The New York Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1877, Page 6

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From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be cool and cloudy, with fog and occasional rains, followed by temporarily clearing and warmer weather, Wart Str Yesrenpay.—There was another decline in the values of the principal active stocks, and, with a few exceptions, the putire list suttered. The first stock to break was Pacitie Mail, which tell to 185g under the sale of » few hundreds by the ‘blonde tirm.” Gold ppened at 10553 and declined to 1051y, the clos- ing price. Government and railroad bonds were steady, but dull. Money on call was easy at 11g a 2 per cent. A Summary of important decisions in the United States Supreme Court will be found in another column. AN Imaunse SALE of rubber goods took place at Boston yesterday. Prices were good and the rubber men are happy. JupGING FROM THE LonG List of octogenarian pensioners printed elsewhere a government bounty is the surest recipe to prolong life. The pensioners of 1812 never die. YacntsmeN anp Lovers or Yacutrye will be interested in the details given in another column of the preparations for the annual regatta of the New York Club, which comes off on the 14th inst. Tre HackMEN are wisely hastening to share in the profits of the cheap cab company. Several of them offered yesterday to exchange their horses for stock, which Mr. Kavanngh agreed to accept at the proper time. ‘Tue Presext West Port Crass has fallen upon evil days. First of all there is no money to pay them; and, second, the prospects of obtaining commissions are rather blue. Our Washington correspondence will interest but hardly comfort them. Tue Sweeny Surt.—The terms upon which the Sweeny suit was compromised are more favorable than at first reported. The figures are four hundred thousand dollars, and not as it was understood on Wednesday, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, The views of some ot the lawyers in the case are given in other columns, Tur Poticy Horpers of the Continental Life Insurance Company are under obligations to Mr. Grace, who resigned his receivership yesterday, thus averting what threatened to be a long liti- gation involving loss of time and money. There is no reason now why the affairs of the company should not be speedily settled. Tue Conpen Cuvn is anxious that the United States should give in its adhesion to what is called the declaration of Paris in regard to pri- vateering. A letter on the subject was read at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, and by it referred to the Secretary of State, whose reply will be awaited with interest. THe Perris or Coan Mr Several lives were lost yesterday and a large number of per sous wounded in the Pennsylvania coal region by the falling in of rotten mine roofs, The disasters occurred at different places, widely apurt, and, it is to be feared, were the result of carelessness on the part of those having charge of the m It is asserted that at least in one of the works the Mining laws were violated, aud, a8 a consequence, another fatherless family is added to the already too long list of sufferers from so-called coal mine accidents. The lesson of the calamities of yesterday, it is to be hoped, will wot be lost upon the mine managers. ‘The caving in of votten roofs can be prevented, Let the companies everywhere cause examination to be made, and see that their workingmen are not seut to certain de Tue Weary rain areas are now the United States east of the Rocky The first is that on the Atlantic coast, embracing New York and the New Eng- land States, with the heaviest fall on the coast of the latter. The se¢ond is that moving over the Mississippi Valley, and extending trom Louisiana to the lakes and through the Lower Ohio Valley. The dep: New York and its v now eastward of the Ne and within the influence of the Guif Stren. The low barometer in the West has moved north- ward somewhat, but embraces the whole of the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys Yesterday the isotherm of 70 degrees emb Montreal, lower Lake Michigan and Fort Gary, Manitoba, but excluded New York, Albany, the lake region 4 Iiy and all west of the Mis- souri north of Yankton. The area of 80 de- grees included the Lower Mississippi and Curn- perland valleys, St. Louis being its northerly point. The highest pressure gs now in the Northeast. We cull attention to the recur- gence of tornadoes in the West. The accounts given of the destructive violence of that at Omaha are published elsewhere this morning. High winds now prevail over Lake Michigan and along the Platte Valley. Local storms ure likely to occur in the vicinity of Chicago and Buttulo aud through the Ohio Valley toward St. Louis and Cairo, Tho weather in New York to-day will be cloudy and cooler, with fog aud occa sional rain, fullowed by temporarily clearivg and ‘warmer weather. ion which passed over on Wednesday is ‘y-Delaware coast | | | side, The Honor -of the American Flag. We are passing into a new era—an era which promises to revive and make potent the policy of the proudest periods of our history in compelling respect for the national flag. Our Washington despatch yesterday repeating the statement of Secre- tary