The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1878, Page 6

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STANDARD THEA FIFTH AVENUE 7 NIBLO’S GARDEN BROOKLYN PARK f. THEAT The Herald Cireulation, One hundred and eleven thousand three hundred (111,379) Heranps were and seventy-nine sold yesterday. The probabilities are that the weather in New Fork and its vicinity to-day will be warm and partly cloudy, possibly with occasional light rains, and increasing southwesterly wince ioward night. To-morrow it promises to be warm and cloudy, with fresh to brisk winds. ‘Tur Weicome that was given yesterday to the late Fenian prisoners, Condon and Meledy, by their friends and admirers, will go far to obliterate their recollections of British prisoniite during the past eleven years. A Battie with the Cheyenne Indians on the line of the Kansas Pacifie Railroad was fought last Friday evening. It is reported the Indians suifered severely, but whatever victory the troops won was dearly purchased by the death of Cole! Lewis, of the Nineteenth infantry. P YLVANIA seems to be as badly split up politically as the majority of the other States. This year’s election is exceedingly important, as upon it will depend the political control of the Commonwealth for some years to come. The outlook for the Cameron clan is not very brill- lant. Tuar Mexpicancy has become a regular busi- ness among at least a portion of our population is shown by the story of the exploits of two Italian viragoes which is printed on another page: One of them, who pretended to be very old and decrepit, astonished three policemen by her agility and the strength of her muscle. The slight punishment imposed by the police courts apon this class of people is more calculated to encourage than repress crime of this character, Tu Yerrow Fever, it will be seen from our despatches this morning, still retains its hold apon the unfortunate Southern country. In Louisiana and Tennessee the situation is worse than it was last week. The fever seems to have broken out with fresh virulence, and a large number of new cases are reported. Material aid is of course ine necessary, and the meeting of the e different denominations this evening to help alleviate the distress is ex- ceedivgly timely. Dean Staniey’s Sermon in Philadelphia lay, which we give to our readers this is upon a subject, hh has al more than any f ided the jus world, Yet in this mon, a8 in everything else the learned Dean says or writes, the liberality of the Christian keeps pace with the acumen of the theologian, and the divine sympathy with all gooduess and attempts at goodness is ennnei- ated, not in soft and feeble sentimentality, but with all the ngth and force that comes of a good .an’s love for the good, aud of analogies severely traced and well proved, Tie storm centre has made | l progress during the past y-four hours. It ix, however, extending itself very rapidly, and now influences the weather throughout the districts west of thelake regions to the Rocky Mountains, and from the | British possessions to New Mexico, The large area of high pressure that extends over the Middle and Nerth Ationtic coast districts acts as a great barrier to the progress of the advane- ing depression, and will continue to retard its ovement until the latter shall have reached the eastern section of the lake region. ‘The igh area will then mo’ outhward and give a sorthern passage to the depression. ‘The press- are is also low, and falling gradually, over the Gulf districts. It is very evident that a disturh- ance has passed over the West Indian Islands iu a northeasterly direction during the past few days, as the trend of the low zone seems to lie | that way. Kain as fallen over the | lake regions, the South Atlantic coast | districts and the Northwest. In the north- eastern and southwestern districts fuir weather has generally pre has been a gen- eral vise in temperatures throughout all the d tricts except the extreme Northwest, where thoy Juave fallen very pc bly. ‘The winds have been from light to fresh in the lake regions and the South end Middle Atlantic districts, In the Northwes i If districts they lave been gene on aceount of steep gradients formiug on the margins of the depressions in those vicinities. The weather in | New York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and partly cloudy, possibly with occasional Jight rains, aud increasing southwesterly winds toward night. To-morrow it promises to be warm and cloudy, with fresh to brisk winds. Tue Wear ery little east | party cry. New Work for Honest Moncey. Both of the regular parties in this State, in the platforms adopted by their political | conventions last week, indorsed sound mon- etary principles and rejected the fantastic crotchets of the hour, Considering how important the State of New York is politi- cally and commercially the fact that both of its State conventions proclaim their sup- port of early, resumption and their condem- nation of an irredeemable paper currency is envouraging and satisfactory. We are convinced that the national or,greenback party will make no figure in our State