The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1876, Page 4

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AUGUST 10, 1876, “From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and cloudy, possibly with tight rain During the summer months the Hana will te sent to subseribers in the country at the rate of terenty-five cents per week, free of tie Want Srnerr Yesrenpay,—Gold opened | and closed at 111 3-4, with intermediate sales at 111 7-8. Stocks were active and firm, but inclined to be feverish. Money on call continues abundant at 2 and 1 per cent. Government and railroad bonds were not materially changed. A Trmery Hixt.—When a politician is dead, or rather when his political friends think he is dead, it is a good thing for him to change his part: Tue Rep Can Booy off the sand spit, Ship Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, is reported gone. Vessels bound in should keep well to the westward of the fort, To-Mornow tre Finst Race for the Amer- ica’s Cup takes place between the Countess of Dufferin and the Madeleine in New York Bay over the regular club course. The yachts are likely to be favored with stiff breezes and may not have much chance to air their light canvas during the race. This will give it the more interest. Tur Workincmen who attended tho meet- ing at the Cooper Institute last evening adopted a series of resolutions calling on the State and city governments to furnish em- ployment for the fifty thousand at present said to be out of work in this. ‘city. They asked ‘‘work, and not chavity.” If has been a hard time, of late, for the poor, and a time of trouble even fe the rich. Tnx Ramnoap Rorzenrs who recently cap- tured a train near Otterville, Mo., and plun- dered the express car of its valuables are in a fair way of being captured or killed off by the officers of the law. One of the gang has already turned State’s evidence, and it is believed that his testimony will lead to the arrest of some others. ‘The celebrated James brothers are implicated, but they will resist capture to the death. “Ir Wovrp Mran W. This is what Senator Patterson thinks would follow the Btate of South Carolina going democratic, It did not mean war or murder or anything of the kind in Virginia, Georgia or Missis- sippi, and, with all deference to this airy statesman, who, as the country knows, has been long enough in the South to buy a new padlock for his carpet bag, we do not think that he judges his white fellow citizens at the South fairly. We Ane Gran to Leann that the ordér to abolish the Signal Service station at New- port, R. L, has been revoked. ‘The closing of this station would have been of serious detriment to the service, which, when it ceases to afford information for the benefit of commerce and na tion, possesses no valne to the communi’ Newport is one of the most important places on the New England toast, and, more than many other points, needs a signal station. Ir 4 Repvcrrox or Five. Huxprep employés in the ‘Treasury Department will yet allow the business of the govern- ment to be carried on ‘ to the public service” doe thout detriment | it not indicate | pride. NEW YORK HERALD. THURSDAY, AUGUSr 10, 1876--WITH SUPPLEMENT, | The Canvass in the State. As the canvass now looks New York will be the keystone State of the Presidential contest. It is possible for Hayes to be elected in spite of New York, but that con- tingency is so remote that we may assume | that as New York goes so will go the Union. | For this reason the utmost care should be taken in the nomination of a ticket. The | Governorship under the new constitution will be one of the most important offices in the Republic, The salary will be ten thou- sand dollars a year, with a mansion in Al- bany. The term of office is three years, When we add to this the importance of New York as the Empire State we see that the Governorship is second only in dignity and power to the Presidency. So far as political preferment goes it may be regarded as a step toward the Presidency. Under the old constitution the Governorship was a good office ; now it is a great one. Considered, therefore, as a prize, there is no citizen in the Commonwealth who should regard its ac- ceptance as beneath him. This makes the task ofselection in either party easy. It opens up to the Convention every department of po- litical and social fitness. There will be no excuse for the conventions if they do not— democrats and republicans alike—select their best men; this more especially be- cause the State ticket in a canvass as equally divided as the present may deter- mine the vote for the Presidency. The Republican Convention will be gov- erned largely by the wishes of Senator Conk- ling ; the Democratic Convention by those of Mr. Tilden. In the republican party we hear a great deal of muttering about ‘ma- candidates, “throwing over Grant and Grantism” and “reform.” All of this is directed against Mr. Conkling, who is sup- posed to favor the nomination of Alonzo B. Cornell, end whose ‘power must be broken.” We have no evidence that Mr. Conkling desires the nomination of Mr. Cornell. He has given no such impression to the canvass. The inference is natural that our Senator would rejoice in any honor | toas loyal a friend as Mr. Cornell, more especially as that gentleman is an upright