The New York Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1870, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. panne es 4AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New York Herat. ; Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be property sealed. wh anc Pa THE DAILY NERALD, published every day tn the year, Four cents per copy, Annual subscription Price $12. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo: typing and Engraving, neawy and prompily exe- cuted at (he lowest rates Velume XX XY. AMUS:MENS THIS EVE THE TAMMANY, Fourtooath street or Bap Diokey. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th strect.— Ovns. ‘a8 BURLESQua GRAND OPERA HOUSE, ‘Md ot.—Davip Gangiok—A sr ot Eighth avenne and OTRAN ENTERTAINMENT, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 2d st., boiweon Sth ang 6th ars— Hamier. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Paut Pay--RonERT AOAIRE, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—SuRr; O8, SUMMER SURNRS ALONG BRaxcu. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broagway.—Gzanp ROMANTIC Drama or Roy Bias. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- wer Tbirtueth st,—Matinee daily, Performance every eventny. BOWERY THEATKE, Vowery.-Buox, Buck, How MANY Houns; 08, Goup Ur ro’ 165. WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—MUsic, Misru any Myoreny. . MRS. F. BR, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— Tue Lorrevy or Lire. RA HOUSE, WL Bowery.—Comia RLBY, kO. © TONY PASTOR'S OP Vooatism, NEGRO MU THEATRE COMIQ 3M, NeGko Acts, BRYANT'S OPERA HOY ML —BRYANT'S MINSIRELS. M4 Broadway.—Couto Vooar- ISK, Tammany Bullding, Mth or ty. E RUT HL Agut.” STEINWAY HALL.—Mwe. De Lessau’s ANNUAL Con- orn, NEW YORK CIRCU AND GYMNASTIO PrRFO: Fourteenth street, EQUESTRIAN MANOES, AC. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, \ Br MINGTRELS—PETRS Piper PerrEn Po NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Prondway.— ScrrNcE AND Ant. YORK MUSEUM OF ONLY LN ATIRND, ANATOMY, 61835 rev York, Monday, January 17, 1570. CONTEUTS GY TO-DAY’S HERALD. Paas. Advertisements. Q—Advertisements, 3—Advert sements, Editorial: Leading Article on The Proposition to Remove tie Seat of Government—Personal Movemenis—Amusement Announcements. S—Telegrapiic News from A'l Partsof the World; Rochefort’s Case Before the French Legisla- gure; Spanish News from Cuva—Musical and rical Notea—New York City— News—Ceorge Francis Train at Tammany Hail—The Arion Rehearsal—The “Hildise Bund”’—The Arrest of Mary Solomons— Brooklyn City News—Suburban [natelligeace— Musical Revilew—Business Notices G—Religious: Discourses by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. Chauncey Giles, Rev. Dr. Mor- van and Others—The Gallows: Tne Execution of Lewis Hines, Negro, in North Carolina— Court Calendars—Generat Items. J—Financiat and Commercial Reports—Private Charities: Tbe Retreat for the Insane at Hart- ford, Conn.—The Yiddle-Balasky Shooting— Journatistic Notes—A Voracious Dragon in lowa—More of Dr. Schoeppe—Merrlages and Deaths—Advert!semenis, S—Washington: Congress Heading Of the Gold Gambiers; Massachusetts Hypocrisy Un- masked ; Prince Arthur’s Expected Visit; Aristocratic Dioners and Receptilons-~Sbip- ping Intelligence—Advertisements. Some Inpusrriovs and sanguine members of Congress hope for an adjournment as early as May, Tos Senate to-day will probably pass the House bill for the admission of Virginia, so that the Old Dominion may perhaps find her- self back in the Union before the week is closed. Prince Arruur is to arrive in Washington - on the 23d or 24th inst. The notion that his visit has a political siznificance is ali wrong. His mother has simply directed him to cail on us as a neighbor and leave her card. Casiz Conspiracy.—All the cable compa- nies have entered into a combination. Against whom are they combined? Against the public, evidently, if workmen combins for mutual assistance it is a conspiracy. Is the cable combiaation anything better? Wor Breeoker Srreer Snoorie AFFRray.— The Russian who was shot in Bleecker strect on Saturday night is lying dangerously ill at Bellevue Hospital. The case has developed a phase much like the sensational feature of the McFarland case. A young woman dressed in a widow's garb arrived at his bedside to watch yesterday, and it is said that she insists on his marrying her. Manpy's Spracve witn a Carpet Bac.— Literature in the Alabama Legislature is at such a low ebb that the fumous Sprague of Chicago, ‘‘who loved his maudy nex to his geasus,” bas probably carpet-bagged into that body. Spelling and grammar are the principal necessities of the members, but a re- solution recently presented to employ an en- grossing clerk to “‘fix up” the bills so that the Governor would not be disgraced by approving them with all their orthographical monstrosi- ties was the cause of “‘yld” indignation. The idea was almost enough to give them Sprague’s arsyplas.” Tar Covrones YesterpAy.