The New York Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1874, Page 6

a NEW YORK HERALD JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR The Late Mayor Havemeyer. The death of the Chief Magistrate of this | city, who was suddenly struck down at his post of duty about noon yesterday, makes a | profound impression on the public mind. | Mayor Havemeyer had completed the three } seore years and ten which the Hebrew Psalm- THE DAILY HERALD, published | oe the limit of anager tar the decease of a man of that ripe age is no hen See ae el calculated to shock public feeling unless it nual subscription price $18, takes place under circumstances of peculiar | UBSCRIBERS. impressiveness. When an aged man, yielding | FORKS GO 8 ie and | to some of the ordinary forms of disease, dies after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly in his bed, surrounded by his family and editions of the New Yorm Hzaup will be | sympathizing friends, assembled to ease the sent free of postage. 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IPPODROME, Twenty-sixth stre mi fourth avenue.—FETE AT PEKIN, afiernoon and evening, at 2and 5. ALLACK’S THEATRE Broadway.—THE SHAUGHRAUN, at8 P. M.5 closes at W:40. Mr. Boucicault. TERRAC THEATRE. Fitty-cighth ‘street and. Lexington avenue.—VARIETY, | ater. a. 3 closes at 10:30 jatinee at2 P.M. W PARE Ti! NEI BROOKLYN. MARY WARNER,2t SF. o Variotta Leclercq. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince NORMAN LESLIE. i ACADEMY OF MUSIO. FAUST. Mile. Heilbron, Miss Cary, Signori Bassini, Fiorini. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, Bowery._DIE F eRMAUS, Miss Lin: TRIPL New York, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day willbe clear, Watt Srreer Yesterpay.—Stocks were comparatively strong. Money was to be had , on call at recent rates. Investment securities were firm. Gold closed at 112}. Tue Dzsrrtion of Don Carlos by some of his influential leaders is reported from Madrid. Forricners 1N Brazm.—What Sir Boyle Roche might have called a “Native Ameri- can’’ excitement exists in Para, Brazil, in the form of a rising of the citizens against the resident foreigners. The troops have been required to protect the latter, and the Bra- zilian government announces that it will prosecute a newspaper which has been active | in creating the persecution. Krsa Katazava has been entertained in true American fashion in San Francisco, and on Sunday night gave a reception to the city officials at his palace—for so long as a real king stays ata hotel courtesy requires that it should have that noble title. in San Francisco till Saturday, in order, by studying the attractions of that city, to pre- pare his eyes for the more dazzling splendors of the East. ‘Tre Frencu Assemery met yesterday at Ver- railles and held a brief session, and the dif- ferent parties were especially busy in caucus in organizing their plans of battle. The republicans continue to have the advantage in the municipal elections. The Count de Chambord has written a letter to his friends in the Assembly, in which he says he will offer them no advice, advises them to do nothing that would delay closes at 10:30 | and Houston streets.— | He will remain | and then | | flight of the departing spirit, the event seews s0 entirely in the course of nature that we Providence and add a gentle melancholy to | the sorrow of those who are bound to him by nearer ties. But when a prominent pub- man, high in official stgtion, is smitten by the Destroyer, without warning, in the full activity of his faculties, and his ‘amil- iar presence is caught away as in a quickly | descending cloud, our spirits sink under a | subduing sense of the frail tenure of all earthly possessions. Aud yet, aside from the added affliction which falls upon a domestic circle forbidden the last offices of tenderness and the dying | blessing, the sudden death of Mayor Have- meyer, when his official term was so near its close, is a beneficent dispensation. It bright- | ens the memory of bis virtues and covers his | faults with a mantle of generous oblivion. | Had he gone out of office a month hence with | the inauguration of his successor, the inde- fensible parts ot his career, as being the most | recent, would have left the strongest impres- | sion on the public mind. But the appeal to our common human sympathies made by so affecting a death disarms hostility ond | | obliterates every feeling of resentment. If the impulsive and energetic American people | carry their political warfare to passionate | lengths they are too manly and chivalrous to | strike a fallen foe, and all political like all | | personal animosities are hushed into silence | by the event which reminds us ‘what | | shadows we are and what shadows we pur- sue.” This deep and abiding magna- nimity which