The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1876, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STHEET. JAMES COR DON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Senegal THE DAILY HERALD, puwhlished every | Cay in the year, Three cents per copy (Sun- | day excluded). Ten dollars per year, or at ! rate of one dellar per month for any period dollars for six tree of less than six months, or five s, Sunday edition included, Ali business, news letters or tel tches must be addressed N sand packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. NO.112 SOUTH PHIL ADELPHIA OFFICE DE LiOPERA. . YTRADA PACE. iptions and advertisements will be received and torwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME NLI.0.0.teccescecee.cevessenes eves NO. 46 NIGHT. AMUS way STEIN FIT OF BROOKLY » BOWER INNOCENT, at 8 P.M Mr De GRAND OF sr BEN! S, at SP. M, ck Murray. HOUSE, OR ABBED aG RMANIA THEATRE, x TRATRE. OTHELLO, at 8 P.M, PIETH THE SCHOOL FOR S WA TUE SHAUGIRAL 1ON SQUARE” THEATRE, MISS MUL! TON, arsy, NEW YORK AQUARIUM, i Open daily. 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" Owing to the action of a portion of the carriers, pewsinen and news companies, wha aro determined at the public rhali noe have the Hrravo at three | tenis per copy if they can prevent it, we have made | irrangem to piace the Hrxanv in the hands of | Ml our re Newsboys and | rs at the reduced price. cha@ any way and No. 2 tealers eon j No. 1,26 alo trom our w quantity they may desire Ann street, and All e been threatened by the news com- 18 on the principal avenues, fealers who lv. panies ed to send in their orders direct to us, at) Ann etree From our reporisthis morning the probabilities are that the weather toxlay wil be slightly warmer and cloudy or partly cloudy, probably | with jit snow. 4% of our correspondent | ickenzie’s column is full of Is and stirrin scriptions, 's will live over other days again y of the long and difficult march e ste the discoverer of Aga- h excetlent snecess us nat we wonder* 1CrS rae not employ him to e Ring money which they are ire je world wrong, finds he w | the letter of acceptance, in which he Jaid | | down substantially, though less plainly, | precisely this policy. In that letter, which | the republi | fol: by the party leaders to be a deadly blow | favorites, by bestowing office chievous system which he has promised to | | give place or power under his administra- give p. Pp . wrong in thee ion and cementof the world. If | not been classed among | rrar ad tt is aclear case of | and not statesmanship at all. Dy ta lost th the severe v villain w Acr of an ince; liary forty families | ir hi morning. t of the t the flames upon mu from Columbia, g characier, Twenty- to the contession of sanized at chureb, Abbeville county, a plot for the indis- eriminate sli sr of the whites, and they carried ti {so faras to kill one y ™ riding aleng a road ga to wound his only companion, ‘The excitement of the community is naturally | intense, and it is supposed that such of the conspirators as had been arrested and re- moved to another county for safe keeping have been captured while en rowe and lynched. | * wea . | Dx. Harrs sends us a fourth communi- cation, which will be found in another col- | uinn, wherein he replies to some of his un- | friendly English critics with respect to the | correctness of his observations and geo- | graphical positions in Smith Sound. The | eminent German geographer, Dr. Petermann, | fully and forcibly sustains him in an unso- licited and unexpected letter. It seems to | us that the peculiarly hard and trying cir- cumstances under which the Doctor made his discoveries might have obtained trom his British rivals at least candid treatment, the more especially as he is a gold medalist of their Royal Geographical Society. He | seems to ask no favors, however, and pays | as he goes, i their own coin, ' Southern States men of | and local inflnence, would be to settle the | power and the constant political intri , | to call to his | and patriotism. aa ; spicuously wise and courageous member of | towhom he will give neither place nor in- | fluence under his adininistration, | whom he wonld trust. | wise; NEW Governor Hayes Does Not Deny. | We are glad to notice that in several in- | terviews to which Governor Hayes has been | subjected this week he has been careful not | to deny the substantial correctness of the | account which a Cincinnati correspondent | of the Heratp gave last Monday of his policy in case he should become President. The two points on which it was asserted | that Governor Hayes is determined are to make an entire and complete sweep of the leading officers of the present administra- | tion, not only in Washington, but all over the country, and to give to leading public | men of the South their fair share of infln- ence and office in their States,-getting rid of | carpet-bag and adventurer element down there, which has so long made the very name of the republican party odious to honest Southern men. We should be sorry indeed, considering that Mr. Hayes may be the next President, to hear