The New York Herald Newspaper, September 19, 1876, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HEKALD BROADWAY A AND / ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, -—------_— THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one Achar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telearagnP despatches must be addressed New Yous Haznarp. iim sere PHILADELPHIA OFFICE SIXTH STREET, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XLI 0.112 SOUTH TRE. Mra Howard. ODS MUSEUM. WILD BILL, as ar. Se Matinee at 2 P.M. GILMORE’S GARDEN. CONCERT, at 8 P. M. FIFTH THEATRE atS P.M. Charles F. Coghlan. BOOTIVS THEATRE. SARDANAPALUS, at SP. M Mr. Ba MONEY, nd Mrs. Agnes 3 THEATRE. {8 . M. Mr, and Mrs. GERMANIA si (Saved cs BP 1EATRB ‘one Woot CLOUDS, a8P. mM. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, ENGLISH COMIC OPERA, Mrs. Oates, at 8 P.M, NIBLO'S GARDEN. BABA, at 8 P. M. UNION SQUARE 1 THEATRE, TWO MEN OF SANDY 1 BROOKL DEBORA, at 8 P. M. THEATRE VARIETY, at 8 P. Xl. TIVOLT THEATRE, VARIETY, a¢ 8 P.M. THE. poe PARISIAN VAGIETIES, atsP.M SAN FRAN ater. KELLY & L ate P. M. FAG BURLESQUE, OLI0 CHATEAU VARIETY, at 8 P.M. THIRD AV: VABLETY, at 8 P.M. OLYMP VARIRTY AND DRAMA, a coLu MBIA OPERA HOUSE, VARIETY, at BP. isa INSTITUTE. ANNUAL FAIR TR IPLE SHEET. mW YORK, TUE DAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1876, i ee our ‘reports his morning probabil ies are that the weather to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy. Wau Srrecr Yesterpay.—Stocks were alternately strong and weak, with irregular and lower prices at the close. Gold opened at 110 and closed at 109 7-8. Money on call was supplied at 1a 11-2 percent. Govern- ment bonds were active, and railway bonds generally steady. Tam Avromn Recatta of the Now York Yacht Club takes place to-day. The prepa- rations for the race are all complete, as will be seen from the résumé in another column. Paivce Miman's Sotprens choose a singular time for proclaiming him King. If he is able to hold on to his principality without hum- bling himself before the Turk it 1s about as much as he can expect. Gemaany is about to follow the example of America and France and hold a great inter- national exhibition. It will be difficult, however, for even so great a country as the German Empire to eclipse the splendors of our own Centennial. Govgrnor Bepis, of New Jersey, took the stump at Jersey City last night for Governor Tilden. Bedle sees no salvation for the nation except in Tilden’s election. He touched on most of the issues of the cam- paign, making a vigorous speech. Twenty-nixe Inprans who were in the fight on the Little Big Horn have surren- dered. Most of the braves are ready to sur- render, no doubt, if they can obtain an assurance that they will be fed until the time to begin the next year’s campaign. Exoiisn SrxtimENt continues hostile to the position of the Ministry on the Eastern question, as is attested by the monster meet- ing in the Guildhall yesterday. The dan- ger to Lord Beaconstield’s Cabinet is almost as critical as the position of the Servians and Turks. Forcep Treattes.—It is expected that the originators of the forged Russo-Prussian treaty, published in a French journal, will be prosecuted. The forgery of treaties and other State papers ought to be as sternly punished as the forging of false names on drafts and promissory notes, Despornine A Cruncn is the meanest as it is the most profane crime in which a thief van engage, and yeta party of burglars en- tered St. Peter's Roman Catholic church on Sunday night and carried away the sacred vessels. We trust the police will find these bold and wicked criminals and bring them to justice. . Crrepmoon.—The fourth annual meeting of the National Rifle Association began at Creedmoor yesterday. Though they attract less attention than the grand internationai matches, these meetings are not less impor- tant as through them the American team has gained its proud position as the cham- pions of the w world. Ty THE Pouce are needed at Philadelphia on Thursday, the State day for New York, the city ought to send them. If they are pot needed it is folly to send them in their buttons at their own expense. Even a police- man might be allowed to enjoy the Centen- nial like any other citizen, especially when he is expected to pay for his pleasure. Present Grant denies the trath of the allegation that Mr. Schurz has been with- drawn from the Ohio campaign, and urges very cogent reasons in disproofof it, As Mr. Schurz also denies it this question must be regarded as settled. ‘The report origi- nated in the overheated zeal of a subordinate in one of the departments at Washington, whose chief had been assailed by the ex- Senator while in the Senate, who seized the ‘pecasion of some remark in a private letter of Mr. Schurz to charge him with disloyalty | an obsolete and, to a large part of their | te the republican party. i j that done in 1876 which they refused to permit in 1861? | they sent a million of sons to the battle fleld and bi | hatred, fear and ignoxance. NEW YORK HERALD, _TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1876.