The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1874, Page 7

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AND and CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, THOMAS’ CONCERTS—8 P. M. = 5 | New York, Wednesday, May 13, 1874. | From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be generally clear. | In Guaremata.—Our news columns present to-day one of those dreadfully shocking stories of cruel brutality that are found mainly in the annals of the Spanish-American peoples. An officer caused the British Vice Consul at San José de Guatemala to be ‘publicly whipped to the extent of two hundred lashes, and then endeavored himself to escape from the town en a ship in the harbor, but was shot and killed. Tom Bowzrxc.—Mr. McGrath’s race horse made one of the most wonderful performances yesterday at Lexington ever known. In a dash of a mile and a half with Mr. Grin- stead’s colt Jean Valjean, Tom won in two minutes thirty-four and three-quarter seconds, and continuing on a half mile further made | the two miles in three minutes twenty-seven | and three-quarter seconds. The mile and a | half is three seconds faster than Glenelg’s | two minutes thirty-seven and three-quarter | seconds at Long Branch in 1870, with eight | pounds short of weight, and four and three- quarter seconds faster than True Blue’s three minutes thirty-two and one-half seconds for | two miles at Saratoga last summer. Tae Late Present Cesprpzs.—To-day a | solemn requiem mass will be offered for the | repose of the soul of the late Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, ex-President of the Cuban Re- public, at the Church of St. Stephen, Twenty- eighth street, at ten o’clock A. M. Few men | in this generation have given nobler examples of ,self-sacrifice and devotion than the | soldier and statesman for the repose of | whose soul prayers, like sweet incense, will be sent up to heaven by sorrowing friends. ‘Two or Turex Werks ago the Custom House republicans pushed through the State Legisla- ture a law to give Mayor Havemeyer the sole power of appointment to all city offices, with- out the confirmation of the Board of Alder- men. Then they supposed that Mr. Have- meyer would appoint one of their own nomi- nees to a vacant Police Commissionership in accordance with a bargain to that effect. The Mayor cheated them and made his own selec- tion, Yesterday the Custom House republi- | cans declared that “if Mr. Havemeyer had the | opportunity of assisting in any fresh frauds or | of placing some low adventurer in office he would be prompt enongh to take advantage of it."’ Yet they knew the Mayor as well three weeks ago us they know him to-day, and were willing to put the uncontrolled power of ap- pointment in his hands, because they believed they could use him for their own purposes, | This is the sort of treatment the people of New York receive at the hands of professed “reformers.” Movements Towarps Economy.—The Police Commissioners have reduced the salaries of some of the employés in the Street Cleaning | Bureau. It is also rumored that men on the payroll, who have confined their work to | drawing their monthly amounts, have been refused payment for April, and that some of | these are the protégés of certain Aldermen prominent in the street cleaning ‘‘investiga- tion’ movement. How far all this is due to the pending investigations we do not know. At all events, the city will save money by the new economy. It may become interesting hereafter to inquire why it was not sooner pat in practicn { | important point. By their representatives | further duplication than that of the State Ex- | ject of organizing a rump Legislature and | duplicature of the whole State government. | Brooks’ demand in favor of time for .assem- | bling the Legislature under his call, appealed | under his call, and would adjourn from day to | of | keeping the door open for a new call of his | the power than can at any moment destroy | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, Anarchy in Arkansas—Prospect of « Solution. Daylight glimmers through the Arkansas trouble, and the malcontent Brooks seems in a fair way to be “hoist by his own petard.” He, like Baxter, appealed, as Governor of Arkansas, to the federal Executive for support in his rights. But in the Attorney General's | office at Washington the rival claimants were apparently in agreement on one they assented that the Legislature of their State was a supreme authority for the determination of the point raised by their claims—the point as to who was Governor. Brooks agreed to a compromise on the basis of the submission of the case to the body representing the political sovereignty of the people, and Baxter's recognition of the pro- priety and right of such a course has been declared from the commencement. With the assent of both sides, therefore, to the submis- sion of their claima to the Legislature, pacifi- cation seemed easy and all further steps merely points of detail. But on these points that presumably were mere details—points of the method and date and place of assembling of the Legislature— the whole case really turned; for the purpose of Brooks seems to have been, under the pre- tence of assembling the Legislature, to