The New York Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1874, Page 6

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WALLACK’S THEATRE, roadway.—THE SHAUGHRAU. 40 P.M. Mr. Boucicault. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, From our reports this morning the probabilities wre that the weather to-day will be rainy, clear- king up later with cooler temperature. Watt Sreeer Yesrerpay.—The chief in- terest of the day was developed in Wabash, which declined 3 per cent. Gold remained firm at 1114, and money was in usnal demand gt 34 and 4 per cent on call. Foreign ex- change was firm. Tar Trix of two of our city detectives took place yesterday, and the verdict will be ren- dered by the Board of Police Commissioners hereafter. Tae Anyvat Report of the Board of Police Justices is presented to the public to-day, and the summary of crimes shows that 84,821 prisoners were arraigned in this city last year. Tue Foe is always a danger to the metropo- lis, especially upon its rivers. Yesterday on the East River a ferryboat collided in the mist with a cattle transport, and resulted in the death of two men and the injuring of others, From Ovr Wassincton CoRnEspoNnDENCE it seems that General Phil Sheridan is to take command in New Orleans, and has probably started already. The conservative papers of that city are unnecessarily indignant, for Sheridan will, no doubt, do justice to both parties. Ovr Rorat Guest.—His Majesty the King of the Sandwich Islands is showing more than royal energy in his stndies of New York and our institutions. Wherever the King has gone he has won golden opinions on account of his intelligence, his ability and his appar- ently sincere desire to establish friendly rela- tions between this Republic and the little kingdom over which he rules. The report of His Majesty's doings yesterday appears else- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Condition of Affairs at New Or- | made for the old state of Southwesi- leans. ern society, and that Northern demagogues It is to be hoped that the recent homicide ; MAKe hnste to charge every act of violence to will not further influence public feeling, al- political animosities and the unextingnished ready too much excited, in Louisiana, nor is | there any good reason why it should. The ; { parties to the encounter were not a white man | and a negro, nor even members of opposing | counter in the streets of New Orleans between prominent men who have been acting on the same side in politics ought to cure Northern fires of the rebellion. This deplorable en- | Some of our most eminent merchants, philan- political organizations. They were both hos- tile to the Kellogg usurpation and supporters of the McEnery government, and they alike f reprobated the frauds perpetrated by the dis- honest Returning Board. There was nothing | in the circumstances of the quarrel out of which either party can make political capital. Had a republican negro been the victim the Kellogg faction could have flourished a { “bloody shirt’’ in the eyes of the country and | | consecrated it asa banner of vengeance, and | a similar use could have been made of the homicide if Casey or Packard or some other white supporter of Kellogg had lost his life. | | Fortunately the affair cannot be made an incendiary topic for rekindling old parti- | san animosities against the South. The man who was slain was a vehement anti- | blood ‘to sudden rage and mutiny,"’ but their | citizens of this unreasoning tendency. Political excitement in Louisiana indeed runs high since the outrageous action of the Returning Board, and the people would be recreant to every truly republican impulse if they were not incensed at so wicked a nullifi- cation of the will of the people as expressed | in the late election. But there is more reason to praise their forbearance than to complain | of their anger. It would be easy to stir their | | leaders are wise and temperate, and have thus | far succeeded in dissuading them from vio- | lence. Let us hope that they will not lose their influence, and that even on the 4th of January, when the Legislature meets, pcpular passions .will be kept under restraint by the moderate and sagacious men who are the | peace, he did not receive his death from the Kellogg editor; but, fortunately for the local | recognized advisers of the conservative ma- The Death of Gerrit Smith. The reaper, Death, whose sickle spares neither the tender flowers nor the bearded grain, has of late been gathering a rich harvest. thropists and public servants have been called to their other life during the closing months of the year. It is only a few weeks since the venerable Jonathan Sturges breathed his last. Following close upon his friend Mayor Have- meyer died in the harness. Within a fort- night we have been compelled to announce the death of Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cor- nell University. On Christmas Day we gave an obituary of the Rev. Dr. Walker, the em- inent leader of Unitarian thought in New England. Yesterday the death of an old public servant, Oongressman Crocker, of Massachusetts, was announced, and to-day the list bears the name of Gerrit Smith. It is seldom the mortuary