The New York Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1873, Page 7

WASHINGTON AFTER THANKSGIVING What Citizens Were Thankful For and the fmall Occasion Members and Visitors Have for Thanksgiving. MEMBERSHIP OF THE HOUSE. & Review of Prominent Characters and Speculations About the Pros- pective Officials. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, 1878. Thanksgiving Day is over. Let us see what had the average Washingtonfan to be thankful for? Certainly not fora bankrupt district government, with a towering debt which can never be paid ‘wizhout the aid of Congress, Yet he had reason tobe thankful Has he not bis lawful prey, ‘‘the member,”” returned with his troop of friends, who scems to have been created by a designing power for the sole object of being plucked, Thereiore, the day haa for the Washingtonian, genuine and unmixed, & peculiarly soul-inspiring character. He squan- dered money upon the ingredients of a Thanks- giving dinner without a pang at the thought of his lavishuess, for has he not at home some lodgers, who will allow him to realize several hundred per eent upon his investment ? During the vacation of Congress Washingtonians vetire to the attics and become anchorites, because there are no outside people here to foot the bills, Asthe day draws near when Congress is to meet again the anchorites come down from the attics, raw off the coverings of the gorgeous furniture 4m the rooms below and make as speedy a transt- tion as possible towards the life of a Sybarite. This year there is an increase of prices all over town, “Why ts this?” says the imdignant member. “Your pay has been increased,” says the lodging house keeper; “what reason have you to com- plain??? That explains the whole situation. Through force of habit the Washington peopie have accustomed themselves to taking everything that astranger has. So when the members became possessed of an additional lump of salary it was in accordance with the Washington code of ethics that prices shonld go up. What had the strangers within the WashMnzton gates to be thankful for? The Congressman is thankful that there is a Virgintus matter to make people forget back pay and other discreditable transactions; thankful that the time is at hand when jobs will once more be “plenty as blackber- ries ;”” thankful for an opportunity of allowing his eloquence to be aired in the Congressional Record for the benefit of future junkmen; thankfol, alas! for much that a legisiator should not be, but still thankful, as he thinks of the coming days of the long session. The lobbyists thanked God that they were not as other men, and everybody joined them in that thankfulness, The newspaper men are a thankless class, but even they were glad that times promised to be livelier, although they had the bitter-sweet consciousness that with plenty of news comes plenty of work. NEW ARRIVALS, Congressmen are coming now by every train in shoals. The old standbys become settled alter a few hours, but the new members, of which there are upwards of 160, are a strange compound of Con- gressional dignity and deserted forlornness, Moat of them look like the hero of that beautiful, idealistic story once to be found in all School Readers, and which never failed to bring a tear to the biubbvering school boy’seye, It began, ‘The time had now arrived when James was to leave his home for the first time, The hoarse rumble of the stage coach was now heard, &c.” One can ancy in glancing at some of the new members a realization of the tearful James idea, something like this, “The time has finally arrived when James had found himself far away from his beioved home of virtue and sobriety, among the cold charities of strangers and exposed to the mad dissipations of the gay and lascivious world of politicians. The hoarse snumMie of the lobbyist is heard in the dis- tance,” &c. Every hotel has its particular Congressmen. Just now they are crowded with members, but in a few days many of them will subside into private- Jodgings, and then only the regular habitués will be Jeit. In the large rotunda of the Ebbitt House you will find of an evening the best place to meet the average politician. L you wish to be comfortable you will take a seat in an easy chair upon the edge oft the rotunda, where you can see all that is going on without moving. The crowd opens. There come a purty of Western Congressmen. Wilson, ef the Crédit Mobilier Committee, is at the head. His face is thinner this year; his round shoulders have more of a stoop than ever, Make way for an honest man, a novelty in this erowd. Let the Crédit Mobilier prosecuting attor- ney go to his room, for he Is tired. But before he 8 & Correspondent catches hoid of him, and Mr. ilgon is subjected to a cross fire o1 questions. Mr. Wilson smiles languidly. No, he is notin favor of @ war with Spain, He has his doubts about the legality of the capture of the Virginius, but thinks everything can be amicably settled. ‘Good night,” and he is gone, wmile the correspondent seeks Some one cise, Who is this great shambling man, with huge hands and general air of a lumberman? His coarse hair and beard quite engulf his mediocre face. Oh, that is General Jeremiah Rusk, of Wisconsin, the great man jor Indian affairs, whose speeches in Con- gress are confined to deep-toned ayes and noes, as the party bellwether directs. Some one approaches mim. “What is the matter with vou republicans up in Wisconsin?” asks a sneering voice. “On,” suys General Rusk, “that election you refer to; well, you see the republicans did not turn out.” “Isn't that too thin’ says the sneering voice; “a majority of nearly 10,000 for Washburne when ne ran against Dooilttle, and now he is beaten by Taylor by nearly the same majority. The change ia too great.” The great Rusk mutters something about the liquor interest, and moves off wuere he can find something more congenial to talk about. Behold a “character” of the House, Snyder of Arkaneas, who isin full bloom to-night. His ill- fitting clothes are in keeping with his shambling figure and weird face. For what 1s he noted? Lasten, Snyder looked the matter carefully over last winter and discovered that some achieve fame one way and some in another. He was obitged to confine himself to channel within the scope oi his talents, and he has decided to achieve immortality by wearing a white overcoat. So every day last winter he was seen fitting about the House here and there and everywhere, but always attired in this white over- coat. He was in the ioreground of all the legisla- tive pictures. Snyder is from Arkansas, however, the antipodes of civilization, and therefore it is not right to expect too much of him. Tramp, tramp, shuMe, come and go the politi- tians in the rotunda before you. Here a military group—General Sherman, Secretary Pines oung olicers—discussing the chances of a brush. Mice seekers with an outstretched hand, with which they