The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every éay in the year, Four cents per copy. An- nea) subscription price $12, Snnibeeatbeiniceeats NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and aiter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Herarp will be tent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic Cespatches must be addressed New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly | sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- | urned, LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions snd Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. mn XXxIx.. MNUSENENTS THIS. AFTERNOON AND EVENING TRELSY, os BPM.: GLOBE t HEATRE, Broadway.—VARIETY, at8 loses wt 10:30 P, M. | Miss Jennie Hughes. Mative . De LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and sixth avenue.—THE GRAND DUCHESS, at 8 P. 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Tax News from the Argentine Republic in- dicates that the insurrectionists have met with reverses, but the surrender of General Mitre | appears to lack confirmation. Tax Carcurta Government is satisfied that | Nana Sabib has not been taken, Thus an- | other “claimant” is disposed of, and, in this | ease, much to the disappointment of the | English. Taz Porice Comurssioners yesterday de- | cided that the cleaning of the streets and the | removal of ashes and garbage should be done | in the day time. If the streets are cleaned at | any time the people will be delighted and sur- prised. A Dzscurption of the Spanish prison in which | Mr. Dockray is confined is given in our Madrid | correspondence to-day. By the influence of | Mr. Cushing he has been treated with much | leniency of late, with more kindness, perhaps, than he will receive from some of the Wash- | ington officials. Tux Sunpay Law.—Tho petition recently | addressed to the Police Commissioners by a large body of our most eminent and influen- tial citizens touching the violations of the so-called Sunday law has been answered in the instructions issued by Superintendent Walling yesterday to the Police Captains to enforce the law prohibiting theatrical aud musical exhibitions on Sunday. In respect- ing the law, therefore, which has ceased to be a dead letter, all parties interested in the interdicted Sunday amusements will avoid the hazards of an enforcement of the law. Tue Report or raz Secretary or War.— | The annual report ot the Secretary of War will show that the expenditures ot his depart- ment, including rivers and harbors, for the fiscal year ending June 980, 1873, were $46,325,808 21, and thot for the year ending June 90, 1874, they were $42,926,341 71, | showing # reduction in round numbers of $4,000,000. Alarger general reduction was made in the army oppropriation bill ot the last session for the fiscal year ending 30th dune next. The bill, however, pared down the various items for the service s0 clovely, in the way of retreuchments, (hat we appre- \ NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1874.-WITH SUPPLEMENT, The Speakership of tne Next House. | different candidate, because there has never In the interviews with democratic members elected to the next Congress, which we print this morning, they express their preferences among candidates for the Speakership, and it appears from these interviews that the Speaker will probably be either Walker, of Virginia; Kerr, of Indiana, or Cox or Wood, of New York. In attempting to estimate their respective chances the only safe way is to put ourselves in a democratic poiut of view, since the choice will necessarily be determined by democratic public sentiment and democratic votes, The reasoning must not be regarded as our own, but as that of various sections of the democratic majority in the next House. If we had the selection | their section, been any tincture of Bourbonism in Mr. Cox’s b aeaocary and he was one of the earliest members of the party to accept the political results of the war. The Southern dem- oerats would prefer a candidate who has | made ao more aggressive defence of and the members from | the South will have great influence io the of the Speaker a different order of considera- | tions would be offered in support of our choice. We do not undertake to express our own wishes, but the probable motives which will govern the action of the democratic members on this subject. We will take up the four leading candidates in the order in which we | have mentioned their names. Beginning, then, with Gilbert C. Walker, it must be conceded that he is a man of energy and abilities, who is likely to make his mark in Congress, and that the election of a South- ern member to the Speakership would be a proof of the disposition of the democratic party to treat the South precisely as if all un- pleasant memories were effaced and the peo- ple of that section were entitled to their full sbare of public honors. Lf Mr. Watker’s per- sonal qualifications for the Speakership were high it would be politic as well as magnani- mous to bestow upon him the most con- | spicuous national position in the immediate gift of the democratic party. But as Mr. Walker has