The New York Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1876, Page 6

} NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. —_-—_——— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, neearcenereh ees THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one aolar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heraxp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 7S Sa PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112 SOUTH 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. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. RE'S GARDEN, GILMO! CONCERT, at 8 P. M. A FIFTH THEATRE. MONEY, at 8 P.M. i Coghlan. BOOTH BATRE, SARKDANAPALUS, at 8 Mr. Bangs and Mrs. Agnes Booth. Kt WALLA THEATRE. THE MIGHTY DOLLAR, at 8 2. M. Mr, and Mra. Florence. GER! LUFTSCHLOESSER, PARK CLOUDS, at 8 P.M. Rose W: GRAND A HOUSE. 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Government and railway bonds were steady. ‘Trupey, Apams anp Joun Kritx—‘When ‘ghall we three meet again ?” Yacutinc.—The Queens County Club re- gatta was sailed yesterday, the prizes being won by the Gracie, Greenpoint and Quits, Tue Savannan Fonp.—The activity of our merchants and other citizens in collecting money for the help of the sufferers from yel- low fever at Savannah has already secured, we are glad to say, upward of nine thousand dollars. Fizerwoov Racrs.—This is the last day of the September mecting at Fleetwood, Yesterday there were two races, one of which was won by Annie Collins, and the other, after five heats, was left unfinished. The Lexington races were also very interest- ing. Tnz Bercuer Scs —What harm have the people of New York done Mr. Moulton that he should wish his suit against Mr. Beecher tried in this city? The motion to remove the case to some rural county was argued yesterday before Judge West- brook, who reserved his decision. Tne Horcaxiss Revorvine CaxNon was tested yesterday at Sandy Hook with start- ling success. Our correspondent describes itas one of the most destructive weapons ever invented. If Custer had had one or two of these guns with him he could have driven before him all the Indians in the West. The experiments will be continued to-day. eR: oe Tne Germans axp Jonn Ketry.—Some ot the German democrats have indicted Mr. Jolin Kelly for all manner of political crimes, have repudiated him and his instru- ment, ‘Tammany Hall, and call upon all who believe with them to organize a German democratic reform association at once. They very shrewdly remark that if Tilden, Dors- heimer and Robinson represent reform in New York city Kelly can never be its keeper. Trovpte 1x Srarx.—The recent acts of religious intolerance in Spain are attribu- table to the influence of the ex-Queen Isa- bella, who holds a court of her own at Santander. The ex-Queen Christina also has lyr court, and as both the royal ladies claim the restitution of their property, in- trigues, religious and political, are nu- merous. Isabella has presented portraits of herself and her children to ‘the generals of the Spanish army, but with what purpose it is impossible to imagine. Many of them would prefer pictures more attractive. Spain is not in an encouraging condition; but what progress or peace can be expected of a country governed by two women and a boy? Tra Graxp Exrtosion.—The arrange- ments are being steadily mado for the ex- plosion at Hell Gate on Sunday, and the choice of that day is explained in the letter of General Newton to the Hxnatp to-day, It describes the arrangements made for guard- ing the scene of the blast, and dismisses as almost unworthy of notice tho suggestions of danger. No one, however, can convince a class that there will not be danger, and on Sunday there will be almost as many le to rush away from the neighborhood ae there will be to rush toit. Curiosity, however, will be stronger than distrust. ‘The exact time of the blast will be ten min- nates to three o'clock P. M. Europe and the Eastern Question. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, be oecasion for surprise if the Czar, Reports as to the trouble in Europe are | in the presence of some such event as somewhat kaleidoscopic. At one hour the appearances are that the whole great tumult may be stilled by a change of Ministry in Belgrade, and at ‘another Europe scems likely to be shaken by the tramp of Russian armies. English correspondents allege that the Servian army is Russianized and the Servians retort that the Turkish army is Anglicized and that the Turkish staff is mainly English—which, of the Turkish staff seems to bea good one, is probably true. All the reports differ as to the source from which they come, and the only one that is especially grave is the one which indicates 8 possible violation of the truce. There isa great deal of passion on either side, and to maintain a truce in such circumstances is not easy; while if the Russian people are really filling the Servian army they would perhaps be happy to have the Turks furnish a pretext foran immediate renewal of hos- tilities, inasmuch as the truce now benefits them less