-TRIPLE SHEET. — A Word of Warn! ing to Republicans. There is a story going the rounds of the newspapers that when Mr. Wheeler, the republican candidate for the Vice Presi- dency, made one of his “bloody shirt” speeches the other day in Vermont he dis- gusted so many republican voters that the usual party majority in the place was con- siderably lessened on election day. We do not know whether the tale is true or not, though it is a fact that the republicans lost somewhat this year in Vermont from their vote of previous years. But whether true or faiso in that specific instance it is un- doubtedly true that the exhibition of the conspicuous “bloody shirt” in this campaign wili lose many thonsand votes to the repub- lican.party. It ought to, and it will. There are sections of the country where this issue may be brought up to alarm and excite ignorant voters; bat take the Northern States at large and the mass of repub- lican voters, who are in the main thoughtful and sensible men, and the cry of Southern outrages and of danger from the South or in the South will lose the party more votes than it will gain. Wo fling out this warning to the republi- cans because we notice that as we come to the heated days of the campaign the organs and speakers of the party dwell more and more exclusively upon this topic; and there seems of late to be an organized effort and determination to carry the election, not upon civil service reform, not upon a sound currency, not upon such legislative reforms as shall give the country a chance for renewed prosperity, but simply and solely upon the Southern bugaboo. Senator Boutwell tries to make it the prominent is- sue in Massachusetts; Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Bristow, Mr. Blaine, and others go about on the same errand; General Butler says frankly that civil service and currency are trifling questions—to rescue the country from rebel domination is the true issue. Mr. George F. Hoar agrees with him. And here comes so respectable a journal as the Chicago Tribune and threatens us with a new seces- sion as the probable result of a republican defeat. It says:—- Are the people of the United States prepared to have To avoid a civil war the North was prepared to concede much tn 1860. They could not, however, and would not, cousent to have the Union atripped of its national- | tty and a confederacy of independent States erccted in its place, Sooner than submit to this they met the threatenea war, To preserve American nationalty dened the country with enormous expenditures, ‘The Union was saved; slavery was abolished; and now, aro the people prepared to surrender ail + of the war, and surrender the government to the same men who, as Senators, Representatives, Cabinet ofli- eers, judges, and military and naval ‘commanders, erected and maintained the ‘Confederate States’? government at Richmoad? Istho Richmond govera- ment to be transferred to Washington ? Now, in the first place the thoughtful and intelligent voters who constitute a large and the most important part of the republican party do not believe in all this, and are only disgusted and alarmed when they see such stuff made prominent in the canvass. They want sound money, a reform of the civil ser- vice, a revival of our foreign commerce and of industry in general ; they would like to see the republican party give us these re- forms ; they believe that there are repub- lican statesmen who would more surely work out these reforms than would the democrats under their present leadership; and over and above all this these voters of whom we speak would like to see the policy of non-in- tervention in the Southern States begun under republican federal rule. But if cur- rency, civil service and all other reforms are to be sunk; if instead of non-interven- tion in the South they see the party speakers and organs threatening and ad- vocating a policy of renewed intervention, what but disgust and alarm can affect these voters? They number a great many thou- sands all over the country. -Can the party succeed without their zealous co-operation? Woe do not believe it. On the contrary, we are certain that if such disgusted voters only remain at home without voting the demo- cratic ticket the republicans will be de- feated. But this attempt to revive the Southern question in its worst aspect, and to stir up renewed strife and suspicion between the