The New York Herald Newspaper, July 5, 1879, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD 2 BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, day in the year. ‘Ten dollars per two dollars and fifty cents kaves shonld be properly seated. huenientions will not be returned, wea z—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH 2W YORK HERALD— Ee es AMUSEMENTS BVENING, TO-DAY AND HAVERLYS LYC S. Pixavone. Matinee. THE AQUARIUM—Darawine Room Prerormance. UNION SQUARE—Horrous. VIVOLE THEATRE—Vaniery. KOSTER & BIAL--Porctan C TONY PAS’ vS THEATRE—Vanuxry. MADISON SQUAI E WITH SU NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY Idrertisers are respectfully requested to hand | in their cavertisements previous to eight o'clock ini the evening lo insure proper classification. New with Lhe probabilities are that the weather in York and its vicinity to-day will be fair, Julling lemperature and possibly light local show- ers. To-morrow it will be fair and slightly Dip You Go vo Conny IsLanp yesterday and get home with dry clothes ? Peysioners will find some interesting in- hington despatches to-day. formation in our Wa ‘Taxpayers should go to ite of taxation isto be re- ve to sixteen per cent. OVERLURDE Caba, where the duced trom twenty) 1 Warer, © harley Courtney's béle noire, on boats yesterday at the Harlem reqaila, fortunately without any loss of life, of the suuken boats subsequently winuing awamped ele some Y LAD Grosser KuRFURST, silision with her consort, ish Channel, ed from her German Ino! wh the nearly ch was sunk in Crown Pring herself yesterday in OLp Newrorr outdid we the gallant’ Twenty-third from New York soldiers should be- es and not let their comrades over — the fun. ming Our Beooklyn, ati them the river have Loxpon Eus uston square murder mystery uusolyed. Hannah Dobbs, who was ar- rested some eighteen month: on a charge of ristress, has just been acquitted. ‘or the London reporters. her murderin ¢RANS Of the war of 1812 cele- s Fourth yest jay in this ranged from ninety-two to aud total being 1,179. The nazingly. oli fellows enjoyed themselves 4 fur Kuepive b hard roud to travel, for he was arrested yesterday at Naples. The cable omits to state for what cause, but it was probably debt, he having an army of creditors. Quite a sudden turn in the wheel of fortune. Tus SportinG Wor.p was in its element yes- terday, for there important events in rowing, running, rifle shooting, rackets, ull other athleties. A proper en- ment of these sports must improve the » in the present and future genera- were base cour and American ray tious. LinUTENA Carey, who is ; charged with Jeaving the Prince Imperial in the lurch among the Zulus, is to be court martialled. Our Lon- don letter deseribes the indignation felt against the Why don’t they court martial Lord Chelmsford, in whose charge the Privee was placed! poor lieutenant. Racks at Monmovuru Park yesterday were witnessed by a multitude of spectators, and the day’s sport was a promising opening to A notable meeting. T! horses yet to run in- mous names, and they are reported to be in splendid condition. To-day’s card shows { some excellent running is ex- six events, pected. Wr CeLenrate” is ‘called by one fur “Day NEW YORK — HERALD, SATURDAY, J ULY 5, 1879.—-WITH SUPPLEMENT, Bad Location of the Federal Capital. The recent removal of the seat of French legislation from Versailles back again to Paris was in pursuance of the settled idea of civilized nations that the political capi- tal of a country should be its most impor- tant city. The French government retired to Versailles under the stress of a great | public exigency; it returns to Paris as soon | as it is felt that the new form of government | rests on a stable basis. London is the seat of British authority, as Edinburgh was of | Scotch and Dublin of Irish authority so long as these countries had separate parliaments. | Berlin is the political capital of Germany, Vienna of Austria, Constantinople of Tur- key, Copenhagen of Denmark, in accordance with the general sense of fitness of civilized nations, As soon as the political unity of Italy was restored by Victor Emmanuel the seat of authority gravitated steadily toward | Rome, It was first transferred to Florence and thence to Rome, even at the expense of a great affront to the religious sentiment of | the country in dispossessing the Pope of his temporal dominions. This tendency to make the chief city of a nation the seat of its government does not result from political sentimentalism or a mere passion for éclat and splendor; it rests upon solid reasons. Every reflecting nation is bound to recognize the possibility and to guard against the danger of invasion by a foreign enemy. ‘The chief temptations of an invader are the plunder of a wealthy city and the prestige of capturing or putting to flight the government of the invaded coun- An elaborate and expensive system of fortifications is necessary for the protection of cach, and it is more economical to make the same defensive prepar- ation suffice for the chief seat of a nation’s wealth and the seat of its authority. Washington was captured by the British, the government driven away and the public buildings burned in 1814; and the same thing may easily happen again in a war witha great naval Power. But the