The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1874, Page 6

€ ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. —— NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the New York Henaxp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henaxp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Bejected 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, AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. —_—_——_— EATRE COMIQCUE. | TH Pepys RIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 rd street and ix me Bee eee erect ae SD Me ent, dedoreon. ROMAN HIPPODROME, ty-stxth street and Fourth avenue.—Afternoon and bveultgeat? ands Ware ata’ P.M. REMUS BROOKLYN ATHENSUM. BEGONE DELL CARE. Mr. Frederick Maccabe. FIFTH 4 WALLAGK’s THEATRE: .—THE SHAUGHRAUN, at TP. Mr. Boucteault. NIBLO’ 8 GARDEN, awean Prince and Houston streets.— ‘M.; closes at UE THEATRE, 1, IAN, at 8 P. closes at 1030P.M. Mise fanny Davenport, : Mr. Fisher. ROBINSON ‘ON HALL, i Gene". Seat bet tween Brocaway and Fifth avenue.— | ty, at 8 P. | OPE Twenty- Third Trees ny BET RELSY, &e., ats P. TONY P. OPERA HOUSE, Ho, M1 Bowery. ey Anery, at SP. M.; closes at 10 P, M. BAN PRAN ‘0 MINSTRELS, Ere corner of niy-ninth street.—NEGRO mELSY. ats P. M.: closes at 10 P. M. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, MAGBETH, at8 P.M. Mi: OBE TH Brosdway.—VARIEY ats poke THEATRE, enpeensh street and Sixth avenue.—LA FILLE DE | wien ihe ANGOT, at § P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Miss m1 GERMANIA THEATRE, Pourteenth street —ULTIMU, ats P.M. lwsy, corner of Thirt! i ig eet. —ROUND THE pais tty sia velores at bP. METROPOLITAN THEAT ve W—VARIETY, at 8 P. RE, M.; closes at 103) OLYMPI | sa Broaaway.—VARI "YL: closes at 10:45 rt GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third street ond bighth avenue.—THE BLACK CROOK, at 8 P. M.; closesat Ul P. M. PARK TH Broadway. between Twent: Streets.—GILDED AGH, at dP. Mr. John T. Raymond. RE, st and Twenty-second closes at 10:30 P. M. STEINWAY BALL, EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS. Cari Schurz. place.—' i Ie. Ne ani 18 a Hignori’ Carpi, Det Pocate. pe Sars | SHEET, New York, _ Wednesday, Nov. as, 1874 Bon on reports this monieg the ine probabilt ies are that the weather to-day will be colder and clearing. Now We Have rae Rvumoe that Mr. Fish is to resign in December on account of ill health. Tux Rosstan Missron still remains vacant. The President, perhaps, is awaiting the return of Congress in view of a satisfactory appoint- ment. . Tae Frexcn Brancn or THE PROTESTANT Cuvuzcx is busily engaged in demonstrating its fallibility in accordance, perhaps, with the spirit of the times and the progress of sci- ence. Tue Svcan Puantarions of Cuba were in @reat danger at last accounts. The insur- gents, so often represented as defunct, are preparing their torches, and the planters are in despair. Tue Spantapps have searched a British steamer at Santander. They were looking for Carlist war contrabands. But what will Mr. Bull say? And on his own particular domain too—the deck of the vessel is English soil. Tee Mesures of THE German Parte sent, the radicals particularly, are becoming alarmed at the summary, Star Chamber man- ner in which judicial investigations are being ordered in the Empire. It may be that they have taken a wholesome warning from Von Arnim’s case. If 80, good may come ont of vil. Anxansas Arvarrs.—Mr. Smith is now wanted in Arkansas as anxiously as his ab- sence was desired a few weeks ago. The tron- bie is that they cannot find him, and that he may reappear with his constitutional indict- ment against the new Governor when least expected. His case, it is understood, will be carried into Congress. Tme Meaoens oy THe Lert in THe Frexca AssEMBLY are organizing for a vigorous assault on the policy of the government in maintaining the state of siege. They expect, on this question, to receive the aid of many members of the party of the Right, so that the legislative situation may become very em-= barrassing to the MacMahon Ministry. Evacuation Day will have its ninety-first anniversary to-day in this city. The depar- ture of the British from the Battery and the emancipation of America from the servile yoke may cause some patriots to overhaul their histories in order to find materials for a speech ; but the majority of our citizens will likely forget that on this day, ninety-one ‘oadway.