elece tion, The firm stand taken by both parties will tend to check the movement both here and elsewhere, We can discern neither justice nor utility in the small cavils in which one or two re- publican journals of this city have indulged respecting the currency declarations in the two platiorms. It is alleged that neither makes any specific mention of gold as the sole standard of value. ‘Ibis is true; but it is also true that both platforms insist that all the kinds of money shall be maintained at the same value, which is but another form of saying that they must all be kept at par with gold. The New York conven- tions were wise in ignoring the silver ques- tion, which is a spent issue, and doing nothing to prevent its dying a speedy natural death. ‘The truth is that silver can never come into general circulation ex- cept as subsidiaryscurrency in a country like the United States, which is wedded to the use of small notes. An attempt was made by the Legislature of New York some forty years ago to suppress all bank notes of lower denominations than five dollars ; but custom proved too strong for the law and small notes continued to circulate just the same as before. Small notes are so popular and their convenience is so great that it is not likely that any serious attempt will be made to forbid them, and they will MON DAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1878. —TRIPLE SHEET. reney will BP eae a. considerable has during the next year If the resumption ex- periment should prove to work well. When our currency is once re-established ona sonnd basis the whole business community in all parts of the country will shrink from disturbing it and throwing everything again into confusion. What the country most needs is stability of values. Debts must he paid in the same medium in which they are contracted, otherwise business is mere guesswork and gambling. Every month that passes after resumption next January will dispose the business classes to a¢qui- esce more and more in the new state of things, and by the time the national party conventions assemble in May or June, 1880, the currency question in all its greater fea- tures will have become settled, provided only that there be no step backward after | January 1, 1879, when the Resumption law goes into eflect. It is difficult to see how there can be any step backward with a Pres- ident who has the power and the will to veto any retrogressive legislation on the subject, It is safe to assume that the great mass of the people will submit to accom- plished facts. he stand taken by both political parties in this State tends to check the agitation, and Jct us hope that it will be supplanted by other issues before the sum- mer of 1880, Railroad Disuster: For some time the Long Isiand Railjroad has indulged in accidents with a frequency that hinted at some more tangible cause than mere bad Inck, and the report which we publish on another page shows that causes are nearly as numerous as disasters. The condition of the road—its rails, ties, bridges, rondbed, and at least some portions of its service—is worse than disgraceful. Ties so rotten that 2 cane can be thrust down into them, bridge stringers with rotten ends, rails which uphold ties in- stead of being supported by the latter, be an insuperable barricr to a large circula- tion of the new silver dollars. The country has for several months been a witness to Secretary Sherman's persistent attempts and grotesque failures to put the new dollars in circulation. The people do not want them, and so long as they can procure greenbacks cr bank notes of small denominations they will be unwilling to load down their pockets with heavy silver dollars. ‘The silver dollar has ceased to be popu- lar, even with the inflationists, So far as we have observed or can recollect it has not even been mentioned in any platform adopted this autumn by the so-called na- tional party in any State. Last year all the inflation platforms rang with praises of “the dollar of our daddies,” but this year it is utterly ignored and neglected. After the passage of the Silver bill at the Iast session Secretary Sherman made haste to put it in execution with something more than legal duty; nay; with superabounding zeal. We do not know whether he acted from sympathy or sagacity ; but had it been mere cold saga- city, without any tinge of sympathy, he could not have pursued a course more cal- culated to cloy and satiate the champions of silver. Had Secretary Sherman been backward and reluctant in executing the Silver law; had he contrived excuses for delay in getting the mints in operation ; had he, after a tardy beginning, coined only two millions per month, the silver agitation would not have died out so suddenly, But he began at once, began with an earnest endeavor, to coin not merely the minimum two millions but the maximum four millions in each of the early months after the passage of the law, and the result has been to extinguish the silver agitation by demonstrating its practical absurdity. The unwillingness of the people to take the silver doliars and use them has caused the inflation party