him deny that this represents accu- rately the policy he has determined on. He could not deny it without turning his back on himself and forgetting his own an politicians treated with such | . | rlanted himself conspicuously | | contempt, he on civit service reform, and promised to r move no fit men in subordinate positions, | and to appoint no unfit men, and none for | That was at once merely partisan services. inting their almost @xelu- for it is at them; by apr sly as the reward of partisan services, by | stituting the public service all over the | ry tothe basest and most unserupn- | sous pertisan uses that they have maintained themselves in power. ‘They pronounced Mr. Hayes ‘a dreamer—not a practical poli- tician,” and thereafter never mentioned either his namo or his letter in their speeches, What they thus recognized: he cannot but see—that their retention in office | is not compatible with his policy, and that if he means to carry out civil service reform, while he will retain in their places the mul- titude of subordinate clerks who do their duty faithfully, he must rid himself, as soon as he enters the White House, of the leaders | who have formed and who protect ths mis- destroy, It was therefore but the expression of a | self-evident truth that Mr. Hayes would not tion to any one who had held prominence under General Grant. How could he do otherwise? What would civil service reform | come to if he retained in office or allowed any influences to Mr. Chandler or Mr. Tyner or Mr. Cameron? What, indeed, would his promises be worth if he did not meen to rid himself of every man who has, by his silent consent or his co-operation during the last seven years enabled the President to cor- rupt the public service and-fill it with his creatures and the creatures of his creatures ? It Mr. Hayes is to be a reform President he must necessarily surround himself by re- formers—that is to say, with the very men | who have been out of favor with the present administration. He must of necessity re- fuse both place and influence to all | who have been prominent under General | Grant. * We are of those who, though doubting the | power of Mr. Hayes to institute the reforms | he promised, have never thrown donbt on the sincerity of his intentions, We rejoice, | therefore, now that he may become | President, to find reason to believe that he still entertains the sound policy which he announced when he was nominated. We trust he will ad- here to it, and we shall give him a zealous support in it if he shall enter on the Presi- | dency. That he should desire to call some prominent Southern men into his Cabinet, and to consult with such men upon all South- ern questions, seems to us not only to be emi- nently wise, but to follow necessarily from his determination to reform the civil ser- vice. Todo that he mustturn out of the offices they have abused for political and | selfish ends the army of camp followers who call themselves republicans in the | South, the protegés of Kellogg, Spencer | and Chamberlain ; the associates of Moses, | Whipper anc Packard. In fact, merely to | reform the federal civil service, merely to | appoint to prominent federal offices in the | character, fitness The abuses of uing of General Grant's appointees in the South whole Southern question. | have done more to maintain a constant state | of irritation there than anything else, ex cept his unconstitutional interference in those States. | 1 Mr. Hayes should, therefore, design vouncils such Southern men as Mr. Lamar and General Hampton, ms to | us to be more creditable to his judgment | Mr. Lamar bas been a con- Congress; he has endeavored to harmonize differences, to allay sectional suspicion and hatred, to bring whe country back to a trne peace. He is bitterly hated by the favor- ites of General Grant, Ly the very men whom Governor Hayes means to drop, and As for General Hampton, his conduct both before and since the election has commended him to all good citizens in the North as emi- nently wise, conservative and loving: jus- | tice, It does honor to Mr. Hayes’ judg- ment if he has selected these two men— | of course without their knowledge—as those | They ave certainly | the kind of Southern men whom we hope, if he is President, he will confide in, and whose advice he willseck. The country ex- pects of Mr. Hayes just such a Southern policy as he has announced. One of the most eminent republicans of the East, President Woolsey, publicly admonished him during the campaign that if he | was elected he onght to select Southern men for Southern offices. It was never | expected that a President would do other- it would be resented as clfensive | and anomalous if Southern men, adven- | turers and political intrigners, should be | appointed to federal offices in New York or | Boston; and that he shouid advise on | | Hayes. | the complicated labors of the stage. | this and other precautions be adopted at | men advice about moral courage. Rein affairs with the most influential and the ablest Southern men 1s so natural and proper that it needs only to be men- | tioned to secure the approval of