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jay Gould jls as issue. It Is curious example of political evolution that Jay Gocld should hare becoma the chief Issue In the pending State cam palgn. There was a time when Mr. Gould confined himself to the modest political rOIe of contributing to the election expenses of members of the Legislature so that he might be able to have some control over their rotes. As Mr.

Gould nalrely put It, he was in those days 4 a Republican in one district, a Democrat in another, but always an Erie man. At the present advanced stage of his fortunes, Mr. Goran flies at higher game. Erie Is a sucked orange jot him, and his larcenous raids on Its treasury differ from his present operation as sneakthieTing differs from bank robbery. ZIz.

Gould is to-day not only one of the wealthiest men of the United States, but he lias become rich by the use of. methods not essentially dissimilar to thbse which land humbler adventurers In tM penitentiary. "Whether Mr. Gould carls more for the excitement of acquiring money than for the-raoney itself is not matter of public interest. This much is certain, that his am-titions are as colossal as bis possessions, and lhat to satisfy them he will pay any price seeded to purchase whatever or whomever caa be bought on the bench, in the Legislature, In the press, or in the party convention.

Ur. Jay Gocld has discovered that he cannot afford to have an occupant of the Governor's chair of this State who will discharge public duties without constant reference to the interests of Gould. Be feels himself sundry millions of dollars poorer by Gov. Coiuc ell's veto of the Elevated Railroad Tax Relief bill, and he sees nothing but endless embarrassment and disappointment If the purchase of half a legislature is to be rendered profitless by the ill-timed independence of the Governor, i The retainer held by 'ex-Senator Coxxxiao to secure the Governor's signature to the tax. relief steal has, therefore, been renewed, that an example may be made of the man who dared at once to' disregard the threats and the allurements of Mr.

Coxxxixa and to upset the carefully laid plans of Jay Gould. It is seldom that politician has the pleasure of being hand-tomely paid to work for the gratification of bis personal revenge, but that peculiar satis-f action is beinj at present enjoyed by Mr. Coxxuxo. lie must derive, pleasure only leao exquisite from the contemplation of the assistance ha is getting from quarters most LkUirly hostll to him. The "anybody-to-lxat Cornell cry of certain anti-machine and organs must make amends to Clr.

Coxxxiso for many Injuries. But It is not alone la the Republican cam-' xign that Mr. Gould has projected himself as an issue, lie. is one of the chief promoters, with his friend Rcssxxi. Bask as a reported co-worker, of the candidacy of Mr.

noswxLL P. Flo win for the Democratic mmination. His influence in the Republican ranks has not yet settled down on any CAQJIate. The adroiter game is being yed of starting as many candidates as can voU la the convention so as first to the impossibility of rcnomlnat-Gov. The Democratic prob-5 ra beiEg somewhat less delicate and Mr.

ouLD'i onea support of any candidate being less likely to have an adverse effect oa his fortunes in the Democratic ranks, the Flower movement needs no concealment What is above all necessary Is that there should be no misunderstanding on the part of politicians on either side of Mr. Gould's direct and controlling interest in baring a Governor of this State In every respect satisfactory to him. Ho must be a man who will use the veto power discreetly, who will be ready to bow to the mandate of the Legislature when a bill comes to him sustained by the decided favor of both houses, lie must also have due regard to certain well-defined interests in the -appointment of Judges for the General Term of the Supreme Court in the First Jiidl-rial Department. That little formality Is gone through every two years, and it will devolve upon the next Governor to say whether this powerful tribunal shall be made np In the interests of the public or in the interests of the stock gamblers and public plunderers. Only one Judge of the General Term need be drawn from this County.

Would it not be possible to substitute for those of Davis, Bxady, and Daxixls three names eminently satisfactory to Jay Gould These are but some of the considerations which make it worth while for Mr. Gould to devote a good deal of his time and money to the political affairs of this Bute. The considerations which should prompt the people to make very short work of the influence of such a man as Gould are too obvious to require statement. The game he is playing Is as dangerous to the public welfare of the present as it is to the existence of free Institutions in the future. But apart from its tendency to provoke some very ugly passions, it is as safe enough1 game for Gould and orle in which the chances of winning a very large stake are cheaply purchased at the price they cost him.

WEEN 18 PROTECTION JUSTIFIED In reading the remarks made before the Tariff Commission by the various manufacturers who have appeared there np to the present time and there are very few besides them who have appeared one cannot but bo struck with the wide difference between the idea which they seem to entertain of the purpose and need of protection and that taught by the protectionist economists. According to the latter, the protection of native industry by means of duties checking foreign; competition was justifiable chiefly in only two classes of cases: One those essential to the proper strength of the country in time of war, such as the manufacture of powder and arms, of iron and ships; the other those for which the country possesses great natural advantages, but which for a certain period, usually termed their infancy," "are unable to compete with the established industries of older countries. But according to the modern Idea; any however unimportant, however low in the scale of utility, which Americans may take a fancy to experiment with, should be protected, while any industry, no matter how wealthy and powerful and able to maintain itself, should, if it have at any time been protected, continue to be so without reference to the cost to the There have been numerous instances of the modern notion in regard to both these classes. Only a few days ago a manufacturer of aniline dyes, from Albany, went down to Long Branch to urge that the present duty of 60 cents per pound and 85 per cent ad valorem should be changed to a uniform duty of 1 per pound, and should be retained at that The difference to the Treasury would not be great but the practical working of this arrangement would be that the cheapest and most used dyes would be much more highly taxed than they now are. The demand was, therefore, in effect; for an advance in duty.

