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The New York herald., 1879-08-06
Is This Vrueg

When the writ of prohibition in the case
of Police Commissioner Wheeler was served
upon Mayor Cooper he claimed the right of
appearing by counsel, and, after a private
and protracted consultation with his legal
adviser, served upon the Commissioners
attorney written paper formally extend
ing to the arraigned Commissioners the
privilege of being ''heard," and postponing
further action until Tuesday, August 12 1t
tempt is to be made to procure modifca-
ton of the writ of prohibition, which is
not returnable until the 18th inst, and it
is rumored that, in case that cannot be OBJ
tained the Mayor will disregard the Su-
preme Court order and forthwith remove
Mr. Wheeler. 1t is also alleged that the
Governor stands ready to assent to the re-
moval as soon as the papers are submitted
to him.
There does not appear to be any great
public necessity for such sudden haste in
the tardy proceedings taken against Mr..
Wheeler. He has been in Office, holding
over after the expiration Of his term, ever
since Mayor Cooper took possession of the
city government, without any attempt on
the part of the Mayor to appoint his sue
cessor. AS Mayor Cooper has thus been
passive in the matter for more than seven
months six or seven days longer delay will
be no serious public evil, and will certainly
be less Objectionable than would be the
contempt of Supreme Court writ by the
Mayor But it is said that Mr.. Wheeler
must be removed on the 18th of the present
month, because the appointment of in
spectors of election is fixed to be made on
the 18th inst, and Mr.. Wheeler's place is
wanted before that date.
Is this true? Is the explanation of all
these police muddles and intrigues to be
found in desire to destroy the non-parti-
sanship of the Board before the inspectors
of election are appointed and then to make
the appointments in the interests of fac
ton? We can scarcely believe such story.
yet Mayor as passive and as slow to move
as Mr.. Cooper would scarcely fly in the
face of the Supreme Court for the sake Of
saving delay of week unless under some
powerful temptation.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06
Pig Iron and Blood md Iron.

. Old Blood and Iron, so called in Berlin,
was recently visited by Mr.. Pig Iron Kelley,
OF the State Of Pennsylvania. and they
talked great deal fer an hour. That is to
say, Kelley talked great deal just as he
does in Congress-an Bismarck got in
word now and then. Even the Princes
big dog was oppressed with the Pennsyl-
vania eloquence, and sneaked away under
a table and never once tried to put his
teeth into the member Of Congress, as he
commonly does put them into people
whose speeches excite or startle his master.
But remarkable circumstance in
connection with his important in
terview, elaborately chronicled by Mr..
Kelley, is that there is not q
word in it about pig iron. For about an
hour apparently the honorable member
bored the poor man of blood and iron with
the rigmarole of what he knows or sup
poses he knows about silver. He poured
out with his accustomed fuency the sub
stance of all the debates in Congress and
all the pamphlets printed for several years
past on that subject, and ut last Bismarck
admitted that they were as ignorant as pos
sible on the subject in Germany and ready
to change their position, and Immediately
referred to our commercial relations with
Asia. Perhaps the hot weather has affected
Mr.. Kelley and he may really have thouoht
The New York herald., 1879-08-06
Bulgaria's LiberatOr.

Seldom have such honors been paid to
the memory Of an American as the Bull
garians and the entire Slavonic race have
paid to Januarus Aloysius MacGahan. We
print this morning the substance of
a lengthy lecture which was delivered be-
fore the Slavonic Society of st. Peters,
burg on the anniversary day of his death.
Professor Muller's address is, in truth, q
noble tribute, and will be read with
peculiar and gratifying interest. His con-
Guiding words are especially worthy Of
quotation :-"Let us be guided by the ex-
ample of that stranger, so dear to us, and
SO untimely lost to our cause-that stranger
with his unshaken faith in the future OF our
people,"
The New York herald., 1879-08-06
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
,hn Biaelow is at Saratoga.