and able man and entirely fit to be Gov- ernor. The cry against Mr. Cornell is the cry calculated to give him the sympathy of the party, more especially os this talk about ‘machine’ politics and Grant- ism is nonsense. A ‘machine” . or an organization is as necessary in politics as spokes in a wheel or wheels on a carriage. The men who run the ‘‘ma- chine” are as important to the party success as the men who run the steam cars to Sara- toga. To raise the cry, therefore, that be- cause gentlemen give their time to pol- itics, to the management of # canvass and conventions; because they look after the dis- cipline and working of the party, and see that the vote is brought out, they should be outlawed, is to strike at the success of all political government. There is no more im- portant officer in the English parties than the “whip.” He is a Secretary of State generally, holds relations of confidence with the Premier and always shares in the rewards and honors of power. The objection to Mr. Cornell that he is a ‘‘machine” man is cant. If this were the only argument against his nomination he would go on the ticket by ac- clamation. The best friends of Mr. Conk- ling, however, think that an election so im- portant as this should be removed from any of the contests in which he has been en- gaged. They feel that he and Mr. Cornell are both too young and with too much prom- ise to waste their strength upon a local con- test. They think that some names should be selected which would recall the Seward days of the party. Public opinion points to | William M. Evarts for Governor and Andrew D. White, the President of Cornell Univer- sity, {or Lieutenant Governor. The reasons for these nominations are so self-evident that we shall not recite them. Mr. Conk- ling should present these names to the Con- vention and then go into the canvass as he went four years ago, when he supported Grant with-so much enthusiasm as to win from the President the nomination to the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court. If the republicans, whose Convention meets before that of the democrats, should nominate William M. Evarts and Andrew D. White a grave duty will devolve upon the democrats. Mr. Tilden was nominated upon the assurance of his friends that he could carry New York. That promise carried the Southern States, which cared only for suc- cess, and defeated Hendricks and Bayard. If possible Mr. Tilden must redeem that prom- ise, and to do so he shonld name a ticket which will excite the enthusiasm of the party and draw out its latent vote. Todo this he must find a new, fresh, genuine man, free from any associa- tion with the old rings. The sug- gestion that Governor Seymour should be forced upon the tieket against his will was really an insult to propriety and State Governor Seymour's administrations | chine” that the Treasury has hitherto employed | when he was Governor were not remarkable more persons than necessary? Se: and we are inclined to answer it in the affirmative. It is something new for our handsome Senator points for the demoorncy. Swrpitna, such as that Pennsylvania Railroad Company at their ferries, is not so uncommon as might be im- agined. It has long been a matter of com- plaint, for instance, among theatrical man- agers, that a trick exactly the same with admission tickets has been practited upon them by some of their employés, and devices of all sorts are resorted to in order to pre- yent it on the one side and continue it on the other, The Pennsylvania Company seems to have indulged a very blind confi- dence in their system. A Repvrticay calls attention to the fact that two of the gentlemen elected as repub- | licans last fall in New York have already gone over to Tilden, and wishes to know whether, when gentlemen are nominatod and eleoted on the republican ticket, they thould not give bail to remain six months in | the party. Our correspondent refers to Judge Gildersleeve and Judge Goepp. We do not see why a statesman should not be- come a reformer if he wishes to after enter- ing upon an office. This isa good time for republicans to become democrats, or | Conkling asked this conundrum yesterday, | force as a reform candidate. to furnish campaign | detected by the | for reform, and he would have no special Chief Justice Church, of the Court of Appeals, will not run, which is very proper, as it would be o blunder to bring the Bench into politics. Mr. Murphy, of Kings, is named ; but the | New York Ring will not consent to this, and even the rulers of the Brooklyn Ring are cold. Mr. Potter, of Westchester, would be an admirable candidate, as would Mr. Hewitt. The illustrious name of O'Conor has been mentioned, but we question if Mr. O'Conor's health would permit him to go through a canvass. New York is rich, both in republicans and democrats, who would do credit to the office of Governor. The man who stands owt pre-eminent in this canvass as the representative democrat whom the party should delight to honor is inton Marble, the former editor of the | Word. Mr, Marble presents more points of availability than any other candidate. He has fine executive abilities and is remarkable for his promptitude and talent in the de- spatch of business. He has given profound and philosophical attention to all the great questions which