Yet this gentleman i stated that in the last sixteen years his factory had been able to so reduce the cost of manufacture that it could now -turn out profitably at $3 25 what originally cost $8 SO; that is to say. they had reduced the cost by nearly two-thirds. The duty meantime had been uniform. It would be interesting to, know by what process of reasoning this gentleman now sustains" a demand for even the maintenance of the present duty, which is relatively very much higher than when first levied. If he had asked for a reduction to 42 per cent ad valorem about what the duty was at first bis request would have been more intelligible.

In the same spirit the manufacturers of woolens, of iron and steel, and the copper mine owners, though they have not yet appeared before the commission, are, through their organs, constantly urging that there should be no change in the duties affecting them, unless it be a change for higher duties. If tested by the original principles of' protection, all of these duties are indefensible. Those of them intended to foster industries indispensable in time of war are certainly not needed. No one expects that we shall ever again be dependent on foreign markets for our arms or their material, while there is every reason to expect a growing export of these goods, which would be increased by a reduction of the tariff. And as for those industries which have been encouraged on the general idea that it helped when young they would in their maturity repay the cost of nurture it would be curious to know at what age they should be regarded as longer infants.

The Bessemer steel mills are paving enormous profits, and, whatever may be the case at this moment, were very recently entirely unable to fill their orders. Why need they now be braced up with high duties? Obviously their product is a necessity to the community, which has to pay their great Of what public advantage is tt that a firmly established business, making far above the average df profit should be maintained at the expense of the general body of consumers. The owners of the copper mines are not only making large profits also, but they are exporting their copper at a lower price than they get here. Is this an infant industry Is it one which the people at large can fairly be taxed to support Granted that the duty on copper was at one time reasonable from the protectionist stand-point 1 it so now from that or any other point of view? Why should aQ the trades dependent upon copper as a raw material be hampered and oppressed for the benefit of an industry that is in no need These are not idle or' theoretical questions. ticaland wm fail in answers to commission protected industry not at this for itself.

longer entitlad will charity ground should assum urrtnt i Ulem. i late i once much less industries public the list They are to the last degree prac and the Tariff Commission duty if it do not find practical It is the business of the to make every important explain why it should day be gradually kft to shift it be prosperous, it JsJ no to charity. If it be feeble. do it any good I The whole be gone over de now, and no ption snould be accepted that industries protected should be always protected; thit because a large number of are maintained wrongruiiy-at tne others should be added to expense ELEVATED current trtet i importance diminished 1 certiin Interpretation correctness i questioned. making then.

Constitution i i that The can lietien Mr. Ajctuux question elevated tion for the The buildin crowded increased was previously has not since ment- That greatly erty in doubt, but general belies tent to form will never pensation. on an guarantee but the seriously "general no one disp dress for sucn commit an justice than tion to do without important, ality the law "high-handdd The tedBtates, not be taken pensation. framersof clear, and tent tions of the In Great Constitution tees of presented the pie is and to private railroads or for though taken with the plain eluded in the conceived yet courts take" and! them in such tees a tended to the the exercise sionof uses it is not for it It stroyedfor no redress. But there tendency to give a meanii more in justice and tional cases present new impetus result in the sound prim mm writer one by the shire and the! of the many others be put by change of going on this shire case it could recover by the protected it freshets from other case thi water to back land, and he cover.

The import the argument conception which is property. It thfesel tyek defeated! by the won Britain, tion 1 1 private ted thj i clearly and judicial an terp; possesion bkve hindrance render i interpretation 'property may the guarantees. United the Iview removal from posBessed. possession the i in the legal the' thing mg to use and enjo; terference diminishes ing the from and a this be done and gravel water over darkening the vading them ders to a exclusive tion of his English mon sense ana speedily courts. become TEEi tn Should the1 Egypt result.

lishment of be difficult of such a medan world. fairly be history of biy united. in the basis of called man conquest African Atlantic, ROADS AND PROPERTY monrs. number of the North Ameri- cbntains a timely discussion by G. Bedowick of the legal invblved in the suits against the railroad companies for compensa- mjury done to private property.

of such structures in the of a city has given greatly to a question which in a state of confusion and been brought to a clear settle-the elevated railroads have the value of private prop- places does not admit of Bkdowicx takes It to be a among those most compe- an opinion" that the courts compel them to make com- This belief is evidently founded of the constitutional which has lone prevailed. of which is coming to be Notwithstanding this belief," as Mr. Bkdowicx says, utes that there ought to be re- an in jury. The State cannot act of more high-handed in-Ithatof authorizing a corpora damage of this Sort compensation for it" It is to determine whether in re does authorize and sustain this injustice." of the BUte of New- of most States and of the Uni- det lares that private property shall xor a public use without com- The aims and purposes of the Constitutions are sufficiently they have been to a large ex- narrow judicial intcrpreta- ords "property'' and "take." where there is no written and no such careful euaran- rights, the question has never least difficulty. The princi- firmly established by law rotation that injury done property by the construction' of public works shall be paid the property is not actually of.

