The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the New Yorx Henaxp 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 telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Henarp. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. 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. seeeNO, 27 TO-NIGHT. ARK THEATRE, ‘Ty at 8 4. M.; closes at 10:45 | VOLUME XL AMUSEMENTS BROOKLYN CROSS THE CONTI M. Oliver Doua & POMAN UT ROME, j Twenty-sixth street and Fourth avenue.—Afernoon and | Twenty-cight!: stre DAY, at Sr M.; c Davenport, ‘Miss Jew A HOUSE, xth avenue.—NEGRO closes at 0 P.M. Dan MINSTRELSY, &c., at 3 Bryant PARK THEATRE, Brostway, between Twenty-first and f Dew Aat 5 mi Ms GERMANIA Fourteenth SS eda z closes at 10:40 P. | closes at 10 0 1. M. | Broadway,—TRODDE “ht SF. M.; closes at 1045 TIVOLI THEATRE, tS te Street. between Second a ARLETY, at SP. M.; closes at lL Third averues—_ SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner (of iwenty-ninth street —NEGRO | ais? ats P. M.; closes at ly P.M. ROBINSON HALL, Fizteenth street.— k DULL CARE, at 8P. M.; closes at 10 45 1. M. Maceabe. GLOBE THEATRE, | Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P. closes at 10:30PM. LYCEUM THEAT! fourteenth street and Sixth avenue. RE EWIXT AXE AND | RRO aS T ae closes ac i005 PAL Mrs Housby. WALLACK'S THEATRE Broadway.—THE SHAUGHRAUN, at 8P. M.; closes at lus Pr, Mr. Boucicault. BROOKLYN THEATRE, ington street.—VATE, at 8 P. M.j closes at 10:15 . M. Miss Carlotia Leclercq. Woops MUSEOM, Broadwar, corner ot Thirtie:h street JACK HA: AWavrars fois closes at 10S PM bin Poster Mate inee at2 P.M. METROPOLITAN Fe Broadway.—VARIELY, EATRE, P. M.; ‘closes at 10:30 | NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, Fomery clk PART DU DIABLE, at 8 P. M.; 2015 closes at M. Miss Lina Mayr. C _THKATRE, RIETY, atS P.M. BOOTIN'S THEATRE, corner _of | Twenty- hird street and’ Sixth hg EMLY, at 8 P.M |g as Broadway closes at 1045 | avenue.— ; closes at 10307. 4. Mr ATRE COMIQUE, VARIETY, at5P. M.; closes at 10:45 DNESDAY. JANUARY From our reports this morning the probabilities ere that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with light rain. Wan Srreer Yesterpa Gold advanced to 112]. Stocks were inactive but steady. Foreign exchange was firm, and money on call loaned at 2} and 3 per cent. Trorrmne at THz Hippoproxe is more at- tractive than the graphic pictures of ‘Lite on the Plains.” The vast building was crowded last night by persons desirous of witnessing this truly American sport. Bertsn Hannon Derences.—Great Britain has adopted a system of torpedo defences for her American harbors. They are, however, backed by the strongest fleet in the world. John is resolved to make things as safe as possible. THe Navicariox of the East River was very | difficult yesterday owing to the accumulation of ice. Serious inconvenience was caused to passengers by the delay in crossing. When the promised bridge is built the denizens of the two cities will be independent of King Frost. The sooner the better. A Cas Iv7rresttne to importers was de- cided yesterday before Judge Donohue. It involved the right of importers putting stamps on their goods while in charge of the Custom House officers, in order to avoid pay- | ing the Collector for stamping them. The Court decided in the affirmative. Cvsa.—The rebellion continues ; the Span- jards are'abont to crush it in three or four days; General Gomez is in a trap, can credit Spanish aecounts he’s like Sterne’s starling an’ ‘wants to get out.” But the fact is he wants to get into the Western Depart- ment, and, notwithstanding all the official boasting, he is likely to succeed. Sugar will then go up and Spar securities go down. Ar Axpany a numl introduced in the Legislature which concern It we of measures have been this city, and yesterday the House considered the bill which authorizes the issue of attach- ments against the property of dishonest offi- cials. ‘This step would probably result in the | recovery of large sums of money belonging to the city which are now supposed to be in the possession of Mr. Tweed and his companions, and embodies one 10st practical sug- gestions which Governor Tilden made in his Message. An inquiry into canal affairs was also adopted, and five bills were introduced which are intended to carry out the constitu. tional amendments, of the | not abandon their faith in King Caucus, who > NEW YORK HERALD WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. The Defeat of the Republican Caucus Programme. When Congress assembled in the beginning | of December the republican majority was so discouraged that, for tho first week