com- meycial metropolis of the .country has al- ways been better protected by defensive works, The great and costly forts which frown defiance at ‘thé entrance to our har- bor, both through the Narrows and through the Sound, render the capture of New York avery remote and almost impossible con- tingency in a foreign war. The necessity for protecting so vast an amount of property as is accumulated here can never be disregarded by the government, and the same defensive measures would be equally effectual for protecting the government it- self. Hence the economy and the safety of having the seat of a nation’s authority in the city which is the chief seat of its wealth, One set of defensive works suffices for the protection of both. There are other considerations which, although they do not quite rank in solid importance with the one just stated, have a separate cogency of theirown. The mem- bers of a government should be in constant intercourse with the highest intelligence of a nation, and this is always to be found in the principal centre of wealth and social cultivation. The most important of the staple subjects of legislation are revenue and finance, and these can be best studied at the centre of business and ex- changes. Moreover, government should be a civilizing influence, diffusing the highest culture of the principal centre of refine- ment through the remote parts of the na- tion, The members of the legislative body and the higher administrative and judicial officers bring their wives and daughters with them to the national capital, and the society with which they come in contact of our contemporaries our “one hundred and third Fourth of July.” Now, the fact is that | yesterday was our one hundred and fourth Fourth of July, ‘The year 1776 gave us our first Fourth of July and the year 1876 our one hundred and tirst Fourth, and our one hun- dredth auniversary of our first Fourth. It fol- lows Tourth wa of July. Over He NDRE HOUSAND PERsoONS i to Coney Island yesterday to escape pressive heat in Oxe rain storm and a result wholly at vari- expectations on setting out. cenes witnessed ou this now amusing as they are inter- unfortunates will no doubt rail ninodation on the s were canght in the drenched to the skin with their of the ance Our repor fumou at the lack of acc island, forgetting in their ang tially a fair weather resort. of the passed over the New England and the Middle States an olf the coust of New in the Tur low pressure The Which was ove Wravinn. centre the areca of on ¢ and is Southern s still high, tempera uighout the South Atlantic, the New Engivud States, the hottest rapidly the Over luke lower central valleys the tempe a remarkably, but has slightly The weather las been rout all the section east , but som ry heavy wins und local rains passed over the Ohio and M ippi expecially severe on the a, and they North Atlentic coast. prevailed from the wert wind wost of them they w with oceasional heavy New York and its fair, with falling tem- light local showers uth westerly ti mad Rqito rhe w viemmity toxlay r lakes eastw end ather in will be nid poss wud sliyltly warmer, New York and | t least one-third of these pleasure | er that it is essen- | lower Inkes | should be such as would qualify them to be missionaries of social refinement in the partgot the country where they reside. Nothing tends more to level society upward throughout the remoter provinces of a na- tion than having the seat of government in a great metropolis instead of a small pro- vincial town. So numerous are the objections to Wash- ington as the seat of the federal government that it would be difficult to name them all, even in the form of a brief catalogue. The question of salubrity may, however, be se- lected for prominent mention. Washing- ton is among the least healthful of Ameri- ean cities. It is intensely hot in summer, and the low, marshy lands on the Potomac are breeding places of malaria. In years when the session of Congress does not ex- tend into the summer the President and most important members of the adminis- tration desert and take refuge in cooler and more salubrious regions. But every second year the sessions of Congress extend far into the summer, endangering the health t 1870 gives us our one hundred and | of members and detaining executive officers in the heat and malaria. ven in the alter- nate years there is a liability to the same deadly exposure. We have just barely escaped an extra session extending through the dog days. In the off years when Con- | gress adjourns on the 4th of March and | there happens to be no extra session the | President and Cabinet officers are able to | escape, but the under secretaries and the thousands of clerks must remain on duty in | the most unhealthy city of the continent in the same latitude. In view of the | necessity for these numerous em- | ployés to stay mt the capital and | perform their daily duties the seat. of government ought to be one of the most ; Salubrious places in the country. If it were located in New York, which is, on all accounts, the most suitable place tor it, both the Congressmen in the alternate | years when the annual sessions extend far | into the summer, and the government clerks in all years, could spend their even- ings and nights and mornings in the fresh ocean air of the