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A bill passed the House yesterday providing for the relief of his widow, and it is to be hoped that no unnecessary delay will occur in carrying out the liberal Wu He Do Ir?—The Aldermen, by a de- Cisive majority, have adopted the resolntion censuring the Police Department and de- claring it to be the duty of the Mayor to sus- pend and remove the Commissioners, who are responsible for the present inefficiency and corruption. But the Mayor is not likely to heed the voice of the city, as expressed through the Common Council. His personal interesta are too much identified with the dumping and election irregularities to render fit probable that he will pay any attention to the bull fulminated by the Aldermen. No. 149 | AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING | * | Roberts; so that the vote cannot be called y from an extract elsewhere | New States and Territorics. We had an interesting debate in the Senate | yesterday on the motion to admit the new Ter- | ritory of Pembina, The Senators seemed dis- Posed to develop a general policy in dealing with the Territories and the admission of new States. The debate was impelled by the mo- | | tion of Senator Sargent to give the right of | suffrage to all inhabitants ot the proposed Ter- ritory without regard to sex, race or color. | This fed to a discussion of the whole question | | of woman’s rights. The friends of that cause | ! will rejoice to learn that it was championed by | Senators like Carpenter, Morton, Ferry and | Anthony. The arguments they adduced are familiar, and need searcely be reviev now, for the debate did not assume a serious shape, ‘and the amendment of Mr. Sargent was de- | | feated by a voto of twenty-seven to nineteen. | There is this to b that a cause | | which can command nineteen votes in the Senate has strength enough to give its ad- herents hopes of ultimate triumph. The ' value of the debate arose from the fact that | the Senate shows a disposition to legislate on | Territorial questions and in reference to the admission of new States. Itis interesting to consider how far, at the present time, this disposition may lead us. ‘The vote in the House of Representatives on ' the admission of New Mexico was one of the Most conclusive that have been passed during | the session. ‘here were one hundred and | sixty yeas and fifty-tour nays, Among those | | who favored the measure we note men like | said, however. | Dawes, Nesmith, Orth, and opposed to it such | membersas E. R. Hoar, Tremain and Ellis H. partisan or sectional. The discuasion was | | thorough, those taking part being Mr. Elkins, | the Delegate from New Mexico; Mr. McKee, of Mississippi; Mr. Potter, of New York; Mr. | Kasson, of fowa; Mr. Fort, of Mlinois; Mr. May- | | nard and oth In this debate it was said | that New Mexico now claimed a population of {one hundred and thirty-five thousand—a population larger than that of fifteen other | | States at the time of their admission to the | Union—and that more votes had been given in the last canvass than had been cast for any one | | of forty members of the present Congress. | | Among the States which came into the Union with less population than New Mexico now con- tains were Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Llinoisand | Iowa. Mr. Kasson made the point that when | apart of the Mexican Republic New Mexico had a representation in its Congress, with all | the rights of State sovereignty, and that an- nexation should not work disfranchisement. | It was shown also that in 1846, when General Kearny, at the head of an American anny, | occupied Santa Fé, he stated, in the name | of the government, that ‘‘it was the wish and | intention of the United States to provide a | | free government with the least possible delay, similar to those in the United States.”’ It | was alleged that Europeans had settled in this | Territory a hundred years before the landing of the Pilgrims, that its capital was the oldest | | town in the United States except St. Augus- tine, and that in domain it was three times as large as Ohio-—larger than New England and | New York. The impressions these statements made upon the House are indicated by the vote, | and we presume they led to the action of the ! House Committee on Territories, in favor of the admission of Colorado as a State, which was reported yesterday. The friends of the admission of Colorado, inspired by the success | of New Mexico, now mean to press their case | to a vote on Monday. So that the whole ques- tion of these Territories, aud, perhaps, of | others like Montana and Washington, will | come up before Congress before discussion. | We believe in dealing with our Territories in a liberal spirit, and the whole question should be discussed, not so much as affecting. the domination of one party or the other, but asa question of the gravest public concern, If the welfare of these Territories is to be served by their admission into the Union as States let them be admitted. But we have seen no argument showing this to be so. On | the other hand, our form of government | admonishes us to watch jealously lest the | principles of