The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD —_>——_ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR = ; THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. ata NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the New Yore Henanp will be | sent free of postage. nN All business or news letters and telegraphic / despatches must be addressed New Youn Herat. j Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. | Rejected communications will not be r- torned. 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. Volame XXXIX AMUSEMENTS T sd AMERICAN INSTITUTE, bet Sixty-third ead Staty-toer® STNDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. - ‘Third mreets. NEW YORK STADT THEATES Bowery,—Germaa Opera Boutle—LA VIE PARISTENE, BC BEM closes at Ib 0 P. ie Lina Mayr. OLYMPI AT No. 624 Broadway.—VAKIETY, at 8 a closes at 10-45 P.M, Matinee at2 P. M. PARK THEATRE | " Broad venty-first ahd Twenty second sre GILDED AGE: at SP. M.; closes at War. (ir. John T, Raymond. a THEATRE COMIQD No. 514 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. P.M. Matinee at 2. M. BOOTH'S he retye RiP van Twenty-third street and Sixth avenne. — WINKLE. ath P.M; clowsat 10:30 P.M. Mr. Jefferson. ROMAN HI PPODROME, Twenty-sixth street ana Fourth avenue.—Afternoon and evening, at 2 and 8. WALLA Broadway.—THE SHA A. ; closes at 10:30 3 THEATRE, RAUN, at8P. M; closes at 10 bv P. Mr. Boucicault NISLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—WILD gar NED, at8P. M.; closes atii P.M. Warm Spring FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-eighth ‘street and Broadway.—MASKS AND FACES, at8P. M.; closes at Il F. M, Miss Fanny§Dav- anport, Mr. Fisher. ROBINSON HALL, Fizteenth pert aaah Broadway and Fifth avenue, — VARIETY, at 8 P.M. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty third street, near Sixth avenne.—NEGRO MINGTRELSY, £c., at SF. loses at WU P.M. Dan ry ant TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.—VARIiT 8 P. M. ; closes at 10 P. M, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway, corner of Twenty ninth street—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, at 8 P. M. ;closes at 10 P. M. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, ALIXE, at8 P.M. Miss Clara Morris. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Irving place.—MARTIA, at 8P. M. Mlle. Albant, GLOBE THEATRE, Bese ats P. d1.; closes st 10:30 P. M. stinee at 2 P. M. GERMANIA THEATRE. Pourtecntn street—PREUSICHES STRAPECHT, at 8 STEINWAY HALL, Lg ia street.—MACCABE’S ENTERTAINMENT, sP.M. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixtn avenue.—LA FILLE DE MADAME ANGOT, at 8P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Miss Emily Soidene. wooD EUM, Broadway. corner of Thirtieth street'—LITTLE RIFLE, # 3 ‘M.; closes at 4:50 P. oP. M., closes at 10:45 Bs ET. are that the weather to-day will be cold and cloudy, with possibly light rain. Watt Street Yrsterpay.—The stock mar- ket closed lower and feverish. Money was ac- tive at 3}and 4 per cent. Gold, after ad- vancing to 111}, was firm at 111}. A Cuance ror Governor Trpen.—Let him enforce civil service reform in New York city. Tae Saxers will hold a convention on Sunday. What will happen next? Tue Yonkers Case of suspended anima- tion is one of the marvels of this marvellous modern time. We Wonner it any one in Brooklyn, except Theodore himself, thinks, hopes or expects there will be a trial of the scandals. Tae Exrtosion of a tugboat at Hell Gate yesterday afternoon appears to have been a ead affair, as will be seen by the full report which we print elsewhere this morning. Tax Rosor that there is to be war between | China ‘and Japan is a painful one. What can be gained by these interesting and ancient nations going into throat cutting? Is this to be the avatar of the new civilization? Tae Temperance Vorr has grown to be an important feature in our elections. In New | Jersey, if it had gone republican, it would | have carried the State. In New York it was | aot Jarge enough to affect the result, being about ten thousand. But ten thousand votes make a considerable power, and in a close tanvass it could decide the victory. Tae Heaurs or tae Crry.