The New York Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1874, Page 4

t NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, * PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, pwblished every day in the year, Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and efter January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hznaup will be | sent free of postage. I) businegs or news letters and telegraphic | . a8 | spiracy, all indicated a determination to com- | plete the usurpation initiated by Kellogg and | his partisans two years ago. despatches must be addressed New Yore Hara. Rejected communications will not be re-| turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be | received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. VOLUME XXXIX AMUSEMENTS THIS APTERNWX AND EVENING. | 0. 360 | STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Theodore Thomas’ Concertat2 P. M.: loses at li P. M. <- ueeEe THEATRE, Fourteenth and sixth aveniie CHILPERIC, BBP a closes at WAS Pal. Miss Emily Solde: ALLACK’S THEATRE, i=THE ATTACGHRAUN, atSP. M.; closes at | . Mr. Boucicauit. | WOOD’s MUSEUM, al | | Broad) 1040 P. Breede’, corner of wees atre yeep at 2P. M.. closes at4:15 areP, closes at 10:45 P.M. J. a ‘H. Tinson. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, | bist 885 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. ere closes at 1030 | P.M, Matinee at2P. M. | OLYMPIC THEA’ Ho, 62 Brosdway VARIETY. at 8 F. P.M. Matinee at2 3 closes at 10:45 GRAN: EB. third street fen Eighth arene EB BLACK $F2° at8 P.M; closes at ll P. Matinee at 1:30 TONY PASTOR'S OPERA BOU=! | Raz red a nek at 8 P.M.; closes at 10:65 P.M | tines 8 | PARK THEATRE, Broadway, between Twenty-first and Twent sy oe greciy “GILDED AGE, st &P. M.; closes at 10:30 John f. Raymond. Matinee at2P. M. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street ana'Sixth avenue — at8 P.M. Mr. Vandenhoff and Miss Matilds ee gorner, of ACBETH, Heron. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Br Seng street and Fourth aveni erento BRARD ged FETE AT P&KIN, atjernoon atzan TIVOLI THEATRE, | Eighth street—VARIETY, at 8P. M. PIFTH AVENUE THEATBE, NEW WaT TO | ue | SIEUB aries MO: BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, tee ae — Sixth avenue..: marian P.M. Y, &c., closes at 10 P.M, tinee a METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Fourteenth street.—Open trom 10 A. M. to 5 P. it, NIBLO'S, Brosaway—JACK AND JILL, at& P.M. Matinee at 2 PM. BROOKLYN a ere wi mn street—LED ASTR. eae, pM MEDEA | and S CESAR DE BAZAN. mies P. oach, Mrs. Couway. SAN FRANCISCO NSTRELSB, Broadway, corner of Twenty ninth street—-NEGRO Hisgrmeist, at8P. M.; closes at 10P. M. Matinee at IN HALL, Stxteenth street BEGOSE DCLL CaBE. Mr. Mac. | Matinee at2 P. M. GLOBE THEATBE. Brosdway.. VARIETY, at BPM; closes at 1090 P. X, GERMANIA THEATRE. Tourteenth street-—EIN GE ADELIER KAUFMANN, at P.M; | be ‘TADT THEATRE, fone et -uveINDE OM THEATER, at 8P. M. Miss | NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1874. | From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be clear, Wovrp not ot Mayor. Vance make a good Comptroller ? | Txe Triax of the conductors and hotel | keepers of Port Jervis for defrauding the Erie | Railway, now in progress at Goshen, will attract much attention. The evidence is very | contradictory. Kio Katarava’s Crnistaas was @ pleas- ant one, the day being spent in going to | church, getting his picture taken, receiving | acquaintances and friends and basking in the sunshine of Mr. Alderman Gilon’s touching | presence. Bic Rep Foon, the famous chief of the | Comanches, has had a talk with a corre- | spondent of the Hznazy, which we printthis | morning. The great Indian, in following the | example of other potentates, shows that he | ought to be heard, and shows that he ap- preciates the best method of obtaining what | be wants. Ganrsatot replies to the report of the In- vestigating Committee of the French Assembly | teflecting on his military conduct in opposing General Manteuffel in the late war that Bour- baki was to blame in not communicating with him, but that he resisted to the last extremity. Still, we are afraid the veteran has not shown | 8 very bright record as an officer of the French army. Tur Rervrntxc Boarp of Louisiana has | made a report which contains a narrative of | alleged outrages against the blacks in the elections. This is another addition to the literature of the unhappy condition of that State, and it is likely to receive all the atten- tion it merits, because it is the exposition of the side of the radical managers in these ter- rible complications. | | | | | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1874. “Somebody Will Be Hurt”—Governor McEnery’s Telegram. ‘The news from Louisiana grates