The New York Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1876, Page 6

: GR. THE PRINCESS OF TREBIZUNDE, at 8 P.M. Mra * Oates. _ threatens to have Mr. Shearman indicted for _source of revenue. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every in the Four cents pe copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK . 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. TOLUME XLI...... AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND KVENING. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE LIFE, at 8 P.M. Charles F. Coghlan. | ++NO, 271 AND OPERA HOUSE. NIBLO'S GARDEN. BABA, at 8 = aM. NION SQUARE ARE THEATRE, Two MEN OF SANDY BROOKLYN UNCLE TOMS geal at & P. THE risa |. Mra. Howard, TRE. Ryan. WOOD'S MUSEUM. THE FATALIST, at 8PM. Matineo at 2P. Me GILMORE'S GARDEN, CONCERT, at 8 P. M. LYCEU LA GRANDE pes: FLYING &CUD, z oor ‘4 THEATRE. ath? M. Almee. THEATRE gai Poe P. M. Mr. Bangs and Mrs. Agnes GERMANIA {THEATRE, LUFTSCHLOESSER, at 8 P. PARK = Tanara, CLOUDS, at 8P. M. THEATRE. Mr. and Mra Flor. WALLAG THE MIGHTY DOLLAR ence. CHATEAU MABILLE. VARIETY, at 8 P. M. OLYMPIC Fane VARIETY AND DEAMA. at ATM. Matineo at 2 P. M. COLUMBIA RA VARIETY, at igh i VARIETY, eP ie Mati TIVOLI T VARIETY, at 8 P. M. MURRAY'S GRAND CIRCUS Performance afternoon and evening. PARISIAN VARIETIES, THEATRE, ateP.N. SAN FRANCISCO & atSP. M, MINSTRELS, KELLY & LEON'’S MINSTRELS, ateP. M. THIRD AY! VARIETY, at 8 P, M. FE. . BURLESQUE, OLIO as 8 P.M. Matinee a2 P.M. AMERICAN INSTITUTE, ANNUAL FATE. TRIPLE SHEET. KEW TORK, wep ei pat. SEPTEMBER 2 a7, 1876, Fe our ir reports this morn: i are that the weather to-day will be cool and clear or partly cloudy. Watt Strzzr Yxesterpay.—Stocks were generally lower and speculation was fever- ish. Prices were very irregular. Gold opened at 110 1-8 and closed at 110. Money on call was supplied at 1 1-2 and 2 per cent. Government and railway bonds were in the main steady. Tue Boarp or Epvcation estimates that the expenses of the public schools of New York for 1877 will be $3,988,352. We could not well spend four millions for a better purpose, Disorpertx Hovsxs.—The conviction of a keeper of a notorious disorderly house, who had defied the laws for years, is another step in the right direction. Recorder Hackett’s charge to the jury is an able exposition of the evil. An Anti-Crimax.—It would be remarkable if the differences between Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton should degenerate into a dispute between Mr. Moulton and Mr. Shearman. Yet it looks that way now, as Mr. Moulton perjury. AnorHeR Hvrnicanz.— Advices from the West Indies inform us of the movement of another hurricane westward over Martinique, which has caused an interruption of tele- graphic communications with the adjacent islands. Shipofners having vessels lying at Cuban and South Atlantic ports would do well to advise their captains of the approach of the tempest and thus avoid serious losses. ‘The arrival of the hurricane on the southern coast of Cuba may be expected to-day, and the track of the storm will probably carry it over Jamaica, across Cuba to the Bahama Islands, and possibly along a portion of the Florida coast. GranpraTHer Patenr’s Panty.—The Green- back Convention met yesterday in Albany and went through all the forms just as if it had been a real convention, representing a great party. It passed resolutions in favor of paper money, indorsed Grandfather Peter | Cooper and Sam Cary, nominated State officers and appointed a State committee and an electoral ticket. Mr. Richard Mont- gomery Griffen, editor of the Albany Even- ing Post, was nominated for Governor by ac- clamation, but it is unlikely that the people will withdraw his valuable services from his newspaper to employ them in the Gov- ernor’s office. Mr. Thomas Armstrong was complimented with the candidacy for Lieu- tenant Governor. The great feature of the day wasthe speech by Grandfather Peter, which has the rare merit of being brief. A Psomistna Source or Revenve.—The @ecision of the United States Circuit Court in the income tax case opens up a promising Tho government sued a party or the amount of tax he ought to have paid in 1868. The defence was that the as- sessment made by the United States asses- sor, with the fifty per cent penalty, had been paid, and that this was a bar to any farther claim on the part of the government, The decision of the Court is that, notwith- standing this payment, the government can recover on proof that the amount justly due on the income for the year was in excess of the assessment. Under this decision the government might recover enough money to resume specie payments at once. An active agent who would overhaul the returns of NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876.