The New York Herald Newspaper, August 28, 1876, Page 4

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. cosines JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ) fact aoa hate THE DAILY HERALD, published every day 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 addres#d New York Henarp. Letters and es should be properly awe packag! P Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 2S) EO ec PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE .OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XII —— aoe AMUSEMENTS _T0-NIGHT, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, TWO MEN OF SANDY BAR, at 8 P.M. THEATRE COMIQUE. VARIETY, at 8 P. M. BOOTIN'S THEATRE. BARDANAPALUS at & P.M. Mr. Bangs and Mrs. Agnes i woopD's \ AIKEN COMBINATION, at ‘UM. M. Matinee at2 P.M. TR! LSY, at 8 P.M. MINSTRELS, EAGLE, BURLESQUE, COMEDY, MID KELLY & etsP.M. 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Our letter on the regatta this morning is replete with timely information, and it will be read with interest by all who care for boating matters. Mr. Cuarves Francis Apams can be safely nominated as the democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, now that it is -known that in 1872 Mr. John Kelly investi- gated the Fenian charges against him and pronounces them entirely without founda- tion. We sre now prepared to believe that the Irish Republic never had a better friend than Charles Francis Adams. Tae Detecartes representing the French workingmen at the (Centennial Exhibition enjoyed a gala day at Jones’ Wood yester- day, but as they imbibed nothing worse than lager Marshal MacMahon's government need have no fear that the occasion had any politi- cal significance. The workingmen who have returned also had a banquet in Paris yester- day. IsapequaTe Punisument and pernicious definitions of the law of homicide led to another probable but ‘unpremeditated” murder yesterday. Two men, one of them a deputy sheriff, suddenly quarrelled, and while the one was attempting to strike the other he was stabbed, perhaps fatally. This readiness to use the knife is becoming a ter- rible danger to the community, and yet we seldom hear that offenders of this kind are punished. ‘s Gengrar James Watson Wess, whose father, Major Samuel Webb, was one of General Washington's aides during the de- fence of New York in 1776, and fora long time afterward, sends us a communication touching the services of the distinguished soldier whose son he is, and embodies in it some invaluable extracts from Major Webb’s journal. These memoranda will be read with especial interest at this time, when the tentennial of the unsuccessful defence of New York leads us all to recall the earlier and darker periods of our history. Tae Crry Pastors have not yet returned from the vacations, and most of the pulpits yesterday were filled by visiting ministers. The subjects of the sermons were the usual well-worn themes, and the discourses con- sisted of platitudes on pride and humility, prayer and its conditions, faith, growth, as defined by a woman, and kindred topics. Dr. Deems’ discourse on the effects of Christianity upon the condition of women was exceptional in freshness of thought and treatment, and in spirit and purpose it is worthy of imitation in other quarters. Tae Guiontous, Uncertainty or THe Law.— Another court has now decided the case of the Elevated Railroad—in another way. But a short time since one judge refused the application of the Ninth Avenue Railway foran injunction to prevent the continua- tion of the Gilbert elevated road, and now another judge, on the same facts and the same laws, decides a similar case just the other way and grants the injunction on the application of the Sixth Avenue Railroad. Thus it simply depends upon who the judge \s. What we call justice is nominally some rule derived from the law, but is really a result of the idiosyncrasies, mental peculiar- \ties or perversions of some individual who titson the bench. With any greatly com- plicated case to be decided in the courts the result, whichever way it goes, is simply an scciderit—that is, it is determined by such ancertain facts as make up the mental con- fition of the judge who has to unravel the vontradictions and inconsistencies of the law. Fortunately there is only one court of sppeal, and whoever wins in the toss-up there will be finally victorious, YORK HERALD | The Developments of the Canvase— The Folly of the Democratic Cam- paign. The campaign of the democrats is more promising than any they have known since the election of Pierce and King. The ad- ministration of General Pierce was wrecked on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and although Mr. Buchanan succeeded him the fight to elect that statesman was really a battle for organization on the part of the republicans. It was their Bull Run which led to Appo- mattox. Anti-slavery strong enough to menace the democrats under Fremont was able to conquer them under Lincoln. The war and the tremendous issues arising out of the war have given the republicans their continued existence. It was the war which re-elected Lincoln and gave Grant his two terms. It is the war which