The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1876, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day} in the year, Four cents per copy. ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, iree of post All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York | LD. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE SIXTH STR t. LONDON OF HERALD- PARIS OF Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XbI.. NO.112 SOUTH AMUSEM ENTS TO-NIGHT. THEATRE, ROOTIDS BARDANAPALUS, at8 P.M. Mr. Bungs and Mra, Agnes | Booth. PARK THEATRE. CLOUDS. at 8 P.M. FIFTH LIFE, 8PM. TEATRE, RAND OPERA HOUSE. UNCLE TOMS CABIN, acS P.M. Mra. Howard, NIBLO'S GARD: BABA, at 8 P. M. a ACAI OF MUSIC. TROVATORE. Mu e BRC OATES ENGLISH ©. LACKS at WAL FORBIDDEN FkUl!, OWER TULLAMORE, at 8 P. M. STEINWAY THOMAS’ GRAND CON TRE, ol Henderson. TALL. arse. M Colo YS MUSEUM. ats? M. Matinee at2P, M. THEATRE, wool FLASH OF LIGHTNIN’ UNION 8¢ TWO ORPHANS, at 8 CHICK Cazeneuve, the Presti | candor and less personal abuse than have | | so obscure a person as the confidential clerk KELLY & wSP. My, cr VARIETY, at 87. M. Ma ° VARIETY AND D coLUM VARIETY, at SPM.) Tr VARIETY, at S P. M, THIRD AVENUB THEATRIL VARIETY, at SP. Mt. TONY PA ; THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P.M. TIVO VARIETY, at 8 P.M. M Afternoon and use. M, SAN FRA ats P.M. AMED ANNUAL FAIR. TRIPLE _ “NRW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5. “From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be generally cooler and partly cloudy. Watt Srneer Yxste —The stock mar- ket was higher and excited. An important | advance took place in coal shares. Gold de- clined from 110 1-8 to 109 7-8, Government bonds were activeand lower. Railway bonds steady. Money on call loaned at 3 1-2 and 2 per cent. Borp Ben Burixer does not believe that the republicans are doing right who are com- bining todrive him out of the field in the Lowell district. A spicy interview with the Essex statesman on this and kindred topics will be found elsewhere. has to say for himself in the premi. laid before our readers, Vulcan's non-ap- pearance may now be attributed to his being at work on this republican bolt. Rapw Tra —It will gratify the citizens of New York to know that those interested in furnishing rapid transit to New York have not lost all heart in fae of the legal stumbling blocks thrown bee fore them. Yesterday a step was taken in the Supreme Court in the direction of com- pleting the work of the Rapid Transit Com- mission by appointing a referee to take tes- timony respecting the appointment of an Appraisement Commission. Tun Ure Ixprans in Colorado and New | to to said This assumed whites, and be feared news is rather have the to Mexico are reported a hostile attitude an outbreak is at cny moment. disquieting, w of the utter failure of our campaign against the Sioux, of which it is highly probable the Utes have learned by this time. Wero it not fora general ap- pearance of scarishness about the report we Bbould regard the outlook in the far West with increased gloom in vi Gronrata, as we predicted after very care- fal computation, has gone democratic. We may acknowledge, now that the popularver- dict has been taken in that State, that we were not a little shaken in our belief by the confident tone assumed—we may now safely say assumed—by the republi- can organs throughout the Union, in their predictions that the Georgia election would gothe other way. So far as heard from the Georgians have not to any great What Jadge Hoar | s is also | degree manifested a desire to show 1 y their votes that they may be counted for Hayegand | Wheeler. We now further state that we do | mot think they can be. ‘Arihmetic | men” may compute until the white paper they usually print on is covered with figures, but they will not s: our deliber- ate belief that Georgia will for Tilden and reform next November, nor that the Dutch have captured Holland. Coxonapo has gone republican by at least two thousand majority. The terrible night- mare is therefore removed which oppressed the politicians of both parties throughout the Union while the mighty struggle was impending in the Centennial State between the prairie dogs and sage hens amid their native gulches and over their rolling sandhills, We fancy that the democrats will turn a contemptuous upper lip and an air-sniffing nose to this great triumph of the party of Lincoln, of | Sumner and of Fremont; but we aro sure, on the other hand, that tho republic: will let the cannon roar the gseream and shout themsel hoarse because this great State has resolved itself into a bullet in the shrapnel which is to blow Jef- ferson Davis and his following to the blue Dlazes of a sulphurous hereafter. No matter what we think of it, the battieis over. That is something. Now we are free to turna | ‘attention to the voting in the little places