—-TRIPLE SHEET. Is There » Soun?t Business Revival? Is there a sound and real revival of busi- ness? On the whole we believe there is. Setting aside the natural stir and increase in purchases here, in Philadelphia and eise- where in the larger cities, by the hundreds of thousands who have visited and are visit- ing the Centennial show ; setting aside the usual and even in dull years constant in- crease in business at this season of the year; putting away carefully all temporary causes, we see reason to believe that there is, not only here in New York, but all over the country, a real revival of trade, mod- erate in its proportions, cautious, as it ought to be, but arising naturally out of causes which we shall presently mention, and promising to last and to increase and to have its effect upon general industry. The evidences of this business revival at- tract attention, as we see by the newspapers, not only here, but in Boston, Chicago, in St. Lonis—at all the centres of trade, in fact. There are more people buying ; the Southern trade is said to be uncommonly brisk this year ; Western commerce also is brisk, and | merchants from all parts of the country are replenishing: their stocks in a manner which seems to show that not only are their shelves bare, but they have, on a survey of the con- dition of their customers, concluded that these will buy and will have money to pay. There can be no doubt, in fact, of the present activity of trade. The main question is, will it continue, or is it only a spurt, aspasmodic movement? Woe believe we see reasons for holding that itis not spasmodic, but that, unless some now unforeseen cause inter- venes, it will continue, and we are at last on the upward way. Commodities of all kinds are at present uncommonly cheap. Producers of all kinds have at last suited themselves to the mar- kets. The anxiety to make and sell has brought the ingenuity of manufacturers into use, and people can not only now buy cheaper than at any time since 1860, but they find it more easy to buy what they want. During the great rush and excite- ment of the speculative period producers ceased to take particular pains to study the tastes and wishes of customers; but this has now changed for the better in many and, in- deed, in almost all departments: The country is really rich. It has been rigorously economizing since 1873, and three years of strict economy do wonders among forty millions of people. The sum of our savings as a nation in a year of econ- omy amounts to a vast deal of wealth. We have been saving for three long and tedious years; and while this economy has been forced and distressful with a considerable part of our people—with those engaged and employed in manufacturing—it is undeniable that the farmers and planters, who are the bulk of the population, have had prosper- ous years. Even last year the farmers of Central Illinois made it their chief com- plaint that they could find nobody to bor- row their surplus money and give them what they thought a fair rate of interest. But the times are not hard where men have enough to eat and chiefly growl because no- body will borrow their surplus cash. Dur- ing allthe hard times we have had in the main good crops and have received good prices for them, and thus we have had an unvarying source of growing wealth. It was necessary to stop for a while; and when, in 1873, confidence received so gen- eral and severe a shock, and thousands who had imagined themselves comfortable or wealthy were suddenly ruined, the panic of doubt seized everybody; all enterprise was checked; all investments became doubt- ful; all who had money sought only to keep what they had; everybody's affairs under- went a scrutiny, and it was soon seen that there had been immense overtrading. Bank- ruptcy—staved off during prosperous years— was no ionger to be put off A great part of our merchants, all over the country, appeared in the insolvent lists, and then began that long and dolorous process which appears at last to have weeded out the un- sound busjness houses and to have, at great suffering to individuals, left the country, where it must be placed before we can have sound and lasting prosperity, on the ‘‘bot- tom rock.” Individual failures continue and will continue; but there is no longer the material for a panic. Even the failure of the great coal combination, vast as were the losses it entailed on a multitude of people, has scarcely caused a ripple in the commer- cial world. Three years ago such a break would have brought a general and crushing disaster. Confidence, so severely shaken, slowly re- turns. Merchants, manufacturers and pro- ducers in general watch the market and the condition of the country