The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1872, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1872—QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HER ALD| The ovetonte Character and Develop- ann careenieemenentins BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. SS ea All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heracp. Volume XXXVII.. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bo Sourn—Famity Jans, ND OPERA HO) OUND THE CLOCK. Por; on, Awaw Down ‘wenty-third st, and Eighth UNION SQUARE THEATEE, Broadway, between Thir. teenth and Fourteenth strects.—AGyks. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broady and Bleecker sts.—ALADDIN THE between Houston D. WOOD'S MUSEUM. Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Tux Waxperinc Durcnman. Alternoon and Evening. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-tourth street Minny Wives oF Winpton, Gor ie ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth street,.—Iraviay Orens—Linpa bi Cuanot WALLACK’S THEATER roadway ana Thirteenth street.—Our Amenican C + THEATRE COMIQUE, Slt Brondway.—Kine or Car- 3. 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Wo-Day’s Gandonee of the | Herald. | “THE CYCLONIC CHARACTER AND DEVELOP: | MENT OF GREAT CONFLAGRATIONS—A OPHY OF TE R MANAGE MENT" —LEADER—H1anta PAGE. A TORNADO OF AME! AN IMPORTANT RE- PORT BY THE SIGNAL SERVICE OBSERVER AT BOSTON: A MYSTERY OF THE GREAT SONFLAGRATION—FirtTH PAGE. ¥ FRENCH ASSEMBLY! EX- k BRID OVER | IPERTY OF THE OR. | IVER HALF A MILLION I ADING fORS INTERVIEWED: BAD BANK SHE METROPOLIS! WHAT k AS TO $ UNFAVOR- IVED FAVORITE ‘W OPERA K W ARML! DIVERSE SEVENTU PAGE, GAMBLING HELLS IN GERMANY AND FRAN D BY THE GERMAN GOV LAST NIGHTS AT BADEN BADEN: MILLION FRANCS WON IN A SEA- SON: GLORIES AND SHAMES—ELEVENTH PAGE. ©. 8S. BOGAKT, THE SHAM REPORTER! HIS NOVEL REPORTORIAL DUTIES IS DUPE: AND HIS SUCCESS: COMMITTED WITHOUT BAIL—FirTH PaGE. PREPARING FOR EVACUATION DAY! HOW THE MILITARY AND OTHERS WIL! JEBRATE IT: REVIEW BY THE MAY KIGHTY- NINE YEARS AGO—Firra Pace. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NEWS AND CRITIQUES—GOSSIP ABOUT LITERATURE— Firta Pace. GRAND RELIGIOUS PROGRESS IN THE FR: REPUBLIC! A NATION WORSHIP! 3 MIRACLES: PERE HYACINTHE: ROCHE- FORI’S MARRIAGE: THE ASSEMBLY, ARMY, CHURCH AND PEOPLE—Textut PaGE. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES! THE POLICE SEARCHING FOR PEAY: THEORIES ABOUT SUCH MYSTERIES—“SLIPPEKY DICK” ABROAD—TENTH PAGE. PRINDLE'S OFFENCES! ACKNOWLEDGED DIS- GRACEFUL ACTIONS: SCATHING ARRAIGN- MENT: CURTIS’ TRIAL—UBITUARY—MARI- TIME INTELLIGENCE—TWELrtH Pace. OUR SYSTEM OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION AT THE VIENNA EXHIBITION! PUBLIC MEETING OF LEADING EDUCATIONISTS: WHAT THEY PROPOSE DOING—Firiu Pace. THE LEGAL TRIBUNALS! CARL VOGHT, THE ALLEGED MURDERER, ASKS TO BE DIs- CHARGED: THE NEW SHIPPING ACT: RE- LATIVES’ OBLIGATIONS UNDER FRENCH LAW: ANDRIE’S INSANITY—TuHiRreeNTH HH PaGs. OPENING OF MANHATTAN MARKET! LARGE ATTENDANCE AND BRISK TRAFFIC: LONG ISLAND FARMERS TO AVOID WASHING- TON MARKET—SAD . INTEMPERANCE—LO- CAL—SEVENTH Pace. OUR RELIGIOUS EPITOME! PREACHERS AND SUBJECTS FOR TO-DAY! EPISTOLARY POLEMICS: FIRST JAPANESE MISSIONARY CONVENTION! CHANGES AMONG THE CLERGY—THIRTEENTH Page. ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS DEATH—FATAL CAS- UALTY—ELEVENTH PAGE. (REAL ESTATE IN MANHATTAN! DESIRABLE PROPERTY : TRANSFERS MADE AND TO ment of Great Conflagrations—A New Philosophy of Their Management. ‘We present to-day the latest and most im- portant phase of the Inte Confiagration, based on the reports of the Signal Service. A fortnight has now passed away since the great fire storm swept over Boston, and, as the excitement and smoke have abated, we are just becoming sifliciently calm to study the scien- tific lessons of this conflagration. The public prints have been flooded with proposals for averting similar calamities; but, as yet, scarcely a solitary fact or suggestion not be- fore entertained and well considered by fire- men has been adduced. The only practical value of the discussion of this sad and horrible disaster has been the increased urgency with which fireproof structures have been recom- mended. Reference to the origin of the Boston con- flagration shows that it was cyclonic. When it commenced, as the Signal Bureau weather reports indicate, the atmosphere was tranquil. The wind was north of northwest, and was then veering anti-cyclonically to north ; the sky was clear