The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1875, Page 6

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L Foarteenth strect a CROWN, at 8 P. Ma; cl ‘TRIPLE SHE NEW YORK, 1 From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cold and partly cloudy. Waxx Street Yestenpay.—The stock mar- ket was much unsettled by sharp fluctuations. Gold was firm at 1123. Foreign exchange firm and money on call Joana easy at 2} and 3 per cent. To-Day Governor Bedie will be inaugurated | at Trenton with appropriate ceremonies. Tue Two Proressioxs that now seem to be | most profitable are doorkeepers in the House of Representatives and attorneys-at-law. Tre Serzvne of a Roman Catholic seminary by the Prussian diocese will add stil! more to the hatred felt for Bismarc': opponents, and martyrdom never ‘fails to | strengthen the cause in which it is endured. Wesprizr Pamurs on Crvm Ricats.— | Whatever Wendell Phillips says upon public affairs is always heard with respect, if rot with approval ; first, because he is known to | be honest and sincere ; second, because of his anquestionable ability. Tie letter which we publish from him to-day upon the new Civil | Rights bill, which has passed the Senate and | ‘s now before the House, will be read with in- | terest, as the expression of a man who has won the right to speak boldly upon this ques- | tion. His objection to the bill is that it allows the establishment of separate schools for whites and blacks, which, he argues, would be a surrender of the principles upon | which the war was waged and a dangerons concession to the South. The opponents of mized schools for the races say that they | would destroy the educational systema in the South, and Mr. Phillips believes that separate schools would have a similar result. Tur Maxor ayy tax Comprrotier had an interesting conversation yesterday at the meeting of the Board of Apportionment. There is now due to the employés of the new Court House nearly three thousand dollars, and, though money is admittedly wble from one or other surplus, Mr. Green gays it is not possible to pay them. Mayor was not satisfied with this excu: and told the Comptroller that it was not right that these poor people should be kept out of their earnings for weeks at a time, merely | frou now until the next election, and that a | The public because of some technicality. will agree with this sensible opinion, and Mr. Green, before the next meeting of the Board, will doubtless cut the Gordian knot with which his red tape bas been tied authorities and the severe | punishment of the bishop and clergy of the | He is making martyrs of his | procur- The » | and _NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, schnitnadatn SHEET, [ane Democratic: ConferencenLines of Domoeratic Departure. We are rejoiced to learn that a national conference of democratic leaders is about to be held in Washington for the purpose of con- sidering the best plan for organizing the party | for the Presidential campaign. Mr. Kernan, | Judge Black, Senator Eaton, of Connecticut, | | Reverdy Johnson and a number of other gen- | | tlemen of equal standing in the party councils will meet and discuss the whole ground. One of our correspondents says they will establish | “a leading demoeratic paper in Washington, in order that the democrats in the Forty-fourth Congress will not be without an organ.”” Va- | rious plans for the organization of the party | in various States will be discussed, and we have no doubt that the movement will assume an important aspect and exercise a wide influ- | ence upon the destinies of the party in the next campaign. that the democrats cannot well ignore. The country ‘has not thoroughly transferred | power to their leaders. The success of the last campaign was, more than any- | thing else, a republican protest against the follies of a republican administration. It did not mean that the democratic party should be ultimately intrusted with the country. It was rather, an impulse than a movement. It came suddenly, without alarm or preparation. This was seen in the fact that Maine, in the spring, went republican. If the election had taken place six months later it would have as certainly gone democratic as Pennsylvania or Ohio; for six months later the tidal wave was sweeping. Nothing is mors uncertain f than these political revolutions, as the Presi- | dential canvass of Mr. Greeley showed—the | spring full of victory, while autumn brought disaster. The problem betore the republicans | isto do away with the irritations which led to this revulsion; to accept the defeat as a lesson and a chbastening; to reform ths ad- ministration; to utilize the dormant war feel- ing, which still fears there may bea revived | confederacy, and still respects the great ser- vices of General Grant. The party, strength- ened by the powerful machinery of govern- ment patronage which rests in the hands of } every administration, will make a new and by no means a forlorn struggle for power. | Mr. Wilson, in his letter on the situation, | defines some of the methods by which it may | succeed. The Vice President