The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hanap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned, eee ee LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. se Volume XXXIX 259 § TO-NIGHT. K THEATRE AMUSEME FIFTH AV! Twenty eighth street a: FOR SUAN DAL, at P. 2 tl? M. Miss Fanny Davenport, Miss Sara Fisher. ett, Louis James, Charles ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue.— VARIETY, at 8 P. M. BRYANT’S OPERA Hf West Twenty-third street, near Si E, venue.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at8 P.M. ‘Dan Bryant METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No, 585 Broad way.—VARIE’ t 8 P.M. closes at 10 | PM. 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Tae Insurrection in the Argentine Con- federation still continues, with advantages for the rebels. The government is crippled by political rivalries. Tae Tammany ConoressionaL Nominations were made last night, and two of the dis- tricts—the Eighth and Eleventh—were given to the liberal republican party. Asoruer Texan Steer made a raid through the streets of New York yesterday, but only threé persons were injured. The crowd was to blame in this case for exciting the fright- ened animal. Lovmusa.—The voice of Ohio and the voice of Indiana in the late elections area protest against the continuance of the Louisi- ana usurpation. The moping owls of Con- gress can no longer blink the question, ‘Tue Armrest or Tom Batann, the noto- ious counterfeiter, as our Buffalo correspond. vence shows, has resulted in a singular offer, ‘The man who is most expert at forging paper money now proposes to show the government processes by which successful counterfeiting will be made impossible. Ballard makes this proposition without conditions, but, of course, in the hope that if he performs what he pro- poses his punishment will be made lighter. We are almost inclined to think that in such @ case he would deserve not mercy alone but reward, av.—THE SCHOOL | The Kiralty | be re- | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Congressional Elections. ‘The important gains made by the demoorats in the election of members of the Forty-fourth “the October contests. Local issues, like the temperance question, may have more or less influence on the election of State officers, but | the choice of Representatives to Congress | turns wholly upon national issues, and the Congressional results of the recent contest are the most interesting feature of the political situation. Whatever success the republican | journals may seem to have in explaining away | the force of Tuesday's elections by attributing the result to local causes, it is obvious that this line of reasoning does not touch the great central fact that the democrats have achieved | a noteworthy triumph on national issues by | important additions to their strength in Con- | gress. According to present appearances the | democrats have a fair prospect of controlling the next House of Representatives. The | national importance of such a change can- not be overestimated. From the admissions of the republican “‘organ’’ the democrats are rising in this year’s elections to a position of equality with their republican opponents. We | insert the “organ’s’’ tables because they have = | the convincing effect of the testimony of an unwilling witness, The ‘‘organ’’ is compelled to admit that in the States in which elections were held on Tuesday the democratic rep- resentation in Congress has been increased | from the proportion of two to five to the proportion of five to five. Here is the table: — 434 Cong. —4ith Cong.— » Dem. Rep. Dem, 4 5 8 Sy 9 a 7 7 13 - 1 oe 2 1 2 13 23 2B Gains so remarkable look as if the democrats might entertain hopes of controlling the next House of Representatives. The preceding Congressional elections of the present year are | also favorable to the democrats. We again insert a table taken-from the ‘“‘organ:’”’— —434 Cong. —44th Cong. hep, Dem, Rep. Dem Matne.. 5 = 5 = North C; 3 5 1 7 Oregon.. - 1 -_ 1 Vermont. . 3 = 2 - Tuesday's election.... 33 13 23. 23 Totals ..... seeeeseees “4 19 31 aL From this statement it also appears that the democrats are rising from the position of a helpless minority to a control of the next House. The political revolution, of which the recent elections furnish evidence, is not likely to be arrested midway in its career. Nothing is better established in our politics than the | potent influence of preceding elections on those which follow. A pertinent illustration is afforded by the Indiana election of 1872, when Hendricks was elected in October by a majority of 1,148, and Grant carried the State in November by a majority of 22,515. There was a change of about 24,000, attributa- ble to no other cause than the expectation of victory founded on preceding elections and the popular estimate of the drift of the political current. The October elections which have just been held will act