The New York Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1876, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD amie BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. , JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Bae Fn THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents Fer copy. Twelve dollars per year, or ome dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- »turned. Halt PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112 SOUTH 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. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. eee THEATRE CoMIQUE. panpaxaravus ss P THe. MO TRE. . Bangs and Mrs. Agnes wo AIKEN COMBINAT! RE. RELSY, at 8 P. My MINSTRELS, EAGL BURLESQUE, COMEDY, } KELLY & | OL EATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. GILMORE'S GARDBN, CONCERT, at 8 P. M. PARISIAN VARIETIES, asP.M. FIFTH DAVID GARRICK, a ts BP. BOWERY AMERICANS’ GOLD, at 8 P. 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Ovr Sanatoca Lerren this morning gives the current gossip of the hotels and political headquarters in regard to the possibilities of to-morrow in the Democratic State Con- vention. ‘Tne Liricatron affecting the Bleecker Street Railroad is at an end, and hereatter the line will be managed by the Twenty- third Street Railroad Company. We pre- sume the two roads will now be run in con- junction, or at least that the line will be ex- tended to ‘I'wenty-third street. Caste Garpzx.—A movement was made in the Board of Aldermen yesterday in oppo- sition to the further use of the Battery Park as a site for the emigrant station. The reso- -lution favors Fort Lafayette. Wherever the station is located we trust it will not be at the old Castle Garden, and the Board can- not do better than to pass Mr. Pinckney's resolution, Tue Warsr Surety.—The quarterly report of the Commissioner of Public Works sup- plies, in some degree, the information which the Henatp has repeatedly demanded from the responsible officials regarding the condi- tion of our watersystem. We therefore pub- lish on another page to-day a synopsis of that portion of Mr. Campbell's’ statement which refers to this all-important question. Tue Vorws or Governor Bepre, of New Jersey, on the issnes of the Presidential campaign are printed in the Hrnatp this morning. The Governor is confident of Mr. Tilden’s election, because he believes the people desire a change on account of the hard times, and ¢o extreme is his confidence that he has hopes of the democrats carrying In- diana. Tar Fir List this morning is an un- | usually long one and includes some destruc- tive forest fires. | Much 4 + has , destroyed near lands on the Hud - ity, New Jersey, The extreme drought has made this kind of conflagration exceedingly dangerous, and every precaution should be taken to prevent it. Povo-ts tHe Cavarny Sznvicx.—The letter signed “Cavalry Officer,” published in an- other column, indicates that the game of polo will become as popular in the Amer- iean army as it is in the British. Our corre- spondent believes that the practice of the game would raise the standard of horseman- ship in the cavalry service, and suggests that it should be encouraged by the author- ities of West Point and in other schools. His argument deserves to be considered. Sxeurrany Cuaxpizn, who is the Chair- man of the Republican National Committee, isnot only hopeful but certain of the success of his party in the ensuing elections. Indiana he regards as safe tor the republi- cans, and since ex-Governor Morgan's nomi- amation he thinks that New York is no longer doubtful. The South, too, he speaks of with something more decided than mere hope. The letter of our correspondent at Long Branch detailing Secretary Chandler's views, and giving usa hint of the meaning of his visit and that of Secretary Cameron to the summer capital, is one of the most interest- {ng and important contributions to the liter- ature of the canvass so far made public, and i cannot fail to attract much attention in Political circles, i NEW YORK HERALD. TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Follies of the Democratic Can- vass—Will the Democrats Suceeed in Defeating Tilden? When Mr. Tilden met his friends at Al- bany, in the first moments of enthusiasm which attended his nomination, he said that his campaign must be “aggressive.” He gave the mot dordre of battle in a speech which signified that the country was | rapidly going to the devil, and that if he was not called upon to reform it the centen- nial of our nation’s life would be the end. We had preserved nothing but the worst features of the older world, and unless the Republic was reformed the sooner it was ended the better. We ventured to say to the Governor that his raising the black flag was hardly the way to begin a successful canvass, and that to win the affections of | the people he must not wound their pride and self-respect. We called attention to the fact that an ‘aggressive’ fight was never fought on one side, and that whatever blunder the republicans may have made in administration they were still a powerful and astute party, and had the regular army of office-holders. We urged the Governor