refuses to | believe that the republican party is dead, | but, on the contrary, is confident that by a | few wise measures of reform it can regain all | that it bas lost; and many republicans who | are dissatisfied with the course of its leaders still agree with him that itis a necessity to | the country. Itis true that he asks a good | deal; tor the non-interference of government | offictals in the elections, the withdrawal of the | whip of party discipline, the restoration of the liberal republicans to their former places, generosity and magnanimity and the sacrifice of personal ambition are hard measures tor the republican leaders to adopt. A young man in the New Testament likewise desired eternal life, but when he was told that he must sell all that he bad and give it to the poor we learn that he ‘‘was very sor- | rowful, for he was very rich.’’ The adminis- tration is in similar distress ; yet the democrats | must not suppose that they may safely trust to | the selfishness of a great party, for the true solution of the difficulty which Mr. Wilson suggests may be enforced ‘upon the leaders. The democrats have enough work of their own to do, and the problem now before them is to | weaken the influence of the President by continual assaults upon him; to prevent | the republicans from securing any practical legislation; to keep the sore spots in the South | in constant irritation; to force the adminis- tration into a state of bankruptcy and gen- | eral disintegration, and so shape their own policy that they will indicate to the country | that they represent a regenerated, progres- | sive, new democracy—not the Bourbon ele- | ments of the past. Thus far since the canvass the democrats have only made one point—namely, their attack upon the administration on account of | | Louisiana. This arose, not from their own wis- dom, but from the folly of the President and | | the precipitancy of General Sheridan. This | | assault has been a blessed chance to the demo- | erats. They have used it to their advantage | with consummate ability and perseverance. | | Upon other questions they have gnined | nothing. Instead of showing to the country, | | by their selection of Senators, for instance, | that they had taken a new departure in | | principles and leaderships, they have proved | that the ante-war machine still runs in the old ruts. Eaton in Connecticut and Wallace in | | Pennsylvania simply illustrate that the demo- j | cratic party is precisely where it was twenty | years ago. The defeat of Schurz in Missouri ‘There are many points in the political future | to-day will be governed by the principles of the democracy which made Buchanan Presi- | dent and the-party will be beaten in every Northern State. Tho duty of the conference ; is to destroy this impression ; to lead the party | into the ways of moderation, sincerity, patri- otism, concession and truth. ‘That done, and in the natural progress of events nothing is | more certain than the triumph of the party in the next campaign for. the Presidency and its continuance in a long period of power. Our Navy—The Admiral’s Report. From Admiral Porter's report it results that as wears no longer’a maritime nation in the commercial sense so we are also no longer a naval Power~in “the militiry sense. Our renown gathered in the early days of the Re- public, and the record of some good fights and some great inventions in the recent war, are all that are left to us of a naval glory that promised to fil] the world with the names of | our seagoing heroes. Farragut and Porter and Winthropand-Cushing; Perry, Decatur, Bainbridge and Hull, are names that we muy treasure, for it will evidently be many a long year before any new hst ot this class will be added to the roll. Our naval register shows forty-eight monitors, and_yet we haye not one ship, iron-clad or otherwise, that would be of the slightest value in a naval combat with any capable enemy. Ont of the forty-cight monitors thus recorded only six are fit tor service of any sort, and their armor would be before modern artillery scarcely more effective for resistance than the veneering on an old chest of drawers, Not only are the monitors useless for close combat at sea or elsewhere, but our wooden ships aro also useless as cruisers from their want of speed. It seems to be recognized that in the naval war- fare ot our time wooden ships are no longer to be counted, save for their speed as cruisers in some such service as was performed by the A 'a- bama, or by the Kearsage against that famous ship ; but our wooden ships, our “‘swift sailing cruisers,” are inferior in speed to the enormous iron-clads, the floating Gibraltars of England. Not only are our monitors valueless as iron- clads and our cruisers as cruisers, but our ar- tillery is also of the sort that an enemy would find absolutely innocuous. Shots from either Whitworth or Krupp guns could, in the words of Admiral Porter’s report, ‘‘perforate the tur- rets of any of our monitors, while the vessels from which they were fired could remain at o distance where our smooth bore guns could do them no harm.”’ And the same authority as- sures us that ‘our navy as compared with others is like a foot soldier armed with a pis- tol encountering a mounted man clad in armor, and armed with a breech-loading rifle.” ,In Europe, in the hands of various governments, there are’ upward of one hun- dred iron-clads, of which not only is any one superior to the best of ours, but of which cer- tain ones could, in the opinion of our own Admiral, cut down or disable every ship of our navy in a single battle, The possibility of improving our present navy, iron-clad and wooden, by alterations and the application of modern improvements may ocenr to some. But this hope the Ad- miral destroys. If our present worthless iron-clads were improved—which could only be done by making their armor stronger—they would become too heavy for use. What we need isa fleet of monitors, with invulnerability and speed, so that we might properly defend our coast and follow any attacking vessels. With- j out speed the iron-clads are simply harbor | defences afloat. We cannot get these quali- ties by tinkering our present iron-clads, and if we desire to continue a naval Power we must put ourselves in o condition to meet other first class Powers on the sea. For the same reasons it is idle any longer to repair our old wooden ships. We should entirely rebuild them, with nsw hulls and improved machinery and guns, and we ‘‘should construct a fleet of swift wooden cruisers of at least twelve hun- dred tous, with a speed of not less taan four- teen knots and with the heaviest Batteries.” These are the measures that would prove the most economical in the end, provided we do- sire to retain our rank among the nations of the world. It must be conceded, however, that if our present government has deprived us of a navy it has also deprived us of our commerce on the ocean—about the only thing we require a navy to protect. As to foreign war and invasion, we need be under no ap- prehension of danger from that quarter, while, as the London Times assures us, j all the nations of Europe are arming to the teeth and “the momentary dreams of peace have fled away.” To be sure, this is only an accidental, perhaps an unforeseen, protection. Nevertheless, in view of the im- becility of our government, we may well be grateful that we may reckon on it with some | degree of certainty. | and the election of General Cockrell, an officer of the Southern army, is a suggestive | and unfortunate fact. It is a blunder that | | never should have been committed by a wise | party. Missouri was practicaliy a Northern | State during the war—at least, it was held in | | the Northern lines. While it is natnral | | | enough that the Southern States should elect | | their army leaders to Congress such action in | free and Northern Missouri will give oppor- | tunity for acrimony and censure. | welcome the rebel from the South, but we are hardly ready to do so from the North. | Nothing has been said in Congress about | the one-term issue. The democrats, during | the canvass, heralded from every stump that | the great danger of the Republic was Cresar- ism. Naturally the first thing they would do in Congress would be to offer a one-term amendment to the constitution. word has been said on the subject. We have had angry speeches from Mr. Bayard and low ues trom Mr. tion on the one subject which ouly was in ry denfoeratic mouth. lus isa point to which the confer- ence should address itself. It should teach its followers that tl uatry expects from the democrats not only cantion in their poliey, but the utmost frankness and sincerity. It should that party ever merely by ao hurrah drums; that the such qnestions as comedy ha a word or a admouish them no goes into power beating of excited by Louisiana soon die out; a passions great many things hajpen in two years; that, | above all things, there should be good faith _and cireumspection. The democratic party | | will never gain power upon its past record, (Ouce estabiish the fact that the democrats of We shall | Not one | Tipton, but not | | court. that it is two years | Tue Brooxtyn Trrau.—Mr. Moulton’s tes- timony was continued yesterday, and aiter considerable discussion btween the opposing counsel upon the admission of certain letters and documents which he produced his direct examination was closed. It was a long story, but the sequel promises to be less fluently re- lated. Mr. Moulton’s cross-examination by Judge Porter began in the afternoon and was continued till the adjournment, and he still remains the central figure in the trial, as he was the mutual friend in the exciting drama which preceded it. The purpose of this cross-examination is explained in our full and descriptive report, and it will be resumed to- day with probably more vigor. The personal | interest of the trial is contimued by the presence of the leading parties to it in court, but yes- terday Mr. Beecher was conspicuous in his absence from his accustomed cigs Mn. Tween anp tue Crry. ~The long pend- ing suit against Mr. Tweed for eleven millions of dollars belonging to the city, but supposed | to be in his