The New York Herald Newspaper, September 25, 1876, Page 6

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Ovr Lonpow Letter gives an entertaining description of the dramatic season in that capital, including an account of two new plays by Mr. Byron and Mr. Gilbert. At Irvixaton yesterday Vicar General Quinn dedicated n church for the Roman Catholics of that place. An interesting account of the exercises will be found else- where. Waertnen Tammany ann AntI-TAMMANY will ‘bunch their wires” fora grand united egrrespondence with theory. blast on the 7th of November next or get up rival explosions is discussed in an article elsewhere. Tue Taree Minvres.—At eleven minutes of three they trembled; at ten minutes of three they started; at nine minutes of three they wondered which were the lunatics— those who were removed from Ward's Island | or those who ran away to Hoboken. Tur Franxutx.—-A special cable despatch to the Henatp says that the Franklin is momentarily expected at Vigo to bring Tweed to this country, so that the manner in which he will return may be considered as defi- nitely settled. Geyenat Newrtos ought to be a proud man to-day. He has proved that he was right in his calculation of the explosive force of the enormous mass of dynamite, and his great experiment deserves to rank in kind, if not in degree, with the achievements of such engineers as Stephenson and De Lesseps. Gexerat Mixes, of Crook's command, who made such a spirited attack upon an Indian village of hostile Sioux recently, replies with force and earnestness to Wendell Phil- lips’ letter to General Sherman. General Miles handles his subject as ably as he | handled his troops. Ir a Few or tHe Turnisu Monsters who carried destruction and death to the Bul- garian peasantry, and of whose atrocities further details are given elsewhere, had been anchored over Hallett's Point Reef yes- terday very few in New York would have had any doubt about where they would have gone when Hell Gate was blown open. ‘Tue Cnuncnxs yesterday did not suffer in any respect from the explosion at Hell Gate. Not a brick was shaken from their walls, and those who surveyed their crowded interiors do not report any | Christians missing. The sermons did not draw any lessons from the work of General Newton upon Hell Gate, but they stormed the reefs of impiety with the dyna- mite of grace and the rendrock of goodly sounsels. Mr. Pycott preached an anniver- sary sermon, Dr. Hitchcock preached on prayer, Father Kane on humility, Mr. Hep- worth on the challenge of St. Paul. Avpvuctina an Heir is a favorite device of dramatists and novelists when they wish to mystify the characters and the readers as to who is who. From Boston we learn of case where a childless young couple, to whom an _ heir would be & pecuniary advantage, are alleged to have had o child stolen from a poor woman. Happily for the future of the American race there is not likely to be any widespread necessity for abduction in this particular line. It illustrates the difference between an apparent heir and an heir ap- parent NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1876.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Hell Gate Blast—-A Splendid Triumph for General Newton. The greatest experiment ever made in firing the tremendous explosives for which we are indebted to modern chemistry took place yesterday afternoon, in exact accord- ance with the programme of General New- ton. It amounted to little as a spectacle ad- dressed to the eyes of the assembled multi- tude of beholders, and was of still less ac- count as addressed to the listening ears through the city ani outside of tho city which were bent on catching a resemblance to the reverberating thunder of the heavens or the subterraneous rumbling of an earth- quake, There was no terrific sound, no violent shock, no toppling of brick walls nor even breaking of glass in the immediate vicinity, no tossing of boats on the river, no agitation of the water beyond the im- mediate scene of the explosion, except a wave smaller than is raised by a passing steamboat on its way to the Sound, and sinking to the undisturbed level of the river at the distance of a few hundred yards. The explosion was a minute or so in advance of the appointed time, but all eyes had become fixed on the spot in in- tense expectation, and nothing of the emerg- ing scene was lost. Such as it was it lasted not more than two or three seconds. It was not impressive, much less imposing. A volume of white spray, cloud-like in ap- easinoe and an acre or two in extent, sud- a rose up to a height of about fifty feet, and in less than asecond after it was over- topped by asmaller column of dark color rising nearly twice as high, and consisting of a confused mass of débris from the ex- ploded mine. It was all over with a quick- ness approaching that of a flash of light- ning, and those who continued to gaze presently saw nothing different from the or- dinary appearance of the