The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1874, Page 6

| 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR el THE DAILY HERALD, day in the year. Four cents per copy. gual subscription price $12. — published every An- Letters ard packages should be, properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. meee Si LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscript end Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENT ——— TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No, 21 Bowery.—VARIE(Y, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10-P. M, ) MINSTELS, SAN F : } Broadway, corner aty-tunth, sheet “NEGRO MINSIRELSY, ats LYCEUM TRE, | Fourteenth street ani venue.—MUCH ADO ANOUL NOTHING, @ ves at 10:45 P.M. Mise | hetisou, Mr. Barnes bi AMERICAN INSTITUTE, Third avenue, between -ixty-third and Sixty-tourtn sireets.—INDUSTRIAL EXUIBLILON, cou , Broadway, corner of Thirty-fitm sireet.—STORM OVER | Panis and Mis, JARLEY'S WaX WORKS, at 2.10 P, M. and 7:6 P.M. 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ML Mr. Augustin NIBI RDEN, Broadway, between irince and Houston streets.—THE DELUG:, at 8 P M.; closes at 1 P.M. she Kirally Family. | FIFTH AVENE THEATRE, | Twenty-eighth sires? and Broad way.—MOORCROFT; OR THE DOUBLE W \UDING, ats P.M. ; closes at LP. — Fanny Dayenvort, Miss sara Jewett, Louis anes. MPS, CONWA FRINZ, at 8 P. M. ; clos EATRE. Jos. K. Emmet. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue.— | VARIELY, ats P. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-third stree!, near Sixth avenne.—NEGRO MINSTRLLSY, av8 P.M. ; Closes at OY. M. Dan Bryant METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No, 988 Broadway.—VAxiETY, at 8 P. | sembly of rats conceded that it was a very | proper thing to be done, but the practical | sudden consternation of the republican press | His is a very cheery view, like that of a cun- ‘ Convention. We insert some of his consoling ACA ic, strect.—POUNDLING ASYLUM BENEFIT, | | The Third Term Quandary of the flustered Republicans. “quandary’’ is a corruption of the French phrase gu’en dirai-je—what shall I say about it? It mmplies that a person is what we call nonplussed, being in a perplexity which de- prives him of the free use of his faculties. | This seems to be the intellectual condition of | | the republican journals on the third term question since the Western elections. They | ‘are at their wits’ end to know what to do or sayabout it. They are suddenly brought to suspect that what they had laughed at as a | political toy invented for the public diversion | | is a dangerous infernal machine which itis | | neither safe to tonch nor to let alone. They | wish it were well out of the way, but fear that | if they undertake to remove it it will explode !in their hands with sbattermg damage to | themselves and their party. The Times fran- tically advises Governor Dix to pick it up and fling it out at the window; the Albany Journal and Buffalo Com- mercial Advertiser protest that this is bad ad- vice and that'the infernal thing will do more damage if handled than if let alone. Tho Evening Post declares that if anybody is to take the risk of pitching it into the street that dangerous duty belongs to President Grant, who gave the cue to ite inventors. It is the old fable of belling the cat. The whole as- | | question as to which bold member of the well- tailed fraternity should undertake the feat found no satisfactory solution. Had they been on shipboard they might have verified an old saying about a sinking ship and taken a leap into the water. It is laughable to witness the on the third term question since the demo- cratic successes last week. Perhaps the most remarkable utterance on this subject was that of Congressman Kelley in his speech in Philadelphia on Friday night. ning old rat luxuriating in a meal tub, which | had been covered against the approaches of the | unbelled third term cat. The Pennsylvania republicans, Mr. Kelley thinks, protected themselves by the timely action of their State | sentences: — itis a mistake to suppose that the causes that | Overwuelmed the republicans of Olio and In- diana wili operate in this State. They are not in operation here. The third term question hung like a oripping cloud over our friends in both | those States, But our sky is clear o1 that evil ) omen. Our State Convention, true to the tradi- lions of the country and the convictions of tie people, made anemphatic declaration axainst a | third term, While apprecisting us highly as ever | the pre-emment services and patriotic purposes | of President Grant, i am free to declare tiat I Wouid vote ior no man for a wird term, and would | rather take the risk of @ bad President lor jour years than assist in overthrowing the wholesome