underlies our fierce po- litical contentions is, perhaps, tne | most estimable feature of the American char- | acter. Our quarrels and bickerings are | mere waves on the surface of a seaof human | feeling whose profoundest depths have a | reserve of genuine humanity which the storms | of political controversy do not disturb. This | redeeming quality of the American heart | was never more signally illustrated than | at the tragic death of President Lin- | | coln, when every breath of censure sub- | | sided in reverent stillness, and political foes | | vied with political {riends in recognizing and | | celebrating his virtues. It is a beautiful | | feature of our national character that we are always so ready to lay the acerbitics of poli- | tics on the altar of a generous feeling or bury | | them in a suddenly opened grave. If we be- | | lieve that a decezsed public man was guided | | by honest intentions and patriotic impulses | we easily pardon his errors of judgment and | \ his human imfirmities when he is sum- | moned before the great tribunal where we | \ shall all need mercy and indulgence. | The impressive suddenness of Mayor Have- | meyer’s death spreads a broad mantle of oblivion over the faults and infirmities of the last months, when the unperceived seeds of | disease were silently undermining his consti- | | tution and the faculties of his mind, and | creates a willingness to estimate his character | difficulties of a transition period in our muni- cipal polities put him at sea without a chart. A party Mayor has many advantages and securities. All the trusted chiefs of his own party stand around him, ready to give their advice and support, and anxious to save him from mistakes. But Mr. Havemeyer came into office at his last election by the votes of citizens of both parties, and he had the difficult task laid upon him of try- ing to please men who agreed in noth- ing beyond their confidence in his in- tegrity. It was the old and insoluble problem of serving two masters. Hav- ing been elected neither as a democrat nor asa republican, no attempt to trim be- tween the two parties could satisfy either, and | efforts to be fair were sure to incur the hos- tility of both. Sensible of his alienation from both parties, he followed his personal predilections, which is, perhaps, the most un- safe rule a public officer can adopt. But for this error he paid a heavy penalty, and it should be no longer remembered against him. Mr. Havemeyer belonged to a class of old | New York citizens of whom the city will always have reason to be proud. Born and | bred among us, and having first established his credit as an honorable merchant, he was, more than thirty years ago, elected as our Mayor, and, after serving with great accept- ance, he was elected again to the same oftice in 1848, when his admininistration was equally popular. He was taken up by the so-called reformers two years ago on the | strength of his former unimpeachable record. | If we throw a generous veil over the errors of the last few months Mr. Havemeyer | deserves to stand in the first rank of our old | and honored citizens whose lives bear testi- mony to the sturdy virtues which may be nourished and built up in a community de- | voted to commerce. Our citizens, and es- pecially that part of them who were born and have grown old as the contemporaries of the late Mayor, will pay willing homage to the purity of his intentions, the integrity of his | life and his superiority to sordid or unworthy aims as a public officer. Progress of Politics in France. Paris has elected sixty-three republicans of | various shades to eleven conservatives. Only ten of these republicans of the city govern- ment are describéd as moderate. It is in the extravagance of her republicanism alone, therefore, that Paris is not in full agreement with the rest of the country, tor republicans of some shade carry elections in the country in almost the same proportion. In elections for members of the Assembly the decision of the | people at the polls is unmistakable. Since the | adjournment of the Assembly in August elec- tions have occurred in nine departments. These departments are so distributed that we | may find the opinion of every part of the coun- | try in the result, and North, East, South and West pronounce to the same effect. Out of nine members elected during the vacation six are | republicans and three are Bonupartists. These, therefore, are the only parties there are in the country and these are the proportions into which the country is divided between them. Inthetwo latest elections—those of M. Delisse- Engrand and the Duke de Mouchy—these can- didates were elected over republicans by coali- tions of all the other elements. All the legiti- | mist, Orleanist and clerical influences thus rec- | ognized that their