The New York Herald Newspaper, December 30, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORD ‘BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, pblished every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- uual subscription price 12, oe NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yors Heratp will be sent free of postage. and telegraphic despatches must be addiyssed New Youx canes All business or news letters Henraxp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters ard packages should Le properly sealed. - LONDON OFFICE OF T! NEW YORK HERALD—NO. {¢ FLEET STREET. Subscriptions snd Adverusements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XXX 0, 864 AMUSEMENTS THIS APTEI NOON AND EVENING. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth stree.—-DIE MALEK, at 8°P. Mi 1030 P. Mt THEATRE, METROPOL, No, 585 Broadway. VARIETY, at 8 P.M: P.M. 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M., closes at WITH SUPPLEMENT. sw TORK, WEDNESDAY, DE EMBER 80, 1874. From our reports this LEE the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be partly cloudy and decidedly colder, with rising barometer. Watt Srezer Yesterpay. ket was generally steady, and at the close a trifle stronger. Gold closed at 111j. Money on call loans was 3 and 4 percent. Foreign ex- change was firm at late quotations. A Harry New Year—To By: apid transit. Rarip Transit is a question ‘of life and death to the prosperity of New York. As Yzr no democrat has put himself on rec- ord in favor of one term. Where are the statesmen who were so vociferous on the stump against Ceesarism and three terms ? Tue Excisx Bosrp gives a statement to-day of their manner of distributing their funds among the various charitable svcieties of the city. Kina Kanaxava respecttully declines a visit to the institutions under the direction of the Commissioners of Charities and Cor- rection. He does not care particularly to inspect paupers and criminals, and perhaps he wishes to avoid a speech of welcome from the ex-Boss. Tux Execrion of Charles O’Conor to the Senate would be like a return to the time of the Revolution, when sages and statesmen ruled the Republic. But, unfortunately, it would not suit the ring of gold-spectacied statesmen who regard the democracy as a long postponed in- vestment on which they are about to redlize. Borpers should be reminded | during this weather of slush and mud that there are rights to which the public are entitled. In | many of the streets up town portions of the sidewalk have been removed or are encum- | bered with timber and bricks, and after dark pedestrianism is extremely perilous in those localities, Tween still beats at the bars of his jail. | He yearns for freedom. His lawyers have | prepared a return to the certiorari. It is an in- teresting if perhaps a technical pleading. But | it omits one point—namely, the proffer to the | treasury of all the money stolen from the city during his tenure of power. his would bea brave act, It would show that the old man really wanted to get out of jail. It would be an act of justice properly preceding an act | of mercy. What eloquent speeches David Dudley Field and Judge Oomstock could make on this offer! Let us have justice be- fore mercy. Pay back the money |! closes at — closes at 10:30 | M.; closes at | $ | ag public functionaries is irretrievably staked | -The stock mar- | | ciple of ‘‘home rule,” we discredit some cur- NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1874.- —WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Manhattan Club tteception—The New State and City Governments. It would be churlish ¢o take exceptions to the attempts to give a factitious éclat to the advent of Mr. Tilden to Gubernatorial honors. For ourselves, we think it decent and becoming to soften politics with the grace of social civilities, and we recognize the fitness of the reception given last evening, at the | Manhattan Club, to the Governor elect of the | State and the Mayor elect of the city. “The | military honors which have been planned for Governor Tilden at Albany on the day of his inauguration belong to the same order of com- ptimentary observances, and the fact that | neither Marcy, nor Wright, nor Seymour | were inducted into office with similar pomp ‘and parade is no valid argument against this deviation from the old democratic sim- pheity of which Jefferson was the most | noted exemplar. Jefferson, perhaps, carried his affectation of republican simplicity to an ostentatious extreme, intending it as a protest ' against what his political followers stigmatized as an aping of monarchical ceremony by his | predecessors, Washington and Adams. Jefferson was a great man, who felt that he could | securely preserve his dignity without artificial | | supports, like the illustrious Roman who en- forced the respect of his visitors while making a dinner of turnips on his Sabine farm. But Jefferson carried his contempt of parade to an extreme, and it is quite allowable for one of his most ardent disciples to introduce different | usages. It was not to have been expected that an occasion so festive and complimentary as that at the Manhattan Club last evening should | have much political significance. The