The New York Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1878, Page 6

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BOWERY THEATRE—1 NEW YORK AQUAKIU. GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Tux Danrres. @PADT THEATRE—Ox “a5 M8. JAMES THEATRE— WORATRE BRIGHTON—Vanin XIVOLI THEATRE—Vaninry, THEATRE COMIQUE—Vanmery. BAN FRANCISCO MI STRELS. r IPLE SHEET. CRIDAY, SEPT BER 6, ‘1878, . Tux es will be sent. to the address of persons going into the country during the summer ai the rate of one dollar per month, postage paid, The probabilities are that the weather in New York and ite vicinity to-day will be cool and fair. ‘To-morrow the same conditions are likely to pre- pail. Watt Strest Yesturpay.—The market for stocks was fairly active and somewhat irregular. Government bonds were not in great demand but continued firm. State and railway bonds were a trifle higher. Money on call lent at 11g and 2 per cent and gold se d weak at 1003. Tur Mexican Banpir is extending the sphere of his operations. Two murders are reported in Arizona. Tur Torrrvo Exercises at Newport yester- fay show that in this branch of warfare we are sot very likely to be found occupying a second- ary place. Vicroria, the erring sister of the British colo- nics, has passed the memorial of secession and prorogued her Legislature, Will Mr. Disraeli Jet her go in peace? ‘Te Boys 1s Bive and the Beye in Gray are getting along nicely at their reunjon in Marietta, Uhio, but the politicians think it is one of the Saratoca is the place andthe 26th inst. the time for the meeting of the Republican State Convention, The meeting of the State Commit- tec yesterday ¥ was a segulat love feast. TAMMANY’S ‘Abpni ss to the workingmen— everybody is addressing the workingmen just now—is full of love tor the horny handed sons of toil. “Twas ever thus sbouy, elggtion time. Tue Patience anv Perswrawoy’ of the Na- tional Board of Trade border on the sublime. ‘They have resolved to go to Washington again and ask Congress to do something to help de- velop our foreign trade. Tue Prxswenr’s Sreecu at St. Paul, Minn., yesterday, was deyoted wholly to the financial question. His review of the legislation of the past thirteen years and of our gradual return to a specie basis is i teresting s and inatenesive. GexrraLt Dix was from the Pension Offic vertificate and the red-tapism of the Pension Bureau requires: that he shall spend some months in making affidavits and writing to Washington to get another one. sterday. He lost his Tne Pu. New Hampshire greenbackers is composed of the favorite West- erp material with a plank for the special accom- xwdation of the tramps, against whom a strin- gent law was passed in that State at the last session of the Legislature. The whole thing is 2 little too soft for the Granite State. Kuaunsy is wisely combining pleasure with business on his trip to this city. He visited Brighton Beach and the other principal places wf tov Coney Island yesterday. Pleasure seeking in New York is expensive and it is to be hoped bis friends and admirers will remember ‘the fact when he makes his collection. Gexenat Jor Jonxston bas unbosomed him- self on the financial and other questions to the Kiebmond friends who have nominated him for Vongress. opposed to the national banks and in favor’o' an abundauce of paper money equal in value to gold and silver.” In all else the stands npon the democratic platform, but of ‘what section of the co Tne Wraraer.—The pressure continues rel- atively low in the east section of the lower Jake regions and the Middle Atlantic States, the area of low barometer which passed over that section having been almost entirely dis- sipated. ‘The other depression is still over the Missouri and Northern Mississippi valleys, but the pressure within its arca is not remark- mbly low. The area of high barome- ter that divided the two depressions is gradually receding into the ocean. In the ‘West and Northwest the barometer has risen rapidly. It is also high over the Northern New England States and Nova Scotia, Rain has fallen in the Middle Atlantic and New England Btates, the upper lake region, in the Northwest nud Gulf districts. 1t has been heaviest on the Middle Atlantic coust and the Gulf districts, Clear weather has gonerally prevailed through- wut the central valley districts, Morning fogs toutinue on the New England coast. The winds have been generally fresh in the lake regions, from fresh to strong in the Northwest aod light elsewhere. ‘There has been o general rise in temperatures throughout all the districts except the Northwest, where u decided fall has occurred, It is very probable that the depression that is over the Middle Atlantic districts will reorganize dar- ing ite movement toward the coast, and that brisk to strong winds will prevail on ite eastern margin. Avery severe electrical disturbance passed over the Middle Atlantic States last evening, doing considerable damage. