The New York Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1875, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD AND ANN STREET. BROADWAY JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and | after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly | editions of the New Yorx Henatp will be | gent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- ual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed Nzw Yorx | Henap. Letters and packages should be properly | ecaled. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET. Bubscriptions and advertisements will be received snd forwarded on the same terms | as in New York, AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. PARK THEATRE, Broadwa: nch Opera Bouffe—G{ROFLE-GIROFLA, ater. ia ane "Coralie ee Brosdway.- TICKET.OF HAVE MAN, at § P, M. ; closes 010: SAN FRANC MINSTRELS. eats: corner of Twel in street.—NEGRO STRELSY, atoP. M.; closes A iv P. M. 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Tue Enciise Lrserat Parry.—The Marquis of Hartington has been unanimously chosen | leader of the liberal party in the Parlia- ment of Great Britain, and will have such strong men as Gladstone, Bright and Lowe at his back. é Tae Centennuat at Philadelphia promises to he something of a colossal nature. A dis- tinguishing feature will be a grand inter- | national regatta on the Schuylkill River, in which the best oarsmen of England signify their intention of becoming contestants with our knights of the oar. Tae Canapun Recrerocrry Treaty was the theme of an interesting speech by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate yesterday, | and we have news this morning that the ques- tion was afterwards taken up in executive ses- sion and the treaty rejected. From this we infer that the public speech is to be taken as the basis of the executive action. If this is in fact the view of the majority we must femur to it, as the propositions of the Vermont Senator are entirely too narrow for 3 rule of conduct between two great countries, Tux Compraotien’s Loorc.—The Board of Apportionment met yesterday, and during the | | session Mr. Green made use of the following | expression, which the poor, unpaid scrub women of the Court House and City Hall may | read with interest:—‘‘I do not think there ought to be any delay in paying any one to whom the city owes money."’ And how ad- wirable was Mayor Wickham’s answer:—“I am indeed very happy to hear that the Comp- kroller has come to that wise conclusion.” } Ingennous Mr. Green! Sarcastic Mr. Wick- yom! | Rapid TransiteThe Duty ef Our Millionnaires. If ine multitude of counsellors there is safety we may feel sure that out of this rapid transit discussion we shall have s plan worthy ofthe city. A beautiful aspect of the dis- cussion is that it shows the people to be thoroughly aroused. There is nothing New York cannot do if it only makes up its mind todo it. The trouble about rapid transit in the past has always been that the people never entered heartily into the movement, They have never believed it possible. Every- | bedy felt the serious want, in a dreamy, list- less, languid way, hoping against hope, mouruing over the city’s paralysis, the ten- dency of population towards Kings county and New Jersey. But when rapid transit came it waseitherasajoboraring. One scheme destroyed another, and above all was a small, selfish, jobbing class who feared that ‘any extension’ of the city limits or any addition to the happiness of our people would in some way affect their own property. Consequently rapid transit never became a purpose antil the present time. Now the necessity is so ap- parent that the people insist upon it as & matter of municipal life or death. We cannot take any of the half-dozen lines of railway which converge either in Jersey City or Hoboken without witnessing what quick transit has done for New Jersey and lament- ing the evil effects of slow transit in New York. It is onlya few years since both of these cities were either wood or meadow. Now they are looming up into commercial rivals of the metropolis, while beyond them, far into the State, is city after city, each of them representing the depleting forces which have been operating against New York. There is no reason to regret that these places have grown with a prosperity unexampled in the history of the world, but we ought at least to learn the lesson of their growth. They could not have been but for the rapid transit which the railways afforded from the busi- ness centres of this city. It was easier for the downtown merchant to go to Orange, Elizabeth or Paterson, or even New Bruns- wick or Morristown, than to Harlem or Man- | hattanville, and so New Jersey gained what New York lost. For ten or fifteen years there has been an uninterrupted hegira across the North River, and during all these years we have talked rapid transit, and yet we have talked it with the want of purpose which characterizes children who build castles in the air to forget them before they are built. While our splen- did underground or elevated railways were constructed only in words or on paper and our purposes seemed the sole chatter of children, New Jersey called a score of