The New York Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1875, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1875, TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD} BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS—On and: after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the Nzw Yoru Hzamp 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 York Henacp. Bejected communications will not be re- ¢urned. 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. TOLUME Xliee-ssececnsensacsserescssvcceeeoeeNO, 62 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE Twenty-etehth street and Broadway. NANZA, at 5 P.M; closes at 10:30 P. Miss Davenport, Mr, Uildert. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near sixth avenue.—MARY STUART, BES P. 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It will be a blessing if the | Senate and House adjourn without increasing their pay. We Azz to bill ag: Tue Hovse pleas a of the District of nate District has had bame spa time tory of the U nion. | for the government | mbia. ‘This unfortu- ore governments in the | than any State or Terri- | Grnenat CoxcHa as: resigned the command of Cuba and returned to Spain. He informs the inhabitants that the insurrection has inter- rupted the prosperity of the island, and that the people will lave to sacrifice part of their torte o restore peace, pay the public debt and maintain the army and navy in an effi- cienfcondition. This is not a pleasant pros. | pect Tor the r Faithful Island. Tae Transit or Venvs.—Professor Young's | account of the observations made by the | American party at Pekin is more favorable | than wasat first anticipated. The appearance | of finger shadows between the planet's rims, | und the visibility of Venus before the first contact, as predicted in the Henanp, are el featur t phenomena, although ated for by the action of ne Tue Case of Coroner Croker against James O’Brien was called in the Tombs Police Court Neither the Coroner nor the ex- ed, and the case was dismissed. Does this mean that there has been an ar- rangement, and that we to hear no more of the indictment against Croker? Are the people to understand that a citizen can be killed in broad daylight and no one called upon to answer for the erime ? yesterday Senator ap are Tar Brrcuur case ope ned a new cha apter yesterday. Mr. Ovington, a leading Brooklyn merchant, was examined for the defence, as he first witness. He told his story simply enough, and was mach bothered by the coun- sel for the plaintiff on cross-examination. Mr. Ovi witness like Moulton, nor an eloquent witness like Tilton. Bat be told what he knew, and this is perhaps aa good quality on the witness stand as elo- quence or ability. Two other witnesses were raped alt ton was neither an able | vests in the President. | vigorous opposition to their passage. * | he best part of the The Close of the Session. The Forty-third Congress will meet at noon for the last time to-day. The hour of noon to-morrow will close its existence, and if it is in session up to that hour, it may be by run- ning on to-day’s session through the night and the morning hours, or by an early meeting in the morning, to adjourn finally at twelve o'clock. ‘The evil that men do,” said the de- spondent Antony at Cesar’s funeral, “lives after them, but the good is oft interred with their bones.” We are not called, on this occa- sion, to the political deathbed of Cesar, but of Cwsar’s Congress—the last Congress that Cusar | will ever have, unless he achieves the dearest object of his ambition by another re-election. Before the time arrives for celebrating his political obsequies—two years hence—we trust he will change his policy and furnish the press with some topics for a panegyric on his ad- ministration. ‘Eulogies belong to the dead,” and we courteously offer this excuse to His Excellency for not offending his modesty by prematurely reciting his praises now. The reasons for abstaining from any eulogy of this expiring Congress are of a different character. The occasion is suitable, but there are no topics. There is enough of evil which will live after them, but the amount of good to be interred with their bones need not enlarge the dimensions of their political graves. Even Cwsar finds in this, the closing hour of an obedient Congress, that it will not follow obe- diently at his heels. Our readers know the importance of the Arkansas question and the interest felt by the President in the success of that measure. After a debate memorable in its character and covering every phase of the subject, the resolution of Judge Poland, de- claring against Brooks and the Presidential policy, was adopted by 149 yeas to 80 nays. So that in his own House of Representatives our Cwsar receives a decisive and humiliating defeat. One of the reasons why this particular ses- sion reflects so little honor upon Congress is to be found in the fact that so large a propor- tion of the members are remanded to private life by their constituents. One hundred and thirty of