The New York Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1871, Page 4

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ADMIRAL he was stricken with pleu- risy—a-very dangerous disease—on Friday, and has been confined to his bed ever since. Tae New House or Representatives is to meet on the 4th of March, according to the present law, and slates are already making for the officers. AnorHER MississtpPr STEAMBOAT DisasTER is reported. The steamer T. L. McGill was burned a few miles below Memphis on Satur- day night, and thirty lives are supposed to have been lost. Tae CusaNn Privateer bas had an unlucky ending of her filibustering venture. She landed her cargo and fighting material at Punta Brava on Friday, but a Spanish force immediately pounced upon them, captured the whole cargo, killed some of the filibusters and put the rest to flight. The Hornet herself suc- ceeded in getting away unscathed. THe New Georata Senators will probably be Miller and Hill. Foster Blodgett, who is a more complete radical than these two, is in sore distress at the prospect of his rejection, and is dodging about Washington trying to secure his election among the Senators there as he secured it among the legislators—by yelling negro wool over their eyes. Cleveland are just now enjoying a sensation in the way of an exciting trial for murder, being the case of Dr. Galentine for killing Dr. William H. Jones for the alleged seduc- tion of his (Galentine’s) wife. It will be curious to notice whether the precedents in the cases of General Cole at Albany, the MoFarland-Richardson case in this city, and other homicides for similar reasons, will be followed in this Cleveland trial. The prisoner himself, at least, seems to be perfectly calm and uncencerned, as if he expected a tri- umphaat acquittal. Feourer'’s Farewett.—This graceful Franco-German actor teok his farewell of the Boston stage on Saturday night with imposing éclat. The occasion was a compli- mentary testimonial tendered by the leaders of the Boston literary and society clique, and as such was overwhelmingly patronized by bump-headed young mem who are studying Nterature and eye-glassed young ladies who are thorough in the ‘ologies. Besides these, real beauty and real wit and learning and * genuine culture and fashion were richly dis- tributed throughont the auditorium. The tes- timonial was in all a highly fashionable tribute te the genius of three dialects, and withal a highly substantial ene, as it netted Mr, Fechter three thousand dollars. Public expectation was en tiptoe to hear Mr. Fechter’s accountof the quarrel with Wallack; but, with highly commendable taste, he said net a word about it in bis speech on being called before the curtain. He merely said, ‘Aw revoir,” and disappeared from his loving Boston audience. ak V The Stultification of the Democracy. events in the history of American politics. isahero, The reasons assigned by democratic leaders, conventicles and newspapers for this ridiculous change of front are very amusing. They charge, in their virtuous indignation, that this St. Domingo scheme is a job, a specu- lation in lands and town lots, and stocks and fal complications with foreign Powers, and a bloody, costly and disastrous war with Hayti, ration of a military despotiam. Red Oloud has become a Quaker; Louis Napoleon has exchanged the imperial splendors of the Tuileries for the solitude of a German castle; the Pope—the Lord be with him—has become a terrible Protestant; the Spanish hidalgos, who believe themselves the greatest old rock, goes for democracy, for free trade ; but thére are good reasons for all these things. The only matter of fact reason, on the other hand, for the solid front of the democracy against this St. Domingo annexation move- democratic thunder, it is democratic thunder stolen by General Grant. The project from a democratic President would be all right, grand and glorious; but from Grant, as the head and leader of the other party, itisa fraud. This is only another addition, however, to the budget of blunders which mark the history and the defeats of the democracy since their digastrous efforts to smuggle in the free soil Territory of : They opposed on War for the Union, the repeal of the fugitive slave law, the abelition of slavery at every step, the thirteenth, four- teenth and fifteenth amendments to the Consti- tution, and Southern reconstruction over every foot of the ground as now established; but, as the old pro-slavery and State sovereignty party of the country, there was to the demo- crats at least the merit of consistency in all these blunders. But there is not even this excuse for the opposition of the party to this annexation of St. Domingo. The democratic party of the present day claims to be the party of Jackson and of Jef- ferson, and to this day it plumes itself upon its great measures ef annexation and ‘‘mani- fest destiny.” The organs and orators of the party still delight in harping upon the demo- cratic purchase from the first