The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1874, Page 2

4 NEW YORK ITERALD | > | President Grant's Mississippi mation. The President has acted with inconsiderate precipitation in responding at once to the ap- plication of the Mississippi Legislature for assistance in suppressing domestic violence, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. RDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR JAMES 3 orderly and turbulent persons to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective piaces of | abode within five days hereof,"’ when there is THE DAILY HERALD, published every | Gay in the year, Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, “ Bar belgie eawsin | either armed or unarmed, to whom such 4 NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and ; command can be addressed. It is true that after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | the law requires him to issue a proclama- tion containing such a command before em- | ploying troops in a State to put down resist- auce to its government, That provision fixes editions of the New York Henarp will be sent free of postage. ene All business or news letters and telegraphic | the interpretation of the law. authority of the President to cases of actual » by assembled bodies of insurgents. despatches must be addressed New Yorx Henarp. Rejected communications will not be re- resi The interposing unless the State government is ailed or threatened by men who may rly be commanded to ‘‘disperse” and | “retire to their respective places of abode.” But how can they disperse if they have not assembled, or retire to their homes if they have not left them? The law obviously never intended that the President should ful- minate proclamations against fictitious or merely constructive insurrections. It requires this preliminary action in order to prevent hasty intervention and needless expense, By turned. Letters and packages ld be properly sealed. gee LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions snd Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XXXIX. prescribing the substance of the proclamation — Fee a ae gE or oe ae it defines the conditions that must exist to AMUSKMENTS ‘THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, justify its issuance. It is not legally permis- sible for the President to act under circum- stances which render the prescribed proclama- BE THEATRE, Broadway. —VARL at 8 P.M; closes at 10:30 P.M. Maunee at? P.M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street —FREUSSIUSHES STRAFRECHT, at SPM. has done in the present instance. A great English statesman once protested against ‘‘making the extreme medicine of the oKUM THEATRE, ‘ourteen and Sixth avenue.—LA WILLE DE ea i es A ADAME a8 P.M; closes 457M. Miss cConstitation its daily food. The inte® entiy SIOARS: vention of the federal government to WAT. S. +. . : Brower tat si % ; closes at. protect a State-against domestic violence phi la i es a is the extreme medicine of our constitution, to | WOOD'S ML be resorted te in those r ‘Broadway, corner of HOM. eet —THE car | De tesorted to only in those rare desperate RENTER DY ROUEN, i AURAT-NA-POGUE, | cases when all the ordinary remedies have | @ESP.M.; closes at 1045 . H. Tinson. ; ; | ed tyrehs been employed and have failed. Every State THEATRE, af iliti Which ita G i No. 585 Broadway VARIETY atS PM; closes a: has its own militia, of which its Governor is BOM. Matinee at 2:30 P.M. OLYMPIO THEATRE, No. 8% Brondway.—VARIBPY, at § P. M.; closes at 10-45 P.M. Matinee at 230 P.M. the commander-in-chief. The State Governors are charged with the execution of the State laws, and have full authority to call torth the militia for that purpose whenever resistance becomes too powerful to be put down by a sheriff's posse. be applied to only asa last resource ; when the military forcé of the State under the GRAND OPERA HOUSE, third street and Eighth avenue.—THE BLACK at SP. M.; closes at UP. M. ‘Twen' ROO: TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOU-E, Bowery.—VARIETY, at & P.M. : closes at 10:45 P.M. TRE, enty-first_ and Twenty-second streets GILDED Mj closes at Ov PM. Air. John 7. Raymond. THEATRE COMIQUE, y.—VARIETY, avs P.M 30 P.M. subdue the insurgents. Why did not Goy- ernor Ames call out the Mississippi militia ? + eloses.at 10:30 Why should the federal government be sub- A1bRO OF THE HOUR, até P.M.; closes at 1040 P.M ae ‘ Mr. Heuri Stuart. | regular operation of our political system, be- longs to the local militia? Way should this great reproach and scandal be brought upon ROMAN HIPPODROME, { republican institutions ? The great merit | ixth street | and, Fou un ay enoe BLOB ; and chief beauty of the republican theory is that the government, being the free choice of a | | majority ot the people, will always have the preponderant physical strength of the com- munity on its side, and is, therefore, self-sus- taining, except in very extraordinary emer- gencies. If an insurrection should spring up in one of the counties of New York or Massa- | NEW YORK STADT TREATRE, Bowery.