The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1876, Page 4

a NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, 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 addressed New York Henarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Kejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPMIA OFFICE —NO.112 SOUTH | SIXTH STH LONDON OFFIC HERALD-NO. 46 PARIS OFFICE—AVI OF THE al: vt NEW YORK TREET. L'OPERA, DE Subscriptions and advertisements will be the same terms received and forwarded on as in New York. VOLUME XLI : SEMENTS THIS APTERNOON AND VENING. ROOTS THEATRE. BARDANAPALUS. at 8 P.M. Mr. Bangeand Mra Agnes Booth. woop: AIKEN COMBINATIU: BURLESQUE, P FAGU! COMEDY Matinee ai 2 KELLY & LEO ats P.M. MINSTRELS, OLYMPIO TH VARIETY, at 8 P.M. Matines a LMORF'S G. ATR, RDEN, CONCERT, at 8 P. 3 PARISIAN VARIETIES, ars P.M. FIFTH AV THEATRE, DAVID GARRICK, at 8 Sothern, WALLACK’S TIFATRE, THE MIGHTY DOLLAK, at 8 PM. Mr. and Mra, Flov thee, ROW THEATRE, AMERICANS’ GOLD, atS P.M. Mr. G. C. Boniface. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, tarp. M. TIvo VARIETY, ATS 1. M. THIRD FARTETY, at 8 1M, UNION SQU [WO MEN OF saNDY AV Mn at THEATRE, 8PM, TH FARIETY, at 8 P.M. WITH SUPPLEMEN®. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30. From our reports this morning the probabilities rre that the weather to-day will be warmer and tazy or partly cloudy. During the summer months the Heratp wille that his nomination is impossible, and have | in the country at the rate of r week, free of postage. de sent to subserily Wann fas moderately active on an irregular and Srrexr Yrsterpay.—Speculation incertain market. Gold opened at 110 5-8 snd closed at 110 1-8, the seing the highest of the day. vonds declined with gold. Railroad bonds vere in moderate request, and, on a fairly opening price overnment listributed business, remained firm to the | lose. Money on call was easy at 1a 2 1-2 per cent. A Wutrr Man was suspected of advising the negroes at Eagle Lake, in Texas, to ‘‘in- turrection,” and so he was killed in his bod ind while asleep. ‘The whites in that sec- ion, we are told, are prudent, an assertion ve cannot doubt in view of such a remark- ible exhibition of prudence. Acarm Wr Have a Rumor that the present Sultan is to be deposed and his brother, Abdu! Hamid, proclaimed in hisstead. The Sultan’s malady seems to be incurable, and sooncr or later he will be set aside for a more energetic ruler. The only wonder is that he bas so long been allowed to fil! a place for which his infirmities disquality him. A Heavy Burctany was committed yester- day morning in Maiden lane under the very eyes of the police. What can we think of our police system when a crime of this kind can be committed in the open day and within © few steps of Broadway? The change in the Board evidently has not given efficiency to the service. Tne Senvias Vicrontes of to-day were the Turkish victories of yesterday. The suc- cesses of each side depend upoa the source of the news-—whether tke despatch is dated from Belgrade or Constantinople. , In the end, however, both sides claim the victory, but as the Turks always advance after a Ser- vian triumph we may doubt whether there is any fighting at all. Disuonrsty anv Corrurtion are not con- fined to the public service, but our great corporations suffer from rings and combina. | tions quite as much as the government. Of this there is no clearer proot than the Pater- son scandal, of which we print another chapter this morning. The Navy Depart- ment has not suffered more severely from frauds in the sale of old iron than has the Erie Railroad. Mone Troors ron Cvna is an announce- ment which comes by cable, and brings with it an assurance of more food for fever. Every year since 1869 Spain has been send- ing to the “Ever Faithtul Isle” the flower of her soldiery to fall victims to the deadliness of the climate. A thousand men die of fever to one who is killed by the insurgents. {t is probable that not a single Spanish sol- dior sent to Cuba in the first years of the | war is now alive, and all who follow are cer- tain to meet the fate of those who went be- fore. Ix tre Internationa, Reoatta on the Behuylkill yesterday the fonr-oared trial heats resulted in strict accordance with the record of the day before. The contest is now narrowed down to the Beaverwycks, Wat- kins and Thames crews, and the London | Club will probably have an easy victory, especially if Yalo is excluded. In regard to the request that Yale be allowed to row in the final heat we have only to say that whether the request is acceded to or refused it was one improper to be made and unjust alike to both crews. Yale has made a spien- did record in this regatta, but it would be an injustice to the London Club if Yale should succeed in the final heat after being twico