The New York Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1876, Page 4

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A Brier Armistice, with a conference to make peace permanent, is the outlook on the Eastern question as presented in our latest despatches. The sh plan, with a special Russian interpretation, is what the majority of the Powers — will probably agree to foree on the Turk. Eng- land may not be quite pleased to be thus toasted on her own fork; but the indications are that Russia, Germany and Austria will hold her on the points she sharpened in a sly moment. Tar Disconp Betw France anp Grr- MANY receives another illustration in the in- tolerant conduct of the Parisians, who thong!.t they were beginning the revanche in hooting a piece of Wagner's music at a con- cert in the gay city yesterday. Perhaps it reminded them of the German guns that thundered around Paris six years ago; but they should remember that their hisses re- call to calm onlookers the futile reply of the batteries of Valerien to those manned by the | Kaiser's troops. Even the strains of the sad- souled Weber, once a favorite with Paris, and many a year in his grave, served to Wustrate how Irance hates her conqueror. Childish as was the exhibition in the Cirque d@'Hiver it‘is a sign to be made a note of. Tue Reowrnariox.—When we add the eleven thousand newly naturalized voters to the six thousand votes registered in annexed district, although some of the first figures are included in the second, we ac- count for nearly half of the increase of thirty-four thousand the registra- tion of 1872, the last Presidential year. The natural growth of the city will account for several thousand more, and the extreme activity of the party managers, large and small, on both sides to bring ont the fullest possible vote, will bring the figures of those believed to be fraudu- lently registered within moderate limits indeed. At any rate the machinery for veri- fying the registry is ample, and we would advise both parties to exercise the greatest seratiny between this and election day. On all considerations we do not think 183,000 to be an excessive registry for a population ex- seeding 1,000,000, partienlarly in New York, where there are so many citizens of foreign birth who came to the country atter attaining the years of mayhoo! over the | | unse Week of the Presidential Can- yvass—Look Out for Stratagems and Roorbacks, | Both Presidential candidates were nomi- | nated in June, ‘The five months since | elapsed have afforded scope enough for | | comparing the two platforms and investi- gating the candidates. Nothing of any real | importance is likely to be disclosed during the brief remaining week. The citizens of the United States are as well prepared to vote understandingly to-morrow as they will be to-morrow week, when the election isto be held. Every legitimate topic has | been discussed and exhausted. There is nothing new to be said about either Gover- | | nor Tilden or Governor Hayes, and it is a | pity that the country cannot be spared the | |. dregs of the canvass with which it will be neuseated during the few remaining days. ‘The only safe inference that can be drawn | from these five months of partisan turmoil and recrimination is that it is a neck-and- neck race, ‘The result is quite as doubtful | as itwas on the day when the canvass | opened. All the important electioneering topics on both sides were exhausted previons to the October . elections. Both parties had some hope, and the republican party a strong hope, that the ; Presidential contest would be virtually de- | sided in October. The republicans pro- | fessed undoubting confidence in theirability to curry Indiana as well as Ohio, and both by | strong majorities. But when it was found that they had lost Indiana and had barely ped defeat in Ohio their opponents took conn and they saw themselves that the contest would be more close and donbtful than any which has ever taken place in our history, They also learned that some of the electioneering topics on which they had | placed great reliance were futile and worth- less, especially the assaults they had made on the personal character of Mr. Tilden. His income tax had been exploited weeks and weeks before the October elections, and the result showed that the accusations had not the weight of a feather in the canvass. As they had no effect then, when the charges were fresh, they are not likely to influence voters now, when the charges have become stale. The ‘same remark applies, though not to the same extent, to the bloody shirt issue. It failed in Indiana, although Mr. Morton is the foremost standard bearer of the bloody shirt. But where else can it be expected to have much influence after its conspicuous failure in Senator Morton's own State? The fact that such weapons fell blunted and harmless in the October elections impairs republican