The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1878, Page 10

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UNION SQUAKE THEATRE—Moruze ax Som BIANDARD THEATRE—Fuita FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE AMERICAN INSTITUT NIBLO'S GARDEN—Tue Duwoae BRAND OPERA HOUSK—SteUce Om SEW YORK AQUARIUM—Trarxxo Horsrs, LYCEUM THEATRE—Josnva Wuttcoms, ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Canwun, PARK THEATRE-—Lotra,__ GILMORE’3 GARDEN—Banwon’s Stow. HAYMARKET THEATRE—Vaaiery. THEATRE COMIQUE—Vanivrr. VONY PASTOR'S THEATRE—V, iT, JAMES THEATR SGYPTIAN HALL—Vantery, BAN FRANCISCO MINS’ QUINTUPLE SHEET. _NEW YORK. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER “dhe probabilities are that the weather York and its vicinity today will be warm, with decreasing temperature, partiy eloudy or hazy, and possibly with occasional light rains. To-morrow it will be partly cloudy and eolder. Watt Street Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was active, but weak. Gold was steady all day at 10014. Government bonds were firm, States steady and railroads strong. Money on call lent at 6 a7 per cent and closed as low as 21, per cent. In THe Ixtentor of the State the autumn frosts seem to have effectually cured the green- back midsummer madness. Tae Approrntation of the Methodist Mis- tionary Committee yesterday for Mexico ought to be spent on the Texas border. Tne Extraorpinary Activity in the cotton goods line at Fall River during the week is one of the cheering business signs of the times. ApprTionaL Evipence of the severity of the October gales is furnished in the stories of ship- wreck and suffering elsewhere printed this morving. Ir Is Hep by one of the courts that it is the policy of the law to encourage marriages. The idea, we suppose, is to help along the divorce lawyers. In Future the upper boulevards will be slosed as a race track, it having been deter- mined at last to rigidly enforce the fast driving law. Tre Crostxc Games of the New York Ath- letic Club Tuesday next will be a pleasant wind- ap of the season’s programme of manly sports and exercises. NovemBer has given the last blow to the yel- low fever. A geueral revival of business to- morrow is the glad announcement from the lately stricken cities. Fresn CompuicatTions beset at every step the excise question. Judge Sedgwick now de- sides that Commissioner Morton’s removal by the Governor was unlawful. Brooxtyy’s EvancevicaL Reputation has been somewhat damaged lately, but a holiness convention will be held there this week, and a change of heart is possible. It Is a Pity that the three thousand dollars’ worth of oil which went up in a blaze in Brook- tyn last night could not have been poured on the troubled waters of our local politics. Tue Coorer Ustox, the Lenox Library and other points of interest were visited yesterday by Dean Stanley. His two sermons to-day will probably be the last he will preach here. AxotuerR Botp Burciary has been perpe- trated in whit is called the fashionable portion of the city. If the police do not find the thieves they will certainly find a “theory” of the crime. Tne Domision Towns do not intend to let their exuberant patriotism get the better of their discretion. While preparing a warm re- ception for the Marquis of Lorne they are at the | same time prudently footing up the bills in advance. This is something the City Hall | patriots never do. Peprick, the one Imndred and eight thou- send dollar embezzling clerk, has made a con- fession, which is, of course, the old story. Speculation, he declares, ruined him. As, ac- cording to his own account, he began when he was only nineteen years old, the bump of specu- lation must have been fully and early devel- oped. Mr. Buarxe’s Closing Sreecn of the cam- paign in Pennsylvania at Philadelphia last evening shows that he has still grave fears for the eafety of the Republic. The particular point in which he sees the peril of the future is, of course, the “solid South.” There is at least one man who is badly seared, and he is Mr. Blaine. aie Tne Conoyer’s Jury that inquired into the death of the poor conductor who waa killed last Friday in Connecticut ly the explosion of a twenty-nine year old locomotive boiler have come to the conclusion that if it had been in- | spected the accident would have been prevented. That is not our experience around here. ‘Ihe | oftener boilers are inspected the oftener they explode. Tux Weratnen.