The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1875, Page 6

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Foreign exchange was firm. bd ‘Tue Porsce Trrars yesterday are additional proofs of the inefficiency of our police system | and will make the people of the city even | more earnest for a Board of Commissioncrs capable of dealing with the reform, which has now become so imperative. Dr. Newman's Repry.—S@me time ago we printed a brief synopsis of Dr. Newman’s re- ply to Mr. Gladstone's expostulation, which we received by cable. The text of the answer, which was in the shape of a letter to the Duke of Norfolk, is now recerved, and this morning we present a complete synopsis, with copious exiracts. The article will be read with great interest, since it is an exposition of the views of one of the most eminent scholars and divines of the day on what is, perhaps, the most vital question of the time, affecting the whole Christian and political world. Tue Beecner Triat.—The long and severe examination of Francis D. Moulton in the Tilton-Beecher scandal suit was closed yes- terday, and the witness allowed to retire. Mrs. M. A. Bradshaw was the next witness, She was cailed for the purpose of identilying & somewhat remarkable correspondence she had with Mr. Beecher on the subject of the seandal. ‘These were the principal events of the day, and they were sufficiently dramatic to aw Alto- gether, it is one of the most remarkable Scones ever enacted on this Continent, every day of the trial adding a deeper shadow to what was long recognized asa singularly ter- rible domestic tragedy. n renewed interest in the trial. Tar American Ixstrrvte is an association which it would be a pleasure to encourage if it subserves the purposes its view. Unfortunately the chy in Professor Chandler's letter of resigna unders had in ges contained ti as a director of the Ivstitute are so graveas base of operations the actual majority is very | advocate. It is the duty of the municipal | | the capacity of servant to the House came to | to require a withdrawal of all public confi- dence in its management unless it is shown that this eminent ntist has been misled in his*judgment regarding the case be cites. But whatever the merits of this particular atliclo Professor Chandler shows it was not fairly considered by the present Board of Directors, and if the Institute would regain its place in public esteem the resignation of the Board is necessary. It will not do to turn a society for the promotion of the industrial arts into a ring for subserving private interests, fey Confederate constitution. If the length ALL, DULL CARE, at 8P. M.; ) NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1875.—-TRIPLE SHEET, The House Debate on the One Term | tion of n President in office, and the re-elec- tion of Mr, Lincoln was cited as an example. Question. But if, in 1864, Mr. Lincoln bad been near the | The proposed amendment to the constitu- ! tion poe from the Judiciary Committee | ‘l0se of a second term instead of a first, | of the House by Mr. Potter, the debate upon | nobody would have then proposed third | it and the vote on it are noteworthy in several | t™™- A great national crisis is as likely to respects, In the first place, a proposition of | happen at the close of a second term as at this kind, coming into the House with the | 1 b sanction of its Judiciary Committee and re- | sen = san oes urge it ey fare ceiving a majority of votes, including all the | TORATCAG, 88) Re 6 No gnted Of, Sear berm) democrats present and forty-seven republi- | And then, in Point of fact, there would have cans, attests the strong hold which the third | been no danger in changing the incumbent of term apprehensions have taken on the public | sis Rpt eit one os ee oo wet mind. Although such an amendment would pee if een beri ui aid be eminently proper in itself, without regard | yaad 54: to President Grant’s aspirations, there can be | 2 ern Delt ae ee ee pet no doubt that it is offered at the present time | pee aN ee aphssuis o . : sabi in consequence of the third term discussions | *'¢rests, an we hadipeaas.5 Pseudo ¢ the last two years. In the sec ae, elect a President they can so decide by their | place, it is now made evident that there is a votes, This is an argument against having | S ‘ any constitution at all. If the people large section of the republican party who } | share the prevailing fears in respect to Presi- wanted to elect Carl Schurz to the Presidency dent Grant's intentions, and feel the necessity | ta igs cag ne hese coreg of reste soaked santa . sag gly | foreign birth, They have preferred to limit pete moe pe kient hoon cont their own power in this respect, and itis for | Mngt iy sg es pet, roan them to judge whether they will not also, for representatives in Congress, has pledged itself | til stron cs Teal" eta frees | to a chauge in the constitution which was . Lgpbig, Seomoarrimmets | . : dom of choice in other respects. | urgently ee en aae Li eaeaiiiens ae | Deference for the people requires that | this