The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT PROPRIETOR HE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the, New York Henarp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Letters ard packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- | the trade of the city in its different branches | turned. ——_+—-— - LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | all; the Cotton Exchange, Produce Exchange, | HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subseriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX = An EMENTS TO-NIGHT. PARK THEATRE, Broadway, between Twenty-iirst al streets, -UILDeD AGH, ato Mr, John T. Kaymond. THEATRE COMIQUE, i Broadway.—VARIsTY, at3 I’. 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Stocks were comparatively firm. ‘Tae Iravtan Panwiamznt was formally opened by the King yesterday. Axoture Ramroap Coxusion happened on the Pennsytvania road at Elizabeth, N. J., yesterday, but fortunately there was no loss of life. There have been too many such accidents of late. Tue Tzxrme Story of a young emigrant girl's life on Blackwell's Island, and the out- rages committed by an orderly employed there, are told in our columns to-day. It is as romantic as a novel, but, unfortunately, more true. Tue Crvm Service Rerorm attempted in ‘Texas in the removal of certain office-holders not being satisfactory to the republicans of the State, some of the removed parties have been reinstated, and the weeding-out experi- ment undertaken has been abandoned. Such is the civil service reform of the present ad- ministration. A Heratp CorgesponpENT ARRESTED IN Sparx.—The Spanish news is interesting to- day, independently of that which relates to the Virginius claims, and one of the most paintul reports is that of the arrest of the special correspondent of the Hznarp and his imprisonment by the republicans. No cayse for this arbitrary act is given, butit is no doubt utterly unjustifiable, and, if the mncon- firmed rumor be true, we trust soon to hear of his liberation by the Madrid authorities, Hert Gate Unsarrep.—We publish to-day the annual report of General Newton upon the great engineering work st Hell Gate which he has go successfully conducted. Every one will be glad to know that the re- moval of the obstructions to our harbor has been nearly finished, and that the expense has been only one-third of the estimated cost is an additional reason why Congress should promptly make the appropriations required to complete the task. This interesting report is accompanied in our columns by @ map of Hell Gate, with a plan of the exeavations, Tae Inptan War.—General MacKenzie has ‘been very successful in his operations against the Indians in Texas, and bis most recent wiotories are recounted to-day in our de- spatches from his camp. From Washington swe have the report of an invasion of the Black thin country by miners who threitened by the Indians. This viola- Vion of the laws by the whites requires "tho interference of the government. The P.M; closes at 10:30 P.M. | Prince and Houston streets.— | are | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1874.—TRIP ‘Trade. ened, the question of cheap transportation | divides itself into two hexds—terminal facili- | ties for storing and handling grain at this port and rates of ireight on the railroads con- | necting the Atlantic sepboard with the West. The first of these heads, though of more im- mediate local interest, we will not discuss at this time, preferring to wait a few days until the organization begun at the Chamber of Commerce on Friday is completed and has had an opportunity to set forth its “policy. The parties to the new association are so re- spectable and of so representative a character that its proceedings will be watched with ' hvely interest, not only here, but throughout the West and among the rival Atlantic cities that aspire to take away our | trade. This association consists of depu- | ties from the various bodies representing | and aspects, including the Chamber of Com- | merce, the common representation of them | Butter and Cheese Exchange, Importers and | Grocers’ Board of Trade, and the Cheap Trans- | portation Association. A combination of these | influential organizations affords reasonable | hope that this great subject is at last to be | taken hoid of in earnest, and that measures | | for retaining the Western trade will be prose- | cuted with vigor. The new association repre- | sents heavy capital, and will be powerful | enough to accomplish every object on which its members may agree. Improved docks, | warehouses, elevators and conveniences of | every kind for expediting and cheapening the | transshipment of grain and other products at | | this port come within the scope of its plans, and we trust it will soon present propositions | | definite enough for particular discussion by the | press. It is so manifestly for the interest of this | city to attract business by offering every kind | of local convenience that the boldest policy | on this subject is the best, and we trust the new organization will not proceed with halt- | ing steps or stop at bali-way measures. But reserving the great question of local | improvements we call attention now to the comparative cheapness of the several