would like to shake mankind by the nand, 80 Lactate sh are their sympathies developed by this most maddening of searches for a place in life, The groups at the other boteis are nearly the same in character, only at the Ebbett the rotunda gives room for a greater congregation; that is ali. COMPOSITION OF THE HOUSE. During the special session of the Senate the HeRALD contained full detaits in relation to that body. Therelore, I shall confine myself, in speak- ing of Congress, to the House. There are 288 mem- vers, of which only 114 were of the Forty-third Congress, ihe republicans have over two-thirds of the seats, and this majority, being So very large, Pot render their power this winter almost abso- ju ‘in looking over the list of members one finds atte a number of good, strong men. The House, as at present developed, presents the following galaxy oO! old favorites and new faces, as they say in the play-bills:—Sunset Cox, the funny man of Congress, Who has served seventeen years, and who Was nearly heart-broken at his not being re- elected last tall, comes in place of James Brooks; Beck, of Kentucky, the curly-headed Scotch- man, of able temper, who had strained from kicking & Tennessee Member off the floor of the House last winter; Ben Butler, of course—what would the House be without hin? he will succeed Bingham a8 Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary; Henry L. Dawes, who, although tainted with Crédit Mo- bilier, Is not considered sufficiently so to cause him to lose his position at the head of the poweriul ware aud Means Committee; Charles A, Klaridge, of Wisconsin, the cold-laced’ and. thorough-paced Hiician; G. B. Farwell, of Chicago; Focses A. larfield, of Ohio, who, for his lack of nerve in carrying his load of Crédit Mobilier shame last winter, will probably lose his place at the head of the Committee of Appropriations; John B, Hawley, NEW YORK HKKALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET, coatedigentieman of the old but with the wits and action of the present; Clarkson N. iter, the cockney member from New York, who alfects English swell airs, thinks members ought to serve without pay, sit upon benches, with their hats on, and other such biarsved ideas, you know; Katney, the colored member from South Carolina, with Wrongs to be righted, @ very distressing in- dividual; the two Roberts, of New York, Wiliam R, opposed to ., the former & staunch opponent of backpay and any other grabs; J. P. ©. Shanks, of In capable of tulking tl jadgement day if permits Lyman Tremain, of New York, the great prosecutor of Tweed; ex-Mayor Pierce, of Boston, who succeeds William Whiting, deceased; Fernando Wood, with the suowy mustache and air @istingué, one would miss his sound sense and polished eloquence ; John. A. Kasson, of lowa—he, too, a new member, but an old Congressman, who was once candidate for Speaker; Marcus L. Ward, ex-Governor of New Jersey ; Stuart L. Woodford, of New York, a strong acquisition to the republican side of the House; Eugene Hale, of Maine, the efficient member of t! Appropriation Committee; William E. Niblack, of Indiana, whose active operations in prosecuting the Crédit Mobilier last winter entitles him to the ratetul regard of his confiding countrymen; Sam udle, the enfant terrible of the House, and one of the leading lights of the democracy that docs not want to hide itself under a bushel. Mr. Blaine is sought after by nearly all the mem- bers, who recognize the fact that he isto be the next Speaker. They crowd around him for places on the committees like & group of hungry school- boys alxious for gingerbread, SERGEANT-AT-ARMS ORDWAY. If there ever was & man working hard for an office, Mr. ‘ay 18 one. He wants to be re- elected as Sergeant-at Arms and he is sanguine of success, His principal opponent is Colonel Mark- land, of Indiana, who appears to have the neces- sary physique, but Ordway has the “inside track,” and, in accordance;with the idea that virtue is strictly its own reward, will very likely win, I saw qute a funny scene in Mr. Ordway’s office the other day. It was a soul-inspiring sight to see his open countenance hghten up, and that great, honest pal of his open wide as he secured a Con- gressman who could have a vote in his favor. Presently a colored man came in, He looked like a coachman, and a8 he had a bundie with him, L of Itinois, Who distinguished himself by presenting # remarkable scheme of finance; ex-Atiorney General E. Rockwood Hoar, in company with Judge George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, will combine to make it interesting for the Essex states- man; Holman, of Indiana, the watend of the public purse with the scereotyped cry, ob- fect, Mr. Speaker ;"’ Horace Maynard, the ghost of red men gone beiore, who was to bave been candi- date jor Speaker; Leonard Meyers, the disap- pointed aspirant to the chairmanship of the For- eign Affairs Committee ; Godiove 8. Orth, of Indiana, anew member, but an old Congressman, @ very vic man; Luke P, V’glagd, tue blue BwaloW-bajl coucluded wrongly that he was a messenger of some sort. He took a eat humbly upon a sola, and alter a number of white Congressmen had been interviewed, Mr. Ordway came out, and his coun- tenance beamed in such @ way as to bring home to me the.conviction tnat our colored Iriend and brother was a Congressman with a vote. “Why, my dear sir! How do you do /”’ said Ord- way in Its most unctious accents. The colored Congressman arose, and catching himself at aduck and ascrape just in time as he thought of his new dignity, and biting his teeth hard upon Massa Ordway, was soon intently listen- ing ro the beguiling of the charmer. Ina moment he went away grinning from ear to ear, doubtless revelling in the tootbsome things Mr. Ordway had oured into his ear, and promising himself that epee ercRTADG) good man should have his vote at east THE COMMISSIONERS CF CHARITABLE COR- RECTION. —_—_—_+—___ Grave Doubts as to the Constitutionality of the Law Creating It—A Dangerous Power Given the Police—Views of Mayor Havemeyer. The law passed last session providing for the ap- pointment of two Commissioners of Charitable Correction, to take charge and dispose of that class of children known as “juvenile delinquents and idle and truant children,” is calling out much criticism and unfavorable comment, not only by the members of the Common Council but also by the people, who believe that at least one section (8) of the law will open the door for outrages upon the rights of the masses. The act provides that the Mayor shall appoint and the Aldermen confirm two Commissioners, at a salary of $2,500 each, who, with a clerk at a salary of $2,000 per year, shall constitute a court to have exclusive jurisdiction of all such children, and these Commissioners shall have all the jurisdiction co-ordinate with that conferred by the law upon aldermen, magistrates, police justices, justices of the peace or justices of the district courts of the city and county, for the purposes of their appoint- ment. They are also vested with authority and jurisdiction over all street vagrants and wander- ers, vicious, malicious and wilfully disobedient cluldren under 14 years of age. Section 8, which the opponents of the act allege opens a dangerous door for oppressive arrests, reads :— Sxcrion 8.