sections, to the exclusion of the true re- form issues, isan insult to the republican candidate, Governor Hayes has distinctly shown in his letter of acceptance that in his mind reform of the currency and the civil service are the prominent and, indeed, the only issues in the canvass. He accepts the nomination as a reform candidate, and here come the republican leaders and strive to burke reform and revive the old sectional hatreds and issues. They not only sneer down the questions which to their candidate, as to the best men in the party, seem vital, but they fly in the face of his own belief on the Southern question; for Governor Hayes believes profoundly that the day for federal interference in the South is past; that those States ought to be left to govern themselves as New York and Ohio do, and that the men calling themselves republicans who have misruled such States as Louisiana have no title to respect or sympathy from the repub- lican party of the country. Governor Hayes cannot take part in the canvass. If he could he would be heard urging the necessity of re- form in the civil service and in the currency, and he would lay down a policy in regard to Southern matters very different indeed from that now so generally put forth by the | republican speakers and organs; because it would be a statesmanlike and patriotic policy, and not one of suspicion, denunci- ation and proscription. But, finally, this sudden and general de- termination to carry the campaign on the Southern issue shows a deep and uncon- trollable alarm among the republican lead- ers. They are evidently panic stricken. They have by this time compared notes, and their conclusion appears to be that on a fair and honest canvass, on the real issues of the year, they will lose the country, and in des- peration the word has gone ont to fling the “bloody shirt” to the breeze and make the appeal, not to the reason, the honesty and patriotism of the country, but to prejudice, That is the way it looks to cool observers; and even if this were not the correct theory of their policy it is still true that such is the im- pression it makes. Shrewd political caleu- lators say, if the republican managers were not badly frightened they would not force party. a hateful issue upon the country. If | nals as would pay their expens: . # | dollar more. is necessarily silent in this campaign; he | they felt pea a sure of winning ey would argue; it is because they feel them- selves weak that they take to vituperation and denunciation. This policy of denunciation, this exclu- sion of reform and concentration on the Southern issue is, therefore, a blunder of the republican leaders in several ways. It slienates a large mass of their voters; it creates a feeling of distrust and alarm among the calculating or “loose” voters, and it places the party in a false relation to the living issues of the day. It may exasperate and alarm timid and ignorant voters; but it cannot carry the country, No thoughtful voter really believes that the country would be seriously endangered or hurt if the demo- crats should come into power; and that sort of nonsense, when it is gravely put forth, excites as much contempt in sensible men as the equally foolish assertion of democratic organs that the country would be ruined if the republicans should succeed. That sort of stuff is always put forward by both parties, Excitable speakers and writers persuade themselves, as the canvass gets hotter, that the salvation of liberty and the safety of the Union really depend upon the election of their particular favorite, be he Snooks or Winterbottom, and the political demagogue naturally sings in that key. The truth is that whether the democrats or the republicans win the country is safe in either case. But if the republican party is to be for another four years a party of pro- scription in the South, a party encouraging misgovernment and trading on outrage there, then it is by all means best, for all our interests, North and South, that. the democrats should come in; and this is the opinion of a great many thousand republi- can voters, without whom the republicans cannot succeed in November. Mr. Gladstone's Pamphlet on the Bul-| gariam Atrocitios. There are some people who believe or affect to believe that there are no Bulgarian atrocities. Until lately the British Ambas- sador at Constantinople was one of the gen- tlemen who had not even ‘‘heard of an: He had not heard, consequently, of Mr. Dis- raeli’s merry jest on the subject, which shows to what a sad pass diplomacy has come. In the good old times a Prime Min- ister’s jests were never overlooked by an Am- bassador; but the British representative has heard of them since, and, as Blacque Bey, investigating on the part of the Turkish government