—LUCINDE VON THEATE.K, ats P. M.; closes at i030 P.M. Miss Lina Mayr. ‘Twenty BEART atzand & TIVOLI THEATR Highth street.—-VARIETY, at 8 P.M TH AVENUE THEATRE, etand Broadw. A NEW WAY TO +808 PLM; Closes at 1030 P.M. Miss E, ‘Twenty-eigh PAY OLD DE Davenport. caletae | ¢ BRYANDS OP West Twenty-third street n MINSTRELS, &c., ate PM Sixth avenue. — closes at 10 P.M, Bryant x " chusetts it is inconceivable that the Governor ME POLITAN MUSEOM OF ARY ' would make such a disgraceful display of im- Wourwahsh enpee Opes ean ee eee becility as to assemble the Legislature and | Denies 3k ies pee ‘ apply for federal assistance as the first step | toward its suppression. Instead of this he would call forth a few regiments of militia, | order them to the county in which the dis- | turbances existed, and make short work of the local opposition to the laws. Why was this not done in Mississippi? Governor Ames makes a practical confession either of his own utter incompetence or of the inability of the militia of the whole State to cope with one-) insurgent county. It is preposterous—it is absurd to the degree of being grotesque—tor a Governor, with all the militia of the State at his command, to get trightened out of his wits | and paralyzed into imbecility at a movement in one town of a single county,and summon Wart Sreeer Yestrepay.—Stocks were the Legislature to make a pusillaninious ap- firmer and higher. Money on call loans was __ plication to the federal government for help. quoted at 3} per cent. Foreign exchange was This reasoning proceeds on the hypothesis steady and wi‘hout feature. | that there is an actual insurrection in the city | ‘ of Vicksburg. But it isa hypothesis which has | BROOKLYN THEATRE. ‘Washington street.—ax U LIKE TT, at8 P.M. Mr. Frauk .oach, Mrs, Comw MINSTRELS, ‘wenty ninth < P.M. ; closes at 10. M. “Broadway, eu —-NEGRO MINSTBELSY, ON ROB Sixteenth street —BBGONE cape. WITH SUPPLEMENT. HALL, DULL CARE. Mr. Mac- NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear. Mansnat, MacManon has suspended Cassag- no foundation in fact, and the trepidation and | nac’s paper, Le Pays. This shows that the | poltroonery of Governor Ames and nis Legis- Marshal is disposed to take severe measures Jature is even more contemptibly ridiculous with the Bonapartists, whose interests Le Pays | than if he quailed in terror before a mall | represents, | local insurrection. If the negroes of his own party who assembled in the rural towns of the | county and marched to Vicksburg with arms | Tur Action of District Attorney Phelps in enforcing the excise laws has had a good re- sult, The liquor dealers have promised to take out their licenses and refrain from any | organized opposition to the law. mained at their homes there would have been no disturbance of the public peace. As soon 'as these negroes were “dispersed’’ and Tar Loxpow Times, as will be seen from compelled to retire ‘tto our special cable despatch from London, has places of abode” tranquillity was at once re- issued a declaration of independence of stored, and Vicksburg has since been as quiet Reuter’s pews service, on account of having and orderly as any town in the United States. been furnished a despatch giving an untrue When the Mississippi Legislature assembled, account of the text of President Grant’s Mes- | under Governor Ames’ call, to make an appli- sage concerning our relations with Spain. | cation to the President, there was no insur- The Times declares it will henceforth trust its | rection anywhere within the boundaries of the own sources of news. Baron Renter promises State. The President is in danger of making never to offend again. This important evi- | himself a butt of public derision if, at the dence of the independent spirit of a great and | beck of every inefficient State Governor, he free newspaper docs not come to us from the | feels bound to warn insurgents to disperse Associated Press. wheu it is notorious that no insurgents are TS | assembled, and to bid purely imaginary peo- Mr, ©. K. Ross, the father of Charley | ple to retire to their respective places of abode Ross, prints in our advertising columns, un- | der the head of ‘Personal,’’ a card saying | troops. that be is convinced the burglars killed at Bay Ridge were the kidnappers of his son. | yi0n the five days have elapsed which he al- He will pay five thousand dollars to any one lows for this fictitious dispersion? Will he who will return his son to any ed of certain | fight this visionary insurrection, this figment of addresses in Philadelphia, Baltimore or New | an _over-excited political imagination, this York that are specified in the card. It would | jn .qow, with the same zeal with which he bids | | itavaunt? If