The New York Herald Newspaper, November 29, 1872, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. — Tolame XXXVII..... —— - AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. UNTON SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth streets.—Aaxxs. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Meray Wives or Wixpsor. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway aga Thirtecnth street.—OuR AMERICAN COUSIN, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Dsap Broxe— WaTeRMxLons. OTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third strect, corner Sixth —Romeo anv JULiEt. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker sts.—KgniLworta. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—Trauian Orena—Tne HuGussots. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., between Lex- ington and 34 avs.—Orxna—Lucnezia Bonata, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Pomr; or, Away Down Souta—Broxen Sworp. WOOD'S MUSEUM. Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Tux Wanpeninc Durcuman, Aiternoon and Evening. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Rounp Tux CLocK. . GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourtcenth street, near Third av.—Das Sturroncsrest. MRA F.B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. Suxer uw Wotr’s Croruinc—Evenynopy's Faixnp. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE. Twonty-third st.. corner 6th ay.—NeGno Mixsteetsy, Ecoxn tricity, &C, WHITE'S ATRENAUM, No. 585 Broadway.—Srurnpip Variety or Noveitixs. TONY PASTOR'S 01 Granp Varinry LyTKxTA , No. 201 Bowery.— SAN FRANCISCO MINST , corner 28th st. and Broadway.—Etuiorias M1xs7! &e. ¥, TE AND CIRCUS, RNUM’S MUSEUM, MED a Y —Day and Evening. Fourteenth sircet, near broadw: NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— £CQENCE AND Ant. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 745 Broadway.—Art anv SCIENCE. w York, Friday, Nov. 29, 1872, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “FRANCE! THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND THE ASSEMBLY: THE SITUATION ALARMING"—LEADING EDI- TORIAL ARTICLE—Fourtu PaGE. {NTENSE EXCITEMENT IN FRANCE! POPULAR TURMOIL IN PARIS! LABOR AND POLI- TIOS! EXCITED AND CONFUSED ADJOURN- MENT OF THE ASSEMBLY! THIERS’ POSI- TION—FIFTH PaGE. GATTLES IN SPAIN, BETWEEN AMADEUS’ TROOPS AND INSURGENTS! DEFEAT OF TUE REBELS WITH HEAVY LOSSES! ANOTHER OUTBREAK FEARED AT SARA- GOSSA—FirTH PaGE. EUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS! THE BANK OF ENGLAND DISCOUNT RATE REDUCED: SERIOUS ILLNESS OF SPURGEON: SER- i 'T BATES AT OXFORD: THREATENING TATE OF THE DUBLIN POLICE—FrTa * PAGE. WASHINGTON! THE THREATENING FRANCO- GERMAN SITUATION: OUR MEXICAN COM- PLICATIONS: A METEORIC SHOWER— Fiera Pace. FIRE ON BROADWAY! ITS CAUSE AND PROG- « RESS: A THRILLING SOEN THE LOSSES: OTHER FIRES—E1cutu Pace, 4 TERRIBLE VOYAGE! TION OF THE BARK HANWN GALES AND HURRICAN OCEAN—SEVENTH Page. YHE DAY WE ALL CELEBRATED! SOLEMN THANKS GIVEN IN THE SANCTUARIES AND BOUNTEOUS FEASTS SPREAD FOR THE HUNGRY POOR—SrxtH Pacr. GRAND THANKSGIVING BANQUET BY AMERI- CANS IN LONDON! M GLADSTONE ON THE RELATIONS BETV ENGLAND AND AMERICA—FirTH PaGR. LABUR OMNIA INCENDAT! LESSON OF TL ‘ K WARNING: EVENTH PAGE. AN UNLEARNED EW It 'S OF MR. GR EY'S 1) NAL NOTES RTH PAGE. MEXICO! THE NEW DENT AND HIS CABINET: A MON iT FOR JUA t DISTURBANCES IN TEHUANTEPEC. TH Pace. TENISON'S BLUE BLOOD ENDANGERED! EX- CITING SCENE IN THE POUGHKEEPSIE COURT ROOM: A MOB RULING ON LAW— MARITIME INTELLIGENCE—ErGHTH Pace. NEWS TELEGRAMS FROM CUBA AND THE’ BRITISH WEST INDIES—Firtn Pace. DEADLOCK IN THE NORTH CAROLINA LEGIS- | LATURE ! THE STRUGGLE FOR SENATOR— WEATHER REPORTS—THE ARIZONA DIA- MOND SWINDLE—EIGHTH PAGE. WALL STREET'S HOLIDAY! ULATING SPECULATIVE OPERATIONS—! HUSIAS- TIO CUBAN MASS MEETING AT COOPER INSTITUTE—SEVENTH PAGE. SHOT ON THE RISE! PIGEON MATCHES AT | THE LONG ISLAND GROUNDS—ALARMING EXPOSE OF WALLKILL NATIONAL BANK AVFAIRS—LAKE DISASTER—SEVENTH PaGE. FIELDS’ PROPERTY NOT ATTACHED! WHAT HS BONDSMEN SAY—Tuixp Pace. Preter Giapstoxe’s speech at the Ameri- can Thanksgiving banquet in London will be read with interest in the Herarp. Tue Sr. Lovrs Democrat (administration) utters words of truth and soberness when it says:—‘“If the active politicians consult their own interests they will not oppose civil re- form.’’ But how often are active politicians wise in all things? Tae German Emicration Question.