The New York Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN’ STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after Januery 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yore Henarp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. ee LONDON OFF OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. | Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. dignation it had excited, ond we | saw a reference to that extreme ro- sort of the constitution, It was with 0, 13 AMUSEMNTS THIS APTRRNOON AND BI BROOKLYN THEATRE, | ‘Washington street. —11CKET-OF- LEAVE MAN, at8 P.M. | Mr. W. J. Florence. | SAN FRA 9 MINSTRELS, : | Broadway, corner of enty-ninth | sireet}—NEGRO | MINSTRELSY, at 5 P. hi, ; closes at Wi 2, ON HAL E DULI ecabe. ROBIN Sixteenth street.—B} ~eloses at 10:45 7. M. M. LL, CARE, at $ P. M.; GLOBE THEATRE, adway.—VARILIY, ats’. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. latinee at 2 P.M. dea S PARK THEATRE, joklyn, opposite the closes at P.M. wie alivenell. Lyc B\TRE, Fourteenth street and »ixth avenue.—TWIXT AXE AND OBOWN, ats P. M.; closes at 10:49 7. M. Mrs. Rousby. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—THE Si1\UGHRAUN, at 8 P. M.; closes at 40a P.M. Mr. Boucicauit: WOOD'S MUSEUM. Broadway, corner of i hirtieth street —EDMUND KEAN, at2 P. Moand ats loses at W465 P.M. Ciprico. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 585 Broadway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; ‘closes at 10:30 P.M. Matinee at2 P. PAR | HEATREB, Pepin 4 between Jwenty-first and Twenty-second 4treeis.—Opera Comigue—LE VOYAGE EN CHINE, at 3 P. M.; closes at 10:30. M. Mile. Minelly, M. 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JA From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with rain, sleet or snow. Wart Srezer Yesterpay.—The stock market was stronger at the close. Gold advanced to 112. Foreign exchange wag, firmer. Money on call easy at 2} a3 per cent. Tae Latest Puases of the contests for the United States Senatorships in several States are presented in our correspondence to-day. Brute Force, as Senator Schurz says, is one way in which disturbances in the South can be suppressed. There is no power there that can resist the United States Army. But is brute force the best way to maintain order ? If the South must be controlled as Russia controls Poland, then, as Mr. Schurz says, it would be “a cruel stroke of irony to call the United States any longer a republic.” Tue Bercuer Casz.—The dramatic feature of the trial yesterday was the appearance of Mrs. Tilton in court, and the brilliant descrip- tion of the scene in our columns will be read with intense interest. The argument of Mr. Morris was continued, and contained a strong arraignment of the reverend defendant. We give in full this powerful address, which is ex- pected to be finished to-day. Tue Late Coniston on tux East Riven between a ferryboat and a cattle transport, resulting in loss of life, has been investigated by a coroner's jury, with the inevitable con- clusion, “nobody to blame,”’ although the two pilots gave statements materially differing from each other. The dense fog which pre- vailed at the time was thought to afford a sufficient reason for the two vessels endeavor- | fing to occupy the same position cs the river { at the same time. In Our Soctery a pistol is more of a danger than a protection to the man who carries it. The temptation to use it in o quarrel has | caused many a death and has sent many a ail.—FANCHON, at 8P. | Miss Lina | Miss Carlotta | ] The President and Louisiana—Is There a Remedy? Some years since the people heard from General Grant, with great satisfaction, that in the administration of the government he would ‘have no policy contrary to the will of the people." It was an expression that was successful ; for it echoed the common thought at that particular juncture. Just then the people had been very much excited by a Pres- idential policy of another sort. There had been a President in office whose policy | was felt to be too much his own ; who seemed | too obstinately inclined to act on theories of | government which had, as the people fancied, little other recommendation than that they were the conceptions of the Executive himself or of his more immediate personal adherents. It seemed in those times to men of all parties in the North that a strict administration of the law in regard to the South was best, and that in cases of appeal Congress would be a better dependence than any scheme of policy concocted in the narrow mind of an obstinate man. Apprehension of ‘my policy” went so far, 48 we all know, that politicians believed they could carry an impeachment on the in- peculiar pleasure therefore that the people heard from a new President a declaration which imported especially that he would avoid the particular errors of his predecessor; that whatever he might do or fail to do, as he could scarcely be perfect, he would not excite the country nor alarm the just susceptibilities of the people by acting on his personal views rather than on the law; that in the nice phases of reconstruction the #ill of the peo- ple, as found in the law, would be his supreme guide, and one for which he would never fail to abandon any theories or convictions or personal inclinations of his own that were inconsistent