itself, has reported that terrible outrages had been perpetrated, the Minister is necessarily a convert. There have been pooh-poohers in plenty. For our part we believe in the newspaper correspond- efits who are on the spot and are not dupes. They know more about it than amiable gentlemen in either Paris or Constantinople. Further, we believe in the accounts of Mr. Eugene Schuyler, our capable and trust- worthy Consul General at Constantinople, whose repurts cannot be discredited by the expression of any gentleman's sym- pathies. Weare very glad to see that Mr. Gladstone also believes in him, and com- prehends that unprejudiced correspondents are, in such a case, the only authorities of any value. It has not happened before in a great while that a man of Mr. Gladstone's position—an ex-Premier and a leader of ac- knowledged authority—has come forth boldly and denounced before Europe the policy of the government of his own coun- try; and this lends great interest to his pamphlet, the substance of which we give to-day. His declaration that, ‘‘of all the objects of policy, in my conviction, hnu- manity, rationally .understood and in due relation to justice, is the first and highest,” is the keynote of his whole case, and as such lifts his review above the atmosphere of mere party polemics. A Sensible Canal Policy. The canal policy advocated by Comptroller Robinson, in his recent interview with a Henaxp correspondent, will commend itself to all sensible men. It is one which, if pur- sued from the commencement, would have saved the taxpayers of the State a great amount of money, and which would have been pursued if the intent of the constitu- tion had been respected. Mr. Lucius Rob- inson would never have built the lateral canals if he had been in power at the time of their construction. He would now get rid of these burdens upon the interests of the trunk canals and of the taxpayers of the State as speedily as possible. The trunk canals Mr. Robinson would require to pay their own expenses of repairs and management out of the tolls re- ceived, so that they might not be any burden in the future on the taxpayers. It has been asserted, because Mr. Robinson has firmly resisted the policy of taxing the people at large for maintaining and working the canals, that he was in favor of high tolls. This is an unwarranted charge. Mr. Robin- son would put just as much tolls on the ea- , and nota With strict honesty and wise economy in their management the canals could, under this system, and with the lat- eral excrescences lopped off, be run at a lower rate of tolls than has ever yet pre- vailed. So far as our canal ¢ “y is con- cerned Mr, Lucius Kobinson is sound. More Exrnanations to Conmx.—-General Butler is no sooner nominated for Congress than the Boston Herald unkindly asks him to answer a charge made against him in tho House of Representatives at the last session that he had used his position as manager of the soldiers’ homes to puta good deal of money into his own pocket. General. Butler has too large a fortune and too profitable a | practice at the Bar to make it probable that he has made money out of the management of soldiers’ homes ; but as he is to attend a meeting of the managers at Milwaukee this | week he will probably make answer to this charge. He 1s too shrewd not to see that Mh tau acpl are in order just now. A Ririeman's Banquet like that at Del- | monico’s last night was never before given | after a contest so remarkable as the interna- tional match just closed. Five teams, com- posed of the best riflemen in the world, sat down to dinner together, and then a num- ber of post prandial champions fired the shafts of wit, hitting the bull’s-eye every time, The October Election in Ohfc. It would be an odd and unexpected turn of affairs if Governor Hayes should fail to carry his own State. There is not yet any very strong reason for supposing that a result so mortifying and damaging to the republican candidate is probable. But this at least is certain, that within the last few days republicans have become uneasy and democrats are beginning to be hopeful in relation to Ohio» A prominent republican journal of this city sounded a note of warn- ing last evening, calling on the party to “Remember Ohio,” and saying, ‘‘We hope the republicans will not forget to carry the election in Ohio in their anxiety to carry the election in Indiana.” We presume this ad- monition is not so much prompted by the sudden hopefulness of the democrats as by the tone of doubt and insecurity which per- vades the recent republican correspondence from Ohio. On Friday morning the leading administration journal in this city pub- lished a despatch from Columbus which was quite the reverse of assuring. ‘Unless there is a great change” (we quote