The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1875, Page 6

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Gold was weaker and | money active at 3 and 4 per cent. Foreign | exchange was steady. Lars Dro.—The United States Senate ad- journed yesterday sine die, and rejoicings throughont the country are now in order. Casrena’s GENERAL Derection from the Carlist canse seems to have prodnced a marked | effect among the adherents of Don Carlos, if we may credit the report of the discovery of a conspiracy for his assassination. Tamrrninc wiTH THY GaLiows under any circumstances is a dangerous game, as an nufortunate prisoner in the Hudson Connty Jail in Jersey City foand to his cost In attempting to lift a weight» attached to the machine of death he injured himself fatally. | ‘Tue Twrep Case came up before the Court of Appeals yesterday, and the connsel for the relator made an elaborate argument to show what an unnecessary amount of punishment was inflicted on the ex-Boss. A stronger wrgument would be the return to the ppblic treasury of the money extracted, and it could not tail to move both the Court and the public. A Curxess Navan bwenty-cight steamers, is in course of forma- fion in the Celestial Empire. A dockyard for Duilding iron-clads is also to be established at Foo Choo, and a number of Chinese cadets are about to be sent to the British navy. This looks as if the ‘Heathen Chince’’ proposes to take care of his interests on sea as well as on and. Govruxor Kxiioce, of Louisiana, now that he has sived the approval of the United States Senate for the peculiar manner in which he bas ruled that unhappy State, and is con- firmed in office by the same body, issues a call for the Legislature to meet next month and decide npon a number of questions, the prin- cipal one being the adjustment of political difficulties, Sergeant-et-arms—General de ‘Trobriand, we suppose. RESERVE, amounting to | NEW YORK _ HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1875,—TRIPLE SHEET. We recollect that Cobbett, in a series of hin the form of letters to his friends in America, saying that the only way to make | the subject intelligible to the English people was to assume that they were as ignorant of their own affairs as the inhabitants of o foreign country, An intelligent American correspondent of the London Times would | probably convey to the British public @ clearer idea of the great contest of Governor Tilden with the Canal Ring than the readers of our newspapers have yet received. The more familiarity with the topic than the | constant risk of being obscure, lest they should | insult the intelligence of their readers by too | elementary expianations. Cobbett’s plan of f letters written for the information of foreigners, in spite of its touch of grotesque bumor, evinced tact and sense. The majority of our people at this end of the State know very little either of the history of our canal system orof the bearings of the canal controversies which from time to time arise. Even Senator Jacobs, of Brooklyn, who has had a varied experience in State edging his slender acquaintance with canal they aro really of great interest to citizens of this part of the State. He contended that the | ‘counties below Albany, where there are no ‘canals, had paid ten or eleven of the fifteen | samillions which have been raised by State taxes and expended on the canals within the “Yast five years. Strong as this reason is, he might have added another of still greater *force, The prosperity of this city depends on cheap transportation between it and the ‘interior, and the heavy'taxes we have been | paying nominally for the improvement of the |-canal, but really to enrich the set of graceless ‘contractors and officials known as the Canal Ring, have injnred the city by impeding its growth to twenty times the amount of the money squandered. By the misdirection of the money nominally paid for improving the canal its bed has been gradually filling up with silt and rubbish so that its navigation ts rendered year by year more dilatory and expensive, and we are lox ing the advantages of the canal competition | which is the most effective check on the ex- tortions of railroads in the prices of freights. The legal depth of the canal is seven feet ; but it averages less than six at the present time and in some places is not more than five end a half. Now it is obvious that boate | must be loaded at Buffalo lightly enough to | float over the shallowest parts of the canal between that port and Albany, and that they lose about one foot and a half of the depth to which they are legally entitled. The effect of this difference on the economy of navigation | is obvious, The expenses for men to manage @ canal boat are precisely the same whether it carries 8 light cargo ora heavy one, and there | affairs, began his speech yesterday by acknowl- } affairs; but he stated some good reasons why What the Canal Controversy Is About. | gas 3 |-erticles in his Political Register on an’ ex- | i stion of Engli ities, put them | citing question of Bngliah politics, p | this secure ground for bis batteries the Gov- | ernor proceeded to prepare his scathing Mes- discussions of our press presuppose so much | ing his trymen in the form | entire nN | The Message mentioned no names, but it went | | | is no perceptible difference in the