The New York Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yore Hzrarp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Hezaxp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX.. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT,. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.—THE GRAND DUCHESS, at SP. ML; Closes at 10:45 P.M. Milas Emily euldene, GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth stree.—ULTINO, at 8 P.M. WOOD's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner of Thirileth, street —THE TICKET. OF-LEAVE MAN, at2 P.M. 1HE O N MAN, at 8 P. M., closes at 1045 P.M. Mr. Dommick ¥ Murray. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, a Broadway.—VAIcTY, at 8 P. M.: closes at 10:30 OLYMPIC THEATRE, A Broadway.—VARISTY, ats . M.; closes at 10 45 GRAND OPERA HOUSE, -third street and Fighth avenue.—THE BLACK ‘at P.M. ; closes at li P.M. ‘Twen KOO! PARK THEATRE, Broadway, between Twenty-first and Twenty. “pa sree GILDED aan ats’. M.; closes ai 10.30 P. Mir. John T. Raymoi THEATRE COMIQUE, gos 5l4 Broadway.—VARIBIY, at oP. M.; closes at 10:30 BOOTH’S THE ATR ° corner Twen! ee street and Six:h avenue.—RED 7 and, W HUNT, at oP. M.; closes at P.M “ar. John 5 Ciarke. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Twenty-sixth street and Fourth avenue,—FETE AT PEIN, atternoon and evening, at2 and & WALLACK’S THEATR: .+~THE >HAUGHBAUN, Beer. ‘M.; closes at Proadway ; Mr. Boucicault. 10 P. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, Fifty oi ne street and Lexington avenue.—VARIETY, até P. Mi. ; closes at 10:30 P. M. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE Bowery.—DER FLEDZRMAUS, at 8 P. M.: 10:30 P.M. Miss Lina May closes at FIFTH A’ &% THEATRE, — eighth street and Broadway.—YORICK, at 8 z i Closes at 10:00 P.M, Miss sara Jewett, Mr. Louis Ay BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINSTReLoY, &c., at 8 P.M.; ciosesati0 P.M. Dan Bryant. MRS. F, B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. JANE LYRE, at P.M. Miss Charlowe Thompsou. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—CONCERi, at8P.M. H, Butman. SAN FRANCL-CO MINSTRELS, way, corner of Twenty-ninth street NEGRO NinsTEts 9° at 8 P. M.: closes at 10 P. M. NEW PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN. THE HOODLOM. Mr. W A. Mestayer. ROBINSON PALL, Fagonia street—EGONE DULL CARE. Mr. Mac- GLOBE THEATRE, q Brosdway.—VARIETY, at8 P. M.; closes at 10:30PM. Miss Jennie Hughes. WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Monday, Dec. 7, 1874. are that the weather to-day will be rainy. : Tax Agmy axp Navy Reports are sum- marized elsewhere, and all the essential points are fully presented. We Pum to-day a list of the import&nt bills relating to city matters which have been vetoed by Governor Dix, with his reasons for rejecting them. Taz New Navrican Scnoor.—The arrival of the United States ship St. Mary’s at this port is expected soon, and she will be moored in the East River as a nautical school for the boys of New York, with the authority of the government, and under the direction of the Commissioners of Education. The system adopted is explained elsewhere, and the school will no doubt be of much value to the community, Proresson Jupp’s Great Wate.—This fnorning Professor Judd will begin a long pedestrian journey which he hopes to accom- plish in very briet cime. Five hundred miles is a great distance to go in six anda half days, especially when the pedestrian intends to re- lieve the monotony of travel by such amuse- ments as carrying an anvil on his shoulder now and then. Professor Judd has thoroughly prepared himself for this immensely difficult task, and the public has confidence in his ability to complete it. As an illustration of what can be done in the way of rapid transit we commend this remarkable performance to Mr. Wickham. Vow Annmu.—Dr. Dillinger gives us an interesting theory of the difficulty between Bismarck and Arnim. We learn that the Prince and the Count agreed on the religious policy of Germany; that Arnim is as much opposed to the ultramontanes as Bismarck; that Germany, in his opinion, could not “get along with the Jesuits,” and that he approved the cruel measure of their expulsion. The Doctor thinks that the germ of the quarrel lay in the contending ambitions of the rival Ministers; that Arnim was a possible suc- cessor to Bismarck, who took the earliest opportunity to strike him down. This is not the most flattering theory to Bismarck, whose fame would seem to be so exalted that he would not care for any one. But we re- member that history sXows that some of the greatest men have human weaknesses, that ambition is a capricious master and will re- spond to the highest and the lowest motives, Bismarck, who rose like Wolsey, seems fated to fall like him, for his power, after all, de- pends upon the whim of a king who may ohange his mind at any time and from whose law the proudest Minister could make no appeal. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1874—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. Meeting of Congress To-Day. The auspices under which the Forty-third Congress assembles for its closing seasion are not favorable to energetic legislation. A badly beaten political party, like a beaten army, loses something of its morale, and is likely to adopt a timid, halting, over-cautious strategy. The disastrous battle of Bull Run took all vigor and enterprise out of the federal forces for the ensuing ten months, and the recent overwhelming discomfiture of the re- publican party unmans its leaders and depresses the confidence of its rank and file in a similar manner. A large proportion of the republican members of the House and quite ®@ number of the republican Senators are re- manded to privateslife by the recent élections. These wounded party soldiers who are put hors de combat for at least the ensuing two years, and most of them probably forever, cannot be expected to fight with spirit in this last engagement. Such of them as have a lin- gering hope of returning at some future time must rest their expectations on a trimming subserviency to the local opinion of their dis- tnicta, which has undergone so great a change that they will think it more politic to bow to it than to brave it, But the greater part of those who go out of Congress with this session will never return, and are to be classed rather among the dead than the wounded. A large proportion of the de- feated members are salary grabbers, and that political wound will prove mortal. Even if | the republican party should come again into power it will not renominate the cashiered salary grabbers. There is no district in which they will not find rivals who will easily sup- plant them by pressing this formidable objec- .tion. In the Congressional nominations of 1876 the republicans will not take the risk of run- ning any back pay candidate, so that all that numerous portion of the retiring members have no further personal interest in politics and will act with corresponding feebleness in the legislation of this session. Still another depressing influence will weigh upon the spirits of the republican members. Instead of proceeding with firm steps, sup- ported by popular favor, they are resting under a popular rebuke which will paralyze their faculties, The speeches and measures in Congress are habitually addressed more to the country than to the immediate body in which they are delivered and proposed. The weeks or months that elapse between the in- troduction of every important bill and the final vote upon it are employed by members in watching public sentiment on the pending measure, and more votes are controlled by its expression than by all the argument and eloquence of the de- bates. In the present state of opinion the measures proposed by the republican majority are more likely to be assailed than supported, and this will beget timidity and irresolution. It will be the most wonderful phenomenon in legislation if a prostrated party, about to lose its hold on power, should at this late period, after so many squandered opportunities, estab- lish a bold, broad and sagacious policy. It is more likely to fall back behind intrenchments | and shun an advance, as the army of the Po- tomac did after its first great reverse. We can recollect no example of a Congress adopting great and bold measures when its party majority was not strongly supported by the country. All the war legislation was so supported by overwhelming majorities; the Emancipation Proclamation was so supported; the reconstruction measures were so sup- ported against Andrew Johnson; the Enforce- ment law was so supported after General Grant came into power. If condemned and repudiated party uses the transient remnant of its time in legislating against public opinion it incurs the risk of having all its measures repealed and its humiliation deepened as soon as its opponents gain control, as happened to the Judiciary act of the expiring federal Con- greas passed in the winter of 1801. Appre- hension of this danger has an enervating in- fluence and gives a tone of feebleness and | vacillation to the proceedings of a Congress which has lost public favor. The Congress about to assemble labors un- der still another disabling infirmity. Its party majority is divided on the most impor- tant question which demands legislative con- sideration, so irreconcilably divided that there is no possibility of their aeting together on that question. We, of course, refer to the currency and finances, upon which the republican President came into col- | lision with the larger portion of his party in both houses at the last session. The effect