The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1876, Page 4

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AU GUST a MONDAY, 1876, rad Guitaioeda lida mnorn en hare chouiisiee are that the weather to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy, with, possibly, fog and rain. During the summer months the Henan will Le sent to subscribers in thé country dt the rate of tncenty-five cents per week, free of postage, “Srray Breatus or Sappuic Sono that blew through Mitylene,” according to Mr. Swinburne, ‘‘shook the fierce, quivering blood” of the Empress Faustina. So have the whi_.perings of political intrigues among the republican fuglemen of thig State shaken the blood of the summer dwellers in the sea- side metropolis on the Jersey coast. What they say and what it portends are set’ forth in our Long Branch correspondent’s letter. Bory Ben Burren has not only hoisted his flag in the Congressional race in Massa- chusetts, but has flung out his whip from the masthead of the yacht America, which he will sail against all comers. The Gen- eral has so often raised a breeze and rode before it, and so often, when it was blowing great guns, crawled up to windward, in Con- gress and out of it, that the public will not be surprised at his making sail at sea while making his canvass on shore. A Denare on Sprnirvarism took place in this city yesterday afternoon between a Dr, Halleck, who believed, and Rev. Mr. McCarthy, who did not. The discussion, «we are told, was orderly, and is to be con- tinued next Sunday. Mr, McCarthy alluded to some of the fraudulent manifestations as “heartless and cruel,” but we are not in- formed whether he ineluded the performance of Dr. Flint upon the teapot in the matter of “Dear Lady Mary d the other aristocratic ancestors of Minister Pierrepont in that category. We should be inclined to. Hoxor To tHe Brave.—The order of Gen- eral Terry thanking three privates of the army for their valor in going out as volun- teers through the Sionx country with de- spatches to Crook was graceful act. It is impossible to conceive of a deed of greater courage. The rule in the English army is more exclusive than with us. private soldier can ever be mentioned in general orders, The tle of Inkermann <ill of a soldier. Yet, although this scnre man protected the honor of England, his name could not be enrolled with We are glad that no such d ation exists with us, and we think that Congress before its adjourn- ment should recognize the services of the three humble privates who have won the high praise of their commanding general. and's heroes. Oxe Covr ror Rep Crovp.—Red Cloud Conkling, the great chief of the republican Sioux, has been in a temper with The- Man-Who-is-Not-Afraid-of-Whiskey, Bris- tow, chief of the reform band. It was the latter chief who put his coup-stick on Red | Cloud af Cincinnati, and although the blow was not fatal it was disabling. But Red Cloud crippled is more than a match for mostof the chiefs in full health. In the course of a de- bate in the Senate on Wednesday he drew out the fact ths tary Morrill had con- sented to the removal of nearly five hundred of the Treasury employes. renpon, said Red Cloud, if Morrill could do with nearly | five hundred servants less than Bristow, why did Bristow, the champion reformer of the age, keep them on the Red Cloud has struck Bristow a fair blow, and the ex- Secretary should reply. He is not prevented from answering this question by any obliga- toward the President, uyrolls? Tor Kevsex Munvrr.—It years since the disappearance of Charles G. Kelsey from the village of Huntington, Long Island, under circumstances pointing to the perpetration of a fonl murder, and yet noth- ing has been seriously done by the State authorities to bring the facts to light. Portions of a mutilated body were found, believed to have been part of the remains of Kelsey ; a coroner's inquest of a farcical character was held ; Governor Dix sent one of bis secretaries to look into the matter, but, we repeat, an carnest effort was not made to unravel the myste The case has remained a disgrace to Suflolk county. An endeavor is on foot to move the authorities to action, and we hope Governor Tilden will give it the aid of his official position and personal astuteness. If, as is reported, evidence of the crime is procura- ble, let it be procured. There no | ved to the English by the bravery and | is nearly four State | | its usefulness | charge of the negroes, NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY, AUGUBT 14, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The South and the Canvass—Letters from Mr. Rhett and Colonel Mosby. We print this morning two letters on the political situation from R. Barnwell Rhett, Jr., of South Carolina, and Colonel John 8. Mosby, of Virginia, These gentlemen are well known for their part in the Southern Confederacy. Mr. Rhett represents one of the oldest families in South Carolina, and during the war was a leader of the extreme State rights school. Colonel Mosby was a famous officer under Lee. There are no two men in the South better qualified to speak for the old Confederates, none whose devo- tion