Napoleon, in 1803, by Jefferson, for fifteen millions of money, of the great and invaluable Territory of Louisiana ; and of the purchase from Spain, in 1819, by Monroe, of the beautiful peninsula of Florida, although these measures belong to the old republican party, which was disbanded, dissolved and dispersed in the Presidential scrub race of 1824. The democratic party was organized under Jackson in 1828, and in the cause of annexation it has not stopped at trifles. Beginning with Texas in 1844, it did not hesitate at this annexation, though warned from Mexice that the seizure of certain terri- tories still claimed by that republic would re- sultinwar. The annexation, nevertheless, was pushed through, and in spite of the warnings of Calhoun that the consequences would be disastrous, the war followed, till at last, with General Scott’s occupation of the city of Mexi- ¢o, there was a treaty of peace involving more annexations. That treaty gave us not only Texas, to the Rio Grande, but a vast region besides, embracing the extensive Territory of New Mexico, part of Colorado and part of Arizona, a3 now constituted, and the whole of Utah, and of the State of Nevada, and the im- perial State of California. Subsequently there was another democratic treaty of an- nexation with Santa Anna, known as the Gadsden treaty, whereby a large addition of desert territory for ten millions of dollars was added to Arizona, These democratic annexations cover one- third of the whole present area of the United States, excluding Alaska. Nor did the ‘‘un- terrified democracy” of those days stop at these stupendous schemes. While moving for Texas they were clamorous for Oregon, and Polk was elected upon this battle ery—‘“‘Texas and Oregon! The whole of Oregon or none! Fifty-four forty or fight!” The trouble was that the Territory of Oregon north of the forty- ninth degree of north latitude, known as Bri- tish Columbia, covering an area of two hundred and thirty thousand square miles, equal in ex- tent to five States of the size of New York, we had no more right to claim than we had to claim the Canadas or Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. But the democracy of the West, “fifty-four forty or fight,” led by General Cass in the Senate and “Earthquake” Allen, of Ohio, were clamorous for a war with England for this Territory, and but for the Southern democratic cotton lords of that day, who saw no advantages to slavery or ‘‘King Cotton” from a war with England about Oregon, it would have been war. As it was the Southern nabobs of the democratic party compelled the Hotspurs and hot heads of the West to knuckle down to the line of forty-nine. Now mark the contrast. In 1844~-5-6 the Western democracy demanded a war with England for a distant and savage territory of which they knew nothing and to which we had about the same title that we had to the island of Australia, while in 1871 the Western de- mocracy oppose the annexation of the inde- pendent republic of Dominica on the Texas plan, because they dread the expense (a paltry million or so) and the dangers of a war with the little negro republic of Hayti at the other end of the island. Thie is exceedingly absurd; The stultification of the democracy , on “manifest destiny” is one of the strangest That the party, however, rank and file, from Congress to the remotest holes and corners of the United States, has stultified or made a fool of itself on this dogma of ‘‘manifest destiny” is established from its universal hostility to this St. Domingo annexation movement. On the late joing resolution passed by Congress look- ing to this annexation not a single democrat of elther house was found in favor of the measure, They all joined the factious, radical Sumner in .opposing it, and the democratic organs throughout the country on this ques- tion have suddenly discovered that Sumner is a statesman and a patriot, and that Carl Schurz bonds—a lobby scheme to swindle the govern- ment and the poor islanders concerned ; that it meané a sort of filibustering spoliation, fear- or a succession of wars, the end of which will be the end of our free institutions and the inaugu- people under the Sun, have chosen an Italian for their King; John Quincy Adams, of Mas- sachusetts, a chip of the old block and of the ment, is the reason that, although good old ‘matter worse, Buchanan secured his nomina- tion in 1856 for the Presidency because, among other things, as our Minister to Engjand, he had proclaimed himself, with Soulé, our Minister at Madrid, in that famous Ostend manifesto, in favor of “‘wresting the island of Cuba from Spain,” if, at our own price, she would not sell it, and for seizing it at the hazard of a war with France, England and Spain. And yet, again, we predict that General Graut’s St. Domingo commission will unearth some very ifuteresting democratic intrigues for a foothold on this very island. Ask Cazneau, Fabons and Baez. In truth, this present movement is only an old demo- cratic scheme taken up