The New York Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1875, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HER BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Pin LS. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Hxnarp will be | sent free of postage. —+ THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. An- nual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorke Hunarp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS THIS APPRRNOON AND EVENING, LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.—OFF THE LINE and THE Dove M,; closes at lUMo P.M. Mr. J. tooie. aM PLM. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, ‘West Twenty-third street, near Sixth avenue.—NEGRO MINSTREL-Y, &c.. at 8P. M.; closes at WW P.M. Dan Bryant Matinee at2 P.M. 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BRUARY 1875, DA’ 20, NEW YORK, SATU From our reporis this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be warmer and cloudy, with possibly rain or snow. i; closes at 1045 | Y, at 8 P.M.; closes at 1045 | L | Side #lashes of the Beecher Trial— | As Far As It Goes. We come to the close of another week of | the Beecher trial. ‘Tie reserve imposed upon | al! journals in dealing with this extraordinary | dramais proper. Without this there would be no | justice. But there are phases of it that should not be put aside without comment. It is not | merely a trial, but a revelation. As Mr. Til- | ton sues for money which he does not want and will not accept, and as Mr. Beecher de- fends a reputation which he has survived, there is less danger in public comments than if Mr, Tilton craved money, or Mr. Beecher hoped to leave the presence of Judge Neilson with the splendor of his old fame. As the Brooklyn Eagle of last evening says: —‘Every person who has come into relief with it has been either blackened.’ The story has acted like a poison wherever introduced. The sen- timent of the country has been debauched by it, and those who have been brought out as its once secret holders figure as persons in whom the power of right thinking and right feeling has ceased. Every witness seems to turn up streaked and disfigured. Yesterday we had a man testifying against his sister, tes- tifying to an incident which no brother of ordinary reticence would haye ever whis- pered.” We quite agree with the Eagle that the testimony of Mr. Richards cannot be rend without a shudder, and the fact that Mr. Til- ton found it necessary to his vindication shows the resolute sincerity with which he fights his case. The evidence of Mrs. Moulton closes prac- tically the case for the prosecution. Mr. | Tilton has told his story. The worst is now known. How Mr. Beecher can explain this is aserious problem. But that is not for us to | suggest, noreven to express any opinionupon | the case until Mr. Beecher has had this oppor- tunity. Mr. Tilton’s story is this:—He re- | ceived from his wife a confession of a crime. He reserved this confession for several months, when he wrote a letter demanding the with- drawal of Mr. Beecher from Brooklyn, and the | consequent downfall of his journal and his of note is the averméntof Mr, Tilton that a wite can be disloyal to her husband and at the same time ‘‘pure’’ and ‘‘white-souled.”” This dogma is more dangerous to the peace of society than avy propounded by Mrs. Wood- ‘hull and can never be accepted. It is as fan- tastic as Mr. Tilton’s somewhat celebrated theory that Mrs. Woodhull used to sit on the roof of a Murray Hill house and allow the spirit of Demosthenes to speak through her. It is asad comment upon the state of morals engendered by Plymouth church. But the great scandal goes on. One in- structive point of Mr. Tilton’s evidence should not be overlooked—namely, that he meant todrive Mr. Beecher out of Brooklyn, and that he will execute that purpose. It did not come out in evidence whether Mr. Moulton had any such purpose. But such a declara- tion is inconsistent with the generosity and impulsive friendliness of Mr. Moulton’s character. If the truth were known it would probably appear that Mr. Moulton is only waiting for a verdict condemning Mr. Beecher to “rehabilitate” the Plymouth pastor. These are ali very, very peculiar people. A husband learns that he has been wronged and says nothing about itformonths. He swears that her very crime is ‘in evidence of high religious feeling and not inconsistent with purity of soul. A clergyman seduces one lady member of his church, and will not be comforted until he can find another lady to whom he can confess his sin. More- over, by the law the husband can swear that