beaten, while anything short of victory would be an injury to Yale. In cases of this kind the best way is to allow the events to take place in their regular order without any departure from the programme. If the London Ciub assents to the proposition in behalf of Yale we shali praise their gen- erosity, but if thoy refuse we shall not find fault with them for rejecting an improper eppeal to their generosity. NEW YORK HERALD WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 30, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. | The Gubernatorial Contest at Sara- toga. The assembling of the democratic dele- | gates yesterday, some of whom were fresh | from a consultation with Governor Tilden | and others from a conference with Judge Church, considerably narrowed the field of choice, but left the nomination in as much donbt ever between the candidates | who not ruled out. Among those fate was decided yesterday Abram 8. Hewitt, it is for- tunate for the democratic party that a | reason for rejecting him has been discovered as are whose was and longer talked of. The State constitution re- quires that the Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall have been residents of the State for five years preceding the election ; but Mr. Hewitt has resided and voted in New | Jersey within that period. The fact that he | is a carpet-bagger in New York disposes of him completely; but, even if he were not under this disability, there are other conelusive reasons why he should not be nominated. * He is too shifiy and insin- cere to be trusted. So far as he is known in this State, outside of the city, it is in connec- tion with the broken down Midland Rail- road, and victimized citizens of both parties would have indignantly voted against him in all the counties through which that road, ! runs, If he were constitutionally eligible his nomination would have been the sure forerunner of defeat for himself and the | democratic party of the State. Mr. Hew- itt's sudden candidacy was a bubble } which collapsed as soon as it was touched. Had his nomination been possi- ble he would have been assailed as‘ the son- in-law of Peter Cooper, the venerable rag *| money candidate, and have been suspected of a covert leaning to the family heresy. Judge Church is also among the collapsed candidates, although he has been much talked of. His way of coquetting with the nomination has lessened the esteem in which he was once held. He has acted like an ancient maiden, who, having toyed with and missed a number of good offers in days that are gone, does not know her own mind, and stealthily solicits advances which she lacks decision to accept or repel. If Judge Church were not blinded by political vanity or the flattery ot indis- creet friends he would long ago have seen made his refusal so firm and explicit that nobody could doubt what he meant. He lost the great opportunity of his life two years ago, when he could have had the dem- ocratic nomination by signifying his willing- ness to accept it, and might have fallen heir to the honors and prospects which have come to Governor ‘Tilden. It is too late to rectify that mis- ‘take, and it would have been more | consistent with dignity to peremptorily for- bid the use of his name in connection with any political office. Governor Seymour is also quite outside the pale of choice, but only by his voluntary and sincere refusal to be again « candidate for any office. The selection of the democratic nominee for the Governorship seems to be narrowed down to three names—Mr. Dorsheimer, Mr. Potter and Mr. Marble. Any one of the three would be a pop- ular candidate and make a_ respectable Governor if elected. The advantage of run- ning Mr. Marble would lie mainly in the conspicuous record he has made of sound opinions on the great question of the cur- rency. ‘There is a widespread feeling that Mr. ‘Tilden weakened his canvass by the concession he made to Hendricks in his let- ter of acceptance. Tbe only way in which he can now retrace that false step and re- cover lost ground is by the nomination of a stiff and positive hard money man for the Governorship of his own State. In this view no nomination could be so significant as that of Mr. Marble, the hardest of all the hard money men in ‘the democratic party. Mr. Marble renounces Hendricks and all his works. He is the one democrat in the United States who has had the courageous fidelity to his convictions to publicly de- nounce the action of the democratic House in passing the repeal bill, which he did in his recently published letter. His contempt for that cowardly yielding to the inflation- ists is the consistent result of long estab- lished convictions. His aggressive, unre- lJenting war on the rag money heresy in the columns of the World so long as he was its editor, attests his unwavering devotion to