The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1875, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On afd after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Hzrarp will be sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphio despatches must be addressed New Yore Henarp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE 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. VOLUME XL- eeccacceneseeantty @ AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. THEATRE COMIQU! Foe Broadway. VARIETY, er closes at 10745 BRUOKLYN PARK THEATRE, aimed THE CONTINENT, at 8 ¥. M; closes at 1045 ROMAN HIPPODROME, Twenty-sixth street and Fourth avenue —Afternoon and evening, at 2 and & TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSB, og" aad Bowery.—VABIETY, at 6 P. M.; closes st 1075 repepsyend eae ded Beery of axa nty-e! street and Broadway. —' Da Ca closes at 10.0 P.M, Mr. Lewis, Miss Davenport, Miss Jewett. West ni fuirds Twronty tDir Witsrabler 2c, Bryant. PARK THEATRE, Broadway, between Twenty-first and Twen: ta—Opera Bouffe—LA ¥ILLE DE GRGor avs 45 PM. P. M.; closes at 10 Fourteenth street —DIE theses at 10:45 P. N My JADAME GERMANIA THEATRE, FLEDERMAUS, at 8 P.M; M. Miss Lina Mayr. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, teenth street.—Englisn (pera—iL TROVATOBE, at , M., closes at 10:80 FP. M. Miss Kellogg. NIBLO’S, Ptve—taconas DOWN, at 8, M.; closes at 1045 nth street, between’ Second, oy Third averuss— 3 vitrta ath P. M.; closes at 11 P. M. 8AN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Brgediyay ofonmer of, Twenty ninth street NEGRO INSTRELSY, até P. M.; closes at lu P, M. 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JA 25, From our reports this morning the probabilities @re that the weather to-day will be colder and lear. BAe omeeN ee Ovr Loxpow Letrer to-day contains much pleasant reading, including a review of the satires upon the Prince of Wales, which deal with some of the current scandals of English society. Gazrpatnr arrived in Rome yesterday, and was received by the municipality and the citizens with the wildest enthusiasm. No man has done more for Italian unity than he, and he has lived to receive the gratitude of | his nation. Tue Srrcctar Disappearance of an old man in Philadelphia is the subject of a letter from that city. When we contrast this mystery with that of the Charley Ross case the kidnap- pers of Philadelphia remind us of what Gen- eral Grant said of the Confederate govern- ment, for they rob both the cradle and the grave. Tre Porice.—We throw still farther light this morning upon the management of the business at Police Headquarters, and it is to be hoped that the Commissioners will soon know enough on the subject to act more intel- ligently and to better purpose. Parce Bismancx anp ‘re Henarp.—Our readers will be pleased to have the fall text of Prince Bismarck’s recent attack upon the Henatp, through his official organ, on ac- count of the Von Arnim affair, and this, together with the reply of the Berlin corre- spondent of this journal, we print this morn- ing. It will be seen that the Allgemeine Zeitung does not hurt us, but gets rather severely handled in return. Tar Wratten Yrstenpay.—The difficulty of crossing the North and East rivers in the winter season constitutes a forcible argument in favor of rapid transit in New York. Yes- terday both ot the rivers were full of ice, and Brooklyn and Jersey City were practically blockaded. Travel was interrupted and prob- ably one hundred thousand persons were pre- In this city the streets were filled with slush and the cars The want of or seen Niagara Falls will avail themselves ot speedy transit kept many thousands of pions people from attending church, and thus Gov- | ernor Tilden and Mayor Wickham may feel | combine the visit with an opportunity that vented from using the ferries. were considerably impeded. 'SEUM, eh street.—JACK HARK. | The Great Centennial Exposition. As soon as this Congress adjourns—and the sands of its worthless life will have run out in 8 little more than five weeks—the most popu- lar and engrossing topic for the residue of this year and the greater part of the next will be the International Exposition of Art | and Industry by which this nation will cele- brate the hundredth anniversary of its inde- pendence. It is a celebration fitted to awaken every sentiment of patriotism and national pride, to recall whatever is most venerable and ennobling in our national history, to invite a proud comparison between the young- est of the great political communities of the modern world and those which had the start | of it by many centuries, and to prove the superior value of free democratic institutions | in developing the resources and promoting the civilization, prosperity and happiness of a people, The Henaup has felt the impor- tance of this event from the beginning, but has foreborne to urge it upon public attention prematurely, not wishing to exhaust interest in the subject and render it stale by premature discussion. But the time | is approaching when it will occupy a large share of attention, not only in this country, but throughout the civilized world, and we | shall take advantage of the interest it excites | on its near approach to set forth its character as one of the most noteworthy events of the | age, and to communicate