everybody except the politicians. We hear from Washington that Governor Hayes’ policy, thus announced, is alarming both parties. The republican politicians who formerly, despised him now begin to | fear him, and do not scruple fo say that they prefer Mr. Tilden to such a President as The democratic politicians, on the | other hand, are uneasy at the announce- | ment of a policy which would be certain to disintegrate the present democratic party in the South, break the color line and carry a | mass of white voters into the republican camp. If Mr. Hayes becomes President he will, no doubt, have trouble with the politi- cians of both parties if he carries out his policy. But he need not fear or hesitate; for he would have the people of both sec- tions as his supporters. He could covnt on the honest and thoughtful citizens and pub- lic men of both parties, and the good results of such a policy as he has announced would so quickly show themselves to the country | that he would be secure of general confi- dence and respect. If he becomes President | it will ke under peculiarly painful and em- barrassing circumstances. ‘I'o attempt to be | a partisan would be a fatal blunder for him ; only by an honest, conciliatory policy of re- form and peace could be hope to succeed. Playing with Fire. The condition of all the theatres in New York was clearly shown by the investigation instituted by the Hrraup und the intorma- tion furnished so readily by the managers. It is certainly an unsafe condition; but we are disposed to bolieve that individual man- agers are not to blame for it so much as the bad system which the carelessness of the comiaunity has permitted. ‘The law has not | dealt wisely with the manner of building theatres. We print elsewhere in to-day’s Henrarp a number of valuable suggestions ! from Mr. Shaw, Chief of the Londen Fire Brigade, regarding the general structure of fireproof theatres. Some of these can be adopted at once by managers, and,at a com- peratively small cost. Others are applicable only to new buildings, such as we hope will soon replace the present dangerously inflam- mable structures. ‘There should be no hesi- tation on the part of the proprietors and man- agers of theatres in building a fireproof brick wall across the house, separating the stage from the auditorium, and fitting it with a fireproof drop shutter. Such a work would not in any way necessitate a change in the present exterior decorations of the stage, and would certainly de- crease the danger of a general conflagra- tion. Churches are generally isolated, and have windows on every side, but a theatre is almost always placed in a cluster of other buildings over which the manager has no control. Fire may originate with- out as well as within, and thus the risk is double; for no matter what may be the pre- cautions of the manager they may be made useless by recklessness in the immediate neighborhood. Itis plain that the whole system of building theatres must be re- formed before absolute safety can be ob- tained. The existence of the danger, which it is impossible to remove at once, makes extraor- dinary precautions necessary until the Leg- islature can act, One of the best of all re- forms would be the employment of regular firemen at the theatres. All of the managers have informed us that they have watch- men or firemen employed every night, in | numbers ranging from four or five to fifty. We have no doubt of the truth of these state- ments; but these men have other duties to pertorm besides those of watching for fires. They are stage carpenters, gas men, scene shifters, &., and cannot always be de- pended upon. What is imperatively de- manded is that at each theatre there shall be stationed every night a sufficient force of trained, experienced firemen, se- lected trom the city Fire Department, uniformed and completely equipped, whose sole duty should be to guard the audience from such a fearful calamity as that of Brooklyn. They should be paid by the theatres. This isa practical guarantee of safety which can be had instantly, and we trust to see the managers adopt it, at once. It would doa great deal to restore confidence; but the experience of Tuesday | shows that little reliance can be placed on irregular firemen who are engeged in all Let once, and when the Legislature meets let it examine the whole subject of public build- ings in cit: frame comprehensive laws and | provide severe penalties for their violation. So long:as the present system continues we | are literally playing with fire, and know not when it will become our master. The Pulpits on the Brooklyn Calamity, As might be expected, the pulpits of this city and Brooklyn with perfect unanimity yesterday drew lessons of faith and forti- tude, of providence and punishment from the Brooklyn calamity. It was discussed in one or more of its sad or hopeful phases in the Berean Baptist church; in Washington square and Eighteenth street Methodist Epis- copal churches; in Grace and Macdongal Baptist churches; in St. Mark’s Protestant | Episcopal church, and in the Church of the Disciples. It formed the theme of Mr. Bell's