gather a factious body of his retainers, his minority of the Legislature, and by filling va- cancies, giving seats to contesting members or some similar hocus pocus of political trickery, to fill this body out to proper proportions, have it vote a recognition of his right to the office of Governor, and thus present to the country and the authorities at Washington a ecutive, and so, by constantly deepening the muddle, to indefinitely defer disposition of the case. His possession of the State House would, as we have seen in the story of Louisi- ana, have much assisted this game. But the straightforward honesty of the President has exploded it. Baxter and Brooks had proposed different days for the meeting of the Legislature, and the day named by Baxter had already arrived, and fifty-one members of the Legislature had | come together obediently to his call. By the | mere drift of the negotiation, apparently, the body thus assembled became so distinctly rec- ognized as the body to which appeal must be made, that the door was closed upon the pro- clouding the issue by the presentation of a General Grant, acknowledging the justice of to Baxter on the subject, and Baxter, seem- ingly in simple good faith, replied that the Legislature of the State was already in session day until a quorum was secured, and that this adjournment from day to day would give oppor- tunity for the arrival of whatever members would answer only Mr. Brooks’ call; that thus Brooks’ demand would practically be met, and that, in order to show his good faith, Mr. Brooks should evacuate the State House that the Legislature might be able to meet at its proper place of meeting free from the appre- hension and restraints that would be necessarily incident to the presence of armed forces. | So reasonable and fair a proposition could | but commend itself to the President's good sense, and it was therefore laid before Brooks asa proposition that the national Executive deemed just, and would support; but, of course, it did not meet the views of that gen- tleman. If the gathering of legislators under his call should merely result in filling a few more seats in the body already assem- bled under Baxter's call, his project could | make no progress, for this would be merely a new session of the very same body that had already rejected his claims. Although the so- called Supreme Court of the State, under some peculiar pressure applied by his party, had given a judgment in his favor in direct conflict with its own previous decision, he could scarcely hope that the Legislature would | be equally amenable, and he perhaps knew | that it had not been possible to apply to the | Legislature the ‘‘pressure’’ that had been g0 | successful in changing the views of the Judges of the Supreme Court. His only hope was in | some other Legislature than the legitimate and | recognized Legislature of the State of Arkan- | sas, for that body was, as he already knew, | hopelessly against him. It was because it | was against him that he had appealed to the | Courts, in the hope to have those bodies de- | termine political points by the declaration of | legal principles. The success, therefore, of his usurpation, depended upon a denial | the validity of the Legislature as assembled under Baxter's call, and the | own adherents, who, gathering in the State | House, of which he holds armed possession, would act as a sort of private pocket Legisla- | ture, thoroughly meet all his requirements and make up on his behalf a record of politi- cal legitimacy that, to the careless observation of the many, might seem as good as the record | on which Baxter holds office. But to deny to the President the authority | of the body that had all the time been recog- | nized as the tribunal before which the claims | of the parties were to be heard, the assem- bling of which he had pretended to desire, and to still keep up the farce of appeal to the national Executive, was evidently not thought to be within tenable limits; so Brooks has taken the extreme step of placing himself in | the position of a political Ajax defying him. And the very assumption of this posi- | tion may be looked upon as the end of his claim, because it places his insurrection on grounds that at once outlaw it. As we have already shown, the origin in our | system of the errors that lead to events like the present is due to a general confusion in the public mind between legal and political powers, and to the mischievous pretence that | tribunals set up by the sovereign political authority to interpret the laws have a mysteri- ous power, derived from nobody knows where, to unseat and overthrow the | very political sovereign that has created them. Brooks’ men had their eyes opened in Wash- | ington, it would appear, to this weak point in their scheme for making a governor by a judge's order, so they abandoned it and pre- tended a readiness to stand by the legitimate political authority of their State, for that was the only condition on which the national gov- ernment could consider their claims, But the logical results of the admission thus made, that they must mend their record from politi- cal and not from legal authority, led them too far; and, finding that it would leave them without a foot