The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1874, Page 6

6 ‘NEW YORK ‘HERALD es BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. —_—-—___——- JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HEL LD, day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual ltt price $12, - NOTICE To 8U DSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Herarp will be ent free of postage. —_e. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, F Rejected communications will not be re- turned. —_-—_—— 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. Volume XXXIX..... AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING —_—_-___. ADE ACA MUSIC Fourteenth streeL—PHL (RUARMONIC REHEARSAL, at 20. M OLYMPIC JHEATEE, No. 024 Broadway.—VARIE ‘3 P.M. ; closes at 10:45 | YM. GRAND 0 Twenty-third si CROOK, at 8 P.M. nd Ey closes atl P. 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"Fee our reports fhia morning ‘the probabilities are that there will be light rain or snow, followed by cold and clearing weather. Watt Srezer Yesrerpay.—Stocks at the close took an upward turn, and a firmer feel- ing was exhibited. Money on call loans three and a half and four percent. Gold closed at 111}. Foreign exchange was steady. Tue Session of the Baptist Convention of Social Unions was quite interesting yesterday, and was addressed by Governors Tilden and Gaston, Mayor Hunter and others. Tae Exammarion of Count Von Arnim was continued yesterday, and he explained his reasons for withholding certain papers, some of which he had, for his own protection, femoved beyond the Prussian frontier. Ronxixo raz Cusan Brockape—The dar- ing adventures of Colonel Pacheco, who + crossed the Caribbean Sea from Jamaica, and twice ran the Spanish blockade, are narrated in bis own language elsewhere. He brings direct news from the headquarters of the pat- riots, and his reports are decidedly favorable to the Cuban cause. Jzssz Pomeroy, the boy murderer, whose crimes, committed with no other motive than that of malignity, have shocked the public, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree, The plea of insanity was rejected, but if there is such o disease as moral insanity there is no doubt that this youthful murderer must have had it to a very unusual extent. The Court is expected to sentence him to-day. Tue Cusan Wan.—The ship which was taken into Santiago de Cuba by a Spanish gunboat proves to bea British vessel. The vessel has been liberated, but an English passenger is still held asa prisoner. It is not improbable that this affair will be promptly resented by Great Britain, and may help to hasten the joint interference of other nations in Cuban affairs, which President Grant seems to think is inevitable. Tue Prestpent’s Messacx 1x Mapn.—By special telogram from Madrid we learn that the Spaniards were temporarily and violently excited by the reading of a news report which purported to present extracts from President Grant’s Message to Congress. The Dons ywere furious against us, They found ont, al- most immediately, that the extracts from the \American document were grossly garbled, a corrected version of the utterance of our ‘Chief Magistrate having been received by the (Madrid Cabinet. This was published, and ‘at the latest moment the anti-American furor was cooling down. It is to be hoped that it will disappear completely, and with it the ‘patural disposition toward its renewal. ye every | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER U1, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Bioody Outbreaks in Mississippi. The full but, in some respects, conflicting accounts which we printed yesterday of the deplorable scenes of violence at and near Vicksburg require sifting and explanation to bring out the cardinal facts and fix the re- sponsibility for the slaughter. The longest of those accounts was telegraphed to the Hera by Governor Ames, from Jackson, the State capital, a place distant from the scene of the troubles and subject to some disadvantages in | gaining precise and detailed information. The sources of Governor Ames’ knowledge seem to have been exclusively men of his own political party, who were under a strong bias in favor of Crosby, the deposed negro Sheriff, and his negro defenders, who were the vic- tims of the conflict. It does not appear that the Governor had held communication with anybody on the other sidé, and his state- | ment must accordingly be regarded as ex parte. The other and _ shorter but more circumstantial account was tele- gtaphed to us by the city editor of the Vicksburg Herald, who, writing on the spot of matters within the scope of his professional duties, ought to be one of the best informed men in Vicksburg respecting the facts ; but he, too, is evidently under a bias, though in the opposite direction. It is safe to accept as authentic the statements in which the two despatches agree, and these are perhaps suffi- cient to enable us to form a correct judgment of this deplorable affair. Both accounts agree that these bloody con- flicts were not between the whites and negroes of the city of Vicksburg, but between the whites of Vicksburg and negroes from the