The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1879, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2. 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, C ON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, JAM iLY every day in the year, Ten dollars per THE DA cy *y é pagkaves # ta roporly sealod. ejected communicate be returned. 2 SOUTH SIXTH ® NEW YORK NERALD— #HILADELPHIA OF STREET. HAVERLY'S LYCEUM—1 UNION SQUARE—Hoxtons KOSTER & BIAL—Porv MADISON SQUARE GARD: TIVOLI THEATRE—Vaniery. ‘TONY PASTOR'S THEAT! | be sion. r i day edition inelnded : y edition, eight Uollurs per yeur, free of | | ance to members to reassemble Con changed must | ‘despatches must | | The democrats have taken a position on fed- eral interference with elections from which | | so absolutely certain that the democrati¢ the Extra Session—A Final End of Appesi to the People. ss adjourned yesterday under cir- which relieve the members apprehension that they in another extra Hayes has satisfied democratic majority reconvened ses- President himself thet the | is so fixed dnd immovable in its refusal to | | appropriate money to pay deputy marshals | for services in connection with the elections | that he sees it would be an idle © pense to the Treasury and a useless anno an for the accomplishment of ob which is an evident political impossibilit they cannot, or at least will not, recede. It | would have been foolish and pig-headed | to call another extra session when it is majority would not modify their ultimatum, We commend and indorse the wisdom of the President in not persisting im a boot- less contest, which, howeverylong con- tinued, would leave the, dispute in precisely its present position, Between the constitutional veto of the President, which enables him to block Congress, and the constitutional power of Congress over appropriations, whith enables it to block the President, the only practical solution lies in a deelafation of the national will through the ballot box. The people must ultimately decide this Lhe weather in New York and its vicinity to-day | will be clear, with stationary temperature. -To- | morrow the same conditions will prevail, followed | dy increasing cloudiness. Watt Srreer Yestrrpay.—The stock market | was dull and there was a general decline in prices. Government securities were firm’ and State and railroad bonds were fairly active and steady, Money was ac and call loans were made at rates varying from 3lg to 6 per cent, the closing per cent. re about to be appointed and rotten bi as in great quantities are trem- Dlingly awaiting th Tne Porice have another dead body to blun- der oyer—a man having been found in the Park with two bullets through his heart. Tue Army bas taken the competitive shoot- ing fever in its most violent form, and the atlicted are coming to Creedmoor. Our Norss of an interview with a prominent Mexican give a great deal of information about political affairs in our sister Republic. IMMIGRATION increases steadil Europe ap- parently has not read the party speeches of the session and learned how the country has gone to the bowwows. Reap “Wine, Wo. .” Tf the city treasury really supporis a grogshop and hhonse of ill fame in Ludlow street the tax- payers should know i Nearty A Hunprep Games of baseball, League and National championship, are an- nounced for July. Look out for a corner in | court plaster and arnica lotion. Ip Our Hoste and uncertain Indians could only be hur the Canada Indians, who h crossed in search of game, they might get fighting enough to | them for the season. Tow axp on Wuar Grounp did ex-Inspector ce get his reappointment? Was it for as- harpe, who is now among * ¢ because some one in authority | show the country that civil service | | up to the border now to meet | . Who have exposed | babies to the gaze of | lay sent to av breed | 2 s st da man may wow shake 1¢ ne addi- tional depression d by the thought that the medicine to eure him e at deal more than it should, use one or more medicine male ep foreign prepara- tious of the out of th Iv Is A Prry that the Maine Demoeratie C vention did 1 take as their keynote the | speech to which they listened, and concerned | themselves only with the irs of their own State. B t ‘y imagined them- selves the ress and “resolved” a | lot of stud Tne Pouce Comm udopted yester- day # resolution pr tine or imprisonment, for throwin, bish into the streets. Now let penalties, iter in pro- f of th atl and dirt alr be r the the hot season, city ma There Is AN Isexriicante FAscrxation hout goods that a that they eminent an authority as Daniel Webster deelared sma brandy to de sary to perfect bowl of puneh, and ¥ y a crowd of mortals, otherwise sane, flocked to an auction room and paid more than | market prices for articles seized by Custom House rea of high pressure | resting over the lower lake region yesterday astward and now dominates of the All the weathe Mountains. Its centre is now ove tate and the southern portion of the New England States. The barometer over the upper and lower lake region has fallen on account of the eastward movement of the centre of low pressure, which now is in Dakota and Montana. In the South- ern States the barometric