The New York Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1876, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All busmess, news letters or telegraphic | despatches mustebe addressed New York Henarp. Letters and packages shculd be properly ecaled. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, ieee PHILADELPHIA OF FICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUNK XLi- AMUSEMENTS TARIETY, wen BOOTIOS THEATRE. BARDANAPALUS, at SP. M. Mr. Bange and Mrs, Agnes Booth. ; TO-MORROW. NBATRE, woo MUSEUM. SITTING BULL, at 81. M. Matince at 2 P. M. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, weP. M. TONY PpASTOWS THEATRE VARIETY, at 87. M. st PARISIAN VARIETIES, SP. M. FIFTH AVE LORD DUNDREARY, at 8 P. STH THRATRE, Sothern. WALLA ATRE. THE MIGHTY DOLLAL M. TIVO VARIETY, at 8 P. M. GILMOR) GARDEN, GRAND CONCERT, at 8 P.M. Mr. Levy and Madamo Pappenhelm. THEATRE COMIQUE, TRIPLE SHEET. NDAY, AUGUST RW YORK, § 2 3, 1876. From our reports this morning the probabil ure that the weather to-day will be warm and partly cloudy, with, possibly, rain. During the summer months the Hxnaup will be sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of Wat Sraxet Yesterpay.—Stocks were firm, on a dull market, many operators being absent. Gold was steady at 111 1-2. Government bonds were lower. Railroad bonds firm. Money on call loans ruled at 1 and 2 percent. Further weakness was de- veloped in some of the coal lines, ‘Tury Have Opp Ipeas about Americans in England, and the British public must imagine queer things about the sort of char- acter a man must win to be sent to the Court of St. James as our Minister. We have no loubt that they believe Mr. Schenck passed + competitive examination in poker, and they will now insist that Mr. Pierrepont got ais appointment through the spout of a spiritualistic t Tur Decisive Bartix of the Servian cam- paign is, we are informed, to be fought in the Morava Valley. If such a battle is to take place at all that must be the ground, as the Servians cannot run any further. We are informed that Prince Nikita, of Monte- negro, is about to attempt joining hands with the Servians at Sienitza. That should have been his first move if he meant to take concerted action. Hor Weatuer seems to hasten the work of legislation in France as wellas in America, The passage of the Municipal bill by both thambers was probably as. much aided by the oppressive atmosphere of the chambers as by the sudden breaking of a wave of wis- dom over the Senators and Deputies, or that political dicker which is not unknown in European Parliaments, although some of our severe patriots claim that it is purely an American article. Fvertrve Staves.—The British Admiralty have at last issued a circular order to the commanders of English war ships, which will be apt to satisfy the friends of freedom in Exeter Hall, unless they cavil at the clause which makes the reception of fugitive slaves discretionary with naval officers. With most of the officers, perhaps, the dis- cretion will mean an asylum to all who seek it, but to not a few an oleaginous darky, however fugitive, will be as objectionable as “the slovenly, unhandsome corse” that of- fended ,the nostrils of the foppish lord that Hotspur tells of. A Goop Pirce or Work was the capture of two noted hotel thieves on last Friday evening, who, judging from the quantity and quality of the plunder taken from them, must have been among the most dangerous of their class. As usual, the arrests were due toa private citizen, who, recognizing one of the criminals on Broadway, quietly fol- lowed him to the Astor House and handed him over to the police. see their names in print, but they are not fond of telling more of such stories than is | sufficient to chronicle their own share in the achievement. Waetnes His Misrontuxrs draw tears from Flint we cannot say, but never was medium in such sore plight as he whose spiritualistic teapot has been torn from his grasp and whose letters from trno, believers like Minister Pierrepont have been spread before a deriding public. He languishes in Ludlow Street Jail in contempt, while those who sought his services bow their heads be- fore a waggish world. Our reporter says that the mention of Minister Pierrepont’s name in Court yesterday caused ‘a general smile.” It pains us to think that when our Minister attends the next royal levee there will be ‘‘a general smile” also. Tne Srconp «xp Drciptne Victory of the yacht Madeicine over the Canadian yacht Countess of Dufferin, yesterday, was not very surprising to those who have watched | the previous performances of the boats. | experience | Everything that skill or could suggest had been quicken the Canadian schooner her first appearance as a competitor for yachting honors in these waters. The performance yesterday of the old yacht America, which first won the eup contested for, shows that, even against American lines as they were laid twenty years ago, Canada could not have won the race. Althongh we cannot conceal onr satisfaction that the trial has added another laurel to Ajherican yachting we feel prompted to say, in face of so gallant a foe, what an American rifleman said to one of the Irish team after tlie first close contest at Creedmoor:—**We ese all sorry both could not win.” done to s | remarkable men—a generation which has Detectives like to | after | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 1876.