harshly on the ear in this season of good fellowship and rejoicing. It falls upon the people of the United States like a national calamity, and is full of alarming portents. For some time it has been hoped that the unprincipled men who, as the Returning Board of the Siate, have been conspiring to falsify the results of the recent election, would be deterred from consummating the proposed outrage. It is true that there seemed but slender foundation for the hope. The secret sessions of the Board, its protracted proceedings, the satis- factory proof that returns were being tam- | pered with and in some cases actually torged, the bad character of the actors in the con- Nevertheless, it could scarcely be credited that sane men, with | the example of the recent elections in the Northern States before them, would be reck- less enough to persevere in a policy so em- phatically condemned by the whole people and to still further provoke public indigna- tion. The final action of the Returning Board proves thut the agents selected tor the work have as little prudence as honesty, and leaves | us with the painful certainty that the people | of Louisiana have no choice but to submit as patiently as they may to the cruellest injus- tice and oppression or to place themselves in the unfortunate and fatal position of resist- ance to the authority of the United States government. This latter resort, we have the authority of Governor McEnery in his tele- gram to the Henatp this morning for saying is not contemplated. In this there is ground for hope that peace will be preserved until jus- tice can be done to the oppressed people of the unfortunate State. Looking at the effect of this outrage from a political point of view alone it is impossible not to see that it must eventually be fatal to | those who take part in its perpetration or sbettal. Indeed, it almost induces a belief in fatality when we find men of apparent shrewd- ness rushing heedlessly on in the pursuit of a policy that cannot fail to accomplish their destruction. Recently President Grant made the significant remark that should there be | any more resistance to the Kellogg govern- ment “somebody will be hurt.” The whole miserable history of this Louisiana business, from the usurpation of Kellogg down to the second overthrow of the form of republican government, is of a character to hurt all who | figure in it, The republican leaders have | already been seriously hurt by their criminal partisanship in the business of reconstruc- tion. The national administration has been | hurt by its injudicious and despotic inter- ference in State elections and in the aid it has . afforded to usurpation when the will of the people has been in conflict with the interests | of radicalism. Should this latest and most flagrant outrage be consummated, should | the government elected by the people of a Dan | sovereign State be deprived of power through | fraud, forgery and conspiracy, rendered effective by the force of United States bayonets, the one man who will be hurt be- yond all hope of recovery will be Ulysses S. Grant. The bright record of the hero of the war will be forgotten in the general de- nunciation that must follow such treason against republican government. Nor can the principle of republicanism fail to be hurt by a | blow struck at its foundation by hands that should protect it and be foremost in maintain- ing its inviolability. It is easy, therefore, to predict that the political effect of the Louisiana business and like outrages will be very different from that anticipated by their authors and abettors. Whether designed to perpetuate the present national administra- | tion or intended simply to prolong the rule of corruption and plunder in the reconstructed States, the policy that produces such fruits will assuredly be strangled at the earliest moment the people of the Union can lawfully place their grasp on its throat. Another and more momentous inquiry sug- | gests itself in connection with this miserable affair. What will be the effect of the action of the Returning Board on the people of the unhappy State? We are told that they are “gloomy and despondent,’’ and it is easy to imagine how the hearts of men must be cast down by the prospect before them. Aside trom the indignation that every one must feel whose rights are thus outraged the citizens of Louisiana know that the honor and credit of their State must suffer, that property must | deteriorate in value, that foreign capital will be shut out from them when they are most in need of it, and that ruin awaits their business classes. They have also the apprehension that some of the more daring and thoughtless spirits among them may rise up in rebellion against the usurpation, and plunge the State into yet more deplorable troubles. Upon this point Governor