The New York Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1876, Page 6

' : | NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. pho pei 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. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112SOUTH SIXTH STREET, LONDON OFFI HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET ST. PARIS OFF —AVENUI EL" A. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. | Wood's MUSEUM. SNDER THE GASLIGHT, ats P.M. Matinee at 2P. M. PARISIAN VAKIETIES, cou VARIETY, at 8). M si DUNDREARY, « RATRE. M. Matinee at 2 P, M. GARDEN, ERA NOUSB. WALLACK'S THEATRE, TNE MIGHTY DOLLAR, at8 P.M. Mr,” and Mra Flor- ence. KY THEATRE. John Thomp BON MOSES, at 8PM.) KELLY & LEONS MINSTRELS, atS P.M. THIRD AV TURATRE, VARIETY, at 8’, M, Mat at M. UNION THEATRE, TWO MEN OF SANDY SPM. THE. VARIETY, at SP. M. FIFTH AVE MONEY, atS P.M. Char! TIVOL VARIETY, at 8 P.M. BOOTH i BARDANAPALUS, at 8 gs and Mrs, Agnes Boo TRIPLE SHEET. KEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1876, : : From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be pleasantly cool and ciear or partly cloudy, Watt Strezr Yrsterpay.-—The coal stocks were again the subjects of the largest specu- lation and decline. A feverish feeling pre- vailed until and after the close. Gold re- ceded from 110 to 100 3-4. Money on call was supplied at 1 a 11-2 per cent, Com- mercial paper firm and a trifle more active. Government bonds were in good demand and strong. Favorasie Rerorts of the condition of the crops in India have been received from Bom- bay. The vast population that is solely de- pendent on the native food productions makes this question of supply one uf para- mount importance not only to the people but to their government. Tue New Jensex Democracy nominated an electoral ticket at Trenton yesterday. Speeches were made by ex-Governor Parker and Senator Bayard, of Delaware. There was much enthusiasm, and apparently the “Blue He's Chickens” ar2 undismayed by the news from Mai Cuba appears to swallow her enemies. Thousands of Spanish troops continue to pour into that fated land, but they never return to their native Spain—they disappear in the Central and Eastern De- partments as if the forests devoured them. The merciless policy of the Spanish govern- ment toward its own people is in no way more terribly displayed than in dooming the youth and manhood of the nation to certain death in the fatal jungles of Cuba, Tue Dratu or Hesry A. Wise will occa- sion no surprise as it has long been antici- pated, but the event recalls the stormy days before the war, when he did so much to pre- cipitate and promote the rebellion. His stern policy toward John Brown and his associates was the real beginning of the civil war, an event of comparative insignificance being magnified by his action and the action of Brown's admirers into the most potent antagonism of the estranged sections. A Srony or Inp1an MaGnanruity comes to us this morning which in a measure dis- credits the reports touching the condition of the hostile Sioux, of which it forms o part. It is not likely the Indians are overfed or | too well supplied with arms and ammuni- tion, but they can fight such indecisive commanders as Crook and Terry as long as buffalo meat lasts and powder can be pro- | cured at the agencies with which to kill the | buffaloes and an occasional detached com- mand like Custer’s little force. Prorrsson Huxuxy's Appress on educa- tion at the Johns Hopkins University was a singularly clear and incisive document, not only in regard to what it is best to learn and best to teach, but also with respect to the | future of the Republic. On the first of these topics Professor Huxley is so clear that extended comment could be little more than a repetition and indorsement of his views. The other subject opens up a wide field for discussion and speculation, and Professor | Huxley's views will command wide attention | from their comprehensiveness and force. Tur WeatuEn.—To-day the weather will be favorable for the rifle matches at Creedmoor. | With o northwesterly wind the sky will | be only partly clouded if not clear, and the temperature will be pleasantly warm during | the hours of the match, so that our foreign visitors will feel almost at home when they nim at the distant bull’s-eye. The low ba- rometer which brought us the rain of Sun- day night and Monday last has now moved into the Atlantic, off the South Atlantic coast, whilo an area of high pressure extends vver the North and West. Rains have oc- curred on the southern side of the Middie States, and it is possible that these may con- | tinue during to-day on the coast of Southern New Jersey and Delaware, and as far south as Cape Hatteras, In the Southwest there are indications of a disturbance which, however, has not yet developed sufficiently within the area of observation to enable us to determine its character. A few days will show what it is and its probable movement. | the | never grumble over our headaches, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, \ SEPTEMBER 13, 1876.