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fflMMTOWna wr.m 1 1 ii rrT TTtr. 1 but did not appear against Wm, and because traveler, while the plethorio Englishman likes SALAD FOE StfUPAY, ABOUT BB00KLYN PEOPLE. as though the salt tic hid built him up, aud ano7 turns the saales at ISO pounds. So much for nit air and a good gymnasium. Stothabd.

Miss Sophie Stothard, of Irving place, soprano of tho South Reformed Ofcnrcb, will spend a part of her vacation at Woramaug Lake, among tho Litobfleld bills, Connootlout. Lea vey. Captain Leavey, of tho Third Precinct, is passing hie well earned vacation at Patch ogne, L. I. Sergeant Cadden wlU hare command during his absence.

Madge. Captain Thomas I. Madge, a prominent resident of the Nineteenth Ward, aud wifa are at Saratoga whore they will remain for a few weeks, after which thoy will go to Cnba for some months. Bebby. Captain M.

L. Berry, of Classon avenue, has been enjoying himself during the hot spell at the Kolaoy farm on the East Elver. Captain Berry bas always had a liking for a rural life. Oobdova. Mr.

G. do Cordova ia still enjoying himself with the fishing opportunities presented it the Thousand Islands, making an occasional trip to the city to attend to business matters. King. Mr. Earl King, of the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railroad, it contemplating a short visit across the continent before tho close of tbe season.

His many friends wish him 6on voyagt, Kebns. Mr. James Kerns and family, Mr. John Tlerney and his two sons, Matthew J. and John have just returned after a very extended trip through the Catskill Mountains.

Bbxant. Dr. Melville Bryant, of Greene avenue, took 1 trip to Providence, It. yesterday for the purpose of visiting his friend Brocoliai, who is singing with the Boston Ideals In that oity. Owen.

Mr. P. Owen captured a man eating shark off Pier No. 22, East Blver, yesterday. It measured ten feet.

Ho also oaught an oxtra large esa spent my last cent la getting across the ferry. I haven't had square feed in two wooke, and the devil only knows how I shall come oat It yon don't give me a UK." "How can wo assist yon asked the editor. "What to yonr occupation 1" "Don't be surprised," said the visitor, smiling faintly. "But you see I'm that is well, I might as well let yoa have It straight, I'm an Alderman." "An Alderman almost shouted the editor. "Yes, I'm one of the walting for our babk pay gang over the river, but I can't stand the raoket a day longer, and I've made a break for your town," Bald the visitor.

knew politics was the bast paying buslneas in Brooklyn, and I thought I might oatobTon. Now you might ran me Into the Tax ofnoa as a starter, or something ot that fort." "don't be done," said th editor. four, or five hundred mora ot you fellows now than we can afford to support, and Aldermen especially are a drug in our market, and the quloker you toddle home again the safer it will be for yon," "Son couldn't oven make me a dog oatoher asked the despairing Alderman. "Departments all full," said the editor, taking up hia pen. "Your ease la hopeless over hero.

If you were anything else but an Alderman a prize fighter or an escaptd conviot our influence might be ot some use to you but as it is, a leading article a day for a month wouldn't help you In the least and the New York Alderman sadly aooeptad a loan of five cents and wended bis way Gothamward. SOMETHING OP HIS OWN. He stalked into the managing editor's room, and striking an attitude worthy of the great and let us be thankful only Oaosr thus delivered himself I take your Sunday paper, and I notice that you devote a goodly space in it to the Muses." We do, said the editor; and we flatter ourselves that the (elections reflect credit npon the literary taste of the office. We are always careful to have tbe poett oal column unimpeachable and worthy of the attention of the best It 1b unnecessary to give me that Information, sir," said the visitor, shifting hia more or less graceful form to the otber leg I'm always aure of a feast for the gods when I start la on that column. Now, yon will notice tbat many of tba most famous living poeta are weakening, as it were.

We have struok a time ia the intelleotual'history ot the world when it requires a keen Judgment to aeloct the wheat from the ohaff, and of courso that refleots most creditably npon the editors of your paper, who never fail to bring together a perfect bouquet of poetlo flowers for the delectation of their Sabbath Day readers. Now, I'm something of a poet myself, and it has been my ambition for years to shine, even for one brief Lord's Day, as a contributor to your poetical column, but not until to day have I mustered up oourage enough to even venture to suggest the Idea to you, kuowlng the severe srltloisa my humble efforts would have to undergo before I reached the desired reward." "So you are a poet yourself said tha editor. ((Well ran urn Rlnovl raftAv tn anp.nnriDa pentUS BtiU. gations and daring thslr stay they were the confer of a brilliant and admiring circle Isaacs. Mr.

Alexander Isaacs, of this city, whilo fliblng.at the Thousand Island, caught, a day or two ago, a very large Bsb, whioh, when near tho sur face, ga7e the line a Jerk and broke it. Mr. Isaacs conld not tell what Hwob, but ss bis line snapped the idea of a sea nymph dashed through bis bead. He is aro the thing must have weighed well on to fifty pounds. Kelly.

Miss Ella Kelly, of Pacific street, honorary member of the Eemble Dramatlo Society, is displaying ber ability as an elocutionist and enjoying tho Summer In company with Mlaa E. Davis, of Cumberland etreet, who adds to Ihe onjoyment of the gueatS by her'dollRhUal voloa. At their dlepoial are all the facilities for enjoyment of Colonel Thomas Carroll's spacious mansion on the banks of Poconio Bay, Southold, L. I. Powers.

Mr. Thomas F. Powers, of the Twenty third Ward, and boiler Inspeotor of the Brooklyn Polico Department, was presented on Tuesday evening with a handsome gold headed oano. His friends mada merry over the presentation. Mr.

Powers, la a eat little spoooh of but a few words, acoepted tbe gift and bopea that the cane would bring him good luck and success. After the presentation, whioh was private an damong a select few, a bountiful repast was Indulged in and the health of Mr. Powers was drank. Owings. Mr.

Joseph T. Owings, of Lafayette avenue, went to Philadelphia oa last Friday, where he aoted as "boat man" at the wedding ot ono of ble intimato friends, a well known society man of the Qaa kor City. From the faot that Mr. Owlugs li ono of the handsomest and most dignified of Brooklyn's coterie of handsome and dignified gentlomen, the ceremony wan all the more successful because of Jjle presence. After tho wedding and tbo subsequent reception Mr.

Owings started for Baltimore and Washington. He expects to return to Brooklyn on Tuesday. Goatee Oabb. Mr. Walter Goaier and Miss Anno E.

Carr, who wore married on tbe Sth left by eteamor the same day on their bridal tour to Europe. Mr. floater wss for several years illustrative artist for FraDk Leslie's publications. He Intends to devote nine months to art studies in Europe before returning. Mrs.

Goator wss a graduate with highest honors at tbe Brooklyn High School and at the Packer Institute, and will devote her time to literary studies and correspondence Many friends wish them a happy sojourn and a safe return. Abmstbono. Judge Armstrong, of Queens County, is spending his vacation at Athens on tho Hudson. His Honor is the hardest working lawyer In his county BBldo from the dutloa of ble office, but nevertheless ho fluds time to successful ivork in tbo cause of religion. He Ib an elder of tho Presbyterian Church In Jamaica and president of the Long Islana Socioty, and is a powerful exbortcr at prayer meetings and revivals.

Last 8unday afternoon ho preaehod to a large audienco at an open air meeting presided over by tbe Rev. Mr. Campbell, and the result was two conversions. He is a strong advocate of tem potauce. Talmaoe.

Rer. Dr. Tulmage and family, of this oity, are oaoupying a ooltage at East Hamptoo, within a stou'Va throw of old ocean. Dr. Talmago has owned this oottngo number of years, and oaco tried to dispose of it at auotlou, but failed.

The present popularity of Long Island iiis greatly eahauced real estate and perhaps the Dootor glad that the propery ramainsd on bis bands instead of passing to a roporter or tha Eagle, who was the only bidder, more especially from tho fact that thero Is a good pronpect cf tbe oxton.ion of the Long Island Railroad to the Village of East Hampton. From Buffalo. The pleasant Ocoanus House, at Uockaway Beach, numbered among its guosts during tho post wook Messrs. J. J.

Wcllsr, S. W. Hayes, Archibald C. Smith, N. HucLor, Georc.o Spencer, E.

B. Byington and John Byrne, all well knowu rcskionts and business mon of Buffalo Thty mado, during thotr stay, a united aud dotermlnod raid upon the schools of bluofish at prcsout so numerous In the Atlantic, to tha great discomfiture of tha fiuuy thousands. Thoy onjoyed their stay Rreatly, fared sumptuously at tbe hands ot the Hon. John McGroarty anrt left on Friday for Brighton Beach. They oxpsct to visit most of tho resorts on Long Island beloro returning to Buffalo.

THE SPANISH PEOPLE. Perhape one reason why they have never been presented officially, like Archbishop Lynch, may be found in the fact that Monsig nor Francis Bearlo, Domestic Chaplain to tho lato Cardinal Wiseman, Dr. Manning's predocessor as Archbishop, of Westminster, was refused admission by the Lord Chamberlain when he appeared in his official full dress at a Queen's Drawing Room in 1851, shortly after the restoration of the English Catholic hierarohy by Pope Pius IX. It muat be remembered, however, that in England tho Protestant Episcopal Church is the National and endowed State Church, whereas in. Canada there ib no State Chviroh, aud Arohbishop Lynch'B position aa Roman Catholic Bishop at Toronto clashes with no rights and offends no prejudices.

At the time of the Fenian tgitation, moreover, Archbishop Lynoh was very earnest in his inculcation of loyalty on the Catholic clergy and laity of his diocese. The honor recently conferred upon him, therefore, may be a sign of the Queen's appreciation of his services, like Mr. Gladstone's recent letter to Cardinal Archbishop McCabe. THR NEMESIS OF BLACKMAIL. It is an old saying that curses, like chickens, come home to roost, and the remark ia as old as the Hebrew psalmist that in the net which men lay for others their own feet are sometimes caught.

