The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1874, Page 6

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While there was a large party of friends present at the marriage, an abundance of floral tributes and a display of elegant toilets, as was very proper, the event was distinguished for that republican simplicity so becoming in the fam- ily of the first citizen of this Republic. Every American will wish Mrs. Sartoris happiness in her new sphere of life and foreign home. Spamise Crvewty.—The report that the Carlists have been shooting women is in keeping with Spanish warfare. Spain has long made war upon women and children in Cube, and it is not astonishing that the Car- lists are now making war upon women in | Spain. Unless the Spaniards cease to com- | mit the atrocities which just now give them | an exceptional place among nations they may yet be sompelled to yield their autonomy as a | State, on the ground that they are the natural | enemies of mankind and civilization. Arrams mv THE Boarp or Epvcatioy.— Notwithstanding the many rose-colored re- | ports which the gentlemen intrusted with | the care of the education of the rising | generation periodically indulge in there are | many causes for complaint, and in the last | report of the Superintendent the evil of super- numeraries or deadheads is spoken of in strong terms. The want of a competent musi- cal director is also severely felt; and, owing to the culpable negligence of the Board in this matter, New York is behindhand, in as far | as the public schools are concerned, and other cities can point with reproach to the | system of music at present foisted upon our | schools. Why not appoint a reliable super- intendent of this branch of education? ‘Tue Cariner Crisis In France.—Up to the | date of our latest news the French Cabinet crisis was not ended. In the afternoon a Cabinet was completed, by the addition to those names which we have already published, | ot the names of the Duke d’ Audiffret Pasquier, without Portfolio; General Cissey, Minister | of War; M. Waddington, Minister of Educa- tion ; the Marquis de Montaignac, Minister of Marine, and M. Bodet, Minister of Finance. This arrangement, however, was not agreeable to the Moderate Right, who discovered in the programme what | they thought unmistakably republican lean- | ings. M. Waddington, in consequence, with- drew his name, and his refusal to take office | reopened the crisis. M. Buffet, the Duke | Decazes and other members of the combination immediately thereafter saw the President, but the result of the consultation is not yet known. It will not be a surprise to us if the dissolution of the Assembly should become a public necessity. If France loudly demands it neither President MacMahon nor the Assem- bly will be strong enough toresist the popular | .),), will. than she has yielded for years. | and while we irk y NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1874—TRIPLH SHBET, The Grengers’ Movement. War “against the legal but unjust privileges the vital purpose of the grangers’ or farmers’ movement, As this statement admits the | oppressive the war is, in fact, against certain laws ; and as these laws were nominally made by the people and the war against them is also in the name of the people, this aspect of the coming struggle impugns the whole system of lawmaking by which the people, through their representatives in the various State capitals, frame laws, year after year, illimitable in number, the effects of which are simply to surrender the people, bound hand and toot, to incorporated oppressors and privileged classes. Does this statement assume the failure of | popular government? Such certainly appears to be its logical starting point. Yet Mr. W. C. Flagg, of Ilinois, from whose paper on the grangers’ movement, read at the Social Sci- ence gathering, we have taken the sentence which points to the abolition of “legal but | unjust privileges’’ as the objective point of the | new agitation, couples his definition with an | expression of faith in ‘the forward movement | of the masses of humanity” and in the ‘‘dem- | ocratic idea,’’ and attributes to “all past ages,”’ | not to ours, the abominations of tyranny that | kept the agricultural classes under the foot of force and fraud. Everybody is free and equal and everybody votes, from the professors of mental philos- ophy in the colleges down almost to the mules, and certainly down to creatures whose intelligence is just barely distinguishable from | good mule intelligence ; and the result of all | this voting is to create representative bodies, clothed with the function of writing the laws | | with such an equal bearing on all classes and | | conditions that there shall be no privileges, | | no exclusive rights in whatever is supposed to | be public, and so that every man shall have in | | the operations of the political system and be- | fore the law the same equal value that his | vote has in determining the result. As bo- | tween Jack and his master the master | | may have more sufficient knowledge on | many delicate problems of life ; he may know | | better how to drive a bolt in the side of a ship, | and may give Jack some useful