The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every Cay in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, NOTICE TO BSCRIBERS.—On and | after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the New Yorx Heratp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed Nuw York Hepa. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications wil] not be re- | turned. i LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD-LNO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions snd Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX.. sccccscccccccescconsce NOs 387 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third street and Lighth avenue.—THE BLACK CROOK. at 8 P. M.; closes at Ll P.M. PARK THEATRE, Broadway. Uti —— first and Pwrentyceecons strects.—GILDi D AGH, at oP. M.; closes at 10:30 P. Ar. John T, Bayinonge ‘ THEA COMIQUE, Xo sla Brosdway -VaRiET at SP. M.; closes at 10:30 BOOTH’S THEATRE, | jorer Twenty-third street and tixth avenue.—RIP VAN | WINKLE, at 8 0. M. it 1O:4y PBL Sir. Jefferson. | ROMA} Iwenty-sixth street ant Fourth avenue.—afternoon and ivening,atZandsS ALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway —THY vA AUGHRAUN, at 8'P. 3f.; closesat | 10:30 P.M.” Mr, Boucieault. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Proadway, Pans ole Prince and Houston streets, —THE | ROBBERS, at 5 | FIFTH 4 UE THEATRE, | Twenty-eighth srreegand Broadway. —THIS hs OF | MID-LOTHIAN, at 3 P. closes @t 10:30 P.M. Miss Fanny Davenport, Mr. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street, between Broadway and Fitth avenue.— | Variety, ats P. it. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, West bs rthird street, MINST: » &e., ats Bryant OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 mower —VARIETY, at 8. M.; closes at 10 P. M. eeeneae: ane peep MINS eo pee NEGRO corner ‘Iwenty-ninth street.—N Sitneisy ate P.M. : Closes at lu P, vias MRS, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATR! THE HUNCHBACK, at8 P.M. Miss Clara ort TRE, Broadway.-VARIE IY a 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.—LA FILLE DE ea ANGUT, at SP. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Miss | | Broadway, corner of thirtieth stréck—ROUND THE corner in st. —! N CLOOK, a8. Mj closes at 10:45 Fs Me METROPOLITAN THEATRE, | ie ee Rroadway-—VARIBET, at8P. M.; closes at 10:39 | | its best foot forward ; |The Financial Question im the Coming Session. Unfortunately for the republican party it is | doubtful whether the space for repentance | which remains to it until the 4th of March | will be of any advantage in retrieving its | sinking fortunes. If the Cabinet remains the same, if the legislation remains the same on the 4th of March, when republican control of the government practically ceases, as they were at the date of the great November de- | feats, the republican party will go down in distiiter, like aship foundering at sea, and the democracy will sail into power in the next Presidential election. Ought so precious an | opportunity, on which all their hopes are staked, to be squandered and forfeited by the republicans ? three months to come, they hold the helm and have complete command of the ship. The President, the Senate, the House, in other words, the absolute control of the government must remain to them for a period long enough to enable them to rectify their mistakes, and make a new bid for public confidence. They have the further advantage of knowing that bold and sagacious laws passed by them’ at the coming session cannot be repealed by the democrats within the ensuing two years, a period long enough for wise legislation to vindicate itself by its fruits. The opportu- nity is as great and magnificent as it is short and critical. If well improved the republi- can party would have a more than equal chance of carrying the Presidential election, in spite of its overwhelming reverses. There are three or four questions on which Congress ought, at this session, to put but the subject of the first magnitude is the finances. The political revolution is chiefly the consequence of last year’s panic and | this year’s stagnation. Had the business of | the country continued to go on swimmingly, as it did for several years previous to the panic, neither the Louisiana usurpation, nor | the salary grab, nor the Washington ring expo- sures, nor even the third term aspirations of the President, could have shaken the republi- can ascendancy. Everything was forgiven, and would have continued to be forgiven, so long as the pockets and prosperity of the peo- ple were not touched. It was business pros- tration that first opened the eyes of the people to the shortcomings and malversation of the party in power and induced them to listen to complaints which would otherwise | have passed unheeded. A revival of business | would put the people in better humor, and it is in the power of this Congress to contribute so powertully to the resuscitation of public prosperity as to take the wind out of the sails of the victorious democracy. But courage, energy and sagacity are requisite to this end. Under our government great financial meas- ures have almost always had their birth in | the Executive Department, like Hamilton’s fiscal policy under Washington and Chase’s fiscal policy under Lincoln. If President Grant would promptly reorganize his Cabinet and present to Congress a well digested plan of finence it might’ be carried through at the OLYMPIC THEATRE, 3 ead Beosaway, —VARIETY, at 8P. M.; closes at 10: 5 | ACADEMY OF MUS Jourteench street.