The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1875, Page 6

@ 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 York Hxnaxp 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 Henax. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. 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. seeeeeNO, 81 AMUSEMENTS T0-NIGHT. NIBLO’! froadway.—HERRMANN, M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. TONY PASIOK’S OPERA HOUSE, Boz Bowery. —VAKILTY, ats PY. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. FIFTH AV SEAT AFg erate fwenty eighth ec NANZA, at8’. . 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Moopy anp Sankey are doing an | sxtraordimary religious work in London, and their audiences yesterday were remarkable, | eventful and unsettled life. even in that metropolis of the world. Tur Vrxeanp Sxootrnc has not yet had | fatal results, and it is hoped that Mr. Carruth will recover. Our correspondent furnishes an interesting account of an interview held with | him yesterday. Tuer Froops.—There is no ange in the | situation in the Delaware and Susqnehanna rivers. The ice is still blocked up in enormous masses, and several towns are in danger if a sudden thaw should take place. Our despatches from Port Deposit, Wilkes barre and other places fully explain the details. Autuovon Tae Lovrstana Compromise has not been officially published its terms are sub- stantially given to-day. The House is con- ceded to the democracy and the Senate to the repnolicans. Governor Kellogg is expected to calla meeting of the Legislature abont April 12, und it is to be hoped there will be no further difficulty in confirming the’ Wheeler plan. Tae Mexican Goran MNT is said to have given satisfactory assurances to the United States in respect to the massacre at Acapulco. It condemns the crime and promises to pre- vent other outbreaks. The Senate might properly ask the President to furnish it with the officiai correspondence, as the public is anxious to know what action has been taken. Rarrp TRaNsir ry | Loxpos. The advocates of rapid transit in New York may profit by the study of the railway system in London, which is the subject of an interesting letter published in our columns to-day. Rapid transit in the English capital is not only o public convenience, but a financial success. Our Albany letter shows the present condi- nr Legislature, Tv Ma. Jomneow is to speak on the Louisi- ana question it will be really more to the public than to the Senate, and, therefore, if the republicon majority should choke bim oft by ordering an executive session when he has the floor, it would be We have no apprehension of such deliberate discourtesy to the new Senator ‘rom Tenne- wee. If Mr. Jobnson wishes to speak no | doubt he will have o hearing. | a national injustice, | and good abilities than to be NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1875,—TRIPLE SHEET, American Friends. It 15 with a deeply pensive teeling that we lay before our readers a letter from Mr. Mitchel, which reaches us the next day after the announcement of his death by the Atlan- tic cable, and while his remaivs are still awaiting honored burial in the soil of his i , and amid | native landaiseiop ne tored ko well, ané | Emmet awakens at this distance of time far | the tears of a large proportion of his warm- hearted and devoted countrymen. To his American friends ‘being dead he yet speak- eth’’ in the letter which he begins by a grace- ful acknowledgment of the courtesy of the Heratp in allowing him to explain to them his recent position in Irish politics and the | sentiments which were guiding his course in | exile who escaped to our shores and became [John Mitehel’s Dying Address to His | sufferings promote the cause to which they what have proved to be the last weeks of his | We also print an elaborate communication, received by the same foreign mail, and written by a dis- tinguished English lawyer, discussing Mr. Mitcbel’s legal status and parliamentary dis- ability as an escaped convict. The practical interest of these questions is pretty much ex- tinguished by Mr. Mitchel’s removal from scenes of civil turmoil the weary are at rest.’’ Peace to his ashce. | May the turf of the green island lie hghtly ou | his breast, and in future years, when his brightest hopes for his oppressed country shall at length be realized, grave in recognition of his well meant en- deavors to serve her, the boldness with which he asserted her rights, and the sufferings of the exile and wanderer borne in her behalf. The | occasion hardly permits us to deal critically either with his letter, on the one hand, or the legal arguments ot our London correspondent on the other. It is impossible to contemplate the remark- | able life which has just closed, without a sen- timent of regret that it was so unfortunate. Mr. Mitchel’s intellectual gifts and accom- plishments, his unremitting industry and ardent patriotism, ought to have made him one of the most important men of his time. His career opened with great promise, and no just blame can be imputed to him that it was arrested in his first line of effort by a rigorous