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educations, I would certainly never act again, nor ever concern myself about a theater; certainly, I think, never enter one-at least, for myself.”- -Macready was once much impressed with the appearance of feeling in a fellow-actor, who repeatedly, in the progress of one affecting scene, had tears in his eyes, until the young man told him that in painting his face for the occasion he had accidentally got the color into his eyes, which kept them running during the whole act.. West Indian, who wore diamond buttons on his vest and coat, managed to get on the stage at Bath, and asked Macready to be his prompter. It so happened that he dropped his stitch in that place where his prompter had to give out the line: "I never looked so like a fool in all my life." He missed it twice, and its third enunciation brought down the house in roars of laughter.George Frederick Cooke used sometimes to play when he was so far drunk as to excite remark, yet was able to say sharp things still. On one occasion a young officer made himself conspicuous in interrupting the play, when Cooke, who had enough down to limber his tongue, said, with an oath: "Now, sir, you shut up; the king-God bless him-can make an officer out of a fool, but only the Almighty can make an actor!". -Messrs. Conried and Herrmann have ordered the costumes for their Gypsy Baron" Company from Herr Czibak, who made those used in the original production of the opera in Vienna.- -Mlle. Rhea sails from France August 14 for St. John, N. B., where she joins her company and begins her next starring tour. -Leipsic is to have a new "circus," which will seat four thousand people. It is arranged so as to fulfill at the same time the purposes of a music hall. An organ of fifty stops is to be placed in the new building, devoted at the same time to equestrianism and a concourse of sweet sounds.

MUSIC.

NOTES. An opera, entitled " Florian," was performed in London recently at the Novelty Theater. The music, which is the best part of the work, is composed by Miss Ida Walter, and is said to show a very fair knowledge of instrumentation, and a compactness of form which indicate both ability and study on the part of the fair musician. Miss Griswold, the American singer, took part in the performance -Goldmark's new opera of Merlin" is to be given for the first time at the German opera in New York next season.- -The customary annual performance of Wagner's music at Bayreuth, which has for the last few years distinguished this town, commenced this season on the last days of July. The usual crowd poured into Bayreuth, and repaired to the opera house to hear Tristan and Isolde. Enthusiasm was not wanting over everything connected with the representation. Herren Levi and Motti conducted. Frau Tacher, Fraulein Malten, and Herr Vogel were the principal singers.The season by the American Opera Company, New York, in which Mr. Andrew Carnegie is a leading spirit, will commence November I with "Nero," for the production of which lavish arrangements are being made.

ART.

NOTES. The Russian government has decided to establish an art academy at Rome for the instruction of promising students in the arts of painting and sculpture. The Grand Duke, Wladimir, president of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, has taken the initiative in this design. The Villa Patrizl will probably be chosen as the seat of this academy, and it is considered probable that M. Bugolubof, the Russian painter so well known at Paris, and whose pictures have been exposed in the salons on many occasions, will be appointed its director.- -A process of ornamenting wall and other papers has been patented by a firm in England. It is for producing a finish on previously printed papers in imitation of silk, satin, and other fabrics.- -The death is announced of the celebrated Bavarian artist, Herr Piloty. He was born at Munich in 1826, and was the son of a lithographer. He was educated in Munich. He early attracted attention in his native city. He became a professor (the fate of most distinguished German painters) in 1858, and he had many distinguished pupils, Defregger, Lenbach, Makart, and Matejko. His picture of "Nero Among the Ruins of Rome," which was at the International Exhibition in 1862, and was much noticed at the time, is now in the Museum at Pesth. At the Paris Exhibition of 1867 he received a first-class medal. At that of 1878 he exhibited Wallenstein's Zug nach Egger.- -Leonardo da Vinci, the great Italian painter, has left a book of autographic sketches and manuscripts. This valuable volume has been preserved under the name of the "Codice Atlantico," at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana at Milan. It has not been published, but the Italian government has now decided to issue it through the Accademia dei Lincei at Rome. The sum of 100,000 lire is allotted to defray the expenses. It will be a work of the highest interest.- -The Danish landscape painter, Niels Rohde, died at Copenhagen on the 14th instant, at the age of seventy,

LITERARY.