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and fair, To-morrow the samo condi: tions are likely to prevail. Yellow Fever. Some illusions with regard to yellow fever will be destroyed by the visitation of this year. One of these was the notion mueh cherished by doctors well acquainted with it that it had a natural limit to a course of sixty days; that in that period it would run out and lose its virulence with- out regard to the occurrence of frost. Most unfortunately for the sadly afflicted people of many Southern“cities the fucts this year rudely dispel that theory, for the disease began in June, and now in September shows even no sign of abatement, Must this epidemic also be taken to dispel the hope that some day we may get rid of it altogether? We are not sure of that, for bad as the malady has been this year it is a light visitation by comparison with what has been experienced formerly, not only on the Lower Mississippi but also much further north. Grenada’s history was surpassed by that of Woodville, in the same State, and New Orleans has not lost nearly so many this year as have died from the same Cisease in a single summer in Philadelphia. In the last century it was a constant visitor in this city, and Norfolk, Charleston and Savannah have in their time known almost as much about itas New Orleans. It is true that these places cannot be regarded as its home in the sense in which o point on the Gulf shore may be so regarded, but they have shown that sewerage, pavement and o rigid sanitary system may reduce its pos- sibility for evil to a very low point. Yellow fever appears, however, to depend for its existence and propagation upon cer- tain climatic conditions found generally at particular places, but exceptionally preva- lent even there in some years more than in others. It is, indeed, rather a local pesti- lence than a fever; though the extensive use of the word ‘fever” as» synonymous with one or two of the symptoms common to all states of profound constitutional dis- turbance has fastened that name to it; a faet which has perhaps stood in the way of the investigation of its real nature as a pes- tilence of local and combined meteorologic and telluric origin. It occurs in dll years at defined points in the West Indies, while the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, in Mexico itself, and near the mouth of the Mississippi and the shores of the Mississippi for some dis- tance from the mouth, are so well recognized as in the number of its natural seats that its mere appearance at these places occasions no surprise, however its ravages may ulti- mately distress us, Doubtless this fact may discourage the hope that eventually the Southern cities will live it down altogether, but we believe they will be able to contend more successfully against it. In some years this destructive and mys- terious pestilence acquires an energy in virtue of which its operations are not only ahundred-fold more fatal than usual, even where it is at home; but that gives it the capacity to act on the air at places where it never originates and to which it cannot or- dinarily extend. It such years it has been severely felt in this city. Now, the condi- tions in virtue of which the malady can thus enlarge its sphere of operations donot exist now in this part of the world, and it is as nearly as may be impossible that they should exist between this and winter; and this simple consideration supplies the most unanswerable evidence that if any cases of yellow fever are seen here this year they will be those of fagitives from the afflicted cities, contaminated there, but not able to outrun their terrible enemy; not cases of persons infected here. But what are these conditions that may in any circumstance give the malady power over the lives of the people? They are heat and moisture inva definite relation to one another—neither one alone, but both acting with a constantly high average that they cannot reach in this climate in September in o city circum. stanoed as ours is. As to some specific particulars it is easy enough to say what yellow fover is not ; but to say what it is is, of course, not possible. That is the mystery. It is not a merely miasmatic disease; it is not a mere disorder of the animal system, producing an animal poison capable of propagating the disease, yet it afflicts cities rather than the country districts. ‘That some emanation from the earth is its direct cause is probable ; but it is apparently an emanation that is not constant, or that is only effective in atmospheric conditions that are not constant. All the uncertainty in regard to its cause, however, must be understood as having relation merely to its cause at the places of its origin. The causes by which it may be produced in any Northern city are very clearly known and can consequently be guarded against. It must be brought here, but not as a con- tagious disease may be brought, One who has been stricken down with it at the South and comes here to die dics as harm- lessly for those about him as he might if he died from a bullet wound received on a Southern field of battle. But the clothes he wears, the clothes in his luggage, the blankets and rugs he brought from his Southern home—these are the true source of danger, for in the folds of those lies entangled a certain proportion of the infected air of the place he has left, or, if not that, germs of dis- ease which that air deposited on substances to which they could adhere as they cannot apparently to the living body. Now