The New York Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1875, Page 3

THE OLD WORLD AS IT IS —__-+- Present. Condition of the Principalities, Prelacies and Peoples. Silent Struggle of the Democracy with the Imperialisms. The Pressure of Taxation and j the Military Armaments. | Chinese Liberalism—lits Mode of Political Action and Purpose. PARIS, Jan. 31, 1875. It ts on Spain that the eyes of Europe bave been fixed during the present month. The young King 1s firmly seated in the saddle; even Sefior Castelar having given tn his adhesion to the new monarchy. | The restoration has had a good though slight effect | on the value of Spanish securities. The truth is | ull the statesmen of the Peninsula adopt very vigorously that policy of retrenchment for which the English radical party .as been content to in- cur so much obloquy, Spanish budgets will contine with scientific certainty to exbibit, year after year, @ succession of deficits, The pension list aspecially requires revision, Not unfrequently a Spanish ofictal receives a pension of $2,000 or $3,000 for not more than 8 month's service in his department. Worse than this, the cx-oficial haa Bot even the poor patriotism to spend the earnings of his jobbery at home, but prefers to amuse him- Belf abroad, Isabsenteetsm, You may drive for hours in the heart of the country over uncultivated land be- longing to an emigrant noble. A false political economy, too, nas stifed commerce by the undue taxation of weaith. Another se:tous impediment to industrial development lies in the circ.mstance that the priests are opposed to the use of macnin- bry. Prices, of courae, are constantly tacreasing, articles of luxury alone being cheap, as there are 80 few persons to buy them. A diplomatiat re- cently sold a fine irish horse worth about $1,000 for $125. Generally speaking the expenses of Uving at Madrid are as great as at New York. THE CARLIST REBELLION is dying out, througn the disinctination of the Uar- ist oMcers to bear arms against Alionso XII. But the fower of the Spanish population ts still ar- Tayed under the banner of legitimism. The Southerners who fought for the Republic and are now fighting for the constitutional monarchy are described by those who should know them as miserable soldiers, One of the republican generals who fell not long since is believed to huve met his death at the hands of his own soldiers, who Were furious at nis inflicting on them the nardship of real Mghting. They evicently dreaded their own commander as much as the enemy. A good instance of the altered reiations between European States since the last war 1s furnished by the fact that | | THE CURSE OF SPAIN | | FRANCE 1s said to be unwilling to recognize the new gov: | ernment of Spain lest she shoulda give offence to Germany by appearing anxious to take the initia- tive, It is not tobe wondered at that the latter Power should be somewhat overbearing, when everywhere she fonds the nations prostrate at her feet, Recently her Consul General in Servia claimed precedence by right of seniority over another Consul General, who, however, was also &§ political agent 1rom his government, A difficulty ensued, and the Cavinet of Berlin announced that it could not recognize the rank of “agent,” as it had mot been recognized by the Congress ot Vienna in: 1815, ‘There- upon all the Consuls General of the great Powers at Belgrade, who were also agents, agreed to drop their diplomatic titles to humor the Con- sular representative of Prussia. The consequences may be extremely inconvenicnt to themselves, for the Servian government will, in all probability, refuse henceforth to treat with them on political | questions and refuse them political in‘ormation, GERMANY. Bat, ifreports trom Berlin are true, Germany ts about to lose ner right arm, for Bismarck 1s tottering to his Jall and his power is not even ex- pected tc last out the year. Tne court, the aris- tocracy, the independent press, the Uatholics are | All against aad too strong for him, The bunkers, on the other hand, support him, thus showiog | how jutimacely they consider the material pros- perity of the Empire co be bound up with the domination of its iron Chancellor. It still remains to be seen wuether the priuciple of tederalism will sacceed in Germany, Thus the Bavarian bishops have presented to their King a protest against the Introduction of the Civil Marriage law into Bava- ria, but the imperial government 1s uot hkely to allow King Ludwig much liberty of action im the matter. The deicat of the biil in the Bava- ‘tan Pariiament would be a victory for the Chuich over the Empire, and the Empire is not in & Mood to brook defeats, Icast of all at the hands | of the Roman Catholic olergy. Herr Von Treitscke, the celebratea German publicist, has Just put forth | a volume, in which he advocates the * MORE COMPLETE UNIFICATION OF THE FATHERLAND, and hints that he would not be sorry to sce all the | tribatary kings and grand dukes swept away. In conjunction witn Herr Treitscke’s proposals may be taken the refusal of Emperor Wiliam to nction the succession of the Crown Prince of Hanover to the ducal crown of Brunswick, which will be his, or rather his father’s, by right of inher- ltance on the death of the reigning Duke. ‘fhe next heir, by the Salic law, after the family of ex- King Ernest, is the Dake of Cambridge, and It ts believed that the claims of the English Comman- der.in-Chiet were at one time favorably considered at Potsdam. Bat public opinion will probably urge the Emperor-King to annex the province to | Prussia. Whether such public opinion will be manufactured or not is another affair. The “reptile tund.”? as Prince Bismarck terms the secret service money placed at os dis- posal for the corruption of journalists, amounts to $750,000, with which a good deal may be done in snus world, AUSTRIA will never more give trouble to Prussia and the Germans of the new Empire must nave heard with | sincere pleasure that the Austrian Minister of Finance is actually enabled to show an excess of income over expenditure during the past year. For the first time since 1789 Austria nas a surplus, It amounts to $2,750,000, but {4 unfortunately more than counterbalanced by 4 Hungarian defictt of $12,000,000, which Will necessitate the imposition of an income tax of four percent in the Translet- than portion of the movarchy. No position can be harder than that of tne Austrian Germans, wncse destinies are linked with those of the thriftiess Magyars, It is as thousn a steady and nardwork- ing Scotchman were couipelled to tuke & gypsy Into partnership, with a priviege reserved to the B) psy Of workingas ittile ws he tikea and drawing | to an unfimited extent on tac Scotchman, RUSSIA. Another sham surplus is that recently an- nounced by Russia, against the deception of | which would-be investors in Russian securities | ought to be warned, Although the estimate of revenue and expenditare, as Mr. Frederick Mat- tin points ont, are always exactly balanced in the Hussian oMctal rewurns, there veen in | Teality no financial period duriug the last joity | years without w large deficit. These deficits are | thiefly covered by ireiun loans. in contrast to | Russia, France bas a nominal deficit and a real | wurpius, the former being occasioned by the honorable resolution of her statesmen to devote | ot jess than $40,000,000 yearly to tue payment | of @ certain portion of her debt, ‘There ought, | however, to be uo doubt about the ultimate | solvency of Russia, provided a corrupt burean- one 18 not allowed to squander and steal too Much, The ratiway from Sepustopol to Simphero- | & bas just been opened ior traitic, and in omer | ays her resources cuntiuue to be develuped, POLAND, from Poland comes intelligence which must Mave gladdeved the heart ot the Czar, Forty-ive rishos of the diocese o1 siedietz, containing oUt 50,000 Inhabitants, with the whole of their tlergy, have bodily jomed tne orthodox (Greek) | suurch. Toe ceremony of receotion was Der | | serious disturbance in | not of wu cheerful kand, Gladstone’s retirement has ievealed the unpicas- | ‘theodure NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1875..