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ERS skh nm > > ry) + al Arh TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-dau will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy, with moderate cast- erly winds. Wat Srrezr Yesterpay.—Omitting the coal stocks, and the market may be described as firmer. Speculation, however, was largely contined to the securities named:—Gold ad- vanced from 109 34 to 110; money on call was supplied at 1a11-2 percent. Govern- were strong and active. ment bonds Tue Rr vs of the Centennial Exhibition have thus far been nearly one million five hundred thousand dollars. At this rate it is plain that it cannot be a financial success. Tue Surrmr has returned the execution in the six million judgment against Tweed unsatisfied. He cannot find any property, but in the meanwhile we have discovered the man. Tue Rervsan of an armistice by Turkey Is not in the interests of peace. The terms proposed by thé Porte will not be accepted by Russia, and our despatches to-day show that the ke, ituation is more wi Axoturr of the celebrations of Revolu- tionary events which give interest to the hundredth year of the Republic will be that of the battle of Harlem Flats on Saturday. An oration will be delivered by Mr. Jay, and, of course, there wili be o military parade, Riucnes Fav s.—In the case of the wife who lett her husband and took away with her one hundred thousand dollars, which has just been betore Judge Sheridan, in the Marine Court, the husband doubtless wished he was like Asa Trenchard in the play of the ‘American Cqusin,” who told “how the man died, but the property sur- vived.” brillianey of the polo games yesterday must be attributed to the practice the players have had during the season as well as to their desire to win the prizes of honor offered to the club by the ladies of Newport. Nine games were played in an hour and a quarter, and one of them oc ed only one minute and a half, be expected to close soon, remarkable success, 's Nomrnavron.—General Butler’s speech accepting the nomination for Congress in the Lowell district 18 as serious as his speech requesting it was lively. It is areview of the course of the democratic party in this canvass, of the war, and a defence ofthe order of the ernment respecting the em- ployment of United States Army in the South. It raises the “bloody shirt” as o standard, and that is a garment te which Generai Butler has almost as great o right ator Morton. He will doubtless s, and, politics aside, few people w et tosee him once more in the Honse, for he certainly makes the de- bates more entertaining. He was missed by the republicans last session, and General Cushing is one of the many public men who look forward to his return with pleasure. as even Sen go to Co day the hopes of the riflemen, apart from their desire to win the victory, will centre in a fair day for the closing of the Centennial match. The veer- ing of the wind yesterday from the north- west to the eastward was caused by the movement of the area of high ba- rometer which is now passing along the St. Lawrence Valley ond the ad- vance of a depression from the west- ward, accompanied by higher temperature and rain, The wind will continue from the eastward, but cloudiness will increase, giv- ing about the saime weather conditions that prevailed while the teams were shooting at the one thousand yard range last evening. As the day advances the cloudiness will probably increase, with a higher degree of relative atmospheric humidity and a rising temperature. The resistance to the flight of the sifle bullets will be lessened as the atmosphere decreases in density, and the experience of yesterday will have a favor- able influence on the shooting. Rains pre- vail from Dakota to the Lower Ohio*Valley, which may be felt here by to-morrow. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 187 Democratic Nomination Number Two. The reassembled Democratic State Con- yention got through with its task yesterday more briefly and smoothly than the public had any reason to expect, There was no row, no wrangle, and, although there was a contest for the nomination, it was attended with no more heat than is incident to such | contests in an ordinary political convention. In the first informal or trial ballot Mr. Rob- inson led all his competitors, and a few changes before the vote was declared gave him a clear majority. His nomination was then made unanimons by acclamation. The | Convention washed no dirty linen, made no attempt to pay off old scores, passed | over the late fiasco in discreet silence, and expressed its continued good will to Mr. Seymour by restoring his name to its original place at the head of the electoral ticket. The Convention conducted its business in short metre and promptly adjourned, to the great relief of its mem- bers and the anxious fears of the party. It cannot be doubted that the republican victory in Maine contributed to this result. The democratic party has reason enough to be alarmed at the unshaken steadiness of the republican phalanx. The democratic reform cry has as yet made no impression on the country so far as