—It shall be the duty of any officer or mem- ber of the police force of the city of New York to arrest any child or children hereinbefore specifically mentioned and described who may be found at any Ume in any saloon or place where intoxicating or mais liquors are sold, exchanged or given away, or places of resort or amtisement known as dance houses, concert saloons, theatres and varieties, und immediately upon such arrest, or as soon thereafter as complaint can be beard, such officer shall cause such chila or children to be brought before said Commissioners (or examination and Gisposal, ax herein provided. Suitable, and convenient rooms or places shall be provided by the corporate au- thorities of suid city tor the detention, temporarily, of such eluidren, which shall be apart trom'rooms occupied by other criminals and for their exclusive benefil and use. Itis claimed that emergencies almost hourly oc- cur in the thickly populated tenement districts where alcoholic liquors are required for medicinal purposes, and children aloue are available as messengers to secure it at the corner liquor store. lt any child under 14 years of age enters he is liable to be arrested coming out and incarcerated all night, without the sick parent being aware of the arrest, and that if @ iather gives his sons tickets to a matinée, they, too, are liable to be carried off as criminals and incarcerated for a number of hours, until the Commissioners can in- vestigate the merits of their case and discharge them. One of these Commissioners, Dr. R. D. Nesbitt, has been appointed and confirmed. The nomina- tion of Joseph F, Joy as the second Commissioner Was rejected by the Aldermen, and another name will likely be sept in at the next session of the Aldermen. The views of the Mayor were yesterday sought by a HERALD reporter. Mr. Havemeyer, who considers the nomination of the Commis-ion mandatory upon him, stated that he had not care- fully examined the act, but he believed that the Commissioners would so administer the law as not to make it bear heavily upon children carrying out the orders of parents. He thought that the law would work well in prevent- ing children from visiting dance houses and con- cert saloons, but admitted that police officers might unjustly restrain children ot their liberty, as officers could not, on finding a child coming out of a liquor store, search tenements for its parents, to learn whether they had been sent there by parents to secure liquor for medicinal or other purposes. He stated that it would be the duty of the officer to question the chila as to the cause of its visit to such places, and if he failed to do so he would have him broken. Some claim that the Aldermen will refuse to confirm the second Commissioner, 80 as to render the law inoperative, THE KINGS OOUNTY PENITENTIARY, Investigation Concerning the Alleged Improvement Frauds. The special committee of the Kings County Board of Supervisors, appointed to investigate the charges preferred by Supervisor Johnson against the Penitentiary Committee of the Board, under whose direction the new walland barn of the Peni- tentiary were built, met yesterday afternoon, W. H. Hazzard, who examined the barn in ques- tion, testified that the bricks used were of the third quality ,and not of the first, as the specifica- tions called for; and that there was no water table at base; he would be willing to build the barn as it now stands, provided he got the same facilities as the contractors recelved from the county, for $6,500; the cost of the buitting was upward of $12,000; the coping he would be giad to put up for $3 50 a running foot, Supervisor Johnson stated the county paid at the rate of $8 50 a running foot, which was agreed to in a secret contract, of which the Board of Sue pervisors had no knowledge, Mr. Hazzard testified that he would be willing to construct the wall for 15 cents a square foot. The cost to the county Was 25 cents asquare loot. The measurement of the wall embraced 147,564 feet, The contract at 25 cents a foot amounted to $36,891, (The cost at Hazzard’s, price $22,135.) Mr. Hazzard said he would have been glad to take the contract for pointing the wali at five and a half cents a foot. All men tried to get public work because there was no chance of getting it. He meant by that that a certain class of men bid for public work who never intended to comply with the specifications. That was the general impression, le would be glad to do the carpenter's work in the boiler room for enus Castner, another witness, who is also r, would do the brick work on the barn $3,200. It cost $6,900, Further examination was then adjourned until next week, THE DEATH OF MRS, SMITE, Compression of the Brain. Deputy Coroner Marsh yesterday made a post- mortem examination at the Morgue on the body of Mrs, Ann Smith, the confirmed inebriate, who was found dead in her room at 228 Rivington street, on Thursday night, under suspicious cir- cumstances. As previously reported, the examination showed that there was a large clot of blood = compressing the entire leit hemisphere of the brain, There were numerous bruises on the face, scalp, arms and thighs, Death resulted from compression of the brain, from extravasation of blood, resulting from violence, bul in What manner the violence was re- ceived is unkno' and it 8 possible the injuries may have been d by falling while drunk, The two Clarks (father and son), arrested on suspicion, are still in custody, and one or two witnesses are ba Coroner Young will make au ipvestiga- LITERATURE. A STUDY OF SUB-TROPICAL IN- DUSTRIES.