only practical hope against the republicans is in joining hands with the | Bonapartists—in flying the colors of the Em- pire. If they had not made timely recognition of the wisdom of this course there would | have been a return of eight republicans from | on asurvey of his whole career, which has | been, in the main, praiseworthy and honora- | ble. The old inhabitants of the city, who | cherish sentiments of respect and affection | for citizens born among them and growing up | under New York influences, are affected by | this death in a manner which our vast popu- lation of newcomers canftot readily under- stand. This great mari of commerce, of | which we are all so proud, seems to its recent | inbabitants like a great caravansary, where | men come and go, wake sudden for- | tunes and retire, but acquire little of that sacred home-like feeling which ministers to the most abiding sentiments of the human heart. A city of such wonder- ful growth has its drawbacks as well as its advantages. In some respects it is more like an inn than a home, and its recent and tran- sient residents cannot be expected to enter into all the sentiments of those who were born here, feel rooted here and cherish a tond attach- ment to the old and stable families whose long | residence gives identity and continuity to the | social life of this changing metropolis. |It is one of the most respectable | cravings of the human heart to feel | | that it is not living in an inn or caravansary, but a home, and in this great bustling city | the only anchor for hearts which rest on | | abiding attachments is that part of our popn- | lation who were born and nurtured on this | island. Accordingly no member of an old | New York family can die, even if he has no | | other distinction than that of being a native | of the city, without exciting kindly | | interest and pensive regrets in the hearts of our old inhabitants. Mr. Have- meyer, as an old New Yorker, born and bred among us, would have touched this chord of sympathy if he had died a private | citizen without the adventitious circumstances | of his being the chief magistrate of this an- | cient Dutch city, in which he drew his first | breath and the affecting suddenness of his | | demise. But Mr. Havemeyer was not ouly | | an old but a truly honorable citizen of this abode of the original Knickerbockers. | He grow up among us as an es- | | clear for a modification of the attitude of the | ten by Laboulaye we are apparently at liberty the restoration of the monarchy. He might, | teemed, enterprising and successful mer- | with greater reason, advise them to do more | chant in a community where honorable | to prevent the restoration of the Bonapartists. and successful merchants have always been | wnat held in honor. The credit he had won in Ixstor Live ms Prnxsyivanta.—That was a | mercantile pursuits made him Mayor in 1845, | weird story told by our correspondent in | and again in 1848, and if bis third election to Scranton and printed in yesterday's Herat, | that office in 1872 depended on accidental It is hard to realize that such things should | circumstances it was also owing, ina great be in «Christian land, Yet this is in Penn- | measure, to bis long identification with the | sylvania, the land of protection, and in the | interests of the cily. No flashy new comer very country where iron masters and coal mas- | could have so easily won the confidence of ters clamor for protection and obtain it as an | our citizens, many of whom voted for Mr. encouragement to American industry. If this | Havemeyer on account of ‘auld lang syne’’ is the result of protection, if mine owners are | as well as because they thought him a trusty w roll in wealth while the miserable laborer | representative of municipal reform. and his family starve, then all the rhetoric | Mr. Havemeyer was an excellent and popu- about the rights of industry is simply irony. | lar Mayor during his two former periods, and | upon their agreement seems hopeless. nine elections. With the fact plain, therefore, that there are only republicans and imperialists in the coun- try, that the future is the inevitable possession of one or the other of these parties, the case is government and for a considerable accession of force to the party which for years past has clamored for a dissolution of the Assembly. | In the early future, therefore, the struggle will be against the government—first, no | doubt, to compel a change of ministry, and | it is not evident how such a change can be de- ferred beyond the first fair vote after the Assembly meets. Buta more material change will be urged by those who propose to ‘“‘con- stitute” the Septennate. There are two projects for the constitution of the Septennate. One is the formalized scheme of Casimir-Perier, who wishes to give a constitutional