precedent set by Washington, Jefferson and Jack- Son, of retiring voluntarily trom the Presiaeucy at the end of the second term, We acknowledge both the truth and the picturesque aptness of Mr. Kelley’s flight of rhetoric. He is, no doubt, correct in saying, with much poetry and more truth, that ‘‘ihe third term question hung like a dripping The dictionaries tell us that the word | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. instant, or the opportunity is lost. What are good tactics at one stage of | the battle may be the most fatal of blunders at another. The Henarp advised General Dix to declare himself against a third term at the | precise nick of time when such a declaration, coming from him, would have had a prodig- ious effect. He did not make his launch in the high tide, when it would have proudly floated, and it is for him to decide whether he will knock out the props and precipitate it into the slimy mud left bare by the ebb. The difference between low water mark and high water mark is the difference between the ad- vice of the 7imes and ours, Had General Dix followed our advice when we gave it it would have been the salvation of the party. But that very identical advice, when given at ebb tide by the Times, might prove as mischievous as it would have been advantageous two weeks ago. Time and tide, say the copy books, wait forno man, They have not waited for Gov- ernor Dix, and if he has reason to deplore a great opportunity lost and a great advantage forfeited it is not the fault of the Hznaxp. Mr. Stanley’s African Expedition. Mr. Stanley, chief of the Hznaxp expedition, organized and equipped for the purpose of completing the unfinished explgrations of Dr. Livingstone, will now soon be again in the heart of Africa. Having reached Zanzibar, and having, with his official corps, been ac- corded a friendly reception by the Sultan, he will meet with no difficulties in obtaining the needful men, mules and supplies for his ex- pedition. His valuable knowledge, ‘obtained from his first adventure to Ujiji, will serve him well in this campaign. He will know accurately what is wanted in the way of animals, drivers, carriers, pioneers, equip- ments, provisions and merchandise for pur- poses of trade with the natives. Me will know the road and its dangers and diffi- culties, and how best to avoid or overcome them. He will know how to secure the friendship and co-operation of the African chiefs en route, and the chief and his people of Ujiji will receive their good friend Captain Stanley with a hearty welcome. Ujiji will be his second or interior base of operations. From this point he will set out for the real work before him, the exploration of the region lying between that system of interior rivers and lakes explored by Living- stone and the established drainage of the wonderful Nile. Stanley believes, as Living- stone believed, that the whole interior sys- tem of lakes and rivers, from the seventh degree south latitude, with their general out- flow to the northward, are drained into the Nile. Others think that Livingstone’s great | interior basin is tributary to the Congo, which flows west into the Atlantic. Sir Samuel Baker, from his last expedition to the great equatorial lakes of the Nile, came away with the information from native traders of the region that the Albert Lake has @ navigable connection with Lake Tanganyika, on which Ujiji is situated. These two ques- | cloud over our friends in both those States’”— meaning Ohio and Indiana. But we do not | | quite share his sanguine assurance, ‘‘our | New York, Tuesday, October 20, 1874, SHEET. NOTICE 10 THE PUBLIC. Owing to the great pressure on our adver- tising columns, advertisers would favor us by | sending in their advertisements early in the day. This course will secure a proper classifi- cation, helping the public and the Henarp. Advertisements intended for our Sunday issue may be sent with great advantage in the earlier days of the week; it will prevent confusion and mistakes arising from the immense quantity of work to be done on Saturdays. Advertisements will be re- ceived daily at this office, the branch office, No. 1,265 Broadway, between Thirty-first and and the Brooklyn branch office, ¢orner of Fulton and Boerum streets, up to nine P. M., and at the Harlem branch office, 124th street and Third avenue, up to half-past seven P. M. Let advertisers remember that the earlier their advertisements aie in the Henaxp office the better for them- selves and for us. Thirty-second _ streets, From our reporis this morning the probabilities are that ihe weather ‘o-day will be clear. Want Street Yestenpay.