Mr.. John Bigelow is at Saratoga.
Tom Ewing is said to bc "land-poor."
Secretary Evarts entertains very little.
General Fitzpatrick will lecture against Colonel Bob
Ingersoll.
The Chicago Tribune thinks that Washburne is the
Joe Jefferson thinks that Mary Anderson's success
came too soon.
General Pleasonton. Of Philadelphia. is with his
family at Saratoga.
Chief Justice Armstrong has left Canada for the
island of St. Lucia.
1t is said that Senator Thurman is not wealthy
he before the panic
Senator Blaine has six children. He does not keep
q carriage. He owns handsome house at Augusta,
Me-
The Pail Mall Gazette says that the weather notices
from America the only forecasts that to be
fulfilled.
The newly appointed Chief Justice of Utah. John
A. Hunter arrived at Salt Lake City on Monday
evening.
Speaker Randall never has Intoxicating liquors at
his social entertainments. His house is very
small one.
Colonel T. w. Higginson says that the children Of
our lawyers and merchants more healthy than
those Of our farmers.
Mrs. Hayes does not like to have the President
take the carriage Sunday. and he frequently
Hamilton Fish is wealthy. and when he was Secre-
tary of State he spent much as $4,000 year in
keeping up his Washington establishment.
The Cincinnati Commercial believes that If General
Grant were nominated he would be beaten worse
than Van Buren or Greeley, while any other republt
can would be elected. 1t wishes General Grant to
remain simply as "our first citizen"
Collector Thomas, of Baltimore. is on visit to
this city. He called Collector Merritt at the Gus
tom House yesterday. and both officials took trip
up the Hudson River revenue cutter. Collector
Thomas leaves for Newport to-day.
Erening OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the prevail-
ing duness incident to the summer season the Tete-
gram not only continues to present map of daily
life that is not equaled by any of it's evening con-
tenporaries, but it maintains daily circulation
larger by six thousand than it had at the same time
last year. While this is encouraging in journalistic
sense only the natural result Of enterprise
which seeks give the public the first and most i'm.
portant from all portions of the world. We
have, however, a reward that is more gratify-
ing. 1t tho testimony from the thousands OF fam
lilies wherein the Telegram finds welcome that we do
publish line that may not be proitably read to
every member Of the household. From news to
miscellany We keep apace with the times. educating
alike the head and heart"
The New York herald., 1879-08-06
Cruise of the New York Yacht club.

Cruise OF the New York Yacht Club.
This evening the vessels of the New York
Yacht Club will assemble at Glen Cove pre-
paratory to The much looked for annual
cruise. AT eight o'clock the captains of the
vessels that join the cruise viii assemble
on the flagship Rambler 10 arrange the pro.
gramme, and it is anticipated that there
will be good attendance. 1t is probable
that Greenport, New London, Newport,
New Bedford and Oak Bluffs will be visited
by the feet, and as several interesting
races will be sailed the cruise will be an
agreeable and exciting one to the yachts
men as we'll as to the citizens who will en-
Joy the opportunity to receive the vessels
in their harbors. The programme is Ger.
tain to be a spirited one, and with favorable
weather the cruise will no doubt be very
enjoyable. The fleet of the Atlantic Yacht
Club disbanded two or three days ago al
Martha's Vineyard after pleasant time,
and the New York Club fleet will, it is to
be hoped, have quite as successful cruise.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06
NEWPORT GOSSIP.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.