he sends federal troops to Vicks- ' be a most gratifying Christmas event to every home in the land if this unfortunate lad could diy ss dtoki a ; burg ata heavy public expense how will he returned to his paren | employ them? Not in dispersing insurgents, Tue Sexara spent @ useful session yester- | for none are collected there; not in restoring « day in discussing the financial question. The order, for no city is more orderly; not, bill relating to the resumption of specie pay- | surely, in restoring the negro Sheriff, Crosby, ments was taken up, Senator Sherman making for be has resigned, his resignation has been an elaborate and forcible speech defending | duly accepted, and he has no better title to its propositions. But as our readers will see | the office than any other negro in the State. | from the debate the measure is rather a po- There will be nothing for federal troops to litical manceuvre than a measure of finance. | do at Vicksburg if President Grant should It was finally passed by a strictly party vote, Mr. Schurz voting with the republicans, Mr. is a mere chimera, tended insurrection Sherman assured the country that it would against which bayonets and discharges of © be a happy Christmas that would give nsa musketry would be ridiculous, Dill that would settle the business of the coun- If the President absurdly thinks he is bound try. But we are far from feeling that the pas- | to accede to every application of this kind, sage of this bill would realize the Senator's whether it has any foundation or not, he is | holiday anticipations, | sorely in need of sound legal advisers, ‘The It is ridiculous for him to command ‘‘said dis- | | no disorderly collection of people in the State, | It limits the | terms of the law preclude him from | tion absurd and ridiculous, as General Grant | The federal government is to | command of the Governor is inadequate to | | dollars and put it in their pockets. { exact account of what became of every dollar | it in his pocket, aud that his attitude is that | “hard times” would be pronounced without in their hands for an illegal purpose had re- ; “to their respective under penalty of being fired into by tederal \ What does President Grant propose to do | improvidently order them there. The pre- | NEW YOKK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DE CEMBER 23, 1874. WITH SUPPLEMENT. | law does not declare imperatively that he must interfere, but only permissively that he may interfere in response to such applica- tions. “It shall be lawful for the President’ to employ troops is the language of the law, leaving him to decide on the necessity. But it positively forbids his intervention until he shall have issued a proclamation commanding the insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective places of abode, which is, | in substance and effect, a prohibition to use | troops or even to issue a proclamation unless there are bodies of insurgents actually as- sembled in hostility to the State government. We are, therefore, of the opinion that Presi- | dent Grant has in this instance acted with haste | | | and precipitation and overstepped the limits | of his legal authority. | pins | | | | | Is It Pacific Mail or Binckmail? We have only a feeling of contempt for the persons who for so long a time have dis- honored American enterprise by their man- agement of the only American line of steam- ships that crosses the seas. We do not refer | to one set of directors or another—to this in- terest or that. As Mercutio saitl, “‘A plague ou both your houses."’ Nor do we enter into the merits of the present controversy in Pa- cific Mail, We only know that a great inter- | est—one in which the credit of our country is involved—has been dishonored, and great scandals have arisen. That is a national concern. The case in Washington stands thus: —Mr. Irwin was at one time an officer of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. He retired from that service some time since. He makes a statement to Congress to the effect that when a servant of the company he drew from its treasury a large sum of money. He admits he received this money. What did he do with it? He says he expended it in Washington for the purpose of inducing Con- gress to vote a half million dollars yearly for ten years as a subsidy to the company. When asked to whom he paid this money he declines | to answer! He throws upon the Congressmen who voted for the subsidy the suspicion of having been bribed and there stops. Beyond | that his ‘‘honor’’ will not allow him to go. The country is asked by many journals upon | evidence of this character to regard the voting , | of the subsidy as a corrapt act and the men | | who voted for it as having committed a crime. | There may have been and no doubt was much | | corruption, but let us have the proof before , = ond aap te ~ we condemn. To arrive at such a conclusion | upon