The New York Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1874, Page 4

— oneness 4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, HERALD, Four cents per copy. THE DAILY cay in the year. pual subscription price $12, published every An- NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Heratp will be gent free of postage. Al) business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX. 325 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OL TRE, No, 624 Broaaway. ata P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M Maunee at? PARK THEATRE, Broadway, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second Rrects. GILDED AGE, at SP. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. Mr. Joba 1, Raymond. w P.M. THEATRE COMIQ No. 514 Broadway.—VARIcTY, at ¥. M. 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UPP New York, Saturday, Nov. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be colder and clearing. Watt Srreer Yesvenpay.—The stock mar- | ket was du!l and fetuzeless. The fluctuations were comparatively swill. Gold remained firm at 111} a 111g, and money on call loans found use at 3} and 4 per cent. Russia wishes 2 new international code, but Great Britain docs nct. Rarm Traysit.—The latesi proposition is that of another horse railroad on Third avenue. z Worst Tuan THE Ku-Kivx—The “Molly Maguires” of Pennsylvania, if half that is re- ported against them as outlaws is true. A Saviya or Mitxions will be secured to the State and to the city treasury in the spe- cial legislation and lobby jobs cut off by the constitutional amendments. Wrster East anv West.—Heavy snows in the Rocky Mountains warn oll concerned that in those regions the winter has set in. As will be seen by our despatches to-day, the snow has also reached the Atlantic seaboard. Poermasten Grxerat Jewett has visited Boston, and we publish to-day his speech be- fore the Board of Trade and his compli- mentary remarks about the Hub of the Uni- verse, Taz Fortuer Reports of the recent hurri- cane in Jamaica‘show thut the desolation of | the island was terrible and that starvation threatens the people. Here is o proper field tor American generosity. Pract.—Prince Gortschakoff, on parting with Prince Bismarck at Berlin, after a long | conference between them, expressed his opin- ion that peace would prevail im Europe for many years. We hope so; but the prophe- Gies of princes are not to be relied on. Fatxcn Rervericaxs.—A solid union of the republicans in the French Assembly is advised by M. Louis Blanc, but the difficulties of effecting it are very great. France has four or five different kinds of republicans, who have not been able thus far to agree upon & policy. Ax Ovrmacre in Syru.—'Thot an armed body of men should violate an American Mis- sion in Syria is surprising, even though in that country religious prejudice is so strong. Mr. Bokes, our Minister to Turkey, has complained of this outrage to the Grand Vizier, and is promised that ample satisfaction shall be mole, =e Why President Grant Ought to Change His Cabinet. | We cannot underiake to decide as a ques- members of a government to make a fiat denial of facts surreptitiously divulged, bat | there have been examples enough of such denials to prove that it is not a very uncom- mon practice among pnblic men. mate possesvors of oficial secrets feel bound sto guard them, especially in cases where they but not yet fully decided upon, and intended | to be kept entirely from the public knowledge | if the projects should not succeed. | Avnim prosecution is a si | resolute jealousy with which government | secrets are protected, and if the documents in | question should be recovered we presume | Prince Bismarck would make no scruple of contradicting the awkward parts of their con- tents if they should afterwards gain cur- ; rency on the wings of rumor. Whether our government would feel at equal | liberty to deny facts which nobody possesses | documents to prove is a point we will not dis- | cuss; for a purpose that has miscarried is of | | as little public consequence as if it had never | been tormed. The recent emphatic denials at | Washington make it certain that General | Grant has no present intention of calling Mr. | Washburne home, and it is all the same to | the country whether he had such a purpose | and abandoned it, or whether the step was | | never in conteniplation. In either case, it is | equally a matter of regret that so wise a | course is not to be adopted. | The reasons for reconstructing the Cabinet | are so solid that President Grant ought to weigh them. The democratic party naturally deprecates such o change, as it does every movement calculated to lift up the republican party after its prostrating defeat. The demo- cratic press has accordingly attempted to | show that the President would gain nothing by changing his advisers and has tried to blunt the force of the arguments founded on English analogy. It is said that in our political system the Cabinet officers are mere secre- taries of the President, subject to his direc- tion, and that, as their duties are all pre- | scribed by law, it makes no real difference who performs them. But are not the British Ministers also secretaries