McEnery's letter has great significance. While renewing his promise of obedience to the federal government, he is | outspoken in his declaration that resistance has become a necessity. The wrong done, he says, would not be submitted to by any free people. Heretofore McEnery has be- haved with great circumspection, and such impassioned language trom him, even when taken in connection with his subse- | quent declaration that ‘resistance to the | national authority has never been meditated,” is significant of trouble if the remedy be too long delayed. He should permit no outbreak, for it could not fail to end in disaster toa people already overborne by misfortune. Re- sistance now, even if it is expressly limited to resistance to the usurpivg authority inthe State | government, would afford the opportunity to | many who desire to confuse and overshadow the real issue and place the conservatives of the South in a false position. It would | ‘We Onsznve that Mr. Bradlangh complains | that he could not find a large audience willing | to listen to his lecture upon Cromwell and | Washington. In this Mr. Bradiangh does injustice to himself and to our people. There | are few men who can discourse with so much | originality and boldness; but we are now in the holiday season, and had Mr. Bradlaugh been well advised by those who instruct him on business affairs he would know that noth- ing is more improbable thon that at such a time a large number, of people could be in- duced to hear any lecture upon any subject. Ir Maron Wicxuam would be as popular a Mayor as our thirty days Vance let bim re- move Mr. Green paralyze the efforts of those in the North who espouse the cause of their Southern brethren | as their own, and who will fight their battles | | peacefully at the ballot box until they win | their disenthralment. Hence every good | friend of the South will unite with us in ex. | horting the men of Louisiana to possess them- | | selves with patience; to endure any wrong, | even to the infamous act of a reversal of the popular will, legally and peacetully expressed | | at the ballot box, rather than to give their enemies the advantage of representing them asin armed resistance to the United States government or even of proclaiming martial law in the State. It is better to bear a usurping, corrupt and villanous government for two years than by an impradent act to risk the | postponement of the final day of reckoning. The recent elections have given unmistakable | indications that the people of the Union are resolved to restore republican government to the Southern States by a peaceful revolution, and in two years their work will be accom- plished. It is to be sincerely hoped, therefore, that suffering Louisiana will bear her ills, heavy as they may be, until her sister States can come to her rescue undey the banner of constitutional right. But there is some hope of more speedy re- lief, provided peaceful counsels prevail. President Grant and Congress must be sensi- ble of their responsibility in the matter and cannot avoid taking some action for the pres- ervation of republican government in Louisi- ana. They cannot so far misunderstand the spirit that conquered the rebellion as to imagine that the people of the North will | much longer tolerate such violations of re- publican principle as mark the usurpations in the Southern States. The President has called the attention of Congress to the subject and has invited action on the Louisiana troubles. He has supplemented this suggestion by the significant hint that there is actual peril in the present condition of that State—somebody is going to be hurt. Congress, therefore, has the matter clearly before its eyes. It has known the secrecy, the procrastination, the trickery that have marked the proceedings of the Returning Board. It has the declaration of the conservative representation on that Board that its acts have been partisan and unjust and have ‘defrauded the people of their chosen representatives."" No Senator or Representative of a Northern State who has a political future before him will dare to ig- nore these facts or to evade the responsibility imposed upon him by the constitution of his country. If, therefore, the people of Louisi- ana will make an earnest appeal to Congress for protection under the laws, their voice will reach the people of the whole Union and will compel attention. It will, indeed, be the duty of the democratic representatives in the House and inthe Senate to initiatesome action in regard to the affairs of the suffering State. Should the majority fail to do so, and to press persistently for action, the public peace is at stake. The life of republican liberty is in danger. No Representative who stands in the halls of national legislation can evade the duty of seeking to preserve the one