hints as to | | shoeing horses, and even as to how he should drain and plough and plant his land so as to improve his crops; but on such coarse and evi- | dent subjects as the structure of government | and the operations-of law in maintaining justice | | and equality Jack is quite up to the standard | intelligence, and is not only as good as his master, but better, in the exact proportion in which he is more numerous. People argued stoutly once upon a time that this was chi- merical and Utopian. They said that Plato | with the grangers will be that they will en- | and Sir Thomas More and Harrington and other gentlemen who had sketched common- wealths on paper were mere visionaries and romance writers ; but our stout, patriotic an- cestors proved their case by establishing a government which carried the practice of equality into further and more ‘impossible’ limits than Plato ever carried the theory in that cast iron scheme of conservative tyranny that he called his republic. Plato's ‘‘repub- lic’’ was the most elaborate distribution of hu- | manity into classes that was ever contem- | ee 4 plated, and Mr. Wendell Phillips and gentle. | chamber of the Charities and Correction | men of that kind genera!ly would open all their batteries on its iniquity if it existed in Arkansas or Utah or any other of the outlying tional greatness. Our government‘ is many, many centuries beyond the Utopian dreams of everything that stands in the people's way; and weare glad to see, as we do by Mr. Flage’s paper, that faith in the democratic idea is still fresh and perennial. But just as all this system of absolute equality and self-government is in operation ; just as we are wondering whether some mill- ions of money can be fraudulently abstracted irom the Treasury under cover of a scheme to | celebrate the hundredth anniversary of our | great democratic success, there seems to be extensive discontent on the part of the people with the operation of the government that is all their own. Mr. Flagg tells us that the farmers’ movement means that there is ‘an unusual feeling of oppression and distress resulting from the mischievous legislation of the country,’’ and above he has told us that there is injustice in our laws. It follows, therefore, either that the people of this country in making the laws contrive them so that they shall be unjust and oppressive to themselves and shall favor monopolies and privileged classes, or that the people of this country do | not make the laws and have no real share whatever in making them, and that our so- called self-government is a false pretence and a wretched sham; that the central and original notion of our system is utterly ex- ploded and blown away and that our whole great fabric as it stands ‘s a fraud. Upon which point of this dilemma will the grangers stand? They are the people of those Western States now agitated on the subject of transportation, in which the railroad corpora- tions are the oppressors and enemies of the people, as the grangers declare. deliberately and knowingly framed the laws to favor this oppression and set up and con- solidated this privileged power, or have they through absolute incapacity to deal, with the problems of government stood innocently by while the great functions of making and ad- ministering the law slipped away from them | as the sceptre ever slips from hands too feeble _ to wield it, and are a!l those States now ab- | solately governed by combinations that defy the popular will while actually using in ther own interests the popular forms, as the most convenient and favorable to all their aims? Whoever has examined the condition of the country can not doubt that the affirm- ation comes to the latter point. There are few countries in the world where the power of the people is less really felt in the regulation of great public concerns than in this country; are no worse off than most people we are certainly no further ahead for the pretensions and fictions as to popular sovereignty that garnish all our political pro- | srammes and platforms, Our condition seems to indicate the practical limitation of popular | government asa reality. Our government is already an actual o! ry of lobbymen and itic republic. Our laws 2 in the interests of privilege, and ately drawn by the well paid lawyers | Of great corporations, s0 as not to neglect the least point that may be necessary to carry out jobbers, not a democr | mine whether railways Have they | | the needs of the framers, as opposed to the | general interest, they are sent to the State | of chartered monopolies” is proclaimed as ‘*Pitals, andacertain number of the legis- | lators are paid so much a head to say “aye” to them when they come up to be voted upop. | legality of the privileges which are held to be | 12 ‘Hamlet’ it is observed that ‘‘by and by | is easily said, sir;” but it is just three times as | easy to say “‘aye;” and if a man gets a | thousand dollars each time he says it during a | session of the Legislature he gets well paid, and goes home to his constituency 2 proud and happy man; and if the grangers do not like the result as a whole they are thrown to the answer of that great political query of our | age, ‘‘What