routes of | transportation between the West and the sea- board, apart from the cost of delivery and | transfer at the Atlantic ports. Now that New | York is awakening from its lethargy it can | ; certainly provide cheaper terminal conven- iences than exist in other cities, because steam elevators and other appliances tor | handling grain are profitable in proportion to the amount of business they do, and if the | foreign grain trade can be practically monop- olized by New York we can do the business more cheaply than rival cities, on the same principle that a wholesale trade can be trans- | | acted ata smaller rate of profits than a retail | | trade. This part of the problem | will solve itself when our mercantile | community is once thoroughly aroused to its importance. But the strictly transportation - part of the problem is* not so entirely within local control. We cannot, for example, | Shorten the distance between Chicago and New York, or between St. Louis and New | York,and make it no greater than the dis- tance between those places and Baltimore. | This advantage, of which Baltimore cannot be deprived, must be offset by other advan- | tages oftered by New York, of which cheap- | ness of local transfer is one of the principal. The Baltimore and Ohiv road, since the recent completion of its Western connections, is a much shorter route to tide water than any | of the roads terminating at New York. From St. Louis to Baltimore, since the completion of the new cut-off, is only 919 miles, whiie from St. Louis to New York is 1,050 miles by the Pennsylvania Central and still further by the Erie or New York Central From Chicago to Baltimore is only 815 miles, but from Chicago to New York is 899 miles by the Penn- sylvania Central—the shortest of all the routes. But there is some compensation for greater distance in easier grades, especially by the New York Central, which climbs no moun- tains, and has, with its connections, a nearly level roadway from Chicago to the sea. New York has another advantage for the foreign grain trade in its greater nearness to Liver- pool and the abundance of the shipping plying between it and Européan ports. But, on the other hand, the Baltimore and Ohio road has always been under excellent management, has never watered its stock, and is under a necessity of earning interest on buts small amount of capital as compared with its rival roads. Its capital stock and debt together amount to only $45,772,864, against $111,290,259 for the Pennsylvania Central, $117,153,833 for the New York Central and $126,456,052 for the Erie. It isan obvious consequence of these figures that the Balti- more and Ohio can underbid its rivals in freights, and yet pay larger dividends on its stock. The countervailing advantages by which this difference of distance, debt and stock are to be met are more than sufficient to balance them if New York wiil furnish cheaper facili- ties for storage and transshipment. We have already referred to the easier grade of the New York Central, whose route lies through the depression in the great mountain range which runs parallel to the Atlantic coast. It has a still greater advantage during the season of lake navigation. In spite of the circuitous route through the great lakes, transportation of grain by water from Chicago to Buffalo is altogether cheaper than transportation by rail, | and between Lake Erie and tide-water the dis- tance is shorter to New York than to Balti- more. But the foresight and sagacity of Commodore Vanderbilt are providing a new advantage which will render successful rivalry with New York hopeless, provided the city itself does not fall short in terminal facilities. We, of course, refer to the new double freight track between Buffalo and Albany, which already approaches completion, between Albany and Rochester. This is the first experiment in this county, ont of the coal regions, ofa double track railroad devoted exclusively to freight, and unless the result should set all calenlations at defiance the saving in the cost of transportation will be | immense. The New York Central road will | have its present double track for freight as | Well as passengers, with the addition of two engus of the Indians of the Red Cloud tracks on which freight trains can move con- cney has been effected, much to their tinuously in such numbers that they may fol- regret, as they appear to have superstitious | low close upon one another without ever los- | dbiectiona to the numbering of the tribes ing ony time im stoppages for vassenger New York and the Westerm Grain | trains, or ever being compelled to augment So far as relates to the commercial suprem- acy of New York, now supposed to be threat- LE SHEET. their speed and increase the wear and tear of tracks and rolling stock to reach the points of | meeting in time. When this great work is | completed the cost of transporting grain by | rail from Buffalo to New York will | be less than seven cents a bushel. At least i thrice the amount of freight can be moved ‘over these new double tracks as over the pres- ent tracks of the New York Centml. Of course so shrewd a man as Commodore Van- derbilt has not constructed this gigantic work | inthe expectation that it will be idle, and | when it is finished the New York Central will