The New York Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY ANO ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, | PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- | nual subscription price #12. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | | editions of the New Yore Henarp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatckes must be addressed New Yorx Hezarp. Rejected communications wil] not be re- turned. Letters ard packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions «nd Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. —=———————————————— VOLUME XXNIXeoee eee er eevee seeeeeeee seoeNO, 356 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. aye SON NE DU. RO! Sixteenth street. —BEGO. et caRE Mr. Mac- abe. GLOBE THEATRE, | Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. 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SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadwray; er of Twenty niath greet NEGRO | MINSTRELSY, ats POM. ; closes at 10 P. M TRIPLE SHEET. 1874, 7 YORK, TUESDAY, DE From our reports fis n morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be cloudy and | tecarmer. Waxz Sraget Yzesterpay.—Stocks improved & trifle at the close. Money on call loans | hardened to4 and 5 percent. Gold sold at 111} a 111§. Foreign exchange was without | change. Avi Taar Was AscentTarNep yesterday in the | GOharley Ross case is elsewhere published, and | our report contains several facts which appear to throw light upon the mystery. BER 22, Tae Question of color in the public schools | of New Orleans continues to excite the citizens, | and it is likely that it will be finally decided | in favor of separate education of the races, To-Mornow EveNInG King Kalakaua will | arrive in this city, and the correspondence of His Majesty with Mayor Vance in regard to bis official reception Je is elsewhere published. ly interesting tes- timony of Mr. Irwin before the Committee of Ways and Means, in regard to the disburse- ment of the $750,000 of the Pacific Mail Com- pany. sah Tue Evrmencz in the inquest in the case of | the death of Captain Bourne 1s printed to-day, | nd the verdict of the jury exonerating from blame the unfortunate and innocent agent in the killing will be approved by the public. The fatal shooting is another proof that the only pistols which are dangerous are those which are known ‘“‘not to be loaded.” Itisa lesson to be careful in the handling of dan- gerous weapons which onght to be heeded, but, we suppose, will not be. People are always sure that such heb are safe, Tue Vickspurc Trovstes.—The President has considered it necessary to issue a proclama- | tion in respect to the recent disturbances in Mississippi, and the document will be found in another column. He with the desire of the acts in accordance State Legislature and commands the whites to disperse, under the threat of the interference of the United States troops. As there are no disorderly persons at present the necessity of this order is not very appar- ent; but we suppose the President is glad to have the opportunity of reinstatiag Crosby and his friends in of If the proclamation was needed at all it was ten days ago; now it | ecems a superfluous exorcise of Presidential | authority. | | ove term is the most important measure that | sought to make capital for the party by the | tainly would not have made this blunder. | like their antagonists; that they care for | | power and not for principle ; that once in the | enjoyment of office they are little concerned | which the leaders act during their probation | whether or not they will vote for the demo- | are in Congress, will jastify the hopes the | good government, then these conservative | of so marked a neglect of un immediate duty | tion of one term? Morally speaking the dem- | after the expiration of the term of their suc- | popular votes to elect them, and not, as is | a comprehensive scheme, and will necessarily | excite debate. | made a part of the constitution, and the | whole business of Cesarism destroyed forever | we think the six years’ term altogether wise. | tion, to barter and sale, to unusual expendi- | Wright’s amendment would destroy it alto- NEW YORE HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 187 One Term=The Democratic Duty. The proposition to limit the Presidency to has been introduced in Congress. The fact { that the honor of this measure must be given | toa republican Senator, Mr. Wright of Iowa, redounds to the credit of that gentleman and the discredit of the democratic leaders. Here | wes a most important issue. It had been | more or less discussed since the foundation of the government. Jefferson, the founder of the democratic party, had placed himself on record in letters to Adams and Washington | that the Supreme Court should have any voice whatever in the canvass for the Presi- Court should determine the canvass and issue the certificate of election. This is a ministe- rial function, and should not be imposed upon the courts, Our Supreme Court cunnot be kept too far away from legislation or the exercise of any direct ministerial or political power, The trouble with the Mexican system of republicanism arises largely from the connection between the Supreme Court