pressure has changed | but little since yest y. Ast also exists on the b const. ture has slightly declined ht depression ack Nova Scotia, It has risen in the Ohio and Missouri vulleys, over the upper and lower lake regions and the Middle Atlantic States aul ois) very high in the W Gulf States Light showers of have fallen on the southern portion of the Atlantic coast and thunder storms were experienced in the Northwest. Over the upper luke region the weather is cloudy and threaten- ing, and in nearly all other sections of the coun- try the weather is clear and dry. The winds oontinue to be fresh aud brisk in the Northwest and over the Jake regions and moderate along the Atlantic const. ‘Ihe weather in New York end its vicinity to-day will be clear, with sta- | tionary temperat ‘To-morrow the same con ditions will prevail, followed by increasing eloudiuess. \ | elect a President and Congress of their own | ward situation for the republican party. controversy between the President and Congress. Whatever force there may be in the arguments on either side the decision of the people must be accepted as conclusive. It is their unquestion- able prerogative to say whether federal troops shall or shall not be employed at the polling places and whether supervi- sors and deputy marshals shall be paid for services at the polls, By the theory of our government it is the right of the people to control, and they alone can decide a con- troversy between the Exgcutive and Con- gress, Had the democrats been less impulsive and impatient they would have adjourned this question of troops at the polls and the employment of federal supervisors and deputy marshals, If in the important election of 1880 they should succeed in electing the President and a majority of Congress it would be in their power to effuce from the statute book every trace and vestige of the federal election laws. Ifthey have made a mistake it con- sists in attempting to shake the tree and gather the fruit before it is ripe and ready to fall. Nobody doubts that as soon as the democratic party is in full possession of the government all fed- eral interference with the elections will be abolished. Had Mr. Tilden been counted in as President instead of Mr. Hayes the elections would have been put back to the same status which existed for the first eighty years after the organ- ization of the government. Whenever, in any Presidential election yet to come, the democratic party gains full control of the government, nobody can doubt that the federal election laws, which are not yet ten years old, will be repealed and members of Congress he chosen in simple pursuance of State laws. Had the democratic party been content to ad- jovrn thig question until they can way of thinking they would have pursued a wiser and more prudent policy. The fed- eral election laws would then be repealed as a matter of cou and the country would accept the inevitable without. agita- tion or ,.remoasiranc t the democratic which is so divided on financial felt the ne y of a new isste on which the party could be united, and selected the repeal of the election laws as the issne best fitted to consolidate the party. Whether they have made a mistake is a question which will be decided by the re- suit of this year’s elections, if the democratic pariy should be signally successiul in the elections of the present | year its policy in the extra session will be vindicated. In that event President Hayes will be placed in an awkward predicament, Ifthe democratic party gains strength in | the coming State elections its majority in Congress will insist, even more strenuously than it has done in the extra session, upon | nullifying the election laws by withholding | money for their execution, and further vetoes will be a plain defiance of the ons, popular will, And yet the positions | | which the President has taken in his | recent vetoes would compel him to | persist im a policy that had been | repudiated by the people, which would | carry the present issue into the Presidential | election. This would make an awk- But if, @n the other elections of the present be a series of signal successes for the republicans, not only will the vetoes of President Hayes be vindi- | cated, but it will be evident that the new issue thrust upon the country by the demo- crats is a stupendous political blunder. It is for the people to decide, and their voice in the elections will be potential. The democratic position on the question of federal interference in the elections per- | mits a great deal to be said in its support. Since this kind of interference was never thought necessary in the long period be- | tween the organization of the govern- ment in 1789 and the passage of the federal election laws in 1870 the natural presumption .is ogainst the necessity of these laws, Lhe policy of non-interference which prevailed for eighty years has a great weight of precedent in its | favor. ‘Lhe tederal election laws were cor | tainly a great innovation on previous usage. It is w well known fact that they were prompted and inspired by the New York elecvion of 1868, When the Tweed Ring was triumphant im this cily. But that memor- abie election merely gave the control of the