record is so fall, and, though Death loves a shining mark, it is not often he obtains so many brilliant trophies within so short a period. The demise of Gerrit Smith, especially as it follows so closely upon the death of so many other persons almost as well known, cannot | jority. If they can retain this check on head- hand of a radical, and no use can be made of | long popular impulses in such a state of it for exasperating public feeling against the | S°¢iety they will deserve well of their country | usurpers. Had Byerly been killed by Cascy | and hasten the day of deliverance which must just after the consummation of the election frauds, when the passions of the people were | so inflammable, they would not have stopped to reason, and there would have been a horri- ble outbreak of popular violence; but a deadly | feud between two prominent anti-Kellogg | politicians can be attended with no such con- | sequences. It this regrettable homicide was | tated to happen it is a subject of congratula- tion that all the persons concerned in it have | long been acting politically on the same side. | In judging it as a personal quarrel—which is the light in which it must be regarded —we | | cannot at this distance see that any great | blame attaches to Warmoth.. To go back to ‘the beginning of the difficulty, War- | moth was clearly right and was act- soon come from an awakened sense of North- ern justice, The Senatorship—What_ Should Be Done. The drift of discussion in the democratic party since the last canvass, and the knowl- | edge of the fact that the Legislature will be | | under the control of democratic influences, | | indicates a singular fact—namely, that the | | organization in New York is practically in the hands of a small group of venerable and | widely known gentlemen. We have Francis | | Kernan, Horatio Seymour, Governor Tilden, | Henry C. Murphy and Judge Church, just as | we have had them for a generation. We miss | | new men and new names. The Senatorship, | ing traly in the interest of the conservative | which should be a matter of discussion and of | | party in dissenting from the recommenda. | the widest possible inquiry and selection as to | ion of the Bulletin that separate street cars | fitness and real legislative power, goes first to | should be run for the negroes. Had such a | Governor Seymour, by a process of seniority | | proposition been indorsed by the conserva- | | tives their cause would have been prejudiced | | in the North, and a dangerous weapon have | been placed in the hands of the republicans. | Warmoth’s first letter was couched in respect- | | ful language, and nowhere overstepped the limits of ‘fair discussion. His arguments were presented with clearness and force, in a tone.of perfect decorum. The reply of the | Bulletin was a violent attack on his personal | character, in which every dishonoring charge | ever made against him in the heat of old po- | litical contentions was raked up, steeped in new venom and flung at him. He retorted in | a similar vein against one of the editors of the | | Bulletin, who thereupon sent him a challenge, | which he accepted, and he was arranging his private affairs in preparation for the duel | | when he was assaulted in the street by Byerly, | another editor of the same paper, and | | beaten violently with a heavy cane. In ; the grapple which followed Warmoth | drew a knife and inflicted several stabs which | | proved fatal. In no stage of the quarrel | | can Warmoth be properly considered as the ' aggressor; in the final encounter he acted in | self-defence and if he dealt e needjess nam- | ber of stabs allowance must be made for the | | heat of sudden passion. In this deplorable affair the victim was so clearly in the wrong | that no fair mind can think of justifying him. The whole thing ought to be regarded asa | personal quarrel without any political signifi- cance, except so faras it discloses some want | of harmony among the New Orleans conserva- | tives. And yet this painful occurrence has a use- | ful lesson for the people of the North, if they | would but heed it. It should teach them the | | folly of attributing every casual disturbance | or exciting homicide in the South to rebel in- | stincts or antagonisms of race. A great part | of these disturbances are mere illustrations of ; the truism that ‘there is a great deal of | | human nature in man.” The state of civiliza- | | tion in the South and Southwest has always been low in respect to rude exhibitions | | of the ferocious passions. It was notoriously | | 60 before the war, and it would belie all his- | tory to suppose that war has a humanizing | influence. Previous to the war nothing was more common than for white men of the | Southwest to come into deadly collision, and | | similar encounters are to be expected now, as | @ matter of course. To be sure, the tender- | ness for negro life which prevailed when a | single negro was worth the price of half a | dozen good horses has become extinct, and | the lives of individuals of both races have be- | come equally cheap. It is only in this respect that the war and reconstruction have aggra- vated the evils of Southern civilization; deeds of violence