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eT a a ee TR Te ee Ter a a 4 ‘ NEW FORE HERALD. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1876.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. NEW YORK HERALD| ————— BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every cay in the year. .Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per | month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Yors | Hera. Letters and packages shculd be properly vealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO., 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the rome terms es in New York. --<HO, 229 AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND BVENING, 4 BOOTIVS THEATRE, PASDANAPALUE. ase. M ewoop’s M SITTING BULL, at 8 P.M. Mai MPIC VARIETY, AA POM. Matinee ats PSE. PARISIAN VARIETIES, atsP.M. (THE MIGHTY WPOLDAR, atl TIVOLI TH VARIETY, at 8 P.M. GILMOR! GRAND CONCERT, at 8 P.M. Pappenheim. EN, Mr. Levy and Madamo THEATRE COMIC VARIETY, at 89. M. Matinee at 2 WITH NEW SUPPLE MENT. WEDNESDAY, YORK, AUGUST 16, 1876. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be slightly cooler | and cloudy, with, poss in the morning. During the summer months the Hzranp will | te sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of treenty-five cents per reek, free of postage. Wann Srnrer Yzsrenpay,—Stocks were strong on a moderately active market. Money on call loaned at 1 and 1 1-2 percent. Gold declined from@111 3-8 to 1111-4, and closed at the former price. In government and railway bonds there was no important change. Ar tHe Saratoca Racrs yesterday the favorites were beaten in every race—a fact which always adds zest,to good sport. Tne Latest Pouce © OutTrRaGE is the club- bing of a whole family by an officer. A wholesome example is’needed to teach policemen the dangers of club law. Tar Latest REu acious Rror rt took placo at Belfast yesterday. No cause is assigned for it, and probably none can be assigned, ex- cept the disposition of some people to dis- turb the TeuyIOUs, festivals of others. Tue Mraxrs of Mr. Disraeli’s acceptance of a peerage becomes clearer in view of the contemplated creation of other peers and a change in the Ministry. Tho veteran states- men only accepts the emptier honor when Zis work is finished. A Drscracrrut Stony, and no doubt a true one, is that related of the filthy accom- modations and general mismanagement of the steamship Colon, of the Pacific Mail lino, in her recent voyage frori Aspinwall to New York. Complaints of a similar character have been made against the company for years, So terrible are the abuses on these ships that selfish Americans rejoice that they are not often eompelled to take an American vessel when required to make a sea Voyage. The Sxcoxp Victim of the rotten tele- graph poles, with which the city abounds, died yesterday. L'OPERA. | Mr, Bangs and Mrs. Agnes | The Close of the acseen Congress adjourned yesterday after one of the longest sessions in the history of the government. The legislative results of this long session are not specially brilliant; but the same thing may be said with truth of every session of Congress within the last forty years which immediately preceded a Presi- dential election. It is a chronic infirmity | of Congress to pervert such session into a mere electioneering canvass. 1t has hap- | pened in this session that one of the great rival parties has controlled the Senate and | the other party the House, and justice con- strains us to say that the democratic House, in spite of its shortcomings, has made a better record than the republican Senate. The democratic party has labored under a disadvantage not shared by its opponents, in consequence of its long exclusion from power. For the last sixteen years the demo- crats have been deprived of opportunities to | bring forward their budding or rising states- men and give them the training and experi- ence indispensable for conspicuous useful- ness in publie life. The large democratic majority in the present House consisted, in| the maiv, of raw menibers, to whom Con- gress was a new theatre of action. In the composition of the committees most of the members had to be assigned to unaccus- tomed duties—an element of weakness ior which due allowance has not been made. And yet, in summing up the-work of the ses- sion, this raw House of legislative neophytes appears to advantage in comparison with the Senate, where the republicans have not only had a majority, but a majority of trained members. The work of the raw and inexperienced democratic majority in the House may safely challenge comparison with that of the republican majority in the Senate, consisting of old stagers who have had every opportunity to acquire legislative skill and are precluded from pleading the baby act in extenuation of their shortcomings. The republican majority in the Senate has done nothing to establish a claim to public confi- dence, whereas the raw and untrained demo- cratic majority of the House, in spite of the blunders of inexperience, has done much which a sound public sentiment will ap- prove. The House has reduced the public ex- penses thirty millions below the expenses of last year, and would have made much larger reductions if 1t