The New York Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1878, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR tn the year, — Fhe Gontare every lays excluced).. Ne th for any joa ‘han si mo ths drs for six montha, Senday edition inc! 5 ot 5 WERKLY HERALD—One coilar per year, free of post- “NOTICE TO SUBSCRINERS.—Remit in drafts on Now ‘orders, and where neither of nin their new address. telegraphic despatebes muss ALD. ‘Letsers and pack aces *! 2 property sealed, Rejected communications will not be returned. ae PHILADELPHIA UFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HBRALD— NO. 46 FLERT STREET. PARIS OFFICE—49 AVENUE DE LIOPERA. Jmerican exhibitors at the International Exposition cam have to the cure of our Paris free of charge. NAPLES OFFIC 01 7 STRADA PACE. sements will be recetved and XDI a “AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. BOOTH’S THEATRE—Hxsry VIIT. NBW YORK AQUARIUM —! exewaxn. LYCEUM THEATRE—Josnva Wurtcomm, Dewrr. s AND Bomzsnriis. BTKINWAY HALL—Rozr Concent. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE: AMERICAN INSTITUTE THBATRE BRIGUTO COUP’S GREAT EQU SHEET. , OCTOBER 4, The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and Jair. To-morrow it will be cooler and clear. Watt Strrer YESTERDAY. ket was less active, and prices were generally weak. Gold was steady all day at 100%. Gov- ernment bonds were weak, States dull and railj roads irregular. Money on call lent at 3a4 per cent. Bustness Contrnurs Brisk at Sing Sing Prison. Last month's profits were more than five thousand dollars. Ta Loax Exmrtion of the Decorative Art Society this year promises to be fully as attrac- tive and successful as it was last season. Tne Sort Monty Party of West Virginia has received something of a set-back in the ar- rest of an industrious band of counterfeiters. Tuere Are Onty Four Tickets in the field in New Jersey this year. Is it not possible to start two or three more parties between this and election day? Arter ALL THE Frss on the subject Kimp- ton, it is reported, has determined to go back to South Carolina. Massachusetts will hardly mourn his departure. Tur Save or Jensex axp Guernsey cattle In this city yesterday was well attended by buyers as far south as Alabama and as far west as Nebraska. Excellent prices were obtained. Tne Evipence in the Billings murder trial is at last all in, and the lawyers begin their sum- ming up to-day. If they are of the long winded order we shall hardly have the verdict for a week. Tur Poor Derosrrors of the broken German Savings Bank, of Morrisania, were made happy yesterday by the payment of a dividend. What are the receivers of all the other broken banks doing? Tnose CoyTeMPLaTING Suicrpr, whoee lives are insured, can go ahead without the least fear that they will vitiate their policies. Another decision on this point has just been given in the federal courts in New Jersey. It W1. Be Szex trom the despatch elsewhere printed that some nice questions of fact and law are involved in the four hundred thousand dollar suit of the National Bank of Commerce, of this city, against the defunct National Bank of the State of Missouri, now on trial in the St. Louis courts. Virorsia’s HicHest Covnt has dealt a severe Dlow to the ministers of the District of Colum- bia by deciding that colored men who run away ‘with the fair daughters of the Mother of Presi- dents to Washington for the purpose of getting married are guilty of a violation of the anti- miscegenation statutes of the Commonwealth, Jewish Cincies, reformed and orthodox, have been thrown into a state of the greatest excitement by the marriage yesterday after- noon of the danghter of Dr. Samuel Adler, the rabbi emeritus of Temple Emanuel. This is the most solemn season of the Jewish year, and a Hebrew wedding while it lasts is without a parallel in the history of the Jews. Ir District Atroryey Wooprorp will give the question of the examination of the title to the proposed site for the barge office his imme- diate attention the work on that structure will Be begnn in a few weeks, Attorney General Devens has referred the subject to bim, and nothing can be dono until le has gone through the necessary Jegal form en. Tar Weatner.—The northern depression as moved very slowly through the Canadian districts aud is now over the St. Lawrence Valley, The pressure within the area has increased very much since Wednesday. The area of high barometer continues in abont the saine pouition as stated in yesterday's Henan, but ite infla- ofice extends further inland; in fact, the outlines ot the high zone running east and west are well flefined. The pressure is falling gradnally in the Gnif districts, where it would seem another fepression is organizing. In the West nnd Northwest the barometer has generally risen. Very Jittle rain las fallen, mainly in the lake tegions, the Central Valley districts and the Gulf. Clear or fair weather has generally pre- yailed throughout al) the districts. The winds have been from fresh to brisk in the lake re- NEW YORK HERALD, Failure of the Glasgow Bank. ‘This same Bank of the City of Glasgow failed in 1857 at the same time with the Western Bank, of the same city, which had