The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR ——_-— {HE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. Pa a Wat NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hzratp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorn Heap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Ghee eS LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York, scecccecses@. S22 EMENTS TO-NORROW. AMERICAN INSTITUTE, ‘Third avenue, between Sixty-third and Stxty-fourth streets. INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITLON. WOOD'S MUSEUM, corner of Thirtieth street.—UNCLE TON’S at 2P. M.; closes at 4:30 P.M. LITTLE RIFLE, . closes at 10:45 P.M. CABIN, avsP. 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Miss Emily Soldene. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1874, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with possibly rain. Watt Street Yesterpay.—Several stocks showed an unexpected advance, and the gen- eral market was strong. Gold advanced to 111}. The Bank of England advanced its rate of discount from 4 to 5 per cent. Money, 3} a 4 per cent. Yesrerpay we had another added to the many beautiful days of this lovely autumn for hunting and onutting and driving and shopping, and for ‘walking down Broadway.” Crunch Rerorm by the government has caused riots in various parts of Poland. Gov- ernments everywhere should let the Church teform itself. Ganrmanr has been elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies, but other republican candidates have been less successful. Saffi was defeated in three districts, and elected in Bimini. A Heavy Eanrrnquaxe is reported in Chili. Earthquakes, tidal waves, typhoons, eclipses and falling stars have been the great events in both hemispheres for a month or two, in- cluding our October and November State elections, Tue Arcentrove Wan.—A despatch has been received in Paris, dated Montevideo, November 11, which states that the war in the Argentine States has been ended by a compromise, one of the conditions of which is the resignation of the Presidency by Avel- laneda and the speedy election of his guc- — iM fact that no battle has recently en fonght by the o; ing armies gives Probability to le aoe s . Staxtzr's Discovenres mx Arnica.—Our special despatches from London bring im- Portant news from Mr. Stanley, dated at Zan- gibar, October 19. The discoveries of our correspondent are of great value ~first, geo- graphically and commercially, as by his sur- wey of the delta of the Rufigi River he has Sound two navigable channels into the inte- rior of Africa; and second, in the interests of Christianity and civilization, as these river courses are crossed by the route of the slave trade. Mr. Stanley thinks that by stationing a steam launch, properly armed, upon the river, the slave trade could be easily and com- pletely broken up. No more important dis- covery than this has been made for years, and Mr. Stanley is completing the great work for hamanity to which his great predecessor Livingstone gave up his life NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. The New Trouble tm Arkansas—Presi- dent Grant’s Opportunity. It is unfortunate for the citizens of Arkansas to have the tranquillity of their State again unsettled so soon after the bloody disturbances of last spring by a new contest between rival claimants to the Governership. But it is an opportune occurrence for President Grant if he makes a skilful use of it, as we have little donbt he will. The peace of Arkansas will | not be seriously disturbed. Smith has no militia, and is, in fact, a skulking fugitive, hiding himself from the pursuit of Governor Garland’s officers. There will be no blood- shed, but an occasion is offered for such action by President Grant on Smith's application as will enable him to set himself right with the country in respect to his policy of interfer- ence with State governments. His original intermeddling in Louisiana was a great blun- der, of which he himself seemed sensi- ble when it was too late to rectify it. He was in a fair way to correct the bad impression it made when the new Louisiana broil in September, without any fault of his, recalled the mistake and obliterated the acts of atonoment. His rejection of the application from Texas, and his decision in favor of Baxter last spring, in Arkansas, would have been accepted by the country as evidence of a change of policy if the unfortunate uprising against Kellogg in September had not com- pelled the President to make a strong seeming indorsement of his first action. The Hepary believes that he was legally and morally | bound to support Kellogg in that last emer- gency; but his duty as an officer was in conflict with his interest as a politician. The fall elections were approaching, and the necessity of supporting Kellogg recalled the President's original blunder so vividly to the public mind that his opponents made as much political capital out of it as if it had been a fresh oecurrence, whereas his satisfac- tory action in the similar cases of Texas and Arkansas would otherwise have shielded