tothe world all | pertinent information which may be of value | to the thirty countries which will contribute | articles for exhibition. Already twenty-four | nations have signified their intention to par- | ticipate in so unique and unprecedented an exposition, and no true American can be will- ing that his country should appear to disad- | vantage on an occasion when the eyes of the civilized world will be directed toward it. The preparations for this event, both in this country and elsewhere, must be completed during the ensuing twelve months, and the scale of these preparations will be adjusted to the ideas which may be formed of its magni- tude and importance, The time has accord- ingly come when its-claims to attention should be adequately set forth and explained. Its success in 1876 depends on the sufficiency of the preparations made in 1875, and it is therefore important that the subject be faith- fully reconnoitred with a view toa correct estimate, in order that all interested may make intelligent plans for an occasion which draws so near. Before the Ist of May the Hznatp | will have put the world in possession of all requisite data for forming correct judgment on this suBject, which is of so much interest to | nations who seek to extend the foreign mar- | ket for their productions. We are already satisfied that, in an industrial view, the Amer- ican Centennial will deserve to rank with the most important events of the age. The question of its pecuniary success meets us on the threshold, and the pnblic needs to be satisfied on this head before it will em- bark with much zeal or zest in an under- taking which will be so splendid a success if the preparations are adequate, or so mortify- ing a failure if the industries of the world | should fail to perceive the greatness of the opportunity. Now, it must not be overlooked | that the pecuniary reimbursement ot the ex- | penses of such expositions depends mainly on | their exciting sufficient popular interest to | draw thronging multitudes of spectators, whose admission fees are the chief source of income. The productiveness of this source of revenue depends on the interest telt in the | Exposition in the country where it is held, | | Bon. Mr. Johnson received forty-three and | | Mr. Bates forty-eight. Thus Mr. Bates | needed but one more vote to en- ter the Senate; but just here, not apart from those given by foreign visitors, will greatly surpass that of any preceding sim- ilar Exposition. But will it attract foreign exhibitors and foreign visitors? There is no reason for doubt on either hand. As to exhibitors, their motive is to bring their goods into no- tice and find or extend a market, The United States are the most extensive and valuable of all foreign markets for the export- ing nations. Foreign producers have the strongest motives tor bringing their products to our notice and learning the nature of ours, in order that they may save themselves from # vain competition in articles in which we are their superiors. All exporting nations have aninterest in studying our vast market and recommending their ~ goods to American dealers and consumers, The Centennial will show every product of foreign artand industry, because no other market in the world for exported goods has the capacity of ours. And we may rely with almost equal confidence on ® vast influx of foreign spectators. Enlight- ened curiosity respecting this country has been widely diffused since our great civil war. The number of European visitors and tourists is constantly increasing, including scientists like Tyndall, men of letters like Kingsley, and statesmen like Fi There are thou- sands and thousands who have been intending to visit the United States at some time who will prefer to postpone or to hasten their visits and make them in a year when they can both observe a Presidential election and ex- amine the state of our arts and industries, The prospect of meeting many other Euro- peans of various nationalities and citizens of all the South American republics will be an added attraction. Moreover, there are hun- dreds of thousands of people in the Old World who have relatives and other friends in this country whom they would like to see, that will prefer to make their visits in so remark- ablea year. The visitors to the Centennial will probably be more than double the num- ber that have attended any former exhibition of the kind, and with such a prospect its managers will incur no risk in making their preparations on the largest scale. Andrew Johnson and the Senate. The secret of the intense oppositior to Andrew Johnson in the contest for the Senate is not explained to the satisfaction of the public. The people of Tennessee seem to be with him, but there is a powerful party against him in the Legislature, divided in regard to other candidates, but a unit in op- position to him. The friends of Brown, Bates, Quarles, Stephens and Ewing, however they may quarrel over the election of any of these gentlemen, are unanimous in thinking that Mr. Johnson should be defeated. In the session held on Saturday they attempted to defeat Mr. Johnson by detail, and will doubt- less resume this effort to-day. But the people appear to be with Mr. John- Amid all the extraordinary excitement of last week we think there are unmistakable proofs that Tennessee desires that Andrew