or two, ; there seemed little hope of retrieving the | i broken fortunes of the party. | the adverse elections, it still held control of the government. But the republicans were making an effective use of their power during the brief period before a democratic House will be able to block every new measure. | There was a necessity for doing something | before the opportunity slipped out of their hands. It was now or never. They had re- | course to that potent engine, the caucus, | | and succeeded in producing a factitious unity on the subject upon which their | conflicting views seem most irreconcila- | bie. A trimming finance bill was agreed | on by @ caucus ard pushed through the | | Senate, and then ao House caucus adopted it with similar success. The bill amounted | to little as o measure of finance, but it | was a dexterous party manjuvre, which | | gave an appearance of unanimity to the re- | publicans in Congress on the question upon | which they seemed most hopelessly divided. | When they had succeeded in bridging that | chasm the despondent feeling with which the session opened was much relieved. If caucus discipline could harmonize the discordant | elements on that question what could it not | | do? The new year, therefore, seemed to | | open with a revival of confidence, and had it | | not been for the stupendous Louisiana blun- | | der the republican majority might have accomplished wonders before the 4th of March. They might have admitted Colorado avd New Mexico as States, thereby gaining six Presidential electors; they might have patched up a compromise civil rights bill in cauens and forced it through Congress ; they might bave recognized the Kellogg govern- ment anl kept their hold on Louisiana for a period overlapping the Presidential election, and have made army appropriations for two years, relieving the President from depend- ence on the incoming democratic House. This cup was dashed out of their haods by | tke great outbreak of public indignation on | the military dispersion of the Louisiana Legis- + | lature. But even then the republican members did had done such wonders in disciplining the | party into unity on the difficult question of the currency. Caucus after caucus was ac- | cordingly held, but the previous abject submis- sion to that form of tyranny was broken. After several abortive conclaves, in which some republican members declined to partici- | pate, and which some others attended only | | to manifest their contempt of cearpet-bag zeal, LS caucns at last succeeded in adopting a | scheme for gagging debate and strangling op- | position in the House. The substance of this | precious project was a repeal or suspension, | for the residue of this session, of the estab- | lished rules of the House long in force and | | deliberately adopted for preventing hasty, ill- | | advised legislation. It was a project for | stripping the minority of their parliamentary | | rights and enabling the caucus to ride rough- shod over every attempt to oppose its decrees, ' It proposed o virtual transfer of the powers of | Yet, in spite of so divided that there was no prospect of their | lash 1s a preposterous substitute for an indors- ing public opinion. The party is brought to a pass where it must choose between the wise | counsels of the Vice President and the wrong headed absolutism of the President; and what- ever defeated Congressmen may do in the hope of getting appointments from Grant alter re- jection by their constituents, and whatever a | servile press, bribed by public advertisements, may say, the honest republican masses are more likely to accept the views of Wilson than to bow to the dictation of Grant and the cau- cuses of his parasites. In this contest between | a dispenser of offices and patronage and an experienced leader of public opinion the latter will triumph in the end in spite of “the | whip of party discipline” on which he pours his manly scorn. The Election of Andrew Johnson. restored to a sort of primitive condition as to government. If Spain can obtain tran- quillity and only lose those stony mountains it will be a good transaction. And itscems very possible that a proposition of this nature will e the most distinguished support in di- plomatie circles,* Russia, as a quasi friend of | Carlos when he was opposed by a republic, | mighwlike to cover him now by thus making the case a drawn game, and Bismarck could perhaps be persuaded to recommend the ac- ceptance of such a proposition to Don Alfon- so’'s government. Some of General Grant’s Disappoint- ments, We think it necessary to say that in sug- gesting to Mr. Grant, some days ago, that he ought to resign the Presidency