principle. Heis the author of the strong, incisive, unflinching hard money platforms | adopted and readopted by tho democratic party of this State for a series of years. There could be no better way of undoing the mischievous effect of Mr. judged concessions to Hendricks in his letter of acceptance than by nominating so pro- nounced, intrepid, unyielding and well known a champion of hard money as Mr. Marble. He is, besides, a citi- zen whose character for integrity is un- | assailable ; aman of wide political knowl- | edge and various accomplishments, who would adorn any public station to which he might be elected. The nomination of Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer would have many of the advan- tages which would attend that of Mr. Marble. | He also is a strenuous and courageous hard | money man, who never inches in maintaining his conv , | fiant bearing om the : | in the St. Louis Convention rofleéts infinite credit on Mr. Dorsheimer, His education as a lawyer gives Rim an advantage over Mr. | Marble in public assemblies, and good speak- | ing ability is an important partof the equip- | ment of a public man. Mr. Dorsheimer, ! besides being right and strong on the money question, is well fitted to blunt the republi- | can weapons on the loyalty question. He Avas as zealous for the war as Governor Mor- | gan himself. He served on the staff of which is so entirely conclusive that he is no | Tilden’s ill | | i i | conspicuous opportunties of proving his faith | well as political friends. | and wide acquaintance with business men | Marble are better known and more popular | will be sustained by tho Court of | tracks ; it merely recognized an undisputed | General Fremont in the opening year of the | | contest. His loyalty throughout the war admits of no doubt or question, and in this | respect he would be a good candidate to run against Morgan, the ‘‘great war Governor.” If he should be the choice of this Convention it will have made-a good nomination. Mr. Potter has also excellent qualifications for the Governorship and would make a strong and highly popular candidate, as steady and unswerving a hard money man He is | Superintendent finds that there has been any self, although he has not had such recent and by his works as these rivals for the demo- cratic nomination. He has had a wider ex- perience of official life than either of them, his long service in Congress having given | him a valuable training in the best practical His course in that body won for him the respect of political opponents as In discretion, can- dor, courtesy and patriotism he had no | superior on the floor of the House. His large practical knowledge of business interests school, put him on a footing of equality with Mr. Morgan at this end of the State, where both are equally respected for integrity and busi- ness qualifications. Mr. Potter and Mr. than Mr. Dorsheimer in this metropolis, and Mr. Dorsheimer would perhaps make a bet- ter run in Western New York and the rural districts. But any one of the three would make a strong candidate and a good Governor, Judge Sedgwick’s Rapid Transit De- cision, The obstructive decision of Judge Sedg- wick is not only felt to be at variance with common sense and against the growth, pros- perity and best interests of the city, but a large proportion of the legal profession re- gard itas bad law. It will certainly be ap- pealed from, and there is little doubt that it will be reversed. Judge Sedgwick has decided that the thirty-sixth section of the Rapid Transit act of 1875 is unconstitu- tional, because he thinks it repugnant to the provision that ‘the Legislature shall not pass a private or local bill granting to any corporation, association or individnal the right to lay down railroad tracks.” He holds that the preference given in the thirty-sixth section of the Rapid Transit act to any ex- isting corporation which has not forfeited its charter, and whose route coincides with that selected by the Commissioners, in permitting such company to build the road on the plan prescribed by the Commissioners is, in effect, a private or local bill granting to a corpora- tion the right to lay down railroad tracks. We do not believe that such a position ppoals. The Gilbert Company already possessed the right ‘to lay down railroad tracks” in Sixth avenue under a charter which Judge Sedgwick admits that the constitutional amendment did not annul. The thirty-sixth section of the Rapid Transit act did not con- fer on this company a right to lay railroad right already in existence and which could not be modified, abridged or infringed with- out the consent of the company. The thirty- sixth section merely permits them to yield their plan of construction in conformity with the more general plan adopted by the Com- missioners. It is not a change in further de- viation from