The New York Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1877, Page 10

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ’ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, —_——<.——— Ali buriness, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henatp. ‘Letters and packages shouid be properly sealed. ejected communications will not ve returned, — + PHILADELPHIA OFFICE-NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH fn 3 LONDON “OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— dO, 46 FLERT sTREET, PARIS OFFICE~AVENUE DE LOPERA, KAPLES OFFICE—NO, 7 STRADA PACE, nts will be ree New York. scriptions and advertise: u TOLUM. a AMUSEMENTS ‘TO-MORROW, GRAND OPERA HOUS! CENTRAL VARK GARD BOWERY THEATRE— URrHAans. NEW YORK AQUARIUS een FIsurs, NEW PARK THRATRE, BROOKLYN,—Romance oF 4 Poor Yousc Man. THKATRE COMIQUE— TONY PASTOR'S THE HELLER'S THEATR TIVOLI THEATRE.—Vant EGYPTIAN WALL.—Vaniery. COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE.—Vanury. QUINTUPLE SHEE NEW YORK, MAY 20, 1 “ARIETY. GITATION. T. “NOLICK TO COUNTRY DEALERS © Adams Express Company run a special newspaper train over the Pennsylvania Railroad «nd its connections, Jeuving Jersey City at 4 quurter-past four A daily and Sunday, carrying the regular edition of the HykaLp us far West as Harrisburg and South to Washington reaching Purladelphia Mt a quarter past six A. M. and Washington at one P. M From our reports this morning the probabilities are* that the weather in New York to-day will be slightly cooler and fair or partly cloudy, possibly with an carly morning or afternoon thunder storm. WALL Srre ESTERDAY.—The stock mar- _ket was active and, led by the stocks of seme of the Western roads, advanced somewhat. The only exceptions to this were the coal stocks, which continue to show signs of weakness. Gold. opened at 10673 and in the afternoon fell to 106%, at which price it closed. Government and railroad bonds were strong. Money om call was casy at 11g a 21y per cent, the former being the closing quotation. Craru’s Disuonest CLerk and his accom- plices‘ have been committed to prison in default of bail. Tue GexeraL Lack oF INFORMATION upon Russia's armament makes our special article on “Russian Great Guns” of more than ordinary in- terest. Surriies ror THE INvIAN Corree Pot were purchased yesterday in this city. There was a noticeable increase in the number of outside bidders. Tux Scnoorsuie Mercury is no good to go— wt least at auction. Another attempt to sell her yesterday failed, the bidding not reaching to fifty per cent of the re: ce, Tuere’s TYRANNY ‘© Board of Fire Under- ‘writers propose that the use of rockets, squibs and torpedoes on the glorious Fourth should be made penal. Lorez Has Nor Yer obtained possessicn of his bride. To-morrow it will be known whether cruel Papa Morrison restrains his daughter's liberty, or the young lady, on second thought, regrets her bargain. Tue Frrenps or UnperGrounp Raprp Tran- sir are bestirring themselves. Yesterday they presented a petition to the City Fathers asking for facilities and explaining the advantages of their proposed plan. Two Men Have Been Arnestep and sent to jail on the charge of selling an imaginary busi- ness to a confiding young man for the sum of eight hundred dollars! And people say the age of innocence has passed away! Tue Case or W111 AM Sirn, arrested while trying to sell a piece of silk to buy bread tor his starving family, 6 ests some thoughts of the terrible dramas being enacted at our doors, and of which we know nothing. - Tue Viraw Statistics show that New York Is rapidly going to the dogs. Four hundred and tighty deaths and only three hundred and teventy-eight births suggest that the Gotham- ites are rapidly following the noble red man, What Suan. We Do with our hackney toaches? The police will not have them wait- ing at corners, and some other people wish to irive them from the public parks. Now, the hacks must stand somewhere. If the police will not have them in the streets, nor the grum- blers about the parks, where a hey to go? Uxaaskinc tux Mormons.—The work done by our correspondent in Utah in showing the true inwardness of Mormonism is bearing good fruit. New witnesses are coming forth to sus- tain the charges made against the Mormon priesthood, and there is some bope that their favorite theory of “blood atonement” may be carried out on themselves. Major Pond, who resided for many years in Utah, contirms in an interview, which will be found in another column, the charges made against the Mormon leaders, Tue Weatner.