possession, yesterday appeared in The Board of Supervisors being now abolished, the motion was made to bring the suit m the name of the Mayor and Com- monalty. The counsel for Mr. Tweed opposed this, on the ground that the Consolidation act is unconstitutional. Thus we see that Mr. | Tweed wants to keep the money and gain his freedom; but he is likely to find that he can- not have both the cake and the penny. Ex-Srxaton Moroan was yesterday compli- mented by the last honors the New York re- publican legislators conld render him. ‘They named him as a candidate for defeat, and he will go with his sword in hand to surrender it | to Mr, Kernan, Removal of “city ‘Ofticers ‘for “Cause.” A republican contemporary puts forth some doctrines respecting the Mayor’s power of re- moval which showa partisan bias and inat- tention to the actual provisions of the charter. Tts evident purpose is to influence the judg- ment and restrain the action of Mayor Wick- ham, and by artful compliments to Governor Tilden induce him to mterpose his negative if the Mayor should remove Messrs. Smith and Green. It is important that the law on this subject be clearly understood. To this end we will point out wherein the positions of our contemporary are untenable. It contends that when the head of a department has been removed by the Mayor for cause, ‘the is en- titled to the benefit of an appeal to the Ex- ecutive of the State." But the charter cer- tainly gives him no title to be heard’ before the Governor. It does sectize him an oppor- tunity to be heard in his defence before the Mayor, but the Governor is to act on the Mayor's written statement of reasons without otherevidence. ‘The Mayor shallin all cases communicate to the Governor, in writing, his reasons for such removal.’’ But the only right which the charter gives to the removed ‘officer, ‘after the Mayor's action, is to demand of the Mayor “a public statement of the rea- sons therefor.’’ The charter gives him no right to make a defence except before the Mayor and provious to removal. Great emphasis is laid on the fact that the charter requires removals to be ‘for cause.” The whole superstructure of our contempo- rary’s reasoning is raised upon this founda- tion. The argument may be exploded by a simple reterence to another part of the char- ter, which contains a parallel provision. We tefer to the authority conferred on the heads of departments to remove their regular clerks and heads of bureaus, The charter is just as explicit in requiring that these removals shall be ‘‘for cause’’ as that the removal of the head of a department shall be ‘for cause.”’ The exnct language of the charter on this point is:—‘‘No regular clerk or head of a ‘bureau shall be removed until he shall have been informed of the cause of the proposed removal and has been allowed an opportunity of making an explanation, and in every case of a removal the true grounds thereof shall be forthwith entered upon the records of the department or board.’’ It logically tollows from a comparison of these similar provisions that any ‘‘cause,’’ “grounds” or ‘‘reason” which is sufficient to justify the removal of a department clerk is also sufficient to justify the removal of the head of a department. This conclusion is irresistible, because the same language is used in both cases. The gravity of the charges need be no greater in one case than in the other; but nobody has ever contended that the department clerks cannot be removed except for criminal violation of duty, as is assumed in relation % the heads of depart- ments. Incapacity, negligence, indolence, discourtesy, or @ mere want of punctuality or efficiency has always been deemed a sufficient “cause’’ for the removal of any clerk or head ofa bureau. The character of the displaced officer is protected by requiring a statement of the actual reason. If the cause is slight his repu- tation cannot suffer much by the removal; but the charter makes the head of the department the sole judge of the sufficiency of the cause, prescribing no other rule than his own dis- cretion. As the Mayor's power of removal is conveyed in the same language he has the same discretion, except that he must communi- cate his reason, whatever it is, to the Gov- ernor, who is equally untrammelled in judging of its sufficiency. The Governor is required to act on no other evidence than the Mayor's own statement without any further hearing. Thére is no warrant for giving the word “cause’’ a broader signification in removing the head of a department than in removing the head of a bureau. This being the state of the law we shall be quite astomshed if Gov- ernor Tilden declines to sanction any of \!ayor Wickham’s removals for cause, for he has no authority to review the evidence, and is merely callel to judge whether the assigned reason is frivolous. As the Mayor will not, in any case, proceed upon frivolous reasons, we are confident that the Governor will not over- rule kim, for it would be inconsistent with his professed devotion to the right of local self- government. The interposition which he ad- vocates in his Message is interposition for the prosecution of fraud when the local authori- ties fail in their duty; not to keep personal friends in office when the public interest re- quires their removal, which would be too close an imitation of President Grant’s discredit- able nepotism. Twesty-rxzE Bariors were taken in the Rhode Island Legislature last June for Senator without result, and to-day, when it assembles again, there is no apparent change in the sit- uations. General Burnside and Mr. Dixon are still the leading candidates, and we may again expect the irresistible force of the one to meet the immovable body of the other. It is not unlikely that a compromise must be made, unless Rhode Is!and is willing to leave Senator Sprague without any present suc- cessor. Smuccrers.