underlie our politics, ques- tions which must soon assert themselves in our party discussions. He has been the leading democratic journalist of the country, at least since the beginning of the war. Ho has stood by the banner of that party through many defeats with courage, enthusiasm and undaunted zeal. To Mr. Marble, more than any other man, the party owes the fact that it is enabled to go into line to-day with so many hopes of victory. Mr. Marble in the Governor's chair would be the natural successor of Tilden. If Tilden fought Tweed to destroy him Mr. Marble did the same thing at an earlier fay than Tilden and at a greater cost to himself. Mr. Marble's nomi- nation would be a compliment to that much maligned but useful calling, the press. It has been said of political journalists, in the words of Tennyson, that they sweep the crossings, wet and dry, while all the world goes by them. Out in Kentucky we have seen how the democrats have honored the editor of their leading journal, Mr. Watter- son. Mr. Marble would excite the same enthusiasm in New York if the Convention will only give the masses of the party the opportunity to vote for him. Governor Tilden owes to Mr. Marble the splendid hard money platform adopted at St. Louis. He owes to Mr. Dorsheimer the fact that the platform was not slaughtered in the Convention by the friends of soft money and inflation. Mr. Dorsheimer represents the liberal republicans who came into the party a few years ago and who havo aimed to strengthen and purify it. With Marble for Governor and Dorsheimer for Licutenant Governor Tilden would enter the fight sus- tained by his chief armor bearers. The ticket would rally the democrats and the liberals and give Tilden a better chance for carrying the State than any other names that have thus far been mentioned. Stanley's Second Letter. We present elsewhere the second letter of | the series received from our tireless and gal- | Accom. | lant explorer, Henry M. Stanley. panying the letter, which will be found of ¢reat interest, we present a map showing the completion of his survey of the Victoria Niyanza. It will be remembered that he had previously explored and mapped the eastern and northern sides of the lake. He now sends us the coast line of the western and southern sides, with their numerous in- lets and tributary streams and the islands that dot the surface of the lake near the shores. Mr. Stanley has left nothing to im- agination in this survey, the various routes that he sailed showing how thoroughly he has done his work, while a perusal of his letter will tell at what great risk. Thissurvey in it- self is a great service togeography. When we recall the manner in which former explorers contented themselves with a glance over the waters and eked out by pure guesswork the unreliable stories of the ignorant natives, we cannot but admire the resolution and courage with which Mr. Stanley carried out this portion of his task. The qualities re- quired to pursue the service of science in the face of such obstacles as have beset Stanley's path are rarely combined in one person. What he has achieved has been won amid difficulties and dangers. Friend- ship has been offset by treachery, alliance by animosity. Death from savage weapons and from disease has thinned the number of his followers, but he continues with mingled audacity and prudence to push his dis- coveries until it seems as though he had re- solved that when his labors are over there shall be no more mysteries of mid-Africa to conquer. Tur Impurtry or Tur Croton Water is a cause of serious alarm to the large popula- tion compelled by necessity to use it. This water enters so largely into the preparation of our daily food, and forms as well the chief beverage for the hundreds of thousands of our poorer classes, that, next to the air we breathe, it may be said to rank in the order of vital importance. Experience has proved that foul air exercises a deadly influence on the higher animal life, producing the various degrees of blood poisoning by charging the lungs with noxious gases that come in direct contact with the vital fluid, and thus inju- riously affect the chemical process which the blood undergoes in these organs. Water filled with decomposing animal and vegeta ble matter acts on the system through the stomach and poisons the source from which the blood itself comes, and thus charges the system with many if not all tho elements of disease. It is next to impossible to purify foul air, and its deleterious effects can only be lessened by diluting it, as it were, as much as possible with pure air; therefore ventilation is the besi remedy that can be adopted. Bad water contains a poison that acts mechanically and must be destroyed by the agency of heat. No water should be used for drinking purposes unless it has been previously boiled and then allowed to cool. This simple precaution will neutralize all poisonous matter and render the fluid fit for consumption. Franz Stcrt ror Tr.prx means very em- phatically that Carl Schurz will not have it his own way in taking over the Germans to the camp of Hayes and Wheeler. We are likely to witness some curious changing of sides in this canvass. While men like Carl Schurz, ex-Governor Fenton and John Cochrane are going back to the republican camp, men like Sigel aro coming ont. Schurz was disappointed because the demo- crats failed to re-elect him, and goes back to the party he had left in disgust. Fenton, who left the party because the patronage was given to Conkling, goes back because he got no patronage from the democrats. General John Cochrane, alas ! having grown ashamed to look his little band of starving patriots in_ the face, goes back for rations. Sigel says he has been well treated by the republicans, but the country demands a change, and the men must change before the country. Tax Weratnrr.