The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1875, Page 6

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The session which has just closed has been empty enough to deserve the plaudits of the democracy of forty years ago, one of whose favorite mottoes was, ‘The world is governed too much,” and another, “That is the best government which governs the least.” We are not disciples of that democratic school Within the scope of its functions it is the duty of government not to be passive and idle, but energetic and forecasting. To do nothing and let things drift is not statesmanship. If mere inaction be the highest wisdom why does the constitution require Congress to meet every year? Still, it is better to do nothing than to pass bad laws, and “all the tears lie in an onion’? which will be shed over the de- feat of some of the most prominent bills of this session. The country is to be congratu-~ lated that the odious Force bill, which passed the House, was not acted upon by the Senate. It is also gratifying that none of the subsidy bills got through. The defeat of the Bounty bill is another fortunate failure, The fact that Pinchback was not admitted to a seat in the Senate is another mercy which calls forthank- folness, Congress did comparatively little mischief during the late session; for although it passed the Civil Rights bill (with its worst feature, the school clause, stricken out), that act is so exposed to constitutional objections that the federal courts will probably set it aside. Such, at least, is the opinion of Senator Carpenter, a very able lawyer, whose speech on the subject was an admirable specimen of juridical logie fortified with citations of Su- preme Court decisions which seem fatal to the principle of the bill. The defunct Congress is to be arraigned chiefly for the things it failed todo, The depressed and stagnant condition of busi- ness required legislative remedies, but no measures of relief were passed by the Forty- third Congress either at its first or its second session. Its firstsession began within two months of the great panic of 1873, and all eyes were turned to it in hope and expectation. It remained in session from the beginning of December until the middle of June and did nothing to lift the country from its prostra- tion, The republican party paid a heavy penalty in the elections of last year, which swept it out of power in most of the State gov- ernments, gave its opponents control of the next House of Representatives, weakened it to a small majority in the Senate, and would have subverted its ascendancy in both houses had it not been for the long terms of two- thirds of the Senators. This staggering blow should have served as a warning. When Con- gress reassembled its republican majority should have recognized the necessity of doing something to resuscitate the business of the country. It might have recovered lost ground and strengthened itself immensely by wise measures of relief. But the session has ended without the passage of any law calculated to set the wheels of business again in motion. This is the most deplorable of its fail- ures, and the republican party will go into the elections of the pres- ent year with gloomier prospects and more disastrous results than in 1874 When the people are prosperous they are disposed to think favorably of the government. But when, after propitious seasons and excellent crops, they find themselves the victims of hard times, they are certain to vent their dis- content against the party in power which has done nothing for their relief. The republican majority seemed to have a glimmering of what was required of them when the session opened. They addressed themselves with commendable promptitude to the financial question—the great question of all in the present condition of the country. white paper on which itwas printed. All bankers, all business men, all financial writers, unanimously agree that it practically amounts to nothing, and that it leaves the currency and leaves business prospects in pre cisely the same condition in which it found — f From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day wili be warmer and | cloudy, with rain or snot. Watt Srreer Yesrzrpar.—Gold opened and closed at 115. The stock market was | excited and prices were irregnlar. Foreign ex- | change was steady. Moncey advanced on call to six per cent, but closed at three and four | per cent. Crvm Rrieurs have scored a victory in | Memphis. Four colored men were last night | admitted to seats in the theatre, the manager having abandoned the idea of contesting their | right in the court. Fraxcz anp Grrany.—France is very anxious about mounting her cavalry, and to that end sought to purchase horses in Ger- wany. The Germans have, however, no in- tention of aiding France to mount her war- riors, and so Kaiser William has issned a de- eree forbidding the exportation of horses. The flecree is, after all, of questionable wisdom, as France can get plenty of chargers outside | the Fatherland. | Tx Ice Buockape.