have the ability to carry as much freight be- tween the great lakes and the seaboard as all | the existing lines put together. But tho colos- | sal business which these double freight | tracks will do cannot possibly go to Balti- | more or Philadelphia or Montreal, and pnlya | small fraction of it to Boston. So that, if Van- derbilt and the Central directors have not made a stupendous miscalculation, New York is in no permanent danger of losing the grain trade unless the city should fail to supply cheap facilities for the transfer of freight to ocean-going ships. A Dangerous Inland Cyclone. The prevailing storm has been one of the most violent gales of the autumn, and, we fear, has been prolific of disaster. It was re- ported in the Sunday evening bulletins, and | the lake ports were then warned of the violent winds which yesterday swept the waters of | our inland seas, Judging from the publisbed | tetegraphic reports this tempest has extended | its cyclonic disturbance over the whole lake | country and the region east of the Mississippi | River. Heavy rains have fallen, and, no doubt, these will go far toward compensating | for the long and desolating droughts of the summer and fall. This storm comes at a time when heavy deluging rains and terrific | typhoons have been visiting other parts of the earth, and we shall be anxious to hear the fall | extent of its destruction. Fortunately the | lakes were forewarned of its approach, as also were our Atlantic seaports, in time for the mariner to prepare for the danger. Indeed, as we suggested last week, the snow storm was | the harbinger of the storminess that we are now experiencing. The progress of the present gale seems to have been from west to east along the lakes, and this progressive sweep over our Atlantic | seaboard needs to be carefully watched by | every exposed seaman. It will, doubtless, be succeeded by heavy snows and the rough, | biting blasts of winter. The “Reform” Movement in the Police. Mayor Havemeyer's Police Commissioners have not been marvels of official wisdom, neither have they been successful in improv- ing the reputation of the important force over which they preside. Two of the earlier appointees were unfortunate enough to attract the attention of a Grand Jury and a criminal court, One expired officially last May, and was never missed from the department in which he had “blushed unseen” for two | Years. But whatever may be said as to the | qualifications of the present members of the | Commission, they certainly cannot be accused | of a lack of Christian charity. Some of the police captains have long been suspected of having other interests than those which o | guardian of the laws ought to have in the various illegal pursuits carried on in their precincts, The “percentages” of the profits of lotteries, games of chance, ‘“‘bunko” and | “badger” investments and the like, which have gone into uniform pockets, have been variously estimated, and there have been some slanderous rumors afloat—groundless, The Settlement of Virginius Claims. Tho important news that the Spanish gov- ernment has declared its willingness to settle the claims of the United States for.the seizure of the steamship Virginius and the execution of its crew upon the same basis upon which the British claims were admitted is an- nounced to-day in a special despatch from our correspondent at Madrid. A willingness to settle is, wo presume, equivalent to a settle- ment, and the mere payment of damages by Spain is secondary to her’ acknowledgment of the principle involved, The Virginius, vessel sailing under tho American flag, was captured off the Jamaica coast October 31, 1873, more than a year ago, by the Spanish gunboat Tornado, and taken into the port of Santiago de Cuba. On November 4, before the American gov- ernment was informed of the capture, General Ryan and other leaders were executed as ‘traitors and insurgent chiefs,’’ by order of the infamous Spanish General Burriel, This cowardly act was followed on November 7 by the shooting of Captain Fry and thirty-six others of the crew and passen- gers. These oxecutions were ordored after mock trials, and no protests or appeals for mercy or for delay were heeded by the Spanish butchers, The news of these massacres, which was first published in the Hzraup of November 6, created the most intense excite- ment in the United States. The American people felt that their national honor had been deliberately insulted, that their brethren had been murdered, and with one voice demanded immediate reparation. The history of that event is fresh in the memory of the public and need not be repeated in detail here. It will be remembered how the United States government, slowly and with deliberation that distressed and hymili- ated the netion, applied to Spain for redress, and with what reluctance and haughtiness Spain admitied the possibility that she might be in the wrong. The Heraup expressed the feeling and the thought of the American peo- ple when it said, November 16, 1873, that the capture of the Virginius was “in violation of international law and treaty obligations, and that the wholesale butchery of fifty-six of her passengers and crew was, under any circum- stances, a brutal murder.” It added that the massacre was ‘“‘designedly an