and calm, and the fire eat its way eastward from the meridian of its origin. The first winds were not over eight miles an hour, but as the immense flames developed they became so strong as to reach the height of eighteen miles on hour on the windward side, and on _ the leeward side they increased to thirty-five miles in the opposite direction, finding pas- sage through the open streets and after- wards over the dilapidated and radiant masses of stone and brick. The fire began in the engine room and basement of a five-story granite house, the flames ascending the eleva- tor well to the roof, thus having an enclosed fannel in which the heated air assumed a spiral motion as it ascended. The openings in the lower part of the building and the melting of the water pipes furnished fresh air and vapor enough to give such velocity to the rising current as to send it far up into the still atmosphere above when the wooden elevator walls were consumed and the granite walls afforded fuller scope for the nascent meteor. Thus protected till it was fully formed within a single building it grew in intensity, and soon bursting forth in its strength involved in its gyrations the adjoining house, and, continu- ing to extend, soon covered squares of ground and became so ravenous for the oxygen of the surrounding airas to produce an inflowing gale, which in turn gave the intensity of the blow-pipe or blast furnace to the flames. Such gyratory or cyclonic phenomena in this and the Chicago conflagration were well attesied. The telegraphic despatches—‘‘a tornado of fire,’’ ‘a whirlwind of flame,” &c,--were by no means merely figurative. In more sober terms, at Chicago, ‘‘a change of wind,” ‘the wind has increased to a gale,” “the wind has veered round to the north,” “the wind seems to blow hard and to be chang- ing towards the south,’’ were the actual and verbatim telegrams sent to us on the 9th, 10th and 11th of October, 1871, and to these unques- tionable evidences of a fire cyclone numerous scientific reports attest the same fact. Pro- fessor Espy has given some striking accounts of the artificial formation of storms and whirl- winds by the combustion of large quantities of brushwood, and these he attributed, very justly, to the formation of upper currents of heated air. The courant ascendant is a well- known factor in all rotatory storms, and the Signal Service observer at Boston reported “smoke and steam carried up in spirals to a great elevation.’ He also mentions the fact that a thermometer exposed to the glare of the fire, though two thousand feet from it and dead to windward, rose five degrees Fahren- heit. It is impossible that such an intense heat should not generate a cyclone of fire, within whose folds no human appliance could be of any avail, and whose ravening and roar- ing blaze would be inextingushable by a river of water. If this be true we must seek for the security against such direful conflagrations in some other way than by the multiplication of water supply and fire engines, which, when thor- oughly equipped, seem utterly powerless. The only way of reaching or remedying the difficulty is, if possible, to destroy this revolv- ing meteor, as the waterspout is destroyed at sea; or, if that cannot be done, to reduce its force (by a method we shall presently see), and meantime to mass and intrench the whole fire-fighting force on the leeward side of the conflagration. From these important and indubitable facts and principles of atmospheric gyration several clear propositions may be deduced. The crumbling in and yiolent overthrow of im- mense granite “siructures ad 80 much ginger- bread work, so noticeable in buildings like the new Boston Post Office and the long piles of mercantile stone edifices, are largely attribut- able to the vorticose and whirling rotation imparted by the fire storm to the surrounding air; and they strongly remind one of the effects of a tornado in the West Indian towns. If this view of the cyclonic origin and exten- sion of the conflagration holds good it follows that, as soon as the fire companies reach the scene of combustion and ascertain that its fury will baffle their skill and cannot be strangled in its beginnings, the first step to be taken is to assure themselves of the probable course of the wind for the next twenty-four hours, that they may thus know the path of the fire storm and fight it intelligently. As the general veering of the wind is too vast a movement to be affected by any -conflagra- tion, the future local air currept can be learned from