character and form to what is now scarcely more than a personal sovereignty. The other notion for the ‘constitution’ of the Septennate is to encourage that tendency in virtue of which it is becoming daily more and more a mere mask, # formal cover for the Empire. In this division, on a gen- eral point of a republic of some kind as against the other tendencies, the republicans have the advantage of numbers, and if the battle becomes desperate they can vote the dis- solution. From what has recently been writ- to suppose that the conservative republicans | are ready now to vote for dissolution—to take the step that the radicals have always urged as necessary. But the point to be apprehended is such a difference between republicans on detail as will sacrifice their victory on the more important issue. Before any action is taken in the As- sembly there will be a caucus of all the fac- tions of the Left, and it is evidently hoped that they can be bronght to agree on a par- liamentery programme. Casimir-Perier is president of the faction of conservative repub- licans or the Centre Gauche, Ledra Rollin of the radicals, and Gambetta leads all between these extremes. These three men are already well nigh at swords’ points in public polemics, anda republican success which must depend Ie is to be apprehended, therefore, that the Bona- partist elements will, in the divisions of the republicans, secure substantial advantages, The Peruvian Insurgent Pierole and His Filibustering Steamer—A Re- markable Story. From Henarp correspondent at Lima we | are enabled to give our readers this morning | the remarkable narrative of Dou Nicolas de Pierola’s revolutionary enterprise in Peru down to the 13th ult. In connection with this apparently foolhardy undertaking for the overthrow of the existing Peruvian govern- ment the narrative of the adventures of the filibustering steamship Talisman is very inter- esting and suggestive. Here we have a Glas- | gow built little race horse of a steamer leaving that port in July last with a cargo of a thou- sand packages of warlike materials, including mitrailleuses, small arms and powder. She finally clears from Cardiff for Montevideo and a market; but after landing a passenger or two at that port she is off again, and, steaming down to and through the Straits of Magellan, she next turns up off the coast of Chili, and thence moving to the coast of Peru she begins to search for a secure landing. But the Peru- vian government has been informed of all her movements from Glasgow and is waiting and | watching to welcome the stranger and take her in. The whole Pernvian navy is distrib- uted along the coast for this hospitable pur- pose, and detachments of troops have been posted at various points to receive the fili- buster, The Talisman, however, after some narrow escapes in the gameof hide and seek, suc- ceeds atone point in taking on board some forty-seven Peruvian conspirators, and at an- other small port in effecting a landing, and begins at once to discharge passengers and cargo. But hardly more than a third of the cargo bas been landed when the Peruvian ram Huascar looms into view, bearing down upon the filibuster under a full head of steam. The Talisman is captured and carried up to | Callao as a prize, and all the population of the | city turns out to welcome the distinguished stranger. But, meantime, Pierola and his fel- low conspirators, having landed at Pachocas, gather up the arms and munitions they have secured, seize a railway train, put their ma- terials aboard and push off to Moquegua, forty miles in the interior, and take posses- sion of the town, to the ringing of the church bells and the rattling of Chinese fire-crackers. Pierola next commences the mustering of volunteers, and, with the inducement of a dollar a day, he speedily raises an army of three hundred men, and here and in this con- dition our correspondent leaves him. Meantime, President Pardo, fully alive tu the dangers of the situation, sends down ships, troops, flying artillery and supplies for an advance upon Pierola; and, upon the President’s demand, the Peruvian Congress empowers him to raise a loan of five millions jor the prosecution of the campaign, to in- ercase the army at his discretion, and to call out the National Guard. In the midst of these preparations for the war in the South | against Pierola news comes to Lima of a revolutionary outbreak in the North, and great excitement prevails in the capital. President Pardo, notwithstanding the con- temptible demonstration of Pierola, evidently believes that a formidable revolutionary move- ment is afoot ; for otherwise he would hardly call for the extraordivary loan of five millions. The steamer Talisman also suggests a power- ful conspiracy, including men of capital as well as desperate adventurers. In the