—Dr. Harris, at the meeting of the Board of Health yesterday, reported a slight increase in the number of deaths over the report of last week. The in- crease in diphtheria is a noticeable event; and the Doctor notes that it has been more prevalent in the towns outside of New York. It is not pleasant to see that the death rate is larger in New York than in London or Paris; for there is no reason why our city should not be as healthy as either of these greater capital, Tax Aprrat made to the citizens of New York by the managers and patrons of the | Catholic Orphan Asylum should not be un- | heeded. The performances at the Academy | of Music to-morrow in the afternoon and evening in aid of the funds of that noble char- | ity should realize a substantial sum. The | treasury is now very low. The asylum de- pends almost wholly on yoluntary contribu tions, and as it is now, on the eve of winter, called upon to meet extraordinary expenses, | would tell this Congress by what measures, | ‘The Approaching Session of Congress. Our respected contemporary, the Evening Post, continnes to urge the expediency of a session of the new Congress, to commence on the 4th of March. But, as there is to be an intervening session of the present expiring Congress, it seems to us that the Post would be more usefully employed just now in giving sound advice to the body which is about to assemble. A March session, even if its ex- pediency were conceded, is not a subject which need engage the early attention of the national Legislature. A law requiring an- nual sessions in March might as well be passed in February as at an earlier period of the session, and in the last days of February both Congress and the public will be in a bet- ter position to judge of the necessity of such s law than anybody can be at present. It is the duty of every Congrewa, assemble at what times it may, to supply defects in the existing legislation of the country, and whether this Congress will so far fail m its duty as to | call for the immediate convening of its | snecessor is a question which cannot be intelligently answered until the approach- ing session isso near its close as to enable | the country to see what daties it is likely to leave unperformed. If this Congress should discharge its trust with reasonable efficiency there will be no reason, and therefore no justi- | fieation, for new legislation in March, We humbly conceive that the proper business of Congress is not to “show bands,” or execute partisan mana@uvres—which would be be- neath the dignity of so high and grave a body—but to pass needful laws. When the Post advocates a March session it is bound to show what the specific laws are which ought then to be enacted. But be their character | what they may, it is equally the business of | the present Congress to enact them at its ap- | proaching session, and, until it is clearly ap- | parent that they will not, we do not perceive | the pertinence of arguments for a March ses- | sion. At any rate, it ill becomes a republican | journal to virtually declare in advance that | like them, would seldom go to the polls. the expiring republican Congress cannot be expected to do its duty. In Andrew Johnson's time Congress passed a law requiring each new Congress to assem- ble and organize on the next day after expira- tion of the old one. It will not be main- | tained by republicans that the reasons tor | that act have any existence now. The assem- | bling of the new Congress was an act of hos- | tility to the President and a declaration that | he conld not be trusted without the jealous | guardianship of Congress. There is noreason | for supposing that the republican Congress | about to meet thinks it would be advisable to | exercise the same insultiog surveillance over | President Grant that one of its republican | predecessors practised upon President John- | son. But unless some special object is to be accomplished there is no excuse for a March session. For ordinary legislative purposes a | spring session is inconvenient and unneces- | sary, as the experience of seventy-five years | has demonstrated. The constitution re- | quires annual sessions and fixes thar com- mencement on the first Monday in December, unless Congress by law ap- | points o different day. So great is the | convenience of beginning the regular an- nual session in December, that even while the | law passed to curb Andrew Johnson was in force Congress continued to meet on the first | Monday in December, and all its important bus- | iness was transacted during those sessions. The | Evening Post cannot expect, in the hght of his- | tory and experience, that the national legisla- tion willever be transacted during annual | sessions beginning in March, and the new law it advocates can be intended only for the | nonce, to answer a transient purpose of | party annoyance. Does it beseem the gravity | and dignity of our respectable republican | contemporary to recommend the convening of Congress at an unusual and inconvenient time for other purposes than legislation, its only proper business ? True friends of the republican party, as well as true patriots, should rather recom- mend the passage of such measures during the approaching winter as would dispense with all necessity for either an extra session or the convening of Congress at an extra- ordinary time. It is important