—The heat area outlined by the isotherm of 70 degrees yesterday embraced a portion of Canada near Montreal, the lower lakes and the Upper 4 ippi and Red River valleys as far north as | From the last named point to North », Neb., the line turved a little eastward, while westward to the mountains the temperature fell rapidly. The trea of highest temperature in the afternoon ex- wnded irom Northern Texas to the Middle Atlantic coast, giving Nashville, Cincinnati, Pitts burg, Baltimore, Philadeciphia and New York temperatures of 89, 89, 90, 88, 87 and 86 degrees respectively. Variations on the coast were very decided. New London and Boston had 62 and 65 degrees to our 86. The low pressure in Dakota continues to move very slowly in a northeasterly direction, while that recently over Nova Scotia has passed away to the eastward into the Atlantic. The highest pressure is in the South Atlantic Btates. Heavy rains fell in the Northwest lerday, attending the disturbance in that region. Tho indications of a Gulf disturbance continue, the pressure is falling on the coast, and strong winds prevail from the eastward at New Or- Jeans, Galveston and Mobile. Hurricanes or tor- adoes may be expeeted in the Missouri and Upper. Mississippi valleys, and violent wind gusts on the lower lakes, particularly Huron and Ontario, Vessels and yachts in New York har- be prepared against sudden wind “guch as that which capsized the yacht last summer, The weather in New NEW De Broglie ai MacMahon—The Coup @intrigue. Nobody would rashly compare Marshal MacMahon, the President of France, with the late Andrew Johnson, some time Presi- dent of the United States; but the character of each is to be judged in the light of those leading elements, narrow-minded, unintel- | ligent obstinacy and the intention to be just—elements mainly responsible for all the blunders in politics-and war. For a man in his intention-to be just may be de- ceived and get on the other side. Ifhe then acts in pursuit of that error with the reso- lute obstinacy that would be praiseworthy in the cause of the right he simply does his utmost to ruin the cause he desires to serve, and his very obstinacy prevents his en- lightenment. How does his country or the world benefit, then, by his honest inten- tions? Neither the present time nor pos- cerity can fairly declare that for the welfare of a State there is any difference between such arulerand the wilful miscreant who: does wrong in a merely vindictive spirit. Andrew Johnson was far more used to political ideas than MacMahon is. He could reason in political methods while it would not be strange if MacMahon could only comprehend facts when put in military forms and relations. But the course that President MacMahon has just taken is in its essential features identical with the pro- ceeding that put the political career of Andrew Johnson out of joint. Johnson assumed the position that he was as much the representative of the nation as the whole Congress was; that Congress repre- sented the people falsely, was not really in sympathy with the purposes of the nation and was disposed to make laws that the people did not want made, but that he (Johnson) alone under- stood the nation, was alone honestly dis- posed to carry out the national will, was alone intelligent and the only man in the nation to be trusted, and that this being the case it was his duty as a patriot to head off and defeat the machinations and per- verted purposes of the depraved and cor- rupt Congress. MacMahon’s position is precisely the same, He alone knows what the country wants. He alone is honest and disposed to act uprightly on the dictates of his conscience and ‘his patriotism. Every one else is either deceived or has some’ evil motive, some bad and mis- chievous end to subserve. ‘They are republicans, and the triumph of “their ideas can only result in disorder and in the humiliation of France.” As long as he holds power ‘the shall use it to pre- yent such results, which would be the ruin of the conntry”—that is, he will use his power as President to prevent the Legisla- turo from making use of its legitimate power under the constitution, because he believes that the constitution has in its operation turned out badly and in a way that the makers of it could not possibly have foreseen. He cannot follow further “in the wake of the Assembly,” be- cause it moves more and more tow- ard the liberal application in govern- ment of republican theories; and as he has made up his mind that these must inevita- bly destroy the country he as an honest man must oppose them. If the soundness of the opinions were granted the course of action based on them would be proper enough in any case in which a man is free to act on his own judgment; but what was not observed by Johnson, and is not by MacMahon, is that the object of constitutions and the formation of parliamentary systems is to guarantee the smooth operation of government, despite the opinions of some old gentlemen that calamity must follow upon this or that course. They make the whole people the judge of what shall