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New-York tribune., 1875-08-17
Neu'Uork Daily 0ribm,1e.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY
TUESDAY, AUGUST II, 1875.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGY.-The army worm had appeared on Navy
island in the harbor at st. John, n. b. - There
was a general torpor in the London money market,
and the failure of small houses was imminent.
- The commercial treaty between Peru
and China was ratified - The Carlsts ad-
yancing to the relief of SEQ de Urgc retreated -
The colossal statue Of Hermann, at Detmold in
Westphalia was unvailed - Harvesting was
everywhere retarded in Europe. - Substantial
agreement was attained at the Old Catholic Con
ference at Bonn on the doctrine Of the Procession Of
the Holy Ghost - The steamer ROthsay Castle
struck a snag of Toronto, and sank. - There
was an outbreak in Turkish Croatia.
DOMEsrIc.-The Canal Commission made reports
,hoying the payment to H. ID. Dcnison of $50, 700
on $1O.617 contract before completion OF the
work and showing fraud in the payment of Con-
tractor John Brown - Prof. Newton lectured
On Mathematics" to the Science Association. An
international meeting of ArcheolOgists was called
In America for next year. - salute was hred
At Albany in honor of the President, who was en-
route to New England. - The contract for the
Kanawha River improvement was let TO ID. NJ. d
c. +. Dull for 10000. 60 Edwin Booth was
severely if not fatally injured at Cos Cob, Conn.,
CITY AND SUBURB,N-The statement of the as
signee of Duncan, Sherman & Co. was filed. show
ing an indebtedness assets of S2,1 ,645 30.
- Richard OGorman ana COMMISSIONER JameS
Lynch were examined before tho Legislative Com
mittee on Emigration and Quarantine - The
trial of Police Capt. McCullagh was resumed. =
Telegraph rates to Boston. Albany, and Washington
were advanced. - Gold, 1l3I4, 1875, 113ls
Gold valne of the legal-tender dollar at the Close
$3.50 cents.
THE WEATnER.-The Government report predicts
cloudy and warm weather and local rains. - la
tlis city. yesterday, moderately warm and cloudy
weather prevailed, with occasional rains. Their
nometer, 74c, 73o, TO-.
New-York tribune., 1875-08-17
,tiou,. From ssverer studies Il Is . dhanse /,

atiops. From eeyerer studies it 10 6hango
il withdraws the mind from q too constant
attention to the unpleasant and the unfortu-
nate and it will bring rest and diversion when
they may be sorely needed. Those who find
studiOus man at times sending to the circulat-
ing library for bushels of frivolous books, ana
going through them lazily and with no great
eagerness, should remember that he is resting
himself and that this kind of indulgence Will
render his jaded mind once more brisk and
manageable. 1t is the next thing to absolute
idleness, which would be impossible, since ne
would continue to feed upon his thoughts, which
are not always the best of diet. 1t is happy
medium between work and play. 1t is dreaming
without the debilitating accompaniment OF too
much sleep. More than one very fine thinker
has been an OmnivOrOus novel reader. Chief
Justice Marshall used to perlIse novels on the
bench while the young lawyers were arguing
law points, upon which his Honor's mind was
already made up. Chief-Justice Shaw OF
Massachusetts,, one of the greatest OF common
lawyers, read so many novels during his early
days at the bar that his older associates shook
their heads and predicted that young Shaw
would come to nothing. We might mention
other great men who have been great novel
readers, but these will be sufficient for Illus
tratiOn.
When he goes into the country to rest
during the days of the dOg-star, why should
the clergyman take with him Buffers " Anal
"ogy2" or the lawyer Feane on "Contingent
Remainders 2" or the physician BicLat on
Life and Death p or the merchant Adam
Smiths "Wealth of Nations9" Will not the
last clever novel be betterf And il the bor-
rover at the circulating library will read
nothing else, an hour or two in the evening
with Collins or Farjcon or Mrs. Edwards, or
even Miss Braddon, will be better than beer
and billiards or stronger liquor and more du-
bious games. There are fctions which should
certainly be kept out of the hands of children; !;
and boarding g-schoOl misses may read T." the
"last thing out ~ when they should be sleep
ing; but minds with any muscle in them are
not likely to be damaged by an occasional
glut of this kind of literature.
New-York tribune., 1875-08-17
SIMMER MOTEL READING.

