The New York Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YO ORK HERALD BROADWAY “AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT . PROPRIETOR _— HERALD, published every Four cents per copy. An- THE DAILY day in the year. nual subscription price $12, NOTICE TO S {ESCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Heratp will be | sent free of postage. ini All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Yonx | Hera. | Rejected communications will not be re- | turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Reo. ketene LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions snd Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the sanie terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING BOOTH'S THE ATRE. ee er of Twenty-third street and sixth avenue. Teno OF Tie HOU R, at 5 P.M; Closes at 10:80 P.M. Mr. Henri Stuart | | ROMAN HIPPODROME, | sixth street and Fourth avenue.—FETE AT | , alternoon and evening, st 2 and 5. 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Money was easy at 3} and 4 percent. Foreign exchange was un- changed. Rarm Traysrr is the duty of the hour. We Have further reports from Vicksburg. But who is to blame? Tue Guost o oF y Marrposa moved uneasily through the courts yesterday. Tuy Mexican Concress has suppressed the Catholic Order of Sisters of Charity. It is impossible to comprehend the motive fcr such an act. Wuorves Secures New York rapid transit | will show what a rapid and upward transit | he has made in the affections of the people. Tae War m Cura is maintained with great | activity and resolution. The Spaniards have | been successful in some very sharp conflicts | in which quite a number of men were killed. Rebel cavalry have appeared in the Remedios district. France anp Spary.—The French Cabinet has replied to the Spanish ministerial re- clamation which was lately addressed to | intimating or | the MacMahon Ministry, charging the government with having winked | at breaches of its professed neutrality in favor of Don Carlos. _ Tur Arvo Case.—The trial of Count Arnim has been concluded, and we now await the verdict, which will probably be rendered on Saturday. There is a report that the gov- ernment has asked the conviction of the Count and his sentence to a month’s impris- onment, There are no indications as to what the verdict will be, although the impression is that, if convicted, the sentence will be a light One, considering the severity of the punish- ment already inflicted. The interesting fea- | ture of the trial is the publication of the despatches of Bismarck to Arnim. They show that the Chancellor always acted toward | France in a harsh, hostile and domineering | spirit. He regarded it as the duty of the Am- bassador to interfere directly in French politics. The Bonapartes, Arnim thought, should be encouraged because they would not ‘want a war of revenge, while Bismarck an- swered that so long as Thiers obeyed the | treaty stipulations there was no use in encour. | his rivals. As for Italy, Bismarck wanted her friendship, but he would not allow | Germany to be dragged into a war to support Italian In other words, Bismarck had no feeling toward enemies or allies ex- cept to aid og His policy is only a new chapter in the history of Prussian pelfiahness. — | dured in any other scene of physical torment. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1874. —TRIPLE SHEET. Charley Ross and His Abductors—The Romance ef Crime. There is a deep moral impressiveness in the circumstances of the Bay Ridge tragedy which cannot fail to have a salutary effect on the community and strike the criminal classes with mysterious awe. When condign punish- ment overtakes deep guilt the public sense of justice is satisfied; but_when the punish- ment is astonishing and unexpected, and the sudden retribution which falls on one offence in the very act of its commission, and which might seem in excess of its turpitude, reveals | another and darker crime, which shows that the criminals had sinned up to the full measure of the fearful penalty, reverent minds | will recognize in so wonderful a coincidence the directing hand of Providence, and even the most thoughtless will be awakened to | some dim sense of a moral government presid- ing over human affaires. Tho revelations extorted by approaching death from the younger of the two Bay Ridge | burglars is one of the most noteworthy inci- dents in the history of crime. The pages of imaginative fiction present nothing more re- | markable than that voluntary confession and its surroundings. The thick darkness of the last hours of astormy December night en- veloped the wounded burglar who lay upon the spot where he had fallen, on a lawn drenched with the descending rain, his bowels | protruding from the effect cf the terrible dis- charge of buckshot which had torn away their envelope and made it impossible to remove | him from the place where he had fallen. A dim Yantern, which served to render the sur- rounding darkness visible, disclosed one or | two individuals standing over the fatally wounded man, who writhed in agonies com- mon enough on fields of battle, but seldom en- His first thought was the alleviation of | his physical suffering. He begged for whis- key, which was brought ; but, finding himself | unable to swallow it, he then begged tor | water, which he drank, when it came, without relief to his excruciating wretchedness, Then fell upon him a sense that his worthless, miserable life was fast ebbing away, and the | | pangs of conscience for a few brief moments | became stronger than the torture of his | wounds, and forced him to unburden his mind | of a guilty secret. ‘It's no use lying now,” said he; ‘I helped to steal Charley Ross.’’ The terror of death and fear of the just retri- bution which lies beyond unlocked his guilty soul. This sudden awakening ofa dormant conscience in view of the near presence of the “King of Terrors” is an impressive testimony to the inextinguishable life of that moral sense which our religion teaches us to believe will survive even the blackest career of crime and ratify the sentence of con- demnation passed upon the wicked on the great final day. Tortured by his suddenly awakened conscience, in view of immediate death, this hardened mis- creant felt impelled to unburden his mind by a confession which is the striking feature of | this singular tragedy. The identification of | the perpetrators of this burglary with the abductors of Charley Ross invests this re- ; markable affair with the drapery and color of perhaps the-darkest romance in the annals of its parallel except in those works ot imagina- tion which address our sense of the marvellous | by fictitious occurrences which connect dread- ful crimes with appalling retribution. This confession of Douglas is a valuable clew to the discovery of the lost boy, unless | there is ground for suspecting that his wan- ing mind and wandering faculties made him the sport of mental illusions. There are solid corroborative reasons for believing that his memory was clear and that he bore dying testimony to a real occurrence. The awful event which stared him in the face is o sufficient guaran- tee that he practised no intentional deception. If what he stated was false it must havé been owing to the disordered con- dition of his faculties and the hallucinations of a mind which had lost its regular action by the undermining influence of physical de- rangement. There is the strongest evidence that this was not the case. In the first place, the descriptions given by the Philadelphia witnesses of the abduction correspond mi- nutely with the appearance of Mosher, the broken bridge of whose nose made identifica- tion easy. Another statement _of the dying burglar Douglas puts the truth of his state- ment beyond question. He said, ‘Inspector | Walling knows,” which is indubitably con- firmed by an incident which occurred on the | arrival at Bay Ridge of the detective sent to the scene of the tragedy by Walling. The detective at once recognized the body of | Mosher, who proved to be an old acquaint- ance of the New York police, and | described peculiarity of one of his | fingers, which was perfectly verified by pulling | off the glove of the dead burglar. It is impos- sible to doubt, therefore, that the dying | Douglas told the truth, or that the real kid- nappers of Charley Ross were these same burglars shot in a raivy December night as | they came out of the house of Judge Van Brunt. gach This being certain the chances are greatly improved of finding the lost boy and restoring | { him to his afflicted parents. Something is to bé hoped from the power of conscience | | which @xtorted the dying confession of Doug- | las and which will naturally be excited to | | activity in the confederates of the kidnappers | | by the terrible and tragic ending of the chief | criminals. They will be anxious to quit them- | | felves of a charge from which they can no longer expect advantage or gain, and whose | longer possession may bring down calamities on themselves. Mosher’s wife doubtless knows where the boy is detained, and the effect of | | the recent tragedy on her mind should make | her desirous to get out of the scrape | as speedily as possible. When the child | is recovered there will probably be no pur- suit of the accomplices, and it is for their in- terest to restore him as soon as they can do 80 without exposing themselves to arrest. It | will therefore occasion no surprise to learn at | any hour that Charley Ross has come into the | | hands of people who will promptly restore | him to his parents. If he should not be vol- untarily put on the way of reaching them it will reflect infinite discredit on the police if, with this new clew, they are unable to dis- cover him, The sympathy of humane people will go out toward the stricken parents, whose bruised affections will bleed afresh at the discovery * human crime. It would be difficult to find | veil which has concealed the kidnappers with- out restoring their child. To be brought so seemingly near to his recovery without find- ing him must subject them to the agonizing suspense between hope and fear—to the doubt, anxiety and torturing impatience which are the severest trials of the human heart. The certainty that he was dead would gradually bring the serenity which follows an irremediable loss; even a Jong and fruit- less search insensibly