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

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The bubscriptions to the Paris municipal loan are Forty-two times more than the amount re- quired. The financial condition of the coun- try seems to have more stability than the political. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1875, Aureapy Ove Caanrmarte Leapens of so- ciety are providing for the needs of the Float- Nuw YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1875—WITH SUPPLEMENT, ll, Question In Its Latest Aspects. We suppose the question of compromise be- tween the hostile factions in Louisiana will be decided to-day, and there is too much reason | to fear that no agreement will be reached. There are only two practical ways by which | that unfortunate State can be tranquillized, | and we fear that to-day’s proceedings will re- | duce the number to one. The two methods | are—first, mutual concessions by the parties, | and, second, a new and fair election under | the authority of Congress. We will consider | them in their order, First-—An arrangement by the citizens is, on all accounts, the fittest and most desirable assaults,”’ Speaking of the State governments formed after the Revolution he says, ‘But none of them provided for the creation of a power external to itself, whieh might stand as the guarantor and protector of their new institutions, and secure the principles on which they rested.’ We submit, with all deference, that the chapter from which these extracts are taken is pitched in a very differ- ent key from Mr. Curtis’ present letter. The letter seems to us hardly more consist- ent with itself than it is with his book. The main drift of his reasoning goes on the as- sumption that the Louisiana’ difficulty is a mere case of a disputed clection, and yet he says, “Nobody can pretend that the Kellogg method of terminating this quarrel. Con- | gress should interfere only as a last resort, | when all other remedies have failed. Propo- | sitions for a compromise were listened to with | great favor and approval by the eminently | tair sub-committee, consisting of Messrs. | Foster, Phelps and Potter, who first visited | New Orleans to take testimony. The com- | mittee now there are attempting to bring | / about a settlement by a similar method, { and after securing the assent of the conservative members of the Legislature 4 the plan seems likely to miscarry by the energetic opposition ot McEnery and the ag- | gressive democrats. The fact that a great | public meeting was assembled in the streets | on an impromptu call Saturday afternoon, to | protest against the compromise, shows how near it was to success when such sudden re- sistance was thought necessary for defeating it. The substance of the proposed compro- mise, as we understand it, is to* give the con- servatives the full advantage of the election of 1874, and leave the republicans in posses- sion of the offices awarded them by the Re- turning Board after the election of 1872, and then to maintain, by mutual consent, the | status quo until after the eleotion of 1876, when a new Governor will be chosen to take the place of Kellogg. There is no easier or better way out of the present complication than by a compromise on this basis. It would put the conservatives in the position they would have occupied had the late can- | vassing board dealt honestly with the returns, and would enable them, by one more victory, to completely dispossess their opponents by the rectifying agency of\the ballot. This would be infinitely preferable to a remedy by | physical violence, sach as was attempted in | September, and altogether better than a re- sort to the extreme medicine of Congressional interference. We shall sincerely deplore the failure of a compromise which would give | the conservatives what they won in Novem- ber and put them in the way of quietly substi- tuting a democratic successor in the next elec- tion. This is the easiest and surest method | ‘of establishing tranquillity for the ensuing two years. Second.—If the compromise should be de- feated there is no other immediate practical remedy than for Congress to order an elec- tion, with efficient safeguards for its fair- ness. It is asserted that the only thing needed is for the President to withdraw the federal troops and leave Kellogg to be again ousted by violence, as he was in September. Revo- lutionary remedies are always to be depre- cated, and certain it is that the federal troops -will not be withdrawn to give place to them. To contend for this method, under existing circumstances, is virtually to insist that things shall remain as they are without any remedy at all until 1876. It is, no doubt, within the competency of Congress to direct a withdrawal of the troops, and let McEnery’s | supporters instal him by force; but every- | body knows that Congress will consent to do | i believe that neither Kellogg nor McEnery was | legally elected, and they will’not turn one | bogus Governor out merely to let what they regard as another bogus Governor in. On the theory that neither was elected and that Kellogg is a usurper, what ought Congress to do? It would seem a pretty clear case for the constitutional guarantee of republican government. But we are met here by objections which, though from a high source, do not convince { | nothing of the kind. A majority of Congress | government is anything but a usurpation."’ Now, according to Hamilton, whom Mr. Ourtis so greatly extols in his book, usurpa- tion is one of the very evils the federal guar- antee was intended to redress. Hamilton said, inthe Federalist, “A guarantee by the national authority would be as much levelled against the usurpations of rulers as against the ferments and ontrages of faction.” it appears, from the same number of the Federalist, that Hamilton’s devoted disciple has gone over to the very view against which that statesman argued. ‘The inordinate pride of State importance,’’ said Hamilton, “has suggested to some minds an objection to the principle of a guarantee in the federal govern- ment as involving an officious interference in the domestic concerns of the members. A scruple of this kind would deprive us of one of the principal advantages to be expected from the Union."’ Mr. Curtis contends that Louisiana has not been deprived of a republican form of govern- ment, because its written constitution is still in existence. We answer, it exists, not as a constitution, but as certain pages of written or printed paper. The State has neither an Ex- ecutive nor a Legislature whose title is sup- ported by that instrument. Mr. Curtis ad- its this, but still maintains that the paper constitution 1s a republican form of govern- ment. Now, itis too evident that a govern- ment must exist before it can have a torm, un- less we erect into a political doctrine that gro- tesque fancy of Hudibras, in which he ridicules an idea of the schoolmen that | matter may exist without form. Mr. Curtis | seems to put on the word ‘‘form” the emphasis which belongs to the word ‘‘government.” Louisiana has a government, but its form is | not republican. ‘The Kellogg usurpation | does not conform to the constitution, and | there is no government in the State which | does. A government republican in form—not | the mere draft of a form, without any gov- ernment—is what the federal constitution guarantees to each State. Mr. Curtis thinks | a State would’still have a republican form of | government if every State office were vacant. But in that case it would have no government, | either of the republican form or any other | form. There would be nobody who could | legally hold an election, count returns, ad- | minister oaths, receive and certify official | bonds, or do any legal act toward the forma- | tion of a government. We would gladly be | informed how a State can have a government republican in form when it has no govern- ment at all. One might as well contend that ; the human form can erist apart from any object that bears it. The Recent and the Approaching | Weather. The recent wave of polar cold which swept over the country from west to east has made | no ordinary impress upon the meteorology of the month. Its central course seems to have been more directly through the interior, in- | flicting severe temperatures upon Tennessee and the Southern States, and enabling the Frost King once more to set his wintry seal on the watercourses that find their way to the Atlantic. Preceding this frigid spell there | were heavy and extensive rains in the interior | basin of the Mississippi, which will go far toward restoring the balance of moisture which has been lost ever since last July. But scarcely had this severe frost and its ac- companying conditions moved off the coast when the weather reports of Saturday an- nounced another rapid and unusually high us. We are willing our readers shall see the strongest arguments that can be adduced against our own views, and accordingly lay ling Hospital of St. John’s Guild and its ex- cursions next summer on the Bay. The fund for that purpose cannot be too speedily in- creased. It is a noble charity, and its use- fulness was fully demonstrated last year. | Tar Spanish Qurstioy.—Our correspond- | ence from Estella to-day indicates the down. | fall of Don Carlos'as the necessary conse- | quence of Don Alfonso’s elevation to the throne. Don Alfonso has been recognized by the Pope, which at once deprives the Carlist insurrection of its religious element, and his success also annihilates the issue which was made between the Republic and the mon- archy. Our correspondent, who is well in- | formed as to the chances, practically gives up | the cause of the Carlists, and intimates that | the present struggle is not likely to be long continued. ‘Tue War 1s Cvsa.—If the Spanish authori- ties in Cuba fail to suppress the rebellion now they might as well abandon the attempt. | They have been six years doing nothing, | and we learn, by our Havana despatches, that Captain General Concha will direct the campaign personally, and that indemnity is to be rendered to loyai subjects. If the insur- | gents can withstand these measures of confis- cation and atiack, sustained by reinforcements from Spain, they will prove that they are en- titled to recognition and able to obtain their independence. We doubt that General Concha will do more in person than he has achieved by his deputies. | Mexican Avrarns.