—The day was 80 bright and sunny yesterday that the churches were filled to overflowing. Plymouth church is always full when Mr. Beecher preaches, and yesterday he gave his hearers an unusual sen- gation. In a voice broken by emotion he thanked the members of the church for their magnificent increase of his salary by seven thousand five hundred dollars, but declined it, He said he would send a statement to the board of trustees about it. He then preached ® sermon on “‘the peace which passeth under- standing.” At the Seventh sireet Methodist Episcopal church a large crowd gathered with the morbid desire to hear something about the Rev. Horace Cook, and were, of gounge, disappointed. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1870. Government. Some of the Western people, and particu- larly those of St. Louis, are endeavoring to get up an agitation to remove the seat of govern- ment from Washington to the Mississippi valley.: They appear to be supported in this, too; by some of the members of Congress trom the West. There has been a call for the Gov- ernors ef several States in that section to assemble together for the purpose of promot- Ing this object, several of the State Legislatures of the West have spoken in favor of it, public meetings have been worked up to agitate the question, and some of the Western members of Congress are opposing any further appropria- tions for public buildings or improvements in Washington, on the ground that the capital will be removed, and that to ‘expead anything more there would be a waste of money. The move- ment has not become general in the West, but seems to have its focusin St. Louis, The peo- ple, or rather the property holders and specu- lators, of that city are tho principal movers in this local agitation, because they want the capi- tal to be located there, As far as they are concerned it is a grand speculation’ or job, though got up under the pretext of national interest and the convenience of the govern- ment and the Western members of Congress. The principal argument used for the removal of the capital to the Mississippi valley is that St. Louis, or some other point not very far west from that city, is near the geographical centre of the republic and will, in the course of time, be about the centre Of population. This is true, undoubtedly, with regard to the terri- torial centre, and there may be a large popula- tion west of this in the distant future, though there will be always, probably, a greater population east of the geographical ceutre than west, The vast and fertile valley of the Ohio and of the States bordering the lakes, the rich Southern States from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, and from the Gulf to the Potomac, the wealth and wonderful resources of New York and Pennsylvania, the manufacturing industry and accumulated capi- tal of New England and the commercial out- let and power of the Atlantic cities, will attract and develop a larger population than the com- paratively desert prairie region west of Kansas and the vast mountainous country beyond to the shores of the Pacific. Though the area is greater west of the Mississippi, the population will always be much larger, proba- bly, east of that river. While we admit that the States on the Pacific will have a mighty future, that vast commercial cities will grow up there, that San Francisco may become second only to New York, and that there will be an extraordinary development of commerce between that part of the republic and Asia, yet the commerce between the Atlantic cities and civilized Europe will continue to be of far more importance. The centre of business, of wealth and of intelligence will remain far east of the geographical centre, That will remain near the Atlantic border. The argument in favor of removing the capital, then, on the ground of placing it in a central position has litle foundation. But it is said Washington is too near the Atlantic, too easy of approach by an enemy in time of war, aud cannot be so well protected or defended as the capital could be if it were in the Mississippi valley, This is a mere bug- bear. No nation or cémbination of nations could or are ever likely to attempt a war on the soil of this mighty republic, where there is such a dense population. Nor would any fleet in this age of science, steam power, monitors, iron-clads and all the other formidable appliances of war that can be promptly pre- pared and used, venture to go up the Potomac. Washington can be as well defended as any city in the world. i As to the convenience of members of Con- gress reaching the capital, what does it mat- ter whether those from the West cross the Alleghany mountains