with anxious care, and they seo not actual prosperity, for we have not come to that yet, but they do see a return of confidence; they see that losses have been measured; that failures have been settled up; that prices are low, in many arti- cles very low; that it is safe and advantage- ous to buy; that the mass of consumers need to replenish and are able to pay; and thus and for these reasons trade is slowly reviving on a sound basis and with prices at which a prudent merchant can even afford to hold his goods without fear of loss, Another reason for a general revival of confidence in the future lies in the fact that the hard times have greatly decreased the expenditures of our various govern- ments, town, city, State and federal. | Our public affairs are more prudently con- ducted now than at any time since 1860, and here is a great saving, which the community quickly feels, There is a general beliet that whichever party wins this fall we shall have wiser legislation at Washington. ‘There is a belief that the currency question draws near to a settlement and that the next Congress will give the country a sound circulating medium. Men look for and demand reforms, not only in this matter, but in all the legislation which affects the production and sale of commodities, The mass of men have come to see that the country is not really poor, but rich in all the appliances of industry, rich in everything which isa help to the creation of wealth, and that what is needed is not beyond our own reach, if only we choose to seize it. What we require now to draw us out of the our wealthiest merchants and others for a | slough in which we have been mired since course of years might edd some millions to the Treasury balance. 1873 is, continued prudence on the part of business men; second, a sound and stable currency, which shall enable us to carry on business on business principles, and not as gamblers; and finally, such a revision of the laws which affect commerce and produc- tion as shall enable us to sell our surplus products abroad without loss. These three things granted the recovery of prosperity, though certain to be slow, will be sure of lasting. The Eastern Question. Russia seems to agree to the peace propo- sitions, and, if the reports are accurate, pre- pares for war, Even English correspondents appear to be startled at the readiness with which Russia accepts an English plan, and at the small modifications she cares to make init. The significance of this fact is, per- haps, that Russia has her own view of the case, but is ready to assent that anybody’s peace nostrum shall be tried if the proprie- tors of the said nostrum believe it will be efficient, She is ready to consent to the trial of any and every plan, and only the more readily because she believes they will all be useless. Between the fighting and the truce and the general results of the summer the problem of the destinies of Servia and the Slavs and the Turks has somewhat cleared up for Russia It is clear on the Neva and, perhaps, in Berlin and Vienna that a settlement of the difficulty on the status quo ante bellum will be deiusive and unsatisfactory; but Russia assents to a settlement on that basis in order that the facts may demonstrate once more the worthlessness of Turkey's promises and in order that the case may go over quietly this year. Thesettlement as pro- posed is worthless, because it is guarantecd only on one side. Servia is bound; but, on the other hand, there are only the promises of the Porte ; and Prince Gortschakoff recently challenged a ‘Turkish Ambassador to cite any case in which the Sultan’s government had ever kept promises of that nature. They will be kept now no better than hitherto, if accepted. But in this case an army on foot at Alexinatz will be ready to take the field in the spring and to reopen the war in sup- port of the demand of Servian, Bosnian and Bulgarian autonomy as the only guarantce tothe people of those countries for the re- forms which the Porte always promises but never puts in effect. Russia perhaps re- gards such an event as inevitable and may co-operate ; but in the meantime she keeps her counsel and agrees with England; for to do otherwise would be to give the English Ministry a case on which they might escape from their difficulty with the country over the Bulgarian massacres. Gortschakoff will not help them out of that scrape, and if the Ministry should be put out this winter and the liberals come in, armed support of the Turks by England will be impossible, and Russia's case will be clear. Newton’s Channel. The success which has attended the opera tions for the removal of Hallett’s Poin Reef under the direction of General New- ton associates his name so intimately with the scene