-WITH SUPPLEMENT. formed by the orrhodox Archbishop of Warsaw. This secession of Poush Ci 1s more impor- tant trom a political than an ecclesiastical port of view and inust be regarded asa sign that the Russian administration of the land of Koseiusko 18 not 80 dark as rumor would paint it, “THE SICK MAN? still shows signs of life, and the completion of the underground railway at Constantioopie ts a aub- stantial guarantee 'hat the nerves and sinews of war may yet be jound in the Suitan’s domimona, But civilization, in its highest sense, is wanting True civil apd religious ireedom di hot exis The Counsel of State, for example, has just dra up a jaw forbidding Marriages between Turks and Persians, thus striving to keep alive the bitter: ness of religious animoxity between the two nations, jor { need not remind Amert- cans that the people of either country regard the people of the other as dissenters fram the. true laith. One article of the law deciarea that if a female Ottoman subject snali marry a Persian the children o! such marriage shall be ree garded as Otioman subjects, and the sons ltuble to the conscription. ‘T's provision is remarkabie for the sublime indifference it diapiays to the ruies of international law, which of course de- cide hal the ci lidren’s nationality 18 that ol their jather, With respect to THE MONTENEGRIN DIFFICULTY, it has happily been arranged without setting the Eastin flames. A few officials are to be hung on elgner side the Irontier—iet us hope with satisfac: tion to all parties concerned, GREECE, continues to tilustrate the failure of artifictal royalty. The Deputies to the Assemoly, accord. ing to a practice too common in Europe, are reny dering legislation impossible by deliberate absence from the deiates. The session o1 the Chamber, lately, had tp be closed, owing toa permanent count out, Parliament will be convoked next month taxes, which ure aosolutely necessary ; but mean- while there is no doubt that King George would receive plenty of moral support, whatever may be tts value, from fis Detulibois if he were summarily (0 suppress pariiamentary institutions in Hellas, ‘there ate precedents in the golden period of Greek history for the appointment of an Aisumnetes, Or Dictator, and 1; 18 such a person | whois wanted at the present ioment—a man | who, like the tyrant oi the Chersonese—that tyrant was Milnades—would b ‘eedom’s best and bravest friend.” ITALY. The sister kingdom of Italy 1s just now chiefly occupied in welcoming Garibalai ta Rome apd listeuing with rapture to the accents which tail irom his tips, as he philosophic: and charitably Stigwatizes most geutiomen wio differ wita bin as thieves and rogties, -He vas declined a private audience whicn Victor Emmanuol offered him—ap honor which, on tue other wand, Prince Trionia has eagerly sought, to thank His Majesty person. | ally for the gilt O18 gold medal. Tis goid medal Was awarded the Prince to commemurate the splendid service he haa rendered tne State in draining Lake Porat, and by whicn he would 0 almost appear ave fmpuired his pit yate fortune, mis fine cojlectium of juc- tures having been announced tor gale. ine homage whicn Prince Torionia renders to “the Sub-Alpine King,” as ne ia stili designgted at the Vatican, is significant of the change of sentiment which 1s comog over the Roman nouility and iw- ducing them to accept the revolution of 1570 as an accomplisned fuct. But througn ut Europe the religious conilict is only beginning. In SWIIZERLAND the third marriage of an Q.d Vatholic priest has just been celebrated, Waile the bupiismo! some Od Catholic children has beeu the occasion of the canton ol Geneva, Villages have been occupied by the inilitary, aud the Mayors of two communes have been arrested. ‘The acilou of the Swiss authorities makes one re- call with a sign Lord Me(bourne’s oft-repeated be cause Oft-appropriate question, “Why cau’s you let | it a.one?” Of the other smaller States there 1g little to chronicle, except that they ure all arming to the teeth, DENMARK especially looking to her tortifications, walle in BRLGIUM the adoption of compulsory military service Is probably but a question of tine. Belgian Chamber o1 Deputies bas, how-ver, done good work in sulemniy 1ecuruing a vote tn tavor of arbitration as i means of settling tatervational quarrels. PULEGMATIC HOLLAND has started @ cremation suciety of its own, which already numpe:s 1,000 members, just us the idew | is beginning to get out of fashion in ENGLAND, where the more reverent plan of burial has been suggested by Dr. seymour Haden, anu hus met Wita cousiderable (theoretic) approval. Kor tae Old Country the month has been Iruitful of eveuts ant trath that the iberal party ts more hopelessly disorganized than was supposeu, ond thats man of tasent to lead it caunut be found, The pro- gramme o: Ministers fur the coming session ap- Peurs to be more fron-clads and more bishops. mr. Ward Hunt, if rumor speaks true, 18 10 pro- poss an addition of $6,000,000 t» the naval esti- | mates, and Lord Lyttelton’s bill for the increase Ol the episcopate will be supported vy the Duke of Kichmond and Mr, Israel. i uny one wishes to gauge the strengih of local feeling in Hnzland he may learn that the news ul a scheme jor incor. porating the aiocese of Souor and Man into a new BISHOPAIC OF LIVERPOOL threw the Manx people inio a state of the most | uncontrollable emotion, ‘Ihe “House of Keys” or Manx Parliament paesed euergetic reso. lutions against the contemplatea weasure, which, It 14 necdiess to-say, will be abandoned, | Jor the Cabinet has not the slightest wish to aurt the teelings o1 tue Manx people. . The continuance of England’s empire in INDIA does not exactly depend, us some of her prophets inform her, om the torbearauce of Kussia; vut Whatever tends to delay the era ol border wars on the Indian fronuer 1s a gain to humanity at large. ‘There ore one 18 not sorry tu hear toat M. de Lesseps’ scheme for a Central Astatic Railway has been almost ee ape hn gs 4 rejected by the Russian goveroment as not being a practical necessity. Yet it 1 dificult to believe thas Russia woutd