neighboriug beaches, and perform their daily duties in a city which is washed on either side by cooling rivers. ' We cannot accept the conclusion that the government is fixed forever in the hot and malarious city of Washington. We give no heed to the Western clamor for the removal of the seat of government | to St, Louis St. Louis has even a more torrid summer climate than Washington, although it is less subject to malaria. There ‘is nothing in the argument for locating the | national capital in the geographical centro or even at the centre of population, This might have been a good argument previous ,to our modern facilities for cheap and ( rapid goal. A it is obsolete in | aut for a small nha: but the ro this age of railways. ‘The seat government should be at the great centre of commerce and exchanges and of intelligence, culture, social refinement and civilization; at the place where a vigilant and poweriul press can keep immediate watch on the proceedings of the govern- | ment and where the rapid interchange of ideas would enable our legislators to keep abreast of the most enlightened thought of the age. It was never consistent with the common sense of the nation that the seat of govern- ment should be in a small provincial town, The government was first organized and set in operation in the city of New York; it was then transferred for ten years to Phila- delphia. Its removal to a wilderness on the Potomac was the consequence of a disgraceful intrigue. When the scheme of assuming the State debts was agitated in the first Congress the greedy speculators who had bought up the claims and expected to make fortunes out of the assumption found that they could not pass the scheme without the aid of Southern votes, and they bought the needed votes by offering to Southern mem- bers the bribe of establishing the perma- nent seat of government on the Potomac and creating a new Southern city in a ma- larious wilderness. The only reason of any weight against revising that absurd and corrupt decision is the heavy expense which has been in- curred in the erection of public buildings at Washington.- We do not dispute the force of this objection, but it is less conclu- sive than itseems on its face. ‘he princi- pal cost of the public buildings consisted in quarrying and shaping the stones of which they are constructed. The mere putting them together after they had been hewn and prepared was a minor part of the expense. ‘They could ali be taken down, transported by water to New York and replaced in structures of the same' form and dimensions for a trifling part of tho original cost. The Californian Democrats. The final upshot of the stormy State Con- vention at Sacramento city indicates that the democratic party of California will main- tain its separate organization, but makes it improbable that it will carry the State. Califernia is more nearly in a condition of political chaos than any other State in the Union. It is so bedevilled with Kearney- ism and so split up into factions founded on wild crotchets that outsiders can take little interest in its contusing squabbles, The election of members of Congress in California is the only thing in the coming contest which is of any particular concern to the country at large. California is the only State which was not represented in the House at the late extra session. She chooses her four Congressmen in Septem- ber, and if, as in the Forty-fifth Con- gress, they should be equally divided be- tween the two great parties, the result will make no change in the democratic majority. But the politics of the State are in so dis- tracted a condition that the two democratic members of the last Congress are likely enough to be replaced by nationals or men of some odd political stripe. Edison’s Light. One of the most notable chapters in a future history of inventions will be that which tells the story of Mr. Edison’s labors in the perfectior of his electric light, For many years now it has boen mooted that one of the uses of electricity would be to supply the world with an artificial light but little inferior for purposes of illumination to the sunlight itself, and so far superior to all other artificial lights that they would all by common consent be abandoned when this could be made accessible and cheap. But the inventive spirit of the world slept upon this hint, and the means of making the project practical were not found despite many devices. Electricity, however, and electrical machinery, through the demands of telegraphic companies, were studied and manipulated to an extent never known before, and the consequence was to produce a class of ingenious men who thought electricity, just as other men think stocks, or law, or medicine or railroads, Mr. Edison is the foremost of these, and a man who exhibits as remarkable a capacity to handle this great imponderable torce as other men to handle the more ordinary forces familiar in arts and industry. Upon him seemed to fall the obligation of carrying the electric light to completion, as it must have fallen upon Michael Angelo in his time to make any new temple in the Christian world. Ifthe achievement was within any man's reach in the present state of our knowledge it was within his. In another column will be found a statement of the latest known de- tails of his labor, by