confidence in their efficacy in November. The October contest having proved to be a drawn battle both parties are lett clinging to the ragged edge, and no- body will be much surprised to see either drop off into the abyss. Itisa striking proof of the extreme un- certainty of this Presidential election that the Peter Cooper canvass rises into unex-. pected importance as the campaign ap- proaches its close. Until within the last week the rag baby nomination has been the standing joke and laughing stock of the Presidential campaign. People shave looked upon it with a sense of merriment as the crowd at a circus looks at the clown, whose awkward mimicry of other actors makes him ridiculous, In the Presidential cireus the clown bids fair to be the most important character. The chances are so even thata | few thousand votes may turn the scale, and it is possible that Peter Cooper may elect Hayes in 1876 as James G. Birney elected Polk in 1844, If the vote in New York should be as close between the two leading candi- dates a week from to-morrow as it was be- tween Polk and Clay in 1844 there can be no doubt that Mr. Cooper yill be the Warwick of this canvass. A paltry five or six thou- sand additional votes for Clay in the State of | New York would have made him President. Birney took away from him three times as many votes as he needed, and it is possible that Peter Cooper may do a similar left- handed service to Governor Tilden. The emergence of such a possibility in the closing days of the campaign shows how very close this contest is in general estimation. Every topic of argument or invective has already been exhausted. No new light can be shed on the character of either candidate or the purposes of either party. But in so close acontest there isa great temptation tomanu- facture ‘Roorbacks” on the eve of the elec- tion, because any unscrupulous trick which might influence a few hundred or a few thousand votes might change the result. The dexterous ingenuity of neither party will be asleep in such a crisis, and the coun- try must prepare itself for startling and astounding rumors at the end of this week or the beginning of next. We cannot pre- tend to foresee what is coming, for it would be necessary to descend to the level of cun- ning politicians of the baser sort to imagine what they will invent. All we can say is that citizens who have already made up their minds how they will vote will act like idiots | if the Roorbacks of the closing days of the canvass shall shake their determination. Only one source of a tremendous Roorback | is yet apparent, and that is the possible dis- closures of Tweed, who is expected to arrive some time this week. It is suspected and | | hoped by the republicans that he “could a | tale untold” which would cause every hair | of Governor Tilden’s head to stand on end. Such a tale may be invented and circulated for electioneering effect, but we doubt whether it is likely to be told by the | recaptured Boss. On board the Frank- lin he is in administration hands, but they have no power to guarantee him immunity, even if he has anything to teli which would damage Governor Tiiden. He is amenable only to State au- thority. It is not in the power of the federal | prosecuting officers to show him any léenity nor of the President to pardon him, as might be done if his offences were against the United States. No federal officer can ‘help him, and he is shrewd enough to know that promises to that effect would be worthless. When he tonches the shore from which he fled he will be surrendered to State custody to meet his trial in the State courts. He knows well enongh that it is not in the power of the re- publican party to shield him from penal consequences, and he is too shrewd to be | caught in an electionceting trap. If, there- HERALD. MONDAY, OCTOBER 30. 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. fore, means should be taken to intercept the Franklin and keep her out at sea until within a day or two of the election, and then the moment she comes into the harbor astounding disclosures should be flashed over the country by telegraph, no man of sense will believe that they are genuine. Reports started so late that it would be im- possible to investigate and refute them be- fore the election will be regarded as a des- | perate campaign Roorback, and its effect will be parried by asserting that the Franklin was kept out at sea for the very purpose of allowing no space for contradiction. * We doubt, therefore, whether a Tweed Roorback will be started in the hope of damaging Mr. Tilden, But if it'could be expected to have any effect at all the temptation is very great when the contest is so close that the change of even a few hundred votes in one State may decide the fate of parties for the next | four years. ‘The republicans may undertake a more promising manwuyre than the circulation of areal or pretended