that the most be made of the brief interval during which the legislative department remains in bar- mony with itself. After the 4th of March there will be two years of discord between the branches of the law-making power, and if the republican party were wise it would bend | all its efforts to make the most of this session, Even if it be expedient, as the Post thinks, to unmask and embarrass the democrats, this could be done with greater.dignity and effect by more straightforward methods than a bear- baiting extra session, ostensibly for legisla- tion, but really to reconnoitre the political enemy. A journal so zealous for abstract principles would act more in character if it | passed at a session when its power will be un- obstructed, it might command and deserve a renewal of public confidence. If the President will reconstruct his Cabinet and bring into it the foremost statesmen of his party, so that his recommendations to Congress will be sup- ported by a great and united weight of politi- cal authority, the Hznatp would gladly join the Post in pressing such legislation in the | finances at this session as would conduce to | the public weal. But while awaiting a ‘‘con- | summation”’ so ‘‘devoutly to be wished,”’ and which we hope to see accomplished soon after — Mr. Washburne’s arrival—if that gentleman | is really coming home at the request of | the President—we will point ont some things that may be done at the next ses- | sion which would more effectually expose | the hand of the democrats than forcing the new Congress into an extraordinary session, First—Let Congress, at the coming session, pass and submit to the States an amendment | to the federal constitution limiting eyery | President hereafter elected to a single term of six years. If President Grant himself would recommend such an amendment in his forth- | coming annual message, its passage by Con- | | his corrupting patronage is a constitutional | sible in the large cities. A new civilization | ganize the government Marshal MacMahon century. This great reform ought easily to be carried in the present condition of parties, when the republicans have 4 motive to clear themselves of damag- ing suspicions and the democrats could not afford to confess that their anti-third term cry was false and hollow. This is ® reform which our great statesmen have desired for half a century. Jackson recom- mended it in every one of his eight annual messages. Clay advocated it with equal steadi- ness and vigor. Prophets and kings destred tt 1o! But died without she sigue, The republican party may vindicate its own character and force the democrats to follow its lead in a great and necessary reform if Con- gress at its next session will take advantage of this golden opportunity. _ Second—Another great and salutary meas- ure which this Congress can either force through or put upon the democrats the re- sponsibility for its defeat is civil service re- form in its most desirable shape. The only method by which the reform can be made secure and the Executive forever stripped of amendment permitting the President to dismiss the heads of departments and persons’ in the diplomatic service at pleasure, but forbidding the removal of other officers except for incapacity or unfaithful- ness. Nothing would do so much to purify our politics as the adoption of such an amend- ment. The chances of carrying it would be less than in the case of an amendment for limiting the President to one term, since its effect would be to retain all the subordinate federal offices in the hands of the republicans. But the reform is so evidently wise that the democrats would suffer by rejecting it. If such a reform were accepted the federal offi- cers would at once cease to be a corrupting make-weight in politics; for os soon as the civil officers held by an independent tenure they would take no more active interest in politics than the officers of the army, and, We have in reserve quite a catalogue of other things which we would recommend the republicans to do at the next session, if a re- construction of the Cabinet should give us any hope of their being indorsed and pressed by a strong and able administration. Sunday Amusements and the Church, The fact that religion is progressive is of vital importance to the world. Its funda- mental truths may be immutable, but the in- terpretation of them changes. As the moun- tain stands unaltered, yet as men approach it new ranges are upheaved and unseen peaks disclosed, so Christianity appears to change as humanity is better able to comprehend it. The old-fashioned Sunday is no longer pos- exists and bas its own peculiar spiritual and NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1874,—-TRIPLE SHEET, Commissioners of Ac- counts. In his endeavor to justify