° A work which contributes in any dezree to our Knowledge of sub-tropical industries cannot fail to be of very great advantage ia the study of what is now the leading question m political economy. England, wiser than the United States, has found in Mauritius @ sugar producing country, and even sought to divide the American Republic, to obtain an absolute control over the cotton lands of the South. The American people, on the other hand, have never evinced any disposition for sugar growing territory, notwithstanding we now pay Spain $124,000,000in gold annually for this staple article of consumption. When the country comes to understand sub-tropical mdustries in their economic relations to our own wante a beneficial change in our policy will be the result, itis this which makes any contribution to our knowledge of this subject so important, A book which in some degree answers these requirements is Pike’s ‘Sub-tropical Ram- bles,” just published by Harper & Brothers. The island of Mauritius is his subject, and, as the title of the work indicates, he sketches a complete ac- count of that productive but almost unknown pos- session of the British Crown, Though England has drawn her sugar supply from Mauritius for years, and especially since tie abolition of slavery in Jamaica, the island ts in reality but little known. Mr. Nicholas Pike, the United States Consul at Port Louis and the author of this volume, asserts that upon receiving his ap- pointment he sought in vain for information con- cerning the land to which he was accredited, The old story of the Dodo and the pathetic tale of Paul and Virginia were about all that was or even now is known in regard to it. Mr. Pike accordingly set about collecting all the information he couki gather, and the results of his labors are now partially published in these Rambles, Another yolume on the Fauna of Mauri- tius is to follow. Mr. Pike, though he has given us a valuable and interesting book, mignt have made it still! more valuable and interesting haa he been a practiced writer, able to discrim- inate between the necessary and the unnecessary, Two chapters are devoted to the voyage from Washington to Manritius, such unimportant and well known facts as the residence of General Santa Anna, at St. Thomas, tending to swell the size of the book. The style in which the book is written is loose and unsatisfactory, and the lack of con- densation militates against its usefulness, The author often goes out of his way to introduce ex- traneous matter; as, for instance, while treating of the coolies, he favors us with @ disqutsition upon the castes of India. These are but minor de- fects, however, in a work which contains much that is new, and that gives full information of an island the condition of which was before practi- cally unknown, Mauritius is to England what Cuba is to Spain. The simuarity of the two islands to what may be called the mother country is remarkavle, Both are sugar producing countries. The sugar estates in each are large, and are suppiled with expensive. European machinery. In both labor is supplied upon the force system, Slavery in Cuba is a name for the African slave only, but the Chinese coolie is as much a slave as the Alrican or African creole. In Mauritius the Indian coolies are as much slaves as their Chinese brethren in Cuba, All tne labor of the English island is done by imported coolie laborers. The same thing is true of the English possessions in Demerara and elsewhere, except in Jamaica, where the black and yellow natives are too numerous to submit toa large influx of East India slaves, for, cloak it as they may, the English treat their coolies as slaves quite as much as do the Spaniards, Mr. Pike, while apparently rejoic- ing in the system which makes Mauritius prosper- | | musical people. ous, bears unconscious testimony to the force labor which England fosters in that lar distant island, He says:— Every coolie carries a small tin case attached to his waist, containing his certificate of arrival, age, personal description, with a photograph. engage- ment, &c. He never ventures into the street with- out this, as he is liable to be stopped at any mo- ment by te police; and, if his papers are not all correct, he 18 at once arrested till he can give a satisiactoty account of himself. if a domestic ser- vent gets leave to go into the country he must have @ pass from his master, specifying the number of days he has permission to be absent and the place of his destination. The photograph system has been adopted to compel every Indian to show his own ticket. Formerly there was any amount of rascality carried on, If a man lost his own ticket he wouid beg, borrow or steal hts friend’s, or get one forged for a trifie, all of which tricks are use- less now. The dated passports not only prevent | vagabondage, but put a stop in a great measure to runaway servants, who, on the slightest provoca- tion, would formeriy abscond. There is in this every evidence of abject slavery, and, strange to say, the new form of slavery in Mauritius immediately took the place of the old. In the English colonies the Emancipation act of 1834 did not have its full effect till 1838, By that time 24,566 coolies had arrived at Mauritius from Calcutta. That the slave idea was uppermost in the English mind is apparent from the fact that, on account of the enormities committed upon the coolies, the home government was compelled for four years to prevent the immigration of coolies altogether. Since 1842, however, the traffic has gone on aimost without interruption, and now the Indians in the island number over 200,000 souls, or two-thirds of the entire population. Mr, Pike designates them as laborers, and the system under which they work as free labor. We ask him what the American people would think if every China- man in New York was compelled to show his pass to every policeman he chanced to meet and to identify himself by producing a photograph of him- self with his cedula! Even the Spaniards in Cuba are not 80 rigorous with either their African or Chinese slaves, Mr. Pike's book would be invalu- able if for nothing else in showing that England | 18 still a slave-fostering Power in her colonies, There js in all this a problem which civilization must work out. To-day Cuba and Porto Rico are | the only sugar producing islands in the West Indies. Yet previous to the revolution of 1793 St. Domingo | distanced every competitor. In 1520, only 28 years aiter the discovery of America, St, Thomas had 60 sugar mannfactories and made 4,650,000 pounds of sugar annually. Now the island is a barren rock, without industry of any kind, and with no local trade except with the passengers on passing ships. St. Domingo and Hayti are the island homes of par- tially civilized negroes, Since the abolition of sia- very Jamaica has fallen to a condition almost equally degraded. Barbados is the only sub- tropical istand on this side the equator which bas prospered with free labor, and there only because the population is so dense that he who would eat must work, Now, while we recognize that the abolition of slavery has destroyed these once fertile islands and would probably destroy Cuba and Porto Rico, we are far from desirmg the promotion of the system. We want both the Spanish slavery in these islands, African and Chinese, and the English slavery in Demerara and Mauritius utterly destroyed. But we cannot overlook the fact that the sugar crop is a force crop under the systems by which it has been raised and atilized, So long as the cane is grown on large estates and manutactured at the plantation works force labor is the only safeguard against failure. Free labor in the tropics is too precarious where vast interests are dependent upon it. Even the wheat growers of Pennsylvania and the West would be unable to gather their crops if the farms were all