to come eastward, or those from the Hast eross them to go west- ward? Thenrailroads andthe telegraph bring all parts of the country into convenient commu- nication. Distance is no longer reckoned by miles, and space is annihilated, comparatively. The probability is that im the progress of science and improvements we shall be able to travel by and by from one end of the republic to the other in a few days. For all business and social purposes the telegraph brings every place and person near to each other. Admitting that a hundred millions or two hundred millions fer the construction of a new Capitol and other public buildings might not be of much consequence to this rich country, it would be a shameful waste of money to abandon the magnificent and costly structures at Washington and to erect others at another place when there fs no good reason for remoy- ing the capital. Besides, short as our history is, Washington has a grand historical charac- ter, a name and prestige that should command our respect, and the honor of being founded by the Father of his Country and the sages of our independence, If the capital should ever be removed, New York, the great commercial metropolis and centre of intelligence of the country, would be the proper place for it; but there is no necessity for its removal, The agitation for the purpose has been got up by a few Western politicians to tickle thelr con- stituents’ and by some speculators who want to make money. There is no fear of the movement succeeding; but we advise Con- greas to crush it by some decisive action in its incipiency, for it can only lead to sectional controversy and trouble. Old Barrels. Such topic as that of old barrels should be & very suggestive one to the whole public. There are many points in which the people feel that they cannot afford to inquire too curiously. They are conscious that to go minutely into the history of many articles that are very presentable at table might be to deprive themselves of satisfactory appetite and to destroy their faith in thelr fellow crea- tures, It would “‘rise the gorge” of the cater to suddenly make Lim familiar with the promi- nent events in the career of any one of our dainties, We are certain that it would quite destroy the market value of figs to give an extensive publicity to Dr. Maddon’s account of hia visit to Turkey, But there are some articles 60 necessary that any suspicion thrown on their history does not for a moment make us think of giving up using them, but aaly of tho cousequences of such contioved Tho Prepesision te Hemeve the Heat of use to ourselves and how to avoid the danger, No one, of course, supposes that he can get along without flour. It is, therefore, all the more uncomfortable to have to face the dis- covery that much of this soft, absorbent, readily poisoned powder is sent to market in barrels that were emptied of rotten garbage not long before the flour was put in, It is useless to make any appeal to the dealers, for old barrels are cheaper than new ones. It fs equally useless to resolve: that you will be vigilant and will positively buy no barrel of flour where you are not sure the barrel is new. How can’ you tell, with, the outside well scraped, and supposing you make due allowance for the inevitable soil of all the handling between tho mill gnd your front door? Moreover, if it be admitted that your acuteness has discovered some infallible point of dis- tinction, are you sure that you can count upon the baker for equal vigilance? Alas! you must finally make up your mind to take your typhoid fever, or other result of slow poison, as it comes, and comfort your soul so much as you may with the reflection that the subject is now before the Legislature. Red-Tape Diplomacy Dying Out—The Power : of tho Press. The conversation of our Washington corre- spondent with a distinguished foreign Minister, the representative of an imperial government, on the power of the press and public opirion and the dying out of red-tape diplomacy, as pub- lished in our columns on Friday last, shows what a revolution is going on in the ideas of the diplomats of monarchical Europe, even on the subject of making state matters known to the people. This foreign Minister had read the letter of the Heratp’s Vienna correspon- dent, giving an account of the interview with Von Beust, the Austrian Premier, and he found it ‘extremely interesting.” He was, in fact, “quite surprised to hear of tho Count speaklog so unreservedly to a newspaper cor- respondent,” and he considered it ‘“vory remarkable” and a ‘“‘recogailion of the power and influence of the modern press,” paying at the same time a compliment to this paper as the leading Journal of this groat country. But surprised as he was at the frankness of Count Von Beust in thus communicating bis views on great public questions, the Minister