The New York Herald Newspaper, November 12, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every Gay in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. Sarees All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed Naw Youx | THeranp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ¥ LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms es in New York. Volame XXXIX No. 316 | 8 TO-NIGHT. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, third street, near sixth avenue.—NEGRO f. dc, at SP. af; closes at 10 P.M, Dan TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery, VARIETY, at 8 P. Mi; closes at 10 P.M. SAN FRANCISC Broadway, corner ot MINSTRS LOY, a8 P. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Siath avenw ENEVIEVE DE BRASANT, atsP. ML; closes at 105 2. M. Miss Kuily oldene. 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ML Mr, Jetterson. : ROMAN HIPPODROME, ‘Twenty-sixth street and Fourth avenue.—Afternoon and evening, at2 and & WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broaaway.—ROMANC# OF A POOR YOUNG MAN, at BP. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. Houcicault. NIBLO GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Housion streets -Bene- | tot P.O, biks, at 1:30 P.M. THE DELUGs, at BP. M.; closes at 11 P.M. iralfy Pamily. Hl FIFTH AVEAUE THEATRE, Twenty-eichth street and Broadway.-MASKS AND PACKS, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 11 P.M. Miss Fanny Daven- port Mr, Fisher. BROOKLYN THEATRE. | NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS, at SP. M.; closes at | iLP. M. Mr. Davenport. GERMANIA THEATRE, | Fourteenth strect.—1UE SERIOUS FAMILY, at8 P. M.; tioses at 10:30 P.M. . Sixteenth street, t VAKIETY, at 5 New York, Thursday, Nov. 12, 1874, From our reports this morning es are that the weather to-day will be cold and cloudy. Was Srreer Yestexpsy.—Gold was firm at 110}. Money continued to call for 2} and 8 percent. Stocks fluctuated in price, but without marked symptoms of weakness. Presment Grant's ANNuAL MessaGE must be already engaging his attention. Will he congratulate Congress, as he did last year, on the disappearance of party spirit throughout the country ? News rrom tHE Nizx.—Our correspondent at Khartoom informs us of the return of Colonel Long to Gondokoro from an expe- dition to the Victoria Nyanza. The gallant Colonel reports the discovery of a new river flowing into the lake. It would seem asif the persistent efforts of the travellers of this generation to solve the mystery that for thousands of years has hung around old Father Nile must in the end prove thoroughly suc- cessful. Each effort brings us some gleam of light. Burien; Is Sam To Be Preranmae a Statement of the causes of his defeat for the information of the country. restless nature to keep quiet under defeat, and his exposition is likely to be.the spiciest production of the season. As he bas no longer an)thing to lose politically he will fling vitriol on his enemies with even more | than his wonted recklessness, and thereby qualify them to sit for their portraits for the new rogues’ gallery he proposes to paint, ‘‘which, if not victory, is yet revenge.” A Wasuixcron Dxspatcn tells us that the President has expressed his determination to veto the Civil Rights bill if it is taken up from the Speaker's table—where it has lain since the session—and passed. But who believes the House will pass it since the late elections? Grant will not get a chance to veto it, and it would do him no good if he could. The South would be more certain to condemn the republican party for passing it than to commend the republican President for his veto. Ot course, nothing that Grant can do now will help him with democrats, North or South. Ie Taesz Seven Democrats—Thurman, Tilden, Bayard, Hendricks, Seymour, Kerr and Pendleton—would hold a private confer- ence and agree to mutually support one another and act in perfect concert on all the great questions of currency, trade and finance, they could give the democratic party what it chiefly lacks, a policy. But if these eminent democratic statesmen cannot agree among themselves how can‘the party ever be har- monized? Hendricks, who represents the Indiana, and Pendéeton, who represents the Ohio democrats, would have to make greater | concessions than the other five in reaching a | result to which they could all subscribe; but they ought to have public spirit enough to good deal for the sake of so important yield ‘an object, The joint influence of these seven | men might soon hush all discordant voices in the party if they could come at once to a spear’ pgreemen It is not in bis | Lines of New Deperture—Republican Hopes and Opportunities. The undercurrents of the canvass are being closely studied by the political leaders. The democrats see the result as an overwhelming, unexpected and conclusive victory. One of | Sedan’”’—Sedan to come, we presume, with the election of a democratic President in 1876. ‘The loyal republicans are in a rampant mood, and talk wildly about “shooting deserters” and “suppressing mutiny’ and ‘‘no sarren- | der." President Grant, who, the other day, was murthful and saw in the third term the great joke of the season, is now reported as hav- | ing lopsed into pristine grimness, and says | that he will be ‘ready for the democracy in | 1874."" Mr. George William Curtis, who may | be called The Beautiful Being, or The Re- | fning Influence of Republicanism, observes among the people ‘‘an instinctive apprehen- sion’’ of the effect of a democratic victory. Vice President Wilson, who is one of the | most sagacious of present statesmen, proposes | “reforms” that will secure the triumph of the party at the next election. Mr. Medill, in assuming control of the Chicago Tribune, gives expression to a similar sentiment. Mr. Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial, inti- mates that if E. B. Washburne is nominated tor the Presidency he will support him. So that we see a general tendency among repub- licans to seek some common ground for re- organization, The republicans will have control of all branches of government until December, 1875, when the new Congress will meet. They will have time to pursue every advantage that this respite will give them. Itremains to be seen whether they will learn wisdom from victory or whether they will run into wild riot and delirium until the end comes. Our own impression is that the wisest coun- cils will necessarily prevail in the republican party. The leaders of that party are cer- tainly not fools, whatever they are. There will be a new departure. What form it will take or how far it will go, not being in republican confidences, we do not pre- tend to say. But all the indications are that the old republican leaders, the conserva- tive element of the party, will make strenuous efforts to reform’the organization. The in- | fluence which General Butler represents has | been defeated in his own person, and there | will be an end of what 1s called ‘‘Butlerism.” | General Butler himself will, we have little doubt, be solemnly charged with all the sins of republicanism and sent into the | wilderness, as was done in Jewish times. | The “egenerated’’ leaders may take their lesson from the Mosaic law: ‘And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him ail the iniquities of the children of Israel, a’nd all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit | man into the wilderness: and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited’? We shall, no doubt, have this solemn service some time during | the coming session of Congress, if any | republican leader can be found worthy |enough to represent Aaron, For a | scapegoat must be found, and the new work of regeneration can have no more dramatic | beginning than to load Butler with all the sins of his party and send him forth into the — | wilderness—say to Russia, the home of so | many exiles from Cameron down, and which | is now vacant. | Butler duly despatched “‘by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness” we shall have further reforms. Whether the President will recall Kremer and deprive the Sharpes, | Caseys and others of his tamily of their visible means of support, ‘we cannot say. These, however, are small matters, and if a President will only do well by the country the country will be easy in the matter of relations. Mr. Curtis, who is one of the very few republicans who could act the part of Aaron in the banishment of scape- | goats, gives us his programme of penitence. “The secret of republican reorganization for victory in 1876,’’ he says, ‘is simply return to the republican policy and fidelity to it. | Administrative reform, redemption of the pub- lic faith, and fair play in the Southern States are distinctively the demand of the public intelligence and conscience.” In other words, Mr. Curtis says dow after the battle | what the Hzraxp has said for two years; for, | as our readers well know, we have never had any disposition to quarrel with General Grant | or even to tease him. During his military | career we were his constant friend. We aided | him to the Presidency. When Sumner, | Schurz and Trumbull made their war upon | him on the French arms question we covered | him with our buciler. When Cmsarism be- | came a menacing issue we expressly re- | lieved the President from any responsibility for it, showing that the danger of Cesarism was not with him personally, but in the republican party and in the abnormal con- dition of affairs that had come with the war. | The President has never given us a chance to sustain him that we have not welcomed, and | on no occasion as earnestly as when he vetoed | inflation and kept order in Louisiana ond Arkansas. The trouble with the President, however, is like the trouble with Nebuchad- nezzar. His heart has been lifted up and his | mind hardened with pride, and if these elec- tions mean anything it is that he will be ‘‘de- | posed from his kingly throne and his glory | taken from him.”