The New York Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. - JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE STRUGGLE IN. GERMANY. The trial of Count Arnim for having vio- lated the rules of the Prussian foreign service has come toanend. The verdict of the Court has been rendered. The Count has been found guilty and is sentenced to three months imprisonment, deducting the time already spent in prison. Practically this sentence in- THE DAILY HERALD, published every | | the » Four cents per copy. An- | day in an : . pe PY: has already t in prison tor a period almost | nual subscription price $12, as long as that provided in his sentence. SUBS: On Tt remains to the Count to make anges anf nk Ngsicagen nig vend appeal to the Supreme Court in January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | .11in, unless, as has been hinted, he! editions of the New Yous Henazp will be | may be pardoned by the Emperor at the sug- sent free of postage. { — of Prince Bismarck. 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BOOTH'S TE corner of Twenty-third stree AERO OF iHE HOUR, ats P ‘Mr. Henri Stuart. RE, Sixth avenue.—THE Matinee at 1:30 P. ROMAN HIF Twenty-<rxth street and PEKIN, aiternoon and ey —FETE aT FIFTH AVENUE THEATR Twenty eighth strect and Broad wn CONQUER, ats P.M; closes at 10:30 P.M WE STOOPS TO M. Miss Daven- Port.” Matinee at 1:30 P WITH SUPPLEMENT. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear or fair. Warn STREET Yusteppay.- Stocks were lower and the tarket was feverish. Gold , was firm at 114g 4 111}. Money on call loans was steady at 4} a 5 per cent. Tue Caristmas Appeat from St. John’s Guild, which we print this morning, com- mends itself to all who would make others | happy as well as enjoy a merry Christmas | themselves. Tue News rrom New Or.eans 6 this morning bears a more healthful look, particularly in the fact that it is without especial importance. Evidently the people are looking to Congress | for relief. It is probable a Congressional com- mittee will soon visit Louisiana, and it is to be hoped the necessary measures to restore tranquillity to the State will be speedily de- vised. Tse Masonrry ws rae German PARLIAMENT on the grant to the secret service was signi- ficant in view of the fact that an ap- peal was made in favor of the measure on the ground that the opposition was an ultra- montane attack on Bismarck. Appeals to religious bigotry will not much longer sustain the Prince Chancellor in the repressive policy of the Empire. On every hand there are signs that the German People are becoming restive. Somz Prrsows propose to get up a testi- monial to the heroes of the battle with the burglars at Bay Ridge. If the suggestion should be carried out a sum of money to the two hired men who took part in the affair would no doubt be welcome and would not be misapplied. Mr. Holmes Van Brunt and his son might happily be each presented with o rifle and revolver, necompanied by the ex- pression of a hope that all the New York | burglars, when practising their profession, may go to Bay Ridge. Tue Story or Caancey Ross and the tragedy of the dead burglars grows in interest with the revelations of each day. The identity of Mosher with the child stealer seems pretty thoroughly establisned. All the testimony tends to this conclusion, If it is correct the worst isto be feared in regard to the child. Indeed, we havea painful story detailed at length in our news columns of a child drowned in an unfrequented spot, which, during the summer, was a favorite haunt of these men. Can it be possible that this un- | claimed and unknown babe was Charley Ross? ‘There is reason to fear it, though we trust it is not true and that the boy will soon be found. Nothing short of the restoration of | the child can heal the sorrows of a tragedy astounding in itself and bewildering as much from whatis known concerning itas from what remaing te be revealed, Closes at 10:30 | | —THE BLACK closes at 10:30 | Hj polgses at 1040 FM, | 8 gracious get in some respects ; for, rr, NOW that Tae Count has ra Te re- mains but an act of mercy, which the Emperor would be only too glad to vouchsafe. So far, therefore, as the Count is concerned, the issue the first time in his career checked by a power he fears, threatens to resign. Let us present this question with all possi- ble emphasis, because here is the latest and most important phase of this contest. The Prince saw fit to deciare the arrest and impris- onment of Herr Majunke, a member of the Reichstag, for the expression of an opinion | hostile to the religious policy of the Chan- cellor. Although the Reichstag has been thoroughly submissive to the Chancellor it