to enlarge his canvass, to introduce other issues than reform, to present as bold a front as possible to his opponents, to concede no question of principle to rebels or repudia- tors, and, above all, to take command of his campaign, and as the head of the party lead it to victory. The present condition of the canvass shows the wisdom of our advice, The repub- licans have gone into action with masterly discipline. They have not made a mistake since their campaign opened, unless in the | appointment of Mr. Chandler to the head of their Executive Committee; and we question if that will prove to be so much of a blunder after all. They have taken a candidate for the Presidency who unites every faction. ‘This candidate may be a Pierce, or he may be a Lincoln. We take him on trust. But thus far he has not received a blow. His record is as white as the rock, and his character has those conservative, homely, unpretending traits that commend themselves to our farm- ers and werking people. He is the fair aver- age man of our time, and somehow republics drift toward average men. As we have said, no one can tell whether Hayes will turn out to be a Lincoln or a Pierce ; but as we never know the real character of man until he is dead, so we never know how great or how small a statesman may prove until we see him in the Presidency. Of the two candi- dates, Hayes and Tilden, all concede the superiority of Tilden in intellect and expe- rience. He is a large-minded man, who has flourished in a national field, who has fitted himself for any duty by forty years’ labor in the stern, hard metropolis. If we were se- lecting the president of a railway company, or the counsel for an important case, we should take Mr. Tilden befdre Mr. Hayes. Yet this advantage—a cardinal one to the democrats—they are losing. Mr. Tilden’s management of the canvass leads people to ask, ‘‘Are we to have another Buchanan?” Buchanan, they remember, was a ripe and finished statesman, the first of his time in character, years and experience, whose ad- ministration was to ‘‘save the country” and “restore the purity of earlier days.” The arguments which elected Buchanan are the arguments the democrats use to elect Tilden. All men know how disastrous that adminis- tration proved; how it threw the country into a civil war; how it paitered with treason until treason had the nation by the throat, and how this model, this consummate statesman President went into retirement without the respect of the country, his patriotism ques- tioned and his administration remembered only for its folly, its weakness and its shame. What, therefore, was the strength of Tilden in the beginning has been turned into a weakness solely because he paltered with the finuncial question by his surrender to Hendricks, That astute controversialist, Mr. Marble, may show us in careful phrases how 'ilden’s letter looks toward resump- tion, how it is the real thing while all else is false pretence; but the country will ask why should Mr. Tilden propose that we should break one of the pledges upon which our national credit rests, and that, too, be- fore we have tried to redeem it. The only answer is that such a concession was neces- sary to please Mr. Hendricks and the infla- tionists of the West. As Mr. Marbie said at St. Louis, this is a day of compromises. In other words, Mr. Tilden begins his cam- paign of reform by proposing a com- promise on our national credit, just as Mr. Buchanan thought he would save the Union by compromises with the seces- sionists. What Buchanan did under the dictation of Davis and _ Slidell Tilden does under the dictation of Hen- dricks and Ewing. This tendency to com- romise is seef in the want of leadership shown by the democrats. The “black flag” has been furled. ‘The campaign of “aggres- sion” has become one of explanation and defence. in the race because of Grantism, have thrown aside all of Grant but what is use- ful. In the canvass for the Governorship, upon which the success of Tilden depends more than anything else, we have the same indecision, the same helplessness. Here we are on the eve of this most important Con- vention, and the party is at sea as to who shall lead it. Worse even than this is the impression that there is to be treachery, double dealing, intrigue. Insteady of nam- ing the best man and calling upon the party to accept him Mr. Tilden and his friends have so managed this preliminary canvass that every candidate for Governor but the one who receives the nomination will feel that he has been deceived. Above all, the country is awakening to the fall meaning of what the democratic House intended by retrenchment. As we showed during these discussions, nothing was easier than to retrench with judgment ; nothing | more dangerous than to do so rashly. Com- mon sense indicates what is necessary to carry on a government. It requires system, expenses and the employment of a vast number of people. We need an army, a navy, & civil service. pared with the armies of the Continent ; that our navy would be blown out of the water in twenty-four hours by the navy of ‘England. Every sensible man knows The republicans, who were to sink | Every sensible man | knows that our