The New York Herald Newspaper, September 2, 1876, Page 4

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Tae Buuyprr ar Sanatoca—Bad for the democratic party. Hors are down in England, but they have been very high up in Saratoga, Tne Custer Moxumenr Funp is steadily increasing. New contributions are reported elsewhere. In Irauxy they convict the men who de- fraud the nation. In the United States the offenders escape. Ir THe Sanatoca Coxvention desired the election of ex-Governor Morgan they adopted the means best calculated to bring about that result. American Fryances in Enoriaxp.—The new funded loan of the United States is suc- cessful in London, and the quotations else- where are as satisfactory as could be ex- pected. Ir Witt Be Imvosststx to convince the democracy of this State that the remorseless nomination of Horatio Seymour was not a trick to give the naming of the candidate to the State Committee. A Srrctaz Desratcn to the Henarp from Berlin gives a new assurance of the friendly feeling of Germany for America. The Em- peror William seemed especially desirous to show his good will to the American people. Toe Sick Cumupnen of this great city de- serve the attention of the generous public, and the facts elsewhere published in regard to their needs and the methods proposed for their relief should be considered by all be- nevolent citizens. ‘Ir Is Urrenty impossible for me to be- come the candidate for Governor.” So says Horatio Seymou., but the democrats assume that by mere stolid persistency they will compel this gentleman to recede from a po- sition that he deems due to his dignity and self-respect. This is not the attitude of a great party. Tue War is frequently revived in the courts, and to-day there is reported a de- cision in the Supreme Court of the United Btates, in which one of the problems of re- construction is involved, and the effect of South Carolina’s return to the Union de- termined, in regard to an interesting point of law. Wars Taat Anz Dank.—It is said by the democrats that they will elect Seymour any- how, and that he can refuse to swear in if he will. Then Dorsheimer would succeed, of course. Did the plan to make Dorsheimer Governor with the capital of Seymour's pop- ularity contemplate that this painful farce would go so far? If it did goodby Sammy. A Gmsrix | Story of” religious delusion, resulting in insanity and assassination, comes from Arkansas. ‘The Cobbites, a new sect of religious fanatics, attract attention by murdering a neighbor. Why people should commit murder in the name of One who inculcated above all things love to one's fellow men is one of thosg strange anomalies which it is difficult to explain ; but religious insanity does not differ from other kinds, except perhaps in being moro ferocious. Poverty.—Horatio Seymour is a good man—wise, upright, just ; but it is an awful admission for a great party that it has but one man with whom it dare venture its can- vass. Yet this is the admission made by the democracy in the Empire State when it en- deavors to force a man into obedienco to its will by making for him a painful position in which he must either appear to his party as a traitor or to the country as a buffoon whose most solemn declaration is an empty jest. ‘The Demecratic Crisis. The consternation and panic which seized the democratic party when it learned from the Hxnarp yesterday morning how its State Convention had been duped and the public imposed upon by the deliberate falsehood of the committee appointed to wait on Mr. Seymour baffles description. The first impulse of democrats was to make a stout denial of the truth of our despatches, and even republicans received the news at first with more or less incredulity, doubting whether fraud and folly could reach so amazing a pitch. But as the day wore on denials were found to be vain and doubts ridiculous in the face of the flood of confirmatory evidence that kept pouring in from Utica, from Saratoga, from Albany, and the inability of the fluttering and panic-stricken democrats to procure any contradiction of the news. Long be- fore night the whole public had settled down into a fall belief that the reports were true and that the democratic party lay gasp- ing ina most flarming and critical condition. During the day and evening every kind of influence and pressure was mainly brought to bear on Mr. Seymour to induce him to change his determination. The authors of these frantic efforts had so little expectation of success that they avowed their purpose to keep Mr. Seymour's name nt the head of the ticket in any event—with his consent, if it could be extorted, but in defiance of his flat refusal if he should prove inexorable. If this wild resolution should be carried out the success of tif demooratic party would be past praying for. It would cover the whole canvass with a transparent garment of fraud and trickery. Under the pretence of running Seymour for the