—bERNANI, at 8 P. P.M Mile, Maresi. WITH New York, Ic, M.; closes at 10:30 SUPPLEMENT 1874. Monday, Nov. 23, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be rainy and | warmer. New Drscrosvnes concerning the alleged frauds in the Boston Navy Yard are given in our letter from that city to-day. Fatenp Gmsow reports to the Indian Bureau a plan for stopping the raids into Texas, but it is one which would be difficult to execute. Axorzzn Murper occurred on Saturday night, and, as usual, was caused by rum, There is still some doubt about the per- petrator. Tux Oty Woatp.—We present this morn- ing an admirable letter containing a rapid sur- vey of the condition of Europe, which will be found interesting reading. Portitaxp axp Boston are both rejoicing, the former becuuse the missing link of an air- line route has been supplied and the latter over the prospect of a new road to the West. Each of them expects, in consequence, to be- come the commercial metropolis. This is all very well as far as it goes, and New York has no fears that it will go too far. Tae Presroext axp His Oasrxer attended | on Saturday evening the lecture at the Ma- sonic Temple in Baltimore of the Rev. Dr. Tiffany, of the Methodist Episcopal Metropol- itan church of Washington, for the benefit of the Washington Monument fund. Will that unsightly structure at Washington never be | finished? For the general relief of the coun- try Congress should do something with it. ) Yon Anymr’'s Examinatiox.—The particu- lars of the quaint interrogation of the Count Von Arnim by Herr Pescatore, the Examining Jadge, are given in our Berlin corre- spondence to-day. The Judge was particu. | larly desirous to know what the Count was supposed to know of “State papers coming session by administration pressure and the republican party redeemed in popular \ estimation. But if this great subject is left to the unguided action of Congress the prospect is slender indeed that so inbarmonious a body will agree on any measures which the country would indorse. The fountain of such legisla- | tion should be now, as it has always been on great occasions, the financial sagacity of an able Cabinet capable ot impressing its views on Congress. Without a new Cabinet of commanding ability the next session will be as barren in valuable results as was the last, a contest of competing financial crotchets, resulting in no policy fitted to inspire confidence. There is no class of sub- jects in which the steadying hand of an en- lightened administration is so necessary as currency and finance—subjects which few public men understand and on which a well selected Cabinet would possess more wisdom than all the members of Congress put to- gether. The Hrnatp would be glad to enlighten Congress and the country on this great sub- ject by opening its columns to communica- | tions from eminent statesmen who have pro- foundly investigated questions of finance ; | but the masters of this branch of knowl. edge are so fow that if half a dozen of them should express their views in our columns there would not be enough left to guide the public councils, and there are obvious reasons why men clothed, or likely to be clothed, with official responsibilities on this subject should keep out of the newspapers. Men like Ham- ilton and Chase ure never abundant in any country, and if they are either in the public proper that they reserve their financial views until they can promulgate them with the weight and authority which belong to high official station, The Hxratp has accordingly | waited in the hope that President Grant would summou to his Cabinet some of the very few men capable of suggesting sound original ideas on the currency and the finances, But we hope to bring them out in our columns if the President finds that he has no use for them. It is reported that President Grant will recommend the earliest possible return to printed in the New Yorn Herarp,” and ques- tioned very closely His High Wellbornness | on that subject. The Count very promptly replied that he was in prison at the time these papers were sent, and declined to allow Herr Pescatore to fish for answers with that line of | interrogatory. Appended to this singular report