Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1879 — Page 4

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THE INDIAKA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MOENING, AUGUST 20, .1879.

, WEDNESDAY. AUG3UT 20. - Blaxtok Dckcan is probably the biggest dance that .Kentucky ever exhibited in Maine or anywhere else. He has a mania for newspapers and politics, and for notoriety. In his mental make-up Blant resembles J. N., the philosopher.

It is exceedingly gratifying to know that , Nellie Grant Sartoris is not dead. The news, as telegraphed from London on the 16th inst, caused wide-spread sorrow in this country, and now that it is contradicted honsands of people wil rejoice. . The number of hogs packed from March 1 to the 13'.a inst. amounts to 2.371,883 head, against 2,223 347 head for the same time last year. At. present the ' packing business la not active, owing to the low price of the product, as compared with the price of hogs A letter, giving the status of political matters in Southern Indiana, from our ' usually well-informed New Albany correspondent, will be found elsewhere, in this morning's paper. The information that the party is "solid" for success in Southern Indiana will be gratifying to our Democratic friends throughout the State. The department of state wants to advance the pay of a minister to England to $25,000 a year. It has been found out that $17,500 will not enable the minister to keep time to the aristocratic step of England and maintain his social standing with English snobs. It is quite likely that such miserable blather skites as Schenck, Pierrepont and Welch re-( quire money to obtain social standing, but such a minister as Charles Francis Adams got along well for seven years on $17,500 a year. 'Gbakt, in Fekin around China, has got himself into business. He has agreed to settle " the difficulty between China and Japan, growing oat of the Loochoo question. Grant admits that he knows nothing about the matter in controversy, but that makes little difference to the heathen Chinese or to Grant. Ignorance does not disqualify a man for high position, in Grant's estimation, and if he bs vicious as well as ignorant, then he becomes Grant's beau ideal. Judah P. Benjamin, the secretary of state during the existence of the. Southern Con federacy, had, when he fled for safety, a $10 gold piece. This he gave to a negro to place him in a place of safety. Arriving in England, he commenced the practice of law, and now he is said to be the recognized head of the bar of that country. Mr. Benjamin recently purchased an elegant residence in Paris, for which he paid 300,000 francs cash, which does not exceed one-half of his yearly income. Mr. Benjamin is now 67 years of age, and, though working usually 12 hoars -every day, is in splendid health. EEADI5Q ROCKS. For an infant science, geology exhibits little of the diffidence and hesitancy peculiar to the modest and unassuming youth. On the contrary, it baldly strides to the front and demand audience. It defiantly assails the Mosaic aocount of creation, and presents to the world its record of rocks, and challenges Mo3es to the debate. Instead of six days to build the world, the time re quired, according to the rock testimony, ex panda into centuries beyond the grasp of .mortal mind, and still the antiquity of the world is as far from being settled as when geologists first attempted to interview the rocks for the purpose of ascertaining their age. It will not be denied that geologists have contributed largely to the wealth of the human family by their explorations, which have enabled men in search of the precious metals of iron, lead and coal, to know where to invest most profitably their money, time and labor, and in this way add largely to the aura total of man's happiness by compelling the earth to yield up its hidden treasures. If this were all, the science of geology would occupy an enviable place in the books that seek to widen the area of human knowledge. But this is not alL From the practical, geology enters the domain of fiction, and is forever striving, by reading rocks, instead of the Bible, to set up a theory of the age of the world which is not only beyond all human comprehension, but absolutely defies the most robust imagination. This fact is brought out by a paper lately contributed by Mellard Reade to the Royal society of Eagland, in which he endeavors to grapple with the question of the antiquity of the world by employing the , limestone rocks of the earth's crust as an index of geological time.