At this season of seaside and rural lounging
the subject of novel reading is naturally sug-
gesicd, for it is one of the cOmmOnest OF the
pastmcs of Summers semi-sesta. 1t Is
brought to our notice also in another way.
The directors of the Chicago Library report
the percentage of "pure fiction and juvc-
"niles" drawn out during the last year as
7G.O4; in Boston, we are told, it was 71.OO
and in Cincinnati about 74.O0. We see no
reason why novels and juvenile books should
have been put together; and we can only
conjecture the proportion which they bear to
each other. Still it is an established
fact that the demand upon the Free
Libraries is mainly for novels, and that most
of these are not of the highest literary rank
1t might be easy to consider this as entirely
unfortunate, but novel reading has its
advantages, and we have never been able
to agree with those who regard all fiction as
demOralizin9 or debitating in tendency. The
modem novel, indeed, deals mainly with the
realities of life, and very spaIingly with
the ideal and the romantic. The school OF
the Minerva Press, with its exaggerated
pictures of love and friendship, with its super
natural machinery and coarse idealism, has
ceased to have either professors or pupils.
The prose fiction of the present day is
mainly a sketch i'll or well done, of manners,
of social habits, and of prosaic and practical
men and women. 1t nike the good and bad,
the frivolous and the earnest, the cultured and
the ignorant, the coarse aud the refined in one
heterogeneous mass but the attentive reader
recognizes phases OF character which he has
already encountered in society, or his
attention is arrested by others, which,
however new to him, are not i'm
probable. These books, if they have
any merit, either confirm the knowledge OF
human nature which he already possesses, or
they impart to him fresh information and en-
large the sphere of his observation AZ it might
be enlarged by travel, or by an introduction
to a variety of fresh acquaintances. Moralsts
who impaticntly censure novels forget that
they are often IA much vehicles of instruction
as q book of voyages. Jane Austen introduces
us to one kind of society; Mr.. TrOllOpe to
another; and we better know what the men and
women of her time were by reading Miss Burney
or Miss Ferrier. If we would understand what
ScOtchmen are, we cannot do better than to go
to Gait for Eastern manners we may read
Anastasius " or the books of james Morier
NOTUneTn, tHoSe VI MISS DItI1tI' no
Merry Wives of Windsor" is not one of the
greatest of Shakespearc's plays, but how valu-
able is it as q drawing of the English man
ners and suburban life of the time In one of
Charles Brockden Browns stories there is an
account of the yellow fever in Philadelphia,
than which personal observation could hardly
have been more exciting. But we need not
multiply examples.
Once more, novel reading is one Of the read
lest and most wholesome of intellectual relax
New-York tribune., 1875-08-17
THE JNET A TIOE CONSTITUENCY

