The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HEKALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET, NEW YORK HER: ALD BROADWAY y AND “ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRISTOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the yar. Four cents per copy. An- gual subscription price $12, angio NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henap will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore "HeRacp. Letters ard packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ——-— LONDON OFFICE OF HERALD—NO. 40 FLEE Subscriptions snd NEW YORK STREET. will be Advertisements received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. Volume Xxx Ix. ami ERICAN INSTITUTE, ‘Third avenue, een Sixty-third and Sixty-t neoureh streets. — MNDUSTELAL EXHIBITION. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, Bowery —Germau Opera Bouffe—DIE SCHOANE GA. LATUBE, ats P.M. , closes at 1030 P.M. Miss Lina Mayr. OLYMPIC THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 3 P. M.; ¥.M. Matinee at2 P.M. closes at 1045 PARK THEATRE, between Twenty-first and Twenty-seeond M.; closes at 10 du P.M. Broadway, Streets,—UILDiD AGE, ac 8 du. John T, Raymond. THFATRE COMIQOE, No. 514 Broadway.—V \RIETY, at 3. M. PML Matinee at 2 P.M. BOOTH’S THE corner Twenty-third street and = WINKLE, at5 P. M.; closes at closes at 10:30 RE, n avenue,—RIP VAN JPM. Mr. Jetferson. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Twenty-sixth street and Fourth avenue.—Afternoon and evening, at 4 and 8 WALLACK’S THEATRE, Rroadway.—THE SHAUGHRAUN, ats P.M; 10 30 P.M. Mr, Boucicault NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and touston streets —WILD CaT NED, atsP. M., closes at li P.M, Warm spring indians closes at FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-eighth. street and Broa¢way.—fH¥ scroor, | FOR SCANDAL, at $P. M,; closes at Il F. M. Miss Fanny Savenport, Mr. Fisher. 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M., closes at 10:45 P.M ASSOCIATION HALL, street and READ Twenty sPeane, K New York, Thursday, Nov. 19, From our reports this’ morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cold and clear. Waxr Srreet Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was active, but closed weak. Gold opened and closed at 1114, receding meanwhile to 110}. More shipments of coin are expected. Money was in good demand at 3} and 4 per cent. Tae New Onarmant to the office of Gover- nor of Arkansas does not seem quite certain of his claim, and so remains beyond the reach of Garland’s officers. Tas Frenca Comments upon what the Journal des Débats calls Mr. Disraeli’s apology | to Bismarck indicate a desire ot the Paris press to embroil other nations with Germany. ‘That there is a grain of truth in the reference to the invasion of England must make this kind of criticism more annoying. ‘Tar Beecner Scanpau.—A day has been set apart in the Brooklyn City Court for the hearing of the case of Tilton against Beecher. December 8 is the day appointed. There ‘was manifested considerable interest in the proceedings in court yesterday. They were confined to some technical sparring between counsel. Mr. Wasusvrne.—Our news from Wash- ington is in confirmation of the report that the President a few days ago sent a cable | despatch to Mr. Washburne, requesting his immediate return, and the absence of a denial additionally strengthens the probability. It will be seen that it is generally believed in the capital that the President has recalled our Minister to France, with the purpose of obtaining his counsel in reorganizing the Cabinet. The necessity of some change in the administration makes such an act as the recall of Mr. Washburue probable in itself, even if there were no extrinsic evidence to that effect. ~ Opposrrion Tatumen i THe GERMAN Par- wamENT.—The discontented elements in the German Parliament have succeeded in defeat- ing the government. It is the first successful protest against the iron rulg which has been im- | on the vation. The presiding officer of the Reichstag resigned in consequence of being overruled by the Chamber. This looks very much as if there were a storm brewing in Germany which the blood and iron policy mther provokes than | allays. We would not wonder if the German The Religious War. We print this morning further extracts from the famous manifesto of Mr. Gladstone on the Vatican decrees. We also give ex- tracts from the London newspapers, showing the excitement the controversy has developed. To this we add a historical summary of noted events in the religious history of England, that our readers may thoroughly comprehend the importance of the present strife and its relation to politics and religion in the nine- teenth century. Our always welcome and learned correspondent, ‘“Prudentius,"’ enters the lists with a Catholic view of the question, more especially in response to certain views | expressed by the Henatp when the discussion | began. The more we study this extraordinary dis- | cussion in its various phases the more we are | impressed with its gravity and its necessary influence upon the relations of Church and State in all parts of the world. Here in | America we have not directly felt the influ- ence of any religious discussions upon the operations