—TH HEART OF | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1874,—TRIPLE SHEET. Us Have the Will of the People. Macaulay makes the curious observation that one of the most precious prerogatives of citizenship, the habeas corpus, became o part of the British constitution so impercepti- bly that it is hard to find even a record of it | in the history of the time. It was the natural growth of the Revolution, and needed no arti- ficial impulse. So we may note in our own history that principles as essential to our re- publican institutions as the habeas corpus as- | sume life silently, imperceptibly, and as the natural consequence of events which at the | time seemed to have a different meaning. All civilized governments are experimental and progressive. When we study dbis- tory in its higher aspects we find that above the tumult and roar of party strife, of wars and contentions, and the noise made by mere ambition, higher principles severely assert themselves, and the nations move on calmly in their path of de- velopment. The sentiment and romance of history cluster about these strifes—the Wars of the Roses and the Fronde, the fall of the Stuarts and the Bourbons, the terrible events of the French Revolution. But irom the coldly historical point of view we see only the achievement of principles, which became ® part of the law and heritage of modern free- dom. The tendency of modern historians is to dwell upon the romantic phases of history as of the highest consequence to mankind. The mind of the average reader is more interested in Mary Queen of Scots, the young princes murdered by Richard and the Dauphin of the Temple than in the graver issues of the reign of Elizabeth. There was, perhaps, no act of the French Convention of more value than the law regulating educatiov. Yet who knows anything about this law, and who does not know all about Marie Antoinette, her cruel | jailers and her stern, pitiless fate? When we look at history from the higher point of view there are events, important to us now, with an importance they did not at the time possess, which are really so many strata in the process of historical formations as marked as the strata in the geological formation of the earth. France has such periods in the fall of the Dukes of Burgundy, Richelieu’s strife with feudalism, Louis XIV.'s grasp for European empire, the Reign of Terror, Napoleonism, the Holy Alliance and the Commune. England has such ,periods in the Conquest, Magna | Charta, the Wars of the Roses, the Reforma- | tion, the Long Parliament and Cromwell, the fall of the Stuarts, the destruction of French power in America and Asia, the overthrow of Napoleon, the Reform bill and the ballot. We have had such periods in America— Washington, who accomplished independence; Jefferson, who accomplished democracy; Jackson, who drove the remnants of Continen- tal power from the South; Polk, who an- nexed California and our Pacific empire, and Lincoln, who proclaimed emancipation. Or, to make the distinctions more erophatic, we might note three large events—The founding | sense a political proceeding, and we should rejoice that it is so, But there should be a mark its accession to power by giving it. This remedy should be found in the passage | | of certain amendments to the constitution. | | President one term. This certainly has been decided by the peopla There should be an amendment prohibiting the President from removing civil officers, other than the heads of departments, without cause, and without assigning the cause to the Senate. There is no reason why an honest anditor in the Treasury or an efficient postmaster in New York should not hold his office by the same tenure that a major or a captain holds his military commission. There should be some constitutional recognition of the Cabi- net. Instead of being a group of staff offi- cers, or executive clerks who write the orders of the President, it shonld be a committee of Congress, as the English Cabinet is a commit- tee of Parliament. It should have a direct re- sponsibility to Congress. As it is the Secre- taries of the Treasury, of War and the Navy—the most important officers under the government, charged with. the honor, the credit and the defence of the nation—are virtu- ally irresponsible civil servants. The Eng- lish Chancellor of the Exchequer must appear’ before a full Parliament and tell what he pro- poses to do with every penny in his budget. No such responsibility rests upon the Secre- tary of the Treasury. Andso we might fol- low all the ramifications of our government- and show that the threads of responsibility are: 80 attenuated that they may be broken by the caprice of any Chief Magistrate. In other words, the Presidency since the war has been growing stronger and stronger. With thei Presidency also the Senate. One has been: moving on toward a despotism, the other! toward an oligarchy. A Senator, who does! not represent the people, who simply repre- sents a