cities into existence, each one of which is a monu- ment to our foolishness, The solemn fact is now apparent that New York stands still, while her suburbs rush torward toward metropolitan wealth and supremacy. The last decade shows that Jer- sey City has increased in a larger ratio than any city in the Union. Of course this means not the increase of a sister city, but the de- cline of New York. This atrophy has not | only injured the business section below the City Hall, but the wide outlying districts of Westchester. New York city is rapidly and practically abandoned to beggars and million- naires. The great middle class—our business men,.our mechanics and artisans, our profes- sional men, who are the glory and strength and real sinew of a community, have been driven out of the city limits. The exodus still continues. To arrest this, to make New York the home of the poor as well as the palace of the rich, to keep within its limits the money earned by its citizens, is the purpose. It is, as we have said, the life or death of New York. There are many ways of attaining this re- sult. The most feasible plan is that which addresses itself to the patriotism, the muni- wealthy citizens. The prosperity of New York | for the last fifty years has developed a large class of very rich men. Their property repre- sents the growth and grandeur of the metropo- lis. The possession of wealth brings opportu- nities and duties, o desire for fame and usefulness, a wish to stand well in the publie estimation. How, therefore, can this class gratify these natural yearnings better than by | giving us rapid transit? They would thus build a monument more enduring than bronze. Not only would it be an advantage to the people, an honor to their name, a credit to their pub- lic spirit, but it would be of business value. Men of large fortunes, like Astor, Stewart, Vanderbilt, Cooper, Tilden, Anderson, Brown, Belmont, Duncan, Lenox, Dodge and Goelet, can do this. Here are a dozen gentlemen who can contribute a million dollars each toward the building of city steam railway. They could even make it a present to the city with- out feelmg the burden. Many of them, in fact, would regain the amount of their contri- bution in the increase of their own property and resources. What is asked now is not simply o gift like the gifts made during the war, when vast sums were poured into the coffers of the Sanitary Commission for the | benefit of our soldiers, but an invest- ment. We do not see any reason to doubt that o properly built | railway through the city of New York would be a desirable investment, an immedi- ate income to its owners and from year to year the source of a larger and larger revenue. So that the demand for rapid transit affords these largely endowed géntlemen an unique | and attractive opportunity of making a good investment and gaining a national renown. To them would be given the honor that New | York now gives to the far-seeing statesman | Canpentrr’s Dowxratt.—One by one the | friends of Cesar are falling. Butler was swept away in September, and with him fell many less famous but not less zealous adher- | ents of the Executive policy. It was still be- lieved after the battle, however, that at least | two of the leaders were saved where so many nameless heroes were lost forever. were Chandler and Carpenter. But first the former was slain, and now we have news | that the latter also is destroyed. ‘here is in all this a most salutary lesson. The people have determined that personally and politi- who built the Erie Canal, The effect of that | measure was to open the resources of New York and so develop them that this State be- came the first in the Union and the city among the first in the world. Fifty years have passed since that blessing was obtained; now comes another opportunity. In many | These | respects, to the city especially, rapid transit is a higher necessity than the Erie Canal. We repeat, it is virtually the death of New York. If we mean to maintain our metropolitan supremacy | | we must confirm it. cipal pride, even the business interests of our | steam | The men to do it are | bea high advantage, One of the criticisms Upon republicanism in America is that it gen- erates s class of selfish, sordid, rich men, without public spirit, who live only for vain display, who yearn for the titles and com- plaisances of a courtly life. We are told that this possession of large wealth deadens public spirit and patriotism. We do not believe this. New York and other cities bave too many reasons to be proud of their rich men—of Girard and Peabody and Cornell, of Astor, Stewart, Cooper and Lick, and others whose names have become identified with acts of munificence and charity—not to feel that this stigma is unjust. Here is another opportunity to show how false it is. When, therefore, we appeal to the rich men of New York to take command of this glow- ing, burning, enthusiastic movement; to put themselves at the head of the people and give us rapid transit, we appeal to a sentiment that has never been invoked in vain. It is in their Power, bya moderate, careful and judicious measure; in the power of the men we have named and others like them, togive New York an