and to save the other without relinquishing every hope of a political future. The Christmas Celebration. Notwithstanding many of the glories of the old time Christmas celebrations have de- parted yesterday’s observances were as gen- eral and as joyful as at any time within the recollection of the present generation. There were no attempts at reviving the customs of the past, but the churches were handsomely decorated and each house had its Christmas feast. Santa Claus, as usual, remembered the little ones, and in spite of the times many presents wero made in commemoration of the great present from God to man. No event occurred to mar the pleasure of the occasion, and everywhere there were evidences of peace on earth and good will toward men. As was fitting, the churches were the scenes of the most important celebrations of the day. The chimes of old Trinity rung in the happy and auspicious morning, and in the Catholic churches early mass summoned the worship- pers before the lighter pleasures of the day began. At St. Patrick's Cathedral Archbishop McCloskey celebrated a pontifical high mass, and at the Church of St. Francis Xavier es- pecially the music was fitting to the most significant festival of the Christian year. The Protestant were scarcely behind the Catholic churches in their preparations for the Christ- mas feast. Ritualistic St. Alban’s was pro- fusely adorned with flowers and evergreens. Grace church, too, was decorated with the profusion usually observed at that fashionable temple, and the music was in keeping with the decorations. The sermons were com- memorative, setting forth the beautiful signifi- cance of the day and the importance of Christ- mas in the Christian faith, From all this it will be observed that the prominence given to the Christian observances of the day was the feature of the Christmas which is now added to the past. In the charitable and other public and pri- vate institutions the celebration of Christmas was general. At the Penitentiary on Black- well’s Island and the asylums on Ward's, Randall’s and Hart's islands there were Christmas feasts for the hardened in crime as well as the little waifs who are yet to battle with the world. The Howard Mission, the Five Points Mission and the Five Points House of Industry, the St. Vincent Home for Boys, the Homes for the Aged and the Friendless, the Foundling Asylum, the Catholic orphan asylums and many other in- stitutions provided their usual holiday re- past. Nobody seemed forgotten, and every- where happy faces beamed with pleasure at the return of Christmas. There was joy in many hearts which long years cannot efface, and even the saddest could scarcely fail to be merry. Sometimes, it is true, there were evi- dences of too much merriment; but, aside from some severe headaches which will make themselves felt this morning, no great harm was done and much good was accomplished. | Most of the readers of the Hzratp may con- | gratulate themselves if their future Christ- mases promise to be as bright and joyous as yesterday, and we wish all of them the ro currence of many such days. Tue Preswent anv THE Press,—A corre- | spondent of a Philadelphia paper complains | because General Grant, on the occasion of his reception to the King of Hawaii, did not invite any of the journalists. This the cor- respondent regards as an “insult to the press.” We donot think so. The practice of inviting people to public or even private entertainments because they are members of the press is a reflection npon the profession. | When a journalist receives a compliment of | this kind the compliment is not intended for | him, but for his calling. He only can be trne to his calling by declining to make it a sub- | ject of compliment; by holding it above even the temptation of social courtesy; by sepa- rating himself from his profession altogether, and not permitting even the President of the United States to do him an honor as a | correspondent or editor to which he would not be entitled as a private gentleman, Mz. Gren cannot remain Comptroller without destroying Tilden and Wickbam, What, Then, Did He Meant The short paragraph referring to Cuban af- fairs in the President’s Message was generally understood to mean that the lovg continued insurrection was injuring our commerce, and that therefore interference was becoming necessary; or, in the President's own words, “may make some positive steps on the part of other Powers a matter of self-necessity."”” “Self-necessity’’ is good. We commonly say self-preservation, and why not self-neces- sity? At least so reasoned His Excellency, and if the President of the United States may not coin a new word what is the use of being President? Well, every body thought ‘‘self-necessity” meant that we were suffering and must interfere on our own account. Not only did people here thus un- derstand this curious, and, so to speak, self- invented phrase, but in England also it was so taken. The London Daily News says: —‘‘It is observed that the commerce of the United States suffers from the prolongation of the war in Cuba, and this is an important con- sideration.’’ Evidently these English under- stood ‘‘self-necessity” as our own people did. Now, not only does His Excellency say nothing about commerce in his paragraph re- lating to Cuba, but, as our correspondent pointed out last Monday, official re- turns plainly show that our commerce with Cuba has not suffered and is not suffering. Our imports from Cuba have increased during those six years of insurrection of which His Excellency speaks, from $56,976,491 in 1869 to $85,428,097 in 1874, and our exports to the island, exclusive of specie, have increased from $11,816,020 in 1869 to $15,677,716 in 1874 Nothing is more certain, therefore, than that Mr. Grant did not mean that our commerce with Cuba is suf- fering or has diminished by reason of the insurrection, What, then, did he mean? Among the inalienable rights of an American citizen may surely be counted this that the President shall not address him in riddles or conundrums in a Message. That the President shall write good English is not provided in the constitution, nor is it forbid- den him, by any act of Congress to make ex- periments in the English language. But he ought to make himself understood. What does ‘‘self-necessity” mean? Puzzling over this matter—for it grieves us to find the President so generally misunder- stood on both sides of the Atlantic—we dis- cover to our amazement some other passages in the Message which also are liable to at least two constructions. On the very first page of this important document we meet a sentence which at first view might, by a person igno- rant of Mr. Grant’s exalted character for honesty and faithtulness to public trusts, be understood to be a hint in favor of repudiation of the national debt. He recommends to Con- gress ‘legislation ignoring the past,’ and im- mediately exclaims, ‘Debt, debt abroad is the only element that can, with always a sound currency, enter into our af- fairs to cause any continued depression in the industries and prosperity of our peo- ple.” Of course His Excellency did not mean that we should ‘ignore’ the national debt; if there were no other reason for this assertion, the fact that he owns some bonds himself would satisty the general public of this. But then, what did hemean? Why connect “‘legis- lation ignoring the past’’ with the fatal effect of “debt’’ and in particular of ‘debt abroad?” Again, Mr. Grant says: —‘‘Three elements of prosperity to the nation—capital, labor, skilled and unskilled, and products of the soil—still remain with us. To direct the employment of these is a problem deserving the most serious attention of Congress.’’ What under heaven does the President mean here? Does he want Congress “to direct the em- ployment’’ of the ‘products of the soil?’’ If so, he ought to point out how a Congress not remarkably brilliant shall go about so puz- zling an undertaking. Cabbages are—to the German mind, at least—an important ‘“prod- uct of the soil;’’ is Congress to ‘‘direct the employment” of cabbages? Perhaps he re- gards his suggestion to increase the whiskey tax tencentsa gallon as one way of ‘‘direct- ing the employment’ of the “products of the soil?” Moreover, there are capital and skilled and unekilled Jabor, which Mr. Grant thankfully remarks, ‘‘still remain with us.”” It is cer- tainly a matter for devout gratitude that neither capital nor labor has run away to ‘‘the Continent,’’ wherever that place, mentioned by His Excellency in the next paragraph, may lie. If capital and labor could fly away to any cther continent than ours they would doubtless do so, if there was the least danger that Congress would obey Mr. Grant’s injunction to ‘direct their employ- thent.’”” What in the world has Congress to do with ‘‘directing employment” of capital, labor and the products of thesoil? Of course a President of the United States does not talk nonsense in his annual Message. He means something. But what does he mean? New Lines of Travel. We observe that a meeting of railroad men has been discussing the propriety of more rapid communication between Philadelphia and New York. It is urged that trains should be able to run so rapidly between the two cities that a Philadelphian could leave home in the morning, do business in New York and retarn to his home the same day without any unusual fatigue. If we were to follow the example of many English lines a train could be run from Philadelphia to New York in an hour and a half. This is not much more time than many business people daily give to their coming and going, especially when they live