can be judged from the elections which have thus far been held. The republicans of Maine have so far ex- ceeded their most sanguine expectations that waverers in other States will incline to stand by their old party flag. When American citizens change their party it is in the hope of being on the victorious side ; but since the-Maine election the omens of victory are not with the democrats. A large proportion of the prominent liberal republicans and independents had already enlisted under the Hayes and Wheeler banner, and the ma- jority of the rank and file will no longer hesitate to follow their example, But if the republican party can hold its own and recall its stragglers its triumph in the Presidential election is assured. Nobody understands this better than the democratic leaders, not- withstanding their squirming reluctance to confess it. The Maine election proves that the average republican will stand by his party—proves that the reform cry of the democrats has fallen on heedless orincredu- lous ears. When it is seen that the dis- affected republicans, who mutinied four years ago, are hastening back to rejoin the ranks, and that they ‘‘do not listen to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely,” regular republicans will be apt to think this an ill-selected occasion for desert- ing to the enemy. Tens of thousands who had been debating with themselves whether the time was not rife for a change of par- ties, and whether it was not wise to forsake a sinking ship, will be determined by the Maine election to ‘wait a little longer.” The democratic party will make no more proselytes this year, and if the re- publican party should be relatively any- thing like as strong throughout the North- ern States as it has proved itself to bo in Vermont and Maine Hayes and Wheeler will easily be elected. It was fortunate for democratic har- mony at Saratoga that the reassembled Convention happened to meet just at the point of time when the magnitude of the re- publican victory in Maine was made un- deniable by authentic returns. In this de- pressing conjuncture John Kelly had no heart to make a fight against Governor Tilden. It had become so doubtful whether any can- didate could steceed that the anti-Tilden democrats did not think the nomination worth fighting for. opposed the nomination of a liberal republi- can for Governor with contemptuous, insult- ing bitterness. But he had no vehement speech to make yesterday against the im- policy of taking up anybody-but a regular, life-long democrat. On the contrary, he “roared you as gently as a sucking dove, an ‘twere any nightingale.” But, aside from the dripping wet blanket of the Maine elec- tion, there were much stronger reasons for opposition yesterday than there were on the 30th of August. Until Maine had been heard from it was universally conceded that Mr. Robinson was put outside the pale of choice by the fact that Mr. Dorsheimer, another liberal republican, held the second place on the ticket. Whata change must have come o’er the spirit of John Kelly's dream when, after a feeble resistance, he consents to have the two chief places on the ticket given to liberal republicans! The Maine election is the only thing that has oceurred to change his mind; but when did a politician ever so abandon consistency | or make such a face-about? Instead of pro- testing against one liberal republican he now consents to the nomination of two. Aside from the fact that Mr. Dorsheimer was already on the ticket the nomination of Mr. Robinson is the strongest and best that could have been made under the cireum- stances. Lucius Robinson is an able, up- right, experienced man, who understands the history and working of the State govern- ment as weil as any man in the State. No- body will dispute that he would make an exceptionally capable Governor if he should be elected. The doubts which have been expressed whether Mr. Robinson will com- mand the full democratic vote are of little account. On that point we have no doubt at all. The party has become so alarmed that it can control its regular vote for any- body. There is so much involved in the election besides the Governorship that demo- Every democratic candidate for Congress in the thirty-three districts, every candidate for the Assembly in the one hundred and twenty-eight districts, besides the can- didates for innumerable municipal offices, have a strong and direct interest in bringing out the whole democratic yote. The friends of these multitudivous candidates for lesser offices comprise all the efficient local leaders of the party, and as the State, Congressional and local candidates | are in the same boat there will beno mutiny against the State ticket, although it is over- weighted with liberal republicans. Mr. Robinson is nota liberal of quite the samo type as Mr. Dorsheimer. Dorsheimer joined the republican party as soon as it was formed in 1854. Robinson did not begin to act with it till six or seven years later, and then not like Dorsheimer as a republican, but like Daniel 8. Dickinson as a war democrat. Dorsheimer did not desert the republicans until the Greeley campaign ; Robinson