NEWPORT. r. l., August s, 1879.
Rev. Alexander Crummcll, a graduate of Cam
BRIDGE England is in the city. and is the guest Of
Mr. George s. Downing. tho well known colored
man.
Late hotel arrivals include the followng:-
James s. Mason and family. A. +. Hicks and c. jack
son. Providence; James Getty. Baltimore; Walter L.
Murphy, Philadelphia S. r. Rivans Jersey City; G.
A. Richardson, A. Ii. Tupper and L. g. Wells Brook
lyn; W. Ii. Singer and family and Il. Il. Singer.
Pittsburg; W. NJ. Whitney and wife. Albany; A. H.
Boswell. England; Mrs. Mary L. Dedwood and +.
Gosnell and wife, Baltimore; Mr.. Sands. Mrs.
Sands and Il. Glover, New York; James OHars.
Rochester, N. Y: M. O'Brien. Lowell; M. Adsit.
Hornellsvillc, N. Y; Mrs. Julia c. Patterson. New
York; II. Il. Drummond. Providence; G. A. Long
fellow, Cambridge; Mrs. A. L. Fisher, England;
G.. 4. King and family, Rockford, H.; j. L. Hudson.
Detroit.
Mr.. Mahlon Sands. of New York, gave dinner
party to-day at his cottage Ledge road and Ocean
avenue.
Roscoe Conkling took q sail in Newport Harbor
yesterday.
DIR. L. s. f. Arnold, of Yonkcrs. N. " had grand
reception at his villa to-day Ono hundred and nifty
of the summer residents were present
Private entertainments were also given to-day py
Mrs H. S. q. Dehautevile and Mr.. w. W. Astor: -
Mr.. Hamilton Fish. Jr.. is the guest of Mr.. W. W.
General Robert Il. Patterson aud family, of Phila-
dciphia, and Mr.. Charles M. Marsh aud Mr.. George
q. S. Lake, of New York, have arrived.
Ex-Governor Edwin ID. Morgan, OF New York. ro-
ceived the sad intelligence to-day that his
son, DIR. T. ID. Morgan, was LYING
at the point OF death ut his home In Suhcld Conn.
The Governor Immediately proceeded TO the bedside
of his dying son. ana expected to arrive there mt u
late hour Tonight The illness OF his was the
cause of his nonappearance at the dinner given to
Senator Conkling last night by Mr.. J.. p. Morton.
Thirty-hvo members of the Neptune Yacht Club,
of Norwalk, Conn, arrived hero to-day in the
schooner =. ID. Barnes.
There are number of professional thieves In
town. lady's pocket was picked to-day and sew.
eral rooms at the Ocean House have recently been
robbed AS was announced III the HERALD last Satur.
day arrested the beach for entering
another mans bathing house and was aftorward re-
leased. This proved to be X. Won Weppin. young
Frenchman who was arrested in Boston yesterday by
clever of the police of that city He had stolen
$500 worth of jewelry from rooms occupied by Mr.
Livingston Roe, of New York. 1t recovered by
Boston police, and he ackno wledgcd the crime Ii is
now believed that other rooms have been robbed al
the hotel but tho propretors very rcticen.
regard to the matter.
A bathing house was robbed yesterday, but the
thief waited too long before presenting the check al
the office for watch and other valuebles left there
for safe keeping. The check was In q pocketbook
which was stolen and was missed ~ soon ~ tho
| owner came out OF the SURF
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The bull move
mcnt continued Lake Shore advancing nearly
3per cent from the opening price. Money was
offered in abundance and declined to 2 per cent
on ordinary call loans. Exchange was quiet,
government bonds were steady and railroad
mortgages were irregular.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

that he was talking about pig iron all the
time, and some of his observations apply
to that commodity rather than to silver I;
but if this is not the real explanation of his
neglect and abandonment of his great-sub
ject his constituents ought to take his case
into consideration and see what he means.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

THE COLLISION between steamboats, at pier
last evening is precautionary signal of other
dangers that may follow. The pilots of these
overcrowded craft have too much at stake to be
In the slightest degree careless
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

OUR WORKNGMEN will have something to
digest in the brief summary of reports from the
United States consuls on the condition of labor
in European countries. The facts given are
ugly combatants.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

THE MARQUIS OF LoRNE and Princess Louise
cannot make themselves popular than by
mingling with the people as they are now doing
in short and frequent journeys This demo-
cratic spirit was Lord Duffcrin's secret of
success.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION have ar
ranged their programme for the seventh annual
meeting in September. The interest in good
craftsmanship is rapidly increasing.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

GooD MOVE has recently been made in
constructing on n new plan a number of tene-
ment houses for our poor breadwinners The
cooperative system of obtaining supplies is also
to be tried
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

THE FISHERY QUESTION will derive fresh i'm
portance from the presence of the Kearsarge in
the Gulf of st. Lawrence and the investigation
that has been ordered by the officials.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

GENERAL MILES, the Indian fighter, has
shown himself to he the best policeman OH the
Northwestern frontier just now he is engaged
in keeping Sitting Bull out of buffalo meat.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

The ADMINISTRATION of steam bath to yes
sells infected with the yellow fever is move
idea, but there is sense enough in it to warran
an experiment.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

The FORMAL OPENING of the Tobacco Board
of Trade OF this city took place yesterday. 1t
is n wonder that large an interest has not
been specially represented before.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

THE STAGNANT AND OFFENSIVE CONDITION
Of the water in the upper portion Of Central
Park demands instant action Otherwise. with
the thermometer in the nneties. it may quickly
become breeding spot Of pestilcnce.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

TWENTY MILE RACE between Captain
Webb in plain bathing dress and Paul Boy
ton in his rubber suit would be one of the SEN
sations of the sporting season.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE STocK of the Subur
ban Rapid Transit Company are understood to
be very large although the Commissioners de-
cline to state the exact amount
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

