The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1879, Page 6

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DE L" STRADA PACE. mts sul be received and 1d as well as their new addre: NAPLES OFFICE—NO. 7 Subscriptions and advert forwarde on u the AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE—Tuxo’ tux Darge LYCEUM THEATRE—Pixarork and Sorcexer, WINDSOR THEATRE-—H. M. UNION SQUARE THEATRE—Tux Bayxue’s Davouter, THEATRE COMIQUE—MuiiGax Guamp Bate NIBLO'S THEATRE—Btack Onoox. GERMANIA THEATE STANDARD THEATER OLYMPIC THEATRE— MASONIC HALL—Tux Mipexts. SAN FRANCISCO, MINSTRELS—Iis Mvp Scow. TONY PASTOR’S—Pinarone Buntusavx. KURTZ GALLERY—Amenican Artists’ Exnisition, GILMORE’S GARDEN—IsimaxationaL Wauaixe Marcu. TRIPLE SHEET. = YORK, The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cool and fair. Zo-morrow the same conditions are likely to pre- vail, followed toward night by a rapid increase in temperature. Watt Srrerr Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was dull and steady. Government bonds were firm, States weak and railroads irregular, Money on call lent at 3.4 per cent, advanced for a while to 5 and closed at 4 per cent. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1879, ‘Tae MANuATTAN Bank resumes today with- out the combination. Onno is bravely keeping the lead in the mur- der line. Another one yesterday. ‘Tar Reat Esrare SaLes yesterday show that corner lots are again looking up. Geserat Butier’s Democrats appear to be making pretty good time in Massachusetts. Ir Witt Be Si from our law reports that several titled persons were presented at court yesterday. ‘Tue Coerican Covrrestes exchanged in the Brooklyn Presbytery yesterday were worthy of the Board of Aldermen, A Fresu Grirvance against our fishermen has been discovered by the Canadians. Do they want another five millions? ACOORDING TO Ouver Correr the drug and groceries stores are running a formidable oppo- sition to the regular saloons. ’ Kentucky's new way of paying old debte— with a charge of grapeshot—is effective, but in the end it is sure to result in a suspension. Tur PenNsyivanta Coat Miers have wisely determined not to play into the hands of the coal combiuvation advocates by beginning a strike. tie AR EIN : Tue Lyxn Mcrper Mystery is still un- solved; but it will be seen from our Newport de- spatches that another clew has been discovered by the detective: Ir Is Inte to bPE that the Board of Educa- tion will pay any attention to the report that has been made to them in regard to the death-deal- ing condition of Grammar Sc! shool No. 17. Proresson Law’s Lerrer on the cattle dis- ease, elsewhere printed, contains some excellent suggestions. Unless all the States unite in stamping out the disease a great international industry is likely to be destroyed. Wuat Is tne Proven Postrion to be adopted in firing a military rifle is a question which is exciting a good deal of interest among the rifle clubs and military men generally. It has been determined by the National Ritle Association to ask the views of other rifle associations and of qilitary officers on the subject. Tue Coxrricr o of authorit, States and Virginia courts, arising out of the alleged violation of the Civil Rights bill, will be immediately taken before the federal Supremo Court for adjudication. Warrants have been fasued for the arrest of the accused judges, who, instead of giving bail, will apply, it is declared, to Chief Justice Waite for writs of habeus corpus. Tue Wearnsr.—The disturbance has now reached the northern section of the New Eng- land States and the pressure at its centre has decreased ‘considerably. It will pass over Nova Scotia this morning and advance into the ocean in a northeastwardly direction. One marked feature of the movement of the disturbance is that there is but very little precipitation near its cevtre. Of the southwestern margin, how- ever, the colder winds that commenced blowing from the northwest during yesterday came in contact with the areas of heated atmosphere over the central valley districts, caus- ing a general rainfall in those re- gions. Rain also began falling on the Western Gulf const yesterday afternoon, preceding the advance of another distarbance organizing in the West and Southwest. Tho weather has been clear on the South and Middle Atlantic coasts and in the Northwest. In the other districts it has been cloudy. The winds have been briak inthe Middle Atlantic ad New England States and the lake regions. Elsewhere they have been from fresh to light. The temperature has risen on the Gulf coast aud in the Middle Atlantic and New England States. It has fallen decidedly elsewhere. The ice is reported to be breaking up fast in the Hudson. Ou Lake Erie ithas broken np enough to permit of @ steamer making o pas- sage from Putvin-Bay to Sandusky. A dangerous gorge is said to have formed in the Delaware River near Barryville. It is feared that if the gorge continues the villages along the river will be tlooded. The weather in New York and its vieinity to-day will be cool and fair. To-mor- row the same conditions are likely to prevail, followed toward night by a rapid increase in tem- perature, © NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1879.