The New York Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1876, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, sUNDAY, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business, news letters or telegraphic | despatches must be addressed Nuw York | Herat. | Letters ond packages should be properly | tealed. . Rejected communications will not be ‘re- | turned. H PHILADELPHI. SIXTH ST. T. LONDON OFFICE OF HERALD--NO, 46 3 STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE VOPERA, Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the nme terms | asin New York, | —NO, 11280UTH | Vv YORK | THE I ~~ AMUSEM KELLY & LEO? ater. M SS TO-MORROW. MINSTRELS, OLYMPIC THEATRE, VARIETY, at SP. M. 5 PARISIAN \ asp. M. FIFTH LORD DUNDREA WAL! THE MIGHTY Dol 1 VARIETY, at 8 P.M. 3LLMOTE: GRAND CONCERT, at 8 Pappentetm. a “COMIQUE. THE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M, BooTiDS THE . SARDANAPALUS, tS? M. Mr. Hangs and Mra Agnes Booth. wood’ LADY GODIVA, at 5 P. BURLESQU d Bi TRIPLE Le. | “NEW YORK, St AUGUST 20, 1876, From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be cloudy and | warmer, with rain. During the summer months the Tixnaxp twill le sent to subscribers in the country at the rate of Warn eet npay.—Speculation was quite dull on a declining market. Gold opened at 1103-4, declined to 1105-8 and closed at the opening price, 110 3-4. In| government bonds there wasaslight decline. Railroad bonds were steady and in fair re- quest. Money was abundant on call loans at11-2a2percent. Foreign exchange was quiet and without feature. Tur Fentan Prisoners, whose escape from | Australia was reported some months ago, srrived at this port yesterday, and accord- ingly there is great rejoicing in the Brother- hood. Prrswent Grant arrived at Long Branch | yesterday, and ho will now enjoy a short season of repose at his cottage by the sea. The country will not grudge his vacation aftera long summer spent at Washington, with a democratic House of Representatives and innumerable committees of investiga- tien, ‘Tum Toames ProrrsstoxaL Caew is now on its way to take part in our Centennial re- gatta. Such an interesting muster of oars- men never before took place at any point to test their muscle as will gather on the Schuylkill, so that we may congratulate our- selves in advance that the international boat race will proven grand success, Porrucat is passing through a period of financial disturbance. Tho banks aro sus- pending payment, although it is alleged that their assets exceed their liabilities. The ex- treme measure of suspending obligations for two months by a government decree has been resorted to; but time alone will deter- mine whether this can afford the needed relicf. We Horr the authorities will not go to sicep over the question of ‘rotten telegraph poles.” Itshould be unnecessary for any more fatal accidents to occur in order to insure the removal of these dangerous and un- sightly objects. Indeed, after the timely warning already given of the number and character of these death traps, the city might be made liable for all future accidents from this cause. From New York to tue Sra in thirty-five minutes is a pleasant realization of rapid transit that will aiford enjoyment to thou- sands who cannot spare the time for more tedious journeys. The new line to Coney Island via Bay Ridge will be liberally pat ronized as long as it is operated in the inter- est of the public. The success of the un- dertaking enti depends’ on the good sense and efliciency of its managers, Tur Wearurr.—Freqnent rains have pre- vailed thronghont the West and Souh and in the Middle States. Anarea of low barom- eter extends from sinia to the St. Law- rence, which will bring us rain during its passage to-day. Tho temperature will in- | crease somewhat during to-day and Monday, but will be followed by cooler weather on Tuesday next. Frequent thunder storms may be expected during the next few days. Tue Sanatosa Races.--Notwithstanding the threatening appearance of the sky # large assemblage of the lovers of horse rac- ing gathered on the Saratoga course yester- day to witness the sport of the day. Nor were they disappointed, for seldom did the Baratoga races afford more yennine enjoy- ment. With a fine track and the excelient running of the competing horses nothing was wanting to render the mecting a suc- sess. We publish elsewhere a detailed ac- count of the five races that took place, with the names of the winners. Tne Orriciat Decisnavion oy Tux TunK- tu Goverswent, published elsewhere, somes to us filled with protestations of the | Bultan’s desire to do all in his power for the welfare of his subjects. It points out in strong terms the ingratitude of the Servians and Montenegrins in not waiting patiently on the pleasure of I!is Majesty in this re- gard, and casts all the responsibility of the present war on these rebellious vassals. Viewed by the light of history and the flames of the Bulgarian villages this latest manifesto from Constantinople is a fine example of the sublime impudence of the | Bublime Porte, | There is no sufficient basis for forming | den | prefers Mr, Cornell as | large portion of those whose votes are needed | canvass | party. | Mr. Dorsheimer forbidding him to be his The New York State Canvass—Candi- dates for Governor. The next two