the Signal Service reports for the day, or, better still, by direct telegraphic application to the Chief Signal Officer at BE MADE—LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR—PRESBYTERIAN TERCENTENARY— + =‘Tentu Pace. Groncz B. Upton steps aside in the muni- Cipal race in Boston, and J. Putnam Bradlee— an old political stager in the Hub—steps in. The books are still open. Senaton Taumpviz denies that he will re- sign his seat in the Senate, but, according to a Washington correspondent of the Boston Post, says that unless the radicals determine pre- viously in caucus to oust him from the chair- manship of the Judiciary Committee he will resign that position on the first day of the coming session. Senator Trumbull is too well beed te take any other course Washington. This point being decided, the united energies of citizens and firemen can be concentrated in fighting the fiery meteor di- rectly in its front. In doing this, it is, of all things, most desirable not to blow up a single building, but to eviscerate, as far as practica- ble, every warehouse and other building in the fire track of its combustible materials, and to leave it standing, and, as far as possible, tightly closed. If the buildings that have been hopelessly abandoned are blown up, or in any way demolished, the inrushing air only intensifies the fire and has a freer access, as fuel to the flames, If a wall of infusible ma- terial could be thrown around the cyclonic blaze, so that the oxygen-laden air could not freely be supplied to its centre from benoath, it would s00m become enervated and oxpire, and the high burnt walls left standing in 9 measure contribute to this desired result. It follows, moreover, from this sound phi- losophy of. conflagrations that the floods of water vainly poured upon the doomed houses, and also the water from the melted pipes which floods the scene of actual ignition, assist the development and augment the cyclonic whirl of the fire. These vast quantities of water are instantly licked up by the devouring flames and converted into expansive vapor or steam, and the physical effect is an expansion or dis- tention of the funnel-like centra of the fire cyclone. We know precisely what follows from the now well understood phenomena of atmospheric cyclones. The moment a barom- etric fall occurs in the air or any depression of the atmospheric sea takes place, that mo- ment from all sides the sir begins to press in- wards in radial lines upon the vortex. On reaching this it rises in the courant ascendant. In ascending the gaseous particles grow cooler and cooler, their interstices grow smaller and smaller, their moisture is wrung from them aloft, the evolution of the heat stored away in the vesicles of aqueous vapor begins and the tempest rages in earnest, This process goes on as long as the storm centre or cylinder is fed with the-vapor of water, and ceases a8 soon as that supply is cut off, almost as quickly and necessarily as the wheel or screw of the Great Rastern ceases to revolve when her engineer cuts off the supply from her steam chests. It is a well demonstrated fact that the most furious and extensive marine typhoons and hurricanes, when they run into adry and arid continental region, dwindle down into the comparatively insignificant and short-lived simoom, or sand storm, never lasting over six hours and soon expiring for want of water. The philosophy of this holds good for the tornado of fire, such as that wit- nessed at Chicago and Boston: The water pipes in the doomed district should be in- stantly separated from the water mains and emptied, if possible, so as to disappoint the conflagration of its force supply and its appropriate cyclonic fuel. Nor should any water be thrown upon _ struc- tures, except outside of the circle within which the fire engineers have decided that no successful stand can be made against the advancing enemy. It was a maxim of Wel- lington and other great masters of the art of war to attempt to defend only what is clearly defensible, and by the application of this maxim, following the guidance of these scien- tific principles, and a judicious retreat to a line to which, when the conflagration reaches, it will be enfeebled and not be too great for the overmastering energy and skill of the fire- men, all that can be done will be done. As surely as “‘nature abhors a vacuum’’ the phenomena of the cyclonic conflagration are produced wherever there is space and room afforded and a courant ascendant established over an area of intense combustion. This new