The New York Herald Newspaper, October 1, 1876, Page 10

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Money on call loaned at 11-2 and 2 per cent. Gold was weaker, selling at 110 1-42 110. Government bonds were dull and railway bonds unsteady. A Front for the fueros by the Biscayans and Navarrese is one of the possible diffi- culties in the way of young King Alfonso finding the Spanish throne an easy seat. Tur Ecyptian defeat at the hands of the Abyssinians seems to be confirmed. This fresh disaster will give the Khedive some- thing to do beside sending troops to fight * the Servians. His Hoxixrss, Pope Pins, and his chief adviser, Cardinal Antonelli, have both been in ill health; but they are old men and have been sick so often before that fatal results are no? especially probable. Tue Servrax Wan.—Whoever had the ad- vantage of the fight in the Morava Valley last Thursday, it is certain that it was not much of a battle after all. The main point in the news is that, although the Pow- ers seem doing all they can _ to bring the war to a conclusion, events are shaping themselves for o continu- ance of the struggle. Russian soldiers are still flocking to Prince Milan's standard, and Montenegro seems determined to take ap the fighting where it was left off three weeks ago. Jznome Pank Races.—The rain which Old Probabilities said was possible yesterday made itself unmistakably felt in the fore- noon, and looked so persistent in its deter- mination to drizzle all day that the Jockey Club was reluctantly compelled to postpone the opening of the fall meeting until to-mor- row, when it is to be hoped the clerk of the weather will come to an understanding with the clerk of the course and give the public and the horses a chance to do fitting honor to this beautful open-air sport. The city is fall of strangers, who are anxious to view such a spectacle as the race course at Jerome Park affords when a grand programme is prepared. | Waen Joun Ketxy, “Jimmy” O’Brien, John Morrissey and a few other local political “Jeaders” have made up their minds how they will portion out the fat offices among themselves and their camp followers the average citizen will be permitted to think about whom he will vote for. A readable article elsewhere will show the aforesaid citizen what a mess these cooks and their kitchen cabinets are preparing for him. John Kelly thinks that if he avoids nominat- Ing any of the Spotted Tail band that went on the warpath in the Treasury country at the heels of Big Six the whole city should vbe delighted with what he has to offer. “Jimmy” O’Brien wants ‘‘recognition”—that rations for his anti-Tammany Sioux, and Morrissey threatens to become a hostile young men are not treated to beef and Crow-With-a-Good-Voice Wickham to be taken care of by somebody, and ites and Snakes of the Custom House for Tammany scalps as well as supplies. What ao blessing if any way of sending all the big our politics to a reservation until ber | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1876.-QUADRUP LE SHEET. The Mayor of New York. Among other people whom we are to elect | in November is a Mayor for the city of New York. The Presidential contest is so exciting thatthe Mayoralty of one of the three most important cities in the world, while it does not precisely go begging, is yet, inthe popu- lar mind, » minor office. Yet the population whose chief executive officer the Mayor is makes up a fortieth of the whole population of the United States, and thongh his patron- age is less than that of the President it is far from contemptible ; and a Mayor of New York, if he were something besides a third rate politician and kind of gilt-edged justice of the peace ; if he were a man proud of the city, intelligently desirous to increase its prosperity and greatness, and familiar, as such an officer ought to be, with its wants, might make himself a great name—much greater fame, in fact, than some of our Presi- dents enjoy in history. There are not many spots in the world where o man of statesmanlike intelligence and courageous honesty could plan out so great acareer as is open toa Mayor of New York. Onur city is one of the three great commercial capitals of the world. Into its port flows the greater part of the trade of the continent. Here is gathered greater wealth than on any similar area in the United States. Nature has given us an un- equalled situation ; commerce has drawn hither a population on the whole as in- genious, enterprising and industrious as that of any city in the world, except, perhaps, Paris. Land, water, commerce, manufac- tures and people we have—and not much else except a heavy debt. If we had among usacitizen with the ambition to recreate New York, as it ought to be recreated—a man who wished to be Mayor, not for the salary or the petty honor of the place, or because it flattered his vanity to be the dispenser of patronage, but because he