weeks will bea period of great political activity in this State. The Republican State Convention is to meet at Saratoga next Wednesday, and the Demo- cratic State Convention at the same place on | the Wednesday following. It is hardly too much to say that the result of the Presi- | dential election may be decided by the | action of these two bodies. It is pretty gen- erally conceded that the party which carries | New York will elect the next President, and the Stato is so evenly balanced when a full republican vote is brought ont that a slight ; defection on either side might turn the seale. | | an intelligent opinion or even a reasonable conjecture as to the result of the Presidential | election until after the party conventions shall have been held in the Empire State, whose thirty-five electoral votes are expected to insure the success of the cendidato for whom they are given. The reason why so much hangs on the ac- tion of the two Saratoga conventions is that there are elements of discord in both parties, and if either fails to satisfy its dissentients it incurs the almost certain danger of losing the State and with it the Presidential | | | | election, The republicans of New York are divided into a Conkling and an anti-Conkling faction, who look upon each other with jealous and malig- nant eyes, and each is bent on foiling the other. There is also a feud in the dem- ocratic organization, partly smothered since the nomination of Governor Tilden at St. Louis, but with fire enough left in the dying embers to be again kindled into a flame un- less the defeated faction is courted and soothed by the friends of Mr. Tilden, The chief knot of difficulty in both parties is the selection of a candidate for Governor, and it does not yet appear that cither party will be ablo to untie this knot without alienating o large section of its adherents. The first choice of the most powerful man in each party is well understood, Governor Til- prefers Mr. Dorsheimer as tho democratic candidate, Senator Conkling the republican candidate ; but cither of these nominations would cause great dissatisfaction among o for this election. Neither party can be harmonized unless its chief relinquishes his personal favorite, and it would be wiser both for Mr. Tilden and Mr. Conkling to do this by voluntary concession than at the end ofa struggle. There is this difference, however, that it Mr. Conkling insists on his candi- date he will probably be beaten in the Con- vention, whereas if Mr. Tilden insists on his he is doubtless strong enough to nomi- nate him, thongh at the hazard of losing the State. We do not expect either the nomina- tion of Mr. Cornell by the republicans or of Mr. Dorsheimer by the democrats; but if either party should make this mistake ond the other avoid it tho one that blunders will pay a heavy penalty. The republican delegates to Saratoga have all been chosen, and Mr. Cornell will enter the Convention with considerable strength, thongh not a majority. His most formidable rival is, perhaps, Governor Morgan, an old and tried republican, whose wealth and lib- erality would give him an advantage in the But he is a leader of tho anti- Conkling faction, and Mr. Morgan's contri- bution to election expenses would not over- balance the coldness of Mr. Conkling’s friends. if there is to be cordial harmony some candidate must be taken whose nomination would not humiliate Senator Conkling. Mr. Conkling’s friends would readily accept Andrew D. White if they can- not have Mr. Cornell, but Mr. White is president of the Cornell University, and is under too great a load of obligations in that direction to be satisfac- tory to Mr. Conkling’s and Mr. Cornell's republican opponents. Mr. Evarts would perhaps make a stronger candidate than any other gentleman who has been named. He | has not, indeed, for the last few years been in full sympathy with the republican party; but the same thing is true of a large number of the prominent supporters of Mr. Hayes. The success of the republican party depends on its ability to bring back members who have been estranged, and the nomination of Mr. Evarts would de more in this direction than that of any other candidate. If ho has been of late a lukewarm republican he has at least the advantage of having been in no way mixed up with the struggle of rival factions, and his nomination could not wound the pride of cither. He is one of the yery ablest men in the country, and the universal respect which is felt for his character would bring him more outside support than any other candidate would be likely tocommand. Among the minor can- didates are Mr. Robertson, Mr. Pomeroy and Mr. Woodford, none of whom seems to have much chance, according to present appear- ances.