trains the mind to com- posure; but to have hope and expectation excited to the highest pitch of intensity, and to be still abandoned to excruciating uncer- tainty, is the most terrible strain that can be put upon fond human affections. The’keen public curiosity which has been awakened by the recent tragic occurrences and their dis- closures, the satisfied sense of justice which attends the sudden punishment of the kidnap- pers, are faint and feeble feelings in compari- son with the painful alternations of fear and hope which wring the wearied hearts which care for no other feature of the case than the recovery of their child. All Christian men and women will offer up prayers that these smitten parents may have their uncer- tainty speedily relieved by clasping their long lost boy once more in their arms. Mr. Forster's Plea for the Southern People, Among the many excellent features of Mr. Forster's judicious speech at the reception given him by the Union League Club the most valuable is the honest testimony he bore to the loyalty and correct feeling of the Southern people among whom he has recently trav- elled. This testimony he emphasizes in the interview with one ot our reporters elsewhere printed. It is fortunate that this modest | plea for magnanimity was made toa repub- | licean audience by an honored guest, whose friendship in our great struggle was his chief title to the hospitality and distinguished courtesy of the Union League Club. It was the counsel of a tried friend, given to men whose views he shared and supported during the war, and who are under every kind of obligation to treat his views with respect. It was, moreover, the counsel of an able, wise and experienced statesman, whose opin- ions are entitled to deference on every practi- cal question on which he has taken pains to inform himself. We hope Mr. Forster's ex- cellent advice may sink deeply into the hearts of the Union League Club and of the repub- lican party. His testimony is valuable because he is fresh from extensive travels in the South, with the best advantages of access to the class of minds who control the public opinion of that section. He would not undertake to say ‘{irat’ there is absolntely i ill-fecling left in consequence of the war, but he does say, in emphatic language, that there was never so protracted a civil con- test which left so little feeling of hatred, and he illustrated his opinion by this anecdote: —‘“‘I was introduced last week by a federal general to a Confederate general on the floor of the House. I heard, as I went through the country, men who had been fight- ing in different camps talking over the battles in which they had been opposed to each other, and, in fact, I was always told that if there was any difficulty or disagreement left it was not between those who fought, but rather between those who had not fought.” Mr. Forster afterward went on to describe at some length his observations in the South, and the facts he stated give a most favorable picture of the senti- ment of loyalty, regard for justice and desire for order and tranquillity that prevail among the influential public men of that section. He cited, as a specimen, the terse statement by a democratic orator to whose speech he listened, of the proper policy for the South, in these words :—“Peace between the sections; peace between the races."’ We trust that Mr. Forster's admirable speech may have a soften- ing’and humanizing tffect on such republi- cans as mistakenly imagine that any further political capital is to be made by rekindling the old sectional animosities. Mr. Forster deserves the blessing pronounced by a great authority on the peacemakers, and he will return to his own country with the cordial good will of all classes of the American people. The “Katie King” Phenomenon. Mr. Robert Dale Owen is a distinguished writer and scholar who has given much atten- tion to Spiritualism. He hasa fanatical belief in most of what has been written upon the other world and the claim of ‘‘mediums’’ to com- municate between the living and the dead. We are afraid to tell our readers how much Mr. Owen believes. So profound is his faith that we are surprised to find him doubting anything. But froma statement which we copy this morning from a Philadelphia jour- nal it seems that he cannot believe in ‘Katie King,”’ a spirit who has been disturbing the | placid life of Philadelphia. Mr. Owen saw “Katie King’’ last summer, and vouched for her as a veritable spook. But subsequent in- _Veatigations Jed. him Yithdray J his as- ‘surances. “Mr. Owen's frankness is in keep- ing with his character. It would not surprise aug to receive from him an assurance that he regarded the whole business of Spiritualism as much of a fraud as ‘Katie King.” No phenomena have been so carefully studied during the past few years as Spiritualism. Ail the tests known to science have been ap- plied, ond giited men have patiently de- voted themselves tothe task. But nothing comes from it only folly and waste of time. | When one of these mediums will tell us some- thing worth knowing, and that we do not \"know, where, for instance, Charley Ross is | hidden, we shall deem their revelations worthy of attention. As