—-TRIPLE SHEET. International Contests—The New Order of Olympic Fostivals. It is pleasant to turn, if only for a day, from the consideration of affairs of State and the oxcitements of political discussion to the lighter and brighter and, to congenial minds, more congenial themes suggested by the great events of this athletic age. Never since all Helias gathered at the Olympic games to witness the contests for the wreath of olivo has there been such interest in manly sports as has been shown in the last half of the last decade. ‘The Pilgrim Fathers were cast in too stern a mould for | their children or their grandchildren or | | time their great-grandechildren to promote such amusements as are the delight of their more distant offspring, Think of old Governor Winthrop and Captain Miles Standish as champion athletes of their day, Roger Williams as stroke of a four-oared shell, he idea is pre- posterons, and yet even Mr, Longfellow might sing in his graceful and weil-trained verse the hearty praises of a college crew. Mr. Tennyson certainly has found many a meaner theme for his laureate inuse than the rifle contests at Creedmoor or Doliymount, What the saints disdained the sinners have converted into a creed, and muscular Chris- tianity has become something very like a re- ligion, he stern tenets of the olden time have given place to milder precepts and a brighter and a happier ideal of existence. It is no longer a sin to dance in the moon- light of a summer night, or even in the misty mazes of the german, ‘lo walk and run, to box and wrestle, to row and shoot, are all thought worthy of the prize of popu- larapplause. The world is gay, but the gayer it gets the better it becomes, ‘The champion of the hour is not always the popular preacher or the successful soldier or the silver-tongued orator or the party leader. We have in turn or of the victors in our Olympic games--Columbia | or Cornell on Saratoga Lake, the Beaverwycks j onthe Schuylkill, the American rifle team fetching home prizes from Dollymount and from Wimbledon, and the New York Yacht Club asking the world to come and get the America’s cup, and we bear them alott as proudly as the Greeks bore their Olympic heroes and decorate them not less nobly than the ladies ot the Medieval age honored the knights who wore their colors in the lists. ‘Lhe hard corners of a hard grained world have been softened by the warm light which has crept into the cold cares and du- ties of everyday existence, and ail the world is more akin by contests like that at Creed- moor to-day, which test the skill rather than the prowess of triendly nations striving in friendly rivalry. Such an occasion as we are now cele- brating ought to be a scene only of good feeling and good fellowship. ‘There is no room for little spites or petty jealoudes. As Americans we like to keep the greater honors at home, of course, but whoever wins we shall honor ourselves in honoring. All the contending teams have a hearty welcome to America, and the honors they win will not be grudgingly accorded. The Irish riflemen are especially welcome, because they come again to contend for a prize which even skill such as theirs failed to give them either at Creedmoor or Dollymount. We do not for- get that the Scotch team is here in spite of obstacles and difliculties which would have well excused their absence. We hail the Australian team because its pres- ence is proot that our modern archery is equally popular at the antipodes as with the parent stock from which two new worlds have sprung. We shake hands with our Canadian neighbors and assure them that American riflemen believe in complete reci- procity. For the moment Creedmoor is the Elis of the world’s new Hellas, and skill alone is the Hellenic test of the modern Olympia. A new tie has been found to bind the nations together, and as the Olympic games promoted a spirit of union among the Greeks, exceeding even the influence of the Amphictyonic Council, so do festivals like that which is now in progress unite in bonds of friendly interest, fot kindred na tions only, but all the scattered remnants of Aryan and Semitic brotherhood. It is easy to find a philosophy in such events as the Creedmoor shooting, but its humorous and rollicking side is too apt to escape us in the earnestness of the occasion. There can be no brotherhood without fun, and we are sure the visiting teams must have found plenty of amusement in America, We took them to the theatre and showed them an Assyrian ballet, probably from the River Lee or the bonny Dundee. We exhib- ited to them forty millions of dyspeptics who talk through their noses because they have no stomachs—the European seat of We carried them down the Bay to could not speech. show them fortifications whi withstand the attack of thirty-two deter- mined riflemen. We introduced them to Mayor Wickham, and asked them what they thought of Governor Tilden. We are going to tnke them to the islands to see the late residence of **I'wid Auteime” and be grinned at by the lunatics, If all this is not fun enough for four rifle teams we may, perhaps, invite them to the City Hall and ask them to become the Board of Aldermen; at all events we shall put them aboard an outgoing steamer and accompany them down the Bay with a tugboat and a brass band. For ourselves we shall be imperturbabie, whatever happens.” American humor is broad, but it is impassive. We seldom langh, but we can eat, drink and let other people be merry. We can shoot champagne corks as unerringly