The New York Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1878, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD! BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ——e THE DAILY HERALD, published every daw in the year. nee cents per copy (Sundays excluded) T. oars per JeAT. or at 0 rate of one dollar por month t lows an xix months, or five dollars for six mon nday dition Included. free of postage, WEEKLY HERALD—Ono dollar per year, freo of post- age. Y NOTICE 10 SUBSCRIBERS.—Remit in drafts on New York or Post Oftice money orders, and where neither of thesa ad the mouey in a rem All at risk of sender. In orde “tion subs wishing their address their old as well as their new address AN business. news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hepatp. kages should be properly sealed. Rejected e will ¥ ps th nmuaieatio & be returned. DELPIIA OFFIC . 112 SOUTH SIXTH HE NEW YORK HERALD~ UE DE LOPERA. PRADA PACE, iN be received and w Yoric, n the suine tor VOLUME XUUIL AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. THEATRE COMIQUE—Loxcaine. | LYCEUM THEATRE—Docnt, NEW YORK AQUARIU. GLOBE THEATRE—OxL GRAND OP! PARK THEATRE—C GERMANIA THEATRE—Deu Rec. Torcutnn, SAN FRANCISCO MI WINDSOR TIE TIVOLI THEA UNGSRATH UXD SEINE = | The probabilities are that the weather in New Fork und its vieinily today will be cold and cloudy, with light rain or snow. To-morrow it will b# cold and cloudy. ‘Tne Pros: ‘sof the passage of the Geneva Award bill rring claimants to the Court of Claims are not very bright. Yue Latest Revoxts from Wade Hampton | seem to indicate his recovery. He is not yet out of danger, but al) his symptoms are exceedingly | favorable. AN Open Haxp To THE Pook—the advice of Dr. armitage yesterday: be hoped, be widely acted upon during this sea- | eon of peace and good will. | Jvupce Hinton may as well withdraw the offer of that fifty thousand dollar reward tor the re- | covery of the remains of the late Mr. Stewart. | The police seem to h: forgotten all abaut it. Tar Dereatep Canpipares in the late Con- gress elections in this State can see exactly from the figures of the official canvass elsewhere printed by how many votes they missed the chamee to become great statesmen. Prorrssor ADLER dropped into prophecy yes- | terday with a prediction of the death of the dewish race. If the Professor would only be | good enough to fix the time he might possibly place the Hebrews under somethinsy of an obli- gation. WeEsTERN NEBRASKA appears to be a sort of murderers’ paradise. Nine murders have been committed there in a single week, and the Gov- srnor declares that oWing to the want of money he is powerless to bring the assassins to pun- ishment. Moopy, Murru b KEARNEY were selected yesterday by Mr. Beecher to illustrate the power of sympathy in affecting large bodies of men. In General Butler's opinion Kearney’s sympathy is of such a character that the less it is called into requisition the better. Forty-seven Dr ARDS were converted by Murphy yesterday. This is, of course, a great gain to the cause of temperance, but unless the great revivalist makes better time it will take him fifty or sixty years to recruit his total ab- stinence army 0! © hundred thousaud men, Sprains eSeems to be anxious to encourage Chinese immigration to Cuba. By the terms of @ treaty just ratitied with Ching Chinese com sular officers are to be appointed in Cuba and the citizens of the Flowery Land will be allowed all the rights, privileges and immunities of other foreigners. Tur Murper Ur Town yesterday morning of the unfortunate man Malloy by the scoundrel whom he had assisted and supported, and whom he was endeavoring to lead into a better lite when he met his death, was a poor return tor his extreme generosity and kindness. To the erime of murder is added that of the basest in- gratitade. Ir Witt Be Seen trom the article on another page that the surface roads are in no danger of | being driven into bankruptey by the rapid trausit companics. All the lines, even those in direct competition with the steam roads, are do- ing an excellent business and reaping a hand- some protit on the capital invested in them. ‘There is room enough for all, and if the old lines are beaten in the race it will be their own fault. Ir tie Democratic Masority of the House Committee on Naval Affairs can have its way | ex-Seeretary of the Navy Robeson will be pros- eented for alleged malfeasance in office. The substance of the conclusions they Lave arrived at will be found in another column has yct been taken by the republican minority on the committee, but it is believed they will | totally dissent from the views of the majority. Tur Wearnrr.