disclosure by Tweed just on the eve of the election. If they are astute and dexterous enough they can take the fifteen electoral votes of Indiana away from Tilden with a reasonable chance of defeating him, or, at least, of preventing a choice in the Electoral Colleges, and thereby enabling the republican Senate to elect Mr. Wheeler Vice President. Such a stratagem is practicable, because both politi- eal parties in Indiana are inflationists at heart, the republicans even more strongly than the democrats. It was the republicans and not the democrats that attempted to break down the greenback party of Indiana inthe State canvass. They confessed that they had more to fear from it than their opponents. It was the republicans who induced Mr. Wolcott to withdraw just before the close of the canvass and advise the greenback party which had nominated him to vote the re- publican ticket. In spite of the demoral- izing effect on the rag baby canvass of Mr. Wolcott’s withdrawal at that late and criti- cal stage Mr. Harrington, who was suddenly substituted for him at the last moment, re- ceived 12,226 votes, or more than twice as many as were needed for defeating the democratic candidate. The republicans of Indiana can have no reagonable expectation of giving the electoral votes of the State to Hayes, but they can take them away from Tilden by going over in a body to the Peter Cooper ticket. They could have no scruples of conscience in doing so, for, no longer ago than the 22d of February, they declared for inflation, and demanded the repeal off the Resumption act in their State platform. It would not go against the grain for the Indiana republicans to vote the greenback ticket. They would be quite at home in the greenback camp. They left it for mere rea- sans of party expediency, and if they can promote the interests of their party by going back to their first and their real love why should they hesitate? If the republican vote and the rag baby vote in Indiana had been united in the recent election they would have carried the State by a much larger majority than was achieved by the democrats. By such a union they can take the State away from Tilden, with some chance of electing Hayes and almost a cer- tainty of preventing a choice in the Electoral Colleges if Hayes is defeated. They would risk nothing by the experiment (the State being already as good as lost), and in so close a contest they would have chances of saving the Vice Presidency, even if they should fail to elect their candidate for Presi- dent. M. du Sommerard Called to Account. The extract from the Journal Officied pub- lished in our special despatch from Paris tells tersely how extremely the French goy- ernment disapproves the atrocious senti- ments contained in the letter attributed to M. du Sommerard, and how it reprobates the act of a high French functionary in circulat- ing them. In France, where the official is always the mouthpiece of the government, he is expected to guard his utterance and regulate his life so strictly that no word or deed of his shall be inconsistent with gov- ernmental policy or offensive to the relations of France with the rest of the world. While this strict personal accountability is some- what foreign to American official life, and while we do not care to discuss the desira- bility of making our functionaries as straitlaced as those of Europe, we must mark our approval of the prompt action of President MacMahon in dealing with the matter as it comes before him in the shape ot a breach of official etiquette and an of- fence against international comity. The answer of M. du Sommerard to the grave ac- cusation of having written such base calum- | nies upon the good name of the United States is awaited. That America will feel grateful for this summary call- ing to account of the Chief French Commissioner is true, but we do not believe for a moment that Americans would be at all satisfied with a more perfunctory solution. That the statements contained in the letter of M, du Sommerard in the Figaro are shamelessly libellous to the last degree fortunately makes the refutation of such of them as are discussable among decent men easy. We should not, for instance, think it required any strong language to convince the world that we are not « nation of incen- | diaries, who burn or attempt to burn every Frenchman's property that finds itself on our soil, We think, indeed, that it would require more malignant ingenuity than could be possessed by any hundred French Commissioners to convince a fifth class idiot of the converse of the proposition, What any dirty-minded individual would write or any European newspaper of easy vir- tue would print reflecting upon the morals of American ladies is not worth notice on this side of ‘the Atlantic. Such being the character of the libels bearing the name of M. du Sommerard we are glad to find that the Marquis de