Johnson shall represent her in the Senate. | On Saturday this excitement reached its height. Forty-nine votes were necessary to a choice, and of these, on the fourteenth ballot, | since thousands of natives will cheaply gratify | their curiosity for every foreigner who crosses “seas or makes expensive journeys for that | purpose. In this respect the advantage is | immeasurably on the side of the American | | Exposition as compared with its predecessors. | In the first place we have the double advan- | tage which results from the conjoint motives | of curiosity and patriotism, instead of the | In the next | | simple motive of curiosity. | place so much larger a proportion of | our population, as compared with that | of any other country, is in such cir- | cumstances of comfort and independence as | permit them to make journeys for pleasure | and recreation, that the visitors to a great | | American exposition are likely to be in the proportion of three or four to one, if measured | by any other population of forty millions. The | amount of railroad fares paid in this country | is conclusive on this point of the ability of our people to visit a great exposition without pecuniary inconvenience. In the third place the Centennial is so located as to make it j easier for a larger local population to take | part in it than in similar exhibitions since world’s fairs were first introduced. Phila- delphia is a sort of centre or nucleus of our | ! chief Eastern cities from Boston on the north | to Richmond on the south, distant by less than a day's journey. Boston, | Providence, New York, Baltimore, Wash- ington, the cities of Connecticut, the flourishing cities of New Jersey, are wthin such easy distance of Philadelphia that nearly all their inhabitants, down to the class of day laborers, will visit the Exposition, some of them once, and a large proportion of them many times, especially from New York, Baltimore and the New Jersey cities, whose | people can leave their houses in the morning, | spend six or seven hours in Philadelphia, and | return the same day. ‘The local visitors will be | out of all proportion to those at London, Paris | or Vienna, bringing a corresponding income to | the treasury of the Exposition. The hotels of New York and Baltimore will not, like those of Philadelphia, raise their prices in the cen- tennial year, and visitors can escape such ex- orbitant charges as were exacted at Vienna. People will flock to the exhibition from all parts of the United States, without fears of innkeepers’ extortions, in view of the great number of populous neighboring cities which will furnish them accommodation at the ordi- nary hotel charges, besides affording them other objects ot interest. The theatres and opera will be in full activity in New York, with the best performers in the world, during the summer of 1876. Almost the entire well- to-do population of the United States will visit the Centennial during some part of the season. Multitudes in all parts of the West and South who have never visited New York this occasion to do what they always intended at least once in their lives, when they can | | | opportunity of obtaining a commanding | to be carried from the legislative hall. | on the 4th of March than will enter it, and | that would be a misfortune to the nation. | need his influence, and General Cockrell, an only the people seemed to be with Mr. John- son but the Lord. A political miracle hap- | pened—Mr. Smallwood, a Bates man, became | so excited during this ballot that he was | prostrated by palpitation of the heart and had | It is | gratifying to find some heart in politics, even if it be a diseased organ. Mr. Smallwood’s | heart having given way Mr. Johnson’s heart | beat higher, and the contest closed for the day with a vote in his favor of forty-two against forty-five for Mr. Bates. We again say that we do not clearly under- stand why there is sucha bitter hostility to Andrew Johnson in the Tennessee Legislature. He is not only anable but a distinguished man. All his life he has been in the public service. He has filled the highest offices in the gift of the people, and has been Governor, Senator, Vice President and President. His | experience and knowledge of legislation and | government wonld be of great value | to the country, and probably no man | in Tennessee could be of more service to the democratic party. Such a man as he onght not to be defeated. It is said that more able men will leave the Senate The democracy especially cannot afford to elect nobodies. The defeat of Carl Schurz is | of much less consequence to him than to that party, for the time will come when it will unknown man, cannot hope, no matter how | great his ability, to take his place. The con- | trast between Andrew Johnson and Mr. Bates | is eqnally strong, and if the Legislature of | Tennessee chooses to throw away its splendid voice in the Senate we do not think it will be soon forgiven by the people. Andrew John- | son in the Senate would be a power, but it is | difficult to see how any of his competitors could help being s political weakness for Tennessee. The Beecher Trial. To-day the fourth week of the Beecher trial will begin, and Mr. Moulton still remains upon the stand as the first witness of any im- portance for the plaintiff. It is likety that the counsel will have finished with Mr. Moulton | by Tuesday afternoon at the latest, and Mr. Theodore Tilton will be the next victim of the | judicial rack. The testimony of the plaintiff will be looked for with the most intense inter- | est, particularly as it is understood that the | defence will object to its adminion. Upon what grounds Mr. Tilton's testimony shonld be excluded it is diffienlt to understand, but this is a point which it is proper to leave to the wise consideration of the Conrt. If the plaintiff cannot testify to his charge it is probable that the reverend defendant will be | forbidden to testify in hisown behalf; but this | is nota probable result, and the statements which Messrs. Beecher and ‘Tilton have al- | ready made to the public will doubtless be re- | peated before the jury. Mr. Tilton must ex- pect to find the witness box very different | from a bed of roses. The method of attack | that in apy neglect to urge better travelling | will not occur again in this generation or the | adopted in the cross-examination of Mr. Moul- facilities they are actually doing an enormous tadury to religion. next. We therefore conclude thet the in- | ton will be adopted with him, but as Moulton ome of the Centennial from sdmission fees, | was merely » mutual friend, and ss Mr. Tilton is tue principal in the case, his torture will be the greater. We think we can anticipate the line of cross-examination which Messrs. Tracy, Porter and Evarts will adopt with Mr. Tilton, and need only say that the amputation of a leg would be to the majority of people less painful. There are no anzsthetics ina court room. If Mr. Tilton, however, is half as cool and deliberate a witness as Mr. Moul- ton has been, he will be able to turn aside many a deadly blow. This week promises to be one ot the most interesting of the trial, and if Mr. Tilton is summoned to the stand it will resemble the third act of “Othello,” in which the tragedy finds its climax. It is in- deed a tragedy like those of Shakespeare, in which the misery is wedded with grim and cynical humor, and in which the sufferer and the wrongdoer, the fool and the executioner, honor and shame and fear and love are woven into an inextricable plot which can have but one end—the utter ruin of the van- quished, without restoration or glory for the victor. Are We to Have an Imvestigation of the Finance Department? There cen be no good reason why the citi- zens of New York should not be as familiar with the detailed condition of the city finances and the manner in which they are managed as they are with the details of their own business affairs and the condition of their bank accounts. The Comptroller of the city is simply the agent of the people, and he has no more right to have secrets from them in his official capacity than a clerk in a mer- chant’s or banker's office has to have business secrets from his employers. The very fact that Mr. Green’s accounts are not fully and intelligibly laid before the public in all their details, an@® that he resorts to abuse, artifice and even to falsehood to avoid giving informa- tion when it is demanded of him, is an indi- cation that there is something wrong in his management. Secrecy and deception are in- consistent with honesty in financial business, and cannot be resorted to for any good pur- pose, No person charges Mr. Green with stealing money from the city treasury. But offences other than acts of absolute dishonesty may be committed bya public officer. There is reason to believe that under our present finan- cial management false statements are issued, moneys are illegally used and facts are con- cealed for the purpose of hiding from the people the enormous increase of the public debt and inducing the belief that a reckless and extravagant administration isa careful and economical one. The amount of taxes collected each year exactly covers the amount appropriated for the year’s expense of run- ning the city government, after allowing for the sums to be derived from the city reve- nues. If the whole of the taxes on real and personal property levied in any one year should be paid into the treasury they would just cover the appropriations. The appropri- ations are not always wholly used, but the taxes are never wholly collected. The de- ficiency rising from unpaid taxes is always greater than the unexpended balance of the total appropriations, |and ought to be reported by the Comptroller and raised by taxation in a suc- ceeding year. month seven million dollars of the taxes levied for 1874 were unpaid. If the appropriations for 1874 remaining unpaid at that date did not reach seven million dollars then the money used for the expenses of last year must have | come from some unauthorized source. It is suspected that the Comptroller’s policy has been to tutn into the city treasury all moneys | collected for the arrears of taxes and assess- ments of former years, which should be de- voted to paying the unpaid indebtedness of those years respectively, and in redeeming assessment bonds, and to use them for the payment of current expenses. He has then steadily refused payment of all claims stand- ing over from former years, driven them intu the courts, and, upon judgment being ob- tained, has gone to the Board of Apportion- ment for judgment bonds. So also, when assess- ment bonds fall due, having misappropriated | the money that should have been used