The New York Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1876, Page 7

YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1876—QUADRUPLE SHEET. : 1 SOFT MONEY. Speech of Judge Kelley’in Reply to Mr. Blaine. THE DANGERS OF CONTRACTION. Our Prosperity Since the War Commensurate With the Volume of the Currency. THE POWER TO COIN MONEY DEFINED. California and Her Refusal to Adopt the National Monetary System. Wasurxarox, Feb. 19, 1876. Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, delivered his long anticipated soft money speech in the House yesterday 4n reply to Mr. Blaine. In opening, after expressing his thanks to the House for the opportunity afforded him, he referred to ine gentleman from Maine, with whom he (the speaker) had long been in harmonious political relations, and whom, though many years his juntor, he bad been happy to look upon asa leader, and then called attention to a financial policy inaugurated, as be said, by Andrew Jobnson’s Secretary ot the Treasury, and upon which he charged all the existing financial evils of the country, He then, in the name of the people he represented, protested against the evils which have followed upon this policy and against the apolo- getic concession that the law providing for the issue of legal tenders is constitutional, and denied that in tho acts providing for its issue the government called to its aida power never before exercised. He also protested against the denunciation of all who oppose the repeal of the legal tender clause as inflationists, and con- tnued:— Sir— Having thus protested against the right of the gentieman from Maine to speak on this eghiens, ashe assumed to speak, for the republican party, let me pro- ceed to examine his remarks somewhat in detail 48 not a pleasant duty, for I shall have to show that bi allegations are loose and often unfounded, his dedu tions illogical and. inconsequential and his conclusions untenable, Is there any doubt of THR CONSTITUTIONAL POWER pena | to establish paper money and make it legal tender? Tho Supreme art of the United States settled this question by — confirmin, the constitutionality of the acts referred to ty the gent end in dowg so left no room for such’ eloquent but irrelevant suggestions in support of the measure as he would rest it upon Dy quoting language imputed to John Milton. Not only does the constitution empower Congress to emit such money, but lays upon it the duty to do it when the exi ies of the Beapl or government require, asit had already twice done in time of peace, and mop be compelled by any of several causes to do again and from time to time, Does the gentleman hold that the government may delegate the execution of a power which it doas not possess? That it may not, is an axiomatic and indisputable proposition, yet he must remember that in both acts creating banks of the United States Congress delegated the power of issuing notes which should be a legal tender in payment of all debts and obligations due the government, and, therefore, have the quality of general acceptability as money by all the people of the country. These precedents, sus- tained by frequent decisions of the Supreme Court, must have done more to mitigate the agony under which the gentleman would have us believe distia- guished Senators voted for the Legal Tender bill, when without the money established by it the government would have been hopelessly helpless. Mr. Kelley here quoted from the article referred to, which insists that the power to coin money involves that of issuing paper, and showing now the use of gold and silver for currency might become impossible through an abnormal increase or decrease in the value of the metal, and if this were the only material which, under the constitution, could be used, a circulating medium would become an impossibility. He also quoted from the opinion of Alexander Hamilton as to the constitutionality of the act chartering the first bank of the United States, and, referring to Mr. Blaine’s Speech, continued :— The gentleman said: With the straim of our public credit and the doubts and vicissitudes of the struggle these notes had falien tar below. par in gold, end it became apparent to every clear-headed observer that the continued issue of legal tenders, with no provision for their redemption and no limit to their amount, ‘would utterly destroy the credit of the government and in- voive the Union cause in irretrievable disaster. But at that Moment the military situation, with its perils and its pros- pects, was such that the Goreramens mest have money more rapidly than the sale of bonds could furnish it, and the daa- ger was that the aig of bonds would be stopped, altogether unless some definite Nmit could be assigned to the issue of legal tender notes. Accordingly Congress sought, and suo- cessfully sought, to accomplish both ends at the same time, and they passed a bill granting $10,000,000 additional legal tender circulation—making 000,000 in ali—and thon incorporated in the same law a solemn assurance and pl that “the total arnount of United Stutes notes, issued and to be issued, shall never exceed $400,000,000."" This paragraph presents a strange admixtare of truth and error, It ignores the causes by which the value of one commodity, gold, had been artificially appreciated, and ascribes rise to the ay of the lawful money of the country, which was, for all exchanges of coumodities and payments except of duties on imports and interest on government bonds, the standard of value It must, I freely admit, have been apparent to every clear-headed observer that the ‘continued issue of legal tenders, with no provision for their redemp- tuon and no limit to their amount, would utterly destroy the credit of the government.” But, sir, Congress had vided that the notes shoud be redeemed yy their receivability in exchitnge at par for six per cent bonds; and the gentleman must know that so long as they were thus convertible into imterest bearing bonds they remained almost or quite at par with gold, 3 anes it was por erin ob aor ores vspadias: ledge, a while refusing. to receive them for pe oe ‘duties, demanding gold in payment thercof, that tmparted an artificial value to gold and prectuded the. possibilty of its use as a siandard by which to measure the price of land or commodities. But by what enactment did Congress add another 000,000 im all, and incor therein the solemn assurance and pledge that the total amount of ‘United States notes issu to issued should never exceed $400,000,000? I have been unable to dis- cover it, It certainly was not brought to the attention of the Supreme Court in the tamous case of The Banks vs. The Supervisors, repo in 7 Wallace, for in Gelivering the opinion Im that case’ the Chief" Justice, who was of the at the time all the acts relating to the subject were passed, says:— for that pur fusue of wi maki pa oN eal Nor does the Treasury Department appear to have been