a still heavier capital. The failure of those two important Scotch banks in 1857 brought on the general monetary panic of that year in Great Britian, by creating a large sudden demand for gold, which led to a contraction of bank accommodation in England. The Western Bank was utterly prostrated, but the Bank of the City of Glasgow re- covered from that calamity, and has since had a career of such high apparent prosperity that on the very day before this recent failure its stock was selling in the market at more than two hundred percent above par, having for a long time past paid regular annual divi- dends of twelve per cent. It is not sur- prising that the closing of its doors caused a sudden shock, although an attempt is made by the London press to smooth it over by statements that an inner circle of bankers had some previous knowledge of its tottering condition. It is legitimate enough for the English press to try to allay apprehensions, but two or three days must elapse before the extent of the consequences can be measured. The stockholders, like those of all the Scotch banks, are individually liable, so that its depositors will probably receive at last the fall amount due them. But meanwhilea large proportion of them will be ruined in their business, because their resources for conducting business will be locked up until atter the conclusion of dilatory legal pro- ceedings. The merchants who have forty million dollars deposited in the Bank of the City of Glasgow are deprived of their means of transacting business or meeting their maturing liabilities, and it is in the natural course of things that there should be a large crop of mercantile failures. Among other imprudent transactions the Glasgow bank has been making heavy acceptances of India bills. ‘The first important consequence of shutting the doors of the bank was the failure in London yesterday of Smith, Fleming & Co., one of the largest and oldest East India houses, with liabilities amounting to several mill- ion dollars. There will probably be other large failures of houses engaged in the India and the Australian trade, which are the two branches in which the Glasgow bank has committed its most fatal indis- cretions. The full consequences of the tailure will not be disclosed until the mer- cantile houses involved have had a few days to look about them, see how they stand, and ascertain whether they cannot find friends or resources to tide them over this sudden disaster. The ultimate recovery from the stocl® holders of the amount due to the depositors will be but a partial reparation of their losses. There are probably a large num- ber of opulent men among the stockhold- ers, and all stockholders are liable to the fall extent of their property, both real and personal, But there are probably a large number of stockholders of moderate means who have been tempted by the twelve per cent dividends to purchase sbares in this apparently solid and prosperous bank. Their unlimited liability will bring dis- tress and ruin upon the small stockholders, At any rate, this was one of the effects of the failure of the Western Bank of Glasgow in 1857, thousands of people of moderate means having been re- duced to want and begzgary by the coliapse of that institution. They lost not only their shares but all of their other property. This second failure of the Bank of the City of.Glasgow is supposed to be absolute and irretrievable and will bring great dis- tress upon all who have been connected with the bank either as stockholders or as depositors, or who have become otherwise entangled with it. If the consequences are confined to this circle there will be no general slarm in England, and the failure will not cause even a ripple in the business of the United States. But itis premature to pronounce with any confidence that the distress will be confined to the immediate victims of the failure. Nobody can yet say that other British banks have not been conducting business on the same false and hazardous principtes. The mercantile affairs of the United Kingdom have been for several years in @ most unsatisfactory state. Brit- ish trade has been universally depressed by a curtailment of markets, by low prices, by ® general stagnation in all the leading branches of production, by widespread strikes and dissatisfaction among the la- boring classes, and by loss of profits on the remnant of business which has been done. In such a state of things the proprictors of mines and manufactories must have been compelled, in many cases, to stretch their credit to the utmost to keep their limited business going. If, in this state of univer- sal depression and loss of profits, banks have been too indulgent and benevolent to their customers in making acceptances or discounting their paper, they will be warned by the great Glasgow failure to contract their accommodations, and many houses which have been struggling on in hope of better times may be compelled to go down, There are no symptoms of a general re- vival of business in Great Britain to en- courage immediate hope. It cannot go on indefinitely in drawing upon capital in- stead of subsisting and thriving upon profits. The present condition of business in