The New York Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1875, Page 4

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Matinee at 130 | and did not assure the people. | the wide-spreading heavens above them and | | One illusion succeeded another until in time | in immediate support of a republic ; that the ) men who had sustained the monarchy ; who | was necessary to make terms with the mon- | been found impossible. His claim of legiti- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1875, The Revolution in Spain. The revolution in Spain would be an unex- pected event if in Spain anything could be regarded as unexpected. It is just a year since Serrano and his friends took possession | of the government, The republic of Figueras and Castelar fell before the cannon of Pavia. Serrano has retained power without making any serious effort toward pacification of the | | country. Power has simply been a pretext | for the monarchy. Atter the coup d'état there | ' could be no solution to the problem but the | monarchy or a new revolution, A new rev- | olution died away with the fall of Cartagena. will not be lost upon a people so sentimental as the Spaniards. Then even a prince who has ancestral claims to respect is better than this coarse, reckless adventurer who took ing his sword at her throat. Alfonso XIL is respectable, which Serrano could never be. He will have the sympathy of the ruling Powers in Europe, who have never been friendly with republicanism, that not being The kings who would not recognize the republic, after it had been confirmed by the votes of the people, will hasten to Many ot the republican experiments alarmed From the | time that Figueras and Castelar failed to con- | solidate the republic upon the basis of a re- | cognition of all republican interests there has | been no hope for a republic. However beau- | tiful the dreams of Pi y Margall and the | transcendentalists, they were impracticable. ‘The Spanish republican leaders proved to be | dreamers and not statesmen, As Cas- | telar said, “they knew ail about the | theory aud nothing about the prac- { tice of repn'canism; they saw only stumbled over the first stone in their path.”’ | all interests became alarmed, and those who yearned most earnestly for a republic aban- doned it. Castelar himself surrendered when he avowed himself a Spaniard before he was @ republican; when he confessed that there were higher interests in Spain than those which a republic could serve. Castelar fancied that it was possible to unite all classes owed to royalty that which they most cher- ished—money and rank—would really support a system which would give them no money they did not earn, and no rank higher than citizens of Spain, Serrano came into power as an expedient. | He did not proclaim the monarchy because it | arch. He has held power until the comple- tion of these negotiations. Don Carlos has | macy is untenable, as Ferdinand VIL. had as | much right to change the law of succession back to the custom which prevailed when Isa- bella was Queen with Ferdinand, as Philip V. had to annul that ancient law. Personally, Don Carlos would not have pleased a party | who wanta king they can rule, and not a king | who will insist upon ruling. ‘ ‘Divine right” is a holy legend, and looks well on coins and | proclamations ; but Don Carlos would be too much of @ king for a soldier who has too | often held the substance of power. Serrano ruled Spain through the affections of the | foolish woman who was recently its Queen, and he may rule it again through the help- lessness of the lad who now stumbles up | the steps of the throne. Don: Carlos is a | | real soldier and a real king, and not a half- | formed lad. Furthermore, the system which | Don Carlos represents would be almost as im- | | possible as the system of the ‘drreconcila- | | bles” who held Oartagena, He is a religious | | monarch at the head of a religious party, \ ultramontanist, legitimist, regarding the Pope 4 as the infallible ruler of the political and re- ligious affairs of the carth, In some happy ‘future state—in heaven, let us suppose— | where religious influences will have their | | proper value, and we shall all know precisely | | what religion does represent, a government | like that of Don Carlos would be feasible. | But in this vulgar, questioning, thinking | world, where human beings have opimions, government must recognize liberty and inde- | pendence of thought. This is the barin the | way of Don Carlos even in Spain. The dif- | | ference between Alfonso and Don Carlos is | the difference between expediency and a | principle. Alfonso’s supporters will not re- | store the Inquisition; they will not give | back the confiscated lands; they will limit | the influence of the Church, so far as politi- cal affuirs are concerned; they will respect the Pope without obeying him, and deal with him as a bishop and not as a prince. From our reports this are that the weather to-day will be warmer with snow or rain. Tur Lovistana Invreticarion continues, but nothing was elicited yesterday to shed yesterday and the two changed places as naturally and guietly as the new year took the place of the old. Tae Vicksrurc Trovees will soon be suf- ficiently ‘‘investigated’’ to make their origin as doubtful as the cause of the disorders in Louisiana. In both cases the testimony is 80 contradictory that the committees will need an expert to find the truth. Taz Inavevration or Governor TILDEN at Albany yesterday passed off without incident except in the somewhat unnsual speeches made by the outgoing and the incoming Ex- ecutive. The two old gentlemen talked at each other in a very familiar way, and by their amiable treatment of one another set an | example that will not soon be forgotten. Vox Arn on Jovnnazism.