The New York Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1876, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news ietters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henrarp. Letters and packages should be properly scaled, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. NO.112SOUTH CE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 F T STREET, PARIS OFFICE—AVEN DE L’OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New Yor! FIFTH MONBY, at 8PM. ¢ Ss THEATRE. BARD M. Mr. Bangs and Mrs. Agnes jooth. WALLA THEATRE. THE MIGHTY DOLL. ML Mr. and Mra, Florenee. GERMA’ LUFTSCHLOESSER, at PARK (HEATRE, se ood, RA HOUSE. Mra. Ontes, at SP. M. CLOUDS, at 8 P. DOP ENGLISH COMIC OPE. BABA, at 8 P. M. UNION TWO MEN OF SAND now. EATRE. UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, at 8 P.M. Mrs, Howard, TIVOLE THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P. M. PAR atS P.M. Matinee at at 8 P.M. asp. M. FAC BUR QUE, OLIO CHa’ VARIETY, at 8 P. M. THIRD AVE) VARIETY, at 8 P.M. ° “THEATRE, RAMA, at P.M. COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSB, rats i. M VAR EATRE COMIQUR, FARIETY, at SP. M AM. ANNUAL FAIR. EPTEMBER 21, 1871 From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and cloudy, with, possibly, rain. Warn Srneer Yesterpay.—Stocks lost more than they gained, and the market closed irregnlar and somewhat feverish. Gold opened and closed at 110, selling meanwhile at 110 1-8. Money on call was supplied at 1 1-2 and 2 percent. Govern- ment and railway bonds were moderately active and firm, Tue Bx-QvEEN IsabeLLa was expected in Madrid yesterday. It must have been a heavy disappointment to the people if she failed to arrive, ‘Tun Boys nf Buvx are having a good time at Indianapolis. Of course Logan and Burn- side and Garfield and the rest are there. What a loss 1t will be to the political heroes when the country discovers that the war is over! ‘Tux Sare Burctary Truat is progressing at Washington. The defendants, no doubt, feel but little anxiety about the testimony, as the trial is little more than a farce, and the verdict might as well be rendered before SWERED, through counsel, in the suit brought against him by the city for the recovery of the stolen millions. Of course the great Boss denies ‘each and every allegation” in the complaint. He will soon be here to answer for himself, Tue Cunan Nationa Loan is not looked upon asa good investment. The customs revenues have already been mortgaged by the Spanish government, and, while loyalty is a fine sentiment, people are not fond of parting with hard cash ona doubtful secu- rity. Dopweit, tHe Wirt Murprrer, who has been on trial before Recorder Hackett for | the past two days, yesterday thought it best | to withdraw his plea of not guilty, and to | plead guilty of murder in the second de- \ gree. This provides board and lodging for him during the remainder of his days, Tue Best Ponce 1x tHe Wortp is to go | to the Centennial to-day, and, what is bet- ter, its leave of absence is granted without any stoppage of pay. The force has earned its holiday, and we can get along well enough in the city for a short time, despite our sinfnlness, with a limited number of guardians of the peace. Tux Pxorue or Bancerona, Spain, have got up a strong Know Nothing raid, only on the other side, They refuse to patronize anybody who worships in a Protestant church or sends children toa Protestant school. It is not stated whether they carry dark lanterns ; but if they do not they will, no doubt, come to that soon enough, Tue Henavp Speci. Desparcues from Fort Lincoin give the confirmation of the flight of Long Dog and his band of a hun- dred and fifty followers, and their supposed escape to Canada. ‘Whe official announce- ment of the close of the campaign had been made by General Terry. The necessity for a searching investigation into the facts con~ nected with the Custer massacre is urged by the Henaxp correspondent. ‘Toe Prxnsyivanta Junres are showing no mercy to the “Molly Maguires.” Yesterday another of the brotherhood was found guilty of murder in the first degree, after trial at Pottsville, as an accessory to the killing of Policeman Yost. Nine members of the or- ganization have already been convicted, five of whom are now lying under sentence of death. This is the surest method of render- ing the organization unpopular So-called “Economy and Re- trenchment” Issue. A correspondent reproaches us for remark- ing recently, that ‘the cry about huge ex- penditures is nonsense.” He says ‘the taxes are high, the expenditures for govern- ment purposes very great, and they ought to be lessened.” He is perfectly right in this;and yetit is true, as we said before, that “the cry about huge expenditures is nonsense.” It is so, because it is raised for party purposes, exclusively against the fed- eral administration; while in fact it onght to be raised more londly against municipal ex- penditures, which have been and are made very largely by the, very party which makes the ontery against federal extravagance. We do not need to tell readers of the Henatp that we favor rigid economy and honesty in the public expenditures. We have long and persistently insisted on this. But when we speak of government