from the de- spatch) “in the next four weeks it is useless to expect more than a meagre majority in October.” This confession of weakness is in singular contrast to the confident boasts so often repeated since Governor Hayes’ nomi- nation, After a description of the bad fea- tures of the situation this republican de- spatch goes on to say :—‘‘It is not intended to say that Ohio if in any danger of going democratic, but only to assert that unless the republicans wake up and do something their majority next month will do them no credit.” On Saturday morning another prominent journal in this city which is a zealous supporter of Hayes printed o long letter from Columbus reviewing the situation in Ohio, which -equally betokened more formidable oppo- sition to Hayes in his own State than the party a short time since kad any reason to apprehend. Tho writer of the letter does not despair of the republican canvass, although he fears a close contest. Hayes carried the State last year only by the aid of the German vote, and his ma- jority was small. It is supposed that two- thirds of the German citizens will now vote for the democratic candidates; and should this be the case Hayes would be in great danger of losing his own State. His majority last year was only 5,544, and a change of 2,773 votes would have prevented his clec- tion. Ifthe German vote, which was pretty well united on Hayes last year, should be divided this year and two-thirds, or even one-half of it, be given to the democratic ticket, it is difficult to see how the repub- licans could carry the State. The repub- lican correspondent whose letter we have cited says on this point:—‘‘I confess to some anxiety as to the course ofthe Germans. They saved the State for Hayes in 1875, and if it be true that they threaten to oppose the re- publican State ticket because of Mr. Barnes’ temperance views, then there is danger ahead.” The same republican correspondent explains, in another part of his letter, that Colonel Thompson, the chairman of the Dem- ocratic State Committee, ‘‘places great reli- ance on the German vote, which he is confi- dent the republicans have alienated in large part by nominating a pronounced prohibi- tionist for Secretary of State.” The corre- spondent is unable to dispute the fact that | the republicans of Ohio have put a fanatical prohibitionist at the head of their State ticket. He says:—‘‘There seems to be no doubt that Mr. Barnes’ record shows him to be a temperance man of the ultra sort, that are forever seeking to force men into habits of total abstinence by penal statutes.” Mr. Barnes was probably nominated in the hope of forestalling a separate prohibition ticket, but if this was the aim it has failed. There is a temperance ticket in the field, and the republican correspondent we have been quoting says ‘‘their movement has some importance in a close contest such as this promises to be, for whatever strength they can muster is subtracted from the re- publican ranks.” But quite apart from the temperance ques- tion the German population, not only of Ohio, but generally throughout the country, have manifested a strong disposition to sup- port Tilden. It is certainly so here in New York, and there is good reason for believing that it is so everywhere. It was stated in our Indiana letter published yesterday that more than two-thirds of the German newspapers in the United States—165 out of 240—support Tilden and oppose Hayes. If the attitude of the Ohio Germans is such as the democrats claim and the republicans partially concede it is possible and not very improbable that the slender republican ma- jority of last year, which was wholly due to the German vote, may be reversed next month. At any rate, Ohio, which was thonght so secure for Hayes, is suddenly be- coming the centre of political interest. If, contrary to all previous expectations and predictions, the State should bo carried by the democrats, their victory will put quite new face on the national canvass, Sourn Canouina Pourtics are very much mixed. The republicans talk of withdraw- ing Elliott, their candidate for Governor, on account of his unpopularity, and the demo- crats have decided to withdraw their elec- toral ticket and candidates for Congress in order to defeat Attorney General Taft's order respecting the use of United States troops to protect the ballot box. ‘This may be a com proinise among some of the party leaders on both sides to escape the disgrace of Eliiott’s election by concentrating upon Hampton ; but, whether this is the case or not, the news will be unwelcome to ass 's zealous supporters. Tux Wearnen.