never served in Congress it would bea hazardous experiment to put him ins place which requires not ouly tact, readiness and self-possession, but a familiar acquaint- ance with parliamentary proceedings and the rules of the House. There are few men who could acquit themselves with credit in the Speaker's chair at the beginning of their first term or service. The only new member we can think of in our time who could have stood such a test was the late Henry J. Raymond ; but he would have succeeded in consequence of his previous training as the presiding officer of both branches of the New York Legis- lature. Mr. Walker has no such train- ing, having never been a member of a | legislative body. We have no doubt that Mr. | Walker’s inexperience will be regarded by a majority of the democratic members as an insuperable bar to his election. Nor would it | have as conciliating effecton the South as might be inferred from the fact that he is sent to Congress from Virginia. He isa man of Northern birth and education who went to Virginia after the war. Tnough not » carpet- bagger in the offensive sense, he is too recent a resident of the South for his election to the Speakership to be regarded by that section as much of a compliment. Michael C. Kerr is one of the purest, ablest and soundest men in the democratic party, and his election as Speaker would have the advantage of silencing all adverse criticism by the republican press. He is a man against whom there is nothing to be said, except by the inflationists of his own party, to whose views he has never truckled, even when his own election seemed to depend on subservience. He scorned and repudiated the financial here- sies of the Indiana democratic platform, and was elected on his personal character. But his steady opposition to every species of financial quackery will weaken him with the democratic inflationists from the West and Southwest. Mr. Kerr ought to be a very acceptable candidate to the Eastern hard money democrats, whose views he bas courageously maintained in the face of a strong local opposition in his own State. The election of so pronounced an anti-inflationist as Kerr to the Speakership would be equivalent to a party declaration in favor of a prompt return to specie payments ; but the democratic members are so divided on | this question that there would be some danger of a split if Mr. Kerr’s claims were vigorously pushed. The one thing for which he is most conspicuous is the scundness of his fiscal views and the unflinching boldness with which he declares them ; but, as the Western and Southwestern members will have a ma- jority in the democratic caucus, his nomina- tion is improbable unless they experience a change of heart within the ensuing year. Nor is it probable that the Eastern | democrats will preas him, as they do not wish to disclose the strength of the inflationists in their own party nor to run the risk of disturb- ing its harmony before the National Conven- tion of 1876 declares the party creed on this subject. They will invent specious reasons for not making Mr. Kerr their candidate. | They will say that the Speakership is not the only important position in the House; that the Chairmanship of the Committee of Ways | and Means is, in a financial view, of more | consequence; that Mr. Kerr is, of all the members elected to the next House, the one | who is the most admirably qualified to be the | head of that committee, and that, while it would not be difficult to find as good a pre- siding officer, its impossible to select so trust- | worthy a financial guide among the members of the new House, Mr. Kerr himself will | easily be persuaded to acquiesce in this view. | It has been the practice of recent Speakers to give large eutertainments and to make more | social display than Mr. Kerr can afford. His honorable poverty, after long service in Con- gress, is one of hig best titles to public respect, but it disqualifies him for meeting the social requirements of the Speakership on the scale that has for some time been estab- lished. His hands are clean not oaly of all | | participation in the salary grab but from every kind of illicit gains, But he has pride enough to wish to maintain the social dignity of the position if he should be elected Speaker, and might prefer the Chairmanship of Ways and Means even if it were the unani- mous wish of the democratic members to make him their presiding officer. Samuei S. Cox has some useful qualifica- tions for the Speakership, and is personally | very popniar, He is an old member; is per- fectly familiar with the rales of the House ; he cond not be obfuscated for a moment by | any sharp parliamentary dodge, and he would be certain to treat the republican members with unexceptionable courtesy, He refused his share of the salary grab and his personal | lntegrity has never been impenched. But the doutuern members will probably prefer a democratic caucus. Noman can be elected Speaker against their united opposition, and they are more likely to unite on some other member than on Mr. Cox. Fernando Wood is the last name on the hist, and he is likely to excite more positive fecl- igs