the administration members of the House take their final leave of that body when the session is adjourned to-morrow. It is from this fact that the whole explanation of the recent proceedings may be evolved. These one hundred and thirty members, con- demned by their constituents, but reluctant to retire from public life, became segvile tools in the hands of an ambitious President. The greatest of English satirists remarked of a worthless renegade priest that ‘he could not live by God, so changed his master.” So these one hundred and thirty discarded re- publican members of the House, finding that they cannot live by their constituents, changed their master to become the subservient in- struments of Grant, who, as Blackstone wrote of the King of England, is ‘the fountain of office and honor.” His Excellency disposes of foreign missions and consulships, post offices, places in the customs and internal revenue service, marshalships and desirable posts as governors and judges in the Terri- tories, Indian commissioners, and other offices which it would be tedious to enumer- ate. Itis inthe power of the President, if not to “drag up drowned honor by the locks,” at least to drag up drowned politicians from beneath the waves with which their constit- uencies have overwhelmed them and give them a further lease of that official life which is so dear and precious in the eyes of all dema- gogues. What Gray, in his inimitable “Elegy,’’ says with so much truth and poeti- cal beauty of ordinary human nature is doubly true of the reluctance with which inveterate office-seekers quit political life: — For who, to dumb /orgetiulness a Prey, This pleasing, anxious being e’er resigned, Leit the warm precincts of the cheerfai Nor cast one longing, lingering iook benind, It is the longing, lingering look of the one hundred and thirty discarded republican members, it is the intense hankering for office which lives in’ the ashes of their ambition, which has made them ready, compiaisant tools of the President in these last days of their gasping official life. His Excellency wanted legislation which would facilitate his designs upon a third term, and the composi- tion of Congress could not hive been better suited to his hopes. A majority of the repub- lican members of the House consisted of repudiated and desperate politicians, whose only chance of future prominence lies in the | have warmly supported him, and he would | | have exchanged his equivocal reputation as a | Blaine, the republican leader of the next power of appointment which the constitution With nothing further | to hope from their constituents they realized | their abject depei endence on the ‘fountain of | office and honor,”’ the distributer of federal | patronage, for a continuance in public posi- | tions. This Congress, in its closing days, | has accordingly exhibited the most unparal- | leled spectacle of political servility ever wit- nassed in a free country. A majority of those republican members who will sit in the next House heartily disap- | proved of the Force bill and other measures of | that kind desired by President Grant; and it | is not creditable either to their sagacity or | their courage that they did not make a | They would have opposed these measures if their | will had been as resolute as their judgment was correct and clear. On the Force bill, for | instance, they would have run no risk, be- | cause the respectable part of the republican | | press is nearly unanimous in its condemna- | tion. The republican press, unlike the one hundred and thirty discarded republican Congressmen, has a future. It feels that its prosperity depends upon its fidelity to the local constituencies who have cashiered so many members of this expiring Congress. If | Mr. Blaine, Mr. Dawes, Mr. Garfield and the other representative republicans who have not been repudiated by the people had boldly opposed the Force bill it might still have passed the House, and they would have strengthened then selves and their party They lacked courage. This halting infirmity of purpose is peculiarly re- by opposing it. grettable in the case of Speaker Blaine. He had permitted it to be n out by his friends that he would come down from the chair aud make a strong speech on the floor in opposi- tion to the Force biil. Such a speech, even from him, might not have prevented its pas sage, there were a hundred and thirty candidates for federal appointments among the republican members. but Blaine, even though defeated by a vote of the House, would nevertheless have greatly strengthened his position as a statesman and a party leader, _Fepublican, press would | since | who are ready to go again. dexterous trimmer for the higher reputation of a clear-sighted, intrepid statesman. It was a great opportunity lost, A shrewd New England journal—the Springtield Re- publican—calls his attention to that text of Scripture which declares that he who will save his lite shall lose it, but he that will lose his life in a righteous cause shall save it. If Blaine had had the strength