we call Indiana and Ohio, ns | and agle | ‘too many examples of forfeited pledges to NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, Discreditable Eleetionecering Tactics— The It was to have been hoped that our Presi- dential election in this centennial would be conducted with more moderation and Independent Press. heretofore been common in such contests. We regret that this hope has been dis- appointed. We have notgeen, in our time, a Presidential canvass in which personal char- acter has been more rudely assailed or the honor of candidates more foully aspersed. Senator Conkling established a new title to public respect by that part of his Utica speech in which he deprecated this mode of party warfare. We are glad to find our own sentiments on this point indorsed by so strong and zealous a partisan as Mr. Conkling, who sees that neither party gains anything by a campaign of calumny which is as easy for one side as for the other, while it debases our political con- tests and makes them loathsome to a large portion of the community. The most recent specimen of this kind of tactics (a verysmall and mean one, indeed,) happens to come from the democratic side. We refer to the fac-simile of a letter written by Gov- erner Hayes’ private secretary which was paraded yesterday in the two leading Tilden papers of this city. A plate for | printing the same fac-simile was also offered to the Iznaxp by the Tilden shop in Liberty | street, but we declined to use it. It does | not quite do to assume that the readers of a newspaper are idiots, who think that the exact reproduction of a piece of hand- writing gives a significance to its sub- ject matter which it would not have in printer's type. What interest can any two- legged creature have in the handwriting of of a State Governo»” ‘et Pye, ra 4 ‘ way, In \ ade, nd I sul} thwe u % «a Exchange, 1 tel sonal, 893¢; Fifth fo. ore and Traders’, + chan, 119; New York, 115 od he, 72; St. Nicholas, 100, / - os MCAN MINING BOARD, yard to-day the following trans 209 shs Grant luo do. SALES AFTER TUE CALL. 24%, 100+) Grky 2 wa rae ay (ey Mir Be anc a ns Min, aed ‘€ | =e 2 . | Fregoa We must leave our respectable “and re- 4 spected party contemporaries to pursue the course which they may think expedient. They are no more responsible té us than we areto them. While giving them credit for honorable motives we select our own path, We are sensible that it would not be quite fair to judge them by the standards of an independent journal which is not fettered or embarrassed by party ties. Our readers will bear us wit- ness that we have not circulated calumnies against either of the Presidential candidates. Besides keeping ourselves clear of this offence against political decency we have maintained an attitude of strict impartiality between the two parties in this contest. We conceive that the most important function of the public press is not to contribute to party triumphs, but to hold the administration to the faithful performance of its duties after its accession to power. Electioneering pretences are of little account. The country has had attach any importance to electioneering pro- fessions. But when a party comes into power it cannot escape its amenability to public opinion, and we think that the influ- ence of the press is most efficient and salu- tary when brought to bear upon the imme- diate measures of an administration. Even if party platforms were not the humbug- ging claptrap which all thinking men know them to be it is impossible for their authors to foresee the exigencies whi’) ay arise in the course of a four year’ istration, The actual measures ornment ought to bed reseen condition of thi * the time of their ado) rm can anticipate, nor , ts ened public journal . emergencies of the sec i te year of a new administi lic press, if truce te will do nothing in the contested election which wou influence on public aflairs ensuing four years. The press h different relation to public affairs 1 of the people. When the people hav for a President they exhaust their pow: + / the erisuing four years, But the influe: of the prous, instead of ceasing witl: ti election, continues in full vigor through- out tho admigistration of the elected * | President, oo vote once and | 1 nadets »| will cannot vot again for a President until the four yess shall have expired. But the press is ag active, influential and vigilant after the el-ction as it was before, and the actual messufes of the administration will succeed or Bisearry in proportion to the support theypeceive from the people, as ex- pressed in fhe public press, The Henatp takes little ifterest in the immediate result of this Prg@idential election, because it -expects to Pxert a controlling influence on the meagires of the new administration, whichever party succeeds. There will be hundreds fof unforeseen emergeticies in which th¢ government