which it appears that he bas invented for his purpose a new gen- erator of electricity, a new measurer, and that he has discovered ‘the existence in this country of platinum to such an extent as may reduce that scarce metal to the price of silver, West Tornadoes. Our telegrams from Minnesota and Dakota recount the dreadful visitation of those regions by a whirlwind, or perhaps two whirlwinds, for it does not seem to be clear that the storm reported from one dis- trict as occurring on Wednesday night is the same that ravaged another place on Thursday. Perhaps there may be some confusion of dates in the chronicle, but if the dates are accurate the ap- pearance of the same storm at the places named could scarcely havo beon separated by twenty-four hours. | is notable that these storms—undoubted tornadoes—though destructive, were tar less destructive than these perturbations gen- erally are. Apparently this can only be at- tributed to the circumstance that the line of advance only touched one town, and that comparatively an inconsiderable place. In the absence of populous towns and fine structures the best tornado in the world is at fault as to the havoc it would make, for the open prairie count#y takes little dam- age, and the atmosphere soon recovers its equanimity, Doubtless the church and orphauage destroyed at Vasa are severe | babies melted the stovtest hearts. j the country the spouters spread the un- It) | jured, but stern dealings may have the | would seldom of | may, upon the whole, consider that such visitors are ordinarily more ruinous. How the Day Was Kept. Five murders in the neighborhood are reported this morning—two of which at least grew directly out of the celebration of Independence Day. Many persons, though how many is not known, were spilled into a lake from the upper deck of a careening excursion steamer. In short, the list of casualties is large, varied and remarkable. One of the elements of an old fashioned celebration of the Fourth was always a list of the killed and wounded. In former days the City Hospital always had a couple of wards filled with boys who had blown them- selves up in various ways, losing their members with liberal impartiality—some- times only a thumb or an ear, sometimes a foot ora hand, ‘here isa change in this respect due to the enforced abstinence from pistol practice in the streets, though the enforcement was not very energetic, But from the rural districts we hear of the customary casualty to the men who rammed an unserviceable cannon gnce too often. One ot the features of the celebration that abounded in promise turned out some- what unpleasantly. This was the popular trip to Coney Island. Everybody and his wife went there with the babies. For eight or ten hours every possible means of con- veyance to the island was crammed to the utmost. Consequently not less than ten hours would be required to return this great mass of humanity to the city. But, though people were going down nearly all day, everybody wanted to come home at about the same hour. That was impossible, “and what's impossible can’t be, and never, never comes to pass.” It did not come to pass yesterday and there was great trou- ble about the return trip. People who wanted to come home at six were still struggling for a seat in the cars at eight, nine and ten, aud the pitiful wailing of the All over plucked eagle of eloquence and Mr. Hayes went to Fortress Monroe. The Theological Seminary Murder. Few chronicles of the tragedies of life in a great city go beyond the story told in the Henarp to-day of the murder of Mr. Sey- mour in the grounds of the Theological Seminary on Twenty-first street and Tenth avenue, Startled by the murder of Mrs. Hull in her own bed, people have scarcely realized all the danger to life which that drama implied when they are called upon to consider a strange drama of the night equally fatal, but marked evidently by widely different circumstances of murder- ous passion, On a summer night an old gentleman makes the tour of the grounds that surround the seminary to drive away the tramps or other persons by whom the place is apt to be peopled at that time. Although these grounds are, in fact, in the centre of a densely populated district, they are obscure and lonely. Lighted streets are all about them and inhabited houses on every side; but the dim, silent space, out of teach of the policeman on his beat, affordsa tempting place of refuge for homeless cred- tures of every sort, who swarm there to rest orsleep. In that place the old gentleman was killed, between ten and eleven at night apparently, by a single pistol shot. By whom was it fired? Against all conceivable possibility the police hold that it was fired by the old gentleman himself. Lookers on believe it may have been an accidental shot from the hand of some early celebrant of the Fourth in a neighboring window. But the plainer probability is that he was killed face to face by some intruder upon whom he had come in his tour of inspection. In the mere disturbance of a tramp’s repose there will naturally seem to be not enough passion for murder, but that cannot be declared positively, for the tramp is apt to be irritable and to act with savage readiness in such circumstances. But beyond this it is possible that Mr. Seymour surprised some interlopers in