are your going to do about it?” | Before there will be any real improvement they must get a better answer than any that | has yet been given in their name. All that | they say is full of sound and fary, and means | as little as it is possible to mean on subjects relative to every man’s immediate interests. An adequate grangers’ programme must fally | cover the two important divisions of the diffi- culty. They must know, before they can hope to get on, how they are going to deal with the transportation problem proper—the rail- road side of it, strictly; and next, how they are to deal with the political part of the case, how they are to overcome the obstructions | that divert the tide of popular indignation, | and leave the laws just as they are already, | framed to secure the exclusive rights of | monopolies and to defeat the popular will. It is doubtful whether in its economical aspect the grain transportation does not in- volve an altogether new difficulty, and one that is necessarily insurmountable. Grain has for ages been carried to great distances, but not bya means that was compelled to charge the freight according to mileage, and this necessity must obviously limit the dis- tance to which it can be profitably carried if, at the end of its journey, it has to compete in the market with grain that may have come from greater distances, but has come by water routes. Is the distance from our great grain States to the Atlantic seaboard too great for profitable grain transportation by rail, and is such transportation only profitable for | higher priced products? Another important point of the railway difficulty will be to deter- can be honestly administered in this country. There are no encouraging facts to reason from. At present | many of our greatest roads are burdened with the interest on their real capital, and with an interest on a fictitious or fraudulent capital equal in amount to the whole capital proper, and obtained by the watering process. Thus a double interest burden has to be carried, and | freights are kept up in consequence. | But perhaps the greatest difficulty of all counter in the effort to get honest laws out of | a legislative system that gives all its prizes to | dishonest practices ; and we shall be better | able to judge of their fitness to deal with this | difficulty by and by, when we sce whether | this very movement against oppression and privilege does not fall into the hands of the oppressors and the privileged classes. | S-me Suggestions for the Mayor's | Court. As the Court convened by the Mayor ina | building seems to be at a loss how to conduct | the investigation it has undertaken of the | charges against the Commissioners of that | happy lands that fringe the mantle of our na- department, we beg to suggest a few points to fais: its attention may be appropriately directed. It is important that the Court | antiquity in its freedom and in its abolition of | Should aecertain whether one of the Com- | missioners has made, or authorized to be | made, by an outside party, any purchases of | dry goods? Whether a person named Stern- back, a family connection of Commissioner | Stern, has made any purchases for or sold any goods to the department? Whether Sternback is a dry goods merchant? Where his place of business is located? Whether his name is in the ‘City Directory?” Whether any person purchased of Mackintosh, Green | & Co., of No. 114 Franklin street, 9,000 yards of woollen stuff at 35 cents per yard, with 5. per cent off, and sold it to the city at 45 cents per yard, with 5 per cent off, making nearly $1,000 out of the taxpayers by the une trans- action? Whether any person purchased 3,564 yards of plaid stuff at 28} cents per yard, 5 | per cent off, and sold it to the city at 37} cents | per yard, 5 per cent off? Whether the fol- | lowing purchases and sales were made on | July 31, 1873:— 10,256 yards of brown shirting, market price 11 cents, sold to city at 12 cents per | yard. 4,518 yards of awning stripe, market price 19 cents, sold to city at 21 cents per yard. 2,987 yards of ticking, market price 19 cents, sold to city at 21 cents per yard. 1,487 yards of linsey, market price 18 cents, sold to city at 20 cents per yard. 50 dozen machine thread, market price 72 cents, sold to city at 85 cents per dozen. If the Mayor’s Court should find that such purchases have been made, will it inquire who | made them and who authorized them? How | the difficulty of purchasing supplies in amounts exceeding $1,000, without inviting bids, has been overcome? How the bills have been made out? How the Finance Depart- ment has been induced to pay them? When the Court has finished these inquiries wo | shall be happy to suggest some further ques- | tions which it may advantageously put to wit- nesses whose names we can supply if they are not known to the Court. Theatrical Nuisances. | . We publish in another column a complaint | from one of the fair scx directed against the annoyance and discomfort to which ladies are | constantly subjected by the continual entrances | and exits of gentlemen spectators at theatri- eal performances. Now, though we do not seo any certain way to remove the cause of grievance, we are always