of this year’s election has been rather to widen this difference than to harmon- ize it. The baffled inflationists are confirmed in their opinion that the veto was a party mistake, and the President thinks the party has been beaten by the wild theories of Con- gress which made the veto necessary. This state of feeling does not promise well for legislation on this subject at the present ses- sion. The spirit of recrimination which has been aroused under the sting of defeat does not tend to union'and conciliation. It is given out that the President in his Message will reaffirm with bolder emphasis the doctrines main- tained in his veto. Even if the inflationists should be subdued into s prudent silence they will not ‘turn their backs upon themselves” and vote for such a reform of the currency as the President is expected to recommend It is probable that the substance of the act of last June will remain undisturbed. The in- flationists cannot get more and they will not consent to take less. It is the obvious interest of the democrats to let the subject “slide.” They do not wish to republish their own divisions, and are hoping that the party may be brought into some appearance of unity on this subject by the time of the meeting of the Forty-fourth Congress. Legislation looking to an early return of specie payments is, therefore, improbable at this session. The moral imbecility and divided counsels which are pretty certain to obstruct useful legislation on the currency may prove an ad- vantage on another subject. As to granting subsidies, guaranteeing railroad bonds or pro- viding for the construction of canals, it is stated that the President will recommend nothing, and hence Congress will do nothing. If Congress will not curtail disbursements from the Treasury and lighten the taxes it is not to be tolerated that it should increase them, It is understood that the President did | books of astronomy, cyclopwdias and school objections on public grounds President Grant cannot afford to recommend subsidies to steamships after the parading courtesies he accepted from the Pacific Mail Company last summer. He would have evinced a more be- coming sense of official propriety if he had declined to go on that ostentatious pleasure jaunt It was easy to see through the motives of those who gave the excursion. It was 4 scarcely disguised bid for gevernment favor, and since the President and other public officers were unwary enough to accept the company’s interested invitation he cannot countenance their scheme without giving license to evil tongues and furnishing his opponents with a fresh topic of invective. Although Congress will be nominally in session three months it will be really at work but litle more than two, and one of these two the short month of February. The bad habit of doing nothing before the holdays and then adjourning over for two or three weeks makes the short session so very short that but little could be expected were the re- tiring republican majority were divided and dejected. The Transit of Venus. To-morrow will be a great day for the astronomers, and, indeed, an important day for all science. The planet Venus crosses the sun's disk only twice in something more than a century, and at this one of her cross. ings several important improvements in the means for accurate observations will be for the first time brought to bear on her during her juxtaposition with the sun. The last transit of Venus was observed by astronomers | in 1769, The photographic camera and the | spectroscope are now for the first time to be used in watching and recording | the events of the transit. This therafore | is one of the best opportunities, since the | creation of our planet, for the precise measure- ment of its distance from the sun, and for the solution of many other scientific prob- lems in which the entire world is either directly or indirectly interested. We publish to-day an account of the efforts of each of the great powers of the earth to accomplish this task, and an epitome of similar exertions dur- ing the transits of the eighteenth century. Accompanying the account are maps show- ing all the places on the earth's surface from which the transit can be scen, and the names and geographical positions of the American stations. The cost of solving those great problems will be about million and a half of dollars— but little money for so gigantic and important & piece of surveying. But science is always cheap. This cost is thus divided:— The American expeditions will cost. Tne English expeditions, about. ‘ne German expeditious, about The Austrian.. { several other govern- ments, 80 jar as they are known to our government asironumers, willnotexceed 59,000 —making a total of five hundred and thirty- nine thousand dollars. But this is the expen- diture only for instruments and special