river under a rainy sky. Had it been the purpose of General Newton to entertain the public with a stu- pendous spectacle, convulsing the solid earth and making the air hideous with deafening sounds, there could not havo been a greater failure. But, as his real object was to shiver the Hallett's Point Reef into fragments with- out needless expenditure of force, the credit must be awarded him of having accom- plished it with admirable foresight and pre- cisien, It is safe to sny that nothing has ever oc- curred which affords a more signal proof of the mastery of man over the forces of nature or of his ability to predict their effect under given circumstances. A scientific lecturer exhibiting experiments to a popular audience could not describe with more accuracy what is to take place when he burnsa piece of watch spring in oxygen gas, or when he passes an electric current through a glass tube from which the air has been exhausted, than General Newton described the effects of the great explosion in advance of the experiment. There was no legerdemain in his ability to predict the outside effects of the explosion with such remarkable precision. It is science, not magic, that has won this great title to public confidence. General Newton has simply proved by this brilliant success that he has a perfect mastery of such branches of science as relate to his profession and that he has exercised the utmost care in their ap- plication. But, while itis not difficult to account for the wonderful precision with which the result has met his expectations, it is nevertheless true that it requires faculties and attainments of no com- mon order to bring facts which had not yet occurred into such exact Thousands of intelligent men can understand what not one man in the thousand could have planned and accomplished. How few of the many who know the theory of the electric tele- graph could be trusted to superintend the laying of an Atlantic cable! It is quite easy to understand, after the event, how General Newton could have been so perfectly ac- | curate in his estimates. He has been em- ployed for the long period of seven years in blasting portions of the very same rock which was rended to pieces in the grand ex- plosion of yesterday. He has had thou- sands and thousands of opportunities for measuring the cohesive strength of the reef against the explosive force of dynamite. He knew by hundreds of thousands of trials how many cubic yards of that particular rock would be broken by a given number of pounds of the explosive substance. He knew by exact soundings and measure- ments how many cubic feet of the reef he had to break to pieces. He knew by daily trials extending through seven years how much _ execution was to be expected from each pound of dynamite. He proportioned the force, with great exactness, to the amount of work to be done. He did not intend that there should be much surplus to waste itselfon the superincumbent water or the surrounding air. The disappointing smallness of the spectacle proves the admirable exactness of General Newton's calculations. He did not burn a superfluous quantity of dynamite, He did nothing to gratify a taste for scenic effect. He knew that ifthe force employed was adequate for its work, and barely ade- quate, there would be no waste for shatter- ing buildings on the shores or producing violent concussions or detonations in the air, With an economy as wise and as precise as that of a merchant who deposits in a bank a sum just sufficient to mect a maturing note, General Newton put into his exca- vated galleries just dynamite enough to rend the reef into fragments, but no surplus to do violence und inflict dam- age above the surface of the water. He knew precisely what he ought to accomplish, and he proportioned the means to the end with marvellous precision, demonstrating the exactness of science and his own mastery of its principles so far as they relate to the task which he had in hand. This whole community, which has watched him so long, will congratulate General Newton on his brilliant success, “Peace,” wrote a great poet, “hath her vic- tories no less renowned than war.” Gen- eral Newton's great success yesterday is a signal victory of peace. When gunpowder, the predecessor of more ree~~t and power- ful explosives, was discovered, a new era was opened in the history of the world. Its chief, and indeed its sole, use for a long period was as a potent and destructive force in war; but even if it had never been util- ized in any other way its invention would have marked an epoch in human affairs. The invention of gunpowder rendered it certain, that barbarism could never again triumph over and blot out civilization. It requires an amount of mechanical skill to which barbarous nations never attain to manufacture the cannon and small arms which make gunpowder efficient. The im- provements which are constantly making in armes de precision, improvements which render modern warfare at once so