constitutional tradition about State sovereignty and equality of Commonwealths— an obsolete tradition in this, that it’ perished during the war—has more power: than a Representative. He has legislative, and in some sense executive power, and he does not have representative responsibility. The existence of this Presidency, with all of its tendencies toward absolutism, and of this: Senate, with its tendencies toward an, oligarchy, unJerlie the fear of Oxsarism which 60 largely influenced the last canvass. It is cowardly to say that this fear is ground- less because of the patriotism of General Grant and the Senate. When our republican government depends upon the honor or the faith of any man, no matter how renowned, then we are not a republic. There is not an argument wo can present against Cesarism now that would not hold good were Wash- ington President and not Grant. Democracy can only live by devotion to prin- ciples and not tomen. And the party which claims to be democratic will, if it is wise, mark its victory by restoring the government to its republican simplicity, and by giving it of the Republic, which was the work ot Wash- ington; the establishment of democracy, | which was due to the genius and influence of Jefferson; the emancipation of the slaves and the advancement of the Republic into the very front rank of nations, which was the merit of Lincoln’s time. These, we say, are the marked events in our history; and, we may ask, what has been achieved since emancipation, and what higher results are involved in the triumphs of the last canvass? It would be to demean that canvass to suppose that the American people, with their large, free, generous appreciation, should have decided to repudiate Grant be- cause he threw an office to a needy, impa- tient relative, or because a few Congressmen were greedy enough to creep into the trap of Crédit Mobilier. No scandal and no slander ever determined a great election canvass. There are higher lessons to be learned from the last campaign—lessons which the demo- cratic party must cherish if its leaders would keep their victory and consolidate it in 1876. The first is that the American people are dis- satisfied with the preponderance of the Presi dential power in the economy of our govern- ment. Here is an office with more authority than that of any monarch on the earth. Russia is an absolute monarchy, but, as Talleyrand said, ‘tempered by aasassina- tion.” Napoleonism was an absolute imperial system, tempered by revolution ond barri- cades. We have an absolute power, practically responsible to no other during its term. This power was vast before the war, but since the war it has increased tenfold. What Lincoln did under the pressure of danger to the State Grant has done as though it were the tradition of the office. Going into the Presidency with the avowal that he wonld have no will in vio- lation of that of the people, he has seemed to care nothing for any subsequent manifestation of popular will. He has taken one of the Napoleonic ideas—that a nation should have the right to elect a Napoleon to the throne, and that thereupon a Napoleon should have the right to do as he pleased with the nation. ‘We have no doubt the President honestly feels that in this he has the true conception of the Presidential office. We do not see how we can differ from him. He has simply taken all the authority the office admits, and our com- plaint is not a0 much of the man but of the system. In Englond Mr. Gladstone, who went into power with as large a majority as that given to Grant, felt that his government was slip- ping away from public esteem. He appealed to the people, was defeated and instantly re- signed. General Grant’s administration made a similar appeal. The answer was the same. ‘What does he do? We do not ask him to re- sign, because he could well make answer that the constitution imposed upon him a duty that he should not shirk. But he should do something. He wraps himself in the folds of his prerogative and virtnally reminds the people that he is President, and while it is their business to vote as they please it is his business to preside as he pleases. Instead of having » republic we have what we might call a republic in a state of suspended anima- tion. There is no remedy for it, no means | of compelling a respect for the popular | voice, except impeachment. Impeachment is aclumsy, degrading, inefficient process, of- fensive to generosity, moderation and fair indeed a simplicity that it never possessed even under Jefferson. Let the constitution be so amended that we can have a government by the will of the people. Our Great November Cyclone and Its Remarkable Phenomena. The great and extraordinary