discourse in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, and of more than a score of pulpits besides in that city whose churches will fee! the loss. The Fieet street Methodist E has lost three or four of its number, and its pastor spoke last evening about the disaster. Dr. Rylanco discussed Mari- olatry and Mr. Hepworth gave young Dr. Pres- ton proved the Catholic Church divine by the Scriptures and Mr, Parker de- scribed the use and abuse of the Bible. Mr. Giles explained where the heavenly mansions are and how they may be found and entered, and Mr. Searles showed wherein good men are weak. Mr. Sweetser and Mr. Puliman expounded their own Church creed (Universalism), the latter con- trasting the Roman Catholic doctrine of pur- gatory with his own Church's theory of fature discipline. opal chureh | The Oregon Maneuvre, The warmth with which the democratic press defend the action of Governor Grover and maintain the legality of the Cronin Electoral College betokens their belief that the election of Mr. Tilden depends on the action which may be taken in relation to the Oregon vote. We suspect that they are leaning on a broken reed. The only thing which can be accomplished is to compel the |, Senate to go behind the face of the certifi- cates. The democratic expectation seems to be that when they have thus forced open the door the certificates from the three disputed Southern States will come in for review as well as the certificates from Oregon. Con- ceding this we do not see that it will help Mr. Tilden. It makes a very pretty politi- cal sensation, but democratic hopes founded on it will prove delusive. To be sure the same rule must be applied to Oregon and to other States, but it must be applied with the same limitations, Nobody will con- tend that because the certificates from Oregon may be reviewed the certificates of Massachusetts or New York may also be reviewed. The peculiarity of the Oregon case is that two certificates will be sent, and the question to be raised is which of the two is regular. A decision to go behind the face of the certificates for this purpose would include only States in the same predica- ment. The investigation would be confined to the one point of ascertaining which Electoral College was entitled to act in States where two assembled. Oregon and Louisiana are the only States in which this happened. It did not happen in South Carolina ; besides Oregon, with the single exception of Lonisiana, An inquiry to ascertain which isthe legal Electoral College where two met and voted will be very limited in its scope. The inquiry cannot be pushed any further in one case than in the other. As there is no pretext for going behind the official count of the votes in Oregon there can be none for doing so in Louisiana unless it rests on some other principle than uni- formity of proceeding in analogous cases. In Oregon the whole difficulty relates to what took place subsequent to the official count. But in Louisiana the subsequent proceedings were regular if the count was correct. It is farcical to pretend that McEnery is Governor of Louisiana. Both houses of Congress have recognized Kellogg ac Governor; the seal of the State can be affixed only to documents which bear his signature; the laws of the State for the last four years have been made valid by his ap- proval. Everything done in Louisiana sub- sequent to the adjournment of the Canvass- ing Board has been perfectly legal and regu- Jar. The Governor's certificate merely authen- ticates the list of ‘Presidential electors. Governor Grover certified that two repub- licans and one democrat were entitled to seats in the Electoral College. The title of two republicans was unquestioned, and they formed a majority of the College. ‘The pro- ceedings of such a body are controlled by its majority. It is for the ma- jority to deeide whether thero aro va- cancies, and to fill them if they exist. Even if Cronin was duly chosen an elector he had no authority to organize the College against two others whose titles were as good ashis own. The other two members did not resign, did not absent themselves, did not refuse to act as electors, did nothing to torteit the claim to act as such which they derived from the vote of the people and the Governor's certificate. As a majority of the College they had a right to organize it and to control its proceedings. Cronin’s vote for Tilden was not cast as a member of the Electoral College organized by a ma- jority of its certified members. The persons with whom he acted were not elected by the people ; they had no certificates from the Governor ; had no title to vo'e which either house of Congress can recognize. Governor Grover's certificates, though sent to the President of the Senate in the wrong en- velope, prove that the other Electoral College was regular. Its majority consisted of mem- bers whom he had declared elected. That majority found a vacancy and filled it as the law of the State required them to do. We have no doubt that their proceedings will stand and the three votes of Oregox be legally counted for Hayes. President Grant's Explanation, The President