—The Emperor William and his great Minister | Bismarck have evidently a very contracted idea of the liberty of the subject, at least of the liberty of German subjects. The despatch we published a few days ago from Europe, | stating that the imperial government of Ger- | many had resolved to prevent the emigration of Germans, and had taker measures for that | purpose, appears to be confirmed by the news | we published yesterday from Washington. Baron Schlozer, the German Minister, said, it | is reported, that this was a necessary measure | of self-protection or precaution, in view of the complications in Europe, and especially of those that might arise from France. What liberty is there in a country or what is il i worth if individuals are denied the right of | emigrating? Such a despotic exercise of power strikes at the root of all freedom. It is | going back centuries, to the Dark Ages, when | men were held as property on and with the soil and were deemed to owe military service as serfs, We hear a gent deal of the progress aud liberality of the new German Empire, but | if this is to be its policy the whole world will | great Lody of the people. | resulted in failure ! | the risings at NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDA Pranee-The Conflict Between the President and the Assombly—The Situation Alarming. Not since the fall of the Commune has France so commanded the attention of the civilized world as she did yesterday. It was everywhere felt that a grave crisis had arrived in the history of the government of which M. Thiers is the chief. Our first reports, while they proved that the situation was gloomy, encouraged the hope that the difficulty might be got over without any serious consequences. Early in the afternoon it was reported in London that theo President was not unwilling to compromise the difficulty with the Assembly. It was at the same time stated that the rumors of a compromise had excited the suspicions of the Loft, that Paris was excited and that the workingmen were greatly irritated because of the action of tho majority. The rural population seem to be as much in sympathy with the President as “| are the workingmen ; for from the provinces the President was overwhelmed with words of cheer and promises of support. At Berlin the situation of affairs in France was regarded as so serious that instructions were sent to General Manteuffel, who is at the head of the German army of occupation, to concentrate his forces, so as to be ready to act in case of certain con- tingencies, although the official journals con- curred in assuring Europo that Germany would respect the will of the French people in the choice of a form of government and the se- lection of statesmen to carry it out. Inside the Assembly itself the wildest excitement prevailed during the progress of the debate. The President of the Assembly, M. Grévy, led off by reading a resolution embodying the recommendations of the majority report. M. Dufaure, Minister of Justice, defended the President and counselled conciliation. Minis- ters, he said, were already responsible. He was opposed to excluding the President from the Assembly, and thus depriving him of the right to appear in person and defend the government. While such were the opinions of the government they were not unwilling, however, to consent to the exclusion of the President from the Assembly if certain com- pensatory privileges were granted. The Minis- ter of Justice concluded by moving the appointment of a committee t6 draw up a law regulating public powers and prescribing the conditions of Ministerial responsibility. On the motion of M. Batbie the resolution of the Minister of Justice was referred without debate to the Committee on the Address, to be reported on within an hour. Thrée and a half hours afterwards the committee returned to the Assembly, when M. Batbie announced that the committee had rejected M. Dufaure’s resolution and were determined to stand by their own resolution, the imme- diate consideration of which was demanded. As will be seen from our despatches, the an- nouncement of the decision of the committee created a profound sensation in the Assembly, M. Dufaure insisted on the consideration of his resolution and asked for an adjournment until to-morrow. Amid the wildest excite- ment the vote was taken, adjournment was conceded and the sitting was brought to a close, So has ended this first debate; but not yet has ended the crisis. According to our very latest news the excitement is fearful and the attitude of the people is menacing. Excited crowds were seen at the Versailles Railway station in Paris waiting for the news. The Bourse was feverish, and risings are feared at Marseilles, at Lyons, at Nismes, at Montpellier, should the Assembly continue obstinate snd M. Thiers be compelled to resign. One thing has been made abundantly plain by this debate. The Assembly is no longer in sympathy with the nation. It is, in fact, no longer a representa- tive Assembly. On the other hand, it is abundantly manifest that the President is en- couraged by the sympathy and support of the In town and coun- try the voice is for Thiers and against the Assembly. To-day the debate will be resumed, and it is just possible that, fearful of revolution, the Assembly may sec fit to accept the compromise which the Presi- dent has