The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1875, Page 6

6 ‘ ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. The Louisiana Difficulty. The Heraxp holds a judicial position be- tween contending parties and factions, and if the advocates on either side bite their lips with vexation when it delivers impartial judg- ments which do not fall in with their views it can afford to bear their censures with equa- nimity, AS an exponent of popular opinion the Heratp has nothing to gain by the favor | or to lose by the dissent of any political | party. It neither courts nor fears them, and while journals overstate or distort NOTICE TO SUBSORIBERS.—On and | facts with wae dR pis civaatags. #3 Gal after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | aim of the Henaxp is faithfully to report ‘editions of the New York Heznarp will be | transactions in the ‘white light’ of truth and eent free of postage. guide the public judgment to correct conclu- sions. We have no motive either to falsify All business or news letters and telegraphic | oe Toten public opinion, but bie atcher y | motive just and fair, because our influ- despatches must be addressed New Yorx | ence depends on our success in presenting | | such views of current transactions as the Rejected communications will not be re- | ‘sober second thought’ of the American peo- JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12, —— Henavpv. turned. | ple may safely indorse. It is not what this Letters and packages should be properly | P®tty oF that party may choose to say of our dale E | course that in any way affects us, for we are pecsonetenitiinmeesipedns independent of them all, but only the delib- LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK | efate conclusions of an enlightened commu- HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. pee as to the soundness of our positions. 3 rae | The Henaxp can afford to be right; it can af- agacsintions and advertisements will be | ford to speak the truth; Pp i 7 Meahaen | received and forwarded on the same terms | Juxury of a political conscience; it is bound as in New York. to no party and can pass an impartial judg- ment upon all. 3 It is our opinion that since President Grant’s recent apologetic and disclaiming Message public liberty is in no great danger | from military interference with legislative | bodies. The President concedes every prin- | ciple which rational advocates of free institu- | tions contend for. He disclaims responsibility for military interference with the Louisiana Legislature; he admits the possibility that army officers may have overstepped, in their ignorance, the strict limits of law ; he refuses | to stand sponsor for the action of Kellogg in the late emergency ; he does not pretend that | there is any justification tor employing either VOLUME XL. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ROBINSON HAL! iL, Sixteenth street.—BEGONE DULL CARE, at 8 P. M.: loses at 045 YM. alr. cabe. GLOBE THEATRE, kBroadway.—VARIETY, ats i’. N.; closes at 10:3) P. M. rooklyn, oppo: SAVOY. at 5 P. itchell. PARK TH mee RE, y Hall—THE PEARL OF Miss Maggie oP M the © } choses at Lu YFourteenth street « *ORUWN, ato P. M. Mrs. Rousby. @roadway THE SHSUUNRACS, ACS. Me; clowsat | the State militia or the federal army in N04O¥. M. Mr. Boucicauit: | legislative conflict, except on the | WooD:s MUSEUM. | call of a majority of the elected | Broadway, corner of | hirtieth siccet—EDMUND KEAN, | mo; i i | ac2. Maud até Mescioses at l0%0 P.M. Ciprico. | Members. These important concessions | having been extorted from the President “closes at 10:30 | there is no further immediate danger to public | ; libertyon the side of military interference | with legislative bodies, and the country has reason to congratulate itself on the reluctant | homage to sound principles which the Presi- METROPOL :No. 585 Broadway.—VAR. we. M. AN THEATR: TY, at 8 P.M. E, y-secon EN CHINE, at8 » M. de Quercy. atreets —Opera Comiqi P.M. ; closes at 10:30 1’ TONY PAST HOUS | F : ‘No. 21 Bowery.—VARL So Wand atv. x, | dent has been constrained to pay by a sudden veloses at 10:40 P.M. outburst of public indignation and the views | of the most respected members of his Cabi- net. The fact that the President quails; that he dare not assert the right either of the federal army or the Governor of a State to in- terfere with the organization of a Legisla- | ture; that he publicly washes his own hands | ard Sheridan’s of any direct compli- | city in the employment of soldiers in the | Louisiana State House, cannot, in any rational view, be regarded otherwise | than as a victory of sound principles. Since the concessions and apologetic disclaimers | put forth in the recent Message there can be | no rational fear of a repetition of affronts to | the dignity and authority of a State Legisla- Dee eee ae nay weRowaNt op ture. President Grant bas renounced every i: ipglones at, Wau P.M. Miss Carlotta | principle on which such interference can be palliated, and if he is thereby involved in some | inconsistency the public should be too willing | to welcome his recognition of sound prin- ciples to embarrass his repentance by quib- bling exposures of inconsistency. Some allowance must be made for official pride when the head of a great government is con- strained to retreat from untenable positions. NEW ) THEATRE, jowery.