This is In accordance mandate of justice, and is In- very purpose of our carefully constitutional ruarantees. and laid hold of the words property" and interpreted a way as to make the guaran- to the redress they were in secure, xne essence of is that unless a railroad in a public right takes posses sed condemns it to its own liable to make compensation be injured or utterly de- profitable use and there is fT has is consonance ciple. quotes 8-preme been of late a sirnificant depart from this doctrine and to to the taking of property with the principles of intention of the constitu- The elevated railroad an opportunity for giving a to this tendency, which should establishment of the obviously The North American Re-only two recent decisions, Court of New-Ham p- other by the Supreme Court State, but remarks that of a similar tendencv rnhrht side of them, showing the which the courts are under- question. In the New-Hamp- decided that the plaintiff for damage done to his land of a natural barrier which the effects of floods and a neighboring river. In the damage was done by causing so as to overflow the plaintiff's was judged to be entitled to re i adopted, toThe best modern authorities, that tant thing in these cases and in on the general question is the the meaning of "property" and of the "taking" of is held, and rightly according property sense is not the substance of but the rights pertain- right to the exclusive ivment of the thing without in- om others.

Anvthinz that restricts this right, mak- -of less value, is a taking of the property, whether by letting floods carrv stones upon farming land, backing' so as to destroy its use. or windows of houses and in- with noise, smoke, and cin- of the owner's right of and consequently a dhninu- in them. This is the it is the doctrine of com- common justice, and it should the doctrine of American possession taking lahd restriction user, property doctrine BEAST Or ISLAM. measure triumph of British arms in as seems likely, in the estab- English protectorate, it will exaggerate the possible effect upon the whole Moham- Of that world Egypt may the heart, and for ages the the two has inextrica- When seized by the Arabs century it became the mighty system of Mussul-which spanned the whole from the Nile to the all SoainL'aod cut its way seventh thit sea-board overraa into the heart of France. From Egypt two desperate and all hut successful attempts were made upon Constantinople by! the Emir Moshmah, ian example followed in our day by Mihemxt Alt.

Pasha. The possession of the Nile Valley made Salades an overmatch for the combined strength of Richard Cosub deLios and Philip of France. The vigoroua efforts directed against it by Br. Louis' in the last Crusade showed that Europe had at length learned its value; and in 1793 another; French conqueror made it the starting-point of a campaign which, if successful, would have changed the history of the world. But apart from1 its' historical renown, Egypt has.

a distinct and peculiar value in the eyes of the! Moslem It is the connecting link between Mussulman Asia and Mussulman It commands the one accessible route' into the interior of the latter continent It forms the gateway of the Soudan, among the fierce nomadic tribes of which the Mohammedan creed is now achieving its latest jvktorlea. Above all, it holds the approaches leading from the west to Mecca itself, the mother cities," the yearly goal of millions of worshipers, the spot which is to the! devout Mussulman all that Jerusalem once jjwas i to the exiled Hebrew. It is not hard tof guess with what feelings' the jnews of this priceless region having fallen into the hands of Western unbelievers'1' would be heard by the Mohammedan politicians of Tunis, Damascus, or Kandahar What form the Idea of a "protectorate" established by England in Egypt would be i likely to assume in the minds of such critics, any one can estimate who has frequented the bazaars of the East and has seen with what ease the most monstrous! lies are swallowed by their turbaned public "Hear you the news. All, son of Belimf The Sultan of Russia has made a bridge across the sea, inarched Into the land of the I English infidels and killed them all" 'f Mash-Allah I thy words are white.i Mustapha, son of Hassan; the dogs and sons of dogs deserve nothing better 'From, a Mussulman point of view, how-ever, no exaggeration is needed to enhance present crisis. Within the foes of 1 Islam have been closing in upon it on every side with unwonted and formidable rapidity.

Before Russia's advance thej bounds of Mohammedanism in Asia have shrunk away -beyond the Oxus. while in Europe they! hive receded from the Danube to the Balkan. England has annexed Cyprus. France Unas occupied Tunis. The red coats and! pith helmets that march under the; banner of the "Empress of India! are seen amid the sands jof Beloochlstan and the rocks of the Bolan Pass.