and latest phase of the fire storm question must furnish food for reflection to all munic- ipal and fire department authorities. It is undoubtedly evolved, on true scientific prin- ciples, from accurate data, for which the country is indebted to the untiring researches of the Signal Office. The Car-Hook Murder—Responsibility of the Railroad Company Affirmed. The verdict rendered by the jury in Mrs. Putnam's suit against the railroad company will meet with general approval among the community. It will have quite a reassuring effect on the public mind, and relieve juries generally from the suspicion of enacting a rather solemn farce, as is the case in too many instances in our city. ‘There was get- ting abroad a feeling that people with money or political influence were practically placed above the law, and it is gratifying te record an instance of intelligence and independence on the part of a jury. There can be no reason- able question that both in law and natural justice the verdict is sound, and that in view of a failure of car conductors to afford proper protection to passengers the company ought to be held liable for the negligence of’ their servants. According to their own rules they have no right to allow drunken and disorderly persons to travel over their lines, and had the conductor removed Foster from the car when he first insulted the ladies whom his victim was escorting, in all proba- bility the tragedy would never have taken place. This conviction will force itself on any one who takes the trouble of studying the evi- dence in the case, and we see no reason why the company should not be held responsible for the proper management of their line. It appears they are not satisfied with the decision, and that they intend to appeal to the higher courts, We do not think that they will gain much by this course, as the grounds upon which their responsibility has been placed ought not, for reasons of public policy, to be disturbed. If the verdict should be affirmed, as we hope it shall be, the happiest results might be looked for. Once the responsibility of the com- panies for the acts of disorderly persons was well established, we would see a total change in the management: of the city lines. Roughs and notorious thieves would no longer be allowed to make travelling dangerous, and we might even look forward toa serious attempt to suppress the organized system of robbery which is now carried on under the very eyes of the railroad officials without let or hindrance. It is cer- tainly in the public interest that the present state of things should be brought to an end, and we know no more effective way of doing this than by mulcting in substantial damages the companies whenever passengers suffer in- jury by the failure of their employés to dis- charge their duty in an efficient manner to- wards the public. This would have more effect than all the columns of leading matter that could be written, or the most eloquent denunciation of the selfishness of large corpor- ations. It will appeal to the shareholders in the only way we can reach the soul of a cor- poration, by diminishing the dividends. Let this be once effected and we may count upon most careful attention in the future to the safety and convenience of the travelling public. Tas Bawtimore Gazetle—old-time demo- crat—says, in the horoscope it casts, it ‘dis- covers no rising radiant star,’ and adds :— “This being so, why should not General Grant be nominated again?” That is looking a little too far ahead. Let the people see how General Grant manages his new administra- tion before they commit themselves blindly to a third term. 5 _ Morals from) Wall Street, Black Friday has had its worthy successor in Northwest Friday, and the genial gentlemen who fight under the standards of Taurus and Ursus on the pavements of the Stock Exchange or the Gold Room have met with woful defeat to the latter. Most animals, when driven to a corner, fight with mad desperation, and if they cannot, like the cat in the fable, get safely “up a tree,” try as many tricks as the fox, who had a hundred of them. Jay Gould, with the bull’s skin on his shoulders, had Henry N. Smith, Daniel Drew and a host of stock-jobbing cubs in the bear's hide tightly pinned in a “corner” on Friday. His horns were driven through the financial dia- phragms of the two bruins. Henry in agony yelled to the law courts for help, and induced Sheriff's officer to put the bull into “pound,” saying he had gored the Erie ox to the tune of nine million dollars. Before, however, the boys