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Money on call loans easy at 2} a 3 per | cent. | Tae News rzom Cusa which we publish | this morning gives evidence, mot only of the | undecaying spirit, but of the recent good for- | tane of the insurgents. In four different | engagements, described in our Havana de- | spatch, the Spanish troops were discomfited | and forced to retreat with considerable losses. A Vircnaa Muzpenzn, named Jesse Fouks, who recently made his escape from prison and was recaptured, unbosoms himself in our | columns to-day, acknowledging his guilt as | the destroyer of an entire family. The story | is a revolting one and a terrible comment on | the depravity of human nature when cupidity | becomes the dominating feeling. Tae Stare Meprcau Socrery has recorded its voice in favor of progress by admitting to | its annual meeting a female practitioner as a delegate. Old fogyism, as our correspondent says, held up its hands and turned up its eyes in horror at the innovation ; nevertheless, the | lady read a very interesting paper, which was well received by the society. Tae Prorosep CenTENNiaL CELEBRATION at Philadelphia begins to assume very sig- nificant proportions. The various commit- tees are in active operation, and the important questions of accommodation and transporta- | tion for such @ vast multitude of people as | may be expected on that great national occa- sion are receiving due attention. | Tur Rarm Transtr Movement continues to engage public attention, and our news columns chronicle what was done on this subject yes- terday. Mere talk, however, amounts to lit- tle, and we wish some competent person would talculate the daily receipts of such a road if it were once in operation, and that able engi- meers would set forth their matured views as to the best plan tor rapid transit and the cost of construction. There is au imaginable cost at which the road would be immediately protitable to the stock- holders, and the additional cost above that limit, whatever it is, would be so much sunk enpital. Whether that excess of cost beyoad ® fair remuneration is one million or three millions or five millions is one of the most important questions to be determined in order that the people who are making volunteer subscriptions in aid of the enterprise may be able to estimate how large ® sum they need to | raise, | Beppe. to shitty, ae ae, ewes eee | sion of offensive personalities. | When a statesman says “Let us have peace’ | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY' 5/ 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, —— Answers to Correspondents. It is not our custom to reply to the number- less questions which idle people send in to newspaper and with a full share of which we troubled. We furnish the news of the day and make such comments on itasseem to us just and fit, and there our violation of the constitution and used the army to prostrate civil government in one of the States; that after his six years of rule the whole country is poverty-struck, all enter- | prise checked, the Treasury empty and pros- Perity fled from as, it cannot be said that he is “first in peace,” As it used, very sensibly, duty ends, But here is a batch of queries | % be said, that “the use of » general is to win the most interesting topic of the day, we will | undertake to answer. We give fair warning, however, that, in the’ words of the late Mr. Greeley, it is for this once only: — “A. Dy F." asks us what we really think of General Grant. Well, in the first place, we have a great admiration for him. We be- lievo him better fitted to adorn private life than almost any public man we have ever had in America; and this is saying » good deal, We freely confess that General Grant is out of | place in the Presidency. It was a mistake in him to accept that office, as everybody now | sees, and as we have often told him. We do | not doubt that he will resign—at least if he takes our advice—and if he should be so deluded as to hold onto a place, of whose duties he is entirely ignorant, and where he daily loses somewhat of his earlier glory and reputation, it is quite certain that two years hence the people, who by this time are fully aware ot his true place, will with great anan- imity elect him to stay at home. “J. A.” asks, “Is it oris it not true that the Hznarp is an organ of the administra- tion?” This correspondent reminds us of a | Missourian, who wrote to his county news- | paper a somewhat similar query :—‘‘Did the battle of Waterloo take place before or after the beginning of the Christian Era?” To | which the editor replied, “It did” ‘J. A.” must have been living somewhere in the back- woods not to know that the Hznraxp is the special organ of General Grant, the best and the most faithful friend he has ever had, and at this time almost the only journal which has the patience and devotion to advise him what todo, If ‘J. A.” will read the Heparp he will see there almost daily foresbadowed that course which General Grant would pur- | sue if he were as wise as we wish he