—Fears are entertained that with the first rise in the Delaware River Port Jervis will be crushed by the moving ice. | People are already abandoning their houses on the river banks. Some experiments with small charges of gunpowder seem to have pro- duced no effect, but if the experiments were made on a larger scale important results | might be obtained. Charges of three pounds of powder cannot be expected to accomplish much. Why not try a charge of three hun- dred? Rarm Traxsrr.—The r + of the Alder- manic committee on this important subject deserves attention. All are agreed that the solution of the rapid transit question is one of vital importance to the interests of the ci There ia, however, a difference of to how the object can be best attained. The majority of the committees are of opinion that the city rail should be built by private cay but in case this is found impr ble the city is urged to step mand undertake the work. The minority think that a rapid transit railway can be best constructed by the city for the benefit of the people, basing their arguments on what has already been accom- plished in the Croton water, Erie Canal and Central Park undertakings. It is really of not much importance who builds the proposed road, so that itis done without unnecessary delav. {and the | them. It enacts that specie payment shall be resumed in 1879, but as it prescribes no measures for facilitating that result it is as idle and futile as ‘a bull against the comet." This worthless bill was passed by both houses and signed by the President at an early period of the session. The only other measure touching business interests is the Tariff and Tax bill, which became a law a few days ago. This last bill, instead of re lieving business, oppresses it with new bur- dens. Increased taxes on whiskey and tobacco anda ten per cent increase of the tariff, ex- tending through the whole range of duties, not only deranges and unsettles business cal- | culations, but obstructs trade by a necessary | increase of prices and a consequent narrowing of the market. sequence of the Tariff and Tax bill. object effectas a prediction. Such a bill isa prophecy, and an ill-boding prophecy, of continued and indefinite depression of business. The pre- vious rates of duties and taxes were amply suflicient to meet all the wants of the Treasury if business should revive between now meeting of the next Con- gress. The passage of such a bill is, therefore, a formal expression of the opinion of Congress that there is no prospect Its most | of a revival of business during the coming season. By the passage of this bill Congress has spread a wet blanket over the hopes of business community. The only excuse for such a bill is a belief that the business of the country is destined to remain in its pres- | ent stagnant condition ; fornothing 1s clearer | than thet the former taxes were sufficient, if | we could count upon an early resuscitation of trade and industry. The Tariff and Tax bill therefore, a confession by the republican rity that their past policy has not only trade, but that they have adopted no dial measures from which any good re- With this imbecite hopeless prospects they ple in the elections of the ma r sean be expected. and th must face the pe t year. ree! pre ne action of Congress on the exciting been befe hern quest h have equal it has displayed want of sa- gacity. It s fo the country that » is an utter lack of harmony between the republican President and the republican Congress, be ens the two houses of the republican Congress and between the republican members of the Lower House. The Force bill, which passed the Honse, failed in the Senate. It was an | administration measure, but the administra- But the bill they passed is not worth the | But this is not the worst con- | pable tendency lies in its discouraging | tion could not get an indorsement by its own | | party in Congress. Though it passed the | House the ablest republican members voted against it. Its history is a conspicuous proof of the disorganization and demoralization of the republican party in the last days of its power, Instead of moving as a compact and united phalanx, as it did m the reconstraction measures, the republican majority showed that they had no longer a common purpose, and that not evencaucus discipline could any longer briag them to act in harmony. Even the House mutinied against the President on the Arkansas question, and on the last day it stultified itself and condemned the President | by admitting the conservative member at large from Louisiana, thus confessing that | the conservatives carried the State in | the election of 1872, and, by necessery implication, deciding that Kellogg was not | elected Governor. There was never so dis | reputable and