will elect Hayes, if he should succeed. The republicans may add as many planks to their plat- form as they please—about currency, civil service and the Pope—the living thought underlying their party is the war. Once withdraw that question from our politics, once unite the North and the South on a basis of peace, fraternity, the acceptance of the war amendments and conceded political equality, and the republican party will be as dead as was the whig party after the com- promise measures in the administration of Fillmore. Outside of the fancied necessity for a government that will protect the negroes there is no pretext for the re- publican organization. Its leaders have never dared to take new ground, to adapt it to any one of those vital problems the con- sideration of which must absorb the atten- tion of parties in the future. The reason why the republican leaders have never dared to identify their party with questions of free trade, finance, the constitutional relations of the States to the government, and so on, is that on every pos- sible question that now attracts the atten- tion of thinkers the republicans are as hope- lessly divided as the democrats. For this reason the elimination of the war from the politics of the day would destroy the re- publican party. That is the bond of its existence. It is a bond which grows weaker brings the sections into a closer union. Every new cotton crop is a step toward reconciliation. Consequently the demo- crats have ‘grown by the weakness of their opponents. They have an almost united South in their favor, as they had before the war ; or, rather, they will have it, unless, as the democrats profess to believe, Don Cameron’s three thousand soldiers should trample all life out of a dozen sovereign States. In addition to this steadily growing strength—a strength based on passion— there is a deep-seated craving for ‘‘reform.” The country is tired of Grant. This is be- cause eight years are long enough to wear out tho patience of any people with a President, especially of a people as mer- curial as the Americans, who fretted over Washington long before they were through with him. This craving arises also from the blunders of the President and of the crimes of many of the men upon whom he bestowed his confidence. There is a feeling that the government will be improved by the admission of new men into office, and, in answer to this feeling, the democrats have named a candidate whose highest claim to the Presidency is that he is a representative reformer. No party could enter upon a canvass with brighter prospects than the democrats had three months ago. All the auguries pointed to the success of Tilden or to whoever the democrats would nominate. Why is it that these auguries fail the friends of Tilden now? Itis because the republicans since the beginning of their campaign have, with all their obstacles to success, made no mistakes and fought to win. The democrats, with all their hopes and promises of success, have made blunder after blunder and fought to lose. The treatment of the financial ques- tion, of civil service, of the one term in Tilden’s letter was a blunder. ‘There is no explanation of the surrender of the Resump- tion act by Governer Tilden. It was the violation of a pledge, which must run more than three years before fulfilment, of one of the pledges upon which our national credit rests, at a time when we are trying to borrow three hundred millions at four anda half per cent. This pledge did not bind Gov- ernor Tilden, because he goes into office upon the assurance, triumphantly re- peated by his friends, that in a very short time, much less time than the Resumption act concedes, he would be ready to resume. Now, if Mr. Tilden as President is certain that he can resume in less than two years, why is it that he throws away the pledge now? For no other reason than to oblige Mr. Hendricks, Mr. Pendle- ton and the inflationists. In other words, this paramount and ostentatious reformer, who would go into office to war upon wicked- ness, makes terms in the outset of his campaign with the worst feature of wicked- ness in the country—the party of repudia- tion and inflation. Cautious, conservative democrats who remember how Buchanan was bullied imto secession, even at a time when his heart was loyal to every star in the flag of the Union, ask if itis possible that Tilden can be another Buchanan, with Hen- dricks and Ewing to drive him into inflation | as Davis and Slidell drove Buchanan into civil war. While the country is making this terrible, this disastrous comparison, the State rises in protest against the manner in which Tilden and his iriends are making their can- vass for the Governorship, and more espe- cially the reform measures of Congress. The insincerity of this cry for retrenchment is shown by the fact that the democratic House, which reduced the government to its present beggarly situation, passed the Equal- ization of Bounties bill and the act tor the improvement of rivers and harbors. These measures were of the most iniquitous char- acter. No House can claim to be honestly in favor of reform that approved them. The “retrenchment” of the House is humiliating. Instead