destructive and so expensive, put it out of the power of any but civilized and wealthy nations to prosecute great wars with success, and ren- der it impossible for any barbarous people to submerge civilization as the inundation of Goths and Vandals did that of Rome. It was a long time after the invention of gun- powder before it was utilized for the arts of peace, But gunpowder and its kindred explosives have become no less renowned for what they accomplish in peace than for their uses in war. The Mount Cenis tunnel, the Hoo- sac tunnel and various other enterprises for boring through the solid bases of moun- tains and opening easy paths for inter- course and commerce, demonstrate that the giant explosives put into our hands by chemistry have other and nobler uses than the wholesale destruction of hu- man life in war. The blasting of rocks at the bottora of harbors and channels to give easier and safer passage to ships is of the same nature as the blasting of routes for railways through the rocky foundation of mountains, the common purpose of both being to facilitate commerce. If there should ever be a ship canal across the isthmus, opening an easy highway between the At- lantic and Pacific oceans, that great work will be accomplished only by a vast use of explosives. Their growing employment in pence tends to abridge their use in war, for commerce creates international interests which cannot be sundered without great loss on both sides and which array powerful pri- vate interests, which governments cannot disregard, on the side of peace. Gun- powder and its more giant progeny are, therefore, in a fair way to be- come as powerful agents of penco as they have heretofore been of destruction. In becoming the handmaids of commerce they are binding nations together by ties of mutual interest which governments will hes- itate to break. The first powerful explosive was named gunpowder, as if it were a mere agent of destruction to be used in guns; but the more recent inventions in the same line are dedicated to the arts of peace, and will do their main work in tunnelling mountains, clearing harbors and channels and breaking through the barriers which separate neigh- boring oceans. The greatest task which awaits their performance is the blasting of a channel across the Isthmus of Darien, under the protection and guarantee of the great commercial nations. Humanity will hail every step of the progress by which these mighty agents are turned from the uses of war to those of commerce and peace. American Skill and English Alarm. Woe do not wonder that the exhibition of American manufactures in Philadelphia has startled a number of intelligent Eng- lishmen, who are now writing to the London Times praising the skill and taste of Ameri- can workmen and warning their own coun- trymen that we are at last rivals to be feared. We happen to know that these English are not alone in their surprise. German, Bel- gian and French visitors have also been astonished at the extent, variety and excel- lence of our manufactured products. In fact, it would not be too much to say that we have given a surprise to intelligent mer- chants and manufacturers from all parts of the world. Nor is this amazing. It is a fact that our manufacturers produce, in general, better qualities of goods than those of Europe; they turn out, as a rule, more faithful, more durable, better and more honest goods. The wooden nutmeg and pine ham business has been transferred across the Atlantic to a great extent, and the Americans have in the last dozen or fifteen years gained a reputa- tion for honest products which would be invaluable to us if it were only a little more extended—if we hed any foreign trade— which in fact gives us a vital advantage, whenever we do trade, abroad. ‘That the extent and variety of our mann- factures should be a surprise to foreigners who visit the Exhibition shows how near extinction our forcign trade is. If we had a commerce worthy of the name it would not need an exhibition to make foreigners aware of our good work. They would have felt our competition; they wonld have known to their cost long ago that we are skilful manufacturers. ‘Tho fact is that by unwise laws we have isolated ourselves almost as though we had been Chinese or Japanese, That we excel in many, and even in most, branches of manufacture has done us so far little or no good, becanse we can- not sell our surplus products abroad. We have gone on improving machinery, contriv- ing new labor-saving devices and making iron and steel do the work of men and women, until at last we make more than we can possibly consume, and are brought to the verge of ruin by a combination of mechani- cal ingenuity and legislative stupidity. Our foreign rivals are alarmed, but they need not be. We shall doubtless beat them in manufacturing, but they continue to beat us in selling. That which used to be thought a peculiarly Yankee trick has become one of the lost arts wit! with us. us. Five