capture of the ship, however, with the greater portion of her cargo of arms and munitions of war, the government has most likely achieved a | decisive victory over Pierola. But whether within the last two weeks the insurgents have been suppressed or have gained strength in the North or South we shall doubtless be fully informed in our next special advices from Lima. The New Programme. The lamented death of Mayor Havemeyer occasions some important changes in the city government, Mr. Vance, the President of the Board of Aldermen, becomes Mayor, vested with all the powers and duties of the office. The Board of Aldermen elect o temporary Chairman to take the place of the President thus transferred to the Executive Department, and the temporary Chairman is vested with all the powers and clothed with all the duties of the President of the Board. He thus becomes a member of the Board of Apportionment, which consists of the Mayor, the President of the Board of Aldermen, the Comptroller and the President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments. The character of the Board of Apportionment will, therefore, be materially changed. Alderman Flanagan was yesterday called to preside in the Board of Aldermen, which is an indication that he will to-day be chosen temporary Chairman. In this event the Board of Apportionment will consist of Mayor Vance, Comptroller Green, Commissioner Wheeler and Alderman Flanagan. Hitherto the Mayor and Comptroller have acted to- | gether in that Board, generally in opposition to their two associates, and this is alleged to have prevented the proper reduction of the city estimates. The deadlock will now be broken, and as the whole subject of the ap- propriations will be reopened on the making of the final estimate it seems probable that the enormous tax levy for 1875 may yet be materially reduced. The Board will also have power now to com- pel the Commissioners of the Department of Docks to comply with the requirements of the city charter. The department is one of, those confirmed by and embodied in the charter, under article fifteen, section eighty-cight. The charter requires all departments to “send to the Board of Apportionment an estimate in | writing of the amount of expenditure, speci- fying in detail the objects thereof, in the re- spective departments, including a statement of each of the salaries of their officers, clerks, employ’s and subordinates.”’ It further provides that ‘tho same state- ment as to salaries and expenditure shall | be made by all other officers, persons and | boards having power to fix or authorize | and to this result the exhibitio: i i . reas Si en bs radical them." The Dock Department has refused to tendencies in the Paris clection will greatly ‘ make such a statement and has asserted its contribute. All the conservative elements |. , . rf a , " independence of the Board ot Apportionment. will rally to the imperial banner, as affording Il been impossible hith t the only chance to save the country from the as been impossible hitherto to compel “reds,"* Tux Reronr of the Commissary General of Subsistence is elsewhere pablished, and in- cludes a statement of the cost of providing for the army and recommendations for the better i} } | | | | ‘The story is o sad one, apart from its political | if his recent service has been less accepta- | supply of distant stations. The necessity of | some reform has been shown in the recent Openings and of the City Record Commission | gent upon the powers of an organism ‘so low aspects, and commends itself tothe sympathies | ble to the city it is not because his intentions of benevolent people, | were less pure and upright, but because the | Indian war, compliance with the law on account of the deaglock in the Board of Apportionment. There is no doubt now that the majority of | the Board will insist on a report from the Dock Commissioners before another dollar is appropriated to the de, artment. The complexion of the Board of Street 4 will also be changed by the sad occursence. | due to contagion alone. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET, but as only a month intervenes before Mayor Wickham’s accession to office these changes will not be material. That in the Board of Apportionment is, however, important, inas- much as the present Board is called upon to make the final estimate upon which all the expenses of the municipal offices and the rate of taxation for 1875 will be based. Partisan Legislation—A Caution for the Democracy. ‘When the democrats return to power, which seems now an inevitable result of republican misrule, they should learn from the lesson of experience to avoid partisan legislation framed for the purpose of securing temporary party advantages. Such policy recoils upon its authors often with damaging effect. The old Tammany