of actual government; yet every now and then, as in Know Nothing and ‘Native American’’ times, religious dit- ferences sweep over our political relations, | assuming the gravest and darkest forms— rioting, bloodshed and civil combat. There | has been scarcely a Presidential election from the time of Jefferson to that of Fremont in which we have not had the shadow ofa reli- gious controversy. When as pure and noble a man as Francis Kernan ran for the Governorship of New York his faith was made a ground of grave criticism. It would be very difficult for any convention to present the name of a Catholic, no matter how worthy, for the office of | President with any bope of command- ing the support of the people. This shows that, notwithstanding our religious freedom under the law, there is the latent tendency in ' | the minds of men of a dominant creed to be governed by their beliefs iu the franchise. In America Protestant creeds are largely domi- nant. It shows, furthermore, bow readily, with the excitable character of our politics, a question cf religion might assume the gravest importance and how naturally we have the | largest interest in the controversy between | Mr. Gladstone and the Archbishop. We can understand how Catholics in Eng- land would resent the assumption of Mr. Gladstone that loyalty to the Pope as the head of the Church is inconsistent with loyalty to the Queen as the head of the State. The Catholics of London, incensed by Mr. Glad- stone's elaborate arraignment, as will be seen | in our cable despatches, held a public meet- | ing last evening to disclaim and repu- diate the injurious inferences of the ex- | Premier. When the English Catholics solemnly declare that their religious belief does not conflict with their civil allegiance candor requires the English public and all the world to,believe them, until they exhibit some overt | act of disloyalty. Government has no legiti- mate control over opinions at all, but only | over actions, Men should be left free to be- | lieve whatever seems to them true, without. | any restraint or intermeddling from the civil authority or any injurious aspersions from the Catholic, but afi church systems. “The fundamental law of religion is supremacy to the civil power. ‘‘Render unto Cwsar the things that are Cwsar's and to God the things that are God's.” This iso divine law, but in its interpretation how soon we are told the difference between Cmsar and God! One isa mere human governor, the other the Maker of the heavens and earth. Every priest, whether he serves the Pope as a Catholic, or the Westminster Assembly as a Presby- terian, or Wesley as a Methodist, or Joseph Smith as a Mormon, believes that as God's anointed ambassador he is infallible. The | claim of the Popt is ag old as religion itself. The churchman always reserves his right of conscience. A Quaker and a Mennonite will not fight, although war may be a civil duty. No government has ever seriously made a point of this refusal, because the Quakers and Mennonites are few, and it is never wise to enter into religious quarrels. But suppose an infallible Pope should declare that no Catholic should take up arms, would ‘Prudentius” obey the law that made war or the “higher law’’ from Rome? ‘The Catholic Church and all churches have managed so as to reconcile their religious duties with their civil duties, and no church, perhaps, so much as the Catholic. So the question, happily, is not yet a practical one. We hope it will so continne, at least in America. We see the wisdom of separating Church from State. To us the dogmas ot all churches are simply expressions of sentiment so far as the law is concerned. The Pope may express “affectionate sentiments to Mr. Seward,” as ‘‘Prudentius’’ reminds us, or to Jefferson Davis when the head ofa rebellion, as “Prudentius” does not remind us—ifis all the same. It is only an illustrious and honored priest saying charitable words and giving his apostolical blessing to all who will hear him. It rarely has and under a wise govern- ment could never have a@ political mean- ing. Infallibility can never become a seri- ous problem in the United States, nor do we think it should be made so in England. We entirely agree with ‘‘Prudentius” that “Mr. Gladstone has made for party purposes a sui- cidal mistake, and the party among ourselves that might in extremity raise a ‘No Popcry’ cry would meet with the same fate.”” Corp Weratner—Mariners, Beware !— The weather reports indicate an approach- ing spell of severe winter weather, which will fall suddenly upon us after the mild and genial season of the last week. The preva- lance of snow and extreme thermometric de- pressions in the Northwest accompanies the high barometric pressures for which this monta is famous. The November wave is as regular a phenomenon, apparently, as the November meteor, and of much greater mo- ment to us than the celestial fireworks. The sharp transitions from autumn to winter may be looked for now, and the approaching spell of cold should not surprise us if it is followed by storminess and disaster on the neighboring ocean, As so much depends on being fore- warned of the early development of winter, especially after so mild an autumn, we shall do well to heed the warning and regulate our clothing accordingly, should