cost of towage. Each boat, therefore, loses in each | trip the profits on a body of wheat filling the | horizontal area of the boat and fifteen or eighteen inches in depth The full legal depth of seven feet is still important in connection with the } more | attempts to introduce steam onthe canal. The | machinery for this purpose is necessarily | heavy and sinks the bost so deeply in tho | water that it can take only s small cargo of | grain without a greater depih of water than the canal affords. | feet the boats -could carry and also large cargoes, and the result would | be an immense cheapening of freighta. We bave explained this matter in detail in | order to put readers in pos! nor Tilden’s point of view at the time he pre- | pared his annual Message. The chief object of the canal policy which tee then ree mended was to ent off n | expenses and apply the savicg the hed cf the canal in order to secure | easier movemont of tho carry heavier cargoes sd prepare introduction of st which would shorten the time of the trips by one-half. i an eam, ion of Gover- | : | this city I we have | | was dis} But with the full seven | steam machinery | able them to | for the | effect against the corrupt canal contractors and the State offi- cers who had abetted them as against Tweed and his associates. Having gained sage, meanwhile causing hints of what he was doing to be thrown out to notify the Canal Ring and the public of the coming explosion, | exciting fears and raising expectations with a cunning eye to stage effect, in order that the bomb might fall with greater noise and éclat, ‘The thing bas been managed with consum- mate skill The Message struck the Canal Ring like a thunderbolt, and the whole State has been thrown into a commotion like that which followed the first publication of the Tweed accotnts, Pursuing our historical line of exposition we now come to the contents of this nitro- glycerine Message, which has had such a shat- tering and alarming effect on the Canal Ring. into a detail of swindling contracts, giving the figures with such definite precision that everybody who keeps the run of canal matters | would know whom they hit. We insertasum- marized list arranged in a compact tabular form :— Amount of Cone Amount Actu- tract on Lehidtte ally Pata by ed Quantities at State upto Hag Oontract Prices, Contract No. 1. Contract No, Contract No, Sosscect Contract No, Contract Contract nau 127 55 vontract 300 00 191,915°55 Totals...... $424,755 90 $1,560,709 84 The reader will see that in these ten con- tracts there is. a swindle of upward of a mill- ion of dollars, The names of several of the contractors are perfectly well known in canal circles. Number 8 is James J. Belden and Company, who hold such intimate relations to Mr. Page, whom Speaker McGuire put at the head of the Canal Committee, Number 1 was held by Henry D. Denison, of Belden and Company, which throws still further | light on Mr. Page’s chairmanship of the Canal Committee, Number 10 is held by George D. Lord, a son of Senator Jarvis Lord, which throws an interesting side light on his fierce | opposition to the Governor. Having given these specimens we will not at present fol- | low the subject in greater detail, for we think our readers will have no further difficulty in understanding why the Message has created such a quaking hubbub in the Canal Ring end so lively an excitement throughout the State, There are several curious aspects of this question which we have not space to explain at present. The discussion in both houses of the Legislature, begun yesterday, will be resumed to-day, and be watched with keen interest. Charges Against City Officials. In this city the officers of the law are only | too apt to forget their duty as soon as the oc- casion which called for a stricter compliance | with it has passed away. They seem to think that our people are so spasmodic that ail they have to do is to wait for the spasm to pass | over, when they can be as dilatory as before. Even Mr. Tweed acted upon this theory when | he asked what was to be done about it, and | had not his case been a very aggravated one he would never have been punished at all. | This trnth we see illustrated in every event | which happensin this city. After the dis- aster at St. Andrew’s chureh great activity ed for a short time, but no sooner was a verdict rendered than all proceedings apparently were dropped. The same thing may happenin the Stockvis case unless the public show a determination that the law shall be enforced on oll the offenders, The neces. sity is apparent, and there must be no further neglect of duty by which those already incul- pated in offences of this kind may escape, If is to be properly and ficiently governed it can be done the ark duty in the Department of B police, the police courts and the ho: y by bringing 1 in their the men who 60 cons} ildings, justice, and the people must see to it that this is done. Warrants have been irsaed by the Coroner for the arrest of Dr. Jaynes, of the Workhouse on Blockwell’s Island, and Keeper | Cunningham, in the case of Sto : but is | succeeded in rendering the Governor's aim in | this respect intelligible the reader will have no difficulty in following our explanation of his great covp and the sensation it has made both im Albany and throughout State. In order to carry ont his canal policy