his removal of the Commissioners of Accounts Mayor Have- meyer only succeeds in confirming the suspi- cion that improper motives prompted the act. In an interview published in a morning paper the poor old gentleman flounders through & list of complaints against the Commissioners, commeneing with their exposure of the care- lessness—supposing it to have been only care- / lessness—manifested in the gnardianship of | the sinking fund securities down to their recent investigation of the Fire Department. But he offers no reason for their removal at this time. He declares that he never read the complaint or charges against the Commis- sioners made by the Comptroller, anc he does not pretend that they have been guilty of any official misconduct. But he affords a clew to the motive of his action when he says that the discharged Commissioners “will have to turn over their papers, &c., to their successors, and then, if on investigation their unfinished reports prove correct, they will be presented by those successors.’’ We are, therefore, forced to the conclusion that the removal of the Commissioners had two objects—first, to stop the investigation of the Finance Department and sinking fund se- curities, which had just been commenced, and to suppress the report of the interior mannge- ment of the Fire Department, which was on the point of being made. The Republic and Evening Mail, in view of these facts, urge the reappointment of the removed Commissioners of Accounts by Mayor Wickham so soon as he takes office, in order that they may conclude the work thus abruptly interrupted. The removal of the Commissioners of Ac- counts, while it prevented by o coup d'état o scrutiny of the Chamberlain’s securities by competent and faithful investigators, does not prevent the late Commissioners from reporting to the Board of Aldermen the result of their in- quiry into the management of the Fire Depart- ment. Neither will itinterfere with their publi- cation of such facts in relation to the bonded and floating debt as may have come to their knowledge in their official capacity, Their immediate reappointment by Mayor Wickham is, nevertheless, demanded by considerations of public policy. They have made themselves familiar with the workings of the departments, and especially of the Finance Department, and cannot be imposed upon by false or dis- torted figures. They Lave evinced an earnest determiration to discharge their duties with- out fear or favor, and have been throughout hampered and hindered by the opposition of the Comptroller and the testy displeasure of the Mayor. Their sudden removal, to say the least, wears a suspicious look, and was evi- dently induced by the dread of investigation. The public interest, therefore, requires that they should be restored to office and clothed The Removed material necessities. A hundred years ago, when America was thinly settled, a strict ob- servance of Sunday as a day of rest and in a Puritanical manver was possible and perhaps proper; but New York could not now, if it would, direct its Sunday in the spirit of 1776. The Church does not do it. In- sensibly the Church has yielded to the spirit of the age and adapted its forms of worship to modern wants. Magnifi- cent edifices, high-priced pews, fashionable music, long salaries and short sermons—all things, indeed, that help to wake religion attractive—-the Church now employs as its in- struments. If, then; the clergy itself recog- nizes that Sunday cannot be religiously ob- served exactly as it used to be it is not strange that other innovations should be made by the public. So many persons in New York have no other time for relaxation than Sunday that they naturally seek amuse- ment, and one great social question of our time concerns the kind of amusement that can be recognized as respectable and proper. The debate which has been conducted in our cotumns with so much warmth and intelli- gence will go far towards defining the nature of suitable Sunday amusements, and in the meanwhile we would again urge the impor- tance of opening the public libraries and reading rooms. On all days these popular institutions are a benefit; on Sundays they would be a blessing. Possibilities in France. Politically it will be a lively winter in France. There is for once little or no possi- bility that the differences of opinion will put the subject ‘‘into the streets,"’ os they say— that is, it will not reach that fierce sort of arn gament which takes to barricades—for the army is well handled in the interests of au- thority, and the people instinctively feel that they are out of the case; whichever side wins in the present issue they will stand prac- tically the same. But from the very fact that there is no likelihood of blows the discussion will be unrestrained and