The New York Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1878, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD | ee BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON ‘ BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- (OTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Remit in drafts on New tion subscribers wishing their address changed 1uust give their old well as their new address. All business. nows letters or telegraphic despatches muat Letters and pitek Rejected commuuic 12 SOUTH SIXTH YORK HERALD— E ERA. TRADA PACE and advertisements will Me received and . ate BOOTHS THEATE STANDARD TH FIFTH AVENUE ACADEMY OF MUSIO—It Tauiswayo. NIBLO GRAND oF: PARK TI EATRE coMmigu OM THEATI BROADWAY TT ecioeaal Dousiy, Manniacs, Daye, TONY PASTOR'S EGYPTIAN HALL—Vs a ARIL BRO K TH BROAD ST. THEAT, QUADRUPLE SHEET, WITH SUPPLEMENT. : YORK. YORK aay SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1 The probabilities are Hee fhe weather Wen Fork and its vicinity to-day will be cold and | partl; cloudy, followed by inereasing tem. | perature. To-morrow it will be slightly warmer and cloudy, possibly with rain or snow. Wai Srreet Yr ket was active and weaker. closed at 1004s, selling in th Government bonds were firm. es steady und railroads irregular. Money on eall lent at 3 a Bly per cent, with the closing quotations at 3a 4 per cent. 2 stock mar- Id opened and interim at 1L001,, Five Cent: > Haru nue line. What about the ton the Second Ave- Third Avenue ? sion of he Tne Ext instead of her church accommodation is not a good sign for Brooklyn. A Novecty ina judicial v raat Court yesterd, was witnessed Ni ALCANTARA, of He was « gallant ier and a politician of no wean ability, » is Seven MILLION Passencens in six months on the Metropolitan Elevated Road is a prétfy good evidence of the necd there for rapid traneii. ‘Tne Leapers of wminany Hall are thinking of thinvingout the General Committee. The late election thinned out the rank and file pretty ef- fectuaily. _ Tue Rarm Tra Porcing its way upward. **: Suinth street” will Ment to-morrow. From tHe Trxon of M *s remarks on pinola steam heating project yesterday it ix t that he will sign the Aldermanic resolu- tions on the subject. MOTIVE is gradually All aboard for Eighty be the welcome announee- | Tur Resemprion of Hostinitiks between the | y for the Prevention of Cri the Ex- cise Commissioncss and the liquor s will probably help some of the lawyers over the holi- days. interes sting an ral Committe t ended in a tree fi Ex-Goverson R ef trouble as re- ceiver of the New Jersey Mutual Life Insura Company is that there is litle or nothing to re. ceive. The policy hold bright. s outlook is not very Ip is THe Usaxiwous Orrsion in the Interior Department that to remove the Indians from the benign influence of the Indian agent would be | disastrous—disastrous to the Indian trader and contractor. Ose BY Ose the old landr “Old Tom th ks of the city are the latest to dis- | most passing away. appear, was prob house many nv in our literatu Text or « Decision whieh is of eonsid- rly ent tap ays of the brightest | tin other ames are among nd polities. 1 the island, the r whose Tne erable elsewhere printed | to Jandlords and tenants is | it is held that w: Ix to obt on a per n pos session because of the refusal of the old tenant | | to move the landlord is not le son who has hired « house ly bound to re- | dund the rent that may have been advanced, Tae Weatnen.—The h barometer extends over all the distriets east of the Mie sissippi River, the centre in the Ohio Vall in the wes! ar of highest pressure The barometer jell 1 sections durin ter nd two distinct areas of low pressure | red, the Northwest, ws to develop considerable et one in w y dur- 4 its movement over the lake nd the otber in the Western Gulf and Texas. TI centres are in the zone of low barometer that extends | northward { the Western Gulf, bat ave sepa- rated by a spur of high barometer extending westward from the area over the central valley districts. Rain has fallen in the Gulf distrie juns ; te atricts uther has pr and the Jake r fallen in the i leys. Cloudy w oceasional snow hus nd the central val- i] led everywhere | | | except in the South Atlantic States, where it hus been fair, The winds ha been fresh in the Middle Atlantic and New England States, the lake na and the Western Gall, brisk in the Northwest and generally light elsewhere. | The temperature has risen on the South Atlantic and throughout the Gulf distr foilen decidedly in the other low te eOratures accompany the ¢ ching depression, and it is likely to brisk to strong winds ov its eastern margi The barometer is fall- ing rapidly on the I ste and gules are Veginning to blow. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cold and partly eloudy, followed by using temperature. To-morrow it will be slightly warmer and eloudy, possibly with rain or suow, const It 8 has | are stretched mighty cables. Wires network | next discovery may be one that will enable | by the electric wire that will at once bring | of the song, of merry music, ance to time. | discovered the phonograph. | imperishable. | the realm of darkness. | sun's immediate influence. NEW YORK HERALD, What Is the World Coming Tot When the first impression was successfully taken trom the roughly composed page that ushered into existence the art of printing little thought was entertained by the great inventor, Guttenberg, that his labors would bring into active operation one of the grand- est, most useful and powerful engines that the genius of man has ever created. Yet the development of the art of printing has been a comparatively slow one; and it is only within a brief period that it has been applied tothe newspaper. But what a result has been achieved by that application! The Tatler has grown into the Times in England, and the dyspeptic weekly of revolutionary | days is replaced by the quintuple Hrratp of ourowntime. From the printer’s block has grown the rough wood cut, the copper plate, followed by the steel engraving, the litho- graphic, photo-lithographic and photo-en- graving processes that enable us to produce in a few hours fac-similes to any scale of the most elaborately lined drawing. By the aid of the camera we can reduce the propor- tions of the elephant to those of a mouse without distorting a line, and enlarge those of microscopic animalcule to the scale of a mammoth without disturbing the apparent relations of the most minute parts. Nearly seventy years ago a strong-limbed youth ferried travellers to Staten Island, where they took the old post road leading through Elizabeth and New Brunswick to Philadelphia. Recently an old man died worth many millions, He owned rail- roads over which passengers were sometimes carried at the rate of amile per minute. The long and weary journey to Philadelphia or Albany had become a matter of two or three hours. Yet, the strong-limbed youth and the old millionnaire were one and the same person, and the altered conditions of life serve but to illustrate the growth of things within a lifetime. Now what do we look forward to as the mode of travel of the fu- ture? Will electricity be the motive power, or shall men, like the fabled genii, ride on the wings of the storm in balloons? Ouf Spanish-American friends have an answer for such questions which is indefinite enough. ‘(Quien sabe ?” they ask when they do not know what to say. Equally astonishing is the increase in the facilities for communicating with distant places. The mail rider was succeeded by the coach, the railroad train and steam- boat. But people had been dream- ing of a realization of the old Jesuit’s prophecy, uttered in the fifteenth century, that in time people could communicate their thoughts to great distances by means of cords or wires stretched trom place to place. A wire was laid to Washington and needies whose movements were arranged to indicate the letters of the alphabet were operated by the electrical impulse, so that men communicated their thoughts and ex- pressed their desires over two hundred and forty miles. Invention followed invention until we find many messages going over one wire at the same tinre. Can anything excel this? Is it possible that distance is to be wholly conquered? The bottom of the’ Atlantic has been made the bed on which continents. Caleutta and San Francisco are brought within an hour’s communica- tion. Pshaw! this is nothing. We talk now with as much ease through five hun- dred miles of wire as across a parlor, The us to see things hundreds of miles away, some curious teleoptic apparatus operated men visibly tace to face while they converse through the telephone. Distance is no more. Itis that remains unconqnered. But surely Time, the destroyer, will re- main supreme. Nothing of human fash- ioning will survive his assaults. Even the mountains bow their crumbling heads be- fore him and the great rivers hide them- selves in his presence. There is nothing so enduring as time. The fleeting sounds of sighs and laughter—these are the contrasts in endur- ‘They are heard and are dead That might be said before Edison Now sounds are fixed for all time ih enduring metal. They are heard, and sleep to awake again in a succession of utterances whose same- ness proves that the chords or words held chained in that metallic prison have be- come immortal in their alliance with the Darkness, first assailed with the pine torch, was followed up by |} the rude grease Inamp, the candle of tallow, sperm oil and wax. Finally coal gas was discovered by the indefatigable searchers, and light shone on many parts of Gas was regarded It has come in a as an old. | What will re- forever. as the light of the tnture. year or two to be regarded fashioned light of the past. place it? We cannot preserve sunlight as we do sonnd for future use. Wedo not want it. he earth, the air, all matter is the reservoir of our light, and we will draw on it as we desire, ‘The mysterious essence of force and action, electricity, is our pris- oner. In ancient days disturbances and clash- ings of terrestial forces were regarded as the struggles of contending gods, and helpless man stood awe-strack by the warfare which threatened him momentarily with destrne- tion. How bravely we have got over all that now! Our stately steamers plough the do- | main of Neptune with a contemptuons dis- | regard for his powers. We can tell when, | how and whence the storms are coming, and | by our control of electricity