The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1874, Page 6

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Wary Sraerr Vusrmnpay.—1 —The stock mar- ‘et was devoid of interest. Prices were steady; dealings were comparatively small; money was stronger aad gold firm at 110} a 110}. A Jony was yesterday empanelled in the trial of the persons accused of complicity with the Washington safe burglary. Five of the jurors are colored men. Tue Boren of a propeller near Detaoit ex- ploded yesterday, and sixteen persons are re- ported missing. But no doubt it was a good boiler, for no boiler is bad till it has blown up asteamboat or a mill. ‘Tae Errscorat Convention yesterday, after a secret session of one week, has decided that Dr. Seymour is not to be Bishop of Llinois. To-day it will consider in open session the regular Church business. Tue Ixvuns are evidently getting much the worst of the war. General Miles’ expedition has. captured the whole camp outfit of the Kiowas, and is pursuing them toward the Cheyenne Agency. Still, these battles will have to be fought over next summer and every year until absolute military control of the Indians replaces the present divided rule. Tae Anwx m New Oxceans.—The proposi- tion of the Kellogg leaders that General Emory should parade his troops in the city of New Orleans to give moral support to the blacks is an outrage upon decency and order, un- usual even in that reckless party. Thus to give moral support to the blacks would be be intimidate by bayonets the whites. The ig pent to the South to nate tae y ite prenegodpe bat such use of it would be too flagrant an net éf 1 inter. Grence with nolitian, 6 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. _ Thg extette which we print from thé pub- 2 journals of the country, although they are but a small portion of what might be given, prove that the third term discussion is now ut its height, and that it has never at any pre- vious time excited such widespread interest. No observing politician can doubt that it is fatally damaging the republican party; but it is a load which the party will continue to stagger under. The republicans might easily have shaken it off could they have induced either General Grant himself or Governor Dix to make an emphatic declaration on this sub- ject at an early day. But the opportunity slipped by. General Grant would not and Governor Dix dared not set the question at rest. Grant’s studied and stubborn silence proves too incontestably that he cherishes third term aspirations. If he had cared more for the success of the republican party thau for his own stealthy strides toward imperial power he would long ago have spoken the easy word which would have extinguished the third term ques- tion as an issue in our present politics. Gov- ernor Dix’s reticence is even more inexcus- able. The Utica platform did not bind him to silence. It said nothing on the subject, and, therefore, lett him free—as all candidates are always free—to avow his sentiments on any question not included in the platform on which he was nominated. The fact that a statesman of the supposed independence of Governor Dix did not venture to make a declar- ation which would have so greatly strength- ened his canvass is a conspicuous proof of the dominating influence of the occupant of the White House. If he can subdue a states- man like Dix into abject silence what bounds can be set to his power of coercion in the re- publican party? Governor Dix has, indeed, said to a Hznatp reporter, as stated in our columns yesterday, that he does not favor a third term, but he professes his disbelief that any such idea was ever entertained by General Grant. Sucha pro- fession discredits either his sagacity or his courage. He is blind to the signs of the times if he thinks Grant does not harbor such an aspiration, and he is untrue to his own convictions and the interest of his party if, believing that Grant would like a third term, he dares not withstand his dangerous am- bition. The fact that a man like Dix shuffles and trims on a great question which involves the perpetuity of onr free institutions is one of the most alarming features of the situation. If the meat our Cwsar feeds on has enabled him to grow so great that a popu- lar candidate for the governorship of the most important State in the Union feels compelled to speak with bated breath in opposing the Ceesar’s pretensions, we are not only on the brink but in the very jaws of a portentous peril If our country is still free why should a man like Dix stand in trembling awe of a man like Grant? Dix tries to shield himself behind the plea that Grant does not want a third term. This will notdo. Grant would be glad of a third term if he could get it, and he has every facility for controlling the repab- lican nomination. He can easily pack the National Convention by means of his enor- mous patronage, and if he gets the nomina- tion the republican party will support