of his labors that we gladly accord to him the honor which the fame of his achievement must bring. Some men have for their monuments mountain peaks that they only gazed at from a distance; others are remembered as the discoverers of rivers and bays which they did notexplore. Pike’s Penk, Baffin’s Bay, Behring Strait and Mackenzie River are instanced as examples of this custom of naming places and objects after the individuals who first brought them into notice, But with how much pro- priety might we honor in this way the men who shape and fashion, excavate and build for the benefit of mankind more than those who merely discover the existence of wonderful places and things! And after all such a custom would exercise a wholesome infiu- ence on the effort to attain success in every undertaking dependent for its results on in- dividual intelligence and skill. On the one hand would be held out to the aspirants for fame the honorof having their names forever associated with grand successes, while on the other hand.failure through inability to per- form the task would be followed by the ridi- cule and censure of all time tocome. No man can deny the feeling of gratification that fills him when his work is the theme of thousands of approving tongues. The un- measured praises of his fellow men repay him for the toils and anxieties that beset him in his hours of trial. He has succeeded, and that embraces everything. General Newton has triumphed over diffi- culties that would have defeated less expe- rienced engineers, and the measure of his triumph must be in proportion to that of the obstacles overcome. He deserves therefore to enjoy the fame he has so well won for | himself and for American engineering. So let us mark Newton's Channel on our maps of the East River for the future, and as the General widens and deepens the watery highway, winning at every blow a broader and a firmer footing on the domain of the rocks and reefs of Hell Gate, then will the grim terrors of the famous passage give way and disappear before the steady growth of the commodious Newton’s Channel, Tue Sewarp Statvr.—The statue of Will- iam H. Seward, by the artist Randolph Rogers, which was erected in its place in Madison square several weeks ago, and has since been standing on its pedestal covered with thick black indiarubber cloth, will be unveiled at three o'clock this afternoon and formally presented to the city of New York. The two most attractive features of the occa- sion will be the presentation by Secretary Fish on behalf of tho subscribers and the address by Mr. Evarts, which will probably be tho most eloquent eulogy of the great statesman ever pronounced. Gilmore's band will be ont in full force to enliven the occa- sion with music, their services having been offered without compensation and accepted. Grpsy Propnxcirs may not be the most reliable brand of the divining article, but the republicans will doubtless take heart of grace from the assurance given to a Heraup reporter by a Gypsy Queen that Governor Hayes is to be elected in November. The reliability of the old lady who gives this de- pressing news for Tilden may bo judged from the fact that she prevented General Grant from gettinga third term, and that she. tells a Hzrazp man how it relieves him to speak his mind. | advice te South Carolina Colored Men. Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina, instead of attending to his duties has been visiting the North, and, on his return to Washington, which seems to be his head- quarters, he gives out that he has heard of the murder of from thirty to one hundred negroes in the State during his” absence. “From thirty to one hundred” is # vague phrase. Its use confesses ashameful amount of ignorance in the Governor of the State, whose sworn duty is to maintain the peace of the State, to protect the lives of the citi- zens, and to see that lawlessness is punished. The people of South Carolina are asked to vote for Governor Chamberlain—to re-elect him to his place, But why should they? Atatime of great excitement he leaves the State, abandons his post of duty and returns only to send out a vague report of the kill- ing of some of its citizens. Evidently he is not a fit man for Governor ; he is not even a safe man. General Wade Hampton is his opponent, the nominee of the democratic party. What does General Hampton say about the peace of the State? He is making an active and thorough canvass, and everywhere, from every platform and stump, he pledges his word that if he is elected Gov- ernor he will ‘‘observe, protect and defend the rights of the colored man;” he solemnly promises to ‘render to the whole people of the State equal and impartial justice;” and to make this promise specific, he adds:— “Tf