Count-, ing the 40,000,000 Mohammedans of British India, the 15,000,000 of Russian Turkestan, the 8,500,000 of Algeria! and itunis, a full third of the 175,000, 000 1 that people the Moslem world are already in direct subjection to Christian! rulers. jLnd now, it would seem, Egyptj itself is jto follow the gravity of the the last few years Egypt, the loss of Syria from which would separate cut off 'the Moslems of inland Africa from their brethren of the coast and leave all the surrounding Mussulman communities in the condition of a limb whose motary nerve has been severed. Under such circumstances, the followers of the Prophet may well be anxious and excited. From the East an4 the West at once the fatal circle is gradually closing around them, and if they mean to! break through it, they have no time to jlosej Thai Islam wuT sooner or later make one tremendous effort to thrust back Its impending doom, and will collapse immediately upon the failure of that effort, seems probable enough. But when and how that! final attempt shall be made must depend Very much' upon the occurrence of certain events, amng.

the foremost of which must be reckoned the establishment of a direct control over Egypt by any Christian powerj! ART AND. MAMMON. It was only a fW years ago that the paternal interest taken by the! French Government in French art was the wonder and example of artists of other countries. The amount of statues and paintings produced each year under the fosterage: of the State gave the impression to foreigners that the pre-eminence of France in the fine arts was mostly if not solely due to such encouragement In France itherej were uneasy persons, who took a jvery view! of the matter. Prosper Mebjmik, keen critic but weak character, pointed from his Senatorial chair jto j.the steady deterioration of the national ari' Viollet-li-Duo was strongly opposed to official interference, although he himself! Jwasnot un-benefited thereby.

Eubxxi yxnos, the editor of L'Art, used the influenceof his weekly to attack governmental methods; little good was ever found in the Salon when managed by the bureaucrats; the Philistinism of -pliant and successful! artists never failed to excite the sarcasms of his staff of able writers. It was held thai the artists ought to manage their! ows! exhibitions without the Intermeddling ijf the State, and that the sole office of the Government was to buy! pictures widely at liberal prices for he few chief and many provincial museums and centres of encourage sculpture by decorating squares and facades with statues' by the strongest men, and use the best of architects for the public buildings. To this it jwsi objected that artists, particularly the painters, are notoriously unmethodical and wahtingln business ability, and the Salon would not be well! nianaged by them. It would become a burden to the Government instead of paying for itself, wholly or in part The patronage of Government had always existed and had produced fine results. Withdrawal of control prould entail all manner of It waf often conceded that the artists might carry things along on a higher plane, but since they must have bread and butter a too ideal or aesthetic management would begin with jfinancial ruin and end in chaos, f' ifi( What was the surprise to find, when the Government handed over the to the artists, that so farj as finance were, concerned, the artists outdid tbo officials I In driving hard bargaW-wltEfrnbliahczs guide-books, in opening the! Salon to a nooa oi uauss oy rrenenmeu and foreigners, hiring bric-a-brac for nothing by allowing the owners to advertise their shoos.

these too-utterly ideal artists of Paris, chief- ly painters, took the wind out of the sails or tne stage Yankee. At the election of governing officials from their own members, only second or third rate artists had the slightest chance. Sharp tricks in trade were duplicated by bad taste in art The morale of the artists appears to have sunk at the same time that the works of thought, of sentiment, of genius, become rarer and rarer, and the works of technical cleverness are paid for at higher and higher figures. Here is an excellent opening for witticisms, which the alleged wits of the Boulevards do not neglect It also affords a rare chance for the croaker in the political vein, since the deterioration, not to say the degradation, of French art occurs when the republic has become something more than an experiment one that may perhaps outlast the severest European war. When the Salon is managed on democratic principles, and at once acts in as way that the opponents of democracy maintain to be the crying sin of democracy, there seems to be nothing more to ssy.

By democracy the last word is, however, not yet spoken. Though it be true that while financially the artists have 1 made the Batons a success, yet artistically! they are egregious failures, it does not follow that this will always be the case if the System be carried jout tojts end. The Government still lends the artists the galleries and spacious central garden of the Palais de Tin-dustrie and the pertonnel that does the clerical work of the show. Considering the moneyed success of the exhibitions, the suggestion of M. Paul Leroi is good, that the Government no longer give the artists the Palais rent free.

Considering grave charges of favoritism and of direct bribery brought against the officials whose service was lent by the State, it would be also better that no Government employes should nave a hand in the exhibitions. Collections of paintings have become so popular as shows that they can well afford to stand on their own merits, with no middlemen between artists and public. Last year a score of water-colorists In Paris hired a hall, partitioned the wall space into twenty parts, and made a co-operative exhibition of whatever work each artist chose to- show. They pointed out the way. So far as practicable In a great exhibition, there should be as few middlemen 1 as possible between producer and but as a committee 'of acceptance is necessary, it ought to have full powers.