both of favor and repugnance than any of the others, There are grave objections to him in his own party, and they will be urged with heat and acrimony in the earlier stages of the canvass. He was a salary-grabber in 1873, and has a political record as Mayor of New York which is pretty certain to be dug up against him. But if these things could be obliterated Mr. Wood would be admitted to have as high qualifications for the Speakership as any democratic member of the new House. He has dignity of deportment, thorough acquaintance with parliamentary rules, great firmness, imperturbable self-possession and the wealth and manners for supporting the social requirements of the place. If he can get the vote of the Southern members it will be difficult for his Northern opponents to beat him, objectionable as they deem him in many respects, His position in 1861 will not hurt but strengthen him with the Southern democrats, and the back-pay argument is a sword with a double edge. Mr. Carpenter, the republican presiding officer of the Senate, not only voted for and pocketed the back pay, but publicly defended it in elaborate speeches on the stump. This would estop the republicans from making any party capital out of Mr. Wood’s election toa similar posi- tion in the other House, and it will be alleged by his supporters that the complimentary vote given him for the Speakership of the present Congress did not damage the party at all, as is proved by its great victories this year. His supporters will contend that there is less haz- ard in making him the Speaker of the next House than there was in making him the dem- ocratic candidate for that office in the last. The main argument urged in his behalf by his Northern supporters will be founded on an idea that has already been promi- nently put forth by the democratic organs— namely, that the chief business of the next House will be to probe and investigate the public departments and drag forth hidden abuses. It will be said by Mr. Wood’s ad- vocates that he is pecaliarly fitted for pre- siding over a House of which this is to be the | main business. He is so thoroughly familiar | with the public men of the country and the methods of public business that he would seem to be especially fitted to appoint impor- tant committees, and raise the investigation from a partisan level to the dignity of an im- partial reform of the government. “Rapid Transit” and + Regenerated New York.” ‘The new Mayor has a pleasant daty to per- form in clearing the way for the Mayor who is | to come with New Year's. Mr. Vance will make a pleasant interval between the animos- ities inspired by the much abused but now lamented Havemeyer and the new Wickham, who comes crowned with hopes and opportu- nities, and has before him the sunniest path ever opened to a high ambition. Whatever the other duties of these administrations there are two that are immediate. These we expect from Mr. Vance and Mr. Wickham. By this we mean that Mr. Vance can begin the work—for a good work cannot begin too soon—and Mr, Wickham can take hold and finish it, The first is the paving of Fifth avenue. Here is the finest street in the Union, and the principal thoroughfare in New York. Its avenue is the spinal column of Manhattan Island. It isthe main entrance to the Park, the poor man’s promenade, the rich man’s pleasure drive. The metropolis must grow along Fifth avenue, every year adding to its usefulness aud its necessity. Now why not make such a street of it as the avenue of the Champs Elysées or Pall Mall? We do not wish any more experiments in paving—any coal or tar or wood, or asphalt mixtures, which will not stand the first spring rains—but @ well laid Macadam pavement of honest, genuine stone, sincerely laid, not by the Gar- veys and Ingersolls, of Tammany Hall, but by good pavers and masons, A pavement could be made that would last for a genera- tion, It might cost a little more, but its economy would be manifest to our children. The next thing to be encountered is rapid transit. New York is a lusty, vigorous, grow- and deformity. The nation is served by the steam engine, the metropolis by the stage coach. Who will cut these bonds of prejudice and interest, and permit the city to grow? This can only be done by rapid transit. If the new Mayor and the new Governor will j only give us rapid transit, and orrange mat- ters so that the laboring man can leave the Battery and be at home at New Rochelle or Yonkers in a half hour, they will conter un- dying honor upon their term of service, Upon the platforms of ‘Rapid Transit Achieved’’ and “New York Regenerated,”’ what a vote Wickham would receive for Gov- ernor and Tilden tor President, and how all men would support them regardless of party! Tue Late Mayor's Funerat.