him. Even the recent adverse elections have not extinguished his hopes, and nobody can fore- see what desperate measures he may resort to to secure a third election when success would put him on the road to those most tempting objects of human ambition—a crown and a dynasty. There is a great deal in the present situation of affairs to reconcile such aspira- tions to General Grant’s conscienca The the leading men of his. party must encourage him to keep on plotting for the nomination. The Observations of the Approaching Transit. The extensive preparations for observing the great transit are well nigh matured, and the last expedition to that end has recently left England. The scientific campaign has been planned with more care than any military movement for the conquest of territory, and astronomers are looking with intense interest for the result. Unless the whole habitable part of the globe is simultaneously shrouded in mist and cloud on the day of contact there is no question that the momentous occasion will be successfully improved by two or three of the observing partics. One of. the latest additions to the astronomical apparatus is in- troduced by the English Astronomer Royal, by which photographs of the external and in- ternal contact of Venus with the sun’s disk will be made every second during the critical time. The public mind has usually been more in- terested in the practical than in the theoretical labors of the astronomer. But this grand international investigation of a rare periodic phenomenon is intensely practical when under- stood. For nearly a whole century previous to 1862 the sun's mean distance was confidently regarded as ninety-five million five hundred thousand miles, and as late as 1856 the As- tronomer Royal of England said there was no probability of an error of half a million of miles in these figures. The old calculation wes shortly afterward invalidated by further astronomical computations and by a revision of the laws of light, until the distance was reduced theoretically to ninety-one and a halt millions, To determine this distance ac- curately is of great importance for all calcu- lations in which the sun’s attraction within the planetary system is influential, and in all work for the nautical almanacs, by which the mariner is guided. Tho imperfection of the present tables of the moon in use by naviga- tors is necessitated by the facts that the lunar motions are rendered irregular by the dis- turbing attraction of the sun, and the amount of this disturbance cannot be oom- puted until the sun's distance is accurately known. As the lunar tables afford the means of calculating the longitude of a ship at sea, and are depended upon for this purpose, in the present state of knowledge all longitude determinations are exposed to error. The benefit to navigation from a successful observation of the transit of Venus would alone repay the labor and expenditure neces growing corruption of our great cities, sup- ported by abuses of the elective franchise, and the real relief which imperialism would bring to the Southern States from the evils of negro supremacy, would reconcile large sec- tions of our population to a change in the form of our government. The principle of universal suffrage has been pushed to an ex- treme which makes it a hideous caricature; and Grant, who is not lacking in shrewdness, counts on 4 natural reaction. The miserable fiasco in which the reform movement in this city has resulted gives the same kind of en- couragement to imperialism which is afforded by the fruits of universal negro suffrage in the South. Grant relies upon a growing feeling that the corruption in our Northern cities and the disorder which reigns in consequence of universal suffrage in the South might be ex- changed with advantage for the equitable rule of a just monarch, By an energetic stretch of his power he does not despair of securing a third election; and that once accomplished the remaining steps toa consolidated impe- rialism would not be difficult. In spite of the rebuke administered by the recent elections the third term project is not abandoned. The fact that leading republican statesmen dare not vigorously oppose it attests the ascendancy which General Grant has al- ready gained in his own party. He still holds on and trusts to the chapter of accidents to help him through. There are yet two years before the Presidential election, and with a strong confidence in the marvellous luck which has already advanced him beyond his most sanguine expectations General Grant has no idea of relinquishing his aspirations, His sycophants have told him that the country would rather see him President for twelve years, or for life, than to let the democratic party get into power and put the reconstruc- tion measures in jeopardy. He thinks his party will never back out of universal negro suffrage, and that it would rather see its abuses corrected by the strong hand of impe- rial power