be done; not any individual prejudiced by edu- cation and blinded by wilfulness or igno- rance. But there is an element in MacMahon’s course that does not appear in Johnson's analogous eccentricity—the Machiavellian instigator. This is the Duke de Broglie. His relation to.the case might be understood clearly if we should give the analogy a hypothetical extension. If it were supposed that Johnson had not made his famous ob- structive campaign from his own vigorous wrong-headedness, but had been inspired by some very capable, ambitious and utterly unscrupulous politician desirous to step into Mr. Seward’s shoes and undo all that had been done under Lincoln, we should have a tolerably fair parallel to De Broglie’s relation to the present adventure. Such a man as General Butler is con- ceived to be in the popular opinion of that versatile statesman would be pretty near the figure. Without malice, or ill-will, or unfairness toward General Butler, we sup- pose it may be said, tor the purposes of such a comparison, that he is thonght to care un- commonly little for other people's opinions of the propriety of his acts, and not to be deterred from an energetic pursuit of his purposes by consideration of other con- sequences than are pictured in his mind's eye by his desire to suce d; and that he pursues his objects through good and ill report with a pertinacity and talent not often found arrayed on either the best or worst side of any cause. Butler in an alli- ance with Johnson to throw Congress out of its legitimate sphere and influence and organize the administration on a new basis would have pursued the same methods, and from the same motives that are seen in De Broglie’s relation to MacMahon. Docu- ments and addresses would be filled, as they are in Versailles, with fine phrases about principles and exalted motives and patriot- ism and conscience, and disquisitions on what the country demands ; for this‘catches the ears of alland touches the mind of the credulous; but the practical politician, while thus bowing and scraping in metaphor to the publid, would lose no time in his assault on the plunder, and would fill every office with his own followers and supporters and take other necessary measures to guarantee himself against an adverse future. Opinion has done De Broglie injustice if he is less keen for what is really important in a case like the present than this parallel supposes. In short, the quasi revolution in France is the issue of an extensive and audacious in- trigue planned and manmuvred by the forces, who put their own dexterity and. ‘ ; be slightly cooler and fair or ' sendy, pi anon partir | forsee do Broglie and the ultramontano courage in the scale against the real strength of the republicans in the country, and play upon the good intentions and amiable incapacity of the President to lead him into a veritable parliamentary Sedan, where he must surrender at discretion, or perish forever by being compelled to take arms against~his country. They who have led the Marshal into this scrape—the Duke de Broglie at the head—would be pleased to see him in arms and to see their political opponents slaughtered by a fusillade on the boulevards ; and they would persuade the old soldier that in the use of the troops to maintain order, if it shall come to that, that he is not fighting against France, but only against a party that troubles tbe nation’s peace. He will, however, see clearer ere that stage is reached, and will not be the dupe to the end of their game of a clique of adventurous politicians. The old Marshal will not ultimately be foundsin the category of those men who have endeavored to dis- place the national sovereignty and to enable “an incorrigible minority to snatch from the nation the privilege of self-govern- ment.” The Season at Wallack’s, and Its Lesson. Many causes combined to make the theat- rical season now closing one of the most generally unsuccessful on record, Among these causes were the prevailing financial stringency, the reaction after the Centennial excitement, the dread inspired by the un- paralleled calamity at the Brooklyn Theatre, and, during the last few days, the great heat. It is with pleasure we note that one theatre—and that our oldest and most firmly established, Wallack’s—has not only bravely overcome these obstacles, but, as we are credibly informed, has made as much money asin any previous year. Our readers will see that this is most probable when they call to mind the many attractive plays of the season, beginning with ‘Forbidden Fruit,” and following with revivals of the “Shaughraun” and several standard come- dies, including ‘‘Wild Oats ;” then, ‘My Awfal Dad,” which was played for nine weeks to very large business, and now “Rosedale,” one of the most superb stage productions ever seen in this country, and which