the requirements of a general law, but a change which, so faras it goes, surrenders a part of the rights possessed under a special charter to bring them into harmony with the general law. The right to lay down railroad tracks in Sixth avenue the Gilbert Company possessed in any event. The act of 1875 did not confer this right, but only gave the company the option of changing one plan of construction for another—the option of conforming their plan to the general law instead of building a road in the manner permitted by their char- ter. The right of the company to construct a rapid transit road in Sixth avenue was unquestioned, and could not be taken from them without their consent. The act of 1875 merely permitted them to accept a different plan of structure and to subordinate their special charter to the requirements of the general law. Savings Banks Swindles, Most of the losses inflicted by rotten savings banks have resulted from one or both of these causes—investments in worth- less or doubtful securities and loans to the officers of the bank. The excellent and stringent provisions of the act of May 17, 1875, cut up both of these sources of fraud and loss by the roots, provided the Bank Superintendent is vigilant and: efficient in his administration of the law. The kind of swindles from which the community has suffered so heavily within the last few years cannot any longer be perpetrated without gross negligence and culpability by the Bank Department. The act of 1875 prescribes and limits the mode of investment of the deposits in savings banks, confining them to certain specified stocks and unencumbered real es- tate, not more than sixty per cent of the total deposits to be loaned on bond and mortgage. The only stocks in which savings banks are allowed to invest are the stocks, bonds or interest-bearing obligations of the United States ; the stocks or bonds of this State bearing interest ; the stocks or bonds of any other State in the Union which, within the preceding ten years, has not failed to pay principal or interest of any of its obligations when they fell due; or interest bearing stocks or bonds otf the cities, counties or towns of this State. A rigid enforcement of this part of the law would prevent losses by the unsafe investment of the funds of the savings banks. The provisions respecting loans on real estate are equally efficient. In he first place, the real estate must be unen- cumbered. In the next place, the loan must not exceed one-half the value if thef real estate is productive, nor forty per cent of tho value if it is unproductive; and build- ings must be insured by the borrower for the security of the savings bank. In the third place, no loan can be made on real estate until after it has been inspected and its value appraised by a competent committee. Moreover, if the securities held by a savings bank should depre- ciate, it is made the duty of its officers to collect the loan at once or require additional securities, As to the other usual source of loss—loans to the officers or trustees of the bank~-that practice is forbidden altogether. The Bank Superintendent is clothed with the most absolute inquisitorial powers re- specting the business and management of savings banks, with authority to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers; and whenever the Bank evasion of or non-compliance with the re- as Mr. Dorsheimer or even Mr. Marble him- | guirements of the law it is his duty to report the facts at once to the Attorney General, that legal proceedings may be commenced against the derelict bank. It is obvious that a faithful execution of the act of 1875 would gnard depositors in savings banks against even the possibility of losses, When such losses occur the Bank Superintendent ought to be held responsible, and should be made to pay the penalty of his negligence or favoritism by immediate re- moval from office. i Speculation in Coal. In the coal sale yesterday the prices ranged from $2 75 to $3 90 a ton for the various sorts of coal delivered on the Hudson in quantities of a hundred or a thousand tons. This, therefore, is the price to dealers, who have to get the coal to their yards in the city and thenco retail it by the ton, and, by some rational consideration of the expense of transportation and the profit to the retail dealer, the public may see that coal bought at these prices may be sold in the city for less than it has been sold for hitherto. But it will, perhaps, not be sold for much less, for the retailers theyselves form a second ring when the great original railroad and mine ring is broken. These prices may indicate to the owners of coal mine shares that they have no occasion for panic. Speculation on a commodity of absolute necessity to the people has been for years the source of enormous profit to some- body in the coal trade; and it is, perhaps, only another sort of speculation that now runs coal securities down to panic prices. They may not be the source of fabulous re- turns for some time to come, but they are still as good securities as they ever had any honest right to be. The mines are the same, and the market is the same, and the facilities for mining and trans- portation are constantly improving. 