speeches are ina tone of promise and congratulation, | and do not convey any definite idea of the | specific practical measures which the new | | State government and the new city government | | will try to adopt, Such vague, glittering | | generalities are apt to be a little flashy, and | there are obvious reasons in the present in- | stance why the new executives should not | | wish to anticipate the topics of their forth- | coming messages. The most that these com- | | plimentary festivities can do is to direct pub- | | | | | lic attention to the accession of the demo- | cratic party to power in the State and city and excite a favoring interest in the official | declarations of policy presently to be made | | by its chosen magistrates. The two gentlemen who were féted at the Manhattan Club last night feel an anxious solicitude as to the judgment the public will | pass upon them at the outset of their official | | careers. They are both quite new to official | life, and naturally feel something of the trep- | 1 idation of persons who appear for the first time in a new character. The generosity | with which they have been treated since their | election, the expressions of confidence in their tavor and the universal disposition to | give them a fair trial, must naturally | strengthen their wish to satisfy public expec- | tation. ‘‘What is wel] begun is half done;"’ | and it deeply concerns.men who come 0 late to official distinction to make 9 favorable im- pression at the beginning. If the first month of their administration should disappoint ex- | pestation nothing which they can do during | | the residue of the two years will reinstate | them in public confidence. If they had an | | old and favorable official record a few pre- | | liminary y blunders might be overlooked; but | men who make their first appearance in a con- juncture so momentous as the present cannot | expect much indulgence if their Garliest hets should provoke denunciation. Their success | | upon their starting well. | We ake it for granted that Governor Til- | den, in his message to the Legislature, will | | recommend a revision of the city charter. It | | is well known that he disapproved of the | | Tweed charter, and went to Albany to protest against its passage. The amendments after- | | ward made in it by a republicgn legisla- | | ture were contrary to his views. If there is | | any subject on which Mr. Tilden’s opinions are perfectly understood it is that of @ proper scheme of government for the city of New York. He has long ad- | vocated an entire separation of city affairs | from both State and national affuirs. All his | friends know that in 1870, and at all times, | he has advocated such a change in the time of | the city election as would prevent it being mixed up with State politics, In 1870 Mr. | Tilden wgs a strenuous advocate of a muni- cipal election in April in order to exclude all but purely municipal questions from our city contests, A vigorous devotee of local self- government, it offended his political con- | science to have the State election and the | city election held on the same day, or even at the same season of the year, lest the State should have an undue influence in the local | affairs of the city. If Mr. Tilden stands by his past record he is the most uncompromis- ing champion among all our distin- guished citizens of an entire separation between municipal and State politics. We are, therefore, authorized to expect that he will recommend in his message such changes in the city charter as will estab- lish “thome rule’”’ or local self-government on | a secure basis and give the people of this city unrestrained control of their local administra- tion. Anything less would disappoint demo- cratic expectations and convict the new Gov- ernor of political inconsistency. | If the people of this city are competent to | govern themselves according to the “home | rule’’ declaration of the platform on which | | | Mr. Tilden was elected their officers ought to be men whom the people of this city indorse, or, at least, men in whom their own chosen | Mayor has confidence. Knowing how irre- vocably Mr. Tilden is committed to the prin- rent surmises that old personal associations will swerve Kim from his mature convictions. If Mayor Wickham should think it his duty to remove Comptroller Green, as we have good reasons for thinking that he will, Governor Tilden could not interfere to save that unpopular officer without falsifying his whole record on municipal questions. It is impossible to suppose that a public officer who has so much at stake could so stultify himself at the outset of what promises to be | a brilliant career. Notwithstanding his old private relations with Comptroller Green he must be sensible that if the Comptroller were an elective officer, as he was previous to the | | tion. | the consequent loss of life, passage of the Tweed charter, Mr. Green | could not be presented to the electors without | being the worst beaten candidate that ever | ran for a city office, If, therefore, Mayor | Wickham finds cause for his immediate re- moval Governor Tilden cannot interfere to save him without violating a fundamental principle of the democratic. creed. In the recommendations which