The! Salon is now the most wearisome and provoking collection of pictures in the world. The Palais de l'lndustrie is so large that the ex-cuss of want of space can hardly be alleged against a vast number of bad pictures. The strain on the nerves, and consequently on the eye and judgment, of the best of committees of acceptance is so great in an exhibition of such magnitude that a thorough sifting of the work is next to impossible. Hence the steps that are deplored, or denounced, or sneered at in Paris, whereby the artists have control of the Salon, are really in the right direction, whatever may be evil in their immediate effects. The drift follows politics and sets in the wake of things In this country.

After complete separation from the control or aid of Government will come of necessity rebellion against defective management This can be reached by the ballot or. if the ballot will not work It by defections and the 'establishment of other exhibitions more rigid in the exclusion of daubs, more liberal toward innovators and reformers in art Such minor organizations will be necessarily limited in size and the stupid accumulation of more works of art than one can see rationally in a month of Sundays will no longer take place. Paris will have to follow Londonj with its Grosvenor Gallery and New-York with its Society of American Artists. Far from being discouraged by the recent events, Parisians ought to hail them as the signs of a breaking up of a system no longer in harmony with the spirit of the age. There is in New-York to-day deep seated dlBMtUf action with the Polioo.

This sentiment has been long trowing, and ts rapidly beoominc intensely atrocuc. Polloe la the moat eoetly In the world. The par la nearly doable that of the Folios tn Australia, and treble that of most Polloe la Europe. Daring the war it was raised In view of the rise la prloea, and what was then paid la greenbacks la now paid In gold. pouoeman Is therefor placed la a better position pecuniarily than the bulk of skilled meohanloa.

became, trilled moehanie may make more when ho Is working, comparatively few get work steadily throughout the year. The people of New-York are, however, always willing to Dar.hlEh for a good arttole, and woold not murmur at even haying to payas they do, aa much for each patrolman as the English tax-payer pays for each Captain In the Army, if they got the rixht arttole. But they do not get it Hatters have of 1st gone from bad to worse. Scarce a day passes but ridenee eomcB to light of some act on the part of a polioe-man which Indicates a total Jack of those qualities which ought to distinguish a pubHo eerrant In such a capacity. Instead of cirlllty.

patience, and or-bearing temper, wo have arrogaaoo. arbitrariness, and passion. The swagger and anumDtloa of manr members of the force are as offensive as they are ludicrous. It is literally the truth that a great many of the most law-abiding citizen of New-York are far more afraid of the Polloe than of the criminal whom the Polloe are supooeed to eaten. Xany persona would avoid even asking them for Information for fear of being Intuited, The high salary paid to young poUoemen many of whom are barely of ago, are drawn from the! humblest rank of life, and have never handled more than five or six dollars a week before has the effect of putting these men In an entirely wrong poalUon, and Inviting a style of life and a degree of assumption entirely at varlanoe with their station In life.

Unless the Polioo can rapidly mend their ways from within they wul sod that the public, far too long saffarlag already, will mend them from with out 1 Some of the people in Boston are feeling an anticipatory thrill of dellfrht over the approaching trial trip of a steamer, which. If local opinion can bo trusted, is to revolutionise ocean passenger traffic and make Boston the chief port for arriral and depart are of thee who cross the Atlantic Ooean. The steamer in question, the Meteor, has beealaprvoeas of construction for a number of months past at Nyack-on-the-Hudseo, aaa is bow nearly completed. Althouca bunt oa the soil of the Empire State, the Meteor Is essentially a Boston notion, and the money needed to construct her was raised almost wholly in-that city. She is aothinc more than an experimental ship, for she Is only one or two hundred tons burden, but It is held that If she caa fulfill the expectations of her designers, a vessel of fire or tlx thousand tons built upoo the same lines would be pre-eminently snrneifal a a transatlantic passenger boat.

What It ts proposed that the Meteor shall do is to steam at the rate of SS knots an hour in a heavy seaway. Ota ansa toor maintained without regard to whether a fair or a head wind is blowing. is evident that a vessel that caa a day traverse 000 miles of ooeaa sorfaoo, wtthoot recard to the conditio of wind or water, will hare a good deal to aar la he favor, and the performance would be all UmoTancihtntfaooaBinhedbTarUaTlT small steamer. It need hardly bo said after this that ths medal of the Mtteor It bo eoastrooted that It win be a matter of mdlfferaaee to those oa board ber Whether ths waves make a olees) sweep over bar or not Abor water the is to aavoatnrUo-baok covering the entire deck, this giving bar something the appearance ef a while below water hull win resemble, la a cross Beetle eat amidships, the letter V. this form atrlac her.