Evarts in relation to the Spanish out- rage on the whaler Ellen Rizpah is in the same vigorous vein as the new policy adopted toward Mexico, Mr. Evarts said that he “did not intend to allow any out- rage upon our flag and that Spain would be held responsible for any insult to the United States.” We trust the time is past for any further dillydallying on points which concern the national honor or the protection which our government owes to its own citizens. We have had in our history two periods of remarkable remissness and imbecility in upholding the rights of our fing on the ocean, The first of those periods was in the early part of the century, during the great Napoleonic wars. The second began with our civil war and has extended through four Presidential terms. During both those periods there was some extenuation for a | pusillanimous course growing out of cireum- stances. Every reader of our history recol- lects the famous gunboat system of Presi- dent Jefferson, which did not escape derision at the time and has always been looked back upon as the conspicuously weak feature of his administration. all his abiljty, was a man of crotchets, had set his mind resolutely against the creation of anavy, maintaining that if we built ships of war they would be captured by England as soon as they appeared on the ocean and swell her power of commercial oppression and annoyance. He thought we should attempt nothing beyond the defence of our coast and harbors by means of gunboats too small to venture out tosea, This whimsey of a renowned statesman was a foolish mis- calculation and a national disgrace. The money expended on the gunboats would have built and equipped several stanch men-of- war, which would have afforded better pro- tection to our harbors by meeting the enemy before he approached and alarming him for the safety of his own commerce. ‘Lhe folly of this system was demonstrated in the progress of our difficulties with England. The Embargo, which posterity thinks as ill judged as the gunboats, was a natural con- sequence of Jefferson’s opposition to a navy. Having no means of defending our commerce on the ocean we shut up our own harbors, inflicting upon ourselves all the injury of a simultaneous blockade of all our ports. That preposterous policy of Jefferson fills some of the most mortifying pages of our national history. During that period the American flag gave no protection to American citizens. Our merchant ships were stopped and boarded by British men-of-war and American sailors taken out by force and impressed into the British naval service. ‘The national indignation wn: so inflamed by those outrages that, in 1812, Congress declared war against Great Britain, supported by a strong popular cry for ‘‘free trade and sailors’ rights.” The anti-naval policy of Jefferson was reversed. We fitted out a small number of ships of war, und in two years that gallant little navy fought itself into popularity and re- nown. ‘he brilliant victories it won over the war ships of the greatest naval Power of the world put an end for that generation and the next to all question as to the expediency of maintaining a navy. Its achievements were the pride and boast of American citi- zens. That infant navy eclipsed by action in one short war the glory ascribed by the poet to the mariners of England— Whose flag has braved, a thousand ane ‘The battle and the breeze, “The meteor flag of England” dead a rival in the Stars and Stripes, and from the close of that war no American merchant ship was boarded by a British man-of-war to take out and impress American citizens. From that time forward there was no tame- ness in our government under foreign insult er outrage up to the beginning of the civil war. On the contrary, it acquired the reputation in all foreign coun- tries of being remarkably punctilious and aggressive. That period abounds in illus- trative instances, from which we will select one which has not passed out of public recollection. We refer to the celebrated Koszta case, which the rapid tide of great events within the last twenty-five years has not washed out of the national memory. Koszta was not a full-fledged American citizen ; he had only declared his intention to become one and had resided less than two years in the country. He then visited ‘Turkey on private business. Having been an Austriun subject and accused as a rebel, he was seized in Smyrna and confined on an Austrian vessel-of-war in that port. He claimed the protection of the American Consul, and Captain Ingraham, of the American sloop-of-war St. Louis, having looked into the case, demanded that he should be surrendered. ‘The Austrian com- mander stiffly refused to give Koszta up ; whereupon Captain Ingraham gave him until four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day to reconsider his determination, saying that he would rescue Koszta by force if he were not released. When the hour arrived Captain Ingraham put the St, Louis alongside the Austrian vessel and pointed his guns to give her a broad- when the Austrians bethought them that discretion is the better part of valor. The Austrian government called on all the Powers of Europe to remonstrate with our government, and its Minister at Washington made an indignant demand for an apology and