has been so much annoyed with the stories respecting his interviews with Mr. Hewitt that he. yesterday madea statement for publication. He admits that he did say to Mr. Hewitt that he thought the | South Carolina Legislature was incompe- tent to transact business without a j quorum of sixty-three members, but that it was a mere expression of his private opinion, which might not be cor- rect, and that he afterward teld Mr. Hewitt that he had abused his confidence in making this private opinion public, Mr, Hewitt denied that he had telegraphed it to South Carolina, but it became known in Columbia by some means and has led to expectations whichysthe President fails to satisfy. Mr. Hewitt must have repeated the conversation to somebody, and the President very soon found himself in hot water The republican leaders became angry and alarmed, and their suspicions have impelled the President to take more decided ground against the democrats in order to keep his standin; in the republican party. If Mr. Hewitt had been silent and discreet the President would not have felt it necessary to express himself in the strong way he does in order to vindicate his fidelity to Mr. Hayes, We think he is all wrong in his present view of the South Carolina question, and it is to be regretted that he has been provoked into changing the private opinion which he admits that he communicated to Mr. Hewitt. It is still more to be regrette3 that the Chief Magis- trate of the country did not regulate his official action in an important crisis by his } real views. Dow Cantos, the great Spanish agitator, has carried his restless sword to Russia. We mention the fact by way of a hint to some of our own hot-blooded politicians, | who seem to be spoiling for a fight, and we would cheerfully subscribe to a passage- not in Florida; not in any State | | YORK HER ALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER Jl, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. and on their way to the glorions graves in |’ which they would find their most fitting place, Actors Dead and Living. Since the noble yet merely Christian ac- tion of the Rev. Dr. Houghton regarding the burial of the lamented actor Holland his church, *‘The Little Church Around the Corner,” has been peculiarly dear to the whole dramatic profession, yet never did its walls contain so many members of that pro- fession as yesterday. Dramatists of all degrees joined in the last tribute of respect to the brilliant young actors who on the fateful stage of the Brooklyn Theatre played their last parts in life’s drama, and the trib- ute was as sincere asit was impressive. Actors off the stage are, as a body, pecu- liarly retiring and inconspicuous, and what a curious world hears about them is too frequently only the discreditable per- formances of exceptional members of the profession. The present is a good time in which to review current impressions about this misunderstood body of men and women and to accord to them the special credit which they so richly deserve. In. sincerity of regard for members of their own calling there is no class in America that can equa our actors ; indeed, there are few organized societies, exclusively fraternal, in which the sentiment of brotherhood is so strongly manifested as in this unorganized, shifting body of men and women, with its nequaintances formed in an evening but lasting forever. Generosity is another dis- tinguishing trait of the dramatic profession. Actors as a class are as severely worked and poorly paid as any other of equal intel- ligence; yet they are seldom or never ap- pealed to for benevolent contributions, in either money or professional services, with- out responding heartily. Even now, before the ruins of the burned theatre have ceased to smoke, and while the citizens of Brooklyn are deliberating on relief meas- ures for the sufferers, the members of this much maligned profession, no one of whom has a personal interest in the families whose bread winners perished in the fire, have planned a series of benefits which will prob- ably result inalarger and more speedily realized relief fund than that which Brook- lyn itself will create. Honor be to whom honor is due. Scurvy ‘and the North Pole. The discussion in England over the un- expected return of the British Arctic Expe- dition is still kept up in the Euglish papers with as much liveliness as ever. Our cable letter of yesterday states that the question now uppermost isthe breaking out of seurvy among the crews of the Alert and Di&covery. It has, therefore, in a large measure passed into the hands of the medical men, who are now endeavoring to solve the problem. Should they succeed in doing this to the satisfaction of the average British mind, then the grievous public disappointment at the failure of the expedition to reach the Pole, its inopportune return and its strange theories about seas baptized by them with Greek names will, no doubt, in a large measure relieve the officers from the heavy weight of public condemnation under which they have rested since their arrival at Portsmouth. The Times still severely at- tacks