impetus and confer upon the people 5 blessing that cannot be overestimated. There- fore, as a blessing to the city and an advan- tage to the country, in a public sense and in ® moral sense, as showing that great wealth does not deaden patriotism, we are persuaded that our rich men will not listen in vain to the appeals now made to them by the general voice of the people. The Mississippi River-What Shall Be Done with It? Elsewhere we give the report of the board of officers appointed under the act of Con- gress of June 23, 1874, in reference to the im- provement of navigation at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The persons appointed to posh service were three officers of the En- gineer corps of the United States Army, Lieutenant Colonels Wright and Alexander and Major Comstock; one officer of the Coast Survey, Professor Henry Mitchell; and three from civil life, Messrs. T. E. Sickles, W. Milnor Roberts and H. D. Whit- comb. This board visited in Europe and Africa the various points at which engineer- ing science has triumphed over difficulties similar to those found in the case before them. They visited the mouths of the Bhone, the Vistula andthe Danube, and examined the works of the Suez Canal, and in the light of the knowledge thus acquired made ; the surveys in Louisiana. They have now terminated their labors by the presentation of a report of that admirable class which gives all the necessary facts of a great case ina few pages, and bases a positive recommendation on the facts shown to exist. It is deemed feasible to accomplish in the Mississippi all that is necessary in either one of two ways—by cutting a canal from a given point in the course of the river through the land to deep water, or by such construc- tions of jetties or long piers at the mouth of one of the channels now open as will keep the current of the river sufficiently close to dredge out the stream and prevent deposit, or at all events deposit within a depth where it could do harm. Of the board of seven per- sons six favor the latter plan, one only— Lieutenant Colonel Wright—being in favor of acanal. In addition to the various reasons given in full in the report why the committee believe the improvement of the South Pass far preferable to the construction of a canal, the important element of cost is also in its favor. To construct and maintain the canal would cost $11,514,200, and the works at the South Pass would cost for construction and maintenance $7,942,110. Tae Crvm Ricuts Buu.—The time of the House of Representative was mostly taken up yesterday with the discussion of the Civil Rights bill. The discussion has no interest or importance, and the proceedings would have been exceedingly dull but for an episode, in which General Butler took a leading part. | His language was insulting to the white people of the South, butonly a sample of the partisan epithets in which too many of our public men indulge; and Mr. Mclean, of | Texas, in reply, used words that were | even more offensive. Then there was a scene which was disgraceful to all concerned in it, and not less to Mr. Randall for his use of slang and Mr. Cox for his dull witticisms, than to the others. The only member who met the matter with proper dignity and decorum was Mr. Lamar, of Mississippi, and he did himself honor by making his point without any bitter words of his own. It was one of those scenes which relieve the dulness of de- bate but injure all who take part in them. A vote will probably be reached to-day, and as the Senate bill, the substitute of Mr. White and the amendment of Mr. Kellogg striking out everything relating to schools in the first section are now all before the House, it is probable the whole matter will soon be out of the way, for the present at least. Benoa at Arpany.—It is but natural that the bill proposed at the State Capital in regard toa Society tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Children should be met with lively objections, Measures that give any right to public func- tionaries to enter a domicile or to interfere in afamily with what is regarded so com- monly as the prerogative of paternal authority are never looked upon with favor by a people | jealous of the encroachment of authority. In | this case the proposed law is in the name of a good cause, and justly has the sympathies of | many people; but this is no reason why its | terms should not be so guarded as to prevent any great liability to abuse. This is the more | necessary because of the association with the | Measure of the name of Mr. Bergh. Mr. | Bergh isa man of good intentions, and men | of good intentions have ruthlessly sloughtered humanity for ages with the most philanthropic purpose to make men virtuous. In the hands | of & fanatic the best law becomes a ready | means of oppression, and our experience with | the law in regard to animals should inspire caution in regard to any other laws that are to be administered in any degree by the same " | man, life or | As Exouisa Svpszct can always feel secure and confident of protection from his govern- | ment in any part of the world. One has been cally our statesmen shall hereafter maintain | | these highly favored fellow citizens