November cyclone which has just swept over the country, from the Gulf States to the great lakes, and along the Atlantic const from Virginia to Nova Scotia, was attended at many points by some very remarkable phenomena. Shortly after dark, on Sunday evening, it was developed into a regular tornado near Tuscumbia, North- ern Alabama, and, sweeping through it, half the pretty town was left in ruins, and ten or twelve persons immediately lost their lives in the falling buildings and many others were wounded. All this was, perhaps, the work of less than five minutes, and the coming and the going of the terrific whirlwind were a sur- prise to the bewildered population. But the ruins of a hundred houses in the town, includ- ing some of its most substantial buildings of. brick and stone, attested the resistless force. of thatwisting wind within the vortex of the tremendous current. This was at Tuscumbia, which lies near the Tennessee River, on the northern border, and yet on the same evening there was a ter- rible storm at Montevallo, in the interior of the State, some two hundred miles south of Tuscumbia. Considering the size and popr- lation of Montevallo the wind was as destruc- tive there to life and property as at Tuscum- bia. 1t was, perhaps, the same tornado at both places, and if so there was no doubt much property destroyed along the track of the hurricane from Central to Northern Ala- hours. from the storm in Tennessee or in Kentucky< beyond the unroofing of some houses in New- port and Covington, on the Ohio, opposite Sunday night; snd on Monday from Buffalo southeast, resulting in heavy damages from the backing of the waters of Lake Erie into the city. At Hamilton and other points om Lake Ontario the gale was very severe, ac~ companied by a drizzling rain. These details will serve to indicate the general force and drift of the storm north and east of the Ohio River. had its remarkable accompaniments of snow, rain, hail, lightning and thunder, on Monday afternoon in Baltimore unroofed a number of houses and was very violent in the Alleghanies around Cumberland; two lives are reported lost from the blowing down of a brick building on New Creek, W. Va. At Philadelphia, Monday afternoon, the tempest lightning. At Camden, N. J., it was a violent thunderstorm, the wind unroofing houses and | tearing down trees. And so it was over New 4 Jersey to Paterson and thence to Sing Sing. From New York along the coast northeast- ward the gale was fearful, and at Boston at daylight on Monday the strong southeast wind was “thick with snow and rain.” From these reports it appears that this great November cyclone was developed be- tween Sanday night and Monday morning play, akin to revolution and only effective in | over # vast extent of country, and swept over- ears age, the‘ned conte” bade a sfbetieante | the presoce of some heinous crime which | the land from the interior to the sea- would appeal to the justice of all men with- | board with unparalleled rapidity, From farewell to Manhatten Jeland, remedy, and the democratic party should | | There should be an amendment giving the | bama, and all within the brief space of a few’ We have no reports of any serious damages» Cincinnati. The storm, described as a heavy | gale, opened upon Chicago at eleven o'clock | it was reported as a severe gale from the | But along the Atlantic seaboard States we | The storm - was very heavy, accompanied by hail and } | summn, which bad prevailed throughout the United States, the conditions were created for this general heavy reaction, and the strange | phenomena for November, of tornadoes, | lightning and thunder, snow, hail and rain, | andall in the same combined movement of the winds with their heavy treasures of vapor | gathered from the sea, The Speakership of the Next Con- gress. Some of our contemporaries are amusing themselves and their readers with discussions | as to who shall be, or ought to be, or ought not to be, Speaker of the next | House of Representatives. The names of Mr. Fernando Wood, General Banks, Mr. Kerr and others are brought forward by their friends, and each in his tarn finds himself vig- -orously opposed. It is certain that if the newspapers had to choose the Speaker the struggle would be as long and as bitter as ewhen Mr. Banks or Mr. Pennington was chosen. But asthe next Congress will prob- -ably meet for the transaction of business in ‘December, 1875, the discussion at this time is premature, and would have no importance did ‘it not show how generally throughout the -country the democratic party is believed to have at Jeast the possibility of a future. For, -were it thought probable that the republicays would carry the next Presidential election, the question of the Speakership in the next House would sink into comparative insignificance. Men are anxious to know whom the demo- crats will select as Speaker, because they are } conscious that the character and political and economical opinions of the Speaker define, in @ very great and, indeed, overwhelming de- gree, the policy of his party; and thus when they ask “‘Whom will you make Speaker in 1875?" men only inquire ‘‘What is to be your platform in 1876?’ In our political ‘system the Speaker of the House is the most powerful man in the country. He has less patronage, of course, than the Presi- dent; his office may even rank in dignity below that of Vice President; but if he is an able man, with positive opinions, if he has political principles and believes in them, he can do more to shape the policy of the country than the President and }all his Cabinet and the Senate to boot. : Almost the whole business of Congress is ; prepared and matured by the House com- ‘mittees, and the Speaker appoints these com- mittees. Thus his power to promote and his ‘ power to prevent any line of policy are equally great ; and it is literally true, though too apt to be overlooked by the public, that the Speaker of the House—unless he is a mere , figurehead like the late Mr. Colfax—does ‘more even than the President to shape the | policy of the country. It does not invalidate this statement to say, ‘as: Mr, Blaine has sometimes said, that the - Speaker is bound in some measure to consult the sentiment or opinions of the House; for it ‘is but rarely that cpinions, even on the most ‘vital questions, are clearly defined in a new ‘‘House: and by his selection of the commit- ‘tees the Speaker can, if he will, almost always -crystallize, so to speak, the floating sentiment of Congress. Does any one, for instance, be- vlieve that if Mr. Blaine had had decided opinions on the currency question he would -have formed the Currency Committee as he did last December, with a good representation of sound sense and experience and a slight »but fatal preponderance of obstinate ignor- ance? He meant that the committee should do nothing very bad, but he did not think the time had come to do anything decidedly good, and, being a very able man, he formed the committee accordingly, and nothing was done. Now the democratic party is in a some- what delicate position before the country. It has won less by its own merits than because the people were tired of the republican leaders and frightened at the third term. The demo- .crats came in with certain vague promises— reform, economy, purity, good times; glitter- “ing generalities all of them. They aro not committed to any distinct policy; they have yet to frame one; and the country is un- doubtedly cnriows to see what it will be like. Until the democratic leaders have made up their minds what to do they will not select ‘their Speaker, and when they have deter- mined who shall be Speaker their policy will at once declare itself. Hence, necessarily, who will be Speaker is “for the present an idle question. The time has not yet come to decide it. Only we beg the democratic leaders not to forget that the country will judge them by their Speaker. If they have a well defined policy the selection of a really able man will not only tell this but it will at once reveal the party’s intentions, If they mean to drift and to let the country drift they will naturally choose for Speaker not a statesman but a mere adroit politician ; but the people will none the less guess their purpose and hold them responsible. For our own part we are not ina hurry to have the democrats decide. Their recent victory surprised them as much it did their opponents, and it is only fair to give them time to reflect. But it would be a calamity for them to forget that, though they got a great majority, they have yet to win the coun- try's confidence. Probably half the men who the other day voted the democratic ticket did so with a determination never to do so again, unless the democratic leaders proved very competent and trustworthy men indeed. If the country is to drift the majority of the people will prefer to see it drift under repub- lican rather than democratic guidance. Hence to choose a mere adroit politician to the Speakersbip would be for the democrats to invite defeat in the nextelection. They cannot | expect to win in 1876 withont a policy, Costa Rica has undergone one of those po- litical commotions which seem to be an in- | lic, Such governments seem to be in contin- ual hot water. Tux Mrxtno Trovpres in Pennsylvania receive new light in the account of our special correspondent from Scranton, who gives a very graphic picture of the