—TRIPLE. SHEET. Phe Protectionist Policy of Our Cana- dian Neighbors. The policy of more effective protec.ion to manufacturing industry in Canada, an- nounced in the speech of the Governor General at the opening of the Dominion Parliament, is beginning to attract atten- tion and may soon become a subject of debate in the imperial and superintending Legislature of Great Britain. Sir George Campbell a few days since gave notice that he will ask an inquiry in the British House of Commons into the expediency of maintaining the connection with Can- ada, if that rising and most important of ‘the British colonies persists in the protectionist policy on which it is entering. Of course this policy is in no degree to be charged to the Mar- quis of Lorne; the new Governor General. The fact that it is officially broached in-his first speech tb the Dominion Parliament does not make him responsible forit. ‘The position of ‘the Viceroy of Canada differs in no essential respect from the position of the sovereign in the government of Great Britain. The speeches of the Queen are written by the Prime Minister for the time being, and merely declare the policy of the existing government, and not the personal views of the sovereign. In the samo man- ner the speech of the Governor General was written by Sir John Macdonald, and is an exposition of the‘policy of himself and his official associates. That policy was de- cided by the parliamentary elections which took place two or three months be- fore the arrival of the Marquis of Lorne in the Dominion. It is absurd to comment on it, as some of our journals have done, as if it convicted him of incon- sistency in renouncing in America the free trade principles which he held in his native country. His personal views go for nothing in his new position as the nominal head of the Canadian government. The Imperial Parliament has conceded to the Dominion all the rights of a self-ruling community, so far as relates to its domestic policy. Foreign policy it has none, and is incapable of having any, except in the narrow sense in which its tariff may affect the trade of other countries. It has no navy; it has no diplomatic intercourse; it can negotiate no treaty; in all its external relations it is merely a part of the British Empire. It is odd and anomalous that a community in this situation, a mere colony which is prohibited from any intercourse with foreign nations, is permitted, through its domestic legislation and tariff ‘laws, virtually to regulate its foreign trade, and, what is more surprising, to erect barriers against the admission of British products into its markets. The government of the United States sub- jects every part of our territory to precisely the same regulations of commerée. Goods imported into Alaska, into our Pacific ports, our Gulf ports, our Atlantic ports, across the Mexican border or across the Canadian border, pay the same rates of duty. Our commexce is a unit. All foreign nations are accorded precisely the same advantages im all our-ports, and, what is infinitely more important, there is the most absolute freedom of trade between all the parts of our widely extended dominions, This is the capital, the crowning advantage of the American Union. The wonderful growth and unexampled development of our country are chiefly due to this reciprocal free trade between all its parts. It is in conse- quetice of this ‘that-we have flourished so wonderiully in spite of our absurd tariffs restricting trade with foreign countries. It isamuzing that the British government, which long ngo outgrew the protectionist policy in its home legislation, has not established perfect freedom of commer- cial intercourse between all parts of its own Empire. Why should it per- mit Candida and Australia to shut the domestic manufactures of Great Britain out of their markets, or at least to obstruct their admission by protective duties? It is very much as if we should allow local leg- islatures in California and Alaska to levy duties on New England manufactures. It is difficult to see what advantage Great Britain derives from her extended empire if she permits local tariffs to restrict free- dom of trade between the parts of the em- pire. The commercial policy of Great Britain is as self-stultifying as that of the United States, though in a different way. England, which is the foremost free trade