Governorship the party would be really running Dorsheimer, imitating the foolish ostrich, which hides its head in the sand while leaving its body exposed. If tho ticket should be elected and the Gover- nor refuse to qualify the Lieutenant Gover- nor would, of course, succeed to the office. Do the democratic leaders imaginé that any citizen of the State is such an utter idiot as not to know that he would be really voting to make Dorsheimer Governor when he de- posited a ballot for Seymour and Dorshei- mer, with the certainty that Seymour would not serve if elected? If Dorsheimer is to be the candidate for Governor let him be made so by the formal action of the democratic party. It is impossible that Dorsheimer should sneak into office behind the garments of a bogus candidate. The people prefer openness and plain dealing; they would resent as an insult to their understand- ings an attempt to trick them into voting for Dorsheimer under the shamming preterico that they were voting for Seymour. ‘In vain is the net spread in the sight of every bird,” and without a new nomination in place of Seymour the democratic ticket will be cgvered with popular scorn and hooted into deserved and disgrace- ful defeat. Gullible as some classes of voters may be, they cannot be bamboozled by so stupid o trick as that which is now proposed. Seymour will be a dead weight in the canvass, fatally handicapping the other candidates, if the party insists on run- ning him against his absolute refusal. So desperate and utterly ruinous a policy will be abandoned as soon as the party leaders become capable of cook reflec- tion and a calm survey of the situ- ation. But what will then be done? It is impossible to predict what egregious new folly this demented and demoralized party may be capable of perpe- trating; but if the leaders recover their senses sufficiently to act with any approach to discretion they will nominate a new candidate for Governor. Whether this should be done by the State Committee or by reassembling the State Convention is a question not easily decided. If this were a mere ordinary or accidental vacancy in the ticket it might be properly filled ‘by the State Committee, in accordance with party usage. But it differs from all ordinary cases in the fact that the Convention was deceived and was entrapped into adjourning without making a new nomination by false informa- tion. If it had not been deliberately im- posed upon it might have saved the party from the derision and humiliation into which it has been plunged by dishonest suppression of facts which it was entitled to know. Honor and fairness require that it should be put back into the position in which it would have stood on Thursday morning, if it had not been grossly deceived by deliberate and unscrupulous false statements. But, on the other hand, the Convention could not be reassembled without exciting bitter controversies and angry recriminations, and it might be fatally damaging to wash such a heap of dirty linen in public. The most qniet way to rectify this tremendous mis- take would be by the action of the State Committee, which might consult in secret session and present a new candidate with- out exciting passionate and demoral- izing controversies. The more quietly this disgraceful scandal can be hushed up the Detter for the democratic party, and for this reason a new nomination by the State Com- mittee might be preferable to a reassembling of the State Convention. A terrible weight of suspicion rests upon Governor Tilden in connection with this ruinous fiasco, and it is incumbent on him to clear himself if he desires to stand well either with his own party or the public. The fact that, when it became evident by the temper of the Convention that Mr. Dorsheimer could not be nominated for the | first place, the particular pets and tools of Governor Tilden immediately sailed in for Seymour has an ugly and suspicious look. Seymour was nominated by acclamation on the motion of little Apgar, one of the most servile of Governor Tilden’s small satellites. Little Apgar made this motion three several times before he could get it acted on, and he was supported by Magone, Chairman of the State Committee, another of ‘lilden’s peculiar pets, who, so long as Dorsheimer seemed to have any chance, had opposed the nomination of Seymour. These pet underlings of Governor Tilden may be presumed to have known his secret wishes, and their course in the Con- vention justifies the supposition that the nomination of Seymour was precipitated in accordance with his volicy. The ob- vious and most natural interpretation is that he was willing Seymour should be nominated, in spite of the certainty that he would decline, as a fur- tive means of fulfilling his promises to Dors- heimer if the party should insist on voting for Seymour in spite of his refusal, or of controlling the new nomination afterward if it should devolve on the State Committee. Governor