went back to his old democratic associations im- mediately after the close of the war. His connection with the republican party was as transient as that of. Andrew Johnson, be- ginning with the war and ending with it He stands in a very di'- ferent category from Dorsheimer, who went headlong into the republican party with his father, Philip Dorsheimer, at the beginning of the Fremont campaign, re- mained in it until Sumner and Schurz re- belled against President Grant, and during that long period never professed to be a war democrat, but a republican pure and simple. Under the new stress of circum- stances which has arisen since the Maine election the regular democracy of the State will make no difficulty in accepting Robin- son. It may be-asked what is gained by taking such a candidate if John Kelly was correct in his speech at Saratoga two weeks ago, when he maintained that the liberal repub- licans had gone back to their old party, and that nothing could be gained in catering to their sentiments. The answer is that Mr. Kelly in that intemperate speech ignored the German vote. Our German population, both here and elsewhere, have evinced a strong disposition to support Mr. Tilden. They are numerous enough in New York, and perhaps also in Ohio and Indiana, to turn the scale against the republicans, Except on tho old war issues their sympathies are naturally democratic, especially on the liquor ques- tion, the free trade question and the money question, so far as they can be persuaded to regard Tilden, and not Hendricks, as repro- senting the democratic party. The Germans might revolt against an old copperhead Bourbon; but against a candidate like Mr. Robinson, who was a strenuous supporter of the war, they will have nothing to say. The last hope of the democratic party hangs on the possibility of controlling the German vote, and it was therefore expedient to nom- inate a candidate for Governor whose war record is unassailable. The nomination of Robinson is a victory for Governor Tilden. He was the choice of the Governor and is a democrat of the pro- Two weeks ago Kelly } erats will not kick against their State ticket. | nounced Tilden type. It would have been bad party strategy to discredit or humiliate the Presidential candidate. To have nomi- nated an anti-Tilden democrat would have seemed like a repudiation of the reform issue and a flouting of the pretensions of Mr. Tilden as a reform.candidate. This would have been an infinitely greater mis- take than the preponderance which has been given to the liberal republicans in the com- position of the ticket. We incline to think that the Convention has done the best thing possible under the circumstances, and that it is fortunate for the party that its leaders were scared by the Maine election into a surrender to Governor Tilden. The International Rife Match. The first day of the International Ri‘ie Match passed off successfully—particularly for the Scotch. Creedmoor was thronged, upward of five thousand persons being in attendance, and the excitement was intense, at times mounting to enthusiasm. The ar- rangements were generally excellent, the only improvement that might be suggested being the appointment of an earlier hour for the beginning of the trial; but when the distance of Creedmoor from New York and the difficulty of reaching it are considered perhaps this would not be practicable, The plans for the protection of the markers from stray balls and of the marksmen from the pressure of the crowd were better than at any other match, and complete order was maintained. On another page we present diagrams of the one hundred and twenty targets that were made by the contestants. The diffi- culty of obtaining an exact transcript of the fifteen shots on each target is apparent, but we believe that there is not a single error of importance in placing any of the eighteen hundred shots that were fired during the day. These diagrams are made by the closest measurement and represent the re- sult of each marksman’s aim with surprising accuracy. It will be seen by reference to them, as well as to the numerical scores, that the shooting was of a very high order. The averages were good for the leading teams, and some extraordinary displays were made by individuals, particularly by Messrs, Johnson and Mallner, of the Irish team. Mr. Johnson hit the bull’s-eye at eight hundred yards fifteen times, making seventy-five points—a feat accomplished but once before. Mr. Millner did almost equally well in hitting the bull’s-eye thirteen times at a thousand yards; but Dr. Mitchell, of the Scotch team, bettered this by making the surprising score of fourteen bull’s-eyes at the same range. The fortunes of the day were varying. The Americans led by fifteen points over the next highest team at the eight hundred yards range, but lost part of their advantage at nine hundred yards, and at a thousand yards were passed by both the Scotch and Irish. When the day ended the Scotch were four points ahead of the Irish and the Irish five points ahead of the Americans. The Australians were thirty- two points behind the Americans and the Canadians were almost one hundred points behind the Scotch. The battle of the first three teams could hardly be closer, and will add much to the excitement to-day. The Americans had the misfortune to make important errors. Mr. Fulton missed his target once, and General Rodine made a bull’s-eye on the wrong target. It would be impossible to predict which of the three leading teams will win to-day, but our only wish is that it will be that with “the best men. Bureanrax Horrons.