Ring, confident in their strength, passed laws bestowing appointments on them- selves for long terms, intending to secure an extended lease of power; but, on their sudden overthrow, the benefits of this legislation were gathered by their enemies. The republicans in their turn concocted a charter designed to protect their own political friends in the city offices for a number of years, and now it threatens to be the instrument of their down- fall. Fearful of trusting the Mayor, they tied his hands by providing that his removals from office should require the Governor's approval before they became operative. Now a demo- cratic Mayor and a democratic Governor are about to take office, Independent of the fact that they would be likely to act in accord in the matier of removals, it is not at all probable that a democratic Governor would so far violate the principles of his party as to oppose the Mayor in any changes in the municipal offices he might deem it to the interest of the city to make, so that the charter designed to extend the term of the “reform” heads of depart- ments beyond that of the Mayor will operate as the instrament of their removal. Typhoid Germs and the Germ Theory of Disease. Profestor Tyndall has recently made a sci- entific communication to the public, in his usual lucid and felicitous style, which will do him more credit than his famous Belfast speech, Though not trained in medical sci- ence he has done it great service in bringing to publicity the great investigations of more retiring scientists regarding the germ theory of typhoid and other diseases. The conclu- sions arrived at are not, indeed, original, but deserve none the less careful attention and analysis by the medical fraternity, on the principle of a great classic writer—‘‘he that knows where knowledge is is next to him who has it.”’ One of the earliest and most eminent in- quirers in this field, and the one chiefly fol- lowed by Professor Tyndall, was Dr. Budd, whose labors led him to the conviction that there is no such thing as the spontaneous production of typhoid disease, and that, like smallpox, the malady is propagated by con- tagion. According to this view, which Dr. Tyndall professes to have rigorously ana- lyzed, using Dr. Budd’s data and other typhoid statistics, typhoid fever can be orig- inated from no concourse of filth or putres- cence. It is developed by no effluvia, how- ever foul, from sewer or cesspool or ashpit ; but can germinate only ‘frdri’ its own pre- existing seed. The living human body is the | soil in which this germ-poison of typhoid fever breeds and multiplies, and its spread is Thus in 1858 and 1859, when the Thames was in a terribly foul condition, the stench of which rose “to the height of an historic event,’’ the commu- nity of London, even along the river, enjoyed asingular immunity from fever, showing the incapacity of foul matter alone to generate the typhoid germs, Conversely, in rural districts, where the air is purest, and in some seasons exceptionally fine, the fatal malady has been known to rage in the cotter’s home and has been traced exclusively along lines of personal communication and contact with the imported cases. Fortunately the intestinal seat of the deadly organisms was definitely located by Dr. Budd; and another equally able physician, Dr. Klein, has, it is said, recently discovered the very organisms themselves, which lie at the root of all the widespread and fatal mis- chief. If Dr. Klein’s experiments, now some- what in embryo, however, corroborate fully the views of Dr. Budd, an important step has been made toward the eradication of this, per- haps the most morbific agent that ever in- fested the human body. So far Professor Tyndall's hypothesis has had rapid but not unchallenged circulation, and while its great value 1s obvious its incompleteness is also manifest. Dr. Alfred Carpenter, an eminent English practitioner, in an admirable letter to the London Times, shows that typhoid disease is contagious only in a limited degree. The bedside attendant of the typhoid patient by scrupulous care is seldom attacked. The rules to be followed are ‘not to eat or drink in the patient’s room, not to eat with unwashed hands after attend- ing the sick, and to drink only water that can- not have been contaminated by the result of excretal decompositions by which the germs bearing the grauules of mischief may have been brought into contact with it by the sewer gases."’ Where such precautions are observed, Dr. Carpenter states, the contagious power of the typhoid poison is rendered comparatively harmless. But he justly repudiates the sweep- ing and unsustained assumption of Professor Tyndall that typhoid can originate only from the pre-existing germs. These germs, he con- tends, may be generated from morbid matter exposed to certain atmospheric conditions giving rise to typhoid, scarlatina, dysentery and other diseases, according as certain tel- luric influences may or may not be present. Dr. Carpenter ingeniously proposes to attack the evil by first ascertaining experimentally what are the factors necessary to its genera- tion, and then through ventilation or other | means removing one of the factors without which it cannot exist. | demics seems to prove that they cannot, like smallpox, be stamped out by isola- tion; but only by ascertaining and altering | the morbific matter itself can they be effect- ually stayed. It is highly probable that the empirical processes of disinfection, drainage | and clinical purgation have effected much to | mitigate the horrors of this pestilence. But it is very humiliating, as Dr. Budd suggests, | that issues so vast and vital should be contin- in the scale of being that the mildew which The history of typhoid and kindred epi- | springs on the decaying wood must be eon sidered high in comparison."’ The investiga tion of this subject is of such momentous im- portance to mankind that all inquirers should act in accord, and, eschewing every prejudice, concentrate upon it their powers of research and microscopic observation. No one will deny that Professor Tyndall, in his new work, has been, as he says, animated by the desire to “stamp at a receptive moment salutary truth upon the public mind.” Tax Peynsyivani Sznatonsnir.—The raik road interests of Pennsylvania are urging the claims of William A. Wallace, democrat, State Senator and late President of the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, for the seat in the Senate now occupied by Scott, republican, whose term expires on the 4th of March next. Senator Cameron, the republican head sachem of Pennsylvania, taking a railway view of the subject, is reported as favoring the movement for Wallace. But, on the other hand, Judge Black has intimated his readiness to fill the Senatorial chair in question, and Judge Black has strong claims and a powerful backing. It will not be a matter of surprise, however, should the election of even a democratic Senator from Pennsylvania be determined by the strategy and tactics of the old campaigner, Cameron. FERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Congressman Jonn A, Kasson, of Iowa, is residing at the Gienbam Hotel, Twenty-fve thousand dollars have been collected 1n Chili for Don Carlos, General Henry W. Wessells, United States Army, is stopping at Barnum’s Hotel. Ex-Senator James A, Bayard, of Delaware, 1s so journing at the New York Hotel. Senator Alexander Ramsey, of Minnesota, has apartments at the Windsor Hotel. Hon. William McDougall and wife arrived at Montreal yesterday from England. Congressman elect George M. Becbe, of Montl- cello, N. Y., is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Inspector General D. B. Sacket, United States Army, is quartered at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Captain C. P. Patterson, of the United States Coast Survey, has quarters at the Everett House. Assistant Surgeon General Charles H. Crane, United States Army, is registerea at the Gienham Hotel. Tne Duke of Connaught was hurt yesterday, in England, by a fall from his horse while he was out riding. Mr. George Wilkes, editor of the Spirit of the Times, returned from Europe on Sunday in ree stored health and spirits, Captain Featherstonhaugh, of the British North American Boundary Commission, arrived at Ottawa, Canada, yesterday morning, General Campino, one of the few remaining vet+ erans of the South American war of independ- ence, died on the 21st of Octover last. The Britis: seamen and marines who specially distinguished themselves in the Ashantee cam- paign are to be presented with medals by Queen Victoria, at Windsor, on Thursday next, The civil marriage of M. Waddington, Minister ' of Public Instruction under M. Thiers and Deputy jor the Aisne in the National Assembly, with Miss Mary alsop King, daughter of the late Uharies King, of New York,was celebrated at the Mairie of the Eighth Arrondissement, Paris, November 9. On the 11th the Protestant chapel, in the Rue de Provence, was filled with the relations and friends of the bride and groom to witness the religious service performed by Pasteur Bersier, the wite nesses for the former being her two brothers, Mr. William C. King ana Lieutenant Colonel King, United States Army, and those ior the gentle man, M. Alphonse Lutteroth, formerly Minister Plenipotentiary at Naples, and M. Richard Wad- ington. The bride’s dress was of white satin, made plain, en princesse, with the exception of three broad rows of white mother-ol-pearl, extend- ing trom the throat to the Jeet. A veil of tulle cov- ered the whole figure and the head was adorned wita orange blossoms. A collation was