evidence of this character would be a | | great injustice. Any man may say that he | | paid a large sam of money to effect legislation; | bui how are we to verify the statement? And | what remedy can any man in public life have | | from a system that may become the most heinous form of blackmailing ? Suppose an officer of this company, like Mr. Irwin, in collusion with other officers, should take trom the treasury a million of | Suppose | upon being asked for a statement of their disbursements they should answer that they bad expended it in the procurement of legis- lation. How could we confirm or deny the | statement? Are we not bound to say that | until the country knows from Mr. Irwin an | he obtained from the company, to whom he paid it, to what Congressmen or friends of | Congressmen, we are bound to deal with him and his associates as though they had ap- propriated the money to their own uses, Unless Mr. Irwin tells us frankly what he did with this money we must assume that he has of a confessed and contented blackmailer. | There is no avoiding this dilemma. Until | this confession is clearly, fully and circum- | stantially given, Mr. Irwin must accept the | severest condemnation, and as a witness his word cannot be considered for a moment so | faras it affects the public estimate of Con- | | gress. The question to be asked is, Are we dealing with Pacific Mail or blackmail? The Coming Holidays. On every hand we have evidences of the approaching holiday season. The shop win- | dows are gayly decked with toys, and, if we were to judge from the displays of Christmas | presents everywhere to be seen, the cry of | foundation. In the churches as well as in the | homes of the rich and the poor preparations are making for the yule-tide feast. Our Christmas, like our city, is cosmopolitan. We deck the churches with evergreen after the fashion of the English. We have the Christ- mas tree and make presents like the Germans. The St. Nicholas or Santa Claus of the Dutch | is the children’s tutelar saint, taking the little ones and their wants into his sole charge on Christmas Eve. But for the boar’s head of | England, when it was merry England, we have the innocent turkey, and the Christmas | | dinner is with us also the great feast of the | year, The holiday season, as it ought to be, | is a season of rejoicing and of good works. | We have it from that old gossip, Pepys, | | that he heard Bishop Morley preach on | Christmas Day two hundred and two years | ago, and Pepys, who thought the sermon a | poor one, says the Bishop ‘did much to | press us to joy in these public days of joy and | to hospitality. But one that stood by | whispered in my eare that the Bishop do not spend one groate to the poor himself.” We | wish to commend the sermon, but not the ex- t ample, of the Bishop. Among the prepara- tions for the coming holidays none is more important than to prepare to give—to be ready to add charity to hospitality. He will not well deserve his Christmas dinner who fails to give a Christmas dinner to another who would otberwise go without, coming holidays will bave come, but if weall | vie to make the season one of general joy | | fewer men and women will be compelled to take up the ——burden of life again, Saying only, “It might nave been,’ The coming holidays offer grand opportani- | ties for doing good, and this is indeed the | only way by which most of us can realize our } anticipations of @ merry Christmas and a | happy New Year. | Tue Commrrree or Seventy of Lonisiana have addressed an appeal to the country for | jnstice and fair play in their sadly used State. | Rorent Dave Owen would do a great deal toward restoring confidence in his spiritual | manifestations it be could find some phantom | people are thus kept in iguorance of the con- | appropriations until the amounts have been | yesterday the mecting was held with closed | | or political objects, and is not spent in the | service of the city. This is especially the case | Green stretched the law and increased the labor un- | of a financial reform. They may as well re- ‘ every item of taxation imposed on the city | | Cornell—will be present and deliver speeches | | tribunal and in such a presence. | tends to make prize pigs of them ; and those | of their leisure hours in forcing themselves | felicity, during his short term of office, of | pal boards, will meet the King at Jersey City ' toe royal prince of the Pacific. Soon the + _—} 7 Star Chamber Consideration of the Budget *for 187 The Board of Apportionment has recently adopted the objectionable policy of consider- ing the city estimates in secret session, The templated action of the Board on the several finally determined upon. Public opinion cannot be brought to bear upon the Board to control its decisions, and the people are de- nied any voice in, or knowledge of, the amount to be levied on them by taxation until it is too late