—It is rathor late | for the Turkish government to attempt to show ‘‘its abhorrence of the unauthorized and deplorable acts in Bulgaria.” The ar- rests of Turkish officers charged with order- ing the massacres are contrasted with the promotions of several of the generals who are implicated by the testimony. It is by no means certsin that the Porte will perform what it promises, but it is evident that both + the Porte and the Disracli Ministry are | alarmed by the indignation of the English people, and, indeed, of all civilized coun- { tries, That Story About Mr. Schurz. Of course Mr. Chandler has not quarrelled with Mr. Schurz. Mr, Chandler is not a goose. Mr. Schurz, ex-Secretary Cox and other speakers of that kind are doing the re- publican party an .inestimable service by their courageous plainspeaking. They urge reform, and in doing so they necessarily criticise many things which have been done by the party and its leaders in the Inst seven years. Ifthe republican administration had been faultless there would be no occasion to promise reform. But everybody knows that there have been grave and scandalous abuses, and ifthe republican party did nbt intend to reform these it might as well give up the canvass atonce. It is because a consider- able number of voters believe that the re- publican party will institute the important and necessary reforms in the federal adminis- tration, and will, on the whole, do it better and more certainly than the democratic party, that the republicans have a chance to win. It is because Governor Hayes has in very decided terms and in very plain and defi- nite language shown the necessity of cer- tain reforms, and declared his determina- tion, if he is elected, tocarry them into effect, that the republicans have a hope of carrying the election. When Mr. Schurz, ex-Secre- tary Cox and others, therefore, make these reforms the burden of their speeches, they are doing precisely what is needed, and very much needed, to secure public confidence to their party; and we advise Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Bristow and other republican speakers to follow Mr. Schurz’s example. Of course there will be superserviceable tools of the baser part of the party ready to cry out when a speaker urges civil service reform that heis ‘criticising the administra- tion.” They are perfectly right. Any demand for a reform is so far a criticism of that which now is; for reform means change, change for the better; a change, for instance, which will leave out the Belknaps, Robesons, Bab- cocks, Shepherds, Sargents, Wests, Spen- cers, and put in their places honest and capable men. If a republican success in November was not believed to mean such a change then the republican party would sustain a defeat more overwhelming than that of Mr. Greeley four years ago. The people demand such a change; and if the organs of the corrupt part of the party could silence Mr. Schurz they would simply defeat the party, for the people would seek for a change elsewhere. Moreover, it should be understood that those who so impudently attack Mr. Schurz and others who demand reform are ‘‘criti- cising” the nominee and head of the party, Governor Hayes, No one of the republican leaders has so strongly pledged himself to the important reforms as he, The etiquette of his position keeps him silent or his voice would be heard more loudly for a thorough reform of the civil service than that of any of the republi- can speakers. He spoke his mind with uncommon freedom in his letter ; he believes every word he there wrote, and if he is elected he will carry out the promised re- forms with a determination which the oppo- nents of such measures will vainly strive to shake. If anybody in the republican party does not like Governor Hayes’ programme we advise him to go over to the democratic side or to abandon politics for a while entirely. The Governor means what he has written, and is not a man who can be scared from his purposes. Those party organs which, under pretence of quarrelling with Mr. Schurz, really aim blows ai the candi- date of the party, ought to be carefal what they are doing. They may do mischief to the side they pretend to support. They may not like Governor Hayes; it is hardly possible they should; for if he is elected they will have to take back seats, but mean- time a little modesty would be meritorious in them. They will have need of a good deal after next 4th of March, whether Gov- ernor Hayes or Governor Tilden is elected. Rapid Transit for the Poor. The horrors and indecencies of the tene- ment houses of New York have been written about for years, have attracted the attention of a multitude of humane