aware of the {aot that the volume of legal tender notes was limited to §400,000,000, for the Hon. William A. Richardson, who was subsequently Secretary of the ‘Treasury, In 1872, while yet Acting Assistant ry, publ avolamé of “practical information” con: cerning the public debt of the United States, by reter- ence to page 39 of which I Gud that the amount of legal venders in actual circulation, including demand n reached its bighest point about August 31, 1865, when was 180, and that it was Grst reduced below $400,000, D00 On September 1, 1866. Again, the gentle- lesson might be learned, by those willing to be tanght de: nee, from the course of events during the When we had $150.00, roula- ),.000 of tende: long while pe A with eon AS the issue increased in amount the ‘was very id, and at the time we fixed the £000,000 limit the ae ene ee re Hoary metre, dn then of ay Shen cof i In ‘June, 1804. $40,000,000 of legal tender wonld ber only $140,000,0000 in gold coin. And added that— If we had not fixed the tender, with all i 000,000 limit * © © tag ty for good ina ince in eu ‘What a strange confusion of fact and fancy we havo | The greenback was only saved trom fat of the French assignat by the force of a limitatio! which did not exist, nad wae, in fact largely ex- ceeded. The divergence between the purchasing power Sak Ge ee ee the value of which had been ly enhanced by our unwise if not unhallowed legislation, is applied to lands, houses cad mercnaniiee; and, without {avestigating the these wi ed the gentleman gives us statements of the purchasing power of the legal tender in , would be laughed to . Without fear of successful tt that neither e brome Ko noon S Ne tender money nor im any part of our country. In particular localities special causes may at the have raised it jand and houses; bat ia omtomme Hy rf i & is sae nba ineaceeee ae FF i i 5 i would have been for the time as marked as in the gentleman was correct in saying the rise of and mmmodities in gold would, under circumstances, have been for the time as marked ee Hie: Wie ‘nay Shah's wat Aho es sup- demand, and not the volume or the q' of that so increased the prices of and I pause to ask whether, if the mitlion of who are now wasting their lives in involun- ee ir wages would not pay for eir consumption a ints os, by the wart was it the 000 limit or any other limit that saved the. tenders from per- French assignats tal money limiting the volume of legal ito $50,000,000 of which were. to be held in ve for emerg: : iF stood for a-year thereafter aliove Volume outstanding on the 30th of June of cach oF the years I shall refer to in order to test this question, Mr. Kolley here quoted from the report of the Treas- urer of the United States, that the volame of legal tender notes in cirealation continued to increase until 1865, and from the Bankers’ Almapac to show that the price of gold and other commodities was vastly lower during the year 1865, when the volume of legal ten- ders was at its maximum than it was previously or in 1866, after Mr. McOulloch’s scheme of resuming specie payments by contracting the lawful money of the country had been inaugurated. Continuing, and referring to Mr. Blaine’s detence of the national banks, the speaker said:— _ Very far from making a fair statement of the position of those he denounces as iutiationists is the eman when he speaks of “the contusion, the aiétress, ruin that would result from forcing 2,100 banks sud- denly to wind up their affairs with nearly $1,000,000,000 due them.” ‘The.commercial fabric,” says he, “rests upon the bank credits, and nothing short of financial lunacy would demand their rude disturbance.’’ Who, Task, would radely disturd the banks? Notlor any of the million republicans who sympathize with me on this question of currency and finance. We do not be- lieve that their existence depends upon the profit they make on circulation. Does the gentleman mean to im- ply that they are so weak that, if the pro@t on circu- uon be withdrawn, they must suddenly wind up and go into bankruptcy or liquidation? Do they nOt assure us that the profit on circulation js so incdnsiderable that to induce them to maintain it we must repeal cer- tain taxesmow imposed on thet ? THE PLAN OF MR... KELLEY. { The plan I and my colaborers su, éould produce no shock and could not inflate the currendy.; It is this:—The United States Treasury is ae lemption agency for the banks, and we would have 1 m all bank notes that come in until those of an; should reach the amount of $900, when, instead of returning its notes to the bank, the Treasurer should to the books and vaults of the lreasury $900 in tender notes of like denominations with the bank notes cancelled and destroyed, and Hapeey yee bank instead of $900 in 1ts notes $1,000 in its bonds deposited to secure the payment of its note’. Thus would -the government assume its prerogative of) issutag the money of the country without disturbing the business of any bank, banker of merchant m the coun! The operation would neither inflate nor contract the cur- rency, but would withhold trem those who neh enough to own and deposit bonds the special privilege of dividing with the government its one tive, that of coining money and regulating thereof, and the $20. 000, 008 in gold noW paid them for exercising the privilege. Mr. Kolley here quoted largely from the statistics to demonstrate the truth ef this proposition, among them from a table of the loans and discounts, the capital and surplus, the individual deposits and the legal tender reserves of the national banks on the Ist of October im each year from 1865 to 1873:— Gentlemen will do well to examine other features of this table than those to which I then reterred. They will notice that in 1865 the condition of the business men of the country was so prosperous that While the loans and the discuunts of the banks amounted to but $487,000,009 they held individual depostts to the amount of $549,000,000. The deposits of individuals exceeded the loans and discounts by $62,000,000, and the legal tender reserve was about $190,000,000. Reference to the same columns for 1875 shows that the loans had very nearly doubled, being then $944,000,000; that fn- dividual deposits, notwithstanding this great increase of discounts, were but $62,000,000, and that the legal tender reserve had with this vast increase of responsi- bility on the partot the banks shrank from $190,000,000 to $18,000,000. The crisis was not, as the geutleman ‘would have us believe, the resalt of a tuil volume of paper money. It was, as I have said, the result of un- due inflation of corporate and idividual credit, which inflation was the inevitable result of a protracied con- traction of a volume of money to which the business of the country had adjusted itself. He we are suffer- 1g from ‘‘one of those periodical revulsions in trade common to all commercial nations, and whith thus tar no wisdom of