* | The new departure of the republicans will be serious. We shall believe in its sincerity, however, when we have the fruits. We must | have administrative reform. If General Grant will listen to the voice of the people he will | at once change his Cabinet. He needs states- | men about him, not staff officers. We haveno | especial fault to find with the persons com- | posing the Cabinet, but they have not aided | the administration. The President has had to | carry them all, and he is now in the position of | having a Cabinet every one of whom, with a | single exception, has been repudiated in his own | State. We want a change of officials in the | South, Already the work has begun in Texas, but it must go into every State. The Presi- dent must look for advice and aid, not to the Mortons, Logans, Stewarts, Brownlows and Pattersons, bot to mon of higher character. He must not depend upon the brute votes of carpet-baggers, but mpon the intelligence of his party, He must pursue inexora- bly the policy of protection to | public faith. oad, abows all things. he must the rhetoricians entitles it “‘Gravelotte before | the | reconstruct the South. He has two opportu- nities that are certainly golden, He can in- duce the calling of a national convention of peace and reconstruction. He can influence an amendment to the constitution limiting the Presidency to one term, Let him do this | inhis next message to Congress. It will be his last response to Casarism, and it will certainly not be “beneath his dignity,"’ for he will be following the examples of Washington, Jeffer- son and Jackson. We aro far from gaying or believing that any ‘new departure” will enable the republi- cans to return to power in 1876. Our impres- sion is that the decision expressed by the country at the polls is too emphatic to be reversed; that it means a democratic Presi- dent in 1876 ; that it repeats what was written on the wall: ‘God hath numbered thy king- dom and finished it'’—‘thou art weighed in the balances and found wanting.” But, at the same time, we do not see that the repub- lican case is absolutely hopeless. The demo- crats must remember that nothing is so easily lost as a victory. Our experience of the democrats since the war began leads us to fear the return of the Bourbons to power. If the counsels of men like Mr. Tilden are to be overruled, and if we are to have anascendancy of influences like those which nominated Sey- mour and Biair; if we are to have the wild notions on finance which are represented by the Cincinnati Enquirer; if we are to sce a restoration of the old secession feeling in the South, under some madman like Toombs ; if there is to be any interference with the amend- ments to the constitution resulting from the war; if, in fine, the democracy go into power not to reform the government, but to pull down all the war has built up, then there will be as much of a reaction in 1876 as there was in 1864 after the defeats of 1862. What the country expects from the demo- crats is the utmost wisdom and circumspec- tion. It must begin here in New York. Mr. Tilden is now the titular and responsible leader of the democracy. Let him give us re- form in our New York civil service. Let him put his foot on “bosom friendships” in office. Let him secure an amendment to the consti- tution limiting the Presidency to one term. Let him rebuke every effort at repudiation and secession. Let him inculcate upon his party conservatism and temperate measures. He will then show the country that he and his party have deserved the victory that has crowned them, and that they deserve the highest confidence a people can pay a party— namely, the control of the government of the country. The Von Arnim Controversy. We print elsewhere the text of some impor- tant letters in the Arnim-Bismarck con- troversy. The substance of these letters has been given in special cable despatches; but in a matter of so much gravity as the contro- versy that now divides public opinion in the German Empire and excites the utmost inter- est in Europe every fact that contributes to an exact knowledge of the merits of the case will have great value. As we have contended from time to time, this is not merely a personal controversy be- tween Count Arnim and the Prussian Chan- cellor, but a grave issue in German politics. No one supposes, for a moment that the Count has committed any act that will justly bring him within the pale of the criminal law. That was an incredible supposition in the beginning, and we have seen nothing in the whole progress of the discussion to throw any stain upon his character. The attempt to fasten a criminal charge upon him is therefore the desperate expedient of a statesman whose policy of “blood and iron’’ he applies to all who cross his path. This Bismarck has conceded by his release of Count Arnim. In his efforts to crush his domestic encmy the great German statesman has exposed himself to a serious snubbing from his old opponents in Vienna. In the hope of acquiring evidence against Von Arnim an application was made to the Austrian Provincial Court to compel the editors ot the Press to give information of the source from which they derived their news relative to the Von Arnim despatches. The Austrian Court declined, however, to be used by even so great a man as Bismarck, and curtly refused to put the law into force, on the ground that, though the question was important to Prussia, it was of no consequence to Austria. It is many years since Prussian diplomacy has received so humiliating a check. It is evident that the personal policy of Bismarck has a tendency to get him into trouble. What the end will be it wouid be folly to speculate. We do not see that any action has been taken by the German Parliament which assembled the other day. In that Parliament the influence of Bismarck is commanding. But in forms of government like that of Prussia, where the absolute will of a monarch is supreme, no one can tell what the morrow may bring. It would not surprise us if Bis- marck, who has risen like Wolsey, should some day suddenly fall like him before the anger of a capricious king. Tae Reziar0-Poirmoan Acrration my Ena- tAND.