than it does the Turks. It is now a little more than fourteen months since we had the first intimation of trouble in the Herzegovinan country. What was then simply a local irritation has become one of the important issues of the time. It is not surprising, consid- ering the antagonism of race and religion in the Turkish principalities for generations past, that we should have at any time an issue involving the peace of Europe and, more or less, the prosperity of the wholo world. Ever since the time of Peter the Great the policy of Russia has been the aggrandizement of its Empire by the oc- cupation of Constantinople. This was the bribe offered to Napoleon at Tilsit by the Russian Czar Alexander as the price of an imperial alliance. It was this ambition, as alleged, that led to the Crimean war. Whatever may be said by ministers representing the Russian Emperor or the British Queen the living issue under all these insurrections and diplomatic negotia- tions is whether Russian or English power shall gain the mastery of the East. The policy of Engiand in dealing with Turkey represents that slavish dependence upon the traditions of Lord Palmerston which truculent English statesmen are apt to mistake for ‘‘vigor.” Whenever England has done a just thing, as in dealing with America on the Alabama question; whenever this justice has militated against English interests or English pride, the cry has risen that England had fallen upon an age of pedlers and not of statesmen, and that such things never would have been permitted in Lord Palmerston’s day. When Mr. Disraeli challenged the supremacy of Gladstone at the close of the last session of Parliament the most effective point in his campaign was the charge that the liberals had degraded England by unworthy concessions to foreign Powers. Ever since he has been in the Premiership it has-been his aim to win that reputation for ‘‘vigor” which was the high- est claim of Lord Palmerston’s memory to the esteem of Englishmen. This attitude of “vigor” is shown in the dealings of England with Russia on the Turk- ish question. It has forced England into a position very much like what it occu- pied during our own civil war. In the gourse of that war England, which had been ostentatiously the champion of freedom, be- came the apologist and ally of the slave- holder. Awar for the perpetuation of slavery found support in the money and sympathies of Englishmen. By a singular fatuity tho English government is now supporting the cause of the Turkish banditti, the desolators of Christian towns and the murderers of Christian communities in Turkey. But a power has arisen in England which even Lord Palmerston could scarcely havo withstood—the power of public opinion represented by the independent press. Eng- land has awakened to a consciousness of the fact that the ‘‘vigorous” policy of her administration is really a degrading policy; that the Turk in Europe is an anomaly in civilization; that, to use the rude and homely figure of speech which has become prominent in the present discussion, the Turk is a hog who destroys what he cannot eat by iying down upon it. From all Eng- land protests rise against the policy of Lord Derby. ‘The liberals are gaining new strength by appealing to this sentiment, Mr. Gladstone's pamphlet promises to exer- cise as potent an influence in shaping pub- lic opinion as his letter against Bomba did in establishing Italian. unity and indepen- dence. ‘The British government suffers more and more as its policy finds expression, and we are convinced that nothing but the proroga- tion of Parliament saves the Ministry from overthrow. It is hard to make an impres- sion upon a tory majority, but even that majority cannot always be insensible to the rising tides of public opinion. The effect of this revolution in English opinions, so far as Turkey is concerned, will be felt in Russia, where we have another phenomenon in the general devel- opment of Slavic sympathy. Those who remember the sudden changes of pub- lic opinion which took place in this country on the slavery question in 1860 and 1861 will realize what is now taking place in Russia. Then the North was swept by a torrent of patriotic fury, which drove the reluctant Lincoln into a war for the preservation of the Union. Public opinion in Russia is rapidly passing beyond the con- trol of the government. While the Ozar and his Cabinet look upon affairs with the calm, practised eye of statesmen, the people only know that fellow Christians are butchered by Moslem ; that men and women and ten- der children are abandoned to the mercies of mountain savages, and that their only crime is that they have sympathized with the religion which finds in the Russian Czar its supreme earthly type. The question, therefore, so far as Russia is concerned, is not what does the Czar propose to do, but what will the people compel him to do. We seo how an intelligent, prudent, matter-of- fact people like the Americans gave way to a patriotic anger which made its President and all those in authority simply an expression of their warlike will. The Russians