and put into operation by General Grant, Talk of democratic principles. What are they? They are, after all, only the principles of all other political partl spoils—the seven principles of John Randolph, ‘‘the five loaves and two fishes.” The democracy oppose Grant, right or wrong, because he is in power, and they want to get him out, His line of policy, foreign and domestic, is as near that of General Jackson as anything can be at this day; and yet to the demecracy Jackson is a saint, while Grant is a fraud and ® failure. The democratio leaders will have to take higher ground than this of blind hos- tility to General Grant, or he will still be too much for them. Least of all can they or their party afford to make fools of themselves on annexation and ‘manifest destiny.” The Military Situation in France—The Second Day’s Battle Near Le Mana, There is comparatively little upon which to hinge a story of the war in France to-day dif- ferent from that which might not have been told yesterday or the day before. We hear of fighting in the vicinity of Havre with re- sults not favorable to the French. Gene-" ral Faidherbe in the north is still quiet, resting, a Bordeaux despatch would call it; but a common sense view to také of it wonid be that he is only by his delay afford- ing time fer the Germans to organize suffi- ciently strong to overpower his army when next the contending forces meet in battle. Bourbaki, in the east, is making some head- way. He is pushing eastward with much activity, and if he has the force under him with which he is credited he is caj able gf doing much injury ahd o! obtising conalderable alarm at the German_ juarters, The He sBéclal correspondent at the headquarters of Prince Frederick Charles’ army furnishes us fall particulars of the second day’s battle near Le Mans, and in which, as eur readers already know, the army of General Chanzy was again worsted. Though beaten, Chanzy has done well. The evening of the 10th closed ‘upon the battle of that day with victory for the Germans, During the long, eventful winter night which followed the busy hum of preparations resounded throngh the French camp. There was no demoralization among those troops. Though the day had gone against them, though defeated, they had fallen back, and though on the snowy plain between the hills where the battle of the 10th was fought, thousands of their companions of the morning lay dying and dead that night, the spirit which bad so long animated the Army of the Loire still remained, and the morning ot the 11th saw Chanzy’s army again prepared to receive or give battle to the forces of the Red Prince. The French commander rallied his broken columns, took up his positions and by ten o’clock in the morning was ready for the conflict. The French army had not long to wait the Prussianadvance. The first demon- stration was made on Jaurequeberry’s corps, which was stationed on the right bank of the river Huisne. The Prussians, moving under the cover of artillery, admirably located, made the attack. The French, on the defensive, behaved with much pluck and daring. On pressed the Prussians, amid terrific slaughter, and won the position for which they paid so dearly. This was the first advantage of the day. Cheered by this success the Prince sought farther advantages; but Chanzy, anticipating his movements, posted his artillery so advantageously that this time atleast he checkmated his opponent. Some time about noon a position held by the French was deemed so important by the Germans that it was resolved to storm and capture it at the point of the bayonet. On dashed the Germana across the field towards the coveted position, Calmly the French awaited the attack, The forces mot, struggled, aud the Germans fell back. Again and again the bloody conflict was renewed, and again and again the valor of the French prevailed. Three distinct charges were made by the Germans and three times were they compelled to fall back. But the day was gained, nevertheless, and the night of the 11th, as that of the 10th, closed in Ge a victorious battle field for the Germans, Tue St. Dominco Commission is getting ready to sail and will be in this city to-day. Ben Wade says he is determined to learnall he can while there and thinks he will be gone two months. Cabral has sent a letter to General Grant stating that be is not opposed to annexation, but would not like Baez to be Governor of St. Domingo Territory after its annexation. From this it would appear that the politicians down there are already making slates. Cabral will learn soon enough that his fears on the score of Baez being Governor are groundless. It will take @ good square white republican to be Gover- nor of St. Domingo; for, after annexation, the governorship of the country will not be chucked about like a football by any discon- tented chief who can gather together an army of thirty or forty men to back him. AN InpiaAN War 1 Arizona.