to stand upon, they have cast it away, and with it they must, we suppose, abandon all the hopes they had based on the countenance extended by the national government, Brooks is, therefore, at the present moment in armed possession of the State House ot Ar- kansas in defiance of every recognized political authority and in violation of the public peace, holding it declaredly against the constituted authorities of the State of Arkansas and of the United States; and, of course, the end cannot be remote. The Geneva Award. The United States Senate yesterday passed the bill for the distribution of the Geneva award against the better judgment of an in- telligent and capable minority, Objection was made to the bill on a very grave point of principle, but the application of the princi- ple turned on the treatment of insurance companies in the bill. There is very little popular sympathy with insurance companies, and that is natural enough; for they are managed upon grasping principles. They accept the money of the ingurer and they escape payment for losses whenever a legal technicality leaves them a loophole. But the public prejudice should not affect grave legis- lation which touches on the national honesty, and it seems clear that the act passed violates, under cover of this prejudice, the principle upon which we received the money awarded. ‘The bill assumes the right of Congress to rule out a large class of the Alabama claims, upon the theory that the money was paid by Eng- land, not in satisfaction of private claims, but asa national indemnity. In that assumption Congress is in conflict with the facts of the whole negotiation and with the views of the tribunal which gave the award. Every endeavor to have the claim re- cognized as national failed. Our right to present the claims of citizens and demand indemnity in thetr behalf was always conceded; and this view held against us always prevailed in the negotiation, and when a treaty was finally made that was ambiguous on this point and therefore met the views of both parties, the tribunal before which the case came decided that ambiguous point against us and ruled out all claims made as national, accepting only those for private losses. In the number of the claims that we then presented were the claims of the insur- ance companies that Congress now rules out. In this the United States must appear as a dishonest trustee, It refuses to pay the money it has collected on claims that it deemed good enough to present to the English government. It deliberately votes that certain of the claims which this government urged at Geneva were unjust and invalid, and, there- fore, that the government was a party toa fraud. The Cuban Insurrection. It will be seen by a communication which we publish in another column that the ia- surgents are steadly pursuing their purpose of carrying the war into the Cinco Villas. The | much boasted trocha has been successfully crossed by considerable bands from the Central Department, and the result will no doubt be seen in the rapid increase of the in- surrectionary movement in the Cinco Villas. |In no part of the island is detestation of Spanish rule stronger, but the conditions are not so favorable to resistance as in the Central and Eastern departments. However, the spread of the insurrection in a westerly direction is most significant and shows that the insurrection is gradually re- gaining the ground lost in the first reverses of the war. The unhealthy season is now beginning, and the chance of successful operations against the insurgents this year is atan end. Could the Cubans obtain arms and muzitions freely the struggle would soon be decided. For well nigh six years the war has been waged, under every disadvantage, by the patriots, and the time has come when this country ought to recognize the belligerency of the Cuban Republic. Trovstx in Sr. Perersrurnc.—A special despatch from St. Petersburg to the Pall Mal Gazette, printed, in these columns this morn- ing, says that the Grand Duke Nicholas, brother of the Czar, has been arrested, but on what charge is not known. His house, it is added, was searched by the police, and great excitement prevails in St. Petersburg. It may be that this is only an idle rumor. Sensations of this kind, however, in times not far removed from us were not uncommon in St. Petersburg. It is noteworthy that the Emperor Alexander is absent from his capital and that he is on his way to the Court of Queen Victoria. It is not at all impossible that suspicion of conspiracy has attached itself in some way to the Grand Duke, and that the officials of the Empire have been a little over-zealous in the matter. When we remember, however, that one Russian Em- peror has been murdered and that another is | Supposed to have been murdered since the com- mencement of the present century, we cannot | wonder that the police of St. Petersburg are somewhat watchful of political offenders. Tae Samana Bay Company 1x Count.