the British islands may be gathered from slight indications scattered over the pages of the | London Feonomist. In the number of that jonrnal for September 21, which reached nus yesterday, we find numerous statements, of which we will insert specimens :—‘‘The French and German exchanges are not quite 80 favorable as they have been. The Amer- ican exchange is tending more against us.” “In the home markets American producers are now supplanting their foreign rivals.” “The reasons why the Scotch railway com- panies have fared worse than their English neighbors are not far to seck.” ‘The de- gions, the Northwest and ou the Gulf coast. Elsewhere they have been light. Temperatures have risen generally in the Middle Atlantic and New England States and the jake regions, and fallen in the other sections. The weather in Now York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and fair, To-morrow it will be cooler and clear. pression in goods aud mineral traffic conse- qtient upon strikes and stagnation in trade has boen extremely severe.” ‘The reduc tions in working expenses both by the Eng- lish and Scotch lines are very extensive, and would point to an unusually and por- haps an objectionably tight hand having been applied to all such outgoings. Had this not been the case, however, the divi- dends must have suffered still more ma- terially.” ‘Russian, Turkish, Hungarian and other securities were also ont of favor on Monday in sympathy with the decided gloom manifested on Continental bourses.” ‘Very few signs of returning animation are now to be met with in the manufacturing districts.” “The condition of the iron trade is not so satisfac- tory.” ‘Tin and copper are quite without recovery.” ‘At Sheffield, where there was some improvement immediately after the conclusion of peace, it has now well nigh died away, and some houses are even worse off. The returns and exports for August show in almost every department of the Sheffield trades a decided falling off” These gloomy extracts are taken from dif- ferent papers devoted to many different sub- jects, and they give a most unfavorable im- pression of the state of things upon which the great Glasgow failure and the other heavy failures which must follow it will act. A blow from which a healthy trade might easily recover may prove more injurious toa patient suffering from long debility. It is therefore unsafe to form any estimate of the conseqnences of these failures until after an interval of a few days and a fuller survey of the situation. Besides the de- bilitated condition of British trade the country has suffered immense losses by investments in South American, Turkish and other comparatively worthless foreign securities, by the Suez Canal purchase and by the six millions expended in warlike preparations previous to the Berlin Con- gress, ‘the condition of England warns us against forming hasty conclusions in advance of the facts. Within a few days we may be better qualified to judge. “Pp. That Wonderful ment.” The longer one ponders over the Grand Jury’s remarkable effort upon the Metro- politan road the more he wonders why similar complaints have not been made against other creators of noise. There is, for instance, to which, in ‘‘Belgium’s capital,” was once attributed the noise of cannonading at Waterloo, a mistake which seems extremely natural to any New Yorker residing ona street paved with cobblestones and fre- quented by wagons. Then there is the horse car, which not only rambles in cres- cendo and diminuendo as it approaches and recedes, but offers an accompaniment of clattering horse hoofs and an unmelodi- ous, useless bell—two noises for which no elevated railway train can offer equivalents, These cars have for years eruwded nearly every avenue in the city. Instead of merely running late in the evening, which prac- tice the Grand Jury think the Metro- politan cars might forego, they run all night, Besides the noises they cause to afflict residents along the line they torment all their passengers with a racket that is unequalled by any other conveyance but an omnibus ora tin pedler’s wagon. At times these cars have crossed the tracks of other street railroads, and their bouncing has led to serious re- sults, particularly among women. ‘Their rails have wrenched off wagon wheels in- numerable and caused many an upset, while the compliments which have been exchanged between their drivers and the managers of vehicles on the track have delighted nu- merous gutter snipes and sickened hun- dreds of thousands of respectable people. At certain hours of the day they have been crowded until a sense of decency forbade ladies to enter them. In the winter their interiors have been about as cold as the outer atmosphere and as foul with exhala- tions of human beings as the Black Hole of Calcutta. But what Grand Jury ever offered a ‘‘presentment” against a horse car road, calling it ‘‘an invasion of private rights and of human comfort, safety and |’ health?” Why distinguish against one road while for years we have been enduring a dozen or more with larger averages of demerit and causing annoyance to far greater numbers of people? The Long Ratilroad. The truthfulness of our late report ofa