who owe | | imprisoned at Aspinwall anda consul at that themselves upon a much higher level than | was the practice in the last few years, and the their wealth largely to the business prosperity of the metropolis in the past, and who, we port has been assaulted, news to-day. Consequently a British man-of- Senate and the country will be all the better | are confident, will only be too glad to have an | war has beon ordered to proceed to the for the admonitions which the downfall of | Uaspenter and men like him bring to the at tention of our public men, opportunity of contributing to the consolida- | tion and perpetuation of the city’s greatness. | In another sense such @ movement would Isthmus to inquire into the matter—a more efficient remedy than voluminous despatches from our Department of State. according to our | | to him and to virtually set himself up above | The Pelice Sercee=Reforming Back- ward. We alluded a few days ago to the cate of a Paris detective, who, having been found in collusion with thieves, receiving money from them azd protecting them from arrest, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. An example like this is calculated to keep » detec- tive force honest and to make it efficient. If the corrupt officer had simply been removed from the detective t and put on patrol duty, or detailed for special service at 8 hotel, a court of law or some other public place, the tendency of the act would have been to demoralize the force and to render lite and property in the city insecure. A man who would connive with thieves as a detec- tive would be very likely to lend valuable as- sistance to burglars as a patrolman. “They order these matters better in France” than we do in the United States, or at least in New York. A short time ago the Police Commissioners discovered, or affected to have discovered, corrupt practices on the part of some of the captains. It was common talk among the Commissioners that in this or that precinct the captain was supposed to be in league with panel house propri- etors and other viostors of the law, end to levy upon such persons a regular tax, in consideration of allowing them to pursue their business without molestation by the police. It does not appear to have occurred to any Commissioner that a captain who would be guilty of such conduct was unfit to be on the police force in any capacity what- ever. All that the Board deemed necessary in the case was to “break up the rings’’ by chang- ing the captains round into different pre- cincts. To be sure, there was nothing to prevent the transferred officers from forming new com- binations of a similar character in their new precincts or from making over their profitable arrangements to their successors. The Com- missioners only desired to make a show of activity and ‘‘reform,’’ and were indifferent as to what the intrinsic value of the reform might be. More recently they have made a similar stir in the detective department. Having made up their minds that about half the detectives were in league with thieves and making fortunes through protecting the-per- petrators of crime from arrest, they order the suspected men to put on the uniform and do patrol duty or detail them to hotels and courts of law. Again, it does not seem to have ooc- curred to the Commissioners that ununi- formed officers who were the accomplices of thieves would be the same after they had put on the uniform, and would indeed possess a yet more dangerous power as patrolmen than as detectives. In Paris the captains and detec- tives against whom these crimes were alleged would have been tried, and if convicted would New York Police Commissioners only proves that the real reform of which the force stands so much in need can only be secured by commencing at the head of the depart- ment. Organising the Septennate. It is probable that the vote in the French Assembly on the amendment to section fourth of the Ventavon bill is part of a bargain of which the other parts are not yet apparent ; because it is not in character for all the repub- licans of every shade from red to blue to vote together on any measure without such a defi- nite reason ass bargain might involve, more especially when the measure in support of which they are thus grouped is one that may give a soldier and a senstorial clique power to turn the representatives of the people out of doors whenever they sre found obstinate in the assertion of the national will. Section fourth of the Ventavon bill gave to the Mar- shal President the power to dissolve the As- sembly, and required that in case of dissolu- tion elections for a new Chamber should be held within six months. The Wallon amend- ment required that the dissolution should not be on the mere decision of the Executive, which would put the House always in the power of a Ministry ; but should be “‘by the advice and consent of the Senate,” a body the creation of which is provided for by the bill of Lefevre Pontalis. Certainly this is a limitation of the power that would have been given as proposed by Ventavon ; but it is not a limitation that can be palatable to republicans, tor the Senate, if constructed as the law projects, will never be a body in sympathy with