- It is held by Mr. Reade that limestones have bean in coarse of formation from the earliest known geological periods, but it would appear that the later found strata are more calcareous than the earlier, and that there has in fact been a gradually progressive increase of calcareous matter. The very extensive deposition of carbonate of lime over wide areas of the ocean bottom at the present , day is sufficiently attested by the racent soutdlnga of the Challenger. According to the author's estimate, the sedimentary crust of the earth is at least one mile in average actual thickness, of which probably one-tenth consists of calcareous matter. In seeking the origin of this calcareous matter, it is assumed that the primitive rocks of the original crust were of the nature of gigantic or basaltic rocks. By the disintegration of such rocks. calcareous and other sedimentary deposits have been formed. The amount of lime salts in waters which drain districts made up of granites and basalts is found, by a com pari on of analysis, to be on an average about 3.73 parts in 100,000- parts of water. It is farther assumed that the excessed areas of Igneous rocks, taking an average throughout all geological time, will bear to the exposures of sedimentary rocks ratio of about one to nine. From these and other data, Mr. Reade concludes that the elimination of the calcweous matter now found in all the sedi msutary strata must have occupied at least 600,000,000 of years. This, therefore, repre ants the minimum age of the world. The author infers that the formation of the Lau ren tlan, Cambrian and Silurian strata most

have occupied about 200,000,000 of years; the old red sandstone, the carboniferous, and

the poikilitic systems another 200,000,000; J and all the other strata, the remaining 200,000,000. Mr. Reade is, therefore, led to believe that geological time has '.been enormously in excess of the limits urged by certain physicists: that it has been ample to allow for all the changes which, on the hypothesis of evolution, have occurred in the organic world. '. The effort of Mr. Beade at guessing, all will admit, is simply stupendous; and, es he puts it, the time allowed the Creator to build the world .is sufficiently extended, if only time was required for monkeys to become men, tadpoles hippopotami, and grasshoppers elephants. The conclusions of Mr. Reade antagonizes the simple grandeur of the Mosais account, that "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," as also, "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that in them is." This is a declaration, a grand revelation, a truth that the rocks can not tell nor man demonstrate by figures. If God made Heaven and earth, he could have made them in a minute as well as in 600,000,000 years, and by all of the laws of the physical universe all things must have been completed at the same instant of time or wild confusion would have taken the place of order. The rock records will not answer the demand from another consideration, for if it required 600,000,000 of years to create the world, what would be the time required to create the sun and some of the planets by the same process? Skepticism lays hold upon the rock readings of geologists to overthrow the Bible account of creation. It changes the accepted chronology of creation from 6,000 years to 600,000,000 years, and if the silent rocks are to be accepted as superior testimony to the declaration of God himself, then revelations must sit dumb in the presence of the fanciful conclusions of those who profess to derive superior knowledge by consulting limestone, granite and flint STATE SIGHTS. It is eminently proper just now, when the State rights question is being forced upon the attention of the country, to consider not only the opinions of the founders of the Republic, but the judgment of those who lived at a later date, and whose views, by the verdict of the people, are entitled to consideration. General William uenry Harrison occupied, some years since, a very prominent position before the country. He was regarded not only a great soldier, but as a statesman ,of euch distinguished attainments 89 qualified him to occupy the office of president of the United State, and to that high office he was elected. The views entertained by President Harrison upon a question of so much importance as State rights will be read at this time with some interest by thousands of citizens who were his admirers and supporters daring his life time. The following letter was addressed to John B. Dillon, Esq., and though written to elucidate State rights upon some phase of the slavery question, is so pointed with regard to "State sovereignty," that it supplies a very important chapter in current discussions: North Bend, 12th Dec, 1838. To John B. Dillon, Esq : . Dear Sib I received your letter of the 5th inst, the day before yesterday. I have come to the determination from necessity to decline giving any opinions, upon political subjects ior publication. Had I not adopted this rule I would have to abandon my business (neoessary to the support of my very large family) and devote myself entirely to political writing. Bat as you tell me that you are about publishing a pamphlet on the subject of slavery 1 will, as a friend, give you my opinion upon one constitutional principle in relation