The New York Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1877, Page 6

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THEATRE COMIQUE.—' TONY PASTOR'S THEATRI TIVOLE THEATRE,—Vai TRIPLE SHEE NEW YORK, MONDAY, uRRR Fisies, T. TO COUNTRY DEALERS. Adams Exoress Company run @ special newspaper over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections, u Jorvey Cley ut a quarter past four A. M. and day, carrying the recular edition of the Heran as far Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching agi At A quarter past six A, M. and Washington at = From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be partly cloudy or clear and warmer. Our Art Co.umy is full of cheering informa- tion for people who fear that the omnipresent chromo has discouraged artists. Ocr Cnartestown Letrer announces the decease of two men so loyal and true that the reader will wish the exploded theory of the transmigration of souls might be reconstruated. Proressor ApLER’s STATEMENT that no ono murmurs at the falling off in church membership will be vigorously disputed by every one who is trying to collect money to pay off church debts. ToucHING as are the sorrows of the poor they are matched by that of the millionnaire, John T. Daly, whose real or fancied troubles led him last week to stray away from home and friends and destroy himself. Tue ANNIVERSARY SEASON began in live enr- nest yesterday, and our reports of proceedings will inform contributors to many religio-philan- thropie enterprises what their money paid for and how far it went. Tue Cationic ARGUMENT in favor of the use of religious signs and symbols and the erection of costly places of worship was ably presented yesterday by the newly consecrated Bishop Spalding at the dedication of St. Agnes’ Church. Tue Treascry StaTemMENT of the reduction of the national debt shows that durirg the past nine years we have wiped out nearly five hun- dred millions of dollars. Europeans find much to criticise in America, but before this Treasury statement they can do nothing but admire— and envy. Mr. Bexcuer remarked yesterday that China might be wiped out and the world not know it. Perhaps so; but if the time ever comes when wo purchase currant leaves and powdered nutgalls under their own proper names instead of that of tea hous pers at least will realize that some- thing has happened to the Flowery Kingdom. It Is Possinie for temperance societies to do n great deal of good, but not if they follow the example of the Temperance Union, which yester- day afternoon unanimously passed resolutions making demands which every sensible person in the audience knew would provoke no action more serious than a laugh. Such nonsense is as dangerous a8 whiskey to the cause of tem- perance. It Is Time THAT Rerorm Scroors wero opened for adults, and that certain class of ranters should be placed in them and kept there until they are educated out of the lunacy into which they seem to have fallen. It seems incredible that any body of sane men, eyen with empty pockets, could have listened quietly to the ignor- ant, idiotie twaddle expressed in speeches and resolutions before the Labor Reform League yesterday. Tun Weatner.—Except in the lake region and the British provinces the pressure is low all over the country, with rain areas extending along the const and the Mississippi and Missouri val- leys. The lowest pressure is now north of St. Louis. The barometer is also Jow on the Pa- cific coast. The temperature was generally higher yesterday than that of Saturday, but is now variable in the Upper Mississippi Valley and the western lake region. Local disturbances are probable in these districts and southwest- ward from Louisville. In the lower lake region the winds are brisk, but in other sections are very moderato. The Lower Mississippi is above the danger line at Vicksburg. The weather in New York to-day will be partly clondy or clear and garmer. ‘Tne Pusrrr Yesterpay seemed as full as na- ture of the impelling forces of spring, and work rather than belief was the general topic of the day. Rey. Dr. Curran urged the congregation ut St. Stephen's to be doers of the Word as well as hearers. Mr. Hepworth deduced the same injunction, from a different text, and specified the nature of the work which the Christian should most earnestly strive to perform. Dr. Giles, supplementing his discourse of the previ- ous Sunday, explained from the spiritual stand- point the naturo of man’s stewardship, its re- wards and its penaltics. Mr. Frothingham upon tho work that mankind finds the and least popular—to wit, telling and living up to it, while Dr. Talmage took, by implication, the same general subject of his fellow Jaborers by addressing himself partic- ularly to city, officials, who, according to general iniprossion, do less work yet get paid for moro than any other classof men upon our ecction of tho plamety NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1877-TRIPLE SHEET. What Is Civil Service Reform? One of President Hayes’ promises to the country is to reform the federal civil ser- vice, In this enterprise he has the best wishes and will need the support of all thoughtful citizens; but there is a good deal of curiosity everywhere, among the