London Times’ estimate Grant correct he is not only capable of degrading the foreign policy of the country into a football of party politics, but of caus- ing the government to put on airs of un- meaning bravado and trifling with the na- tional honor by threats and demands which he does not intend to enforce. But it is the clear opinion of the Times that if President Grant's high language to Spain is not what we in America call ‘bun- combe,” if he is not idly vaporing for politi- eal effect at home, he has left Spain no choice but to declare war and resist to the uttermost. “King Alfonso’s Ministers,” says the Times, “could not even afford to dally with such a threat as that which is said to have come from President Grant. They would be forced to resist the summons, even if it had come from Prince Bismarck instead of Pres- ident Grant.” Such an article, from such a source, iscaleulated and is probably intended to stimulate and embolden Spain to resist if President Grant is in earnest and not merely ” Tt is impossible for the Spanish government to interpret the Times’ article in any other sense than asa British encouragement to stand on its dignity and defy the United States, Spanish statesmen have not forgotten the vigorous protests made by the Earl of Malmes- bury and Lord Russell against the acquisi- tion of Cuba by the United States. They have not forgotten the official declarations of the British government that its posses- sions in the West Indies make the status of Cuba an object of interest to England as well asto the United States. ‘They have not forgotten the proposed tripartite treaty by which Great Britain, acting in con- junction with France, songht to bind the United States never to acquire Cuba, When the Spanish Ministry find the leading organ of British opinion saying that they are bound to declare war if President Grant means what he says they will be apt to construe it as evidence that they may count on the moral support and, if it should prove to be needed, the material aid of Great Britain in resenting so great an affront to the national honor of Spain. The strong expressions of the Lon- Serious as trusts edge ;” of President is don Times will encourage Spain to believe that she would not stand alone in such a war as Gene al Grant's language, if serious, must rily provoke. is of the opinion that in the of such a war the advantages would be onthe side of Spain, owing to her better state of preparation. ‘*Weak and em- barrassed as Spain is,” says the Times, has more available fighting power at present, for her fleet is ready, and it is really formidable, while by turning the war against “she the Carlists into a merely defensive contest, King Alfonso could’ spare a large body of soldiers for ser- vice in Cuba. The United States, on the other hand, would have to equip both an army and an effective fleet, and before that could be done Spain might gain some cheap glories.” But these early successes on the part of Spain would be fatal to General Grant's hopes of another Presidential nom- ination. A few Spanish victories next spring, just in advance of the meeting of the Republican National Convention, would fall as a disastrous blight on his chances. Even in his own interest he had better keep out of such a conflict. But this is a needless caution, if he is causing all this hubbub of uneasiness and excitement for mere bun- combe. Yet, if his language toward Spain is idle bravado for electioneering effect, the country will feel greater humiliation and disgust than if it were sincere, since a proud and spirited people values its honor above its interest. What renders the present aspect of the affiir so serious is the now ascer- tained fact that the public opinion of Europe, and especially of Great Britain, will stpport Spain and justify her resistance to the demands of our government. We predicted this before we had any knowledge of this article in the London Times, The British island of Ja- maica is nearer to Cuba than the sonthern- most point of Florida. Great Britain owns Jamaica, the whole of the Bahama group, the Bermuda Islands, the greater part of the ize or British The as Honduras, in Central Ameri two navigable channels which ser close to the eastern and the other close to the western extremity of Cuba; and if this island were in possession of a strong Power hostile to England her intercourse with her own possessions in the West Indies and her inlets | and outlets of the Gulf run one of them possessions or vee commerce maaeae oH “Mexico, If events should show that the President means business and not buncombe, it is cer- tain that the British government will not be @ passive spectator. In view of its interests and jealousies, it was an incautious mistake on the part of Secretary Fish to say, as he did in a despatch to Mr, Cushing last year, that “‘the United States would prefer to see all that remains of colonial America pass from that condition to the condition of abso- lute independence of Europe.” It does not tend to facilitate the peaceable settle- ment of the Cuban question for our govern- ment to warn Great Britain of our wish to dispossess and oust her from her colonies on the