—The conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism in Europe is political, In Mexico it is personal. The Protestants have been very active lately in | George Ticknor Curtis, who strenuously | | opposes any intervention by Congress. | | Having invited an expression of Mr. | | Curtis’ views, we cannot pass them in silence, lest silence should be construed as approval. | Mr. Curtis makes an oblique reference to his “History of the Constitution,’ pub- lished more than twenty years ago, saying | that the opinions he now holds were formed | | while preparing that work, and that he has | seen no reason to change them. But we have turned over its pages in a fruitless search for the belittling estimate he now puts on the guarantee section, and his present strong as- sertion of ‘‘the independent sovereignty and the autonomy of the States.’’ Throughout his history Mr. Curtis is an undisguised and most admiring disciple of Hamilton, but in this letter he goes beyond Calhoun in denying the right of federal interference. It appears from Mr. Curtis’ instructive history that the very existence of the federal constitution is due to the felt necessity for an external guarantee of the State governments. He elaborately dwells on the want of such a guarantee as a principal defect in the articles of confederation. He recites at length the history of Shay's rebellion, and shows that it before them this morning the letter of Mr. | | barometric rise in the extreme Northwest. | | Bitter experience has taught us in the Eastern | States that these high barometers of the | | Northwest portend approaching cold, and are the timely signals for us to arm ourselves against the polar blast. These two cold waves following each other in quick succession will | chill the Continent and prepare it to act as a good condenser when the subsequent vapor- laden winds of the spring begin to blow from the Gulf and the sea. The solidification of the rivers and small streams will relieve the pressure on the Ohio and its lower tributaries now in flood. But the water thus held tem- | porarily will, as spring advances, be dis- | tributed with greater benefit to agriculture. | Meantime we may look out for the cold, and | hope that arith it will pass the crisis of the | winter. | Are Eighteen Hours Work? We print elsewhere the ‘humble petition’’ | of the street car drivers of Washington City. ‘These poor creatures show by the time tables | | of the car routes that they actually spend | from fifteen and a half to sixteen and a half | | hours a day on the cars, the average running | | time being sixteen hours, to which, it seems, | their employers add another hour, in which | | they must prepare for their work, and com- | plete it at night. During the summer season | a Fair Day’s changed Massachusetts and other New Eng | an extra hour is imposed by the necessity to land States from opposition to support | accommodate picnies and excursion parties, of th movement for a new constitu- | [he drivers complain that they are not able tior He relates that Washington was j even to keep up an acquaintance with their indueed by it to change his mind and consent children, so many hours are they compelled | to be a member of the Convention. He | to labor. They ask Congress to make ten | shows that it produced a similar revolution in hours a lawful day’s work. | the sentiments of Rufns King. ‘The fearful Would it not be wall for Mr. Bergh to go | exposure of a want of external power adequate | on to Washington and look into this matter?’ ! to,such emergencies,"’ says Mr. Curtis in his history, ‘produced in Mr. King, as in many | others, a great change of views as to the | Mexico, and our despatches from the i necessity for a radical change of the national capital show that the “number of re- | government.'' He devotes a whole chapter of formed churches is increasing. The | his first volume to exposing this great defect expulsion of the Sisters of Oharity has been bitterly resented, and the pledge of the Catholic women reveals intense feeling. It is a pity that a more tolerant | public opinion does not put an end to these perpetual religious wars. No country can be free where the State and the Church are in plliance, or where society will not tolerate absolute freedom of thought L | eration to the State governments.” of the Confederation. The title of this chap- ter is, ‘‘No Security Afforded by the Confed- Its first sentence and keynote is ‘No federative gov- ernment can be of great permanent value which is not so constructed that it may stand, in some measure, as the common sovereign of | its members, able to protect them against internal disorders as well ay against external | | To work men from sixteen to eighteen hours | a day is surely cruelty of a very cruel *kind. | , But before he goes he might profitably pay | | some attention to the drivers of the New York | street cars, even if he neglected fora time | the horses. There are a great many com- | plaints of the sufferings of the beasts, and too | frequently they are just, but the men often endure greater