self-contradictory a muddle; never such a handle given to political oppo- nents for attacking a party with weapons sup- _ plied by itself. All the appropriation and supply bills were finally hurried through, so there will be no occasion for an extra session, which relieves the President, who does not wish to be de- pendent on his political enemies, and the democratic party, which wishes to see the | result of this year’s elections before commit- | ting itself to a definite policy. The President has no more power than he possessed at the beginning of the session. The Arkansas reso- lution of the House and its action in respect to Louisiana will stay his meddlesome hand in the affairs of those States, The country is tobe congratulated that this Congress has | done nothing to aid Grant in his aspirations | for a third term. Honors te Literary Men. Mr. Disraeli has not forgotten that his first steps to fame were through the flowery paths of literature. A novelist of no mean degree, a journalist in a quiet way, as he once remarked in a public speech, now that he has, to use Tennyson’s words, become one of those who Makes by force his merit known, Aud lives to clutch tne golden keys, ‘To mould a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne, he does not forget his colleagues in literature, To Oarlyle he has offered the cross of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Bath, and to Tennyson a baronetcy. These are very high honors. The Grand Commander of the Order of the Bath has been bestowed to a few people, to such men as Bulwer, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, Prince Napoleon, and is limited to only twenty-five for the civil service. It is the next in dignity tothe Orders of the Thistle and the Garter, and therefore when Carlyle declined ithe declined the highest honor, other than hereditary rank, that England could bestow upon him. The fact that Carlyle has no im- mediate descendants probably governed Mr. Disraeli in making him the offer, as a peerage would have been a barren compliment to an old man of nearly eighty, without children. Tennyson was offered a baronetcy, the same rank bestowed upon Scott, He has declined it, we understand, as much because he does not possess the fortune necessary to sustain the dignity as for any other reason, The reasons governing Carlyle in declining we do not know, but we can well understand the contempt this scorntul master of humor and invective would have for any mere gewgaw like the Collar of the Bath. He has also ex- pressed on occasion his dislike to the present Prime Minister. In one of his latest essays he speaks of Disraeli in the following fashion: — Nay, have notI a kind of secret satisfaction of the malicious or even of tne judicial kind (schaden- Jraude, “mischiel-joy,” the Germans caii it, but Teally it 18 justice-joy withal) that he tney call “Dizzy"? is to do it; that otner jugglers of an un- conscious an per type, having sold their poor iother’s bod. a mess O1 oOlticial pottage, this clever, consc! juggler steps in. “Soft, you, my honorable friends; 1 wit! weigh out the corpse of your mother (mother mine she never was, but only stepmother and mulen cow), and you shall have the pottage, not yours, you observe, but mine,” The superiative licbrew conjuror, binding ail the great lords, great parties, great interests of England to his band in this my country, and leading them by the nose like helpless, mesmer- ized, somnolent cattle to such issue —<did the world ever see Jlebile lvdibrium of such magnitude belore? Carlyle’s special grievance was the part Disraeli took in opposing the Reform bill. But it does seem strange for the Prime Minister | of England to offer the Order of the Bath to | a writer who denounced his ancestry and his honor in this terrific fashion. Carlyle and Tennyson are the two men in England who deserve the highest honors that can be paid to authors. They have not dishonored their calling by de- clining. When a man attains their eminence he is above such compliments. What peer- | age or what decoration would have added to the fame of Shakespeare? Who thinks of | Sir Walter Scott, toe baronet, and who has forgotten Scott, the novelist? Who cares about the peerage which fell upon the later | years of Macaulay? Bacon, the philosopher, | is an immortal name, while Lord Verulam, the | title of his peerage, is scarcely mentioned. It is a gracious thing, especially on the part of a Prime Minister like Disraeli, to bestow the | honors in his keeping upon citizensas worthy and illustrious as Carlyle ond Tennyson. At the same time we cannot but commend the wisdom which leads these gifted teachers to | prefer the honor that comes through genius to | any that can come throngh the hands of a | Queen, Tur Bercrer Trrat.—The proceedings in this remarkable trial were yesterday suspended | in consequence of the illness of one of the jurors. Most people would be very glad if | nothing more was ever heard of it. Tue Copan War.