any decidedly repub- lican system. Half its members will neces- sarily be firm adherents of privilege, and the half that issues from election could only equal these if such a miracle were to happen as that every man elected should be a republican. Preferred, therefore, even as the least of two evils, dissolution, as voted, can be very little better than dissolution as proposed in the original bill, and the republicans might have been expected to oppose either with equal de- termination ; for soldiers will always be apt enough at the dispersion of legislatures where they have the power, and where they doubt their power it is not in the interest of liberty to give them the encouragement of constitutional forms. But it is probable that all the elements of the Left have voted this measure out of complacency to the republicans nearer the Right, on s plodge that the repub- licans of the Right Centre will vote with them in turn for the modification of the bill create ing the Senate or on some other point to which the Left may attach a greater impor- third reading yesterday, and the Senate bill will be brought upinaweek. Thus is the Septennate endeavoring to emerge from the- | provisoire. Gnrees’s Onstauctivexzss.—The absurd re fusal of Mr. Green to pay the salaries of the Aldermen on Tuesday last, because two per- sons claiming to have been elected ‘‘Assistant | Aldermen” —an office abolished by the char- ter—protested against such payment, is only another exhibition of the Comptroller's an- | noying and impertinent obstructiveness. The Mayor has had occasion to take Mr. Green to task for his neglect to either accept or reject the sureties offered on the bond of the printer of the City Record. Mayor Wickham re- minded Mr. Green that he is a subordinate in the city government, that his duties are de- | fined in the charter, and that he has no business to assume powers that do not belong | the Mayor and Commonalty. The Mayor should at once put a stop to the petty tyranny Mr. Green seeks to exercise over all public officers of whom he does not stand in fear. have suffered the penalty. The action of our | | tance. The Ventavon bill was passed to its | Providence as a Street Cleaner, The citizens of New York are, no doubt, properly grateful, as they ought to be, for the many favors they receive at the hands of Providence. . But especially should they be thankful for the evidences of Divine care manifested in the occasional cleansing of our filthy, fever-breeding streets by grace of the weather. But for this beneficence business would be wholly stopped during a great por- tion of the year, and disease would carry off 8 large percentage of our idle population. A portion of Broadway, and probably Fifth ave- nue, might be rendered navigable and hab- itable through the instrumentality of what is humorously called the Street Cleaning Bureau, and, according to a morning contemporary, this much work would satisfy the taxpayers that they sre receiving the worth of their money. Butastoall other parts of the city, the avenues and streets where the business of the metropolis is done and where the great mass of the population lives, they are left wholly in the hands of Providence, and the people should be duly grateful that Providence sometimes comes to the rescue and performs the duties for neglecting which the Street Cleaning Bu- reau demands eight hundred thousand dollars & year out of the city treasury. Still, we would suggest to the heads of that bureau the propriety of extending a little aid or co-operation to Providence. They draw an enormous amount of money out of the pockets of the people—some million dollars a year—and they can keep it or pay it out to their army of invalids for all that Providence cares. But they might ot least set a few men to work on other streets than Brosdway and Fifth avenue, opening the gutters and culverts 80 as to allow the water and slush to run into the sewers, after the snow has been melted by the thaw and the rain, instead of leaving them to overflow the side- walks, flood basements and render the roads navigable streams. At present the Street Cleaning Bureau not only fails to clean the streets but obstructs the beneficent labors of Providence in that direc- tion. Yesterday two or three hundred able- bodied men could have rendered the entire lower part of the city below the City Hall navigable by clearing the gutters and opening the culverts, As it was, the movement of heavy loads was suspended, carriage driving was almost impossible and the sufferings of foot passengers were deplorable. It is prob- able that a continuance of the present weather may clean the streets without the aid of the bureau. But we insist that the men who draw @ million dollars a year out of the public treasury must do something more than cart the slush from “Broadway as far as Union square” ond “take Fifth avenue in hand” before they can persuade the people that they get the worth of their money and that “a new era has dawned upon the city.” Pennsylvania Entertainments. The Pennsylvania politicians never do things by halves, and when one of them begins to thunder it thunders all along the sky. Mr. J. D. Cameron, son of the Senator, be- thought him