—The special Hzratp telegram by cable from London which appears in our columns to-day brings the important announcement that the religio-political agitation, which has lately distracted North Germany and troubled South Germany, Austria and Italy to such a dangerous extent, has invaded Eng- land. Ex-Premier Gladstone and Archbishop Manning, of Westminster, are the leaders of the opposing forces. They have commenced an angry § discussion in the columns of the press. It is highly | probable that Mr. Gladstone has protested against the idea of assembling o Catholic council in defence of the Papal temporalities in London, and that the Archbishop stands on the rights of the English Catholics, both as freemen and congregationalists, to do so. Earl Russell will be very likely to fraternize again with Gladstone, while Premier Disraeli, although neutral, may find material for a new edition of “Lothair.” Governor Drx, it is given out, will avail himself of his release from the cares of State on the Ist of January in a trip to Florida, where he proposes to spend the remainder of the winter. Good, for we dare say that the venerable statesman, in the midst of the ducks, fish and alligators of Flonda, will soon cease to be troubled about the late elec- | tion, Reasons for a Revival ef Business. The journals, both here and in the interior, are filled with discussions concerning ® possi- ble revival of business. We do not wonder at their zeal nor at their hopefulness. The stagnation of trade has lasted overlong. It began months before the failure of Jay Cooke, and it became worse instead of better during the whole year following that catastrophe. It began when the country was rich in crops and products, and it continued, in spite of large crops, prudent business ventures and cheap money. In some respects the condition of trade and enterprise during the last four- teen or fifteen months is unexampled in our previous experience ; and, though an ill regulated and depreciated currency, & foolish tariff, the Chicago and Boston fires, and heavy national, State and local debts had 8 good deal to do with “poor times,” all these together do not account for so prolonged and hopeless a paralysis of enterprise as the coun- try has suffered from. Nor, were these the only or even the chief reasons, would there be the general sense of relief and hopefulness which has sprung up all over the country in the last few days—since the elections. For the elections did not suddenly change anything.. The currency is no better now than on the 1st of November; the public debts of various kinds are no less; Boston and Chicago have not sensibly improved during a week. The sources of the evil lay deeper. A great and intelligent nation, occupying a vast and fertile territory and blessed with good crops, does not sink before mere pecuniary loss like that inflicted by the two great fires, It does not lose its energy or enterprise because of o cur- rency so little depreciated and so little change- able as ours-has been during the last two years, It quickly adapts itself to even the most injurious and restrictive taxes. It does not faint beneath the burden of a debt con- stantly and satisfactorily decreasing. It is the gross misgovernment of the country, more than all the other causes combined, which has brought business to a standstill. If we examine the symptoms of the disease from which we have been and still aro suffering they all point to this conclusion, for they all show that it is not destruction of capital by fires nor confiscation of capital by taxes, but the grave alarm of capital, causing its with- drawal from enterprises, which has brought all business tb a standstill. The long continued maladministration of General Grant, growing worse rather than better, constantly less regardful of propriety, of public opinion and of constitutional limita- tions, shocking to the people’s sense of justice and seeming to gather around him more and more the dangerous class in our politics; it is this which has alarmed capital and caused all prudent men to husband their resources and to decline new ventures. The people bore for four years patiently with his evil associations and corrupt appointments to office; for they laid these to the score of his ignorance of public business and public men ; but when, year after year, even in his second term, they.saw him call about him or appoint to places of trust and profit men notoriously and indecently corrupt, and when they noticed further that he never re- moved one of these men; when they saw him deliberately defying public opinion and attending only to the flatteries of his chosen associates ; when they beheld the re- sults of his misgovernment in the prolonged and increasing Southern troubles ; when they noticed that wherever disorder or corruption or shameless defiance of public opmion or injustice appeared, there, as its moving cause, might be found one of the President's friends ; when they remembered Casey, and to Casey added Kellogg, and to Kellogg Moses, and to Moses Jayne, and to Jayne Sanborn, and to Sanborn Shepherd, and to Shepherd Sim- mons; when they saw the Prosident frown down every manifestation of independent judgment in Congress and crush out by the power of his patronage all oppo- sition to his own wishes; when they saw the