The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1876, Page 4

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BAN FRANCISCO MINST wood" BEN McCULLOUGH, at Mosinee at 2 P.M. GLOBE THEA VARIETY, ot 8 P. M. BOOTH'S THRATRE. JULIUS CASAR, at 8 P.M. Mr. Lawrence Barrett, THEATRE COMIQUE. VARIETY, at 6 P. ee AVENUE THEATRE VARIETY, at 8 P.M TIv ‘OLI THEATRE, plications, in possession of the whole correspondence Spain. A Madrid despatch, given to-day, | Hitherto it was doubtful whether there was | denial of one of our despatches or whether | to Cuba was sent to the various governments article on that subject by endeavoring to show that if sucha circular had been sent the fact would not have constituted any vio- lation of the ‘Monroe doetrine.” In this he detailed with the air of a discoverer the now trite conversations of Rush with Mr. Can- ning. Mr. Fish, however, admitted that the substance of an important despatch to Mr. Cushing was sent to our ministers at the several European courts, with instructions to read them to the respectiwe authorities, ‘but not to leaye copies.” Between this and the statement made in our Vienna despatch there is just the little difference that affords field for a quibble, and under cover of that quib- | ble it was thought safe, apparently, to spat the statement of our despatch. Mr. Fish, then, has only quibbled, if this is all. But this is not all. In our Madrid despatch to-day it is reported, as given out in that city on semi-official authority, that our government has not ‘‘officially commuuicated cular note to the European Powers.” In fact, “the Spanish government declares that some note has been sent from Washington to the other capitals in Europe that has not been sent to Madrid. Here is a direct issue with Mr. Fish involving veracity. He says that only a note previously sent to Madrid has been communicated to other Powers ; they say a note has been sent to other Powers that has not been sent to them. Does the Madrid government know what VARIETY, at 8 P. M. WALLACK’S THEATRE. MARRIED LN HASTE, at P.M. Mr. Lester Wallack. LYCEUM THEATRE. La BOULE, ate P.M. bd COLOSSEUM. PANORAMA, 1 to 4 P. Mt. and 7: WITH SUPPLEMENT. FRIDAY, JAN UARY a1, NEW YORK, 1876. From our reports this morning the probabilities are “4 the weather to-day will be cold and partly cloudy. ‘Tux Herarp sy Fast Matt Trams.—News- dealers and the public will be supplied with the , WEEKLY and Sunpay HeRaxp, free of postagé, ly sending their orders direct to this office. Waut Srresr Yesterpay.—Gold advanced to 113 1-8 and closed at 113. Money on call loaned at six percent. Stocks were irregu- lar and without significant change. Foreign exchange was firmer. Tue Centenniat.—Elsewhere our Phila- delphia correspondent describes the nature of the brilliant display which Germany will make at the Exhibition. Maatrxez Campos is said to be moving against the Carlists in Navarre. It is time we heard that the Carlists were doing something. They have had plenty of time for reorganizing their affairs lately, and the modntains where they most do operate are rather unfriendly to their foes at this season of the year. Tur Draviock in the Bavarian Chamber will be removed, it is said, by dissolving the Parliament. ‘The difficulties of the religious question in Germany may be guessed from coniplivations like this. The Bavarian gov- ernment is not averse to receiving ‘‘inspira- tion” from Berlin, but the deputies elected by the Bivarians object to making laws at the beck of Prince Bismarck. InvesnationaL Curss Piayinc.—A corre- spondent calls attention to the methods pro- posed for assuring the success of the interna- tional chess tournament at the Centennial Ex- hibition. Without entering into the merits of the question he considers, we may say that the Philadelphia Chess Club will be held re- sponsible for the success of the tournament, and it seems reasonable that it should have control of the preliminary arrangements. ‘Tae Brooxixn Scanpau has been famous for its letters, and two more are added to the - batch in the correspondence published else- where between Mrs. Moulton and her coun- sel, Judge Van Cott. The Judge's letter | points mysteriously to “the unproduced evidence that is known to exist.” He can- not think, however, that it is Mrs. Moulton’s duty ‘to go further—certainly not just now.” He would leave Plymouth church to “a dis- trusting and portentous public opinion.” ‘Tar Corrinmation or Mr. Annan CaMPpent, to the Commissionership of Public Works puts an end to one subject of fuss in out city politics, the Aldermen having voted for him with a solitary exception. Mr. Bryan | Reilly's reasons for yoting in the negative made it surely unnecessary for him to say he is “no demagogue.” Perhaps he felt that | the demagogue often passes current by call- | ing himself ‘‘a friend of the workingman,” and the suspicion that he might have thought | the former while avowing himself the latter compelled him to draw the distinction. We | sympatitize with him. ‘Tae Pant Wutcu Moxtenzono is to play in | the Eastern difficulty has been