had not been thwarted by the Mnate, Even if some of the proposed curtailments for the relief of the taxpayers werecrnde and inconsiderate these errors of inexperience do not cancel the merit of steady and persistent efforts in behalf of economy. The government has grown into habits of extravagance, and public senti- ment will indorse the strenuous attempt of the House to re-establish simplicity and economy. We do not believe that any public interest will suffer by the measures of re- trenchment which have been carried through Congress by the unyielding attitude of the House. ‘The country will easily pardon some mistakes of detail when the sincerity has been so apparent to reduce the expenses of the government and alleviate the burden of the taxpayers. That any public interest will suffer by these strides toward economy we do not believe. When we turn from the House to the Senate we seek in vain for any measure whith deserves strong appapval. What has the Senate done or proposed during this | long session which reflects credit on itself or its political party? It is idle to mark the shortcomings of the House, whose majority has consisted of new and inexperienced members, when a Senate of trained men has done so little. We are not insen- sible to the blunders of the House, but | when we compare its action with that of the Senate we are unable to point to any meas- ure of the Iatter which presents a favorable contrast. The Senate has resisted the at- | tempts of the House to curtail the public In spite of these deaths it | is doubtful whether any real effort is making | to remove these dangers to life. So careless are the companies that the breaking pole, from which Tanyean was precipitated to the ground, was in use atthe time, and the unfortunate man met his death in at- | Suits for | tempting to fasten a wire to it. damages are the cnly remedy against such heedlessness. Tur Uncertain Rumors which attend the war in the East continue, and our despatches this morning again reflect the usual character ofthe news. We have reports of another Mon- tenegrin victory over the Turks and of still further retrograde movements by the Ser- | rians, It seems strange that the one people «should frequently overcome the Turk in battle and the other constantly fiy before the enemy, and it may turn out that the charge of cowardice brought against the Servians is in fact the cause of their frequent misfortunes. Tae Inxprana Stnikens.—Governor Hen- dricks yesterday issued a proclamation to the strikers who are detaining the trains and impeding the business of the Ohio and Mis- sissippi Railroad, ordering them to desist from their unlawful proceedings. It is to be hoped this proclamation will have the de- sired effect ; but in any event the Governor is to be respected for his early and vigorous action. His determination that a band of strikers shall mot interfere with the business | piaine the opportunity which he was so of the road is in every way commendable, and we may well believe that he will use all the resources at his command to compel obedience to the law and respect for the au- thority of the State. Quren Tsanena’ 's Reterx to Spain already beginsto work mischief. She had scarcely set her foot once more in the country of which she formerly was sovereign before her partisans began to plot in her behalf, and now we have evidences of the success attending these mistaken efforts. Such indications bode no good to Spain. A change in the Ministry is only too apt to be followed by an attempted | and gratitude. change in the government. ‘There is no rea- sonable fear that Alfonso wfl be displaced | that his mother may again ascend the throne, but the unnecessary agitation and disturb- ances which are the result of her presence in Spain are in themselves hurtful and revo- lutionary. The young King cannot long expect to retain the affection or respect of expenditures, The Senate acquitted Bel- knap, whom the House impeached on con- clusive evidence of his guilt. The Senate attempted to revive the franking privilege, and failed by the non-concurrence of the House. ‘The Senate defeated the House bill for transferring Indian affairs to the War Department—a wise and wholesome measure which the enlightened public sentiment of the country strongly indorsed. The Senate has confirmed Clapp as public printer, in spite of his demonstrated unfitness. The Sen- ate has passed no bill for giving effect to the law requiring specie payments in 1879, al- thougk its majority profess to stand by that act, and although everybody acknowlegges that new legislation is neccessary for giving it effect. Nobody can lay his finger on any act of the present Senate which has any tendency to alleviate public burdens or to introduce a better system in the adminis- tration of the government. It would be a violation of fairness to judge the House by a “rule which cannot be applied to the Senate. ‘These two branches of Congress are co-ordi- nate, and it would be absurd to hold one to a responsibility which does not belong to the other. ‘The inexperienced House, in spite of its blunders and shortcomings, has done something to put public aflairs on a better footing ; the experienced Senate has done nothing. " We do not ignore the mistakes of