subject should be submitted to their decision. Let them decide whether it is | in every one of bis annual messages; although the amendment is defeated just now the party has given a virtual pledge to submit cesta aes . ‘it to the States for ratification as soon as it | D°CeSsary sil ad pea yi ee a becomes strong enough in Congress. Tho | see Lapa abies Bee = pais ae people will note this implied pledge and hold alamo ae aa eae ek ay ma the democratic party responsible for its fulfil- | petitions for the three great amendments aeee te fast auic wen oa jesa which embody the political results of the war. oe f : Public opinion can manifest itself in numer- bia, bea A -. ., | ous ways besides petitions to Congress, All ane eaten bes oe cei ie set the arguments against this important reform bye is i jut Y sea ge it Hey is ht | ure weak and pointless, and we congratulate neue proms sea) oy pane or oh | the country that thts one-term proposition clenars, (| Phe Propose. exeeeetrn: g © has been started with a degree of success term to six years was not wise. It is too| ||. . ‘i ote ay literal a copy of the corresponding article in pony CA dette rea Case - Rapid Transit. The only serious movement that has been made thus far in behalf of rapid transit comes from the people. Probably this is best. When as it always is in England, with the popular | once it becomes manifest that the people are | branch of the national legislature. In Great | resolved upon rapid transit there will be no Britain this harmony is deemed fundamental, | difficulty in forcing it through the Legisla- no Ministry remaining in office any longer | ture, In the meantime the politicians have than it is supported by a majority of the their own little schemes, the statesmen have House of Commons. It is always a misfor- | their political digressions, candidates for the | of the term is to be changed at all we would | sooner see it reduced to two yenrs than ex- | | tended to six, In that case the Executive | would always be in harmony in this country, tune for Congress and the President | Presidency and Governorship are in combina- | to be in collision. They are | tions, while the chiefs of our local organiza- alike agents of the people, and there | tions look only to the maintenance of power. is an absurdity in the same prin- | Governor Tilden, for instance, will probably cipal having two sets of agents acting on | give us six messages upon national finances conflicting instructions given at different | and federal outrages in the South before he times. The two stormicst and most unprofit- | would give us one on rapid transit, while | able administrations we have ever had were | Mayor Wickham and John Kelly find it a | | those of John Tyler and Andrew Johuson, | great deal more interesting to discuss the | who had to confront a hostile Congress. We | means for getting rid of obnoxious office- do not recommend a reduction of the term to | holders or settling controversies in ono ward two years, but we would prefer this to its ex- | and another and securing the election of a tension to six. Weare content that it should | United States Senator than to mature a | remain at four if the incumbent is ineligible | plan that will give to the city this needed ime for a second term. Every argument for | provement, and force its passage by the stress | lengthening the term is unsound and falla- | of party discipline. | cious. The idea that it is essential to | We have said that our main hope isin the | stability in public measures is non- | people. Nothing is more gratifying than the sense. The policy of the government jndications that come from all sides that the on every important subject is determined | citizens of New York are really in earnest. by Gongress, it being the duty of the Presi- | An informal meeting, of which we print a re- dent to enforce the laws which Congress may port in another column, was held yesterday SP. M.; closesat 1045 | have passed and only Congress can repeal. | at the office of Mr. James M. Drake, which | In England the Ministry, which is the respons | shows this earnestness more conclusively than sible executive, is changed as often as the anything that has yet occurred. It was a majority changes in the House of Commons, | meeting of citizens in the best sense, and it without any detriment to useful stability in | was resolved to give the movement the largest the government. The heat of our Presidential | significance by giving the masses an oppor- elections would be increase1 in proportion as tunity in favor of rapid transit. The people +4 closes at 1045 the prize was rendered more valuable by | of New York have resolved to urge this necos- | | lengthening the tenure of the office. We pre- | sity as well as to consider it. There is a very fer four ycars, because that term has beeu so general discussion as to the best means of long established, and it is better not to make procuring rapid transit. One plan is that changes until they are called for by some the people should build a road by general urgent public