-TRIPLE Benjamin Disracti, Earl of Bencone | Meld. The announcement that the English Prime | Minister will retire from the House of Com- mons and go into the House of Lords as the Earl of Beaconsfield is confirmed. Mr. | Disraeli, at the prorogation of the present | session, will close a career whith the Lon- | don Times aptly describes as that of the greatest member of Parliament that ever | lived. He will retain the Premiership and | give the leadership of the House to a states- | man well known in America in connection with the Alabama Treaty— Sir Stafford North. | | cote, He will take his title from a little town in Bucks, which he has represented in the House of Commons for more than & generation. It was the title which the | Queen conferred upon his wife, when, with | a chivalric devotion to that true-hearted and noble woman, he pushed the coronet from his own brow and encircled hers. The Viseount- ess of Beaconsfield has passed away, and as the Earl of Beaconsfield Mr. Disraeli takes his seat in the House of Lords, His selection of this title is, therefore, in some respects a tribute to the memory of a woman whose courage and virtue influenced his career and whose name will live with that of the worthiest of her sex. Mr. Disraeli is an old man, and it has been seen during the present session of Parliament that the cares of government, and more especially the leadership of the House of Commons, were too much for his years and strength. He therefore surrenders his turbulent and ex- acting office to younger men and seeks the honored repose of the peerage. Tho retirement of Mr. Disraeli from the scene of so many trials and triumphs will make a profound impression throughout the English-speaking world. In a generation of | known Peel, Palmerston, Lord Russell, | Gladstone, Cobden and Bright—he has shown himself to be the most remarkable of | them all. It would be idle to compare Mr. Disraeli with the illustrious men who have shared with him or challenged his leader- ship of the House. There are few points of comparison. Peel came from a rich, middle | class family, the class which has created the wealth and greatness of modern England. He was on English gentleman always, and the sturdy John Bull English character re- joiced in his elevation and sustained him in his whole career. Palmerston came from a noble family, which lifted him into public life as soon as he left the university. He had all the advantages of wealth, rank and station. Lord Russell was a cadet of one of the great whig houses in the kingdom—houses almost royal in their power and dignity. He was forced into prominence as soon as he entered manhood, just as the representative of another great whig house— the present Marquis of Hartington—finds himself a leader of the liberal party because he is the son of the Duke of Devonshire. Gladstone, like Peel, came from the middle class, and had its support and sympathy. In addition he has wonderful gifts as an orator—gifts which have been excelled by none of hiscontemporaries, Exalted genius, blameless character and social caste gave Gladstone the impulse of success at the out- set of his career—an impulse which carried him to the highest office in the realm and secures him one of the most enviable posi- tions among English statesmen. Mr. Disraeli began life with none of these advantages. He did not have even those of a university education, which go so far in an English public career. He was an alien in race, blood, and we may almost say in re- ligion. His father was a quiet, plodding literary man, with a faculty for culling anecdotes and criticisms, which he pub- lished in books. His ancestors were Hebrews, who had wandered into the Medi- terranean countries, and from thence to Eng- land to escape the hereditary oppression of their race. The very name Disraeli was selected as an expression of devotion to Israel's God for having carried them through so many tribulations. He had a slender fortune. His tastes were those of a ro- mancer ; his reputation at the outset that of a dandy. His books were