and the Presidency. It would be much better to adopt an amendment and Madison agaisst it. He feared the Presidency would become like a Polish king- | dom, to ‘be elected from four years to four | years for life.” Jackson, the successor of | Jefferson in the affections of the democratic party, had taken the same ground, The party | lealers and newspapers, during the canvass, were eloquent over the dangers of Cesarism. | Upon the issue of Cesarism the administra- | tion party was beaten. Naturally one would think that the first duty of the party leaders, upon the meeting of Congress, would be to compel action upon the question of a third term by offering an amendment to the consti- | tution making the President ineligible for re- | election. There were Beck, and Kerr, and Cox, avd Wood, and Thurman, and twenty other statesmen, who would scarcely wait until the roll was called before they introduced this resolution. But Congress met and there was no sign. Picayune, trivial questions, of no value outside of their mover's vanity, were brought forward. Member after member | smallest and most unnecessary questions. But | the great question was forgotten until a republi- can Senator robbed them of their opportunity. We fear this is not an encouraging sign so far as these democratic leaders are concerned. If they were able or sincere men they cer- It | justifies an apprehension that we do not accept without reluctance, that these gentle- | men are, after all, mere political demagogues about the promises upon which they obtain it Thisisa blunder in a double sense. It weakens the victory of November. It excites the distrust of the large mass of conservative voters who voted with the democrats, not because they loved democracy, but because | they were weary of Grant. These voters regard the democratic party os ina state of probation. It depends upon the manner in cratic nominees in the Presidential canvass, If these leaders, more especially those who conservative masses now entertain of a new and high departure in public economy and suffrages will be given to the democracy in the next canvass. But how can they expect a support of this kind in the presence as is shown in the management of this ques- ocrats in Congress are as much in power as they will be a year hence. They are respon- sible to the country for the good behavior of the party, for the sincerity of its professed devotion to prigciple, and they must allow us to hold them to the severest responsibility. With this statement of the magnitude of the democratic blunder we come to the merits of the resolution introduced by Senator Wright. He proposes that the President and Vice President shall be elected for six years. They shall be ineligible for re-election, al- though we suppose they would be eligible cessors. It will require a majority of the now the case, a majority of the electoral col- leges. Practically, therefore, the amendment | will abolish the present electoral college sys- | tem. Should there not be a majority of the popular votes for any one candidate then there will be a new election, at which the } names of the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be submitted. The canvass of the vote will be made by the Supreme Court, which will issue the certificate of election. This, as our readers will see, is We are so anxious to see the one term idea asa question in American politics, that we | should take the measure of Mr. Wright with | | all of its faults. But we do not see the necessity | for so complicated a plan. It is open to | many objections. It should be made clear | that this amendment takes effect at once. We believe it is so intended, but able critics in | contemporary journals question this and think | it is meant to go into operation after the next canvass, 80 as to give General Grant a chance | for a thirdterm. We do not accept this read- ing, but it should be written so plainly that there can be no misunderstanding. Nor do Four years are long enough for any Chief Magistrate, and there are many reasons fora | shorter term which should not be despised. We do not fancy the suggestion of a second | election should no candidate receive a major- ity of the votes. This would lead to corrup- tures of money. Nor do we think it wise to suddenly destroy the whole electoral and State | system and with it all that we have remain- | ing of State sovereignty since the war, The centralization ideas of the war states- | man and the creation of rotten borough States like Nevada and Oregon have sadly deranged the time-honored theory of the | sovereignty of the commonwealths, Mr. | gether, and would necessarily lead to other | changes in our federal system. If the elec- | toral plan isa mistake ©o far as the Presi- | dency is concerned why is it not a mistake in the apportionment of Representatives and Senators—in the division of power among the States, so as to make Rhode Island as | potent in the Legislature as Pennsyivania? | The adoption of this popular suffrage idea opens the widest and most perplexing field of | political discussion. There is no end to it— | no possible end. And instead of a debate upon the one point of one term or many terms, oi vepublicanism or Cwsarism, we shall have a debate upon the fundamental