surrounding country. And yet the scene of the bloody affrays was either just within ora little outside the city limits. The question | then arises how it happened that just at the break of day, on a December morning, bodies of negroes, several hundred strong, from dis- tant parts of the county, were discovered marching toward the city? Why did they leave their homes and assemble at places of rendezvous in the night, and then by a night march con- centrate from different directions at tho town of Vicksburg? It is quite evident that if they had stayed at their homes and slept that night in their beds the bloody encounters of which many of them were victims would not have occurred. It is impossible, in view of these undisputed facts, to deny that the negroes were the aggressors. The next question is, What motive had they in leaving their homes in various parts of the county by concert, and so timing their move- ments as to reach the city at an hour when most of its inhabitants would be still in bed? It seemed like an army attempting to capture an enemy’s camp by surprise. But what called those rural negroes together at an hour and under circumstances so unusual? This is a point on which there is no discrepancy in the different accounts. They came to Vicksburg from their homes in the country in order to maintain the negro Sheriff Crosby in his office, which he was in danger of losing by the action of the white citizens. Up to the time of their assembling for this purpose there was no bloodshed and no likelihood of any. Now, whether there were good grounds for displacing Crosby or not, it is plain that the negroes from the country were acting with- out authority and bent on an illegal object. If Crosby was in danger of being ousted’ with- out cause it was for the courts of the State or the Governor of the State to protect and de- fend him, citizens having no warrant to come to his rescue until summoned by the proper authorities. When an attack on the town seemed imminent by those bodies of outside negroes, an alarm was given, the citizens as- sembled under arms, went out to meet the negroes and easily put them to flight, killing and wounding quite a number. It is clear that the negroes were the challenging, aggres- sive party, and would have escaped all harm if they had not concerted measures for taking the city by surprise and reinstating Crosby, the negro Sheriff. One specious argument used by Governor Ames to invalidate this conclusion deserves some notice. ‘The same old story,” he says, “negroes killed by the score, none of their opponents hurt, and still the negro to blame.” If the negroes had equal courage and equal ex- perience and skill in the use of firearms this argument would seem plausible. Almost every white man in Mississippi is an old Con- federate soldier, while not one negro in a hun- dred ever had a gun in his hands till since the war, and they have never been trained in sit- uations which give steadiness and self-posses- sion in danger. The consequence is that they get panic-stricken and break and run at the beginning of an encounter, while the well- aimed firing of veteran white soldiers does deadly execution, The disproportion in the number of negroes killed does not disprove the fact that they left their homes in the night and mustered at Vicksburg for an illegal pur- pose, and thereby provoked the slaughter of which they complain. The action of the whites in relation to the negro Sheriff, Crosby, though legally inde- fensible, admits of some apology. It is charged by his opponents, and not denied by Governor Ames, that Crosby had not given the bond required of the Sheriff by law. The Governor says—probably on Crosby's authority, who visited Jackson to confer with him—that the Sheriff's accounts are all straight; but even if this is true it does not meet the charge that Crosby had not given legal bonds. So far as it has any force it is an argument against that provision of the law which requires sheriffs to give bonds, an argument which does not become the Governor of the State, who is sworn to seo that the laws are executed, whether he thinks them necessary or not. It is charged by Crosby's enemies, but not admitted by Gover- nor Ames, that he has been engaged in pack- ing juries to insure the escape of Daven- port, the negro Chancery clerk, who has been indicted by the Grand Jury, and ab- stracted and concealed the official records which contained the evidence of his guilt. An association of citizens, called the Tax- payers’ League, waited on Crosby and forced him to resign, whether with or without threats of violence is a disputed point. Be this as it may, their action was undoubtedly illegal, although it seemed to meet the general | approval of the respectable, property-holding, tax-paying class of the citizens of Vicksburg. There is no reason to doubt that the conduct _ 1 of the negro officials turnished them with pretexts and provocations for their irregular course. Assoon as these troubles arose Governor Ames should have interposed to maintain order, enforce the law and protect both sides in their rights. If the Sheriffhad not given proper bonds he should have compelled him to do so