Western Continent and its islands. When her own cis-atlantic possessions are thus threatened ina published diplomatic document her vigilance will be quickened against every movement of our government affecting the colonies of any European Power on this continent and its outlying islands. The warmth and vigor of the London Times jin encouraging Spain to resist our de- mands, if they should prove to be seri- show that Great Britain is keenly alive to her own interests, and that she will try to make President Grant's Cuban policy odious in the eyes of Europe asa means of bringing the British public to a temper which will ultimately support the government in taking the side of Spain. All this betokens that Spain will not fight single- handed if we force her into a war; and this is the most serious aspect of the Cuban com- plication. Our government cannot foresee at what stage of the conflict the British government would interfere. So long as Spain is successful, as she is ex- pected to be at first, England would ous, stand aloof, but as soon as the for- tune of war should begin to turn against her England would find some pretext for coming into the quarrel. It is an egregious blunder for the President to pre- cipitate a contest at this time, if he is really in earnest; and if he is not in earnest, as the London Times supposes, he is disgracing both himself and the government. Stanley and the Royal Geographical Society. The Henarp’s special cable despatch from London gives an account of the opening of the forty-sixth session of the Royal Geographical Society in that city. The recent important news from Stanley called together a large and brilliant assem- blage and gave extraordinary interest to the society's meeting. Many African authorities were present, and an enlarged map of Stanley's recent discoveries and of the through which he has passed adventurous journey attracted Sir Henry Rawlinson presided, and the course of an extended address eulogized the achieve- ments of Stanley and ranked him among the most distinguished explorers. He de- clared that the action of the two journals engaged in the enterprise put to shame the public institutions of England, and must promote results that will be of lasting benefit to commerce and civilization. Major James A. Grant, the African explorer, is to deliver an address on Stanley's work on the 29th instant. It is gratifying to find the Royal Geographical Society so eager to do justice to the American explorer and to mark the entire abse lousy in the tributes paid to Stanley by those who have preceded him in the labors’ he is prosecuting with so much energy and success, region in his much attention, in A Ring Suit and a Simgular Answer. Thomas Coman, ex-Court House Commis- sioner and an alleged member of the old “Ring,” is sued for eight hundred thousand dollars, said to have been fraudulently ap- propriated by him and his co-Commissioners out of the Court House funds. In his an- swer Coman states, on information and be- lief, that the plaintiffs in the action have heretofore received from Walsh, Ingersolhe Norton, Garvey, Keyser, Davidson, and others whose names are unknown to him, large sums of money on account of the Court House funds said to have been thus fraudulently appropriated, which sums of money should be applied on the claim made against the said Coman. Have such moneys been received, and, if so, have they been paid into the city treasury? It seems singular that no information is forthcoming as to the exact condition of the Keyser trust fund, now in the hands of Mr. Jackson §, Schultz, and that no account of any moneys recovered in these several suits has been made public. Whatever money is received should go into the city treasury. No lawyer or other creditor of the city is entitled to re- ceive a dollar of the public money except on warrants drawn as required by law. . The | people are entitled to know whether any amounts have really been recovered through the Keyser assignmgnts, through settle- ments, or in any other way, and the Comp- troller, the lawyers engaged in the case and Mr. Schultz should give them the informa- tion. Tue Boanp or County Canvassrns have referred the question as to the legality of the election of Marine Court judges to the At- torney General for his opinion. This is not courteous or fair toward the Corporation | Counsel, whose opinion was first asked, and who, although young, should not be thus | o 4 | snubbed by suqa a set of incompetents as the present 4 manic majority. To be sure, the Corporation Counsel supposed that the duty of the Board of Canvassers com- pelled them to connt all the ballots that had | been cast in the election, but this was an error, excus# und of lack of ex- perience. The learned counsel's opinion | would have been quite as reliable as that of Attorney General Pratt, and, provided he avoided the mistake he made in the case of his Seventh Regiment Armory opinion, it would no doubt have been satisfactory. At all events the Aldermen have no right to treat the learned ypnng Counsel to the Cor- poration like an attorney's ‘pre: misoe, commerce with Mexico, which is largér than | that of any other nation, might be