—The news from the | Cinco Villas is decidedly unfavorable to the | continuance of Spanish power. The govern- ment keeps silent in regard to the progress of the war, andsilence means defeat. So farasat present known the destruction of sugar estates | by the troops of Gomez has been enormous, and the crop is very likely to be comparatively small, as the destruction continnes. TIl suc- cess seers to attend the efforts of the author- ities to drive the insurgents across the Trocha. We are of opinion that they like their change of quarters and have made up their mind to stay. has been re d it is th would be surrendered on a demand hington. He is looked on with con- 1 cowardly raffian, and his conduct toward the woman who saved his worthless life bas created so strong a feeling against Suarkey, the murderer nish authorities, hima that the authorities at Havaua wouid, no | doubt, surrender him ona request being prop- | erly made, The Coming Ectipee. We furnish our realers elsewhere to-day with an account of the approaching eclipse of the san, which, it is said by competent as- tronomers, is likely to be the most important phenomenon of its kind to occur during the remainder of this century. Considered with reference to some other astronomic events, it is true even a total solar eclipse, as the com- ing one will be, is not of the highest conse- : : é j mi : tant scientific end aimed at and now hoped for, from eclipse observations, is the analysis of the san and the discovery of the wondertal constitution of ita flery mass. The study or in- vestigation of solar chemistry is, in itself, one 0: the most interesting of ali physical inquiries, and has become doably so since the epectro- scope has enabled us to test the materials in the solar atmosphere almost as accurately as if & specimen of the sun's mass could be ob- tained and subjected to a chemist’s laboratory | testa. The mind is awed by the mysterious affinity now known to exist between the earth and the for off planetary bodies It is ao discovery which stamps the whole planetary and stellar world as of one kindred im crea- tion, and as coming from one creative hand. There may be many varietics, buts substantial unity of constitution, and this is made more palpable to the eye when the solar spectra reveal the presence of metals, such as zinc and iron, which we daily handle, existing in an orb more than ninety millions of miles away energy in flames higher than the summits of Chimborazo, and even and metallic ores volatilized by the inconceivable heat, and we have some faint image of what the sun is and would appear to us could we approach it. As knowledge and reflection go on the mystery of the sun's heat, never abating in the long lapse of ages, be- comes growingly darker. A few years ago the great scientist Mayer undertook to show that the sustained solar heat was due to masses of meteoric bodies falling into and supplying fuel to its fires. But Sir William Thomson exploded that idea so completely (by showing that, under such a hypothesis, the sun’s mass would in two thousand years be so increased as to sensibly affect the earth's revolution and change the length of the year) that it has been abandoned. The same fate has overtaken many other solar hypotheses, which, for a time, carried all the scientific world after them, and the mysteries of the past, slightly modified by fragmentary dis- coveries, still rise up unsolved before the most profound researches of the age. The present attempt to photograph the eclipsed sun is to be directed mainly to the corona, or exterior envelope of glowing vapor, which has been called the solar atmosphere, The expeditionary parties will be well pre pared for their work and enter on the field with the best instrumental advantages ever possessed by any eclipse expedition. The most courteous hospitality has been offered them by the King of Siam, through whose | dominions the moon’s shadow will make its transit, and where alone, with the exception of a few insular stations in the Indian Ocean, | the eclipse will be visible on land. To the other instrumental appliances for such ob- servations, which have been accumulating many years, the astronomers, now en route for Siam, will add the siderostat, which gives im- mense effectiveness to their apparatus and puts thern on a vantage ground never before occupied by eclipse observers. It has been sadly and increasingly too com- mon of late years for the distinguished sci- entists who take part in such work to mar their labors by premature publication of their | theoretical conclusions, and by the still more unfortunate attempt to press these conclusions into the service of cosmical speculations. We have had in our day a surfeit of these wild. hypotheses secking to explain planetary gene+ sis and creation itself from the partial and but ill defined data