of them over a thousand acres inextent, It is because the farms are small and that milling isa distinct business from farming that agriculture in the United States is prosperous and certain, Weare gradually applying the seme system to the raising of cotton—small estates and more certain and careful culture. Inthe end it must be applied to the production of sugar; for unless itisso applied sugar production will cease alto- gether or this staple article will only be produced by means of English or Spanish slavery, The pub- lic domain in St. Domingo might have been cut up into small sugar-producing estates long ago if there had been any substantial government in that island, It may be done ina few years in Ja- maica if the Crown asserts the supremacy of do- main over the abandoned estates and gives the poor natives an opportunity to work with the Prospect of prods We thank Mi. Pike ag much for the paragraph we have quoted and the informa- tion he gives in regard to sugar culture in Mau- ritius as for the rest of the volume. * “Sub-Tropical Rambles in the Land of the A, teryx! Personal isxperici Adventures ada ings in and 4 the nd of Mauritius.” Nicolas Pike. New York : Harper & Brothers. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Mr. BaGEuor, the eminent writer on financial topics, holds the theory that commercial panics are largely mental phenomena, and that they can be allayed by remedies addressed to the imagina- tion—that is to say, by a plentiful supply of money to frightened people by the banks at the first out- break. It is a curious fact that panics occur in London every ten years with almost perfect regu- larity. GENERAL GARIBALDI has just published a book entitied ‘The Thousand,” which gives ap account of his famous expedition to Sicily. Fressk, the dramatic publisher, has in press a Kistory of all Paris theatres, under the title “Poyers et Conlisses.”’ It will be issued in twenty numbers, with the photographs of the most promi- nent actors, Mr. James T. Fixips’ new lecture is on ‘‘Novel- iste and Fiction,” from Bunyan ana De Foe down, Mr. Fields thinks that the world could not now well get along without works of fiction, and though some of the old writers were bores, others were good, loity and grand. Sir Walter Scott he calls a telescope, microscope and kaleidoscope, all in one; but Bulwer is “unsound fish, whose writings de- serve condemnation. Hurp & Hovcuron will print the very handsome “Grammar of Painting and Engraving,” from the French of Charles Blanc, with the original iliustra- tons. R. H. Sropnart, the poet, has revived and brought down to the present time Griswold’s “Ke- male Poets of America,” which will be publis! before the holidays by James Miller, Sm Water Scorr’s young imagination was nourished with Scottish tales and ballads, learned orally from dames in the chimney corner, The books he had in early boyhood were Pope’s Homer, Josephus, Bunyan’s “Pilgrim,’ Ramsay’s ‘Tea Table” Miscellany (a volume of Scottish poems), and Mrs. Rowe’s ‘Letters from the Other World.” Ma. JoHN Ruskin has been to Scotland and complains that the picturesque scenery of the lochs ts being sadly spoiled by polluting liquids from the factories, “When last | was up Hunty Burr,” he says, “there was no burn there. 1t had all been drawn off to somebody’s ‘works’.”” At Edinburgh there is 4 railroad in place of the North Loch, and at Linlithgow common petroleum floats on all the streams, Tus London BookseWer records the fact that what it naYvely terms “the nuisance of street newsboys” was introduced into London in 1842 by an American, Mr, Isaac C. Pray, Who started a cheap newspaper (the Hvening Star) in that year, THE LATE JOHN STUART MILL was a precocious boy. He began Greek when three years of age, read a good deal of Plato at seven, and began to write what he called a “Constitutional History of Rome” by the time he was nine years old, He be- gan logic at twelve, and went through a complete course of political economy at thirteen, and he was a constant writer tor the Westminster Review at eighteen, Dr, Jessur’s book on “The Women of the Arabs,’* will be ready at Dodd & Mead’s this month. It is full of anecdotes and other interesting matter as | to the females of the East and their life and ; manners, DR. FERDINAND HILLER, of Cologne, the well- known composer, has in the press @ work on | Mendeissohn, entitled ‘Recollections and Letters.” Dr. Hiller was fom an early age the intimate friend of the great musician, and his volume will contain many letters, hitherto unpublished, of great musical interest and sparkling with wit and pleasantry, as well as a large number of new anec- dotes of Mendeissohn, Chopin, Rossini and other nap ‘ander- By No LANGUAGE possesses a dictionary 80 rich in the history of words as the just completed | “Dictionnaire de la Langue Frangaise,”’ of M. Littré, The work bas occupied more than 20 years, and there was not another philologist in France so well qualified for the work by previous training and scientific study. Mu. B.S, GRAZEBROOK, Who published a unique | book on the “Heraldry of the Smith Family,” has just issued @ new genealogical work entitled the “Heraldry of Worcestershire.” Anson D. F. RANDOLPH & Co, will publish, De- cember 1, a volame of ‘Religions Poems,” by the author of “Stepping Heavenward.” ART MATTERS, cee poi The Hareltine Collection. ‘There will be on view to-morrow and Tuesday, at the art rooms No, 817 Broadway, & collec- tion of pictures, some of which are examples of celebrated schools. The pictures are the property of Mr. Charles F, Hazeltine, and will shortly be | disposed of atauction. Among artists represented are Anguste Bonheur, Brillouin, Calame, Bou- guereau, A. Achenbach, Bakalowicz, Boulanger, Zamacois, Escosura, Letevre, Fortuny, Ziem, Lan- delle, Comte, Diaz, Chavet, Goupil, Lassaile, Beranger, Willems, Meyer von bremen, Vernier, Troyon, Herzog, Coomans, Daubig ny, De Jonche, Cari Muller and a few others, There are about 250 | pictures in ali, and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings will be devoted to their sale. We cannot attempt to specify all, even of the best, but the collection as a whole is certainly the | least unmeritorious that has been displayed in this | city during the past month—that is to say, since the art season opened. Otto Weber's “Treading Out the Wheat” is a very excellent example of the oie ol that artist. As much may be said for ~The Vintage Maid’? of Bouguereau. Nothing more than truth is demanded in bestowing high | praise upon the ane of the subject and treatment in “The Glass of Wine” by the late Edouard Zamacois. Gustav Jundt ts admiraple in his**kiowers for the Golden Wedding,” and does justice to the imstruction which he received from Breton. This picture awoke a great deal of interest avroad, and very deservedly so. When “The Music Lesson” its _ in- spected it will not seem surprising that Gustave de