Tilden can clear himself from these damaging suspicions only by active efforts to get the vacancy in the ticket filled and exerting himself to have it filled by some other name than that of Mr. Dorsheimer. Dorsheimer might have been a very good name to put at the head of the ticket in the first in- stance; but if, after all that has happened, it should be placed there now, nobody could be made to believe that this whole scan- dalous fiasco was not a manceuvre by Gover- nor Tilden to accomplish that result. But what may be done or attempted now to re- trieve the situation will probably make but little difference. The democratic party, by its stupendons folly, seems to have flung away all its chances. When the Presidential can- vass opened Governor Tilden’s prospects seemed as bright as Franklin Pierce’s were in 1852, but it begins to look now as if he is fated to fall under the same public con- demnation while he is yet a candidate that overtook poor Buchanan in the final year of his term. The Burning Forests—How to Arrest the Tho latest advices from the region swept by the forest fires inform us that there is little or no diminution in the destructive- ness of the flames, and that their progress into new districts is alarmingly rapid. It is ® peculiarity common to all great fires that they create their own winds by reason of the local rarefication of the atmosphere. The continuous indraught of air assists in extend- ing the area of destruction and lends in- tensity to the flames by supplying the oxy- gen needed for theirsupport. The heat isso great in advance of the line of fire that the vegetation becomes charred and deprived of its sap before the flames reach it, and it is therefore prepared for rapid combustion. Without an abundant rainfall it will be very difficult to arrést and extin- guish these forest fires, especially on the parched mountain slopes of Northern New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. For- tunately the coming weather changes will have the effect of creating rain areas along the line of the Ohio Yalley eastward toward the Atlantic coast and over the region in which the burning forests lie, But certain portions of the fire-swept country will re- ecive but little of the rainfall, being sit- uated to the eastward of the northern por- tion of the Alleghany Mountzains. Ranges of lofty hills which lie trans- versely to the tracks of areas of low atmos- pheric pressure exercise the same influence on the movements of the latter as the cushion of a billiard table has on the moving ball that impinges upon it. The area of low pressure with its marginal rains is deflected from its direct course and forced to follow that which gives it the readiest means of resuming its eastward progress. The Alle- ghany range lies northeast and southwest, so that storm centres striking it on thé west- ern side are caused to move along pafallel te its axis until the termination of the chain is reached north of tho Catskill Mountains, whence the storm moves eastward into New England. For this reason Albany may have a season of copious rains while Newburg and Poughkeepsio experience a _ prolonged drought. The regions now suffering from the forest fires are particularly affected by this topographical influence on the weather conditions, and it is really remarkable that they have not long since been denuded of their timber by such conflagrations. The attempts of the local residents at fight- ing the fires in an almost waterless region will prove fruitless so long as the efforts are confined to trying to extinguish the flames directly. Those engaged in sucha work cannot approach near enough to arrest the advance of the devouring fire. All post and rail fences should be torn down and re- moved and a wide belt of forest cut down about a quarter of a mile in advance of the conflagration. In felling the trees care should be taken to cut them so that those next the fire would fall with their tops toward it, but all the others should fall the other way—that is, present their butts to the flames. By this means a wide space wougd be created between the most combustible parts of the trees and time would be given to beat out the flames when they reached the heavier portions. If possiblo the trees felled in the centre of the clearing should be hauled as far away from the exposed line as possible, With the large force composing the army of fire fighters this work could be easily accomplished in a single day. Tho avenues of clearing so formed should bo kept open as permanent safeguards against fature forest fires. Flames. As Arrra To Mx. Seymour's Patnrorisw in such a crisis as this is even more remorse- less than his nomination against his widely known wishes. He has always been too thoroughly devoted to his party to fail it in an emergency like the present; but had his acceptance of the nomination been possible it would have been indicated before the adjournment