1t is only that product of speculative knavery— the combination—that is gone. Is a man rnined because he is deprived of the oppor- tunity to rob his neighbor? For legitimate trade and legitimate gains, and for those who hold their securities as shares in a legitimate enterprise, there is no occasion for uneasiness, Indeed, the public have rather to fear that the whole trouble is caused by some new ruse of the men who manage these great corporations. Who knows but what the rupture is a sham, contrived to run the securities down that these cool speculators may buy them up at ridiculous prices, and then, reorganizing the combination, sweep in enormous gains? That would be as fair as any of their transactions, With specula- tion put aside coal is worth in this city about four dollars a ton, which is just double what it is worth at the mines, Transportation is, perhaps, the largest single element in the cost of coal to those who are as farfrom the mines as we are ; yet in the time when the facilities for transportation. were far inferior to what they are now, and when consumption was far less, that was the price of coal in this city. For years since it has been in the neighborhood of seven dollars. The thirty million dollars that this difference would make in the re- turn for the Pennsylvania yield is extorted from the public every year by the combina- tion. In this connection the public has occasion only to regret that for its present immunity from robbery it is indebted only to the quar- rels of the schemers. This is a ground upon which the law should protect the people and upon which no doubt it would protect them if the thirty millions annually extorted from consumers did not furnish a corruption fand that legislators cannot withstand. Our laws limit the charges that railroad companies may make, and there is no good reason why they should not in the same manner in the incorporation of coal companies secure that the people shall be supplied at a proper ad- vance on the cost of production. Legislation of this nature is effective in Europe. It has not been applied here be- cause it was our early theory that men were more honest than the laws of the Old World seemed to assume. It was thought, more- over, that the freedom of trade—the very abolition of privileges—would make a com- petition that would protect the people. Our coal and other combinations have thrown a new light on that point, and they enforce the principle that where competition fails the law must stand between corporations and the public. There are many points in which it seems cfear we will yet be com- pelled to adopt the system by which in Europe the government regulates the price of a loaf of bread or a glass of beer. Water Sapply—mr. Report. According to the report of the Commis- of Public Works the storage ca- Putnam county The Campbell's sioner pacity of our reservoirs in and the Croton Valley is equal to eight thousand million gallons, and we are in- formed that this supply is ample to meet all contingencies that can arise from droughts and other ¢ We may therefore dis- miss from the discussion the question of quantity as regards the supply of water in the storage lakes. But it is one thing to have plenty of water in Putnam county and another to bring it into the city of New York for the uso of the people, Mr. Campbell admits that we have reached the time when the capacity of the Croton Aqueduct as the conduit for the city water supply is overtaxed; but, in- stead of boldly recommending a remedy for the defect, in the shape of a new aqueduct, he endeavors to prove that by limiting the consumption (which wonld now be next to impossible) and stopping the waste (which would be almost equally difii- cult) we may prolong the agony for a few years. Our consumption of water per capita is very large, it is true. satisfactorily the popularity of the household bath- tub and the demands of our growing man- ufacturing business. The waste he lays at the doors of reckless stablemen and too lib- oral street sprinklers, but forgets to include the leakage from the water mains along the newly and badly made uptown streets and avenues. The Croton Aqueduct was designed to deliver about one hundred and fifteen million gallons of water per day—that is, taxing its capacity to the utmost. Our daily draught on the distributing uses, Mr. Campbell | accounts for it by citing | reservoirs is less than one hundred million gallons. Therefore if the aqueduct