are more emotional, more excit- able; they have, what the Americans did not have, an intense religious feeling in the present cause. It therefore would not the fall of Fort Sumter, would be com- pelled either to lead the Russian people to the relief of their Slavic brethren, or, retir- ing from his throne, give place to a succes- sor who would be only too glad of the op- portunity. War over the Eastern question is, there- fore, to be contemplated as one of the possi- bilities of the polities of Europe. It does not seem imminent just now. Indeed, there is a state of trace mado more by the conditions of the weather than by the will of the parties to the conflict; and there is no likelihood that even upon the expiration of that truce hostilities will be resumed this year. But it has always been difficult to please the many parties that must be pleased before this case can be settled by treaty, and it is not less difficult now. And the issue of the truce may only see the winter filled with the movement of armies preparatory to tremendous opera- tions when the snows are melted next year. How will war in Europe affect America? As the conditions of the contest now stand our sympathy would be altogether with Rus- sia. The Turk has no business in Europe. It is a disgrace to the English name that he should be permitted to oppress and destroy Christian communities under the protection of English guns. There can be no war, however, that will not be a bene- fit to America. It would bring back to our flag the commerce we have lost. It would reopen the channels of emigration. It would strengthen every form of our trade and industry. It would enable us to gain all that we lost during our own four years of lamentable war. We, of course, should not be guilty of wishing for war as o material advantage to ourselves. We trust that peace will be preserved, and the material greatness which would come by the desola- tion of provinces and the strife of communi- ties is not desired by any American. The Eastern question must be settled some time or other, and in a contest between the Rus- sian and the Turk the Russign must win. England only burdens herself and alienates the sympathies of the Christian people throughout Europe by being the ally and protector of barbarism. Yesterday’s Rifle Match. We think that the general feeling among our citizens regarding the result of yester- day’s contest at Creedmoor will be tinged with regret that our gallant visitors, the Irish riflemen, did not carry off the victory. ‘’Tis not in mortals to command. success,” but surely no number of gentlemen more fully deserved it. If it has fallen to our marks- men to defeat them in four successive con- tests the Irish riflemen have not undergone the ordeal without gaining the admiration of their opponents and the esteem of Americans all over the Union. We are fully aware of the difficulties of getting together a team “‘sure to win” in a country where the possession of a rifle by a private person is a matter of direct governmental grace and special license ; but narrow as this, restric- tion makes the choice, Major Leech must at least. bo congratulated on the character of the marksmen he has found himself called on to lead at Creedmoor and Dollymount. As Milner and Johnson found their way with such umerring pre- cision to the bull’s-eye, s0 the whole team has made a mark upon the affections of America which will not soon be effaced. In the course of the matches the Henatp, by publishing its diagrams of the shooting, has endeavored, and with flattering success, to second the efforts of the riflemen to bring a beautiful and manly sport into merited prominence. It is gratifying to know that while subserv- ing this good end we have contributed to swell the chorus of approbation which has greeted the efforts of such excellent gentlemen and fine shots. The international communion in manly sports will do more to preserve the peace and good nature of the world than all the treaties that the most careful diplomatist could draw. The puff of the rifle has become among us the calumet of peace. We must smoke yet another such as yesterday's with our Irish friends, Lord Beaconsfield’s Answer. “Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage.” Lord Beaconsfield’s speech at Aylesbury will induce his ‘friends to regret that he did not several years ago come to that conclusion to retire from public life which he reports himself as having reached this year, and which was the immediate cause of his elevation to the peerage. His speech isa great blunder. It is querulous in tone, feeble as to its logic and wild as to its politics. He deprecates the assault on his government because ‘‘there never was an English government which had greater difficulties to deal with than the present one has;” yet these difficulties are of his own making, the results of his policy or want of policy. It is scarcely permissible tor a min- ister to allege in his defence those troubles whose very existence is a main ground of re- proach’against him. This is like the culprit who killed his fatherand motherand