of the Queen and subject to her orders? prescribed by acts of Parliament? Is she not | as free, by the laws of the realm, to appoint | and dismiss them at pleasure as our President | is to appoint and dismiss the members of his Cabinet ? | partments are personally responsible only to | the President; they are responsible to the | | laws, to Congress, subject to prosecution and | | penalties by the action of the judiciary, and | to impeachment and removal from office by | | the two houses. It is only a custom and not a law which forces a Ministry to retire when it forfeits public confidence, the strictly legal authority of the Queen to continue them | atterward being as perfect as that of the Pres- | ident to continue his Cabinet. If the British practice had nothing but custom to recommend it it would deserve little respect; but it is o custom founded on good sense, and is, therefore, worthy of attentive study. The art of government in free countries is the art of controlling public opinion; public opinion, through forms more or less circuitous, being the governing rorce in all countries really tree. Yet it is not wise to let a government drift at the mercy of sud- den gusts of popular passion, which needs to | be checked by elements of permanence and stability. In Great Britain the elements of stability are the hereditary throne and House of Lords; in this country the fixed tenure of office of the President and Senate. When a new party carries the elections in England its | sphere of influence is limited by the fact that no law can be passed or repealed without the concurrence of the irremovable Lords any more than it can in this country without the concurrence of the Senate; and yet it is expe- dient to pacify public sentiment by changes in the personnel of the administration which evince a respectiul deference to the public will and a recognition of its right to ultimate control. Such changes operate as a safety valve to abate the explosive force of popular passions. Everybody must see that the violence of opposition would be greatly intensified in Great Britain if the people were not afforded the visible evidence of their power | which is given by an immediate change of the | Ministry when the country has recorded its verdict against it. It is no wonder that the democratic party of this country is unwilling tile public sentiment by such concessions as would be implied in a prompt reorganization of his Cabinet. But opposition from demo- cratic sources should convince the President | that such a change would be for his own in- | terest and that of his party. “play President’’ if he had a stronger Cabinet. But did Washington merely ‘‘play President” when Jefferson and Hamilton held the two cuief places under him? Did Lincoln “play President’ when his Cabinet consisted of tae foremost statesmen of the republican party? it is absurd, or rather in the present case it is invidious to flatter the President with the idea that his official advisers ought | to be mere instruments, like the staff officers of a general. It would doubtless be a good thing for the democratic party for President Grant to continue to act | on that idee, since nothing tends so strongly to bring bis administration into contempt. | If it is of little consequence whom the Presi- dent has for advisers, the opposition has in- dulged in o great deal of unnecessary invec- tive against Williams, Boutwell, Richardson, Creswell and Robeson. The adversaries ot the President, who have made so much politi- cal capital out of these assaults, would be too | glad to have him keep his administration | within range of the same destructive batteries. | What s beautiful change of heart the demo- cratic press has undergone when it advises | the President uot to dismiss Attorney General | Williams, on the ground that if he had an | | able, high minded lawyer in the Department | of Justice he could only ‘‘play President’ in | that department! Attorney General Williams | has, ali of a sudden, become as dear to the | democratic party as Southern outrages ond the White League have always been to that | model offiesr, A new Cabinet, strong in abil. | ity, strong im public confidence and respeot, strong to influence legislation and harmonize “NEW YORK HERAL | tion of ethics whether it is justifiable for | The legiti- | | relate to projects merely under consideration | The Von | ignal instance of the | Are not their duties | It is not true that our heads of de- | the President should weaken and disarm hos- | He is advoitly told that he would merely | D, | the republicans, would check the career and | lower the hopes of the exultant democracy, | and it is quite natural that they should be- | little its importance and try to enlist the Pres- | ident’s pride against it. | | But the Heraxp gives him impartial, disin- | terested advice. It bas no motive but the | pablie good; it would as willingly see the | | country well governed by one political party | as by the other. But as the democratic party | can by no possibility govern the country at all, either well or ill, for the ensuing two | years and a half, itis a matter of great public | interest that the repabheans should promptly | | learn the uses of adversity