—As predicted in the Heratp, the cyclone has drifted northward into Canada and returned again with de- creased violence into the Middle and Eastern States. After remaining central during yes- terday south of the St. Lawrence the storm has moyed northeastward, and now passes | over the region of Quebee in the St. Lawrence Valley. The cycione has proved very de- structive along its entire course from the West Indies to the lakes, and has followed o track so unusual for these meteors that its movement should become the subject of close scientific investigation. An area of low barometer is now central west of the Upper Misaissivvi. and is slowly j moving eastward. It is probable that by Friday next we shall fee] its influence in the form of rain and brisk From present indications, however, it does not promise to be a serious disturban The weather in Professor Huxley's First Lecture. Professor Huxley's audience Inst evening at Chickering Hall was large and brilliant. The hall was completely filled, and among the audience was a large proportion of the most distinguished and oultivated people of the city. We advise all who have not tickets for the course to call at Appleton’s and secure them, for those who want to pur- chase them at the door may fail to get seats. The appearance of this eminent naturalist is a little disappointing to those who knew him only by reputation and through his works. Instead of the sturdy, scientific Boanerges which his writings would pre figure there comes forward on the platform, greeted by a geueral clapping of hands in token of admiring welcome, an elderly gentleman of medium height, with the stoop of an habitual hard student and a step which indicates wantof muscular firmness— a man, in short, whose mind has overtaxed his body. His face is good, hair dark brown, unsprinkled with signs of approaching white; beard gray, con- sisting only of side whiskers of the English cut; brow ample, but not immense; nose pointed and projecting, and his gen- eral air and address more like that of a not very well fed evangelical clergyman than of a strenuous intellectual athlete who is shaking the old beliefs of two continents. In mere manner he is not so pleasing as Pro- fessor Tyndall, the English scientist, with whom we most naturally compare him after having had the pleasure of listening to both. Tyndall has a stronger and clearer voice and an easy erectness of bearing which we miss in Professor Huxley, who, bent forward restingly upon a small reading desk, as if for support, dur- ing the greater part of his lecture, whereas Tyndall had no such encum- brance, spoke entirely without notes and had the art of putting himself in more com- plete sympathy with his audience, Profes- sor Huxley is so absorbed in his subject that he does not carry along in his consciousness a perpetual feeling of the attitude of the listeners who hang upon his lips. He had behind him, stretched on a frame, a geologi- cal chart, to which he frequently pointed for illustration, apparently not observing that a blackboard almost half its size (of which he made no use) had been placed almost di- rectly in front of the chart, concealing it from the greater part of the audience. Pro- fessor Tyndall, who gave a series of brilliant and surprising experiments, was so careful in all his arrangements that everybody pres- ent had an unobstructed view of all that was done. It is too early to speak in detail of Profes- sor Huxley’s main thesis, as this lecture was merely introductory and touched on no science but that of geology, whose doctrines are universally accepted by well informed people. There was a stroke of courteous Jinesse in his describing the Mosaic account of the creation as the ‘‘Miltonic hypothesis,” and reading from the seventh book of ‘‘Para- dise Lost” to show what the hypothesis was which he set himself to refute. This deli- cacy of refuting Milton rather than Moses would have been better relished for its dexterous fineness if he had not afterward recurred to the point and explained at some length his reasons for setting himself in op- position to the verse of Milton rather than against the prose of the first chapter of Gene- | sis, which Milton followed with almost literal closeness. ‘The chief reason was that the biblical account has been variously inter- preted. There was a strong tinge of sar- casm in his profession of humility in not presuming to have an opinion as to its mean- ing, winding up with a hit at the puzzling flexibility of language which is susceptible of such widely different constructions, The delicate finesse of refuting Milton would have been more “cute” and pleasing if he had made no reference to the Bible at all. Each succeeding lecture will be more ex- citing than the first, because he will tread further and further on debatable ground, especially when he comes to treat of the Darwinian theory of tho descent of man. Professor Huxley is