to which either you or I very greatly err. No one, I think, can well understand the character of oar peculiar Government without having It Impressed upon his mind that our Union la a Union of Sovereign Independent States, and that in every particular where power is not expressly surrendered by that Instrument to the general Government it is retained by the States, and that in relation to matters so retained they are as completely sovereign and independent of the general Government and of each other as are France and Great Britain. You seem to suppose that aa article In the constitution not having been inserted in It (sic), the general Government would have the complete power over the slavery question In the States. This I apprehend to be a mistake ; the consti tution guarantees no article permitting or forbidding slavery In the States. The slaveholding States (of which there were at that time nine out of 13; did not wish suoh an article Inserted. They retained the complete control over the subject of -slavery within their own boundaries bif not surrendering it, All that they asked to have inserted in the constitution In relation to the subject was that when their slaves fled from them and sought refuge in other States, that they should be delivered up on their application. When. therefore, you say that "an early and amicable Adjustmentof the question is desirable," It can not refer to the slavery tn the Slates, but may with propriety rtfer to the District of Columbia, within which the power of legislation Is expressly given to Congress. But no law which that body ean pass can In any way affect the right which the people ot the slaveholding States claim over their slaves, any more than Congress can pass a law to change the qualifications of electors In the Btates, or define the period when minors are to be freed from the control of their parents. To do either would change the whole character of the Government, and realise the dread of a large portion of the ablest statesmen in our country at the period of the adoption of the constitution, that It would end first In a consolidation, and then In a despotism, which latter could only be averted by preserving the Independence of the States of the genera served lor their own exclusive action. The citizens of the free States have the right as individual to give their opinions to their brethren in the slave States upon the subject of slavery, as they can upon the subject of Internal Improvements, the extension of the light of voting, etc., but they have no pmoer whatever to control upon any of these subjects. Give them your opinions, then, upon the former subject, but a I ean tell you that however able your appeal to them may be on the abstract question. If you assume the right of control over the subject, either for the United States (except aa to the District of Co lumbia), the free State authorities, or yourself Individually. It may do harm, but will cer tainly do no good. I repeat that I write to you merely aa friend, and not by any means for publication, and I write in haste, amidst preparations for journey to Columbus, where I have been

summoned as a witness In a case In the United States court. Yours very truly, W. H. Harrison. December 24. This letter was written on tin) day of Its date, bat kept from the postoffice by the Inattention of one of my sons. The views of General Harrison are eminently sound, and can be read now with positive benefit by thore who are liable to get muddled upon the subject of State rights. The absolute sovereignty and independence of the States, except in so far as they had surrendered their rights to the Federal Government, Is expressed with such terseness and emphasis, and also with such clearness, that they are well calculated to rivet the attention of readers and convince their judgment.

., BOEING FOR. CONSOLATION. The Democrats are In a distressed state of mind over the financial condition of the country. In fact, a species of paule pervades weir camp, ah is lost, tney declare, unless something happens to change the current of things. 2s ot for many years past has there been such a feeling throughout business circles as now. No part of the Republic la exempt from this revulsion; and, unless a speedy reaction takes place, the cause of the Democracy In Maine. Ohio and California Is farevor blighted. The political observer will- see at once that we do not now allude to financial misfortune aud depression. That would be as welcome to the Democracy as the early rain to the farmer. It la financial prosperity throughout the cou ntry that the Democracy dread. Blleht. mildew, murrain, freshets, tornadoes. drought, and general ruin wonld delight the Democrats. Disaster and bankruptcy would increase their party gains. They would thrive on short crops and dull times. A revival of ousiness tney can not Dear. new lorK Times. Our New York contemporary was never more mistaken in its life than when it