Jonghe’s — reputation is | growing more valuable. Emile Levy has only one picture in the sale. It is entitled “Watching and Waiting.” “Happiness and Charity,” by Carl Mul- ler, belongs to that class of pictures which have | won for lim @ unique reputation. It is one of the most attractive contributions that we have ever seen by him here. “Dieppe” is the principal contri- bution by Tony de Bergue, and thefe are a couple of littie pictures by Kuwasseg, introducing some of those quaint and picturesque old houses which he ints so telicitously. ‘The Story-Teller” is by arcisse Diaz de la Pena, and though we cannot coincide completely in the very glowing praise we have heard bestowed upon it, yet it is not stretch- ing & point too much to draw attention to its unusual beauty of color, Of course the collection would considered mcomplete without something from Joseph Coomans, and accordingly we find “The Pet Bird—a Scene from the Days of Pompeii." Zamacois is again encoun- tered in “The Cavalier’s Repose,” and Auguste Bonheur is visible in one of the best representa- tons we have seen by him—‘Driving Cattle Home im the Afternoon.’ The landscape 1s a very faith- ful and strong interpretation, Alvarez has “The Dancing Lesson” and “Scene in Rome—Some Chil- dren Taking their Morning Walk.” Then come two pictures which have aitracted a vast deal of atten- tion and probably will continue to do so until the exbibition closes. We refer to No. 62, by Troyon, and No, 63, by Fortuny. Meyer von Bremen’ has “Rest for the Weary,” Comte “Curiosity,” and Chaplin “Preparing for the Bath.’? In this brief mention of a few out of a collection of 250 we pretend only to specialize some of the most promte nent, ‘The exhibition is open free, day and even- ing. Yesterday and last evening the rooms were crowded, and as far as our observation extended the pictures which won most observation were Andre's “Argument,” representing two friends profoundly haranguing each other; “The Toilet,’ by Beranger, wherein a very young maiden is rep- resented at a late stage in the operation of dress- ing; Veron's “Approaching Storm,” faithfully por- traying the sombre and lurid sky, the bent trees, the swaying foliage and the weird cross-iights of such an occasion; “Good News,” by Willems, re- markable for the perfection of its technical acces- sories and for the stately beauty of its two ladies; ‘The New Servant,” by Jules Worms, in which the great point is the exquisitely sly ex- Riven on the old man’s face; “Fully Absorbed,” by Kscosura, representing @ gentleman in the de- lights of solit reading; Fortuny’s “Interior of an Eastern ble 3” “Preparing for the Bath,” by Chaplin, chi and ideal, but too fairy-like to be anything like an interpretation of pature; Par- rot's “Marguerite ;” “Sociably Inclined,” by Liardo; “Twilight ‘on the Seine,” by Daubigny, very strong and full of mysterious. light and shadow; and “The Fete Day," by F. H, Kaehmerer, in which a very young Egyptian girl, quite naked) is shown decorating mages, the treatment bein: He, ge Glaser "IN as it pe 5 » je sales will take pi: CUNLOR Kall, et ot ‘MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Mr. John EK. Owens continues his performances at Wood’s Museum. Wendell Philips will lecture on “Courts and Jails” at Association Hall on Tuesday evening. Master Henry Walker, the youthful piantst, is to make his first appearance here, at Association Hall, on Tuesday afternoon, “The Black Crook” will receive his quietas at the close of this week. The Vokes Family follows him to Niblo’s, and will appear in an extravaganza cailed “The Children in the Wood.” The Lingards begin an emgagement at the Broad- way Theatre on Monday evening, with a comedy called “A Life's Dream.” Mr. Lingard will also appear in a series of impersonations of notables, ‘The last of the Sunday concerts of the Strakosch Opera company will be given to-night at Wallack’s Theatre. Mile. Torriani and Signor Campanini are to sing, as well as M, Maurel and Signor vel Puente. An operatic concert, the proceeds of which are to be given to relieve the poof, will take place at the Academy of Music on Tuesday evening. Mme. Nilssou, M. Capoul and Signor Del Puente are to sing, and Miss Lina Luckhardt, the pianiste, is also te perform, Mr. George L. Fox has renewed the great stc- cesses of former years in his famous part of Humpty Dumpty. The Grand Opera House overflows with his patrons, and for almost the first time in its his tory itis able to put up that pleasing placard to the managerial heart, “Standing room only.” Wilkie Collins has written a drama upon some of the incidents or his novel, “The Woman in White.” It will be brought outin about two weeks at the Broadway Theatre. The principal character is to be assumed by Mr. Wybert Reeve, the English actor and dramatist, who has never yet appeared in this | country. Only another week remains in which to see Mr. Lester Wallack as Young Wilding in “The Liar,” @ comedy not often seen on the modern stage, and with no other living representative in the leading part except Mr, Charles Mathews, The next play at Wallack’s Theatre will be Mr, Robertson’s “Home.” Mr. and Mrs, W. J. Florence appear at Booth’s Theatre this week in their well-worn drama, “The Ticket of Leave Man.” But familiar as the drama is it usually draws well, and last season, without the aid of Mrs, Florence, it was the most successful play at this theatre excepting the pieces produced during Miss Nelson's engagement, “The Wicked World” has proved an attraction at the Unton Square Theatre too great to be put aside at the end of the period at first alloted to it. ‘Those ragged barons, Messrs, Thorne and McKee Rankin, will continue until Saturday, the 6th prox., to show how much they understand of poetry. On Saturday evening Boucicault’s new play will be produced. M. Aired Assolant writes in the 4/1me. Sitcle a letter to M. Sardou to propose that as the greater por- tion of the new play of *L’Oncle Sam” is obviously plagiarised from a tale by the former published in the Scenes de la Mie des Etats-Unis, an arbitrator shouid be chosen by each, and that those two should name a third, to examine together the two works, and then decide whether M, Assolant has not a right to a share in the author's receipts, and in what proportion. Miss Ida Rosburgh made her operatic début at the Academy matinee yesterday, assisted by some members of the Strakosch troupe. She introdaced in the lesson scene of “Ii Barbiere’ Benedict's variations on ‘The Carnival of Venice.” Her voice ie a soprano epogato of considerable compass, pure and flexible, and giving every evidence of high cultivation. It resembles Miss Kellogg's voice toagreat extent. Mme. Nilsson appeared in her best scenes from “Faust,” ‘Traviata’? and “Mignon.” The house was crowded to its utmost capacity. Signor Satvini is to begin a new season at the Academy of Music on Monday, December 8 He will first