The New York Herald Newspaper, March 7, 1875, Page 8

8 ——_ NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New Yorx Herarp will be gent free of postage. —-—____ All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yor | Henao. Rejected communications will not be re- | tured. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and rece as in New York. advertisements will be dand forwarded on the same terms VOLUME } AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW, cate ns a BOOTHS THEATRE, orner of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue — BNeY V.,ac3P. M.; closes ati’. a Mr. Riguoid. METROPOLITAN THEATE Pg 585 Broadway.—VARI&TY, at $V. M oses at 10:05 SAN PRAX( reps Broadway. -NEGRO #ixteenth street. —B » Mr, Closes at LU 15 P. TIVOLI THE | ighth street, be ween second VARLOTY, Ua P. M5 WALLAC i} Broadway THI SHAUGHRACS, at closes at Wawra Mir, Boucicault. MRS. 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Fourteenth atsl M., COLOSSEUM, Broadway and Thirty-tourth st ‘Two exbivitions daily, at 2 aud QUADRUPLE SHEET. SUNDAY. “MARCH 7, 1875, —PARIS BY NIGHT, M. NEW YORK, From our reports this Barua the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cloudy, with rain or snow and colder temy perature. Watt Srreet Yesrenpay.—Stocks were ‘buoyant and active. Goid opened and closed at 115. Money on call was abundant at 23 and 3 per cent. Coroner Kessuze 1s in possession of im- portant testimony in the Stockvis case, which " will be presented at the inquest on Tuesday. A CorresponpEeNT informs us to-day that the world is hollow. Of this philosophers haye long been aware, and also thar it is stuffed with sawdust. Tae Porrricar Coxprrion of Montevideo is not enviable, as our letter from that capital in- dicates. It seems difficult for the South Ameri- can people to hold an election without having a revolution. Tae Penorie Bex before the Legislature to prohibit conspiracies is bitterly opposed by workingmen, who consider it a measure against trade unions The resolutions else- where printed show the plan of action they propose. Tae Presrpent, it is said, intends to abol- ish the civil service rules because of the fail- ure of Congress to adopt his suggestions. Very good. Long ago he abolished the sub- stance of reform, and there is no use in troubling the country with the shadow. Tue Frexco Present has not yet com- pleted his Cabinet. M. Dufaure will, it is said, attempt the task of constituting a Ministry should M. Bnffet fail. MacMahon finds the politicians and placemen consider- able of a puzzle. They do not ‘fall in’ and Stake close order” so readily as did his troops in Algeria, Tax War Ba is still waged with the utmost resolution, we had almost said ferocity, by the Spaniards and the insurgents. The contending forces battle along the line on apparently every opportunity. Numbers of brave men are killed on each oc on, as will be seen by our telegram from Havana, on both sides. ia Onto is disposed to honor old age. If Senator Wade is the republican candidate for Governor, and Governor Allen is renominated by the democrats, their united ages will be more than a century and a balf. It might be called a centennial exhibition. Yet these old gentlemen have more energy than the young men, as their successes prove. Toe Cavncu Disaster. — The testimony caken yesterday in the inquest before Coroner Erckhoff was that of the officials of the De- | pertment of Buildings, and shows that the | department is of no use to the public and nly of value as a machine for paying sala- fies. According to their own statement these entlemen are the most Leipiess lot of officials Qn record. . | a Bowery business house, applied to a judge | the Charity Hospital, where he died, and was | his wife, who afterward made the discovery ‘| man of property, was arrested for ntoxica- | orderly of "| injuries of which he died. | sickening shudder through all humane hearts | suggesting remedies. | collateral subject of great interest to philan- ; and vying with one another in this noble work. | tional institutions are generatly conscientious gakuen SE i ct ca itch Ba a im hie el NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1875.