‘ On the democratic side a number of can- didates have been talked of besides Mr. Dorsheimer, and several who would be much | more acceptable to the great body of the | Among the objections to Mr. | Dorsheimer is the fact that he is too recent a recruit to have any title to so high an honor, which could not be conferred on him without injustice to democrats of older standing and longer service. Another ob- jection is his close association with Gover- nor Tilden; for it is thought that harmony | cannot be restored without some concession to Mr. Tilden’s former opponents. Mr. Dorsheimer is fairly entitled to a renomina- tion for his present office as a mark of con- tinued confidence, but it wonld breed a great deal of ill feeling in the party to put him at the head of the State ticket. It is understood that Mr. Marble, who would make an admirable Governor, does not | desire the nomination, his friendship for | rival. Besides, if harmony is to be | cemented, it is better that # candidate should be selected who has been neither an opponent nor a warin supporter of Mr. Til- den in the recent quarrel. Judge Church has been talked of in certain quarters, but it is mere talk, and nothing will come of it. Judge Church threw away all his chances of political promotion two years ago, when he might bave had a unanimous nomination, which would have put him in the same posi- tion which Mr. Tilden occupies at present. Such chances do not come to a man twice, and Judge Church's recent political associa- tions have not been such as to make him a desirablo candidate. Allen C. Beach would like the nomination, and the entente cordiale ha® been restored between him and Mr. Tilden, but the conspicuous political blunder he perpetrated last year makes him an impossible candidate in this election. There is one other gentleman, whose name we have reserved for the last beeanse there is so much to be said in his favor. We mean Mr. Clarkson N. Potter, a demoerat of char- acter, integrity, ability and aecomplish- | ments, who has never been mixed up in any | fight of factions, who rendered long and faithful service in Congress until he declined {a re-clection, who is respected alike by political associates and political opponents, is an able lawyer, a statesman of liberal and enlightened views, 1 model citizen and a gen- tleman of popular manners, At the demo- cratic conference at Saratoga two weeks ago, consisting of about three hundred democrats from all parts of the State, Mr. Potter was talked of with great favor as among the strongest candidates for the Governorship, and his friends were gratified to find that he is as esteemed and popular in Western and Northern New York as he is at this end of the State. Potter and Dorsheimer would make a ticket strong in itself, and one that would perfectly harmonize the party. “The Ring of the Nibeclungen.” A week of remarkable musical interest is that which has just closed with the crowning of Wagner with a wreath of laurel. For at least ascore of years it has been the custom to scoff at the great music drama on which Richard Wagner was engaged, and during all that time tho “music of the future” has been re- garded as a charming absurdity. Few of us would admit the possibility of the produc- tion of the “Ring of the Nibelungen” at all, and we have all had our jokes at the expense of the artists if it ever should be produced. While we worshipped at the shrines which Donizetti and Rosini and Verdi had set up wo laughed at Wagner’s ideal perfection and scouted the notion of dramatic consis- tency in music, ‘The reason of all this was simply that we were mad with melody. We could not endure an opera that was too far above tho level of the street singer and the variety artist. Coneeal it as we may, the aria in operatic music is akin to the ballads of the street and the airs of the black and white minstrels. The ‘Casta Diva” is only a higher and more intense form of the ‘Mulligan Guards.” It is at best only an approach to dramatic music; but it is not its dramatic character, but its kinship to ballad music, that has made us receive it so tumultously. There is no art in the aria, and its place in opera has always been the expression of the absence of the art idea in the works of the composers. Mr. Wagner's success is the first real step toward its abolishment and the substitution of music dramatic in form, in scope, in aim, and in expression for the crudities and in- consistencies which come and go with the lyric effigies of the operatic stage. It is idle longer to talk of the impossibilities of the Wagner ideal, of the usclessness of voices in the whirl of his instrumentation and of the incompatability of his theory with dramatic and musical capabilities. THis success dem- onstrates the truth of all the great master of modern musie has ever claimed. It is true the boys cannot whistle his music in the streets as if his work were the art of Auber or Offenbach, True art is never within the common reach, Painting would soon fall into insignificance if the chromo paste- boards were held in equal esteem with the elaborated original which came from the hand of genius. What would sculpture be worth if a tobacco sigm were placed on exhibition side by side with the work of some modern Phidias? It is such a process as this that we have been applying to our music drama. Wagner's trilogy cannot become awork for popular representation. It will never be represented at the Academy of Music as “Faust,” “La Traviata” and “Il Trovatore” are represented now—-by every chance company that comes along—but it will form the great art idea of every music- loving people, and although the “Ring of the Nibelungen” will not be sung until we learn to worship art so ardently that we shall be willing to pay for it, that time may not be so far distant now that we have had one opportunity of judging of the real scope and purpose of Wagner's ideal of dramatic music, A Croton