offered. Should the Assembly re- main obstinate, we see no possible way out of this difficulty but an appeal to force. Our report has it that the President, if de- feated, will dissolve the Assembly and make an appeal to the people. This, however, he has no power to do, for the Assembly cannot be dissolved without its own consent. The Assembly cannot be dissolved by the President unless he adopts the rile of a Cromwell or a Napoleon, and this is in the last degree undesirable. One section of the army, it might be found, would be willing to act with the Assembly, while another section of the army would be obedient to the President. An appeal to the sword might plungé France into all the horrors and miseries of civil war. In the in- terests of the Republic it is to be hoped that this difficulty will be got over without any serious consequences, and that the President and the Assembly will come to some agree- ment whereby such a deadlock may be ren- dered impossible for the future. Gloomy as is the situation, we have still hope for the Repub- lic, It is the monarchical and impe- rial elements that are the President. It is the growing strength of the Republic which cheers him on, If this difficulty is got over, we are not without the hope that it may be reserved for President Thiers to establish the Republic on firm and enduring foundations. It is now eighty-three years since the first French revgution. During this period twelve different governments have held sway, and, strange to say, each of these governments was begotten of and sustained by force. Not one of the governments which may be counted since 1789 has been called to rale by the spontaneously expressed wishes of the French people. They have been usurpers all; ‘and it is a curious fact which well deserves to be borne in mind that the average duration of those governments has been about seven or eight years, Physical force made them and physical force put them down. In addition to the attempts which have been successful, how numerous have been the risings which have The war in La Vendée, made by the Girondins, Lyons and Toulon, the troubles of tho 9th Thermidor, of the 2d Pranial and of the 12th Véndémiaire, the the attempt look upon it as the model despotisia of Europe, Strasbourg and Boulogne attempts, and the now opposed to | risings which have taken place since the present government came into power—these, taken together, make over fifteen unsuccessful resorts to arms. Taking the successful with the unsuccessful we have in eighty years some thirty insurrections or attempts at insurrec- tion, After such a series of wasting strug- gles, not to speak of the numerous and exhausting wars which she has waged with foreign foes, the wonder is that the nation survives. That she does survive, and that she is so rapidly and so marvellously recovering from her recent misfortunes, is, to use tho words of an able writer in a late number of the Westminster Review, ‘most eloquent proof of her yet unconsumed vitality.”’ It is unde- niable that during all those years and in spite of the many failures, the tendency of events, as well as the growing wish of the nation, has been towards self-government and the estab- lishment of the Republic. The changes which have taken place since 1789 have completely destroyed aristocracy in Franco and made less and less pos- sible government by force and more and moro necessary a government resting on right—a right sanctioned by the whole body of the people, It is thus that monarchy and im- perialism, although the necessities of the situ- ation may. yet make one’ or other of these forms of government tolerable for a time, can never permanently succeed in France. The aristocratic pillars are gone, and gone for- ever; and without such pillars a monarchy such as is associated with the House of Orleans, or an empire such as France has known under the Bonapartes cannot have an enduring existence. It is true that in 1814 Franco was willing to be reconciled to the House of Bourbon ; but it did not wish aris- tocratic or sacerdotal ascendancy. In 1830, when Charles the Tenth fell and when the Citizen King took the helm, it wished the government of the middle classes, but nota close oligarchy. In 1852 it wished order, but it did not wish military despot- ism. On the 4th of September it wished a great effort for the defence of the nation, but it did not wish the ascendancy of any particu- lar party, It is, perhaps, not unfair to say that France has not in eighty-three years been so much mistress of herself as she was be- tyeen, 1848 and the coup ¢ état of 1851, What France attempted then Franco seeks to per- manently establish now. Failure may again be in store for the nation, but the effort will be repeated and success will ultimately be achieved. Greeloy’s Condition—Discouraging Mr. but Not Hopeless. We give in another column of this paper an interesting report from a careful