of the Convention, nor Would the nomination have been followed with another refusal. Tue Wan in Tunxer, if we may call Servia a part of Turkey, is a problem of which the solution will never be by battle, The determination of the question must be by diplomacy. The Servians and the other allied Slavonic peoples are only pawns in the game of Continental chess which the Powers of Europe play. Our information this morning shows that the situation is be- coming complicated. There is the third Sultan in less than three months, and there is no prospect of peace. Ir Is Useness to attempt to parry the blow which the Saratoga Convention dealt tothe democracy of this State by holding outa hope of Mr. Seymour's final accept ance of the nomination. His acceptance at this late day would not repair the evil which befell the party by the unwise action of the Convention. 7 Grant's Plain Talk. The President is one of the silent men of the country. His acts are his interpreters, not his words. It is hard to get him to speak. At the end of the war General Grant, who was then a candidate for the Presidency, was accurately described as ‘‘a sashed and girded Sphinx.” The description was cor- rect. Nobody knew what this great man intended todo, The country accepted him on faith, and, we regret to say, it was dis- appointed in the results. Still, the Presidential Sphinx can open his lips. The silence of Grant as to the third term aspirations of which he has been ac- cused, as to his opinions of the state of the country and of the future of the country, has been decidedly overcome. The man who refused to speak has spoken at the last. Our letter from Long Branch proves that the most reticent man in the country is one of the most eloquent. There is a certain se- ductive power in the influence of the bril- liant Heraup correspondents which no pub- lic men can resist. They say that they will not be interviewed, but they invariably fall victims to the blandishments of our enter- prising representatives, The Hzratp wants the news, the great man wants to be under- stood, and the result is—the truth. Gen- eral Grant has refused to speak to the coun- try, but he has spoken to the Hurarp, and with a candor and frankness that it pleases ustocommend. As Horatio said in “Ham- let” of the silent ghost of the play, Upon my life, ‘This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him, and so Grant tells in our columns what he has refused to reveal to the politicians. We thank him for the compliment. He per- ceives, we think, that the politicians cannot be trusted, but that the Hznaup can be de- pended upon to tell the absolute truth, and to give with due deference and respect the opinions of the President of the United States to the people. It is a very remark- able interview that our correspondent fur- nishes, but it is one which the President has no reason to regret. He is candid, and candor is, of all qualities, one of the most admirable. Once there was a time when His Excellency refused to read the Hera. That was the time when there was some slight discussion of Cwsarism, and when Grant did not like the debate, but when the country in general thought “Barkis was willin’.” But all that is over now, and the great ‘‘sashed and girded Sphinx” not only reads the Heraxp, but, as will be seen elsewhere, is generous enough to write for it his political opinions. They will be read with great delight by everybody. The President has honored us with a plain talk. He says that the result of the October election in Indiana ‘will settle the national contest, and believes the republican party will carry Indiana. He thinks Orth has helped the party by resigning. He inti- mates that Governor Tilden might just as well resign as Mr. Orth, and don’t think he can get out of the quandary about the payment of his past income tax. He believes that Hayes will be elected, and by his superior sagacity solved the mystery of the Seymour nomina- tion. ‘If the democrats,” General Grant said, ‘wero certain of success in New York, they would not force the nomination for Governor upon a man who had positively declined.” with our correspondent Grant had not heard of the terrible siasco at Saratoga. His ideas of that crime in politics would be in- teresting, and perhaps he may give them to the public hereafter. The grim smile with which he read the story of that colossal blunder ought to be photographed for the entertainment of pos- terity. What President Grant says about the Indian war, Secretary Robeson, the whiskey trials, Mr. Bristow and the general condition of the country, over which he has presided for nearly eight years, will be read with great interest, but does not need present comment. But everybody will read this in- teresting conversation with great delight and will admire his frankness, coolness and per- fect good nature, and the politicians will derive benefit from his ideas. In all con- tests it is the King’s