of a calm, philosophical arrangement of the whole question of the civil service— instead of reductions that would aot injure the government—there has been a violent cutting down of the most useful departments of the government, Gallant naval officers have been thrown on the mercies of a cold NEW YORK HERALD MOND ‘ world, the pride and the spirit of the army as time heals the wounds of the war and’ and navy have been broken, and, as General Grant pointed out in his Message, more money will probably be lost from the ‘‘eco- nomical” interference with the collection of the revenues than will be saved by the whole measure of reform. Conservative men, who look at these questions as they would at their own business affairs, from a common sense point of view—who know very well that no twenty-horse engine can be driven at forty-horse power—fear that the democratic party has fallen into the hands of men who are willing to imperil the ser- vice of the government to make capital for the canvass. They see that the government isan immense machine—that it can only be run by a proper application of forces. When they see these forces arrested or broken to satisfy a party exigency a feeling of alarm is awakened, and business men ask | whether it is not better to bear the ills even of a republican administration, with all of its burdens and taints, than fly to others which cannot be imagined. These are some of the reasons why the canvass, from a tactical point of view, looks so well for the republicans and so bad for the democrats, At the same time the desire for change, for reforms, for new names and new faces may overwhelm al! opposition and carry with it the republican party, administration and all. It may be even more than the democrats can do to defeat Tilden, but they are doing their best. Much, if not all, will depend upon the State Convention. Ifthe democrats are wise they will give us a candidate who will call out all the votes in the party. They will not find him in Mr. Seymour after his declaration that he will never take the office. New York has too much pride to allow the Governorship to be forced down the throat of an unwilling candidate. Such a candidate will be found in Mr. Dorsheimer, who represents the growing west ; or in Mr. Marble, whose services in the press for the democracy in its forlorn days are entitled to all honor ; or in Mr. Potter, who represents the best elements of the party in the eastern part of the State. Any one of these gentlemen will aid the ticket. Mr. Tilden can make no graver blunder than to parcel this and other offices among bosom friends. The party can make no mistake so fatal as to give its standard to an obscure man who has not earned the people's confidence, or some wornout Bour- bon who has lost it. Russia and England. That the French republican party has frustrated an attempt to form an alliance be- tween Russia and France, of which the basis was the return of the Provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, is scarcely a credible story. This projected alliance is probably an invention of the mnewsmongers, start- ing from the evidently hostile tone which the whole German press has re- cently held toward Russia, Russia is not likely to make such a bargain. Germany (spart from personal family ties and polit- ical aristocratic sympathies of its rulers, which would incline to peace) is too power- ful for Russia to lightly quarrel with her. If ever France regains her lost territory it must be at a more favorable opportunity and by the martial prowess of her own peo- ple. Where, however, an alliance is possible, though somewhat unlikely at present, is be- tween Russia and England. At the close of the session of Parliament Mr. Gladstone made a speech in which he justly eulogized the Emperor Alexander and sharply dep- recated the attacks politically made on his government. He showed how, since his ac- cession, he has carried out a policy of peace ; that his rule has been loyal and beneficent to his people ; that he has given freedom to the serfs and been a great promoter of edu- cation throughout his vast Empire. These observations are just, and we cannot under- stand how, with his repeatedly expressed friendliness to England and with whose Queen he has very close family ties, there should, both in Parliament and out of Par- liament, be used such expressions of distrust and fears of Russian intrigues, ambition and autocratic power. If there can exist between the United States and Russia a sincere friendship, while one is the freest country in the world and the other is somewhat un- duly characterized as being the one most despotically governed, what is there to pre- vent a political alliance and friendship be- tween England ond Russia? There need be no jealousy, for the East is vast enough for both; their armies (if, in comparison, you may call the English forces an army) and their navies need never meet except in cour- teous amity. They are both Christian na- tions, and although some consideration in treating Turkey, out of compliment to her forty millions of Mussulmans in India, may be excused, yet we do not see how Eng- land’s government can continue to run counter to the