not have drawn nearer to Peshawur oy ita aduption, THE KHAN OF KHIVA has paid another portion o, the ‘indemnity,’ as itis facetiously termed, which he owes the Czar i ie having given His Majesty’s General the trouoie Oo annex his duminions, ‘Yoe two kings of 81am are fighting each other, what for they best know themseives, being lather and son, a circumstance which perbaps eXplains of itseli thelr hustuity, ‘roe jatner, Chau Fa Chula Lougkorn vy name, 18 Furst King anu exercises the real authority, to which the second King aspires. Kromamum Bawarawichal Chau ts tae designation of tue late ter potentate. It is said, however, that tne hereditary chieitains or landed aristocracy of Siam are more powerlui thun either, THK GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN has Made an important concessiuu to foreigners ta allowing them hence‘ortn, 1 daly providea with passports, to traver in the interior, I may oo- serve, in passin7, that Japan is usuaily regarded in Europe as destined ultimately to be a uepen- dency of the United states. ‘There might certainly be @ Worse jate in store ior that active and inge- Mious peopie. PERSIA, for instance, has taken the first step toward her ultimate adsorption inthe Muse vite Emi ire by coolly transierring to the Russiag Geveral Falken- hagen the powers lately granted to Baron Reuter, a curiously Oriontat method of proceaure. But toe centre of Asiatic interest during the month hus been CHINA, the deati of the youny Lmperor being, it muat Irankly be coniessed, no loss tu the world at large, bat the reverse, He represented a reactionary and ian tical policy, and hat a few months since degraded the uveral Prince Kung, thouga he sub- sequently restored him to javor. Chinese liberals, unlortunately, cannot rely im their country upon | | the action of the ballot box, aud it is darkly | bioted thst they sought other means for influencing the course oj eveais, The luckless Empefor could not understand what it was that disagreed with him so. Foreign doctors offered tneir services, but Noua-tzen, the court physician, stood on tis Tights aud claimed the exclusive privilege of cu ing his sovereign, On the termination o! the il- ness by the removal o1 T'oung-cne to a world (it 18 to be huped) vi leas ceremony, Noua-tzen was, Periaps, with more justice than we iwucy, bo: | neade Eastern history ts still, in its simplicity, ike o fairy tale, but with ail the beauty struck | out and the marvellous Jast disappearing, MASS MEETING AT STAPLETON—THE INSPECTORS TO BE INDICTED. An indignation meeting was held on Saturday at Giezer's Hotel, at Stapleton, to take into con- sideration the illegal and iraudulent action of the town justices and town Canvassers of the Fourth | district of Middletown, in rejecting the votes of 355 clectors in the late election icr Supervisor. By | that action Mr. Theodore Trean, the people's van- didate fur Supervisor, was counted out, and Mr. Henry West, the regular democratic nominee, Was declared eiected; but all the votes of tne Fourth district, for ali other oMcers, were counted and canvas-ed, Fully 400 people were present at the meeting. Mr. James Anketei was caileu to the chair aud briefly stated the object o1 the meet+ ing, denouncing the action of the canvasaers anu urging jor their own protection as eiec- tors Wat the traud should be vrougat nome to the perpetrators and they punisned, Mr. Trean was then called upon and ad- dressed the meeting at length, detailing tne Irauds committed and the cunsequent violation of the voters’ rughts, ke was trequentiy applauded during 019 adutess, Mr. Charies Morgan, Trusteo of Edgewater, Offered & preamble and resolution denouncing tne frauds duu veotesting against the Ulegalacis of the town canvassers in disirancnising 365 voters ot the Fourth district, whieh was carried unail- mousey. A committee of five, consisting of Messrs, Phill Woll, Charles Alexander, Michael Oats, Joseph M, Semicon and Charies Morgan, was tacn appointed | to bring the matter betore the District Actorney, 1n order to have the wullty parties indicted at the sitting of the Grand Jury at the County Court and Court of Sessions, which couvenes at the Court House, Richmond, to-morrow. In “extraordinary session” 10 vote tne | Kingsley 1s dead, and | LONDON GOSSIP. Fashionable Life in the Metropolis—"Eighty Per Cent Interest"—Journalistic and Theatrical Notes, Lonpoy, Feb. 4, 1875. With the opening of Parliament to-morrow the London season may virtually be sald to com mence, though many of our fasnionable ladies Will not come up from their country homes until alter Easter, which this year tails unusuaily early. It was the Queen’s intention to open the session tm person; but the iliness of Prince Leopold has competied her to forego the idea. Wales nas gone over to Brussels on @ fsing visit to be present at the marriage of the Princess Loutse, of Belgium. Toe Princess remains at Sandringham during her husband’s absence. Prince Leopoid is so pwch better that any fatal termination to his present tlinessis no longer looked tor; and the fear which beset the great world, and the milliners, tailors, florists and others who minister to its pleasures, that a eourt mouthing might put a stop to the testivities of the season has been dispellet, House agents and those interested in such matters ailirm that the furtucoming season will be specially gay and lively, though we do not as yet near of any Conti- nentai or Eustern potentates (wita the exception of our old irtend, Sir Jung Bahadoor, of Nepaul) who are coming to visit us, THE VACANT JUDGESHIP, This event did not after all go to Mr. Huddie- stone, as I anticipated, out to Mr. Field, Q U., the leader of the Midland Circutt, Mr. Hud- diestone’s {friends are greatly annoyed, but Lord Cairns’ excuse is said to be that he dared not imperil the seat for Norwich, waich no More vacancies in the judicial Bench, thougn several are expected, Arumor ts current that Chet Baron Kelly intends resigning, in which case he wiil probably be succeeded by Sir John Holker, | the Solicitor General. This will make room {or Mr. Hardinge Gitfard, Q. C., who 1s one of the truest and ablest supporters of his party. RIGHTY PRR CENT. On Friday last tne publisher of the London World newspaper was summoned before Sir Thomas Gabriel, one of thy city aldermen, to answer a charge of having pudlished in that newspaper @ libel on Messrs, Bass and Beyfus, of Sackville street, A series ol articles on ‘West- End Usurers,” in which the names, real and as- tions of the harpies who prey upon young men by sending money at enormous interest, has appeared in tae World, and caused a remarkabie sensation | throughout the country, The prosecutors claim characters tor respectabiltty nave suffered harm; and in his opening speech their counsel gaye vent to @ large amount of tall talk. Bus when Mr. Bass was placed in the witness box, Mr. George Lewis, Who appeared for the World, elicited from him tn cross-examination avowals so damage ing and so eXtraorainary that even the ordinary irequenters o{ the Court, who are accustomed to such scenes, were astonished. This man cone sessed that he bad charged