sur mises that there is a Democratic panic, owing to the "financial condition of the country." There is no panic in the Democratic camp upon any subject whatever. The Democratic party is watchful and hope ful. The prosperity of the whole country has engaged its best abilities, and to some extent, at least, the infamous policy of Re publican conspirators and Shy locks has been defeated. The Democratic party, to say the least, has had quite as much to do with securing abundant harvests as the Republican party. It has manned as many plows, tilled as many acres, done as.much reaping and threshing; has prayed as often and as earnestly for rain and sunshine as the Republican party, and may, therelore, indulge in as much selflaudation for big crops. But dismissing such badinage, if prosperity c imes to the country by virtue of congressional legislation, then, in that case, the Democratic party may justly boast of its policy, and claim a large share of the credit. It is to the credit of the Democratic party that the , silver dollar of 412 grains was remonetized. This measure, which made resumption possible, was stubbornly antagonized by Republican conspirators and Shylocks; they fought it in and out of Congress. They massed their powers of mendacity and lied by wholesale and retail. Tbey charged that it was a Democratic scheme to ruin the country and to demoralize the Republican party, and predicted the gravest calamities to the credit of the country and to business enterprises generally. They went so far in their opposition to persuade Hayes, their fraud cursed president, to veto the bill. But in defiance of all - this opposition silver was remonetized and an important step was taken in bringing about an era of prosperity. It was the purpose of Republican conspirators and Shylocks to retire the greenback currency from circula tion, and in this way contract the currency as soon as possible to the extent of $346,000,000. The further contraction of the cur rency had for its object a further shrinkage of values, a continued prostration of business, more idleness and poverty and a con tinuance of a state of affairs highly favorable for Shylocks tt make money off of the misfortunes of the debtor class. But the Democratic party, comprehending the purposes of the Republican party, interfered, and 1 the legal tender greenbacks are still in circulation to the amount of $346,081,016. This action of the Democratic party has helped . amazingly to any revival of business the country now enjoys. K the Democratic party had desired to see financial misfortunes continue it would have simply permitted the Repablicsn party to carry out its schemes unmolested. The curse of Republicanism had touched every business enterprise and had paralyzed the industries of the country. It had deprived every description of property, except bonds and mortgages, of . half its value. It had created an army of bankrupts, and filled the country with idleness and tramps; and the Democratic party, seeing these things, put forth its best efforts . to arrest the devastating tide. A benefieent Providence joined in with the Democratic party, and the indications are that the combined forces will pull the country through. The Democratic party, therefore, instead of being in a panic, is serene, solid and aggressive. MB. ENGLISH ENTIRELY VINDICATED. Mrs. Annie Fox Clark, with the approval of her husband, has voluntarily signed i statement entirely 'exonerating Will Eng lish from blame. This was wholly unneces sary, k He did not need it. Will is not taint, but Is a genial, clever young fellow, and every one felt there was nothing very culpable in this affair, even in the worst phase it was presented. But it was colored and exaggerated because of the Conkling affair. and , the natural desire of reporters to make a sensational Item; and besides some notoriety has probably been given to it with a view to advertise the lady in professional way. There was not enough in it, however, to injure Mr, English (even without the lady's statement), or to justify a tithe of what has been said about It. The following Is A statement by the lady in the case,' as telegrched to the News yesterday evening: I have Just been shown accounts in the News and other Indianapolis papers. They all do great Injustice. Mr. English has not spoken to me lu other than a kindly manner, and have never, as stated, received any presents or money from him. While I admit my deep affection for him, as charged, u shall in no way Interfere with my duty as a wife, and my husband Is satisfied with my course. The in terviews with me, aa given, are almost en tlrely manufactured, and the only true ao count of the affair appears In the New York Mercury of this week. - Aa to the shooting affair. It was the result of an unfortunate mistake, in which no one Is to blame. I hope you will give this dispatch the pabllolty you gar the other article. - Annlb Fox Olajuc.

GENERAL NOTES.