NOTES.-Among new periodicals announced for next year is "The Journal of Morphology," to be devoted principally to embryological, anatomical, and histological subjects. Ginn & Co., Boston, are to be its publishers.- -Ticknor & Co. make the interesting announcement of a novel of Japanese life, with illustrations from designs by Japanese artists resident in America. Its title is "A Muramasa Blade," and its author is Mr. Werthember, formerly a writer upon the Japan Mail. -The next volume of H. H. Bancroft's historical works will be the fifth rela

ting to California, and will bring the record up to the discovery of gold in 1849-a period of peculiar interest. The severe loss suffered by Mr. Bancroft in the fire of last spring will not check the regular publication of his works.-T. Y. Crowell & Co. have in press for immediate publication "Thoughts," by Joseph Roux, a parish priest in France. Also, "The Great Masters of Russian Literature in the Nineteenth Century," by Ernest Dupuy, translated by N. H. Dole; and Dr. George Brandes' "Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century," translated by Prof. Rasmus B. Anderson.- "Newspaper reading," says Mr. Mozoomdar, "is simply the disease of the American." The Christian Register adds: "Certain it is that our newspapers contain a good deal of sickening material."-The important work which has engaged Father O'Reilly in Rome during so many months, namely, the writing of the life of Leo XIII, is now completed, and Father O'Reilly goes to recruit his health in the Tyrol. The life is written in English and French by the author. In its production Father O'Reilly has had access to the best sources, the persons surrounding the Pontiff, especially Mgr. Gabriele Boccali, auditor of the Palatine Prelates, supplying him with necessary information and documents. The work will be published by Mr. Charles Webster, the publisher of General Grant's Memoirs.- The first printing done in America was in the city of Mexico, in 1539. There were then two hundred printing-offices in Europe. The second press was set up in Lima, Peru, and the third in Cambridge, Mass., in 1639.Dr. Szold's "Book of Job" has received warm commendation from European scholars.A decree officially decreases by 50 per cent. the price of telegrams to newspapers in the interior of France. -The English officials lately placed Beres ford before Beesly on an alphabetical list, on the astute ground that the two "e's" in Beesley being the same, the "s" must be regarded as the third letter, and so go after "r.". -The latest article from the fruitful pen of the late General Oliver was on the subject of lying, and signed "I lie, too !"- -A" Dictionary of Boston," modeled after the celebrated "Dickens' Dictionary of London," is to be issued by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.-D. Lothrop & Co. will bring out a new edition of the complete poems of Paul H. Hayne, by whose death, in July, the South lost her most estimable poet and man of letters.- -The Villon Society, of London, announce the publication, in December, of Payne's translation of Boccaccio's "Decameron," in three volumes, octavo, uniform with their issue of the "Arabian Nights." But seven hundred and fifty copies are to be made.-Felix Oldboy's papers on Old New York form a lively and entertaining feature of the Evening Post- -Mr. George Augustus Sala is about to write his life.- -Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie is engaged in writing the life of Helen Hunt.-R. B. Roosevelt, author of "Five Acres Too Much," has written a breezy summer story, entitled "Love and Luck." It describes the experiences of a social party on a cruise on board a "sharpie" in the Great South Bay of Long Island, during a summer spent in fishing, hunting, and love-making.. W. J. Rolfe, the Shakespearean scholar, sailed for Europe with his family on Thursday of last week, in the Scythia, and will remain abroad until about October 1st. -Prof. C. A. Briggs, New York, is in England, carrying through the press a new work on Messianic prophecy. It discusses all the Messianic passages of the Old Testament in a fresh translation, with critical notes.- -Sir Charles Gavan Duffy's new book on the Irish question will be called "The League of North and South," and will treat of events in 1850-'55.-Judge Butler, of Philadelphia, has reserved his decision on the application of C. L. Webster & Co. to prevent the sale of Grant's Memoirs by Wanamaker.A good likeness of Noah Brooks, the well-known author and journalist, who succeeded Dr. Hunt as editor of the Newark Daily Advertiser, faces the title-page of this month's Book Buyer.- -Charles Francis Adams, Jr., is about to write the life of the late Richard H. Dana, Jr., and desires to obtain any of Mr. Dana's letters that are not strictly private and might be of use for the biography." Hannibal of New York" is the title of the new novel (of New York and Newport life) which Thomas Wharton will publish at once through Henry Holt & Co.-Paul H. Hayne had been invited to deliver, next winter, at Vanderbilt University, a series of lectures on poetry or literature. "It is a loss serious and irreparable," says the Southern Bivouac, "that these lectures will never be written, and that before the invitation had reached him this well-loved poet had laid down his pen forever."The abridged and annotated edition of Plutarch's Lives, which has just appeared in Ginn & Co.'s series of Classics for Children, has been prepared by Edwin Ginn from Clough's translation, and contains brief historical introductions by Prof. W. F. Allen, of the University of Wisconsin. -The September Wide Awake will have a contribution from Hon. S. S. Cox, U. S. Minister to Turky, entitled "L'Enfant Terrible Turk," richly illustrated from Turkish photographs.--John Strang Winter's stories of army life enjoy wonderful popularity in England. Nearly sixty thousand copies of "Mignon; or, Bootle's Baby," have already been sold, and its sequel, "Houp la !" is not far behind.- "The Modern Jew: His Present and His Future," is the title of a small volume by Anna L. Dawes, about to be issued by D. Lothrop & Co.- -Harper & Bros. will publish in a few days a story entitled "The Children of Old Park's Tavern," by Mrs. Frances A. Humphrey. It is a tale of life in Massachussets fifty years ago.- -The "war story" in the September Wide Awake, by Mrs. Helen Campbell, entitled "In the Turtle Crawl," describes the terrible experience of some of her ancestors in the Seminole war- -D. Lothrop & Co. have in press another of Madame Spyri's stories, entitled "Uncle Titus," translated by Lucy Wheelock. -It is announced that Joaquin Miller has become the editor of a new journal in San Francisco.

BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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Owing to the bewildering variety recently introduced into the size and form of printing paper the old designation of books, as 4to, Evo, 12mo, &c., gives little indication therefore, in order to be of most service to our readers, give the measures and quarters, the number first given being the length. We shall also add the and kind of binding.

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LIFE OF SCHUYLER COLFAX. By O. J. Hollister. Funk & Wagnalls, New York. 9x6%. 535 pp:

As history is made up of biographies, it was necessary that the life of Colfax shoula be written, for he was, and ever will be, a conspicuous figure in the political history of the country for the past twenty-five years. Mr. Hollister has doue his work well, He has gathered much information concerning his subject, and, in excellent English tells us how a boy, without means, influential friends, and with little educa

POLITICAL.

THE CUTTING CASE.

THE only considerable change that has occurred in this case since our last issue is the sending, by the Department of State, of a special agent to the border to ascertain and report the facts of the arrest, trial, conviction, and sentence of Cutting.

Rochester Herald (Rep.), August 16.

THE latest statement from the judge, Zubia, who presided at Cutting's trial, flatly contradicts what he is reported to have said when he sentenced Cutting. Zubia, according to the full text of his decision when he pronounced sentence on the prisoner, which has just been published in the Diario Official, the government organ in the City of Mexico, held Cutting for a crime begun on Mexican soil and continued simultaneously in Texas and Mexico. Judge Zubia, a dispatch says, lays special emphasis on the fact that Cutting actually circulated on Mexican soil the renewal of the libel published in Texas. This renewal of the libel published in Texas is an offense, and, were the cases reversed, would be punishable under the code in Texas. The court's decision is summed up as follows by A. P. Cushing, an American lawyer:

Cutting was convicted of repetition of a libel first published in Mexico and reprinted more virulently iu a Texas paper, which he then brought over and distributed in Mexico, and it was the distribution in Mexico of the second libel, and not the printing of the same in Texas. for which he was convicted, the libel having been read by three or more persons, as required by the statute of the state of Chihuahua. Cutting pleaded in bar to the jurisdiction of the Mexican court that the paper had been printed in Texas. He did not, however, deny that the paper had been circulated on the Mexican side, which was the fact, numerous coples having been seized there by order of the court.

If, on investigation, the case shall turn out as represented in the above summary of Judge Zubia's decision, there would seem to be no ground for the demand, on the part of our Government, for Cutting's liberation. But, when the sentence was pronounced, it was reported that Consul Brigham, who was present, said to the court:

Let us understand just what this is for. It is for publication, on the other side, of an article which is held to have violated a reconciliation made on this side. This being repeated to the judge he signified his assent.