being perpetrated now, ‘‘irrespec- tive of race, color or previous condition of | servitude,’’ in consequence of the negro hav- ing lost his value as property. Considering | what the state of manners in the South has always been it is absurd to attribute to politi- | cal causes every rash and bloody act which | takes place in that section. It is a section in | which the miscalled ‘‘code of honor’ has al- ways been recognized among all citizens having | pretensions to be considered as gentlomen, and | in which public sentiment keeps that code still in force, in spite of prohibitory laws, superinduced by carpet-bag legislatures, which | sought to engraft Northern morals on an | | uncongenial stock. In a lower grade of | Southwestern society, not exquisite enough for the fancied chivalry of the duelling code, the bowie knife was, in ante-war times, the badge and emblem of the sacred right of per- | | the exercise of what may be called a rever- | time-honored group of men, whose names | New York and Jeremiah S. Black from Penn- | dependence of character which somehow is | in service, as it were, to ‘‘the natural head of the party.” The Governor turns it over, by sionary right, to his townsman, Francis Kernan. Governor Seymour and Mr. Kernan have been bosom friends for many years. Accordingly, in illustration of that cele- brated principle of ‘‘bosom friendship” which has beautified Grant's administration and which largely influenced the last canvass, Governor Seymour, not caring at his time of life to encounter the excitement and novelty of Washington life, passes the prize over to Kernan. Against: this neighborly courtesy there 1s a protest from the southeastern part | otf the State in behalf of Mr. Murphy, also a venerable and widely known leader who has been in power for a generation. So really the contest is between Seymour, who does not want the office, and Kernan, his political heir, | and Henry C. Murphy and probably Mr. Til- | den, _In mentioning theese fous names, Wi | perhaps Judge Chiirch, we seem to exhaust the active strength of the democratic party in New York. This poverty of leadership is striking. Is there not some danger that what we regard as poverty is smply a development ot the old “Ring’’ principle so often seen in our New York politics—the tendency to narrow office, honor, political responsibilities into the hands of @ few? There must be many | men in the democratic party—men, for instance, as young as Senator Conkling and Senator Carpenter, or as experiencetl.as Rev- erdy Johnson and Charles O’Conor—who would do the party great honor at this time and who should be brought forward. In Eng- | land the first policy of leaders like Pitt and Peel and Palmerston and (Gladstone and Dis- raeli is to look about them for recruits and advance young men into the influential posi- tions, so that in time they may lead) Thus Peel brought forward Gladstone, just as Dis- raeli is bringing forward Lord Derby, Ward Hunt and Mr. Cross, and as Gladstone is ad- vancing the Marquis of Hartington and Mr. Forster. The consequence is that the parties in Exrgland are fresh, full of life, well manned. No matter who falls at his post, there 1s & new man to take his place. But we miss this in the democratic party, not only in New York, but in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Instead of a healthy, well- manned, vital party, full of intellect and capacity, we have only a small and narrow, have been before the public for a generation, who have beer. nominees and incumbents of all kinds of offices, who are remnants ot the old democratic supremacy and not leaders of the new. This should be changed. There is no better way to change’ it than for the Legisla- tures, in New York and Pennsylvania especially, to take their ablest men for the Senatorship ; to elect Charles O’Conor from sylvania. This will be the first step. It will put the two men who are conspicuous for their learning, for their courage and their de- yotion to democratic principles in the place where statesmen should sit—namely, the Sen- ate. It would go oatside the mngs for that in- always destroyed in a ring. ‘Tar Soctety ror THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY vo Cumpren held a meeting yesterday, and | Messrs. Bergh, Jenkins, Gerry, De Lucca, Andrews and Swinton discussed the measures for carrying out its charitable purposes. It is | not the object of the society to interfere be- | fail to arrest the attention of all of us and cause us to think of an epoch the remem- brance of which will pass away with the men who impressed their individuality upon it, It seems but yesterday since we were discussing Mr. Seward's ‘irrepressible conflict,”’ and yet the men who were most active in precipitating that conflict have nearly all gone from among us. Garrison and Whittier are still with us, it is true, but Arthur Tappan and most of the other “original abolitionists’’ have gone before. To-day we contemplate the open grave of Gerrit Smith, and with his silent clay we almost feel that we bury the dead past out of sight. His virtues and the record of a noble life alone remain to be celebrated in this hour of sorrow. His was not a selfish nor a self-willed