to suggest desirable economies or to protest against extravagance, These star chamber meetings originated with Comptrol- ler Green when, in conjunction with the late Mayor, he sought to force upon the Board of Apportionment such budgets as suited his own purposes; budgets in which he could crip- ple departments not managed in his interest and lavish extravagant appropriations on such as he controls, It was expected that the change in tho personnel of the Board would have put an end to these secret sessions, but | doors. If any public good were to be sub- served by excluding the representatives of the press from the deliberations of the Board no one would complain of the practice; but it is notorious that the appropriations to some of the departments are exorbitant, that the taxa- tion of the city is unnecessarily high, and that undue influences are brought to bear on the Board to prevent proper reductions. Secrecy, therefore, is injurious to the public interests. The people are entitled to know what argu- ments are used to justify improper appro- priations and who is responsible for opposing economy, Most of the public departments have become huge political machines, and half the amount expended by them is thrown away on personal in the Finance Department, where Comptroller has complicated the machinery, necessarily in order to swell the patronage. With the new administration we shall no doubt have a new Comptroller, capable as well a3 honest, who will simplify the business of the department, restore the office to its legal | position in the city government, and yet give us what Mr. Green has not the capacity to supply—a clear, sensible and settled financial policy. As the estimates now receiving the consideration of the Board of Apportionment are for the expenses of the city government for 1875 the members of the Board should bear in mind the fact that we are on the eve | member also that star chamber proceedings cannot protect any member of the Board of Apportionment from full responsibility, for | must be confirmed by a coucurrent vote. Prize Pigs. Our readers are probably not aware that on the 7th of January there will be, at the Academy of Music, in thie city, ‘‘an inter- collegiate literary contest.’ Representatives from six collegas—Lafayette, Williams, Rut- gers, the New York University, Princeton and | | | before a committee of three distinguished citizens, who will decide upon the merits of | the orators and award the prizes. These | prizes are to the amount of four hundred dol- lars. The principal one will be ‘‘a silver bay wreath, and the successful competitor is to be known as the wreath man.’’ Mr. Evarts, we understand, will preside, ‘and the boxes will be sold at an early day.’ The first point we observe in this is the | small number of the colleges represented, Neither Yale nor Harvard nor Columbia take part. In the second place, it is a cruel test to which to submit the students. To bringa fresh-faced lad from college into the Academy of Music, filled with a curious audience, and to ask him to make a speech before a com- mittee of gifted men for a prize, is to impose upon him a task requiring, above all things, assurance and courage. True genius for oratory or any function of this kind would | be more apt to shrink and falter before sych a The whole business of taking ou> young | men from their stadies and bringing them | thus early before the world is unhealthy. It who know anything of agricultural fairs know that there is no pig in the world more useless than a prize pig, fattened for the show, who rolls about his pen for a day or two and finds no future but ham, side-ribs and lard. Let our young men grow naturally! Let them learn oratory in their own societies and schools. Let them give as much time as they can to outdoor amusements, and not waste any for an exhibition in the Academy of Music. It is also rather a serious thing for any young man to win a silver wreath in the be- ginning of his career and to be doomed to be known through life as the ‘‘wreath man.”” His Masesry the King of Hawaii will leave Washington this morning on the fast train, and arrive in the city about four this after- noon, Mayor Vance will have the supreme doing honor toa real king. Mr. Ottendorfer ond Mr. Brucks, representing the two munici- and escort him to his hotel. It is not yet known what will be done with His Majesty; but we can promise him a good time. The metropolis of the Atlantic will do royal honor Tue Case or Wri1sam M. Tween, who is now beating against his prison bars to secure his liberty, was heard yesterday before Judge Barrett in Oyer and Terminer. The lawyers had quite a wrangle over the matter. Judge Barrett refused to liberate Mr. Tweed and also declined to admit the prisoner to bail. The matter now goes for argument to the General Term. It seems to us that Mr. ‘Tweed’s counsel missed a great opportunity when they did