principles of our government, ‘There are objections also to the suggestion | forbidding any judge on the Supreme Bench to be a candidate for office at the pain of for- feiting his judgeship. These, however, are criticisms affecting that part of Mr. Wright's amendment that goes outside of the one real living point at issue. We do not wanta widely-sweeping measure of radical legisla- tion. In all matters of this kind we must set- | tle one point ata time; and the point now is Cesarism. Let us have an amendment ex- pressing this simple idea, that no persons elected to the office of President or Vice Presi- dent shall ever after be eligible to the same offices. This is plain, and comprehensive. It is the issue which was decided at the last election, and democrats as well as republicans can have no sincere hesitancy in at once giving voice toit. In New York we found it necessary in the office of the Sheriff, fearing that the possession of so much power by any officer would lead him to use it corruptly or tyrannically, in the hope of retaining power. If these arguments have force when applied to a simple local office, with how much more force do they apply to the President, who commands a hundred thousand office-holders and the disbursement of millions! -Democrats and republicans are alike on the recordin favor of the simple proposition we submit. If General Grant's friends say that the third term suggestion is a dishonorable one and a reflection on his patriotism they cannot hesitate to vote for the one term amendment, which will protect all future Presidents from the same injustice. If | they oppose the measure, then let them go on the record as advocates of Cesarism whenever Cwesar comes. As it is, there is no reason why true patriots in Congress should not press this amendment to immediate discussion. The country has decided the question, and Con- gress cannot dare to ignore the voice of the country. Upon the democrats rests the im- mediate responsibility. Let them begin the agitation and we shall see if the republicans will avoid the issue. The Finance Bill of the Republican Senators. The compromise bill which has been agreed on by the republican members of the Senate is rather a political manceuvre than a measure of finance. Its leading purpose was to unite and harmonize the republican party; and, however successful it may prove asa stroke of party tactics, it is of subordinate im- portance as a means of reaching specie pay- ments. It is marked by the trimming dex- terity which is so constantly practised by the framers of political platforms. It is a scheme contrived to bear one interpretation in the East and another in the West, and to mis- lead both sections if they judge of it by the commenis of local expounders instead of ex- amining the text of the bill. It has Esau’s hands with Jacob's voice, and a person must be as blind as the arch their father if he cannot detect the trick, It is a professed measure for specie payments which has the extra- ordinary peculiarity of being satisfactory to the inflationists. The very utmost the inflationists could hope for was to maintain the currency in the condition in which it was | put by the act of last June—in other words, their policy, under present circumstances, was todo nothing. The new bill comes as near to doing nothing as possible under the forms of legislation. It professes to enact in substance that the currency shall neither be more abundant nor less abundant than it is at present, To be sure, it withdraws only eight millions of greenbacks for every ten millions of new bank notes put in circulation, and in that view is 1 measure of inflation; but its authors clnim that if the banks are compelled to keep a reserve of twenty per cent the issue of ten millions of bank notes will really add only eight millions to the currency in actual use, so that the bill will work neither contrac- tion nor expansion. Conceding this view for the present, not wishing to encumber the argument with minor considerations, let us trace the operation of the bill to its final results, supposing it to be successtul, and see whether it be not a measure of inflation. Banking is to be perpetually free, but this withdrawal of greenbacks is to cease when their amount is reduced to three hundred millions. When that limit is reached all the new bank notes issued will be so much clear inflation. The billis a perfect barrier against contraction in all the earlier stages of its operation, and opens the door to unbounded inflation as soon as the prescribed limit is reached in the reduction of the greenbacks. It may be said that the necessity of redemp- tion will operate as a check. All nonsense. So long as the banks are permitted to redeem in greenbacks, and the greenbacks are so abundant as this bill proposes to leave them, | redemption will be no check. Tho financial history of the country proves that this paper | currency may be enormously expanded even | when redeemable in coin. This has often happened at times when there was no imme- | diate danger of large exportations of gold. But the greenbacks cannot be exported; and with three hundred millions of a redeeming medium securely in the country the banks will have no fear of being unable to procure as large an amount of