—Count Von Arnim's knowledge of newspapers and news- paper writers is one of the unexpected revela- tions of the recent trial. In his letter to Privy Councillor Von Balan there are a num- ber of unique little ‘‘personals” about the Parisian writers for the German press, and not the least remarkable thing abont them is how readily they may be translated into col- loqniai English. For instance, he says Mr. ‘Hifner, who ‘‘writes the strongly democratic | Paris letters’ of the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, also “works” for Then he speaks of ‘a certain Cervacy” as “the husband of the pianiste Claus,’’ and fol- lows it with a neat little biography of Simon | Deutsch, quite full enough, but entirely too good for a biographical dictionary. Apart from his great knowledge of journals and the Tagespresse, | The new King who comes to the throne of | Spain is only a name, in spite of the high- | sounding talk about constitutional mon- , archy which the cable attributes to him. | It would be a waste of time to con- | sider him as in any real sense a ruler. | To our minds there is nothing so much a burlesque upon the whole monarchical | system as the fact that it is ‘necessary | for the welfare of Spain” that a lad gf seven- j teen, without sense or experience enough to manage a bell-punch on a street railway car, | should be called upon to guide the destinies | of a great country. The question arises, who | will be the favorite. We do not see how it can be any other than Serrano. It is hia | trade. This conspiracy is as much his work | as thongh he had summoned Alfonso to the throne by an order of theday. But the Prince he now calls to Madrid is the same Prince | whose family he only a few years since | drove from the throne. We presume His Majesty has pardoned that act of treachery, which, after all, gave him o crown; bat as | treason is never really pardoned, at least by | kings, we may have our own opinion as to the | nated recognize this Prince who represents a usurpa- tion, A usurping king is a much more de- sirable neighbor than an honest accepted re- public. he real trouble will come with the internal government. Spain is in a bad way. She is governed by the worst influences—the protective spirit, the gambling spirit; a stand- | ing army, composed mainly of officers; an established church, whose ministers are tion, The.reforms which would have saved Spain and which the republicans began have been arrested and they will not be resumed underaking, The credit of the country “has fallen into shameless repudiation. The prov- inces of the North are held and pillaged by an army. The provinces of the South are disturbed. Spain has stood still while other countries have advanced, and she has dono nothing for years but appeal to the pity and forbearance of the other govermments, ‘She is a nation by sufferance. And yet there is a glorious future for Spain if her people would only rise up and take it. The republic is the only way, becauso the re- public isthe only inflnence that can destroy the monarchy, the'standing army and the es- tablished church. These are the institutions that have brought so much misery upon Spain—a monarchy which has produced the worst of rulers; an army which has done all an army could do but make war, and an es- tablished church which has repressed all national growth in education and political progress. Spain can be saved by a policy which overthrows these institutions. The republicans began the work, but they were end in deteat. Our only fear is that the sec- ond revolution will remember the treachery and perfidy which destroyed the one that now ends, and, in the angry suspicion thus priests in a less gentle spirit than Figueras and Castelar. We feel that the republic is postponed, not destroyed, and we tender to Alfonso XII. our sincere condolences upon the burden which falls upon his young shoulders with the beginning of this happy new year. Lady Franklin. In another column will be found an inter- esting communication, made in the name of Lady Franklin, by the hand of her niece, Miss Cracroft. It relates to the search in the Arctic regions for the much desired results of the labors of Sir John Franklin, as would in- deed be immediately understood by all famil- iar with the great aspiration of the brave and high-minded old lady. Life for her has but little left to be compared in importance with what may be done to secure whatever traces of Sir John’s voyage and record of his obser- vations have been concealed at points desig- in