artificial, senti- mental, what we should be apt to call “gushing” emanations of the Byron school. There was nothing English about them or about his character. He was regarded as one of the curled darlings of Lady Blessington’s drawing room. Those who look at a picture of Disraeli, as published in the Blessington and Count D'Orsay days, will see an effeminate, gorgeous, rather loud young gentleman, who might hope, if his carcer was not arrested, to become a popular second class fashionable novelist, or, if he chose public life, an attaché of some em- bassy at Continental court. Even when he went into politics he was uncertain whether to be a radical or a conservative. His entrance into the House of Commons was amid the jeers and contempt of the members. When he arose to speak he was laughed down, and when he challenged O'Connell’s attitude as the loader of the Irish party that wonderful orator thought him only worthy of » contemptuous sneer as a descendant from the impenitent thief who died on the Cross. Yet in spite of all these disadvantages this fantastic young Hebrew adventurer, as he was regarded at the time, became the leader of the tory party, the chief of the Honse of Commons, the lieutenant of Ben- tinck and Derby, Premier; end now, arid the applause of all parties, he takes his seat in the House of Lords as an Earl of the | British Kingdom, tho peer of the Plantag- | enets, the Pereys and the Howards, and the actual ruler of England. We have no doubt that ill health and increasing years have induced Mr. Disraeli to leave the arena | of the Honse, which he knows so well and | | where he has won all his honors. But at the same time his vivid Oriental imagination cannot be insensible to the splendid closing of his wonderful life which a seat in this | illustrious assembly implies. There is no man inthe long list of English statesmen whose career furnishes parallel to that of Mr. Disracli. Pitt was the son of an Earl, the heir toa great name and a still greater fame, and he had with him the stabborn de- yotion of a king, who wielded royal power, as well as the confidence of the English | people. Fox had advantages of rank and nationality, and was the embodiment of the English character. There are but two men } won their renown by the sheer force of | as Premier he has held his power Without a | shows how genius, courage and patient de- | votion to duty will enable a man to rise from | ambition. To-day the little town of Bai- | trayed. To send only wheel ambulances | should be remedied at once. whose lives bear any resemblance to that of Mr. Disracli—Sheridan and Canning. Like Disraeli, they arose from humble station and genius. But Sheridan's head was too giddy to sustain his elevation, while Canning died before his full character was shown. Mr. Disraeli is not only a great orator, but a statesman--a leader of men. He showed the highest capacity for this when he defeated Gladstone's ministry on the Irish University bill. Whatever mistakes he may have made question. This power he takes with him into the House of Lorda In doing so he obscurity, and in spite of every obstacle win the highest honors in England. It shows that in a free government the most brilliant career is open to the humblest in the land. couthanigenssisiine The Musical Concourse at Batreuth. After years of trials, suffering and dis- appointment which would have not only daunted but would have annihilated a man of less resolution and less mental calibre, Richard Wagner, the most remarkable com- poser of our age, attains the goal of his reuth, which has been hidden from the world’s knowledge since the days of the splendor-loving Margraves, and which | has been known to modern readers only | as the home of the world-renowned Jean Panl, will be the scene of the most interest- ing musical event that has occurred since the days of Beethoven, The music drama of the trilogy, or tetralogy, of the Rhenish legend of the “Nibelungen,” on which Wag- ner has labored for years, will be commenced this afternoon. The performances will last until Wednesday evening. The first feature of novelty in this work to the read- er is undoubtedly its length, It is a novelty in the musical world to have an opera that takes four even- ings for its complete performance. In the dramatic line the only parallels we know of are those wonderful Chinese plays that ran‘ on uninterruptedly for a year before the last act is reached. Onr correspondent at Bai- reuth sends us a very interesting account of | the theatre, the artists, the visitors and the town itself, which will be found in another part of the Henap | to-day. Whatever may be the divided opinions of musicians concerning the claims of Wagner as an apostle of a new school of music, there is no doubt of his | genius. He drew his first inspiration from | the fount of Beethoven, and no one can deny the grandeur of his ideas, even if some may doubt their practicability in opera. To the credit of Wagner, it must be said, he has never yielded to the tyranny of form or tradition. Whether his influence result in good or evil there is no doubt of his sincerity or his indomitable perseverance | in the pursuit of what he calls the ideal opera, He has stripped the lyric drama of | much of its clumsy trappings and has ap- proached more nearly than any other com- poser the severe simplicity and natural greatness of the old Greek stage. The prima donna and the tenor, the aria and the scena, have been rudely displaced from their throne of power by him. In their stead we find the music drama—the evolu- tion of a musical subject by a process which is the highest form of art. Every detail in his operas receives equal attention, and symmetry, a quality hitherto unknown in the lyric drama, has been successfully | reached by this wonderful composer. In the destruction of time-honored forms in opera Wagner has incurred world wide op- position. It remains to be seen whether his school of opera will replace those works to which musicians and the public have been so long wedded. The performances of the “Ring of the Nibelungen” this week must command the thoughtful attention and study of every lover of mnsic. The Indian War. We may expect stirring news from the seat of war in Montana and Wyoming almost any hour. The columns under Generals Crook and Terry respectively are moving to- ward each other and endeavoring to catch the Indians between them. This is not an easy task, for unless Sitting Bull has such confidence in his forces as to voluntarily risk another general engagement he has a hundred ways of breaking through or breaking up. So the country must await the news with what patience it can summon. While, however, the lives of so many of our brave fellows hang in the balance such shortcomings in the out- fit of the columns os that pointed out by our correspondent with General Terry in the matter of ambulances deserve instant attention. ‘To leave a body of troops oper- ating in sucha hilly and difficult country without proper ambulances is not merely a grave blunder but « crime against the lives of the gallant soldiers. The very savages | they are sent to fight take the greatest care of their wounded, never leaving either dead or wounded on the field of battle except in the last extremity. No Indian chief would say that one of his wounded braves was ‘‘out of luck” and must be left to die, An army officer, however, has been found to say it of United States soldiers. When, during the Franco-German war, it was found that in some fortresses ammunition had been ,stored that did not ft the guns, a loud cry went up that France had been be- into a region that wheels cannot pass over is just as deserving of condemnation, This Let not our military authorities solace themselves with the thought that “it is too late now, any- how.” Mule ambulances in abundance could be on their way to the front in a week. ‘That there should be no means under the American Army regulations of reward- ing such signal valor as that displayed by the three volunteer scouts men- tioned in General erry’s order should make it the more inenmbent upon the country to mark its appreciation of the ser- vice they performed. Wnes Oup Sot hag been able to kill forty- seven Spanish field Inborers near Seville, where summer temperatures are normally high, wo may feel comparatively cool here, althongh the thermometer kicks its heels among the nineties. | the whole country. ‘In three years the im- ‘abundant during the last four years, The pro- Returning Confidence—Reviving Trade. Ina few weeks three years will have elapsed since the breaking out of the panic of 1873. The fictitious rise in values enabled those holding merchandise, stocks, mills, manu- factures and real property to borrow largely from capitalists and corporations. In many cases these stocks and properties were mort- gaged to the extent of seventy-five per cent of their then estimated value. In point of fact the actual increase of national wealth during these three prosperous years amounted only to the surplus produced each year, which was utterly insignificant when compared with the great increase in all values throughout the country. Mean- time an enormous amount of indebtedness was piled up. The crisis of 1873 was simply an awakening of the whole community to the actual state of affairs. Every one desired to realize; every one desired to be paid. Values receded much more rapidly than they had advanced. Confidence was destroyed, and very justly 80, as it became patent that a heavy per- centage