The New York Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1875—-TRIPLE SHEET, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Hesarp will be | would be to demean the subject to dwell upon | | sent free of postage. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy, An- gual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Yors Henarp. Rejected communications will not be re- sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORE HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Bubscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL..... eeeeNO, 41 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. | WALLACK'S THEATRI Brosaway.—THE SHAtGHRAUN, at Be, M; closes at Ww P.M. Mr. Boucicau:t BROOKLYN THEATRE, Washington street.—'PWIX'! AX. M.: closes at 10:45 P.M. Mrs, ot aby. M. street —DARING DICK and way, corner Thi: Pret pain ee. atsP. M.; closes atlOus P.M Mat inee at 2 P. M. | METROPOLT | Saad Broadway.—VARL. D CROWN, at 8 P. r Ag tie i F eloses at 10:80 | DT THEATRE, NES, at 8 P. M.; closes at | } OLYMPIC THEATRE | Yo,0M Broadway.—VARIETY, ai 8 2. Ml closes a 104s BROOKLYN PARK THE. ATRE. SoRnaee SINN’S VARIETY, at8P. M.; closes at 10:45 ROMAN HipPODROME, ‘Twenty-sxth street and Fourth avenae,—Atrernoon and | evening, at 2 and & THEATRE COMIQCE, | Ho, $14 Broadway.— VARIETY, at 8 Me; closes at 10:45 | AVENUE THEATRE, Dycarer ae) a Geeta Broa? way.—WOMEN OF ze | Y. M.; closes at 10: ¥.M. Mr. Lewis, Mi Davenport, Mrs. Gilbert. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, tc Brordway.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 1045 | LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenne.—THE NEW MAG. | | ALAR, ac SP. M.; closes ut 1045 P.M. Miss Carlotta req. BRYANT’S OPERA MOUSE, West Twenty-third street, near “ixth avenue.~NEGRO bia aa @c., at & P.M; closesatl0 P.M. Dan GERMANIA THEATRE, teenth street.—Li PART DU DIABLE, at 8 P.M.; Biome tis hes thise Mave, PARK THEATR! aay: French (pera Boutte—GIROPLE-GIROFLa, P.M. Mlle. Coralie Ge ys Broadway.—A MOTHENS OORAYER, t38P.M.; ch Wa ba Ladwin f. Thorne. Ly Snaeraart BooTH's meus inh NEY VOSS cl sine SAN FRANCISCO ME aie LS, a | roadway. corner th street.— Rivsrnzise are P, UE naan otn HAL! thiGare, ats P.M; | Sixteen Gloses at 1045 2.M. M. STEINWAY HALL. GBAND cLasstcal CONC RT. atS P.M . eACADEMY OF DESIGN, nty-third street and Fourth Avgnae. one frnenok ss R COLOR PAIN s. Open 9A. M. to 4 ACADEMY OF Fourteenth street.—t uglish. co M.; THE TALISMAN, at 89. M. Casule. ARITANA, at 2P. Miss Kellogg. Mr. } From our reporis this morning the probabilities wre that the weather to-day will be warmer and | slear. | Warn Street Yesterpay.—The stock mar- | ket was dull and prices lower. Gold closed | at 1143. The rates for money were un- | changed, and { for eign exchange steady. THe Isp Appropriation Bit passed the | | House yesterday. Tae Bryant Reception being over, we gather up all the morsels of reflection this morning which remained after the feast, and henceforth the story is history. ‘Tue Surrenrcs of the poor must be intense this weather. The severity of the cold, added to hunger, must be too much for some to bear, and we fear there may be many deaths from privation. Now is the time for ward committees to organize d for the charitable citizens who e the means at come forward to the aid of which the Presi- dent has sent to the Senate was not referred yesterday, but it was the theme of general remark at the capital. In the few minutes given to it in the Senate Mr. Thurman characterized it as extraordinary and astound- ing, and it seems it was solely the President's work. General Grant has found a policy at last; but it is not one which is likely to re- ceive the sanction of the country, and the Message will be the subject of a very lively debate in the Senate. Fish Cvurrvre is beginning to attract a great deal of attention in this country, and | our report of the proceedings of the American | Association yesterday will be read with inter- | est. Mr. Roosevelt, the President, had many | reasons to congratulate his fellow members | upon the work of the last year, for everywhere | the efforts of the fish cniturists have met with and if the work goes on-our rivers stocked even snecess, and streams will soon be better than when there was no one except the savage to fish in American waters. Cura LATION. of New York discussed g questions at their por Company a number of interc meeting yesterday, mg them discrimi- nating tariffs o freight against this city and the sale of t lateral canal in this State. The Company also urges Congress to grant the necessary appropriation for removing the obstructions at Hell Gate. ‘These matters so vitaily affect the commerce of the metropolis that we hope they will ree | ceive the attention they deserve, aed, | the Republic will be served. Letters and packages should be properly | and his friends crave federal patronage, in | | the way of a subsidy, it is unwise to dis- | courage any attempt to arouse and invigorate | the fraternity of the States. It is the most | —The Cheap Trans- | The Centennial—New York’s Duty and Opportunity, The country begins to show an intelligent | | and zealous interest in the Centennial Exhibi- | | tion. Two facts are accepted. The first is | that the Centennial belongs to Philadelphia, | as the