country in the world, refrains from enforc- ing freedom of trade between the various parts of her Empire, whereas the United States, which permits the most unfettered commercial intercourse, between ull parts of its territory, pursues an opposite policy in its foreign trade, England would find it for her advantage to adopt the better part of our policy and establish entire freedom of commerce be- tween all the parts of her vast Empire. What can her colonies be worth to her if they shut out her products! Their only conceivable advantage is the wide extcn- sion of her markets which they would afford if trade were as free between all parts of the British Empire as it is between all parts of the United States. Her colonies are a constant source of expense. She must maintain a large navy to protect them, even in time ‘of peace; and whenever a war breaks out they multiply the vulnerable points at which she can be at- tacked. What compensation has she for all this outlay and care? None in the world except in the value of her colonies as free markets for the products of her home in- dustry. It is not surprising that Sir George Campbell has given notice of an inquiry into the expediency of maintaining the con- nection with Canada if the Dominion car- ries out its new policy of protection. What is the value of Canada if British goods are to be excluded from her markets? Simply nothing —‘‘precisely neither more nor less than nothing.” It is astonishing that a gov- ernment like that of Great Britain, which has for thirty or forty years been devoted to the principles of free trade, should fail to enforce a free trade policy throughout tho limits of its own dominions, when a protec. tionist government like that of the United States permits no obstructive duties to in- terfere with its own internal freedom of trade. If Canada wishes to sover the tie which binds her to the mother country she could not do it more effectually than by erecting a tariff barrier against the admission into her markets of British goods. ‘he senti- mental bond of loyalty cannot long stand the strain of a conflict of interests. When Great Britain receives nothing in exchange for the expense entailed upon her by the colonial relations the tie will be easily dis- solved. As an independent nation the taxes of Canada would be heavily increased. Like other independent nations she would be obliged to maintain an army and a navy and to inour the expenses of diplomatic intercourse. But this heavy addition to her burdens could not make her really independent. ‘The United States could at* any time make aconquest of the whole of Canada in a three months’ campaign. Can- ada would always lie at the mercy of her powerful neighbor. With such a strain upon her resources and such an utter ab- sence of real security there would rapidly grow up in Canada an irresistible public opinion in favor of annexation to the United States, Ifthe people of Canada value their connection with the mother country; if they find comfort and satisfaction in their sentiment of loyalty to the British crown; if they wish to perpetuate the present re- lations, they are making a stupendous mis- take in dissolving the strong.tie of interest by tariff legislation which would deprive the inhabitants of the British Islands of any compensation for the expense of maine taining the connection, The International Foot Race. The vast assembly at Gilmore's last night, the streets in front of the bulletins almost blockaded with eager news seekers and the talk on every tongue, al] point unmistakably to the fact that the interest in the great foot race is on the increase, and that long before Saturday night this event will prove the most exciting contest in the annals of American pedestrianism. The sight of one small Englishman, who had done nothing great publicly at home, cutting down on the first day the three best men this country could produce, and one of them the champion of the world, and not only keeping his lead, but adding to it all the time, and seeming apparently the freshest man of the four at that, is cer- tainly astonishing, and well worthy of the wide attention it is receiving. And yet the first quarter of a race is seldom a safe place to name the winner, and especially such a trying race as this. The great vase of beautiful flowers which was placed con- spicuously last night before the judges’ stand, with the single name ‘‘Rowell” in- scribed upon it, could have been put there to-morrow or next day, if put at all, with fax better grace and quite as modestly. In- deed, should aught occur to him before Saturday the vase will probably silently disappear. There is no denying the fact that O'Leary’s course thus far, so counter to all his past work and to what the public had been: led to reasonably expect, has produced a