seemed to be pleased with it, and, by way of comment, did not hesitate to say that he thought ‘‘the days of old-fashioned diplomacy were passing away, and that a higher and more honest kind is coming in vogue.” “I believe,” he added, “that the true diplomacy is the diplomacy of public opfnion. The press represents and re- lects that opinion, and the press should be respected,” The statesmen of monarchical Europe and the foreign representatives here, with all the crust of azes of exclusiveness hanging about them, are more liberal, have broader views of the rights and powers of the people, and are more progressive than our-own public func- tionaries at Washington. The exclusiveness, red-tape formality and assumption of the State Department, for example, would suit an old despotic monarchy that has not yet felt the in- fluence of the age better than the American republic, Indeed, that musty institution, under the weak and’ formal man who is now Secretary, is altogether un-American. ‘‘Clothed with a little brief authority,” Mr. Fish has pre- sumed to defy public opinion, has attempted to mislead the public on a subject of great national interest, and has ventured to refuse information to the people and their representa- tives in Congress. We refer to his course par- ticularly on the Cuban question, though his conduct generally has been more like that of an autocrat than of the servant of a free peo- ple. There is no necessity for secrecy—for acheming and plotting—in the State Depart- ment, and there ought tobe none. It is an outrage upon the American people and inimi- cal to our institutions. Letus have everything open as the day—no concealments, no diplo- matic subterfuges, This great republic can and should declare frankly to all the world what is its policy and what itwilldo. Besidel, nothing should be done that public opinion does not approve under our popular form of government. The Secretary of State and other public functionaries at Washington may learn a valuable lesson from the conduct of such European statesmen as Count Beust and Count Bismarck, and from such foreign representatives a3 the one we have referred to, who believes that the old-fashioned diplomacy is passing away and that the true diplomacy is that f public opinion. Trymc a Granp Jury.—The counsel of the defendants in the fraudulent election cases in Brooklyn have taken another tack. A few days ago, in a desperate strait, they ehanged their case intoa trial of the District Attorney, and now they are trying the Grand Jury. They charge that its secret feature is contrary to our enlightened civilization and subversive ofthe ends of justice. This is all very well; it shows legal acumen to present such points when delay is required, and it is probably a fact that Grand Juries are rather inquisitorial ; but the main question is, are the defendants guilty or not guilty, and which are the de- fendants, the Grand Jury, the District Attor- ney or the individuals charged in the indict- ments ? Tur New Water Srreet Revivar,.—When the missionaries get into full possession of Kit Burns’ dog pit, as they have arranged to do next month, it is to be hoped that they will not worry the sinners into religion as Kit’s best terrier would worry a rat. Let them be ear- nest and liberal—not liberal as the free love Christians are, but liberal to forgive, and lib- eral in showing the attractive side of morality, There fs no misery and unhappiness to equal that of the inmates of the slums, and they are apt to clutch greedily enough at a prospect for something better; but if they are called on only to exchange thelr own misery for the hypocritical misery of Aminadab Sleek, they will be apt to hold on to the misery they. are most used to. Tae CrminAL Crasses.—Which are the criminal classes? This very phraso seems to conjure up a vision of beotle brows, brutal mouth and the general catalogue of repulsivo traits, But the Seventh street seduction, the Bauman murder and suicide, the Buckhout butchery and the Richardson case are instances to remind us that pll the crimes are not com- mitted on the lowest eoctal level, ‘ Proposition fer an Atlantic Steamship | Remarkable Ceufeesions of = Ropublican Line=The Question of Subsidies. In another column we give a communication from Mr. Jacob Lorillard, one of our most public spirited and liberal merchants, stating his proposition to build and operate an Ameri- can line of Atlantic steamers. To our thinking he presents an argument against his proposition in this sentence:—‘‘The immense difference in cost of construction, and the excessive rate of interest and taxation on tho investment of the necessary capital to establish such a line, would make it impossible to compete success- fully against the foreign lines now engaged in the trade, unless subsidized by Congress.” With our flag practically driven