accordance with the theory or hypothesis of those who have faith in the ex- istence of such records; and whatever may come of such a search, when made, and what- ever thereby may be the ultimate result in geographical science of Sir John’s expedi- tion, the world will always be the betser for the example of the tenacicus faith of the widow who has given her life, not to idle mourning, but to the systematic endeavor to secure for science the advantages of her hus- band’s sacrifice. The communication referred to is complete in itself, and gives a compre- hensive outline of the facts imvolved in the possible existence of the records for the dis- covery of which the reward is proposed. We sincerely hope this renewal of a long standing offer may inspire some one filled with the spirit of the knight errantry of the nineteerth century—the ambition of exploration and dis- covery. ‘The “Message.” We print elsewhere some interesting letters from Madrid and Washington in reference to the ‘‘Message”’ of the President telegraphed to us by the Associated Press, and from here to Europe by Mr. Reuter. Our Madrid cor- | respondent sends us the text of the Reuter | despatch as printed in Madrid and the angry comments of the Spanish press. As will be seen, the Spanish journals assumed that the President was about to interfere in Cuba in conjunction with other Powers, and, naturally, there was much indignation. The despatch of Reuter certainly justified this construction, but the Message did not. The question arises, | Who is responsible tor the warlike tone of menace toward Spain which was infused into the summary of the “(Message ?” Our Washington correspondent goes over the whole ground, and shows that the sum- mary telegraphed from Washington sa on official abstract of the Message was correct except in this allusion to Cuba. This demon- sincerity of the reconciliation. In the nature of things Serrano must be for a little time the ‘master of Spain. He controls the army, | though nominally the command has been ‘turned over to General Laserna. He has | a large personal party. He will have to coniront a strong republican sentiment, Spain is more republican than it was even under Castelar, for republicanism thrives in opposition, and the generation of Spaniards | now coming to the front is largely republican. | The new King will needa strong government, that is to say be will need caunon and men who can use them. These he will find with | Sexrano. He will probably make him a | prince and add to his emoluments and throw |@ bandbox fall of titles and decorations around among the men who have “ pro- | nounced”? for him, and do what Le can to sat- j isfy the nation. But it is not an easy task, not even fora | strates clearly that whoever wrote that sum- mary orfurnished it to the press had read the original Message, or was given very correct points about it by the President himself or some one in the White House. Indeed, one of our Washington correspondents gives a semi- official explanation, emanating from a con venient friend of the President, trom which i is made to appear that the agents of the Asso- ciated Press and the American Press Associa- | tion received their information directly from General Grant himself. We respectfully sub- mit, however, that this indirect semi-ocfficial explanation is not enough. In @ matter of | ch grave importance the President owes it both to himself and to the people to expose officially and unequivocally the origin of the so-called garbled abstract. ‘Tue Frest Dax or 1875 passed off most hap- pily in this city. At the City Hall Mayor Vance handed over the keys of office to Mayor Wick- journalists the Count shows the peculiar | prince who rules by the grace of God, with | ham, and the new incumbent received his qualifications which would fit him for the Serrano to look after the cannon. There will, | many friends in the Governor's Room. The guild, for he writes as well as the writers | of course, be the first blush of enthusissm, as | Sheriff and the County Clerk spread hospi- whom he discusses. The subject, however, | there always ‘s when we have anything new. | table tables for all who came, and C@mptroller has another aspect. importance that is attached to the newspapers as @ political power by the great European leaders, the German Empire itself not feeling secure unless it has the fullest information in | young stripling, who is summoned by an | | absurdly cruel fate from his cricket balls | | and ponies to the responsibilities of a throne. | | There is a sentiment abont the new King— This letter reveals the | People will be interested in the innocent | Green uttered a solecism that caused some merriment at his expense. As a harbinger of probable peace and honest government the opening day of the new year brought no dis- aster or crime in its train, making the omen a gogard to the press and those who write for it, | hig youtb, his treshness, his novelty—which | hopeful one. Spain by force, and has been for a year hold- | their trade, nor a trade to be encouraged, | anxious for government support and protec- | defeated. When they begin again it will not | aroused, deal with the