home of American independence, the | city of the Declaration. The second is that | the celebration will be in all respects national, and commends itself to every American. It | | merely selfish advantages, but we cannot help | seeing that any gain will largely accrue to New York. For this, among other reasons, we are glad that Mr. Goshorn, the Director General, has addressed Governor Tilden. We see no force in the criticisms made upon this letter, that it is vague and unintelligible. The Centennial people are not mendicants asking for aid, but brothers asking brotherly asso- ciation, to the end that the common glory of Now that there is no shadow of a pretext that Mr. Goshorn natural thing in the world that the chief com- ; missioner of the Centennial should approach the Chief Magistrate of New York and ask not | | so much for sympathy as co-operation, in order to give due prominence to the products and fabrics of New York herself, It is perfectly in accordance with good taste and propriety that the suggestions should be made in a gen- eral way. Had Mr. Goshorn been more pre- | cise it would have been intrusive. He called | Governor Tilden’s attention to the subject | and left it for him to determine on the mode in which New York will co-operate. We cannot permit ourselves to doubt that the Governor will call the attention of the Legislature to the subject, and that it will take some affirmative action—the more decided and | liberal the better. The Legislature of Penn- | | sylvania has acted with great liberality. When was there a better opportunity for New York, acting through her Executive and General | Assembly, todo a graceful and patriotic and | | withal a politic thing than now and just here? Never has the Empire State had a better | chance of demonstrating her serene repudia- | tion of all local jealousy and rivalry. What | we press as matter of duty and interest on the city of New York we urge with stronger em- | phasis on the State. Curiously enough, too, | the democratic Governor of a great State has | | a chance by a timely expression of his interest | in the matter todo that which the President of the United States, supposed to be so much | more potential, has failed to accomplish. Time and again has President Grant called the attention of his nominal majority at Washing- ton to this subject, and as little attention has been paid to it as to his urgency about Louis- | iana. The charter and the invitation to foreign nations is all the federal Executive has been able to extort. Here, then, is Governor Tilden’s opportu- nity. He, the Governorof s single State, can largely aid in making the Centennial o suc- cess. He, too, is one of those trained, edu- cated men—a student, not a superficial West Point one, or a reader of dime novels and poor | periodicals in a frontier camp, but a student of our classic history. He knows—no one better—what its records and its traditions are. He knows what o great event in the past was | American independence, and he is too loyal | | to the faith that once was in us—reverential faith in the patriotism of the men of the Revolution—to be willing that the century which saw its birth should not celebrate its | glorious centennial maturity. In another re- spect Governor Tilden starfds on higher ground | and acts from a more effective position than does his competitor, the federal President. He is the representative of political, and, es- pecially, of pecuniary integrity, and, in its | | true sense, of reform. | | enterprise which, down to this time, has been | conducted on a sound, economics with serupulcus integrity, itis this Philadelphia | If ever there was an basis and one, There is not, and there never has been, the faintest flavor of jobbery about it, and | Governor Tilden, in wheeling into line by his | influence the great Commonwealth he as Ex- ecutive represents, will give countenance to an undertaking which, in ailits relations, is as pure as it may be impressive. As we have said, it almost demeans a theme | | like this to narrow it to selfish considerations. We commend them to the Governor, because, as the guardian of the interests of the State, he will not be insensible to whatever will bring advantage to it. But there can be no selfish considerations in the Centennial. We ask the nations of the world to come and see what we have done ina hundred years; how we have discharged our stewardship. In the louder achievements of a people we have done | s great deal. We have made wars and sent | out armies and fleets, and paid our tribute to the bloody splendor of military renown. We have added Gettysburg and Antietam to the galaxy which embraces Blenheim, Austerliiz and Waterloo. We area prouder, a more se- eure, we fear also a more trucnlent people, because of these Metre but sad achieve. men and q rel? Have we fi r methine to the civilization, th® humanity and the peace of mankind? Is the world any better because of the commonwealths wh a hundred years have risen from prairie and forest desolation h to rival the gre atness of Rome? Is it true, as an illustrious cri s said, that we have not been growing but swelling all this time— that our growths are the indications of dis- eased conditions, making healthy empire im- possible? These are the questions that we will have an opportunity of auswering at the