help- ers, assistants, &c. The salaries of govern- ment astronomers engaged in the work and the expense of fitting out and sending govern- ment and other vessels with the expeditions add to this sum at least half a million more. The reduction of the numerous observa- tions in the astronomical observatories of the different governments cannot cost less than one hundred thousand dollars more; and incidental expenditures which cannot be foreseen will, it is thought, bring up the cost of the observation to the civilized world to about the sum named above, a million and a half. For this we shall know, among many other things, our distance from the source of light and heat; and, having that, astronomers will be able to calculate more accurately the dis- tances of the other planets and of other celes- tial bodies. Our own observing stations have been chosen with some care so as to obtain a prob- ably fair day for the observers. From some stations we shall know in a few days what good or ill fortune attended the day; but we can hardly expect to have detailed accounts under a month hence, and stili more time will be required before the reduction of the observations by astronomers and mathe- maticians at home shall give us that figure which will thenceforth, and until the next transit in 1882, be substituted in geographies, books for the present sun’s distance, which is already known to be erroneous. The Sunday The pulpit themes yesterday were as diver- j sections added to The President’s Message. Although the President, with usual pru- denoo, has withheld his Message to Congress from the knowledge of the public, what is believed to be the substance of that document is presented in our columns this morning. The reading of it before the Senate and House to-day is thus anticipated. The document seems to be unusually full in its recommenda- tions, and some of the subjects treated are of the first importance. The Venezuela claims are of small moment, but the remarks the President makes in respect to Spain fore- shadow a new foreign policy. He says that the condition of affairs in Cuba cannot con- tinue, and that it may become necessary for other nations, with the United States, to inter- fere and terminate the war. Such interference he considers would be justified by the failure of Spain to suppress the insurrection, by the injury which the war inflicts upon the com- mercial interests of this country and by the neglect of the Madrid government to properly atone for the insults offered to the American flag in the affair of the Virginius, The Mes- sage does not admit how far the adminis- tration is responsible for the indifference of Spain, but the subject will hereafter be more fully submitted to Congress. The financial situation is treated of in a manner whith com- mits the President to certain principles, but leaves Congress free to act upon measures. Resumption of specie payments at the earliest possible moment is earnestly recommended ; but the President fears that January 1876, is too early a date to begin. He thinks the government needs a larger revenue, and recommends changes ii the | Customs and Internal Revenue laws and economy in all departments as step toward resumption. The Currency bill passed last year he would leave unchanged, except so far as it is necessary to muke it conform toa plan for resuming. To the South the Presi- dent gives especial attention, and again calls upon Congress to remove the causes of trouble in Louisiana by appropriate legislation. He is anxious to avoid the appearance of undue interference ; but unless Congress acts he will be compelled to adhere to the State gov- ernment he has already recognized. We are sorry he indorses the Indian peace policy, which never more clearly than in the war of this year has been shown to be a failure, Civil service reform, he thinks, has been as successful as the opposition toit permitted; but he adds that it cannot be continued with- out the direct support of Congress. *Of the evils of Chinese immigration, which in Cali- fornia virtually amounts to the importation of slaves, he speaks strongly, and suggests legislation to remove them. Congress is asked to provide for the proper entertain- ment of King Kalakaua during his visit to the capital. The Message, it will be seen, contains suggestions that are timely and wise, though to some points exception may justly be taken. No portion of it is likely to stimulate public curiosity more than that which refers to Spain and intimates the pos- sibility of interference in Cuban affairs by the government of the United States. The Oonstitutional Amendments and the Charitable Institutions. The question is raised how far the amend- ments to the State constitution will interfere with the aid heretofore extended to the chari- table institutions of the city from the public funds. Ithas been held