with it. In presence of the indisputable facts of to- day it must be conceded that Grant's pledge, if not insincerely made, was made in the light and incapable spirit of man who did not comprehend his position, Andrew Jobn- | Son at his worst was never in so bad a place | With regard %o the solemn obligations of his office as Grant is in now. If it could have been shcwn on any evidence whatever that Johnson had done, or only proposed to do, what Grant has not only done, but what it is notorious that he has done, and what he | does not deny, then Johnson's trial before the | Senate would have closed with his removal | from office in degradation and ignominy. But the worst of Grant’s improvement on the career of his predecessor is apparently to come. Johnson not only committed great errors, but he insulted the country with elaborate arguments in support of them, which would have amused people by their similarity to the endeavors to convince the “eleven obstinate jurymen’’ if the sub- ject had been one in which the na- | tion was less seriously interested. It appears | that Grant is to imitate the infatuation of Johnson in this respect also. He is to put the country down with a message. His “whiskered pandours and his fierce hussars’’ have ridden over the law in New Orleans. At the request of Kellogg his troops have turned out a Legislature, as at the request of Durell other United States forces turned out the Governor whose place this Kellogg now oc- | cupies. Kellogg, it must be remembered, is | Governor only by favor of the President’ He is Governor because for some inscrutable rea- son his occupancy of that office squares with Grant's policy. He never was elected to the office, as has been clearly shown in Congress, and the’ President has admitted that he did | not believe Kellogg was ever elected. But he is sustained in office against the will of the people, and, thus sustained, this man of straw is relied upon to give the authority that is wanted for ejecting from their-places in the Legislature the elected representatives of the ae peaile bern Sovegnc 4 peopie. real Jccn uovernor Et | authority would have been insufficient, but then the responsibility might have been his; |as it is, however, it falls with re- doubled weight on those who put in such a place this ready tool. But all this having been done—elections, popular sover- | eignty, law, right and constitutional form hay- ing been trampled under foot—the President | proposes to send to Congress a message to | |, Sustain and justify all this by showing that | somebody had been killed and somebody else | threatened in that State. He will shake up | once more that Mumbo Jumbo of Southern | outrages which, during the fall elections, was | so freely used in the hope that it might | frighten the Northern people into voting the | republican ticket, but which so conspicu- ously failed. Butif it did not frighten the country then it may now, daubed with fresh blood. If it could not carry the elections it | may make a diversion of popular opinion from | this outrage against a Legislature. Alas! is | there no ingenuity in the world? Can not some tyrant find a new pretext? Life was | unsafe in Rome also, Between the proscrip- | tions on one side or the other no one was safe, and that was why the man “in whom there | were many Mariuses” had to put all under | his foot and have his own way. It was the, | | same in Paris also; and Lonis Napoleon | | turned out an Assembly only ‘‘to save | | society.” It is an exaggeration of Andrew | Johnson or a servile copy of worse cases. In bis speech at the meeting on Monday | j aight our great constitutional lawyer said | going to do about it?” There is a provisiva | in the constitution which may be held to cover the case of President Grant if public Patience is tried too far. He is now obliged to answer the public by a special message of apology and explanation. We learn from Washington that this message will be given to Congress to-day, having been discussed and agreed to by the Cabinet. In the ab- sence of full and exact’ information we are in duty bound to give the President and his Cabinet the benefit of the doubt, and to as- sume that there is something to say, with which we are at present unacquainted, which may appease, even if it does not satisfy, the people. In the language of Mr. Evarts, “in any of the circumstances proposed by anybody as prevailing in Louisiana,” we cannot imagine any excuse for supporting the acts of the Presi- dent. We hope that there are at least three men in the Cabinet with sufficient honor, self- respect and regard for public opinion to re- fuse to gloss over the Executive usurpation in Louisiana because of any story of lawlessness on the part of her citizens, or any pretence of illegal action by the Legislature. We cannot imagine Mr. Fish assisting to condone a wrong, and cannot credit the rumor that Secre- taries Bristow and Jewell are willing to join in any official defence of a plainly unconstitu- tional act. Mysteries of the Temporary City Debt. Comptroller Green reports the “temporary debt” of the city, consisting of assessment bonds, to be about twenty-one million dollars. This is a deceptive statement. Although under the present financial policy we are de- prived of the opportunity to ascertain the exact condition of the temporary debt