this change statesmen ont of power and wishing to gain | power, When the English Catholics gball re-, | fuse to obey the laws OF be detected in “plots | against the government or found sowing the | seeds of sedition, it will be soon enough to | impugn their loyalty and patriotism. To | draw trom their religious creed inferences which they do not themselves acknowledge and hold them responsible for the strained de- ductions ot their enemies is an equal violation of candor and common sense—an appeal to re- | ligious feeling as an element of party strife. Mr. Gladstone has drawn a violent inference from insufficient premises, but he has fallen into greater error than bad logic. Government, or those who aspire to exercise its functions, should not, in free countries, concern them- selves with opinions at all. The question of allegiance should always be a question of fact, subject to that noble principle of the English common law that every man be held innocent till proved guilty. Until Catholics commit some overt act it is absurd to arraign them for disloyalty on forced inferences from their re- ligious opinions. This argument we apply to America, and in doing so we come to the point to which ‘‘Pru- dentius’’ addresses himself particularly in his letter. This point is contained in the argu- ment of the Heratp that when Archbishop Manning makes a reservation to the effect that Catholics are only to obey the civil rulers in all things that are lawful, he virtually sus- tains the position of the anti-slavery men he- fore the war, when they claimed to disobey the Fugitive Slave law because of a ‘higher law.” “Prudentius’’ thinks we convey a wrong idea of the Archbishop's meaning. But we can see no real distinction. The abolitionist | would not obey one enactment because he was controlled by a “higher law.’ The Arch- | bishop of Posen was sent to prison be- | cause he preferred the “higher law” of allegiance to Rome to the statute of the Ger- | man Empire, If Pius IX. in the exercise of infallible authority had declared that slavery was a sin, that no Catholic could hold slaves or in any way encourage slavery without in- curring ecclesiastical punishment, then we |} should have had precisely such a protest | against the Fuffitive Slave law as was made by | Phillips, Garrison and the “higher law’’ advo- | cates, This is quite a possible case. There is just as much reason that a Pope, in the ex- ercise of infallible authority, should denounce slavery as a sin as Free Masonry. Free Masonry is a sin in the eyes of the Pope. If we were to venture a hint of our own as to the two institutions, we should think that slavery, with all its horrors, would be more offensive to the descendant of St. Peter than the secret society, with its symbols, its ritual and its mystery. A “reservation” in one case is a reserva- tion in all. Wherever the Roman Church, or any church, asserts any power over the judg- ment of its members it must of necessity assert absolute power. Its ministers always | follow the banner of Rome. They sup- ported rebellion against royal authority in | | in the two phases of policy; it was simply tho pation should insist on taking charge of its | ministers of Rome following their banner. own affairs and dispensing with tho service of | The whole Catholic system is based upon a auch o surly though great guerdian as Bis- | “reservation” precisely like the ‘higher law” marche of the early anti-slavery men. And not only | Poland, and they blessed Maximilian in | Mexico. One was o revellion against a monarch, the other the suppression of a republic, There could be no political affinity occur, a8 we anticipate. The next week will require much unstinted charity for the, poor. ie Tae Orry Revenves.—In the Board of Al- dermen yesterday Alderman Van Schaick offered a resolution, which was adopted, call- ing upon the Comptroller to furnish a detailed statement of the city revenue for the past four years. In so doing the Alderman stated that he had endeavored to obtain the information from the Finance Department, and had failed, receiving a curt reply trom the Comptroller, and obtaining no satisfactory answer from the Collector of the Revenue, to whom he had been referred. The unwillingness of the Compiroller to’ furnish any information con- cerning the city finances excites suspicions in regard to the department which may be groundless, but which are certainly injurious to the city’s credit. Tue Nort Pore.—What a weird attrac- tion that frozen wilderness called the Pole, lying away up north, far from any man’s ken, exercises on the mind of humanity! Brave men and gallant ships sail away up into the distant latitudes im search of the unknown, ‘and apparently unknowable. Some disappear and leave no trace. Others leave only their bones to bleach amid the frozen snows as landmarks of endeavor: but human energy will not be checked by ‘these silent monitors. There is something 80 very heroic in this ex- ploration of inhospitable seas and wildernesses of ice that one cannot repress a glow of enthu- siasm at the announcement of a new expedi- tion. This time it is England sails in to con- front, and, if possible, overcome the dangers and difficulties that lie in the path of navigators seeking to reach the Pole. Two steamers will be fitted out by the British gov- ernment. They will be commanded by Cap- tain Markham, of the Royal Navy, and leave England in May.on their dangerous expedi- tion. TueateicaL Managers on Dr. Tarmacz.