the telescope and spectro- scope have afforded. But it is to be hoped we shall have hereafter less of this pretentious and profitless theorizing, and that the forth- | coming results of the Siam observations may | be studied in the interests of solid science. Tur Unvsvan Comprment paid to Mr. Blaine, the Speaker of the House during the Forty-third Congress, on the occasion of his retirement from the chair, was well deserved, | and will meet with the approbation of the country. Mr. Blaine has proved himself tobe the best Speaker we have had since the time of Henry Clay. his party, but never servile to it; respecting the majority, of course, but always protecting the minority; with an instant command of all the resources of parliamentary law; with | prudence, firmness and discretion, it was a graceful thing that a democrat like Mr. Potter shonld propose to honor him, and very fit | that the House should adopt Mr. Potter's mo- tion with enthusiasm. Tue Cxence Disaster.—The admission made by an agent of the insurance compa- nies that dangerous walls would be left stand- ing where t interest of the underwriters called for it gives a key to the ter- rible disaster which occured at St ‘Andrew's church, If the officials " d with looking after the welfare citizens did their duty as well and as fully as those employed by private firms for the protection of property such accidents would be of rare occurrence, But for some the rock | Able, prompt, decisive, bending | | neither to the right nor the left; remembering 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, Points of New Departure In considering what is best for the greatness of New York it is unwise to darken the dis- cussion by considering romantic schemes or impossible projects for ‘the advancement of the city.” History and common sense show that in the achievement of all great objects the simplest plan is the best. When Napoleon wished to defeat his enemy his way was to mass his own troops on one point, outnumber the enemy on a certain part of his line and destroy him. His genius was simple and di- rect and decisive, If we permit ourselves to be carried away by the discussion of elaborate schemes for the improvement of New York, a calculation of the untold millions necessary to accomplish it, we shall do nothing. We achieve great results by doing them and not by talk, In this work of improvement the simplest way is the easiest. | We should have rapid transit, and at once. | We have it already from Forty-second street to the Harlem River, and from the Battery to Thirty-fourth street. Why not connect these twolines? The Elevated Railway along Green- wich street is a serviceable road and daily grows in popularity. Commodore Vanderbilt's lines from Forty-second street are among the | best in the world, Why not, then, have rapid transit by extending the Elevated Railroad to Forty-fourth street, down Forty-fourth street to the Harlem depot, and there connect? This, of course, would only be a beginning, but it would be something. We wou!d then have | continuous steam communication from the | Battery to the upper end of the island; and, so for as the avenues are concerned, they | could be spanned by light, graceful bridges, | which might be more of an ornament than a disfigaration. ‘The next point is the repaving,of the streeta, beginning with Fifth avenue. There is no monument of Tweed’s misrule more conspicu- ous and offensive than the avenues as he left them. There are few, if any, cities so dis- | gracefully paved as this American metropolis. What with one experiment after another, _ badly conceived and corruptly executed— | poultices, plasters, chemical compositions, | preparations of wood and tar and cobble | stones—our avenues have been experimented with until they are now ruins. ‘The next point is the connection of New York with Long Istand and New Jersey by steam. The terrible winter through which we are now passing has tanght us that so long as the | Hudson and East rivers are only to be crossed by ferryboats there can be no home life fora | resident of New Jersey or Long Island whose business is in New York. No citizen can | feel when he leaves Brooklyn or Jersey City in the morning that he will re- turn egein im the evening, for our treacherous climate may block his way with ice or fog. Now, the greatness of New York requires that it should extend not merely to Westchester, but over to New Jersey and Long Island. Therefore, we sbould have a tunnel between Jersey City and New York, under the Hudson, enabling all the trains that come from the West and South to enter directly into our limits. Then we shonld have the completion of the Brooklyn bridge, so that steam trains could ran from the City Hall over to Long Island. We do not demand rapid transit for the benefit of this island alone, but from metropolitan reasons, believing that New York city is great enough to extend in all directions; that