— The magnificent scheme (on paper) of the Samana Bay Company, which has been loudly | trampeted by the stockholders and agents, terminates its existence naturally in the courts of law. It never had any substantial basis in real capital, population or means of produc- tion, and without that all the grandiloquent and poetic effusions about palm groves, luxu- riant nature, a splendid soil and delicious climate amounted to nothing. The conses quence is that an application has been made to the courts of law for the appointment of a receiver of the property of the company, and there are other applications and snits ready to seize whatever effects there may be of the collapsed concern. There may be some in- teresting developments over the scramble. A Doctor's Brut.—The bill to compel per- sons practising medicine to obtain a license from county medical societies under certain penalties has received the Governor's ap- proval. It is intended to protect the public from medical charlatans, as the county socie- ties are only to issue the license upon a diploma or after examination. It was a law much needed; but it may excite war of the “‘pathies,” as the county societies are gonerally not strong in the homeopathic faith ‘The Keduction of City Estimates — A Hint for the Board of Apportionment. The property holders of New York are weighed down by the burden of taxation. The rate of $3.40 per cent upon an unjustly in- creased valuation is enormous, especially when we consider that the work of city improvement is almost wholly suspended, that our streets remain in dangerous and dis- graceful dilapidation, that progress in the upper portion of the island is paralyzed, that honest creditors of the city are driven to the courts to obtain their money, and that the public debt is increasing more rapidly than ever through the reckless ‘‘bridging over’’ policy of the Finance Department. The Mayor and Comptroller promised the tax- payers a great decrease in the rate of taxa- tion for the present year if they could obtain the power by legislation to reopen the esti- mates cnd reapportion the moneys required for carrying on the government. The law they requested on the subject has been enacted, and on tho 15th instant the several municipal departments are to submit to the Board revised estimates for the balance of the year. It will then become the duty of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment to give us the reduction they have promised. But it must not be made only by driving over till next year payments which must then be met. The saving must be one in fact, not in seem- ingonly, and must be the result of reduced expenses, The departments should all exer- cise the strictest economy in their estimates ; but the responsibillty is, after all, on the Board; and the Mayor, the Comptroller and ths President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments, who are its members, must cut down the estimates wherever they find occa- sion to do so. On this point we can give them some useful hints. The departments to be the most closely scrutinized are those which are not re- quired to give to the public a full and detailed account of their expenditures. The Park De- | partment may be subjected to a great reduc- tion without any injury whatever to the pub- lic interests, and now that Colonel Henry G. Stebbins has been restored to the Presidency of the Park Commission we have confidence that these reductions will be made. The architec- tural expenses are unnecessarily large. Mr. C. Vaux, of the old firm of Olmstead & Vaux, is ‘Consulting Architect,” we believe, and re- ceives a large percentage upon the amount expended on the Museum of Natural History and Gallery of Art, insuring him a sum of some $25,000 to $35,000. Mr. Olmstead, is Land- scape Architect and General Superintendent, and we understand that his salary is $6,000 a year. These gentlemen are also said to have drawn pay from the city for the time of their own employés as ‘draughtsmen,” to the amount of an additional $3,000 or $4,000 a year. Mr. Olmstead is Landscape Architect of the Brooklyn Park, and is allowed by our Park Department the services of a horse, carriage and driver at the city expense, which, no doubt, enables him to fill both offices satisfac- torily. Mr. J. R. Mould is ‘Assistant Archi- tect,”’ at a salary of $5,000, and Mr. Munck- witz—the real worker of the corps—is “Superintending Architect,” at $4,500. These expenses will certainly bear cutting down. The expensive work on the bridge from the Lake at Fifty-ninth street to the Museum is unnecessary at this time, and should be dis- continued by the action of the Common Council. There is ample room in other directions also for economizing in the Park Department, and we are confident that Presi- dent Stebbins will co-operate with the Board of Apportionment in applying the pruning knife to all extravagant and useless expendiwres. The Department of Docks, now about'as useful as a fifth wheel would be to a coach, should be made to cut down its army of idle hangers on, although its expenses are an addition to the city esti- mates and not included therein. The Depart- ment of Charities and Correction, now under suspicion of being ‘‘honeycombed with cor- ruption,” should be reduced to the lowest appropriation possible, at least until its honesty is established. The street cleaning swindle should be stopped by cutting off at least one-half the amount appropriated in the present apportionment. The enormous ex- penses of the Finance