we send the | | news away in advance of the tempest, bid- ding all prepare for its coming. Astronomy is revealing new spheres in the immensity of space, satellites of planets and new stars revolving within the burning radius of the | The spectro- | scope is telling us what these distant worlds are made and speculative science is penetrating where the ordinary calculations | ot distance cannot follow. Chemistry reaches | the elemental base of matter and solidifies | gases. Physiology anatomi#s infusorie from the awful depths of the ocean, Perhaps the day is not distant when the surface of the earth will be as familiar in all its details as that of Union square, because geographers are indefatigable in their researches. Over the wide wide world of civilization there is an active warfare being pushed against the of, SUNDAY, unknown, and many and glorious are the trophies won in the contest. Right, left and centre, the legionaries of science are marching onward, cutting down with the swords of keen intelligence the obstructing forests and undergrowth of ignorance, ford- ing the swamps and rivers of doubt and battering the citadels of prejudice. The newspaper, the great edugator of the masses, | is leading the van, and the music of the marching hosts is given by the concert of ; telegraph | | sounder, loom and sewing machine, saw- printing press, locomotive, mill and steam drill, clinking hammers. Dramatic Copyright. Mr, Palmer, of the Union Square Theatre, favors the public with his opinions on the subject of the protection by law of property in plays. He writes apropos to our obser- vations on some views communicated by the author of ‘The Banker's Daughter.” He takes issue with us on the point whether managers really want an international copy- right law, and says they do; and why and how they want it may be seen by his com- munication, which we print. They want it because it would be cheaper for them to protect their plays with it than it is without it, All he says is on that theme. He has not a word to say in regard to copy- right from any other point of view than its financial advantages to the managers of theatres—and yet he objects to our view that the theatre is a shop. But it is a change for the managers to desire a copy- right Jaw for even this reason; it is, how- ever, one of those changes in which an atti- tude is varied in order that a well estab- lished relation to some given point may be maintained. Managers want a copyright law now—if they really do want it—be- cause it would be an advantage from a strict money point of view to have such a law; just as before they did not want it, because, in a money point of view, it would have been a disadvantage. They wanted to be free to plunder foreign authors when they had a monopoly of it; but the growth of the country and the in- crease in the number of theatres have made achange in that. There is no monopoly of foreign plays now. ‘They must pay to get an advantage over one another, and their rivals do not respect that advantage. Mr. Palmer even says that these rivals prac- tise piracy. ‘Some pirate,” he says, an- ticipates the manager who has paid an author. In all this not a word of copy- right because it is just that the foreign au- thor should be paid and not pirated. It is fair enough to practise piracy on him, but let no one do it against a manager. Nota word, moreover, of copyright because. it may lead to the fact that local writers will be able to compete with foreign writers if the latter’s goods are not free for all takers. In short, not a word of copyright for any literary reason or any reason re- lated to national honor or honesty, but only to protect the manager’s invest- ments. Copyright complications have reached a point where the absence of a law has become a certain advantage to Amcri- can authors, such as there are. For in- stance, Mr. Palmer says it cost eleven thou- sand dollars to protect the ‘“Iwo Orphans.” For that sum the manager could have had eleven American plays. If that relation of price should continue capable people here would begin to write for the theatre. It is asign of hope, and, as soon as it appears, managers cry out, “Give us a copyright law.” ringing anvils and Captain Schwensen’s Statement. An outline is given in our cable de- spatches of the statement made by Captain Schwensen, of the steamer Pommerania, | in which some of the important points of the story of the catastrophe as hitherto published are presented in decidedly different light. It will be remembered that the Captain refused to leave his ship while she was afloat, went down with her, and was subsequently picked up by the steamer City of Amsterdam. He had no life pre- server, but sustained himself by a stray spar. He was on the bridge, therefore, from a period within a few seconds of the collision until his ship went down, and saw and heard all that passed with the steady senses of a resolute man not distracted by any unxicty as to his own safety. Hedoes not believe the crew behaved badly, and makes a handsome tribute to the memory of the first engineer and the second and third officers, who perished at their posts. In regard to the story of the seamen saving their effects he is incredulous, but reports that the