State government to the democrats, and was of no importance in connection with the choice of members‘of Congres. It was asserted that Governor Hoffman was elected by bogus votes and false counting; but it was not asserted, aud there was no ground for | hand, the year should asserting, that the members of Congress | from this city were not truly chosen. Now, the federal election laws relate solely to There was 4 | mever a pretence, or the shadow of a pre- | will | the choice of Congressmen. tence, tha: democrats were elected to Con- gress from this city in districts where | the republicans had a majority, Such a pretence would have been seli-refuting in view of the fact that this city is overwhelm. ingly democratic, and would naturally choose democratic Congressmen in any fair election. The enactment of a law which was notoriously inspired by the New York election of 1868, and which by its | terms relates only io the election of meme | | bers of Congress, when there was no pre- tence that any democratic member from this city was not only that Governor Hoffman had received false mujority, exposes the folly and hypocrisy the federal election laws. The of New York was entitled to members of of city democratic Congress, since a great preponderance of its citizens Delonged to tke democratic party. It was, therefore, a false pretence to pass an election law relating to the choice of Congressmen when the real grievance of the republicans was an alleged false count- ing.of votes in the gubernatorial election, an election with which Congress had no legitimate concern. It has been asserted in the recent debates in Congress that the people of Massachu- setts or of California haye a proper inter- est in the Congressional elections of New York, inasmuch as their own votes in Con- gress might be of the New York members. If this strained argument were pursued to its logical consequences it would lead to some very absurd results. It would estab- lish the right of Congress to regulate the apportionment of members aiter each decennial census. Frauds in elections can never make a difference of more than one or two members from any State; but the gerrymandering process by which Legislatures divide their States into Congressional districts may make a difference of three or four members in all the larger States. Is Mas- sachusetts or California entitled to a voice in marking out the Congressional districts in the State of New York? The action of the State legislatures in creating Congressional districts has altogether more influence én determining the political complexion of Congress than a few false votes in the choice of members. Since it is ad- mitted that Congress cannot interfere to prevent party gerrymandering by the State legislatures what sense is there in the federal election laws? Ifa member is elected by fraud Congress, which is the final judge of the election of its members, can unseat the fraudulent candidate, and this seems an adequate remedy for fraudulent elections. Sitting Bull’s Story. In another column of to-day’s Hurarp our readers will find the details of an interesting interview with Father Genin, a priest, who has spent ten years of his life among the Indian tribes of the North- west—notably that portion of the great Sioux nation governed by Sit- ting Bull. Some remarkable _ state- ments are made by Father Genin concern- ing Sitting Bull’s version of the Rosebud fight where General Custer and his men died together. According to the Indian side of the story Sitting Bull believed that Custer had orders to exterminate his tribe, and that while endeayoring to escape he sent a warrior with a flag of truce to Custer. The Indian chieftain says that this man was shot down; so calling upon the Great Spirit to witness that he was not responsible for the bloodshed to follow he surrounded the troops and destroyed them. We also gain an insight to the Sioux character when we learn that the reason why they sent a squaw to receive and listen to General Terry at Fort Walsh, was because of their con- tempt for double dealing, holding that as that officer represented a government which never kept its promises a woman was good enough to receive its ambassador. Judging from tho statements made by the missionary Sitting Bull hoids the United States government in sovereign con- tempt, and the fact shows how necéssary it is that our Indian policy be based on fair deajing and honest observanee of treaties, How can we expect the red man to keep his promises when we fail to keep our own? The manifesto brought by Father Genin from Sitting Ball contains, in brief, the story of his people's wrongs ever since the ratification of the treaty of 1868, showing that none of its promises have been kept, and protesting that, although his people have been anxious tor peace. they have been hounded irom place to piace by the soldiers of the Great Father. He asks for his lands, or so much of them as will support his people, and wants the protection of the “people” as distinguished irom the soldiers, Tt is a remarkable documentand will attract universal attention. The Rattery Bath. Apparently the Park Commission is not of great consequence in any concerns as to which the president