this is the fact which puts yellow fever within the limit of quarantine prevention. If all clothes, as well as all cargoes like cotton or wool and some other substances, that have come from the fever countries are sub- jected to a rigid sanitary supervision and destroyed or disinfected the germs of tho poison cannot harm us. Without such precautions it is very likely we should be safe this year, for though September is counted one of the months of the possible advance of the fever, yet tho circumstances that must coincide for its propagation are seldom found here in that month, It must have an average of at least eighty degroes Vahrenheit and an at- mosphere saturated with moisture. But New York is paved with stone throughout all its inhabited districts, it is built entirely of stone and brick, it is ,one vast mass of radiating surfaces, We snall not bi eighty degrees this month ; but if we have that temperature the sunshine necessary to produce it operating upon this’ great mass of stone would make, as it always does, a radiation that would dry the air. Besides, we have never the saturated soil that is one of the antecedents of a saturated at- mosphere. Nearly all the water that falls runs from the roofs to the streets, from there to the sewers and so off into the rivers. It is as impossible, therefore, we believe, for the yellow fever to be propagated here this year as it would be for a tropical plant to thrive in the Arctic zone, and this safety is ours without precaution. But the precautions of an ef- fective quarantine and a minute sanitary supervision are addjtional guarantees. For this purpose every practising physician in this city becomes under the laws a part of the sanitary service. It is his duty to notify the authorities of any case of disease of this class that comes under his observation, and theirs to prevent contamination, by proper proceedinge, with all articles that might spread infection. Both these duties and the duties at quarantine are well and offi- ciently discharged, and with them and the advanced season the city has every possible guarantee for immunity from the scourge that still afflicts the South. The Car Strikers. New Yorkers were seriously incommoded yesterday by the scarcity of cars on the Second, Third and Sixth avenue street railways, the cause being a strike by the drivers, yet those who suffered most in- convenience expressed hearty sympathy for the strikers, Iwo dollars per day, which has hitherto been the pay, is little enough for any one at any sort of work when the day consists of fourteen or more hours, and particularly when the person employed has constantly to be about as watchfal and alert as a steam- boat pilot or a locomotive engi- neer. Lhe excuse for the reduction of wes which led to the strike seems to have been the existence of the elevated rail- ways, which have diverted considerable business from the horse cars operating beneath them. The public, however, which has very distinct ideas about what is legiti- mate in business, will be unable to see why the waning fortunes of the companies should be enlarged from the slonder pockets of those who have had no share in the pros- perity of the roads. The Secoud Avenue Company hastily re- ceded from its position and reaped a rich reward by carrying most of the passengers who usually patronize the Third avenue road, Inthe afternoon the Sixth avenue drivers submitted to the reduction, and showed good sense in doing so, for a half loaf is better than no bread, and these are not times in which any one can afford to be idle. But some of the Third avenue drivers resorted to violence, over- turned cars, obstructed the track, provoked fights with the police, frightened thousands of unoffending citizens, and caused the putting of considerable of the militia under arms. ‘These disgraceful actions have deprived them of the sympathy of the public, and will probably causo them other trouble. Every man has the right to give up work that he does not like, the right to strike, but no private injuries justify an appeal to vio- lence, and the Third avenue strikers and all other men of their temper might as well be taught, once-for all, that New York will not tolerate mob law under any circumstances whatever. The Mayeralty Discussion. The ball of the Mayoralty agitation rolls on, and, like a snow ball in winter, it gathers new material as well as increased force and momentum. There is a daily ad- dition to the names which are discussed and scrutinized os candidates for this im- portant office. Indeed, the list is becoming very extensive. Wo had already Robert Bonner, who is par excellence the people's choice; Augustus Schell, whois Comptroller Kelly's choice; William R, Grace, who is understood to be Cardinal McCloskey's choice; Samucl D. Babcock, the choice of the Chamber of Commerce; John T. Agnew, the choice of the Man- hattan Club; and uow Shepherd Knapp is talked of as the choice of the mercantile community, and also Samuel Conover, whose claims will not suffer by comparison with most of the others. With such an abundance of first rate material to select from we ought to have an excellent Mayor, We are ready to accept and indorse almost any of these gentlemen when we can be satisfied