could ‘get out,”” the bull gave a whisk to his tail, jumped out of the pound and again pinned the miserable bears to the corner—this time with increased effect. He held them there all Friday night, bleeding them all the while, until yesterday afternoon, when Daniel paid, nearly a million to be let go. As he drew the horns out of his bank account he doubtless envied his ancient namesake, who was more fortunate in his little trouble with the lions of Nebuchadnezzar. In all these wars among the Titans of the street, with Jupiter Boutwell looking down for a chance to hurl his golden thunderbolts among them, there is a fine irony on the civilization we boast. Thistime Jupiter could not interfere, and the battle continues with every shade of stock-jobbing deviltry, comical to behold. Now it is the fat kine of Pharach against attenuated bears who have sucked their paws for months, in the Micawberish hope that something better would turn up, but did not. ‘Prairie Dog,’’ ‘Harlem,” “Rock Island” or “Erie,’’ itis all the same. The bear of yesterday is the bull of to-day, and would be a rhinoceros to-morrow if that pachyderm was in the metempsychosis of the ‘street.’’ In the thick of the fight the calves and the cubs are trampled out ruthlessly, and nobody suffers or cares but themselves. They have as many lives as a cat, and when ‘tuined’’ in the morning go into bankruptcy at noon, and having ‘got that off their mind,”’ like the debts of Micawber, appear on the curbstone before dusk as lively, as tricky and unscrupulous as ever. While occasional appearances of magnanim- ity in small doses give their comic side to the war, it is entertaining to note the ferocity with which the great among the vanquished are treaiad, No mediwval Jew ever had his teeth drawn with ryt tefinement of cruelty than the way in which an adroit bull draws checks from the ‘‘shorts.’’ But the story of Jay Gould is the most curious in the category, Here is a man charged by his old partner with misapplying (stealing is it?) about nine millions. He is arrested with the utmost obsequiousness, con- veyed tenderly to the Sheriff's office, and in three minutes and four and a half seconds is on his triumphal way back to the fight, and all the next day receives the submission of his accusers. Now, he is really the terrible defaleator they charge him to be, why not break with him and try him inearnest? He, however, holds them in the financial vise so tightly that they are fain to relax the legal screws on him. The miser- able wretch who grabs a ten-dollar bill to buy bread for his family is treated with all the severity that such a fero- cious criminal deserves. If it were a bagatelle of nine millions he would not be collared and clubbed, but arrested, with an apology, and shown out of Court with a gen- tlemanly celerity. Let those who are aston- ished at this difference between criminals of such opposite respectabilities cast their eyes over the graduated table of theft and its present ratio of punishment which we sub- join: — Paltia- |Punish- Name. ee ee |_erarge. | oftence oe John Tian. Sealing $10. |Poverty 20 yrs. “ea . Stealing $50.|A vulgar thie e905 to ae. tective.|15 yra. Mewenger | Lighthead.. .|Stealing $100) Youth......|Inexper- jence..|10 yrs. Dandy _Book- keeper...... embezzling $10,000..." |No ‘divvy'| Respect- ‘able family.| 6 yrs, Brownstone Cashier...... Embezzling $1,000,000. . Being. caught ..| Money. & - eae trends I year. jay Taurus. ...|Roboin wW $0,720,000. .|Nono.......|Wealth..|3min. 4 ree. It is not at all fanciful, as the records will show. "The charge, it will be seen, is nothing for the real offence, and the palliations must be carefully considered and given their proper weight. Not alone in the ethics of robbery does this curious inequality exist to puzzle the jurist of the future. From Patrick O'Flaherty, who breaks Hans Blitzen’s head for friendship's sake, to the swellish young dandy who shoots his enemy in cold blood, there are as many saving clauses to be counted as in the other grade of crime. Here is a specimen: — Chea, “| Pattia= Punish Charge. on. | ment. Fatal ite bing. overty | imprudent prophecy..|None.... \ Killing with’ Han'ibalJones| pe Ld a neg: Fifte'nth) jamend’t.| 40 yrs. Barroom murder. ...| Killing one of his ome “party”... Goug- bs ing? te ry 4 Arsenic. |Potsoning al Hon": | 10 yr Sane Arsenio Peamily...-|Not goad: Tookinig.|Grand- mother's insanity] Syrs Ba CHAOS apie bg homivides.| Bad luck../40 prev's| eonvie'ns| 6 mos. Shing Kokes ..|Murder.....|None......