Gov- ernor Tilden was anxio Committee of the Assi ly composed of men favorable to his views, and desired that Mr. Davis, who was his chief spokesman in the yesterday, should be its Chairman. | Speaker McGuire's refusal to gratify bim wa: the beginning of the estrangement between the Speaker Governor, which has resulted inan open rupture. Instead of pnt Mr. Davis at the head of the Canal Commiites, , Speaker McGuire appointed Mr. A. S. P who has close personal and pecuniary re with J. J. Belden, his assignee in | ruptcy, and one of the heaviest cont charged with corruptic in the recent ex- posures. Such a co ation of the Canal Committee was equivalent to strangline the Governor's canal policy in i | the motive for his merci sault on the Canal Ring, which had so neatly foiled a the organization of the Le ljatare, With char- acteristic shrewdness he went quietly to workin exploring the recent contracts of the € Ring, employing | all the refined agty and singular faculty which he exerted with h remarkable reting out the nk accounts of the Tweer Ring in this city and tracing the stol the n cradle. Hence ptical 8 in f money to its recipients. The wary and Governor was too cautions to disel was doing, fo another ro: € for the ¢ ich t wri against the Cana fluence to carr IL Civil t iy to f back y v € T i, on object in wh he had shown hi terest that he w as i t specific design. lin ting this bill pa: that x it he felt that he was master of the Canal Ring and threw off his politic disguise. The Civil | Remedies law furnished o legal machinery iowhich could be employed with as , and fro i} case s to have the Canal | this all? A Rocky “Mocwzams Sucrirr.—A peculiar | of official conduct lately occurred at Denver, under the very shadow of the Rocky | | Mountains. A young man named Van Veisor, who appropriated a large amount of cash, thonsands of dollars, belonging té the New York Central Railroad; was arres t Denver hi to that . belonging Western offi g Bc ip ,t ai v dently thought there was a *‘B the matter and refused to d valuables found o er, although the money he person of the ter had to be sur- 1 rendered to the care of a New York detective sent on tor the purpose. To Superintendent Wallin demand for the robber and his ty the wily Willoughby replied that ne mr nave five thousand dollars reward paid down before the stolen pr the rail- road company should he Sharp erty of armed, » is not confined t do of the Mississippi River, and this ky Mountain Sheriff is a shining example of it. Hoetsrx Ixpians in Texas have received a lesson that will not soon be gotten, In a recent fight between the redskins and a party of Texans the former were alr nnibilated. Krio Karanava's Visit to this city very pleasant and agreeable to all hand it lasted ; but now, when the bills c the Board of Alder t queer developments and baths for thirteen llar one a day f with Tox Crest Committee of tT is of the ¢ the taken in the great celebration by men in the metropolis, reports were ented. pr tions to the func progress and indicates growing i the What Have the Democrats Done? Six months ago the democratic party was in over the Republic, destroying the supremacy of the republican party in the House of Rep- resentatives, and threatening not to spend its force until it had carried the democrats into the possession of the national government. The issues upon which this political revolu- tion was eccomplished were—tirst, the belief that in every respect President Grant’s admin- istration had failed, and the expectation that the democratic party upon acceding to power would redeem these failures and bring a new régime of economy, siatesmanship and peace. Tho third term, the civil service reform, re- trenchment, back pay, the salary grab—these were the cries which animated the democrats in their canvass, They now enter upon an- other campaign. New Hampshire, which they should have carried decisively, is a drawn battle. Connecticut, which should be demo- eratic by a good majority, considering the majorities in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, hangs in the balance. Take what our correspondents write from that State, and the issue is still uncertain. Why is this? General Grant has done nothing, if we may except, perhaps, the veto- ing of the Bounty bill, to commend himself to the confidence of the country to a greater de- gree than six months ago. On the contrary, he has shown a stubbornness of purpose in his appointments and much of his policy which indicates that he is as stiff-necked as ever, and not disposed to change his | plans in obedience to the popular will. | If anything, his administration is more worthy of condemnation than six months ago, for we have hod the Arkansas Mes- sage, developments in the Washington city government and corrupt appointments to office, Why is it, then, that while the repub- lican party has not improved its record since the defeat of last aatamn the democratic party is checked in New England, and the question as to. whether it will succeed in the next campaign is as uncertain as anything can be in American politics? The answer to this is that the democrats have shown themselves to be not statesmen | but politicians, and insincere politicians at that, The true leaders of the party are quietly pushed aside by the hack politicians who saw in the victory last autumn only