About Progressive People.

Henry George, the author of "Progress and Poverty," has returned to San Francisco.

With the death of his son, Sir Percy Shelley, the poet will, in common with Byron, hare no descendant of his name.

Jefferson Davis denies that he ever uttered or indorsed the sentiment that "slavery is the corner-stone of the Confederacy."

Wendell Phillips is called by the "Boston Post" "the white- haired instigator of assassination, who preaches anarchy even at a literary feast."

Mr. Patrick Egan has purchased the "Dublin Irishman," thus placing all the national journals in Ireland under the control of the Land League.

Mr. Charles Stewart Parnell has two brothers, one of whom is a cotton planter in Georgia and a Land Leaguer, while the other, who owns an estate in Kilkenny, Ireland, is a strong Conservative.

A life-size marble bust of Gerrit Smith has been presented to the Oneida Historical Society of Utica, the late philanthropist's birthplace, by his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Miller of Geneva, N. Y.

General Garibaldi has accepted the honorary presidency of the Cincinnati Unione e Fratellanza Italiana. He is eager for a world's fair in Rome, and almost daily writes a letter urging the project on influential friends.

Jefferson Davis is certainly under obligation to Mr. James C. j Derby of Brooklyn. who suggested his history and went to New Orleans, for the house of D. Appleton & Co., to negotiate with him for it. He will make out of it $100,000

A movement is on foot in England to raise a fund by which Johann Most may be compensated for his imprisonment. The testimonial is to be presented at a banquet on the day the prisoner leaves jail. A portrait of Most was one of the prizes offered for competition by a Chicago shooting club on the 31st ult.

Theodore F. Cuno, a prominent Brooklyn Socialist, member of the Spread-the-Light Club, and attache of the "New York Stoats Zeitung," was assaulted recently in Brooklyn, but only slightly injured, by a German beer-seller, Louis Froelich, one of whose quarrels Mr. Cuno, in his capacity of reporter, was engaged in investigating.

Lord Kimberley has been converted to Land Reform. Speaking recently at Wymondham, he advocated the abolition of all laws impeding the free distribution of landed property, the repeal of the law of primogeniture, and - although on this point he was not very sanguine - additional security for the capital which tenants invest in their holdings.

The Russian ambassador at Berne lately paid a high compliment to Prince Kropotkine in telling an interviewer that he considered him the most dangerous man in Switzerland, adding that he had spent a large fortune in fomenting revolution, and that his sincerity and ability render it highly desirable that he should be closely watched. Prince Kropotkine is one of the editors of "Le Révolté," quoted from in another column.

The first number of a weekly journal called "Victor-Hugo" recently appeared in Paris. To the application of the editors for permission to use his name as a title, the great poet responded as follows :-
Dear Colleague,— Say every day to the fine youth of which you are a part all that you have in your souls — Duty, Conscience, Liberty, desire for the good, love of the beautiful; and if yon think my name a good standard, take it: I give it to you and thank you.
Your friend, Victor Hugo.

In France the expulsion law hangs, like the sword of Damocles, over the heads of foreign agitators. Paule Minck, a Polish lady resident in France, and one of Louise Michel's nearest friends, who spends the major part of her time in socialistic agitation, and recently served a short term in a Marseilles prison for participating in a meeting to protest against the execution of Hessy Helfmann, lately received a polite intimation from the police of Paris, that, if she did not cease disturbing the public order, the law of expulsion would be enforced upon her. Nothing daunted, she has sent a letter to M. Constans, the minister of the interior, announcing that, to baffle her unchivalrous persecutors, she has determined to change her nationality by marrying a Frenchman.