| Wealth «| Avena: Ovurt. Are not all these morals from Wall street ? If it be money in Wall street or Catharine street, or if it be blood upon Broadway or at the Five Points, is it not a question of false sentiment and false social prejudice, leading to outraged justice in unequal deliv- erance between the law and the criminal? Priests, parsons and preachers of every sect may this Sabbath morning point their ser- mons with the lesson of this robbery or that murder; but is not Mephistopheles leering through the open church doors, with his sardonic laughter ringing between the phrases, at a society of such odd moral con- tradictions? if | The Religious Revival in France. That tendency of history to repeat itself, 60 frequently remarked, comes again into strik- ing prominence in the strange religious revival which now pervades France. As in the time of the First Napoleon the French people sud- denly swung from the wild orgies of infidelity to the opposite extrem: of a zealous and fer- vent religious devotion, so now again Paris, which lately desecrated altars and slew the high dignitaries of the Church, and France, which was momentarily overrun by adherents of the Commune and contemners of Chris- tianity, now present vast aggregations of re- ligions enthusiasts. Frenchmen are extremists. Yesterday scoffers, to-day they espouse a cru- sade for the glory of the Redeemer. Within a few weeks hundreds of thousands of pious pilgrims have knelt in rapt exaltation before the grotto at Lourdes, which is blessed by the manifestation of the Immaculate Conception, and the miracles of healing which are said to have been wrought there are positively attested ‘by a cloud of witnesses. ‘I'he churches, lately deserted, are now crowded to their utmost ca- pacity, and the priests appear beatified over the sight of France praying nation. Not alone is Lourdes accredited with miraculous appearances. Salette has her favored shrine, and in gay Paris itself we are told of super- natural cures which confirm the faith of the’ dévotees. The general observance of the solemn services of the Chutch on the anniver- sary of All Souls is graphically portrayed by the Heratp correspondent. We see Notro Dame crowded by the wealth and fashion of the capital, while the orphans of the Com- munists who shot the Archbishop, adopted as the wards of the Church, join their childish prayers with the devout supplications of the first men of Paris, all led by the successor of the slain Darboy. At every church were full | Congregations, representing alPclasses of the population, fervently imploring divine bless- ings on the dead and merciful guidance to the living. No such general religious revival has been seen in France in this age. The cable has informed us that on last Sunday prayers were offered in all the French cathedrals for the National Assembly, the public officials attended the services and all the places of worship were crowded. While France is in this deeply serious and devotional mood Father Hyacinthe, once the pet of the Church and the popular orator of Notre Dame, has reappeared in Paris, where he is now shunned and slighted. He seeks by his eloquence and personal magnetism to com- bat what he deems the improper assumptions ot the Roman See. At present he seems to have lost his hold upon the French people, though his magic tones may yet surround him with admirers and enable him to repeat the réle ot Luther or Savoranola. Because Paris derides him to-day it does not follow that she may not vote him a saint to-morrow. Amid the turmoil and uncertainty of politics and parties in France she has two bodies possess- ing great inherent power—the Church and the army. Just now the Church most nearly rep- resents the people, whose emotions are in accord with its teachings ; while the army is sedulously kept a distinct class, separate from the people, and liable to be used by the supe- rior will which controls it as a sword to intim- idate the people and override the wishes of the nation, France may be free and self-govern- | ing while listening to the voice of religion, but | she cannot be safe under the domination of an | unsympathetic army. A Complete Picture of the Political Condition of Europe in Seven Col. umns. The able journalist of the present day is epigrammatic. He condenses a volume ina page and yet makes a complete picture of whatever he sketches. This is admirably ex- hibited in our European correspondence, published on Friday last. A more graphic, exhaustive and condensed description of the Political condition of Europe could