in all the States to in- scribe greenbacks on all their banners, to insert greenbacks in ell their platforms, to call themselves the greenback party, and, dropping all mention of silver, to shout ‘“‘Greenbachs! greenbacks!” as their The framers’ of the New platforms were therefore wise in not inflicting bayonet stabs on this miserable corpse, and in leaving the dead silver party to bury its dead, as it has made such haste to do. Last year “the dollar ot our daddies” stood up successfully against sound public opinion, now “none so poor to do it reverence,” the inflation party itself quietly dropping it and talking of nothing but greenbacks, greenbacks, greenbacks. This wholesale desertion by the daddy- ites of their last year’s piatform is a conse- quence of the demonstrated unpopularity of the new silver dollars and of the unwill- ingness of the community to take and use them when they are to be had ; but they ought to have come to the same conelusion earlier by a simple process of rensoning. It lias become evident to everybody within the last few months that paper dollars, intrinsically worth nothing, can be kept within half of one per cent of par with gold, in virtue of their legal tender quality and limitation of their amount. It should have required no great astuteness to perce:ve that ninety cents’ worth of silver could be rendered as valuable as a piece of paper worth nothing, by the same process of making it a legal tender and limiting its | amount. If silver money were issued in exe cess it would depreciate, but only for the same reason that paper money dep when its amount is excessive. But thero is | no immediate danger that silver coin will sink to 1ts bullion value (it could not sink lower) any more than there is that green. backs will depre » Without inercasing their amount, silver ngitation has York he | fallen so flat that it cannot even be made “a good working bugbear,” and we are glad that our party conventions in this State did not dignify it by treating it as of any importance, Having died a quiet, natural death there will be no difficulty in limiting or suspending the coinage of silver within a year or two after the resumption of specie payments. Our domestic currency will al- ways consist in the main of redeemable | paper. For « ischarging foreign balances no sive to either gold or silver coinage law « rails which have jagged ends and split flanges, a roadbed containing little or no ballast but the yielding sand and light soil peculiar to Long Island, embank- ments barely wide enough to accommodate the ties, made only of the same yielding soil, which even wind can shift, are features inexcusable enough to justify criminal suits in cases of accidents attended.by loss of life. Equally shameful is the danger to which travellers are exposed by the over- work to which switchmen are subjected. Last week a fatal collision occurred near Fresh Pond Junction. At this point our inspector was informed that the switchman has been working from fifteen to eighteon hours per day, being in charge of six flags, nine lamps, three switches and a telegraph instrument, and at less pay than some drivers of horse cars receive! Other switchmen were found doing duty nearly as arduous, and fully as many hours per day. The new receiver of this road has earned a handsome reputa- tion elsewhere as a practical railroad man, so he must know of the disgraceful condi- tion of his road and of the perils to which thousands of lives are subjected daily. If for any cause he is powerleas to remedy it he can at least have enough regard for hu- man life to ran fewer trains, run them slowly enough to enable passengers to save themselves in case of accident, and plainly present danger. The captain of a sinking ship who should fail to apprise his passen- gers of their peril would universally be pronounced a heartless villain, and there is no reason why the menager of a worthless railroad should not be held to as strict ac- countability as the commander of a founder- ing vessel, O'Leary and Hughes To-Day. It is quite a remarkable coincidence that the two most famous athletes in their respective lines that this country ever pro- duced are to encounter this week, the one on land the other on water, antagonisis so skilled and enduring that it is no easy task to say which will win. Daniel O'Leary last March met tht best men England could produce, fought them a whole week and mowed them down one after another until he left the bést of them several miles be- hind, and the world’s championship belt, like the Visitors’ Challenge Cup at Henley, has actually crossed the Atlantic and is now held on this side. But uncommonly tough a walkerand runner as O'Leary is John Hughes will cut out plenty of work for him every hour this week. Once or twice before he has followed the very ques- | tionable policy of running nearly thirty miles at the very outset of the race, a terribly hard day's work for any man, even if he had not another mile to travel, but seemingly a most foolish step where sixty miles more must be covered before bedtime. If he will so far change his plan as to watch his opponent closely