and do their best | to wisely bridge over the dangerous interval | while legislation will stand at a deadlock be- tween the republican Senate and democratic House, and the President can expect none of | his recommendations to be adopted, the bad | ones being certain to be rejected because they are bad and the good ones because the democrats will not permit the republican party to have the credit of them. All patriots | have reason to feel solicitude for the imbc- | cility of the government during this period, | and the Henaxp would fain have the repub- | lican party improve the golden opportunity | which remains to it between now and the 4th of March to put public affairs on such a | basis that they may go through the two years | of inevitable deadlock and divided councils | without detriment to great interests. Moreover, we look upon the republican | | party with the sentiments which every patriot | | ought to feel towards a great historical party which conducted the country successfully through the most dangerous and momentous | crisis in our annals, and we should be sincerely sorry to see it go out of power covered with | odium and disgrace. It will retain complete | | | authority over every department of the gov- | ernment for nearly four months, and no wise | act of legislation which it may confer on the country in this interval can be reversed by its opponents during the subsequent two years | while it will control the Senate. But unless | it makes the most of this long respite the | republican party is irretrievably doomed. | The great point of allis for General Grant | to promptly construct a Cabinet of such po- | litical weight and moral ascendancy that the | President’s recommendations can ,be carried | | through Congress, as Hamilton's fiscal meas- | ures were under Washington and Chase’s | under Lincoln, and that the administration may not be fatally damaged, as it has been of | late, by well founded attacks’ on the heads | | of departments. The democratic party does not want such a change, because it would | ; cause an ominous cloud to gather over its | | brightening prospects; but the President | would do an exceedingly foolish thing if he were to please the democrats in this particu- lar. He is a far weaker man than we ever supposed him if he permits them to practice on his vanity by telling him that he would | merely ‘‘play President’’ if he were to replace | his Cabinet of staff officers by a Cabinet of | statesmen, The occasion justifies us in repeating our respectful advice to Secretary Fish, who holds the key of the tituation. Itis as consistent with his self-respect to resign as it was with | Gladstone to resign when the English elec- | tions went against the liberals. The other | members of the Cabinet would be forced to follow him, which would give the President an opportunity to foil and disappoint the | democrats, and infuse fresh lite, hope, vigor and confidence into the depressed and humil- iated republican party. Mr. Fish’s tellow citizens of New York would be proud to see him act a noble and magnanimous part on so great an occasion. City Debts—Paris and New York. The municipality of Paris is about to put on the market, on the credit of that city, a | loan of 260,000,000 francs, or $52,000,000, | | and the national government urges the project | | and uses its influence with the city authori- | | ties to insure the issue, to which there has | | been some opposition in the City Council. | Already the debt of the city of Paris 1s | | 1,800,000,000 trancs, and with the pro- | jected issue it will be, therefore, upwards of | two milliards, or $412,000,000. Here is a | burden of obligation that may well make us | look upon our own city debt as a mere baga- | telle. Debt everywhere, of course, runs up | taxation, and the rate consequently, of popu- | lar expenditure ; but even the enormous debt | | above stated has not made life so difficult to | | the poor in the French capital as it has been | made here by our $150,000,000 and our differ- ent habits. One reason for the very different | relation of the people to the debt in the re- | spective cities is that in Paris they have ob- | tained something tangible for their money, | while here great expenditures—except in the single case of the Central Park—have secured | no advantage to the wellbeing of the people, + but have only cultivated theft and political | corruption. Paris now proposes to spend | | millions on public improvement—to accept a burden of 13,000,000 francs annually for sev- enty-five years, in addition to her other enormous burdens, to add to the advantages and enjoyments of municipal life; but New | York, with far more urgent demands tor pub- lic improvement, dare not put her hand in | her pocket, because she apprebends that she | will not help the people ond will ouly enrich | @ new horde of thieves. if ENGLAND aT THE Vatican.—For some time past England has had a diplomatic represen- | tative at the Vatican. It bas been announced | that this officer will be withdrawn. Mr. Dis- | raeli probably desires to rival Mr. Gladstone | in his bid for Protestant sympathies, | Tur Wan 1x Cvuna.