The -Stars and Stripes" is the name of a secret political organization, composed of exsoldiers and the sous ot deceased soldiers, which is working hard for Butler In Boston. A oolored nurse on South street, says a Memphis paper, was accosted by a Howard visitor In the presence of the patient.' "How Is he getting on?" Well, boss, de doctor Jlst been here and guv him up, and told me to wait round till de undertaker come." He had a relapse. . Saio a very good pld man : "Some folks are always complaining about the weather, but I am very thankful when I wake up In the morning and find any weather at all." We may smile at the simplicity of the good old man, but still his language indicates a spirit that contributes much to a calm and peaceful life. It is wiser and better to cultivate that than to be continually complaining of things as they are. Three ascents of Mount Blanc have been made this season. The first was by a young American, Dr. Bryant, of Boston, who, with three of the guides, returned to Chamouoix and was hospitably entertained at dinner by the hostess of the Pension de l'Unlon. The villagers celebrated what was to them the most important event of the year by firing a startling salute In the market-place and by exhibiting at night a very respectable show of fireworks. Fbok the British Quarterly Review: "It Is said, and said with great truth, that England contributes next to nothing to the aggregate of human learning. Oxford and Cambridge philology is a rechauffe of German research. We get our anolent history from Germany and France, and, absurdly enought even the theories of our constitution and the Interpretation of the great events in our political history are borrowed from the same foreign Industry." A correspondent writing from Anderson, Shasta county, Cal., under date of July 26, says: "I was in attendance on a funeral yesterday which was melancholy In the extreme. A young girl named Stall died with Intermittent fever. She had been sick only one week, and was engaged to be married to a young man named Harrington. The wedding was to have come on Sunday. The young man wept bitter tears of grief. The deceased had Just completed her wedding dress, and Instead of a marriage robe it served as a burial shroud." A story comes to us, says the Boston Transcript, of an Incident In a school In Southampton, England, some years ago. The boys were being examined In the history of England, and the answers were mainly dates of events more or less important in the hlstery of the British empire. Among the pupils was the son of an American sea captain, a bright specimen of young America. Being questioned concerning dates In English history, he manifested au ignorance bordering on stupidity. The teacher, whose patience was exhausted, exclaimed: "What! don't you remember a single date that marks an important event In the history of England?" "Why, yes, sir," answered the boy, "I do know one." "Well, out with It," said the teacher. "The Fourth of July, 1778." The estrangement between the Russian and German courts seems to cause great satisfaction in England. The most preposterous rumors are received with the utmost gravity. For example: The Examiner hears on good authority from St. Petersburg that the Russian intelligence department is at present engaged upon the task of drawing up a plan for the Invasion of Germany, in order that Russia may be well prepared for any events that may occur In the future. Some such plan was drawn up In 1871, but since then Prussia has erected a series ol fortresses along the Russian frontier, while In the Vistula and Baltic prov inces a series of strategical railways have been completed by Russia. The arrangements for the defense of the frontier are also being revised. The watch which the prince Imperial wore when he was killed, and which is now in the hands of the Zulus, was worn by the first Na poleon through most of his campaigns, and afterward to the end of his life. It kept very indifferent time, but the great emperor would never wear any other than this, which he purchased at Marseilles when he was but a poor lieutenant of artillery. Napoleon XII. wore this watch from the day he was named prince president until the day of his death at Chlselhurst, and It Is picturesquely related that In 1870, Just as he was about to put him self at the head of his troops the watch suddenly stopped. He was superstitious, and this incident served to depress him for days. After his death his widow gave the watch to her son. ' POLITICAL NOTES. Secretary Sherman will not leave .for Ohio until the test of this month. Mayor Stokuy, of Philadelphia, boasts that 12 Grant delegates will go from Philadelphia to the next Republican National conven tion. An anti-Chinese club in Eureka, Nev., has given 80 days' notice to all employers of Chi nese labor to dispense with