his wife is an adulteress and the clergyman can swear that she bears false witness, but the | woman can say nothing. A more unjust law | than that which opens the mouth of Mr. Tilton and closes at the same time the lips of his wife cannot be imagined. But the scandal has be- come so painful and deplorable that its exist- ence is worse than an Egyptian plague, and | we should all pray for the end. Governor Tilden and Mr. It is just possible that too much importance Green. | will be given to Mr. Green in the controversy | now waging between the Mayor and the Gov- | church. Shortly after he summoned Mr. Beecher to his presence and accused him of a@ crime. He addressed a letter also to Bowen, reminding him that he had accused Mr. Under the pressure of this letter, and from other reasons which were, no doubi, quite subordinate to it, Mr. Bowen paid | Mr. Tilton a claim of seven thousand | | dollars, and signed a “covenant” with Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton proclaiming peace. This peace continued and Mr. Tilton founded a@ newspaper. Mr. Beecher, through Mr. Moulton, contributed five thousand dollars to this project. The paper did not succeed, and Mr. Tilton, driven to the wall by his own em- with Mrs. Woodhull’s strange, mad fancies, | and by the somewhat reckless rhetoric of Dr. Bacon, turned on Mr. Beecher and dragged world. Mr. Beecher stands charged with adultery, perjury and falsehood, upon the evi- gentleman’s wife. Of these witnesses Mrs. Moulton is the most circumstantial. Her evi- dence is the most important thus far given, and it will be read throughout the country ‘Tilton’s case has been presented with great ability. His counsel have succeeded in gaining every point. On Thursday we had the un- | usual spectacle of the Judge appealing to the plaintiff's counsel to allow Mr. Evarts to ask a question, which, of course, was declined. Some of the rulings, showing, as they do, great the tendency of our Ja their influefice upon the public when we come to consider this trial as a whole. | between husband and wife. been clear to our minds it is that the marriage | condition is one of sacred confidence. Blesse i by God it is the holiest of human associations. No statute can interfere with it. This is as it But the Brooklyn trial makes | should be. another precedent. According to this the | Governor’s course is prompted by a remem- | brance of his old relations with Mr. Green. It TBeahiae ck sbiiens* ected ; is difficult to arrive at o conclusion of this * kind so far as Mr. Tilden is concerned, for | | | barrassments, by an unfortunate sympathy | him before the world as the destroyer of his | home, his influence and his fame. The rea- | sons for this opinion are now at last before the | dence of Mr. Tilton, Mr. Moulton and the latter | with profound and painful interest. Mr. | learning and impartiality on the part of the | Judge, are to us singular developments of | and will not be without | The most striking discovery is the relation | If anything has | q | many, Wart Srerz »ay.—Gold declined | husband may go upon the stand and swear his to 114}. Stock ally higher. Money | wife into infamy. Her letters and communi- | easy and forciy steady. i | cations become a part of his attack. But the | —_ — | wife can say nothing. In other words, any -Generat Gran will accept no truce, no | husband can testity to his tears and his sus- | compromise of the Louisiana troubles except picions, to statements, confessions and narra- | @finaland determinate settlement. This is | tives going to show that he had been wronged. well enough, unless it is another way of say- | The wife, who knows in her heart whether she ing that there shall be no settlement at all. | is guilty or innocent, can say nothing. We | confess we can see no justice in this law unless we accept the theory that a woman is a bit of property who fulfils certain dependent offices in the marriage relation, whose honor may be sworn away when it pleases her hus- band without any opportunity of vindicating Tae CentensiaL Exuisrrion is beginning to attract great interest in different parts of the country, and the summary of what is doing, which we print this morning, goes to show that our first century of progress is to be generally and splendidly illustrated. 3) ADT PAR herself. Who knows better than Mrs. Tilton | Jvpox Pouanp yesterday introduced a res- | whether she is guilty or imnocent? Who has olution into the House declaring that no | more at stake in this issue? Who has as much? Her name, her woman's honor and | the happiness of her children are in peril. Mr. Beecher, if he is convicted, loses his | place as a Christian minister, while Mr. Til- ton becomes ‘‘rehabilitated’’ and Mr. Moulton is “‘rehabilitated.’’ Ifacquitted, then we learn that Mr. Tilton has all this time been under an hallucination. The issue is, therefore, whether Mr. Beecher shall be degraded and Mr. Tilton ao ae fo wel po yo | “rehabilitated’’ and made the same Theodore which the administration leaders sought to | Sahelian Sodas” Wk iad | repair the damages of the late elections have | what is to become of her? She can say noth- been rejected by the party, though there is | ing. She must lie down and be trampled in ae reproach of attempts at foolish legis- | the dust, that her husband or her pastor may —_ | be freed from stain. on! animale ale pt yprd Another discovery is that it is possible, | men yesterday and demonstrated with great pcb vareed ro pages Be nek bel clearness the fact that New York city is over- | tate feo preheee patetiens + tgecliboruatin: opat sy! " waste of time. Any dozen taxed for State ‘avi tema There ought to be shrewd, common-sense, business men, with equality of sation, and the metropolis | the machinery of the law at their command, should be relieved trom the great burden of | oonid* take Mr. Beecher, Mr. Tilton and the paying more than one-balf the taxes in the | two or three essential witnesses into a room, State, since this is much more than our | 414 jn a day ascertain the truth or falsehood | share. | of this charge. But by the operation of our ‘Tar American Tram for the return Inter- law weeks pass on, and no one can say what | national Rifle Match is to be selected accord- | real progress has been made toward the truth. | ing to the rules adopted yesterday by the joint | This is not justice. Suppose the Judge or committee of the National Rifle Association | one of the jurymen should die? Suppose, andthe Amateur Rifle Club, which we print | as many observers contend, the jury should this morning. Great interest will attach to disagree? How could Mr. Tilton sustain a this match, beginning with the preliminary | new trial? contests under the rules just adopted, and it | through with it? Any process of justice will be the subject of much comment until the | which requires weeks to examine two wit- posult is finally declared. | nesses is false. Still another theory worthy interference with the affairs of the State is re- | quired by the present condition of Arkansas. It this resolution is adopted it will be a signal reproof of the extraordinary course adopted by the President on this subject. Tae Army Apprormiation Bitt passed the House yesterday shorn of the objectionable two-years’ feature. Thus another false step ernor. There can be little doubt that the we should prefer to regard him as a states- man beyond all sentiments of personal relation- ship or affection when the public welfare is | concerned. But it seems that he is not above | the influences of bosom friendship. John | | Kelly saw what came of this during the last | canvass, when he allowed bosom friendship to | 80 control his action as leader of Tammany | that he lost the Registership, and would have | | lost the Mayoralty it the republicans had been | more anxious to combine against Tammany | and Mr. Creamers organization had gone earlier into the fei’... Mayor Wickham’s own | canvass was so buily injured by the singular | fatuity which permiticd’ Mr. Kelly to yield to personal prefereic for Jimmy Hayes, Billy Walsh and statesmen of the Morrissey | school that but for the apathy and tardi- ness of his opponents he would have been | ! deieated. J And it seems that the Governor sails | directly toward the same snag. He imperils his administration to sustain Andrew H. Green, | | his former pupil and legal associate. He | | takes on his back the Old Man of the Sea ; he | indorses a wenk, inefficient, obstinate official, | | who has not financial talent enough to take | charge of the retail molasses department of a | country grocery. He indorses a financial ad- | | ministration which, while boasting of econ- | | omy, piles debt upon debt and retards the honest growth of the city. He becomes re- | sponsible for an office that long since has And all because he will not remember | that his duty as Governor is paramount to the | | fully. | obligations of bosom fricudship. The Gov- -ernor that John Morrissey and himself owned Tam- and through it the suffrages of the | metropolis. It is, a mistake Governor Tilden cannot afford to make, and we warn him of his error in the spirit of the truest friendship. Samuel J. Tilden is not strong enough to carry Andrew H. Green, and he should