—DER VERSC. BR, ats P.M. Miss Lina ayr. OLYMPIC THEATRE, —_ Broadway.—VARI ats P. M.; closes at 1045 BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner of Twenty-third street and’ Sixth avenue.— LiTiLE EM LY, ats 7. M; closes at 10:50 P.M. Mr. owe. THEATRE COMIQUE, Ko. $M Broatway.—VAIETY, at 5 : Closes at 10:45 ROMAN HIPPO ‘Twenty- street and Fourth evening, atz and & OME, ¢.—Afternoon and ACE GAKDEN —GRAND CONCE . Mine. Cal stre: at 8 P.M; P.M ir nissa, Mile. Heilbron. Leclercg, Mr. BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MMINSTRELSY, ae, ats closes at 10 P.M. Dan jBryant GERMANIA THEATRE, Mourteenth sireet MEIN LEOPOLD, até P. M. NIBLO'S, Revrw —UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, at 8 P. M. ; closes at BROOKLYN THEATRE. | In spite of the false coloring of facts in the askington stree.—THE COLLEEN BAWN, zi ‘ ‘ : oe Wed. Florence: atSP.M | resident's recent Message it cannot be : SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, denied that he has admitted and indorsed road w: corne of Twenty-n st —N 7 inci ic! if et ae prey hy Tepnle ninth | sirect.—NEGRO | every principle which the advocates of legis- lative independence ‘deem important. It may fe Se cece ‘ x | be easy to convict him of inconsistencies; but si R I iy L E S H E E 8 iti it cannot be denied that he has been forced — ae ar == == | into an admission that legislative bodies are NEW YORK, FRIDA' 5, 18 | legally excmpt trom ontside control. He ad- ——_—_ percteaeeeseiit | mits that only a majority of the elected mem- 3 | bers could have made an appeal which the wore that the weather to-day will be colder and Governor of the State could properly consider, lear. and concedes that the Governor's right of in- Waut Srreer Yesterpay.—The stock mar- | terference, even on such an application, is ‘a | ket was excited and generally lower. Gold debatable question.” It would be absurd to gesponded to the reduction in the English | expect the President to make more humiliat- Ybank rate to 4 per cent, and closed at 112. ing concessions, and foolish to fear that he foreign exchange was steady, and money easy | will again permit the federal troops to be em- on call at 2} a 3 per cont. | ployed in deciding questions outside of their | hia Re eh a RUS | province. Having once burned his fingers _ Tue Berri Government iy Ixpta has | the President will not put ther into the fire | taken another step in its course of territorial again. absorption by the occupation of the capital of | Phe moral sense of the country cannot be | the Guicowar of Baroda and the arrest of the | obfuscated by legal technicalities, and it is mative ruler. The people of the great Asiatic | only by such technicalities that the action of Empire are much agitated at present, and the conservative members of the Louisiana | this occurrence may kindle a flame which will | Pegislature can be justified. Their action not be easily extinguished. j From our reports this morning the probabilitie. | was clearly irregular. It was only by an adroit parliamentary trick that they made Mar. Locan, in his speech before the Sen- ate yesterday, said that the demand for the withdrawal of troops from New Orleans was ike the demand for the withdrawal of the troops from Fort Sumter in 1861. ‘ment based upon such a view of the situation is hardly worth the trouble of refutation. Tae Lovistana Report. - sub-committee upon Louisiana affairs has not been laid before the House of Representatives, The people demand that it shall be produced now, while their attention is given to the case, and they understand that for the general com- An argu- | Wiltz Speaker and admitted the five members for substantial fight than for techni- eal puncetilios, and since the President's disclaimers they will have no fears that legis- lative independence will be hereafter unjusti- fiably interfered with. It is clear that the Louisiana Legislature, on the 4th of January, was a body as to whose legality there might be a reasonable difference of opinion. But these doubts or difficulties should not blind the country to the actual condition of things in Louisiana. Here is a State in a condition of anarchy, a State in which the | actual State government is not compe- j tent to maintain itself without fed- eral support, a