necessity. But if there were to subscription. We have manly offers in be a change at all we should advocate a reduc- | that direction. Other plans propose certain tion of the term to two years, as being not roads which are already well known to the | only more accordant with republican princi- | people—the elevated, the viaduct, the under- ples, but with sound ideas of government, as ground, and so on. With these plans we have accepted and practised by our British kindred. | nothing todo; nor do we look with sanguine We stand, however, by the four years, and | hopes upon any method depending alone on | protest against the extension of the term to gencral subscriptions. The pleasant thing is six, even as a compromise for securing ineligi- that the people are really aroused, and that bility a second time. | this agitation will not cease until this blessing We do not quite like the amendment offered | has been secured. by Mr. Potter in another respect. It ought | to take effect at once, as soon as it is ratified | by the States. It is so drawn—for the pur- | pose, we suppose, of securing republican votes—as not to forbid another re-election of President Grant, and to give him a six-years’ tenure for his third term if he should achieve it. We have no faith in such trimming ex- pediencies. We should be unwilling to pur- chase the amendment at so heavy a price as Fifth Avenue. Good drives are as much a part of a great city as splendid streets and magnificont pub- not compare with any of the great cities of Europe, especially Paris and Berlin. The been adopted by those having the direction of this work for the metropolis. Most of our six years more of General Grant after the ex- | readers can recdll the excellence of the Bloom- piration of his second term. What guarantee ingdale Road when it was simply a macadam- can there be that we should ever have another | ized highway; but, with all the growth and Presidential election if Grant were to remain | progress and enterprise which have marked in office for cight years frome the 4th of next | the last few years, we have not been able March? But we suppose the idea was that, ‘to obtain anything half as good in after the people had ratified a one-term | its place. Harlem Lano has become a amendment, they would never consent to! mudhole, the railway tracks in the Grant's re-election. In logic and consistency | middie being a positive nuisance, not this ought, indeed, to be the effect; but Grant hinf®elf would be more likely to inter- pret it as an exceptional permission than as a prohibition it he could prevail on his army of office-holders to accept that view. so much on account of their existence as from the neglect of the footpaths, The poor car horses are compelled to suffer terribly on ac- count ot the unpaved condition of the street, while the way is extremely dangerous for pri- The defects we have noticed attracted little | vate vehicles. This is only one specimen of attention in the debate, which was chiefly | the condition of our streets. dn time the confined to the central question of limiting boulevards will become a relief, so far os the the President to one term. As the measure upper part of the island is concerned, but we was destined to fail at this session these de-, cannot havea strect suited to private car- fects are of minor consequence. They can be riages until we exchange the present pave- avoided in the future draft of an amendment ments in Fifth avenue for something bet- presented under better auspices. The pres- ter. ent proposal has served the purpose of setting fare should be macadamized and so made the ball in motion, and the strong majority of suitable to the purposes to which it is 132 yeas to 104 nays gives great encourage- devoted. The Central Park has excellent ment to future efforts. It feli short of the drives, but they are now unapproachable by a requisite two-thirds, but even if it had re- good roadway from any direction. Rapid ceived a two-thirds majority it would have | transit is scarcely more important to the true failed in the Senate; and for establishing a | interests of the city than a street such as we the diser satisfactory, especially as sion | authorities to move in the matter and give us turned entirely on the main question. ‘The | such a street. The present hard and uneven reform has made such progress as will insure | bed in our principal avenue onght to be re- its success if its advocates do not relax their | moved as soon as the spring opens sufficiently zeal. ‘The vote in Congress is a fulcrum on | to allow the work to be undertaken, and a which the lever of public opinion can be | good macadamized road substituted in its worked with prodigious effect. place. Now that the city has given us o Nothing could be more flimsy than theargu- | splendid park with many excellent drives let | | ments against the one-term principle stated | us also have a good road leading to it, and it in the debate. It was urged that theremight is plain that we cannot have this until be great crises in public affairs when the | Fifth avenue is paved upon the system wo national safety would depend on the re-elec- | suggest. | any other time; so this argument proves too | lic buildings. In this respect New York can- | fault is in the methods of paving which have | To this end that splendid thorough. | “Lawyers” and ‘Lawyers’ Fees.” When the venerable and accomplished Uncle Sam Ward, ‘‘the King of the Lobby,” was entertaining the House Committee of Ways and Means with his narrative of the life and | adventures of the lobbyist, he called the at- tention of the committee to the fact that this function in Washington was practically the same os that of a ‘parliamentary lawyer” in England. Uncle Sam’s intention was to convey to the country the impression that the lobbyist does not deserve his ill name, and that his functions are necessary to effect legislation. We observe in the testimony of Mr. Irwin ond other Pacific Mail witnesses that much stress is laid upon the fact that certain Congressmen, journalists and attorneys haye the power to earn from fifteen thousand to three hundred thousand dollars by a few weeks’ services in Washington. Tho question arises whether we have not here developed a -new and honorable professional estate, the emoluments of which far exceed those of any known calling—the pulpit, press or the out- side humdrum bar of New York. There is in London o class of attorneys known as parliamentary lawyers, and Uncle Sams reference to them was keen and apt. ‘The parliamentary lawyer occupies an honor- able and necessary position. His duty is to attend committees, to study up subjects that require legislation in the House of Commons, to present the case before the members of the House, to examine witnesses, to shape statutes according to law and precedent and give his whole timo to legislation and the means necessary to enable members of Parliament to act intelligently upon the question he has in charge. This is a foirly lucrative business, The attorney who obtains o parliamentary practice, like our own attorneys who have especial celebrity as patent lawyers, is as suro of ularge income. The skill necessary to be a good parliamentary lawyer is something like that necessary to be a good patent lawyer. It requires special training. It is well paid. Butno such fees are given as those which the evidence before the Committee of Ways and Means shows to have been paid to parliamentary lawyers like Whiting and Schu- maker. The difference between the parliamentary lawyer ag we see him in England and the par- | liamentary lawyer that Uncle Sam secs in | Washington is as great as that between gold | and fire-gilt. Take the case of Schumaker, for instance. Mr. Irwin testifies that Schu- maker was 4 man of so much genius that his services in one short session of Congress were | worth three hundred thousand dollars. Cor- | tainly it this person has talent enough to hon- | estly earn these fees by the practice of his pro- tession as a lawyer, then he has been the most sadly misunderstood man in New York, and | we congratulate him on the prospect of an in- | come as large as that of Mr. Vanderbilt or | Mr. Stewart. But who. for a moment | believes that Mr. Irwin accurately states | the maker was to® render to the Pacific Mail Company? Take the other cases-—jour- | nalists, correspondents, minor officers of the | House—men who earn a precarious subsist- | ence by hanging around Washington, very | much as water rats subsist in the hold of a | ship, going with it through seas and storm, | taking their chance for the ga®bage—who believes that these gentlemen honestly earned, | by the exercise of any legal knowledge, the | money paid tothem? Take the whole party | in the list furnished by Mr. Irwin to the com- | mittee, and there is not enough legal knowl- | edge to conduct an aseault and battery case betore a police court. They were paid, not because they were parliamentary lawyers, as Uncle Sam would have us think, but because of their ‘‘influence.” By the word “influ- ence’’ we understand political, social, per- | sonal and business relations; we discover | that Congressmen are owned by able men in investments; that Bill King, for instance, | had Congressmen just as he has blooded stock; that shrewd man, with wide business ex- | perience, could own batches of ten or twenty, | while the modest doorkeeper, doing business | in a small way, never got higher than two or | three. But it is extremely interesting to see | this Third House—this mysterious body be- hind the Senate and the House of Representa- tives—representing ‘‘influence,’’ and standing | between the sovereign majesty of the people, | as expressed in Congress, and the ambition, | the cupidity and the revenge of the outside | world. The marvel is that men who have | this power should be in so many cases worth- | less and disreputable people, without stand- ing, character or ability. It is nota pleasant | discovery, taking it all around, and we ques- | tion whether the good that has been done by | the Pacific Mail investigation will compensate | for the wounding to