—The stock mar- ket was quiet and without feature. Prices were barely steady. Gold ruled at 110, and money was abundant at 2} a 3 per cent on call loans. Juper Bravy has denied the motion to amend the record in the case of Tweed, and his reasons will be found in another column, A Mertine or tue Bar was held yesterday to take appropriate action upon the death of the venerable Charles M. Keller. Germany, it is reported, has given satis- facto) nrances to Denmark that any wrong done by the expaision of Danes fron Schles- wig shall be repaired. » We Report the case of a contractor who declined to pay tor work performed, on the ground that he had never ordered it. He ad- mitted that his twin brother might have done so, It is singular to see the “Comedy of Errors’’ in the ‘Tue Sap Keron? comes from Bayonne that Mr. Cecil Buckland, an American journalist in Spain, has been murdered. In company with an Englishman he left Bayonne for Irun, and is supposed to have been shot by the Ser- rano troops. Te Revoiwvrion in the Argentine Con- federation continues to make rapid progress. The iusurgents appear to be concentr their forces, and several war vewsels have serted the navy. The government in vaiu strives to check the spirit of rebellion. Tre Unirep Stares Troors have again been employed in Louisiana in the arrest of thir- teen citizens of Minden, charged with com- plicity in the Coushatta massacre, The ac- cused will be taken to Shreveport for trial, and it is thought this unexpected interference ‘Will cause disturbances in the elections | sylvania—“‘is clear of that evil omen.” The | | republicans of Pennsylvania are bound by | party ties. They are inside and not outside of the national republican organization. They | did well to make their indirect protest against a third term; but if they expected it to have any moral effect they should have uttered it | more squarely and boldly. All they did was | to express a preference for one of their own citizens as a republican candidate for the Presidency. They could not | have seriously expected that citizen's | nomination, and if the Convention of | | 1876 rejects him, as it is quite certain to do, they will be as much bound by the party | choice as if they had not put torward a candi- date of their own. If the successful candidate should be General Grant for a third time they have done nothing to preclude their giv- ing him their support. They failed to rally the republicans of New York and the other great States in uncompromising opposition to the third term because their lead was so halting | and pusillanimous. They dared not break | with President Grant by a bold and unequivo- cal declaration. Had they spoken out as plainly while the thing was yet clear as Mr. Kelley has now, when thunder clouds are | closing over. it, other republican conventions | | would have been emboldened by their example, | and the third term question would not have ; “hung like adripping cloud’’ over the October | elections. The tent of gauze spread by the | | Pennsylvania Convention cannot protect the | | republicans of that State against ® drenching | | from the angry November skies. They are | as much exposed to its peltings as the repub- | licans of New York, because if Grant should | prove a stronger candidate than Hartrantft in 1876 they are as much bound to support him as they would be to support Morton or Blaine or | Conkling, if either of these gentlemen should | get the nomination against Hartranft. All | | they have done is to express a preference for a | citizen of their own State who cannot pos- | sibly get the nomination. This binds them to | nothing, and leaves them as free to support | Grant as to support Blaine. | The republican party is in danger of being engulfed in the third term storm because it has lacked political foresight and courage to | put itself in bold opposition to the ill-regu- | Jated ambition of the occupant of the Presi- | dential mansion. If the Utica Convention | had not cowered under Grant's influence it | | might have saved the party. If Governor | Dix had not felt restrained by the same | misguided, shrinking awe of the man in the White House he could have | | arrested the political revolution and have | | saved himself and his party. Tho question | which now puts all the republican journals in a flutter is, whether it is or is not too late. The Times thinks it is not; other republican | journals differ, and the Times begins to waver. | Unless Governor Dix comes to its rescue by | adopting its advice to-day or to-morrow it will be compelled to retreat, for it would be ridiculous to keep urging the Governor to make a parade of locking the stable door after the steed is stolen. Unless he comes out to- day or to-morrow he had better maintain si- lence, for he is on the very edge, if, indeed, | he has not already passed it, which separates | an act of sagacity from an act of folly. In politics, a3 on a field of battle, time isa de- | cisive element. When