him. But it is fortunate for him that he is so soon furnished with a new occasion for prov- ing his repugnance to interpose in a State government to support his own party. Governor Garland, of Arkansas, is a dem- ocrat, and by granting the application of Smith the President would put one of his own partisans in office, as he did in the case of Kellogg two years ago. But we have no doubt he will be glad of an opportunity to make a decision which will demonstrate to the country that he refuses to intermeddle in such State contests. The present Arkansas affair presents no legal difficulties. The Legislature of the State, called together during the disturbances last spring, provided, in the regular manner, for a constitutional convention, which was | accordingly assembled, and framed a new | constitution, which the people of the State adopted, and an election was held under it for | the choice of new State officers. This election was conducted under the authority of Gover- nor Baxter, the State Executive, whose right | to the office was sustained by the President last spring. The democratic party carried the State, electing Mr. Garland, the present Governor. When the time came for his inauguration Governor Baxter surrendered the State authority into Garland’s hands by a legal and peaceful transfer, and there would have been no further trouble if the radicals of the State had not disputed the validity of the new constitution. They made Smith, the Lieutenant Governor under Bax- ter, their tool. If the new constitution was illegal Baxter would be entitled to hold on to his office, and in case of his resignation Smith, the Lieutenant Governor, would succeed to his place and authority. This is the part Smith is attempting to play, put up to it by the reckless radicals of Arkansas. He dis- putes the validity of the new constitution and of the election under it, and claims the au- thority which would have belonged to Gov- ernor Baxter had there been no other change than Baxter's retirement. If the new consti- tution is a nullity Smith's title to the Gov- ernorship is good; but as that constitution was adopted by an overwhelming ma- jority of the people of the State there is no likelihood of Smith’s recogni- tion by the President, who ought | to be glad of so solid a reason for rejecting his claim. General Grant should congratulate himself on the occurrence of this conspicuous opportunity, so soon alter, the elections, to prove that his Louisiana precedent does not bind him. He can thus take his first step out of the Wilderness after the late disastrous polit- ical battles. But, unless we are misinformed, the strong willed President, who never quailed under a military reverse, has already taken a far more decided step in the political strategy which is to retrieve the horrible slaughter of the politi cal Wilderness. If the news we have received is true it may turn out that the exultation of the democrats may prove as vain as the ex- ultation of General Lee after the checks he gave the Union commander in the early stages of his overland march toward Richmond. It is in Grant's character to exhibit the same, dogged and victorious resolution in political as in military contests. Any other general than Grant would have re- treated to Washington “after the appalling slaughter of the Wilderness battles. But the indomitable Grant pressed on by a skilful jeeries of flank movements, and, in spite of some subsequent disasters, he planted his army near enough to Richmond to insure his final triumph. The character of the man has not: changed, and the same pride of success, the same dogged and indomitable resolu- tion which refused to acknowledge, as any other commander would have acknowledged, that he was beaten at the Wilder- ness, ifiy perhaps bear President Grant onward after the apparently” ove¥whemm> ing political checks he has experienced in the recent elections. ‘There were three or four ocaasions in General Grant's military career when he would have gone under if hig peerless strength of character had not rescued him. The frothy exultation of the democratic paity may prove as premature and short-lived as that of the Confederates after their transient successes if Grant should evince the same vigor in politics which he exhibited in war. If our information is correct he has already done so, We learn from Washington that on Thurs- day last the President sents cable despatch | to Paris to Minister Washburne, request- ing his immediate return to Washington, have no reason to doubt it—it is hardly possible to overrate its The summoning of Mr. Washburne to Washington of course means a change of the Cabinet, and a change of Cabinet at this time would be conclusive proof of a political “now de- parture”’ by the President. Mr. Washburne's return to take the first place in the Cabinet is perhaps the wisest strategy which President Grant could adopt. Washburne is a politician whose record in Congress is of a character to recommend him to the country, because no member who served with him mode himself 80 conspicuous as a strenuous advocate of economy. He has acquired