—The low pressure has passed | from the lake region to the St. Lawrence Valle and Lower Canada, atvended by light rains and | moderating and warmer winds. Inthe West, Northwest and South the barometer is high, but decreasing in the latter section. A fall of tem perature will probably folloW the movement eastward of the low barometer now in Canada. The change may be expected with northwesterly winds in New York during today. The weather in New York and its vicinity t y will be warm, with decreasing temperature, partly cloudy or hazy, and possibly with occasional light rains. ‘To-morrow it will be partly cloudy and col NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1878,—QUINTUPLE SHEET. Baa Manners in Politics. In the articles we have lately printed on city politics it has been our aim to lay the true issues clearly before the voters. The Henatp is not the organ of any party or clique; its aim is to deal with political questions as with all others from the stand- point of the public and general interest, to make manifest the truth, and thus to en- able the public to judge tor itself. ‘The people, rightly instructed, will always vote right,” said Mr. Lincoln, and the duty of independent journuls is to thus fully and honestly inform and instruct the people, regardless of partisan interests. Naturally, the journal which faithfnlly per- forms this duty incurs the hostility of par- tisans; it cannot hope to please either side, and it is pretty sure to be misrepresented, as in the present case some of our amiable but over-zealous partisan contemporaries have hinted that the Heap was support- ing Tammany Hall, while others have sug- gested that we were misrepresenting Mr. Cooper and the strange partners in the sin- gular political combination which he repre- sents. Of course this is not correct. We have simply aimed to strip the con- test of the pretences in which it was enveloped, so as to enable the voters to decide for themselves next Tuesday, not on false issues, but with the truth plainly before their eyes. Whatever partisan jour- nals may pretend the people, we are confi- dent, have understood us. During this contest, as during many pre- ceding ones, the attempt has been made to | mislead the public by cunning artifices and ; misleading issues. It1s the peculiar curse of returm movements that designing and unsernpulous politicians always strive to | gain possession of them s) soon as they Their aim is to gain personal and political advantages to themselves by adroitly placing them- selves at the head of a popular move- ment and giving voice to what they believe to be a popular impulse. The present “combination” began, as we have repeat- edly pointed out, as a genuine popular movement, As such it was supported and urged by the Hegarp with a zeal which gave it such strength as to show the poli- ticians that it possessed the promise of success. There was a real, a genuine and strong demand for a city ticket which should secure for the city an adminis- tration independent of the professional politicians—such an administration as the election of Mr. Bonner would undoubtedly have formed. To this object the Heraip gave much time and space, and it so far helped to give form and momentum to the popular impulse that if a really indepen- dent man could have been found to accept the nomination for Mayor there is little doubt he could have been elected by a gen- eral popular uprising. Unfortunately, when this movement had got toacertain stage it fell into the hands of stealthy but not altogether invisible po- litical intriguers, who determined to use it for their own purposes. They took up the ery for reform; they adopted all the watch- words of the movement; and when we saw this we dropped it, because to support the movement any further would have been to act not in the public interests, but in those of one set of partisans against another. This was not our object. We objected, for instance, to the one-man power in politics; but we did not mean by that the substitu- tion only of another man; and if the change offered us is only of one man for another, if it is not a change of system, but only the substitution of one politician for another, as the ruler under the old sys- tem, it belongs to the people to decide whether they think it best to make this change. It is our duty to point out to them what the politicians propose. Meantime we were in hopes that the can- vass would be conducted in an orderly and reputable manner, but even in this we have been disappointed. To be sure, there has been so far in the canvass less per- promise success. sonal vituperation than in previous contests of the kind, and _ this is a hopeful sign; but as election day draws near we notice the usual ten- dency of each side to try to persuade the public that the other side are all unmiti- gated rascals or idiots, ‘These things, however, have ceased to have any effect on the public mind. The American voter ex- pects with the utmost confidence that on election morning, if not before, he will be solemnly assured by each party that the other has taken its whole ticket with impartial hand from the State Prison and the lunatic asylum; and he has made up his mind beforehand tbat neither side is worth moment's attention, ‘hese staie political tricks, theretore, we should not think worthy of notice ; nobody will believe that Mr. Schell basely robbed the Manhattan Bank any more than that Mr. Cooper hired the bur- glars who did it with the base design of in- juring Mr. Schell. But there have beenone or two attacks on character of which it is worth while to speak, because they are in- excusable; we mean those made on Mr. Cooper, the combination candidate for Mayor, and on Mr. Bedford, the Jammany candidate for City Judge. No reputable citizen would like to give his vote to make a man Mayor who had been