legislation has been able to avert,” The remark is wo broad, 1t is pot true of all commercial nations, * THOSE PRRIODICAL REVULSIONS have been contined to Great Britain and the United States, and result im each country from the govern- ment restricting the volume of money and. torcing business men to trade on private credit. Fravee bas’ never been sudject to such periodical revulsious, and Germany is now for the first time experiencing one as the result of her reckless demoraligation of silver aud ber suppression ot all bank notes. for iesa than £5, or $25, in order to bring gold into use. ‘Cangmt the glittering plausibility of seboolmen and abstract think- ers she las attempted to improve the quality of her money, the mere tool of trade, and has sa urbed and contracted the legal money of the Empire that her industries are ag prostrate as our own. Her revenues fall off and her laboring people fof the firwe time know what those of Great Britain and America suffer under the periodical revulsions consequent apon the collapse of inflated credit, THE CONDITION OF CALIFORNIA. Referring to California, Mr. Kelley depicted in glow- ing language the advantages of soil, nataral production and geographical position of the State, and “after quoting the figures to show how far bebind such States as lowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin abe is in uia- terial growth, he said;— { Why ts she thus laggard {n the race for civil su- premacy? is because she has preferred to. maintain as money @ currency composed of a modity whieh other nations need und the volume of which’ cannot increase in a debtor state or nation, and thus fo make all enterprise depend on the use of private credit; has maintained a monetary ‘system, by means’ of which aah whe. sual pred spearh the Sweat oO! 6 rors brow, together wi the results of all productive industtios. mie re- jected our national system of peney, which, though called into being by the exigencies of the war, was, ns I have shown, abundanily authorized by, the terms of the constitution, and in doing so deprived. herself of that agency—a cheap medium of exehange—which foade the progress in wealth and all the blessings at- tehdant fo agrees, a8 fog Seem | Schovis, ol Jeries of i means of Hon. an other opumenaea facilities throughout the North and East more remarkable than had ever taken place imany ak the history of this or any other ry. 10, in. view vf the facts I have presented, will claim that metallic money bas been a biessing to Californm ? In concluding bis remarks Mr, Kelley said:— Mr. Speaker, Mr. J. W. Thuckers, who was confiden- tial secretary to Salmon P. Chase during his adininis- tration of the finances of the country, ished about at. & year ago a pamphlet entitled, “The ces, Papics and je Paymen' with the motto, “Pacts speak.” It contains mapy instructive bits of history, deductions therefrom, Aud, ir conclusion, my. juage from this littie work, I say to the House, a I sad to my constituents on the itn of eatty last, when romising to carry the agitation. currency reform five every hamlet of Pennsylvania, ‘That the party, democratic or A ager whatever its name, which torees resumption of 6 payments prior to tho ical extinction of the national debt, Tihettior that ‘ ten years or thirty, will be trampled to death under the feet of the people. Let the tuture political bistory of the country be witness as to this.”” TOO OLD TO BE PRESIDENT. At @ meoting of the Independent Labor Party on Friday night Peter Cooper was nominated as its choice for President and Senator Booth, of Cailforaia, for Vice Laie ragrig i the ogee moan pommainens headed 4 Carrey yester wi mn Mr. Cooper orhis residence, No. 9 Lexington aveties, and fafermed him of his pomination, urging him to accept i. Mr. Cooper thanked the committee for the hunor done him, but declined the nomination, stating as his reason that be was too old and growing too le to fuldl with satisfaction or ability any public office, even if elected. with THE LATEST SWINDLE. A lotter purporting to be written by Mr, J. L. Stuart, President of the Board of Excise, was handed to Daniel McEntee, saloon keeper, of University place and Thir- teenth street, ascing him to meet the writer at the Fifth Avenue Hotel soon after nine o'clock on Fri- day evening. In obedience to this request Mr. MeEn- tee left his Fenglee 6: soon after a man called on his Mekuwe forged to the drawer be given on McEntee’s return, afler vainly seekin missioner at the Fifth Avenue Hotel found he had been the victim of a boid swindle, others bave suffered by the same device. - THE CONKLING RHYMES. ‘THE DUTY OF THE pxess—rne NECESSITY OF PUBLISHING CBIMES—THE DANGER OF THE COUNTRY—INSANE ASYLUMS NEEDED—BATCH OF LUNATICS—WILL SENATOR CONKLING BE SPOND? ‘Let one vast curse fill all the air,—Black Crook, Before veginning this article we beg the pardon of the public. It is, however, the duty of a great news- paper to report all the tendencies and events of its day. Thos there ts a great religious movement golng on under the direction of Messra, Moody and Sanke| ‘Then there is a great patriotic movement of tho nation, inspired by the proximity of the centennial anniversary of the birthday of the Republic. Immense political currents flow throughout the land. There are drresistible tendencies toward reform, as the whis_ }- ‘key trials in St. Louis and other Western cities show. It is obligatory upon the press t report these movements in full,and we are equally obliged to chroniole the great idiotic movement which is pouring trom all parts of the United States inthe direction of Senator Roscoe Conkling. The diffeulty of findings rhyme to his name that shall satisfy a critical taste and delicate ear has aroused the fraternity of minor poets to unusual activity. i ‘The result is that the country has suddenly awakened 0 the fact that there are 10,000.poets at least, each of whom is capable of making worse rhymes than all of the others, and all of whom make the worst that could De achieved. No one bad previously suspected the ex- istence of this enormous element of tmbecility. We did not. We view it as Judge Quinn did the growth of the German element in thiscountry, “with allarrum,” It threatens the overthrow of our school system, tho closing of the lecture rooms, and unless checked it may end in the destruction of the government, A free and enlightened people cannot exist in safety with so many poets busily engaged in undermining 1ts confidence and pride, The only encouragement that ts given by theso remarkable rhymes is to the building of more idiot asylums and hospitals for the insane, We print these poems just as we do any other crimes. We regret that murders are'committed, vet we cannot conscientiously suppress tho news. We are not responsible for either murderers or poots, but believe there is nothing to bo gained by pretending that they do not exist, Ibis to be hoped that inteiligent readers will