willing to break a lance in favor of the ladies, ¢ though, like | the Knight of La Mancha, we should be tossed in the air for our too devoted chivalry. But what editor worthy of the name would hesitate to lay his pen in rest and rush ona legion of theatrical managers when to bya fairlady? In the | lady deserves help, because it wrong that the fair portion of th should be subject to annoyance from the “smiling” propensities of the gentlemen, The lady, too, is reasonable, and does not | object to “smiles,"’ in the theatre. Only she thinks it would be better for the gentlemen to “nips” between the acts without stirring from their seats, than to crush out crumpling | ladies’ dresses and causing general annoyance | in the rush for a ‘smile’ at the next bar. The present custom is all the more objection- able trom its implied discourtesy to the ladies left behind, the nectar of whose emiles would | satisfy the gods and ought to content mere mortals. Can the managers do nothing to abate this nuisance? Secret History of the War Between France and Germany. Was Austria really allied with France for | the war of 1870, and was her failure to parti- | cipate against Prussia a breach of actual pledges and engagements? Was it the same | with Italy? There is good reason to believe | that these queries must be answered in the | affirmative, and if this affirmative shall be | established historically it is evident that the fact must change very greatly the views that have hitherto been taken as to the error of the | Emperor Napoleon in venturing a contest | with his terribly capable antagonist. It may prove after all that he was ‘‘betrayed,’’ and | was not merely blind and fatuous. His ‘*On | m’a trahi,” will, perhaps, prove a diplomatic | truth rather than the mere maundering of a intellect, as it has hitherto | broken down | seemed. | In 1869 it was understood in Italy, in | France and in Austria, that if the advance of | Prussia was not soon decisively arrested it | would reach a point at which its arrest would | be impossible; and a treaty of alliance was | entered into. Austria, in the words of a de- spatch of Count Beust, ‘regarded the cause of | | France as her own,”’ and Italy was satisfied on | all points but that of the French occu- | pation of Rome, which was therefore put aside from the negotiation. This understanding was revived anew by the Span- | ish candidacy, and went so far as to fix tho | | point of a demand on Prussia and arrange a | general plan of campaign. Prussia was to | have been called upon to bind herself to | assent to the peace of Europe on the terms of | the treaty of Prague and, of course, to exe- | cute that neglected compact. Austria was to | put two hundred thousand men in the field by | the 15th of September, and Italy was to place | sixty thousand men in the field early in the | summer and forty thousand more by Septem- ber. Denmark was to co-operate upon the appearance of the French fleet on the Danish |coasts. Austria assented to the passage of | Italian troops across her territory for an oper- ation against Munich; and if we imagine all | this in motion we may see that William and | his Man of Iron would have had their hands | | full. Bismarck, no doubt, was thoroughly in- formed of the whole proceeding, and assured the success of the war for his master by first | knocking down this diplomatic house of cards. | Russia was regarded by the allies as certainly neutralized. Austria otaerwise could not have | gone in. So the Prince thoroughly frightened | | the great men at Vienna by the shadow of the | Czar coming on behind the Prussians. That | dropped the first pin. out of the machinery. Then he adroitly played upon Italy’s Roman | grievance and another joint was weakened. | Then, as neither Austria nor Italy were ready | | for early operations, all was to turn upon what | the French should do on the Rhine, and it was | obvious at Berlin that one or two victories | over the French at that poiut would end the war before the other allies were ready. Desperate endeavors were made, therefore, and Prussia, more nearly ready than any other | Power, overwhelmed her enemies’ half col- ; | lected forces by the blows at Woerth and | Wissembourg. So the alliance was broken up. | Pave have reason to believe,’’ wrote Von | Beust to Prince Metternich, “that Russia | adheres to her alliance with Prussia to the | extent that in certain eventualities the inter- | vention of the Russian armies must be re- | garded as not only probable but certain. * * * Under these circumstances the word ‘neu- trality,’ which we utter not without regret, is | imposed upon us by an imperious necessity.’’ It was the shadow of Russia, therefore, and | | those early Prussian victories that isolated | France ; but it removes something from the heavy load Napoleon has to bear to have it | established that he did not in blind folly rush | into a war with the Prussian colossus without provision for support. It is quite another | accusation to say that the provision was in- | adequate. Diplomatic Honors. Mr. Ellis H. Roberts offered a resolution in the House recently changing the titles of our | Ministers to Portugal, Belgium and other | minor Powers from ‘Minister Resident’’ to | that of “Envoy Extraordinary and Minister | Plenipotentiary,” the title now held by repre- | sentatives to England, Frasce and other great Powers. Mr. Holman objected to the resolu- tion, saying that it was only the beginning of | a movement to increase salaries, and intimat- | ing that at most of these minor capitals it would be better to have consuls than ministers. Mr. Roberts did not succeed in having his resolution entertained. We see no harm in | it. Mr. Holman’s fear that it will ba fol- lowed by an increase of salaries seems to ba unfounded. We do not pay our envoys extra- | ordinary all the same salary. We pay more to the English Minister than we do to the | Spanish, and more to the Spanish than to | those in Mexico and Japan. Yet they hold the same rank. The question of rank is some- | thing in a foreign court. A minister resident | is not much more than a consul general. His usefulness is limited, and he is prevented from | properly representing the interests of the country by the limitations thus imposed upon | him. Foreign ministersshould all have equal rank. Sweden is quite as important a court in our foreign relations as Germany and Aus- tria, and there is no reason why our Minister there should not have the same rank as Mr, Bancroft and Mr. Jay. This distinction be- ween our ministers is in itself a remnant of | the aristocratic times, and should be abolished | as unrepublican in spirit. Tor that reason we regard the resolution of Mr. Roberts as a | good one. As to the point advanced by Mr. Holman, that we might have consuls in place of minis- | ters at mavy of these minor courts, we think | it bas value. Belgium and Holland could be | made into one mission ; or, if we were disposed to a severe economy, we might combine the Belgian, Dutch, Swiss and French missions into one mission. Denmark could be added to Sweden and Portugal to Spain without their every wish, Framed thus to meet all | bring little pocket flasks and indulge in | much detriment, leaving consuls to reside at the | | of the charges brought against the Depart- | management of the Police Department, and | trial. | should at once give their attention to this capitals. Our diplomatic service abroad isnow much better and marked with higher tone and intelligence than it has been for a long time. At the same time we might manage to work along with fewer representatives. The Aldermanic Investigation of the Police Department. Tho Special Committee of the Board of Aldermen appointed to investigate the affairs of the Police Department, and to report what action should be taken on the Mayor's mes- sage, declining to consider the evidence taken before the Legislative Committee relating to the corruptions of the Street Cleaning Bureau, made their report yesterday. The report is signed by Aldermen Ottendorfer, reformer; 8. V. R. Cooper, republican, and Edward Gilon, democrat. The committee very justly condemn the frivolous excuses of the Mayor and his indifference to the misconduct of his appointees. They regard it as the duty of the Executive to watch jealously and closely the workings of all the departments, and to exercise the power of purification vested in him by the charter, without waiting for specific charges to be made in an official form by some outside party. The Mayor, as the head of the city government, is certainly re- sponsible for the inefficiency and maladminis- tration for which several of the departments are notorious. The fault lies with him origi- nally for studying personal friendships and political bargains in the selection of his ap- pointees, He has filled the public offices with men unknown to the community, or too well known to be trusted, and has thus brought upon the city such scandals as the police in- vestigation, the grand jury presentment and other disgraceful disclosures. In imperti- nently branding the inquiry of the legislative committee asa mere partisan movement un- deserving the confidence or respect of the community, as in his pretended investigation ment of Charities and Correction, he shows that he is resolved to stand by his appointees, however unworthy they may be. The censure he receives from the Aldermen is therefore well deserved. The Aldermen find much to condemn in the express the belief that the ‘‘inefficiency, neg- ligence, corruption and defiance of laws which are proved to exist in the street cleaning and election bureaus are not restricted to these two offices, but pervade more or less every branch of the Police Department.” Their conclusion is that it is the imperative duty of Mr. Havemeyer to suspend and remove the ‘Police Commissioners ‘‘who are responsible for the demoralizntion exist- ing in their department,’’ and to appoint gen- tlemen whose character and standing in the | community will bea guarantee of the thor- ough reform of the department. The com- mittee have made a mistake in taking up the cudgels for the Tammany braves in their fight with the Police Commissioners over the ap- pointment of inspectors of election. Their report will lose some of its force on this ac- count. The Street Cleaning Bureau has been | notoriously inefficient, extravagant and cor- rupt, and it would