It is clear that Secretary Bayard has taken the view of the case as reported in the quotation just given-that is, that it was held by the court that Cutting was amenable to Mexican law for an act committed wholly on American soil. The Secretary is entirely sound in denying Mexican jurisdiction in such a case. But the question is whether Cutting's is such a case. Possibly there has been a revision of Judge Zubia's opinion since the trial and sentence, a trick which might easily have been perpetrated in view of the absence of all reliable records. In any case, our Government should make it perfectly clear to the Mexican authorities, before the case under consideration is finally disposed of, that, under no circumstances, will the absurd and abominable principle alleged to be a part of Mexican law, that citizens of another country, when caught in Mexico, can be held for crimes not committed on Mexican soil, but within the territory of the United States, be ap proved or recognized by this country. It is very clear that Cutting was guilty of a violation of Mexican as well as Texan law, and, so far as his appeal is concerned, the whole case hinges on the question whether the Chihuahua court tried, convicted, and sentenced him for what he did in Texas or for what he did in Mexico.

New Yorker Staats-Zeitung (Ind.), August 17.
[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

SECRETARY BAYARD, by the despatch of a competent jurist to El Paso, with a view to an investigation of the Cutting incident and the questions of public law which it involves, has taken a judicious step for the conclusive settlement of the difficulty. Upon a fair consideration of the case, had Mr. Bayard taken this step long since, he would have acted, in any event, in a more statesmanlike manner; that is, in collecting authentic information upon the spot, instead of, upon a onesided representation, addressing to the Mexican government a demand for Cutting's immediate release. The information was readily obtainable before sending such a demand, and the present supplementary despatch of a jurisconsult to examine the question of jurisdiction can be construed only as an admission that the State Department desires to retrace its steps, because it has seen that a diplomatic blunder must be atoned for. Mr. Bayard's position is assuredly not a very en

viable one.

Courrier des Etats-Unis (Ind.), New York, August 12.
[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

En resume, appearances are anything other than bellicose at Washington, the Secretaries of War and of the Navy contradicting energetically the rumors disseminated at will that orders had been issued for the concentration of troops and for maritime movements in the direction of Mexico. The agitation, in a word, is limited to the more adventurous population on the Southwestern frontier, to whom an

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occasion for turbulence, a recourse to arms, would be a holiday affair. The cowboys are forming companies, mounting on horsebacks, and vociferating war cries, like children playing at soldiers, without its amounting to a row of pins. But at bottom this is not a knot of either peace or of war, and men who have in their hands national interests are not mad enough to launch themselves into complications so grave without motives more imperious than the Cutting affair.

Albany Journal (Rep.), August 16.

It looks as if the Mexican flurry would turn out to have been "all a mistake" after all. The American consul at Paso del Norte, Judge Brigham, now says that Cutting's trial was secret, and that neither he nor Cutting knew "just what the proceedings were or what he was tried for." All the fuss has been over Consul Brigham's report that Cutting was tried in Mexico for an offense committed on Texas soil, and as Mexico asserts that Cutting was tried for an offense committed in its territory, it seems as if Mr. Sedgwick, our special commissioner, will have no difficulty in bringing back the information that there has been a misunderstanding of the matter. It will then be very easy for Secretary Bayard to perform his accustomed crawfishing feat of backing down, while Texas can cry for gore and Cutting serve out his term. Oh! for an American policy with a master-mind like Blaine's to direct it! We need it sorely.

Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.), August 16.

THE mission of Mr. Sedgwick is in the nature of a proposed investigation to determine at what stage of the legal proceedings the idea of a "continuous offense" was introduced. His chances of solving the problem are not flattering. The record of the Mexican court is not a public record. Access to it can only be obtained through an order of the judge. That the court would permit Mr. Sedgwick to see it, if it contains anything which would justify the attitude of the Administration at Washington, is contrary to common-sense. If, however, such permission were granted and it should appear from the record that there has been no judicial juggling, it would not be conclusive, for the simple reason that it would have been very easy to suit the record to the circumstances. Mr. Sedgwick will have to rely on extra-official sources for his information, and that reliance is an exceedingly slender one.

Kansas City Times (Dem.), August 16.