from the ocean in this great trade of Atlantic ferriage it is but natural that our merchants possessed of patriotic spirit should chafe somewhat, and their restless eagerness to do something is altogether praiseworthy; but it is coming to be generally- conceded eyerywhere that the principle of subsidies is an error, and the policy of every government tends now to its abandonment, Subsidies are for the time being a specious assistance to com- merce that‘help it through some difficulties, at the same time that they prevent it from ever reaching the development that would give it the power to overcome difficulties in virtue of its independent, vigorous existence. And while this is now recognized everywhere shall this government, which was the earliest to teach the wise lesson, return to the exploded notion? We can do better for commerce than to sub- sidize a line, Granting a subsidy at this time would be making one bad law to remedy the harm done by another bad law. Our plan would be to repeal the law that docs the harm. What our commerce wants is free trade in ships. The relation of our commerce to legis- lation is the most astonishing anomaly ever known in the history of law ortrade. Our shipping trade has been sacrificed to its para- sites. To develop our sbipbuilding resources wo have rendered it impossible for any one to build ships. To protect our shipbuilders we have absolutely annihilated their industry and with it our national commerce. Our com- merce is ono of our greatest national con- siderations, and shipbyilders are only of account as its adjuncts; yet we have put the shipbuilders in the first place, and by making laws for their exclusive benefit, without regard tothe correlative effect of the laws upon com- merce itself, we have protected the dependent at the expense of that upon which he depended. In order to make a man quite safe on the branch of a tree and to assure him against any likelihood of losing his position we have cut down the tree, All we need do for our commerce is to re- peal some of the foolish laws that now keep it bound hand and foot. The laws that make it fimpossible for our shipbuilders to compete with foreign shipbuildera are so worked into the fibre of our system that they will not be easily plucked out, These laws, however, in their primary operations only injured the shipbuilders. They did not injure commerce, since the merchant was still at liberty to buy his ships in the cheapest market, and could hold up his head in the world. What we must repeal is the foolish law that commanded our merchants to buy ships only where they were deardt; that forbade them to buy where they were cheap; ,that closed to them all the markets of the world save the ono in which they could only buy ships at such ruinous rates that in their use there could be no fair competition against the merchants of other nations. The law providing that ships bought abroad could not have an American registry, made to relieve the oppres- sion of one class, only oppressed another, and we must repeal it. The steam commerce of this age ean only succeed in iron ships, and our commerce can only live by havinz those ships from the yards where they are best built at the lowest price. The commerce of. every nation finds this to be its first condition, and thrivessby observing it. The English lines, the German lines, the French lines—all have their ships built in the same place. In virtue of our excessive taxa- tion, or of some other causes, the English excel us in the construction of this class of steamers, This isa fact that is plain before us. It is our own fault and folly if we permit them, in virtue of this fact, to drive us from the sea, and to keep us from the sea until that period in the future when we also shall have learned to build cheap ships. By the letter of Mr. Lorillard it is obvious that there is the right spirit among our merchants to do their share if Congress will remove some obstruc- tive and foolish laws. Mr. Lorillard and others like him will do what is necessary with the field once opened to fair enterprise, but with the field closed all they may do will be in vain. Tne INDIAN Pz ACE ComMission.—The Com- mittees on Indian Affairs of the House and Senate, the Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner Parker, held a meeting in Wash- ington yesterday and heard the reports of the Peace Commissioners who have recently been travelling through the Indian country. Tue FeMALe Orgrators, who are disposed to take their chances with the other telegraph strikers, are well able to assert their own dig- nity, as appears by their card. They expect some especial persecution because the com- pany—as it formerly gave them employment against the opposition. of male opcratons— thought they would be less likely to'turn out, They argue, however, that if they ever had any special favor from the company they have paid for it by working a number of years for half the compensation given tomen. They promise, therefore, that if the company singles them out for victims they will make some interest- ing disclosures, We have thought they might. Someta Goop FRoM TEeNNEssEE.