on the No vember elections in a similar manner. ; There are tens of thousands of citizens | always hanging loose on the outskirts of | political parties who prefer to be on the win- | ning side, and whose votes are determined by | the drift of the tide as manifested in the pre- liminary elections. These political soldiers of fortune will take their cue from the decided democratic successes in the elections of the present year, and, by shifting their votes into what they believe the winning scale, will make their influence felt in November. Unless the ordinary flow of political currents is arrested the democratic gains next month will outdo those which have just been achieved. The democratic chances are at least even for securing a majority in the next House, and this degree of success would foretoken a revo- lution in the politics of the country. In the first place, a democratic majority in the next House would preclude certain con- tingent difficulties which are always liable to arise ina Presidential election. The consti- | tution provides that when a President is not | elected by the people the House of Represen- tatives shall choose the President. If it should be fuund that the democrats have a | majority in the next House it will forestall | the possibility of a republican split on the third term question or any other question. With a republican majority in the next House the republicans could afford a split, since ono or the other of the republican candidates would certainly be elected by the House if there was no choice by the people. In such a state of things it might be good republican tactics to encourage a third party, whose can- didate could hold the dissatisfied republicans and prevent their desertion to the democratic party. This strategy might keep the demo- crats in @ minority, and, by preventing the | election of their candidate by the people, | earry the choice into the House, which would | be a perfectly safe game if the republicans | held control of that body. But if the demo- | crats shall have a majority of the next House the republican party must succeed in the Elec- toral College or not succeed at all. This con- sideration reinforces the reasons we have hero- | dential contest will be a straight, square fight | between the two regular parties unencumbered by a third candidate. In the next place, a clear democratic major- | ity in the next House would have an impor- tant effect on federal legislation. {t would prevent the passage of any bill in which the republicans might have a party inte No | matter what President Grant might ¢ mh | mend, or the republican Senate might pass, the democrats would hold a complete check by their control of the House. The moral effect of democratic ascendancy in one branch of Congress Would be greater than the mere ad- vantage of blocking republican legislation. It would cause the country to look forward to democratic control of every department of the government, and would enlist the whole body | of time servers and political camp followers | on the democratic side. It would enroll in | the democratic ranks the greedg multitudes with whom political gratitude is ‘‘a sense of | favors expected’’—a class numerous enough to turn the politieal scale, Besides this great advantage the possession of the House | by the democrats would enable them to man- | ufacture an astonishing smount of capital for | the Presidential election There would | be a bewildering number of investigating committees appointed to ferret out republican abuses, aud there ia no reason ty dnnht thet | | | | Congress are the, most significant feature of toiore stated for believing that the next Presi- | they could find what they searched for. Everything in tho past administration of the republican party would be turned in- side out, and if the President or the Ex- ecutive departments should refuse any in- formation which the democratic House might demand the refusal would be construed as evidence of skulking guilt. An ancient mech- anician said that he could move the world if he hada fulcrum on which be might rest his lever. The democrats would gain such House, and should they succeed to this extent the next Presidency will be visibly in their For us here in New York the most imme- diate point of interest is the effect of the re- cent democratic victories on the contest in this State. It cannot be doubted that their influence will be great. They will depress and discourage the republicans and inspire hope, confidence and exertion on the part of the democrats. They brighten the chances of Mr. Tilden, and if he were not weighted down with the bad tactics, weak nominations and unpopular leadership of Tammany Hall he would now have a fair chance of success against General Dix. Even in spite of these obstructions and drawbacks his prospects are improved by the result of the October elec- tions, Had the democrats of this city nom- inated for the Mayoralty some such