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. \ The Chi bie and Penal tions of the City. The heartless neglect and brutality to Institu- Blackwell's Island is the latest of a long series | ot similar outrages which have been coming to the public knowledge and‘ shocking the humane feelings of the community for a long period. We present in another column a | atrocious of these cases. at these revolting recitals in this place. One of the most shocking is the case of Eliza Collius, &@ few months since. This your woman Was sent to the Smallpox Hospital by ignorant or careless city physicians, although it turned out that she did not have that dis- ease, and while detained there one of the | keepers or orderlies forcibly subjected her to the grossest abuse which can be practised | upon her sex. The cases are numerous in which helpless people have lost their lives by the brutatity of policemen or of employes i the public institutions, and been huddled into unmarked graves in the Potter's Fieid, without any pains to identity them, inform their friends or preserve any clew by which their bodies could be recovered. Mrs. Samnel G. Ward, the wife of the foreman in | to bave her husband arrested and taken to the | Inebriate Asylum. The arrest was made ; | he was put, temporarily, in the Workhouse ; was suddenly taken sick there, transferred to buried as a pauper, witbout the knowledge of by inqniring after him at the Inebriate Asylum, where she supposed he was. Na-" thanicl French, Grand Master of Masons, a tion, put mto the Charity Hospital, where he died, and was buried in a trench, with no means taken for his identification, which would have been easy. John Thompson, para- lyzed in both legs, was gouged by an the Charity Hospital, inflicting Dennis S. Sullivan was found sick street and taken to the Park Hospital; he died; was buried in the Potter's Field, al- though papers on nis person afforded means of identification. In one case a man arrested for intoxication was pitched headlong down the stairs of the station house by a brutal policeman and died a few minutes after. At Essex Market a poor man was put into a cold celland frozen to death, These cases are | specimens. They are enough to send a and excite general indignation at the manage- ment of our city institutions. We call atten- | tion to this painful subject for the purpose of But before offering any opinion on the main question we venture to make a remark on a thr no ic city and religious people. There is in the world where private liberality in behalf of the unfortunate is so active as here in New York, } especially among our various religious de- no! ions. The Catholics, all the various | Protestant communions, and even beyond the circle of Christianity, the Hebrews, have | their institutions of charity founded by pri- vate munificence and denominational feeling, ‘Thousands of the unfortunate find relief and | succor every yearin these asylums, who would otherwise be sent to the public institutions to | receive such treatment as is there bestowed upon the heirs of misery. The question, so much discussed in recent years, as to the | propriety of giving public aid to these de- nominational and other private charities, which poor Mr. Stockvis fell a victim on | | compendious bistory of some of ‘the most | We will only glance | The father of | in the | ¥ countries, The explanation lies partly in the tact that the immediate managers of such institutions are generally coarse and vulgar people, taken from the lower strata of politics; | partly in the fact that a majority of the un- | | fortunate inmates are supposed to have no | | friends, and may, therefore, safely be kicked, | and partly in the fact that so many of them | owe their misfortunes to their vices, that the | habit of dealing with vicious and repulsive | | people has @ tendency to harden the hearts | | and deaden the sensibilities of keepers and | to hope that this class of abuses will ever | be remedied by official action. When John | Howard--one of the brightest names on | the roll of life to mitigating tne condition of prisoners, he unveiled a hideous state of facts, at which the humane part of mankind recoiled with inexpressible disgust and horror. It | was he that gave the first impulse to the ef- ,| forts for ameliorating the treatment of people in such institutions; but a great part of the work still remains to be done. ‘Lhe novelist Dickens, whose pages are, perhaps, over; charged with melodramatic sentimentality, | opened a new field tor reformers by his | graphic pictures of brutality in the English almshouses, showing that the prison discipline societies had only attacked one of two great kindred evils. Institutions of so-called charity harbor the same kind of abuses, and for perfectly similar reasons that have always prevailed in the management of prisons. So large a proportion of the inmates of both are base, repulsive people, without protecting friends to intercede for them, that a habit is naturally generated of treating the whole class as if they were brates, and their only security against outrage must