last lifeboat was destroyed by threw into it from the deck of the steamer an iron bound box, which stove a hole in its bottom. Many lives certainly sacrificed by the loss of that boat. deed, many persons were ke Captain Schwensen has been offere command of a new steamer, which the Hamburg company will have ready ina short time. Religious a passenger who were not Pei ebnaticies, Believing that all classes and conditions of men are entitled to whatever degree of instruction they are competent to receive, the Henavp is glad to know that many reli- gious people in this city are to enjoy a course of lectures this winter by the Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston. This gentleman has in certain religious cireles attained an enviable reputation by defending the faith against various forms of belief which are ssid to be irreligious, andif by so doing he has strengthened any one’s regard for things pure, lovely and of good report he is to be reckoned among the good influences of the | age. This being the case it is’ to be ree gretted that in his first lecture in New York he has seen fit to depart so far from the spirit of religious sympathy as to in- dulge in personal reflections concerning another teacher who is probably just as devoted to the cause of sound belief and right living as Mr. Cook himself. The charge that ‘Felix Adler is not much bet+ ter than a French atheist’ was entirely un+ called for by any principle that Mr. Cook wished to impress upon his hearers, and its natural effect will be to offend many people whoin the lecturer, if in earnest, should particularly desire to impress. ‘To call other people ugly Hames is not only no | the truth, he must certainly commit per- argument, but it is a gratuitous insult when the persons so abused tully agree with the speaker as to what the results of the | truth should be end differ only upon methods of formulating, the Future, American Art in A question of vital importance to the American nation is, What is to be the fu- ture of its art? The subject of the last lec- ture of the Loan Exhibition course was “American Art in the Future,” and the lec- turer, Charles ©. Perkins, of Boston, opened by stating that it was useless to at- | tempt to prophesy as to the character our art will hereafter assume. After citing notable examples of the slow develoyment of what are called the schools of art of different countries, he said that Amer- ica had no cause to despair because she has no well defined school. Our colossal proportions and unlimited freedom | | were a, detriment to our artistic growth. Early American art was an offshoot from | that of England, and now our inspiration comes from the Continent. ‘his is all very well and very true. What we need, how- ever, is not alone to be told why our art is | in the condition it is, but to have pointed out what steps should be taken to cncour- age and aid our artists in founding a na- tional school of art, which first composite will in years crystallize into a reflection of distinctively national characteristics, We are now only going through a stage which other nations have successfully passed. ‘They all borrowed from one another, and continue to do so still, as our students who are and have been abroad are doing. We must likewise study the causes which j led to the rise of art in different countries and apply at home the lessons thus learned. ‘The great secret of the success of the na- tions who lead the world in art is govern- mental aid in the way of supervision and encouragement. This has done the work abroad and should and must “do so here. Private individuals will follow where authority leads. ‘To strike at the heart of the matter, then, a government bureau, with j home schools and scholarships for foreign study, should be established here, All gov- ernmentul work, both State and national, in architecture, sculpture and painting, should be offered for competition, and an annual exhibition of all classes of higher art work held. ‘!his would es- tablish 2 standard which the people would recognize and be educated by, give proper means of instruction, cause emulation among artists, reward the most deserving, and eventually result in strengthening and nationalizing the art of the country. It would be a much better | way of spending public money than filling the national Capitol with works by un- known and lobbying artists, which are and will always be, if the present policy con- tinnes, the laughing stock of foreign vis- itors. ‘housands of dollars would not be wasted on feeble statuary and daubs painted by the square yard, and men of talent would have both fame and money to work for. Gvadually, then, a national gallery could be formed, and, in connection with the schools and for the benefit of the students and art- ists, a collection made of good foreign work, both old and new. ‘The initiatory steps in this matter should be taken at once, and the public man or men who take them will, if the project be successful, earn the gratitude of the country’s best wishers, Perjury as a Matter of Form. Judge Donohue took a commendable step toward checking the too prevalent custom of swearing to falsehoods in legal papers when he ordered the defendant in a breach of promise case