of soul to rise above paltry expediencies and carry out his first purpose of taking the floor and denounc- ing the Force bill he would have stood to-day as the recognized leader of the republican party. So much is lost by letting an important occasion slip. So great isthe difference be- tween a consummate trimmer anda statesman. House, has permitted himself, by sheer want of political courage, to be foiled and out- generalled by Butler, who is condemned by his constituents and will to-morrow end his erratic political career. Butler goes out in a blaze of flashy success because he is so quick to appreciate the baser side of human nature. He is one of the hundred and thirty republican members who have been condemned by their constituents, and is the natural leader of this desperate host of fallen politicians, as Satan was of the fallen angels, ‘by merit raised to that bad eminence,” as Milton says. Itis not probable that he wants any office which Grant could bestow upon him. His master passion is love of notoriety, and it delights his soul to win this conspicuous triumph over Blaine. If the Cmsarism at which His Excellency aims should succeed Butler has established his title to be mayor of the palace, grand marshal of the new empire, or to reach some other dignity suited®o the activity of so irrepressible a busybody. If aspiring Cesarism sinks under public con- demnation he has still had the satisfaction of playing a conspicuous partand humiliating Blaine, which, “if not victory, is yet re- venge.” Americans Should Discover America. The energy shown by Germany and Eng- land in fitting out expeditions for the North Pole, and the deep interest taken in the sub- ject by scientific men throughout the world: have not been lost upon the United States. Mr. Disraeli is enough of a sentimentalist in politics to know the value of such an achievement. If he can point to his administration and say that he extended the greatness of England, added to her renown and her empire, he will feel that he has won a new title to the affec- tions of his countrymen and to enduring fame. Prince Bismarck naturally wishes to show the world that the energies of Germany can be directed to other things than to preparing for war and quarrelling with the Pope. At the close of the Seven Years’ War Frederick the Great began to build a new palace. When he was remonstrated witn for spending the money of | an almost exhausted treasury for 8 work ot luxury he answered that he wished to show his brother kings that Prussia was not de- stroyed by the exertions of so many cam- paigns, and that he built bis palace as much for the moral effect on the minds of other nations as for his own gratification. A senti- ment of this kind may animate’ Prince Bis- marck, who, like Disraeli, looks toward the North Pole as the field for new discoveries and the advancement of the German name. America, by the courage and the enterprise of her sons, has done tco much in the North to sit quietly by while other nations come in and reap the glory of her achievements. Nat- urally, we feel that if any discoveries aro to be made in America Americans should make | them. This is our continent, and somehow we feel that it is almost an intrusion for other nations to quietly plan how they shall dis- cover and annex a portion of it But if we stand idly by and spend our time quarrelling over the ‘Force bill’’ and Louisiana scandals, the summer will come, the other expeditions will sail, and when the results are attained there will be a feeling of regret that the glories won by England and Germany had not been attained by th® United States. It is due to the administration to say | that the President is anxious to share in the attempt to discover the North Pole. Secretary Robeson, Admiral Porter and other high officers, have taken an active and prominent partin endeavoring to induce Congress to consent to an expedition. But a few hours are left in which anything can be done. The | cost is small; we have ships and men ready. A few thousand dollars—a sum General Gar- | field would willingly vote for pictures—would enable us to start on this errand of discovery as soon as England and Germany. We have men who have been to the Polar regions and We have gallant officers burning for an opportuvity to dis- tinguish themselves, and who would gladly add the peaceful glories of Arctic dis- | covery to the fiercer achievements of our civil | Let Congress, then, give the President Let cretary of the yar. the means of fitting out this expedition, it be under the control of the S | enter. | officers and subordinates in charge have been | diligent and faithful, and those who daily | Navy, and let him put at the head of the | scientific department Dr. Hayes, whose ex- | perienc this recognition. ‘Tue Guitiotrxe 1s at work in the Custom House. Dark days are coming upon the loyul republicans. Would it not be well for them all to join the democratic party, like Lieu- tenant Goyernor Dorsheimer, and become statesmen? troduced a bill in the State Senate restoring certain