The New York Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR, > gum DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subseription price $12. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hznatp will be sont free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorke Hepaxp. Letters end packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, ice tRin! LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | HEBALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions aud Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ROMAN HIPPODROMB, sixth street and Fourth avenue.—Afternoon and | pat aud & WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway —THE SHAUGHRAUN, at 3 P. M.; closes at 2040. Mr. Boucicault, NIBLO’S GARDEN. way, between Prince aud Houston streets.— THE ROSBERS, at 3 P.M. BROOKLYN ATHENACM BEGONS DULL CARB Mr. Frederick Maccape. __, PIPTH AVENUB FESATES, Twenty-eighth street and Rroadway.--TH BID-LOTHIAN, ac 5 P. M.; closes at 1030 Fanny Davenport, Mr, Fisher. BART OF | PM. Miss ROBINSON HALL, ,derween Broadway and Fitth avenue.— | Sixteenth ti VARIETY, a! BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, | ar sixth avenue.—NEGRO | ; Cioses at OP. M. Lao STADT THEATRE, | Sowery —DIB PLEDERMAUSS, at 8P.M. Lina Mayr. | TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSB, So, Wl Bowery.—VARIBTY, at3 P. M.; closes at OP. M. SAN PRANC! corner of T ¥,atoP, My MRS. CONWAY'S BROUKLYN THEATRE. MACBETH, atSP. M. Miss Clara Morris. GLOBE THEATRE, Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.—LA FILLE DE MADAME ANGOS, até P. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Miss Emuly Soldene. | GERMANIA THEATRE, ' | Fourteenth street —ULTIMO, at SP. | highly placed and respected official, with | every attendant circumstance of barshness | ical and mental distress he had suffered—all | supervision of a watchful government.” | called the ‘“Tréves affair,’’ the arrest of Father | Schneider before the altar of his church. As is justly remarked it is absurd to suppose that | | the police could not have taken Father Schnei- NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1874, Prince Bismarck. The Pal Mali Gazette, in an article marked with more than usual ability, sums up the attitude of Bismarck toward the present pub- lic sentiment in Germany. This journal rec- ognizes that Prince Bismarck has enjoyed a high reputation for the intellectual as wall as the moral qualities of statesmanship whiou it would be almost heresy to question. ‘The prestige of splendid success has won for him the almost superstitious con- fidence of large number of his country. men.” “He is in the position of an actor whose every word is sure of the plaudits of the majority of his audience, and who at the same time can and does silence any one who ventures to hiss." At the same time the writer questions whether the policy of the Prince has always met the approval of Ger- many. “The arrest,"’ says the editor, ‘‘of a and indignity; the forcible entry of his house and the ransacking of his private bureaus, as | @ policeman rummages the trunk of a sus- pected footboy; his subjection to a confine- ment of needless rigor, and his final reap- pearance in public palpably aged by the phys- these go to make up a spectacle which a peo- ple pretending to civilization could hardly in any case have regarded with approval.” | The editor refuses to doubt—it would be an insult to the Germans to doubt—that the arrest of Count Arnim, with the circumstances attending it, has excited aversion and resent. ment among the majority of the people; and if there were any doubts to remove they would have been effectually dissipated by the weak and half-hearted defence ot Prince Bis- marck in the so-called liberal papers—a de- fence which ‘shows on its face either the special pleading of half-ashamed partisans, or the caution naturally instilled by the strict In addition to this mistake we have what is WooD's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirueth stree.—ROUND THE GLOOM, at OF. M.; closes at Ws F. M. Matinee at 3 METROPOLITAN THEATRE, Mo. 685 Broaaway.—VAKIETY, at § P. W330 P.M. M.; closes at \ | | | OLYMPIC THEATRE, fom Broadway.—VARIETY, at $F. M.; closes at 10:45 GRAND OPERA HOUSE, | we Twenty-third gtreet and Kightt, svenue.—THE BLACK \ GROOK, ats P. M.; closes at II P. Srondwraz, between Twenty-first and Twenty second ets. —GILDED AGE, at 8 P. M.; clases at 10 P. al. ir. Joho T. Raymond. | ACADEMY OF MU-IC, Irving place.—PHILHARMONIC REHRARSAL, at 2:9 PM. er P.M; closesacllP. a Mile, albani STEINWAY HALL. OLD FOLKS’ CONCERT, at 8 METROPOLIT. Fourteenth street. —Open: PARK THEATRE, MUSEUM OF ART, WA. MM; Closes at 5 P.M, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, | UNCLE TOM’s CABIN, at3 P.M. Mrs G. C. Howard. SOMIQUE, closes at 1020 ats P.M. THEATRE No,_5'4 Broadway.