than to confess that the reconstruc- tion policy was blunder. General Grant's military history proves that he is not made of yielding stuff, and will not easily relinquish a project on which he has set his heart. It is true enough that if the next Prosi- dential nomination of the republican party depended on # universal vote of its members General Grant would have no chance of get- ting it, But the members of the nominating convention will be appointed by ‘King Cau- cus,” andof this redoubtable king the federal office-holders are the all-powerful ministers. Hardly one republican voter in ten will take any part in the caucus proceedings by which be determined. General Grant counts on getting the nomination by the activity of his dependents, and he relies on party discipline and his overgrown patronage to do the rest. We believe he miscalculates as to the final x but the nusillanimous subserviency pf the character of the National Convention will | sary for the present astronomic campaign. Only two such opportunities for observing ‘Venus’ passage across the sun’s face occur in the long period of a hundred and twenty-two years, and these two occur at an interval of eight years. The last pair of transits took ‘place in 1761 and 1769; and had the present opportunity been lost it would not have re- turned until June, 2004—a very long time for the world to wait the solution of a problem in which so many scientific and practical issues are enfolded. The astronomers of the present day may well felicitate themselves upon the world-wide popular interest with which their schemes have been received and their arduous undertakings so abundantly provided for. The lavish equipment with which they have gone forth to their antipodal stations proves that where the legitimate work of science—ob- servation, not speculation—is at stake, govern- ments and individuals are ready to advance millions of money if need be. This fact should encourage scientists everywhere to pursue the patient path of actual research into the wonderful phenomena of nature, and lure them from the delusive by-roads which ambitious and vain theorists and voluble talkers of science prefer and pursue for fame’s sake, Although some considerable time, perhaps @ year, must elapse before the final and ma- tured results of the forthcoming observations can be published, we shall no doubt learn at an early day what, if any, material discovery has been made. Germany Intriguing in Mexico. We have the news from Mexico that Germany is there intriguing for a foothold in that coun- try and that the Germans are offéring to loan money on liberal conditions, based upon the security of a colonial tract. We are inclined to think that there may be some truth in this report, for the evidence is accumulating from day to day that the new German Empire as- pires to become a great power on the sea as well as on the land; that accordingly she is casting about for a foothold upon various islands in the South Seas, that she has been negotiating with Spain for an island or a naval station in the West Indies, and so on, although denials of all these projects come regularly from Berlin. But what does Germany want with a colonial tract in Mexico, and what could she do with it? Has she not seen enough in the results of the late Emperor Napoleon's Franco-Austrian protectorate to satisfy her that no European fraction of political power will be permitted in Mexico? No. Napoleon's protec- torate was impossible, because it was a foreign despotism founded on the ruins of Mexican nationality, and because it was a flank move- ment against the United States. Buta little German colony in Mexico, and under the Mexican government, will be a different thing. And yet, though as innocent and harmless in the beginning as Queen Dido's little colony in Africa, this projected little German colony, if admitted into Mexico, may in time first over- shadow und then become the State, We con- clude, however, that after all her instructive experience in European interventions and armed occupations and protectorates Mexico will not consent to the experiment, Two Canter Curers have been arrosted in | disguise at Cordova, and it is likely that one of them, Lozana, will be executed in retalia- tion for the shooting of republicans and of railway officials, which was recently done by his order. Frvzg Mctxions ror tHe Canuist Curers.