—— The managerial side of the Sunday perform- ance question is presented to-day in a num- ber of letters which we publish in an- other column. Some of our correspondents are very practical combatants, and strike out for Dr. Talmage without any cere- mony; others are sentimental, and ap- peal to tradition and history. The Brooklyn divine will probably be quite startled by the show of learning made by the defenders of the stage, though he will scarcely relish his incorporation into the managerial body. He probably recognizes by | this time that the pleasure of giving knock- down blows is strongly modified by the ex- changes combatants generally receive, Arrarrs tx Lovisiana continue to be inter- esting. General Morrow has returned to New Orleans, and after an investigation into the conduct of Merrill’s officers during the late | election canvass has placed an officer of the | army under arrest and lodged a formal com- | plaint against him in the War Department. | | Kellogg declares his intention to abide by any ; decision the President may arrive at, after full investigation by a Congressional com- mittee, Scientific Testing of Steam and Other Machinery. The case of the tugboat which exploded her boiler on the East River will probably soon be allowed to pass into official oblivion, yet the enormous multiplication of accidents from defective machinery and especially un- | sound boilers qill lend pecuhar interest to an address on this subject by the eminent British scientist Professor James Thomson, of Glas- gow, which has recently been published. ‘There is no practical question with which the public have more to do and upon which ex- isting opinions require more overhauling. Nothing can show the ignorance prevailing more conclusively than the wide differences in the legal tests applied to the boilers of passen- ger steamers in different countries. In the United States the hydraulic test applied is, where the engine is low-pressure, only one- third more than the working pressure allowed by law. In France the hydraulic test re- quired is two and a half or three times that of the working pressure; and in England the Board of Trade Surveyors use a test of double the working pressure for which the boiler is certified. Protessor Thomson, who has a reputation as perbaps the foremost scientific engineer of Great Britain, advances views of the whole subject of machinery testing which appoar to explode one at least of the current theories which is undoubtedly prolific in harm. The great argument used by boiler makers and sellers against severe tests is that undue strain cripples the boiler and renders it liable to easier and earlier fracture. While claiming a theoretical strength for their workmanship five or six times that to be required of it when in actual use they frequently resist the appli- cation of even a double test. Professor Thomson strongly and plausibly contends that the legal test should be at least three times as great as that to which in practice the struc- ture is subjected, and, if the theoretical figures of engineers are worth anything, certainly the proposed test should not be objected to by the boiler maker. The distinguished lecturer forcibly reasons that “the greater the pressure a boiler has actually borne without bursting or leakage the greater will be its safety for the future, and this the more so if the severe test has been repeatedly applied without the occur- rence of rupture.'’ A boiler intended for use with a working pressure of fifty pounds if tested to three times that number may possi- bly be impaired; but if the crucial test be repeated three or four times no sensible man could doubt its perfect safety when carrying the intended fifty pounds pressure, In some recent experiments at Man- chester, when a boiler was tried with a water test of two hundred and filty pounds on the square inch, the ends of the boiler breathed outwards, but upon relieving them the iron resumed its original position, showing no detriment to the wrought portion. The cast iron manhole, however, was ruptured by the strain, proving that only the wrought iron could resist the tremendous force brought to bear on its crystalline structure. It we except the weaker cast 1roa portions of a boiler Professor Thomson's test would probably be sustained by every boiler fit to be trusted with byman life, The great expense to which the govern- ment has put itself or boiler experiments is, perbaps, after all only an unconscious attempt to determine the minimum margin of strength to be granted certified boilers, whereas the rule should be that none should be certified unless they will stand some such test as Pro- fessor Thomson proposes. That the gradual and gentle testing of machinery to a high degree rather hardens and strengthens it than the contrary 1s strongly supported by the facts urged py the British engineer. His proposal extends not only to boilers, but to railroad and other bridges, floors, cranes, ships and water reservoirs, of the insufficiency of which latter especially we have had in this country recently such terrible illustrations, It is strongly