and go to Eu. rope we did not spoak in any sense as His | | facts is wonderful. | candidate for Vice President on the ticket | with Mr. Lincoln. | to carry out the ideas of Mr. Lincoln in re- Andrew Johnson was a member of the | Exceliency’s orgau, a3 may have been sup- | Senate when the war began, and his course | at that time was so popular in the North that the republican party in 1864 mado him its When the assassination of Lincoln raised him to the Presidency Mr. | Johnson adopted a policy which speedily | brought him into conflict with the republican | majority in Congress, and resulted in o war | between the legislative and executive de- | artments of the government which had no precedent in American history. He professed spect to the South, but the country preferred posed by some hasty or ill-judging persons. We have not the privilege of his intimacy, nor even of the intimacy of his intimates. The happy thought did notcome to us through Mr. Dick Harrington or Governor Shepherd or even General Casey. It was inspired—as we do not doubt Mr. Grant at once saw— solely by our devotion to His Excellency’s credit aud good name and our conviction that | he would improve both by abandoning bis | attempt to govern the country. As the humble but attached friends of Mr. Grant it is our duty to tell him that, con- sidered os a President, he isa failure. He | the ideas of Thaddeus Stevens, and Mr. Jobnson has many fine qualities; he is an excellent | was defeated and escaped by one vote only a’| judge of horses; he has an unimpaired di- | Johnson possessed no dexterity of this kind ; | he was blunt, verdiet by the Senate which would have for- | ever consigned him to retirement and made him ineligible to office. But though he was not convicted upon the articles of impeach- | ment preferred by the House, Coperers had | the power to fetter him by spe f the latter part of his administration h | fulness as President was almost paraly: | The country was governed by Mr. Stanton, | General Grant and the republican leaders in | Congress. We have thought that if Mr. John- | son had been a corrupt man this unfortunate | conflict would never have occurred. Mr. Lin- coln would have avoided it by his skill in con- ciliating bis opponents, and this skill would have been employed honorably. But Andrew stubborn and defiant. He | might have controlled Congress by the im- | proper use of the patronage of his,office, but | it will remain to his honor that he refused to | | make a political market of the White House, | and that even a hostile Congress could not find a pretext to accuse him of personal dis- | | honesty. He was charged with public | offences alone, and, though we do not think | he was entirely right in his course, it is now generally conceded that the imaginary mis | demeanors of 1866 were, in fact, official ments, | Andrew Johnson has fortunately lived to | see his vindication and to have it confirmed | | by his election to the Senate. Because the American people know him so well, because | he was impeached and hounded as a traitor | | and chained and handcuffed by Congress, the | contest in the Tennessee Legislature possessed | anational interest and is really a national | victory. He is the best maf that Tennessee | \ could have chosen, not merely for herself, but | | for the democracy North and South. In the gestion, which is a good deal in these days of dyspepsia; he has a keen eye for the main chance in a business transaction, and there | are good reasons for thinking that ke might | | wake a fing reputation as a real estate aent. But, to speak pro‘anely and atter the Galena manner, he ‘anakes a mighty poor President."’ ‘The Henatp has for » long time done its best | to conceal this deplorable fac: from His Ex- | celloncy. Everybody else has, of course, seen it long ago. It there is anything the American people, oftics-holders excepted, are uvanimons upon it is that Mr. Grant does not understand civil government. But tat | did not concern us so long as we could hope to conceal from his own eyes the wretched | work he had made and is continually making | of it. What could it mattor tous or to Mr. | Grant how unhappy the nation was so long as he was happy? He appears to us, however, sometimes to | have suffered ‘rom a dim apprehension that he was unappreciated. When, a day or two ago, he told a committee of Southern men that the white men of Louisiana and Missis- sippi are ‘“ungrateful,”’ we saw o touching | evidénce of this. After all he has done for | them, after the army he has kept down there | to make them virtuous, after ‘the carpet-bag- | gers he has set over them to attend to their | taxes and finances, after Sheridan and Kel- | | logg* and Casey and Ames, and a host of | others—after all, these Southern white men | remain unhappy, and, what is worse, ‘‘un- grateful.’’ It must be very discouraging to Mr. Grant. Then, again, in his last annual Message | there are traces of disappointment—signs that even Mr. Grant's great spirit has been wounded. For instance, if he had set his | | there | sciences, every element of our prosperily and which 1s now plain and now obscure; but the familiarity which the principals and some of the participants display with the They have been study- ing this case for nearly five years, and _ bring to it memories which are constantly | made keen by the alternations of fear and hope. The testimony yesterday was interest- ing, and its bearing on the issue will be exhib- ited more plainly in the arguments for the defence. Mr. Moulton will be examined again to-morrow, and will then give place to other witnesses for the plaintiff, the first of whom will probably be Mr. Tilton himself. Death of the Emperor of China. The death of the Emperor of China is an event which will occasiona good deal of solici- tude among the Western nations until the question of the succession has been definitely settled, The only fear of the deceased Emperor's rule was the danger that he would not pursue the liberal policy of Prince Kung during the Regency after assuming control of the Empire, but his two years’ reign seemed to be an assurance to the contrary. Now the uncertainty takes a new shape, and the ques- tion is, into whose hands are the destinies of China to fell? Fortunately Prince Kung was again all powerful at the last accounts; and it it be true that there is to be another Regency it is likely that he will again be the Regent. Ho is the only person about the im- perial palace at Pekin who seems able to rule the Empresses Dowager and the Empire at the same time. His policy is accestable to the Western Powers, and it will be gratifying | to learn that he has been reinstated in the ofiice he held during the minority of the late Emperor. As the brother of the deceased mperor’s father and the most powerful man in the Empire he may have no mean preten- sions to the throne itself, especially if Toung- Tchi died without issue; but we trust there is a real prince of tender years who is to succeed to a nominal dignity, and that Prince Kung | may again become the Emperor of China in | everything except the name. He is a most enlightened statesman, as statesmen go in China, especially if he is the real ruler for a | nominal emperor. New York and the Centennial. The fact is.settled definitely that the cen- tennial anniversary of American indepen- dence is to be celebrated by an interna- tional exhibition at Philadelphia, and that whatever other cities may choose to do ! however, if this pretence should be set ap, fos nothing surprises us now where the legal profession is concerned. It seems to be a custom that lawyers shall charge what ever they please for their labor, even whes honestly retained, in important caees, amd that lobbyists and members of Congress, like Colfax, shall be allowed to imitate their ex: ample when they are not lawyers and donc legal business. If alawyer can earn fifteen hundred dollars by doing what Parsons did, even supposing the whole transaction to be perfectly honest and professional, or a quar ter of a million, as Schumaker earned it, so far as we can see by doing nothing that an old-fashioned lawyer would consent to do at all, then the practice of law is the most lucrae tive in the world. Engl Opera. A highly interesting season of English opera opened on Monday night at the Academy of Mue sic, under the auspices of Miss Kell the most popular and perhaps the most artistically Accosa{ul artist that this country has produced. The lyric drama has been fora considerable portion of this century a subject of attention on the part of the public and press, and of speculation on the part of managers, and in the glamour of Italian opera, as represented by great prime donne from the days of Mali- bran down to Nilsson, the hearty, intelligible, and always popular English opera has beea at times either neglected or unappreciated. Yet Malibran made her most pronounced sue cess in this department of the lyric drama, and the Woods, Miss Sheriff, Mr. Seguin, Miss Pyne, Mr. Harrison, Miss Richings and the lamented Parepa-Rosa bestowed upon it the brilliancy of their genius. The latest comer in the field is Miss Kellogg, and she has, demonstrated during two seasons the high esteem in which English opera is held by the public of this country. She has assembled around her a company of artists that, by thoiz own positive merits and by the satisfactory results which long association in various réles must bring around, tend toward presenting | an artistic ensemble in every opera of her very large répertoire. The opening performance on Monday evening was a highly successful | one, and during the three weeks of the pres ent season there is every reason to expect the same happy results. A Demonsrnation Acamsr THe Tamp Trerm.