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The New Race In Africa.

After all it turns out that the Pygmies are
not tabled race, as we were taught in our
school books, but a veritable though anoma-
lous branch of the human family. The an
clients were so fond of intermixing the stern
facts Of history with the outflow of lively
imagination that we have heretofore regarded
their assertions about dwarfs and miniature
horses as smacking too much of mythic tra-
dition, or in expressive modern speech as q
little too thin. We followed Aristotle with
implicit faith through the whole domain of
metaphysics, making his simple ipse dird the
verdict beyond which there was no appeal.
But when he gave US detailed account OF the
singular race living along the sources of the
Nile, so small of stature that the traveller
must needs have microscope to discover them
withal, we felt sorry for the old gentleman
who had been imposed upon by some literary
adventurer On rubbing up our classical lore
We find that the opinion that such race ex-
listed was very prevalent in earlier times, not
only among those who took their daily con-
sttutional in the sacred enclosure OF the
Lyceum, but throughout the best society.
The only quarrel among philosophers was
the locality in which these little folks
lived Ctesias contended that they fought
their tiny battles in India, while Eustathus
insisted, curiously enough, that they were all
Englishmen. This latter statement was not
intended as an insult to our cousins over the
water, aud ought not to be made casvs belR
against those honest minded but singularly
unappreciative heathens who had never seen
a genuine John Bull. Herodotus, who was
very shrewd in the collation. OF facts took
special pains to describe this undergrown
race and stakes his literary reputation on their
existence We have always skipped over this
part of his history, preferring to ignore it
rather than to admit the other horn of the
dilemma-viz., that his gullibility was equal
to that Of some more modern writers, who
would not miss startling statement because
it happened to be untrue.
Moreover, the earlier travellers and ex-
plorers Of the African Continent have all de-
tailed to us some mythical account of full
grown men and women only four feet and
seven inches high. The tradition Il to be
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extra duties devolving on the Secretary of the
Board of Apportionment. The secret of the
attempt to oust Mr. Wheeler is to be found in
the fear of the Comptroller that the economy
commenced this year will be more effec,ually
carried out in the next years estimates, and
the power OF the Secretarysbip is desired by
Mr. Green TO head off the movement for a re-
duction OF our annual expenses. 1t is fortu-
nate, therefore, that the frmness Of the pres
ent Secretary defeated the nice little plot
arranged between the Mayor and the Comp
troller.
The reductions made this year are the en-
tering wedge of reform, and the people SO
understand it. No serious embarrassment
can be experienced by the Park Department
for the next six months, even if the
work on the numerous Improvements,
alterations, buildings and embellish-
ments should be temporarily suspended.
The mere maintenance and other necessary
work of the department will not be likely TO
suffer on an appropriation of 1886, 900 under
the prudent management of Colonel Stebbins.
The Department of Finance can or ought to
get along well enough with $685., 900 for SAL
aries, market cleaning and contingencies,
which cost about sixty thousand dollars less
under the worst year of the Tammany rule.
The Department OF Charities and Correction
can save more than the reduction in its appro-
pration, if the Commissioners so DESIRE by
buying supplies at honest market prices and
by reforming other abuses that prevail in the
department Besides the estimate for the year
is now finally closed, and the Mayor and Comp
troller, as we'll as oil the heads Of depart
ments, would do we'll to accept the situation.
Attempts to embarrass the government and to
invite litigation will be seriously condemned
by the taxpayers. With tax levy CT
s34, S33, 391 the people will not regard the
economy enforced by the action of Messrs.
Vance and Wheeler as out Of place. The
abuse heaped upon those members OF the
Board of Apportionment by the Comptroller
and the Mayor will neither change the record
nor prevent yet more comprehensive reform
in the estimates of next year. The city will
soon be happily rid of Mr.. Havemeyer under
any circumstances, and hence there is good
prospect that we shall have next year truly
economical budget and reduction of taxa
ton, without cripplng any necessary public
works. Under these encouraging circum-
stances it is to be hoped that the two men,
bers of the Board of Apportionment who have
stood by the people will continue to keep
their tempers and maintain their position.
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PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Jones, OF Nevada was born in Wales.