It is well that it should be so, for a contemplation of tha depths of villainy and meanness to which some miscreants in human form will descend, makes one feel that but for this law by which he who destroys others destroys himself also and that Nemesis follows the social assassin, human life in communities would be sometimes intolerable. Nothing to our mind bears stronger witness to the justice and providence of God than this diffused justice in man which ostracises tho backbiter to whom it has listened and deals to the traducer and blackmailer tho lot he had prepared for others. In social life not less than in Hebrew story it frequently happens that Hainan is hanged on tho gibbet he prepared for Mordecai. Were it not for this retributive justioe men would have no protection for themselves or their families and every one would be in constant danger of being stabbed in the dark. A remarkable instance of this has lately been recalled to public memory by the application of a solicitor in London, who though still on the law rolls has long been a pauper inmate of St.

Panoras' Workhouse. This man, if man ho can be called, whose name is Alexander Chaffers, obtained by some means or other private information detrimental to the virtue of Lady Twiss, wife of Sir Travers Twiss, a baronot and a barrister of high standing. In faot and as the whole case was published in tho English papers eleven years ago, there is no unkindness in repeating it he claimed to have proof that Lady Twiss had been a woman of the town in Germany previous to her English marriage. For several years this Lawyer Chaffers levied blackmail from the unhappy and' terrified lady on the strength of this information. At first his pecuniary demands wore moderate, and by parting with jewelry, borrowing of friends or making excuses for needing extra pin money to her unconscious husband, and other devices, Lady Twiss managed from time to time to satisfy the wolf that pursued her.

But, as always happens in such cases, tho fellow's in solonoe and avarice grew by what it fed on. The persecuted woman would havo done wisely had she handed Chaffers over to tho polico upon receipt of the first lotter he wrote demanding money as the price of silence concerning hor. But she had a husband who loved her and whom she ioved in roturn, and, wo beiiove, they had children, and the thought of their discovery of her early and repented errors was more than Bhe could bear to think of. So, yoar by year, and almost month by mouth, she secretly sealed tho lips of tho treacherous villain, only for htm to opon them again as soon as the money wa3 spent. His unhappy victijn had to iz zX last what she should baf riione at first refuse his ueinands.

In 1871 Lady Twiss, in gossequence of a threat contingent upon a heavier payment than usual, had to tell her husband everything, and he lost no time in taking legal proceedings againt the blackmailer. The day of' trial came. Lady Twiss was called as a witness, but she did not appear. Illness was pleaded by her counsel and the ease was postponed, but again when it was called she put in no appearance. For the time villainy was triumphant and Chaffers left tho court with a grin of self gratula tion, although the magistrate addressed him sternly in tho words, "You will live to bean 'ohied of contompt to all honest men," a prophecy which elicited applause in the court and which has found its fulfillment in a workhouse.

If Lady Twiss was an object of public commiseration, her husband was not lesB so. If she was henceforth to be banished from the royal drawing rooms and the aristocratic society in which sho had moved, her husband was to loso ono of the most enviable and lu arative positions which it is possible for any barrister to hold in England. At the time of tho exposure he was Registrar, and we bolieve Chancellor, of tho Province of Canterbury, an office which brought him immense fees from the several dioceses included in the archi episcopal jurisdiction. Of courso he felt it necessary to resign, and tho kindly Prim ate, however unwillingly, had to accept his resignation. At University College, Oxford, Travers Twiss had taken a First Class, had been a Fellow aud Tutor, and unless our memory fails us, was Public Orator of tho University in the year 185G, when Lord Clyde, Sir John Burgoyne, Alfred Tennyson and other distinguished heroes and authors received an honorary D.

C. L. degree at the Grand Commemoration. At all events, he was greeted with the cry of Traversissimus "Twississimus" as a sign of friendly recognition from the undergraduates' gallery. He was an admirable classical sch olar, aud had edited the text of Livy with great ability.

His domestio life with Lady Twiss had beon a perfectly happy ono until tho "bewrayor of "secrets," aB Jesus, the Son of Sirach, styles the assassin of character, stole, like a thief, into his privacy by blackmailing letters to his wife. His career seemed ended, and by no fault of his own. In America there is much arger charity, forgiveness and common sense in such matters, but in England such a scandal to a man iu Sir Travors Twiss' position is fatal and irredeemable. The wife of a public man holding hih ecclosiastical law office immediately under tho Archbishop of Canterbury and by his appointment must, like Crcsar's wife, bo above suspioion, and when hor fair fame is tarnished the social ruin falls upon him quite bb much as upon her. Tho name of Sir Travers and Lady Twiss from being in every one's mouth, soon ceased to be mentioned, and it was understood that thy wero living in privacy abroad.

Recently, however, ho has taken part in some public meetings, aud has some law business in London. Meanwhile, the infainou3 Chaffers, loathed, like another Titus Oates, by every section of his countrymen, has roaped the fit roward of a blackmailer and traducer. The Nemesis of blackmail has dogged his steps as inexor bly as ho did those of Lady Twiss. His clients ceased to employ him his acquaintances shrauk from him in horror and disgust. Tho prediction of the magistrate eleven years Ago that ho would live to be an object of con tempt to every hone6t man, has been verified, aud unable to earn even daily bread among his fellowmen and in the profession to which he stills belongs, he sought refuge in St.

Pan eras' Workhouse, where he will end his days and bo buried as a pauper. But his familiar onirit his demon in a hellish sense, has no left him. Men talk about the ruling passion being strong in death, often without realizing the horror with which the words are freighted. To see tho old and impotent gloating over the memory of bygone lusts, or the miser counting the gold which is passing from his grasp forever, is terrible enough. But what shall wo say to the fiend in human form who hav ing blasted tho career of an honorable man who never injured him, and driven from re spectable sooiety a penitent woman who gave him the price of suonce until she could do so no longer, BtiU cherishes his veual hatred and vindictivcneBS and even from his pauper's cell applies for a warrant against her for perjury in years gone by and when that is refused obtains a snmmons agaiust Macmil lau the well known publishers, for libel, bocduse a book published by them, Irvine's "Auuals of Oar Time," reports the proceedings of tho case in which Lady Twifes prosccut 'd him om a charge of ciuum it ubu, it a if as in atAv at home.

Another remattc or Mr. Freeman's must be indorsed by the experienoe of every one, namely, that while it is easy to understand any Amerioan, in spite of drawling and nasal peculiarities, in every seotion of the country, the Englishman of one county is at a loss to understand the dialect of the Englishman of another. The Londoner might as well be in a foreign country as endeavoring to converse with his fallow countrymen of Yorkshire or Lancashire. We in the habit rbgarding the legal profession as not altogether a blessing. A lawyer causes a sinking of the inner man when property or grievance is in question.

They are known to many of ns. chiefly as ir ritants and counter irritants, and when we ask them to get as oat of a difficulty we find ourselves in the position of tho horse in the fable who requested the man to assist him in driving th stag out of the flold, but found when his request was complied with that his two legged ally refused to get off his back. America teems with lawyers every man one meets in some of the Western cities is either a liquor dealer or a lawyer, and very frequently both. Great names adorn our legal rolls, but the legal multitude, though it struggles hard for tha loaves and fishes, has generally nothing to eat." In fact, Americans socially prefer to admire their lawyers at a respectful distance. But Mr.

Freeman, who is a doctor of oivil law, and if we mistake not, a non practising barrister at law in England, doserves the gratitude and affection of the whole legal fraternity for the tribute he pays, or rather the apology he makes for them. Ho is the first philosopher of repute who has given them an adequate raison d'etre. With his benedictory romarks our American lawyers we must conclude The lawyers in America are an even more important alass than they are in England ilio proportlon of them in the legixlature both of the States and of the Union Is something amazing. And tbe main point in which the position of tha legal profession in America differs from its position iu England, namely, tha union of the two oharacters of barrister and eolioitor in tho same person, aoema to mo to out two waya. On the one hand I am told that It leads to the admission ot many inferior and incompetent membors of the profession, of many oven who do not understand Latin.

But, on the other band, it helps, together with tbat localization of justice which is natural under tbo American system, to secure the presence of some lawyers of tbe higher class in every town that we coma to. Ill England our barriatora are nearly all gathered together in London hers and thero iu a few of the greatest towns thera ia a local bar, but the ordinary English town knows uo resident form of lawyer higher than the local so'icltor. But in Aniorica the alio of the country and its Federal constitution join to hinder onr centralization of the higher Justice. Thus thara la avorywhero In evary town a kernol of sooiety of a higher kind than the English country town supplies. THE PROSPECT JN EG YPT.

While the dispatches from Egypt for the past week have been somewhat disappointing to those who looked for active fighting ashore to follow the bombardment of Alexandria, it is manifest that the British have been exceedingly active, both in tho domain of arms and that of Sir Garnet Wolseley touched at Malta yesterday, and will reach the scene of operations by Tuesday. In the meantime, Lord Dufferin appears to have gained every point at Constantinople. The Turkish contingent will land at ports specified by the British; they will be subject to British orders, through tho Khedive; Arabi Pasha is declared a rebel, and the Mohammedans of India are assured by the Sultan that Her Majesty the Queen, the Empress of India, is an estimable person, striving in this instance to promote the best interests of tho Caliphate. With these preliminaries arranged, and with twenty thousand British soldiers gathered in the land of the Pharaohs, we may expect to see some bloody work within the next days. CORNELL AND WADS WORTH.

If it should appear i hat Cornell has been put aside by the Republicans because of the intervention of the Federal Administration and, the railroad companies, there ought to be clear couise for the Democratio nominee if he be the right kind of a man. Mr. Wadsworth is spoken of as a nice young gentleman, but jnst at present thero are a great many earnest citizens in tho State of New York who are opposed to having the office of Governor filled by a nice young gentleman who is in high favor with the monopolists. There are, we take it, quite a number of Republicans in Brooklyn who will not readily support the successor to an officer who has served Brooklyn remarkably well and to whom the chief opposition lies in the thing called the spoils Judge Barnard has declared invalid the preposterous ordinance passed by our Board of Aldermen, which provides that no cart except a dirt cart shall be licensed, except the owner of it drives himself. This meant that no man in Brooklyn should run more than one cart.