Youre 6 GENTLEMEN, students at Prince- ton College, have left the college and gone home because a colored theological student in the divinity school, which is not con- nected with the college proper, has been allowed to attend Dr. McCosh's lectures on psychology. Foyr of them are Marylanders and one is a Virginian. These young South- ern bloods have no idea of sitting in alecture room with a black student, so they quit their studies and go home. This is un- fortunate, as they are evidently in need of education. Sart We Anoxtsn the name of Hell Gate now that we have abolished the thing itself? No. We should keep the name as a memo- rial of General Newton's triumph, The Issue in the City. The campaign for the Presidency must not be allowed to absorb other issues. We have a Governor to elect. We have éur municipal rulers to choose. We have to consider how far the spirit of reform should enter into our city government. We have to repair the blunders wo made two or three years ago in choosing reform candidates. We have to consider gravely the wants of this great city, wants which grow from time to time by reason of their neglect. We have to consider that although we have credit, boundless ambition, the met- ropolitan position on this continent, and a future which even strikes the imagina- tion of as cold a thinker as Comptroller Green, we have nevertheless done nothing toward the improvement of the city since the downfall of Tammany Hall. We have to accept the fact that our policy of govern- ment, so far as we have had one, has been a policy of stifling. The men who rule us are men who have the power to break down, not the courage to build up. We never wanted good government more than now in the city of New York, and by good government we mean enterprise, cour- age, economy and comprehensive knowl- edge of the wants of the city. The great obstacle to good government in New York is the canker of Tammany Hall. Tammany Hall, as personified in John Kelly, is, as we have shown from time to time, an evil influence, the existence of which is in- compatible with that wise and judicious government necessary to the welfare of a great city. Ifwe study the reign of Tam- many Hall for a generation at least we find one ‘‘boss” succeeding another without any improvement in the government of the city or the tone of our politics. We have no Objection to Mr. Kelly on personal grounds, and do not doubt that he is an honorable man and a good citizen; that he would rather be‘at, the head of an organi- zation which would be governed by the highest instincts of policy than of the gang of thieves, and strikers, and plunderers, which is now known as Tammany Hall. But a leader, no matter how honest, never rises above his following or his system. John Kelly as the embodiment of the canker of Tammany Hall is as much an enemy of good government in New York as William M. Tweed was. Even ‘I'weed, with all his crimes, was not insensible to the future glory of New York; but Mr. Kelly never seems to rise above his revenges or his piques. He is governed by that strong fondness for a personal following which controls Governor Tildeu. Whenever we read of the opening of a municipal cam- paign under the control of Mr. Kelly we are sure to read of a crowd of unknown and obscure followers coming to the front. When Mr. Kelly endeavored to punish Re- corder Hackett because he would not be a minion of his power the people rose against him and destroyed his campaign. We then said to Mr. Kelly that the time had come for him to take a new de- parture, and to accept the downfall of Tammany Hall, not as a mutiny, but as a revolution. We begged that he would call around him the best men in the city, reor- ganize the democracy and abandon Tam- many Hall as a name of evil omen. We have little doubt that if Mr. Kelly had taken this ground he might now be the leader of a reform democracy which represented the true views of the people, and whose triumph would not be that of idiots like Wickham, but of capable, honest men who knew what good government demanded and had the courage and ability to administer the gov- ernment. As the canvass now stands, if the demo- cratic party in this city is to suffer from the canker of Tammany Hall, it looks as if we should have a defeat as disastrous as that of last year. There is a great deal of discus- sion about Tammany and anti-Tammany uniting; about giving Morrissey so many loaves and fishes and Kelly so many loaves and fishes. The politicians have been in high excitement over the division of the spoils, but that is not the way to insure suc- cess. The people of New York do not choose to be transferred from Boss Kelly to Boss Morrissey any more than they did from Boss Kelly to Boss Sweeny. They are tired of the whole boss system, tired of Kelly, tired of Wickham, tired of Morrissey, tired of the whole crowd of adventurers and bummers and political charlatans that deal with politics as they do with fancy stock or a