sentence, which exiled him from his na- tive land and transported him to a penal colony at the ends of the earth. His escape was morally justified, not only in his | own estimation, but in that of all friends of | the Irish cause, and even in the view of im- partial minds. When he came to our shores he received a warm and sympathetic welcome from the whole body of our people without distinction of party or religious belief. Had | | the public insists upon advertising in our it pleased Providence to take him away then he would have been sincerely mourned by | | the patriots of all free nations, But his twenty years in this country added nothing valuable to his fame. It seems a pity that he did not emulate the example of another distin- | guished Irish exile who came to this country in the early part of the century and spent among us a rather longer period than Mr. Mitchel did, ending his days here, as Mr. Mitchel might have done with honor, if he had pur- sued the same wise course. From the win- dows of the Hezatp Building we look across Broadway to the churchyard of St. Paul’s, and our eyes rest upon the tall obelisk, covered with inscriptions of eulogy, be- neath which repose the venerated ashes ot Thomas Addis Emmet—a name which awakens the liveliest recollections of Irish patriotism and American good citi- zenship. The great mistake of Mr. Mitchel’s life was his failure to follow in the footsteps let us hope that | | many a pilgrim of Irish descent will visit his | | history which awaken such touching associa- to that land | ‘ “where the wicked cease from troubling and | ee | | of Emmet when he came to this country. | Like Emmet, he was bred a lawyer, and, like him, he might have attained distinction at the American Bar. It was a great error of judg- ment, for which he paid heavy penalties, that he devoted himself to journalism in a country of whose public sentiment he was too new a comer to be a competent judge—the most in- dispensable qualification of a successful jour- nalist being-a quick and accurate perception of the state and tendencies ot public opinion | in the community where his journal is pub- | lished. No mere literary ability, however brilliant, can serve as a substitute for this | ready and sure perception of what is moving in the public mind. Some foreigners acquire | this after a residence of a few years, but they are generally men without any deep-rooted or ardent convictions which impel them to look at public questions from one settled stand- point. The most hazardous thing a man can | try is to start a new journal, of which he is to be the director-iu-chief and almost the sole writer. Without a partner who has lived long enough in this country to understand it, and to whose judgment he is willi will habitually miss the mark unless he be @ man born with a genius for which Mr. Mitchel was not. journalism, His journal- | equalled in extent, and far surpassed in va- | tant Episcopal Courch over the election of Dr. | engage in on his first arrival in a foreign coun- | to defer, he | istic enterprises in this country were, there- | fore, all failures, and his disappointments and vexations bad a most unhappy effect on his mind. There can be no more unfortunate experience for aman of natural self-respect driven from pillar to post by pecuniary necessities, aban- doning one unprofitable newspaper to estab- | lish another equally unprofitable, changing | his residence from a Northern community, | whose tone of sentiment he had not yet begun to understand, to a Southern community of which he knew still less, and meeting with nothing but ill-success and discouragement in all his changing enterprises and residences. Mr. Mitchel’s facalties were not those of a journalist, of which mere skill in writing forms but o small part, and it was the great misfortune of his twenty years of ill-directed and thankless toil in this coun- try that he selected the wrong profession. Had he given himself to the American Bar on his arrival, when he was greeted with so munch enthusiasm, our citizens would have gladly loaned him money until he could establish himself, of the practice would have ad- and sympathizing members profession in large mitted him to a partnership on favorable | terms. What a difference it would nave made |} in the tranquillity and usefulness of this gifted man, 60 cruelly tossed and buffeted by fortune if he bad followed the example of his great compatriot, Emmet, and this community the was bred! ptactised in profession to which he We do not express this regretful wish be- canse we think pecuniary prosperity the chief end of human life. We can easily reconcile | subsequent to his sentence of transportation, | cause Mr. Mitchel was a sufferer that we | lament over the American part of his career, but because his sufferings were encountered in a struggle for the means of sub- sistence which brought none of the | compensations which belong to the honored | martyrs of liberty. The fate of the younger | Rages | dedicate their abilities. It is not merely be- | | less regret than admiration, All hearts which pay tree homage to heroic virtue would prefer the fate of