to the lost cause is less open to ques- tion. Mr. Rhett informs us that he sup- ports Tilden and Hendricks as the men who will save the South, Col- onel Mosby says ke _ will support Hayes and Wheeler for the same reason. Mr. Rhett, as a journalist of experience, would, of course, present his case with eloquence and force. We are surprised, however, to find in Colonel Mosby, who has always been known to us as @ cavalryman and guerilla chief, a writer of peculiar piquancy and power. His letter is an able political manifesto, and will make a deep impression on the canvass, We took occasion some time since to say to Mr. Rhett and his friends in South Caro- lina that they would act the wise part if they withdrew from any connection with present parties; that the attempt to make the democratic party a means for avenging their wrongs would be barren, as that party would never have the power, even if it had the wish to aid them ; that their antagonism toward the republican party had resulted in aseries of stringent acts which would not have been passed except as ‘‘war mea- sures ;” that by constantly presenting war issues to the North they kept alive the republican party long after had ceased; that the attempt to supplement personal slavery by political slavery would never bo permitted so long as the Union was con- trolled by the men who saved the Union; that while there was nothing but kindness and fraternity toward the South in the minds of the republicans of the North this feeling was answered by ostracism, anger, by placing every Northern republican who went South, and every Confederate who became a republican, under the ban of social degrada- tion; that as ten years’ support of the demo- cratic party had brought upon Mr. Rhett and his friends the disasters which ho him- self so eloquently describes his true policy was to withdraw from politics, deal magnani- mously with the North, and especially with the republicans of the North, and’by making their cause a national cause obtain from the nation what, they never can obtain from a party. While we ourselves should be quite content to see Mr. Tilden in the Presidency we pointed out to Mr. Rhett and his friends that their support of Hayes would disarm republican animosity and be an act of states- manship equalling that of Thiers when, after giving a long life to the throne, he ac- cepted a republic as the only government that could save France. The letter of Mr. Rhett only convinces us of the wisdom of this advice. We do not care to enter into his recital of misgovern- ment in South Carolina, except to show that this is one of the results of the policy which he and his friends have pursued since the end of the war. Mr. Rhett attributes this misgovernment to negrosuffrage. No doubt he is right. But negro suffrage was the work of Mr. Rhett’s own party. When the war was over wise republicans like Governor Andrew, Horace Greeley and even Governor Morton were anxious to have impartial suffrage, a general law that would make education or property a test, and thus rule out the large mass of ignorant slaves who were unfit to vote. But the Southern States, as soon as they began the work of recon- struction, sought to pass laws the eff-ct of which would have been to remand the freedmen again to slavery. Mr. Rhett will find traces of these laws through the whole South, in Mississippi more especially. The effect was to overrule the wishes of the moderate republicans and compel, among other evils, universal suffrage. Law after law arose out of this antago- nism which would not now exist had a dif- ferent policy prevailed. There was no dis- position on the part of any but a few ex- treme republicans, like Sumner, Chase and Phillips, to force negro suffrage upon the Southern States. They had seen the effects of an ignorant suffrage in the North, and hension that events have justified the eleva- tion of the negroes to citizenship. But what could they do? The Southern men were re- solved upon war. They carried the lost cause from the field to the hustings. They made war upon every measure proposed by the North. They resisted the military gov- ernorships, although Mr. Rhett will no doubt say that if the military rule had been con- tinued for a few years until the wounds of | the war had healed it would to-day be better for the material prosperity of his State. They resisted the Freedman's Bureau, although every sensible man must see how necessary such an organization was in dealing with the freedmen. They resisted emigration by treating ns an outlaw every Northern man | who went South and presumed to vote the republican ticket or seck office. They resisted all religions union, and threw upon the Northern branch of a body like the Methodist Church the spiritual More than all, the truculent element in the South, escaping from the control of wise and prudent men, rushed into riots and massacres, beginning with the appalling butchery in New Orleans in 1866 and ending with the disgraceful af. fair in Hamburg the other day. Of course men are men, and the North eame ont of the war with passions as well as the South. So passion on one side was an- swered by passion on the