Talleyrand, himself an official of the Exhibition, promptly squelched the incendiary story and that the French gov- ernment is prepared to signify officially its displeasure if the offence is fixed upon M. du Sommerard. Fvston seems to be a bad horse for the great City Stakes this year. There is so much difficulty im deciding which is the head and which the tail that his best friends cannot tell which way he would run if once started. Solid Men's Call Evarte. : The Haraxp to-day, as the organ of inde- pendent voters, apptoves of the movement of the solid men of the country in the Presi- dential campaign, the influence of which upon American pelitics it might be hard to estimate. A similar movement of substan- tial citizens, without reference to party, took place in New York on the 30th of Jan- uary, 1854, when a meeting was held at the Broadway Tabernacle, under a call headed “No violation of plighted fuith, No repeal of the Missouri Compromise.” The Hxnarp said on the morning of that day:—‘The meeting that is to be held to-night at the Tabernacle will be the first gun fired in the new anti-slavery campaign. Its thunders will be echoed oyer hill and plain through- out the North till the ominous sound rever- erates from the virgin soil of Wiscon- sin to the sea-girt shore of Maine.” It was a correct reading of the future; for that assemblage, presided over by a bank president, Mr. Shepherd Knapp, gave the keynote to the country in the existing crisis, and resulted in the dissolution of the whig party and the organization of the republican party, to which history will award the credit of the preservation of the Union and the abolition of slavery. Twenty-two years have gone with their eventful record, and again the solid and independent citizens of New York rally under the motto, ‘‘No violation of national faith. No increase ot debt and taxes!” And the significance of this new movement should be appreciated by the country as showing that this class of voters no longer intend to forget their rights, to neglect their political duties, or to permit the national faith and honor and interests to be trifled with by professional politicians. Two admirable suggestions were made by President Woolsey at New Haven—one that General Hayes, if elected, should appoint only Southern men in the Southern States ; another, that in the North, in regard to offices not strictly political, there should be distri- bution among the fittest men, whether dem- ocratic or republican. Let us add a third suggestion. In this case the solid men of New York, convinced that the country is in peril, call on Mr. Evarts to address them. Let the example stand in America for all future time. Let the working classes, from the day laborer to the millionnaire, think a little for themselves, not trust too much the astute gentlemen who run the political machine for their own emolument, and let labor and wealth in each new emer- gency combine to call on culture for advice as to the right guidance of the Republic. There is yet room for a fourth suggestion. Should General Hayes be elected he will know well that his election was due not to the machine nor to any fondness of the peo- ple for the existing administration, but to such substantial and independent citizensas those whose telling words fall to-day on an attentive country. Letall such men stand by the President when he is right and fear- lessly call him to order when he is wrong; and let them thus give him strength and free him from the pressure of interested poli- ticians and from every attempt by the ma- chine managers to induce him to sacrifice the interest of the country for the supposed benefit of the party. The Upon Mr. Only Four Hundred Miles. We cannot conceal a sense of disappoint- ment at the return of the English North Po- lar Expedition without having accomplished its direct object. Captain Hall pushed‘ the little Polaris, a vessel but poorly adapted to its task, to within four hundred and sixty- four miles of the Pole, and the English ex- pedition, under Captain Nares, only reached sixty-four miles further in sledges. His ad- vance vessel—the Alert—wintered in lati- tude 82 deg. 27 sec., while the Polaris had wintered in latitude 81 deg. 38 sec. Here is certainly a slight advance ; but are we to con- sider that this is the limit? Dr. Hayes in 1860, with dog sledges, explored as high as 82 deg. 45sec., or only forty miles short of Captain Nares’ furthest. Parry reached the same latitude north of Spitzbergen in 1827, and Captain Scoresby, in the Spitz- bergen Sea, touched 81 deg. 30 sec. in 1806, or within five hundred and ten miles of the Pole, The efforts in the direction of the Arctic during seventy years, therefore, repre- sent a total advance of one hundred and ten miles. No Polar expedition went forth so well equipped and under such favorable auspices as that which has just returned. Doubtless no