—Tho trough of low pressure | which yesterday extended from the Gulf to the | Jakes has moved eastward to the Atlantic coast, | with moderate winds, snow and rain. West- ward the barometer rises rapidly and is highest from the Lower Missouri to Texas. It is falling | again in the Northwest, with agradually rising temperature. Kxeept in the latter district the | winds are from the north and weet, following the direction and undulations of the trough of low pressure referred to above. The rain areas were limited in extent to the Middle Atlantie and Lower New England coasts and a | small section of the South Atlantic States. Snow fell over the lake and central valley dis- tricts westward of the Missouri and over Man toba. Moderate freshets may be expected in the Obio and its tributaries, The weather in England is cold. It was snowing in Londou yesterday, The weather in New York and its vieinity today will be cold and clondy, with light rain or snow. To-morrow it will be cold and cloudy, j ent voted with Mr. Blaine, except Mr. ; ; he is to have the full support of his party | vised against it will only give emphasis to | the democratic Senators seem likely to | since it will merely duplicate the testimony | the stream is allowed to flow it can do no NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1878.—TRIPLE SHEET. Senator Blaine and the South. We suspect that Senator Wadleigh was correct in the opinion he expressed just before the adjournment on Friday, that when Mr, Blaine’s resolution is taken up there will bea debate, Mr, Blaine moved that it be taken up for action then and there. Mr, Wadleigh claimed that the bill for amending the Patent laws was entitled to precedence, and when appealed to by Mr. Blaine to consent to a re- versal of the regular order he said that the Patent bill would not lead to a debate, while the Blaine resolution would, and he refused to surrender the precedence, although Mr. Blaine suggested that his resolution ought to be passed before the holiday adjournment to be of any use. In order to head off the motion of the Senator | from Maine Mr. Wadleigh moved an ad- journment, which was carried by thirty-five yeas against twenty-six nays. This looks like a snub to Mr. Blaine until we come to examine the list of votes, when we find that the adjournment was carried by the accidental presence of a democratic ma- jority. All the republican Senators pres- Wadleigh himself, who strayed from his party by reason of his interest in a particular bill which he thought could be carried with so little loss of time that it would not seriously interfere with Mr. ; Blaine’s resolution, to which he had no hostility. The vote on the adjournment, | although a transient defeat of Mr. Blaine, was a real triumph, since it proved that in the Senate. The Hrnatp has no suck zeal of advocacy on either side as to blind it to the real state of the situation. Mr. Blaine’s resolu- tion is certain to pass, and all the small obstruetive manwuvres which may be de- his triumph. There is too much reason for believing that the democratic Senators will play into his hands by protracting a vain and futile debate, which is precisely what Senator Blaine desires. If the demo- cratic Senators could but have the co!d sense and political prudence to let the reso- lution pass without further debate the dis- tinguished Senator from Maine would lose his coveted opportunity for reviving and exesperating sectional animosities. But | walk into the trap which has been set for them. If the resolution were to pass without further debate it would lose its power to inflame sectional passions. The investigation itself can amount to little, to be taken in the prosecutions which have been begun by the Attorney General. If damage, but if the democratic Senators at- tempt to dam it it will rise to a height that will break down the idle barriers and sweep away the builders in the flood. The true interest of the democratic party requires that its leaders shall make no at- tempt to shield or screen oppression practised upon the negroes, and as soon as they exhibit a steady deter- mination to protect and uphold the equal rights of the colored race the whole South will no longer be arraigned fora few spo- radic cases of electioneering fraud and bru- tality. r earnest advice to the demo- cratic ators is that they allow Mr. Blaine’s resolution to pass without opposi- tion, and that they treat the authors and abettors of the onion skin frauds as the most dangerous enemies of their party. It is so evident that the sole aim of Mr. Biaine’s movement is to produce an inflam- matory effect on Northern public feeling | that it will be sheer political idiocy for the democrats to supply fuel by debate. Nobody knows better than Mr. Blaine that there is no possibility of in- creasing the rigor of existing laws against the South either during this Congress or the next. With a democratic majority in the present House and a democratic majority of both Senate and House in the next Congress Mr. Blaine cannot expect that his inquiry will lead to any useful legislation. It is only intended for elec- tioneering effect, and nothing could so powerfully aid his design as an attempt by the democratic Senators to fight off in- vestigation or to palliate such outrages as have really been perpetrated, Democrats, instead of exhibiting annoy- ance at Mr. Blaine’s speech, should con- gratulate themselves on so remarkable a confession that the Southerit policy of the republican party has failed. It has disap- pointed the expectations of its authors, who supposed that by conferring the elective franchise upon the freedmen they were in- suring the perpetual ascendancy of the re- publican party. Butinstead of forestalling democratic control of the South, as they in- tended, they have simply added thirty-five to the number of Southern