—VARIEY Pm. ASSOCIATION HALL, READINGS, at$ P.M. Professor Koberts, BOOTH'S corner Twenty-third street and WINKLE, at 8 P.M. ; closes av d hb avenue.—RIP VAN 10 P.M. Mr. Jefferson. aq, New York, Friday, Nov. 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear. A Brraut, Bractxa AND Beavtrrcr day the great body of the people of the United States were given yesterday for Thanksgiving. | versy—that Bismarck felt he was making a desperate contest for power. He would never have invited the severe struggle that now menaces him if he had not felt that his power rested upon an uncertain tenure. It is diffi- cult to understand the exact relations of Bis- marck to the German nation, for in our sys- | tem there is no political analogy to that of | Germany. We have been told by eloquent | American writers like Mr. Medill and Mr. I believe in their conduct we shall find another element for the maintenance of that peace in which we have confidence.” In other words, while there is danger to the peace ot Europe, while ‘in the present state of affairs on the Continent there is cause for anxiety,” no such cause can be found in the ‘wise for- bearance’’ and “prudent magnanimity” of France. For France, according to this high critic, bas wisely forborne from resenting the wrongs heaped upon her by Germany, and has submitted with “prudent magnanimity”’ Yo the humiliations of her conqueror. Prince Bismarck, fighting for the public approbation of the world, has met with its condemnation. Those who have been disposed to worship his star as the star of suc- cess are silent. Nor do we seo in the German mind any of the former enthusiasm for the Chancellor. It was well enough to trample upon Danesand Austrians and Frenchmen; to violate treaties and customs and long-estab- lished laws; to deal with the foreigner with | blood and iron. All this could be pardoned as an evidence of love for Germany, and from the conviction that so great a work as Ger- | man unity could only be accomplished by | severe, pitiless deods. But Germany does | not care to give hor own arms to the rack and her own feet to the boot, Bismarck could send as many Frenchmen to jail as Ie pleased when he was master of Paris, but there can be no real liberty in a country where a citizen | can receive the treatment visited upon Count Arnim. These are the thoughts that rest in | the German mind, and men ask, How can there | | be liberty or peace where such things are pos- sible? The truth seems to be that in Germany there is a quarrel between two systems—the Prussian and the German system. Bismarck is a Prussian, trained in the school of the great Frederick. The law of that school was | that when the King saw witat he fancied ho should take it; for kings were kings in those | days of the David pattern, where will was law, and who reigned as the expression of | God's power and grace. When Frederick de- sired Silesia he seized it. This, as he after- | ward confessed, he did “for glory.” And : ’ sci | yet he had no more right to Silesia than the bin Capi atanee oe se Mee | cutpurse, who in those days was hanged for sacred offices of his faith. It seemed as if the process had been ingeniously selected, not merely to annoy a stubborn priest, but to insult the faith of Rome. There is also what is called ‘the case of Father Helfrich,’’ a clergy- man who was seized by the police in similar fashion. It is said that the circumstances of this arrest were designed to show the ‘‘futility of the popular belief encouraged by the clergy that a priest at the altar is above the law.” Such a defence, the Pall Mall Gazette well says, is ‘‘practically equivalent to an admis- | sion that the Tréves business was of a piece | with the Arnim affair, as subsequently inter- | preted by events. The statesman who could | go out of his way to answer every idle boast, | or accept every insidious challenge that is | thrown out to him, in defiance of what is | almost an axiom with all orderly govern- | ments—the enforcement of law in the way least likely to provoke a breach of the peace— eems to show the same characteristics as the statesman who arrested Count Arnim ; and in both cases the characteristics are those of a | man whose policy is governed by temper, and who prefers to incur gratuitous odium and provoke unnecessary hostility rather than forego the gratification of a mastertul spirit.” All this confirms what we have so often said since the beginning of the Arnim contro- | highway robbery, had to his stolen gold. He desired a part of Poland and he took it. When Napoleon was ravaging Europe Freder- ick’s descendant offered him an alliance if he would increase Prussian territory. When the peace of Waterloo was made all that Prussia craved was money and land. The war against Denmark was for Holstein. The war against Austria gave Prussia several duchies; that against France Alsace and Lorraine—prov- inces to which Germany did not have one- half