The outspoken fallacies of the inf1atiOnists
are easy enough to meet and to answer. Ii is
the purposes and the hopes which they do not
avow that are dangerous and difficult to deal
with. When they say it is the policy of con-
traction which is running the country, we
have only to answer that there is no such
policy, that the currency is now larger
in volume than it was ten years ago
in the full tide of flush times which arose from
and followed the war. If they say there is
not enough currency to satisfy the legitimate
demands of trade, we can point to the idle
millions lying in the hands of bankers
here and all over the country, and
the deep distrust pervading all classes
of society lest what they possess should
be rendered still less valuable by indefinite
watering of the currency. If they 60 to the
history of other peoples, the case is all one
way. 20 one but Judge Kelley would be
reckless enough to refer to the record of finan-
cia disturbances to sustain his ignorant her
estes There is not page of history which
does not speak with irresistible force in favor
of strict integrity in financial dealing, and in
severe denunciatiOn of every system of cur
rency which recognizes anything but the pre-
ciOus metals as q standard of value.
If the controversy were an open and loyal
one therefore, there would be no trouble
about it. All the learning, all the logic, all
the common sense and common honesty are on
one side No one but Kelley, and he with
what laundering passion we have seen, at
tempts TO show that initiation is in accordance
with law or logic or equity. But the advocates
of this perniciOus course rely on the secret
alliance they take for granted as existing in
the breasts of thousands who have not
education enough to see the ruin which
would come from it, and whose moral
natures are not sufficiently enlightened
to show them how rascally is the thought of
repudiation. There are few things more dis
heartening to sincere Republican than the
readiness which certain class of the rural
population exhibit to profit by any device
which may be eflectual to defraud the creditors
of their counties or their townships out of
money which they have lent to them. II you
20 into the Court house of rcpudiating county
and begin to talk with the officers, you will be
astonished at the dull, stupid compacency with
which they regard every appeal to their moral
sense, or to their better intelligence. II you
say they are robbers they accept it as tIib-
ute TO their cunning and what they call
"nerve' If you tell them they are destroy
ing the credit of their county they chuckle
and say, "Them New York fcllers can't expect
"to come it over the country jakes every
"time." 1t is to this detestable feeling that
dcmagogues like Allen and Cary are appealing
to-day, and no one can tell until next October
how numerous is the constituency which such
men represent.
1t is useless to talk Of moral considerations
to such people, but if any Of them read The
New-York tribune., 1875-08-17
TIE FLASHING TON POSTV4STFP


We are surprised, grieved. shocked. Our
faith in the Hon. j. NJ. Edmunfs, Judge, Post
MASTER and Secretary of the Republican Con-
gressions! Executive Committee, is beginning
to he shaken. We had known him as Post
master; heard of him as a Judge-thOugh of
what we never knew-and all the world knew
of him as the Secretary of the Republican
Congressional Executive Committee through
the wondrOus documents I've had sent flying
under franks all over the land, as well MS through
his trumpet calls to the party and his great
"and unparalleled feat (as they say in circus
programmed of calling the Chattanooga Out
rage Convention and addressing that body of
sincere and thoughtful patriots" in a letter
which demanded the Immediate production of
outrages enough to curdle the blood of the
average American citizen and save the Admin
istratiOn party in Congress. Having so known,
could we do ese than admire and love him
Here but r'v days ago we called attention
to the carr ess of manner, the sincerity and
pathOs wit which he asked in circular
Autographed from date to signature
for voluntary contributions to the fund of the
New-York tribune., 1875-08-17

TRIBUNE, we would like to make ono sugges-
ton, which they ought to be able TO appre-
ciate. They are industriously told every day
that if they can bring in the reign of unlim-
tied greenbacks capital will come in floods into
the country, their roads will all be
completed and put in running order, their
manufactures will start again, and everybody
will have all the business he wants to DO at
his own rates. We can inform these hopciui
spirits that nothing of this sort will happen
If this cheerful Jeremy Diddler philosophy Is
approved by the votes of Ohio at the elections
this Fall, it will be easier to draw
blood from the proverbial turnip than
to engage capital again in Western en-
| terprises. A vast system or rail-
roads and other industrial undertakings has
been set on foot mainly by Eastern capital.
For reasons which the innationists and repu-
diationists evidently do not understand, capl-
tai has become shy of such investments. The
men who have been bowling for legis-
lation against railroads amounting VIZ
tually to cOnfiscatiOn are surprised
to find that capitalists are not
eager to lend them money; and those who
dcnounce the doctrine that the Government
should pay its debts honestly as superstition
of wOrn-out dcspotisms, imagine that 1t Is
conspiracy of bondholders which induces people
to allow their money to lie idle rather than in
trust it to communities holding such views.
A bad character does not pay, for commu-
nity any more than for IN individual. Either
honesty or intelligence should be sufficient to
guard great State from incurring tainted
reputation. There certainly ought to he enough
of both in Ohio to save that splendid Common
wealth from disgrace.
New-York tribune., 1875-08-17
PUBLIC OPINION.