concerned ina plot to purchase elec- toral votes for the Presidency. A man who would bribe a returning board ought not to have any authority or influence in the city, because he could hardly be depended on | to manage the city government on strictly honorable principles. Knowing that this would be the public feeling, two hope- ful small fry politicians have been used to charge Mr. Cooper with this offence—Mr. Johnny Coyle, lately of Wash- ington and a member of Andy Johnson's “Kitchen Cabinet,” and Mr. Aleck Thain, a rather smartish ex-Assemblyman from one | of the upper districts. We do not wish to hurt the feelings of these worthy men, but their insinuations can have no weight with the public against Mr. Cooper's established | character and his denials. His aceusers must | bring proof or they cannot hope to attract attention of a kind they would like, In like manner we notice the campaign lies about Judge Bedford. He served with great credit {a term as City Judge, and tor some years der, | fille1 the office of Associate District Attor- ney. There is not an actof his administra- tion of either office that will not bear the strictest scrutiny. His nomination for City Judge was a concession by Tammany to the popular demand for an independent judiciary. He is not known as a political partisan, but he is widely and favorably known from his eight years of service on the bench in the position for which he is again a candidate. The tact that bis opponents have been unable to assail a single judicial act performed by him during eight years of service tells the more strongly in the can- didate’s favor, inasmuch as the personal abuse indulged in by his enemies proves how willingly they would attack his official record if the opportunity offered. If any of the opposition journals know of acorrupt or improper decision having been rendered by Judge Bedford on the bench, or of any act committed by him in his judicial ca- pacity which deserves public condemna- tion, they should at once make the fact known. Judge Bedford’s experience on the bench and his spotless judicial record prove him to be the right man for City Judge, especially as his opponent, however respectable, is untried and inexperienced. Political Uncertainty. It is reported in our commercial news by cable thag the whole Continent of Europe is in tribulation over ‘‘glutted markets and low prices,” and the reason for all this trouble with trade is believed to be ‘not overproduction, but political uncertainty.” In Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Holland cotton industries are not prosperous, and the only exception to their bad condition is in Russia. Well, there is political uncertainty enough in any one of these countries, certainly, but at what time for ten years past has there been less? It is difficult to point out a year within that period when it might not have been cogently argued that for one reason or another the government and po- litical system of every one of them was at the verge of a grand collapse. But uncer- tainty did not paralyze trade through all those years—and why shouldit now? France has not at any period in modern times possessed a government so firmly and safely based in the consent of the nation as the present republican organization ; and thongh there is terrible murmuring in Germany there is no uncertainty. If the Hohenzollerns cannot govern through the law they can and will with the army. The reporter isin error. The cause of stagna- tion is the great and indescribable poverty of the people oppressed by the taxation needful for the maintenance of the ‘armed peace.” Christian Catholicity It is to be hoped that every preacher in New York, no matter what his creed may be, has read, or at least caught the spirit of Dean Stanley’s noble sermon on the unity of Christendom, which was delivered in old Trinity on All Saints’ Day. It was not so much the accuracy of the gifted preacher’s definitions of the great divi- sions of the Christian Church that made the sermon remarkable as the clear perception of the adaptability to human peculiarities of the several forms in which the same faith is presented and believed, and the reverent affection with which the speaker consequently regarded these great aids to and conservators of moral and spiritual progress. Beside the noble catholicity of such ao religious teacher how small and mean seem the special sectarian pleadings which are so often imposed upon church- goers who need and long for, not the formal expression of belief, but the elevation of character, the strength, the consolation and all else for which, according to all creeds, the Christian system was instituted! Cath- olic and Calvinist no longer burn dissenters, but the mistaken zeal of other days is not without parallel in our own, in which faiths multiply more rapidly than virtue increases, and the manner of belief is in many churches of far more importance than the manner of life. To all priests and lay- men by whom the churches are being mis- taken for ends instead of means the philosophical, human and thoroughly Christian catholicity of Dean Stan- ley’s utterances of Friday morning appeal both