Deluge. The spasmodic efforts of the Croton Aqueduct engineers to furnish a supply of water to the city took the form of an attempt to drain the High Bridge reser- voir into the house top tanks up town on Friday last. The labors of the housemaids of Harlem have hitherto been devoted to carrying the water from the basements to the top floors by the pailful. But on Friday these conditions were suddenly reversed j and the difficulty was to prevent the flow from the roofs deluging the basements and all the intervening flosrs. For some time the department has been laying big pipes,, preparatory to this aqueous surprise ; but the thought never struck the officials that householders might not like to have their furniture saturated with the diluted filth of the Croton reservoir, With an energy worthy of great praise they turned on the flood and made Harlem howl with dismay. As a practical joke the deluge was a success. Nothing couid be more ludicrous than the sight of the pots and kettles floating off the tops of the kitchen stoves and the servants wading for the back stairs, We are getting along splendidly. Now let us have the Fire Department out once a week for hose practice on the pedestrians on Broadway. Let Castle Garden be con- verted into a quarantine station: and the plague introduced direct from Bagdad, and future generations will contemplate with envy the glorious privileges we enjoy dur- ing the Centennial. Op Cateponta has despatched her rifle- men to our western shores to contest for the Centennial prizes at Philadelphia. They will receive a hearty weleome, especially on account of the independent position they assumed while their English neighbors were sulking about that imperial team, i | AUGUST 20, 1876—TRIPLE SHEET. Tammany and Anti-Tammany. We believe wo are not premature in an- nouncing that the negotiations between Tammany Hall and the opposing wing of | the democratic party are practically at an end. It is not even certain that the commit- tees of conference will again meet, and in reality there was no hope of agreement from the beginning. The purposes of the rec- onciliation were such that the people could have no real sympathy with them, and throughout the proceedings it must be confessed that the Tammany leaders ex- hibited a spirit of concession seldom shown in that quarter, It is not to be expected that Tammany Hall will voluntarily yield up its power, or so much of its power as to give ita secondary place in the affairs of the city. To compel it to do this it must be overcome at the polls, and this is precisely what the anti-Tam- many leaders did not propose to do. By a compromise John Morrissey sought to obtain for himself that which John Kelly would not give him without it, and to give John Kelly that which it is not certain he can get at the polls, The whole thing, then, appeals to the public in the light of a politi- cal bargain, but in political bargains there | ought to be something like fairness as well as in a faro bank. In such a case the negotiations’ naturally turned upon the basis of representation in the approaching State Convention; but this was also understood to apply to the division of the city and county offices, Morrissey de- manded one-half; Kelly stopped short at a third. Morrissey said anti-‘lummany was a | party, and in a partnership was entitled to share on equal terms with Tammany ; while Kelly said anti-Tammany had only one- third as many votes as Tammany, and could not expect to sharo upon any other basis than that of its voting strength, Neither side would recede, and so thoy agreed to disagree, and the great powwow ends only in heartburnings and resentments. Ifthe real as well as the pro- fessed object of the conference had been to secure harmony in tho party on State and national issues it would have been entitled to respect; but nobody can care much for a movement which is only intended to get official plunder out of Tammany Hall. Death of Speaker Kerr. ‘The announcement of the death of Speaker Kerr, although it has been anticipated for weeks, and even for months, will be read with profound regret by all of his country- men, In many ways he had endeared himself tothe people of the United States. It was known that under a cold exterior he carried a warm heart and an almost*impulsive na- ture. No man was truer in his friendships, none more ardent in any cause which he espoused, and none more earnest in secking to know his duty and in doing it. He was not a man to conceal his opinions to gain votes orto fail in his duty lest he should lose friends, As a democratic leader he had comparatively little influence upon tho fortunes of his party, but had ho en- tered upon his Speakership in health and lived to enjoy that good ago which his earlier years seemed to promise he might have made an important figure in our history. As it is he leaves a bright memory behind him. Tis public career is without a blemish. His honesty was prover- bial, his public acts were pure and straight- forward and his ambition was ‘unselfish. Nothing that was mean or truckling or cow- ardly was ever imputed to him, and when the tongue of slander impugned the recti- tude of a single act in his public life his vindication was immediate and complete. Disease interposed to snatch from him tho enjoyment of his well earned honors, and death came