—Mr. Potter, one of the members of is to be no ungenerous rivalry which would diminish the importance of the | event. America for her own credit must | concentrate at Philadelphia in 1876 all her | forces. Our manufactures, agricultural pro- | ducts, minerals, inventions, our arts and | every proof of ouf progress must be fully represented at the exhibi- | | tion. This is made compulsory by our knowledge that every country in | Europe will take an active part in the | | World’s Fair, and the United States, which | invites the co-operation of other nations, can- not afford to be eclipsed by our European guests, This week, United States Centennial Commission, will it is understood, Governor | Bigler, one of the leading members of the | Senate he will be of far greater use to the | leer swbiol: jelong | to the | Honss|s0. 6 | country than he was in the Presidency, for | secret conclave, whose majority, instead of a | the independence which is inseparable from | majority of the House, it tried to invest with | | his character will have better opportunity in | the power of passing bills. Caucus dictation | the duties of legislation than it could have in | is bad enough, even when it acts within | those of the Executive. The Senate needs | established parliamentary rules. It is at best men who heve the courage to speak | @ tsranny, which deprives members of the | tn, trath, and besides this, Mr. Johnson | free exercise of their judgment, and constrains | has probably profited by time and ex- heart on any one thing everybody knows it | visit New York with the purpose of consulting was to reform the civil service. So deter- | with our merchants and manufacturers upon | mined was he to achieve this great work that | | the plans for the exhibition, ana asking | his fertile mind even conceived the bril- | their prompt and effective aid. We liant stratagem of making the civil | | trust this appeal will mect with a | service ‘as corrupt and inefficient as pos- | generous response, worthy of the wealth and sible, in order, as everybody can see, | position of the metropolis. New York ought to make the work of reformation the more | not to be second to any city in the celebration conspicuous and to unite the people with him | of American independence, and her responsi- | them to vote against their sense of the public | interest. But when a caucus assumed to | ‘trample down all ths ordinary safe- | | guards of legislation, when it undertook | | to gag discussion and render the opposition | members as powerless as if they had been ex- | pelied from their seats, it was high time for | honorable republicans to break the yoke of | caucus tyranny and resume their individual | freedom. The country is to be congratulated that there independent republicans | enough to deleat this odious scheme, which | would have opened the door to every disgrace- ful job of the lobby, as well.as to the high- handed measures of the thick-and-thin sup- porters of the President. The revolt against cancus despotism when it undertook to subvert the rules of the House and abolish them for the remnant of this ses- sion will weaken this despotism when acting within the rules. The rephblican members who emancipated themselves in this instance will be likely to reclaim their freedom and ex- ercise their own judgment under future at- tempts at caucus dictation. The authority were of the caucus has been too conspicu- ously shattered for independent mem- , bers to bow servilely to its discipline in any case in which they may think a cnucus decree detrimental to the best interests of the party. We should attach Ices importance to this rebellion against caucus tyranny if it were not so well supported by republican pub- lie opinion outside of Washington and so pertectly justified by the excellent letter of Vice President Wilson and the presumed views of Speaker Blaine and other republican statesmen. Mr. Wilson publicly warned the party that it ‘cannot recover its lost power and prestige by a policy of rewards and pun- ishments or by party discipline.” Those republican members of the House who defied the caucus decree would seem to be of the same opinion. Mr. Wilson asserted in his letter that “there are hundreds of thousands in the