or give up the office, He should have assured the taxpayers that he would examine their complaints and redress their real grievances. He should have prevented the assembling of the rural negroes to menace Vicksburg with an attack. Had be been active and vigilant he might have pre- vented these troubles ; but, unfortunately, his activity and vigilance would have been ex- erted against the negroes, to whom he owed his election, and it requires more than ordi- nary virtue and fortitude for an officer to pursue a course which would offend and es- trange his supporters. According to our pres- ent information, of which the most important part is furnished by himself, Governor Ames cannot be held blameless for permitting this difficulty, which is not of sudden growth, to ripen into armed conflict and bloodshed. Disraeli, A despatch published in yesterday’s HrnauD should not escape attention. Mr. Disraeli, the English Prime Minister, is reported as having retired into an inland English village, refusing to see a deputation and remarking “that his absence from London would proba- bly be protracted.’’ The recent English pa- pers announce that he had been confined to his room with an attack of the gout. The London correspondent of a provincial paper pictures the Premier as ‘‘sitting before a fire with his limbs wrapped in flannel." We know his long planned visit to Ireland was postponed because of his illness, All these circumstances go to confirm the impression that the Premier is ill, It is therefore not surprising to learn, as we do from recent despatches, that a meeting of Conservatives has been held to determine upon whom the leadership of the party should fall in the event of his retirement or death. Disraeli is an old man, if we may call seventy years the beginning of old age, He is now approaching his seventieth year, and for fifty years he has been a very busy man— nearly fifty years have elapsed since he wrote his rhapsody of “Vivian Grey.’’ It is nearly forty years since he came into public life. He has had a remarkable career. His race, his education, his associations, his character, all against him, he has had to fight his way step by step until he, the descendant of a foreign refugee and an alien faith, became the leader of the proud tory party of England, and the head of the Cabinet in which sat as his ser- vants the Earl of Derby, the Marquis of Salis- bury, the Duke of Richmond, and others, repre- senting the proudest names and bluest blood of Great Britain, A career like this would natu- rally make the strongest man grow old before his time; and there have been many indica- tions that Mr. Disraeli is failing. His blunder at the Guildhall dinner, and his public apol- ogy in the columns of the Times a few days after, were the greatest errors that an English statesman could commit. They could only be attributed to a weakening mind Mr. Dis- raeli is the lnst statesman who would sue for mercy at the feet of Bismarck; the astonishing effect of this humiliation in the British mind, the general condemnation that has fallen upon him for his course, the certainty that it will be a matter of reproach in the next Parlia- ment, and the brilliant stroke of Gladstone in summoning to his banner the Protestant party, whose alienation led to his defeat, may all contribute to that illness of mind which so often accompanies the ailing body, Mr. Disraeli’s retirement from public life would be .the close of a brilliant and ex- traordinary career. There has been no such career in England since the time of Canning. In many respects he resembles Canning—in his lowly fortunes, the struggles of his life, his facility in rhetoric, his felicity of leader- ship. Canning grasped the Premiership and died after a brief tenure of office. He was surrounded by the same elements yof dissatis- faction that surround Disraeli. Wellington opposed him; the King accepted him with reluctance; his cabinet never forgot that he was injmany respects an adventurer. If he had #@t died it is a question whether he would have succeeded in the founding of a policy or o party, But Oan- ning left behind him a _ sentiment which his early death developed into a party, and this, we fear, Disraeli will not leave. He skill will do in any calling. He is the toler- ated, if not the recognized leader of the tories. The true leader would be Lord Salisbury, who is intellectually the strongest man in the Cabinet, who has already mutinied under the leadership of Disraeli, who, only a few months since, was publicly rebuked for this mutiny, and who gives his chief a sullen and scornful service, more in the interests of his party than its Promier. Lord Derby is a cold man, who owes his position largely to his wealth, ancestry and family alliances. If Mr. Disracli passes away the leadership will no doubt devolve upon Lord Derby or Lord Salisbury. We cannot think that either of these noblemen has the quality necessary to with the progressive sentiment of modern England. Tue Suvxme Fonp Securiries.