kings, generals and | |! am Unfortunate Plea for Mr. Green, It is urged as a reason why Comptroller Green should be continued in the office he at | present abuses that his removal is advocated by parties who hold dishonest claims against the city treasury which they do not hope to collect until Mr, Green is out of the way. If | the triends and beneficiaries of the Comptrol- | ler can use no better argument than this in | favor of his retention they must have a weak | and hopeless cause indeed. Their plea for | their patron would be a good one, provided, first, that their assertions were true, and, next, that Mr, Tweed had been chosen Mayor of New York at the last election and was about to take control of the city government. But William H. Wickham is our Mayor elect, and he will have the power of appointing a Comptroller in the event of Mr. Green’s removal. ‘To argue that Andrew H. Green must be kept in | office through the personal intervention of | Governor Tilden, because his successor would be likely to favor the payment of unjust claims against the city treasury, is to charge that | Mr. Wickham is capable of appointing to the head of the Finance Department a kaave or a fool, and to insist that the citizens of New York are in such a deplorable position that they must look to the Governor of the State for protection against the unfaithfulness or incapacity of their newly elected Mayor at the very commencement of his administration. Mayor Wickham’s happy allusion to the ‘thome rule” principle of the democracy at the Manhattan festival shows that we shall not much longer be troubled with the present Comptroller. Mr. Green must be removed from office because of his unfitness, his unreliability, his arrogance and his impracticability. He is not large enough for the place he hasattempted to fill He has no doubt resisted the payment of unjust claims; but any Comptroller ap- pointed by Mayor Wickham would just as resolutely and just as effectively protect the public treasury against the raids of dishonest men. No one can suppose that John J. Cisco, E. P. Fabbri, George S Forrest, Frederick Tappen, W. Seymour, John 'T. Agnew, Edward Cooper, Abel Denison, or any other person who | would be likely to be chosen as Green's successor by Mayor Wickham, would pay out | a dollar of the people’s money improperly, either through connivance or ignorance. The | insinuation that the next Comptroller would | eve there never was an instance in the do so, conveyed by Mr. Green’s beneficiaries, is a serious reflection on Mayor Wickham’s integrity or capacity. Governor Tilden could | not decline to approve Mr. Green’s removal | on such grounds without placing a personal | affront on Mayor Wickham. If the Mayor | elect should resolve that the retention of | Mr. Green in the office of Comptroller would | prejudicial to the harmony and efficiency of his administration, Governor Tilden could not reply that Mr. Green’s presence at the head of the Finance Department is necessary to protect the city treasury from spoliation without affixing on the Mayor elect the brand of official dishonesty. These special pleas, put in to save Mr. Green, are in reality dam- aging to his cause. The people hope now for arule of genuine reform. They have been } furnished for two or three years with a bogus | article and are disgusted with the experience. The property owners of the city find that under our present financial policy the public debt has increased from forty to sixty million dollars in three years. The uncertainty as to the actual amount is an evidence of the | dishonesty or incompetency of their finan- cial managers. As Mr. Green’s friends insist that he has not paid out a single dollar of the public money to dishonest claimants it follows that the enormous increase of debt and taxation is due to his own extravagance or incapacity as a financial manager. At the same time the city has been suffering from suffocation. What the people now want is relief from financial | quackery. It is too late to raise the absurd cry that there is only one honest man in the city of New York and that his name is An- drew H. Green. Mayor Wickham’s Comp- | troller, while quite as honest as Mr. Green, will be less arrogant, less prejudiced, less | | pragmatical and far more capable. It is an unwarrantable reflection upon Governor Til- den’s good sense and sterling democratic principle to insimuate that he would oppose Green's removal on the absurd and insulting pretence that Mayor Wickham might appoint 8 Comptroller who would connive at the rob- bery of the public treasury. ' | | | | | | i Roligious Advertising. An Australian journal shows usa new fea- ture, not only in advertising, but in propa- | gating religioustruth. The Melbourne Leader comes to us with a sermon of four columns in the advertising department of the paper under the head of ‘‘Publications.” This ser- | mon is on Elijah, the Tishbite, by the Rev. Dr. Krummacher, and especially discugses “the Departure for Zarephath."’ It is an ex- tract from Dr. Krummacher’s famous book on Elijah, which has long been one of the theo- logical classics. The advertisement begins with a notice of this kind:—‘Sermon pub- lishing fund, All persons desirous of aiding inthe good work of continuing the publica- tion of the sermons are earnestly desired to forward subscriptions. Contributions should be sent toS. Warren, office of the Leader.” At the end of the sermon is the memoran- dum, “Read L Kings, xvii. and James, v.'’ This is a unique and not a bad idea—the dis- semination of religious truth by paying for it in the advertising columns of leading news- | papers, The difference, however, between American and Australian journalism is that we publish as news, without payment, the ser- mons of living men, of the great masters of the pulpit. By this means we give impulse and freshness to the religious thought of the hour. On the whole we think it is a better plan and more consonant with the spirit of true jour- nalism than that of our brethren in Aus- tralia. | | | | Busrness mm THE GENERAL Sxssions.— During the last year the business in the courts, and especially in the Court of General Sessions, was unusually heavy. While the Court of Oyerand Terminer, with five judges, tried only fifty-two cases, the two judges of the General Sessions disposed of the immense number of sixteen hundred and seven indict- ments. It is no disparagement to City Judge Sutherland to say that the bulk of this busi- ness fell upon tho shoulders of Recorder Hackett, Few men have the physical endur- ance necessary for the work which the Recorder daily performs, and no judge who j already made by geologists and mining ex- -for further tidings from the great enterprise, has ever presided over our courts brought to the Bench more remarkable qualities for the despatch of business. The trial of so many indictments, nearly all of which were for crimes that would be! felony under the com- mon law, and requiring in the presiding jus- tice great patience and skill, is a work that is simply enormous, There can be no com- plaints of a court which at the close of the | year is able to show such a record, and we be- history of criminal practice where two judges tried so many causes of magnitude in a single year. The Proposed Submarine Railway Between England and the Conti- nent. The great engineering project of tunnelling the English Channel is ‘beginning to excite on both sides of that narrow sea a growing interest akin to that we fecl in our rapid transit. In a recent editorial the London Times decidedly encourages the undertaking and remarks: —‘It will not, after all, be the greatest achievement which the present gen- eration has seen actually accomplished.’’ The scheme, which aims to connect Great Britain and the Continent by a submarine railway, is auspiciously inaugurated by two associations of capitalists, one British and one French, and proposes to proceed without dependence upon governmental aid. The only thing asked of Parliament is the right to purchase land at St. Margaret’s Bay and a portion of the beach and foreshore about halfway between Deal and Dover. Asimilar request is, of course, to be made of the French government for the purchase of land on the opposite shore. But no subsidy or money grant is solicited, The scheme is certainly a magnificent one, and, though its boldness is startling, its exe- cution does not appear so difficult as some of the later engineering feats of the century. The Suez Canal, constructed through a moving sea of sand, coursing through an isthmian waste of over a hundred miles, was a work equally stupendous. The perforation of Mont Cenis and its monumental Alpine rock, as well as the great undertaking of the submarine cable, seemed in the initiation quite as formidable as the cutting of the gray chalk which stretches across the straits from Dover to Calais. The scene of the engineer’s operations in the latter case must lie beneath the ocean, and yet this fact constitutes no dif- ficulty of known insurmountability. For a long time mining has been extensively carried on beneath the sea bed, and in some instances where the latter was attenuated to comparatively a mere | shell. In Cornwall, Camberland and be detrimental to the interests of the city and | Northumberland coal and other strata have | limited their festivities to the public houses. One day of visiting in the year, and that the initiative, is a delicious social custom, and it is to be hoped it will be very many, many days before it falls into desuetude. American Credit. ‘There are two or three cases about to come before our courts which have an interest out- side of the issues involved. In California we observe that the attorneys for certain German bondholders have brought suit against a com- pany for default of the payment of interest upon certain bonds sold in Germany. In New York an action has been brought by English stockholders in the famous Emma Mining Company against some distinguished citizens of the United States, charging them with having made false representations for the purpose of securing the sale of the mine to English investors. Pending the determi- nation of these suits we have nothing to say upon their merits. There is, however, a thought involved in this investigation im- portant to us in a national sense. Should