State in which federal authority is as necessary for the preservation of the peace as if it had no State government at all, a State in which the federal army is the real governing power, because the local government would topple into ruins if not propped by federal bayonets, and the ques- tion is ferced upon Congress and upon the country as to what ought to be dons to re-es- tablish republican institutions, Congress is bound to consider whether it has any duties, and what its duties are, in such an emer- gency. The President again submits this grave question to the consideration of that body, and things have come to such @ pass that Congress can no longer evade its responsibility without public condemnation. Unless Congress takes some action the Presi- dent is committed to pursue his policy, and if it shirks the responsibility of directing him when he solicits its instruction the country will lay all the blame at its door. The anarchy which prevails in Louisiana can be removed only by Congressional action, and the country looks with deep interest to its action, which the President professes his implicit willingness to respect. If there is any immediate remedy it must be supplied by Congress at this session. The New York Senatorship. The caucus of democratic members is ap- pointed for this evening, to select a candidate to be supported by the party for United States Senator. The contest seems narrowed to two candidateg, Mr. Kernan and Mr. Murphy, with a strong preponderance of chances in favor of Mr. Kernan. Mr. Murphy's claims are pressed wiih great vigor by a strong body of active, zealous friends, skilful in this kind of work, who are courting the aid of every member who has a favorite candidate other than Mr. Kernan, by holding out an expectation that if this gentleman can be brought into a minority on the first ballot his friends will unite on some third candidate. The immediate object of the Murphy men is to have all the members vote on the opening ballot for their first choice, in order that the combined friends Murphy, Seymour, O’Conor, Church, Parker, Wheaton and Ward may, together, prevent the success of Kernan in the first vote and force him out of the field. If Mur- phy is also found to be ina minority it is hoped that both be and Kernan will withdraw and some one of the other candidates carry off the prize. entra 4 If this game could be played ex-Governor Seymour would receive a large vote on the first ballot, consisting of members who would otherwise vote for Kernan as their second himself to this stratagem. He has written a letter, just published, in which he most em- Lars ig J refuses the use of his name, and asserts that be would not accept the office if elected. He strongly indorses Mr. Kernan. Every member whom Mr. Seymour can influ- ence will vote for Kernan, which leaves little doubt of his nomination on the first ballot, unless other than legitimate means are em- ployed to control the action of the caucus. But it is more than whispered that a large sum of money is at the disposal of Kernan’s opponents to be freely promised and used if there should be any chance of its being effective. We know of no evidence in support of this allega- tion beyond common rumor, and cannot judge whether it is an invention of Kernan’s supporters put in circulation to bring odium on his opponents or has a basis of reality. Some of the Kernan men are insisting that the caucus shall vote vivd voce, instead of by’ ballot, as a means of purging members of the suspicion of bribery—a suggestion which re- flects no credit on democratic integrily, and comes with # bad grace from democratic sources. It is, nevertheless, a very good rec- ommendation, and we see no reason why any honest member should object to it except this, that some of them profess friendship tor both candidates, and may have been weak enbugh or complaisant enough to encourage the hopes of both and make conflicting prom- ises which it would be awkward to have ex- posed. A vivid voce vote would be very embarrassing to those doubletongued members, if such there be, who have indirectly given actual or implied who were not on the roll. A law of the State excluded those members from any part in the organization. If the conservatives had had a | majority without them there would have been | no temptation to parliamentary sharp prac- | tice, because, in that case, the conservatives | adwmitted into | their aid, and have ja deliberate inquiry to seats, them after their claim The conservatives confessed that | they were@ minority by the unusual means | | they adopted to seat the disputed members, | for if they had a majority without them the organization of the House was safely in their. , | hands, and there was no motive for a pre- mature admission of members, whom the law excluded from participation in the pre- liminery proceedings, The irregular haste with whieh those members were seated ig a | | confession that the conservatives had not a | Tur Prestbtnz_ on Frvancr.