Department, now more than one hundred thousand dollars higher than under the corrupt Tammany rule, should be largely reduced. The barefaced job of “contingency’’ appropriations is killed by the law. Nota dollar should be appropriated for any pretended ‘‘expenses’’ of the City Prison Commission, especially for the benefit of any individual who is drawing money in any other way from the public treasury. The Public Works appropriation should be reduced as far as consistent with the public interests, If these economies are practised there will be areal saving to the taxpayers, while the ex- tension of bonds, the postponement of the Fourth avenue improvement appropriation and similar temporary reliefs, are only “‘bridg- ing over’’ for the moment, to brenk turselvéd ’ down with unbearable burdens in the end. Prespyrenmanisa of the old-fashioned Scotch type is still a power in this coun- try, notwithstanding the inroads upon it by the Congregational churches and the more liberal theology of the times, It has always shown a stern courage that in itself was ad- mirable, and which would battle for fore- ordination with the same zeal as for existence. There would be something missed from the world if its stern dogmas should disappear; but in spite of the liberalizing tendencies of the younger soft of the clergy these old teach- ings are likely to receive a new impulse from the elevation of the Rev. Dr. Adams to the presidency of the Union Theological Seminary. ‘The venerable pastor will not fail to impress the traditions of Presbyterianism upon the young men who sit at his feet like so many Pauls at the feet of Gamaliel. Tue Untversa, Peace Unton.--Such a so- ciety, it seems, has an existence, and of this | society there is an American branch. At a place called Plimpton Hall yesterday morning this American branch held the first session of | its eighth anniversary. When we say that Mr. | Alfred Lowe presided, and that the audience consisted chiefly of ladies, among whom were Susan B. Anthony, Lillie Devereux them sat Elder Evans, the public will not feel disposed to believe that the time has yet come when that pious practice is to begin of beat- ing the swords into plonghshares and the apeary into pruning hooks, The Londom Conference for Maritime Meteorology. ‘The announcement of a new Maritime Me- teorological Conference, proposed for August, will be greeted with pleasure by the many classes interested in the improvement of navi- gation and the advance of ocean meteorology. This congress of eminent and practical savans will be convened in accordance with a decree of the Vienna Meteorological Congress of last year, and will be conducted after the method of the famous Brussels Conference of 1853. The announcement to which we refer comes from Mr. Robert H. Scott, the Director of the British Weather Bureau and one of the sub- committee appointed at Vienna to arrange for the meeting in 1874. The benefits of the Brussels Conference, inaugurated by Lieuten- ant Maury, have been realized in their wide- reaching and incalculable utilities wherever the navigation of the deep seas has extended. The whole world is familiar with the vast general advantages resulting from the system of observations carried forward through the recommendation of the men who met at Brussels, Till then the ocean was like a trackless waste, and where occasionally a route was laid down on the charts, as notably in the Southern Hemisphere, it often took a ship hundreds of leagues out of her true way. The work of collection and reduction of the marine observations proposed at Brussels has lamentably fallen off since 1861, and, with the exception of two or three silent and ill-rewarded laborers the field of marine geog- raphy and meteorology has been almost un- occupied. The action of the new Conference will be international, and in a degree will bear the official imprimatur of the governments represented last year in the Vi- enna Meteorological Congress. The United States was among these, and through its dele- gate proposed the system of international ob- servations encircling the globe—a system which was adopted and is now in operation. The Vienna meeting, in endeavoring to deter- mine the best way of introducing maritime meteorology into the general system, found the task too comprehensive, and hence this supplemental meeting proposed to be held in | London in August next. This second meeting will obviously have it in its power to provide indirectly tor estab- lishing a world-wide system of steam lanes, such as we have so long contended for. By | its more than semi-official action it will not only carry the confidence of the nautical world, but also command governmental influ- ence sufficient to secure an enactment of its recommendations. Only let it be conducted on the broad, comprehensive plan of the old Brussels Conference, and legislation will hardly be necessary to insure respect for its decisions. We do not hesitate, in view of the vast issues involved in, and the popular demand for, steam lanes, to suggest action by the new conference, fixing such lanes not only between New York and Liverpool, but on all the great oceanic thoroughfares in both hemispheres. The saving of life and property would be in- calculably