—The last tribute of respect will be paid to the late Mayor Havemeyer to-day, and we publish a full account of the arrangements the civic suthorities have made for the funeral, The public services will be conducted at St. ; Paul's Methodist church, and the procession will then proceed to Greenwood Cemetery. All the city government departments, the will be well represented in the discharge of the solemn duty. Tux Commrssionens or Cuanitixs axp Cor- Vance for extending to Mr. Tweed privileges and comforts not permitted to other prisoners on Blackwell's Island, This is right; but the misconduct of the Commissioners in this mat- ter should not be allowed to cover up and con- oval other acts of malteasance grave enough | to entitle the offending officials to a still closer efGliation with the imprisoned ‘Boss,’ Condition is a disgrace and a danger. Fifth | ing lad, bound by ligatures into suffocation | military and the commercial organizations | Rection are called to account by Mayor | | in some way inspired the recent manifesto of The Religious Question in Germany | and England. We print elsewhere this morning » most in- teresting conversation between our corre- spondent in Munich and the celebrated Dr. Dillinger. The name of this famous theolo- gian has received a new prominence from recent events. As the friend and correspondent of Count Arnim there has been the theory that in some way he was connected with the fallen Minister. As the friend and correspondent of Mr. Gladstone, it bas been thought that he the ex-Premier. These circumstances give | especial interest to his communications. Be- yond this his opinions as the leader of the old Catholic Church, now a growing and already an important theological party, are always entitled to respect. ‘The Doctor gives a radi- cal construction to the views of Archbishop | Manning in regard to the Vatican decrees. ‘‘An order from Rome,”’ he says, ‘‘may decide the most important vote in Parliament.’’ “The civil election in every Catholic country is now a thing quite uncertain, because it de- pends entirely upon the will of a foreign po- tentate.”” ‘This is the side of the question which ought to be studied in the United States.” We are not disposed to underrate the im- portance given to the will of the Pope by the Vatican decrees. We can understand how devout churchmen of the Catholic faith would, like the abolitionists in this country before the war, recognizea “higher law’ in dealing with political affairs than the Statutes at Large. We could understand, for instance, how a Catholic clergyman would disobey the Falk laws if we were to pass them here, on the ground that there was a “higher law’ from infallible Rome that commanded him to disobey unjust laws, even at the risk of mar- tyrdom. But there is nothing in this which other churchmen who do not serve Rome would not also do under similar circum- stances. There is no law that could make a member of the Society of Friends or a Mennonite engage in war, no matter how grave the danger to the State. They recog- nize a “higher law’ than the command of the country. Consequently Papal in- fallibility is practically only a form of that infallibility which is inseparable from the religious office, and the belief of every minister of every evangelical creed, that he is the Ambassador of Christ, who is the Lord and ruler of heaven and the earth. As a theological speculation this is undoubtedly correct. But practically it has no force. It is impossible that free citizens in any country, in England or in America, would await orders from Rome before voting, or that the mem- bers of Congress or the House of Commons, no matter how devout their religious faith, would be governed in their duties by the wishes of a foreign priest, who knew nothing of the internal economy of politics, whose time was absorbed in masses and religious offices, and who, with all his infallible wis- dom, probably did not know whether the Mississippi or the Rio Grande was the boundary of Mexico, or whether Chicago was an inland or a seaport town. To state this case as evena possibility is to show at once its absurdity. Dr. Dillinger seems to us to present an extravagant case when he assumes that the effect of the Vatican decrees will be to impose the will of the Pope upon the civil conscience of any intelligent American or Englishman. Diphtheria and the Board ef Health. Somewhere in this town, it is believed, there is a Board of Health. Regularly, at least, there are published some well poised paragraphs of vital statistics, which are given 8s emanating from an officer of the Board of Health, and if there is an officer of the Board of Health, “‘argal,’’ as the Gravedigger would put it, there is a Board of Health, unless, instead, the Registrar is a ‘‘survival,’’ a mere relic and evidence of an extinct existence. There isa tradition that once upon a time, on one of the occasions when this city was visited by the cholera, an upper section was divided from the lower section by a board fence, and that in the familiar and irreverent style of the people that fence was called the Board of Health. Perhaps that Board of Health was of very great service in its time, especially as it is now recognized that prevention of the spread of cholora has pretty definite relation to the prevention of intercourse with the in- fected. It is to be presumed that that con- servative Board of Health kept quiet and re- | toained in absolute ignorance of the nature of the disease that it was keeping down—keep- ing down town, at all