was, and | which it is our earnest desire and hope he | before us which, as they bear directly apon | battles,”’ 6o the use of civil ruler is to make | @ nation prosperous and happy. Washington knew admirably how to do this, Grant would like to do it; but, being a mere soldier, he imagines it can be done by a huge and con- stant display of force, as though you could command a man to be contented at the point of the bayonet or club him inte happiness and prosperity. A musket is not the emblem of felicity. If General Grant took the trouble to read history he would see what many of his former admirers see with grief—that the spirit and the results of his rule do not differ greatly from those of Napoleon IL That ridiculous personage also imagined that all was done which statesmanship required when he collected s great army and made of it a police to ‘keep order.” The Third Napoleon’s motto was, ‘Let us have peace,” in precisely the eame sense in which General Grant understands these words. He had a natural hatred of disorder; he was irritated by loud noises. He forced France into quiet at the point of the bayonet; and, precisely as Grant now, he for years increased the coun- try’s debt, violated its constitution, made heavier its burden of taxation, and multiplied instead of decreasing the causes of dissatisfac- tion and disorder. If Grant could rule over us eighteen years, as Napoleon did over France, we should be no better than the French; for there can be no doubt that he is a demoralizing and degrading element in our society. This is so universally felt now that it would be absurd to compare Grant with Washington in the last clause of the great eulogium. Washington was ‘‘first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Grant certainly is not. He cannot be, except in private life. He has not the judicial temper of Washington. He isa partisan, and one of a very narrow kind; for his party zeal takes in but a small portion may yet. determine on. The first step in the policy we recommend is that he shall resign ; | and in this, asin many other affairs of life, we | assure him that it is the first step only which | coste, Having resigned, all the rest would be | easy and pleasant. He could go to Europe or to visit his friend Kalakaua or amuse him- self as he liked, and we promise him not only & very good time, but the thanks of a grateful people, “D."’ asks, ‘What does General Grant | want?” This question reminds us of an un- feeling remark of the late Thaddeus Stevens | in regard to General Banks, when the latter | was once, in 1866, making a speech in Con- | gress. ‘‘What does General Banks want?” asked a puzzled member of the Pennsylvania statesman, who replied, ‘Want! confound | him, he wants brains ; that’s what he wants,” | Now, we are far from suggesting that General | Grant wants brains, for he does not, What | he lacks, as we have often pointed out to him, | is a capacity to understand civil government. | He is a soldier, used to force, and his notion of governing would, by persons who like him less than we do, be described asa system of even, and that the least reputable, of the polit- ical organization to which he has joined him- self, He lacks the greatness of soul, the broad and generous patriotism, the unselfish- ness, which made Washington dear to all his | countrymen, and gained him the respect and confidence even of those who thought his views of government mistaken. Now, it is a pity toseea man wretchedly fail ina high place who won the plaudits of his countrymen by his success in war. There is no right-minded American but would like | to esteem and respect General Grant; but he daily forfeits all title to esteem by his miscon- duct inthe Presidency. For this reason we | think it an office of true friendship to advise him to resign. The act of resignation would certainly raise him in the esteem of his coun- trymen; it would show them that if he was incapable he was yet honest and patriotic; that he preferred his country’s welfare to his own personal gratification, and that he had the penetration to see which way true glory lies for him, The Decencies of Debate. There was a lively scene in the House “main strength and stupidness.” In the name of peace he sends our most brilliant | General to New Orleans, which is a good deal | like appointing a bull to keep order in a china | shop, and allows a State Legislature to be | dispersed by federal troops, which is like | smoking out a beehive with a shovelful of | sulphur—you get rid of the bees, but they would hatdly call it a civil proceeding. Gen- | eral Grant's way with the South is not original | with him. It is founded on the same theory which led a hunter who had caught a bear's paws around a tree to imagine he had | caught the bear. While he held the crea- | ture’s paws it was all well enough, though in- | convenient and costly. But he had to let go | at some time, and he discovered by and by | that merely holding his paws neither tamed | nor subdued him, and that the real work wouid begin whenever he let go. Grant, with