— | Now we begin to see why the Carlist chiefs | are becoming disaffected. The Madrid gov- ernment, our special despatches from London | report, has sent five millions of dollass for distribution among them. This was the clever way in which the Macedonian Philip won his bloodless victories, and we are dis posed to think that Serrano has adopted uradent though not very creditable measures. The City Canvass. The city canvass is becoming brisker and brisker, and we are to have a lively time if the present signs do not fail us. Mr. Otten- dorfer accepts the anti-Tammany nomination and agsures us that he will remain in the field until the end. Mr. Ottendorfer is a German, and asa German never ran away we can count upon his obstinacy. The Communists have nominated John Swinton. John Swin- ton was one of the editors of Mr. Raymond’s newspaper and a trusted Heutenant of that la- mented journalist. Since then Mr. Swinton has become a Communist, mainly, we be lieve, because he hed nothing better to do. He is an amiable, kindly man, who looks like Horace Greeley and not like an incendiary. When the Communists were in power in Paris they burned several public buildings. If we could only besure that John Swinton would burn several of our present pablic buildings wo would be induced to aid him, for upon that platform he could have a vast and deserved support. But as our statutes against arson would prevent a satisfactory canvass upon this platform we do not see much hope for Mr. Swinton. The republicans have nominated Salem H. Wales. Mr. Wales was formerly an officer of the parks. Hoe is a sincere republi- can, @ journalist and a most respectable citi- zen. He will make the canvass upon strict administration grounds, and will poll the whole vote of the party, He recently re- signed his office because of a personal quarrel with Comptroller Green. It will be a sure card to the affections of thousands of our voters that fn office-holder and an honest man should have incurred the enmity of Andrew H. Green. We do not know how many more candidates will be nominated before we are through, but the more the merrier. We should like to havea hundred candidates for Mayor, and if our memory serves us there are several parties that have not yet made nominations, The contest will, we think, turn upon the Register- ship. The republicans did not accept Mr. Ottendorfer, but they did accept General Jones, The elements in favor of General Jones are that he isan Irishman and was a soldier, that he was made Postmaster to please Horace Greeley, and that he held the office of Register for some months for tho benefit of the family of the lamented and brilliant Miles O'Reilly. These points are calculated to make a sentimental canvass, and a sentimental canvass in a city with so many Irishmen as we have in New York will be exceedingly interesting. There- fore, as the campaign now stands the Regis- tership will be the main object. It is not much of a contest that can be made for the Registership, ‘as it is simply an office of emolu- ment, and has been given as a reward to party men of merit who needed the money. The great blunder of the Tammany leaders was the nomination of a man like Hayes, who had no especial political merit, and who does not need the money. As to the Mayoralty, however, there are two points to be observed. Three of the candidates—Swinton, Ottendorfer and Wales—are journalists, and this shows that newspapers are much better than Gen- eral Butler would have us think. In the second place, the whole four are good men, including Swinton, who, although a Commu- nist, would be conservative enough as Mayor. As things now look we shall have a merry go- around, and our worst wish is that the best of the four may win. The Austrian Polar Expedition—Lieu- tenant Payer’s Report. We publish this morning a translation of Lieutenant Payer’s interesting report of the adventures, hardships and discoveries of the late Austrian Polar expedition, covering a period extending from the spring of 1872 to the summer of 1874. The report is a simple, clear and connected narrative of the objects and results of the expedition. The main ob- ject was to find, if possible, ® northeast pas- sage to the West, and not the discovery of hitherto unknown lands; but the disappointed navigators stumbled, as we may say, upon lands which they did not look for, and did not find the passage they were in search of, Their story recalls that of Christopher Columbus, who, in his original undertaking to reach the East Indies by sailing West, stumbled upon a new world. The Austrian explorers leave no ground for a shadow of doubt touching their discoy- eries. Captain Wilkes, of the famous United States naval exploring expedition, sailed for hundreds of miles along the ice-bound coast of an Antarctic continent, and yet at this late day doubts have been proclaimed as to the existence of said continent. Might not the captain and his officers and crew have mistaken a mass of icebergs for a chain of mountains, and for a period of many days in succession? We should say no; but in the present case there is not even this hook left for quibblers to hang a doubt upon. The newly discovered lands in the Arctic seas were invaded by the Austrians on sledges, and they buried on the land a comrade who died under the terrible ordeal of the adventure, In their first trip they were six days on the land, and, from Lieutenant Payer’s account of this jour- ney, it was on o large island, and one of an extensive group of islands, large and small, divided from