candidate as Mr. Duncan or Recorder Hackett and a general ticket of corresponding respectability there is little reason to doubt that Mr. Tilden would be borne into office on the rising tide of democratic success. Ste The Lincoln Monument, « Yesterday the national monument under | which rests the body of Abraham Lincoln was formally unveiled at Springfield, Illinois, in the presence of many thousands of his | countrymen. The ceremonies were simple and impressive. An historical sketch of the association through which the people erected the monument was read by the Hon. Jesse K. Dubois, and an oration delivered by Senator Oglesby. The President of the United States was there, and the Vice President, Secretary | Belknap, Generals Sherman, McDowell and ; Custer, Governor Beveridge, and many others, | who are distinguished both in this country and in Europe. The President has surprised his | countrymen by his address, which is by far the best of the kind he has ever delivered in public, and was a manly and truthful tribute to his great predecessor. When he said Mr. Lincoln was the best friend the South ever had he uttered an opinion which the South will be the first to indorse. The men who spoke and who listened, as they stood around the monument, were reverent and sincere; yet in reading of these memorial ser- vices it is impossible not to recall the eloquent words of Abraham Lincoln himself at the dedication of the battlefield of Gettys- burg: “It is altogether fitting and proper that we should be here. But in a larger sense | we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living or dend, who struggled here, have | consecrated it far beyond our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the | living, rather to be dedicated here to the un- finished work that they have thus so far nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take in-, creased devotion to that cause for which they | here gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of free- dom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” This brief speech, which stands alone in its simplicity and greatness above all the oratory of the war, has a new application over the a fulcrum by electing a majority ot the next 4 grave of its author. Truly his resting place cannot be consecrated by us, but there, where tho marts x President is laid, it is for us to “highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain.’’ It is sad to think that after eleven years of national labor so little hus been accomplished of the duty which Lincoln urged the nation to perform—to know that even our government is not as pure and honor- able as he left it, and that the South is still prostrate and unredeemed. But to his tomb in years to come pilgrimages will be made by those who love freedom, and may the day never come when the memories which cluster around it shall be to America her shame in- stead of her pride. * Lovrstana Frnances.—A local convention in New Orleans produced considerable political excitement, and showed that the Pinchback | protest against the Kellogg rule has had its effect with the colored voters. Kellogg himself was indebted to the police for his safety. A still more impor- tant point in our Louisiana despatches is that the European bondholders of Southern State bonds have sent an agent to look after their interests, with power to make a new agreement for settlement. The trouble he | finds in Louisiana is that there is no govern- ment there to settle with. The terms offered are liberal, and it would be well if all the debtor States of the South would accept them promptly. Bricuam Youno, according to our Iatest advices from Salt Lake City, has given up his original purpose of laying “righteousness to the line and jndgment to the plummet,” and quietly capitulates to the United States judicial authorities. The Mormon chief is evidently wide awake, and understands the difference between threatening and resisting the laws. We were apprehensive of serious trouble between the Mormons and the United States, but now we have no fears of any violent disturbance in the Territory. Tur GLENDENNING TRIAL.—There were gev- eral dramatic points in the Glendenning trial yesterday—the scene narrated by Mr. Miller, the laugh of the reverend gentleman “which | sounded through the whole room,”’ the laugh tet of the brethren at the excite ment of Mr. Harkness, and the threats of some of the counsel to withdraw from the defenee or stop the prosecution, unless certain testimony wes ruled out or admitted. Already this trial has disclosed a bitter feel ing among the clergymen who are conducting it, and the partisanship and levity displayed are not worthy of the court or the grave cause it has to tev, The Consideration of the City Eisti- mate. The final estimate for the expenses of the city government this year is $34,822,000. But to this sum there should be added $1,598,000 “bridged over’’ from this year to next for the