appointed a committee which passed a resolution ‘that the arrest was inadmis- sible, and recommended that Parliament demand his immediate liberation.” To this the government responded by releas- ing the member, But this does not seem to have sptistied Parliament, foron Wednesday a resolution” was adopted declaring that in order to uphold the dignity of Parliament “an amendment to the constitution is neces- | sary to prevent the arrest of a member during which has in an extraordinary manner at- tracted the attention of the civilized world is atanend. But there are other considerations | in this controversy that are still alive, which pass into the realms of political discussion | and mast necessarily affect the future of pol- | ities in Germany. | The opinions all along expressed by the | | Heraxp that the contest in Germany is a con- | test for power on the part of Prince Bismarck | | is confirmed by our recent despatches from | Berlin, and more especially by the news of | the conviction and sentence of Count Arnim. | The great statesman has been compelled to | threaten Germany with his resignation from the office of Chancellor. This suggestive fact, | in connection with the Arnim verdict, shows | more clearly the attitude of the Chancellor to | politics in Germany. The Prince, it seems to | "us, has fallen into a position akin to that of M. | Thiers when he was President of the French | | partists and monarchists was closing around him. When he could not carry a policy he | 1 gimply th threatened to resign. __So 30 long a a8 there Twas any any fear of the Prussians i Temaining in | France this threat was effective, But it lost | its power in proportion as the Prussian influ- | ence came to an end. So when M. Thiers threatened to give up his office unless he could have his own way the Assembly took him at | his word. He passed from power, and with him all present hopes of a conservative repub- | lic in France. In all contests of this nature, where there | are issues between parties and the struggle is | | for the mastery of an empire, there are many | | phases of strife. Before the war, when Bis- | marck came into power, it was as the Minis- | | ter of reaction against the spirit of liberalism. “T am proud,” he said, ‘to bea Prussian | Junker, and feel honored by the appellation.” In other words he was proud to be a tory of | the tories, and he welcomed the time when | “Sunkerdom would be regarded with honor | and respect.’’ Ho came into office in the | | crisis of 1862 as the leader of the tory party, of | | that party which had no higher aim than the aggrandizement of the house of Hohenzollern. | His Ministry was a coup d'état. In addressing || | ® parliamentary deputation in 1862 he ex- | | pressed his opinions with characteristic frank- ness. What Prussia needed was liberal- | ism, not power. The power of Prussia | was of more value to Germany than any professions of liberalism. Liberal {ideas might do in the minor German | States, in Bavaria, Wiirtemberg and Baden, | but they were not called upon to play the part | of Prussia. In words which have become | memorable Bismarck continued to argue that | Prussia must hold her power together ‘for that | favorable opportunity which already had been sometimes neglected.” The frontiers of Prussia he did not regard as favorable toa liberal con- stitution. ‘The great questions of the day were not to be decided by speeches and majorities— this had been the error of 1848 and 1849—but | by blood and iron.” This was the inspiration | of the Bismarck policy. He dealt with Den- mark and Austria‘and France in this spirit. | During his twelve years of power he has had | | three wars. He found it necessary tosummon up the liberal sentiments of Germany by an | appeal to the patriotic yearning of the German | | heart for union and nationality; but it was not a sincere appeal. It served its purpose in | driving Austria out of the German Confedera- | tion and in humiliating France. Nay, more— | it put upon the brow of a Hohenzollern prince the crown of Charlemagne and trans- ferred to the descendant of a German elector the glories of the Roman Empire. But in achieving these results Bismarck has been compelled to change his policy. Thus far he has used Germany to serve the purposes of Prussia. So long as the interests of ‘German nationality’ and ‘‘unity’’ and the ambition of the Hohenzollerns went band in hand he has been content to serve Germany. But since the German and French war other interests have supervened. The princes of the old German States do not kindly accept the suzerainty of Prussia. The people do not cheerfully accept the unrelenting, harsh military system of Prussia. They are