Representatives in Congress. Mr. Blaine’s speech is ao striking demonstration that negro suffrage was a weapon with a double edge, the sharpest of its two edges being turned against the hand that attempted to wield it, Mr. Blaine confesses that its practical re- sult has been to give the democratic party thirty-five more votes in the House of Rep- | vesentatives than it would otherwise have had. But for thoso thirty-five addi- tional Southern meiabers the republican party would have retained o majority of the present and the next Honse. Had the republicans rested satisfied with the fourteenth amendment and refrained from pressing the fifteenth only the white pop- ulation of the South would have been rep- resented in Congress, and the republican party would have retained its majority. It | should have been foreseen that the South- | ern whites would gain over a sufficient num- ber of negroes to make them a majority, and that the practical effect of negro suf- frage would be what Mr. Blaine now con- fesses it to be—a gratuitous addition of thirty-five members to the democratic side of the House. For this gross blunder thore is but one method of rectification, and that is a method which Mr. Blaine and his “stalwart” condjutors are disinclined to adopt. President Hayes has been a great deal wiser on this subject than the party that elected him. Had his Southern policy been cot. dially accepted the political solidarity of | But General Grant, the South would have been broken. ‘The South has been so perfectly united only by resistance to a common danger. When President Hayes so cordially de- clared his purpose to respect local self-gov- ernment in that section he was met more than half way by responsive Southern feel- ing. But when it was discovered that the republican party did not indorse his policy, and that he was reduced to a state of politi- cal isolation, the South felt that its rejoicing was premature. Had Mr. Hayes been sup- ported by the republican party the South would have abandoned its united posture of resistance, and its white citizens would have been split into opposing political factions. This would have been the best security for the political rights of the negroes. With two parties of white men soliciting the negro vote cach side would take good care that its own colored supporters had their rights, and between the two all colored citizens would be protected, Thereis really nothing to unite the South and make it politically ‘‘solid” but the attitude of the republican party, which repudiated the | generous policy with which President Hayes began his administration, ‘The old mo- tive--the protection of property in slaves— ‘ has become obsolete, and the agricultural South would naturally wnite with the agri- cultural West if fomenters of strife, like Senator Blaine, would keep quiet. The election of a liberal and patriotic Southern citizen to the Presidency would perhaps do more to harmonize and strengthen the Republic than anything else that could happen. ‘The South would re- gard such an event as a full recognition of its political equality, and once relicved from the badge of inferiority it would ' forego its sectional narrowness and become national. If it should so happen in the next Presidential election that an eminent and universally respected Southern citizen should be run on one side, and General Grant, with his views ripened and liberal- ized by time, experience, and study of for- eign institutions, should be run,on.the other side, the very contest between two such candidates, no matter which might be elected, would soothe and moderate and go far toward extinguishing the sectional pas- sions which Mr. Blaine is endeavoring to stir up. Who Shall Be King of Bulgaria? Bulgaria must have a king—that is clear. like the calm, well poised Ulysses he is, has taken passage for the remote Cimmerian regionsof the Asiatic coasts ; has lashed himself to the mast and plugged his ears with wax or cotton that he may not hear the sweet voices of the sirens who invite him to come to Tirnova and turn over a new leaf in his life by decorating his brows with a royal diadem and taking in his sword-wielding hand the sceptre of the sovereigns that swayed those parts of the world ere the Ottomans had dragged them- selves out of the slime beyond the Bam-i- doonah, or the Muscovite princes dared say their souls were theirown in the presence ofthe wild warriors of the Golden Horde. It was naturally a great disappointment of the Bulgarians to lose their chance at the man-who is to them the best known of our heroes. We have, however, a hundred other heroes, as we have told them, and as our subscribers in Tirnova will repeat to the public there. Moreover, we have what will perhaps serve their turn as well, if not even better than herves—men trained in the arts of civil government, wise in political con- ception, capable, adroit, even great, in all the elements of administration. We have a great many that we could spare, from Blaine to Ben Butler and from Kearney to Tilden. Many of them have been named by us. We have recently invited Mr. An- drew H. Green to accept this throne, and not have the Bulgarians disappointed in their appeal toa land of forty millions of sovereigns, and we shall not name any others