The Judge points out the fact that there is no power conferred upon the Aldermen to establish any such restriction as this. They might with as much propriety have made it an offense for any man to have more than one shirt. The artiole on Old Railroaders," in the Eagle supplement to day, is both amusing and instructive. The extraordinary growth of the local railroad system is suggestively stated, and along with it is a ludicrous enough view of the tribulations of the oar conductor's life. In 1807 the Brooklyn City Railroad Conipany obtained its charter.

They began operations, as the writer says, with a handful of cars. They now have 700 cars, of which 282 are in daily operation, and are able to declare an annual dividend of fourteen per cent, on stock of which fully one half is water. The President and several members of the Cabinet, with many invited guests, are about to take a month's pleasure cruise in a Government vessel. The expense of running the steamer which the Secretary of the Navy has designated for their use cannot be much less than $150 per day. If the trip lasts a month the cost to the United States will be in tho neighborhood of $5,000.

Under what law is the Secretary of the Treasury authorized to disburse a penny of the national funds to defray the expenses of a private pleasure party of federal officials and their friends General Grant was bitterly assailed for indulging in these excursions. Is the practice any the less blameworthy in General Arthur The interest in horse racing continues unabated, although the persons who have not gone horse mad in the country wonder that so many others should have done so. For tho last week the Brighton Beach Association have given racing five continuous days, and the attendance at the track is reported as almost phenomenal. The betting certainly is so. On Friday, if the has been correctly informed, over eighty thousand dollars was put at risk on the five races.

Where people get all this money to bet passes understanding. However, it was evidently not betted one half on one side and one half on another, and all won or lost at a coup, but was sifted backward and forward through the pool seller's hands, he, like the stock broker, taking his commission out whether his customers won or lost. Horse racing is an entertaining sport even if one does not as one should not bet, and it is, doubtless, gratifying to the management of the Brighton Beach Association that they, with inferior cracks to race and in tho face of such classical. events as wero run off at Monmouth Park yesterday the August Stakes and the Jersey St. Leger could draw a much larger and a better paying crowd to the race track by the sea.

The work of forming the Amerioan Military Team is progressing favorably. From the report elsewhere printed of what was accomplished yesterday at Creedmoor it will be seen that tha twelve leading marksmen scored 1,042 points in the first and 908 points in the second stage of the competition. This would give an average of "centers," or four points per shot in the former and within a fraction of that figure in the latter. It is conceded, we believe, that a team competent to hold up to this average stands a reasonably fair chance of winning in the average run of rifle matches. The coming contest with the British Volunteers, is, however, an extraordinary match, and somewhat better than average shooting is to be looked or in the struggle which will occupy Creedmoor next month.

Eight of the fifteen competitors who shot yesterday are likely to he members of the American team, four other equally strong shooters being expected to fill up the twelve from Connecticut and Massachusetts. Our National Guard marksmen seem to have successfully overcome the bete noir of the match the long 800, 900 and 1,000 yards and to be as much at home at the extreme ranges as at the short distances to which they havo heretofore been accustomed. says that he subsequently annoyed her by sham aotlons for slandM." In applying for summons, Chaffers had to read the alleged libel in which the magistrate's unflattering prediction concerning tiim oconrs. Well might the publisher's attorney ask ironically he had really been much wounded in his feelings by the publication. As if a venal blackmailing wretch like that could have any feeling at.

all It 1b. certain that Chaffers will be none the richer for biB libel suit, but will continue to enjoy tha blest, retirement of the: workhouse. Even that refuge is too good for suoh as he. Not many months ago a French Court of Justioe brought in a verdict of justifiable homicide in the; ease of. a young student who shot a fellow dead who had tormented and.

teazed him on all ocoasions beyond human endurance. It is a pity that such blackmailers Chaffers aro not dealt with by their victims in the same summary manner. No rational jury would bring in any other yerdict than justifiable homicide under such provocation as that endured by Sir Travers and Lady Twiss. FREEMEN ON ENGLAND AND AMERICA. It is certainly not unpleasant to find a scholar, historian and gentleman of high repute, prophesying good things of America and Americans after partaking of our hospitality and giving lectures to our people.

It is not always so. There is an international os well as a personal cynicism which first eats a nation's dinners and then abuses its want of gastronomic refinement. America has been particularly favored with these post prandial animadversions, and it took a good many long breaths and swallows to make us forget all the caricatures in Dick'ens' "American Notes," in which local and occasional weaknesses were set in strong relief as though they were national characteristics. Dickens himself livedto regret his too exuberant satire and made amends upon better acquaintance. Syice that day tho real representatives of English thought and culture have made America a study and a place of Summer travel.

Such men as the bishops of Manchester, Rochester and the new bishop of Newcastle, Ernest Wilberforce, as well as the Dean of Wells, Dr. Plumptre, and the late Dean Stanley, to say nothing of the royal princes, tho Duke of Manchester, "Buckshot" Forster, and a host of other noblemen, State clergy. Members of Parliament and literary stars, like the lato Charles Kingsley, Froude the historian, Goldwin Smith, nnd last not least Edward A. Freeman, critic, historian, man of the world and classical scholar, have come hore, seen and judged for themselves and have gone home resolved, according to their lights, to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so far as they saw it, and "nothing extenuate nor set down aught "in malice." "So long as thou doest good unto thysolf men will speak well of thee," said the Wise King of old, and this is certainly as true of nations as of individuals. We may, therefore, feel assured that however much need there may be of improvement, our aspect, as presented to foreigners, is a satisfactory one on the whole, and that America, by the confession of foreigners, already stands in the van of civilization and progress.

Every considerable writer who visits this country and whose opinion is worth anything declares this to be tho case. Matthew Arnold, in one of his later essays, goes so far as to say that the whole world is being rapidly Americanized. Certainly England has in late years been socially and politically affected largely by American thought. And in lesser phenomena we see the same fact illustrated. American scholars, thinkers and inventors are welcomed cordially in London and at the ancient seats of loarnfng where formerly they were regarded with suspicion and jealousy.

English girls were already so accomplished in slang as not' to be susceptible of any further polish hvthis respect, otherwise they would have no doubt adopted our fomate "ticCes" at truth and iit they "guessed they were crowded" when thoy had eaten too much. We notice, as another illustration of the Americanization of England that Americans are buying historical domains there. The ghost of Horace Walpola may well feel fastidious and homesick when he learns down below that Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, has been purchased by an American joint stock company to bo converted into a hotel "conducted upon American "principles." It is a pity that Alexander Pope, who also had a villa at Twickenham, is not now equal to another satire after the manner of "Quintus Horatins Flaccns." Tho praise accorded to America, its institutions and social manners, the earnestness of it6 national purpose and the sincerity of its humane aspirations and progress, by Dr. Edward A. Freeman, well known to Oxford men as a very distinguished Fellow of Trinity some few decades ago, i not vitiated by flat tery or weakened by one sidednesa.

Indeed, of all living English writers of rapute, Mr. Freeman is the least on his guard against the consequences of candor and the leaBt skillful in the practioe of reserve. His vigorous on slaughts upon James Anthony Froude as a historian proved this some years ag. There are some things in Mr. Freeman's article in the current Fortnightly Review which thoughtful and liboral Americans will read with some pain from a sense of their truth.

Such is the remark that while the Englishman of Britain has nothing to get over in the path of perfect friendship, because he fully recognizes that the mother country, or at least its rulers, were in the wrong, the Eng lishman of America still finds the war of Independence rankling in his heart, like an old sore that, when seemingly healed, breakR out afresh. This, at least, is the sense of Mr. Freoman's remarks upon the old quarrel and the recent Audre controversy in which so much mock patriotism was needlessly displayed by our Fourth of July orators seems to bear out his observations. Time, however, is the manifest cure for any unpleasant feeling that remains. But we turn to the more genial ground of international manners and peculiarities.

Ignorance of each other's geography is a salient feature both of the American and the Britisher. Mr. Freeman was amazed at being asked whether Lincolnshire was in the west or in. the east of England; at being asked "by a scholar of ecumenioal fame" in what part of England Northamptonshire was situate and, crudest of all, at the inquiry mode in very intelligent company, whether Somersetshire was named after the Dukes of Somerset. But, on the other hand, Mr.

Freoman confesses that he has been just as much amazed in his own country at the Englishman's ignorance of the geography of Continental Europe, In regard to reading and knowledge Amer ioa seems to him to stand to England very much as England stands to Germany. He conceives that the proportion of those in Germany who "know something" is smaller than it is in England, while that of "those who "know a great deal" is oertainly larger. Anyhow this distinction 1b perfectly trne between England and America. Thare is a mysterious being called tbe "general whom some editors seam to lire in deadly fear. How.

I bad long suspected that the "general reader" was not so great a fool aa the editors seemed to thlnlr, and my American experience has confirmed that suspicion. Amerlea strikes ma aa tha laud of the "ganeral reader and, If bo, am not at all disposed to think acorn ot tb "esneral reader." It Beemu to me that in America the reading class, tha class of those who read widely, who rsad as far as they goiate.lieeutlj', but ivl)o 60 not read deeply tho oiasa of those who, without being profeeBCd scholars, read euough aud know euoiwh to be qulto worth taiking to form a larger proportion of maukind iu America than they do In Eulaud. On the oihor hand, tho class of tuose who read deeply, tbe class of professed scholars, is rertainly much smaller in proportion in Aniorica than itia in Eogiaud. Mr. Freeman always told his American friends that he had rather be called a Britisher (let us hope without being than an Englishman, if by calling him an Englishman they moant to imply that they were not Englishmen themselves.

To him Prescott and Motley were as much English historians, LongfeJow and Whittier as much English poets as if they had been born and lived and written in Great Britain. "They are English writers writing in their own "tongue." But tho oddest uso of the word American as a distinctive term seems to Mr. Freeman to be when it is used geographically to shut out certain parts of the American continent. At Hlagaro peopl talk of tha "American side" and the "English side" 1 suggested, "For American read EngliBb, and for Kucltsb rsad French." The.truth is that the great land of tuoCnlted Statea has not yet got a name, a real looal name, like England or Franca, or even Uku Canada or Moxlco. I know not whether it is any comfort that, as I onca observed elsewhere, tbe lack ia ooinmou to tha United Statea of America with the ottier chief confederations of the world.