ot giving a little dinner to Sena- tor Wallace, who got the place in the Senate that young ‘‘Don” wanted. It was an occa- sion fora feast if there ever was one, and while the venerable statesman was speeding his son’s parting guests, another statesman, not so venerable—indeed, in the language of the day, a statesman who wasa little ‘fresh’ — got up avery different kind of entertainment on his own account. Almost while Wallace was sipping republican champagne in the house of the young politician there was heard the ery of Wolfe in the Capitol. Wallace sat down to dinner in the republican fold, but Wolfe refused to be seated at the request of the democratic shepherd, and seemed intent on devouring the democratic lambs, Nothing like it was seen or heard since the days of the Buckshot War, when Thaddeus Stevens made his famous retreat through a win- dow of the Senate Chamber, and Governor Ritner asked for United States troops to suppress a legislature. These were days of great partisan bitterness, days when no democratic Senator would drink the wine of his whig colleague, and we are inexpressibly pained that the wolves should howl at the very moment of the display of so much good teeling in the Cameron mansion, The worst of it is that nobody is satisfied with either en- tertainment. The democrats think Wallace should not have eaten ‘‘Don” Cameron’s din- ner, fearful that there is more in Sam Ward’s philosophy than democratic Horatios ever dreamed. Being disposed to be charitable, we prefer to believe, however, that the dinner will do the young Senator no injury, except to his digestion. If his stomach escapes his honor may also go uncorrupted. But the legislative entertainment is a more serious matter, and we would be slow, indeed, to per- ceive the fitness of things if we did not see in it another opportunity for General Grant. The situation at Harrisburg was almost identical with that at New Orleans 8 month sgo. While the democratic Speaker was in the chair, it is said, a riot took place in the Assembly Chamber. Pistols were drawn and authority was at an end. Above the noise and excitement was heard. cry for “Sheridan’’ and another for ‘Grant and his troops.” Evidently there was anarchy here, and we now await with anxiety tbe decision of His Excellency. Will General Grant restore order to Pennsylvania? Will he march sol- diers to Harrisburg, so that if Mr. Cameron or anybody else wants to give a little dinner Ward's there shall be no danger of disturb- ance from the ‘‘banditti’’ of Capitol Hill? The question is one of the utmost importance, and it cannot be disregarded by the President if he would deal in the same spirit with all parts of the country, Mr. Sewann's Brix for the paving of Fifth avenue with a concrete pavement from Wash- ington square to Ninetieth street will no doubt be welcomed by the residents in that avenue something better than the present dangerous ond disgraceful pavement. The street is of necessity the most important drive iu the city, and its condition is now 80 deplorable that any proposition for its improvement can | scarcely fail to be acceptable. Still, the Legis- citizens are of opinion that s macadamized ‘road, the advantages of which are well estab- lished, would be preferable to any concrete Davement for such a splendid avenue. upon the model of these little affairs of Mr. | lature ought to bear in mind that many of our | and our citizens generally as the promise of |’ The Lest Sill King, The mystery in reference to that distin guished Christian statesman, Bill King, com tinues without abatement, As our readers wil! perhaps remember, Bill King is the newly elected member of Congress from Minnesota, For many years he was Postmaster of the House of Representatives and a great admires of the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, who was his model of political propriety and his example in statesmanship. During bis services in the House he wasa brisk, busy, eager, sharp-witted and exceeding thrifty man. In the course of afew years he saved enough out of a small salary to become one of the richest men in the Northwest, Unlike many Christian statesmen, Bill earned his money before he went inte Congress, and during the last canvass he crowned his career by accepting from the hands of a grateful constituency the privilege of sitting with the Syphers, the Whittemores, the Roderick Butlers and their successors who now rule this blessed land. When Congress assembled Bill King was in the active enjoyment of health and prosperity, having obtained several farms by prudence and thrift. Anxious, like President Grant, to improve his stock, he started for the Oanada frontier to buy o ten thousand dollar bull This bull was of a remarkable breed. Those who know the delicate points of Bill King’s character know that his object was to become a member of the Senate. He had become a member of the House by his Christian charac- ter, and he wished to become a Senator by his agricultural knowledge. He reasoned that the capture of a ten thousand dollar bull, and the taking of it back to Minnesota, would be to establish such o claim upon the gratitude of the pastoral people of that noble com. munity as to insure his