that the two new article 8 prohibit the use of the public money for the benefit of such institutions except those “for the education and support of the blind, the deaf and dumb and juvenile delinquents,” and that ‘‘all laws authorizing grants to institutions not in- cluded under the exceptions named will, after January 1, cease to be constitutional.” Argu- irg on this theory a morning contemporary insists that the amended constitution ‘‘will deprive the city of the power to give away any but a small proportion of the money (eight hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars) appropriated for charitable purposes in next year’s budget,”’ and also of the power to use the excise funds for a similar purpose. These views are said to be held by the City Comp- troller, who has desired that the Excise moneys should be retained in order that they may go into the sinking fund, and not to charitable institutions. The new section, No. 10, applies to the State alone, and forbids the giving or loaning of its money or credit to any associa- tion, corporation or private undertaking, ex- cept, under legislative provision, for the educaticn and support of the blind, the deaf and dumb and juvenile delinquents. This sified as the denominational character of the churches in which the sermons were preached. At St. Patrick’s Cathedral Father Damen again occupied the pulpit, this time preach- ing on the suddenness of death. In the course of his remarks he alluded to the unex- pected demise of the late Mayor Havemeyer. Death was also the subject of the Rev. Mr. Hepworth’s discourse at the Church of the exception therefore applies to State aid alone, and not, as our contemporary sup- poses, to cityand county funds. The other new section, No. 11, provides that “no county, city, town or village shall hereafter give any money or property or loan its money or credit to, or in aid of, any individual, as- sociation or corporation, or become, directly or indirectly, the owner of stock in or bonds of any. association or corporation ; nor shall Disciples. But these were the only instances where the subjects of the day were sim- ilar, and, unlike the sermons of the pre- vious Sunday, they were not so com- pletely devotional. Mr. Beecher preached on St. Paul as a foundation builder, in plainer but less characteristic language he described the missionary work of the great Apostle to the Gentiles. The Rev. Mr. Nye, at the Church of Our Father, in Brooklyn, dis- coursed of Universalism—what it is and what it is not. At the Church of the Holy Se- pulchre, in Seventy-fourth street, the rector, the Rev. J. Tuttle Smith, adduced proofs that the Bible is the work of God, going over the old ground so often trod before. The Plymouth Baptist church is in debt, and yesterday the Rev. Mr. Miller told the congregation how to pay Church debts, and at the Hanson place Methodist church the Rev. Mr. Haynes repeated a dis- course on the Gladstone’ pamphlet which he had delivered the previous Sunday. The lat- ter sermon was noteworthy for the generous sentiments expressed toward Catholics as a people, while condemning what the preacher believed to be the errors of the Church, It will be seen from all this that in spite of the diversified themes of the day there was none among them calling for special comment, though, at the same time and for the same reason, our reproduction of the thoughts and advocate subsidies and internal improvements in the first draft of his Message, that his Cabinet strongly objected, and that he struck it out altogether. Aside from the conclusive opinions of our leading preachers will be found to possess unusual interest, because of the view it gives of the topics discussed in a single day in the pulpits of New York, any such county, city, town or village be allowed to incur any indebtedness except for county, city, town or village purposes. This section shall not prevent such county, city, town or village from making such pro- vision for the sid or support of its poor as may be authorized by law.’’ We have quoted the section complete on account of the in- terest that attaches to the subject. Its pro- visions do not seem to us to.interfere either with the appropriations of the tax levy or the distribution of the excise money. The moneys, in both cases, are given ‘for the aid or support’ of the city’s poor, and their appropriation for this purpose is “guthorized by law.” It would be lament- able to cut off from deserving charitable insti- tutions, without warning, the sources from which their means of usefulness are derived, and we do not apprehend that the new amend- ments will bear any such construction. Exist- ing laws, framed under the old constitution, are not made unconstitutional by the adoption of the amendments, and besides, the excep- tion in the section wo have quoted seems ex- pressly