pains were spared by any per- son in the entire expedition to accomplish all that could be achieved ; but we may here note our surprise thata single winter's ex- perience was deemed to establish conclu- sively their inability to reach the Pole. Why, forénstance, was not one of the ves- sels despatched south, after landing her stores, before the ice closed, to return with the open water bearing fresh supplies? The experience of all explorers who have adopted the Smith Sound route has taught that the real effort begins at the eighty-second par- allel, and hence, if Arctic exploration is not atanend, arrangements must be made in future expeditions for a journey northward on boat sledges of four hundred and eighty miles. The terrors, the enormous difticul- ties of such a journey, are pictured. in the one fact that the heroic sledge party from the Alert could not advance more than a milenday. If this speed cannot be bet- tered of course discovery northward is at an end. The contributions to our knowledge of the Arctic regions will doubtless prove considerable, the tracing of the coast line of the American continent two hundred and twenty miles to the west of Greenland and a con- siderable distance to the east, in all, prob- ably, one-fifth of the circumference of the rim of the Polar Unknown being especially val- uable. Captain Nares declares emphatically against Kane's open Polar sea, Below the eighty-second parallel animal life and the migration of birds cease, Beyond all is ice, ice, ice. ‘The impracticability of reaching the Pole was proved,” he says. If that has been fully demonstrated by one winter's effort we can permanently resign the North Pole to the romancers who have had it so long. But has i _ Sarma Yesrenpay’s Seraovs.--Recollections of the rise and growth of the Methodist Church in America formed the theme of an anniyer- Sary sermon by the Rev. Dr. John M. Reid at the old John street Methodist church. In sketching the progress of Methodism in this country Dr. Reid took his hearers over the entire history of its institution in Eng- land, and claimed for that Church the dis- tinction of being best adapted to the salva- tion of mankind. Mr. Frothingham, at the Masonic Temple, discussed the spiritual man, and at Chickering Hall the Rev. Samuel Colcord spoke on the subject of :Profit and Loss” as applied to salvation. God's covenant with man furnished Mr. Hepworth with an interesting subject, which he eloquently treated at the Church of the Disciples, Dr. Fowler's eulogy of the late Bishop Janes was an affectionate tribute to the deceased from one who recog- nized his meritsas a scholar and a missionary. The great doctrine of penance as a necessity to mlvation was ably elucidated by Father Hogan at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Mr. Beecher's sermon on justification was listened to by a crowded audience of Cen- tennial visitors at Plymouth church. “The Weather. Locally the weather conditions - have changed rapidly during the last twenty- four hours, owing to the movement of an area of high pressure over the region be- tween the lakes and the Middle Atlantic coast. ‘This area now separates the two of low pressure central in Dakota and over Newfoundland, the eastward movement of the latter being very slow. The depression in Dakota and Nebraska is also slowly developing eastward, owing to the pres- ence of the high pressure on_ its line of advance. A remarkable increase of temperature accompanies this dis- turbance, the thermometer at Pembina indicating sixty-one degrees, at Omaha seventy-five degrees, at St. Louis and Leav- venworth seventy-nine degrees and at Cairo eighty-one degrees last evening. Along the front of the storm area the temperature is low, with rains extending from Louisville and Pittsburg to Duluth. It is probable that high winds will be experienced on the lakes during the ensuing week. ‘The veloc- ity of the northwesterly wind at North Platte yesterday afternoon was twenty-tight miles per hour. As it is the barometric gradient eastward is very steep, and we may therefore look for a sharp blow as the storm advances. The weather at New York to-day promises to be warmer and partly cloudy, possibly with light rain at intervals. Whe Centennial Loan Collection. The time is rapidly approaching when the art treasures which are now gathered at the Academy of Design and Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art will be returned to the severe seclusion of private galleries, and we would strongly advise such of our citizens as have not yet visited both institutions to do so without delay. The number of great paint- ings illustrating the art genius of the cen- tury which can now be seen together renders the Loan Exhibition peculiarly interesting to all who have any love for the fine arts. It is true that the modern idea of international exhibitions has, perhaps, familiarized the public