—President | majority without them, for they would not Grant evidently does not forget the great | otherwise have relinquished the great ad- honor which came to hii from his inflation | vantage of having the law on their side. The | ‘veto, for he directs the attention of the coun- | defence of the conservatives is, there- | try from Louisiana to finance in a brief, but | fore, rather technical than moral, and important Message, which we print else- | their claim to exemption from outside inter- | where. The points of this document | ference is weakened by well founded doubts "deserve serious consideration. The aim of | of their right to be considered as a regular | ‘the President to bring currency to par in | Legislature, organized according to law. (1879 is a noble one, and will invoké the earnest | They gained an advantage by a sharp parlia- sympathy of the country. He proposes a | mentary trick intended to circumvent a law plan for resumption which will receive wide | of the State, and althongh this does not jus- attention. Ho suggests the coining of metal tify or excuse illegal military interference, it ‘coin in the Mississippi Valley—a wise measure | makes a great difference in the moral estimate ‘and no doubt acceptable to the residents in | of the transaction formed by the country, and ga representations mittee to withhold it virtually amounts to its suppression. The Henatp has already pub- lished its substance—tive days ago—but now that the President has stated in his Message his views of the situation the formal report ‘of the committee ought to be laid before the country in justice to all parties. \those States, especially as the saving fn the | gives color to the re; ‘transportation of specie from the East will be | thatit was not a regular and duly organized ‘an advantage to the country and to the Legislature that was interfered with, The posidents | great body of the people care more pledges to both sides, and would incur the charge of treachery or insincerity, how- ever they might vote. There may be enough of such to enable the Murphy members to maintain the ordinary practice of voting by ballot, the argument being that personal The report of the | could have organized the House without | friends of both candidates ought not to be | forced to sacrifice private friendships in the | discharge of their public duty. It might put some members in a delicate position to force them to an open vote quite irrespective of the purity of their motives. We judge it probable that before night the Kernan men | will have become so confident that they wiil not insist on a vivd voce vote. With Sey. mour, Tilden, Dorshemier, McGuire and most of the influential democrats of the interior enlisted for Kernan there is little reason to doubt his nomination. Tue Nautica Scuoot has been formally opened, and sixty boys are now in training on board of the St. Marys. Our synopsis of the course of instruction is decidedly interesting, and the experiment of making efficient sailors of boys who, but for this school, would grow up in idleness and perhaps vice, may be now admitted to be a complete success. To-Day t¥o negro murderers will be bung fora brutal crituae committed at Oyster Bay. Of the @ental condition of the men and the preparations for the execution we present a full report elsew Ar tae Ovp Zion Onvncn last evening the colored members rendered appropriate honors to the memory of Gerrit Smith, whose ser- vices to their race few men have rivalled, and, with the exception of Greeley aud Suiouer, | no man has excelled. of | choice. But ex-Governor Seymour will notlend | Is There No Middle Ground? The tendency of the American mind to take exaggerated views of public affairs leads very often to passionate, unreasoning discussion and imperfect conclusions, There is scarcely @ question before Congress that is not made to assume 6 party aspect. Take this Southern question, for instance. The republican has one view, the democrat another. We read the republican’s speech, and we find on one side brutality, tyranny, the secession senti- ment, a desire to revive the Confederacy and destroy the Union. We read the democrat’s speech only to discover that our liberties have passed away forever; that we are under the iron heel of despotism; that the South is con- trolled by the refuse of the Northern peniten- tiaries, by devils inearnate; that the negroes are” plotting insurrection, and that the Presi- dent is endeavoring to foment another St. Domingo insurrection. Republicans talk of remanding the Southern States to military governments; democrats wag their heads over another civil war to be torced by their oppo- nents. Amid all this