it is very well known that a large portion of this amount is not ‘temporary” debt, but perma- nent debt, and should not be classed under the former head. About three million out of the twenty-one million must be borne by the city through the vacation of assessments, and probably about as much more is for as- sessments on city property, and properly be- longs to the city’s permanent or bonded debt. The Comptroller neglects to transfer this six million dollars to the permanent debt ac- count, where it ought to be, in order to in- duce the taxpayers to believe that twenty-one million dollars of our present indebtedness may be returned to us in the shape of assess- ments, which is altogether untrue. Bat how is it that assessment bonds to the amount of twenty-one million dollars are out- standing and that the city is called upon to raise by tax the full sum required for interest | at seven per cent upon such bonds? The | total amount of assessment bonds called for | in three years by the Department of Public Works is only eleven million and a half dol- | lars, and confirmed assessment rolls amount- | ing to about eleven million four hundred | thousand dollars, or within a hundred thov- | sand dollars of the total of the bonds issued, Lave in the same period been sent to the | Finance Department for collection. In addi- ; tion to these there are the street opening bonds, which do not pass through the Depart- | ment of Public Works, but they have not been | large in the last three years, and damages | have not often been paid until assessments | have been collected. Why have not the assess- | ments been collected? What has been done | with the money when it has been collected, and what disposition has been made of the | interest received from the’ payers of the assess- | ments, sometimes seven and sometimes twelve per cent? Why have assessment bonds, as they fall due, been ‘bridged over” by the | issue of new bonds, instead of being paid out | of the assessment funds? Mayor Wickham should get at the bottom of this mystery at once, At present the affair wears a very ugly look. Wevrare aware that many people resist the payment of assessments, and many are slow to pay them. But a large proportion of the eleven million given in by the Depari- ment of Public Works for collection must haye been received by the city, together with a donciderable stm for interest, So also a large amount of the Opening Assess- ments must have been paid in, with more or less interest. Why, then, should we have nearly twenty-one million dollars’ worth of assessment bonds still outstanding and bear- ing seven per cent interest? We trust that this feature of our financial management will be promptly and thoroughly scrutinized by the Mayor. Advertisements and News. A contemporary speculates upon the possi- bility of a future newspaper that will depend upon its circulation for its business. It describes an Irish jourt.l which is circulated gratis and depends upon its advertisements for its revenue. Journalism, like every other profession, is in a state of progress. There is no knowing what enterprise and public taste may accomplish fn the future. There have been all kinds of experiments with news- | papers, but the highest type of journalism is | based upon the fact that the reader desires | In | the news as well as the advertisements. truth, there is no difference between these two classes. The advertisements of a repre- | sentative newspaper are as much news as the telegraphic columns. Take the ‘marriages and deaths," for instance. We question if one-half the readers of the Heratp would not rather see the cable omitted than the ‘marriages and deaths.” ‘Take the dry goods and publications, also, that enter into so large a part of our daily life. Their omission from the Heraup would make | that “in any of the circumstances proposed by anybody as prevailing in Louisiana’ the | course taken was equally at fault, No matter | what bloody story they may dish up for their | message it does not help the justice of the | a deeper impression upon the general pnblic than to leave out a Senate debate on Louisi- ana. And so we might go through all the de- | partments of advertising. They represent the | wants of the people, and the people are as despatches | | a gallery of spectators to hear him as has The Voice of the People. Governor Tilden, in his Message, has spoken of the Presidential usurpation in terms worthy of the Chief Magistrate of a free State, but every citizen must regret that partisan feelings induced the Senate to refuse him its support. All the republican Legislatures, however, seem disposed to wait the action of Congress before taking any steps in behalf of the country which might possibly be an injury to the party. Governor Parker's Message to the New Jersey Legislature is another manly protest against the pretence that the military can lawfully interfere with representative bodies, and he defines the recent violation of the tederal constitution by the President as “a blow at the very existence of State sove- reignty.’’ The popular branch of the Legis- lature of New Jersey will emphatically respond to his appeal. We also present the resolu- tions now before the Virginia Legislature and those adopted by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, which, we are glad to know, will be presented to the Presi- dent and Congress. The Republican State Convention of New Hampshire has done its party a service by forcibly condemning the unlawful use of military power, and in Bos- ton, at the publio meeting next Friday at Faneuil Hall, the people will protest without distinction of party. The Kings county de- mocracy last night spoke for the cause of freedom in ringing tones of indignation. Thus every day strengthens the proof that the people of the United States fully understand and will firmly resist the action of the Presi- dent. The issue made in Washington is ac- cepted by the country, and the State of New York will be among the first to meet it. New York, in the language of Governor Tilden, «will now address herself to the great and most sacred duty of re-establishing civil liberty and the personal rights of individuals, of restoring tho ideas and habits of freedom and of reas- serting the supremacy of the civil authorities over military power throughout the Republic,” A Partial Lifting of the Veil. Under the gentle and salutary pressure of a resolution of the House of Representatives the lips of one conscientious counsel of Pacifio Mail have been unsealed, and, like the lips of the young maiden which dropped out pearls and diamonds and rubies when touched by fairy fingers, they have scattered about precious gems in the shape of developments. The hesitating, but yielding Abert has told us the names of the recipients of about nine- ty-five thousand dollars of the subsidizing subsidy funds, and the list of beneficiaries sup- plied by him is exceedingly interesting, even if it does indicate a woeful waste of the company’s money. But the glimpse thus afforded us of the characters behind the scenes only operates like Oliver Twist’s plate of soup, and makes us clamor for more. Let us have now a full, true and particu- lar account of the sums received by other representatives of the press, officers of the House and ‘‘operators’’ in the lobby. There must certainly be a richer and more in- teresting list than that supplied by the benevo- lent Abert. Let us also know the ‘‘dummies’’ represented by the nominal receivers of the money, as the bluff and honest Forney was represented by the unassuming Joseph. The question is, Who benefited by the seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars or there- abouts that is understood to have been placed where it would do the most good? At present we are simply beating about the bush and scaring up a few hares while the real game lies low and stands a chance of escape. Come, gentlemen of the committee, you can make others than Abert speak if you will Why trifle with the matter if you are really anxious to get at the bottom of the corrup-. tion? “Bs Bop Exoven to look the great qued+ tion in the face.” This is what is asked of Congress, and of at least three of the leading members of the Cabinet. It is not the time in which public men can pretend blindness or cast side glances at a direct issue of right or wrong. “Our Dear Friend Banquo.” If President Grant reads the newspapers— which, we believe, is an open question—he must look with dismay upon the announce- ment that Andrew Johnson has no real oppo- sition as candidate for the Senatorship in Tennessee, and that the ex-President will probably be elected. There is no man we would rather see in the Senate than Andrew Johnson. In the first place, Andy is one of the most remarkable men in the country, of great force of character, courage, knowledge of affairs, and by his intellectual position | alone entitled to sit in the Senate, In the second place, there would be a poetic beauty in his return to the body which came within one vote of impeaching him. In the third place, he has qualities which endear him to the people. He can fight, he can speak for a week without stopping, believes in the consti- tution, is not afraid of the republicans and has lively ideas on finance. He will give the debates in the Senate an interest they have Jong wanted. We trust he will be returned to that body; and whén it is announced that Andy Johnson is about to speak on the consti- tution or the administration there will be such never been scen in the history of the Senate. A Statement of Facts, The ‘Statement of Facts’’ by the members of what is called the Kellogg Legislature pre- sents one point very cleariy. It sets forth that the memorial ot ‘the republican mem- man to the gallows or the jail. Thomas | case; it does not justity the invasion of @ | much interested in the wishes and desires of | to break up the House of Representatives Bayes, who was yesterday sent to our State | stato by federal authority; it does not con- | their neighbors as in the great facts that occur s@dson for life, is one more example of this | stitute one of the cases to which our law re- | from day to day in the outside world A truth, and Judge Barrett illustrated the folly stricts the use of national troops in State | paper publishing advertisements without the of the practice which resulted in a punish- | troubles. Is the President so ignorant of the | news, or publishing news without advertise ment £0 severe. Governor Ket10ce has repeatedly affirmed that Louisiana under his rule is peaceful, and that only » few political agitators are dissatis- fied with his government. General Sheridan, on the