to be hoped and pressed that Congress, at its next session, will take up this whole subject and deal wita it in a way that will msure security to the travelling public, where now only suspicion and insecurity are felt. The Strike of the ’Longshoremen. A strike, during hard times, at the opening of winter, and when a great number of men are already out of work, is a serious matter, and we hope the ‘longshoremen have counted the cost beforehand, and that they will do all they can, by arbitration, to come to an amica- ble agreement with their employers. To strike is the inalienable right of a work- ingman, and to combine with others to strike is no less his right. He is the only proper judge as to the prudence ot his strike, and no one has a right to interfere with him in the matter; for when a workingman strikes he only exercises the sacred right of a free man to declare for whom and on what terms he will labor. If he succeeds he is the gainer; if he fails he has taken the risk of which he alone had the right to judge. But, on the other hand, a striker has no right to compel another man to strike with him ; and here we wish to give to the ‘long- shoremen a word of kindly warning. If they orany of them attempt during their strike, by intimidation, violence or interference of any kind, to prevent other men from working in the places they have left, they will commit not only a crime against society, but crime against themselves; for, if they may compel other men not to work, other men may, by the same right, compel them to work. The interference, there.ove, with men who are ready to.work and who do not want to strike, is a clear surrender of the right to strike which is only the right of a laborer to decide for whom and for what wages and during what number of hours he will labor. The public has an interest in the settlement of this unfortunate dispute. The 'longshore- men should consider not only their own rights, but the claims of their families. It is | not upon the steamship companies that the | suffering, which inevitably follows strike, will fall, but upon the men and their wives and children, and the destitution which is already so great ought not to be increased by rash action. We know that many of the *longshoremen recognize these truths, and de- Our State Canats will not be closed till the 5th of December for the winter, unless the order from Jack Froat order of the Canal Board be superseded by au | precate the strike which, notwithstanding, they feel required to join. The unions make it \ "lougshoremaa when ordered to auit work by compulsory upon all their members, and a | his union must obey or lose the protection which he has been for years endeavoring to organize. For the sake of both parties to the question and for the good of the general pub- lic, which cannot anticipate the probability of several thousand more idle men this winter without alarm, we urge a settlement before the evil becomes irremediable. Any large labor strike now, on the verge of winter, is a calamity to New York and must be considered not merely in relation to individuals but to the community. Mayor Havemeyer’s Explanations. In his interview with a Sun reporter on the subject of the removal of the Commissioners of Accounts poor Mr. Havemeyer makes statements calculated to seriously damage his friends. He commits the customary folly ofa biundering, over-anxious witness in proving too much. His first complaint against one of the removed Commissioners is, in his own language, as to!lows: —‘“When Mr. Howe went into Comptroller Green's office to make his examination he went with an air as though he was about to take possession of the office, and when Mr. Green said, ‘If you want any help my clerks will give it to you,’ le replied that he wanted no help, but had come over to make an investigatiom himself, and he was going to do it himself.” Instead of being a cause of complaint this action proved that the Commissioner understood his duty under the charter, which requires him once: in three months, or oftener, “to examine all vouchers and accounts in the offices of the Comptroller and Chamberlain,” and to publish the result | in the City Record. He could not make such an investigation as is contemplated by the law except by a personal scrutiny of the ac- counts, and if he had suffered his statements to be prepared or controlled by the Comptrol, ler and his clerks, while he would have averted the enmity of Mr. Green and escaped the protane abuse of the Mayor, he would not have performed his official duties with fidelity, On examining the securities held by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund the Com- missioners of Accounts failed to find bonds to the amount of over ninety thousand dollars, which ought to have been there. In explana- tion of this poor Mr. Havemeyer says, ‘‘This ninety thousand dollars was represented by the City Chamberlain’s check for the amount, which lay beside the box containing the bonds, and the check represented bonds that had not yet been issued, making up the correct amount.’’ In the absence of the bonds the “check’’ or receipt representing the bonds was the only security for the money held by the Sinking Fund Commussioners, It should have been placed safely in the box with the other securities, just as much as if the amount had been absolutely represented by bonds. That it should have been suffered to ‘lay be- side the box containing the bonds,” shows gross carelessness in the custody of the securities which should have drawn down censure on the Comptroller and not have excited enmity against the Commissioners of Accounts. This sinking fund mystery has nover been satisfactorily cleared up. When the Commis- sioners of Accounts made their first investi- gation a now “bond of one hundred thousand dollars was found in the box, signed by Mayor Havemeyer, representing one hundred thousand dollars paid out of the sinking fuud for such a bond a year and three months be- fore, when Mr. A. Oakey Hail was Mayor. Eitber the sinking fund had been lett without this bond for fifteen months, although two half years’ interest had meanwhile been paid on it or the old bond had been destroyed and a@ new one substituted. At the same time other bonds to the amount of ninety-six thou- sand dollars were missing. It was subse- quently unofficially stated by private citizens, friends of the Comptroller, that the missing bonds, or within a small amount of them, were represented by receipts, the bonds not having been then issued. But this was no satistactory official proof that the securities were intact. As svon as o new official in- vestigation of the sinking fund securities was commenced by the same Commissioners of Accounts who had discovered the former ir- regularities those officers were abruptly re- moved. These are facts deserving the atten- tion of the taxpayers and demanding the serious consideration of the Mayor elect. Tue Press iv Avstria.—Journalism labors under many difficulties in Continental coun- tries. An incident that has just occurred in Vienna explains at once the cause why newspapers in the American sense have no existence in the Austrian dominions. Two Vienna journals, the Presse and the Official Gazette, had sufficient enterprise to ob- tain the full text of Kuilmann’s indictment and publish it. The: authorities are amazed at such a departure from the old time Sleepy Hollow rule of journalism. So the ed- itors are summoned to cour! to answer the crime of giving the news ahead of their contemporaries. Enterprise is evi- dently at a discount in Vienna. If the Henatp were published in the Austrian dominions we fear we would never be out of trouble. Bertua Miter Burmey.—The case of sus- pended animation reported from Yonkers turns out to have been purely the result of imagination. The child was evidently dead from the first day. It appears that the belief in the existence of life was based on no better = grounds than that the body when taken off the ice was found not to preserve the rigor mortis. This is ex- plained by the fact that the child had been dead four days and relaxation of the tissues had probably set in. All doubts were set at rest by the body exhibiting signs of decom- position. Yesterday it was committed to the earth, Tue Soctatists iy Russta.—The Russian government denies the existence of a Social- ist conspiracy. It is alleged that the rumor of its existence grew out of a disturbance among the students at the St. Petersburg Medical Academy. Even if the report were true it would only prove that Russia possessed @ few hot-headed impracticable people des- tined to study philosophy in Siberia. Mr. Sutra, the would-be Governor of Ar- kansas, having failed to secure the assistance of the President in his aspirations, will do well to follow the example of the late Gov- ernor Davis, of Texas, in quietly surrendering | to circumstances bevond his control. Russia and the Brussels Conference. The great northern Power, which until late years was regarded in Europe as semi- barbarous, seems disposed to lead the older nations in the noble work of lessening the horrors of war. The results of the Brussels Conference have not given full satisfaction at St. Petersburg, so the Czar and his advisers request that a new meeting be held next year. §o far as could be gleaned from the propositions made at the late conference the humanity of both Russia and Prussia took very much the shape of an attempt to intrude rules of war that would give absolute governments like Russia and Prussia great advartazes in a struggle against a free people. We presume that fur- ther conference will have very much the same object. In all this talk about lessening the horrors of war there is a great doal of un- healthy sentiment. Some humanitarians say that men should not be killed by explosive projectiles under a certain weight. Now, if a man is to be killed by any kind of Projectile it appears to us a very small question whether the agent is an explosive Minié bullet, a bone-crushing mitrailleuse bolt or a six hun- dred pound Armstrong shell. If there were any choice it would be in favor of the latter, as the work would be more effectively and more expeditiously done than by the former projectiles. But as this would be very expen- sive it is not likely to be very generally adopted. If Russia wants to diminish the horrors of war let her use her moral power to maintain peace. This is the most effective way to serve the cause of humanity. Tae Inprans—THe Commissroner’s Re~ port.