into custody on a charge of | perjury for having sworn in his answer that he had never promised marriage to the plaintiff, while, in his evidence, he admit- ted that such a promise had been given. When the law requires papers in legal pro- ceedings to be sworn to its intent must be to make sure that they contain nothing but truthful statements, otherwise the affidavit would be needless. A witness who testifies in a case before a court swears to tell the whole truth and _ nothing | but the truth, and if he gives false evidence commits wilful perjury and is punished for the offence. When a de- fendant makes answer in a suit and, in con- formity with the law, swears to his state- ments as the whole trath and nothing but jury ifat the time he knows these state- ments to be false. But lawyers have fallen into the habit of making an answer fit a de. fendant’s case without regard to facts, and then attaching to it their client's affidavit. It certainly cannot be any more justifiable to swear to a lie in an affidavit required by law than to do the same thing in the wit- ness box. ‘lhe practice of regarding answers as mere matiers of form, in which any un- true statement inay be made, is calculated , to familiarize people with false sweavi and is a direct incentive to perjury in evi- dence, the parties in a suit naturally desir- ing to bring the testimony up to the standard of their answer, ‘The action taken by Judge Donohue may not result in the prosecution or con- viction of the offender in this particnlar case, but it cannot fail to have a good effet both on lawyer and client. The one will be more careful in futare how he draws an answer and the latter how he swears to it without thoroughly understanding its con- tents. Babies in School. ‘the Hera.v’s articles upon the misman- agement of our city schools have elicited considerable correspondence, physicians in particular being earnest in their indorse- ment of our statements and arguments. Some of these gentlemen call attention to the fact that overcrowding of primary de- partments is partly due to the admission of children of four years and more tender | age, in defiance of the late legislative | enactment fixing the minimum age of ad- | mission at five years. There are two sides | to this question. No one can wonder that the thousands of women who are mothers of large families and who are too poor to hire nurses, or who even have to support their own families, are glad to find places | where, for a few hours a day, their little children may be kept out of the street, out of mischief and wnder tha re- straint and discipline which they DECEMBER §&, 1878.-QUADRUPLE SHEE!—WITH SUPPLEMENT. themselves are too preoccupied to exert. On the other hand, however, these infants suffer fully as much physical harm in the overcrowded, stifling schoolrooms as they would in the gutter. The restraint they suffer is cruelly irksome, and educa- tion. under the circumstances of age and environment is worse than a farce, ‘The condition of the infant children of the help- less poor is a matter that pressingly de- mands charitable consideration, but our school system is not « charity, Before | primary education can deserve its name in New York we must have more teachers, more schoolrooms and intelligent sanitary supervision. Until these are secured it is in every sense the duty of the School Board apd the teachers to exclude all children of less than five years, and parents who have the legal right to place children in the pri- mary departments should importune the Grand Jury and the Legislature to redress grievances at which so many schoo! offi- cials are wickedly winking. A Greater India in Africa. In the interesting letter which Mr, Henry M. Stanley has addressed to Mr, James Bradshaw, of Manchester, and which we reprint from the Manchester Courier, the gallant explorer attempts to solve the ques- tion which has been so frequently asked— namely, ‘‘What practical benetit is England to derive from the numerous explorations ot Central Africa?” Mr. Stanley may pos- sibly be liable to form an exaggerated esti- mate of the value of the regions with which he has become so familiar; but no one can question the correctness of his deliberate statement that for a comparatively small sum of money a railway can be constructed from Zanzibar to Nyanza, And if this be admitted who can venture to doubt the practicability of opening with the fertile and populous empires of Central Africa a | traffic of immense and ever growing value— an outlet, in short, for the fabrics of Lancashire and Yorkshire which may com- pensate in the near future for the loss of the great American market and the spirited competition already begun by French looms and forges in the other great marke's of the world? That England may tind in Africa a second and a greater India is by no means an improbable conclusion to those who have watched the steady progress of the new British, Empire in South Africa, where, to recent annexations of the ‘Transvaal Republic, Griqua Land West, the Portuguese colony of Delagoa Bay and the northern extension of the Atlantic frontier, is now to be added, as the result of existing hostilities, the vast regions of Kaffraria proper, Zululand and Bechuanaland. Wetting