wished to help make New York what it ought to be—what would be his dream? He would see at his hand enormous forces of wealth and popula- tion, working in almost chaotic confusion. He would see a laboring people more wretch- edly lodged than any equal number of men, women and children in the world, and yet peaceable and almost contented with their lot. He would see commerce prosecuted daily under difficulties and charges which would drive it away from any less favored city. He would see streets ill paved and dirty; piers and docks unfit for the accom- modation of ships; insufficient warehouses, needlessly distant from the ships; every- where mismanagement, waste of effort and means in attaining the everyday objects of life; distances made unnecessarily great; living costly and inconvenient to an extreme which drives thousands away from the city yearly. And yet he would see that all this waste, inconvenience, costliness, is unnecessary; that New York ought, by reason of its won- derful natural advantages, to be one of the cleanest, most convenient and cheapest cities in the world. He would see that with two or three rapid transit ronds the greater part of our tenement house population, now so abominably lodged that its death rate is nearly double that of the uptown popula- tion, could easily be drawn to the upper end of the island, where it would live in decency and comfort. He would see that the ware- houses of a great port need to be connected with the shipping by convenient railroads; that the markets of a great city ought to be easily accessible to the gardeners who sup- ply them and to the people who must use them, and ought not to be kept in slums, where purchasers visit them at the risk of their lives. He would know that with the growth of this great city careful plans are needed for the location of steamships, of railroad depots, of fleets plying in the differ- ent trades, and that we can no longer go on in the haphazard way in which we have been living. In fact, he would see that, so far as organi- zation goes, New York is yet a village, and waits for some citizen with genius, persist- ence and devotion to make it a city. Itis a huge village, which has squandered seventy millions in a vain, because ill-regulated, dis- orderly and extravagant attempt to become acity. It has a court house which is a mon- umentof the most audacious theft of modern days, It hasa magnificent park lying out of the convenient reach of the greater part of its people. It cultivates commerce as though the object of commerce was to afford a prey to a few favored robbers. It has a government which is so much a sham that the rights of the poor to free sir ond decent lodgings are utterly neglected, the laborer works under greater difficulties than anywhereelse on the continent, and the traveller enters the city through slums which offend his nose in the summer time and his sense of decency at all times, 1s there any other city in the world where a cartman may spend eight hours in transporting a trunk twelve blocks from a ferry landing toasteamer dock? or where draymen rise an hour earlier to get into a queue, and wait half a day for a chance to unload their goods? or where, after a summer rain, the streets in the business parts are so slippery and grimy as to make walking difficult? or where it can be said, and said with truth, that there are single tenement houses which contain as great ® population as half of Fifth avenue? orwhere the street railroad corporations not only use the streets for nothing, but boldly appeal to the courts to forbid, in their interests, the establishment of rapid transit routes to enable working people to live in comfort and decency? Everybody nowadays is crying out for reform. Will not somebody bring forward a reform Mayor of New York? He need not bea man of genius. But he ought to bea man who had grown up in New York and had a pride in his city. He need not ex- pect to complete the city during his reign ; but he ought to possess a strong desire to begin the improvements which it needs, to accommodate its commerce cheaply and to make the lives of its citizens pleasant. He ought to see that what is now needed is a comprehensive, thoroughly studied plan on which the city could be improved. Such a plan, it is very obvious, ought to include:— I. At least two rapid transit railroads, giving cheap and quick communication to passengers between the upper and lower parts of the city, so that the overcrowding of the lower parts could be prevented and the laboring people could enjoy cheaper rents and more respectable accommodations. Rapid transit would, in less than three years, entirely change the characte of New York. II. A belt freight railroad, double track, elevated if possible, and traversing the ex- treme water front on both sides of the island, from the Battery to the Harlem River, so as to bring the warehouses and the shipping into cheap