—It is sin- gular that Comptroller Green should exhibit so much anxiety to have the sinking fund se- curities examined by some parties other than the authorities on whom the charter devolves that important duty. At the meeting of the Sinking Fund Commission yesterday, on motion of the Comptroller, Mayor Vance and Chamberlain Lane were appointed a commit- tee for that purpose. This is entirely un- necessary, since the charter requires that the Commissioners of Accounts shall make the examination of the securities an December, and the Commissioners who have just been restored to office are capable of performing the work in » proper manner. Besides, it seems absurd to make the Chamberlain, who is the custodian of the moneys and securities of the city, one of two examiners to ascertain whether the securities are intact. Mayor Vance will do well to decline the office thus conferred on him by the Comptroller, and to direct the Commissioners of Accounts to make the examination as required by the law. In tHe Hovse yesterday Mr.’ Kelley's finan- cial bill was the subject of extended debate, but no definite action was had, is an evidence of what patience, courage and |- found a party that will be at all in sympathy | Can the Republicans Unite? It is now clear to even the least thoughtfal of the republicans in Washington that unless they can quickly unite their party upon 4 definite and positive policy, and vigorously push that to a conclusion with all the force of the administration, they are lost. Their op- ponents have a year in which to deliberate, but with the republicans it is now or never. There is but one question upon which the eyes of the whole people, East, West and South, are fixed, and that is the currency question. In whatever direction men look it is this which stares them in the face. The President’s Message, the Treasury report, the attitude of the inflationists, all show that this is a ghost which cannot be put down, and that, however much they would like to drift, if the republican leaders mean to preserve their party they must unite upon some pos- sible financial policy and carry it through. Can they? Is it not too late? Can the incoherent elements be fused to o common purpose? If the President were as powerful an organizer in peace as he was in- war; if he understood the principles which underlie the question of finance, or if he would givo his confidence to men who do and confine himself to the task of bringing together the discordant bands who still, with varying motives and hopes, fight under the republican banner, something might be hoped for the party. It is still strong in numbers, but it needs a leader and an objective point. A President like Jefferson or Jackson would know how to retrieve this late defeat, how to restore confidence and good humor, how to gather the hosts for a combined effort toward a determined end. But it is doubtful if General Grant can do this. His nature is to ‘fight it out on that line,’’ and in politics it is necessary to change one’s base, to make new plans, to acknowledge impossibilities; mere pounding away will not do it. The state of opinion in the present Con- gress is such that without some extreme and forcible impulsion it would do nothing either to improve or degrade the currency. How to give this impulse is the vital question for the republicans. They have, unfortunately for themselves, no leader in whom they have con- fidence, and they need a really great leader, aman possessed both of capacity and courage, to make headway. What can they do? The problem before them is to adopt at this ses- sion, and as early as possible, a mesure defi- nitely, and not disastrously, settling the cur- rency question—leading the country surely toward resumption, but not causing a too bur- densome pressure. All enterprise is stopped because of uncertainty and vague apprehen- sion of the future. No one will extend his business or enter upon new ventures while he cannot tell whether the so-called dollar will be worth fifty cents or a dollar and a half a year hence, The banks, especially in the West, are full of money; the farmers are prosperous, the country is rich. But all is useless without certainty. The party which gives this assurance, whose legislation once more fixes values, or at least puts them in the course of a deter- minate arrangement, will win the confidence and the gratitude of the nation, because it will start the wheels of industry and put lasting prosperity within our reach. If the republican party does this it may regain its now perishing future, for the democrats will not dare at the next session to disturb any definite and sensible arrangcment of this question which may be made now. The whole country will have settled down to what- ever may be fixed and will protest against new measures, against change, even though it were for the better. It is still not too late for'the republican leaders. If a dozen of them had genius enough to devise a sound measure of finance, the good fortune to get the President to heart- ily support it, and the courage to show an open door to Mr. Kelley, General Butler and all other deserters, they might still save them- selves, The party whip is still powerful, but it needs to be swung by a vigorous and deter- mined arm. Threats of desertion must not territy, nor the howls of camp followers con- fuse, those