Mr. Freeman is undoubtedly right in thinking that the average American knows much more about his own country than the average Englishman knows about his. Many roaso'ns mieht ba sriven for this, but the one which fluffiqes is that tho American is constant Dovxe. Mr. Joseph Doyle, of Dean street, Is sojourning at Lake George.

Ebbeobb. Exoise Commissioner Erreger, of New Lots, is spending the Summer at Lake George. Bbainebd. Miss Mary F. Brainerd with several friends, le visiting in Connections.

Nichols. Mr. Charles B. Nichols and wife a re spending the Summer at Bronxville, N. Y.

Stevenson Mrs. W. Stevenson and daugh er ore at Lake Hohegan, N. Y. Gbeeh.

Mrs. B. F. Green, of Bedford avenue, is stopping it Formingdale, Long Island. Benedict.

The Misses Benedict, of Monroe place, are Litchfield, for tha Summer. Lanb. Mr. John Lane, of Livingston street, is spending his well earned vacation at Babylon. Easoh.

Mr. John W. Easch, of Adams street, will depart for Niagara next Tuesday, PntNEV. Mr. and Mrs.

F. H. Pinney, of Park plane, are at the Grand Union at Saratoga. Abthub. Major Arthur, of Portland avenue, la at his Summer residence.

Sands' Point Hrbbkbt. Major Herbert, of St. Johns place, has Just returned from a trip to. Saratoga. Eloock.

Captain George S. Elcock and family, of Maoon street, are at White Plains. MoLban. Mr. and Mrs.

McLean, of Myrtle avenue, are passing the month of August in Canada Woodwaed. Mr. Teresa S. Woodward and family, of Sumner avenue, are at Eeyport, N. J.

Meade. Mr, aud Mrs. P. Meade, of Lafayette avenue, are at Eeyport, N. J.

Pickebino. Police Commissioner Pickering, of New Lots, editor of tho Bccord. le confined to ble homo with an attack of malarial fever. Obb. Mr.

Frederick Orr, of East New York, will start for Lake Mahopao to morrow, (0 spaad a month's vacation. Cook. Miss Libbie Cook, of Gates avenue, sailed for Savannah on the steamer City of Augusta yesterday. Many friends wished her bon voyage. Samson.

Mr. Alfred W. Samson, of Brooklyn, with his friend, Charles a. Horsfall, of Freeport, L. is recruiting at Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

Ubinnbll. Mr. Charles A. Grinnell, of Degraw street, Is passing his vacation at Center Mo riohes, Long Island. Sheldon.

Mrs. V. R. Sheldon and Miss Sheldon, of Monroe place, are spending the Summer at Storm Lake, Iowa. Mead.

Mrs. George L. Mead, of Monroe place, has just presented her husband with daughter No. U. Heinbookel.

Mr. John F. Heinbockel, of Sackett streot, will leave the city for bis Babylonian retreat in a few days. Babbktt. Mr.

Calvin E. Barrett, of the Seventh Ward, anticipates spending a few weeks vacation at For Rockaway. Wood. Mr. J.

McDonald Wood, of the Brooklyn Times, has boon spending a few weeks' vacation at Washington and other oities In that vicinity. Compson. Mrs. Angus F. Compson.of this city, is visiting Senaca Falle, and Is a guest of Mr, N.

Rumsoy. Hbnken. Mr. A. Henkeu and wife, of the Eastern District, aro Bpending tho Bummer at Rox bury, this State, Bushnell Btnneb.

The engagement of the Rov. Henry Bushnoll, late of Saybrook, to Miss Nellie Bynner is announced. Mustoe. Dr. John F.

Mustoe and family, of the Eastern District, have taken a beautiful cottage for the Summer at New Dorp, Statbn Island. Mesebole. Miss Carrie Meserole, of this city, will ramain iu South Amboy, New Jersey, for the month of Auguat. Whalbi. Mrs.

B. S. Whaley, of Third avenue, has engaged rooms for two weeks at Fire Isl aud. Alsoood. Mr.

and Mrs. H. P. Alsgood, of Berkeley place, left the city yesterday for the Delaware Water Gap. Anderson.

Last Thursday morning Mrs. Anderson, of Lawrence street, was bereft of her youngest child, Mabel, aged nine mouths. Whitiko. Mr. and Mrs.

G. H. Whiting, of Haleey street, are spending tho Summer at Peaks kill, near Lake Mohogan. Lavekv. Mr.

and Mrs. Daniel Lavery, of Saokott street, are now at their oountry residence, Lako Mohogan, New York, oujoylng the sweet mountain air. Gbden. Miss A. Gruen, of Adams street, will make Niagara Falls her resting place for the Summer.

Bseb. Mr. Benjamin Eyer, of Poplar street, will go to PeoksktU in a fow days to rest and recuperate. Eeddall. Miss Alice Reddall, of Lawrence street, spent a few days on the Palisades last week at tho house of her brother.

Sohboedeb. M. Edward Schroeder, ot Clinton avonuo, has juet returned from a pleasant trip to Narragansett Pior. Yiotob'y. Miss Alios Victory, of Flatbush avenue, leaves to morrow for Indian Plains, Albany County, N.

where Bhe will recuperate fortvro weeks. Phillips. Mr. George Phillips, of Franklin avenue, with his family, le at Stamford, N. tot the Summer.

Pettit. Captain George H. Pettit, of the Twenty third Regiment, with biB family, is spending hl vacation at Bolton, Lake George Bbiggs. Miss Maggie E. Briggs, of Second place, is sponding her Summer vaoation in Massachusetts.

Hilliabd. Mrs. J. T. Hilliard, of Lafayette avenue, with her two ettters, the Misses Woolley, are occupying a cottage at Patohogue.

Saudhusen. Miss Addie Saudhusen, of Lafoyette aveoue, left the oity yesterday for a three weeks sojourn at Peekskill. Hildebband. The Misses Gusaie and Alvina Hlldebraud, of Flatbsuh avenue, are passing the Summer at Peekskill. Denike.

Mrs. S. A. Denike, Miss E. A.

Deniko and Charles W. Denike have gone to Cape May for the soaeon. Mason. Mr. Isaao Mason and family are enjoying the beautleB of tho Atlantlo, at Asbury Park, New JerBoy.

Bablow. Mr. E. C. Barlow and Mrs.

Barlow are spending a delightful vacation at Asbury Park, New Jersey. Htjbbell Charles B. Hnbbell, of South Oxford stroet, has Just returned from a visit to his fBtber, Charles Hubbell, of Toledo, Ohio. Walsh. Thomas Walsh and family, of Bergen street, are stopping at the O'Hara House in the Catokllls.

Bbyant. Dr. William 0. Bryant, of Greene avouue, intends to sail for Eurepe on tbo 80th on the steamer Scotia. Thallon.

Mr. Eobert Thallon, of St. Marks avenue, is stopping at Haydenvllle, with his friend George Henschell, tho well kuown slngor. Leavt. Mr.

Bernard Leavy, of Yates avenue, left tho olty yesterday for Barstogs, where he will pass tho remainder oi tha Summer. Copp. Miss Aline Copp, a young lady of much muBlcal promise, hoB been appointed organist of the Bethel Mission. Kikhl. Justice Kiehl is attending a convention of the Anoiont Druids of tho United States at Richmond, Virginia.

Sons. Lawyer A. Bimis is off among the Adlrondaoks, with a flsblng rod, a basket, a gun and a small law library. Cox. Mrs.

Cox and Miss Minnie J. Cox left for Saratoga on Friday. They will probably stay four woeks. Woodfobd. C.

P. Woodford and daughtor, of CUf ton place, will Btop at Avon, during August. Smack. Miss Sarah Smack, of Gatos avenue ia sponding the month of Auguat at Tannersvillo, in the Catskills. Ewen.

Mrs. Belle Ewen, of Olyraer street, It sojourning during August at TannenviUa in the Cateklll range. Gill. Mrs. John Gill, of the Fourteenth Ward, is at present sojourning at Aora, Greene County, Catskills.

Ryan. Mr. James Eyan, of Fulton street, inoompany with a friend, will epond the next two weeks at Keyport, N. J. Skymoub.

Mr. O. W. Seymour, of tha firm of Seymour Sellbiok, ia with his family spend ing a few weeks in Hawley, Masn. Bbookway.

Mr. John Brockway, of the Aim York Herald, goes on a two weeks' vacation to nvor row. He will visit relatives residing near Newburgh. Bikdekstank. Town Clork Biodermann and his wife celebrated the twelfth annlvereary of their weaiiaa last Friday, by antertaintng a number of their friends.

It waa a very pleasant occasion. Bbidoe. Captain Charles E. Bridge and wife have left th city for an extonded tour through tbe White Mountains, Canada and the lakes. They expect to bo absent about a montb.

Steaens. Mi J. B. Stearns, the well known artist of this city, accompanied by a party of friends, ia oujoylng a fishing excursion at Stratton's, Uontauk Point, Long Island. Smith.

The Misses Maggie and Jennie Smith, of Carlton avenue, have gone to rusticate for lx weeks at the Essex House, Hoaestoalo Valley, Conn. Coles. Mr. Frederick H. Ooles, of Duf field streot, will notdepart from hia usual oustom of sponding the last two weoka in August at Milton on the Hudson.

Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. J. B.

Mix, of Elliott place, are apoiding vocation at the Mount Pleasant Hotel, Lake Kohegw. Mr, Mix'8 jovial countenance, istheref ore pissed in Wall atreot. Mr. Samuel Garre, of Paoiflo street, hoe Just returned from three months trip through the upper part of the State, iooklag robust and ready for wort. Pkttit.

Mr. Jesse B. Pettit, of State street, left the olty yesterday for a two weeks' vacation, which he will spend at Hempstead and the new Inlet Hotel, Jonas' Beach. WnxitMS. Mr.