expendi- tures we include those of cities and States, as well as those of the federal government We want to see this election carried by hon- est discussion and fair statements; we should like to see both parties frank enough to acknowledge their errors, because such confession would be the best guarantee of an honest intention to reform abuses, When, therefore, our democratic friends seek to make “economy and retrenchment” the conspicuous issue in the campaign, we do not like to see them putting on a saintly look of horror at federal extravagance, while the debt-ridden city of New York, ruled and covered with debt by themselves, stares them in the face, Mr. David A. Wells, him- self a democrat, but an honest and frank man, remarked recently in his Saratoga ad- dress before the Social Science Association that the debts of our cities had run up since 1860 to eighteen hundred millions, and the greater number of our cities have been con- stantly since that period under the rule of democrats. He added that the New York city debt, which stood at eighty-two mill- ions in 1871, had risen in July, 1876, to one hundred millions, which does not say much in favor of democratic economy or retrench- ment, even undera “reform” system. Be- sides, while it may be, claimed that since 1871 the city of New York has for the greater part of the time been ruled by the op- ponents of the regular democracy, it is no- torious that the large increase of the city debt is mainly due to the extravagance, cor- ruption and recklessness of the previous» democratic administration. Again, the democrats make much of Goy- ernor Tilden’s laudable retrenchment in the State expenditures, and they have a right to do so. The canal management had been so corrupt under both republican and demo- cratic administrations ; legislatures, both with republican and democratic majorities, had been so ready to pass unwise and im- proper laws in the interest of those who desired to plunder the State; executives, now chosen from one political party and now from the other, had been so accustomed to confine themselves to mere routine du- ties that it was gratifying to find a Governor prepared to take an active, aggressive posi- tion in favor of retrenchment and reform, and no one can blame the democrats for claiming for their chief: all the credit that is his due, But they seem to forget that Governor Hayes has done as much in this line as'Governor Tilden. During the years in which Mr. Hayes has been Gover- nor of Ohio he has reduced the State debt by $2,773,406 and the State tax from three and o half to two and nine-tenths mills on the dollar; he has effected an annual sav- ing in State expenditures of $914,593, and has, by constant urging and pressure upon the Legislature, reduced the local taxation in Ohio over seventeen millions; has pro- cured the passage of a law forbidding local authorities to make large expenditures with- out the sanction of a popular vote, and has also secured the passage of a law prohibiting municipalities from incurring debts beyond the amounts actually in their treasuries. That is to say, Governor Hayes has shown himself as active and as wise in securing important State economies as Governor Til- den. Let us he thankful that the candi- dates of both parties are notable friends of economy and retrenchment. That is a good thing for the country. To overstate or misstate a case is always weak, and almost always damaging; because The | discovery is sure to bring a revulsion in the popular mind. It is a blunder in the demo- crats to pretend that all virtue resides in their ranks; because everybody knows to the contrary. It isa blunder inthe repub- licans to pretend that all patriotism is on their side; nobody believes them when they say so. Both parties have their full share of corrupt, self-secking, bigoted and ignorant politicians ; both have on their shoulders extravagance and misrule during the period since 1861; and when the democrats incau- tiously boast of their superior purity they only expose themselves to some such retort as has just been made in a Washington Treasury exhibit, which officially shows that since 1869 the republicans have con- stantly reduced the expenditures and kept them within the income, largely reduced the ‘| rate of taxation and paid off a considerable part of the debt ; while the democrats, rnling this city, have increased the debt and the taxes, and fniled to keep the expendi- tures within the income, even under a reform régime, The truth is both parties have been, in the period since 1860, extravagant and corrupt. It has been a period of general wastefalness and riotons living. We enter now ona new period, and fortunately the chosen heads of both parties are alike the friends of economy and retrenchment. Both have had occasion to prove this in official positions, and both alike, andin like measure—that is, to the ex- tent of their powers—have proved them- selves sincgre and determined economizers, If Governor Tilden’s friends assert that he might have done more if he had not had to contend with republican legislatures, Gov- ernor Hayes’ friends just as truthfully show that he had to contend against the opposi- tion of democratic legislatures. Each did what he could. We say “the cry about huge expenditures is nonsense,” because it is insincere and be- cause it does not hold ont the hope of a remedy. It is insincere, because it is raised in many cases by men who will, in the next session of Congress, as is well known, vote for reckless appropriations for railroads and other measures which were put aside at the last session only because they were not pru- dent ; and it will need the united opposition of the friends of economy in both houses and of both parties to prevent during the next session the passage of numbers of such measures. What is wanted, in addition to the mere cry for retrenchment, is a thorough reform in the civil service. We can never get back permanently to sound economy, either in city, State or federal expenditures, until these governments conduct their affairs and hire, retain and promote their servants on business principles; until hon- esty and capacity, and not political opin- ions, are the tests for appointment and re- tention in office. And whoever is chosen President, to obtain the necessary reform he will need the intelligent support of the peo- ple against those politicians who, in one party as much as in the other, will vehe- mently resist it. All Aboard! The venerable and renowned Tammany Boss will be with us sooner than we could have expected if it had been found neces- sary to subject him tothe annoying delays and possible disappointments attendant upon negotiations for the return of popular citizens of the United States from the Ever Faithful Island of Cuba. Our ‘‘Twid” is to come home with all the honors of a distin- guished individual who returns to the land of his birth after a successful mission. The flag of the United States is to wave over his head; the proud deck of a United States war vessel is to lie beneath his feet; the guns of the United States navy are to frown defiance of his foes and belch forth their fire and smoke in honor of his arrival. The Heraxp special cable despatch from Madrid informs us that the Spanish government will deliver Boss Tweed on board the United States ship Franklin, homeward bound, at Vigo, the commander of that vessel having consented to hand over the rival of Dors- heimer in the travelling line to the American authorities in New York. ts The question will now turn upon the mode of the reception of the great Boss in our harbor, What sort of a welcome onght to be extended to him? If, as is rumored, he comes for the purpose of carrying confn- sion and destruction into the Tilden camp, the present United States authorities, who are interested in making Hayes while the sun shines, should receive him with naval honors and salute him on his arrival with all the guns of all the forts. Tammany should as- suredly tender him a formal welcome, for Tammany is as deeply interested as the republican oflice-holders in the destruction of Tilden. If, on the other hand, the com- ing of the old Boss means the exposure of allthe republicans who were accustomed in former years to do his work at Albany, then the expense and trouble of his reception ought to fall on the gentlemen who got up the famous Seymour fiasco at Saratoga. They are known to be great at sensations, and they will, no doubt, manage the affair in a becoming manner. At allevents the change of programme seems to insure Tweed’s ar- nival before the election, and the coming of the Franklin will be looked for with interest. He may yet take part in the anticipated re- organization of Tammany, of which he was once the popular and honored leader. While the great Centennial rifle match of last week attracted attention all the world over the return match of the Irish and Amer- ican teams has excited a speculative interest far more intense in this vicinity. Instead of five teams of forty members we have two teams of twelve members—the very pick and flower of the rifle chivalry of Ireland and America. This narrowing of the field to six men on either side whose achievements are widely known, and whose measure as rifle- men we have had recent and thorough op- portunities to test, makes it more possible for the general public to watch the con- test understandingly. We have already had two metches with the gallant Irish riflemen, in both of which America was victorious. The return to the charge by the Irishmen for the third time has appealed to that admiration for tenacious ccurage which is world wide, and which is as deep and spontaneous among Americans as among any people on the globe. Sentimentally and scientifically, therefore, the return match to- day will give pleasure to our people. While we admire our opponents and yet hope for the success of our own fine team the study of the scores will be to our young men of rifle proclivities something to profit by. The matches of 1874 and 1875 afford no safe criterion te form any opinion of the relative merits of the contending teams of to-day, This is accounted for by the change in the style of target and consequently in the sys- tem of valuing the shots. ‘Lhe first two matches wero fired at the old model of target with a square bull’s-eye and without any dis- tinction between the centre and the inner of the new target. Tho difference in scoring may be judged by the fact that the Dolly- mount scores