self-government are violated by the granting of sovereignty to populations that are unfitted for its burdens. It is not simply the enfranchisement of New Mexico that must be considered in @ question like this, but the disfranchisement of New York and Pennsylvania and New England. Asan able | contemporary shows, the process of adding to | , the Union has gone on until now the Senate | | shows the singular spectacle of “sixteen mem- | bers representing a majority of the people and | fifty-eight members representing the minor- | ity.” Thus eight States, New York, Pennsyl- { vania, Ohio, TIilinois, Missouri, Indiana, | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDA | from custom, to control the Executive. | asks : | of Prévost-Paradol, in 1867, that “France ar | ment is on foot to offer the crown of Spain to | Spain. | French pride or more opposed to the tradi- | Germany of such a candidature would be great. | member of the Royal Academy laments that by the ‘constitution. It has its power | 4s a co-ordinate branch of the Legislature, and power partly arising from etiquette aud partly If | two Senators from any State consider that | any appointment affecting the State is un- pleasant to them their will controls the Sen- | ate and stops the President, During John- son's time this tremendous power of etiquette led to scenes of barter and sale between re- | publicans and democrats of the most immoral character, Partnerships were formed be- tween a republican Senator like Morgan and a democratic representative like Wood for the | disposal of patronage, which severely wounded the well being of the civil service. We w tion this now to show that instead of incr ing the powers ot this incongruous, irresj ble and in many ways unrepublican bo: adding members who represent nothing but | mountains and buffaloes we should recoustrust it and make it more republican in tone. For this reason, therefore—and no higher reason has appeared in the discussion—wo are opposed to the admission of New Mexico and | Colorado as States. States should represent something more than lands and trees and ro ing herds of wild animals. When these in- | teresting and growing territories are truly States we shall welcome them. France and Germany. The Paris correspondent of the Loudon Standard, one of the best informed writers on French affairs in the English press, “Can any man of average com- mon sense believe that Germany will quiefly rest on her oars and wait aniil | France has completed the organization which will bring her fighting strength to upwards | of a million of men?’' He shows, furthermore, from the speeches of Yon Moltke, that Ger- | many will not allow France to carry her work | to completion, and quotes the celebrated figrre Prussia are two heavy end richly-laden tra’ hurrying on in different directions along ihe saine line of rails."” As if to confirm the views of this corre- spondent, we arc told that in Madrid a move- Prince Leopold, of Hohenzollern, The head | of this movement is Sagasta, one of the ablest | as he is among the most unscrupulous men in | This is the same Prince to whom the crown was offered by Prim, in 1870. We know all the consequences that came aiter. As matiers now stand France would prob- | ably submit in silence to the acceptance of the crown by 2 Hohenzollern. But at the same time nothing would be more galling to tions of all French governments. The French | feel about a German prince in Spajn as we felt | when Maximilian was in Mexico, or rather as we would feel if the Queen were to send an | English prince torule there. The advantage to | Belgium and Italy are now allies of Germany. | England is under treaty bonds to protect Bel- gium from France. This makes England | virtually an ally, because Belgium is the | only way by which’ France could enter Ger- | many. With Spain in the hands of a German prince, in the event of a war, two hundred thousand Spaniards could be swept through the passes of Perpignan and St. Jean de Luz to menace Bordeaux and Marseilles and ravage the southern provinces, which even Moltke’s | armies did not touch, So that a German | prince on the throne of Spain virtually hems France as by a wail. The Hohenzollern story may be a specula- tion after all. It seems to us that if the nine- teenth century has any civilization it could find a way to make peace between two nations as grand and powerful and useful as Germany and France. Why is it that this war spectre should forever haunt the banks of the Rhine? | For two thousand years the banks of that beautiful river have been laved with the blood of contending armies, and peace was never further from the hills and vineyards of Rhine- land than now. The Germans seem to seek peace in emigration. But it is a sad com- mentary upon the greatness and freedom of Germany that its people can only find peace in exile. A Nation anp Irs Ant.