other, and those who, like the Henan, esteemed the South | and longed for the hour when her old Com- monwealths would rise from the dust were compelled to stand by and look on, while the Rhetts on one side and the‘ Thad- deus Stevenses on the other continued their unequal war, In every contest the North won, as was inevitable. The real friends of the South in the North were helpless. Mr. Rhett insists—and we do not doubt his sincerity—that there is no | they viewed with apprehension an appre- | j fecling of animosity on his part toward re- publicans or toward Northern men going to the South with honest intent and not as adventurers and vagabonds. Yet in his own letter he shows the contrary. He divides the government of his State as “‘carpet-bag- “sealawags” and ‘‘conservatives.” on, unconsciously made, perhaps, and as a force of habit, shows better than any argument of ours the real bitterness of feeling. The word ‘‘carpet-bagger” means a Northern man who votes the republican ticket. The word ‘“‘scalawag” means a Southern man who does the same thing. Governor Chamberlain has, we believe, lived in South Carolina for twelve years. Demo- cratic newspapers have honored him for striving to reform the govern- ment, and yet, because he is a repub- lican, Mr. Rhett applies a ‘contemptuous epithet tohim, Mr. Rhett would speak of Governor Walker, of Virginia, as a conserv- ative statesman. Yet Governor Walker was in the Union army, went to Virginia after the war, nnd was chosen Governor by the same influences which chose Chamberlain. Governor Walker, however, changed his pol- ities, made terms with the democracy, and is no longer a carpet-bagger. Will Mr. Rhett tell us why this epithet of dishonor is only given to republicans, and why Governor Chamberlain is not as good a Southern man as Governor Walker? Mr. Rhett would class in his list of ‘‘scalawags” General Long- street, Judge Settle, Colonel Mosby and others. The word ‘‘scalawag,” os we under- stand it, has a degrading meaning. It signifies a vagabond of the worst class. General Longstreet was o great soldier, one of the bravest in the Confederacy, the lieutenant of Lee. No man lives since the death of Lee who did as much for the Confederacy. Judge Settle belongs to one of the oldest and proudest families in North Carolina, and was a Judge on the Supreme Bench. Colonel Mosby's name will be remembered aslong as the descendants of the South cherish enterprise and valor and military adventure. Yet because a celebrated com- mander like Longstreet chooses to exercise his rights as a freeman and select his own party Mr. Rhett puts him ona level with a highway tramp and he is outlawed by the democracy of the South. We might continue illustration upon illus- tration, and, following Mr. Rhett through his able and eloquent letter, show the folly of his position and of those who act with him. The Henratp has a clear policy about the South. We would complete the work of reconstruc- tion by calling a national convention to consider whether we had not imposed upon the South too many burdens; whether, as we were ourselves responsible for slavery, we should not aid the South to bear the bur- den of emancipation. We are willing to deal as liberaily with the South as France did with the emigrants after the Restoration. We are profoundly convinced that such a policy is the sure and only way to peace and union. But with the Mortons of the North preaching a crusade against the ‘rebel,” with the Rhetts of the South preaching a crusade against ‘‘carpet-baggers” and ‘‘scala- wags,” passion and misrepresentation will rule. The day of true peace will come, but not by the election of any party can- didate. The passions of the hour must die. The Bourbon democratic party must die, The radical republican party | mustdie. There must be new parties, and we can only have them when the Rhetts and the Mortons see the mischief of their ways and come to o fraternal understanding. We trust that Mr. Rhett will not be disappointed in his dreams as to what will come to the South in the event of Tilden’s election. We do not share his illusions. There is no | future for the South in the success of any party as at present constituted—no future, but one of sorrow and trial until Mr. Rhett and his friends are wise enough to see that the way to win the North is to accept as sin- cere its offers of friendship and to treat the negro with political equality. We had hoped that ten years of sad political experi- ence would have taught onr friends wisdom, but Mr. Rhett’s letter convinces us that we shall have to wait a little longer. Sunday's Sermons. While many of our fashionable churches are closed for the summer, and in others less fashionable the regular pastors have been replaced by servants in the Lord's vineyard whose homes are outside the city, a goodly number of our well known divines expounded the law of God to their own con- gregations yesterday. Among these we may mention Dr. Deems, of the Church of the Strangers, whose beautiful sermon on “Love and Redemption” is reported | elsewhere. There is a fervid fulness of faith about it which is tho essence of the man himself. Pleasing, also, to the