correspondent detailed up the Hudson yes- terday to ascertain, as far as practicable, the condition of Mr. Greeley. From this re- port, brought down to eight o'clock last even- ing, it appears that yesterday his condition was much better than on Wednesday; that he was easicr and recognized his friends about him, though still demanding the highest medical skill that can be obtained and abso- lute exclusion from all possibilities of excite- ment. It is still feared that he cannot re- cover, though there still are hopes that he may be restored from his severe physical and mental prostration. The long-continued strain upon him of the incessant labors and excite- ments of the late Presidential canvass, to- gether with his recent heavy domestic trials and afflictions and his constant watchings, all culminating in the overwhelming political re- sults of the 5th of Novembor, were enough to break down a much younger and stronger. man. ‘But while there is life thereis hope,’’ and so we still hope that our distinguished and universally respected contemporary, with the skilful treatment and careful attentions given him, may recover. We may be called upon at any moment to announce the sad tidings that another great light in American journalism is extinguished, though we still hope that it is only temporarily obscured and will soon be restored again to shine for many years, The Situation in Mexico. By way of Havana we have news from Mexico dated in the capital of the neighboring Republic on the 15th of the present month. The statement does not present any very marked or new feature of importance, and its contents are, taken as a whole, encouraging to the cause of peace and industrial progress. President Lerdo de Tejada will be solemnly in- augurated in office on the 1st of December. The near approach of the day of his formal un- dertaking of administrative authority renders his party friends—the men who expect place— exceedingly anxious concerning the formation of his Cabinet and the material which will be used in its construction. Hence we find that there is a warm canvass, with some polit- ical cavil as to his supposed policy and of the agencies by which he may or should attetpt its elaboration. But all this is normal, if not natural, on the eve of Presidential inaugura- tions. The Mexican Republic is peaceful in- ternally, The territorial border fringe line remains disturbed at certain points by Indians, demonstrations which are, now and then, | rendered of more importance then they really deserve by the efforts of native heroes, who are anxious to be employed for a “stamping out” duty against the Indians. General Por- | firio Diaz was on his way to the capital. The railroad contracts men, and material progress- ists generally, remain exceedingly anxious con- cerning contracts and work, and are, of course, slightly so with regard to the matter of profit, Juarez’s memory is to be permanently honored by the people. A movement is also on foot to provide for the members of his family—a hope- ful sign for the nation itself, for a country will scarcely perish so long as it remains grateful and cherishes gratitude for emf{nent service as a cardinal principle in its everyday line of duty. : Tue Spantsn Native Bevticzrents Excacep ts Barrir.—Under telegram from Madrid we are assured, by a formal recital of painful facts, that civil war really exists against Amadeus’ Crown in some of the provincial districts of the kingdom. We are told of bat- | tles—of a sharply contested one in Murcia— aud of the ront of the rebel forces | with heavy losses of all the appurte- nances of a regular field commissariat, Serrano himself has epplicd his groat military | genius for the encouragement of the King’s officers in Andalusia. ‘Troops are marching to Saragossa under orders to stifle any attempt at outbreak in that quarter, Thiy is ay ex- ceodingly critical situation, both for the King and the country at large. It presenta tho problem of “legitimate conclusions’’ still un- solved between the Spanish people and the adopted monarchy. cha Thanksgiving and its Observance. In the homes of the people and in the churches of the various religious denomina- tions there was yesterday a more general ob- servance of Thanksgiving Day than on any former occasion. As time rolls by the soli- tary religious holiday which bas a uational interest becomes invested with moro interest in tho popular mind, and ite associations are hallowed by the memories, gay or sad, which the past has entwined with it. We are naturally inclined to be retrospective, and even the most go-ahead Yankee must sometimes pause in his career to look back with regret over the waste of time. In the bustle of our feverish life there are few opportunities to cultivate those gentle and tender memories which spring up amid time-honored celebrations with their scenes of innocent festivity into which tradition has woven that charm