—A change in the wind direction to easterly marks the advance of the low barometer which we an- nounced yesterday. In the Missouri Valley the pressure continues very low, with o slight fall in temperature and strong gales. Rain fell during yesterday afterncon in the Mississippi Valley from the lakes to the Gulf and east- ward in the Ohio basin, the fall at New Orleans being very heavy. To-day the weather will be warm, with on increasing cloudiness and possibly light rains. As the western disturbance approaches our merid- ian the weather will increase in warmth, and sharp local thunder’storms are likely to occur at or near this city, Mines and the Mining Business. The bonanza business in California prom- ises to be another false pretence. We were afraid of these thousand million dollar stories when they came. When a bonanza prince turns up with a mine he generally winds up the season by borrowing money. We have no doubt thero is vast wealth in Nevada, but no such wealth as to justify the speculations in these bonanza stocks. Wo wish it were possible to have our min- ing interests under some general system which would prevent these constant frands upon unsuspecting investors and at the same time enable the owners of really good mines to have them developed. Nothing is more certain than that wherever a deposit of gold, silver, iron, oil, salt, and so on, can be found capital will only be too glad to go in and bring it out. It is the most certain busi- ness in tha world when .we only know there is something to be found. The difficulty is that knavish speculators arrange diamond mines, like that famous swindle in California, or Emma mines which are barren of silver, or oil wells like the Canada company which exploded in London because there was no oil and never had been any, and so on, fora hundred cases which we might repeat. The history of mining and of oil companies is filled with frauds. | Although hundreds of millions have been taken out of dur mines and wells, and although thousands of millions are to come, the whole business is tainted with fraud. A respectable newspaper would as soon think of advising its readers to invest in o faro bank or a lottery as to invest in mining and | oil stocks. The reason is that we know nothing at all about them. Might it not be possible for our govern- ment to devise some plan for developing these industries, and at the same time pro- tecting the public? Nothing is easier than for an expert to visit a gold and silver mine, a coal deposit or an oil well, and see just what it promises. Why should not the gov- ernment pass a law creating a mining board, composed of learned men? Whenever a smine is discovered and offered for develop- ment it should be the duty of the discoverer to enter it and to ask for-a government cer- tificate as to its apparent value. Then an expert could be sent to see what it con- tained and what it promised. Until the mine was thus entered and examined by the mining board and its value declared an issue of shares should be as illegal as the issue of counterfeit notes. We do not know how far such a scheme is practical. But the importance of our min- eral and mining interests justifies the atten- tion of the government. Our petroleum has destroyed one great industry, the whale fish- ery, and has proved a blessing to the world. Our silver has revolutionized the finances of Europe, and bids fair to revolutionize India and China, In time our coal and iron will enable us to undersell England in the one industry in which she leads the world. Our mineral deposits are to a certain extent the common possession of the whole people, and the government should protect them. If they could be brought under the supervision of the government the value would be two- fold. There would be acheck to this general swindling which disgraces our country, and it would place our mining interests on a solid foundation. There would be less op- portunity for the perpetration of bonanza frauds, and the capital of the world would rash in to aid us in developing our bound- less resources of coal, iron, silver, oil and gold. Stump Speeches in Congress. Congressmen might be better employed these hot days than in making set speeches forthe Presidential canvass. The session has been too long already, and the country is impatient for Congress to adjourn. There dom on any of the issues of the campaign, and if there was occasion for it the speeches already made show how very little of it there is in Congress. Mr. Hale is too young and inexperienced a legislator and too ob- scure a politician to speak tothe country from his place in the House, and Mr. Cox's generalities and jokes have never yet been useful ina campaign. These things come with a better grace from the stump, for be- fore