insult to the United States as wellas an act of blood- thirsty vengeance against the Cubans.” As such it will be registered in history, and with it, unfortunately, will be the record of the un- pardonable inactivity and timidity of the United States government. The negotiations in the Virginius affair were disgraceful and un-American from the first, It will be remembered that even in the treaty it was agreed that if the two countries could not agree upon a settlement the whole matter was to be submitted to arbitration. The principle of arbitration isa good one both as regards the differences of individuals and nations, but it can be carried to a dangerous extreme. There are situations in which a nation cannot refer its wrongs to an arbiter, but must announce itself the custodian of its own dignity and honor. But the administra- tion at Washington trifled with its duty, and the country has not yet forgiven the failure to assert the rights of American citizenship, More than o year has passed since the massacre, and now we learn that we are to be indemnified on the same basis as England has been. This is itself a disgrace. England was not primarily interested in the matter. On the Virginius a few British subjects were seized, and they were shot with the rest. But the ship did not sail under British colors but under American; the insult was not aimed at the | of course—that a portion of these percentages have found their way to Mulberry street. Perhaps it was owing to these scandalous in- sinuations that the Commissioners recently aroused themselves to the propriety of “doing something.’ As the winter is approaching it would have been a cruel act to have dis- missed every offending captain from the force. Time was when a police officer, suspected of corrupt dealings with violators of the law, would have been summarily dealt with. But these are the days of kind-hearted politicians as heads of departments, and not of mere official martinets. So the Police Commis- sioners contented themselves with shifting the several captains into different precincts. This shrewd movement, the Commissioners thought, would break up the “‘rings’’ in the tainted precincts without giving mortal offence to a number of influential captains with Aldermen, Assemblymen, Senators, shoulder-hitters and other powerful ward politicians at their backs. The result of the changes in the precincts is now seen in a sudden raid on policy shops, gambling dens and bad houses. But the sus- picion is excited that this raid is intended asa sort of notice to the violators of the law that they are now under new masters and must make new arrangements. It will probably cease as soon as matters are fixed up to the satisfaction of the new authorities, and then the gentlemen of fortune will be permitted to follow their pursuits as peacefully as they did before the new ‘‘reform’’ was carried out, So long as the Police Board is in the hands of politicians just so long shall we have theso spasmodic attacks of virtue, which are only the preludes of a more severe return of the disease of vice, immorality and corruption. The old Metropolitan Police Board, with the late John A. Kennedy as Superintendent, gave usa model police force. We shall not have its equal until we purge the Commission of Dogberryism and political intrigue and place the department under the control of compe- tent and independent men. A Ddnx Pace 1x Mormonism.— Many of our readers will remember the massacre of Arkan- sas emigrants at Mountain Meadows by Mor- mons disguised as Indians in 1857. The capture of Lee, the captain of that band of assassins, was made lately, and the full par- ticulars of the infamous crime are supplied by our correspondent at Salt Lake City. Leeis a thorough polygamist, having had eighteen wives and sixty-two children, and his trial is likely to disclose some startling mysteries in | the history of Mormonism. RerrencuMent at Wasnrincton.—The House Committee on Appropriations, in making up the annual appropriation bills for the ensuing fiscal yoar, stick to the policy of retrenchment; but, nevertheless, the legions of the lobby expect this time to be masters of the last opportunity for the outgoing mem- | bers of the expiring Congress. England but at America. Yet England did not consent to wait upon the slow movements of our goverment, but demanded redress in her own right, without reference to American wrongs. She enforced this demand with an energy which speedily brought the ruling powers at Madrid to terms, and refused to recognize the present government of Spain until all the claims had been admitted. This admission was first published in our special de- spatches from London on the 15th of lit Octo- ber. We thon said that the Virginius massacre was “directly and peculiarly our affair and only remotely and indirectly the affair of the British government. If there were any just order of precedence in making reparation for the injury our claim should have been pressed with most vigor and paid with most prompti- tude, because we were the party whose honor was most deeply involved and whose right to redress was tte most incontestable.’ But, finally, when Spain, after long delay, ex- presses her willingness to settle the Amer- ican claims, she does so upon the principles which England asserted, and we owe to that country and not to our own government the act of tardy justice, The settlement of the Virginius claims is by no means a triumph for the administration. It is the result of a long series of discreditable negotiations, and the best we can do is to accept the award and boast as little as possible over the little glory that comes with it. The Indians of the Plains—Their Pro- Removal. Friend Gibson, Agent of the Osage and Kaw Indians, in his report to the Indian Bureau, recommends that all the country west of the ninety-eighth meridian be thrown open to white settlement, and that the wild tribes now there be moved into the Indian Territory east of said meridian. He argues that the Great Plains are unfit for civilizing purposes, and that they should be opened to settlement by the whites, and ‘not reserved, as at present, for a vast buffalo range and Indian hunting groand.’”” Father Gibson’s sugges- tions, we have no doubt, will meet the ap- proval of the President. Tho gathering of all the Indian tribes east of the Rocky Mountains nto the Indian Territory, and all the tribes west of that range into a common reservation, say in California, would at once be a settle- ment of the Indian question and a saving to the government of many millions of dollars a year now appropriated for the army required to keep the wild tribes in order, to feed and clothe them, and to meet the demands of expensive Indian agents and con- tractors. But as tho settlement suggested is too heavy an undertaking for the coming short session of this Congress the subjcet will doubtless go over to the democratic House of Representatives of the next Congress, with the carrency question, the tariff and “other questions that have proved too muah for the republicant Scientific Dust im Univelentifie Eyes, One of the striking features of the war be- tween science and Scripture, which bas broken out with fresh vigor since Professor Tyndall's late spoech at Belfast, is the mixed fight it has started in the ranks of science itself. Nowhere is this latter contest more angry just now than in England; and, while the masses of science, herd-like, follow their leader, a few vigorous and able pens are busy wiping away the stigma cast on trie science by its professed representative. One of these writers, the English geologist Malet, in a recent review of evolution in its geological aspects, has struck some damaging blows at the new speculation which will re- quire much skill to parry. Last winter, our readers will remember, the eminent British astronomer, Professor Proctor, avowed his belief that the solar system was not a crea- tion, but was a birth or aggregation of cosmi- cal dust, and he went so faras to assert that this theory was well nigh demonstrated. The attempt to throwacientific dust into unscien- tific eyes, whether consciously or unintention- ally made, we took occasion to rebuke in cour- teous terms, which elicited a qualified retraction from the renowned lecturer. Tt seems, however,-that a similar effort has since been made in Professor Proctor’s own country by a popular scientist, m the Geological Magazine, claiming the ‘‘discovery of the continuity of matter throughout the universe.” According to this hypothesis the chemistry of all the meteorites yield only those elements which we know to exist on the earth, and, therefore, we must conclude that the most remote realms of stellar space contain only a repetition of ter- restrial substances. The theorist goes so far as to contend that the great continental areas were built up and outward by the sedimentary deposits, resulting from the deposition of meteoric matter showered down from ex ploding or crumbling stars, and accumulating in the great submarine synclinals parallel to the coast, To this view, so ingeniously maintained, Mr. Malet replies that the great sedimentary deposits do not settle down on the submarine synclinals any more than the lees settle down onthe sides of the wine cask. The slopes parallel to the coast are the arenas where the last process takes place in triturating the silicious rocks; they are rolled and battered and pulverized, and the earthy solutions transported by the waves’ action till the wa- ters, finding a resting place, deposit them on the flat, not on the sloping parts of the sea- bed. ‘ It matters, however, very little what dis- position the contending disputants of science may make of the meteoric rocks. Unscien- tific men may not be able-to follow hypo- thetical discussions, but they can sometimes distinguish between hypothesis and fact; and it is needless to say that when they find dust thrown in their eyes science will fare the worse for it. The clews which philosophers have so often attempted to follow, from the known to the mysterious, have proved threads of sand that break at touch and will not guide “them in the maze. In thesecent attempts to overthrow and get rid of Scripture the eminent evolutionists of England have done themselves and science incalculable injury, while their weapons of air have not broken the sacred oracles. Cosmogony and reason have been united so long and so intimately, the great religious doctrines of the world have been and are so closely connected with us for good or for evil, that, as Mr. Malet