up the Hudson or on the line of the Harlem, and they are compelled to make this weary progress over our crowded streets. Furthermore, the coming of the centen- nial year will stimulate travel between Philadelphia and New York to such an extent that rapid communication will be almost a necessity. It would be a great advantage to Philadelphia as well as to New York to have | the communication made as perfect and swift as possible. They are the two great cities of the Union, among the largest in the world. Their interests do not conflict. Philadelphia is as independent and supreme in its own | field as @ great manufacturing centre as New | York is in its ficid of metropolitan supremacy. the States of New York and Pennsylvania, to the people who dweli there and to the best interests of the country, Anything that looks like a “close union be- | tween the two cities will be an advantage to | Mayor Vance and His Victory. The course of Mayor Vance in removing the Commissioners of Charities and Correction excites universal commendation. We must congratulate the Mayor upon knowing the value of an opportunity. His thirty days’ rule will have a sunny glow in our municipal history, and if, as is not impossible in the mutations of our public life, he should ever be named for high place, this brief record will be his best recommendation. The Mayor has not missed a single point. He complimented the moral sense of the peo- ple by consulting Mayor-elect Wickham as to the men he should name to these offices. He waived any feeling of personal friendship and nominated men who would serve the public. He avoided any complication or embarrass- ment that might have arisen from appointing gentlemen whose removal would have become speedily necessary for political reasons, He gave us men who have gained popular esteem. He put an end to the atrocious scandal that has surrounded Tweed’s imprisonment. He taught that mighty, pertinacious and unre- pentant robber that he could not by the power of money turn his prison into a palace, He rebuked the scandals that have stained the administration of important departments, He made his appointments from public, not polit- ical considerations, He did nothing that we could wish undone. On the contrary, he has made his tenure of office a pleasant memory in the history of New York. How wisely Presdent Grant would have acted had he followed this course. Suppose he had removed his Cabinet after the elec- tions as Mayor Vance has removed his sub- ordinates because they had failed in public approval, how easily he might have regained the confidence of the people. Mayor Wickham will soon be the Mayor of New York Upon him will fall a grave duty, the removal of Andrew H. Green. This is the first demand the public will make upon the new Mayor and the new Governor. The matter rests with the Mayor practically; for, while the law imposes the duty of approval upon the Governor, the principle of ‘home rule,'’ adopted by the Democratic Convention and consecrated as a part of democratic policy, will practically leave the whole question with Mayor Wickham. He is Mayor of New York. Governor Tilden cannot intertere with his free exercise of municipal prerogatives without committing political suicide. ‘Mayor Vance has given his successor an illustrious example. Let Mr. Wickham deal with Green as Mr. Vance has dealt with the Commissioners, and he will win the highest fame that can fall upon a civil magistrate. Mr. Stanley in Africa. We print this morning another letter from Mr. Henry M. Stanley, which is in no respect less interesting than those preceding it. This time Mr. Stanley discourses of Zanzibar, and be tells us more about that almost unknown land than ever was told before. At the out- set he shows how rich the country is in the productions which have so often made the fortunes of unostentatious merchants trading with the most distant parts and penetrating barbarous countries for the rich wares so much prized in civilized lands. Then he gives us a glimpse of the palace of the Sultan Barghash-bin-Said and of the Prince himself. What is more, he details the Prince’s own ac- count of the mission of Sir Bartle Frere and the failure of that eminent Englishman’s ne- gotiations with Zanzibar. The charm of the Sultan's story is in the very poor mouth he makes over his misfortunes and those of his people. Evidently it was not easy for the Prince to sign a treaty if its conditions were to be observed. The slave trade was not only 8 tradition with his people, but in their pov- erty it was a necessity. That he should hesitate to accede to Sir Bartle’s wishes is not to be wondered at, especially when we remem- ber that more enlightened nations than Zanzi- bar have clung to slavery long after the senti- ment of the civilized world was against it. It is only ten years