—The bulletins from | Havana, under date of the 18th inst, which | ’ we publish in the Herarp to-day, go to prove | thatthe insurgent war against the Spanish power in Cuba is being prosecuted with un- | ceasing activity. The rebelsare in force at every available point. They are vigilant and | daring in their action in the field) The Spaniards fight with their accustomed bravery | and tenacity. It appears, however, as if the island guerillas are brave as the bravest of the | European troops of the line, and it is, conse- | quently, difficult to strike a balance of profit and loss. Incendiarism, daily alarm, assault | on villagesand death are of almost hourly | occurrence in Cuba. Civilization may, per- haps, inquire how long? Conversions of Catholic priests to Protes- | tantism seem to bo popular just now. Father Jacquemet, of Baltimore, is the latest exe ample, | Kconomy and Enterprise. The real estate owners of the city justly | complain of the heavy taxation imposed upon them for the expenses of the city government. But their dissatistaction is excited more by the lack of enterprise and liberality in the management of public affairs than by the amount of money they are called upon to pay at the Tax Receiver’s office, ‘They would be willing to pay exorbitant taxes if they were im- posed for the purpose of making great public | improvements which would in the end en- hance the valze of property and yield a return for the investment. But they are not willing to pay three percent on their property for taxes while the progress of the city is blocked | and while the mountain of debt continues to rise higher and higher. A large property owner stated before the legislative Committee on Taxation, last Monday evening, that “the system of docks started by Gen- eral McClellan would have been twenty millions a year advantage to this city, and the whole estimated expense of them was only about twenty million dollars ; but Comptroller Green has fought against this as he has against every improvement that was going to return money to tho city.’’ This sounds the key- note of the property owners’ complaint. Give them well considered public improvements that will benefit the city and they are ready to pay for them without a murmur. Tax them | for the benefit of scheming politicians and in- triguing heads of departments and they very properly object. The present rate of taxation imposed upon the city breaks down the value of real estate as an investment. Sey that a citizen owns a house for renting, for which he has paid thirty thousand dollars and is assessed twenty thousand. He cannot get more than two thousand one hundred dollars a year rent at the outside. His account stands as fol- lows :— Taxes on $20,000 at three per cent. Repairs, one-hall per cent. Decay, two per cent... Rates, insurance, &c. Annual excess....... oss The thirty thousand dollars invested in city bonds or other securities at seven per cent would realize two thousand one hundred dol- teeeee see $600 lars a year. Hence the owner of the house | loses by the investment one thousand five hundred dollars a year. Against this he has only as a@ set-off the probable increase in the value of his lot, which, under our recent city Management, is not a very promising one. When the same calculation is applied to some stores which bear fancy valuations the result is more adverse to the owner of the property. The only remedy to be hoped for isin the practice of strict economy in the public departments. The evil of running the departments in the political or personal inter- est of the person or persons at their head isa legacy of the old ring; but the inheritance i has not been neglected by poor Mr. Have- meyer's appointees and friends. To-day there is as much disposition to turn the city offices to personal advantage as there was under the system that prevailed prior to 1871. The Finance Department is an asylum for the politi- cal lazzaroni who will swear fealty to its head. It could be honestly conducted at an annual ! cost of one hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars. It receives in the Tax Levy of 1875, under the estimate of the Board of Apportion- ment, three hundred thousand dollars. Not a single department has been reduced more than a trifle from last year’s appropriation, except those of Charities and Correction, Police, Fire and Education. The first three have not been reduced sufficiently. The Board of Education has been allotted quite enough money to render any reduction of the salanes of teachers unnecessary, if the School Com- missioners will perform their duties honestly and get rid of the fancy professors, male and female, who are now employed in the public schools against public policy and in violation of the intent of the common school laws. The Aldermen should have reduced every depart- ment to a business basis. The estimate for next year should be three or four millions less than the estimate for the present year. As passed by the Board of Apportionment it is two million dollars higher. In the inter- ests of the property owners and of the city this scandalous squandering of the public money should cease, and Mayor Wickham should initiate the new régime by using his influence to secure a reduction of taxation for next year, The Extra Session. Many of