come from philanthropic organization outside the routine of official management. Profoundly impressed with this view, which the whole history of the prison discipline efferts and other similar movements since the time of Howard abundantly confirms, we ven- | ture to suggest to that part of this great com- munity who take an active interest in the un- fortunate whether it is not a Christian duty to organize two voluntary associations, under | legislative protection, for securing humane treatment of people committed to the mercy of our city institutions. One of these humane associations should have especial relation to the city police, and assume a field of labor similar to that of the Prison Discipline Society, which is prosecuting so praiseworthy a work in connection with the prisons, peni- tentiaries and jails of the State. Such an as- sociation should be clothed by the Legislature with full powers of inquiry into the action of the police in the streets and especially in the station houses. Its supervisory inter- est would operate as a great restraint on abuses, and by exposing them when they occurred and bringing them in a forcible manner to the attention of the public authori- ties they would create a wholesome fear in the minds of men who too easily give way to their brutal and unbridled passions. We cannot doubt that some of our first citizens would consent to act in such an association, as citizens of the State of the highest eminence are members of the Prison Discipline Society. The other association which we recommend "| | | should be organized on the same model, with reference to the management of our public institutions of charity. One of its great ad- vantages would be to convince the keepers of these institutions that every inmate had pow- erful and influential friends who would look after his treatment with as constant a vigi- lance as is practised by influential relatives in attendants. We tear there is little reason |. philanthropy—devoted — his Israelites and the more sure Retuge of sinners; | and also about Paul and the Philippian | jailerss remarkable interview, which has | awakened in so many souls during the centu- ries passed a desire for the new life which that jailer found. Mr. Alger will endegvor to | loose some bounds on the Sabbath day, and Mr. Terry will bring the millennium near in | spirit to every waiting Christian heart. And thus shall the Gospel be preache@ to-day from the pulpits of our city. 1 An Inharmonious Government. | The agitation in local circles and in Albany | in reference to the heads of departments in | New York, the misunderstanding betwoen | Governor Tilden and Mayor Wickham, the | extraordinary attitude held by Comptroller Green, the schemes of Senator Fox and others | to contrive a new plan of government for | the city, all show the folly of attempt- jing .to govern New York upon any theory except that the will of the people should in all respects be obeyed. No form of government is simpler than a republican. Whpever we have the functions of authority based upon republican ideas the machinery runs smoothly. Whenever we have an at- tempt to tinker or change or misdirect the government for personal or political ends wo have trouble. Nothing is more simple than to properly govern New York. The constitution divides the city from the State, and gives to each a peculiar and independent authority. Here we have nearly a million of people. . They are perfectly competent to say who shall execute the laws, minister to our wants or add to our metropolitan greatness. They are far more competent to do this than, any squad of country politicians sitting through a winter session at Albany. New York is a home, and-we take that pride in its government which the pa- triotic citizen always feels in his home. What we expected at the last election, especially when the democratic party made an ostenta- tious profession of ‘home rule,’’ was that the people of New York should enter upon the government of the metropolis. We had hoped that the interference of Albany in our affairs had ceased; that the Mayor would be regarded as our chief magistrate, and that there would be no interference with him on the part of the Governor, except when necessary to prevent maladministration; so long as the Mayor did his duty the Governor would let him do it, and not interfere in the minor details by a policy of irritation. In these hopes we have been disappointed. New York is as mucha dependency of Albany as it was in other days. The Mayor governs New York, not in obe- dience to his oath, but as a satrap of Governor Tilden. The heads of de- partments are in mutiny. Mr. Green