enemies as well as the friends of this reform, to see how he will go about it. We have the best evidence that he understands the question in the fact that he did not begin his administration by receiving and obeying the commands of deputations of hack and machine politicians, who came in crowds to tell him how to form his Cabinet and to demand offices for themselves. He made his own Cabinet, as he had a right to do, He framed it in such manner as he thought would make it most helpful to him in carrying out his policy, and that is the sensible and, indeed, the only way. Hav- ing done this he took another and not less important step in civil service reform by refusing to listen to op- plications for office and sending the office-seekers home disappointed, to howl against his Southern policy. By these two strokes he redeemed himself from the slavery to which the machine politicians confidently expected to subject him, as they had done previous Presidents. He struck two valiant and successful blows for reform; people now wait curiously to see what next. The single object of a reform of the civil service is to divorce it entirely from partisan politics, When that is done the civil ser- vice will give the country but little concern. Until it is done no amount of examinations, no laws or regulations or good resolutions will be worth the paper on which they are written. When a United States Senator complained recently that the President had not appointed a single one of his men to office, and asked, ‘‘How the mischief am I to get myself re-elected if this kind of thing goes on?” that showed where reform is needed. This Senator, and not he alone, buta considerable proportion of members of both houses, depend upon the appointment of their favorites to office for their own re- election; and men who thus sustain them- selves by the use of patronage are always of a kind who can easily be spared from Con- gress, Again, when a federal United States qarshal becomes chairman of a partisan State committee, that is a place where re- form is needed. He is grossly misusing the influence of his place. When a Cabinet offi- cer consents to be chairman of his party’s national committee, that is perhaps the most scandalous and unblushing civil ser- vice abuse, for it sets a bad example to every other public officer. Fortunately we do not expect to seesuch a scandal under President Hayes. Whenever a federal office-holder, great or little, makes himself prominent as a party politician, he commits a serious offence, for which he ought to be summarily re- moved. If that were an inexorable rule we should need no further reform of the civil service, In fact, if the President should issue to-morrow a public proclama- tion or order declaring that no clerk or other subordinate officer in the federal ser- vice shall hereafter be appointed or removed for merely political reasons; that no federal officer shall be asked or allowed to pay po- litical assessments, and that if any such person takes any part in partisan politics, aside from voting, he shall be at once re- moved, that order would, so long as it was strictly adhered to, bo sufficient to reform the civil service. All the abuses complained of in the federal civil service arise out of its connection with partisan politics. General Sharpe the other day testified before the Custom House Commission that a promi- nent public man applied to him three times to reappoint 1 person who, he knew, had been dismissed from his place for defraud- ing the public. The dismissed clerk was probably a good party ‘‘worker.” On Thursday Mr. Wentworth, a paymaster in the Custom House, was asked if he knew of any men or the payroll of the laborers who drew pay but did no work; he impudently replied, ‘‘Next you will be asking me for their names;” but, being gently entreated by the Commissioners, he presently admitted that there were men on his payroll who did no work and others who only walked about the district—a nice distinction, by the way; and further, that of the three hundred and eighty-eight men on this particular roll one hundred could be dispensed with. ‘The men,” he added, ‘are appointed partly with regard to political influence”—particularly those, we suspect, who do the tall standing around and walking about. Being still fur- ther interrogated Mr. Wentworth admittod that the thirteen weighers could be reduced to six, They got two thousand five hundred dollars a year, and the seven who could be dispensed with and who are probably “‘ap- pointed partly with regard to political influ- ence” cost the taxpayers thirty thousand dollars a year. So far only the Custom House officers and managers have been ex- amined by the commission, It is extraordi- nary that they generally admit that the | force in their different departments can ,be reduced from ten to twenty percent. If the Custom House were put on a strict busi- ness basis, if it were absolutely divorced from partisan politics, it is reasonable to believe that a much larger reduction could be made, But it is not only economy that is to be gained by divorcing the public service from partisan politics; honesty and efficiency are also secured, In the railway postal ser- vice there has been for several years an ad- mirable