of General Dakin and Colonel Bodine at one thousand yards, which were fifty-one each, would on the new target count sixty-three for Bodine and but sixty for Dakin. In the great match of last week, however, we find our parallel. On the first day the six American marksmen who are to shoot to-day scored 1,194 to 1,202 scored by the six gentlemen of the Irish team who face the butts this morning. On the second day the Americans in the same number of shots scored 1,153 to their opponents’ 1,159. This gives the nearest comparison attainable. The Irish team has undoubtedly strength- ened itself by reducing its number, while the Americans could have extended theirs without danger. The slight apparent ad- vantage of the Irish riflemen may shaply fall to nothing in the match to-day, but how- ever the contest goes our best wishes will go out to the sons of Green Ireland whom de- feat has not vanquished. If they win our warmest congratulations will be theirs. Maxrmo Gomez, the Cuban patriot leader, has been making trouble near Villa Clara, He crossed the railroad with a large force, but does not seem to have had the pleasure of a fight, and contented himself with carry- ing off all the negroes he could find, together with one overseer, The raid will supply him With new recruits for the patriot army. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER “1, 1876.-TRIPLE SHEET. a | lars a year, Some of the old Ring politicians | Professor Huxley's Second Lecture. Professor Huxley's audience was nearly as large yesterday evening as it wason Monday evening, and consisted, to a great extent, of the same persons, which proves that people do not attend from mere curiosity to look at acelebrity, but from areal interest in the subject he discusses and a wish to hear it expounded by one of the most competent of living men. His man- ner was more pleasing than in the first lecture, but his voice has not sufficient vol- ume to fill so large a hall, and the parts of the audience most distant from the platform had to give a strained attention, which is always an abatement of the pleasure of lis- tening. This lecture was also better than the first in its attitude toward op- ponents, containing nothing which could be construed as a suppressed sneer or a dexterous side thrust, like the vicarious refutation he inflicted on Milton for the scientific errors of Moses. Such ingenious hits may be amusing, but the interest of amusement is of a very dif- ferent kind from the interest of instruction, and aman with so many titles to command attention as Professor Huxley possesses does not need to resort to any small arts to excite and hold it. The lecture last evening was strictly scientific, presenting a connected chain of clear and skilful reasoning, with the added merit of perfect candor. He neither exaggerated the force of his own arguments nor understated the difficulties and objections which the theory of develop- ment has to encounter. The necessity of dealing somewhat largely with. anatomical details rendered parts of the lecture a little dry to persons not familiar with such de- tails ; but the dryness inheres in the subject and is not the fault of the lecturer. According to the development hypothesis the animals which exist on the earth (man included) have attained their present forms by a slow and gradual process of variation from preceding forms. Professor Huxley frankly admitted that a break of continuity in any part of the series would be fatal to his hypothesis, and also admitted that there are large gaps in the evidence supplied by fossil animals. It is impossible to trace a constant transition from preceding to succeeding forms with such ao resem- blance at every separate advance that the later might easily have arisen out of its predecessor. But Professor Huxley maintains that a break in the continuity of the evidence does not prove that there was a break in the continuity of the forms. He contends that large portions of the evidence have perished, or, to use his own expression, that the geological records are imperfect. They are like a volume from which many leaves have been torn in different places, with consecutive pages left only here and there. He made this probable enough, but speculations as to the forms of the missing animals, of which no trace re- mains, is sheer hypothesis. Whether, if we had all the fossils they would supply evi- dence of such a gradual shading of form into form as would establish the doctrine of development, is only a conjecture in the present state of the evidence as presented by Professor Huxley. But he estimated it at its real value, admitting that the array of facts in this lecture only proves that continuous development is possible, but does not prove that it is true. He promises, however, to demonstrate its truth in his next lecture. The Washington Menument. We suggested to the officers of the Wash- ington Monument Association some days ago that they would do well to make public a statement of the sum and time needed to complete the work. They now write us that the estimated cost of completing it is tour hundred and fifty ‘thousand dollars. Of this Congress has given two hundred thou- sand dollars, and ‘‘the organized societies, several States and a number of the