there is a whito man in this assembly who, because he is a democrat or because he isa white man, believes that when I am elected Governor, if I should-be, I will stand between him and the law, or grant to him any privileges or immunities that shall not be granted to the colored man, he is mis- taken, and I tell him now, if that is his rea- son for voting for me, not to vote at all.” These are the honest, sensible words of General Hampton. What has Governor Chamberlain said or done to match them? What did he doonthe heels of the Ham- burg massacre? He ran to Washington to appeal for help. What does he do in the middle of the canvass? ‘Promise equal and exact justice to all citizens? Guarantee that he will ‘‘observe, defend and protect the rights of the colored man?” Not atall. He leaves the State for a visit to New England. Why should the colored men of South Carolina vote for Mr. Chamberlain? What has he done? What does he propose to do for them? If they are sensible men they will vote for General Hampton. He at least makes them a definite promise. He makes it for himself and for the gentlemen who are on the ticket with him. Not only that, but he warns every man who does not agree with him that all the people, colored as well as white, shall be equally secure in life, liberty and property, that he had better not vote for him. If we were asked by a South Carolina colored man how he should vote, we should tell him, ‘‘Vote for General Hampton; hold him and his to the responsibility they are willing to assume. They are men of character, men of proper- ty, old citizens of the State; go and shake hands with them; tell them you will trust them. Vote for Hayes for President if you like. It is natural that you should prefer a republican President, particularly if you are going to try a democratic State government. But vote for General Hampton and the democratic State ticket. Chamberlain has not protected you, and, de- pend upon it, if Hayes is chosen President, he is not going to listen to Chamberlain or any other Southern Governor who runs up to Washington to tell his tale, when he ought to be on the spot to see justice done between you and your white neighbor. Mr. Hayes does not believe in federal interfor- ence in the South.” That is the advice we should give to South Carolina and also to Louisiana colored men. If they only took time calmly to consider the matter they would see that while tho Southern republican ‘politician lives upon “outrages,” and prospers the more the more colored men are wronged or slain, the Southern democrat must perforce maintain peace and order ; for if he does not the whole North hoots at him and demands that the federal power shall upset him. Arkansas was full of crime and disorder until the democratic Governor Garland came into power. It has been peaceful ever since, and no complaints come from there, under his wise rule, of wrong to republicans or colored men, The Planetary Debut. {tis announced with some authority that on the 2d or 3d of October the little planet Vulcan will make its first regular ap- pearance before a terrestrial public, and the star gazing dileanti are notified to secure for themselves advantageous points of obser- vation. Some glimpses have been had of this vague star on other occasions; so that this is only a début in so far as it is a regu- larly announced and anticipated appear- ance. Every planet between the earth and the sun of course goes round the sun oftener than the earth does and has a shorter year. Mercury goes around once in three months, and Vulcan, which is still nearer the sun, goes around him still oftener; and on the many trips it has made every year for so many years it has hitherto escaped so close an observation as to make even its existence certain. This is due to the blaze of the great luminary, in the pres- ence of which all lesser lights are lost. But several astronomers have accidentally, as it were, caught glimpses of o small body rushing across the face of the sun with tremendous velocity, and Leverrier has reasoned from observed perturbations of other bodies to the tact that there is an un- known planet between Mercury and the sun. It is possible that the united action of astronomers in all countries may next month verify the existence of this star. Tae Weatnrr.