a general sees that the | | enemy has made a false mancuvre he ‘must take advantage of it om the | tions—the drainage of Livingstone’s interior basin, and whether the Tanganyika is or is not to be added to the great equatorial lakes of the Nile —we hope will be settled by Mr. Stan- .; closes atl0 sky’’—meaning the republican sky in Penn- | ley in the explorations he has undertaken. He goes out with the advantages of many years’ experience from his various African ex- peditions. He knows the requirements of his present enterprise; he is qualified and equipped to meet them, and we are confident that he will return crowned with complete success. President Grant as a Speech-Maker. President Grant within the last few weeks has been making remarkable progress as a speech-maker. His first public efforts as our Chief Magistrate were very brief and unprom- ising. Beginning with a bow to his audience, Only this and nothing more, he advanced to “I thank you,’’ and next to “I thank you, ladies and gentlemen,” and then to ‘I am much gratified with your cordial reception and I wish you good night,” he still slowly, for four years, improved, until his responses extended to five or six news- paper lines in small type. In his Atlantic coast excursions this last summer his speeches occasionally were lengthened to ten lines, but during the last fortnight, in the ‘brown forests” and the broad prairies of the Missis- sippi Valley, he has rapidly enlarged his re- marks to the proportions of a regular and neatly presented discourse. Among the red men of the Indian Ter- ritory we find tha! our diffident President begins to be inspired. Doubtless, from the absence of unmerciful reporters, he feels greatly relieved, and in the pres- ence of the honest children of the forest and the prairie he feels greatly in- spired. And so from point to point, warming up to his work, he meets the responsibilities | of the occasion and the expectations of his audience. His is not the copious stream of eloquence which flows from the lips of Andrew Johnson while ‘swinging round the circle;’’ nor does General Grant deal in the classical periods or illustrations of «Old Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,’’ in their popular discourses ; but to the point and the purpose he gives us the concentrated essence of a cablo despateh. For example, in response to the welcoming speech of the Choctaw Nation, their “Great Father” tells them that he is gratified to see the evidences around him of their prosperity; that he is glad to see them engaged in raising stock ; that he thinks, from this industry in their fine country, they cannot fail to become wealthy ; that he has always endeavored to protect the Indians from injustice and give them every civil right ; that in future years, if he should drive again through their country, he hoped to pass through great fields of cotton and other profitable products, to which the soil is so well adapted. He had no doubt that those people in time would be among tho wealthiest citizens of the United States, be- cause their soil and climate justified the | opinion ; «nd, finally, he was much pleased to meet 60 many citizens of the Choctaw Na- tion. Similar replies, though not quite so lengthy, were made by him to the welcoming addresses in behalf of the Creeks and Chero- kees, from all of which it is apparent that our modest President can, if he will, speak to the requirements of the occasion. ‘This fact was fully established in the Presi- dent's interesting and exceedingly appropriate | ' ence and justice as native citizens, It is to | speech at the unveiling of the beautiful mon- ument to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, at Springfield, I, There was a compact little apeooh, fully of happy thoughts and reminis- cences touching the genial and gentle ohar- acter of Lincoln, and well expressed. Surely, with this example before us of what General Grant can do in a public discourse if resolved to try, we have reason to believe that he will soon become as quick to seize the situation on the rostrum and to sweep the field as on ‘‘the perilous edge of battle.” The Comedy of the Coulisse. Great as has been the public pleasure over the millinery drama it was reserved for Mr. Bronson Howard to afford us a new delight— the comedy of the coulisse. We may etruggle against the conviction as much aa we please, but after all we shall be forced to the con- clusion that in the fabhionable judgment there can be no drama without dress. Art is not art if itlacks the aid of the modiste. The only difficutty hitherto experienced has been in finding a theory of dramatic construction that will allow a liberal display of dreas goods and yet not repress the natural flow of spirits which belongs tothe American girl. Of course we are now speaking