system of employing clerks. A con- cession was made to the politicians by nom- inating clerks at the request of members of Congress, but a sharp and constant system of examinations as to fitness was used to peremptorily weed out incompetents, At regular intervals all the railway postal clerks have to submit to a test ex- amination os to the rapidity and correctness of their distribution of mail matter; those who fall behind are, under the rules, dropped out. But there have been cases where a clerk notoriously incompetent, but patronized by a powerfal member of Congress, refused to be examined, and kept his place, asserting openly that the department dared not turn him out. That is, of course, demoralizing to the service, and is another case where the abuses of “the system” arise entirely out of the con- nection of the service with party politics. It is not right to blame the Custom House officers; they are themselves the victims of a wrong system. An order from the Presi- dent forbidding public officers absolutely from taking part in polities would do very much to remedy all such abuses, The War News. In our despatches from London by cable this morning we publish the first connected account of the operations of the belligerents on the Danube and in Asia Minor. It is an interesting summary of the war news to the latest dates and cannot fail to attract the reader's attention tothe details of the situation, While the Russians in Europe exhibited considerable dash in taking up their positions along the bend of the Danube sround Galatz their present inactivity can only be accounted for by the unfavor- able state of the weather and the rivers. They have in any event seized points of vantage in Galatz and Ibrail which they will doubtless hold with the ut- most tenacity. The Turks, on the other hand, have been wholly inactive in Bul- garia, and, indeed, were it not for tho accounts of an attempted bombardment of Reni and Ibrail we should assume that they intended no counter-movements. Opera- tions in Asia Minor have been far more energetic. The Russian columns have invested Kars, occupied Bajazid and have menaced the seaport of Batoum. Beyond the resistance made at the last named place the Turks seem to have been pushed back- ward without striking » blow toward Erze- roum, which is the objective point of the three principal Russian columns. We can point to the fact that in our descriptive articles on the movements in Asin we sn- nounced that the Russian march was one of concentration, and that the right and left wings of the army of invasion would be ad- vanced and envelop the Turkish position, and also that tho Turks would certainly make a stand at the Soghnulu Mountains westof Kars. By the latest despatches this view of the Russian plan is fully borne out. American Art Progress. There are in ort circles os in other divi- sions of the body politic a considerable number of discontented people who have persuaded themselves and tried to persuade others that American art is going rapidly to the dogs. Pointing tothe incoming of for- eign pictures and the outgoing of American students they argue the end of distinctive American art at no distant day. It isto bo regretted that many artisis for their own selfish motives encourage this narrow-mindedness, and though they must very well understand the absurdity of the agitation they encourage in order to profit by it. The extreme advocates of what is rather confusedly called American art as distinct from all other art do not seem to clearly understand what they are seeking after, and certainly we confess we do not. ‘The main idea seems to be that our artists should borrow nothing from the European schools, but should set themselves to work to build up new canons of art as well as new processes in the interest of the native American school which is to be estab- lished some time in tho futuro, Others again consider that the safety of art on this continent depends on our returning to the school of Copley and Stuart, which they declare to have been the golden period of American art. Between those two classes of nativists it is really very difficult to dis- cover what tho advocates of the American school want. If we return to the school of Copley and Stuart we must go to Europe, for though those artists were ‘‘to the manner born” their art education and school were thoroughly European. Even the landscape painters who have most claim to be consid- ered distinctively American have followed processes and rules they learned from the European schools, and in so far cannot bo considered strictly American in the sense of owing nothing to the experience and teach- ing of the outside world. Yet a great many artists and others talk and write as though a new art of painting had been discovered on this continent which it was important should not be forgotten, whereas the truth is that whatever artistic culture ever ex- isted among us came over the water. And the young men who within the past few years have gone to the European art schools and set themselves to work seriously to | acquire the technical knowledge which has been handed down by generations of artists will in the end prove the best pillars of that | futuro school of American art which