—General Stoneman, commanding in Arizona, has di- rected that a vigorous, persistent and relent~ less winter campaign be inaugurated at once against the Apache Indians, who have been committing depredations in that Territory and have recently murdered three white men. An Indian war, to be effective, must be vigorous and relentless, but General Steneman needs more troops to carry on one in the wide area that he will have to occupy. There are many unemployed soldiers in the more northerly Territories who have nothing to do in summer and keep housed all winter, and who might , The present condition of international affairs admonishes’ the world of the approaching downfall of the old school of diplomacy, which for so many ages has been regarded as the handmaid of aristocracy, and in its difficult denominations of sovereign power, long before the other newspapers of the world saw the advancing change, the New York Heratp caught it in its prescient gaze. And now that at all the courts and the camps of countries its ministers confer not alone with the powers that be, but those who aspire to be—not alone with Gladstene, but with Disraeli; not along with Gambetta, but with Napoleon—and flash in a moment the expression of their thoughts, andthe New York Heratp may be really said te gather each morning the world in Its grasp, diplomacy may be honestly pronounced played out. Look, ye wise worshippers of the old schoel, fora moment at your light, your stars! Moustier, De Gramont, Benedetti and Metternich, who were all more or less connected with the international complica- tions which preceded the present war, did all intheir might te make the public distrust the ability and usefulness of diplomatic men, The Marquis de Moustier, Ambassador at Constan- tinople before he became Minister of Foreign Affairs, was implicated in the suspicious transactions of his dragoman at Pera, died in an agony of shame, and was succeeded by the Duke de Gramont, whose chief reputation was that of an elegant roué, and who, by bis long affiliation with the enemies of Prussia at Vienna, did all the evil he could in envenoming the relations between France and Germany. He absolutely connived with'the Austrian Ambassador, the Prince de Metternich, in paving the way for a rupture made wider by the preposterous proceedings of Count Benedetti. Moustler, the pecolator; Gramont, the rake; Metternich, the dandy, and Benedetti, the intriguer, shine forth as the bungling diplomats of the period and as the rave rs of hoe of diplomacy, which drew its ma eyrand and Pozzo di Borgo, and now Te daheobe het. | soln miliations inflicted on it by a Gramont anda Benedetti. While diplomacy has been thus clearly play@1 out in France, it has not been one jot more successful in England. Lord Bloomfield at Vienna, Lord Loftus at Berlin, Mr. Elliott at aceon Fg Sir A. Buchanan at St, Flees and Mr. Thornton at Wash- ington have precisely as much to do with the shaping of international relations as so many lovely beings in the moon, In truth, all they have to do is to repeat accomplished facts which have been flashed to the New York Heearp aseross the submarine wires several weeks before they announced them in their despatches. They have all and every one ceased to be vital factors of historical events. They have become. posthumous repeaters of past events, and whatever ability they may possess in commenting en those events is, we may, we think, fairly say, completely over- shadowed by such great organs of public opiaion as the New York Heraxp and the London Times. The intrinsio effeteness of the old diplomatic school has thus received its death blow through the rapidity of interna- tional communications and the intellectual activity of the press. Henceforth they are doomed as essential participants in interna- tional affairs. They are simply dead trees, which but wait the axe of the woodman to strike them to the greund. In the small capitals of Italy and Germany, where, as with us in Washington, small diplomats have been made to loom up in colossal proportions, their occupation, like Othello’s, is gone since the grand conselidation of those two nations. Those pet sineeures, those fuss and feather legations at Dresden, Munich and Stuttgart have come toa sudden death through the supre- macy of Berlin, and unless new missions be established in yet undiscovere® countries many of these dethroned Chesterfields may have to visit the Blackwell's Island of their respective countries, and infuse into the pauper mind the radiments of diplomatic wisdom. How this country ever came to copy the European system of diplomacy can only be accounted for by the want of originality and independence in American statesmanship and thought. Previous to the civil war our lega- tions here, with but few exceptions, were hot- beds of treason, and since that time most of our diplomats seem positively to vie with each: other in the noble conflict as to who shall crouch most abjectly before the court to which they are accredited. Messrs. Bancroft and Jay are mere weak reflections of Bismarck and