as good a right as England possesses to the New England States; for, while the New England States had only been free from Eng- land for one hundred years, Alsace and Lor- raine had been free from Germany for twice that time. Bismarck has followed in the path of the great Frederick. His policy is | traditional with Prussia, The difficulty is that Germany is not Prussian. A new nation | has risen up—a nation of brave, clever, ac- complished, truth-loving men, who do not choose to be ruled by the whip and spur. In the old times a Prussian king was wont to kick his Ministers when they smoked tobacco that did not suit him and to cudgel citizens who would not build their houses to please the royal fancy. The same spirit still lives, and Bismarck is its representative as much as Frederick in his palmiest days. Against this principle Europe protests. Bismarck makes the mistake of the first Na- poleon in forgetting that he is a man, after all, and that while God reigns no mere man can do more than a man’s work. Success has | inflamed his pride and ambition. The posi- | tion he holds cannot last beyond the life of | the old Emperor. To recede from it is to sur- render—to fall from power and drag his party with him. The contest is between Prussian- ism on one side and Germany on the other— Bancroft that Germany now resembles the | | United States in its form of government and | in the personal security which every citizen | possesses. Yet we find that under this very | liberal and free government it is possible for | great noblemen to be thrown without warrant | into dungeons, for priests to.be dragged from | the altar and for whole communities to be banished from the land of their birth and their | A Goop Examrrr.—After a session of seven ancestors. These are the developments of the | weeks the Vermont Legislature, having finished | recent German system, and we have waited its necessary work, has adjourned and dis- | with anxiety for some of those defenders of persed. Inon Acarnst Invn Acaty.—The Carlists have resumed the bombardment of Irnn. | They are evidently stronger than they have been represented to be in the reports from Madrid. Ax Axcnor to THE Winpwarp has been dropped by Spain in a treaty with Dominica, providing for the perfect neutrality of that Republic in reference to the island of Cuba, | which means that St. Domingo is not to be- eome a rendezvous for Cuban filibusters, | Tue Troveres m THE Coan Recions.— The causes of the recent troubles in the coal regions of Pennsylvania are explained in let- ters from the Mayor of Scranton, Pa, and the president of a miners’ association in that locality, which we publish to-day. The ter- rible distress and poverty in which hundreds of families find themselves at present there can hardly be overestimated. A Srxautar Dymo Reqvest.—To prophesy that a man will die with his shoes on has been for immemorial time a euphemistic way of saying that he would be sure to be hanged. | Perhaps it was to refute such predictions con- | cerning himself, regarding them more in the | letter than the spirit, that a half-breed mur- | derer who was hanged at Cheyenne lately asked permission to take his shoes off, as his dying request. The consolation he desired ‘was granted, of coufse, but to the unpreju- diced person it must appear very slight. —_——— Tae Destrrvtion m Nepnasxa from the ravages of the grasshoppers extends, it is eaid, to twenty thousand people, and Kansas has nearly forty thousand shorn of their supplies | by clouds of grasshoppers. Kansas, however, | has still comparatively an abundance of corn, wheat and bacon, while Nebraska, with her much smaller population, is short and calls for help for her thousands of industrious peo- | ple on the verge of starvation. The neighbor- ing States should be drawn upon by the State authorities for its immediate necessities, and “German freedom and nationality’’ whose pens were so busy during the war to come to the | front and explain it all; but no such defence is made, and it is becoming more and more evident that the German Chancellor has resolved to defy the public sentiment of Europe in the furtherance of his purpose. Even as cautious a statesman as Mr. Disraeli, in his Mansion House speech, did not hesitate to express an impression that, no doubt, rests in the mind of every English- man. ‘‘What,’’ he asked, “is land without liberty? And what is capital without justice ? The working classes of this country have in- herited personal rights which the nobility of other nations do not yet possess. Their per- sons and their ho: re sacred. They have no fear of arbitrary arrests or domiciliary visits. They know, as the Lord Chancellor | has justly reminded us, that the administra- tion of law in this country is pure, and that it is no respocter of individuals or classes. They | know very well that their industry is unfet- tered, that by the law of this