promises to form a fitting close to a list of brilliant successes. Mr. Boucicault’s talents may be said to have been mainly instrumental in carrying through the first half of the season, but the second has rested almost entirely upon the shoulders of Mr. Wallack, and right well has he borne the burden. It has been the general opinion that Mr. Wallack has never acted better than during the last few months; and this is only natural, for he is an artist who is always studying, and though he is, of course, not so young in fact or face as when he first charmed the town he has lost nothing of the ease, grace, dash and fervor which raise him so conspic- uously above the other comedians of the day. Certainly he never before played the hero of ‘‘Rosedale” so admirably as he is now doing. We may instance the dell scene, where the emotion he displays in his voice while singing the song to the child and when he at last clasps in his arms the object of his daring venture as among the most perfect pieces of theatric art we can call to mind. There is a Jesson in the success.of the present season at Wallack’s, and we think it isthis: thata manager must be to a great extent guided by the prevailing direction of the public taste; that he should not at- tempt to force a play which does not seem generally attractive, but rather that he should refrain from running a “hit” so long that the audiences dwindle down to or be- low paying point, and that, this second tule being observed, successful pieces may, after a sufficient interval, be advantageously revived, if presented with the same care and completeness as at first. The Bad Boy of the Period. New York, May 17, 1877, To Tne Epitor or THz HeRavp:— My pa says it I complain to you you will print in your ‘Complaint Book” my letter, and thus be the means of stopping the boys on our block, Thirty- second strect, between Third and Lexington avenues, from all the time rimging our bell. Now, there’s a policeman named Chesit, for when ho 1s coming the boys balloa, “Chesit, the cop!’ Now, won't you ask Mr. Chesit to stop the boys and save me the trouble of running so often to the door? FLOKENCE OLTMAN, The griefs of our little correspondent, Florence, deserve especial attention; for at her age, which we should infer to be ten or twelve, girls seem to have to boys an an- tipathy like that of cats to dogs. When Florence arrives at the age of sixteen she will not object to the ringing of her door bell by the young men, nor will she call on that unknown official, “Mr. Cheese-it,” to arrest them in | their ardent course. But there is no doubt that the bad boy of the period is one of the pests of society. He not only rings door bells, but throws stones, stops street cars, teases children and makes himself a general nuisance. It must be admitted that much ‘of this seeming depravity is only the intense activity of youth, which can find no other expression than in mischief. De Quincey has a fine description of the bad boys who are a terror to the coun- try side, and for whom terrible fates are pre- dicted; but some time, he says, when Eng- land is at war, and an English ship grapples with a French ship, and the captain calls out, ‘Where are my boarders?” up spring fifty of the bad boys of the period, and, cut- lasses in hand, leap over the bulwarks for victory. There have been vessels boarded on the high seas, however, by armed men whowere not impelled by patriotism, and these pirates were the matured results of bad boys whose activity had never been restrained or educated. The street boy is always old enough to know the moral difference between fun and malice, and when he yields to his in- clination to tease animals, troubled people, drunkards and other unfortunates, he is none too young to be punished so soundly as to recall his quick sense of the fitness of things. If his parents cannot restrain him the authorities should do it, and do it so thoroughly that the memory of his punish- ment will not be one which he will care to divulge to his friends, Meanwhile, let little Florence and all others be hope- | all ages have their forgetting the moral of Pitt's reply, when he was reproached for his want of experi- ence, “Youth is a crime of which I shall get better every day.” The Mormons and the Herald. The vehement and insulting denials with which the Mormon press in Utah has met the statements of our Salt Lake correspond- ent have led him to ask Governor Emory and District Attorney Howard whether he had made incorrect reports. These two federal officers are the most responsible and the best informed in the Territory, and they confirm completely the reports of our cor- respondent. Governor Emory said to him on Friday that ‘‘the presence of additional tederal soldiers would have ao salutary ef- fect.” The Governor agrees with the Heraup that