not some method be found for protecting American cradit? Is there no way of so amend- ing our law as to give the innocent purchas- ers of spurious or repudiated bonds some remedy ? Of course, one answer will be that the pur- chasers of securities in Europe must take the same risk as purchasers of other property in America; that before an investor buys a bond he must acquaint himself with the true value of the security it represents, or, failing in that, incur his own risk. We do not ses how iti possible {er a government to make one law for merchandise in bonds and another for cotton and sugar, At thesame time, there is another misfortune. Under the wretched govern- ments that have controlled the Southern States legislatures have virtually repudiated the most solemn obligations. An act of re- pudiation by a sovereign State affects the credit of the general government, The same may be said of the bonds of those great rail ways which have been, more or less, aided by the government. Not only do the innocent bondholders suffer, but our national credit. ‘There should be some means of protecting the fame of the country from these mischievous ex periments of unscrupulous adventurers, and, if possible, of guarding foreigners who desire sincerely to aid in the devolopment of the country from being swindled for their pains. | PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Lieutenant S. C. Paine, United States Navy, is quartered at the Gusey House. | Congressman H. H. Hathorn, of Saratoga, is | staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman James 8. Negley, of Pittsbarg, is been worked so near the bottom of the ocean that the beating of the billows could be dis- | tinctly heard in the miners’ galleries. It is said that one of the Cumberland pits extends more than four thousand yards under the sea floor, and the manager states that the amount ot sea water finding its way into the mine is scarcely appreciable. It should be borne in mind that the Channel tunnel would be cut, not through adamantine rock, as the Alpine tunnel and much of the | Hoosac, but through a geological formation of looser texture, and yet sufliciently firm to bear | the superincumbent body of water. About four | hundred feet of water is near the maximum weight that would have to be sustained, and» as the tunnel would be strongly supported and braced as rapidly as made, the pressure from above would be the least thing to be feared. The whole question seems to be one of money and time, scarcely involving any large demand upon engineering skill and invention; for within a very short space of time the machinery and science requisite for such piercings have been greatly increased and perfected. The extensive researches perts afford strong evidence of the continuity | of the chalk bed along the line of the proposed | railway, and the regularity of the stratum, if further experiment confirms it, will pre- | clude the supposition of any fissure likely te endanger the structure. By employing a well-tested tunnelling ma- chine, invented by Mr. Brunton, for per- forating chalk deposita, it is estimated the Channel opening could be finished in two years, at a cost per mile far less than that of the London Metropolitan and District rail- ways. The distance between the points to be connected is about twenty-three miles, and the total estimated cost of the work, inclusive of railways at either end, is about ten million pounds, We shall look with great interest The Festivities of New Year's. Yesterday was to a very great extent one of the old-fashioned calling days which were always o feature of New Year's in this city. Making ‘‘calls” is one of the cus- toms which the ‘‘Dutch” bequeathed to New York as a reminder of New Amsterdam that is likely to be cherished for many years to come. It is a custom which gives a particular charac- ter to the day and has always proved exceed- ingly enjoyable. The only thing to be urged against it is the excess of hospitality, and this is not so deplorable atter all. When the hos- | pitality ceases the custom itself will die out, for it would be intolerable to spend New Year’s Day in posing and being posed to, As a matter of course excesses are always to be deprecated, but the offering of a glass of wine on the first day of the year is not so great an offence as to justify the imperti- | nence of a crusade from the temper- ance societies. Indeed, in their zeal | we are afraid these societies sometimes forget what is due to courtesy and good manners, No desire to do good, however praiseworthy in itself, can excuse a request to the President not to offer his visitors wine on New Year's | Day. What it would be impolite to ask of the | President it is impolite to ask of any citizen. | In this matter of hospitality to “callers” there | has been a good deal of cant of late years, and | | | that the gold does not go out of the country and ts residing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Captain John Miretonse, of the steamship City of Montreal, is registered at the New York Hotel, Another admirable provision of nature! In Ne- vada there 18 a Portuguese family on whose heaas no hair