ill-defined, | but it must strike » good many that her Prince is more directly under the influence | of Buseia than of any other Power. The Prince has been lately blustering and posing notes have been sent by us to other Powers ? As they are in communication with other Powers on this very point, there can scarcely beany doubt of this, Yesterday we published a letter from Berlin, dated January 5, which stated that the Spanish Minister in that capital was in ‘almost daily conference” with the Secretary of State for Foreign Af- fairs, and as there were no complications be- tween Germany and Spain this unusual fact was supposed to touch the case of the rela- tions of the United States and Cuba. Our correspondent further says:—‘‘Some four weeks ago the American Chargé d’Affaires,’ Mr. Nicholas Fish, in the absence of the Min- ister, informed the Foreign Office of a note from his government on the Cuban affair, without, however, leaving an official copy of the same. This note, simultaneously com- municated to all the leading European cab- inets, signifies the Spanish government is unable to quell the insurrection in Cuba; shows the necessity in the interests of all nations entertaining commercial relations with the island of putting an end to it, and asks whether it were not practicable to make a joint friendly remonstrance with Spain.” Here is evidently described the document which our Vienna correspondent called a cir- cular note, and which Mr. Fish says was a transcript of one of his despatches to Mr. Cushing; and certainly if the proposition to make ‘‘a joint friendly remonstrance with Spain” was part of a despatch sent to Madrid our diplomatic style is peculiar. But our Berlin corrgspondent gives us fur- ther particulars of this despatch. He says that on the 23d of December the Madrid gov- ernment addressed to all the foreign Powers areply to this American note, and that this reply from Madrid was delivered at Berlin on the day of the date of his letter, January 5. In the same letter is given a summary of the contents of this Spanish reply, by which it is clearly identified with the document re- ferred to in the despatch from Madrid pub- lished by us on Sunday last and used by the Associated Press the next day. Our despatch of that date—‘Madrid, January 15'"—published on Sunday last, was referred to by Mr. Fish in a recent conver- sation. He said:—‘I perceive in it several passages which are responsive to those in my note to Mr. Cushing which I sent just after my return from a hurried visit to New York on the 5th of last November.” So far, then, the case is clear enough that Mr. Fish hus sent to several capitals in Eu- rope the substance of a note sent to Mr. Cushing at Madrid; that the Spanish government has addressed the same foreign governments in reply to that communication, although, if we take Mr, Fish’s words literally, those foreign govern- | ments are not in possession of his note; and that this Spanish reply, published in our columns—our Madrid and Berlin corre- spondents agreeing as to its eontents—is rec- ognized by Mr. Fish himself as ‘‘responsive” in part to his note to Mr. Cushing. How, then, are we to account for the’semi-official statement just received from Madrid to the effect that our government has not yet ‘‘offi- cially communicated” there ‘the contents of | this very circular to which it has sent an answer to every Court in Europe? Were we | | to follow the tactics of the supporters of Mr. Fish we would throw this statement out of court altogether as incredible, if not ridic- the Secretary's statements. But nobody fa- miliar with the way things are done in Eu- | Fopean capitals will act on that course, Tho phrase ‘‘semi-officially pointed out” means in this despatch that the substance of it has been published in some Madrid newspaper | known to have relations with the Ministry, and certain not to print paragraphs of this | nature without ample reason. v Here, then, we have a singular complica- | of our government with Spain and with | other Powers in regard to our relations with | a point of veracity involved in Mr. Fish's | | to its provocation. as @ little Jupiter holding the Sclavonic lightnings in check, so as to frighten the | tv every Court in Europe to appeal to their to be Porte from bringing its troops too near the | judgment on a topic within the range of | republicans will be shortly called, and | that the effort will be made to wash their | Montenegrin frontier. He is like the Irish- tion. Mr. Fish has not sent a circular note American polities, for that would be a grave | Cuban Correspondence—Singular Com- | after” the 5th of last November, but on the | 20th of January the Spanish Ministry gives Clearly it is high time that Congress was | out that, though it is aware of the existence of such a note—-for it has received asummary of it from every capital in Europe—yet the document has not offigially come into its | possession from us—that is, the American | | gives a peculiar aspect to the whole case. | Minister has never delivered it.’ It reached | | St. Petersburg, Vienna and Berlin early in December. In all those capitals it was duly communicated to the several governments, the solemn diplomatist merely quibbled. | and by them referred to the Spanish repre- He denied that a “circular note” in regard | sentative, and Spain has answered it in a lofty and, as it is said, ~‘belligerent” style, so of Europe, and elaborately answered our | that we have been put in the false position of going to the three emperors and many minor magnates with a rigmarole of com- plaints against Don Alfonso, and Don Alfonso has followed and bullied us in every place, and yet Mr. Cushing has never de- livered his despatch in Madrid. But Mr, Fish says that the note in ques- tion ‘‘when communicated to the Spanish government was received in a friendly spirit,” and that seems explicitly to declare that the note has been communicated ; yet the Spanish government says it has not been communicated. What does all this mean? Was the note to Mr. Cushing written merely that copies of it might be hawked about Europe, and the note itself withheld from the Power to which it was nominally ad- dressed? Did a shallow aecretary believe that by reading to other Powers copies of a note to Spain he could gain some end for which it was not worth while to venture the serious step of addressing them formally? at Madrid the contents of the American cir- y there an unseemly piece of pitiful trick- ery beneath all this, or only one more of those bluntlers that have so seriously com- promised our diplomacy abroad under the present administration? The Mexican Boundary Question. For several months there have been ru- mors in Washington concerning serious re- sults to follow from the Mexican boundary troubles, and at one time it was believed that the President intended in his annual Message to declare that unless Mexico made amends to us he was ready to advise such extreme and retaliatory measures as would probably have led to a war. Fortunately, if General Grant ever had such designs, he was better advised, and there is at this time, we believe, no reason to apprehend a new Mexican war. The reports of sinister inten- tions, which formerly circulated, were usually accompanied by hints of a myste- rious map, which, it was said, influential politicians had engaged competent en- gineers tq prepare, intended to show where anew boundary line might with advantage be placed, and to exhibit the nature of the benefits to be secured by it. Elsewhere we print a letter from one of the per- sons who have interested themselves in its preparation. The information he gives possesses general interest. The plan he de- velops has many of the shining merits of a castle in the air. It certainly does not lack audacity, and it will probably find more im- mediate favor with speculative dreamers than with practical statesmen at present. One sound suggestion, however, the writer makes. He remarks that we would do better to cultivate more intimate relations with Mexico than to trouble ourselves about Cuba, and that for half the cost of a Spanish war or a Cuban alliance we could probably obtain the immense region he has struck off from Mexico, and, at the same time, bring the coffee, cocoa and sugar of that country to our own doors and make ourselves independent of Cuba. We do not know of any circum- stance which should give to the project in question political importance at this time. But several of the matters presented in the letter which we print deserve to be studied by American and Mexican statesmen, and to them and to time we leave them. Tue Manne Court Buu.—The bill in- troduced in the State Senate in regard to appointments in the Marine Court is a good ‘measure and tends directly to the purification of the Bench. It is one of the main points of the revolt of the people against the domination of Tammany Hall that the judges of the courts must be sepa- rated absolutely from all those vile compli- cations that ensue upon the division of the spoils of office. If we cannot have pure courts in this city we can be sure of no single point in the administration of justice, and we cannot have pure courts if judges are to be elected on the Tammany standard and to be weighed beforehand in the manwuvres of the spoilsmen. This bill gives the appoint- ments to the County Clerk, and thus makes the usage the same as with regard to the Supreme Court. It matters but little what responsible authority makes the appoint- ments; the essential fact is to separate the judges from all the bargains involved in such a function. M. Burret, the French Premier, is carry- ing matters with a pretty high hand just now. In treating with contempt the remon- strances of the Permanent Committee of the’ Assembly against the influence the prefects were exercising over the elections he showed his purpose a little too ‘soon; | ba his position was one from. which the committee could not drag him. He knows very well that the committee is that anomaly, a live branch on a dead tree, and has hardly an excuse for existence. His marked ulous, simply because it does not agree with | and defiant separation of the