it is not probable that the Mormons will venture to resist the federal authority, but “at a critical juncture” he thinks there might be a conflict between them and the “Gentiles.” District Attorney Howard said to our correspondent, ‘I am satisfied that the Mormon militia has been reorganizing and drilling at several places, at the instiga- tion of the Church leaders;” and again, “We have positive evidence of various meet- ings for drill and of the issuance of military orders.” We do not intend any offence to Brigham Young and the other Mormon leaders when we say that these words ot Governor Emory and the federal District Attorney will re- ceive more credit here in the East than all the denials of the Mormon press. The re- ports sent us by our correspondent are en- tirely confirmed. But when we read further we find in the utterances of both these federal officers evidence that very exciting events are near at hand in Salt Lake City. The Grand Jury meets to-morrow, and, as a result of its investigations, Governor Emory significantly says:—‘I am confi- dent that Haight, Higbee and Stewart, who participated with Lee in the Mountain Meadows massacre, will be arrested and convicted;” and in response to a more direct question, the Governor added, “I think the chief criminals accused will also be arrested, convicted and punished.” Dis- trict Attorney Howard, who has searched the whole history of murder in Utah care- fully, says that since the Mormons entered the Territory he has ascertained that about six hundred murders have been committed. It will be noticed that he significantly speaks only of those which have been “ascertained.” Being asked whether Brigham Young or other members of the priesthood were likely to be indicted by the Grand Jury, Mr. Howard very properly declined to answer, but he said, ‘Young 1s afraid of it; he has a keen sense of the fit- ness of things;” and he added, ‘My opin- ion is that Brigham Young would avail him- self of the earliest information of proceed- ings by the Grand Jury against him, and that his organized Nauvoo Legion would be called into action to escort him and other Church officials who might be in danger of arrest beyond the reach of the officers of the law.” Nor can the Mormons claim that this opinion of Mr. Howard arises from preju- dice, for it is notorious that when Young was previously arrested for murder he de- fied the United States authorities ; and only two years ago he violently resisted the United States Marshal, and two of his body- guard were indicted in consequence, one of whom is now serving a term in prison for the offence. All the signs show that we may be on the eve of exciting events in Utah. Wetrust the federal authorities in Washington are awake and alive to what is going on out there, and that the Attorney General will not allow his subordinate to bear the whole burden and responsibility of the work in Salt Lake on his shoulders. The Polar Colony. Another letter on Captain Howgate’s plan, from the accomplished Arctic explorer, Julius Payer, will be found in our columns to-day. It is a thoughtful contribution to the comprehensive study of this scheme of discovery, which seems to grow in favor with the writers on the subject in propor- tion as it is considered either in the light of arguments in its favor or those against it; for it bids fair to be conceded that there is no objection to it that does not equally apply to a nautical expedition compelled to winter in the Arctic regions, while there appear to be several points of great importance in which it has a de- cided advantage over such expeditions. Our readers will find many objections fairly stated in the communication to which we refer, and we do not believe that they are made unduly prominent. No enterprise of this nature is to be conducted even to that degree of success of which it is rationally capable by shutting our eyes to the ob- stacles. Indeed, the choice of means for accomplishing an end confessedly sur- rounded with the greatest difficulties is a choice only between different sets of ob- stacles, and it has to be duly weighed which of these, if any, is absolutely insuperable. It is evidently the opinion of Payer that the difficulties in this case are not, of that na- ture. It may be said now of this as of many other projects first scouted as visionary that the conscientious study of its possibilities has placed itin the category ofattempts sure to be made at no remote period in the future, Pulpit Topics To-Day, Except among Roman Catholics and Epis- copalians very few of our city pastors will pay special attention to the great event which Christendom this day celebrates—tho descent of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost. Dr. Rylance will speak of the Holy Ghost as a Spirit of Power, and Mr. Herr will describe His work in and through the believer, while Mr. Hull will compare the stirring command of Christ to His disciples with the wonderful promise of His presence with them always, and Mr. Frothingham will present the les- sons of Whitsunday to his people, The rent veil will be drawn aside by Mr. Ken- nard, so that as to Mr. Rowell the unseen may become visible to us also, and we may live to minister to others as Christ lived for us. What He will do for those who follow Him will be ably sketched by Mr. Lloyd, and not the least thing is to enable others, ful for the bad boy, rememboring that Jas he does Mr. Plumley, to walk be- YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 20, ‘1877.