Robert Emmet, who paid the penalty of patriotism on the gallows at Dublin, at the early age of twenty-three, to tbat ot Thomas Addis Emmet, the illustrious one of our most respected citizens and distin- guished lawyers. There are few names in tions of patriotism and romance as that of Robert Emmet. After his escape to the Wicklow Mountains he might have eluded pursuit, but his attachment to the daughter of John Philpot Curran, the famous Irish orator and barrister, led him to surpass the daring of Leander. He would not fly from Ireland out visiting Dublin to bid her farewell, | e was arrested, tried and executed; but he 4nd Miss Curran will live in the mel- odies of the Irish national poet so long as any Irish blood continues to flow in human veins. We do not consider such a career and such a termination of it unfortunate, but en- viable. We regret Mr. Mitchel’s sufferings because they had not the ennobling effect on his cbaracter which is exerted by sacrifices to a great cause, and they contributed nothing | valuable to his reputation. His life, during that part of it when his faculties were at their full maturity, was one of change, instability and ill-luck, such as is endured without much sympathy by thousands who carry intellectual gifts into a different pursuit from the one to which they are best adapted. We warmly ap- preciate Mr. Mitchel’s patriotism and unswerv- ing fidelity to the Irish cause, but a deep mel- ancholy settles upon us when we think how much happier and more useful he might have been and deserved to be. Of all the sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these, ‘Jt might have been.” The Herald and the Susiness Revival. If the Millennium of journalism is to come when newspapers no longer print advertise- ments the Hzratp has no reasonable hope of sharing in the blessings of that time. Instead of a happy decline in our advertising pat- rovage it is steadily increasing, and this, according to the millennial theory, is not to advance but recede. We cannot help it. If columns we must cheerfully consent. If the millennial journals hereafter proudly point to their columns unstained by a single advertisement and laugh at our well filled pages, we shall humbly bow to the reproach, and go down to the journalistic devil, escorted by a procession of advertisers which would reach from the new ee Office to Union square. Yesterday we printed the Hemaxp aq a quin- tuple sheet, containing twenty pages and one hundred and twenty columns. Of this im- mense sheet sixty-seven columns were filled with advertisements, representing every busi- ness interest of the country and contributed by thousands of individuals, This enor- mous clientage shows that the millennial theory has not yet excited popular enthu- siasm, at least so far as the Huzraup is con- cerned. This spring flood of business pat- ronage, however, was not permitted to sweep away our usual reading matter. Fifty-three columns were devoted to the news of the day, and the live, interesting matter supplied riety, that of any magazine. As it is not unusual for the Heraxp to issue such an edition, our principal pleasure in the paper of yesterday is that it indicates the revival of business which has been so long desired and _ expected. The advertising in the Heratp has grown to be the measure of public prosperity. As for the non-advertising millennium, we think it will come to the Hzranp only at that distant period when nobody has anything to sell, and everybody hat 1s NO mgueY, to buy. The Diinois Bishopric. The controversy now pending in the Protes- De Koven to the bishopric of Ilinois calls out an elaborate review ot the principles involved by the Chicago Interior, which, atter showing | historically how the Prayer Book came to teach both High and Low Church dcctrines, and after demonstrating also the illogical | and inconsistent position of High Churchmen, concludes that the Refor- | mation has not spent its force, and that | there is a deep underlying Protestant senti- ment in the Church which only needs to be | aroused to defeat the Romanizing efforts of the High Churchmen. The Baptist Weekly | takes a little different view of the controversy. It believes that the doctrines and practices of High Churchmen cannot be made acceptable to the general American mind, and are a hin- drance to the progress of the Episcopal body, yet they will every year become more domi- nant inits ministry. Instead of the action concerning De Koven and Jaggar being prom- ising to the Protestantism of the Church it is more likely a spasm which precedes its final subjugation, One more such victory and the Low Chuich party will be ground to powder. The Lvangelist is satisfied from its point of observation that, should Dr. De Koven be confirmed Bishop of [inois Bishop Cummins would have a more efficient coadjutor in him than in Bishop Cheney; for he would drive out more than the others could attract. The Church Journal coatroverts the theory that a diocese should have the bishop it wants, whether he be High or Low Church, that it is nobody's bu that, the Church being he iness beside, and argues unit, the man, while | may have