terrible condition of offairs in that region. Tux ARGENTINE Revoir has not been crushed out, The movement. still prevails in the interior of the territory. Buenos Ayres remains quiet, and the rural factions will eventually cool down for want of something to Aight about, herent quality of a Spanish American repub- | The Constitutional Amendments Re- lating to Legislation. The most important of the amendments to the State constitution adopted at the late election are those relating to legislation. The principal changes are as follows: —The mem- bers of the Legislature will receive hence- forth one thousand five hundred dollars annual salary and a mileage of one dollar for every ten miles they shall travel in going to and returning from their place of meeting once in each session on the most usual route. When the Senate alone is convened in extra session, or as a court for the trial of impeach- ments, its members and not more than nine members of Assembly, who may be appointed managers of an impeachment, will receive an additional allowance of ten dollars a day. Under the present constitution the pay of members of both houses is three dollars a day and the same mileage, the Speaker of the Assembly receiving four dollars a day; but the pay for the regular session is limited to one hundred days. The old amount, so notoriously insufficient, was looked upon as one of the leading causes of corruption, and the change is counted on to work a reform in this respect. But it is hard to believe that the legislator who would be guilty of selling his vote when he received three hundred dol- lars for the session’s labor would not do the same when in receipt of fifteen hundred or fitteen thousand dollars, The holding of a civil office under a city government by a legislator is made a cause of ineligibility or forfeiture, in addition to the existing prohibition in relation to the civil offices of the State and the United States. This amendment will in fature prevent mu- nicipal officers from drawing their pay from the city treasury, neglecting their municipal duties, and going to Albany as Senators and Assemblymen with the object of advancing their personal interests at the expense of the city. Hitherto laws have been passed re-enacting, altering or applying existing laws, and refer- ring to the latter by title and section only. The amendments require that in all such enactments the laws re-enacted, altered or 2pplied shall be embodied in the new act. This puts a stop to a system of blind legisla- tion, ‘deception, and trickery too common at the State Capitol. A mass of special legislation by private or local bills is now prohibited. The most im- portant subjects embraced in this prohibition are the selecting, drawing, summoning or impanelling grand or petit jurors; the regu- lation of the rate of interest on money; the opening or conducting of elections or desig- nating places of voting ; the creating, increas- ing or decreasing the emoluments of public officers during the term of their election or appointment ; the granting of a railroad fran- chise, and the granting of any exclusive privilege or immunity to private associations or individuals. The Legislature is required to pass general laws relating to all these cases. It will thus be seen that, among other enact- ments, we are to have new legislation on the interest question, and it is probable that while @ legal rate of interest, in the absence of spe- cial agreements, will be fixed, the penalties of the present usury laws will be abolished and the validity of special contracts confirmed. ‘The amendments also prohibit laws authoriz- ing the construction ‘‘or operation’’ of a street railroad except with the consent of one-half the property owners on the line and of the local authorities, with a proviso for the inter- vention of the Supreme Court of the district in case of opposition against the public inter- ests on the part of the property owners. The prohibition of the auditing or allow- ance of any private claim against the State and of the granting of extra compensation to any public officer or contractor will be gener- ally approved, as will the valuable amend- ments by which the Governor is authorized to veto one or more items of an appropriation bill while approving the remaining portions, and by which the vote of two-thirds of all members elected is required to pass a bill over the Governor’s veto. Under the present constitution a vetoed bill may be passed by two-thirds of a quorum, or a less vote than is required to pass the bill originally. All these amendments are important, and the next Legislature will have a grave responsibility in shaping legislation to meet and carry ont their