it under penalty of a loss of patronage. ' Detroit's city credit almost reaches that of the Federal Government. She has Just marketed a loan of 1200,000 bearing 4 per centum Interest 150,000 at par and $150,000 at a premium of one-tenth of 1 per centum. Connecticut newspapers are now discussing with some vigor the proposed amendment to the State constitution making sessions of the Legislature biennial. The amendment will be voted upon next autumn. Twenty-six Btates of the Union already have adopted amend ments of this kind. Thus the Augusta (Ha.) Chronicle (Dem.) welcomes home Ben Hill: "We welcome our great senator home again, and no man is more worthy of an ovation Senator Hill In Washington Is the pride of Georgia and the South as an intellectual lord of the mighty city where Intellect Is ceuterd In abundance." Ex-Goverhor IIadley, who was the chief executive officer in Arkansas from 1871 to 1873, has oeen In St. Louis, and In a talk with a re porter said that Grant is the favorite Republican candidate for the presidential nomina tion in his State, although Sherman has many friends. "The Democrats there," he says, prefer Hendricks." ' The Hudson (N. Y.) Dally Register says: "The Democratic convention will nominate Sanford E. Church for governor by acclama tion. He will accept; he will be elected, and he will make the best governor the State of New York has had for half a century. Poli ticians of all parties can put that In their pipes and smoke It until the facts we have Indicated are verified. .,. Senator Wallace, of the Congressional Investigating committee, is a tall, slender, ner vous person, who knows how to put keen questions. Senator McDonald has e-venlal air and goes through his work In comfortable ease. Senator Blair la tall and fair-haired a shrewd man and a persistent questioner, Senator Piatt, who Is tall and slender Use the chairman, la described aa a brilliant cross-ex aminer. Ms. Gorham, ex-secretary of the United Btates Senate, writes to Washington denying, In strong terms, that he has deserted the Republican party because of his support oi the Democratic candidate for governor ,1a California. He says- that the fight there la against

railroad monopolies, and that this question overshadows everything else, and that National politics are in no way Involved In the matter. Still, there Is a hop that he will remain with his new friends.

PERSONALITIES. Mark Twain's new book deals mainly with Germany, Switzerland and Italy Colonel, "Bob" Inokrsolx has given a Troy collar firm permission to use his name on the collars and cuds of Its manufacture. Archbishop Wood (Roman Catholic), of Philadelphia, has refused to Join in the movement to pay the debts of Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati. Mbs. Mart Quantrelx, of Frederick, Md, whose friends claim for her the distinction of being the original "Barbara Freltchle," died suddenly a few days ago. A late resident of North Carolina, Mr. Jesse H. D. Reed, has given by will his whole property, amounting to (20,000, to three old slaves as a reward for their care of him In his declining age. According to advices from Copenhagen the announcement that the Nordeakjold Arctic expedition had passed Behrlng's Straits was premature. A letter from Professor Nordenskjold, dated in February, atthe entrance of the Straits, says: "I hope to be free from the ice in June." W. B. Clarke, a banker of Junotion City, Kas., who made an assignment a few months ago and compromised with his creditors for 25 cents on a dollar, and then paid them 10 per centum additional, announced yesterday that he was ready to pay his obligations in full, with Interest. General Robert Toombs, who is one of the trustees of the University of Georgia, traveled 1,500 miles last week to attend a meeting of the board of trustees, so anxious was he to be present, and remarked that It was a long way for a fellow to come who was expelled from the college when a boy. His offense was a fist flight with a comrade. Senator Chandler thinks the world is improving. In one of his Maine speeches recently he said: "In the days of our Savior he selected 12 disciples from among the poorer classes, and out of the number he found one Judas; but that was years ago, and we have been improving ever since, or the Christian religion is a failure, and to-day we won't find one dishonest man lu 12. nor in 21." Mrs. W. G. Venson, who gave Texas the Lone Star on Its coat of arms, died at Craw ford, in that State, last week. She made beautiful flag containing a large, single star In the summer of 1833, and presented It to a regi ment. The flag was of plain white silk, bearing an azure star of five points on both sides. It was first unfurled on the 8th of the following January, and floated until Texas was declared free. Ex-Governor Seymour has been doing a very kindly