eare for a particul does nevertheless govern, legislate, speak for and represent the whole body. And ter and doctrinal antecedents ions of direct and vital impor- whole Church. special hence his ¢ become ques! tance to the An Imense at Hyd Meetine of Inshmen was held midon, yesterday, and resoln- tions were pled demanding the release of the Fenian prisoners and condoling with the famdy of John Mitchel. A movement to pay # public tribate to Mr. Mitehel’s memory has | ourselves to the fate ot martyrs when theix | been set on foot in this city, | The Transit of Venus. The telegraph and the steamship have al- ready borne to the ends of the earth | an outline of the successes achieved by the expeditions sent out to observe the transit | of Venus. Knowing what a vast number: of scientists and scholars awaited with feverish | anxiety the arrival of despatches from the ob- Servers, we published special telegrams and communications from the astronomers as soon as possible after the occurrence of the phe- nomenon. To-day we commence the publica- tion of the official reports made by the chief astronomers of the respective expeditions to Admiral Davis, President of the Transit Com- mission, to whose courtesy and the efforts of his Secretary, Professor Newcomb, we make acknowledgments for the early receipt of the documents, The observations chronicled in the reports we print to-day were made from north and south stations, very far apart, and well adapted for the application of Halley’s method of calculating the sun’s distance. The Americans were the only suc- cessful observers in New Zealand—a victory due to their proficiency in meteorological re- search. Nevertheless, from what has thus far been learned, we cannot anticipate an accurate solution of the problem unless two important contacts have been recorded at Hobart Town or Kerguelen. This may be said without the slightest disparagement to the scientists, whose admirable plans could have been frus- trated by ill fortune only. The mere determi- nation of the closing contacts or that of the first contact at the stations throws the problem into the hands of the photographers. We have already expressed our distrust of the photographs per se, and some oi the Pekin observers already acquiesce in this opinion. The correctness of the images depends on cir- cumstances beyond ready control. The tem- perature of the air, the degree of the sun’s brightness, the sensibility of the chemicals, the liability of the plates to contraction or expansion and other causes tend to com- promise the accuracy of the sun-pictures. They can simply serve as a check on the mathematical calculations. But these latter are possible only on the supposition of per- fect observations in southern climes, and we have not yet heard of such successes. It is gratifying, however, to know that although our Transit Commission, individually, may not arrive at satisfactory results, yet, its records, when taken in conjunction with the data collated by foreign scientists, will as- sume new and paramount importance. By combining, for mstance, the American labors at Pekin with the English observations in Sydney, the Halleyan system can be adopted with great advantage. Again, by compar- ing the chronicles of the Nagasaki ex- pedition with the records obtained by the English in Egypt, an admirable opportunity arises for employing the simpler and more beautiful method of Delisle. Inde- pendent of the main object of the expeditions the scrutiny of the transit phenomena will throw light on many vexed questions, The absence of irradiation noticed at Pekin is a remarkable exception to the rules which govern the motions of solar rays. It may be accounted for in part by the apparent en- largement of Venus caused by the refraction of her light. Many kindred problems of the highest importance to science and civilization will be on their way to a definite solution when another grand effort, guided by the ex- periences of 1874, will be made to settle for- ever the great question in 1882. Later reports from the American observers may furnish material for much useful speculation. The Sabbath in the Metropolis. There is nothing that Christianity owes ‘to Judaism which is of more value to humanity than the Sabbath. It does not in the least matter that the day generally observed is the first and not the seventh of the weck, for the changes of the calendar and the obscurity in believe that the Creator made any special dis- tinction between Saturday and Sunday. No one believes now that the Mosaic account of the creation is literal; that the Lord labored for six of our planetary days and rested from his weariness on the seventh. The ablest of theologians admit that the sacred writings of Moses do not teach scientific facts, but moral truths, and one of the profoundest thinkers and sincerest Christians of modern times, Thomas De Quiveey, has pointed out that because of this there can be no real conflict between science and the Bible. A scheme of religion revealed in the phraseology of modern science, and | based upon the principles that Coper- nicus, Newton and Kepler discovered, would bave been incomprehensible