events. It prevented the spread of cholera without any consciousness of the way in which it did it, On the part of our present Board of Health we could be satisfied with a similar efficiency against the existing epidemic of diphtheria, Our Board of Health is like the other board in nearly every respect except the important one—it does not control the disease, It is | very quiet, which is commendable and easy. We trust it knows there is an epidemic of diphtheria, and knows aot least the etymology of the name. But on this point there is no evidence, Winter is coming, however, and is the season when the conditions of life in the city are such as to afford the fullest sway to | the ravages of a malady that a deficient sani- | tary administration has permitted to linger through the summer with sufficient force to give ita dreadfully effective start when the time for its greatest activity comes ; and there is reason to believe as things go that the Board of Health will know what diphtheria is before the winter is over. ‘Tux Exome Moneys.—An attempt is said to have been made to induce the Commissioners of Excise to retain the license money in their possession until atter January 1 in the belief that if paid into the City Treasury after that date it will go into the Sinking Fund and not be distributed among the charitable insti- tutions already selected to receive it, The Excise Comminsioners are said to be anxious to secure the benefit of the money to the charitable institutions, and hence refuse to accept Comptroller Green's suggestion that it be withheld, The attempt to divert the amount from the purposes of charity would not succeed, as the constitutional amend- ments clearly authorize such a use of the oo moneys as is already provided for by ‘Tus Worzromex.—A number of prop- erly holders have requested Commissioner | Van Nort to employ upon uptown improves ments more men aud to pay less Wages, ‘What May Happen in France. President MacMahon declares very plainly his intention to occupy his position “up to the Inst day with unshaken firmness and scrupulous respect for law.’ He bas been appointed for seven years, and, no matter what laws may ba made to the contrary, he will hold his place for that time, with military force if necessary. He thus presents to the country one fixed point, around which it may construct a government, and gives the guar- antee of his word that that point shall not be disturbed meantime if he can help it; and with this assurance he urges the Assembly to mature the constitutional bill so long under consideration. It is evident, therefore, that the conflict is to turn at an early hour upon the passage or defeat of the schemes for or- ganized government thus referred to, and that the trial of the strength of respective parties is to be made in support of favorite constitu- tional projects on the liberal side and against all such projects on the side of the monarch- ists and the radicals; and equally evident that the important alternative of dissolution is in the balance. Tt is alleged that seventy Deputies of the Extreme Right are committed against the constitutional bills, and, further, that Chambord’s recent intimation as to the proper conduct of a “true royalist” may determine a number of adherents of the Right Centre to @ similar opposition. No doubt the first state- ment is true, and the truth of the other is, at least, highly probable. In addition to these elements of opposition the measure has also to encounter the hustility of the whole of the Extreme Left and of large section of repub- licans nearer the Centre, who, though not so red as the radicals, are of a sufficiently posi- tive hue. With these accumulated difficulties in the way the constitutional bills cannot pass, and the likelihood is imminent that ob- stacles enough will be found to insure their defeat at least in any form in which they have yet appeared. The constitutional projects are propositions for the organization of the existing govern- ment in a more or legs positive constitutional form; and at the same time that they give to the government that organization and au- thority which it demands they define its pow- ers, and the most favored of them also extends the vitality of the present Chamber to the year 1880, and sssumes, as part of the scheme, an electoral law by whose provisions a new Cham- ber will be chosen. On the one hand the cle- ments of the Right oppose this because it definitely accepts the Republic—in name at least—and ends the “provisional’’ by a solu- | ‘tion not to their taste; while the radicals op- | pose it because they allege that the Assembly has not constituent powers and cannot justly constitute even the Republic; the more mod- erate of the Left are against it because it con- tinues the Assembly, and they favor dissolu- tion; and other republicans, not far from M. Thiers in the political distribution, make an opposition to the project, which is a mere cover for personal opposition. And if a constitutional project of some character is not carried what then? Then the Centre Gauche or conservative republicans will apparently give upthe hope they have hitherto indulged of