Tom Collins has started paper at Mount Yer.
non, Ind.
Dr. r. j. Gatling, of Hartford, Is at the Metropoli.
tan Hotel.
Judge Z. C. Kattel Of Binghamton, is staying
at the Astor House.
Secretary Belknap left Washington last evening
for New London, Conn.
The oldest orliving authors-Mrs. Hester Authors,
of Pennsylvania, aged 49,
State Senator John Ganson, Of Buffalo, Is re.
siding at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Attorney General Williams is at Long Branch,
whence he Will return to Washington on Monday.
Thirty-three new summer resorts opened this
season. That's because lew people were going TO
the Old ones
The weather must be very warm In Richmond.
Here is the Enquh'er's latest Joke 1.-THE last Tilt
Oh Beecher was terrible"
Fifteen buckshot, well placed years ago, vr.
ginia lad thinks would have settled 1t.
Rear Admiral William Reynolds, United States
Navy, arrived from Washington yesterday at the
Gilsey House.
Mr. E. B. Philips, President Of the Michigan
Southern Railroad Company, is sojourning at the
Windsor Hotel.
President Chapen, OF the Boston and Albany
Railroad. and MIR. Bowles, OF the Springfield Re.
publican, SAIL for Europe on the Batavia from Bos.
ton to-day, to be gone two months
MIR. Mahlon Chance, United States Consul at
Nassau, Is among the recent arrivals at the Filth
Avenue Hotel.
Mr.. Probasco, Cinclnnati's munihcent citizen,
has reaped the fruit of his deeds at last. A base
ball cluD has been named for him.
And now they are talking OF asking MisA
Anthony to testify. We wish they would let
susan b.
20, Lucifer, son OF the morning"
The Marquis de Cnambrun. who has been resi-.
dent OF Washington for number OF years past,
will sail FOR Europe to-day In the steamship Vile
de Paris.
Connecticut paper thinks that "the hills OF
Groton sloping down 10 the bank OF the Thames,
would furnish splendid accommodations for watch.
ing boat race on the river"
Farewell to Mr.. Sartoris when he took Nell-
Be alters Kind and never say "sha."
And do what you can tew please her.
For she's q hundred 'Mercan gal,
And the cho.i-ld OF our hum-bred Caesar.
Tilton says 'nest hiding;' Beecher says sympa.
thy and pas oral advice; but Monltou, who was
the mediator, knows when of these it was that
made mediation necessary.
Let us think, now What was that other story
about "a literary lady p"
What is meant IN Tilton's statement by the oh.
servaton that "it Is purposely restricted 10 rslas
tions Of M. Bsschsr with Mys TntoH eux ~
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MODERN CIVILIZATION. Don Carlos deigns
to acquaint the Spanish nation with the fact
that if it permits him to become its master
he will tolerate religion and do many other
benefcent things Don Carlos is not a
Spaniard, has no drop Of Spanish blood in
his veins and has never been in Spain
south of the securely sheltered Biscayan hills.
Yet, because of certain legends and traditions
and the successful wars Of other generations,
he claims to ravage Spain with an army to
retard her prosperity, and bring upon the
people innumerable woes. More than all. he
calls the government rebellion, which he will
stiAe with cannon. There is no remnant OF
barbarism so painful and bloody as this serious
effort of man like Don Carlos to force him.
self upon the throne of Spain, and to do il
by acts of war, confscation, rapine and MUIR
der. We see no difference between Carlism
in Navarro and Communism as we saw it in
Paris Both are crimes against civilization.
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correspondent this morning. It is hard to be.