Fourth avenue improvement, and about $3,000,000 for the Park and Dock depart- ments, not included in the tax levy, which actually makes the expense this year just upon $40,000,000, or a tax of more than $3 50 on every $100 of real and per- sonal estate in the city. With these facts before them the people do not require to be told that there must be waste and extrava- Maks iy. the pyblic departments, and that a reform of our roformed municipal government is desirable. It is notorious that few, if any, of the departments are managed in the manner in which a business man would manage his own affairs, and that the people’s money is still squandered for the benefit of the politicians. The fault is, no doubt, in some measuro at- tributable to bad legislation, but it lies mainly with the heads of departments and with tho Board of Estimate and Apportionment. The heads of departments are anxious to swell their patronage to as great an extent as pos- sible, and the Board of Apportionment, which has the full power to cut down the estimates to a proper sum, has never yet performed the duty honestly. With regard to the estimates of the present year, it is true, Alderman Vance and Tax Commissioner Wheeler in- sisted upon certain reductions, and succeeded in securing them; but their movement in favor of economy came after one-half the ycar had passed away, and hence could not go so estimates shall be sent to the Board of Ap- portionment, and that the Board shall make therefrom a provisional estimate between tho 1st of August and the Ist of November in each” year. This provisional estimate forms the groundwork upon which the final estimate and the annual taxation are based, and it is seldom materially altered after it has once been adopted by the Board of Apportionment. It is, therefore, important that the provisional estimate should be thoroughly discussed and maturely considered before it is agreed upon by the Board. Yet August and September have passed and we are now within little more than two weeks of the close of October, and the first meeting of the Board of Apportionment to consider the provisional estimate has only just been held. At the meeting yesterday the estimates from the departments were or- dered to be printed. It is notorious that some of the departments, man- aged as a prudent man’s business would be managed, could be conducted at less than one-half their usual expenditure without detriment to the public interests. estimates are increased year after year. The Department of Taxes and Assessments, which expended $240,000 im 1871, asks for 1875 only $128,000—a reduction of about one- half, while the Finance Department costs this year $70,000 more than it cost under the old ‘Ring’ rule, and will ask for still more next year. Its expense, conducted in an honest busi- ness manner, should not be more than $150,000 at the outside. The taxes could be collected by the Department of Taxes and Assessments with little more than its present force at an expense of $10,000; while the Bureau of the Receiver ot Taxes, a sort.of asylum in the Finance Department, is made to cost nearly $100,000. These are only specimens of the leakages in the departments, and the members of the Board of Apportion- ment will not perform their duty if they fail to stop them this year. Messrs. Vance gnd Wheeler should insist upon sessions of the Board day after day to consider the provisional estimate as soon as the departmental esti- mates are printed. No more important duty is devolved upon them, and they will be heid responsible if the estimate for 1875 is not reduced to a reasonable and honest amount. The Eud of the Mosquito War. The surest of all remedies for the mosqui- toes is cold weather. It kills them and cures us, and, fortunately, the frosty mornings we have had lately have delivered us from the torment. The few mosquitoes who survive are about as many as te Revolutionary heroes and quite as feeble. A mosquito now is an object, not of fear and hate, but of pity. He looks imploringly at you, as if he would beg the blood he is no longer strong enough to take, and the magnanimous mind cannot ro- fuse his prayer. Much as we have despised the mosquito in his hour of pride and violence, when he snorted at the sound of the trumpet, and cried ‘Ha! ha!’’ to the armed men, we cannot but grieve with him now when his wornout limbs have brought him to our door. We pity the sor- rows of the poor old Culex, whose sting hath lost its cunning, whose tonguo cleaves to the roof of his mouth, Therefore let all be generous to the vanquished foe. Let him feed if he can, especially as we know he can’t, We forgive him now aad love him as much as we hated him before. He is like » Confederate soldier at a radical republican convention; he has come over to our side, but will not take us on our flank any more, The inventive genius of Americans will find a remedy for every evil, from a gnat to an earthquake, and we have received many in- | ventions for the destruction of the mosquito, a few of which we print. The misfortune ig that they have been invented a little too late | and cannot be tested this season. We admire the benzine torch, which, no doubt, would kill the mosquitoes, but might probably burn down the house. It reminds us of the man- ner In which the primitive Chinese, as Charles Lamb said, discovered how to roast pig Another excellent invention is to catch the mosquito, hold him gently between the thumb and index finger, and lecture him kindly but severely upon the wickedness of his behavior, then plunge him into a jar of snuff and pepper, where he will die not of sneezing, but of rage that, when he sneezes, no one will say to him, “God bless you!’’ Some persons imagine that you can magnetize a mosquito, but this is a mis- take. We have made passes at one for Hours, but the trouble was they were all passes. The only way to effectually magnetize one of them is to place your hand upon his brow and press upon it firmly, as if you were curing a headache. To kneel down with him and pray would probably be a fine vlan, if it ware not for tho EE aa act that no one can pray when a mosquito is in the room. It is a singular coincidence that just about the time when the HzRaup, accord- ing to the illiterate press, got up a sensation about mosquitoes, the London Times should get upa sensation about ants. Its columns have recently contained complaints of the winged and unwinged ants which swarm at present in the British capital, and with remedies suggested by its able cor- respondents. Vitriol, a saucer of weak rum and water, well sweetened; carbolic acid, camphor, are among these remedies, It thus Yet their: appears that both the great cities have suf- fered frofn similar pests, and that the inhab- itants of both have appealed to their leading journals for relief. The results are what might have been expected—the mosquitoes have disappeared from New York and the ants in London are retiring before the advance of science, as expounded by independent jour- nalism. Mr. Robeson's Testimony. The party journals in New Jersey are giving prominence to a recent mysterious speech of Secretary Robeson, claiming to give the country the exact views of the President on the third term. ‘The President,’’ Mr. Robe- son said, ‘‘would never be found acting con- trary to the established traditions of the country.’’ He ‘had no idea of a third term; had never thought of such a thing, and re- garded the discussion as unworthy of notice.” Hence he had never ‘spoken on the subject except to his intimate friends,’ and has avoided “giving any official expression of his opinion lest he might seem to attach too much im- BoHlande 10 eptle"Wwhich "Barer had any foundation in fact.” re We have all respect for Mr. Robeson and are willing to accept him as an oracle on administration matters. But he should speak more clearly. He defends the President from the charge of conspiring to be elected a third time. That charge has not been made. We could understand that the President would be willing to retire in 1876. No man accepts the inevitable so gracefully as a retiring office- holder. We can understand also the President's “reticence.” But he was quite as reticent in 1867, when President John- son was sure he supported his pol- icy, and Mr, Stanton was just as sure he did not, when democrats and republicans were alike convinced that he could be their candidate for the Presidency, | and when the republican party leaders were uncertain whether he would accept when they arranged his nomination. Tho President’s man and the silence of a silent man. So far as talking to intimate friends is concerned Mr. Robeson is more fortunate than the rest of the President’s associates if he has obtainedany opinion from him. We know of Cabinet offi- cers who do not know what he thinks about a third term. We know of gentlemen who hold toward him the closest personal relations who are no less ignorant. And so guarded is Mr. Robeson in his utterances that we infer he speaks with a view to the election of a Senator in New Jergey, an office for which ho is a candidate, and for the purpose of reliev- ing the republican party of what Mr. Wilson regards as its most serious burden in the can- vass. which waits with bated breath upon broken utterances of a President before it gives voice to its opinion upon one of the most important questions now before the American people? It reminds us of the manner in which Philip IL. ruled Spain. are supposed to be ruled by public opinion. A Fux Report of General Mackenzie’s ex- pedition and his recent battles with the In- dians is given to-day in gur correspondence from his headquarters. It was a difficult and dangerous march that our troops undertook Red River and the Texas boundary, and it was more difficult to find the Comanche and Kiowa braves than to punish them. General Mackenzie, how- ever, has accomplished a great deal of good