it is Mr. Owen's discovery about ‘Katie King”’ is only the precursor to other revelations of the same character. Financial Theories. Congress does not seem to get any nearer a solution of the financial question. We have had one debate on the subject of an instruc- tive character, between General Butler and | Mr. Garfield, but as yet there has been no expression of opinion on the part of the House as to what Congress will do on the question of inflation. The great difficulty about legislation on financial questions is the tendency of the average statesman to attain by abstruse or unusual means o simple result. Nothing should be more intelligible than finance. If ‘We owe money we should pay it Wo cannot which tantalizes their hopes by lifting the | | true basis for our national credit but gold. | have credit without money. There can be no | Paper money is either a convenience or an expedient. It isa convenience when there is gold behind it. Otherwise it is an expedient, a makeshift and an avoidance of responsibility. No law can give currency the value of money when it does not represent money. The only way to make money plenty is first to earn it and then to save it, Legislation based on these principles will arrive at one result, the resumption of specie payments; any other result is simply quack- ery. All these Kelley measures, Butler plans and incomprehensible schemes for making money as plenty as forest leaves are simply | quack remedies, and should be avoided by all ; who wish to see our finances in a healthy | condition. There is no possible legislation that can succeed in making two and two five, and the efforts of Kelley and friends to secure that result is only a waste of time and an in- jury to the country. The Freedman’s Savings Bank. The report of the Commissioners intrusted with the settlement of the affairs of the Freed- man’s Savings Bank shows that institution to have been more deplorably managed than seems possible in a country where there is even a semblance of personal liability or in- tegrity. It is impossible to ascertain the assets or the debts of the concern. In the management of the institution bad loans seem to have been preferred to good ones. The whole scheme was a crime practised upon a credulous and helpless race. It is too late to regret the organization of such a bank, with its numerous branches and its impossible basis of busingss success, but at the same time we cannot regard it in any other light than as national shame. Every effort must now be made to save as much of the assets of the concern as may be; for though it is impossible to reimburse the poor deluded blacks who were entrapped into depositing their money in the bank, yet patience on-their part and skill on the part of the Commissioners may yield them something out of the wreck. As will be seen from their report, which was published in the Hzraup yesterday, the Commissioners ask Congress for increased powers in the performance of the work allotted to them. We see no objec- tion to their demands, except, perhaps, in their asking for power to buy and sell prop- erty seized for debts due the bank. But even this may be necessary. Rings are formed on any occasion where the power to act is limited, and it would be very easy for purchasers to combine and prevent the freedmen from realizing anything beyond a nominal price upon property taken into execution by the Commissioners. These gentlemen need the amplest power, and we hope Congress will give it to them, at the same time holding them to the strictest accountability in the performance of their duties. | One Term. Since Congress met we have had several motions from democrats anxious to ‘begin the work of reform.'’ Mr. Phelps, of New Jer- sey, began with his motion to repeal what is called the ‘Poland Gag law.” Other mem- bers have brought in motions to reduce the President's saldry; Mr. Beck has succeeded in passing the resolution affecting the fees of lawyers in Congress. All this, however, is but what might be called the picayune business of legislation. There is one thing that no democrat has yet done, and that is to introduce an amendment to the con- stitution limiting the office of the President to one term. Mr. Wright, of Iowa, a repub- lican Senator, has shown his respect for public opinion by offering such a proposition in the Senate. This only shows how pur- blind the demagogues among those who lead the democratic party have proved themselves to be. The third term issue was the most important in the last canvass. It did more than anything else to consolidate the feeling of the country against the republican party. It defeated General Grant’s administra- tion and gave him the first defeat of his life. Naturally enough the country would expect the democrats to at once put in operation the machinery necessary to amend the constitution in favor of one term. Just now no serious fragment of any of the parties would dare to oppose the measure. The temper of the country is such that republicans and demo- crats would emulate each other in their eftorts to pass it. This is because they have just received from the country so emphatic an ex- pression of opinion on the subject. Why, then, does