expressed opinions of many of her leading statesmen, her clergy, her vast body of middle class popu- lation, in bolstering up the Turkish rule, which is an anomaly in civilized Europe. Why might not England and Russia cor- dially unite in establishing the autonomy of the present insurgent provinces, and agree on some policy, remodelling the map of Europe, by giving a larger area to Greece? The Turk must go, and let them commence by reducing his hold merely to his Mussul- man subjects, freeing Egypt and Palestine from his grasp, and preparing for the not distant evacuation of Constantinople, which city, to the discredit of civilization, he has held too long. Whatever political combina- tions may then take place civilization wil) certainly bo the gainer. . Tue Desrructivexrss oy THE Finz in South and Front streets yesterday morning was mainly owing to the delay in giving the alarm. Nothing could have been more fool- ish than for a few men to neglect to give the alarm in the hope of extinguishing the fire themselves, and yet such was the course pursed during the first stages of the burning of Ockershausen’s sugar refinery and much adjacent property. Manx Twarn has been interviewed for thé Henratp on the political situation. Where we expect fun in his opinions we find them serious, and when he tries to be serious he is almost funny. Evidently politics are not much in Mark's line, AY, AUGUST 28, Democratic Candidates for the Gov- ernorship. Conjectures respecting the action of the Democratic State Convention must flounder in the dark so long as Governor Tilden shrouds his intentions in mystery. For ways that are dark and tricks that are not vain this astute politician is peculiar, and for aught the public knows he may have a sleeve full of concealed trumps. If he has deliberately made up his mind to pusha favorite that favorite will be ncminated. The democratic party cannot afford an open quarrel with its candidate for the Presi- dency, and if he undertakes to dictate | the nominee for Governor there will be but a feeble resistance, He is too shrewd and artiul to provoke an unseemly contest, and | has skill and foresight enough to control a | political convention while seeming to stand aloof. His habitual method is to begin early, to work secretly, to save himself trouble in a convention by quietly controlling the choice of delegates, and to surprise and confound his opponents at the final scene of action by showing them that he has a majority on which they can make no impression. In this quiet way and by thus taking time by the forelock he has gained the mastery of every democratic State convention for the last two or three years. He is acting unlike himself if he has not issued secret rescripts to his confidential friends in the Assembly districts to send delegates to Saratoga who can be relied on as Tilden men first, last and allthe time. If, as is probable, he has thus stolen a march on the party, its expres- sions of preference for particular candidates will amount to little; for the nomination will not be determined by the democratic sentiment of the State, but by the will of one dexterous politician. He may safely make a show of leaving the Convention to | its free action if he has fixed things in ad- vance by virtually dictating the choice of a majority of its members. He is too wary to have committed himself unequivocally to Dorsheimer, and if he secures an obedient Convention he can nominate any favorive whom he may prefer on a final survey of the situation, The candidates most frequently mentioned in the recent gossip of demo- cratic circles are Church, Dorsheimer, Hewitt and Potter. Judge Church has a strong body of sup- porters, who think that his consent is the only thing necessary to make him the candi- date of the Convention. We suspect that they are under a delusion, for even if Gov- ernor Tilden should make no open opposi- tion to the nomination of Church he would covertly defeat it. Mr. Tilden wants a can- didate whose friends have given him a vig- orous support in his war on the Canal Ring, but the most prominent friends of Judge Church have given him the cold shoulder. Mr. Dorsheimer is reported to have said that he would withdraw in favor of Church, which is a safe offer, if he really made it, for he is too well acquainted with the sentiments of Governor Tilden toward Church to re- gard him as an actual competitor. We do not believe that Judge Church could be persuaded to take the nomination. Even with him as a candidate the result of the election would be doubtful. He would gain nothing substantial by an election, and would lose everything by a defeat. His terra as Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals does not expire until 1884, and he cannot be a candidate for Governor without resigning the office. The State constitution declares that all votes given for a judge for any other than a judicial office are void, and if Judge Church should accept:a nomination for Gov- ernor he would be compelled to give up two birds in the hand for the chance of catching one in the bush. He would incur the cer- tain loss of the Chief Justiceship for seven years for the doubtfal chance of being elected