the officers for their failure to issue ra- tions of lime juice to the men, and some medical authorities claim that lime juice does not prevent scurvy, while others vigor- ously sustain the opposite theory. Of all the obstacles likely to lie in the way of the progress of an expedition to the North Pole the very last that any one would have dreamed of was the scurvy. The crews of ships sailing into the Arctic seas have sometimes been attacked by that blood disease; for it is simply that and nothing more. Unhealthy circumstances and unhealthy food both con- tribute to its development. The long con- tinued darkness of the Arctic winter is sup- posed to be peculiarly favorable to its ravages, and yet most of the Arctic expedi- tions have escaped from it. Of the three American expeditions wintering in Smith Sound two were exempt, while the third— that of Dr. Kane—although attacked, had no deaths from it. Salt meats, such as are ordinarily used on shipboard, are generally supposed to be a principal cause. Long voyages, when the crews have been without fresh food fora protracted period, have, in all climates, bred the disease. It is difficult to assign an immediate cause; but the result is well known to all who have been long in the practice of “going down to the sea in ships.” The blood seems to lose its cohesive properties; none of the tissues of the body receive their proper sustenance; dark purple patches appear upon the body; the flesh becomes puffed and flabby, and a dropsical condition supervenes; the more tender tissues, such as the gums, bleed pro- fusely, and in bad cases the teeth fall out; the brain quickly suffers, and all conscious- ness of danger is speedily lost; the mind becomes irritable, and all the patient wants isto be let alone, If so allowed he dies withont pain and seemingly without re- gret. Its progress and symptoms, if we may believe those who have been familiar with it, are really appalling. Bulwer, in his “King Arthur,” describes it in the following lines, which almost make one’s flesh creep while reading them. The people of his imaginary ship are, however, first reduced to starvation before the discase is mani- fested; for, says the poet— Haddled on deck, one half that hardy crow Lie shrunk aud withered tn the bi With filmy stare and lips of livid bu And sapless limos that suifon where they lie; While the dire pest scourge of the frozen zone Rots through the vein and gnaws the kavtted bone, This refers toa by gone time, when con- yeniences and comforts known in our day were unheard of at sea. It has latterly been thought that lime or lemon juice was an absolute preventive, It is made in- cumbent, under the English law, for all vessels, public or private, bound on long voyages, to carry lime juice and use. it freely. It is charged in this particular case that the officers in command and those re- ; sponsible for furnishing the supplies were negligent in this matter, The whole sub- ject is being thoroughly investigated, and it } will be a curious illustration of the pro- | verbial misuse of governmental authorit, wherg no one in particniar is responsibic, if it should turn out in the end that this | expensive British expedition has failed to reach the North Pole through the lack of a money fund to get them out of the country | few kegs of lime juice. | | The Tomb of Agamemnon. The startling discoveries on the site of the ancient Mycene by Dr. Henri Schliemann, which the Henarp had the honor of exclu- sively announcing yesterday, will deserve and obtain the deepest attention of scholars and Hellenists all over the world, They take us back to one of those dim periods called *‘prehistoric,” over which 2 wave of physical oblivion had swept, and of which only a shadowy story re- mained. ‘The body of things in these ages died and was buried, and the spirit lived only on the air of the breath, or floated, clothed in spectral form, before the eye of the poot ‘‘in fine frenzy rolling.” ‘To bring these ages before us in something palpable— that can be looked at, touched and weighed— is ‘materialization” on the most exalted scale. What would Byron, who poured out his enthusiasm upon a mound in the Trojan plain that he believed to have been the grave of Hector, have given to lay his hand upon the tomb reared above the dust of Agamemnon, the mighty ‘‘king of men?” ‘The immortal interest centred in the great epic of Homer secures for this discovery of the enthusiastic German doctor a spell- bound audience larger than that listening ta the disinterred story of any of the other great archwological discoveries of modern times. It possibly outdates them all in an- tiquity. If the chronologies are sus- tained it touches an epoch coeval with the earliest discovered records of Assyria—the reign of Tiglath Pileser I. It brings to light a civilization four cen- turies older than the foundation of Rome, two centuries before the birth of Homer, four hundred years before the victory of Corebus in the Olympic games at Elis, six centuries before a stone was laid there of the temple of Jupiter, about which the German savans are laboring by the banks of the