Executive from the will of the power which appointed him is, unfortunately, nothing novel in France, but it is also capable of retribution, which is likely to be painless in proportion The returns of the elec- tions of Sunday come in slowly. EPUBLICANS against A Revort or Souruer: | the administration is a lively item for the opening canvass. Our Charleston corre- spondent telegraphs us that a convention composed of such recalcitrant man warning the piper not to play the step, involving the abandonment of a na- | hands free of the misgovernment which *Boyne Water” too close to him for fear he could not stand it If Russia has secretly chosen him to precipitate the fight with tional policy and scarcely justifiable for other reasons. He has merely communi- cated to several other governments the con- has proceeded from Washington in the South during the past ¢ight years, and which has taken eight republican States out of ten into | ‘Turkey he is certainly enacting the prologue | tents of a despatch sent to Madrid. | the democratic fold. This promises most sdmirsbly. How the latter Power can puta Strangely, however, although the copy has | interesting campaign material. Some at- stop to the insurrection withont cutting it | | Teached every capital, the original docu- \t bute it to Mr. Blaine’s ambition to kill off off from outside assistance is not very clear, so that the action of the Prince wears the tgpoct of » dosire to provoke a war, | ment has never reached the government of Don Alfonso in the capital of Spain. Mr. Fish sent his despatch to Mr, Cushing ‘just Grant in his Southern stronghold ; but we searcely expect to see the ex-Speaker take 60 bold a step as to father it, . Overcrowded Street Cars. A correspondent deprecates the suggestion that the street cars be allowed to carry only | as many passengers as can be provided with | | seats, on the ground that the enforcement of | such a rule might prevent many persons from obtaining a passage at all. The alter- native of walking, which he fears, is even | more tolerable than standing up in a street car, while his plan of charging a lower rate | of fare for standing room could not fail to prove an intolerable nuisance. The passen- \ gers who are seated in an overcrowded car | suffer quite as much ag the ‘‘standees,” and they are certainly entitled to some considera- tion. It is for the sake of those, and at the same time to compel the accommodation of all, that we are anxious for a law which | shall prevent overcrowding. If the Leg- | islature will pass such an act its good effects will soon be visible in the | increased accommodations which will be the result. Jn ten years the street railways have built few if any cars, and most of the lines run fewer cars to-day than at that time. There is no care for the comfort of passengers and noimprovement inany direction. Even the elevated road, which has more business than it can accommodate, has not been able to stirup in the street railways a spirit of competition. In the meantime, however, the crosstown lines which have come into ex- istence are to be noted as an improvement onthe lumbering cars of the Third, Sixth and Eighth avenue lines. If similar cars and plenty of them, say one every minute, were introduced on the uptown lines, leay- ing the old two-horse cars now in use for cheap fares for working people morning and evening, the business would be largely in- creased and everybody might be accommo- dated with a seat. The point is to give a seat to each passenger, and this is what must be attained by our strect railways. | i | | | | | | | | Mr. Hil, of Georgia. There is a natural desire among people in this section of the country to know some- thing more than they do of the history of Mr. Benjamin H. Hill, of Atlanta, Ga., who cut such a conspicuous and unlucky figure in the recent amnesty debate in the House of Representatives. His name does not appear in any biographical dictionary ex- cept the brief compendium in the Congres- sional Directory for this session, which informs us that he was born in Central Georgia in 1823, received a liberal education, became a lawyer, was a member of the Georgia Legislature in 1851 and 1859, and afterward a Senator of the Confederate States. We are, able to supplement this meagre biography with some political exploits which intervened between his receiving his seat in the Legislature and his Senatorial career. We compile them from one of the few existing copies of the secret journals of the Georgia Secession Convention. The Secession Convention of Georgia met at Milledgeville on January 16, 1861, and Mr. Benjamin H. Hill appeared in it as a dele- | gate from Troup county, which lies in the | western part of that State. On January 18 the Convention voted that its sessions should be secret, and immediately afterward Mr. E. A. Nisbet, a delegate from Bibb county, offered a resolution that ‘‘it is the right and duty of Georgia to secede from the present Union and co-operate with such of the other States as do the same for the purpose of forming a Southern Confederacy,” and for { the