and close relations. This would relieve the pressure, now so extreme, on the business streets down town, and induce capitalists to construct warehouses of such extent and character as will be needed here at once, whenever we have a real revival of commerce, IL Complete the canal across the upper end of the island, which has been for so many years spoken of. This would enable the coasting and Hudson River trade to centre at docks in the upper end of New York, where this vast commerce could be conveniently accommodated, and where the products it brings and exchanges could be handled cheaply and without delay. These are, in our judgment, the three great fundamental improvements which New York needs. They should not be made at the city’s expense, but they ought to be planned in the city’s interest; private capital would gladly undertake them all, un- der proper safeguards and restrictions. If they were now planned, a mul- titude of unemployed laborers could have work, and their labor would be pre- paring New York for that which cannot be far off, a renewed prosperity, which we ought to be ready tor, but are not. The next high tide of commerce and industry ought to make New York, if we are wise, the com- mercial capital of the world. Nothing can prevent this except our own ill manage- ment or wilful neglect of opportunities which thrust themselves upon us, Can we not have a Mayor with imagination enough to foresee the great future of New York and vigor enough to force the needed prepara- tions for that fature? Italian Opera. On Monday evening Mr. Strakosch will begin at the Academy of Music a short sea- son of Italian opera. We cannot conceal our regret that it is to be only ashort season. It is true that we have not had our ears dinned with promises of the appearance of such lyric planets as dazzle the eyes while entrancing the rest of the senses, but on that very account we may have a pleasant surprise in store for us. We are to have “Norma,” ‘‘Semiramide,” ‘La Favorite’ and “Il Trovatore,” and perhaps some others during the week. This, with the exception of “Semiramide,” is nota very high flight. Those, however, who can still find thorough musical enjoyment outside the. new school of harmony without tune, and melody without form—and they are counted by thousands—will have their opportunity in hearing the company of Mr. Strakosch, While we are sorry that we shall not hear anything new we may remind the public that a meritorious presentation of ‘‘Norma” or “La Favorita” taxes the singing re- sources ofa company severely, and Rossini’s great opera, ‘‘Semiramide,” is always made the occasion in Europe of the most strenuous preparations by the management. Mme. Marie Palmien, who will appear on Monday as Norma, will take the part of the Baby- lonian Queen on Tuesday, with Mlle. Belocca in the part of the young Arsaces, This should give us a fine performance, apart from the rest of the cast. The times are mending, and we hope Mr. Strakosch will take heart of grace from his first ex- periment to treat New York to opera on a grand scale before the season is over. He begins cautiously, but if what he gives us is good of its kind we feel assured he will meet with the encouragement that he seems to need. The Chinese Commission. The joint commission appointed by Con- gress to inquire into the question of the admission of Chinese laborers to this coun- try will leave during the coming week for San Francisco. It consists of Senators Mor- ton, Sargent and Cooper, and Representa- tives Piper, Meade, of this city, and Wilson, of Iowa. Tho inquiry is in many respects important. Mr. Wilson, it is said, will not go. We trust the remainder of the commission will not let political anxieties prevent them from attending to the duty imposed on them by Congress. On the report they make will probably depend the question of a re- vision of our treaties with China, so that, while guarding ourselves against the influx of semi-barbarous Chinese, we shall yet not lose the increasing advantage of our trade with China. The British government has just obtained from the Chinese a concession of the opening of Eching and several other important ports on the Yang-tse-Kiang, in the advantages of which Americans, under our present treaties, will participate. ‘the commerce on the inland waters of China is now largely in American hands, and we should take care to lose no vantage ground we have acquired there. Baxscoce’s Acquittan on the conspiracy indictment in the safe burglary case has been a foregone conclusion for several days past, and its actual announcement this morning will not startle the world. That remarkable piece of villany, the safe burglary, has been so carefully dark- ened by perjury and trickery that the actors in it, who of late pro- fessed to tell the truth about it, were obliged to discredit their statements by con- fessing to bearing false witness at some of the