—Although the rain area which has just passed eastward extended further to the sonth than was expected, judg- ing from the position of its centre early on yesterday morning, it was quickly followed in the afternoon by the cool and clearing weather predicted in the Herauy. To the southward of New York the margin of the rain area touched Philadelphia, causing threatening weather in the morning at Wash- ington, which, however, soon passed away. The track of the centre of Iywest barometer | selves too much ; has been through the St Lawrence Valley, cansing a very heavy fall of rain at Montreal, where the pressure fell to 29.55 inches. Throughout the West and Southwest the pressure has risen decidedly, with a fall in tempernture. The prospect of cooler weather, along the Atlantic coast is favorable for the abatement of the yellow fever in Georgia, and will be welcomed as a great boon to that stricken region. To-day the weather in New York will be clear or partly cloudy and cool, with brisk westerly winds. Disease at the Great Exhibition. We print elsewhere an interesting letter from a Philadelphia correspondent on the vexed question of the healthfulness of the Exhibition grounds and the peculiar causes of disease there. It is not worth while to deny that typhns, typhoid and dysenteric diseases have been very frequent among visitors to the Exhibition during the last two months. Whether the causes of these diseases are removable, and what they are, are questions which deserve the attention of the Philadelphia Board of Health, whose mem- bers seem, however, to have preferred to deny that there is any but a natural and in- evitable increase of disease in Philadelphia this season. The Heraup has been criticised because it has several times warned visitors to the Exhibition to be careful in diet and to guard themselves specially against mala- rious and typhoid infection. But it is now acknowledged that these warnings were nec- essary. Our correspondent gives many cases of disease, and he shows that there have been faults in the drainage, leading to impure water supply. We do not advise people to avoid the Ex- hibition. On the contrary, we should like to see everybody go, even if only fora day or two. But we do caution visitors to drink as little water as may be; to avoid tiring them- to dress warmly and avoid the night air, and to eat at regular hours and not in haste. With such com- mon precautions we believe the greater num- ber of visitors may avoid attacks of disease. But they should bear in mind that both the uncommon labors and excitements which they undergo and the influences of the place are deleterious, and that care and more than common prudence are essential. Cheap Cabs. The Hxnarp has always insisted that cheap cabs would pay in New York, and that a fortune would be realized by any per- | son having the enterprise to start them and the capacity to manage the business as it ought to be managed. In London the cabs pay well, and the Metropolitan Company is a monster concern which realizes large an- nual profits. It has been argued that our numerous horse car lines, running at low fares, would kill a cheap cab enterprise here, especially in view of the construction of the city, with its long parallel avenues. We believe that there will be ample patronage for cheap cabs in New York despite our city railroad facilities, just as in London the cabs do a large business despite the four- cent omnibuses, the underground and over- ground railroads and the river boats, The company about to be organized will, no doubt, test the question, @ the names men- tioned as ready to receive subscriptions to the capital stock are those of business men who will be certain to set practically about any business they undertake. The rate of fare mentioned as likely to be fixed upon is fifty cents an hour, which is bringing it down to London prices. Of course the suc- cess of the enterprise will depend mainly on the description of vehicle used. It must be a light cab, capable of being driven at a fair speed and comfortable to ride in. If this requirement is satisfied a little higher rate will not be an objection, although to secure success the fare should be placed just as low as consistent with a reasonable profit. Hallett’s Point Reef. The sounding rod has been at work dur- ing the last two days testing the varia- tions of depth in the water over the blasted reef. As the survey now in progress is only a preliminary one in order to de- fine the danger line which encloses the débris only an approximate estimate can be formed of the direct effect of the explosion. So far it has proved extremely satisfactory in demonstrating the destruction of the rocky mass, ond a decided increase in the depth of. water is shown at points which were very shallow before the blast. At a distance of three hundred feet from the shore line a depth of twenty feet is now found at mean low water level. This depth increases rap- idly outward into the channel, and will, of course, be created in shore when the dredg- ing is completed. A large vessel may safely pass within one hundred yards of Hallett’s Point, and when the débris_is removed may lie alongside the rocky shore line without