not some democratic leader cham- pion this measure and force the republicans to accept or reject it? Why allow the republi- cans to take the initiative? Why not make the issue now? and if the republicans dare to de- feat it it will be one of the most effective ele- ments against them in the next campaign. This would be wisdom far better than the small business which has thus far interested our democratio members. What Presidént Grant Can Do. yey of the evils of reconstruction began with the administration of President Lincdin, That easy-going, shrewd statesman, when- | ever he was sorely bothered by a politician, | especially some one who had failed in the war and had too much political influence to be | court martialled for incapacity or cowardice, to pitchfork him, as it were, into the Southern } States as a judge, a collector of revenue, or a marshal, or in some other important station. These Southern States were mainly occupied by | the Confederate troops, and as the officer could not go upon his mission the appointment | virtually amounted to a sinecure, But when | pence came the Southern States found them- selves under o judicial system of the worst character, the off-scouring of Northern politi- | cal conventions holding the most important stations under the government, This policy of Mr. Lincoln, which will be remembered as a stain upon his reputation, continues, more or less, to thisday. President Grant has now an opportunity to reform it. There are two vacant district Judgesbips | to be filled—those in Alabama and Arkansas, Louisiana has been filled by what is re- | garded as a fair if not o brilliant appoint- | ment. These positions are the most im- portant under the government. The Presi- dent can show his desire to assist the South in the process of wholesome and pacific re- construction by the character of the men he appoints to these vacancies. Let him nominate lawyers of learning, character and fame, If there are nono in those States he can certainly | find them elsewhere—men of the very highest character, who would be honored by a life- long seat on the Bench, and would be accepted by the people as an earnest that jus- tice would thenceforward be pure. But if these nominations are to be made by the President under the pressure of a caucus of “carpet-bag politicians,"’ or ‘‘scalawags” in Congress, who desire to foist their creatures upon the Bench, then it will be a crime against reconstruction. It will be a crime even more censurable than Mr. Lincoln’s original course. What Mr. Lincoln did might be justified by the necessities of war and his desire to keep the party a unit at all hazards. Bnt no such necessity exists now. President Grant can do more to win the respect of honest men by the nature of his Southern appointments than by any other immediate course which seems open to him. By All Means: Among what a Western man would call the ‘side shows’’ at the Centennial Exhibition it is proposed by the Associated Banks of Philadelphia to make a complete collection of specimens of the coins and paper moncy of the United States, to be elucidated by statistics of banking and finance, and banks and bank- ers all over the United States are desired to contribute to this collection. The idea is an excellent one, and we hope it will be successfully carried out. A collection of coins tolerably complete could be loaned to the Exhibition by more than one citizen, and except as a matter of curiosity to the average country visitor, and of envy to less fortunate collectors, would have little im- portance to us now. But a complete, or even tolerably complete, collection of the shin- plasters which have cursed the people, robbed industry of its just returns, embarrassed trade and caused financial distress and stagnation, from the days of the coarse brown Continental rag to the present day of greasy greenbacks, would be a most important and instructive study. What a story such acollection would tell of futile attempts to create wealth, not by labor but by legislation; of promises to pay which the poor were persuaded to take, and which wilted in their pockets; of magnificent financial theories, based on ignorance and supported by knavery; of bubbles warranted not to burst, which nevertheless always did burst at the very moment of greatest infla- tion! What a record such a gathering would make of wrecked financial schemes, each of which was expressly adopted to make the poor richer, and all of which in reality only made them poorer! And under ‘what instructive labels the mass of failed and dishonored paper would be displayed! The collection would—if the curator or managers were not averse to sound English—come under the general head of shinplasters; and in one case would be dis- played samples of the Wild Cat, of Indiana; in another the visitor would admire the Red Dog of Michigan; here would be specimens of Texas scrip, of which the more you bad the worse off you were; there the issues of real estate banks, founded on mortgages, and which the last credulous holders took in ex- change for eggs or butter, weight tor weight, and found themselves swindled at that. On one side would he shown tbe Confederate notes, payable six months after the