New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-26
GENERAL NOTES.

Not alone the foreigner whose lot has been
cast IN the lower wnlks Of life Is IL that makes
errors whenever he speaks Of America That English
emigrant should ask shipboard he could probably
hire horse aud carriage In New-York to drive some
day out 70 Chicago, hardly more surprising than
that the Earl Of shaiesbury should send letter 10 Nova
scotia, addressed Halifax, United States OF America"
And yet tins Is what the noble lord is said actually to
have done.
One of many men who have claimed prior
ty in the invention OF the steamboat was Samuel Morey
OF Vermont A correspondent SIGNING himself "Howe,j
writes 10 The Boston Journal thai not later than 1893
fourteen years before the trip OF Robert Fulton
Cermont-Mr. Morey built boa. and propelled 1t up
the Connecticut River by at the rate OF nearly
four miles hour There is person living, he says
who rode in boat and the model OF the boiler and
engine Is still IN the possession OF MoTeys descendants
Fulton and he were well acquainted ana before Fulton
built the ClermOnt he paid visit to Mercy who after
ward always held that Fulton surTeputiously im-
tated his model" and never really recovered from the
blow received through the alleged peridy Of Fulton"
Mr. Morey perhaps. never knew Of the invention which
JOhn Fitch had made before him, but Howe" seems
Ignore that Fitch as early 81 July. 1856 success
fully moved by steam a small boat ON the Delaware
run Delaware at an average speed OF seven
and a half miles an hour, making during the season
more than 1000 miles.
The colossal work which France has under
taken BoGlogne calls attention 10 the growing wealth
OF that people. At the Boulone celebration about two
ago NJ Loon Say said that curing the past twenty
years between 400 600 900 and 100000 900 francs
annum had been employed in public works. and he be
eved that the country could not only furnish that
capital but a great deal more. The Assembly and Sen
ate OF France have already sanctioned plan for the
pendure of 500 600 francs year for ten years TO
be raised by loans harbors, canals and railways.
The money deposited by the people in savings banks
during the past seven months already amounts 100,
600 600 francs Meanwhile the credit OF the Govern
Ia liz % England
Speetator: "The Government can obtain money more
cheapY than az any time IN the past thirtytye years,
and the people are complaining thar they 90 not get m
maintained France viii only feel her taxation as whip,
stimulating industry which, n It reaped lts full re-
ward. might flag IRON plethora
An era of fraud and peculation promises to
open in Russia Many inquiries have been instituted by
the Government. Among the commissariat employees
who we're with the Russian Army OF the Danube, no
fewer than 400 persons including forty colonels
said To have implicated. There sixty persons
who were attached to the Army If the Caucasus, OF
whom similar reports have been made. A commission
Is now engaged in examining the claim OF great Jew
lsh house for many millions Of roubleS account Of
provisioning the troops. This firm has already received
81 900 900, and II asks nearly 30000O00 more, while
the Russian Government considers II only 6OOO,
600 Besides the story current at Bucharest that
tractors gave receipts for roubles instead OF for many
francs, Times Q.Ondon) correspondent says 1t is as
some Other had 20 vctus itself in the
OF last Winter 1t did 50 at ve times less than that
charged by tho contractors In some cases the original
party TO contract sold his rights and liabilities to
second and IN such case Polish firm obtained
much $4,000 roubles from some Hebrew spectators
Certain comments in Governor Rice's letter
refusing to surrender Hiram H. Kimpton the South
Carolina authorities fugitive from justice, have pro-
vokcd a sharp reply from Governor Wade Hampton
The South Carolina Governor regrets that the Chief
Executive OF great state Of Massachusetts should
have committed fragrant violation Of the supreme
law OF the anda violation rrepaiable In its nature as
the State suffering thereby has 40 possible redress"
Had you confined yourself to giving simple refusal
70 surrender the fugitive he says, TO Governor Rice
should make no further comments upon your letter.
"a the disregard by the executive authority Of State
concerns the whole people OF tho United sates but In
asmueh as you have nc to base your action tho
ground that in your Judgment the object procuring
the indictment against tue persons kmpton and Parker
does not 1pear be the purpose OF trying kmptOn
for the crime charged against him. but for different
purpose my duty the Governor South Carolina to
add that your statement Is entirely unwarranted and TO
repel the unworthy imputation as do with indignant
scOrn."