who enter on such a campaign. Are there a dozen men in the republican party capable of thus snatching it out of the jaws of defeat, capable of devising a policy and sternly forcing their reluctant followers to support it? If so we may yet see an interest- ing and important session. But it will not do to delay. The Siege of Irun. The full story of the siege of Irun and its bombardment by the Carlists, of the prepara tions for the assault, of the sudden change of plans and the raising of the siege, and then of the retreat of the army pursued by the republicans, is vividly described in our cor- respondence from Hendaye. It isa sad story if read from the Carlist point of view, as it shows how desperate is Don Carlos’ position, and we now can understand why he has been deserted by the Bishop of Urgel and by others who have long followed him with fidelity and courage. The campaign which had Irun for its central point has not only failed, but has demonstrated the weakness of the cause of Don Carlos or the incapacity of his generals, He is morally strong in the devotion of the people and the troops, but that cannot supply the want of numbers and material of war, Our correspondent cannot account for the sudden raising of the siege, except on the theory that the Carlist generals were alarmed by false reports of the approach of tho enemy. Had the assault been made he thinks Iran could have been occupied and the .whole campaign reversed. But it is not now of much value to speculate upon what might have happened. General Loma’s advance was fatal, and the capture of the heights of San Marco cut the Carlist army in two. What followed was simply disaster, attended by the usual evils of war—burning villages and homeless people flying before the victors. There are many glimpses of Don Carlos in our letters, from the scene on the heights where he held his royal levée, surrounded by a little court, when speedy triumph appeared certain, to his retreat at night, and the, despair and wrath of the disappointed troops. It is a picturesque chapter in Spanish history that our correspondent has written, and a clear analysis of the events which secm to make the overthrow of the Carlist power a mere question of time. How energetically General Loma proposes to follow up his ad- . vantage is shown by the proclamation which, according to our cable despatches, he intends to issue, demanding the surrender of the Car- Mr. Barnes, the other in that against Mr. Moulton. Both of them have been won by lists within eight days, and threatening to }Mr. Beecher. desolate the country if they refuse. The Observations ot the Transit of Venus. Enough already has been heard from the astronomical expeditions to enable us to say with a reasonable degree of certainty that the transit of Venus has been successfully ob- served. Everything that experience and study could suggest for accuracy in making the observations was provided, and the astronomers asked nothing more than clear weather. Fortunately this seems to have beep generally granted, and we only hear of abso- lntely unfavorable weather from Omsk, Oren- burg, Kasan, Uralsk, Astrachan, Kertch and Tiflia. In these places the expeditions failed. Partial obscurations of the sun have been reported from Vladivostok and Nagasaki, but they were not permanent, and interfered but little with the work of measuring and photographing the passage of the planet. In Yokohama the success was perfect, and ex- cellent observations were made at Cairo and Suez, The data collected from stations far apart from each other will be, therefore, sufficient to insure the grand object of the expeditions. The results will not be known for years, but the public will rejoice in the assurance that the total experiment is substentially a suc- cess. It is impossible not to see how great a part the system of weather signals and predictions, which is now being developed so carefully in this country and Europe, may play hereafter in similar scientific investigations, Local cloudy weather will not then be so likely as it is now to defeat well laid plans of observation, as the probabilities of even a few days would enable astronomers to select more favorable stations. We publish to-day the report of the English expedition to Egypt, news of the American astronomers in Hobart Town, Van Dieman’s Land, and from the European observers in Persia. With this is an article from the Lon- don Jimes which compliments the methods the American astronomers have employed, and considers that their labors will go far toward the solution of the grand problem. Thanksgiving in Germany. It has frequently been observed that our foreign-born citizens delight in nothing so much as in transplanting their customs to our American soil. It would be interesting to trace our various home legends and amuse- ments to their European nativity. As these legends and amusements owe much of their value to their antiquity we cannot in our young days be said to have contributed anything of special value. America is the land which has never produced a legend or a fairy tale, unless we can call Pocahontas a legend, as we suppose it is, or Rip Van Winkle a fairy tale, which it should be. In the way of anniversaries we have our share; but they are, as a general thing, noisy and selfish, and celebrate our war triumphs, about which the world cares nothing, and we ourselves less and less. Who, for in- stance, assembles on the 8th of Janu- ary to drink the ‘glorious and im- mortal memory” of Andrew Jackson, who on that day whipped the British? Why, it was only a cotton bale squabble compared with Wilderness and Gettysburg. We do not fancy the gunpowder anniversaries as a gen- eral thing, although we presume we shall not ever feel like surrendering the Fourth of July. It looks now as if we were about to contribute our anniversary to the calendar of peace and humanity by founding Thanksgiving Day. 