in their redemption, he issues new bonds and takes the old ones up with the process. By this “bridging over” and illegal process he has succeeded in covering up and concealing the fact that a heavy deficit exists in the city treasury. This, at least, is the general be- lief, and if it does injustice to the Comptroller he has only himself to blame for it. It is not proper that any doubt should ex- istin regard to these matters. ‘The people are entitied to know the truth. Mayor Wick- ham has very properly taken time to look thoroughly into the situation before acting on behalf of the people; but he must now be well satisfied that no truthful information can be obtained from Mr. Green. We believe that he will not be able to entirely clear away all the mystification, deception and artifice that befog the financial affairs of the city until he removes Mr. Green. But, at least, he should order an immediate investigation of the Department of Finance by the two Com- missioners of Accounts. This is a duty re- quired by the charter, and it has already been too long delayed. The Teachings of the Pulpit. The teachings of the pulpit yesterday were, asarule, of the orthodox and unostentatious character which has of late become the pat- tern for metropolitan sermons. Among the discourses of this kind those of the Rev. George H. Hepworth are perhaps the most characteristic, and his latest sermon is not unlike many of those which went before. It was a contrast between the joy which rewards alife of faith and the misery which follows the pursnit of sin, and was all comprised in the few words of the text, ‘But it is good for me to draw near to God."" Mr. Frothingham, on the other hand, was not confined in his teachings to the old models, but rather fol- lowed his own rule, which he laid down some weeks ago, and discussed with marked ability and interest the divorce between creed and conduct. ‘Mr. Beecher discoursed on the secret of content, drawing his illustrations much after his old-time methods, but we doubt | whether it was in good taste for him to refer to the benefactor of another as a “mutual friend.” Mr. Talmage read an essay to which there was no particular objec- tion to be urged, and in consequence we pre- sume it will not be so generally read as his previous discourses. The Rev. Dr. McGlynn preached the sermon at &t, Stephen's, his | diced enough to be willing to let the most be- On the 15th of the present | | loud-voiced, that, if it found form and utter- discourse being based on the parable of the laborers in the vineyard, and the sermon at St. Patrick's Cathedral was preached by the Rev. Father Kane, At the Thirteenth street Presbyterian church the Rev. Dr, Burchard drew the lesson of Job’s life, and the Rev. Dr. Rylance, at St, Mark’s Protestant Epis- copal church, showed why man should not be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. In the other pulpits the teachings were equally plain and practical, tending tolead men to the better life, and our résumé of the discourses this morning will be found to possess unusual in- terest from the simplicity and fervor which were yesterday displayed by the clergy of the two cities, The Popularity of General Grant's Resignation. The proposition that General Grant should resign the Presidential office and goto Europe is so universally approved in all parts of the country that there is not the least doubt of ita being the most popular act Mr. Grant could do, There is, perhaps, no greater pleasure to a journalist than to find himself advocating a measure which is at the same time right and Popular; and this, as much as the genuine satisfaction of feeling that we are doing a great service, both to His Excellency and to his beloved country, is our excuse for again recurring to this matter. Indeed, the pros- pect of Mr. Grant's resignation is so pleasing to us, it is plainly so entirely the one thing needed, not only to give him rest and leisure for the improvement of his mind and the long coveted opportunity of travel, but also to give the country peace and prosperity, to calm all fears, to set the wheels of industry going again, to restore civil government and to settle finally the vexatious and otherwise interminable third term controversy, that as Patriotic citizens we shall never tire of con- sidering it in allits aspects until His Excel- lency has actually resigned and gone to Eu- rope. There was for s while a doubt among some who generally agreed with us as to the effect of Mr. Grant's resignation, Some feared the Vice President's health might not be suffi- ciently restored to bear the strain of office; others doubted his capacity to grapple with the situation; but Mr. Wilson’s recent ad- mirable utterances, both in his letter and in published conversations, show abundantly that in mind and body he is vigorous and that his judgmentis clear and admirably sound upon the policy demanded by the situation of the country. While Mr. Grant is pondering, as we dare not, doubt he does daily—or, at least, whenever he reads his Hirnatp-—the delicate considerations connected. with the resignation of the Presidential au- thority, it cannot but be a monstrous comfort to him to reflect that if he steps down and out—as it is so clear he ought to for his own sake—he can hand the cares of state over to a successor of long experience, a lover of con- stitutional