is destined to astonish the world. But before wo can have o national school of art we must have competent teachers, and these will be found among the young men who to-day are working earnestly in the studios of Munich and Paris under in- telligent direction and favorable conditions of study. The cry attempted to bo raised that American students should waste their time in the New York Academy of Design is simply nonsense, for there is scarcely a third rate town in Europo whero better facil- ities for the study of art are not offered to the student. What is wanted among our artists is thorough mastery of technique, and it matters little in what school it may be acquired so that it is secured. Aftor- ward the individuality of the men will assert itself ond tho foundations of a native school will be Inid. But first our ar- tists must lenatn from the European schools sound techniquo, just ns Spain learned from Italy, and yet built up a school of such marked individuality that Spanish art may fairly claim to be thor- oughly original. ‘The progress of American art within the last few years has kept pace with the increased influence of the French and German schools, and as that influenco widens so American art will rise to a higher plane. Applying the methods and princi- ples which underlie all art alike it will then be American only by the accident of local color while being universal in all else, Tne Presipest axd His Panty.—An occasional correspondent, writing from Washington, gives elsewhere some curious manager of men, and expresses the belict that Mr. Hayes menas to carry out his policy “4f it takes all the offices to do it,” and that, “in hi8 belief, the President will judiciously divide the public plunder among the radical republicans on condition that they will sup- port himin a liberal policy. The account he gives of what has so far been done, and how it has been done, is certainly curious ; and we suspect that if the President will be faithful to his policy the people will not in- quire too closely how he conciliates his opponents. But we are, as yet, onlyin May, 1877. The Doom of Mormonism. Of those “twin relics of barbarism, po- lygamy and slavery,” the one was more than twelve years ago extinguished in this country, and the time has come for dealing efficiently with the other. The extirpation of polygamy, which now lies before us, is but a slight task in comparison with the trnly formidable and gigantic one which we had to confront in uprooting slavery. The surviving ‘twin relic” is con- fined to a small patch of country, whereas slavery was intrenched in fifteen States of the Union. Polygamy has no sup- porters or defenders outside of Utah ; but slavery had a powerful and influential body of apologists diffused through every part of the United States. The Mormons live in o Territory, and in tho Territories the author- ity of Congress is supreme and unlimited, so that in rooting out this pestilent nest of abominations no question can arise respect- ing the infringement of State rights. ‘There is nothing, therefore, either in the magni- tude of the evil, or the strength of its de- fences, or the number of its apologists, or its powers of rosistance, which justifies any comparison between the difficulty of dealing with polygamy and the colossal obstacles encountered in the overthrow of slavery. Itis so easy to wipe out the foul blot of Mormonism that the government will be inexcusable if it longer shrinks from this duty. It is but a small part of the population of Utah that has any real interest in upholding polygamy. In this respect the surviving “relic of barbarism” bears a close resem- Dlance to the other “twin.” In the decade which preceded our civil war the number of slaveholders was less than three hundred and fifty thousand, and it was in the inter- est of this small minority that the country was plunged into one of the bloodiest strug- gles in the history of the human race. It was chiefly owing to the fact that the war was waged in the interest of a small aris- tocracy that the submission of the Southern people was so immediate and complete, They had not been fighting their own bat- tle, but thatof a small, wealthy class, which had domineered over them and controlled their action. Not one Southern citizen in twenty lost any property by the extinction of slavery, and this is the main reason why the final submission was so easy and so complete. The pro- portion of the people of Utah who have a practical interest in polygamy is probably even smaller than was the proportion of the slaveholding to the non-slaveholding popu- lation of the South. We have no statistics of the number of actual polygamists in Utah, but the figures of the last census prove that they must be comparatively small. Nothing could be further from the truth, than the iden that a majority of the Mormons have more — wives than one. Readers who have not looked into the facts will be surprised and perhaps startled when they are told that there are more men than women in the Territory of Utah. But this is nevertheless the fact, and a fact Which is obviously ine consistent with tho supposition that the practice of polygamy is general in that com- munity. The census of 1870 gives the num- ber of