and walk whea he waiks, quicken when he quickens, run when he runs and slow when he slows, he will find when Friday and Saturday come around, and both men aro well jaded, that ho has quite as much left in him as the champion, and so can give him a hard race over every foot of the ground, Ghostly T atinloay. There is one habit commendable in the police everywhere. As soon as a man says that a ghost told him some one had been murdered in a certain place they investi- gate, andif they find any roality in the story they jay violent hands on the man who re- ceived the information from the ghost. Thus, if Hamlet had mentioned to any one on the Danish police that he was sure his mother’s husband had murdered his father beeause a ghost had mentioned the fact to him on the ramparts he would have been immediately locked up until the Coroner and Dr. Cushman, senior assistant saw- bones, had inquired into the facts, At the first glance this course on the part of the generally may seem to be injudicious, as tending to pre- vent the intervention of ghosts and thereby to cut off extremely important sources of information, But the habit seems to flow from an irreverent incredulity on the part of the police as to the very existence of the ghosts in these stories, and | their experience seems to justify their any greater val. than its current price as ballion. Public opinion on the subject of the @ j doubts, It will be remembered that in the j case of the late Pesach Rubenstein their warn the travelling pubiic against ever | | doubts were comainaa! He was eheoed by a ghost of the murder of » woman, who was discovered as described. He was held and found guilty of having known, without any ghost, all that the ghost had told him. It is intimated that somebody up in Sara- toga has-seen or intends to see a ghost in regard to certain poinis in the Billings case, and we warn that person that it is a very dangerous practice. . Lord Dufferin’s Lord Dufferin’s proposal to Governor Robinson that the State of New York and the Dominion of Canada unite in purchas- ing a sufficient area around the mighty cataract and convert: it into a grand inter- national park attests that beneath His Lordship’s attractive social qualities and varied accomplishments he has the soul of a poet. But surely it is hot Earl Defferin the statesman, but only Earl Dufferin the undeveloped poet, that has put this mag- nificent idea into the minds of the Anglo- American people, Its effect would be to make Niagara the great summer resort of the North American continent, equally popular with the fashionable classes of the Dominion and the fashionable classes of the United States. Bat whenever Niagara be- comes the great permanent seat of summer fashion the time will not be distant when Niagara Park. the two Anglo-American communities will coalesce and unite, The an- nual interchange of views and senti- ments between the the two communities would tend to convince the Canadians that their interests would be best promoted by making social intercourse a stepping stone to political union. The social ties would be strengthened year by year. Many a Canadian beauty, many a Canadian heiress, would secure a husband and a home in the United States and vice versa. The two communities would thus become knit to- gether in sacred domestic and social ties, and these increasing connections would cause the influential minds on both sides to listen with favor, or at least without prejadice, to the arguments for breaking down the barrier of separation and mingling two great peoples into one. If Lord Dufferin’s proposition should be accepted by the legislative authority of the Dominion and of the State of New York the plan of the Niagara Park will be- leading minds of come a question of interest to cul- tivated people. How will, the park be laid out? What should be its characteristic features? For our part we have no doubt on this interesting point. -The great object should be to restore the immediate surroundings of the Falls to the condition in which they existed before the successors of Columbus had penetrated into the interior of the contiuent.' Most enviable were the emotions of the first pale- face of taste and sensibility who looked upon the great cataract when the banks of the river on both sides were covered with dense primeval forests, and the whole set- ting of tho scene corresponded with its matchless suWkimity. The solemnity of the green woods, stretching forth bound- less on all sides, must have deepened the impression made by the wild and terrible sublimity of the stupendous mass of poar- ing waters. A park around Niagara should aim to restore that primitive condition of native wildness and solemn sublimity. There should be nothing of the cultured trimness which is appropriate in our Cen- tral Park, which is meant to express the tastes of an advanced civilization. The Niagara Park should come as near as possible to the undefaced grandeur of primeval nature. It would admit of orna- { ments, but the ornaments should be in keeping with a sincere attempt to restore the original picture. There should be groups of statuary, but nothing