the people an orator is not required to. be particularly fresh in his facts and ar- guments or brilliant in their arrangement. On the floor of the Sennte or House of Representatives a different rule ought to apply. No member should seize upon the time of either body, especially at the close of the session, to make a speech unless he has something to say that is new in itself or has not been better said before. If this rule had been followed during the last week we would have been saved the feeble drivel in the Senate on the Southern question and the aimless and rambling speeches in the House on the political situation. In the canvass many persons would gladly hear Mr. Thurman and Mr. Morton, or even Mr. Eaton, on the troubles in the South ; some people might consent to listen to Hale if his speech was made in a New England schoolhouse and was not too long, and Cox might repeat his stale jokes on the stump even in Ohio without much offence ; but the expense at which a session of Congress is run is too great to allow such waste of time in either house. The thing for members to do is to keep quiet until ‘the campaign opens, and in the meantime to close up the business of the session and go home. Prexrockets.—In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Recorder Hackett sen- tenced Benjamin Franklin (colored) to two years in the State Prison for picking pockets on a steamer. Patrick Rahl received o like sentence for picking a man’s pocket, and James Bell was sentenced to three years for picking a gold watch trom the pocket of a gentleman in a Third avenue car. A nam- ber of similar rogues come up to-day in the same court, and, it is to be hoped, will meet aheavy punishment. Henry King,the pick- pocket who killed Sergeant MeGiven, was indicted for murder in the first degree yes- terday. Notwithstanding these examples the “gangs” appear to be as busy as ever. A gang said to be well known to the police, and operating along the Bowery, principally at the Grand street corner, robbed a foreigner last evening, as appears by a report elsewhere, There was no arrest, The re- is no special occasion for Congressional wis- | mark made by the conductor is significant of the terrorism exercised by the thieves, Are the police also afraid to meddle with them? Information Wanted. Under this title we have been honored with the following interesting letter, which ought to be of profound interest to every house- hold ;— To Tix Eorrtor oy tae Hrarap:— Junderstand that the Goverment has oterd 500 dol- lars for every male child born on the 4th of July. Svtch being my cage i send to you for information as | think it was publishe! ‘n your paper and you will greatly oblidge a poor widdow. MARY J—, No,— E— st, Jersey City. We would inform Mrs. J—— that this ex- cellent measure has not yet passed either house of Congress, though it has, no doubt, the approval of all the members who are married or who want tobe. The principle is admirable; for all philosophers agree that the family is the foundation of society, and it therefore follows that to encourage families is the duty of the government. There is no better way to develop the re- sources of the United States than to en- courage the women of America, and it is an honor to any young citizen to triumph in a double birthday, and to celebrate not only his own nativity but also that of the Repub- lic. Five hundred dollars is little enough to pay fora male child born on the Fourth of July; and we think that such being the case of Mrs. J— she is entitled to the cash. Young J—— may be President yet. His career will be watched with interest. But Mrs. J—— must not forget that there are obstacles in the way of this noble measure. The democratic House of Repre- sentatives has been cutting down the ex- penses of the government, and a party which would reduce the army and prac- tically do away with the Signal Service Bureau cannot be expected to encourage the patriotism of American mothers. General Grant, who is a father himself, has opposed this false economy. We cannot depend upon emigration entirely. Home manufac- tures must be developed, and this bounty of five hundred dollars for every male child born on the Fourth of July would be in har- mony with the principles of the protective tariff. We call the attention of Mr. Ran- dall, the leader of the House, and, as a father, also, the leader of the household, to this important question. The expense to the government is the least consideration, Surely any American baby, whether a boy or girl, is worth five hundred dollars. We should move an amendment to the bill including all females born on the Fourth of July. We shall have female suffrage some day, and, sutch being the case, why should the ladies be excluded from the benefits of their own patriotism? Suppose sutch were not the case, and that Mrs. J——'s boy had been a girl; should she then have been deprived of the benefits of a Fourth of July accident? No. Our opin- ion is that if a boy is valued at five hundred dollars a girl ought to be worth a thousand. Mrs. J— herself ought to have a pension for her distinguished patriotism. But the greatest difficulty is yet to bo named, The success of this noble measure depends upon the result of the Presidential election, Mrs. J—— will find Governor Tilden to be her worst