banking institutions of the country have subscribed one hundred thousand dollars, to be paid whenever a sufficient amount has been guaranteed to finish the monument.” Thus there remains to be raised the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars—a trifle which ought to be subscribed before the centennial runs out, and which might, we should think, be raised on the Centennial grounds be- tween now and the closing day if a vigorous appeal were made. The monument is now 174 feet high. When completed it will be 485 fect in height, with a stone terrace 25 feet high and 200 feet in diameter. It stands in the centre of a pretty park, in front of the White House, and its unfinished shaft, with a derrick surmounting it, is one of the conspicuous and not pleasant objects of the capital city. Why not complete it? The association estimates that four years will be required to get it done. Sy | pneeeeibbicilatSnieedile Tae Wearuer To-Day.—The Irish-Ameri- ean rifle match at Creedmoor to-day will probably bo finished, if not commenced, in the rain. A gradual fall of the barometer and a corresponding rise of temperature marks the approach eastward of the storm centre which we announced as having re- cently appeared in the Northwest. The cyclone that swept the city and vicinity on Sunday last is now well off the Banks of Newfoundland on its transatlantic voyage, so that the western storm area has all the field to itself. Moderate rains are failing along the eastern edge of this advancing disturb- anco, which extends from the upper lakes to the Guif, thus forming a rain area almost as extensive ns.tho one which passed over us some ten days ago. In the New England States the lingering traces of the recent eyclone continue to present themselves in the form of light rains. Warm weather prevails in the South, particularly along the Atlantic coast of Georgia and South Caro- lina. The weather to-day will be warmer, cloudy and probably rainy. At a Mextine of the Armory Commission yesterday Comptroller Green elicited some interesting facts in relation to the renting of the armory on the southeast corner of Fourth street and Broadway. This room, which is on the fourth floor, has been rented by the city for five years at an average rent of thir- teen thousand dollars a year, and the Comp- troller drew out the admission that the per- son who leased it to the city had himself just hired it ata rent of five thousand dol- are said to be interested in the lease, and the Comptroller seems to be resolved to get at the bottom of the stofy and to protect tho city from the imposition. Explosives at Hell Gate. One of the sources of uneasiness as to the possible effects of the blast to be fired on Sunday is an erroneous process of reason- ing in regard to explosives. This reasoning appears to have originated with contractors and head laborers and other laborers who have worked under the direction of en- gineers at blasting and have acquired some experience and a “general knowledge of the subject.” There are few things so misleading as that kind of disguised ignorance that is called ‘a general knowledge” of a subject as to which knowledge that is not particularand specific is not knowledge at all. In this in- stance men who have not the competence of engineers to reason upon any theory of ex- plosives are yet enabled by some experience to speak with a quasi authority that gives their words some weight with the public, and the effect is mischievous. Their common view of the case is this: One pound of nitro- glycerine exploded on such a day with such an effect ; forty-five thousand pounds are to be exploded by General Newton, and the effect will be forty-five thousand timesas great. Therefore, on this theory, if the one pound tore everything to pieces within ® distance of ten feet, the other will be equally destructive within a distance of forty miles. These are the wild views of people who have “had some experience,” but not enough to enable them to take into consideration the different conditions to dif- ferent cages. This reasoning entirely ignores every principle of the concentration of force, in virtue of which one sixty-pound gun will do more to ruin a wall in one day than a hundred six-pound guns could do in a week. It argues that ten thou- sand tack hammers would be as effec- tive as one trip hammer in forging an anchor. Physical separation of the particles of anexplosive substance is the great mit- igating condition in its operations. This in- fluence may be utilized in any degree. Em- ployed in a small degree it slightly reduces the explosibility and the destructive power; but it may be pushed to such an extent as to render the substance entirely inex- plosive. Nitro-glycerine is ten times more vigorous in explosion than dynamite ; yet dynamite is simply nitro-glycerine with its particles physically separated by the ad- mixture of an inexplosive substance. It is, in fact, adulterated nitro-glycerine. Now, the condition at Hallett’s Point is practically that the nitro-glycerine there is adulterated with granite rock. Every charge is so com- pletely and thoroughly separated from every other charge that there is no possibility of a unity of impulse in the explosion. Itis said that there are forty-five