circumstances more likely to excite fury than the mete disturbance of repose. He was shot within arm’s length of the sidewalk on a public street, but the police knew nothing about it. They will have many clews, however, in a day or two, and one of the theories they will form will be more diabolical than that formed in the case of Dr. Hull. Exeursion Disasters. In yesterday's Hrnatp we gave a timely warning to holiday excursionists, caution- ing them against undue haste in getting on or off steamboats or railroad trains, The necessity for such advice is found in our telegraph columns to- day, for a shocking disaster occurred yesterday afternoon on Lake Quinsiga- mond, near Worcester, Mass., when several lives were lost, and another at Trenton, N. d., with the same sad result, The Quin- sigamond accident was due to the frantic efforts of one thousand people to get on board a small steamer, when the hurri- cane deck gave way and the vessel careened, precipitating several hundred persons into the water. At Trenton a crowd of excursionists were permitted to rush on to a wharf, when the structure sank be- neath their weight, In both cases a panic occurred, as is natural in the presence of sudden danger, and many homes are thrown into mourn- ing. We trust that a strict and searching investigation will be had, and in the event of the responsibility being placed where it belongs a severe punishment awarded, This will not bring the dead back to lite, or heal the wounds of the in- effect to prevent such terrible seenes here- aitér. Itistrue that if people would be patient accidents like those of yesterday occur, but crowds are naturally unreasonable; therefore the managers of steamboats and rnil- roads should be compelled to adopt mousures which will keep their patrons within bounds and out of dan- ger. We notice that some twenty thou- sand and odd men, women and children landed at the Coney Island pier yester- day, fortunately without mishap. It is to | be hoped, sca that the managers of this new structure will see to it that no sudden panic can occur, to end only in great loss of life, This question of carefully guarding masses of pleasure seekérs from possible danger is one that | should not be lost sight of, for the ounce of prevention is not only better than the pound of cure, but far oheapar in the end, English and American Rowing. The past twelve months have been dotted all over with events which will long be memorable in aquatic annals, Always prior thereto England had held undisputed sway at the oar, and never once on her own waters was she beaten by any American, But one year ago to-day four modest young Columbia students, on the most popular racing water in England, met picked oarsmen from the long and justly renowned clubs of the great British universities and defeated them all with comparative ease. A little later the fastest sculler the United States have yet produced met in friendly contest a man from an adjoining province, who had already made for himself a wouderfully brilliant record, and all over the long five miles so fought him that as they crossed the finish line scarce half a boat’s length marked the distance by which the Canadian had won, A few months afterward this same game little Canadian whipped the best man England could put. against him with such ridiculous ease that not even yet has any satisfactory explanation for it been offered by the supporters of the vanquished, while another Canadian, ready to tace anything in England, actually had to come home withouta fight. And now, only the other day, in the chief and best known intercollegiate strug- gle in this country, Harvard, for the fifteenth time out of nineteen, not only out- rowed her ancient enemy, but by more than she ever did before. Here, then, in both amateur and profes- sional racing, America has beaten England, and so unmistakably that the most preju- diced Briton cannot deny the fact. In bouts, oars and styles of rowing also the change has been equally marked, the champion‘ of England, for instance, frankly confessing that he did not know how to row, and trying to learn what he could from the gallant Canadian fisherman. ‘The one great source of regret is that Har- vard could not, on the Putney course, have met Oxford and Cambridge in eights. Had she followed the Heraup’s suggestion and asked the faculty to let the members of the crew be examined a month or six weeks earlier than usual we might, and in all probability would, be now chronicling another victory of the crimson over the blue, and that not before thirty thousand people at Henley, but a million between Putney and Mortlake. Canada is jubilant to-day, and will be more so next week, over the magnificent work of their countryman a fortnight ago on the Tyne water. But in the depths of their joy and boasting it may be well to bear in mind the words uttered by Hanlan on the night after the great race at Lachine :— “I say on my honor and my oath that I rowed for all that was in me, and when I finished I could scarcely stand or see,” ‘These words, right in the heat of the event itself, are far more trustworthy than later vainglorying, and it may be well enough to confine the bragging within reasonable bounds. One more odd thing may be noted—a rowing nation now fora whole generation, we have no Henley, no