that he is sufficiently independent of political trammels to know no other duty than that which he owes to the citi- zens at large. What we insist on is true allegiance to the city and its interests, irre- spective of any claims which may be set up by a political clique. Mr. Seweil’s Expuision, The open letter of Mr. A. L. Sewell, ap- pealing to the members of the Stock Ex- change for a reopening of his case, attracted wide attention in Wall street circles yester- day, and called forth an expression of opinion exceedingly favorable to the prayer of the petitioner. Mr, Sewell’s application is so frank, manly and straightforward that it would beacause of surprise if it had met with any other reception. But inde- pendently of this there is a widespread belief that Mr. Sewell has been unjustly treated and that his expulsion was not warranted by the facts. The general opinion in which a man is held by his friends and business associates is rarely wrong, and in this particular case there is an extraordinary degree of una- nimity in favor of the innocence of the ac- cused, In the clubs of which he isa mem- ber his status has not been injured, his for- mer business associates have not with- drawn their confidence from him, and, what is the strongest proof of all in his favor, the courts have acquitted him of all fraudulent complicity in the transactions of his late partner. Mr. Sewell, in an interview else- where printed, calls attention to these strong points in his case, which form a fit- ting postscript to his letter. It is to be hoped the Exchange, in justice to itself, will consent to a rehearing. an average temperature Of| Ome of Mr. Kelly’s iatiies Losing Ita Tomper. We had hoped that calumnies and per- sonal abuse were no longer the resort of journalists, at least in this city, in the dis- eussion of public questions. It has come to be essumed that the conductors of the press are gentlemen, and that they do not permit themselves to employ in their animadversions on men in official stations or in their controversies with each other a kind of personalities which have no place in the intercourse of gentlemen. We are sorry that Mr. Kelly’s morning organ has fallen into gross violations, not merely of the courtesies, but even of the decencies of discussion, and we call the attention of Mr. Kelly to the fact. For the personal affronts which appeared in his morning organ yesterday we do not hold him re- sponsible, since the courteous presumption is that they were perpetrated without his knowledge or sanction, s presumption which is strengthened by the urbane tone of his recent. letter to the Hunatp. We cannot permit ourselyes to think that the courtesy of that letter did not express the natural instincts of a gentleman, and since areal gentleman never docs violence to his own instincts we cannot for a moment sup- pose that Mr. Kelly directed or inspired the ungentlemanlike offences of which his Slar was the vehicle yesterday morning. But while acquitting him of that flagrant breach of the proprieties of discussion—such a breach as could not have passed without censure in any parliamentary body—we think the occasion a fit one for remarking on the dangérs to which a public man subjects himself by maintaining an organ. His time is too much occupied for minute super- intendence of a newspaper, and yet he is held responsible for all the errors of judg- ment, taste and manners which are com- mitted by his accredited mouthpiece, The history of the country demonstrates that no public man was ever benefited by an organ. This truth has become so fully recognized that successive administrations at Washing- ton have in late years kept clear of such entanglements. What has the Henatp done to provoke an outpouring of personal abuse? It has treated Mr. Kelly with marked and dis- tinguished personal consideration, but has exercised the right which belongs to every public journal and to every private citizen of suggesting candidates for an important office. Does this justify a resort to personal defamation? Can anything justify it when it is once admitted that the code which regulates the intercourse of gentlemen should equally regulate the discussions of the preas? If the press had not become independent of official favors; if, as in a former period, it needed public advertising to enable it to maintain a precarious existence, such a spirit as has been exhibited by one of Mr. Kelly's organs would be a serious trial to an honest but struggling newspaper. Hap- pily the press has become so wealthy and powerful that it can afford to laugh at the impotent spleen of men in office whose plans it may disturb or thwart, and a re- vival of the old time coarse personalities only causes the annoyance which gentle- men always feel in contact with people who renounce claims to good breeding. But we shall not hold Mr, Kelly respgnsible for the bad manners of his morning organ un- less they are persisted in. We presume it is only necessary to call his attention to the offence in order to prevent its repetition, The Streets Improving. If there be truth in the aphorism that cleanliness is next to godliness, then the streets of this city are approaching nearer to moral rectitude than they have stood for