have been well for the Aldermen to have rested their case on this ground alone. Nevertheless, their recom- mendation of a reformation of the Polico Commission is as proper as it will be ineffec- tual. The interests of the Police Commission and the Street Cleaning Bureau are the inter- | ests of the Mayor, and he will not interfere with either. It wil! be fortunate if the recent changes in the Commission—united with the | exposures that havo. already been made— . should have the effect of removing some of the abuses that exist in the department. The Strong-Minded in Brooklyn. | The Brooklyn Academy was crowded last | night with an audience composed mainly of strong-minded females and their sympathi- | zers, the occasion being the discussion of the | relation of women to the moral, social and political questions of the duy. The interest | of the meeting was increased by the presence | of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, whose eloquence | is always sufficiently attractive to draw to- | gether a large assemblage, and who, | of course, made the speech of tho evening. Mr. Beecher claimed for woman the right to enter the forum and the pulpit, to share in political discussions and to vote. He did not believe that this extension of the sphere of woman would interfere with | her domestic duties or impair her charms as’| a domestic angel, and he attributed Paul's ob- | jection to female teachers and preachers to | the fact that the saint wasa bachelor. Mr. Beecher sighed for the time when the married man would say to his wife, “Come, my love, there is a primary meeting to-night. Put on your things and let us go.” The reverend gentleman did not give the audience his idea of the sort of evening the | lady would spend who might attend with her husband a Sixth ward primary, or how she would get along in an address to an election- ecring crowd opposite Tammany Hall; but we | presume these little difficulties would soon be surmounted by practice and use. The ladies were, of course, delighted with Mr. Beecher | and his doctrine, and they trust that in the next election he will commence to practise what he preaches, by taking the ladies of bis household to all the primaries and political mectings in his v Tux Massacuusrerts Drsaster suggests more important work than can possibly be performed by the jury of inquest which has been empanelied by the Coroner of Hampshire county. All that can be done by the Coroner and his jury is to find the persons who are re- sponsible jor the insecure condition of the Mill River reservoir and present them for But in the almost certain absenco of criininal intent it may well be doubted whether anybody can be puvished, The more important work to which we would call general attention is the necessity of a thorough examination by competent engineers of dams | | and reservoirs all over the country. Legisla- | tures and local bodies, including the courts, subject. Stringent laws are necessary to pre- | vent a recurrence of scenes like the disaster in Mill River Valley last Saturday, In sve | State such laws mist be passed at the earliest | ity. Inthe meantime people living | ity of any dam of loose construc- tion, or known {o be dangerous, should invoke the courts to protect them against the cupidity of reckless millowners. Unless vigorous measures axe taken we may hear of other calamities in other parts of the country equally heartrending with that on Mill River, Henri Rochefort. The arrival of the Communist leader at San Francisco is announced by the telegraph. He is said to be on his.way to Europe, where he wil! continue to war against the dynastic factions in favor of the Republic, though he will still continue an exile. Nothing could well be more inconvenient for the French authorities than the reappearance of this restless politician in the political arena in tho present disturbed state of the popular mind in France. Whatever may be thought of the wisdom of Henri Rochefort’s efforts to estab- lish the Communal Republic, there can be no question of the courage and devotion he dis- played in pleading the cause of the people under the Empire, and though the Communal siruggle undoubtedly injured for a time the cause of republicanism in France, it has exercised a restraining and most wholesome influence on the reactionary factions. The supporters of the ‘Divino right’’ principle, or white demagogues, would ere now have made an effort to restore Honri Cing by force, and with him all the obsolete and hate- ful distinctions and oppressions which he represents had it not been for the spectre of the Commune which warned them to beware. Henri Rochefort will probably seize the op- portunity of his presence in America to ex- plain the aim and objects of the Communal struggle, which have been so much misunder- stood and so generally misrepresented in this country. Social Science. The Social Science Association was again in session yesterday. The meeting, as will be seen from our report, was well attended. The discussion of the day followed upon a paper read by Professor Chandler, in which the Professor gave a brief description of the organization and working of the Health De- partment in this city. According to