the House. It acted unwisely in furnishing Mr. prompt to seize to arraign the democratic party as the champion of Jefferson Davis, It made a signal exhibition of imbecility in its attempts to deal with the currency ques- tion, It has expended effort in investiga- tions where the game was not worth the powder. It made on abortive and useless attempt to reform the tariff. But in spite of these failures it is impossible to withhold from it the credit of persistent and success- ful efforts to reduce extravagant expendi- tures and lighten the byfden of federal taxation. The Senate as established no such claim to public recognition We must judge the two houses by their achievements, is too evident that the Senate has nothing to gain by a comparison with the legislation of the House. Had the House been as ex- perienced in public affairs as the Senate its | record during the session might have been better, but it has no reason to shrink from a his people if his mother is to be allowed to | comparison. It is easy to say that the democratic ma- | o exert her malign influence over his fortunes. jority in the House has been impelled by mere party motives in its successful efforts to reduce public expenses. But party zeal always deserves applause when it takes so wise a direction. It is the proper business of political parties to ascertain the public will and conform to it, and the demo- cratic majority of the House has hit the true tone of public feeling in its strenuous battle for economy. It may have erred in minor details, but its main purpose was right,jand public sentiment will indorse it. A saving of thirty millions | in the public expenses of the year against | the opposition of the Senate entitles the House to public gratitude. We cannot deny that this economy has proceeded from party motives; but party action is always whole- some when it conforms to the popular will. Shorn of Their Glory. Four full fledged Ministers, nearly all of them plenipotentiary and otherwise magnifi- cent, are now sailing in the upper atmos- phere of European diplomacy, like birds of Paradise, with their long tail feathers pulled out. The ruthless hand of democratic economy has irreparably spoiled their splen- dor. There is the magnificent Read in Athens—one of Aristophanes’ fellows. But a few days since he held up his head in the land of the Achains with the consciousness that if there were brave men before Aga- memnon there had been a few since also that ought not to be altogether disregarded by the historic muse and the other muses. And now that Minister is only a Chargé d’Affaires; in fact, Uncle Sam's man of busi- ness. Business in Greece! He will come home, of course. Cramer, in | Denmark, is also reduced to the moderate dimensions “ot a Chargé, but he will not come home, for he is one of the family, and toward the end of his diplomatic career caagot afford to look down even on small things. Moran would just as lief be Chargé as Minister in Lisbon, for his re- moval from London was such a blow as made it impossible for any future change to hurt him. Sympathy would therefore be lost. Rublee at Berne will be astanding evidence to the Swiss that in this centennial year the great Republic is returning to the ways of honest republican parsimony. His salary before was about equal to the whole Swiss budget, except when they put the army on a war footing; but now that it is cut down so as not to be more than five times as large as the salary of the Swiss President the fact may re-establish us ip the eyes of that economical nation. The Elevated Railroad. In the fight of the street railroads against elevated railroads, or against any other form of rapid transit that may relieve the people from the miseries of transit by street cars, it seems safe to score one for rapid transit in the decision just given by Judge Van Hoesen in the Special Term of the Court of Common Pleas. It appears to be the opinion of this Judge that the people want ,rapid transit, and that is a safe induction from all the facts. It is further evidently his opinion that the will of the people being known on that point, and formally declared in the laws, it is not the province of the courts to assist any interested parties in obstructing any enterprises likely to secure the desired object, unless their rights are so clear in the matter that to refuse to concede their de- mands might clearly be called a denial of justice. In the multiplicity of laws, com- mon and particular, and legal principles more or less general that bear or may be made to bear on the rights and wrongs of railways in cities decisions may be given, and are giten, a great many ways, and ‘it is refreshing to find that now and then they are given inthe way “aa to relieve and help the people, Lacrosse in the United States. The game of lacrosse is one of those we have yet to learn; for, though it is an old Indian amusement, it is almost unknown in the United States. It is a ball game, played on foot, and though it resembles cricket and base ball in these general features it differs very greatly from them in its details. Much skill and judgment are required, and it is full of interest and variety. This week some of the finest lacrosse players in the world will be introduced to