government, an inflexible opponent of a third term, a person judicious enough to reunite the now discordant elements of the republican party, sensible enough to see that the restoration of civil government is the first necessity in the Southern States, and unpreju- sotted Greeley man vote the republican ticket at the next election without challenging his vote. In Mr. Grant's opinion Mr. Wilson may in- deed lack some points of perfection. He would not be as great an intimidator as Mr. Grant. This we freely admit. He would not cut off the advertising patronage of country newspapers; or, if he did, he would not do it | by telegraph. He would not send a despatch telling Sheridan that ‘‘all of us” approved of his course, especially if ‘‘all of us’? did not approve. He would not put all his brothers- | in-law in fat, offices—indeed, we do not know that he has any. But, aside from these trifles, Mr. Grant, we rejoice to think, is satisfied that he can safely leavo the country in Mr. Wilson's hands. There would be, we are conscious, a sort of indelicacy in a public expression of the feel- ing about His Excellency’s resignation. The demonstration would be so unanimous, 80 | 4 ance, it might be mistaken by him for a de- mand. But within three days after he hands in his resignation and leaves the White House we will agree beforehand that he shall receive | the congratulations and thanks of almost the | whole nation and the most satisfactory ex- | pression of their appreciation of his act. With few exceptions, and those mostly carpet- baggers, the members of both houses of Con- gress, headed by the Speaker and the acting Vice President, would, we believe, be found at his door ready to wish him a long and cheer- ful farewell. In the crowd, there is | reason to believe, would be seen at least two or three of his Cabinet and a multitude of tae most capable and | honest government officers. The whole of the States south of Mason and Dixon's line would | lift up their voices in his praise. .The Legis- latures of almost if not quite all the North- ern States would send hima vote of thanks. Poor General de Trobriand, trembling lest he | may be ordered to do some more Cromwellian | work, would wish him devoutly a safe and pleasant journey. The people everywhere, relieved of anxiety for the future and hopeful of restored confidence and renewed industry, would hail him as their benefactor. No doubt a steamship company could be found to send him a free pass, and on more reasonable terms than those he accepted from the late James Fisk, Jr. And while Mr. Grant would thus find him- self hailed and admired as the most popular man in the nation, as the saviour of his coun- try, he would have the further and great satis- | faction of not departing unattended upon his Enropenn tour. There can be no doubt that many of his more intimate associates and | friends would accompany him. Attorney General Williams, Secretary Belknap, Alex- | ander Shepherd, William Pitt Kellogg, Sena- tor Pinchback, Dick Harrington, Esquire, and a goodly company of others would either sail with him or quickly follow him. For it is pretty certain that whenever His Excellency leaves the White House Washington will cease to be an amusing place to many of his inti- mates. What a comfort it must be to him, as it is to us, to reflect that when he goes he will not depart alone ; and that in Paris, or whero- ever he may sojourn, he may gather his little court about him and never experience that most dolefal of wants, the lack of fit and pleasant companions | Personal Habits of Ghosts. In 4 former age logicians tried to prove that man after death became spirit, Now they are endeavoring to demonstrate that spirits become men. Death, therefore, is arulo that works both ways. First it strips the soul of this flabby overcoat we call the flesh ; then it permits the spirit to manufac ture a temporary suit of bones out of air. This process is termed materialization. The noun is new, but, like the shoddy aristocracy, has wriggled and elbowed until its presence is acknowledged. By its virtue the spirits of the departed make thomselves visible a bit at atime.. Thus Benjamin Franklin reappears in instalments, Socrates visits us in detached pieces, Lord Byron materializes in chunks and segments. Our spirit friends, instead of coming back to us whole, are peppered with blotches of nothingness, Woe have heard ot people dying by inches, but those who are dead now come back to us in that manner, Altogether this process of materialization is not so satisfactory as could be wished. When we rush to embrace the resurrected friend of our youth we find, to ou dismay, he is half corpse, half cloud. Ho is solitary in his habits and has nothing of that glad, frank, ingenuous air he wore when in the flesh, He has a hankering for chains and darkness and a penchant for dingy cabinets, He shows his affection for mediums by putting iron rings around their necks. Ho rings bells and strums guitars. He is eccentric in, his logic, and when we ask him for proofs of im- mortality hands us a tumblerful of sweet potatoes, His revelations of future bliss are limited to the declaration that he is happy in the angel world. If it isa female friend she is exasperatingly misty and taciturn and adopts flowing sleeves and not very flowing language. We have no wish to imitate the