the democratic papers, and others likethe Evening Post, of this city, not demo- cratic, are urging the expediency of an extra | session of the incoming Congress. It is pro- posed that a bill be passed by the present | Congress calling the new one together on the 4th of next March. The power to do this exists, and during Mr. Johnson's administra- tion it was exercised. But then the House and Senate were opposed to the President, and they made their sessions continuous in order to watch him. On the other hand, the President and the republican party are now in power, and they will naturally not bring that power to au end by culling the demo- | cratic House to Washington. The democrats will come soon enough, and the President as a party man can hardly be expected to summon them before they are due. There is one argument, however, that might be made in favor of the extra session. If one thing is clearer than another it is that, the voice of the people having spoken, the representatives of the people should be heard without any delay. In Eng- land, when Disraeli was victorious, he came | into power immediately. Here a year must elapse before the expressed will of the ballot takes effect. ‘This is one of the anomalies of our system that should be cousidered in the proposed constitutional convention of peace and reconstruction. If the President and his party were wise they would summon Con- gress and challenge the amplest criticism. This would be o patriotic and brave act; but it is rather too much to expect. A New Potrricaz Panty is said to be in process of organization in Massachusetts to take the place of the republican party if it can, or of the liberal republican party if it can do no better. It does not appear, however, that General Butler is in the movement. Ov taz New Luxatic Asytum at Morris town, N. J., and its inspection by the officials of the State government, we give today a cotmplete report, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1874.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The President and Political Rumors, Rumors about the republican party are not quite as numerous as its voters, yet the re- ports concerning it are in natural proportion to its losses. Nobody asks what the demo- cratie party is going to do, unless it is whether it will urge the one term amendment or investigate the records of the ad- ministration; but every one is curious to know what will be the course of the republican politicians. They havo come suddenly into unexpected possession of a tre- mendous defeat, and the question is, ‘What will they do with it?” It has had many contra- dictory answers ; but everybody is agreed that republicanism must do something to regain its supremacy or pass into political history with the whigs, the free soilers, the federalists and the other great parties which are now but splendid memories and traditions. President Grant is reported to have said, some months ago, that it was time for the re* publican party to unload. His advice would have been better received had his example been more effective. The only unloading that we are aware the republican party has done is that of several hundred thou- sand voters in the late elections. It got rid of these very easily, and its principal anxiety appears to be to get them back. Every one expects an effort of this kind to be made, and the administration is naturally looked to for leadership. This expectation gives color to the rumors that yesterday were prevalent in political circles that a thorough reorganization of the party had been deter- mined upon by President Grant, after 2 con- sultation with Governor Dix, Thurlow Weed and Senator Conkling. We have been unable to trace this report to an authentic source, but it is certainly not unlikely that such a movement in this State is contemplated. Changes might be made with advantage in the personnel of the office-hold- ers, and that they will be made seems to be the substance of the political ramors which are elsewhere printed. But merely to change men without changing policy would be useless, The republican party needs a change of heart, Like the rest of sinners, it cannot be saved unless it is born again. The reform the President is expected to make should not begin in New York, but in Washington. When tie woodman fells a tree he does not begin at the branches, but with the trunk. The belief that it is the intention of General Grant to make important changes is founded on the knowledge cf the public that he cannot main- tain the administration as it is. People look for a complete reorganization of the Cabi- net with almost as much confidence as they look for the rising of the sun, for it is a fundamental measure upon which the success of all others must depend. Our Washington despatches intimate the likelihood that the | President will offer Mr. Blaine o seat in the Cabinet, and as a leading republican his ap- pointment might give satisfaction to the party. But, whether Mr. Blaine becomes Postmaster General or Mr. Washburne the Secre- | tary of State, and no matter who may be chosen for the other places, one \ thing is sure, that to reform tke Cabinet is | ; @ compulsory duty upon the President if he desires to continue as the