army isa child's toy com- that the salaries of our civil servants, our judges, Cabinet Ministers and im- portant public functionaries are absurdly | small when compared with those paid in England. Yet the basis of the democratic plan of retrenchment was to strike at the army and the navy, and weaken the Trens- ury by redncing the number of agents neces- sary to collect the revenue, Consequently | from the army and the navy, from every department of the civil service, comes the ery of distress. Every man who loses a place, every furloughed naval officer, every | retired soldier becomes an apostle for Hayes. The country, which is never mean or grndg- ing, says at once that when it spoke of re- | form it did not mean that an officer who had been all his life in the army or the navy should be turned out to starve, or that revenue should be lost because we did not have men -enough to collect it. It would not surprise us if this retrenchment legislation should prove tho chief burden to the canvassof Tilden. That canvass surely needs a leader. The coun- try was never so well prepared for a change asnow. The corruptions and the crimes of the republican party, the restlessness of the people, the craving for new men and new measures, are all so many influences in his favor. We believe that if he had taken strong ground at the outset on the finances, the South and other points; if he had as- sumed the leadership of his party and com- pelled discipline in its ranks, the canvass would be as much at an end as was that of We should be quite willing to trust the country to Mr. Tilden, for we do not share the fears expressed by republi- eans as to what will happen if the demo- crats assume power. of the demooratic ticket and the general renovation of all departments of the govern- ment which that election would imply. The only influence which can beat Mr. Tilden is the democratic party, especially as he is now leading it. The democratic party has a capacity for defeating its own candidates, as was shown in the masterly way in which it overthrew McClellan, Seymour and Greeley. Unless it can be persuaded to change its tactics it will add the name of the accom- plished and courageous Tilden to this roll of dismal achievements. Servia and Turkey. As late os Thursday last the Servians claimed to have beaten the Turks in the fighting near Alexinatz, and there was no contradiction of their claim; but the news from the Turkish lines, which recounts the | operations of Saturday and Sunday, presents the result of these later battles as quite the other way. It was reasonable to suppose that the first battles at that point would be in favor of the defenders. They knew the ground, held strongly fortified positions, and in the previous operations their army had, perhaps, worked down somewhat, as every army does in actual war, to the real fighting material that was in it. But the Turks so greatly outnumbered them in all probability that they were able to take all the punishment the Servians could give and still have fresh troops with which to take advantage when the moment came of the exhaustion and dis- couragement of the Servian army, and that thus the Turks prevailed at. last is very likely. If the event of the latest fighting was as now reported from the Turkish lines this fact will give renewed energy to those who are endeavoring to secure peace, for that is the only way to save Servia end the Servian cities from ‘Turkish occupation. Bat the Moslems seem to have notions of their own as to how peace should be made, | and threaten to be obstinate. It is, perhaps, in view of that obstinacy that the telegraph hints at the likelihood of an Austrian occu- pation of Belgrade. Train Wrecker. One of the Adams family has been arrested on the charge of throwing two railroad trains off the track and has confessed the crime. Thus it is seen that this distinguished fam- ily, which has supplied the country with one great popnlur leader in the Revolution, with two good Presidents and with a gentle- man who is by turns # candidate for every office that becomes vacant, is now likely to be represented for some years to come in the State prisons of Pennsylvania, No doubt the public will sincerely regret that Adams, the train wrecker, who is of the same stripe as the dynamite fiend, is not at this moment incarcerated in one of those Western States where a committee of the citizens step around to the jail about candle light and escort the prisoner out of town and leave him in the edge of the timber at the end of a rope. If irregular hanging could ever be justified it would be in tho case of sucha common enemy of the human race. Society in this instance owes an apology to the tramps. ‘They were accused of these crimes, and soa wrong was done them. Instead of our finding those idle vagabonds guilty the | crime comes home to an industrious and energetic man, anxious to get a situation and determined to have one even if he had to kill all the passengers in two or three trains, Ay IxporsemMent vor Caantas Francis Apams.