"a Mr.. Welsh" of Philadelphia takes hold
OF Mr. Dcano after the manner OF man OF business. He
also indicates the true nwardness VI President Grant,
lCincnnati Commercial tlnd)
Mr.. Hugh McCullOch, banker Of London, is
preparing ~ level his guns upon the grcenback party o.
OHIO The great contraconst OF tho Treasury should
hasten to throw himself upon the side Of the Money
Power The abOrng masses the debtors the producing
classes Of Ohio arc certain 10 oppose whatever banker
McCulloch wants.-(Cincnnati Enquirer (DemD
The challenge Of Mr.. Richmond il one which
seems likely epted and the courts Of the State
win decide between him and the Commission. The i'm
putaon against him In this report s direct aud dainag
Ing When Mr. Richmond was In oAce he sustained a
reputation for honesty and fidelity which WAS never
seriously questioned until this report appeared Utcn
Herald lRepD
It may be laughed At scOifsd at, and with
high ingnat0n denied, but the events VI the
New-York tribune., 1875-08-17
PERSONAL.

Senator Conkling has gone to RichAeld
Springs
DIR. j. G. Holland and family have left
Niagara Falls for a trip up the saguenay River.
The Prince of Wales will have q Cashmere
shawl presented to him while he IA In India IL is now
being made at Srenuggur. and will cost 5000 rupees.
IL il proposed to erect an Educational
Memorial Institute to John Knox at Haddngton. Scot
land, Of which town he Is believed to have been native
About s1 900 have thus far been subscribed
Prof. Looms of Yale College is preparing .
gcnealogy Of the Loomis family All OF Its acmbers dc
scended ron one Ensshman who came 70 ls o eoan.
Madame Christine Nilsson is said to be 40
generous as she Is talented She not only sang at Q
matinee for the benefit OF tho sufferers by the nunda
ons In France, but betrayed all the expenses ofuet
that entire proceeds might he devoted 10 that charity
The death of the Hon. VIM. A. Graham will
seriously felt in North Carolina. where he was re-
garded by political parties of the abest men
in the State. He memberelect Conservative,
from Orange Coqy TO the coming constitutional Con.
Of great value In the formation OF new Constitution
The Rev. DR.. Richards of the Presbyterian
Church of Charcs'own, W. Va, was found insensble at
the waverey Station in Edinburgh Scotland an the 9Th
inst He taken to the Royal Innrmary. whore he
OF Great Britain, and being subject to attacks Of
gddness, he fell on butress and fractured bis skull
The death of Mr.. COlvin Smith, Royal
Academcan OF Scotland, Is announced MI smith WAS
born i'm l7gJ He studied in London and settled U Edn-
burgh and became in short time the fashionable por
trait painter 10 is related that Sir Walter Scott gave
him sittings for less than seven pOrtras Two Of bis
works the possession OF the Scotch National Cal
lery.
The grave of Bishop Thrlwall in Westmin-
Abbey is in the Poets Corner, nearly facing tho
south aisle. The bust Of George Grote. whose gravo
adjons ia d ectiy 1t, the next memorial to the
south being that OF David Garrick. A memorial to
Bishop Thrlwa Is proposed which Is to take the form oi
institution for teaching and training young meN OF
limited means for the ministry OF the Church, prepars
tory to their entering q university or college com
mittee has been formed to carry out the project.
QUEBEC. Aug. 16.-Gen. Sherman and Cyrus
w. Field are IN town.
ST. JOHN. n. b., Aug. 16-Bayard Taylor
and family left st. John Nova Scotia this morning for
home.
CHICAGO, Aug. 16.-Lieut.-G Gen. Sheridan
left Chicago this morning for visit to the Pacific Coast
He will probably arrive in San Francisco about the 33d
New-York tribune., 1875-08-17
Brsinese Notices.
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Before you start on journey secure an
accident policy the original TRAvtLERs OF haIGor-
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION AMONG THE DEsT
PrOPg-THE TMBlNH has it, The TACT IL deinonITaioa .,
an fgurcS aud four months after tncir pun
Gcaop before its stunned rivals were able To utter even
bald denial The circulation Is snow ~ 'e &
,sny Of the Company and AL the other heavy
aairs in the the advertising agents and In
tie report Postmaster Of The CITY TO the
t General THE authorities refuse permit the urte pup
Gcaon of the figures on Of the complaints OF ias
mi IL is known they continue down TO miisumme,
so exhibit the same relative proportions as when nst
ed last April The orders Of the news ccmp%an, ami
then and now demonstrate that THE TRiBuNEs ua'
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A MATTER OF TASTE.