—The question, How far a nation should control its art, is now | the subject of discussion in England. Very | recently what remained of the works . of Landseer were sold. Many of these works were of unique value, and the esteem in which they were held by the pub- lic is shown in the result of the sale. Sixty thousand pounds were realized, one | house alone paying forty thousand pounds. A | to the car of the administration Juggernaut, | of French polities, that “the:blues will always | accept no color, but to blend thom ail. | propose to draw party lines in the United | as the gashes which marked the ghostly Banquo. | wounded. No matter what the republicans | | Massachusetts and Kentucky, with a popula- .,A Comsrrrex or ConFERENCE ON THE CoR- | ginoy Biri.—The House of Representatives, by unanimous consent, took wp the Currency | bill yesterday, and thereby indicated a deter- mination to come to some conclusion on it; | but when the vote was taken on a substitute for the Senate amendments to the bill it was | rejected. The yeas were 112 and the nays 117. The report says there was considerable excite- an! , tion of nearly twenty millions, have sixteen | | two Senators, we see at once the injustice to | member of Parliament from Kidderminster, the British nation could pay the vast sums it continually disburses for armies and navies Senators; while twenty-nine other States, with | and yet not spare sixty thousand pounds to a poptiation of not quite nineteen millions, | keep together for the public uses the works of have fifty-eight Senators. When we note in | g man of genius like Landscer. In the col- this list a State like Nevada, which, as the | lection was anu original portrait of Sir Walter World shows, has not more than one-half of Scott, which was sold for four thousand the population of our Seventeenth ward, with { dollars. The purchaser was Albert Grant, New York and to other States of Nevada’s | well known in this country from his connec- ment as the roll was called, every one seeing | P ce in the Union, and the added injus- the vote would be a close one, and that many | | . | tice of the admission of New Mexico. | ees (Pt votes ee cies Hinally a Mong | It wonld be much better for the interests of | was taken on concurring in the Senate substi- the Union if this whole question of Senatorial Lays lacks sep ae Radiata oe! representation were to be carefully revised. | yeas 70, Days 164. Ti is evident by this | There were reasons in the beginning of the that the bill, as passed by the Senate, mects | 0 tederation why Bhode Island and Delaware | with little favor in the House. At last a com- should have as much power as Virginian and mittee of conference was agreed to by yeas | New York, ‘These reasons went back to the 122 to nays 82. It remains fo be scen if this | colonial times, and had their origin in the | aa ns mune pos | whims and schemes, the personal necessities, A Tareatesen Famrse wy Lovistava.— | the political ambitions and purposes of the Again the cry of deep distress comes trom | original owners of the soil. For the sake of the Mississippi, appealing in anguished terms | peace—perhaps we should say for the sake of to the opulent metropolis for relief. There securing a confederation of some kind—we should be no lukewarmness on the part of our | oan understand bow our fathers consented to an arrangement of States as unjust as what citizens in response to this appeal. The hor- rors of famine which now threaten forty-five |we see in the New England and Middle | thousand people, whose every means of sub- States. Since the original federation, sistence have been swept away, should be | as in the admission of Missouri, Texas, averted by speedy subscriptions, or we shall , California, Kansas, Nebraska and Nevada, | incur the disgrace of suffering a whole commn- | there have been unusual political excitements, _ nity connected with us by national ties to | and the States came in either in the spirit of | perish through starvation while wealth and | compromise or to give party strength in the luxury reign among the merchants of New | Electoral College. There has been scarcely an | York. The sitnation is so alarming that | instance, except, perhaps, in Minnesota, Texas _ delay will be fatal The Mayor received and California, where the admission of new another earnest despatch from New Orleans | omer dictated by high considera- yesterday calling for assistance for the desti- | tions of public policy. It certainly seems to tute thousands in Louisiana, snd, we are {us that before we admit New Mexico and | informed, subscriptions come in very slowlyat | Colorado these considerations should be his office. There should be at once a meeting | calmly weighed. ‘The Senate is now of prominent citizens here and the adoption | strong body, atronger than the of practical measures for relie& House, stronger than was over intended | thinks, will soon receive the distinction which | Archbishop Kenrick, whose great learning and tion with the Emme Mine. Mr. Grant gave the portrait to the National Gallery, so that the owners of the Emma stock may feel that some of their money has found a good use. “Tae American Canprvat.