—The Oommissioner of Indian Affairs, in his annual report for the past year, pre- sents an encouraging exhibit of the red chil- dren of the Great Father. All told they ex- ceed in numbers a quarter of a million, The wild Indians are estimated atninety thousand. Of the semi-civilized and holders of real es- tate there are east of California, mostly in the Indian Territory, eighty thousand, and in California fifteen thousand, all selt-support- ing. In the Indian Territory are gathered numerous tribes and parts of tribes. The vagrants among all the Indians are numbered at fourteen thousand, and the belligerents or really ‘‘bad Indians’ are supposed not to ex- ceed ten thousand. The Commissioner sug- gests that the red men be elevated to the responsibilities of citizens and be made subject to the jurisdiction of the United States courts for any crimes they may commit. It is admitted that the carbine is a better instrument than the hymn book meantime for making good Indians of bad Indians, which is an important point gained in the experience of the government, Tue Sree among the factory operatives of Philadelphia is extending. We are sorry to hear it, for in these ‘‘hard times’ this ia the most unfavorable season for strikes that we have ever had in the United States. In ApvANcE or THE TratIn—The democratit Cabinet makers for our next President. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. On dit, in political circies here, in Washingtom and Boston, that the coming home of Mr. Kithu Washburne will be followed immediately by the retirement of Mr. Fisn from the Cabinet and the probable resignation of all the other members of the President's Ministerial staf, The knowing ones say that Mr, Washvurne will be offered the Stace Depariment and Mr. Edwin D, Morgan the ‘Treasury Department, They dispose of Mr. Bris- tow by transterring him to the Department of Jus- tice, vice Williams, removed to the shades of pri- vatPliie. Lieutenant Governor John C. Robinson ts at the Metropolitan Hotel. Rev. Dr. Van Nest, of Florence, Italy, 18 stop- ping at the Westminster Hotel. Mr. Dewitt C, Littlejonn, of Oswego, N. Y., is re- siding at the Metropolitan Hotel. Commodore W. A. Kirkland, United States Navy, is sojourning at tne New York Hotel. Major Henry C. Merriam, United States Army, is quartered at the St. Nicliolas Hotel. The ex-Empress Eugénte called on the Empress of Russia at Buckingham Palace, London. Captain Boxer, of the British Navy, is among the lagest arrivals at the Windsor Hotel, Ex-Governor Henry J. Gardner, of Massachu- setts, is registered at the Windsor Hotel. Postmaster General Marshall Jewell and family have apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. M. Lepthine Avigdor, Austrian Consul at Nice and a banker of some note, has blown out bis brains. John Lemoinne, of the Journal des Débats, isa candidate for Jules Janin’s ‘‘fauteuil” in the French Academy. Senator William B. Washburn and ex-Governor William Ciafin, of Massachusetts, are at the Fifta Avenue Hotel. Talmage should take thought that this tsa bad year (or any extreme assertion of morality on the part of parsons, The London Datly Telegraph announces that the infant son of the Duke of Edinburgh has beem christened Albert Alexander. Juage William L. Learned, of the New York Sa- preme Gourt for the Thira Judictal district, has are rived at the Gilsey House. Victor Emmanuel says that M. Thiers {s the Little Red Ridinghood of French politics, and that Gambetta’s party is the wolf, Chevalier Alphonse de Stuers, Chargé d'affaires of the Netherlands at Washington, arrived last evening at the Hotel Brunswick, Mr. Henry ®. Sanford, formerly United States Minister to Belgium, arrived from Europe in the steamship Java and is at the Brevoort House, “The dead cities of the Zuyder Zee” is whata Frenchman calls the old Dutch towns to which he has recently made “a picturesque voyage ” Alexander H. Stephens left Augusta, Ga., for Washington yesterday afternoon. He ts in better health than he has esjoyed for the past ten years, He weighs eighty pounds. ‘The students of St. Andrew's University, Scot- land, have rejected a proposal made by some of their number recommending that Ralph Waldo Emerson be elected Lora Rector. Every year the population oi France is reported jess and less.” rhere 1s an absolute, constant and regular decrease, and atthe present rate of de. crease (he country will be depopulated in 183 years. Hon. William Edward Forster and, Sir T. Fowel, Buxton, members of the British Parilament, visited a number of the public schools in Balti: more yesterday, in company with the city oft- cials, for the purpose Of examining the school aya- tem of Baltimore. Uf Grant reorganizes his Cabinet and appoints men like Washbarne and Morgan to the most im- portant positions, he may yet retrieve the falling fortunes of his party. There is much virtue ina judicious and skiltul use of the vast patronage of the Executive, and no men understand this fact better than Washburne and Morgan, M. Lubowites, Weutenant in the Austro-Hunga- rian armies, is walking from Vienna to Parisona wager that he will make the distance in fourteem days. At Strasbourg he had 143 miles to spare om bis time to that potnt. At Paris he will.be recetved by mempers of the Union Ciub of Vienna ana the Paria Jockey Club. Three millions of iraace are aaid to be bet om the race.