New Jersey, Long Island, Staten Isiand and West- chester are our natural suburbs, and that every citizen should be able to choose where he may live and be able to get to his home without interference or delay. These are the points of new departure which we commend to those who now control the destinies of New York—the tunnel, the bridge and the steam railways. If Governor | Tilden and Mayor Wickham can achieve these | results they will be remembered among the greatest benefactors of onr time. The “Back Pay” Bounty Bill. The most thoroughly disreputable trick ever attempted in a legislative body was per- petrated in the Senate yesterday, in connec- | tion with the Bounty bili. This bill, a mere | electioneering device to catch soldiers’ votes, was passed several days ago by the House and sent to the Senate. The republicans of the Senate did not approve it, but too many of them were disposed to offer incense on the altar of buncombe, and aimed to defeat it by process which would save them from re- | cording their votes directly against it, They | accordingly loaded it with amendments which they felt certain the House would not accept, and even then the vote on it was a tie, and it | barely passed the Senate by the casting vote of the Vice President. It went back to the House, which disagreed to the amendments, a8 was ference. The House part ot the committee, finding that the Senate part would yield noth- sented to adopt the Senate amendments. This | action was reported in due course to the House and to the Senate, the House accept- | ing the report of the committee of conference and the Senate voting to lay it on the table, | which, according to parliamentary rules, killed the bil. When a bill has been referred fate depends on the subsequent approval by each house of the report of the committee, When, therefore, the Senate laid the report on the table the bill was dead, | Butthe fact that the House part of the conference committee agreed to accept the amendments of the Senate furniehed an oppor- | tunity fora trick, and it is lamentable that Vice President Wilson stained a good record by lending himself as an instrument for ca ury- ing out this divcreditable manaurre. The | was that, as the Honse had accepted nents, the bill had passed and only needed the President's signature to make ita law. This would have been quite true if the House had concurred in the amend- ceived the bill back from the Senate, but whea it had expressed its dix pretence the 8 ate’s om’ ments when it rec sent by a formal vote the status of the bill was entirely changed. After it was sent toa conference cowmittee it bad to teke the course of all bills thus referred, and could reach the President only after the action of the commit- | tee had been accepted by both houses. This rule was wantonly and disgracefally unezplained reason the public interest is con- | violated, and Vice President Wilson, yielding | stantly sacrificed to that of wealthy privote to the sophistry of the tricksters, signed « | corporations, How does this happen? | bill as having passed the Senate which that expected and de- | sired. The result was a committee of con- body had 8 few minutes before deliberately rejected by s majority of six, Hoe must have known that he was contravening the declared will of the Senate, and ought to have knowa that the Senate ceased to be bound by its former action on the bill as soon as the House disagreed to its amendments and the bill was sent to a committee of conference. The Senate was as free to reject the action of this committee of conference as it would have been to reject that of any other similar com- mittee, and Mr. Wilson's friends have reason -to be pained and mortified that he stooped tc be a party to such a trick in violation of par liamentary rules and against the deliberat« action of the body of which he is the presiding officer. Fortunately, President Grant was too well advised to fall into this base trap. He prop erly refused to sign a bill which came to bim in so irregular a manner, and the Bounty bill is as dead as it the Vico President had not acted on a hasty impulse and become the'tool of such a demagogue as Logan. We are glad of this opportunity to commend the sound judgment and wise action of President Grant, Joun Mrrcrer has again been nominated by his friends as a candidate for Parliament from Tipperary. As there is no possibility of his taking his seat if he should be again returned, and as it is understood that he would not qualify by taking the oath of allegiance even if a pardon by the Crown should open the doors of Parliament to him, his conduct seems more like that of a petulant woman than of a sensible, practical man. He cannot even spite the British government by his refractory course, for Mr, Dismeli loses nothing by having one of the opposition seats vacant. The fact that tho other Irish seats are filled by members in full sympathy with their Irish constituencies shows that Mitchel is not pursuing a course which any considerable portion of his countrymen ap. prove, and we cannot seo that his passion fos notoriety is likely tobe of any benefit to Ireland. If it is his policy to promote the secession of the Irish people from English tule he might learn a lesson from his old friends in the Confederate States, who would have scorned to solicit votes fora seat in the federal Congress after they had decided to dissolve the Union. Mx. Bovcrcauit.