revenues farmed out by his Secretary of the Treasury, his Attorney General com- manding the armies, and his most devoted personal adherents crowding through Con- gress a gag law directed against the press, all this persistently continued during gix years, began to inspire the gravest appre- hensions. Men asked each other, Suppose this is allowed to goon? And then came the question, Who shall stop it? Evidently the President and his favorites had no notion of changing. Apparently the people were asleep or without public spirit. They seemed so in- capable of alarm that General Grant con- temptuously refused even to give them the poor assurance that he did not mean to reign forever. It began to be generally thought that the people had gone out of business, In all this there was certainly cause for alarm. It is not supposed by any one that the American people will accept a master without such resistance as would cause serious and prolonged internal disorders, But the course of the President and his favorites, their carelessness or contempt of constitutional limitations, and their constant treatment of public interests and business from a purely personal standpoint, all pointed to a desire, but slightly concealed, on the part of the ad- ministration to unduly perpetuate and in- crease its powers, and, in fact, to change the form of our government, It was the fear of this—a vague, undefined dread, a something in the sir—which did more than all else to paralyze all enterprise during the last year. The first result of the elections is to dissipate this dread. On the 2d of November General Grant was a power; to-day he simply represents a deteated and dishonored party. The people have spoken and condemned his administration. We do not see how this verdict can be reversed, nor how a democratic Prosidont can be defeated in 1876. Buta President with two years of power has many opportunities. If General Grant rises to these opportunitics he may not save his party, but he may do much toward the vindication of his former fame, Vinarnia’s Dept snp Oneprrors.—At the recent conference at Kichmond between the bondholders, on the creditor side, and the Governor and State Treasurer of Virginia, on the debtor aide, in reference to the re- demption of the State debt, it was agreed that measures ought to be adopted by the Leg- islature to secure the prompt payment of the semi-annual two per cent interest thereon until something better for the bondholders NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. can ba done. The debt of Virginia is heavy, and her present available resources are com- paratively light; but we see in these proceed- ings that she is disposed to do the best she can to meet her obligations, and that is half the battle, The Proposed Substitute for Steam. The interesting announcement of a substi- tute for steam as a motive power has been recently made in Germany from a source en- titled tos hearing. Tho rapid consumption of the earth's fuel supply and the drain on its forests, attended by so many disastrous con- Sequences, have stimulated scientific inventors to find a successor for steam, and it is to be hoped the present discovery will prove a suc- cess. The now motor is carboleum, and its application to machinery is claimed for Dr. Beins, of Groningen, who has devoted many years to its study and utilization. Experi- ment first taught him that when the bicar- bonate of sodium is heated in a ciosed space, at a temperature of eight hundred degrees Fahrenheit, liquid carbonic acid is distilled out of it, having the expansive force of fifty or sixty atmospheres. Carboleam is not dangerous as an explosive, and the fact that, thus employed as the German inventor proposes, it is possessed of enormous motive power, was attested by scientific mon to whom the experiments were shown, The heat required to bring out this motive power of the carbonic acid in the new carboleum engine is apparently very small when compared with that requisite for producing a high pressure of steam in the ordinary engine. In the former itis only three pounds of coal per hour for each horse power represented by the engine—an amount so small that it would be unnecessary in ships driven by the new pro- cess to devote much space for fuel. Tho chief value of the invention, however, is claimed to be its practicability in large factories. The author thinks that for the great industries the carboleum engine can, in nearly every in- stance, take the place of steam. The scientific value of this discovery is im- mense, if mechanical ingenuity can success- fully apply it in the directions indicated by Dr. Beins. If it is said that the supply of carboleum is not as plentiful as that element from which steam is made it may be an- swered it is almost as largo as that of coal in some parts of the world. Carboleum is found inexhaustibly in the beds of common chalk in all parts of the earth, As common chalk contains carbonic acid to the amount of half its weight it will yield double its volume of carboleum. And the chalk resources of the earth are vast be- yond computation. The cretaceous rocks cover a large extent of subterranean Europe and Eastern Asia and abound in North and South America. The chalk beds which cross under the English Channel at Dover have been gauged at five hundred feet thickness, and similar beds, have been found in France, Germany