just at present out of delicacy to- ward Mr. Green, who needs time to reflect upon the point. But our delicacy toward this candidate need not prevent our many correspondents from proceeding with their nominations, for we hope to have a list that will make Bulgaria howl with delight. Steering by Thermometer. Fogs prevail during the winter seasom so frequently in the vicinity of George's Bank and Nantucket Shoals that navigation be- comes extremely dangerous and vessels are sometimes lost through the inability of navigators to determine their true position by observations. It is told that once upon a time a passenger on a Mississippi steamboat who was delayed in his journey by a river fog that compelled the captain to tie up his vessel to the bank indignantly asked the pilot why he did not go ahead. “Fog's too thick, sir. Can't see nothing,” was the prompt reply. ‘‘Bat,” cried the impationt passenger, ‘‘you can see the stars ; they are plainly visible.” The pilot quietly auswered, “Stranger, until the biler busts we ain't going that way.” It would seem, therefore, that the stars will not always answer as guides for the helmsman, and in foggy weather they are usually invisible. But Captain Seguine has, with much pa- tience and ingenuity, perfected a plan of steering by thermometer which has worked well near Nafttucket Shoals and George's Bank by defining the inner edge of the Gulf Stream, and with it the ship's latitude. We publish to-day the temperature chart as prepared by Captain Seguine, and offer it to navigators as a valuable guide when ap- proaching or leaving the port of New York. More Poorhouse Outrages. The Supervisors of Dutchess county have just discovered that they cannot consist- ently throw any stones at their brethren of Onondaga county, but the chief wonder of the public is that the Supervisors have not found this out until now. The poorhouse and insane asylum of Dutchess county are old enough to have a definite record, and, as they contain more than a hundred and fifty people whose entire expenses come out of the county treasury, it is natural to suppose that the Supervisors would at least have visited the institution to see whether the people’s money was being judiciously ex- pended. Tho buildings and their unfortu- nate inmates have apparently been entirely neglected by every one whose duty it was to attend to them, and the conseguence is that a rich, kindly community is publicly disgraced by a condition of affairs which would have seemed abominable even in the Middle Ages. And what assurance is there that the majority of such institutions in the United States are not equally bad? Let humane citizens investigate for themselves. American Enterprise in Brazil. The surprising progress made in the United States within a century and not- withstanding the retarding influences of three great wars, to say nothing of others incidental to the development and opening up of an enormous territory, proves be- yond question that the American people j are possessed of a spirit of enterprise that conquers every difficulty. Failure has long ago ceased to be regarded as among the possibilities when a scheme worthy of the age is suggested and undertaken. If any doubts can be raised on this point they are at once dispelled by a study of the history of | American enterprise not only at home, but abroad; for the sphere of our activity has been widened to the limits of the earth, and the American has become a true cosmopoli- tan in his competition with other nationali- ties for carrying out the great works that mark the material progress of the century. But if the American excels in any degree it is in the construction of railroads on the gigantic scale that traverses continents and connects distant oceans with the iron bonds that emancipate peoples, but hold the treasurcs of the boundless forest and fertile plain within the grasp of man and give him control of the in- estimable wealth in metals that lies hidden in the bowels of the great mountains. Our own continent is traversed by such roads, contructed in the face of extraordinary dif- ficulties and in a manner that has chal- lenged the admiration of the world. In other countries also the work of develop- ment proceeds apace under the same in- fluences that have conquered success in ours, and it is a matter of which we may be justly. proud that American enterprise pur- sues its triumphant course even in the forest depths of tropical Brazil, under the shadows of the Andes. The interior of the continent of South America, penetrated as it is by mighty lines of navigation, presents to the mind a field whereon the greatest triumph of engineer- ing enterprise in the United States may be imitated if not excelled. ‘There can be found unlimited space and fertility for the agriculturist where a climatic range favors the cultivation of every product of the tor- rid and temperate zones; great, navigable rivers, the Mississippis and Missouris of the South, leading out toward the markets of the world; stupendous barriers of mountains, that regulate the rain- fall and render it unfailing in vol- ume, while they protect a vast territory against the blighting changes of tempera- ture that would otherwise occur. These advantages, with others in the shape of mineral