Governor for three. Even if he could bein- duced to take this risk Mr. Tilden would not permit his nomination. We do not suppose that the Governor is irretrievably committed to Dorsheimer, whom he must look upon as a weak candi- date to be pitted against Morgan. Yet it may be that Mr. Tilden has such an over- weening sense of his own strength that he thinks he could buoy up any gubernatorial candidate. Abram 8. Hewitt is a new name in connec- tion with the Governorship, bu. he has, per- haps, some chances to come in as the ‘dark horse.” The most difficult question the Democratic Convention will have to deal with is the local quarrel of iactions in this city, and the nomination of Mr. Hewitt might facilitate a settlement. He is a promi- nent Tammany man, who has not made him- self offensive to the anti-Tummany wing of the party. He would naturally be ac- ceptable to Mr. ‘ilden as his most vigorous defender in Congress. The anti- Tammany faction might indorse him on the ground of his perfect independence of John Kelly, whom he fought at St. Louis in the interest of Mr. Tilden with conspicuous boldness, ability and success. If other means of harmonizing the city factions should fail Mr. Hewitt may be nominated for Governor as a solvent between the city factions; otherwise he has littie chance, as he is not popular nor much known in the rural districts. Mr. Potter is well known, and has troops of friends throughout the State. With Sey- mour and Church out of the race there is no other democrat who would be so generally acceptable to the great body of the party as Mr. Potter. If the nomination were to be made by the spontaneous democratic senti- ment of the State Mr. Potter’s chances would be excellent; but if a majcrity of the delegates are to be chosen in obedience to a secret rescript from Governor Tilden his individual preference will control the nomi- nation. The Beecher Case. It has often occasioned surprise in the course of the many trials, or attempted trials, over the issues of the Brooklyn scan- dal that some one of the parties did not en- deavor to have the trial removed to some point where people were less saturated with the subject or with prepossessions for one side or the other than the people are in our subur- ban village of churches. Finally the de- mand for a change of venue is made, but | people who were surprised over the neglect to make such a demand will now not be less | surprised to find that it is made in the in- . 1876:—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. | terest of Mr. Beecher. ‘This looks exceed- ingly like an adinission that th yame of the great preacher is no longer the Yower of strength it once was with the Brook- lyn public, which, though even out of the immediate circle of his pastoral or personal influence, was proud of him as a distin- guished citizen, whose great talents and in- fluence on opinion over the whole country were parts of the renown of their city. Nobody at one time could have believed that Mr. Beecher could not get justice in Brook- lyn, or even that his repute there would not incline a doubtful balance in his favor; and his request to try the case elsewhere, there- | fore, seems the admission of a great change. Doubtless the change to Franklin county would greatly increase the expenses of this trial; otherwise it would be an advantage. Country people have prepossessions in favor of preachers, as a general rule; but a preacher accused o! forgetting the obliga- tions of his ministry can never safely look jor favor in the rural districts. The “Machine” in Politics. The real value of the Saratoga Convention is the fact that the republicans in New York have united. If Mr. Evarts had been nomi- nated there might have been a diversion from the democragic party of that important fraction of indifferent or undecided voters upon whom party allegiance rested easily, and who would have rejoiced in voting fora man whose name and lineage recalled the best days of the Republic. This was an amount of self-sacrifice we could not expect from the Convention. The machine which nominated Morgan was not the machine which would have nominated Cornell. It was a much more important machine in this, that it had a good deal more money, which is a vital consideration in:a canvass like the present; but it was a machine all the same. The main point about Mr. Mor- gan’s selection is one of felicitation that there are men in the active and responsible leadership of the republican party who have the public and private vir- tue of Governor Morgan, with a patriotic devotion to the best interests of the country. So far as the ‘‘machine in politics” is con- cerned, although much is said against it, it never had more recognition than now. Gov- ernor Tilden was nominated because he was the best machine politician in the demo- cratic party... Governor Hayes was nomi- nated because he was the best fitting candi- date in the machine shop of the republicans. Governor Morgan’s selection was governed by the same considerations, and the demo- crats will not be insensible to cogs and wheels and pulleys in a canvass when they meet in their Convention to nominate a Gov- ernor. We dwell upon this point