Whistles Difficulties. Connecticut temperance men are making strenuous efforts to make their State once more the land of steady habits, and our New London letter explains how the experi- ment is working. The New York blue ribbon men, however, must not imagine that because the law is doing good or preventing evil in New London it can be safely transplanted to this city. Liquor is only a carnal indulgence in Connecticut; in New York it is one of the main forces in business, art and literature, while politics, without whiskey, would be more stale, flat and unprofitable than the play of ‘‘“Ham- let” with the melancholy Dane as an ab- sentee. , Besides, prohibitory laws are successful only while there are op- portunities for drinking onthe sly, and in this respect the New London method is lamentably inadequate. Think of bibu- lous New Yorkers being reduced to imbib- ing in doorways from the pocket flask of a peripatetic dealer! Why, the whole archi- tectural system of the city would have to be modified, and up to the top floor of every building, in order to have doorways enough to go around. As for the pitiful ruse of “Schenck beer,” it would be treated with the contempt that all sub‘erfuges merit when they are weak. Schenck beer may do for Yankees, with whose wsthetic natures the lightness, foam and froth of malt liquor Under | is agreeably consonant, but New Yorkers, who have numberless reasons to suffer and be strong, demand that their stimulus shall lave no nonsense about it. Again, the New London plan has reduced ar- rests for drunkenness to a mini- mum; if any snach change should befall New York there would be nobody | left for policemen to club; it would lessen the number of votes which could be con- trotled by politicians with influence at court; turn trustworthy ‘“‘heelers” into re- spectable members of society, and knock the bottom out of our whole political sys- tem. If Connectisut wants to get up re- forms she has aright todo it, but let her | keep them at home. Pulpit Topics To-Day, Advent lectures continue to be delivered by city pastors, and to-day Dr. Sinith will speak of Christ's second coming in prophecy; Dr. Knapp will answer the general question touching this coming, and Dr. Rylance will disenss the social question of co-operation. | Brother Talmage will be ‘taken in hand | again by Dr. Hatfield, who will present a daylight view of our city in contrast with the Brooklyn pastor's midnight pictures, Mr. Sweetser will deliver a Christmas ser- mon on the visit of the shepherds, and Mr, Ware, of Boston, will begin the new work of Unitarianism. ‘The women of the Bible will be waited upon by Mr. Affleck, who will de- scribe a woman's camp meeting hospitality; by Mr. Martyn who will portray the Witch of Endor, and by Mr. Bonham, who will eulo- ize God-tearing women generally. The tuture life in its various aspects will be dis- cussed by Dr. Fowler, who will take up the general subject of heaven; by Dr. Rogers, who wili answer the doubts concerning recog- nition of friends there; by Mr. Mickle, who | will point out and illustrate the conbaste and connecting links between time and eternity; by Mr, Rowell, who will speak of memory in eternity, and by Mr. Hull, who | will inquire what there is for the Christian | atter death, The foundation of the Chris- tian religion will be lJaid again by Mr, Corbit; the free invitation to the Gos- pel feast will be issued by Mr. Colcord; the expansive power of the Gospel will be shown by Mr. Moment; the reason why we pray will be given by Mr, Pullman, and EERSTE { the ostentations prinviple by Mr. Adams. Dr. King treats of the fidelity of servants, Mr. Searles of Gospel temperance, Mr, Rich- mond of life in the Apostolic Church and Dr. Howland of the difficulties in, Seripture. The treasury test of re- ligion will be put to his church by Mr. Lloyd; the atonement and self-decep- tion will be discussed by Mr. Gunnison and Mr. Rogers, and Dr. Chapin will present Christ as » human ideal. Dr. Tyng, Jr., will illustrate the Scriptures from the Jew- ish Talmud, and Dr, Tyng, Sr., will deliver an address on the mountains of Israel. The Bankers’ Chat at. Boston. Whether or not the bankers who met at Boston yesterday transacted more business than publicly appeared, their utterances will have the effect of strengthening the public faith in the successful resumption of specie payments, None of them doubted that the results of resumption would be beneficial to trade, and the fear that the gold that is to be issued will be hoarded by those who receive it was dissipated by the statement made by President Coe, of the American Exchange Bank of this city, upon the course of the first greenbacks issued by the government. They were the favorite currency of their day, specie hav- ing disappeared and the issues of State banks being distrusted; yet Mr. Coe says that within eight daya after each lot of $5,000,000 greenbacks was issued nearly the whole quantity found its way back to the banks again. A similar ree sult will come from the issue of gold. Compared with the few people who can and will hoard gold the cus- tomers of the banks are a hundred times as numerous and handle a thousand times as much money, and for the banks to hoard gold while the