the | assurance of continued victory, no matter | what mistakes they might make. Conse- quently there has not been a single promise made by the democrats in the last canvass | that they have redeemed. They fought Grant upon the third term, and what democrat in | Congress made the third term an issue? Without invidious mention of names, where- ever the democratio party had it in its power | to honor an independent statesman it strack him down and preferred one of its own poli- | ticians. In New York we were to have a com- plete change in the whole government. Here | the democrats acceded to unquestioned power in both State and city. Yet the party has | done nothing. We are no better off in New | York to-day than we were when Tweed was in power. It is trus that Tweed and his | colleagues stole far more, but if Green | and his party are not robbing us they are strangling us. Questions of local improve- | | ment, questions necessary to the growth of the city and State have been overlooked and forgotten, and all the supremacy of the democratic party in the city and State cul- minates in intrigue for place in the city, in- trigue tor power in Albany and intrigues for the Presiden Consequently, with an ex- ample like this—and 1m this country of a free press and interlacing telegraph lines an ex- ample in New England to-day is known in | California to-morrow—the democrats have lost conrag? in the other States and the repub- licans have taken heart. The tidal wave is checked, and nuless the democrats do better with their power than they have done heretofore the chances aro that the enormous patrons of the President, the military prestige wh surrounds him, combi y classes (which beli slone) would wait the republicans to power. We shonld have a blessed escape trom the greatest danger that | could befall the country tf at the head of this movement General Grant is not a candidate | fora third term. ‘sand the Pistol. | Inthe Landis case the personal remedy for grievances comes up once more, and cota | with such a history behind it that lawyers The “Pre a8 the full swell of the tidal wave which swept | | with honey, that the insects might be attracted, | waste of talent and a desecration of genius to | professions, in which hundreds are reduced to ed with that conserva- es | ; century has added | labor. | attracted thither thousands who are useless will havea very difficult case to argue if called | upon to show that it was not preceded by suck: a degree of provocation as justifies its employ ment. seems, affords the people no adequate pro- tection—no protection that is not ridiculous end pitiful by comparicon with the harm that | be done. Mr. Landis said to our cor- respondent that he instrneted a lawyer to watch regularly the Carrn! isle in order that he might, at the first remedy to the torments inflicted aself and his family ; but the assail ant kept alw within the limit of the law. Yet within those limits—while never going a step beyond the bounds within which every nalist seems to have complete liberty to this editor was vurden toa family, and to to frenz; i 1 and lampoon at drive a r-sensitive, apparently without any or o roper—and inspired, » makes @ pande- y hi who s it the study of his daily life to use his r a in to punish and te to the broad t p pmon ha has no remed » the tc ordinary con: stronges no sidera- the All humanity is not of the stolid temper possessed by that primitive type which laid the stratum of New Jersey law. Against a licentious press the law, it | paper published by | n, try if the law could not far- | be goaded to msdnews by assaults of which that law takes no notice, There was no more terrible death punishment than that by which & man was fastened in a hollow tree, with his feet and hands and head left out and anointed and that they might inflict the infinitesimal but infinite wounds that were to kill. Before the small darts of a malignant local chronicler every family is exposed to an equal torture. In the case before us there was perhaps a more than common irrita- bility—a susceptibility to nervous impressions on the part of the wife that was inherited, but that held over the family the possible doom of insanity as a direct or necessary consequence of the continuation of such assaults—and this cireumstance makes the shot of the husband almost as legitimate as if it were fired in the night for the protection of the wife from the upraised hand of the assassin. Although this occurred in a small comma- nity where virulence of this sort is more effec- tive because every one is known, the lesson is equally apposite for great cities, where the evil is only apparently—not really—less. Our journalism is too personal and has a bad ten- dency to grow worse and worse in that direc- tion, and if the moral tone of public opinion is not sufficient to correct this tendency the press itself must seek protection from its own bad elements in more stringent libel laws. The Restoration of the Balance of Labor=Work for the Unempleyed. One of the gravest responsibilities of the journalist in times of industrial depression is to call public attention to the real issues involved and to indicate the true path of re- lief. The great problem of labor and its read- justmentin this country underlies the whole question of public prosperity, and it is high time that the public mind should