of that commission has made up his mind, Certainly such a conclusion seems to follow trom the pub- lished statement of one of the Commission- ers to the effect that the decision to refuse the new public bath an anchorage at the | Battery was not reached by the commission acting as a body, but was the unauthorized act of the president. Perhaps the president “didn’t know it. was loaded;” made this important decision inadvertently, without proper consideration of its importance and without knowing that the authority of the However that may be, we jadge that his retusal iso be over- ruicd. i so, the sooner the better. The absurd notion that beeause an owner of a private bath pays five handred dollars for the privilege of anchorage at the Battery this shall shut out trom the use of the river at that point so important an institution as the popular free bath should not stand in the way an instant, There is room for both, and one will not interiere with tho othex, ' Board was necessary. truly elected, but | nullified by the votes | Conflici\ing Evidence. Scarcely has the public heard the story of | the telegrams and the correspondents about | the excessive severity of - fficial supervision in Russia ere the distinguished traveller comes forward and denies it all, and thns provokes end forces all the or ginal chroni- | clers to tell it all over again, Up to the present time the authorities on record with the declaration that all is lovely and bright and beautiful in Russia are three—an Eng- lish bishop, an American plenipotentiary | andan American contractor employed by the |ussian government, Bishops, of | | course, are not responsible in this world, and we suppose that*in the mind of a bishop who is at the same time an English- man «il things seen and known as-<unfe he sweet, placid quality o: his own soul ; o the bishop may be dismissed as | an unsatisfaciory witness. Is the | plenipotentiary any more trustworthy? | All that Mr Stoughton discovered in Louisinna on his jamous trip to that State was a clerical error. Yet he knew the len- | guage in that country, read the papers, saw | and spoke with the people, was in daily intercourse with the whole world of men, and women who concocted the great game of electoral vi lany. It he cou!d not learn more than he did in such favorable circum- stances of a great movement going on about him, what could he probably learn in Russia, where he was not so favorably placed | for obtaining information? As for Colonel | Gowan, he is.a clear-headed person; but, | upen the whole, we inet:ne to prefer the evidence of the general report of the news gatherers as to the condition of the Russian | capitul. Police The police have gained such an unenvia- ble notoriety recently that there is a natu- ral disposition to believe any story of out- rageous conduct that may be told against any member of the foree. It is to be de- plored that the reputation of some officers is so bad as to forfeit public confidence for all. There are, no doubt, many honorable and respectable men on the force, but under bad management and lax discipline so many police outrages have been committed that the people look upon every uniformed | officer as the ally of rogues and terror only of reputable citizens, The latest case is that of Officer Joseph Hall, of the Fifth precinct. He is charged with entering an immigrant boarding house on Battery place in a state of in- toxication, and with brandishing a revolver, assaulting the son and the wife of the absent proprictor, and threatening to shoot the bystanders, until arrested by 4 police- man of the Twenty-seventh precinct. Ac- cording to the story told by the young man and his mother the action of the ruffianly ‘officer was without the slighest excuse, and Was simply the performance of a drunken, in.uriated brute. The accused, however, gives his own account of the affair, and is entitled to his defence and to a fuir hearing. But what is his explanation? He asserts that he was in search of a servant girl, in conse- quence of his wife’s illness, and was in- formed that he might find one at the board- ing house on Battery place ; that he went there and was told to wait, and then he con- tinues his story as follows :— Eccentricities, | lyn people, but the action of the Common After waiting for some time and thinking an officer in full unitorm had a right to some attention I again asked forthe woman. This time I spoke sharply aud was answered very rudely. I then muttered something about it being a ‘skin game.” Then I waited and again usked tor the person. I was re- fused, and openly said that they were trying to “skin” mo and I wasn’t going to stand it. I got up, and allthe people suddenly left the saloon and I went atter them. As1did so the woman Sghmidt | ran to me, and I thought there was some “put up | job” to rob me or assault me,as I have heard of | such things in immigrant boarding houses, I drew my revolver, and, pointing it at the woman and boy, backed out into the street. I suppose I acted a little queerly, as I was very much excited. Ithen walked cown to West street, when Officer Shaw told me I would have to go to the station house with him. I had imy revoiver in my hand, but gave it up. Then