volume of paper cur- rency is being reduced will be an utter im- possibility. The stocking and the cracked teapot may still be the favorite banks of the back country, ,but the back country seldom has any considerable amount of money to deposit. Shall the Mail Service Be Crippled? The insufficiency of the Pcst Office ap- propriation is likely to cause embarrass- ment to the department and serious incon- venience to the public. ‘Lhe service is now performed at as low a rate as possible, and in no other public depariment are'such par- simonious salaries paid as in this. Con- gress cuts down the appropriation four hundred thousand dollars below the most economical amount at which the Post Office business can be efficiently performed, and the inevitable result must be the abandon- ment of some of those facilities of distribu- tion and delivery from which the business communities derive so much advantage. The department will be compelled to dise, continue the postal car system, the value of which can scarcely be understood by per- sons not familiar with the details of the postal service. It is sufficient to say that the system by which the mail matter is as- j sorted ready for distribution while the railroad trains are proceeding on their trips saves from twelve to twenty-four hours in the time of delivery. Is it worth while to deprive the country of this great benefit for the sake of saving a few dollars through a pretentious | but mistaken economy? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.: ee Australia makes better olive oil than Italy does. ‘The Japanese use telephones between their ware houses. Dock Commissioner Westervelt, who has been seriously ill, is recovering. In a Paris restaurant you will give the waiter five cents on the dollar as a fee. ‘The French Chamber of Deputies has invalidated the election of the Duke Decazes. Unless we soon have plenty of ice and snow this may be the Charles Francis Adams of our discontent. Lady Strangford, who organized hospitals for wounded Turks, is angry at Lady Layard, who was decorated therefor. At last we have discovered what good there is ins policeman. He stares at pretty shop girls as they go to work about half-past seven in the morning. Senator Sargent is much better and hopes to be able to leave Washington next week for a trip to the Bahama Islands, where he will remain until after the holiday recess. This, from Fun, is what London laughs at:—When an artist makes up his mind to work what pigment does he proceed to daub himself withal? He bistres (bestirs) himself.” The young men at the Academy who go out be- tween acts probably go out for an opera glass.— Henatp P. I. Wrong, Mr. P. 1.; they probably go out for their rye glass.— Whitehall Tomes. London Truth ‘As a rule, Englishmen, except when they are writing novels, are far too ponderous; and this, I take it, is why there is such an enormous consumption of novels in England." ‘There is no truth in the report that Governor Hampton, of South Carolina, was to lave had his leg amputated yesterday. He is progressing favorably im recovering from the effects of his accident. Judy makes Englishmen laugh ai this pretty piece of humor:—“That is a pretty story, ‘My First Ball.’ How well IT remeinber mine. It was a worsted one. But there are calico balls now. Ah! what a world this is, ‘All the world’s a ball, and the men and women are merely players’ (at ball, of course). But let me not moralize. Sloper says, ‘It is more of the “lies” than the “moral” about it; but no matter.’ '’ ‘The Saturdey Review says that the causes of dis isfaction cannot be removed by repressing socialism, ‘The chief of these canses are the poverty of the masses in large towns, the contrast of great riches, the degree of education which makes men think a little and not much, and a decay in the influence of religion, Repressing socialism will not improve the condition of the masses in Berlin, nor raise the standard of education, nor bring about a religious revival. The dissatisfied will no longer be able to read socialist journals, but they will remain dinsatis- fied, ‘They will feel their own unhappiness and ask for its reasons and its remedies, BREATHITT COUNTY ‘TROUBLES, STORY OF AN EYE-WITNESS—THE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS WORSE THAN HAS BEEN REPRE- SENTED--OPPOSING PARTIES IN ARMED AN+ TAGONISM AND AUTHORITIES POWERLESS, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Lovisvitte, Ky., Dee, 7, 1878, war that has been raging th for the past two weeks, after a horseback ride of 150 miles over moun- tain roads and through snow and rain, returned to- night, and represents that affuirs in Breathitt county are indeed in a deplorable condition, and that, in- stead of being exayyerated, the stories about the strife there do not represent as bad a state of affairs as really exists, AUTHORITIES POWERLESS, county officers are st. Prominent cit | have fled for tl 7", seat of Breathit ‘he opposing part! county, are encamped a from each other and are likely to have a at any moment. The # of affairs there, the correspondent says, is equal if not worse t were during the war, whem the bushwhackers and ome guard companies fled the hearts of the strongest men with terror and dismay,