furnishing a stimulating intellectual repast which few intellectual people in the city will be willing to miss. The Procession of Sultans—Murad and Hamid. On the subject of Sultans of disordered intellect the Koran is positive ; they must be deposed. No discretion is left as to the time which may be allowed for possible re- covery, and thus the fact that Murad was,set aside, although distinguished alienists were of opinion that he would recover, is not ne- cessarily to be explained by reference to political intrigue, or to the resolution of the extreme Moslem party to seize the oppor- tunity to secure the throne for a prince be- lieved to sympathize with their aspirations. The proper authorities acted in accordance with the imperative commands of their law, and it is fair to assume that they were sin- cere, at least in the absence of any clear evidence; that their zeal for the law was strengthened by the coincidence that its faithiul performance could greatly help their party. People in England do not suspect Mr. Gladstone's humanity because the causes of humanity and of the liberal party happen for the moment to be identical, and this fair play may reasonably be extendéd even to Ottoman statesmen, Murad completely parted company with his wits, it appears, at the moment when he heard of tho death of his uncle, Abdul-Aziz, which news he heard with the mourn- ful exclamation, “My heart is broken !” But though he was from that moment utterly lost in the wilderness of dis- ordered thoughts he had not been for | many weeks previously altogether sane. He was the victim of terror and of the agi- tation in which men are tossed momentarily from fear (o hope for days and weeks to- gether. It was his terrible fate to be born near a throne which more resembles a guil- lotine than the safe seat of a reigning sove- reign. He was ima line of suecession which oftener leads its heirs to secret murder than to a happy succession of honors. He knew not at what moment the dreadful likelihood might dawn on the minds of those in power that his existence itself was a danger to the Sultan; but he knew that if that moment came his life wold be of small account, and any voice at tho door might be related to this peril He came at last to live only in this nightmare of apprehension. Dr. Capaleone, his physician, has “ae. clared his opinion that the disturbance of the Prince's reason began with this excited condition, which itself was greatly aggra- vated when ho was committed to prison by Abdul-Aziz some three weeks before his ac- cession to the throne. To escape from the consciousness of his condition he drank ex- cessively, and thus added to the trouble, Upon his sudden releaso from prison he thought he was on the way to execution; and thongh it proved that he was on the way to a throne the effect of the fear was not less severe. He had some affection for his uncle, who appealed to him by letter fox mercy to himself, his wife and children, and when he learned of the murder the blow was too much. He had been unable to sleep before, and now this alarming symptom became more pos itive. He was, as his physician ‘reports, “absolutely” unable to sleep. Dr. Leidens- dorf, of Vienna, having made an elaborate examination, declared the malady curable within a period of three months ; but the removal from the throne was nevertheless deemed necessary. Abdul Hamid, his brother and successor, is but little known; but the little that is known presents him in the light of a typical sovereign of rather the earlier than the later sort. He is thirty-four years old, physically a Hercules and a wonderful horseman. His’ mother was a Circassian, and he is said to possess the energy of that race. He is re- garded as opposed to “reforms,” and, there- fore, a thorough Moslem. Tux Exzcrnic Wmes at Hell Gate works aro destined to play an important part in the great explosion. We publish to-day a description of the manner in which these will be employed and tho arrangement of the several conducting wires in relation to the batteries and the circuit closer. The cuts that accompany the description are in- tended to illustrate the general principle on which the operations will be carried ont, and also to assist the reader in compre- hending the nature of the requirements that will, if fulfilled, insure success, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Gaylor, the dramatist, is in St. Louis, Winters tn the Scottish Highlands are dry. The swamp maples are dyeing like goldon blondes, You may wear a pink bow on the side of your hat, The roofs of Vienna must bo covered with tiles, alate or metal. Hopworth Dixon says that Solomon's Temple wasa small edifice. Norway, the Eldorado of trout fishers, is overran by angling Britons. Senator Aaron H. Cragin, of New