us much as eighty per money to young men under twenty years of aye at college; that he had sworn affidavits as an army agent, he having no claim to tie titles that he had induced army ofMicers to pawn their com- | Centage upon them; partner in another tor the same debt, and, finally, that not mere'y had they been usurers themselves, but they had found the money ior most of the notorious scoundrels who, as asurers, play upon the young and fovlish, Tho turther hearing of the case 18 adjourned unf{l to-morrow, buy the editor of the World has received hundreds of letters trom men in a'l Classes of society thanking him jor this much needed exposure. THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON TIMES—THE NEW BUILDING. Mr. Delane, the editor of the Zimes—the man who really wields ‘Jove’s thunder”—is stated to be much out of health, His medical attendants and his iriends are anxious that he should retire Jor a time from his arduous labors and seek rest and change of air; but he declares that, with the Parlianeuiary session juss coming ou, tars ts itu. Pyssiie, and nas determined to stick to bis post. square, KuoWn ty Visiturs as 1g HOW DUL B Small part Of the gigantic Whole. A fine pile of builaing bas been erected, abutting on Queen Victoria street, in which ure the editorial and managerial rovis, since the escapade | of Mr. Sampson ihe city offices of the Limes | nave been avolisucd, and the city editor has rooms in tnis building, where he 4s more immediately under cuuirel, Within the | last twelve montis a great change has come over whe spirit o: the Times, Broused 1fsell Irom the lethargic state into waich sources wauich, iar veyoud any of ils contem- poraries, 1t undoubtedly possesses. may be ascrived tu the advent to increased power of air, Joho Macdonald, w sirewd Scoccaman, wo is now the general Manager o1 the paper. Mr. Waiter, Jr., gon of Joun Waiter, M.V., for serks, and the lurgest owner 0: tue journal, 13 how taking a leading part in its conduct, and is looked jor- ward tu as its future editor, | AN AMERICAN CLUB, dou 18, 1t is said, about to be suppited. A propu- portion oO: Piccadilly, and to orm a ciub which, though hut exc.usively composed of Aimericans, Wil Lave Joc tue majority o1 its members citizens of tne United States. Muny of the leading Americans in Lonuon are said to look tavurabiy Upon the project, and there would scem to be no Teason why such an estavlishment should not be as successini as the Washington in Paria, HONORS TO LITERATURE. : You will have heard by caule that Mr. Disrasit, With u natural and prover apprectation vt tne world o1 literature, propssea to recognize the | merits of two 01 14 most uistingushea living pro- Bath to Tuomas Caclyie aud a baronetey vo Alired ‘rennyson, ‘Ihe nonors thus tendered were in both instances dectined, ax might nave been ex- pected by thos: who Knew the men, Mr, Carlyle 18 now in his eigatieth year. For at ieast iorty years he has been inveigning with crushing irony uguinst tituiar rands and ulstinctious as wind. bags avd shams, ana tt was not ikely 1m Dis old age he Woulu auow his name to ve added to the Hist of the “fankies,” ‘sorked radishes” and ‘aismal creatures having the honor to be,” as ne calls them, With tue Poet Laureate the case was different, He has caildren, and his eldest son, Harold Tennyson, is saia tu ve w bright, capavie young ma But a& varonetcy is hot now tne honor it was hau acentury ago, It has recently been given as a reward tor political services, to rich bunkers and parvenus of many kinds, to the doctors Who attended toe Prince of Wales in his | Lord Mayor at the tune when any royal visitor | was received by the city of London. ‘This may have had sometuing to du with the reason which | Iuduced Mr. Tenuyson to decline the offer, Cer- tamly he conid not nave pleaded want of funds to sustain the ulgnity, as tre ts understoud to ve w rich man, and Whe nas not, like his own ¥ The Prince of | sumed, the addresses, and the previous occupa- | that, having been mentioned in. this list, uhelr | cent; that he had been in the habit of lending | missions, he advancing money at a irightiul per- | 3 ‘hat an unfortunate victim | sey secure had been pursued by him in one Court ana by his | . 8 — | Inclined to believe that the men will not give way, | declaring chat they inten: this time to fight tout | with the Masters’ Assoctation, Ii this be the case Lhe state of things wil be very feariui,"and the war will be lought to the death, Tne coal owners are indignane at the ingratitude with worch their kind treaiment of the men has been received, and de clare that they are now determined to ght out the issue wheiner they or the irascible working. | men's delegates are io manage their property, ‘The state of trade, they say, renders @ veo per cent reduction of wages imperative, and thas reduction they are bent uoon carrying out. AMERICAN CELEBRITIES. Londoners saw a strange sight the other day: nothing less than the.American champion, Captain Boynton, wo, in his diving dress, ¢ himselt'irom Wapping to Westminster, with the American flag fying at the head o; the mast, waicl Was stuck in his velt. fis progress created a iar | amonnt of enthusiasm, and scientioeg men who | have examined the dress declare that it ix perfect in its way, Sergeant Bates was @ nuisance, but Captam Boynton is a practical map, who hus turoed bis talents to a user purpose, und ougnt to be encouraxed, The last number of Vanity Fair has a wonder- ful portratt by Mr. Pellegrine of THE AMERICAN MINISTER, in which General schenex's peculsarith mirably hit of, re ad- THEATRICAL. Dundreary, having run his hundred nights, has been withurawo, and on Suturday night Mr. Sothern made his appearance at tne Haymarket in “Home.” He nas played the character of Colonel Juhn White so often throughout Americy that no dissertation upon tt ts necessary. The event of the evening was the dévur in London of his son, Mr. Lytton Sothern, Whose bright, hand- some lice, Casy Dearing and tupd of animal spirits reniderea him at once a javorite with the auul- ence. Mr. Hollingshead nas addressed a spirited remon- trance to the Lord Chamberiain, pointing out the absurdity of the law which compeis certain the- atres to close on Asn Wednesday, while uther the- atrical establishments, music halls, nigger mi Strels, conjurors, &c., are allowed {ull 8 Win: M Hollingshead writes very curtly and defiantly, but | With plenty of vigor and common sense, aud it 18 possible that he wiil bring avout the abrogation of thin ridiculous edict, Mr. Richard Mansell {8 writing indignantly to | the newspapers tn consequence o the Lora Viam- Mr. Huddlestone now nolds, At present there are | | | casily controlled ax arkansus, berlain having deciared that he will cense to any theatre in which Mr. Mansell may hold a position, Mr, Mansell, it may be remem- bered, was singe manager at the St. James at the time o1 the production of “Vert-Vert.” THE ARKANSAS MESSAGE. rant uo ELEGANT EXTRACTS—THE PRESIDENT’S IDEA OF “INFORMATION. The celebrated Arkansas Message, destined to be the most famous document issued vy General Grant, begins with these words :— To Tux