scowls and glowers at his colleagues as though they were midnight burglars making an assault upon the treasury and he alone was responsible for the virtue of New York. Mr. Van Nort has no sympathy with the democratic party, disdains even to pro- fess an allegiance to the Mayor and resigns his office. Mr. Delafield Smith has been held in abeyance for two months. During that time his office has been paralyzed. The absence of any central authority to seize and wield these elements is painfully felt. From day to day the difficulty grows worse. The natural expectations of the people have been disappointed. We look for rapid transit and we do not find a single step in that direction. We expected Mr. Kelly, Mayor Wickham and Governor Tilden—the three men who are now in control of the city and State of New York—to mature a plan that the case of particular persons. We commend these suggestions to the thoughtful considera- tion of the benevolent. onght to be considered as solved and settled by the stariling revelations from time to time made of the shocking brutality practised in the public institutions. It cannot be dis- puted that, in proportion as the denomina- tional charities are dwarfed and crippled by thronged and overcrowded, and abuses and | outrages be multiplied by the unwieldiness | which does not admit of minute supervision. The religious and private charities subdivide | the work and bring it intoa more manageable | form. They have a still greater advantage. | The founders, promoters and most liberal supporters of the private charities are persons | prompted by philanthropic or religious mo- | tives, who take a trnly compassionate interest in the relief of the afflicted. They accordingly | exercise an enlightened personal supervision of { the institutions planted by their care and | matured by their beneficence, which is the best safeguard against such abuses as creep | into the management of vulgar, heartless offi- cers appointed as a reward for party servites. The attendants and servants in the denomina- persons in decayed circumstances, who are put in these positions of trust on the recommen- dation of clergymen who know them and can | youch for their kindness, assiduity and | sympathizing interest in the unfortunate. Every true philanthropist must wish to see the private institutions built up and strengthened and the field of the public institutions narrowed as tar as is prac- ticable. The public aid given to the private and religious eleemosynary insti- ©, tutions is in the interest of economy | as well as of humanity. If the denomi- | national charities were starved into weakness | by a niggardly policy the public provision for | the unfortunate would have to be extended on | a gigantic scale, to the great loss of the city | treasury. The main support of the private | institutions comes from the voluntary dona- | tions of the benevolent, and the partial aid given them out of the taxes is the cheapest form of provision that can be made for large | classes, the whole burden of whose support | would otherwise fall upon the city. Buteven | if the cost were equal, even if the cost were | greater, the certainty of kind and humane | treatment in the private institutions ought to settle the question. | But when the noble and disinterested pri- vate and religious charities have done their utmost there will still always remain a large contingent of the miserable care of by the public is, therefore, a matter of deep that measures be adopted to prevent abuses and viola ions of humanity in the manage- ment of the city institutions. There is no | department of public life which has been, from time immemorial, such a nest of abuses | and outrages os the institutions for relieving | the wretched and the penal institutions of all to institutic It interest be taken | Tainted Legislation, The inquiry into the change of the text of the bill to pave Fifth avenue—a | change made by some subordinate in the in- | terest of jobbery and corruption—is only | want of means, the city institutions will be | another evidence of the reckless character of our legislation and of the influences which are now permitted to decide solemn ques- tions. Here was a bill proposing to givea valuable franchise to a company of private citizens. Yet, without asking the vote of the Legislature, nay, while a vote was pending, some friend of the bill changed its whole meaning, in the hope that it would thus pass without scrutiny. This is not the only scandal | of thiskind. We saw the Bounty bill “pass” in the same way, by a trick, and secure the Vice President's signature. It would now be a law but for the firmness and