It is claimed, great stability If her adreatar- oas banders oea demonstrate by the Mttr that their method Is a sound one. they are then to raise the mooey needed to bond a Bomber of largo steaavsalpsapoa the same model and enter defl-aitely into the traqaatlanUo passenger trad, mak-tnc, as they hope, trips from Boston to Queeae- town la 11 re days. The Interest that the peoole of the former place take this venture Is dne to their belief that a line of this kind would drawamrgo part of the paesenser traffic from and that Boston would bo a favored port of departure for the reason of Us relative aeanum to Europe. This eoaolaskm does not eeem to be wholly logical. Any Improvement which toads to increase the peed of ooeaa steam-ship tends to reduce whatever natural disadvantages there may bo in the distances between ports; bono, tt New-York can successfully compote with Boston when 400 miles a day it a high rat of speed for a steam-ship.

she would be eren better situated for competition if this rate of speed oould be Increased to 600 mil per day; Whatever affect this Bostoa experiment may have changing oar notions about steam-snip. It must disappoint tu advocates If they nope oy it to make Kew-York any lees desirable as a port of entranoe and departure. The Gordon and Cameron Highlanders, who nay oeen sent to itamien to form the aneleus of a Highland brigade under Gen. Ausom, have already fixured prominently In the history of Egyptian warfare! in the cempeljrn of lTOg, under the leadership; of Sir Salt especially distinguished themselves, leaving among the conquered Proaoh a lasting Impression of the prowess of "those terrible mountain MTages." Bat the most brilliant part of their record coaneeted with the closbig years of the treat Napoleonl war. In 1818 the Klaety-oeoond Bogunent (Gordon Highlanders) bore the brunt of aa attack made by a French dlylslon of 18.000 men, under Marshal d'Eo-to, upon the Pas of Hays.

In the Pyrenees. On this occasion the regiment lost two-thirds of Us entire number, and erery office of not was either killed wounded. The Cameron Highlanders wore equally distinguished by their ralor at Quatre Bras, the battle which Immediately preceded Waterloo, (June 18, 1815.) Here they lost their gallant leader. CoL Caxxxok. of Fan la fern, who waa shot by a French but ths latter was at once sufled- oat by Caxxbos's Hlrhland servant who plunged right in among the enemy to reach him, and dispatched him with one 5tbw his dirk.

-7 Mrs Exxblx tells us that Lord BxACOirs-vzkxd' iavowed to her that bo could oomprebeod the use' of London, or even of Paris, bnjt of Dublin, no. .11 ought to be improved off the-(ace of the earth. She suggested Gulnness's stout aa a reason of its exlstenoe, bat not being a nursing mother, the jocose statesman would not oven allow that saving clause. A great many of the persons wita whom Lord BxAoosaFXBXs subsequently sat in the House, of Lords arc probably much ot the same opinion. Dublin is now entirely deserted by the Irish aristocracy, whose members do not hesitate to ay that they detest It, This desertion set Jn steadily with; the union.

Vany leading people gave np their Dublin homes immediately. In 1808 Lady XorxA, mother of the celebrated Xarquis of EutBM, died at Xoira House, a very fine residence, now a home for mendicants, and that ohco famous centre of social brilliancy then ceased to bo lived la by the family which a little later entirely severed its connection with Ireland. Gradually almost every large mansion was deserted by Its orisinal owners, and the only one to which the family held oa to to the time of the present feneration was Cbariemont House, la Batlsnd-square. It is remarkable, however, that. those bouses are almost without exception riantllng and.

externally, at least, unaltered. Some of them contain Try fine apartments and remain the nos-seasioB of the original folders. They are used aa Institutions or as Government office. Host of the swell" bouses in the great square are monopolised by lawyers and doctors, now the aristocracy of Dublin. The county grandees go to hotels when they peas through or come up to town for shopping.

There are very few people ot position how resident wlthln a drive of the city. Two noblemen of very ancient llneace, and Tinssmlns Interesting seats, may. bowerer. be found resident at Halahide Caatl and Howth Castle, Tet notwithstanding the aristocratic desertion. Dublin has grown largely, chiefly oa the great and very well cared for estate of Lord Pxxbbom, la the direction of Kingstown, (once known as dirty Dun-learyj where the packet station Is.

exceed-burly doubtful whether a repeal of the union would keep many of the wealthier Irish in Dublin. Those' aoeastomed to a first-class capital seldom care for one of third-rate grade. At present Dublin is one of the dullest cities in the world, and such jsn episode as the Gray-La wsoo affair is a positrfe godsend to it. Another place of it else with such a dearth of amusements could not probably jbe This is partly doe to lack ot cash, partly to rengioos aacetlclam. a bsrae number of the- Catholic being ee aerere as the Protestants.

I As a consequence, Dublin vies with Edinburgh Sabbath gloom, aad a Frenchman would be disposed to drown himself in the LUTey on that day were not that stream so very dirty. GENERAL NOTES. Boscoo Oonkling Is being advertised aa one ef the possible attractions of the Oshkosh (Wis.) fair, which begins Sept 11 Postmaster-General James has accepted aa inyltatlon to be present at the annual reulon of the Seventeenth Cooseotloat Volunteers, which, wm heboid in Bridgeport Aug. SB Bwirbethe guest of Mr. P.