are letters from dignitaries accused of consultation with Von Arnim, who emphat- leally deny the he charges. Hicuwax Rovprny is becoming a very sommon crime in this city. ‘respectable neighborhood below the Central Park. With s hard winter before us and { want staring many desperate men in the face these crimes sre ominous unless timely | measures of repression are adopted. In Lon- | don some years ago cases of this kind were so comnion that scourging was found neces. | sary as part of the punishment. We hope that no such extreme measures may be needed | here; but the police must see to it that | criminals of this kind are speedily arrested, | or our streets will become unsafe during the aight We report two | sases this morning, both of which occurred in | specie payments in his annual Message. | This is all very well so | goes, but is not very enlightening. Nearly all the business men in the Eastern, and quite a proportion in the Western States, | desire a return to the specie standard ; but they do not see the way and | have a right to demand that the Presi- dent shall not merely echo their sentiments, but point out safe and specific measures for reaching that great result. If the financial sagacity of Secretary Chase had taken him no further than a declaration that Congress ought to supply means tor prosecuting the war, so obvious a financial truism could have gained him no credit. His fame rests on the fact | that he was able to tell how the thing could be done and to convince Congress of the prace ticability of his methods. If President Grant has no definite plan for restoring the specie standard he might as well leave the whole to nothing to say that a thing is desirable without showing bow it may be attained. Perhaps the best recommendation which | the President could make to Congress on this subject would be # law permitting the hold- At present, and for more than | service, or hope to be called into it, it is quite. far as it | subject out of his Message, since it amounts | ers of greenbacks to fund them in five per cent gold bonds. Five per cent bonds of the | United States are at par, or about par in gold; | | and the greenbacks would be speedily brought to par if made exchangeable for such bonds. | The funding of the greenbacks would, of course, reduce the volume of the currency; | be so rapid as to embarrass the business |of the country, So long as money cent or six per cent interest it would not be exchanged for bonds yielding ‘only five per cent, and the funding of the greenbacks would | proceed but a little way before the contraction price of money, and oheck the funding by opening more profitable ‘capital tnan investing it in a form which | yielded only five per cent interest, As the | privilege of converting the greenbacks into and so long as there was an active demand for money for business uses the greenbacks would be loaned to mer- chants in preference to funding them. But they would steadily and inevitably | tend to par with gold, and as soon as | there is no difference in value between gold | be recovered to the circulation, But they would be maintained at par, and occasional deficiencies in the currency might always be supplied by redeemable bank notes, which would be returned to the banks when no longer wanted in the channels of business. There is, perhaps, no way of returning to specie values so simple, direct and cffective as a permanent law authonzing the funding | of the greenbacks in five per cent gold bonds. The Sabbath and Man. Another Sunday has passed, and another example of the utter inability of the churches to gather into their fold the populace of this great city has been furnished. The churches were crowded, yet the throngs of people were few compared with those outside of the holy walls. The streets were filled with pleasure seekers; there were thousands in the Park; the taverns, billiard saloons, beer gardens and restaurants were doing a good business, and in the evening musical and theatrical per- formances were given for the entertainment of audiences of average respectability. A clergyman who had made yesterday the tour of New York would have acknowledged how vast is the busy, active world outside of the church on Sunday. The traditional idea of a properly employed Sunday is une which is divided between the church and the home, and such a division is certainly beautiful and wise. Butit is right to consider the difficulties which attend such an observance of Sanday in a large city. Many thousands of citizens have no homes in the highest sense of the word; they dwell in unattractive places, tenement houses, narrow streets or quarters of the city in which green leaves and pure air are unknown blessings. The crowded state of this city, which is built upoao a narrow island and unprovided with means of quick transit, should be taken into consid- eration when we treat of the Sunday