requirements. Sensation and Sense. It is hard to deal patiently with the extraor- dinary preaching of Talmage and Fulton on the question of theatres, While we are endeavoring to put the matter before the Chris- tian public as a question of serious import, and one to be solved by political economy and religion in their united capacity, as though they were the two lobes of our brain, these divines insist upon debasing the discussion by anger, narrowness and misrepresentation. Every one knows that the instinct of amuse- ment is s part of human nature. Eversince the planet began to roll laughter and recreation have been legitimate elements of life, and until the planet is burned to a cinder and the word finis is written at the end of the last chapter of human history they will continue to claim acertain proportion of the world’s time and money. These amusements have kept pace with the progress and education of mankind, and have changed their complexion with every advancing age. So true is this that the pleas- ures of a people are always a fair index of their culture and development. A stranger in a strange Jand can judge ite inhabitants in no better way than by the representative pleasures in which they indulge. Tho gladia- torial shows of Rome, which threw the peo- plo into the wildest state of applauding ex- citement, were the proof and the illustration of a debauched and ignorant populace—a popu- lace whose only standard was military glory. The bull fights of Madrid, attended by thon- eands and tens of thousands, are the most suggestive comment. on Spanish civilization. The songs of a people no more accurately discover their general condition than does the style of their amusements. The theatres of New York as surely indicate the tastes of the several classes which patronize them as the thermometer does the temperature or the hydrometer the humidity of the atmosphere. The question has arisen, What amusements are legitimate and to what extent should they receive the sanction of patriots and Chris- tians? It is no solution to denounce all amuse- ments as irreligious and to sweep all actors and teen Is Our Government Republican t—Let | out regard to party. Topsaeieaias is in no | the long dry season, however, summer and That there are gentlemen and ladies on the stage, persons not only of large culture and charity, but possessing deep religious convice tions, and engaging in their work with ap earnestness and honesty of purpose that is te be commended in all, it were more than folty to deny. That there are actors and actresses who are spotlessly pure in life, and as worthy to be received in the highest circles as they are always welcome there, is a fact too gene rally admitted to require more than the simpls assertion that itis so. More than this, thata very large majority of the church members of this city support the theatres by their money and give countenance to them by their presence, and by their presence contribute largely ta the elevation of the drama, everybody knows except these two gentlemen, whose bitter ine vectives have caused so much pain and aston- ishment. Amusements of all kinds are to be tok erated and controlled by a Christian pub. lic sentiment. The theatres are not to be closed, but are to be made a part of the educational force of the country, While they contribute to the amusement of the people they are not to endanger their morals. This is the end to be aimed at, and the general, and, on the whole, generous spirit of criti- cism which the Hxraup has called forth will in the fature constitute itself the public censor of all dramatic representations. The commu nity will continue to laugh its dull cares away in the theatre all the week, finding in if healthful amusement and recreation, and, if it so wills, it can continue its recreation and amusement on Sunday by patronizing sacred concerts and visiting our public libraries, If the graceful culture and wisdom of the ministry will take this matter in hand it will sanction and encourage the innocuous pleas ures of a people careworn and oever-tired, frown out of existence whatever is directly o1 | indirectly immoral on the stage, and help us all to find our way to a loftier manhood and a purer womanhood through our smiles and pleasures, as well as through the sacred offices of religion. Pzxv is threatened by filibustering politie cians, who were hovering, at last accounts, off the const, displaying the British flag and seeke ing a friendly port where they can stir up @ muss. Taz Warez Leacuers have turned up in grizzly array in Alabama. Since the State has become democratic such an event was to be expected by the unfortunate republicans, and, as a matter of course, the