Samoa V. Williams, of Cambridge place, ion of Mr. Ramon O. Williams, United States Vteo Oossul General to Havana, his returned from weVa uUssnre trip to Long Branch, Be looks A TOUOHrKG SENTIMENT. Haciehsaoe, N.

August 12, A beautiful ana tonoblsg sentiment characterizes a ssntlmont none the Icsa beautiful and touohlng because geographical. Bsckansaok Is split in the middle, like a Dutch doughnut, by a railroad, south of which (a down and north uptown. The sentiment is the rich and cordial manaer In which tha asctioni do not agree, a manner which for wealth and cordiality dxcitei tho admiration the liberal mini and la worts, chronicling. No uptown gentlonian will think of getting drank downtown, and If a crab la oaughV above tho dividing' line not a downtown ooakcan tw found to boll him. 60 rigid ts tho feeling that If a man" were tun over on tbe railroad be would havo to fall "to one aide or tho other to liurare a burial.

Poor lorry Brady UliiStratea thl9 remarkable social feature nhon be got into a dlwussion with a freight train soma time ago. The result of the controversy waa inirafi al to Ifr. Brady's ambition to abine aronnd as ono imiortant for, longevity, bat unfortunately for Terry, he gave up hie end of the argument fairly and squarely between the two ratlf. Tho event was an imposing one, oven In Haokoneeok, and the town, regard less of the fine distinction It had hitherto drawn, united inconcodlngthat tbe accjdont laoked no perfection of detail. Bat the question arose, What ia to be done Mr.

Brady had thoughtfully chosen a habitat outside the village llmiti so that Mb residence established nothing. His affiliations had been equally divided between "up" and "down." He had aiwaya been paid off somewhere olse, and he laid ao aquareljr ou the nter of the lino that neither eido oonld claim hie constituency, Tho question was a puzzler and party feeling ran ao high that the eld issues were neglected and aspiring po! tlcians sought nominations on the platforms suggested by Mr. Brady's disaster. Over and over again the po sltion of the romalns was surveyed by looal engineers, many ot whom were sacrificed In the disputes to whioh tho gave rise, bnt there were no other satisfactory results and affairs remainod as they were, an. til Mr.

Bob Van Boskerck, an artist of considerable reputation, painted an excellent and Uf elike picture of the sceue, in which the perspective clearly placed the man over in the next county that the authorities thereof buried Mr. Brady without delay and bought the ploturo. That brought this particular tournament to a but it so (ar intensified the feeling that when your correspondent's birthday came around another great and Important question obtruded itself, and that waa how tha anniversary should be celebrated. The downtown people flatly deelinod to regard tho event aa having aa existence if the uptown people hoisted a flag, and the uptown residents declared that be should never grow a day older If downtown baked a bean ia his honor. It wag in vain that ho suggested that tbe conflicting elements meet and exchange time tables, while be read the service for the dead.

His efforts to explain that the advent of bla birthday waa general all over town were fruitless: The war waged hotter and stronger until the clergy interfered, and at a general election it was unanimously agreed that uptown birth days never should extend below the track while down town events of a similar nature should remain within their own corporate limits, and strangers within the gates of the village should bo regarded as never having been born at an. Then ronr correspondent went fishing. These Incidents merely illustrate the depth and extent of the aeutimeot that divides the town. Sown town people won't get up until the enn baa passed the division line, and uptown goes to bed as soon as it gets boyond their Jurisdiction. The engines on the Hew Jersey and New road, wblcb cats the line at right angles, aro compelled to extinguish iheir fires before crossing, and rebuild them on the other side.

HEB FIBST BIDS. Epoaking of that reminds me of poor old Sistor Akin back. The sister had spent so much of her time In hobbing around with fresh intelligence about her neighbors that sho bad never been on a railroad train, though she knew the private affairs of every passenger who had crossed the tnwu sluce the road was built. "I guess I'll ride, (his mornin', lir. Bogart," she observed day or two ago, as lier trunk slammed around on tho platform.

man to go kinder koerf ul, 'cause Iknowas woll sb bB does that hia wife hasn't another shiw to her back, and I'll tell it right out as sure as anygbin' happena while I'm ridio Tho agent assured her that there waa no dauger and handed her a tioket "la Bob Bissell work' oa to the inquired. Yes, Mr. Biasell had' tbat honor. "'Cause I was join' to say that he'd better quit around and setjle aown to sliddy work so'a he kin eddy eata hie poor brats I What's that extra railroad lor 7" and alio pointed to the traok that had been laid when the gauge of the road was narrowed. "That?" exolaimeit the furious agent, "tbat is to hold it in case the train runs off the other two rails when some infernal old worron le taking her trial trip AN ATTRACTIVE BESOET.

hat's that going along there?" osked the genial proprietor of a neighboring Bummer resort hotel tho other day, pointing at a tall mou on the other aide of the street "That's a man," waa the rather surprised explanation. 'What's that coming along behind him?" inquired the proprietor oaain, tbat barrel shaped thing with a mushroom on top." "That's a woman. Why?" "Nothing; only I'd been down to ray place so long that I'd forgotten now suoh things as men and women looked. It does my soui good to see people once more." "I thought yoar bouss was nil "So It is full of fll6B. There's tbe most attractive spot on earth.

There's more out doors about it than any plaoa in Jersey tbere'B an Italian laboror drank under a tree there's pile of bricks iu front of the house; more mud at low tide than you'll find east of tbe Boo.Motjntalni' and there'a a wasp'g nest under the plank ldew, the guests Jump tar exercise, Awn and all. summer, and I' put the' man dot because ho, wouldn't pay and the boy was' drowned a day or two ago, Say, do you know where I oan get a drink ot melted anvils I need cheering up 1" A DESERTED VIMiAaB. A little way out from Hackonssck lies the Tillage of Falrmount. Who built it I don't know, bat it is the loneliest collection of habitations that ever broke the heart of a The houses are pretty, and tho man who projected the village contemplated building on Immouee hotel aud establishing a summering place which should yield him prodigious wealth. But tbare be sits all alone on tbe site of his hotel end contemplates his enterprise.

Not a house has been taken. He has no neighbors. Tbe place ia absolutely forsaken and deserted, with the sole exception of the proprietor who holds melancholy state and awaits tbe coming of the Interest on his investment. Tho place Is pretty enough, but hard of access and probably win never be filled up, "I don't know," observed the speculator, drawing a Bbln.Tle from bis pocket and opening his knife. "The guests don't appear to be coming very fast, though there was 1 man bore in May who said he might come back.

"I'm waiting for him." "Think He's going to buy a house?" "Ho. I told him I'd give him one if he'd ootuo, and I havo hopes. The Summer isn't over, and I've written to him that if be'll take the house I'll board him for nothing and throw In a couple hundred dollars. That was the fora part of last month and I'm expeotlng a letter from him every day." "Had any other advantageous offers for your houses?" "No, not exactly. A bouplo of women drove over here the otber day, and tbe horse rau away with 'em.

I'm expecting to be sued by their huBbands every minute, and I'm going to build a court house and ront it to 'em to hold the trial in. I'm bound to make something out of the place." "Don't you get lonely here 1" "Not very. I writs letters to myself from supposititious tenauts abusing me for not making Improve ments aud repairs, aud sometimes I take out dispossess warrants against non paying tenant who don't lira here. Tbat helps to kill time a little, and I put in tbe rest writing to the Governmeut complaining of myself as postmaster for Irregularity of malls that never some or go. What with that and running from house to house and yelling at the inmates to keep quiet, I manege to have a pretty fair time." "Don't yon ever go down to Hackensaok "I used to, but I gave it up.

I took a girl to a party here once and that ended it. Bhe was a very pretty girl and wa were a little sweet on each other had been for come time. I made up my mind to pop that night, and invited her out into tho woodshed. We sat down on a pile of kindlings and I put ray arm around her. 8be took it kindly, and I'd bad Just got as far aa, 'Sally, dear, you know that I abhor net 1' when up she hoisted, with a terrible yell, and I have never seen her since.

"While I was waiting lor her to coma back I began to get a suspictonwhatelarted her, aud I left, aa quick as she did. Some friends told me afterward tbat she said she didn't mind a man inviting her to sit down on a hornet's nest, by accidont, but to do it purposely aud blow about it afterward was too nauoh even for ber. I was going to say 'I abhor nettlesoma and then go she flushed at the 'hor and let me down. "Now I bring anils against myself for breach of promise of marriage yon must excuse me, I've got one on this atternoon and I don't like to let It go by default. Aa yon pass through the village, I wish you would rap at the front doors of the houses, and if you hear me np here howling you may know that the case la on and that I'm getting the worst of It S.

H. HE Vf AS DESPEBATE. He oonld hardly be oalled aaweii In his style of dress. He probably won hie hat betting on the Andrew Jackson election, and his olothes might have been originally black, but atorin and sunshine had turned them to a color it would have taken a oongrees of art critics to decide upon. His Bhoes looked as though he had JuBt finished a six days go a you please oontest and put in more miles than any other man on the track, and altogether he didn't look as thoogh he had a contract to furnish the paint for tbe East Blver bridge.

Still one oonld see that bla Impecunious appearance did not sit naturally upon him. There seemed to be a lurking air of braggadocio aboul bim, auggestive of a flusher past, and ho wore aoroea his seedy vest a large brasB watoh chain which was attached to a door key whioh partially protruded from his vest pooket, while two good sized imitation diamond rings adorned his emaciated hands, and large cluster imitation pin which waa hopelessly devoid of brillianoy was stuck into hie grimy ehirt front. He also carried a stick wbiob had long since lost its head, but which BtiU bore evidence of having been a nobby article ui Its yontb. H1b figure which had ouce beea stout now prciented a flabby appearance anggestlvo of badly laidoat free lunch routes and a general getting let tedness. "I understand you look after tbo local politics," ho said, entering, tho political editor's room, and forcing what waa meant to be apleaaant.

smile to hia careworn features, "your belief le well founded," aid tho editor. "What can I do for yon?" "It's 0, pleasure to meet ono of the boys again," said the visitor, Beitmg himself and making eootuar vain attempt to look mildly e'hterf uL "I know lota or yon fellows over the river, but circurfletanoes of late have orced me to rather out the gang. I know what it is to travel with newspaper fellows, and one ean't afford to be with them without doing the rlgtS thing, you know. I always made it a point to shout wine every time. TheraCa nothing like keeping solid with ihe proas, even If it does go back on yon onco in a while," and the visitor heaved a sigh, that seemed to emanate from his Inner aoul.