danger. The effect on the currents is al- ready felt. The enlargement of the river section at this point permits of an increased flow of water, which will, as we have before stated, strengthen the current, but shorten the duration of its flow either way. The set is now toward Flood Rock, which fortunately is so surrounded with a sea wall of rubbish as to be rendered considerably less danger- ous to navigation than ever before. Every- thing considered the work at Hallett’s Point Reef is a grand success. Uncle Jimmy’s Blue Jeans, Many Jeans have been praised by the poets, especially by Burns, Scott, the Et- trick Shepherd and other Scottish bards ; but none of these Jeans were ever as pa- thetic as the blue jeans of that remarkablo old man who expects to be the next Gov- ernor of Indiana. He is more constant to his jeans than the poets, we fear, were to theirs. The reasons he gave to our correspondent recently for wearing that strange livery should melt the heart of his obdurate enemy. Uncle Jimmy Williams does not wear it to gain votes from grangers, but because it is dear to him from many old associations, ‘For many, many years in tho county where I was raised,” the old man said, ‘they could get nothing better to wear.” He larned all he knows, though ‘taint much, he says, in clothes madeof blue jeans. In blue jeans he went to school, and never wanted broadcloth when he went to apple orchards and sledding parties, His voice trembled whon he said, ‘I went a coortin’ in blue jeans, and neither she nor the minister objected to marry me on that sc- count when the time came ;” and rose with indignation as he said, “I'd be ashamed of myself if I was to go back on them now be- cause a lot of little minded jackasses think fit to sneer at them.” There ia poetry in this fond clinging to blue breeches because of the memories of the past, and it is, indeed, a sin to sit and grin at them here, though his old granger’s hat and his blue jeans and all that are so queer. Those blue jeans may yet have the honor to occupy the highest seat in the State of In- diana, and then no scoffer will dare te treat thom with ribald scorn. Succest will make them respectable, and if Uncle Jimmy becomes fashionable blue jeans will be the favorite costumes of all the aspiring democratic politicians of Indiana, No one will tell him then to pull down his vest, Let Uncle Jimmy nail his blue jeans to the mast. His suspenders hold up his princ’ ples and trousers together, and it is much better for him to be called old Panta loon than to be like one of those political Harlequins who mock at him in fine broad- cloth clothes, for which it is likely they are still in debt to the tailor. Mexico.—During the suspension of active hostilities in Mexico the government is re- organizing the army, in the hope that the next battle will be the last and end the revo- lution. Yet it is never the last revolution in Mexico, but always the latest. Still, that progress has been made in that country since the expulsion of the French aroused national pride cannot be denied. The Congress met on the 15th inst., and it is probable that ar- rangements will be made for the payment of a part of the English claims. Ir Wut, doubtless, disappoint many of the Boss’ old friends about the City Hall to learn that he displays a decided disinclina- tion to revisit the scenes of his early suc- cesses and of his final triumph as a Com- missioner of Public Works. Mr. A. A. Adee, the American Chargé d’Affaires in Madrid, is now at Vigo superintending the consign- ment of the goods to the Franklin for the political market. Will the package prove to be a case of dynamite? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The fingers of old people aro like skeleton leaves. ‘The republican press call Judge Sinnott a pottifogger, Constant Mayer is painting portraits since his retura from Germany. Rear Admiral James Alden, United States Navy, ia at the Glenbam Hotel. People who make much nose with their feet seldom make much with their heads. The Titusville Herald mentions the paragraphs of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Scissors! Senator George S, Boutwell, of Massachusetts, yes- terday arrived al Fifth Avenue Hotel, Toa man of brave sentiments midnignt is as bright ‘as noonday, for the illumination is within. It was Addison who, as many quoters seem to forget, said that ‘‘the woman who deliborates is lost,” The greatest merit of William 4. Seward im the Senate was that be was the boat listener there, Sutd a Spanish boatman:—‘I can forgive anything for love, and so, I suppose, can the Almighty.” The Italians do not say the author of a dictionary, but the compiler, and that appellation is the truest. Mr. Power H. Le Poer Trench, Secretary of the Brit- isn Legation at Washington, isat the Clarendon Hotel Said a lady to her hi nd, ‘‘My dear, what is cotton duck?’