as critic and teucher, and fortunate for himself and others is the man who can receive them. The Church, like the Sabbath, was made for man, and whatever creed stimulates a man to strive for a higher life here and hereafter deserves, in spite of any seeming weaknesses, the hearty respect of good men of every faith, When other preachers say this as emphati- cally and fearlessly as Dean Stanley has done one of the worst of the demons which assail Christianity will be exorcised, and from the body of the Church itself. All Cock Sure, It is very difficult just now to find a can- didate who is not cock sure of heading the poll at the close of the struggle of next Tuesday. ‘The old fellow who some centu- ries since sat yrowling in his tub all day and went out o’ nights with a lantern seek- ing for an honest man may have been long disappointed, but was not altogether dis- couraged. A Hensxp reporter is not neces- sarily a Diogenes, although his experience of men and things tends to make him cyn- ical; but when he, or a number of him, makes the rounds of the candidates on the eve of election, looking for one who is not enthusiastically certain of success, his utter failure must test his credulity. In the ordinary run of events fifty per cent of these cock sure candidates might be expected to prove mistaken, and at this moment we see no reason to believe that a miracle will be worked next Tuesday. Nothing short of a miracle, we may add, will relieve five out of every ten from being convicted of ‘‘conspicnons inexactness” as prophets, We know that itis not considered pert of o fishmonger’s business to proclaim the length of time that his finny commodi- | ties have been out of the water, but any one with a good nose can decide if they have Jain on the stallas long as Lazarus before his resurrection, It has struck us, there- fore, that this confidence of the candidates | may be traced to the belief that to pre- | announce their failure would, by many, be taken as sign they were not fit to be elected. There isso much vossible trnth about the latter clause that we turn with pleasure, and refer our readers, to the record elsewhere of what the cock sure candidates say of themselves and their chances, The Prophetic Conference, as its friends are pleased to designate it, has adjourned without day. From our position as a looker-on in Vienna we have been in- terested in it as a religious novelty, care- fully watching its details and reading its papers through, in spite of our increasing bepuzzlement. We were struck, in the first place, by the conspicuous absence, both in the call and on the platform, of certain reverend gentlemen to whom it is the habit of this community to look for religious instruc- tion, and by the further and perhaps equally important fact that among the scores who signed the call and were present at the meet- ings very few names are to be found which have any national or commanding influence. It seems to have been a conference of the unknown on the subject of the unknowable— an attempt to be definite in the interpreta- tion of dreams and visions which for ages have been the despair of scholars and com- mentators. It is hardly possible to suppose that the professors in our seminaries and the learned teachers of the largest congre- gations that are gathered in the city would be indifferent to a matter as important as the one discussed by this Conference is supposed tobe. It is very peculiar, there- fore, that one of them should excuse him- self on the ground of his having married a wife, and another on the ground that he has bought a yoke of oxen, still another because he has bought a piece of land, and so on until the chairs which such men have the right to fill are all left unoccupied. We were impressed, in the second place, with the wonderful elasticity of the Scrip- tures as interpreted by the Conference, and the ability of the human mind to find there whatever it happens to be in searchof. We are not sufficiently versed in these matters to express any more than our surprise that such enormous conclusions can be logically derived from such mengre premises, and we cannot check our wonder that some of these gentlemen should so evidently have sources of information concerning the divine plan which are closed to others, who, according to human reasoning, would naturally have the prior claim. The visions of Daniel could not have been more clearly explained by the Prophet himself, while those of St. John were so lucidly interpreted that the pre- millennial advent of the Lord amounted, as one speaker asserted, ‘‘almost to a mathe- matical demonstration.” ‘Lhis is not so re- markable when viewed from the standpoint of human conceit, but it is to the last degree remarkable when viewed from the stand- point of actual attainment in knowledge and the general bewilderment of the profoundest scholars up to the time when the Conference held its first session. In the last place our attention was called to the unfortunate position in which New York will find itself when the great event occurs. ‘ihe moving mind in the Conven- tion declared, virtually, that Christianity has thus far been an utter