see the force of this reasoning, and acquit us of any wish to inflict un+ essary pain upon the human race, We have, therefore, in the interest of science and the psychological pathology of incurable tnsanity, taken af random a few examples of Conkling rhymes from a thousand ts, They can hardly be called the “balm of a thousand flowers,” but they may be | useful as warnings, and some coming Pope may find in them the materia! of a modern “Duneiad.”” LUNATIO NO, 1, While Moody and Sankey are calling for Conkling eee ee fora third term are exceedingly darn iim, LUNATIC NOs 2 Ason the horizon the mirage 1s sparkling, So the nation’s Centennial 1s imaged with Conkling. So if coming events cast their shadows before 1 go for the prize, be it huudreds or more, LUNATIC NO. 3. In a whiskey punch or hot gin sling Let us drink to the success of Conkling. We trust the intrinsic merits of the above will se- cure its admiesion among the efforts of the muse in this direction, LUNATIC NO. 4 Tho city of Rome, so goes the story, ‘Was saved by geese a honkling, The United States, to save its glory, Must likewise heed R. Conkling. LUNATIO NO. 6, ‘ The voice of the people calls for a rhyme to the name of New York’s beautiful son, Roscoe Conkling. Ever Teady to sacrifice self, grammar atid common sense on the altar of my country, I send you a couplet which by & poetical license can be construed into an answer to the popular demand, Patriotically yours, & R hen Grant and Babcock sought as prizo The isle of San Domingo, Douglas, White and Chandier went as spies, And so did Conkling go! LUNATIC NO. 6, The candidate of the Empire State is in mind and force Bi Fatienmng b the Hon. Ri lo ae foil gamma, Shgagh« pouter tame, the Hon. Roscoe Conkling. / LUNATIO NO 7, There is no doubt that Ulysses Grant » Would like to his present pomp cling, But the people are bound that he shan't, But mast make way for Roscoe Conkling. LUNATIO NO. 8 ‘The following is the best I can do tn the poetfY line, If a prize ts given I think I am deserving ot it:— ‘urrah! harrah! our ballots we will sling, . To honor the noble and bold Conkling, LUNATIC NO. 9. ¥ Our choice, bold Roscoe Conkling, 2 To the nation’s rights did long cling; Statesmanship well skilled in— In duty never hesitant, We'll make him our next President, Nor cease our effurta till then (Tilden). LUNATIC NO. 10, Tilden says yes from his lair, Blaine from Maine is willing, To take the Presidential chair, Provided they are let by Conkling. We shall not complete the dozen, nor the hundreds that resemble the specimens already given. But hero is something better. The case of the author is not hopeless, and we are willing to class him as CURABLE NO. 1. “Twere wise to say a word in time To many an ili-starred monkling; That “President,” though it won't rhyme, Will aptly suit to Roscoe Conkling. OURABLE NO. 2 Ho’d take his *‘Onkle’’-in Would this fellow Conklin, ‘ CURABLE NO. 3. The Indian makes war with a yeil and hatloa, The Chinese to tom-tom and gong cling; 8o the friends of Roscoe, like the whigs long ago, Need songs full of rhymes to their Conkling. CURABLE NO. 4 My Chinese friend, one Lonk Ling Would like to vote for Conkling. CURABLE NO. 6. For President aspiring Roscoe, You'll run to find anotber Moscow; Before I’a vote for Roscoe Conkling, I would to that branch broken yon cling. CURABLE NO. 6 Here are two stanzas from @ poet, who is so conf. dent that he entit.es them ¥ “EUREKA. ”? ‘Av anoientunonk, in accents wild, Did thas address a monkling:— “Esebew, dear youth, those thoughs 80 wild, ‘And trust in Roscoe Coukling, " A coy ese and wise and brave, Accosted thus bis donkling:— “This cunning knave our land will save, This famous Roscoe Conkling.” We now trust that the public Is convinced that | America is capable Seers as much bad poctry as | the world is likely to demand, and that further exam- | pie of the dangerous growth of this mania is unneces- | at this time. stil the problem is unsolved, No | perfeet rhyme to Conkiing has yet been found. Shall | we that the gallant Senator himseif might sup- | ly the want? May we not expecta rhyme fram him? | R is bis own name, and it is his duty to protect it from | the wild attacks of this legion of unsuccesstul pocts, GALLANTRY AT SEA. The American government, through the Board of Trade at Liverpool, has. presented to Captain J. T. Bragg, of the National Steamship Company, a valuable telescope in recognition of his services in saving the | crew and passengers of the American schooner Vaughan and also towing the latter safely into New York. On the 24th of November, 1874, while on the voyage from Liverpool to-New York, the vessel was sighted, showing signals of distress. Captain Bragg at once bore down upon her, and with considerable Gificulty, owing to there being a heavy sea and almost a gale blowing, he launched a boat, and succeeded in rescuing the distressed vessel, and brought off two passengers. At tho request of the master to tow her to a place of safety, she being waterlogged, he steer- ing gear and sails gone and all eT oe spoiled, | Captain Bragg succossiully attached a hawser to her and brought her into New York. The telescope was resented to Captain Bregy by Captain J, Ward on be- aif of the Board, who expressed the pleasure it gave him to make the resentation, and strongly commendin, Captain ragg for his meritorious conduct. iptain Bragg briefly responded, thanking the Uniced States government and Captain Ward for their kindness. The telescope, which is very handsome one, bears the following ingcription “Presented by the President of the United States to | Captain J. T. Bragg, of the steamship Queen, in recog- | nition of bis services in the rescue of the American , schooner Vaughan’? Captain Bragg yesterday tor- warded the following letter to President Grant:~ New ¥, . | 1 Tws Puseroxt or mx Univen Stared: 1 167% ppm of, dees Marin 3 me bearin, following inser y the President of the United States to . T. Bragg, of the steamshi in recog: nition ef. bls services tu the rescue of tlie American schooney Vaughan.” Will Your Excel be pleasod fo nceept my thanks for you fact which I considered a ‘part that on future occasions I be cuing lives and rogers’, pardized worthy of your consideration, J.T. BRAGG, Lientonant RN. R., Commanding National steamship Queen. THE CARNIVAL. Tho Arion Society last night wound up its carnival season with s masquerade at its hall in St Mark’s place, It was one of the most brilliant entertainments ot the kind this season. The capacious hall was with all the ingignia of iovial Prince Carnival | arme LITERATURE. The Great Divide and Yachting in the Arctic Seas. HUNTING ON LAND AND WATER. The Earl of Dunraven and a Mem- ber of Parliament. ‘Tun Great Divipx: Travels in the Upper Yellowstone ja the summer of 1874. By the Earl of Dunraven. With illustrations by Valentine W. Bromley, New York: Scribner, Weiford & Armstrong. ‘The Earl of