our national self-respect | involved in these disclosures. | sistance The Latest Mystery. We thought, when we read the revelations in | the ease of the poor child Charley Ross, torn | from his mother’s bosom in Philadelphia, | that there would be no more of this new and hideous crime; that we were not about to have in Americaa rise of that school of vil- and Italy aud Spain, where tanditism is an | industry of the country. | more distressing case than that of Charley Ross. We refer to the disappearance of Bill King. For the last ten years no man in | Washington has been better known than Bill | King. Those who enjoyed his friendship will remember his grace of manner, his brisk and busy ways and Christian statesmanship, his try,’ the assiduous industry with which | he attended to the delivery of let- | ters from the House Post Office and the general dispensation of comfort to the | members of the House, For ten years Bill | King was a blessing to our Washington statesmen. When his period of usefulness in an end by his election to a seat in that august | and honorable body, to be of the Syphers, the Whittemores, the Roderick Butlers and the other statesmen of the present dispensa- | tion, the country felt that a grateful peoplo | had honored a faithful public servant. Bill King, like the majority of Christian statesmen, was an agriculturist. Believing that the time would come when he could seek the retirement of public life and be the mentor and sage of bis community, he would circumstances of the services Schu- | Washington, who hold them as they hold | lany which has been a disgrace to Mexico | But there is even a | devotion to the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, his | | interest in ‘the development of the coun- | find himself various farms in the beauti- ful country of the Upper Mississippi. For Bill King was o student of his- tory. He had read with pride of the | Sage of Mount Vernon, the Sage of Monticello, the Sage of Ashland, the Sage of Kinderhook, | | the Sage of Wheatland ond the other sages | | who closed their public career by an Indian | | summer life amid their flocks and forests and herds and acres of waving wheat and golden corn. In order to carry out these pious pas- toral hopes Bill King set out on a journey to the northern part of Now York to buy prize cattle for his farms. When Inst heard from, a month since, he was in search of a famous bull, valued at ten thou- sand dollars, which he had _ resolved, regardless of expense, to carry to his Minne- sota plantation. Since then no one has seen Bill King; no one has heard of him. The telegraph cannot find him, the Sergeant-at- Arms can obtain no clew to his whereabouts and affectionate and anxious people have been unsuccessfully looking for him for days and days. His name has been in everybody's mouth and in the columns of every news- paper. The fate of Bill King is as much of a mystery as that of Tom Fields, Harry Genet, poor Charley Ross or the lost Pleiades. We recognize in this painful contingency a duty we owe to our profession and to the public. We have shown that we do not hesi- tate to do our part toward the solving of those inscrutable problems now and then imposed upon us by Providence. We found Living- stone, the Swamp Angels, Cespedes in his tropical Mambi home, the Khan of Khiva in his desert environed palace and Captain Jack in his lava beds. We have expressed our will- ingness to assist in discovering the North Pole, and we are willing now to take part in an expedition to find Bill King. Our natural choice would be to organize the expedition ourselves, and assign Mr. Stanley, Mr. | MacGahan, Mr. O’Kelly or some other of our | gallant, intrepid associates to the command of it. But these gentlemen aro otherwise employed, and in a work so dear to the American people we do not care to be selfish, But Bill King must | be found. “If our brethren of the press will | only assist in the work wo will bear our modest share of the exponse. Even if one | hundred thousand dollars is necessary, cer- | tainly the press of New York would not grudge thatsum. Mr. Irwin is released from | his committee duties, and he may be willing | to undertake this new duty in the interest of | humanity, Congressional integrity and Pacific Mail. If any of our contemporaries will only lead in the matter the Heranp will proudly | and gladly follow. Bad for George=—A Moral for the Police. George Dermemon, of Paris, has gone to prison for five years, and when the five years | have dragged themselves wearily away, and George comes out, he will be subject for ten years longer to the uninvited attentions of the police, who will pass on from one to another and from city to city a knowledge of his person and a succinct statement of his | history, and who will interfere persist- j ently and inevitably with all his little | games, even the most trivial; and if by | any mischance George should ever agnin be | | brought into court, no matter on what ac- cusation or at whose complaint, the doubt | will be against him, and others will