which an- tiquity alone can give—a feeling difficult to account for, that is yet the very essence of our enjoyment. Like all other human institutions time is exerting its influence over Thanksgiving Day, and people are beginning to associate with it more and more the idea of a festival. The traditionary turkey and the assembled guests enter more into our conceptions of it thanthe more solemn rites of religion. These, how- ever, are not neglected, though the growth of a social and even a fantastical tendency in the celebration of the day is becoming more marked yearby year. Perhapsthe most pleas- ing and humanizing observance of the day is the custom of assembling the poor and wretched in the various charitable institutions of the city and making the day for them one of unusual happiness—a day to be remombered as the sad year advances through its weary round, a cycle of misery, with ona recurring, bright joyous day, when the tears of the wretched are dried by the kind, charitable souls who spread an annual feast for the poor. ft will be seon by the accounts published else- where that the entertainment of poor children was carried out pretty generally. The relig- ious bodies and charitable institutions seemed to vie with each other in the extent to which this feature was carried, and in some instances as many as fifteen hundred poor children sat down to enjoy the substantial fare provided for them by the kindness and thoughtfulness of the more prosperous part of the commu- nity. Of all modes of returning thanks to the beneficent Creator for the blessings He has be- stowed on the nation and on individuals, this tender charity toward the suffering ones will be most acceptable to Him who loves the poor, Nor can the effect of such reunions as those that mark the celebration of Thanksgiving and bring the wretched into contact with their happier fellow citizens fail to exercise a most healthy influence on the moral tone of those who are most exposed to temptation, It is well that the young ones whose fate has been cast in the midst of suffering and misery and vice should learn that the rich and prosperous sympathize with them and are willing to aid them in the battle of life. And these pleas- ant and humanizing reunions let in the light of hope on the dark spots of our civili- zation where else there would be nothing but gloom and despair. We must not estimate the value of the good done by this gathering together of the children of misfortune by the mere physical pleasure which a good dinner affords them, but rather by the moral effect on the children that is exercised by the hope of a brighter future, and the knowledge that in their darkest hour of suffering they will meet sympathy and support from their fellow men if only they will strive to merit it. wt A Straw! We are not particularly ambitious to fill the position of wolf crier in ordinary to the American people; but tlfere are times, as Samson will testify, when to be caught nap- ping is to be deprived of life or liberty, or both. Though straws show which way the wind blows, it is neither necessary nor wise to mark their progress when the wind comes from an uncertain quarter ; but when polit- ical weathercocks surprise us off our equilib- rium by changing one point only, yet pojnt- ing due ‘third term,”’ it behooves us to give the people warning, and to bid them judge from what has gone before of what may hap- pen in the not distant future. ‘I disapprove of re-election to office,’ said General Grant when first a candidate for the Presidency. General Grant tastes the sweets of great power and straightway allows himself to be nominated for that which three years before he publicly condemned, Time yorks wonders, If thieé"years produce one great revolution, what may not four accomplish? ‘I hope to see General Grant remain President until every Southerner now living over forty years of age shall be put for- ever under ground,” exclaimed Mr. Wendell Phillips during the recent campaign, to which he lent so vigorous a support. The allotted age of man is three score years and tev. Though all Southerners cannot attain it, some must, so that if Mr. Phillips’ prayer be answered General Grant will occupy the White House for the next thirty-five years. This aspiration, remember, precedes re-election, and now what follows? ‘Thrift, thrift, Horatio." Three weeks of renewed power and the second marriage feast doth boldly furnish forth a third betrothal, «Let us begin and work for a third term,” whisper o few. “Why should not Gen- eral Grant be again made President?” and rumor bears the query from club to club until it comes to us defiantly rather than beg- ging for reply. The art of punctuation is well known to those skilled in feeling the public pulse, and who can say that the interro- gation may not be transformed into a dash, the dash into a period—that possibility may not become probability and probability change