—It is proposed from Tennessee that the clause of the constitation that provides for the amend- ment of that instrument shall itself be amended, The point it is desired to secure is that amendments submitted to the States shall only be acted upon by Legislatures chosen after the amendment is submitted. It is cer- tain that an amendment to tho constitution is not made in the spirit intended when that amendment did not enter into the canvass in which the Legislature was chosen. Amend- ments 80 accepted never really received the proper assent of the people, The proposition ly therefore » za0d one, State Organ. The republican organization {n this city has always exhibited a very curious agglome- ration of discordant material, a sort of compo- site in which greed for public plunder is the most notablo segment, Every now and then the outcroppings of internal commotion appear. At one time the Custom House patronage is not properly dispensed, at another the Mar- shal’s office pickings are unfairly divided, then: the goose of the federal ceurts is foully plucked, and anon the federal treasury gets mixed up in some alleged gold speculating muddle, and there is trouble in the republican camp on that account, The Post Office, we believe, is too discreetly managed to provoke censure from any quarter. But, admitting that there have been intestine commotions arising from the above and other causes, we confess that we were not prepared to witness such a photograph of the republican unhappy family in this city as we find portrayed in the Albany Hoening Journal, the republican State organ, That paper of the 12th inst, confesses that heretofore two classes of men have been “mischievously prominent” in the affairs of the party ia this city. One set, it seems, are “dmpulsive, hot-headed demagogues,” who style themselves “radicals” par excellence; “noisy, blatant, impracticable fellows,” who proclaim themselves the poculiar apostles of political grace and denouncé as heretics all who do not follow them. Unfortunately, it appears, that branch of the organization having most elements of regularity got into the hands of these marplots, ‘They are sufficiently re- gardful of loaves and fishes to demand all the offices attainable by State or federal executive appointments;” and, furthermore, it seems “they were so selfishly vindictive as to prefer the depletion of the republican ranks and the reduction of the vote rather than tolerate per- sons who would not promptly acknowledge their supreme wisdom and fitness for undivided leadership.” ‘‘As a consequence,” continues this remarkable confession, ‘‘the regular re- publican committee degenerated into a close corporation, excluding members on account of passion and not from principle, laboring chiefly to promote the aggrandizing aims of a grasping clique, and sacceeding in fostering this at the expense of party demoralization and disaster.” So much for one side of the picture. Now for the other. _ According to this confession the other class was ‘“‘made up of political hacks and liber- tines; men who engage in public movements from the most mercenary and. unworthy objects, and who never hesitate to sacrifice principle in subserving a corrupt ambition. Professedly republicans, these deceivers have ] been really the suborned agents and pur- chased tools of the Tammany ring; uniting with it in all its varied and gigantic schomes of municipal plunder; employing power en- trusted to them for the very purpose of defeat- ing these plots, so as to give them a greater efficiency and a more assured success.” The republican organ from which we quote these confessions sums up the merits of these two factions briefly in these words :—‘‘The piti- ful history of the first mentioned faction is embodied in, the minutes of the Republican General Committee; the other class have made their record in several of the more important commissions, and in the Board of Supervisors.” There! If the republicans of tho interior can, after this confession of the foulness of their party in this city, continue to throw dirt at the unwashed and unconquerable democracy of the metropolis, they had better take care lest they bespatter some of their owa blessed well-washed brotherhood. For the rural radi- cals after this confession to talk of the frauds and villany of Tammany is to expose the rottenness and corruptions in their own house- hold, not only here, but that which exists to a frightful extent in another quarter where they are omnipotent—in the city of Washington. Tue Sanpwicu IsLanps.