them as they may need. The only check upon this tendency offered by the bill isa mere scarecrow. The repeal of the Legal Tender act, to take effect at so distant a date as 1879, is a measure of mock | In the intervening four years | resumption. there will be four annual sessions of Con- gress, and at any one of them the repealing act may be itself repealed, and will be re- pealed in obedience to public clamor if the panded in 1878. This danger can be averted only by such measures of immediate and con- stant operation as will steadily approximate the currency to the specie standard and bring it securely to par before the Legal Tender act goes out of force. The proposed bill has clear-cut | ay Serena adhe idle ins a no such tendency, and is therefore sham measure of redemption. It deserves to rank | dency. The proposal is that the Supreme | no higher than as s dexterous political dodge for giving a deceptive appearance of unity to the republican party on this great question, The Deceptions of Spiritualism. We lay before our readers this morning a detailed and very carefully prepared account of some of the impostures of so called spirit- ualism. It is a matter in which all classes of society will be interested, for both the relig- ious and irreligious join hands in their un- willingness to be deceived. For several weeks our correspondent has been on the track of the men whose not always clever jugglery he describes. What makes his work still more significant is the fact that when he began his investigations, though not a confirmed be- liever in the mysteries of table tipping, his predilections and prejudices were entirely on theside of the medium. But a quick eye and considerable knowledge of the tricks of sleight-of-hand soon led him to suspect that these gentlemen who are on such intimate terms with the hereafter that they need only to beckon and troops of angels will come around them like a flock of doves when you throw crumbs on the ground were practising on his credulity. He followed the clew pa- | tiently until he succeeded in unearthing the whole thing, and the result of his labors we give our readers in the hope that those who still insist on throwing five-dollars away will do it with their eyes open. It is argued by some very wise men that what eleven million citizens of this free and enlightened Republic believe must of necessity have some foundation of truth init. This is certainly a very plausible argument, and at first sight seems to be conclusive. Some of the representative men of the country, men of large experience and culture, men as unwill- ing and as incapable of being deceived as the veriest sceptic, have accepted these phenom- ena as facts, and it is easier, we are told, to believe the testimony of their careful judg- ment than to believe that they have been duped. This has been iterated and reiterated asaconclusive method of dealing with the subject. And yet Robert Dale Owen and Dr. Childs confess, with a readiness and candor which is very graceful and gratifying, that what they accepted on the evidence of their senses, as well as their judgment, is a piece of cruel but well conceived and well managed old patri- | deception, Even great men are influenced by a glamour. hand within the fleshly hand of Dr. Childs, if his molecular forces had tightened his grasp he could have settled the materiali- zation theory at once, But, firmly believing that he was holding the haud of an angel, how could he be so discourteous as to doubt or detain her? He is left to the mortification of knowing that the tinsel dresses ot his angel were made by a Philadelphia milliner, and that the seraph herself boards in the second story back of a brick house on a side street. What a fall was there, my country- men! The envious Oasca who pursued the damsel who took in sewing during the day- time and whispered to believers in the night season made an awful rent in the garment of spiritualistic faith. It is said, further, that spiritualism (we spell it with a small s because it is in disgrace just now) has been of immense benefit to a large class of the community, consoling them in their sorrows and assuring them of our common immortality, and that, therefore, it ought to be encouraged. This is partly true and partly false. No man can long receive benefit from a deceit and a lie, in whatever guise it comes. A lie always weakens the may be, invariably strengthens it. The im- firm and increase faith, but in the end it is sure to take away not only what it gave, but everything else also. It is not a little curious that the spirits have never been able to make a communica- tion of any public benefit. Why, for instance, can they not discover the hiding place of Charley Ross? A broken hearted family are looking through their tears tor the lost child. The spirits know where he is, and if they had a mind to tell he could be found in twenty- four hours. Now these spirits can rattle their senseless knocking all over a table, they can take the table itself into the air and hold it | there, they can write on a slate which is cannot tell a word about Charley Ross. The conditions are not right, you know; the magnetism is weak, and all that sort of thing. This is the weakest whip syllabub that ever passed current for