—We are glad to see the pro- ceedings instituted against officials accused of aiding smngglers pushed to conviction. Would it not also be well to make an example of the shoddy swells who encourage this sys- tem of defrauding the revenue? It isa pity to see the poor rogue made to suffer while his rich accomplice is allowed to escape without punishment. The wealthy people who en- courage smuggling are far more criminal than the needy tools they hire to do their work, They should be made to feel that smuggling, however fashionable it may have become, is, | after all, only a mean system of robbery, which the law punishes with imprisonment in | @common jail, Ii Murray Hill were made to recognize these facts there would be a con- | siderable falling off in the smuggling business. | Tux Pennsyivanta Senatorsare will be decided to-day, and the chances of Mr. Wal- | lace’s election are somewhat diminished by | the death yesterday of Mr. | cratic representative, and an accident to another member. The contest is very close, | but whether Mr, Wallace is beaten or not the | choice of a democrat should be inevitable, | | The Pennsylvania democracy won a Senator last year, and they would never forgive, nor would the national party forgive, any man who | should deprive them of the fruits of that vic- | tory by treachery, Fagan,, a demo- | “Investigation.” The opinion seems to be gaining ground that the investigation of the Pacific Mail sub- sidy corruption in Washington is a comedy, and that there are interests involved in this matter that cannot afford to come to light. Mr. Schumaker, for instance, has been treated with great indulgence, and Congressman King has been allowed to>remain away from the sessions of the committee without an apparent effort to find him. All that we really know is that several thousands of dollars have been distributed among newspaper correspondents, lobbyists and officers of the House. With this result the committee seems to be satisfied. It is certain that no such satisfaction will be shared by the country. There is no sane man in America, for instance, who believes that ten or fifteen thousand dollars paid to the Doorkeeper of the House was really meant for services performed in the interests of any subsidy. The whole corps of doorkeepers could be purchased for half the money. The truth, no doubt, is that this dependent was the representative of a Congressman, who, in this way, obtained his money. It is impossi- ble to believe that the large sums paid to correspondents were intended for their own use. An agent of a corporation who imagined that ho could profitably | Spend fifteen or twenty thousand dollars upon one or two correspondents, representing jour- nals of no importance, would be as callow as a sophomore. All these facts are appar- ent to the country. The people have com- mon sense and can reason out these conclu- sions as well as Congressmen. The Pacific Mail investigation really estab- lishes one of two things—either that the money paid to Mr. Irwin was distributed among Congressmen for their votes or that it was squandered by that gentleman and three or four associates in stock speculation or for other purposes. We cannot, from the evi- dence, make up our mind which story is true, ‘We do not believe in hastily condemning Congressmen without evidence of tne most incontrovertible character. It would afford us great pleasure to learn that the company had lost its money by some other means than bribery. The fact that there should be any doubt of the real truth shows the purposeless character of the investigation. If the fom- mittee of Ways and Means do not find some means of coming at the truth the country will believe that the truth is the very thing they do not wish to find. Dr. Kenealy. The case of Dr. Kenealy, who has been dis barred and removed from the office of Queen’s Counsel, because of his action in the Tich- borne case, is, as we learn from the English papers, exciting much sympathy. One news- paper says ‘that there is a strong feeling among members of the Bar that the special offence for which he has been cut off from the exercise of his profession” has been too severely punished, and that his offences, “however odious and reprehensible,” do not come within the jurisdiction of the benchers who have disbarred him. Some friends of the Doctor announce that in the event