—QUINTUPLE SHEET. special faults, and not | fore the Lord as the Israelites did before thy pillar of cloud when the light shined for them in the dark places of which Mr. Mc- Carthy will speak to-day. The work of life and the motives to it will be set forth by Mr. Alger; the elements of woman's power in the Church and in the world will be pointed out by Dr. Woodruff, and the re- ward of personal sacrifice by Mr. Searles. The life and works of the late Dr. Mublen- berg is a fruitful theme not only for Episco- palians, who are justly proud of him, and which will be faithfully sketched by Mr. Smith this evening, but such a life is a blessing to the age and the nation as well as to the Church to which it is given. And it would be a great loss to those who knew that good man if there were no recognition in heaven, But Mr. Hatfield will give proof that there is, and faith is helped or hindered by the belief or the denial of this doctrine, for it is one of the ele- ments of Zion’s glory, about which Mr. Knapp will speak to-day, The environs of Jerusalem will be described by Mr. Sweet- ser, the prophecy of Jonah touching the destruction of Nineveh (the Sabbath school lesson for to-day) will be expounded by Mr. Moment, and the providence of God made manifest by Mr. Hepworth. The responsi- bility that comes with age will be shown and enforced by Dr. Armitage, the duty of the Church toward non-church goers set forth by Mr. Martyn, and the story of an outcast who was once a king will be told by Mr. Bell. Spiritual husbandry will have a place in Dr. Deems’ thought, and Christian fatherhood in Mr. Tyng’s. Mr. Giles will tell us what ‘free religion” is and how to get it, and Mr, Hubbell will repeat the story of the late Carnival fizzle, and so end the programme. _ Diamond Cut Diamond. A cartoon in a late number of the London Punch represents Kenealy de Morgan, a member of Parliament who has made it the business of his life to proclaim himself the “friend of the honest workingman,” al- though he never did a day’s honest work in his life, as surveying with indignant dismay another member who has declared in favor of giving every poor man an independent fortune, and declaring that his rival is tak- ing the bread out of his mouth. The Tam- many Kenealy de Morgans are in much the same plight at Albany, where for the past two days the republican Assemblymen have been indulging in the most degrading dema- gogifm, appealing to the worst passions of an excited mob of laborers, and inviting a riot on the floors of the Assembly chamber for the purpose of intimidating the Legisla- ture into passing over the Governor's veto the corrupt and scandalous jobs they in- serted in what used to be the public rob- bers’ house of refuge—the Supply bill. Al- though, so far as the Tammany democracy is concerned, this resort to demagogism is only turning against them their own weapons the contemptible conduct of the republican leaders in provoking mob law in the Capitol of the State cannot be too severely condemned. Besides, the attempt to prejudice Gov- ernor Robinson with the working classes by the charge that his veto of the one million dollar appropriation for the new Capitol is a blow struck at the laborer will not suc- ceed. The laboring classes are not so dolt- ish as Mr. Alvord, Mr. Husted and others suppose. The one million dollars put into the Supply bill was not intended for the laborers, but for the hungry politicians and contractors who lobbied it through, and who have made the new Capitol at Albany as foul a public scandal as the Tweed Court House in New York. An army of these cormorants stood ready to seize on the greater part of the one million dollars if the appropriation had been allowed, and a very small fraction would have been left for future work. No proper restrictions were placed on the use of the money, and it would have speedily been swallowed up in payment of claims not of the most honest character. But although it would be no justification of an extravagant and improper appropria-| tion of the public money that it would give employment to labor, the question as to who really desires to help