appealed to the Judge ‘“‘not to be hard ona poor orphan.” ‘There is a sad want.of tact in the Premier’s complaint that his policy is not “backed by the country.” If a policy is, in England, not ‘‘backed by the country” it will in all likelihood not be backed in Par- liament; and in that case it would be wise for the Minister to get another policy or re- sign—unless, indeed, the Premier has dise covered some plan for conducting the gov- ernment of England in defiance of Parlia- ment. There have been premiers who would face the Parliament and the country alike where they believed themselves right, and go grandly out of office on a point of principle; but the world would laugh out- right to see Lord Beaconsfield assuming such an attitude atthe end of his career. In the higher political atmosphere the want of courtesy and justice in the referenceto Mr. Gladstone will hardly add to the Premier's fame. Tae Inprana Canvass.—Everybody wants to know how Indiana stands, and everybody should read our entertaining letters from Elkhart and South Bend. They contain much valuable information as to the situa- tion and the views of leading men, The Navy Department. The greatest burden to the republican campaign at this time is the presence of Mr. Robeson at the head of the navy, and if Secretary Chandler + would induce Presi- dent Grant to remove Robeson he would give the party an immense impetus. If investigation into the affairs of this department has no other effect it serves to relieve all officers of the navy of any of the odium brought upon the service by the Secretary's treachery and mismanagement. For some months past there has been a gen- eral feeling in the public mind that there was a great deal of corruption in the navy, but the responsibility for this was never known until the Naval Committee made its report. During the investiga- tions of Congress all the prominent officers, from Admiral Porter down, have been called upon to testify as to what frauds or irregularities had come under their knowledge and who were responsible for their commission. With that love of truth and straightforwardness which charac- terizes the sailor their evidence was given, and its importance can only be known by a careful reading of the committee's report. This evidence, impartially weighed, shows a painful state of affairs in the navy, and that for this no officer in that service is respon- sible. The committee in their report say that, though the Secretary was not detected in receiving personally any of the plunder, yet there was a chain of circumstantial evidence running around all his transactions and an indisposition to account for a portion of the large fortune he had amassed that left but one impression upon the minds of the com- mittee, This impression was so strong that they referred the whole question to the Judiciary Committee to decide whether or not articles of impeachment should be drawn up against the Secretary. Thus the matter stood when OCon- gress adjourned, and there is but little doubt that Mr. Robeson would have been impeached, tried and convicted if the Naval Committee could have made their report a month sooner. As it was, however, Con- gress turned over the naval officers whom they had called upon to testify as to the man- agement of the Naval Department to the tender mercies of Robeson. The democrats did this because they were in hopes that it would benefit them'in the coming election ; the republicans because they were angry with them for having testified as to Robe- son's mismanagement. Congress had no sooner adjourned than Mr. Robeson, who had all his plans prepared, put them in operation and issued an order to the navy intended to deceive the American people. He informed the world that he was forced by & necessity to place every officer not on active duty on furlough pay. There are three kinds of pay authorized by Congress for the navy—sea pay, shore pay and leave of absence pay. There is also an old law authorizing the Secretary to place any officer on furlough. This was intended to reach worthless officers who had not com- mitted any act that could bring them toa court martial, but who were known to be worthless to the service. This law was, not many years ago, repealed. Since then the act repealing it has been repealed, and now it appears that this second act gives it new existence. At all events this is Mr, Robe- son’s attitude, and so his order has reduced four or five hundred gallant officers of the service to a position causing them great distress and calculated to work great harm to the naval service. No one believes the Secretary when he says that he “per- formed this disagreeable duty to enable him to conform to the appropriations of Con- gress.” The appropriation was for five mill- ion eight hundred thousand dollars. Last year it was not over six million four hundred thousand dollars. The service this year has been yeduced one thousand men, which would cost on an average for pay and rations three hundred and ninety-eight thousand dollars. This would leave a deficiency of only two hundred and two thousand