because, as far as 1s possible, we would banish from this can- vass all cant and false pretence. We have never accepted the idea that the election of Mr. Tilden would baa new apotheosis of re- form. And although the ominous rumor comes from Columbus that Boss Shepherd tried to see Governor Hayes, and was re- pulsed, the Boss will have proper recogni- tion in the event of republican success, Politics is as much of a business as religion or navigation. Religion is holiness, and those who are truly devout spend much time in meditation, prayer and praise. But pew rents must be collected and cler- gymen must be supported, and churches must be built, and the Sheriff is as peremp- tory with the altaras with the anvil, and the “machine” which attends to these minor offices is as important to the development of true Christianity as the eloquence of the priest or the piety of the devotee. So that while one party may be inspired by the sacred idea of reform and burns with the hope that it will be allowed to enter the temple and drive away the money-changers, while the other party may be animated by all the memories of the war, hatred of rebel- lion, protection to the negro and so on, some one must pay the election bills. Reform needs bands of music, and the memories ot the war can only be kept alive, as General Kilpatrick will testify, by a liberal expen- diture of money. The machine in politics has many usefal offices which Mr. Curtis, Mr. Choate and other reformers would dis- dain. Some one must peddle the tickets on election day and carry torches at the mass meetings. If the machine will not do it, who will? Mr. Curtis would never carry a banner on Broadway, and Mr. Choate would plead a large and increasing practice if he were asked to go into a precinct and work a voting booth. There is a good deal to be said in favor of the machine in politics. It is not a high function, but the most useful offices are at times the humblest. The general in com- mand of the column, or the drum major at the head of the band, is a much more impos- ing figure than the commissary and the quartermaster who ride far in the rear in some unpretending baggage wagon. It is all very well while marching along, or while the music is playing, but when nature asserts itself and valor needs food and re- pose the commissary and the quartermaster assume a commanding importance. No one ever hears a wise general or a skilled drum major denounce the machine men of the army, because, perhaps, a quartermaster ora commissary assumes. a temporary im- portance, and puts on the airs of a fieid mar- shal. In politics if some faithful Custom House weigher or storekeeper who has at- tended the primaries or tramped about in the rain and snow and watched the polls, and warmed the heats of visiting statesmen by his cheers; if some modest inspector of customs a little bit in wine should pose for a states- man no wise politician will hold him up to scorn. In his day of usefulness the machine worker is a necessary power in politics. The republican saints make a mistake to turn up their noses at him, forthe, machine man works every day in the year—our reform saints only in the harvest time, when con- ventions are to be held and offices are to be reaped. The Weather. The area of high barometer now central in the lower lake region has affected the tem. perature all over the country east of the Mis- sissippi River. During the night time the pressure rises to over 30,30 inches, but after sunrise and throughout the day falls to about 30.10 inches, These changes of atmospheric density are due, of course, to the alternate contraction and expansion of the serial volume by the sun’s heat, and present interesting phenomena for the observa tion of meteorologists. Last evening we find that the two areas of low barometer which have been noticed in recent weather articles continue to remain within the sphere of observation in the United States. One of these is slowly drifting into the North Atlantic over the mouth of the St Lawrence River, the other makes equally slow progress eastward over Dakota and Minnesota, where an accompanying higk temperature prevails. In the Gulf rains and threatening weather are observed, and decided evidences of a storm centre nioving on the twenty-fifth parallel and approaching the Texas coast are apparent. As stated in yesterday's Hznatp the time draws peat for these Gulf storms and cyclones, and the attention of shipowners is earnestly called totheir probable development. The great cyclone of last September caused much de- vastation along the Gulf coast and among the West India islands, and a considerable loss of life and property would have been avoided had timely warning been given of its approach. We issue such a warning now in the hope that it will insure greater caution among navigators. To-day the weather in New York will be cool and clear. The Return of the Mosquito. The peculiarity of the fly, as we have observed, is that he always returns to the same spot, but it is the characteristic of the mosquito that he always retnrns to another spot. Thus he differs from both the fly and the leopard, neither of which change their spots, and this is an important