inter- | England takés a more | mpted and closed. active and watchful interest in all matters re- lating to the distribution of power in the West Indies than any other and she will never voluntarily sent to changes which would danger her intercourse with her own con- nation, | ene | A Sap Case Came up in the courts yester- day. A man and Wife who are living apart contend for the custody of two infant chil- dren, The evidence proves both mother and futher to be unfit persons to be intrusted | with the care of the poor children, who are sent for protection to the institution of the | Sheltering Arms, The Savings Banks and tne Distries of Columbia Bonds. The letter addressed by Mr. Charles 8. Fairchild, the Attorney General elect, to At- torney General Pratt on the question of the propriety of allowing the savings banks of the State to invest their funds in the three- sixty-five bonds of the District of Columbia touches a subject of great importance to the people of New York. These bonds were issued to pay the old creditors of the Dis- trict, and at the last session of Congress an attempt was made to secure their assumption by the United States. It failed, and it is not now necessary to discuss the reasons of the fuilure or the character of the securities. It is sufficient to state that the action of Con- gress depreciated the vaiue of the bonds. It is now proposed to sanction their purchase by the savings banks of New York. The present Attorney General has given an opin- ion to the Superintendent of the Bank- ing Department that the officers of our savings banks may invest their funds in these bonds, The Attorney General elect, who will take office in less than seven weeks, has already, as Deputy Attorney General, given a contrary opinion, and in his letter he announces that as soon as he is installed at the head of the law department of the State he shall refer the question to the courts for their decision, As this disagreement with the views of Attorney General Pratt places Mx. Fairchild in antagonism to the present management of the office he resigns his position as deputy. Mr. -Fairchild’s action will be generally approved. He is, to say the least, on the safe side of the question. Everything that relates to the entire and unquestionable security of the savings bank investments is of vital importance to the people of the State, There are plenty of perfectly safe in- vestments for the money of these institu- tions. Why, then, should there be any at- tempt to give them the privilege of in- vesting in bonds upon which even the faintest shadow of a doubt can rest? There can be only two reasons for such an attempt. Either the people who hold the bonds of the District of Columbia desire to place some of them in the hands of savings banks, in order to bring to bear upon Congress an additional inducement for their assumption by the United States, or the savings banks seek to invest in them as aspeculation, in the expectation that upon their assumption they will rise in value. In either case they are just the securities which savings banks should be prohibited from purchasing. The angicty to place the bonds with such institutions indicates that a donbt is felt as to their assumption by the United States. If, on the other hand, a savings bank desires to speculate in bonds that may rise in value it must be prepared to stand a loss in case their value should decline, and this is an illegitimate ven- ture. The money intrusted to such institu- tions by the industrious poor should be sacredly guarded, and jt seems singular that the Bank Superintendent should go out of his way to aid the officers of savings banks in purchasing speculative securities. It is »still more surprising that the Attorney Gen- eral, being aware of the opinion entertained on the subject by his successor, should fly in the face of that opinion on the very eve of his own retirement from office. well for the depositors in savings banks to keep watch for the institutions that invest in the bonds in question, for certainly no pru- dently managed bank ought to touch such securities with the letter of the Attorney General elect before them. Fifth Avenue. The value of Fifth avenue as our repre- sentative ‘metropolitan highway is lost by reason of the shabby condition into which it has fallen. Fifth avenue is as necessary to the Central Park and its full enjoyment as the avenne of the Champs Elys¢ées to the Bois de Boulogne. It is the walk of the rich and the poor, where on a sunny day may be seen all the color of our metropolitan life. On such a day our avenue is as attrac- tive as a Paris boulevard and presents every varying phase of American character. New York hds had reason to be proud of her ave- nue; but it has fallen into a condition so forlorn and shabby that it is more of a re- proach than a credit. It should be entirely repaved. Many experiments have been at- tempted. Thus far none have been a suc- cess in all the essentials of a good pavement except the macadamized roads. We have tried asphalt, wood, tar, stone blocks, driven piles and any quantity of curious combina- tions ; but these have all failed. The present road did tolerably well when