nature. Though born to more | landed acres than any of his compeers in the State, he felt from the beginning that so much was beyond his right to keep, and so he strenuously set himself to give it away, not as a child casts aside the toy of which it has wearied, but as a solemn work, to be wisely accomplished. Those who were oppressed more than others and who had least were possessed in his eyes of the first right to receive, and as slavery to him was the great crime of the age, so the slave, of all men, was the most needtul of succor. But the same mental and moral characteristics which made him an abolitionist in the days when abolitionism was hateful made him also de- clare that the punishment of treason would be the mean crime of the age, if it was enforced in obedience tothe popular demand. Such qualities could not fail to make their possessor a marked man among his fellows, and Gerrit Smith, more than any other of the anti-slavery leaders, has left his impress on his age. He was not great, as Clay and Webster and Calhoun were great—he was not even so profound a champion of his cause as Charles Sumner, visable to dwell too long upon this part of the horrible story. The rest of it is painful enough, The steerage passengers, numbering four hundred and twenty-four, were for the most part agricultural laborers, accompanied by their families, who were seeking homes in Australia. The agony and the heroism dis- played in the voyage of this fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th’ eclipse and rigged with curses dark, will probably never be known until that awful day when the sea gives up its dead. The Cospatrick is added to the list of vessels lost at sea, and with this record thousands of be- reaved friends and families must be content It is only to be hoped that later despatches will show that other boats, containing some of the passengers and crew, have been picked up by passing vessels. The Remova! of Green. The fact that there has yet been heard no serious argument in favor of the retention of Mr. Green in the office of Comptroller shows how deep-seated is the conviction that he can no longer hold that office with general accept- ance. As we have said, this desire for a change does not represent any personal teeling toward Mf. Green. We have no doubt that he is charming to his friends, that he has many qualities that make him a good public officer, that he has industry, patience and natural am- bition to succeed in the discharge of his duties. But he has failed in every respect. He has not been good Comptroller or a popular public officer. He has made no reform. The office is no better managed than it was by Connolly. Many of his appointments repre- sent the preferences of Connolly and not the reform movement which swept Tweed and his party out of power. Nothing has increased under Mr. Green’s administration—except the debt and the taxes. By his obstinacy and his want of that faculty of even-minded justice which should, above all things, distinguish an officer holding a quasi-judicial position, he has brought upon the city an amount of. un- necessary litigation which can only be re- moved by a large increase in our expenses. More than all, the policy which Mr. Green represents, of which he has been the chief minister, is the policy of suffocation and death. The only difference between Green and Tweed is—the former robbed the city, the latter has slowly sought to stifle it. One was a highwayman, the other is a garroter. There is not an argument that can be made in favor of Green, even by his most partial friends, that would not apply to o thousand other gentlemen in New York. There is not one of these gentlemen who would not win that sentiment of public confidence which Mr. Green has lost. Whether it is the fault or the misfor- | tune of the Comptroller it is certain that he but he united the aristocratic bearing of the | gentleman with the simplicity of the servant | of the bondiman, * givin brother, ip such equal proportions that he earned for himself 4 title better than that of gentleman, better than that of philanthropist— that of aman. Gerrit Smith never gave for the sake of giving—he never talked merely that he might be heard; neither was he so to him as to a) careful not to let the left hand know what the | right hand did as to err in the opposite direc- tion. His work was the simple performance of his duty as he understood it, and thus he performed it to the end, going and coming as was his wont in his own way andat his own time. If we look back over Mr. Smith’s history we find in it few things to criticise unless we condemn his work itself. The American peo- ple no longer assail a man because he was an abolitionist, nor do they denounce him be- cause he once held slaves. In the new era of our national lite Gerrit Smith’s memory is above criticism. Even those things which were most warmly condemned in him by his friends, turned into enemies, are the surest indices to his sturdy character. We can almogt admire the act for its own sake when we find a man who had battled against slavery all his life failing to vote against a pro-slavery measure because | the vote was taken after nine o'clock, when nine was