failure and that the world is worse off now than it was eighteen centuries ago. To be sure, and singularly enough, he failed to adduce his proof facts, and contented himself with the mere statement, which leaves us a vague hope that things are not as bad as they seem tobe. We were greatly startled, however, by the announcement that when the Lord comes and all the saints are caught up in the air this wicked city will suffer no perceptible change. A few favored clergymen will take their departure, but their large congregations, together with our merchants and municipal officers will all be left. Only a few vacant chairs will announce the consum- mation. This is a degree of definiteness as to who will and who will not be saved which may be very refreshing to the few, but it is equally depressing to the many, When and under what circumstances the information was obtained only the initiated know, and they are disinclined to tell. It is enough for us that ipse dixit. It is not strange, therefore, that we bid farewell to the Conference with a sigh of relief, and express the hope that another may not be called in our day, lest it impart still more disagreeable news. It is one, of the inscrutable providences that some of us should know so much, while others know so little, and that they who are so excessively gifted should be those whom you would never suspect of being so well informed. On the whole it may be better to continue our church services, our chari- ties and philanthropics, for there is a bare possibility that some one has blundered. On that bare possibility rests our hope for the future. Parties in France, The results of the recent municipal elections in seventeen thousand out of the thirty-six thousand communes of France make it certain that on the 15th of January next, when the two Chambers meet, the republicans will forthe first time have a clear majority in both Senate and Assembly. Since the failure of the De Broglie Ministry in Ootober, 1877, to alter the political complexion of the Assembly, after exhausting all the forms of intimidation against repub- licans and ali the pressure it could exert in favor of official candidates, whose only point of cohesion was a hatred of the Re- public, this result has been foreseen, Of the three hundred and sixty-three seats held by the republicans on the dissolution in June, 1877, three hundred and twenty- five were reoccupied by them, leaving them still the enormous majority ot one ever, the conservatives of all shades had a majority of nearly thirty, Although the subsequent refusal of the Orleanists of the Right Centre to aid the President in bring- ing about a fresh dissolution and 80 pro- longing the crisis made a republican Min- istry possible, the country cannot be said prudence and vigilance of the republican leaders have so far kept these reactionaries in wholesome check, Before the republi- oan maiorities in both houses the roval- hundred and eighteen, - In the Senate, how- | to be free trom the desperation of | what M. Thiers in a famous mavifesto termed “an incorrigible minority ‘The ists and Bonapartists will stand still fur- ther cut off from chance of mischief in the Parliament, but it is not to be expected of French political human nature that the spirit of resistance will end there. Nearly two years will remain before the expiration of MacMahon’s term for the evil elements to conspire in. Rendered desperate by the fact that on joint ballot they are already outnumbered by o hundred votes we may expect to hear of intrigues and conspiracies for the regaining of the power they have lost. In this itis not improbable that ef- forts will be made to make use of the extreme radicals, who have already begun their war upon Gambetta, as agents for disintegrating the republi- can party or rendering it odious in the sight of the country. In this they will tail, if the vigilance and prudence of the republican leaders are still equal to the emergency; but it is nevertheless true that until the republican successor of MacMahon takes his place the Bonapartists and royal- ists will not be muzzled forever. The City Assembly Nominations. The New York members of Assembly are not as @ rule as intelligent and responsible as the representatives of the leading city of the Union in its State Legislature ought to be. The district politicians who control the nominations in both parties gen- erally manage to secure the prize for themselves or their associates, and the consequence has been that the New York city delegation has not for many years borne an enviable reputation at Albany. In looking through the list of nominees this year we fail to find any marked improvement over former years. Dr. Isaac I. Hayes is again a candidate in his district, and is certain of re-election. He is in every respect a desirable representa- tive, and it would be well for the city if its remaining twenty members were equally intelligent, industrious and honest. Mr. W. W. Astor declines a renomination, which is to be regretted. It is very desirable that gentlemen of wealth and culture, who have a large personal interest in the progress and welfare of the city, should