Centennial; and there is no American Com- monwealth that is not concerned in the answer. New York especially should exult in what done. ears ago, when tates bi dent housekeey in advantages proudly led the way nt of indep achusetts that wituin fifty years we hel preceded become se or lusty sisters of the Missis Valley, while Virginia, shorn of her glory by the rude edge of the | sword, is only tenth, and North Carolina, | paralyzed by slavery and bruised by rebellion, la feasible and perfect plan. | sits between Michigan and Wisconsin, four- | teenth in the list? There could be no prouder | record, and New York should gladly welcome | the opportunity of showing to tke world and to her sister States by what stages she achieved | in the first century of our Union her imperial | rank. In this respect, therefore, the Centennial | appeals to our State and city pride. Let us | show what we have done. Here are our | mineral and farm productions, our achieve- ments in mannufactures, arts, science, educa- | tion and commerce—here are our railways, | our canals, our schools, our public institu- | tions, our newspapers, our great cities, and this our metropolis, queen of them all. Surely these must find a place in this mighty display, that the world may see the evidence of our | hundred years of effort and prosperity, and learn whatever lesson it may contain. We repeat, therefore, that New York can- not auswer too promptly the invitation of | Mr. Goshorn. We must not be laggard in this gathering of the States, nor must we be | unmindful of what is due to our State pride and our self-respect, What we do must be done at once, in a generous, neighborly, friendly way. Let New York answer through her Governor that she will take part in the | Centennial; that she will come with her | trophies to show what she has contributed to | the prosperity of the Union. What is to be well done must be promptly done. Already, possessed by other cares, we have lingered too long. Unless we act now we shall only make asad display when the time comes—a display altogether unworthy. We pro!oundly trust, therefore, that the Governor will promptly | answer the invitation of the Director General, and that our Commonwealth will do her part in the work so as to redound to her own fame and the success of the patriotic undertaking, Rapid Transit. The committee of the Society of Engineers are discussing the question of rapid transit. This is another step in the discussion which we trust will bear fruit in the achievement of We have had committees in the House and Senate, public and private meetings of eitizens, a Messago | from the Mayor, more discussions in the | Board of Aldermen, inventions without num- ber, experiments at home and abroad. The opinions of General Graham we print to-day, and inasmuch as the problem is one of prac- tical engincering we should look with interest for the conclusions of the Society of Engineers. Our hope is that this body will give us some- thing practical, some real, tangible point that will satisfy the wishes of the general public who will use the line and of the financial public who will build it. We say the financial pub- lic, because it is clear that any rapid transit scheme whatever will cost a good sum of money. To be successful it should offer capitalists a reasonable assurance tbat the | investment will pay. This financial problem makes us question the wisdom of any plan which involves the purchase of costly | real estate or rights of way. The burden of this expenditure would destroy the value of any facilities supplied by existing rail- ways. A successful rapid transit road will not be one plan or another. We have little doubt when the road is built it will bean | elevated railway, a viaduct, a depressed road | and a tunnel, as the peculiar formation of this | | island is such that we do not see how any | road can be built that will not assume each of | these forms. Nor can we have a successful | road that ignores the shape and natural fen- | tures of the island. We must remember how | our population is distributed. There are two great divisions—one tending toward the Hud- | son and the other toward the Harlem. We cannot ignore one for the other. For this reason we question the wisdom of what is called a backbone road, with its ribs of side | lines. A successful road must recognize the habits of our pecple. Our business men ebb and flow like the tides in our harbor, and the facilities that would bs j ample for carrying passengers at neon | | Would be inadequate in the morning and after | the banks are closed. No road could long re- | main solvent unless it could accommodate all the travel. To do this successfully there must be a succession of trains so close to one | another as to be almost continuous, a con- sideration that evidently points toward cars | and engines that shall be lightly constructed. We must also remember that we have a kind | of rapid transit on the east side from Forty- second street, and another on tbe west side, | higher up. The effect of these fragmentary j lines on the property beyond the city limits | sufficiently illustrates a view of the rapid transit question. In the conveniences they | offer there is a deeply forcible argument in favor of steam railway extension to the City Hall and the Battery. These are the different points