many a long day. Witness the following report, in addition to that made yesterday:— TxaTu Wane (bounded by Rivington, Norfoik and Division streotsand the Bowors), includes such streets us Chrystie, Forsyth, Eldridge, Heeter, Bayard, Orch- ard and Eseex. Exeventa Warp (bounded by Kast Fourteenth venue B and Clinton jhe west side, Riving- iucludes portions of such streets as Attorney, Ridge, Cannon, Stanton, Lewis and Sherif. The Hexatp will not relax its vigilance in this matter, and we look for equal interest in the public welfare on the part of the au- thorities. Having got the streets clean they will be expected to keep them so, Custom House 1 Ate able People. The insulting annoyances to which well known citizens and their families have of late been subjected on their return from Europe excite so much just indignation os to make them a proper topic of remon- strance in tle public press. These in- sults can be better set forth by ex- to Respect- amples than by any general descrip- tion. A few weeks since Mr. Parke Godwin, well known in this cify as a gentleman of the highest standing, re- turned from Europe with his wife and daughter. In the tranks ot the ladies were two or three dresses, purchased in-good faith for their personal wear before they had learned the death of the venerable William Cc. Bryant, Mrs. Godwin’s father. When this sad news reached them the ladies did not wear their new dresses, but put on mourn- ing. The unused dresses were packed with their other personal baggage, and were in their trunks when they reached this port. Mr. Godwin isa gentleman whom nobody could suspect of an intention to defraud the revenue, and his mere statement ought to have been accepted at the Custom House that his baggage contained nothing subject to duty. But instead of this one of the best known and most respected citizens of New York is treated like an intending smuggler and the dresses of his wifa and daughter are seized. We understand that similar cases are of constant occurrence, but as it is merely our purpose to recite facts which have be- come public we give another instance which can be specifically deseribed. A few days since Hon. Joseph Palitzer, ex-Lieu- tenant Governor of Missouri, who had been spending a couple of months in « bridal trip to Europe, returned home and the baggage of his wife was searched, Among the arti- cles of Mrs. Pulitzer’s wearing apparel was found a silk dress which she had purchased abroad. A demand was made that duties should be paid on it to the amount of sixty dollars—equal to the cost of the dress. There can be no doubt that bond fide per- sonal wearing apparel is entitled to come in free of du! y, the phrase ‘‘in use” being merely intended to distinguish between clothing designed to be worn by the person bringing it and clothing brought to be dis- posed of as merchandise. It is an outrage to put well known, respectable people, who purchase apparel for their own use, in the position of smugglers. When facts ‘of this nature come to the public knowledge there will be a vigorous protest. We do not blame the Custom House officers, but the men at Washington, who give and enforce these absurd direc- tions. The officers on duty here are not so lacking in common intelligence as not to know the names of our first citizens or to suspect them as smugglers. But an agent from Washington hovers near them and practises an odious espionage while they are performing their duties, ready to report them and cause their re- moval if they act with common sense and treat people of standing with common cour- tesy. This kind of espionage is a business which the government ought to scorn. It is absolutely indecent to send a set of men to overhaul and make a minute inspection of the baggage of ladies at the close of a sea voyage, during which they had no ac- cess toa laundress. If this kind of prying is thought necessary there can be no excuse for not appointing women to make the ex- aminations of ladies’ trunks. The baga- telle saved to the revenue is no compensa- tion for offences against decency. Pool Selling—Violations of Law. At every session of our Legislature a new law is enacted ‘to please some special interest or fancy, without giving the matter due con- sideration, and it frequently happens that many of the laws passed become dead let- ters and are violated. A law of this kind was passed by the Legislature two years since, That was a bill to prohibit pool selling in the State. We do not care any- thing about the law, whether it be abolished or not; but it should either be enforced or wiped from the statute book. In France, for some years, the Paris mutuels were worked on all the race courses, and gor other purposes, but eventually they were suppressed by the government, on account of swindling, and there have been none allowed in that country since. On the passage of tho Pool bill by our Legislature the American Jockey Club, a law-obey- ing institution, at once abolished the sale of pools and the French mutuel machines from their grounds, Other racing associations, however, who had not such a fine sense of right, continued the sales of pools and other systems of gaming within their boundaries; and this was done with impunity. Senators visited the