to fact? And after all why should it not? What good reason is there why Grant should not be elected again and again if the people so desire? Why not President for life, for that matter? If the people wish it—the majority of the peoplo—the people should have their | way, This is 4 country where the majority | should rule, and where it will rule, and the majority has just as much right to choose the same person again and again and forever. Let the oroakers poudsr this, , NOVEMBER 29, 1872. Co iste and Omomica: rirecbhallse ‘The Fire Fiends in New York. On the principle that genius and enterprise should always meet with encouragement from the preas, we publish in the Henan to-day two interesting communications from a correspond- ent signing himself “Chemist,” who, with scien- tific diablerie, casts into the crucible of his imagination all sorts of horrible hints, fearful innuendoes, threats, warnings and predictions, and brings forth an inflammable compound, which, in the parlance of underwriters, may be called ‘doubly hazardous’ to the peace, comfort and enjoyment of all the elderly ladies and timorous children in the community. One of these letters was intended for the public—the other was designed for our private information ; but we give them both to the readers of the Henaxp in order that we may free ourselves from the risk of being regarded as accessories either before or after the shocking occurrences which they predict. Our ‘Chemist’ at once corrects history and dis- closes a terrible secret, Ho proves to us the unreliableness of human judgment al the same time that he convinces us of the futility of human precautions, The conflagration that recently swept away about one hundred mil- lion dollars’ worth of property and destroyed several lives in the city of Boston has been commonly uttributed to ordinary causes—the tinder-box construction of the buildings, their height above the reach of the streams of water, the high wind which took up the flames upon its fantastic wings and carried them from Mansard to Mansard, probably, even, some inefficiency in the fire department. Of course the New England explanation of the Chicago calamity as a visitation upon the Western city for its sins could not apply to their own staid and pious capital, and. hence the destruction in Boston has been accounted for in this common sense manner, We learn from ‘Chemist’ that the en- gineers, firemen, insurance agents, police and high official dignitaries who have pro- nounced this judgment have all beon in error. They have been humbugged, hood- winked, imposed upon. The fire was the work of tho ‘Missionaries of Benevolence,” the preachers of the ‘New Gospel to the Race,” of whom ‘Chemist’ is one, and who have invented a wonderful chemical ball with which they design burning down ¢reation, unless that terrible tyrant Capital chooses to stop the conflagration by recognizing the equal rights of its ill-used slave, Labor, and divid- ing its property between ‘Chemist’ and his amiable associates. We are told that these mischievous little balls, small enough to be clasped in the hand, were thrown into tho fire at Boston in the very faces of profound policemen and wonder-stricken spectators, and that from them proceeded the explosions, the volumes of heated air, &c., so graphically described in the newspaper accounts of the calamity. Moreover, we are warned that all our precautions against a recurrence of such conflagrations in New York and other cities are idle. Water supply, iron roofs, fire- proof buildings, such as the Hzratp Building, the Park Bank, the Drexel building and the new building on the old Hxraxp site on Nas- sau street, are all moonshine. The chemical fireballs will shrivel them all up like shavings and will care no more for water than does a Sixth ward politician. The new Post Office is to be fireproof; but “Chemist” can stand on the steps of the Heratp office and destroy its opposite neighbor by means of these wonder- ful fireballs. Per contra, he can, no doubt, reverse the agreeable pastime, and henceforth we must sit in the recesses of our iron-clad offices with no more sense of security than if we occupied a pine-wood shanty, with a cellar full of Guy Fawkeses underneath and Fourth of Julys going on all around. It may be that “Chemist’’ is a practical joker. If so, he has well sustained the charac- ter of practical jokers by indulging his pro- pensity af the expense of decency and human- ity. Such persons usually trade on the mis- fortunes and fears of their neighbors. It may be that he is a monomaniac who religiously believes in the fancies of a disordered brain. Such unfortunates are frequently capable of writing connectedly and well. On the other hand, it.is just possible that ‘‘Chemist’’ is, as he professes to be, one of those turbulent and troublesome spirits who believe in that ‘Mis- sion of Benevolence’ which seeks to tyrannize over society