game of cards, and who are kept in power by the support of the worst influences in the metropolis, Who- ever will give New York a reform ticket for the next canvass in the city, with good names on it, names of men who would com- mand the confidence of the people, will de- feat Tammany Hall, or any other hall, as disastrously as the machine was beaten by General Jones in 1874 and by Recorder Hackett in 1875. Savings Bank Management. The report of the receiver of the Mechanics and Traders’ Bank is another evidence of the criminal neglect of the Bank Superin- tendent in the discharge of his official duties or of his complicity with the rascals who have been so cruelly robbing the industrious poor. Adishonest paying teller had been misappropriating the depositors’ money without being called to account by the bank anthorities; the president had becn making illegal lonns and investments ; large sums of money had been entered on the books as having been paid out for double fees, in- creased salaries and refreshments without a shadow of legal right ; .petty officers of the bank had been guilty of gross irregularities, and yet the institution had been suffered to keep its doors open and to go on swindling the public. The case is almost parallel with that of the Third Avenue Savings Bank. In that rotten and fraudulent concern a paying teller, a nephew of William A. Dar- ling, had robbed the bank, and not only had he been suffered to escape punishment, but his mother, Mr. Darling’s sister, who was on her son’s bond, had escaped the payment of the amount of her liability; Spencer K. Green and William A. Darling had made frandulent and illegal loans of the bank's money; false balances had been struck and carried on from year to year by the per- jury of the officers swearing to the reports; large sums of money had been paid ont for illegal salaries, fees and refreshments; yet the Bank Superintendent suffered the bank to remain open until its officers thought proper to close their doors and shut out their plundered victims, and then allowed one of the men who had made ao perjured statement of the bank's condition to be ap- pointed its receiver. The Bank Superin- tendent under whose official régime these rascalities havé been practised is retained in office by Governor Tilden, Perhaps the Governor will explain under which head of aggressive administrative reform we are to classify his retention of Mr. Ellis in the position of Bank Superintendent. Newton's Trials. If General Newton's ‘simulated earth- quake” had toppled over four or five hun- dred tall houses and killed a few hundreds of people, after the fashion of some of the regular concernsin South America, he would ; have been very severely condemned by the engineering ninnies, the Sabbatarians and the people generally. The wiseacres of his profession would have boasted of their own superior genius and judgment; the pions Mr. Dodge and his associate saints would have declared the calamity a punishment for the desecration of the Sabbath, and che people generally wonld have insisted that the General ought to have been better posted in his business than to have blown us all up with his Hell Gate mine. Happily, no such unfortunate results attended the General's work. The residences and public buildings are all safe, their inmates are all alive, and the two orthree hundred thousand people who went out to see the sight returned home in safety and with all the limbs they carried away with them. Yet, singularly enough, the immense tri- | umph of the General, so quietly and peace- fully won, called down upon him almost as much indignation as would have been showered on his head if he had swallowed up Astoria and knocked down the houses on the opposite shore like so many tenpins. The thousands who went up to see the explosion came back denouncing it as a ‘‘sell.” They had enjoyed no fun for their pains. No damage had been done; no one had ‘been killed ; there had been no excitement ; only a rumbling noise, a commotion of the river, a throwing up of water and débris, and Hallett’s reef had been ‘‘knocked into a cocked hat.” So General Newton was voted a humbug simply because he had not raised Hell (Gate obstructions) in such an exciting manner as would have pleased the multi- tude. A Model Boss. When the people of Brooklyn voted against the ‘fone man power” in politics last year “boss” McLaughlin took the hint, bowed to the popular verdict and resigned his leader- ship in the Democratic General Committee. The committee was reconstructed and the re- form element was introduced into the organi- zation. Now that the time for selecting can- didates for city offices has come round again the democracy, believing that there was some intention on the part of the retired “boss” to again attempt to control and dic- tate the nominations, has protested against | his interference and demanded such a ticket as the people want. The ‘boss”” gracefully retires and concedes the right of the