country they may combine to protect the interest of labor, and, as the Commander-in-Chief has well re- minded ns, they know that, though it is open to all of them to serve their Sovereign by land or sea, no one can be dragged from his craft or his hearth to enter a military service which is repugnant to him,’’ In other words, in England no man would be dragged from his home by any process of “arbitrary arrest,” as a nobleman like Arnim had been | dragged, and no Englishman could be taken trom his fireside and compelled to give the best years of his life to the army, as is the case with every German. These are the calm but necessarily biting words of the English Pre- mier, They tell us what Disraeli thinks of Bismarckism, and they have a further empha- sis from what he says about France. ‘I can- not,”’ he says, “refrain from expressing my | belief that in this country generally there is an admiration of the elasticity which Franco has shown under her almost unheard-of dis- asters; and I have such confidence in the between absolutism and nationality —between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Ger- many will submit to unusual measures, just as the United States submitted to arbitrary ar- rests during the war. But there is no war, and the only danger to peace rests in the pol- icy of the Minister of blood and iron. Bis- marck, who rose like Wolsey, seems about to fall like him. Much as men respect his genius and honor him for his services to Ger- many, we cannot help feeling that his recent policy is inimical to liberty, and that, should he fall, it would be the fall of a stern, abso- lute and crushing system. The Rights of Newspaper Correspond- ents. The indignities offered to the correspond- ents of the Hznarp and Times at Fontarabia and the attempt to place the London bureau of the Herap under the surveillance of police detectives at Prince Bismarck’s instigation are very properly receiving the condemnation of the press of all countries. Such acts are singularly out of place in this age of intelli- gence and thought. But they may not be without compensating results. One of the subjects suggested by the Emperor of Russia for the consideration of the proposed confer- ence at St. Petersburg on the international usages of war is that of the status of news- paper correspondents accompanying armies in times of war. The Emperor desires that certain rules shall be adopted to define the privileges, responsibilities and obli- gations of correspondents of the press, and that within these limits the correspond- ents shall be regarded as non-belligerenta, fol- lowing the army for a legitimate purpose and | entitled to safe conduct and protection. Tho Sovereign of one of the greatest Powers of the world thus shows his sympathy with the progress and enlightenment of the world. No one can fail to be impressed with the contrast between the Emperor's position and that of a puny nation like Spain, which is ever ready to vent its malice against newspaper corre- spondents and to commit such petty outrages upon them as its courage will permit, Fawtasticats.—Groups of ‘‘fantasticals’’ were to be seen yesterday in different parts of the city, dressed in all manner of absurd and grotesque costumes, males and females, always dirty and not always sober—a poor burlesque of a carnival. Here and there they attracted crowds, excited jeers and laughter and obstructed travel ; but they soon passed out of sight, to the gratification of respectable the State itself should meet the emergency, and without fnrther delay. wise forbearance and the prudent magnanim- ity which her oreaent rulers have shown, that people, and were forgotten. ‘‘Fantasticals,’’ | however. are not confined to the mummers of |an earthquake in Massachusetts, Lately, | the great brimstone functionary has departed, Thanksgiving Day. We have our official fan- tasticals, of whom poor old Mr. Havemeyer is @ grotesque type, and our financial fantasti- cals, like the unhappy Comptroller, who leads us into all manner of absurdities and blocks the way of progress. Then there are social fantasticals and literary funtasticals, all of whom are nuisances to decent people. It would be fortunate if we could get rid of the whole tribe as easily as we escape from the buffoons who disgraced humanity on the streets yesterday. | Earthquake. It was the opinion of the astute Cotton | Mather, who understood Massachusetts thor- oughly, that “the devil might have sufficient skill in chemistry to get up a thunder shower” | in that part of the world; and if a thunder shower, why not an earthquake? Is there any superior dignity in your earthquake to | remove it from the operation of a rule that is good for thunder showers? Is there not the same equality of dignity and standing among natural phenomena that there is among men? If there is not the republican party has still a noble future before it ; but