fierce. On the one hand the government wishes to “organize” the Septennate, and will, it is reported, pre- sent a constitutional scheme for that purpose when the Assembly meets,and all the ele ments of opposition will find » common ground of agreement in their cndeavors to de- feat this project. If the project should as sume in any degree the form of an “‘ulti- matum™ from the Executive; if it should come to be understood, rightly or wrongly, that in case of the rejection of the scheme to or would assume ® supreme responsibility and proclaim the dissolution of the Assembly, the treatment of the bill would become « point of deep interest. For ® moment the country might rejoice over the ejection of that con- gross of imbecile chatterers, for the Assembly as it stands has no friends in any party; but it would perhaps have time for reflection im the reign of Louis Philippe [1 Tar Presest arp Aunaxoas Oar Wash ington correspondent telegraphs us that the President has resolved to take practically the same ground in the Arkansas trouble that he | took when Brooks and Barter were claimants. ‘This seems to be wise, os bis action was eer tainly very wise in dealing with Baxter and — gress would be an act of allegiance instead of sincerity of the democrats on the third term | question to an immediate and decisive test. The amendment would go at once to the State | Legislatures, most of which will be in session, and the democratic Legislatures could not | the citizens who appreciate its efforts should come cheerfully and liberally to its aid, of those rare conjunctures which cannot be j expected to recur before the end of the | sas, Brooks. But one policy is necessary in these | an act of opposition, and it would put the Southern matters—that of justice and firm- | tee of the Methodist Church, held yesterday, ness. The time has passed when States can | be made and unmade to suit the political ex- igencies of a party in power, and in the new departure which we are nwwured the President Proposes to take he can do nothing wiser reject it without forfeiting all claimsto respect | than to adopt, in his relations with all the or consistency. The next session will be one | Southern governments, the same policy he adopted toward Brooks and Baxter in Arkan- with the power to complete their work, backed by the countenance of an honest Mayor. Bosom Friendship Again. The canvass for the Senate assumes an in- teresting phase. The liberal republicans, or, as they had better be styled, the uncertain democrats, claim to hold the balance of power én the Legislature. They propose to hold off from the democratic caucus and unite with the republicans so as to secure the election of Mr, Fenton. That gentleman, it is now said, is a much better republican than any demo- crat that can be elected. If the republicans, it is argued, cannot have a straight-out white or black candidate a mouse-colored nominee like Fenton would probably be acceptable. Some of the republican journals urge upon Lord Roscoe to take part in this programme. He is reminded that it would be an act of great magnanimity on his part to re-elect Fenton, especially as, if not elected, he will be a politician out of office and without visible means of support, which he has not been for many years. As Lord Roscoe is a generous man it is thought this oppeal will move him. But there is one great difficulty. The straight-out democratic candidate for the Senate is Horatio Seymour; and, wonderful to relate, Mr. Seymour is Lord Roscoe’s own brother-in-law!!! Mr. Seymour declines the honor. But Mr. Seymour always did decline and never failed to accept. Mr. Seymour is more of a candidate than before he declined. We all know the important part played by the brother-in-law in the economy of the republican party, and how can Lord Roscoe, with the affectionate and domestic example of the President before him, abandon Mr. Sey- mour? According to Mr. Roberts Mr. Conk- ling elected Mr. Lord, the democratic can- didate for Congress in Oneida, because he was alow partner. With Mr. Seymour, his brother-in-law, in the Senate, and Mr. Lord, his law partner, in the House, Lord Roscoe would be as cosily surrounded as the Presi- dent himself. They could lodge and board together and save money by the arrangement. So, under the circumstances, it seems impossi- ble to expect him to abandon his brother-in-law Seymour for the purpose of making a trade in favor of Fenton. But suppose the liberals should nominate Frederick A. Conkling for Senator? Whata trial this would be to Lord Roscoe's affections ! Frederick is « brother and Horatio only a brother-in-law ! and how could a doting rela- tive decide between them? Tax Maxsrxo-Giapstonz Contnovensy.