redress, ‘This was firmly refused in the well known reply of Mr. Marcy, whose high national tone was universally admired and applauded by the American people. There is nothing in the public lite of that able statesman which will be so long remembered as his spirited reply to the Austrian Minis- ter in the Koszta case. It must be borne in mind that Captain Ingraham trained his guns on the Austrian brig in the harbor of a neutral Power, Smyrna belonging to Turkey, But nv American journal at that day raised an outery against our government for violating the sovereignty of another na- tion. It was only the Austrian Minister that Jefferson, who, with | | resorted to this topic of invectivé,‘and Mr. Marcy made the pertinent reply tliat Turkey was the only party that had a right to com- plain, and that until she remonstrated other people had better mind their own affairs. Mr. Evarts will no doubt pay as much re- spect to the territorial sovereignty of Mexico now as Mr. Marcy did to that of Turkey in 1853. The purpose 1s not to affront o friendly Power, but to protect American | citizens. Since the affuir of the Trent, in the first year of the civil war, our government has made no exhibition of the old national spirit until Mr. Evarts was put in direction of our foreign affairs. In seizing Mason and Sli- dell Captain Wilkes made a mistake in in- ternational law, but in spite of that he elec- trified the country with admiration, and was more popular than Captain Ingraham had been eighteen years betore. ‘The’most mor- tifying task our government evér undertook was its disavowal of the action of Captaiir’ Wilkes in the face of a unanimously applauid- ing public opinion. Nothing ever’ s0'fow?’ ered the national spirit as that humiliating but necessary surrender. Then the tamencss of the administration when Napoleon set up an empire in Mexico in defiance of the Monroe doctrine seemed to quench the few remaining sparks of national pride, and in the midst of our internal troubles nothing has been done to rekindle it until the good beginning which has been made by Mr. | Evarts. Let us trust that the time has again come when the bearing of our govern- ment toward other Powers will be truly ex- pressed in the languuge of Webster the first time he was Secretary of State :—‘‘In every regularly documented American vessel the crew who navigate it will tind their protec- tion in the flag which is over them.” Latest War News from the East. The struggle on the frontiers of Montene- gro continues to divide attention with the preparations for the crossing of the Danube and the Russian advance on Erzeroum, The object of Sulieman Pacha in attempting to force the Duga Passis clearly the relief of be- leaguered Nicsic, and, unless his efforts suc- ceed, that town must soon fall into the hands of Prince Nikolas of Montenegro. Ali Saib's attack from Podgoritza and Spuz is sup- posed to be a feint in support of Sulieman Pacha; but we are inclined to believe that it was intended asa grand coup, by which the Montenegrins were to be caught between two fires. It is evident that it has failed, and at a severe cost to the Turks. The Duga Pass defenders have not been so fortunate as their brethren at Maljat, but we hesitate to accept the accounts of a Turkish victory on that wild and tortuous mountain road as true until we learn of the relief of Nicsic. On the Danube all is preparation yet. No advance has been made, probably on ac- count of the unfavorable state of the river for pontooning. The presence of the Czar, however, may soon bring about a simul- taneous movement between Widdin and Nicopolis, Rustchuk and Silistria and Silis- tria and Hirsova, Roumania has proclaimed martial law as a measure of precaution to protect the Czar-against assassination by the numerous Polish refugees that are now resi- dent in the Principality... This action places even the civil government of Roumania com- pletely under Russian control. With the hostile armies in close proximity near Erze- roum at the date of the last despatches from Asia Minor it is not unreasonable to expect that o battle will very soon be fought. The enormous preponderance of the Rus- sians must assure them victory, even against the desperate valor of the Turkish troops, who are brave enough, but are badly equipped. The Mississippi Murders. Governor Stone is reported to have said about the Kemper county murders that he went promptly to the scene of the riot; that when he got there all was quiet, and he had, therefore, no occasion to call out the militia to put down lawlessness as he would have done; that he went thence to the Judge to urge him tosummon the Grand Jury and have arrests made; that there his authority under the constitution ceased; that the Sheriff was anincapable or the murders could not have happened, and that in his belief nobody would be convicted for these oute rages, because the population of the neigh- borhood would not furnish a jury which would convict any one, though the murder- ers are well known. We are glad Governor Stone spoke so frankly. What he said is undoubtedly true. He appears to have done and been ready to do all that he had authority to do as Gover- nor, and he cannot be blamed. The: case was ore of a kind which has happened probably in every State in the Union at some