careful inspection of the Long Island Rail- road, which revealed a most disgraceful, highly dangerous and criminal stato of af- fairs, reecives confirmation every day. The examination of the road was begun im- mediately after one fatal accident, and its conclusion was followed by three—one near the first, a few miles from Hunter’s Point, and the others on the Atlantic avenue branch in Brooklyn. These resulted inthe loss of four lives and the serious injury of several persons. A letter, which we pub- lish this morning, from a civil engi neer of nearly ten years’ practical experience, fully corroborates our account of the shameful condition of the road, and effec- tually contradicts the communication which we published on Wednesday, signed H. G. Ward. In this, not content with a vague general denial that the road is in the condition wo stated, though admitting, in his desire to praise the present management, that it probably was before they took hold of it, he attempts to find fault with our editorial on the accident of over two weeks ago. What wo then gaid was:—‘In speaking on tho subject the superintendent of the road naively says the wheels were not re- paired,” an evidence of a quality of en- gineering knowledge to which we Iny no claim. The gentleman who now writes to us says that he found the ties rotten, the rails insecurely spiked, and for rods on either track no fishplates. ‘‘The level- ling,” he says, ‘is # mockery on that term, and the cars, as they rush slong in their mad career, sway to and fro ns though they would roll right off the track, I can pro- duce a piece of a sleeper, rescned from a recent disaster on this death-trap road, which is so rotten that it can be crumbled in the hand.” He further states, in reter- ence to the question of economy, and dares tho officials to deny it, that the railroad has taken in more than a million and a half of dollars during the past summer season. The recent loss of lives on the Atlantic avenne section demands that gates should be placed at all the crossings where the road runs through the populous district, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET. Settled at Last, The great boat race between Hanlan and Courtney was rowed yesterday, and the Canadian is the victor. It is satisfactory that no further postponement took place, and that the question as to the relative merits of the two oarsman who have won so much renown in’ their contests with others has been decided at last. The result will be satisfactory to the friends and back- ers of Hanlan, who will, of course, believe the race to have been honestly pulled and fairly won. It will bé the reverse of satis- factory to those whose money has been staked on the American, and they will, no doubt, insist that their favorite could have reversed the position of the boats at the finish if he had chosen to do so. They will point to the fact that Courtney time and again drew up nose and nose with his sturdy antagonist and then fell back to the regulation distance of one or two boats’ length as evidence of the charge that he failed to do his best. But nothing can change the fact that it was a hard race, that the time was excellent con- sidering the course, and that if Courtney could really do much better than he did he must possess powers as an oarsman which may defy competition. The men appear to have been in first rate condition, and, pro- vided each pulled an honest scull, the race was as s.tisfactory a one as could be rowed. The charges of bad faith brought against Courtney do not seem to stand criticism; but, as they were so openly made, it is un- fortunate for his future prospects that ho could not disprove them by beating his man. The best answer to tht insinuation that he had “sold” the race would have been to have won it. However willing we may be to concede to him an honest inten- tion to defeat the Canadian if possible, the suspicion that there was jockeying in the match cannot fail to deprive him of backers in the future. He will no doubt make a satisfactory reply to the statements reflect- ing on his good faith now that tho race is over, but his defeat will nev- ertheless weaken confidence in him, It is unfortunate that professional con- testa of this description cannot be made simply for the expenses of the men and the honor of victory. Heavy stakes bring with them great temptation to collusion and unfairness, and extensive betting is certain to lead to attacks on the good faith of the principals. So notorious has be- come the practice of ‘‘selling” professional matches that pradent people refrain from risking money on them, and this contest for the championship of the American and Canadian waters is only another proof of the wisdom of holding aloof from all such ventures, People who have lost money on the Union Springs sculler will firmly believe that they have been victimized, while thousands will regard it as still uncertain which of the two men is in reality the best rower. It must be conceded that the odds were against Courtney. Atthe same time it is to be hoped that he will not set about finding excuses for his failure, but will take his defeat in good part and be pre- pared for a return match on a more