remem- ber this before he falls in the effort. Penny Wise and Pound Foolish. There is a project on foot for the construe- tion of a tunnel] under the Hudson River, and the wise men at Albany are, it appe quested by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- | pany to give the necessary legal sanction to the enterprise. It is of course proposed that by this tunnel the city shall be put in direct railway communication with New Jersey, and that the | enormous railway traffic which now concen- trates at the Jersey side of the river, and is there forced to resort to boats, shall come directly here without quitting the cars. People who take the trouble to consider the effect such an enterprise would have on our “terminal facilities’ can see at a glance how many serious problems this would solve to our great advantage. But this, it seems, is not the view ot ‘the property holders.’ They are recorded as against the tunnel and | as arguing that this easy access to Jersey would carry into that land of light taxes thousands of residents now compelled to stay in the city. These men have been sound asleep for ten years. In all that time people have been trooping out of the city to Jersey, and at this moment access is so easy that one may go from Wall street to a point fifteen or twenty miles out in Jersey easier than he can | go to Twenty-third street by the street cars. Access to Jersey for the people who go there to live could scarcely be bettered by the tun- | nel, taking the year round; but the property holders oppose now, as always, with stupid at- tention to some small immediate interest, the great future advantages. In the same spirit they have always persistently opposed every good project for rapid transit. They will probably defeat the tunnel, and yet this tun- | nel is the only thing that can prevent the growth on the other side of the Hudson River of a vast city, which, in a century hence, will dwarf this badly governed me- tropolis. Tuz Hovse oy Representatives yesterday | took up the private calendar instead of con- sidering the Tariff bill. This defeat of Mr. How could the attorneys go | Dawes looks as if Congress was disposed to | service give the democrats a full opportunity in the matter of financial legislation by deferring all | rev We bills till next year, A | nary hero to overcome imaginary dangers, failed to govern the finances of the city use- j | Pay ae ' should think’ of the fate that mpnaced | John Kelly when he acted upon the theory | , the work can be better accomplished next ‘NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, ¥YEBRUARY 20, 1875.—WITH SUPPLEMENT, Arctic Explorations. The English are pressing with great earnest- ness the proposed expedition into the Arctic regions. The Royal Geographical Society have appointed a sub-committee to draw up & manual of instructions for the use of this expedition, Each member of the committee will take a special department of physical geography. Among its members are Admiral Callinson, who commanded the expedition by one of the vessels of which the Northwest Passage was discovered; Admiral Sherrard Osborn, and Dr. Brown, the Scotch botanist, who bas several times visited the Arctic re-' gions. The same subject is exciting great interest in Germany. An appeal has been made in Bremen for a new expedition, under the German flag, and a letter has been sent to every member of the German Parliament, giv- ing the proposed plans and asking for sup- port. The London Atheneum announces that the German enterprise will cost between two and three hundred thousand dollars, and that it will consist of two steamers, manned by sixty men, with provisions enough for three years. A suggestion has been made that in the event of the two countries, England and Germany, sending out expeditions they should divide their work, the Germans keeping north- west, along the east coast of Greenland, while the English navigate Smith Sound. ‘The distance across,’’ says the Atheneum, “is only four or five hundred miles, and if Greenland terminates near the Pole the hope is ex- pressed that the Germans from the east and the English from the west may meet each other at the Pole, or, at all events, double the northern part of the Greenland Conti- nent.”” The defeats of the past, so far as these explorations are concerned, so far from discouraging all effort in this direction, have become an incentive to further dar- ing. The secret of the Northwest Passage cannot be much longer hidden in mystery. The price paid for all great discoveries is life, arf it would seem that enough “of that kind of coin has been laid in the lep of