this country by the Polo Club, at New- port, and games will be played® to- | day and Saturday on the club grounds, | There are twelve players on each side, In- dians and Canadians, and they are the same who recently visited England and played before the Queen. Her Majesty was so much pleased with their exhibition that she pre- sented, personally, each player with her portrait, and American sovereigns will no doubt take as much pleasure in this Indian sport as did the gracious Empress of India herself. We hope that the lacrosse players will not limit their visit to Newport, but will visit New York, as well as the Centennial at Philadelphia. Americans may learn a new and valuable open air amusement, and it would be curious if a sport once popular with all the Indians along the Atlantic coast, but now almost wholly abandoned to the Canadian tribes, should become one of the national amusements of the United States. Tae Weraturr.—To-day the weather. will be slightly cooler, with northerly to north- easterly winds and partial cloudiness, Rains prevailed last evening in the Northwest, the lake region, the North Atlantic coast and in the Lower Mississippi Valley. The North- western storm noticed in the Henatn during the past week is now passing through Canada, where extraordinary rains have oc- curred. ‘The existing conditions indicate the development of ‘another area of low ba- rometer in the West, which will probably advance eastward during the early part of the coming week. Forty To Oxr.—One story from the Indian | country is to the effect that when Custer | encountered the Indians in his last fight | they outnumbered him forty to one. and it | The tendency of the Indian mind to exaggeration may underlie this story. But it is certain that the attack on the camp of Sitting Bull | was against greater odds than were ever before seen, in military encounters. The more the Custer chargé is studied the greatef will be the admiration of mankind for the valor, self-denial and self-sacrifice of that famous captain and his band, The Close of Parliament. The Queen has prorogued Parliament in a speech which we print this morning. Her Majesty makes two allusions which will in- terest Americans. The first is the expression of a regret that there should have been any lapse in the Extradition Treaty between England and America and of a hope that some means could be found to arrange treaty that will enable both countries to punish rascals who escape from justice. The other is the allusion to the Servian question. Public opinion in England has expressed itself with so much emphasis as to the atrocities in Bulgaria and the ina- bility of the Turks to preserve peace in their Empire “that the Queen responds to it by hoping that peace will soon be assured and assuring the members of Parliament that the offices of the government will, when the time comes, be used in the interests of humanity. The withdrawal of the Extradition Treaty is wholly the fault of the English government. A cgreful reading of the debates in Parliament and the correspondence between the two governments shows that but for the obstinacy and narrow-mindedness of the English Home Office there would have been- no trouble. But the interests of the two countries are so identical that a treaty cannot be postponed. England doesnot wish to become the asylum of American knaves, nor does America care to become the harbor of refuge for every rascal who runs away from England. If Lord Derby and Sir Edward Thornton go about the work in the proper spirit there is no reason why a treaty should not be matured in o fortnight. There is no ques- tion that cannot be adjusted. We have no desire to invade the right of asylum. England clings to this right as acardinal point in her charter of freedom. Certainly a treaty can be devised that will recognize the rights and suscepti- bilities of both countries. As to the Servian question, the time is coming when the Turks must give way to the Christians. ‘hus far this war has been complicated by the fact that on one side we have Russia determined to occupy Constantinople, and on the other side England resolved to hold the Levant as the pathway to her Indian Empire. Eng- land is behind the Turks, Russia behind the Servians. If the question ends as it now stands it will be an admission to the world that England is too strong for Russia. Tho quarrel adjourns but it is not adjusted, and we are glad to have Her Majesty's word that she will intervene whenever she can do soin the interests of peace, The marked event of the present session is the retirement of Mr. Disracli from the House of Commons and his entrance into the House of Lords as the Earl of Beaconsfield. Mr. Disraeli has filled so conspicuous a figure in the history of Europe for the last thirty years that an event as important as his admission into the peerage has a world- wide significance, The story now is that his retirement from the House of Commons means his withdrawal from public life. This is probable. In the House of Commons Disraeli was a ruler. No man knew the House so well. He was, in the words of the London Times, ‘the greatest member of Parliament that ever lived.” In the House of Lords he is noth- ing—only one peer among hundreds, with noblemen