provisions in the Brooklyn city char- ter that were abolished in the interest of honest government. The fight of the people courage and genius entitle him to | New York and the Centennial. It is rather difficult for the American mind to look ahead. In this country we do so many things from day to day, and live from hand to mouth, and are so largely controlled by the immediate events of the hour that it is difficult to give attention to a duty which will not ripen for another year. This is probably one reason why the effort to direct the mind of our people to the approaching Centennial anniver- | sary of our independence and the coming In- ternational Exhibition bas not met with enthu- siastic success. There is no lack of real sym- pathy with the Centennial on the part of our people. New Yorkers were never wont to be laggard in anything contributing to the glory of their State. When the doors of the Exhibition buildings are thrown open we are confident that New York will make a display worthy of her position in the Union. The difficulty is that we shall begin to enter upon our preparations so late in the season that we shall either be crowded for space or make a crude and im- perfect exhibition. It would require at least a year for any country to thoroughly prepare its plans to take part in an exhibition like that proposed in Philadelphia; and, in fact, even a year is a very short time. What New York should do is to so display her resources@n this palace that all who come will see the source and reason of its greatness, what leads to its prosperity: its resources, its educational system, the products of its mines, its harvests, the value of its cities, the effectiveness of its canals and rail- way systems. New York city—an empire of itself in population and wealth— will demand a large space in the Centennial palace. The work to be done to prepare for this Exhibition must not be the | casual, furtive, spasmodic efforts of undisci- plined and badly directed private bodies. It should have an official head, and should act under the authority of the city and the State. We should have a State Centen- nial Commission of ourown. This commis- sion should be appointed by the Governor, and the State should grant it an appropria- tion. We should have a city Centennial Com- | mission also, appointed by the Mayor. The duty of these bodies should be to sce that the interests of the city of New York and the State have full consideration. It would be a mistake of the gravest character—it would be almost a crime— for us to allow the International Exhibi- tion to open in Philadelphia with rep- resentatives from all parts of the world, France, Germany, England, Sweden, even China and Japan vying with each other in the wealth of their display, and all the while New York meagre, un- attractive and forlorn. This will be the case unless we make haste to do now what must be done. Even Idaho is further advanced than New York, and California and San Francisco promise a better display. From Australia we have intelligence showing that the people of that far Continent, our younger cousin in the family ot English States, will proudly seek to e@late American greatness and show us what Englishmen have done in the wilds of the far Pacific seas. The Mel- bourn3 Age informs us that a commission has been appointed from Australia; that commu- nications have been interchanged with the governments of New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and New Zealand for the purpose of presenting the Aus- tralasian department in a single group. An appropriation of twenty-five thousand dol- lars has been voted, and among other things we are told that special attention will be given to the display of wine, ‘‘as a capital opportu- nity for infusing widespread knowledge of the excellence of Australian wines.” And so we might continue our illustrations, referring to the efforts of Sweden, Germany, England, and, in fact, of every country in Europe except Russia, to receive proper representation in the Exhibition. But all this time New York does nothing, and unless our people take the matter in hand, unless the Governor and the Mayor give it an official sanction, when the time comes for a display the country will re- joice in an exhibition worthy of American greatness, but mourn over the fact that the representation of the first State in the Union is unworthy of her wealth, her prosperity and her fame. The Verdict in the Bergen Tunnel Accident. The Coroner’s jury in the inquest on the body of the brakeman killed in the Bergen tunnel about ten days ago has acquitted the signalman, Braddon, of any criminal care- lessness or neglect of duty. entirely just, inasmuch as the accident could scarcely have been avoided under the existing regulations. The rule is that when a train has once emerged from the tunnel its exit must be signalled back to the point of entrance, before another train is allowed to This has heretofore been regarded asa sufficient precantion to insure against an acci- dent, and none had happened since its