name that is a tower of strength, and if Hayes is elected let him thank Grant for his assistance, and, second, the democracy for their blunders, Mr. Yardley Takes the Stump. W. F. Yardley, a colored man, announces himself as republican candidate for the Governorship in Tennessee, and, in a very straightforward letter, declares his deter- mination to make a canvass of the State, and asks the democratic candidates to meet him in public discussions. We hope they will do so, and ‘let the best man win.” But we advise Mr. Yardley to omit in his public addresses all special reference to ‘any race.” In his letter he speaks several times of the advan- tages and the good of ‘my race.” Mr. Yardley is an American citizen, and appeals to his origin have no proper place in his public utterances. In the North we hear occasionally of German candidates and Irish candidates, and we have fre- quently taken occasion to rebuke such narrow and clannish appeals for votes. A candidate for office in this country must be an American citizen, and he cannot be any- thing higher than that. Appeals to ‘‘race” orcolorin the South are fit only for dema- gogues. What is of use or advantage to men of Mr. Yardley's race must be equally useful or advyantageons to all citizens of the Commonwealth, and we hope Mr. Yardley will on the stump forget that he is a man of color. In the last Louisiana Legislature, on an occasion, a col- ored member harped for a considerable time upon his rights asa colored man and the rights of colored members generally. At last a very black member, gifted for- tunately with common sense and some humor, rose and said indignantly, “Mr. Speaker; I want the gentleman to understand that I am as white as any man on this floor.” There was a burst of laughter and applause from both democrats and republicans, and this remark settled the question of color for the time being. We commend the example to Mr. Yardley. Tar Porrricrans professed their ignorance of Mr. Seymour's intentions, and the Sara- toga Convention actually adjourned with the understanding that he would accept the | nomination, We presume that they will At the time of the conversation . concede to the newspapers the credit of the correct information. Mr. Diefendorf, Mr. Potter, Mr. Calvin, His Honor the Mayor, Mr. Lewis and the rest who doubted or denied the declara- tion that Mr. Seymour would not accept, must now admit that the press information is more accurate than that of their own leaders, The Position of Servis. There has scarcely ever been seen even in the complications of the Eastern question such a jumble of quaint contradictions as is involved in the position of Sérvia. Here is one of those uncommon cases in which while it is greatly advantageous to be vic- torious it is no detriment to be beaten, and, in fact, she is. the only Power interested in the struggle that has comparatively little reason to be troubled over its possible po- litical results. Only a few days since the reigning prince declared with additions of rhodomontade that he would have no peace, and the war that he seemed to defy cast upon him within a few days an avalanche of defeats, Then ho invited mediation and peace, and while the bowl of soup cooled over which the peacemakers were to deliber- ate hordes of Russian volunteers thronged under the Servian colors and with the valor and enthusiasm of their race turned the tide of battla Thus, while Milan might fairly have been in the dumps when he heroically defied the war he may now as fairly grieve lest an injudicious peace should cut him out of splendid opporta- nities. This is like the drama of history that unfolds itself in front of the footlights, where tho heart is rent at the dreadful fate of the king, but comforted half an hour later when he is seen gracefully taking his oysters ina neighboring saloon. There is an air of un- reality about the facts that is, perhaps, characteristic of Oriental politics. But while the Servian prince amuses himself as it were with his fate and rolls it hither and thither, like a baby playing with a bombshell, England, Turkey and Russia are respectively far from able to treat the case with nonchalant ease. Turkey has changed her Sultan, precisely why the outside world is not yet permitted to know, because, as to capacity, the change can scarcely be an improvement. There is, in fact, in this event no other indication than that the Turkish governing mind, wherever it re- sides, is uneasy, not satisfied with the state of affairs, and deluded with the notion that they may be bettered by putting another name to official documents. They reckon without their host if they believe that the deposition of an imbecile sovereign will shift the responsibility for the Bulgarian butcheries. This is a case that comes more clearly home to England, however, sinco the world recognizes that it is only what might have been expected for Constanti- nople to consent to such acts, and