a shining reputa- tion as Minister to Paris in a trying period, and he will come back to this country uncommitted to any side in our re- cent domestio controversies. But he is thoroughly conversant with our do- mestio politica, is perfectly acquainted with the capacities, ambitions and political rela- tions of all our leading public men, and his long personal friendship with President Grant, whom he put on the road to fortune, would make him the most valued as well as the most trusted adviser the President could have in a critical conjuncture like the present. If Mr. Washburne has been summoned home he will, of course, take the position of Secretary of State, and be the head of the new Cabinet. If the President has called him to this station he will follow his advice in selecting the other members of his new Cabinet, and although Mr. Washburne has been for several years ab- sent from the country the President could not find a wiser or more judicious counsellor. Anew Cabinet selected by President Grant, with the advantage of Mr. Washburne's advice, | would be a strong one, and would, doubtless, havea great ascendancy over Congress dur- ing the coming session, when everything must be done which can be done at all to retrieve the political situation. We have no doubt that President Grant will act wisely in this new Arkansas difficulty, and prove that he retreats from his original mistake in supporting Kellogg in Louisiana, and if our information that he has summoned Mr. Washburne from Paris to Washington is con- firmed the democratic rejoicings over the recent elections may prove to be premature. Grant has his political Wilderness now as he had his military Wilderness in 1864, and his summoning of Mr. Washburne from Paris will encourage the republican party to believe that he will survive the one as triumphantly as he did the other. The Manning-Gladstone Controversy. Mr. Disraeli has an Oriental way of specu- lating upon events, and he at times permits himeelf to become a seer. In these moods he tells us that the world is on the eve of a great crisis. He gave usa hint of it in ‘Lothair”’ and in his address to the students in Scotland. He reminded his hearers at a London dinner that it was coming, and he defended the recent legislation on Church questions on the ground that when it did really come he wished the Church of England to be sur- rounded by as many bulwarks as possible. Without accepting what may be called the empirical quality in Mr. Disraeli’s prophecies, it would seem that this crisis is ta come as a religious controversy. Religious questions now control the politics of Europe, We have seen them in Italy, in Belgium and especially in France. Switzerland is now in the throes of a religious strife, and Germany, fresh from her prodigious encounter with France, now finds herself grappling with the mighty power of Rome. England necessarily answers in sympathy. Mr. Gladstone's brilliant, but we fear auda- cious and ill-considered manifesto, makes religion, as the World aptly pute it, an im- portant element in future political con- troversies. This is not unnatural from a man who began his career as a writer on Church questions. But will the liberal party follow him? The whole question of infallibility seems to us to be too purely a religious senti- mental question to be in any way a danger to the State. Who is to prevent the Pope from declaring himself infallible? He has a right to so consider himself, and so may the head of any other Church. It isa sentiment after all only binding upon those who accept it. Every priest or clergyman, no matter what his faith, preaches the doctrine of infallibility when he preaches that Christ, the Lord, rules heaven and earth, and that he is Christ’s min- ister. What is this but the dogma of infalli- bility? We agree with the Hvening Post that we cannot see how such an assumption in any way derogates from the powers of the State or alienates a citizen from his allegiance. When Mr. Gladstone seriously claims it he conjures up an imaginary fear, and writes more like a politician anxious to appeal to the Protestant prejudices of England than asa statesman anxious to adjust harmoniously all the rela. tions of Church and State, ‘ ae eee Tne Public Libraries on sunday: The experiment of opening the public reading rooms and libraries on Sunday has been successful, we believe, wherever it has been fairly tried. The trouble with young men in our large cities is that they have no intellectual recreations of OcTypations on Sunday after the few hours they may spend in church. The library offers them the op- portunity they need, and they desire it all the more because during the week many of them are deprived of it by their business engage- ments. The habits of reading or study formed in youth generally endure through life, and even desultory reading must tend to improve the mind and guard it from coarse fascinations. The temptations to indulge in idle amusements 6f injurious dissipation are almost unnumbered in a great city like New York, and must be counteracted by higher aftractions. While our theologians