common sense. An edu- cated and thoughtful community ought not to require any process of law to rid themselves of such cheats ; an enlightened public opinion should trample them beneath the feet of its contempt and scorn. We hope that the full exposé which has been made of the jugglers of New York and the tricksters of Phila- delphia will serve to keep the tables in their place and to silence the knocks for a time at least. Mr. Wickham and Rapid Transit. We presume Mr. Wickham, who has lived in New York for a long time, understands the difficulty of getting up town. It was very easy for him, last November, to get to the | Mayor's office, but we judge that he will find it much harder to get away fromit. Even | Mayors are dependent upon horse cars and | omnibuses, and if Mr. Wickham, wearied of | ism or a coupé, it is to be hoped that he will not be selfishly content either with his legs or | his equipage. Thousands of the people who will hive under his Chief Magistracy can neither walk nor ride, and they demanda more speedy transit from the portion of New York in which their business is transacted to the section in which they live. Tne people want better accommodations for travel in the | city limits, and they depend upon Mr. Wick- | ham to give it. Very tew of the citizens of New York can walk five hundred miles in six days, and many of them are not particularly desirous to walk six miles in five hundred days. The large When Katie King put her spirit | mind; while a truth, however unpalatable it | mediate work of spiritualism may be to con- | deftly held in the right position, but they | their delays, should find refuge in pedestrian- | | | | | majority of our inhabitants are absolutely | | dependent upon the cars and stages for trans- | currency should prove to be considerably ex- | portation, and these vehicles is notoriously insufficient to supply the popular demand. ‘The result is that the citizens of New York are | | driven out of the city to find more convenient | homes in Brooklyn, Jersey City and other suburbs of the metropolis. The Hudson River | and Erie railroads carry thousands of the pop- j voted his ulation which really belougs to New York to adjacent towns, which are created and sus- tained by metropolitan deficiencies. It is more convenient to have a home ten miles beyond the limits of the city than five miles within, and time is saved to our business men by residing in Elizabeth or Paterson rather than in Westchester. This should not be so. It is a criminal blunder to make this great city a mers place of traffic— @ commercial market without homes—espe- cially when we know that such a policy is suicidal, and ultimately must give New York adependent instead of a commanding posi- tion. Rapid transit is the great want of New York. We trust that Mr. Wickham understands this local necessity, and when he assumes the Mayoralty will use the influence of his posi- tion to obtain it. The Mayor of New York, | under our amended constitution, is almost as important a personage as the Presi- dent of the United States, and just as General Grant cau give the coun- try a sound and popular financial policy, so can Mr. Wickham give this city the quick transit which all its interests demand. If he will attend to the local needs of the metropo- lis he will earn an honorable place in its records. If he neglects this supreme duty his rule will become odious in the estimation of the people. More is expected of him than has been of any Mayor for many a year, and more should be performed. Mr. Wickham should not be slow to undertake this duty, and we trust that, as Shakespeare says, ‘the spirit of the times will teach him speed."’ The United States Senator from New York. The democrats of this State manifested their spontaneous choice for the Senatorship as soon as it was ascertained that they had car- ried the Legislature. Their unanimous and en- | thusiastic preference was expressed for Horatio Seymour, and had he consented to serve there | would have been no contest. When he de- clined, and expressed his decision with so much emphasis as to preclude all hope of changing it, the expressions of regret were ‘universal, not only in this State but through- out the Union. Even the republican press conceded that Mr, Seymour would be a distin- guished ornament of the Senate, and that his presence in that body would be an important accession to its dignity and character. Since his regretted decision was found to be immovable several other candidates have been talked of: Mr. Kernan, of Utica, and Mr. Murphy, of Brook- lyn, being most strongly urged by their friends. Either of these gentlemen would make a respectable average Senator, but neither of them would bring to that position the commanding influence of a great national reputation. It will be unfortunate for the democratic party in this hour of its rising fortunes and unfortunate for the dignity and influence of the great State of New York in the national councils if 2 second rate man is sent to represent il in the Senate when there | are at least two first rate men in the State who stand high in the confidence of the party, both here and in all parts of the country. Of these two Mr. Seymour is, of course, one and Mr. Charles O’Conor the other. Mr. O’Conor