as our rifles, and we | Ata pinch we can be genial without making a | fuss about it, and we shall say to our guests as the Pennsylvania farmer says to the visit- ors seated at his bountiful board, “Help yourselves.” guests, to make their welcome a hearty one, toshow them ourselves as we are at home, and to make them langh with us and at us, This is an occasion for joy, for merriment ond tor good nature, and we are, indeed, anxious that these Centennial contests shall | be the auspicious beginning of a century | during which the nations shall through the years with only fresh delights with the recurring seasons, While we feel the promise which these friendly contests afford, and look to them for pleasures and results which could come We want to be kind to our | dance | | | importance in promoting those athletic games and manly sports of which they are an important feature. When Thackeray's “Pendennis” was a young fellow boating had not yet made the furor it afterward created, and tandem driving was the only outdoor amusement of young men. Lord Byron played cricket and hookey, it is true, but games of strength and skill were anti- quated and uninteresting. Rifles had not yet been made which could carry a missile into the bull’s-eye at the distance of a thonsand yards, A quarter of a century has seen the growth of the new order of Olympic festivals, but in that short its history is a succession of surprises, especially in this country. ‘Ten years ago base ball was our ‘national game,” and we neither knew how to row nor to shoot. The change which has taken place could scarcely have been wrought by any power short of a magician’s wand. In the international rowing contest at Phila- delphia Yale overcame the Cambridge crew and the Beaverwycks defeated the famous crew from the Thames. In two successive contests the American rifle team beat the Irish riflemen, and our news this morning shows that they are in a fair way of coming out victorious over all comers. Moreover, the interest in these matches of strength, of skill and of dexterity is not inferior to that felt by the Greeks in the Olympic and other games. Men of character, of wealth and of fashion do not disdain to take part in the sports of the epoch, Judge Gildersleeve leaves the bench to shoot at Creedmoor as Cylon forgot for the moment his schemes to make himself tyrant of Athens to run in the foot race at Olympia. The new order of Olympic festi- vals has taken a deep hold on the imagina- tion of the men of this age, and it is by such contests 2s the one to be decided to-day that this healthy movement is best promoted. ‘The federation of the world may not be ac- complished by the parliaments of men of which Tennyson dreamed, but by contests like these the nations will be bound in the spirit of union as effectually as the Olympic games supported and sustained through many centuries the spirit of Hellenic unity. The Resurrected Saratogu Convention. Mr. Ritchie, called *‘Father Ritchie” in the later years of his life, a famous demo- cratic champion in his day and generation, and for something like a third of a century editor of the Richmond Enquirer in its pros- perous and palmy days—the same Richmond Enquirer which has just suspended pub- lication—had a trick of ending a great part of his articles with the French phrase Nous verrons—tho only French, per- haps, of which the redoubtable Thomas Ritchie was master. But he kept his small stock bright by constant use, and it grew into a habit with his contemporaries in both parties when they had speculated on some doubtful question on which they were as much at sea as their readers to wind up with “Nous verrons, a8 Father Ritchie says.” In default of anything better we must borrow the noted Virginia editor's phrase and apply it to the Democratic State Convention which reassembles at Saratoga to-day. As Tennyson once sung of Napoleon IIT. It is true we have a faithtal ally, But only the devil knows what Ho means. So we may say of this democratic Conven- tion that only the devil knows what it will do. But, Nous verrons—‘‘We shall see.” A more bewildered set of delegates never assembled to make choice of a candidate under difficulties. They come together with asincere disposition to retrieve the great blunder perpetrated at their former session, but they do not know how to set them- selves at work. They all feel that the party has been damaged by their late fiasco, and the unwelcome news from Maine has no tendency to allay their sense of danger. But will they act wisely ? Will they select a good candidate to take the place of Seymour? Whom will they nomi- nate? The only answer we can give to these questions is Vous verrons. We shall know in the course of the day whether this perilous reassembling of the same Conven- tion which so egregiously bungled its work before will restore hope and courage, or whether the mismanaged, deceived and bewildered New York democracy will jump out of the fryingpan into the fire. Nous verrons. However the democratic leaders and organs may attempt to disguise it the party is in a critical condition. They had a clear perception of the difficulties of the situation when they brought such’a pressure on Mr. Seymour to induce him to accept. It was precisely to escape the danger, distraction, imbecility and