the whole federal power to back him and no | regard for the constitution to restrain him, can certainly hold down the Southern bear. But what is the use? Someday we shall have to let go, and the management of our bear | will begin {rom that day, and all Grant's | holding down will count as mere folly or | | worse. | Statesmanship consists in managing people, | not in knocking them down witha club. But | that is what a mere soldier like Grant can | never learn. There is not the least doubt | that General Grant is in earnest when he says | «Let us have peace ;’’ the difficulty is that he | knows but one way to procure peace, and that | is by shooting every man who, as he may | he instantly sets to work to study the causes ot disorder, and his aim is to apply remedies | which shall remove friction, produce har- | mony, and leave natural laws to work out the | final cnre. snaps his heavy jaws together, gets a stony | glare in his eyes and determines to have | peace, if he has to kill every man in the | State. It would be wrong to call’ Grant, for this, a monster. He is simply an ignoramus ; a petson who might be eminently respectable in private life, who was undoubtedly highly useful in a time of war, when the object was to kill and cripple as many of the enemy as | possible, but who becomes as dangerous as a | Iunatic when he is put im the Presidential chair. His notions about securing the end | weall wish for are about as practical as the old woman's, who “thanked tne Lord that she | had now been able to borrow money enough | to pay all her debts."” : “L,"' asks us ‘What is the difference be- tween Grant and Washington?" This co- nundrum answersitself. Washington was, by the unanimons consent of his countrymen and the civilized world, ‘first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his country- men.’ Now, of Grant it may truly be said that, like his great predecessor, he was ‘first in war;” but there, unfortuuately, the paral- lel stops short. To say that he is ‘first in peace” would be absurd, Waen we cousider that after six years of rule and ten years atter the conclusion of the war, with power more nolimited and unquestioned than any Presi- | dent before him enjoyed, he still keeps one- third of the States in an unhappy turmoil; But o mere soldier like Grant | | proving him unworthy of credit. yesterday, growing out of some intemperate words spoken in debate by Mr. Brown, a democratic member from Kentucky. Mr, Brown's langusge was not more «discourteons or more indecorous than has often been heard in that body before in the recent great degeneracy of parliamentary manners, and the incentive to the unwonted excite- ment it occasioned was disrespect to the Speaker. Mr. Brown was proceeding in the abusive strain which has of late years become too common in the House, when Speaker Blaine interrupted him with the inquiry whether he intended his remarks to have a personal application to any member of | the House. Mr. Brown replied that he had no such intention, and was permitted to con- tinue his speech. But after a few sentences he proved that he had not been candid with the Speaker by bringing his tirade to a@ point against General Butler. It was his treatment of the Speaker, and not his offensive language about General Butler, that kindled the House into a flame of excitement. Mr.. Brown was arraigned at once, Mr. Hale moving a resolution that he be formally censured by the Speaker at the bar of the House and Mr. Dawes offering a resolution for expelling him. This led to s heated debate, which ended in the adoption of Mr. Hale's resolution, when Mr. Brown went forward and received the censure of the Speaker. We trust that this scandalous and regrettable incident may bring all the members to a due sense of the propri- eties of debate and contribute to the suppres- Tilton’s Cross-Examination. The cross-examination of Mr. Tilton yes- terday, as conducted by the ‘eading counsel | for the defendant, is calculated to make an unfavorable impression as to the innocence of his client. If Tilton is o :ruthful witness Beecher is, beyond all questicn, guilty. The only way to invalidate Tilton's damaging testimony is by impeaching ais veracity and It is mere childishness and folly to convct him of writ- ing amatory verses like those read by Mr, Evarts yesterday to the grea; amusement of the spectators in court, Their laughter is easily accounted for. It was ¢ue partly to the wit and sprightly turns exhibited in the verses on ® subject which dl wits and poets from time imnemorial have treated in a jocose vein, and partly to the ridiculous incongruity of introducing such literary trifles in so grav ao trial. authors of such light amabry verses have never before been regarded propounding a | social erced, but only as giving tree play to gay fancies, in which theysought the credit of witand ingenious playfilness, ‘“Shail I swear to the truth of a sog?"' said one of their number. Even if Tiltm’s tantastic lit- erary fancies could be regarded as anything more than a display of wit, what legitimate