Beust, and Mr. Motley has been ‘‘all things to all lords,” Who can for a moment doubt that the American republic would be infinitely more respected in the Old World if it had no diplomatic representation there, and if Euro- pean courts derived their knowledge of our civilization from the activities of our toiling masses rather than from the social vanities and puerility of our would-be aristocrats ? The abolition of our legations in Europe weuld, of course, lead to the blessed result of the withdrawal of the diplomatic agents of foreign Powers here, who do as much to warp the public, mind in Europe as to the real con- dition of America as our own misrepresenta- tives at the various courts. If at the outbreak of our civil war European aristocracy was more or less enamored with the Southern con- federacy it was as much due to the prejudiced information they received from private envoys at Washington as frofa our ministers abroad. Diplomacy in transatlantic affairs, as recently in European conflicts, has turned. out the chief mischief makers, being ever bent on sowing the seeds of discord, yet pampered and’ preserved after the poison it has propagated has brought death to empires. Of all publicagents the members of that profession are permitted stealthily to gnaw at the heart life of nations and to go unscathed by justice and public opinien, even after their durk deeds have cul- minated in world-wide calamity. Nay, more; they are worshipped-as marvels of elegance and paragons of fashion, and the more pro- vincial the capitals in which they play their fantastic tricks the more exaggerated their adulation and the more ridiculous their preter,sions. Remembering, however, that the old schsol of diplomacy is fast expiring, we will ‘not: grudge it any feeble light it emits before it ‘finally goes out. Let it flicker a little longer. safely be sent to General Stoneman as reir,. | Even if Congress does not legislate the lega- forcements, tions out of existence they are auré to die out NEW YORK HERALD, MUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1871 Tee Gt, Dominge Auncxation Movoment— | but such is party consistenoy.’ To makeithe ‘Pby the sheer force. of decomposition. There is no earthly reason why Lord Gusnville and Mr. Fish—England being in reality now the only country with which we have international complications—instead of communioating through mediums which obviously, as the Fish and Motley correspondence shows, rather impede than promote the progress of negotia- tions. The samo applies to all other coun- tries. All that are needed are commercial or consular agents for the transaction of routine business, while all other matters may be easily disposed of by direct intercourse between the respective Ministers of Foreign Affairs. The old school of diplomacy was needed in the pro-steam and pro-cable periods, when the paucity of international communica- tion required a diplomatic agent on the spot and a cumbrous machinery of red tape and circumlocution. But at the present day fossil diplomacy belongs to the rubbish of bygone ages. It may still serve a sinister purpose in pandering to aristocratic prejudices and in vaunting even in a republic the soiled plumage of kingcraft. It may by its dinner parties create a gastronomic interest, and daz- ale silly girls and parvenu dowagers with the glittering tinsel of its ribbons and its stars; but as a vital institution it has become as ob- solete as an old Dutch sailing vessel for the transport of the tramsatlantic mail or the old Courier and Enquirer after the New York Heap brought every morning to every bed- side and breakfast table, at the dawn of morning, all the news of the werld on which the evening before had set. Yesterday’s Sermons. The murky weather of yesterday did not perceptibly diminish the attendsuce at the churches, and consequently many thousands of persons listened to sermons rather above the average. At the Swedenborgian church Rev. Chauncey Giles preached on the inter- esting subject of the life of children after death, comforting bereaved mothers ‘by the assurance that their little ones were all saved, aight to paradise after death. Rev. = at fhe pugs. of Of the Recon- ciliation, argued “agalnal it asceticism and in favor of a life of activity and good works in the world, while Dr. Armitage discoursed on Christ's manifestion of majesty. At the Christian Free Church Queen Esther's intercession for the Jews was the theme of Rev. Mr. Foote’s discourse, and aptly illus- trated the results which follow an abiding faith in God’s redeeming love, Rev. Mr. Hale described what the mission of St. Paul was, and wound up by limiting salvation to those who believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, In Brooklyn Rev. Mr. Gallaher was eloquent on the subject of reading the Scriptures, while Brother Beecher, although suffering from a cold, in a discourse to which the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms contributed, argued in favor of cheerful