his bedtime. the measure and he would not affect that his vote was useful when he knew to the con- trary. The proof of his sincerity was as plain to others as it was to himself. When | only in obedience to every consideration of cannot remain in office without imposing upon the new Mayor a burden which will paralyze his administration at the beginning, Mr. Wickham as Mayor, with Mr. Green as the master of our finances, will be a greater | failure than Havemeyer. His first duty, not personal ambition, but also of public policy, isto relieve the city and strengthen his ad- ministration by removing Mr. Green, and | Hominating as Comptroller gome gentleman | who will command the respect of all classes, without distinction of party. A Pregnant Question. Our Washington correspondent telegraphed on Sunday in reference to the publication in the London Times of the Reuter despatch giving ‘‘a synopsis of the President’s Mes- sage.’’ It will be remembered that this de- spatch was repudiated by the Times, whose editor severely censured Baron Reuter for having cabled it. It will furthermore be re- membered that its publication in Madrid led | to “great excitement,’’ and the whole tenor of the discussion that ensued in the English and | Continental press was to affect our relations with Spain, and more especially the financial condition of the Spanish government. ‘This | synopsis of the Message was,’ says our cor- respondent, ‘it was said at the time, and is still believed, prepared at the White House and furnished to the Associated Press agent here, as well as to the American Press Asso- | | interesting to know whether, He could not defeat | he gave it was to make some man better and | happier. When he preached it was that he might convince. He was an advocate of peace, yet he favored war when it became inevitable. He condemned the war as the crime of the South but urged forgiveness of those who precipitated it. He helped the slave to-day and was equally willing to assist the master to-morrow. In spite of all this he was not a bundle of contradictions,, but a man who lived with a purpose, and after consist- entiy pursuing his mission died only when his work was finished. The Loss of the Cospatrick. Shipwreck at sea is one of those calamities which modern science seems in vain to en- deavor to prevent. Precautions against fire may reduce the number of fires at sea, but of late there have been two signal instances | which show how impossible it 1s to obtain perfect safety. The first was the Japan, and of the particulars of the loss of that steamship even the Pacific Mail Company, which owned it, does not yet appear to be fully informed. At least it has not given to the public the re- | port it has the right to require. The second where. During the day, accompanied by his sonal vengeance, and it was habitually and | tween parent and child (and Mr. Bergh him- | example is the destruction by fire of the suite, he honored the Hxxaxp office with ynsparingly used by the Southern roughs to | self admitted that it did him good to have a | British ship Cospatrick, which was burned at Wisit, and was shown through the different avenge insults and satiate malice. departments in which a daily journal is man- absurd to suppose that the war has supplanted ufactured. Trurow AND Brzcues.—From the proceed- , ern judge, and the extent of his old jurisdic- ings in Court yesterday, which are elsewhere | tion was a signal test of the civilization of that reported in fall, it is likely that the civil sait | part of the country. {tis simply preposterous which Mr. Tilton has brought will be tried | to ascribe every repetition of old acts of vio- early next month. The debate indicates the | lence to a spirit of rebellion against the new probable tone of the prosecution and defence. order of things consequenton the war. Great ‘The public demands that no further obstacle 0 port be interposed to the judicial settlement of this must be the slow work of silent civilizing wearisome scandal. Yet, although ever ody agencies, and it there is anything wonderful is tired of it, nobody is willing that the vital in recent Southern history it is the infre- question of Mr. Beecher’s guilt or innocence | quency of bloody personal broils as compared whould be left undecided by the courts. The | with the twenty years which preceded the | this barbarism. ‘Judge Lynch” was a South- | wretchedness im this ci‘ produced by beg- improvements in the tone of Southern society | | It is | wholesome whipping when he was a boy), but | sea on November 17, during a voyage from it expects to reduce the amount of juvenile | London to Auckland, New Zealand. Our | special despatches from London tell all that is known in England of this terrible disaster. gary, drunkenness and crime. ( | Nearly five hundred persons are supposed to | sending out of a report which caused a com- | what causes could have led the President to | President, directly or indirectly, cause this | synopsis to be furnished to the press of the | world ?”” ciation agent. The synopsis was in all other respects not only full but ac- curate, and, of course, could not have | been furnished without the help or consent of the President. It would be after the synopsis was sent out, he changed his mind, or what motive could have led to the | motion in London as well as Madrid, and make the change.’’ Our correspondent here indicates a most | important line of inquiry. A despatch is publicly sent to all the American and English newspapers, which makes a profound impres- | sion upon politics in Europe. Its effect is to | influence Spanish securities and, of course, by sympathy, other securities in the foreign markets. A clearer case of stock-jobbing or using the telegraph for purposes like stock- jobbing has never been presented. Now we | see it traced directly to the President of the United States. The question arising, there- fore, is one in which the honor of the Ameri- can people is concerned, and it is—‘‘Did the The honor of the country is in- | | volved in an immediate answer to this ques- tion. Tue Vow Ann Trian.—In addition to our special cable despatches and correspondence from Berlin, which have kept the American public closely informed of the Von Arnim af- fair, we present to-day a detailed report of the trial of that celebrated nobleman. It includes | the speeches of the prosecution and defence, | | the diplomatic correspondence, the views of | Paschal Grousset, the Communist Secretary | | of Foreign Affairs, upon Von Armim’s rela- | tions to France, and the English opinions upon | the leading feature of the affair. ‘The per- | sonal relations of the Empress of Germany, ‘Tax Jesvrrs,—Professor William Wells in | have perished, and only three are known to | the Pope and other distinguished personages | e lecture yesterday affirmed that the Jesuits in | have survived. Europe were not only a religious but a polit- | ical Order, and that many of them had come to the United States under assumed names, He thought that the policy of Bismarck in Germany toward them would some time be the compulsory policy of the United States; but we are afraid that he exaggerates the dan- ger. tunsnimous wish is for an early trial on the | war. It is the shame and scandal of our | church or order. The evil to republican in- qaerita of the casa recent yolitiog that mo allowance is stitutions comeg from other auarterp The horrors which these fortunate survivors | to Von Arnim and Bismarck are also con- sidered in this narrative, which is an intcrest- We are not yet in danger from any | ‘endured may be inferred from the plain | 8 ®n©! N | language of the despatch. ‘During the of this singular trial, greater portion of this time,’’ itis calmly said, Tue Dearne Repor 'o kuiow the causes | | “they sustained their lives by drinking human | of death in the passing year should enable us | blood and eating human flesh, taken from the | to rednce the mortality of the year that ap- bodies of others, their companions, who had | proaches, and the report presented elsewhere | died in the boat.'’ It is impossible to realize | from the New York County Medical Society | the extremity of hunger to which these | ought to be not onlv interesting but instruc- gailors must have been reduced. nor is it ad- | tives | ing and important contribution to the history | | $$ $$ nite Rapid Transit. The recent snow storm and the difflouly citizens of New York experience at this time in going from point to point are the most enw Phatic arguments that can be used in favor rapid transit. The truth is that a series of storms in the winter season, especially whem accompanied by snow, practically cuts off communication between New York and ite suburbs, A journey from the Oity Hall te Yonkers or New Rochelle through streets ix their present condition is almost equal in itt difficalties and delays too trip from Londow to Paris, In fact, the experienced traveller would sooner go from London to Liverpool than from New York to Mount Vernon. Tha consequence is that the whole tendency of residents in selecting homes is to avoid Mam hattan Island, which they would naturally prefer, and cross the ferries to Kings county and Jersey City, New York is rapidly losing her elements of strength, which go to enlarge Brooklyn, Williamsburg and adjoining towns, Every consideration demands rapid transit in New York—the regard of our property hold ers for their real estate interests, the desire of our citizens to make the city inviting t« strangers and comfortable to visitors, and, certainly, unless we in some way keep progress with the demand for increased travelling facilities in this city that New York, instead of being a metropolis in itself, will be the suburly of another metropolis in Kings county or New Jersey. , Pacwric Manm.—The investigation of the Pacific Mail affairs appears to be more suo cessful in New York than in Washington. The testimony taken by the sub-committee of the Ways and Means Committee in this city yesterday goes a great way to show that Mr, King, Postmaster of the House, received a check for one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, and that at the same time a friend of his received two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, This disposes of three hundred thousand and ninety of the sevem hundred and fifty thousand that Mr. Irwig received, but which he is unable to say how he disbursed. The testimony of the officers of several New York banks is signifk cant, and before the committee gets through. with the investigation it is likely that the truth of this rather transparent secret will be ascertained. Rep Croup wishes to visit Washington te settle the Black Hills question, but it is nearly time that the useless trips of Indians to the | Eastern States should be stopped. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Lieutenant Governor John 0, Robinson Is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman Henry L. Dawes, of Massacusettm has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman Jonn 0. Whitehouse, of Poughkeep- | sie, is stopping at the Albemarle Hotel. Senator-elect Wliliam W. Eaton, of Connecticut, has apartments at the New York Hotel. Commander Charles A. Babcock, United States Navy, is quartered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Major P. R. Fendall, of the United States Marine Corps, has quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Senator J. R. West, of Louisiana, arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel last night from Washington. Congressman Cnarles 4 Eldredge, of Wisconsin, has taken up his residence at the Hoffman House, “Congressman William S. Herndon, of Texas, tf among the latest arnvals at the Metropolitas Hotel. poe 3 Comptroller Nelson K. Hopkins and Mr. Henry R, Pierson, of Albany, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman William J. Hynes, of Arkansas, ar rived frum Washington yesterday at the Irving House, Carlotta Patti objects to being extinguished by the Marchioness de Caux, although she is nes dear sister. Jonn P. Foley, tor several years editor of the Washington National Republican, has retired from that position, Captain Thomas Harrison, of the yacht Irene, returned home by the Adriatic after a six months run in Europe. = Judge William L. Learned, of the New York Su preme Court for the Third Judicial district, is at the Gilsey House. “You have broken my heart,” said the -woman “T am delighted,” said the man, “for you will finé the pieces so useful.” Mr. Franklin B, Gowen, President of the Phila delphia and Reading Railroad Company, is sojourn ing at the Brevoort House. ‘Licutenant Frederick Collins, commander of th¢ Darien Surveying Expedition, has taken up his quarters at the Albemarle Hotel. Mr. R. H. Marr, Chairman of the New Orleang Committee of Seventy, arrived in this city yester- day, and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, One of Foley’s pupils nas been intrusted with | the completion of his memorial statue to Lord Canning, which is to be erected in India. lf Eve shoula come now people would say, What big teet she has! Noone would tempt her with apples. They would throw them at her. Apparently the people of Louisiana intend te make ita dangerous honor to be “counted in”? It 18 an extreme remedy, but it ts an extreme case. Professors Theodore D. Woulsey, George E. Day ' and J. H. inayer, members of the committee em gaged in the revision of the Bibie, yesterday ar rived at the Everett House. Is it better to be wicked or stupid’? Does the intellectual splendor of Piymouth church incline the world to turn an indifferent ear to the testi- mony that Plymouth is only so so as to virtue ? There are graves, or places ior graves, in Pere la Chaise, near to the entrance, which in the pro-~ cess of ume are again for sale, and somebody | asked a functionary if they ‘soid weil.’ He said, “Like hot cakes.’ “Ab, yes,” sald the lady, “these writers of crite- cisms! They are like @ drunken man, whose breath tells what liquor overcame him. As I read I can tell whether in the last week they have beem reading Macaulay or De Quincey or Carlyle.” That Washington preacher was caught in @ theit, and yet he was an honest man—compara- tively. He could not “prazen it ouv? with the world. He could perceive the shame of crime so acutely that he could easier face aeath than public accusation. Men like Robert Dale Owen are very mis chievous members of society, because they give to travsactions that should only impose upon the ignorant the apparent guarantee that they are beyond the comprehension of the instructed and invelligent, Jewell announces very loudly that he will stip “hola Warmoth responsible.” Perhaps he will Especially if the assauit on Warmoth was not contrived to prevent the fair exchange of snots: and, also, if the discovery that Warmoth is ¢ dangerous man does not induce Jewell to change his mind, Mr. Beecher’s explanation of the sale of pews ir his church puts the fact naturally on its only de fensibie ground—that of provision for necessary expenses. Lt Would be better, perhaps, If church transactions were such as not to need explana | tion; if, in other words, churches were not lot far in advance of the communities in which they labor. It would be still better if an explanation when given did not entirely ignore the important point—which is the incongruity, to pat 1t mildly, that occurs through the introduction of strictly commercial standards into transactions whose greatest power with the people result from tne supposition that they deal with that-whron it “withont money and without price,”