correspondent this morning. It is hard to be.
lieve that such crime as the carrying away
of children for ransom will ever be tolerated in
America. If it should really be found that
we have ruffans disposed to introduce it, and
the fact can be brought home to them, the
punishment must be exemplary, prompt and
terrible. In England, when sudden ten
dency to garroting became prevalent, Parlia-
ment met the new crime 10y a new law and
added tiogging to the penalties that had be-
fore existed. This is suggestion worthy Of
remembrance should any Of these kidnnppers
be drought to Justice"
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The COMMISSIONERS OF CHARITIES AND Con-
REcTIoN are receiving all sorts Of stupid ad-
vice about the best method OF 'economizing." I"
But their friends do not tell them to stop pur-
chasing supplies in an illegal manner and at
prices from thirty to forty per cent higher
than the market value. By the way, where is
the report of the affairs of the department
ordered some weeks ago by the Board of
Aldermen? And what whitewashing report
from the Commissioners of Accounts does the
Mayor allude to in his futile attempt to screen
Mr.. Meyer Stern from the effects of his illegal
dry goods purchases? The Mayor refuses to
allow the report to be seen, and refers to the
Commissioners Of Accounts for information.
Will they give it? Why is not their report
published in The City Record Did they make
any report at all, or is the Mayors statement
a-mistake?
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The SEpTENNATE. French newspaper
says that the monarchists in France, in cre-
ating the Septennate, have simply chained an
iron ball to their leg for seven years. The
Germans, however, seem to be pleased with
the peculiar tone OF irmness and resolution
marking Marshal MacMahons addresses. The
official Gazette notes that the attitude of Mac
Mahon will be an end OF intrigue that the
Septennate can only fall before force, and that
no parties in France are now prepared to fight.
The opinion is also expressed that the Sep
tennate will not affect the foreign relations
of France. In the meantime, now that Mac
Mahon cannot be overthrow, the enemies of
his government will make demonstration on
the Assembly. 1t would be odd if the result
of the elections should be to elect An Assembly
obedient to Gambetta, and it would be a situ-
alton unusual even in France for President
like MacMahon to bs ruled by an Assembly
that took the osdsfs Of Gambetta.
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The FRENCH ASSEMBLY is, by its own
action, tending towards prolonged proroga-
ton, which may perhaps herald its final dis
solution. The Ministry is maturing the
General Electoral bill, rs will be seen by our
cable report from Paris The question Of q
prorogation to the 9th of January, 1876 will
be taken up for discussion next Thursday.
The proceedings will be quite important
MacMahon appears to be calm, and anxious
to compliment if not reward, the friends Of
his government for their public exertions in
its behalf
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The NOBLE SAVAGE ExT1NcT.-The senti-
mentalized mobility of the Indians must
long ago have been crushed out of the race in
against the early settlers. Magnanimity and
clemency are not appreciated by the wrecks Of
that once noble type of untutored man, and
to-day the 'peace policy is apparently as
foolish as the casting of pearls before swine.
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The SPANISH ARMY has, it is said, gained
very important victory over the Carlists. This
will aid Earl Russelrs plea for recognition
of the Madrid Republic.
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WITH SUPPLEM NJ E Mt.
New York, Saturday, July rs, 1874.
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and others are notified to send in their orders
to the HERALD Office as early as possible.
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CoGGIAs COMET, short as has been it's en-
gagement in our hemisphere, is already
chargeable with more unpleasant things than
hurricanes, immoderate hailstones, Jersey
lightning and bad crops are reported on the
wrong side of the comets balance sheet
Well, the celestial visitor has gone, and now
We can breathe easier
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INDIAN ATROCITIES increase in frequency
and horror. The dispatches which are pub
lished this morning indicate the wide extent
of the hostile movement and the inveterate
barbarity and recklessness of the savages.
This is the logical result of the policy of nurs-
ing a viper in ones bosom and giving it
the vitality which will make its sting most
fearful
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The KIDNAPPING CONSPIRACY print else
where another chapter on the extraordinary
kidnapping case in Philadelphia. 1t is diff
cult to learn the truth in such maze of stories,
rumors and contradictions, and We shall again
reour to more psoulisyitiss presented by our
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Diplomatic Rank.

A contemporary calls attention to a law
passed at the recent session Of Congress, in
which the rank Of Ambassador is especially
recognized in our diplomacy, and fears that
the President means to create this rank, and,
III SO doing, violate the spirit of the govern
ment. Ambassadors are only sent from the
person Of one sovereign to another, and are
entitled to almost royal honors and priv
ileges when so received. We do not send them,
because in our government the person Of the
President is never considered as deserving or
bestowing unusual honors. But it is mis-
take to suppose that the rank Of Ambassador
now figures for the first time in our regular
diplomacy. The constitution expressly says
the President shall appoint "Ambassa-
dors and other public Ministers and Con-
suls )" that he shall 'receive Ambassadors
and other public Minister'S" so that to.mor-
row he could accredit Mr.. Kremer as our
Ambassador to the King of Denmark if he so
wished.