males in Utah as 44,121 and the number of females as 42,665, It is evident enough from these figures that the majority of the Mormon men cannot have a plurality of wives. Even with one wife apiece there are not women enough to go round. It is certain, therefore, that polyg- amy is o mere belief, and not o practice, with the greater part of the malo inhabitants. The actual polygamists bear a smaller ratio to the whole number of men than the actual slaveholders did to the whole population of the South. When the institution is crushed it will be only the wealthy few (not the laborious, frugal many) that will have their households disturbed. | The fall of polygamy, therefore, will be followed, ns the fall of slavery was by ao sudden and total submission. Its abolition will make no practical difference in the con- dition of the majority. As slavery intrenched itself bebind the doctrine of State rights, which it pushed to on absurd extreme, so Mormonism fortifies itself behind religious freedom and the rights of conscience, which it pushes to a still wilder extreme. And as the slavehold- ers broke down this barrier of State rights when they made war on the government, so the Mormons have lost the shelter of reli- gious freedom by exposing themselves to the operation of the criminal laws. If Brig- ham Young and other Mormon magnates wero tried and executed, as John D. Leo was, for participation in a horrible ond in- human crime, nobody could raise an out- ery that they were persecuted for their reli- gious faith. The New York City Fourth of July Regatta. There ought to be a regatta on the Hud- son, off the city, on Fourth of July after- noon, open to the world. For over twenty years Boston has held such a regatta. Of all tho events of the nation’s birthday it has drawn the largest crowd, the assembly often being the greatest gathered in New England for any purpose throughout the entire year, Atsmall cxpense a healthy and harmless pas- time is fostered, while multitudes from all classes witness a beautiful spectacle and partake of tho keen excitement of the struggle almost as deeply as the rowers themselves. With a magnificent course, straight as a rifle shot, say from the foot of West Ninety-sixth street to Manhattan Market, within onsy reach of half the popu- details of the President 's skill in managing the opposition in his own party. A repub- lican politician in Washington tells our correspondent that the President has shown himself an admirable and extromely skilful lation of the city and with unusual facilities for secing the whole race from shore, it is high time that wo had an annual meet- ing worthy of the day and the city. Com. mence the racing at five o'clock and let the prelude be a two-mile heat between fours from class in which the HeraLp always takes high interest—the police. Let it be for an appropriate prize, and now is Mayor Ely's opportunity—‘‘The Mayor's Cup.” Permit the precincts to send but one team each and thus insure good material. At in- tervals along the two sides of the course let police patrol boats ply up and down, keeping the track clear and the good-natured throng orderly who love to view these water specta- cles from aboard something that will float. Row the great race promptly after the police struggle. Place abreast the Atalanta and Argonanta, the Neptune and the Eureka tours, the good team from Watkins Glen, the wondrously tongh Shownecaeccemettes from Michigan, the fast Northwestern team and the amateur champions of the world, tho Beaverwycks, Save a good position for the Columbia College boys, Yale and Harvard row their eight-oared race but-five days be- fore, at Springfield, so both will be at the top of their condition, and each has among its eight four thoroughly good men. Invite both, and also bring on swift Cornell. Breast these dozen fast crews; give the winner the ‘New York City Cup for 1878" and one or two lesser prizes for the next most fortunate. Our City Fathers will find that they have never appropriated twenty- five hundred dollars which brought such satisfaction and hearty, healthy enjoyment to the greatest number on aday when all are free and which all love to celebrate, Fur- thermore they will wonder why this good thing was not established long ago. England’s Interests in the War. It is refreshing to hear from an English source that the British Cabinet ‘is thor- oughly united about the protection of Brit- ish interests, but is divided about what those interests are.” Let us hope the Cabinet will find out what those interests are before it proceeds to protect them ; otherwise the results may be unfortunate. If, for instance, the government should fall into confusion on this important point, and should pro- ceed to protect by arms what it supposed to be British interest, but what was not such interest, then it is evident that every dollar spent, every shot fired and every soldier killed would be'n grievous waste, and a na- tion that so justly attaches great importance to the economical aspect of every case should, with all its might, avoid a waste of that sort. But this might be rather worse than waste, since if England’s force were given thus mistakenly it would not only fail to sustain England's cause, but it would sustain