of those indebted were utterly and hopelessly bankrupt. Their margins and equities were destroyed by the depreciation of the stocks, merchandise and real proper- ties, which had, under other conditions, formed the basis of their supposed wealth. The major part of these people put off the day of reckoning as long as possible, and hence it is that the number of failures in- creased so steadily during the three years of disaster we have just passed through. What percentage of these failures are fraud- ulent it is difficult to say; but that numer- ous unscrupulous debtors avail themselves of the facilities which are afforded by gen- erous creditors to rid themselves of indebt- edness, and start afresh with the capital of their victims, is beyond a doubt. Experience of this kind tends to in- fuse a greater element of caution in future business transactions, which is much to be desired in this community. It would seem from the semi-annual statement of Duan, Barlow & Co., showing the number of failures throughout the United States and Canada for the first two quarters of the pres- ent year, that the number of failures and the volume of liabilities is very much on the decline. They culminated with the last quarter of 1875, when they reached $70,000,000, declining during the first quar- ter of 1876 to $64,000,000, and during the second quarter to $43,000,000, showing a decline of $21,000,000 over the first quarter of 1876 and a decline of $27,000,000 over the last quarter of 1875. During the last three years, while failures were taking place in every direction, almost all business has been transacted on steadily declining values, and, consequently, at a loss, Moro than three- quarters of the weak brethren have liqui- dated by bankruptcy. An immense mass of individual indebtedness has been actually | paid in hard cash, while fully nine-tenths of the outstanding indebtedness is amply secured, taking even present low prices as the standard of value. Forced economy has prevailed in almost every household, with almost every individual, since the fall of 1873. The great falling off of our foreign im- ports denotes one phase of this economy. . The forcign imports at the port of New York alone fell from $420,385,032 in 1873 to $396,090,852 in 1874, to $367,358,908 in 1875, and to $306,743,366 in 1876, for the fiscal years ending June 30. New York transacted in 1874 fifty-seven per cent of the foreign commerce (imports and domestic exports) of ports at this port alone have declined to the extent of $113,641,666, and a further decline will undoubtedly be established during the current year. While people have bought sparingly of all descriptions of man- ufactured goods the cost of pro- duction has been’ greatly diminished. The farmer is in want of everything known as “store goods.” His crops have been duction has been large and a g¥eater area has been planted. The sources of the coun- try’s agricultural wealth are rapidly increas- ing. As a single instance of this increase the corn production of Kansas grew from sixteen millions of bushels in 1874 to eighty millions in 1875. In a word, all these above enumerated facts combined have had the effect of reviving confidence among mer- chants, manufacturers, builders aud traders, The public have come to the conclusion that the period of depression has passed and is about to be succeeded by a period of activity and prosperity. The rebound will not be sharp or quick, nor should we desire that it should be, With the early fill we may con- fidently look for a very considerable change for the better in all branches of business. Pulpit Topics To-Day. While so many city pastors are away in the country recruiting physically and mentally for the fail and winter campaign too much praise cannot be given to those who stay in the city bearing the burden and heat of the | day. But everybody cannot take vacations, | and city pastors aro like many of their flocks—in need of time and money to take a respite from toil and study. Mr. Davis stands nobly by his flock, and to-day will give them the touch of fnith—the secret of power. Dr. Deems, who watches faithfully over and cares for the interests of his ever- changing congregation, will this morning test their love as Jesus tested Peter's love, ‘The true test of love is prompt and cheeriul obedience. The test of Peter's love was faithfulness in the preaching of the Gospel, and his success was commensurate with bis fidelity. Mr. Taylor will offer some- thing to thirsty sinners which they do not seek after very diligently—-namely, God's free salvation—though he may persuade some to-day to try it and to become healthy Chris- tians instead of remaining in sin. » The la- boring interests are pressing upon the com- munity as they