Sara- toga track the summer before last and openly violated the law that they had shortly before enacted. The Buftalo Trot- ting Association sent to the Chief of Police of that city and asked permission to have pools sold on their grounds the same year; but the answer was:—‘‘You ask me for per- mission to violate the law; I cannot allow you to sell, Had you sold without ask- ing my permission you probably would not have been interfered with.” The Rochester association and other institutions of the kind throughout this State, hearing of this, sold pools and ran the mutuel machines, and none of them have been interfered with out of this city. This is not right. No law should ever be passed that-is not afterward enforced, We do not care whether pools are sold or not; but we do care abont having laws made that do no good and aro not carried out after they are made, except by conscientious people who in every way obey the law. The Pool bill should either be abolished or strictly enforced throughout the State. A Warning from Across the Sea. The recent sinking of the excursion steamer, the Lady Alice, on the Thames by collision with another boat, and the ap- palling loss of life which ensued, is an event which ought to make a deep im- pression on this side of the Atlantic. Lon- don and New York are more noted than any other cities for mammoth excursions during the warm season of the year, and the over- loading of such boats and careless naviga- tion are a common fault in the waters of both cities. It is a thing of daily oc- currence in summer for a steamer to go down our bay so full of peo- ple that they look like huge clusters of bees hanging upon a hive just previoug to swarming, while along the Hudson even this spectacle is outdone. Nothing is moro common than to see on the Hudson one sinall steamer laboriously towing immenso but frail barges crowded on two decks with a dense, living freight. If a collision should happen the greater part of these multitudes would be drowned, as the six hundred pas- sengers on the Lady Alice were drowned in the Lhames. There is no adeqnate pro- vision of life proservers on theso frail and unwieldy barges, and in the first collision that happens the overcrowded passengers will all go down together. We call upon the public authorities to take measures of prevention before the community is shocked by a repetition here of the terrible accident on the Thames. Olly Operations. We give this morning another interesting letter from our correspondent in the oil regions, which explains to the uninitiated the manner of “piping,” and presents an exhibit of the meaas of transportation from the various oil districts. It also tells of the work of o prominent producer, who has no trouble to get transportation from the Standard and United Pipe Line companies, but the apparent force of the denial which this gentleman's experiences give to the stories of many other producers on the matter of transportation is considerably abated by his own admission that he never fought the Standard Oil Company. The table of cost and profit shows what would be the net result to a producer of o thousand barrels of refined oil, but is not to be taken os the measure of what the actual expense and proiit is to those inside the combination, For instance, the single item of barrels, which amounts to more than twenty ver cent of the entire outlay, iamot one of absolute cost, foram oil barrel remains serviceable for a number of years, and when returned is subject to a drawback nearly or fully equal to the first cost of the barrel, Then the item of freight, which is set down at about forty-five centa per hundred pounds, is considerably more expensive than any one will believe is gen erally the case with freight of this char acter for so short a distance. In the cost of refining no allowance is made for the value of the naphtha and other volatile products which pass over during the process, nor of the residuum, all of which has positive value. Yet, the figures being as they are, it is not difficult to see how the combination has nothing to fear from the competition of individual producers and refiners, and how, on the contrary, it can make almost any profits and prices that it pleases. Opinions of Meyoralty Candidutes. We publish in another column a report of interviews with Mr. Samuel Conover and Mr. John T. Agnew, two well known citizens, who haye been prominently mentioned in connection with the Mayoralty. It will be seen that Mr. Conover is a. man of positive opinions, ‘and while he professes to be a stanch party man, and unwilling to accept a nomination except from his party, he has positive views of his own upon the duties of a Mayor. He believes—with every one—that the city pavements are sadly in need of repair, and his panacea for the distresses of the laboring classes is to re- pave at once, employing the: men who are out of work. There can be no doubt thata man holding such views would make a good Mayor if the politicians to whom he would owe his nomination would allow him to carry out his designs, but Mr. Conover’s party prejudices stand in the way of ‘the execution of his projects in case of his election, for no man can accept a party nomination without having his hands