—John Kelly, the Tammany chief, Adams, and asserts that there is nothing against him in the Fenian case, and so the people of Massachusetts are at liberty to | elect Mr. Adams Governor if they have any | desire to do so. Oh, Liberty, what uftcom- monly queer capers are cut in thy name! | This little incident is more effective in the picture it presents of the working of demo- cratic institutions than are the stories of the | philosophers. An honest and*capable man, | of world wide reputation, who has served the country effectively in one of its highest offices, is named for another office, and he requires a certificate of good character from | the head of that chronic conspiracy for the | degradation of politics known as Tammany | Hall. If Kelly had only added, Mr. Adams | is “my candidate," that would have settled it all, Tne Burcantan Atrocities are too brutal for even England, with all her friendship for | Turkey, to pass by in silence. The Times yesterday remonstrated in a way to make its ‘words a warning to the Porte, | Greeley after the election in North Carolina. | We believe that the ; country would be the gainer by the election | comes to the rescue of Charles Francis | | ene Rapture of the Coal Combina- tom. There is to be to-day what is called a coal sale—an auction sale of half a million | tons—to fix the market price. Already coal is cheaper by one dollar and a half per ton than it was before the coal combina- tion went to pieces, and there is no doubt that within a few days it will be cheaper still, It must inevitably go a dol- lar or two dollars lower in the absence of the coal combination, which is simply a con- spiracy to keep up the price; and the hon- esty of the sale to be made to-day may be determined by the simple rule of its result in this way. If it keeps prices near the point fixed by the combination it is only a lesser ruse of the same nature. There are persons who contemplate the fall in the price of coal with heavy hearts, who derive from it gloomy views as to the uncer- tainties of investments and who otherwise sce in ita whole category of causes for de- spondency; but this is not the way it is looked at by the millions of consumers. It is evident, however, that the rupture of tho coal combination, like nearly every other event of any magnitude, may be contem- plated from at least two widely different standpoints. If there is anywhere in the world a gain to one man that is not a loss to some other man it is not in the sphere of the active rivalries of commerce and speculation, and they who are hurt by the event that is | at least an immediate advantage to all who have to purchase the product of the mines would be more than human if they regarded | cheap coal with cheerful thoughts. Simultaneously with the fall in the- price | of coal we must record also such a fall in the price of securities related in one way or an- other to the coal interest as to reach almost a panic. Shares in mine property, in coal companies and in transportation companies run down, not, of course, near to the vanish- ing point, but far enough to give heavy hearts to their owners. It is said that these | shares are owned in a great degree by ‘the widow and orphan.” The widow and orphan are persons for whom the heart is always open. Their appeal is made to the ready sympathies of the world when the mere statement that they are widows and orphans spreads before the mind's eye a pic- ture of their helpless and forlorn condition. In the present case it might not be imper- tingnt to offer condolence on their posses- sion of shares in mine property. ‘Perhaps it would be invidious to inquire how the widow and orphan felt in those years when their shares paid such returns that if they have been, unhappily, widows and orphans for any considerable time, they have prob- ably pocketed two or three times over the sum of their original investment. Philos- ophy might suggest that the owners of the worst as well as the best property have to take good and bad years together; and justice will wonder whether the widow and orphan who will now get only five thou- sand dollars where before they got twenty thousand can sympathize with those other widows and orphans who in the winter weather buy their coal by the pailful and ordinarily pay twenty-five cents for what, let us hope, they may presently secure for ten, or, maybe, five. It isan unfortunate feature of the case that widows and orphans of the city tenements so infinitely outnum- befthe others that if sympathy is called for in regard to the coal revolution the first class will scarcely be regarded. But is there any just connection between a fall in the price of coal, which carries it only down toa reasonable point, and the proper value of these securities of the widow and orphan? And if the rupture of a certain combination produces such calamity to owners, why was it ruptured or why did it exist? Asa general principle all securi- ties are most safe and most permanently valuable when the enterprise to which they are related produces only moderate and reasonable returns. Any departure from that toward exaggerated earnings and fabulons dividends involves danger that is in exact proportion to the extent of the de- parture. As another general princi- ple, equally broad, all ‘‘combination”.