TEN days ago Republicans were sneering at Secretary Bayard for alleged lack of nerve. Now they are raising heaven and earth to prevent him from teaching Mexico a lesson in international courtesies. However, they still fling the fishery question in his teeth. One thing at a time, gentlemen, The Democratic party has a patriotic and fighting record. It has got to retrieve the cowardly and vacillating foreign policy of twenty-four years of Republican administration, and it will get there. Perhaps before Bayard finishes up the fishery business you will be on your knees imploring heaven to ward off a struggle with England. Bayard is not a braggart, but he is brave and honorable. Before his term of office expires he will make the American flag respected where you have trailed it in the dust, and render it possible for Americans to travel abroad without being insulted and unjustly imprisoned.

Baltimore American (Rep.), August 16.

It really looks as though Mr. Bayard felt that he ought to do something im pressive, and thinking that the Canadian fishery question was somewhat dangerous, he would pitch in and bully Mexico. He began by big bluster, and has been tapering off ever since. Mexico, instead of crouching down, showed fight, and then this great Republic comes down. The eagle that began to soar and scream now roosts exceedingly low, for the American citizen whose liberation was haughtily demanded was kept in prison. The principles upon which he was held in Mexico to answer an offense committed on our soil has not been abandoned. He has been tried and convicted and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor, and now Mr. Bayard sends Sedgwick down to ascertain and report the facts. The Mexicans think that we strutted into the quarrel and then sneaked out of a fight.

Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.), August 16.

Ir is important, for every reason, that the dispute shall be terminated at the earliest possible moment. The idea of a possible conflict has already had the effect of stimulating the mischief-making spirit among the classes which, in one way or another, would benefit by a war; and while, from remote country villages, come reports of local fire-eaters burnishing their arms and preparing to raise companies of men, in the centers of trade the gleeful chuckles of the would-be contractors, and of the whole class which delights in profiting by the nation's woe, are heard in a manner which cannot but be most distasteful to all honorable and patriotic men who will only countenance war as a last dreadful resort, and who fear the hideous demoralization, social, religious, and political, which is sure to follow a war, even more than they do the carnage and the destruction of property.

Boston Journal (Rep.), August 16.

THE documents regarding the Cutting case, which are published in the Diario Official, of the City of Mexico, the government organ for the publication of decrees, decisions, etc., show that Secretary Bayard has absolutely no ground to stand

upon in the demand which he has made upon the Mexican government. From first to last the Secretary has declared that this was a case in which a Mexican court assumed the right to punish an American for an offense committee upon American soil. Americans everywhere and of all parties are ready to agree that this is a claim which could not be admitted, and if the Secretary were right in his presentation of the case he would be generally sustained in any reasonable measures for enforcing the American view. But it is at precisely this fundamental point that the Secretary is wrong.

San Francisco Chronicle (Ind.), August 10. EITHER Cutting was not entitled to the protection of our Government (in which case a word from the State Department would have allayed excitement and removed the danger of collision) or he was entitled to that protection, in which case he should have got it if it had taken every man in the United States to furnish it. Mr. Bayard, as usual, tried each horn of the dilemma in turn. When Cutting was first arrested he tried to bully Mexico by demanding his instant release. When Mexico contemptuously rejected his demand, he crawled and pretended to be occupied with other matters. There are many passages in our diplomatic history which are unpleasant reading for a conscientous citizen, but we do not remember that the United States ever before got so square a slap in the face as it has in the Cutting matter.

Brooklyn Times (Rep.), August 16.

IT is to be regretted that the mere appointment of an envoy will be looked upon as a return to Mr. Bayard's old policy of procrastination. For about two weeks the Secretary of State led the country to believe that he had definitely abandoned such a policy, and meant to treat the contempt of Diaz for his own promises as conduct of that sort deserved to be treated. Americans who look at things from the broadest possible standpoint will fail to see any good reason for this last action on the part of the State Department; and if, through this delay, Cutting loses his life, there will be a general demand for summary vengeance on the men who murdered him, and a burst of popular disapprobation that will at least scare the Department into an exhibition of something like manliness.

Detroit Free Press (Dem.), August 15.

NOTHING that we have any right to demand from Mexico can possibly be gained by a war that can not in all human probability be obtained peacefully; and even if common-sense did not dictate a resort to peaceful means until they are exhausted, treaty obligations compel such resort. Under the treaty of GaudalupeHidalgo both the United States and Mexico are pledged in case of dispute or disagreement to resort to arbitration. Of course, that resort may fail. Mexico is a somewhat eccentric republic and may refuse to observe her treaty obligations. She may refuse to comply with the award of arbitration, and it may, as a last resort, become necessary to compel compliance "even at the cannon's mouth." But thus far, at least, no such necessity is even foreshadowed.