only of the American drama—they do these things better in France. No dressmaker oan turn a real actress, how- ever fine her figure, into a mere model for the display of millinery won- ders if the playwright has given hera part with some relation to.a plot and with a little action and feeling in it. A society part ina society play nowadays must demand nothing of the heroine except to dress as society girls dress and to talk as-society girls talk. It is plain that, to afford such an opportunity, the regular course of a plot and the activity and bustle of even ordinary dramatic action are out of the question, But as the success of every piece depends upon popular apprecia- tion, and as the populace are divided, one-half demanding a plot, or something like a plot, in every drama and the other half asking only a saucer of sentiment; a sweet voice, a pretty face, a splendid figure and sumptuous harness, it became exceedingly difficult to please both parties. Mr. Howard, in his new play of “Moorcroft,” shows dramatists how to obviate the difficulty. He has made a discovery which will satisfy everybody—it is the new idea of the comedy of the coulisse. It may puzzle some of the readers of the Heraup even to understand what peculiar field of art is occupied by this new element in the classification of the drama. ‘The comedy of the coulisse—who ever heard of that be- fore? Nobody; for it was only last Saturday night that the young dramatist let the world know that he had invented it. In a fortnight everybody will know everything about it and everybody will be talking of the capa- bilities of this newly discovered domain of art, The comedy of the coulisse is a revelation, and it can scarcely fail to prove a source of perpetual delight to theatre goers. But how shall we describe it? It is a thing so fine in conception that to be appreciated it must be seen. Words only drag it down to the vulgar level of vulgar things. It is noth- ing but a side show, but if we called it a side show it would be considered little more ar- tistic than circus. It has a much higher purpose and can be adapted to suit all circumstances. A young lady is possessed of some dramatic talent and bleased ‘with a deliciously foreign accent, sure to take with the audience. Another young lady has a splendidly moulded form, and isa great favor- ite on account of her beauty and her dashing American manners, Here is an opportunity to blend in pretty unison a flower from the foreign conservatories and a native rose in its first bloom. Such a bouquet our managers have longed to present ; but how could they do it and yet preserve the seeming require- ments of art? The comedy of the coulisse place the two young creatures on a rustic seat by a side scene and let them talk—the one as society girls are supposed to talk, and the other in broken English, so sweetly done as to merit a recall. This is the comedy of the coulisse. Again, an actor has some comedy talent, and he is, on that account, a prime favorite with the manager's patrons, It would be absurd that the requirements of a plot should keep him out of the bill, especially if the action is laid at Newport, where the side scenes afford unlimited scope to the imagina- tion, All that is necessary is to call him Uncle Ruckert, or by some equay felicitous name, and bring him on. This is the comedy of the coulisse, and without it this was impos- sible. Or again, a ‘‘star’’ performer in a variety troupe has remarkable powers’ of who are nowhere more disagreeable than on | the stage. In order to show the actor's pecu- liar powers to people who never go to ‘‘variety entertainments” it is only necessary to put side scenes and walk over the stage once or twice. This is the comedy of the coulisse, and without it this would have been con- sidered presumptuous and preposterous in a drama. Tas Barrish ANNEXATION oF THE ‘Frr- zexs.’’—The Feejee, or Fiji, Islands having been formally turned over to the possession of England, Queen Victoria, as sovereign over the group, takes the place of the lineal suc- aver gk loky-poky.winky- wan: The king of the Cauuival Islands, | The group lies in the South Pacific Ocean, | between the fifteenth and twentieth degrees | south latitude, and embraces one hundred | and fifty-four islands, sixty-five of which are inhabited. sixty miles square, and Anua Levu, o hundred miles long and from fifty to sixty miles | wide. The whole cluster are fertile and very productive in tropical fruits. The | formal cession of these islands to Eng- ‘qand is important only as the begin- | ning of her probable absorption of most of | the other groups lying between New Zealand in the south and the Sandwich group in the | north, Our government, perhaps, will have | nothing to say upon the subject except that must not be disturbed. | its