thousands of Christians who did not hear her, will be the sermon of Miss Anna Oliver, ‘Our Shep- herd and His Care.” There is no necessity to sustain any argument concerning the fit- ness of woman for the pulpit when such examples of her actual work therein are before us. The picture of the Pharisee given by Father McCauley at St. Stephen's shows us how undying is that type of religionist. We have them in thousands, but the same difficulty is found with them in our day as in that of the Sa- viour. A Pharisee is no more likely to dis- cover that he is presumptuous than a man afflicted with color blindness is to find out that what is scarlet to others is green to him. He is, however, worthy of a study for the sake of avoiding his offensive moral self- sufficiency and cool confidence in his claim upon an elevated seat in heaven. A Borrom Fact ry tur Sovrnern Ques- tron. —It is well to remember, when we are told that the negroes are mean, vicious, given to plunder and rapine, and only to be kept in subjection by the sword, that during the rebellion the white masters were, as o general thing, at the war, and tho safety of homes was committed to the negro slaves. The history of a war which was for their freedom has no instance of their betraying the domestic trust reposed in them by the whites, They are really a docile, affection- ate race, as is shown by the patience with which they bore centuries of slavery and wrong. . | whe First Performance at Batreuth. | ‘The “dramatic festival play,” that long dream of Wagner's life, which is certainly the most colossal experiment ever made in the world of music, has, at last, taken upon itself form and shape,-and the prologue, “Rheingold,” was presented Jast evening at Baireuth, Bavaria, before an audience almost an remarkable as the music-drama itself. Never before wes such homage paid to a living composer as on this occasion. Roy- alty crowded the gallery reserved for it, and around the two Emperors who repre- sented Europe and America were grouped princes and grand dukes innumerable. In the amphitheatre were gathered the most brilliant representatives of the empires of art and literature, all drawn together by the genius of aman who unites in himself the highest qualities of the poet and the musician, Strange os may appear the absence of light or applause among those distinguished auditors, it is a signifi- cant proof of the earnestness of the man in endeavoring to secure uninterrupted at- tention for his work. Our correspondent at Baireuth sends us by cable a graphic account of the first performance and of the grand success achieved by the composer and his artists. The selections from the score of “Rheingold,” which we pub- lish to-day, will give the musical reader a more vivid idea of the peculiar charac- ter of the music than could be conveyed in words. ‘The ‘water music” is the most striking feature in this portion of the music drama, and we have selected such portions of it as will render it intelligible to every musician, In this practical, hard working age of ours it may not be fruitless to rest for a moment from the pursuit of gain or the turmoil of business to lose ourselves in the fanciful legends of the gods and goddesses of the Scandinavian Eddas, and bask in the atmosphere of grand music and poetry with which Wagner has sur- rounded them. Music and poetry, when con- sidered separately, have always possessed a fascinating power, over the human mind. Wagner has united the noblest elements of both and has wedded to them all the attrac- tive qualities of the dramatic stage. The performances will continue until Wednes- day evening, when the last part of the “Trilogy” will be given. The “Straightoat” Policy Carolina, The Democratic Convention of South Caro- lina will meet to-morrow in Columbia. More than usual interest has been taken out- side of the State in this Convention. South Carolina has for some years, been known as the “Prostrate State,” and the efforts of her sons to rescue the Commonwealth from the rule of the bad men who came into power at the close of the war have been unavailing. The preponderance of the negro vote, and the folly of the democratic leaders in alien- ating that vote, have perpetuated the repnblican power. There have prob- ably never been such travesties of government as were seen in South Carolina during the administration of Scott and Moses. Tho letter of Mr. Rhett, which we print to-day, will give a fair idea of the condition into which these persons brought the State. The present Governor, Mr. Chamberlain, deserves the credit of having attempted to rescue the State from the worst elements of the repub- lican party. His war upon Moses and Whipper—one a white and the other a negro vagabond who were elected judges by the Legislature—gave him the support of the best men in the State. This support took the shape of a movement to nominate him for Governor on an independent ticket. It wae argued that such a nomination would be.re- peating the movement by which Walker was chosen Governor in Virginia and the State given to tho democrats. This move- ment was championed by the News and Courier, the leading democratic journal