should be represented but scenes from aboriginal life. Indian hunters just on the point of seizing their game; Indian captives in the act of running the gantlet; Indian weddings faithfully represented; Indian burials, with the deceased put in a sitting posture in the still open grave; in short, all the known modes of aboriginal life should be truly set forth by the hand of art and kept as memorials of the state of the conti- nent when the Iroquois and the Hurons had not yet been intruded on by white ad- venturers. A Niagara park thus adorned would be an image of the immortality which the untutored minds of the native inhabit- ants represented to themselves in their rude religion. By midnight moons, lo veetments fo Tho hunter still ‘The huoter and ‘er moistening dows, Truo Heroos, War has its heroes whom men delight to honor, but not alone in fort and field and on the vessel’s deck, not only amid deadly strife against visible enemies is the glori- .ous courage of great souls displayed, For months a noble army of men and women have been waging unequal warfare against an unseen foe, more insidious, pitiless and deadly than was cver met on field or flood. Into the fever stricken towns of the South these heroes have gone, armed and de- fended only by their own courage and humanity, Instead of the stimulus that comes of the touch of the elbow, the pride of trained strength, the hope of pre- ferment, the ringing cheer, the glorious charge and the anticipation of a quick and decisive’ end—the physicians, nurses, corre- spondents and other brave spirits in the South have struggled, each by himself, ina fight in which there has not come even a momentary lull. Instead of the inspiriting cries of combatants they have heard only the moans of dying men, women and chil- dren. Not once have they joined with comrades in victorious shouts. Every one of them has led a forlorn hope. Seldoin has there been any oue nigh to fol- low them, and when one has returned from the deadly breach it has generally been to } die of mortal wounds received. ‘The heroic Lindley, who escaped his whilom foemen of the civil war only to die of his efforts to save them and their dear ones from a destroyer more merciless than bullet or bayonet; Dr. Kibbe, who hurried South with a new plan for vanquishing the destroyer and was himself struck down before he fairly begaa operations; the brave Redding—operator, corre- spondent, nurse and finally victim—at deadly Grenada; the clergyman Schuyler, who was among the first volunteer nurses from the North, and who speedily rested with many of those whose death he had been powerless to prevent ; the heroie women who went from various sisterhoods to work and die in honor of the holy bonds in which Christian love has united the suffering and the sympathizer ; these and scores of others, known and unknown, ‘rom North and south alike, have sealed their heroic devotion with ‘their lives. Besides these there are hundreds who are now working amid de- pressing, harrowing scenes like those depicted on another page by the Mother Superior of the Convent of Mercy in New Orleans ; they arc fighting against ter- rible odds, often fighting alone, with everything to dishearten, discourage and defeat them. Im the presence of such heroism the bravest soldier and sailor stands abashed ig honorable humility. Unknown thongh they, their sufferings and their victories, may be to mortal pens, there are unseen hands writing a oll of honor which will outlast brass and marble, and when the world’s heroes appear at the grand review the decorations of the soldier will be invisible beside those which these heroes will receive. Arbitrary Orders of Arrest. Judge Westbrook, in Supreme Court, Chambers, lately called attention to the abuse of which an order of arrest had been made the instrument, and gave notice that he would thereafter grant no such orders on mere general affidavits as to cause of action. We hope other judges will follow his exampie. Orders of arrest are not as easily procured as they were in the good old days of the King, when they were an important part of the business fixtures of every rascal who chose to use them, but even now they are used more for malicious purposes than in the interests of justice. So | long as irate creditors can, by stultifying their consciences, obtain orders against long delaying debtors, just so long they will use them for the purpose of venting their spleen, Theorder to which Judge West- brook alluded was served at eight o’clock on Saturday night, an hour at which no one could find and qualify bondsmen ; and in- stances of late arrests, so arranged by plain- tiffs’ attorneys, are numerous, the object being either to extort money under the fear of being locked up over night, or to lock up the debtor anyhow, if impecunious, to gratify the spite of the creditor. The bonds which are required from persons ob- taining orders are supposed to secure indemnity to persons wrongly arrested; but even of this poor satisfaction for annoyancé and nominal disgrace the injured man is usually deprived, for in granting a discharge upon discovering that evidence does