dol- lars. Assuming that this deficiency existed, there was enough money to last until the next session of Cangress, when it could have been remedied. The truth of the case is that Mr. Robeson, knowing that the true men of the navy testi- fied against his mismanagement, determined to wreak his revenge. Therefore he has im- posed an indignity upon them. He has revived an old law devised for the punish- ment of worthless officers to reduce the pay of arear admiral to the pay of a master or commander; a captain to the pay of an en- sign ; a commander to little more than a mid- shipman ; a lieutenant to less than a mate, An ensign under this law receives less than the cadet at the Academy. Even Admiral Porter, the distinguished head of the navy, and Vice Admiral Rowan, did not escape this indignity. President Grant suspended the order so far as Admiral Porter was con- cerned, showing that he had not forgotten the services of his brave comrade at the siege of Vicksburg. This furlough order has irretrievably damaged the navy. It shows every officer that he is at the mercy of the Secretary. It reduces the service which is the glory of England, and whose exploits emblazon the brightest pages in American history, to dependence upon the whims of an angry Secretary of the Navy. The re- publicans are endeavoring to make. capital in the campaign by claiming that this order is the work of a democratic House. But if we look down the list of witnesses before the Naval Investigating Committee and then on the list of furloughed officers we find that every officer who testified to the truth about Robeson has been punished ; that this power of punishment has been given him by a republican President. If the republican party 1s true to its convictions and purposes it would compel from General Grant a revo- cation of his subordinate’s deeds, Nor Too Fasr.—A Cincinnati journal announces with pleasure that Ohio is safe for the democrats, because the greenback ‘party has at last determined not:to nominate an independent ticket. This is bad news for Mr. Cooper, whose chartces, indeed, are not so good as they seemed to be some monthsago. But we cannot see that itis a matter for democratio jubilation. If the greenback party openly joins the democrats in Ohio that may answer there, but it would be pretty certain to spread a general alarm . board.” 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. in other parts of the country, where the mass of voters are desirous of a sound cur- rency as a necessary preliminary to | re- vival of industry and business. The fol- lowers of the political veteran who is affec- tionately called “Olebillallen” may carry Ohio for the democrats, but in doing so they may disgust and alarm the rest of the coun- try so greatly as to seriously damage Gover- nor Tilden’s prospects in November. The democratic party is more apt to lose than to gain from the turning of the Communistic element to its support. Queer Politics tm Massachusetts. It cannot be agreeable to Mr. Charles Francis Adams to know that he was not nom- inated for Governor of Massachusetts by the enthusiasm of the democrats, but by an in- trigue of Mr. Tilden and John Kelly. The pride of the statesman must be humiliated by the revelations in our Boston correspond- ence to-day. M®. Tilden, to use his own celebrated metaphor, appears resolved that there shall bea human hand and a human will at the helm of the democracy, and that hand is his own. The power of his will is felt in every State, and it is paramount in Massachusetts. The election of Mr. Adams seems to have been considered secondary to the usefulness of his nomination. He is not as popular at home, we are told, as he is abroad. Mr. Gaston would have been a stronger candi- date with the democrats in Massachusetts, for he never offended the Irish vote, as Mr. Adams did by his course in England at the time of the Fenian trials. But Mr. Gaston’s nfluence is thought to end just where that of Mr. Adams begins—at the boundary line of the State. Governor Tilden wanted a candidate in Massachusetts whose command- ing reputation as an independent republican would make independent republicans in all parts of the Union rejoice at democratic lib- erality. He was apparently ready to risk a complete defeat of the State ticket, by the de- fection of the Irish vote, in order to use Mr. Adams’ influence to help his own election. Whether this was a wise plan is much to be doubted, but it is now to be shrewdly supplemented. Mr. Tilden, having gained his first point, the nomination of Mr. Adams, will now strive to secure the second--his election. To effect this Mr. John Kelly is to be sent to Massachusetts to con- vince the Irish democrats that Mr. Adams, though not in the leasta Fenian, will have the Fenian support. Mr. Kelly will sup- port Mr. Adams! John Kelly will rally Irish voters to the cause of the late Minister to England. This is a wonderful combina- tion, but it is probably too deep to succeed. We do not know whether Governor Tilden is as great a whist player as Commodore Vanderbilt, but he ought to remember that