'This is the festival of home, even more than Christmas. We observe that our American exiles have carried it with them across the sea, for our Berlin correspondent gives us an account of a celebration in Berlin and an ad- dress by the Rev. Dr. Thompson, the well known American clergyman, who represents the religious interests of America in the Ger- man capital The address is well worth reading, and we are glad to note the cclebra- tion as an evidence of the spread of an Amer- ican idea into other lands. The Brooklyn Scandal. The deep interest which people take in the unfortunate controversy in Brooklyn makes it really a national question. We follow it, from time to time, not without the reserve which journals should always observe in comment- ing upon legal proceedings, The Proctor- Moulton case has come to a sudden and un- expected close. There have been many rumors about compromise, settlement and so on, but no one expected this abrupt termina- tion, Atthe same time we congratulate the community upon the result. It was a mistake to bring the name of Miss Proctor into the controversy. It was a mistake on the part of Mr. Beecher’s friends* to endeavor to strengthen his case by an outside proceeding directed against public opinion. The issue is between Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton, or rather between Mr. Beecher and the public opinion of mankind. Any question, personal or public, outside of that is an injury to Mr. Beecher, an offence to that moral sense which waits impatiently‘for the vindication of this gifted and celebrated gentleman from the horrible charges which are brought against him. As there could have been no motive—but one so base that it is unworthy even of con- sideration—for the attack on Miss Proctor, Mr. Moulton’s counsel did a manly act in making an apology. The mistake was in not having made it earlier. It now seems to have been given under duress and the fear of a speedy trial and almost certain conviction. ‘The case is simplified. Is Mr. Beecher guilty or not guilty of the terrible crimes laid to his charge? The sooner this is tried the better for his fame, for morality, and for the peace of the community. Any further delay in avoiding the issue will be inexcusable, and will injure no one so much as Mr. Beecher himself. The motion of the defendant in this case for a bill of particulars was yesterday argued in the Brooklyn City Court. Mr, Tilton submitted an affidavit setting forth his personal knowledge of tho facts, but was not able to specify exact times or places. Mr. Evarts and Mr. Morris discussed the legal principles involved in the motion, and Judge McCue reserved his de- cision. Thus far in the campaign there have been two victories—one in the libel suit against Washington City. Any measure for the proper government of Washington city would be welcomed by the country. We do not enter into the dotails of Senator Morrill’s bill, because they have not yet been debated or maturely considered. Aw we understand the proposition it is to bring the capital immediately under the control of the federal government, to be administered by Congress very much as we administer publi grounds and national reservations. The diff. culties about Washington city are that it is an overnursed baby. Washington has many ele- ments of national growth, if it were only allowed to grow. There is fine water power, a noble river, mineral deposits within easy access, an agricultural country surrounds it and it is within easy access of the sea. There is no reason why, with the water power of the Potomac, Washington should not become an important manufacturing centre; why, in other words, it, like Philadelphia, or Baltimore, or Cincinnati, should not sup- port itself, There is no reason why there should not be one hundred thousand people in Washington living upon the industry and manufactures of the city and independent of the government, But the great trouble hag been that the people of Washington feel that the government owes them support. Manu- factures have been made impossible because the government pays larger wages and exacta less service than any businsgs man could afford. So the moment that a cotton mill ora sugar refinery or an iron furnace is established every laborer, after the first six months’ em- ployment, finds that a watchman at the Capi- tol, who spends his time dozing against. a pillar, or a treasury porter, whose life is given to a contemplation of the Potomac