foe, If he is elected all hope is gone for the five hundred dollars, Uncle Sammy is a bachelor, and does not know what it is to be a parent. Sutch is his case. If Mr. Randall, as the leader of the House, and Mr. Pig Iron Kelley, as the champion of protection, should pass this bill, Governor Tilden, as the next President, would surely veto it: Governor Tilden is resolved to be revenged on the ladies of America. What personal interest has he in this grand measure of encouragement, or what benefit could he derive from it? None, Uncle Sammy isan old bachelor and takes no interest in the domestic affairs of Mrs. J——, and unless he gets married and speedily changes his ideas of “Reform,” the Fourth of July will be one of the most un- popular days for births in the Ata “Ir's No Use, I'm Gummy.” ” So said Will- iam Henry Harrison Bennett, the defaulting paying teller of the Mechanics and Traders’ Savings Bank. This unhappy man, who now lies within the iron grasp of the law, was once the trusted agent of his employers, and large sums of money were daily passing through his hands. But tempted doubtless by the pressure of many calls on his resources to maintain a life of gambling or by an innate thievish in- stinct he plundered the bank and the de- positors until the former failed and the lat- ter are only hoping to save something from the wreck. The history of this savings in- stitution, which we publish to-day in con- nection with the particulars of Bennett's de- faleation, shows a disgraceful lack of honest management by the bank officials, and if we do not characterize their actions in stronger terms it is not because we believe that they deserve any leniency from pub- lic opinion. Tarsz Ane Bap Days for the temperance cause between the low Croton and the high thermometer. People reject Croton who never were known to pass a faucet without their teeth watering. On the other hand, a large number of people devoted to beer, whiskey and the like, hearing so much about water, have ventured on tasting it as it runs from the pipes. Unfortunately, like some of Mr. Moody's high pressure converts, their relapse is likely to be sudden and irretriev- able. Those who still long for pure water ask us to foretell when they may begin drink- ing again. We reply that he who drinks now can prog-nostoc-ate for himself. Tue London Times is still out of patience with the Turks, and yesterday entered a protest and a warning against further atro- cities. The immediate occasion of this is the fear that the recent Turkish victories in Servia may be followed by & massacre of the peasantry similar to that in Bulgaria, which horrified everybody but the Disracli Minis- try. We are glad to see the leading English journal take this manly stand upon a ques- tion wherein the interests of England are upon the other side. How far these indig- nant protests will restrain the Turks in the moment of victory remains to be seen. We fear the English Ministry will have to con- tinue its apologetic tone,on behalf of the Mussulman monsters for some time to come, The Fastest Rowing on Record. Yesterday was a great day among the oars men, both the single scull and four-oared con+ tests at Saratoga being rowed in the fastest time ever’made in America, professional ot amateur, and the latter event being won by an utter stranger, the Northwestern four from Riverdale, near Chicago, with the well-known William B. Curtis as bow. But it will be noticed that the time for the first mile and a-half was 8m. 51s., while Cornell recently made iton the same water in 8m. 24s., the surface both times being smooth. While the latter rowed in a six, we have seldom known more than thirty seconds allowance to be given fours in three miles when racing with sixes, and oftener only twenty-two, deducting half of either of which from Cornell's time would still show almost conclusively that, had she her best four there, she would have won the race and the amateur championship of America as well. Itis a great pity that so fast and deserving a crew as the other one from the Northwest—the Sho-wae-cae mettes, of Monroe, Mich.—should be forced to stay away from the great Phila delphia contests because they cannot afford to come. The execeljent condi- tion of Saratoga Lake for racing pure poses this season has more than redeemed the reputation of this famous course, and it would be well if the lanes could be so marked and buoyed that they could ree main permanent. A Reronr rrom Geynrat Croor’s camp, stating a belief that General Terry's com- mand had met with a reverse at the hands of the hostile Indians, is, as General Sher- man says, wholly unfounded. We have news from General Terry up to August 2, and the latest date from Crook is August 4 Terry, at the last account, was on the left bank of; the Yellowstone, and would not move before the I0th. Unless the Indians scatter everything points to a short and de- cisive campaign. Sznaror Bayarp’s speech in the Senate on the pay for President and members of Congress stripped the subject of its dema- goguery. The President and the members of Congress are not paid a cent too much, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr, Sidney Dillion is in Chicago, Sam Bowles has been keeping queer company at Bare atoga, Mr. Dion Boucicault arrived in New York yesterday from