party to take charge of its own business. He does not insist upon still naming his own men and giving a bone here and there to the opposition leaders in order to quiet matters, but is will- ing to keep his hands off entirely. Should he honestly carry out this policy the result will be a united democratic party, good local nominations and a large democratic major- ity in Brooklyn in November. It would be well for the New York ‘‘boss” to follow the example set by his Brooklyn copatriot. Vagaries of Silver. The attempts of the political economists to ascertain why silver is bobbing up and down, as though it were quicksilver, are not helped by any recent statistics. It has been supposed, for instance, that the great pro- duction of the Nevada mines caused the de- cline in silver; but the latest returns show that while in the first eight months of 1875 we exported to England silver to the value of £2,069,000, in the first eight months of 1876 we sent thither only £1,901,000 worth. It was said again that the failure of the de- mand in India caused the decline; but in 1875 England exported to British India £2,802,000 worth of silver, and in 1876 £4,547,000 worth—a great deal more, that is to say. The Silver Commission appointed by Con- gress has not yet got tairly to work. The public will look for its conclusions with great curiosity; but we note meantime a singular recommendation in a London journal that the United States shall de- monetize gold and make silver the only legal standard of value. The English, although they have demonetized silver, are naturally anxious to keep it in use as a part of the coin of the world, because it is the only standard of value in British India; and the fall in the price of silver has already caused very serious commercial troubles in India, and even threatens, ifitcontinues, to produce in- dustrial disorganization. Hence, we may sup- pose, their anxiety that we shall not demo- netize silver and the suggestion that we should rather make it the only standard. If we did this no doubt it would temporarily relieve the silver panic. But as we at pres- ent have no coin standard at all we are ina position to exercise a “masterly inactivity.’ Cooren axp Hetx Garz.—The explosion yesterday destroyed the scene of one of Fenimore Cooper's finest narratives. The description of the chase of a smuggler through Hell Gate by a British frigate in his “Water Witch” is a marvelious piece of | writing. Hell Gate ‘in Cooper's time was very difficult of navigation, and he had made a study of the locality. But soon the great ocean steamers will fearlessly cleave the deep waters among whose rocks and currents the bold smuggler heaved the lead minute by minute. Hell Gate will exist in the novel, but it is happily no more in fact. General Crook says, the campaign against the hostile Sioux will be resumed, He has, therefore, a month to drill his troops; then, with a good charge they should be abie to blast all the Indians in the Powder countrv whore they are going. Milton en Hell Gate. John Milton in “Paradise Lost” prophetl- cally anticipated the achievements of General Newton, when he thus describes the opening of thie adamantine gates of hell by Sin to pere mit the egress of Satan:— Thus saying, from her sido the fatal key, Sad instrument of ail our woe, sho took, And \oward the gate rolling her bestial wrata, Forihwith the huge portcuilis high up drew, Which but herself not all the Stygian powers Could once have moved: then in the keyhole taras Th’ intricate wards, and every bolt and bar Of massy iron or solid rock with ease Unfastens: on @ sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th’ internal doors, and on their binges grate Harsh thonder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus, She opened, but to shut Exeelied hor power ; the gates wide open stood, That with extended wings » bannered host Under spread ensigns marching might pass through, With horse and chariots ranked in loose array. The parallel between this splendid poetry and the superb prose of yesterday is remarkable. The ‘‘fatal key” is the electric key; the “huge portoullis” the bombproof where the batteries were stored; the ‘intricate wards” are the wires and circnits; the bolts and bars of “massy iron or solid rock,” flew open sud- denly in both gates, with the same jarring sound, and on their hinges grated harsh thunder, and finally through the Hell Gate of the East River ships with ‘‘ex- tended wings” will pass like a bannered host. We regret that the comparison, to be complete, must present General Newton as the counterpart of Sin ; but, as he unlocked TT-il Gate on a Sunday, Mrs, Grundy will be sure to discover the resomblance, Taz Wratner.