in this campaign, and the only thing to regret | is that next year our peace policy will require | it all to be done over. Our Indian war is tho veritable stone of Sisyphus ; it is no sooner rolled to the top of the hill than it comes tumbling down again. American ARCHITECTURE is by no means cnough to arouse Mr. Ruskin to greater wrath than even modern British architecture has provoked. Architecture, like all other arts, has its periods of decline, and for along while in this country we had little but imitationg of the Parthenon, and composite forms which were well called American architecture, as they resembled neither the Greek nor the Gothic. But of late there has been a marked | advance in this art, and the meeting of the American Iustitute of Architects in this city | Gave evidence of the fact, Yesterday was | the second day of the session, apda pumber | of practical subjects were considered. Our Sprerat Desratcues from London an- nounce that the Madrid government has j already paid England the indemnity de- manded for the butchery of British subjects in Cuba. Great Britain refused to recognize the government of Spain till this act of | justice had been rendered. This is the way that England enforces her rights. But we, who were. the greatest sufferers by the Virginius massacre, to whom the insult was | principally offered, have -had no redréey granted. This despatch we commend to the study of Mr. Fish, in the hope that it may hasten the movements of his diplomacy, which, even in the case of relief tor Mr. Dockray, seem to be very slow. Tae Nationa Apsmyisrration in all these | recent elections was the main support of the republican platform. The results, therefore, reach the administration, and signify that two terms, in the judgment of the people, are | enough for President Grant. Tae Covrr or Arsrrration which has been | established at the Chamber of Commerce will prevent much unnecessary, expensive and tedious litigation. Our merchants, as will be seen by the report of the proceedings at the Opening yesterday, appreciate its advantages, and able and practical addresses were made | by Arbitrator Fancher, Erastus Brooks, David Dudley Field and other gentlemen ‘reticence’ means the reserve of a sagacious | Furthermore, what shall we say of a party | But it is not a pleasant thing | | to see ina free republic, where administrations to perform in that barren country, near the | beyond improvement, and, indeed, some of | the buildings in our great cities are clumsy | The Bonapartist Family Quarrel. Poor Prince Napoleon has been defeated in his effort to get elected to the Council General. The good people of Ajaccio would have nothing to do with the recreant who was pre- Pared to sacrifice the interests of the party to his own. In his movement on the Council General ho was outflanked by another imperial Prince. It does seem as if nature had created the poor man to be outflanked. Whether in Italy or in Corsica it is ever the same story ; leading an: army or heading a party this scion of the House of Bonaparte is equally unlucky. In person he resembles the great Napoleon more closely than any of his family, and has the great man’s self-conceit without his skill or firmness. It is said that he aspires to the throne, but he is not ever likely to reach it. His quarrel with the ex- Empress is due to his refusal to second the projects of the more reckless wing of the Bonapartist faction. The Prince, with all his faults, has enough patriotism to recog- nize the danger and folly of any immodiate attompt at restoration. These scruples ara,, in the eyes of the Corsicans, little less than crimes... Under the Empire they were preferred’ in civil and military life to other subjects of France, because they were regarded, with justice, as the personal retainers of the Bona- partes. Like carrion birds these unscrupulous islanders flocked to France, and it is no exag- geration to say that they battened on the political corruption of the country. With the Empire fell their privileges, and they are naturally discontented with the new state of things. They would havo a restoration at, gny cost; for what matters ib to them how. France is oppressed fo that the carrion birds the Empire be gorged? ‘The defeat of PrinégNapoleon signifies that Corsica want the Empire, with its spies, its favoritism an its corruption, and will show little favor eve toa Bonaparte who may stand in the way of its return. A Passenozr on Boarp one of the Harlem steamboats complains of the dangerous prac- tice of racing om the East River. We are im tavor of rapid transit, but we do not advocate any such speedy way of getting to heaven through Hell Gate as travel with a fu'l head’ | of steam on a Harlem steamboat suggests. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. “A nipping and an eager heir’—the Prince of | Wales. . General John Love, of Indtana, is sojourning at the Gilsey House. Rev. Dr. 0. H. Tiffany, of Washington, is regis- tered at the Astor House. Solicitor Bluford Wilson, of the Treasury Depart> ment, 18 at the Brevoort House. Even Pinchback cannot conceal bis coutemot for the Chattanooga Convention. Congressman Thomas C. Platt, of Owego, N. Yo, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Congressman 0. B. Matteson, of Utica,"is stopping at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Delos De Wolf, of Oswego, ts among the re- cent arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel, Mr. James Warrack, British Vice Consul at Chl- cago, has arrived at the St. Dents Hotel, State Senator Francis B. Hayes, of Massachw setts, is residing at the Brevoort House, The Empress of Russia arrived in England yes- terday, and is now at Buckingham Palace, Rochetort’s escape has made bard times for the poor wretches who remained at, New Caledonia. M. Bartholdi, the French Minister, arrived from: Washington last evening at the Brevoort House. Halévy has the most lugubrious face in Parts, | They call him on the boulevards “the melancholy. | sapper.” Brevet Brigadier General Jimes M. Robertson United States Army, is quartered at the Grand | Central Hotel. Tne Duchess of Edinburgn was safely delivered; of @ sonin London at a quarter to three o’clock! yesterday morning. Mile. Albani, the distinguished prima donna, ar rived by the steamsiip Bothnia last night and is— at the Clarendon Hotel. M. Thiers has bought the domain of Mentiles, near to Pacy-sur-Eure. The manor house was built in the time of Henry IL Major General Smyth, the new commander of the Dominion forces, and Captain Stapleton, A, D. C., arrived at Ottawa yesterday. Lady Mordaunt, whose name was heard som3: | time ago in @ famous divorce case, nas just left England to travel on the Continent. Sir Edward Thornton, British Minister at Wash~ ington, arrived from England yesterday in the steamship Bothnia, and is at the Vlarendon Hotel. At Mysore a brilliant meteor exploded on the 5th ult, with a great noise. Kelly and Morrissey: had better take care if the meteors are beginning to explode. Lieutenant Stumm, of the Prussian Army, who went with the Khivan expedition, will perhaps be sent to Spain by his government to observe the military operations. ‘Mr. Christian K. Ross, father of the abducted | child, Charlie Ross, is reported to be in a sinking condition. It is said that for several days past his reason has been growing weaker. An adventurous Englishman, who “has had fi teen years’ experience among lawless charac ters,” advertises inthe London Times his readi- ness to take charge of an Irish estate. Paris had a marriage the other day of the Tom Thumb and Minnie Warren class, but with more droilery in it. The husdand is @ dwart, forty } inches in height, and the’ wile a glantess of six feet six. Miss Emily Soldene, with forty members of the f#nglish Opera Bouffe Company, which is to appear at the Lyceum Theatre in November, satled from | Liverpool for New York on the steamer Celtic yese terday. A volume could be filled with an acc ount of the ay, erless publicati Which the Petrarcn cen- tenaty has Calied forth. Italy is to be congratu lated on the Interest she takes in the great memo ries of her past. i In a certain Parts restaurant in Rue de Trtmité @ Plate of meat, a plate of vegetables, a desseft and half a bottle of wine are now served for nine cents; andawriter 02 the Figaro, having eaten, pro- nounces it a good meal, A shoemaker has just died in a lunatic asylam in England in whose stomach were found after death one pound ten ounces of iron nails, several of scrap iron and an awi without @ handie.. Th6re were 1,689 shoe nails. Lord Ripon finds followers in high society. Lady Victoria Kirwan, a sister of the late Marquis of Hastings, has also gone over to Rome. This lady was formetly a maid of honor, and 44 a girl was@ great favortte of the Queen, who had held her as an injant athe baptismal font, J. N. Pattison, diatinguisned as & planist, is an- nounced asa lecturer. He ia to lecture on music, its character, purpose and intent, and will have a piano on the stage (or the purpose of tliustration, ‘This appears to be an attempt to familiarize the abstruser parts of an important subject, and seems likely to have great success, We lately gave one of Heinrich Heine's jokes,/ but our printers promoted Heinrich for some rea- sons of their own and made him Admirai Heine, Five hundred papers have copied the paragrapty without ehatige, and now we have become so usedt to seeing it printed Admirai Heine that we begin to believe there Is an admiral of that name, mr. Hubert H. Bancroft’s great work on Western America, Which is to be an exhaustive assembia; of facts and information regarding the discovery, settiement, progress and resources of the region now embraced in the Pacitic States, will shortly appear trom the press of D. Appleton & Vo, The first volume ia entiticd, “TherNative Rages of tue Pacific States ol North America.”