question. like that of a village, for the conditions are culiar wants which neither a lodging nor a church can supply. The greatest of these wautts is liberty. and for that reason the public insist that Sunday shall bé% day of social freedom. This view many of our clergymen have failed to take. They assume that the church is sufficient for society on Sunday, while so- ciety affirms the contrary on fifty-two days of the year. They condemn everything outside of the church in the way of public occupation or amusement, forgetting that if their views were enforced two-thirds of the population of New York would be reduced on Sunday to a condition of vacaity and idlencoss. This seems to be the staple of Dr. Fulton's argu- ment on theatres—which, by the way, rivals those of Rev. Mr. Talmage in sweeping de- nunciation of the stage. It certainly shows profound ignorance of the subject, Dr, Ful- ton asks this remarkable question, ‘Could you invite Christ to go with you toa theatre?” Probably we might not, but what the fact proves is difficult to see. There are many places to which Dr. Fulton even would not invite Christ, if he conld—for instance to a market, or a cigar shop, or a Broadway stage, or a strawberry church fair, or a raffle for the benefit of a Baptist churob, Yet Christ in His day mingled with publicans and sinners more than He did with the priests, The Rev. Mr. Rossiter a'so seized the oppor- tunity of attacking Sunday amusements gen- erally, and actually declared that the Sunday newspaper has taken the place of the Bible. He is wrong here. It has only taken the place of a certain kind of sermons, But we should regret to have necessity of debating the subject upon the grounds which these reverend gentlemen have chosen. argue with any one who thinks that prostitu- tion supports the stage, and the stage in turn supports prostitution, or with one who be lieves that when a man gathered sticks on the | Sabbath, God said, ‘Stone him to death.’’ The question is one which is for a higher Christianity to decide, and there can be differ- ence of opinion without destitution of charity or knowledge. The Siums of New York. A great cily like New York includes the exiremes of humanity, its deepest degradation and ite highest attainment. When we read of the arrests of such wretched creatures as those who were placed in the Tombs yesterday, no- toriously guilty of the worst offences, and then | turn to the words of culture and thought ad- | dressed from our pulpits to respectable audit- | ors, we catch, at least, a glimpse of the gulf | that divides society in a great city. Churches have but an indirect reformatory influence | upon such degraded beings as those our report | elsewhere describes. All sermons are above the plane of their existence, aud the most im- passioned appeals, the strongest arguments, pass uselessly over their heads. It is hard to reach this stratum of evil, jand only now and then tho arm of the law reaches down into the abyss of the slums and grasps the offender to lift them merely to the level of the prison, Fortw but there is no danger that the process would | could be loaned on good security at seven per | | of the currency would cacry up the market | employments for | bonds would be permanent thero would be | no haste to secure a transient advantage, | and greenbacks the most difficult part of the | financial problem is solved. It is true that | the greenbacks funded in this way could not | | nately for the welfare of society their very degradation makes them obscure; but un- | fortunately for themselves that obscurity places them almost beyond rescue. Society knows even less of them than it does of the inhabitants of Central Africa or the Pata- | gonians. The splendor of civilization sur- rounds them, yet they dwell in darkness of their own creation, To help them appears | almost impossible; to limit their sphere of evil is all that the law undertakes. It is a pity that this should be so; but it is true that there is an extreme of degradation which baffles both the law and the Church, and while it defies the penalties of the one is | beneath even the charity of the other. Check to the Railroad Kings. | The people of Baltimore are highly elated, ‘it seems, over a visit they have lately re- | ceived from Commodore Vanderbilt. | were not only glad to see him, but they speak with special pride of the tremendous rate of speed at which so great a personage ap- proached them, not less than fifty miles an hour; and they were also gratified that our great Railroad King was accompanied by a | small retinue of lesser monarchs, such as | Colonel Scott, of the Pennsylvania Central, and the President of Erie. In this way Na- poleon the Great used to go about, accom- | panied by a train of kings and princes; and | Kaiser Wilhelm, no doubt, like our own yallant Commodore, travels with a following of sov- ereign rulers, who