resources, so great as to be beyond estimate, form the foundation of the pro- ject for uniting Bolivia with Brazil by the Madeira and Mamoré Railroad, which is being pushed to a successful completion, under the direction of Colonel George E. Church, of New York, by the Messrs. Collins, contractors, of Philadelphia, Asthe success realized by this characteristic American enterpriss must redound to the commer- cial advantage of the United States, as well as to the credit of our pcople for skill and courage in combating great physical difficulties, much interest at- taches to the progressmade. One thousand men are now busy on the line, and material for over fifty miles is lying at the northern terminus of the road. ‘The worst part of the line is the first three miles ; but even in last July a locomotive was running on this sec- tion and a considerable length of finished track has been added to it since then, A large force of native laborers has been en- gaged on the twelfth mile of the road, who are well fed, contented and in excellent health. A feature of this successful American enterprise is that it has aroused a fierce jealousy in England, where it is recognized as the work of a commercial rival, and therefore worthy of the most persistent opposition. Fortunately, how- ever, a large trast fund, deposited by the company and amounting to four million dollars, has been decided by three irre- vocable decrees of the British Court of Chancery to be available for the payment of the contractor's certificates, and places the Madeira and Mamoré Company above the reach of the wreckers in England, who would gladly ruin it. Tothe indefatigable energy of Colonel Church and the business ability and pluck of the Messrs. Collins are due the success that has attended this grand scheme for developing the resources of Brazil and Bolivia. An Afghan on the English. Tiger hunting, as we are assured on trust- worthy authority, isa most agreeable and entertaining pastime as long as it is confined within its proper limits—i. ¢, as long as the hunting is all on one side. And should the monarch of the forest choose to vary the monotony of the programme by hunting his pursuers the interest of the game is not thereby diminished, though its quality may suddenly be changed from comedy to tragedy. Lhe same remarks are pre- sumably true of lion hunting, which amuse- ment has always been very popular among the masters of British India. They have had to do with lions of several descrip- tions. First there was old Runjeet Singh, the “Lion of the Panjab,” who gave the Anglo-Indians no end of trouble up to his death in 1839, after which event John Bull Sahib gallantly confiscated his domains, which had fallen to the infant Prince, Maharajah Djuleep Singh, who was a lion, too, in name, but whose teeth have been carefully drawn by English political den- tists, Then there was Dost Mahomed Khan, “the Lion of Cabul,” who in 1842 indulged in the unjustifiable pastime of annihilating the conquerors of Afghanistan. It “goes without saying” that the British have always objected very strongly against such conduct on the part of the lion, and manifested their indignation by giving him and his bellicose sons a wide berth for nearly forty years past. Just now lion hunting in Afyhanistan has again become the favorite amusement of Lords Beaconsfield and Lytton, and so far their pastime has not been spoiled by any unreasonable objection trom the lion, The progress of the royal game has been ehroni- cled with great minuteness by the chief huntsmen and their seribes, and the com- ments on the score of justice made by a few eminent Englishmen who are unable to see the fun of it have been very properly ruled out of order. It would, of course, be utterly unparliamentary for any Afghan lion to test the patience of men so entirely great as Beaconsfield and Lytton by measuring his pen against their swords, and a lion outside the sphere of his leonine attributes has no rights which statesmen, novelists and | poets are bound to respect. There is no precedent authorizing a lion to write for the newspapers. certain picture would have been different in some essential particulars if the artist had been of the leonine persuasion, but it is not recorded that the dissatisfied beast ever painted a companion picture. That achievement has been reserved for the pres- ent day, and our readers will assuredly find their curiosity repaid by the perusal of the extracts we this morning present from an article on ‘‘The English and the Afghans,” written in Arabic for a journal in Alexan- dria, Egypt, by an Afghan publicist, Say- yid Jamaluddin. ‘The translation was made by Bishop George Percy Badger, well known as an Oriental scholar, for the Ilome- ward Mail; and we summarize its contents from the columns of the Manchester Ex- aniner of the 4th inst. Thousand Dollars Ventilation. If the Board of Education is really anxious to discover the best system of ventilation for school buildings why does it not do so? Several years ago a sum of money—five thousand dollars, we believe—was allotted the Commissioners for this purpose. They certainly do not mean to sxy that the amount is not large enough to experiment with, for with the flues and air connections that al- ready exist in many school buildings there could be a dozen different systems tried at an outlay not exceeding five thousand dol- lars. There is no mystery or magic about ventilation; the whole business consists in constantly exhausting vitiated air and sup- plying its place from the pure atmosphere out of doors, There are several ways of sucking or driving bad air out of rooms, and either of them, when in operation, compels the admission, of air from outside. Other systems depend upon forcing pure air into the rooms and driving out that which is bad. It would be a matter of great satisfaction to know which of these methods is the best, but as none of them are bad and most of them are cheap they.