confusion which would attend a reassembling of the Convention that they besieged Mr. Seymour with such persistent importunity, and even at one time entertained the mad purpose of keeping him at the head of the ticket in spite of his inflexible refusal to serve if elected. ‘There were many democrats who thought that even this expediént would be a lesser evil than the hazard of calling the Convention together again to nominate another candi- date. Its first meeting showed that Gover- nor Tilden had lost the reins and been dung out of the saddle; and as there was no other guiding mind to take his place it was diflicult to see how the jar- ring elements could be brought into har- mony. Our despatches from Saratoga prove that the apprehended difficulties were not chimerical. The prevailing confusion and imbecility verify the adage that too many cooks spoil the broth. Whether the muddy waters will become limpid in the course of the day the proceedings will show. Nous verrons. Tne Commenctan Supremacy of New York is endangered by the want of such terminal facilities as will reduce the cost of handling goods in transitu to the minimum. The prop- osition of the Cheap Transportation Associ- ation to use the Belt line of railway for the purposes of commerce seems a feasible one, and no obstacle ought to be thrown in the way of its adoption. Tux Connecrcut Ixriationists have nom- inated a State and electoral ticket and aro ready for the canvass, The platform adopted expresses notions of finance so crude as to excite the derision of schoolboys, and yet we find men gravely entering upon a cam- in no other way, we do not overlook their | paign in behalf of these puerilities, The Election—What Does It Signify? There is, of course, no candor either in the boastful exaggerations of the republican press over the success of their party in Maine or in the quibbling attempts of the demo- cratic press to belittle the result. The simple truth is that the republicans have won the Maine election by a larger majorit¥ then they expected. They have every reason to be satisfied, but there is nothing in the re- turns to warrant frothy exultation. By the trick of comparing 1876 with 1875, instead of comparing it with the September election of 1872, they make it appear that they have gained nine or ten thousand, whereas they have lost four or five thousand as compared with their September majority in the last Presidential year. But the democrats have no reason to complain of this false standard of comparison, for they attempted a similar imposition last year. They represented the great reduction of the republican ma- jority in Maine last year as an absolute and permanent democratic gain, professing an expectation that the republican ma- jority, which had been so signally reduced, would be wiped out in the election of this year. There was not the least hint of a suggestion in the democratic organs one year ago that they did not expect } to keep all they had gained, or that they had only won an evanescent advantage, which would be taken from them in the next elec- tion. Had they been told that the small republican majority of 3,872 in Maine would rise this year to 18,000 they would have scouted the idea, They boasted in 1875 that Maine was in a fair way to become a demo- cratic State in 1876, and flow, when that vaunt is disappointed, they pretend that they have done as well in this election as they had any reason to expect! They tell us that they have reduced the republican majority of 1872, and are therefore on the sure road to victory. But will they explain how it happened that they judged so differently last year? Why did they make predictions which are ful- filled by “the rule of contraries?” What the democratic. organs said of Maine last year was grotesquely inconsistent with what they saynow. Itis true enough, however, that the proper standard of comparison is the Sep- tember election of 1872, and that the repub- lican majority of that year has been reduced about four thousand. But, in spite of the reduction of the re- publican majority in Maine from seventeen thousand to thirteen thousand, there has been no iaterial change in the relative strength of the two parties in the four years. A powerful influence has been wanting this year which was operative in 1872. The turning point of that canvass was the North Carolina election in August, which fell as a blight on the prospects of M! Greeley. North Carolina has since changed her efectiot to November. The republican victory in that State, in August, 1872, had an electric effect on the country. It demonstrated that Mr. Greeley had been nominated on a false theory—demonstrated that he had no hold on the negro vote or any considerable proportion of the white repub- lican vote, and that he was probably des- tined to defeat. That August result in North Carolina was worth at least four thousand votes to the republican canvass in Maine. Due allowance being made for this difference of circumstances the result in Maine this year is not materially different from what it was in September, 1872. But the republican party could lose a great deal from its strength in 1872 and still elect the President. Tho recent elections in Vermont and Maine, in which the republicans have sub- stantially held their own, prove that one