citizens and have repeatedly been reported to the Legislature, but without effecting a remedy. It is a fact that one-half of our population is still crowded into houses unfit for their proper accommodation, and where it is difficult, and ina great proportion of cases impossible, for children to grow up into either healthful or virtnous men and women; where the infant mortality is shockingly great, and the poor, besides their other privations and suf- ferings, are forced to sce their little ones die simply for the want of fresh air and cleanly surroundings. And it is equally a fact that while more than half of our people are thus crowded and abused there is suffi- cient land on the island to accommodate them with roomy and cleanly lodgings, which could easily be made accessible by proper and not expensive railroads, Rapid transit would surely cure the worst evils of the tenement house system, because it would enable thousands of families of the laboring poor to remove to the upper end of the city. What the evil is which could thus be cured, and which cannot be remedied in any other way, is shown in a recent report by Dr. Bell, printed by the Legislature. He shows that while of*the tenement house population nearly 38 in every 1,000 die per annum, of those not living in tenement houses only 20 1-2 per 1,000 die. He shows that in two contiguous tenement houses, containing 74 families and 349 persons, 115 were ill on the day of examination, which was in the healthiest part of the year; that in asingle year, 1874, 8,725 people died in the tenement houses over their due propor- tion of deaths, and died from the effects of overcrowding; that half these deaths were of infants and children under twelve years, and that the cost to the poor parents of the illness and death of this number was over five hundred thousand dollars, which was a loss out of theit scant wages. He shows that at avery low estimate the cost of the extra sickness and extra mortality caused by over- crowding in our tenement houses is not less than six million dollars per annum. This, he says, is “the cost of premature deaths, lives lost, sickness and faneral expenses chargeable against the tenement honses.” The mere pecuniary loss is startling. But what is even that when wo compare it with 6.—TRIPLE SHEET. the needless sorrow, suffering and do- moralization bred in these houses? Yet all or most of this could be prevented. Give New York rapid transit, enable an indus- trious poor to reach the northern extremity of the city cheaply and rapidly, and we shall save thousands of lives and millions of dollars every year. It is in the interest of the laboring poor that the Hrraup has so long and so constantly demanded rapid transit. Once more somebody stopg the way. A street railroad company this time forbids the poor of New York to have ckeap and mpid access to the upper part of the city. Let it be plainly understood what delay in this matter means, It means the sacrifice of over eight thonsand lives in every year. It means the neediess loss of over six million dollars by the industrious poor of New. York every year from their wages. It means demorali- zation, sorrow and suffering toa large part of our population. Who bars the way to rapid transit? Mr. Cushing on Tweed. If confirmation of the arrest of Tweed were needed the statement of Mr. Cushing, United States Minister to Spain, which we publish this morning, would supply it. In an inter- view which our correspondent had with Mr, Cushing at his home in Newburyport, Mass., yesterday, he said that ‘‘it is an absolute fact that Tweed is in custody precisely as was stated in the Hznaxp’s cable despatches.” The American government. was not in any way surprised at the arrest, and although Mr. Cushing is reticent in respect to himself, it is clear that to his forethought and energy the apprehension of Tweed is in a large measure due. Doubted at first, it is now believed, that Tweed has been captured; yet many people cannot credit that he will ever be delivered in New York. Mr. Cushing gives ample assurance that this partof the plan has been attended to, and says that it would have been child’s play to have arrested Tveed unless arrangements for bringing him here had been fully and defi- nitely made. He seems to think Tweed al- most as foolish as knavish in not seeking to obtain a compromise of some kind by restor- ing the city the bulk of his plunder. We showed long ago that the great municipal robber could not expect any mercy so long as he clung to his ill-gotten gains; but per- haps it is better as it is. Now York can easier afford to lose six millions than to lose the opportunity of making an example of the man who took them. The effect of the arrest of Tweed upon the Presidential cam- paign Mr. Cushing does not consider of much importance. It would help Tilden, he says, if Tilden could have the criminal promptly punished, but adds that Tweed can hardly arrive here in time for Mr. Tilden to act be- fore the election. It would, therefore, appear politic in the administration, which supports Mr. Hayes, to delay the return of Tweed, and in that way deprive Mr. Tilden of