in the name of liberty and preaches general destruction of all property that does not belong to itself. Of course the boast that the men who hold in their hands the ‘New Gospel to the Race’ had anything to do with the spread of the Boston fire is all a fiction, The “lumber yard in the air,’ piled up in Summer street, Winthrop square and the adjoining thor- oughfares, did not need tho aid of this youderful ghemical discovery in accomplish- ing its legitimate work. But the object of our Communist correspondent may, nevertheless, be to excite the fears of capital, naturally timid, for the purpose of extorling from it ; what he is pleased to call ‘co-operation’’ with labor. If so, we shall deem {t onr duty fo reassure capital, to pat it on the back, to strengthen its trembling knees, and to remind it, first, that wé have policemen to look after these chemical ball propeliers, and, next, that our laboring classes have no sympa. thy with Communists, houseburners or any other ragamuffins. The mechanics and laborers of the United States as a general rule are men of intelligence and good repute, and they take no stock in the ranting agitators who are too lazy to toil for a living, and who assume the rdle of workmen only that they may lead an idle, vagabond life on the earn- ings of more honest and industrious men. Capital and labor mutually assist one another. Our compositors and pressmen are as neces- sary to the Herarp as the Henatp is necessary tothem. Labor cannot destroy capital without compassing its own destruction. Capital cannot injure labor without damaging itself. If such @ fire as recently visited Boston should un- fortunately occur in New York to-night thou- sands of laborers would be found active in their efforts to check its progress. It is a gross slander upon the honest laboring classes of this country to associate them, directly or in- directly, with Communism and arson. If “Chemist” actually possesses, for illicit pur- poses, such an agent of destruction as these pretended fireballs, and will placo them in the hands of the workingmen of New York, we venture to predict that, should he escape the fate of the engineer who was “hoist by his own potard,”’ be will speedily be enjoying the \ A et be Occupancy of an apartment up the river wate’ ranted 3 Tae Onamerrssuna (Pa.) Valley Spirt wisely says that “honesty is not considered. the best policy by members of Congress.” Perbaps the next Congress, when General Grant puts his foot down in favor of civil re- almost every Congressional session. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Major E. Wilkes, of Utah, ia at the Hoffman: House, General A, 0. McClurg, of Chicago, is at the Se. Nicholas Hotel, Dr. F, Reynolds, of the United States Army, is at, the St. Denis Hotel, Baron Von Versen, of Boriin, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Bayard Gaylor has settled with his family at Gotba to spend several years. Colonel Steele, of the British Army, arrived yee terday at the Brevoort House, Chief Engineer J, W. King, of the United States Navy, is at the Albemarle Hotel. | W. James Perrie, of Belfast, Ireland, is among the late arrivals at the Everett House. Thomas H. Nelson, United States Minister to Mexico, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. James W. Pinchot, of¢his city, who, with his lamily, spent the Summer in Normandy, is now im Paris. Join Holmes, a brother of the witty and wise autocrat, will spend the Winter with Jamea Rus- sell Lowell in Paris, Joho B, Gough is making efforts to raise a teati- monial to George Cruikshank, the temperance artist, and has subscribed $500. Mrs. Heath, the sister of our Consul at Da Ro- chelle, France, is in Paris studying for the concert room. Her voice is reportcd to be a very fine one. The Bourbon straight candidate for the Presi- dency did not carry a single election district ia the United States, In neatly 8,000 polling places he did not get a vote, Gideon Welles corroborates in the December: Galaxy the claim that Chief Justice Chase wrote tire closing paragraph of the emancipation procla- mation, containing the grand invocation to Heavem for its success. John Hay talks of starting a new evening paper in St, Louts, The Chicago Post thinks that unles@ he has two or three greeriback factories to draw upon there is likely to be some badly pressed Hag 1m that locality. The difference between tweedie-dum and tweedle- dee may be seen in tie fact that Miss Sojourner Truth, aged ninety-nine, was denied the ballot at Battle Creek, Mich., but Miss N. ©. Stewart, aged eighteen, was permitted to vote for herself for von- gress at Gadsden, Ala, Ag The FY Avenue Journaz has published this week a spirited cartoon of Henry M. Stanley. The distinguished explorer is seen mounted on a awift- pacing camel, which bears around its neck the words New YorK Hxratp, The likeness (of the explorer, not the camel) is excellent, There is