—The St. Louis Republican, discussing the question of the ap- pointment of an American Cardinal, says, justly, that as ‘the United States must be con- sidered as among the great Powers of the world, and its Oatholic people numerous, wealthy and intelligent, the honor, it is | thought, will no longer be withheld.” The Republican informs us that “the two pre- | lates most notably conspicuous in learn. | ing and piety and in influence at the Vatican are Archbishop Purcell, of Cin- cinnati, and Archbishop Perche, of New Orleans.”” One of these, the Republican has long been deserved and should long since have been conferred on some one of the many | eminent Catholic prelates of America, At the | same time if the editor's own preference were | consulted he would like the red hatto be given to the “eminent and distinguished prelate exemplary piety would honor any distinction in the power of the Pontiff to confer.” As we have said, we have no preference. But if the office of Cardinal is usctul to the Roman Catholic Church, America, with its millions of loyal and faithful Catholics, should no longer be neglected. “The Revival of the Democracy.” The Albany Argus, a venerable exponent of democratic principles, takes much comfort in the many evidences it sees everywhere of ‘the revival of the democracy."’ Here is its argu- ment summed up:—‘“All the elements of humanity, of progress and of reform are com- bined in the movement for the rescue of the South from the bondage in which it is held. Call it Bourbonism, conservatism, liberalism, democracy or what you will, it still means the removal of the evils of white enslavement! If there are any who believe in binding the South under the mistaken notion that the elevation of the blacks cannot be accomplished without the oppression of the whites, they have no part or lot with the democracy.” The mistake which the Argus makes is tural to newspapers that look at. political stions from the side of partisanship. Napoleon once said, commenting on the phases na q | be blue andthe whites always white.” His | success a8 Emperor came from his resolution to If we will | Let States upon the old issues the blues always be blue, the whites always white. | it be understood that the democrats and re- | publicans are about to fight over the contests of | 1860 or 1864, and the republicans will carry the country even with General Grant as a | candidate for a third term. The election of | Mr. Eaton in Connecticut as Senator is an indication of what we mean. Mr. Eaton was elected, and to that extent his success wus a | democratic triumph. Butin every other sense it was a republican victory. It showed that, in Connecticut, for instance, democracy meant | Bourbonism; that, no matter under what pre- tences votes were obtained, democracy meant a return to the issues that were destroyed by the | war; that if its leaders came into power they | | would overturn all that had been gained by | | vide by a sufficient appropriation for the com- the war. There is probably no vote that Mr. Daton would east so gladly as q vote repealing | the proclamation of emancipation. Nor is the South to be served by any such policy. The Southern States suffer as much | to-day from whet the democrats did in power | as they suffer from the republicans. For if the republicans brought carpet-bag rule the | democrats brought secession, war, defeat and*| thousands of other horrors, On that issue the democrats would scarcely carry a Southern State, nor will any party calling itself demo- cratic and carrying out the principles which | made Mr. Eaton Senator from Connecticut, and which seem to inspire the Argus, ever in» fluence thiscountry. There are two wounds on | the brow of democracy as bloody and as fatal These are ‘Tammany’? and ‘Secession.’ No party can win that has been so fatally | may have done—and their record is dismal and appalling enough—the democratic party must be reconstructed upon new principles and must find for its leadership new men be- fore it can win a Presidential canvass. It has not shown us evidences of this wisdom as yet, nor do we see much indication of it in the counsels of its leaders. Porrticat, Mapness.—The Raleigh Crescent closes an angry article on the Civil Rights bill as passed by the Senate in this manner: — We shall insist on the immediate repeal of our laws providing for common schools whenever the Legislature assembles. Verily the republican | party has much to answer for. It has turned over the South as far as practicable to a horde of thieves and rascals. and now forces us to abolish papile schools! Let the white men ot North Caro- | ina who have heretojore co-operated with tnat | party decide now whether they can sustain such | an outrage. Will they accept negroism, or will they go with us for the protection o1 the white race and advocate no public schools rather than mixed schools f We can understand the provocation under which sentiments of, this kind are expressed. But these are not the sentiments which can lead to the results desired not only by tho editor of the Orescent but by all who wish well to the oppressed South. There is no such issue as ‘‘negroism”’ and the ‘protection of the white race,’’ and whoever inspires it does harm to negro and white alike. Recon- | struction in the South must come when the good men of both races understand that they have a common interest in the peace of the community, the honesty of administration and the rescue of the Commonwealths of the South | from the fearful state into which they have fallen. ‘The contest is not between races, but | between honesty and dishonesty—between patriotism and crime. Tue Treasury Deparruent.