Christianity. In Washington Dr. Newman wrestled with the ethnologists on the origin and creation of man, holding to the Scripture doctrine of the unity of races, and expressing the opinion—proven erroneous, by the way—that differences of color are mainly the effect of climate. Thus, in brief, we tonch lightly upon the sermons of yesterday, leaving the reader to cull from them such moral and theological flowers as they may contain. French Royalism im the Radical National Camp. The special telegram letter from Bordeaux, France, which appears in oar columns to-day, reached London yesterday, and was trans- mitted to New York by special cable report. The communication is quite important in its character, contents and tendency. In it we have a reiteration of the attestation of France in her allegiance to the cause of radical democracy. It will be seen from the narrative of our correspondent that the Prince de Joinville and Duc de Chartres arrived in France a few days since from England. Orleanism thus made one of its periodical, spasmodic efforts to recall the mind of the French nation to the past, to require of the people to recollect the religious unction of the dynasty, and to revo- lutionize the current of thought away back in its remembrances from the great present fact that the people have been ‘the stronger.” The Duc de Chartres travels under the as- sumed name of Jissot, and thus maintains an incognita which is generally accepted and re- spected even when seen through by the citi- zens. Notso the Prince de Joinville. For- getting, at least apparently, the humiliating facts that Napoleon refused him permission to land in Frante in order to serve against the Prussians, and that the govermnent of the re- public declined his offer for enrolment in the Army of Paris, his Highness presented him- self at General Chanzy's headquarters. He had the sword of the Bourbon again in his hand. He wished to use it as a Frenchman against Germany. General Chanzy was embarrassed. He telegraphed to Gambetta for instructions. The reply was brief and returned without delay. Gambetta refused the recruit. Chanzy told him so. Here came a point of difficulty. The blood of deposed royalism bubbled in the face of the representative of a free people in arms. Prince de Joinville insisted. Gambetta was again consulted. Then came an order to extradite the Prince at once, and to arrest him immediately if again recusant, Chanzy pre- pared to obey, the Prince cooled down, accepted the situation as it was, and took bis departure from France for England, where, as has been asserted by a great orater, the most unhappy man walks ‘‘redeemed, regenerated and disen~ thralled, no matter im what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down,” This French incident, as it is told in our special telegram, points a moral for the use: of | the royalties of Europe. Tae EXTRAVagaNT Pangoyrio on Cherles Sumner, perpetrated by 9 democratic member of the Massachusetts State Senate, is creating a good deal of fun among the radical papers of that State. Sumner extolled by a domo- crat in the “‘Gineral Coort”’of Massachusetts! Can such things be? Suxator Anport is fully dotermined to contest the election of Senator Vance from North Carolina. The latter is plastered all over with disabilities, and is not likely to make any better fight than any other, dianbled soldier, = faettarea ta entice oe Biomarck’s Plan of Peace—Tue French People or the Bonaparte Empire? By the special cable telegram from London, published in the Hxxaup to-day, we are ea- abled to report some very important matter relative to the future rule of France after the arrangement of peace by Prussia. The Em- press Eugénie keeps the idea of a Bonapartist restoration or regency still alive, Apparently futile in itself, the project receives a quast adoption at the Court of Berlin. Bismarck treats it as a constituent element of force in his negotiations, Qs 4 convenient fibre diplomacy —a handled or left loose on the loom just as suits the easy motion of the ministerial shuttle. He looks to Paris, to St. Luxembourg, and to Constantinople. Paris falls” he will be ready to treat with Franée. de facto in France accepts ‘our (Prussian) plan of peace,” and convenes a Constituent Assembly to ratify it, it is well. If the French executive refuses Prussia will treat with the Bonaparte dynasty, ‘which has not been yet constitutionally set aside.” A pleasing alter- native; happy with either. is more than intimated, join Prussia and nego- tiate with the same Power as Bismarck, that is, provided the Czar receives a quid pro quo from both parties. As a first point in this direction France must abandon all idea of future aggression in the East—shut her eyes to the light of the Orient. France must modify her commercial treaty of 1860 with England. Alsace and Luxembourg must go to Germany. Flanders and the territory bo restored to the French, in order to balance the loss of their provinces. Such are the elements of Bis- marck’s present