chief element on which the democratic party has relied for success will have no particular potency, We refer to the suffering and dis- content resulting from universal business stagnation, which was expected to turn large masses of republicans against the govern- ment. As the distress is general throughout the country this cause should operate in all the States alike, and as it has had no percep- tible effect in Vermont and Maine it cannot be expected to produce much effect any- where. In this view these elections are sig- nificant, and tend to discourage the demo- cratic party. Brenches of the Peace in the South. We deprecate and detest the ignoblo vul- garity that is incapable of viewing the state of Southern society in any other than its party aspect. For the last eleven years' an experiment has been in progress in our Southern States of deeper interest to philan- thropists and philosophic observers of social conditions than any other in the whole history of theo human race. That this great experiment has worked so well, that it has been attended with no industrial and very little social disturbance, that the production of the great Southern staples has not fallen off, that a considerable proportion of the emancipated slaves have acquired property aud the self-respect which accompanies its possession, that breaches of the peace have been confined to a few scattered localities and have been the exception and not the rulo, are results which so far exceed the most sanguine expectations that there is reason for. devout gratitude to a protecting Providence that Southern society has escaped the unhingement, disorder and convulsion which might have resulted from so tremendous a social revolu- tionand the disruption and reorganization of the whole fabric of society. Never be- fore in the history of the world has there been so extensive a remodelling of estab- lished conditions with so slight a shock to social order and industrial prosperity. This gratifying result is creditable to the forbearance of tho whites and to the good sense, good temper and quiet spirit of the emancipated and enfranchised blacks. If the pestilent breed of selfish, in- termeddling politicians could have left this sublime experiment to proceed with- out flinging in firebrands of discord the transition of Southern society from the old system to the new would have fur- nished one of the brightest pages in human history. Whether the whites or the negroes are more to blame for the recent riot in Charleston is @ question which cannot be decided without closer knowledge of the secret springs of the disturbance, The wanton exaggerations and misstatements of the party press make it dificult to reach the exact truth. On the surface the Charleston riot seems to have resulted from negro violence and outrage perpetrated under the impulse of party passions. A republican negro or- ganization assaulted a democratic negro or- ganization, and it is probable enough that there exists among the republican negroes a spirit of fierce intoleranco against people of their race who act with the democratic party. Itis quite natural that they should regard colored democrats as renegades and traitors, considering the kind of influence under which the negroes have acquired their imperfect political education. But the enlightened friends of peace and order in the South ought to recognize this inevi- table tendency in the negro mind and to discourage all movements calculated to arouse it. When they inspire and aid the formation of negro democratic clubs they offer a needless provocation to the passions and prejudices of the mass of the colored population. It is not to be presumed that the negroes would organize democratic clubs without white instigation ; but democrats ought tocourt the negro vote by methods which do not tend so directly to breaches of the peace. The white population of the South, as employers of labor, lenders of money, owners of farms and tenements let to negroes who must often be in arrears in paying their rent, have great advautages for quietly influencing negro votes, and they should use these advantages in quiet and non-provoking ways, The Southern whites have a greater‘ interest in promoting tran- quillity and good feeling than they can have in any partisan result, and we wish they would discourage all movements which tend to inflame and exasperate an ignorant popu- lace, whose errors and prejudices have been engrafted in their minds by unscrupulous politicians and carpet-baggers. The ne- groes have behaved so well, on the whole, that they should be treated with great in- dulgence and consideration, When the whites shall have convinced them by steady kindness and generosity that they aro their real friends they will havo little difficulty in controlling their votes. Yellow Jack. The occurrence in the city of two cases of yellow fever of persons coming hither from Savannah, where the disease is epidemic, will, it isto be hoped, stimulate the vigilance of the health authorities both of the port and the city. Although we have had no frost yet, and though the spread of the disease is possible in the absence of frost, yet with the cool weather that is already upon us and a proper diligence on the part of the health authorities the propagation of the malady is so far from