and Denmark, while the soundings of the ocean bottom show that they probably exist in a growing state in many geological districts. In the United States few forma- tions are more widely distributed than the chalk, varying in thickness (according to some authorities) from four hundred feet along the Atlantic seaboard to two thousand five hundred feet in the Upper Missouri Valley. It is evident, therefore, that the proposed successor of steam, if mechanically applied, would be used over the larger part of the world as an invaluable auxiliary of sieam, with an enormous economy of coul and wood. The successful introduction of such a motive power, minimizing the fuel consumption, would be a boon of incalculable imporiance in the manufactures and arts. That the prin- ciple upon which its introduction is claimed to be feasible is scientifically correct seems hardly to be doubted. If the immeasurable chalk beds are stored with mechanical energy, as we know the coal beds are, the anxiety of physicists and economists, lest the world’s fuel supply may fall short in the lapse of a few centuries, is dissipated. The utilization of the new fuel would give an impetus to all industries, and might revolutionize the com- merce of manutacturing nations whose wealth and political power are mainly due to their coal supplies. Te Sryeutar Recommenpation to which the Lvening Post devoted its leader yesterday, that a law be passed next winter requiring the Forty-fourth Congress to assemble in March next, evinces leas penetration than we should have expected in so intelligent a journal. It is, indeed, in the power of the present republican Congress to compel its successor to meet on any day it may fix sub- sequent to the 34 of March, the constitution requiring the annual meeting to be ‘‘on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law fix a different day.” But what motive can the republicans have for compelling the new House to meet in March? The Post says it would force the democratic majority to show their hand. But it is easier to lead a horse to the water than to make him drink. ‘The democrats of the House would not pass bills for the republican Senate to reject, unless they felt sure that their rejection would damage the republican party. If Congress were to be assembled in March the first thing done by the House after organizing would be to appoint six or eight committees of investigation to probe abuses in every executive department. The democrats would doubtless be glad of such an opportunity ; but it is quite certain that the republicans will not accommodate them. Ractna on tHe East River.—Now that the inspectors have an opportunity of ex- amining‘ thoroughly into the practice of rac- ing carried on by the Harlem River boats we hope they will not fail to do their duty fear- lessly. The conduct of the captains and engineers on these river boats deserves the strongest reprobation. Day after day they endanger the lives of hundreds of people to gratify a silly vanity. It is disgraceful that the authorities have not taken steps to put down this system of steam- boat racing; bus they have now the facts before them officially, and if they will take steps to put an end tothe disgraceful and dangerous practice they will receive the thanks of the community. Ronpery or aN Express Can,—Wo publish a detailed story this morning of the daring express robbery effected near Delaware Station, in New Jersey. It is a remarkable instance of the mingled daring and cowardice which is en “WS remem al common to thieves asa class, With the fm formation already in their possession and the slight start obtained by the robber the deteo- tives ought to be able to ferret him out. No effort should be spared to suppress this class of crime. The best way to accomplish this is to teach the rogues that they will be pursued without pause to the death. i The City Budget for 1874 and 1875. ‘The Board of Aldermen meet to-day to con- sider the provisional estimate for conducting the public business of the city for the year 1875, as adopted by the Board of Apportion- ment. A comparison of this estimate with the budget finally revised and adopted for the current year will show that the appropria- tions have been materially reduced in but a few of the departments, The Common Coun- cil this year has $193,500. Deducting $99,000 for the Assistant Aldermen and their officers, abolished after January 1, 1875, and the ap- propriation for the current year is $94,500, The provisional estimate for 1875 increases this to $109,500. The Finance Department this year gets $338,000. It gets for next year $300,000—a reduction of only $38,000. The Law Department gets $188,500 in 1875, against $149,620 in 1874—an increase of $39,000. The Department of Public Works is down in the provisional estimate for next year for $1,572,000, and gets this year $1,592,000—a decrease of $20,000. The De- partment of Public Parks gets this year $595,000, and in 1875 $584,000—a saving of only $11,000. The Department of Charities and Correction gets this year for salaries, supplies, outdoor relief and repairs, $1,278,000. Inthe estimate for next year it gets $1,200,000—a reduction of $78,000. This year there are appropriations to the depart- ment for building pavilions and elevators which are notin the budget for 1875. The Health Department is reduced only $21,000 from the appropriation for the present year, the’Police Department $144,000, the Fire De- partment $220,000 and the Board of Educa- tion $466,000. It will be seen that reductions of any amount have only been made in the Departments of Charities and Correction, Police, Fire and Education. The other departments may be said not to have been reduced at all, since the final revised estimate for 1874, in which some saving was effected, was not passed until June last, and hence the reduction fell only upon one-half of the year. The budget for 1875 shows a total increase of $2,000,000 over the budget of the present year, and the rate of taxation for next year, unless the Board of Aldermen insist on further economy, will be nearly three per cent. Ax Iypun Ficut.