honesty of President Grant. The effect of these scandals is to taint legis- will be of as great advantage to the city as the opening of the Erie Canal was tothe State. If these men had been statesmen in the higher sense, if they had been simply shrewd, com- mon-sense men of business, looking keenly after their own fame and the interests of their own party, they would have made rapid tran- sit their first duty after ascending to power. And so with other questions of public improve- ment—neglected, forgotten, in the scramble for office, in the aspirations for the Presidency, in the schemes for party control—the new ad- ministration seems destined to drift into the old Tammany ruts, which led it to disaster. Instead of statesmanship we have—to use an expressive English word—‘‘shilly-shally."’ The democratic party is on trial in New York. -By its success or failure here its claim to con- trol the country at the next Presidential elec- tion will be largely judged. Thus far it has done nothing but quarrel and talk. Its best friends, those who welcomed it into power as the champion of reiorm, begin to fear that we are no better off now than under the old republican régime, lation. A measure that cannot pass without fraud must be unwholesome. Our Fifth avenue poultice manufacturers lead us to fear that there is more corruption in their measure than we supposed. Let the investigation be thorough, and if the guilty party is found let the punishment be exemplary and prompt. Pulpit Topies To-Day. ; The conceptions of God by human hearts and minds are so varied that Mr. Hawthorne will be justified to-day in inquiring whether or not God isa tender Father or a gloomy tyrant. There is a style of religion so morose ‘and sour that no man who enjoys a worldly life at all would exchange his simple pleasures for that which is called divine and godlike, Men are constantly looking for joy and pleas- ure in life; tarnishes everything it touches. It must be | what Mr. Alger calls “Irreligious Religion,” concerning which he will speak this evening. There can be in it none of that self-denial which Mr. Walker will exalt, nor any meat for men which Dr. Deems will offer to the bun- gry and thirsty souls to-day. Indeed, we believe Mr. Thomas might incorporate it as one of the chief obstacles in the way of saving the masses when he makes out his list ot such obstacles; for we doubt not such a caricature of the religion of Christ does more to grieve the Holy Spirit than many actual but this sour godliness taints and | of the Civil Act. Already the Civil Rights law has resulted in petty troubles at the South—troubles of both submission and resistance. In Chatta- nooga the proprietors of two hotels have sur- rendered their licenses rather than take negro boarders. In Wilmington, N. C., a saloon keeper was arrested for refusing to sell rum toacolored man, but released by the Com- missioner on the ground that the law did not apply to barrooms. In Washington a colored barber declined to shavé two colored breth- First Effects Rights served the honor of his razor. In Louisville doubt, the list of such events will be rapidly extended. But we do not see avy indi- cation of serious disturbances. lers will not suffer from the want of hotels, negroes will find plenty of oppor- tunities to get drunk, colored beards will be shaved as well os white beards and the drama will survive its dangers. But how Mr. Samner might have laughed could he have foreseen this end ot his dearest measure! The revolution he proposed has ended in a farce, The schools are shut against his colored clients, and even the theatres, barrooms and barber shops are not open to them. ‘The bill transgressions of the ungodly. With such a type of Christianity before him we dare say Mr. Pullman would be forced almost to modify his beliet in universal salvation and to admit that there is but the barest shadow of hope tor the human race either here or hereatt The bondage of sour godliness is ly worse than the bondage which he will coudemn this evening. ‘The advice ot the Apostle Paul, which Dr. Deems will repeat to-day, is worthy of consid- eration—iet no man glory in men. Mr. Mac- , Arthur will speak of the cities of refuge of tho er. of fashion | | introduced into the Virginia Legisiature pro- poses to nullify the law, but we think that social influences will operate more effectually in the end. Tur Compiement Paro 10 Mr. Boucicacit | last night by the citizens of New York was of no ordinary character, |ings at the presentation of the | timonial at Wallack’s Theatre in the best taste and attended with sincere en- thusiasm, Of such honors as these the cele- | brated actor and @uthor may well be proud, ren, on the ground that only gentlemen de- | Travel- | and the proceed- | tes- | were | The Dramatic Season, In one of our theatrical items lately there was astatement that ‘“Heury ViIL” had proved ‘‘s total failure’ at a Western theatre, even with Miss Cushman aos Queen Katharine, “owing to the poverty of the cast.’ There is no business subject to so many fluctuations a3 theatres. Yet there is probably no calling as certain to succeed if it is well done. The mis- fortune of most theatrical managers is that they rest their plays upon some single point of attraction—a pretty face, or a fine voice, or a collection of ballet dancers—selecting for the remainder of the company worthless per- sons. The result is that people who go to the theatre are annoyed by the exhibition of awkwardness, ignorance or bad taste. The per- formance is stupid and is naturally oban- doned. There is scarcely an instance of a good play well pertormed that does not succeed. When a theatre obtains a reputation for bad playing success is almost impossible under even the best of conditions. Of course there are times when depression in business and the intervention of religious seasons may dimin- ish the profits of theatrical prosperity, as they do other forms of business. Asa gene- ral rule not even Charlotte Cushman could save a play which is badly supported. This is ag it should be. Mme. Ristori, great as she is, would lose much of her marvellous power if she were not supported well, This wonder- ful actress, the greatest and most illustrious on the stage, who is now closing a memorable career, shows how much even gonius is aided by sterling, honest support. In New York the great success of Wallack’s Theatre arises trom the fact that there is always a good play upon the stage and good people to act it. The “Shaughraun”’ rests largely upon the felicitous genius of Mr. Boucicault, who has made the character of the vagabond Irishman as much a creation as Rip Van Winkle or Micawber. But apart from Mr. Bouci- cault there are several actors’ in the cast who would save the comedy from a failure. If the principal part should by any chance tall into hands of less genius than Mr. Bouci- cault the company would be strong enough to carry the play successfully. In ‘‘Henry V.,"" which is now in the full tide of success at Booth’s, and is the finest Shakespeanan play we have had since Mr. Booth revived “Hamlet,” we see the value of a strong com- pany and stage attractions in the way of scenery. So with Daly's admirable theatre, with its company as strong, perhaps, as any in the country. These theatres may have their rainy days, their sunshiny season, good times and bad times ; but all the yearground, as a general thing, » good company will bring good audiencess The public is not & harsh master by any means, but will always pay well for good work, theatrical or otherwise. Miss Dickinsom in the Lecture Room. Miss Anna E. Dickinson ranks among the moat refined and the most sensible of the female lecturers of the day. An earnest.and vigorous champion ot the principles she up- holds, she is, nevertheless, conservative in her views and free trom those exaggerated and repulsive sentiments eniertained or affected by many of the women who claim to belong to the same school. Wuen Miss Dickinson appears before an audience we may? be certain that she will advance no opinions that can be offensive to good taste and utter no words to which a lady can ob- ject to listen. If objections are made to her teachings they are such as judgment dictates and not such ag decency and self-respect render imperative, It is the misfortune of Miss Dickinson and others of her standing that they are too commonly confounded with the advocates of free love and similar re- pulsive doctrines, while in fact they are women of pure thoughts and virtuous lives, and have nothing in common with such as the public advocate of social reforms passes out of her legitimate sphere and forfeits something of her womanly character. To such all lady lecturers and orators are alike objectionabie. But time is gradually remov- ing the prejudice that prevailed so strongly a few years ago against female public speakers, and an intelligent assemblage can now listen to Miss Dickinson without any idea that either the lecturer or the audience are occupying an incongruous position. When Miss Dickinson appeared at Steinway Hall on last Friday evening to deliver her lec- tureon ‘‘A Woman's Opinion of It” many per- sons supposed that the audience were to be entertained by a dissection of the foul carcase of the Brooklyn scandal. Such was not to be the case, as