uproar of invective, this tempest of denunciation, 1t is impossible to find the truth, that middle ground which all honest opinions must finally assume and the patriot is only too anxious to discover. We saw this before the rebellion, Take the journals of the North and the South for the ten years preceding the fall of Fort Sum- ter. They burn with hatred and passion, The English language was exhausted for terms of political reproach. The Southerners were “tyrants,” the Northerners were “mud- sills.” Southern men actually believed that it only required a firm militia captain, armed with a broomstick, to disperse an army of Yankees. The Northern men read ‘‘Uncle Tom's Cabin’’ as a true picture of Southern morals and society. The ferocity which marked the debates between Sumner and Douglas, between Toombs and Wade, the in Congress, and even in the Church twenty years ago—showed this extreme, bitter parti- | sanship. It blazed higher and higher antil it | flamed into a devastating civil war. It was | because there was no serious attemptto find | that- middle ground upon which Northern and Southern men could have met, discussed their differences and decided them without | war's feariul sacrifice. We are now drifting | into a similar distempered condition. The honest citizen, anxious to know the truth about the Southern States, and who for that purpose reads the telegraphic despatches and speeches and press reports of the last five years, | impartial judgment. Yet there is no ques- | | tion that ever concerned the American people about which there should be so little passion. We have no interest higher than the prosperity and harmony of the South, just as the South- ern States can have no interest higher than their own advancement and peace, the integ- rity and splendor of the Union. Louisiana is us dear tous as Massachusetts, We take ag, | much pride in her prosperity‘and renown. | Why, therefore, can we pot seek out the causes which distract Louisiana and patiently remove them? Why can not we give this State an honest republican government? If Congress would approach the Louisiana question animated by this purpose there might | be some hope of a result. The tone of the debate in the Senate is disheartening. Re- publican after republican rises in his seat and denounces the Southern people as bandits, as enemies of true union, as conspirators against the lives and properties of the negroes, as anxious for a war of extermination, as resolved to revive the Confederacy, as men doing daily deeds of assassination and plunder. Not one word from them about the misgovernment of South Carolina ; repudiation, as we have seen it in Arkansas; the shameless jobberies and corruptions in Georgia; the manifest usurpa- tions of Warmotb and Kellogg in Louisiana ; the burlesque government that we have in Florida ; not one word in denunciation of the evils of ‘“‘carpet-bag”’ and ‘‘scalawag”’ domi- nation. Democrat after democrat rises, de- nounces the administration and its interference in local rights, complains of the overthrow of the sovereign Commonwealths, pictures im graphic tints the misery and shame of the Southern people, tells us that they have fallen under the heel of a negro government, and that for their liberpy there is no further bope. Not one word from them of the riots in New Orleans in 1866, the massacres in Coliax, La., | the Ku Klux outrages through the Southern States generally, the terrorism over large sections of country by the remnants ot Con- federate sentiment. There is a middle ground between these two opinions, and if the Senate of the United States was composed of patriots anxious to solve the Louisiana question with- out regard to the success of party or the wishes of a President we should have such a debate as would end it forever, by conveying to the country the whole truth, and by ena- bling us to sustain what is right and punish what is wrong. The only action that recommends itself to us as looking toward a solution is the resolu- tion of Mr. Hale, of Maine. This Representa- tive proposes that Congress shall declare that there is no longer a republican form of gov- ernment in Louisiana, order a new election and surround the franchise by such safe- guards that there can be no doubt of its legal- ity. This proposition has the elements of wisdom. It tooks like a step towards peace and justice. We aro frank to say that Mr. | Hale’s proposition would be valueless if the xecution of this proposed enabling act were | left to the President. The country would not feel that it was a fair election, for they have seen so much wrong arise from Executive in- terference already. If such a measure is passed let its execution devolve upon a com- mittee of fair men, in Congress or out of it, | whose names would be a guarantee of their integrity. A proposition like that of