—Minister Allen presented his credentials as Envoy Extraordi- nary of the Sandwich Islands to President Grant on Saturday, and stated In his address that the Americans in the island comprised the larger number of the foreigners, and as they have important interests in agriculture, navl- gation and commerce there, further treaty stipulations are regarded as desirable and highly important. Possibly the Sandwich Islands are anxious to follow the example of St. Domingo. IMPERTINENT QUESTIONS.—Fisk is to-day to be before a committee of Congress appointed to investigate the gold muddle, He has asserted that he will not answer any “imperti- nent questions” they may-put; and we hope he will hold to this purpose. He wilt then, no doubt, be treated as a committee of Con- gress once treated another great man—the Hon. Florence Scannell—that is to say, he will be locked up, He will be a martyr, and the people will gaze on the spectacle of his heroic silence with admiration; and the longer he keeps himself locked up the greater will be thie applause. A Horrmie Hanarxa Arrarr took place in Tarboro, N. C., on Friday. A negro man, named Lewis Hines, was hanged for out- raging a white woman, While he was seated on the scaffold a colored preacher stood by his side and preached to the crcwd, holding Hines up as a terrible warning, and consider- ably increasing the discomforts of his situa- tion. When the drop fell the knot worked around under the condemned man’s chin, and, catching it with hfs hands, he managed to get his feet again on the platform, whereupon the Sheriff tripped him up and he fell again. How long before we shall have a skilful hang- man? A Parat Lxoare, the oldest in the Council in Rome, complains that ‘‘many of the specches” delivered before the assembled Fathers “‘are too long,” and also that “‘some of the Fathers do not strictly observe the obli-: gations of secrecy in regar@to the proceed- ings ofthe Council.” This Legate appears to us to be the “greatest Roman of them all,” for he fully appreciates the value of space both in newspapors and for written records, and is “death” on the “interviewers,” some of whom have no doubts got hold of a good-natured prelate or two just after dinner and then hur- ried off and printed the subject matier of the conversation, Let the Legate be nominated fog the uoxt Pons Slow Polsen. It Is probable that we are ourselves slowly poisoned all the time. Men ought to be beginning to look askance upon all the evi- dence that the chemists present in murder cases that is founded upon analysts of dead men's bodies; for if the chemist do not find any poison it may justly be doubted whether he is a good chemist, and if he do find it then there are so many different ways to account for the presence of poison in the human body that if a man is hanged on such evidence it is the fault of hie counsel. It was a startling fact when in the late analysis of the body of Mr. Galler the chemist, Dr. Doremus, found plenty of poison, but did not for a moment be- lieve the wife had given it, though no suspi- cion had fullen upon any other person. Can it be, then, that there is no just suspicion, even with poison in the body? Is it natural and commonplace for our bodies to contain poison? It appears so in this city. In that case a great deal of lead was found in the body, but ‘‘not more than could be accounted for by the use of Croton water conveyed through lead pipes.” This was the report of the analysis. As lead is not soluble in water, how does the water get it into our bodies? Our water is river water, and all river water into which the leaves of trees have fallen, or into which vegetable substances of any sort décay, contains carbonio acid, The carbonic acid in the water com- bines with a film of the lead to make care bonate of lead, and in this form the lead is soluble in water. Hence the constant opera- tion of our slow poison. To how many in feeble health does this lead poison furnish the final feather that topples them into the grave? Is not this evil of lead pipes one that calls for some recommendation from the Board of Health? Since in the tin-lined pipe now coming into use we have an admirable substi- tute, this poisoning has no longer the poor excuse of convenienco in its favor; for wo are convinced that the objection we recently made to the tin pipe—that it was more liablo to burst than the common lead pipe—was nade in error. Ovation to Ole Bull by tho Philbarmonto Society. At the second Philharmonic concert, after the vast audience which filled the Academy of Music had dispersed, the full erchestra of one hundred performers, under the direc- tion of Carl Bergmann, played in honor of Ole Bull one of the finest national airs eof Norway. Dr. Doremus, in the name of the Philharmonio Society, thanked the famous violinist for having added the magnetism of his genius