I was taken to the Twenty-seventh precinct station house and made a statement. I was deiivered to Captain Aiken, who sent me on duty, We are willing to accept the officer’s story as the true version of the affair, and we ask whether such a man is fit to remain on the force and whether the captain who “sent him on duty” in the face of such outrageous conduct is fitto hold command of a precinct? Bat what will the Police Comumussioners do about it? Germany and Rassia. Out of some comings and goings of am. bassadors, and apparent want of ceremony between the Russian and German Chancel- lors, the newsgatherers and gossips in Eu- rope have evolved a cvoiness between the Russian and German courts and govern- ments, which coolness will be of no great moment unless it appears in some more de- cided ways than those reported. There are certainly several topics on which it is pos- sible the two Northern Powers might quar- | rel. Russia holds some lands which in Berlin are regarded as German | lands; but that could not be a exuse of quarrel, Alsace and Lorraine even were not the source of the war with France. Decided differences of opinion may be en- tertuined, also, over points of the Berlin Treaty, and notably over the relations of Austria to the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Perhaps the recent critical position of Egypt was thought in Russia to afford a good opportunity to oppose the tendency of various States in Europe to seize upon the poor old Sultan’s property, and the statesmen in Berlin may not ha¥e looked with favor upon the project, All theseand more might be occasions for difference; but it isas yet far trom clear that there actually isa difference. Rapid Transit and Public Convenience. The Brooklyn Aldermen have passed the resolution permitting the construction of a rapid transit elevated railroad in that city over the Mayor's veto by the decisive vote of seventeen to six. Rapid transit has been bitterly opposed by a portion of the Brook- Council implies that a majority of the cit- izens favor the enterprise. If the road is to be built it is to be hoped that it will be made as little offensive to residents in its locality and as convenient and comfortable for the people as large as possible. ‘he ex- perience of New York has shown where great improvements in construction and opern- all in its power to accommodate and satisfy | the public, There is no good reason why a road should be made offensively noisy, why the smell ot coal gas should be allowed to injure the health of the passenger-, why smoke and coal dust should be suffered to become intolerable nuisances all along the line, and why the stairways and stations should be exposed, inconvenient and un- comortable, I: the Brooklyn road is to be built the people should insist upon the best constraction possible and the absence of all avoidable nuisances, Hanlan Coming Home. Whe young Canadian oarsmon said fare- well to his English and American friends at Liverpool yesterday and is now on his way toward these shores, In recent years | the return of victorious riflemen, pedes- | trinns and oarsmen has not been an unusual event. Indeed, the frequency of such occurrences has tended to dull the proper appreciation which the people of this counjry should give to such phenomena. And success so marked is phenomenal. ‘The years which have | passed since the Britons became a nation of athletes are marked by many brilliant | achievements, Aty the schools, colleges and great universxies sports are encour- aged. The most conscientious churchman does not hesitate to back his tavorite at the Derby or his university color on the Thames, There is no mawkish sentimen- tulity about the degradation ot hard work | so long as it is pertormed under the guise ofamusement. Sons of the landed gantry | and aristocracy learn to ride across coun- try before they know an ode of Horace: or a proposition of Eaclid, It it be not frivol- ous toso express ourselves at this time it 1s a matter of fact that good horseman- ship in the chase “levels all ranks.” The natural result of several genera- tions of open air sportsmen is that England to-day possesses hundreds of athletes for every ten that America boasts. Young in all things, she was especially late in coming into the field and on the water as a rival of the mother country. A very few years have pro- duced marvellous results, and to-day Amer- ica can stand a comparison without fear of humiliation. Let Hanlan be welcomed as an American, for no misty line ot geograph- ical demarcation can make him any the less our champion and our hero, It used to be asked, ‘Who reads an American book?” It would now be quite as proper to inquire— Who ever defeats an American yachtsman, oarsman, pedestrian or rifleman? Germany and the Vatican. Every pope and every prince may make peace with his adversary if he is disposed to go far enough in concession, and a peace made by the abandonment of all that was contended for would not be a feather in any negotiator’s cap. It ought to be a credit to the Pope to have overcome the differences that have disturbed the relations of the Catholic Church to the German government; but until we know ‘the precise terms of the