has long been the recognized head of a most honorable profession, aud the dignity of his character, the lustre of his pri- vate virtues, his zeal for the public interest, his moral courage, his en- tire freedom from any taint of truck- ling demagogism, and his scorn of the cunning intrigues and base arts of office- seeking politicians, make him a fitter repre- | sentative of what is best and most elevated in the moral sense of his countrymen than aimost any other citizen who possesses the half of his abilities. There is no other choice by which the democratic party could establish so solid a title to public respect or so effectu- ally promote its interests as a political organ- uation. The two great objects of the demo- cratic party ought to be, first, to purify offi- cial life, and, secondly, to restore fraternal feeling between the South and the North. . There is no other mah in the country who is so admirably fitted to be useful in attaining both of these ends as Mr. O’Conor. The unfaltering vigor with which, without fee or roward, he de- peerless professional talents to the demolition and punishment of the Tweed Ring attests his uncompromising hos- tility to official frauds; and the confidence and homage of the Southern people, which he enjoys in a greater measure than any other living man, would make him ao trusted and persuasive counsellor in reconciling them to any measures which might be deemed for the general good. Moreover, he is the best rep- resentative in the whole democratic party ot its recently revived purpose to stand boldly | on its own principles and repudiate unseemly coalitions. The only man who approaches him in this merit is Senator Thurman, whose resolute return to the old landmarks last year in Ohio gave the first great impulse to the democratic awakening which accomplished such wonders in this year's elections, Mr. Thurman was the first eminent democrat to retrace his steps, but Mr. went astray. Despising and scorning all trimming expediencies and compromis- ing coalitions, he stood aloof from the ill-starred and disastrous Greeley move- | ment, and made his protest emphatic by lead- ing forlorn hope against it. His clection to the Senate by the triumphant New York democracy would be the fittest recognition they could make of the distinguished and in- valuable services of Senator Thurman in the West, which lifted up the party after its pros- trating defeat, put it once more on its Jegs and started it in the career of victory. The credit, influence and ascendancy of the New York democracy would be unbounded if, after electing Mr. Tilden to the Governorship, they should send his powerful colleague in the Ring prosecutions to the Senate. It would be such a committal of the party to the cause of public virtue and official honesty as would raise the democracy immensely in public estimation and establish confidence in its professions of reforming zeal. Tue Batzor Box.--A number of persons were yesterday sentenced for violations of the Election laws, and Judge Barrett refused to | accept the plea of drunkenness as an extenu- ‘ation of fraudulent acts. Cheating at the polls is treason, for it is » crime against the | sovereignty of the people. O'Conor never | | bemg iaid in Keene Valley. The Dangers of the Street Cars, A vigilance committee would be s strange thing in New York. Yet it is not among the impossible municipal reforms, and if the present management of our street cars is com tinued it may some day be a necessity. A street car should be as safe as the sidewalk, yet upon some of the lines it is notoriously a danger. Outrages and thefts are not uncome mon on the cars, and many insults and ase saults happen which are never reported by the police and are not published by the papers. Of some of these occurrences we present a report to-day, which clearly proves that some of the leading routes of travel are the favorite fields of the roughs and the pickpockets of New York. The indiffer ence of some of the car conductors to the comfort and safety of the passen- gers gives occasion for strong suspicions of their integrity. Undoubtedly some of these officials are either in terror of the thieves and ruffians or in league with them; and in this day of systematic crime there is good renson to believe that the pick. poekets have delegated some of their com. rades to aid them as conductors or drivers, Men who use private bell punches to defraud their employers are capable of aiding other thieves to rob the passengers they should and could protect, On no other theory can the Srequent thefts and assaults upon citizens in the street cars be explained. Judge Daly has demanded that mounted police shall be em- ployed on Madison avenue, and the narratives of our reporters to-day show that some mease ure of the kind is obligatory upon the Com- missioners or Superintendent. If we cannot have rapid transit in New York, at least our slow and wearisome travel should be made safe by the authorities. Stzrcus anp Srrerr Cans.