with seeing the works of great artists assembled together; but in these huge galle- ries the good and bad are so jumbled together that it needs art knowledge and cultivated taste to know what to admire. The educa- tional influence of the Loan Exhibition is much better, for here we have only works that have been passed upon by the crucial criticism of art connoisseurs. As a result we have a collection in which there is scarcely one picture which does not possess some distinguishing merit, some excellence of draughtsmanship, of composition, of color or a combination of those qualities. It is a vulgar error to suppose that because an artist is great and renowned he must therefore be perfect. It is only necessary to pass in review the long catalogue of works which have achieved world-wide fame and which are ‘assembled here to under- stand that the difference between great and perfect art is wide indeed. There is in this a lesson of tolerance that the art student will do well to learn. In all schools there are beauties and defects, and he is the greatest artist who, separating him- self from the trammels of tradition and schoolmen, combines the greatest amount of sentiment and beauty with the highest attainable technical skill in the treatment of his subjects. Perhaps one of the greatest attractions of the Loan Collection Exhibi- tion is its catholic character, embracing as it does examples of nearly all the various art schools of the present day, affording the student a singularly complete representa- tion of the highest art work of this century. More Crvi Senvicr Reronm.—Some days ago we published a letter from Mr. Bab- cock, formerly a clerk in the Patent Office, showing that he had been turned out of office by Secretary Chandler because he declined either to vote the republican ticket or pay a political assessment. To-day we print another complaint ‘of the same kind ; but this time it is an officer of the Treasury, a capable man, evidently, by the admissiqns of his superiors ; one who had entered by the legitimate door, passing a preliminary examination, and who is now dismissed be- cause he refuses to vote the republican ticket. Such acts as these deserve public notice and should be remembered at the polls. This government does not exist for the benefit of a political party ; nor ought the government machinery to be used for partisan purposes, The republicans prom- ised a reform of the abuses in the civil ser- vice. Their candidate is professedly a strong reformer in this direction, But his chief supporters seem to pay no more atten- tion to his views, nor to the platform pledges, than if neither existed. Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, in the midst of his busy political work of teaching the country people to vote the re- publican ticket and of asking our citizens to re-elect him to the position in the Assembly he filled so acceptably last year,. turns aside to write to the Hrratp concerning the late English Arctic expedition. What the Doctor says on this subject is always worthy of atten- tion. Forming his judgment on what has already reached us from Captain Nares, he does not hesitate to call the expedition a failure, and still sustains bis belief in the open Polar Sea. Chamberlain‘s “True In When the Governor of a State the federal government for protec! insurrection, and the President of the States, in compliance with that appeal, hur- ries federal troops to the points indicated, it is in the highest degree salutary to examine thoroughly the condition ofaffairs which gives motive to the action. Every particle of testimony that can throw light upon the transaction should be weighed; for prece- dents in such matters should not be estab- lished except upon the fullest understand- ing of the special need for such extreme measures. Governor Chamberlain’s defence of his call for troops must be weighed with all statements attempting to show the merely partisan nature of the ery for troops, even if the mass of evidence on the other side breaks it down utterly. The letter from Senator Randolph, of New Jersey, which we publish elsewhere, contains in moderate compass a summary of the situa- tion in South Carolina, which leaves Gov- ernor Chamberlain scarcely a shred of the clumsily woven fabric out of which he made the latest bloody shirt. It at the same time sheds quite a new light upon the Governor's necessity for troops. It would seem that Chamberlain seeks protection from the hon- est members of his own party more than from the terrible white democrats. The Gov- ernor’s excuse—want of money—for not calling the Legislature together (from whom, if convenable, the appeal should have come) is admirably disposed of., The members would in any case have had to provide the expenses, The real reason is, however, laid bare—namely, that the malcontent republi- can members of the South Carolina Legisla- ture would