were operating to its full capacity we would gain a day’s supply in every week, and our reser- voirs in Central Park would always remain full. But they are almost empty. There- fore we are consuming only what the Croton Aqueduet delivers, and are not benefited at all by our large reserves in Putnam county and the Croton Valley. This is a startling condition of our water supply in view of the possibility of a great conflagration creating a sudden demand for a large quantity of water, We are living from hand to mouth, as it were, in the matter of water, and the necessity of strict economy is imperative, In 1880, unless a new aqueduct_is built, our population of over one million and a half will have to depend on the present aqueduct and be content with a supply equal to about fifty gallons per capita, As it is the Croton Aqueduct proves insufficient in capacity for the pres- ent needs. Our water system is strangu- lated in the Croton Aqueduct, and it would be of no service to New York if she had Lake Michigan for a reservoir instead of the Croton lakes unless we have proper means of leading the water to the consumer. Servia and Turkcy. In the difficulties that surround the en- deavor to make peace there is presented a case that will almost necessarily involve the intervention of the Powers which signed at Berlin that memorandum the rejection of which by England as the friend of the Porte brought about the present war. Interven- tion seemed then necessary, and the threo Powers were prepared to make it in a spirit of conciliation, and apparently of mutual forbearance which promised to tranquillize that part of Europe by guaranteeing the recognition of the Christian subjects of the Porte at their full worth. But England, which claims sometimes to be the advance guard of Christian civilization, was the one Power that stood in the way of such a settlement as would have protected thoso Christian peoples from the Moslem oppressors. It was not because the British people or the British Premier hated Christianity that this was done. It was simply because the Premier and the whole government were profoundly indifferent to Christianity and everything else in the world except the nightmare of Russian influence. They were in a kind of panic on that subject, and, lest some advantage might come to Russia out of a settlement that was likely to co-operate with the progress of civilization in moving the Turks out of Europe, they resolved to prevent that settlement at any cost. In that blind resolve they went (ahead, and their agent at Constantinople was the right man in the right place. It seems to be the destiny of Sir Henry Elliott to represent his country at the courts of sovereigns who, either in their persons or their governments, are at the verge of dissolution. Ho maybe called the coroner of British diplomacy; and any sovereign to whom he is accredited may justly scan the horizon to know from what side his danger approaches. Sir Henry was at Naples when the melan- choly days came to King Bomba; he was at Athens when Otho left; he was at Constanti-, nople when the scissors of Damocles fell on the arm of Abdul-Aziz; and he is likely to preside at the dethronement, if not the death, of Mourad, the present Sultan. Be- tween the Earl of Beaconsfield and Sir Henry Elliott the Turk was sustained osten- sibly against Russia, really against the endeavors’ of the Christian subjects of the Sultan to secure some amelioration of their condition; an attempt to securo not freedom, but justice; not good gov- ernment, but a recognition of their humanity. Finally a point has been reached in the war beyond which the other Powers cannot per- mit it to continue, and beyond which even England cannot sustain her barbarous allies; and when it is proposed at this point to make peace the only obstacle is found to be Tur- key herself—Turkey, inflated, vain, domi- neering, spoiled by the triumph that has stim- ulated all her notions of her own greatness and all her evil impulses, England thought to sustain Turkey without encouraging Moslemism, and did not know that they were one and the same. Now the fanatical spirit that some time sinco asserted itself fiercely in Constantinople is at the Servian frontier, with a hundred thousand victorious soldiers, and British diplomacy cannot exorcise it. Only an army of one of the great Powers in the way of the Turks will secure the discon- tinuance of their march, and thus that armed intervention which all deprecated as the first step in an unknown series is likely to come about at last as the consequence of the war that was made by England's encourage- ment of the Porte. Tue Weatnen—As already announced in the Hrnatp another short term of warm weather is approaching, and we already be- gin to feel the influence of the movement eastward of the low barometer which is pre- ceded