not have | to prove him guilty, but he will have ts prove himseff innocent. None of these things aro pleasant, but they are the consequences of George's imprudence; of his deeply mistaken violation of that silver- | plated rule, ne quid nimis. He didit too much. | As a general rule it is not wise for a detective | to claim as his own more than half of what | has been stolen in any particular operation by | the thieves whom it is his duty to catch. It | has been argued that it is not wise for him to | claim any, but people who are generous as well as just, and especially those who do not restrict themselves to lemonade, will scout | fancies of that ascetic quality. We must allow for the wind, as the sailors say; we must | remember that though our detective is virtu- ous he is still human, even at his best, and therefore covetous, fallible, subject to tempta- tion, troubled about his bank account, and eager to bo in when there is any good | stealing on band. He should not want more than hak, as we have said, and— axiom of equal importance—he should be impassive before the money is taken. He may consent to the furtive operation; he may let the thieves go it alone, but he should never assist, for by this means he changes the nature of the transaction ond surrounds with peril,what was al'ogether safe. George disregarded theso first principles and several others. His specialty in the Paris police service flowed from his knowl- | edge of the English language. He could speak ‘a few Ingleese,” therefore the pick- pockets fell to his share, for there are no French pickpockets, or none but such as a | hodman could catch. This noble science is the | attribute of a free people. It is not specially | provided for in the British constitution, but it is a part of the noble heritage of the Anglo- | | Saxon race. As soon as a man plants his foot | on English soil he is tree. At the same mo- ment it becomes possible for him to develop into a pickpocket, unless both his hands and one toot have been previously shot away in | battle. George, having the pickpockets for his | share, saw that it was better than a farm. He studied them necessarily. He made | their acquaintance that he might pursue the study to better advantage. From acquaint- ance came intimacy and from intimacy they | came to understand one another. George’s in- | come increased anda chosen class of pick- pockets ceased to be caught. Paris polico | | circles heard more of ‘‘clews’ than of cap- tums. Some obstinate fellows, wao thought that Britannia necded no bulwarks, refused to come to terms, and there were enough of these to keep our inspector active and in | good repnte on the force, and also to make | exemplary ples for others who might fancy hard. Dermemon having an interest in the suc- | cess of the pickpockets, it was but natural he | should put a turn in their way from time to | time. Hekept himself in constant commu- | nication with them by telegraph, and not j only warned them away from dangerous | points, but indicated the occasions likely to prove at ouce the safost and the most fruitfnl. | On one occasion a whole corps gathered | | ten plethoric pocketbooks in a sta- | tion, and these, for safety, were all | | That's good; passed to George himaclf, With him they wero quite safe. He returned to the thieves nearly empty wallets. At this stage the pickpockets began to discover that they were the industrious slaves of Dermemon; and what says the anthem? ‘Britons never, never shail be slaves’? They declined further connection and went to prison in pro- portion. Thereupon the authorities began to receive from various prisons confessions which detailed at greater or less length the transactions of this detective. But what then? They were the accusations of con. victs. They indicated simply the existence of a conspiracy against this excellent detec. tive on the part of all the English pick pockets, who were evidently persuaded that they could no longer rob the Paris publio with any comfort unless this particular officer was put out of the way. Charges of this na ture were therefore an honor, not a discredit, and the officer against whom they were made should be promoted, not punished. Now, would not any reasonable and honest police administration be con- vinced by a defence whose theory is so clear? Evidently. Our own Police Board is the most honest and the most capable in the universe, for it never steals or blunders ex- cept when the sun is above the horizon or below it; and when, some time ago, charges were made against our detectives by convicts, and the detectives made a defence similar to the above, the charges were summarily dis missed, But they are not virtuous in Paris, and the wicked police authorities were evil-minded enough to fancy there might be something in it; so they profited by the accusation to set some little traps, and George was caught, and will be held for tho term mentioned above. From all of which it may bo seen that they have in other countrics also detectives like ours, but that they know better than we do what to