be diverted from the delusive hopes of legislative relief to the substantial reform in the application of labor. It is not long since an eminent pro- fessor of Harvard declared that ‘to restore the deranged balance of society its old honor must be rendered back to labor”—a senti- ment which should be stercotyped in illumi- nated letters and displayed throughout every land. ‘There can be no question among thinking men that the commercial condition of the country to-day is ultimately to be re- ferred to an unhealthy deficiency of produc- tive industry. It has been said that modern mechanical invention has superseded hand labor and made it secondary to automatic machinery. It is very true that all tho strong men in the world could not do the work accomplished by steam and water power in the single island of Great Britain, and the substitution of ma- chinery for human hands is rapidly progress- ing. The time may come when the boasted Briarean steam engine may be supplanted by inventions of tenfold or # hundredfold indus- trial power. But to conclude from such facts that manual labor is thus to be thrown into the shade is one of the most ruinous and fal- lacious errors of the age, and one which we sorely need to be disabused of, One of the causes of the dishonor now cast on manual, and especially agricultural, labor is traceable to the education of our young. The academivian is trained for the college or the university, and the collegian is trained with aspirations for the learned pro- fessions, the bar, the pulpit, politics, medi- cine or science. They feel that it would be a step from the university hall to the plough, the loom or the anvil. Hence the crowded the starvation point and from which hundreds are annually forced to seek for bread by re- | course to new and adventurous occupations. As ithas been so forcibly suid, the same re- | rush into uuremunerative and precarious | clerkships and paltry commercial enterprises | for which there is no demand, while the soil of the earth is left half tilled and its mines un- opened. Jn conjunction with these false allurements from the slow but sure paths of agricultural and mining industry the civilization of the another disturbance of The fascinations of the large cities, their excitements and their luxuries, have , and dangerous because idle elements of so- ciety. One of our city contemporaries has trikingly remarked that there were many men who would not leave New York for | scarcely any pecuniary inducement, and mul- titudes who preferred scanty wages here toa | sufficiency elsewhere, It is safe to say that if one-half of the young and able-bodied men now engaged in non-prodnctive commercial ventures and who overcrowd the mercantile and professional vocations should turn their | toil and talent to tillage and mining the whole aspect of affairs in the country would be speedily changed for the better. In time of war tho hardy and the young go to the front, and soin a national situation like the | present the same classes must do the actual sattle with the rough forces of nature, leaving to the starving women and poor industrious | givls the minor and lighter crafts, which are able to | | where, now too much monopolized by robust boys and stalwart men. Cheap food, in every age of the world, has | been at the bottom of all national prosperity and development. The splendid civilization | of ancient Egypt resulted from the cheap food in the proli ricultural valley of the Nile, according to Diodorus Sicuius, the expense of rearing a child did not exceed hmas, or about five dollars, In bled the Pe- posing empire in nt ruins of which wonder of the world, 19 cheapening of food, raowin nt of North we look for a AWrass- ments i Buckl Mr. soph 1s shown how city and rbor out ¢ climates under y y polar cold and the equally discour men live. The d enervati ” equatorial reg neous production, destroys itive to Jabor, w s a frightful consumption of food. merican sociologists have been wont to advert with pride to their favored climates Peovle can | (offering. as they do, a propitious field for the | sary. | better place. employment of muscle and sinew) and to theis varied soil, adapted to every species of agriv cultural skill. Never more urgently than now, therefore, are we called to encourage the re turn of labor to its natural and ordained channels. Let the thousands of the unem- ployed and work seekers who now throng the cities and towns turn their attention to prodte- tive industry and rural enterprise. Let the in- dustrial energy of the country be once more (aa in the earlier part of this century) concen- trated on the husbandry and pasturage of tho soil—so beautifully called ‘‘the two breasts of the S.ate’’—and another year, humanly speak- ing, would see the still lingering financial and commercial clouds dissipated and the dawn of a better and brighter era in all the industries of the land. Tae Brack Hirus.—General Ord proposes to take active measures to arrest such viola- tions of government treaties with the Sioux Indians as the prospecting adventurera have committed. Even the highly colored reports of the abundance of gold in those forbidden grounds will hardly induce speculators and miners to face a host of hostile Indians and determined United States soldiers) It must, however, be a surprise to poor Lo to find the government troops hunting white men, and the encouraging example may not be thrown away on his imitative faculties. Ics.us tHE ArLantic.