T.Barnum. The; State of Kew-rTampshiro' has had-8 Governors In the past 100 years, and their average ago Whoa elected was 63 years. The yotuurest, Lsvl Woodbury, was 84 years old when chosen, in 1838. hrbe two oldest were each 70. 1 A locomotive which dropped into Creek, Kansas, through a bridge, some year ego.

has never been discovered, although repeated Boonamgs have been made for it No Information of quicksands in that locality, existed up to the date of the accident. Bach of the "Wisconsin editors as have recovered from the effects, ot their reoent pus ex-curtk) to the Bed Blver Valley are beginning to handle their quills again, and the Journals of that Stat are gradually filling op with accounts which read wonderfully like remialsoenbeo of a dimly remembered past. General Busertetendent Toocey was applied to to furnish a special car for the manidpal Authorities of Syracuse who desired to attend a celebration at Rochester. AlOhe officers of the City Govornment. some 60 In number, desired to participate in the picnic and their names were furnished to th General Superintendent.

He wrote tn reply that the Xsyor aad Common Council alone would bo passed over the Central that all others must bay their fares, that the oompaay, in tact, could hardly be expected to pass "a majority of the eUtsens of Syracuse. Whereat the SO officials reddened with indignation, aad from the Hayor down declined to ride in the special ear which had been jromished. The company's conductor collected 'SO fares, and the Syracuse tax-payers' are preparing to be mulctd in oooaequeooe. "The walls of the old engine-hoase at Har per's Perry, where John Brown made his last stand with a dozen men against T.000." says a correspondent, fnow furnish aa artistic background to a hugejplaoard setting forth the Ttrtoes of somebody orer pad. The Inscription on th front of the bufldlng.

which tells the story of Brown's crusade, eannot be read at any distance. The adver tisement of the liver pad is in letters aa long as a BprmaXeid musket. The graa grows rank in front of the historic spot, aa though few pilgrim set visited it A clump of tan rag-weed stands In the open: doorway where young Watson Brown and bis brother were shot down. The roof has gone, the wladows hare disappeared, and there is aa air of neglect aad aradual decay about the spot that accords well with the stsgnttloq of the town." The: Anvarican Forestry Association, which win meet la Koatreal. Canada, on the tlst aad SSd ins, has for its object the eheekas; of the whet, sale destruction of forests la the Cubed state a wen as la Canada by devWng measures for prcr valioa aad preparation.

The Hon. Georr B. Is, mg. United 8 tats Commissioner ot ArrteuUara. Is Prestdeat ef the eoexrees.

and the Gorenioena' of Ontario and Qubo hay appointed special real rseentathree to ettesd the meeting of theeo. gross. The Canadian aad many American railroads offer special rates to detecatsa, and a larr a'tend. aaoo from both countries Is anticipated. Taepre-tectioB forests from fires, roadside BlauUni country and town, fruit tree coWvattoa.

and the best methods of working timber laM tb interest of the holder, of the public, and of therere-nue, are among the aoeetioos assigned for dlsous-sion at this ounn i 'ECHOES OF OLD WORLD NE WS. Of traces of the Saxon ancestors; of the Enis Has. race that are stm to bo ound la various parts of Germany few instance that were not nave been made Public, but Dr. Brand, of tingen, has recently found a particular district where distinct remain of these Saxons bow exist. Th district Is sear the oldi Prussian fortress ot Hindoo.

Be found inns there a carious lot oj English words, among which was MXean Instead Health statistics of the English trrisoni tu in Cyprus are said to show a great Improvement, especially in the ease of the Boyal Eaglaeen, who form the only part ot the garrison that has bee stationed on the island without Interruption tot two years. Last year the death-rate for the entire fore, numbering an average of 443 men, was about Ki per 1,000, as! compared wtth nearly IS per 1.000 In the previous year. Bow accurate and fair thee figure arc It would be hard to eay. but unless there has been a very remarkable aad real chans la the health fulness of the bland one. la fact, that Is almost Incredible there murt be something wrong about them, for they bjo on to say that for the same period the mortality among British troops In Canada was a tittl oyer 6H.

lq Bermuda a little over ttt aad la the West India a little over 8H per tflOO. From Victoria has been forwarded, by the Irishmen there resident, to th Lord Major of Dob- -Oa an address expressing strong and ebarscuri. tie sympathy with the movement for home rule. The Irishmen of Ireland are! described as sufferlne "under th hoof of a foreign despotism. and their condition Is compared to that of the Israelites la their degrading servitude to the Egyptians.

There are nine signatures to th address, and five oj them are those of mombers of the lgtslaUvo Assembly. Attention was called to the address iq the Assembly, aad the Premier was asked if he Intended to take any action. Be replied that ha proposed to take none. One of the signers tbea rose la his place and declared that If he had been guilty of treason or sedition be ousKt to be seal before a Jury of his countrymen, and he was ready to go there. He merely desired for Ireland th same legislative Independence that is possessed by "Victoria.

i 0 CoL John Gawler, who died tn England a few weeks ago, had been for a Bomber of yean the keeper of the Crown jewels, or. as he was known officially, the Keeper of the Begalla at ths Tower of London. He was the son of that Cok Gawler who was -at cse time the GcTemor of South Australia, and ho had seen long and notable service in the British Army. Bis first military experience was had at. an early age.