de- scended from a different race than those who were wont to be caned bya Prussian king when they incurred his displeasuré. They have their own rights and customs and im- memorial traditions. Many of them are of a different faith, They did not expect that the spirit of Luther would come into their churches and convents armed with the sword of Prussia. They have not been accustomed to see their noble ladies sent to prison because they did not believe in the religion of the Prussian King. They have been shocked at what seemed the sacrilege of seizing a priest while performing the holiest | offices of religion. The German Parliament, although elected to sustain the policy of Bismarck, has been rebelling against the efforts to impose upon Germany the policy of “plood and iron.’’ This rebellion has taken possession of the German Parlia. ment, The ignoring the rights of minor States im apportioning the French indem- nity; the conversion of so large a share of it into the private coffers of the reigning family fora ‘Hohenzollern war-chest;"’ the expul- sion of the Catholic clergymen from Catholic communities; the cruel measure of en- forcing the Religious laws; the arrest of Count Arnim; the arrest of » Deputy for an | stern, daring, masterful spirit have led to | solves it will not sit under the spur of a Prussian Minister, that it will protect its sov- i ereign dignity, So that Prince Bismarck, for Republic and the alliance between the Bona- | | just going to do it, sir.” | expression of opinion—all of these acts of a | a Parliamentary mutiny. The Reichstag re- | the session.” Accordingly Bismarck threatens | to resign, deeming the vote as a want of confidence, The fact that a Prussian Minister should not hesitate to lay violent hands on the representative of a sovereign Parliament and imprison him for the simple expression of an opinion shows the real value of German lib- erty. We congratulate the Reichstag that it has made this protest against the interference of the Crown. The truth is that the contest in Germany is between Prussia and the at- tempt of Bismarck to aggrandize the House of Hohenzollern and Germany, which Prussia has thus far governed by appealing to the patriotic impulses of the people for national | unity. The Germans begin to see in these extraordinary events, aud particularly in the severe sentence imposed upon Count Arnim, that national unity is only a pretext for Prus- | sian aggrandizement. Bismarck is simply arrying out the legend of Frederick the Great that Germany should govern Europe, that Prussia should govern Germany, and that the House of Hohenzollern should be the absolute ; Jaaster of Prussia and of the Continent, ‘The issue is now between German unity, ‘and free- dom and the ambition of the Prussian King. | THE POLICE AND THE ROSS MYSTERY. Recorded in the venerable pages which have preserved the thoughts of ‘the late Joe Mil- ler’’ there is a joke on the characteristic of the servant maid who was always ‘‘just going to do it, sir.” Na matter what the hour when the bell rang nor what the order given, it found her equally prepared. She was at that very moment about to get at that particular service. And when she received the order, ‘‘Mary, boil my boots,” she was ‘just going to do it, sir.” | This joke is so old and of such a robust an- tiquity withal that it has acquired the dignity and importance of a general principle ; and it is a principle that we fear must be applied in the classification of much of the activity of our police. There are constantly turning up things that they were “just going to do’’ when the awkward stupidity of chance | marred their delicate strategy, and blunt did it before them. This is unfortunate for the police, The constancy with which events turn up without their aid which they intended | to turn up the day after to-morrow is apt to affect popular faith, and we should not wonder if the sceptical, the most advanced thinkers, should some day be heartless enough to doubt whether the police tell the strict truth in their regular declaration that they were ‘‘just going to do it, sir.’ In the case of the burglars just killed on Long Island and their relation to the Ross mystery the sceptic may evidently believe the pretence of the police “thin.” Ina little farmhouse on a winter’s night a burglar alarm sounds, the countrymen turn out, and after a tough fight two thieves are laid out on two men who stole Charley Ross. It is one of the wonderful qiances in the romance of crime. Those unconscious countrymen have toughest puzzle of the detectives’ catalogue. And scarcely have we time to wonder over | this chance before the inevitable policeman pops a stupid visage out of nothing, like a | clown in a pantomime, and says, ‘“‘We were They knew all about it; they had aclew; they would have arrested these men in ten days or three weeks or two months. Respect for the talents and skill of the police must on this occasion inspire a doubt of their story. Here, for instance, were two notorious rogues in this city, whose faces were intimately well known to the police, and there was twenty thousand dollars on their heads; yet the police could not findthem. Will this do? And the rogues were not lying hid, either. They were active enough to organize a burglary on such a scale that a sloop entered into their combination. From this city they could start a piratical expedition against the suburbs, and the police were on the hottestand keenest hunt for these fellows on account of the Ross cise. THE AMERICAN CARDINAL. The Edinburgh Courant confirms the story recently printed to the effect that the Pope was about to confer a cardinal’s hat upon Archbishop Manning, and that the Archbishop had visited Rome for the purpose of receiving it. We have heard nothing further in refer- ence to the rumored intention of His Holiness to elevate an American prelate to this high dignity, but it is understood that the Pope will make the appointment along with some others at the Christmas or probably the Easter festivities. It is believed that the time has come for the Holy See to depart from its policy of treating the United States as a missionary part of the Church, like Patagonia or New Zealand. Our Republic isa great power and |; the American Catholics to the Pope is so | marked that it should receive recognition in the shape of compliment to some of their reverend and beloved prelates. Furthermore, the Pope, m the exercise of that infallible | wisdom which the faithful regard as o mani- | festation of the will of God, deemed it best for the interests of the Church to elevate to the rank of cardinal a young,.inexperienced and not particularly clever priest because he was a grandnephew of Napoleon I. and a cousin to Napoleon IfL., Certainly he should do as much for the United States of America. If cardinals are of any use at all in the | economy of the Catholic faith they are as necessary in America as in France and Spain. Tax Worx on the new Post Office is pro- gressing, and is the theme of an interesting article which we print this morning, should be treated as such. The loyalty of | the grass, and the countrymen have killed the | shot their bullets through and through the | } are sincere enemies or sincere friends, and | rulers for the rebellion, and what Castelar | he could not stop the annexation of Cali- | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1874.—W1TH SUPPLEMENT. HE ENGLIQH-AMERICAN ALLIANCE. | TePorts ig full of tantology end plsounare, There was one point in Mr. Forster's re- markable speech which should not be over- looked, and it is this: that as a practical poli- tician he saw nothing more practical than the cementing of an alliance between America and England. His word on this subject de- serves the most respectful attention, both in England and America, for Mr. Forster is one of the solid, hard-headed, direct, earnest Englishmen who represent the best type of the English character. When he speaks it is not from sentiment, but from cold, deliberate conviction, There is nothing tl that could be more grati- fying to A Americans than the “comenting of the alliance indicated by Mr. Forster. The future prosperity of civilization depends more upon a good understanding between the English- speaking nations of the world than upon any other influence. “I take it,” says Theodore Parker, ‘that a hundred years hence there will be only two great factors_ in_the civiliza- tion of Christen dom—namely, “the ‘Anglo- Saxon family in two divisions, the Anglo- Saxon Briton and the Anglo-Saxon Ameri- can, and the Sclavic family, The history of mankind is getting simplified. It would not be surprising if these two tribes, then, should conquer all the globe. In due time I trust a nobler race of men will spring up, with higher notions, to establish a higher civilization.’’ Russia, he thought, might go as far as Con- stantinople and Athens, England would go to Naplés, to Rowe and to Thebes. There will be in this division an Anglo-Saxon Aus- tralian, for Australia must in time develop a raceof men as distinctively Australian as wein this country are distinctively American. Bo- tween these races, or these families of the same race, there is no reai difference of opinion except what may arise out of the contests of legislation and diplomacy. Mr. Forster was pleased to note—and in this he showed shrewdness and common sense—that between the North and the South, the men who had fought for and against the Confederacy, there was 00 anger; ‘that, in fact, as he said with wit and truthfulness, the anger only remained with those who had not fought. This shows that quality in the Anglo-Saxon charac- ter that makes war when it is necessary and peace when the war is over. They | if the North and the South can forget the bit- terness of that appalling strife there is no reason why England should not forget all the | memories that cluster around the Revolution, the war of 1812, the sympathy of the English calls ‘the sublime humiliation of Geneva.”’ This alhance, if it ever takes place, must come naturally. Sentiment will do something toward it; the kind words of a statesman like Mr. Forster will do a great deal. Every Englishman who visits America (unless, per- haps, a few forlorn creatures who come here in the show business and don’t succeed) and | | every American who visits England (with the | exception of our adventurous fellow country- | men who get into jail for forgery and stock swindling) isan ambassador. This universal | interchange of good feeling, this getting to know one another, is the surest means of | cementing a true alliance. The misfortune has ciated America, We do not mean by! this that she did not praise us, or minister to our national vanity, or tell us that we were the almighty rulers of the earth. But the | whole history of the diplomacy between England and America has shown, by private | correspondence, by the letters of Palmerston and Bulwer, the diaries of Adams and others, | indications of a ferocious, domineering, hard spirit on the partof England. Lord Palmer- ston, for instance, the strongest man that has raled England since the times of Pitt and Wellington, never could disabuse his mind of the conviction that he should deal with America as he would with Honduras or Brazil. We actually find him regretting that fornia by an English fleet. It was this med- | dling, peremptory, supercilious policy—such | a tone, for instance, as marked all the debates at Ghent between the commissioners who | made the peace between England and America ; the threatening to continue the war if, among other things, we did not draw a boundary line between our States and the Indian country | and respect that boundary line as we would Canada or Mexico; the demand that we should not have armed vessels on the lakes because it might menace Canada, while England might build as many vessels as she pleased for her own protection that have yprevented the alliance to which Mr. Forster so eloquently refers. England will respect America when America respects herself. As Mr. Forster well says, there is no sentiment of anger against Eng- land among our people. So far as the arbi- tration at Geneva is concerned the material | victory in that contest rests with England. That tribunal gave us some money which we do not want, while it took away from us a privilege which might be useful, of sending out Alabamas to burn English commerce in the event of a maritime war between England and another country. In other words, if there had been no arbitration and if the three points of the Washington Treaty had not been conceded we should have had the commerce of England at our mercy. It would, after all, have been the mercy of a pirate, and we do not care enough, not even | for revenge, to wish to take this advantage of a friendly State. When history comes to analyze | the Geneva proceedings it will say that Amer- ica showed in that business the highest mag- nanimity, so far as England was concerned— the spirit of the truest statesmanship, so far as the world was concerned—by endeavoring to introduce a humane policy of arbitration for the bloody business of war. Let this alliance come as Mr. Forster prophesies, by good feel- ing, friendship, international comity, by en- deavoring to do justice to one another, by re- | membering always that there is room enough on this rolling globe for the Anglo-Saxon and | the Anglo-Briton, and that the destinies of the world will largely depend upon the friend- ship of all who speak the English tongue. Tus GovERNMENT AND THE Paess.