earlier stages of inquiry. We wish we could congratulate Colonel Babcock on his acquittal with acertainty that the truth about the nefarious business at last was known; but the fact is that this latest inquest has only made the confusion respecting the crime greater still, No man could or should be convicted on the evidence of self-confessed perjurers. Such a failure to convict, how- ever, is not exactly washing an accused man free of all stain. All the malign, corrupting iufluences that have hovered around Wash- ington since the war seem to have concen- trated themselves in this loathsome affair, Beginning Well. We are glad that the Grand Jury has pre- sented the Board of Excise Commissioners asa nuisance. This is, perhaps, the first time that any part of our municipal govern- ment has been justly and correctly described in the references to it made im their official capacity by any dignified body. Excise boards are generally nuisances. This is the common opinion of mankind in all coun- tries, without regard to race, color or pre- vious conditions of servitude, Straight haired men and kinky-haired men, and even bald men ; white men, black men, red men and even men with the ‘‘yaller janders,” all agree in the opinion that an excise board is a nuisance, and such unanimity of opinion is the evidence of truth.—Q E.D. That common opinion is, however, we fear, dé- rived from prejudices not unrelated to the thirst of humanity and the hatred of bodies instituted by government for making liquor dearer. It is an odd fact that the prejudices of men in regard to liquor are derived in a much greater degree from their pockets than from their palates, which may be due to the circumstance that the majority of men are poor, but only the minority have palates. If it were otherwise we are inclined to be- lieve that the fact that excise boards make liquor dearer would be condoned by the equally certain fact that they insure to the consumer an article of a better quality. But the case with our Excise Board is of another nature. The very licenses it gives are an evidence that it performs no function with regard to quality, and no other function entitled to respect. But an inquiry, to which we should be obliged for an early an- swer is this;—When the Grand Jury deemed the various parts of our municipal govern- ment worthy its attention why did it stop with the declaration that the Excise Board isa nuisance? And when does it propose to make the same declaration with regard to all the other parts? e Nettle on His Mettle. Nettle is the man whose case is in litiga- tion before several courts. Some of them are in Austria and some of them are in this country. Some are United States courts, some are only courts of this Commonwealth ; but at least one is an aula regis. Some months ago it was decided that Nettle should go to Austria for trial there, and he was incarcerated subject to the order of the Austrian Consul ‘and labelled C. O. D. Thereupon the Austrian Consul sent to Austria for the money. But the de- mand had to pass through several circumlocution offices. Finally it was understood to be on its way. Ere the arrival, however, the time for which Net- tle was incarcerated had expired. There was a rush of lawyers to the rescue. There were injunctions and writs of habeas corpus and other weapons from the arsenals of the law. In the midst of this fight the money arrives. The sadly badgered Judge, uncer- tain of his course, decides to “take the papers.” But, behold, Nettle himself steps dramatically forward and requests the Judge to release him from his lawyers and send him home toa quiet life in the prisons of Austria, We trust that when our citizens are in search of the next person to whom they can erect a monument they will not forget Netile. Pulpit Topics To-Day. Christ, man and the devil will divide the attention of our city preachers to-day. To givea little variety, however, to the dis- courses, a little temperance and a little Spir- itualism will be thrown in. The believer, encouraged by Dr. Armitage, may receive in- spiration in prayer from Christ's heavenward look, while the Saviour's true worshippers will be called upon by Dr. Burrows to choose between His riches and poverty, and by spiritual vision they may behold salvation as Dr. Rambaut will present it, or the plan of salvation as Dr. Birch will reveal it.to the Lord’s witnesses. While there is a marked difference between instituted and ideal re- ligion, which difference Mr, Frothingham will point out, the Christian may very firmly maintain with Mr. Lloyd that there is no rock like our Rock, our enemies themselves being judges. And so believing, he may look forward with Mr. Kerr to the next life without fear, because his triumphant faith will be kept in such lively exercise that he shall never lament, as some of Mr. Hepworth’s auditors probably will to-day, that they have nothing but leaves to present to the