death blow in the Republic of Peru by a treaty with China, in which peace and fra- in Peru are to be treated with the same defer- be hoped that this good: example will be fol- | lowed by other Spanish American nations and colenicés has answered that question. It is simply to | The Commercial Qutiook. The condition, of business during the present autumn is not only a test of the wild theories broached in Congress last win- ter but a tolerably sure criterion for esti- mating future prospects. The pretence 80 vehemently urged for many months after the panic, that the chief need of the country was more currency, is of course exploded by the great abundance of money at this season of the year, when the movement of the Western grain crop is at its height. The banks have more money than the community can use, and there has never been an autumn when loans could be obtained at such low rates on good security. This ought to have have been fore- seen during the crazy inflation clamor. The amount of money needed bears some propor- tion to the amount of business, and an im- mense curtailment of business was a necessary consequence of the panic which toppled so many great houses to the ground. Themen who failed were among the most daring and adven- turous members of the business community. They were engaged in sinking vast amounts of active capital iu enterprises like the Northern Pacific Railroad, which could bring no re- turns in this generation, and in extending manufactures beyond the ability of con- sumers. After the crash not only was the money misémployed in these undertakings set free for other uses, but the class of push- ing men who had given an unhealthy stimulus to business were disabled from again per- petrating this kind of mischief. The amount of currency remaining the same, and the uses for it being so greatly diminished, it was a necessary, and ought to have been a foreseen consequence, that the supply of money would for quite a period be in excess of the demand. A contemporary calls attention to a fact which is one of many illustrations of the difficulty of finding profitable employment for money at present Within the last thirty-six days ten millions of dollars of city taxes have been paid. This forwardness to pay taxes is with- out precedent, the experience of previous years having been that money could be em- ployed to: better advantage in the early part of autumn. And yet, with money so cheap and abundant, there have been some failures within the last week or two. These failures are of little sig- nificance, however, except to the houses im- mediately interested. Nobody interprets them as premonitory symptoms, of another panic. The general business of the country is too contracted and too cautiously conducted to admit of a wide collapse., There is nothing surprising, certainly nothing alarming, in the fact'that a few houses which barely rubbed through the embarrassments of last year by the leniency of creditors or the assistance of friends find themselves unable to go on. Their hopes of getting through depended on a full revival of business thig autumn, which has proved a vain expectation.’ Especially in cases like that of Mr. Clews, who was pros- trated by the panic, but set on his feet again by the favor and confidenge of friends, every- thing was staked on a large and profitable business this fall. But the general business of the country rests at present on a solid basis | of actual capital, and cannot-be shaken by a few sporadic failures. The Dutch Pn: atic Sewage System. The sewer poison question has very justly excited grave and anxious agitation among | architectural engineers for many years, bnt through a new system not long since proposed by an accomplished Dutch engineer it is in a fair way of satisfactory solution, Modern mechanics bas had no practical problem to | give it greater perplexity than to so adapt the | present water carriage system as to rid our | houses and streets of the deadly gas which escapes from the public drains. The inge- nuity of inventive genius has been vainly racked to produce traps and valves to inter- cept the noxious effluvia which‘ are emitted | into our bedrooms and parlors, often con- verting them into hospitals of diphtheria and | other fatal diseases. The pneumatic system imitation, especially of disagreeable women | a name like ‘‘the present Mrs. Peters” in the | bill and give the actor a chance to howl in the | Only two, however, are of a size | | worth mentioning—Viti Levu, which is about | the independence of the Sandwich Islands | Tue Ivramovs Coorr Trap has received | ternity and the universal rights of man are the principal provisions. Chinese emigrants for dealing with sewer poison was | suggested by Oaptain Liernur, and pro- | poses to draw off fecal matter and | the polluted