each other by narrow straits or channels, Nor, from the lofty, snow-covered mountains of these islands, rising from twenty- five hundred to five thousand feet above the sea, will it be difficult to find them again, The Emperor Francis Joseph may well be proud of these new territorial acquisitions, though they are utterly desolate, uninhabited end uninhabitable, except by polar bears, England, Russia and the United States have no longer the monopoly of modern Arotio dis- coveries, for in these latest real discoveries the Austrian explorers take rank with Roas, Parry, Hudson, Behring, Kane, Hayes and Hall and other Arctic heroes of the first class in their achievements. And we like tho en- thusiasm of Francis Joseph in this good work, as manifested in his equipment of two new expeditions to go out in the spring to establish the extent and boundaries of his group of Arotio islands; and we trust that our own government will be inspired by his good example to imitate it. Mexican Avvarns.—The re-elective princi- ple in the Presidency is having evil effects in Mexico similar to those against which we are contending in the United States. President Lerdo wants another term, and has taken arbitrary measures to obtain it. ‘When wo read of nese arrests and dissolu- ions of legislatures and nronunciamicntos in Merican States, fhe record seems like a tran- script of events in Louisiana and Arkansas, It was not always so, and we have m0 reason to be proud of the resemblance. A Few Words with a Distinguished Statesman. The Honorable John Morrissey is probably the most powertul statesman in the world. We do not know one under whose protection we would rather place ourselves. There is cer- tainly none now in public life with whom we would sooner preserve peaceful relations. We should go farther out of our way to avoid him, if we heard he was “‘on the warpath,’’ or to meet him, if words of conciliation were needed, than any other statesman now in active career. Morrissey is not as great a statesman as Tweed by at least one hundred and fifty pounds, bat he exceeds him in power. In our New York politics the maxim ‘“knowl- edge is power’ means really that power is knowledge. Therefore the Honorable John Morrissey is logically the most intelligent statesman now in publio life. The ancient augurs were supposed to be supernaturally wise when they could foretell the danger to the State by a study of the entrails of birds, and the Shah of Persia, who is king of kings and the glory of the universe, never ventures on & new experience until he has killed his morn- ing lamb or his evening hen. The Honorable Jobn Morrissey, in like manner, sees more in & pair of aces or & group of queens than any contemporary statesman ; which is saying ® great deal, for, if all we hear is true, there are statesmen in Washington who can see farther and raise higher, and go blinder on a single ace than the average race of leaders. Farthermore the Honorable John Morrissey is the most affectionate statesman now in. public life, The love he bears his friends is like the love which David bore'to Jonathan, and in future chronicles the poet will never sing the friendship of Damon and Pythias without thinking of ‘Johnny Morrissey’ and ‘Jimmy Hayes.” The Honorable John Morrissey is now the master of Tammany, the leader of o great canvass, and in a position where his intelli- gence, his power and his affections may do good. But he will permit us to instruct him, not withoyt reserve, remembering this power. He must not throw himself too earnestly into the canvass. Let him read in the works of Shakespeare, a writer we cannot too highly recommend to himself and his friends, that while it is pleasant to havea giant's strength it is tyrannous to do too much in the giant direction. We can understand the prodigious influence the Honorable John Morrissey would have on the canvass, and how, if he really meant it, he could put the noses of two-thirds of our able-bodied voters ont of joint But this is what weare tryingtoavoid. There will be noses enough out of joint after the elections by the nataral process of events without any artificial stimulns on the part of this most powerful leader. We wanta tranquil cam- paign and not what might be called ‘‘a Texas steer canvass.” It was only the other day that ® company of Texas steers undertook the business of independent transit in New York, and we know how our ordinarily peaceful life was disarranged ; for a Texas steer on its own errand in our narrow streets is more an ob- ject for reverence than acorn. So in our poli- tics. Powerful statesmen, like John Mor- rissey, in their place, under tranquil influences, with due moral restraints, are use- ful. Itis only when they become eccentric that we become alarmed. Think what this canvass would become if John Morrissey, Hugh T. Hastings, John Fox, Jenkins Van Schaick, MorrisJ. Powers, John Kelly, Sheriff Conner, Dick Flanigan, Peter Woods, Rocky Moore, Warden