Sxsate oF tox Unitep Stati Herewith [ have the honor to send, in accordance with the resolution of the Senate of the Sdtnet., all the ’Mormation in iy possession, not heretotore furnished, | relating to afuirs in the State ot Arkansas, Appended to the brief Message, in which His Excellency “ventures to expreas the opinion’ that “all the testimony shows’? Joseph Brooks to be the lawfally elected Governor, and that the present government must be overthrown, is the strangest lot of documents which ever an Amert can Senate had gravely referred to it oy a President, On page 23 1s a letter trom an ardent Brooks man, who writes to “His Excellency U, 5. Grant’: Sane rac Man ae ste” f mb Sin—In brief let me state n tew tacts in regard ti ters in this state. In the first placs, there is nota man in the State that has as much voutical sense as an ova ter, There is no State in the Union 30 ea: Arkansas, in 13/2 was luoking tor a Jeater; she had “none unul senator Dorsey caine bere and made a xood viawing, and we fell upon lum as the man, tie built a ruilroid that was uover built, and ‘made the party believe that ‘ne p money aud ability. all o: whi tie never ad. Now rewmemucr, fam xeepublican, and vlack at that, He went into the most stupendous trauts that was ever perpetrated upon a people, and he ts not the pay. gne ib Washington Low representing the peopie that js guilty ofthe same thing. she wreat Arkansas c binavon was tor saxtor was the tiyurelead. ‘they all worked for hi Brovks . eereti ed. there seems no doubt which way the decision will | be. I may say that, to my own certain knowledge, | , When His Excellency read Furbush’s letter no | ‘The rquat, dumpy building in Printing House | e Lines ofice,” | whicd seems to have | It hud jalien, and to be ‘using tae enormous re- | Tots change | The long felt want o1 an Amercan club in Lon- | sition is afloat to engage A huuse 1m the vest | lessors, and oflcred a Grand Lompaniousoip of tis | illness, Lo the city merchant Who happeuea to be | Robert, lands 1m Kent and messaages in York, he | | hus a very pretty estate in Surrey and another in the Isle of Wight. | CLERICO-POLEMICAL LITRRATURE } ts undoabdtedly pecunturily proiitaple. Twelve | thousand copies of Father Newman's reply to Mr. | Giaasvone’s pamphlet were suld at once, and tne demund still continues, | DEATH has been busy among us during the last week, and | has carried of two distiuguished victims im the | peieene OL the Coudtess of Carnarvon sud Canon | | | gsiey. | lor ie (0 Speak to your readers, sv well knuwa was he in America, personally, as well as by his books, It Was Onty iast year that he was in the United States, aud, mdeed, tt 1s said that tue bron. chitis irom Which sprung toe illness which finally carried Him off came upon fim frst in Colorado, | He Was intensely uttacaed to the counwy and tis pursuits, and until he became a canon ol Weat- Munster, Not More than (Wo years age, Was seldom | sven in Lundun society, By those who knew bin | intimately ne wus neld in the highest regaid, out bis appearance and manner were such as to cause | disappoimtment on first meeting him, Lady Care nivvon, wHe Of the Colonial Secretary, was forty | years of uge. Sne was the only daughter of the Lord Chesterfield, the imtimate companion of D'orsay and Wateriord and men o1 that time, and er ot the Lord Chesterteid whose deach vo n typhoid fever, ut the timo when the Vrince of Wales wis iying stricken with the same disease, cansed sofme excitement, Lady Carnarvon was very popular in her circle and conducted the hos- pitanties of Higuciere Castle with much tact and mace. | bits war between CAPITAL AND LAROR has been brought to a head im South Wales. What Wus 10 have been a strike or the Colliers has now become a lockout oy the masters, ‘This 18 to take | Worthy information gathered upon the spot | Ot Me, Kingsiey it is scarcely nevessary | falxe showing; he, the senate, &c., unditi tact every mun that Was troubsesome, Was erther bought, or, aa it, Kilied off. They carried the etecuioh. Dor cured his seatin the senate of tae United States, which was the grana object I Governor Baxter al could Not ag) No material adfere Governor to u guly could have went along in peace and watery. Tney have yone trom here to. have. i not because 1 Was a Bruoks cause “IL was a republican. by my despatch to you in regard to. Uh troubles, thas [did not care as to the Governorship; but soitwent. You have the respect of ail the poople in the State, and a word from you ts worth more than an army. You have spoken, but they. bave mistook what you have si and (unk that you mean tor them the State government in theif own hands and do. e without any regard to the com { States or state. 1 have never #e as In the > tate since [| have been here. ettlo the ditticulticg, et Congress investizate aud in the proper ray tl 5 Now, to pat he ere elected, uni the troubles wilt end. L have had to be a poultical slave ever smce Tha been in the State, either to Clayton or Dorsey. 1 know of all the trouble in tue staie, and how it came about. | hope you will pardon me tor troubling you with, this ietter, but £ am anxious to know our future, Your humble'ser vant, * W. H. FURBUSH. Ills Excellency U. & Grant, Washington, D.C, Furbush is @ good man to fave for a corre: spondent, He don’t amount to much on gram. | mar; but he speaks out like 9 1ti@ man, and doubt he saw that there was at least one man in Arkansas Wn has ‘as much political sense as an oyster.”? ‘NeXt comes an appeal from one who writes: We, who are laboring men. want neither Hrooks nor Baxter tor owe rwer, tor we have consivered that wvl- ther are fittor the office of Governor; but some man who digs his living out of the ground = ‘Hoping that you will at ieast con iescend to answer We ace some of your obedient soldiers of the sixty-second O, V. 1, and ot different regiments, many Southern No doubt “your obedient soldiers” pleased His Excelienc; Next comes u letter from D. Ff, Me- visors of Seoastian county, 1a relation to Oue of His Excellency’s friends and appoiutees, Murshal Fagan :. When he assumed control of the office tt was expected that we were to have un vonest administration of the affairs of this district; but, on the contrary, We und him in collusion With tue ¥ery men whom the Law officers of the governinent are ondeavoring to expose and punish, ihe utter faire of the United Suites urand Jury, which has been in session wt this place for the past four’ weeKs, in bringing to light the Irauds perpetrated in. this dis: ing the guilty parties, is a matter ot no alinust every voy ¢: 1 Facts have Lately tasten the cuttire respomabii Marsnal Fagan, who signed vinne suminonses to and directed the same to KU, Kerns, deputy, Who filled in the names of suc! persons, ee new were = iriendiy to him, and others upon whom suspicion of traud rested, aud thus the action ot wat Grand Jury was le! by the men whom the go 1s to EXPoHe, Hau Who kept up & Wibh the members or the jury. clnent Was found, and in less than one hour thereafter the party was notitled and lett wwn. J. W. Donalley, chiet clerk under Brit.on and Roots, although eontrotied com not