of this decision being confirmed he will leave London and take up his residence in America. The special offence of the Doctor was the writing of articles in the newspapers abusing the judges before whom he practised. It was held that, being an officer of the law, charged with the adminis- tration of justice, his attacks upon the Bench were calculated to bring justice into con- tempt, and were really a serious form of blackmailing. The question whether a law- yer can honorably pursue such practices is one deeply important, not only to the Bar in England, but in America. We shall await the decision of the judges with interest. If they restore Dr. Kenealy to his position as Queen’s Counsel and member of the Bar it will be a declaration that the independence of the law- yer is of higher consideration than the etiquette of the profession. Whatever the legal results of this trial may be, Dr. Kenealy has been so severely condemned, morally, that he can scarcely live in England as an efficient member of the Bar. Charity in Silence. Fors long time the Euglish newspapers have been acknowledging the receipt of checks for a thousand pounds for various benevolent objects from 9 person whose name never could be discovered. The money was gen- erally sent by post, either through the Times or some other respectable journal. Much curiosity was manifested to know the name of this extraordinary and modest benefactor, who would, under no cirenmstances, allow his can- dle to be taken {rom under the bushel. Rumor grew, and it came to be widely believed that the Queen was actually taking this method of and that she was earninga newtitle to the endearment of her subjects by scattering thousand pound notes tor purposes of general benevolence. It has now been ascertained that the real person was a Mr. Atwood, ‘an old gentleman living near Cheshunt.’ He was about eighty years of age, a bachelor, and had amassed a large fortune in the manufacture of glass. He lived in com- plete retftement and has recently died. Since his death it has been discovered that he gave away one million seven hundred thou- sand dollars in this manner, and that in the last year of his life his donations amounted to two hundred and twenty-five thousand dol- lars. Notwithstanding the enormous sums thus contributed to the public welfare Mr. Atwood left a fortune of five million dollars, This is an odd but pleasing evidence of an ec- centric disposition. It destroys, however, one of the most popular delusions concerning the Queen. A Lost Pictunr.—The London journals are bemvaning the irreparable loss to British art in the destruction of Hogarth’s famous picture of ‘The Strolling Players in a Barn.” This picture was in the country mansion of toe Wood family. The owner of the estate— a young man recently attaining his majority— | had arranged to rent his house for the season. With this view most of the pictures bad been | removed, and it was intended to have placed the Hogarth picture in the loan collection of a | public museum. ‘Unhappily,’’ says the London Telegraph, “before this sensible de- sign could be carried out a fire took place, and the priceless picture is lost to the pro- prietor and the country forever.’ ‘The Strolling Players in a Barn’’ was painted Leriginally im 1741 for am ancestor of the disbursing a part of her enormous fortune, | ‘Wood family, Hogarth received for the work seventy-five pounds, and his receipt for this modest payment was attached to the picture. The Bayonet in Vicksburg. The sincerity of the President's Louisiana Message of explanation and apology is made dubious by his action yesterday in Vicksburg. At the special election for Sheriff in that city on December 31 one Flanagan claimed a majority over Crosby, the colored candidate, Governor Ames applied for troops to prevent & possible disturbance at the opening of the Court, and yesterday, by the authority of the President, acting through General Emory, Captain Head, of the Third United States in- fantry, went to the Court House and expelled Flanagan by military force. A guard of soldiers was thon placed over the Sheriff's office, which was afterward removed, when the office was turned over to the President of the Board of Supervisors. In all of these proceedings Judge Hill declined to interfere, So we see that the Army of the United States is expected not only to determine wha shall be Governors and who are entitled ta seats as legislators, but who shall be city and county officers. The President claims the right to seat a sheriff. Napoleon marked the places of armies by sticking pins in the map of Europe, but General Grant pierces the map of tke peaceful South with bayonets. In such @ case as this his interference has no excuse, especially after his Message to Congress, and it looks like a quiet defiance of the protest sa emphatically made by the people. Only in the caso of the militia of Mississippi failing to carry out the law of the State should the federal authority be exerted ; but Governor Ames did nothing and the courts did noth- ing. The interference is practically but the continuation of the Louisiana business, and will surely be condemned by the country. It tends rather to destroy than uphold the suv- ereignty of the State, and will throw new dis- credit upon the national administration, In his Message the President said, in reference to Louisiana affairs, ‘‘I can conceive of no case not involving rebellion or insurrection where such interference by authority of the general government ought to be permitted or can be justified.’ Was there rebellion or in- surrection in Vicksburg yesterday >. We know of none, unless it was rebellion » gainst the constitution by the President of \ ba United States himself. War m Evrorg is teared by the London Times, which says, ‘The momentary dreams of peace have fled away.’, Germany is armed, and the surrounding nations are forced to arm in their own defence. Yet a few months ago the Emperor William an- nounced that his policy was one of peace, but even then, as now, the pledge was understood asa menace. ‘There is order in Warsaw” was once the boast of those monarchs who partie tioned Poland ; but, as Thomas Meagher de- fined it, it was the order of tae charnel house and the grave. Germany seems disposed to entorce peace by crushing her rivals’ and making resistance impossible. Duscrerrxz.—The severity with which Arche bishop Manning is enforcing his will upon the Catholics in England is shown by the fact that in the recent ‘Catholic Directory,”’ pub- lished in London, the name of Lord Camoys has been stricken from the list of Catholio peers. Lord Camoys has fora long time been one of the most celebrated of Catholic néble- men. When Archbishop Manning published his letter on the Vatican decrees His Lordship dissented from the episcopal! construction of the doctrine of Papal infallibility. The Arche bishop consequently replies by striking his name from the list of Catholic peers, thus vire tually certifying to the world that he no longer recognizes him as a member o. the Church, Tae Sroven ‘“‘Murm1o” has been sent to Spain, and with it has gone the seller of tho picture in this city. The story of kidnapping is thus exploded, for Garcia, as will be seen elsewhere, went voluntarily in order to estab- lish his innocence of the theft. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Captain R. B. Lowry, United States Navy, ts quartered at the Everets House, Judge A. G. Magrath, of Souch Carolina, is ree siding at the Westminster Hotel. Protessor T. Sterzy Hunt, of Boston, has taken up bis residence at the Everett House, Chief Engineer William i. Shock, United States Navy, 1s stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Joho Hitz, Swiss Consui General for the United States, is sojourning at the Grand Central Hotel. The royal family of Hanover—King George, Queen Marie and the Prince and Princess Royal— are all tn Par! Mr. W. W. W. Wood, Cluef of the Bureau of Bn gineering of the Navy Department, arrived from Washington last eveniug at the Union Square Hotei. Attorney General Williams bas *‘no faith” in the accuracy of the report of the Congressiona! com- mittee sent to New Orleans, Let him get one from Kellogg. Two persons employed inthe financial depart ment of the city of, Paris have beeu caught in cor. rapt praciices, involving smal! robveries of $40,000, They make a great noise over it, Won't somebody tread on the tail of the coat of the wild Irishman of the Washington Administra- tion organ’? He is spo'ling sor a fignt wita some. body. Won't somebody notice him? He brooks Not silent contempt, Funny that all the men who stayed in Washing. ton know that the statements made regarding Louisiana by the men who went there are “false,” It is like Livingstone’s account of the London geographers, who write “inuer Africa laia open" without leaving their firesides. In excavations made for the Lyons Ratlroad near Fourvieres, France, they have come upon im. portant Roman ruins, An entire Gallo-Roman city was swallowed up in that nemhvorhood by Ii 18 thought these an earthquake in the year 800, ruins may be some part of th King Kalakaua was inie West by a reporter of the Eris Wee ‘kly Disnaten, to whom His Majesty gave many impressions of his journey, Me expressed his appreciation ot our hitmble selves in the opinion that “the EERALD 1s the greatest newspaper i tue world.” His Ma+ Jesty is a potentate of taste and sound judgment, Attorney General Williams wants to know how could the Congressional New Orleans Special Com. mittee post itself in ight days’ stay in the Crescent city. Ofcourse, these men coud not be expected to learn as much in eight days as gallant “little Phil? in four! Of course not! Aad tue three Congressmen were lawyers, too. Logan says that “one man was made President for making New Orleans behave itself.” Lozan isa great historian—a better one than all tne rost of us together, Will he, theretore, tell us who tas man was? Up to this time we have only heard of one President whose name was associated with New Orieans, and that was Jackson, who was made President because he whipped the british im that neighborhood. Who was tue man who made them behave themselves aba wus made Presiaaas Jor is?