those who know Miss Dickin- son foresaw. .The subject of the discourse was the injustice and the practical evil of treating as only trivial indiscretions on the part of a man those acts that when com- mitted by a woman are regarded as mortal crimes, bringing ruin and misery | on households and closing the doors of society against the offending party. A cer- tain class of temale lecturers use this dis- tinction between the responsibility exacted of the sexes to justify or excuse inunorality in woman. Miss Dickinson, on the contrary, avails herself of the argument to demand a bigber standard of morliaty among men. She | points to the terrible consequences of a | a colored barber was refused a seat in the | first circle of a place of amusement, and, no | woman's fall to show that the man who en- compasses her ruin commits a feartul crime, | instead of a mere venial off-nce, and not for the purpose of shielding the woman from the | punishment due to her sin. In tact, her | object is to make man better, and not to make woman worse. In this view of the subject Miss Dickinson must have the approval of all moral minds, whatever degree of success may attend her efforts to heighten the stand- ard of virtue in the stronger sex. Gexzrat Revrer will be felt from the news that the differences between the first and second kings of Siam have been satisfactorily adjusted. Nothing is yet known of the trou- ble between the third and fourth kings, but there i8 every reason to hope that the honoss of their majesties wili be easy. What an ex- | ample do the kings of Siam presensto Messrs. Batcheller and Wood! Can we not hope to receiv welcome news from Albany as we lave just had from Siain? Famine devours the Easy and there is no portion ot the world in which it is more | devastating than in Asia. We can hardly un- derstand in this country how in one district \ of Asia Miuor fwonty thousand per- characters. Many persons are of opinion that | the female who puts herself before the worid | { thousand should It iy not the sons out perish for # fifty-two t of food. | bosom of the figrtile earth that is to blame for such calamities, but an impertect and sterilo civilization, Echoes of the Religious Press. In the discussion of points of current in- terest the Hreeman's Journal this week has caustic article on the recent application of the religious test in North Carolina, enforced at the demand of a colored member of titat State Legislature. The Journal thinks ‘it would have been wiser for the higher colored legislator of North Carolina to have omitted the charge brought against the other member, that he denied the Christian religion, until such time as a dozen of the members of that Legislature could agree in a dogmatic state- ment of what constitutes the Christian reli- gion.’ The Tableé wants to know who is to blame for the church disaster, and while it does not cast suspicion upon any person or party, it demands a full investigation of this instance of gross neglect, The Catholic Re- view, commenting on the New Brunswick school riot, admonishes P@otestants that tho grievance of the Catholics of Caraquet is a common one just now, and one under which Protestant governments, need never expect Catholics to remain contented. A lively editorial tilt has been opened be tween the Independent and the Christian Ad- vocate. Last week the former had a scathing editorial on Bishop Foster, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, The lattor this week char- acterizes its contemporary’s remarks as ‘‘about the vilest, coarsest and most indecently abusive piece of literature that we (the editor) have read for many a day.” Next week prob- ably we shall have the Independent's rejoinder. But this week it has a sarcastic fling at Con- gress for following its tail (General Butler) and passing the Force bill in the House and the Civil Rights bill in the Senate—two de- structive victories, as the Independent calls them, and which, it intimates, will destroy the republican party. The Hebrew Leader, in view of the terrible accident: at St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic church, calls for the hanging of doors on all public build- ings so tbat they shall open from the inside, and demands that they be left unbolted and unbarred while the people are within. This is an important matter for Jewish congrega- tions to consider; for they, almost as a rule, keep their synagogue doors locked during the greater part of their service. The Christian Union assures its readers in general and a fair correspondent in particular that God speaks now to the individuad soul as surely as He ever did to prophets and