London, England, Times, August 12.

New York World (Dem.), August 17.

Washington Post (Dem.), August 18.

Boston Pilot (Catholic), August 14.

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The Anzeiger des Westens, St. Louis, August 14
[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

THE Mexican law, in obedience to which any one who in a foreign land has committed a crime against a Mexican can be prosecuted for the same in Mexico, especially contains the clause that the act in question shall also be regarded as a crime there where it was committed. With this falls to pieces the prattle of the loud-mouthed warriors, that Mexico claims the right to punish an American citi zen at will for that which Mexico, but not the United States, considers a crime. Moreover, in Cutting's case it is not at all a question of locality, inasmuch as Cutting committed in Mexico the crime for which in Mexico he has been punished. L'Eco d'Italia (Ind.), New York, August 13.

[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

THE Mexicans have the fullest right to make laws for themselves, as the United States possess an equal right to contest their validity in so far as the application of those laws applies to the question of internationality. In the present instance, however, the United States have pressed the point a little too far in demanding the immediate release of Cutting. It is a question to be solved with great calmness, and to be determined according to just maxims, and, perhaps, also, according to every probability, by means of arbitration, the fact being of too trivial importance to make of it a casus belli.

Las Novedades (Ind.), New York, August 13.
[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

ACCORDING to telegrams from the Mexican capital, arbitration is suggested as the most satisfactory solution, and the Federal Government is urged to obtain a sus pension of the sentence imposed upon Cutting until a judgment at arbitration can be obtained. Through arbitration, or directly, the two governments themselves can and ought to solve the question, and by pacific agencies, the only ones, indeed, which the true interests of both nations dictate; and until then everything indi cates that this solution will prevail, without the intervention of forcible methods, where the voice of right and of justice alone should be heard.

New Orleans States (Dem.), August 14.

OUR dispatches from El Paso show that money is being used there to suppress all news of an exciting and warlike nature. It shows that the capitalists and the adherents of Jim Blaine are determined to throttle if they can any attempt to vindicate the national honor which is likely to cause a war between this country and Mexico. Their money is in Mexico and their hearts are there also. These American capitalists are like swine at a feeding trough; they are willing to be kicked and to utter a thankful grunt so long as they are allowed to fatten on Mexican money. New York Mail and Express (Rep.), August 16.

ABOUT the most ridiculous product of the silly season up to date is the story that comes from Washington, that Mexican money is being freely used to defeat the Administration in the Cutting affair by creating public sentiment in this country hostile to the position assumed by Secretary Bayard, and that a prominent Republican diplomatist who has criticised the action of the State Department is acting, for pay, as the agent of the Mexican government. Of course, this is connected in some way with the machinations of that terrible man, Mr. Blaine. What next? Brooklyn Union (Ind.), August 16.

As the matter now stands, Mr. Bayard's information from our consul is that Cutting was tried for an offense committed in Texas, but the position of the Mexican judge, and, presumably, of the Mexican government, is that he was tried for an offense committed in Mexico. The first thing for the State Department to do, then, obviously, is to find out the facts, and Mr. Bayard has gone about it by sending Mr. Sedgwick to Paso del Norte. The thing for other people to do, meanwhile, is to hold their tongues and their tempers.

St. Louis Republican (Dem.), August 16.

SECRETARY BAYARD is confident that Mexico will give up Cutting without a fight. When that is done it will make no difference what laws Chihuahua passes. It can assume jurisdiction over the universe, if it likes, as does his Imperial Unspeakableness, the king of kings and lord of the world who reigns in Siam. But, while the United States is in favor of Mexico passing what laws it pleases, it will be distinctly understood that they are not laws for the United States or its citizens. Washington Star (Ind.), August 17.

SECRETARY BAYARD has had a great many troubles, personal and political, since he assumed control of the State Department, and the public, by the way, extends to him a full measure of sympathy on this score; but he is a man of cour age and strength of character, and no surprise, therefore, will be occasioned by the announcement that he proposes to stick to his post pending the present Mexi can difficulties, no matter how disagreeable this may be to himself personally.