—An advertisement, else where printed, shows the character of the compliment that will be paid to Mr. Bouci- cault at Wallack’s Theatre on Saturday even- ing. There will be a presentation, a speech from Judge Brady, and other gracetul courte- sies to this admirable actor and author. The names of the men who unite in this testimo- nial will indicate its value. Mr. Boucicault bas earned it, not alone by the creation ot ‘‘The Shaughraun,” but by many years ot earnest effort to elevate the comedy and by the crea- tion of o new school of dramatic art. It comes most fitly now, when there are so many attempts, not alone to deprive him of the ad- vantage of his work, but to deny him any merit whatever. Scaliger sala, “Whoever walks in the sunshine of fame must be fol- lowed by the shadows of envy.” The shadows have followed Mr. Boucicault certainly, but he will feel on Saturday evening that New York can recognize and honor true genius and patient work. Porrcz Momaxaczment.—The case of Jacob Stockvis is likely to throw some importani light on the management of our police courta and public prisons. It is not very creditable to the administration of justice that outrages like that which cost Jacob Stockvis his life ean occur under the very eyes of our courts and in the very department of the city govern. ment which is supposed to watch over and protect the citizens. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Miss Annie Louise Cary ts residing at the Everett House. Senator Andrew Johnson arrived in Washington yesterday. The workingmen of Rome Bave given General Garibaldi a banquet, Lieutenant Commander B. H. Mcvalla, Unitea States Navy, 18 quartered at the Glennam Hotel, Captain W. W. Kiddie, of the steamship Celtiq, has taken up bis residence at the Glenham Hote, The Khédive has instructed Dr. Schweinfurth to organize an African Geographical Society in Egypt. Jonn M. Douglas, acting President of tho Illinois Central Rallway Company, 1s staying at the Bre- voort House, Congressman George F. Hoar and ex-Congress- man E.R. floar, of Massachusetts, and ex-Con- gressman W. fl. Barnum, of Connecticut, arrived from Washington last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. A caple @espaten, dated In Rome yesterday, stating that the report that Count Corti, Minister | Plenipotentiary of Italy, 18 to be transferred from | } Washington to London, is contradicted on au- thorliy. M. Julien, & Prench railway director, be- | queathed 50,000 tranes to the employés of the com- ing, receded from their opposition and con- | to a conference committee there is no clearer | | or better established principle than that its pany during his time. The legatees number 24,000, #0 that each of them only receives thirty-seven or thirty-eight sous, It bas been announced that Prince de Bismarck purposes going to bis estate tn Lauenburg, re- maining there the whole of the summer, in order to re-establish bis health, which, tt is known, isin actory state. wad Cordon of the Spanish Order of the ie Ladies of Marie Louise, which King Alfonso has sent to the Dachess of Magenta, Mme. Mace Manton, Was cooferred on Mme. Thiers in 1541 and on Mme. Emile Olivier in 1870, ongressman-elect Wiliam *. King, of Minnesota, who Was charged with having received $125,900 of the Pacife Mati brivery fund while acting as Post master of the Mouse of Representatives, arrived on this city last evening from Canada, and ts at the Windsor Hotel. ‘The Himess of Oliver Chariick is regarded as very erit indeed, and th little, if any, whl ever be oat n or be able to ness even at his residence. His wpdersiood, give no enconrage. nd nis death may de announced ment wh at any mowe Alexander Dumas was Waited apor oy a poor wretch commended to him for assistonce ; t poor wretch was Uney. “itave you m ” or” he watd n end woen ¢ “Yes, and alt dytag of manger.” ever send any to me unless they are dying of fovsta Will n whi g She bas alroaay , bus * iusste 6 long While, nnd BOW Is ty me seller to imvent a story in ¢ snaven, as was Qoue fet long simce im regard to the Emprew of Austria ‘That honorable Eagived major, brother to a pecr, who cheare Mice, might have gouc ow salely but for ant water, This person, | im clearing ap the room, found on the tabios and the foor more cards than made up the Bumber of Tole Was mentioned, ond led ta j inquiry and investigation, and then led to the ebarper.