the cause opposed to it, and thus England’s armies would be sent into the field to oppose, beat down and crush the real cause and interest of the English people. In any war it is a good plan for a govern- ment to endeavor to ascertain what are the interests of its own people before it pro- cceds to protect them by battle; but it is a plan not always acted upon. It hay been especially neglected in the history of Eng- land. Indeed, it is safe to say that Eng- land’s national debt, in so far as it is due to war, was incurred in wars waged directly against the interests of the English people. It would be well for these people it that sort of thing could be permanently stopped, and it is, therefore, almost like finding a little bit of rainbow in poli- tics to hear that the British Cabinet, standing, so far as appears to the outside world, at the threshold of a great war, stops a little to inquire what England’s interests really are in the case before it. Mr. Gladstono says it is England's interest not to stand aside and permit other Powers, Russia above all, to take the lead in scav- engering the Turks out of Europe. Mr. Carlyle says it is England's interest to stand still and hope the Turks may be soundly thrashed ; and between these opinions and the presumed opinions of the Ministry thero is a great range for doubt as to the true in- terests of England. Since it is possible to blunder on the decision, however, it is safe to believe that the government which re- fused to sign the Berlin note, laughed at the Bulgarian massacres and secretly encour- aged the Turks to reject the programme of the Conference, will assuredly blunder once more, Cotton Manufactures in the South. In the communication from Mr, Edward Atkinson which we print elsewhere to-day he gives some information of value to South- ern capitalists concerning the prospects of cotton mills in the South. Several reasons aro given why such enterprises are likely to meet with unexpected difficulties, and Mr. Atkinson closes his article with a general review of the situation of this and other industries in this country, which gives us cheering hopes of the future. He is no doubt right ; we have all the machinery of production and transportation in over- abundance ; we are not poor, but rich ; but with a currency of uncertain value and laws which deprive us of the profits of for- eign transportation and disable us from exchanging our finished products for the raw material of other countries, we are suf- fering for the lack of markets. We have so | greatly prospered that our manufacturers are able to produce more than our own peo- ple can consume ; what we now need is the ability to sell our surplus products in for- eign markets; when we can sell this surplus or exchange it abroad for what we need then all the productive powers we have will be again fully employed, but not before, Loulisinna Politicians on the Future of Parties. Our New Orleans correspondent sends us the views of several of the leading demo- cratic and republican politicians of Louisi- ana. Messrs. Warmoth and McMillen, re- publicans, and Spofford and Wiltz, demo- crats, do not believe any immediate redi- vision of parties probable. Messrs. Albert Leonard, Dibble and Wharton, republicans, and Penn, Burke, Zacharie and Bush, democrats, on the contrary, believe the cially in the South. Genornl Gibson thinks events yet to come and the action of the President in selecting federal officers in the | Sonth would have a decisive efeet upon parties. All the republicans are agreed that the Louisiana settlement is a happy thing for the colored people. Mr. McEnery says both partion in the South are alreadv court formation of a new party imminent, espe- | ing the colored vote. Judge Dibble thinks the new republican party will gain favor as the party of extreme centralization, nation- alizing everything, and he believes this the best policy. Colonel Burke, democrat, says the democratic policy is hostile to every ine terest of the South, and that if the Presi- dent does not try to crowd old democrats into his party ho will make a real republican party in Louisiana. Colonel Zacharie, alsa a democrat, believes that the democrats of the South and the ccnservative republi- cans of the North will be President Hayes’ supporters, It is plain from what these gentlemen sapthat for the present at least there is no new party movement in Louis. jana; but undoubtedly both parties feel themselves disintegrating. The Stanley Expedition. Dr. Nochtigall, the African explorer, praises Stanley's work in Africa. According to our special despatch trom Berlin the Doctor believes that Stanley will reach the west coast in August next, after solving the problem of the Congo and its confluents, Another letter from Frank Pocock, Stanley's white companion, dated at Ujiji, gives some additional information as to the progress of the Stanley expedition up to the date of the last letters from the explorer. The dangers of African travel are heightened by tho treacherous hostility of the natives, who have an unpleasant habit of saluting the white man’s camp with showers of arrows and a decided liking for spitting stragglers with their long javelins. However, in this kind of warfare as in the more civilized combats the rifle tells, and we are not sure prised to learn that the valiant warriors of Uturu retired from the field after a four days’ fight much reduced in number and their ardor for the fray considerably cooled down, The reference to the horrors of slavery in Pocock’s letter shows the bar- barity with which the unhappy captives are treated by their inhuman masters and fur- nishes an a@ditional reason why this dread. ful trade should be stopped with the strong hand of civilization. Cavent at Lasr.