will need the sup- port or mfy profit by the criticism and ad- vice of tfe public press, and the Heratp thinks itgan be more useful on such occasions than it @uld be in promoting the election of eit Presidential candidate. It is chiefly Jin this respect that it dif- ers fm the party journals. That part pf the press which advocates the ction of Hayes or of Tilden will feel found to, support or oppose the measfres of the successful candidate through thicljand thin; but an independent journal, has been neutral in the election, re- its liberty to support or oppose meas- uregon their merits, An administration if poyer is sensitive to public opinion, and a pr¢s which retains its liberty to give voice to that opinion without fear or favor, after ew President is inaugurated, has a better chance of public usefulness than the party organs which bind themselves in advance to support all the measures of one candidate and oppose all the measures of the other. If the function of the press, like that of the people, ceased with the elec- tion, it might be advisable for the press to take sides ; but inasmuch as it is the duty of the press to make its influence felt throughout the four years, it is unwise for it to do anything in advance of the election | which would impair its power afterward. The Henaxp expects to make its influence felt in promoting good and thwarting bad measures whichever candidate is elected, and it be- | lieves that the immediate pressure of public opinion during the course of an administra- tion is more potential than the claptrap party platforms, which are consigned to ob- livion as soon as the election is over. We regret that the whole press of the country does not take our view of public duty. In this city’ both parties are very ably represented in the press—the republi- can party by the Times and Tribune, the democratic party by the Sunand World. If Hayes is elected one set of organs will advo- cate and the other oppose all his measures ; if Tilden is elected the same thing teke place, with a change of parts. Nobody can Know whether such advocacy or such opposition is sincere. But when the Hregatp, which stands neutral in the election, and tells the plain truth about both parties, supports or impugns a measure of the new administration the public will have no reason for doubting that it ex- presses both its own real opinion and the drift of that general public sentiment which the Hzraxp has seldom failed to represent. Our Dlustrated Newspapers. It is one of the remarkable evidences of the great improvement which has taken place within a few years in the artistic exe- tion of American illustrated journals, that weed should have been recognized in pain by the striking likeness of him con- tained in one of Thomas Nast'’s forcibie cari- catures in Ilarper’s Weekly. The Spanish authorities, oddly enough, took the picture literally and apprehended Tweed as a child stealer, because he was represented dragging off a smaller person than himself. Perhaps they thought him to be the veritable ab- ductor of Charley Ross. The illustrated newspaper has become a fact and a force among the journals of the country. Its beginnings, it is now not un- gracious to say, were not promising. We had neither the artists nor the en- gravers trained in ‘the peculiar work needed; but nowadays such papers as Harper's Weekly, both in the artistic design and the artistic execution of woodeuts, are not a whit behind their English rivals. In- deed, they generaliy excel these, especially in clearness of cutting and printing. More- over, they are a power in the land. Harper's Weekly, the Graphic and Franke Leslie's jour- nal present not only the events of the day in thoir illustrations—they use caricature,” often with remarkable ability and genius. Thomas Nast’s pencil is worth to a political party a score or even a hundred speakers ; and there are other artists in the service of the other journals whose wit and humor enable them to present the topics of the day in a humorous aspect with very great ability. The Graphic often excels in this, line, and wins laughter and applause by the wit of its caricatures. Recent improvements in photolithography have made possibie the publication of a daily illustrated journal. Such a journalas J/er- per's Weekly, with its very great circulation, has to employ a multitude of artists and en- gravers in order to present the events of the week while they are fresh. It does this with great success, The Graphic could not probably publish daily if it did not rely largely on lithography, which has now been so greatly improved that it answers ad- mirably the purpose of a daily journal. Illustrated jeurnalism, which has had in the last fifteen years a very rapid and sound growth among us, has had an impor- tant office in advancing the artistic educa- tion of the people. The most remote back- woodsman, the most secluded plantation negro, sees the illustrated journals; he papers his walls with the woddeuts which best please him, and unconsciously his eye and his taste are trained, so that he becomes a discriminating critic and rigorously de- nands good art. We have, therefore, reason congratulate our illustrated contempo- w upon the sottnd end useful educa- ‘ work they have done and are doing. ve Corpiace.