| of a certain number of interests engaged in the production or sale of any commodity is made at the expense of the public and is an attempt to prevent the settling of prices at the point they would reach by the operation of the simple laws of trade. It is an at- tempt to maintain prices beyond the point they would rench if they were adjusted sim- ply to give a fair return on capital. It is one of the many contrivances of ‘‘him that mak- eth haste to be rich.” Itis a villany always, contemplated from any moral standpoint; but when it is based upon a commodity that is necessary to life, as this commodity has become; when it makes its cold and ctuel speculation on that without which the peo- ple cannot live, it isa crime whose authors are ontlawed from all human sympathies. Their calamities may be looked upon by the public without regret. Robbery of the by Rotten Savings Banks. ‘Lio failure of the Trades Savings Bank, in West Twenty-third street, will not prove as bad for the depositors as some other simi- lar failures in this city within the last two or three years, but it is nevertheless fitted to excite indignation. The Deputy Super- intendent of the Bank Department at Al- bany states officially that he has reason to believe that the depositors will be paid “nearly in full” if there is proper economy in winding up the business of the institu- tion. Be thisas it may, itis disgraceful to the Bank Department that rickety and in. | solvent institutions are permitted to go on | | for months or years after they have become mere decoys for cheating the community. With the ample powers conferred on the Bank Superintendent under the new law he Should feel that it is a personal stain on him- self for depositors in any savings bank in the State to suffer loss. ‘The excellent law of 1875 is so stringent that no failure in- volving losses can happen without the con- nivance, or, at least, the inexcusable negli- gence, of the Bank Department. There is no duty which is more binding on the State government than that of pro- tecting the savings of the industrious classes against the frauds or mismanagement of the institutions which take custody of their monef. The amendment of the State eon. stitution relating to savings banks which ' came into force at the beginning of last year and the act of the Legislature in pursuance of that amendment would insure efficient protection if the officers intrusted with the administration of the law were active and vigilant. No new savings bank can be or- ganized without ample security against frauds and mismanagement, and the power of supervision over the old ones is suffi- cient to enable the Bank Superintendent to protect depositors against losses. That officer ought to be summarily re- moved whenever a savings bank goes into insolvency in any part of the State. The law compels him to make a thorough examination of the affairs of every savings bank in the State at least once in two years, and permits him to do it as much oftener as he thinks it necessary or expedient. None of these institutions can get into an insolvent condition without gross neglect of duty on his t, The law of 1875 removes every possibility of the misapplication of the funds of savings banks by their officers, and it pre- scribes the secarities in which they are per- mitted to invest their deposits. The new system is as nearly perfect as legislative fore- sight can make it, and it only needs to be honestly administered in order to protect depositors against losses, ‘The fact that the Trades Savings Bank 1s shut up before it has become’ an extreme case of bankruptcy shows the salutary effect of the new law; but if it had been administered with proper vigilance and efficiency the department would not have made the mortifying statement that depositors will be paid ‘‘nearly” in full. That word ‘nearly” is a confession that the Bank Department has fallen short of its duty. Judicial Obstructions to Rapid Transit. It is to be hoped that an appeal will be taken from the annoying decision of Judge Sedgwick in the recent rapid transit suit, for the grounds on which the decision rests seem so strained and technical that they ought to be reviewed by a court which has a broader sense of equity in the interpreta- tion of a statute. We have little doubt that Judge Sedgwick’s decision would be re- versed by the Court of Appeals. If the court of final resort should set it aside as bad law the Judge who rendered it will suffer in public estimation more than he could from an erroneous decision which did not so cross popular wishes and obstruct the public interest. To be sure an appellate court may correct his error, if he has commit- ted an error; but he will nevertheless be responsible for the delay in prosecuting a | work which this whole community regards as of paramount neeessity. In view of the loose comments which a portion of the city press has made on this adjudication it may not be amiss to state precisely what Judge Sedgwick has decided. He does not deny that the rapid transit law of 1875 is, in its main features, .con- stitutional. He does not dispute it the commissioners appointed under that law were legally empowered to select the routes which they did select or to pre- scribe the plan of construction