by rains in the region south of the lakes. The drift of this depression tends southeastward, and itis probable that during its passage over New York State heavy rains will prevail. Along the Gulf and South Atlantic coasts frequent rains have also occurred, with very variable winds. Within the month cyclonic storms have been met at sea between the twenty-fifth and thirty-fifth parallels, showing that these meteors are already in process of development, as de- scribed ina recent article. The vicinity of Cape Hatteras will be a particularly danger- ous one during the coming month, from the frequency with which strong easterly winds will prevail. High winds and even a tor- nado may be expected in the West. To-day the weather in New York will be warmer and hazy or partly clondy. AxoTHER Motiy Macurra Mopper is re- ported this morning as occurring at Avon- dale, near Wilkesbarre. A more purpose- less or s more fiendish organization has never existed in this country, and the re- pression of the Order stern necessity. Tasemany axp Anti-Tasmany have at last come to an agreement, anti-Tammany get- ting a little more thana third of the dele- gates to the State Convention, with a share of the Presidential electors and three rep- resentatives on the State Commit- tee, While this is more than Tam, many was willing to give a fow days ago it is less than anti-Tammany wanted ; 86 there has been concession on both sides, The division of the county nominations be- tween the factions will be the next question to be settled, and we may look forward in consequence to lively times after the Cone vention, PERSONAL : INTELLIGENCE, Paris hos 10,000 lunatics, Solon Robinson is visiting Cineinnatt, Tho Sultan js well enough to play his plana Gloucester, Mass, sends herrings Gottenberg, Sweden. Wilkie Collins? latest work, ‘Two Destinies,"’ is wild in Its plot Austin calls Browning a man of analytic, bat not poetic, power. Canada horses are selling in England at an averago price of $200 cae. Mr, D. W. Wilder’s “Annals of Kansas’’ has been re- printed in London. Senator Phineas W. Hitchcock, of Nobraska, is at the Fifth Avenne Hotal, Baron and Baroness do Montcholsy, of France, are at the Grand Central Hotel, Thero is a greater number of Chinese laundrymen in New York city than most people believe, Red-headed girls in Baltimore use for their hair load comb, so as to make tho hatr turn anbarn. Mrs, Oliphant, in the Cornhill, saya: ‘ho real honeymoon is not always a delightful momont.’” Right Rev. Bishop McNierney, of the Albany diocese, now at Sharor Springs, is slowly recovering his health, F: ©. Clayton's ‘English Female Artists” is a pow work in two volumes by the author of tho “Queens of Song.” Mr. J. Hegormann Lindencrone, the Danish Mimster, arrived at the Albemarle Hotel yesterday, from Washe ington, General Samuot F. Cary, of Ohio, the Greenback cane didate for Vice President, arrived in tho city last even- ing and is at tho Filth Avenue Hotel. Victor Hugo lately said, “Should T never write another word, twelve volumes of nv unpublished works could still be isened trom the presa.”” ‘A traveller stepped into tho cottage of an English farm hand at suppor time, and saw on tho table a swoot- bread, with ham and peas and now potatoes. The ragpicker bas resutned bis autumn duties, and finds a ready market for white muslin strips among tho oyster dealers who give a plato of cold-slaw, The Crown Prince of Germany says that nationalities create frontiers, but that Freemasonry desires charity, tolerance and liberty without distinction of frontiers, It was Congressman Randolph Tucker, the loquacious pet of Virginia, who claimed that a Virginia justice of the peace had aright to detain and open the mails of the Untted States, M. Louis Say, In connection with M. Largoan, will start on an exploring tour in North Africa oarly in the winter. Aloagger and Timbuctoo are included in thelr projected explorations. Ifthe Detroit Free Press read between the lines It would see that General Grant cannot travel round the world for two years and at the same timo serve as Hayes’ Secretary of War. The Examiner says that atrocious outrages on the aged and on women, such as have recently occurred by the wholesale in Bulgaria, are never committed save in the name of religion or liberty. , M. “Henry Hanord’s ‘Hollande Pittoresque,” @ se quel to bis very Intcrosting volume on “The Dead Cities of the Zuyder Zeo,’* ts an attempt todisprove the asserted fact that tho Dutch want to become part and parcel of the German Fmpiro. The curiosities of canal travelling tn Franee, together with some fresh revolations of Reigian and French country manners, arc exhibited ina new book by W, 3. C. Moons, entitled “Throngh France and Belgium by River and Canal in a Steam Yacht.’ The Liberté, rather a sorious journal, has ongaged the services of a famous writer (name not given) on political economy, who asserts that the high protective duties of the United States are maintained solely to punish England for her conduct during the secession war, Syria appears to have great attractions for womes travellers and writers, The latest book is Harriet Rate tray’s “Country Life in Syria,” which describes vividly the ontdoor life of men, women and animals tn the mountains and valleys ofthe Lobauon and among the sacred cedars, The first edition of “Burns? Poems,” Kilmarnock, 1780, with an aatograph elegy by the poet prefixed, sold for £38 10s. In London recently. At the same sale A subscriber's copy of Halliwatt’s Shakespearo, sixteos volumes folio (150 copies only printed), changed hands at the low price of £51. , Riretat, the pet haunt of Paristnn artistes and thelr crowd of admirers, where O/fenbach has just been stay- tng, lies In a narrow bay, between two cliffs. It boasts the usual accessorics of a seaside place, with tho sap- plementary advantage of a casino, at which tho Paris fan favorites disport themselves in music and song, Tho Pall Mall Gaztte reviews Mrs, Annie Thomag Cudlip’s last novel, “Blotted Out,’ which it pronounces “g stupid novel, with an evil-favored hqroine” The bbok has little incident, no plot to spoak of, the charam tersare unreal and unlifelike, and there ts neithes sequence nor probability in anything that Is supposed to occur. The Rassian government has undertaken the dificuk job of unifying tho Rossian language. A recent ukas prohibits the publication or sale of books printed 11 the dialect of Little Russta, as woll as dramatic per formances or lectures ia It ‘this ukaso is vory dis tasteful to the 14,000,000 of Little Russians, or Ruthe ntans, who like thetr own language, though they Itvt under the Czar. Charles Reade has had another copyright suit against the Glasgow Herald this time. The action wat brought for infringement of copyright in reprinting one of Mr, Reade’s stories from the Pall Mall Gazette, Tho detendants pleaded the practice of the press in copying from each other, and that thore was no notice of copyright attached to tho story in the Pall Mall Gazette. Mr. Reade claimed £120 damages and got £98 from the jury. The Virginia way to cook chiekens is:—Tho fowl te bo killed, plucked and eviscorated in the shortest posal: ble time; on no account is it to be washod, but it mus! be wiped dry wish a clean napkin and cnt into six parts—the breast, the two wings, the back and the two legs. The whole is *then to ba thrown into a frying pan with batter, cream, mush (small cakes of Indian meal dough); the whole to be done before the flesh loses ts natural heat, and the frying pan and contents mast be heated tn advance to receiyb the chicken, Congressman James A. Garficid, who has just beow renominated for Congress in tho old Joshua R, Gid dings district of Ohio, has already served nearly four. teon years. He was first elected in 1862, and has been returned ever since. lis district 1s famous for the re- tention of its Congressmen. Mr. Whittlesey, one of its frat Representatives, served sixteen years; then came Mr, Giddings, who served twenty years; ho was followed by Mr. Hutchins, who served four years; and then followed Mr. Garfield, who, if he lives to serve ip tho next Congress, will have seen sixteen years of membership. A proud scone for a poltce court was this, reported in the Providence Journal:—‘'The next victim was an old colored woman named Ralliday. She stood at the bar with tears rolling down her cheeks, to answer to the hideous crime of keeping an unlicensed dog. She had paid his license for seven years, she eaid, but this yoar it was such hard work to get money that she thought, perhaps, they would let him go. ‘Ton dole nd costs,’ said the Judge, in his affectionate way, ir!’ said the old woman, ‘I haven't cot but juat If you would take that and let me bring you the rest Saturday might, I could sell some of my things and get a little more money, sir.’ Upon this condition the old woman was releases. It 18 said of the nico old maid that she mored through the world in a stately stataesque kind of way, making the despair of all the men who lovod her—.pere haps the more because she was unaitamable; and now when old sbe is the same, with just the difference bee tween tho lily when it stands op in its frat you 7 bloom, and the lily when tt is dtooping to its fail tween wax, fresh, bloomy, rosy, and waz, fades, yo’ Jow, and with all the bloom rubbed of. Young or old, she is always of the same spiritual type; virg nal, une troubled by dreams, untouche! by nses in ang direction, with afew, very few aifections, A womag whom the love of maa never wariuned, the carcas ol @ id never thrilled; the modern vestal, the Protestant 4m the world but not of it; passioniess and purr— stata, nots woman,