—It is very gratifying y cable that all differences between he United States have been ar. Spanish officials have returned on we cannot be too thanks had only returned the Vir *mptly as they did the is now on his way home /.en no interruption of “ing at all, OCTOBER 5, 1876.—TRIPLE | SHEET The I m Question. One of the questions sure to be asked by che country as soon as the excitement of the elections has passed is, Who must be held responsible for the existing’ Sioux war? Thus far no sufficient cause has been shown for the inauguration of the summer cam- paign which began and ended so ingloriously for our arms. Whatever crimes may be charged against the Sioux tribe they are cer- tainly free from the suspicion of having vio- lated their treaties with the Great Father at Washington, but as much cannot be said on the partof the whitemen, Thestatement con- stantly put forward, that the Indian is intract- able and incapable of civilization, is contra- dicted by the experience of our Canadian neighbors. Across the border are tribes kind- red to those who give us so much trouble, and yet the Canadian people and government manage to live at peace with them and even subject them, like all other citizens, to the action of the civil law. That we fail in deal- ing with our Indians is therefore clearly our own fault and due to some defect in our pol- icy toward them, In the Canadian Do- minion the Indian is subjected to a steady code of law; when he commits a crime he is punished, and when he performs a good action he is rewarded. Under the American system this ruje is reversed. Those Indians who group themselves peace- ably at the agencies and remain faithful to the white man are, as a rule, treated with in- difference and injustice. The annuities granted to them by the generosity of the nation are appropriated in great part by the dishonest agents of the Indian Ring, and the complaints of the vic- tims, when they make any, are, as a rule, dismissed with contempt. The hostild Indians, on the contrary, claim the tender regard and consideration of the Indian De- partment. Their chio!s get the richest pres- ents and to their followers are dispensed the most liberal allowances of sugar and coffee and other articles which/ bribe the red man to lay aside for the time being his rifle and scalping knife. It is not,wonderful that under such a sys- tem the Indians soon learn that it is their advantage to go on the warpath at frequent intervals, In nearly every case where the tribes have taken up arms they have been driven to do.so by the bad faith of the Washington government or the encroachments of the frontier popula- tions. The present inglorious war is no exception. Without any real necessity the government sent into the Black Hills a col- umn of troops under General Custer, and the unlucky discovery of a small quantity of gold roused the cupidity of the frontier population. Bands of adventurers imme- diately began to pour into the Black Hills country, in violation of a solemn treaty by which the Washington government had bound itself to secure to the Sioux forever the Black Hills as a part of their reservation. ‘The government in this case acted with the duplicity which generally characterizes our dealings with the Indians. The intruding whites were ordered to with- draw ; but this nreasure, which was due tothe honor ofthe nation, was never honestly carried j out. The authorities had resolved to allow atreaty which had been solemnly ratified only a year before to be violated, but did not have the courage to accept tha responsi- bility of doing it openly and aboveboard. The Indians were, therefore, allowed to be- lieve that the Great Father would not be dis- pleased at their driving out the intruding white men when the soldiers failed to do so ; and so the war began by the cutting off of the scattered and comparatively defenceless miners, and culminated in the massacre of Custer and his three hundred comrades in arms. This sacrifice of life must be blamed to the vacillating policy of the government. Had the Indians been made fo understand that the Great Father at Washington ap- proved the acts of violence and injustice done by the bad white men of the borders, they would scarcely have risked inangurat- ing the war; but’ the indecision and duplicity which marked the beginning of the trouble left the poor Indian as puzzled about the intentions of the government as were the people who will have to pay ever so many millions to repair the damage done by