republican party who cannot be seduced by the blandishments of power nor be greatly moved by the threats of discipline; and still again, he declared that ‘mere politicians, who think they can govern by the whip of party discipline, Will find | that they cannot thus reach and con- trol the independent men who strack the lash fromthe hands of the sla This intrepid prophecy has been, in part at least, spe fulfilled, and the ex- ample will encourage others. Mr. Wilson's words, emphasized as they have been by the recent rev inst caucus tyranny, «ill cause considerate republicans to hesitate and stand back when the subservient Grant leaders attempt to apply the whip on which the Vice President pours his conte: ous seorn., The republican membera who refused to be bound by the caucus have supplied examples to Mr. Wilson's precepts, and it 1s to be hoped that | others will rally around the standard of revolt | and convince the party that the caucus | perience. In his interview with our corre- spondent, published to-day, he says he hag no | revenges to gratify in his new sphere of power, and we trust to see this promise faithfully ful- filled. He has reason enough to be resentful, but there are greater reasons why he should be just and impartial. His patriotism has | been vindicated by his State and he can afford | to be magnanimous to Generali Grant. Un- usual interest will be felt by the country in is course in the Senate, and we earnestly trust that the faults of his character and the | errors of his record will be obliterated and forgotten in the splendid carcer of usefulness | | which his election to the Senate has opened. | Vice President Wilson’s Address. Christians generally ady politicians, and it is not usual to find a politician who is com- petent to give instruction to Christian sad to reflect that the tone of avi can politics ig not favorable to re! that when an ambitious man turns his face | toward public office he is likely to turn his | back upon the Caurch. The air of politics is not favorable to pie But now and then we find a man whose life has been given to public service who has not therefore for- | gotten the claims of religion and morality, and whose teachings can be as safély ac- cepted as if he spoke with ali the authority which holy orders are supposed to confer. The address which Vice President Wilson delivered before the Young Men’s Christian Association, at the celebration cf its twenty- second anniversary, illustrates this novdl posi- tion of a statesman. It was a beputiful argument and its sound advice was enriched with and poetry. Mr. Wilson has seen so much of this world that he fs well | fitted to speak with earnestness of the of the next, and his own career ill more forcibly than can any value of courage, integrity, faith and|hope. We only regret that more of our greaf pub- | lic leaders could not ak as Mr. Wilson did on Monday night without arousidg ine credulity or suggesting amusing incongruity between their professions and their prbctice. The young men who heard him may 1 in their struggle with this busy, tempting, pointing world, by the moral which “I Wil- son illustrates as well as by the advied he so eloquently gave. } eloquence Smarty Carvos Have a Krxapom ?- Au the mountain region of Northern Spain, which been in so many wars the strodghold of Cazlism, would e by itself a cotupact and natural kingdom that might wdl be given over to Carlos if he wants it gnd it wants him. Spain wonld be the richer for the loss of t ved out pf her present terri ptance off mod. ern political notion ems impdssible with the fourteenth eontury peoplq who live in those hills, and they wiil |mever be | men; | fort and reputation. p- | | lution. satisfied or tranquil till — are | init. Hence Casey and Tom Murphy end Shepherd and Simmons, not to speak of dozens or perhaps hundreds of smaller lights | of the same Jack-o'-lantern kind. In Message after Message His Exceilency called the atten- tion of Congress and the country to this de- | sire to reform the civil service, so near his great heart; and with what result? Mr. Grant pathetically describes it in his last Message. He says:—‘Generally the support which this reform receives is {rom those who give it their support only to find fault when | the rules are apparent!y departed trom. - Can anything more saddening and outrageous be | imagined? | Ten, to come to a grief of a diff. rent kind, could anything more unpleasant occer to a President than to take for granted that ‘all | of us,”’ meaning his Cabinet, approved of the | dispersion of the Louisiana Legislature and then to discover that he had mistaken his | that his own household, so to