grows. P. E. Havens, formerly State Senator, &c., nas, with his family, taken rooms for the winter at the St. Denis Hotel. Queen Vivtoria dispensed her usual New Year bounties of beet, coal and breadstu’s at Windsor Castie yesterday. Sir James Fergusson, Governor of New Zealand, and Hon. Thomas Russell, of England, are at the Brevoort House. Congressman George W. Hendee and ex-Con- gressman F, E, Woodbridge, of Vermont, are at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Was'there any money, miliions more or less, in | that change im the President’s message with re= | gard to Cuba? And, if there was money in tt, | who got the money ? And they say the President “changed his mind” in regard to Cuba, This is the only theory that is untenable. Grant does not change his | mind. Not spontaneously. Though Pacific Mail Irwin ts a great-grandson of | Benjamin Franklin tt must not be hastily assumed | nat his operations are the ultimate result of tne | Poor Richard theories in finance. The New York Star enters the new year witn s largely extended area in which to indulge in its sparkling scintillations. We congratulate the Star upon this evidence of increasing prosperity. Is tt not somewnat like @ confession that so Many ofictals coming into office with the new year rush prematurely to qualify themselves under the old oath? Did they, then, really fear the new one ? The French transport La Gloire has arrived at New Caledonia trom Brest with 291 convicts and thirty-five Communist deportes. Among the latter 1s one—said to have held high rank tn France— condemned to imprisonment for life 1n @ fortified | place. Vice President Wilson has returned to Wasning-’ ton and intends to preside in the Senate during the remainder o/ the session. The report that he 1s now going to Europe ts therefore incorrect, al- though he may make a short trip abroad during next summer. Pettis’ confession throws floods of light on the reason why criminals are never caugnt by our police. Detectives get their percentage, then by Offictal comity the case is given to the officer who has received the percentage on It, and he works 16 up so aa to get plenty of “‘clews,”’ but not to catch the criminal. It ts reported from Berlin that the Emperor wrote to Bismarck on the L6th inst. a very grae cious letter, thanking him for the zeal with which he had defended in Parliament some ttems in the military buaget. That looks as tf there were coldness that the Emperor had supposed thas Bismarck might reasonably neglect those points, The Council of the Bank of France has been somewhat bothered at the sinall quanuty of gold in circulation, but upon investigation is satisfied | | | | | i | —4 - not melted, but 1s absorbed by the, savings of the peopie. It hopes to remedy all that by the speeay | Payment of cash +o the extent of 300,000,000 franca. Of the two expeditions which went into Dariour from Egypt in December, Colonei R. £. Colston and Lieutenant Colone! H. B. Reed were in charge of one and Colonel BK, S. Purdy and Lieutenans Colonel A. M. Mason were in charge of the other. | These are all American Officers, and were espe- | cially chosen for the service by General C, P. Stone, Chief of Stam to the Khedive, That well-known veteran of the Southern press, the Richmond Enquirer, hails the new year under new and beneficent auspices. Mr. John H. Bryant has become its proprietor, and what with a new typographical suit, an unexceptionable corps ot | editors and reporiers, and himseif as business manager, it is expected that the Anquirer Will not only regain its old-time popularity, but enter | upon new fields of usefuiness and enterprise with every augury of success. The Art Journal makes tts appearance to-day im a@ modified jorm. {tis now international in its in- terest, and in future a good deal of attention will very unnecessary cant, for it is seldom that \ New York hospitality is abused. When gen- | tlemen have many calls to make they usually | avoid too much wine, for hospitality does not | require thata man shall drink off a goblet in | every house he enters. The general quiet and | sobriety which raled throughout the whole of , yesterday were proofs—if proof was wanted— | that much preaching would be work of super- | erogation. Those who had the most calls to | make seemed to be the brightest and happiest | of our people, and whatever drazikenness dis- | graced the day was confined to those who | in the American edition, with the added interest be given tn its pages to American art, All the ola excellency of the London series will be preserved which must accrue from the introduction of papers reiating to the art progress of America, The new venture 1s made vy the Appletons, who have acquired exclusive right to the Engiisa engrav- ‘the opening number contains a beautiat ings. engraving of Tintern Abbey, by Leader; @ moon- light scene on the Wye, with many clever wood a! engravings. A splendid engraving of Foley's masterpiece, the equestrian statue now erected in Caloutta, wili convey a fitting idea of the joss which art sustaimed vy the deato of tie great Irish sculptor. The art Journal will supply @ | want long (elt tn American art literature.