conclusion of a peace between the Contederate and the United States governments, and which can- not therefore be called “past due;"” and on the other our own dear—too dear—greenback, which, according to the limited under- standing of Mr. Kelley and General Butler, is never due; while somewhere midway between would be seen specimens of Nick Biddle’s magnificent United States Bank issues, which were to have made the last gen- eration all men and women of independent property, and left @ great number of them without enough to pay their decent funeral expenses, To the poor the show would have but a mouraiul interest; but it would greatly at- tract the papermakers and the engravers. “What you want to do is to get the bills nicely engraved, printed on good, crisp paper, and send them off as far as you can from the bank.” This used to be the instruction given to the bank president by the directors in the West, But the engravers, printers and papermakers had always to be paid in cash, and the shrewd rogues took care that cash meant money, not the stuff they were manu- facturing. They did not, like the ancestors of King Kalakaua, worship the idol they created, A small part of the collection will consist of bills of American banks which have never failed to redeem their promises to pay. It will be very small, alas! but a very honorable gathering. And then the literature of the subject—the great mass of laws to regulate, to limit, to ex- pand, to contract, to improve—everything but to abolish unredeemed promises to pay } the tons of plans for the resumption of Specie payments, each more complicated and {n- genious than the other; tons of finan- cial theories; the shelves full laws, intended to make bank bills as good as money, not to speak of speeches, public ; documents, messages and a great mass of | other literature, all of which, like its subject, has gone to protest. To help to make this dreary spectacle more impressive upon visitors we trust the Asso- ciated Banks of Philadelphia will cause to be placed conspicuously over the whole col- lection the busts or portraits of Pennsyl- | vania’s two most eminent statesmen, Ben- jamin Franklin, of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin, of Switzerland—both sound finan- ciers. Hamlet saw his father’s ghost, with “a countenance more in sorrow than in anger.” If Franklin and Gallatin could really look | down it would be, we imagine, with amaze- ment and indighation at the project which some of their successors are trying to get Con- gress to adopt. Tux Corp Tenm.—As will be seen from our despatches, the mercury fell to thirty degrees below zero at Lancaster, N. H., on Monday | night, while at various places throughout New England and Canada it approximated that point. Meanwhile the denizens of this me- tropolis have thought proper to don their win- ter clothing at a temperature of ten above. ‘Twaxp still beats at his prison bars. Would it not be a shrewd movement for the Boas to preface his next application for a habeas corpus by giving back to the city the money taken? of State | | | ; this city, will be one of the aides, A Few Words for the Chilaren. Of the multitudes who in the rigors of win- ter call for aid and charity we begin to think that the children are the class most urgently in need. ‘True we have been taking the census of those over a certain age out of ‘school and providing for their compulsory attendance there after the new year sets in. But in o climate like ours, where, for fully half the year, life to even the strongest and most favored among us wears very much the character of a struggle for existence, even the fragmentary education which we propose to furnish may seem a doubtful blessing to the little ones who go hungry and ragged to taste its sweets. There are not a few persons having enough and to spare in all of our great cities who yearly proclaim their distrust of organized charity. It is inefficient, they say, and it helps the undeserving. Well, if they have a strong desire to obey the Master's pre- cept in giving alms—to let not the left hand know what the right hand doeth—a little per- sonal investigation will make them acquainted with children whom it would bea mercy to clothe comfortably for school or work and to supply with sufficient nourishment to make their brains receptive of the teaching we pro- pose to give. But there are little ones among us—who shall count their number?—suffering and more urgently in need than even these for whom we have spoken. If we had a dozen children’s hospitals we should still not have space or attendance for all the poverty stricken little victims of disease and injury - and griping want whom our city numbers. With alj that societies can do in this field there is a very broad margin left for indi- vidual effort. Many a young life, now sacri- ficed, might be saved; many more might have the brief remnant of a brief existence lifted out of fearful misery and pain. And nota few who are asking how they may “reach the masses” with spiritual help and succor might find that the shortest and easiest road to the hearts they desice to touch lies in having ten- derly and Christianly helped their children. Tract distributors and