our blundering rulers. It has already been announced that we are to have a winter campaign against the Sioux in the hope that better fortune will attend our arms. We sup- pose that something of the kind is necessary ; but the country would also like to know what measures are being taken to put our Indian policy on such a footing that our Indian tribes may be rendered as harmless as their brother red men across the border. The secret of accomplishing this is the adop- | tion ofa firm and consistent polivy, based upon justice, The New Cab Company and the Old Hackmen. The projected cheap cab company prom- ises to be a success, As it will supply a recognized want in the city there can be little doubt that the enterprise will fairly re- munerate those who embark in it. But in proportion as their prospects are flattering the action of the projectors should be dis- creet and liberal. If the scheme once gets fairly under way it will prove a monopoly, and will take the bread out of the mouths of four or five hundred industrious men who now make a living out of the hack business. No one will think of hirihg a street convey- ance at the present rates when they can get aclean, neat carriage for less than half tho amount, and an individual who owns or jobs from one to half a dozen hacks cannot hope to compete with an association armed with a large capital. “Hence the cheap cab company should in equity, and as a matter of policy, make liberal propo- sals to the present hack proprietors, large and small, to become partners in tho new enterprise. Every man who owns a hack should be offered an interest in the e>>~ *+hat the nssocia- tion may he~ of the expe- rience of t and drivers, and at the of all opposi+ tion. We f impositions practised 1 onsidering the number ir 9 8 are rare, and asa rule Ag street carriages are -civil, wey «working men. They hav n sf wwenience to the | publis w rei ge? “saty profits, and | track, it is only just that they should be fairly treated by a monopoly which proposes to destroy their business. We wish to see the new company a success; but, at the same time, we desire that the old hackmen, who are an industrious and deserving class, shal] be fairly treated, and not be deprived of their means of living through the superior strength of a rich monopoly. Harmonizing the Democriw In another column will be found some ob- servations made by Mr. John Kelly to a re- porter who called upon him to ascertain what progress had been made in the endeavor to reconcile the quarrels of the democratic factions. One of the important observations made on this occasion disclosed that the great Tammany leader has an aversion to the interviewing attentions of our reporters because he ‘don't like the Henaxp.” It is not an evidence of enlarged views for Mr. Kelly to permit his personal tastes to control his actions on an important occasion of this nature. There are other distinguished men in public life who do not like the Henan, There is General Grant, for instance. But the President has wisely recognized, with regard to us, that there is a limit to the degree in which he may permit his conduct to be swayed by his personal dislikes. He recognizes in us the importance of the press, and does not object to give his opinions on important oc- easions for publication. His policy contem- plates the effect he wishes to produce, and does not disregard the most important in- strument of such effect or choose an inferior instrument, and so through deference to his piques and spites defeat his purpose. In such a course of action there is a breadth of view that is the essence of statesman- ship; and though we could not expect Mr, Kelly to rise to this level, because he has seen too much of Tammany Hall and too little of the world, we cite the case as pre- senting an example that he should keep in his mind at all times for study and imita- tion, Another of the observations of Mr. Kelly may be of more general importance. He says that the prospect for a satisfactory union of the Tammany and anti-Tammany democrats, so that the democracy of this city may ‘act together in the fall elections, is “very fair.” This it is to be hoped is true. Negotiation with this compromise of the differences in view has been in progress for many weeks, and though at one time the appearances were unpromising there seems | now good reason to believe that the demo- crats will so far suspend hostilities over local troubles that they may gird up their loins as one man for the great national conflict. This purpose to act in harmony, if possi- ble, is evidently cherished by the leaders, to whom it is believed Governor Tilden has been able to show its importance. It is difficult to see how any leader of any of the factions can have a solid interest in opposing this course, or how such an opposition could fail to end badly for whoever should make it, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Morrissey and Mr. O'Brien must be credited with a desire to reconcile the differences that stand in the way of a democratic victory, and, if they do not honestly and sincerely entertain such a desire, they have certainly been very succes- ful in making declarations that have misled the public. Asa disinterested witness and impartial observer of the times, we would advise these political magnates, respectively, that the one coyrse for them to pursue is to unite the factions in this crisis, to put aside their quarrels, to get rid, if only temporarily, of their jealousies and act togethor. This is a great national conflict, one that may deter- mine the possession and control of the na- tional government for many years, and one that is, theretore, watched very eagerly by the people. The election may turn—and is very likely to turn—on the result in this State. The result in this State is almost | certain to turn on the course of the city democrats. If the factions act together the democrats will carry the State. If they do not it may be lost. The democrat, there- fore, who stands out against the union of the city democracy may be responsible for a crushing and destructive defeat of his party in the national canvass, and he will be de- stroyed by the odium that will attach itself to such a course. Jerome Park Sports. The racing set down for to-day at Jerome Park includes four interesting events, the principal of which is the Grand National Handicap Sweepstakes of two miles and a quarter. This is always an exciting race, testing the staying powers of the coursers abundantly and giving every opportunity for a display of speed. Such fine horses as Big Sandy, Vigil, Picolo, Shylock, Sun- burst, James A. and Milner (late Kildare) will come to the post, and although MeDaniel’s entries have the call in the pools there is every probability of a fine race to the finish. The selling race, which is first on the pro- gramme, will send Courier, Arcturus, Gal- way and other good horses past the string, but we do not by any means predict that they will catch the judge's eye in,the order named. A race of mile heats, third on the card, with Rhadamanthus, Fiddlesticks and Freebooter among the starters, wil! scarcely result in any one of them distancing the field, so that a good deal of excitement may be looked for here. Last of all comes a purse for two-year-olds over a five fur- long course, which will allow the young sters to stretch out to their utmost with- out particular danger of injuring them in their three-year-old form hereatter. Given a fine day, we shall expect to see the grand stand filled with spectators, among whom the bright costumes and complexions of the fair sex will relieve the eye when it turns from the beautiful picture of the course and its sylvan surroundings to glance over humanity outside the quarter stretch. Among the ei- joyments which will be offered to the visitors to Jerome Park on Saturday next | will be the chance of witnessing the game of polo. On every rice day after Saturday the Westchester Polo Club will begin a match gune at four in the afternoon, on their | grounds hard by the race course, thus e abling those who attend thé Jockey Club mmeeting to see this beantifuland manly sport without curtailing their ‘pleasure at jhe { J f Invisible Vulean. The little intramercurial wanderer whom the astronomers are looking for with their long telescopes and accustomed patience has not yet rewarded their labor by sailing” across the sun's face. He will be a very small spot indeed when found, if he ever gives the star hunters a chance. The trouble is that the fact of not catching him this time will leave the matter much as the late trial of Babcock left the safe burglary conspiracy. We know there . must be a ‘‘fraud” somewhere, but twelve men, presumably “good and true,” could not find it in Babeock when they had theif eyes legally turned on him. So with Vulcan “It is am even chance,” says one saddenet sky detective, ‘that the transit should have taken place at night.” ‘It could be done behind the clouds,” saysanother. ‘We shall prove to the court,” says Leverrier, like a bumptious district attorney of the universe, “that it has taken place at the time stated.” But the witnesses contradict each other, Some of them are suspected of perjuring themselves, others are said to be led atey by their lively imaginations, so that the good fame of the respectable god, Vulcan, is as much brought in question as_ if he had been caught sending ‘Sylph” telegrams to Venus under the very nose of old Jupiter himself about the Whiskey Rings round Saturn, or found forging indorsements instead of thunder. bolts, All this time the lame old smith has probably been minding his own business— putting a new prong on the fish fork of Nep- tune, mending Minerva’s spectacles, or put- ing a fresh edge on the scythe of