upon which we are auxious to hear from the engineers. As we have said, the first questi engineering; the second, of finances. If a | good, subst: planned mo tial and pap road can be vow be found to build it. dct ting accounts THe Span come to us fre we can pu little cous mea! No confirm: reached us of the capture o sudden return of the not by any | ion has yet | Estella, The | young King to Madrid, | check received lett wing of army, may mean | forward ot has again spension of active operations | tification of the points already in | coupled with the admitted by the that his mov the the possession ofthe Alfonsist may also | be part of a deliberate plan to hem ‘the insur- rection in. It is evid I fighting has | beex Even | ments, or rather rulers, against which the | the construction I have placed on the pro- | against itself.” Mr, Stoughton’s Reply to Mr. Curtis. Mr. E. W. Stoughton, one of the most emi- nent members of the New York Bar, replies in our columns this morning to the letter of Mr. George Ticknor Curtis, another distin- guished democratic lawyer, which we pub- lished on Monday. Mr. Stoughton holds sub- stantially the same views on the particular feature of the Louisiana case which he dis- cusses that have been constantly maintained by the Heraup; but we should have been equally willing to print his communication if he had dissented from our opinions. The public judgment on important questions is assisted by seeing the best that can be said by able reasoners on both sides. The fact that democratic lawyers of the highest professional standing differ with one another respecting the powers of the federal government in emer- gencies like that which has arisen in Louisiana proves that the subject is not free from difficulties, and that the law on it is as yet unsettled. During the autumn the Henatp was the vehicle of a controversy on another branch of the same subject between democratic lawyers of the highest ability and distinction, a controversy in which Mr. O’Conor, Mr. Reverdy Johnson and Judge Biack bore leading parts and held differing views. That dispute related to the powers of the President, and was an admirable display of legal acumen. The present conflict be- tween democratic lawyers relates to the powers of Congress. We are confident that the prog- ress of the discussion will satisfy the legal mind of the country that the opinion of Mr. Stoughton is substantially correct. This seems a fit occasion for recalling the views of Mr. Calhoun on the very point which divides Mr. Curtis and Mr. Stoughton. Mr. Calhoun, the chief apostle of State rights, was the acutest logician and one of the most masterly reasoners on constitutional questions among our illustrious statesmen. This fore- most champion of State rights maintained, with invincible force of reasoning, the duty of the federal government to interpose its author- ity and protect the States against usurping rulers. There may be found, in the sixth volume of his works, o letter of Mr. Calhoun, in which he discusses, with greater acumen than any other writer has brought to the same subject, the ecope of that part of the constitu- tion which he calls ‘‘the guarantee section.” He does not at all agree with Mr. Curtis that the federal government cannot intervene in the domestic affairs of a State ex- cept on a call of the State authori- ties. The guarantee section contains three separate provisions—one protecting the States against invasion, one against domestic violence and the other against tho usurpation ofrulers, ‘In order,’’ says Mr. Calhoun, ‘‘to form a true conception of the mode in which they were intended to act and to place a correct construction’ on the guarantees, it will be necessary to inquire what are the quarters from which the peace, safety and liberty of the States may be endangered and against which the guarantees were intended to pro- tect them. They may be, in the first place, trom force or violence from within, against which the guarantee of protection against domestic violence is clearly intended, They may be, in the second place, from hostile at- tacks from without, and against which the | guarantee against invasion is as clearly in- tended. And, finally, they may be from the ambition and usurpation of their govern- guarantee of a republican form of government is intended, as I hold and shall hereafter show, 2s a protection.” Instead of jumbling the guarantees together and confusing the subject, Mr. Calhoun carefully points out the separate operation of eacb. Passing over his discussion of the two which are not relevant to the present discussion, we will introduce a short extract bearing on the guarantee of a | republican form of governmeut. It will be | seen that the State rights doctrine, as Mr. Calhoun held it, falls very far short of the ex- treme view of Mr. Curtis. Here is a part of what Mr. Calhoun says on the guarantee of a republican form of government:—‘I hold that, according to its true construction, its object is the reverse of that of protection against domestic violence; and that, instead of being intended to protect the governments of the States, ic is intended to protect each State against its government, or, more strictly, | against the ambition or usurpation of its rulers, That the objects of the constitution, to which the guarantees refer—and