Dunraven, who appears to be quite a traveller, spent the summer of 1874 in travelling through that strange, wild region known asthe Yellow- stone country. He made no wonderful discoveries and had no hairbreadth escapes, bat saw all that was to be ween, and appears to have enjoyed himself in a rough-and-tumble sortof way, The trip was made in the pursuit of pleasure, not of science. In his preface he apologizes, in a jocose way, for not having had any wonderful adventures, He says:—‘‘l never had an ad- ‘venture worth acent; nobody ever scalps me; I don’t get ‘jYamped’ by bighwaymen. It never occurs to a bear to hug me, and my very appearance inspires feelings of dismay or disgust in the breast of the puma or moun- taid lion,” The Earl of Dunraven can hardly be called ‘an elegant writer. He is too slangy for that. His slang, however, is not of the worst sort, It would not, perbaps, sound out of place in conversation, but in a book one looks for something different. He ts, with all his faults of style, an interesting writer, and carries the reader along with him into the forests and to the edge of the boiling springs. Briton-like, he does not want to acknowledge our superiority, even in natural enery, and begins a description rather coldly, but his enthusiasm gets the better of his phlegm before he has done, As a rule his statements are correct, though we have caught him tripping once or twice, For in. stance, he speaks of the principal erater of tho Otukapua range geyser in New Zealand as ex- ceeding in magnitude anything at = Gar. diner’s River, being forty or fifty feet in diameter. On the very top of this statement be quotes tables of the sizes of the springs at Gardiner’s River, among which are two of 100 and one of 150 feet. Tne Devil’s Den is about thirty miles from where he places it, at the Great Fall of the Yolloystone, at the upper end of the canyon. The book which, by the way is aedicated to his wife, is illustrated by Mr. Valentine W. Bromley, who has caught the spirit of the country and its.inhabitants very cleverly from the photographs furnished him. He has oceasionally enlivened his landscapes with a species of pine tree that is not native to that soil, but he is correct in the main-features, For beauty of scenery the author thinks that we are behind Europe. Our mountains, grand as they are, he Bays cannot for a moment compare in shape, form and general beauty with the Alps. No glaciers fill the upper portions of the valleys; the thunder of the avalanche is seldom heard. No peaks Jike the Matter- horn astonish with their ruggedness the traveller's eye. The one attribute peculiar to our continent is that of vastness, Nature is formed of a iarger mould than in other lands, She is robust and strong, and all her actions full of vigor and young life, Storms are tearful and violent, floods rise and sweep the country like seas, Mighty rivers, with flerce, ungovernable tide, in a night scoop out fresh beds for themselves, and laugh at man’s shackles and restraints, or in their struggles to break tho chains that winter has bound around them burst free and carry off, like cobwebs, the toilsomo results of engineering skill. Lakes are seas, Thero are great’ deserts almost unknown and unmarked on any maps, Through thousands and thousands of square miles of primeval forest, dark, fmpenetrable to the sun’s rays, the north wind wails and whispers; while for days you may travel on the Plains without seeing a treo, the hor- izon forming an unbroken circle arcand you. IN PURSUIT OF SPORT, The Earl does not think much of our boasted hunt- ing grounds, He says:—‘Though game is abundant in many States and Territories at certain times of the year, yot, taken as a whole, North America cannot for & moment compare with India or Africa as a huoting country. I have enjoyed pretty good sport occasion- ally myself it is true, but it is diMcult to get; besides it requires patience and perseverance and entails hard work, and even then success is very uncertain; and as there is nothing I dislike so much as being misled by accounts of the capacities of a country, in a hunting point of view, It is better, in order to a’ bility of myself offending in this respect, to say at once that, in my opinion, aman going to the States or to British American territory for big game shooting, and for nothing else, 18 almost surg to be disappointed. cannot speak from personal experience; but if tho enthusiastic accounts one hears frow the forests aro not exaggerated there can be no doubt that, if he can afford it, a sportsman can get fdr botter deer stalking in Scotland than anywhere else. “On the Plains buffalo are still tolerably numerous, and can always be met with if a man knows theright places to go; but running buffalo ought scarcely to be considered @ branch of the noble pastime. It is excit- ing; it calls into activity the savage instinct to shed blood that is inherent, though it may be dormant, in every man, but it is scarcely spor, * * © There are certain tracts and districts, the marches between the hunting grounds of mutually hostile tribes, whero nobody dares to go hunt or trap, but across which strips of debatable land-stealing parties and small war parties are frequently passing. That is the sort of place to go if you want to see game; but there you may possibly see more than you bargained for. You may be a hunted as well as a hunting animal, and with tho pleasures of the chase mingle | the emotions ot the chased, * * * Another difficulty im the way of the English sporteman is that very few Americans care for what they call hunting and we call shooting, as an amusement. There are, of course, exceptions—men who love the wilds and take delight in running buffalo or wapiti or stalk, ing deer—and year by year these exceptions are becoming more numerous; but, a8 a rule, the inhabitants of the United States take their holidays in quite a different style, or, if they do indulge in shooting at all, go in for prairie chickens and small game. Therefore, itis not very easy fora stranger to procure reliable and disinterested information,’’ Texas Jack accompanied the Karl of Dunraven’s party, and an idealized portrait of him is given on | page 58. AN EARL ROUGHING rr, “Oh, thé comfort of lying flat on your back on tho grass!” exclaims the author, ‘‘gazing up at the blue sky and tho flickering green leaves of the trees; flat on your back in your shirt sleeves, without any collar— by no manner of means must you have a collar; it is sure to gpt tight and choke you when you lic dowa—to take your rest in the shade on a hot day, the broeze playing round your head and stealing down your back and chest That is luxury indeed, No ap- prehension of catching cold disturbs your mind, while you are soothed by the distant chirruping of grasshop- pers in the sunshine, the murmur of beos in the treo tops snd the carrilion of the rushing stream, You are not trespassing and nobody can warn you off There is plenty of fish in the river, some whiskey left in the bottle, lots of bread in the buggy; and you run no risk of being distarbed, for there is not another beman being within miles, You can go when you like or stay as fong as you choose. You can stretch your nd kick out your legs without any danger of treading on @ sensitive corn or of poking out somo- body’s eye; and you can throw back your shoulders, expand your chert and inhale a full draught of fresh, pare air, with @ ense of independence only to be en- joyed in a large country. I believe a man under such ciroumstances positively is nearly as happy as a cow in a clover field."’ When ap ear! does rough it there is no bonsense about bi, AMONG THE INDIANS. Tho author of this Volume, although he has nota very high opinion of the Inavans, thinks that they aro an ill-used people. Never trust an Indian, he says, even though the tribe be at peace, unless you have very good reasons for knowing you can do so, It may seom surprising, but the women are at the bottom of all the mischief, for the reason that they will not smile opon a young man until! he has killed an enemy and taken a scalp. The more enemies he kills and thé more scalps ho takes the better tor his suit The young mon among the tribes are very vain, much more so than the women, They powder and id the possi. | paint, and reserve to themeelves all the artificial arts of | hunared brown hemispherical backs, the next a hundred the tollet, They monopolize the trinkets, necklaces and spend hours in dressing, while the | the wood, make the fires and piteh the tents for their lazy lords, Among the, Indiama, say® the Earl, Coristianity rules high in years of scarcity, and bas a downward tendency when buffalo are plenty. “However degraded their religion may be, I doubt if @ change ever is morally beneficial to a savage rade,” He thinks that the Roman Catholic religion, with its fasts and festivals, would suit the Indians best. “They donot see such a great difference between the priest and the medicine man. It is a difference of degree, not of kind; and if backed by a little pork and flour he ts apt to look upon the cross and medal as greater talismans than claws of beasts and bits of rag and skin, and to think tnat the missionary makes stronger medicine than his priest.” “Iam by no means an enthusiast on the red Indian question, A practicai though slight acquaintance with | many tribes has sufficed to dispel the illusions and youthful fancies that a severe course of study of Fenni- more Cooper’s works, of “Hiawatha,” and books of that description engendered in my mind, Under the strong light of personal observation of their filthiness, of their debasing habits and ideas, the halo of romance that at one period of my lite enveloped them nas faded considerably, though it has not entirely disappeared. Ihave not unnaturally acquired a feeling of general hostility toward them, for on hunting expeditions they have bothered me very much and have interfered con- siderably with my pleasure and comfort, aslam not pone of those individuals who revel, or pretend to revel, in actual danger, and who delight, or say they delight, in anticipation of arow. I know too well what a nul- sance they become, how inconvenient is their fondness for horseflesh and their unpleasant custom of following out the Mosaic law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth * * * 1 respect their instinct,. 1 admire their intense love of freedom, and, while admitting that Cooper's heroes are somewhat imaginary, I must confess that the ‘noble red man’ is not altogether such @ mythical being as one schoo} of writers would have us believe, A problem in | many respects are the red Indians to this day and aproblem they are likely to retfain to the end; and when they have passed forever from this earth ethnologists will puzzle themselves vainly over a great mass of literature describing accurately enough their surface life, but not scearching sufficiently deep | among the springs of action to afforda reliable data upon which to found authority of their origin, his- tory and position among crealures of an’ extinct race of men.” The Earl of Dunraven thus describes the ride from | Virginia City to Corrinne in teeling terms, That | road must indeed be one of the worst to be found, | for Mrs. Blackmore, wife of the English tourist, after travelling around the world with her husband, died from the effects of the terrible jolting sho got in golng over that route. The “Great Divide’ makes no pretentions to being anything more thana simple record of a pleasuro tripthrough the Yellowstone country, and viewed tn that light criticism is disarmed, Yacutina in Tas Arctro Skas; or, Notes of Five Voy- ages of Sport and Discovery in the Neighborhood of Spitsbergen, and Noyara Zemlya, By James Lamont, F.G. 8, F. R.G@. 8. Edited and filustrated by W. Linsay,’M. D. London: Chatto & Windus. Now York: Scribner, Welford & Armstrong. Very different from the Earl of Dunraven’s book is that of Mr. James Lamont. Both relate to sporting, but over hunting grounds that are so uolike they might bein another world. Though Mr. Lamont’s was par- tially a pleasure trip, the spur was the love of discoy- ery. In the preface the author expresses the hope that the present record of the summer voyages of a sports- man may stimulate men of leisure and means to con- tinue the exploration of the Arctic Seas, Mr. Lamont is evidently an enthusiast on the subject, and it is of just such material that the successful voyager should be made, He does not believe that naval discipline is | necessary toa voyage of discovery. All the thrilling accounts of wintering within the Arctic circle have suggested that high personal qualifications, and these | alone, have kept crews together and served to make @iscoveries. His yacht Diana was the first steamer that explored Novaya Zemlya and the Kara Sea. Mr. | Lamont believed that steam could penetrate where sail- {ng vessels could not, and he proved the truth of his theory. The Diana darted from place to place like a firebug of a summer evening, hoping to find the pas- sage to the North Pole, but tn that discovery she was not successful. For such a voyage as this the yacht | had to be specially and pecatiarily constructed. THE DIANA. She is a three-masted schooner, of 251 tons, with | compound engines of thirty horse power, and in her | internal arrangements and fittings she is, so to speak, | @ cross between a yacht and a modern Scotch whaler. | She stowed away 180 tons of coal, enough at her rate of | speed for nearly 10,000 miles, The Diana is built on what is called the composite principle—that is, her ‘beams and timbers are of T and angle iron, and wooden planking bolted to them with five-eighth inch yellow metal screw bolts. She is brgcef and fortified insido with numerous beams and angle irons, extend- | ing im every direction, especially forward. Qut- side, instead