in Eng- land they are disturbed by the conscious- ness that the assistance to Turkey which enabled the Turks to exhibit themselves to Europe in their characteristic way in the nineteenth century has done a great deal to produce the downfall of the Moslem Power. Indeed, they already express in London their commercial regret that they have helped the wrong side, and dimly perceive that the Christian subjects of the Sultan are the ones with whom they must endeavor to make their peace for the sake of the future. Thus England weakens in her support of Islamism, the Sublime Porte is disorganized with doubts and uncertainties, and the strength of Russia seems to be mustering in the Servian lines ; while the one thing clear is that Prince Milan is ready to reject almost any proposition the peacemakers can frame. There never was a thoroughly beaten sovereign who assumed so triumphant an attitude. Tue Weatner.—To-day the temperature will fall and we will experience another re- freshing spell of cool weather, But we mus also look for occasional rains, which, howt ever, will be welcome to the farmer and the lumberman. In the northwest an area of high pressure follows the storm centre, which moved across our meridian during yesterday, but ona line through the lake region and the St. Lawrence Valley. This morning the northeriy winds will mark the westerly margin of this low area, while dur- ing the day the cool northwesterly after winds will proceed from the high barometer following it. Local disturbances in the west and south will result from these changes of atmospheric temperature. The weather in New York to-day will be cool and cloudy. The following is a synopsis of the Signal Service local weather observations during the past month :—Highest barometer on the 2d, 30.265 inches. Lowest barometer on the 15th, 29.80 inches. Highest tempera- ture on the 7th, 90 degrees, and lowest on the 22d, 55 degrees, ‘Total rainfall for the month, 2.97 inches. Pow 1x THs Army.—We print this morn- ing a communication upon the value of the game of polo in the army and West Point. Our correspondent’s observations are called out by a letter on the same subject which we printed the other day. The point of the argument, both of the “Cavalry Officer” and “Ziethen” is that polo teaches its players that perfection of horsemanship, that un- conscious knowledge and command of the horse, without which there can be no good cavalry. They also show that for the real purposes of drill a game, with its emulations and rewards, will be more efficient than hard, steady, grinding drill. The subject, as pre- sented by our correspondents, is worthy of the careful attention of our instructors at West Point and the officers of our cavalry regiments. In tar Wnorr Hrstory of political con- ventions in this State none ever fell so low as the recent Democratic Convention at Sar- atoga. The nomination of Horatio Seymour against his will brought the proceedings into contempt as soon as it was known that he persisted in refusing the nomination. Uni- versal disgust naturally followed the an- nouncement in the Hrnatp yestérday morn- ing of Mr. Seymour's real position. Axx Nomrxattox the Convention could have made would have given the democratic party a stronger candidate for Governor than it is possible to obtain now after Mr. Sey- mour's final refusal, Governor Tilden’s Connection with the h Fiasco. 3 Tt is asserted by some of the democratic organs that Governor Tilden yesterday sent an urgent letter to Mr. Seymour, assuring him that he had nothing to do with the nominations made at Saratoga, but imploring him, in view of the situation, to yield his objections and consent to let his name remain at the head of the ticket. If Gov ernor Tilden has written such a letia it is a new blunder. It is suspected on plansible grounds that the present grav crisis is the fruit of his anderhand manage- ment, and he would merely confirm the sus picion by inducing Seymour to stand. Ii would be interpreted as a fresh effort ta carry out the original programme for mak- - ing Dorsheimer Governor of the State after it was found that he could not be nominated by the Convention. The people will not tolerate an at- tempt to smuggle Dorsheimer into the Governorship behind a respectable stalking horse. They know too well that every vote for Seymour would be really o vote for Dorsheimer, because Seymour's failure to qualify for the office would necessarily put the Lieutenant Governor in the Execu« tive chair. Governor Tilden is the one man who cannot afford to have this game played. It would knock the whole democratic ticket, Presidential as well as State, “higher than a kite.” It may not be possible to save the State at all; but in any event the most open and straight- forward course is the best. Let everything that is attempted be done fairly and above board. If Dorsheimer is tho real candidate for Governor let him be named as such by the