Alpheus, five hundred years before the Temple of Diana at Ephesus was begun; yea, a century before Saul was King of Israel. When we look upon the marvels of Grecian art, the exquisite pers fection of the workmanship, the complex lines of thought centred in the details of the oldest Greek monuments previously brought to light, “we feel instinctively that they are the products of céntury after century of growing civilization. A feeling of artistic despair takes possession of the beholder that the oldest seems the most perfect until the belief begins to grow tnat Grecian art and poetry and philosophy must have sprung into the world full grown and fully armed as the fabled Minerva sprung in the divine pangs of Jupiter from his brain. All that we knew or apparently could know, reduced itself to this fancy so repugnant to the ex- perience of man’s toilsome progress in the world around us, From the excavations of Mycenw come apparently the corroboration of what we think in all logic should have been. ‘Traditions that had been embalmed in the brightest song we have seen waved away by imperious theorists as absolute myths. The patient German, with his spade, digs the grave of theorists at the same time that he brings the heroes to the light of day. We shall await with the greatest impatience the details of the discoveries—an impatience which all the learned, all the lovers of ancient Greece will share. The enthusiasm with which the scholarly Emperor of Brazil is reported lately to have spoken of Dr. Schliemann’s discoveries aftera visit to Mycenw is now explained. Even an Emperor might feel proud to stand beside the simple savant when before them was the tomb of Agameme non, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Goropius saw a girl who was ten fect high. England has now an eflicient volunteer army of over 170,000 men. ‘the only sure cure for sneezing is to hola the patient upside down. Hundreds of families wore rendered houseless by the’ late floods at Aberdeen. Congressman Watterson’scp!gram on Louisiana:— “Gone by the board.’? The Hon. Abraham Hewitt does not visit the White House so often as he did. It is said that the Prince of Wales has proferred hia services for activo duty in case of war, The Black Hills dentists pull teeth with a six shooter and fill them with gold dug in the cellar, Great activity has been manifested in the completion of the armaments ot the forts defending Cork Harbor, Sitting Bull says that he had no trouble with the United States until the soldiers attempted to bull doze him. Why should a poor man go to Pennsylvania and pay $10 to be cremated when he can flad a night’s lodging ina timekiln near home? It isso cold oa the Red Kiver at Lako Winnipeg that hens roost in the smokestacks of the sawmills te keep from freezing to death. A new Lord Lieutenant is always received, on arrival in Dublin, in state; but the outgoing one generally re- tires into private life quietly. Chicago 7ribune:—“It is no wonder that the people of Oregon should be wrought up to the pitch of burning Governor Grover in effigy.” Court Journal:—‘‘The Brighton Aquarium has been outstripped by a similar establishment in New York, which contains a white whale,” According to Herr Scheckelheimor, the celebrated entomologist and German philosopher, a flea takes just 654 bites before be is satisfied, Thermometers are made in Nevada by fillinga stove- pipe with whiskey. When the whiskey freezes solid a change in the weather is predicted, Vlaving found the tombs of Agamemnon and Cas- sandra, Dr. Schliemann should go to the Red Sea and look after those chariots of King Pharaoh, ‘The St. Louis Republican's iiverary bull-dozor says:— “There aro no party questionsany more, Thoy ere all adsorbed, sunk out of sight in one great national question.’? Jolin Bright :—"It seems to mo that the wholo worla {8 Wrong, that everything 18 Wrong in the creation and arrangement of the conditions under which men hive on this earth,” A correspondent, speaking of ball costumes, says ladies will wear very jong dresses of cardinal red and pearl white this year, with gold ehatelaines and a chain holding a fan, a sineiling bottle and an eyeglass, Chicago Pimes:—“Speaking of James Russell Lowell, poet ant politician, old Cameron might remark about his course in the Electoral Colloge, ‘1s the first time Tever knew ono of those literary follers to do the square thing.’ ” From Judy:—“Would-be Wag (to old customer with highly tinted nose)—‘A’ say, Chappie, hoo muckle wid it tax’ ta pent a neb like that o? yours?’ Old Customer—‘Well, mun, a’ coulana exactly say, as it's uo just feenish’t youl? ? A London correspondent says that Mr. Gladstone wrote his last pamphlet in threo days and that his share of the pretits was £10, also that the proprie- hors ot the Contemporary Ke pata him 250 guineas for his review of Schuyler’s book on Turkestan, From Punch:—"Master—\Wish to go? What for, pray?’ Stud Groom—Well, sir, you've been and bought two new ‘osses without my opinion, and from a patty as has benaved very bad tome.’ Master—'L suppose you mean you shea A _made ag much as usual Puy tha ijaat yy tre -= my