Charleston News and Courier (Dem.), August 13.

THE Mexicans believe that the United States Government and the people of the United States are afraid of them. They will keep on believing it until the United States teach them that the time for diplomatic fooling and official flummery is past. The hour has come. Where is the man? Secretary Bayard will come out of this embroglio as Ingraham came out of the Koszta affair, or he will fall so low that he will never rise again. Action! Action! Action!

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New Orleans Picayune (Dem.), August 14.

EVERY American citizen who regards the future of the nation, who considers national honor above personal gains, can not fail to understand that the action of the United States Government is fully justified, and when our troops cross the line, if cross they must, it will be in vindication of the flag, and the beginning of a policy that will expand the influence of the greatest Republic in the world, and bring to a full realization the value of citizenship.

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Boston Transcript (Ind.), August 13.

Of course, it is absurd for the Mexicans to talk of cleaning out the Yankees, but then it should be remembered that they habitually speak of Molino del Rey and Buena Vista as glorious triumphs of their arms, and still believe that it was only a long list of accidents that prevented Santa Anna from carrying out his promise to water his horses in the Potomac. Latin races can brag and bluster as lustily as the Anglo-Saxon.

Minneapolis Tribune (Rep.), August 14.

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WHAT is Mr. Bayard sending a lawyer to investigate the question now for? He has taken up his position, and has committed the country to it. In his demand for Cutting's release, he declared that Mexico had no legal right to imprison him. she had, the demand was unwarranted and impertinent. Such a demand as that ought only to be possible from a minister who was absolutely sure that he had the law upon his side.

Baltimore Sun (Ind.), August 16.

MR. SEDGWICK'S mission, though susceptible of misrepresentation by political opponents, will have its use in producing, what the Mexican government with its sluggish habits has not yet been able to present, an intelligible and accurate account of the facts of the trial at El Paso. With this account before them both governments will be able to bring to a speedy close a discussion that promises without it to last till doomsday.

Pittsburgh Despatch (Ind.), August 16.

THE State Department is taking the right course in addressing inquiries to the point of what Cutting actually was convicted for. If the conviction was according to the later representations of the Mexican government, the aspect of the reports of the case will be materially changed. If it was based on the ground stated in the judge's language made at the time, it was a gross infraction of American citizenship. Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph (Ind.), August 16.

SECRETARY BAYARD bids fair to come out of the Mexican matter with even less credit than he has gained in his other diplomatic movements. Senor Miriscal, the Mexican secretary of state, has played his cards so shrewdly as to put the United States Government in an untenable position in the Cutting matter, and no alternative appears to be left us but to back out of the whole affair as best we can. Salt Lake Tribune (Rep.), August 12.

No matter where the libel was printed, it was, by the act of Cutting, published or circulated on Mexican soil, which is a direct contempt of a Mexican court, and which clearly subjects the publisher to arrest and trial whenever found on Mexican soil. The more the case is developed, the more we believe that Cutting was hired by uneasy spirits to bring on a clash between the republics, if possible.

No doubt, if the United States were to put forth her full strength, Mexico could be conquered. But the conquest would only result in the creation on our southern frontier of a " back-door Poland," ever ready to rise in revolt and requiring the maintenance of a large standing army at ruinous cost to garrison its cities and carry on a continuous campaign against patriotic guerrillas.

National Republican (Rep.), August 17.

WHAT had Mexico done to call for harsh words or strong measures when this disturbance was inaugurated? She had simply arrested and was holding for trial, or rather a state of Mexico, not a republic, had arrested and proposed to try an American who was domiciled on the Mexican side of the line and had violated the laws of Mexico on both sides of the line.

Galveston News (Dem.), August 15.

IF Mexico refuses to surrender Cutting, as this Government demands, what then? Clearly the American minister to Mexico must be called home, the Mexican minister at Washington must receive his passport, and if neither government recedes from its position, the issue between the two countries must be remitted to the final arbitrament of arms.

New York Tribune (Rep.), August 18.

GRINDING and swaggering may suit Mr. Bayard's present humor, but the exigen cies of diplomacy require steadiness, composure, and good temper. If he can re

ham is largely responsible, he may yet retrieve his blunders and emerge from the controversy without loss of dignity.

New York Commercial Bulletin, August 17.