vitupera- tion some journals like to use when handling this subject. We prefer to base our argue ments on stronger premises than those which consist in calling this opponent a fool and that one an ass. But were we to grant that the modern medium demonstrated the immor- tality of the soul we should still be obliged ta insist that he did not make the immortality he proved seem very enviable. True, tha happy spirits who cluster around mediums appear to be countless, The majority of men and women in the flesh who have attended spiritual séances will bear witness that few o1 no ghosts acknowledge to being in uncom fortable quarters. The uniform testimony, delivered with a suspicious sameness of syn- tax, is that the spirits with whom the medium happens at the moment to be en rapport are “happy to meet you at this time and shake hands with you across the table.’’ Now, hap piness is a good thing, and it would be pleas- ant to every right-feeling man to know thal even his departed enemies wore having a much better time than his inventory of their deserts led him to predict. What we complain of is the average unprogressiveness of the spirits whom the modern medium invokes. Socrates tells us nothing new. Plato, for all practical purposes, might as well keepdimb. Theo dore Parker doesn’t pray or preach as well as he did on earth. Edgar Allan Poe was a beb ter poet here than he is there. Napoleon dwindles from a great practical genius into « sentimentalist. Aaron Burr becomes weakly pious and pulingly didactic. The soul seems to lose its grit when once the flesh is litted off. This is all wrong. It is better to have the hope of an ideal immortality never proved than a demonstrated future with the stiffness taken out. We belittle the after life when we level it with the present. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, James T. Fields, of Boston, 1s at the Fifth Ave nue Hotel, Vice President Henry Wilson arrived from Wasb | ington yesterday at the Grand Central Hotel, Ex-Governor Andrew G,. Curtin, of Pennsyb vania, is residing temporarily at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel E, ©. Bouainot, of the Indian Territory, 1s among the latest arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, In ashop window in Paris is the following am nouncement:—“A fine human skin, taken of whole and tanned in that condition, It ts the skin of Aissa, wno was the most lovely of the slaves of the Emperor of Morocco, She was only twenty when she died, and her skin was mil white.’ In one of the Paris courts there was recently s strange trial, by Waich a mother sought to invalt date a certain stipulation of ner decsased son’s will, He had directed that he should be buried without religious ceremonies, and the mother sougit to avold this clause, but the decision wag against her. Figaro reports a characteristic tneory of the failure of “La Haine.” An auditor ts of opinion that it Jails because there is no Frencbman, | People don’t know who to sympathize with, be cause there is no Frenchman to todicate by hie presence, as in “Qacle Sam” and similar pieces on whicn side are glory, honor and virtue. The British Great Northern Railway recesth killed a Mr. Pym—a descendant of Long Paria ment Pym—and had to pay $75,000 to his widow, Pym was “tenant for life’? of an income of $25,000, and his death left his widow without resources, s¢ that the som, large as it seems, Is Only an assess ment of three years on the victim's I1!e, From a parliamentary paper just published ttap- pears that Irish publicans are Jess in the habit of adulterating whiskey than of diluting it scam dalously with water. Of eighty-eight samples analyzed by the city of Dublin analyst eight only were adulterated. The rest were pure, but im | eluded much whiskey of bad natural quality, The Sheriffs of London recently applied for the privilege of driving, especiaily on State occa sions, through St. James’ and the Green Parks, tn order to shorten the distance between their prt- vate residences and the city, The answer they received was a polite expression of regret that an investigation of precedents oy the authorities of the Home OMice had resulted in the information that the rules of exciusion had never been relaxed in favor of the city oMcials. Last year, in Dundee, Scotland, 502 women were puntshed for drunkenness and §16 for ertme pro- duced by drunkenness; in other words, 1,514 women, or 244 per cent of all the women of Dun dee, are such drunkards that the oMicers of the Jaw must deliver them to the judge and the jniga mnst fine or send them to prison, How ts that for “Bonnie Dundee ?"" Deference to the King's wfshes, the conviction that a tremendous army Was adire nec ty. an unwillingness to exhibit Germany to France and Ruasia as divided against herself, aad upon an issue of such momentousness, are cited as the con siderations which induced the German Paritament to vote the law that gives comparative perma nency to the military budget. The Diritto says tne Pope has taken up a project which he formed many years ago of placing tweive statues round the cupoia of St. Pever’s, in accord. ance with the idea of Michael Angelo, Twelve sculptors to be charged each with tne execu. tion Of astatne, but they are not to be chosen by pudlic competition; nor wili any artist be eligiple for the work WhO was not domiciled in Rome priog $0 1870,