admire him and hasten to agree with all he says. Well, we too are glad that the Commodore went to Baltimore, and we are only sorry that he did not stay longer. He is a very able man, and we do not doubt that the interests of New York, as the commercial metropolis, are en- tirely safe in his hands; but we have noticed that he likes too much to stay in his office. We should be glad to see him more frequently on the road. He ought to see with his own eyes what the enemy is about. He should at frequent intervals mount his celebrated iron horse and trot out to the front, at least as far as the skirmish line. For here, it seems, the enemy has stolen another march upon us. Some years ago Baltimore quietly captured our coffee trade. | Some alarmists here then cried out, but our railroad kings only pooh-poohed the matter. It was amere trifle; let them have it; we could spare it, and we do not doubt, indeed, that the New York railroad kings that year made | more money in Wall street operations in a { month than the whole year’s coffee freight brought to Mr. Garrett and his railroad. But, having captured our coffee, this saucy Garrett is now threatening to cut off our grain too. The matter begins to look serious; and the brave Commodore’s famous Saratoga coun- cil of war seems inadequate to meet this new attack. Saratoga isa nice place. Some sea- faring men prefer Newport; but we do not find fault with the Commodore for liking Sar- atoga. have lost their efficacy. The Baltimore and Ohio people don’t mind them in the least. The Commodore orders freight fates to be put up or down; but the Baltimore people, to speak profanely, refuse duty. They don’t obey worth a cent, and they threaten togo on carrying grain at whatever rates and in whatever manner they please. +» Nor is this all. Pretty soon the Boston It is impossible that our Sunduy should be | entirely different, and our population has pe- | the | It is impossible to’ men will strike; the Portland and Montreal men threa‘en a mild, but not cheer- ful rebellion; and though Philadelphia can | be kept in order by Colonel Scott, who has so ingeniously made that town a way station on the New York road, Richmond thinks of inde. pendence, and, with the Chesapeake and Ohio road, promises by and by to emulate Mr. President Garrett's example. If we had the ear of the Commodore we would—atter gently pulling it—tell him that itis time for him to stir his stumps, as it were ; he ought to ‘‘up jib and staysail,’’ so to speak, for he seems to have been drifting; he ought to ‘ring her wide open” and tell the engineer to “let her out.’’ Combinations evidently do not work any more. Strategy is a goodthing, but it needs hard fighting to back it. The Baltimore men captured our | coffee trade by offering to bring the cars to the ships aud saving one drayage. The Boston men are just adopting a magnificent plan by whiob all their railroads will deliver freight at one central point, where ships and cars will be brought close together. Mean- time we in New York ara doing nothing in this direction. Our railroad kings put up or put down their rates, but they do not look to small economies and conveniences, We do not mean to scold, and we have the greatest admiration for the Commodore as the most brilliant railroad man of the age. If he wants to he can beat Baltimore, Boston and Rich- mond, Only he ought to go about more and see what other people are doing, else we may lose something else, presently. Quadruple tracks are good, but they would be far better if they ended somewhere. The real problem with usin New York is to provide for the cheapest handling of freight. If we neglect that freight will go elsewhere. We sincerely trust that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will maintain its independence. | So long as our railroad men could control traffic by ‘‘combination” to regulate rates so long they very naturally neglected ab- solutely necessary improvoments. If they ean once be convinced that a combination will not work they will begin to furnish better conveniences, and thus win and secure traffic on the only lasting basis, by giving the most service for the least money. It is that only which can save our commerce from boing drawn away to other ports. Lovistana anD Arkansas.—The President and his Attorney General, it appears, are ap- prehensive of serious troubles again in Louis- iana with the meeting of the Legislature, and particulariy from the threats and ominous proclamations and movements of the White Leaguers. In Arkansas, too, although the trouble with Mr. Smith appears to be ended, the condition of things is still far from being satisfactory, looking to the establishment of law and order. Accordingly, it is said the President, in his Message, will urge the Louisiana and Arkansas complications upon the immediate attention of Congress, and such action thereon as, in the judgment of the two Houses, the public interests re- quire. In the meantime General Grant will adhere, so far as possible, to the policy of non-intervention in these local difficulties of Louisiana or Arkansas. We are gratified With these assurances from Washington, and They | | outgrowth of New England Puritanism, this Only the Saratoga decrees seem to | = EW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1874.