time. Less than two years ago a sim- ilar set of murders took place in Illinois, and, so far as we remember, the murderers were not brought to justice. In all rude communities such affairs happen, the moral sense of the community not being strong enough to punish the criminals, Missis- sippi has a very rude community, given to violence and placing a low valuation on human life. It is essentially a frontier land; yet they say down there that fewer murder- ers escape than in the city of New York. However that may be we do not think that Governor Stone is to be blamed’ tor misconduct in the Kemper county Wfii; and he certainly did more than republidin Governors in the Southern States have done in similar cases. But we use this case toim- press one thing upon the Southern demo- crats. They now rule in all their States, and with the consent of the North. which got very tired of carpet-bag impotence and misrule. But Northern public opinion in- clines to hold the democrats in the South to avery rigid responsibility. They have come in as reformers, and they are expected to reform. If they should happen to show themselves lnwiless, or tolerant of law- lessness, they would bring ao serious calamity on their party. The republican malcontents who oppose the President's Southern policy do not expect to reverse it ; that is impossible. But they do very con fidently expect to arouse and alarm the North by accounts of Southern lawlessness, and thus to revive the old suspicion and antagonism recommend to the Southern niet afew very pertinent words of the President on this | The Mormons and the Herald's Core in the South Héw thi sopablican party can- ndt be eld ¥esponstbié for it. The South is in the hands of democrats, and that party alone must be responsible to the public | opinion of the country for the conduct of public affairs there.” This ix the plain and clear truth, and we advise Southern men of inflnence to bear it in mind. They cannot afford to be silent when riots occur. We should like to hear from Mr. Lamar, for instance. respondent, Elsewhere we copy from the Salt Lake Tribune a report of the ‘informal examina- tion” made by the Mormon Mayor of Salt tack on the Huranp's corresjiondent. The Mormon newspapers are evidently deter- mined to make life a Burdetf"'to any one ‘who honestly attempts to, investigate the acts of the Church dignitaries, and they are now not only trying to pooh-pooh the story of our correspondent but go further and accuse him of being drank. Unluckily, they condescended to details and ventured to name a physician as authority for this report, and he promptly denies it, as will be seen, The Mormon ‘informal investigation” was as incomplete as its authors probably intended it to be, but the evidence elicited all confirmed Mr, Stillson’s account. One witness heard a pistol fired on the evening when our correspondent was shot at, and said two or three of his friends also heard it, the report coming from the direction mentioned by Mr. Stillson. One of the chambermaids of the hotel testified that she saw & man answering to our correspondent’s description of the assassin pass ont of the hotel through the hall where she was sit- ting. ‘Iwo officers said they believed they knew the man whom Mr, Stillson described. We should now like to see a formal inves- tigation, and by persons who are not pre- disposed to hush this matter up, as the Mor- mon Mayor evidently was. Meantime we will add that, as an attempt to scare off a Herarp correspondent, this attack is a failure. The Jerome Park Races, The races at Jerome Park this season have been very successful thus far, and the closing days of the meeting promise to be even more attractive. Every year the in- terest of the public in the sports of the turf perceptibly increases, and out-door amuse- ments are now as popular with the best classes of society as the opera or the drama. This is caused in great part by the scientific breeding of the horse and the astonishing speed attained on the course during the past ten or fifteen years. The Racing Calendar of the United States contains the names of scores of horses whose average time equals the best time of twenty years ago, and mill- ions of dollars are invested inthe turf. But the unprecedented popularity of racing is in a greater measure due to the successful efforts of the State asso- ciations, and of the owners of great sta- ples, to rid it of objectionable features, and to'make it & wholesome. as. well .as..an.ex4 citing recreation. The management of Jerome Park i'w ‘proniinent “illustration of this fact. To-daythe races will be resumed, and there are to be five interesting events, of which among the important is the grand steeplechase, substituted forthe gentlemen’s hack race, for which the entries were not completed. To-morrow the principal con- test will be the Belmont Stakes, which, in its character, resembles the English Derby. The drives through the fresh green land- scapes of the Park will be delightful. With cool weather, bright skies and so many ex- citing events, the races of this season ought to be unusually brilliant. England and Egypt. It is reported that the Ottoman govern- ment has ‘taken measures to avoid any conflict in the Suez Canal,” and, furthermore, that ‘navigation in the canal will be