says, ‘we are not prepared to get rid at once of all the gods and demons denounced by Professor TyndalL” If, as Professor Tyndall himself well says, ‘Science demands the radical ex- tirpation of caprice,’’ let her begin at home and with her own distinguished votaries. Failing in this stern duty she must rapidly degenerate, exposing herself to a withering satire recently uttered— But, even as Milton's demons, problem-tossed, When they had set their Maker at defiance, Sull “found no end, in wandering mazes lost,’ So 1a 1t with our modern men of science. The King of Darfour. Men die and ‘‘pass away,’’ as the phrase fancier would have it. Among those who have paid the final debt is a picturesque per- sonage little known here, but powerfully felt in Africa, the King of Darfour. A Constan- tinople despatch lately told a brief story which has a certain significance when we come to consider the leading problems in African exploration. One of the scourges of mankind is gone, and this 1s the language of his taking off as told by the telegraphic correspondent: — An Arabic paper says a force of Egyptians has captured Darfour, Airica, and killed che Sultan. To capture Darfour has been the ambition of many men equally endowed with courage and coolness, In the beginning of the present century a plucky adventurer penetrated the oasis which has been the virgin fortress to travellers, as Thibet has been to all men, ex- cept Huc, who went there and did little, but made a considerable reputation by his bold- ness and enterprise. This oasis, Darfour, in the centre of the Mohammedan belt. which stretches across Equatorial Africa, has been the Gibraltic adversary of the explorer; that is, the explorer,; moving from what- ever direction, has always found Dar- four the ‘‘lee shore.’’ The Darfourians have been not so much at fault in this matier as their late lamented King, ‘‘E] Hassien, Prince of All Believers, Luminary of God, Son of Abdaharman, Descendant of my forefathers, whose tombs are pure;” and this is the man who is dead. Blind, laid up on a bed of per- petual suffering, and yet having a mys- terious hold upon his followers, he sought to become in Equatorial Africa the chieftain of the blacks, who are notoriously the most bigoted of mankind. The Mussulmans, who have a regard for their religion equal to.the enthusiasm which any other sect has over displayed, perceived that Darfour was. the geographical centre from which they could propagate the religion of the Prophet. They consequently made of Dazfonr the stumbling block of the explorer—the un- scaled peak of the mountaineer. No man had a sublimer faculty to sustain that idea than the blind King, now dead. Iie hated the white man; he believed that the world was bounded by the outer foliage of his oasis; he determined that no one should visit him and goaway without believing in the prophet. | Hence when Dr. Ourry, a French scientist, was sent for by this imperial man to go and cure him of such an unkingly disease as sore eyes the Doctor went instantly, ond took hia anlv son from Qairo. Egypt, - into Central Africa, distance of hundred miles. The Doctor es spre his instructions 4s an oculist, served his im- perial master, and was thereafter informed that he must embrace the religion of the “Prince of all Believers.” As a matter of policy-he consented. Five days after he had surrendered the faith of his fathers he was killed by King Hassien, ‘‘because he might renounce the faith of the prophet of prophets.” Such aman was this late King of Darfour. His demise, however sudden, however violent, isa blessing to mankind. For many years he stood a barricade between barbarism and civilization, causing the death of numerous men who would pass between these equally resolute adversaries. That he is gone we may all be thankful; that Darfour is acquired to the domains of the Viceroy is the harbinger of a better future for the countries surrounding the sources of theNile. Dr. Fulton om Theatres. Dr. Fulton seems resolved to out-Talmage Talmage in his denunciation of theatrical performances, To read his fulminations must fill the frequenter of theatres, who is nos thoroughly hardened, with terror and despair. How little do the reputable citizens of New York, who flock to Wallack'’s, Booth’s and Daly’s dream of the dangers they encounter ! They may sit in the elegantly fitted boxes, with fashion and beauty around them, and think themselves safe in innocent enjoyment ; but Dr. Fulton assures them that ‘the air is poisoned,” and that their thoughts are ‘‘vile, pernicious and degrading.” The Academy of Music is a beautiful house, yet Dr. Fulton describes it as.the stream wherein ‘‘those who plunge themselves do straight forget their God and curse themselves and die.” Every- thing is false, sensational and exaggerated in a theatre, according to Dr. Fulton, who evi- dently preaches from a pulpit where false- hood, sensationalism and exaggeration are un- known. But one argument used by Dr. Fal- ton is unanswerable. ‘Could you invite Christ to go with you toa theatre?’ he asks. Oer- tainly not; but it would be well if we could invite Christ to go with us into certain church pulpits, for then we might learn a lesson of Christian charity toward all mankind. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Talmage 1s a clerical George Francis Train, with Train’s wit jeft out. Beecher preaches well on “the fall of man.” He kuows how it is himsell. Mr. J. H. B, Latrobe, of Baltimore, is stopping at the Filth Avenue Hotel. f The Pope’s bull against the comet—his letter protesting against Tyndall. Mr. C. B. Ives, the sculptor, is among the latest arrivals at the Westminster Hotel. Ex-Chief Justice 0. A. Lochrane, of Georgia, is quartered at the Sturtevant House. Fx-Governor William sigler, of Pennsylvania, is-staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. M. Bartholdi, French Minister at Washington, has apartments at the Brevoort House, Blangui, member of the Paris Commune, is re ported by cable dangerously ill in prison. Rochelort and Pain have been sentenced in con- tumacium to a year of close confinement, Congressman H. H. Hathorn, of Saratoga, has taken up his residence at the Gilsey House, Rev. br. W. ©. Cattell, President of Lafayette College, is residing at the S¢. Nicholas Hotel, Congressmau John 0. Whitehouse, of Pough keepsie, is sojourping at the Aloemarie Hotel. Conuressman-elect Chester W. Chapin, of Springs field, Mass., arrived last evening at the Fiftn Ave. nue Hotel. General William 1. Sherman was in New Haven yesterday visiting bis son, who is @ student im Yale College. Mme. Astie, of Paris, has passed the preliminary examination at the Sorbonne, and is entered as @ student of medicine, Captain Gore Jones, Naval Attaché of the British Legation, arrived from Washington yesterday and is at the Clarendon Hotel. Don Carlos has decorated many of his friends in France, but as thegg decorations are not recog- nized by the French government the wearers will be disciplined. Mr. Mahlon Chance, United States Consul at Nassau, arrived in this city yesterday, and is at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Chance will shoruly return to his post, and intends to remain there a portion of tue time herealter. There are sulphur springs at the Buttes Chau- monts, which the poor people there use for batus, and it Is proposed to fit it up as @ fashionable re- sort. It would be a fine notion for Paris to organ- ize a bath like those they had at Rome. Nestor Roqueplan said there were tnree kinds of Bohemians in Paris—those who said lend me five Srancs, those who said lend me five louis, and those who said on the bounce give me 5,000f., I have some luuportant news tnat will send things higher than a kite, Rev. Dr. Miner, who resigned the pastorate ot the Second Universalist church, in Boston, some time since to give his entire attention to the Presidency of Tuft College, has returned to the church on a salary of $6,000, and will resign the Presidency of the Voilege. M. Delisse Engraud, the Bonapartist just elected in France, owes his success to the /act that he received the votes of 18,000 legitimists, who ina previous poll voted for M. Jougiez de Ligne, and he secured these votes by a pledge to support the temporal power ot the Pope, Clement Duvernois’ prospect is not cheerfal. He was engaged ina great financial enterprise— the organization of a Spanish Land Bank. To in- vestors it proved a sand bank, and in France they treat these things as swindles. So the ex-Minister and keen editor may go to prison. ‘The infant son of the Duke of Edinburgh was baptized yesterday, receiving the name of Albert Alexander Alfred Ernest William. The sponsors were Queen Victoria, the Emperor of Russia, who was represented by the Ozarowitz, the German Emperor, represented by the Duke of Connaught; the Prince of Wales, the Crown Princess of Ger- many and the Duke of Saxe-Coburg,. It 18 estimated that the French government loses $60,000 a year of its revenue in one depart- ment—by the second use of stamped paper from which the writing made when the stamped paper was bought is washed by chemical processes. it has now bought the secret of an tmdehole ink, Among the effects of a gentleman who recently died in Paris, and whicn effects were sold at pub- lic auction, there was a mummy, understood to ba the mortal remains of a very distinguished persom of the thirty-second Egyptian dynasty. Itis am error, therefore, to say that “the paths of glory lead but to the grave.” Among other things against. Arnim, the inspiged press in Germany said that he utilized the knowledge obtained diplometicaly in operations on the Bourse. Von Arnim said in answer thas he could eat on Moly Friday without sin all the meat that could be bought with money gained by him in such transactions, An illustration of the propagation of erzor:—Oa the coast «@ Normandy a ship of tie Spanien Armada, namad ‘the Salvador, went to pieces on a rock, and th@ people thereafter named the rock the Salvador. It was proposed to give-tne depart- ment the same name, but the name sent from Nor- mandy to Paris was badly written and was mise read Calondos, and that name was given by law. ‘The cityof Paris is publishing Its own history at its OWB €xpenae, and the issue bas reached “The Mayoralty of Stephen Marcei,’’ butat the request of the government the Prefect of the Seine haa Stopped the publication for the present. They do Not want the attention of the public especially called Just now to that sturdy Might for treedomy They conieaa their {ear of a grea examples ‘