have a voice in framing the laws of the State. It is untfor- tunate that so few really representative citizens are to be found on the party tick- ets, The nominees are respectable and in some instances possess a certain sort of political brightness which may pass for ability in such a body asthe Assembly of the State. But as a whole the delegation is not on either side what it ought to be. Mr. Madigan and Colonel Murpby are the Tammany and opposition candidates in the First district and Mr. T. F. Grady and Mr. Buckley in the Second. Among the best known of the Tammany nominees are John Galvin, in the Fourth district ; J. K. Perley, in the Seventh ; J. W. Browning, who made a good representative last year, in the Ninth; Mr. Hallahan, an old mem- ber, in the Twelfth ; Mr. E. P. Hogan, inthe Sixteenth; Mr. L. C. Dessar, in the Seventeenth; Mr. J. B. McDonald, H. Stewart and Alexander Thain, in the Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty- first. Among the republican nominees are Isaac I. Hayes, in the Seventh district; Mr. George B. Deane, in the Ninth; Mr. R. H. Strahan, the bitter opponent of rapid transit, in the Thirteenth; Mr. S. N. Simon- son, in the Seventeenth, and Mr, W. A. Ackerman, in the Nineteenth. There is but little choice between the opposing candidates in point of character, but the people of New York will probably remember that republican representatives at Albany have denied them a constitu- tional apportionment lnw and a just and effective excise law. As the Assembly will, under the present fraudulent apportion- ment, be largely republican, the United States Senatorial issue is not likely to be affected by the result of the election in the city. Gentle Shepherd? Why. “In a world where no two well informed people think alike on any subject,” says the London Daily Telegraph, ‘‘why should the fact that Lord Salisbury and Secretary Evarts are unable to take quite the same view of this Newfonndland trouble create a profound sensation?” It isa wicked world— and it is hard enough for people to agree in it on any topic—but we hope the Daily Telegraph does not class the differences on the caso of the fishery rights with differences on such abstruse topics as the interpretation of the cuneiform in- scriptions. It is not a case of that nature ; it is not a case in which, between well in- formed men, honest differences of opinion are possible, and it is precisely because it is a case of this character and that despite this differences have yet arisen that the case has attracted peculiar attention on this side the Atlantic. An honest or rational difference in points of interpretation does not excite us more than it does our cousins on the other side, but o difference that is cither dishonest or that must be the result of an ignorance which seems to us incredible is of another nature and may excite anybody. By a treaty with England we obtained certain rights in waters within her dominions. England now tells us that those rights are subject to limitations of which not one word is said inthe treaty, Thatis not an abstruse issue which results from a disposi- tion to chop logic on either side, It puts our rights on a precarious ground, where we cannot fora moment assent that they should stand. It denies that the treaty has any validity in the part that might prove beneficial to us, and it naturally startles us for the English government to take a position that implies a denial of our rights when it seems to us impossible that this can be merely the result of ignorance, Why. Tell) Me jonal Pedestrian Toure nument, The great international tramp at Isling- ton, projected by Sir J. D. Astley, ended last night, the winner, Corkey, having made five hundred and twenty-one miles within the s.x days. This isa handsome record, but if Corkey walked the tull time, as we are informed that he did, his feat does not equal that of the American, O'Leary, who in London last March made the same dis- tance, lacking three-quarters of 8 mile, in nearly five hours less time, having distanced allcompetitors so completely that it was not necessary for him to walk any longer It is quite natural, therefore, that O'Leary should want to contest the championship of the world with Corkey, as is reported in London, and it would seem that the odda are in his favor, Diphtheria, In Western Virginia they have astrangely extended epidemic of this dangerous mal ady. Fora distance of forty miles on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad it is said there is scarcely a house in which it may not be found, If there be no exaggera- tion in this report it is evident that there is a field in that district in which the services of a sanitary police would be of great public advantage. It is recog. nized that an important part of the funce tion of government in cities has relation to the enforcement of asanitary service; but it is not recognized, though it is true, that this sort of service is even mcre necessary in the rural districts than in the cities, In most cities water is supplied to the people by machinery which delivers it pure into their houses, and at its source care is taken to provide