large from such a system, well matured and internationally adopted. It is not premature for our national Congress, now in session, to take some action favorable to | the London Conference and to give it as- surances that its decisions will, if possible, be ratified by the UnitedStates. Even should the steam routes decided upon be open to minor criticism, uniformity would outweigh almost any objections that could probably be urged. We would give the highest official aid and encouragement to these picked and practical scientists—‘‘path-finders of the sea’’—in their beneficent work. Their as- sembling at this time furnishes us the best agency we could have for consummating a wise international system of marine steam tracks. Let us make the most of the oppor- tunity. Another Trouble About Patronage. Comptroller Green with his accustomed perversity has invited a squabble over the law to consolidate the city and county govern- ments, by raising a question as to the future source of patronage in the appointment of janitors and scrub women in the County Court House, now a city building under the new act. Mr. Green makes the absurd claim that the “Commissioners to complete the Court House’ are entitled to appoint the employés. ‘The pretence is as stupid as his financial pol- icy. The Commissioners are temporary officers only, appointed to control the comple- tion of the building. Whon that is done their existence terminates. Where would the patronage go after that? The Comptroller might just as sagely argue that the persons invested with authority to complete the new Post Office have the right to appoint the Post- master’s doorkeepers and scrubbers. The Supervisors claim that the new law does not deprive them of the patronage. That question is to undergo legal examination and deter- mination. If the appointments do not still yest in them they go to the Department of Pubiic Works, which department exercises similar patronage in thé.cpse of the City Hall and all other buildings not specially placed | under the authority of other departments. A New Issvz.—The action of the House of | Representatives yesterday will bring a new issue into the present Congress. Mr. Cannon was returned to the House as the duly elected Delegate from Utah. ‘The election was con- tested by a Mr. Maxwell. One of the issues entering into the contest was the allegation that Mr. Cannon is a Mormon, a follower of Brigham Young and a practical believer in polygamy. This did not influence the House in considering the legality of the canvass, and it decided that Mr. Cannon had been duly elected. Atthe same tite, however, a reso- lution was passed directing an inquiry into the alleged polygamous practices of Mr. Can- | non. In the event of a report certifying that the Delegate is a practical polygamist he will be expelled. ‘This is a new point, and it will, no doubt, assume a very interesting phase. Compursorr Epvcatiox.—Governor Dix yesterday signed the bill which compels parents and guardians of children between the ages of eight and fifteen years to give them in a school or at home at least fourteen | weeks regular instruction every year in read- Blake and others, and that conspicuous among — ing, writing, arithmetic, English grammar and geography. It prohibits the employment of children within the ages named at any labor during the time when the district schools are opened, and school officers are given authority to see that it is enforced. No doubt the law will be effective in tne country, but its enforcement in this city will encounter great difficulties. It is, however, wise in the view that no man has a right to let his child grow up in ignorance. The Manhattan Gathering and Its Effect om the City Politicians. The late democratic jubilee at the Man- hattan Club has left behind it some heart- burnings among the party leaders. There has long been a subdued feud between Tam- many Hall and the Manhattan. The thick cowhide boots of the one have not harmontzed well with the polished leathers of the other— the ungloved and not over-clean hand of the Wigwam has not been disposed to close in a very friendly grasp over the kid-clad fingers of the club room. The cause of the estrange- ment is no secret, When misfortune and exposure overtook the old Sachems of the hall the ambitious exquisites of Manhattan flourished their cambric pocket handkerchiefs and avowed their intention to make the alub the future rallying point of the democracy and {o supplant Tammany altogether. The repu- tation of the old Wigwam was tainted. It would be impossible again to rally under @ name which had been rendered infamous by Tweed and his associates. The “Tammany democracy’ was doomed, but the “Manhattan democracy’ might spring into existence and take an honorable position. So some venerable and highly respectable club- bites entered actively into the campaign against the Tammany plunderers and were prominent among those who succceded in overthrowing the old “ring.’’ Recently Tammany has undergone a re« vival, but it has been under leadors of a different stamp to the Manhattanites, and who have failed to appreciate the importance of the club and its members. When the idea of a democratic reunion to celebrate recent victories of the party was first suggested in the club parlors it was agreed to keep the affair as distinct from Tam- many as possible. The Grand Sachem was tendered an invitation, at the earnest solicitation of an anxious candidate for the Mayoralty nomination, but he declined it, and, with the evident object of ignoring the ban- quet altogether as a democratic gathering, called a meeting of the Tammany General Committee on the same evening it was held. Since the Manhattan jubilee it has become evi- dent one of its main objects was to hold a rod over Tammany in connection with noxt fall's State nominations, and to show the unwashed politicians of the corner groceries that the re- spectable element of the party must be studied in the arrangement of the programme if suo- cess is desired or expected. Of course the broadcloth politicians and office-seekers place great stress on the Manhattan gathering, and look upon it as the opening chorus of a grand revival, but among the work-jackets, the crop- ped heads and the broken noses of the wards, it excites no reverential comments, and the affair is sneered at asa sort of kid-gloved at- tempt to build up a political organization in opposition to the Wigwam so famous in the annals of the New York democracy. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Randolph Rogers, the sculptor, is residing at the Windsor Hotel. Captain Greenfield, of the British Army, is at the Hoffman House. Mr. J. E, Clark, contractor for the Transandine Railway, bas returned to Chile. Miss Susan B, Anthony, of Rochester, has ar- rived at the Westminster Hotel. Ex-Gevernor James E. English, of Connecticut, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman Samuel Hooper, of Boston, had apartments at the Brevoort House. President Andrew D. White, of- Cornell Univer- sity, is again at the Hoifman House. Colonel E. H. Ludington. United States Army, ia quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman John M. S. Williams, of Massa- chusetts, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Prince Spracine, a descendant of the renowned Admiral of Peter the Great, 1s now on a visit to Paris. Ann R, Key has slipped between Brooks and Baxter and is likely to continue to reign io Arkansas. Dr. Mary Walker wants to get into the news- paper business in Cleveland. Does she want to make a bustle? . Near Rochester on Saturday Abraham Lifebier hanged himself in @ barn and went to his death bier calmly and unmourned. Mrs. Belva A. Harris has been admitted to prac- tice before the Court of Claims in Washington, beginning with a $100,000 suit, AMr. J, ©. Hall, an oMictal in the Indian Political Department, lately became insane and murdered two natives near Oomrut, India, Robert H, Pruyn, of Albany, formerly United States Minister to Japan, is among the recent ar- rivals at the Filth Avenug Hotel. Mr. George Petrie, Manager on the Pacific Coast of the South Pacific Steam Navigation Company. has lett Peru on a visit to England. The individual known as “Lord Massey” satled yesterday from Philadelphia asa sailor on board the ship Lizzie Moses for Antwerp. ‘The French legitimist editors at the recent Con- gress at Tours voted one address to the Pope and another to the Count de Chambord. Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, of the United States Supreme Court, arrived from Washington last evening at the St. Nichoids Hotel. Commander Selfridge, United Statés Navy, com- manding the Darien expedition, arrived yesterday from Aspinwall in the steamer Acapulco, A Hamburg shoemaker recently accepted an American business card for a Treasury note. The | extent of that man’s business may be easily gauged. President MacMahon recently astonished the democrats in the Champ-Elysées by driving out in great state in his new Russian carriage, recently purchased by bum for 16,009 francs, Jasper Meade, @ medical student at Hoffman's ferry, near Schenectady, has been detected im boiling @ corpse on his father’s farm. He told the neighbors that he was merely bruin’ a bear into joap. i The wife of ex-Governor McCook, of Colorado, died in Washington yesterday alternoon of typhoid pneumonia, She had been in the capital severat months with her husband, who is awaiting the re- sult of his nomination to the Senate for Governor of Colorado. : RUIGERS FEMALE CULLEGE, A very scanty audience assembled last evening at Robinson Hall to listen to a considerable aisplay of talent, vocal and instrumental, The concert was given for the benefit of the “Alumn@ Associ- tion of Rutgers Female College,” and the audience was as enthusiastic and appreciative as it was diminutive. Mr. J, R. Thomas sung “Tne Hand that Rocks the World” and “A Jolly Good Laugh’? in his very best style, Mra. Evans, of Dr. Chapin’s choir, rendered “O Mio Fet+ nando,” from Donizetti, exquisitely, and she was equally happy in Gambassi’s duet ‘“ Pescatore,’? conjointly with Mr. Thomas. One of the best features of the entertainment was the instrumen- tation of Mlle. Brousii, who 1% an accomplisnea violin piayer. Her violin solo, “Bird ou the ‘Tree,’ by Hauser, was much enjoyed and rap. turously applauded, The other performers were ies eS Selgepae Jaan La Bene BF Ne . A. bowler, J, Bardett an 5 niano accomoanument was by Mr. G.