when a player risks a finesse twice on asingle suit that on the third round his best card is likely to fall useless on the board. Neither are we aware whether Mr. Adams is a chess player ; but if he is, we should like to know how he likes to be the King’s pawn, pushed forward in the great Presidential game, Murder Will Out. This little declaration is a succinct state- ment of a thedry as to murder in which the world once had a robust and im- plicit faith, But that faith has been shaken in the later times. It is supposed that there have been several cases in which the crime of murder has been committed without the fact becoming known even that murder was done, and other cases in which with the crime known the murderers have remained undiscovered. People have paid the less attention to this subject because it has become a matter of very little conse- quence with us whether “murder will out” or not, inasmuch as the result is the same— the murderer commonly going free in either case. Indeed, it might be laid down as a general rule in this latitude that it is more convenient for the murderer that his’ crime should become known at once, inasmuch as he is then tried and discharged and has no further trouble ; while in the other event he is for years tortured with anxiety, inasmuch as he always believes justice to be a severer personage than he finds her on close ac- quaintance. But the verdict against Lee in regard to the Mountain Meadow massa- cre seems like acase of the real old-fashioned sort, and may in some degree revive the old- fashioned faith. His crime has been brought home to him after twenty years, and it seems highly probable that the punishment will follow. It may be remembered that a whole train of emigrants—men, women and chil- dren—were murdered on that occasion by the Mormons, who had some Indians with them to give color to the report they spread that the murders were committed by the savages. Another Savings Bank Collapse. Another savings bank has ‘gone by the The Bond street institution closed its doors yesterday, and its statement proves that its affairs have not been wound up any too soon. gA surplus of over one hundred thousand dollars is shown upon paper, but when the assets are examined it is evident that no such result will be realized on the final settlement. With a little over one million of deposits the bank had a building which is scheduled at nearly a quarter of a million, and other real estate estimated at over one hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars. The stoppage of the bank appears to have been caused by an injunction issued by ajudge of the Supreme Court, and it is to be hoped that by the same process a num- ber of these banks will be closed. The Bank Superintendent evidently is incom- petent to perform his duties, or is deterred from so doing by undue influences. His action in the case of the Third Avenue Savings Bank and other swindling institu. tions could only be explained on the score of incapacity or dishonesty, and ought to have been promptly followed by his ree moval from office. But the Governor has left him in power, to the hazard of all de- positors in savings institutions in the city of New York. Afterall the Governor is to blame forthe misfortunes that follow the failure of these banks. It was his duty to remove the present Bank Superintendent months ago, and his neglect of that duty is likely to bring ruin to thousands of small depositors, ’ Boys in Blue. The boys in blue are making a fine demom stration at Indianapolis. They muster ix goodly numbers in the Western city and their mectings and marches are full of en thusiasm. A great number of generals are there ; but many of them are more famousin civil than they have ever been in military contests. The gathering of these heroes has a political object. Itis intended to aid the republican cause, and their songs, with the wornout burdens of “Oh! have you heard the news from Maine?” and “Carry the news to Tilden,” would sound more becoming in a purely politieal meeting than in a reunion of the soldiers who fought in the war. After all, these conventions of the “Boys in Blue,” called always about election time, could be very well dispensed with. They are at bottom neither more nor less than Northern white leagues. The Southerners commenced the foolish policy of organizing such combinations, but that is no reason why the Northerners should fol- low the example. The war is over. If we are to have political organizations of boys in blue at the, North there is no reason why there should not be political organizations of boys in gray at the South. Yet any, gathering of the latter would be regarded as a reopening of the rebellion and an unpatri- otic movement. On the Union side demo- crats and republicans fought shoulder to shoulder. The politicians who affect so much affection for the boy in blue love him only on condition that he will vote on their side, and not because he risked his life on the field of battle to preserve the Union. The sooner the blue uniforms and the gray dis appear from our national politics the