the Arctic Zone to persuade it to allow us the pleasure | of solving the problem. The goal has been so nearly reached by our great explorers, only a few score of miles of sullen, stubborn cold lying between them and the discovery so longed for, that it were a pity not to persevere. Ever since Martin Frobisher opened the door of Hudson’s Strait there has been a generous rivalry among the nations of the seacoast, and the courage of these hardy adventurers, though unrepaid by many material dis- coveries, has been sung by the pocts of all climes. The highest point yet gained is 82 deg. 27 min., and the few miles that intervene between that point and the consummation so devoutly to be wised are so unfriendly. that nothing but the most persistent determina- tion and self-sacrifice can conquer them. So far we have reached the Pole in fiction, but not in fact. John Hatteras, born of the hot and unaccountable imagination of Jules Verne, pushed his way across the warm sea | and stood at last on the pinnacle which forms one end of the axis on which the earth revolves. It is never difficult for an imagi- and ninety-nine degrees below zero—which | Dr. Kane experienced—would not even | tingle the cuticle of such an explorer. This | subject seems to be exciting fresh atten- tion. We may truly say that it is never | wholly absent from the American mind. We | are easily kindled into enthusiasm, and always | ready to generously second any attempt ai a | solution of the enigma which promises to be even persevering and daring. The matter is constantly coming up before the British | Parliament in some shape or other. The | Austrian and other governments of Europe | are also heartily interested, and are ready | and. willing to do their part to clear up the | mystery. Our recent special Hzraxp despatch from | London on this subject is very suggestive. A | motion was made in Parliament to postpone the expedition for the present, in order to | | give other governments an opportunity to co- | operate. This is undoubtedly the true policy, and in the end it will prove to be the success- | ful one. There is no occasion for haste, and year than this. The English appear to fear that somebody will reach the Pole before them. To a certain extent this has been the | purpose of all the American expeditions, and , to accomplish it was done by our great ex- plorers. While we have our due share of | national pride in the matter we are not atraid | that England will deprive us of any laurels | that have been fairly earned. But our failures ought to teach England that it is better to wait than to fail. All the experience and co- operation which can be brought to bear upon it should be used to make this the last and crowning effort. America, as well | Great Britain and Germany, should con- | tribute to and take part in the | pedition. When the North Pole is visited it | should be by ao friendly delegation from all | nations that have heroes buried beneath its fields of ice. Besides, there are better | chances of success in a combination of the difforent temperaments and characteristics of various nationalities. It was certainly a | courteous move for England to make, and if | the expedition is delayed till next year we | have little doubt that half a dozen men could | be found in England, Austria and America, | who by working in concert could devise some | way of overcoming all obstacles and settling the vexed question forever. . | its face, that Prince Bismarck is about to be ceeded by Prince Hohenlohe, the present Minister to Paris. The Prince is the states- man who succeeded Count Arnim in the Paris | be observed that such a body is now an abso- | the Marsbal’s incumbency. ve:| everything which daring and courage could do | ' | Taere 1s A Statement, which lacks con- | firmation, and which is not very probable on relieved of his duties in part and to be suc- | of the Protective Union aud Directory, of whosesocibty we print an account this morn- | ing, may issue their little ukases, against false hair and jewelry to the maid, but their bulle- tins are not likely to prove of any real service | to the mistress. People who want kitchen servants are compelled to take what they can get, and may be thankful if the cook refrains from practising on the piano after dinner, The Mayor and the Governor, In the travels of Gulliver we read of two parties who quarrelled upon the principle whether eggs should be broken at the little or big end. We are reminded of this in read- ing the elaborate correspondence between Mr. Tilden and Mr. Wickham. It recalls the debate reported in the Hxnanp of last Sunday, in our