through much suffering. As he lay in agony through all the bright days of summer he saw the bright world, which he knew had still much in store for him could he have lived, slowly fading from his sight, but he awaited the end with a fortitude and resignation which must be regarded as his crowning glory. His example is all the brighter because in its personal and domes- tic aspects his life was noble as his public career was pure and unsullied. Pulpit Topics To-Day. While we are sending missionaries abroad to others we are too apt to forget ourselves, and Dr. Deems, appreciating this fact, will to-day suggest the propriety of acting the part of missionary to one’s self; and while men are looking for power only in material forces Mr. Lightbourn will remind them that truth is a power and a force in this world as great as any that exists; and as an evidence of what truth can do Mr. Stone, a converted infidel lawyer, will illustrate the difference between theoretical and experimental ro- ligion, and show what a wonderful influence the love of God has over the human soul, What men think of Christ is one thing and what they do with Him is another and often quite a different thing. Mr. Davis will speak of both to-day, and show his people what they ought to think of and do with the Saviour, Mr. MeCarthy, who is holding a controversy on Spiritualism with awell known defender of that ism, is also discussing it in his own pulpit in its differ. ent aspects. ‘To-day he will discuss the re. lation and the difference existing between | | materialism and the soul's immortality and the value or worthlessness of spirit medinm- ship in the elucidation of either or both. Mr. Snow, having exhausted the prophecies of Daniel, Ezckiel and John of Patmos in relation td the future of Romanism and of the world, comes down to-day to the parable of the Ten Virgins, into the fulfilment of which he will inquire, Of course, looking at it from the Adventist standpomt, he will | lose sight altogether of the practical lessons which it is designed to inculcate. But “the kingdom of God” must thus suffer violence, East Payments on Harp Tenms.—The system of selling sewing machines and fur- niture on monthly payments to poor sewing women and householders has degenerated into a regular plan for swindling the unfor- tunate dupes who purchase on these so- called easy terms, The Bridget Barry case is still fresh in the memory of our readers, and we had hoped that the system had re- ceived a wholesome check ; but we are com- pelled to record another instance of dis- honest dealing, in which a poor widow woman has been tho sufferer. It is to be | fuences than are their palefaced neighbors. regretted that the law does not empower the police justices to deal summarily with these knaves, who trade and grow fat on the mis- fortunes of the poor. ‘he system is a disgrace to our community, and should be wholly suppressed as illegal and extor- tionate, Religious Press Notes. ; Three current topics of interest receive at- tention in the latest issues of the religious press. Oneisthe Wagner musical festival in Baireuth, on which the Boston Pilot re- marks that, while the Germans are a wonder- ful people in theirscientific, philological and musical attainments and the metaphysical air which everywhere invests their literature, “Vaterland” is at the bottom of all. Their great poem owed its revival-to the reaction against French supremacy in Germany dur- ing the first decade of the present century. It did good service then, and it is politic now because soothing to the national vanity of Deutschland to reproduce it with all the at- tractions of a gorgeous dramatic dress and appropriate music. Another topic is the constitutional amend- ment against sectarian appropriations to, and teaching ia, the public schools of the land, which the Observer gives without com- ments. The Northwestern Christian Advo- cate, however, looks upon this amend- ment as a needed breakwater to the en- croachments of Romanism. While the matter referred to is sufficiently guarded against, so far as the general government is concerned, the several State governments are at liberty to do the thing that it is now proposed to prohibit. ‘Any State,” says the Northwestern, ‘could change its consti- tution in this respect, if it pleased, without consultation with other States, and could establish the Romish orthe Methodist or the Presbyterian Church within its own boun- daries. Hence the wisdom of a provision in the federal constitution which shall insure, on a point so fundamental, a common policy throughout all the States. In the matter of the public schools it is time that we reached the end of any uncertainty as to their character and management. A Roman Catholic majority in any one State could now institute measures for distributing the public school fund indiscriminately to all schools in proportion to the number of chil- dren in each, which is the demand of their ecclesiastics. In that case we should seo division lines run through the community, which would operate to increase and per- petuate a clannish and sectarian feeling. 