do with them. Tue Crm Ricuts Br was the occasion of a remarkable scene in the House yesterday, the day being spent in ‘‘filibustering” Gen eral Butler's motion to take up that measure, The scene is to be regretted, and the action was misjudged on both sides. Ifthe majority are determined to pass the bill dilatory motions can impede but scarcely prevent its passage. In view of the fact that the people have decided against it it is not likely that the majority has any real intention of passing it. It follows that the action of yes» terday served no other purpose than to excite partisan bitterness at the cost of the public business. It would be a bold thing in the dominant party to pass this measure against the outspoken will of the people, and if it is done the rebuke of last year will foreshadow a sterner retribution in the future. Urrown Ispnovements.—The property owners on the west side prote% against the injustice dono thom in levying taxes for pro« jected improvements and then neglecting ta push them to completion. The demand they make is that the city authoritics shall fulfil their contract and complete the improve. ments in the uptown districts. It is four years since the assessments were made, and most of the money has been paid by the prop. erty owners. Common honesty would point out the necessity for completing these im provements and fulfilling the contracts made with the taxpayers. Tne New Jersey Senatonsare was for. mally decided yesterday, ex-Governor Ran« dolph being clected in joint ballot. He will doubtless prove an acceptable Senator, and he certainly hasa splendid opportunity of earning great distinction for himself and his State in the career thus guaranteed to him. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Outerbridge Horsey, of Maryland, is regi tered at the Hottman House. Rev. Wilberforce.Wells, of Philadeiphia, is stop. ping at the Metropoiitan Hotel. Count G, Galli, Italian Consul at New Orleans, has apartments at the Hotel Brunswick, Gencral Charles Ewing, of Wasnington, 1s among | the latest arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. Butler thinks ne wants to dic, but 2 few blue pills will make him livelier than ever. Thurlow Weed bas so far recovered [rom his late | inness that he was able to go outriding yesterday, E:x-Governor James E, English, of Connecticut, has taken up his residence at the Wincsor Hotel, Senator-clect Theodore F. Randolph, of New Jersey, is residiug temporarily at the New York Rote! Licutenant George M. Wheeler, of the Engineer corps, United States Army, 13 quartered at the Hoffman louse, “Bully for you, Mtle Rhody?’ Your new Sona. | tor can take more respon-tbility than Is always | necessary, bat le won steal. Vice President Wilsoa and Senator Jones lefs this city yesterday, the Vice President for Boston and tae Senator tor Washington, Ben Butler wants some one in Washington who “dare not ite.” He longs for a sombre contrast to set off his own brilliant courage tn that line, The Geograpwical Congress at Paris is postponed | to June or July, and it is likely to be so well ate tended thatit will perhaps be held in the Palate de Inaustric. Andy Jobpson says he gocsto Washington ag the representative of an ante-bellum democracy, but an anti-vellowing democracy would be better. Mr. Frederick Thorne, of the Alexandra Theatre, Liverpocl, who 1s to assume the part of Flacilen, in ‘Henry V.," at Booti's 7 re, arrived here | yesterday vy the steamer Repubite. At Antwerp, in th al Garden, a large and nmiatronly female of +. 8 Cog 1s bringing up a Jamily of tree iniantile tigers, who nave been separated from their tiger mother tor fear that she would make a breakfast of them, And here is Lourdes, even Lourdes the place ot the holy grotto and the miraculous appearance to the virgin, and it does not even believe in Henry V. by divine right, &c, Lourdes is a Canton in tne L rtment of Hautes J’yreuces, and in the late election this 1s the way it voted: —-Legitimiss, 40 votes; Bonapartist, 1,929 votes, Mr. aud Mra, Sartoris, 809-in-law and danghter of His Excellency the President, once more set to1t upon American soil yesterday, having arrived by the steamer Republic, of the W S-ariine, which reached her dock at one o'clock. They were met on the whart by @ par of intends, including Colonel Fred Grant and Honoré, of Citeago, and at once took carr s wud proceeded to the Fifth Aveune Iie In compliance with the pa ternal injunet:or eC stration wat avoided. but t were greotee with the greatest efuston by che friends in wait ing. Dinner was ipmediarey Lin the pare lor of Colonel Grant, and niea veautuul flower DISkel, With the words * @ Home, whieh bad been prepared im anticipation of Nelie’s retura, wes pliced tn her rooin a tbe Ing Upon her entrance, The passage public was a very agreeable one jor the season 0} | the year and without incident worthy of mention The party Will remaim in New York tov a short time and then proceed to Washington, where ® round of soctal festivities In hovor of the returned “Princess” Will take place. ; | ' oe