— Our latest foreign arrivals give fuller details of the controversy between Mr. Gladstone and Archbishop Manning, but they bave all thus far been anticipated in the special cable de- spatehes of the Henaup. The Archbishop ad- dressed an assemblage of laymen and clergy- men at his London residence, in which he said that ‘‘we were on the eve of one of the mightiest controversies that the religious world has seen for three ‘hundred years, but that he did not fear the result."’ This is pre- cisely the view the Hxnanp expressed on Sun- day. The discussion will be nore important than any that has taken place since the time of Lather. Oup Vinorwia.—In the Missionary Commit- Dr. Carry, in recommending an appropria- tion to further the missionary work in Vir- | ginia, said there was an exodus in the Old | Dominion. The old families are rapidly dis- appearing, and “there were those present | who would see Virginia as mach of a Northern State as New York."’ This would be a sin- i> but not an improbable result of the war. Talleyrand shortly before his death said to Lamartie, “I have written my memoirs and written them trathfully ; but they will not be published for many years. As I have endured | the stupid judgments of common opinion all my hfe I ean also endare them for some years longer in my grave."’ From which it would appear that the great politician anticipated that a necessary consequence ef the publica- tion of bis memoirs would be a revision of the harsh judgments of his time upon his acts and his career asa public man; that with fuller knowledge of the facts, with the light that only a word from him here and there might throw on the history of the great conflict that broke out in '89, the world would see the various actors in the drama of the Rev- olution in different proportions from those it had commonly accepted as just. In France ramor is just now uncommonly active in regard to the probable publication of the memoirs thus referred to, and we shall dono great injustice, perhaps, in supposing that there isa point of party politics behind this fnet. Talleyrand directed that his memoirs should be kept unpublished until thirty years after his death. This period expired in 1868. He left the papers in the hands of his niece, the Duchess of Ssigan, with the direction that in case of her death they should pass into the hands of a gentleman in the diplomatic ser- vice, M. de Baucourt. It is said in the com- mon story of .the non-publication of the memoirs that this gentleman, who died in 1865, left the papers to his executors with a further instruction that, as many persous were still living who would be wounded by tho disclosures made, the purpose of the Prince in deferring the publication in the first instance would not be fulfilled unless publicity were deferred for thirty years longer, and direct- ing, consequently, that the memoirs should still be held for that period. Now the report is that these executors deem the obligation imposed by the previous instruction of the Prince more sacred than that imposed by the instruction of the Prince's executor, and that they will publish the memoirs. So the report goes constantly pro and con— first, that the memoirs will be published; again, that they will not. Behind all that there isa conflict and an intrigue with imperialists on one side and royalists on theother. Publica- tion was apparently not deferred out of respect to the opinion of M. Baucourt, and it is even doubtful if his will contained any provision whatever on the subject. In 1866 the persons who hold the papers inquired what would be the attitude of the government in regard to their publication. Napoleon IIL was the gov- ernment, and he called for certain chapters of the book, that he mightread them. They did not pleasehim. They were not in accordance with the Napoleonic legend. They did not give a view of the rise and growth of the First Empire so flattering as that given by M. Thiers, and the Emperor objected to their publication. If publication were forbidden in France it would be easy enough to publish in Belgium or in London; so the Emperor was compelled to go carefully or lose his game. He sent for the Baron Charles Talleyrand, grandson of the Prince, who listened to reason. In a little while the title of Montmorency was revived in favor of a younger son in this gentleman's family, and all that the world heard of the memoirs was the provision in Baucourt’s will. But now Napoleon IIL has passed away and the Empire has passed away, and one naturally wonders whether a suppression secured in the interest of a family which aspires to the throne will be held good by those who may be supposed to be naturally and necessarily opposed to the pretensions of that family. If there is blue blood in France the Talleyrands havo it, and if the monarchy has adherents they must be of the number. Will they