appointment of a committee of seventeen to draft an ordinance of secession. Mr. Alex- ander H. Stephens led the opposition to this resolution, and Mr. “Benjamin H. Hill also took part in the debate. The resolution was adppted by a vote of 166 to 130. The vote of Mr. Hill was recorded, with Mr. Stephens’, against its adoption. | Mr. Henry R. Harris, a democratic colleague of Mr. Hill in the present Congress of the United States, was a fellow member of the Convention, but was absent at the time of the balloting. The next day he obtained leave to record his vote for the resolution. The Committee of Seven- teen was forthwith announced by the Chair- man, and Mr. Stephens and Mr. Hill were both appointed upon it, and a resolve was adopted, without a dissenting vote, from Mr. Hill ‘highly approving the energetic and | patriotic conduct of Governor Brown in tak- ing possession of Fort Pulaski.” The next day, January 19, in secret ses- sion, the Committee of Seventeen reported the ordinance of secession, whereupon Mr. Hill moved to substitute a very long set of resolutions, which were drawn by Herschel V. Johnson, once a Senator of the United States. These resolutions averred that Georgia ‘‘is attached to the Union, and desires to preserve it if it can be done con- sistently with her rights and safety,” but that this was not possible without ‘new and ample security” in the matter of slavery, and Georgia would not ‘abide permanently in the Union” without such security; that, how- ever, Georgia was not disposed to secede precipitately, and invoked consultation with her ‘Southern confederates” for the purpose of securing her rights ‘tin the Union, if pos- sible,” or protecting them ‘out of the Union, if necessary,” and that, therefore, she in- vited a Congress of the slave States remain- ing in the Union, together with the ‘inde- pendent republics of South Carolina, Flor- ida, Alabama and Mississippi,” to agree on a common course of action. They then went on to specify at great length the guarantees which Georgia regarded as ‘‘indispen- sable amendments of the constitution of | the United States;” and it is sufficient to say | thas they included the most extreme de- mands of the most ardent slaveholders—the | recognition of slavery as 9 national institu. | tion, the prohibition of its abolition in the national territory, the right of slaveholders | to take and hold their slaves in the so-called free States, the repeal of all the personal liberty laws of those States, and the payment by the United States to slave owners of the | valhe of rescued fugitive slaves. They also approved the seizure of Fort Pulaski, and pledged Georgia to defend with all her re- sources any of the seceding States if the United States should attempt to coerce them. | Phe vote upon Mr. Hill’s motion was—yeas 133, nays 164. Mr. Stephens, Mr. Harris — and Mr. Hill voted together in the affirma- | tive. The question then coming up on the passage of the ordinance of secession, it was passed by a vote of 208 yeas to 89 nays, Messrs. Hill and Harris voting with the majority for the ordinance, and Mr. Stephens JANUARY 2], 1876--WITH SOPPLEMENT. | with the minority against it. Thereupon the President of the Convention, Mr. George W. Crawford, proclaimed that ‘the State of Georgia was free, sovereign and inde- pendent.” On January 21, in secret session, Mr. Hill was appointed one of » committee of thirteen to frame a constitution for independent | Georgia, and on January 24 he and Mr. | Stephens were appointed two of the eight | delegates from that State to the Convention of seceding States at Montgomery, Ala., to frame the constitution of the Confederate | States., On January 29 Mr. Hill concurred with the Committee of Seventeen in report- ing to the Convention a treasonable and un- truthful address, written by Robert Tombs, to accompany the promulgation of the ordi- nance of secession, and on the same day the Convention adjourned to reassemble on March 7 at Savannah, During the recess Mr. Hill took an active part in traming the Confederate constitution and electing Jefferson Davis Provisional President: of the Confederate States. On March 13 he reappeared in the Georgia Con- yention, and on March 16 he recorded his vote, together with Mr. Stephens and Mr. Harris, for the ‘adoption and ratification” of that constitution ‘by the State of Georgia, acting in its sovereign and independent character,” On March 21, 1861, Mr. Hill joined with his fellow members of the Committee of Thirteen in reporting in secret session a new constitution for the independent State of Georgia, which, as finally adopted, contained the following provisions:— “The General Assembly shall haye no power to prevent immigrants from bringing their slaves with them. “The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves.” The foregoing record throws some light upon those passages of Mr. Hill’s speech in the House of Representatives at Wash- ington last week, in which he declared that the South committed a mistake in withdraw- ing from the Union instead of remaining and effecting her purposes