as able as Lord Derby, Lord Salisbury, Lord Cairns and others among his own followers to dispute his authority and move in sympathy with the traditions of his party. Mr. Disraeli must feel that the days of his leadership are over. If he can- not govern that party from the House he cannot from the Lords. No party can live in a state of healthy activity with an ailing, feeble man at itshead. ‘The tory party needs a new chief, and it would not surprise us to see, when Parliament reassembles, Lord Derby or Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister, The withdrawal of Mr. Disraeli from the head of the government takes from the public eye'one of its most interesting figures. It is natural that any statesman should shrink from the responsibilities involved in the near future of English politics. The liberal party is dissatisfied with the leader- ship of the Marquis of Hartington. That young ngbleman has shown respectable capacities as chief of the liberals, but there are twenty men in the House who could do as well and who have more sympathy with the aims of liberalism. Something more is wanted than that a leader should be the son of aduke, and the fact that Lord Harting- ton is the heir to the great house of Devon- shire is the main reason of his elevation. But burning questions, vital questions, ques- tions that have a deep meaning for the English people, are forcing themselves upon the liberal party. Some man must be found who represents the true idea of liberalism, and we are not surprised, therefore, to hear that a new leader will be chosen in the place of Lord Hartington. It is said that there will be a division of the party in the event of Lord Hartington in- sisting upon retaining his power. We shall have two wings in the liberal party, the old whig section, who will be glad enough to fol- low the Cavendish lead, and a new section under men like Fawcett, Dilke, Forster or some more available leader. It may be, therefore, that the retirement of Mr. Disraeli will be the general break-up of all parties as at present constituted and the signal for political discussions of the most extraordi- nary character. ‘ Cox and Kasson. Our nimble-witted townsman, Mr. Sunset Cox, has not appeared to advantage in the debates of the present session. So long as he was content to act the part of a good-natured buffoon on the floor of the House he made himself popular with members of both par- ties who are‘willing to be amused; but his new infirmity of losing his temper is fatal to his success as a parlinmentary wit and mountebank. It is a very old maxim that he who makes others laugh seldom makes him- self respected; but a parliamentary buf- foon may nevertheless be popular s0 long as he maintains the jovial tem- per which relieves his sprightly sallies from any appearance of malice. But Mr. Cox has many times during. this session de- scended from playful ridicule to coarse abuse and brutal violatiofs of parliamentary courtesy, and he made one of his worst ex- hibitions in opposition to Mr. Kasson night before last, It is not « light thing foran old member of pant 0 to eed give the lie to another member and approach him with threatening gestures asif he were about to make a personal assault. We are glad that Mr. Cox was at last brought to acknowl- edge his error and make'an apology, but it would have been a great deal better for his reputation if-he had not given way to such an unseemly gust of passion. If this were his first deviation from parliamentary propriety it might be overlooked, but he has repeatedig descended from his favorite réle of a light buffoon to that of a malignant blackguard during this session, and he should be made tounderstind that such exhibitions excite the shame and dis- gust of his constituents. Mr. Kasson’s assault on Tilden was no doubt unfair and unjust, but Mr. Cox might have exposed it without degrading himself from a par- liamentary wit to a parliamentary bully. Mr. Hewitt, who never violates propriety, subsequently demolished Mr. Kasson’s charges in a decorous speech, and Mr. Cox might have replied with equal courtesy and effect if he had not foolishly lost his temper. A few more such exhibitions would ruin Mr. Cox in public estimation. American Outdoor Amusements. The encouragement given to athletic sports in America of late years has had a percepti- ble effect for good. All outdoor games are immensely popular, and the reports published daily in the Henaxp from all parts of the country are looked for as eagerly as those of finances, foreign wars and the bear garden in Wash- ington. Trotting and running racesp boat races, yachting cruises, polo, pedestrianism, swimming, Scottish games, rifle and pigeon shooting, wrestling contests, cricket, base ball, make our American summers brilliant. The Saratoga boat races and the great matches at Philadelphia attract more people than did the Olympian or the Pythian games of Greece. The nation cannot have too much open air recreation, which is essential to both its mental and physical health, and every new sport deserves special welcome from those who are interested in the thorough culture of the race. Thirty thousand persons recently attended the Buffalo race course to see the contest between the’famous old mare