apos- tles. The Christian at Work, drawing its inspiration from the story of the colored eunuch in the Jewish King’s house raising the, prophet Jeremiah out of the dungeon and thr mire by means of a rope and rags, makes an appeal for more sympathy among Christians and for the multiplication of Ebed-Melechs. ‘The Baptist Weekly, noticing the drift of econ- omy in the line of cutting down ministers! salaries, cautions congregations against im- posing ‘too heavy burdens upon the minis ter. The Jewish Times notes a triumph of progress in the rededication of the oldest orthodox Jewish congregation in the city— Clinton street—last Friday, as a reformed congregation. The Jewish Messenger wreathes its chaplet of memories and lays it on tho grave of the late Dr. Frankel, of the Rab- binical Seminary at Breslau, who died, Feb- ruary 16, at the ripe age of seventy-four years. . PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. £x-Governor R. Mcvielland, of Michigan, is stay- ing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Assemblyvan George West, of Ballston, N. ¥., is stopping at the Grand Central Hotel. General W. W. Kirkiand, of Georgia, is among the iate arrivals at Barnum’s Hotel. Congressional Delegate George Q. Cannon, of Utah, is residing at the St. Nicholas Hotel, State Senator Henry C. Connelly, of Kingston, N. Y., 18 registered at tne Metropoutan Hotel, ‘Rev. Richard S, Sworrs, D. D., bas a new volume in press, entitied “Preaching Without Notes.” Major Generali McDowell ana staid arrived at the Grand Nationa! Hotel, Jacksonville, Fla., on the 3d just. Major V. Sanchez and Captain I. Moraguez, ot the Spanish Ordnance Commission, are quartered at the Hoffman House. General Sheridan and Colonel Forsyth, of his staff, le(t New Orleans yesterday afternuou tor the West via the Jackson Rauroad. The best edition of Milton’s poetical works yeu published has been prougtt out by Professor David Masson, in three volumes, Pamela Brown, the widow of Major General Jacob Brown, the distinguished soldier of the war of 1812, is still living, having been a widow tor al- mosi half a century. 4 Ex-Congressman George A. Sheridan, of Loutsi- ana; W. E. Lansing, of New York, and E. 0. Stan- ard, of Missocri, arrived from Washington yester- day, and are stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. At @ recent Paris auction the autograph of Byron brougnt 70f.; Calvin, 91f; Bacon, 106f; Franklin, $0f,; Galileo, 460f.; Sir Isaac Newton, 5001.; Montesquieu, 200f.; Mozart, 45ul.; Racine, 5751, and Mme. de Sévigné, 305f Alexander Dumas is engaged on a play for the Frangais, entitled “Monsieur Candaule,” from which suggestive title 1t may be guessed that it deals with the new problem of pretty wives and innocent basbands and gailant captains, by whom the wives are too much seen. Guizot said that the members of the Academy who were not historians or churchmen were bo. hemians; and Dumas is, from the academic stana point, contemplated, therefore, with no grea: pride, while the wits say that in suck company he is merely Hercules spinutng at the feet of Omphale, and, of course, spinning badiy. ‘The Viscount Heari de Burnier {s the latest dramatic success in Paris, or rather his tragedy, “Roland's Daughter.’ The Viscount 18 one o the good Old fashioned poor poets, whose pteces have been rejected at all the Paris theatres for filteen years, This piece just played was ao cepted at the Frangats six years ago, At a recent London sale of autographs Sir Isaas Newton's signature bronght £3 sterling, Add son's, £2; Algernon Sidney's, £: long letter o | General Wolfe, relating to tue capture of Louis» burg, £20; a letter of David Hume, £5 53.; La fayette, £2 148.; Thomas Campbell, £1 lla; Lo renzo de’ Medici, £1 9a.; J.J. Rousseau, £5, aus Ninon de ’Enclos, £1 f4s. Mesars. Wm. A. Pona & Co., of Nos. S47 Broad way and 39 Union square, have pubished a son entitled “Not a Bird on the Wing,” words an: music by Mrs. Mary M. Beighoiz, The worasa the song itself form am exquisile lute poem with which the music is in harmony. This ts likely to be one of tne MOBL atiractive Liusical publica tions of the season, One of the curiosities of literature is M. Chevat | ier’s book, in three volumes, “Les Murailles Puil tiques Frangaises.” The first volume embrace: a collection of political bandbilis aud Dlacarde whieh covered the Wallis Of the towns ia ace Lorraine during the Franco-German war, Tha second is devoted tu the siege of Paris, and the third to the reiga of tie Commune, Every poster is reproduced in fue s eVen to its color, and the work presents a curiously picturesque history Oi France durigg tie terible year.