speak, would not siand by him; that there were actually men in his Cabinet who had the ' audacity and the lack of good fecling to tell the public that His Excellency had not con- sulted them ; and this when he had plainly told the public in two different despatches | that he had? Why should we go on harrowing up His The Excellency’s soul? Isit not enough ? Southern white men ungrateful, the vice reformers complaining, Con lecting his most important recommendations, as, tor instance, that in which he thonght- tully urged it to “direct the employmeni’’ of our “national products,’’ and finally even members of his Cabinet contemptible enough | to “go back on him,” as he would say—is it not best that he should resign? We mean, of course, best for his own com- We speak only as his friends ond supporters, and out of our anxiety for him. For no one doubts that his resignation would delight the whole country. | It would make him, as we have before pointed out te him, one of the most popular men in | the land. The Brookiyn Trial. The shadow of death was thrown over the Beecher trial yesterday, and strangely blended with the greater darkness of its shame. The announcement in court of the death of the mother of Mr. Moulton, at th n that witness was submitting to the examination of the counsel for the defendant was another of those unexpected events which have given the trial so much dramatic in- terest. But death does not 4 interfere with duties, and this sorrowful interruption wes only an incident and not «an impediment of the trial Mr. Moulton’s examination was résumed by Gen- era! Tracy, and he seems to have conducted his personal battle with his customary reso- The public sometimes finds a diffi- | culty in following the course of this trial, | bility for the event is not surpassed by that of Philadelphia. The two cities are so near to each other that the exhibition cannot be con- sidcred local in its character, and our material interests in its success are not second to even those of Philadelphia; but beyond this are higher considerations of patriotism and the national good, and we therefore aro assured that Mr. Bigler will receive from our mer- | ‘chants the assurance that New York will not only not be deficient in her support of the Centennial, but that she will probably take the | lead in makiag it 1 complete success. “Legal Services.” The time has come for some of our * most gifted thinkers to define the phrase “legal ser- | now so often heard in the puriieus of | Tt was shown last | the Capito! at Washington. year that Mr. Garfield, member of Congress from Ohio, recsived, we forget how many thousand dollars, for “legal services” to the | Washington government. It came out on the Crédit Mobilier investigation that Mr. Colfax had been in receipt of sums of money from an envelope firm in New York for his “legal services’ in obtaining a contract for the firm. The inquiry into the disbursement of three- quarters of a million of dollars by the Pacific | Mail Steamship Company for the purpose of subsidizing a subsidy had scarcely boguo whe Supreme Court and now a member of Con- gress, acknowledged on the floor of the House that he had received fifteen hun- dred dollars tor ‘egal services” in that | undertaking. A lilt'e later, in spite of what looked ver prev rication and denial, it that Mr. J. G. Sehu- who had been and who again a member ot Congress, bad been intrusied 1 the enormous sum of I a hundred thousand dollars for “legal services” and in the same behalf, utinne, by taking illustra- i from day to day, of the prevailing ten- dency of our statesmen to enrich themselves on thescore of “legal ices.” The question now what ‘legal ser- es” Parsons, the Marshal of the Supreme wt and not in practice, could perform justifying his receiving this sum of money, or what ‘legal services’? could any attoi no matter how learned and experienced, ren- Ir. I. C. Parsons, then Marshal of the | the sub-committee who went to New Orleans | and came back and told the truth in their re port, gave a new proof of his wisdom yester- day by introducing in the House a resolution | for an amendment to the constitution limit- | ing the Presidént to one term. If he had pro- posed one term of four years instead of one | term of six years we should like his proposi- | tion better; but we are glad that the demo- crats of the House, by unanimously voting for it, have borne their testimony in favor of a sound principle and a much needed re form. Mr. Potter's resolution also received some republican votes, but not enough to pass it, We trust this move was not made for mere party effect, and if it was not the dem- ocratic party has bound itself to