to the Jews. But the primal spiritual truths of the Scriptures were proclaimed for all time, and exist eternaily for all men, whether phys- ical science vanishes from the earth or ad- vances to unimagivable discoveries, The institution of the day of rest is, there- | fore, not less divine in its origin than any fundamental doctrine of the Christian reli- | gion. The method of its Judaical observance was undoubtedly opposed and modified by Christ. His teachings were contrary to those of the Jewish priesthood; He took a more lib- eral view of the duties of the day than they and illustrated it by His example. To Him the world owes the declaration that man was not made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for man. The valne of the seventh day to the world is, from the true Christian point of view, inestimable. It is almost equally with sleep “kind nature's sweet restorer.” To o vast majority of toilers in civilized countries it is the greatest ing that society bestows upon It suspends labor, confers repose and descends upon the earth like the angel of heaven to interpose between the weary animal, man, and the hard master, them, | Destiny, who drives him upon his path to the tomb. ‘Lhe proper use of this period of rest, which all civilized goveruments have rightly recog- nized as legal, is therefore of great importance to mankind. No better employment of part of the day, we think, could be had than in listening to such pious discourses as we print to-day. The metropolis is fortunate in having an intellectual and faithful clergy, and we commend their sermons to the public. bless- | | tor the Governor of the State. ‘Tar Crnrerian Uxton has a good word to say | about Cardinal McCloskey and _ his red hat, of which it wishes him joy, and hopes it will “become” him and not give him # headache, The Union proclaims for “that aS and bitter Protestantism which refuses to treat the members of the Catholic Church as fellow Christians and sows bitterness and strife where there ought to be mutual respect and growing good will. These polemical partisans are really torwarding the cause of the Church of Rome. The Tablet, referring to our new Cardinal, says:—‘‘American Catholics accept the com- pliment to the American Church with grateful hearts and hail it with satisfaction as on in- troduction, so to say, of their young but already flourishing Church among the old nations who have for ages been the bright gems of the Church. The United States have now a representative in the Sacred College and a voice in the election of the Sovereign Pontiff.” The Water Supply. The question of the water supply is of great importance to all our citizens. It is generally admitted that the present supply, it not ab- solutely insufficient, is inadequate to the grow- ing necessities of the city and that its immedi- ate increase would be a great public advan- tage on the score of convenience, cleanliness, health and safety. Mayor Wickham makes two suggestions on the subject to the Common Council. One is that the collection and stor- ing of the water and the regulation of its dis- tribution should be subject to the control of the Mayor and Common Council, and not be left in the hands of the Commissioner of Public Works, as under the law of 1871; another is that the water meter system should be intro- duced, soas to limit the consumption and prevent waste. The first of these suggestions may be acceptable enough, provided we can trust the Common Council to take a common sense business view of the matter and to act for the interests of the city and not for the promotion of jobs. Whoever may be invested with authority in the matter of securing a sufficient supply of water it is certain that a wise economy dictates that the possession of the territory furnishing the sup- ply should be secured by the city at once, be- fore the value of property increases, while its utilization can be made gradual in accordance with tho growth of the city and the increased demand, We entirely dissent trom the Mayor's second proposition. The law of 1871 providing tor the introduction of water meters is generalty considered a gross job; but, whether this imputation be just or not, it is certain that its object is one which the popular voice will never approve. Under the water meter system the price of water would be a heavy burden on the consumer. There would necessarily be an economy in its use that would be likely to prove prejudicial to the public health. The water rate in New York has heretofore been so reasonable that it has nut been in any case oppressively felt, and the citizens will not consent to give up the free supply, at a stipulated charge, for the vexa- tious and annoying system of meters, There is, unquestionably, much unnecessary waste, and this should, as far as praciicable, be pro- vided against and prevented. This wioter— certainly an exceptional one—the waste has been great, owing to the habit of letting the water run to prevent freezing. The steam- boat companies have left their hydrants open, and factories and other business houses that use large quantities of water, as well as pri- vate consumers, have