travesty of the Beecher trial, where learned attorneys, like General Tracy and General Pryor, were made to discuss the value of pork and beans upon the intellect of the jurymen. Here are five columns of letters which say ‘‘you must’’ and ‘you must not,” and nothing more. The arguments could not have been more elaborate and pretentious if the iséue had been the Alabama claims or the Schleswig-Holstein question. There was no point in the discussion. Why should not the Mayor send his manuscripts of evidence to the Governor, and as many more manu- scripts as the Governor required? What harm could come from granting the Gov- ernor’s request? The Governor was wrong in wasting so much time on asmall matter. The Mayor was wrong in attacking wind. mills with all the learning displayed by An- drew Johnson in defending the constitution, and all the enthusiasm of Don Quixote and his descendant, Bergh, in assailing wind- mills. If the Mayor and Governor had had true courage, and the proper appreciation of the duties of the heads of a party going into power with solemn responsibilities, they would have removed tho heads of all depart- ments not in sympathy with the new govern- ment. The Mayor would have been sur- rounded by officials to whom he would have been what the President is to his Cabinet. This would have been best for the city, the State and the party ; much better for Mr. Wickham and Mr. Tilden. It is arguing a self-evident proposition to | present this. The true point is clear. The city should be managed as a merchant man- ages his private business. The merchant surrounds himself with men he can trust, who will do him honest service and strengthen his business, The Mayor should do the’ same. He cannot govern New York in any other way. The Governor should recognize | the right of the Mayor tu have useful men around him—men who possess his confidence. This 1s the kernel of ‘home rule,’’ one of the principles upon which Mr. Tilden was elected, and which he cannot abandon now without injuring his party and his administration. Maxing a Constitution. At length it seems to have become apparent to the repablicans in the French Assembly | that a republic of some kind, though it be not exactly the one that each faction would de- ; sire, is better than no republic at all and pret- erable to the ‘‘provisional,” with all its liabili- ties to parliamentary and dynastic ‘‘accidents;” | | and this perception has led to the practical con- sequence of uniting all the republican elements of the Right and Left Centres in the endeavor to secure the constitution of a Senate. It should lute necessity to give value to the triumph by which, on January 1, the Wallon amendment became the corner stone of a new republic. M. Ventavon’s constitutional scheme provided which was as follows: —‘‘Marshal MacMahon, President of the Republic, continues to exer- cise with this title the Executive power with | by the Brasilian: police in consequence, which he was invested by the law of Novem- | " ? ber 20, 1873."’ This, it is seen, creates no office; it continues the possession of a power so strictly near to the barest statement of facts that it leaves open no implica- tion as to the Exccutive office beyond M. Wallon’s | amendment was as follows :—“The President | of the Republic is elected by a plurality of suffrages by the Senate and the Chémber of Deputies united in a National Assembly. He | holds office for seven years and is re-eligible.”” | Here, while the Septennate is accepted as a constitutional basis, it is made a permanent | office, its continuation is provided for, and by | necessary implication the form of government | is declared to be republican. ‘These tew | words are, in short, what republicans have | clamored tor in and out of season for a gen- | eration, This amendment was carried by a | majority of one. Butin order that the ground | actually secured by this victory should not be lost there must be a Senate. It is obvious | that a Senate is a necessary condition to the | effectiveness if not to the vitality of the | clause. But the original bill for a Senate as nd | reported by Lefevre Pontalis has been already | killed. It was apparently killed through the forced their own views so far as to lose for the | measure the support of the conservative ele- | ments. We say apparently; for, after all, its | for the office of President in its first article, | | hitherto granted, and keeps in its terms | England and Her Seamon. “Mr. Samuel Plimsoll is a member of Par- liament who has long cherished a special hobby? For some time he has bolieved that the shipownent,of England have managed