—WITH SUPPLEMENT, trust that the experiment of federal non- intervention in the local affairs of the South- ern States generally will henceforth be fairly tried, and with the consent of Congress, Closing “Sermons of the Christian Year. The sermons, as is usual on Monday of each week, are a feature in this morning’s Herarp. Yesterday being the closing Sunday of the ecclesiastical year tho completion of the annual circle of Christian teachings was made the subject of a plain and practical dis- course by the Rev. Dr. Conrad at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, in which he recounted | the evidences of progress in the work of those who would lure to brighter worlds and lead the way. As if in opposition to the old Church calendar, Mr. Froth- ingham chose tor his subject the day of annual thanksgiving, which is an erratic divine even protesting against it as something absurd and grotesque. The dis- course is fu!l of striking thoughts—just such thoughts as we might expect to be uttered by a clergyman who seems to regard the Chris- tian, the Mohammedan and the Hindoo Scrip- tures as of equal authority—and our readers will not be surprised to learn that, with anarchy in Louisiana, famine in Nebraskaand the money-making power paralyzed in New York, Mr. Frothingham thinks everybody has not reason to be thanktul, in spite of the President's proclamation. Though this idea of celebrating the closing Sabbath of the church year did not enter directly into all the discourses and services of the day, it was indirectly a part of them all. In this sense we may regard the beginning of an important mission at St. Patrick's Oathe- dral, Father Damen’s sermon on the mercy and goodness of God being a powerful appeal to sinners to hear the sweet story of suffering and victory which 1s taught at the altar throughout the Christian year. And in the same sense we may regard the discourse of Rev. Mr. Hepworth on the duties of confes- sion. As Mr. Frothingham’s sermon was a protest against all forms, even to the naming ai a day of annual thanksgiving, so Mr. Hepworth’s was a plea for something which he felt to be missed in his public service. It was not, however, for the confessional of the Catholic Church for which this eminent divine pleaded, but the bearing of one’s burdens to God, the duty he incul- cated being introspection rather than confes- sion. From this it will be seen that his ser- mon was practical rather than doctrinal, and appropriate to the day in this, that it besought the Christian man to begin anew the Chris- tian life. Not less appropriate to the day was the talk about newspaper reports of sermons with which Mr. Beecher prefaced his dis- course. It was a formal recognition of a new aid to the pulpit at the same time that it is a protest against the infallibility of reporters and editors. It is true, as Mr. Beecher says, that it requires o certain kind of genius to report a sermon well, but if we gather his full meaning correctly he is better satisfied with the skill displayed in this deli- cate task than in the delicacy of those who attack him for what another person says he said in his Sunday sermon. In this he is un- questionably right. A newspaper report of a sermon is intended to give its pith and spirit, but in no case ought it be made a peg on which to hang an argument upon nice points of theological. doctrine. The daily news- papers are not the vehicles of theological dis- cussion in their reports of sermons, and these rapid sketches of Sunday. discourses ought not to be so employed, elsa they will lose much of their usefulness in circulating the teachings of the pulpit, week after week, throughout the Christian year. The New English North Polar Ex- pedition. Aftera long delay the English government has finally announced its purpose to send out a new North Polar expedition. The state- ment is put forth that it will equip two steamers, one of which will be commanded by Commander Markham, of the Royal Navy, an officer of some experience in Arctic naviga- tion and of great ambition and promise. The announcement will kindle great en- thusiasm in the ranks of modern geographers and be one of Mr. Disraeli’s popular measures for the advancement of science by govern- ment aid. The distinctive foaturo in this new Polar enterprise will be the strictly naval out- fitting and management, with the most rigid discipline, which is not attainable in a private expedition of the required magnitude. The route of exploration, it