hardly be mage. There are in less than seven columns of matter the views and hopes of all parties, as represented and expressed in the most | earnest language by representative men. After reading this correspondence any one can under- stand the ideas that are fermenting throughout the Continent of Europe, and can form a reagonable opinion of the future. Here, too, are abundant facts and materials tor thought for governments and statesmen. Indeed, our peripatetic commissioner gives a greater amount and more reliable information than foreign ambassadors can furnish their govern- ments. In his last letters, to which we have referred, it is seen that he first exploited that centre of political refugees of all classes-~- the famous city of Geneva. Here he interviewed the leading royalists, Bourbons and legitimists, the Bonaparte imperialists and the republicans and socialists of every shade of opinion. It is a curious fact, too, that all of them expressed their views freely as soon as they knew that the interviewer was an American and a representative of the indepen- dent press of America, though until this was satisfactorily known some of them were dis- posed to be reticent, and evidently from a dpead of the mouchards of M. Thiers. From +Geneva our correspondent proceeded to May- ence, and there opened a mine of German feelings and ideas, both with regard to France and the complications in and aspirations of Germany. Every subject of importance that is now agitating Europe—political, social or religious—was ably and concisely exploited. Not only are Americans thus able to get a faithful picture of Europe as it is to-day, but Europeans can learn more of themselves through such an impartial and independent, source than from their own public writers. The American press is becoming the vehicle of opinion and thought for the whole world. Tux Boston Advertiser (administration) sug- gests that Secretary Boutwell had better retain his post in the Treasury Department, if he can, rather than encounter the opposition he is sure to arouse at home if he aspires to the seat of Senator Wilson, made vacant by the election of the latter to the Vice Presidency. With the new order of things in <eneral Grant's new administration Mr. Boutwell, like other members of the present Cabinet, may have to retire without having an oppor- tunity to consult his own desires in the prem- ises at all. Tae Provence Journal (administration) thtaks that “Greeley did more than any other man for the re-election of Grant.” ‘Blessed are the peacemakers,”” ‘The Closing of the Gambling Halls at the Gorman Spas. Among the varied attractions of the Germam watering places the green covered tables, om which credulous Worshippers of Fortune have been wont to atake and lose their gold by the inscrutable processes of roulette or trente e quarante, have not been by any means the least. Doubtless the curative qualities of warm or bitter waters, the chu of music, of scenery, and the concourse of cultivated and wealthy people, have had their share in drawing to Baden Baden, Homburg and Wiesbaden the thousands who annually lt their hotels and crowd their Kursals; bet the wide, lofty, gilded saloons devoted to play have not failed to be popular places ef reunion for the health-seekers of fashion. Visitors have staked their Napoleons with more regularity than they took the baths, or swallowed unpalatable draughts. Pradené Americdns and sanctimonions Britons have crowded open-handed Russians and vivasious Frenchmen at the tables ; staid dowa- gers have followed the play of ‘fast’ girls, the millionaire has. | placed. his gold beside the silver of the reduced game- ster, while the smiling croupier has raked im the ventures of the many.and’ paid the wim nings of the very few. There were cases im which the infataated players left the hell with heavier purses than they brought, but rare indeed was it that the end’of a sojourn at the spa did not find the bank the gainer. Ooca- sionally there have appeared men who seemed gifted with a lucky charm, by which they wom all wagers and threatened the reserves of the banks. Late last Summer a Maltese came to Homburg. He always hit the winning card and his play was reckless. A rule of the hall restricted the stakes to twelve thousand francs. He was allowed to double that sum, and still he won. Finally, it is said, he went sway richer than he came by one hundred and sev- enty-five thousand dollars. Still the suspicion is mysteriously whispered that M. Bugeja was but a “decoy,” and that his marvellous