? “Oh,” said he, carelessly, ‘a xind of canvas back.’” Business in New York is illustrated by a man who ina Fourth avenue car said, ‘Well, it you've gota $600 note to pay, make new notes for two three’s,’’ “Felice” writes:—‘‘What is tho correct oxpression tor when you are somewhero do as they are used to?” It is “‘when you are in rum do as the democrats do.” AMillerite prophesies that the world is coming to an end this year, and his testimony is indorsed by the faet that a Visalia (Cal.) man has just married bis step- mother. George William Cartis made a point at Concord when he said that the nomination of Charles Francis Adams was designed “for export trade and not for home consumption.’ Oid Jobn Adams said, when he was ninety yoars of age, in a letter, that be had seen four wars, and that, following each of these wars, there had been a period of great financial and industrial depression. Sir Redmond Barry, one of tho British tennial Commissioners, wishing to obtain documents relating ta American progress for the Melbourne public library, authorizes Mr. Campbell, of No. 24 Broadway, to re- ceive and forward thom, Sunset Cox was born in Onio fifty-two years ago. He is college bred, and has been both lawyer and editor, Previous to 1865 be was an Ohio Congressman, and bas represented James Brooks’ district from New Yort city, comprising the Seventh, Eleventh and Thirteents wards, The Sioux Indians, having spent the summer in out Taging white wowen whom they have stolen from emigrant trains, and mutilating white mon whom they have burned at the stake, in this century of whick America is so proud, are going back to the agencies te get new powder and new dried fruit, Carlyle:—*'That figure js Camillo Desmoalins, a fele low of infinite wit and shrewdness—nay, humorous; ono of the sprightliest, clearest souls of all the mill- tons. Thou poor Camille! say of thee what they will, it wero but falsehood to pretend one did not almost love thee, thoa headlong, lightly sparkling man.” Hatchinson remarks on tho pieces of netting found in Peruvian graves that it was “perhaps from the same superstition which in Granada and among the Chinchas of South America makes tho net a symbol of death, At religious festiva's one was cast over the principal musical performer as a reminder of the prox. imity of death.”” ‘An English visitor to the Centennial wandered into a cheap restaurant in Shanty Town and ordered a steak. After desperate efforts to overcome its tough. ness he next called jora napkin. The landlord came out from the kitchen in his shirt sleoves and addressea the aetonished guest in indignant terms, “Sa-ay, young feller, this ain’t no Continental. The next thing you'll be wanting, I suppose, is grand pianer.”’ In the month of February, 1819, Thomas Wildoy and John Welch, two Englishmen, then residing in Baltt more, Md., inserted in the Baltimore American an ad. vertisemont in the following words:—“Notice to all Odd Fellowa.—A few members of tho Society of Odd Fellows will be glad to meet their brothren for eon- sultation upon the subject of forming alodge. The meeting will be held on Friday evening, the 2d of March, 1819.” Tho spectacle which humanity affords, in the past and in the present, !s often felt to be cheerless and dis- Piriting; the progress of enlightenment and morality ig very slow as compared with the short cxistonco of the individual; the gradual rise of the tide is masked by the flux and reflux of snecessivo waves, and the phil- anthropist who has toiled all his days to attain aspecial end must often lie down and await the final ‘roat with. out baying seen tho frait of his self-sacrifice. Uharies Keado has been presented with the ladies’ Centennial brooch by Mrs. James T. Fields, of Boston, In return the author has senta teapot of the jast cen- tury, of antique and curious dosign, bearing the fol- lowing characteristtc inscription:—"Charles Reade dedicates to the ladies of Boston and presents to his estoemed friend, Mrs. A. Ficlds, this potof the period when the citizons of Boston turned their harbor tnto a teapot and tasted the sweets of liberty.” Spenking of American civilization Brenchley says:— “Lam not aware that any discovery has been made, either of fragments of ancient pottery or of glyphic in- soriptions, to the north of the parallel of Cedar City, In South amorica the analogous traces of Iudian civil. gation stop al ee from the Equator, and do not appear to go Loyond the Slstdegree, It was, then, betweon 30 degrees south latitude and 38 degrees north Iatitudo thas tho leading nations of America oxwted and constituted powerful and cultivated societies,” { |