equal course, A Painfal A special cable despatch to the Evening Telegram yesterday brings the rumor that Dr. Petermann, the well known geographer, whose death at Gotha was reported a few days ago, committed suicide by hanging. According to this story there is a heredi- tary taint of insanity in the family, others of its members having died by their own hands. It is also alleged that unhappiness in Dr. Petermann’s domestic life is sup- posed to have prompted the act, and a legal investigation into the cause of his death is demanded by the Berlin press. It is to be hoped that the painful rumor will not be confirmed. , A Test Caso. Mr. Astor is said to have determined to test the right of the Custom House officials to demand payment of duties on the wear- ing apparel brought home from Europe by his family. It is desirable that this ques- tion should be definitely settled. The ex- action of such duties is of no particular benefit to the goyernment, but is a source of considerable annoyance to European travellers. To persons of common sense the wording of the item in the free list relating to wearing apparel scems entirely clear and unmistakable. No duty is to be paid on ‘wearing apparel in actual use and other personal effects (not merchandise) * * * of persons arriving in the United States, But this exemption shall not be construed to include machinery, or other articles im- ported for use in any manufacturing os- tablishment, or (articles imported) for sale.” This language seems tu admit of only one construction. If a passenger brings to the United States wearing ap- parel actually intended for his own use, and not for sale, he is not required to pay any duties. If he brings wearing apparel for other persons or with the intention to sell the articles he must pay the proper duties. Modern Custom Houso reform, however, construes ‘‘actnal uso” to mean such garments only as have been actually worn or are in wear by the person in whose baggage they are found. This is an absurd straining of the law which the courts are not likely to uphold ; and whilo it brings in only a paltry sum to the gov- ernment gives offence and annoyance to individuals, Mr. Astor resists the attempted exaction, not because of the amount of money involved, but becanse he regards it asan injustice andan absurdity, and in this opinion the entire community coincides, The Situntion at the South, Reports from New Orleans show # marked increase in the number of new cases of yel- low fever, though the average of mortality is not so great as it has been. ‘The increase has been attributed to tho return of the thousands of people who have been away at summer resorts, from which they have been driven by the conventional closing of the season. This theory gains some plausibility from the fact that the present ravages of the disease ore principally in the suburbs of the city, where the better classes of residences are and where thore is tho freest movement of air, while the localities originally afflicted are almost free from the scourge. Great destitution still prevails in thoneands of families, on account of the enforced cessation of labor, so the demands upon the sympa- thies and pockets of the charitable aro as pressing as ever. There is not yet any promise of a beneficial change in the temperature, so the disease can at present be fought by human means alone, We earnestly invite the attention of the benevo- lent to Mayor Ely’s letter, notifying the public of a systematic plan for gathering and forwarding clothing to the afflicted dis- tricts. It should be understood that this clothing collection is not merely for the benefit of the poor, who are always needy at this season, but is to re- place the hundreds of thousands of gar- ments that have been destroyed in in- fected houses in the hope of preventing the spread of the disease. The entire ward- robes of many families have been burned jor this reason, and there is neither money to replace them nor stocks of goods from which to purchase, even if means were in hand. ———_3— The Ohio Canvass, The Hon. John G. Thompson is chairman of the Ohio democratic committee and Gen- eral J, 8. Robinson is chairman of the Ohio republican committee. ‘They are both frank and free spoken gentlemen, and it will please au impartial public to learn that they concur in the assurance toa Hrratp reporter that money is scarce this year. } General Robinson complains that that noble and patriotic being, the postmaster, has generally buttoned up his pockets, and as to the losal office-holders, who are demo- crats, if we may believe the Hon. Mr. Thompson, they, tov, have become infected with Mr. Hayes’ pernicions civil service ideas. “The art of raising money for po- litical purposes scems to have been lost,” they say. It will surprise no one, under these cir- cumstances, to hear that the democratic and republican managers regard the pres- ent election, as the Georgia colored gentle- man spoke of his white ncighbor—as “mighty onsartain.” What with the green- back-labor candidates, the temperance vote, the frightful looseness of party bonds, no money and the general uncertainty of Ohio politics, the result of next Tuesday's elec- tion, the managers