not sustain the complaint upon which the orde# was issued a judge usually forbids the defendant to sue for damages! Except in cases of debtors abont to leave the State the mass of orders of ar- rest in mutters of debt isa disgrace to our courts and a travesty upon justice, There is not a business house of any importance which could not demand dozens of such orders on grounds as good as those upon which many are issued, but they would rightly consider such action malicious and rascally. While debtors and creditors ex- ist there will be delinquents in one class and angry men in the other, but creditors can devise torments enough without the law being prostituted to their purposes, The Great Scullers’ Race. The Lachine course has thus far proved a most unfortunate one. Courtney says that owing to its roughness he is entirely ig- morant of it, and Hanlan, who has had a little more experience, pronounces it one of the worst courses he ever saw. Its eddies and currents will, Courtney says, make the time in the race very slow, and a far better track could have easily been found. If, after all, Wednesday brings smooth water, these eddies and currents will have much to do with deciding the race if itis at all close. Fortunately both men continue in excellent condition. Courtney's dreaded sideache and pleurisy, caught in the cold bath he got when he tipped over in the Dempsey race on Geneva Lake, have all disappeared, while he is doing plenty of fast foot work, and so losing no time, Hanian has not been out of order at all. Much as the American deprecates the rough water and credits the Canadian with being far better on it than he, there is probably no great difference between the two in this respect, A shell less than three inches deep cannot go at all in water really rough, end as the articles call for racing water there is lilthe doubt that the referee will not let the men start unless the water is either smooth or very nearly so, Rowing in lumpy water is an art easily learned, andit seems surprising thatasculler should have reached the deserved prominence of either of these and yet have any hesitation about rowing wherever the other dares to venture. ‘ Copernicus and Schwab, In a cclebrated case lately tried in a court in this city before a gentleman re- cently described in some European prints as ‘“Ohief’ Justice Shea, of the United States,” it appeared by the testimony that there is a man on the city police who “don’t care a damn for Copernicus.” Per- haps the Police Commissioners were not aware of this, but they are now informed, and we do not see how they can remain in- different to the startling fact. One famous instance in which a man expressed his con- tempt for the Equator has become provers bial as a grave case that convicted the law itself of inadequacy, since it pres scribed no penalty for an offence that morally was of the greatest magnitude. But what is the Equator to Coper- nicus? What is an imaginary, line to a great authority? But it is not merely the dignity and repute of Copernicus that is in danger. Copernicus was cited as an au- thority—as one whose word was an unan- swerable evidence that the day of twenty- four hours had ended when the twelfth hour was sounded on thé seeond turn of the dial. If a policeman may express his contempt for Copernicus in such cireum- ns itil stances he may express his contempt for police commissioner next, and even for the law and the constitution of the United States. Where will such lightness end? By the way, it appears that there is no law to prevent Schwab or any other man from selling his beer for the first hour of Monday morning or any other morning. ‘There is the Sunday law, whose operation ends at twelve ou Sunday night; and there is another law the operation of which begins an hour later. That hour, therefore, is,free; but, alas! there is no justice in the courts fos Schwab. What Was the Motive? In a few days the Jersey courts will in all probability be called upon to take up the threads of law and evidence in the murder of the young painter Finley at the Highlands of Navesink by George Franklyn, an old man, who lacks one year of the threescore and ten which the Psalmist allots as the span of human life, An element of mystery enters into nearly every murder, and the one in question is no exception to what scems to be the universal rule. The facts, which have probably escaped the recollection of our readers, are elsewhere recalled by one of our correspondents, and it will be seen that tho motives of the crime are enveloped in as much darkness and un- . certainty to-day as they were months ago when the deed was committed. Finley and Franklyn were to all appearance entire strangers to one another. Tho one was young, the ofher was an old man, There were apparently no reasons why one should have taken the life of theother. A quarrel, how: ever, seems to have sprung up between them, the old man resenting the familiarity of the younger one and finally murdering him in the most brutal manner. It is hinted that they had known one another in other years, and that a grudge had existed between them, but no one appeard to be able to speak with certainty on the subject. If the public prosecutors have any information on that point they do not see fit to make it public. The case will probably be called at the coming term of the Court, and the lawyers muy be able to lift the veil of mystery which now en+ velops it. It certainly possesses some very singular features. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The following Americans were registercd at the s office of the HxRaLp on Saturday evening:— Allyn, Mrs. H., Connecticut, No. 66 Rue Bonaparte, Baroum, L, H., New York State, No. 6 Rue Bag: nevx. Barry, T. E., Boston, Hotel du Rhona Borroughs, T, Y., Pennsylvania, Honoré, Brinkman, A. HL, Baltimore, Hotel de Ja Havane, Carlin, General W. P., New York, Hotel de le Couronne, 4 Carr, L H., New York State, Hotel Bellevue, Chubb, Monroe, Now Yor! ‘o, 9 Avenue Trocaderp, Coggishall, W. D., Providence, R. 1, Normanay Hotel, Conner, Mrs, W. P. and family, Now York, Hotel de VAthéoée, Dana, T. W., New York, Continental Hotel. Day, Misa Gordon, New Orleans, No. 66 Rue Bons parte. Day, James, Pennsylvania, Hotel Rowiana., Dunbar, F,, Pennslyvania, Hotel Chatham. Dunbar, Mrs. Elon, Pennsylvania, Hotel Chatham, Friedlander, J. J. and wife, Cincinnati, Uontl- nental Hotel, Golamark, Henry, Now York State, Hote! de Lyon. Graef, Charles and wife, New York, reuics de Puria et Nice, Guild, B. W., Boston, No, 2 Kae Lirride, Hazan, Colonel W. B., United StatesArmy, N.® Rue Pauquet, Hirecb, Loum, Pennsylvani1, Pavillon Hotel, Hirst, J. H., Dotroit, Mieb., Hotel Meyerbeer. © Holt, 8. L., Boston, No. 96 Rue St, Domiaiqae. Hunter, Jonn, Richmond, Va. Isaacs, W. M. aud family, New York, Liverpook Hotel, Lockwood, Miss L. D,, Pennsylvania, Hotel Chate ban, Mabbitt, F. B., New York, Splendide Hotel, Price, Miss, Ponnsylvania, Hotel Chatham. Price, Lockwood Dunbar, Pennsylvania, Hotel Chat- bam. Quick, A. F. and wife, New York, Reedon, C. J., New York, Splenaide Hotel, Robinaon, Thomas, New Orleans, Campagne Hotel, Ryle, Willlam, New Jerscy, Grand Hotel, Seavey, Georg , Boston, Hotel du Rhow Sidway, W. jew York State, No. 6 Rue Siogel, E., Pennsylvania, Pavillon Hotel, Smith, Miss Libbie, Fairfield. Stamford, Mrs, and tamily, San Francisco, Norm mandy Hotel Taylor, M. B. and family, New Jersey, No. 7 Rue de la Bieufaisance, Vatable, Amedée, New York, Continental Hotel rs. L G., New York State, Hotel Bellevag, Weyman, H., Maine, Hotel ae la Bavane, Willis, Miss L., Galveston, Texas. Willie, 3. A., Galveston, Texas. ‘Wright, E. N., Pennsylvania, Splendide Hotel Sir Jobn Campbell Brown, of lnodia, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Count and Countess de Lopastare, of sac are at the Windsor Hotel, Russell Errett, amembor of the present House of Representatives trom Pittsu Pa, is urged for toe position of Chief of the Bur Engraving and Pi Hotel de St Tho sudden recall by Sefior Zamacona of bis resige pation as Mexican Mint. tothe United States wat In compliance with a cial aud urgent request of President Diaz, which he found upon his desk in Wasiiugton on bis return from Chicago last week, Dr, Edward A. Freeman says of Mr, Froude that ne isa man of undoubted power of writing, and thas if there 1s avy branch of science or learning where ace curacy of statement isa matter ol indi gilt ot description and narrative may stand him im good stead. It is asserted that the tannin found in oak treet hag much to do with the production of trufles, which grow near their roots, The best truffles io the world aro now found in tho basin of thé Rhone, be tween Avignon ana Valonce, They are raised om sunny slopes, partially protected by oake. Tho daughter of un English Consul who has lived long 1m Greece says that t anit; bravado of the Greeks lead to animated disputes and coutrovers siea, for which they bave a great purtiality. They are craity aud fond of gain, but never miserly, ‘Thoy are susceptible of good influences as well as bad, Grant Dull says to the Englisl nover read « description of a great ship ming through a fog om the banks of Newfoundland, when icebergs are Known to vo aboat, without thinking of our goverm meaotin India” And Grant Duff ts nor only conser. vative in thought, bat has held responsible office ia the Indian governmet Norristown Herald:—“A snake was recently caught ina Weish church by ‘charming’ him from bis ree treat by the music ofa barmooium, A snake is probe ably tho only living creature that can be ‘charmed? by aharmonium, And no doubt the reptile preferred to come out and die than to listen apy longer to na straios.”’ v oulsville Courier-Journal says of General Can tis Ide that he “is a more polished diamond mor A man of society than Ge 1 rly, Ho looks very young for his age, but is in middle ags and greatly ap presiated by ali who know him, He is out of his nae ural fold as president of a university. lis t thea tre is to organize of load an army. Ther is not at officer,” says the C.-J. writer, “in the United State. Army thatis to be compared with him, and itis oa too much to say that he 1s superior in military science to aay of the Confederate chiols who Lave survived.” rm