head of the republi- can party. While it was successful he could command the party, but in its present condi- ticn of defeat, distrust and discontent, we are greatly mistaken if he does not find that he must obey the stern political necessities of the hour. Mr. Tilden’s Speech. That was a beautiful speech of Mr. Tilden’s. There was the true ‘happy father’ spirit of the old comedies all through it—a calm, be- H nignant elevation of soul. One cannot help feeling that if Mr. Tilden had died when he made this speech it would have been a happy death. Not that we wish Mr. Tilden to die, by any means. We desire to see him actually | Governor and happily married and settled, * and to have an opportunity of supporting him for the Presidency if so minded. But it is so rarely that we see so much elevation of soul in a public speech that we note it as a happy | omen of the good times coming. A benevolent and successful candidate for | high honors, standing on a chair alongsidesof a table burdened with champagne and par- tridges, and addressing a crowd of chippering, | | cheering young men, will be pardoned a cer- ; | tain haziness of rhetoric. The best thing that | | a cautious orator could say at such a time would be that he hoped all the young men betore him would remember that they owed | | it to society to take office, and thus elevate | our politics. This is what Mr. Tilden did | say, and he was tremendously cheered. There | is nothing that compliments the young poli- | tician more than to tell him he is needed in | | public lite. It would not surprise us to learn | that the Governor, upon his arrival at Albany, found the whole Young Men’s Democratic | Club waiting tor him, ready to take him at his | word and sacrifice themselves to public sta- tion. We read Mr. Tilden’s speeches curiously because we have him in a kind of special keep- ing. We mean to exact from him as the leader of the democracy a severe accountability. We | want him to redeem the promises he and his | | party have made, The first promise is civil | service reform in New York. For years and | years the whole system of appointments to | office in our municipal government has been | shamelessly inefficient and corrupt. Let this come toan end, Let Mr. Tilden show us what the democracy will do in Washington by what they do in New York. It is too soon for our new Governor to act, but he could make a | speech on the subject. Let us have an ex- pression of his opinion as to civil service re- form in New York. It will act aso rallying | | ery to the country, | We Cannot Unperstanp this story about | the English bishops going to Rome to have | special rules made for them to control their relations to the civil power. We are in- formed that they mean to ask to be relieved | from the restrictions imposed upon Catholic | bishops on the Continent. We cannot under- | stand the nature of the ‘‘restrictions” of | which they complain, but it will not aid the | Catholic cause in the present controversy to | | have English subjects, even if they are pre- | | lates, asking counsel of a foreign pontiff as to | | their obedience to the civil law. It is very | | certain that there has been and will be un- usual agitation in England on this subject, and it is on agitation the result of which no one van foresee, There is no question that 10 moves the passions of men as « religion strife, and Eugland responds to Germany in the fierce earnestuess with which she encoun- ' ters the power of the Church of Rome. The letter of Gladstone is an unusual proceeding, likewise the arrest of Count Arnim. A controversy marked with this acrimony looka dark for the peace of Europe. What Peter B. Would Have Done. John Kelly, the new boss, has shown how much of a boss he really is by his manage- ment of the case of Dick Croker. Dick was John’s friend and of course John was bound to stand by Dick. But John bas managed so badly that Dick is in jail and he will be tried for his life under an uncomfortable pressure of public opinion. Now, if Peter B. had been boss, how differs ently all would have been managed! He would have had Dick arrested, and articles in the newspapers about “the majesty of the law knowing neither friend nor foe.’’ Thea he would have had him bailed for a hundred thousand dollars or so, or, if bail would not be wise, he would have had him locked up in one of the sumptuous Tombs cells, with relays of the ‘boys’’ to keep him company Then he would have had ‘‘a speedy trial’ and the jury would have acquitted Dick. There would have been no scandal, no noise, no pops ular indignation, and the sympathy would have gradually turned toward Dick, as it does to a man in jail. ' But Kelly, by making himself coroner, pos liceman, detective, magistrate and general busybody, has led people to fear that there ig a job behind it all. And so Dick Will havea hard time. j Peter B.’s strong point when a friend tripped was the jury. He never bothered about the Coroner. It would be well for John to open cable correspondence with Peer B. It will cost money, but we think it would pay. John should know one thing: that the people regard any interference with justice as the Israelites regarded the touching of the ark in the temple. Sunpay AmusEMENTSs.