Governor Tilden will make in his message for a revision of the city charter there are only two courses open to him so fur as the | Finance Department of the city is con- carned, One is to restore the election of the Comptroller to the people, as in former times, | which would be a virtual repudiation of the charlatan Green, and the other is to make the elected Mayor entirely responsible for the | suceess of the municipal government by con- | ferring on him the absolute power of appoint- ing and removing all city officers according | to his sense of the public interest. Either of these methods would be fatal to Green. A very elaborate argument of Mr. Tilden, pub- lished three or four years ago, puts him on record as a strenuous advocate of soamending | the frame of our city government that the people would be able in every election (and, if our memory be not at fault, he favored an- nual city elections) to change the whole per- sonnel of the city government. It was on this ground that he opposed that feature of the Tweed charter which gave such long tenures to the heads of departments and made it im- possible for the people to change the entire body of their rulers in any one election. These published views, which Mr. Tilden can- | not nuw repudiate, thoroughly commit him, in point of consistency, to sanction the re- | moval of Comptroller Green when it is made by Mayor Wickham, and it is impossible that a mau of his high sense of character and con- sistency can stultify himself by a contrary course, Police Roman Patriotism in the Board. ; The honorable Board of Police Commis- sioners have covered themselves with glory. As Lucius Junius Brutus passed sentence of decapitation on his offending son, even 50 has George Washington Matsell condemned to the guillotine his transgressing children of the | detective squad. As Ishmael. was banished from the house of Abraham by its head, even so has Heidelberg for illegitimate acts been expelled from tho, Mulberry street house by the seed of Abraham, called Disbecker. Sternly, grandly, unflinchingly have the military Duryee and the oratorical Voorbis | performed their parts in the stirring drama, and Tilley and his side partner are no more. The offence of these obliterated stars of the detective firmament was of a grave and weighty character. A number of stolen horse blankets had been recovered from thieves and lodged at Headquarters, Two of the lot had been found by detectives of detectives, nicely folded up and lying snugly at the bottom of the ‘lockers’ used by Heidelberg and Tilley. The presumption was that they were intended to keep the limbs of those enterprising offi- cers from the frost and cold during the yet-to- come winter months. To be sure the defence claimed that the affair was trivial and the proof inconclusive; that the blankets might have come where they were found by accident or by the design of jealous rivals, But the Roman firmness of the conscientious Commis- sioners was unshaken; the things they are pleased to call their minds were unconvinced. Heidelberg and Tilley were found guilty of the heinous offence of having blankets in their lockers. They were even denied the Raaay oan ooeiee eee es Sheridan in New Orleans. Tight to attempt to prove that they [7 The announcement that General Sheridan | Wet? 8tmy contract blankets, and as is on the way to New Orleans is the most im- portant event in the history of reconstruction. | As we understand the nature of the instruc- tions given to the General he simply goes South on an errand of inquiry and observa- Although not assigned to the actual | command of the unsettled States it is under- stood that in the event of any disturbance he will, by his rank alone, naturally assume com- mand. Should there be no trouble‘his trip will be somewhat like that of General Grant himself, when, at the*end of the war, he made a tour in the South. The temper of the people is such that we hardly think there will be any necessity for the General's active inter- ference. There is no disposition, so far as we can learn, on the part of the, conservatiyes to dispute the federal authority. That ‘being | so it makes little difference whether the actual military commander is Sheridan or Emory. General Emory has done his work well. He is acceptable to the Southern peo- ple. He isa good soldier, conservative, loyal, | aud commands the confidence of all classes. Should there be, however, any outbreak, the presence of Sheridan means stern and swift repression. While we have every confidence in the wis- dom and valor of Sheridan, and while we feel that his presence in New Orleans will be an assurance of peace to all classes, and that from his fame and his rank alone there will be | the best guarantee of his impartiality, recon- struction in Louisiana is in such a condition that no military man is needed. Sheridan’s assignment to an active command would bea menace and not an inducement to peace and compromise. We cannot pacify the Southern States by the sword. The general sentiment of the country will be that the logic of Sheri- dan's appointment means a menace to the South. To that extent it isa mistake, Our confident hope is that the Lieutenant General will disappoint the hopes of those who regard his errand as a support of the carpet-baggers as well as those who regard him as a messen- | ger of tury and despotism, By his tavt he will do away with the uupleasant fears now excited by his appointment, and at the same time secure that even-handed justice which is only needed to perfect reconstrtction, Anr and Porrttcs.