of copper, she is sheathed with a two and half inch planking of Australian gumtree, or, as tho | shipbuilders call it, iron bark. She had also a heavy iron stem piece bolted and secured to the stem with numerous broad bands of iron. The propeller was | constructed so a8 to detach and be hoisted on deck when under sail, but Mr. Lamont, who .was his own captain, afterward found that this gave a great deal of trouble and wa of very little advantage. She carried aspare propeller aud a spare screw shaft, both of which came ito active service. There were fifteen souls on board the yacht, the most of them familiar with Polar havigation. Although Mr, Lamont appears to | have had a good and quite comfortable time and paints | his voyage in glowing colors, we would hardly chooso the Arctic seas for pleasure yachting. He has tried almost every piace that a yacht could sail in, and evi- dently enjoyed the Polar cruise the most. He had an abundance of walrus hunting and bagged a hundred | head of deer, not to mention several bears and | plenty of birds and fish. Whales = aro apout the only Arctio game that he did not bag. He telis of Captain Firn’s method of slaying a whale, which isas exciting as it is novel, The Cap- tain would approach the whale in his small screw steamer and fire into the animal a shell harpoon weigh- ing twenty pounds and containing nearly a pound of powder. If good aim is secured the whale is killed out- right. In 1868 he secured twenty-four whales by this method, WALRUS HUNTING. To help meet the exponses of his voyage Mr. Lamont | devoted a large part of his time to walrus hunting. | Every animal captured was worth £12 10s, ‘The more 1 see of walrus hunting,” he exclaims, “the more keenly I enjoy t, It isa ‘noble game.’ It is like ele- phant shooting, boar spearing and a gigantic exaggera- thon of salmon fishing all in one, thas combining three | of the grandest sports to which mortal men aro ad- dicted.” A peculiarly constructed boat is used for walrus fishing, and into this you climb | with your ‘instruments of torture, As a gen- eral thing @ lot of walruses are seon sleoping on the ice, with one old fellow wide awake keeping guard, It you can get within spearing or shooting distance ‘without disturbing the sentinel all right, If not ail wrong, for he alarms the others and they all dive down | to the bottom of the sea, On ony occasion a herd of | walruses kept above water after they .were attacked and theeport was rare, It is thus described:—‘The moke of attact was to endeavor to harpoon them by dint of rowing alter the herd as they alternately dived and swam on the surface to gain breath, If there are calves in the herd they cannot go much faster than thé | boat, if so fast, and the calves having to come up to breathe mach more frequently than the old ones tho | whole herd generally accommodate their pace to that of the vid cows with the young ones. | “Tn all my sporting experience I never saw anything to equal the wild excitemeht of such a hunt. Five | pairs of oars pulled with utmost surength make the | boat weem to fly through the water, while, per- | haps, @ hundred walruses, roaring, bellowing, blow- ing, snorting and splashing, make an acre of sea all in | @ foam before and around her. The harpooner stands with one foot on the thwart and the other on the front locker, with the line coiled in tho right band and the Jong weapon in both hands, ready balanced for a dart, while he shouts to the crew which direction to take, aa he, from standing upright {n tho boat, has a better op portunity of seeing the walruses under water. The herd generally keep close together, and the way in which they dive and reappear again simultancously is remarkable; one moment you see a hundred grizzly heads and long, gleaming white tusks above the waves; they give one spout from their blow-holes, take one breath of fresh air. and the next moment von nana | pair of bind flappers fourisning, and they will al) g0 down. On, on goes the boat as hard as ever we cap pull the oars. Upcome the sea horses again, pretty close this time, and before they can draw breath the oat rushes into the midst of them. Whish! goes the harpoon; burel goes the line over the gunwale, and a luckless junger, on whom the harpooner has quickly receives a barpoon in the back and a bullet In the brain and hangs lifeless on the line.’’ The skipper of asloop once told Mr. Lamont that he had been scized by a bereaved cow walrus and by her dragged twice to the bottdm of the sea, but without receiving any injury beyond being-nearly drowned and having a deep scar ploughed in each side of his forehead by the tusks of the dpimal. Be thought she did not wish to hart bim, but mistook him for her calf as he floundered in the wat Mr. Lamont thus describes an Arotie night:—‘‘It was one of the typical nights one enjoys in the quiet bays of Spitebergen. At nine o’clock in the evening the air was positively genial Wonderfully quiet, too, was everything beyond the noise of the ship. Absolute still- ness everywhere, save occasionally when the voice of a wild bird, miles away over the glassy sea, was borue to the ear, or the noisy falling of the edge of a glacier, like the sound of artillery discharges, was echoed from hill’ to bill A clear, unclouded sky permitted the rays of the evening sun to crimson the snowy peaks and to throw vast shadows across the glaciers.” Of course they could not ‘turn in” under such circumstances, 80 they passed the evening in sketching from nature and: prospecting for coal. At midnight, at another time, they qpuld see every ropo and spar of the yacht repro- duced in the‘dark water, On the Ist of August they found that it would be Im- possible to proceed further north, as the winds bad: sot in from that quarter, As may be fancied, they were all very much disappointed, Mr. Lamont says, | in conclusion :—‘To attain the northeast of Spitzbergen, to sight Gillis’ Land and to fight a way along its un- known shores to the extreme north, were not to be parts of our programme this year, Subsequent ex- perietives have shown that such a voyage may be moro easily held out as a spur to inexperienced enthusiasts than accomplished in any season, however favorable. Nover, I am convinced, will a ship sail from Spitz- bergen to the Pole,” THE BRADY MONUMENT, To Tux Eviror or tHe Heratp;— Mr. Williams’ generous and practical suggestion to more prominently memorialize the memory of the | brilliant Brady, his name and fame—tho full value and significance of bis professional and public career—can+ not fail of its purpose toattain the support and be ac- corded the admiration it merits trom the people and the press, Unconsciously he justly rebukes the mem- bers of the Bar for their implied Ingratitudo to the memory of one from whom they have inherited so much that is associated with the highest conceptions of manly worth and an inspiring influence of pro- fessional example that should