—Yesterday was a good day for sleighs, but a bad day for street cars. The merry tintinnabulation ofthe bells was heard in tho streets and suburbs, and New York had a carnival of sleighing not equalled for years. But the snow which gave so much pleasure in this way was the cause of equal trouble and discomtort to pedestrians and passengers in the cars. The interruption to travel on the principal avenues was very great, and if we hope that Mayor elect Wickham was one of the sufferers for the want'of rapid transit we trust that we shall not be considered malicious. We only desire that as a municipal official he may appreciate the misfortunes of the people. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The Princess of Wales has had a birthdsy.” thirty. Colonel H. 8. McComb, of Delaware, is registered at the Brevoort House. Governor E, M. McCook, of Colorado, 1s sojourme ing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mr. Jerome B. Parmenter, of the Troy Press, ia staying at the Westminster Hotel, General George W. McCook, of Ubio, is among the latest arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. Has It been settled who wrote “Beautifal Snow," and is it quite certain the snow ts beautiiul? Comptroiler Nelson K. Hopkins arrived irom Albany last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Algiers has resvlved to organize an inter. national exhivitton, to begin in November, 1875. Mr. Charles Bradiaugh returned to this city from Chicago yesterday, and is at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Naval Constructor \W. L. Hanscom and Professor Asaph Hall, United States Navy, are residing at the Union Square Hotel. Albert Durer 1s to have a statue. The work will be eight feet hign and will be executed by Schmidtgruver, of Vienna, Inspector General Randolph Bb. Marcy and Cap tain E. D. Baker, Uaitea States Army, are quartered at the New York Hotel. A beautiful decorative painting of Orpheus hae been discovered in “he ruins of Pompell. Orpteus Strikes the lyre with his left band, Dr. Livingstone’s hook was announced for the 15th inst. The edition will consist of 7,500, of which 5,000 were already ordered by the trade, The Marquis de Ciermont-Tonnerre, formerly Secretary of the French Legation at Washington, has been transferred, with the same rang, to St. Petersburg. Important frescoes, attributed to Perugino, have come to light in the Cathedral of Corneto. The Ivalian government has ordered Bompioni, the painter, to examine them. In Belfast a ladies’ ske*ching ciub has been og tablished. The course of instraction 1s more thorough and complete than in the government schools, as proved by results, Among 129 new byoks registered in the Panjauh India, is one “In Praise of God, the Prophets, Her Majesty, Lord Lawrence, Sir Robert Montgomery and the late Sir Ponald Macleod.” Mrs. Rouspy, the celebrared English across, are rived yesterday on the Baltic. She was accom panied by Manager Grau. Her first appearance takes place at the Lyceum, January 4, Russia intends to thoroughiy Russiacize ner German provinces, Estiobia, Livonta and Cour land, Prussia disapproves, and this only opeas Gortschakofl’s eyes inore clearly to the necessity of the case. M. T. Houston, executive offiser of the United States schoolship Jamestown, lett the city yester day by the steamer City of Tokio for San Fran cisco via Aspinwall ‘Tae Jamestown has been tp commission for two months at San Francisco, Dubdiin bas establishea permanent classes for drawing from the itving model. Qualified students will be permitied to study in these without charge. And with ail our boasted educational advantages students iu New York have to depend on private efforts for their instcuction. Germany has asked the Italian government for casts of the celebrated works im marble and bronze, notably ofthe “Venus de Medici,” “The Medicean Vase,” Celliui’s ‘Perseus’? and the celebrated friezes which Donateilo and Robbice sculptured for the Duomo but which are at present im the Museo Nationale, William Hart has just given tne finishing touches to an important lupdscape, the scone A group of cattle form an Interesting feature in the composition, Several smalier works—autumnal scenes, with brilliant foliage and harmonious skies are in their !ranies, receiving the last touches, It is stated that there has recently been discow ered in Paris arecord of tie proceediugs or tne Eng'ish House of Commons during o considerabie portion of the seventeenth and eighteenth cen turies, It is believed that these records, which are very carefully written, were suppliea by suo ceasive French ambassadors to the governmont of France, Two French savans have presented to the French Acaaeniy of Sciences the result of thelr experiments upon @ flime produced by the mixtore of sulphur of carvon and bioxide of nitro gen, The light produced by 151s so intense as t¢ quite eclipse the sun. By the help of it photoz raphers will be able to do their work at any hour of the day or wight and in any condition of the atmosphere. Over @ hundred people are reported to be stom ping at the hospice of St ‘Bernard, in the Alps, unable to proceed into Italy or Switzeriand on ac count of the recent heavy snow storms, Great fears are entertained that the provisions in the hospice have given out, Seven men wero recentiy lost in the snow while making their way toche hospice, and a short time back a lever carrier with letters and large amount of money was jost in the neighborhood of Anderwatt, tie gearcst village to the hospice.