decided sensation, and that they stand ready to accept almost any theory of his conduct, no matter how detri- mental to him such theory may be. The charitable view, and quite a rational one, is that he is stale, but the conversa- tion overheard the other night at the St. James, where Rowell’s friends hold out, points to a solution of his queer doings more probable than agreeable. If he has been tampered with it would scarcely have been done with his knowledge, but it reflects severely on those who have him in charge, especially as one of them ad- mits that O'Leary probably got liquor on Monday night. He had better look care- fully next time and see whom he hasaround him. Meanwhile Harriman and Ennis are doing most creditably, and, if the former is as nearly worn out as he looks, Ennis and O'Leary will have some smart racing for second place, while, if it is true that Row- ell’s leg is already getting out of order, the belt may not go out of this country after all—indeed, perhaps may not even change hands, How Are the Western Cattle Fed? An indignant gentleman interested in the National Stock Yards at East St. Louis, Mo., writes to us to deny an account given in the Henarp on the 6th inst.as to how some of the ‘Fexan cattle are dealt with in his neighborhood on their way to this and other Eastern ports, and we print his com- munication to-day. Between this -gentle- man and the Heraup there should be no quarrel, Both are animated by the same motive, if we accept his own statement that his motive is to prevent injury to the trade in cattle and to pro- tect St. Louis dealers and other dealers. Both have the same wish to cherish a great trade, but they have somewhat differ- ent ideas as to how this laudable object is to be reached, and it appears that each is disposed to regard the other's conceptions in this respect as erroneous. Mr. Knox believes we are not right in our facts; wo know he is wrong in his. He is altogether at fault in the supposition that the Hznanp is to blame for the cattle disease, We did not invent that malady and decline to be responsible for it; and we put ourself on our defence early, because although Mr. Knox has not yet entirely charged that if thero is a cattle disease we got it @p we per- ceive that he is coming to that presently when he begins with the statement that stories .like ours have procured the exclusion of our live cattle from English markets. Our cattle were excladed irom the English mar- ket because they were not healthy, and when Mr. Knox says thoy are healthy it be- comes simply an issue of knowledge or veracity between him and the British gu- thorities. With all respect'for Mr. Knox we believe the veterinary surgeons know more about cattle than he does, and we believe further that there are some people who know more about what is done at his stock yards than he does and that there are some practices in operation there of which he is not fully informed. We have inves- tigated this subject in the public interest, as will be seon by the instructive corre- spondence elsewhere, and have put this gentleman in a way to get at the truth, and we believe he would act more wisely to pur- sue our indications that to content himself with loud denial, The Legal Tender Tést Case. We publish interviews with several dis- tinguished lawyers of this city relating to the-agreed case which Messrs. Chittenden {and Butler contemplate bringing, through the proper preliminary stages, to ultimate adjudieation by the Suprente Court of the United States, There is some difference of opinion among these lawyers as to whether a case ¢an be made up which the courts will regard as a real controversy between actual litigants. Mr. David Dudley Field says :— ‘The difficulty, if there be any in the present case, lies in this, that the parties may not be able to make an affidavit that the controversy is real. In the present state of the ourrdncy it would be rather tho subinission of an abstract question of law than a Feemoga! any peer interest, for the greenback being now aqnal to gold it cannot be of any real iu- to anybody whether he has the one or the bey ‘Theretore I do not answer without qualifica- tion your question whether ap agreed case can be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, Revouren—Is it not best for the welfare of the whole country to heve this bone of contention re- moved frais t the field of polltias 2 ir. Fixip—No doubt it is @ matter of grost im- i ee but the courts will hardly undertake to cide abstract political questions. They are con- stituted to decide contentions between parties, and ifthey sce or suspect that there is any collusion ‘they will dismiss the case. We presume it wilk be found that the judges do not covet an opportunity to pro- nounce upon a question which excites so much political