likely that there is not the slightest occasion for any uneasiness on the part of the people. One of these cases illustrates a point we have often insisted upon, which is the utter uselessness of the harbor quarantine as against maladies in American cities. Won- derful care is taken, codes are constructed, commerce is interrupted and ships are kept for weeks or months in the Lower Bay be- cause they are from Savannah and have on them persons sick with yellow fever. That, say the Solons, will keep the disease out of your city ; and while the ships are waiting at Quarantine a gentleman at Savannah, perhaps already ill, takes his ticket by rail- way, arrives here and dies in a hotel in the city. Can we havea quarantine on Savan- nah freight or passengers by rail, and if we cannot, is the other more than a mere an- noyance? Yesterday’s Rifle Matches. The opening matches of the Centennial rifle tournament at Creedmoor yesterday were attended with the greatest possible success, so far as the expectations of the managers are concerned. As the matches were for short and long ranges and indi- vidual competition the number of visitors to Creedmoor was not very great, but tho rather threatening aspect of the sky in the early morning had much to do with render- ing the attendance only moderate. On the other hand, the shooting was superb. Ex- pert riflemen, whose scores of yesterday would have placed them high up on the prize list two years ago, found themselves excluded from the ranks of the winners by extraordinary scores, the high- est, perhaps, that have ever been made at the several ranges. ‘This shows such an improvement in the marks- manship of what may be termed the rank and file of Creedmoor frequenters that wo may look with confidence for still more ex- traordinary performances at the butts to-day by the corps d'élite, whence the contesting teams are made up. To foretell the result of any of the matches would require an in- spiration from above which was only granted to the old prophets. An opinion based on the practico trials of the last few weeks would be almost as valueless as a political prediction founded on the condition of the weather. We shall be satisfied with any result that comes from these contests, be- cause we are confident even the victors will feel that they have won by such a bare ma- jority of points that they have merely escaped defeat, Preparing for the Great Explosion. The dangerous work of charging the holes drilled in the roof and rocky columns of the Hiallett’s Point excavation is being rapidly pushed in anticipation of the early destrac- tion of the great reef at Hell Gate, The workmen, although accustomed to handling nitro-glycerine and being as a usual thing rather reckless, are nevertheless in this in- stance impressed with a feeling that death Jurks in every cartridge filled with the deadly explosive, and therefore take extraor- dinary precautions against accident. The loading of seyen thousand holes with from seventy to eighty thousand pounds of a compound so sensitive to the least shock is an undertaking which needs the coolest circumspection coupled with the greatest cournge, and we, therefore, cannot help admiring the daring workmen, who may be said to labor from morning until night in the very presence of death. As the work of charging proceeds the final preparations overground will be completed, so that nothing will remain to delay the destruction of the reef beyond the date fixed by General Newton for the great explosion, Regarding the effect likely to be | produced on the flow of the tidal currents through Hell Gate by the removal of Hale lett’s Reef there is very little difference of opinion among engineers. Although the river section will not be greatly increased by the cutting offof the projection which now ob- structs the channel, still the navigable chare acter of the passage at a part which will be readily availed of by vessels of medium ton- nage will be greatly improved. The sharp curve which was necessary to be turned in order to avgid the dangers of Hallett’s Reef will soon be reduced, or rather flattened, to one which can be more easily passed. The currents themselves will, it is probable, re- ceive new directions which will, perhaps, diminish the risk that always attended the passage of Hell Gate by drifting the vessel making it clear of the Middle Reef. It is very certain, however, that the principal changes that will be effected in the tidal flow will be marked by the increase of theiz yelocitics and tho decrease of their duration, Servia’s Protracted Struggle. It appears to have been rather hastily judged, from the graphic report in the Lon- don Times of the battle at Alexinatz, that the Servian army was there so badly beaten that it could no longer be regarded as an ob- stacle to the Turkish advance. \Evidently the Moslems, though distinctly victofious there, were themselves badly hurt and gained their victory at o high price. They have not gone forward rapidly since Tcher- nayeff retreated on Deligrad, a strong posi- tion not more than two or three marches in the rear of Alexinatz, having left in the cita- del at the latter place a garrison of six or seven thousand men. It seemed probable that the ‘Turks could open a line of supply by the Danube, in which caso they might