—A gallant action has been fought by a handful of United States cav- alry against a superior force of Indians. We publish a spirited account of the affair re ceived from our correspondent at Camp Sup- ply. Captain Farnsworth and his men deserve commendation for the dashing man- ner in which they handled the savages. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Captain Cook, of the steamship Russia, 1s staying at the Brevoort Honse. Senator John S, Hager, of Calitornia, has apart ments at the St. James Hotel. Wanted—A Cabinet. Address, in confidence, U. 8. Grant, Washington, D. 0. State Senator D. P. Wooa, of Syracuse, is stop- ping at the Fifth Avenue Uocel. Lieutenant Governor Join ©. Robinson 1s so journing at the Grand Central Hotel. The first heavy frost of the season in Great Britain occurred on the night of the 10th inst, Mr. George W. Childs and Mr. Anthony J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant Colonel William R, Shatter, United States Army, is quartered at the Sturtevant House, Congressman elect Chester W. Chapin, of Spring- field, Mass., yesterday arrived at the Brevooré House. Mr. J. H. Devereux, President of the Atlantie and Great Western Railway Company, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel, The French Rear Admiral Laperouse is dead. He was of the same family as Galaup de Laperouse, the great navigator. Congressmen Stephen W. Kellogz, of Connecti- cut, and Eugene Hate, of Maine, are registered at the Filth Avenue Hotel, AnEngilshman has Just bought at Bordeaux, for 1,800 francs, three bottles of Medoc wine, of the year 1793—$120 a bottle. Mr. Joun Munroe, the banker, of Paris, arrived from Europe yesterday in the steamship Russia, and ia at the Brevoort House. Vice President Henry Wilson and Solicitor Bla. ford Wilson, of the Treasury Department, lett thig city last evening for Boston. Captain Desclee, brother of Desclee, the actress, has just been sentenced to transportation for pare ticipation in the insurrection of the Commune. M.,Le Marquis Henry U’Neiil, of the French army, died at Paris in October. His ancestor took reiuge in France in the time of Queen Elizabeth, Paris likes fair play and resents the settlement of Faure’s difficulty at the Opera House because it was made on @ basis that outrages the dignity and rights of the manager. General J. Meredith Read, Jr., United States Minister to Greece, has arrived at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel. He will sail for Europe on Saturday next, and on his arrival out will proceed to Athens to resume his diplomatic duties, Apropos of Nana Sahib, the Paris Figaro gives the account of a correspondent who reports he had an interview with that distinguished Hindoo in this city, in Nana Sahib’s own drawing room, “4p a little house in Wall street.’” Treason again! Faure and Halanzier had mutue ally engaged themselves to accept, ‘tele queuie,'" the arrangement made by their three friends, whom we called ‘the three musketeers.” Now, the conclusion reached was humiliating to Hatan- mier, and bis friend was Porthos-Thomas. It te fancied, therefore, that Thomas thought more of his Hamiet than of bis friend, The Queen of Portugal, morganatic wile of Don Ferdinand, in a late visit to @ friend admired a beautiful antique cameo in his collection of gems, and he gave it to her. She took from its place the brooch she wore, covered with precious stones, threw itout of tne window and replaced it by the antique gem. With tastes that have this effect it is fortunate she haga king on hand, even if it ie only the left hand. Figaro reports @ little game of the Paris tailors, ‘The tailor says to lus customer, ‘Sir, I had the honor to see you at the marriage of Mr. So-and-8o, The coat | made for you needs @ littie change.” Naturaily the gentieman sends the coat, anda few days after the tatlor, returns it, but no change has been made, only it bas been worn by a gentle. man who had to have acoat jor tiat night, and there was not time to make one, If Grant had the political sagacity to accept the elections a8 the commentary of the people on his administration and to make a clean board tn con- sequence; to sweep out of place every iederal ofice-hoider in the country and to reappoint only those of recognized efficiency and honesty, he might yet congratulate himself on these democratio victories, Bat te is not the man for it, He will still ignore the people, or, maybe, call 11 all @ “newspaper sensation,” or argue that it is be- neath his “dignity” to notice it; and the result will be that this stolid tadifference will be his drat, ofgnoe in the new record now making (or "7