adoption up to the time of the recent occurrence. The use the roads that pass through the tunnel have felt entire —_ confidence in the management. The recent accident occurred through the uncoupling of the cars of a coal train that was passing through the tunnel, thus leaving the two rear cars of the train inside after the remainder had passed out. The next train, a passenger train on the Delaware and Lackawanna road, followed into the tunnel after the signal had bean given, | | and ran into the two cars of the coa] train that yemained inside the tunnel on the samo | track. of Brooklyn against the municipal ring was | only second in importance to the fight of the people of New York against the Tweed régime, and the victory won on the other side of the | river was mainly due to the triumph of reform nthis side. The Brooklyn “boss’’ would never have fallen if the greater ‘*boss’’ in New York had not fallen first. The present Brooklyn city charter was the result of the success of the reformers, It is now sought to undo the work of reform and to re- provisions of law that gave the city over to plunder. It is said that this ‘‘tink- ering” with the Brooklyn charter is favored by the very politicians who cry out so lustily against “charter tinkering’’ in the case of New York store those it is evident from this statement of facts that the precautions taken to insure against collisions in the tunnel, excellont as they are, need one addition. ‘It is necessary that the signalman should know when a train comes out of the tunnel that the whole of it is there, and that no cars have become disconnected inside af@d been left behind. This informae. tion could be secured by the simple process of the attachment of o special signal fl rlamp at the end of the last car of every train that enters the tunnel. The sig- nalman at the other end would await the appearance of this flag or lamp before send- ing back the signal that the train had passed out of the tunnel. simple additional precaution all risk of acci- dent could be avoided. The care and atten- tion bestowed on the safety of the trains pase- The verdict was | It seems to us that by this | of accidents at that point speak well for the management, and the suggestion we now make will no doubt receive proper considera- tion. The Investigation of Mr. Green. The investigation of Mr. Green began yesterday before the Law Committee of the Board of Aldermen. Mayor Hall gave some miscellaneous testimony, and among other things was examined as to the nature of the Heratp claims, about which Mr. Green made so emphatic a point in his recent manifesto. Upon this we have nothing to say, except that we never discuss our business affairs in public, and that when Mr. Green seriously alleges that the Henarp has one rule for dealing with the city and another for dealing with private persons, he shows his utter ignorance and unfitness for his place or for any place outside of a country grocery store. We shall not discuss our business rules with Mr. Green, and so faras his assaults upon us are concerned we have no feeling but silent contempt. Mr. Wales testified that Mr. Green's want of business and financial train- ing makes him an obstacle to the city’s growth and the good working of the city government. Mr, eeler, President of the Bureau of Taxes, criticised Mr. Green’s man- agement. Hon. John B. Haskins read an elaborate charge against the Comptroller, showing in detail his mismanagement and folly. Mr. Haskins’ concluding charge is worthy of attention:—‘‘That the said Andrew H. Green, by reason of his brusque and vulgar manners, obstinate, domineering and despotic character, lack of the instincts of the gentle- man, total want of'respect for his equals and superiors in official station, and his thorough unfitness in financial experience and ability, is wholly incapacitated as and for the it financial officer of this great city.’ - Haskins presents one of the strongest poifits made ugainst Mr. Green in the course of this whole inquiry. The value of the rosignation ot Mr. Van Nort was his refusal to remain in an office which placed him in an attitude of controversy and dissent, Mr. Van Nort pre- ferred to be a gentleman rather than an un- welcome officer. It would be well for Mr. Green to follow his example. “Constitutional Government” in Spain. Some time since we had a despatch an- nouncing that the new’ government had di- rected the banishment of Sefior Zorilla, the Prime Minister of Amadeus. A correspondent of the London Times gives us full particulars of this event. A picket of constables went to the house of the ex-Minister, placed him in arrest and sent him out of the country “with- out the least form of accusation or trial.”” His offence was that he had endeavored to organize the radicals or the old constitu- tional monarchists and the republicans into a party of opposition. He made overtures to Sefior Castelar, who feared that while the country was in a state of siege political action would be unwise, and as for himself, he would leave Spain. Other