-should be tested to the full extent of the appropria- tion. It is barely possible that the Board hesitates because none of its members or employés are competent to decide upon the relative merits of ventilating systems, but if this is the case a small portion of the ap- propriation would secure the services of specialists such as the legal custodians of other large buildings are not above employ- ing. The Board will be everlastingly dis- graced if, through its incompetence and carelessness, this appropriation has to be recalled to the treasury because no use is being made of it. Five for School eret and Simon, In to-day’s Henatp we give an interesting letter from General Cluseret in reply to the references to him extracted by us: from. the recent volumes of Jules Simon, in which was given a view of the events and persons of some late years of French history. Cluseret defends himself from Simon’s strictures calmly, clearly and effectively, and turns the tables on his accuser, Simon called Cluseret an adventurer, which is a handy term for the description of men of ill-defined status, and is im one aspect ap- propriately enough applied to Cluseret. But Simon uses it as a term of opprobrium and as a description of the General's poli- tics, which, in fact, were very much the same as Simon's politics, But it is a com- mon weakness of humanity for the man who becomes a Minister to cast ill words to former associates. Cluseret is fairly to be reproached for his association with the Commune, but that association was short and ineffective, and he had the honor to be locked up by the Communists, as he records, but was lucky enough not to be shot. He puts on the ground of superior virtue the fact that he did not make himself a dictator, which does not accurately represent the case. There was not a dictator in him, either by conscience or capacity, and in the soldiers of the Commune there was no confidence in any leader, least of allin him—and there was not the military force that can be used for such a purpose. But for the im- becility with which the operations against Paris were directed the reign of the Com- mune would have gone to pieces in a week. Cluseret gives a dim biographical sketch of himself in that and other relations which will interest the public, for nearly every one has heard more of this man than they know of him. Let Courtney Challenge Hanlan at Once. Courtney ought to challenge Hanlan at once to a race for the American champion- ship. Already the latter, if reports are correct, has arranged a race with Hawdon, to be rowed in England May 9, and pur- poses leaving for that country this very month with the intention of rowing all comers there. As champion of America it is his duty to promptly accept all challenges for that championship, and these private contests in a foreign land should not be al- lowed to interfere. Moreover, instead of asking his antagonist to come to Toronto, he ought, as a fair man, to agree to some neutral course, without tide or current and well sheltered from the wind, The mockery of calling course like that at Lachine a fair course must long ogo have been apparent to him, and, if he does not tear to meet Courtney in an absolutely fair race, let him indicate it by selecting a track, not like his own on ‘Toronto Bay, affected by tides and ed- dies, but one where there is no choice of position, where each man is exactly as well It is on rccord that in | ; ancient times a lion once remarked that a off as his rival, where all the world may see that it is fair, As Courtney has already ac- commodated him once by going to Canada it would be only becoming and right on Han- lan’s part to select some course in this country. There are quite a number which would easily fill all the requirements. Let Courtney give Hanlan the opportunity to choose one forthwith. Otherwise Hanlan will have time to get engagements enough to fill up all next season, and this would seriously endanger Courtney’s chances of ever becoming champion. The Business Outlook. In Eastern Pennsylvania the inquiries made for the Heratn relative to the condi- tion and prospects of business have not bronght forth uniformly rosy replies. It is the country of coal and iron, and these cy- clopcan industries have been unable to accommodate themselves to the times with the ease of the smaller interests, The great clumsy giants have gone down from the hill of inflated prices with heavy steps, and at every stumble it seemed as though they would bring down the whole country side along with them. But they are on the solid ground of ‘thard-pan” now, or very neur it, and though they send forth terrific growls it must be remembered that it is a vigorous pinch which reaches a giant’s consciousness. ‘he coal giant is in a gloomy state of mind. He is waiting to know if his combination will hold, and in the thought that some of the mines will take out as much anthracite as they please and so force others to still lower prices if the latter would compete for the trade, he cannot say that next year will be a profitable one. The iron business has not the same difficulty to contend with ; but disturbance in the coal trade naturally makes it a little uneasy. In most of the manufacturing lines it expects to do well. The manufacture of steel is, how- ever, advancing steadily in importance and is making fair profits.. Iron shipbuilding has received a momentary impetus. In these general conditions it is not surpris- ing that surplus capital is timid. Real estate, whose value depends so much on confidence in the future, has not im- proved. In this important section it would then seem that hopefulness is germinating, but confidence has not taken possession of the business mind. Along the upper Hudson the reports point to a better business for next year, this year’s having been larger than last without an increase of profits. Sir Henry Rawlinson on Afghanistan. Few English diplomatists have a more accurate knowledge of Central Asian affairs than the veteran decipherer of the cunei- form inscriptions of Persia, Sir Henry Cres« wicke Rawlinson. There seems to be some- thing about those mysterious, arrow-headed characters which predisposes to hatred of the Muscoyite, for Sir Austen Layard, whose earliest reputation was won in the same manner, is working as hard against the ad-« vance of the Russians in Europe as Sir Henry Rawlinson is against their progresa in Asia. The latter gentleman has an ex- tensive personal experience in Afghanistan, where he was Political Resident at Canda« har, in 1840, and accompanied the aveng- ing British army to Cabul, in 1843, He had previously been appointed to repair to Khiva at the time of Perovski’s unfortunate expedition of 1839, and for the forty years since that date his one guiding principle of Indian polity has been the necessity of seizing and holding Herat as the key to India, and the only certain barrier against Russian inva- sion. This doctrine he has preached in season and out of season, in addresses be= fore the Geographical Society, in diplo- matic minutes and State papers, in personal interviews with the chief rulers uf India, und last, not least, in a volume of essays on “England and Russia in the East,” pub. lished three years ago. The policy of the present Afghan war is largely traceable to the zeal of Sir Henry Rawliuson. Its tri- umphs will be his triumphs, its reverses will be his reverses, and he will be respon- sible for the results of the war whatever they may be. These facts will give interest to the vigorous article from his pen in the current Nineteenth Century, of which we pre~ sent an abstract in another column. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The following Americans were registered at the Paris office of the Henatp on Saturday :— Bailey, Mrs, M. E., New York, 4 Rue Chalgrin, Bareteau, A., San Francisco, 33 Rue Vivienne. Barnes, Edward, New York, Hotel du Louvre, Barnes, H. H., New York, Hotel du Louvre. Case, M. ¢ jew York, Grand Hotel. Conture, A. P., and wife, York, 4 Impasse Mas agran. Donovan, J. J., San Francisco, Hotel de Fenelon, Furlong, General C. E., Vicksburg, Miss., Grand Hotel. Hartley, Juliu York, Spiendide Hotel. Hirsch, L., » ‘k, Pavillon Hotel. Johnston, C., New York, Grand Hotel. Lockhart, Edwin, Pennsylvania, Hotel du Deux Mondes. Maidhof, V. New York, Hotel Violet. Poyser, , Boston, Grand Hotel, Sargent, Mrs. H. 1, New York, 4 Rue Chalgrin, Sickel, M., New York, Grand Hotei, Smith, Gregory, and wife, Vermont, Turner, F. York, Grand Hotel. Weinberg, A York, Hotel de Baviere, Yates, R. R., New York, Hotel du Denx Mondes, Gush rhymes with slush, A chemist ncod not nae his daughter Silicate, Heller should have willed his apparatus to Nephew, Pelton, There is a great deal of gambling going on just now in Paris. ‘The health of ex-Senator Milton H. Latham has been entirely restored. Switzerland sends us one-quarter the value of the ribbons she sent to us five years ago, In 'Thibodeanx, La,, there are fifty lepers. The original one arrived there twenty years ago, “Lean Nora” is a book of satire to be printed by H. Clay Lukens, one of the editors of the News, Anthony Comstock should seek the politician who is writing a speech on “the now departure.” Who did Lemon aid?—Yonkers Gazette. ‘The man who was punched, of course,—Boston Bulletin, If it were not for railroud officers who resort to Denver that city would have but # small population, An exchange says that Mrs. B. 'T. Babbitt has $280,000 worth of diamonds, Well, hasn't her hus band the soap to pay for them? Dundee (Scotland) Advertiser:—“In the second leader of yesterday's issue ‘spirited’ policy was, by &n error of the press, printed ‘sneaking’ policy.” Afarm laborer in Eastern Russia receives in hare vest time $1 25a day, with five pounds of rye bread, a salt, a half pound of meat and a half pound of