of South Carolina and one of the most influ- ential newspapers in the South. That spirit of intolerance which drove South Carolina into the secession move- ment and brought upon her so many woes— that spirit which, more than any other, has made her the ‘Prostrate State,” would not consent even to an alliance with the hated carpet-bagger, no matter how zealous he may have been to serve the people. A movement was set on foot which has been called the “straightout” movement. It would have no relations whatever with any North- ern or negro element. The contest has in South been bitter. Somo leaders like Wade Hampton, while expressing a desire for o straightout nomination have ex- pressed a willingness to be governed by the Convention. Others have not been so patriotic. The result, so far as we can judge from the complexion of the delegates thus far elected, has been to give the straightouts a decided majority. The’ party which Mr. Rhett represents with so much ability in the Henap this morning will control the nomi- nations, and we shall probably have Wade Hampton as the democratic candidate. Wade Hampton would make a good Gover- nor, and we should like to seo him elected. But the councils which control to-morrow’s Convention will, if unchecked, give South Carolina to Hayes. There seems to be no way of carrying South Carolina except by such a union as that proposed by the News and Courier. Wherever the old Southern party can make a union, either with honest, respectables negroes or Northern men who mean to take their part with them and build up the States, it is their duty to do so. Tho policy of hatred, ostracism and exclusion, the denial to the negro of any political con- sideration, isa mad policy. If the leaders of the Convention which meets to-morrow are wise they will ponder these things, and by conciliating all honest elements in the State give a ticket whoso success will be that of good government, fraternity and peace. Tae Weatuen.—There is no probability of any abatement of the distressing heat during the next threo or four days. Yester- day the heat area extended over the entire United States east of the Rocky Mountains. Rain generally prevailed in the Mississippi Valley and eastward toward the Atlantic coast, the rainfalt at Pittsburg being very heavy and calculated to cause a decided rise in the Ohio River. New York, as wo | have before stated, being sheltered consider- ebly by the northern extremity of the Alle- ghany range receives but a limited share of these general rainsheds, which are diverted northeastward. To-day the weather will be very warm and cloudy, probably with a fog during the early morning and rain toward evening, which may be accompanied by ao thunder storm, Heavy fogs will be met off the Banks of Newfoundland and icebergs will add to the dangers of aavigation in that latitude, Bluford Wilson does not shine in the testi- mony of Horace Porter. In fact, the whole drift of this investigation into the whiskey business has been to injure Bristow and Wil- son. It shows that while the Secretary and his solicitor were striving to execute the laws an early success turned their heads. The convictions of the St. Louis thieves opened to Bristow a vision of the Presi- dency. The large and respectable reform element in the republican party turned to him as the Moses who would lead the re- | publican party out of the desert of corrupticn. From the moment this mirage fell upon the eyes of Bristow his investigation took a politi- cal tint. It was thrown out to the world that Bristow in the Cabinet was another Daniel in the lions’ den. Enterprising newspaper men were laden with information to the effect that but for Bristow there would prob- ably be no Treasury, and that the letter about letting no guilty man escape was forced out of Grant by a sort of tooth-pulling process; that Bristow was the pillar of re- form and Bluford Wilson the foundation stone upon which the pillar rested. We have no doubt that Wilson and Bristow meant all the time to serve the government. They meant also, while they were about.it, to win the Presidency. This was the beginning | of their trouble. From the moment the canvass came into the investigation it be- came selfish, narrow and small. So far from the President having any knowledge of the whiskey frauds, so far from his writing his letter under duress, so far from attempting to screen those near him from the con- sequences of their guilt, it is clear that he meant that they should pass throngh the ordeal. Beyond a natural interest in the good name of one as close to him as his private secretary, beyond the honorable wish that a friend and confidant should not be destroyed if innocent, all the evidence shows that Grant was as anxious to prosecute the trespassers upon the revenue aos Bristow. It was only when the investigation was directed against himself and in the interest of a candidate for the Presidency that he began to show feel- ing. Weare bound to respect this feeling. The evidence of General Porter is entirely to the credit ofthe President and of the General himself. As we have said all along, nothing has gratified us more than the exoneratior