Hampshire, is at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Cold weather is expected early, when chestnut burri wil! break into a broad grin. The scotcu (Creedmoor) team ‘and the Hague Centen- nial Commissioners are at Toronto. Beware of freedom in introducing people to one another. They may become your enemies. Mr. George W: Wurts, Secretary of the United States Legation at Rome, is at the Hoffman House. Postmaster General James N. Tyuer arrived in the city last evening and is at the Fitth avenue Hotel. The difference in numbers between those who go to California and those who leave it this year is inconsid- erable. While we wero getting happy over the absence o) Sergeant Bates Timothy Titcemb was writing another novel. From our weather reports this morning the probas bilities are that thero will be mushrooms in the meadows. Mr. Charles Francis Adams, with his wife and dangh- ter, arrived at the Brevoort House yesterday from Philadelphia, Professor Asa Gray, of Harvard College, ts visiting Roane Mountain, in East Tennessee, to investigate the flora of that region. Lieutenant Governor Hubbard, who will succeed Sen. ator Coke as Governor of Texas, weighs 280 pounds and is six feet and four inches high. Tho Prosident and his family will leave Long Branch to-day for Philadelphia, where they will be the guests of Mr. Drexel for the remainder of the week. You may tella woman that her elegant new dress “agrees with’ her complexion; but under no circum. stances tell her that hor face becomes her dress. Every dwelling house in St. Petersburg has to be covered with stueeo, and as the climate affects tt serl- ously it has generally to be repaired each spring. Ono need not go to the Catskills to see a waterfall while pearly streams splash down the wrinkled root of the new Post Office like suds down a washboard. London Society: —“An English tourist is quite a dif. ferent being from other Europeans. If he travels alone he bores himself and others; if with his fellow eountry- men he thaws. Scionco is not opposed to the exercise of the ideal, emotional element in man, providing only that b exercise, restrained within its proper sphere, be net allowed to encroach on tho province of positive belief. Some mercurial people throw away their friends in happy times and wish to regain them in gloomy hours, very much as a cow that kicks over the pail in the morning is the first one to come Into the yard at twi- light and low to be milked, Norristown Herald:—“A completo set of burglars’ tools, wo are told, numbers forty pieces, and is valued at from $250 to $400. We don’t see how a poor man can embark in the burglary business unloss he first steals the money to purchase the tools.”” The San Francisco Chronicle says that the great social problem for its city 1s not so much concerning the male as the female hoodlams, thousands of whom, in short cresses, brazenly walk the gag-lit streets and run wild at suburban picnics, of which every Sunday there are many. HL. W. Beecher :—Science will overturn the grounds of organization in many respects; but the great end which God had tn mind when ho created —thas they should grow up into Him in all things, unto per. fect men im Christ Jesus—science has nothing to say against that.” A Northern politician depends so mach upon the temper of the people that bo is always trying to cast himself down to the average level. A Southern poll- tictan tries to be as much above his constituency as possible, hoping to gain thoir respect. The ono uses the convex lens to scatter his rays, and the other useg, a convex lens hoping to concentrate his power, Barlington Hawk Eye: ‘What under the sun are you rammacing in all tho old clothos closets fort? the tender wife asks her fond husband, these bracing au- tumn mornings, ‘My winter pantaloons and coats,’ he replies, with a suspicious look at the empty hooks, ‘Oh--why—yes—let mo sco—’ and, with the gailty blood xaffasing het lovely face, she glides into the next room and takes a china dog anda pair of glass vases and a plaster shepberdess off the mantlepiece and hides them behind the sofa.” Bolt (“Naturalist in Nicarsgua’’) considers the Nahuads or Brown Indians to be allied to the Poly. nesians and to have come from land since submerged in the Pacific, whilst the Caribs he believes to be de. acended from the warlike race who formerly inhabited Atlantis and are said to have invaded Greece, according to the relations of the priests of Egypt, to Solon and the traditions of Plato, What s foreign to the Naliuads Reems to have come, he says, from China and Japan, whilo there are some few points of ofinity between Uho Caribs and the people of Rurope and Africa. Bon. wick, however, traces a resemblance betwoom we Caribs and the Tasmanians and Hotiestata & An,