regular action of the party and then take his chances on his own merits. He will be the worst beaten candidate that ever ran for an office if Seymour can be persuaded to act as a political decoy duck or a figurehead to give an air of respectability to a political trick. Perhaps the great trouble with Mr. Tilden is that he dabbled with clay to make four Governors when there was a place for but one. Oxz oy Tnoss Parxyo. Events when a criminal receives his punishment is reported to-day, in the case of Hillary Page, who was hanged in Virginia yesterday, and admitted that his sentence was just. As usual, the machinery of the scaffold was imperfect, and the death of the wretched man was painful and slow. The rope isa relic of barbarism, If the penalty of crime is death it should be instant, We should not torture our criminals, Horatio Surmovun owes nothing to the democratic party for the honors he has en- joyed, that debt being repaid over and over again, The obligation is on the other side, Mr. Seymour having come to the rescue of his party on many occasions when no other name was potent enough to save it. Tur Excuse Lmenazs suffered as severe a blow by the withdrawal of Mr. Gladstone from the leadership as the democracy of this State suffers in the refusal of Mz Seymour to become its standard bearer. Mr. Glad- stone, however, was fortunate in not being dragged from his retirement to be made a public spectacle, but such is the indignity put upon Horatio Seymour. Tnz Men who controlled the Saratoga Con. vention on Wednesday and Thursday ought to step down and ont after their unfortunate ” fiasco and give the wiser and abler leaders of the party an opportunity to come to the front. ae Mn. Tuyen is silent; Mr. Seymour de- clines; nobody knows who will be nom- inated. This is all—bad for the democrati party. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mine oyster-r. MM. Thters ts at Ouchy. Lord Russell is eighty-five. Garibaldi is harvesting at Caprera. Commodore C. K. Garrison 1a in Chicago, Dapiel Drow lives on the Harlem Ratiroad. Senator Windom, of Minnesota, 1s in Boston. John Cochrane bas had bis hair cut on the bias. Frank B. Carpenter, tho artist, is at Homer, N. ¥. ‘The Queen will remain in tho Highlands until Novem» ber. Grouse are selling in London markety for fifty cents a piece. Ben Lomond, east of Lech Lomond, is covered with snow. If you want moisture te come to your garden torn the soil. Gambetta is going to London to study the methods of the income tax. The American colony tn Paris has gone to Switzer. Jand almost en masse. Mr. Motiey, with his two daughtors, is the guest the Queen at The Hague. Sir Alexander T. Galt, of Montreal, arrived last wom ing at the Gilsey House. Tupper is going to lecture, after which dish wala will become intoxicating. Bear Admiral C. R. P. Rogers, United States Navy, is at the Filth Avenae Hotel. Dom Pedro having visited Horr Krupp’s establishment finds himself in Copeithagen. Two of the celebrated lovers of George Sand survive, Prince Napoleon and Jules Sandeau. Secretary Robeson arrived in the city yesterday from Boston and is at the Fifth Avenuo Hotel. Mr. Power A. Le Poer Trench, Secretary of the British Legation at Washington, is at the Clarendos Hotel. Jnage David Davis, of the Supreme Conrt, is spend: ing vacation with his brother-in-law, Judge Rockwell, of Lenox, Mass. Boston Corbett lectures against liquor sellers, and is seomingly forgetful that he was the cause of Wilkes Bootb being shot in the neck. Right Rev. Sishop Odenhetmm, Bishop of Northerm Now Jersey, and family, aro at the Murray Hill House, on the Northern Rauroad of New Jersey. Baron J. &. van Heomskerek and Dr. W. J. A Jonckbloet, Commissioners trom the Netherlands ta the Centenniat Rxbibition, left this city on Thursday in the steamship W. A. Scholten for Rotterdam. A society is being organized in London for the pur. pose of stocking uninbabited islands with pigs and rabbits, so that shipwrecked sailors who happen te reach such spots may find an abundance of food await ing them. Four Eastern young Indies have been camping om tn Sonth Carolina, with « large mule wagon driven by a gray haired man. They have gans and fishing roda, and when not looking for floral specimens have been shooting and fishing for dinners. John Stwart Mill worshipped his wife for her grea, mental powers, and ho ascribed to her wonderful genius several of the best sections of his philosophical works, The truth is that she told to him, in echo, his own thoughts that he had previously tol@ to her, Hie death was hastened by his mourning for her. The Hindoos have given cholera a goddess all te itself—the hideous Oola Beebee, seated on a vulture toaring @ carcass, surrounded with figures in praying attitudes, and accompanie’ by her lady's maid, Seetia, the goddess of smallpox, \ .0s0 followers, according to a Punjab biue book, lately stoned the vaccinators in the streets of Delhi,