IT Is GOOD NEWS from Mexico that Presi-
dent Diaz is disposed to apply the new taxes on
textile fabrics amounting to five hundred thou
sand dollars, to the payment of the debt due
the United States
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

THE MONUMENT in memory of General Custer
will soon be unveiled at West Point. The ar
rangements for the occasion are nearly com
plete
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

KEEPER CUsTLEY, of the police force, de-
serves credit for the lively race he made yester-
day in securing an escaped prisoner.
The New York herald., 1879-08-06
II RIPPLE SH e e II
NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 6. 1879.

The ,rcathcr in Ne,c York and its ricimity to-
day sciH be scarmer, wiM Increasing clondineSs
and thunder storms. Tomorrow riH be waym
and fair
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

The EXECUTORS of the late Brigham Young
are in bad strait. They have squandered the
property and been sent to the Penitentiary for
contempt. Verify, the elders must have taken
lessons from the East
The New York herald., 1879-08-06

enough to cover the case; SO that the prose-
cution may succeed now where it falled
before
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-22
SuepheuS on Grant.

The letter of the Hon, Alexander Fl.
Stephens to the editor of the Augusta
(Ga.) News, complaining that he has
been misrepresented, contains this para
graph: 81 am in Washington, in the
discharge of official duty, attending, to
the best of my ability, to the interests of
my constituents. as well as the general
interests of the people throughout the
whole country. I am not engaged, by
any means, in President-making. In re-
lation to General Grant and the next
Presidency, l have said, and now repeat,
that the South might 80 further and fare
worse than to take him. | have said
that l entertained for him personally
very high regard and esteem. ] have
said, and now repeat, that prefer him
to Mr.. Tilden for President. This is no
change of opinion on my part. | am a
Democrat of the strictest sect Of the JET
fersonian school. In these principles /
was born and reared and in them ex-
pect to die. If what l have really said
about General Grant appears to any to
be fantastic or antl-Democratie utter
ances, then be it so. They are opinions
that shall hardly ever change"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-22
Why Gambetta Broke His Engage
meNt

George NJ. Towel in Good Company.l
Gambetta is bachelor; but he has
not lived SO long without having at least
contemplated marriage. The story of
his engagement to an heiress in Western
France, and its sudden breaking off, give
us fresh glimpse of his character.
From the time Of his leaving his humble
home at Cahors, till his rise to the high
est rank of public personages, Gambetta
lived with a faithful, loving, devoted
aunt, who had followed him to Paris,
and who made, everywhere he went, a
pleasant home for him. She was at once
his maid-of-al-work and his congenial
companion; and he was as deeply at
tached to her as she to him.
His engagement to a handsome and
accomplished girl. with a dot of seven
millions, was shock to the good aunt
but she yielded to the inevitable. When
the arrangements for the marriage were
being discussed, however, the young lady
took it into her head to make it condi
ton Of their union that the aunt should
be excluded from the new establishment
She was scarcely elegant enough to adorr
|gilded salons. Gambetta explained how
much his aunt had been to him; the rich
beauty was only the more obc.urate
Gambetta took up his hat, and with q
profound bow, "Adieu," said he; eve
were not made to understand eacf
other" And the marriage was put OF
forever,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-22
Good versus Bad Players
fGafurf}av Rqvfpw I

Two good whist players were matched
against two bad players, and the same ar
rangement was made in another room, in
which the bad players held the same
hands as the good players in the first
room, and vice versa. Thirty-three
hands were played. In one room the
good players held good cards and won
four rubbers out of six, in points a bal
ance of eighteen. In the other room the
good players had the bad cards, and
played seven rubbers with the same num-
ber of cards, winning three out Of seven,
and losing seven points on the balance.
The difference was eleven points, or near
ly one point a rubber in favor OF skill.
DR.. Pole, working by a statistical method,
has arrived at nearly the same result;
but he estimates the advantage Of supe-
rior personal play, among players all
playing by system, at about a quarter OF
a point rubber. So that the combined
skill of two very skillful players against
two very unskillful ones would be more
than half a point rubber.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-22