feeling, and that unless the contemplated case (which is yet to be made up) should prove to be something moro than an attempt to procure by a plausible artifice the decision of an abstract question of law, in which the parties to the suit have no more real interest than the coun- try ot large, the Supreme Court will bo» too glad to avoid rendering a decision which would make that tribunal a football of political controversy. If the judges. are satisfied that the case actually presented is a real case they will, of course, be compelled to decide it, however reluc- tant they may be to touch a question which excites so much political feeling. Mr. Joseph H. Choate entertains no doubt that Mr. Chittenden and General Butler “will bring no fictitious but a real case,” and he thinks there will be no difficulty in framing such a case. But Mr. Choate does not think aot all that o decision by the Su- preme Court would end the controversy:— “Do-you think the decision of this case by the - reme Court will stop the bickering in Congress tinkering with the currency question?” ia ae bot @ bit of it. ‘The same thing has been decided before by the Supreme Court, first one way, then another. Itdid not stop the agitation of 6 cur rency question either in or outside of Col Politicians live and thrive by agitating jusé such questions, and if this matter is decided by the high- est Court members of Congress will find some other phaso of the question and tinker at that. No loyal decision over interferes with the desires of politi- cians; and yet it is a good subject to come before the Court, ant should be legally, at loast, disposed ¢f." Mr. Choate may perhaps be correct in his conjecture that a decision by the Supreme Court would not put a stop to the agitation. The rabid greenback fanatics of the West might treat an adverse decision as the Dred Scott decision was treated in the last gen- eration, making it a ground of assailing and defaming the Court.. The natural unwill- ingtiess ‘of the Court to encounter such 4 storm of obloquy and abuse will make the judges reluctant to entertain such a controversy unless it is made clear to their minds that they are called upon to decide a real controversy between actual parties in interest, and not an abstract legal question. Of course neither lawyers nor judges can have a very definite opinion of the contemplated case until it is actually made up and presented, In. point of fact, the motive in which the case originates isa desire to procure a decision on an abstract point of constitutional law. But Chief Justice Daly, as well as Mr, Choate, thinks there will be no difficulty in fixing up's case which will evade this objection. “Who Got the Whiskey Skin 1” In that.most grim and realistic Western lyric, “The Mystery of Gilgal,” is related the experiences of two men who disagreed about the ownership of a whiskey skin which a barkeeper had compounded. Both men were killed, and most of the spectators accompanied them to the eternal shades, but with so little effect that the poot still be- ‘moans the mystery, ‘Who got the whiskey skin?” An affair of honor, equally incon- clusive, occurred at Atlanta yesterday. A prominent citizen was charged to sell Gen- eral Gordon's interest in o certain enter- prise, and selected a purchaser, but the owner of the remaining hualf-interest insisted on naming a purchaser himself. The proposal being demurred to the re- jected adviser threatened death to the seller, upon which the latter took refuge in a pub- | lic building, first being kindly permitted toarm himself. He declined quarrelling, but his new enemy insisted, although as- sured that the sale, had been made as he de- sired, so the two men popped away at each other with revolvers. As they wero in a small room there was little but each other to hit, so both men soon fell mortally wounded, one of them having since died. In the meantime the question naturally occurs, Who bought General Gordon's interest, and how far will intelli- gence on this subject benefit either of the contestants ? Put It Up at Auction. Pitchforks, cats and dogs, frogs, fish and raw meat have all been rained on mortal heads at some time or another, if we ac- cept the evidence of the almanacs and proverbial phrases; but what is any one, or all these together, compared with the shower they had in the Board of Aldermen yesterday when it rained Broadway railroads; when the City Fathers were deluged with showers of projects to lay rails, put on beautiful cars, pave the streets, keopthem clean and swamp the city treasury with ready millions? Considering the readiness which many of these projectors manifest to pay the city for tho privilege of using Broadway it is odd how little disposed they are to buy tho privilege. hey want to pay in their own way, which is thrifty