thousand pounds of explosive substances. If this beso the ex- plosives are in sufficiently smaM proportion to exhaust their energy on the labor they have to perform, for there are not less than thirty thousand tons of rock to be rent and crushed. Above the rock there are forty-five thousand tons of water—a sufficient heavy buffer certainly to limit the action of the explosive force. Tae Amswer or THE GuzERt Elevated Railroad Company toa petition for an in- junction filed bys private property owner in South Fifth avenue fairly meets the issue. Tho defendants insist that the interests of the city demand rapid transit; that the Legislature, the proper judge, has so de- cided, and that they intend to legally acquire title to the plaintiff's property and to compensate him therefor and for any damages he may suffer. The United States Circuit Court will no doubt refuse the in- junction. Tnosz Virest or AtL Vite Crimmats, the train wreckers, have been at work on the Canada Southern Railroad. They wrecked a train near Brownsville, for the purpose of plunder, of course, and threw the whole train, except one sleeping car, from thetrack. Fortunately no one on the train, except the engineer, was seriously injured, although it is to be regretted that one casualty was not the result. Ono of the vil- lains was caught, but unfortunately he was not hanged on the spot. Wer Have Hap a Goop Suppry of conven- tions this year, whatever may be their value, The Democratic Convention, the Republi- can Convention, the Greenback Convention, the Republican Liberal Republican .Con- vention, the Democratic Liberal Republican Convention, the John Cochrane Convention, and two or three German conventions are only a portion of them. Now comes a col- ored Republican Convention at Utica, and a Boys in Biue Convention at Indianapolis, Who comes next? Tue DrowsineG or Mn. Joun P. Crossy, a well known member of the New York Bar, at Fire Island on Tuesday last, was a very sad affair. Mr. Crosby had been in the water only three minutes, when he was seized with cramps and immediately carried out by the waves. At this season of the year the sudden chill of the water is very likely to produce cramps, and surf bathing is consequently hazardous. Mr. Crosby was a late sojourner at the seaside for the benefit of his health. Ir Is Easy to perceive that the time for the nomination of Aldermen draws near. At the meeting of the Board yesterday Mr. Bryan Reilly and other members grew eloquent on the subject of supplying all the unemployed city laborers with work, and Mr. John Reilly awoke to the imperative necessity of imme- distely putting into proper repair all the wretchedly paved streets of the city, Tue Cramer or Commence committeo for the aid of the Savannah sufferers is doing its work earnestly and well. Mr. 8. D. Bab- cock has been chosen president, Mr. F. 8. Lathrop, treasurer, and Mr. D. Colden Mur- ray, secretary of the committee, while sub- committees have been formed to visit houses in the various trades. The sum of two thousand dollars was forwarded to Sa- vannoh on Tuesday and a similar sum last evening. Is It a Republican Outrage? The people of New York are getting ex cited over the expected big explosion at Hell Gate. An engineer (Mr. Nanne or Ninny) has increased the alarm of the timid old ladies in Astoria by his dark hints at the effects of a “‘simulated earthquake” and the consequences of a “sudden disturbance of the foundations of tall houses.” Another individual has done his share toward intensifying the sen- sation by spreading abroad the rumor— which we believe to be unfoundel—that General Newton’s mother-in-law lives at As- toria. But the most startling report—more startling, indeed, than the forty-five thoue sand pounds of dynamite—comes from the democratic headquarters. It is charged there that the Hell Gate affair is a political out- rage, concocted by the republican party. The State of New York is essential to the success of the republican Presidential candi- date. Mr. E. D. Morgan must be Governor of the State or republicanism is doomed, Without the large democratic vote of the city the State is regarded as safe for the re- publicans. With the stronghold of democe racy thrown in the result is doubtful. So the story goes that the Hell Gato explosion is designed toswallow up the city and to leave the State certain for the republican candidates. General Newton is said to be in the plot. If it exists we have no doubt he is. Whatever may happen at the Hell Gate rock the General will bo sure to be found at the bottom of it. Mr. Muzr again made some surprising shooting at Cree_moor yesterday, scoring ten bull’s-eyes in ten shots ata thousand yards, and winning the long range match by ascore of ninety-eight out of a hundred. The victors in the Champion's Match \are an American, a Scotchman and an Irishman— Messrs. Sanford, Rae and Milner. Tax Murpsr Commirtep by the Baxtes street Othello yesterday was a revolting af- fair. The victim of the jealous brute did not display the affection manifested by Des« demona in her dying moments. “I am stabbed—Dave did it!” were her last words to her uncle, and they will probably bring her murderer to the gallows, Accorvinc to the London Daily News, which is good authority, the Khedive has gota black eye from the Abyssinians. He has lost Massowah and two steamers. Moro power to the Egyptian elbow. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mouse gray is fashionable. Aschoolgiri cannot learn much if sho hay cold feet. Ingersoll nover blushes, but ne has had many @ flush. “Vignette” says that ladies will not use low shees om city streets, M. Heart says that Philadelphia@otels are kept on the Ethiopian plan, Mr. ©. M. Campbell, M. P., of England, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Quilted circular sacques will be lined with fur aud trimmed with sabie. Rear Admiral Charles S. Boggs, United States Navy, is at the Everett House. Nothing brings greater sadness to s healthy man than a tree blown down, - Ralston gavo Foss, tho crack California stage driver, a whip which cost $10,000. Macmillan, the English publisher, has ended big season’s visit to West Point. It is very difficult to judge an ordinary novel fairly when we are fresh from Thackeray or George Eliot, Louis Schneider, of Milwat had a balky horse, and, bitching a rope to its tongue, he indaced another driver to pull the tongue out, Mr, Martineau shows that neither matter nor force, taken by themsclves, neituer an atomic nor a dynamia materialism, solve the riddle of existence. Danbury News:—‘‘Remarkably caretul 1s that Dan- bury coal dealer who stands on the scale himself to see that there is no fooling with the woight of a load.” Julian Hawthorne, whose popularity came mainly from the prestige of his fathor’s name, bas recently become very unpopular, both in a personal and ing literary way. Seorctary Lot M. Morrill, of the Treasury Depart. ment, and Sceretary Zachariah Chandler, of the In- terior Department, arrived at the Fifth Avenuo Hotel yesterday from Washington. Sir John Lubbock gives the various stages of religion In the following order:—(1) Atheism, (2) Fetishism, (3) Nature Worship or Totemism, (4) Shamanism, (5) Idolae try or Anthropomorphism, (6) that in which the Deity is looked upon as a really supernatural being, a creator, and (7) that in which morality becomes associated with religion. “Blue Jeans” Jimmy Williams, democratic eandi- date for Governor of Indiana, is sixty-eight years old and was Ohio born. He a farmer; bas been for many sessions an Indiana legisiator, and was Morton’s opponent for United States Senator. His majority when elected to Congress was equal to tho vote of his opponent. Rey. Charles Howard Malcom, D. D., who has occu. pied the position of pastor over the Second Baptist church of Newport, R. L, for twenty years, has ac- cepted the secretaryship of the American Peace So. ciety, ata salary of $3,000 per annum. His tathor, a prominent divine of Philadelphia, is President of said ssociat:on. “The opera,” observes Signor Delle Sedie, “containg three essential parts: poetry, music aod dramatic representation, The first appealsto the mind, the second charms the ear and touchos the heart, tho third speaks to the bodily sonse through thoeye, Those parts, always closely united, should, nevertneless, be analyzed separately.”” There seems to be a growing tondency at present, among those who write and speak upon the vexed question of the origin of species, to admit tho possi. bility, or even the probability, that species of animals aud plants have originated by some procesa of evolu- tion, but to deny that tho Darwinian hypothesis of natural selection will account for the phenomena. A writer in the Ulster Journal of Archeology says:— “The boomerang, still the deadiy weapon of the natives both of Australia and Central America, bas been dis. covered in the hands of the sculptured Nimrod at Khorsabad and of hunters represcuted in a basso ro. lievo at Thebes. It may have been the crooked weapon, of Saturn; it is supposed to have been the club of Her. cules’ (and, we may add, the hammer of Thor, which is said to have returned to his hand when thrown), and if the matter were properly investigated it would per. haps be shown that 1t was not unknown to the ane cient Celtic nations."’ Jobn Staart Mill was of opinion “that as mankind improve, they will more and more rocogniz6 two indo, pendent provinces—the province ef belief and the province of imaginative conjecture; thai they will bee come capable of keeping these apart, and that while hey limit thetr belief to the evidence will think it ale Jowable to let their imaginative anticipations go forth, not carrying belief in thoir train, in the direction which experience and study of human nature shows to be most improving to the character and most exalting and consoling to tho Individual feclings.”” M. Rénan, in his last book, says:—"“Nations such as France, England, Germany, cities such as Athens, Venice, Florence, Paris, behave like persons possessed of character, of mind, of definite intorests; we may argue concerning them a8 we argae of an individual; thoy have, like living beinga, a secret instinct, a feele ing of their essence and of their proservation; so much #0 that, apart from tho caleulations of ite politicians, @ Ration or 9 city may be compared to au animal, whose Intuition is 60 ingenioas and profound when it is called Upon to savo its life and secure the propagation of ite kind,”