and actors re debating the propriety of opening the theatres and opera houses on Sunday, there should be noxdifference of opinion about the public libraria’: It isa great wrong to the young men of thx’ city to close them on the day when they are most needed. Me. L. Dacuavzn, in @ letter elsewhere published, explains bh ' connection with Mr. Strakosch in regard to x the performance of Verdi’s ‘‘Requiem.” Tur Dzreat of Mr. Emerso, ® for the Lord Rectorship of the University of & ‘asgow will not disappoint the great philosop, %¢% 98 he did not seek the office, while, on th ° other hand, that five hundred students guy.” Bim their votes is a compliment of which , It this information is antheviic—and wo American might be proud, » The Rumored Reeall of Mr. Wash- burme—Will Mr. Fish Be the Next Minister to France? The report comes to us from Washington that the President has sent a cable despatch to Mr. Washburne at Paris, requesting his im- mediate return for the purpose of consulting with him upon the defeat of the administra- tion and the policy which should now be adopted. The probability that’ this report is true is sustained by the well known fact that Mr. Washburne has always been the Presi- dent's intimate friend, and, during the early portion of his administration, was his confi- dential adviser. When the President, dazzled with the splendor of his own popularity, thought he could control the government unaided, he did not need the personal counsel of Mr. Washburne ; but now, in the hour of darkness and distress, it is natural that he should turn to his old and steadfast friend for advice. So, when the Greeks were victorious in battles before Troy they were content with the suggestions of Ajax and Agamemnon; but when Hector drove their troops before him, like an irresistible demo- cratic majority, Nestor and Ulysses were sum- moned to the council of the chiefs. We have said that Mr. Fish should resign, not because we would lose him from the Cabi- net, to which his presence gives dignity, but because his resignation would compel that of the other members. They now lurk in the shadow of his example, and justify their re- tention of office by the specious plea that it would be presumption in them to retire before their leader. The return of Mr. Washburne would offer an opportunity of extricating the administration from its perplexities which wise statesmanship would not overlook. Mr. Fish should be appointed Minister to France by the President, and in that position his great abilities and large experience would still be of service to the country—of far more service than they can ever be again in the home administration which the country has so emphatically con- demned. This step would be instantly fol- lowed by the resignations of the other mem- bers of the Cabinet, and with Mr. Wash- burne’s help a new Cabinet would be formed in which the whole country would have con- fidence. This is on honorable and dignified course for the President to pursue; and even if the report of Mr. Washburne’s recall should be premature it is to be earnestly hoped that it will prove to be one of those coming events which cast their shadows be- fore. The ‘Longshoremen’s Strike. Seven thousand ‘longshoremen are on strike in the city and twenty steamship companies are combined in the determination to dis- pense with their services rather than pay the wages they demand. It is a perilous adven- ture for men to leave their labor at this time of year and in a city crowded as ours is by thousands of men out of employment and with needy, perhaps even hungry, families to support. Without going into the technicalities of the case as to whether the reduction in pay which the employers of labor endeavor to enforce is an injustice to the men the impolicy of giving up at this time of year any labor that will keep the pot boiling ought to be clear to the common sense of every person concerned. It is proper, undoubtedly, for men to wish to get the best wages they can; it is the common and natural impulse of all to endeavor to hold on to what they have, and men, no doubt, will resist reduction more tenaciously than they will demand increase. But as their right to strike in support of their demands is conceded, the right of the employers to get their work done as cheaply as possible goes with it. Can the places of these men be sup- plied by others who can do the work as well, and who will willingly work for what these men refuse? This isthe one practical point in the case, and this is the point the strikers should have considered. Can they enforce their demand? If they cannot they foolishly putin peril the comfort, the very existence, of their wives and children every hour that they hold out. Some time ago all the stokers in the London gas works struck for wages. Their occupation was somewhat like that of the ‘longshoremen—a labor that a new hand of ordinary intelligence could learn to do in from two weeks to a month as well as it was done by the oldest hand. New men were employed and taught, and not ao hand of the strikers was ever taken on again. That is the peril of