prepared at the residence of the bride’s mother, Mra, Charles King, No. 33 Champs Elys¢es, the large rooms being fragrant with lovely flowers and well-filled with a brilliant company, in which many nation- alities were represented, RECEPTION OF THE BROOKLYN ART ASSOCIATION. ‘The great artistic event of the Brooklyn year came off last night, under conditions that mus¢ have rejoiced the hearts of the gentiemen ana their Jair co-workers, to wnose zeal the inhabit. ants of the City of Churches owe their annual peep at the world of art, The splendid rooms of the Academy were filled witn beauty and fashion, and, as usual, there were 80 many animated objects of interest that we fear the paintings occupied but iittle of the attention of the assistants, though, as a matter of course, every one pretended to be wholly ab sorbed in the study of the beautiful on canvas, Ltke all similar collections, there are a great many works of mo very solia merit. If our memory serves us well we have seen coilections made under the same auspices which were superior in interest aud merit. We regret this because it is desirable that the standard of exhibitions like the present, which are supposed to exercise an education: tendency, ought tobe kept as higo as possibie, ‘There is offered the usual excuse, the necessity of covering the walis. We are, bowever, of the opinion that much of the canvas would have been advantageously replaced by brown cloth. Over 400 works crowd the walls, and scattered among these are many pictures of great importance—notably S. R. Gu- jord’s ‘San Giorgio” (9), a Venetian scene, painted in the best manner of this artist. The mass of red brick rises out of the calm water with impressive majesty. The charm ot the pio» ture depends on the admirable management of tne lughts and the warmth and harmony of tone which distinguishes the Venatian subjects of this artist. G. W. Perry has one of his stories on can- vas of the home liie. of dur people, Not go pice turesque as that of other lands perhaps, but offer- ing the same studies of the human heart. For his appreciation of this trath and his literal renders ing of American country lule Mr. Perry deserves unqualified credit. His present work (334) he calis “The Old Story.’ Wulilam Hart has two small landscapes (328 aud 329) in his latest style—what we might call his Turneresque. They are ex- cellent examples of his combination of cool skies and gorgeous autumn fouage. (58.) A pice ture of Swabian peasant Ite, by B. Vauter. One of the most important works in the collection; full Of spirtt and lile. The composition of the work ts strong und natural and the color strong, cool and harmonious. Artificial light paint: ing 8 Well represented by @ canvas irom uy. He cails it “The Lovine Mother.” itis simply a mother putting her chilg tin its cradle, The scene ts tlluminated by « candid held by an older child. Stunpe and unpretentious in subject, in point of execution the work 1s of rare merit, as are most works comiug from this most painstaking artist. It 18 one of the riddices of life that, while people are willing to pay large sums for works of this class by foreign artists, not in anytuing supertor in merit, the Mass of picture buyers insist on negiecting this deserving Ameri. can arust, M. F. H. De Haas is repre. sented by a very large and sptiited picture ree presenting the passage of the forts at New Orleans und two smaiier ones, One “Sandgate,” in England, the other @ view on the | beach at | Schaveningen, im Hvlland. J, «© Thom has a charming little cabines picture (160), representing a group ot very smail cnildren gathered about a cradio, [tis full of charm and painted in the artist’s nappiest style, Whittredge has an Malan chaceh (385). 1G represents the devotions on Christmaseve. The doors are oped aud We see the tnterior filed with worshippers and the distant altar one biaze of light, In contrast to tiie picturesque religion we nave tua camp mecting 1a the Woods—a fresh and vigorous study. A.D. Shattuck has a small landscape with cattle (277), being cleverly painted. David Johus Bon giVes US a Study Of aa Orchard in bloom (203) — @ pleasant reminiscence of the country. Va Elten (95), @ landscape, with cattie, 1uil of fresh: ness and with a pleasant sense of atmospuere. Eaward Moran has a breeszy marine, with boats und water, Whose saltness cannot be called to question. “rhe Truants” (41), by Constant Meyer, tell with simplicity and directness a chara ing story of child tite Chat Will appeai to most men with the force of areminiscence, W. F. Kichards is represented by a marine ot real meril, It rom resents toggy weather on the coast. ‘Ihe condt tion of the atmosphere is admiraoly realized. James Hart hasa new cat bject he calls “In the Lane.” it is worthy of bis late successial efforts in this department o/ art.