to be sven inthe Marshal's office, makes up ail th returns tor deputies, a an short, accounts the same us under are tacis Which can be substantiated sar. A very large number of deputies have been commissioned, and among them some of tae most disreputabie charac ters that ever intested (ns country. ‘This Fagan was appotnted United States Marshal ot the stern Disirict of Arkansas by the Pret gent, contirmed by the Senate sad stil holds the office, McKibben’s letter 1s dated Decomber 10, 1874. We find also an opinion of Attorney General Willams, which clearly puts Brooks out of court. | Mr. Williams says :— Respecting tne claim that sooks received a majority of -he votes at the eleeti it must be said that the Presijent has no way to verity tuatelaim. [the nad. it would not, In my opinion, under the circumstances” of tots case, be a prover suvject tor Nis consideration, Per- haps if everything about the election wa _{n contusion and there had been ny legate count ot t oa of majorities might forin an eleme but where, as in this cage, there bas o1 the vot d the tribunal organized by the e Hon of thy tate tor that purpose hus deciared | the Premdent, tu iny judgment, ougit mot bettind that actiou t the state of the vote, Fradis may have beet committed there to the prejudice ot Brooks; but, unhappily, there are tew elections partisan zeal runs high ii which tho victorious party, with more of less truth, 18 not charged with acts of frauc. upot the subjec There must, however, be an en to controversy Somebody must be trusied to count or elections. Unconstituional methods or ting cannot be resorted to Mere is some real or tinagined — untair avout the election. Ambitious and seltish aspirants | for uMce voneratly create the drscurbance about this matter, for the people are more interested in the pres. ervation of the peace than in the poutical fortunes of any mau. bither of the cuntestan ith jaw und order, 1s better than the other with discord and violence. T think it would be disastrous to allow the proceedings by Which Brooks obtained possession of the otice to be drawn ito precedent — there ts not a state inthe Union in which they would not produce a conthes, ant, prob. abiy, bloodshed. y cannot be upheld or justited upon any ground Y opinion, Gish “Baxter and imi should ve recognized as the lawful 2xecutive of the state of Arkansas, Also & Measage oj Governor Gat saya. The platform ot the party that nominated me had as its main feature the constitution I have sworn port, and promised an administraion of the Ment just and Liberal to all, oppressive and proscripive nd, in whioh he vert | te bone. In accepting the’ nomination [ whreservedly committed myaelr to this policy, ana now again, ta taking the oath of office, At the solemn avowal teat Fshaal st to so administer the government under a place On tue Ist of Febriiary, ana from trust. | the our constitution that yrutection of the rights of whe whole people sitall piew.” Here is a despatch irom Senator Ciayton and R:presentative Suider, wao were in November, 1% seems, fiery Smith men, and are now, turee months jacer, equally hery Brooks men: — (Telegram from Little tteck, November 19, 1874, Re. eutved 9:43, suvember 20, 1874. To U, 8. Grant, resident United states, Washington, she republicans ot the ~tate regard tho government of 1864 a8 the lawtul one, and Garland as Fevolutonnty, They consider the recoguition of boink not onry demanded by law, but necessary tor their roieetion. ‘They contde rely tpon you to attord he ald necessary to re-estabilsh the legitimate covern- ho wien done, they are a DIY AIG to Ihaln. ut further assistance, Messrs. Hines and absent trom the Siate, but cur with ts in . bOWKUL CLAY tus. QP. SNIDER, vernor Smith as ly paddied | ly handled, so. | and most undoubtediy counted out | Honnson Was bought up to make | uce our troubles. It made | n EXPOSITION. Sa EE OUR GREAT Rapid Transport of Exhibits to the Centennial Buildings. The New Union Depot and the Grand Hotel. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20, 1875, Inasmuch as the appropriate celebration of our first Centenary ts now a foregone conclusion, and | Owing ‘0 the fact that the plans of all the butid- ings will be consummated many days before the | prescribed time ‘or their formal opening, the sacili- ties Jor the rapid transport of all the exhibits of otter States have become matters of grave im- port, and are, of course, subjects of more than | ordinary interest to our leading merchants and | manulacturers, OUR PRESENT FACILITIES. It must be admitted that our present facilities | for the shipment of exhibits trom New York and neighboring cities are exceedingly unsatisiactory. | it consumes at least three hours for the ordinary | eXpress train to lap the space interven. ing vetween New York and _ Fhiladelpnis, while the average freight train travelling between the same two points consumes almost double tgs amount of time, ror this slow rate o( speed tnere is really no excuse, while the tariff charged at present for ireignt and passenger travei 1s exor- bitant ana beyond all reason, The locomotives built years ago, especially de- signed to whirl the ordinary light and jolting Ponsenger cars, now endeavor to drag o train of heavy Pullman cars over tue same route in the same time—an effort which is simp'y impossible of accomplishment, I venture to say that there nas not been witnin ayeur past a single express train, to which Pullman parlor or sleeping cara were at- tached, that has arrived tn West Poiladelphia at the time designated in the publisned time table, There is mo section of the Pennsylvania Rattroad rougher or more in need | Of repair than the long stretcn intervening be- tween Philadelpnia and New York. No mancould Well have bis intestines more thoroughly shaken than he who, too poor to parchase a seat in a Puliman, ts compelled to endure in tne average | passenger car. Nor 1s there another stretch of road under control of the company where, taking ; Into consideration the immense amount of Patronage, 16 consumes so much time to travel over agiven limit of miles. Hence it is that | where there 18 tho largest number of passengers | travelling the accommodations are the wor a that where there ts the greatest demand for rapid transit the. facilities for the same are the most inadequate. RAILROADS AND THE CENTENNIAL, It will be impossible tor the exhibitors of New York to ship their goods by any other than the | | Pennsylvania Ratiroad. Tue tims consumed by the most rapid -express trains, running between the two cities, 18 ridiculously slow, and only about half the rate that engines adapted to the sharac- tor of the trains they are compelled to draw could accomplish, The tariff charged each passcoger 1s | @Xoroitant, and js more than doable that whica the line would charge did they have the least compe- tition, There tas not been a single passenger riding between New York aad Poilade/phia daring the last two years who has not been greatly over. | charged, and who could noi twavel double the | Gistance on any other railroad in the United | States at less taan the same price, INTERVIEW WITH Tom ScorT. Your