Putney, and are seemingly as far from a national race course asever. But to-day, thanks to the vigor- ous efforts of Senator Wagstaff, our oars- men have at last, like Oxford and Cam- bridge on the Thames, the exclusive con- trol of a wide strip of the Hudson during racing hours. If the experienced gentle- men who have the races in charge look carefully to every detail, and the elements prove favorable, our citizens may, before nightfall, witness the first of a series of con- tests destined to prove the loading national aquatic events of the future, and, now that England is fairly beaten, quite likely in- ternational as well. The Wild Politician. Another great reform is required in the celebration of the ‘glorious Fourth.” We have exploded the pestilent firecracker, burst up the fifty cent brass pistol in the hands of the small boy and got rid of many kindred abominations that made the na- tional festival hideous; but the hifalutin politician still cracks and snaps, and fills the air with unpleasant noises and odors all about us, He still infests the Fourth as the tick infests the pine woods of Virginia, the trichina spiralis the meat of unhealthy hogs, or the festive and eloquent bullfrogs the muddy regions of every low lying dis- trict. Having crushed so many evils in the Fourth, can we not also crush him? He is exceedingly numerous this year. He brays at Tammany Hall in the ordinary forms of the mild idiocy which distin- guishes that array of Tipperary Indians, he snorts exhausted rebellion in a neigh- boring city of a patriotic State and twaddles sophomorical science illimitably at the mutual admiration Sunday school turnout which Mr. Bowen annually gets | together in Connecticut. Some of the things he says may be respectably enough said, but it is untimely to crowd this sort of superfluous ginger pop eloquence upon a holiday. Did not the extra session give chance for saying all that these fellows know about State rights and the “inestima- ble boon of a free country?” If all that is to be gone over again at miscellaneous fes- tivities let us by all means have another extra session and lovalize the evil. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Paradise was not a city, but a gardon, On Sundays & good many fish lines fall in pleasant places, Senator Roscoe Conkling is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ‘The Chinese never woar gloves, and yet they do not go. ‘Talmage passes in England for a theological drum major. The Boston Transcript speaks of him as the Grand Lamar, ‘The Athenawm says that when ® lady novelist un- dertakes to describe a gentleman she always draws a snob. Mr. Vance is evidently regarded as the Sitting Bulldozer. Senator Charles W. Jones, of Florida, is at the Now York Hotel. Whoever knew an actor or singer to dodge an ad- vertising dodge? Heaven has no fan.—Free Press, But the other place has fandangoes, ‘The Philadelphia Item's detective finds that male hairdressers often dye old maids, ‘trollope considers Thackeray's “Rebecca and Rowena” to be the best of burlesques, ‘Tilden’s friends are like the man’s wife who did not care which wou—the man or the bar’!, The Milwaukee News says that Tom Ewing was born a leader. Did he lead from @ long suit? A colored clergyman of Virginia extensively raises chickens. | He raises them off his neighbor's roosts, Kinglake ascribes much of his love of the East to his mother’s reading Homer to him in his child- hood, It must be hot in New Orleans, The Picayune says that Satan never takes @ vacation even in the hottest weather, ‘The New Haven Register’s detective knows a musica) baby that runs the chromatic squall. Give that baby achromo, In some parts of Europe Talmage is mistaken for Edison, simply because he ts known as the man who knocked spots out of gas. ‘The Boston Transcrivt learns that at » watering place hotel the man with # linen satchel having his initials on it is a New Englander. Molasses, says the proverb, catches more flies than vinegar does, which is probably the reason why molasses is more expensive than vinegar. An Arkansas negro who was hanged asked his andience to try to meet him in heaven, although he was quite doubtful about their ever getting there, Wheeling Leader:—“Cut a bung hole in # country hotel gong and beat on it with a ripe banans, and you nave @ pretty good idea of the loudness of the Grant boom at the present writing.” Danbury News:—‘City people are not so effeminate 88 ruralists are prone to paint them. Numbers of them are engaging quarters in New Milford right in the face of the fact that the village brass band has three rehearsals weekly.’’ The Duke of Argyll, with Lady Mary and Elizabeth Campbell, are expected to arrive at St. John, N. B., by train on Monday morning, aud leave directly by steamer for Boston, thence to New York, and are ex- pected to take their departure for England on the 12th inst. A writer says that an Englishman can always tell an American by his speaking of the “London” 7imes instead of the plain Times, One day a Londoner, fresh in New York, came to the Hxratp office, and, interviewing the exchange reader, said:—“Please lay the London Times out for me, every morning, you know.” ‘The Atheneum:—“When we calla man acynic we j mean that he 1s ill conditioned and snarling, that he makes savage response to kind advances, that he refuses to believe good of anything or anybody, and that, though he is not necessarily malicious if let alone, it is his pleasure and his determination to be let alone. The cynic does no favors and desires none.” Norristown Herald:—“The New York HERALD, with its customary enterprise, is the first to an+ nounce that an Arkansas genius has invented a bottle which has a cork at both ends. This may be an advantage when two men want to drink from the same bottle at one time, but it seems to us that a bottle without any corks would find a larger sale in Arkansas. An Arkansas man becomes dry so often that he loses several drinks per day in drawing corks.” Springfield Republican:—It is worth remembering that for many years after 1862 the Southern girls of school age were destitute of the educational facilities which previously existed. The men were being dis- ciplined in the field, but the girls suffered a real hiatus in their development. Slavery also cast a penumbra over the relations of men and women at home and projected p more patriarchal authority for women than has survived at the North. Thus nar- nowed in nativity, society, education and opportunity the Southern woman has remained stationary, stranded where the high tide of rebellion left her.” THE DOMINION OF CANADA. ILLNESS OF SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD—TOUR OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL AND HIS PARTY. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Orrawa, Ont., July 4, 1879. For some days past Sipgehn A. Macdonald has been seriously indispésed. On Wednesday, it was said that his immediate friends were alarmed at his state, his medical adviser hav- ing declared him to be suffering from » disease which threatened fatal consequences some years ago, on which occasion he was laid up for weeks in a room in the Parliament buildings. I learn to-day that he is better, but still confined to his room. He has been seriously ill, and is now in so weak a state that it is thought it will be some time before he can be able to transact public business, His visit to England, whither Lady Macdonald has preceded him, is of course indefinitely postponed. Messrs. Langevin and Abbott did not embark yesterday at Liverpool, as expected. Their passages were taken, but some- thing happened which has not transpired to prevent their leaving London. As letters were sent to Mr. Langevin yesterday from public departments here, it does not look as though his brother Ministers con- template his speedy return. TOUR OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL. His Excellency the Governor Genoral, his father, the Duke of Argyll, and the ladies of the party ar- rived at Gaspe on Tuesday evening by the government steamer Druid. They havo visited sit the principal fish establishments enjoyed the fishing in Gas] y, Fe- turned to Gaspe Basin last night and will probably leave for Campbelltown to-day, CANADIAN INDIANS TROUBLESOME, ‘Wixwrexa, Manitoba, July 4, 1879, Advices from Saskatchewan just received contain no reterenoe to the rumored raid by Indians on the Lieutenant Governor's residence. Only 150 Indians are encamped at Battleford. The remainder are moving to the Plains. Great destitution has pre- vailed owing to the scarcity of buffalo, causing a radical change in the circumstances and condition of the Indians, who now must be fed. ‘The Saskatchewan Herald says the newly appointed Indian agents should be at thoir poste at once, as timely action will save 8 whole season's work on the reserves, A GREAT NEWSPAPER, [From the Jackson (Mias.) Comet, June 98.) We recognize greatness in the Hemanp because that paper not only commands a great income and has a yreat run, but it is among the very few jour- nals of the United States that can afford and dares to. occupy @ lofty plane of patriotism and statesman- ship above parties and independent of them. It can and doos, npon suitable occasions, condemn any party or sustain any party without the loss of power. Its :ufluence is immense, because it haa the world for an audience and its views are not dwarfed by the necessity of sustaining or condemning this or that party. Instead of being ® weathercock and following the popular current, as many unthinking men allege, it has the moral audacity to plant iteelt in the very middle of the most turbuleut current and to say to the angry clement, ‘Peace, be still!’* It does not follow, but it leads public sentiment, It does not drift, but it opens the channel for the eur- rent torunin, The Hunanp is, therefore, s great paper-—great in resources of mind and money, great in scope, great in pow MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, It is announced that Mme. Theo, one of the threo leading stars of the Paris stage, will soon retiro and open a confectioner's shop in the Avenue de 1' Opera, Tho farewell performances of the Rice Surprise Party will occur this afternoon and evening, at tho Union Square Theatre, it being the Aftieth night of their season. The burlesque of “Horrors” will be the attraction, Miss Alice Atherton appearing for tho first time as Prince Achmet, while Miss Lina Mer- ville assumes a part written expressly for her—that of Captain Beautorall, The Rice company open on Monday ht at the Park Theatre, Boston, with “Horrors,”