appear as Orosmanes in Voltaire’s tragedy of “Zaira.”” On the following Wednesday he will appear as Samson and on Friday in The Old Cor- | poral. Voltaire in constructing ‘“Zaira’ used | Shakespeare’s “Othello” as his model; The ele- ment of needless jealousy, incited and sustained by a false friend, works out in the tragical aspects of Orosmanes’ thoughts ana acts, Having the same passions to express in Voltaire’s tragedy as in Shakespeare’s, we may expect that Signor Salvini’s Orosmanes will be a masterpiece of acting like his Othello, Dion Boucicauit's new comedy, ‘Astray,”? which is to be produced at the Union Square Theatre, on Saturday evening, is “a thing of sentiment.” A wife struggling against ruin in the absence of her husband, who has found her not to be his aMnity and who has found tnat being in another quarter, and g literary rou¢, who strives to compass evil to the weak, romantic yet virtuous woman—these are the main characters of the piece, From this statement the action of the comedy may be in- ferred. There is one thing we gather from this as from other late plays o! Mr. Boucicauit, and that is that he believes literary men to be the most per- sect material for good stage villains, Journalists have been imported by him into previous plays to spice them with ‘smiling villany,” but into “astray” he has put an unfortunate novelist. Mr. Edwin Adams 1s certainly @ most natural actor, and his expressions as Enoch Arden appeal to the most ready sympathies of an audience. We have said this before, and now affirm it. But we | have never seen him produce such an effect upon his auditors as his managers now announce. Ham- let conceived that a player having such wrongs as his ‘“‘wouild drown the stage and cleave the general ear.” Of Mr. Adams, however, it is said that he leaves his “audience dissolved in tears.” ‘Tis an euthanasia devoutly to be wished for, and even more calm than that of the swan, whose life essence goes out in enrapturing music. By keeping “out of the wash’? some few visitors can view the strange sight of 2,000 persons, their cor- poreal substances slowly dissolving the whtie their senses are in a kindly mood of sympathy with the distresses of Enoch Arden, Is it prosaic just now to ask whose pumps are used at the Olympic? ‘This week, however, the water works may not yield, for Mr, Adams appears in the “Marble Heart.” DANGEROUSLY STABBED. Captain McCullough, of the Twenty-ninth pre- cinct, yesterday afternoon reported to Coroner Herrman that James McCullough, living at 227 East Forty-first street, who, on Thursday night, was so terribly stabbed in the left side by a knife in the hands of Thomas Hunter during aquarrel between them in the rum shop corner of Forty-first street and Fourth avenue, is now lying in Bellevue Hospi- tal in an extremely critical condition, Hunter, who is@ notoriously bad man and well known to the police, after using the knife made his escape; but Captain McCullough, hearing of the matter, sent officers in pursnit, and they subsequently ar- rested the knight of the knife. ‘ne pris- oner was immediately confronted with his victim, by whom he was identified as the man who stavled him, Yesterday afternoon Coroner Herr- man visited the injured man and found him much better than was expected. McCullough thought his life was in no immediate danger, and, such being the opinion of the doctor in attendance, no ante-mortem statement was taken. THE JANE STREET DISASTER. Detectives Ryder and Mullin, of the Central OmMice, arrested John W. Crawford and Michael Pfortner yesterday on @ bench warrant from Dis- trict Attorney Phelps. They are charged with manslanghter, being held responsible for the loss of Ife entailed by the falling of the house in Jane street about two months ago. Crawford was taken before the District Attorney and held to bail in the sum of $10,000. Pfortner will be arraigned before bim on Monday. SUICIDE OF A YOUNG GIRL, BUFFALO, Nov. 29, 1873. Julia Chilcott, 18 years of age, of Jackson, Mich., committed suicide in @ house of iil-fame this morn- ing by taking morphine, FATAL TERMINATION OF A RAILROAD AC- CIDENT, BosTON, Nov. 29, 1873. Baggage Master Billings, who was recently in- jured on the Framingham and Lowell Railrgad, MEXICO. —e—_——. Troubles on the Northern Frontier—Conflict Bee tween the Governor and Legislature of Coa- huila—Torture of Merchants for Refusing to Pay a Forced Loan—Religious War in the South of Mexico—The In- dians in Arms Against the Laws of Reform—Death to Protestants — Horrible Barbarities Prac- tised on Officials. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 15, 1873. It ts, perhaps, well known to the readers of the HERALD that differences have occurred between the Governor of the State of Coahuila and the Legislatnre of the same, and to such an extent that the latter body has moved the seat of govern- ment to Monclova and elected one of its own mem- bers Provisional Governor, Each party has organized military forces, and the’ result of the first contest was the utter rout of General Zepeda and his followers. Meanwhile the federal government at this capital has sent a com- mission to the State to undertake an amicable settlement of the differences, which commiasion, it is feared, will not secure the end desired, viz.,. peace. It is said that the Secretary of War has ordered troops from Matamoros to the scene of turmoil. The public anxiously await the resuit of the negotiations or @ conflict of arms, At this moment the situation, a8 known to this community, is best depicted by the following communication from Saltillo, and published in the Siglo XLY. on the 15th inst, aud duly translated ior the HERALD :— It is public and nororions in this city that the political authorities having imposed a forced loan upon some merchants, that they have excused themselves irom paying the amount assigned them, on account of the absolute want of casb in the town; besides tnere is no law that authorizes the imposition of such a loan, and finally, because it would ‘be unjust to put such an exaction npon a few citizens, rather than proportion it among all. Seven merchants who, for this reason, refused to pay the loan were arrested and confined in the City Hall, after suffering such detention tor four days three of them, Andres Caizados, Damaso Rod- riguez and Antonio Garza Ramos, were consigned to an underground room of the government house, where ‘ef remained closely watched and uncom- municated with, The remaining four, Serapie Cepeda, Jesus de los Santos Coy, Ferinine Villareal and Rafael Melo, were conducted to the garrison of the soldiery, where they were compelled to serve in the mess room of the soldiers, to do guard duty at night, molested and insulted in a thousand ways, and not allowed communication with even their families. Finally, yesterday, alter eight days of imprisonment, by order of the au- thorities, a force of cavalry took out