done the same with their faucets. The freezing of pipes and hydrants can be prevented at a comparatively small expense and with little trouble. The main and eervice pipes, in the first place, should be laid deeper than at present, and all consumers should be compelled by law, under the supervision of the Public Works authorities, to protect their hydrants and pipes from frost wherever they are ex- posed. Inthe summer the steamboat lines and other large consumers should be prohib- | ited by law from needlessiy wasting water which the custom had its origin forbid us to | Tere penalty v0) bes eccproed Py yae be | partment of Public Works. While waste should be prevented the use of water should be much more liberal than it is, and the sup- ply should be large enough to warrant it. Water should be used in a city like New York as the most efficient street cleaner, and the hydrants should be left to ran as frequently in the summer as health and cleanliness de- mand, and in the winter whenever it would be useful to wash away the melting snow and slush. It would be avery profitable job to some person or other,no doubt, to supply water meters to the whole city of New York, but the people would not willingly submit to have their supply peddled out to them in such a manner. Tne true policy is to im- prove the supply and the means of distribu- tion, and not to restrict the use of water and to increase its cost to the consumer. The High Tide of Corraption. Certain events have happened in Washing- ton in the last few days which, while appar- ently escaping general observation, are worthy of the gravest consideration. As our readers will remember President Grant cele- brated the death of the last Congress by can- celling the civil service system. The point upon which he based this action was that, as Congress had failed to make appropriations to enable him to carry out the rules, he was no longer responsible for their enforcement. This has been followed by a system of ap-. pointments in various parts of the country that represents what is even a more fatal de- parture from the true principles of republican government than would be embodied in the success of the third term. We refer to the ap- | pointment of so many members of the last Congress to different positions, Here, to be- gin, is that fine Hoosier statesman, the con- noisseur in corn and bacon, Mr. Orth, who goes to represent America in the courtly city of Vienna, and whose only remarkable contri- bution to foreign politics was prophecy made some six months ago that ‘in sixty days the Prince Imperial would be Emperor of France.’’ Then we have Maynard, member of Cong republicanism by a ferocious speech in be- half of secession, who goes to Turkey. So on down the list Congressman after Congress- man has beon dumped into places, from the mission to Vienna down to the Postmastership in Little Rock, with which humble office the President closes the ambition of his candidate We do not know how many ex-Congressmen have been appointed, but the shoal of benefited repre- sentatives is large enough. There is, of course, no reason under the its hearty dislike | constitution why a gentleman who served us 8 from Tennessee, who began his | in Congress should not, at the end ef hie term, accept another public office. But how can we have independent representative gov- ernment if we leave in the hands of the Presi- dent the power of bribing the majority of the representstives? What is it but a bribe, this giving high place to a representative at the close of his term because of ‘‘his fidelity to his party?’ It the President had been governed by a sense of public fitness alone in selecting his candidates for missions he would have sent Schurz to Vienna and Carpenter to Russia. But the only consideration that seems to have controlled his mind is the fact that many poli- ticians have been thrown upon the cruelty of an unkind world by the recent political revo- lution, and that, having served him well, having obeyed without o whis per every command from the White House, having supported his administration, not with the generous consideration of the manly representatives of a free people, but as the staff of a general, he is bound, therefore, to give them employment out of the public Treas- ury. What is this but Casarism? For what 1s Cwsarism but the power of a ruler to pay his followers for their vassalage out of the public Treasury? What more could Cesar or Bonaparte do than General Grant is doing now? He places the resources of the Treas- ury, the appointments to high places, em. bassies and judgeships, at the control of the men who have followed him and who will fol- low him to the end, just as Bonaparte made the men who obeyed him in dissolving the French Assembly and destroying the French Republic dukes and marshals and kings. Is there any difference between the elevation of Murat, for instance, to be a prince and a mar- shal because he carried out Napoleon’s orders on the 18th Brumaire and the elevation o/ Orth and Maynard to embassies because with bated breath and trembling acquiescence they followed the instructions of Grant throngh the last