which the investigation has bestowed uporf the President. Wo have never for a moment doubted his personal integrity. We are glad of this result, because, whatever political critics may say of General Grant, his name will live among the great names of history. Every American will rojoice that the victor of Appomattox will retiro into private life with a stainless and an honored name. A Pennsylvania View. Colonel McClure, of Philadelphia, one of the ablest of the politicians in Penn- sylvania, gives an exhaustive and elo- quent summary of the situation. The Colonel thinks on the whole the out- look favors Tilden, although he is not as sure about the election of Tilden as he was four years ago about the election of Greeley. The basis of the Colonel's prophecy is that as Indiana and Ohio go so will go the Union. He does not count New York as an important factor. Tilden can be elected with or without New York, and so can Hayes. We think New York will decide the result. We see little hope of the democrats carrying Ohio. Tilden is weaker thero than in any Western State on account of his attitude toward Allen when he ran against Hayes for Governor. In that fight Tilden really sup- ported Hayes. Indiana wo regard as doubt- ful, with the chances in favor of Hayes on account of sectional pride in a Western man. Moreover, the friends of Hendricks will not do as much to elect him Vice President as they would to have elected him President. On the other hand, New York can be carried by the democrats. If the republicans nom- inate a weak man for Governor, instead of some national statesman like Evarts, and the democrats put up Marble and Dorsheimer, the democrats will win. As Colonel McClure says, Tilden is a great organizer and will organize to win. If human power can carry New York Tilden will do it. He will not neglect a township. He has State pride with him; his brilliant record asa reform ring smasher and as Governor. All of these are points in his favor. Warentxo Prace Letrers and from sum- mer resorts generally are supposed by some mortals who, like Sir Charles Coldstream, “have seen everything, done everything,” and found “‘nothing in it,” to have a same- ness about them from yeat td year that be- comes at last intolerable. Wo do not sym- pathize with Vhomme blasé, tho misanthrope, or the bilions man, and certaimky not with the man to whom a pen picture of the changing life at our spas, mountain paradises, or our seaside me isas sawdust in the mouth of the thirsty. We suppose the Old Man in the Moon muét think there is a deal of sameness about the world he circles round ; but whilo it is the same old world even we, who have lived but our little day, have seen an interesting change or two upon it. To the young, the hopeful and those who carry a green heart into old age, our letters from Saratoga, the White Mountains and Long Branch will, we are sure, prove worth the trouble of reading, Prrcuzp Barriers wir tHe Posice, on however small a scale, are things to be unattractive for our law-despising lation. We hope that the occurrence borders of Jersey City and Hoboken, a policeman was badly injured morning, will be the means of our ronghs that every time they go to a pio. nic, even though it be Michael Whalen’s, they must not allow themselves the luxary of war on the guardians of the peace, PSE UEGE Re cASLNY soc na oe Waiting for the News. Unless Sitting Bull and his allies con- clude that they cannot fight the white men, and separate into small wandering parties, it is possible that we shall have news of a decisive battle in a few days. We have five thousand men in the Indian country under the command of two accomplished and cautions officers. There is no force that can beat this command if it is well handled, There is no prospect of its being defeated in detail. Custer’s fate will save us from a similar disaster. We have arumor that Crook has already met the Sioux and punished them with great loss. But tho story lacks confirmation. Our fear is that Sitting Bull will ran away, taking to the hills or to Canada, Such a result would end the campaign, which, for loss of men and money, would be one of the most disastroua in our history. If Sitting Bull should escape, and the cam- paign should thus end in disaster, we must | not be discouraged. We have entered upon this Indian question, and ‘we must settle it now. ‘his seems to be the purpose of the President as indicated in our Washington despatches. Tho whole work should de- volve upon the army. ‘That sink of in- iquity, the Indian Department, should be closed up. We should go on and occupy the whole of this Indian coun- try, pushing onr forts into all the command. ing points. We should lay out several res- ervations—not many, but enough to allow the Indians to live in comfort. Then we shonld order every Indian within these limits, there to remain. We should disarm them and see that they were not equipped for new spring campaigns by the agents of Commissioner Smith, There should be no pausing in the military work. Peace can only come with the Indians when every tribe is under our guns. That done, we can do all in our power to civilize them, if civili- zation