Mr. Hale, so amended, would be the first step to- wards justice in Louisiana and pacification in the South. It would be coming upon middle ground. valuable letter from Paris in reference to the new Opera House in that city, the building of which is an event in our century, and more letter contains a great deal of interesting in- formation about opera managgment in Paris, and lovers of music will be interested to kaow that the rates of admission to the Grand Opera are less than in New York ; that, in fact, seats can be purchased for almost any price, from aixty cents upward, ‘Lhis ia a lesaou for our whole tone of the discussions—in the press, | will be utterly unable to arrive at a sound, - We Prrxt Evsewnere an interesting and | particularly about the stage in Enrope. This | ee NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, home managers, and it teaches us, perhaps, that the reason why opera is not more successful here is because the admission is 60 high that most of our people cannot afford to pay for it. The Hidden Mysteries of the City Finances. A resolution was offered in the Board of Aldermen yesterday calling for a financial statement from Comptroller Green. The res- olution’ was ordered printed, so that it might be seen whether it covered all the points de- sirable. The movement is a mere farce. What is necessary is a thorough examination of the Finance Department’s accounts by com- petent persons, so that the whole truth in re- gard to our financial condition and the man- agement of the department may be brought to light. Mr. Green's statements are not re- liable, They are false or deceptive in almost every instance. His reply to the resolutions of the Aldermen would only be a repetition of the subterfuges and plausible misrepresenta- tions to which he has resorted during his whole term of office, The char- ter requires that such an examination a8 we suggest shall be made by the Commissioners of Accounts in December. This duty has not been performed. There has been no official examination of the sink- ing fund securities since that first made by the Commissioners of Accounts, when it was discovered that bonds called for by the books, to the amount of ninety-four thousand dol- lars, were absent from the sinking fund box. ‘Three private citizens, selected by Mr. Green, certified that the securities were correct, and that the missing bonds had never been issued, { but were represented by receipts. This cer- tification, however, was as unsatisfactory and insufficient as it was unauthorized by law. The only examination of the securities since pretended was that recently made by Mr. Lane, their custodian, at Mr. Green’s request, and in which Mayor Vance properly refused to take part. The duty should be at once per- formed by the proper officers, the Commis- sioners ‘of Accounts. The people want also to know what amd@nt of interest has been paid for three years by the Comptroller, including the amounts raised by taxation; the sums realized from the sinking fund for payment of interest on cer- tain portions of the city debt; the amounts received from the payers of assessments, which should be applied towards the interest on assessment bonds; the surplus balances used with or without warrant of law, and all other moneys trom whatever source applica- ble to the interest account. They also desire ® searching scrutiny of the assessment busi-' ness in all its ramifications; what amounts have been received on assessment rolls, when they have been received; what has been done with the money; what assess- ment bonds have been renewed; why assessments have not been collected, end of exactly what items the present alleged outstanding assessment bonds amount- ing to twenty-one million dollars are com- posed. No such information will be obtained from Mr. Green, and the resolution of the Board of Aldermen is a mere farce. What is needed is a scrutiny outside the Comptroller and independent of his influence or control. Why do we not have such an investigation when the charter not only empowers but requires it? Uncle Samuel. The evidence of our old friend Uncle Samuel Ward, given before the Pacific Mail Commit- tee of Investigation, and printed elsewhere, has an idyllic quality, and justifies the fame of this eminent statesman as the student of | Horace and the friend of Talleyrand. Uncle Samuel Ward will make as unique and memorable a figure in literature as Greville or Walpole or Pepys when his diary is pub- lished, for the fact is well known that for sixty years he has kept a brilliant record of his intercourse with men and his knowledge of affairs. We can understand something of the nature of this work by reading his testi- mony. Uncke Samuel approaches the subject like a statesman, a wit and a philosopher. He does not run away like King, or wind in and out of his subject