statesmen were approached, but with indifferent success. Sceiior Martos, another Minister of Amadeus, shared the opinions of Castelar. The government learned of this movement, arrested Sefior Zorilla aud ordered him to leave Spain. Sefior Castelar will follow him; and there will be no opposition to the new reign, simply because opposition will not be tolerated. Sefior Zorilla was never arepublican. We do not understand that he now belongs to that party. He was a men- ber of what is called the ‘‘radical” party, who believed in a constitutional monarchy, and was the Minister of Amadeus at the time of the abdication, When the Republic came into power he left Spain for Portugal. Any politi- cal movement that he would lead would look not to a republic, but to a constitutional mon- archy. The fact that a statesman so eminent and with principles so much in harmony with those expressed by the young King in Paris should be driven out of the country shows that the leaders of this new usurpation mean to hold Spain by force. When the Republic was in power, although it was ignored by other nations and was never a strong govern- ment, it had strength enough to invite every Spaniard to Spain. It recalled even as un- scrupulous a politician as Serrano, In doing this it is feared that 1t brought upon itself its dissolution, that those who accepted its cour- tesy hastened to strike it down. We cannot believe that any government really represents the best interests of the people which is not | strong enough to allow constitutional opposi- tion. If Alfonso is King of Spain by the will of the Spanish people he can invite Zorilla and his monarchists, Castelar and his republicans to unite in any party organization they please. But the ban- ishment of Sefior Zorilla and the probable banishment of all who took part in the recent Republic show the innate weakness of this monirchy and confirm the judgment we have always expressed that the accession of | postponement of revolution. is that when Spain again enters upon another revolution the leaders of the movement will be controlled by purposes as humane and pa- | triotic as those of Salmeron, Figueras and Castelar. What Wil Anna Dickinson Say? This fair amazon and glib-tongued advocate of woman's rights proposes to tell what she | thinks of the Beecher case to all who are will- ing to listen to her in Steinway Hall on Fri- day evening. For our part we would sooner hear Susan B. Anthony on the witness stand than Anna Dickinson on the platform. ‘To tractive maiden than Susan B, | and comely; she dresses fashionably and even daintily in her public appearances; whereas Miss Authony has long outlived her youth, never had any pretensions to beauty, and never gladdened the hearts of fashionable modistes by expensive purchases of their — frippery. But the plain Susan is supposed to p ne Turner's | subject not pi could at least tell whether Bessie romantic is true, that she was surprised in Tillon’s house sitting upon his knee. Dickinson, so far as the public knows, was never intimate in that wonderfal Tiiton house- hold, and why should she come before an | audience to tell what spe don’t know about its mysteries? Her sharp and piquant observa- tions will doubtless be very amusing, but they | ed up at second he or Prince Alfonso did nof mean peace, but a | Our best hope | **'"° be sure, as opinions go, Anna is a more at- | She is young | s some knowledge of the | Anna | outsider, Why should a young woman not destitute of good looks or of the feminine tastes which render her sex attractive go delving in this nauseous and noisome affair? Ifshe knows anything let her offer herself asa witness; if she knows nothing let her repress unmaidenly curiosity for forbidden knowl edge. ‘Where ignorance is bliss ‘tis folly to be wise,’’ and it is a step beyond propriety fora young lady to instruct others in things of which she ought to know nothing herself. The Rendition of Sharkey, derer. The case of theescaped murderer, Sharkey, which had almost faded from memory, had been revived by two recent events—the expo- sure of the ingratitude of the fugitive to the faithful woman who rescued him, temporarily it is to be hoped, from the gallows, and hid arrest at Havana ona charge of threatening to kill the captain and the purser of the steamer Crescent City. The original crime committed by Sharkey in this city—or, rather, the one for which he is now under sentence of death, for his whole career has been one of crime—was marked by cruel and aggravated features. His life is justly forfeited. to the law. The course of the man in Havana, which place he reached through the lack of vigilance in our police, shows that he is dangerous to society and unworthy of the Mure the sympathy even of those who have been his associates in crime. We have no extradition treaty with Spain, hence his rendition as a murderer and a fugitive from justige cannot be claimed by our government. Nevertheless there can be little question that the authorities in Cuba would gladly surrender him into the hands of our officers should the request be made of Spain as a matter of international comity. All the civilized world is interested in the pun+ ishment of such a wretch as Sharkey, and Secretary Fish should at once make a respect ful application to the Spanish government for his rendition. We have no doubt that sucky an application, setting forth the facts of the crime for which Sharkey stands under sen tence of death, would be successful. Tue Ornen Boy.