confess, is ‘something which no fellow can predict.” The State went democratic in 1874 by seventeen thousand majority ; in 1875 Governor Hayes carried it by a slight majority ; in 1876, ns Presidential candidate, he had seven thou- sand five hundred majority, and last year the democrats carried it by twenty-two thousand five hundred. This year cach party claims it for the State ticket “by a small majority ;’ but the great struggle is over the Congressional vote, and concern- ing this our correspondents, after careful inquiry, send us pretty fall details, which are printed elsewhere. In the present Congress Ohio has twelve republican and eight democratic Repre- sentatives. In s conversation with the Henarp's correspondent Mr. Thompson, the democratic manager, gave up as repub- lican the Fourth, Seventh, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth dis- tricts, and thought the Second, Twelfth and Thirteenth doubtful. On the other hand, in a similar conversation General Robinson, the republican manager, gave up as democratic the Third, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Tenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth districts, and regarded the First, Eleventh and Sixteenth as doubtful. ‘aking these estimates as correct so faras they go, the democrats would seem to be sure of seven districts and the republicans of six, leaving seven districts as admittedly doubtful. But even these calculations, based on the ad- missions of each side and not on their claims for themselves, aro not ‘altogether to be depended on, because both parties ac- knowledge that the greenback-labor ele- ment is an absolutely unknown quantity, though both believe, what is probable, that the greenbackers are losing ground. There are greenback candidates in the First, Second, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, Sev- enteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth dis- tricts. In the Thirteenth district Van Vorhes, the republican candidate, is him- self a greenbacker, and it is thought will get that vote. In the Fifth the republicans are trying to get their candidate, Wilson, to withdraw, with the intention of giving the republican vote to the greonbaek candi- date, Johnston. In the Seventh and Seven- teenth districts the greenbackers protess to have hopes of electing their men, but they are probably mistaken. Our advice to persons anxious to bet on the result in Ohio is to study closely the reports of the Hznaup correspondents and then wait until the day after clection. In this way they will be pretty sure not to lose their money. A Noiseless Ratirosda, As the Grand Jury seem to have deter- mined that the advantages of rapid transit are not to be enjoyed unless they can be re- lieved of complicity with annoyances such as tho slow transit omnibuses and horse cars have inflicted upon us for years, with- out a word of any sort from any kind of a jury, it becomes necessary to doviso a road which will mect tho requirements of this humane guardian of the public comfort. The first thing to do will be to place the track so high that it caunot disfigure the streets (as surface rond tracks never do, of course). To do this the track must be held in air, above the level af the housetops, by a system of balloons—for iron columns ris- ing from the ground might obstruct tho view from somebody's window of some- thing on the oppouite side of the street. The balloons should be invisible (as horse car tracks always are) or they might prevent a clear view of the sky, which signs, awn- ings, &e., never do, or the Grand Jury would have framed presentments against them. The motive power should be some- thing which mukes no smoke, steam or smell; for grand juries always ‘‘pre- sent” anything with these faulte— such things, for instance, as oil refineries, fat rendering establishments, horse car stables, &, The road should be noiseless, too ; for who ever hoard noise on a horse car road er on Broadway as an omnibus glided softly along? So, instead of rails, the wheels shorfld play upon a con- tinuous band of down and the rails should have ties of felt, grand jury presentmenta, or something equally soft and absorbent of whatever agitation may be imported to it. As the horse cars always supply requisite warmth and ventilation, the cara used for rapid transit should contain plenty . of dry straw and a crack an eighth of an inch wide over each door. The soothing effects of car bells and horse hoofs having never been questioned by any Grand Jury, each train should be provided with eight quartz stampers, which would be nearly equivalent in lullaby melodies to the iron- shod feot of two horses, and these should have something hard to operate upon, while the ‘tintinnabulation of the bells” should be secured in someway. A seat should be provided for every passenger, just as has always been done by the horse car compa- nies ; the insides of the cars should be de void of noise, as horse cars always are, and there should be no vexatious delays, such as horse cars always avoid in crowded streets and at crossings. Of course these features are casy to secure, or the Grand Jury would not have complained of the abe sence of any of them, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Olive J.egan has gone daft over Welsh mutton. Sir Alexander T. Galt, of Montreal, is at the Gilsey House, ‘ Secretary Kvarts will speak in New York in about ten days. ‘The Cincinnati Commercial kes tenors because they are high toned. “Donnybrook Fair’? 