—The question whether the eagles of the Rmpire are to remain on the new Opera House in Paris excites some dis- cussion in the French journals. A bronze eagle, facing the entrance to the Emperor’s box, was taken down after the Fourth of Sep- tember and has not been replaced, but the others still,remain. The architect advances the opinion \that changes in politics should not affect art\and that every monument should be allowedsto preserve the emblems of | the time when it wasbuilt. The government seems to have adoptedithis idea, especially in regard to the Column®Vendéme. It was in- tended that this column, which has borne the figure of Napoleon in two ofices—as emperor and general—should be crowned! by a statue of a French soldier. This was the idea of the Prince de Joinville, a son of Louis‘:Philippe, whose father, by the way, restored Napoleon to the top of the column after it had been pulled down by the Bourbons. But the gov- ernment evidently feels that the Column Ven- déme without the Emperor's figure on the top would be a more eloquent monument of Bona- partism than to replace it as it was before the Commune pulled the column down. Neouzct or tz Foo Horys.—It is seldom we have dense fogs in this city, but whenever the weather is very foggy, as it was on Mon- day, an accident on one or other of the ferries is almost certain to be the consequence, No precaution that has yet been displayed has been able to avert disasters like that on the | East River, where the Colden and Alaska col- lided. 1t must be confessed that the passage of the boats from New York to the neighbor- ing cities is a public necessity, even in the face of danger. We believe the officers of our ferry companies are disposed to decrease the risk as much as possible, but the passengers on some of the lines notice a neglect that is censurable, The law requires that on such days as Monday the boats shall continually sound their fog horns, but this rule is not always observed. Sometimes a minute inter- venes between the alarms. ‘I'wo boats nearly collided in the East River yesterday morning from the neglect of this rule, and it may be that a like neglect was the cause of the col- lision between the Colden and the Alaska and In any event the rule sbould be faithfully observed, for by | doing so many lives may be saved. Transrr or Venus. —We ‘publish to-day a very interesting letter from the American scientific expedition sent to the antipodes to observe the transit of Venus. such of no value. The inflexible Presi- dent, having been assisted to his feet, moved that the offenders be dismissed from the department. Three sepulchral “ayes” fol- lowed the motion, and as George Washington Lucius Junius Brutus Matsell fell heavily back " in his easy chair the heads of the decapitated detectives rolled in the departmental dust. . And now we are to have a reorganization of the detective department. The dismissal of the officers who were troubled with blanket in the locker is to be the initial movement in Mulberry street purification, We shall now probably discover by what mysterious means ex-Speaker Alvord recovered his watch and a Police Commissioner won his bottle of wine. The name of the detective who is on | such familiar terms with the New York thieves as to ‘get ‘back stolen property whenever it may suit his purpose and allow the criminals to go scot free will no doubt be given to the public, The numerous jobs that have been hushed up and ‘squared’! fora | consideration may be expected to be brought to light. We may even hope for an explana- tion of the police captains’ ‘“rings’’ and of the policy recently adopted of shitting around into new precincts the uniformed “pals” of panel house keepers, gamblers and policy dealers. Under the new dispensation who can tell where the reform will stop? May we not soon even hope to find murderers, kidnap- actually discovered and brought to justice by the police? What is not possible, now that Tilley and Heidelberg, who have borne the reputation of being excollent officers, have been thus summarily disposed of? Mortality aid Cold. The sanitary statistics of London for the week ending December 5 furnish one of the most startling illustrations on record of the little understood relation between mortality and cold. The week in question was one of very low temperature, and the death rate mounted up to a correspondingly high figure. The popular impreseion has long existed that the severe depressions of temperature, except to the ragged and ill-fed classes, were to be re- garded as sanitary boons, giving tone and solidity to the human frame; and so, under certain circumstances,they are found to work. But, practically, as the most rigid analysis of the death rate statistics proves, a cold snap is | scarcely less fatal for the time it lasts than an irruption of cholera or smallpox. re The mortuary register for tho week ending | December 5, in London, shows an