liberty more especially—may be endangered and destroyed | | by rulers will not be denied. * * * If it | be added that, without this construction, the | guarantees would utterly fail to protect the | States against the attempts of ambition and usurpation on the part of rulers (the danger above all others to which free governments are exposed), it would seem to follow irre- sistibly, under the rule I have laid down, that vision as to the object of the guarantee is the true one. But if doubts should still re- main, the fact that it fully explains why the provision which requires the application of | the State in the case of the guarantee against | | The cighth annual exhibition of the Water domestic violence is omitted would place it beyond controversy ; for it would be a per- | fect absurdity to require that the party against | which the guarantee is intended to protect | should make application to be protected | “Tue SHavcHnaun” iv Vount.—A motion | made in the United States Court yesterday by | Mr. Boucicault to restrain Mr. Hart from con- | tinuing the performance of ‘‘The Skibbeeah,”’ | | which is claimed to be a piracy of his popular | play, ‘‘Tbe Shaughraun,” threw some light on the way in which successful plays ‘are constructed. The pleadings of the if the Carlists hav r suc- now | hich | ears, to continue t it would b. the can aff if need be. tava if and Carlists had been finally | and hazardous t rust about ’ good rule not t ) confide too eu of a man who acknc has crossed on the ice trom New York to | Brooklyn, defence are certainly very curious, and | should they prove that they drew. their materials from the same source as did | Mr. Boucicault the question will still bave | to be settled by the law how much the new form imparted by the dramatic author to these materials made them his property. In the decision is in nd the result will be Crry.--A noticeable increas place since the severe cc we due, no doubt, to reckiess efforts to greater comfort. It is perhaps useless to pr his subject. The danger and careless use of fire is t, as soon as the cold weather from the obvious, and y | element seem to be thrown aside, Yesterday | water color medium. ithe vast copyright + sets in, all precautions in the use of this fatal | | a large number of fires occurred in the city, one of them with fatal results, There appears to have been no lack of energy or courage in the efforts to save both life and property. Amenities of St, Valentine's Day. Have those times forever passed when the most delicate expression of a young man’s admiration for a young lady lay in sending her once a year an expensive and elegant valentine? The paper was miraculously fili- greed and embossed. A minimum of pic- ture was enclosed in a maximum of frame. Impossible nymphs were shown reclining be- neath unrealizable foliage, Preposterous mot- toes did duty for poetry, Adoration wriggled and writhed through doggerel. Screens and curtains of embroidered paper revealed, when uplifted, infinitesimal scenes of gold-and-tis- sue enchantment. The paper was infinitely more poetical than the prosody with which it was emblazoned. If neither appealed to a very high order of intelligence both made an onset at the heart. They were the very cream of sentimentalism, the coxcombry of passion. No wonder that Araminta, who had a soft bosom, and brains which, we afraid, be- trayed o similar want of densi\y, believed her- self the most worshipped and the most worthy to be worshipped of her sex. No wonder that Alphonso considered that he had done the chivalrous thing, and did not regret the five or ten dollars for that efflorescence of the sta- tioner’s art. But now a change has come over the spirit of St. Valentine’s Day. The sentimental valentine has almost dwindled into a tradi- tion. Nobody sends it, excepting fools and children, and perhaps a few old bachelors who are to be placed somewhere between the two. The only kind of valentine which to-day has a solid existence is the comic one. That still holds place because of the opportunity it pro- vides to malice, satire and ridicule. If we could obtain correct statistics of purchasers we should perhaps find that not a few adults employ this ingenious method of venting their vindictiveness. Decency forbids that Jones should tell Smith to his face that he is a com- mon drunkard; but it cannot prevent him mailing him a valentine representing him with 8 very red nose and an empty brandy bottle. The sweet amenities of life render it impos- sible for Green to taunt Brown with having had a mother who took in washing; but it is eminently admissible for Green to send Brown some anonymous rhymes about soapsuds, ac- companied with a highly colored illustration representing Mrs. Brown, mire, over the tub, Mr. Thompson dare not inform his landlady that her terms are high and living low; but he can send her, without detection, some satirical verses on hash, which will be a superb indemnification for the punctual payment she injuriously insists upon. St. Valertine’s Day is, then, an annual es- cape-valve for the malice and uncharitableness of close acquaintances. It affords us an easy method for wounding our neighbor's sensibil- ities without being found out. Yet even in this respect it is steadily on the decline, and ere long must take its place among the ghosts