Goldsmith Maid (who now wears the crown which Flora Temple resigned) and the stallion Smuggler, and though they missed an exciting race, for Smuggler would not trot, they were re- warded by the extraordinary performances of the Maid. She trotted in 2:16, 2:15 1-4 and 2:15, making the fastest three consecu- tive heats on record. Here is an illustration of the progress made on the American turf in the last ten years and the interest which the public takes in that superb sport. The time which Goldsmith Maid has achieved is unparalleled, but it has been almost equalled by a dozen horses. Judge Fullerton in the same race trotted each heat in less than 2:17. All of the wonderful achievements of Lucy, American Girl, Lulu, Fullerton and others on the trotting course, and the run- ning of Mate, Madge, Tom Ochiltree, Preak- ness and others prove more than exceptional merit in horses. They show how the aver- age of speed in American horses has been raised of late years, till"nowa mile in 2:20 is almost common on the race track, while many good roadsters think little of a mile under 2:30, in private trials. The speed of American horses has beeg greatly improved by scientific breeding and training, and every stable owner and farmer profits by the increase “of value. This development results chiefly from the popularity of racing as a national amusement, and those who look on the turf as merely an idle sport have no conception of its usefulness and: influence. If the turf has added to the wealth of the country by developing so remarkably the stability and speed of the animal upon which man most depends for labor and pleasure, athletic sports have equally advanced the physical standard of the race, Twenty years ago America was almost destitute of organized amusements in the openair. The turf was thenalmost alone. But now it is very different. Our colleges are famous for their physical contests in rowing, ball playing, &c., and we believe that the culture of the mind is directly aided by the intelligent culture of the body. The Greeks had the finest poets, the profoundest philosophers, the grandest dramatists, the noblest sculp- tors and the bravest soldiers in the world, and they also had the best athletes. Their civilization was founded upon a free and thorough physical development. The stand- ard of physical culture was almost ideal. It was their magnificent training in all the sports of their time that enabled them to repel the Persian invasion, to rule from Athens and Sparta the legions of barbarians around, and it was their perfect health as a people that produced a Pericles, a Themis- tocles, a Phidias in sculpture, and an Zschylus and Sophocles in poetry. For these reasons we are glad to see the great impulse given of late to outdoor sports in the United States. Every village has now its boat club or its ball club, and the benefits are perceptible. We are grow- ing wiser in our generation, and the fine physical culture which was looked upon once as a mere relaxation or waste of time is now recognized to be a nafional benefit and an individual necessity. Every new game that employs the body and the mind together adds to the collective strength of the people, and we repeat that there is no athletic sport worthy of the respect of man in which intellect does not play an essential part. The brute strength of Ajax was more than that of Achilles, but the fiery spirit of ‘Achilles, ina frame of steel, made him the terror of Troy and the saviour of the Greeks, Osty a Bantroxr !—The artists of Baireuth are only human after all, and Wagner has to encounter all the ills that artistic throats are heir to, notwithstanding the halo of divinity that surrounds the personages of his music drama. The hoarseness of a baritone has interrupted the performances of the ‘Ring of the Nibelungen,” and ‘ Siegfried,” which was announced for last evening, is post- poned for twenty-four hours. Let Strakosch and Maretzek take courage. Even at Baireuth the singers exercise an influence over the impresario, who was to do away with the tyranny of the vocal artist. And onlys baritone, at that! The Two Adjournments. Parliament and Congress adjourn about the same time. The two bodies have had busy and anxious sessions. In England the shadow of the Eastern question has kept the government under the apprehension of war. When the history of this Parliament is writ- ten it will be found, we have no doubt, that but for the firmness of England’s rulers we should have had a general Continental war. We do not see that the adjournment betters the situation. The Servian question is more critical now than it has been at .any time since the outbreak. Other ques tions in England have been thrown into the background by this war danger. In America the election has warped all legislation into a strife for power. It remains to be seen how far legislation will - affect that contest. So far as Congress is concerned neither the republicans nor the democrats have won any material advantage, They go into the canvass with even chances— all power and discipline on one side, a de- sire for change upon the other. When Par- liament reassembles in February there will bein all likelihood a new ruler at the head ot English affairs in place of Disraeli. When