—The Memo- | rial Diplomatique confirms the despatch cabled to us recently to the effect that the President had tendered tho Treasury Department to Mr. Washburne. “Though,” says the Memorial Diplomatique, ‘‘this office is in the United | States, as well as in England, the most impor- tant of all, Mr. Washburne has declined the honor. Attached to France by his long stay here, under the most gloomy circumstances of its history, and by the number of friends he has made, he does not wish to leave the coun- | try before the end of his mission.” Mr. Washburne is wise. He is an Aaron’s rod | among candidates for the Presidency and is already covered with blossoms. Why should he come to Washington only to have them wither in the fotid atmosphere of the Treasury? Srarves.—There seems to be an unusual hurry on the part of our people to build | statues to the dead, and sometimes to the | living. It was by a good fortune that we have never clearly understood that William | M. Tweed did not have his statue in City Hall | Park, and it was only by Mr. Greeley’s solici- tations that his own monument was not built | during his lifetime. The sentiment which finds expression in statues is a beautiful one, and springs trom reverence, a feeling akin to religion, which cannot be too highly nurtured. Tho danger is that men whom this generation may deem worthy of this honor will be for- | gotten by our children, and statues will be enigmas, not memories. The Roman Church waits 9 long time—we cannot say how long, | but a century or two—before it canonizes its | saints, leaving time to show if they are really saints. The rule is a good one, and might be adopted in assigning statues to departed greatness. Roran Rowons.—It is now said that the Crown Prince of Holland will not marry the Princess Thyra of Denmark. It is rumored | off with an assurance to this effect. This is | of colleges generally; but nothing more foolish | not make any change in the rate of its West- | trifle. The Cunard Company has consented | terest will attach to the international rifle Y, MAY 29, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Washington Monument. The Washington national monument at Washington, in its unfinished condition, is @ reproach té the American people, and its history from the inception of the project to the present moment is in every way discredit- able to Congress and the country. It is now ninety years since it was resolved by the Con- tinental Congress that an equestrian statue of General Washington should bo erected at the place to be chosen as the seat of government. This resolution was permitted to lie dormant until after Washington's death, when, on the 24th of December, 1799, Congress determined that a marble monumeut should be ‘erected by the United States,” and requested Wash- ington's family to permit his body to be de- posited under it. Compliance to this request was almost wrung from his widow, and yet no further action was ever taken npon the subject, except a resolution passed in 1890 substituting @ mausoleum for the proposed equestrian statue, and the act passed in 1859 incorporat- ing the Washington National Monumental Society. This society had been in existence since 1833, Chief Justice Marshall being its } first President, and President Madison his successor. In 1848 Congress authorized the society to erect the monument at the spot where the unfinished shaft now stands, and the corner stone was laid on the 4th of July of that year. All the work done upon it was done in the six following years, not a stone being added since 1854, and what was accom- plished was through the exertions of the society. Congress originated the scheme, but has never voted a dollar toward the comple- tion of the work. Even now that it is gen- erally acknowledged that the monument must be either completed or taken down, all that the cominittee of thirteen appointed to inquire into the practicability of completing it before | the centennial of American Independence ins | dared to report to the House, is a resolution declaring it to be the duty of Congress to pro- pletion of the work. We should prefer a clause ‘In the general appropriation bill fixing the | sum that may be necessary for the purpose and directing the method of its expenditure, Let this be done or else let Congress declare that Washington needs no monument to his memory, and so have done with the subject forever. Comzce Cxansuir.