bearing can they have on te present case? Does it tollow, because a nan has written playtul, amatory verses, tht nobody could seduce his wiie? Even f such literary trifles could be nccpted as evi- dence that the husbandis a libertine, how would that prove the innocence The | were true that the husband is a gay Lothario, and the wife could be convinced of it, that would be rather « potent engine.in the hands of a seducer who might justify her departure from virtue on the score of reprisals. If Til- ton is unworthy of belief it would ve quite proper for Mr. Beecher’s counsel to establish that fact to the satisfaction of the jury; but it can be no proof of Mr. Beecher’s innocence to show that Tilton held loose notions on the subject of marriage. It would be a curious doctrine, indeed, that infidelities on the part of @ husband are @ conclusive proof of the chastity of his wife, and it would be still more singular if witty and playful verses of an amorous cast were to be seriously regarded @s proving the loose morals of the writer. The New Leader of “Her Majesty's Opposition.” The selection of the Marquis of Hartington as the leader of the liberal party in the House of Commons suggests a wide difference be- tween the methods of party management in Great Britain and the United States, In this country we have no experience of any such thing as a leadership of either house of Con- gress by formal selection. Neither the party in the majority nor the party in the minority recognizes any other claim to leadership than that which is founded on political talents and skiJl in debate and the natural ascendancy of vigorous abilities in » legislative assembly. Clay was a leader, not by any formal choice of the whig party, but solely by the force of his eloquence and his great dexterity as « politi- cal manager. Webster and other eminent whigs were also leaders in the same sense that Clsy was in proportion to their political capacity and debating power, The leadership of the democratic party has always been equally divided and distributed. In Clsy’s time Ben- ton, Wright, Cass, Buchanan, Douglas and their compeers led the democracy in virtue of no other title than their talents; the party submitting to guidance by none of them in consequence of a previous understanding or agreement. So, ata later period, Thaddeus Stevens led the House of Representatives simply by his vigorous will and skill in par- Hamentary tactics, but without any exelusive claim or declared consent which bound the party to defer to him rather than to any other of its members. The only formal arrange- ment for unity in our politics is by a caucus, held as ‘occasion may from time to time arise, binding the party to some particular measure or course of policy, but never pledging it to follow the guidance of an individual member. The English method is so foreign to our ideas and practices that we cannot conceive the possibility of its introduction in our politics, In our next House Mr. Blaine will be the leader of the opposition, but that will be a mere silent concession to his legislative experience and dexterity. His party, on any particular occasion, will follow him or not, just as it pleases, without the slightest breach of party loyalty, whereas, if the republican members should assemble and formally designate him | as their parliamentary leader, no important movement could be madé without consulting | him and securing his consent, Whether our caucus system is a better expedient for eecur- ing party unity than the English plan of se- lecting recognized lender may admit of question, but it is so fixed in our political habits that it is not likely to be changed. Lord Hartington has been selected by the English liberals as their leader in the House of Commons for other reasons than his abilities, which are understood to be barely above mediocrity. He owes this honor entirely to his political connections. He is the rep- resentative of the great aristocratic whig | families, which, until Gladstone was mado Prime Minister, controlled the action of the party. The conservative victory in the last parliamentary election expressed the | sense of the English people that the liberals under Gladstone had driven the chariot of reform with too much rapidity, and that the nation desires repose. Earl Russell, in a book just published, considers that he made a mistake in consenting to be transferred to the House of Lords, instead of retaining his leadership in the Commons. This is sup- posed to indicate his opinion that Mr. Glad- stone has gone too fast and too far, and that | this reaction against the liberals is a conse- quence of the impetuous zeal with which Gladstone drove the government forward in the direction pointed out by the radicals, After disestablishment in Ireland it was feared that the Church of England was not quite safe, and it is to meet this recoil of public feeling that the liberals have selected for their leader a man like Lord Hartington, whose family connections and personal sympathies are @ guarantee that the party is disposed