The whole matter Of diplomatic rank needs
consideration and revision. Our distinctions
of rank between ENJOYS and Ministers Resi-
dent are unnecessary and do not belong to the
genius of our institutions. Minister to
Belgium is entitled to as much rank as Min
lister TO France, and it is not right that we
should send diplomatists abroad who ore not
regarded as Of any more importance than
Consul General. The true way would be to
have only one rank in our diplomacy and call
all Of our Ministers Ambassadors. 1t need
not cost any more. Two-thirds of the mis-
sons are useless anyhow; but since we sus-
tain the expensive luxury of a diplomatic
establishment let us clothe the members with
all the honors the constitution permits.
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found in the oral literature Of all the westen

and Eastern tribes with whom our pioneer
have come in contact. Now, however, tn,
question is set at rest notin the usual way, by
causing the fable to evaporate under the hot sun
OF investigation, but by establishing the truth
iulncss Of the report. Georg Schweinfurth
while snugly ensconced under Il canopy IN the
stern OF his boat, overheard his guides chat
ting about the Pygmies and insisting thai
they had themselves seen them, or singl,
specimens of them, at the courts Of the petty
kings in the back country, where they sue.
cessfully played the role OF testers and but-
ICONS. His curiosity was excited and he
determined to see with his own eyes. Those
OF his followers who had been engaged in the
various Niam-Niam expeditions talked with
Oriental rhetoric about the cannibal kings
and insisted that in the retinue Of every one
OF them larger or smaller number of these
microscopic men were included
When our traveller took up his residence
at the court of the Monbutto king he
expressed his doubt, and in few hours one
Of them was captured and brought into his
presence. Herodotus was right after all, and
the stock Of Aristotle rose rapidly to par.
The school books were all wrong, for there,
perched upon Mohhmmeds shoulder, was an
odd looking, pot-bellied, bow-legged little
human anomaly, who looked as frightened as
though he expected to be taken down at one
mouthtul. His fears were calmed by few
beads and other trinkets, and he gave as his
name the euphonious word, Adimokoo. He
said he belonged to race called the Aka,
and found it difficult, even with the most
frantic gestures, to express the extent of
country inhabited by his people. There are
nine tribes of these human atoms who are so
small that a good sized and athletic crane is
a formidable foe.
Schweinfurth does not believe that these
dwaris are the degenerate result of larger
race, but regards them as an embodied eccen-
tricity Of the human family. They live along
the Equatorial belt and form curious link in
the chain Of historic development. They are
too large for monkeys and too small for men.
Exactly where they belong is puzzle Of
science. Even Darwin is distracted and finds
no place for them in that theory of evolution
which starts with the toadstool and ends with
Socrates without having deviated once from
the straight line of gradual and progressive
evolution. Exactly what to do with them it
is not easy to say, but perhaps the better way
for the present is to let them alone.
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CAP TAIN GENERAL CoNcHA is determined to
promote the circulation in Cuba Of the Treas
ury bills, Ave million dollars, authorized by
the decree of June 8, 1874
The New York herald., 1874-07-25

POLICE COURT CLERKS are sometimes re-
markable for the use of strange terms in
making out a complaint; but one of those
gentlemen in police court, whose commit
ment was brought up at higher tribunal,
perplexed the Judge yesterday by the use
of the expression ''habit intox." No such
expression being found in Coke or Blackstone
the prisoner was discharged. Police clerks
in commitments should use plain English
unabbreviated
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FOREIGN SUBJECTS SETTLING IN SOUTH
CAROLINA. colonization of South Caro-
lila by the foreign element continues, as we
learn from the State papers, and during the
past year the Palmetto State immigration
Agency has settled several hundred families.