free to all vessels except Russian,” all of which is mystical. No doubt the Porte might prevent the occur- rence of any trouble in regard to the canal by agreement with its enemy; but that agreement could not involve a discrimina- tion against the enemy's commerce. There is no great probability that Russia will un- dertake warlike operations in Egyptian waters; but this abstention which will sc- cure the safety of the canal will not be due to any ‘‘measures” taken by the Porte, but to Russia’s well judged discretion with re- gard to British susceptibilities. England has declared herself somewhat distinctly in regard to the canal, and Russia practi- cally accepts that declaration as in- formation for her own guidance, as she not only docs not want two wars on her hands at o time, but does not want the Moslem spirit to be raised by the hope of British interference, which would be a certain consequence of a blustering demonstration in London. In Anglo-Rus- sian diplomacy Egypt and Constantinople have always been balanced against one an- other, with the idea that if Russia had one England must have the other; and there seems to be a revival of that sort of moral spoliation of the Porte. There has certainly been drawn up lately between three or four governments a programme of the conditions on which peace might be possible, and it has involved the cession of Turkish terri- tory in Armenia, the temporary occupation of Constantinople by the Russians, and the ocenpation of Egypt by England, temporary also, ss security tor the evacuation of Con- stantinople, As recent British diplomacy has been miraculous for stupidity the gov- ernment may fall into the trap of thus prac- tically taking a price for assent to Russia’s terms. ha ‘ The Ru Prince Charles and his subjects weleomed the coming of the Russians very warmly a short time ago; but the Muscovites, it ap- pears, have already worn out their welcome in the ungrateful Principality, and there are murmurs of discontent at the conduct of the Russian officers and such disagreement as to the exercise of authority that an open quarrel seems unavoidable between oumania, between the sdétions.' We |'the government’ andthe Russian com- it they mander''" Bat (a #ew.; weeks ago was doubtful in Roumania whom subject. Hp said :—"Whatever may happen would: ‘presently; shave’. in their houses, Lake of the circumstances of the double at- | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY; ' JUNE 0S» 1844,—TRIPE® SHEET. ne lperigee opti a CORES se teNNs ,| Russian point of view that the Moslems could between Russia and Turkey continues Over the sires at one side were the Turks, and over the river on the other hand were the Russians. Villages, towns, cities trem- ble at the remembrance of what had befallen Bulgaria when they reflected on the possi- bility that the Turks might come first; and when the Russians really arrived they wel- comed them as the guarantors of safety, life, property and civilization. Now they have forgotten all about their former fears, and grumble at what is no doubt a grievous inconvenience. It is almcst a pity from the not be let into some corner of the country that Roumanians mifht grumble with cause if they must grumble. Washington, and Lee University. General Washington made in his will an important gift to an ancient institution of learning, then called Liberty Hall Academy, in Virginia. Founded before the Revolu- tion as a classical academy, it received the charter under which it now works in 1782, and was called Washington College in 1793. Besides Washington it had among its bene- factors the Society of the Cincinnati and General Harry Lee, the father of General Robert E. Lee,- It was always an important institution and until. the war of the rebel- lion was handsomely endowed. After the war, in which it was crippled in its resources, General Lee became its President, and at his death he was succeeded by his son, Gen- eral G. W. C. Lee. Last year, during the Centennial celebra- | tion, it was proposed by a number of the most eminent Northern and Southern men to raise a centennial endowment fund for the institution, and a considerable sui was at once subscribed. Among the gentlemen favoring and taking part in this movement are Chiet Justice Waite, Secretary Evarts, Judge Hoar, of Massachusetts; Charles Francis Adams, Robert C. Winthrop, John W. Forney, W. W. Corcoran, Judge Strong, A. E. Borie and many others. General R. D. Lilley,’ the financial agent of the University is now endeavoring to secure subscriptions to complete this centennial endowment fund. We hope he will meet with satisfactory success, for the object is eminently praiseworthy. Judge Hoar wrote of it:—‘‘You can engage in no more gener- ous or patriotic service than in seeking to re-establish this institution ;’ and the coun- tenance of the gentlemen whose names we have mentioned above is sufficient to show how widespread is the interest felt in this seat of learning. The War and the Opera. The influence of the war in Europe upon the opera seems to have escaped the consid- eration of those who watch the conflict of nations and predict the political results. Yet music is a delicate creature and cannot but be affected by the noise of battle and the movements of armies, Opera. which has its home