not announce to the Court that the prisoner, had paid over to the city the whole or even a part of the enormous sums for the stealing of which he was sont to jail. Pavt Faux has been fined for disobeying the Sunday law. While there is such a law we must obey it. As President Grant said, Concerning Advertisements. A brilliant and enterprising contemporary advances an ingenious theory of journalism. A majority of the New York newspapers, it says, “run after more advertisements, and think more of them than of important news or bril- liant wit or cogent logic in the editorial col- umns.” It believes that one day we shall have a newspaper from which all advertise- ments will be excluded, and looks forward to the time which we trust will speedily come } when it will “refuse a great many more ad- vertisements than it publishes.” \ Nothing injures our journalism more than this tendency to “run after more advertise- ments," to use large, glaring type and wood- cuts and strange designs—rat ‘traps, pipes, racing horses and so on—in the hope of! attracting the eye of the reader. The adver- | tising business is as natural as the subscrip- tion list. It is even more important to the general public, The reader may look at the news columns for amusement or instruction, but he reads the business columns frora ne- cessity. The Heratp custom is now what it has always been. We print the news, and when we have an _ oxtraordinary press of advertisements we add to the size of our sheet in order that they may be accommodated, or leave them out, as the London Zimes does, until we have room. This results in the frequent publication of our twelve, sixteen and twenty page edi- tions. Furthermore, a journal like the Heravp, a journal for all classes and in- terests, would omit the news in omitting cer- tain classes of advertisements, which have all the interest and value of news. Thus at the present time there is an artificial flow of holiday a lvertisements mainly from dealers anxious to close out their stocks, and who for that purpose take advantage of the era of generosity and good feeling. But holiday activity in business is not natural activity. The true business season begins with the spring, and with the spring we have that heaithy business rise in advertisements which compels the issue of quadruple and quintuple | editions. This is the only way to meet all de- mands of newspaper business, for the adver- taser has his rights as well as the reader. A newspaper without advertisements, liv- ing simply on the profits of circulation, would be an interesting and instructive ex- periment, Buta representative cosmopolitan newspaper that refased advertisements from principle would be like a man who cut off his leg because he had conscientious scruples in favor of wooden limbs. The true way is to print the news first and advertisements afterward; or, as the Heratp does, to print them both together, and, if necessary to do so, issue a sheet of twenty pages. Familiar Spirits. Robert Dale Owen has withdrawn his sup- port and turned away his countenance from Katie King. He refasesto certify longer as | to the validity of her ghostliness. He de- nounces her as an unsatisfactory spirit. All | this because she has imposed upon him. It seems to us that Robert Dale Owen is very particular. In the first place it is perceptibly laughable fora man who believes in ghosts and in Spiritualism generally to specify as to one particular occasion that he was imposed upon then. Why then more than:at other | times? Why not always, atevery hour and | in every circumstance of his daily life? It is | invidious on the part of Mr. Owen to specify | against the imposition of one particalar spirit. There is, moreover, in this notion a pretence that Mr. Robert Dale Owen was never imposed upon betore, | or that the occurrence is so uncommon that it is necessary to give the public notice when it happens. It seems to us that the life of ghost-seers and that sort of gentry is too uncertain in its outlines for them to indulge in pretences of that nature. Ifa man sets up a sort of gospel based on the presumption that the boundaries of sense and illusion are uncertain ; makes a general declaration that | he is never very clear as to whether he is in | this world or the next or some other; pre» | tends that the flesh and blood about him is no more real than less palpable entities with which he 1s in constant communication, he does as much as he may to blurr and even obliterate the lines that divide the two | worlds and to say that there are no such lines ; and for such a man to suddenly jump up | and announce to the public that he has been fooled into believing himself for a moment on one side the lines when, in fact, hé was on the other, is ludicrous, both because it pretends that the man is himself a judge as to where he is and also because it seems to assume that hig | whereabouts is of some consequence