to cover the special appropriations and the existing distribution of the excise moneys. Ax Appgat from General James 8. Brisbin to the people of New York for aid to the suf- ferers by the grasshoppers in Nebraska is pub- lished elsewhere. He is authorized to act by the Governor of Nebraska, and the case he puts is one appealing profoundly to the philanthropy of our city. “Art Forgeries.” There has been » good deel of discussion in the journals recently in refereuce to what may be called “art forgertes.”” Careless, and we fear not always conscientious, tradesmen announce, with much advertising parade, that they have for sale the works of “modern and ancient masters." With the increase of the wealthy classes, such as we have seen in America since the war, there is a laudable de- sire to manifest wealth by the accumulation of art treasures. A technical knowledge of art is known to few outside the artist's call- ing. Even President Grant, some years ago, went go far as to say, in a note acknowledging the receipt of a copy of photographs of Raphael's paintings, that they would be “‘of great value to those who could not procure the originals.” It probably did not occur to the President that there is not money enough in the United States Treasury to buy the majority of these “‘originals,"* They are held by gov- ernments and national museums who would as soon think of selling them as our govern- ment would think of selling the original draft of the Declaration of Independence. This absence of technical knowledge of art stimulates unscrupulous dealers to offer from ‘time to time as ‘works of the great masters’’ mere imitations. The result is that it is difficult for even a reputable dealer to find buyers fora really good piece of work. The lesson of all ‘is that our picture dealers cannot be too careful in this matter of selling fraudulent works of art for genuine; in other words, of asking a pur- chaser to give the value of a Turner, an original, real, genuine Turner, for a student's copy. There is no country whose people will pay more liberally for true works of art than America, and it is a matter of national con- gratulation when such a painting, for in- stance, as Turner's ‘Slave Ship,’’ comes to the United States. But unless a higher tone is observed by those who deal in pictures it will be impossible to induce any of our wealthy citizens or public institutions to buy works of art at all, except in Europe, where their genu- ineness can be tested and verified. War Department Law. We do not know if Secretary Belknap ever studied law, or whether the suggestions in this direction in his recent report are inspired by the Attorney General, or that merciful and we are glad to say now sinecure jurist, Mr. Holt. Among his suggestions we find these: — S'xteenth—Desertion to be considered felony, cognizable by courts of criminal jurisdiction, the offenders to ve arrested by marshils and deputies, luke other criminals, but jurisdiction to be concur- rent with that o/ the military courts. Seventeenth—Jurisdiction recommended to de conferred on military tribunals over military per- eons Guarged with murder and otuer felunies, This seems to us reversing the order of things, and that it would be much better to leave the matter as it is. Desertion is purely a military offence, not necessarily involving moral but always military wrong. A soldier (we speak of times of peace) may run away to see w dying parent, or wife, or child, without doing moral wrong. Desertion, too, admits of detection and conviction by military pro- cesses, and surely Secretary Belknap would not have desertions in time of war re- ferred to grand and petit jurors. Deputy marshals may, we take it, on view, arrest deserters now, and it seems much better to put and keep them in the guardhouse than the jail. The other crimes which are to be tried, not as now, by civil courts, but by courts martial—maurders and other felonies—are of a different and graver complexion, and may deserve, in view of the penalty attached to ‘them, more deliberate consideration. If we understand the law it is this, and be- ing apparently reasonable may as well be left untouched. If a soldier com- mits a murder within a navy yard or fort ceded to the United States the military and civil jurisdictions are conourrent. Either may take cognizance of such crimes. There are reported cases of this sort. Of course a felony committed by a soldier outside of such cession is and ought to he cognizable by civil tribunals exclusively. The military have not adequate processes for such investi- gations, On the whole we think the Secre- tary, for whom we have a high respect, had better let the law alone. “Thorough.” Prince Bismarck’s course in Germany, as it comes to us illuminated by the debates in the Reichstag, reminds us somewhat of the course of Lord Strafford, the Minister of Charles L “Understanding,” says one of his historians, “the feeling, policy and resources of the party to which be originally belonged, Straf- ford had matured a vast political scheme, to which, in his confidential correspondence, he gave the name of ‘thorough.’ His ob ject was to do in England what Richelien was doing in France—to make Charles sg absolute a king as any monarch in France, to put the whole people at the disposal of the Crown, to deprive the courts of all authority and punish with merciless severity all who murmured against the gov- ernment or applied for relief from its despotism.” When we see what Bismarck has done to Count Arnim, when we read the tone of his speeches in reference to Alsace and Lorraine, his haughty, scornful avowal that he sympathized alone with the wishes of his imperial master and cared nothing for the people, the fury of hia treatment of nows- papers, Catholic ladies and great noblemen, we are reminded of the policy which Strafford endeavored to impose upon England. “Happily,” says the historian, ‘‘the people of England were too strong for him.” It isa serious question whether the people of Ger- many will be too strong for Bismarck. While Germans must recognize, as, no doubt, they do, the great genius and achievements of this statesman, it is impossible they should re- joice over a policy like that of the last four months. Before Bismarck imitates Strafford and his policy of ‘‘thorough”’ it might be well for him to remember that the people of Eng- land are of the same race as those of Ger- many, and that “happily the people of England were too strong for” his famous pro- totype. Peace ix Evrorz.—The London Times calls attention to the fact that the govern- ments of France and Germany are now on the most amicable terms. ‘The German gov- érnment,”’ it says, ‘has known how to do jus- tice to the foreign policy which the French gov- ernment has adopted.” The Zimes intimates that there is some uneasiness of feeling in Germany as to the military preparations of —_——— Bussia, but that so far as france 1s concerned the best relations exist, and are due ‘to the really patriotic direction given to the interns tional relations of France by the present gov- ernment,” In further confirmation of this statement the official journal in Berlin an- nounces that the negotiations between France and Germany, in refercns to the boundary, have come to a satisfactory vonclusion. In making the announcement this journal dwells upon the fact that the French government, throughout the negotiation, has shown itself, by “the most hohorable courtesy, desirous to surmount the gre.t difficulties arising from the question.’’ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. @ Mr. Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati Gazette, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Mile. Marie Heilbron, of the Strakosoh Opera troupe, is registered at the Union Square Hotel. Brevet Major General Charles R. Woods, United States Army, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. We are promised another addition to our stores of autoblography in that of the la:e President Juarez, of Mexico, Even yet the Repudiic is talking about Ku Klux outrages. It is like the snoring of Rip Van Winkle in the depth of bis slumber, M. Rénan, who has finished bis work entitied “Miasion de Phénicie,” in 900 pages and an atias of Plates, wilt devote himself to the great work om Shemitic descriptions, diready begun. Lowell did not take the mission to St. Peters- burg because he was acquainted with that city and did not want to live there. If half the men appointed to foreign missions knew the cities te which they were sent they would decline, Nobody was killed this year by the Car of Djag- ganatha—called Juzgernaut—because, for the Orst time in human memory, the car was not dracged in the customary procession. It was ina condi- tion to Kill pearly everybody that came near it, and the authorities cut the cables and kept the car stationary, The Italian government ts vigorously prosecut- ing the plan of forming three grand libraries at Rome, to consist of the Alessandrina, at the Uni- versity; the Cosanateuse, at tne Minerva, and the Angelica, im the old Convent of St. Angustin. These collections will be great'y enriched by books and manuscripts hitherto buried irom view in the old convents, We bave had two distinct histories of the Amer can fag, of which Captain Prebi issued last year, is the best, aad now M. Desjardins bas issued bis esearches on French Flags.” The author gives the mutations and blazonry of this celebrated standard from the days of Charlemagne downward. He has also rescued irom oblivion the Huguenot flag, under which the ancestors of so many Amer- Icans fought. Bazaine having gone to Southampton and taken passage in tne Brazilian packet, the rumor