contrary, informs the President that there is no government, and asks for a procla- mation authorizing him to punish leading | <eitizens as banditti, There is a discrepancy in the views of the Governor and the General, ‘and it is the more remarkable as they are both on the same side, If Louisiana is quict it is not quiet Kellogg bas no right to claim she confidence of the community. '- oo - constitution that he does not know this? or is | his intelligence so small that he cannot com- | authority to interfere in domestic difficulties is defined? or is he so indifferent to the | proper discharge of his duties that he does | not care whether he is right or wrong! Is he | mentally incapable or wilfully wrong headed? He acts in utter disregard of the law and one of his retainers has even uttered in the | Senate that ill-famed taunt, ‘What are you ments, is like a man travelling on one leg. | P ‘ ‘ A | Itis imperfect. It does not satisfy the people | | prehend the very plain terms in which his | and is far from representing the true type ot | journalism, then in session and to place the hall in pos- session of the memorialists, was signed by filty-two “legally elected and returned mem- bers,"’ or less than a quorum of the House. Being less than a quorum these persons could not have any right to speak for the House of Representatives of the State. The ‘‘State- response to the request of the Governor the Senator Scuvnz is right in his opinion that | United States troops proceeded to the hall of fear, for such ambition as his would not find a French nation to deal with. But the real | a mere football of rapacious and despotic fac- | tions.”” itis not a Napoleon that this country should | the House of Representatives, expelled some | of the members by torce and by force drove | the Speaker and Clerk from their places, and proposes to insult Congress by giving for his | danger is from Ring rule, innovations upon | then adds, “the democratic members, with | action reasons that have no legal relation to | constitutional government, and a condition of , Mr. Wiltz at their head, them withdrew, and | men is that of the Pythian or Delphic oracle. Sheridan has no business to be there, and if | country and Congress to find a remedy. And publican forms the government will become | law.” “The House,’ after tho withdrawal of the democrats. consisted of the filtv-two signers bers’ presented to the Governor, asking him | ment of Facts’ then proceeds to show that in | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. of the memorial to me Governor, As We have said, they did not make a quorum of the House. How, then, could they ‘‘organ- ize according to law?” Upon their own showing what is their bogus organization worth? Education and Everyday Life. A Richmond paper gives voice to a senti- ment which, unfortunately, finds acceptance ina field much broader than the limits of Virginia, in saying that a large number of the young men of the State are ‘too well educated for practical purposes.’ The fallacy embodied in that brief sentence is so far inwrought into the popular belief as to be the fruitful cause of an enormous amount of inefficiency, with its resultant poverty and misery. All over the country, not alone in the great cities, are to be found in large numbers men and women who, in virtue of a certain, or, rather, a very uncertain, amount of literary culture, hold themselves aloof from and above the com- moner occupations of everyday life. Thoy apparently expect their education, such as it is, in some mysterious and miraculous man- ner to lift them above the necessity of daily toil, and to bring them comfort, if not luxury, in whose production “the sweat of their brow” shall have had no place. Every, jour- nalist, every professional man, every mer- chant, every woman who has earned her own place in the world by vigor- ous and persistent endeavor, is well acquainted with a class of appli- canta for aid and counsel who ‘have had an education,’’ who are ‘‘willing to do any- thing,” yet who are wholly unfit todo any- thing outside of certain overcrowded and poorly paid avenues of employment, and who lack the moral stamina or the common sense to put such cultufe as they have into the work that is waiting to bedone even if it be less dainty. The trouble is not that they are ‘too well educated,’ but that their education, whatever it includes, lacks the highest essential quality of all worthy culture, the perception that it is in itself » means; not an end, but a force, a power, a factor of valuein the attainment of higher objects; and that its greatest use inheres in enabling the worker to do well, to dignify and to elevate whatever work lies where his hand may find it to do. The cry of distress from those ‘too well educated for practical purposes,” as our contemporary puts it, goes up continually, but sounds always more mournfully with the incoming of winter. It would be os vain for a journal ag for an individual to aftempt to give aid or counsel in each one of thousands of cases. In point of fact the majority of those who have sunk into habits pf inefficiency from rejecting the idea that their education should be applied to the commoner work of everyday life, while waiting for easier or more aristocratic avenues of labor to open for them, will not recognize themselves or will resent the