to give the country a period of rest from agitating innovations. ‘Lhe selection of Mr. Forster, who is the lineal heir of Mr. Gladstone's ideas, and is more progressive than Gladstone himself, would have strength- ened the feeling which brought the conserva- tives into power and have postponed in- | definitely a return of the liberals, Besides i | the pledge implied in Lord Hartington’s | aristocratic family connections the compara- | tive feebleness of his talents is an additional. | safeguard against innovating tendencies. It is only a man abounding in ideas and con- | scious of intellectual strength that ventures to “steer too near the sands’’ in political navi- gation. Such a choice is a recognition of the fact that a considerable period must elapse | before the liberals can expect to come again | | into power, and of the necessity of a quiescent | policy, When there is little to be done | but to wait and watch a daring pilot is | not wanted, and the mediocrity of Lord | Hartington’s talents is a recommendation / rather than an objection. The fact that pro- | nounced aggressive liberals like Mr. Bright | and Mr. Forster acquiesced in such a selection } is o significant confession that the present state of British opinion requires the liberals | to reef their sails and wait for the return of more favorable political weather. It is a movement equivalent to the adoption of a | trimming party platform in the politics of this country, | The Marquis of Hartington will have sage and able advisers among the members of tho old whig aristocracy. Earl Granville, an ex. perienced statesman, will continue to lead the liberals in the House of Lords, and Lord | Hartington may be expected to actin concert with him in all public measures, The new | | liberal leader will be strongly supported | | in the House of Commons. i | | | the mountain fortress of Guipuzcoa, Gladstone, Bright and Forster, who will never leave him to contend against so for midable an adversary as Disraeli single handed. Before the way is opened for the return of the liberals to power Lord Harting- ton will probably be called to the House of Lords. His father, the Duke of Devonshire, is sixty-seven years of age, and, in the ordi- nary course of nature, the heir to his estate and title will come into possession at no dis- tant period. He is, therefore, a leader pro tempore in the House of Commons, and will probably give place to a stronger successor before the liberal party shall find the govern- ment within their grasp. The Defeat of Senator Carpenter. The country has always good reason for re- gret when » stateaman of capacity is re- manded to private life and replaced by a com- monplace successor, Mr, Angus Cameron, who has carried off the prize of ‘the Wiscon- sin Senatorship, is s mere stick, a small third-rate local lawyer. There is not a county in the United States whose Bar could not furnish at least one man of equal fitness for the high post of United States Senator. If Mr. Carpenter had been supplanted by an ex- tremely mediocre, wooden-headed democrat, there would be little to be said beyond an ex- pression of regret that the democratic party could not supply a better man for so impor- tanta position. But when the choice lay be- tween candidates of the same political party it is a folly, and almost a shame, that & small-sized local iInwyer has been preferred to a gentleman so able and brilliant as Mr. Carpenter. It is for the public advantage that both political parties should be represented in the national councils by their strongest mén. Precisely asin # court of justice s case is always better tried when both of the litigant parties are represented by lawyers of the first eminence, so in a legislative body it iss great advantage to have the discussion on both sides conducted by well-equipped, first-class debaters. To say nothing of the dignity and respectability of the Senate, which always degenerates in proportion as small, inexperi- enced men take part in its proceedings, the publio is deprived of the means of forming a correct yudgment on great questions if both sides are not presented with igenuity, vigor and eloquence. We are, therefore, heartily sorry that Mr. Schurz and Mr. Carpenter are to surrender their seats to men of small calibre and no experience, who hold substantially the same views as the statesmen they respectively supplant. Schurz and Carpenter have fought on opposite sides in most recent questions, and it is, therefore, no partisan preference which causes us to regret their retirement from public life. Had Mr. Schurz been sup- planted by » Grant republican or Mr. Carpen- ter by a democrat the loss of talent would not seem quite so deplorable. Mr. Carpenter's standard of political morality has not been high, but he is entitled to the praise of justice and independence for his commendable course respecting the Louis- iana question, on which President Grant has made the most fatal mistake of his adminis- tration, Mr. Carpenter is too good a lawyer not to have perceived the utter fallacy of all the