PEOPLE who are anxious to get up a war with Mexico for speculative purposes will have to possess their souls in patience. There is nothing of the kind as yet in sight. If there was the remotest probability of trouble growing out of the Cutting business, the President would not be off on a prolonged excursion to the Adirondacks.

Toledo Commercial (Rep.), August 16.

THE men who are most forward for war, are men who would have no widows or orphans to leave and little taxes to pay. The men who have fought on either side in our civil war have had enough. They are as willing as ever to fight for the national honor, but they want to be sure they are right before they go ahead. New Orleans Times-Democrat (Dem.), August 17.

We went to war once in 1812 on a somewhat similar question (to that involved in the Cutting case), and we would be compelled to resort to force again to protect American citizens against such extra-territorial legislation, whether the power attempting it was Mexico or the strongest European empire.

Boston Traveller (Ind.), August 16.

THE South recognizes, and very naturally, too, what might be gained in the way of political prestige from a war with Mexico, but the country's good sense bids fair to shatter, at least for the present, Southern dreams of sectional aggrandizement through the channel of military achievements.

Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette (Rep.), August 16.

BAYARD should not have demanded Cutting's release unless he knew what he was about. In making the peremptory demand and then dallying for ten days, and finally sending an agent to find what it was all about, Bayard displayed the qualities both of a bully and a ninny.

THE Mexican authorities must be taught, in the language of James G. Blaine, that "American citizenship is the panoply of him who wears it;" and if the statesman of Maine were in the White House to-day, he would force Mexico to surrender Cutting, and to make amends for the outrage upon our flag. This is the right spirit.-Sacramento Bee (Rep.), August 10.

THE whole interview with Secretary Bayard makes it plain that the Cutting case is a more serious one than was at first supposed. The United States Government has made a demand upon Mexico from which it can not recede, and which, if refused, must necessarily lead to the gravest consequences.-Florida Times-Union (Dem.), August 15.

THAT able exponent of Jacksonian Democracy, the Boston Globe, declares that "Secretary Bayard is making our diplomacy a laughing-stock at both ends of the continent." It will be observed that the Globe covers the ground in its criticism about as completely as Bayard does in his blundering.—Philadelphia Press (Rep.), August 17.

It makes no difference if Editor Cutting were possessed of the jaw-bone of an ass, with the meanness of an egg-sucking yellow dog, he is an American citizen, and the position of Mexico, that he can be punished for an offense committed on American soil, will not be tolerated in this country.-Birmingham Age (Dem.), August 12.

A DECLARATION of war will find in this city a regiment of well-disciplined men ready to take up arms to sustain the prestige of American citizenship. It is asserted that the nightly drill will continue until the Cutting affair is arbitrated, either by legal redress or a call to arms.-New Orleans Chronicle, August II.

OUR policy, while preserving national dignity, should be rather one of conciliation and sympathy than one of technical requirements and irascible antagonism. We see no reason as yet to doubt that the Administration will meet the pending disturbances in this spirit.-Boston Post (Dem.), August 17.

It is especially surprising, in view of the facts distinctly stated by the court, that Senor Romero, Mexican minister at Washington, should have represented to Secretary Bayard that Cutting was arrested and tried for an offense committed on Texas soil. Cincinnati Times-Star (Ind.), August 14.

Ir is undignified and contemptible for this Government to attempt to bully a weaker power after its months of placid patience in the face of the Canadian fisheries outrages. A foreign policy of this sort is rather liable to bring this country into ridicule. Washington Hatchet (Ind.), August 14

It is estimated that Mr. Bayard started into the controversy with the cart before the horse, and is now endeavoring to get into proper diplomatic shape. This would be quite in consonance with the general course of the Delaware statesman in his present position.-Omaha Bee (Rep.), August 14.

GOVERNOR IRELAND, of Texas, says: "No one wants war," but the emphasis which he lays on the necessity for "peace with honor" suggests that there is enough of the jingo in him to enjoy a free fight by some other fellows with the Mexicans.-St. Paul Press (Rep.), August 14.

THE Federal courts have no jurisdiction over Mexico; hence, the case for the Federal Administration to intervene and protect any citizen according to the guarantee that he shall be tried by jury in the State where the crime was committed.-Galveston News (Dem.), August 12.

If the Mexican position be just, the demand of this Government will be with