"Yes, I've been there," he continued. "But I'm down la my look now, and no mUtako. was too proud to brace any of the boys over the river, 10 I Just wado break for yonrclty, od if joa'U boliorn me, I WITH SUPPLEMENT. SUNDAY HORNING, AUGUST 13, 1S82. The Sunday Morning Edition of tlie Eagle has a Large and Growing Circulation Throughout the United States.

It is tht Best Advertising Medium for Those vho Desire to Reach all Classes of Newspaper Readers in Brooklyn and on Long Island. The Daily (Evening) Ertglc is now in its Forty third Year. It Circulation is Larger Than That of any Other Paper oj its Class in the United States, and it is Steadily Increasing Keeping Pact uith flic Growth of the Great City of xchich Uie Eagle is Admittedly tlie Jovrnalistic Representative. A SUGGESTIVE BIT OF HISTORY. On the first pago of the Supplement to day, we publish a highly suggestive bit ot hiEtory writteu by "An Old Democrat." It is nn ao couut of the origin, progress and significance of what was popularly called the Loco Foco movement.

The writer of the article, looking back upon the events described, might properly take into his mouth the familiar phrase All of which I saw and much of which I was." Ho was, as ho tells us, a Loco Foco, was present at the meeting at which the name of the movement orig iuated, and has never ceased to cherish the great principles then contended for and triumphantly assarted by the plain mon of the Democratic party under the leadership of President Jackson against the activity nnd machinations of the banks and other specially favored corporations of the poriod. The Loco Focos were bagotten in Tammany Hall. They wore the sturdy Democrats who sympathized with Andrew Jackson's veto of the bill for rcchartering the United States Bank, and who found the professional politicians in a conspiracy to throw the formal weight of the party on the side of tha money power in that momentous struggle. The machine, aa the body of placeholders and ptronago brokers has come to be oalled, was on the side of the bauks. The industrious masses, as the outcome showed, were with the President.

The question which the Loco Focos had to settlo was whether the traffickers in public affairs wero stronger than the multitude in whoso name they purported to be acting. The tactics of the former wero of a familiar kind. With the chairman of the Tammany Society on their side and a cut and dried programme in their hands, the operation resolved upon was to take a snap judgment, declare the meeting of the committeo adjourned and through a subservient press represent tho protestants as a irera factious minority. The actual performance is described by oar correspondent. The term Loco Foco was the name of a species of friction matches then in use.

The supporters of the President who, by a notable coincidence, called themselves Anti Monopolists, learned that the intention of their opponents was to rush to a so colled passage there, prearrange a programme to deny the privilege of debate, to declare the gathering adjournod through their creature, the ohairmau, and suddenly to put the lights out. To baffle this the leaders of the Anti Monopolists notified their followers in advance to provide themselves with a supply of Loco Foco matches, and when the lights wero turned out to keep their seats, strike tho matches and go on in an orderly way with the legitimate business of the assembly. What actually occurred is thus tersely described by our author Well, this advice was largely followed. Long before the hour for the meeting to commeo.ee tho main hall and stairway wero packert with people ready to jump ia ua soon aa the opportunity offered; there wna a back flteire and a hack window 7htoh It was said was opened II in advance ot the raiin one but howavor that may be, the lu itant tbe main door was ojwnil tho crowd poured in aud mado a rush for tbe platform, vihich crocked tho front of the hall, aud eiich a aoene was Drobablv nava' seen before or siuoo in Tauimany Hall, flucu hpolili' and fjoreainintt, such puBblnq crovtdius, such Hlamcimp; and Dancing or, Uls and tables and tearmi; ot uoata and suirt.Jtfira novar seen l)ofore; it seemed ce though baftam had br ikon looia perfect naudemonium, JJas eomo of them Bald. This beau Wjihla hubbub and uproar laRted some fivo mD56 wheD, pure enough, out went the snJj Wjtn tbo lljihto compared with what just preceded it, it aeemod liko th stlll neit of death; tho next thing in order was a general scraping and soratobing of tho walla and columns of oldiTaratnany with Looo Foco matches and a lighting up of oaudles and a mora ponooable, qulot, orderly aad properly conduotod meeting waa never wit neseed In cnuron catneriug or a rbiniuutvuaoiiiuijr.

The moetlug was then organized, tho obairman aud 1 ojBcorj appointed, the report of tho nominatine com I csitloe called for, tbe obuoxlouB names atrlckon off and other3 substituted in Iheir plaoea, resolutions of rua trne Democratic and Auti Monopoly stamp aud highly 1 was adjourned. Tho next day the Monopolist organ cootaiued au account ot prooeadiuga whioh nevor took place anil resolutions that never were passed, whilo tho Evening contained an account of tho procead inss that actually did take place, the candidates whoso dimes v.ero indorsed and the resolutiora to at uwre actually passed, and bo thoro were two tickets iu the field olaimlug to bo roijular and Democratic. In tills nc n.t and vosoluta way the scheme of those who had set themselves to betray cue deliver the people into the Democracy and hauds of the Monopolists wero circumvented. At the election which followed tho machine politicians found thoir power broken. Tho Loco Fucos did not elect their own candidates, but they made it plain that tho traitorous element was in no true sense the Democracy.

Tho whole country felt the effect of the Btand nMda in New York City. Tho supporters of the iron hearted Presideut wero encouraged, he himself look new hope and in a little time his assaikmts were dissipated and broken to pieces as a political power. Thero is ft esson in this straightforward narrative for ganuina Democrats to day which is worth move thau volumes of mere exhortation. They can see what tho sincere believers in the doctrines of Jefferson accomplished at a highly critical time, and, seeing, can invito the politicians to pause and consider what a repetition of the experience moans for them. To day, far more than in 183 1, the rights of the laboring masses aro mouaced by capital aggregated in forms never contemplated by the men who formed our Government, utterly incompatible with the maintenance of perfect liberty on the part of tho average citizen and in tho plainest possiblo sense antagonistic to the Constitution.

The United States Bank was weak compared with tho natioual banks of our time, and was in no respect more indefensible than they are in the eye of the fuuda mental law. They control, as tha United States Bank never did, tho currency issuiug power. By them to a degree undreamed of in Jackson's timu the sovereign prerogative of rogulating the money values of the couutry has been usurped. And added to this marvelous and demoralizing combination which is represented on the floor 0 the House of Representatives by eight members are kindred monopolies which are sapping the life of the farming interest, the mechanical skill and tho mercantile enterprise of the country. Wo cannot travel a mile or ship a pound of freight except upon the terms dictated by monopolists established by our State government every barrel of flour, every ton of coal, every gallon of oil has its price regulated by these logalizc and pretentious bandits.

They havo undertaken to ruin men at their will. They have taken it into their hoods to determine who shall prosper, who shall bo tolerated and who crashed in this American society of oars. Upon their volition is dependent what the farmer should receive for his crop and what the artisan for the fabrio of his loom. It is high time for all decent men, for every person who hopes to prosper by honest work and righteous enterprise, to take a leaf out of tho book of the Loco Focos. A CATHOLIC PRELATE HONORED.

At a recent Drawing Room," the Queen's levees are called in London, at which thePrinoe of Wales represented Queen Victoria, a presentation took place which is cer. tainly remarkable. For the first time since the Reformation a Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop Lynob, of Toronto, was presented by the Lord Chamberlain to the heir and rep. resentative of the Protestant crown of Eng, land (since by act of Parliament it can never be occupied by a Catholic) in tho full dress of his order, a purplo soutaine, purple stockings, a purplo zucclietta on his head and a golden chain with a pendent cross. Such an honor has novcr boon accorded to any other Roman Catholic ecclesiastic, not even to Cardinals Manning, Howard or Newman.

No doubt they would be well received, as two of them, Cardinals Manning and Howard, have frequently been invited to the Queen's garden parties. But this was not ia their official but their private capaoity. weighing 750 pounds. Shobtland. Mrs.

T. S. Shovtlaud and family, Mrs. J. O.

Horton, of Washington svenne, and MlsB Nettie Ketcham, of Livingston etroet, are spending the month of August among the Catskills. Souddeb. Mrs. S. V.

Scudder and mother are spending the month of August at the Catskills. Misses Florence D. and Addie Scudder aro at Lake George, Andeeson. Mr. John D.

Anderson, of Raymond street, left yesterday for Rondout, on tho Hudson, where his family is passing tho Summer. He will return on Tuesday of this week. Pabshall. Mr. William J.

Parshall and his mother are rusticating at tho lovely Summer resort on the island callod Meadow Glen, and J. Alviu Parshall Is spending his vacation In the Whlto Mountains. Wyokoff. Mr. O.

B. Wyckoff and family of Sixth avenue, and Mr. Samuel Decker and family, of Carroll street, are stopping for lue Summer at East Moriches, L. I. Fitch.

The Eov. W. T. Fitch, for many years reotor of St Mark's, will officiate and proaoft morning and ovonlng at 8t. Petor's Church, State street, near Bond, during tho Qonth of Auguat.

Magbath. Mr. Albert J. Magrath, a talented young musiolan of this city, Is acting a9 organist of Grace Church, New York, during Mr. S.

P. Warren's vacation. Dueois. Miss Louiso Dubois, of Parkville, nnd Miss of Now Utrecht, L. are spending a few days at the beautiful resideuco of Mr.

Charles M. Bergon, of BabylDD, L. Vanderveeb. Mrs. E.

E. Vnudorveer and son, of this oity, are spending a fow wesks at Ihe Orient Point Hotel, Long Island, previous to visiting the Whlto Mountains, where they Intoud completing their vacation. Clowes. Mr. Norris A.

Clowes is spending hia vacation fishing, yaohtlng, to. On Wednesday be he was at Ruffle Bar, ond on Friday ho prooasded iu a quiet way to the realm of glory tu the vicinity of Saratoga. Cohsollt. Mr. James L.