tied by the party itself. - Mr. Agnew is as positive as Mr. Conover in the belief that the city needs improving in various ways, but doubts whether. the work can all be done at once, Unlike Mr, Conover, he approves of the present Commissioner of Public Works, and believes he is doing the best that is possible under existing circumstances. The reports of these interviews are valuable in” showing that either of the gentlemen named, while not seeking the Mayoralty, would, if elected, go into office with an earnest desire to do his duty earnestly and fearlessly. Neither seems to think that Mr. Bonner would make a good Mayor; but as the only reason assigned is their lack of knowledge about him their opinions stand for naught. But both have put themselves on record in favos of wise economy and retrenchment, and aa desiring to see our dirty, wretchedly pavea city cared for in a manner consistent with the dignity of the American metropolis, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Professor Haxley has a very protty daughter. One gentleman caught 1,900 pounds of salmon ia Norway this season. Rear Admiral Heary K. Hof, United States Navy, ia at the Everett House, In Franco clubs where play is permitted mast ob Peterborough, who is said to be the foremcat ish pulpit orators, preaches but once or twice a year. At public dinners the Dake of Edinburgh speaks of the Queen as his !ltustrious mother, and of his brethes as Hia Royal Hignness, ‘The Paris Gaulois tells that Fronchmen are assay bratal in their treatment of the women who biped to be mated with them ayes The conservatives of Kogland are always betiex trained and organized than the liberals, who Wo tne most talking in a campaign. The London World rather wisely ridicules the ideq that a roast saddie of mation, which is a peculiarly Enghsh dish, sbould go un the bill of fare as selle de mouton. An English critic says that organization in politics Ja auccesstul precisely in proportion as it la lavisibie and anfelt, Wo doubt thas the laiter word is the core Fect one, In a Londom theatre the name of Mr. Gladstone, mentioned by ono of the players, was greeted by ap- please and hisses, about equally aivided, the hisses baving the last of tt. Mme. Ratezzi, who was at Trouville, wore in the morning a peari-gray riding babit and a jong plait of black hair, which falls to her waist, When she drives she bas a small phaeton drawn by fvur t ponies, Tape having been found to catch tect and dressea when used to mark for law: nis, and whitewash being objected to by many, a new plan of asiug a line of sawdust bas been adopted. It is ensiiy swept away. Anew style of purse has beon contrived for Euro pean teorists, It appears hi monnaie, but there is ia one drops a trig and the otner end of it opens the muzzle of a revolver. On the day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgia the caré of the church 1m tho meighborbvod of th¢ Deauville racos informed bis French congregation during mass that the time of tho evs postponed an hour in order that spo: get back from the (rack, Lord Beaconsfield will provide that he shall be barted in the Jews’ graveyard ut Milo Ead. It was by a trick of the poet Rogers that he was baptized, A Jew who kaoows him well says that Beaconsfield has a respect for Christianity use Jow and the Virgin Mary was a Jewess, The Baronovs Buraett-Coutts believes that by giv- ing Instraction about auimals, especially insects, ia infant schools the tendency of children to be cruel will be checked. This tady is a philanthropist of yroat wisdom and ingenuity, but she is quietly cold, and has leas sympatny tor humanuy than for the al- Jeged lower animals. The London Iruth saye:—‘‘Who wrote the Qacen’s speech? 1t was too dull and argumentative tor Lord Beacousfeld, and lacked the vigor of Lord Salisvury’s style, It wus evidently done by a *’prentice hand.’ 1 question whether 1 was penned by any of the Min- ietors, and am inclined to believe that Lord Buacons- field imtrasted the task of framing tt to one of thore gentlemen who, be says, ‘kindly assist bim in tho con. duct of public business.’ ” From the Commercial Advertiser:—"Tho Humauo, ring to the Commercial’s comments on its article the on viewing merchants aud bankers o1 Mayoralty quest diaate for Mayor hi oft the Commercial, and 1 xpiagation of our bright triena’s perveraity is, wo surtiise, that he bas secret longing tobe Mayor himself.’ The Hnnato is mistaken, Tho oditor of the Commercial bas no for a position where a wan is sure to receive wore kicks tban complime: Ho wouid preter siz months on tho Island to one io the City Hall? London World: —‘Me, Ginustone always iailed to so. eure a bold of the English people, because he affected to regard statesmanship as purely an affair of principles, Lord Beaconsiela knows that in politics, as 10 other matiors, there is a great doal of mature 1 natare, Mr. one was doi d becal be ap- pealed to what should have been our for Lord Beaconsfiold ts trinmphant because be has appealed to our foibles—to our pride or vanity, to our patriot. fem or our love of show. It is the age of glitter and florid decoration, and tho most successial statesm: { the day is 4 groat master in the parely decorative branches of politics”