of dead institutions, and it isa ghost which noone need care to materialize and make tangible again. It has had its golden hours and has contributed in bygone times to the smiles and blushes and happy tears of inno- cent maidens and susceptible spinsters. Its sentimental side has too much of Arcadian simplicity and rustic ingenuousness to suit this rattling locomotive age. Let it therefore take its place beside All Hallow E’en and other spectral institutions which come stealing quietly out to us once a year from behind the tapestry of tradition, till ot last they melt into airy nothing and are lost in the blue mists of time, No sensible adult sends a serious or sentimental valentine nowadays ex- cepting from a reason similar to that which may lead him to choose a stage coach in pref- erence to the steam car. There is something reverential and antique in the flavor. The most radical among us.do not always refuse a passing tribute to a custom our forefathers were not too wise to love. The Water Color Exhibition. Nowhere is tho, art progress of America more clearly marked than in the wonderful strides made by our native artists in the pro- duction of water color drawings. It is only a few years since this delightful branch of art began to receive the attention which its many beauties merit, yet the progress made has been greater in proportion than has been made in kindred departments of art. There has been, it is true, a forward movement along tke whole line, consequent upon the active competition with the foreign art so | lavishly introduced by dealers. But it is the water colorists that most en- | among ergy and enthusiasm have been shown. Fighting against many obstacles they have never despaired, but kept well aloft their banner, and now that the steep slopes of popular indifference and pro- fessional hostility have been climbed those who took part in the good fight can look back with infinite satisfaction on what has been accom- | plished by years of struggle and perseverance, Color Socicty is a credit to American art. Native and foreign works are subjected to searching comparison, and the result is by no means so disheartening as it might be. We ara still far behind the best European | schools, but the average merit of the Ameri- | can water color drawings is not far below the | standard of the French and English schools. This in itself is an immense stride, and points to the greater possibilities future, The Water Color has had many difficulties to contend against, not the least among them being the coldness and indifference of the public to the There existed a preju- dice against the permanency of this class of art, which was the outgrowth of want of acquaints | methods. last come to underst. will not fade ance with artistic People have nd that the water color froin recogmize that its p ence excels that of oil painting, in addition to its greater delic; How much public sentiment bas changed is | best shown in the fact that a large proportion of the pictures in the present collection have been already purchased. In fact, the sale has been unprecedented, notwithstanding the dulness of the times, Something like ten thonsand dollars haye passed into the pockets of the artists out of | this exhibition, of such liberal patronage will bo seen in the increased energy and enthusiasm with | 1s expected, will ve excecaed, in the) Society | ght ina few years, and | and no doubt the effect | which artists will devote themselves to the production of works in this delightful medium, We regret to notice the frequent and seem- ingly growing use of body color and the crayon, which isa departure from the true aim of water color drawing. Itis particularly noticeable in the French and English schools, Some of our native artists have had recourse to this method, which we think ought to be discouraged. The best work in water color ig now done by the Italian and Spanish artists, and they do their work honestly without seek. ing outside for any reinforcement of their color, The Water Color Society can do good service in discouraging the growth of this injurious practice amongst American artists, Patent Rights. Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, in a ree cent debate, called attention to the jobbery on the part of persons interested in patent rights, ‘Look,’ he said, “at it in regard to sewing machines. Here is o machine in which the poor people all over the country are interested, that does not cost in its most ex- pensive form more than fifteen dollars, and yet it is sold for seventy-five or eighty dollara, Every year comes in some inventor—as he calls himself—puts in some little ad- dition to the original patent, and he gets seven years more; and at the end of this seven years, seven years more. Our patent rights were intended to terminate at a short period, so that the public should be benetited by them. I think the sewing machine busi- ness is one of the most glaring systems of wrong in the country.’’ This illustration of Senator Cameron's was made in the course of a debate on the Steam- boat law, recently under discussion in the Senate. We do not observe that the obeerva- tions of the Senator provoked any response, but the point he made is one deserving of con- sideration. Tho sewing machine lobby bas been one of the most efficient in Washington. We have no doubtit is so to-day. It repree sents an interest that has made vast sums of money by skilful manipulations of the patent laws and by other influences to such an ex- tent that, as the Senator says, an instrument that has become a necessity to every family is taxed two or three hundred per cent bya combination of monopolists. Now, we are far from saying that when a man like Howe invents a sewing machine he should not have ® proper reward for his genius and industry, We believe that such men are public benefac- tors, and that they should be rewarded in the most liberal manner; but this should not bee come a tax on the people, as is the case with the sewing machines. We trust that, now the matter has been brought to the attention of Congress and the country, the whole busi- ness will be investigated. There is no reason why sewing machines should not be sold here as cheaply as in Europe. A Compromise between the radicals and com servatives in Louisiana it seems has been ef» fected and it remains to the committee of the House of Representatives to sanction it and give it force. The torms appear to be that Kellogg is to be undisturbed as Governor, and all the conservatives really elected to the Leg- islatare are to be allowed to take their seats, Tf these terms are correctly stated the people of Louisiana have purchased their confessed rights at the price of Kellogg's retaining an office to which they believe he was not elected. It they prefer to pay this price for the sake of peace no objection can be urged to it; but no fair-minded man in the North would force it upon them unless they can accept it fully and completely as the best thing to be done under the circumstances. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Henry Parnam, of New Haven, is registere@ at the Albemarle Hotel. Mr. Anthony J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, 1s resid- ing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Robert Browning will soon publish a poem, em | titled “Aristophanes’ Apology.” Robert Browning ts sata to worship the nobility, and is considered rather a prig. General Joseph R. Anderson, of Richmond, Va, Is sojourning at the St. James Hotel. Comptroller Nelson K. Hopkins arrived at the St. James Hotel last even:ng from Albany, Ex-Governor [1. C. Warmoth, of Louisiana, ar rived Jast evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Lieutenant Commander Frederick R. Smith, United States Navy, 1s staying at the New York Hotel. Itis said that the largest vasesever made im Japan were purchased by the Sultan, They are blue and white, ‘Tue latest poetic anthology ts collected by a Gere man countess, and ts a collection of all the poems in honor of the rose. Lieutenant Colonel Barton S. Alexander, of the Engineer corps, United States Army, is quartered | at tne New York Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W, Fitch, son-in-law and daughter of General Sherman, are residing tem porarity at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Among the living members of the New York Bar there are no less than sixty-five authors, in- cluding seven judges and nine ex-judgea, F.'B. Patterson, of No. 32 Cedar street, wil | shortly pubiish @ volume of society pooms oy | George A. Boker, Jr., under the siuguiar title of | «point Lace and Diamonds.’” Some of our religious contemporaries are com gratulating themselves that if they cannot get | God in the constitution they are pretty sure to have Christians in the Senate, Mr. Henry G, Bobn, of London, whose well known series of libraries of standard works have | Popularized good literature throughout the world, has finally retired irom business, {he London Atheneum announces thet Charles G. Leland has in the press a work entitled, “Fue Sang; or the Discovery oi America by the Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century.” A panoramic history of old New York, {!lus- | trated by old portraits, maps, views of buildings and jandmarks, &c., with information from “tne oldest inhabitant,” is announced for publication by F. B. Patterson, of No, 32 Cedar street. Interesting as the published portions of the late | Charies Grevilie’s “Memoirs” bave been found | the unprinted portions 1s still more interesting, bu; is withheld for the present for the alleged rew | son that tt would scandalize many persons now living. | They have issned @ Presbyterian cook book 10 | Phiiadeiphia, Why Presbyterian ? It was Erasmas | who said, when caught eating a savory dish of meatin Lent, “Oh! {have a Catholic soul, outa Protestant stomach.” Let us have orthodox cooking, dy all means. The late Mr. Michelet provided by his will that the complete edition of his works, of which he had never sold the copyrignt, shoal) be pre pared by bis wife, wo wad given him much it | assistance during his life, Some of his heirs | objected, and vrougit the subject besore the tribe unal at Paris, stating that it was to be appre. hended that Mme. Michelet would po the edition writings of her own as her | band's, The triounal declared this obdje be unfounded, and decided that Mme, Michelet ta to prepare the compiste edition of the works which mast be published uninterruptediy, anv | that the copyright for the next forty years is to ba | pat up for sale at the price of 150,000f., which, at sho with Use 20