Sunday school visiting committees sometimes complain of the resent- ment of the poor, who feel these visits, with their avowed objects, to be an intrusion on their homes. But there are few parents se degraded that they cannot be touched and in- fluenced for good-by those who have shown a loving and helptul interest in their little ones. Rarm Transir will unloose the ligaturas that now bind New York into an attitude of decrepitude and decay. PERSONAL INIELL!GZNCE. There’s some stuff in tne Van Brunts. Colonel Anson Milis, United States Army, te quartered at the Astor House, Mr. venson J. Lossing is among the latest arrivals at the Coleman House. General George A. Sheridan, of New Orleans, ig staying at the Futh Avenue Hotel. Congressman John McNulta, of Mlinois, is re siding temporarily at the Gilsey House, Ex-Sta'e Senator Aviah W, Palmer, of Amesla, N. Y,, 1s sojourning at the Grand Hotel, Ovumptroliey Nelson K, Hopkins arrived from ] Albany yesterday at tie Fifth Aveaue Hotel, From the jea olay of women and the music of amateurs good Lord déliver us!—Vie Parisienne Congressman William R. Roberts, of this city, arrived at the Astor House yesterday from Wasn- ington. Commissary General Gardiner, of the fitisu Army, has returued to lis quarters at thi New York Hotel. General Franklin Townsend, formerly ¢ Gov- ernor Hoffman's staf, is registered at jhe Ste dames Hotel, Assembiymen George S. Batcheller, saith M. Weed and Harvey G, Eastman are at te Fifth Avenue Hotel, The bravest man bears the brant of eviry case. but there are ew burglars who would cap to bear thé Van Brunt of 1t. General Changarnier was a candidae in his Commune (Autun), tn the recent muniipal elec- tluns, and was beaten, It Ciuarley Ross is found in consequaice of the shooting done by the Van Brunts, hoy much of the reward will they be entitled to? Dr. Isaac Butt, the “Home Rule? ember of Parliament for Limericn, ts about to lave Europe for the United States on a Jecturing totr. We never could have had the death penalty ap- plied to kidnapping save through tne processes by which “Time at last sets all tniugs even.’” Edward Al'red Warren, of the Britis, Museum, has just died. Although only thirty-aght he had been twenty years in the Museum, employed on the catalogue, % Berlin and Maorid do not get on well in the same boat, and Prussia will change her represen- tative in Spain im the hope to get on better, Count Halzieldt will go home, and Count Pergen, & Bavarian, may take his piace, Some young men tn Vienna have formed a matri- monial league. Every mewber of the Jeague must be the son of a man of property and mast pledge himseli to marry @ poor girl, one who has neither dowry nor expectations, and must forfeit 10,000. florins if he violates the pledge. In England a clergyman bad had the smallpox, but was “so as to be avout,” and invited a friend to breakfast. His iriend caught the malady and communicated it to his wile, who died, There- upon the iriend sued the parson for inviting him to Dreakigat, and recovered damagein £1 and the amount of thé Wife's funeral expensed, As it 1s announced that Governor Dix will “re. ceive no more applications for pardon” people May natarally inquire if 1t 18 optional with Gover- nors ol States to refuse attention to cases that may possibly call tor the exercise of the pardoning power, or if thisis a duty, like any other, to be taken in its turn, Tne Albany Evening Journai of yesterday says— “It 1s understood that General Frankiin To¥a- rend, of this city, Adjutant General of the Sate Muitia ander Governor Hoffman, will be cali¢l to the same position by Governor Tilden, ang that General J. B. Woodward, of Brooklyn, witi/be In- spector General, and Colonel Charies Tracey, of At the Paris Observatory there 9 a telescope In the course of construction that will betne largest ever yet made. The tube will ve fifty et tn length and six feet eight inches in diameter’ It was be- gun by Leon Foucadlt in 1865, but tye construction was interrupted by his deato. In the troubies of 1870-71 no Frenchman had & heart for science. Now, however, the completion of this great in strument bas been undertaken by the astronomer Wolf, Guizot’s heirs have discovered the suit whieh was the last expression of Guizot's pride, His idea was that neither himseif nor his family should be indebted to the Empire, which he hated, One of his family was thus indebted, and had accepted assistance from the Emperor, and the suit was that the Emperor's heirs should be compelled to accept repayment from Guizot. In this material time it isrure to see a suit maintained on one side to compel the acceptance of $10,000 and on the otner upholding the rignt to refuse the sum. Paris will make a great occasion of the opening of the new opera. The Lord Mayor of Lon- don and the Burgomasters of Berlin, Vienna and Brussels are invited by the city authorities, The mucic will be “Overture to La Muette,” that 1a, to «“Masaniello,” we cali it} the first and secona acts of Halevy’s ‘‘Juive,” with Mile, Krauss and M. Villaret; the Cathedralact in “Faust,” with Nilsson and Faure, and the third and fourtn acte of Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet.” also with Nilssom snd Faure,