we believe there is, and we therefore feel assared that the emi- nent personage alluded to could have got up however, he has not been in that State. It hes ceased to be the seat of all the moral vir- tues, it has gone over to the democrats, and perhaps for South Carolina. In his absence there is only one other magnate in Massachu- setts equal to the organization of an earth- quake, and that, of course, is Mr. Butler. The responsibility for this event must, there- fore, be laid at that gentleman’s door. But what object has he “in getting up an earth- quake now? What precise end has he to gain by detonation at the present time? On gen- eral principles we can comprehend his dispo- sition to make a noise in the world, and while he was in the neighborhood of Fort Fisher we could understand the profit to his rep- utation of a general ‘dusting down” of the solid walls of that part of the world; but why ‘imagine howl- ings’ for the quiet people of Massachu- setts just now? Is ita case of what the slang of the period designates ‘(pure cussedness ?” As the Essdx district refuses to send Ben to Congress any more it is just possible that since it can no longer be of any use to him he has resolved to give it a parting taste of his quality. But we are disposed to take another view. Butler is too good an economist to waste an earthquake in the mere indulgence of spite. No, it is an early preparation for the next Congressional canvass. He intends to frighten out of that district all but his own supporters. Ben’s friends will never flinch at little subterranean nonsense. Sulphur and the inflammable drugs generally have no terrors for people with a powerful friend at court; so they-will stand their ground. But the people whose failings lean to virtue’s side will leave by more or less general consent. One earthquake, however, will hardly do it- It will take several. The Essex district may, therefore, prepare for other earthquakes. It will be damaged, of course; but that we can- not help. Corner lots must be cheap some- where, and why not there as well as elsewhere? But whatever happens to Essex we rejoice that Butler has been heard from. That long-con- tinued silence was becoming oppressive, and excited apprehension was paintully on the stretch. Now that it is known where Ben is, ond that the outline of anew plan is visi, ble, men will breathe easier. Sermons in the Newspapers. There is a very neat little difference be- tween Mr. Beecher and a former foreman in the Tribune printing office as to whether it was in the columns of our contemporary or of some other paper not named that reports of ser- mons were first given. This is the way these things always .happen. Robert Fulton did not make the first steamboat. Somebody else did it. You can read all about it in the history of somebody else’s life. Watt didn’t make the first steam engine. Somebody in ancient Greece contemplated his teakettle while Watt was yet floating around in space as an “atomic molecule.” To associate the name of Morse with the telegraph, or Frank- lin with electricity, or Newton with gravita- | thority, and no authority can be to him higher save his fame and to identify himself with all reforms, and more especially with the reform in our civil service. The Thanksgiving Celebration. Thanksgiving Day was celebrated yesterday with so much enthusiastic unanimity that we infer the Rev. Mr. Frothingham’s sermon last Sunday, condemning its observance as gro- tesquely ridiculous, made but little impression on the public. Indeed, without any personal knowledge of the matter, but simply on 4 priori grounds, we are quite sure that it made as little impression on Mr. Fie ; Ingham, We presume that he “enjoyed rksgiving dinner all the more for his ser- mon, for it is an idiosynerasy with this emi- nent clergyman to repudiate and oppose au- [ than his own. Having ridiculed the observ- ance of Thanksgiving Day, consistency re- quired him to observe it, and we have no doubt he was consistent, But if he did not celebrate this joyful festi- val millions of others—and in this city hun- dreds of thousands—indubitably did. The American people have not a surfeit of holi- days, and the few they do possess they are wise enough to-use. They were, first of all, thankful for one of those golden days which come seldom at the close of November—blue skies and blue waters, and cvol, sweet air, tempered with the warmth of a cloudless sun. Whether this delicious day was a special gift of Providence to grateful humanity or the result of natural laws, they did not pause to consider, but were thankful without particularly caring why. Nor was this general joy confined to individuals and families, New York is a generous city, giving largely and freely, and one of the most pleas- ing features of the day was its celebration at all our charitable institutions, The report which we give of these fes- tivals, which the