The year lSrd foand him with the SeTenty-thlrd Re si ment In th Eafir Be served In that camDalgn nnta 186S, aad came out of It with a medal and the breyet ot Hajor. Five years later he was gazetted a Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, and for servtoes In ths Indian mutiny he was awarded another medal. Still later commanded as Biixadler a eonslder-K Sakklm, taking the Kajah's resldenoe and tercin him to submit to the British terms of surrender. He subsequently penetrated to the Thibet frontlet and "served in China and i During the past two or three months sat reports nave been received fit England from Iceland concerning the state of the food supply, and official reports more recently made to the Ministry at Copenhagen now oonflrm them. It appears from these that the Winter of 1880-81 was one ot unexampled severity, and that it was followed 'by a old Bummer, so that the hay crop of 1881 was less than half an ayerag crop, and consequence, a much larrer portion than usual of the sheep, and even many of the cows, had to be alaurhtered la the Autumn.

People thus were too poor to buy the corn and maize imported for fodder, and theis communications with the tradlmc -stations had been cot off by th bad weather. Thousands live stock died, the lambing failed, the milk both of ewes and cows has been lacking and the usual Autumn trad la sheep, tallow, and wool, oa which the people depend for money wherewith to buy Imported necessaries, is likely to fail them now. The measles, which has not been in Iceland for SS years, has attacked Beyxjavlk, and is spreading oyer the Island. la London a fund has been started at various noints to bM these sufferers. 1 For the latest report of Dr.

Schiiesnann's excavations on the site of Troy, we are Indebted to Mr. Schllemann, a Greek lady, who la an aa-thustastM assistant ot her husband. Ene baa addressed to aa Athens newspaper a letter in Greek la which an says that olocc to the spot which be and her husband believe to be the site of ancient haye been found the remains of two buildings that are believed, to represent temples. Thelt appearance 1 so strange, however, that they cannot be said to resemble any of the well-known ancient tBmples. with the exception of that of Bm a Olympls, which, according to Pauaanlas.

was erected probably about 1100 B. C. The first oi them is SO metres In length and IS In width, while the walls are L4 metres in thickness. The other Is 80 metre lone and metre broad, the walls being LS metres thick. Owing to the great size of the first temple, Mrs.

Schllemann thinks it scarcely credible that the root could be solid and without supports; of the latter, at any rate, there is nothing now to he found. Throughout the entire "Elud" Of Homer, she says, there is no mention of such supports, while in the "Odyssey, where tbey are spoke of, they are described aa of wood. Assam ing that there bad been woodaa supports hi the first temple, they could not, she argues, have stood on a floor of day, aad there must, therefore, have Been a stoo foundation beneath them, yet note-fhg of the kind Is now to be discovered on the spow AMUSEMENTS. GENERAL MESTICEff. The children's "Patience' continues at WaUack's.

A concert will bo given at the Metropolitan Ales tar this evening. The Passing Regiment" will linger for two weeks longer at Daly's Theatre. At the Madison-Square Theatre Esrneralda, wlH be continued for a month or oo longer. Mr. J.

IfcCnUom and airs. TX P. Bowers are at the Manhansot Hons, Shelter Island. If me. Louise Tneo, the- opera bonffe singer.

Is expected to arrive here next Tuesday on the steam-ehlp Labrador. Hiss Charlotte Thompson wul appear at the Windsor Theatre to-morrow night tn her new ver sion of Jane i The Theatre Comlqne will be opened next Saturday- evening. Aug. ST. with the new Irish drama, "The Blackbird." Tony Pastor's Theatre, on Fourteenth- street, will reopen Sept.

with a version of Ton Suppes "Beautiful Galatea." MTbe Snake Charmer', will he kept upon the stag at the Bijou during the week. It ha been very suooessruL "The Black Flag" will be unfurled at the TJnlon-Bauaro Theatre to-morrow night by Mr. and Mrs. Sat Goodwin and Mr. E.

P. Thorn. H. Byron's comic drama, "Fourteen Days." wtn be prod seed at the Union-Square Thea tre Oot, 80 by Mr. Charles Wyndham and his coxa- Pony.

A hugs illuminated harp on the tower ot the newCaatoo. at Broadway and Thirty-ninth-treat, wul aUrsot attention to the building front afarat algbt. i Haverly's Feorteentb-Stroet Theatre will bo reopened to-morrow evening with a Western play 5a2 "Bs 10." in which Mr. Barry Meredith has the chief character, Last week's Mirror contains a concise and aoouraU summary aad review ot the Gilmor cam from the pen of ex-Judge Dtttenhoefer. The srtV oaslotn reply to certain statement made by Ms, it 1:.