in the great capitals of Europe, will first feel the effect of political and military discord. The time is passed when Napoleon, from the head of his victorious armies, could send instructions to Paris for the manage- ment of the opera, and if the present strife long enough it is more than likely that both Constantinople and St. Peters+ burg will be without Italian opera next winter. Egypt, too, where Verdi first brought out ‘‘Aida” in Oriental magnifi- cence, may not be then ina singing mood. The continuation of the war may close the opera houses in other gay capitals. Italian opera in London is notoriously uncertain, and is more so now than ever, as England is in danger of being entangled in the East- ern complication. France, besides the pos- sibility of renewed hostilities with Germany, has internal troubles which may diminish the amusements of Paris. Thus, presum- ing that war will continue and spread, the result will be that the song birds which sing so sweetly in the secure luxury of peace will spread their wings and fly from the smoke and thunder of the battle fiold. Where can they find a resting place but in America? Just at the time when the troubles of Europe are greatest our era of prosperity re- turns, and the uncaged nightingales will seek to share its benefits. Already there are rumors of prudent or adventurous tenors, sopranos, contraltos and bassos who look forward to engagements in this country in the event of o dull season of opera in Europe. It appears to be certain that if Adelina Patti is not obliged to fill her Paris engagement she will sing in New York and other cities next fall under contract with Maurice Strakosch. If we should get Patti there should be no difficulty in obtaining a strong company to support her in Italian opera, for New York will no longer endure a number of medidcre singers for the sake of one great artist. We do not wish discord in Europe for the sake of harmony in America ; but if Sultans and Czars will have it so who can blame us if we give a welcome to the melodists they banish? Our Navy and the European War. The prompt and thorough investigation which Secretary Thompson is making of such parts of a navy as Mr. Robeson was liberal enough to leave us gives the hope that the administration does not mean to be without an adequate nuval force in case the war in Europe should become general. For the present there seems no reason to be- lieve, at this distance at least, that the war will spread, and so long as only Turks and Russians fight our interests on the ocean arein no danger. But if England, France and Germany should take g hand in—if a general European war should break out-it would be well, and might be absolutely necessary, for us to have at immediate com- mand a naval force sufficient at least to watch over the interests of American ship- ping in many waters. In such a case the carrying trade of the world would be very apt to fall to us for a while, and the eager- ness of belligerents might seek to trench upon our rights as neutrals unless we were prepared to defend the flag promptly and everywhere, We do not need such immense and costly iron-clads as the English, French and other European nations have long been wasting their means on, for we do not expect to begin offensive warfare. In the case of a general European war our government would probably want to fit out a fleet of tr tr very fast vessels, ench armed with a few heavy rifled guns, to act as a kind of naval police. When there is a general fight the police are usually 1 needed to watch pick pockets and ruffians. President Hayes and Question. * The widely circulated report that the President has expressed himself strongly in favor of making silver a full legal tender ought not io be believed om a mere flying rumor. It is a question on which he may be called to act officially, and ‘we doubt whether it is prudent for him to commit himself until he is prepared to make spe. cific recommendations to Congress. We do not believe that he has givem a vague and loose indorsement of the schemes of the silver party. “He ought not to express any views on this subject until he is ready to say precisely in what man- ner and with what limitations he is willing that silver should’ be made a legal tender. It would be preposterous for him to indorse the prevalent Western notions about ‘the old silver dollar.” If silver is to be made a full legal tender for all amounts the stindard should be so changed as to make the market value of the silver in five coined dollars equal to the market value of the gold ina half-eagle. If this weredone the remonetization of silver would te the resumption of specie payments, by making it easier to accumulate): the necessary coin reserves. But’ i be a mischievous burlesque to” this without readjusting the no: values of the two metals. If ‘‘theold silver dole lar” is to be rehabilitated,iand the silver dollar is to have less intrinsié) value than the gold dollar, nothing could “We more ab- surd than to make silver a full legal tender. If silver is to be a legal tender without any more metal in the coins than the present coinage laws prescribe it should be only for a limited amount. It might perhaps be wise to suppress all government notes and bank notes of a lower denomination than five dollars