keep from the hght a document that is, perhaps, the most withering exposure ever written of the true character of the Empire, even at its best? We do not believe they will. In the conflict of royalists and imperialists the memoirs will come out, and they will show that every blunder of the First Empire was the Emperor's own, and every glory and great achievement some one else’s — not in war, certainly, but in politics. It would be a new sensation for the world to contemplate the First Napoleon as a puppet ; but a puppet he was politically, and the more the intimate political history of his time is made known the clearer this will be seen. ” Verdi's “Requiem M The performance of Verdi’s ‘Requiem Mass” at the Academy of Music last evening must be noted as one of the marked events of a not very eventful season. This is the first per- formance of this famous work, and Mr. Stra- kosch deserves the highest credit for the care, the taste and the energy he has shown in its production. Some time since we noticed in a foreign paper complaints that American man- agers showed more enterprise in producing the great musical works than the managers of their own opera houses. ‘Lohen- grin’ and ‘‘Aida” were cited as in- stances of this enterprise, and now, as another triumph, we add the ‘‘Requiem Mass.” This work has excited the greatest interest through- out Europe. Elsewhere we give a critical esti- mate of it from a musical point of view. It only remains for us to thank Mr. Strakosch for having added this new trophy to his mu- sical laurels, and to hope he may meet the re- ward due to his enterprise and courage. It has not been the best season for business gen- erally, but there has been a ‘‘tidat wave,” the skies lighten with a holiday glow, and Mr. Strakosch will, we trust, before he closes his season, reap the highest reward. The ‘Re- quiem Mass’’ will be repeated on Satarday evening. Heavy Storms in the West Indies are re- ported. ‘Coming events cast their shadows before."’ Tux Crvm Senvice.—Mr. Medill, the edi- tor of the Chicago Tribune, who was for some time a member of the Civil Service Commis- sion, is quite sanguine about the President's | proposal to enforce the rules of the commis- sion, It will be remembered that the com- mission practically came to an end by the re- signation of George William Curtis, because | the President appointed General Sharpe to be Surveyor of the Port, in violation of the rule. Since then the public has had little confidence in the integrity of the civil service. We shall be glad to see the President justify the hopes expressed hy Mr, Medill .. .. anal Our Late State Election—The Popw lar Vote. The official returns of our recent State eleo- Total popuiar vote. Tilden over Dix... Tuden’s clear majority These oro remarkable results compared with those of our State election of 1872, and in the popular vote for Governor, which was: — For Dix, rep.... 447,801 For Eettan dem . 392, 850 Total popular vote for 187 + 840,153 Dix's Majority... sersees « 55,461 Upon a comparison of the results of 1874 with those of 1872 it appears that in the popular vote cast in our late election there is a deficiency of 52,188, that there is a demo- cratic gain of 23,993, and a republican falling off to the extent of 86,395 missing voters. How are we to account for this extraordinary gain to the democrats and this heavy loss to the republicans? We think the explanation may readily be given. After the October State elections in 1872 in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, the demo- crate virtually gave up the Presidential fight, and in the Presidential election of November thousands of them in almost every State did not vote. In Pennsylvania alone the Novem- ber vote of the democrats was less by one hundred thousand than their October vote The late heavy vote cast in this State, then, for Mr. Tilden was not from republican ac- cessions but from democratic reserves, for it is still thirteen thousand short of the democratic vote recorded for Seymour in 1868. It follows that there is a reserved republican vote in the State, which, with all the reserves brought out on both sides, will turn the scale, or that the temperance party, with their vote of ten thou- sand, may hold the balance of power in New York in 1876 as did the Birney anti-slavery party of 1844 with their fifteen thousand votes, thus defeating Henry Clay and electing James K. Polk President of the United States. % Hanp to Bztreve.—The Sioux Indians will not accept the protestations of Professox Marsh that in his desire to explore their coun- try near the Black Hills he does not wish to hung for gold, but only to gather up a lot of old bones. Russa is not satisfied with the Brussels Conference and wishes a new one next year. What can the matter be with Russia and her sudden desire for an amelioration of the laws of war? It looks suspicious. Tue Canusts are reported as having ree paired damages and returned to the siege of Irun. The war is evidently not yet ended in Spain. Lovzsrawa.