have not done for many years, and yet very little public attention is attracted to them. Mr. Lightbourn will en- deavor this evening to present the dignity and the claims of labor upon Christian peo- ple, and no doubt the snbjeet will be fully considered in all its aspects, The name of the Lord is too frequentiy used among us in / a profane and blasphemous manner, and | Mr. McCarthy has set for himself the task of | teaching his people how to sanctify that great Dane, Charlotte Cushman SHEET. The Dramatic and Musical Season. The dramatic’ season of 1876-7 is liberal in its promises, and will be, we trast, true to them in the performance. The horrible combination of managers will not effect much this winter. ‘These gentlemen, it will be remembered, if it is not already forgot- ten, recently met in this city at midnight, with dark lanterns and masks, and formed a solemn compact, with dreadful oaths and curses, not loud, but deep, never, never to submit to the ‘extortionate demands of the eminent high tragedian, the inimitable low comedian, the irresistible singer or any of the great lights of the drama. That star chamber resolved that Booth’s salary should be reduced, that the Florences were to be put on half pay, that Boucicault was to be docked, and Clara Morris and Fanny Dav- enport, and Brutus Davenport, Mark Antony Bangs, Cassius Barrett and all the rest were to be taught their proper places. The managers said:—‘‘The fault, dear brothers, is not in ourselves, but in our ‘stars,’ that we are underlings.” Of course this wonder- ful alliance, offensive and defensive, will be soon dissolved by mutual consent: The business relations of ‘‘stars” and managers are regulated by the laws of supply and de- mand, and a combination of the ‘‘middle- men” to get all the money they can from the public and to pay out as little as they can to the “stars” must speedily fail. If people went to the theatres to see the managers it would be different; but the public goes tosee the actors. The ‘‘stars” in their courses fought against Sisera, and all the tragedians, comedians and opéra bouffers are lenghing now at the foolish attempt to force them to play for less than what they are accustomed to get. A glance over the theatrical field is enough to show its attractions. The advent of Rossi, under the management of Mr. Maurice Grau, will revive the Shakespearian interest, and a brilliant series of performances may be expected from the famous Italian actor at the Lyceum. Then Mme. Janauschek, who has no superior in tragedy, now that treads the stage no longer, will appear in three or four new characters. Miss Dargon, who is very highly spoken of, will make her first appearance in New York as Queen Mary, Camille, Marion de Lorme and other important parts. The beautiful Adelaide Neilson will revisit us to console us for the loss of the lovely Ione Burke, who has eloped with her husband to England. It is singular that pretty actresses are gll the while running away with or from somebody. Miss Burke has deserted Mr. Wallack’s Theatre, but he may console him- self for the loss by the reflection that other managers wish that some of the lady mem- bers of their companies would follow her example. Miss Rose Wood, who became a great favorite with the New York public last winter, is engaged at the Park, and there are other ladies—Miss Claxton, for instance— whose names the public will recall and whose reappéarances it anticipates with de- light. Edwin Booth, we hope, will play, the star chamber notwithstanding, and Soth- ern, the Florences, Raymond, Owens and others will repeat their successes. We wish we could add John S. Clarke io the list, but the return of that distinguished artist is as yet doubtfal. As for our theatres, they will all present excellent programmes. Wallack’s will begin with °comedy, perfectly played, and Mr. Boucicault will follow as Con in the “Shaughraun.” We shall have Bret Harte’s new drama of ‘‘The Two Men of Sandy Bar” at the Union Square, and a great spectacleat Niblo’s. This week Lord Byron's celebrated drama of ‘‘Sardanapalus” will be produced at Booth’s Theatre, and as it is said thht Mr. Calvert has entirely rewritten it there is no doubt that it is very much im- proved. The prospect of opera is, unfortunately, not as good as that of the drama, but we presume we shall have opera of some kind. What tho Strakosches will do is as yet un- known, but it is to be hoped they will take our advice, combine their forces, and give the latest works with a really strong com- pany. Nothing less than first class Italian opera will succeed in New York, for the MM. Strakosch have themselves educated | the public, which expects from them all the merit it has been taught to appreciate. Now, when his company