—The news that the Prince Imperial has left school is very important. We have full accounts of this event in the Englirh papers. Royal boys are in the fashion now. One eighteen-year-old lad has resigned his tops and velocipedes to become King of Spain. Another imperial lad is toddling on to the sacred throne of China. The Spanish boy was born in 1857, and will be eighteen next November. The young Napoleon was born in 1856, and will be nineteen this month, Ac- cordingly, he is a year older than his royal brother, and we are glad to learn that he is number seven in his class, and the head of it in fencing and riding. So that if France wants a sovereign here is a new Emperor ready, on the verge of his nineteenth year, who can fence and ride, and who will, if allowed, ! doas much for France, ‘‘by the grace of God,”, as his royal brother Alfonso is doing for Spain. Tun Question of “head money,” on charging the ships that carry emigrants a larger price per head for each passenger,, came up before the Commissioners of Emi-. gration yesterday. Any policy that impedes: emigration is a mistake. We believe it was Mr. Justice Quinn who viewed ‘with alarm, the growing power of the Germans in New York;" but we can afford to be more liberal than the eminent Tammany jurist. We want to invite, not repel, the foreigner, and it would be as well if we had no head money whatever. Tre Investigation into the disaster in Dnane street continues. We await the ver- dict of the Coroner’s jury before expressing any final opinion on the subject. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Jonn of Gaunt paid his head gardener $1 20a month. Not much in Beecher’s first witness, except garrullty. Judge William L. Learned, of Albans, is sojourn. ing at the Gilsey House. Rochefort’s ‘Lantern’ still glimmers in Lon- don, but ts nearly burned out. fovernor . Straw, of New Hampshire, 19 lng at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Ex-Congressman 0. J: Dickey, of Pennsylvania, 1s among the lite arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General James Craig, President of the Hanntbal and Joseph Ratlway Company, 1s at tne St. Nicholas Hotel. ‘aptatn Alexander M. Miller and Quartermaster IM. J, of West Point, are quartered at the Union are Hotel. Dudock de Witt 1s a youthful traveller, who hag just leit Amsterdam, and whose madness 18 to go round the world on foot. The Gaceta Oficial, of Havana, has commenced the pubitcation of tae names of all persons who pald their taxes. 1ug0m Lalcom, of the New York Supreme iXth Judicial district, is registered rand Central Hotel. quin, singing in “Fayorita’ at the Parts ly escaped being Killed in pres: M. ;e near the audience by the sudden fall from ité | fastenings of the enormous drop curtain, which weighs over 500 pounds, M. Villemessant, of tue Paris Figaro, says that but for Chambord's letter about his white flag this dreadiul establishment of the Republic at Ver- satiles would never have come about. So Cham. bord did it. He is the first king this long time who has been of such service. ‘auk Burke, foreman ot Engime Company No, ed to help out of the ruins a fine Jellow crushed and half burted in St, Andrew’s church, But be said, ver mind me, Get the old lady out. Vil wait’? Hut the oid lady was dead; and this five fellow—Patrick Lavelle, aged twenty. five—if he lives wiil be a cripple. On the Boulevards Monunartre and Poisson‘ere, Paris, 500 persons pass every minute throughout the day—nearly hail @ million persons from morn. ing til night. Dr. Johnson said in bis ume twat “the high tide of human iife was at Caring a," but that ts a lonesome place compared to ard indice: Cros the point of the boul Miss Anna E. Dickinson 1s advertised to deliver a lecture at Stetiway Hall on Friday evening. The subject of the lecture Will be, “A Womints Opinion oF ite? In his addvess she will consider tt ai evil, Which now excites so much atten- tion throughous the civilized world, a woman's point of View. Miss Dick delivered this address in the West and in N ingland, and it created & profound impresston, Ata social gathering im f street, Albany, Jast evening, the venerabie Daniel Bryant, iu re- sponding to the toast, “Our Country,”? nommated for the Presidency the venerable Eph Horn. Mr. Horn regretted that he must decline, Mr. Bryant | appealed to him to withdraw his declination, | winding up bis remarks by paying a tribute to the late Silas Wright. Mr. Horn, bursting into basi ing through ¢ the Bergen | tunnel and | the rarity. will be, the mere comments of an uninitiated | said, “iaccept; Silas was my true friend,’ .