organizing the Republic around the Septennate. Filled with appre- hension over the possibilities of a personal governnent not restrained by syatem and not accepted by law as an expression of the national will, they will favor an appeal to the country. They will vote for a dissolution with the whole Lett to the furthest extreme. Dissolution can be carried with the vote it will thus receive, as can also whatever enact- ment may be necessary for proceeding to the choice of a national Assembly with constitu- ent powers. With the board cleared and the country called to elect an Assembly of that nature it will be like the recurrence of '89, Instead of resulting from calm discussion of political principles the next Chamber would be the issue of an enthusiastic delirium of re- publicanism. Any new Assembly, #0 created, would be at direct issue with the present government, and President MacMahon might be called upon to give practical effect to the declaration that he will hold office for the seven years for which he was chosen by force if necessary. Without regard, however, to what might be the con- duct of a new Chamber, we must at present recognize the fact that dissolution is no un- likely result of the present situation. Timidity, however, is now an important element in French politics, and at the last moment | whole factions seem suddenly to aban- don, from mere want of resolution, a defi- | nitely formed purpose; and, unless calcula- tions come to naught through the operation of that influence, we may safely declare that the conflict in France has reached a stage where either 9 definite constitutional scheme will be accepted or dissolution will be voted. Louisiana in Congress. It has been trumpeted far and wide that the Louisiana question is one of the first that will be taken up by Congress, and that Morton | has been telegraphed to and is hastening from California to Washington to defend the sinking cause of Kellogg against the expected onsets of Senator Car- penter. But Morton ought to have learned something from the result of the recent elections. He, the champion of Kel- logg, lost his State, while Carpenter, who ex- posed the usurpation with masterly force and eloquence, handsomely redeemed Wisconsin, | which the democrats carried Jast year. Wis- cousin, instead of being swept along with the | tide of democratic victories, is the one con- apicuous exception to the general advance of the democratic hosts. But the oply thing to be pleaded in Carpenter's favor is his vigorous opposition to the Louisiana usurpation and his manly exposure of the frauds by which it was accomplished. He | has saved his State, whereas Morton, who took the other side, lost Indiana, aud returns to Washington this winter a mortified and crestiallen man. The contrast between the popular verdict in Wisconsin and in Indiana | foreshadows the result of Kellogg's vain appeal to Congress. ‘The popular decision against the Louisiana ustrpation has been pronounced with such | vehement emphasis, that even Durell, ite chief | tool, has felt coustrained to resign and flee | from the wrath to come, Durell has imitated | | the pradence of the snakes in Ireland aiter | arrival of St. Patrick: — And the snakes committed suicide To save themeeives trom slaughter. U the republicans in Vongress are in 6 the mood to follow Durell’s example of suicide there is no way in which they can do it so ef- fectually as by trying to uphold Kellogg atter the public opinion of the country has been s¢ emphatically declared in support of Senator Carpenter's view. A Scene in the Reichstag. With steadily increasing swiftness Germany is approaching a period of internal conflict the logicul result of Bismarck’s policy. The bitter feeling which exists in Alsace and Lore raine and in Bavaria was expressed yesterday in the Reichstag, and culminated in a debate which reminds us of the most exciting scenes in the American Congress, So many startling events have not often been “crowded into a single session of the Reichstag. The announcement of Prince Bismarck that the legation to the Vatican would be withdrawn, the declaration of the Deputies from Alsace and Lorraine that they could no longer serve on the committee on the budget for those com quered provinces, the denunciation of Bix marck by Herr Joerg, and tha remarkable speech the Prince made in reply, show how deeply the lines of division are to be drawn. It isa struggle for supremacy, and Bismarck finds the opposition stronger and more united than he expected. He defended himself yes terday with an energy and boldness re- markable even in him. While he did not say that tho Church party ap. proved of Kullmann’s attempt to assas- sinate him he declared that Kullmann was inspired by his devotion to that party. He put the Ohurch under the patronage of a » murderer. ‘He hangs on tightly to your coattails,’ he said to Herr Joerg. It is no wonder that such taunts were followed by tumult in the Assembly, and it is certain that the proceedings yesterday will increase the hostility to Bismarck throughout the Empire. Hiram Suir was hung at Watertown, N. Y., yesterday for complicity in a murder. It was the first execution in Jefferson county for fifty years. The unhappy man asserted his innocence to the last. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Assemblyman Warner Miller, of Herkimer, N. Yup | is stopping at tne Gilsey House. Ex-Cougressman James F. Wilson, of Iowa, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman C, W. Willard, of Vermont, 1s re siding at the Grend Central Hotel, Congressman John 0, Whitenonse, of Poughkeep» sie, has arrived at the Albemarle Hotel. Ex-Governor Cadwallader C. Washburn, of Wise consin, is sojourning at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant Commander Henry F. Picking, United States Navy, has quacters at the Albemarie Hotel, Baron Von Schlizer, the German Minister, ar- rived from Washington yesterday at the Brevoors House, Mr. G. Yano, Japanese Chargé d’Affaires at Waal» ington, 1s among the latest arrivals at the Astor House. Lieutenant Colonel Barton S. Alexander, of the Engineer corps, United states Army, is at the New York Hotel. ‘rhe President has appointed M. V. B, Edgerly Centennial Commissioner from the State of New Hampsiuire. Mr. Edmund Yates’ novel, “One of Eve’s Fam ily,”’ 18 announced for apeedy publication by W. F. Gill & Co,, of Boston. In New Zealand they want a man to fill a pabile office, the salary of which is $1,600 gold, and they have to advertise for him. Lieutenant Colonel A. McD. MoCook and Majos Alexander Chambers, United States Army, are quartered at the Sturtevant House. Proieisor F. L. Ritter’s “History of Music” will treat of muaic in America in its third volame, Tne second fe devoted to Catholic church music, Mr. Washburne, the United States Minister, gave a dinner on: the 8d inst. in Paris toa number of Americans, including Mr. Sickles, late Minister to Spato. Henry Wanner, a soldier of the First Hmpire, now aged one hundred years and five months, and his wile, aged eighty-seven years, both enjoy good health in Paris, In 1851, Paria had one policeman for every 2,161 persons; now there isa policeman for every 282 persons. Increase due to Second Empire, pat could not save it. James 1. Gardner, chief geographer of the De partment of the Iuterior, will, with a stag of sok entisis, make his headquarters at Washington for the next six months. The Southern Magazine for November carries this Baltimore monthly into ite fifteenth volume, It announces itself as the organ of the Southern Historical Society, whose proceedings it prints. Senator Reary B, Anthony, of Rhode Island, and Representatives J. H. Burleigh, of Maine, George F, Hoar aod John M. 8 Williams, of Massachusetts, are at the Flith Avenue Hotel, on the way to Waal ington, In the Café Mulhouse, Paris, on the 19th of No» vember, a gentleman played a game of billiards | with his nose, He bet that ho would not miss | more than 25 pointe in a count o! 200; but he ran | 830 without & miss, | | | At the explosion in Paris a priest showed great heroism going into the fire to help wounded per He was badly burned and when tne ding to bis hurts &@ reporter He sald, “Write only—@ sons out. bei age were att for his name, priest." The Prussian Academy of Sciences has taken oharge of the completion of the great “‘Moumenta Germanie,” or original documents on the laws and history of the Germanic nations. TheGerman government gives 8,000 thalers and the Austrian government 2,000 thalers the present year toward bringing out this work, It naving been intimated to tne President that Giscontented republican members of Congress were disposed to make bim a pack mule for the re- cent political reverses, the President is reported as having said:—"I do not think it js worth while to insist npon a verdict as to Whose fault the ree cent reverses are attributable. Would it not be \ the better policy to harmonize ditterences and agree upon the best method of regaining lost grouod?” | Here is an argament. In o railway statiqn @ gentleman dropped @ neat little pocket comb, which @ boy not notably clean picked up. Some one mentioned the circumstance to the gentleman and he claimed ils comb; but the boy said it was his, and wanted to know how the man could prove the contrary. ‘By the more fact,” was the answer, “that claim it, for no rational creature could believe that { vhoald want @ comb that hag ever been in your hair.” The proof wan satis(ao tory, even to the bos. BOOKS RECEIVED Ten Days in Spain. By ‘By Kate Fieta, Tustrated, Boston: J. R, Osgood & Co. The Little Lame Prince. By the author of John Ralifax, Gentieman. Lilustrated, New Yors: Han per & Bros. Child-Life 10 Italy: @ Story of Six Years Abroad By the author of Child-Lifein Europe. Boston: W. F. Gill & Co, Chiid-Lite in Europe; Historical, Mythological, Fairy and other stories, and the Sequel to Chud Lite in Italy. By the same untnor, soston: B, F, Gul & Co, | Nursery Noonings, By Gat! Hamilton, New York: Harper & Bros, Echoes of the Poot-nilis, By Bret Harte, Boo | ton: J. R, Osgood & Co, ‘The Live and Habits of Wild Animalia, Ilustrated | from designs by Joseph Wolf, aud engrave) oy & | W. and Edward Waymper, with descriptive let | Sereprese by Daniel Gicaud Kilott, New Yorss i Marper & bros,