reasons which were arged in support of the usurpation of Kellogg, and if his very able and convincing speech on that subject two years ago had been duly weighed and heeded by the -President and Congress the prospects of the republican party would be far more hopeful than ‘they are at present, With that noble exception Mr. Carpenter has been a stanch party man, and he gréatly weakened and injurad him- self by his unflinching defence of the notorious salary grab in the summer of 1873 in defiance of the public opinion which com- pelled Congress at its next session to take the back track and repeal that infumous law, ex- cept so far as it related to the salaries of the President and the federal judges, in respect to which a repeal was constitutionally impos- sible. That imprudent stump speech is the only great pol.tical mistake which Senator Carpenter has made, and his masterly argu- ment against the Kellogg usurpation ought to be accepted as a full atonement for that bad blunder. President Grant has more reason than any- body else to deplore the defeat of Senator Carpenter. When so many of his supporters are taken out of Congress by the political revolution it is an additional misfortune that in one of the few States carried by the repub- licans in the recent elections he loses a Sen- ator of remarkable eloquence and ability, who is replaced by a successor of no account, and who, even if he were a man of capacity, would be hamstrung and crippled by the fact that he owes his election to @ coalition of democrats with bolting republicans. The de- feat of Carpenter, besides the loss of his vig- orous talents, is an ominous indication of the decline and fall of the republican party, which loses in the Senatorial contest all the advantage of saving Wisconsin from the democrats in the recent State election. In view of this untoward result His Excellency has more reason than ever to exclaim, “I am sick.” The War in Spain—To Be Continued. From the tenor of our special despatch from Villada there is scarcely # doubt that the troops of the Spanish government entered Pampeluna yesterday, and that the positions of the Carlists in advance of Estella have been either captured or abandoned as untenable because turned. This was necessary conse- quence almost of the mere presence on the theatre of operations of a relieving army of the numbers given; but this success is not one over which the soldiers of Alfonso can plume themselves extravagantly. It merely restores the war to the well nigh hopeless po- sition in which it stood immediately before | Concha fought the battle of Aarzuza. That cally for the possession of Estella, an impor- tant Carlist depot, but of the greatest impor- tance as a necessary stop to operations against Upon the failure of the government troops in that effort Carlos not only held his own but spread himself out in the country from which his de- feated epemy withdrew, home among the supplies of that country, picked ont a strongbold here and there at which to fight an advancing army at the safest distance from Estella, and, left too long to Though not | himself, even set on foot the far from hope- | that be has but lately allowed o most fiagrant | of an alleged seduceri If the fact | strong debater himself and no match for | less enterprise of capturing the considerable made himself at | | Tal appearanc battle, it may be remembered, was -practi- | Disraeli, ho will have the powerful support of | city of Pampeluna, On the 2d inst. he had three thousand men as far out as Sanguess with which to dispute the advance of Moriones, who had twenty thousand in the same neighborhood, Nearer to Pam- peluna, in advance of Puente la Reina and to Moriones’ left, Carlos had a» larger force holding a strong position at Carrascal, and to Moriones’ right was the road to Pampeluza by way of Monreal. Moriones Sppears to have demonstrated toward Car- rascal sufficiently to lead to the concentration at that point of nearly all the forces of Carlos in the neighborhood, and then to have slipped into Pampeluna by way of Monreal, overwhelm. ing the small Carlist force at that point, Carlos was, therefore, simply covering more ground than he could hold in the presence of an enemy so numerous; and as from Pampeluna Moriones turns or perhaps even looks into the rear of the position at Carrascal, Carlos has withdrawn nearer to Estella, and perhaps even to the ground where Concha found him.. The storming of Puente la Reina by the Alfonsists is only another preparatory step to a gen- eral engagement, Except, therefore, for these small successes, the war is as far from an end as ever, for Moriones has now the same difficulty to contemplate that has troubled all his predecessors, He from the Open country has to operate against the Car- lists holding » position difficult by nature, but impregnable when defended by the brave natives, tolerably organized; and although counted absolutely he operates with far greater force than his enemy, yet the advan- tages of the ground in the enemy’s favor are such that Carlos with ten thousand’ men is stronger than Moriones would be with fifty thousand. Highly interesting in this position of affairs will be found our correspondent’s interview with Don Carlos, wherein the latter discusses in lively fashion the accession of his “‘poor little cousin, Alfonso.” Don Carlos has not, as may be seen, by any means lost hope in his cause. The Long Island Railroad Accident. Tum deplorable accident on the Hemp> stead branch of the Southern Long Island Railroad, resulting in the instantaneous death of four employés of the road and the infliction of severe or iatal wounds upon several others, recalls attention to the miserably cheap con- struction of our minor railroads. They are like a ship sent to sea with only strength enough in its timbers fora fair-weather voy- age, but destined to founder as soon as it is struck by one of the heavy storms to which the ocean is always subject. There would be @ murderous criminality in sending a weak or Totten vetsel to sea in the hope that it would never encounter bad weather, and the crimi- nality is hardly less in constructing a rail- road in so cheap and flimsy a manner that a rain storm of unusual severity may undermine the tracks and precipitate & train into the jaws of destruction, The heavy rain of Wednesday caused a flood which swept beneath the Long Island Railroad tracks, because a° false and bastard economy | failed to provide means for carrying off the water at times when the frozen ground pre vented any absorption into the soil and caused an accumulation of the flood at points where it was likely to inflict damage. The whole blame of this accident is attributable to the wretched economy of the directors of the road, who sdnctioned a merely fair-weather construction. The officers and employés of the road discharged their whole duty and sacrificed their lives to their faithful- ness. It is noteworthy that no passenger was killed or injured. The apprehension of danger from the heavy rain storm caused the Superintendent to go over the road for precaution in order to ascertain its safety, and the injuries and loss of life fell upon him and his assistants. We hope this accident may arrest the attention of the Legislature and lead to the passage of a law putting the in- spection of railroads under the care of com- petent engineers, with power to enforce the correction of such oversights of construction as endanger the public safety. Tue Cuanter Ross Casz is not an isolated one. . Other children have been abducted and taken away from their natural guardians under circumstances as distressing as those which characterized the famous child-stealing affair in Philadelphia. In another column will be found an account of the recovery of a child who was stolen seven months ago in this city, and was discovered in # shanty at Green- point, Long Island. The circumstances are | very dramatic and interesting, and the joy of the bereaved mother formed a very. satisfac tory ending to this little episode in the world’s history. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Josiah Quincy, of Boston, arrived last even» ing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Washburn decitnes the Presidency of Tuft’s College, Portland, Me. Ex-Governor James K. English, of Connecticut, is registered at the Windsor Hotel, Governor James A. Weston, of New Hampshire, is residing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. ‘ Sefior Don F. Gonzalez Errazuriz, Chilian Min- ister at Washington, has apartments st tne Wind sor Hotel. Surgeons Alexander H. Hof snd Charles Page, United Staves Army, are quartered at the Hotel Brunswick. Mr. A. Van den Nest, Secretary of the Beleian Legation at Washington, issojourning at the Hotel Brunswick. The French society of pilgrims is organizing Pligrimages from Marseiiles to the Holy Lana at $275, first class. Captain James W. Cayler, of the Engineer Corps, United States Army, is stopping at the Westminster Hotel, Baron R. Osten Sacken, of Russia, who has been & resident of Cambridge, Mass., for some time past, has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. It is cynically observed in regard to the recently | Introdaced artificial batter that the real difficulty 18 not in making af artificial butter, but in so introducing the hairs as to give it the most natw Napoleon always carried with him an emeraid of great value which belonged to the crown jewels, He lostit at Waterloo. [t was found oy a | Prussian soldier, and nas since been numbered among the Prussian crown jewels. The Paris Gymnase has secured Sardon by » contract similar to the One maintained for many years with Alexandre Dumas, tn addition to all his payments as author, he draws from the thea tre a retainer of 6,000 Irancs and holds a@ private box as bis property. There are (our living queens of Spain, s0 calledes Christine, Widow of Ferdinand VIl., woo resides at Sainte Addresse, oear Havre; Isabella Uy mother of Aiphouso XII.; the Ducn f AOStm wife of Prince Amadeo, of the House of Savoy, and the wife of Don Carlos, who styles bimsels Charles Vil,