—Govern- ment officers have an idea that a public docu- ment cannot be impressive unless it is long, and brevity is a virtue which is disappearing from political literature. It is true that a re- port which includes many subjects cannot always be short, but it is in their comments that our officials show their powers of mental Jendurance, The style of many government like a lawyer’s writ, and the language which should explain statistics becomes a veil to hide their meaning. Happy is the country when it finds a public officer who can write pure, clear English, and stop when his sub- ject is exhausted and before his readers are, Fortunately our newspapers are not written in the turgid style of our public documents, for it they were the people would know very little of their government. The newpapers, indeed, give the public all its information of national affairs; the government does s0 only remotely, and would be dumb without their aid, THE SURPLUS CHINESE FUND. There is one omission in the President's Message—now nearly forgotten—which is rather remarkable, and to which we hesitate to cail attention, lest in the possible improvi- dence (to use a mild word) of the next three months there may be, in technical phraso, ‘dilapidation,” The Message refers to Oriental matters twice. In our judgment the President generalizes too much when ho affirms that all the Chinese male immigrants to this country are coolics and all the women prostitutes; but we shall not quarrel with him on this, head, happily remote from us in every relation. He refers quite in detail to the Japanese indemnity, and evidently favors the honest policy of restoration; but not a word as to the surplus Chinese fund, which has been accumulating in the hands of “guccéssive Secretaries of State for the last fourteen years. Its story is not ® new one, and has this interest, that the duty we deduce from the facts of the case is precisely the re- verse of that we urge as to Japan. The Shang- hai Convention of 1858 provided for the liqui- dation of all claims of citizens of the United States, a and the Chinese agreed to pay, by the issiie of debentures, receivable for duties on imports, the sum of five hundred thousand taels, equivalent to seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The American Minister estimated the claims at a larger figure, but proposed in the event of there remaining o balance after the adjudication of the claims to refund it. To this the Chinese peremptorily objected. They wished to make a clean thing of it, to reduce the amount to as low a figure as possible and to have no future reclamations of any sort. The amount was finally deter- mined at seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the American negotiator taking no little risk, the nominal amount of his country- men’s claims exceeding a million. The de- bentures were issued and realized, and it is noteworthy that this created no charge on the Imperial Treasury, but was chargeable on the custom houses where duties on American and other foreign imposts were collected. A commission of American citizens adjudicated the claims and ascertained the amount to be less than balance in hand of rather over three hundred thousand dollars. For a long time this amount was retained in China, on pertect security, paying a high rate of interest. In one of his many freaks Mr. Seward ordered it remitted to this country. It is now invested in government loans in the name of the | Secretary of State, and, with its accumulation, ‘ been that England never until the way appre- | amounts to a very large sum—not far, we should imagine, from seven hundred thousand dollars. It is not in the Treasury, though why it has not been transferred there it is not easy to say. It is clearly and equitably our property. If the adjudicated claims had exceeded the amount paid the loss would have been ours. There have been from time to time feeble suggestions as to what should be done with this surplus. One of Mr. Sum- | ner’s crotchets was (buried, we sincerely trust, in his grave) to return it to the Chinese. This would do no good; nor would the Chinese, in their intense and characteristic distrust, touch a penny of it. Another is to use it as the endowment of a missionary (Protestant, of | course,) college at Pekin—than which a huget | and more fruitless job, a job, too, at the anti- podes—cannot well be imagined. A far more reasonable plan is to apply it to commercial | purposes—as it was from trade the fund was erented—lighthouses and lightboats, of which | there is or recently was but one from Hong Kong to Asiatic Russia. Our inclination is to | take the simple course of turning it over into the Treasury, first taking care that all honest mercantile claims anterior to the treaty should be liquidated in full. The fewer of these out- side trust funds there are the better. “TRUANCY.” People generally are not aware of the funny qualities of certain members of the Board of Education. That body has provided for “truant agents” pretty much as the Board of Aldermen last summer provided for dog catchers. It was perhaps a necessary thing to be done in either case, but while the Aldermen | were content to call a catcher of truant dogs a dog catcher, the School Board was in doubt what designation to confer upon a catcher of truant children. Here was a dilemma, we confess, but Mr. Albert Klamroth, who seems to be something of a wag, endeavored to save the Board from becoming ridiculous, and so | he uttered a sentiment that, we fear, was in- tended as a joke. Mr. Klamroth hoped their agents would not prove truant, whereupon the Board laughed. This was very indecorous, | to say the least of it, for Mr. Klamroth’s wit ought to have made the Commissioners cry. | And yet we are not told that the Board either laughed or cried when the witty Commissioner proposed to call each of the boy catchers a | “Superintendent of Traancy.’’ There was a name to take away the breath of every run- away schoolboy. But the Board would not adopt the name, apparently because Mr. Townsend snggested that the word ‘truant’ had done very well in Massachusetts and | ladies curiously watching wandering minstrel would do well enough here. This was all wrong. We want something that Massachu- setts has not got, and Mr. Klamroth suggested it, We like originality, and Mr. Klamroth is original. If he wants a high-sounding name he invents it, and, as he ought to be honored for his abilities, we nominate him as a coadjutor to the Webster family. That eminent family has done much to spoil plain English speech, and we are sure Mr. Klamroth would prove an | able assistant. Computsory Epvcation in New York begins | on the first ot the year, and what the superin- tendents and teachers of schools think of the law is thoroughly set forth in another column. The opinion is general that the new law will work wall and wil be of great bencfit to the thousands of children who aro now growing up in pagan ignorance and crime. In this city it is the intention to enforce the law with energy, and the police force will be employed to obtain much of the essential information. Special and evening schools will have to be established, no doubt, to properly execute this important measure. Tue Kiyo Visrrs Concress.—Nothing could be more typical of the respect in which roy- alty, even its meagrest proportions, is held in Tepublics as well as in kingdoms than the simple ceremonial in the House of Representa- tives yesterday. The Speaker's address and the King’s reply were both in excellent taste. But it was an episodg of courtesy—nothi: more ; afd ‘hed hcthg Totnes, ee resentative of the kings at home, had received their royal visitor they resumed once more the routine of their delegated duties. In both aspects it was instructive—republicanism re- ceiving royalty with republican simplicity and republicanism at once forgetful of royalty im | the superior importance of its own affairs. ‘The reception of King Kalakaua was so quietly and effectively done that it is a model which we hope our city fathers will copy when the King visits the metropolis, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ——_>—_——- They call Theresa the “Nalad of the Parts gute ters,” Captain Cook, of the steamship Russia, 18 stay- ing at the Brevoort House, Professor Fairman Rogers, of Philadelphia, is sO. Journing at the Albemarle Hotel. Mr. John La Farge, the artist, is among the latest arrivals at the Everett Hause. Colonel T. J. Treadwell, United States army, is registered at the Metropolitan Hotel, Major George A. Gordon, United States Army, has quarters at the Sturtevant House. Judge Josiah G. Abbott, of Boston, has taken up his residence at the Brevoort House, Mrs, General J, C. Fremont, of Tarrytown, N. Y., has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Charivari calis Veuillot, of the Univers, an ou® and-outer, who “does the cancan of piety.” Mr. Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Repubit- can, ig residing temporarily at the Brevoort House. Congressman E. R. Hoar, of Massachusetts, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Filta Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant George M. Wheeler, commander of the Colorado exploring expedition, is stopping at the Windsor Hotel. Mr. Isaac Hinckley, President of the Philadel- phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Com- pany, is at the St, Nicnolas Hotel. Hon. Walter Stuart (the Master of Blantyre), of Scotland, arrived ‘rom Europe in the steamship Russia and is at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Commander A. W. Weaver and Lieutenant Com- mander Edgar C. Merriman, United States Navy, are quartered at the Grand Central Hotel. Gambetta says he is supported by “all Paris, Without distinction; and the wicked moderates gay he is supported especially by the part “withe out distinction.” Uncle Dick says that if he had