1t is not well to promote any such result by the use of public money. ‘he declaration by Archbishop Purcell of the Catholic clergy’s position on this school question is discussed by the Independent, which does not place much reliance on it, and gives the reasons for not doing so. The Pope has spoken and written against them; too many of the prelates of the Church have raised their yoicés in opposition, and the Catholic press has been too unanimous in condemnation of those institutions. The Indian problem also reccives atten- tion from our religious contemporaries. The Christian at Work protests against the unreasoning denunciation of the Indian as an individual, and the cry for vengeance for Custer’s death. Jf the fortunes of war had gone the other way, and the Sioux had been destroyed, Custer and his command would have been complimented. If ever there wasa subject that required to be looked at without passion this Indian question is the one, Prejudice and passion have already cost us more lives and more money than we can afford ; and it is time the country awoke to the fact that the opinions that have con- trolled our Indian policy are borrowed from the class of men least worthy to be heard in the matter. ‘The Intelligencer thinks it absurd, in view of what has been accomplished among the Indians in the brief period that the policy of their education and evangeliza- tion has been on trial, to repeat the state- ment that nothing can be done to break up their nomadic habits and to extinguish their traditions and tastes. It cites recent evi- dence given by Bishop Whipple at a visita- tion at White Earth Reservation, from which it would appear that the Indians are more susceptible to intellectual and moral in- The Turco-Servian war, the reform cry of the democratic Presidential nominees and the Southern disorders also receive attention from some of our contemporaries, The War in Europe. For many weeks the word “‘mediation” has figured so largely in European rumors that the wits have got to comparing it to the sea serpent, which every one has heard about but nobody has seen safely landed on terra | girma, But the occasion, as all admit, on which mediation will be appropriate seems to be not far distant. With war once on foot somebody must be whipped, or at least badly hurt, before any one is eager to. make peace, and then peace is precipitately if not passionately sought on one side or the other, and if the rule holds good in this dry weather Servia should now be quite pre- pared to submit her case to the good offices of some well disposed neighbor or other- wise to lay it before a diplomatic jury sup- plied by the several Powers. Doubtless, if the case were not one of singular delicacy, this course would have been ere this strenu- ously urged upon her. But no advice would havo been palatable in Belgrade save ad- | vice from St. Petersburg, and from that quarter it would have seemed less like ad- vice than command. Servia would not have felt at liberty to reject it, and her readiness | would have laid the responsibility of her fate upon her powerful neighbor, who evi- dently did not care to put herselfin such a position in view of the complications of | England in Constantinople. In this it may yet appear that Russian diplomacy was in fault, But however it might have been in the past, an early mediation seems now the inevitable fact, Tur Sewanp Moxument.—-The decoration of the city parks with the memorial statues of the illustrious dead of our land will en- hance the beauty of the metropolis, as well as furnish fitting tributes to the worth of genius ond patriotism. Lincoln, Seward, Greeley and such men haye deserved well of their country, and we are pleased to record | the completion of the statue to the great Secretary which is to adorn Madison Park. | and wit thas wai! for Kuropa More Foolish Economy. The way in which the veterans in the national service are treated is disgraceful to the nation. This is especially apparent in view of the recent order of the Secretary of the Navy reducing a large number of our naval officers, among them the most distin- guished men in the service, to furlough pay. When it is remembered that furlough pay is only one-half of waiting orders pay, and that these officers are to be furloughed only to deprive them of what is their due, the in- justice of the order at once becomes appar- ent. Think of Vico Admiral Rowan being compelled to live on three thousand dollars a year, and officers of almost equal distinc. tion reduced to one-half that amount, while the lower grades of officers will re- ceive less pay than is given to enlisted men, No surer way of destroying our naval service altogether can be found than in the policy indicated by this niggardly economy. Men of character and ability cannot be kept in the navy at furlough pay, and no reasoning can justify the reduction, Our naval officers aro not politicians, nor are they men who feed at the public crib without rendering adeqnate service. Most of them are gentlemen of fine culture and the highest attainments, who make the service a pro fession and devote to it all their best ener. gies. To reduce these men to the miserable pittance which Mr, Robeson proposes to pay them is an insult to them and the nation. It may be, as the Seerotary alleges, that the naval appropriations for the year are inadequate to the needs of the department, but retrench- ment must not begin by taking the bread out of the mouths of officers who havo served the country long and well. If the appropri- insufficient to kzep the