13 what the Syracase Journal calls the Democratic Convention. velonging to the Chinese Embassy rred to Washington. Iv is wortuy of remark that Rev. Mr. Talmage will rematn as middle man in his troupe this y Postmaster General Key returned to Portiand, Ore gon, from hie trip up the Columbia River last eves me Simen Cameron thinks that the nationals will burt (he democrats moro than they will burt the republ- cane, An American writes to the London Zimes that Eng- lish ‘hotels do not furnish cola water in sufficient quantities. fi Who can understand a cornstalk ?—Camden Post. No one. The trouble is its huskiness.—Chicago Journal This is amaizoing. A postal iaw of the United States provides that, if a hasband so orders, a wile may bot take bis corre- spondence from tl moe. . Free Press:—“Several newspaper paragraphers are just now wondering which is the biggest chcat—a trade dollar or a horse trade,’’ Danbury News:—‘One hundred and fifty tons of coal havo been purchased for the Contro district schools, Coal is much plieasanter than birch for warming schoiars.’? Mr. George S. Hillard, who, sccording to Daniel Webster, was once the smartest boy in Massachusetts, bat who 1s now getting on in years, peralysis, bat bis brain is as clear as The Spirtuahe: Woman says that the Commodore Vanderbilt whom sho saw was a medium-sized man, “Well,” sald a broker yesterday, ‘the last time I Played eachre with him he stood ’way over me.’’ The Hon. Power Henry Le Poer French, of the Britteh Le: tt Washington last evening to take the steamer on Saturday from thts city for England, and it {s intimated that he will not return to the United States. There are, it is said, many Irish families lecated and owning property ia the prine:pal cities of China, some of them being those of wealthy merchants, others those of laborers {rom ships. A Chipaman ree cently remarked, “Lee lish must goes. Poolee issues, by javles!"” The report of the transfer of Count Hoyos, the Austrian Minister, to the Coart of Prince Charles of Roumaoia, at Bucnarest, is confirmed in advices re- ceived at the Austrian Legation in Washington, The ame of his succossor is not yet known, Tho Lega- tton will be in charge of Chevalier Tavera in tne interim. Thoro is a law made to fit pecallar cases of ruffian fem tm Californian, which makes it a penal offence te cut eff a Chinuma: queue, Recently the Sheriff at San Francisco bad some Chinese prisoners, and as aa alleged saoitary measore he cut off their queues, They have brought action against bim. Ho ciaimod bis right as Sheriff, on demurrer, which the jadge overruled, Further argument will be made this woek. AMUSEMENTS. STRINWAY BALL—THOMAS’ FAREWELL BENEFIT, One experienced a melancholy pleasure in attend. Img the concert at Steinway Hall last evening, A pleasure vocause a Thomas concers is always « pleasure; melancholy for the reason that it was the farewell appearance of Thomas’ unrivalled or. chestra and its distinguished leader in New York. Theodore Thomas occupies an excep- Menal position in tho history of music in this city; in fact, tn this country. He has played the best class of orchestral music in spite of many drawbacks, aod although he has a large qgnstituency here, it seems that his admirers are not strong enough to keep bim, and that a disteat and smaller city has scoured his valuable services for sevoral years at least. It is nov to our credit that we let him £0, repentance 1s sure to come later whon we Ond the winter is passing away without any symphony concerts to break in upon its other amusements, The audience assembled Jast evening was net equal to the occasion. Perbaps the poopie hatod to say “farewell ;” rb benefit te Mr. Thomas should bave received crous re spouse, Tho programme was Nerewing one, though to many it may have seemed «@ trifle heavy. Tho opening piece was Beet. hoven’s “Cortolanus”” overture, a grand, impressive composition, which was respectfully treated at the hands of this orchestra, but the {all meaning of which was hardly conveyed. Mr. ‘Thomas does not make rence iu his treat. meat of Bee M followed with accompaniment to h vy the orcnestra, Mr. Ri rea’ not heard at is best in this sounded rou, allowed tho erm. atage. ure of the programme Was the second aym- y of Jobannos Brahms, played for th 18 city. It would be fooltsh to pron rita of this composition af at the rabine to a severe tent. jouy—which, ry mann. part ts e best of the only one in wh: . ‘The benuty of F110, was, of course, nded with a foe y pp rec rise, aod called him out opened b te on Linnie 0 excellent # piania even this faalt, made a very” bapp: “Wotan's Farewell’? ve. re Programme. It thy oO layed by Thomas’ orchestra in Now York shoutd be of Wagner's eht mire the gret eof grausude fn otse, of the concerts Mr. Thomas Uhustastically calied out, amd stoed bows front of the platrorm while men cheered wt the) at waved their handkerohbiofs, ‘ry 5