fatigue. Sxattne is a popular amusement, and all | | New York is surrounded with ice, The cold | weather brings blessing as well as hardship, } and those who enjoy the ove should not re- | fuse to relieve the other, | hundred thousand dollars. But our Christian | statesmen.appear to be a poor, casily-satisfied sary inclination for the depth, and thus its extreme length will = be thirty-nine | miles. In the English mines on the | operation. | Albany. The Tarif for Congressmen. There is one suggestive consideration that we have observed in nearly all of the recent investigations, and that is the cheap rate at which members of Congress can be purchased. Brigadier General Donn Piatt tells us in his Washington Capital that fifty-two Congress- men brought a thousand dollars apiece to vote for the Pacific Mail subsidy. In the Crédit Mobilier exposure the astonishing feature was the smallness of the sums traced into the pockets of the various Christian statesmen. The Hon. Schuyler Colfax’s check, which led to bis political ruin, was for a beg- garly thousand dollars. The sums paid to Dawes, Wilson, Garfield and Kelley were none of them over this sum, and we do not recall any payment to active, full-blooded Congressmen much _ exceéd- ing this amount. The exceptions were the payments made to Mr Schumaker of three hundred thousand dollars, and to oun,poor, lost friend, Bill King, of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; but neither Schumaker nor King belonged to the House at the time, and consequently their rate cannot “be scheduled on the Congressional tariff. As the evidence goes, therefore, we may as- sume a. thousand dollars apiece to be the ruling rate for Congressmen, This is a pain- ful fact, not ina moral sense alone, but ina pecuniary sense. A thousand dollars is not a large sum. Manya Fifth avenue belle will twine it around her finger or scatter it in flow- ers for an evening party, to fade away before daybreak. A thousand dollars will not do much more than furnish a good dinner at Del- monico’s. Our Wall street statesmen, who are dealingin millions very much a§ gamblers do with ivory chips, would scorn a transaction that did not yield a larger margin. Is there no way of raising this tariff? Why stould Congressmen, the elect of the land, the chosen representatives of a great people, be cheaper, for instance, than reporters or doorkeepers of the House, or postmasters, like Bill King? Why should a newspaper Bohemian be paid fifteen thousand or twenty thousand dollars for doing nothing, while a great statesman receives simply a paltry thousand?’ This indicates that something is wrong in our public life, that our Congressmen are not | true to themselves in their official position. It John G. Schumaker had been a member of | Congress in active service, and had demanded | his three hundred thousand dollars for a vote, we should have respected him, as we do any man of magnificent audacity. Certainly it a vote is worth anything at ail it is worth three set, without high ideas, who crawl under the tables of the rich monopolists and owners of great franchises. In all these jobs the men who have them in charge have made. vast sums, and they go to Washington to gain vast sums. Poor Congressmen receive the crumbs and must be content to accept dishonor at a thousand dollars a head. While the monopolists, the steamship owners, the rail- road lobbyists and the owners of patents roll in their wealth and pride of respectability and station the poor Congressman goes shivering home to his constituents, disgraced if he is found out, impoverished and doomed to wan- der about fram barroom to barroom, or in the shadow of the scenes of his former greatness, and only too glad if some successtul schemer of the Third House will offer him a glass of whiskey or a bottle of wine. By all means the ruling rate for Congressmen is too low, and we trust that some of our atatesmen will be brave enough to protest against it, = ‘ A Submarine Tunnel. - Apparently the great project for the con- struction of a submarine tunnel between France and Engiand has ceased to be the dream of visionaries. It has reached the stage } at which it may be said to be on foot as one | of the actual enterprises of engineering science. Diplomatic negotiations between the two countries are terminated and a convention | has been signed; authority has been given in France for the formation of a company with a | capital of five million dollars, and for the | expenditure of four hundred thousand doi- lars in preliminary surveys and explorative operations. At a recent session of the French | Academy of Sciences M. Ferdinand de Les- | seps treated the great scheme as ‘near,| to its actual accomplishment.” Hoe stated, | further, that the sum of eight hun- dred thousand dollars was now in the | hands of the house of Rothschild, half , in Paris and half in London, subject to draft, for the purpose of making all needful surveys and preliminary studies of facts and methods | applicable to the labor. Atthe point where it is proposed to make the tunnel, from Dover to Calais, the strait is thirty kilometres in width, or about twenty-three miles. On the same