—After a comparatively peaceable election there is some danger that the hostile parties may come to blows in their squabbles over the election returns. Honatio Seymour declines the Senatorship as he declined the democratic nomination for the Presidency. All the same he was nomi+ nated. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. - Marshal Bazatne has arrived in Maddrid, Judge E. H. Durell, of Louisiana, yesterday an rived at the Astor House. Mayor Samuel C. Cobb, of Boston, is sojourning at the Filth Avenue Hotel. surgeon E, S. Matthews, United States Navy, ig quartered at the St. Denis Hotel. Signor A. Gianellt, Italian Consul at Montreal, ig registered at the St. Denis Hotel. Mr. John Knapp, of the St. Louis Republican, ig stopping at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Mr. Lucius Robinson, of Elmira, is among the latest arrivals at the St. James Hotel. Ex-Governor Theodore F. Randolph, of New Jersey, is staying at the New York Hotel. in Russia also they have ofencd a weather office, and the probabilities are daily announced. Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. W. R. Trefusis, of England, is residing at the Brevoort House, Rear Admiral James H. Strong, United States Navy, bas apartments at the New York Hotel. Ex-Governor William Dennison, of Ohio, arrived at the Windsor Hotel yesterday from Washington, Mr. T. B. Blackstone, President of the Chicage an Alton Ratlroad Company, Is at the Windsor Hotel. » Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe arrived at the Grand National Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla., on the 13th Inst, Congressmen elect J. M. Davy, of Rochester, an@ Cc. C. B. Walker, of Corning, N. Y., are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Not a drop of rain in the Crimea for four months; all the surface of the eartha movable mass of dust, and no winter wheat yet sown, The Freneh Journal Oficiel says that Colonel Sioffel is not punished for his misconduct toward the authorities. It is “not because he is innocent of improper acts, but because there is no law against them!” Almost a casus belli between Austria and Prussia, At the Austrian Embassy in Paris there was a favorite cat, It has disappeared, and they suspect somebody at the Prussian Embassy. The correspondence fs active and sharp. Paris possesses a new culinary wonde-. It is “patent butter.” 1tis not made irom cream, but apparently irom the ordinary fat of slaughtered animals, It is sold at half the price of the real butter, and will keep sweet a year. Messrs. David Chadwick and John Crossley, members of the British Parliament; Rev. Dr. Mellor, of England, and Mr. Richard Potter, Pres dent of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, are te sail for Europe to-day in the steamship Russia, In Kussia they are troubled very much with the aiMculty of numbering their Israelitish people suaject to the conscription, and it has been pro- posed to leave it to the notabiltties of the Jewish faith; but the Minister of War declines the propo- sition, Has Von Arnim beaten Bismarck? In Europe the diplomatic gossips say he has. It was » struggle to suppress letters which Bismarck ap. pretended the Emperor might see, and the story ig that Von Arnim has managed to deliver the letters to the Emperor. One of the Russian papers has a correspondenes descriptive ofa queer element of our Western population. They are Russians wno were sent to Siberia as convicts, bat who, having made their way to the eastern coast of Asia, have got over Behring Straits on American whalers and are now employed as herdsmen on the plains, M. Clermont Ganneau has discoverca in Pale» tine, near the village of Abu Shushen, in the plata between Jaffa and Jerusalem, two inscriptions cut mto the rock. The inscriptions are alike, a each is formed of the words “Tanum Gezer,” of “frontier of Gezer.” This is accepted as estab. lishing the whereabouts of the ancient city of that name. One hundred and ten years after her death Mme, the Marquise de Pompadour has helpea to build a church on Montmartre, in Paris, and this is how it happens:—Abvé de Menneval, now a priest, wag formerly in the diplomatic service. One day, at Vienne, he bought in a curiosity sop a beautiful miniature of no one knew who for fifteen franca, He put tin his baggage and forgot it, and, in hia travels, the Irame got broken, s0 waen he took it out he read on the back, “Portrais of Mme, de Pompadour, given to M. Kaunitz.”” Mme. de Rothschild gave him 1,000f for it, and this he gives ‘ the church,