to the | world at large. There is, however, this im- | portance in the present case—It is one case in which a well vouched spirit has been caught and proved to be a very commonplace woman ; and this may open the eyes of many people who are the victims of this pitiful and easy deception, and give the world a notion of what flimsy sort of intellect it is that vouches for spiritual phenomenon. , Paris with Her Majesty. | works of more pretentious foreigners. | these we mention several works by J. WU. Brown, value at the wine shops or drinking saloons they are sure to afford real relief. We should be glad to see an institution based on this prin- ciple in New York—sach an institution, for instance, as would enable a genorously dis- posed individual to contribute toward it by purchasing tickets, which he oould dis- tribute to the suffering. ScPERINTENDENT WALLING promises to put an end to the street car outrages on Madison avenue. We hope the Superintendent will have more success in this work than he has had in the discovery of Oharley Ross, BISMARCK proposes a new treaty of extra- dition between Germany and the United States, superseding all existing treaties. The nature of the contemplated meastire does not appear. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Professor F, L. Ritter, of Vassar College, yester- day arrived at the Everett House, Mayor D. M. Hatbert, of Binghamton, is so- Journing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Projessor J. H. Pepper, of London, ts among the latest arrivals ot wwe Grand Central Hotel, Ex-Governor Frederick Smyth, of New Hamp-- shire, is staying at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Dr. K. J. Gatiing, the gunmaker, not of Moscow, but of Hartford, is stopping at the Gilsey House, ‘ District Attorney Nathaniel ©, Moak, of Albany, is residing temporarily at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Major V. Sanches, of the Spanish Army, nas returned to his old quarters at the Hoffman House. Messrs. George W. Cnilds and A. J. Drexel, of Philadeiphia, are registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin and family, of Pennsylvania, have apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Johnson, United states Army, is quartered at the Sturte- vant House, Colonel A. K. McClure, of Philadelphia, arrived in this city last evening and took up his residence at the Hoffman House, The Paris Figaro says that a red velvet mantle worn by the Empress of Russia is lined with sable fur, vained at $20,000, Hon. George Brown has returned to Uttawa, Canada, from Washington, and is the guest-of the Premier at Ridean Hall. The engineers in charge of the British Columbia section of the Pacific Railway survey have reached Ogden, Utah, en route to Ottawa, The “Black Crook” has reached Guadalajara, in Mexico, and yet there are people who think the Mexicans lacking im civilization. Atthe inquest of two men killed by fire damp | explosion im the Wincobank colliery, England, it was testified that smoking was common in the pit. Sir Walter Stewart, Master of Blantyre, Scot- laud, and Mr, Houston Boswell, of the same place, have arrived at Niagara Fails, en route to San Fran- cisco and Japan. Colonel Jerome Bonaparte and wife are about to return to Baltimore, after @ two years’ residence im Europe. Mme. Bonaparte was a Misa Appleton, of Boston, and at the time of her marriage to Coionel Bonaparte was @ Mrs. Newbold Edgar. She is @ granddaughter of Daniel Webster, ana her husband is a son of Prince Jerome Bonaparte. In Paris the Empress of Russia was the good fairy. Driving one morning in the Paris streets the imperial carriage Was stopped at @ corner by the funeral of a very poor person, in which @ young girl was the deepest mourner. With ker sympathies excited the Empress caused inquiries to be made, and became so much tuterested as to take che girl into her service and the latter lets Rogers, the sculptor, 18 engaged on a group of “The Shaughraun.” It will consist of Von and his dog “Tatvera,") who seems destined to share his master’s fame. Con 1s seated on @ log, hold- tng his fladie in the left hand. He is represented in the act of teaching “Tatters” his military exer- cise, and “Tatters,” shouidering the bow of Con’s fiddle, gravely and intelligently listens to the in- stractions o! nis master. Commander Cheyne, of the British Navy, has written to the Admiralty, oMcially suggesting that, as soon as the North Pole is reached by the new expedition, the fleet should divide into three parts, one of whicn should come back at once by Smith’s Sound with the despatches, another should return via Spitzbergen, surveying the coast of Greenland, while the third shoald come by Behring Straits, so that the observations may be as complete as possible and the means of tak- ing them should be increased. A collection of paintings, containing many works of Interest, will be sold at the