poor prize so much, but faintly indicates the delight which attended them. The churches had special services and the theatres gave extra per- formances ; the capital jokes about Turkey and the Porte were rade simultancoysly at innumerable tables, and have not seemed funnier at any time within the past thirty years. Nothing marred the | pleasure of the day but the consciousness that it must soon end and the painful experiences of a few persons who had indulged too freely in the good things before them. But these unhappy individuals will be thankful to-day that Thanksgiving Day is over, and have simply postponed their grati- tude to the time when they get well. “Swindling Operations.” M. Clement Duvernois, of Paris, goes to prison for two years for a financial operation not more reprehensible morally than the ope- ration of Little Emma, in which a United States Minister Plenipotentiary was concerned in London ; in fact, not more reprehensible than operations that are started by the hun- dred every day in the year at all the specula- tive centres. Half the intellectual activity of Wall street is excited over projects with no better economical foundation than the Span- ish scheme that has sent Duvernois to prison as a swindler—has put the indelible brand of crime on a life that was above the average for fair record and promise, Duvernois was a journalist, a man of clear perceptions and vigorous intellect, He sat in the Chamber of Deputies, has occupied important posts in the government of his country and has -been in politics nearly all his life, at one time as a liberal and then as an imperialist, He is, therefore, no vulgar jailbird; but he tam- pered with a scheme to get the money of the public in exchange for printed swindles and away he goes. We may measure the disre- gard for persons of the French law in matters of this sort by the fact that a gentleman of brilliant talents, who received a very large vote for the Presidency of the United States, might go to the same prison for the same offence if French justice could lay hands on him. Facts of this sort have a good effect on the financial mind, and they force us to con- cede that ‘they manage these things better’ in the Gallic capital than we do. How some of that sort of justice would clean ont Wall street! It would be much less free there; but there might be a compensation for that in the tion, is moonshine. These associations are | honesty it would enforce. And what would the fond delusions of common knowledge. In | be the consequence of making Wall street order to destroy all these claims of inventors | honest? Here is a speculation that touches it is only necessary to establish that some- body watched a teakettle boil before Watt did, or carried a steam engine over o river in | a rowboat before Fulton was born, or flew a kite before the time of Franklin, or saw a pippin tumble to the earth before Newton ever went into an orchard. . This is the patent process for invalidating discovery. Sermons were first regularly reported in the Henan. For years other journals left us a monopoly of | this field, and we gave on Monday morning as part of the news of the day all the important | sermons preached on Sunday. Some people of the Puritanic stripe even thought it was a very great outrage on our part. And the fact that the Hzraxp first made sermons a feature of the daily news will not be invalidated by showing that some other paper had printed a sermon now and then long before. Civii Service Reform, It seems to be certain that the President has expressed his determination to sustain the civil service reform measure and to enforce it in spite of the clamor of those republicans who | contend that the only way to save the party | is to turn out one class of office-holders and appoint another class. The President, no doubt, meant to have civil service reform in the beginning. When he became ambi- tious and prone to flattering counsellors, and with the third term phantom leading him on as Hamlet was led by his father’s ghost, he neglected civil service reform and ap- pointed men merely because they were | efficient politicians as ruthlessly as ever Andrew Jackson appointed them. But he gees the folly of that as he no doubt sees the folly of many other things. He sees that, after all, he has more to gain or lose in the two years before him than any man in his party. He has his fame as President and General to conserve. Ho has the pride of his- tory. He will be remembered when nearly every man now living will be forgotten, and he must be jealous of that memory. He does not care to throw away all he has gained and all he may gain to save politicians who are largely responsible for the ruin that has fallen uoon his administration, Jt ia bia duty to the edge of the infinite. Journalism and Its Changes. The announcement seems to be true that Colonel John W. Forney, the founder and editor