triumphant choice as the successor of Senator Ramsay. As we have said, Bill King was last heard from travelling to- ward the Canada frontier, looking for his ten thousand dollar bull. Since then no one has seen him. The Sergeant-at-Arms cannot find him. The Committee of Ways and Means cannot reach him. He is insensible to letters, to published cards and statements, to the gentle but peremptory influence of subpoena. The Legislature of Minnesota have passed resolutions of the most interesting and suggestive character, but he makes no re sponse. His fate is as much a mystery as that of Tom Fields, Harry Genet or Dick Connolly, or even poor little Oharley Ross, The faci that a statesman of so much eminence and purity, so many Obristian virtues, such re fined, pastoral tastes, so widely known and so universally beloved—the fact that such a mat should so suddenly disappear from the public sight is a disgrace to our civilization and ta the administration of justice. Is there no way of finding Bill King? Even if we knew that he were dead it would be asad consola- tion. Our anxieties would come toan end and the citizens of the District which now mourns a member could elect a successor. Tux Camenons.—If the Pennsylvania eleo- tions deprived Senator Cameron of having his son as a colleague he is still not altogether in- consolable, for the defeat of Carpenter shows that the clan is still strong in promising sons, Though we lost Donald we now have Angus, Tax Inrenmmusiz Cantst Was in Spain seems not to have suffered much from the accession of the boy King to the.throne beyond the cable despatch that ‘the govern- ment troops are advancing victoriously.” Yet this is not exactly pew. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, “The Maskelynes” is the name of Annie Thomas last novel. Fitty-one whales were driven ashore by 8 recent storm tn the Orkseys. Captain A. K. Hughes, United States Navy, ia quartered at the Gilsey House, Colonel Blanton Duncan, of Kentucky, journing at the New York Hotel. John Buli gathered in last year $35,000,000 ia customs duties on unmanulactured tobacco. Next summer the Emperor of Brazil will visit Russia, returnipg home by way of this country. Colonel George W. Patten, United States Army, has taken up his quarters at the Coleman House, Judge Charles L. Woodbury, of, Boston, wu among the latest arrivals at the New York Hotel Mr. R. B. Angus, manager of tne Bank of Mon- treal, is residing temporarily at the Brevoort House. His name was Hamlet, and he wass sexton at Norton, in England, and he was killed by failing into a newly made grave. ‘The young Duke of Medina Cos't has just married aniece of the Empress Engénie. The house of Medina Celi ts descended irom the last of the seven sons of Lara. Senator-elect Francis Kernan arrived in this city yesterday from his home at Utica, and is at the Windsor Hotel. Senator John B. Gordon, of Georgia, arrived at the Grand Central Hotel yesterday morning, and left last evening for Washington. Guillaume Guizot has officially offered to M, Rouher, representative of the Empress Eugénie, 96,000f. in payment of his “debt” to the late Em- peror; but the money has been declined. Which of the Generals tsit thatisto take in France the same step that was taken by Primo de Rivera in Spain, and determine the strife of par- ties by calling in the son of the former sovereign? Workmen are now busy in Pere la Chaise ong splendid monument to Generals Le Comte and Clement Thomas, the two soldiers who were offered as human sacrifices in the Communist orgie of 1871, ‘The Paris Figaro is working earnestly at a “new idea.” This new idea is to get peopis In the habit of advertising their various wants in its columns, Hitherto Paris journalism has been ignorant of this source of interest and revenue, Now they tell of a photographic apparatus by which a plate, kept permanently sensitive, can be | put in @ locket om the watch chain, and with which the holder can secure the portrait of a per: son he sees anywhere, without the knowledge of that person. M. Francis Guerin has arriv Cape of Good Hove, with a found in an abgndoned mine at the Devil’s Table, This diamond 1s estimated worth 7,000,000f., but the possessor has not yet found a customer, Two Paris journals, the Figaro and the Gaulois, have been warned thatthe government will pun- ish criticism of the Assembly and the President ij it finds the criticism too sharp. Natu: standara must take into consideration the victims are thin skinned, and Jo, therefore, very much afloat as to w! ay write. Mile. Rosalie Colton, of Epinal, Fra: rants her beloved country to han over to her 100,000,000f., or $20,009,000. She claims this as the heir of Jean Thierry, who died 200 years ago. Jean was tne son of @ shoemaker and ran away from home. He acquired a fortune and died at Venice, leaving his money to bis heirs in France. in the meantime hisproperty was in the custody of the Bank of Venice. [t was diMcult to determine, in the number of claimants, who were the neirs, and thts doubt Bad not been solved when Bonaparte sc:se¢ the treasure of the rich city, Thierry’s fortune with the rest. By that act, it is claimed, the French nation became responsible to Tnserry4 aire,