it was new, but if is entirely inadequate. A well laid macadamized way will last for years, and im- prove, with use, for twenty or thirty years at least. It is easily repaired and answers every purpose of a road. The city should take this work in hand, not merely for the convenience of the residents, but for the gen- eral comfort of the people. The residents, however, would be glad to do their share toward it. It must be done sooner or later, and the sooner the better. “Wrrr, We Can't Tern Wuar May Har- pen,” says the President. Why not? We could tell what onght to happen with a gov- ernment honestly conducted for the good of the people. In that case what would happen } would be continued peace, speedy resump- | tion of specie payments, arevival of industry and prosperity, general diffusion of happi- ness and contentment in oll parts of the Union, and next year the clection of a states- man to succeed General Grant. But * can't tell what may happen,” says the Presi- dent. Why not? Generat Casey has turned up again in Washington, and, as is his custom, talks loudly of a war with Spain and a third term, dent's speech to mean these things. General Grant said, ‘We have an assurance that the republican party will control this govern- ment for at least four years longer.” We trust he did not mean what his brother-in- law, General Casey, means; but if he did— bad for the republics an party, Tun Jackson Wits, Cs si, 1 now w before Sur- rogate Hutchings, presents some curious features. ‘Chere appears little doubt that David L. Jacksan left a will and that it was | handed to his eldest son, D, L. Jackson, Jr. It will be. re He evidently construes tho Presi- | But the latter has since ica, and the will cannot be found. The lawyer refuses to speak, but a witness to the will gives what purports to be a sketch of its bequests. Un- less the missing document should turn up the Surrogate will have to determine whether evidence of the contents of the will is ad- missible. Music in the Metropolis. The inauguration of Chickering Hall last evening by the illustrious pianist, Hans Von Bitlow, was an event of interest to our music- loving public, Aside from the introduction to New York of a virtuoso of surpassing eminence, the opening of a new music hall is in itself a positive boon. It indicates the increased wants of the metropolis for musical entertainments, one hall not being sufficient to supply them. Other houses, identified with music as a business, will be encouraged to follow the example set them by Steinway and Chickering. New York may yet point with pride toward a number of elegant con- cert halls, and the musically inclined visitor may be enabled to select on an evening from a half dozen classical concerts the object of his preference. The immense subscription toward the symphony season of Theodore Thomas, the crowds that attended the first symphony soirée and the Philharmonic con- certon Saturday evening, and the prompt and liberal response of the public wherever good music is offered are highly encouraging. While the concert hall is thus popular opera has not been ignored. Wachtel has met with favor at the hands of the public, and what- ever the shortcomings of the present German opera company may have been in an artistic point of view its pecuniary success is undoubted. Here is encouragement enough for a season of Italian opera, on which the public are inclined to look with more favor than on its German substitute. With such a surpdssing delineator of grand operatic réles as Mile. 'Titiens Mr. Strakosch need not fear to enter the field once more, especially when a combination may be effected with other artists of renown. Orches- tral, symphonic or oratorio programmes, or an interpreter of piano literature like Von Bitlow can alone find favor in the concert hall. The great success attained by Mlle. ‘Titiens in oratorio indicates sufticiently what a powerful attraction she would be in opera. ‘The musical public have heard such glowing eulogies of her Norma, Semiramide, Donna Anna, Lucrezia Borgia and Medea that there is a widespread desire that she should be af- forded an opportunity to repeat in New York the triumphs she has won in London. Mr. Strakosch may reap fame and profit by thus acceding to the wishes of a public never back- ward in patronizing all that is good and great in art. Not Too Fast, The Westliche Post, the most important German newspaper in St. Louis, says:— The Grand Jury that again meets to-day to examine into the facts ‘connected with the whiskey frands, which were notoriously conducted and protected from above, must under no circumstances overlook one thing, The Washington telegrams, written in cipher, which are before them, warning the distillers of this city of their imminent danger, are based upon and de- rived from a knowledge which at that time but two single persons possessed. Only Bristow and Grant knew of the steps that were to be taken, and as we know that tnose signals of warning were uot given by Bris- tow they could only have come from Grant or one in his confidence. The whole country, therefore, points already to the notorious Babcock. This is an allusion to a current report that