general governmen{ is appealed to. Goverxon Houston, the first democratic Governor in Alabama in seven years, was in- augurated at Montgomery yesterday in the good old style—cannons booming, flags fly- ing, orators declaiming and crowds hurrah- . ing. It seemed like a popular saturnalia after the long night of reconstruction and carpete baggism. FERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. That Tuscumbia tornado, or a first cousin to ft, passed over this city. Secretary Delano left Washington last evening to spend Thanksgiving 1n Ohio, Dr. Ewer lectured on “A drop of water,” and was full of his subject of course. Congressman H. H. Starkweather, of Connecth cut, is staying at the Astor House. Postmaster John F. Smyth, of Albany, arrived last evening at the Hofman House. State Senator Henry C. Connelly, of Kingston, XN. Y., is stopping at the Metropoiftan Hotel. Lieutenant Commander Philip B. Cooper, United States Navy, 13 quartered at the Windsor Hotel. Captain C. P. Patterson, of the United States Coast Survey, is registered at the Everett House, Congressman J, M. Thornburgh, of Tennéssee, is among the latest arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Messrs, James T. Fields and Ben Perley Poore, of Massachusetts, are sojourning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Bishop Lynch, of South Carolina, lectured at Dedham, Mass., last night on “Bismarck and the Church.” General Benjamin F. Butler arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday trom his home in Massa chusetts. An Irish committee addresses the frienas of Mperty everywhere on the subject of an O'Connell centennial. Mr. J. M. Thacher, United States Commisstoner of Patents, is residing temporarily at the Metro- politan Hotel. ‘The archbishops of Paris, Bordeaux and Besan- gon nave forbidden the priests in their dioceses to write for the papers. Sefior Don Luts de Potestad, Secretary of the Spanish Legation at Washington, has apartments at the Albemarle Hotel. London was again enveloped in a dense fog yes terday. John Bull dreadfully puzzled and sweare ing against the month of November. Mr. MacEver (conservative) has been elected te Parliament from Birkenhead, England, by @ ma. jority of 947 over the liberal candidate, Hefore the warthere were in the avenues and promenades of Paris 8,423 public benches, and when the fuel ran out during the siege 2,340 of these made useful fires. ti The Commercia! Advertiser argues that Jackson’s administration was bad and corrupt and that Grant’s is as good a3 Jackson's was. Who will save the President from his friends? Mullett will make a fortune as an architect, on the regular terms, much sooner than he could ever have done it in ofMce, even if It be true, as suspected, that there were “little games.” ‘The two-headed nigntingale is tn trouble. “She or they” has or have sued @ manager. The com- plaint, as presented In Court, bore two signatares, Millie Schmidt and Christine Schmidt, so the Nightingale evidently considers itself two, Thirty-two very happy little fellows rode out of Paris the other day. ‘They were Italian music boys on their way to Italy, and when they found them. selves out of the reach of the padroni and actually started for thetr own country they were almost crazy with joy. AS a leader writer in the Journal des Dédate John Lemoinne has frequently written against the views of many public men, and now that he tsa candidate for the Academy an enemy has sent to each man Lemoinoe’s articles against him in every case in wich the man ts an Academictan, Ernest Vaillant, 1s forty-one year old. He was once ring master Ina cir he has lectured on mesmerism; he has taken cheap photographs; he has played the cornet in the orchestra of the Saion de Mars at Greneli¢, and now he has been arrested in Paris on @ charge of participation in the Com. mune. The reservoirs of Montsouris will when finished supply Paris with 1,000,000 cuvic metres of waver per day. These reservoirs will have cost $19,000,000. ‘They are so constructed that the rays of the sun do not jallon the water, They arein fact completely covered by a sort of artificial prairie on which plants are cultivated, At Mons, in Belginm, this Is the way the publie “interviews” the manager when it has a griew ance, Duiiug the piay some one in the gallery shies a folded letter to tue stage, and as it fails all the interested public call out, “Read it! read it There is no peace till tue letter is read; then, as it contains some charge against the manager, thag gentleman has to come forward and explat a 1s not a bad institation, but they have just deaided actresses into the net of a general anathema, | in the courts that it is “disorderly.” - |