line the greatest depth of the water is thirty fathoms, or one hundred and eighty feet, Under the water is a bed of chalk of the same formation as the famous cliffs of Dover, ‘and the thickness of this bed is one hundred and fifty-four yards on the English side and about two hundred and fitty yards on the French. Through this substance, therefore, very easy to pierce, the passage will be made. The mouth of the tunnel will be eight miles from the coast on each side, to give the neces- west coast galleries have been run under the sea that are of the same character as the tun- nel will be, true submarine passages; and some of these are several miles in length, They have been made in following the veins of metal and have been carried without disaster to within six feet of the bottom of the water. They exhibit fully the practicability of this There is no doubt, therefore, that this tunnel wili be made, and it is. worthy of mention that the man who first proposed it, the inventor, M. Thome de Gamond, is still alive and in the greatest poverty. With his means and his life well nigh exhausted in the attempt to get his great idea carried out he | subsists on the poor pittance his daughter earns by teaching music. | | Let Tuxm Come to New Yonrs.—Tho Court of Appeals is undergoing the un- pleasant process of being routed out at The new Capitol Commissioners are so alarmed in ease the adjacent con- demned buildings, inckuding the library of the Court and Congress Hall, where the | 43 a chapter in the experience of one of the | salvation to those who seek refuge within her | Dr. Newman's letter, which the full text of them down. There may be a little Albany’ ucational institutions, ‘ll their deploted mis- jobbery in this, inasmuch as the destruction of Congress Hall would drive everybody to ‘sionary treasuries and 40 such like work worthy of themselves and, °f the occasion than the hotels down town, to the benefit of the | any other topic, and the yaptist Weekly and proprietors and the hack drivers. But as it | Bapfist Union ran on the ame track this would be a great inconvenience to the Court of Appeals the Judges may as well make up their minds to remove the court to New York. Four-fifths of the cases on appeal come from this end of the State, and four-fifths of the counsel who appear before the court ate New York lawyers. It would be to the convenience and accommodation both of Bench and Bar to hold the regular terms .of the court in this city, and if necessary the court might sit once or twice a year in Syracuse or Rochester. There is no good reason why the court should Temain in Albany. The Sermons of Yesterday. The, fine weather yesterday was favorable to the churches, and the large attendance was a proof of the profound interest which the people of New York and Brooklyn take in the question of religion. Metropolitan morality is thus demonstrated every Sunday, and if we only fad rapid transit no doubt religion would be supported with greater enthusiasm and’ energy. We must again call the attention of the authorities, and especially that of the Governor and Mayor, to the fact that slow transit is inimical to religious progress and that Christianity itself depends toa considerable degree upon easy access to the churches. The importance of a prompt response to the demand for rapid transit, in a religious point of view, will be admitted by those who are convinced by the arguments of the Rev. Mr. Talmage in favor of hell, This distinguished divine is perfectly convinced that there is a hell and that Jim Fisk has gone there. Hell, to him, isa sen- sational delight and makes heaven happier. Admitting his argument to be Scriptural, it follows that rapid transit would be an advan- tage to the salvation of the souls of this community, as it would enablé our sinful population to attend church, and generally facilitate conversion. Other divines, whose sermons are reported to-day, made slight reference to the doctrine of future punish- ment, Mr. Beecher, for instance, being satis- fied with his present trial, which ought to compensate for any future purgatorial pains., At,the Church of the Disciples Mr. Hepworth preached upon the truth that Christ is the friend and advocate of the people. The Rev. Mr. Alger repudiated in eloquent language the doctrine of infant damnation, and drew a beautiful lesson from the innocence of child- hood. Dr. Chapin illustrated Universalist doctrines, and the duties of Lent, of temper- ance, of humility, were explained by the Rev. Father Kearney, the Rey. Mr. Gaileher, Dr. McGlynn, Dr. Ormiston and others, and altogether we may safely conclude that the sermons yesterday conduced to the religious development of the community. Echoes from the Religious Press.. Our Jewish contemporary, the Hebrew Leader, evidently has an artist, a poet and a musician contributing to enlighten its readers and to make their lives cheerful and bright. It finds poetry in life, music in man and beauty in creation—all of which it treats this week with becoming gravity. The Jewish Times looks with profound interest, as it believes every in- telligent Israelite must do, upon the contro- versy now pending between Church