Congress? The principle is precisely the same, and to our mind it represents a higher type of corruption than any we bave yet seen under our government. We do not say that the government will not be well served by many of the gentlemen thus shunted from their seats as Congressmen into office. Against them personally we have no complaint; but the principle that the President of the United States at the close of Congress should have it in his power to be stow the honors and emoluments of this nation upon any Congressman who has obeyed him is a corrupt principle, ine compatible with freedom and representative government, and, we repent, is an illustration of Cesarism in its worst form, quite ag dangerous to the true liberty of the country as would be even the election of His Ex- cellency to the third term. Holy Weck. The devotional excrcises of the week will be commemorative of the religious tragedy which will remain forever in the human mind as the greatest of all human events, a divine sacrifice in atonement for the sins of men. The daily ceremonies in the Catholic and Episcopal churches will reflect this event; in the former the religious ob- servances are very imposing and solemn. The office of the Tenebre, which will be chanted at the principal Catholic churches on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings, is full of significance in describing the pas- sion and death of Christ. The blessing and distribution of the palms at the early services yesterday represented the enthusiasm of the people who strewed the path of the Saviour when He rode into Jerusalem, as the prophet Zacharias foretold in those words, ‘Be- hold, O daughter of Jerusalem, thy King will come to thee, the just and saviour; He is poor and riding upon anass.” In Rome this festival is celebrated in the most imposing manner, the Sovereign Pontiff being the prin. cipal feature in the celebration. On Thursday the consecration of the holy oils used in the administration of the sacraments and the washing of the feet of twelve poor persons, in imitation of the scene at the Last Supper, form the most interesting features at the Cathedral, where Cardinal McCloskey wii) officiate. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General James S. Negley, of Pittsburg, is stay ing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. State Engineer Sylvanus H. Sweet, of Albany, is residing at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman J, H. Burleigh, of Maine, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Captain John Miretouse, of the steamship City of Montreal, 1s quartered at the New York Hotel Surveyor General James H. Baker, o! Minnesota arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel yesterday from Washington. Chevalier E. de Stuers, of Holland, arrived from Europe in the steamship Abyssinia and is at the Hotel Brunswick, Advices from Geneva state that Count Arnim has improved in health since he has taken up his residence in that city. The Frencn Academy of Sciences has just elected tne Emperor of Brazil a corresponding member by 43 votes out of 57. Tne Emperor was informed of the fact by telegraph and returned thanks by the same means. “Cham” gives in Chartvari the portraits of pos sible future members of the French Senate, im iilastration of the clause, “There shall be a Sena- tor irom each colony.’ One is a ‘‘cullud pusson,** of the strongest type; the other an Arab. An application for reliefin Paris waa supported by this recommendation:—“This unfortunate young man is the only son of a widow who died without jeaving any children, and he is the sole support of his aged father and young brothers,” The French Society of Veterinary Surgeon recommend for the prevention of hydrophobia a police regulation to compel all owners of dogs and cats to notify the authorities whenever their pets are Jow-spirited or apparentiy fil, Not much for the authorities to attend to! Mr. Boker, formerly Minister to Turkey and re cently appointed to the Russian mission, has ne intention, itis said in official circies, of resigning his diplomatic trust, but has made arrangemenss to sustain the weil established reputation of our representatives at St. Petersburg. The “Americanistes,” who are to meet at Nancy, to France, next July, form @ society of savants analogous to the Egyptologists in the nature o their study. They study America anterior to the discovery by Columbus—the monuments, the mouncés, the ancient cities, the inscriptions, &c. Spanisi thieves stole from a church in theit native land @ bronze statue of the Virgin, “larger than life,” and raised money on ttin Paris, where it was reclaimed by the Spanish representative, All the occupation of Spanish Consuls now is ta reclaim in foreign countries the treasures stolep in their own. Major General McDowell was in Charleston, & C., last week, He inspected thé troops. The heavy artillery company at tho arsenas mancuvered as infantry, and two companies at the citadel as light batteries. The discipline and Condition of the barracks were found satisfactory. Salutes were fired in honor of the visit, Tho Gem eral leit tor Columbia on Friday,