better will it be for the country. Flavoring Extracts. In the case of the man Roach and his daughter, both of whom died suddenly and as was thought from poison, it is now reported that an autopsy has demon- strated that the cause of death was cholera morbus and that no trace of poison was found. ‘That no trace of poison was found does not prove that the persona did not die from poison, and cholera morbua is rather a name for a group of symptoms than for a distinct pathological condition, and the one fact in its pathology is as likely to be the consequence of poison as of any’ other cause, All the family ate of a meal and two of them drank of beer with some drops in it, and these two died, while no one else was ill. It is not the meal, therefore, but the beer or the drops that are indicated as the sources of mischief, and there should be further inquiry in regard to them. They were either some flavoring extract or some one of the many cordials used by people wha compound. Only a few days since a dose of prussic acid was given to a woman in the form of one of these cordials in a liquor shop in the city, and they are commonly virulent poisons. In this case, if the drops were not themselves poisonous, they probably come bined with some substance present in saps beer and thus made a poisonous compound.! Tum Praxet Voucan.—The existence of this planet, the nearest to the sun of which; we have any knowledge, has been doubted. It is usually invisible in the sun’s light, an: has been seen at such long intervals thet many astronomers thought the discovery mistake, Buta special cable despatch the Hxratp says the famous Frenel astronomer lLeverrier asserts that the transit of Vulcan over the face o the sun will be visible on the 2d or 3d October. As American observations are neo~ essary for purposes, of comparison our as- tronomers will undoubtedly make all prepa- rations. Of all who have lived on the earth it is probable that not half a dozen mem have ever seen this mysterious planet that hides itself in light, yet was found by those laws of pure mathematics by which the as- tronomer discovers facts of the solar system which would otherwise remain forever un- known. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Judge David Davis‘is in Chicago. Sidney Lanier’s poems will soon be printed. “ The Graphic says “ ‘Lako’ Victoria, ‘N’Yanza.’?” M. Rouher will visit Empress Eugénie at Arenberg. There will bo lightning by the quartz at Hallew’s int. a Bilow 1s recovering his health at Godemberg, on the Rhine. Lyman Trumbull is called the Charles Francis Adame of the West. General Grant is nervoas and no longer drives a four-in-hand, The Mobile Register heads an article on yellow fever, “Saffron John.” Colonel Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, of France, is at the Now York Hotel, The Emperor of Brazil is about to return to England, and will make a jong stay. ‘The Colts ot Wales are perhaps the most musically apt of any peoplo in Great Britain. Baron de Heyking, of the Russian Centennial Com. mission, is at the Albemarle Hotel, Major General Daniel E. Sickels arrived {rom Europe yesterday and is at the Brevoort Houso. Game is scarce in Wisconsin, and a Milwaukee police- man bas not-shot a girl in over a week. An American thoatregocr wishes to see American sentiment with Eoropean surroundings. It is rumored that the Prince of Wales intends visit- ing Australia and New Zealand in 1878. It is suggested that Tweed and Belknap have a joint discussion the night before the Ohio election. A Statue to Spinosa is to be erected at the. Hague, in front of the house in which the philosopher died. Archbishop James Frederick Wood and Rev, A. J, MeConomy, ot Philadelphia, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Wendell Phillips has two now lectures—one on finance and one on the Indians—the latter being the Jeast objectionable, General Todlebon, the defender of Sebastopol, te among the foreign officers who will attond the French autumn manauvres, The lithe Prince Imperial, Louls of France, will spend a fow days in Switzerland, accompanied by two other young chaps. London Fun:—“To what length may a widow go ‘when sho desires a new parent tor her childron? She may go one step-father!" The patients in the Inebriate Asylum on Ward's Island, close to the coming explosion, say that if the Dailding is to have “the shakes’? on Sunday it is not their fault, ‘The death 1s announced of M. Michel Engalbert, the oldest living French organist, at the age of ninety-six, He played the organ at Notre Damo at the coronation ot Napoleon I. Senator Blaine says:—Tho yory baby in New Yorke ‘who has been born since I came on to this platform toe night comes crying into the world with a democratia mortgage of $160 around its little neck.” James Redpath was born in Scotland, 1833. He wag & fighter for free soil in Kansas, was an army corres spondent, and is now the head of a Buston lecture bu. Feou. The item going tho rounds of the press saying that he isa negro is untrue, He is stilla young maa, with all the characteristics of a radieal Scotchman,