air by pipes connecting with | stenm-worked air pumps. These pumps are |attached to air-tight reservoirs benoath | | ground, in which by exhaustion about three- | fourths vacuum is constantly maintained. | From these large tanks pipes are laid along | | the principal streets, and ot intervals smaller | street tanks are placed, communicating by small, short conduits with the closets in each | house. By partial exhaustion of the air in these receptacles for the sewer gas and effete | matter, without the aid of water to flush | the closets, the gas is drawn off from the house pipes and lodged in the main reser- | voirs, where itis finally disposed of without | detriment to the public health, The pneu- matic process, by the use of stop-cocks con- | | veniently arranged, is effective also in re- | moving excretal matter that is deposited in the house drains, which chemists'tell us con- stitutes about ninety-six per cent of the zymotio | or dangerous elements of our sewers. With the | removal of this disease-stored element the | engineer gots rid of the great source of epi- demic maladies, and also of that which is most prolific of river pollution and soil in- tection. The excellences of this system cannot be questioned. The great beauty of its working | | lies in its entire independence of the care of | honse dwellers and servants, whose neglect | often proves fatal, even where now the best sewer traps and valves are in use. The pneumatic system does its work in spite of negligence br even intervention by house- hoiders, and while it may be attached tothe | present closet it is claimed to be # perfect substitute for it. No water is needed to flush | the pipea—a consideration which is of momen- tous importance, especially since the water | waste now necessary for cleansing the pipes has come annually to entail a water famine on most of our metropolitan cities. of one-fourth of the water now employed the tem alone cau never possibly atteiv, That the Duteh process is not a chimerical one was | proved at the Vienna Exhibition last year, when it was attached to ao part of the great building. It was there ‘inspected by the Emperor of, , Aus- tria, who discerned its great) value and bestowed on its inventor tho order ot | knighthood. It was further indorsed by the | International Medical Congress of Vienna. By the use | phn eeoaninnetnelnetinestaenes 2 who reported that the experiments ‘made in their presence convinced them that the entire system is capable of doing its work com- pletely.” It has beon introduced by the im- perial engineers in the government buildings ot Prague with the highest success, and a private company there has introduced it more extensively, with the single condition (which has proved remunerative) that they should have all the sewage matter. In Amsterdam and Leyden it has been also practically ap- plied to the districts inhabited by the poorer classes, whose ranks were annually decimated by the sewer poison Incident to the old water carriage system. Why cannot the same be done in some see tions of our American metropolitan cities, in which the health officers so constantly have to record alarming infection due to sewer poison ? Its inexpensiveness is obvious, if we regard the enormous economy of water alone, to say nothing of the saving of valuable life and of sanitary machinery now required to mitigate the evils of the existing system. Poxrticat, MoveMENTS IN THE SourH.—The United States marshals and: their deputies in several of the Gulf States are still rigorously hunting up and running down suspected sheriffs, refractory White Leaguers and men charged with Ku Klux affiliations. Oan it be that Attorney General Williams has’ not yet heard of the Indiana and Ohio elections, or does he suppose that the working up of Southern outrages will still serve as political capital in New York and Pennsylvania? Buronam Youne anp THE Mogmons.—Let it not be supposed that in the event of the death of Brigham Young the Mormons will be thrown into confusion touching his successor as head of their Church. ll this is arranged and provided for, and the will of their great and revered leader, lawgiver and prophet will be the law to the Saints. Nevertheless, his death will push the Mormon question in Utah to a speedy solution. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Alfred T. Goshorn, (s staying at the Hofmam House, Henry W. Beecher lectured before a large audi- ence at Lyna last night, Ex-Goyeruor A. B. Barneide, of Rhode Isiang, is at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. "i Dr. Miner’s church (Boston) has asked him te witndraw his resignation, Sir Alexander T, Galt, of Montreal, has sparte ments at the Gilsey House. The dowager Queen of Bavaria leaves the Lu theran Church for that of Rot Rothschtid’s hunting parties at Ferrieres aré re- ported as very brilliant tnis year. Captain Joseph S. Conrad, of West Point, is se- journing at the Glenham Hotel, Ex-Governor William R. Marshall, of Minnesota, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Chief Engineer J. W. King, United States Navy, has quarters at the Albemarle Hotel, Captain Hamilton Perry, of the steamship Adria- tio, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. inspector General Nelson H. Davis, United States Army, 18 quartered a: the New York Hotel. Rev. Dr. R. B. Fairbairn, of St. Stephen's Gok lege, is among the latest arrivals at the St. James Hotel. The President and Mrs, Grant are expected to return to Washington in the latter part of tais week. i Lieatenant Colonel A. MoD. McCook, United States army, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Admial J. R. Tucker, of the Peruvian navy, has returned to his old quarters at the New York Hotel. Congressman 9umuel Heeper, of Roaton, = rived from Washington yesterday at the Brevoort House. Ex-Attorney General Amos T. Akerman, whose home is in Georgia, ls temporarily residing at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Associate Judges Charles Andrews and William F. Allen, of the New York Court of Appeals, are as the Fifth Avenue Aotel. John Mitchel is about to deliver a series of leg tures on the present condition and political pros- pects of Ireland. China wanted to buy the Iron Duke, British man-of-war, now in the Chinese seas, but John Bull refused to sell. And now the French clerical party {s forced to reflect that Thiers, vad as he was, kept the Ore- noque at Clvita Vecchia, Prince Louis of Hesse lately saved a lady’s life at Blankenberg by swimming to her rescue, as she had inadvertently gone beyond her depth, The Prince of Wales and the Prince Royal of Denmark, brothers-in-law, are together visiting the King of Sweden at Stockholm. Under the Empire the Paris press was absolutely free and respecied by comparison with its condi- tion under the present government. Mr. Howard Vincent bas published the latest book on the Khivan expedition under the title of “Russia's Advance Eastward,’ Senator Augustus S, Merrimon, of North Care lina, arrived in this city from Washington yester- day morning, and is at the Astor House, Mrs. General Sherman with her gon an@ danghter, and Mr. John Sherman, Jr., son of the Ohio Senator, arrived at the Astor House last night from Washington, Mr. Charles Bradlaugh arrived from England im the steamship Parthia yesterday morning, and has taken up his residence for the winter at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. “The Superstitions of the Churches, Ancient and Modern,” by W. R. Sunman, is described by the London Publishers’ Circular as an orthodox book with @ pretentious title. B. T. Howard, Secretary of the National Pork Packers’ Convention, met witn an accident on Saturday last, which will delay the publication of the proceedings of the Convention for a few weeks, ‘At @ meeting of the members of the Park street church, Boston, held last night, the resignation of Mr. Murray was accepted, and gratitude was ex- pressed to him for his services in and out of the church. ‘he three members of the Cabinet now in Wash- ington are Williams, Bristow and Jewell. Secre- tary Fish, alter a short absence, will return this week, und the other three absentees are expected next week. seribner & Co. will bring out, under the title of «Myths of the Rhine,” that jamous book of Sain- tine’s, illustrated with 150 of Gustave Doré’s illus- trations, ‘ne book is now frat translated by Pro- feasor Scnele De Vere. In his letter of the case of Louisiana Mr. George ‘Ticknor Curtis says :—‘‘Whether the people of this country are awake to the dangers that must fol- jJow such a precedent is more than Iknow.”’ For information see election returns from Onio and Indiana. Faith in Southern outrages is the test of repub- licanism in these days. If one does not believe that all the white men are shooting all the darkies the Fepudiicans of the pure blood say he is @ democrat, bis largely increases the number of pneumatic system would do the entire work | the democrats. and do it with a perfectness the water sys- | Colonel Stoel having proved in his pamphlet | that MacMahon atd receive in the late war @ cere ' tain order, the receipt of which had been conven- tently denied, gossip seems to fancy that the | Marquis d’Avzac, who ls MacMahon’s alde-de-camp, | ought to challenge the Colonel. Several mouths ago Trumbuli's pictares of | “Revolutionary Scenes” were removed trom the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington for the pur- | pose of beingcicaned and strengthened to avo | them from threatenca decay, They nave been im- | proved in appearauce and restored to *hete Dangly