few vessels we have afloat it is better that all of them should go. out of commission and the navy yards be closed than that a single officer on the naval list shall be treated with injustice. Prrxce Miman’s Anwy has been reorganized, it appears, and is ready to assume the offers: sive, and the Servians are determined to con tinue the war to the last extremity. Ifthe Servian idea is to exhaust the Turkish army by forcing it to chase its opponents from point to point without ever overtaking them we are inclined to believe that the plan isa good one, considering the low ebb of Servian courage. But we are compelled to admire, on the other hand, the stubborn valor and wonderful activity of the Monten. egrin prince, who, when he hears of the enemy’s advance, marches to meet him and generally whips the Turkish foe. Tre Coat Comuration has not only se- riously interfered with the production of the mines in order to enhance their profits, but has brought starvation to the doors of many honest miners in the coal regions. The pic ture of utter desolation and wantin many parts of the anthracite district is even more terrible than the tales which are told of the Molly Maguires. Some means of working the mines on terms that will be equitable ta both consumer and producer must be found, or soon more disastrous consequences will follow than attend even the race conflicts in the South. Ir Is Nor Sarr under the French Republia for a journalist to criticise the actions of thé Chamber of Deputies. The idea of liberty without a censorship of the press is not understood yet by our Gallic friends. A newspaper has been guilty of tho serious crime of publishing something that has irritated the august assemblage of the people's representatives at Versailles, and that sensitive body defends its dignity by prosecuting the rash offender. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Colonel F. A. Conkling 1s at West Point. Rev. Robert Collyer is in Yellow Milwaukeo, 8. B. Mills 1s trifling with the waters at Saratoga, Brignoli is raising his dulcet tones at the Springs, Senator Hamlin has returned home from Washington, Count Campo Alegre, of Havana, is at the Astor House. The Rev. Murray is tumbling streams. Baron R. Fredriks, of St. Petersburg, is at the Stur- tevant House, ; Senator Phineas W. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, is at the Windsor Hotel, Gevernor Bagley and family, of Michigan, have ar. rived at Rye Beach, N. H. Secretary Fish has gone to his home on the Hudson to remain four or five weeks. Hon, Jolin Cummins will contest with General Banks tor the Congressional nomination. Ex-Congre@sman Fox says that the democratic battle must be fought and won in Indiana, Profesor Huxley will study the nature of the gentle clam with Proessor Agassiz at Newport, Telegrams from Athens stato that tho King is ex- pected to return there on the Ist of September, Anfi#ew Johnson's son was defeated for the Legis lature in the Greon county (Tenn.) primary election Jast week. Mr. RR, Hitt, Secretary of the United States Lega- tion at Paris, arrived from Liverpool in the steamship City of Richmond yesterday, and is at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, has returned from Saratoga in excellent health, and is now at his home in Bellefonte, Ho will stump Indiana for the democratic ticket. Italy possesses now seventeen universities kept up at the expense of the State, four free universities mains tained by the respective municipalities, and one academic institute maintained at the cost of the provinces, M.D. Conway:—"'Paris now represents the Latin races, and iaris is itwelf a theatre, Its theory still is, that what cannct be done can be said; what cannot be said can be sung, and what cannot be sung can be danced.” The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, at the Royal Agri- cultural Show in Cork, spoke upon the growing pros perity of Ireland, the chief hindrance to further prog. ress being, In his opinion, the one speciai rime ne sociated with the tenure of land. Chattanooga (Tenn) Times:—“Thirty-five carloads of machinery for the Atlanta cotton mull, now being built by a company in that city, passed through here Sune day, and thirty-nve more cars loaded with machinery for the same factory are on the way.” ‘The Moscow Gaceite says tbat the Ruesian governs ment would be wrong to be disquieted by the emigra tion of the Tartars from the Orimoa, as its fertility and natural riches will attract to it colonists trom the othet parts of Russia preferable to the Tartars, Princo Louis Napoloon has returned to Woolwich im company with Major Palbot's baitery of artillery, with which he has served during the recent manwuyrea, The Prince carries oue arm ina sling in consequence of into Adirondack having sustained an injury while in camp, According to M. Jaubert, there 1s no positive palmon- tological proof of tho autiquity of the inhabitants of the caves of Provence; nothing, in fact, to indicate that they Wore much anterior 10 historic tines, a8 all flint weapons do not Lelong to the age of stone, Don Carlos, accompanied by the Marquis ve Velasee, the Marqais de Ponce de Leon and Viscount de Mon. ferrat, arrived in the city yesterday morning from Nowport, and is at tho Windsor Hotel, The party will Femain in the city until about the Ist of September,