He was evidently going West. People gem
eroy et aboard train headed for the West when they
have planned to go In that direction. He sat by the car
window telling his wife aud two daughters, who lad 80
him to the depot, what TO do during his Nd
sence when the bell rang and the train started.
Goodbye pa !" the three shouted
Good -byet" he shouted back. The mother suddenly
rendered something. and running down the platform
alter the car she called ut the top VI her voice: .
"Pai pa don't make mistake and drink that hair on
Jhe b.sket N place OF the cold tea -lDcsxot fres
New-York tribune., 1875-08-17

1t appears from the letter of our London
correspondent that there is good reason to sup
pose that the Prince of Wales, as well as
leading army officers, endeavored to shield
Col. Baker from tho consequences of his mis-
conduct. The peculiar circumstances of the
case, however, rendered compromise practically
impossible. and although be was treated rather
New-York tribune., 1875-08-17

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better than an ordinary criminal. his sentence
was severe and exemplary.

Another notable address delivered before the
American Scientific Association at Detroit is
printed in THE TRIBUNE to-day. In this Prof.
II. A. Newton of Yale College makes forci-
bic plea in behalf of a more general study OF
mathematics, not so much that it may be given
a higher place in education, but that it may
receive more attention from men OF SCIENTIFIC
pursuits with a view to their becoming better
qualified for such pursuits
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The daily Argus., 1875-09-22
Chicago Market.

\ As 80 As aa CHICAGO, Sept. q.
Hogs-Receipts, 5000, market moder-
ately active, prices weak and lower; CON-
mon to good light 7.70(97. 90; do heavy
7.6O(g8AO; assorted heavy to select
Philadelphia 100000.
Cattle-Reseipts $500, market moder.
ately active; choice natives and graded
steers 5.7596.00; common to fair 1900
$40; Texans 26O(92.66{.
Wheat-Regular, higher; 63963s Oct.
ober; 6l3 November; SO cash. 4-l
Corn Higher; 54B Oct; .49a Nov; Al
year, 563 cash. .-.-1z <.
oats-Firmer s58 Sept; s3s Oct; 32l
year.
Barley-Firmer; LIZ Sept; 1.O4 Oc
The daily Argus., 1875-09-22
TELE1GRA.P1E]HE[IC. L T


BosToN. Sept, 22.-The following letter
will be published ''Natick, Sept. "a
To the Editor of the Boston Journal;
find in your paper this morning dispatch
from Worchester stating that Vice Presi-
deut Wilson would acceptfthe Republican
nomination for governor, and consider
it the greatest compliment ever paid to
him.. Highly as | should value such an
honor, sense of my obligations and duty
to my country would not permit me to ac-
cept the nomination, were it rendered by
the unanimous voice Of the convention.
(Signed) HENRY WILSON,