—That is a very remark- able despatch which we print this morning in regard to the revolt at Bowdoin College. Three! classes have refused to take part in the military exercises imposed upon the students by President Chamberlain three years ago. The President of the College was a soldier before he became Governor of Maine, and he was Governor of Maine before he was chosen to preside over Bowdoin. It was natural enough that, after his political and military career, he should be ambitious to teach the young men who came to him for instruction some of the lessons of his wide experience. Unfortunately, he chose the military rather than the civil side of his life lesson, and the young men who, perhaps, would gladly have studied politics under so able a teacher, re- belted at his soldierly tactics, They did not go to college to exercise in the manual of arms, and, as Bowdoin is not a military school, they, perhaps, ought to have their way. But our news despatch informs us that if the students of Bowdoin are expelled for refusing compliance with an unnecessary reg- ulation the doors of all other colleges will be closed against them, Dartmouth having led college clanship, supposed by the men who direct these institutions to be in the interest or feeble has been resolved upon in college councils for a long time. Tar Ovnarp Sreamseres anv Bostox.— After imploring the Cunard Company not to withdraw its weekly steamers to Boston, and holding public meetings on the subject, and appealing to the railroad companies to come to the rescue, thé Bostonians have met with nothing but discouragement. The Cunard people could not sacrifice their business inter- ests to gratify the vanity of Boston, and now the Boston and Albany Railroad Company tell the Commercial Exchange and Board of | Trade, in response to their appeal, that it can- | ern freights for the purpose of tempting the Cunarders to continue their weekly steamships to Boston. The railroad company will, how- ever, reduce the elevator charges on grain a | to let one steamship go to Bostun every fort- | night, and this, we presume, will soothe our | friends in that city. Ensncratron anp Traven.-—The latest Irish journals tell us that a great increase is visible in the number of emigrants embarking at | Queenstown for America. In one week alone | over two thousand persons were booked for the steamers leaving tor New York, and many had to be left behind for want of room. On the other hand, it is noted that fravel to Europe from America has fallen off fifty per cent as compared with last year. This is accounted for by the panic and the absence of | any great international exhibition on the Con- tinent. Another reason is the unusual num- ber of disasters to ocean steamships with which the year opened, and which had the effect of deterring cautious people from the | dangers of the ses. Tae Inte Rowe Association.—Great in- competitions which are to take place at Creed- | moor in September, owing to the prestige of the Irish Rifle Association. Last year the Trish eight carried off the Elcho Shield at Wimbledon from their English and Scotch competitors, and seventeen Irishmen won | other prizes. According to our latest news | the Irish team coming to this coun- | try are hard at work preparing for the match | at Creedmoor, and we learn, also, that their | expenses will be defrayed by their country- | men, who expect them to bring back victory | for Ireland. A spirited contest may be ex- | pected. co ai il Comm | Mozsrp Impursz.—We print this morning | the outlines of a lecture delivered on Wednes- day evening before the Medico-Legal Society, in the lecture room of the College of Physi- | cians and Surgeons, on the above subject by | Professor W. A. Hammond. The points | touched upon by the lecturer are full of inter- | that the Grand Duke Alexis, whose visit to New York is so fresh in all memories, will marty Princess Beatrice of England. est, and they raise some important and vory serious questions, In our judgment morbid impulse is but another name for insanity, The Aldermen om the Rampage. The Board of Aldermen yesterday added to the complications resulting from the City and County Consolidation act by taking issue both with the Comptroller and the Corporm tion Counsel on their construction of the now law. The Comptroller, it will be remembered, raised the first obstruction to the law by his preposterous claim that the control and patronage of the new County Court House belongs to the Commissioners appointed by the Mayor on very questionable authority to com- plete the building. The Corporation Counsel next stepped in with an opinion, declaring that, under the provisions of the Consolidation act, the buildings heretofore belonging to the county are placed under the authority of the Department of Public Works. The Aldermen now assert their own claim to the control of the said buildings on the ground that the Consolidation act trans. fers all the powers and duties heretofore exer cised by the Supervisors to the Board of Aldermen. Acting on this hypothesis the Aldermen adopted resolutions declaring that the right of assigning rooms for the several courts and offices belongs to their Board, and advising the judges and heads of departments and bureaus to recognize no other authority ; assigning a room now unoccupied in the new County Court House to the Commissioners of Armories and Drill Rooms; directing the Com- missioner of Public Works to advertise for plans and specifications for the work of com- pleting the new County Court House and authorizing him to pay five hundred dollars premium for tho best plans and specifications of the proposd work. The latter resolution involves the question of the right of the Mayor to appoint the Com- missioners for the completion of