does not meet popular expectation, these be ‘‘instructions which return to plague the inventor.” Of Mr. Mapleson we have no hopes. Titiens is ill, and even were she well Mr. Mapleson, did he purpose to bring over a company, would long ago have covered all the walls of the town with his announcements. But we are at least certain of Kellogg and Atmée, and for the rest of our music must trust to fate. Guerillas in Politics. “Under which king? Bezonian, speak, or die”—is a quotation applicable to those re- mgrkable men whose politics are always a subject of solicitude to their friends, ‘There are certain politicians who never know what to do, and have to make up their minds in a hurry when it is time toact. There is Mr. Carl Schurz, who acted with the democrats so long that everybody imagined he would support Tilden; but who now declares him- self for Hayes. ‘Then we have General Sigel, who, after acting with the republicans for a long while, indorses Tilden, but takes good care to announce that he does not know what he will do hereafter, “I desire, how- ever, to add that I shall not renounce inde- pendent action in political matters relative to our own State and city.” Of course not. The principles of guerilla warfare forbid long enlistments, Both General Sigg] and Mr. Schurz may be considered illustrious examples of thos independent politicians who belong to neither party, but are continually coquetting with both parties. The result is that they are always in minori- ties and not regerded as good allies. The democratic press is very severe on Mr. | Schurz and expresses great delight that it has got rid of him at last, and the republican papers will soon be exulting over the defec- tion of General Sigel. We may concede these gentlemen ability and even sincerity in their errat ourse; but what are we to say of those “independents” who are even now hesitating between the two armies? They ave just ds ridiculous as Mr. Pickwick was when he got caught between the two bay- onet charges and did not know which way to cmntcnitiamntiapiiiiimstacumiatinninigiaaieils run. It makes little difference which way they run, for they are certain to go wrong and to be takem home by their friends afte: the battle is ended. The Religtews Press em the Cam paige. Atthhe date of issue of our religious ex changes week before last the acceptances of tht democratic candidates for the chief offices of the nation had not been long enough before the country to allow of comment in those journals. Hence they pay editorial respect to the subject in their latest issue. The Chris- tian Union thinks that Tilden and Hendricks could never have been found standingon the same platform but for that “enabling act” which advised the repeal of the resumption resolution. It was that that delayed their acceptance of the nomination so long. The Union thinks that upon the question of the treatment of the blacks in the South Mr, Tilden is unsatisfactorily brief, but this is a right and wise policy for can- didate who is saddled with nearly all the white ruffians of both sections. On the finances he says nothing but what the republicans had said before, and on civilservice reform he is silent, so far as touching the root of existing difficulties, Mr. Hendricks’ letter, the Union thinks, is unstatesmanlike and inconsequential, and it dismisses it there. Neither letter can per- suade any republican to change his party al- legiance nor convince an unprejudiced ob- server that democratic victory would bring about the desired reforms. The Independent thinks that, though the letters of Messrs. ‘Tilden and Hendricks contain nothing which apparently justifies the long time taken fos their preparation, they are of a character calculated to give great satisfaction to the po- litical friends of their authors. What Gov- ernor Tilden has said and omitted to say makes his letter read more like an annual messago than a letter of acceptance, and with very slight alterations it might have been adopted and signed by the republican; candidates. And Governor Hendricks’ letter is in perfect accord with Mr. Tilden’s, tor otherwise it would not have been allowed to appear before the pub- lic. But the-Jndependent reminds its readers that it is not as expert letter writers that those gentlemen appear before the people, but as candidates of the democratic party for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. Long before November, it says, the well- written letters of the democratic candidates will be lost among the rubbish of the cam- prign. Ina second editorial the Independent gives a summary of the war records of Messrs. Hayes and Tilden, and shows the latter to have been a “copperhead” of the nastiest type. Hence it goes in strongly for the republican candidates. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Lola Montez once tamed a wildcat by looking it stea- dily in the eye, Colonel Bob Ingersoll, of Illinois, is going to Maine to stump for Hayes. Thirty thonsand working girls in Boston have seventy distinct occupations. Charles Francis Adams is at Glen House, N. Hy, where he will remain for a month, Sofior Don Ignacio Mariscal, Mexican Minister a Washington, is at the St. James Hotel. be Professor Huxloy is at Yale College examining fos sils. He has not yet reached Congress, ~ Dan Rice says that a pig has a more actte hearing than any other animal except a horse, General Cissy, of France, is about to marry Miss Wilting, a Jady of the American colony in Paris. Captain William Gore-Jones, naval attaché of the British Legation at Wasbington, is at the Ciarendom Hotel, The Saturday Review is the only journal in the world that could write a cynical and humorous article on the massacre of Custer, The Enrl and Countess of Duftorin sailed from San Francisco yesterday on tho British corvette Amethyst for Victoria, British Columbia, A man bas jvst bought at the Bridgeport (Conn.) Na- tional Bank 126 half-cent pieces, dated 1806, that had Jain in the vault since that time, In reviewing Bret Harte's “Gabriel Conroy” the London Ezaminer concludes with this pungent som tence:— “After all, Boccaccio wrote only short stories.* Baron Herring Frankensdorf, Baron Klein Wison- berg and Baron Ringhoffer, of Austria, returned to this” city yesterday from San Francisco, and are at the Hotel Branswick. Some of the leading life insurance companies of Hartford are said to be writing only from five to ton new policies daily, the dull times having a terribly bad effoct on life business, The opening of a coffin of a young man at Derry, N. HL, who died thirty-three years ago, discloses the sin- gular fact that his hair has grown out two feet or more and is heavy, bright and fresh. ‘Ashford Centre, Conn., bas a century-old tavern at which Washington took bis grog, and the land!ord points with pride to the autograph of the truthtal George scratched on a window pane, Among the passengers in the steamship Wyoming, which arrived at this port last night from Liverpool, were Messrs, Frank S, Gustord, Robert H. Labat, Alfred Trower and Josoph Howell of tho London Row. ing Club, e Burlington Hawkeye:—“‘A young man named Pow. ers, living in Lucas county, bit himself with a ratile- snake one day last week. The doctor treated the young man by filling Lim up to the eyes with whiskey. It saved his lite, but it made the worst democrat out of him you ever saw.”” An enterprising East Northwood (N. H.) boy of six. teen eloped with and married a girl of fourteen, tom years ago, but she left him in about two years, where upon he married another gitt of the town without the formality of a divorce, Wife No.2 left him a whik ago, and, nothing daunted, he now takes to himselfs third, Y bs Rew silk is obtained for the Mexican silk factories fromm China, though there are plenty of silkworms and muiberry trees in Mexico itself. The State of Mexico is now offering a premjum of 60,000 pesos for the first wool factory, which is being established with a capital of 100,000 pesos, withont considering that Mexican woo! is usually of the very worst quulity. Hon. Rodman M. rrice, ex-Governor of New Jorsey, has accepted the mvitation of the Associated Pioneers oftho Territorial days of California to deliver an address at the reunion of Californians at Philadelphia, September 9, the twenty-sixth birthday of the State ot Calttorna, His subject will bo “Settlement ané Progress of California trom July 7, 1846, to the Present Time.” An English writer says:—Tho real clew toa Chine man’s action ig his settied principtc of non-interven- tion, To move in any matter there must be some strong circumstance affecting him personally to urge him. fe willstand by and stare ata Chinaman kilk ing a foreigner with exactly tho same indifference as ata foreigner beating a Chinaman,” Mr. Margary was long enough in China to leara that “it is tho natre of Chinamen to give in to apy: thing which Asseris its superiority. A kick and a fow words in his own tongue telling him he is an ignorant boor will make a common Chinaman worship you, Singly or in small! groups they are (he piuk of civility, but a mob fs rather aangerous, ACamporidge man sows that the Jow Cohen, who becomés Mirah’s brother in George Bliot’s “Daniel Deronda,” is probably a study ofa real Cohn of whom George Fllot’s husband, G, H. Lewes, speaks as a mem. ver of a which met in. London ¢hirty years ago, No says of bim:"Life was hard to him, as to all of us; bat he was content to carn a miserable pittance by bandicraft and keep his soul serene,” ——~