win- nings were a clever advertisement for the-last season of the play. Certain it is that the fleck of imitators who have unsuccessfully wooed fortune in his wake has been great enough to make the season one of unexampled profit to the bank, which will wind up its operations with a bountiful dividend. Under a law of the German Diet, enacted two years ago, after this year public gaming is prohibited ; consequently an unusual inter- est was attached to the play during the season, At Baden Baden the halls were closed on the last day of October. A graphic detail of the: scenes will be found in another column.from a Herawp correspondent on the spot. It tele: how the porters and servant girls of Badem risked their petty savings on the green cloth: and saw them raked into the treasury of the: gorged bank by the affable croupiers who. watched the advance of night, crying, as the: clock pointed to twelve, ‘Make your play, gentlemen; this is the last throw.’’ The har- vest has been a full one for the Baden bank, which has cleared three million francs. Wies- baden and Homburg are to keep their hella open to the end of the year ‘and will plack their last pigeons in Christmas week. They, too, will wind up rich. Those most interested in the permanent prosperity of the spas are in doubt as to the effect of the suppression of play upon the value of their property. Prob- ably their efforts to supply the place of gaming by less objectionable entertainments will in the end bring them a more desirable class of guests, and fully sustain the annual gatherings of people seeking enjoyment and willing to pay its fair value. Doubtless those who wish to gamble will have facilities provided for them elsewhere, but the removal of the pernicious seduetions of play from the German watering places will save thousands from a fatal allure- ment, and open the healing fountains to many who have, till now, been deterred by the vice of the hells. At Ems the season has ended after giving the bank a profit of $325,000. Nanheim, too, clased its halls on the same night as Baden Baden, after unusual winnings by the bank. France, now making wonderful efforts to discharge the penalty of the war and free her soil of German soldiers, looks wist- fully at the large revenue she might derive from the re-establishment of public gaming houses in Paris, the provincial cities and summer resorts. M. Blane and his confréres, the bankers, would no doubt gladly repeat in the French capital their monstrous gains at the German Spas from which they are driven; but French morality justly hesitates before authorizing the public institution of helis, where citizens and strangers, rich and poor, old and young, men and women alike, come to win and stay to lose. Paris has already abundant opportunities for dissipation, and France can ill afford to legitimatize a vice which has at last been outlawed by Germany. The dramatic profession has a singular charm for many young ladies, and young gen- tlemen, too, for that matter. An advertise- ment in the Hzratp a few weeks ago for bal- let girls brought many applications to nearly all the managers in the city, most of them coming from young girls who had never appeared in public. These girls have little appreciation either of the hardships or dangers of the life they are anxious to begin, else they would not trust so confidently in their power to work their way up. Succesy comes only to the few; failure is for the many. The place to begin is, of course, the lowermost place in a theatre, and not by hard study in private, as a correspondent would have us think a stage-struck young lady in Cin- cinnati ought to have begun. The Cincinnati case is, perhaps, one of the most remarkable débuts ever made in this country. The daughter of a wealthy gentleman appeared on the stage as one of the Roman populace last Monday evening, while Mr. Lawrence Barrett was playing in ‘Julius Osar."’ It was not | in itself a very strange thing todo. If she desired to become an actress she was doing the very thing necessary to be done. Even the daughters of wealthy gentle- men are not born actresses, and this one was willing to learn the business. But the ladies and gentlemen of the Western town where she was known thought the thing eminently improper and showed | that Western bad breeding of which the East isapt to complain by staring at her throughout tHe entire performance and rushing to the playhouse the next evening to stard at her over again, for no other reason than the insuf: ficient one that she was rich. On the second 5 f