their business in \utter disregard of the happi- ness and even theilives of their sailors. He has written books and, pamphlets, made specches and defended Himself in actions for libel brought against him by shipowners. Aman, we believe, of large means, he has given his lifeand his income to:this one work We can obtain an idea of what he'has done and proposes to do from a speech: delivered recently at the Trades Union Congress in Liverpool In this speech he said that twelve actions for libel had been brought: against him, that three he had defended, while nine had not been pressed. He censured: the Board of Trade for not taking more care to prevent the overloading of ships. Much good had been done by two acts which had been passed in 1871 and 1873, but there were still many abuses. He alluded to one case where four ships loaded with railroad iron had been allowed to sail in such condition that there was very lit- tle hope of their reaching their destination, which was “a horrid shame.” He cited a case in which a vessel registering only 1,010 tons was allowed to sail with 2,256 tons of coal, ‘and she went down with twenty-seven men and drowned every one of thom.” In the winter of 1874, 128 vessels, sailing from English ports, had been lost with all hands onboard. This he considered an improve~ ment, as the weather was unusually bad and the decrease was thirty-six compared with the num- ber that went down in 1873, He complained of the manner in which the British seamen are treated. The men were housed worse than dogs. They were ‘fed with provisions that a pig would turn up its nose at.” They were sent to prison by magistrates who were shipowners in many cases without appeal. The consequence was that the English seamen had deteriorated, and this because the ship- owners “drowned the good men so fast.’” The result of Mr. Plimsoll’s speech was that - the Congress passed resolutions to support his legislation and to address a memorial to Mr. Disraeli. The tact that in this nineteenth century there should be agitation of the quos- tion whether English seamen are deliberately drowned for motives of avarice is a startling commentary on the civilization of our time. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Plon -Plon has gone to Rome to congratulate Garibaldi. The Swiss government is paying $400 apiece for horses for its cavalry. General Duncan S. Walker, of Washington, 1s staying at the Fifth Avenne Hote}. General James Oakes, United States Army, & quartered at the Sturtevant House. Governor George L. Woods, of Utah, is residing temporarily at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Edwin Adains, the tragedian, bas taken up his residence at the Sturtevant House, Mr. Samuel Bowles, of the Springflel1 Republt- can, 1s sojourning at the Brevoort House. General Clinton B. Fisk, of St. Louis, is among the late arrivals at the Fitth Avenue Hotel. Chief Engineer William H. Shock, United States Navy, is registered at the Metropolitan Hotel, Speaker Jeremiah McGuire arrived in this city last evening from Albany and is at the Metropoit- tan Hotel. Signor Antonlo Bastii was married at Strasbourg in January to Mile. Berthe Wolff, daughter of Gus tuve Wolff, advocate, of that city. Carnot, wno “organized victory,” is buried at Magdebarg, in Germany. It 18 now proposed io France to bring home his remains, As Wallon’s bill for the Republic in France was carried by one majority, the monarchists say that “Nothing 1s changed 1n France; there 1s only one Frenchman too many.” Father Camello, the governor of the bishoprie of Olinda, has hada true bill found against hig and will be tried at once. He has been arrested The recent speech of Hon. J. Marshal Hagags, of West Virginia, in tne House of Representatives, on according belligerent rights to the Cubans, i highly commended by the friends of tree Cuba. Colonel B. G. Bruce, formerly of the Turf, Field | and Farm, in this city, bus started the Kentuckg Live Stuck Record in Lexington. It is the stock organ of the great “blue grass” region of Ken tucky. A special letter trom Rio Janeiro, under date ov January 22, reports us follows:—The huut tor | Jesuits in the north of Brazil i not yet over, and | tervention of a saint, whose image he wore. two more have been caught and sent onboard a war vessel to await some steamer for abroad. ‘Titon says that Mrs. Tilton’s soul ls white, and that Beecher is the guilty wretch; but Mrs, ‘Tilton says that Beecher’s soul is white and that she herself is alone guilty. Beecher, nowever, agrees with Tilton about it. Somebody is evi- dently mistaken, M. de Brazza, an Itaan, who Mas served