Congress reassembles we shall have | determined who is to rule us in place of* Grant. These two bodies in their adjourn- ment mark important dividing lines in American and English politics. The Dublin University Rowing Four. This last of the three distinguished British crews to arrive proves certainly the strongest to look at and will very likely be the best one to go. Mr. Ferguson has been substi tuted at a late day at bow for Mr. Pentland, while Mr. Hickson at two and the twa brothers Barrington aft, with a third brother as @ spare man, thake up the party. ‘Uhe two Messrs. Barrington are men strikingly deep chested, vigorous and full of power, while Mr. Hickson’s broad, clean, sinewy make would mark him = any- where as an uncommonly tough man. All look in capital trim, and have worked hard at the Scythia’s pumps throughout the voyage. They have under consideration Commodore Ferguson's pro- posal to allow Wesleyan, and perhaps Yale, to row in the graduates’ fours, and the prospect seems good that they will quite prefer.this to a walk over in that race. All rowing men will be pleased to hear that Mr. E. D. Brickwood, the gifted editor of the London Field, and probably the first rowing critic in Europe, accompanies them, and purposes remaining throughout the races. He brings the gratifying word that both the Thames professional four and the giant Trickett, the champion sculler of the worlds mean to be on hand. How the News Repeats Itself. Tho singular manner in which the news of this little world repeats itself, not only from day to day, but from generation to generation, is illustrated by John G. Saxe's poem on “The Press,” which he read before Brown University in 1855. Speaking of the Heraxp, the Tribune ond the Times of that year Mr. Saxe'said :— Letters doscribing many raral scenes; Ship news, and often news for the marines; Fortune’s bright favors and misfortune’ shocks, The fall of Hungary, the fall of stocks; The important page that tells the thrilling tala, How empires rise and red republics fail; How England’s lion, loitering in his lair, Essays in vain to fright the Russtan bear; How France, bemoaning the expensive war, Would give her *‘Louis’? to save her lowis d'or; While the poor Turk, whom hapiess luck attends, Cries, “Gracious Allah! save me from my friends!* The last. lines are almost an exact picture of Europe to-day. England is still afraid of Russia, France is just getting rid of her debt to Germany, ant e Turk trembles far more at the thought of what Russia, Austria and Germany may do than at the insurrection of Montenegro and Servia, If Mr. Saxe had oc- casion to write on the news of ‘‘The Press” to-day he would have little change to make in the poem written Swenty-ons years ago. Tue Apmisston of the South Carolina gentlemen who are accused of the murder cf the colored men in Hamburg to bail for one thousand dollars suggests that this was the ruling price of an active, full blooded negro before the war. There is one magis- trate in South Carolina who understands the fitness of things. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Captain Eads ts at the Centennial. Boston ling as a wool market, Josb Billings is in the White Mountains, fishing. Hayes will not make speeches during the campaign, At Martha’s Vineyard people bathe and eat black- berries. In the Sandwich Islands one may catch goldfish by the batfut. Count Dwarakowsky, of Russia, is at the Wirth Avenue Hotel. Tho family of Senator Windom, of Minnesota, is iz the Berkshire Hills, Governor Rice proposes to say something about Jesse Pomeroy in a few days. Senator George S. Boutwoll will lectare in New Eng. land on “Abraham Lincoln.” Senator John W, Stevenson, of Kentucky, spac arrived at the New York Hotel, Mr. J. B. Gough will lecture extensively in the State west of Chicago the coming season, It is £0 hot in Contral Massachusetts that the boys are stoning baked apples off the trees, W. D. Howell, ot the Atlantic Monthly, being the author of a “Life of Hayes,” will probably be treated as Hawthorne was treated by Pierce, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher will lectnro in Canada from September 21 to September 28, He will begin at Montreal. “What we want,” said a democrat, the other day, “4s a radii id startling change."? Then he wort and bought a clean shirt. Visitors at Revere Boach (Mass), Sanday, watched for an hour the rare phenomenon of a mirage, a vessel seoming to sail through the clouds. Count and Countess W. Von Arnim, of Berlin, ar- rived at the Brevoort House yesterday, from Newport, and will start this evening for Niagara Falls, William T. Adams, the boys’ cherished “Oliver Optic,” seriously injured his spino at Dorchester, a few days ago, by falling from a window sill, Mr, W. I, Coolidge, of Natick, Mass., has recoived @ check from the Treasurer of the United States for $10,222, payaole to the executorot the estate of Henry Wilson. Baltimore American:—‘Some recent events and dis- closures in Chicago touching the activity of women ia public affairs point a moral that ought not to be over- looked. "” Alady writes:—“Dear Hkra.p—Don’t you makes mistake in chronicling daily the movements (?) of Gem eral Terry? 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