portraiture. But it may be well for a good many young men and women to whom are just presented the issues of self- support, of life worth living and of character worth having, and into whose ,ears has been dinned the idea that education is too dainty a possession to be used in ennobling drudgery— it may be well for‘some such to consider whether mental calibre and culture may not find room for as broad and as elevated play in mechanical or agricultural or domestic labor gsinthe avenues of professional work. In the professions it is the few who attain emi- nence, and the work which secures compe- tence is as fatiguing and as persistent as the day laborer's, Even social consideration, which is apt to be their idol, waits to a far greater degree than the educated inefficient one’s employment. Ancient and Modern Pyihonesses. The startling claims put forth by modern | Spiritualism may occasion some good if they succeed in awakening attention to the nature of the agencies through which supernatural revelations are obtained. These claims are by no means new, although they have been to the minds of men. One of the most laborious classical scholars asserts that in the Greek and Roman world there were not ‘far from three hundred of these familiar spirits, doubtless akin to those which are now pro- fessed oracles of a new inspiration. Demon- ology has, indeed, from the earliest epochs of history, occupied a place in human thought and inquiry, but the facts upon which it rests have been too summarily dismissed from rigid scientific investigation. During his magnifi- cent experimental researches in the Royal Institution the illustrious phi- losopher, Michael Faraday, subjected some of these spiritualistic claims to a crucial test. In th® celebrated table-turning ex- periment Faraday found that when a sheet of paper was superimposed the table failed to move, and very confidently concluded that rotatory impulse was unconsciously com- municated by the votaries of the supernatural. But his solution of the phenomenon did not satisfy Spiritualists, who contended that the necessary conditions were, in that case, simply marred. They scorned the scientific infer- ence that animal magnetism could explain the facts which had come under their notice. And, so far as science has thrown any light upon the subject, we are little better off than the world was in the primitive days of Egyp- tian necromancy and soothsaying. The most important clew to the reputed phe- nomena of Spiritualism has been brought to light by the labors of modern theologians and biblical exegetes, which, though partial, are yet of the highest significance. These in- quiries have pretty well established the fact that our earth is, in a measure, visited by supernatural agents taking pessession of the human body, and, through it, ex- erting their potent spells pon their | victims. We know, from the Mosaic record cradle of so many arts and sciences— was pro- lific in these wizards and diviners, and in the reign of Pharaoh, preceding the great Israel- itish exodus, these supernatural powers, rivalled the wonders wrought by Moses him- | | self. ‘the case. He seems to defy at once the | polities in which “in the hollow sheli of re- | the House proceeded to organize according to | Men now think it superior wisdom to sneer at | class are apt to believe on one’s self than on_ modified in every age to commend themselves | | and independent sources, that Egypt—the | working through the magicians, for a time , But the most remarkable and complete rec- ord of the reality of such spiritsacting through | pardt and Prince Bismarck are not ofa friendly tee cule the exfitence of the sNirit of Pytha, which the whole pagan world gonsulted at Delphi, and through whom it camewinder the guidance and mastership of Satan, Plutarch informs us that the name of this spirit, whose Delphic responses were so famous overthe then inhabited world, was Pytho—so named from being professedly inspired by the Pythian Apollo. Were this all the informa tion we have it would be as » chain with’a missing link. But, fortunately, that missing link is supplied from a most astonishing and trustworthy source, Quite recently one of the ablest Englisk exegetes of New Testament Greek has shown that the damsel who divined at Philippi was possessed of the spirit Pytho, and that this spirit, exorcised by the Apostle Paul, was no other than that before whose Delphic shrine all pagandom had formerly sat. The Pytho- ness at Delphi, he demonstrates, was “the great medium in the pagan world,” and » spiritual reality, which had entered our earth, from the Plutonian realms. The exegetical evidence from the inspired volume is hard te ° resist, and brings with it the almost irresistible conclusion that our modern media, if like those of former ages, are actual yeliicles of Satanic craft. The ancient pagan world, largely through the instrumentality of the Pythian medium, was held in the chains of mental and spiritual darkness for ages, as history gives us reason to believe the Israclitisle nation long was from the delusion of its witches and enchanters. Less than a century ago we know this dark dominion of evil spirits was strongly intrenched in New Eng- land. And we may well inquire how far it is® to establish its malign sway over the civiliza- tion of the present century. Ir Is or Tux