a much-coveted opportunity. But it is hardly likely that the Amorican government would thus trifle with justice for the benefit of party. Tweed ought to be in Havana about the first week of October, and as all the arrangements are completed for restoring him to America, he should be in New York before the middle of next month. Projects of Peace in Europe. It may be safely said that the tory press in England is very badly inspired, and of this the assault of the London Standard on Russia’s relations to Servia is a flagrant and offensive instance. Appar- ently it is not deemed sufficient that the English Ministry should blunder as they have done in committing a Christian nation tothe support of a fanatical butchery of many thousands of Christian people, but a superserviceable organ is ready to do what it may to add to the opprobrium the Minis- try must endure for its great error, The London Standard sneeringly inquires when Russia will throw off the disguise and openly wage the war on Turkey that she now secretly supports. There cannot be many Englishmen who believe that the Turks would ever have got where they are if the war had been really with Russia. Otherwise they must have a poor opinion of those forces, English and French, that required oa year to capture a single Russian city. If the combined English and French forces cap- tured one Russian city in a year, and yet the Turks have now driven the Russians from city to city week after week, the Turks must evidently be better soldiers than the Eng- lish. This would be the result of the Stand- ard’s theory that the Turks have really been | fighting Russia. That theory, therefore, will not stand examination. Itis invented in the desperate hope to save the Ministry. | The natural humanity of the nation revolts against the relations of the government with the Turks, and the government endeavors to cover its retreat by raising the cry that it was not fighting Servia, but Russia; not helping the infidel Turk, but only encour- aging him to destroy the rival and enemy of England; that the pegple butchered were not so much Christians as the friends of the subjects of the Czar. If this defence should provoke any comparisons between the relations of England and Russia re- spectively to this war they must be altogether to the honor of Rus- sin if made by reasonably impartial persons, since at most she has encouraged a Christian people in the defence of their country from an invasion the like of which | for barbarity has not been seen in Europe | for centuries, while England has given coun- tenance and support to thatinvasion. Tho singular report that Turkey still refuses to | grant an armistice, but will consent to a | suspension of hostilities to settle prelimina- ries of peace, is, perhaps, due to confusion in telegraphing. In diplomatic language there has not been any other distinction be- tween an armistice and a suspension of hos- tilities than that the latter was a truce com- monly made by the commanders of armies and for a short time, while an armistice was a truco determined between governments. As the despatch contemplates the govern- ment as making this distinction between its own possible acts it is contradictory. ‘There is some apprehension that the demands of Turkey and the views of Russia will be found irreconcilable and that peace will not result from the present parleys, in which | case Russia will certainly take active steps for the defence of Servia, The Extradition of Sitting Bull. It is reported ‘from Washington that if Sitting Bull and his redoubtable warriors shall take refuge from the pursuit of our troops by crossing the frontier into the British Possessions our government will demand their surrender from the British government, that they may be punished for theircrimes. This is, apparently, the comio aspect of our relations with the Sioux and with England. It is true that the pursuit of our troops has not yet pressed the Sioux so sorely that they are in great need of a refuge. Indeed, if there were not such painful incidents in the case the country would already be comparing the pursuit of the Sioux by the troops to that famous pur- suit of a wolf by a trusty hound, in which, when last seen, the hound was a little ahead. With the whole of the country open and no other obstacle to their movements than the army under Crook we do not see why the hostile Indians need trouble themselves to winter in so cold a country as Canada, That they may do so, however, seems to be deemed possible by persons who should be regarded as experts in knowledge of the habits of the Indians, and we would not op- pose our opinion to their judgment. Should the Indians do this thing and should our government demand their surrender from England the world will be treated to the monumental spectacle of the age in interna- tional relations. If Secretary Fish is ever to be put beside Mr. Seward in bronze because he has been Governor and Secretary of State, and if the artist who is to do him is still in the flesh, that artist should endeavor to catch the expression of the great Secretary when he directs his subordinates to make the requisition