make the Beuch and Bar more substantially proud of their illustrious brother, and long ere this late date have caused them to perpetuate some more imposing and imperish- able monumental tribute than that which decki the masty obscurity of the Law Library of this city, the remembrance of his peerless genius of intellect arid incomparable generosity and greatness of heart. Incorruptible as he was in character, unimpeachable in honor and of spotless integrity, with the ability and conscientiousness of a man of true genius, genial, gon- erous, ‘honest, tender and true ofnature with ahandas open to poverty as his heart wasopen to human suffer- ing,” I cannot but exclaim, what a magnificent and all commanding paradigm is the memory of his protes- sional character forthe young members of the Bar of’ to-day, of the future; and how, with the ever present remembrance of such greatness, in whatever shape, mould, device or design it be cast, betore our eyes, we, who are yet in the infancy of our profession, how the future of the Bar of the Empire City would be pro- ductive of aspirations higher, more honorable and nobler than permeate its broad and powerful circle to, day! Irrespective of bis claim to the vencration due his namo as a man of genius, an accom- plishea advocate, an cloquont orator, a8 @ gentleman and a man of irreproachable professional honor, he should, as Mr, Williams rightly recalls, be as equally and justly remembered as the sagacious, patient aud uncompromising champion of the Union when, in this hotbed of rebellion itself, our | own City, brave and fearless moen—men who could do and dare face the mad fury of the mob—were few and far between, His memory should go down as an hon- ored and sacred tradition to posterity. The young men at the Bar to-day—the sentiments and opinions of many of whom I represent and foreshadow here—bave sin- gled his name from among the many that adorn tho records of our courts for the past forty years as the one whose character is most worthy of emulation, and, therefore, most worthy of honor; and while they feel the shame which attaches itself to the neglect of his memory at the hands of the biographer—at the hands of those who aro w-day still enjoying and reaping the fruits of hisall powertul aid on the Bench and at the Bar, they feel a corresponding pride in hoping and proffer ing their ass nce to realize h hope, that at no far distant date Brady's character will be forever recorded in @ manner that will assume proportions worthy of the life it would commemorate, ‘To this end, then, let all the energies of the Bar be brought to bear, and, emulating the example of Mr. Williams, who was but his friend and social admirer, and would honor h'm as such for bis greatness of heart, let those who are his professional brethren institute active measures for the accomplishment of as grand a purpose, the recognition and honoring his greatness of mind. The young men at the Bar will be but too proad to ald practically in the success and advancement of 80 worthy an under- taking. This must be done sooner or later, but at last. Must the young men at the Bar take the initia- | tive ? 1 cannot but remark the presence of Mr. Jarvis’ com- munication, which throws so light an air of indifferent buffoonery over tho semi-heated action of Mr. Williams. Either “Uncle Nat” placed an intentional misconstruc- tion on the motive or the extent of Mr. Williams’ sug- gestion or displayed a lamentable and hardly pardonable ignorauce of the broad and comprehensive object em- bodied in that gentlemon’s letter. Whata few friends on their own individual responsibility have done to gtatify, and commendably, a personal friendship in closeting away for the delectation, curiosity or admira- tion of the “few favored of the flock” in the isolation or obscurity of the Law Institute’’—a marble bust, ‘with plaster modols in their private libraries” —is not the question, doos not cover the motive and certainly throws cold water on the intention of Mr. Williams as upon the purpose and views of other gentlemen not members of our profession, who, no doubt, find it quite as, if not more, lucrauve to worship at ‘the shrine ot Thespis in preference to that of Themis. Mr, Jarvis’ “argumentum ad ignoran- tiam’”’ is, to say the least, very retreshing in its super. ficral conceit, and unworthy of his pen, What is de- manded is something more prominent, public and im- posing in its presence, in its construction, in its loca. tion, than the “hedged-in-for-the-benelit-of-the-few”? rtraiture which, under the suspension of a close cor- | poration of a ‘fow friends,”’ was boxed up in the musty and tomb-like oblivion (so far as the people at large are considered) of the Court House catacombs of Chambers street, No, “Uncle Nat," you must not prejudice the motiv: ot Mr. Williams by so cle shifting of the scene; the last grand act yet remains to be performed, and for the sake of the success of which, ‘if you should take the initiative, the Bar will sustain your efforts, Prac- tically remove the unpleasant impression engendered by your-letter, calla committee, chosen {rom the ros- tram, the pulpit and the etage, if needs be, but, at all events, professional in their character, and thousands will follow you. “Carpe diem,’? Uncle Nat! ‘Carpe diem!"? Yours, &e., T. Fepavany 13, 1876. A STRANGE SUICIDE. RC Jobn Frederick Bauer, a German, thirty-nine yoars of age, died under mysterious circumstances on last Thursday afternoon at his residence, No, 115 Smith strect, Brooklyn. Coroner Simms directed a post- mortem examination, which showed tho existence of a | large quantity of cyanide of potassium in the stomach, | How it was administered the inquest may reveal. Bauer, who was a baker by occupation, was married, but has no children, and it t# said the couple did live on the happiest terms, About noon on Thursday jast deceased left his store, promising to return ina few minutes, but he fared to do #0. a8 soon after found in the photograph gallery of Gustave Shultz, in the second story of the gone adjoining No. 115 Smith street, the door of Which was locked, Bauer was soon through the keyhole sitting in « chair, ap- parently asleep, When roused 4 persons who gained access through another entrance, he rose, took the key from his pocket and unlocked the door, and, without saying a word, Waiked down stairs and into his bed- chamber. Ho wis immediately attacked with vomit- ing, and expired three minutes after entering his room, The poison found in the stomach, and which was, no doubt, self-adimin istered, sane in effect as Prasic Bei, is used in the Pres id art, The family physician of Stated that ho foticed three or four days prior to his death that tbe unfortanate man was deprenged tn spirits, It is said that ats life wae in. sured tor $10,000, The Coroner will bold an inquest at” two o’eiock om Monday afternoon. Bauer owned Reveral houses abd Was ib prospervus circumstances