as lieutenant im the French navy, is about to ander- take a voyage into Central Africa, in continuation of the explorations of the late Dr. Livingstone. He hag received a subvention of 10,000 Irancs lor this purpose ‘rom the French Department de Ma rine, and will also receive aid from other branches of the government and from the Geographical Society. Recently @ man tell a depth of 170 feet intoa chasm in the Swiss mountains, He was unnurt His escape was attributed to the miraculous in- One of the newspapers ridiculed this fancy, and the | government authorities have proceeded against injudicious energy of the republicans, who | | defeat may have been due to the legitimate | | opposition of all the anti-republican | parties, which, seeing that the Republic has | secured the primary victory, and seeing, there- | fore, that every further step in organization is the organization of the Republic, may oppose all organization solely for that reason, so that at last the now triumphant party will be left | with a crippled and ineffective law of no value. If it was in virtue of this sort of opposition that the regular bill for the Senate was defeated the new proposition will be defeated also; for the concession it makes to the con- the newspaper for “attacking the conscience and morals of the pupiie and for a gross and gratut- tous insult to the persons professing the Cathoulc religion.” It is said that this inscription Is on a tombstone in the old burying ground of Fredericksburg, Va. :—‘Here les the body of Edward Helder, prac- titioner in physic and chirargery. Born in Bed- fordsbire, Engiand, im the year of our Lord 1542, ‘Was contemporary with and one of the pallbearers. to the body of William Shakespeare, After a brief iilneas his spirit ascended in the year of our Lora 1618, aged seventy-six.” All the statistic.ans of the French Department of the Interior were worried to death for a month | overa return in a report on eggs—by which itap- servatives is the creation of the Senate, and , | will not tempt them away from an opposition | based on so clear a principle. The immedi- | ately forthcoming conflict is one of greatly increased interest, therefore; but the republi- embassy, and, as one of his house is a car- | cans have gained a great and permanent | dinal, it is possible his appointment may be a | advantage in the Ventavon bill, and if at last concession to the more liberal spirit of Ger- man nationality. Tue Krrcnen Service in this city is ac- knowledged to be the worst in the world, and yet we doubt whether it is possible to reform it. In spite of the example which Brooklyn has exhibited marriage is too highly prized and too easily accomplished to make kitchen desirable. In this is the real | difficulty. It is difficult to get kitchen girls at all because most of them are soon able to ave kitchens of their own; and ao the ladies dissolution comes as a failure to organize the parties will go before the country with a dis- tinct programme as formulated in the Wallon amendment. Tax Inptan Arproraiation Brut was under discussion inthe Senate yesterday, the ques- tions of feeding and fighting the savages en- gaging the attention of Western Senators, Our Indian policy is a great nuisance, but we plies must be voted os usual, government in any form they alone of all the | peared that there were so many millions of eggs and ® hal! laid in a@ certain district. How that aif egg got in no one could tell, and it had to be hunted down, Finally it was traced to a conscientious farmer, one of whose hens had laid an egg'on the line of division between his depart ment and another. ‘The Presidential campaign 1s becoming lively in Albany. At @ party given in the house of Mra, Milligan, No. 156 Canat street, Albany, on Sunday evening, alter vespers, John T. McGowan nom- inated for the Presidency Timotny J. Campbeli, commonly called “Old Brains.” Mr, Campoell did not either accept of decline, but sald he was open to the call of his party. The nomination was seconded by Senator Ledwith. Ths is what they say in England about the American revivalists who are trying to convert’? the people of that benighted couptry:—“A man who ts unable to ‘get converted’uniess he 1s ratea and roared at and without writhing and scream. ing himself into hysterics, had better remain where and what he ts (whatever that may bo), aince he 18 almost certain to relapse 80 soon 4s the excitement 18 over. Conversion coming from God's grace 18 the calmest operation known to suppose there is no help for it, and the sUp-,| tne soul, and cannot ever resnit trom man’s bele lowing, carolling and grimaces,”’