going on strike in occupations where it is ordinary and not skilled labor that is called for. It is esti- mated that there are fifty thousand men out of employment in the city, and the greater part of these will be willing to work for the reduced wages that the ‘longshoremen refuse, Men act without due thought in venturing at the- beginning of winter a risk that may de-, priye theni af ibs ieahd of Sibdatonos-» especially matried men with families. Single men may take the chances and sacrifice a good employment in disputes of the ubstract rights of capital and labor; but men with wives and little ones depengent on them for bread, if they indulge in such undertakings, should be sure before theybegin that the chances are not overwhelmingly against them. Tae Dereat or THE CuErvennes.—Another brilliant victory over the Cheyennes has been won in Texas, two hundred warriors having been completely routed by half the number of United States cavalry, under the command of Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin. The rescue of two little white girls, whose father and mother the savages had massacred, is one of the most pleasing incidents of the battle. But, while we must rejoice in the splendid victories our soldiers achieve, the question of why this annual Indian war is necessary cannot he silenced. There is cruel, costly, fatal fighting every year because of an incompetent, corrupt, exploded Indian policy. The army is not permitted by the government to prevent Indian outrages, but it is always e to punish them. General Sheridan's plan for controlling the tribes must be adopted if this disgraceful war is ever to be perma- nently ended. Sawr1aco pz Cuna has been swept by a hur- ricane, and the floods have devastated a large region. ‘Tos Mernopist Missionary ComMmiTrTEr made appropriations for the relief of domestic miseries yesterday in various parts of the country, including the grasshopper territoxy in the West, The Heavy City Taxation. The rate of taxation in the city of New York is steadily increasing year after year. At the present time we are paying two dollars and eighty cents on every one hundred dollars of the valuation of real and personal estate in the city for the expenses of the city govern- ment. The provisional estimate for 1875, as passed by the Board of Apportionment, will impose a tax of three per cent next year un- less the appropriations for the departments are further reduced by the Board of Alder- men. The other burdens upon property be- sides this tax, in the shape of rates, assess- ments and interest, are so heavy that it is questionable whether they will not soon amount to practical confiscation. If we were living under an enterprising, progressive municipal administration ; if works of public improvement—coatly for the moment, but certain to be remunerative in the end—were being vigorously pushed to completion ; if, in short, we were prosperous, growing, expanding and only laying out our money to get back a profitable return, the people would cheerfully carry the load heaped upon their shoulders. But when they see the city in a state of dry rot; when they find evidences of stupidity and incompetency in the management of public affairs ; when the uptown improvements are stagnant, the necea- sary Pblic works neglected and “business prostrated, they do not feel disposed to stand patiently by while their substance is being eaten up by taxation. The city debt at the present moment amounts very nearly to one hundred and fifty million dollars, In 1875 some eighteen or twenty millions of this debt will be- come payable, It is proposed to raise nearly thirty-seven million dollars by tax- ation for the expense of governing the city next year, and yet less than one million and a half of this enormous sum is applied to the payment of the bonds falling due. The balance is pushed forward by renewal in the shape of new bonds and added to the moun- tainous ball of debt rolling steadily on before us. Weare in the condition of a merchant who incurs new debts every year and who pays only five cents on the dollar of his old notes as they falldue, giving new notes for the balance. Some idea of our financial manage- ment may be gathered from the report of the suits against the city pending in the Corpora- tion Counsel's office on September 30, These suits number nearly three thousand five hun- dred and involve an amount of more than ten million dollars, without taking into consid- eration the large sum dependent upon the actions to vacate assessments. The valuation of real eatate in the city was increased forty-five million dollars this year over 1873, and this in face of the fact of a de- cline in the market. The tax proposed for 1875 would have been $3 16 per cent on the real estate valuation of 1873. It would have been $3 40 per cent on the valuation of 1871, the year in which our present financial pol- icy commenced. Every property owner knows that he can- not obtain next year so much rent as he re- ceives this year for his houses and stores. In some instances good tenants who have been for years in possession notify