fact in natural history, of which the return of the mosquito has reminded us. Punctuality is one of the especial vices of the mosquito, as everybody knows, and in this regard he differs from men, with whom punctuality is one of the virtues that are almost superhuman achievements. This year the mosquito has returned with his usual promptitude, and his advance guard and pickets have already occupied their strategic points at the head of the bed. Soon the main column will arrive and ther the war will begin. It is likely to be dis: astrous to the whites. The mosquito is never to be found in the place where you expect him, and in this respect he resembles the Indians, who when they were thought to be on the Yellowstone River were on the Rosebud, and when they were sought on the Rosebud had just gone to the Little Big Horn. The experience of the late Indian war might be profitably applied to the coming mosquito campaign. It is a safe rule never to attack the mosquito in the position where you imagine he is, If he appears to be buzzing in the air, slap the pillow violently on the floor. If he is making a feint on the floor, hurl the bolster at the ceiling. If you feel him settling on the right cheek, dea] yourself a blow on the left cheek. It is not likely that you will hit him anyhow, but thia rule of contraries gives the only chance of success. No mosquito was ever slain except by a fluke. ‘he human intellect is unequal to cope with his gigantic little brain. O41 course the defeat of the Union troops is cer. tain in the end, and our only effort should be to escape with as little lost as possible. The remedies for the bites o{ the ‘mosquito are numerous, but the only one which can be depended on is a net. The mosquito hates a net as much as the devil hates holy water. The only pleasant view to be had of the mosquito is when we survey him from behind our in- trenchments, It is a misfortune of his that he cannot crawl through a hole, even when he is like the lean and hungry Cassius and bloodless as a stone. He must fly to his victim ; and there is nothing which makes a morning doze more soothing than the sight and sound of a regiment of mosquitoes vainly attacking the curtains. There isa special delight in the spectacle of their idle fury. But they seek their revenge else- where. In another column we print a tere rible account of the fatal assault upon Mr. Henry J. Knout, the famous inventor of an improved net, who perished because of his services to humanity. Unable to get at their prey, because of his inventions, the mosquitoes finding Mr. Knout without his net (which he usually wore) fell upon him in large numbers, and before assistance could be rendered he was completely de voured. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ingersoll is called an infidel. Farm laborers get $3 a day in Dakota, Hon. John Forsyth, of Mobile, is in Chicago. Mr. Flood, of the Bonanza firm, 1s 1n Chicago. Beaux at Saratoga are called ‘‘parasol-holders. * Peopie at Saratoga stare at Mra, Marsh, the witness, The katydid has arrived, and Kilpatrick has a rival, The young of ali creatures are much alike, according to Darwin. Richard Frothingham opposes General Banks tor Congress. i] Senator Morton went through the Centennial ing rolling chair. Mann, Bingham and brethren, of Philadelphia, are en route for San Francisco. Bonnets of casbmero and lace, with red rosebuds, are worn by bridesmaids. : Mendelssohn’s ‘‘Wedding March” 1s @ favorite ia English fashionable circles. Only an American or au Irishman can open an oys- ter scientifically or cook it properly. If you have ever done anything baa do not ran for office. It will be iound out Goethe:—‘We are only really alive whon tho good will of others.” George Eliot;—‘A difference of taste in jokes # & great strain on the affections,”” ‘ McCook, of Colorado, en route to Denver says that Crook and Terry cannot whip the indians Professor Hugey has gone to Buftslo to investigate one of the prehistoric jokes in the £zpress. Ex-Mayor J. V. ©. Smith, of Boston, a rather poetical Person of an eccentric turn, !8 building an open-front tomb, with seats anda todlo, in the beer garden style, Colonel Gawler, Capain Warren and other gentle. men have formed a society Jor colonizing Palestine., Miltary and engimecring science will not be wanting in tne committes of management. Their purpose is to transfor the domision of Palestine from the Turk and Arab to the Jew, It is a well known fact that when the colors of the prism are photographed there remains outside the lim- its of the blue and violet in a spectrum a distinct im. Prossion which our eyes do not recognize as a color, According to physiologists a time will come when the human eye will be perfected 60 a8 to discern this color as well as tho other, E ‘hh magazine ittered abont the earth there Aro supposed to be 10,000,000 oF 11,000,000 of Jews alive. Thousands of these people are rich, some of them own colossal fortunes. Rothschild could buy up the fee simplo of Palestine. Goldsmid inight rebuild the temp.e of Herod. Montefiore has money enough to cast a golden statue of King Solomon. But of these Wealthy Hebrews, not one ts willing to go back.” enjoy