and commercial, of course, if the people are disposed to sell, But the way in which they propose to pay is a way which would probably reduce the Comptroller to the musical necessity of whistling for the money. Doctored accounts are an impor. tant part of horse railroad science. The Seventh Avenue Railroad Company wants the right to build the Broadway Railroad; the Forty-second Street Company wants the same right; the Bleecker Street Com- pany wants a privilege from Bleecker to Fulton street; the Fourth Avenue Company wants a privilege from Fourteenth street to the Battery; and there are two or three other sets of claimants. There are at least seven Richmonds in the field, and some of them are pretty good grabbers. Doubtless if the Aldermeu can fully deter- mine this point the Forty-second Street Company will get the franchise and on con- ditions which will leave it without any obligation to the city treasury. But we are in hopes that the other aspirants will pull with energy enough to defeat’ that hungry claimant and to force the only method of determining their, pretensions—the exhi- bition at auction of who will pay the most for the right.” How to Settle It. At midnight next Saturday the important point will be settled, which of four pe- destrians—the IrisheAmerican champion O'Leary, the English jog-trotter Rowell, the Boston novice Harriman, or the Irish- American Ennis—has the most ondur- ance and the greatest speed in a six days’ tramp. Gilmore’s track will then be un- occupied, and as walking matches appear just now tobe emphatically popular in New York we suggest that the pending contest be followed by one in which the candidates for city offices shall be the competing parties, Mayor Cooper seems to be sorely puzzled to decide who shall be Police Commissioners in place of Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Erhardt, whose terms of office have long since expired, and whose successors the Mayor is required by the charter to appoint in ten days after the said expiration. Several candidates are in the field, some indorsed by the republican organizations, others by members of the Aldermanic Board, with whom the confirm- ing power rests, and many by themselves and admiring friends. Now, as the Mayor is in a quandary, he may be relieved if all the aspirants for positions in the Police Board agree on a six days’ tramp, the two ‘best men to receive the prizes. As other qualifications for public position in New York are seldom taken into account we do not see why the question should not be settled on the merit of wind and muscle, which, atter all, have been the general standard by which the claims of candi- dates for office have been measured in New Yotk. Other offices will become vacant next May, and as for each there will be applicants from the Irving Hall democracy, the city democracy, the county democracy, the regular republicans, the irregular republicans, the German de- mocracy and halt a dozen other anti-Tam- many organizations, the Gilmore track will be the best place in which to settle their re- spective merits. When the walk for the Commissionership of Jurors takes place.we must insist that the present incumbent be allowed a chance of competing, in order premise, to be clothed is to be in e habit, premise, ‘he was clothe] with curses.’ * Brgo, A was American naval officer who at @ ball at Nico furiously Harriman, the walker, sustains himself on occa i} sional egg noggs. * ‘Lhe birthplaces of Lincoln and n>4 Davis are about one hundred miles apart. ye General John M. sonoma, of West Point, is at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. It is stated on semi-official authority that the posi- tion of director of the geologic or consolidated seci- entific surveys will be given to Mr. Clarence King. Cincinnati Gazette: —“If Jefferson Davis wag a pa- triot, and if the cause in which he was the leader wag right, what was the position of those who fought fox the Union?” Congressman Morrison was rejected’ as leader of the democrats in the House because he is not a great talker, Yotithas been said that the “worst wheel creaks most.’ A German physician says that thirst arises from tho loss of liquid in food which is cooked, He advises fresh fruit and oysters for medicine in gout and indigestion, A Virginia correspondent says that owing to the fact thut white Protestauts shun tho negroes, the latter in large numbers are becoming subject to Catholic influences, Here is some logic in a syllogistic way: —Major . \ Minor in the habit of swearing.’ ‘The late Alexander Munro, the eminent poner used to visit the theatre whenever Ristori acted so that he might study tho folds of her drapery and the graces of her movements. It is always well when youare a pallbearer to carry along a pair of old black gloves. By a little sleight of hand you can wear them and can savo the new ones to exchange for a more fashionable color. ‘The Swies are making a fuss over the chapel of William ‘Toll, and Labotichére says that ‘Tell, in risking his child's life in shooting at the apple and in skulking behind a rock to assassinate Gessler, was not only a mean scamp, but that probably uo such person ever lived. European princes have many names apiece, but the one pet name of France is Louis, that of Prussia is Frederick, that of Austria is Joseph, that of Eng- land (notwithstanding the imported George) is Ed- ward, with Ferdinand for Spain, while of American Prosidents there have been several Jameses and Johns. THE BRINLEY LIBRARY. ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR AN ELIOT BIBLE— OTHER COPIES SOLD YOR FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS—TOTAL’ AMOUNT OF SALE, TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, The sale of the Brinley Library was continued at Clinton Hall yesterday afternoon and evening be- fore about the same audience of book buyers as that assembled on the previous day. The bidding was very zood, but there were no such prices fetched ag on Monday, for the reason that there were no books offered cqual in importanee to either the “Very Eyes of New England” or Smith's “General History.” The following is a list of the most important books sold yesterday, with their prices:— ‘Thomas Church's entertaining passages relating to Philip's war, 1716, Samuel-G. Drake’s copy, which Mr. Brinley spent forty years trying to find, $150; another copy of tho same, $20; Easton's “Narrative of the Causes which led to Philip's War,” limited edition, $18; “Papers Concerning the Attack on Hat- field and Deerfield,” No. 1 of the Beadford Ciub pub» ications, $16; Troubles with the Indisns in New England to this present year (1677), to which is added a discourse about the Warre with the Pequots in the ycar 1637, Hubbard’s “A Narrative of the with (Stovens’) fac simile of thejoriginal map and also 4 facsimile of the inap,belonging to the London edi- tion,1677,” $25;}Hubbard’s “Prosent State of Now Eng- land,” with the book, plate and autograph of “Robert Southey, Keswick, May 3, 1811,” original edition of 1677,” $57 50; large cdpy of tho same, $36; Major John Mason’s “Brief History of the Pequot War,” uricut copy, $80; Increase Mather’s ‘Brief History ” of the War with the Indians in New England,” $37 50% v Peuhallow's “History of the Wars of New Eng- land,” a rare copy, slightly water stained, $130; a fine copy of the first edition of Thomas Symmes’ “Memoirs of a Battle at Piggwacket,” $215; a copy of the second edition of this book sold for $55; the “Warr in New England Visibly Ended,” $80; @ tract on “The Georgetown Conference,” $24; other copies of this tract sold for $31 and $27; “Conference held st Deer- field,” uncut, $37; John Eliot and Thomas Mayhew's “Tears of Repentance,” $41; "John Eliot’s “ that he may, if possible, in accordance with ancient, custom, be retained in the public service, ‘Make Hymen Take Out # License. It is not wonderful that the movement to re-establish the system of requiring license for marriages is obtaining general approval. To clergymen such a law would afford un- speakable relief, for thousands of couples desiring to be married appezr privately be- fore clergymen who never saw them be- fore, and who have nothing buat the word of the candidates to assure them that the contracting parties have the right to marry at all, Some legal authorities have de- | clared that the clergy have no option in the 4 of the Gospel Among the Indians,” $62; a rare copy of matter of performing marriages provided | John Eliot's further “Accompt of the of ~ gy a 2 gg lage law : tract or re = opkine” vtntoeiad imagine, en, urdens are un- femoirs,”” bred an wi copy fairly imposed upon the consciences of so pic $45; Tg cen Enero aad sensitive aclass of men. Parents of self- | sive of His Sufforings the Indians,’ $30; . “[sanc Walden’s Narrative: of tivity,” $30; willed children naturally approve of the | «John Gyie’ Memoirs of Odd ‘Aavonvares Dating proposed measure, for secret marriages are almost as horrifying to parental sentiment as open sin. Probably, too, the subjects of covert or runaway matches would, if they could be persuaded to speak, favor the license system as heartily as any one else, for the average happiness of such couples is, to say the least, not enough greater than that of other people to repay them for the personal and family annoyance that hasty marriages always cause. In fact, the only people who are likely to object to the license system are those romantic and law- less souls who ueed all the restraints that law can impose upon their actions, and even then cannot help getting into mis- chief. Hope for