anxiety in some quarters to have it stated that it was The O'Connor Don, M. P., accom- panied by his brother, O’Connor, M. P., and not O'Donovan Rossa, M. P., who was on the stage Tuesday night at Father Burke's lecture, If it is important to know this we make all three gentle- men concerned a present of the information. Mr. Ellicott, son of the Bishop of Gloucester, England, has just performed a pedestrian feat of some importance. Leaving Gloucester at six A. M., he walked to Swindon and returned to Gloucester in excellent condition toward ten o’clock the same evening, the whole journey—a distance of sixty- two miles—having thus been accomplished at the rate of four miles an hour, According to the Cincinnati Commercial, when Mr. Jesse R, Grant entered the Covington Post OfMice on Monday and saw Mr. Easton there he ex- plained the situation in the following amiable way :—“Ain’t you gone yet? Now, look here, if you don’t leave here you'll get hurt—you'll get into an- other rumpus, sure. I’m going to clear this Post Office of your presence if it takes me all Winter and next Summer, too.” MR. GREELEY'S ILLNESS. The Latest Particulars of the Condition of the Philosopher-Journalist, At a point many miles above New York there stretches out and away trom the Hudson @ low rval- ley among the highlands, It is aimost upon a level with the river that rolls by with a sullen swell as it is driven before the whip of a north wind, The hillsides and the depths of the valley are covered with snow, while the country roada wind round, dark and full of ruts, till they are lost to the eye in their devious courses. Last night a carriage, containing a representative of the HERALD, struggled slowly along one of these roads till {t reached the gateway leading to an old- fashioned country residence, where dwell particular friends of Horace Greeley. Picking his way along the drive to a_ terrace and thence to the steps of the mansion, the reporter rang and was at once admitted and shown to the drawing ruom. A few moments after @ lady appeared in the person of one who has for several days been analmost constant attendant at the bedside of Mr. Greeley, and who had left him but a few moments before. In answer to inquiries the lady stated that MR. GREELEY'S CONDITION was slightly altered for the better since morning. His pulse at three o'clock in the afternoon of the previous day was 136, but since noon of yes. terday it fell and became more steady. On Wed- nesday he was unavle to recognize those around his bedside and was, owing to his fever, somewhat imcoherent in his speech, Yesterday, however, he recognized his daughter, the lady in question, and her husband at limes, and had throughout the day intervals of consciousness, lasting from ten minutes to half an hour each. A COUNSEL OF PHYSICIANS, er At six o'clock last evening ex-Surgeor, Generat Hammond arrived at the bedsite of Mr. Greeley, and held a lengthy cons"|tation with the attend- ant physician, who has not left him since the first alattiing yiiptoms inanifested themselves, THE CAUSE OF HIS ILLNESS ) is concisely stated by those in charge. Mr. Gree ley, already worn by the almost constant exertion and the loss of sleep incidental to his tour through the West, was during his late wife's illness lw; at her side, By’ the deepest entreaties he wi revalled upon to take only four or five hours’ sleep in twenty-four, and from lack of rest ensned nervous prostration. It was with dim-' culty, too, that he could be induced to eat sufficient food to afford him proper nourishment, saying it was distasteful to him. Still his vigorous consti- mn remained apparently unshaken till, within ast ten days, when the keen eyes of his friends noted his failing health, though they were hardly prepared for so sudden and complete a loss of vital force, NO ONE ADMITTED TO SEE TitM, For obvious reasons it 1s undesirable to publish the exact location of the residence where Mr. Greeley is now lying, but it may be stated that a distinguished physician dwells there and never: leaves him. A gentleman who has long been a de- voted friend of the great journalist divides with his wife the care of watching at his nedside, the former sitting up with him through, the night and the latter during the day. With the exception of his daughter no others are. allowed to see him, and in fact but two persons have made the effort. One was a prominent mem- ber of the Zrivune Publishing Association and the other a New York reporter, who on the strength of & momentary interchange of words with the phyai- cian, whom he met returning from the telegrapty ofice, published haifa column of stutt, THK LATEST AUTHENTIC INTRLLIGENCR from the sick room Was communicated to the Hr ALD reporter at a few minutes before eight o'clock last night, when the slight change for the better seemed growing, and the lady nurse, with tears tm her eyes, sald, “While there's life there's hope.’* iy