Finst Farse Srep that the country must beware. As Senator Schurs said to the republican majority in Congress of their schemes for maintaining power:— “You did not mean to do it by the Russian method; but from small beginnings some- thing has grown up of near kin tO it—a few steps further and you may have the whole. If you do not want to go on, then I say to you it is the highest time to turn back. It will no® do to permit such things as we now behold te pass without rebuke ond resistance; for te permit them is to urge them on.” In THE SenaTE yesterday Mr. Howe replied to Mr. Schurz, and as a piece of special plead~ ing about everything but the real issue dis~ played great ingenuity. The circumference of his argument was enormous, but it did not once approach the central point of the subject, Tus Presment’s Lovistana Messace is expected to be moderate in tone and to throw the responsibility for the dispersion of the Legislature by military force upon Governor. Kellogg. Soldiers, it will plead, are not lawyers, and neither are Cabinet officers, we suppose, when they approve official despatches which, it is now claimed, they did not understand. In short, the President will retreat under cover of a long array of outrages, which are paraded to receive the fire which was intended for his act of usure pation. Tue Recorp ov Morrauiry for last week shows no increase of contagious diseases, i New York is comparatively healthy now, and with proper energy by the authorities its sani< tary condition can be easily improved. A List of the standing committees of the House is contained in our Albany despatches, Tue Narionat Rrrie Assoctation yesterday took the preliminary steps in respect to the international match at Dublin this spring. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, a Now then, Faneuil Hail! It’s your turn, General Lew Wallace, of Indiana, ia staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Professor Myron @, Peck, of Rochester, is regis» tered at the Windsor Hotel, Poor Senator Morton! What a fool’s labor was that of Sisyphus conipared to nis! Congressman Robert M. Knapp, of Illinois, ts sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General Abner Doubleday, United States Army, is quartered at the Coieman House. The Marquis de Chamorun arrived from Washe ington yesterday at the St. Denis Hotel. Rev. C. S. Hale and Rev. 0. Wetnerspoon, of Buffalo, are stopping at Barnum’s Hotel. Mr. Anthony J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, isamong. the jacest arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hovet. Senator Henry B. Anthony, of Rhode Island, ar- rived last evening at the Futn Avenue Hotei, Mr. Richard -M. Field, manager of the Boston Mnseum, is residing temporarily at the West munster Hotel. Lord Keane (Edward Arthur Wellington Keane), of England, has taken up nis residence at the St Nicholas Hotel. Sehor Don Luts de Potestad, Secretary of the Spaniso Legation at Washington, has apartments at the Brevoort House, One man who 18 not an office-holder sustaing Grant. His name is Wendel) Philitps. John Q@. Whittier ana Victor Hugo are still to be neara from. Morton says the carpet-baggers are heroes, There was a time when we thought nothing could be more remarkable than his theories om finance; but this beats them. Senator William B, Washburn, who has been spending the holidays at his home tn Massachu- setts, arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel last night on his way to Washington, The milttary imbeciliry of old Garibaldi and the harm it did in the late war is likely to be well an- | derstood since the puoiication of M. Perrot’s re- | port; but the French must wot too hastily decide | that Garibaldi Was ¢he sole cause of wll their mise | fortunes. Senator Henry B, Anthony, who has been ¢on- | fined to nis home on account o! sickness, left New | York for Washington last evening. His letters and papers, which accumujated at Washingtom during nis iiness and which were transmitted to | providence, were burned in the railroad disaster | of January 1. The German Princess Imperial visited the tele- graph office in Bertin lately, There are many women employed there, and numbers have re- ceived their positions upon the recommendation o1 Her Royal Highness. She went to see them and did not like their toilets. Next day they received a | circutar directing @ Jess extravagant style of dress and forbidding tiem to wear their hair fow- ing in the sloven fashion. A very important discovery has been made on the Esquiline Hill, in Rome, consisting of seven statues in fing preservation. There is@ temarka- | pie bast of Commodus, several heads and many fragments. All these ave been found in one room hot yet entirely excavated, [here are indicauons the presence of other odjects. {tis rumored that Di. Leonhardt, the German | Minister of Justice, will resigo his portfolio. lola known vhat the, relations vetween Dr, Leon. ‘ i | | \ i} of | | character; butsecret infuences are supposed to ba | at work which rendered itdiMcultfor the Chancel. | lor to get rid of the too independent and unman- an invisible agency that once exercised a con- | ageabie Hanoverian, But tne Aroim trint was trolling ascendancy over the statesmen, orators | perhaps an ounce too muck for Bismarck's om and voets of Greece and Rome. They ridi- | uence