and substitute silver coins of the present standard in their place; but in that case the amount for which they are to bea legal tender should not exceed twenty dol- lars. If it is merely intended to substitute silver for the one and two dollar notes the quostion is of very subordinate importance. If the West will consent to have the amount of silver in our coins increased the remone- tization of that metal would be a question worth considering, but otherwise every true friend of a sound currency should frown upon the project, We should be truly sorry to see Mr. Hayes committed until there is some evidence that the West will listen to reason on this point. the Silver PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Turnips cure hog cholera. Tramps throw stones at trains, Stale oysters kiiled a Maryland child. To most people bed bugs are bug bears, Chicago parks are praised by Eastern visitors, Several dogs yesterday made a rabid transit, South Carclioa will, by law, preserve wild turkeys. Senator William W. Eaton, of Connocticut, is at the Now York. Butts County, Ga., has had fifty-eight homicides since the war. Slade, the Spiritualist, ts ata fashionable watering place in Holland. This looking through the war mows to find a word to pun on is played. In the Society Islands Chinamen marry all the prettiest native girls. Mem,—Walking out with your girl—ice cream sa- loon—nine cents ip your pocket. Baltimore has a greater number of handsome girls than —well—comparisons are odivus, Dean Stanley said that Esau was looking for his father, and when Egau him be wept. J, Appletou Brown, of Boston, 1s one whom the Transcript calls the Keats of painters, The Baltimore American will not have @ paragrapher for even $7 a week, it hates paragraphers so. A recent traveller says that tigers eat men in sece tions, Probably with a tiger’s clauge at tho sections, ‘There is occasionally a brave, honest man who knows ho is too big a loafer to take off bis hat in a restaurant, It 1s said that Moody constantly tulks about three in- dividuals—Mrs, Moody, Mr. Moody and their Saviour. Wagner's motions with the baton are jerky, spas- modic and energetic, and be constantly stamps his foot. Baron ©, R, Oston Sacken, of Russia, who bas been a resident of Cambridge, Mass., for several yeara past, is at tho Westminster, Mr. Nicolas Shishkin, the Russian Minister, arrived at the Clarendon yesterday, aud will return to Wash- ington by the limited express train this morning. Why should General Comly go to the Sandwich Islands as Minister any more than an editor at Albany or Trenton, or Richmond or Harrisburg, or any other State capital? Morton excuses bis recent letter on the ploa that when he wrote it political imps were trying new dancq music on his intellectual ridge pole and some of them “slopped over.” H. V. Redfleld:—'' The class of ‘ personal difficulties’ which so swell the list of bomicides in the Southern and extreme Western States aro almost unknown in New England.” Charies Francis Adams is tho bapptest man in the United States. In the hottest weather ho feels cold enough to sit by a grate fre and coax the files not to go away from him, Danbury News:—“An indiscriminate slaughter of dogs is threatening. All right, but remember that every dog killed 1 several huvdred fleasto be cared for and Providence ‘Mr, Christie Murray is the war correspondent of the Chicago Times. Before ieaving he wrote on his chamber door in London the legend:— ‘Gone to Batoum; beck at half-past two,’”” Cumberiand (Md.) Alleganian:—“The New Yore Heraup is in the advance in supplying the to ite renders of all the metropolitan journals, While giving the news it editorially keeps pace with the great events of the day.” Chicago Tribun ‘As some of the oxtremists of the North carry thetr policy of hate too far, so there is danger that some of tho extremists of the South may demand more conciliation than the most generous theory of pacification can contemplate,’’ Une burly Scotch farmer said to another as they wore returning home trom the burial of a teetotaller’s wile recently, “Did they gie yeoobt?” ‘Na, no a drap—got ye ocht?’’ ‘Na, na; neither bite He’s gottin’ unco eh awa’ wi? her, I think.’” A paragrapher writes saying that the Heratp docs not quote his paper so trequentiy as somo other papers do, Dear sir, do you not know that one quotation in the HERALD reaches a hcndred thousand people more chan the combined readers of all the papers you mention? The Turkisk soldier's ration 1s:—Bread, 918 grammes; mutton, 250 grammes; rice, 75 grammes; butter, 8 grammes; salt, 2 grammes; wood, 260 grammes, Coffee is distributed so much to the com- Pany, which is generally the cooking unit. Thore are, Toughly speaking, 82 grammes to an ounce, Danbury News There 18 @ cortain sort of guile lessness Which nover wears oat, We were reminded ot this while standing at the entrance to Barnum’s circus the other day. Two women, the youngest about thirty years old, approached the doortender, The elaer extended the tickets, one being red and the othor green, The doorkeeper took them, looked at them, and then atthotwo women, and blandly observed:— ‘All right, Whieh of you two is under nine years of age?’ The two women looked at each other with aa expression of sickening uncertainty.” F