—During the dast trip of the Hamburg steamship Cimbria a serious impediment to ccean navigae tion was encountered in the shapes of immense fields of ice and ice bergs. When such unpleasant.and dangerous customers cross the track of the European steamships too much care and precaution against disaster cannot be taken, and captains should keep a special lookout for those ugly visitors. Tas Law axp tHe Lonsy.—The United States Supreme Court has set the seal of its reprobation upon the sale of the influence and exertions of lobbyists in bringing about the passage of alaw for the payment of w Senate claim, without reference to its merits, in ocase that has been brought before it, Lobbyists will be obliged henceforward to give the courts a wide berth. Tue Parocumn Scuoors.—The question-of fhe amalgamation of the Catholic parochial schools with the public schools under the- direction of the Board of Education remains yet unanswered. The views of Commissioner Lynch, of the Irish Emigrant Society, Eugene Kelly and Superintendent Kiddle, which we publish to-day, throw abundant light upon the subject, Usnarry New York, almost on the eve of Easter, is suffering -untold miseries at the hands of the clerk of the weather, If any city in any portion of the globe can furnisha more disagreeable day than yesterday, and that, too, ata period when our country exe changes are full of poetry about “spring, beautifal spring,’”” we should like to hear trom it. A Mourprnre paid the penalty of his crime yesterday at Pottsville, Pa. He killed a farmer and his wife in the most cowardly and | atrocious manner, and, not being fortunate enough to enjoy the benefits of the laws of the State of New York, legal death overtool him. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Roderick Random Butler, of Tennessee, is stop ping at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Senator Newton Booth, of California, has apart. ments at the Sturtevant House. Prolessor J, Henry Thayer, of Andover Seminary, is residing at the Everett House, Mr. Samuel Longfellow, of Cambridge, Mass, is 4 | registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ' coiling from hand labor leads thousands .to Mr. Galusha A. Grow, of Texas, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Major A. H. Latimer, United States Army, bas taken up his quarters at the § ichoias Hotel. Senator Agron A. Sargent, of California, are rived from Washington vonteraey at the St. James Hotel. The place in which the transcribers satin the British Museum was called the “tank,” and far ther indication of its character 19 scarcely neces It has been determined to give them 4 “Common informers” are active in London ove) the prospect of spoils to be made out of the Morn ing Post, which published the advertisement that led to the recovery of the Dudiey jewels and to the “compounding ofa felony.” Every separate pub lication is @ distinct offence, and there’s money in it. Castelar writes to Spain that the country flocked around Alfonso XII, because 1t wat assured that Alfonso meant peace, bat the people have found out their mistake. War is raging more bitterly than ever; the Carlists have gained several important advantages and are continuing toraise men. There is no symptom of the ena o/ the strnggie, The murder in Rome of the radical journalist, Sonuzongo, appears to have beea traced to its true source in the person of Signor .uctani, a defeated candidate, “There was a personal quarrel and Songongo defeated the election of Luciant. Upon his election depended his marriage with a rick lady. Bated at all points he hired a brayo to kill the journalist. The Count de Tocqueville, bearer of a name great in political thonght, says of present Frenct politics:~-“The Empire {8 dead, thank Heaven; Orleanism Was @ bastard principle, and is buried, Monarchy by Givine right has b me iorever ime possible. There was nothing else but the Repub. | He, and I became a republican, a3 every one must x0 | Oly p the Arctic cold | who understands the time he lives in.” Tek seems to have pressed his wish im office on the score of age and neces- t; bus the Emperor in a personal inter. ferred to the facet that he was himsell ghieen years older than the Prince and yet conid not retire, but must always hold nimselt subject to the obligations of duty and honor, Thus urged the Prince gave lis promise to retain his post. The wild animals in the forests of the Eulenge. birge, in Germany, are put to great straits top Want of food. The snow is not only deep but hard frozen, an‘ Many Of the poor creatures almost themselves in their efforts to penetrate gu the ice to the grass below. Steps are on to supply them with food, Hagen, nel exhaustion deer, a s railway oO get acab and got a thief on the gives @ number and ts driven man and gers ao reowt Fortunately we h ye principal nem! case. the Bonapurtis 4t party , of M. Rouher, to Parts Jor the purpose of ¢ ng their course of tio@ in presence of the campaign directed again them, It was decided that jor the present it it | better to maintain a policy of reserve, and direo tions have been given to the imperialist hress te be careful in iis articies, in order to avdid the danger of rigorous measures being taken by tas government,