and State. The Times sees in the contest the inevitable consequence of a system which bids man to abdicate his sovereignty, as a being endowed by his Creator with intelligence, heaven-born ; @ system which recognizes the right of a mor- tal being to proclaim in the name of the Infal- lible One what is right or wrong; a system , which would drag Ged from his throne and | fill His place with one.of His creatures, a wa- vering, weak human being. The Jewish Mes- senger gives its views ot rapid transit, which include a continuation of Vanderbilt's road in @ southern direction, with the Tombs ag a rail- road station. Qhe Observer, too, lifts its voice in favor of rapid transit up and down the city and for the building of the East River Bridge. It thinks the necessity for those two things has been made clearly manifest by this win- ter’s blockade of the streets and rivers, The Pwangelist welcomes Dr. Newman's reply to Mr. Gladstone less as a reply than purest as well as most illustrious converts that Rome has made during the present cen- tury. But the Hvangelist calls attention to the fact that the Roman Catholic Church, which professes to assure mental repose as well as fold, has neither to give, but is wandering around herself seeking rest and finding none. The Christian at Work says Dr. Newman is conservative; he surrounds his position with a hedge of limitations, and is very carctul to say what he would not do in obedience to the commands of the Pope; and Dr. Talmage thinks that Dr. Newman’s position is not only wholly against precedent, but is agaimst the present spirit of the Church and the assumed authority of the Vatican. The Boston Pilot thinks Dr. Newman has the best of the argu- ment with Gladstone, and that he made a foreible point in his reference to the defeat of Napoleon's army in Russia, which is credited to divine interposition a8 the re- sult of the Pope’s excommunication of the -Emperor. The Cutholic Review objects to the stress that has been laid on @ few points in that letter, it says, does not warrant. The whole weight of that letter bore hardly on Mr. Glad- stone, and displayed the weakness of his argu- ments and the disingenuous manner in which he had misrepresented facts and garbled quo- tations. The Freeman's Journal is not in the least degree satisfied with Dr.“Newman’s let- ter. It is based on the analogy of natural and revealed religion furnished by Bishop But- ler; it is fall of errors of doctrine as well as of fact, is carelessly written, and is exceed- ingly dry reading except for a limited few. It proves nothing, and, as the Journal intimates, is worth nothing, He is, it says, without standing among exact theologians—his prin- cipal studies having been made before he be- | came a Catholic his later writings are flavored | with the air of the old shop. This is rather a poor estimate ot the ability and labor of an eornest and learned defender of Cathalic faith. The Baptist press is more directly and specially interested in discussing their denom- inational and the nation’s centenary and the best means for ereating such enthusiasm Jndges live, shouid take fire and endanger the Oupitol, that they are Preparing to pull | off ali their church debts endow all their ed- | among the people as will rouse them to pay week, The Methodist calls at, ntion to the frequent changes of character, Which the United States Senate has underga? within the past thirty years, and notably i% forth. coming change next month for therpvetter. It congratulates the country especialy upon” the return of ex-President Johnson to the Senate, and thinks that he has both firmmess and honesty—qualities greatly lacking in “kat body. Governor Tilden’s Reception. The great entertainment to be given at the’ house of the Governor this evening will be noteworthy as marking the beginning of a new era in the social hospitalities of the Ohief Magistrate of this State. The great increase of the Governor's salary by the new amend- ments to the State constitution makes it possi- ble for all Governors hereafter to maintain'‘the social dignity of their position in a becoming manner. Thesalary may, perhaps, make little difference with Governor Tilden, whose ample private fortune renders him independent of it, and yet it might not be quite fair to his successors to set an example which they could not afford to emulate if the ‘State had not insured them the means. Mr. Tilden rightly judges that the great increase of compensation is not given for private emolument, but to maintain the dignity of the office; and by selecting Mr. Bryant as a guest to be specially honored he evinces his sense that politics should be ig- nored in the Executive hospitalities. He is the Governor of the State, and_not merely of the democratic party, and he shows excellent taste in paying this compliment to an eminent and venerable republican. He does not, how- ever, compliment Mr. Bryant as a republican, but as an honored citizen, a personal friend of many years and a distinguished man of letters. The hospitalities to be hereafter expected of our Governors could not be more fitly inau- gurated. Tue Leoisuature or Pennsyivanra.