sinc2 our own “‘peculiar in- stitution” was definitively abolished, and the Spanish planter in Cuba retains it in spite of the decrees of the Cortes and apparently with the sanction of the Republic. All this helps to give Mr. Stanley's letter great value and im- portance, while it illustrates the condition of a country which before many years must be- come a centre of trade with all the world. In other respects Mr. Stanley adds to our knowl- edge of the eastern coast ot Africa, contribut- ing a letter which will not only repay but compel perusal, Pogram in New York. For the first time in our metropolitan history a real Alderman has encountered a real King. This supreme felicity has fallen upon Mr. McCafferty, member of our Common Council This distinguished but hitherto unappreciated statesman improved his oppor- tunity. The King had been riding all day on that lonely, desolate route from Washington. He was suffering from a cold imposed upon his tropical nature by our ‘‘inhospitable climate.'’ Naturally enough, not being above human comforts, the King’s first desire would be to go to his hotel and to relieve himself of the fatigues of the journey, and an ordinary Alderman’s first desire would have been to propose this to His Majesty. But Mr. McCafferty was not to be deprived of his opportunity. So, taking the tired King from his railroad car into the half built, bleak railway station of Jersey City, he proceeded to address him on the fact that “we are about to have onr first centennial ;’" that we have grown ‘from three to nearly forty-five mill- ions;"" that ‘our flag floats in every sea’’--which it don't—and that we owe our blessings to ‘the liberality of our government,” ‘‘the freedom of our press'’ and soon. ‘‘Taddress Your Majesty on the soil of New Jersey, to which we come to meet you from our own State of New York. Close as has been the relation between these sister States, let me express the firm hope that the relations between Your Majesty's government and people and our own may continue to be as close, as continuous, as beneficent.” To this the King replied, as was most natural under the circumstances, considering his long ride, that he “had a bad cold,” which pre- vented his making a longer speech. The only speech in our history equal to this of Alderman McCafferty is that of the Hon. Elijah Pogram, reported by Mr. Dickens. “Our fellow countryman is a model of a man, quite fresh from nature’s mould,’’ said Mr. Pogram, ‘He is a true-born child ‘of this free hemisphere; verdant as the mountain of our country, bright and flowing as our mineral lakes, unspoiled by wither- ing conventionalties as our broad and boundless prairies! Rough he may be; 80 are our bears. Wild he may be; so are our buffaloes. But he is a child of nature and a child of freedom, and his boastful an- swer to the despot and the tyrant is that his house is in the setting sun!” On the whole, however, we think that Mr. McCafferty made a little better speech than Pogram. Our Diplomatic Service. It is but natural for the London Times, as an exponent of cultured opinion in the British capital, to saya good word for Mr. Moran, For seventeen years that gentleman has been Secretary of the American Legation, and has in that position been associated with more Mimsters in one capital than, probably, any Secretary ever was before in our diplomatic service. Out of consideration for the blun- ders and shortcomings on the part of our Ministers Plenipotentiary in England that have been prevented by their always having at their elbow, rather as a factotum than a Secretary, a man thoroughly familiar with the usage of the position, the whole country should feel grateful that in this changeful world Moran had been permitted to re main in one place for so many years; ‘and his friends should feel especially ‘pleased that his services had received from British society through the Thunderer a recognition as warm as it is well deserved. Altogether, however, people will not generally accept the notion that the displacement of Mr. Moran is a national misfortune, simply because they will not be ready, out of good will to tha gentleman removed and through an extrava- gant expression of regret in his favor, to seem in any degree wanting in courtesy to the gentleman appointed as his successor. Colonel Hoffman is fully Mr. Moran's equal in every respect save that of special experi- ence in that particular post. He has had ample experience as First Secretary in Paris, and with that experience and plenty of tact and brains we do not apprehend that the detail of the London office will prove to be beyond his capacity. Tr Grant had been as prompt in his ree sponses to the will of the people as Mayor Vance has been what a popular President he would have become. Constante Karcuen’s Statement of the crimes which have become so common in the coal regions, included in our Pottaville letter to-day, suggests a careful inquiry inte this whole question, that the truth of charges of which we have heard so much of late may be fully known. The Pennsylvania Legisla- ture, which will meet ina few days, ought to undertake this investigation as a basis for in- telligent action in » matter which certainly demands an immediate remedy. Mr. WickHam could make the people of New York no more grateful present than the head of Andrew H. Green. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, In London seventeen infants are ‘aocidentally suffocated” in a week. Senator Lewis V. Bogy, of Missouri, has apart- ments at the Windsor Hotel. Mr. George Q. Cannon, Delegate to Congress from Utah, 1s sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Assistant Adjutant General J. B, Stonehouse ar- rived from Albany last evening at the Hotel bruns- wick. Congressmen Dewitt C. Giddings aud Asa Willte, of Texas, are residing at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman Frederick G. Bromberg, of Alse bama, and Delegate Stephen B. Elkins, of New ; Mexico, arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel yester- day from Washington. The “convalescent” dress of the Duchess of Ed- inburgh Is of gray velvet trimmed with white isce and opening over a blue satin skirt. In England two postmen, who were bitten while deliveriny letters at houses where dogs were kept, have recovered damages from the owners, Itisthe thing now to take your sherry from wood, and carved cups are to push the sherry glasses from their place on the sideboard, “Kicking (or the month” ts now a regular re port in the English papers, and one begins ite chronicle witn “Ihe women have suffered very *heavily during the past month.” , At the present time the Paris Mint is engaged tu striking gold coin, of which 50,000,000 francs, o1 $10,000,000, are to be made. Forty millions will be in pieces of twenty irancs and ten miliions in pieces of ten francs. Antiquity produced the man who organized the Pyramias and modern times produce 4 man who wants to walk from the apex of one to another oj these structures on & tight rope. At this rate forty centuries may well lc ok down on us. Mr. Bailley Blanchard, representative of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, has arrived in Mextco city. A commission trom the American Chamber ts expected by the next steamer inre sponse to an invitation of the Bourse of the Mext can capital. The disbarment of Dr. Kenealy by the benchers ofone of the London Inns of Court ts to be dis cussed, Dot out of regard to Kenealy, but to prin- ciple, as it ie Claimed they have overstepped thelr guthority. We hope they will restore him, as otherwise he threatens to come to this country. One of the dressmaker’s children had scarlet fever, and when she sent home the dress she was mending two children in the family of the owner of the dress were taken and both died; and nat ie one of the thousand ways tn which scarlet fever, measies, smallpox, &c., are constantly kept going. The New Zealand Cabinet has decided to ap point a commission to have New Zealand repre | sented at the Philadelphia Exhibition tn honor o the centenary anniversary of the deciaration o American Independence. The exhibits will not be numerous but will give a fair mdtcation of th¢ staple products of the country, ‘The captains of alarge number of steamship: and sailing vesscls at Havre have sent @ protest the Minister of Marine at Paris, protesting againat the command ofthe French transatlantic steamer: being given to naval overs ani precluding thereby the oMcers of the Transatlantic Company attaining the position of commander, Prussia has clearly obtaiued a port on the north | ern coast of Airica, bat apparently not, as nither- to reported, by treaty with Morocco. The Echo of Oran, an Algerian journal, reports that the Ger- man foothold ts not on the matniand, but on the Zalarine islands, These, though on the Morocco coast, are Spanish possessions, s9 that Prussia did, alter all, a8 We argued some months since, trade with Spain for a port, Here is a specimen of te queries that the edit. ors of ladies’ journals have to answer:—"'T, v, would be so thankful tor M.’s good advice, Her dear father ts lying at the point of death. What would M. recommend for mourning? ‘I. V, thought a sleeveless Crape tunic would look well for best dress, but does not know wnat material to bave for dress; wouid she recommend Jann's cord? She 18 alraid paramatta is too expensive. And what can she have jor her second best dress, and how can she have it made and trimmed? And what can she have for her shoulders that would do through the winter? T. V. has three little girls; whatcan she have for them for their grandpa Greases and mantles, and hats?’