which they did prescribe. Had a new company, organ- ized in pursuance of that act, undertaken to build a steam railroad in §ixth avenue, on the plan adopted by the commission- ers, there is nothing in Judge Sedgwick’s decision or in his reasoning which could arrest the work. His whole argument rests on the fact that the Gilbert Company is nota new corporation. - He admits that the constitutional amendments cannot affect railway franchises which had been granted by the Legislature previous to their adop- tion, and that the Gilbert Company retains all the rights conferred by its charter. His decision stands entirely on the technical point that the Rapid Transit Commission could not modify the Gilbert charter in any particular. He maintains that the act of in- corporation gave the company a right to build s road in Sixth avenue according to the plan of structure described in the act, but that its rights cannot survive a modifi- cation of the plan. The Rapid Transit act of 1875 gives the commissioners authority to modify the plan, but Judge Sedgwick holds that the act is, in that respect, repugnant to the new amendments of the constitution. In- asmuch as the amendments forbid the lay- ing down of railroad tracks, except under a general law, Judge Sedgwick decides that a law which gives a preference to an existing corporation in constructing a road on adiffer- ent plan from that permitted in its charter is unconstitutional, because the prohibition to give special franchises to a new corporn- tion cqually forbids enlargement of the franchises of an existing corporation beyond the strict letter of its original charter. We cannot believe that the Court of Appeals will sustain a decision in which a quibbling technicality is brought into such evident conflict with broad public interests. Judge Sedgwick's extremely narrow and technical decision arrays the letter of the constitution against its spirit and its evident intention, As he himse4f admits in his elab- orate opinion the constitutional amendments do not interfere with or abridge the vested rights of existing corporations, even when those rights are at variance with the purpose of the amendments. But, with singular men- tal obliquity, he maintains that, while existing corporations can hold their vested rights against the spirit of the amendments, they cannot yield ; any part of them in conformity with the amendments. He concedes that the Gilbert Company may build the kind of | road authorized in its charter, but denies that it can yield any part of its original plan to the new system. In other words, it has a | perfect right to stand on its franchise against | the constitutional amendments, but no right to yield any part of its franchise in accord- ance with them. We believe that this is neither law nor common sense. If it be sound policy to have a general railroad law | instead of special acts it does not contra- vene that policy, but aids to make it uni- form for the owners of vested rights to make a voluntary snrrender of privileges to the new constitutional requirements. The Gil- | | bert Company, instead of building the kind | of road authorized in its charter, consents to | not long since, bearing the body of a man, modify its plan in accordance with the | amended constitution, and Judge Sedgwick | decides that the amendments are thwarted by this consent to conform to this spirit | The International Rowing Matehes, The first of the series of international rowing contests on the Schuylkill took place yesterday under auspicious circumstances and with gratifying results. The most noteworthy of the beaten crews were the Dublin University and the Ar gonantas. The winners were the Eu- reka, Yale, Columbia, Beaverwycks, Wat- kins, London and Cambridge crews. The London crew made the best time, and unless some unforeseen accident shall occur will doubtless win the race, such was the supe- riority displayed ; but Yale, in getting the second place, did much to regain the laurels lost in past comtests. Still it must be admitted that seven and three- quarter seconds is a long time to be over- come in a final heat with a crew so expert and thorough as that from the Thames, and this is the immediate test to which Yale is to be put. Columbia, also, will have a severe trial to-day, being pitted against Watkins and ‘Trinity, with a difference of four and three-quarter seconds in favor of the one and four and a quarter seconds in favor of the other. If yesterday’s rowing was a test of the results to-day both of the favorite college crews will be out of the race after the next heat. The Beaverwycks ought to be able to beat the Eurekas easily. It is, perhaps, too early to draw a moral from the results of the first day.of this interesting series of races, but the college crews have nothing to be ashamed of in their contests with the amateurs, Yale holding the second place and Columbia beat- ing the Beaverwycks’ time by three seconds. The Watkins crew won a proud place, although it beat Trinity by only half a second. The interesting feature of the heats to-day is the nearmess of the time made yesterday by the competing crews, and thia fact, added to the pxomisé of pleasant weather, will make the ovents of the afters noon eagerly awaited. Gxxzeran Don Sasas Manrtn.