—It is well understood that the decision of the Speaker of a Legislature upon point of order is final, excepting when an appeal is made from it, when the question is relegated to the members. The explanation our Har- risburg correspondent gives to-day of the re- ~ cent censure of a republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives seems to be sustained by all the accepted rules of parliamentary law. The facts are impar- tially stated, and we think that Speaker Patterson, notwithstanding that he is new in his present position, decided correctly, and would have done gross injustice to both par-: ties, and would have deserved censure himself! if he had permitted Mr. Wolfe to override par- liamentary rales, and make his own will the supreme authority of the Legislature. We have had too much Louisiana business, and congratulate Speaker Patterson on the firm- ness he displayed in this critical situation. We suppose that the insolence of faction has had a sufficient rebuke in the present session of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and the dem- ocrats deserve to be credited for eqaal firm- ness and moderation. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Bishop John J. Conroy, of Albany, ts sojourning at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Senator Jonn P. Jones and wife, of Nevada, lefe this city last evening tor Washington. Mr. George Jerome, Collector of the port of De- troit, ta residing temporarily at the St, Nicholas An autobiography of Wiillam Godwin, teft in & fragmentary state, will be completed by Mr. K. Paul, and sbounds in anecdotes and letters ot Coleridge, Lamb, Horne Tooke, Curran, Mrs. Sid- dons, Mary Walistonecraft, &c. Senators Jonn Sherman, Reuven E. Fenton, Joha W. Stevenson, Hanniba! Hamiin and William B. Washburn, the committee appointed on behalf of the Senate to attend tne funeral of the late Sena- tor Buckingham, of Connecticut, will arrive at the Windsor Hote! this morning from Washington. At the scientific gathering at Lille there was ex- hibttea a collection of the skulis of troglodytes obtained in the south of France, every one of which had been perforated with round holes during life. What was'the purpose ofthis pre- historic surgery ? Five sets of natural teeth is @ large proportion for one person; butit is reported that a aun who has just died in Paris at the age of ninety years had a new set grow in her jaws a few yeurs ago; a previous hew ses at sixty-three ;\also at forty- seven, and these in addition, of course, to the two earlier sets that all have, M. Baillon bas grown peas in @ box of such & construction that tne leaves and branches of the plants can be immersed in the water without the roots or the soil in whiclr they are growing 'be- coming damp. He has kept peas alive for two months without giving the roots any water what- evor, the soil being virtually quite dry. in. France & man, awakened in the night by thievés in his house, cailed for assistance so lustily that bis neighbors came from every side. ‘Those from one side in the obscurity opened fire on those from the other side, aad the compliment was reciprocated so effectively that four persons were #0 wounded as to endanger their lives. Naturally the thieves escaped. “In a kindly and well bred company, If anybody tries to please them. they try to ve pleased; if anybody tries to astonish them, they have the courtesy to be astonished; 1f people become tire- some, they ask somebody else to play, or sing, or what not, but they aon’t criticise,? And John | Ruskin hbids that this is the way it should be in the world as well asin the drawing room. He does not like critics; and yet what else is he him- self? ‘The Americans are the greatest paper consumers in the world, using seventeen pounds per head per annum, while the Bnglish consume only eleven and a half pounds and the French seven pounds to each innabitant. The Poona correspondent of the Bombay Gazette reports that @ fakeer some Months ago huang him- self to roast, first well powaering himself wit ashes, and i still swinging and roasting. The correspondent says:—“He has hung himself by the feet from @ high branch of a large ‘tree that grows by the temple at this piace, and swings to and fro like a pendulum, only with far greater vigor, Justanderneath hima small fire burns and as he sweeps backward and forward his head almost passes through the flames." At the Rink this genius would draw better than Weston, Old Mr, Attwood had @ simple way in tie charity. His plan was to go personally to the | pank which kept the accounts of the particuiar charity he wished to beiriend, and to hand a note for $5,000 across the counter, with a request that it shoud be placed to the credit oi the in- stitution of his selection, with certain initials ap- pended, He did not stipulate for any puolic acknowledgment, although this generaliv tollowed asa “guarantee of good faith,’ and he did nos confine himself to any partjcuiar person to whom to hand over his donation, but addressed himself toany clerk who might be disengagea., Although | ‘ls person was familiar in many London banks no one was acquainted with his name, and thus bia secret Was Ureserved Unt Dis deaiy