to the other ingpiring influences of the concert, Ole Bult responded eloquently, con- cluding with a request, which was at once complied with, that a national American air should be played. It was on account of tho severe cold weather that this extraordinary ovation was substituted for a serenade, which the Philharmonic Society had intended to give Ole Bull—an honor previously conferred by them only on two persons, their pubiic-spirited president, when he last returned fyom Europe, and Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale. The well merited tribute was all the more appropriate in view of the object of Ole Bull’s present visit to the United States. With his characteristic patri- otism he is about to travel throughout tho land, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, appeal- ing to his fellow countrymen settled in America to aid him in raising funds to erett on the Nor- wegian coast a lighthouse, surmounted with a statue of Harold Harfagar (Fairhaired Harold), who in 872 transformed Norway into one single kingdom, and was thus released from his vow neither to cut nor comb his hair until he had vanquished the petty provincial kings, The lighthouse, a monument to commemorate this event, is to be dedicated in 1872, on the one thousandth anniversary of the establishment of Norwegian unity and independence. PERSONAL MOVEMENTS. General 8. F. Butler, of Massachusetts; M. A. Clancey and G. W. Gist, of Washington, and Dr. G. Neilson, of Boston, are at the Astor House, C. J. Gillman, of Maine; H. A. Chadwick and J. A. M. Brown, of Washington; P. Wadsworth, of Chi- cago; James Donaldson, of San Francisco, and H. P. Card, of Cleveland, are at tac Fifth Avenue Hotel. H, L, Whitridge, of Baltimore, and I. A. Monson, of Maine, are at the New York Hotel. Captaim McDonald, of Toronto, and Professor Thorpe, of St. Louis, are at the St. Elmo Hotel. Dr. S. B. Kiine, of Philadelphia; Captain N, Rich- ardson, of Boston, and H. F. Mortimer, of San Fran- cisco, are at the St. Charles Hotel. * Captain Shields, of the United States Army; Dr. E. P. Ketch and B. F. Jones, of Baltimore, are at the Metropollian Hotel, Miscellaneous Personal Movements. Aportion of Henri Rochcfort’s salary as Deputy has been seized Jor debt. . ‘The Duke and Duchess of Madrid passed Christmas @ay in Vienna with the imperiai family. The Grand Duchess Constantine has left Geneva for Nice, where she will pass the winter. Mrs, Dalton, of New Ruin, Maury county;Tenn., receatly gave birth to her twenty-second child, Prince Napoleon has introduced some handsome Russian sledges on the Bots de Boulogne, tn Paris, ‘The smali town of Hiram, Portage county, Uhio, has fifty-two citizens whose average age is seventy- six years. The late Colonel David Chambers, of Zanesville, printed the laws of Ohio, in 1810, on a wooden press made by himself. ‘The Countess of Cambaccres, whose husband so. unfortunately perished about a year ago in Switzer- land, {3 apout toenter @ nunnery. Sie is twenty- one years of age. A French woman has sued a San Franciscan for $10,000 damages on the ground that he indif@ed her to leave her native country as governess of his cnil- dren, and turned her out of doora upon their arrival in California, General Phil. Sheridan attended the banquet of the second Michigan cavalry ut Grand Repias last week. Sheridan was the second colonel of that regt- meat, succeeding to the command when Colonel Gordon Granger was made a brigadier. ‘The tomb of a weil known Parisian, in the} ceme- tery of Montmartre, bears the following sunple in- seription:—“I await my wife, October 10, 1821,” ‘If patience 1s a v.rive he really has had every chance of becoming virtuous during forty-nine years, List of Americans registered at the office of Bowles Brothers & Co., No. 12 rue de La Pai: ‘Yort rf P- Babs ‘ork—Mr. G. F. E. Chittenden, Mr. W. Lusk Webster, Misses Lusk, Mr. J. A. Bain, Mr. J, M. Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs. J. @. Witherbee, Miss J. W. Roe, Mr. G. W. fen Jr.; Mr, 5. R. Saxton, Mr. and Mrs, H. J. Kerner an doughter, Mrs. F. Field, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Van Meter, Mr. J. @. Marshall. Boston—Mr, and Mrs. G. ‘W. Bond, Miss S. &. Bond, Mr. G. T. McLauthlin aod wife, Dr. M. Roxenstein, Mr. DP. P. Rogers, Mr. J. Adams, ©. S. Sargent, Brooklyn— Mr. J. Tilney and wife, Miss M. M. Tiincy, Onio—Mr. G. W. McCook, Mr. G. W. McCook, Jr., Miss McCook, Misa Hettie McCook. Chics Mrs. H. G. Shumway and daugiiter, Mr. Ira © Charlestown—Mr. J. M. Stone, San Francisco. W. L. Marple. Detroit—Mr. H. A. Wight. bridge—Mr. R. P. Shaw. Meadville—Signor and Mme. E. Cortazzo. New Grenada—Mr. De Gorgoza. Iyington on Hudson—Mr, &. 8. Blois. Buifalo—Mr, W. L. Malcolm, Cincinnati—Mr. J. Besor and iia W. S. g au Ancona~Mr. 0, J, owe (UL States Conaul le De ee . + Mr. EH. Ts Cam-