amazing excess for heart and lung diseases, ranging from fifty to two hundred and twenty-four above the average, falling most heavily on the extreme oges, senile and infantile. Such a result cannot be explained by supposing that the shock of the winter fell upon homeless and half-clothed victims, but must be regarded as another striking ag of the deadliness of cold itself. .. That the great “thoPnsl vicissitudes are faithfully reflected in the sid2ess and mor- tality of all geographical sections is beconting élearer as the records of disease are more carefully compiled. ‘Dr. .Ptestel,.of Emden, who for over thirty years (has observed and discussed meteorological phetomena, collating” them recently with the sanitary statistics of Friesland, maintains that from‘the nature of the prevailing winds the relative salnbrity of | @ district can be determined. Giving the cause time to have its due effect, he concludes that ventilation or agitation of the atmos- phere is as essential to the’ healtly of’ a dis- trict as the renewal of air in a sick room, and that calms are as dangerous as any other meteoric conditions. No doubt the calms that precede the rapid barometric rise with its accompanying frigorific temperatures, by vitiating the air we breathe, weaken tho human system and prepare it for the invasive force of the wintry blast. The Philadelphia registers for 1872 graphically show how the curves indicating the course of mortality from most winter diseases rapidly rise with the thermal decline and decline with the thermal rise. The smallpox fatality, usually greatest in March, then occurred in January, whose thermometric mean was the lowest of any of the winter months. And the inference sug- | gested by these facts has been corroborated by an Austrian medico-meteorologist of Pesth, who finds that the meteorological changes reflect themselves in the amount and aggrava- tion of sickness, * The subject is one of such vital importance to all classes, especially in our climate—where from proximity on the one hand to the warin Gulf Stream and on the other to the cold, semi-Arctic Canadas, the changes are most sudden and severe—that it should more engage popular as well as medical attention. Prudent recognition of the philosophy which | serve vital energy, which must be replenished | sorely distracted laud. -Officers, it speaks, almost without exception, .quéstion in all minds is whether he is not pers, burglars, highwaymen and other thieves | { to keep the pence and prevent any change. | containing very small proportion of the it teaches would enormously mitigate the sufferings of the poorer classes and rightly direct the skilled charities which are now seeking to guard the public health. When the thermometer falls below thirty degrees the shock on the system is quickly succeeded by a reaction, which makes a heavy drain on the re- by increased consumption of solid food, or, this fuel failing, the animal heat falls below the health point. Then it is the famished and ill-protected most feel the tooth of hunger and need the most generous diet. But with the rise of temperature the food supply should be pro- portionately abridged and held in store for the more trying season. A little care systematically bestowed upon children, regulating their dothing and food in accordance with the showing of these facts, would immensely increase their comfort and reduce the mortality which at this season pre- vails, France and French Problems, In France we see o new crisis. The spirit of royalty again threatens the peace of that There we have a most extraordinary complication. There is an As- sembly without respect or authority which came into power representing the terror of France. There is a Marshal-President who means to hold power for seven years as the servant of this Assembly. Whenever the country speaks, through elections to fill vacancies in the Assembly or to elect local in behalf of a republic. No fact is more cer- tain than that France is to-day as republican as tho United States or Switzerland.: Nor is ita spasmodic republicanism, born in anger gud revenge and making toward terror, but a calm, conservative, steadily-gaining senti- ment—a conviction that kings are no longer necessary factors in authority and govern- ment; that France and the French people are greater than Bourbon or Bonaparte. The royalists say that they will not embarrass the Marshal in his attempts to govern. They will giva him all-~the laws neo- essary to repress sedition, manage tho press and suppress indiscreet speech. They will vote him money and hold office under him. They will take his crosses and decora- | tions and emoluments ; but they will notallow a single law to pass that in any way regards MacMahon as a republican President, or even as the chief of a party. . He is simply a soldier holding guard over France until the King or the Emperor comes. Here, then, is a govern- ment which is not even a usurpation, but an accident or a pretext, It represents neither the grace of God nor the will of the people. It lacks the dignity and splendor of the mon- archy or the majestic power of a republic. It is simply a soldier standing guard, and the really a guard over a volcano. But republican France ce is very patient. What wisdom Gambetta ‘and his colleagues have shown! Wisdom like this would have enabled Vergniaud and Roland and their associates to found the first Republig beyond any perad_ venture of Napoleonic usurpation. France attends to her duties, to her wine-growing, her spinning, her cheese and sugar-making, and waits, We read of ‘‘little political in- terest in many of the departments.’’ The people are so profoundly indifferent to politi- cal intrigue that in a large district there was } only one voter who took part in a recent f election. On all sides MacMahon is implored 4 The proserit Assembly, except the republicans, do not desire a dissolution. The clergy, who fear Gambetta,;.and see only faint hopes of the reign of a .most Christian king ; the no- bility, who do not want the tenure of land disturbed by a monarch or their titles abolished | by the socialists; the army, which dreads dis- organization or perhaps disbandment; mer- | chants, alarmed at any shock to trade; the | members of respectable families, who fright- | ened at any prospect of betng obliged to fly from another revolution—all these interests entreat the Marshal to rule with ao firm hand, to watch well his volcano, and not leave it fora moment. What the republicans have to avoid is the expression of any anxiety or im- patience or agitation that may give him the pretext to proclaim a dictatorship, a pretext he would willingly accept rather than surrender his peculiar incongruous extraordinary power. Altogether the new year will open upon ex- traordinary complications, and omens that the wisest may well fail to read. All signs beto- ken important events, as grave perhaps as any in modern history. We as Yet have no answer from Wash- ington as to the connection of the Pres- ident with the stock-jobbing despatch about .Cuba and Cuban affairs which | appeared\in the newspapers snticipatory of the Message, and which prodyced so profound an impression\upon the minds of the Spanish people and upos the funds in Leu- don. There was never a more shameless stock-~. jobbing fabrication, and, worse’ than all, it been traced directly to the President, who gave it to the Washington correspondent of the Asyociated Press. Should this not be | made a matter for inquiry by Congress? A.Sarzor's’,Marrtace on board the three | turreted monitor, Roanoke, is brilliantly de- scribedtin our columns to-day. The ‘event’ took place in presence of the officers and crew and the fabr bride and the gallant groom had a reception more brilliant and more congenial to them than\if they had been married ina fashionable chuxch’ an4@ had a fashionable re- ception on the Avenud, Well might Jack have said on this occasion, ag he\once did ina storm at sea, “Lord! how I pities them poor folks ashore.” Tue Awron Catamrry of the burning at | sea of the emigrant ship Cospatrick is a lessoi that should not be disregarded by shipowners. Although we have received but meagre de- tails as yet of the disaster, yet they are suf- ficient to warrant a doubt as to the efficiency and completeness of the life-saving apparatus on board the ill-fated vessel. We learn that only two boats succeeded in getting away, crew and passengers. The investigation which must follow will probably ede some light on the subject, Tue Broortxn Crry Court, in General Term, has decided to excuse Tilton from fur- nishing a bill of particulars in his civil suit. The case will now come up for trial on Mon- a Religion and Education. A peculiar phase of the discussion now rag- ing in England between the Catholits and the Protestants is shown in a recent correspond- ence published in the London Times. The son of an English gentleman was a student at Oxford. Just before examination he left the English Church and entered the commu- nion of Rome, Upon doing this he sought counsel from Archbishop Manning as to his future course, and was instructed by the Archbishop that it was his duty to leave the university, ‘the Holy See having expressly condemned the English universities as danger- ous to faith and morals." The father of the young man, surprised at this advice, and naturally anxious that his gon should com- plete his course at Oxford, wrote to the Arch- bishop to know whether his son really under- stood the episcopal meaning. The Arch- bishop's secretary sent the tather a topy of the pastoral letter of the bishops, containing the directions of the Holy See as to the English universities, showing that the young man had rightly comprehended the meaning of Hig Grace. The secretary added a few words of commiseration from the Archbishop on ‘the trial” which the father had to bear. “The cause of it cannot be regarded by the Arch. bishop except as a benediction for the son;, nevertheless he cannot but feel sympathy for those who feel otherwise.” Tais direct avowal on the part of the head of the Catho- lic Church in England that it will not permit young men to study in the English universi- ties has produced a deep impression and illus- trates the earnestness with which the religious controversy is now being waged. ApvicE to SratesmeN.