correspondent, through the mediam ota gentleman prominently connected with the Penn. | sylvania Raliroaa, held an interview with Mr, Scott, irom which I learned many important facts | to offset the statements mentioned above, which facts are of the greatest intercat to ali who intend sending exaibits to the Centennial and all who ex- | pect to visit the Quaker City while the Exposition | Ig in progress, in the first piace, Mr. Scott as- sures your currespondent that the rolling stock of the road Will be greatly augmenyed, una tant new and pyWerlui engiues are Low in piogress of con- structiun which ure calculated to draw, at tae moat rapid #,eed, ihe longest trains made up of tue heaviest and most over-ifeighted curs, | Me assures me that he will place upon the road between Philadelpoia and New York a series uf elegantly uphotstered and rapidly fying trains | that wililap the di-tance im avout one-hall the time nuw consumed by his swiftest expresses. | He intends, he says, to uccumplish tom resait py | @ Worsugh repair of the track, by the laying of new ras and by ths introduction of noavier and | more powerul engines. He says that tue question of ,apia transit bevween the cwo cities is one of the most imporrant thar has ever occurred since | he has been counected witn the road; that at tae same time it iy one of the resulis whicn the Toad 1s determined at any cost to bring avout. -In order to test the of nis — swiitest locomotives he sia that @ jew woaths ago he rode oetween New | York and Philadelphia, making the 1ewest stop- | pages and at tue rapidest rate possiple, and that be | 18 convinced that new aud more poweriul locomo- tives must be put upon tie road belore his an- ticavations can be realized, He informs me that such engines as are necessary to iultil ms pur. poses are now being constructed in the shops of | the company, and that they shail be ready oviore tne required (ime to convey all exhibits carefully, rapidly and sa@tslactorily to the Ceutenoial pulld- ings, DIRECT TO THE MAIN BUILDINGS. “You may tell the people ot New York,’ sata he, “they may rest axsured uf one vhing, viz:—Waen they are ready to send their exiioits, or woen they personally are anxlous to visit tae scene ot the great Exporition the transit aforded their goods aad themselves will be as periect and as rapid as tiey could desire. We are now build- ing, in anticipation of the magnituue of the under- taking, ‘sideungs’ wloug the entire line between New York and Philadeiphia, and there can ve no rush wor any demand upon us or freight of pas- senger accoinmedation Lo Which we cannot ade- quately responds” THE GREAT DEPOT, In addition to the above facts [am informed that, just at the intersection o) Belmout and Eim ayeuues, Dear tne muin entrance to tne Centen- | Dial vuiidings, a grand depot is to be erected | covering aQ immense area, ANd Unde, neath the | Toul of Which Can be accomModatea 14,000 souix; | that the brane. track, to preveat accident, will | be spanned vver by an immense bridge, which | Will serve usa grand promenade, and trom which | steps Will descend upoa eitner side to the depot proper. A GRAND HOTEL, Your correspondent is also informed that directly opposite this grand depot the Pennay:- vania Ratirvad Compauy intond constructing a Mammoth hotel, capabie of accom uodating more than 2,000 guests, 1ts location belmg near the Gens tenbial buidings and within the Centenmal grouuds, The hotel wiilbe a periect aitnough a temporary structure, being maue up O1 a series of | frame works, which, aiter the Exposition, can be | disposed 0. lor private cottages, PHRFECT ACCOMMUDATIONS, Thus it wiil be seen that the ratiroad companies are nut only awake to the question ef rapid aud Satisfactory transit lor passenzers ana freight, but that they are wiso making plans for the accom: | modation of the guests tnemselves. Ine above lacts ure Ol great interest to New York extibitors, | and assures them that they oan cons.go their | gvuds with salety, speed aou despatcn. | | 4 BELGIUM RESPONDS. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20, 1875. to-day by the Lnterior Department of the appoint. ment of commissioners to represent Belgium at the International Exhibition. The tollowing is a oupy of the official notice of appointment :— INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF PHILADELPOIA.— | Appointment of tae Members ol the Commission— Leopoid IL, Kiag of the Belgtans—Co all co worm | these preseacs snail come, greeting :—onsideriug that 1 18 hevessary Wo ing toe charge of organizing and managing participation uf the Beigian produciurs and artista at the 1aternational Extidition of Fine Arts, Ag riculture and Industry to be pela in 1876, at Phil deiphia, United states of America, upon the prop. osition of our Minister ot vue Interior, we nave decree ARTICLE 1.—Are appointed members of the Bel- 1am Coumissivd of the interuational Exhibition 1 Phitadetputa in 1876 :— Ancton, Alired, manulacturer of arms at Liege. De Curve, architect, at Brussels. De smet-e Smer, Un., manufacturer. Prest- Seah et the Commercial aud Industrial Society of inent, ianayen, Felix, manulacturer of laces at Brus- sels. Dutsberg, director of the paper manufactori Of Messrs, Godin & Lo, at Huy, GoMn, Jesse, manutacturer of tron at Brussels. Havenitn, Jues, shipowner at Antwerp. Lambert, Cas.,, Member of tne House of Repre- Sentacives and glass manufacturer at Cnarlervy. Lequot, K., direcior o1 lead mines at Bleyberg. | Paurvéis, Ferd. artist pater at Antwerp. Rey, Heuri, linca manutacturer at Brossels. Kovert, Alex., artist painter at Brassels. Sauomne, E., general director of the tron works | at tue same time, Director General Goshorn was officially informed | 3 | whic ats 1 | “‘simonis’ auirea, Member of the House of Rep- Ls in gatives and manufacturer of cloths at enice. The Commission shall eppoint its president and secretary, to be chosen from among its memoers. ART, 2.—Our Minister o1 the Interior is cuarged with the execution of the present decree. Given at Brussels this 16(h of Jauuary. 1 LEOPOLD, By the King. if The Mivister of the Interior, DELCOUK, CENTENNIAL CONTESTS. THE INTERCOLLEGIATE REGATTA -oF 1876— SELECTION OF THE COURSE ON THE SCHUYL- KILL. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 19, 1875, The Naval Board of the Schuylkill Navy, under the directions of Commodore Ferguson, bavo fipaliy selected a course for the International College Kegatta in 1876, The course commences at Flat Rock Dam, about eight miles above this city, and 1s three and a half milesin length. The average width of the course ts 750 leet, wide enough to allow thirteen crews to start abreast ‘Tne other advantages are that it is entirely oordered with hig: hiils, on which there 1s very littie follage, thus giving spectators an uninterrupted view of the course, An adil tonal advantage is toat the ratiroad runs on each side of the river, and spectators can go trom the heart of the city to the course in twenty minutes, The other Centennial races will take place on the usual Schuylkill Navy course—irum Columita bridge to Fairmount. * Those who have seen the Flat Run course and that on the Thames say that it is iar wider aod better in every Way than that on which the Cam- bridge and Oxiord crews have their contests. THE COURTS. TOMBS POLICE COURT. Before Judge Smith. FORGERY AND FALSE PRETENCES, William Wright, who, on the 3lst of December lass, gave to Mr, N, Ferris, of No, 80 Washington et, a check on the Farmers and Drovers’ Bank of Somers, N. Y., in payment for a bill, was ar- raigned yesterday on charges of false pretence and forgery. Tne check when presented to the bank was dishonored and the signature attac said to bea forgery. Having nothing to Wright was locked up for trial. PICKING A SAILOR's POCKET, Thomas Manly, of the yacht Peerless, at present lying at the foot of Court street, Brooklyn, male complaint against Minnie Myer for baving, in a concert saloon at No,.2 New Chambers street, robbed him of $4. Minnie was held :o answer. DISHONEST DOMESTIC. Madeline Rightmyer, who suddenly left the house of Mr. Horafall, No. 106 Bowery, on Monaay last, in Company with $30 of that gentieman’s money and $175 wortn of jewelry, was arrested ou Suturday night and committed at the fombs yes terday morning in detauit of bail to answer, VIOLATING EXCISE AND LOTTERY LAWS Martha Linderman, No, 2 A bany street, wae held, for violating the Excise law, in $60v ball. Alberi George was held in fault of bail on the charge Of keeping a policy shop at No. 4 Chatnam street. FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET COURT. Before Judge Fiammer, * A BIVER THIEF. William Fox, an alleged river thiel, distinguished in appearance by an ugly hair-lip, was arraigned by UMcer Leahy, of the Twenty-first precinot, on acharge of stealing a rowboat, worth $6). Tne oMicer stated to the Court that about three o'clock Yesterday morning he saw the prisoner in the act of stealing the boat from the dock at the Tuirtye fourth street ferry, but was unable to pursue bim on the instant. He called Uficer Kearney to bie aid and both persuaded Pilot Russell to put up eam in his boat and hunt down the thie/, Rus. sell did and Fox Was chased up tne river, He took reiuge on a ruck olf the lower end of Blackwell's lgiand, irom which the oficers from the lerryboat, veing unudle to get close enough to bim, were unable to dislouge him with their re- volvers. Aiter firing abont a dozen shots at him they were compeiled to retura to ihitty-lourta Street. Subsequentiy, Naviug kept watch upon Fox, they saw bim make sor the Hunter's voing dock, and again tre iefryboat was brought taro requisttiun. This tine the race was an exciting one, Fox, in bis rowboat, endeavoring to gain tne sandy shelter of the dark shore, The lerry- boat was the victur, and Fox, seeing escape ime. possible, surrendered, even before he had reached ples He was heid, in delault of $2,000 bail, for trial. AN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN COURT. There were but two female prisoners brought to this Court yesterdiy morning. One of them wag an unfortunate, poor creature, who must have been once quite handsome, and who gave her Dame as Kate Nugent. She had been lound by the oMcerin a state of gross intoxication in the streev at alate hour on Saturday night. Shortly after being placed in the box at the court sh¢ Geliverate!y set about hanging herself in presence of the other womun, who waa, however, too stupefied froin the effects of liquor to notice the r’s | movements or intention. Kate had twisted abou her neck # woollen soirf and was choking herself to death, and would no doubt have succeeded nad aw | week out of privou in three years; she had come down trom tne island only on Friday, aud ane was Sv Mad with herseli that she taought she would be better off dead than alive. she asked to be Sent to the House of the Goud Shepherd for a short time and promised that she would try to ao better in the iuture. The Justice was moved by her earnest Manner and said he wouid grant ner request, and wien sne thought she was ina fit state of mind to get out and again trust herse! 4 sae would have only tu write to bim anu he wouk discharge her. A POCKETBOOK SNATCHER. One of those bold, reckless young thieves called pocketbook snatchers, so many of whom are just now prowling around the city, was arrested on Saturday afternoon in East Fourteenth street while endeavoring to make his escape wito a pocket- book containing only forty cents. He gave hia name as James Henderson, and was held to answer in delauit of $1,000, This amount ut bail will appear to some rather large, considering tne email sum attempted to be stolen; but the inren- tion tu take wore was there, and tne Court is_ determined if possible to puta stop totnis Kind of crime. It people did not carry pocketbooks openty in their haads this offence woulda pot be so prevalent, Jor the opportunity woula not exist. LOCKED HIMSELF UP. After the adjournment of the Court and when nearvy all had left the building, a man named David White, residing in the neighborhood, who seems tobe always io tronvie, locked himself up im the Jemaic prisoners’ box, to the door of watch there is a selfacting spriug lock. He wonid no douvt have remained in confinement ail night had nut a Tepprter. Wino also remained alter Court hours, busy writing, discovered Davia’s situation and ree leased bim, OBSEQUIES OF A STOCK BROKER. ‘The taveral of the late Henry ©. Scribner, a weil known stock broker and memter of the Stock Ex« change, took piace yesterday afternoon irom hu late residence, No, 127 West Forty-flith strect, ie the presence of a large circle of friends and ac quaintancos, The body reposed in a rosewood casket ornamented with silver trimming. Ou @ silver plate was the following toscription :— Goo nenccerenerere sere te tbe rene NOt athe He ROLE OE DEH: HENRY ©. SCKRIBNER, Died February 19, 1876, Aged 35 years and 1 month. APDCROROCE EOE DELE TE LELE IEEE LODE CEROOEED DOODE Around the casket were strewn numerous flora’ guts, amoug which was a large taolet, bearing ob it the word “Brother,” wrought in dlue violets, The services Were celeorated by the Rev. Dr. ar- mi . WHO Pronounced a fttin alogy. after 1 the remains were taken to Greenwood for interment, The folowing gentiemen aciod as li-bearers:—Mes«rs. George McKibben, t Cannon, H. M, Bailey, A. Betlamy, J. A. S. Simon. 8 fH. Hailey, H. Gibson, A. Davis, J. H. Ro maine and W. Bioss, A VINDICATION. To THE EpiTor oF THe HERALD: — In your issue of vesterday, on the eighth page, under the caption of “A Lawyer Locked Up," you have, no doubt inadvertantly, done us great injus tice, Will you be 80 good as to give tne following brief statement of tacts as wide @ publicity at you gave to the above mentioned misstatement Stratton, In dua “the mmo tgage mentioned we took from jcoount ot vine Cg him moi 1 person as a Louis exist nd never heara or knew ny interest in the property till we saw the above notice in the HERALD of the 18th inst. We Were not tn icague with Mr. Stratton. yhe mafter on our part was like ail vur dealings, a straightiorward business trauvaction, ‘Chis, sin, is the head and front ot var ofending.—Very re- spectiuily yours, . PHILIP P. & LATIMER R, BAKER, VINELAND, N. J., Feb, 19, 1875,