have kicked in the harness and refused to bring a needless discredit on the State. By appealing directly to the Presi- dent Chamberlain avoided all this disaster to his canvass. If the appeal were not listened to he would be no worse off than before; but if sustained by federal bayonets he hoped to drive the citizens of the State literally into op- posing camps, so that any concert of action between the white and negro races to pre- vent his own re-election would be impossi- ble. The evidence is direct that the respect- able republicans who proposed to scratch Chamberlain on election day were equally determined to vote for Hayes. That would not suit Chamberlain, He must have hot blooded canvass to make fusion impossible, It would be o great stain upon the intelli. gence of the Palmetto State if truculence like this, once unmasked, should succeed. The Water Supply and the Public Health, ‘In the timely presentation made by the Grand Jury, through its foreman, Mr. Charles H. Haswell, regarding the unneces- sary waste of the Croton water, it was pur- posed to call attention to the extravagant quantity used in washing sidewalks as well asin the sprinkling of the streets. It is estimated that with steady rainy weather it would require more than one month to fill the reservoirs ; hence the necessity of a strict observance of the recommendations of the Grand Jury and of the requirements of the Croton Aqueduct Department is really a matter of necessity for the public safety. The Sanitary Board has called attention to the danger of the escape of sewer gas in private dwellings where, in consequence of the weakness of the supply, the water will not run in the upper stories. The board recommends that in all such cases’ water should occasionally be thrown down the waste pipes in wash basins, closets and baths which are thus unsupplied. This ig a useful precaution, and one which may prevent much sickness in the city if gen- erally used. It is well also to leave the faucets turned on and the waste pipe open in all upper stories during the night, as in some instances the increased pressure care ries the water up, and thus affords the ops portunities to wash out the pipes. Cuuncn anp Starzr.—The interference of the French government to prevent the Arche diocese of Lyons from being split into two dioceses has probably a shade of political meaning which Americans will best under- stand by the damage that one political party occasionally suffers at the hands of another from the process known as redis- tricting. That isas near an analogy as we can get. Another reason, and a strong one, is that the government would have to pay an extra archbishop, and pious ‘as MacMahon is he probably thinks France pays enough just now for her clerical whistle. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Hungarians are bad financiers. ‘Tramps aro eating raw turnips, Wagner will winter at Sorrento, Chicago hbrarians insult ladies, Kentuckians are eating squirrels, General Garfield has gone to Ohio with the body ef his dead son. William H. Aspinwall returned from Europe in the City of Richmond. Canning salmon 1s becoming a large trade in Call- fornia and Oregon. Detroit freezes 500,000 fish in @ soagon for more Soutnern markets, Democrats aro trying to wear their old hats up to the day after election. Every father who can aflord it shoald give his child: a day’s chestnating. Hon. William Walter Phelps arrived from Europe yesterday on tho City of Richmond. Arizona has no politics to speak of, The population - does not exceed 12,000 (“excluding Indians not taxed”), of which about one-third are Amorieans, tho remainder Mexicans, The corner stove of Solomon’s Temple, which hee been discovered, lies nincty fect below the presoat sur- face of the ground. In anicho of it is found a Phani- clan jar of clay. Baroum’s museum, menagerie and hippodrome oe- cupy attention of the little folks, who leave politica to thor elders. The tattoed man bas nos rogisterod and he will be spotted if he attempts to vote. The other day a man was hung a¢ Taona-Fort, now Bombay, for # horrible murder, and mado rather a notable observation In Guyerat), Standing ander the drop, he whispered to the executioner, ‘In one min- ute what a lot I shall know!” A curiosity of San Francisco 1s Jack the Gribher who moors his boat close to the sbips which may De discharging cargo at the different wharves beiweea Long Bridge and the Pacific Mail Company's dock. His” boat contains ingenious hooks and grapples, specially devised for bringing up substances frora tho bottom of the bay. will sh up all tho lamps that drop into the water whilein transitu trom tho spip tothe wharf, I aa angler drops his pocke book in the water Jack is the man to tind tt for him, He seoursthe bottom of the muddy waters as carcfully asa detective cxannes @ dwelling for stolen goods, @ vessel be discharging coal Jack’s hooks / y Nl