the management of the United States Treasury for six months he ? | Woud “resume specie payments.” Didn’t know | four. hundred thousand dollars, leaving a | he had suspended. On the 4th inst. the acoustic character of the new opera in Paris was fully tested by expert- ments. It was found satisfactory, except that the orchestra was placed too low. The Empress of Russia was to be received at San Remo by the Duke of Aosta, sometime Amadeus, King of Spain. Dethroned princes can scarcely be exhilarating spectacles to reigning sovereigns. Apropos to the discovery of letters creating Thiers a baron, Figaro cites an incident of the times when the letters were, if ever, issued. Soult addressed Thiers as “Monsieur le Baron,” “Don’t call me a baron,” said Thiers; ‘neither Guizot nor myself will accept any title but that of duke.” 4 Paris medical student has just died insane, having become so in consequence of an event that happened in the dissecting room. His sub- ject had been placed in a@ sitting posture while frozen, and its right arm was kept above its head against gravity by the icy condition of the tis- sues, and as he worked, lost in his labor, this arm came down and the cold hand struck the student onthe cheek. it was clear upon investigation that the hot fire made for the student had thawed the tissues, but the impression made upon ais mind was too deep to be removed by a rational explanation, Yet these are the kind of fellows who hoot out prolessors whose politics they dis- like. ART NOTES. A beautiful painting by Cabanel, illustrating the lines z My peace Isigone! My beurt is sore, ison exhibition at Schaus’ art gallery. It is called “Margaret and is an excellent example of this distinguished artist’s style. The Christmas collec- tion at this gallery displays the accustomed taste and judgment of the proprietor. It includes gravings from Alma Tadema’s great work, “The Vintage Festival ;” Millais’ ‘Yes or No,” and from Eastman Johnson’s ‘Pet Lamb.’ The drawing school of the Academy of Design ts crowded with pupils. This admira>le institation has made great progress under the direction of Professor Wilmarth. The pupils are held to a severe course 01 study. Aricn parvenue lately appeared in a Parisian eculptor’s studio and startled the artist by inquir- ing how much he would charge to execute am equestrian bust of tne visitor. Brown is hard at work on a genre pictare of American boy life, It represents a country lad in @ pumpkin fleld. It is full of numor and sunshine. James Hart’s last picture 18a cattle subject of great power. Inthe knowledge of form and his way of treating animal anatomy he shows the best results of constant and intelligent study. The picture is called “The Coming Storm.” Woolner will probably succeed Foley as Royal Academician, He has passed in over the heads of better men. The London Academy threatens to become as corrupt as the old French Academy. Of late years men have been admitted more om account of their dexterity than their genius. Where would Woolner be without Barnard and Palgrave ? BROOKLYN ART RECEPTION, Most persons eminent in the art circles of the City of Churches assembled last night at H. G. Chapman’s annual reception. The display of paintings was creditable to the taste of the collector. Examples carefully selected from the vartous European schools gave the collection a widely representative character. Nor were our native artists forgotten. Several works from the easel of T. L, Smith rep. resented that artist in his various moods, Sketches of autumnal woods and moon- light scenes, with {airy-like effects; a clever canvas by Belleuse, representing some very ine children fromItaly; “The Blind Singer,” a Span- ish study, by Mr. Moore; “A Frightened Flock,” by Otto Gebler, and “A Group of Women and Chil- | uren Descending @ Flight of Stairs,” attracted | special attention, The gems of vhe collection were, however, a landscape by the great Carot, a small cabinet picture by Vernel, “The Confessional,” by Tissot, and a small genre picture by Schies inget, entitied “Please Mend My Wagon.” There was also @ beautiful bust by Lawior, a Londen ar- tist, called “The Willow Wreath,” pensive in 3 pression, broad in treatment and masterly im modelling. Among taose present were Mayor Hunter, Judges Pratt, McOue and Reynolds; W. W. Goodrich, John ©, 'yman, Pro- | fessor Cochrane, Revs. Drs. Moore, At- | mitage, Cornwell, Aaron He: and @& number of other zens, A splendid portrait of vy Whittaker, of Brookiyn, was included in the collection. Tne Chapman receptions have growa into an institution, and are looked forward to with as much interest as the regular Academy revep> ions by the art amateurs af Brookiyu. r