the laborer in this Capitol work can readily be settled. The Senate has passed an appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars for that work. The Assembly should add a_ provision strictly requiring that the amount shall be used for labor to be done in the next twelve months, ‘and not for payment of a single dollar of old debts, with the exception of any back wages that may be due to daily laborers. It is well known that the Gov- ernor will sanction such an appropria- tion. This will give entployment to labor, and as the republicans in the Assembly have the power to secure this amount they will be clearly responsible if all work on the Capitol is brought to a standstill for want of funds. Journalistic Personalities. = Personality in American journalism has happily been discarded by most of the lead- ing papers of the country, and now to find a respectable journal, and especially a city journal, indulging in that inefficient weapon of controversy is the rare exception and not the rule, Occasionally we find personal abuse in the columns of a paper, but it gen- erally transpires that it got there without the knowledge and much to the mortifica- tion of the responsible parties. Purely partisan organs still insist on growing heated and unscrupulous in their attacks on political opponents at election time, but there have been so many positive proofs that the use of such unfair weapons do more in- jury to those who wield them than to those against whom they are raised, that there is good reason to hope that even this undesir- able feature of journalism will be eradicated from the American press. In the West, however, a great amount of savage and personal abuse still disfigures editorial effusions, and we are delighted to find in a Western paper a very decisive condemna- tion of such writing and of the editors who resort to it. One Western paper, which has long been at swords’ points with a contem- porary, recently denounced his rival as “a bushwhacker, a murderer and a yellow dog.” The construction of the sentence shows that in that part of the country a yel- low dog is worse than a murderer, which may be admissible if tho dog is a Spitz, To which the canine editor retaliates that his assailant is “an unhappy wreck, a poor lost soul, a fishwoman, a maniac and an un- mannered sot.” We cannot wonder that these gross personalities should have called forth an indignant protest from a neutral neighbor, the Miami Republican, who very commendably denounces with severity the resort to personal abuse in a newspaper, and exclaims, ‘What a miserable, mule-cheeked, cowardly set of libellous dirt slingers these newspaper crews must be” to rosort to such personalities. Our London and Paris Cabte Letters, Paris has a spasm of indignation over the dangerous step taken by the Marsbal-President, and so we hear nothing of her heel kickings and humors, her drama, her scandals or her fashions. We sincerely hope and be- lieve, however, that she has had some of each during the week to keep her rising anger from bubbling over into barricades and bloodshed; for your gay Frenchman has a faculty of being particue larly bloody minded on occasion. London hes a mild war fever troubling her nerves, but Gladstone proposes a series of Turko phobic demonstrations as a counter irritant to her nervous system, which wants asedative. Wagner has been wagging his baton there with great success, we are glad to learn. ‘They talk of giving a marshal’s baton to the Prince of Wales in case they have a war with Russia, but it would be much more appropriate to give Albert Edward a harmless one like Wagner's. If they have any doubt upon the matter let them ask General Grant, who will soon be among them, and whom, we have no doubt, they will treat handsomely, and, as Artemus used to add, often. The coaching club has had a magnificent meet, with twenty-eight handsome teams in line We hope they will let General Grant see one of their turns out during his visit, He will probably take more interest in it than in all their old piles of stone and wildernesses | of brick and mortar, and his opinion on the horseflesh will be worth having, The City of Brussels has again been seen at sea, and we Lope to be able to an- nounce her safe arrival, pilgrims and all, by to-morrow, or Tuesday morning at latest. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Go fan yourself, Fino day for flannel. The Sultan is a harem scarem, Ben Wade 1s five feet five inches high. Faweott, the blind philosopher, loves to fish, The bosom of tho briny deep is now décolleté. In a quarrel the winniog man always feels burt, Boston Bulletin :—"*A Philopena—Shoridan’s twine. Schuyler Colfax tried to get here tn time to join the Carnival, Ex-Senator Logan will play ace bigh in Colorado for the summer, Governor Warmoth is to marry a Newark lady on the 30th inst. Dr. H. J. Phillips, United States Army, sailed for Kurope yesterday, . Count Hippolyto de. Tocqueville, @ lite Senator of France, died in Paris yesterday, Patterson, of South Carolina, 18 a jaunty fellow, and he wears his gray bair as if it wera a wig. The Boston Jost says that Webster’s bighest re- taining fee was only $100, Yot we havo read that his yory last foo was $3,000. Eliza Pinkston has decided that, having once been over to the democratic party, she will hereafter re- main with the solid North. Mr. Kurd von Schidzer, German Minister at Wash- ington, sailed yesterday in tho steamship Rhein for Europe, to be absent about three months, Hayes would be taken fora good old countryman who didn’t put too many potatoes on the top of the measure, but who did not skimp the measure any. Secretary Evarts always looks like your grand mother when she bas forgotten to take her fuls¢ teeth out of the goblet in the morning and plant them where they will do the most good. When you go into a hotol the long bearded clork seems to be paying attention to you alone, but all the while he is looking at your baggage, so that he may calculate that you will not beat him, President Hayes has the peculiar siyle of smile and of shaking hands which belongs to Frank Leslio, It igs genial and yet repressed, It ts openand reserved. It has all the windows open and all the shades pulled down. The comets which are wafting their talts like sunfish in the upper heavens cannot be seen with the naked eye; but if the naked eye puts on a pullback in the shape of a telescopo the comets may be seen swinging their trains around 1m fashion. Nearly every President of tho United States has had his individuality; but President Hayes, baving beard that certain great papers aro trustworthy and repre sont the highest opinion of the country, is sbarp enough to adopt their views, and be representative rather than original. Alekseoyeff, a Russian peasant, recently said at a meeting, whilo he was speaking of the emancipation of the serfs, ‘We were given a little land that was of no uscto us. Evidently we aro still serts. If woare obliged to ask for arise of wages we are punished by banishment to Siberia,” Whon a woman drinks soda she hoists the glass at an angle of eight degrees, bends over, holds in her dress, and as sbe looks out of the corners of het seeming to be in an ecstacy of appreciation, drop of soda rans down off ber chin and goes like @ pear! plum mot to the floor, Philadoiptia Bulletin:—“A man never more firmly believes in the motto ‘Look forward, not backward’ than when he has been looking back and smniliug ata pretty girl who has just passed, while at the same time be most unccremoniously bumps into his wife, who has thus caught bim tu the act, Some of the sentimental papers are going into rap. tures because the Russians have for some purposet proscribed the Polish language in Poland, go that whore @ man would have said *Oischski willskt givski yousk! fa punchski in the enootski,” the poor tellow is com polled to say, “Oiskviteh willviteh givivitch youaviteb & punchvitch In the snootiviteh,”? Rey. R, 8. Storrs is tail and square shouldered, He is delicate in bis rhetoric, and he just escapes boing a | genius, He has not enough color in bis character to make him as great as ho might be; but he is every way nent and pure and clean. The only thing againat him is tbat be never had the moral courage in our day and generation to come right out and say what he thought about Beecher, ‘The Marchiovess of Abergavenny recently wore a train ond corsage of magnificent navy biue and titieul embossed satin, ornamented with navy blue satin and ostrich feather trimmings; petticoat of tilleul poult de soie, draped across the front with tilleul gaze, fringe and ostrich feather trimming, a long scart of navy biue eatin, ned with tilleul, artisucally arranged at the bagk. Coiffure, plumo and veil; ornaments, tara and necklace of diamonds, Evening Telegram:—l is very jusafiicient consola- tion for the swindled depositors in the Third Avenue Sovings Bank to haten to the defence of Superintende: Ellis for not closing tho bank for several months after he knew tt was insolvent, He kept It open, bis lawyer argues, for fear that closing tt woald cause a panic, For month after mooth be suffered poor mon an¢ women to mount the steps of the fragaulently valued bank building and pour their hard earned wages into s hole which be knew had no bottom in it, lest shutting the doors shoula convuise business at | He now contends that these defrauded martyrs ought to be satisfied with the benevolence of bis intentions an¢ reconciled thereby to their losses, This is the most shameloss and abominable plea which wo ever knew # public officer to set up against punishment for dorelic Aton of dutr?