—Mr. Strakosch ree ceives from one of our correspondents quite an acute criticism upon his views in relation to the amusements the public ought to have on Sunday. This great question, it must be remembered, is not a new one ; really it dates back to the time when Christianity first came into conflict with the strict Mosaic law, and it has been in numerous ways decided in this country, of late years, by public opinion. But it has never been discussed with so much energy and earnestness as now, and we trust the agitation will be productive of good. To- morrow we shall print additional contribu- tions which ably deal with the principles and the expediency of this important social topic. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Floriaa begins to be populous with Northerners, In 1878 there were nearly 8,000 deserters irom the British army. Congressman Eugene Hale, of Maine, is residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Robert H. Prayn, of Albany, arrived last evening at the Glisey House. Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., of Quincy, Mass, has apartments at the Brevoort House. Ex-Governor J. B. Page, of Vermont, is among the latest arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Seilor Alvarez, the newly-appointed Peraviam Minister at the Vatican, bas arrived in Rome, Paymaster Amorose J. Clarke, United States Navy, 1s quartered at the Union Square Hotel. Congressman-elect George A. Bagley, of Water town, N. Y., is sojourning at the Union Square Hotel. Senator Aaron A. Sargent, of California, arrived in this city yesteraay, and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Jonn Lee Davis and Commander Joha Walker, United States Navy, are at the Brevoors House. Isabella of Spain, itis reported, intends to sell her diamonds, which are valued at nearly $2,500,009, Mr. Gladstone and his brother recently cut down in two hours, at Hawarden, a tree that was thir teen feet eight inches iu circumference, Among the guests at the Read House, Chav tanooga, yesterday, was Mrs, Abraham Lincoln, en route to Florida, where she will spend the winter. President Grant says he has “the best possible reason to know that Mr, Washburne will remata in Paris.” The great political conundram now 1s, therefore, Has Washburne refused to come ? France and Russia willim fu‘ure take annually from the population for the army 150,000 more men than hitherto, and the Cologne Gazette says this will compel Germany to make a corresponding increase, It 1s proposed to have an international chess tournament at Philadelphia when the Centennial is celebrated, and Philadelphians have written to Europe to know what amount in prizes would probably tempt the strongest players in the Old World, The London Court Journal says:—“Every ono knows that Lady Rosebery won her race at New: market last week; but itis evident that every one does not know that Lord Rosebery is now 1s America, and, therefore, could not have bee present at the meet of the Fife Hunt, as wat erroneously stated,” General Charreton’s report on the reorganiza. tion of the Freach army proposes 144 regiments of infantry in the active force, 70 regiments of cuv- alry, 36 regiments of artillery and 20 battalions ei engineers, all excluding the detachments i» Algeria. Iu the Territorial army there would ba @n equal strength of infantry, but less cavalry and artillery. Frank Calvert writes tothe London Athenwum on the subject of Schliemann’s discoveries at Troy. In the earliest publication of Schiiemann’s discoy- erles Calvert was referred to a8 On associate, ag may be seen in Schiiemann’s letter, which wag first published in the HERALD in December, 1872, Calvert now calis attention to the fact that he pub Ushed in 1864 bis theory that the site of Troy was Hissarlik. It seems that Queen Victoria was present at the “burning of a witch’ at Balmoral on Hallowe'en. The fact 1s thus recorded in the JUustrated London News :--“When darkness set in the Queen and Princess Beatrice, each bearing a torch, drove out in an open phaecton, When a procession of the ten- antry and servants of the royal estates, all carry: ing torches, walked through the grounds and round the castie, In front of which @ huge bonara was prepared, This belog lighted, u car contaim ing the eMgy of a witch was drawn up, and the torchbearers, forming @ circle, the witch was coms mitted to the flames,” and reels were danced around the fire. Fist fights may become fashionable, as the French authorities in importing for cuitare many varieties of Chinese and Japan fish have secured some of the fighting sort irom Aunam, In that country fish matches are arranged as follows:— “They select two combatants of a dark color and put them into separate giass bottles, which they then place close togetner. The fan immediately begin to watch each other; their bugs change; they become black, the tall and fins grow phos phorescent and the eyes sparkle with peculiar lustre. Tbey soon rush toward each other, but are stopped by the botties, When their rage is at its highest they are lberatea and placed tn the same reservoir, and @ furious compat takes place wut one being defeated seeks salety in Sight aaain Changing its tint to Whitieh axa.’