Connolly of tho Board of Supervisors has returned home from a pleasant trip to Patchogue, I. He is deliehted with Ihe place aud advl3es his friends want of a quiet resort to haBten with all speed to its quiet corners. Clabk. The New Homestead of July 22 contains a well written articlo on sheep oul ture, by Thornton Clark, of Granby, Mass. Master Clark Is only 11 yoats old, and Is a nephew of Colonel W.

C. B. Thornton, of this olty. Webnbebo. Mr.

Louis Wernberg, of Carl ton avenue, who has ostabllsbod a great reputation oa a brilliant amateur billiard aud pool player, is to ploy ia a match at JTeltman's Ocean Pavilion to morrow afternoon. Van Siclen. Charities Commissioner Van Siclon, while stopping from a car sevoral days ago, severely sprained hi? anklo. He will start for the Catskills at an early day this weok to remain until he ro oovors. Kiendl.

Counselor Theodore Kiendl, of Hew Lots, is spending his vaoation at Coney Island. He makos excursions to Jamaica Bay, to enjoy tho flue fishing thore to be found, which he Is passionately fond of. Benedict. Mr. Seolys Benedict (of the firm of Beeohor Benedict) and daughter and Miss Carrlo Benediot, are at Fort William Heury, Lako George, for tho Summer.

Mr. A. C. Benedict is enjoying himself at Shelter Island. Cobb.

Detective Patrick Corr takes hiB vaoation on the Slst of this montb, and goeB to tho AdirondacKS. He earrles with him a repeating rifle, a rod and a fine assortment of files. He says he will be a iport for ten days anyway. Cabney. Mr.

Frank Carney, with his friends, Adolphin Ott and Robert Maopheraon started on Wednesday upon a three weeks coasting trip. Mr. Carney owns the handsome yacht Sylvia, and her capabilities will be fully tested. MuBTnA. ohu Murtha, brother of ex, Senator William H.

Murtha, is eponding his vacation in the Catskills. During tha coming Fall he will lead to the altar a handsome and accomplished heiress residing on Sixth avenue. Hendebson Mallen. Those two pleasant yonthf, George W. Henderson and John P.

Mallen, have Just returned from a trip to Southold and vicinity. They have gained between thom about aeveniy five pounds. Ebeve. Rev. B.

F. Reeve, pastor of the Jobnsou street Methodist Episcopal Churoh, is off spending a brief Bammer vacation at Atlantiovllle, L. I. He is oxpeoted to return to the olty on tho 18th instant. Beard.

Colonel William H. Beard started Thursday for Boston. After transacting some business at the "Hub" he proceeded to bis beautiful Summer cottage at Shelter Island whera he will pass tho Summer. Rusbell. Mr.

Alex. Russell, the a gent for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Is doing most excellent work. He make3 his headquarters every mornlDg in Justioe Bergau'e Court, whioh ho iinds a fertile flold for his benevolent work. Bbabheb. Mr.

W. M. Brasher, of this eity, addressed the Tariff Commission at Long Branob last Tuesday in favor ot an incroaso in the Import duties on floor cloths, lignums aud linoleums, aud the removal of the import duties on canvas used in their manufacture. Websteb. Mr.

D. G. Webstpr, of the celebrated silk manufactory, Glenwood Mills, East Hampton, was iu company with his friend, Mr. Robert Hazelton, of this city, enjoying the bracing air and delightful music at Brighton Baaoh on Thursday even lng last. Cavanagh.

Mr. John L. Cavanagh, of Williamsburgh, accompanied bis sister on a visit to tha Canaflas, H1b Bister will visit friends near Montreal, while be will repair to Montreal to atralghton out the matters appertaining to some property left him by his uncle. Philp. Mrs.

Kenward Philp, Miss Philp and Mrs. Albright are ependlug tho Summer at St. Andrews, B. A. Mr.

Philp, tha huBbsnd, father and son In law oi the oforesaid, respectively, IB Summering lo a delightfully oool rotroat known as the Elevonth Ward, not far from the City Hall. Watebbttbt. The JBalston Democrat of a recent date says: Mrs. O. A.

Watorbnry, of Livingston stroet, Brooklyn, a prominent and moBt active aud influential membor of St. Ann's Church on the Heights, of which tho Rev. Dr. Sohonok is the popular reotor, ia making her annual visit to Balston, Spa." Keeleb. Mr.

and Mrs. W. Keeler, Dean atreot, sailed on the steamer Alaska on Tuesday last for Europe, expeotlng to return about the middle of November. Mr. Keeler goef abroad to roenperate, hia olose application to buslneas having impaired his health to tbe extent that he is obliged to seek needed rest and reoroatlon.

Downing. Peter J. Downing, a colored citizen and a resident of Johnson Btreos, has received an appointment as night inspeotor in the Gastom House. Ex Register Daniel Downey, who also holds a position in tbe Custom House, assumed the pleasing auty of initiating Mr. Downing into the intricacies of the business, and found Mr.

Downing a most apt pupil. WHEELEB. Mr. W. Wheeler, of Cleveland, is at present on a visit to his brother, Mr.

A. C. Wheeler, of 8ecood placo. A lew days ago Ai" took bis brother and Chief Engineer Kevins and Mr. 8.

B. Hulbort on a fiebing expedition, tbe result of whioh was not very ponderous, so far as the catoh was concerned. Shobt. Rev. William Short, pastor of Holy Trinity Chapel, Duffield street, is sojourning at Westport, Essex County, N.

on the banks of Lake Champlain. The Rev. Mr. Bacchus, of tUo Reformation, and Rev. Joseph Reynolds, of Holy Trinity, are of the party and are having a good time, but they don't catoh mauy fish.

Bok. Mrs. 8. G. Bok, of this city, is sojourning among tho mountains of Sullivan Couuly, New York, for the Summer, and her many friends will be glad to hear that the invigoratiug air there is rapidly bringing back her accustomed hesltb aud strength.

Her sod, Mr. Edward W. Bok, will Join her In a few days for a three weeks' vacation. Van Zandt. Custom House circles are specially interested in rumor that Inspector Van Zandt ia about to take to himself what, notwithstanding his own great wplgut, is recklessly spoken of aa a "battsi half." The name of the lady la not given, but the rumor iu question is said to refer to a widow lady of great wealth, who lost her husband about five years Hickie.

Rev. J. M. Hickie, formerly of St. John's Home and the Penitentiary, has beea assistant pastor of St John's Chnrch, Peterson, N.

for several months post. The edlhoe was erected or completed about twelve years ago, at a ot of $300,000, and tho ooqgrogatlon numbers about 11.000 persona. Father Hickia'a strmons and lectures are inuoh appreciated by the flock. Bayuy. Mr.

John A. Bayley, of Washington aveune, returned on Friday from a three weeka' sojourn at Lake George, aeoompanled by Messrs. Ossar Kelvin and William Flak. During their absence this interesting trio wrought great havoc among the trout at tbe lake. Their flsblug expedition, however.

In no wise interfored itiVx the dUcharga of thsir social obli we nave about five tons of poetical manuscript on left over from the last baton we seat over to Ann street, but you may be more fortunate, eo apriag it ua me qulok." "I will," said the visitor, diving Into the tall pocket of his ooat, and bringing out a roll of manuscript. "I have always noticed that you are careful to select verse which is in season, and I call my effort 'A Summer "Wo havo received about four hundred and nineteen Summer idyls thus far tuts season, but as I sold, yours may be the gem we havo boon yearning for, eo steam ahead." "Yon will notice that It is somewhat lively In Ms sou timent," said the visitor. "I always look at the bright side of nature, and with Mr. Wilde believe that the pleisnres of this life 'should far outbalance the more serloue part of existence. Now, you know Wildo in his" "Nevor mind Oscar," said the editor.

"Although I am always glad to encourage talent I am not enabled to devote my entire time to bracing up genius, ao lot's have your verseB," aud tho editor grabbed both anna of his chair and set his teeth as the visitor read A SUMMER IDTIi. My lay Is not of the jamboree, With its canker ot carklng care, But right merrily of tbe fair couutry I trill on the Summer air. Mine be the task of bucolic life The too too tooness to tell Of the peasant's life, all free from strife, Of the pleasures of bosky delL Oh sweet 'tis to hear at break of day Thestreembok's glad refrain, Whilst blithe and gay bis roundelay Is singing the Jocund swain. List to tho trills which dearly mark The blue Jee haunted bowers, But, hark I 'tis the enark which vies with the lark And into the bluo empyrean towera. Away, way down by tbe oreeklot's shore Slghtng sits tho amorous frog, Singing ever and forever more The praises of the spirit of the bog.

Courting the shade of a gussamus grove Tho hoglets urge ou the chase Tain drove In form of a butcher cove, Grim death 18 nearlng apace. Seo the reapers now how festively They gather the golden corn. But mor gisdly of a verily Will tbej woicome the midday horn. At eventide a seraphio peace Tho senses now enthralls, Naught the quiet breaks save chickadees, As thoy answer each other's equawls. Or perhaps as the gruesome gyke goes by He hajB at the blinking owl, But ilttlo reck as iu cot I lie, Fighting ekeeters as big as a fowl.

"Are you taken ia that way very often," asked the editor, gradually relaxing hia features, but still holding with a grasp like a tax collector to the chair, "No, that's the first little effort I have attempted thin said the visitor. "Do you consider life worth living?" asked tha editor, digging his nails into the arms of his ohitr. "Certainly I do," Bald the visitor, baoking toward the door as he began to have a realizing eense of his danger. "Then vanish, ekip," and the editor made a jump for his inkstand, but the follower of Oscar was already out of range and engaged in a series of leaps ou the stairs worthy of a oircus fakir with forty years' experienoe. STILL IN TOWN.

"Why are you not out of town?" asked a lawyor meeting an artist friond in front of the City Hall. you seo somehow I didn't strike It right last season," said tho artist with a gloomy smile, as he whisked hie handkerohlef out of his pocket and blew his nose vigorously. "First I went in for marines, and then I shifted off onto mountain scenery, but I nevor could manage to catoh on. Oue fellow promised to buy a ploture If I would slap in a Washington's hesdquar tors at the loft and make the sun rise in the West Instead of in the East. Well I Just slapped tbat enn around and put in the old shanty, but it wasn't a go.