Brennan, Thomas Murphy and other statesmen of equal power were suddenly to break loose and assert themselves! The Texas steer ex- perience would be children’s play compared to it. Peaceful, retiring men, of great intel- lect and slender physique, like Sunset Cox, Napoleon Bonaparte and Samuel J. Tilden, would have no opportunity whatever, and our politics would only be open to men of gym- nastio rather than intellectual acquirements. We are led to these remarks by the discus- sion which took place on Wednesday evening between the Honorable John Morrissey and the Honorable Thomas J. Creamer. Mr. Creamer, it will be remembered, hired a hall and made @ speech adverse to Mr. Morrissey. In the ordinary course of politics Mr. Morrissey should have hired a hall and madea speech adverse to Mr. Oreamer, after which they should have gone to Delmonico’s and re- newed their loves over a dusty bottle of Cham- bertin. This, at least, has always been the way with our contending politicians, and, having conservative views, we spprove it as a means of tempering controversy. But the Honorable John Morrissey is a man of original opinions, and, instead of addressing an audience on the subject of Creamer, he sought out Creamer himself in the Fifth Avenue Hotel and proceeded to address him. The exact points of this effort are lost, as our reporters, who, being men of strict tem- perance principles, never visit barrooms, were not present. But it was undoubtedly a power- fal effort, power being Mr. Morrissey’s strong point. It is even said that the Honorable John, in the heat of eloquence, proposed to emphasize his views upon the eyes and nose of Oreamer. The thought of this is distressing, Tom Creamer is in many respects the handsomest man in the United States, with a Grecian face, 8 Roman nose, 8 Norman brow and Celtio eyes. To think of so much grace and beauty under the eloquent hands of as strenuous an orator as Morrissey grieves our sense of the beauti- ful, and we cannot too highly commend the guardian angels who rescued Oreamer from this peril—a peril, we proudly say, that might havo been in its result as much of a calamity in our politics as the destruction of the Venus of Milo would have been by the Commune. Furthermore, let us entreat Mr. Morrissey to have meroy. We are very proud of him. Every New Yorker glories in the thought that this great city is to pass under his powerful rale. Bat let him cultivate benignancy of fecling. If Tom Creamer abuses him let him hirea hall and abuse Tom Oreamer. Why pound his nose and his eyes, and his lips and his cheek bones and his manly brow into un- intelligible chaos? Is will do nobody any good—not Morrissey, ond cértainly not Creamer. As the wiso Ulysses, second Wash- ington and candidate for the third term once aaid, “Let us have peace’? i The Murder im Grocklyn. If the story we print to-day of the blood and fatal quarrel between two Italian barbers and two Brooklyn rowdies is correct, there can be but little sympathy for the victim. His attack and that of his companion was conceived in that wanton, brutal, malig. nant spirit in which the American ruffian is almost unrivalled. These drunkards, who had spent the whole night in coarse revels, ag they passed along the streets in the early morning, were enraged by the spectacle of two industrious barbers pre- paring their shop for the duties of the day. That they were foreigners, and apparently in- offensive, was sufficient to make them the natural enemies of these intoxicated petty poli- ticians, on whom the spectacle of honest labor seems to act as @ red flag does upon an in- furiate bull. They stopped to abuse the barbers and to break the windows and mir- rors with bricks. Then they ran, as usual, but probably discovering that there were no policemen near, returned tothe saloon and proceeded to demol ita contents, The Italians, who seem to have shown astonishing patience, now lost control of their passions, as they looked upon the wreck that had been made of the shop, and one of them slashed a man named School over the face with a sabre, while the other plunged his scissors three times into the body of Crocker, who seems to have been the ringleader in the assault, in- flicting wounds which mast cause his death. This wretched affair was the outgrowth of a bad social condition. Crocker belonged to a class of men which hag been educated to de- spise the restraints of the law. The ‘‘woll known ward politician’ is very apt to con sider himself privileged to behave as he chooses, and Crocker no doubt thought no one would dare to punish for such a trifling joke as the cleaning out of an Italian's barber shop a delegate to a Congressional Conven- tion. If trouble should come he counted upon his political influence to get out of it, and not without good ground. Had the contest simply ended with the breaking up of the shop it is un- likely that the perpetrators would ever have been punished. But sometimes this spirit of contempt for society meets with unexpected resistance, and here the man perished by his own folly, and forced the Italian, Dombrugia, into the commission of a deed of which a few hours before he never thought, and which he will long remember with remorse. Tas Von Anni Fammx have fully ac cepted the issue which Bismarck presented, The Count Von Arnim himself remains firm, and it is said that one of his relatives has been granted an interview with the Emperor. Another member of the family has resigned the Governorship of Alsace and Lorraine. This does not look like surrender nor com- promise, M. Turees has indignantly donied in a let- ter that he ever accused the Fronch govern- ment of hostility to Italy. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Bishop Harris, of New York, is at the Irving House. Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, is regtatered at the Windsor Hotel. ‘The President will return to Washington to-night or to-morrow morning. Dr. J. H. Kinsman, United States Army, 1s quar- tered at the Windsor Hotel. Professor Whitney, of Harvard College, is stay- ing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. #: B. Church, the artist, is among the latest arrivals at the Brevoort House. General T. L. Clingman, of North Varolina, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Bernard Eckelmann, German Oonsul at Porto Rico, ts residing at the Everett House. Captain John Mirehouse, of the steamship City of Montreal, is stopping at the New York Hotel. Judge Theodore Miller,.of the New York Supreme Court for the Third district, is atthe St. Nicholas Hotel. Speaker James G. Blaine, of the House of Rep- resentatives, has apartments at the Filth Avenue Hotel. The story that the Princess Alice has written a romance of aristocratic life in Germany, is all a romance, Giad to hear about Grant's nataral taste for “do- mestic privacy.” Spall be vabrnaen to see hiv tastes gratified. Congressman George W. Hendee and ex-Oon- gressman F. E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, are at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. The latest report from Don Carlos, by way ot the Duke of Parma, is that he was not wounded and there was no revolt. Pau) Marcoy’s ‘‘Travels in South America From the Pacific Ucean to the Atlantic” is jast pub- lished by Blackle, of Edinburgh and London. Thiers was unable to go to Guizot’s funeral on account of ‘debility ;” but he is dancing about in Italy from point to point with uncommon vigor. Mr, William Gould, of Albany, who was struck with paralysis on Tuesday, recovered his power of speech yesterday, and there is prospect of his ultimate recovery. In Tonraine the French government has offered to pay the farmers for injury done to their places in the great military manceuvres; but many have refused the recompense. “Ne Plus Uura"’ is to be inscribed on the monu- ment to be erected in Portugal to commemorate the stand made at the lines of Torres Vearas against the French invasion under Massena, M. Jules Janin, who wrote delightful newspaper articles and intoleraple books, has produced a volume of mere padding tn his posthumous work, “paris et Versailles, i y a cent ans.” That British member of Parliament who aisifkes the ‘Irish chaps’? tn the House says he ‘don’t know anything aboat Sir Wilfrid Lawson’s Liquor bill, but his own liquor Dill 1s @ thundering deal toc big.” ehucisnls vessels were recently reported as at sea at one time with arms for Don Carlos. They were all from British, German and Belgium ports, ‘They lie out at sea and discharge their cargoes into boats, Count Von Arnim was born in 18%, He did not inherit nis title, but was created Count by a royal decree dated July 28, 1870, while he was Prussian Ambassador at Rome. He is of middling height, has biack hair, which he wears long, and blue eyes, He uses spectacles, The giris in the New York Normal Sonool prefer the study of German to that of French in the pro- portion of 918, who chose German, and 187 French, out of 1,150 students. It needed not this new evidence to attest how much stronger 1s the German element in this country than the French. Poor Ben Butler! They always have a fling at him. Lately some irreverent rogue when Ben was speaking lowered a big spoon from above him just over bis head, Now, in a similar spirit, Mr. Holiand in his }ittie poem at Ben’s tea party takes this shot at the great reconstructor— wap tbatde to the Rilc with th w baite to tho hilt. wit Who'traifie in the nation's wous And live upon the nanon’s life, The tenor Wachtel has made tne part of the Postllion de Longjumeaa his specialty, not that he sings the masic with more taste or talent tham his confreres, but for the artistic manner tm which, he cracks his whip, he having filled in reality the: calling of postillion, before acting on the stage. He 1 aid to have now a formidable rival in Nach- baur, Whois playing the part at Berlin, and who alag bas a great deal of span (p big.