like Schumaker, or precipi- tately “peach” on his associates like MacFar- land. Nor does he take refuge in the plea of lawyers’ fees orstatistics, like the clumsy people who have been shufling and stumbling.about the committee room, making ‘‘statements’’ which no one believed. Uncle Samuel is neither a lawyer nor a statistician. If we may invent a phrase that wiil express our meaning in the highest sense, he is the Amel- iorating Influence of Washington legislation. Uncle Samuel, like Uncie Dick, understands the statesmanship of dining. Other states- men depend upon oratory and statistics and less innocent but more weighty reasons. Uncle Samuel believes in the truffle. This delicate and savory root has flavored his whole career. He knows more about the truffle than any man in Washington except Mr. Robeson. His dinners are poems, and to the true dinner the truffle serves the office of rhythm toa poem. Other statesmen ad- dress themselves to the cold reason of our legislators. Uncle Samuel confines himself to their tastes. A Congressman, especially from Kanawha Valley or the Rocky Mountains, whose life has been given to pig and hominy, feels, as he falls under the benign influence of Uncle Samuel, that a new heaven has opened to him—a heaven of champague and silads and delicate dishes—without which we fear even heaven would be. monotonous to our friend. The result is, as Uncle Samuel frankly confessed to the com- mittee, his influence in Washington is boundless. The money given to him in Pacific Mail was well bestowed, We regret it was not much more. Since money wag rolling around it is a matter of deep regret that this great philosopher did not have his share. He was paid three thousand five hundred dollars, while doorkeepers and newspaper correspondents received as high as fifteen thousand. They kept this money, or at least they swore they did, while Uncle Samuel showered his modest fee over Washington—a blessing to the poor—a comfort to the badly fed statesmen from the far West, as a fructify- ing influence like rain in California or manna We are very,sorry, indeed, that our friend did not recei¥e a hundred thousand dollars. Tux Loss of the steamer Georgia off the coast of Maine is reported in a special | despatch to the Heranp. Forluuately the crew and vasyongers were rescued. A Prompt Executive Governor Garland, of Arkansas, has acted with becoming energy and with much shrewdness in instructing the prosecuting attorney to summon before the Grand Jury now in session such persons as have declared over their signatures that the White League exists in that State, causing reign of terror and rendering the lives of Union men insecure. Nearly two hundred persons professing to have been Union sol- diers have signed their names to a card addressed to President Grant, alleging these facts in justification of General Sheridan's ‘‘banditti” despatches, Amongso many witnesses there must be some actual knowledge of the existence of these lawless and murderous bands, and Governor Garland is resolved to ascertain the truth, and to bring the guilty White Leaguers to justice under the State Ku Klux act. In a despatch to President Grant the Governor announces his determina- tion to use all the power of the government to break up the White League or any kindred association, if found to exist ingthe State, to punish the offenders, and to call upon the Legislature, now in session, to pass stringent laws to that end. It must be a great satis- faction to President Grant to find that im Arkansas at least there is no occasion for the interference of the federal troops with State affairs, but that the Governor and the Legis- lature have the power and the will to enforce the laws and preserve the public peace. Ma. Wouus A. Waxtace will be the com- ing Senator from Pennsylvania, replacing Mr. Scott. This result of the democratic victory last fall will, we presume, give general satis- faction to the party, though many of its mem- bers would have preferred Mr. Buckalew or Judge Black. Mr. Wallace has earned promotion by his faithful service to “his party, and as chairman of its State Committee, especially, that service has been of the utmost value. Yet upon this field he has displayed his abilities almost entirely as a politician ; in his new. sphere it is to be hoped that he will remember that the State and the country will require from him other duties than those of a manager of a party. The wave of victory has lifted him to a com- manding position in the national councils, and his course in the Senate will be watched with unusual interest. Tat a Crrizen should be killed by a loco- motive engine almost in the centre of the city is not creditable to the railroad management of New York, and the public will therefore approve the censure of the Hudson River Company by the Coroner's jury, in the case of Mrs. McCormick, whose death was caused by culpable mismanagement last Sunday. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. SiR ALT Ae On the 3d of November last the Mikado of Japan was twenty-four years old. Ex-Governor J. B. Page, of Vermont, is regu tered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. SurgeonCharles C. Byrne, United States Army, ‘is quartered at the Hoffman House. protessor T. Sterry Hunt, of Boston, 18 residing | temporarily at the Everett Houses Rev. Dr. J. H. Eccleston, of Philade)phia, nas apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. State Senator Nathaniel Wheeler, of Connectt- cut, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. It would have been betver for Sneridan had he been “twenty miles away.’’—Boston Post. Mr.James F. Joy, President of the Michigan Central Ratlway Company, is at the Windsor ied Baron and Baroness de Bussierre, of Parts, arrived from Washington yesterday at the Hof- man House. Lieutenant Commander Boynton Leach, United States Navy, has taken up his quarters at the Hoifman House. Senator Logan 1s almost as great on reconstruc- tion as he was last winter on finance. He’s a breezy genius, One of our foreign Ministers intends to write a treatise on water—in its application to shares in joint stock companies. The Earl of Caithness, of Scotland, arrived from Havana yesterday in the steamship Crescent City audis at the Brevoort House, Brussels 1s discussing @ great ball to be given by the city at the Hotel de Ville on the occasion og the marriage of the King’s daughter to the Duke of Saxe. Robert Cushing, the sculptor, is engaged on a bust of the Hon, John Keily, to which he is giving the finishing touches, The likeness is a remark. ably good one. Sixty million dollars, divided in “little divs” in these parts for the first of the year, gives tne exact dimension of the bloated bondholder. Where’s Logan? Kellogg’s Legislature seems to be of the opinion that Pinchback’s case will be the stronger for re- election; butif Pincnback needs this can Kellogg get on without 1t? ‘The report of the Congressional Committee sent to New Orleans ts now ia order; and the more the friends o! the administration try to smother it the more important 1t will become, Kladderadatsch (the Berlin Punch) represents the leading ultramontane members of the German Parliament in jackets, saying that they have re- solved to give the lie to Prince Bismarck, who stated that Kullman held fast by their coattails. There has been no more shametul fact in the whole Beecher-Tilton history than the parade in court of the two women wost Interested in the case, That sacrifice of two souls for the sake of efect on the jury is more cruel and terrible than all that went before. At present the republican party, in the showing of Logan, assumes @ queer atiitude. It came into | power some years since as the exclusive posses- sor of all the public virtue and with a mission to drive out the evil spirit; bat now if it can finda aemocratic precedent for any act it commits it considers the act justified. 18 the thing wrong? On no, for “the democrats aid jt.” In the year 1874 there were imported at the cities of New York and Boston 153,082 baskets of champagne, or 1,836,984 bottles, in fact considera- bly less than @ bottle and a half apiece for eaca of us for one year. If there were only 6,000 who take a bottle a day this Wou'd consume nearly all the imported champagne. But certainly 5,000 bottles @ day cannot cover the consumption in these two cities and im the country they supply. Where, then, does the rest come from ? One night recently the gas suddenly went out in Marseilles and left the whole city in darkness, Atthat moment @ gymnast was performing on the flying trapeze in the theatre. He was even in the air at that very instant, having made his leap jrom one trapeze to catch the other. He caught the other successfally, but in such a nervous con- dition that he remained in @ convulsive or cata- leptic state. He could not relax his grasp to change his position; his muscles held rigidly as steel and his whole body was fixed swithging like astone. He was taken down in that condition and recovered next day. A nondescript Mat fish, half shark, half ray, eight inches long. five wide and one and one- sixteenth thick, has been found on the San Paulo (Braai!) coast, among rocks constantly bathed by the sea, It lives on the sea urchins (echinide), attacks them and breaks off their spines with @ bony beak, and when they are dis- armed devours their fesh among the rocks, se- curing itself while doing so in a crevice by means of two stroug fins, fortified by bony plates from the shouiders, Its back is rough and coverea with It appears sltogether unkoown to aci- ike & bat the | spines. | ence, but as it looks very muck | dsuermen call it a 8ea bat