Master. Such a one will do all things in remembrance of Christ, and will not, as some to whom Dr. Rylance will speak, abuse the doctrine of passive obedience, nor will he hinder the Gospel’s progress by Mr. Rowell or any other minister thereof. Opening the Harlem River. Great improvements, such as those in progress at the upper end of the East River, necessitate many others which conttibute in a greater or lesser degree to the importance of the first. The opening of a new outlet to the ocean for large vessels through the hitherto almost impassable channel of Hell Gate, develops new conditions and creates possibilities for that part of New York which it will be wise to recognize in time. We publish in to-day’s Henanp an exhaustive description, illustrated by a map, of the Harlem River and of the proposed improve- ments of its channel. These embrace the opening of a ship canal, which will connect the Hudson River with the East River and the Sound, and by which a new commercial water front will be created for the already cramped-up trade of New York. The ad- vantages of such a work will be apparent to every one giving the subject a proper con- sideration, especially when it is executed at a part of the city that must soon feel the influence of its remarkable growth. The future of New York depends on the wisdom exhibited in the plans for the improvement of her trade facilities, and none can be con- sidered perfect that does not include the opening of the Harlem River to commerce. On tee Looxovt.—There has been what the police call a ‘general alarm” sent out to all the astronomical detectives to keep a sharp lookout for a fugi- tive star which may come this way. His name is Vulean; but he is'ns likely as not to give a false name, or perhaps no name atall, Vulcan was a blacksmith by trade—a lame blacksmith whose limp ] excited inextinguishable Jaughter in Olympus—a fact which indica‘es that the people who occupied the top of that mountain were, like mountaineers generally, not well bred. He carries his anvil with him and wears a leather apron. It is thought that he will cut across in front of the sun day after to-morrow, and, as he is not afraid of fire, he will go pretty close, th® bet- ter toelude pursuit or escape observation. He was once seen by an amateur astronomer with a dilapidated telescope, Wherever he is it is to be hoped that whoever has a dilapi- dated telescope in the house will polish it up for this occasion. A Proper ‘Testimonial to General Newton, It is proposed that the Chamber of Com- merce shall, on bebalf of the merchants of New York, present a testimonial to General Newton for the great service his skill has rendered to our harbor. By all means; but suppose the merchants and capitalists of New York make the testimonial some- thing, really advantageous to the General. Aservice of silver is a good thing; but we suggest something a good deal better. Flood: Rock remains to be removed, Con- gress has not appropriated enough money for the purpose. All this work is for the benefit, largely, though of course not alto- gether, of the city. Why should not the Chamber of Commerce raise enough money to remove the remaining ob- structions at once,—in two years say, rather than four~and at the same time make a handsome and proper ad- dition to General Newton’s very modest salary while he is engaged on the work? That would be a testimonial which the Gen- eral would appreciate. Three hundred thousand dollars is the sum needed, we be- lieve. We may wait some years before Con- gress will give that amount in addition to what it has already given ; why not raise it here by a subscription and let General New- ton complete without delay what he has so well brought forward? The city needs nothing so much as a well- matured plan tor the Harlem River improve- ment and the proper organization of its docks and warehouses, Why should not the Chamber of Commerce ask General Newton for a plan on which these and other harbor improvements, required to accommodate our growing com- merce, could be systematically carried out ? For such a plan the General could be and ought to be handsomely paid, and by it the city would be very greatly benefited, and such employment in the line of the profes- sion in which he excels would bea proper testimonial to the General. We do not ob- ject to the customary service of silver : let that come as a matter of course. But to enable him to go on with his work of im- provement would, we donot doubt, be even more welcome to the man who has done so much for our harbor. The Approaching Cold Weather. After numerous assaults during the latter part of September Jack Frost has succeeded in carrying our lines in the Northwest, and is opening the winter campaign against the hungry, the naked and the homeless by a vigorous march toward New York. Yester- day morning the area of temperature of thirty-two degrees and less extended over