Lime, His inhabitants, who probably are not much bothered about the price of coal, noth- ing of the scientific worry they are kicking up here, ‘Their country paper§ bear no alarming pictures of cooking stoves or Ulster overcoats, although doubtless their «ver. tisements are flaming ones. The gas bille are very light and the demon who sella weather strips in this world through the winter no doubt sells lightning rods in Vulcan all the year round. There every political canvass is heated and the .most disappointed office-seeker is never left out in the cold, Whether in Vulcan the sun has power to dissipate every haze that is thrown on the country we cannot yet state, but for the matter of that we cannot say more for the united efforts in the same direction of the sun and the world we wot of | until after the election. Till then, like Vul- can, these things will be in nubibus. SmavVIA AND Tonxxy.—Our news fre i rope touching the struggle betw: the Turks and Servians is mers of a diplomatic than militant eho ter. Russia, it is apparent, by sm» maintaining her position can x the other Powers to her terms. The tardy efforts of the Porte to formulate some. thing that, looks like a contempl tion of inaugurating constitutional methods in the Ottoman Empire's government will not deceive many. Its desire to be further pressed to grant an armistice shows that by some at least of the leaders in Con- stantinople the difficulties and dangers of the present sittiation are appreciated. Exrosina Sprnrrvatistic Houwsvaes after the manner of the gentlemen who met ina downtown office yesterday, and had a young man who did not profess Spiritualism go through the various tricks of the mediums, is good in its way, but does not prevent the swindlers who take the money of the credulous and superstitious from con- tinuing their tricks at the expense of fresh victims. The mode pursued by Professor Lankester in London—namely, bringing a charlatan before s police justice—is more likely to be effectual. Tue Lamentanie Arrare in Boone county, Kentucky, wherein a grandson of President Harrison figures as the attempted, if not veritable murderer of a lady who had declined to marry him, casts a sad shadow over an honored name. How great the responsibility is that rests upon the bearer of such a name the miserable man may judge by the deference paid in the neighboring State of Indiana ta one whose chief distinction is a kinship in the same degree as his to the President elected thirty-six years ago. Gnrece is anxious enough to have a little of that land grabbing take place at the ex- pense of Turkey. which goes in Europe by the euphuistic title of ‘rectification of boundaries ;” but with brigands among her classic hills, brigands around the treasury and a fleet consisting of a brig and yawl, she does not see her way to making a row about it. She has resolved to remain neutral in the struggle between the Porte and its re volted Christian subjects. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The English foot is short and fleshy. Columbus, Oho, contains 47,000 people. Now they are asking for one Vuloan night, Frea Douglass 1s working like a bootjack for Hayes, Every Georgia Congressman was born in that State, Hon, Aloxander fl. Stephens 18 sixty-four years old. Spanish women carry their stilettos in their garters, The early Christians were not troubled about Hux leys. Senators Sargent and Jones havo arrived in Sas Francisco, Lavoisier begged a fortnight of life that he might finish some chomical experiments. Rear Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins, United States Navy, is at the Filth Avenue Hotel, George Eliot ‘Some inclinations become manifest slowly, like the sunward creeping of pl nid Senator Henry B. Anthony, of Rhode Island, ar. rived In this city last evening and ts at the Fifth Ave. nue Hotel, It is said that there is no ono In California capable of taking Ralston’s place as an entertainer of distin guished persons. According to the school of Comte seven yoars must elapse, after a man’s death belore he may become a hero to be worshipped. In all the countries in which hard times are now op- pressing the people writers on economy say that poverty comes trom too great riches, Doré tg going to illustrate Michaud’s ‘History of the Crusades” iu the grotesque manner in which he tlluge trated Balzwe’s naughty “Droit Stories, ”? Disraeli once said:—‘The disappointment of man, hood succoeds vo the delusion of youth; let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair [’? “Leannot sce the wit,” says Hazlitt, “of walking and talking at the same time, When Lam in the country I wish to vegetate like the country,” r Not only aro the southern Himalayas of stupendous hoight, rising to a maximup of nearly 20,000 feet, bul Thibet itsell tsa table iand, in no part of it pervape loss than 8,000 or 9,000 feet above she level of the oad