on the British government for four thousand Sioux, ‘‘be the same more or less.” It is nota statuesque countenance in its ordinary moods, but glorified by the stblime faith in red tape that this de- mand will imply. One cannot say to what heights of splendor it may rise. How will England respond to this demand? Will she surrender the Sioux? Perhaps not. But she may balance the account by calling our attention to the Treaty of Washington and requiring us to prevent the invasion of her soil by hostile expeditions prepared on our soil or to pay the penalty in cash. What Is the Matter in Philadelphial Philadelphia is so large a city that it ought to be able to accommodate even the crowds which flock to the Exhibition with- out danger of suffering either from impure water or imperfect drainage. Yet it is noto- rious that scarcely one in ten of those who visit the Exhibition, even if he remains but a few days, escapes a sovere attack of diar- thea or dysentery, and we hear of many cases of typhus and typhoid fever. ‘The evil has increased of late and has become sa serious that it is not advisable for persons in feeble health or those of a constitution easily attacked by such diseases to visit the Exhi- bition until after a severe frost. The physicians of Philadelphia and its Board of Health ought to look into this matter. The water supply of the city has usually been good; it is certainly of poor quality this year. The long, dry summer may have affected it, as it hag that of other cities. Whatever may be the cause it is certain that strangers now going to the Exhibition subject themselves to at- tacks of disease, which are in not a few cases severe and dangerous. We advise visitors to drink but little water, and to use all the precautions which suggest themselyes un- der such circumstances. The inconvenience and danger are real and too serious to be trifled with. Sauspury Beach, Mass., was yesterday the scene of an annual gathering commem- orating no particular event, but obeying an ancient custom. The address of General Cushing had for its subject the alleged de- generacy of the American peoplo—a fallacy which he ably exposed. We are not quite sure that our government is not more cor- rupt than it was fifty years ago, but if the nation is not better amd wiser then ‘‘prog- ress” is an idle word. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Tweed said to the officer, ‘ Blamed Vigo.” Ex-Governor Noyes, of Ohio, is in Boston, Mayor Cobb, of Boston, 1s going to Kurope. Snow has fallen in the California mountains, What Sitting Bult really needs is a bell panch. James T. Fields calls Rev. Robert Collyer a burr-oak, Jim Blaine may now sit down on some steps ani rest. Jewish names are plontifal as exhibitors at the Cen. tennial. Secretary Robeson has beon visiting Ben Perley Poore 1n Vermont. Boston is discussing the problem whether or not mosquitoes are Immortal. Danbury News:—Solitude ts well onough until you want to borrow something.” Ex-Senator Patterson, of New Hampshire, has gone to take part in tho Obio campaign. Lord Randolph Churchill, of England, arrived at the Brevoort House yosterday from Baltimore, Mr. Beard, of Maesachusotts, says that Mr, Adame sold out to Tilden for the price ofa seat in the Cabinet, + Vignette ’ says that an exquisite ornament for the hair is wheat tipped with dew. Possibly a Ja mint Julep? Tho President of Dartmouth College refuses to per« m tt Theodore Tilton to lecture before the students wha had engaged him. ‘ Mrs, Marte Natalie Pollard, widow of E. A. Pollard, author of “The Lost Cause,” will stump the State of Califorma for the democratic ticket, Rosatine is being used to color and adulterate the now French wines, Ifthe colored wine ts boiled with white wool in it the wool will be stained, even after 4 is rinsed with water, Discussion between a wise child and its Aberdonias vata ‘nat star you see up there is bigger than thi, world. y ie isn’t’? “Yes, it is.” “Then why doesn’t it keep the rain off?” ‘The English oyster is becoming extinct becanse the public beds have been greedily dredged all tho yeu round, the oyster having po time for roproduction even in the spawning senson, Kurd yon Schlézer, German Minister at Washington, arrived from Europe in the sicamship Pommeranta yesterday, and is at the Brevoort House, He will Jeave the elty to-day for Wasbington. Rose Eytinge 1 at Gold Mill, Nevada, and the eritie ofthe News says ‘tit is evident that Rose Eytinge is artist cnough toact as well iu a barn as the best appointed theatre in the world. A greater compliment could not be paid.” Protessor Mommasen has conciuded his archwological tour jn Lialy, and is about to return to Berlin. Tho mayors of the towns met him at the gates, Professer Mommsep has made important resoarchos on the Nea- politan territory and in the Marches. ‘The French who settied im Canada formed one of the happiest, best ordered and most peaceful communitics tm the world, and afier a history of a handred years, and after suffering conquest by the English, that com. munity remains French, still unabsorbed, with a lie and a society and a mental atmosphere all its own, é