—Our special despatch from the Indian country brings the most welcome news that has come from the prairies for years. That most able and dangerous chief Crazy Horse has come in to the res- ervations with his enormous band of twelve hundred warriors, under five chiefs besides Crazy Horse himself. What ap- prehension, labor and suffering is saved the army and the _ borderera by this surrender no Eastern man can imagine; what the saving in money is to a country which spends somewhere in the neighborhood of a million dollars for every Indian it kills on the field may be estimated without much trouble. The thanks of the nation for. this glorious achievement should be divided between the soldier and the diplomatist, the former being personated by Gen- eral Crook, who has allowed Crazy Horse no peace in the field, and the latter by our much abused but faithful friend Red Cloud, who went after Crazy Horse with wise words and a trusty guard, The moral effect upon other hostile Indians of the surrender of Crazy Horse can hardly be. overestimated, and altogether the affair is a cheering promise of the abate. ment of our most costly national torment, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The King of Spain loves bull fights, Saxony has not become Prussianized, Mrs, Elizaboth Cady Stanton ts 1n- Chicago. Tho latest invention is a violin in a walking stick. Mr. James R. Osgood, the publisher, is in Chicago, M. le Bain feeds his horses parsnips instead of oata, Frank Lesite and friends are making a tour of Calle fornia, Mr, Loring Pickering, of tho Saa Francisco Bulletin, is in Boston. Raw oysters taken before bea time are said to cure sleeplessness. Secretary Gorham, of the United States Senate, is in San Francisco. A Jacksonvillo surgeon who takes off legs easily now keeps an alligator, Tho fashionable tint for gentiemon’s clothes this spring is salt mackerel, Eng!wb adventurers aro hastening to Constantinople to join the Turkish army. Chip bats are trimmed with a band of tho same material piped with satin. Ex-Governor Warmoth and Seuator Blaino are among recent arrivals in Washington. Senator David Davis, who weighs somowhero about three hundred, belongs to the bon fon, Tho eldest sons of the Princo ot Wales aro studying mathematics preparatory to going tw sea, Fx-Empress Eugénie, atter visiting Madrid, wit) reach Hngland at tho ond of this month. Mr. Gregoire, de Willamov, secretary of the Russsian Legation at Washington, Is at the Evorett. Detroit Free Press:--“Grapevines are sald to keep ague away, but quinine takes up less room.’” An English peer who won $50,000 on O'Leary promised the pedestrian $10,000 if ho won, Theodore Tilton, who Is travelling with bis danghtor Floronce, will lecture in San Francisco on Tucsaay evening. Some men are now playing the boery game, once “pelonging to childland, of “buck, buck, how many horns up?” Tennyson :— O wake and call rao early; call me carly, mother dear; And bring a slice of pickled pork to strotch trom cat to cor. The first time a man is interviowed he tolis you faintly that he doesn’t sce what his opinion is worth; and then he smiles as if be had put on too much mus tard. The amateur pianist who sits behind yo cone cert lets you know that be or she under Is Boe. in alond whisper, and then you wut’? Paddy Lord works on a California farm, He makes 75 a month shooting wild geese that try to eat the ‘m, Ho bas shot 7,090 geese, which graphers’ Association, Tho Springfield Nepublican recently lost $1 in a suit for livel brought by a soctal reprobate. The case in its details showed that the State of Massachuseua pro. dge shall roly upon is anything but «d common Justice. ‘The Austin (Texas) Leader saya that the grasshopper country would make a good poultry region, which reminds us of ths old vorse:— A grasshopper sat on a sweet potato vine, When up came a turkey gobbier and yanked him off behind, The Washingtonian Homo at Boston, for the cure of inebrintes, contained 317 patients at the first of the year, Of those, 177 wero married men and 140 siugle; 260 were Americans and $7 foreigners, and 110 were mechanics, 85 clerks, 13 merchants, 10 lawyers and 2 physicians, The average numbor of days cach patient has romained 18 21, Three months aro considered nec essary to receive the full benefits of the institution, Worcestor Prest:—*'There is perhaps no more pore fect picture of perplexity than the countenance of nan who finds in his pocket a letter which his wife gave him a month ago to mail, and holds it up to the ‘ight ina futile effort to devermine whether thoro is anything In itthat would convict him if he wero to carry jt in his pocket the rest of the year and mail on the anuiversery of the day on which {t was weit tenn