their landlords that they can pay only fifty per cent of their old rents. Under these circumstances it is about time that we should discontinue senti- mental appeals, whenever attempts are made to reduce the city estimates, and look squarely at the condition of the city. It is notorious that half the money expended by some of the municipal departments is used for politi- cal or personal patronage and not for the interest or the business of the city. The ap- propriations should be cut down witha firm hand, and the heads of departments should be made to understand that they must conduct the public offices as they would conduct their private business, and not make them the vehicles of patronage to their followers and friends. We have reached a point when by departmental extravagance and incompetent financial management the real estate owners of the city are in danger of seeing their prop- erty practically confiscated, and it is about time they should take some steps for their own protection. Now, Mr. Wickham, what can you do for us? Will you use your in- fluence to reduce the rate of taxation threatened for 1875, and help us by solid economy next year? Mr. Simonton and the Associated Press. We receive an occasional letter from Mr. J, W. Simonton, the able agent of the Asso- ciated Press, exposing what he calls the “ghameless fabrications’ of the American Press Association. Mr. Simonton is always an interesting correspondent, and we read his letters with pleasure and profit. But we have no room for these letters in our news columns, These ublications on the part of Mr. Simon- fon af calculated to injure the Associated Preas by giving prominetice to the American Press Association. As the Henarp is one of the owners of the Associated Press we nat- urally object to anything which may affect the value of ourfranchise. Mr. Simonton must see that every letter he writes about the American Press Association aids the business of that concern. People who have never heard of it will begin to ask about it and to desire to read its news, and the consequence will be that the Henaxp, the Tribune, the Hr- press, the Sun, the Journal of Commerce, the World and the other papers will be compelled to buy the American Press Associa- tion’s news, while, if Mr. Simonton had been wise and not yielded to the temptation of writing letters no one would ever have heard about it, and we should not be called upon to incur the additional expense of pur- chasing its news. Mr. Simonton is not only a great letter writer, but before he became as opulent and powerful as he now is was 9 most industrious correspondent and reporter. In fact, we never knew a better reporter, and Washington remembers to this day his industry and vigi- lance and sterling honesty. This being the case he must keenly fecl the fact that the Associated Press has not been as well served in its foreign news as the American Press Association. Take this extraordinary religious controversy in England between Mr. Gladstone and Arch- bishop Manning that bids fair to be the most important event in the religious history of England since the quarrel between Henry VIIL and the Pope, The American Press Association sent prompt and comprehensive \ despatches about it, Then the Hnnarn carre- spondent we printed Sunday. But not one word Press agent, who seems. keep him in London to tell us ents of the Prince of Wales, res events of world-wide impor- ton should do two things imme- let him resolve never to write a letter advertising the American Press Asso- ciation, Ajs 8 member of the Associated Press we protest our agent building up the business of a rival. Second, let him see that the ted Press is not beaten by the American |Press Association. That will be a field for the display of his great ability. In this con: Mr. Simonton has our warmest sympathy (and support, and in the end we trust he will win. But he must stop writing interesting and elaborate letters and give his whole time to the business for which we and our partners pay him—the gathering of news. Mra. Speakers Buare’s Posrmow.—The Speaker wishes it to be distinctly understood that he is not a candidate for the Senate. Having contracted to serve the people of his district in the Forty-fourth Congress, and ‘hav- ing been elected by them to fulfil this*engage- ment, he says, “I could not be turned, even were the Senatorship offered, and of this I see no indication.” Tax Evening Post makes a pretty reminis- cence when it tells us that “the poet Richard HL. Dana, Sr., of Boston, was eighty-seven years old on Sunday; and the fact is recalled by the press, in connection with his birthday, that when he was editor of the North American Review he received the poem of ‘Thanatopais,” written by William Cullen Bryant, then « resident of Massachusetts, and a youth of only eighteen years.’’ Tue Gumorme.—The political revolution in Massachusetts has resulted in a general clearing out of the superfluous republican voters of the Boston Navy Yard, and in fearfal preparations for the guillotine in the Oustom House Collector Simmons has many heads , marked for decapitation. Tax Same Oxp Story.