On Friday last another colony Of forty
English Scotch and Germans arrived in the
State. The colonists are chiefly mechanics
and agricultural hands, and enter the State
with sufficient means to begin life. Other
large parties are being collected in England
and Scotland to follow these, and from pres
ent appearances these people will in time take
the place Of colored labor
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The Boy MURDERER of Massachusetts has
been adding so extensively to his list of crimes
in his confessions that it may be charitably
supposed that he is insane. Such criminal
record for New England Lad at such an
early age is too monstrous for belief on any
other theory than juvenile morbid depravity,
or, rather, insanity.
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WALL STREET YESTERDAY Stocks were dull
and heavy, closing steady. Gold was 109t.
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From our reports this morning The probabilities
are that The oeathey today ,riu be partly cloudy.
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ROMAN HIPPODROME,
Madison avenue and Twentysixth street-GRAND
PAGEANT-CONGRESS OF NATIONS. at l: 30 p NJ. and
ATT T. NJ
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OLIVER CROMWELL. Smalley writes to
the Tribune that there is finally to be statue
to Oliver Cromwell. "The greatest of Eng
lishmen, " he says, ''or, at any rate, OF English
rulers, has not hitherto been much honored
by monuments of any kind in the country he
once delivered from the tyranny Of fops and
priests. Nothing is so rare to find, in public
or private, as statue or bust or even en-
graved likeness, of the Protector know one
man who has room full, including every OBJ
tainable picture bust or other memento of
Cromwell; but can now remember only one
other house in which he is to be seen in any
counterfeit presentment whatever" We
should like to see statue to Cromwell in the
United States He was as much an American
as an Englishmap, and was type of the men
and the time which found expression in New
England. The land Of the Puritans should
honor the llustrious captain Of the Puritan
cause.
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COLOSSEUM,
ROADWAY corner of Thirty-dfth street.-LONDON By
NIGHT. at / P NJ. closes at Z. NJ. same At r. NJ. ;
a ~ L. n.
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CENTRAL PARK GARDEN
Fty ninth street and seventh avenue.-THOMAS' CON-
CERT at p NJ. closes at l0:3O L. VI.
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IMUsEMExTs THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING

WOODS MUSEUM.
Broadway corner Thirteth street.-WEALTH AND
CRIME at p NJ closes al 4:S1 +. N. ROPhD IN, ats
r. II. closes AT 1890 z. N. Mr.. Harry CLIFFORD
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TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE,
Bowery-vARIETY ENTERTAINMENT 1t p. N.
closes at u 80 T. NJ.
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METRoPOLlTAN THEATRE,
5e6 broadwsy.-Parlsian CaDcan Dancers, ~ I. ~
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NIBLOS GARDEN
Hrosawsv between Prince and Houston streets
FAUsTCS ats p NJ; closes at l02 p NJ. MI Joseph
Wheelock and Miss Lone Burke. Matinee
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TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE.
Concert and operate Performance, ats 2. n
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ENGLAND ASKED TO RECOGNIZE THE MADRID
GOVERNMENT. Earl Russell appears to be ex-
ceedingly anxious that Great Britain should
recognize the government of the Spanish Re-
public or, at the least, exert her influence with
the other Powers of Europe, so as to induce
the act of joint recognition. How is this
Has Lord John, in his old age returned to his
first love Of democratic reform, or is he, in his
later character of biblical polemist, merely
jealous, or afraid, of France and the PopeP
The MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES OF NEWMAN
xET, England, have asked that the grand stand
building of the Jockey Club on the famous
race course be handed over to them, to be
used as hospital for patients afflicted with
smallpox. The disease is very prevalent in
the town. But the grand stand And Tor
small pox! Do the miseries and ills OF the
world always triumph over its joys and pleas
ures? And with such remarkable parallels
GRANT AND THE CoLoRED PEopLE.-The
Kansas Tribune recalls the circumstance that
when the republicans desired TO elect Grant
they exaggerated his fondness for the colored
Greeley. Now, however, Grant and his party
want the support Of the Southern chivalry,
and il is made to appear that the President is
the especial champion of the white man
against the carpet-bagger and the negro adven-
tursr. The wavs OF politicians Are peculiar.