settlement it is unsafe to} say that it is so, and the partisans | of the extreme Church view will be very apt to hold that a difference so tenaciously | held in the pontificate of Pius IX., and | with an opponent like Bismarck, could | only have been overcome by improper con- cessions. So much of the conditions of the settlement as we now know indicates that the new relatjons will be substantially fair. If the government nominates bishops who must be confirmed at Rome, and these bishops nominate priests who must be con- firmed by the goverument, the ecclesias- tical offices to be fiiled in future must at least be held by men not obnoxious to vio- lent prejudices on either side, and in the hands of proper administrators it matters little what the laws are. Suburban Watering Places, The number and range of seaside villages to which New Yorkers resort during the summer is something which is without par- aliel in the neighborhood of other large cities, Our letters, published to-day, describe Fire Island, Ocean Grove and Asbury Park. Besides these there are scores of other points, small and great, to which our ciuzens flock from June to October, and the few scatter- ing miles of coast yet unoccupied is held at very high figures in anticipa- tion of the day when cottagers or hotel keepers will be obliged to purchase it. This popularity of the seacoast as a place of summer residence is not entirely the result of locality and that aversion to heat and noise which characterizes even our busiest people, tor the seaward movement is of comparatively recent origin. Improved facilities of communication have done more than anything else to make the seaside a summer home for nearly a hundred thou- sand New Yorkers and an occasional resort of evena greater number. The terrors and annoyances of travel have been rapidly re- duced almost to the minimum, until the daily trip, particularly by water, is of itself a relaxation to the business man whose fam- ily spends its entire time in the bracing air that is kept pure and cool by the ceaseless ocean breezes. With such rare advantages a large part of New York’s population may compare favorably in health with the in- habitants of model country towns. The Zalu War. Particulars of the killing of the Prince Louis Bonaparte by the Zulus are given in our columns to-day, and do not reflect the highest credit for nerve and steadiness upon the troops with which it was his mis- fortune to serve. The story indi » ine deed, that the remarkable successes of the Zulus in the early events of the campaign had practically demoralized important parts of the expeditionary column, Evidence has, in tact, been given already that Lord Chelmsford himself was demoral- ized, and the army would be as anxious to get away as its commander. It is to be hoped that the Zulu propositions for peace aro not magnified by the unsteady state of official perceptions, Mach is made of these propositions; but it should be re- membered that they are now pretty old and there is no peace yet. News of these tion may be made, anda corporation that receives so valuable o franchise ought to do propositions was in London in May, so that the negotiation at least goes very — siowiy, Uetywayo's readiness to make peace should not, however, astonish any one. He has always been equally ready for peace. In fact, he did not want the war an‘ did not make it, and we do not bel.eve that he is now half so nearly on his knees as the English reports represent, An Eight-Hour Demonstration. The Hersxp special correspondents at Bos- ton, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Hart- ford and other points sufficiently demon- | strates that the socialist leaders and the offi- cers of trade uniuns do not contemplate either a general strike or violence on the Fourth. Rumors of alarm were evidently based on the desire of the workingmen in several of the large cities to agitate in fayor of a shorter day’s Inbor—-a day of eight hours. We have no doubt that the agitators whoare responsible for the false impressions sent abroad would be pleased if they could provoke a repetition of the summer that began with the railroad strikes, but we are assured that they will be disappointed, Sham workmen and bogus patriots are not numerous enough to make a case of that kind, and the present move- ment is mainly in the hands of such fel- lows. One thing of value the great strike summer did prove. 1t showed that hun- dreds of thousands of workmen may be misled by bad counsel ; but it aleo showed that the workmen could readily perceive the real tendencies of evil and that nobody could get out of a false position more reso- lutely and expeditiously than they did, That experience may stund in the way of the agitators now. Fireworks in the City. The Aldermen have rescinded the ordi- nance prohibiting the use of fireworks in the city, and the resolution of repeal goes to the Mayor for his consideration. The ordinance has been in operation on a single Fourth of July, and has not only been generally approved, but is regarded as a public blessing by the citizens. It is not known what considerations induced the Aldermen to attempt its repeal, but they were, no doubt, of a weighty character with those remarkable officials. Popular senti- ment favored the ordinance when it was passed, and favors it still, and it is to be hoped that the Mayor's veto to the Alder- manic enterprise will continue the p:ohibi- tion in force. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. H. O. Tucker, of the Troy Times, is in Cali- fornia. Ex-Governor Swann, of Maryland, has arrived at ‘Newport. “Mr. Elihu B, Washburne, of Illinois, is at the Astor House. The girl with a new Saratoga trunk feels as proud as a new LL. D. Senator George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, is at the ‘New York Hotel. Mr. McLean, editor of the Cinoinnati Enquirer, spends his vacation at Long Branch. Along trail has one advantage; you can pick it up and mash a mosquito on the ceiling. Senator Blaine will not return from Maine to ‘Washington during the present session. Associate Justice Joseph P, Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court, is at the Hotel Brunswick, Out in Illinois when they survey David Davis fors suit of clothes they take him on a half-mile track. A tired hostlor, who was dying in Kentucky the other day, said sadly that he had played his last. card. Professor William Darling, of the University of New York, has been made a LL, D, by the University of Vermont. ‘The New Orleans Picayune knows frogs that give watering place hops. Thought breweries were where they have watering place hops? A Vermonter claims that his State is composed of the finest dark loam. In fact, we may avid, sand is so scarce that grocers have had to raise the price of brown sugar. Senator Sharon is making great preparations for s reception which he will give to General Grant (prob- ably at Belmont, the old Ralston seat), The recep. tion is expected to be a grand social affair. The rabble will not be admitted. Free Press:—‘Sea bathing may have its charms for the spindle-legged men and flat-footed women, but what can exceed the satisfaction of crawling across ten acres of sweet-scented clover to steal a peck of yellow harvest apples and cat them in the shade of a barn filled with new mown hay.” $ Rev. Arthur Brinkman, hospital chaplain, says in his new book :—The nurse ought to have a washing: stand all to herself in every sick room, and the mor sho washes her hands at it, whether they want it or not, the more the patient will be edified, Everything shoulda be clean about the cap, everything clear about the dress, but the nice effect of it all may be spoiled by the one black finger nail that rests on the saucer. The cleaner the nurse, the cleaner the pa- tient will be.” MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, At the Union Square Theatre “Horrors” continues to be attractive. The cool weather since Sunday has greatly increased the audiences, On Friday, the Fourth, there is to bea special matinée of “Horrors,” and ou Saturday the fiftieth performance isto be made brilliant. Madison Square Garden is at present remarkable for coolness, which by many is ascribed to the pres- ence of the electric light. The atmosphere is cer- tainly delightful, and the music by Dodworth’s Band and the general concert programme render a visit to the garden very enjoyable. The steamship Wisconsin, which sailed for Europe yesterday, had among her passengers Miss Sarah Jewett and Miss E. Howell, of the Union Square Theatre; Mr. William Owen, of the Park Theatre; Professor KE, H. Johnston and family; Mrs, Julia and Miss Gaylord and Mr. Packard, of the Carl Rosa troupe. Mr. Packard looks extremely well, iu spite ot the rumors about his health spread abroad by some Western paper. Miss Julia Gaylord has also gathered strongth in her ruralizings in Massachu- setts and in the West, and returns to London full of earnest enthusiasm for her art. She is studying Mignon, Elsa and Katharine, in the ‘Taming of the Shrew,” desirous of increasing hor already splendid English reputation. Few American lady singers can boast of such well deserved success as Mins Gaylord has achieved with the Rosa Opera Com pany in England. LIBRARIANS IN COUNCIL Boston, Mass., July 1, 1879. ‘The morning sessions of tho Librarians’ Conven- tion was held to-dey in Union Hall, Boylston street, President Windsor occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance. W. E, Foster, of tho Provi- dence Public Library, read the opening paper on the «“gohool and the Library; Their Mutual Relations, &c.”” Papers wore also read on “The Duty of Parents in the Selection of Reading for the Young,”’ by Mra, Kate Garnett Wells, of Boston; on “Fiction in Libraries,” by Charles James Adams, Jr.; on ‘8 day School Libraries,” by Miss Martha H. Brooka; on “ho Use of Fiction by School Children,” by Mary A. Bean, of the Brookline Public Library; on “Reading of School Children,” by Robert C. Metcalf, master of Wells’ school, Boston, ‘Sensational Fic- tion in Public Libraries’ was the subject of the con- eluding Les gf whicn was read by Sumuel 8, Green, of the Public Library of Worcester, Rev, James Freeman opened a disonssion of the various was followed by Colonel T. W. Higginson, Professor William P, Atkinson Chamberlai will and hye ler in. This noon, at the invitation of Mayor Prince, Oe nace make au gxcursion down the