the Grand Jury have before them, among other documents, telegrams in cipher, and in the handwriting of conspicuous pol- iticians in Washington, warning the St. Louis Whiskey Ring that they were in dan- ger. It seems to us unfair and improper in the Westliche Post and other journals to con- nect the names-of persons not yet indicted or under arrest with such crimes. The country is awaiting with great anxiety the report of the Grand Jury. Until that is made, and until we see what are its conclusions, repu- tations ought not to be rashly attacked. General Grant has said, ‘Let the guilty be punished,” and it is not to be supposed that Secretary Bristow, whose reputation and political future are at stake in this investiga- tion, would consent to stay in the Cabinet if he believed that any guilty persons, however high in place, were to be screened. There is but one thing—aside from an evident tam- pering with the Grand Jury, which no one has yet charged—that could lead the people to suspect an attempt to screen offenders, and that is a sudden attack on Spain—an attempt to plunge the country into a need- less war. ‘That, however, would look sus- piciously like an attempt to divert the atten- tion of the country forcibly away from the whiskey fraud investigations. We trust nothing of the kind will be done, Tux Exxcrion Canvass.—-The Board of Canvassers seem to labor under the impres- sion that they are a supreme court, with un- limited jurisdiction over the persons and property of the people of New York. Ever since they began to count the votes they havé been disturbing themselves with all manner of questions of the most abstruse character as to whether this ofticer or the other was legally nominated, or whether this or the other office was provided by the con- stitution. Nothing is plainer than the duties of the members of this Board. They are appointed to count the number of votes cast, | question of arithmetic. This is all. Once allow a wider latitude to the Board and we shall have our elections hereafter decided, not by the people, but by the will of a board of ignorant and irresponsible politic The people look with jealousy and suspicion upon these attempts to tamper with the suffrage. and should be avoided. | Promment Repvpiicans in Virginia are | now engaged! in an effort to reorganize and | strengthen the republican party in that State by a combination of republicans and indepen- | dent conservatives. General Grant said, “We have an assurance that the republican party will control the government for at least four years long If he meant by that that such movements as this in Virginia would enable the republicans to elect a good man as his successor in 1876—good for the republi- can party. and Correctional Court by the artist Pierce F. Connolly against Stephen W. Healy, who charged the American artists in Rome with hiring poor Italians to do their work, and passing it off as original, was concluded | to record their count and determine a mere | yesterday. The Henraxp’s special despatell from Rome reports the conviction of Healy, who is sentenced to two weeks’ imprison« ment and toa fine of one thousand francs, The scandal has been on the carpet for two years. Central Park. The New York Times calls attention to the fact that the management of Central Park is open to criticism. ‘The lakes,” says the Times, ‘are full of stagnant water, perhaps are absolutely thick with decayed vegetable matter, and give rise to malaria in the most aggravated forms. One of the boatmen as sured us a few weeks ago that all his com panions had been down with chills and fever caught on the lake.” In addition to this the regulations governing the Park are enforced so rigidly that there is no comfort, no opportunity of enjoyment, no freedom: for the children especially. The Times ‘points out that Prospect Park in Brooklyn, which is “the delight of young and old because of the absence of these vexatious restrictions, is now, in every way, @ much more beantiful park than ours.” There id no reason why the admirable management of Central Park thus. far should be allowed ta full into decay or neglect. This institution is one of the glories of New York. We havé supported it with pride and have always con: gratulated ourselves upon the fact that in 4 time of general corruption and misgoverm ment the Park should have continued free from reproach. Unless, however, these re cent complaints are removed it will fall inta as bad repute as the streets and docks. What is necessary to the Park is a good system of drainage, an abolition of the re« strictive rules, and an intimation to tha policemen on duty that their business is not to arrest everybody who enters the grounds, but to preserve order and see that the people have protection and comfort. There should also be a bridle path running parallel with the carriage drive, and generally speaking a breaking down of all cast-iron regulations. The Park is a public pleasure ground in the broadest sense of the word, and anything that interferes with this should be reformed immediately. Tue Crxcinnatt Commercial being asked what would be its course supposing the re- publicans fell into the third term trap bluntly replied that it would support the democratic candidate. The New York Times, another republican journal, has spoken very plainly against a third term. General Grant said, ‘‘We have an assurance that the republican party will control this govern- ment for at least four years longer.” If he meant by this to suggest that if the republi+ cans nominate a first class man like Mr. Adams or Mr. Fish as his successor they have a fair prospect of electing him—good Sor the republican party. Anti TaMMany av Worx.