deed. He invited to his farm at Utlca the Sisters of Charity from the Asylum with the orphans under their charge, and with his family spent the whole day in cordially entertaining the good women and the little ones, who enjoyed themselves greatly. At parting the children sang a good-night song, the kind-hearted ex-governor standing on his veranda and merrily waving his hat until the last wagon passed out of sight In the dusk. AN admirer of the works of Dr. J.G. Holland has presented him as a birthday gift with piece of mosaic work made of bits of wood from the birthplaces of Mr. Bryant and other poets. Senator Dawes and other statesmen President Mark Hopkins and other divines. and General John A. Dlx and other men of martial fame, who have been born In New England. The memento Is In the shape ol a parallelogram, polished to a beautiful surface and the gold mounting is Inscribed with a quotation from what Bishop Simpson and President Hopkins have said of Holland's work In the field of letters. Representative Dogqett, ot Nevada, got very angry the other day with the Overland railroad people because he was forced to pay a large sum for extra baggage. He says that he Is going to get even with the company by sending his public documents to and fro, as he can do under the franking privilege and under the Government contract with the company which must take the documents for nothing, He says: "111 put my frank on 'em and ship 'em to Zach Chandler, in Wisconsin, and he'll frank 'em and tend 'em back, and IU frank 'em again and redirect 'em to him; and these books two tons of 'em will go back and forth over that blasted road free until the next slon of Congress, when I'll get hold of same more and start them along, too." Mr. Judah P. Benjamin, It Is stated by the New Orleans Democrat, has recently bought a beautiful Parisian residence for the comfort able sum in cash of 300,000 francs. It Is added that this large sum does not exceed one-balf of his yearly income from his practice In the English courts. The Southern journal recalls the fact that Mr. Benjamin, 14 years ago, after the dispersion of the Confederate Government, tramped on foot from Central Georgia to Florida and escaped in an open boat to Nassau, with a single SIO gold piece In his pocket, which he gave to the negro who rowed the little boat. He is said to preserve an unchanged sympathy with and devotion to his Louisiana friends, and to look forward enthusiastically to revis iting the State and those old friends. DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL. The opera of "Don Juan" has been gorgeous ly revived In Paris. The ball-room scene Is superb, showing a long vista of splendid sa loons, and at the end a group of statuary In marble, showing white against the blue moon light sky that Is seen through an open arch way in the background. Over 200 dancers and figurantes take part In this scene, which Is a marvel of changing and brilliant colors. Miss Emma Abbott's English Opera com pany will begin its fall season at the Grand Opera House in New York on September 8 with an English version of Victor Masse's "Paul and Virginia," an opera whloh had a decided success on its production in Paris with Capoul and Mile. Hellbron In the tlL'e roles. Here Mr. William CasUe will be the "Paul" and Miss Abbott the "Virginia," M. Gounod's new opera, "Le Tribut de Zamora," is now in rehearsal. M. Choadens has urchased the copyright for au countries for the sum of 1,000 .1,000 after the first repre sentation and the rest In .Instalments, according to the number of performances the work may obtain In Paris. M. Gounod received the same sum, 100,000 francs, for "t-oryeucie, so that at last he has been well compensated for the miserable pittance he received for "Faust. Mlls. Sarah Bernhardt, during six week's visit to London, has earned upward of 6,000 by private performances, and upward of 10,000 by her paintings. The presents she has received from the highest In the laud, from the princess of Wales downward, have been very valuable. Her pay from the Comedie Francaise during this period has been about 1750. la It likelx, la it human nature, that a lady who ean earn 16,00ft by equally honors ble and honored courses would accept 1750 T Two hundred aad ' nineteen years have elapsed sines the opera was first established In Paris by the Abbe Perrin. The theater was Installed in a tennis court. Rue Mazarine, at the place where the Passage da Pont-Neut now exists. Perrin took as his partner for the musical part of the undertaking Cambert. organliCof BU Honor, and for the stage, man '

agament a very expert gentleman, the Mar quia de Soordeac The financier of the eomeern wasat'eraon named Champeron. The first success wa, Gained In 1871, with a piece entitled "Pomr .the libretto of which was by Perrin and the music by Cambert.