the Court House building. There is little doubt, de- spite the opinion of the Corporation Counsel to the contrary, that the appointment ot these Commissioners by the Mayor is illegal. There is no doubt that the proposition to advertise for bids for the completion of the building is in harmony with the interests of the city and of the tax- payers. It has evidently been designed to make the work of completion a job as scandal- ous as any of those which have marked the progress of tho building since the laying of its foundation to the present moment, and it will be well if this resolution of the Board of Aldermen shall have the effect of puttinga stop to the scandal and of causing all the future work upon the new Court House to be done in the light of day.» Tae Puraperputa Press finds this prophecy of the Erie Canal in the works of Joel Barlow, written in 1787, when the country now trav- ersed by the canal was an unbroken, unknown land :— From fair Albanta toward the setting sun Back through the midland lengthening channels run; ’ Meet the fair lakes thetr beauteous towns thas lave, And Hudson join to broad Uhio wave, Tux Epvcarion or Women.—A step has been taken in Cambridge, England, towards the higher education of women. The Atheneum announces that a new house is to be built to receive those ladies who wish to join the classes of the University Professors and other lecturers, A site has been obtained at Newnham, on ground belonging to St John’s College. ‘Newnham Hall" will be governed by a competent lady, and it will contain between twenty and thirty students, or more if funds will permit. It is thought the building will be finished by the end of the year. In the meantime Parliament will be called on to disduss the refusal of the Edine burgh University to grant diplomas to ladies competent to practise medicine. Axour Pravzes.—Some one asks Henry Ward Beecher ‘‘What can we do for a friend for whom we have prayed a long time, and all that we can say or do only makes him more determined to have his own way?” To this comprehensive and ingenious inquiry Mr. Beecher answers : — Nobody likes to live in an atmosphere of inces- gant reproof. If you waut to win his heart and melt his opposition do not darken his life by make | tng him feel, even by your looks or air, that are groaning over lim as a miserable sinner. Make life cheerful tu him; make your own love for him a source of joy; let your piety be (ull of sweetness and light; show the utmost appreciation of his good qualities, and be patient. The case as you state t. 18 NOL & very bad one. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, In Chicago Rochefort ts known as “France's flea.” Postmaster John F. Smyth, of Albany, is at the Filth Avenue Hotel. ’ General Preston, of Cincinnati, wants to change its name to Swineburn, Judge Theodore Miller, of Hudson, N. ¥., is ree siding at the Filth Avenue Hotel, State Treasurer V. P. Collier, of Michigan, w staying at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Stephen Preston, Haytian Minister at Wash ington, ts at the Union Square Hotel. Attorney General Samuel E. Dimmick, of Penm sylivania, is at tue Winchester House, Professor Theodore D, Woolsey, of New Haven, has apartments at the Everett House, Congressman Julius C. Burroughs, of Michigan, is registered at the Grand Oentral Hotel, General Di Cesnola 1s stil prosecuting his antl quartan researches in Cyprus with success. Mr. Joseph Price, Treasurer of the Great West ern Raliway of Canada, {5 at the Brevoort House. Mrs, Belknap, wife of the Secretary, arrived ag the Filth Avenue Hotel yesterday from Washington, Mr. R, Cunningham, member of the New Do- minion Parliament from Manitoba, is stopping at Barnum’s Hotel, United States Senator-elect William W. Katon, of Connecticut, is among the recent arrivals at the New York Hotel. Sir H. Selwin-Ibbetson is about to build a house at Addiestone, England, in which pauper childrea are to be cared for. Dewitt C, Elita, Superintendent of the Bank De- partment, arrived from Albany last evening at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge Charles R. lugalls, of the New York | Supreme Court for the Third Judica! district, has arrived at the Westminster Hotel, ‘The body of Alanson Dyer, who died tn 1872 at Rotland, Vt., has turved to stone. Death sends ug ali to the tomb, but rarely does he change a man into @ tombstone, A Goodlettsville (fenu.) negro, having one dag jast week quarrelied with his wife, secured a moe- casin snake, bolled its head in nis wife's tea, an@ the woman was only saved trom death by the ad ministration of antidotes, “Prase from Sir Rupert 18 praise indeedt® George Offord, a London burgiar, having shot Con. stable Kerrison, who arrested him, dented im court that he had intended to kill the oMocer, who, | he said, should be rewarded for his display of “true English courage.”’ A Brinckley divorce, witt a more unfortanate ending than the one decided here on Wednesday, has occurred at Newman, Ga., and, strange to say, ‘he parties were from Memphis, too, 5. B ley, adissipated husnand, applied for ® divorce, and as the wife was likely to win he stabbed her te ‘he heart, Sue died in two hour