carry such ® proposcd amendment through the next House and send it to the Senate for concurs rence, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, | Professor John F. Weir, of Yale College, is staye | ing at the Albemarle Hotel. Ex-Governor Sidney Perham, of Maine, is so Journing at the Grand Central Hotel, Captain Jennings, of the steamship Oceanic, ig quartered at the Westmoreland Hotel. | The Danbdurian is soon to appear in Danbury, Conn., with C. E. A. McGeachy as editor, Mr. Hector Cameron, Q,. C., of Toronto, 1s among the latest arrivals at the Hotel Brunswick, | Senator Jonn P. Jones, of Nevada, arrived at the St. James Hotel yesterday from Washington. Naval Constructor W. L. Hanscom, United States Navy, bas quarters at the Union Square Hotel, Congressman ©. D, MacDougall, of Auburn, N, ¥., arrived last evening at the Sturtevant House. Congressman-eiect George M. Beebe, of Monti. cello, N. Y., has arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Mr. H. H. Honoré, of Unicago. father-in-law of Lieutenant Coione! Fred Grant, is at the Filta Avenue Hotel. State Senator Nathaniel Wheeler and Messrs, Wiliam D. Bishep and Henry P. Haven, of Cone necticut, are at the Union Square Hotel. M. Thiers becomes more and more openly | hostile to the Septennate, tor the Septennate will keep him out of power lor six years longer, Orchestra chairs lor the first night of the Paria opera sold ail the afternoon at 1,009 francs, or $200, and a small box for $12,000 francs, or $2,400, The Kimira Gazette (democratic) advocates the nomination of Senator Reaben E. Fenton to all the vacancy in tne Thirty-tbird district, this State, Strange mortals musical artists! Neither Nilsson nor Faure sang at the opening of the new opera, for Nilsson could not have her way anout “Kaust,’? and so she “had a cold.” Lora Catthness, of Scotland, and Lord Rosebery, of England, who have been residing at the Bre voort House for several days past, will sail fop Liverpool to-day in the steamship Russia, | Page M. Baker has assuined charge of the Nev Orieans Bulletin, George H. Vinten, the principa | creditor, was the purchaser of the paper at the re cent sale by order of the Court, at $10,000, Fischetto has soe “Cosas de Espaiia,” the hape piest of whici is Mme. Spain, to whom some ore has sent a Christmas box, ana when she liits tle | jid up jumps, a8 Jack in the box, our little frieid Alfonso XII. ‘The French government is systematically orga. . service of carrier pigeons, the great ce. trai station of which is to be the Jardin d’Acdie n in Paris, with lesser stations in all tae ent fortresses, Krupp tas announced to his* workmen that ne period which seeme! +o “promtsing” has turned out bad ior their industry, and he is compeliedvo disiuiss many and reduce the pay of others, “Promising” is good in that connection, “Partial re ai’ of the Frenen Assembly te the political topic in Paris just now. and Chariwart ilastrates it with a cut of an oid cellarer pouring into a barre! of wine of 1871 a few gallons of that ive if life and jreshuess, and the sound quality of the later vintag> In Paris this year the tasaion of having coronetsa or coatsofarms engraved on visiting cards has been co given uo, but there ts a tendency to increase the size of the caris, which are begins ning to be & good dea! used in lieu of note payer when it 1s only neediul to write a single sentence, Cards are also now frequently ornamented with @ der in a matter of this kind that would be | menogran worthy of even a part of this sum, Mr, | Dr. D. E. Be un t dalisnroteacsurhiee » Pt ome experiments with the poison of scorpion, el Ward, we believe, is not a lawyer at Shah is obtained by Irritating tho animal. The wd yet he talks as glibly about experiments were conducted upon dogs, pigeons g ‘retained’ as members and ex- aud frogs, The nine-thousandth part ot @ of Congress taik of th, “Jogal grain of iresh venom, injected into the thigh services," wh Mr, Schimakcr, who | % 9 fog caused tho akin to become vio inifils all these conditions, apgarently carries lently inflamed and the wnimat to die in tity. Rigs ’ seven minutes. On e. uing the bleod micro his services er to the extent of dis- | gcopiealiy under iho infadnce of the potsor bursing a corruption fund, as well as receiy- | it wasfound that the corpuscies were strangely ing part of it himself, It cortainly will not pbs ede: gil dg ld : wis GUN ole ‘ nto ow asses, running c o be pretended that he was allowed to retin | fy ranesion of the blood is thus destroyed, and the whole render as a lawyer. It would not surprise us, of it ‘or such services as he could | dea in one of its most agonizing forms must | ensue,