Europe. Among tho arrivals from Europe yesterday was Mr, H. J. Montague. Mra, Lester Wallack arrived in this city yesterday after a European tour, ‘ Baron Poschini Finetti, member of the Italian Par liamont, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mrs, W. HH. F, Lee, daughter-in-law of the late Gene eral R. E. Lee, is the handsomest lady in Virginia, An English hackman was recently fined for charging faro for a pup that rode in a hack with his master, Mrs. Davidson, of Reading, Pa., is visiting the Summit House, Mount Washington, and she is only 102 years old. No matter how vile a republican you have been, if you will only turn on your party the democrats will canonize you. ‘That Levy of insects, the musical mosquito, has are rived and 1s playing on his sweet cornet, “I light im the window for thee."” Franco will in four or five years possess a movable flold army of about 560,C00 infantry and rifles and 300,000 territorial infantry. The Earl and Countess Dafferin arrived at San Frane cisco this evening, Her Britannic Majesty steamer Amethyst from Victoria was waiting there for them, Henry Watterson, alas! is neek deep in politics, andy in his specches, is apostropnizing the sun, “the go. orious sun.”? O Watterson, my son, my son, sonny! Ex-Colonel Valentine Baker left England for the Cone tinent by the New Haven route on the evening of July 27. He bas accepted a commission in the Turkish army. A gossip says that Orpheas C Kerr (Mr, R. H, Newol!) has revolted against food and has eaten nothe ing in twenty-seven days, It is said that he hes be. come emaciated, but works regularly. Ex-Governor Bullock, of Mussachusetts, 1s reported as saying that the Jack of enthusiasm and excitement in the campaign greatly surprises him, and that the prosent financial and commercial deprossion undoubte edly accounts for it, “Myths and Songs From the South Pacific’ ts the title of a new book by Rev. N. W. Gill, Professor Mam Miller says that these popular tales of the Polynesiaa Islands exhibit several clearly marked links with th¢ European mythologies. The Southern economical problem is concerning the reduction of acreage in planting cotton. By a general assent this year fewer acres were planted than usual, but ibo use of guano has, in many places, made the crop as heavy as it was before. The Cologna Gazette says that Frau Theresa Fiedler von Hiilsenstein, who died afew days ago at Prague, had attained tho age of 119 years. She wes born at Hamburg in 1757, and was in her youth a maid of honor to the Empress Maria Theresa, Dr. Henry Slade, the spirit medium of New York, ig visiting the Countess of Caithness, at whose country seat Huxiey and Crooke will investigate him. Under engagement by Colonel Olcott at $10,000 a year Dr. Slade will visit St. Petersburg In October. Potter Palmer, of the Palmer House, Chicago, where the widows of General Custer, Captains Yates, Smith and Calhoun, whose husbands were killed with Custer, have been guests, has started a subscription for thom which will reach $3,000, Mrs Caster is vory much prostrated. Thore is a sensational story accusing General Phelps, democratic candidate for Governor of Missouri, of having kissed a youog Indy against her will, inthe night time, in the cabin of a Mississippi steamboats but the explanat:on}is that sho was 1!] and he was assiste ing her to the deck. Archbishop Laney, who for more than a seore of years has labored spiritually among the New Mexicans, has in a beautiful valley at santa Fé a six acre orchard, enclosed with high walls and containing a troat broo flowing at the base of a Swiss chavelet. Thero are 118 varietics of fruit in this orchard, William B. Hunt, of lowa, is the champron rascal, He has a wite and child in nearly evory considerable town in the United States cast of Kansas, [His latest are at Portland, Me. He marries a girl, remains with her for two days, and leaves. His principal oecapation is that of hotel clerk, and he is very handsome, The London Atheneum, reviewing Mr. Skelton’s new book, “The Comedy of the Noctes Ambrosianm,.” ig reminded of a Brahmin anecdote about the prince whose library, which was a load for a thousand camels, was judiciously squeezed into asinglo volume by sterile ing out all the idle words. The Atheneum thinks that the wordiness ot Professor Wilson was only excelled by his wrong simolation of humor. Fayette item in True Kentuckian:—“Genoral Combs has a habit of striking at little darkeys who 4 his way on the street, On yesterday he struck at one, the darkey catching the stick and then letting itga The General then again strack at him, but missed him and fell himselt, his hoad striking the curbstone and injuring him severoly. Yosterday’s J*rese says ho ig now much better and will be all right again in a fow days.”? Professor Max Miller's new enterprise of publishing transiations of the Sacred Books of tho Kast will extend to twenty-four volumes, and will inclade the bibles of the Buddhists, (he Bratmins, the Zoroastriang, the Chinese and the Mobammedans. The latest book om the question of Central Asia is M, Terentiefs “Rage sia and Fogland in Central Asia,”? published at Caloutts in two volumes, The author is a Russian, who pute down the hard facts about England and ber Indian Empire, and gives much tniormation concerning Russian poticy, 0