within it ; and that it was a blunder which she never would commit again. Probable Response of Oxford and The Cambridge to the Rowing Chal- lenge. : Although vacation time when our corre- spondent visited the English universities, his letter this morning will awaken unusual interest in the very encouraging particulars he was able to glean from some of the most prominent ‘varsity oars. Mr. Stayner, Cap- tain of the Oxford “Eight,” will at the com- ing special meeting ‘‘strongly advise the ac- | ceptance of the invitation.” Mr. Frank Willan, bow of the 1869 international four, and one of Oxford’s most renowned oars, is much pleased at the propogal, and inclines decidedly to the opinion that the challenge will be promptly accepted. The word from Cambridge is hardly less favorable. While the prominent rowing men were away, those lingering about the University thought that the response would be to our liking. Indeed, it would be singular if an institution, numbering far more rowing men, and good ones too, within its walls than any other in the world, would not hesi- tate long before declining a contest certain to exceed in interest any in which she ever shared. The only possible obstacle raised—rowing without a coxswain—was not pressed with vigor; in fact, Cambridge has lately in her home contests rowed cox- swainless several times. Her Captain, Mr, | Close, or his brother, if we are not mistaken, showed himself so skilful a bow in a boat without a coxswain in the unfortunate affair with the Atalantas that his steering was far ahead of that in the rival boat. With so valuable a man at this juncture it is not likely that the coxswain omission will be allowed to stand in the way ofa match. Bell's Life devotes considerable space to the invitation, and quite ignores the coxswain question, only insisting that in order to keep the Henley fixture for tlie mid- dle of June, which they must do, the two English universities could not, with jus- tice to themselves, row here before late August or early September, as they ought to have two months or ten weeks to get ready in. Itadds:—‘‘That our universities may take part in the international collegiate race, and also the international regatta at Philadel- phia, is the wish of the whole country.” We are glad to find that our college men here are determined to havea race, and will almost certainly, as they ought, place the fixing of the time quite in the hands of their guests. Oxford's courtesy to Harvard in this respect was very marked and generous, and any fears that our men will be backward in recip- rocating are entirely groundless. ‘Tom Brown” has declined to stand as umpire in the national contest; but we would call the attention of the committee to the fact that he has not—as he did not in 1869—in the inter- national one. Tue Prax or AN Ivrenxationan Mowerant Unrr does not, it appears, meet with much favor in England. The London Times, in an- | nouncing its impracticability, takes occasion to twit the United States on their suspension of specie payments, and rolls up England's millions of circulating gold sovereigns before our eyes as Dives might display his dinner of courses to Lazarus gnawing his crust, John Bull's non possumus always stands on | the border.ground between the awe-inspiring and laughter-provoking. Senator Sherman | can, therefore, feel rebuked or tickled, as the fit takes him. Tue CenTennia, Appropriation Dzpats progressed in the House of Represemtatives yesterday, with Mr. Townsend, of New York, and Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts, in its favor and a Georgia democrat against it Tue Ice Surriy.—We catch the moansof the ice man from all over the land because the mercury is high in the tube, Let him possess his soul in patience ; winter is not over yet, for all that the peach trees down South are blossoming, Tux Evasion or Personas Taxes is a good subject for a reform Governor, and the state+ ments made to Mr. Tilden should be exam- ined by him without delay. The Excavations at Olympia, Asthe study of language has within the “present century been reduced to a science whose researches are carried on in broad channels, to which the accessible linguistio records of all peoples and ages haye been made to contribute, it is not surprising that the same comprehensive treatment is applied in dealing with other sources of human knowledge. The study of antiquities affords a most fascinating fleld for this application, and hence the excavations under the auspices of the German goverpment on the plain of Olympia, im the Peloponnesus, attract the deepest interest. We have had tentative archmological researches in all the classic lands of antiquity. In Rome, in Pompeii, in Etruria, in Greece, in the islands of the Archipelago, in, the Troad, ig Egypt, in Assyria and Babylon, the students of antiquity have brought many interesting relics of the dead ages to light; but in the excavations now in progress on the scene of the Olympic games that attracted all Greece for \a thousand years we. see the task of disinterring the buried past set about on a plan