Nebraska, Dakota and a portion of Minne- sota, with a fall to twenty degrees above zero in the vicinity of Bismarck. The curve of the isotherm of thirty-two degrees was consecutive with area of highest pres- sure (30.50 inches) now central in the Missouri Valley. Toward noon the tem perature rose to forty-three degrees in the Northwest, but the effect over the country eastward was not marsed by a pro- portional increase of warmth during the day. Rain prevailed from the South Atlan- tic coast to the lakes and northeastward into the New England States, and was caused by the rapid condensation of the atmospheric moisture by the advancing cold wave from the westward. The area of low pressure now moving off the coast has divided into two parts, one of which is passing south- eastward from North Carolina and the other northeastward from the mouth of the St. Lawrence. To-day the weather in New York will be cloudy, probably with rain, and the temperature will full decidedly, with fresh westerly to southwesterly winds, Long ‘Jog and the Indian Agent. That stupidly illogical thing which we call an Indian policy received o quaint ‘touch in a despatch we printed yesterday anent the way the red men regard the treat- ment the returning hostiles received at Fort Peck. Mr. Long Dog, it seems, who was fresh from the hostile camp, claimed and re- ceived first rate treatment at Fort Peck ; in- deed, it was with some difficulty Long Dog wes restrained from getting into bed with the Indian agent himself. The effect of this hospitality to a red-handed murderer upon the peaceable agency Indians was notice- able. They complained that “when the hostiles come in the agent shakes hands with them and féles them, and it makes them feel sorry they were not hostile, be- cause then they would be treated much bet- ter.” This is very natural. The agency Indians have been kept in a state bordering on starvation, while the savages who come back with white scalps, Seventh cavalry horses. and all that the Indian admires un- der the name of glory, are fed and coddled and sent back with promises and presents. Now, the Indians know very well that Long Dog and Lone Elk and Fast Dog, and all the other Elks and Dogs, are simply spies, and we may rest assured that if the winter passes without a terrible blow being given to the” hostiles the spring will open upon a campaign greater in the numbers engaged and more bloody and costly in result then the disastrous cam. paign just closed. It is high time that the government issued unmistakable orders to the Indian agents respecting the way they should receive all hostile Indians presenting themselves. The picture of Long Dog furi- ously demanding to sleep in the agent's bed at Fort Peck, while the peaceable Indians without were regretting that they had not been on the warpath, is highly suggestive of the audacity of the victorious savages on one hand and the imbecility of our In policy on the other, / May Teachers Marry? Any law or official rule which operates as an obstacle to marriage is an evil in s0 far as it is effective, and a greater evil if in- effective, because it puts a premium upon fraud and immorality. It is well known, for instance, that wherever soldiers’ widows receive pensions which are discontinued if they remarry this in some degree pre- vents marriage and in so far leads to the formation of illicit relations; but it does not absolutely prevent marriage. The women marry, but conceal the fact, and a relation which every State should encourage and honor is stamped with one of the characters of crime, that character, namely, that it will insure the infliction of a penalty if it be- comes known, The regulation proposed to be enforced in the schools of the city, that matried women shall not hold places as teachers, is on its face, therefore, if not immoral in itself, a likely detriment te morality; it is also against good policy on the broadest grounds, and tends to the cul- tivation of dishonesty. For these reasons we believe it would bea bad rule to make, Reasons are given on the other side in favox of the measure. So far as these reasons are stated they are those of prurient prades in pantaloons, At best they are certain minor considerations of convenience in adminis- tration which cannot for a moment weigh against the broad reasons against the pro- posed rule. Economy on Stxamsoats.