Alaska. Amember of the Dominion Parliament has asked his government tor information upon British rights to navigate Alaska rivers aud also about the boundary line be- tween our great walrus preserve and the British possessions, He will probably ob- tain the information desired ; we merely mention the matter for the sake of suggest- ing that his question grants an excel- lent opportunity for shrewd generosity on our side the line and for an intelligent rectification of our extreme northwestern frontier. The proper thing to do is for Congress to immediately con- cede the free navigation of the Alaska rivers to British vessels, for who knows how soon some settlement of ours on one of these streams may be surrounded by Indians and need an English gunboat to protect tho residents, like the good triend of the family that it is? ‘hen let the United States suggest that tho boundary line which would best suit us would be one drawn at least one marine league west of the Alaska const. One effect of such a coricession would be that Alaska, the land of isothermal glories, would be ours no longer, but such a result would not depress the spirits of any true patriot, no matter how diretul it might be- come to England, while to the present white inbabitunts the change, from being shut out at home, to the hospitality of o nation which cares enough tor its subjects to protect them would be delightfully reas- suring. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘Tho pensioner is mightior than the sword. O'Leary's tent orders a good deal of champagne. Sir A. &. Galt has returned to Montreal from Eng- land, Senator John FP. Jones, of Nevada, is at the St. James Hotel. Much French fun has been poked at # young ‘Jomims Howe's Narrative of Her ; oe of Nehemiah How's t line, * $32; six little Catechisms fetched $24; homas " Cobbet's “Civil Magistrate's Power, dedicated | to “Oliver Cromwell, captain General,” $41; William “iDemonstra: tion of True Love,” $70; John Cotton's “God's Promise to His Plantation,” $36; John Cotton's “The Bloudy Tenent. Washed and Nade White in the Blood of the Lambe," $50; Cg of the same, $2; ree books are merely sermons; John t's sermon, “The Knowledge of oe $33: 3 re Be sad christian Common mon wealth,’’ pressed by the Supreme Court of Massachuset! ette, $55; ‘Samuel Gorton’s ‘“‘Simplicity’s Defence —- Seven-Headed ir thn $03; Gorton's “Sal Returned from the idliam Hocka'e “Discourse Coocuning’ th the Witnesses, * $32; * Meritorious Price of our Redemption, ‘Sustitiation, 5 &c., Cleering It from Some Common Errors, &c.” by id William Pinchin, Gentleman, in New England (auto- grenhe of Crescontius Matherus, 1653, and Cotten ath-rus, 1673, on guard leaf; acopy of the first edi- tion, which the General Court ot husetts 80 “utterly disliked and detested,” and ordered to ‘be burned by the executioner in thetmarket ‘ket place im Boston ;" the author dared to maintain the “damna- ble heresy” thet “Christ did not suffer for ua ’ borg Korine agen pi args us ss = commonly are called Sonne Pr), : Bishop Whito Kennett's copy Nathaniel Ward's tract, the “Simple le Cobbler of ae Aggawam in America,” $4; John hangs agg tract, “Mers curius Americanus,”” $24; “Mr. Cottons Letter Lately Pri M feemiued and An- swored,” # small tract, was bought by Mr. Ives, of $145 for Roger Wi je, for $120; ree eet for or jams’ “Bloody Tenen' Bloody; another copy of the same fetched $150," another copy fetched $72 50. of these Williams books are small tracts v * Work of the first three printers tn nati Area waid to have cost Mr. Brinley $800, seven almanacs, Carn and Boston, $12 each, to the Watkins lot of seventeen almanacs were ton Historical Society for $7 50 cath; * Several Ministers in and near Boston to idge Platform,” $155; a sermon by 8 od’ ‘# Call to His on famow President Chauney, of —_— ort's “Kasay for a iret priv 5 $1 ing John t's ‘utrmony of another copy boda same, a The Dy: fits, a we copy $1 samen iten's “ 's “Cull To tho Un- fremetsted, 4 into oe "indian House by the Yale Collego Library for $135; Cotton’s “Confession of Faith,” in the Indien lan- guage, #75. ‘The Eliot Bibles, in the Indian lan=, guage, the most important books in soeneey SS were not reached wntil eleven o'clock. i this “Now firet edition was purchased by Mr, Moore, for the Lenox Li * was White Kennett's o ‘tho Eilot's Bible, containing the Old Testament and the Now, the firat bid and only was $1,000, at which itwas sold; Eliot Bible, from the library of Heed of England, sold for oad H- the uis of Has ieee Bohie ia, he to Watkine rary | Orladal jatkine ; apy of ibe vecend 4 of be log Bible, $500; frst edition of “Kliot's the Practice of Picty," $205, to the Yale 2 alo Gage library; the * Manos tisetts Pealter,” in the Indiag language, $195, to the Watkins library. i F Rawson's 06) i