—Another revolution- ary uprising in Venezuela. This time “the illustrious Guzman Blanco’ is the party to be put down, because, as the rebels charge, he is ‘dllustrious’’ only as a tyrant. Tux Great Hixpoo Quzstion, “Is it or is it not Nana Sahib?” is still under discussion, with the latest evidence againat the prisoner. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Genera) Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, is residiag at the New York Hotel. The government of Saxony has forbidden the practice of cremation at Dreaden. Judge Ruius P, Spalding, of Cleveland, is se- journing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman Jono 0, Whitehouse, of Pough- keepsie, is staying at the Albemarie Hotel. Ex-Congressman John B. Alley, of Massachu- setts, has arrived at the Fiitn Avenue Hotel. General Israel Vogdes, United States Army, is among the iatest arrivals at the Astor House. Captain Charles W. Kennedy, of the steamship Balto, ‘8 quartered at the Winchester House. Mr. Stephen Preston, Haytian Minister at Wash- ington, bas apartments at the Union Square Hotel. General Snerman was at the Executive Mansion yesterday ana bad an ioterview with the Preat- dent, Major Junius W. MacMurray, military instractoe at Cornell University, is registered at tne Hotel - Brunswick. Publications from abroad are detained in the post office of Guayaquil at the order of the Com- missary of Police, The Peruvian government is taking every pre- caution to see justice done to the Chinese hela under labor contracts. General J. Saluzar bas been named Ecuadoriaa Minister of War and Marine, in the place of Gen- eral Darquea, resigned. The shipbuilders and proprietors of engine works on the Clyde have decided to reduce the wages of their employés. Late revisions of the pension list in France show that there are still living 26,000 men who served in the armies o! the First Napoleon. The Czar Alexander has conferred the Russian Order of St. Alexander Newski on Duke Decases, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France. By the recent report of the French Commission, organized for the public distrioution of charity during the dreadful days of '71, it appears that 5,000,000f. ($1,000,000) was vent from this country, The Chilian Consul at Mendoza, in the Argontine Confederation, has been arrested and the arma torn down from the consulate, It is believed this action was iaken becadse the consul sympathise with the insurgents, In the republic of Ecuador a new paper called Bl Bein Publico has appeared in Guayaquil, man- aged by government employés, and two other journals, the Verdad, of Quito, and the Provinot, of Guayaquil, have become extinct, From the course taken by Mr. Beecher’s counsel it appears that they are of opinion chat Mr. Beecher’s “innocence” can only be properiy dem- onstrated when Mr. Moulton’s testimony snail be invalidated by his conviction in the Proctor sutt, Marshal Bazaine, who sailed {rom Southamptom on the 9th Instant on the steamer Neva, landed at Lisbon, Itis understood that bis destination is Madrid, where he intends to resiae as a private individual. He is expected to arrive there next ‘Thursday. Here is @ sentence from the Wateroury Amert- can whioh will indicate—for people who wish te know—what the word “republican” means in these day: Isn't it @ strange revolution when Massa- chasetts, the cradle of liberty, goes democratic, and South Carolina, secession’s vilest nest, re- mains republican?” Mr, Thurlow Weed, the veteran journalist, the Warwick among politicians, &c., celebrated his seventy-seventh birtnday on Sunday last, at his residence, No. 10 West Twelfth street. The occa- sion was a very pleasant one, and among his numerous visitors Were ex-Mayor Opdyke, Alder- men Jenkins and Van Schaick, Postmaster James, ex-Uollector Murpby and others. Mr. Weed bears his years bravely. London has hada sensation in the letter line By the Indian mail came a missive addressed in a language with which the Post Office authorities were not acquainted. They sent it to the British Museam. No one there could read it, put they ex- cluded trom consideration all the ancient tongues and the Chinese language. It was in none oF those. At the Indian Ofice it could not be read; but there, also, many languages were excluded. It was tried ata Richmond Oriental College with the same result. Finally it was read by @ private gentieman at Bayswater, and wasin Telegu and addressed to the Queen. A lawyer was in a coantry town on a flying trip. He was accosted in the hotel by @ “drummer,” who thought him one of the fraternity, and im quired:—‘For what house are you travelling t* “vor my own.’ “You are! May I ask yous name?” “You may.” Pause—enjoyable to the lawyer, embarrassing to the other. “Well (des perately), what is your name?’ “Jones.” “What line are you im?!’ “I don’t understand you, air” “What are you selling?’ (impatiently.) “Brains” (coolly). The mercantile traveller saw his opportunity, and, looking at the other from head to foot, he said slowiy, “Well, you appoar t carry 4 douced small Jot of sagniea,*