DR.. johnson commends Frederick the
Great for being able to tell where par
tieular bottle of wine was placed in the
cellar. The same minute attention, COM
bined with vastness of design, was OBJ
served in Henry ~. "He was 50 ex-
tremely exact" says Sully, "as to make
me give him an account once week of
the money received and the uses it had
been put to. He does not omit to remark
that, in casting some cannon, they wanted
to rob him of piece" The only thing
he neglected was his own personal com
fort and equipment. Once, calling sud
denly on his valet de ehambre for an ac-
count of his wardrobe, he was told that
he had only eight shirts, three of which
were the worse for wear, and five pocket
handkerchiefs In letter already quoted
he describes himself as frequently not
knowing where to look for a dinner.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-22
Academic Art.
ICOrnhill Magazine.I

Academic art may be briefly defined as
the endeavor to paint actions in a way
which could never have taken place, with
the idea of thereby creating a pleasing
effect upon the eye of the beholder. The
creed of those who adhere tn this school
is this A picture is not to be judged by
any other rules than those Of pictures,
that is to say, you must not blame pic
ture for being unnatural or uninterest-
ing, or meaningless, or even absurd, or
ali of these; but we must simply notice
whether the effect produced by the lines
upon the eye is pleasing one, whether
the figures are arranged in obedience to
tho, laws OF composition, whether the
light and shade are evenly distributed
and skillfully opposed, whether the fig
ures have dignity Of gesture and form,
and so on. Plainly stated, this sounds
as if it we're burlesque, but it is strictly
and literally the creed Of Academjsts
though they would probably hesitate te
write it as clearly as have done.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-22
Early Atlantic Steamship Days.
Montreal Witneesl

This afternoon Witness reporter
waited upon Mr.. Joseph George Danter,
who is now in Montreal, and who wa the
second engineer of the Royal William,
the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.
Mr.. Danter, who is over seventy years of
age, is native of Liverpool, and has
been a marine engineer all his life. 1t is
fifty years since he first visited Canada.
He says the Royal William was built at
Quebec in 1881 by Mr.. George Black for
the Quebec & Halifax Steam Navigation
ComSany. She is described as follows:
BurVen $50 60-94 tons one deck, three
masts, 160 feet long, breadth above the
main wales, A feet; between paddle
boxes, % feet; schooner rugged, carvel
built. She WAS towed to Montreal, where
she was fitted with marine engines with
side levers by Messrs. Bennett and Hen
derson.
The ship created a:profound sensation,
and especially upon the officers of one of
His Majesty's frigates, who fred at her
as she was steaming through the Gulf,
and she was compelled to lay to until
the ruler of the Kings Navy had con-
vinced himself that there was nothing
diabolical in her construction. "What
cargo did she carry on her trip across the
AtlanticY asked our representative,
Coal" was the reply; land we used it
nearly all on the voyage" The good
people of Cockaigre, it seemed from Mr..
Danter's statement, thronged to see the
strange craft in the Thames, and were
heard to remark that the "Indians" were
not unlike themselves, the hallucination
being strengthened by the fact that the
ancient mariners were talking French,
the enlightened Cockneys only recogniz-
ing two languages, one of which is Eng
lish and the other isn't. While in the
Thames the Royal William, according
to our informant, was sold to the Span.
ish Government, and became the Isabella
the Second, and the first war vessel OF
| the Duns,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-22

A thieves supper is one of the novel
ties of London. In mission hall near
Drury Lane the habitual criminal has
found friends who, on his discharge, in
vite him to festival. This is the prin-
ciple, and last year 537 have thus had a
welcoming hand held out to them on
emerging from prison. Money has been
given to some. All were entertained and
lectured ON tie principle that honesty is
the best policy. But no one asked how
many of the company would have been
invited to supper had they been honest
working men.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-22
Five hundred dolls and a hundred

Five hundred dolls and a hundred
thousand illustrated advertising cards
are now on exhibition in one of the larg-
est private residences in Buffalo for the
benefit of the Charity Organization
Society. 1t is a novel idea most effect
lively and artistically carried out. The
dolls have character and name. Jack
and Gill, Little Miss Muffit, Little Boy
Blue, Margery Daw, Little Bo-Peep,
Johnny Green, Jack Horner, Curly Locks,
Old Mother Hubbard, Nine. Angot,
Daisy Miller, the Lady of The Aroostook,
and many more heroes and heroines are
represented. A dolls party, ehildren's
ball and subscription ball are among
the features of most unique fair, in
which the leaders Of Buffalo society have
manifested great interest.