we may judge by the oft-spoken will of the various societies and individuals at whoso earnest solicitation the expedition was determined upon, will be the American route by Smith’s Sound, following the track of the Polaris. Doubtless all the elements of success will be embodied in the new project and nothing left undone to arm | the explorers for every emergency. This expedition will make the first full and fair experiment of sieam navigation in the icy, seas, if indeed, as we presume, the steamers are suitably prepared tor their peril- ous undertaking. In ao recent voyage in the steam whaler Arctic Captain Markham had | opportunities ot testing the power of steam to force a way through formidable pack ice in | Davis Straits, in which ao sailing vessel would have been per/ectly helpless. Should the new expedition be able to steam as high north as Captain Hall did in the Polaris they will be within about four hundred miles of the Pole, and, from such an edvanced poiat, they can send out their Polar scarch parties, with | hopes of passing beyond eighty-iour degrees | north, The physical indications in the high latitudes, in and north of Smith's Strait, favor very strongly the idea that the throbbings of the Polar Ocean loosen the ice belt, and that a flow of water, which has perhaps come through Behring Strait, makes its way south- ward through Kennedy Channel. The tidal phenomena reported by H:ll’s party (to the | effect that the tides rose in the northern part ot this channel and progressed southward), as well as the driftwood picked up, render highly probable the existence of loose ice, if not open water, north of Grinnell Land and eveu Pres- ident’s Land, the extreme northerly point sighted by Captain Hall. It seems a physical impossibility that a tidal wave, however small, could be propagated southward through the civcumpolar sea, unless its ice was in a broken condition, And if that sea is not solidly ice- bridged there is strong ground for hope that two {ull powered steamers, under skilful man- agement, may penetrate bed far beyond eighty. four degrees. As the Germans are about to send out ap expedition to try the Polar gateways between Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen, in the supe posed circuit of the Gulf Stream extension (near Franz Joseph’s Land), this and the British exploration will fulfil all the desires of Arctic geographers to test the various theo- ries of Polar pathways. The struggle to solve the mystery of the Pole is a gigantic one, in which the many must perish and only the few be victors, But if it must be engaged in it ia well, as in the presont case, that the battle is committed to trained and hardy veterans, and not to new recruits, however courageous. Gunmayy Srexinc a Foornoup 1n Mo. nocco.—Since the new German Empire super seded that of France as the arbiter of Europa the government at Berlin bas entered upon the work of building a powerful navy and hag been casting about fora foothold at varioug points here and there, in both hemispheres, for a colonial establishment or 4 naval station, Tho latest reported movement in this direc. tion is in the treaty declared to be under con- sideration, whereby the seaport of Morocco is to be ceded to Germany. If such convention is under way the underlying idea is doubtless a German base of operations in Northern Africa against Algeria in the event of another war with France. Tue Tamp Trns.—The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, improved in health, though still the merest shadow of a man phys- ically, called the other day at the White House and had a pleasant conference with the Presie dent. Theso two remarkable men are said to |. be in perfect accord upon the proposition of a third term, both being in favor of it, notwithe standing the adverse results of the late elecs tions, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General Clinton B, Fisk, of St. Louis, is stopping at tre Fifth Avenue Rotel, Senator Frank Smith, of Toronto, Canada, 1s ree siding at the Wincgor Hotel, There wilt soon appear a new edition of Beats’ poems, edited by Lord Houghton. General Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts, 1s louming up at the Windsor Hotel, Charlotte Cushman, who is at Cinclonatl, is sti quite ill, but is now considered out of danger. Assembiyman Emerson &. Davis, of Whitehall, N. Y., 1s staying at the Flith Avenue Hotel. General W. T. Sherman arrived at the Astor House yesterday morning from Washington. Mr. Ferdimand Straxosch and Mile. Donadio are among the latest arrivals ot the Everett House. Kwong Ki Cn, of the Chinese Educational Commission, is registered at the Windsor Hotel. Congressman Luke P. Poland and Lieutenant Governor Russell 8. Taft, of Vermont, are at the Grand Central Hotel. Professor Delius, of the University of Bonn, led tures in German on the history of English litera ture five