plan of peace, as they are out- He weaves it skilfully in his web of thread which may be Petersburg, to “After If the government which then exists Russia will, it Belgium must lose French lined in our special cable despatch. They are drawn with skill and ingenuity, and may bo elaborated indefjnitely. They are not very delicate in feature, but present the roughness and solidity which always characterize the off-hand work of an accomplished master, France may mould and polish them if her people so please, and Russia will be likely te adopt the ultimate manufacture, as being “handy” and “just the thing” which was so long wanted. The peace plan appeara very probable of success, Bsn Wank will be in the city to-day. It is good to have the old war horse about and im public life again. He carries about him an air of political robustiousness that seems to be just the thing for the St. Domingo business, and would be an excellent ingredient in our foreign affairs generally. Portoz Screzons any Morg Pay.—We understand that a movement is on foot among the police surgeons to have their pay increased by the present Lvgislature. The police sur- geons, we consider, are amply remunerated for the services they perform, and an applica- tion for greater remuneration would be as un- reasonable in request as it would be unjust to the taxpayers. It has become too much a custom of late for every petty office-holder to have his salary increased on application. ‘‘Oh, stick it in the tax levy, and that’s all there'll be. about it,” isthe cry. It is time that this kind of thing should stop. The police surgeons of this city are far better paid than the sur- geons of the United States Army, and if they are not satisfied with the pay they now receive let them resign, and their places, no doubt, can be filled by men quite as capable as:those now holding those positions. Goverxor SautsBury, of little Delaware, must havea lively appreciation of antiquity. He pitches into the fifteenth amendment ag if it were a thing of yesterday. Personal Intelligence. Commodore dames Alden, Chief of the Bureau: of: Navigation, 1s stopping at the Astor House. Mr. E. H. Rollins, ex-member of Congress from New Hampshire, is sojourning at the Fifth Avenue. Hotel. Mr. James Tafts, Representative of Missouri, is among the latest arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Governor William Dennison, from Ohio, hes apartments at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Attorney General Hoar hag arrived at. ba Coleman House. Mr. F. E. Woodbridge, ex-member of iazla from Vermont, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. James H. Owen, a banker of London,, is among the recent arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel, Captain Browning, of the United States Army, has taken quarters at the Coleman House. Ex-Mayor F. 0, Wells, of Uhicago, 13 staying atthe St. Nicholas Hotel. General George W. MeVook, from Ohio, ts tempo- rarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. George M. Weston, ex-member of Congress from Maine, 1s at the Irving House on a brief visit. General H. T. Reed, from Iowa, is quartered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. 1S THIS AN ELOPEMENT? A Cincinsati Lady Arrested in Jersoy City at the Request of Her Husband. On Friday morning last Superintendens Kelso re- ceived @ telegraphic despatch from Chief of Polico RuMian, of Cincinnati, asking him to arrest a woman who would arrive tn Jersey City, via the Panhandle road, at eight P. M., basket and trunk numbered 187 and 304. The matter was placea in the hands of Chief Irving, who detailed detectives Tully and Heidelberger to. “work the case up” and make the arnest. having checks fora ‘The detectives were in waiting upom the arrival of the train, but failed to discover any, person having the description mentioned in the despatch from a figed baggage, however, arrived, amd) Oy the officers, aud a search cipal hotels in Jersey, Hoboken for the it, who 18 described: as Betng aoa oak cir Ave years oi age, goed looking: gaperint dems aes pad, renegrantes to pari bond ten inten~ ian for further part re recelved paruculara, apd rec hd the folowing from W. Reiman, who proves {obo gto the women for stealing and swinali: hoa, er until I acrive. oe icing The baggage which had heen detained detectives was marked Mrs. Schultz, Buch’s Hota corner of Third and Hudson streets, en, Nod, ‘but they were unable to Cesar oe linceeas Infermation, gt tke above place in reference mysterious opjectof their ates The ord continued a pA en search, and were rewarded on Saturd: woinan gp fou she ca ang nabs Rye Bee! ine the woman poll under arrest, at whic: she exkibite? uo. surprise. but remarked that Bin knew why ea was. poy 18 was for leaving her husband.” ‘Tne prisoner aud baggage were removed to Police Headquarters, ‘the former. I placed under lock and xa until this aa left for her nd. Her Sule in yitine ins city, she atates, was in area fram. eit aon wan cha tw ie neadans-