—The heavy, drizzling rain of yesterday was the final instalment of moisture from the area of low pressure that has moved off the Atlantio coast from Cape Hatteras, It is being followed, how- ever, by another depression which is mak- ing rapid progress from the northwestward, accompanied by a limited rain area on its northern and western edges. Ashort period of cooler and clearing weather, with north- erly to westerly winds, will, howe ever, be experienced before the next rain arrives at New York. The pressure all over the United States, particularly south of the New England region, is low, and the temperature continues high and consequent- ly unhealthy along the South Atlantic coast. Local disturbances continue to occur in the Gulf of Mexico, giving a very unsettled char- acter to the weather in that region. The weather to-day in New York will be cooler and cloudy with, however, a clearing up during the day. Tue Hznarp Navat Rearster,—What the government is too poor to do the Hzranp does to-day, when it publishes the naval register for September, 1876. It has been customary for the Navy Department to issue semi-annually a register showing the changes in the navy, the movements of officers and the stations and condition of United States vessels. Such a publication is of great importance, but Mr. Robeson cannot afford it. We have thought it advisable to supply the public with the facts as matter of news, and if the government needs any other assistance of that kind we shall be glad to give it all the help in our power. A Ranpicay Porrrtcran, writing from Loui. siana to a bosom friend in Washington, says that the democrats in that State are making such a nitro-glycerine canvass that thero will not be a republican official left after the election. That brood will be as little ree gretted as Hallett’s Point Reef. Campaion Dynamrte.—The journals of the country should surely be able to get through the Presidential canvass without the necese sity of keeping their editors employed con- tradicting statements purporting to be taken from their columns. That sort of political dynamite hoists its engineers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Dr. Ayer is improving. General Hancock 1s poor, Kentucky is full of chilis mud covsr, Frank B, Carpenter is painting at i+anea, Ex-Governor Seymour's father was insane. Tho commonest English oysters aro selling for five cents exveb. Gladstone thinks that ministers are likely to remain the lowest paid of Iaborers, One effect of the bard times in England ts an effort to lengthen the hours of labor. Lord and Lady Dufferin arrived in San Francisco on Her Britannic Majesty's ship Amothyst yesterday, In several coast towns of Scotland it is li the custom fur fishermen to parade so as ‘to raise the her rings.” Disraeli thinks that soctal trials await England, so that it will take the united patience and virtue of the country to meet them. President Grant will leave Philadelphia on a visit to Cornell University, where his son is being educated Mra, Grant and Mr. and Mrs, Sartoris will accompany him. Tne value of property insured in London ig £540,000,000. Of the tires which occarred in London during the past five yoars four-fifths occurred to um insured property. Birmingham (Ala) Zron Age (advertisement):—“Com: federate money wanted—Persons having Contederate money or bonds, if of the proper issue and denominas tion, can find a parchager at fair prices by inquiring at this oflice,”” The Chinese colony im San Francisco disobeys the ennitary laws, not only by refusing to provide against disease, but by refusing to regard munteipal rules wh epidemics abound. In regard to these Chinamen as colony the San Franc scans display wenkness a: asininity, They stone them as individuals only, Had New York been destroyed by tho explosion yes terday, the survivors might have quoted— And when, amid no earthly groans, Down, down, that town shali settle henco, Heli, rising om 4 thousand thrones, Shall do it reverence, A poet recently complained that (he noblest of ante mais below man, the horse, was the dumbest and bad only a hoof; bat Professor Huxley says that the horse and its kind once bad tingers. This fact is distinetly remembered by the editor of the Chicago Times, who once tried to put an engagement ring on the hind finger of a mulo that talked back. Senator Boutwell says:—‘The tssua ts clear, whether this country shail be governed by the men who believe that tt is a nation or by those who believe that it is @ rope of sand, to be dissolved whenever a State becomes discontented. There can be no just government until the nation shall demand for its citizens inside the United States what it now demands for them in other. countries.” The Jewish Herald statos that the last four or five yoars havo witnessed a return of the Jews to Palestine from all parts, but more especially from Russia, whieh has been altogether unprecedented. The Hi population of Jerusaiom is now propadly doub! it was some ten years ago, Great accessions atili cons nue daily; and whereas, ten ago, the Jews Were coniined to their own quarters in Jorusatem, the poorest aud worst, they now Inivabit ail purts of tho city and are always ready to romt every house that is to ve lot, +) » —