of The Press, of Philadelphia, has sold a controlling interest in that journal to Colonel A. K. McClure, who will become its editor with the beginning of the new year. Colonel Forney retires altogether from jour- nalism, and will, it is said, spend some years in Europe. | It is about sixteen years since Colonel Forney founded The Press. He had edited The Pennsylvanian, the democratic organ in Philadelphia, and the Washington Union | when it was the democratic organ of President | Pierce. The Press began in 1857. Mr. Buchanan had been elected President, and | Colonel Forney, dissatisfied with the treat- ment he received from the new Executive, started his newspaper. Beginning asa dem- ocratic organ and supporting Mr. Buchanan, it very soon took sides with Douglas and Walker, leading the anti-Lecompton move- ment and contributing largely to that | disruption of the democratic party | which secured the election of Lincoln. Thenceforward- it was a republican paper and so remained until the present time. It is understood that Colonel Forney has long felt dissatisfied with Grant and the party, and when he went | to Europe it was because he could not sup- | port and did not wish to oppose. His retire- | ment from The Press marks the withdrawal from journalism of one of its oldest, boldest and bravest members. Although generally acting in close harmony with parties and po- litical movements, Colonel Forney has always shown the utmost pride in the integrity and advancement of journalism, respecting its | amenities and responsibilities and striving to increase its dignity and usefulness, We do not know what Colonel McClure pro- poses to do with The Press, He has a high reputation in Pennsylvania as a writer and a politician. His success will depend upon whether he means to be a journalist or a poli- tician. He cannot hold both of theag offices, | day is an injury to bis past TF be is wise he will choose the higher and nobler one, throw politics to the dogs who seem now to usurp all political opportunity, and make The Press an independent news- Paper. Tue Jury in the Washington safe burglary case spent their Thanksgiving Day in a state of grateful incarceration, expressed by psalm singing and card playing. At last advices they had gone to bed without much prospect of soon agreeing on a verdict. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General H. H. Baxter, of Vermont, is sojourning &t the Brevoort House, Congressman James Wilson, of Iowa, is staying at the St. James Hotel, Mme. Audral, ® daughter of Roger Collard, has Just died at her home in France. Congressman Willtam Louguridge, of Lowa, is registered at the Grand Central Hotel. Mayor N. F. Graves, of Syracuse, is among the latest arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. London 1 crowded with sovereigns and em- presses. The only Queen not there ts Victoria. Captain John Mirehouse, of the steamship City of Montreal, is quartered at the New York Hotel. Lieutenant W. M. Savage, of the British Navy, is Trestding temporarily at the Grand Central Hotel. Mr. Vomn, Receiver Genera! of Nova Scotia, has been seriously ill at Digby, but is now convales- cent, Mrs. Nellie Sartoris, daughter of President Grant, is expected to arrive in Paris on Monday next, associate Justice Stephen J. Field, of the United States Supreme Court, arrived in this city yester- day and is at the Albemarle Hotel, Congressman Lyman K. Bass and hie bride ar- rived in this city yesterday from Buffalo and took up their residence at the St. James Hotel, All our vanilla will one of these days be made Out of rosin, as two French chemists have dlacov- ered a method for this strange extraction. Professors George E. Day, H. B. Herrick and Ezra Abbot, members of the committee engaged in the revision of the Bible, are at the Everett House, Hatr dealers who buy in the French provinces the abundant tresses of the country women pursue @ tramMo that is something dangerous. Recently @ countryman, whose wile had sold her hair, caught the buyer and shaved his head. In Paris a proposition 1s afloat to make the medi- cal school @ national establishment in the sense in which the Polytechnic School is, or as our West Point is—to make the students completely subject to the constituted authorities and lodge them in the edifice. One of the Bohemians of the Paris Bourse re- cently gave a dinner to some friends at bisown house, and in the course of the dessert, by dis- traction, put a spoon in his pocket, whereupon the oldest man present said gravely ‘‘My friend, you forget that you are not at a restaurant.’’ The Duke de Mouchy, just elected to the French Assembly trom the Department of the Oise, is of the Noalliles family and the husband of the Princeas Anna Murat. He is thirty-three years old, @ chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Grandee of Spain and hereditary Grand Cross of the Order of Malta, He satin the Assembly previously for one term. There is » man in aris who wants 5,000 francs to use‘tn a commercial and scientific operation, and he advertises that for this sum he will place himself in the hands of any physician or surgeon as a subject for any experiments, though death may be the possible tssue, Every member of the dangerous classes who murders to rob takes a gimilar chance, On the 3d of November 4 marble slab three feet by four in size was placed on the front of a house in the village of Motier, Switzerland, It beara this inscription :— POLOOOOE PENI LELEDE DELO LELEDE DENCE DODEDELE DENTE J. LOUIS AGASSIZ, i celebrated naturalist, was born in this 3° house, May 28, 1807. POON LO DELL EELELELE DEDEDE DEDEDE DODIDUDE DE DEODDG OES) M. Stmonin, an aoute observer, who recently visited this country, read @ paper on America: before the French Society of Political Economy at its last session. One of his observations indicates: that an instrument. now familiar with us, has not yet found its way to France. “By the side of # banker’s table a band of paper constantly rolis from a little reel and falis into a basket below,, like a stream of running water, and on tnis, as 16. passes out one sees printed, one after another,, the market rates, the changes—even the dally: news.” In the memoir of Stanislas de Girardin, who: owned the domain cf Ermenonville, there is am account oF a visit to that place of the first Napo- leon, At the tomb of Rousseau he sald, as ree counted in the memoirs, ‘It would have been bet- ter for the repose of France if this man had never. existed.” “Wny?’ said De Girardin. “He pre-, pared the Revolution,” said Napoleon, “It seema to me,” said the proprietor, “that tt is not for you, to complain of the Revolution.” “Well,” said Napoleon, “the future will know if it would not have been better for France that neither Rousseau nor myself had ever existed.” He was then First Consul. AMUSEMENTS. Italian Opera—Il Barbiere di Sevigiia. ‘The Italian opera does not seem to come under the poputar head of Thanksgiving amusements, for there was a terrible dearth of patrons last night at the performance of Rossini’s comic opera “Il Barbiere di Sevigiia.” The performance wag not attractive in any sense of the word. The cast’ was the following :—Rosina, Mile. Donadio; Alma- viva, Signor Ben{ratelll; Bartolo, Signor Fiorini; Basilio, Carl Formes; Figaro, Signor Del Puente., It is Bo edie to speak in terms of commenda- tion of the performance except in the case of Del Puente. Mile. Donadio failed to give even a passin, interest to the dle of Rosina, and Benfrateill w: utterly inadequate to the requirements of the venor role, Carl Fores has not recovered hia voice, and hara as itis with one who heard him. m his prime to criticise twenty years later the FeLtenaace ol one of the greatest artists in his ine, who has ever sung such r0les as Basilio, Marcel, Bertram and Leporello, we are compelled, to say "hat the operatic career of Carl Formes is, past, and that every role he essays at the present’ fame. It woula be difficult for any impresario to present a@ worse’ representation of Rossini’s opera. ‘“Lohengrin’® will be given to-night as a farewell performance. of the season, and no one shonid miss the wonder- | fal impersonation of the rdle of Bisa by the great- est of Amerigan prime donne, Mile. Albant, Musical and Dramatic Notes. strakosch don’t like Brookiyn, because they won't support opera over there, Robertson's comedy of ‘Society’ has been re- vived atthe Prince of Wales, London, with Mr, Hare as Lord Ptarmigan. Marion Sackett, who made a successful début in the “Lady of Lyons” in this city, is hard at work studying @ new melodramatic part, expressing, the passion of heartoroken love. A drama, in three acts, called ‘Faits Divers,” produced at the Cluny Theatre, resulted in a dis- astrous failure, The author, M, Manuel, is a very young man, The Spanish stage is to furnish the coming nov- elty at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. Mr. Daly, having already ransacked the French and German theatres, has discovered @ genuine surprise ina | new play which lately created a sensation ia | Madrid. ART NOTES, Mr, W. Whittreage is engaged upon a pletare: representing the village of Brunnen. on the Lake of Lucerne, with the Uri-Rothstock range of moun- tains in the distance. A.D, Shattack is still at hts studio in Granby, Conn, His studio in the Tenth Street Building ts oceupied by Mr. Albert Insley, who has brought back some rieh autamn studies from the country. Mr. J. L. Fitch is finishing a stuay of a brook ia the Adirondacks. The canvas is very large, being 72 inches by 36, and the execution 1s very careiul and effective. The Academy of Design have appointed Mesers, Blerstadt, Hicks and Lamodin as a committee to confer with the Directors of the Art Deparumeat. of tha Centennial Kxuibition as Philadeinnis,