—This dis tinguished officer of the Spanish army in Cuba and ex-Governor of Santiago de Cubs has arrived on American soil, where he will* have an opportunity of beaoming acquainted with a nation of which he has ever been an outspoken enemy. We sball be pleased in- deed if General Marin will stay long enough among us to learn that the power of the “Americanos” is something undeserving the unqualified contempt with which he has been in the habit of regarding it. For a» long time the central figure of a petty despotism, his views on the questions affecting the rights of his fellow man need reconstruction, and itis probable that by inhaling the at- mosphere of freedom fora little while he may return to Cubaa wiser if not a sadder man. His statement that the war is at an end in Cuba is, fortunately for the cause of liberty, untrue, as we learn from the lips of the representative of the United States at the scene of many of Marin’s butcheries. The war is more likely to be all over Cuba than atan end in that unhappy island. Tue Weatner.—An advancing barometrie depression brings with it an increase of temperature, which will be experienced during the next few days ‘To-day the change will be slight, but te-morrow more marked. Rains have prevailed in all the Southern States, particularly along the Gulf coast. The rainfall at Punta Rossa, Fla., amounted to 1,30inches. Threatening weather will prevail along the Upper Mis. sissippi in advance of the low barometer now central in the Missouri Valley. To-day the weather in New York will be-clear and pleas. antly warm. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Thore is an epidemic of elopements, Hon. Abram 8, Hewitt is talked of for Speaker. Count Steinvock, of Russia, has gone to California. John T. Alexander died in Illinois the other day leaving 17,000 cattle. Colonel John K. Fellows is speaking for Tilden in the northern part of the State. The Moor of our day is characterized by the decaying architecture that bears his name. M. Thiers wrote to Princo Hohenlohe that he was willing to testify in defence of Count d’Arnim. September, with its purple grapes, snowy tuberoses, golden apples and musical mosquitoes is coming, What surprisos a philosopher like Susan B. Anthony ts that wives should have to buy potatoes by the halt peck. A Milwaukeean moves that the hickory treo be made an emblem of the United States, as the oak is of Eng- land and the laurel of Groece, William Penn’s ball’s-eye wateh, an inch thick, verge movement, gold plated on brasa, bought jn 1682, is in possession of Mrs. Fyffe, in Cincinatti, This is the season of the year when the farmor’s wife stands over a hot brass kettle “doing up” peara for her city visitors to eat next August, Emerson:—‘‘i hold my peace concerning many things asi donot wish to perplex my fellow inen, aod am content to see them rejoicing at what irritates me,” Don Carlos having stood godiather to the daughter of a Spanish nobleman, who married H. C. Moore, an American artist, called on Tbursaay evening, with bis suite, on the lady. San Francisco Chronicle:—“‘Jessie Cleveland, a girl of seventeen years of age, was sent to the County Jail yesterday by the Police Judge for seventy-tive days as common drunkard.” Jean Paul:—“Every lovo-believes in a double immor- tality, in its own and that of the other. When it 1s able to fear that it ever may cease it has already coased, It is all the same to our heart whether the loved one aisnppears, or his love ouly.”? Shakespeare was boro and raised in a river town In- fested with intermittent fever, Ague seems to have been one of the ills of his life. There 1s moro oF less of fever and ague in Hamiet, Iago and Richard * Weare returning rapidly toward the xood old times; but the gray haired geatlemen, since the resumption of silver, have not gone back to the ancient custom of trying butter by scraping of a bit with a three-eont Piece. Waco (Texas) Register:—“‘a wild horse, without saddle, made its appearance in this section of the State, The borse was at length cxugut amd tho body found strapped to the horso and bad been dead for soine timo, '? A tarmer the other day, if the story be trae, wrote to a Now York merchant, asking how the former's prog was getting along, and where he siept nights The merchant replica, “He sleeps in tho store in the dey tune, I don't know where he sleeps nights, ? Two projects are afoot tor the recovery of Palestina One project aims at tho physical, nsecont at the hise torical recovery of tho Holy Land, One aims at re. gaining Jost soil, a second at regaining lost knowledge, In both cases the instrument to be ebiclly used ig the spade, Burlington Hawkeye:—A Gloucoster letter write says codtish are caught with a line thirty fathoms longer Provided with foar hooks, which are baited with ‘porgie.’ That kind of stui! may do to tell axay down in Gloucester, where people aren't posted, but out West here we have seen tov many codfish swaying from the grocery awning in the summer breeze not ” Kuow Dotter than ail shat gibbering gosh about linee and hooks, You don’t caton codfis just like mackerel.” Bd hwo 4 — %