the Professor there are in the city some twenty five thousand tenement houses, which contain abont one-half the population. Knowing what tenement houses are as 2 general rule the thought is fearful. Professor Chandler amply justified the existence of the Board of Health. It is quite manifest that the Board of Health ought to be sustained and encour- aged. Our tenement house system is perhaps a necessity, but it is most unquestionably capable of great improvement, While it ex- ists, and while we are struggling towards a better state of things, the Heilth Department cannot be too earnestly encouraged to perse- vere in the good work in which they are engaged. ‘The Social Science Association has already done the public some service by lend- | ing its aid to the movement inaugurated by the Herazp in regard to steam lanes across the Atlantic. Not always do learned associa- tions prove themselves to be s0 much in sym- | pathy with the active and progressive tenden- cies of the age. In any attempt which Professor Chandler may make to improve the dwellings of the poor he may count with con- fidence on the support of the intelligent press of this city. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General John M. Corse, of Chicago, is at the Gilsey House. Captain Cook, of the steamship Russia, is at the Brevoort House. Sir Alexander T. Galt, of Montreal, yesterday arrived at the Gilsey House. Rochefort, a Parisian rumor says, intends te republish La Lanterne in London. Coionel T. F. Rodenbougn, United States Army, is quartered at the Everett House, Commander E. K. Owen, United States Navy, ts registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman Robert S. Hale, of Elizabethtown, N. Y., is staying at.the Filth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Stephen Preston, Haytien Minister at Wash- ington, has apartments at the Union Square Hotel. Pere Hyacinth and his wife have by invitation been making a tour of the Universities of Holiand, ‘The Hon. A. H. Stephens weighed seventy-two pounds when he reached his home in Georgia lately. Tne Marquis of Ripon was lately installed, for | the fitth time, as Grand Master of the Freemasona of England. j Ex-Governor Hoffman, with Mrs. and Miss Hoff man, and Oolonel Robert Lenox Banks, are living at Fischer's Hotel, in London. ‘The Marquis de San Carlos, who arrived from Havana In the steamship City of Havana on Wea nesday, is at the New York Hotel, =, Captain Berry, of tfelena, Ark.—They buried him in his boocs alter Joc Marks had made some re marks against him with a speaking pistol. Since his failure to walk 500 miles in six days an exchange calls him the Great American Fizzler,”” and humorously advises him to “go Weston foot.” Prince Chanceilor Bismarck, speaking through | the North German Gazette, says he owes France prominent consideration fof her sympathy with Arpim—darn-him, Mr. Charles E. K. Kortrignt, British Consul at Philadelphia, arrived here in the steamship Rus- sia, and 13 at the Brevoort House. He haa been visiting relatives in England on a leave of absence, and 13 on bis way to Philadeiphia to resume the duties of his consulate, A Troy man careiessly left his false teeth on @ chair and they were swallowed by his dog. The owner now regrets that he was not more liberal in the purcliase of butchers’ scraps. The dog, howey, ‘Tr witlings say he is yet teething. ‘The Dowager Duchess of Leeds has leit by her Will a legacy of £5,0v0 to Archbishop Manning, | £10,000 to an orphanage in Sussex and other be- quests to charities. ‘he bulk of her property hag gone to the Marquis o1 Caermarthen, the youthiul son and heir of the present Duke of Leeds, Captain Frank Brownell, the comrade or Colonel Isworth, who avenged that oficer’s murder by killing Jackson, the hotel keeper, yesterday ar rived in this city from St. Lous, He ts on bis way to Mechanicsville, to take part in the unveiling of the monument at the birthplace of Ellsworth, Nerr K, Von Schlozer, the German Minister to Washington, was a passenger on the Hamburg steamship Pommerania, that sailed trom here yes terday. Herr Von Schiozer has a leave of absence Jor several months, anc, in the Meantime, Baron Von Bunson, who arrived here recently, wili act ag Chargé d’Amaires at Washington. ARRIVAL OF MINISTER JAY, Mr, Jobn Jay, our Minister to Vienna, arrived here yesterday on the steamer Rus: Accompa nying him was his son-in-law, General Vou schwee nitz, of the Austrian army, ana the latter's wife and chiid, Mr. Jay was welcomed home with en thusiasm by lia family and numerous friends, and last night there Was a gathering of the membere of his family at the residence of one of mis sons in-law—Mr, Henry Grafton » 30 West Washing ton aqua: Besides Mr. there were three HW OF Mr. day pr se gentlemen ads also present atthe iamily gathering. ly Wit proceed to Washingtom within lay two to consult President Grang and secretary Fisu. On bis retura, and betore he starts for tits country residence at Katonaty Westchester coun where he will probaoly past part of tne summer, it ts anderstood that te Union League Club, of whieh ne was formerly tie President, Will give him # tormal recepuods ', has not been weil since the accident, aud ~