from one of the windows, receives more money than he earns, Accordingly he instinctively be-~ comes one of that enormous lobby which sur- rounds Congress and the departments, con- stantly begging for office. The result is that Washington—and this we say in‘no offensive sense—has become a city of statesmen and beggars. There is one class who administer the government, another who live upon it. But there is no enterprising unofficial class, proud of the city, its prosperity, its natural advantages, and resolved to develop them. It was a mistake, we think, in the beginning, to build a city for a capital Great capitals are part of great cities, and con- tribute to their prosperity. If Washington could be let alone, and if there could bea civil service introduced into the departments, preventing this constant aggregation of the begging classes, there is no reason why it should not grow as rapidly as Baltimore oz New Orleans. Dreztuent.—Two meetings were held yes- terday in relation to this dangerous disease, which has been unusually prevalent of late. One was of the Public Health Association and the other of the Medical Board of the Eastern Dispensary. Some of the suggestions of the physicians present, especially in rogard to public schoolrooms and tenement houses, deserve to be promptly acted upon by the authorities. Proresson Jupp continues his walk with great zeal and displays remarkable powers of endurance. He is confident of completing the five hundred miles in the appointed time. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Commander 0). F, Stanton, United States Navy. is quartered at the Astor House, Mr. Jono T, Ford, of Baltimore, 1s among the latest arrivals at the Coleman House. V. V. Smith, claiming to be Governor of Arkan sas, arrived in Washington yesterday. Langiewicz, the Polish insurgent and dictator of 1863, is Krupp’s agent at Constantinople. Captain toed of the steamship Abyssinia, ts resiaing teMporarily at the New York Hotel. State Senator Jonn H. Selkreg, of Ithaca, are rived last evening at fhe Grand Central Hotel. Majo: Louis Trager, late United States Consul at Boulogne, France, has returned to this city. Professor 0. 8. Peirce, of tne United States Coast Survey, has apartments at the Brevoort House, Percival L. Everett, of Boston, was yesterday elected Grand Master of the Masons of Massachu- setts. Congressman E. D. Standiford, of Kentucky, ar- rived from Washington yesterday at the Windsor Hotel. Chevalier Alphonse de Stuers, Chargé d’Affaires of the Netherlands at Washington, is at the Lotel Brunswick. Congressman-elect C. ©. B. Walker and State Senator George B, Bradley, of Corning, N. Y., are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Jeremiah McGuire, of Elmira, a democratic candidate for Speaker of the next Assembly, is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Stephen Preston, Haytien Minister at Washing- ton, has taken a residence in this city in Second avenue, and will entertain his countrymen and otners during the winter. Among the passengers by the steamstip Baltic, which sailed from Liverpool yesterday for New York, were Mrs. Rousby, the well known English actress, and Maurive Grau, manager of the Lyceum Theatre. As Moulton never said more than that Beecher sald a certain thing about a lady, and as he does not now say that Beecher did not say so, it is dim cult to see that all the array of counsel and formid- able parade of the case generally has changed anything. Alexander Mactier, of Baltimore, was married . in London, on the 9th inst., to Virginia, daughter ofthe late Hon. James Brooks, of New York, in the Roman Catholic church of the Assumption, Holborn, Minister Schenck was present and Mgr, Capel performed the marriage ceremony. The members of the Delta Kappa Epstion fra- ternity residing in this city, to the number of over one hundred, enjoyed an anniversary dinner at the St. Nicholas Hotel Iast evening, The recent suc- cessful establishment of a Chapter in Columbia College contributed not a little toward the enjoy- ment of the occasion. These dinners are hereafter to be an annual occurrence, ‘The Chicago Times is the reporter of the follows ing conversation, which it alleges to have taken place between the recently married son of the President and the brother-in-law of his brides— “And you, too, are trying to run my affairs? I would have you understand, Colonel So-and-so, that my basiness is not your business; and you will please oblige me by going to hell.” The Colonel’s response, if he made any, is lost to hise tory. but he started for Wasnington ata quarter past five last evening, probably im obedience to nis kind brother-in-iaw’s request. A mysterious basket, addressed to the station- master at Clapham Junction, on being opened ‘was found to contain a living child, The station- master declining the gift, a porter volunteered to accept It, and took the basket and child. On lift- ing the child £800 was found in the basket. The story goes that the stationmaster then demanded the basket and its contents, which the porter very properly refused tv give up. One can hardly doubt to which of the two the mother would tm trust her child,—London Times,