times a week, and on Shakespeare's life and works twice a week. Rossiniin his old age gave his portrait to a musical maniac, inscribed with the words, ‘*fo Mr. X., my cqualin music.” But the highly fate tered dabbler protested that the praise was too great. “Why,’? said Rossini, “I don’t write music any more, and neither do you; so we are equal.” Sir John Astley, of the London Jockey Oluo, pro- poses to rule that no horse which has not been in England three months shall run in nandicap races, This seems intended to rule out French horses, Many of which have lately been winners in Eng» land. France rejoices at this evidence in favor of her horses, Mr. Meacham, one of the Modoc Commissioners with General Canby, 1s now engaged gathering @ company otf Indians, including some of the Warm Spring and Modoc Indians, of Uregon, to accom+ pany hima on a lecturing tour, These Indians are designed as living illustrations of his theme. Hig subject will be “Money in a Mashed Head, or Meacham, Modoc and Missionary Martyrdom.” In the French papers there is & tragic history of amagple. It was a great favorite of the butcher who owned it; outa boy who had “received no tice” and was to leave in a short time, taught the bird to say, ‘lt’s cow’s meat.” These provoking words it pronounced whenever the butcher showed to his customers his prettiest cute, and the juvenile lago thus compelied that butcher to murder his favorite. There came up i England the other day @ case n which the enforcement of the law for compul- sory education would have condemned a family to starvation. Louise Maylon, widow, tne only sap port of four small children, nearly in a state of starvation, goes out to day’s work when she can get it and leaves her oldest child, a boy aged nine, to take care of the others, and the school author» ties brought her up to compel be! nd this boy to school, though if she did th: @ could not g¢ out to the little work she is able to get, The Judge Tetused to enforce the law. M., Guillaume Cuigzot, son of the lately deceased Statesman, will deliver a course of lectures at the Vollege de France on early English literature, es pecisily that of Chaucer's time, At one of the gates of Paris the collectors of the octrot were not jed in regard to a vehicle which came in 'y day, There was, generally,, nut much in the cart, but it was alwaya drawn by two enormously strong horses with enormoualy heavy harness, So au officer io diaguise was ap pointed to fullow the man. He obtained no pre cise information, save that something uousual wast done wnen the horses were stabled that required at least two menu and two hours’ time, Next day they examined the horses and ripped open the harness, In the heavy harness were found 1,60 cigars, “Unser Fritz” is thus referred to in a recent Blackwood:—“Uf @ magnificent frame of body, Darwin might fuituer quote him as an instance waoere the amiable expression of features core responds to the real disposition of heart, Equally gentle, frank and modest in manner, a | stranger would scarcely suppose him to be so | skilled a soldier and one of the most celebrated and successiul warriors of modern days, while nis evidently inmate aversion to bloodshed and craelty | affords the strongest hope that no Juture ware will be of lis seeking.” In Parts a bulldog, supposed to be mad, jumped upon a hors? which & gentleman was riding, but Jost his hold, and the horse started at a desperate gallop with the doz benind him, At first the gen tleman tried to stop the horse. but subsequently urged him forward, judging, apparently, that it was better to be rua away with than to be bittea bya mad cog. But the dog gaining leaped on the horse’s quarter, but got his teetn only into the skirts of the geutleman’s ciat, So they went through haifof Parts, At last the gentleman was thrown ani the dog got hoid of the borse and brought him down, aud dog and horse were ktiled by the police, Tho gentleman escaped with a broken leg. | The Priace of Wales while in France was much | struck with the famous stabies of Condé, waich cag | accommodate 25) norses. Remarking the guilery which runs around the central cupolas of the build. | ing, the Prince poluted out that the srabl make an admiravle bau room, “They have | for that purpose,” replied the Duke d’.Aumale, “as weil as foradining room, and will agai do sq some day, | hope, in tivaor of your Royal High> ness.” The owner of Chantilly then explained t¢ the Prince that lis first intention had been t¢ celebrate the visit by a grund jae in those very stables, but (hat the health of nis two Diecese=sne Countess de Paris aud the D° 33 de Charcred just recovering from her confaement—-preveuting them irom Going tie hoaors Of the receptivg, oe was obliged to renounce 1% ‘Is 8 only a party put of until next year,’ suid the Duke, in condly sion, “And accepted,” replied bis gleam 30 Wales is booked for goxt year.