He said he'd changed his mind and bought a marine battle picture. I told him I'd Just as leave paint a marine battle picture as auythlug else, and asked him if hedldu't want a companion picture; say tbe battle of tbe Wilderness or any other Uttle engagement he might pick out. Then he said ho thought one battle was enough in the house, but he might want his baby's portrait painted iu the Fall, and there the matter stands. Auother fellow Just went wild over my pictures and said be would give me mora orders than I could fill iu year, bat as he wiehad to buy my works by the dozeu at about the price of the canvas, I weakened," "But your studio was full of plotures the laBt time I oalled," said tho lawyer. "Just the same now," said tha artist, with a sigh.

A toy dealer said he thought ho work off part of my stook by giving a picture with the baby jumpers and hobby horses, but he didn't cara to commence the raoket before Christmas time, and where will I ba before he starts in I painted a ploture of an Alderman about two months ego, but, bless your soul, those follows never expect you to ask them for any money. I heard he considered that he had done me a great favor in sitting tome. Since that tune I've steered olear of the Hall. Now thara Isn't a more wllliug fellow on earth than I am, bat you see I can't raise enough cash to cut the town for even a couple of weeks." "What are you doing at present asked the lawyer." "Punishing bate," sid tbe artist. "A fellow can't live on hopa without braoing up now and then on something stronger," and they proceeded to punish together.

FOLLY. SHOTS. A party of American tourists were dining at an inn in Southern France. Among them was a Chicago girl who had been educated at a fashionable ladUs' seminary in that city. She had addressed the waiter in English, wbo politely confessed his ignorance by asking her If she would be so good as to give her order in French.

While Bhe waa giving it he stared at hir with growing bewlldermeut, and when oho bad concluded said "Pardon, Mademoiselle, I vlll go and zend yoa a garcon who understands ze Booshlas better ean I do." At an Eastern revival meeting the minister in the oourse of his remarks informed his hesrors that he was the conductor of a salvation train the accom modations were first olasa, that there were no misplaced ewltohea to fear and that Peter was waiting tb reoeive them at the depot at the other end of the line. Thereupon a tall, gaunt, koeu vlsagod man in the outskirts of the crowd, addressing the olergyman, said "I'm good deal eonsarned in what yaou hev to say, Btranger, and of yeoa kin git me a back seat on enny of them air keers for half price, I'll buy a ticket." A young Irish girl in Milwaukee who had eloped'wlth a colored man was captured, brought back and arraigned before her father. Yer no daughter of molne, Mary," exololmed the broken hearted parent, to be after rnnuin' away wid a naygur." Alsy now, faylher," returned Mary how could I tell he waa a naygur 7 Sburo, we ware married in the dart" When vouna Mr. Dusenbury Jones called at the residence of Mies Conetanee Cortland Van Bons selaer he was iniormed by the Irish domestio, who ros sponded to the ring of the door bell tbat her young mistress wss slok, Mr. Jones' fate grow visibly paler and his voice betrayed some agitation as he asked "May I inquire the nature of her illness Bridget answered with a perfectly straight countenance "They sl! it love, ear.

I believe it's gome sort of sbkln disase." She was a shrewish looking woman and the magistrate eyed her suspiciously as he said "Yon are charged, madam, with violence toward yonr husband." "Am I worm," she responded, "that won't turn when it's trod on? I gus not;" and aha glanced round the oourt room aa if to dhtoover the individual bold enough to ohallenge the veracity of that declaration. "Did he giro you any provocation?" continued hli Honor In a lower and more conciliatory tone. "Henty ot it He called me his shattered idol, Judge, and as I never did take saaa from no man, I licked him." The Court gently obiarye (bat Out ommrOi have to go over. Tlioir Claim to ba Considered Civilized. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Kwjle: Apropos of "Justitia's" criticism in tho Eagle of tho 8th inat.

upon Professor Taing's statements iu regurd to the present boniahted condition of the Spanish people, publKhsd iu the Issue of tbe day previous, it innet be patent to auy thoughtful and humane mind tbat a natlon'B olairu to bo rcckouod clvtllzod lu tho higher modem acceptation of tu tarm, or to have ovcti attaiued ati luCdHlgftni appreciation of tbo ruling principles of thia niueteentb ceutury'e progroas, must bo denied while it oor.tinuea lo maintain and chorHh as one of Its chief Institutions no essentially barbarou and barbarintug au amusement as that great nutloual one of Spain bull Uniting. This sport, without some notice of which all accounts of tho poouiiar lifo and character of tbe inhabitants of the Iberlau peninsula as well as thoir cousins in tbo soniborn American ropubiioa are iuoomplote, Is, as practiced among tboso peoplo. oue of tbo most atro olous acts ot Inhumanity in wbiob oreatures calliug tbemsovss meu ana laying claim to the nature and attributes of human kind could engage. Worse than anything of tlie kind that can be charged upon our Indians or otber trlbci bfladug tha name of eavagei, it la a diversion far more worthy of the Imps of Ihe buttom latis pit Beiugu wbo may be conceived to know nono other delight 'than tbe infliction ot misery and lor meuts upon ell living oreatures elaa. Tho porpotuatlou uf this custom Is ao utterly revolting to Ibo btt ImpulBea aud emotions of all noble aud wel; ommtituU'd rnindf, as well as tboso tonder and syuipithctlo bv nature, such an affront to tho mora elovatcd lnstlnctH of mmlnru oivillr ed society, as to call for some practical aud organized movement on the part of onr oullgtitiued nations, either through tbolr several governments or through some other instrumentality, looking to ihe suppression aud extirpation of tho heritage of pagan Homo's tyrannous sway over continental Europo'e westernmost realm, for who can doubt tbat her btoudy arenas rurnUhed tho cruel originals.

Tbe admirer of thlB Spanish amusement may see lu tne Dull nam out a une aispiay 01 cmvuinu courago aud skill. He may revel in the wild excitsKicnt, be dazzled by tho gorgeous trappings of the participant and llrod with enthu6ianm with tha uolto and turmoil, tho mad hollowing, wild neighing and other sounds uf tha conflict. But ho must be of strange and perverted mould it he allow these superficial features to blind him to tho essential underlying horror of the whoU porformauco. Tho sceuej which sro usually 011 aolod on these occasions aro of such a revolting description that I bavo heard that etalwart sea captI 0 tho Anglo Saxon race, bluff, hardy and calloused mon, sicken at the eight and haitou away, unable to longer endure the speuUcie, whila delicate esnoritas would clap their little banda and by murmured pious ejaculations or ringing cheora show tbeir nppvoval and satisfaction tlie cause of their delight, perchance, some wrutohod horse trampling Uls own entrails under his hoof, ripped open by tbo blind atroko of a desperate bull who has beon goaded to frouzy by tbo stabs, outs, lance thrusts, flroworks, with which his tor mentors have plied him hour aftsr hour. Buoh ix tho ureal Spanish institution of bull baiting, tbo passion for wblcb bas seemiDgly tbe strongest poB.

slble hold ou all classes of the population, from tbe King and nobles to tho rough peasantry, and including even the olergy, those ministers of the gospel of gentleness and pity. Suroly a peoplo so constituted as to find tlioir greatest Joy In such things, who ara so oblivlouB or of tho mUsry and suffering inflicted upon helpless brutes, are far bs worthy of consideration on the plane of comman humanity than are the wild deaort Bedoulus or the Moslem or Buddhist nations of tho Orient, among whom kindness to our weaker brethren, tbe animals, ss they may be iua sense considered, is au article of rollglon in Ihe observance of which they prosent a favorable contrast to tbe Christians ot Southern Europe. That the Spanish peoplo may be possessed of many fine, noble and otherwise exoellont qualities and capabilities, the proper development of whioh would render thorn an ornament to our raeo, I do not wivb to dispute or deny. But uutll they eradicate from their nature that upas tree of oruolty which overshadows all tbelr better attrlDutes, these latter can but be regarded oa a suporflctal veneer, an elegant glldln? or ornamontation. laid over some deformed and monstrous imago of Satan's own handiwork.

8uch a race are a blot upon the fair face of creation, aud tbolr extirpation would be nothing short of a blessing to aud betterment of tbe world, a peaca offering to Outhaoed Benevolence. EP1DEJ1ICS. Tbe President will lias the CoutlUtfeut Fund as Authorized In Aid of I.oqnl Health Boards, if Noccsisarr Washington, V. August 12. The following circular was issued to day Tbkabuby Dei aiitmiht, Okfick SurnnviBiNal RonaEON Gknkhal V.

B. Mahikk Hospital Br.Rvicn, Washington, D. August 9, 1883. To Midicat Officers 0 the Marine Haspttal Service and Hcdical Officers 0 Stole ond iluuioipal Boards of Health I am directed by the Secretaiy of the Treasury to in form yon tbat Congress, at IU lastscesion, enacted that "The President of tbo United States 1b hereby author laod, in case of a threatened or aotual epidemic, lo use a Bum not exceeding $100,000 out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in aid of 8tAte and local boards, or otherwise in bis discretion, pra vonttng and suppressing the spread of tho same." He further directs to Inform you tbat the President boa doolded to employ this contingent appropriation through the agenoy of tho Treasury Department, and that, in cats of a threatened or aotual opldemio immediate action will be taken upon application frum tho Governor of a State, addrossed to tho Secretary of tho Treasury. (Signed) Jon.v B.

Hamilton, Surgeon General V. 8. Marine Hospital 6ervlC0. THE SEA SIDE HOMK. Mr.

E. B. Wood, treasurer of tbo Sea Side Homo for Chlldrou, ai Coney Island, whose omee Is at No. 201 Montagus street, makes acknowledgment of contributions as follows Mrs. A.

K. Donning Miss Mary B. Weav ton 85.00 or, of Newport, It 1. 8.00 20.00 5.00 bO.OO Frank F. Jonas.

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