is at all possible. Tue Lerrens rrom Franx Pocock, thé faithful young Englishman and last surviv- ing white man accompanying Henry M. Stanley, which we print elsewhere, form an admirable supplement to the more comprehensive letters of his master from Central Africa, There is a refreshing naiveté about these letters | which will appeal to the best feelings of our human nature. He has received the warm- est commendations from Stanley, and from time to time there crops out o hint of the tough mettle of the young fel- low which will, we hope, secure him the English wife he asks his parents to look out for in hisabsence. Few labored descrip- tions of a tribe of friendly savages could excel that wherein he describes the lake natives as ‘“‘naked but civil.” His deserip- tion of Lukongeh, King of Ukerewe, with ‘about twenty fathoms of fine brass wiro round his legs,” has a fine touch of the jolly tar about it. His diffi- culties with the language are admirably exe pressed in the appalling statement that there is ‘a fresh lingo every twenty miles.” Touching on the sad subject of his brother's death, ho gives a suggestive measure of the wild excitement of their life, “This is an awful country to forget; * * * I'm suro poor ‘Ted’s death was not in my mind one hour.” Tue Horezt axp Boanpixe Houss Tarsves are becoming very active lately. Crime is protean, and the boarding house thief of toe day is often the: pickpocket of yesterday, Look up the references of your new gentle. manly boarders, O landladies! No honest man will object, but the thieves are week on this point. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE General Schofield is at Old Orchard Beach. Dr. Chapin yesterday preached at Lynn, Mass. A Boston physician says that a passionate love will bring on heart diseage, Governor Hendricks lett Atlantic City, N. J., for In- dianapolis last evening. The tramps have reached Illinois, and the Chicago Tribune shouts “polico!”" Tho military careor is becoming very popular im Franco among all classes. The wila onion is the only vegetable of the Sioux, Yon seldom meet a Sioux who hasn’t tears in his eyes, Whitehall Times:—* ‘Fine feathers make fine birds, unless the feathers are pin feathers on a broiled spring chicken.” ‘A Boston waiter the other day on being reprimanded for his inatten:iveness replied :—'Thoy also serve who only stand and wait,” * Ruskin:—“The central man of the world, as repre- senting in perfect balance the intellectaal, moral and imaginative faculties, is Dante.” The hemming bird thrills and quivers and becomes cestatieally still as he thrusts his little, cool, golden- green body into a brillisntly scarlet gladiolus, The hamid exhalations of swampr may be prevented from being unwholesome to indwellors by having houses rarsed on po: jo thatair may circulate under the floors. A Philadelphia bookseller once inserted the following advertisement of “new publications:!— MIN on Polttienl Economy. Ditto on the Floss. Spectator:—If ever there was an original man ft was tho Greck; and the Greek built Pompeti, and Pompeii for half the year and half the day must havo beon ag hot as the lower regions.” Jlobn Franzen, of Northampton, Mase,, who has just diod at the age of eighty-six, was n soldier under Bona- parte, He went to Moscow ina company of 264 men, and returned ono of eight. Tho late Dr. Walter Channing was a brother of the Rev. William Ellery Channing, and was the originator of the clever jeu d’csprit in which it was asserted that his prother preached while he practised, Columbus (Ohio) Journal :—*The New Yorn Herarp says Sonator Thurman wears ashabby summer suit. The Henravn has probably nevor seon that suit Woe of Colembus saw it in 1860, and it looked nearly as good as new.” Danbury News: ‘The New York Hrrarp says that Grant will live In the splendor of history long after hig accusers have been forgotten, which reminds us that the juice of a iemon will remove ink stains from — linen coat, ’? A few days ago the borse which tho Into Emperor Napoleon redo at Sedan, and which was soon after purchased by His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, got his leg so badly broken st Lairg, Sutheriandshire, that it hail to be shot. ‘Thero is poetry even in that Sitting Ball of winced torments the uneasy mosquito. Think, young:-man, as yon listen to his grace before meat, that the bill that feeds upon your marbio forehead may only a little while since have caressed the damask choez of her whom you love. Mr. J. R. Riggs, of Wostminstor Training College, ‘Writes to the Spectator that after visiting the schools of Now York he found the grade of studies very tow, and bewailed the fact that young Pupils wore pis taught by girls of thirteen or fourteon who had beon pupils in the same school, Ile does not think normal seboo! teachers suitable. Great preparations aro being made for the forthcom. Ing annual cainp meeting atthe Thousand Island Park, The meeting begins August 16, and lasts two weeks, Among tho mary distinguished divines who will take partare Rev. Dr. Newman, of Washington ; Bishop Gil- bert Haven, of Boston, and Rey, Dr, Must, President of Nashville (Tenn) University, tl