The comedian known aa "Dutch" Morris. who died last week, once attem pted to star In a ridiculous play of his own, entitled "Dollars." The failure was quick and Irretrievable. Years afterward a friend saM to him : "Dutch, wfeat has become of 'Dollars r " "I have pat it away," was the sarcastic answer. "I found that the popular taste had not been educated to sv degree that would enable It to appreciate its great and wonderful merit. But as I travel through the country I often see from the ear windows a school being built In this town and an academy in process of erection in another. These sights fill my soul with joy, and I mentally exclaim, 'Dutch, old boy, there are dollars In store for 'Dollars' yet.' " There have been ever so many stories about the declining health of D. S. Wambold, the minstrel. He la at Saratoga, and In a conver sation, a day or two ago, with a correspondent of the Poughkeepsie Eagle, said: "I am only sorry for one thing, and that is that my mother got hold of all the balderdash that wasprinted before I did. I am sick. I do feel bad all the time, but a cheerful heart keeps me up. I have had this rheumatism over 17 years, and It has rapidly grown worse, until now U is chronic I have tried everything to cure It. I have been to Bohemia, to Klssingen, to the Arkansas Hot Springs, to Colorado and to Saratoga. All help me a little, but when 1 leave each place I am as bad as ever." A little tale Is told about the visit of tb dake and duchess of Edlnburg to the ROyal Academy ot Music prize distribution. Mr. Ambrose Austin possesses a remarkable parrot, which a outspoken, if a little bit rude. When the duchess was passing out of St. James' Hall, that parrot, in accordance with his custom, cried out: "Give us a kiss, my pretty dear. Oh, you wont, won't you? Good bye! " When the duke came forward, the parrot cried: "You're only a fiddler! Give us kiss! You're a fool! You know you're a fool!- So's Ambrose." The duke laughed heartily, and seemed more pleased than 11 he had followedhis friend Mr. Carl Rosa's exam ple, and given 5,000 to found a scholarship at the Royal Academy. People may disbelieve this story, bnt the skeptical are fully welcome to Interview Mr. Ambrose Austin's parrot. OCAY NOTES. The first gun in the Conkling campaign burst at the breach. Important society item: Senator Conkling is not at Karragansett Pier. They are betting tutor one that the Ger man tutor was Roecoe Conkling. Mr. Conkling is inclined to believe that Rhode Island is the pivotal State. The German professor's story is a tale of Linck-ed sweetness long drawn out. Mr. Conkling has not yet said that he is Innocent of the great transgression. Senator Conkling must quarantine against ex benator Sprague and hia.shot gun. Mr. Conkling can never be president. The White House is not that kind of a boose. Conkling is a decided beau, and when he leads the German 'tis a pretty dance indeed. The moral of the Narragansett Pier matter is bat there isn't anything moral about it. ' Mr. Conkliug's terms for teaching the German language are very reasonable only $50 a month. It will take a dozen barbers a week to arrange Conkling's locks after the Providence incident. . It is all a mistake. I merely went to Narragansett Pier to see the sea-serpent Roecoe Conkling. Poor John Sherman must be consumed with grief at the disaster which has overtaken Roecoe Conkling. Even if he was drunk, little Sprague knew a $3,000 a year senator from a $50 a month teacher of a foreign language. What's the use of fooling away your time at a summer resort, when there's plenty of political work to be dona in New York? Mr. Conkling. The senator from New York, who hasn't any Southern "chivalry" about him, but claims to be a type of the superior civilization of the North, depreciates this exhibition of "plantation manners" in Rbode Island. It is quite out of place quite. The intrusion of a shot gun in his pleasures was a downrieht impertinence, unworthy North ern civilization. "Seller- Liver Pills" stand unrivaled in the United States for caring biliousness, sick headache, etc. CURE BY ABSORPTION ! "SAPAfJULE" THE GREAT EXTERNAL REMEDY For Wounds, Bruises, Rjralns, Sores, Chilblains, Bunions, Corns, Rheumatism, Neuraif la. Headache, Lame Back. Bites of Insect, releves and cures Poison, aud all skin diseases; Used in baths Is a sure preventive of fevers and contagious diseases. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 50c and $1.00 per Bottle. SAMUEL fiEBBY Jk CO., Proprietors. Office, 337 Brwadway. Lazell, Marsh Gardner, Wholesale Agents, ew ion. "oil! m Do you have a. pain in your jsacx. ixuna or SideT If so, your Sidneys are diseas ed. Donotdelay.but try at once MUST'S

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