—The Pacific Mail investigation suggests a few observations to practical statesmen of an observing turn of mind. Never draw checks. When you have payments to make let it be in bills. Never go to banks, because some banks chase their cus- tomers around town by detectives. Never send telegraphic despatches, because they will come up in, evidence, Never keep bank books, check books or telegraph books. This will save trouble. But still better advice is to be honest and necessarily happy. An Amentcan IpgA Asroap.—A recent number of the Manchester Guardian alludes to the fact that the great London Railway Company, on a train which leaves London at five o'clock in the evening, carries with it “a handsome saloon car, in which dinner can be served en route.” This shows that an Ameri- can idea which has been adopted on our West- } érn railways for years has finally taken root in conservative England. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. India bad last year 3,700,009 acres in cotton. Governor C. R. Inggrsoll, of Connecticat, is at the’ Albemarle HotéL Livingstone’s book will evidentry be a great help to his family. Dr. Kenealy intends to run for Parliament on the Tichborne issue. Congressman EL PF. Page, of California, 1s staying at the St. James Hotel. Ex-Governer J. w. Throckmorton, of Texas, ls r&yisterea at the Windsor Hotel. Congressman Alexander Mitchell, of Wisconsin, 1s residing at the Hoffman House, Paymaster M. B. Cushing, United States Navy, is quartered at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Professor C. 8, Peirce, of the United States Coast Survey, is stopping atthe Brevoort House, ; Senator Reuben E. Fenton arrived at the Fifth” Avenue Hotel yesterday irom Washington, Chan Laisun, Chinese Commissioner of Educa Uon, 1s among the lavest arrivals at tne Sturtevant House, Mr. Alonzo M, Viti, Italian Vice Consul at Phila- delphia, has apartments at the Metropolitan Hotel. , Ex-Governor John T. Hoffman arrived in this city yesterday irom Albany, aud is at the Claren- don Hotel, Mr. Charles J. Faulkner, of West Virginia, form- erly United States Minister to France, is at the Gilsey House. Dr. H. R, Linderman, Director of the United States Mint, has taken up bis residence at the 6s Nicholas Hotel. Senator Carl Schurz deliverea Dis lecture on “Educational Problems” at Cambridge. Mass., last evéniug, before a large audience. General B. F. Butler had a reception last even- ing at Young’s Hotel, Boston, fri his political friends, numbering about fifty persons. Constantinople is tn the same position as Chi- cago with regard to a fire department, and ts just reorganizing the service with experts and im- proved engines. Congressmen Andrew Sloan and Phiilp Cook, of Georgia, are spending the holiday recess attne Winchester Hotel. Vice Presideut Henry Wilson and Congressman elect Jolin K. Tarbox, of Massachusetts, are at the Grand Central Hotel. In Limerick two policemen attended the Town Council to prevent the members from stealing each other’s hats and umbrellas. Count b, Tyszkiewica, of Russia, who has just been married to a Boston lady, haa afrived, with his pride, at the Windsor Hotel, . ‘The Marquis de Uhambrun, of France, wid has been @ resident of Washington for many years past, is sojourning at the St. Denis Hotel. Among the Congressmen drawn hither by the Jnvestigation {ntg Pacitic Mail affairs are Messrs, Burien, Beck, Dawes, Kagaon and Fernando Wood, The afébbishop of Canterbttry pfésétited him. | self at the entrance of the reading room in the British Museum, but he had forgotten his tickes and they would not let nim in, Under the Churet of St. Mary at:Dover, Bngtand, and enclosed in a leaden coffin there was recently it | found @ body that is pnzzing English\autiquaries They fancy it may be King stephen. The Sultan’s mother has buught in the Crimes: 3,000 pair of oxen for distributionun the part of Asiatio Turkey ravaged by famine, and where, nuturally, all the cattle have been eaten, Colone! Tuomas A. Scott, President ofthe Penn- Sylvania Katirvad Company, and Mr, T.B. Black- stone, President of the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company, have arrived at the Windsor Hotel, The Texas Congressional delegation is fepra~ sented in this city at present by Hons. D. C. Ged, dings, Asa K. Willie and W. S, Herndon, who have taken advantage of the holiday vacation to visst| the metropolis on private business, Tney bird | rooms at the Metropolitan. “He dian’t Kuow it was loaded.” At the I réeeption given by Prince Bismarck to members the German Parliament two deputies strayed into the Prince's sanctum. There they found a re~ volver on the table, Nothing more natural tnam to handle {ta litle; @Dd, Of course, by accident » shot was fired witch did not hurt any one, bat created some alarm $n the other rooms, It was Kuliman’s pistol. Senator West, of Louisiana, who is chairman of the sub-committee having in chargé the Texas Pacific bill, 18 in the city for the purpose of per- fecting it by relieving it of certain objectionable features. He réceived a large number of visitors at his rooms in the Metropolitan Hotel yesterday, mostly composed of those Interested in the road. Senator West, although known as a carpet-bag Senator is a native of Louisiana, and has no afit- ation with the Keliogg-Casey faction of the State, whose recent course has excited so much indigaa~ day. ton throughout the couptry,