against its contami- nation. Sewerage systems, moreover, carry away in all large cities all substances that might contaminate the air of houses and streets, If these are not properly con- structed the dungerous sewer gas proves, of course, a great evil. But these two great guarantees of the health of cities are not possessed in the country, and all care on these points is left to the average ignorance, stupidity and in- difference of the country people. They draw their water from streams which re- ceive the sewage of thousands of farms, ot from wells poisoned by the sewage of their own places, and the notion of keeping their houses or cellars or outdoor premises free from even the vilest kinds of filth does not occurto them. They cultivate diseases like diphtheria that are produced by emana- tions from decaying organic matters, Hence such ravages of disease as that re ported from Virginia. - A Pithy Official Report. The United States has never known @ more sensible and astonishing report than that which the War Department reccived from the West Point Board of Visitors. The Board’s officers, consisting of a noted political economist, a soldier ot high rankand a college professor of national reputation, bluntly inform the department and the country that Congress does not desire information from such sources, and that ‘“‘the mere nod or whim of a secretary of war or a4 general-in- chief has more influence than the combined opinions of all the boards that have ever been appointed.” They there- fore suggest a model for a report, which model is as sensible as it is sarcastic; higher praise than this could hardly be expressed” All that the report proper lacks of ideal completeness is a recommendation that no visiting boards shall be appointed hereafter, but that the Inspector General and his assistants shall discharge the duties which have heretotore devolved upqn the “visitors.” Wecommend the Board’s report to other boards, commis- sions, &c., whose only satisfaction for the work they accomplish consists of the com- pensation they receive, and whose self- respect is offended by the persistent neglect of Congress to make any use of the infor- mation gathered at considerable expense in time and money. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Matt Morgan now lives in Cincinoatt, The frog was the original greeabacker, Bovavza Mackay ts in Sao Francisco after a visit te Panis. Aselection draws near noses are becoming party: colore England proposes to import dried oysters from China, ‘Thames boatingmen are experimenting with Cana dia In a London theatre you pay twelve cents for a me. supper. Secretary Evarts leit Washington yesterday fer New York, He will return on the 6th, he fashionable dinoor hour in Franco, Russia ané Italy is soven o’clock ; in Germany it is six. mp breakfast ts the most important meal of the day, but tt usually takes him all it, A Wisconsin man proposes to make wine out of turnips and carrots, [bis will be a kind of root beer, For only a bit of @ brook a Westchester man, whe was opraptured by its purl, paid $5,000. This ise purl of great price, Gainsvorough hats to be only half the old size, to have buckles on them, They are no longer as big aga Creedmoor target. Secretary Thompson left Washington yesterday to visit his brother-in-law ia Virgioia, so will return and resume his duties to-morrow, ‘All this communistic buzzing at Pa n is abous mosquito netting. So ng to get behind the burs—into the me: Acritic says that wise men travel aione, giving every chance companion a trial, and ruthlessly dig carding each one If he does not please. ing, a8 Ho expecta to bo in Washington during the winter session, You woulda’t Kickapoo [ndian, woula your—Stam ford Advocate, Nor Cheyenney brieks at him?— Burlington Hawkeye, Nor Arapahoe at him, and thes Sioux him? Secretary and Mrs, Sherman left Washin, terday morning for Harrisburg, Pa., to visit Senator Cameron, and will returo to-morrow, The secretary spoke in Harrisburg last night upon political issues, Senator Sargent, who returned to Washington from idly recovering. ill are orroneous. Burlington Mawkeye:—‘'As everytbing indicates that we are going to have one of the coldest winters over koown on this continent, 1, Thompson went and bought another bracelet. 5 keep warm it sho has to smot Mr. Orray Tait Sherman, met of the Flore enco, called at tho White House yesterday, in com. peny with Captain Howga: od met with w cordial reception from the President, who manifested « lively 1 ot in the scientific results of the expe. dition, Ju the t case by Lady Churchill against the Vrincess’ Theatre the Judge said thata lady might curry her havinto a theatre with as mach jastice at a gentieman may carry his; that some vonnets can bot be removed, and that sho might worry i» fine bonnet were lett outside. London Worll:—“The nomadic tradite be queathed to us by our remote oncestors survives in ibe Briton of to-doy, aud is perpetuated in his wane derings over the face of tho earth, his campaigning beneath canvas on Wimbledon, his campings ou! banks of the Thames, There is a seampish with thie which demands pes ot leas Imperiously.’” |