—'There is prob- ably no provision in the laws against a pilot going to sleep when he isin charge of a steamboat, and consequently no penalty is imposed; but it is inconvenient for the passengers and not profitable for the owners when a pilot thus indulges him- self in the honey heavy dew of slumber. In the case of the steamer just wrecked in the North River because of the failure of the pilot to keep his eyes open the real sufferers, therefore, are the owners of the boat. The pilot will perhaps not be any one else's pilot in a great while, but will doubtless get other occupation, For the owners, however, it ir doubtful if they can collect an insurance, and the loss will teach them the useful les- son, not widely enough known, that in the management of great interests true economy lies oftener in the liberal expenditure of money than in its parsimonious use, Fors pilot to be on duty one night when he only had a third of his sleep the night before in- dicates that the force was overworked, be- cause it was too small. The punishment falls in the right place, therefore; for the owners are to blame. Taxation or Doas.—In a case of death by hydrophobia a Coroner's jury of doctors have recommended the taxation of dogs as a means of limiting their number, in the desperate hope that this measure would also reduce the number of cases of hydrophobia. It is a good prop- osition to tax the dogs, for the annual slaughter at the dog pound is not asufficient restraint upon theirincrease. But thenum.- ber of cases of hydrophobia is not in propor. tion to the number of dogs, and, therefore, the proposed measure would be a clumsy preventive. Some years ago cases of hydro- phobia were so rare that they were read of with startled horror when they occurred ; but now scarcely a week, certainly never a month, passes without one. This increased frequency of the disease is believed to coin- cide in time with the introduction here of the so-called Spitz do:, and the disease in him to be a result of his change of climate from the Arctic regions. If the doctors will prove this to be true and recommend the extirpation of this animal they may well be listened to with respect. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Dr. Livingstone’s dog has died. A Welshman shot a white swallow, William Black, the novelist, bas gone to Colorado, The old Tammany boys say, ‘Give the old mana ehance.”” Bridesmaids may wear pale pink muslin, trimmed With pink silk. An authority says that the French foot is meagre, narrow and bony. The Washington Chronicle witl be printed herealtet in the blanket sheet form. The groom may presont each of the bridesmaids with a locket bearing a monogram. ‘The old practice ot troops cheering on charging an enemy, which was abolished in the British army some time ago, is to be revived, M. de Vaugelas and M. do Coreelle, of the French Lo gation at Washington, are at the Brevoort House, In Paris street musicians drag pianos about, and, stopping before a house, play with great self-posses sion. William E. Dodge thinks that young ladies should wear only the Christian Union and the Witness og Sundays. Tne editor of tho Milwaukee Commercial Times saya that the prettiest girl in New Jersey has not reached vulgar fractions, Thousands of bushels of mushrooms have rotted on the meadows this year because farmers are prejudiced against ‘‘tadstools and sich.” There is a superstition among the gouty old fellows in Upper New Jersey that a horse chestnut, carried in the leit trousers pocket, will cure rheumatism, Captain Celso Cesar Morono, the projector of the ‘Transpacific cable, has completed his work at Washing. ton, and will leave to-day for the Pacific coast to com. mence operations, The Italian government has presented land owners of Italy with slips ofthe cucalyptus trea, which will be planted in cities and even along rail: ways, 80 as to drive out ague, Mr. John O'Connor Power, M. P., arrived in New York by the Britannie yesterday and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He brings with him the Centennial ad- dress of the Irish people to the President, “Allsopp, the Burton alo man, is visiting Bass, the bit ter ale man ; they were playing a trout on Loeh Quoich, at Inverness, when they both fell out of their boat and wore nearly drowned, They became cold water men at last, Many people who like broiled salt mackerel, but find it indigestible, may, after soaking it over night, stow it whole in a pan, with jast enongh water to cover; then dry and serve with butter and parsley and stewed po tatoes, His Excellency Earl Dufferin, Governor General oj Canada, arrived at Sait Late City yesterday, spent tne afternoon in sight seeing and the evening with Gov. ernor Emory and several other gentlemen at the resi. dence of Hon, William Jennings, and left yesterday morning for the East, The Examiner says:—So long as Englishmen profer the chance of twenty per cent to the certainty of five per cent, so long will there be periodical times ot trouble, and political economy mast remain a dreary scrence while its texchers pretend that they can jnggie away these facts by the manipulation of pieces of ” In a Village not a hundred miles from Cork a medical gentioman was disturbed by repeated tapp door, and, ou getting up, found a laboring pndance for his wile, asked the ductor, “Have you “Indade I have,” answered Pat, “But why didn’t you ring the night bell?” “Och, because I was afraid of disturbing your bonor,”” _