Messrs, Cal- zados, Rodrigues and Ramos, conducted them on foot through the principal streets of the city, te the complete amazement of the entire community, and carried them oif on the road towards Parras. On the way they were obliged to travel at tne same pace as tnatof the cavalry, and in passin the falls of the Arroyo to go into the water, an notwithstanding the prisoners begged to be shot, as they could go no further, they were nevertheless compelled to, until the end was reached indicated by the chief of the force, whose instructions were to keep on until the loan demanded should be given. As these acts, simply narrated, which are public and notorious, are contrary to the institu- tions which rule us, as well as to humanity and civilization, because personal torture and the vio- lation of all guarantees which naturally belong to man in a society moderately civilized penetrates to the core. The commerce and people of this city have made energetic protestations against such acts, and in the use of the rights which are recognized as belonging to man by the sixth article of the constitution, and which sets forth that such acts are unjust, because they are not founded in any law; are offenccs, be- cause they trample upon the mghts of man se- cured by the constitution, and unnecessary, a9 the loan could have been made effective upon the property of merchants without tormenting their persons, and causing terrible affliction and suffer- ing in innocent families. These offences are yet more grave, inasmuch as they were consummated in the presence of tne soldiers of the Jederation, notwithstanding the judicial protection given by the Judge of the district, and under the circum- stances that the prisoners were notoriously dis- | connected irom all political partisanship. Let the whole nation judge what the guarantees are which the so-called constitution and legitimate authori- ties impart to the people of Coatuila, who should secure to us guarantees, and who have sworn to safely guard the sacred deposit of the laws. With reference to the disturbances now occurring in several portions of the country, the result of religions fanaticism, the following letter from a correspondent of the Cosmopohtan, of Mexico City, telis its own story, and, therefore, needs the dress- ing up of no sensation pen :— ‘TBMASCALTEPIC, Nov. 10, 1873, On the 6th the villages of Cuentla, San Lois Ocotopec and San Lucas pronounced, and entering the town of Tejupilco sacked, burned and de- | stroyed various houses and the property of all atch persons as had taken the oath to respect the new laws of reform, committing abuses which my per cannot depict. In the afternoon tne Indians captured and reduced to prison the Gefe Politico of Temascaltepic, the unfortunate Adrian Varela, and the Tax Collector, Rumualdo Dominguez, who,, having been horribly martyrized, Were asssassin- ated inthe Mina de Piata, belonging to Messrs. Banlot and Tolsa, of Mexico City, and their bodies having been stripped naked they were thrown into the river near by. On the night of the 7th the Indians feil upon Temascaltepic to the number of 500, but as everybody was armed and ready they dia not persist in their attack. On the &th, at five o'clock in the morning, they approached the town and commenced firing, without eflecty untii noon, when they again retired. At one o'clock 59 men arrived, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Mavez, aud at nine o’clock, taking 60 more men from here, he sailied out im pursuit of the Indians. Reaching the village of Cuentia with nis troops he reduced it to ashes, and continued In pursuit of tre Indians until be was compelled to retreat on account o1 their immense number, who had raised the cry of “Death to the Protestants! Long live religion!” I should say here that the alarm is very ‘eat, tor the loyal towns have not suffictent arms or ammunition with which to defend them~- selves, which they are disposed to do at all hazards, The principal villages which haveaided the movement belong to the munictpality of Tejupiico, and the Indians of the municipality of Temascaltepic have reiused to second them. * s * {desire toiniorm you of the horrible crime perpetrated upon the unfortunate Municipal President of Angaugneo, who because he pro- tested, in atcordance with his duty and con- science to respect the laws of reform, was cap- tured by the revolters, and having been covered with pitch was set on fire, and, wh.le living, suf. fered the martyrdom which the inquisition of old applied to its victims. While the flames were con- suming this unfortunate municipal president these savages were dancing around their victim, enjoying his convulsions in a most infernal man- ner. Temascaltepic is 60 or 70 miles soutnwest of MexicoCity, ATROCIOUS ROBBERY, PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20, 1873, A house on Morris street, occupied by a family named Vigors, was entered by burglars last night, who tied Mrs, Vigors hand and foot, gagged her and robbed the house of $190, Captain Vigors, her husband, lately went to sea, and she was alone in the house with her young children. The money was secreted in @ stovepipe hole in the chimney. When Mrs. Vigors was released she was delirious, but on her recovery she was able to give ade- scription of the robbers, THE MONTREAL POISONING CASE. MONTREAL, Nov. 29, 1873. Four additional victims have been added to the deaths in the accidental potsoning case, making the total number of deaths seven, and leaving five others still in a precarious condition. It appears that the man Flaherty seeing 4 sleigh standing in the street without @ driver. stole therefrom @ bottle containing what he supposed to be sherry, but which proved to be wine of colenicum. “fhis be shared with the inmates of the tenement in which ne lived, and some neigh- bors, with the fatal results mentioned, FOUND IN THE WATER, The body of an nnknown man, about 35 years of age, was yesterday found floating in the dock at the Staten Island ferry slip. He was five feet eight inches In height, with dark complexion, and full dark beard and hair, Deceased wore two coats, vest, mixed pants, black necktie and ts. The body was sent to the Morgue and Coroner ‘Herman noufied. On examining, the eftects of deceased at the Coroner's o1 late in the day, Mr. John T. Toal, Secret the. Board of Coroners, discovered cards and papers which showed conclusively that the remains were those of Mr. Thomas Armstrong, late @ merchant doing business at 164 William street and living im Brooklyn, who had been missing for weeks, In possession i deceased were found @ bill of ext) pugs £100, drawn on 8 J. Scnart & Co., bankers, of Nassaa gold Watchand chain, gold buttons, ical ring and ovner articles of less value. less the relatives who offered @ reward of Will claim it for ond by omeer M, ya | $00 for the recovery of the bod: interment, The remains were Colma, of the Firat precunct,