which we may trust to yield up the entire record which time and iconoclastic barbarism have spared. The search was begun in a pura spirit of Philhellenism, under the protection of a treaty with Greece which secures the articles unearthed to her, although Gere many bears the entire expense. The dif ference between the present work and those which have preceded it is that chance om the search for a special class of objects, such as statues, or the demonstration of the truth of a special theory, such as Schliemann’s search for the Ilion of Homer, has directed almost all other antiquarian inquiries of which the spade was the instrument, while in this case a well known site is selected, and the object is to exhaust ‘‘all and si the sources of knowledge which it contains. Our London cable letter of last Sunday announced that the search had already been rewarded by the discovery of the torso of a great figure of Zeus and the statue of Vic« tory, which Pausanias described seventeer, centuries ago. Gratifying as these results are, when it is understood that the entira plain and the bed of the river Alpheios will be searched for their treasures, it can be seen how great are the further expectations, The excavations around the Temple of Zeuq are but a small part of the entire plan, Tha Great Altar without the Temple, the Tem. ple of Hera, the treasure houses in which the votive offerings of the States were depos- ited, will all be searched, where, as the learned Ernst Curtius, the projector of the work, observes:—‘‘We may confidently pre- dict that we shall recover vestiges of an« tiquity from the earth, not at long intervals, but at every step.” Scholars and studente of every land will watch the progress of thia great work with keen interest, and when the time comes for exact scientific inquiry into the vestiges of the vanished races in America we shall have a fine model to work upon, In prosecuting such works as this Germany shows her recognition of the respon:@pilities which her proud position among the nations has brought her. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Hendricks is ahead. S. 8. Cox “slops over.” Jowa people like militia, California is soaked with rain, Philadelphians are economical. In Norway whole regiments practice skating, Western country towns are having leap year, balls, Hudson River counties are harvesting very littie teq ‘The Khedive of Egypt has recovered 350,000 acref from the desert. Seventy-five cents a drink for whiskey in the Black Hilis. Go West, young man! D. Appleton & Co. have published Mr. Charles Nord« hoff’s “The Cotton States.”” Mr. Disraeli undere*ands men and rarely selects the feeble except for seats in his Cabinet. Dean Swift wrote to Tisdall:—‘Time takes off the lustre of virgins in all other eyes but mine.” The New Orleans Picayune publicly thanks an oysters man for sending it some oysters on the half-shell. One hundred and fifty-tour pounds is the average adult human weight, and of this 116 pounds are pure water. The Earl of Dunraven, of Ireland, returned to the city yesterday from Montreal and is at the Brevvort House. , Hon. Samuel T. Benedict, of Schenectady, was apes pointed a Commissioner of the United States Circuid Court yesterday. Aprominent English journal says that the coast Scotchmen have an anerring taste for fish; and echa answers “‘an herring taste.”” The Springleld Republican says of the Centennial :—~ “Ifit can geton with the fag and without an approw priation, by all means let it.’” Sam Bowles says that Tilden is likely to be the deme ocratic candidate tor President next year, and that he will be a hard man to beat. Pshawfh ‘The wider and vaguer a subject is the more modest should be the range of reading and the more thorougiy the study of the few works presortbed. Governor Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, was two yearg ago the best abused of men as a candidate for gove, ernor, Now his old enemies call him a model gov- ernor, Goothe said he would like to live to see three greak works completed—a canal across Panama the Atlantic and Pacific, a canal connectiag the waters of the Rhine and the Danube and a canal acrost the Isthmus of Suez. ‘The agent of M. du Sommerard, the Freneh of contributions to international exhibitions, will for the United States on the lst of February. He ro grets that the number of French exhibitors does nog seem likely to be as largo as it was at Vienna, and he hunts that the display will not be as fine, any policy that may lead to key, and wishing that that country should be placed under tutelage. The london Spectator says:—"'A ‘certain kind of for. tind, 08 Nt eS cctinees hoes opposition, and exasperating Interference from Kore nd yt om pate, ena are ful vicerqy. ‘The ploughbman temperament, noi tha poetic, ts the one that saceceds im that post, though a trace of genius is very welcome, too ofthe An exercise very thin kind indeed, which need not imply any cone & Mabony, Philadelphia, and among the contributors patho vigtey: aie find such writers as Dr. 0. A, Brownson, Dr. Edward MeGlyon, John Gilmary Shea >.