—Mr. Benjamin Wood and his associates, who did such good service in aiding in the destruction of tha Tammany usurpation in the recent election, have issued an address urging continued vigilance on the anti-Tammany democracy, and denouncing the Wigwam and its over+ bearing rulers. Tammany is, however, its own worst enemy. Its obstinacy ahd ita blunders have killed it, and seem destined ta prevent its resurrection. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The Emperor of Japan was twenty-four years old om the 3d inst, “Do you have buckwheat cakes at this house?” iq the latest password of the tramps, Mrs. Robeson, wife of the Secretary of the Navy; has apartments at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Senator Newton Booth, of California, arrived in thig city yesterday, and is at the Sturtevant House. Aristarchi Bey, Turkish Minister at Washington, hag taken up his residence at the Albemarle Hotel, Holines E. Offley, late Chief Clerk of the Navy Do- partment, banker of Washington, is at the Astor House. Mr, Richard Grant White, having been in ill health all summer, is now lying seriously sick at his residence in this city. Study the idioms and vocabulary of a foreign lan. guage before studying its grammar is the advice of the Providence Press. Colonel Manuel Freyre, the Peruvian Minister, ar, rived with his family at the Clarendon Hotel last even. ing from Washington, The French government is laying an automatic tube from the Place d’Armes, at Versailles, to the Palais de VElysée It has found the telegraph offices leaky 4 henceforth secrets will only be conveyed in iron pi and tin boxes. ‘A paragraph is going the rounds that there was but one house in Burlington, Iowa, twenty-one years ago, The Hawk Eye was established in-that city in 1839, thirty-six years ago. If the first statement be truo, the earlier patrons of that paper must have been howl ers in a howling wilderness. It was twenty-one years ago, on the 10th inst, whem the Hon. James G, Blaine became one of the qditors and proprietors of the Kennebec Journal, at Augusta, Me. In announcing his advent the retiring editor said:—“Mr, Blaine comes amoung us comparatively @ stranger, It is but just to say that he is a gentleman of decided talent, of liberal education, extensive travel and acquainted with the public men and measures of the country.” That was easy to say whether it wag true or not, Recent events in the history of San Francisco more than ever prove the mercurial character not only of ite institutions but of its people. San Francisco lives upon the N mines. T! ondition of the mines, therefore, has a great deal of influence upon the buste ness and the temper of the people in San Francisco, ‘The recent tire in the bonanaas has depressed San 5 de, At the samo time the agricultural the State are tempering the sensational epirit of San Francisco people, There is an unders growth of business in the city which does not depend upon the mines, and it will supplant sensationalism, About the recent floods in the Nevada mines the The precedent is full of danger | Tum Lreex Surr brought in the Italian Civil | Sutro Jndependent derives the idea that the mines may ily be pumped out and the machinery soon be put inorder. The Jndependent says that there is one vast ocean of water, over 4,000 fect In length, in some places from 600 to 800 feat in depth, and not a hving being is able to enter the lower portions of any of these mines, The Overman mine has been drowned out for ‘a year and bas never been dried. There may be a good deal of trath inthe criticism of the Sutro people, but if must be remeinbered that there is such @ thing ase Sutro Tunnel Company, Whose claims are before Con. gress and are fought by Senator Sharon, There is self, ishness on both sides. ‘The Empress of Austria will not, says an English paper, be presentut the first November meet ofthe Quora hounds, ag She had intended to be. ‘This change of plan is not caused by any ba sults of Her Majesty's fall while hunuinga fow weeks ago in France, Indeed, the severity of the fall in question has been very greatly exaggerated, A very well-known riding master war with the Empress when sho met with her accident, which he deseribes as buat a very trifling one Hee Majesty's sister, however, the ex-Queen of Naples, in- tends bunting in the grass countries this season, and | eight horses have already veen despatched to North. amptonshire for her use, As the ex-Queen is not only a light weight, but one of the most fearless of women— Gacta showed that—and had experience last year to hounds, she is safe to be mm the first Mxbt as her small stud is one of the best in the shires,