Clinton Hall sates- rooms this evening. The majority of the works | gre from the easel of Professor Carl Httbner, whose earher paintings ound many admirers in America. But the chief interest of the sale will rest on well | chosen examples of other painters. Several of our native artists not only hold their own in this collection, but overtop by head and shoulder the Among of more tnan ordinary merit. They illustrate american life and show ciearly that there ts aa much human interest-in the fields and farms and street corners of our own country as can be found abroad, if only the artist can bring himself to look under the costume. Oar lite is not so picturesque as that of Brittany or ol Italy or Spain, but the humanity is the same everywhere. Winslow Homer also has a charming picture of home life, “The Furtation,” and Dawson (deceased) some clever landscapes. E. L. Henry’s “On the Road to Blarney” is full of life and charm, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. “Davy Crockett” has been played over 400 times by Frank Mayo. He ought to be tired. Theodore Thomas will have @ choice programma at Steinway Hall on Saturday afternoon. Max Strakosch will inaugurate the new Academy of Music, Baltimore, on January 7, with Mile. Al Dani in opera, George F. Bristow officiates at the organ concert to be given this afternoon at the Church of the Holy Trintty, on Madison avenue. A rehearsal of the oratorio “Messiah,” which Tue Cenrenntat.—Lord Derby, the Eng- lish Minister for Foreign Affairs, has ad- dressed a letter to our Minister at the Court of St. James announcing that the English goy- ernmeat will with much pleasure take part in the international celebration to be held at Philadelphia, The letter expresses the desire of the British government to do all that lies in its power to make the exhibition a success, This cordial acquiescence of England in our proposed Centennial is a most important event, and will contribute largely to its success. Germany also comes into line, and we have an imperial commission appointed to represent Germany in Philadelphia under the presidency of Herr Jacobi. These evidences of European interest in the Centennial are to renewed endeavors to make it a success worthy of the nation and the anniversary. subject” the opening of the various soup kitchens in Paris, This institution dates from before asking to be released, ; the time of Louis XVI, the “well beloved” King whose head was taken off. It began | in a winter season of historical severity. By | the operation of these soup kitchens chari- table persons are afforded an opportunity of purchasing tickets’ at the. rate of two cents | apiece, which they distribute among the poor. from the other world who would tell us where | we might ind Ghaciey Hom the only way to secure the repeal of obnoxious lawa is to enforce them, reovive soup, with meat, vegetables and bread Each of these tickets entitles the applicant to | enough for e good meal, and as they bava, no gratifying, and should inspire our own people ' Tas London Times records as a ‘‘pleasing | will be the musical feature of Christmas Day, takes place this afternoon at Steinway Hall, under the leadership of Dr. Damrosch. Miles, Maresi and Donadio and Messrs. Debas- sini and Fiorini sing at the Academy on Sunday evening with the pupils of the New York Oonser- vatory, under Maretzek’s direction. Shall we have no more new plays? The same round of Davyerocketts, Killeen Oges and Colleen Bawns becomes irightiully depressing. Paria has novelties by the bushel, while # decent new play 1s with us @ treat. We're to have an American Salvini in the per- son of Ciprico, a new Calliornian aspirant to fame, | Not contenr with replacing Forrest, the Guiden State wants to superanuate the great Italien, ‘Will no one turn on a hose? John Brougham !s playing In his old game, “The Lotrery of Life,” He does not appear to be as | fortanate as so good an actor deserves to be | Way didn’t John learn to fire off pistols am@ saw the air with bowie knives ? He might them have died a millionoaire, Mrs. Rousby, who has now settled at the Claren- don, yesterday rode in the Central Park and | passed the evening at the Lyceum Theatre, To- day her labors wili commence, for, like Mme. Ris- tori, Mra, Rousby directs her rehearsals, The @rss of “ Pwixt Axe and Crown" occurs at noon, Strakosch does “not want to go to Havana, be- cause paper Money is not worth anyltiung worth speaking of there. Why not come back to New York and give “Le Prophete,” ‘‘Tannhauser,’” “Flying Dutchman” and ‘ionengrin” for thirty nights at popolar prices. There's millions tn tt, ‘The Kiraify Brothers have made atrangements with Manager Joon T, Ford tor the transfer of the “Black Crook” to Baltimore, which will prevent | ite continuance here alter the holidays, The | Christmas week will afford new vallets and other | Jeasgres, laclyding @ grand transformation sqcne,