spread. that he was on his way to South America; bus these packets tuuch at Lisbon. and it appears he is going to Spain by way of Portugal. He was for- merly in the Spanish army and served six years under Isabella. He rose to the grade o! colonel. He goes to Madrid because his wife’s reiations are there; but he will also offer bis services to the Spanish government. There js to be a great gathering of archbishops and bishops at the Vatican. They have been called to Rome nominally to consider the present position of the Church, but it is thought outside that the real object of the meeting is to Mscass the question of the successor of Pius IX, The ultramontanes are alraid that anew Pops may come to terms with the King of Italy, and they are therefore taking every precaution to se- cure the election of an uncompromising Pontim. At Nevers, tn Fraace, a@ banker received an anonymous letter informing nim that aniess he put 10,000f. by a certain time, in & certain place, bis Ile and that of his children would ve taken. He was warned that it would be certain dcath te communicate with the police. By advice of the police he put some pieces of lead in the piace, and soon alter the place was visited by a man whom the police captured and who proved to be a tailor’a Apprentice, Captain Polo he ealied himself in the letter. A reporter of the Spenersche Zettung saw the meeting of Count Arnim witn his frien released from his first imprisonment. He “dt was proudly and with his head nigh that the Count replied to the salutations of relations and friends, who were themselves under great emo- tion, His physiognomy was that of a man whe, having just come through a straggle, and con- Bclous that other struggies were prepared, bas not the time to abandon himself to sentiments of tenderness.” MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Miss Kellogg appears with her COMMARY, in this city on Junuary 26. Misa Clara Morris willappear during the spring at Booth’s Theatre as Lady Macbesn. Maccabe appears to-night at Robinson Hall in his delightful entertainment—*‘Begone Dull Care.” mrs. Rousby is the youngest daughter of Dr. Dowse, General Inspector of Hospitais in Eng- land, Mr. Max Strakosch is negotiating for a senson of Italian opera in Havana with his present com- pany. Bulow has refused the most flattering offers from German managers, and prefers to remain in London. Mrs. Henry Butman’s grand concert in ald of the Home for Christian Care takes place at Steim- way Hall to-night. Mme. Nilsson attended lately a soirée at the Cercle des Artistes de St. Petersburg, and sie Was presented to the ciuo by a Count Sollohup. Mile. Singelli was the principal attraction of Mapleson’s Italian Opera Company during their recent tour through the provinces in England. Theodore Thomas has drawn crowded houses everywhere in the provinces by his classical con- certs. He gives a matinée here on the 16tn inst. Mr. William Candinus, once the favorite German tenor of this city, has heen engaged by the direc tor of the Imperial Opera, Berlin, for leading roles. “Le Roi Carotte” at the Fifth Avenue Theatre ts among the coming sensations. Imagine Miss Daver- port, Miss Jewett, Davidge and Lewis as repre- sentatives of the vegetable kingdom, Miss Randall and Miss Hoffman will take part in the amateur opera performancee to be given this winter at the Academy of Music by the New York Conservatory of Music under the direction of Mr. Max Maretaeck. Miss Kellogg said to an interviewer in Louis ville, “A young girl in training must make a cove- nant with her eyes and not iook uponaman. 1 am now thirty-two Ts of age, and have never yet found timefor beaux. J shall sing forat least four years.”” At Bangor they have s company who are per- forming in what they call a Monster Quincuplexal, whatever that maybe. And the two other fea- tures of perormance are the baoy elephant and the pantomime of “Hunky Punky.” The Bangor- ites go every night. “Callperic” was first brought out in this city at the Théatre Frangais, tne predecessor of the Lyceum, about six years ago, with Mme, Rose Bell, Mile, Desaclausas and M.M. Carrrier and Beckers in the leading rdles. The best music of Hervé may be found In it. Mr. Louis James displays dramatic ability of a high order in “Yorick,” the new sensation-play adapted from the Spanish. His rdle is that of a comedian who wants to distinguish hinsell asa tragedian. Mr. James is a tragedian who habit- ually plays comedy. His Yorick aod bs Bull Sykes are by far his best efforts. A Chicago enthusiast thus speaks of Di Murska:— “She ciothes her meiody ina framework Of glite tering garment; the silvery music drops from her delicately cultured throat like phosphorus from the dripping oar. A nightingale of song, indeedt We close our eyes to clutch the fying notes watch Diease the ear, but leave no trace beaind.’!