have boldly cut loose from Nisch, as Sherman did from Atlanta, and striking for the Danube reach it by supplies carried with them and keep Tchernayeff in his corner at Deligrad. Evidently there are some reasons why such a course is impracti- cable, andas the Turkish army must depend upon NischM{t cannot leave Alexinatz and Deligrad behind, and is not strong enough to leave a force there and marchon. In the meantime T'chernayeff seems to be making good use of a desperate opportunity. He has drawn in tho force that was for out on his left flank, and has thus obtained strength enough to oppose the attempt of the Turks to pass the Morava and to deliver a telling blow on their flank while they wore engaged in that attempt. This is likely to improve the morale of his own force and to damage that of the enemy. There are fow things so inspiriting to an army as to feel that it is moving at the enemy, and as to the butchering Turks, there is probably nothing in the world that will make better time than those fellows if the Servian commander can once get them on the run. There is on ap- pearance that Tchernayeff may at least keep his enemy in hand till the peacemakers find a way out ot the difficulty. Taxtxa Fonetcn Restpents m Ovsa for the support of the Spanish army is likely to bring about somo strong remonstrances from the governments of the aggrieved parties, Latterly the Spaniards seem to be growing desperate and stop at nothing to prolong their grasp on the island. Their recent threat of prosecution of English merchanta for wer taxes may bring them into a war with Sefior Don John Bull, which they would not at all relish. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Tramps love yellow pantaloons, U. 8. Grant, Jr., is at Cheyonne, Wy. T. Rossi is enjoying his holidays in Switzerland. The Marquis de Mari, of {taly, is at the Brevoort House. Peter Cooper should remember that all that glitter: 1s not glue. - Figaro:—"Facilis deeensus taverni—It 1s easy to droy into a tavern.”” ‘The King of Dahomey wears a clawhammer coat, buttoned up the back. Tne new Chicago hoop skirt will have thirty-twe springs of latitude to six tapes of longitude, Miss Fanny Davenport has her portrait in the Lon- don Dramatic News, and a very charming picture tt ta, Sonator William H. Barnum and Mr. Marshall Jew- oll, of Connecticut, arrived last evening at the Filth Avenue Hotel. ‘ The English newspapers are occupied in criticising each other’s grammar, and have more business thaa they can attend to, ‘A. J.C. Hare wrote of the English Cardinal:—“Man- ning 1s a truly wise and holy man, devoted, seli-eacr feng, mild and loving.” Sir John Lubbock says that there are records which show that the Egyptian Cheops was ordered to bere. paired at least 4,000 years B, C. It 18 now claimed that President Lincoln was @ Spiritualist and that ‘he issued the emancipation proclamation under ‘spirit’ inspiration.” The temperance party in Massachusetts this year ig stronger than it cyer was before, and sevoral Boston hoteis have come down to ten cents a drink. A Chicago paper, speaking of the Fenian opponents ot Mr, Charles Francis Adams, says, “Somo rattle brained Irish of the O'D.ynamite Rossa sort,” &e. English critics faney that Gambetta’s visit to Londow to inspect the method of collecting taxes may have @ damaging effect on she discontented Knglish classes, The October number of tho Popular Science Review will contain Protessor Tyndall’s paper on the “Paraltel Roads of Gien Roy,” illustrated with a map and wood. cuts, lion, Power H. Le Poer French, Secrotary of ths British Legation at Washington, and Major William La Poor Fronch, of the British Army, are at the Clarone don Hotel. A woman ts visiting her parcnts in Newburyport, Mass, who is wearing the same bonnet sho wore when she was married and went to Texas twenty-five years ago. Raw-chesser Democrat:—Charles Francis Adame is nota good man for the democracy. Tho mere men. tion of his name is enough to trocze all the whiskey im three wards.”” Bad beer in Bavaria is a rarity, for inspectors arocom stantly dropping down upon the publicans, aud, unlest the liquor is sound, it is poured into tho gutter and fino levied on the retailer, Among the passengers of the steamer Anaes, which arrived in port on Monday, were Mr. Santago Porem Vice President of Colombia, and Mr. L wavid Guarin, Colombian Consal for San Francisco, The following graphic heading graces the Chicago Tomes? account of the execations on September 8:—~ “Four Murderers of the Indian Nation and Oue White Butcher in Now York Hurried Hellward,” Said Voltnire of Piron, “Ho has passed his life te Grinking, singing, saying good things, aud doing noth Ingusetul, ‘Time and talents ought, I think, to be bot. teremployed if only to make one die appr apite of such hard things, Piron cried one day wi faise news of Voitaire’s death reached him, perte! ©’était lo plus bel esprit de la France,’ The copy of “Boaumont and Fletcher,” 1079, forme erly belonging to Churles Lamb, and sold the other day at the sale of Colonel Cunningham's books, hae been secured forthe British Museum, it was the identical copy which was used by Lamb in making his selections tor the “Specimens of Early English Dra matic Poets,” with markings of the oxtracts end MS earrections im hia handwriting,